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VOL. L\VXIII.—NO. 172.
WEDNESDAY EVENING. JULY 22, 1914.
SHALL WE HAVE PARE OK FILTERED WATER.’
Philadelphia expended $22,000,000 for a tiltering
plant to filter the sewage-laden water of the Schuyl
kill and Delaware for aqueduct purposes, the intakes
being close to the city. In effect the people are drink
ing the city’s sewage. But thousands of well-to-do
families do not use this water. They buy bottled
water and are put to an immense private expense an
nually. The city also lias occasional epidemics of
typhoid.
The pride of Newarkers is their drinking water,
drawn from virgin sources forty miles in the moun
tains. It is beyond compare. The city is now near
tbo limit of daily supply and new sources must be
obtained. Shall the city mix filtered sewage water
with its present pure supply or shall it carry out the
plan originally devised, and which was held up by the
East Jersey Water Company and the State Water
Commission, of developing the Wanaque watershed?
There is enough water In the Wanaque to supply
the needs of Newark, Paterson. Passaic and other
smaller municipalities for years, and the cost thus
divided would be well w-.tnin the means of all. The
Wanaque watershed is wild and barren and its nat
ural features can always be preserved and contamina
tion prevented. Its acquisition at this time would be
a great boon to the municipalities. On the other
hand, the Passaic at Little Falls increases yearly in
its pollution.
A "conference of municipalities” is to meet at Pat
erson on September 11 to decide on a plan of joint ;
water supply, it is evident enough that the State ;
commission favors the purchase of the East Jersey |
plant, a proposition that only the duly accredited rep- j
resentatives of the municipalities should decide, with j
the sanction o'f the governing bodies.
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AMERICAN TRADE MISSIONARIES.
American manufacturers and merchants have lived i
under the reproach that they were content with do
mestic markets and left the foreign markets to Euro
peans. Our consular reports for years have testified
to this strange lack of enterprise, as well as to the
stupidity of American exporters in failing to study
the peculiar needs of the foreign consumer or even
packing goods in a proper way. German exporters
make a study of all the points of the game in Latin
America. and Germany gets the trade.
New York commercial interests have now awakened
to the facts which consular agents have set forth in
vain. Fourteen merchants sailed yesterday for a
tour of Latin-America to spread the gospel of Ameri
can trade and exhibit their samples. They are also
to learn all about Latin-American trade, the customs
and ways of the various peoples and the best means
of introducing American goods. This mission cannot
fail to have good results, and it may begin a new
epoch for American trade in Latin-America. The '
opening of the Panama Canal gives our merchant '
ships quick and easy access to the west coast, and
there is a market which we must fight for.
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THF FL'TL'Rp NATIONAL GUARD.
In time the New Jersey National Guard will have j
Its aeronautic corps and its flying machines, for these i
weapons are now coming into common use in all the 1
armies of the world. A brigade such as that of New
Jersey, as organized under the Dick law, is composed
of infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers, signal corps
and other minor organizations. In the near future
it will have its corps of airmen.
There will also be a change made in the artillery,
which will be constructed witli a view to its use against
air machines without impairing its use for horizontal
firing. This change has already been determined on
by the war department. In a few years the annual
maneuvers of the State guard, which will be held In a
much wider territory than Sea Girt and its neighbor
hood. will include evolutions in the air.
SEW HAVEN FACES PROSECUTION.
How long the proceedings of the Department of
Justice for the dissolution of the New Haven monop
oly in New England are to be strung out in ease there
shall be no compromise and no surrender by the di
rectors may be judged by the length of time it took
Attorney-General Wickersharu to get a United States
Supreme Court decision in the cases of the Standard
Oil and Tobacco trusts. And the outcome left the
two trusts to pursue their methods under a changed
organization.
it is easy to comprehend the fact that the action
taken by the attorney-general is the logical sequence
of the Interstate Commerce Commission's recent re
port excoriating the New Haven management and
holding the directois responsible for the waste and
neglect which brought a once magnificent railroad
property into such a pitiable condition and beggared
thousands of its stockholders, for whom the directors
were trustees. The prosecution follows on the heels
of the report.
Criminal proceedings against the directors will
depend on the action of a grand jury. This part of
the government prosecution will naturally appeal the
more powerfully to the popular interest on account of
the prominence of the members of the New Haven
board and of the expressed opinion of the attorney
geueral some time ago that they could not be crimi
nally prosecuted under the Sherman act. In this re
spect the Department of Justice has ca%t doubt on it3
own case.
