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tod 172 LESLIE’S WEEKLY THE OLDEST ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY IN THE UNITED STATES THE TWENTIETH CENTURY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS Vol, XCVII. . . . . No. 2502 PUBLISHED BY THE JUDGE COMPANY, 225 FOURTH AVE., CORSER 19TH STREET, NEW YORE Copyright, 1903, by Judge Co. WESTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE 8296-629 MARQUETTE BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILL. Evropgan SALEs-aGents: The International News Compen , Bream’s Building, Chancery Lane, E. C., London, England; Saarbach’s News Exchange, Mainz, Germany ; Brentano’s, Paris, France. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Terms: $4.00 per year; $2.00 for six months Foreign Countries In Postal Union, $5.00 Postage free to all subscribers in the United States, and in Hawaitt Porto Rice, the Philippine Islands, Guam, Tututla, Samoa, Canada, and Mexico. Subscriptions payable in advance by draft on New York, or by express or postal order, not by local checks, which, under present banking regulations of New York, are at a discount in that city. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Parties representing themselves as connected with LESLIE’S WEEKLY should always be asked to pro- duce credentials, This will prevent imposition, Thursday, August 20, 1903 Labor Troubles and 1904. ‘THE DISTINCT advance of Socialism in this country contemporaneous with its advance everywhere else—marked by an increase of the Socialistic vote, not only in the West, but also in New York State, and in some New England cities, may carry with it a grave portent for the approaching presidential election. While we are accustomed to divide the voters into two great camps, political managers find their plans sadly inter- fered with at irregular intervals by the appearance of new parties. General manhood suffrage has cultivated the spirit of political independence, and the independ- ent voter must now be given consideration in election forecasts. When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, and President Hancock said ‘* There must be no pulling different ways ; we must all hang together,’’ Benjamin Franklin indicated the unity of the American people when he replied, ‘‘ Yes, we must all hang to- gether, or we shall all hang separately.’’ But only a few years elapsed before political differences led to the most rancorous outbreaks even against Washington himself. There were parties who believed in the new American Constitution, and parties who believed only in parts of it, ‘‘ strict constructionists’’ and ‘* loose constructionists,’’ Federalists and anti-Federalists. The development of the country fortunately led to a better era in politics, so that in Madison’s day leaders of public thought abandoned contentions over con- stitutional constructions, and sought to elaborate a successful financial and economic system for the new and growing country. The slavery question revived general interest in the intent and purpose of the Constitution, and developed the issue of State rights. We had the two great political parties and also the Abolition, or anti-slavery, party. We also had the Know-nothing voter, the Barn-burner, and the Hunker. In our time, the side issues have involved the ‘‘ rag-money ’”’ and the anti- monopoly voters, and, still more recently, the Popu- lists. The Socialistic vote, which has gradually been increasing, has not been considered a factor in presi- dential elections, because of the sweeping majorities of McKinley. This vote will be of greater moment next year, because it has disclosed its strength by the election of labor mayors in several New England cities, and because its vote in New York State last fall was far greater than Governor Odell’s plurality. It was greater than the Prohibition vote, and even greater than Roosevelt’s plurality when he carried the State in 1898. The combined vote of the Social-Labor and Social- Democratic candidates for Governor in this State last year was over 39,000. What this means in a close, and perhaps the pivotal, State of the Union in the next presidential election, may be imagined. The Socialist vote had something to do with turning Rhode Island over to the Democracy at the last gubernatorial elec- tion. In Pennsylvania, where another coal strike in the anthracite regions is one of the possibilities, the labor vote may become a .factor next year, for it is given out by the labor leaders that unless the concilia- tion board settles the differences of the United Mine Workers more promptly and satisfactorily, a general strike will be declared during the presidential year, when a certain victory for the miners’ union is antic- ipated. Nor can we overlook conditions in some of the Western and Pacific States. The Arizona branch of the Western Federation of Miners has changed its by- laws with a view of entering actively in politics. The Socialistic vote in California is developing great strength. In Colorado an extraordinary situation in- vites attention. At Idaho Springs a number of labor leaders, who were charged with violence, were driven from the community by a citizens’ committee, and in Denver the Citizens’ Alliance recently held a mass- meeting in the Chamber of Commerce to devise a drastic measure of dealing with certain agitators con- spicuous in recent labor troubles. The unions of Col- LESLIE’S WEEKLY orado are resenting these attacks and threatening to carry their differences to the polls. Labor troubles in New York City, in Chicago, and in Pittsburg offer special opportunities for socialistic- political agitators to make converts in the next gen- eral election. If amid such conditions we should be obliged to meet business depression next year, with consequent reductions in wages, strikes and shut- downs, the danger of the rising tide of Socialism in 1904 will become serious and alarming. How thought- less and indifferent to his own interests the voter can be when stirred by passion or prejudice was shown in the last two presidential contests by the enormous vote cast for a candidate who represented a platform distinctly Socialistie in its tendencies, a candidate nom- inated twice in opposition to one of the most popular men in public life. There are those who brush away the fears of Social- ism in 1904, on the assumption that President Roose- velt, by his attitude toward the striking miners, and by his outspoken expression regarding the evils of op- pressive trusts, has endeared himself to the working masses. It is no reflection on Roosevelt to say that in our days, with the possible exception of Mr. Blaine, no public leader had been held in higher estimation by the working masses than Mr. McKinley. He was the ardent advocate of protection, and labored intelli- gently, aggressively, and finally with success, to im- press his views upon the people. The triumph of pro- tection was the triumph of the working masses, who hailed McKinley as their noblest hero. That sucha sandidate should have been repudiated at the polls by so many millions of workingmen, and repudiated for a political upstart, with no record of achievements in public life and no claim to statesmanship, is a revelation of the thoughtlessness and ingratitude of the average voter. These are things to think of, and the Republican party cannot begin to think of them too soon nor too seriously. * a Waste that Is Not Wasted. N NO direction, perhaps, have modern inventive gen- ius and scientific research been of more practical service to mankind, or added more largely to the wealth of the world than in the processes devised for converting material formerly consigned to the dust heap or the gar- bage barrel into valuable commodities of various kinds. By such means much that once passed for worthless ““ trash ’’ has been elevated to a foremost place among the things quoted in the market reports and listed on the exchanges of the world. Thus, as if by the wave of a magic wand, the despised tin can and the cast-off shoe have been rescued from an ignominious fate and lifted up to new careers of honor and usefulness. So far have modern industrial needs and demands pushed these processes that it is just now seriously proposed in a German scientific journal to utilize the energy which goes to waste through resistance and friction in the mechanical world. The steam-engine, it is said, converts but about .005 per cent. of the energy of the coal burned in operating it into work. In the shaft- ing of factories, frequently thirty per cent. of power is lost in friction, while an immense amount of power is taken up by useless resistance in electric wires. It is now believed that this lost power may be taken up and usefully employed in other mechanical operations. As an illustration of the large and positive benefits to the industrial world arising from modern processes of utilization, nothing could be more striking than the figures of the census report on cotton-seed oil manu- facture in 1900. It was only a few years ago that cotton-seed was regarded as a by-product of little or no commercial value. Now, according to this report, there were 357 establishments in the United States in 1900 engaged in the extraction of cotton-seed oil, using 2,479,386 tons of cotton-seed, the cost of which was $28,632,616, an average cost of $11.55 per ton. The total value of the products was $42,411,835. Froma valuation which but a few decades ago might fitly have been expressed by a cipher, this advance to a market value of over forty millions is indeed a fact to be truly classed among the marvels of the age. Not less marvelous are many other products of utilizing processes. Some of the most delicately scented perfumery comes out of waste rubbish. Use has been found for the refuse of tanneries and cur- riers’ shops. Much of the material formerly wasted in these trades is now used for making the soles of boots and shoes. The leather cuttings and scrapings are cleaned, dampened, compressed, and dried, the ref- use in this process being in turn manufactured into what is known as “‘ leather board.’’ Waste paper is converted into a great variety of useful things, into pails, cups, and even into car-wheels and building ma- terials. The saying that an enterprise has ‘‘all ended in smoke’’ does not have the significance that it did be- fore a way was found to materialize that airy product into substances as tangible as oils, acids, spirits, and tar. Asingle blast furnace in a Western State, which captures the smoke of its charcoal pits and conveys it into stills, has been able to realize enough from this source to pay a large share of its running expenses. The utilization of sewage is a most important ques- tion, but apart from the chemical and agricultural uses to which it is now put, there is yet to be solved the problem of utilizing the waste with which every river to a less or greater degree is polluted. This is one of the things that they seem to manage better in France, for in a most interesting article which ap- peared a few months ago in the Leisure Hour, it was pointed out how the floating débris of the Seine has ‘ August 20, 1903 for years been a source of profitable manufacture in obtaining from it greases and other products of com- mercial value. . 2 The Plain Truth. OW THE law of compensation gets in its fine work in the case of such wonderful additions to human comfort and convenience as the telephone and the automobile, is seen in the statement of the police officials of Paris that the great increase of unde- tected crime in that city is owing to the advantages that criminals derive from the use of these same ‘* blessings ’’ conferred on the world by modern in- ventive genius. The marvel is that the New York detective force had never thought of this ingenious explanation to account for the great number of crimi- nals they fail to detect. a HE HIDEOUS and unspeakable crimes and in- famies committed during the Middle Ages in the name of Christianity find their parallel in the massacre at Kishineff, where neither age nor sex was spared. The murdering fanatics were incited to their cruel and bloody work, as it now appears, by the distribution of a leaflet on the eve of the massacre in which the Jews were explicitly charged with killing Christian children that they might use their blood for ceremonial purposes. Specific instances of recent date were given in which this alleged crime had been committed by the Jews. ‘‘ Therefore, brethren,’’ read the leaflet, signed by the ‘** Party of True Christian Workmen,’’ “* let us cry, on our great festival, “Down with the Jews!’ Kill these infamous degenerates, these blood-drinkers ! The mili- tary will help us. Our Christ-loving soldiers have not yet become Jews. Kill the infamous Jews!’’ The case affords a striking illustration, too, of the persist- ency of error and superstition in the human mind. The ritual murder of Christian children has been charged against the Jews for centuries past, and though always utterly false and baseless, and ten thou- sand times refuted by Christians as well as by Jews, we find it springing up here again at Kishineff in all its old virulence, to bear again its horrid fruit in the slaughter of an innocent and unoffending people. THE GENERAL satisfaction which greeted the an- nouncement of the selection of the Patriarch of Venice as the new head of the Roman Catholic Church is perhaps the highest tribute that could be paid to the new incumbent, Cardinal Sarto. While his selec- tion appears to have been a profound surprise to his brother cardinals, it is noteworthy that as far back as April 26th a correspondent of the New York Tribune designated Cardinal Sarto as the most probable suc- cessor of Leo XIII. The new Pope is of humble birth, has modest tastes, dislikes publicity, is noted for his benevolence and good works, and is said to be more acceptable to the court of Italy than almost any other cardinal. He is an eloquent preacher, has rare ex- ecutive abilities, and only his aversion to publicity has prevented more general recognition of his great abil- ities. His selection was probably due to the fact that he had made few enemies, and had stood in no one’s way. Unlike many of the Italian cardinals, he has not been associated with political and diplomatic af- fairs, and therefore brings to the church a very high conception of its religious purpose. The Church of Rome is no longer the political power it once was, and in the opinion of advanced and enlightened Roman Catholics it is well that this is so. The work of a church can best be done in the field of religion, in the uplifting of humanity, in the improvement of moral conditions, and in the strengthening of refining and civilizing influences. There is enough in this field of endeavor for all the churches to find an abundance of work. This is an age in which religion and politics have no affiliations, and should have none. HERE WAS something pathetic in the appeal of Mr. Charles M. Schwab to the newspaper men, just after his recent retirement from the presidency of the Steel Trust, when he said, ‘‘Be fair to me this time, boys !’’ It had been no secret for many months that Mr. Schwab, mainly because of physical infirm- ities, would retire or be retired from his place at the head of the great steel corporation. His retirement is apparently voluntary, but whatever led to it, it ends in deep disappointment a career of the greatest prom- ise. Mr. Schwab was the creation of Andrew Car- negie, who has always prided himself on his rare skill in choosing his principal aids and subordinates. There is no evidence that Mr. Schwab was not well qualified for the places to which he was assigned by Mr. Car- negie up to the time of the organization of the top- heavy steel corporation, with its billion-dollar capital, and the selection of Mr. Schwab as the head of the trust was commonly supposed to be in accordance with Mr. Carnegie’s wishes. Some of the ablest of Mr. Carnegie’s lieutenants were dropped from the management of the gigantic steel corporation to make room for banking and business men, who were thought to be competent to fill the places. The results speak for themselves. , Other great industrial propositions, bought by promoters from successful owners and managers, have passed, or are passing, through an ex- perience similar to that of the Steel Trust, though when these combinations were put together great promises were made of remarkable economies and consequent increased earnings. That these expecta- tions have been so bitterly disappointed in nearly every instance is but another confirmation of the old adage that “‘ the shoemaker should stick to his last,’’ sedate ae Sat hee ce tae thins. ¥ % |

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amen! MIM ioe August 20. 1903 LESLIE’S WEEKLY HE BEAUTI- FUL and thriving little city of Water- town, N. _ Y., honored and en- riched as it was in many ways by the late Gov- ernor Roswell P. Flower, himself for years its most distinguished cit- izen, will con- tinue to profit through all time to come by a noble gift re- cently conferred upon it by his daughter, Mrs. Emma Flower Taylor, as a me- morial of her father. This memorial is in the form of an institution to be known as the Flower Memorial Library, to be built at a cost of $150,000. The cor- ner-stone of the library was laid on the morning of July 11th by Mrs. Taylor herself, in the presence of some three hundred or more of Watertown’s rep- resentative citizens. Other features of the brief and impressive ceremonies were addresses by the Hon. W. D. McKinstry, chairman of the library build- ing committee ; Mr. Samuel F. Bagg, and State Sena- tor Elon R. Brown. The library will be built wholly of pure white Vermont marble, and the architecture will be of the Ionic order from classical designs, in- cluding a grand rotunda surmounted by a dome, and across the front of the building a colonnade, the col- umns of which will be two feet in diameter at the base and terminated at the top with an Ionic capital. The building will have a frontage of 115 and a depth of 66 feet. The rotunda will be finished in marble, and the dome will be ornamented with paintings of scenes from Jefferson county history by Charles R. Lamb, of New York. A pleasing feature of the exercises not “‘down ’”’ on the programme was the reading of a let- ter from Mrs. Taylor to the president of the board of trustees, agreeing to give $21,000 more to be expended in books for the library, all unconditionally, except $3,000 for a medical library, $3,000 for a theological li- brary, and $1,000 for books on New York State history. In these splendid benefac- tions Mrs. Taylor stands in marked and shining contrast with many inheritors of for- tunes who find no other use for the wealth thus gained than the expenditure of it in foolish indulgences and reck- less and criminal extrava- gance. MRS EMMA FLOWER TAYLOR, Donor of the Flower Memorial Library at Watertown, N. Y.—Copyr ght, 1903, by A. B. Phelan. HE PARIS Figaro recent- ly called attention to the curious fact that it was from New York that the news of the Pope’s death first reached London. As soon as the death was an- nounced the correspondent of the Associated Press at Rome cabled the news to New York by all the various routes, and one of these messages, via the French cable, reached the New York office in a few seconds. Instantly the intelligence was transmitted to the Reuter Agency in Lon- don, the great news bureau of Europe, which had not yet heard of it, though it had its own wires from London to Rome. This is another triumph for Mr. Mel- ville E. Stone, the gen- eral manager of the As- sociated Press, and it is not surprising that he was the recipient of many congratulatory messages, not only on account of this ‘‘beat,’’ but also because of the splendid service, in con- nection with the pro- tracted illness and death of the Pope, rendered by his correspondents in Rome. Mr. Stone’s abilities as a newspaper man and an executive MELVILLE E. STONE, Who gave the world the first news ot the Pope’s death.—Gessford, LADY ULRICA DUNCOMBE, An English noblewoman, deeply mterested in s charitable work.—A/endelssohn. People Talked About officer were never more signally illustrated than in this instance. When complimented on the efficiency of his labors, he generously remarked that the credit should be given to his faithful assistants and subordinates. The Associated Press was never handled more effi- ciently and satisfactorily that it is at present. a OWN ALONG the fortifications at the southern limits of the city of Paris, in a small cottage sur- rounded by a garden, and all inclosed by a high stone wall, the whole with a rental value of perhaps $150 per year, lives one of the world’s foremost scientists of to-day, on a salary of perhaps $300 per year. Just now there are no names above those of Professor Pierre Curie and his gifted wife, who have succeeded in separating from other metals that elusive substance PROFESSOR AND MADAME CURIE, Discoverers of radium, and their child.—/’Aotograph by H. C. Filis. which has been named ‘‘radium,’’ from its power of radiating or producing heat. Just what other proper- ties it possesses cannot yet be told, but the fact has been demonstrated that it produces and gives off heat without any appreciable loss of weight or chemical properties. A _ large, scarcely healed, blister on the professor’s arm_ bol- sters up his faith in that part of the subject. The coal trust need not be alarmed just yet, however, as the lowest market price is still above strike prices of anthracite. The cost of a decigramme, the pro- fessor states, is about three thousand francs, which would make the net whole- sale price about $180,000 per ounce. Professor Curie and his wife have just re- turned from a visit to Lon- don, where they have been royally entertained by the Royal Society. Madame Curie, who has assisted the professor in all his experiments, has just been granted the doctor’s degree. The professor is a very modest and unassuming Parisian, while his wife is of Polish birth. The little girl who sits between them in the photograph should inherit enough talent to make a stir in the world some of these days. _ HILE THERE is often just occasion to dwell upon the vanity, selfishness, and extravagance that characterize the lives of many of the so-called leaders of modern society, the men and women born to fortune and high station, it is only fair and right to mark the many exceptions to this rule, the numerous instances where wealth and social power may be found hand in hand with a true and genuine philanthropy. The number of such people, we are happy to believe, is increasing both in America and Europe. Lady UI- rica Duncombe is one of the women prominent in English society who has also the highly honorable dis- tinction of being much given to works of charity. Lady Ulrica is a daughter of Lord Feversham, and un- married. Atthe country home of her parents in York- shire, King Edward and Queen Alexandra are often guests, and the Queen has taken a special interest in Lady Ulrica’s charitable projects, and particularly ina Girls’ Club in the East End of London, where, in spite of all the efforts of such philanthropists as the late Sir Walter Besant, General Booth, and Dr. Bernardo, the conditions under which vast numbers of people live are simply appalling. It is among these poor and neglected ones that Lady Duncombe has prosecuted a noble work for years, MRS. ALFRED HARMSWORTH, The charming wite of the tamous London publisher Lafayette. O COUNTRY under the nominal control of a Mohamme- dan ruler is in such a happy and prosperous con- dition to-day as Egypt, a condi- tion due to the fact that the land is actually under the con- trol of England. This has secured for the country a settled, enlight- ened, and _ pro- gressive govern- ment, security for life and prop- erty, and justice for all classes. All this goes, PRINCE MOHAMMED ABDUL MONEM, Heir-apparent of the Khedive of Egypt, and however ’ to likely to be a ruler with little make the posi- power. tion of the lad, whose portrait we present, somewhat uncertain. As the oldest and only son of the present Khedive of Egypt, Prince Mohammed is the heir to whatever may remain of Mohammedan power and sovereignty in the land when his father dies, which is likely then to be much more of a shadow than it is now. But if there is nothing left for the young man to succeed to in the shape of royal perquisites and prerogatives, he will doubtless be dealt with generously by the British government. ” HATEVER CONCERNS the home life and per- sonality of Mr. Alfred Harmsworth, the Eng- lish newspaper owner, will have a special interest for Americans, many of whom met that gentleman during his visit to this country a year or so ago, when he was entertained by Mr. Frank Munsey, and by other Amer- ican publishers. Mr. Harmsworth is the owner of some half-dozen publications, daily and weekly, the most im- portant, perhaps, being the London Daily Mail, and has introduced notable innovations into English jour- nalism. The Harmsworths have a beautiful home in London, and are noted for their hospitality. Mrs. Harmsworth’s London house and her lovely country home are full of curios, collected by herself. Mr. Harms- worth is one of the great authorities on automobilism, and Mrs. Harmsworth, though a first-rate horse- woman, is an enthusiast in the cause of the horseless carriage. ” LL WHO are acquainted with political affairs in Cincinnati during the past twenty years will concede that the dominating figure in these affairs all these years has been George Barnsdale Cox. People who know Mr. Cox and his career differ widely as to his policies and methods, but all agree that for astuteness, tenacity of purpose, and organizing ability he has few, if any, equals among politicians. According to political gos- sip another “‘ crisis ’’ is imminent in Mr. Cox’s career, the result of a break between him and Senator For- aker. In consequence of this, so the report goes, the Cincinnati leader will oppose Mr. Foraker’s re-election to the United States Senate. All this, if true, means a hard fight ahead for Mr. Cox, but it is quite likely that he may survive the battle as he has so many others. Mr. Cox has come up to his present place of power and influ- ence solely by dint of his own perseverance, cour- age, and industry. He began life as a wagon- driver for a grocery store at a salary of five dollars a week. He is now supposed to be worth a million dollars. He began his political career in 1884 as a Blaine man, and speed- ily rose to the top of the Republican organi- zation, GEORGE BARNSDALE COX, Veteran Republican leader of Cincin- nati.—Studivo Grand, Cincinnati,

