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oiqi :e celebration.
Pike* Peak First Mountain To Be
Thus Honored.
■ >**he writer In his Harvard days had a West
erner for his room mate. Broad plains were his
former home and high mountains his holiday
(rrouods. It Is not strange, then, that he felt
somewhat cramped ln the midst of an cs
tabllshod order, and that he thought a civiliza
tion a. hundred years old must of necessity be
effete. According to his rnpod. he was highly
amused or gravely irritated by the frequent an
nouncements he came across of the one hun
dredth, one hundred and fiftieth or the two
hundredth anniversary of this institution or of
that villr.rre or city. He used, ln a lofty manner
and somewhat irrelevantly, to quote Browning,
"V7h«r* TU^*? L*ave now tor dog« and «pc«.
Man has forever."
On one of his geological rambles, however,
lie came across so palpable an evidence of the
heart hunger to be linked with ti 3 past that he
inveighed no more against the passion. In a
remote. Inhospitable corner of New England,
■where some descendant of the Mayflower had
strayed, he found, nailed to a tree, a rude board
bearing this legend: "This tree stood during the
Revolution!" From that day he vowed that he
would never lauurh again at what be called the
"centennial folly" of human nature. Despite
that vow, he will undoubtedly smile when he
reads of the projected Pike's Peak centennial
celebration.
Now. the scofTer should remember that a con
siderable element of the population of Colorado
Is from the Far Kast, and even from father
lands across the sea. To them centennial cele
• brat ions are a necessity rather than a luxury.
So in that land where no human institution
could boast of more than a quarto centennial
they must n«edp turn to nature.
Lon?r ago Wordsworth wrote feelingly, "Nature
never betrays the heart that loves her." These
seekers af t«r centennial material. It is true, could
f.nd no tree "that stood during the Revolution."
It was not ea?y to mark off epochs of time on
the broad plains, so there was some discourage
ment and the woak kneed began to doubt the
WbnbworUifan dictum. But one bright youth
who was freak from President Roosevelt's "Wln
ning of the "West" had an idea. His eagle eye
flaatoed over the treeless plains, with their page
brash and sand, to the most prominent object ln
the fim range of the Rockies. Pike's Peak. He
recalled That, when the nineteenth century was
young; Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Etrolled over the Western waste to find out what
kin-] of a bargain Uncle Sam had made with the
great Napoleon. One line day, as the explorer
was trudging up the great slope near the West
era boundary of th^ present State of Kansas,
il cr< loomed up before him. In the thin, clear
autumn atmosphere, a monstrous white moun
tain peak. That day in ISO 6 made him immortal,
■Od i« tacued lo the Inhabitants of a great com
monwealth, Fince it furnishes them the first op
portunfty for a centennial celebration.
ICYSTERY CONNECTED WITH NEBO.
Tills L- a unique honor that falls to Pike's
Peak. No .3..ul>t the famous mountains of the
past, mountains that have figured largely in
hun.an history, nave deserved their centenaries
and their millenaries, but they, like the heroes
before Agamemnon, have suffered at the hands
of Fate. There were, alas, no chambers of com
i:.op «■ in those days. If one could brush aside
the findings of. the higher critics one might foel
it fitting to celebrate the fourth millenary of
the tints Ins of Ararat for harboring Noah's
wonderful craft; but the benighted inhabitants
of those i-ealrns do not seem to care for the
chekels of the tourist. There is a mystery con
nected with Mount i«e"bo that, to the scientific
mind, has never been cleared up. If, however,
the dwellers along the Jordan had Western en
terprise, they might find confirmatory proofs as
to the resting place of the distinguished law
giver. Al! ocean steamers wouM undoubtedly
offer aaoaptlonally low rates to "the thirtieth
centennial of Mount N"ei»o." Think what a mag
r.incent chance, little, heroic Switzerland has just
let f!)i> throuph nor hands. Why didn't some
one recall the day when Bonaparte stood by h->r
placid lake, directed the eyes of his soldiers to
the sparkling crest of Mont Blanc and said,
"There are no Alps."
One is pleased to know that mountains are
coming ir.to their own. for they have had only
ahabby treatment in the past. Through the
That the East Side of Kew York Is a volcano
of sun^naitious ignorance, however masked by
.vineyards of youthful education and talent for
profession or art, was demonstrated again
recently by oni> of the largf-st riots on record.
A score of public schools had to be closed and
fifty thousand scholars sent home. Everything
■was peaceful at 10 o'clock In the mornlns. No
social scientist had observed signs of an erup
tion. Within half an hour the cry rang from
Houston staeet to Madison. "The Chrlsts are
murdering our babies," and a mob of many
thousand weeping, moaning and shrieking men
and women marched on the public 6chools to
Eave their offspring. The police reserves, mount
ed and afoot, could do llttlo to check the uni
versal frtnzy; their appearance. If anything,
convinced the parents of the authorities' con
r.ivance In the massacre of Innocents. Are not
the Czar's Cossacks the greatest Instigators and
perpetrators of evil?
All over the Ghetto such cries as these -were
heard. in Yiddish:
"They are slitting my Yetta's throat! , . .
Oh, my -eldest born son. Isidor. . . . Cursed
be the Christ teachers -who clay our children and
lap their blood. . . . This Is -worse than
Klshlneff, and Blalystolc . . . Save our be
loved, Jehovahl . . . Jc£ ge us. O Liord. ac
cording to our iniquities, but spare our children.