The bill prepared by Senator Morris for a new
criminal statute to meet cases of this kind recognizes
the doubt. It makes the acts of officials or directors
such as have been disclosed in the New Haven man
agement felonies and provides for penitentiary sen
tences. But a new law cannot apply to an old case,
and a statute if passed would have no reference to the
New Haven management.
“SOMK TAXPAYKK8 8ATISFIKD."
In a doleful survey of the city government, which
is now too busy with public improvements to pay heed
to interested lamentation, the News says: “Some tax
payers for reasons best known to themselves are en
tirely satisfied with this state of affairs.” The fact is
obvious, but the wonder is the acknowledgment.
The “reasons” would seem to appear in the city
auditor's last report, as well as in the remarkable
showing made by City Clerk Connelly to the Common
Council when he announced his retirement from office.
Mr. Connelly's vigilance had just defeated an attempt
fostered by the News to impose upon the city a fraudu
lent petition for a special election.
But lamentation over Democratic local govern
ment has been the fixed habit of the Newrs for these
many years, and many a time has the News tried
to organize the political malcontents and disappointed
office seekers and others wdth their axes to grind into
a new party. Last spring it was a commission move
ment, which expired in bad odor, and now it is
“fusion.”
And all of the fusion in sight is in the columns of
the News, as the News pathetically remarks of the re
sponse to its lucubrations. Some taxpayers are en
tirely satisfied "and nothing could be plainer to the
observation.” Sometimes people can be stirred up to
enter into fusion movements, but alw’ays in such cases
there is good cause, and the appeal is not a stereo
typed one brought out regularly every two years for
ulterior purposes by some newspaper.
THE GARIBALDIS IN NEWARK.
The visit to Newark last night of the two grand
sons of Giuseppe Garibaldi, who achieved Italian unity,
was signalized by a general turn-out of the Italian
speaking population and an enthusiastic reception.
As there was no formality in the visit, the reception
was confined to the ltalian-Amerlcan element, and,
in fact, it was simply to meet these compatriots that
the brothers came to Newark.
To the Italian these men represent ideals for Italy
yet to be realized. There is an Italy within the
Austrian empire, as Venetia once was, that one day,
as disciples of Garibaldi believe, will be wrested away.
In his address last night General Garibaldi gave im
passion^ utterance to that dominating thought of the
Italian nation.
REPRESENTATIVE RESIGNS I'NDEK FIRE.
Resignation under fire is confession. Represent
ative .lames T. McDermott, of Illinois, yesterday an
ticipated action on the unfavorable report of an in
vestigating committee In his case by resigning by only
two hours. The charges against McDermott were of a
character to fully justify his expulsion. He is a can
didate for re-election in the stock-yards district of
Chicago. Will he be renominated and re-elected?
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OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES |
American anil Herman Plow* Tented.
Fimu Hie World s Work.
In Buenos Aires a f#w years ago an
American salesman of plows wished
to demonstrate to a local customer
the superiority of his goods over that
of a Herman competitor. The Amer
ican consul arranged for the test.
The German plows proved to be al
most exact duplicates of the Ameri
can implement in design and rather
1 *elter in Hnish. Wasting no time in
explanation, the American salesman
called over a powerful peon and or
dered him to swing with all Ills
strength with a ten-pound sledge
upon the share of one of the Ameri
can plows.
Tlte husky peon spat upon hts
hands, hunching his muscular shoul
ders, swung the heavy hammer in a
Wide circle, and brought it down on
Hie spot Indicated. A note as clear
as that of a belt rang out and the
plow went bounding across the floor,
hut, save for the patch of red paint
that fused to and came off on the
hammer bead, the shore was un
marked. When the operation was re
peated upon one of the German im
plements. the first share was com
pletely shattered, the pieces being
scattered about the floor like so much
broken crockery. Thinking that pos
sibly the faultiriess of this share had
been an accident of construction,
perhaps of overtempering, the dealer
requested the peon to swing upon the
second sample. This blow demon
strated that the German implements
were not even consistent in their de
fectiveness, for this share, doubled up
under the blow and folded lovingly
in around the hammer like a floyver
going to sleep at night
There were tears In the consul s
eyes as lie wrung the salesman's
hand In congratulation, but all he
said was: "And they still accuse us
of exporting wooden nutmegs.”
'I'tie Capitol'^Chamber of Iturrom.
;'ruiu (tie 8yratuee Past-HluiiUard.
