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Show GERMAN WINS I $ TALK OF NEW YORK a 1 Gossip of People and Events Told in Interesting Manner. I v RACE AUTO FASCINATING JAVA 5 ATTRACTIONS OF THIS QUEEN ISLAND OF THE ORIENT. H & V ! GREAT g Place Where Big Game Abounds and Where Noble Architecture and Ancient Arts Can Be Seen in Profusion. oxo:o:oxo:o:o:o:o:o:::o::x:o:o:ox:x:x:o:v Worlds Capital Consumed by Women pation or they would be attending to it and not promenading Peacock alley or sitting in the Palm room or attending club meetings and afternoon recitals. Besides the money that they spend at the hotel there is the enormously greater expenditure for their apparel, YORK. A curious person went jewelry and millinery. Where does NEW the trouble of having counted the money come from to pay for all the number of people who went into this? Somebody must earn it. Someone Saturday re- body must work for it. It must reprethe Waldorf-Astorisent the surplus from some ones earncently. The total was 18,965. of the At each entrance a man was stat- ings over the expenditures ioned with a mechanical counter earner. Since few of the women who lounge which he pressed every time anybody went in. There is no doubt that the at hotels and spend their afternoons It at women's clubs and hotel entertaincount is substantially accurate. en ments earn their own living, their exdoes not include the employes trance or the people who live in the penditures must come from the earnhotel but who did not happen to go ings of a husband or father or some The Waldorf-Astori- other man. Few of these women can out and in that day. is only one of New Yorks big be appareled, lunched, entertained and of the adorned on less than $4,000 or $5,000 hotels It has about a year. The cost of their support is total better class hotel accommodations. If the same proportionate rate not productive but consumptive. They prevails in the other hotels there are add nothing to the wealth and work1,000,000 people a day go to them. ing capital of the world, but absorb Of the visitors the majority were for their continued existence a vast women. At the ladies door on Thirty-fourt- volume of surplus earnings which, if street 3,517 entered, and on expended productively, would result Thirty-thirstreet 2,599. These wom- in continued employment. en must have money to spend and the Still, if all the occupants of Peatime to spend, or they would not be cock alley and the Palm room had to thronging the big, expensive hotels. earn their own living, how could they They must lack more pressing occu- - do it? a i I a one-fiftiet- h Is Becoming ng a Habit As a result of these incidents the tenements have been practically rebuilt several times, having been pretty is becoming so in New York that it might almost be called a habit. So fre- quent are these explosions that the district in which most of them occur has been given the title of the dynamite zone. This terror-riddearea lies on the east side of the city in the Italian quarters, extending one block east and west and two north to south, Since the first of the year there have been no fewer than ten serious dynamite explosions in this turbulent territory, while minor ones, doing comparatively little damage, are of almost daily occurrence. In five adjoining tenements on Eleventh street, which constitute the very heart of the dynamite zone," there have been six large bombs exploded in the last three months. BOMB-THROWIN- I j j n . I j I ( thoroughly wrecked by each explosion. In this section a large proportion of the population carries pocket bombs ready to be hurled at anybody against whom a grievance, fancied or real, exists. That the list of casualties is not enormously greater is due to the fact that most of those commit the outrages are not expert bomb manufacturers. Usually the smaller infernal machines fail to go off at the right time, thus giving the intended victim time to get out of danger. Strenuous efforts are being made to epistamp out the demic, but in spite of all the efforts of the police it continues to grow. Indeed, it is stated that the setting oft of the last bomb in the dynamite zone was done merely as an expression of contempt for the police. Oddly of all enough, more than three-fourth- s the dynamite outrages take place at just about the same hour, four o'clock in the morning. bomb-throwin- g Many People Night Hawks from Choice when they had seated themselves for dinner.After my breakfast at six oclock last evening, I had time to read the afternoon paper, before attending to some business at the bank, which Is an all night affair and suits me exactly. Then I wrote some letters and received a jail from my tailor, who came by appointment, made by mail. After that I went to the theater, then returned and did my solid reading until midnight, when I took a light luncheon. After that I got my automobile and took a really enjoyable ride away out on the Boston post road, having that thoroughfare almost entirely to myself. Two of my night hawk friends accompanied me. I got hack about an hour ago and here I am at dinner. When it is finished I will have a good smoke, en deshabille, reclining in an esy chair, in the privacy of my sitting room. At the same time I will read the morning paper. Then I will be ready for bed. For night I have planned a trip to Coney island, and will be about the last one to leave there. Then I will take part in a friendly game of cards. That will take me up to dinner time again, at about this hour. I find plenty of variety in this sort of life, in company with congenial souls who enjoy the same sort of thing, and after eight years of experience at It I wouldnt go back to daylight life if you paid me for it." Frances supremacy in the automobile Industry received a hard blow in the race for the Grand Prlx of the Automobile club of France, when the first three places were taken by German cars. The Mercedes, driven by contest in 6:55:43, making an average speed Lautenschlager, won the of nearly 70 miles an hour. Second place went to a Benz car, driven by Hemery, in 7:04:24, and third to another Benz entry driven by llanriot, 7:05:13. 