. . . .Woe! Wot! Accursed day!"
Every achool building waa surrounded by a
bowling snob that broke windows and tried to
emash. to the doors that had been locked against
them. Th« children. Inside knew that they were
not being murdered, but they oould not help
b*4cg frightened by the noise and the conudent
tta*«menL6 ox*helr xnrents. The most American
ized Yiddish boy when he saw his wig-awry,
wild-eyed mother beating on the door -with
clenched- ctanblnr a ladder to rescue him
from a second ctory window — happened
at School IST, in Essex street — naturally felt
a bit alarmed, 3o to the t ury of the outside mob
was addad thcpanlo of the children within, and
tho teachers had some-trylnz moments.
"This Is sot Russia, my friends," cried a
school principal, addressing the mob from a
', -window. "Why 4o you act so foolishly? Who
; to! 3 y<m that any harm had befallen your chil
dren T
"The health doctors go Into the schools and
out throats," yeDod a red bearded man.
"taster, you aro ungrateful and £ooUah that
you 6» not appreciate- the. bsne3ta of a free
cocii&y" — —
"It Is no benefit to have our babies kll'.-d and
■ burled In cellars."
"Bah, <Jo you belleva euch nonsense? Could
«uch a thing happen In free America? Was it
tru« when the Czar's ignorant peasants In Rus
eia charged you with murde* ig Gentile babies 7"
■ ■ tur! si ' c-xcrepcences have b^-n pointed
torn* proofs of that havi aaytag <>f Mi mA > I 1
Adsm. "Cursed is the ground for thy sake."
Dr. Johnson and his coterie found no good ln
them. The wise doctor writes, "The appearance
of mountains is that of matter incapable of
form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from
her care, and disinherited of her favors; left ln
its original elemental state, or quickened only
with one sullen power of useless vegetation."
And Addlson. though he tries hard to appreciate
nature, is compelled to say, "We find the works
of Nature still more pleasant the more they
resemble the works of Art!" Even the genial
Goldsmith loses his temper ln Scotland, for
"These hills and rocks Intercept every prospect,"
so he long* for Holland where "all's a continued
plain."
But all that Is past, since the coming of the
sentimentalist, Jean Jacques. From his day the
traveller bound on the "grand tour" no longer
regarded Switzerland and the Alps as terrible
difficulties to be surmounted, if necessary; to be
evaded, if possible. Rousseau gave his beloved
Alps, and. Indeed, mountains in general, the
place they now hold in the affections of the
civilized world. It was no forced appreciation
on his part. In his "Confessions" he describes
what he thinks is a fine country. "I must have,"
he writes, "torrents, rocks, pines, black forests,
mountains, sough roads running up and down,
precipices on each side that shall make me really
frightened. Near Cbantery I had this pleasure,
and I enjoyed it very much."
MAKES AMENDS TO PIKES PEAK.
Occasionally, to be sure, there Is still a Charles
Lamb who loves the "dirtiest drab alley" in Lon
don, and who would "mope and pine away" if
long absent from Fleet Street. But such persons
are anachronisms since the days of tho French
6eer. So it comes about that this growth of en
thusiasm for mountains to an almost universal
passion, coupled with the old. old hunger in the
human heart for pageantry, makes amends ln
these latter days to Pike's Peak for past scorn
and neglect.
Those who know the history of the Peak are
aware that It has had some keen disappointments
even during this last century of mountain ador
ation. Lieutenant Pike, although he looked on
its lofty summit with admiration, was terrified,
for he declared in no uncertain tones that it
was inaccessible to the foot of man. So the
Peak lost the sympathy of Its discoverer, and
had to wait many years for the proof that its
heights are not inhospitable. Then, again, the
United States Sigmal Service men used to camp
up there and study wind and weather, but for
some unknown reasons they folded their tents
and stole away. But, worst of all. when Profes
sor Pickering, of Harvard, with money ln his
pocket, was seeking for a place to establish an
astronomical observatory. Pike's Peak was tried
and found wanting.
"It whs at first and very naturally supposed,"
writes Professor Pickering, "that at a great alti
tude, where, the observer was above a large part
of the earth's atmosphere, the proper atmos
pheric conditions for observation would certainly
be secured. A visit to Pike's Peak, ln Colorado,
with a large telescope quickly disposed of this
hypothesis, as It was there found that the at
mosphere was, if possible, more unsteady than in
Cambridge."
The observatory was finally established in
Peru. Pike's Peak, however, has the satisfac
tion of knowing that the fault lay not in its own
lack of form or comeliness, but was due merely
to incident of birthplace. It has been found that
a steady atmosphere is quite independent of the
dryness of the climate, and Is not much affected
by the altitude, but by latitude — the nearer the
equator the better.
Now, the unfortunate experiences of the past
are to be forgotten, and the Peak will be "at
home" to the American people from September
24 to 20, I£*Ks. No doubt a score of peaks in
Colorado, some higher than this favored one.
will look with envious, scornful eyes at the
doings of this, for the present. Peak of peaks.
UNCLE SAM TAKES AN INTEREST.
Uncle Sam is taking an interest in this affair.