, In trial room in the. Capttol at
Wjmhiiiffton one., used by the lower
boose of Co mere**, now given the flat
taring title of Statuary Hall, is to he
placed another triumph of the sculp
tor art. The chamber is now
trended with the handiwork of In
conspicuous artists, of whom it is
only fair to say they did the best they
could, portraying in unfortunately
deathless bronze and marble this
great, near-great, momentarily-great
and obscure sons of States which
were delighted to honor them—or
which were bulldozed into doing it.
It was good old Senator Morrill who
was responsible for the creation of
this collection of figures, which ranks
in popular interest with Mme. Tis
saud's. The Vermont senator pro
posed ihat each State should be privi
leged to send effigies uf two of Us
sons to this national Valhalla, as it
is always called when the speeches of
presentation and acceptance are;
made. His proposal was accepted.
The senator died before he knew the
damage he had done.
Into that small hal! are crowded,
as closely as figures stand on an
Italian vendors tray, Grant and
Frances Willard, Kthan Allen and
George 1 j. Shoup, Garfield and Peru
Marquette, all manner of men dis
tinguished and unremembered, in all
sizes and poses and costumes, a veri
table jumble, utterly lacking in har
mony of subject, material or arrange
ment.
To this heterogeneous collection
Kansas, with a pride in her own un
mitigated by a sense of humor, con
tributes a statue of her favorite son,
< leorge Washington Glick. Doubt
less he was a good man. Doubtless
he is entitled to a monument, but it is
a pity Kansas did not erect it at his
grave.
How High Can Man Fly?
From the New York Suu.
In the last live days the altitude rec
ord for an aeroplane has been broken
twice by German aviators. Otto
Linnekogel on July 9 drove a mono
plane up to 21,645 feet at Johannisthal,
and yesterday Heinrich Oelrlch, in a
biplane, exceeded that height by more
than 3,000 feet, going up to about
25,000 feet, near Leipsic. This is al
most 10,000 feet higher than Mont
Blanc (15.782). and almost 5,000 feet
higher than Mount McKinley (20,300);
it is not far from live miles above sea
level. How much further up can the
aviator go? The Duke of the Abruzzl
climbed 24,583 feet on Bride Peak in
the Himalayas and did not suffer
from mountain sickness, Dr. Jjt*
Flippf, the chronicler of the duke’s
expedition, has expressed an opinion
that with the equipment for moun
tain climbing now available a man
may win his way up still higher.
The Alpinist has to lift his own
weight at every step and also put
forth a good deal of exertion to keep
himself from falling. At any height
above 20,000 feet the strongest man
draws hi* breath heavily and ad
vances slowly, as he uses his feet
and hands to climb. Even the hardy
Italian duke would reach the limit of
endurance at an altitude not much
greater than 25.000 feet. Y{ow is it
with the aviator, who sits behind the
wheel, composed and calculating?
How high can he rise before nature
rebels?
.James Galisher. an Englishman, in
n balloon ascension from the Green
wish observatory on September 5.
1802. to make observations in the
higher strata of the atmosphere,
reached an altitude considerably
above 29,000 feet. Tie estimated from
the fact that the balloon was rising
1,000 feet a minute when he became
insensible at 29.000 feet and was fall
ing 2 000 feet a minute when he came
to himself. 13 minutes later, that he
reached an altitude of 37 000 feet.
Scientlc men have disputed bis con
clusion, however. They allow him an
altitude greater than 2r«.ooo feet, but
the material fact is that Galisher
collapsed at that height, although in
tensely interested in his record
breaking performance.
There la another ease of even great
er pertinency. On April 15, 1875, Gas
ton Tissandler, H. T. Sivel and .1. E.
Croce-Spinelll made an ascension
from Paris in the Zenith. They got
up to 27,950 feet, hut only iTissanclier
came down alive. In the rarefied
atmosphere the others perished. Still
later, on July 31, 1901, one Person and
U. .1. Suring actually noted a baro
metric reading corresponding to 34,
500 feet in a balloon ascension, and
thev went higher, but although they
had oxygen with them to inhale w'c.re
insensible above the altitude reported.
From these several cases the conclu
sion may he drawn that the aviator
who tries to break the record of Del
nieh, made at Leipsic. will
be inviting unconsciousness and death
if he forces his flying machine much
higher than 25,000 feet.
FLAGS ARE UP
IN ALLENHURST.
“HAL” REPORTS
your Special correspond in t.
