4
More Americans Killed by Fourth of July Fireworks
than ir\ the E-ntire Revolutionary War.
""Sorry I ever rigned that blamed document."
niuttcrctl the rhade of John a. inn-.?, scratching his
j*rjkr .
• All I O T. is itT' asked Thomas Jefferson.
turning from a survey of i... BXyatan coif Wds.
•No. 1 mean the Declaration of isktaawndcnoe.
Faid The Boston patriot. "That thing we all put
«,ur name? to liaek in 1776 while some of us looked
«.vcr our. bhoulders to f^o if George's constables
miKl'.T grab us."
-For Heaven* sake. John! If the •pie on earth
heard you"'
"That's all risht. Thoßiaf. It's the people so
e;<rth I'm thinking „. Here's a wireless dispatch
Saying that it has cost th<> {.001.1 eof the Lnlted
Slates more lives and wounds to celebrate indepen
dence in the last decade than it cost their fore
fathers to achieve it. These last ten Fourths of
July n»« boen a massacre. Why. it's ■ monstrous
Ftaie of affairs. U*« ihou K nt we were - •« the
j*><M.]e liberty; but it l«oks like wo pave Van lock
jaw. After a while public opinion will turn against
m and folks/ll say we ougnt to have 1. ft them
harry *nd w!..-le under the tyrannous G#ne.
■'Corr.f come John, don't bo downhearted." said
the astate Jefferson, consolingly. "Public ..pinion
only Thinks about these thinpe ■ '«•» day? before
nr.i after the event. They can't put you and me
«.ut o* '.lie hiosrapMrs. Our position is lbx«4 In
The sky and in the political circuses. Anyhow,
v.<- aren't to blame for the fool actions of pas
terity in oolebratinK the Day of Independence.
>"orpet n. ajitl join me in a.i ciphteen-hole contest
lor the Elypian championship." . . .
Th" eh&dee of the patriot? may be a "'■'''" worried
about the possible injury to their reputations, but
Thousands of fa-tiieis and mothers look forward to
the glorious Fourth ■rfth profound dread. Hardly
si home is Thrre That will noT be breaded by a minor
casualty. Little l«oys and juris TviU run inT.i the
boose shrieking; "Mamma. 1 got blown up." or "I
•u-as runniiiß away an' 1 fell an' baited myself."
raierfamilias, pen ing to bed aT midnight of the
T.d. with all the tvin<iow!= open. »1U doze nicely unT'.l
a quick "Boomr* rattles The panes, ana The old
jiir.n Jumps out of bed v.ith a fierce line of pro
fanity. Apain lie rests his hea.l on the piiiov.-. and
J-= almost af^eep. when a dynamite cracker seems
to rupture his ear drums. So it goes until town.
DONT PIN FIRECRACKERS TO YOUR
PLAYMATE'S CLOTHING.
COLLEGE LIFE IMPARTS MORE THAN BOOK-LORE
Code of Ethics Knforced
by the Students
Themselves.
[Copyright, 1»*. !.y.t]]<- BreotirooJ Oomp»ny-I
Without entering Into the much discussed
question a? t<» whether or n<n the faculty of
Harvard ha* been unduly severe in disciplining
v.vo members of tho university crew in such a
manner ;<s to debar tlioni from taking part In
the jrrc«t bn.it race with Yalo at New London
on Thursday last, it must tx confessed that
There is on<- sentence in President Eliot's tele
gram to tlie Chief Magistrate of the United
States which will appeal to every man who has
3;ad lh" advantage of an odwation at one of the
more reputable universities in the United Stat'-F.
or at Oxford or <"amhridg«'.. in England, as
veil c? at those famous colleges, such .as Eton.
Harrow, "Winchester, etc.. which are known here
in America by tlie somewhat ..'ling name
«.f public scho<M~. It is v here Preside! I Eliot
remarks. "A k<-en and *ure sense of honor is
the finest result of college life." That Is indeed
the moFt important b< n-fit which the young
nudent receives at college, the benefit which
is destined to play the principal role In all his
tubsequent career.