The War Department will send ten thousand
troops, the Secretary of the Interior agrees to
furnish representatives of the tribes of Indians
that once roamed over the plains and moun
tains, Utes. Apaches, Comanches. Santa Claras,
etc., and Congress has authorized the coining
of one hundred thousand souvenir medallions of
bronze and sliver.
According to announcement, "the general p.an
of the programme is an allegoric representa
tion of the progress of the Pike's Peak region
during the century it has been known to the
white man. The opening day will be devoted to
the military, since they represent most nearly
Pike and his sturdy little band of followers.
There will be a njpneer day, illustrating the
'Days of 49,' when the cry of gold brought the
senilnel peak of the Rockies into the knowledge
of the world, and a Colorado day, to typify the
industries, commerce, agriculture and mining as
they are to-day. The exercises will all be in the
open air, free to the public, and of a nature to
Inspire* the highest patriotism."
Lieutenant Pike is to share with the Peak in
the festivities of the week. "The New York Na
tion" wrote some years ago, "Pew men have
made so deep an impression on the development
RESIDENTS Or EAST SIDE READY FOR OUTBREAK AT ANY MOMENT.
c
The principal tried to explain to the pare.it?
what was in fact the trifling cause of the entire
disturbance. A great many East Side children
are troubled with adenoids or warty gTowths in
the throat that interfere with breathing; others
have enlarged tonsils. It was suggested to the
mothers that the slight operations necessary, re
quiring about a ralmate's time and costing 26
or BO cents at the hands of Yiddish doctors,
ought to be performed. The parents said they
were too poor to pay even this amount, and they
seemed "willing to have the work done at the
schools free of charge by the Board of Health
doctors and a physician from Mount Sinai Hos
pital. About a week before the outbreak eighty
three operations were performed In School 110,
at Broome and Cannon streets. Nearly all the
children treated were able to attend school next
day.
The volcano, therefore, must have spent a
-week getting seady to erupt, though no observer
took note of It. It is believed that the responsi
bility rests largely on the Ghetto medicos, who,
disgruntled at the loss of 25 cent fees, talked
against the Board of Health, and also on a
popular Yiddish newspaper that is In the habit
of hysteric sensation regarding the terrible
Christianity of the schools. • Two years ago this
newspaper warned parents that the teachers
were trying to make Christians out of the chil
dren. It can. perhaps, be Imagined how Ignorant
parents, themselves not long In the country and
with the talcs of European massacce fresh in
their minds, could attach the wildest meanings
to the mutterinxs of Ghetto doctors and religious
hysterics of Yiddish journalists.
The riot scenes throughout the district were
both ludicrous and pathetic. Essex Market
court was in session when the tumult broke out
at the school next door, and magistrate, police
men, lawyers and reporters tumbled Into the
6treet pell mell. Though hustled by the mob, the
court managed to keep together, and Magistrate
Ereen had the pleasure of assessing an immedi
ate fine of $1 on an orator who stood on the
court steps and shrieked:
"They're cutting their heads off!"
The ever useful fire drill, directed by a cour
ageous little teacher. Miss Julia Hamburger.
*"i?vf n VL l he , panl ° .0. 0 one thousand children
within the building. Bht, beat time with a spell
ing book and started the chorus. "Three Cheers
for the Red. White and Blue." and got the fright
'"^J'.Vi? \* to a " ln Uno and march out of
th *,- bu ll(llngr# It was mor< than an Impressive
sight to see patriotism, discipline and Intelli
gence marching Into the street to confront super
stitious Old World Ignorance. Some of the par
ents must have been ashamed of themselves If
the children were not ashomed of their parents
they made excuses or dtnlals like that of ona
little girl, who said:
•iry mamma wouldn't do such a. foolishness."
EYEGLASSES A DANGEE.
Eyeglasses, iijs a badge of the doctor, wero
perilous things to wear when the volcano was la
XRW-YOEK DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY. 'AUGUST 5. 1906.
of their country aa did Zebulon M.:Plke, who
f<-!! at York, Canada, ln ISI3, at the early nge
or i!:irty-f..!ir y^us He first made .known tho
Shyslcal characteristics of the unknown and de
atable territory which separated the eastern
Inhabited parts of tho newly acquired Louisiana
from the northwestern domains of New Spain."
Plko's diary, which fortunately has been pre
served, shows that he encountered many hard
ships on this expedition, and that he met diffi
culties with a surprisingly bold heart, consider
ing his age and experience.
If the spirit of the hardy explorer hovers over
the scene. It will doubtless smile at the unveil
ing In his honor of a shaft hard by the Garden
of the Gods, with its huge red sandstone monu
ments rising more than two hundred and fifty
feet, beaten by the weather into fantastic shapes
and scattered in wild confusion. The gateway to
the Garden of the Gods, properly consecrated,
would make a noble monument.
No Eiffel Tower or Ferris Wheel will be needed
at this centennial celebration. The summit of
the Peak will unfold, through the clear, thin
September atmosphere, a panorama surpassing
that any World's Fair visitor has seen. And the
summit, though declared inaccessible by its dis
coverer, may be reached by railroad, carriage,
burro or on foot. The mountain climber of to
day would not consider the ascent worthy of his
attention; the tenderfoot, however, after his
climb of nine miles, never longs for a second
trip.
At the close of the week's festivities there is to
be a grand Illumination of the Peak. If the old
mountain is enterprising, it will get up one of Its
characteristic electrical displays, which far sur
pass any fireworks man has yet been able to
invent.
