Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 56, 3 January 1909 — Page 10

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THE RICH3IOND PAIiIiADIU3I AXD SUX-TEUiUKA3ItSliMAY, JANUARY , lHUif.

0R0AD17AY HOW DISEASE WITH; IIEIHORKEBS Many Hall-room Clerks Worship by Night on the Streets with Nickel in Purse. v

THEY PITY FOREIGNERS WHO CRITICISE THEM

Strangers From "The Provinces Regarded Good-Natur-edly, but With Somewhat Contemptuous Toleration.

(By Ford L. Thorpe.) New York, Jan. 2. All the world Knows how proud the average New Yorker is of his Broadway, the Great White Way of Manhattan literature. Jfts brilliancy, its luxuries, even its vices, he gloats over, even though he may never himself come nearer the luxuries and vices than a stroll along the sidewalk, or ride in a surface tar. Many a young clerk leaves his hall bed room at night, attired in his "happy apparel" and with hardly the price of a ham sandwich in his pocket, to stroll along Broadway and imagine himself a part of the gay and swift set which patronizes its cafes And restaurants. This Broadway worship was once a habit; now It has be. come a disease. Strangers Tolerated.

The visitor to New York who wonera at the sky scrapers is regarded with good-natured, though somewhat contemptuous tolerance. The foreigner may criticize the manner of New Yorkers, and they pity him. Amazement at the general - wickedness of the city or its wealth, or at Its poverty, no longer even interests the blase New Yorker. But let any visitor, American or foreigner speak slightingly of Broadway or fall to be Impressed! by Its splendors, and the New Yorker is filled with righteous Indignation. : A visitor from abroad may praise New York's gallery of art, may praise Its public libraries, Its parks and philanthropists, and never cause a ripple. But let him go into raptures over the "Great White Way," and his popularity Is securer. Ferrerro is "Wised." As they would say on the Bowery, ome one must have . "wised" Professor Guglielmo Ferrero, of Italy, to this peculiar condition of the New York mind, for since the Professor's advent In our midst he has tickled New York almost to death by his fulminating over Broadway. It must be borne in mind that Professor Ferrero Is" in eminent historian and a recognised authority on ancient history. New Yorkers went into ecstacies, therefore, when he told them that the luxuries of Broadway made the vaunted luxuries of the: ancient Romans look like thirty cents. Of. course he didn't use this slang expression. The Professor's English has that stilted correctness of highly .educated aliens who learn to speak the mother tongue of old England. But the meaning was there just the same, and his utterances have made New York happier than It has been since the Singer towers ceased to be the world's won- ' der. Would Amaze Augustus. Some of the things Professor Ferrero said may be of interest to even those poor humans whom dire misfortune compels to live elsewhere than In "Little Old New York." "If the Emepror Augustus should stroll flown this Broadway of yours this evening," said the Professor, "'he would be astonished by the splendor of it all. He could well say, 'Rome was never like this. Or if you will let us Imagine one of your men of Broadway one of the thoroughly up-to-date gentlemen suddenly transported back over the centuries to the Rome of Nero, of Caligula and Lucullus. He would find it a dull place Indeed, for there would not be a light a the streets after dark. "Where would he go? Occasionally be would see a flicker of flame where pome citizen was making his way around with a torch, or he might get a .glimpse of the lights in the home of some patrician who was makine a

reast by night, although such a procedure would be unusual Indeed. "Perhaps he would like supper. He would find a few little wineshops, where some of the vintage of the country were sold with sausages and , small cakes, and they would be closed at night. The old Roman did not go to restaurants, and there would be none which our frieind could y frequent throughout the night. Ten brilliant festivals, the great dinners, were all by day, for there were no facilities for brilliant illumination. "Great White Way." "Time has exaggerated the splendor

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licasles which we read of would seem tamo Indeed ,' to & visitor from the 'Great White Way. The dwellings In

which ancient Rome sheltered patric

ians would hardly be considered good enough '" for the so-called middle classes. life In the days when Rome was at the height of Its luxury would

be considered very slow by the man from latter day New York. How early be would have to get up. Rome would