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eae AS ren sat AS 3 Re Ao OS 174 LESLIE’S WEEKLY Strenuous Summer Life at West Point By H. Irving Hancock, Author of “‘ Life at West Point’’ August 20, 1903 T IS all vim, snap, dash, and energy in the summer day’s life of the cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point. It is the ideal strenuous life, for it makes the young men stronger, brainier, and even more adept in all the graces of companion- ship. During the winter the cadets are quartered in barracks in the great old gray building. From Sep- tember to June these young men are busy, for the most part, with academic studies and recitations. In this period they rise at six A. M. and retire at ten P. M. Throughout the livelong academic day cadets are given a total of a little more than an hour’s recreation time. The ‘‘plebes’’ go to the gymnasium for drill, and the upper classmen have training in riding at the riding-hall. Upper classmen are allowed to use the gymnasium in leisure moments if they desire. There are three daily marches to the cadet mess-hall for meals —and this, with the exception of occasional alternative tours of guard duty in the early evening, gives an average idea of the cadet’s opportunities for exercise and other forms of outdoor life during the academic year. The system by which a cadet is made fit in four years to become an officer worthy of West Point’s latest traditions requires the young man to put In an amount of study that would kill the average college boy. It is necessary, and so the cadet who is fitting himself to command must learn to obey and endure the grind. There is this difference between the training of the army cadet and the college boy. The cadet can do no roistering. He is given the best of physical training under two officers, who are fine, exact experts in their line. He has constant medical supervision, his hours are regular, and everything is done to make him a brainy and healthful man, who can stand the strain of the maximum amount of work. If he does not come up to this expectation he is not qualified for the men- tal and physical demands that will be made upon him as an officer, and he is therefore sent home. June brings with it the annual examinations. This is a period of severe preparatory work and of the most anxious wondering. The first class is graduated and its members go home to await the receipt of their commissions as second lieutenants in the regular army. The new second classmen go home for their summer furlough—the only one that is granted to a cadet, ex- cept in case of illness, during his four years of service at the Point. Then the new first and third classes go into summer encampment, where tents are pitched on the northern edge of the cavalry plain. The new fourth classmen, or “‘ plebes,’’ as they are called, ar- rive at the academy at about this time. They are first of all quartered in the academy barracks. As soon as they have qualified in the preliminary cadet drills they are released, a few at a time, and sent to join cadet companies in camp. There is all the contrast in the world between the summer and the winter work of the young men. Not a single academic text-book is taken under canvas. There are no recitations at which learned professors wearing shoulder-straps ask bewil- dering questions. It is all open-air life in the little city of tents —with an amount of sheer hard work that would appall the young man who expects to put in the heated term merely enjoying himself at some water- ing place, mountain resort, or idle camp in the woods. The cadet’s summer morning begins at the very stroke of five. At the first note of “‘first call to reveille ’’ the youngster must spring off his cot. There is a hurried dressing, but it must be properly done. Some time is devoted to ‘‘ policing ’’ the tent, and this is what the plain citizen would call housework. Only a few minutes are allowed for washing, dressing, and policing, and then the call sounds for the young men to fall in for breakfast formation and march to the mess- hall. Within a very few minutes after breakfast has been dispatched the duties of the day begin. By the time that the cadet reaches his dinner at one P. M. he has performed some seven hours of continuous and arduous physical work. Nor does it, by any means, rest there. There is plenty more of work to be done in the afternoon. Every duty must be performed on the jump. It does not do for the youngster to be a minute late at any of the drills, parade, or other duties. Punctuality is the soldier’s virtue. Tardiness is pun- ished with demerits, and the number of these demerits increases with the frequency of the delinquency. Probably the hardest work of the early morning falls to the ‘‘plebes,’’ for the reason that they are men unseasoned to West Point’s rigorous rules. They are marched out in the cool of the early morning, under as much shade from trees as can be secured. Here, under the watchful eyes of Lieutenant Koehler, the physical director, and of his assistant, Lieutenant Glade, the young men are put through the mysteries of “ set- ting-up’’ drill. This consists of a series of physical exercises, some of them rather severe, which are in- tended to develop agility, muscle, and the proper erect, soldierly carriage. It is marvelous what a change takes place in the stoop-shouldered, green country boy after he has undergone a fortnight of this work. He looks like a soldier, and is one. Many of the ‘‘plebes ’’ find plenty of other morning work at the swimming-pool in the gymnasium. Every cadet must learn toswim. If he cannot acquire the art in his first year of service he must keep at the attempt until he conquers. It is required of him to be able to swim for fifteen consecutive minutes without resting. As soon as he can do this he is released from compul- sory drillin the pool. But swimming on a hot day is such glorious fun that cadets do not have to be driven into the water. In the afternoon upper class- men swarm the pool. Later on the ‘‘ plebes,’’ after having been drilled in ordinary formations and marchings, are provided with rifles and taught the manual of arms. This drilling takes up another considerable portion of the morning. After a few weeks of hard, perspiration-producing toil the new fourth classmen have qualified for duty in the battalion in the canvas city out on the plain. Now there is new and much harder work ahead of the new aspirants for army commissions. For the third and fourth classmen who have become seasoned to hard work, there are seven hours of the most strenu- ous tasks. The infantry drill, beginning with target practice, is not one of the lightest undertakings of the day. It is usually more than warm at West Point on a summer day. The young men are out at infantry drill in the hottest part of the morning, nor is it al- ways possible to place them where what little breeze there is stirs under the cool shade of trees. Target practice is decidedly hot work. As one cadet once ex- pressed the idea to the writer : ‘‘We march two miles under a broiling sun, fire five shots apiece, then march back~— and a grateful country wonders why we are hot and tired !’’ While the men are lying down firing at targets they are liable to receive the order to rise and start forward on a “‘ skirmish run.’’ No pains are taken to select the smoothest ground for this work, for a soldier must be equal to deploying or charging over the most uneven surfaces. It is hard, very hard, on the young man, but if he is to be a useful soldier in the future he must learn to take just such severe medicine. Ac- curate rifle fire is of more importance to-day to an army than it ever was before. The United States leads all the nations of the world in infantry fire, and there is at West Point a severe, resolute intention of maintaining this supremacy. Hence the cadets are kept at work on the range at every possible oppor- tunity. A visitor seated on the porch of the hotel and listening to the rattlings and volleyings of mus- ketry can readily understand just what the sound of battle is. There are sham fights, too, at intervals, in which all the practical problems of actual warfare are carefully illustrated by the instructors and as painstakingly studied by the young men. In this line there is too much work to permit of detailed descrip- tion. Infantry, cavalry, and artillery drills play, of course, an important part in this teaching. Then, too, there is such extremely prosaic work as learning how to load an army escort wagon to the best ad- vantage. There is much severe drill in the proper ways of packing ammunition and other supplies on the backs of mules. When the cadet finds himself as- signed to the burdening of a mule of uneven temper the young man is likely to be more interested than amused. Cadets do not display great enthusiasm over the pack-mule drill. From a hot skirmish run, an absorbing battery drill, or a wild cavalry dash, it is just as likely as not that the cadet will be ordered back to his tent to change his uniform and march over to Cullom Hall. Here he steps out under the -eye of the dancing-master and goes through the mazes of ball-room work. This might be pleasant enough if the young ladies who throng the Point in summer were permitted to take part in the drill. But as it is, the dancing lésson is hard toil—nothing else. While one detachment is thus engaged another is out somewhere in the open learning just how wire entanglements are put up. These entanglements are very ingenious contrivances that are used in warfare for the purpose of getting an attacking enemy into all the trouble that he de- serves. The wires are laid so close together that the assailants cannot step over them, or around them, without a great deal of difficulty and consequent im- pediment to advance. While the assailants are in the predicament of this entanglement the intrenched foe , ahead have excellent opportunity to show sharpshoot- ° ing ability. The cadets are taught how to construct these entanglements. Next they are shown how to get through the mazes of one with the least difficulty. Under this head is included the trick of creeping slowly forward, snipping with pincers the wires that are in the way. Pistol practice gives occasion for a bit of hard work now and then. As the pistol is not intended for use in average field work, but only for the officer’s personal protection at close quarters, this drill does not come with the same frequency as does the infantry drill. Nevertheless, the cadets are kept hard at it while practicing, and some very excellent revolver shots are turned out at West Point. While all the other work is going on there is always a detachment of men who are engaged in the hardest kind of labor while learn- ing to do the spar and trestle work of bridge building. There is so much to be learned in this line that the drills are frequent. They take place on the shore of the Hudson River. And there is much instruction in the art of ferrying troops across a river, both without and under fire. Pontooning is taught in October. Outside of those who are on the sick report there are only a few young men who are exempted from the long forenoon of strenuous work. These are the mem- bers of the cadet guard. From the moment that the battalion enters camp a cadet guard is maintained night and day. The tour of duty lasts for twenty-four hours. Noon inspection of the guard takes place un- der the supervision of the tactical officer in charge of the encampment. It is an entertaining and an amus- ing spectacle. At the sound of the call most of the members of the guard who are not on sentry duty come tumbling out of their tents, make a rush for the cadet guard tent, seize their rifles, and fall into for- mation. The young men are so tired that some of them—most of them “‘ plebes ’’—arrive on a desperate run a few seconds or a half-minute late. The cadet corporal of the guard, standing behind the guard tent, sternly eyes each of these mild offenders, and gives’ the greeting, ‘Get into the tent, mister ; get your rifle, and fall in as quickly as you can!’ Throughout the forenoon the camp has seemed all but deserted. Visitors do not stroll through the company streets. Only those are admitted who are on errands of busi- ness. Just before one o’clock the cadets march in from their various duties. They are a tired, hot, per- spiring few hundred young men, but they are bronzed, healthy, and hungry. As soon as they have been able to change their varying uniforms to the gray blouses and white-duck trousers the call comes for dinner for- mation. With jaunty step and swinging stride they march to the mess-hall. : Afternoon brings with it some pleasure and some work. There are drills and there is dress-parade. In spare afternoon time cadets are allowed to receive friends in camp and to escort them through it. There are other forms of work that are ingeniously dis- guised under the head of ‘‘sports.’’ There is a tennis court, and a golf course, while on the plain polo play- ing is assiduously practiced. It is a feature of the West Point training that the young men shall be taught to regard as much of the work as possible in the light of play. The outdoor sports that are per- mitted are made to appear as recreation, but there is the serious underlying purpose of making the cadets more healthy, agile, and dexterous. Dress-parade and supper terminate the strenuous day. The evening is devoted to social life in camp and on the reservation. Social life is considered an important element in the training of the cadet. At 10:30 Pp. M. “‘taps’’ are sounded, and the cadet goes to his cot for six and a half hours’ sleep. He has not had an easy day of work, and his country can afford him this much rest. A Labor Union’s Absurd Demand. PERTINENT illustration of the absurd and unrea- sonable demands sometimes made by labor organ- izations is afforded by the recent request of the Central Federated Union of New York that the price of har- ness made by the inmates of the Roman Catholic Protectory, a local institution for homeless and incor- rigible youth, be raised twenty-five per cent. in order that the product shall not injure the market for other manufacturers. As harness-making is only one of many industries followed at this institution for the sake of instruction chiefly, it should go without saying among reasoning men that the production of this par- ticular article could not possibly be large enough to have the slightest effect upon the general market, and therefore could work no real injury to the regular manufacturers. Precisely the same argument has been made in regard to prison-made goods, with the result, as we pointed out in a recent editorial, of legis- lative enactments which have reduced the prisons of New York State from a self-supporting basis down to a point where tax-payers must make up an annual deficiency of some four hundred thousand dollars. And the legislation which produces this result has no sounder basis to rest upon than the demand upon the Catholic Protectory harness-makers. a x Thirteen a Lucky Number. SIMPLE AND superstitious believers in unlucky numbers should bear in mind that the Pope who has just died was Leo XIII., and yet he was the most popular and, in many respects, the most successful incumbent of the papal chair, at least in our times. He won the widest respect and admiration, and, with one exception, filled his office for the longest period. He attained the greatest age, and he died a peaceful and happy death. Yet he was Leo XIII. There is justification in this instance of the old proverb, that “there is luck in odd numbers,’’ thirteen included. Mieeantee - kee rah hy ae nae

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weet. August 20, 1903 LESLIE’S WEEKLY 175 _—— om a ~ —- - " rt a) rs e feptenaititinaicat ial ee — es ~_ » rt %s , < Oe ee - +48 RECEIVING SWIMMING INSTRUCTION IN THE . . TARGET WORK PREPARATORY TO A SKIRMISH RUN. GYMNASIUM POOL. . Oe: “ CADETS IN OPEN ORDER USED IN BATTLE. ZG zx sad, be Pog 8 ry. ~ LOHAAL i{iAZ2 PLAYING POLO TO CULTIVATE HORSE- MANSHIP AND DEXTERITY. CADETS MAKING WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS AND TAKING DANCING LESSONS TO MAKE THEM GABIONS FOR FIELD FORTIFICATIONS. LITHE AND GRACEFUL. FUTURE OFFICERS ENGAGED IN THE IMPORTANT “ PLEBES” IN “SETTING UP" DRILLS, ACQUIRING HEALTH FIELD BATTERY DRILL. AND A SOLDIERLY CARRIAGE.

INSPECTION OF THE CADET GUARD AT MID-DAY. ENGAGING IN PISTOL PRACTICE WHILE ON HORSEBACK. TRAINING YOUNG OFFICERS FOR THE AMERICAN ARMY. TOILS OF THE CADETS AT WEST POINT MILITARY ACADEMY THAT FIT THEM FOR PLACES OF COMMAND. Photographs by G.J. Hare, Jr. See opposite page.

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176 LESLIE’S WEEKLY August 20, 1903 MAJOR-GENERAL ADNA R. CHAPPER, cous MANDER OF THE LAND FORCES EN. GAGED IN THE WAR Gayp = 2 C Pcl gs REAR-ADMIRAL J. B. COGHLAN, FLAG-SHIP IS THE “ OLYMPIA,” Copyright by EB. Muller * COMMANDER C. P. REES, COMMANDING OFFI- CER OF THE TRAINING-SHIP “ MONONGA- HELA.”—Copyright by E. Muller, WHOSE CAPTAIN J. N. HEMPHILL, IN COMMAND x OF THE BATTLE-SHIP “ KEARSARGE.” Copyright, 1902, by Bf. Muller, REAR-ADMIRAL A. 8S. BARKER, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC FLEET.——-Copyright, 1903, by EB. Muller. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER A. GLEAVES, COM- MANDING THE GUN-BOAT “* MAYFLOWER.” Copyright, 1903, by EB. Muller. CAPTAIN W. H. EMORY, OF THE BATTLE- SHIP “ INDIANA.” Copyright, 1902, by E. Muller. NOTABLE OFFICERS HOLDING CAPTAIN C. H. DAVIS, OF THE BATTLE- NAVAL HIGH COMMANDS IN — CAPTAIN W. H. REEDER, OF THE TRAIN- ING-SHIP “‘ HARTFORD ” Copyright, 1900, by E. Muller. “ CAPTAIN H. W. LYON, OF THE CRUISER “* OLYMPIA.” Copyright, 1902, by E. Muller. SHIP “* ALABAMA.” Copyright by E. Muller. MANQ*“UVRES THE ARMY OFF AND THE NEW ENGLAND COAST. THE FLEET NOW SOLVING See opposite page. GREAT WAR PROBLEMS.

