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New-York tribune., 1896-09-01
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LEONARD MOODY.

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SsdfroH 81 '' ,..t.h story Is r............ 200
ST Johns place. Seventh ~. story stone. ~ w."
Garden place Joralemoa : sioH" - r.....-.' 80 80
Sx.h av nr ST. johns place. stone J. .'''''' soo
prosrnct place Carton aN. fancy. - i..''.' eo'
Hanson place Faibush aV stone. IL r..''.' 90
Iedfori stone II r....... -
park pace n. Carlton av. stone II r......... ~
S,er,ins some. II ~
sterling Mace nr seventh dN. - stone W r.'.''
:, Marks av near Tlahush stone. II r....' W. @
Marks place Fourth aN. " brick w r--. ~"
pineappe ST. IL Fulton. frame, rooms -:-... w.
Henry st. nr JoraemOn. stone. II ::....''' 80
sdnes place Livingston ~. bI.H ~ r..'.. ~
place, CT Isscn. stone ~ DV
Ami;y 81 nr Clinton , story stone u rooms.... "@o @
Jenelson AN, III r,,,,,, 9. o. STONE i2 r... 700
=, rife 81 nr Nevns. brick, - r.........'... 80
Quincy st mr. Casson av stone, II r........... w
Greene az nr Classon ancy, II r:........... CD
~ NlIuuk"u: a. a. f".,,'tns az brick 10 r..... 40
i'fttI' - " N,~-r . br,.k $50
south oxford Hanson place. s.. r...... ~
av s"ry brick 10 lo,ns ........... 400
80 ~ Tbfd az 2 frame 10 rooms. ...... 240
\ow is the time NOur homes To- the ta can
bcfo best gone; ! nave very a.,
tractive lis, e in al parts OF the city at a.
prices. % 200 F!aibrSn av
LEONARD MOODY.
New-York tribune., 1896-09-01

COACHMAN.-By thoroughly competent
married man; no family: understands his
business in every respect; wife frst-class
cook. II required. years best city refer
ence' steady country place preferred.
COACHMAN. 250is East 40th-st.
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PROVIDENCE lIMIE

FOR BOSTON WORCESTER. the NORTH EAST.
Ihe RHODE Is!and and massachusetts, leave NEW PIER
&C. y. H.. one bloch ABOVE Canal ST, NJ
except Sunda". Shortest rail ride FINE ORCHESTRA
each steamer
STONlNGION LINE for Narragansett Pier Watch HI
all points East. Steamers MAINE and NEW-H -HAMP.
SHIRE Pier 80. N r.. daily a: G p ~
New-York tribune., 1896-09-01

foot OF Christopher ST.. y r.. week day 8
+ NJ. and Wcs' 1884 ST. G:3O connecting with B. and
A. r. r HHlscn
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Gin Gotrls.
12d St and Lexington Ave, y. y.
N,ENr FAMILY ApA RTMENT IOTEI.

A M0Tgl ST. lOREMZ2
72i st. and Lexington Ave. y Y
NEW FAMILY APARTMENT HOTEL
Perfect in all its apf'Inmen,s: electric tight. steam;
open plumbing. ck.vatos apartments arranged IN su o
three to seven rooms. with private halls, -
Families locating for the winter VIII ma our apart
fnents specially adapted their convenience anorung
comfort and much lower rates han usually
prevail In hrs;-class houses.
Handsomely furnished apartments three to six rooms
with bath 500 to $3.50 per month"; unfurnshed apart
mens six rooms and bath 500 per month: rooms and
bath $50 per month.
Dining Room top floor
Cuisine service and all sppointrens OF high standard
RICHARD MEAIEs
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IN Tile REREsFO2D.

TN THE BEREsFO2D.
IL high-cass apartment hotel beautifully located:
and comfort OF well-appointe
home: few suites be secured from oct lst
1896 on personal pcaton by letter 10 the Beresfcrd
sst 10 s2d st. Of Central PARK West and Manhat-
Square
9th AVE lGs-l1o-Fiats 1--WE rooms. bath. steam
. heat: renovated: owner; low rent TO small
respectable families. See JanItor. -llO
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APARTMENTS TO LET.

UnfurnfshcI
ATTRACTIVE APARTMENT. o rooms.
bath and buffers pantry. 33O East l1th-
ST.. corner. overlooking Stuyyesant Square
Apply to Janitor.
New-York tribune., 1896-09-01
RockaWay Beach.

