Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 26, Number 3, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 23 March 1904 — Page 6

TALK OP NEW YORK DOINGS IN, METROPOLIS THAT ' ARE INTERESTING. OLD AND VALUABLE FENCE A Relic of Colonial Days That Is Being Preserved—Shopping Trust Is Possible—The Cost of Living. New York.—That New York lias a fence 130 years old and more, of which ’ it is eo proud that

it yvqli 6pend a lot of money to preserve it from destruction maysound inconsistent with its sorry reputation for irreverI ence. The fence is an ordinary looking I iron affair, rather heavily proportioned and covered to the thickness of

Ye Old Pence. a garter of an inch by successive coats of paint. Rather a shabby fence, the more so as some mischievous person seems to have broken off all of the knobs from the tops of the pickets. One is tempted to suspect bad boys “in the next block,” where the bad boys always live. In fact, the knobs were broken off four generations ago by grown men who wanted them to use as chain shot to shoot at King George’s soldiers. There was in those days a statue of King George —on a horse —standing within the fence. That, being of good solid lead suitable „to a monarch whose virtues were of leaden dtilness rather than bronze vigor, was broken up and moulded For the little enclosure where it stood was the famous Bowling Green, then the favorite meeting place of patriots, now a t iny patch of green surrounded by 16 and 18-stcry buildings. The great $60,000,000 subway—that portion which is to duriy under the river “to Brooklyn and which was two years later than the rest installing—is leisurely creeping down Broadway. No trace of it is seen upon the surface of the street. Here there is no offence and disgrace of streets long uptorn. At night a few feet of Broadway are dug up. fore morning dawns, and with out interrupting a car, plank bridging Is substituted for the pavement and under this cloak of concealment digging goes forward. Right under the spot where George looked proudly forth upon a twostory town of his subjects the mole-like highway of the 32-story town which repudiated him is Eoon to he bored. Then the fence will come down. Every section will be numbered and put away in strict order and when the excitement is all over it will be put back again as good as ever and as available for showing to British \ isitors. Millions for Shopping Headquarters. Not a large transaction, as such matters go, the formation of an $11,000,000

merger to take over the management of a chain of great department stores is a sign of the times. The syndicate thus being formed is to take charge of a great shop in Chicago, one in New Y’ork, another now being built here ar.d one soon to be started in Boston.

The average capi-. , _ talization will be 13 ,he Shopping Trust nearly, in time perhaps quite. $3,060,000 per shop, and as cone of it is for sale, there is no reason to suppose it watered. John Wanamaker will have upon the completion of the annex to his shop, once A. T. Stewart's, a far larger amount investe* in two shops, one in Philadelphia and or.e in New York. When the great' Philadelphia shop is completed, by sections, so as r.ot too greatly to interrupt traffic, I suppose these two places of retail trade will be worth someslo,ooo,ooo each. There’s nothing new in the plan of the merged shops. Years ago the famous “Scotch Syndicate” established a chain of drygoods shops in a number of New England towns, mainly for the economy of buying in large quantities. The next great combination, and still In certain ways the most interesting, was that of three brothers of German birth in New Y'ork, who brought together practically under one management wholesale houses In the lower Broadway region, a great new shop in New York, one in Brooklyn tinder a different name, glass factories In Bohemia and other productive enterprises in different parts of the world. Will There Bea Shopping TrustP Os course a big drygoods trust, bigger than a mere “chain" of three or four houses, big enough

to control the trade in any city and perhaps in a number of cities, has bgen often talked of as possible. , I haven't seen a sign of such a trust as yet. The nearest approach to it is a sort of loose combination between several great firms, mainly for the pur-

Looking for an Open- P°“ ° f illg united action in the matter of keeping down advertising rates, and barely more of a real trust than a bar association is a trust of lawyers. But perhaps if Wall street had not fallen upon such gvild&ys me should have heard of it

Lots of men now living can remember the beginnings of the big store development in New York. In my first years is the city I heard from the lips of James Ridley himself how he started In business on the corner of Grand street and Allen in a shop about 20 feet by 40, tended only by himself and his wife, and by their sons as they grew big enough. Upon the same site he had then —20 years ago—raised a mammoth structure with 2,000 employes. Nor was he an old man at the time.