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a August 20, 1903 ‘HE ANNUAL joint mancuvres of the United States Army and Navy are this year for the first time being carried out on a scale quite as large as those of Germany or Great Britain. The manceuvres last year, while decidedly more pretentious than those of the previous season, did not present anything like the scope of the present mimic war-game. For in- stance, the fleet which assembled last year did not attempt defensive operations, but stood strictly on the offensive. Torpedo boats were not allowed to take part in the defense, and the whole burden of beating off the attacking squadron was left to the artillery ashore. This, in the opinion of experienced officers, precluded the possibility of a simulation of the condi- tions of real warfare, since, in the case of an actual attempt at invasion, this or any other nation could be depended upon to protect its ports with an aggressive coast-defense squadron. This year there is closer conformity to war-time conditions, and more fighting- men are employed on land and sea. a The selection of Portland, Me., as the pivotal point of the present manceuvres imparts an especial interest and significance to the operations, from the fact that it occupies a unique position in our scheme of national defense. Maine’s principal port is half a day’s sail nearer Europe than any other Atlantic port; is, of course, but a short distance from Halifax, the rendez- vous of the British North Atlantic squadron, and lies at the eastern extremity of the shortest railroad route to the Pacific coast. That it is especially needful that the United States military authorities should have a thorough knowledge of the weak and strong points of the port’s defense will be readily appreciated, when it is explained that in Portland’s capacious harbor the water is so deep that 12,000-ton war-ships can come up to the docks and wharves at any stage of the tide without a pilot. Of course, an invading force once in possession of Portland could throw an army across Maine and perhaps cut off New England. In the present manceuvres the supposition is that the army defends, and the navy attacks, Portland. As a theatre of action for the soldiers there are defending the city Forts Williams, McKinley, and Leavitt, and a strong mortar battery knownas Fort Preble. However, there are four separate entrances to the harbor, and thus a large area is left to the defense of the field artillery, detailed for the occasion from Fort Wright, on Fisher’s Island, Long Island Sound. Moreover, as has been explained, the army will not be compelled to go it alone in the matter of defense, but will this year have the assistance of the battleship Texas, three monitors, and a good-sized flotilla of torpedo boats. . The attack upon Portland direct is but one feature of the manoeuvres, which, while comprehensive, are suffi- ciently expansive in scope to embrace almost all phases of military and naval operations.. Thus the first half of August is given up by the war-vessels to what is known as the ‘‘search problem.’’ This presents the spectacle of two immense fleets, comprising the flov er of the American Navy, combating for supremacy one representing an American squadron defending a port on the New England coast, the other taking the role of an enemy attempting to capture the port or to LESLIE’S WEEKLY The Army and Navy Manceuvres By Waldon Fawcett so elude the watchful eyes of the home fleet as to afford an opportunity to prey on the commerce of the country. The whole undertaking resolves itself, in effect, into a grim game of hide and seek. In addition to the other considerations involved is the important one, that the supposedly hostile fleet is acting as escort for a number of transports laden with troops, which it is designed to land on the enemy’s coast ; whereas the other fleet endeavors, of course, to locate the hostile fleet and prevent the invaders from landing. The re- sult of this year’s ‘‘ search problem ”’ is awaited with exceptional interest, since it will prove in a measure decisive, inasmuch as year before last the attacking fleet was unsuccessful, but last year succeeded in landing a force on the enemy’s coast. + Following the ‘‘ search problem ”’ the grand review of the consolidated fleets by the President of the United States is of interest, not only as a unique event, but because it marks the assemblage of the largest and best equipped fleet of war-ships that has ever been mobilized off the coast of the United States. On the way to and from Long Island Sound, where this review takes place, the fleet exercises at tactical drills. With the return of the warriors of the sea to the Maine coast the mimic war begins in earnest, and the consolidated fleet swoops down upon Portland in an endeavor, by all means known to naval strategists, to prove that the army land defenses at this important port are inadequate to withstand the attack of a fleet of the strength of this one. In the mimic struggle between the land and sea forces, the soldiery are commanded by General Adna R. Chaffee, the hero of the Chinese campaign at the time of the Boxer revolt, and the attacking naval force is under the direction of Admiral Coghlan. The main body of Chaffee’s force consists of seven regi- ments of regular artillery, comprising seven hundred men, but he is supported by four hundred men of the Maine militia, comprising an infantry brigade, a signal corps, and the naval reserve, besides the heavy artil- lery of Massachusetts. The War Department has also supplied General Chaffee with various detach- ments of regulars, including signal corps men, equipped with wireless telegraphy apparatus, and engineers to manipulate search-lights, throw up fortifications, and lay mines. . The fleet of war-vessels which participates in the manceuvres while thoroughly representative embraces many of the best armored craft which fly the stars and stripes. The battle-ships include the peerless Kearsarge, which has just aroused the admiration of the German Emperor and broken a transatlantic rec- ord, together with such modern warriors as_ the Alabama, Illinois, Massachusetts, Indiana, and Texas. These heavy-weights of the martial world are sup- ported by cruisers such as the Olympia, Atlanta, and Topeka ; gunboats such as the Mayflower, Nashville, and Dolphin; and a creditable showing of torpedo- boat destroyers, training-ships, colliers, supply vessels, tenders, and tugs—in the neighborhood of fifty vessels in all. For months past the War Department has been engaged upon work preparatory to the manceuvres. = 177 = Aside from the solution of the problems of the trans- portation and maintenance of the troops, it has been necessary to make extensive additions to the equip- ment of the forts in the vicinity of Portland. Guns have been mounted, search-lights placed in position, electrical communication established, and range find- ers placed in order. The Navy, which is always on a war footing, has not found it necessary to do so much preliminary work, but nevertheless the crews of the floating fighters have been kept pretty busy in antici- pation of the supreme test of efficiency. For instance, twenty new sets of wireless telegraph apparatus have been placed upon the war-ships in order that during the “‘ search problem ’’ the “‘ scouts ’’ may more readily communicate with the flagship and report any move- ments of the “‘ hostile ’’ fleet. _ The rules governing the manceuvres, which were prepared by George F. E. Harrison, representing the Army, and Lieutenant Mark L. Bristol, representing the Navy, are based upon the assumption that the primary object of the manceuvres on either side is to investigate certain systems and problems of attack, and to test the training of the personnel and the effi- ciency of the material. On the board of five arbitra- tors are two members from each service and one mem- ber chosen by joint agreement of the other four. There are also, of course, umpires as well as naval observers for the forts and military observers for the ships. These latter officials watch the gunnery of their respective sides and chronicle the results of each shot. The Navy expects to learn many lessons from this season of counterfeit conflict, among which will be the best method of obtaining the range of the forts and batteries fired at, the effect of smoke in concealing targets, the effect of mines and obstructions, the best method of concealing approach, the best method of attacking in a fog or by night, the use of search- lights for lighting targets and blinding the eyes of opposing gunners, and whether it is possible to desig- nate separate targets for different ships after the action has begun. The lines of special study to be followed by the Army include general features of attack on posts and the defense of same, the use of movable armaments, the best system of fire control and direction, simple and reliable methods of commu- nicating orders from commanders to gunners, the use of search-lights, and the utilization of the commercial life-saving and light stations. a A notable feature of the manceuvres is found in the presence of practically all of the vessels comprising the new United States naval-training squadron, which has just been formed to make the enlisted men of the United States Navy the peers of any foreign men-of- war’s men. On these training-ships, such as the Prairie, Yankee, Dixie, Hartford, Essex, and Monon- gehela, are thousands of lads who get this summer their first glimpse of real warfare—or rather what will appear such in their eyes. Many of the boys who throng the decks of these floating schools are lands- men only recently recruited in the middle Western States, and prior to entering the service numbers of them had never seen the ocean, much less a sea-going war-vessel., Ancient Tayles. YE SICKE MONKIE. OW ITTE came to pass thatte ye Monk became quite sicke. Ye Doctor came and looked atte hys tongue and felt hys pulse & sighed. ‘* Beholde !’’ sedde ye Wise Physician, ‘‘Thou art indeed moste ille & itte wille require alle my greate skille to sette thee uppe agayne !’’ & he shooke hys hedde & charged $3. Thenne did ye poore Monk feel worse. Verilie he becayme an object of pitie ; for he hadde half-way believed hym- selfe ille before ; butte now thatte ye Doctor hadde confirmed hys suspicions he felt verie sicke indeed. ‘* Beholde !’’ he sighed weaklie, ‘]l am a verie sicke manne! Of a truth itte cometh to me thatte I am aboute to passe over.” Thenne he sent for hys lawyer & mayde hys wille. Butte ye manne of law wished notte to see hys client die. ‘* For,’’ sedde ye legal light to hymselfe, ‘* Where shalle I gette another client iffe thys one die? Gad- zooks & odds-bodkins butte itte would be inne ye na- ture of a calamitie!’’ & he wept withinne hymselfe and was exceedynge sadde. sutte ye poore Monk would notte listen to hymme. ‘““T am a dead one!’’ sighed ye patient, ‘* And itte booteth notte to hand me ye well-meant jolly.”’ So ye manne of briefs went hys way & passed uppe ye manne as already dead. & ye Doctor came agvayne, ‘Thou art worse to-day,’’ sedde ye pille-shooter in a hopeless voice, ‘‘ butte I shalle pulle thee oute in six months, mayhap !’’ & he charged $3 & went away to buy beefsteake. So itte went on for manie months. Ye Monk gotte , no better; yette he dic notte die. Stille he was ex- pecting ye summons any olde day. Butte one morning there came inne an olde friend —ye Laughing Hyena--who lived oute on ye farm. Whenne he hadde examined ye invalid Monk he laughed a derisive laugh, sayinge, ‘*By Hector & Gumme ! butte thou art no sicker than I! Wherefore dost thou notte arise and kyck over ye furniture & eate some thynges ?’’ Butte ye poore Monk merely groaned. ‘‘Thou dost notte perceive juste how ille I am!’ he quavered. ‘‘Lo! I could notte walk a steppe to save me from perdition, God wot !’’ & he shutte hys eyes & looked ghastly. Then ye Hyena saw thatte hys friend was alle or- ganized to die, so he bethought hymme of some funne. ‘Of a truth,’’ sedde he, ‘*‘ Since my poore friend is going to die anyway itte can be no harm to havea little amusement out of ye sadde occasion !’’ & he tied a bunch of firecrackers to ye sicke Monk’s tayle & touched a match to ye sayme. Now itte soe happened thatte when ye first ex- plosion occurred ye Monk satte uppe with a startled look & took notice. Atte ye second he sprang nimbly from ye bed, dashed through ye doore, ran over ye unhappie Doctor who was just coming inne & fledde uppe a tree to ye verie topmoste boughs, while ye Hyena slapped himselfe & laughed untille he felle uponne ye grounde & hadde a fitte. & ye Doctor loste hys patient, butte ye Lawyer kept hys client. & thys is ye lesson of ye Sicke Monkie : Firste Bunch—Thine own convictions are better thanne another man’s theories. Second Wadde—One dose of determination is worth a whole bottle of pilles. Third Wizzle-—-Never give uppe. Thou wouldst be surprised atte the height of the fence thou canst jump—if thou butte be scared badlie enough. LOWELL OTUS REESE. Lynchers Baffled by a Woman. HE THANKS of the nation are due to Miss Mary Creech, the young daughter of Sheriff Creech, of Barnwell, S. C., for her example in showing how to ““ stand off’? a mob bent on lynching. Miss Creech was left in charge of the jail during the brief absence of her father on the night of July 7th, and among the prisoners was a white man who had murdered a com- panion at a dance on the previous night. About ten o’clock on the evening in question a body of masked men rode into the jail-yard and demanded the keys to the cells, declaring that they had come to hang the murderer. Under pretext of complying with the de- mand, Miss Creech went to her father’s room, but in- stead of returning with the keys she came back in a moment with a repeating rifle, which she aimed at the mob and ordered them to ‘‘ get out,’’ an order which was promptly obeyed. All honor to brave Mary Creech, daughter of the sheriff of Barnwell! Of such stuff are genuine heroes made. Where No Men Need Apply. ADY HENRY SOMERSET, who recently resigned the presidency of the world’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union on account of ill health, has been succeeded in that position by the Countess of Carlisle. The latter is so democratic that she would abolish all titles of nobility, and so thoroughly devoted to the ad- vancement of her sex that she has only women serv- ants in her houses and on her estates. Tall women are her footmen, a stout woman is her butler, and women have charge of her stable. e . BRIGHTNESS of mind and strength of body come only from perfect digestion. Make the stomach strong with Abbott’s, the Original Angostura Bitters.