Trains leave Long Island CIty daily eNcept Sund1l
a. $40 go II :o5 A NJ. 1890 l35. 235 $40 435
S:sj Gao 7:3c $50. $40 p NJ Saturdays 20o. S0'
New-York tribune., 1896-09-01

GALL RIVER LINE-For Boston. Newport
Fail and all Mountain. Inland and seashors
Points in the East
DOUBLE SERV1Cf-The Priscilla. Puritan Plymouth
nnd Pilgrim commission together. Two each
daily. a hre orchestra on each Leave New-York from
pier Is. foot Of Murray St weekdays at 30 and
80 r. NJ: sunday $50 7. VI. only due Fal River 40
and 700 Connecting ves'ihuicf express trains due
B1son In 10 minutes ta'as rom sew OK al 80
port.
New-York tribune., 1896-09-01
]]nbIlt Noilccs.


NOTICE Estimates for preparing for. paving
and repavine the iewly made land in the vicinity OF
Piers %. 81 a5 North River. with granite or
Island syenile blocks laying build
the necessary drains sewers and appurenances
under contract DO Will De- received by the Department
Of Docks until " O'Clock noon. September 6. 1896.
fun particulars The CITY Record" Copies for sale
No . Cty Hall.
New-York tribune., 1896-09-01

70 orranizc strc. company 10 handle best
nayin. article on the market covered ~
ratrnt: choice Of territory: stock taken -. III
part payment. INVESTIGATE. bc% -
Tribune once.
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Manhattan Beach.

LEAVE Foot or St M ST. F. r. da y, eHceI' epa 1un ba;
hourly from iio to Goo and half hourly from $40
TO io4O p. NJ. Additional trains on race days C. l. j. G.
10 40 p NJ special parlor car ] 90 p. NJ
WHITEHALL ST va Bay RIDGE n daily except D, Sun hi
horv from l:io 10 9O 1920 P. NJ Additional trains
race days C. l. j. {. II 40 a. NJ. i2 40 =. VI.
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FURNISHED Apartments 20 Get.

A. RNWRDOGAc
NO. 200 WEST 18TH ST. CORNER 7TH AVE,
New. high class Apartments of six. seven and eight
bath, elevator. electric light heat. hot
water jantor and hall service. telephone; restricted
reighborhood Apartments for housekeeping only: com
plete in detail for refined families only fo-
inspection; car be seen evenings. Superintendent on
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

In the Bay of Gibraltar, in the midst of
furious storm, was upset out of canoe
and picked up in an unconscious condi-
ton. The experiences of those few
moments are fixed more wildly in nv
memory than those of any other period of
my life. Upon striking the water 1 was
whirled about in vortex that speedily.
through dizziness, robbed me of all my
wits. When the whirling ceased l found
myself choking and gasping for breath
that could not get, says writer in the
philadelphia Times.
The first feeling of abject terror must be
experienced to be realized. When one is
being overcome an almost unnatural pby.
sical fear paralyzes the functions. cramps
the limbs and causes the mind to take on
abnormal conditions. This terror is the
worst agony of it all-the choking sensa-
ton when the water rushes down the
throat, the blood flooding to the brain ss
if it would burst are nothing to the awful
dread of being consumed and overcome by
the monstrous element about you.
was surrounded by boats and steamers
at anchor and when rose upon the crest
of a tremendous wave these vessels
seemed to be at a great distance aud as
large as mountains. / remember getting
this view of them twice, then my vision
| seemed to suddenly become interpretive
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26
The One TroIIoy-Car
Without a Fender