478-mil- e SOUNDS WARNING TO BATHERS. PROPER DIET Deafness May Be Brought on by Too American! Make a Mistake in Eating Too Much Meat. Sudden Plunge. THE TROPICS. IN its night as well as from the necessity that grows out of There are men many employments. who know not the light, noise, hurry, bustle and business of the thronged streets of the daylight hours; but after the sun has set they are abroad, ready for breakfast and for the events of their nocturnal waking hours. These, as a rule, are men of, the leisure class, without families, who live in the hotels near the centers of the citys activities. They are not conspicuous early in the evening, when they are among the thousands in the brightest part of the metropolis, but are more noticeable to the careful observer who goes with open eyes and ears into the restaurants after the wee hours of the morning begin. Then they can be found at their dinners, but by the time the dawn appears they from j - I choice, have disappeared. We have just had the best hours of the day,-recently said a night hawk, one of a party of five, in a Broadway restaurant at 4:30 oclock. Spanking-Roo- m at Court NEW YORKS ancient whipping post, since abolished, has finally been revived and brought up to date in the form of a spanking-rootechnically known as spankatorium No. 1 Within a single week the city has instituted both municipal chastisement ond municipal bodily cleanliness. Both these innovations, however, affect only the juvenile part of the population. The spanking-room- , the modern equivalent of the whipping post, is a s newly installed adjunct of the court. While the city does not do the actual chastising, It furnishes all the necessary outfit, leaving the final act to the parent of the young offender. The spankatorium is furnf.shed with rules, switches. chil-dien'- y Is a Success slippers and the like, together with Beveral solid chairs and a table. Two attendants are also on hand to hold any youngster who may show fight. Of course, the sentence of a spanking is not imposed by the court, but only offered to the parents as an alternative to a term in an institution for their offspring, it being the opinion of the judge that the spanking will produce better results. In this idea he finds ready support among the parents, since in every case where the spanking has been suggested the suggestion has been promptly acted upon. To Abie Epstein, a youthful pickpocket, fell the questionable honor of testing for the first time the spanking-room- . Judged by his remarks, it is going to prove a howling success. In every case after the punishment has been administered the culprit is recalled to the courtroom to explain publicly why he has been spanked. In addition to thus administering doses of the rod, the city is also washing about 50,000 boys every week in the baths which it baa just opened. The old town, in fact, is a kaleidoscope that presents an inexhaustible variety of interesting scenes to the gaze of the Idle visitor. The new town, as it is called, or Weltevieden, would he insipid were it not so miracu lously clean, so neat, so comfortable, so "well fed in appearance. Long avenues shaded by noble trees are- through the instrumentality of native regents. The geologist will grow enthusiastic over the majestic chain of Most Americans in the tropics make volcanoes, active or quiescent, that exthe mistake of eating largo quantities tends like a monstrous of beef and salt meat. The best and through the center of the island from cheapest fish market in the world is east to west and provides an unrivaled found right at our doors. Spanish series of craters for the investigation mackerel at 1 cents a pound can be of the scientist. At Builenzorg, an had any day. Fifty cents will fur- hour's journey from Batavia, the botnish fish for 50 people. The longosta anist has at his disposition the biggest del mar is a cousin of and most famous botanical garden in the American lobster and altogether the world, containing specimens of toothsome. It may be ordered the some 10,000 species of trees and day before and delivered alive at your plants. door. And to close this incomplete list of Mindanao coffee will not be found in Java's advantages, it Is singularly acthe market Just now, but Senor as climate. commodating regards our enterprising grocer, will Thanks to the mountainous character secure it soon. The writer will then of its physical conformation and the tell the ladies how to make coffee from different altitudes of its towns and the best bean in the world. The Sin- hill stations, the visitor can select the sold in the Chinese climate best suited for his constitution. gapore coffee storeB is infinitely superior to the com- In a few hours he may change from missary brand and can be freshly the tropics to the temperate zone, may without which no coffee migrate from Batavia to Sindanglaja, roasted, should ever be drunk. Mindanao 3,483 feet above the sea level, or from Herald. Soerabaja to Tosari, at an altitude of PRINCESS AT IRONING BOARD. 