Allenhurst, N. jersey, July 21—Alle
flags our 2 B ordered out at ful masts
By the Hon. cummlauniers Of are
Towne in glory an honor of j. P. T.
the townes noted cetizen whom is
now In are midst Too stay alle Seestm
during Summer Spell wen he is
A lowed day offe by jones-Wuzburger
nobel defendor hon. w. Wilson whom
Hon. sen. Penrose thinks is fuilsh
piosidint an has ears 2 near oabel
runjng from w. (white) house an lawn
tenis grounds of his fren an felow
countrieman king George Fift 2 here
wat are J Bulls desires nex to weaken
efeet of Munroes Doctrine* wich say
not 1 wurde about grape Jooice only
Banana diplowmacle en are afaires
of State with wurld O K alrite. 1
heerd the other evening wile atend
ing 2 me meny an newmerus an most
trying Soeiel ingagmints that Dudely
Fielder Maloney whom seerehes an
Sieezes all the Fur coats and coffers
of the womens travellrs at the n. Y.
port of entering 2 Bdway. an the Lob
sters paleces was 2 muve downe too
are midst to be neer the adminus
tratiun on Kuclids Av. But the Reel |
Estates agints refuse to purjoor i
themselves on reciept of the News
wen I asked of Its voracity for feer
of being swampt with other celabrates
in hunt for‘houses within are midst i
in order to be neer Hon. j in his lit- j
tie w. (w'hite) house, more Soon again
Shortly.
yours Truelly,
HAL. j
Kind Girl ll«d Heart on Right Side ami
Liver on Left Hide.
WABASH, lnd.f July 22.—Examina
tion made by a physician, following
the death Wednesday of Mabel Tal
mage, eleven*, disclosed the fact that
her heart was on the right side and
that her liver was on the Jeft side.
The giri died four hours after she
had been struck by an automobile
driven by a ten-year-old boy.
Speechletiii Wedding ah Pair Are Wed by
Signs.
GARRISON. July 22.—Not a word
was spoken by either bride or bride
groom when Otto H. Hautf, of Put
nam Valley, near Garrison, and Miss
Rena Dietzel, of Elizabethtown, N. Y.,
were married in the latter village yes
terday. Both are deaf and dumb.
The bridegroom, who is twenty
seven, and the bride, twenty-live, met
while at school in New' York City.
They w'ere married by Rev. Henry
Brandhurst, of Elizabethtown. 'Dur
ing the ceremony the bride and
bridegroom made their answers with
sign.* of the deaf und dumb language.
Dog Shaken Kings Out of Stocking. Re
vealing "Wedding Secret.
NEW YORK, July 22.—They are
thinking of changing their dog Gyp's
name to Cupid at the home of Hyman
Feigenbaum, at 774 Prospect avenue,
the Bronx. Their daughter went for
a walk on Sunday with Max Bren
ner, of 854 Intervale avenue, and
while she was gone Gyp found a
stocking baa in her room and dragged
it through the; apartment.
Despite the dog’s racket, Mrs. Feig
enbaum heard something tinkle in
side the bag, and suddenly a diamond
ring rolled upon the floor and the
mother’s suspicions were confirmed
when it was followed by a wedding
ring.
.Shortly afterward tlie young couple
camp in. In reply to questioning they
admitted that they had been married
cinee March.
If a Cow lilockM Your Auto; Milk Her;
She'll Go Then.
ITHACA. July 22—The best way to
get rid of an obstinate cow that
plants herself across the highway and
will not permit an automobile to
pass is to stop and milk the cow, ac
cording to Carroll Horton, of Okmul
gee, Okla., who is visiting his father,
former Supreme Court Justice Hor
ton, here, and who had just such an
experience w'hile out with an auto
party.
All efforts to get a cow out of the
way failed until Horton alighted,
called “Here bossy, here bossy,” took
off his Panama hat and proceeded to
milk the cow. When he had finished
the milking the cow agreeably walked
off the road and the party proceeded
with a bountiful supply of milk.
Poftlmahtcr Shy a Cent in Accounts with
I'ncie Sam, Settles.
SEAFORD, Del., July 22.—Luther
H. Clifton, for seventeen years post
master at Blades, Del., received word
from the postoftice department in
Washington yesterday that he would
be prosecuted if he did not pay a
shortage of one cent. He settled and
escaped trouble.
Clifton was succeeded as post
master last November by Caleb R.
! Cannon. The accounts were gone
over by an expert.
The report of the expert was that
the government owed the retiring of
ficial one cent. Yesterday, however,
the department sent word that the
debit was the other way about and
threatened prosecution for non-pay
ment. Clifton paid the money to his
successor and got a receipt.