It is no exact;, ration to assert that only ■<
relatively small percentage of the men ■ ho pass
through college, whether it be the university or
the English so-called public school, take any
f rious advantage of the science and learning
placed within their reach. The vast majority
cf them are quite content to c< t rough with
jurt enough knowledge to enable them to pats
the examinations which at* indispensably to
graduation at the universities, or that at Har
row. Eton. etc. will land them into the highest
forms before leaving the school for good In
fact, so scanty is th«> amount of erudition thus
acquired that many are tempted to condemn the
vollc-ges as ruiierfliious and useless luxuries and
the years Bpent there an so much time wasted.
ACQUIRES SENSE OF HONOR.
.Now. this is a grievous mistake. The boy at
\\.» public school In England rui-l the university
rtudent in the English speaking world or. both
rifles <>t the Atlantic receives while at college
a training tvfcicb it would 1«» lmpo«sil>le for him
to obtain by any otlK-r nu\anr-. A« President
Kliot assorts in his telegram, he acquires there.
l-erliap? for the lirst time, ".a keen :.n<i sure
rense of honor." and not only a ser.so of in
dividual honor, but aiso. it 1 may !>e permitted
the expression, a eecsQ of corporate honor; that
is to fay, he le-irr.s that it is necessary for him
to live up to certain ethics, not only for US own
♦ alee, b'jt also for the sake of that particular
nofiy cf young men of which he forms a part;
that Bay disgrace overtaking one of the body
tfre^t" 1 the character of the whole, just in the
taxe way that a taint on the fair name <■: the
latter touches the individual honor of • -fry on*
cf its units.
We clten liear in th» business world that cor
porations bav4B no soul.*, and certain it is that
thy do not <-onsld«»r themselves bound by the
aim; code <■' honor that governs the conduct
<if the Individual. There are numbers of men
t.T the highest jwjssible Integrity and who are
most careful about the honesty of their indi
vidual transactions. l>ut who nevertheless Brill
lw consent in? parties as officers and as stock
holders of a <-orporation to acts on the part of
tbs latter as an association which are not only
questionable, but verge sometimes dangerously
tittur the border line of crini*. In one wurd.
CELEBRATING INDEPENDENCE WORSE THAN FIGHTING FOR IT *
while the frenzied man exhausts all the resources
of philosophy and cussing and wonders if he
could get even by becoming an anarchist. Of
course, th* whole family suffers as much as the
male parent. Even the mother-in-law Is punished
beyond her deserts. There is profit in it only for
the fireworks Sealer and the druggist who sells
sleeping powders.
SOME MANGLING METHODS.
The day of death and wounds is thus auspiciously
ushered in. as orators pay. Maudle and WUlio have
a large stock of crackers and other explosives.
They sot the. money partly by "boning" their uncle
and by breaking into their birthday banks. Th« lat
ter practice may lead Willie in later years to misap
propriate the funds of widows and orphans or to
break an ante-election promise. Regardless of such,
moral consequences, the little ones go forth to hurt
and get hurt with chemicals usually deemed unsafe
even in adult hands. Children, who are denned by
science as small and slightly intelligent animals,
ate not to blame if they exceed the danger point
in their experiments with articles inevitably risky.
If Willie ties a string of crackers to the back of
Johnnies coat, he means well, the same as when
he fastens a pinwheel to the cats tail, and what's
the use of licking the boy when the damage is
done? Nor could you expect a little shaver to have,
such a knowledge of explosives and their effects as
would prevent him from setting off a giant cracker
in a rusty tin bucket. It makes a splendid noise,
and the pieces of rusty tin entering the flesh of the
circled onlookers help out the medical profession.