Neither Ridley shop nor Ridley name is cow in evidence upon Grand street, which for all its high-sounding name has ’become the main thoroughfare of the great East side Ghetto. Upon the site are half a dozen enterprising stores kept by Hebrews. The big stores are all with the single exception of Wanamaker, whom the Stewart tradition keeps to the ancient site, moving uptown. Even the "Big Store” of the Siegel-Coopcr Cos. no longer the property of the original owners, is cow rather far downtown, although only a few years built Wanamaker alone is within two miles of Bowling Green and the ancient city. The most curious movement in shopdom now in New York is its centrifugal tendency. It is not now mere thread and needle shops alone that cling to the outskirts of the city, but great department stores are springing up, or growing by degrees as "Ridley’s” grew, in the heart of the outer wards, ten miles, It may be, from the city’s center. The chief shops in Harlem to-day would have been colossal in the heart of town ten years ago. Women will not travel an hour and a half from Jamaica, for instance, to do a trifle of shopping that can be arranged for at an enterprising place near home. Perhaps that fact is at once the answer to the question why there is no shopping trust, and the reason why young men today have bright opportunities in reretail trade. The Cost of Living. The same cause that feeds the suburban department store feeds the suburban real estate dealer.

Agents in the central portion of the town are higher than in any other city in the world, except perhaps Berlin, in proportion to wages. Years ggo $5,000 was the top figure for the yearly rental of a flat. In the new “St Regis” on Fifth avenue one can pay

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$16,000 a year, and not be paying as The Hou " high a rate of inter- nSI est upon the landlord's money at that The same disparity between rent and income worries the poor man that brings puckers into the brows of the SIO,OOO a year family trying to live beyond its means. New York people habitually expend from 25 to 33 per cent, of their income upon rent. As you approach the very poor the proportion increases. In a fairly new tenement in the heartof the slums, surely not a pleasant place to live, rents range from five dollars to seven dollars per month for each tiny room. A suit of four apartments would cost S2O to S3O per month, much more than that if there was a bath or an exceptionally endurableoutlook. That sum would hire a whole house in the outer parts of Brooklyn, New York affords the cheapest as well as the dearest of everything. The outer wares afford rentals of absurdly low proportions not to be surpassed even in Philadelphia. This perpetual drift of people to the outskirts has its political meaning. It is really half the secret of some of New York's surprising political overturns. The Churches Going Uptown. Churches scamper along with the rest of the proeessldn. Almost the only Protestant

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churches now jft downtown are those which are cherished for their his- ' torical associations, like Old Trinity, St. Paul's, with its back contemptuously turned upon Broadway and its face to Jhe river, , the old John Street Methodist church and a few others in a f

D r ' Park hurst the game veEerable Prophesies. park _ hurst's church, Dr. Rainford’s and Dr. Greer's, now Dr. Park’s, are exceptions. The two latter are institutional churches of vast activities, to Which the neighborhood of the tenements is a necessity of usefulness. The former is new almost the only political pulpit In New York. It is r.ot so far downtown as the others named, either; the point in its case is that it succeeded In selling its old site without taking that opportunity of moving north. Instead, it is to erect anew church right across the street from the old one, which is scon to be replaced by a section of what will be the largest office building in New York, the great Metropolitan, which is growing piece by piece upon the ruins of two churphes, of the beautiful old Academy of Art and of several of America’s famous historic homes. For neighbors besides this enormous two-acre structure, the Parkhurst church will have the beautiful appellate courts, one of the many scattered buildings which in New York compare favorably with the best of Par’s. Dr. Parkhurst is almost alone among conspicuous clergymen in delivering political prophecies with the old-time zest which made Beecher's public utterance so piquant It was Dr. Parkhurst who predicted that two weeks after Tammany’s gaining possession or themunicIpal aepartments New York would be "Hell With the Lid Off.” It isn’t true. Except perhaps locally and furtively until the lively young Mr. McClellan hears of it OWEN LANGDON

ARMY TO CRUSH JAPANESE HOST Russia Will Have 540,000 Men in Field by May 25 —Serious Land Campaign May Not Begin Until June, However.