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17 es oo \ “ ° T IS interesting to imagine a village in mountainous Italy, with the sun-browned men and women crowd- ing about the little post-office. Inthe mail that comes are half a dozen packages, which are distributed among some of the women. And when these packages are opened, it is found that they contain lire, which have been sent from America. The women are re- joicing, for the money has come from the husbands or sons who have gone to make their fortunes in the far- away United States. ** Look,’’ says one woman, in great delight; ‘‘ look what Antonio has sent me !”’ But the men who knew Antonio before he went away from home scowl and grind their teeth. At the hardest toil, they are able to earn only a scanty living dwelling with their large families in the poorest of huts, and eating the plainest of food. And besides, the Italian government takes not a little of their small earnings for taxes. ‘*Here is another package of money from Antonio Lucci, in America,’’ growls the mountaineer. ‘‘ And I’m twice as good a man as he is!’’ So the moun- taineer soon becomes an immigrant into the United States—one of the horde of his Italian brethren. And in a short time he, too, is sending back packages of lire to the little post-office of the village in the moun- tains. And it is just this process that is not only mak- ing Italian immigration so enormous just now, but which is the reason for the existence of more than two hundred odd little institutions, called banks, in the Italian quarter of New York City. At frequent intervals on Mulberry Bend, and in ‘* Little Italy’’ up town, one sees the sign ‘‘ banca’’ on the window or over the door of a little first-story room in a tenement. Inside, the room is dim, for the only light comes through the windows and the door in front, opening into the noisy and odorous street. On one side is a jewelry store, with watches—most of them silver watches—hung behind glass on the wall, and other watches and rings and chains are in glass cases on the counter; and on the other side of the room is a partition, part of it being a wire screen with windows in it; and this, one realizes, must be the ‘‘banca.’’ And after one has traveled farther through this most fascinating section of the metropolis it is apparent that this ‘‘ banca’’ is a fair sample of the two hundred of its kind. The queer financial institutions are in basements, in the smal tenement store-rooms, and frequently they share their small space with sa- loons, jewelry stores, grocery stores, drug stores, or meat shops. And they exist because there are three mil- lion Italians in the United States, many of them newly arrived, and because this three million is being in- creased annually by over a hundred thousand more. But this is only one of the odd phases of the banking life of New York City, which seems to be in truth the world’s financial centre. The business of caring for other people’s money presents a considerable variety of institutions—from the tiny foreign private bank, scarcely more than an agency for immigrants, to the giant institutions of Wall Street, one of which alone has deposits of more than one hundred and fifty mil- lion dollars. But to return to the little banker of Mulberry Bend. Aside from his sign, you will know him by the unique way he has of exhibiting his wares. In the window he displays an enticing heap of money—usually bills, packages of tens tied with a band of white paper, yellow twenties and hundreds, and various sorts of foreign moneys, Italian bills predominating. So the passer-by knows that this is a money store, for the goods are exhibited just as they are ina grocery or a fruit shop. The Italian who is at work on a railroad in Pennsylvania, for instance, and who wishes to send a little money to the folks in Italy, forwards the sum to the banker, whom he knows, in New York City. This banker has an agent in Italy, whom he instructs to send the same amount, less the commission charged, to the Italian’s family. The agent sends the remit- tance in Italian coin or paper, so that when it reaches those to whom it is sent the money is the kind which they know. In this way every year millions of dollars go out of the United States. Then the time comes when the prospering new citi- zen is prepared to have his family come to him. Again he goes to his banker, and the latter sells him the necessary steamship tickets for he is also an agent for the transatlantic steamboat lines. When the family arrives, bewildered by the vast extent of the United States, they make their headquarters first with the banker if friends or relatives do not meet them. Thus the banker becomes an information bureau. He directs the new comer to the husband or brother or friend, who, perhaps, is working on a railroad some- where ; or, if the immigrants wish to remain in New York, the banker tells them where they may find good board and lodging, and he helps them to find em- ployment. Formerly he changed their money into the coin of the United States, but all this is done now by authorized agents at Ellis Island, where the immi- grants land. And for his services the Italian banker usually receives a remuneration, so that his wealth increases. The proprietor of the little bank that shared a small store-room in Mulberry Bend with a jewelry es- tablishment told me that he had been in business twenty years, and that he is the owner now of twenty- five pieces of tenement property. And the most un- LESLIE’S WEEKLY Curious Banks in New York’s Foreign Quarter 42> By Oliver Shedd profitable of these, he said, paid ten per cent. interest on the amount invested. Much of this real estate he had bought with the money of his depositors, whom he paid from one to three per cent. interest on time ac- counts. Practically all of the buildings of Mulberry Bend, he told me, are now owned by Italians. And while this particular banker does his business and owns property in the crowded and vulgar Italian quarter, he no longer resides there, but has his resi- dence in Brooklyn, where he and his wife and daugh- ters live in a state approaching luxury. For while the Italian population is increasing with such enormous rapidity, it is becoming at the same time more perma- nent. Not more than a third of those who come to the United States, it is said, now return to Italy to make their homes there. In New York the Italian finds his own people little disturbed by their removal to a new land, their customs and much of their man- ner of living being transplanted with them. He finds, in the vast city, districts which are American only in the national title to the soil. The wealthy Italians of New York have no dealings with the small private banks of the quarter. Their accounts are kept in the large banks of the city, some of which are so anxious to increase their deposits that they have established branches in the foreign localities where the business houses of these people are to be found. In the internal foreign cities, which are more or less clearly defined in the metropolis, there are vari- ous grades of poverty and prosperity—-from the lit- tered closets where the beggars live in the tenements, to the pretentious little East Side ‘‘ apartment ’’ house with the polished brass railing at the entrance. You will find the former on Allen Street in the shadows of the elevated railway, and you will see the latter on Grand Street, which is becoming a thoroughfare of im- portance and many pretensions, as it passes through the Ghetto. Among the banks of the quarter there are the same grades, from the grimy little shop, whichis a mere steamboat agency for immigrants, to the showy, ornate and prosperous banks of Grand Street or East Broadway. A new one on the latter street is one of the most interesting institutions of the kind in New York. It is owned by two Russian Jews of intense activity and industry, but of the most diminutive stature. And everything about their bank is clean and tidy and bright like themselves. The exterior is ornate in the extreme. A balcony over the main entrance is sup- ported by slender columns moulded in spiral form so that they look like sticks of candy. The front win- dows are of stained glass, and the exterior of the whole building is so profusely decorated that it looks like a palace of gayety among the dark-red buildings which are its neighbors. The interior is even more elaborate in its decoration, with lights and brass, and railings and gay mountings ; but all in the diminutive proportions of the two little bankers themselves. This bank, like several others of the East Side, is run under a charter from the State. A dozen little banks in the great tenement district are supported by the new comers to the United States from the Austrian empire. These are the Poles, Bo- hemians, Slovaks, Hungarians, and the other kindred races which are now sending so many immigrants here. A great majority of these people, being miners and factory workers, do not live in New York City, but are distributed throughout the mining cities of Penn- sylvania, West Virginia, and other States. From the Austro-Hungarian people now in the United States, it is estimated that every year fifteen million dollars is sent back to ‘‘the old country.’’ A large part of this money goes through the post-office, but much of it still passes through the banks. A Slovak bank in New York performs many offices for those with whom it does business. It takes care of their savings, as the laborers accumulate a little from their wages, and some of the little Slovak banks pay interest on such deposits. Sometimes they charge the depositor a little for keeping his money. The East Side banker makes his own rules, for his is almost always a “private bank.’’ One of these keeps on hand for its Slavic customers a stock of merchandise, consisting chiefly of Bibles, in the native tongue, for which there is always a demand. But if the bank’s customer should want anything else, a clock or a bird-cage or a revolver, the banker will obligingly send out and buy it, should he not have the desired article in stock. Here is another fact that shows New York’s importance as a financial centre. A little Rus- sian bank in a New York tenement building receives deposits and forwards money from Russian farmers in Western States, and even from many who live at distant points in Canada. But of all the banking schemes in a great city none is more notable and ingenious than those introduced by some of the large department stores, which already sell everything from beans to automobiles. In one store this financial department amounts practically to acredit system. A customer deposits money which draws interest at the rate of four per cent. from the date of its deposit, provided, however, that it remains in the store three months, for interest is paid quarterly. A customer who has a deposit in the store may pay for goods bought by a check on his account. The store does not call this department a bank, although it is prac- tically a savings bank, receiving deposits and paying August 20, 1903 interest, the firm being the security to which the de- positor must look. The amount on deposit in this store has increased rapidly since the department was opened, so that the firm’s representatives say that they are going to limit the sum which each individual is permitted to keep on deposit. Another store has organized a private bank, so that its banking department is a separate corporation, al- though the owners are identical. Interest at the rate of four per cent. is paid on deposits. But the system of paying this interest is so involved that the amount is not as great usually as the customer is apt to ex- pect. The purpose of this bank is to increase trade. The store gets the first chance at the money when it is drawnout. Savings banks are restricted in all their operations by rigid laws for the protection of the pub- lic, but the depositor in the department store has no other security than that which is given by the corpo- ration or firm owning the store. Yet the savings banks pay only three per cent. interest, while these stores pay four per cent. All these various banks, from the little Italian steamboat agency to a department in a department store, show how indefinite the meaning of the word “‘bank’’ may be. For instance, many firms in the financial business are known as “‘ bankers and bro- kers.’’ In many cases the term is liberal; the only banking business of the concern consists, perhaps, in keeping on deposit some of its customers’ money to be invested in ‘‘ good things,’’ as profitable investments may come to the broker’s knowledge. The real banks, the great depositories of New York’s wealth, which are found down town in what is called the Wall Street district, transact a tremendous volume of busi- ness. The aggregate resources of all the State and national banks and trust companies of New York amount to $3,300,000, 000. a e Where Immigrants Are Needed. OTHING IN the recent report of Commissioner Sargent, of the immigration bureau, concerning the vast inflow of foreigners to this country during the fiscal year recently ended is more suggestive and significant than the statement that only ‘‘a few crossed the Mississippi.’’ It appears, on the other hand, that thirty per cent. of the entire immigration, or a total of 250,657 persons, went no farther than New York State. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con- necticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania together received 567,405, or sixty-six per cent. of the total. The States east of the Mississippi River re- ceived 741,765, leaving only 115, 281, or thirteen per cent., to go west of the Mississippi. It is this showing, taken in connection with the fact that over ninety per cent. of those who remained east of the Mississippi, mostly in New York and vicinity, were Slovaks, Poles, Croatians, and South Italians, the poorest and most undesirable classes of immigrants, that constitutes the gravest feature of the problem now before the country in connection with this in- coming flood of aliens and ‘‘ undigested citizens.’’ The same report quoted shows that only a small per- centage of the Scandinavians, Germans, Scotch, and English remained in the East. The total of these classes of immigrants unfortunately were few in proportion to the whole, and, more unfortunately still, they seem to be growing less every year. What the statement signifies as to the destination of the ninety per cent. and more of the first-named classes we all know only too well. It means that the vast majority of these come to stay where they are not wanted, where there is no demand for unskilled labor, where they are little or no better off than they were in the old country, while the community at large suffers both directly and indirectly from their pres- ence. Social and industrial tendencies are beyond the reach of legislation, and practically impossible of con- trol or determination by any forced or arbitrary meth- od ; but, in view of the actual conditions now prevail- ing in this country, it is difficult to sympathize with the cry of poverty and distress that goes up continual- ly from these hordes of aliens who drift over here into the slums of our cities, many to drift on a little later into our asylums, prisons, and almshouses. For honest, industrious, and capable workers and home-seekers, and particularly for farmers and farm laborers, there is still abundant room and a cordial welcome in every section of the United States, both east and west of the Mississippi. We have been hear- ing much recently about the great scarcity of labor in the great harvest fields of the West, the farmers be- ing unable to secure enough help at any price to gather in their ripened crops. Farmers all through the East are suffering, from the same cause, a lack of efficient and helpful laborers. In Vermont, for ex- ample, the farmers are complaining that there are not laborers enough to go around at any season of the year, although steady employment and the highest wages are offered. Ordinary farm hands in that State receive from twenty-five to thirty dollars per month and their “‘keep’’ the year through, and transient helpers in harvest times can command twice these sums. The same prices prevail all through the East- ern and Middle States, yet even at such wages the farmers are suffering, as in the West, from a lack of competent labor. In these same States, too, and par- Continued on page 145. ~ Rin. ae

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August 20, 1903 LESLIE’S WEEKLY ad BANC G6 LoRD! 62 * ee Bboreeees. BANKERS’ ROW IN MULBERRY BEND, IN THE HEART OF THE LY ZA A di Cy WOMEN SHOPPERS AT THE BANKING DEPARTMENT OF A BIG ITALIAN QUARTER. | . : ¢ y NEW YORK DEPARTMENT STORE. SATURDAY-NIGHT RUSH IN A BANK OF THE GHETTO—FACTORY Y) y A QUAINT AND ORNATE JEWISH BANK ON THE EAST SIDE EMPLOYEES IN THE CROWD OF DEPOSITORS. OF NEW YORK CITY. ONE OF THE 200 ITALIAN BANKS—SALOON AND BANK OCCUPYING THE SAME ROOM. PETTY MERCHANTS OF THE EAST SIDE DEPOSITING THEIR MONEY. CURIOUS BANKS IN NEW YORK’S FOREIGN QUARTERS. INSTITUTIONS THAT THRIVE AMID THE CROWDED TENEMENT DISTRICTS OF OUR GREATEST CITY. Photographs by G. J. Hare, dr

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DIPS IN THE SEA AT CONEY ISLAND MAKE LIFE BEARABLE. BAND OF ESQUIMAUX IN A SEASIDE@My. WHO FIND VERY GNG. HALF-STIFLED INMATES OF A CEL- LAR CREEP OUT FOR A BREATH OF FRESH AIR, STREET URCHIN BATHING IN A PUBLIC FOUNTAIN CAUGHT BY A POLICEMAN WITH NOTHING BETTER TO DO. THRDIN EAST-SIDERS CROWDING INTO TH G TENTS aT NEW YORK AT THE HEIGHT ¥#F A HOW MULTITUDES IN THE GREAT CITY STRIVE TO OBTAIN RELIEF FROM Tf DEPR}

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EASIDE@y, WHO FIND OUR TORRID CLIMATE VERY Gu. THE STEAMER CAN HARDLY HOLD THE MULTITUDE BOUND FOR CONEY ISLAND. (LING MGROUND AND COOLING OFF THE BOYS. oes CO CEM \y) - ® ety s. DIN — G TENTS AT SEWARD PARK. NEWLY-ARRIVED IMMIGRANTS TRYING TO MAKE THEMSELVES COMFORTABLE IN BATTERY PARK. r #7 A MIDSUMMER HOT WAVE. M ® DEPRESSING EFFECTS OF THE EXCESSIVE HEAT.—%otographs by G. J. Hare, Jr.

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182 LESLIE’S WEEKLY August 20, 1903 UR GOVERNMENT recently forwarded to Russia a petition in respect to alleged atrocities com- mitted upon the Jews. That government, as might have been expected, unwilling to have its internal affairs a matter of consideration by other govern- ments, declined to receive the petition. If, instead of so doing, it had replied that it would put a stop to all such atrocities when this government put a stop to lynchings, what could we have said ? No one can be blind to the fact that lynching is be- coming altogether too common, and presents a serious question for the consideration of thoughtful lovers of their country. There have been two kinds of lynch law, and it is well to distinguish between the two. In San Francisco, for instance, many years ago, the better citizens became convinced that the-officials were in league with gamblers and other wrongdoers — hence crime was rampant, neither life nor property being sacred. Deliberately they came together, organized, and in effect took possession of the government, ad- ministering law promptly and severely ; with the re- sults—as claimed that crime was checked and order re-established. Whatever may be saidof such a move- ment, it is not like the lynch law that now prevails. It was more in the nature of a revolution, by which the regularly elected officers were put out of office anda new government established. But the lynching which now attracts attention is the temporary uprising of a mob, called into being by the commission of some terrible crime, the perpetrator of which it seeks to punish. It is well to look the matter fairly in the face. Many good men join in these uprisings, horrified at the atrocity of the crime and eager for swift and summary punishment. Of course they violate the law them- selves, but rely on the public sentiment behind them for escape from punishment. Many of these lynchings are accompanied by the horrible barbarities of savage torture, and all that can be said in palliation is the atrocity of the offenses which led up to them. Fora time they were confined largely to the South, but that section of the country no longer has a monopoly. The chief offense which causes these lynchings has been the rape of white women by colored men. No words ean be found too strong to describe the atrocity of such acrime. It is no wonder that the community is excited. Men would disgrace their manhood if they were not. Andif a few lynchings had put a stop to the offense, society might have condoned such breaches of its law; but the fact is, if we may credit the re- ports, the crime instead of diminishing is on the in- crease. The black beast (for only a beast would be guilty of such an offense) seems to be not deterred thereby. More than that, as might be expected, lynch- ing for such atrocious crimes is no longer confined to them, but is being resorted to for other offenses. That lynching is a blot on our civilization no one questions, and European nations are pointing to it as evidence of a lower civilization. Shall we let this go on and thus practically admit that, in many respects, this is no longer a government of laws, but partly one of mobs? We seldom hear of lynchings across the waters ; somehow or other it is an epidemic which pre- vails in America, but not in Europe. We all know that punishment of crime justly and promptly ad- ministered by legal methods tells of a higher con- dition of society than the wild outcries and hasty judg- ment of mobs. Take the case of the assassin of our Where W MONG RECENT news items concerning the doings of that element in our population that is pleased to regard itself as ‘‘society ’’ par excellence, we have an account of two women who have started a racing stable at Saratoga, and of other women of the same social status, we presume, who entertained themselves at another resort by giving a banquet to a monkey, at which several human simians of the male species were also present. At about the same date that this ““news’’ appeared we had also an account in the pub- lic press of the opening of a new, spacious, and beau- tiful building for use of one of the oldest and most useful charitable societies of New York, whose noble mission it is to care for friendless and orphaned little ones, the new and greatly needed building being made possible by a gift of $20,000 from Miss Helen Gould, who also furnishes the children’s play-rooms; and other benefactions in the way of money or furnishings from Mrs. Stokes and Miss Olivia Stokes, Mrs. John B. Devins, Mrs. A. C. Heneken, Mrs. Washington Wil- son, and from other women connected with the board of management. We also have the announcement that a young Baltimore woman, Mrs. John M. Glenn, has decided to forego all social pleasures during the Plain Words imenadeieeinn of Lynching By the Hon. David J. Brewer, of the Supreme Court of the United States HON. DAVID J. BREWER, OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, WHO HAS PRACTICAL IDEAS ON THE PREVENTION OF LYNCHING.— Hell. late much loved President ; how much more it speaks for our civilization, that in an orderly way before a legal tribunal the assassin was tried, having the benefit of counsel, and thereafter put to death in accordance with the dictates of law, than if an angry mob had torn him from the officers of the law and tortured him to death. What can be done to stay this epidemic of lynching ? One thing is the establishment of a greater confidence in the summary and certain punishment of the criminal. Men are afraid of the law’s delays and the uncertainty of its results. Not that they doubt the integrity of the judges, but they know that the law abounds with technical rules, and that appellate courts will often re- verse a judgment of conviction for a disregard of such rules, notwithstanding a full belief in the guilt of the accused. If all were certain that the guilty ones would be promptly tried and punished, the in- ducement to lynch would be largely taken away. In an address which I delivered before the American Bar Association at Detroit some years since, I advocated doing away with appeals in criminal cases. It did not meet the favor of the association, but I still believe in its wisdom. For nearly a hundred years there was no appeal from the judgment of conviction of criminal sases in our Federal courts, and no review except in a few cases in which, two judges sitting, a difference of opinion on a question of law was certified to the Su- preme Court. In England the rule has been that there was no appeal in criminal cases, although a question of doubt might be reserved by the presiding judge for the consideration of his brethren. Hon. E. J. Phelps, who was minister to England during Mr. Cleveland’s first administration, once told me that while he was there only two cases were so reserved. Does any one doubt that justice was fully administered by the English courts ? coming season and devote her time exclusively to the comfort of the poor and the advancement of social settlements. We bring these news statements into juxtaposition not for the sake of giving prominence to the philan- thropic work of the women whose names are men- tioned--for such service on their part is a common, regular, and continuous feature of their lives, and they have no thirst for newspaper fame— but rather for the occasion it affords to emphasize the difference of view as to the proper duties, obligations, and aims of ex- istence obtaining among women of the same race, land, nationality, social grade, and the same means and opportunities also for doing good. On the one hand we have the petty, selfish, ignoble, purposeless life, whose range of ambitions, enjoyments, and satis- factions is bounded by the ball-room, the race-track, and monkey banquets, and on the other a life which finds its chief joys and satisfactions in using time, wealth, and influence for the benefit of helpless and suffering humanity. We are inclined to take a cheerful and optimistic view of all things in this day and age of the world, and to believe that the tendency of our race, on the on the Crime Opponents of this suggestion fall back on the an- cient maxim that ‘‘It is better that ninety-nine guilty men escape than that one innocent man be punished.’’ Maxims, like other things, are good in their times and places, but, like other things, may often be overworked. When criminal trials were concucted as they were in England a century and a half ago—defendant without counsel, trial with little publicity, and the press an un- known factor—that maxim was good enough; but to- day, when a prisoner is guaranteed counsel, when trials are viewed by throngs of spectators, and the press makes public every detail, it seems well to as often consider President Grant’s direction, ‘‘ Let no guilty man escape.’”’ Further, laws have been passed requiring an imme- diate convening of courts and giving priority of hear- ing to certain civil cases deemed of public moment. Why may not direction be given to the presiding judge of the proper court, when such an atrocious crime has been committed as those giving rise to lynchings, to immediately convene that court and put the accused at once on trial? If this were done and no appeal were allowed, would not the community be more confident that full punishment would be promptly meted out ? If it be said that under the haste of such a trial some innocent men might be punished, a sufficient reply would seem to be that justice will be more likely done than when a mob takes the law into its own hands. If it were deemed necessary to guard against even a possibility of injustice, the statute might require that the testimony be taken down by a stenographer and at once presented to the Supreme Court, and if, in its judgment, not that some technical rules of law have been disregarded, but that an innocent man has been convicted, authorize it to stay the execution and grant a new trial. It is said in extenuation of lynching in case of rape that it is an additional cruelty to the unfortunate vic- tim to compel her to go upon the witness stand and in the presence of a mixed audience tell the story of her wrongs, especially when she may be subject to cross- examination by over-zealous counsel. I do not be- little this matter, but it must be remembered that often the unfortunate victim never lives to tell the story of her wrongs; that if she does survive she must tell it to some, and the whole community knows the fact. Even in the court-room any high-minded judge will stay counsel from any unnecessary cross- examination ; and finally, if any lawyer should attempt it the community may treat him as an outcast. I can but think that if the community felt that the criminal would certainly receive the punishment he deserves, and receive it soon, the eagerness for lynching would disappear, and mobs, whose gatherings too often mean not merely the destruction of jails and other property, but also the loss of innocent lives, would greatly di- minish in number. One thing is certain—the tendency of lynching is to undermine respect for the law, and unless it be checked we need not be astonished if it be resorted to for all kinds of offenses, and oftentimes innocent men suffer for wrongs committed by others. ealth and Worth Combine whole, is steadily upward toward a higher and nobler plane of living. But if there is any one thing more than another that causes us to doubt this at times and to feel that the evolutionary processes of civilization are not, after all, working out a higher type of men and women, it is when we see so large a number of persons, belonging to that ‘‘ society ’’ to which we have alluded, in possession of every opportunity and advan- tage which health, wealth, and high social position can give, yet who have no thought apparently above the getting of more money and the expenditure of what they have in the gratification of their appetites, their love of display, and other selfish and ignoble pleasures. It was a prominent and typical creature of this class in New York “‘ society ’’ of whom, when he was married a few years ago, at the age of forty, the most complimentary thing that the society journals could say concerning his achievements up to that time was that he was ‘‘a good tennis player.’’ Without in- tending any disparagement whatever to tennis, which is an excellent and wholesome sport, we may say that an inheritor of millions who had lived for forty years Continued on page 185, a hie OA OT Ni i nal TS aoe ¢ '