cisco streetcars, as a rule almost, are pro-
vided with so-called guards" that cut off
the chances of escape, If anything, and
render death a certainty to the unfortu-
nate individual whose fate throws him in
front of the flying fenderless thing of de-
struction.
But we need not go to Philadelphia or
the East TO find guarded cars. The City
of San Francisco is put to shame in that
matter by little MUNICIPALITIES that lie
within the scope of her gaze.
Alameda, only quarter of an hour dis
tant and closely related to San Francisco
in a social and business sense, has ample
tenders on her electric-cars. Alameda is
only an infant of a town in comparison,
but her people and her streetcar company
seem to have comprehended the idea that
contrivances for the public convenience
should be freed as far as possible from the
character of death engines. There was
never any agitation in Alameda over the
question of streetcar tenders. The street.
car company gave no cause for agitation,
for it started its line in reality as a benefit
to the public, from whose patronage it
was to receive its reward, and it adopted
precautions at the beginning to minimize
the dangers of the swiftly flying car.
In San Francisco to be struck by an
electrician means death almost inevitably.
In Alameda the streetcars are not Jugger-
nauts. If child runs in front of mov-
ing streetcar there it receives a rough
lesson, but it ism mangled beyond recog-
milton. 1t is shaken up by the fender but
it is not necessarily MANNED for life.
Alameda parents, whose children have
thus been snatched from thrilling prox-
unity to deaths door, may bless the
providential bartender for saving them
from the horror of having their child
brought home to them, only bloody
heap, in the morgue wagon. If they lived
in San Franiscco the story would be diff
ferent, as the score of deaths before al
luded to give evidence.
Fenderless carsl 1t is almost unaccount-
able that they should have been allowed
to run their barbarous, death-dealing
course here so long. There are hundred
dangers in this City where there is one in
Alameda San Francisco is network OF
streetcar lines. and dangers Turk at every
crossing. Parents who KISS their children
good-by at the sound of the morning
schoolbell must feel nervous till the little
ones return, for the fenderless car has no
choice of victims; accidents sometimes
occur even when care is exercised and
there is no telling what child will next be
heartless inaction.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

Any one can tell the nature of almost
any pain or disease by merely watching
the gesture with which a patient desert ibes
it. Whenever any one is asked to tell
where he feels pain his gesture uncon-
sciously describes not only its character
but its intensity and distribution.
A writer in a recent number of the
National Board of Health Magazine argues
that the pain gestures are always perfectly
descriptive. With a. little practice any,
body can make a diagnosis with remark
able accuracy in this way.
Every one should be familiar with these
pain gestures. They enable one to detect
the real trouble even though the sufferer
may be entirely mistaken as to its cause
or its nature.
One of the most easily recognized of
these gestures is the one used to indicate
pains of any kind in the chest. 1t is no.
ticeable that when, for instances, the pain
is widely distributed over the whole chest
the patient locates it with a circular rub
bing motion of the palm of the hand.
This gesture always means that there is
a diffused soreness. But if the pain comes
from serious Inflammation it is always de-
scribed by first drawing the hand away
from the body, and then, with the fingers
closed together, or perhaps with the index
finger pointed out and the rest fexed. the
hand approaches the seat of Inflammation
cautiously.
These various gestures may be classified
in such way that they can be very easily
remem bered. There is but one disease in
W hich the patient does not touch the skin
when asked TO locate his trouble, and this
is appendicitis. Any one suffering from
this trouble simply holds the palm OF the
hand over the diseased area when asked
where his trouble lies.
ALI these gestures can be explained on
purely scientific grounds, but the person
who knows them can detect disease almost
as we'll as the doctors by this curious snort
cut.
The most familiar of all these gestures
are probably those used to describe the
various kinds of stomach pains. When a
person is suffering from very violent ab-
dominaI pain which is not infammatory
he indicates it by slapping himself vigor-
ously across his stomach.
1t often happens, however, that much
more serious trouble is taken for an ordi-
nary, harmless stomachache. If child,
for instance, refers to a persistent pain of
this kind and does not show by gesture
that there is any tenderness or pressure
there is probably some disease of the
spine.
In almost all diseases the gesture indi-
Gates pain in more or less extended area.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26
The Pleasant Sensations Of DROWNING

radiating lights of many colors, but ell
presenting no meaning The power of
thought did not seem to fabricate tangible
ideas.
Suddenly heard loud voice calling to
me, and it seemed to CRATE on the quiet
tenor of my consciousness and surround
ings. 1t was voice with little music in
it, and as really believe belonged to diff
ferent world than the one into which l
had been ushered by watery path. Then
peculiar experience took place. / felt as
if was light as air, but carrying heavy
load, of which 1 could not rid myself.
The voice, in which could distinguish no
words, seemed to be associated and belong
to this burden. Other beings were help
ing me to carry it, and we struggled to-
gether, though it see med against all odds,
as l felt that what l was trying TO carry at
each moment grew heavier and was slowly
but surely dragging me down. At last /
thought had lost consciousness, but still
felt miserable weight of dull pain in
every nerve, muscle and limb. Sick and
faint, 1 opened my eyes and found myself
aboard coal barge. Then 1 recalled that
the burden had been helping others to
carry vas my own body. am convinced
that with mental and spiritual powers I
had been combining with my rescuers to
save my earthly body from watery grave.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