5,776 feet, and famous for its bracing When the warm weather heats your and you long to hie to the cooling seaside and plunge boldly into the briny, pause, hesitate, consider, says an eminent nose and ear specialist. Observe the numbers of bathers who during the season evince a sudden deafness, w'hich often lingers for weeks at a time and sometimes becomes a permanent trouble. To avoid this do two things. Remember the ancient instruction to wet the top of the head first, and never allow any cold water to percolate to the drum of the ear. Many people do not know that the sudden application of cold to the back of the ear will cause the delicate mechanism to expand sharply under the rush of blood to escape. This is always followed by partial deafness, which sometimes becomes a serious matter. Another thing to watch is the shampoo. The same danger lies here if the hairdresser is either unskillful or careless. In rinsing the hair the spray should first be applied to the top of the head and gradually brought down to the nape of the neck, thus obviating Pretty Story Told of Daughter Queen Victoria. the trouble. blood forty-secon- buck-hon- e Beautiful Javanese Lady. d formed by big white villas, each one standing in a beautifully kept garden, each one fronted by a cool looking veranda, which is apparently a favorite room, for it is always furnished with rocking chairs and lounges and decorated with pictures, china orna ments and flowering plants. It speaks volumes for the honesty of the natives or the awe they feel for the Dutih that such easily transportable can be left with perfect safety In thu open road. It is in Weltevreden that the Dutch and European population reside. One Is compelled to admit that life in sin-lsurroundings must be singularly agreeair. able in spite of the heat. And it Is The to visitor western disemJava easy to believe the assertion that the of barks at Tanjong Irlok. Batavia is Dutch officials at the end of their term situated some six or seven miles in- of service return regretfully to HolA pretty story is told of Princess land. The road to it lies through a land, and that Uie Dutch merchants Louise when her husband, the Duke ol richly fertile country, intersected, In never leave Java except for a short true Dutch fashion, by canals. There visit home," Argyle, then Marquis of Lome, was Governor General of Canada. She was sketching one afternoon in the neighborhood of a town where she was to be present with the Governor General Tor-rejo- Objects to "Suffragette." It is time, observes a writer In the London Chronicle, that the term suffragette was abandoned, as the suffragist movement has taken its serious The word is not place in politics. worth preserving. It is used as a term MAY GIVE UP aril-cle- i GORGEOUS FISHES AMERICAN RESIDENCE they are also very delicate. Every spring a fresh supply has to be brought north to take the place ol those which have died during tin winter. Annual Shipments of Beautiful and Mof-of these fantastic sea dwellers Odd Creatures of the Deep are captured by the colored fishermen Now Being Received for of Bermuda. Their sailboats are ol American Public. about the size of the New, England1 and are made of cedar grow The summer time at the. Hew York eatlioats on the island, about the only wool ing is a and aquarium busy interesting found there. The main feature of the one because of the annual shipments boats is the deep well In the center for holding the fish. The most Important equipment ol the fisherman Is the trap or pot. Every specimen sent to the aquarium Is first lured inside one of these. The traps are built up commonly of small cedar limbs and wire netting, securely lashed, and they resemble the ordinary crockery crate, one end being cut V shaped. Here there is a opening where the fish enter. The traps are about five feet deep. When baited heavily it takes oil the strength of the brawny fisherman to lift and heave it into the sea. Among the pictures is one showing a Bermuda fisherriian and one of tho traps. Out to selected points on the reefs the fishermen sail early in the mornTheir boats are of shallow ing. draught, drawing only two feet of water, so as to clear the tops of the sunken reefs over which they have to pass. Every boat is manned by One of the Cans In Which the Fish The haunts of the various species Travel. of fish are all pretty well known tc of beautiful and odd specimens of the fishermen. To bag a colony of deep sea life from the Bermuda isand many colored angel fish, lands. This year the display seems the queen trigger, with its long streamfiner than ever because arrangements ers, and other similar beauties which have been made to supply the tanks are valuable for exhibition purposes of the aquarium wheie these delicate the fishermen place special bait ia visitors are to he kept with pure salt their traps, such as muscles, tiny water brought direct Ironi their ocean minnows, fine strips of the moray, lob home. The water Is shipped from ster meat, etc. Bermuda in tanks anj stored at the Most astonishing to the white visitor aquarium in a reservoir, it will be is the manner In which the fishermen pumjed continually Into their quar- are able to keep track of their t ters, then pumped oi t, filtered