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184 LESLIE’S WEEKLY August 20, 1903 CLL Books and ‘Authors By La Salle A. Maynard HE RECENT pilgrimage of the old Liberty Bell to Boston may serve to revive within us not only certain memories of a hallowed and historic past, but may also remind us that with the exception of the story associated with this sacred and venerable relic, our literature contains very little relating directly to the subject of bells. Having a special fondness for the study of bells, we have devoted not a little time to exploring the public libraries in search of informa- tion on the subject, but have not succeeded in finding any American books on bells, while not a few of English authorship, and some from France and Belgium, have come to our hands. Campanology, a term covering the study of bells, has received more attention in Eng- land than in any other country, and numerous societies exist over there devoted to the cultivation of bell music and the conservation of all that pertains to these ‘‘ messengers of the upper air.’’ The late Dr. H. R. Haweis was one of the best known of English campanologists, and his contributions to the literature of bells were many and valuable. Some years ago when some English dry-as-dusts proposed to have an interdict placed on the ringing of church bells on the ground that modern science and methods of life had rendered such **noise’’ quite superfluous, and there- fore offensive, Dr. Haweis led a vigor- ous protest against such an iconoclastic proposal, and received such an enthusi- astic support from the bell - lovers of England, that nothing has since been heard of the rash project. The “‘con- stant reader’’ of our own daily press, whose morning slumber, or _ possibly whose conscience, has been disturbed by some matin bell, occasionally ventse his unrighteous rage by proposing a similar interdict on this ‘‘nuisance,’’ but his squeak of protest is invariably followed by such an avalanche of letters from other ‘‘constants’’ in opposition, that nothing comes of the proposal but the utter discomfiture of the proposer. We may hope, indeed, that it will be many a year before the voices of church bells will be hushed, and we shall hear no more of that music which Charles Lamb calls ‘* the nearest of all bordering on heaven. ’’ 4 UR STUDIES in bell literature have acquainted us with the fact that no writer of any land or time has so many allusions to bells as Henry W. Longfellow. He wrote no less than nine poems on bells, among these being sev- eral of his finest and most popular pro- ductions in verse, such as his ‘‘ Belfry of Bruges,’’ ‘The Bells of Lynn,’’ and ** The Bell of Atri,’’ and references to bells in single passages may be found scattered all through his poems: in his translations, such as ‘‘ The Children of the Lord’s Supper ”’ ; in his dramatic verse, such as ‘“* Michael Angelo”’ ; in his dramatic ballads, such as ‘‘ Evangeline,’’ where we have the lines descriptive of Grand Pré in its happy days of peace : “Anon from the belfry Softly the Angelus sounded, and over the roofs of the village Columns of pale blue smoke, like clouds of incense ascending, Rose from a hundred hearths, the homes of peace and contentment.” And in his sonnets and lyrical pieces the note is struck again and again. One of the sweetest songs that Longfellow translates from the German is that of the bell : “Bell! thou soundest merrily When the bridal ,party To the church doth hie! Bell! thou soundest solemnly When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie !”’ e SIGNIFICANTLY enough the last poem Longfellow wrote, bearing the date of March 15th, 1882, was the ‘‘ Bells of San Blas.’’ These bells hung in a de- serted tower in the town of Mazatlan on the Mexican coast, and in these lines Longfellow makes them lament over the decline of the Spanish power in the Western continent, a sentiment which gives the poem a deeper meaning and a larger significance now than when it was written. Longfellow frequently refers also to the sound of bells in his prose writings. Thus in “‘Hyperion’’ we find this passage, where Paul Flemming says of an experience in his travels in Ger- many: “‘Inarticulate words seemed to blot the foggy air as if written on wet paper. These were the bells of Handschusheimer, and of other villages on the broad plain of the Rhine and among the hills of the Author of ‘* With a Saucepan Over the Sea.” Odenwald ; mysterious sounds, that seemed not of this world.’’ In ‘‘Outre-Mer’’ Longfellow speaks again of the sound of the bells and of the delight he had in them. During his pilgrimage in Spain he tells how he listened with feelings of solemn pleasure to the bell that sounded forth the ‘‘ Ave Maria.’’ There is something beautiful, he says, in thus measuring the march of time. In the course of our researches we have gathered up many interesting facts, historic in- cidents, and much curious lore about American bells, enough almost to fill a book, and, perhaps, some day such a book may appear. |? SEEMS to us that such a book as Mary Elizabeth Carter’s ‘‘ Millionaire Households and Their Do- mestic Economy ’’ (Macmillan Company, New York), may serve a twofold purpose, both excellent and val- uable ; first, as a reliable helper and guide for the comparatively few for whom it is primarily intended young millionaires -and secondly, as a warning les- son to the vast majority of us, who can never hope to be millionaires, but are inclined to think sometimes ADELAIDE KEEN, E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM, that the highest earthly bliss lies that way. For surely few such can rise up from reading this portly volume, devoted to the complex rules and multifarious regulations governing the domestic machinery of mil- lionaire households, the vast and weary system of un- written laws which must be observed by masters and mistresses, as well as by maids and men, in order that peace and harmony may prevail, without a feeling of thankfulness, like that entertained by the ancient philosopher, for the number of things they do not need. But for those who have suddenly achieved wealth, or had it thrust upon them, and seem doomed, like Mr. Carnegie, to die disgracefully rich, it would seem as if such a work as this would be a real boon and positively avert a great deal of worry and inter- necine strife. When you are brought up sharp, for instance, against the vital and momentous question of engaging a managing housekeeper to act as a buffer between you and the servants generally, and to suffer for you vicariously in battles with impudent milkmen and short-weight bakers, it is important to know in advance that she is expected to be a person of ‘‘ good breeding, education, and practical experience,’’ and that for the exercise of these virtues in your behalf you are expected to pay a monthly salary of from fifty to one hundred and fifty dollars, with no perqui- sites in the shape of ‘“‘tips’’ from the aforesaid tradesmen. 7 T IS also well to be informed that ladies’ maids, being, one might say, indispensably pretty, are peculiar- ly liable to become objects of the tender passion on the part of the corresponding functionary of the male persuasion, namely, the gentleman’s valet, and will therefore bear watching in the interests of domestic peace and discipline. Passing over a long array of other kinds of maids, of varying degrees of im- portance, including parlor-maids, dining-hall maids, Author of the novel, “ A Prince of Sinners.’ pantry-maids, whose metes and bounds are each care- fully defined, we pause for a moment in the presence of that awful personage before whose frown even newspaper reporters have been known to tremble and grow pale. We mean the butler. To begin with, this haughty despot of the hallways should be Eng- lish. His leading requirements, however, are ‘’ height and bulk.’”’ We are not informed just why “‘ bulk ”’ is necessary, unless it appears in the subsequent in- formation that the butler should have at his command at least four footmen of the same nationality and other irritating qualities as himself. In addition to having amplitude of person, and a dignity that ‘‘ must never be impeached,’’ the butler should have certain Machiavelian qualities so that when ‘the ubiquitous newspaper reporter appears he must know how to get rid of him with as little information imparted as will spare the family from false statements of ridicule.’’ Then there is the chef, another potentate, who scorns all “* petty economies,’’ who runs up bills for some one else to pay with the ease and abandon of a Congress- man, and whose rights and privileges none dare to dis- pute, except occasionally the butler, when these two satraps meet to divide up com- missions. All this and a vast deal more that is highly diverting, although never intended to be so, you may learn from reading Mrs. Carter’s compendium. — E PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM’S latest and most mature novel, ‘‘ A Prince of Sinners’’ (Little, Brown & Co.), has called attention to this clever English writer, whose books have been steadily growing in popularity in this country. Mr. Oppenheim had written ten novels previous to ‘‘ A Prince of Sinners,’’ and, what is more to his credit, his work has constantly improved. He has been best known in this country, previous to the publication of ‘‘A Prince of Sinners,’’ by “‘The Great Awakening,’’ ‘‘A Mil- lionaire of Yesterday,’’ ‘* The Survivor,’’ and *‘ The Traitors.’’ In each of these ingenious novels his skill as a story-teller was evident. But in “‘A Prince of Sin- ners,’” Mr. Oppenheim was most for- tunate. He really got ahead of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain in attempting to show, through the vehicle of fiction, that the salvation of the English work- ingman is dependent upon the restora- ‘ tion of a protective tariff in his country. Yet in this new book the tariff discussion plays but a small part, the real story be- ing the eventful career and love affairs of Kingston Brooks, the manly hero, and his relations with Lord Arranmore, the so-called ‘‘ prince of sin- ners.’’ It is a wholesome romance of present-day English social and political life. v HE AMERICAN propensity to ‘“‘still want some- thing new ”’ will find a wide range for exercise and much real satisfaction in Adelaide Keen’s ‘‘ With a Saucepan Over the Sea’’ (Little, Brown & Co.), a book devoted to recipes for dishes peculiar to almost every land under the sun except our own. Here the searcher after table novelties and new and hitherto unheard-of dainties wherewith to tempt the appetite, will find herself confronted with a long, if not a be- wildering, array of recipes drawn from the home and household cuisine of France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and even from the land of the Turk. The work has been performed with excellent discrimination. s s Increase Your Capacity For HARD BRAIN WoRK. HORSFORD’S ACID PHOSPHATE supplies just the ma- terial that is most wasted by brain work and nervous exertion—the Phosphates. An unexcelled strength- builder. If You Are Looking for a perfect condensed milk preserved without sugar, buy Borden’s Peerless Brand Evaporated Cream. It is not only a perfect food for infants, but its delicious flavor and richness make it superior to raw cream for cereals, coffee, tea, chocolate, and general househeid cooking. Prepared by Borden’s Condensed Milk 0. . s A WELL-APPOINTED home is scarce: nrleve ~with- out telephone service. 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foere ve ee ee re ee: ak aay a pao eh ree ae August 20, 1903 Who Is SOLDIER, both of the old school and the new ; a soldier of the regular army and of the national guard; an‘organizer par excellence ; a strict disciplinarian without being a martinet ; a thoroughly equipped business man and a gentle- man of high social standing, with well-balanced views, equitable judgment, and keen perception. Such is a brief and honest diagnosis of the newly- selected Assistant Secretary of War, General Rob- ert Shaw Oliver, who is to enter on his duties at Washington on September Ist. That to such a man will eventually come the portfolio of war is evident. That the President and the Secretary of War, Elihu Root, have selected this well-equipped man for the position soon to be made vacant by the retirement of the latter, only after careful consideration of his great value as a soldier and diplomat, is also evident. But if General Oliver comes to the department of war with all the knowledge necessary to make him finally the head of its mighty forces, he is even better fitted at the present to take up the duties of the Assistant Secretary, par- ticularly that of putting into active operation the ** Dick law’’ in its relation to the national guard of the United States. For thirty years General Oliver has worked in a highly intelligent, pro- gressive manner to develop the guard, always with the belief in mind that the citizen soldiery should follow as clogely as possible the lines of discipline and work of the regular army, so that in times of war assimilation would be easier and more perfect. In all these years discretion and judgment have marked General Oliver’s action. On the one hand he has never championed the ultra radicals, who believed in a local militia entirely distinct from national influ- ences ; nor has he espoused the opposite faction, who would have a State militia under such rigid regular- army discipline as would cause business men and vol- unteers alike to chafe and protest. He has been for an organization that, while appealing to the young man, would also educate him in such military lines as would permit quick assimilation and co-operation in times of necessity with the regular standing army. The settled camp-ground, with its finished streets, its ready-for-use tents, its electric lights, and its pre- pared menu, never appealed to General Oliver ; and only this year he saw a thorough consummation of his ideas when the Third Brigade, which he commands, went into camp 2,600 strong, and, on absolutely un- prepared, rough farming ground, and in the midst of the climatic hardships of a regular campaign, erected their own tents, cooked their own food, and lived exactly as soldiers in the field would have to in case of an emergency. To the social life of Washington the Olivers will be a distinct addition. Of the famous Boston and Sa- lem stock of Olivers, the new Assistant Secretary of War was born in the former city fifty-six years ago. LESLIE’S WEEKLY General Robert S. Oliver, To Be the New By George Edward Graham GENERAL ROBERT SHAW OLIVER, PROMINENT IN THE NATIONAL GUARD OF NEW YORK, AND NEW ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR. Albany Art Union, His mother was a daughter of Quincy A. Shaw, a wealthy mine owner, while on his father’s side a line of military ancestors made an impression on the life of the general. One cousin was Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the first regiment of colored troops in the Civil War, and who was killed in a charge at the head of his troops at Fort Wagner, South Carolina. At the military school of Marl- borough Churchill, at Sing Sing, N. Y., General Oliver received a thorough training in the profession which is to win him such high honors. From school he entered the volunteer service, receiving a commission as sec- ond lieutenant in the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry, September 27th, 1864. While serving before Peters- burg he was selected by General Cole to be his aide- de-camp, and appointed A. D. C. cavalry brigade, third division, Twenty-fifth Army Corps. General Oliver was appointed by General Clarke, on September 3d, 1865, to be assistant general of the third division, Twenty-fifth Army Corps, then serving in Texas at the close of the war. On the recom- mendations of his superior officers he was commis- sioned second lieutenant Seventeenth United States In- fantry, February 23d, 1866, and after a short service in New York harbor was again ordered to Texas with Assistant Secretary of War his regiment as acting adjutant, and later received his commission as a first lieutenant, Twenty-sixth Infantry. At his own request he was transferred to the Eighth United States Cavalry, and ap- pointed first lieutenant of that regiment May 7th, 1867, and ordered to the Pacific coast, where he served for three years in California, Oregon, and Arizona, in various Indian wars at that time, and was promoted captain October 31st, 1869. After leaving the army he returned to the East and moved from Boston to Albany. Becoming in- terested in the national guard, he accepted the coloneley of the Tenth Regiment August 23d, 1873; became assistant adjutant-general Ninth Brigade, July 11th, 1878 ; brigadier-general and inspector-general of the State of New York Jan- uary Ist, 1880; brigadier-general, Fifth Brigade, January 10th, 1888; and brigadier-general, Third Brigade, December 30th, 1890, a position which he still holds, showing an almost unbroken line of service for thirty-four years. In Albany and New York, as well as in Bos- ton, General Oliver and his family are prominent social figures, the general having also been closely identified with the civic life of the former city. He became, in 1894, a civil-service commissioner of Albany, and in 1895, a police commissioner. He has been president of the Mutual Boat Club in the old days when acquatic sports flourished in Al- bany; and president of the Albany Tennis and the Republican Unconditional clubs, and of the National Lawn Tennis Association. Jn 1897 he was first vice-president of the Albany Vigilance League. He is a member of the Fort Orange Club, the Press Club, the Albany Club, the Country Club, the Loyal Legion, the Grand Army of the Re- public, the Association of the Army of the Potomac, and the Cavalry Association, and governor of Albany Chapter No. 1, Order of Patriots and Founders of America. General Oliver, in 1870, was married to Miss Marion Rathbone, daughter of General John F. Rathbone, a wealthy stove manufacturer of Albany. Their family consists of three daughters, Miss Elizabeth, who is an extremely clever artist and devoted to philanthropic work ; Miss Cora, who recently was married to Joseph H. Choate, Jr., the son of the present ambassador to England, and Miss Marion, who is a fine musician, and one son, the Rev. John Rathbone Oliver. The Miss Olivers are extremely handsome, splendidly educated and accomplished girls, having spent many years abroad with their mother in pursuit of their studies. All three daughters are fine athletes, finished horsewomen, expert golfers, crack tennis players, and, in fact, win honors in whatever they undertake. The season in Albany will be considerably duller with the handsome house on Willet Street closed, and Miss Oliver and Miss Marion away, but Washingtonians will gladly welcome to administrative circles such an en- tirely delightful and interesting family. Where Immigrants Are Needed. Continued from page 178. ticularly in New England, farm land of an excellent character can be had at surprisingly low prices ; good markets are accessible, and other conditions exist which make farming, gardening, and fruit-raising a certain and reasonably profitable source of income for those who bring to these pursuits some degree of skill, industry, and intelligence. Foreigners from any land who come here to engage in any branch of agriculture, either as laborers or land-owners, are a valuable addition to a useful and important industry, and we are in no danger of having too many of them. They are needed to take up the ““abandoned farms’’ of the East and to occupy the vast areas opened for settlement by irrigation in the West. The South also needs such immigrants to de- velop and improve the millions of rich and fertile farm lands that have lain waste and neglected ever since the Civil War, as well as the millions of other equally fertile acres that have never yet been tilled or cleared. Into these farm regions in every section of the Union a million immigrants a year might be poured for many years to come, and the country be the gainer by it. With the vast and ever-increasing foreign markets for American fruits, grain, and other farm products which have recently been opened to us, there is no danger of a surplus of these things—of a glut of such food stuffs in the market. The demand from Eng- land, France, Germany, and other thickly populated countries of Europe, to say nothing of the far East, for certain products of the soil which America can grow as no other country can do, is certain to increase in the coming years and afford a ready and profitable market for all and more than we can possibly produce of these things. New and improved methods of long- distance transportation of perishable goods by land and sea, invented by modern science, are also helping greatly to widen our markets and enlarge our oppor- tunities for a profitable trade in our farm products with every quarter of the world. Because of these advantages and new opportunities it may be truly said that no industry in the United States to-day is on so firm and sure a basis as farming, and none offers so much promise for the future. Pros- perity, happiness, and contentment lie this way for millions of men and women not only of the Old World but the New, now shut up in the narrow, stifling, squalid tenements of the cities, and doomed to a des- perate struggle for existence in industries, some of which are greatly overcrowded, and others of which the country has noreal need at any time. Of im- migrants who come here to push carts, grind organs, run saloons, organize strikes, and get up riots, we have far too many ; of those who come to earn an honest livelihood in tilling the soil for themselves or for others, we have far too few. a2 2 Where Wealth and Worth Combine. Continned from page Is2. in a world like this and had nothing to his credit but a good tennis record might far better have never been born. Such men, and women, too—and their number, we are sorry to believe, is not a few—are less entitled to respect than an honest, though naked, savage ; he at least lives up to the light he has, while they are a shame and a disgrace to the civilization of which they profess to be the finest fruit, a civilization whose ad- vantage they enjoy through the labors of others, but to which they contribute nothing but their own vain and empty existence. Regarded from a selfish and material point of view, the possessors of great wealth, whether men or wo- men, who devote their time and means to wasteful vanities and silly extravagances are following a short- sighted and suicidal course. They must be blind and stupid, indeed, if they cannot see the danger for them- selves that lies in the reckless throwing away of money at our Monte Carlos and Saratogas, in their million- dollar palaces, in running amuck with their ‘‘ red devils ’’ through the streets, and in the general dis- regard which they show in their lines of conduct for the happiness and well-being of their fellow-men. Can they not see that in thus misusing their wealth and their opportunities they are sowing the seed of what is certain to be a bitter harvest for them or for their children in the days to come ? The eternal law of compensation will not fail. Everywhere hunmanity suffers for the things that money alone can supply, for food, clothing, shelter, for aid in wasting disease, for help in feeble and friend- less old age. A hundred deserving charities and hu- mane movements appeal for larger funds and more generous support, that they may extend their noble and beneficent work among the poor, the orphaned, the weak, and the perishing. Even in our most fa- vored land and time, opportunities unlimited in their scope lie open on every hand wherein those who have wealth, time, and influence to give can do much to help the world along to a better, brighter, and happier day. They who in the midst of their luxuries and gilded pleasures remain deaf and blind to these calls of duty will find sooner or later that they have missed the best chance of their lives for a paying investment. Timely, as they were wise and true, were the words of President Roosevelt in one of his recent speeches counseling moderation, prudence, and magnanimity to those who are profiting most and greatly by the pres- ent wave of prosperity, lest by causes of selfish pride and criminal extravagance they pull down the house upon themselves. ‘“‘A great fortune,’’ said he, *‘ if not used aright makes its possessor in a peculiar sense a menace to the community.’’ That this menace hangs over us now, more heavily than at any other time in our national history, what student of the times can doubt ? First Workingman in the Cortez. A FACT significant of the growing power of work- ingmen as a factor in politics and government, was the recent election to the Spanish Cortez, the most conservative legislative body in Europe, of Jaime Angles, a cooper by trade, the first craftsman ever to be thus distinguished in Spain.