and was taken up wholly with fantastic
scenes, in which strange people figured
among friends of childhood long since al
most forgotten. 1t was as if important
events in my life were being relived in a
dream a dream in which the body played
no part. When once the great fear and
choking sensat ton had passed feeling
of perfect repose of body and peace of
mind possessed me. Although l had be-
come helpless and was being buffeted
about by the waves. every mo-
ment gliding farther and farther out
to sea, was contented and free
from any unpleasant sensations; fairy
forms seemed to surround and beckon to
me; there was music as of vibrating winds
and rushing water, and found myself in
the midst of fowery wales and quiet mead
ows, but can well recall the placid indif-
ference with which l looked upon these
things. supposed that hours were pass
ing, but had wholly forgotten the fact that
l had fallen into the water. In this state,
no thought of having body came to me
at all. vet sensation was alive and saw
with my eyes and heard with my ears,
with never notion that / was under the
water and slowly dying for want of a;r. 1
passed through scenes of dream pictures,
one after another, each, exquisite and
peaceful in the extreme. filed with soft
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

LAST NIGHT there was sound of "Juba'
on the ferryboat leaving the City at
o'clock for Oakland. A long-necked banjo.
shiny-rimmed and resonant was picked,
whacked and thumped while the welkin
rang with that time. honored song about
''tapioea" which was once the fashion for
negro minstrelsy, and the lively accom-
paniment evoked by ''thimb ble." The
singing was about average and the banjo
playing not much higher in the scale, but
"de juba" was immense. Sedate citizens
crinkled their faces up into corrugated
grins and showed sympathetic "ivories. -
Mechanics crowded to the front with their
tin pals. Capitalists risked good clothes
and silky tile hats in the jam. 'fBr-r-r-r-r'
chortled the singer; chink, chink, chank
went the banjo.
The reason for the popularity of the
old-time negro minstrelsy was apparent to
any one. There were no songs in dicky-
bird voice about Mothers Old' or
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26
Nature Of Disease
SHOWN by Gesture

It is easy to remember that in contrast to
this any hip-ioint disease will be referred
to ss point inside the knee.
Other diseases of the leg are indicated in
an entirely different manner. When one
suffers from an acute diffused pain in the
leg. which is due to Inflammation, the
patient grasps the leg firmly. But if on
the other hand it be darting or lancinat-
ing pain it will be indicated with only one
finger.
1t is very curious, besides, to find that
certain diseases are invariab bly, denoted
with some one particular finger, and that
the patient never makes the mistake of
using another finger. The pain of
shingles. or hepatic neuralgia, is al
ways indicated with the thumb.
A pain caused by the descent of renal
calculi, or gall stones, is always pointed
out with the top of the thumb or the in
lows their course with his finger.
In contrast TO this, any joint pains are
shown by gesture in which the hand is
spread out and approaches the seat of the
pain very cautiously.
The degenerative pain of locomotor
ataxia is invariably described by grasping
the affected area firmly, indicating a hand
like pain. Any change in the nature of
this pain is also shown by unconscious
gesture. If the pain be sharp and light
ning-like in the leg the pain gesture is per-
fectly descriptive. 1t consists of an ener-
getic downward motion. At the same
time the hand is twisted as though il were
manipulating corkscrew.
A stiff neck is indicated silently by a
gentle pressure of the tips of the fingers,
the hand remaining meanwhile extended.
The hand is held in about the same posi-
ton to indicate sharp pain in the head,
except that in this ease the palm of the
hand is pressed against the temple. The
gesture denoting toothache also more or
less resem bIes these two. 1t consists in
placing the extended hand against the
cheek with considerable pressure. A little
practice will make it very easy, however,
to distinguish between them.
A tender muscle is indicated by pinch.
ing it gently with two fingers. hip
bruise, on the other hand, is shown by
the side due to Inflammation or bruising
is indicated by pressure of the tips of the
fingers, the hand being kept meanwhile
rigidly extended.
The gesture for any pain in the heart
also consists of a firm pressure, but in this
case only one finger is used. In pointing
| out rheumatic pains in the shoulders the
hand is partly closed and the painful area
| is pressed slightly with two of the fingers.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26
THE KIND OF WOMEN
THAT MEN LIKE BEST