SL Petersburg, March 21.—1 tis officially announced that the mobilization of Russia’s army in Manchuria will be complete by May 25, and that on that date Gen. Kouropatkin will havea field force of 550,000 infantry, cavalry and artillery at his disposal. It is stated further, and by official sanction, that Russia will not begin the serious land campaign until June, and that a decisive battle need not be expected before August. Not since the Turko-Russian war of 1878-’9 has any European power sent so 1 large an army into the field. France fought Prussia in 1871 with 300,000 men. Russia sent scarcely GOO,OOO against Turkey in 1878. England fought the recent Boer war with 200,000. No power in Europe ever transported an army of 540,000 men so great a distance as Russia is doing in the present conflict with Japan. The transportation obstacles are enormous. Japs Land Troops. London, March 21. —Japan has landed or attempted to land troops at Helena bay, half way between Port Arthur and Newchwang. and only six miles from the railroad. This news comes from St. Petersburg. It is admitted that the Russian war department was startled by the intelligence. Russian troops are now being hurried to Fuchow, 22 miles south of Helena bay, to resist the expected landing. Newchwang is being hurriedly placed In a position of defense, as a" Japanese force is expected to land on the coast west of that city. To Bottle Up Port Arthur. London, March 21. —Japan, it is reported, is ahffcvt to make a sensational attempt to bottle up Port Arthur. Fifteen large steamships are being prepared, at Sasebo for this new effort. They are loaded with stone and will be linked together with chains and wire cables. They will steam toward Port Arthur in a line, and if not sunk by Russian guns they will be blown up by their crews. In either event they will block the entrance to the harbor completely. Russians Deny Reported Victory. St. Petersburg, March 21.—The reported Russian victory on the Yaiu river, in which it was claimed 1,800 Japanese had been captured, frankly is declared to have been impossible. At military headquarters it is pointed out that to inflict such a crushing defeat on the Japanese the Russians would have had to have been numerically enormously superior to the enemy, which the Russians in Korea are not. May Effect Juncture. St. Petersburg, March 21. —The whereabouts of the Vladivostok squadron is a profound official secret, but there are those here who believe that the Japanese may wake up some morning to find that the two divisions of Russia’s Pacific squadron have effected a juncture. It 1 is betraying no confidence (o state that both the admiralty and Vice Admiral Makaroff, before he left for the far east, regarded the fact that the divisions were separated as most unfortunate for Russia's chances of success at sea. Realizing that offensive naval operations are impossible under present conditions, it is believed that no opportunity will be neglected to repair this initial misfortune. even should it involve considerable risk. I Has Not Suffered Much. St. Petersburg, March 19.—A correspondent, who has just visited Port Arthur, telegraphs from Mukden as follows: “Despite the various bombard- ] ments at Port Arthur the external aspect j of the changed; altheugh the enemy fired an enormous number of projectiles. The enemy in endeavoring to stand as far as possible outside the range of the Russian batteries, rendered their own fire ineffective. Six hours of i firing by the heaviest guns during the j

OFFICERS OF RUSSIAN ARMY CROSSING LAKE BAIKAL FROM TERMINUS TO TERMINUS OF TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY.

Trees are stuck in the ice to mark the way across the lake, which Js frozen for six months of the year. The officers cross in sledges, but the soldiers march.

Actress Dies. New York, March 15.—Maude E. Packard, a native of California, known upon the stage as Maude Winter, is dead at her home here from consumption. She had been identified with several well-known organizations and was an actress of unusual promise. Vacancy Filled. Springfield, 111., March 19. —The executive council of Modern Woodmen of America has appointed Truman Plantz of Warsaw general attorney of the order, vice'J. W. White, deceased.