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In the World o LESLIE’S WEEKLY By H. P. Burchell Sports August 20, 1903 CHAMPION A. W. LARNED, WHO WON THE EASTERN CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES. HARD-FOUGHT MATCH. ATTITUDE. H. WARD, WHO WAS BEATEN BY LARNED IN A R. D. WRENN, IN A CHARACTERISTIC PLAYING G. L. WRENN, JR, HARD AT WORK IN A LIVELY GAME, NOTABLE PLAYERS IN THE RECENT CHAMPIONSHIP TENNIS TOURNAMENT AT THE LONGWOOD COURTS, BOSTON, MASS. ONE FoRM OF AUTOMOBILE COMPLAINT. — Automo- bilists have complained from time to time of the erro- neous reports given of happenings directly or indirectly traceable to the machines. Those who have only a superficial knowledge of automobiles usually bunch them together when speaking of them. Accidents or incidents are referred to as happening to ‘‘ an automobile ’’ in general which could not possibly hap- pen to more than one particular type of automobile, and in many instances only to one particular make of that type. A fractured axle is recorded, in one vase, a leaky cylinder gasket in an- other ; a spring creaks unbearably, or breaks on account of a badly-fitting clip; the steering pivot bends or snaps; a muffler gets red hot and burns the knuckles of the operator, who tries to find out what is the matter, although the trouble is due to his faulty opera- tion; a gasoline pipe springs a-leak, and there is a conflagration, possibly an explosion ; a brake fails to act, and there is a collision ; a boiler is burned out, and the machine must be towed home. These and a hundred other things may happen, and the automobile in general is the scapegoat which is laden with the odium of it all. But in reality each particular make of auto- mobile is not very liable to more than two or three forms of mishaps when properly treated, and these are gener- Photographs hy W. M. Somers has had a great vogue, first in Europe and _ sub- sequently here. Then the European chauffeurs be- gan to declare against it, because its massive and low construction draws dust from the surrounding atmosphere and deposits it over the occupants of the curtains, took its place in many instances, and re- mains a favorite style. But the tonneau is not easily ousted. It has weighty advantages, especially when the tonneau portion is removable, as it most fre- quently is. It is roomier than the surrey, holding three or four passengers at a pinch besides the two on the front seat while the rear surrey seat can accom- modate only two. Baggage can be safely stowed in the tonneau without strapping. The rear step and entrance render it very convenient to get in and out, especially for ladies, while it is distinctly laborious to get into a rear surrey seat by climbing over the rear wheels and underguards of the vehicle, and most automobiles are so propor- tioned that there is no other way of get- ting into them. In some American surreys this has been obviated by plac- ing the rear axle farther back, thereby also lengthening the wheel base and getting easier riding on rough roads. There is a neck-and-neck race between improvements in the design of ton- neaux, purporting to keep the dust out and producing an appearance of light- ness now wholly lacking, and other im- provements in the surrey style, aiming at better facilities for carrying baggage and increased accessibility. To this end surreys have been made with a rear step and the back seat divided, so that one portion can be swung back to ally due to some detail in construction DR. J. N. JACKSON, OF BURLINGTON, VT., WHO “ BUD,” DR. J. N. JACKSON'S DOG, WHO CROSSED admit passengers from behind. which has not been thoroughly thought WAS THE FIRST MAN TO CROSS THE CON- THE CONTINENT WITH HIS MASTER IN AN a out by the makers. In other automo- TINENT IN AN AUTOMOBILE, AUTOMOBILE, AND HAD TO WEAR A NOVEL ForM OF POLO PLAY. ‘. Davis & Santord GOGGLES. — Davis & Sanford biles these particular shortcomings have been remedied, but other ones have taken their place. Drivers, on the other hand, fall into certain habits which by degrees injure the ma- chines. One uses his brakes too frequently ; another runs unnecessarily on his low gear, when the high gear would serve better; ignition troubles are courted by wrong adjustment of the explosive charge, or neglect of the ignition bat- tonneau seats. King Edward was among the first to call attention to this drawback. He declared outright that he would not put up with it, and many Britons followed his example. The limousine, which is very similar to a double surrey with extension top and side Foxhall Keene has been playing polo recently with considerable success in England, and he was a member of a_ team that took part recently in one of the most interesting tourna- ments of the season at the Roehampton Club. This is known as the Ladies’ Nomination Tournament, and the features of the event appeal so strongly to the social elements of the game that it is hard- ly too much to expect, with the in- tery or dynamo. The list of errors is a long one, but probably no longer than could be enumerated in regard to the treatment of horses by hostlers. Never- theless, all of this list is also charged against the automobile, much to the prejudice of the automobile movement. Finally, the incompetence of the average automobile repair-man makes havoc of originally good construction and work- manship. For trifling or no cause he takes a motor ora transmission gear apart, and blunders in putting it to- gether again, and the more errors he makes the longer is the time that he spends on the job and the higher are his charges. [e A PROBLEM IN AUTOMOBILE PUR- CHASING. —Whether to order a surrey or a tonneau is one of the moot ques- tions of the day among automobilists who want to own a machine adapted for all-round use, touring included. Whether to make surreys or tonneaux is an equally important question among manufacturers. The tonneau style TRANSCONTINENTAL TOUR IN AN AUTOMOBILE.—ARRIVAL AT DENVER OF M. C CITY, AND E, T. FETCH, OF OHIO, EN ROUTE FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO NEW YORK. La te ~~» creasing growth of polo here, that a somewhat similar tournament may be adopted in America in the near future. In this event forty-eight ladies who are related to the different polo club players are each invited to nom- inate a_ player, and the forty - eight nominees are then handicapped into a dozen as equal teams as possible by the polo committee. The teams are then drawn, and the winners play winners in a_ succession of rounds. The four prizes offered by the club, when won, are presented by the vic- tors to the ladies who nominated them. Keen interest marks every stage of the game, and there is as much rival- ry, among the ladies in picking win- ning players as there is among the men themselves. All of the prominent polo players in England took part in this interesting contest. Foxhall Keene’s team in the first round won its match by the close score of six to five goals. KRARAP, OF NEW YORK Bert EB. Clark This novel form of polo play would doubtless excite much interest in this country if it were adopted here. Maas hernia, a ees - —