be' astir by the break of day. and about

: the time the New Yorker would become interested in what was going on

everybody would be going to bed. - All

the theaters bad tfcetrerfocm

the day time, because there was no way to light them at flight. "It is only within modern times that there has been luxury worthy of the name. There wag little to cheer in those old days. Coffee, tea and cocoa had not been found. There were no liquors. Our friend from Broadway could not have had his perfecto. Tobacco had not been ' discovered. The Broadway man might as well have been lost in the wilds of New 'Jersey." Don't you imagine such a talk as that warmed the heart cockles of your New Yorker? The 8kyscrapers. When they began, a number of years ago, building skyscrapers on lower Broadway, it would have been difficult to convince even the most optimistic New Yorker that such structures would ever be erected north of Forty-second street. They are talking today of building skyscrapers at 149th street. One of the most conservative of real estate authorities expresses the belief that it is only a matter of a few years when the Bronx will have office buildings as Imposing, almost, as those on lower Manhattan. . There is a certain class of New Yorkers who would be mighty glad to see all future skyscrapers erected in the Bronx. These are-timid citizens who fear that some day the lower end of Manhattan island is going to slide off into New York Bay. The rock foundation of Manhattan is shelving and when, some years ago, a geologist with more regard for notoriety than reputation, predicted that under the weight being placed upon it the lower end of the island was destined to slide into the sea, quite a number of people became afraid to come down town. What Future Holds. Some day nature will have run its course, and Anthony Comstock will have passed to his reward. And on that day a lot of New Yorkers will gaze on life with new eyes of joy. A very busy and pestiferous fly will have been g emoved from their ointment of wickedness. . New York believes it could be a whole lot wickeder, and consequently a whole lot happier, were it not for Comstock and his society for the suppression of vice. He is what the "Great White Way" would call a spoilsport. Just about the time some man gets started in some little form of diversion forbidden by he law, the police having been persuaded to ignore what was going on, up bobs Comstock and puts a stop to it.

An enterprising restaurant man in

42nd street advertised that he would give an automobile to the patron who, on a specified date, would be able to exhibit the largest number of stubs

from luncheon checks. In other words, the biggest eater would get the anto. Comstock heard of it- and swooped down, declaring it a game of chance. He didn't s pecify whether the chance was on indigestion or the gout, (but he threatened arrest unless

the contest was called' off. With Comstock about, what's the use of living in New York, anyway?

BIG APPROPRIATION. New York, Jan. 2. -An appropria

tion of $15,000 has been made to the

Metropolitan Museum of Art by the

Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission for an art exhibition in connection with the 300th discovery of the

Hudson and the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson and the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson and the 100th anniversary of the successful steam navigation of the same river. The exhibition will last probably either three or six months. It will be composed of the

works of Dutch, English and possibly

the colonial schools of painters and will be free to the public.

SULTAN IS POOR. London, Jan. 2. The ex-Emperor of

Morocco, Abdul Aziz, is the latest illustration of the fate of fallen great

ness. A letter from Tangier says: "Abdul Aziz has rented three small villas In the outskirts of Tangier, where

he will install his family pending the

purchase or building of a suitable residence. Although several members of his late government are in Tangier at the present moment, not one has been

to see him or has even offered him services or assistance."

Chemistry, one might Imagine, is

the science which has, perhaps, made

the greatest strides during the last five

or six decades. Yet modern chemists

can not compound such dyes as were commonly used when the great nations of today were still unborn. Now and again it hapens that searchers after antiquities come across fragments of fabrics which were dyed thousands of years ago, and they are astonished by the wonderful richness of the colors, which, despite their age, are brighter and purer than anything

of the modern kind.

In modern building the cement and mortar are the weakest points; in the buildings which the Romans and Greeks raised thousands of years ago

the cement and mortar are the strong

est points, and hold good while the very stones they bind together grumble away with age. With all our science we can not make such cement and mortar, and, therefore, we can not construct such buildings as the ancients raised.

CITY IN BRIEF

Polo. City League, Monday; admission 10c. 2-St - Browning's earnings were about $10,000 annually. City bowling alley, 22 N. 9th 22-tf

The Veddahs of Ceylon have religi

ous scruples against bathing. Polo. City League. Monday; admission 10c. 2-3t The German fishers brought in dur

ing the last season 315.000 tons or

-iJhedag; valued at-2Q00,09a.

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More Lynchings In Year 1908 Eighty-nine Victims of Mobs During the Past Year -- Springfield Riot the Greatest of the Many.

Chicago, Ill., Jan. 2. The lynching record for 1908 shows that the practice of taking summary vengeance on persons guilty of certain forms of crime is increasing rather than diminishing. The figures for the twelve months beginning January 1, 1908, are

larger than for several years past.

Though the most of the lynchings oc-

curred in the South, they were not confined to that section by any means.

Springfield, Ill., was the scene of the

greatest race riot of the year, result-

ing in the lynching of two negroes and the killing and wounding of a number

of citizens who participated in the riots that lasted several days. Of the other northern states, one lynching is

recorded for Indiana, while California

furnished the only lynching in the far West.