The greatest sport is to scare the girls. First
pick out the scary ones, and then throw a lighted
cracker straight at them. It might explode in
their faces and put out an eye or something, but
that simply proves that George had no right to
impose taxation without representation on the
American colonies. Another good experiment is
to licht a cannon cracker under a girl's dress. It
might Bet fire to her. Bee if it will. Only about
this tim«> your father or some other grown-up per
son Is likely to come .-'one and wallop the ever
lasting life out or you. There are girls who would
foil you veil for Mich tricks on their own ac
count. Sometime? parents who are most care
ful of casual perils j.How their children to go into
the backyard with a miscellaneous stock of fire
work* large enough for Harry Orchard to take on
one of his reputed "bumping off trips, and there
is a chance for the heaped up chemicals to ex
plode all together. Then 'phone fo : - the ambu
lance.
Philadelphia se»ms to have the right Idea of the
Fourth as ■ day of battle, Last year, scattered
Through its suburbs, were hospital tents. equipped
with surgeons and nurses. Wounded patriots, were
picked up and ministered to. The federal govern
ment and the Red Cross might be Induced to ex
tend thle vice through the country, thus miti
gating the horrors of the celebration and accus
tasanig people to look more kindly on the less de
structive system of militarism. The New York
Board of Health last year bad station? where free
antitoxin for lockjaw patients was diapensreo 1 . This
could be Improved by a law making It compul
sory on the fireworks dealer to include one dose of
antitoxin and a couple of antiseptic bandages with
each r-ackaee of explosives sold.
DEADLIER THAN BATTLE.
There are no reliable statistics of Fourth of July
accidents before IMS, but it is conservatively esti
mated that Hie total for the law decade mounts up
to 17.009 rr „) an<i injured — mfr» than three tim^.- 1
The casualties of t!k- American army in actual
battle t]iro'it;!i th« Revolutionary War. In th*
last live years lh« casualties have been 23,»570,
or more lhan tlie losses of tbe allied armies
thru ii^feato.l Xapol<K»n at Waterloo or the
cost to 1-. ■..- Northern" army in the battle of
corporations as such occasionally render them
selves guilty of sharp prn'-iic^. t<*.;ill it by no
worse ;< nani<"\ which no Individual director or
stockholder of the concern would dream of per
petratine on his own personal account. This is
perbaiM even snore the case here in America
than In England.
Now. on<- of the lessons tacitly Inculcated it
the universities and al the English public
schools, not by the faculty, but by the lads
themselves, is that ;t corporate wrong is every
whit as dishonorable as an Individual wrong, an-l
that a man who becomes a consenting party to
an offence by the association to which lie be
longs is quite a? reprehensible as if he had per
petrated the act individually, alone and on his
own account. The inculcation of this principle
Is sufficient to establish the usefulness ot
the time spent at college, no matter how much
location may have been neglected there In
the matter of the acquisition of the arts and
BCicnceg.
TITLE DOESN'T COUNT.
These seats of learning which I have in mind.
and of which I have made mention above, em
body to a greater degree than any other organi
zation that I can think of the principles -if
republicanism. There is no democracy so thor
oughgoing in every respect as that which pre
vails among the lads at these scholastic, Insti
tutions. Great wealth goes for as little here as
birth and titles of nobility count among th«
boy« of an English public school. In America
the sons of multi-millionaire parents, especially
if the latters' wealth is of recent origin, are
likely to believe, until they get to Yale. Har
vard. Princeton or some of these other great
universities, that money is all powerful and a
means to everything, including honors, popu
larity and consideration. They are quickly dis
illusion^, and leave after graduation with a
considerably chastened spirit, having been
taught to realize that their dollars are incapa
ble of purchasing them admission to the various
college societies and college teams in the various
branches of sport and that the vast possessions
of their parents weigh for nothing la the award
of scholastic honors. Time and again they find
a youth with neither money no;- social position
preferred to themselves, and they learn to judge
men by their merit rather than by their birth
arid their bank account.
