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SCREAM, SCRAP, FIQHT TO SEE WILSON IN NEW YORK New York, Nov. 3. Thrilled and inspired by New York's wild wel come, Pres. Wilson sailed from here on the presidential yacht Mayflower today for Shadow Lawn. The. presi dent and his advisers said the greet ing of the thousands here augured auspiciously for Nov. 7. If was as he himself called it "a royal welcome." The city fought, screamed, bel lowed, elbowed, stampeded, roared, jammed and hip-hip-hoorayed its greeting. Two of the most enormous crowds that ever fought and cursed their way into Madison Square Gar den and Cooper Union were 6n hand last night to hear the president on his first campaign visit here. Seventy-five thousand was the po lice estimate of the welcomers. Po lice lines were smashed by flying wedges. Twenty-three thousand Tammany marchers paraded 5th av. while the throngs fought to enter Madison Square Garden. Five thousand the police say were in that swirling mob that vainly tried to storm its way into the garden, while another 12,000 waited for the late night speech at Cooper Union. The thousands packed in the gar den roared a 30-minute greeting when the president appeared. Te reach the garden the president had to make his way through a. lane of humanity and with Mrs. Wilson scrambled up a fire escape to reach the platform. o o MAKE SCHOOLBOYS SOLDIERS First steps toward making soldiers out of Chicago schoolboys are un der way. U. S. army officers haVe tentative plans to be finally passed3 on by the school board. Capt. R. Fitch, commandant central dep't, U. S. A., at office of war dep't, Federal bldg., discussed proposed features of the plan yesterday. They include as signment of one officer for every unit of 100 or more students. School au thorities are expected to allot an av erage of not less than three hours a week to the prescribed course aimed at qualifying students foe reserve able to act as commissioned officers. Besides study of regulations and the ories", there will be infantry drill in close and- extended order, also in struction In rifle fire. Rifles and car tridges will be issued to each student and each will shoot from 40 to 120 round per target practice. "PREDATORY0 WEALTH" ' By President Wilson The people of this country are not Jealous of fortunes, however great, which have been built up. by the hon est development of great enterprises which have been actually earned by business energy and sagacity; they are jealous only of speculative wealth, of wealth which has been piled up by no effort at all, but only by shrewd wits playing on the credu lity of others, taking advantage of the weaknesses of others, trading in the necessities of others. This is "predatory wealth," and is found in stock markets, not in the adminis trative offices of great corporations, where real business id conducted, real commodities made or ex changed. At National Democratic Club, Jefferson Dinner, New York, April 13, 1908, HAPPY IDEA The railway board had met to con i sider the case of old Tom Jones, who in a train accident had become deaf. "Well," said a director, "old Tom has been with us a long time and we want to find him a new job. What . do you suggest?" "I know," said the chairman. "Let's put him in charge of the com- , plaint department." Tit-Bits: " o o Ireland has a breed of cattle that seldom grows more than three feet "high and thrives on the poorest of pastures, yet the cows yield 20 quarts of milk daily