last bombardment did not demolish a single building, but cost a few lives. The people are getting used to the bombardments and the Japanese squadron cruising in the offing causes little alarm. Occupations are resuming their wonted course and many stores have been reopened. The land defenses arc being strengthened every day, and the troops are eager to fight.—The gayety and good spirits of the troops is surprising.” Say Japs Lost Heavily. Port Arthur, March 19.—According to Information received from Russians at Shanghai, during the fighting at Port Arthur February 10 and 11 the battleship Mikasa was struck by tea projectiles and seriously damaged, two Japanese battleships and two crulsei’3 have been docked for repairs at Nagasaki and Sasebo and 2,000 wounded mgn are said to be in the Japanese hospitals. Chefoo, Mareh 18.—The Russian tor-pedo-lfoat destroyer Skorri, while entering the harbor of Port Arthur Wednesday night, struck a submarine mine that had broken loose from it3 moorings and was blown up. Os the crew of about 60 men only four were saved. The Skorri with other destroyers had been out scouting for the Japanese fleet and the explosion occurred just as the boats were entering the harbor. Following similar accidents in the cases of the Yenesei and the Baygn this last mishap confirms the impression that the Russian system of handling submarine mines Is radically defective. Japanese Force Annihilated. Shanghai, March 18. —The American cruiser Cincinnati, which arrived at Chefoo Thursday, brings a report that 300 Russians encountered 200 Japanese near Pingyang, annihilating the Japanese force. Ten Japanese war vessels were anchored off Chinnampo March 10 and 12 transports are disembarking troops there. Thirty mors transports are expected with 20,000 men. Separated Only by River. London, March 18.—A correspondent of the Times at Tokio says that the Russian and Japanese scouts are now separated only by the river Ching Cheng, just north of Anju. China Threatened. Tientsin, March 19.—Russia has warned China that unless her soldiers are kept within the great wall, the czar’s troops will march on Peking. And in reply China has practically refused to comply with the demand and has defied the Muscovite government. The warning was given through the Russian minister at Peking, who, in no uncertain terms, renewed his protest against the dispatch of troops outside the great wall. Though the demand was couched in diplomatic language, he demanded the reI call of the troops under penalty of a Russian advance on the Chinese capital. The answer received was by no means satisfactory. He was told that ! China intended to preserve her neutrality, but that she could not and would not recall troops already sent out nor agree not to send more to Manchuria. One of the arguments hsed by the Russian minister was that, unless China did as he demanded, Rusisa might be eom- | pelled to act on the assumption that ; China was abandoning her stand of neutrality and was favoring Japan. Damaged Russian Ships. •'Our fire greatly damaged the Russian I ships, one of which was badly crippled by . | a shot through the boilers, and another .... .irv. Soe. —v, er, the two flotillas to each other that our destroyers, the Asashio, Kasumi and Akatsuki nearly touched the enemy’s ships and our crews could even hear the , cries of agony of their injured men on j them.

Heavy Loss by Fire. Fitchburg, Masß., March 19.—N0. 1 mill of the Fitchburg Paper company, owned by Herbert I. and Senator George K. Wallace, was gutted by fire Friday night, and many machines used in the making of high grade wall papers were ruined by fire and water, entailing a loss of about ICO.OOO. Puke of Cambridge Dead. London, March 17.—The Duke of Cambridge died at 10:55 a. m. He was a cousin of the late Queen Victoria and was 85 years of ag^