In England levelling lessons of this kind are
even still more necessary than here, by reason
of the class distinctions which prevail there. A
boy who, owing to his being a peer of the realm,
tho son of ■ duke or a marquis, or the first born
of an earl, has always been addressed by ser
vants, trades people, tenantry and peasantry as
"My Lord." in likely to have very exaggerated
notions about his own Importance and hip su
periority to those who have no handles to their
names until he gets to a public school, such ft*
Eton and Harrow. There he poon ha? the non
sense knocked out of him. and In order that the
lessons may prove more effectual is generally
called upon to serve as a "fag" throughout his
first year. Fagging consists of the performance
of all sorts of duties that are often accounted as
menial, the fag being required not only to run
errands and to devote his leisure time to field
ing for his master while the latter la engaged
at cricket practice, but also very often to wash
l.is teacups, to brush his clothes, to heat his
Shaving water, to fill his bathtub, aye, even to
bla< k his boots.
i speak from personal experience. The fag
may be a young marquis, or an earl of ancient
lineage and master of estates embracing a
wliuk county, while tii* Wiy *'.r whom he is
NKW-iORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SUNDAY. ,TU>T3 28. IMB.
SOME "DON'TS" FOR FOURTH OF JULY.
DON'T EVER THROW A LIGHTED CRACKER AT ANY ONE-
Gettysburg or the expense in human life to th«
Russians in the battle of Mao-Yang. The agita
tion following the 1903 patriotic death list of 4fi6.
twice as many Americans as fell at El Caney and
San Juan together, caused a reduction in the mor
tality to IS3 in 1904, IS2 In 1005 and 158 in 1906. But
last year the Independence Day slaughter rose to
164. The percentage, of fatal lockjaw cases has
been reduced from 87 to 37. owing to recent pre
cautions and the use of antitoxin.
Oatling guns are supposed to be deadly, but the.
toy pi?tol. firing blank cartridges, has claimed
most of 721 lockjaw fatalities out of 1,153 deaths in
the last five years. The blank cartridge drives
into wounds not only powder and pieces of wad
ding, but bits of skin covered with soil, the me
dium carrying the microbe of tetanus. This mi
crobe is harmless until It enters the blood through
a wound: Almost as bad as death have been
many of the recorded injuries, which amounted to
4.243 last year. There were 477 persons blinded, 30&
lost legs, arms or hands, and 1,057 lost some of
their fingers in the celebrations of the last five
years. While blank cartridges have been the most
«<■:.. iy. the common firecrackers have caused the
m< -• numerous casualties, or 7,400. The giant
cr.ickor has Inflicted the most mutilating wounds.
There were ten deaths from falls and runaways
due to firecrackers last Fourth of July. Thirty-one
persona burned to death, the majority young girls
and children, whose dresses caught fire. More
powder is exploded for fun and patriotism in a
year than the colonists used to whip King George's
redcoats. The country's loss from Fourth of July
fires has been $2,41£.657 in the last eight years.
THOISAXD ISLANDS.
Hotels Caring for Increasing
Throngs — Pine Camp Attraction.
Thousand Island Park. N. V . June 27.— sum
mer seapon along the uppf-r St. Lawrence is now
in full swine and every incoming train and steamer
brings it? full quota of cottagers and tourists for
the various resorts that stretch from Clayton to
Chippewa Bay through fifteen miles of . lovely
island scenery.
All the hotels are now open and catering- to in
called upon to slave In this fashion may be the
sou of some impoverished country parson or of
some Insignificant half-pay major or colonel i»f
the army, who has had the utmost difficulty in
scraping together the money necessary to send
his boy to a good school. If the fag fails to
fulfil his duties in a satisfactory manner his
master is free to administer corporal chastise
ment in the form of caning, for which his victim
has no redress. But. on the other hand, there
arc some compensations, as the master, who is
always o n <- of the older boys at the head of the
school, is likely to take his fat:, or his two fags,
under special protection, thus preserving them
from much bullying and persecution^ the shape
of hazing that would otherwise fall to their
share.
Another thing which is calculated to exercise
a levelling influence upon the boys of Eton.
Harrow and the other great English public
schools is the flogging-. "It leaves no trace of
contamination," remarked the late Lord Palis
bury, when Premier, during a discussion of the
so-called youthful offenders bill In the House of
Lords a year or two prior to his death. The
bill was one which had in view the substitution
of birching for Imprisonment in the case of
boys convicted of offences against the laws of
the land, and he urged, in supporting the meas
ure, that there should be no difference made In
the punishment of the rich and of the poor, and
that -you should flog the young evildoer as
freely and with as little scruple among the
classes of the poor as you have for several
centuries among the classes of the rich."