TEA'S REAL VALUE.
COMPLETE IN ITSELF.
Needs No Complement to Render It
Palatable or Efficacious.
VIII.
In the last number considerable stress was laid
on tea's service as the handmaiden of appetite, it
self the servitor of good digestion, but that division
of the subject was by no means exhausted. There's
one strong point for tea. In its character of ap
pettaer. which was not touched upon, and yet de
serves attention, and that is, that It needs abso
lutely no more adventitious aids here than it does
in its other rol?s. In fact, the standard ingredi
ents—milk and sugar— which by many are supposed
to be prerequisites of "a nice cup of tea," may be
said to detract from, rather than add to. the ap
petizing qualities of really good teas, Ju6t as they,
to an extent, render less potent their stimulating
effects. The sole thing they do add to the bever
age Is nutrition. "While both operate to change
the flavor, the milk utterly robs the tea of two of
the qualities which appeal to the appetite, the
pleasing color which Invites the eye, and much of
the delicious fragrance that delights the olfactory
nerves. This last It does by neutralizing the deli
cate and volatile empyreumatic oils. And the con
stituents which make of milk a food are those
which reduce its stimulative possibilities.
When the expert describes a tea as one that will
"take milk" ho simply means that its flavor is so
pronounced as to enable it to struggle through the
lacteal fluid, and to make itself recognized, despite
the diiguise— lie does not pretend that this quality
ln any way fixes tho degree of excellence of the tea.
And he seeks such a tea because his trade de
mands it. not because he approves it. As an ex
pert, he knows that tea needs no adventitious aids,
but he's not trying to "make the world over again,"
and. as his customers are habituated to the use of
milk with their tea, he simply caters to their
tastes.
Now, most tastes are acquired, even that for
milk and sugar with tea. It's Just as easy to edu
cate the taste to tea without these hindrances to
a Just discernment of its most attractive qualities,
and to the fullest development of its beneficent
effects; and these foreign Ingredients have not even
the excuse, for their use. that they render the bev
erage innocuous. For, if the tea is properly pre
pared, there can be no harmful effects, because
thero can be no tannin in the infusion— drawing
the leaves with fresh and furiously boiling water,
iv an earttwen vessel, and pouring it off, after it has
stood tor five to seven minutes. Into another hot
vessel, preclude the possibility of that, while if it
Should be improperly made, and the tannin is re
leased, the milk, though it may retard, will not
prevent Its injurious action upon the stomach's deli
cate tissues.
However, to promote the use of tea "without" is
not the prime purpose of this argument, which is
designed to show that, unlike most beverages, tea
Is utterly independent of. and Is at it* V«»st. with
out, the association of any foreign ingredient— save
clean, pure, fresh and furiously boiling water The
Orientals have a proverb about coifee drinking
which runs something like this. 'Send something
down first, if It's only a button off your gar
ments," which is only another way of saying that
as in the caee of most stimulants, food must be
put into the stomach before the beverage la drunk,
or that important member of the human pystem
will suffer injury. That the experience of centuries
has— so far from leading to sententious warn
ings against Introducing tea Into the stomach,
without a similar precaution— induoort Eastern peo
ple to use it. not only as an agreeable food auxil
iary, but as a safe and reliable thirst quencher be
Superstitious Ignorance of Immigrants Leads Them to
Suspect Concealed Dangers in Ordinary Oc
currences and Rise in Excitement.
action. Some newspaper men wearing glasses
were attacked with pushcart vegetables and
greeted as "bjitchers" In the jargon. An
eightean-year-old Judas Maccab«us was arrested
for chaaicg & Board of Health physician with a
loaded zx.' olvjr and compelling him to throw up
his hajils. One arrested orator, who was de
scribing the slaughter of school children in Riv
ington street, when ordered to desist made the
extraordinary statement that he was speaking
under the consUvtlsn of a free country. The
illogical humor o* it did not appeal to a people
whose funny bun«p !» lacking.
Jewish teachers in several cases were able to
o,u*et tie rr.obs by addressing: them as fellow re
l pnitts. The erjtii . excitement had died down
in a few hours as suddenly as it had risen, and
graduation exercises were held in several schools
in the afternoon.
Next day the East Side was calm, as usual.
but there was a small outbreak in the Italian
quarter as an aftermath. No doubt the sons and
daughters of Italy got their inspiration from the
accounts of the riot that appeared in their news
papers. Three schools from Spring to Grand
etreet, west of the Bowery, were mobbed by
purple skirted, red 'kerchiefed women. The jan
itor of one building was slightly stabbed by a
stiletto in the hands of an infuriated mother
and several children were found to be char
acteristically armed with knives to repel the an
ticipated assaults of health doctors. They also
had package* of salt to throw in the doctors'
e lf, s J The troubl w as ended by sending the
children home before the noon hour, and most
Jir em came back to the afternoon session
Three years ago an East Side eruption was
almost caused by the beneficent work of the
Health Department physicians in operating on
school children for trachoma, a mulignant eye
disease that bars many immigrants from land-
Ing in this country. The rumor spread that a
black man was going about cutting eyes and
leaving a bloody trail. Sore eyes a disease that
needed operation? No. no, said the wiseacres
of the Ghetto; an en*-n:y of the race was trying
to blind the children. The teachers luckily
heard in time the premonitory sounds of seismic
disturbance, gavo the children a lecture and dis
inlßsed them from school.