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evteinens ’ August 20, 1903 LESLIE’S —=i = [NOTICE.—This department is intended for the information of the regular readers of LESLIE’s WEEKLY. Nocharge is made for answering ques- tions, and all communications are treated confiden- tially. Correspondents should always inclose a stamp, as sometimes a personal reply is necessary. Inquiries should refer only to matters directly con- nected with Wall Street interests. Subscribers to LESLIE’S WEEKLY at the home office, at regular subscription rates, namely, $4 per annum, are placed on a preferred list, ¢ ntitling them to the early de- livery of the papers, and, in eme rge ncies, to answers by mail et te legraph. Address “ Jasper,’’ LESLIE’S WEEKLY, 225 Fourth Avenue, New York. VARIOUS explanations were given of the recent heavy failures in Wall Street. It was said that leading financial interests who had been antagonized by Jim Keene and his friends, had been ‘gunning’’ for the latter; that the Rockefellers had axes sharpened for some of their adversaries ; that the toma- hawk was out for the Rock Island crowd, and so on. To such causes as these some financial writers attributed the panicky liquidation. Mr. Keene thought it was ‘‘a very extraordinary situation,’ and couldn’t understand the reason why the public refused to go into the market and buy. He said its reappearance in Wall Street would be a welcome sight. He declared that business was good, crops excellent, and the gross earnings of railroads larger than ever. This is just what every other man on the bull side says, whether he thinks it or not. But the simple fact is that the public are out of Wall Street because they have been put out. The shrinkage in the market value of Wall Street securities since the close of the recent boom is placed at $2,000, 000,- 000. The whole country has been specu- lating. Men, women, and even children have been putting their good money, not into good things, but into the good, bad, and indifferent. They have become gam- blers and have lost. They would all be back in the Street again, with the natural instinct of the gambler to keep at the table as long as the money lasts, if they had money with which to do it. They have lost, and are out of the game. All they have left is a bitter experience. All this is nothing new. Old stagers like myself, who have gone through more than one panic, and more than one boom, know that while a boom lasts the young- sters think it must last for ever, while the experienced investor and speculator knows as sure as fate that the greater the boom the greater the depression that must inevitably follow. The public are out of the market, and the syndicaters, promoters, bankers, and brokers are in it, all loaded with securi- ties, and all waiting, like Mr. Keene, for the public to come back and buy. If were possible to count the number of losers, by reason of the recent bull specu- lation, the list would reach up into the hundreds of thousands. Some estimate it as high as a million or more, if we in- clude small holders of many shares of the innumerable wild-cat mining, oil, and industrial schemes. This enormous loss, scattered through every section of the country, is responsible for a great deal of the despondency which has supplanted the feeling of hope and confidence pre- vailing during the boom era of a year or two ago. Confidence is the basis of prosperity in a measure. People spend money freely when hopeful of the future, aid expectant of the best that the world can provide. On the other hand, depres- sion means economies, forced to the last degree. a = Lake: Wired. E “1...” luka, Miss.: Answer by wire. O.,” Lehighton, Penn.: Telegraphed. C.,”’ Clinton, Ia.: Preferred for one year. “'T.,”’ Oakdale, L. 1.: Manhattan Ele vated. ” Aurora, [ll.: Preferred for six months. ai W.,”’ Altoona, Penn.: Complaint noticed. 7 he Brooklyn: Iam unable to get a rating. B.,”’ Montreal: Preferred for six months. ss f, ” Ror -kford, IL: Preferred for six months. ‘E. Z. K.,” Toledo: Iam not favorably impressed by it. “A. R..”’ New York: Ihave nothing to do with the mailing department, and have referred your botpers to i. ; H.,” Elizabeth, N. J.: Letter received. Con- tents noted. ; ‘.”’ Plattsburg, N. Y.: Can only wire answers to special “go J. H. ’ Boston: Do not find your name on my subs sen list. “M. F.,”” Washington: tions not ‘answered. a .”’ Copake, N. Y.: I understand the proposi- tion is not going through. “H. F. B.,”” South Norwalk, Conn.: Anonymous c “ommunications not answered. H.,”” Pittsburg, Penn.: I do not find you on the Shatineien list at the home office. Are you not mistaken? R.,” Philad elphia : You must be a subscriber at ths home office to be entitled to the privileges of this department. Anonymous communica- “E. R.,”’ St. Louis: Impossible to do more than guess. heaton depends upon its capacity to earn, which i is rapidly diminishing. ’ Natchez, Miss.: I am unable to give you in- eatin regarding New Jersey real-estate. I deal with Wall Street affairs. Write tothe county clerk where the real- one is located. *W.,” Akron, Rubber Goods common repre- sents water, and oat little prospect of a dividend. I would rather have the preferred, which has good prospects. “S. S..”"" New York: The annual statement of Chesapeake and Ohio was encouraging, but it must be remembered that much of its revenue is due to the urgent demand and high price for coal. *D.,” Fall River: The only way to get at the list of stockholders of Hocking Valley is by insisting on a stockholders’ right to see the books. It is a case for a lawyer, and a good case, in my judgment. “Flint,”’ Pittsburg: 1. Thank you for the marked article. Always glad to have readers send informa- tion. Many have given me important facts. 2. haye not much confidence in its prognostications. “Navajo”: 1. An August rise can hardly occur until the banks begin to reduce their tremendous loans and until prospects for the fall money market improve. 2. He takes chances with the rest of the creditors. 3. Well rated. * Reader,” Exeter, N. H.: I am only familiar with the facts as set forth by the company. They give references and mention several prominent par- ties who are acquainted with their undertaking. Why not write to some of these direct? G.,”” Pawtucket Wabash preferred at 30 is not as good a purchase as the Wabash debenture Bs around 50, as the Bs stand ahead of the preferred and have a claim to the first 6 per cent. earned, after the charges on prior bonds have been met. ‘D.,” Evansville, Ind.: 1. Baltimore and Ohio common, Manhattan EF levated, Louisville and Nash- ville, Missouri Pacific, Rock Island preferred, Twin City Rapid Transit, Western Union Telegraph, all net around 5 per cent. 2. You can buy any number of shares, from one upward, if you pay for them in full. “A.A. B.,”” Detroit: United States Rubber com- mon only fell to about 12 during the panic of 1901, which was thought to be a low price. You mightdo better by evening upif the stock continues to de- cline. There .is little hope of a dividend on the common. “K.,”” South Carolina: 1. You can deposit your money with a trust company, a reliable banker or broker, and give your orders by wire. 2. National Biscuit, for an industrial, is high enough. The same might be said of Steel preferred and Virginia Chemical. “S.,”” New Plymouth, O.: Detroit U. S. Ry. paying four per cent., is not mo lz irly che ap around 70 or 40, as compared with other propositions of an indus- trial nature, though it is cheap compared with street railroad shares. Mostof the latter, inmy judgment, are se ling: too high. *P.,”’ Syracuse: While on its earnings and pros- pects Missouri Pacific is highly regarded, and has been purchased around par by those familiar with the property, yet no one can say how low any stock may go in a declining market, and I certainly would not advise purchase on a 5 per cent. margin. .”’ Portland, Ore.: The liquidatio: in the stock market, as well as the unce rtainty about the rapid- transit situation in Chicago, growing out of the attitude of the local authorities, has much to do with the condition of Chicago Terminal, but I would not sac rifice my shares until the air was clarified. “Oh, Yes,’”’ New London: Preferred for six months, and subscription sent to party named. Await report of committee regarding first industrial stock mentioned. I will endeavor to advise in this column promptly. Do not be ina hurry. The mar- ket will not run away from you, at least not very far. “Trader,” New York: 1. Preferred for three months. 2. I always answer telegrams promptly as soon as received. Occasional absence from the city sometimes prevents a prompt reply. 3. Unless an explanation is made of Atchison’s financial situa- tion, a further decline in the common would not be une wi _ J. P.,”’ Elizabeth, N. J.: The trouble with WEEKLY Jasper’s Hints to Money-makers an industrial like Virginia-Car. Chemical is that no one on the outside knows its financial condition. The declaration of dividends signifies nothing. That was strikingly illustrated by the crash of American Ice. 2. The report is not ready. You might write to. the c -hairman. ’ Mingo Junction, O.: If seven per cent. divi- aaa: United States Steel preferred were per- manently assured the stock would be cheap at 80. The best evidence that they are not assured is the fact that the stock has been permitted to decline to re- cent figures. However, | would not hasten to sacri- fice it - a slumping mz irket. pe A ” Aurora, [ll.: Preferred for six months. 1.3 coat average up on Rock Island common, Bal- timore and Ohio, and Union Pacific if the market should at any time have a panicky break. 2. I do not like the outlook for Atchison common, and have never regarded it with much favor, as my comments for the past year will prove. ‘C. D.,” Jacksonville, Fla.: 1. The safest on your list are the West Shore fours, Manhattan Consoli- dated fours, and Illinois Central fours, but allon the list are fairly good. The Kansas £ ity Southern threes look cheap at recent prices. The dividend on Manhattan Elevated stock is MBs by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, which is building the subways s in New York. E. N. G.,”’ Anaconda, Mont.: I do not believe the market will have much of an upward movement this fall. The strength of Canadian Pacific has been attributed to a very strong pool which has sup- ported it, just as pools have supported other stocks until unable longer to do so. This pool has been so strong that there was talk of a corner in the stock, the one thing that a short seller dreads. The increase in the dividend was Tee 4 Take your profit. F.,’’ New York: 1. National Biscuit common pays 4 per cent. per AN. the same as United States Steel and Corn Products. Ido not regard it asaninvestment. 2. Until the report of the stock- holders’ committee is made, it would be well to leave italone. 3. Leather common has no value outside of its voting power, but is occasionally made a fa- vorite for speculation, ’ Worcester, Mass.: Preferred for six months. I const: intly advised against the purchase of Jupiter Steel or the United States Steel Company of Everett, Mass. Some of my readers found fault because they said it paid dividends. Nothing seems oper. to the stockholders now, but acceptance of the offer of bonds in place of stock, yet I believe if the offended stockholders would get together and secure an at- torney they might compel a more satisfactory settle- ment. “Steel,”’ Chicopee Falls, Mont.: 1. St. Paul, dur- ing the tremendous slump in 1901, fell to134. This would make that price seem reasonable for it on a good margin, but for the fear that the dividend may be reduced. You will recall that some time ago it was rumored that inside interests predicted 130 for St. Paul before the year was out. 2. While St. Paul would probably move faster than Manhattan in a speculative market, the latter has the greater investment value, ‘E. B.,”’ Cincinnati: 1. Your certificates show on their face whether preferred or common, 2. The copper market is unfavorable to an advance in Cop- per shares, though Amalgamated, on the recent de- cline,was accumulated by strong parties. 3. Pacific Mail is a minority stock, control being held by South- ern Pacific. The last report is favorable, but no dividends are in sight. I do notadvise the pure hase of non-dividend-paying shares in such a market, ex- cepting for a turn. Quiz,”’ Milwaukee : 1. Chicago Great Western, every one believes, will some time have its day, but it may be a good way off. As you have paid for your stock, the only thing to do is to keep it, and, in case liquidation sends the shares much lower, you can average up. Those who followed Wabash coramon all the way down to next to nothing after the panic of 1893, finally got out, but it took nearly ten years todo so. This means great patience. The same applies 3 to Erie common. J.;’’ Nanticoke, Penn.: I cannot advise you any more definitely on Steel common than heretofore. The suspension of dividends will of course put the stock on a level with any of the other non-dividend- THE FASTEST PLEASURE VESSEL EVER SET AFLOAT. THE “ LORENA,” THE LARGEST TURBINE YACHT IN THE WORLD, BUILT AT LEITH, SCOTLAND, AND OWNED BY AN AMERICAN.-~-CGieorge Thow The Swiftest Yacht in the World. HE Lorena, which was built at Leith, Scotland, for Mr. A. L. Barber, of Washington and New York, is the largest turbine yacht in the world. On trial, too, she has proved to be the fastest yacht of any size afloat. The tonnage of this magnificent ocean cruiser is 1,650 tons. See has three bronze propellers, each on a separate shaft, and in ordinary working can develop 3,200 horse-power. She is a splendid sea boat, and has proved to be quite free from vibration. The accommodation includes a handsome library, luxurious drawing-rooms, and many state-rooms ; an exceptionally spa- cious refrigerating chamber, superior cabins for officers and engineers, and complete Jaundry appliances. The deck- house on the promenade deck measures 100 feet long by 14 feet wide, with the owner’s den aft. There is no raised bridge for the captain, and thus the Lorena differs in appearance from the Emerald, a smaller turbine yacht which preceded her across the Atlantic. The Lorena was built by Ramage & Ferguson, of Leith, who built the Valhalla, the largest vessel in the Royal Yacht squad- ron. She attracted great attention while lying in Leith harbor,. fitting out for her run across the Atlantic. The popularity of this style of yacht is bound to be great. paying industrial shares, because it would be an in- definite suspension, in all probability. But if divi- dends are continued, even at the rate of two per cent. per annum, the stock will have some strength. it is a guess as to what the management will do. It is no guess as to what it should do. ‘J.,” Kansas City: 1. Thearrest of Joseph Cowan, of the brokerage firm of Joseph Cowan & Co., was on the charge made by a Milwaukee customer. 2. Interesting information regarding the C honchilula Gold Reef Mines Company and the Corporate Agent Company appeared in a recent issue of the New York Sun. I do not think much of the guarantee to, which you refer. ’ New York: 1. I would rather have Corn Products common than Steel common at this time. 2. The alleged sale of Toledo St. Louis and Western to the Grand Trunk seems to have ended the upward movement in the former for the present. American Car and Foundry common has still to stand the test of hard times. The recent statement of United States Realty does not make the stocks look cheap, not even the preferred, though prominent financiers ator ay with it declare to the contrary. S.,” Honesdale, Penn.: Preferred for six months. 1. Union Pacific common, on its present dividends, is not entitled to reach 80 again within a year, un- less there is a far more general demand for invest- ment stocks, If insiders should decide to increase the dividends they could advance it beyond 80 almost at any time. Nobody knows what they may choose todo, 2. No; but secrecy in such matters has always given rise to suspicion. 3. 1 cannot answer. We live in an age where many corporation managers seem to have thrown honesty to the winds. W.,”” Brunswiek, Mo.: Preferred for six months. The FO mine pian offered to the Mexican Cen- tral bondholders does not impress me favorably. It cuts down the interest-bearing obligations. The new issue of bonds is really only an issue of stock, because interest need not be paid upon these deben- tures unless earned. The talk that the Rock Island is interested in this scheme has been generally heard. As the situation now is, I would rather have Rock Island common than Mexican Central. Both would be better if there was less manipulation in the management. “ D. M.,”” Chicago: Preferred for six months. 1. So great a sacrifice is involved in the sale of all your Steel shares that I do not wish to take the responsi- bility of recommending it, esy eeially in a market so tried and troubled as this, Usually after severe liquidation, and the accumulation of a large short interest, the market has something of an advance. It might be better to wait a littleand see if you can- not profit by such an eventuality. 2. New York Central does not look very cheap for a 5 per cent. stock at prevailing prices ; certainly not as cheap as other first-class securities. “Inquirer,” Baltimore: 1. I think it would be well to leave most of the low- priced stocks alone for the present. I think well of Baltimore and Ohio, but am not een to say that the bottom has been reached. Strong interests bought the common around 80. 3. American Tel. and Tel. Company stock has been held for investment by strong par- ties, especially in New England. The compulsory sacrifice of some of their holdings has been given as the reason for the recent decline. How far-reach- ing the Northern Securities decision might be, de- pends largely upon what it is when rendered and on the subsequent action of the Attorney-General. ‘L.,”’ Indianapolis: 1. It looks as if the stock- holders of Consolidated |Lake Superior were not inclined to come to the relief of the company by tak- ing the proposed issue of bonds. I deem this un- fortunate, for the company is worth saving, if re- ports of the value of its properties are reliable. The collapse of this great industrial, promoted with so much enthusiasm and with such strong financial backing, ought to lead toa thorough investigation of the reasons therefor. Promoters who got out of the property at high prices deserve no better treat- ment than bunco-steerers. 2. If the Vanderbilt in- interests were out-generaled by the Grand Trunk, in the competition for control of the Clover Leaf, the former have themselves to blame. The days of the old commodore have gone by. He never knew the word defeat, or, if he knew it, he never acknowl- edged it. “ Reader,”’ Troy, N. Y.: Preferred for three months. 1. The crowd that has been manipulating Rock Island and]taking in numerous collateral prop- erties at fancy prices, has been compelled to un- load some of its St. Louis and San Francisco second preferred with a resulting decline in the price of the shares. If the earnings of the road are correctly reported, dividends, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, should be continued. Whether they will be or not depends upon the management, and its action largely depends upon speculative oppor- tunities in the market. Ican only advise you to watch and wait. 2. Ditto. 3. No one knows pre- cisely what the issue of Rock Island bonds is in- tended to cover. Perhaps it is to acquire some of the shares of the railroads which have been ab- sorbed. 4. Baltimore and Ohio common seems to have the preference in Wall Street over Union Pac ific common by = e familiar with both. G.,”" Denver: The appointment of a re- ceiver for the American Ice Company would no doubt extinguish for the most part the value of the common, but such an appointment is by no means probable. 2. Rock Island common was bought freely by speculators around 20 because of the continued reports that it is earning enough to pay dividends, regard it as a better speculation than Chicago Great Western common. 3. United States Express around par is not dear for a 4 per cent. invest- ment stock, though compared with prices of other investment shares it looks high. It is earning 6 per cent., and could increase its dividend. 4. Unless tiie money-market situation improves and the out- look for crops and general business is more reassur- ing, the liquidation will continue. 5. I never have believed in Colorado Southern, because it has been in the hands of masters of the art of menipulation, who care little for the public and mainly for their own pockets. 6. I might say the same about Mexican Central, though urgent tips to purchase the last- mentioned have been given out freely for six months, Glad to hear that you_profited 7 my advice. ‘J. R.,’’ London, Canada: The reason why I have insisted continuously ist the market must have further liquidation until it reached perhaps abnormally low prices, was because I believed with John Stuart Mill, that as the frenzy to purchase sends stocks and other commodities up to unreason- ably high figures, so, as a rule, loss of confidence in- spires panic ky conditions that result in lower than reasonable prices. The fear has pervaded Wall Street that some unexpected contingency might re- sult in a general break-up, such as not unusually i in- dicates the culmination of liquidation. It is the be- lief of the best informed men on Wall Street that many stocks, like Southern Pacific, and some pre- ferred issues, have been on a low enough level to justify their purchase. Those who have believed thus have, in a measure, supported their belief by purchases in the market, but were unable to pur- chase everything offered, and when they withdrew, further liquidation followed. 2. For these reasons Missouri Pacific, Norfolk and Western, Southern Pacific, Baltimore and Ohio, Union Pacific preferred, Delaware and Hudson, Manhattan Elevated, and some preferred industrials, have been freely pur- chased on reactions by speculative traders as wellas by investors. Continued on following page. ——

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I would be inclined to take a flyer in United States Realty Consolidated common around 10, if I had accurate information that the officers of the company were picking it up at that figure, but I would first be sure of my information. 2. They are doing a good business. “Pp. T.,” Plainfield, N. J.: 1. I see no reason to expect a return of boom high prices for Pennsy|- vania, but you must judge for yourself whether or not you wish to sacrifice your holdings. I would rather have Manhattan Elevated than Pennsylvania. 2. Manhattan. 3. Preferred for three months. “W.”” New York: 1. Stocks and bonds paid for and held as investments and that pay their divi- dends or interest charges with a good prospect of continuing todoso, ought not to be sacrificed simply because prices are declining. If they are held on margins, that is another thing. 2. Prefer Man- hattan. “C.,” Cleveland : 1. Chicago Great Western pre- ferred A pays five per cent., and is the safest of the Great Western shares in which to trade. 2. The cotton mill shut-down in New England leaves 250,000 operatives out of work and 2,000,000 spindles idle. These millshave been expending about $2,000,000 a week for wages. This does not improve the busi- ness outlook. “L.,” Rimersburg, Penn.: I thank you for your letter of information, which confirms my own ad- vices regarding the falling off in the steel and iron trade and in railroad freightage in many directions. Newspapers that have been misleading the public regarding these affairs, as you say, deserve severest censure. They are either ignorantor are in the em- ploy of stock jobbers. “O.S.,"" New York: If the interest on the Con. To- bacco 4s were earned four times over last year, they should not sell at prevailing prices. These bonds rep- resent the old Continental Tobacco common stock, which never paid a dividend and was said never to have earned one. I do not regard them as an in- vestment, though many have bought them on the recent decline as a speculation. “KE. W. D.,”’ New Orleans : Men with ready cash, who have had experience in Wall Street, are keep- ing their money in a trust company or bank, and waiting for a decisive break in the stock market, with an expectation of picking up bargains in dividend-paying stocks like Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, Delaware and Hudson, Manhattan Elevated, Missouri Pacific, Pennsylvania, New York Central, and shares of that character. “ Banker,” Burlington, Vt.: The table of earnings for 1903, which you submit, is, of course, based largely on estimates. If Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsyl- vania are earning twelve per cent., and Illinois Cen- tral, Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, Missouri Pacifie, L. & N., and Canadian Pacific between nine and ten per cent., there is reason for the strength that some of these properties have exhibited. Idoubt whether dividends will be increased, however. **Laong,”’ Fredonia, N. Y.: 1. If I had profit in American Locomotive preferred | would sell and have the cash ready to buy a first-class investment security —a bond, or a guaranteed stock, on a lower level. 2. Iam nota believer in Mexican securities because no one knows what will happen in case of the death of President Diaz, and he is a pretty old man. 3. I would keep my cash on hand and be pre- | ony to buy a first-class investment stock on any vad break. “H. J.S.,’” Pittsburg, Penn.: Preferred for three months. 1. It is much the same. If I bought any- thing of the kind, | would buy it of an insurance company of high standing and established reputa- tion dealing in bonds of that character. 2. United States Leather common is simply a speculative stock, representing water and having no intrinsic value. Cumulative dividends on the preferred ahead of it approximate forty per cent. There is no chance for a dividend on the common. “A. P.,” Plattsburg, N. Y.: 1. Southern Car and Foundry Company has been put in the hands of a receiver. Yet we are told that the railroads have been unable to procure new equipments because the shops were so busy. 2. The surplus of the Vir- ginia-Car Company for the past year was only about $27,000. This does not look encouraging for the stockholders. 3. It looks as if the American Stogie Company had been organized for the purpose of helping somebody to unload the United States Cigar Company to good advantage. **M.,”’ Bangor, Me.: 1. Payment of the last quar- terly dividend of Chicago Metropolitan Elevated was deferred until the end of the year, because of in- creased cost of labor, materials, and supplies. 2. bull interest is strong because of the financial sup- port it has behind it. The bears are having their innings. I think that money will be made largely on that side of the market, at least until after the presidential election. 2. Morgan’s Inte.national Mer- cantile Marine concern is to have a formidable com- petitor abroad. Due notice of this fact has been given by the Cunard Company, which is having the support of the British government in its fight against the American shipping combine. This is one of the few instances in which Mr. Morgan has bitten off more than he can chew. ““S.,"" Rome, N. Y.: 1. What the difficulty with St. Paul really is, no one seems privileged to make public. There is talk of a reduction in the dividend and of an issue of new stock, and also of the neces- sity of makinga large loan. The public is beginning to have suspicion of railroads that have been in- creasing their dividends while they were heavy borrowers. 2. It is said that the break in Toledo St. Louis and Western, Kansas City Southern, Ten- nessee Coal and Iron, United States Realty, Rock Island, and a number of other stocks was due to the selling of the holdings of members of pools. Syndi- cates have been distributing their holdings in some instances to the various members, and the latter have hastened to unload. “C. E.,” Evansville, Ind.: Preferred for six months. It must begin to be evident to everybody that 4 per cent. dividends on Steel common will not be continued much longer, if at all. As a non-divi- dend paying industrial it will be high even at exist- ing prices. Possibly the dividend may be reduced at the start, but if a conservative course is pursued it will be abandoned at the first opportunity and the funds applied to necessary extensions. I doubt if A.werican Steel common is worth more on its merits than other industrial common shares selling at much lower prices. Use your own judgment accordingly. The Illinois Central is a dividend-payer, and while it may sell lower, if you hold it simply for income, that ought not to be jeopardized at present. I would not call either National Biscuit or Union Bag common an investment. It would be wiser to buy railroad bonds, which are now getting down toward reason- able prices. “G.,” Elgir, Ill.: 1. Talk of an international com- bination of electrical industries, which shall take in the General Electric, the Westinghouse, and leading German companies, is no doubt intended to maintain the prices of American industrials of that character. I do not believe it has any real significance. 2. The close agreement made between the British gov- ‘ ernment and the Cunard steamship company car- | ries with it a first-class subsidy for the latter. Mr. | Morgan’s international shipping trust will not re- ceive this news with much pleasure. 3. I would not sacrifice my Colorado Fuel stock unless I had to. The Rockefeller-Gould interests are in it to make money. The fact that they have selected the for- mer president of the National Tube Company as the executive head of the Colorado concern, is sig- nificant. The Steel Trust, some time ago, was anxious to secure the Colorado company, but I doubt if it isin condition to take on any additional bur- dens. With a practical man at the head of the Colorado concern, it ought to make a much better showing. “W. F.,”’ Philadelphia: 1. Stocks in receivers’ hands are not always safe to buy, because of the possibilities of assessments. Many believe that | Chicago Union Traction ought to have greater value, but it is a complicated situation. I am un- able to unravel it. 2. The Street is mystified over the $10,000,000 additional indebted..ess of the Union Pacific for purposes not explained, and are wonder- ing whether this road is to be so overburdened that it will have to pass through another reorganization experience. Its fixed charges are now almost as large as were those of the system before its reor- ganization, but the gross earnings are far in excess of what they were in otherdays. A serious shrink- age in these earnings would jeopardize dividends on the common, but such a shrinkage, considering the expansion of the company’s territory, is not re- | garded as probable or possible. Earnings this year are expected to realize about ten per cent. on the | common stock. If one knew whether hard times The long-expected melon of the Consolidated Gas | Company of New York is to be cut. Stockholders are to be offered the privilege of subscribing, accord- ing to their present holdings, for $6,000,000 of treas- ury stock at $150 per share, the money to be ex- pended forimprovements. If this company has been making such an enormous surplus as has been re- ported, why doesn’t it use it for necessary ex pendi- tures? “C.,”’ Concord, N. H.: 1. It is said that the new $3,000,000 tunnel through the Cascade mountains, were approaching, and how hard they would be, he | could advise better as to short sales. The chances of adecline in Atchison common on its merits are greater than inUnion Pacific common. 3. It would seem so. “S.,”’ Rochester, N. Y.: 1. Schwab’s retirement from the presidency of the Steel Trust is a good thing for the latter. One of Carnegie’s old lieuten- ants calls my attention to'the fact that no able iron master is identified with the management of the steel company’s affairs, and that it has lost and is losing its most valuable men. If it could secure the brainy advisers who gave Carnegie success, there would be greater hopes of its future. 2. The statement of the United States Realty and Construc- tion Company for the nine months to July Ist showed total assets of $62,000,000, but of this the enormous sum of $37,000,000 was for “good will of subsidiary companies,’’ which may mean little or much. After the payment of dividends on the pre- | ferred a balance of only $198,000 was shown, and it is a question whether the dividends were not paid partially from profits estimated on the increased | value of investments, and not actually in the com- pany’s treasury. The poor showing accounts for the weakness of the shares. This was one of the last organized industrials. 3. We hear no more boasts that the Steel Trust is to monopolize the iron business of *the United States. Importationsof iron and steel during the past fiscal year were the largest | since 1891. It must always be berne in mind that built for the Great Northern Railroad, will event- | ually have to be abandoned, as the grade is higher than that of another more economical route. It is also said that millions have been sunk in the effort to build a cut-off over the unfathomable marshes of Salt Lake by the Union Pacific. The stockholders foot the bills. 2. I have no doubt that the Canadian iron and steel company, with the advantage it pos- sesses of a heavy bounty from the government, can enter our market in competition with the products of the Steel Trust. Thousands of tons of steel bil- lets have thus been disposed of recently. “CC. L. P.,”’ Cleveland : 1 have been unable to un- derstand why, on its merits, Erie common has been advanced to such figures. It ranged last year from 28 to 4, and this year, thus far, from 23 to 42. Itis understood that Morgan and Hill interests were ex- pecting to develop a plan which would largely in- crease the earnings of the road to the advantage of the common. But, considering the enormous amount of the common stock, this never has seemed feasible, Becauseof the strong backing which Erie has had, and the roseate promises given out of its future, speculators have been afraid to sell itshort. I state | the facts. You must be guided by your own judg- ment. Itis a gamble any way. ..” Athens, Tenn.: Preferred for six months, I agree with you that the market will have a de- clining tendency with occasional recessions, until it reaches a considerably lower level. The trade out- look must continue to be good, or dividends in some directions must be reduced, and with such a re- | duction will come added depression. All these are | factors that cannot be measured because they are indefinite and depend upon circumstances. You must therefore be guided by your own best judg- ment as well as by the situation, in buying or sell- ing. I agree with you regarding the merits of Missouri Pacific. It is a better stock to trade in than New York Central, as it is subject to greater fluctuations and is more active. ..”’ Toledo: 1. Two parties are now in the market. During the bull movement we had only | bulls. Now we seem to have only bears. But the foreign manufacturers are on the alert to capture our markets whenever we put prices too high and calculate on too heavy profits. “vV.." Memphis, Tenn.: 1. Prosperity always means better times for our railroads. This accounts for the fact that since 1898, when a prosperous era really began, many railroads have resumed the pay- August 20, 1903 FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE. Spencer Trask 8 Co. BANKERS William & Pine Sts., New York Investment Securities. Members New York Stock Exchange, Branch Office, Albany, N. Y, INCORPORATED 1885 The Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia S. E. CORNER CHESTNUT AND BROAD STREETS CAPITAL (Full Paid) . . . $1,500,000 SURPLUS AND PROFITS. $1,300,000 Solicits Current Deposit Accounts, Allowing Interest. Rents Safe Deposit Boxes in Burglar-Proof Vaults. Takes General Charge and Management of Property. PRANK K. HIPPLE, President. | Hard to believe anything better than | U. S. Bonds. Can you buy them on the installment plan with all unpaid installments can- celed should you die ? Get particulars free. No importunity. PENN MUTUAL LIFE, 921-3-5 Chestnut St., Philada. mentof dividends, which were discontinued during the reorganization period following 1893, and a num- ber of others have increased their dividends. Be- cause of this, the prices of these stocks have had a remarkable advance which we are told was justified. Before we decide this question, would it not be well to wait and see if, with the recurrence of hard times, which must inevitably come, these railroads will continue to pay their present rate of dividends, or any dividends at all? 2. I advised my readers long ago against the purchase of Virginia-Car Chemical stock at prevailing high prices. Com- petition in the cotton-oil trade has been unfavor- able to the earnings of that industry. ‘ 3. The straits | in which the Atchison railroad finds itself are re- vealed by the remarkable statement that the com- pany may not apply its current earnings for the re- tirement of $2,500,000 of the serial debentures an- nually, as it has promised to do, but that it may avail itself of its privilege to sell annually $3,000, - 000 of its general mortgage fours to reimburse the treasury for expenditures for improvements which have not been capitalized. If the Atchison has to pay the dividends on the common, in whole or in part, from the proceeds of the sale of its mort- gages, the price of the stock is still too high. Banker,”’ Louisville, Ky.: Expansion, extrava- gance, the over-construction of railroads, as well as poor crops, and reckless banking and business methods, have always had more or less to do with our panics, and every panic has been preceded by an era of extraordinary prosperity. It was so in 1837, 1857, and 1873, 1884, and 1893. I have pointed out that conditions at present are analogous to those in 1893. There is no need of being an alarmist, for this country has survived, and will continue to sur- vive, each recurring period of hard times. Those who are industrious, prudent, and saving will live quite as well, and enjoy themselves quite as much, in hard as in prosperous times. Business men, mer- chants, and manufacturers who deal within con- servative limits, will make money and be content. With Wall Street, however, it is a different and more difficult question. Continued on following page. NY 1 A made. anywhere, will suggest the aroma and the luxury of the idle East if you’rea smoker of Egyptian DEITIES. No better Turkish cigarette can be Look for the signature of S. ANARGYROS ne os Sr. a #