Lord Salisbury added that if the past records
or th^ members of the House of Lords were in
vestigated it would be found that they had
nearly all of them been repeatedly subjected as
boys to corpora! punishment, and that he was
in a position to speak with both feeling and
with experience, for when he left Eton he en
joyed the reputation of having been birched
more frequently than any of the seven hundred
or eight hundred lads of that ancient and his
toric school. Flogging In England has been
abolished in the educational establishments fre
quented by the middle and lower classes, as
well as those of a national, municipal and char
itable character. The aristocracy and the upper
classes in Great Britain, however, have always
refused to take advantage of this legal emanci
pation of their sons from the rod. Their atti
tude on the subject is mainly attributable to
the conservative instincts which are ingrained
in every Englishman of good birth, whether
Whig or Tory, and which render him averse to
new forms or changes of a non-political char
acter.
LORD SALISBURY BIKCHEJ).
It is due al«o to the attitude of the lads them
selves, who are, of course, the principal parties
concerned, and who are keenly alive to the ex
cellent results achieved by the use of the birch.
In fact, they would be the flrßt to rebel against
Its abolition, and, like the late Lord Salisbury,
seem to regard the scars which It leaves as a
sort of retrospective evidence of their 'gentll
hommerie " Some of the great public schools
u«-e the birch and otherß the cane, and while in
most colleges the culprit takes his punishment
kneeling there are some where the offender is
"horned" by being mounted on the back of a
big boy. In that position the victim is more
helpless than in any other. At Eton the whip
ping block iP one of the famous tastittttSons of
the place. It resembles the kind of block which
T.e Fee portrayed in old print- m having been
used iii mediffva! times for decapitating prison
ers.
creasing- throngs and the expectation is that this
region will experience the best season «ver known.
The military camp at Fine riains, twenty miles
from here, has proven an excellent drawln? card,
and many automobile parties from all over the
state have testified to the popularity of Northern
New Tork roads.
M. Wright and family, of Brooklyn, have arrived
for the summer at Clayton.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Kerr, of New Tork,
are at Grenell Island.
Mr. and Mrs. William Daniel?, rf New York,
are at Grenell for the season.
E. S. Perot has purchased the steam yacht
Nanlta of C. O. Brokaw, of New York.
DON'T SET OFF ANY PIECE OF FIREWORKS NEAR YOUR ENTIRE SUPPLY.
The number of famous men v,ho have knelt
before it is very groat. The. late Lord Salis
bury was flogged while kneeling against it no
less than eighteen time.=. Ami the Rev. Dr.
Haw trey on one occasion, through an error,
flogged the. whole party of thirty candidates for
confirmation, the paper with their names on It
haying been mistaken by him for the punish
ment list which was sent up to him every day.
While flogging is common in these great Eng
lish public schools, the masters endeavor, so far
as possible, to encourage the boys to take the
law into their own hands, to govern themselves,
ami to avoid the Intervention of the faculty in
matters of discipline, and especially of honor.
Occasionally, when some lad lias been guilty of
a disgraceful offence, his schoolmates give him
the choice of taking punishment at their hands
or of having the matter dealt with by the head
master. He usually chooses the. former. I can
recall one such instance during my schoolboy
flays. A particularly gross piece of dishonesty
In money matters had been traced to a youth of
about eighteen, high up In the school, and on
the point of taking up his residence at the Uni
versity of oxford. The captain of the school
assembled all the boys, pome six hundred or
seven hundred of them, in the great hall, and.
having summoned the culprit to stand forth, in
quired whether he would prefer to be sent up
to the head master for Hogging, and subsequent
public expulsion* or take his punishment at the
hand? of his schoolmates. He chose the latter.
ENTIRE SCHOOL PUNISHES.