Wil>on’n Visit Results in Doubling Tax
On Ilis Host's Property.
WASHINGTON, July 22.—Colonel
Robert Ewing, Democratic national
committeeman from Louisiana, is be
ginning to appreciate the fact that
entertaining the President of the
United States has its disadvantages.
The colonel owns a handsome shore
home by the Mississippi Sound, near
where President Wilson spent his
holiday last winter.
The visit of th»» President has
served to impress the residents there
that their sound resort is to be the
American Riviera and one of the
greatest midwinter resort, of the
western world. As a result, the as
sessors <»f Harrison county have as
sessed Colonel Ewing’s winter home
at just double the. value, of a year
ago before the. President’s visit.
Evening Star’s
Daily Puzzle
What body of water V
Allaner to YeMtfrday’ft l'uzzle;
lathi. #
| Che Buop Bell
The buoy-bell’s lone challenge wakes a dream of long ago,
When the happy sound of church bells rang out across the
snow.
It sounds its sullen warning, o’er the murmur of the reef,
Where heartless tides are sobbing, like a lost-soul grief.
There was song and happy laughter, and the glint of love-lit
eyes,
Now listless snow is falling from the steel-gray Arctic skies.
The angry surf is booming on the stubborn rock-bound shore,
While the memory ship is drifting to the happy days of yore.
The Northern wolf is calling from the headland’s wind-swept
height.
Hark! He sounds the call of hunger, to curse the Arctic night.
The time-worn year is dying and the new waits at the door,
The beacon light is blinking from the shadows of the shore.'
The mystic North is sleeping ’neath the blanket of the snows, |
But weary hearts are dreaming of the fragrant Southern rose. |j
The wild surf sounds its challenge and the shore flings back
reply— _ j I
The world is bound in chains of war, ’neath the dreary Arctic
skv. —Chart Pitt.
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NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
How Don Cameron Mystified the Politicians |
Colonel William R. Morrison, who
eeived many years as a represent
ative of. Congress for one of the Illi
nois districts and was chairman of
the ways and means committee un
der the speakership of John G. Car
lisle, was esteemed as adroit a
technical politician—adroit in the
technique of politics—as any man of
his time, at least any who sat upon
the Democratic side of the House pf
Representatives. He directed the can
vass which resulted in the election
of Mr. Carlisle as speaker, in the fall
of 18S3, with extraordinary ability,
the actual vote differing by only two
from the personal canvass Colonel
Morrison had made.
Colonel Morrison was of sufficient
breadth of mind to be willing to ac
cord due praise to any Republican
speaker for political ability than was
contained in a few words with which
he described the canvass for the Re
publican nomination for speaker of
the House of Representatives in the
last week of November, 1881.
He was chatting with me at the
old Riggs House in Washington, a
few days after the Republican caucus
of the House had nominated General
Joseph Warren Keifer for speaker.
“Keifer Is a good fellow,” he said.
“He was a brave soldier and he un
derstands parliamentary procedure
fairly well. But T should think that
some weeks must pass before he gets
over the bewilderment occasioned by
the sudden and brilliant stroke which
made it possible for him to defeat
Frank Hiscock in the Republican
caucus.
“I have not yet been able to learn
exactly how it was done. But my
friends on the other side tell me that
it was accomplished single-handed
by Don Cameron.
“For a. week before the Republic r
caucus Frank Hiscock’s nominat4on
for speaker seemed to be inevitable.
I was certain that he would be no ci
liated, and I even went so far as t»
congratulate hint on his probable
success. 1
“Of course, you know that General |
Keifer was occasionally spoken of .n
candidate for the speakership, mb
had some following, but it was pre
sumed to be purely complimentary
end to have been created for the pur
pose of securing for Keifer either rrc ,
chairmanship of the ways and moans i
or the appropriations committee.
"Don Cameron had been plowing:
very deeply and very silently. Yo 1 :
know he fishes with a very Jeep line, ;
as the politicians say, and has never |
failed to lish successfully.
"In some way he was able to swing
tiie Pemisylvinia delegation over to
Keifer. He made combinations of
which tiie Pennsylvania delegation
. wjis the keynote, and did it so quietly
and so swiftly that nobody suspected
what was going on until the vote
showed that Keifer was elected.
"I wish I could find out exactly how i
he did it. Nobody seems to know.
Certainly those who do know—if ]
there are any such—are not willing ;
to tell.