well as her squeezed and genteel sister.
Thinking too much of ones self and one s
appearance engenders a selfishness and
a narrowness that more than undoes all
the good impression made by looks. l
have noticed that the plain girl, who has
accepted the fact that she is plain, and by
attention from her looks to herself, is
often considered pretty. And she is pretty.
But where did / leave my boomers?
The girl who undertakes to drag a
heavy mass of cloth up hill when she is
out climbing is both foolish and culpabIe.
That is one time when bloomers fit the oc-
casion.
There is girl on our street who wears
her gymnasium sult, blouse, trousers. cap
and all when she works among her flow
ers. She became tired of swapping off
plants with the sweep of her skirts.
I've laughed to see her run up and down
the steps. Every time she goes up force
of habit makes her clutch the bIoomers at
the knee. and going down she tries to hold
them up behind. Isn't garden an ap-
propriate place for bloomers?
/ wouldn't have her wear them to an
evening reception any more than 1 would
have her brother wear his sweater and
cap; but to hear, or rather to read the
comments, you might think that trousers
once put on could never be taken off,
The same pretty miss may be sensible in
bicycle suit in the morning and vision
of girlish loveliness in white lace in the
evening. The light in her eye and the
smile on her lip will be. her own, too, and
the boy who sits beside her will find she
knows plenty to talk about.
The expression ''well preserved is a
horrid one. 1t sounds like a mummy.
The well-preserved woman is something
like mummy, too. Under the cracks
made by years of powder, under the faded
hair with the life burned out of it, is an old
woman, older really than her years. The
very adornments draw attention to her
age, while we think the fresh-cheeked
motherly woman grows younger every
DAY. Save US from being well preserved.
Some day, when we take ourselves as
God made US, live for what we can do on
earth, cultivate the divine spark that is
alike in plain and beautiful, cease to
worry and to rage and learn to be entirely
selfess and all-charitable, we will all be
beautiful-no matter what clothes we
wear. OLIVE HEYDEN.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

The guardless cars of the Market-street
Railway Company are adding to their list
of victims right along and still the shock
ing fatalities do not seem to have the
least effect toward inducing the corpora
ton to adopt measures that will make its
cars less OF q standing menace TO life and
limb. The accident of last week, wherein
John Figone, an Italian boy, was run
down and mangled to death by Kearny-
street electrician, was only one OF a score
of lessons of a like nature which, while
appalling to the public of San Francisco,
have been allowed to pass by practically
unheeded by the streetcar company s
officials. Tenders have been tried-doZens
of them-but the company is very hard TO
be suited. 1t doesn't seem to be bidding
for any of the tenders now in existence,
although cities on this continent larger
than San Francisco have long been used
to the sight of Iife-saving guards on street
cars. The illustration below shows the
car which ground John Figone to death.
The reports of the matter agree that the
board shelf that serves as guard on
the front of the car caught and held the
child's body until the wheels cut it almost
limb from limb.
Such contrivance as that is not safe
guard. 1t does not throw off a body, but
rather serves to make death surer for the
victim than if the board shelf were not
there at all. 1t crushes the victim into
unconsciousness before he reaches the
finishing grind of the wheels.
It seems strange that San Francisco
streetcars should be run without safety
tenders, or with the barest excuses for
guards, when not only public safety de-
mauds them, but the interests OF the cor
poration would be largely aided by the in
PRODUCTION of proper guards at the earliest
possible moment. 1t would save the COM
pany many heavy lawsuit If its own
selfish interests be taken into considera-
zion; but it would save lives, and for this
reason the authorities should take such
action as will necessitate compliance by
the streetcar company with the demand
for safetY-fenders.
In Philadelphia the newspaper illustra-
tions bear witness to the common use of a
streetcar fender there which has some re-
sem blance to proper guard.
Look upon this picture, and on that, y
and observe that if young Figone had been
thrown in front of car with fender such
as that shown in the second picture he
might to-day be telling the story of how
he escaped death. Philadelphia streetcars
are supplied with guards that offer some
chance of escape IN case of accidents; they
are intended to avert fatalities. San Fran
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

1t takes a greater
expenditure of nerv-
Gus energy and tear
ing down of brain tis-
sue to evolve q ball
dress W hic b Will
make a beauty out OF
a plain girl than it
takes to balance a
years books. And
every woman who
sees her can figure
out exactly how
much is dress and
how much is girl.
Men are growing wise
in that direction, too.
They know the diff
ference between a girl
who is pretty at s in
the morning and one
who is lovely at 8 in
the evening.
The girl who stands
the test and the one
envied by the gas
light beauty is the
one who can wear a
ten dollar rel a dy-
made suit and round
hat m o n t b a fter
month and always
look dressed.
Dress yourself as
you will, wrap up and
bind down, drape,
fold and puff, but the
woman in the clothes
makes or mars the
whole.
There is a lot of
cheap wit wasted
these days about
women in mems
clothes. / sh ould
t b in k those same
wise and keen-edged
giants would design