Four stout hazel sticks were then brought in
and the captain, a powerful and athletic young
fellow, broke three of them across the shoulders
of the offender, who stood up alone in the centre
of th" hall, with 800 pairs Of scornful eyes upon
him and took his twenty-four strokes without
flinching. Then we ranged ourselves in two
lines, reaching from one end of the great hall
to the other, armed ourselves with straps,
knotted towels, with whatever, in fact, we
could lay our hands upon, and forced him to
run up and down the entire line. The punish
ment thus inflicted was so severe that he was
confined to the infirmary for a fortnight after
ward. At the end of that time he left for home
of his own accord, in compliance with the prom
ise exacted from him on the evening of his
castration. He was thus saved the disgrace of
public expulsion, which would not only have
affected the fair name and prestige of the
Bchool, but would fllno have proved his bone
throughout life, barring him from admission
to universities, to clubs, from government ser
vice and to the legal profession, in one word,
blasting his whole career. Of course, the mas
ters mu.°t have known of the whole proceeding,
but, as is customary In such cases, they closed
their eyes, being perfectly content to allow the
lads to attend to the maintenance of the honor
of the college.
It would be difficult to give here a code of
college ethics. They differ in almost every uni
versity ami school in matters of minor detail,
which are often, nevertheless, interesting, quaint
and picturesque, nut In questions of Individual
and collective honor they all maintain very much
the same high principles and standards. Every
Infraction entails its penalty, generally at the
hands of the lads themselves, and as tha aver
age college boy, being hard to himself, Ks dis
posed to be hard to his schoolmate, the punish
ment i* usually severe, and. therefore, effective.
It instils principles which last throughout one\«
existence and exercise a beneficial influence upon
t>n*-'.x entire life. BX-ATTACHE.
Mr. and Mr*. T. A. Jenny and dau*hter. of New
York, are at Alexandria Bay.
Mr. and Mrs. Hudson P. Rose, of New Tork « are
at Tosctte Isle for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Robb, of New York,
have arrived at Zavikon Isle, to remain all s?ason.
Mr. and Mrs. John .1. Lindsay and Georgn Nelson
Lindsay, of New York, are spending a week at th*
New Wcllesley Hotel. Thousand Island Park, hav
ing returned from a ten days' trip up Lake OsorgS
and Lake Champlain.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Havemeyer, of New York.
are at Alexandria Bay.
i, llB on Bradley, of New York, has sold bis steam
yacht Oswegatchle.
The. Pennsylvania State Editorial Association will
traverse the Thousand Islands regJoa on the way
IS the Saguenay River, returning; to Niagara Falls
F. S. Cramer, of New York, Is Si the Hotel
Wellesley. , tr ♦ l
New York arrivals this week Si IBS HOW
Columbia. Thousand Island Park, include Mr. and
Mrs. George Courtney. M. Robinson, C. H. ' >r "
ton S E. Melkman. John R. Baker. Mrs. B. V, .
Baker. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Ortawol* Mr and Mr*.
A. H. Boomer. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Moschowlt£i*L
Schneider. G. D. Porter. E. T. Ronnels. WHHsni
Wilson and Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gaffney.
The Hotel Frontenac. noted for Its «oH course,
and which is one of the finest equipped hotels on
the river, Is preparing for the arrival of the Ne«
York State Bankers- Association, which win hold
its convention there the week beginning July U.
RICHFIELD SPBINGS.
Convention of County Poor Superin
tendents— Cottages Occupied.
Richfield Springs. N. V.. June 27.-The week at
Richfield has been Klven up largely to the meet
ings of the annual convention of the county su
perintendents of the poor, whose headquarters have
been at the Earlington. and whose sessions have
been of more than common interest. Among New
Yorkers who have shared in the discussions have
tern Homer Folks, secretary of the State. Charities
Aid Association; Miss H. Ida Curry. Miss Mary A.
Deacon and C. E. Welsz. A banquet was held on
Wednesday evening at the p:arllnston, which was
attended by about three hundred of the delegates
and th^ir friends, and a ball on Thursday evening
was also a feature of the week.