“I have an idea that this tiominn- 1
tion of General Keifer as speaker was
the first step in the direction of the
Presidential nomination of 1884. I sus- !
pect that it may mean the nomination
of Sherman. Don Cameron and Sher- ‘
man arc good friends, r also suspect j
that if Garfield had lived the admin
istration would have taken a part in i
the speakership contest and the j
speaker would have been a lrfen who !
had Garfield's complete confidence.
"So. you see. there are two features
of this nomination of Keifer which
are of great interest to me. One is •
that associated with the very skillful
politics which made it possible, and |
the other is the relation under Don |
Cameron’s leadership of Keifer's
nomination for speaker to the Repub- j
lican Presidential nomination in
1884.
(Copyright, 1914, by E. .T. Edwards, j
All rights reserved.)
CAPTAIN JEREMIAH O’BRIEN
The launching this week at Phila
delphia of a new torpedo boat de
stroyer has revived interest in
another Revolutionary hero.
Captain Jeremiah O'Brien, in whose
memory the new craft is named, was
one of five O’Brien brothers living at
Machias, Maine, when the battle of
Lexington was fought, in April, 1775.
When the news reached Machias
the patriotic citizens erected a liberty
pole. A British sloop-of-war, the Mar
garet, arrived in Machias harbor
under the command of Lieutenant
Moore, and the later declared that
unless the pole was cut dow’n he
would destroy ^ie town.
During the parley that followed
a lumber sloop left Machias and lazily
drifted toward the sea as if about to t
pass,*, near the warship. The sloop, j
apparently badly handled, fouled the i
warship and instantly scores of I
Yankees boarded the foreign craft
armed with pitchforks, axes and mus- !
kets. A battle followed, in which j
the Americans were victorious after
losing six men and killing ten of the j
enemy, including Lieutenant Moore.
This was the tlrst naval engagement
of the Revolution.
The lumber sloop was under the
command of Jeremiah O’Brien and
four of his brothers were in the crew.
Joseph O’Brien, the youngest brother,
was only sixteen years old and his |
request to form one of the party was j
refused. He smuggled himself aboard |
the cruft and during the tight proved
to be very much of a man.
In the World of Labor
Plumbers at Dundee, Scotland, get
twenty-one cents an hour.
Structural iron workers in Cleve
land, O., earn $6 a day.
Arizona trade unionists are urging
old age pensions.
Farm hands in Canada average $150
a year and board.
England has 2,000 local unions of
transport workers.
Upholsterers in Sheffield, England,
are paid seventeen and eighteen cent*
an hour.
The liquor business employs 152,000
persons in New York State.
Middletown (N. Y.) bakers have a
100 per cent, organization.
The standard of living of workers in
New Zealand is probably the highest
in the world.
For the session just ended of the
Leeds technical evening schools 7.52S
students were enrolled.
The first eight-hour movement In
the United Stales was back in 1868.
Seventy per cent, of the steel work
ers of this country were born abroad.
Bombay, India, has 100,000 textile
workers averaging $90 a year.
San Franc 1 sen bartenders are con
ducting a campaign for one day's rest
in seven.
A State insurance scheme is pro
posed in Australia in connection with
the workmen’s compensation act.
California fruit growers have begun
a campaign against the passage of
the proposed eight-hour law.
Boston Raincoat Makers' Union has
viKed to Join the United Garment
Workers' Union.
About one-third of the textile goods
made in France is the product of fe
male labor.
Shopmen employed on the Boston
and Maine railroad have formed a
SyHtem Federation affiliated with the
railroad department of the American
Federation of Uabor. This Is the
sixty-fifth System Federation organ
ized in the last two years.
President Stremlau, of the Connecti
cut State Federation of Uabor, an
nounces that the State branch is plan
[ning an educational campaign against
the contract system In the State jails
and prisons for the purpose of inftu
I oncing the next general Assembly.
I Three German clerks, whose ages
i ranged from nineteen to twenty-one,
were refused permission to settle in
I this country by the alien immigration
I board recently. The chairman said
‘ they were intelligent but they came
to an overstocked market. It was
better that they should return to
Germany rather than become a bur
den on this country.
The question of occupational dis
eases will be given much attention in
the future in California because of
a decision by the State Industrial Ac
cident Board, which rules that lead
poisoning does not constitute an in
dustrial act, but is an occupational
disease. A claim for damages under
the compensation act was disallowed.
Tliis decision is of particular Impor
tance to printers, painters, employes
of lead smelters and others exposed
to this disease.