and using buoys or other anchor sent back to the resmvoli, to he re- markings. They will drop 50 or more turned again to the tonks. Thus traps to a depth of 50 or 75 feet, seat hi. used in their giasi licmes filled tering them over the ocean bottom for vi:h the water they are arcustonied a distance of several miles perhaps to in their coral hai.nts un the Berleaving no sign to mark their wheremuda reefs, it is ti ought they will abouts on the surface. Yet they are live end thrive iongei than heretofore. able to pick up the traps again with Few of the hundn ds of thousands certainty. of visitors who annually view the The catch is quickly deposited in great array of fishes it ttNexr York of the boat. After being rebaited aquarium appreciate the difficulty of the trap is again dropped into the sea. keeping up the supply. Of all the inWatching. the bringing up of there habitants quartered there the most traps, every one with a different coltie gorgeous lection of marine specimens, is a regeneially admired but markable and exciting sight. tropical fishes from lierpiuda, FANTASTIC SEA MARVELS NEW YORK AQUARIUM. - NEW YORK CITY has fort. n h Bomb-Throwi- Foreign visitors to Java are far from numerous, and yet it is one of the most interesting and attractive places in the world for the tourist. In fact, the resources of this queen island of the Orient as regards objects of interest and means of recreation are too jrreat to be exhausted in a few weeks, Indeed months. There is something here for every taste. The sportsman will find excellent big game shooting sr. the southern province of Ireanger. The admirer of noble architecture and the student of ancient art and ancient civilizations will. delight in exploring the ruined Hindoo temples of Prarnba-naand Boro Iioedoer. Those curious about social conditions and the customs of primitive peoples will find an inexhaustible mine in the native quarters, or Kampongs, in the Javanese villages, the Malay communities, the Chinese settlements. Those Interested In the political problems that result from colonial possessions can study here in full operation one of the most successful systems that human ingenuity has yet devised, the Dutch residents governing a subject race is something touching in their presence here, embanked ami bordered with trees as in Holland. Batavia itself Is divided very sharply into two cities, one Asiatic, the other European; the first animated, dirty, picturesque; the second quht; TIip first is clean, commonplace. where the visitor will find interest; t lie second where he will find com- FOR t Wakehurst, the Newport Villa of J. J. Van Alen, Which May Never Be Opened Again. James J. Van Alen, the owner of Wakehurst at Newport, R. I., may never Dpen that great house again. He surprised his friends by announcing his intention to open In the fall his English estate of Rushton hall in Devonshire on which he has a 99 year lease, and that he expects the King and Queen of England among his house party guests for ten days. A large party of Americans will cross the Atlantic to join those now living in Europe for the house party at Rushton hall. of reproach and does not enrich the language. Women do not want the vete in order to maintain a distinction, but in order to obliterate it. They want to be suffragists and citizens Just as men are. Therefore, we have no place for such a mongrel word as suffragette in our political vocabulary. The latest addition to political terminology is more useful. It is It was invented by platformula. John M. Robertson, M. P., and is Intended to describe something rather Indefinite in the way of political pledges something which is partly a formula which politicians should adopt and at the same time is supposed to have a place in the party platform. at some great function In the after noon. The day was hot and she became thirsty, so she went to a nearby cottage and asked for a drink of water. The mistress of the house was I would gladly give you a Ironing. drink, she said, but I have no water in the house and I havent time to go to get it, for Im ironing a dress for my daughter to wear this afternoon when she goes to see the queens daughter. "Then, said the queen's daughter, if you will get me the water I will go on with the ironing. Where Sexes Are Equal. Women are privileged to make a wil' when 18 years of age in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho, and in these states the wife and minor chil dren are entitled to a homestead and What He Overlooked. I might have known that you would a certain allowance out of her husrefuse me, said the poor but other- band's estate, which has priority over wise honest young man who had failed ordinary debts. Also in these states there is equality of inheritance for There s to impress the fair maid. a metallic ring in your voice when I both sexes, women having been instruentered the parlor that boded me no mental in making the laws of these states. good. Had you been a little more obFigures and Numbers. servant, she rejoined, you might also have noticed a metallic ring on Figures don't lie, remarked the my finger that Charlie Gotrox placed man who utters aphorisms. "That's true so far as mathematics there last night. i3 concerned, answered the campaignThirty seconds later his feet were But in politics a back r umber i3 er. homeon the each other following to prevaricate some. liable ward trail. funnel-shape- two-men- the-daint- trap-withou- the-wel- r--v l . |