During the recent meat famine that extended
over tho country there were serious riots in the
East Side, due to a belief that the retail butch
ers had arbitrarily raised prices. Yiddish women
and girls came to the front in the role of
maenads who aasalled butchers' carts and defied
the police.
The landlord riot Is a regular Institution that
breaks out when rents are raised. Tha tenants
band together to resist what Ib, in fact, general
ly extortion; they hire a lawyer and fight legally,
with words and with missile*;. Not long ago a
landlord waa besieged in a room of the tenement
house he ownei, and had to be rescued by the
police, If a riot Is ever Justified, it is one
against the landlord. Tenement house rents a;e
higher proportionately than those of Fifth ave
nue properties.
tween meaia. is pretty, pood evidence of the Rreit
Ulilerenco. In t'.is particular, t.-tw..--i t. a and most
other beverages. -..■■--"- '■■'■'■
And it is this difference which most strongly nr
gues In favor of th« "afternoon tea." which, oy
tho way, the esteemed "Sun" report; as having
"spread rapidly in the "Wall Street district." It
adds: "An Interesting feature of the spread of the
custom is Its adoption by tho bead of a prominent
department of one of the biggest banks. This
banker Is an Irishman, and his assistants are Ger
mans, yet all gather at a fixed hour every after
noon and sip their tea as contentedly as if such
beverages as Irish whiskey and Pilsener had never
been." Shrewd and sensible! That banker simply
renews, and at trifling: cost, the vital energy of
himself and renews it fully, and that too.
with little waste of time. And anything which can
restore to pristine strength and vigor— in the few
minutes the refection consumes— the. human animal
thet has been through a Wall Street day. would
almost "wako the dead."
OX Till: PACIFIC SLOPE.
Blockade of Freight Contmu i « Wig
Real Kstutc Deal.,
San Francisco, Aug. 3.— The blockade of
freight in the Southern Pacific freight sheds
continues, although demurrage of $1 a day a
car Is being charged. The railroad officials are
now considering a tax of $7 to 910 a day on a
carload, as It Is imperative that cars be un
loaded at once. This congestion is caused by
the Inability of merchants to obtain quarters
for housing goods. The railroad company has
issued strict orders not to receive any local
freight except crude oil and perishable goods.
The closing of the sale of the Spring Valley
Building, at the southeast corner of Geary and
Stockton streets, for $500,000 marks the most
important real estate transfer since the fire.
The price is low. as it is estimated that $300,000
will put the building ln perfect shape for offices.
The establishment of values In the downtown
district will be slow, but from the present Indi
cations shrinkage on all streets except Market
street will not be over one quarter. Market
street property holds Its own and none can be
bought at reduced prices.
One of the men who has been most active In
rebuilding San Francisco is Henry Kahn, who
came on from Paris aft?r the fire and who is
constructing nearly a dozen permanent buildings
for himself and friends. Kahn was one of the
first to appreclata opportunities on Van Ness
avenue, and he has not only improved his own
holdings, but has bought a fine lot near Golden
Gate avenue.
The Jesuit Fathers who leased the site of the
old St. Ignatius College and church, at Van Ness
avenue and Hayes street, to 'Wanamaker &
Brown for a big department store, have pur
chased the block bounded by Shrader, Cole,
Grove and Fulton streets for $120,000.
The supervisors have decided to restore the
City Hall and Hall of Justice to house munici
pal offices and courts. It is thought that T»0
per cent of the two buildings can be restored
and that the walls are safs.
The work of providing permanent homes for
refugees was begun last Sunday, when Father
Crowlfy, of the Youth Directory, and officers of
the Mission Improvement Association headed a
large crowd of volunteers who started the con
struction of buildings in Mission Park at 10th
and Dolores streets. It is supposed to devote
every Sunday to the work until enough cottages
«re built to shelter the homeless.
Far more work in rebuilding homes has been
done by the French and Italians at North Beach
than in any other quarter. Hundreds of small
property owners have erected houses, while the
Ouneo estate is about to build a big apartment
house at Bay and Leavemvorth streets that will
house 150 families. On property near the city
the same estate will erect 20ft additional flats.
George D. Collins, the convicted perjurer,
whose case has dragged along in the courts for
half a year, has been admitted to bail In $10,000.
A writ of error to the United States Supreme
Court was signed by Superior Judge Hibbard
without warning to the District Attorney. The
latter predicts that Collins will now decamp
before the case is ready for the Supreme Court.
The first carload of tomatoes ever sent East
was shipped last week, and more shipments are
to follow. That this cheap and perishable vege
table is forwarded so great a distance shows
the scarcity of tomatoes throughout the Kast.
caused probably by late frosts ln the Southern
States.
Admiral Lyon. commandant at the Mare Island
A run on a bank always affords curious and
tumultuous scenes. The East Side is filled with
private bankers, who are more trusted by their
fellow religionists than the United States gov
ernment, until some rumor of insolvency
epreads. Then there is a frenzied turnout of
bearded men. wigged women, sweatshop youths
and girls, bent on rescuing their little savings.