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(ap eee a Rm August 20, 1903 Jasper’s Hints to Money-makers. Continued from preceding page. ““C.,”’ Madison, Wis.: 1. It is said that the reason why a more panicky condition of affairs did not fol- low the recent failures in Wall Street was because large interests, to prevent such a contingency, agreed to hold the securities of the failed concerns until they could be unloaded at better prices. Har- riman took a large lot of Southern Pacific, Rock Isl- and bought the Evansville and Terre Haute, and J. P. Morgan took over a large amount of North Amer- | ican. Whether this process of accumulation will relieve the market’s “indigestion” remains to’ be seen. 2. The price paid for the Keene-Taylor hold- ings of North American, aggregating nearly 20,000 shares, by J. P. Morgan & Co. was given out as 70, though it is understood that it was somewhat less. “T.,”’ Dover, N. H.: 1. One of the factors that must be considered in these times is the tendency of State Legislatures, as well as of the Federal Govern- | ment, to seek a closer regulation of corporations. | The announcement that the railroad commission of Texas has promulgated a reduction of fifteen per cent. in express rates in that State, which will re- sult in a heavy decrease in the gross receipts of the Wells - Fargo, the Pacific, and other companies, has created considerable comment. 2. The decision of Judge Lochren that the Northern Securities combination is not in violation of the Minnesota statutes has nothing to do with thedecision of the Federal Court that the combination is in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Judge Lochren holds virtually that the Northern Securities Com- pany cannot be held guilty of offenses that it has not committed, and he says he rejects the doctrine that a person can be held to have committed or be purporting to commit a penal offense, merely be- cause it can be shown that his pecuniary interests would be thereby advanced. I wonder if the Judge has ever heard of the law against carrying concealed weapons, the purpose of which is to prevent the commission of crime, rather than to wait for its commission and have the punishment follow. NEw YorK, August 13th, 1903. JASPER. Special Prizes for Amateur Photographs. ATTENTION is called to two special pictorial con- tests in which our readers may engage. A prize of $10 will be given for the most attractive Thanks- giving Day picture furnished us, and a prize of $10 for the picture which represents with greatest suc- cess the spirit of Christmas time. These contests are attractive and should call out many competitors. LESLIE’Ss WEEKLY was the first publication in the United States to offer prizes for the best work of amateur photographers. We offer a prize of $5 for the best amateur photograph received by us in each weekly contest, the competition to be based on the originality of the subject and the perfection of the photograph. Preference will be given to unique and original work and to that which bears a special re- We invite all amateurs to enter this contest. Photographs may be mounted or unmounte’, and will be returned if stamps are sent for this purpose with a request for their return. All photographs entered in the contest and not prize- winners will be subject to our use unless otherwise directed, and $1 will be paid for each photograph we may use. No copyrighted photographs will be re- ceived, nor such as have been published or offered elsewhere. Many photographs are received, and those accepted will be utilized as soon as possible. Contestants should be patient. No writing except the name and address of the sender should appear on the back of the photograph, except when letter post- age is paid, and in every instance care must be taken to use the proper amount of postage. Photographs must beentered by the makers, Silver paper with a glossy finish should be used when possible. Mat- surface paper is not suitable for reproduction. tographs entered are not always used. They are subject to return if they are ultimately found un- available in making up the photographic contest. Preference is always given to pictures of recent cur- rent events of importance, for the news feature is one of the chief elements in selecting the prize-winners. The contest is open to all readers of LESLIE’s WEEKLY, whether subscribers or not. N. B.—All communications should be specifically lation to news events. addreased to “ Leslie’s Weekly, 225 Fourth Avenue, | New York.”” When the address is not fully given, communications sometimes go to “ Leslie’s Maga- zine"’ or other publications having no connection with LESLIE’S WEEKLY. | his assessments. Pho- | | the best and strongest guarantees, _ 4 upon it that neither of the companies you mention LESLIE’S WEEKLY Life-insurance Suggestions. _ [NOTICE.—This department is intended for the information of readers of LESLIE’s WEEKLY. No charge is made for answers to inquiries regarding life-insurance matters, and communications are treated confidentially. A stamp should always be inclosed, as a personal reply is sometimes deemed advisable. Address “ Hermit,’”’ LESLIE’s WEEKLY, | 225 Fourth Avenue, New York.] ‘THE recent decision of the Appellate Division of the Illinois Supreme Court in a case involving the rules of a sick-benefit society, is worthy of cita- tion here for the direct support it gives to our oft-repeated advice that the old- line, well-established insurance com- panies should have the preference, and that those who go into what are called fraternal associations do so at their risk. | The point at issue in this Illinois case was whether a member of a certain so- ciety, the Foresters of America, in an action to recover sick benefits, was not estopped by a rule of the society pro- viding that no member shall ‘‘ resort to the civil courts for redress for an alleged injury until he has exhausted every means of appeal in the order.’’ For non- compliance with this provision a member | could be expelled, and such action was taken against the member in question. It appeared, however, that he had been expelled from the order before he brought the suit, and because of this fact a judg- ment in his favor was affirmed by the Appellate Division. It was held that the member’s expulsion was a payment of the penalty for suing, and it was also held that the court should not in effect extend or add to that penalty by holding that failure to resort to such tribunals shall disqualify him as a litigant in the courts of that State. A thing like this could not happen in any standard and old-line company. The assessment so- cieties govern their membership by rules | which they change as emergencies re- quire, a condition involving much un- certainty and additional risk, and, as in the case cited, much real hardship and injustice upon individual members. By sticking to the old-line companies such complications are avoided. “S.S.C.,”’ Texas; 1. Ido not like the policy nor the history of the company. 2. The New York con- cern will give you better satisfaction. “Nav,” Pittsburg: Ido not regard the fraternal order with favor, but you are in a peculiar dilemma. If the fraternal association is strong enough to con- tinue during the expectation of the life of the mem- ber (which cannot be very great, considering his age) you would of course profit by continuing to pay i Otherwise not. A doctor’s judg- ment on the possibilities of his life might be of value. O.,”’ Lubbock, Tex.: It is not one of the largest | companies, and its reports do not commend it to me as one of the best. “D.,” Harvard, Ill.: It is impossible to enter into a discussion of such contested questions. A man who is seeking life insurance has simply to accept You can depend will fail to fulfill its promises. “W.F.,”’ Philadelphia: The Pacific Mutual Life was established in 186%, and makes a very good re- port of its condition. largest companies. Bo Mow, MEDICAL OPINIONS OF BUFFALO LITHIA WATER “NOTHING TO COMPARE WITH IT IN PREVENTING URIC ACID DEPOSITS IN THE BODY.’”’ Dr. P. B. Barringer, /70/. Physiology and Surgery, University o/ Virginia: “After more than twenty years of practice,I have no hesitation in stating that for prompt results I have found nothing to compare with BUFFALO LITHIA WATER IN PRE- VENTING URIC ACID DEPOSITS IN THE BODY.” ‘MAY BE RELIED UPON TO GIVE MOST SATISFACTORY RESULTS,’’ Dr. Alexander B. Mott, 0/ New York, Professor of Surgery, Bellevue Hos- pital Medical College, Surgeon Bellevue Hospital: the BUFFALO LITHIA WATER “T have made sufficient use to be satisfied that it possesses very valuable therapeutic properties. In the Gouty Diathesis, Chronic Inflammation of the Bladder, and other diseases affecting the urinary organs, it may be relied upon to give most satisfactory results.” ‘*THE MOST VALUABLE MINERAL WATER IN USE.”’ Dr. Graeme M. Hammond, 0/ New York, Pro/. of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System in the New York Post-Graduate Medical Schooland Hospital: ‘‘In all cases of BRIGHT’S DISEASE I have found the quantity of urine and in ELIMINATING the ALBUMEN. of the greatest ser- vice in increasing In certain cases of Melancholia, accompanied by excessive elimination of URATES and URIC ACID, itis often the only remedy necessary. In GOUT and RHEUMATISM it is highly beneficial as the most valuable Ihave long regarded BUFFALO LITHIA WATER mineral water in use.”’ BUFFALO LITHIA is for sale by Grocers and Druggists generally. Testimonials which defy all imputation or questions sent to any address. Hotel at Springs Now Open. PROPRIETOR BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINCS, VIRCINIA. It is by no means one of the THE HOME OP PAB EE , _) ae init 4 fee Le eS te Sixty years ago, a single, insignificant building. Today, a city in itself. That’s the history of the great Pabst Brewery. Story by story—building by building—block by block it has steadily grown to its present vast proportions. That growth is due to the Pabst art of brewing good, pure, wholesome, malt beer. The beer that agrees with everybody. And Pabst Blue Ribbon is the beer of undisputed quality—of unparalled popularity. Leslie’s Weekly The Great Advertising Medium 225 Fourth Avenue New York A Fine Market in India. THE judgment of so competent an observer as Consul-General Patterson, of Caleutta, India, there is no place that offers such inducements to our exporters of all classes of manufactures as Cal- cutta, the principal distributing point of India, whence a population of nearly two hundred million draw their supplies. The only obstacle to the development of trade between the United States and India is the want of a rapid, direct steamship line, so that goods may be delivered with- in a reasonable time. If importers could rely upon quick delivery of goods the trade would increase threefold within two years. The demand for all kinds of elec- trical machinery, especially, is rapidly in- creasing, and American manufactures are generally preferred. British and German [JN houses have agents in Calcutta, and are | pushing for the business. To secure a |fair share of this trade our exporters should put energetic representatives into the field with samples of their goods. | India has been neglected for markets | nearer home, hence the small percentage of imports from the United States. Piso’s Cure is an effectual remedy for Cold on the Lungs. Sold by all druggists. 25¢ A Saddening Reminder. Uncle Hi self, Mirandy, seein’ the waves sloshin’ about ?’’ Aunt Mirandy—‘‘No; seein’ all them suds reminds me of washin’-day.’”’ WueEN you go out fishing, a few bottles of Cook's Imperial Extra Dry Champagne will relieve the monot- ony. Tue Sohmer Pianos are recommended to the public for their power, purity, richness and quality of tone, and are considered the most durable and reliable pianos ever made. Steel in Demand Abroad. ONSUL MARSHAL HALSTEAD, of Birmingham, England, says that a manufacturer of anchors wishes to be put into communication with the makers of large steel castings and forgings. He wishes to hear from manufacturers who are able to take orders for and make early deliveries. SPENCERIAN PERFECT Steel Pens USED BY EXPERT AND CAREFUL PENMEN FOR NEARLY FIFTY YEARS Sample card, 72 pens different patterns, will be sent for trialon receipt of6 cents in postage stamps. Ask for card R, SPENCERIAN PEN CO. 349 BROADWAY, NEW YORK **Ain’t you enjoyin’ yer- | Learn the truth | Every man and woman, par- ticularly those entered upon matrimony, should possess the new and valuable book Sexology by William 1. 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The Fourth ANNUAL Low Excursion Rates from all parts of the country during the entire Festival These are only a few of the numerous features which have been provid: ed for the Cincinnati Fall Festival this year that promise to make it in point of attractiveness almost equal to the in- ternational expositions. CINCINNATI FALL FESTIVAL September 7 to 19" coo and Gondolters from Venice. Grand Venetian Spectacle “MARCO POLO: The largest and finest spectacular production ever given in America, affording the thousands who visit Cincinnati during the Fall Festival the pleasure of spending an evening in medi- zval Venice with its picturesquely-attired merrymakers and gayly-decked gondolas, given on the banks of the historic ‘*Rhine,”’ which flows through the city. S/age, 500 feel long ; Artistic Scenery, 800 Participants, Gorgeous Costumes, Gondolas September 8th. | Maenificent Night Pageant Illuminated by brilliant electri- cal display. September Oth. Home Comers’ Day Reunion of former Cincinnatians Two Band Concerts Daily By the world’s most famous bands: Innes’ Band, Sousa’s Band. An Imposing Industrial Exposition The ‘Hall of All Nations,”’ containing exhibits from all parts of the globe. High-Class Amusement Features Many imported expressly for : ] ; this Festival. *S Sezz7//e,” “ 7ab- leaux Vrvants,” “La Gymnase,” Potpourrt,” “ Nippon.” Beautiful Floral Displays Valuable Prizes. The Wonderful “Alhambra REPRODUCED Quaint English Tavern, “The White Horse Inn’ or scinatialiimetlt For detailed description see leading article in this issue of LESLIE’S WEEKLY. For detailed programme address John A. Ringold, Chairman Publicity Committee, Carew Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.