Mississippi, Georgia and Texas in the order named, furnished -the greatest number. A quadruple lynching in Kentucky increased the figures in that state over those of previous years. The record of Texas for 1908 was sixfold greater, than in 1907. In Arkan-

sas, Alabama and Louisiana there were fewer lynchings than in 1907. Oklahoma shows a clean slate and so do Maryland, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska, in all of which states lynchings occurred in 1907. The lynchings for 1908 total eightynine. This number is exclusive of several who met death while being pursued by posses or resisting arrest. Of the victims, eighty-five were negroes and four were white men.

HUNTING FATALITIES. Deer Season in the Northeast Costly To Life. Bangor, Maine, Dec. 26. About 10,000 deer, 200 moose and countless birds and small animals were killed in Maine in the season that "ended at midnight Tuesday, and incidentally twenty men lost their lives, while twentyfive persons were seriously wounded, and more than 100 sustained r slight hurts. , Reports from Vermont, New Hamp-' shire and Canada tell of fourteen mors fatalities.

ARMY RIFLES FOR CIVILIANS

War Department May Sell Them to Promote National Marksmanship. CLUBS TO BE ORGANIZED.

THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY - EVERY EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO MAKE YOUNG MEN GOOD shots! . -

Washington, D. C, Jan. 2. Under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved March 3, 1903, the Secretary of War is authorized to sell tof civilian rifle clubs such magazine rifles belonging to the United States are not needed for the equipment of "the Army and the organized, militia. - Requisitions for the same . must come through the Governors -of the several States and Teritories. - The, Secretary of .War is also authorised to .sell to such clubs ammunition, ordinance stores, revolvers and equipments of the government standard at the prices at which they are listed for the army. Frequent inquiries are received at the War Department as to the methods to be pursued in organizing civilian rifle clubs which may secure the advantages mentioned. Such clubs , may be formed by not less than twenty citizens between the ages of 16 and 45 in any locality, to be organised by adopting certain by-laws approved by the Secretary of War. Among these bylaws is one to the effect that all rifle and revolver competitions held by the club will be governed by the rules and regulations as laid down by the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice and approved by the Secretary of War. After organisation the Club affiUatea with the National Rifle Association of . America and becomes a member of the third class. The fees for such dubs are $10, which covers

J.the first ars eees uit pc

thereafter. All civilian rifle clubs having less than fifty members are entitled to one vote at all meetings of the National Rifle Association and those having more than fifty members are entitled to two votes. ' The National Rifle Association presents to each - affiliated club a medal suitably inscribed and mounted in a morocco case for competition among its members. This match is known as the "Members' Match," and the winner retains possession of the medaL All members of affiliated clubs are eligible to compete for a National Marksman's Reserve qualification and on qualifying will be given a lapel button and listed in the War Department as a member of the National Marksman's

Reserve. This is open to all male citizens of the United States between the ages of 18 and 45, and may be shot on the range of any association affiliated with the National Rifle Association. Two sighting shots' and five shots for record are allowed at each of the ranges which are 200. 300 and 500 yards. The positions are standing at 200, sitting or kneeling at 300 yards, and prone at 500 yards. The regular standard arm of the United States or a rifle viewed and stamped by the National Rifle Association must be used, but any ammunition within the rules is allowable. The scoring and marking must be done by others than members of the club, and the scores must be shot on regular practice day with a duly authorized officer present to supervise the shooting and verify the scores. Fifty points of the possible score of 75 points at all ranges will be a qualifying score. Contestants must take fifty iter cent, of the totals at the lower ranges to ranges. - Within the past few years a qualify them to go to the- higher large number of such civilian rifle clubs have been organized and now exist in almost every State and Territory.

COST URGE ONE. Washington, Jan" .2. The total purchase of cross-ties by the railroads in 1907 was 153,699,620. These exceed 1906 by 50,865,578, or nearly 50 per cent, he increase in Thewed ties was 40,889,543 or 52.8 per cent, while the increase in sawed ties amounted to 9,976,035 or 39.4 per cent. Hewed ties formed 77 per cent of the total in 1907. The total cost of the cross-ties purchased in 1907 was $78,958,695, an average of 51 cents a tie. The total cost of the cross-ties purchased in 1906 was $48,819,124, an average of 47 cents per tie. The Increase in total cost was therefore $30,139,571 or 61.7 per cent For 1907 the highest average cost, 69 cents, was reported for redwood ties.

The human heat sense can not rea

lize a difference of temperature be

yond one-fifth of a degree; but the thermometer, an instrument 200,000

times as sensative as the skin, notes

a differance of a millionth of a degree,

A galvanometer flexes its finger at a

current generated by simply deforming a drop of mercury so as to press

it out of the spherical shape into that

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