The streets are blocked; night and day people
camp out on the line that moves slowly toward
the paying teller's window. Tramps earn a lit
tle cash by getting in line and selling their
places. Some ragged, starved looking depositors
leave the bank with rolls amounting to several
thousand dollars. A few are robbed or swindled
before they havo crossed the street. Some
finger their money, and, seeing it all there,
shamefacedly hand it back to the teller for safe
keeping. It is not infrequently charged that a
bank run is started by a rival Yiddish banker,
who wishes to increase his own deposits.
Civilization and mediaeval darkness afford
strange contrasts in the East Side. The rising
generation is intensely patriotic, quick to adopt
Amerlfjpn speech and American ways. It reads
better literature at the public libraries than
native born folk uptown The American classics
are largely read. The region is full of debating
societies. There is less illiteracy than among the
native populations of Southern states. Lawyers
and judges, famous musicians, poets and writers
of ability hail from the district. Intelligence
and reasoning power are peculiar gifts of the
people.
According to one view, the East Side has an
accruing amount of ignorance from immigration
that balances education. The Americanized peo
ple go to live in the new quarter that extends
around the northeast of upper Central Park.
The process of enlightening grown-up foreigners,
who do not go to school like their children. la a
slow one. Many havo come fresh from tho
European fields of oppression and slaughter;
others have relatives still in the grip of the
Russian terror. Nor are the conditions of tene
ment poverty and the demeanor of club wleldi; g
Irish policemen calculated to enlarge the mln&a
of adult Immigrants.
One merit of the Yiddish mob is that it in
dulges more In vociferation than violence. It
shrieks epithets without stint, hurls a few vege
tables and breaks a few windows, but never
destroys life ajjd property in the style of South
ern lynchers, striking mechanics, railway men
and mine workers.
RELIGIOUS FEELD7G STRONG.
Fear based on religious sentiment accounts
for much of the disturbance in the district. A
riot was once caused when a Oentlle caretaker
etole one hundred robes belonging to the rabbi
of the Eldridge street synagogue. Tho thief
returned the robes, but they wero hopelessly
defiled by having been in his possession, and the
indignant religionists made a great uproar in
the street. A Settlement worker was stoned by
her scholars after tha discovery by a Ylddlah
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Navy Yard, has issued orders that no more men
shall be detailed as gardeners, stable keepers,
etc.. for officers. For thirty years It has been
the custom of officers to have work about their
homes done"* by navy yard laborers, and many c*.
the present officers could be court martlalled for
certifying payrolls for labor not employed on
public work.
The sixtieth anniversary of raising the Ameri
can flag at San Diego was celebrated Sunday by
the militia and civic bodies. The flag was
hoisted by Mrs. De Baker, and a granite monu
ment to commemorate the event was unveiled
by a daughter of General John c. Fremont
The excessive heat on the Colorado and Mojave
deserts this summer has caused many deaths
of prospectors. Especially Is this true of Death
Valley aajd the Panamint Mountain range, mr
which hundreds of gold seekers have swarmed,
eager to locate claims. The temperature at night
has been as high as 116 degrees, while by day
the mercury has gone up to 160 degrees.
EVOLUTION OF SHIPS.
Models of All Kinds Shown at
Bath Shipyard.
Bangor. Me., Aug. 4 (Special). — Few shipbuild
ing firms in the United States possess so large or
valuable a collection of models as that which
ornaments the walls of the office of Arthur
Sewall & Co., ln Bath. These models serve as
an object lesson, showing as they do the many
changes which the styles in vessels have under
gone In the last seventy-five years. In the early
years of the century the vessels were compara
tively small, with round, full bows, heavy quar
ters and full run. Compared with ships of to
day, they were clumsily built, were dull sailers,
and. though safe, were uncomfortable sea boats.
Up to about 1837 they had flush decks; the
cabin and crew quarters being under the deck;
the galley, or "cookhouse." as it was then called,
was a 6 by 6 foot box lashed abaft the mast.
About that time American shipbuilders adopt
ed the topgallant forecastle, which was soon fol
io-wed by the deckhouse, a square structure built
on the deck near the stern of the ship, covering
the gangway leading to the cabin, and used as a
dining room by the captain and officers during
fine weather. The vessels in the coasting and
Cuba trade ranged from twenty to one hundred
tons burden. They had single decks, with high
poops, under which were quarters for the
officers and crew. They were large carriers for
their tonnage, and were excellent sea boats, but
very dull sailers.
The first Improvement noticed in marine ar
chitecture was Jn the fishing fleet. The square
stern was adopted, the bows w?re built on sharp
er lines, and the breadth of beam was increased,
making them better boats and swifter sailers.
Then the coasting trade began to feel the n^ed
of a better class of vessels. The high poop
deck became a thing of the past, and a half
deck (so tailed) of lighter construction than the
other parts was built over the main deck from
the stern to the mainmast, and surrounded by a
light but strong open rail. Eventually these
light decks were extended to the topgallant
forecastle, thus making the vessel practically
double decked.
Theso Improvements hnd the effect to spur
the genius of inventive shipbuilders and naval
newspaper that ten years before she had written
a Christmas hymn. The newspaper assumed
that as a zealous Gentile she had a deep design
to proselyte. "When she went to the editor,
denied the charge, and showed Its folly, an apol
ogy was printed that averted all future trouble.
Schoolteachers have to be wary In avoiding
the religious source of difficulty. The law pro
vides for a Bible reading bjr the principal at
the morning exercises, but patriotic songs take
the place of hymns- Bits of Christian story and
legend in the school readers are sometimes or
dered left out. One teacher had to explain to
her pupil that a casual allusion to Christ in
"Robinson Crusoe" had no sectarian meaning.