DOOM OF RAILWAY MERCER. .Federal Supreme Court Declares Northern Securities Unlawful. Washington, March 15.—1n the United States supreme court Monday an opinion was delivered in the merger case of the Northern Securities company vs, the United States, in favor of the government's contention that the merger was illegal. The opinion of thefreourt was handed down by Justice Harlan and it upheld, the decree of the circuit court for the district of Minnesota in every particular. Four of the Justices dissented from the five constituting the majority. The division in the court was due to a difference of opinion as to the right .of federal control of state cor•porations. The majority opinion proceeded on the theory that congress has a right under the constitution to control interstate commerce, no matter by whom conducted, while the minority or dissenting opinion was based on the theory that in the*present case the effort is to regulate the ownership of railroad stocks by state corporations and that such ownership is not interstate traffic. Very Eoon after Justice Harlan had concluded his presentation of the case it became evident that the court had divided on the questions at issue, and as other opinions were announced it developed that there not only had been a very close shave for the government, but that one of the members of the court who cast his vote with the majority, entertained opinions of his own, which fact rendered the division all the more marked and Interesting. This was Justice Brewer, who, while he concurred In the result, announced in an independent opinion of his own that he held the view that previous antitrust decisions had been more sweeping than was justified. The decision was concurred in byJustices brown, Brewer, McKenna and Day, while the chief justice and Justices White, Peckham and Holmes dissented. f ' ’ COTTON KING IS DOWN. Failure of Daniel J. Sully Causes Wild Panic in New York Market. New York, March 19. —Daniel J. Sully, the cotton operator who has for 15 months been the biggest figure in the cotton markets of the world, and who has “hulled” cotton from seven cents a pound to over 17, announced his inability to make good his engagements on the New York cotton exchange Friday. Within a few moments cotton fell nearly sl3 a bale from the highest figures of the day. While there had been no premonition of the impending crash no morning of the season had witnessed a more demoralized market. In less than ten minutes after the opening half a cent had been taken off the price of cotton. Prices tyent up and down, ten, 20 and 30 points within two or three minutes. May opened at 1625 and sold down to 1475 in less than 15 minutes; while July, opening at 1522, went down to 1486. Toward the end of the first half hour early sellers started to cover and there was a rapid advance. There was nothing in the news to account for the excitement. New York, March 21.—According to the calculations of cotton market exjerts, Daniel J. Sully has lost about sl,700,000 by his failure on Friday. The opinion is general In leading circles that Jully will pay up In full and do all he can to reach settlements promptly. The tmount of Sully’s obligations over and above his market assets is figured by taking Saturday’s price averages and subtracting them from the averages of Sully’s holdings, and multiplying the difference by the number of pounds of cottnu Sully i £iipy r ' t -' n d have bought., PEACE IN COAL FIELD. Miners Vote Against Strike and the Wage Reduction Will Be Accepted. Indianapolis, ind., March 19.—Secre-tary-Treasurer W. B. Wilson, of the United Mine Workers, announced on Friday that the tellers had finished the count of the referendum vote of the miners on the operaters’ compromise proposition, which provides for a reduction of 5.55 per cent, from the present scale, which resulted in a majority of 31,141 In favor of accepting the twoyears’ contract with the reduction. The total vote cast by the miners’ local unions in Indiana, Ohio, western Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky, West Virginia and lowa was 165,887, of which 98,614 voted in favor of accepting the reduction, while 1>7,873 voted in favor of a strike. No official call will be made for the meeting of the Joint subscale committee, which will be held at the national headquarters of the miners’ organization Monday, for the purpose of signing the new wage scale, which becomes operative April 1, continuing for two years. *The work of counting the vote continued from ten o’clock a. m. until ten o'clock Thursday night, beginning again at eight o'clock Friday morning and lasting until 12:40 Friday afternoon. Once Speaker of Illinois House. Chicago, March 18.—Horace Thomas, formerly state senator, speaker of the house of Illinois in 1881, prominent in G. A. R. clrclesln Chicago, and until lately United States appraiser, died In theoffice of Lawyer J. E. Abell, 165 LaSalle street, Thursday. Gen. Thomas was 70 years old. Commander Sewell Dead. Washington, March 18.—Commander William E. Sewell, late governor of the Island of Guam, died Thursday morning at the General hospital, Mare Island, Cal., as a retail of intestinal disorders.

Some fellows have lota of push, but exSend most of it on saloon doors.—Philselphia Record. The Editor of the Rural Hew Yorker, than whom there is no better Potato Expert in the country says: “Salzer’s Earliest Potato is the earliest of 88 earliest sorts, tried by me, yielding 464 bu. per acre.” * Salzer’g Early Wisconsin yielded for the Rural New Yorker 736 bu. per acre. Now Salzer has heavier yielding varieties than above. See Salzer’* catalog. JUST SENh 10c n STAMPS and this notice to the John A. Salzer Seed Cos., La Crosse, Wis., and receive lots ol_ farm seed samples and their big catalog, which is brim full of rare things for the gardener and farmer, easily worth SIOO.OO to every wide-awake fanner. It describe* Salzer’s Teosinte, yielding 160,000 lbs. per acre, of rich green fodder, Salzer’s Victoria Rape, yielding 60,000. lbe. of sheep and hog food per acre, together with Salzer’s New National Oats, which has a record of 300 bu. per acre in 30 States, so also full description of Alfalfa Clover, Giant Incarnat Clover, Alsike, Timothy and thousands of other Fodder Plants. Grasses, Wheat, Speltz, Barleys, etc. [K. L.] Tombstone epitaphs don't fool the recording angel.—Chicago Daily News. EIGHT YEARS OF TORTURE.

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