The Brownsville daily herald. [volume], November 22, 1905, Image 1

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VOL. XIV, 122.
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1905.
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Chicago, 111. Athletics as a
means for redeeming the third and
fourth generations of city bred
men and women from physical
decay was the theme of an address
made by Dr. Luther H. Gulick,
director of physical training in the
public schools of New York, before
the. City Club.
' 'We no longer are using and
developing the big muscles in the
civilization of the day," said Dr.
Gulick. "The work formerly
done by hand is now done by ma
chines, and this condition has a
direct influence on the health cf
the community. It raises the
question 'Will it be possible for
the coining generations coming
from city bred ancestors to live as
we are living; will they have
healthy bodies, and retain the
vigor which has built up this
complicated industrial system?'
"It is a well known fact that
fifty per cent of the population of
this country are enervated. Hew
can this be remedied? Not only
the necessity but the possibility of
hand work and labor of the body
is gone from the great American
cities. This generation derives
its strength and energy from an
early life in the country or from
country born fathers and mothers.
But something must be done for
the children whom we have
brought into birth and must raise
in the midst of crowded cities.
"First of all, we must fight
against the school desk. . No child
can sit for five hours bent over a
desk, his chest cramped, his should
ers cm ved, without being weak
ened and stunted. No child ought
to sit at a desk for more than one
consecutive hour. Whether the
child likes it or not the period of
study must be broken with in
tervals of exercise. Ten minutes
a day, properly used, will coun
teract the evil.
"But that is not enaugh. There
are other changes, physical and
moral, from the conditions of the
last generation which must be
Uo with if the education of the
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IRON WORKER
Galvanized Cisterns, Smokestacks,
Installation and Repairing of
Irrigation Plants
The California Lines Sit Down Hard on
the Personally Conducted Tours.
Award Was Made at Havana Greatly
Facilitate Shipping.
Chicago, 111. The Tribune says:
The California lines have by an
order issued yesterday put, a stop
to the personally conducted tour
ists' excursions which have been
flourishing in that field for years.
Not only will a large number of
railroad conductors, probably 125,
whose salaries average $100 a
month each, lose their positions,
but at least one tourist excursion
bureau which makes a specialty of
personally conducting tourists to
California will be driven out of the
business-
During the day the connections
of the Santa Fe, Southern Pacific
and San Pedro lines were notified
that hereafter, these roads will not
accept tourist cars containing per
sonally conducted parties and they
will not even take the cars which
started out as personaliy conducted
parties, even if the personal con
ductor is not on the train during
the haul over these lines.
The reason given for taking this
action is that travel to the Pacific
Coast has become so common that
travelers generally are familiar with
the way. They say that the rail
road officials themselves can care
for passengers just as well as the
personal conductor. There is not to
be any interference with the high
class excursions which, though per
sonally conducted, travel in first
class Pullman sleepers, the restric
tion being laid upon the tourist
cars only.
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child is to be an influence for
absolute good. Todaj children
are deprived of the chance to work
by the side of their father or their
mother, and thus pain the discip
line of facing hard toil. This was
one of the great sources of moral
discipline in the past, s,
In the school a new kind of
obedience has some in the order
of the mass, which means a yield
ing of individuality. The only
way in which schools can be gov-
ernea today is Dy establishing a
dead level of mediocrity, which,
although a source of great powe1
in a way, is also a source of great
weakness.
Somewhere in the child's
education there must be found a
place where he can exert his indi
vidual will for right or wrong,
where he can practice morality
and self-control, not because he
must, but because he chooses.
Opportunity for this exists in
athletics, and nowhere else in the
curriculum.
We need the best brains that
BEAR TENDS SWITCH.
Santa Fe
Brakeman round
Guard and Hiked.
Bruin on
Hotel Matamoros
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city. Table Furnished at all
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SPECIAL RATES TO' FAMILIES
' STREET CAR PASSES THE DOOR
Two Blcclci Fu U! PUn
can be brought to bear on the
question, to create new traditions
in athletics for boys. The public
playgrounds, with a teacher to keep
order, are not enough. They do
not solve the problem. The city
children, particularly in the foreign
colonies, . do not know how to
play."
Albuquerque, iN. Al. lhere is
a Santa Fe brakeman in Albuquer
que these days who has a bear
story to tell. But the man who
asks him for it takes the risk of
being slaughtered in cold blood
It would be a pleasure to give the
brakeraan's name but it would not
be sate, so the story will have to
go without it.