Since all Anglo-Saxon literature is full of Chris
tlon references, the teachers are often hard |
pressed to avoid offence. The careful in- !
structor. when taking her class out for a holiday I
does not invite them to partake vC. the mildest :
refreshment. To drink lemonade with a Gentile I
would be trafer. It is told that the angry parents ;
of a Yiddish boy who had broken the rule of j
not eating with a Gentile gave him an emetic.
While scorning the historical origin of Christ
mas, presents are exchanged during that sea
son.
All the fantastic contrasts depicted by Zang- '
will in his stories ar« to be found in the East i
Side. The stern eld rabbi has a son who goes j
to college an<i eats a hearty meal in a restaurant j
on the fast of the Day of Atonement. China- |
town restaurants are filled on fast days with '
the young generation. A pious old woman who j
wears her black wig over red hair has married
daughters who scorn to disfigure themselves and !
wear Btylteh fr<">< k?. The wig. an ancient in«l- i
tution. is explained bjt some as a bad?e of hu- I
millty and a sign that the marr>d woman has
made herself unattractive to all m«-n except her '
husband. The Americanised m:i-r-.--.i woman
pnins shopping uptown carries her wig in a !
handbag and returning to the Ghetto puts it on t
In some convenient hallway Ir sh« plays thus
fast and loose with her paruk. (the Is apt to be
greeted iih the contemptuous ridirule of ortho
dox neighbors, expresse i in the wort) "ausgelas
sen" emant kpated).
A rioi that had some reason occurred two
years ago at the funeral cf Rabbi Joseph, a
chief exponent of the Ht^rev.- faith In this ,
country- About a million thnlalsim, or prayer j
shawls, were sold to the devout, and more than ;
one hundred th<">u?ind people turned out for the
funeral procession. As the proceasion was pass
ing an Iron foundry some rnl&chievous employes
turned a hose on it. causing panic and riot.
There was also excuse for the excitement which
followed a report that a s-?lf-appointed mission
ary*was brandtna crosses m ih« arms of little
boys. This map. s cripple, weni about in a
gospel wagon Inscribed "Jesus Christ." and he
ha! three women attendants to hand out tracts
and announce that Jesus of Nazareth wa sit
tin- Inside It In likely rh;it thts lunatic was
guilty, as report ■■! of paying little i..i>s 30 cents
apiece to burn cross.es on thvir arms wlrh lunar
caustic.
A characteristically large crowd turned »>ut to
honor l!.<- obsequies o? Elias tilnaser. the Yi.l
dish poet ana playwright, who wrote several
architects, and It soon became am* 3
many new departures from the*Ma
types la the improved modeif S^S
tonnage. The shipbuilders ranldlv SS 1 -*^
tonnaga of their ships buflt for S!*'"
In ISU the Rappahansock. wSrJte 1^
was built by the 3ewalis7and 1 !
of the world, being, up t" tS!W
largest vessel ever built for «L**l
service. She was another departS ft!!S
vlous models. Her cabins were lit?*"
upper deck and were lofty. spacio-TJv'
up In a style previously unkaow? Xfl
what was then known as frigate boat-T^
bilge, tumble-in top sides and vervWu^S
channels. «jwijft-
Durlne the 40's the »hlps built »•*• ,J
ered models of strength and beauty tS*9
poop cabins were Ctted up with an -»---
a view to comfort never before attMmZ73
sailing ship. Their graceful. flarbuTKfa
true sheers and light counters Ter#2fl
American. But they were built tsaaS
capacity, not speed, and it remaaaai 1
exciting news of the discovery of £a t »'
fornia to stimulate th» genius of »- ™
architects, and the result was the v 5:
clipper of the 50>. one of which. thLIS
Cloud, made the passage from Xew T«»
San Francisco in eighty-two days* and wJ
has never been beaten. But these •aaaiM
ships soon proved to be not exactly wE
-wanted, and at once shipbuilders turned <».3
half clipper— ship combining the ssal3
large carrying capacity with spee<i Rf^.;
comfort. The full clippers were very jaaal
the bow, and some of them were so m
that every plank was put on xrithou: on
sorting to steaming.
The coming of stpam vessels Into tbtftaJ
trade drove the builders into continoafel
creasing the carry: capacity of their ib
and the sharp lines had to give place m
rounding ones, which, while they tenMfci
crease the speed, materially Increase* tftari
pacity. and to-tfay another cfcansrs bad
that of building ships of steel Instfa<! pf x&
DONKEY "DISCOVERED" IKH £7
Spokane. Wash.. Aug. 4 1 3r*olab.-T!» ajj
how a donkey -a. is declared by a leaned JaftM
the Supreme Court to have discovered tl» laJ
Hlil and Sullivan mine, now worth 03,'XCtO"fti
thereby caused th» court to award his aaM
third interest In the mine, was recalled Uat d
by the death of O. O. Peck, owner ot the do*
at his home In this city.