Am-->ng New Yorkers at the Tuller are Dr. and
Mrp. J. K. .lanvrin pni Miss Janvrin. who are litp
for the baths. Dr. .lanvrin is Kish'.p Potter's physi
cian ami li.is heretofore .-pent hi* sununen al
Cooperstown. Mrs. X. C Oickerson. Mrs. K. P.
Brown, of New Y«>rk. and Mrs. A. P. Tuller. of
Williamsport, Perm., nr« otliers who ;uo yearly at
that house.
At the Tunnicliffe Cottage are L'nited Stages Com
missioner and Mrs. Shields and Miss Shields, of
Brooklyn: "'iiy Councillor and Mrs. Charles P.
Olendorf and the Misses Olendorf, of New York,
who t-ppud each summer at that house; F. C. Boyn
ton and Miss Boynton.
Among New Yorkers al tha Cary cottages ar<*
Miss Duane. .Mr. and .Mrs. Dorman T. Warren and
Miss E. V. ' l.ii k.
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Power. Miss Gladys Power.
Mrs. Taaffe an<l M:s. Cain, Mrs. T. Hillerand Mi?s
fiiilfr,- represent the metropolis at the Kendnllwood.
The Berkeley-Waiontha opens today, with a long
engagement list.
Robert V.\ Tailer arri Mr. an.l Mr-. .T Lee Tallsf
an'i family zre> a«ain a. Btlia Vista, where Mrs.
Onatlvis Townsend, ef Newport. R. I . is their
guest. '
Miss Natalie N. Whitrh^ad has been making ex
tensive repairs nn<l changes In the "Waiontha Club
property, "' Ich she purchased last summer, and is
staying at th»» clubhouse at present.
GOLF IX MOUNTAINS.
Many Sporty Courses in the New
Hampshire Hills.
Bretton Woods, X. II . June Z'.— With the begin
ning of the summer season golfers are usually pre
paring for t'.i^lr summer's sport and deciding upon
their summer homes with a view to following their
favorite sport. Four years ago marked the tem
porary waning of golf in the Whits Mountains.
But since then the sport has steadily increased In
popularity, and this season there promises to be a
brilliant showing of golfers on the links among
the White Mountains.
Bretton Woods has the longest course In the
mountains, and. in some, respect?, the sportiest,
with three river hazards that test th* skill of tho
most efficient players. This links, which has for
several seasons been under the care of George
Merritt. has -wintered remarkably well, and the
greens are in *plendld condition, while the Bretton
Woods sheep, with their constant trotting and
nibbling, assist in their cropping an/1 reach places
DON'T EXPLODE GI^NT CRACKER 3IN
OLD TIN CANS.
in the turf that even the modern attain golfinobfl*
cannot touch.
■sssl of the best known golfers who will play
over the Bretton Woods course tl:e coming *»a»oa
Include Archibald Graham. Colonel Lotas HasaT
ton. Dr. Charles Clark. C. Menzlej, Miller. William
B. Avereil and W. M. Oourley.
The course at the Waumbek. at Jefferson, win b»
in its usual fin? condition, and there will be many
Waumbek Club matches as well as a series of team
matches with picked pl»v»r* from other mountain
clubs. The Wanmbek '!i > always include* aom»
splendid players who return year after year, and
their familiarity with th* roi-ie-vnat diincolt c >ura«
gives then » slight advantage.
The Maplewood links are in splendid shape, and
fun eighteen holes ready for players even at tfct*
early date. Ther« will be three special tournament*
at hteplswood during th« summer, beside the usual
local matches, for which several handsome, cup*
have already been contributed.
Sunset Hill House golfers win have a strong
aggregation of players on th»ir team this year, and
win BacH some of the teams from other hotel*.
Their course, while or nine holes only. Is very
sporty, vrlth plenty of hilly ground and blind hole*
to make it interesting.
The six-hole courses at Forest Hill. Fr3seer.ii
and Wentworth Hall, at Jackson, and at th* Craw
ford House, whlie hardly more than practice,
courses, are always kept up well and are Ideal for
women. At Wentworth Hall there la always spe
cial cup play.