The members of the Embroidery
Workers’ Union recently decided to
join the International Tadics’ Gar
ment Workers. Application for a
charter of affiliation with the latter
organization has Just been filed and
favorable action is expected.' The
Embroidery Workers’ Union has a
membership of 1,500 men and women.
The membership is divided into five
locals, two of which are In New Jer
sey and one each in Manhattan.
Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
JULY 22
Emma Lazarus, Sara Le Moyne
Copyrl*nt«d It 14.
BY MARY MARSHALL*
Sarah Cowell' Be Moyne, who was
born In New York city July 22, 18r»9.
has the distinction of being the most
successful of American Browning
readers. She began and ended her
career as an actress. She first
showed her ability In elocution as a
little girl and when she was a young
woman she gave recitations for her
friends. Mine. Blavatsky. the leader
of the Th *osophists. happened to hear
her and It was her encouragement
and praise (hat led the young elocu
tionist to go on the Stage. It was
when she was twenty-one that she
made her d’ebut, but success did not
come in a day. For several seasons
she worked without recognition and
then when she took the part as an
eccentric old woman in a popular
play of the day she at once gained
fame. Not long after this triumph
she left the stage to give readings,
and so successful was she in this
branch of dramatic work that she
decided to quit the stage. In 3884 she
went to England and gave readings
in the drawing-rooms of many of the
most prominent men of letters in
Ivondon. She met the poet, Brown
ing. in this way and received great
praise from him for the manner in
which rhe rendered his own poetry.
She has never, been rivaled by an
American as a Browning reader.
When M<ss Cowell was twenty-nine
she married William Be Moyne, the
actor, and arter this returned to the
stage, where she again- won great
praise as a comedienne. In 1900, when
she was over forty, she won her
greatest success when she played In
the play, “The Greatest Thing in tho
VVorld."
Emma Lazarus, who was born ninu
years earlier twin Sarah Le Moyne,
is probably the most celebrated Jew
ess of American birth. At seventeen
she published her first book and de
voted the remainder of her thirty
eight years of life to literary work
in behalf of her race. She was
greatly influenced by Emerson und
was for many years a most Inter
ested correspondent and friend of that
famous man.
The persecution of the Hebrews,
which occurred in Kussia in 1979,
kindled her Interest In her perse
cuted race and she did much to rous»
the sympathy of her fellow-men and,
women for these unfortunates. She
published a series of "Epistles to the
Hebrews," which carried with it a
plea for Americans to “return to the
various pursuits and broad systems 1
of physical and intellectual education
of their ancestors,” and to relieve the
sufferings of other Hebrews tho
world over. She also carried on a
campaign urging a closer study of
Hebrew history and literature than
was usual with American Hebrews
at that time.
Origin of “Show Me”
“You’ll have to show me—I’m from
Missouri."
How often you have heard that
phrase, and—incidentally, how tired
you have grown of it. But maybe
there was a lime when you wondered
where it originated.
“Matt" Knapp, a secret service de
tective of New York, says it grew
out of the enactment of the Missouri
marriage laws. Prior to 1881, Missouri
had about the zero in marriage laws,
Mr. Knapp says. Any couple who had
the inclination and could find a jus
tice of the peace or a preacher, could
join hands for better or for worse,
and didn’t have to say anything to
the State about it.
No questions were asked about
ages, of consent of parents, and un
willing justices and preachers seldom
were found. Other adjoining States
strove for years to get Missouri to
pass some State marriage laws, be
cause young people from Kansas,
Iowa and other States could step
across the line, holler at a justice.’
and be married in hurry-up style, and
there was no State regulation of it.
In 1881 a law was passed making
it a misdemeanor for a preacher or u
justice to marry persons not having
a State license, and setting the age
of marriageable women at eighteen
years. If the applicant for license did
not 'know the age of the bride-elect,
ho had to produce her to the license
clerk arid let him judge her age
When the applicant wont back after
the girl, she asked the reason, ' f
course, why she had to go alonjj tc
get the license. When told that the
law required her exhibition, she re
marked, “Oh, you’ve got to show tie,,
nave you?*'
This occurred many times duri ,g
the tlrst year or so of the law’s ef
fectiveness. and became* a, by-WJ’d,
according to Mr. Knapp.
jj The “Holy City” of the Mayas I]
For many centuries Mexico has
been the home of many races. Most
of us are wont to regard it as the
home of only the Aztecs, with whose
civilization Prescott and the early
Spanish chroniclers have made us
more or less familiar. The archaeolo
gist .And student of pre-Columbian
and pre-historic times, however,
knows that there were racts, es
pecially In Southern Mexico and parts
of Central America, whose ancient
civilization had no connection with
the empire of the Montezumas, and
whose wonderful works, long ago fal
len into decay and ruin, are now' the
subjects of scientific research ano
study. To Americans, at least, these
should be as interesting as the ruins
of ancient Egypt or the buried cities
of Asia and the Far East.