The other night when a belated
section or a red ball freight got to
the top of Glorietta pass, the head
ena oraKeman trailed along 111
front to set a switch. The switch
was about a quarter of a mile
ahead of the engine as is often the
case on a wet night. The brake
man footed it up the track to the
switch swinging his lantern and
stumbling over the slippery ties
He was so intent on his footing
that he did not look up until
within a few feet of the switch,
then he swung his lantern and saw
a sight that caused him to have
chill. Sitting complacently beside
the switch was a bear, estimated
by the brakeman in his first report
of the occurrence to be fully eight
feet tall- The brakeman took one
long soul-satisfying look and hiked.
He didn't fall down going back
and he made the quarter in 44
seconds flat. The conductor and
the rear end brakeman laughed at
his storv, but they went ahead
with him. When they came within
hailing distance of the switch the
bear looked their way, and the rest
of tlie .story comes from the con
ductor's report. The report says
that the bear took to the timber
line and that owing to the exigen
cies of the schedule, the train
crew didn't have time to give
chase. 'ihe engineer, however.
says that he recalls distinctly see
ing an entire train crew hiking
The Compania del Puerto, oE
which Ernest Lee Conant is presi
dent and Albert Wright is secre
tary, was .yesterday awarded the
contract for making the most
important public improvements
which have been done in Havana f
in recent years.
The work contemplated, and
which is now an assured fact,
means the construction of a new
custum house for Havana an3
docks which will relieve the receiv
ers of freight of the necessity of
paying the extortionate lighterage
which for years has been a seri
ous menace to the commerciaE
interests of the city.
For a number of years before his
death, Sylvester Scovel, who did
great amount of the engineering
work which was done in this city
during the military occupation,
conceived the plan of putting im
the Brown Hoist system of dis
charging cargoes from vessels in
this port. He had spent several
years in drawing the plans and
perfecting the proposition and
several months before his- deatii
submitted it to the Government
for acceptance.
The matter lay dormant for 2
number of months and a few days
after he was dead President Palma
signed an approval of the work.
It was proposed that in the event
that the concession was granted
by the Government to the company
to build docks, etc., that the
concessionaire would build for the
Republic of Cuba a custom house.
according to the specifications
which were submitted with the
proposition.
The work will mean the expen
diture of about $3,000,000, but
will deliver the merchants, shippers
etc., of Havana from the most
unnecessary impediments to com
merce which any city was ever
inflicted with.
Just when the work of construc
tion will begin has not been made
public, but it will doubtless com
mence within a short time. Messrs.
Conant & Wright, who are the
company, in fact, promise to
revolutionize the present system;
of loading and unloading freight
in this port. Havana Telegraphy
Nov. 10.
MEXICO FEVER.-FREE.
Not a Case of Yellow Jack In the Re
public Sanitary Work Prosecuted.
Vigorously.
I past his cab at a two-minute gait
Low And Dctcstible.
liusk Press-Journal. jam that the switch didn't get set
We absolutely detest laziness, j until the engine had moved up to
We don't care if you make a living j within-a few. feet of the spot,
by loafing, around, sitting in the ''
corners and doing nothing; -or it ! Weather Report.
makes-no difference if you, have New Orleans, Nov. 22.-Tonight,
plenty of monev and can afford it;u,- . . ' . . . .
it is.conteniRtit-Ie, it isvJow and,.sIvei;s? some warmer Thursday?
de"tes:ible.' Get in the fight amL showers; Fresh easterly to' south-
show yourself a man.
erly winds on coast.
Cunk.
A recent cable dispatch' froin the
City of Mexico to the Gaiveston
News, says:
The Health Department an
nounces that there is not a single
case of yellow fever existing in
the Republic, There is no fear of
the introduction of the disease "
from Havana. Statistic show; that
while there were 635 cases of fever
last year, for the nine months- of
the present year there have been
only 70 cases, of which 33 were
fatal. Instead of relaxing efforts,
the Health Board is now turning
its attention to sanitary work,
which it believes will forever pre
vent the fever securing a foothold
in the Republic. Large sums of
money will be spent in regions,
where infection is most likely.
Reflections of a Bachelor..
flections are good things not to
-increase one's respect for his fellow
men.
There wouldn't be any fun in be
ing bad if the preachers wanted
you to.be.
A. man ought to be ashamed of
himself to marry for money when
he doesn't get it.
-The only thing that can stand as
much squeezing as a girl's hand: in
a man's is her foot in a shoes
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