Th» Bethlehem coif link.*, look»<I after by a esss
mitte^ of hotel men belonging to the Bethlehem,
Park Association, are always well kept, and prob
ably more players are seen on these than os any
Other mountain links, the Jarre cottage colony
t»in< rich in good golftnsr material. Th» R*r.
Philo W. Spragrue is one of fat Indefatigable calf
ers of Bethlehem, and Lou's Agostlnt, of »•»
York, is also a we!! known player.
% General TV. N. P. Darrow, of New York, on? of
the cottage colony at th« Profile, has for many
years assumed charge <£ the upkeep of the Pro
file srolf links, and some of New York's best play
ers are on the Profile team. Probably no resort la
th« country devotes more serious attention to gr>;f
than the Profile, whose links Is nearly four n;'.<=^
distant from the hotel, ar.d reached by train or
motor car. It is on an abandoned farm.
The Fabyan House course wintered well, and at
the Twin Mountain Hou3e course, where some of
the best blind holes in this country are found, a
new twenty-two acre field has been Incorporated
in the course, thus giving a playing length of be
tween 2,500 and 2.fi00 yards for nine hole*. East
ern players will find the K»arsa.rg«> course In ta«
share, the result of Andrew Creamer's personal
attention. Mr. Creamer, as a member of the Fins
hurst Golf Club, Is qualified Is know a good course.
Indications point to th© beat golf season In th»
Watts Mountains in years, and tha secr«Url« of.
various clubs are already planning th* campaign.
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THE FOURTH AT SHELTER ISLASD.
Shelter Island. V V.. June 2T.— One of the Im
portant features of th» opening of the season on
Shelter Island will be the reception and ball gives
for his patrons by J. Hull r>avidson. proprietor^
the Manlnmset House, during home comin? week,
which will be celebrated from June 29 to July ■"••
Mr. Davidson invites all former patrons to meet
at this tim?. One of the attractions will fee an
automobile race from Long Inland City to th* Man
hanset House Th<? house -was opened Thursday.
For the. Fourth of July there ■will be motor a-) 1
pail yacht races of the Shelter Island Yacht CMk
a ball in the evening and a display of fireworks.
The advance booking is larger than for many
years at this time.
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REJOINED THE FLOCK.
Those -who have been abie to study cesvists
are struck with their love for and kindness to
animals. One would cot expect to find th» truly
DON'T TRY TO SCARE THE GIRLS THIS
WAY.
Oriental shepherd In Dartmoor Prison. At prss
cnt the flock or sheep belonging to the prisms ar»
said to be the- finest in England. Their condition
is due to an old burglar, who had «on« through
four terms of penal servitude. As the day ap
proached for one of his occasional absences from
Dartmoor, ho would say to the warder. "I hope
they'll look after thin en until I come back: l
won't be lone away ' Hl* flock followed him.
and he never had any difficulty In making th*
most frisky lamb obey his commands. Hl* friend*
made a supreme effort to reclaim htm. and last
time he was free arranged to »?n«l him to a ai»te r
In Texas. Alas! for their rood Intention*. before
the prison shepherd nailed his eld instincts pre
vailed. Ho broke into a church, wax arrest*
and Is once attain tending hi.* pets on the Dart
moor moors. — Dundee Advertiser.
WORDS FAILED HIM.
II« was a cowboy, and M>n« oomj>ar&tTr*» stran
ger bad stolen his horse. Hi* friends rallied round
Film, and. anxious to five him ••very chance, trun
dled up a barrel for him to stand on while h« icava
out his views on the matter. ll* was known ** *
rifted swearer and a large audience had imm -
Mcd in the hone of hearing; *on.«»thln« special. He
got up or» the barrel, and loosed round htm Tb#n
li* drew a deer* breath. and. with a »Uh. cllmt>«i
down aguln. "Boys." he said sadly, "it's M uaa,
1 can't do justice to it. "—Dundee Adv«rtlM»>