Under the title, “Ancient Temples
and Cities of the New World.” the
Monthly Bulletin Of the Pan-Ameri
can Union, Washington. D. C„ has
beep publishing a series of articles
dealing with these relics of a splendid
but long-forgotten people. One of the
most interesting of the ruined cities
bore the name of Chichen Itza, once,
the “Holy City” of the Mayas, a peo
ple of whom Sylvanus G. Morley
w'rites:
“Long before the discovery of
America there flourished in Southern
Mexico, Guatemala, and parts of Hon
duras a great civilization, w'hich has
been called the Maya. It may be said
without exaggeration that this civili
zation had reached a height equalled
by no other people of the Western
Hemisphere prior t.o the coming of the
white man. In architecture, sculp
ture, and in painting the Mayas ex
celled. Their priests were astrono
mers of no mean ability, having ob
served and recorded, without the aid
of instruments of precision such as
are known to us. the lengths of the
Solar and Venus years, and probably
the lengths of the Mercury and Mars
years. In addition to this they had
developed a. calendar system and pre
fected a chronology. yvltfcb . Jh some
of Its characteristics was equal to our
own.
“But the ancient glory, of this peo
ple had long since departed when
Hernando Cortez first carrie in con
tact with thi*m on the. coast of Yu
catan in 1519. Their star had set.
Their greatest cities had been aban
doned and lay in ruins Even the i
memory of the older cities of their i
culture, such as Palencjue, Copan and j
Quirigua, for example, seems to have I
passed from the minds of men. their j
former existenee forgotten. Prob- j
ably the largest, and certainly the
most magnificent, of tlie ruined citie*
which the Spanish conquerors found
c*n their arrival in Yucatan wras
Chichein Itza, around which, even in
its desolation, there still cluster a
thousand traditions of former sanc
tity and splendor. The name is Maya,
and means 'The Mouth of t! ife We.;s
of tile Itzas.'
"To visit the ancient city now, ©ri»
jolts for fifteen long and wear r miles
in a-two-wheeled cart drawn bv three
mules over the roughest kind of a
highway imaginable- 'KinaUy. when
it seems that the limit of physical
endurance has been reached, the earl
suddenly lurches around a »tmrp tnr*
in the road. and. as if by magic, th*
lofty Castillo flashes into view, tower*
ing high above the plain and the rest,
of the city. 4
“This imposing structure, the high-1
est in Yucatan, rises seventy-eight!
feet above the plain. The pyramidJ
on which the temple stands is
feet ,long and covers, about an acre
of ground. It is made of nine ter
races of faced masonry, each ter
race elaborately paneled to relieve
the monotony or effect. Up the cen
ter of each i# its four sides rises a
stairway thirty-seven feet wide. These
stairways have massive stone balus
trades, carved to represent serpents,
the heads being at the bases of the
stairways and flanking them.
“The Castillo would seem to have
been the centre of the ancient city, and
probably Its chief sanctuary. To the ,
north lies the Sacred Cenote (well)
and the causeway leading to it. On
the east is a vast group of buildings,
colonnades, courts and pyramids, 'the
City of a Thousand Columns,' as some
one has picturesquely described it.
Due west is the group of structures
known as the Ball Court- To the
south, for half a mile or more, scat
tered through the jungle, are pyra
mids, courts, temples and palaces.
The central location of the Castillo
with reference to all of these, as well
as its great size and commanding
height, argue strongly that it was the
chief sanctuary of the holy cRy. In
another structure, the ‘House of the
Tigers.' are found the remnants of
several beautiful mural paintings.
One of these represents an ( ttack
by an enemy on a large city, splen
didly executed, and presents perhaps
the most remarkable piece of abor
iginal painting known to be in exist
ence. The total area covered by the
ruins has been estimated at ten
square miles."
Tit for Tat
Mrs. Diggs—At our club meeting
this afternoon Mrs. Brayton read ope
of her unpublished opems.
Mr Diggs—And wiiat did you do;‘
Mr*. Digs-,—Just to take her downs’
m ; eg I rend one of my untried re
cipes (or Hungarian you'ash i—Puck.
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