Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-28
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS

The railroad companies in the south are
all making great arrangements for the reg
ular crusades that will attract immigration
along their lines" said William 8. Bowen
of Atlanta, at the metropolitan yesterday,
land a number of northern as we'll as south
ern capitalists have also purchased large
tracts of land, which tits their purpose to
divide into small farms, and place upon the
market. A new departure has been taken
by many of these individual companies,
which 1 am inclined to think the railroad
corporations will also be compelled to adopt
or get lost in the competition. The sys
tenn I speak of includes the preparation Of
a number of acres, say from 20 to 10 or 10G
so to be ready for putting in crop.
The trees are all cut down, the stumps
pulled or blown up and the land cleared
and properly fenced off into desirable and
convenient fields. dwelling house, barn,
stables and all the outbuildings are erect
ed and then the complete farm is offered
for sale to immigrants at reasonable rates
and on easy terms of payment. OF course
all this preparation costs lot of money
but the promoters and hackers of the
companies which offer such Inducements
feel that they will attract better class of
immigrants than those who merely buy
lump of unimproved land and proceed to
spend their own and their childrens life
time on it making a farm OF it,
1.-The criminal who flies from the United
States and wants to secure everlasting i'm
mUnity from pursuit ard capture should
go to San Salvador" said Andrew Boulle-
met of Mobile at La Normandie last night
to Star reporter. 81 have just returned
from a trip to the little republic, and the
feeling against the United States because
Of it's refusal to send eX-President EZeta
back after he had got away from the
authorities and reached this country on the
CT user Bennington is violent Several Of
ficia Of ha pnI
ment told me that it had been sufficiently
proved to tho United States government
that General Ezeta was not wanted SO
much as a political agitator as he was
for being a common criminal but that
this country ignored all such representa-
lions and gave the fugitive his liberty.
They said further that while the present
eXtradition treaty existing between San
Salvador and the United States might re-
main on the statute books, it would re-
main dead letter so far as they We're
concerned, for their courts would never
enforce its provisions no matter how bad
ly our authorities might want somebody
who had, for reasons. transferred his resi-
dence to the far southern republic"
at would not be surprising if all the in
habitants of every civiliz ed country twenty
years hence woul be noculated against
consumption in infancy, just as they are
vaccinated nowadays to assure them i'm
munity from smallpox contagion," said DR..
Henry O'Neill Of New York at the Shore
ham yesterday morning. THE investiga-
tons and experiments of the board of
health of New York, which have been eX-
tended over period of six years, have re-
suited in such way as to cause that body
to authoritatively announce that consump-
ton is contagious and preventable, and it
has decided to secure an out-of-town hos
pital for the treatment of new cases, in
stead of sending them to special wards in
city or nearby suburban institutions. 1t is
| a m int nod tn
gate hopeless ConSumptives in the near fu-
ture so they may be kept comfortably and
prevented from er4apSering the rest of
the community. Some species of inocula-
ton is sure to come. however. Koch's
lymph has been fouhr exceedingly eftca-
clouS IN keeping cattle free from the con-
tagion of tuberculous cows. and 1 am con-
WINGED something equally as good will soon
be discovered for use among human ami
mails on a scale Of magnitude that will
permit its blessings to be shared in by
every one.
Northern and western farmers who
complain that their lana is worked out and
worthless for the purpose of raising crops
should take trip to Key Largo, the lag
island lying off the southern point of Flor
ida, and see how the Spaniards do the
Cincinnatus act down there" said Elliot
c. Apleigh, a New York fruit buyer at
the Riggs House this morning. The soil
of Key Largo is simply concrete formed
u L /
agine, a great deal of phosphate, because
there is no other way of accounting for the
vegetation. a farm down there Is pro-
cured by cutting down the growth of cab
bage palms and other tropical trees and
planting seed in the waste of dead leaves
and rotten branches that has accumulated
beneath them through many years. Fine
vegetables are raised in this soil, but it is
soon exhausted, and it is a common sight
to see little hills containing growing plants
running on either side of burrows of solid
rock. When the last vestige Of the top |
dressing Is gone the Key Largo farmer is
rot outdone He simply scrapes away a
hole among the broken rocks, sticks ba-
mana tree in it, and waits for the harvest
that time is sure to bring. It's a queer ag-
r!cultural community down there, and
pillow would be seven days wonder to it's |
inhabitantS.'
'1t always makes me mad when 1 read an
account of a railroad collision and see it |
attributed to the carelessness of the engin-
eer" said F. P. Burke, an old throttle man
of the Erie railroad at the. National yester- |
day. You can always bet that in 800 cases
out of a thousand the accident is due to
somebody else's carelessness. There is just |
about that proportion Of engineers who are |
careless, in my opinion. l know that some |
people are great believers in the old saying |
that familiarity breeds contempt, but it |
don't hold good in the case of a man who |
runs an engine He's right up there at the |
be the first to be crushed if anything gets |
in the way, a switch is misplaced. He |
has, maybe, wife and little ones at home
and, anyhow, he knows he is responsible |
for lots Of people behind him, who have |
wives and babies, too. No, sir, don't you
believe all you read about careless engin- |
GERS. It's always easy to shove blame off |
on dead mainland that's what we gen.
orally are when an accident occurs"
Some Of the encyclopaedia makers will |
have to get their snake editors to change |
their ologtos about the manner in which |
serpents bring forth their young" sagely |
Phil. Rafferty, of Chicago at the |
Shoreham Thursday night. Most of us edu-
Gated people have Rugged the fond delusion |
to cur bosoms that snakes lay eggs and |
1 remember how eagerly 1 used to dig |
into supposed snake holes when 1 was |
youngster in ambitious searches to find |
nest Of garter eggs Well, there amt any |
such thing. rattlesnake out in the Lin |
coin Park Zoo proved this beyond ques-
ton couple of weeks ago by becoming |
the mother Of a whole lot of baby snakes |
without going through the senseless and |
unnecessary performance Of laying eggs |
and slowing them away in a warm place |
to hatch out. l have heard that terrapins |