ThouKh tho story 13 stranger than flcttatir
literally true, and the facts are familiar, not«
to all min< an<i business men ln thi3 mm
but can be substantiated &y the court next
Peck and W. M. Kellosrg were proapertr? i ■
gether through the C«ur d'Aler.e Mooatisti
Oe.itral Idaho, when the famous minewatoarf
ered. Two weeks rrior to the actual discovery
dissolved partnership. But Kelloss Rttnatj
donkey that belonged to Peck. Kelton sjl
priate'4 the donkey, used it as a pack anSaal, a
they were together when the 'real ntaasll
posit was found. According to th* Supr«B»Qa
the donkey's participation in the dlscoverj cstH
Peck to an Interest. Harry Baer and JaccSGt'
of this city, who had "grubstaked" KpUoh, ibS
the latter's interest, and he thus fared mmaaj
than Peck. Goetz and Eaer subsequently *>U t-
fractional interest for C».i'»TO.
Judge Norman Buck of the Idiho court naaa
the famous opinion. He held:
"From the evidence of witnesses, this coat
the opinion that the Bunker Hill miae «ai
covered by Phil O'Rourke. VC. M. KeUo§» vt
Jackasa belonging to O. O. Peck. As plala&f ot
th«=> jackass, plaintiff is entitled to a on*-taßl|
terest in the Bunker Hill claim aztd a (juaiuti
terest in the Sullivan claim."
KeHf>sg- had originally been "grubstake*'
Cooper and Peck, and had shown t!i»in sent
■which he found near the great mlr.e which te*
eequently discovered. They noncsl it •■]
less, and the dissolution of partnership ftCw
Kellogg and O'Rourke then formed a taj
O'Rourke being of the opinion that taeeni
valuable. Goetz an.l Baer "grubstalod" the j
on this trip, arvi hi ir rot been that taajM
vertently happened upon Peck"s I^urro and «W
priated ir ■■ services Pei k would have had soc 1
m the great discovery.
hundred works and was beloved abroaa
as in this country.
KOSHEK OR TRAFE* ICO?.
The foundation of the Yiddish home C***
of the moral law. is the question whetJS
is kosher or trafer. clean or uccleaa. *jj
explains rr.acy things. The orth °*'*Jj
rather break one of the Ten Coininandseao
fail to preserve a kosher home. "1 t&J^
to ask a shilae of the rabbi" is the °°^
remark of the East Side housekeeper. J»j;
that She will ascertain whether a certt» n
is religiously edible. -«&e
All food is divided into three cl^T3
food, meat food and indifferent food- X»
la a specified combination. * UI V ... «!
drunk until six hours after eating Tbeton*
other ha:. : one may drink m! 1 V^» tati?-
Ing meat. After a milk fnea ' l ,f * If ?
must be changed for the meat course
of the family drinks milk and the ; rw
the table is divided in WTO
between which there must be no contact
spoon or spilt food- Tenure to ft
The housekeeper spends her WfWJ 5P
over such regulations as the tollosng nual*
kosher food, printed in the form or «i
and answers: d awts S*9
Q.-lf boiur.g milk runs o* e* :i;snfl
pot of soup of a quart size a " v jV'tne ?»"'«
paste around the soup pot? A.-«» «a*lfi!
It has to be washed in Soiling »a£ «£}. m
stove; if earthen, it must be tnrown » J
boiling milk get, «?• »§^&g
jCI-U only a little milk fC*M S£sm**J
were accidentally wl tor^f* piatss? *£■
mixed up with other *W "
spoon and «>ne plate must be « a «^ a
mix«d lot, and the rest can *>* f^, pot * *
Q.-lf two ounces of soap^ "" d o f =«£••*
with half a .-hi k- ar.<l half i|el "
The meat is kosher. _ nOt «aataß"
Q.-lf meat lying in sa,t «•£ .-.^t ulw**!
evening ur.' m-rning? A .-TJ£ i-d hair*?
Q.-lf a pl«c« of broken gsjs ZSoOf^Xm
are four.d in the Inside^ navel ci i» w ttJjoat«
navfl is without a hole . A.— ** .
kosher. w . s <,- « ci^c** «5
Q.-lf there is doubt ***£*££*•. ;*-t^
was broken before or after *}*]*£&, it t* *£
tft- fracture is one inch from *£•**& *<xM*
Q —It a small hole wa-» f °«"LJftr. -, 4
the chicken? A -Absolute^ l :^ v •«<&£. i
Q.-lf the liver of a A--K-* I*bladders1 *-
bladders but without sr.y w^ r-^,,
lets the liver Is so soC: 3» to w:- w .
Q.-It two see,!-, are found llnA cf &rf&
holiday. without l:'-...wing th** juna »^
Wheat" or corn or any se*d of ™f^ oXt S C*gl
Q.-lf a plate and spoon F^, of "X" X tSogf*
with IVsaeh pots and r ;lj»« ? • d - put j» hg i
iron they rawt t^ w-***^,,?:, can to «**
otherwise it is choines- * •-»•«*
chomcx. .^y fi*
If the housekeeper gets t!re^\,s ltef
domestic Instructions, she rerrc
with the. following facts: _ fja«*j
Rabbi Abraham, son ot &**££#,**'
lived In the year lUH a"^ **" ..- I
tlons of the IMble. j jo9 e?a^
Rabbi David, son of £ a ff! 1j B cb **
lived in 1223 r.rd contributed »»•
'TntJu- year Ifttt Oriel Otoj^gtfjlg^
Th- hi.ly city Tv.cvia «^=- --^ 3 M r- -
Elias the great, cf \ ll "^VMjt»
and was tae greatest maa °- uw
