The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-01
In THE HOTEL L0BBIES.

1.-The reports that have been current for
year OF SO OF the rich finds Of gold
In Alaska have been verified" said Mr..
David n. Chapman, of New York, at the
Metropolitan last evening" and tt seems
to be quite true that this Territory OF
the United States is as rich as any gold
field that has ever been discovered. There
has been q rush for Alaska for some time,
but the difficulties in getting to the gold
fields are very great, infinitely greater
than those the Argonauts encountered when
going to California in 40. But these
difficult:es will not discourage those who
, have the strength and the determination
TO succeed after reaching this new FL
Dorado. Any man, however, who coui d
make his way TO the Yukon district, where
the fines are richest, aud survive the hard
! ships of work and residence IN that rough
and almost foodless country, could sue
coed ais In almost any city in the United
States, no matter how sharp the rivalry
and competition. There are men, how
ever, with adventuresomeness In their
blood, and it is well for them that there
should be new places in the world and
difficult tasks to accomplish.
where one such man will come back
from Alaska with a rich reward for his
labor and his courage, a hundred others
With nothing more substantial than dreams
to sustain them viii perish miserably ON
the way. Such, however, is life every
where. and the record of successes and
failures is not much different in Juneau
from that in New York.
Flag Day, the l 4th of June said Mr..
A p. Pope, OF Denver, at the Riggs last
night, (which is the anniversary OF the
adoption 81 the stars and Stripes by the
entail Congress, is more or less
observed all over the country, but it is
probably observed in my city as it is no
where else Flag Day in Denver is one
of the great events OF the year and il is
"a time when every citizen exalts himself
by renewing his allegiance to his country
and his country's flag. That Denver
should have made more of Flag Day than
any other city OF neighborhOod Is in
great measure due to MT Ralph Vorfees,
the president of the Colorado Society
of Sons or the Revolution. 1t was Mr..
Voorhees, who suggested the form OF the
celebration In Denver. and his patriotic
zeal has kept lis colleagues up to the
high mark OF ent
1.-The school board of New Orleans" said
Mr. dnund Roche, of that city, at
Wizards yesterday. lis not able 10 keep
I'D with the demand on the public schools.
The number OF children attending the
schools Increased some 5000 to 5000
each year-not due to any such remark
able growth of population, but to the dis
appearance Of the prejudice which form
erly existed among the better classes In
the South toward the free schools. The
public school system. coming from New
England, aroused at first some sectional
prejudice In the South The acceptance
OF free education, rendered by the State,
was regarded by those who could afford
to pay for the education of their children
as an acknowledgements of poverty or
paupCris;n, and the sentiment prevailing
in New Orleans, at least until very re-
Gently, was that those who could afford
TO pay for schooling should do so, and that
the public schools should be reserved for
the poorer classes only. That sentiment Is
rapidly disappearing. and IL has thrown
open the schools to the children OF those
classes, who in their pride formerly
patronized only private academies, the
result being such an Increase in the at
tendance at the public schools that the
latter are overcrow ded, and many thousand
children arc shut out OF school altogether
and denied education"
Lest week." said Mr.. Edward 8. Nor
ris, of Salt Lake City, at the National
last night, .'was jubilee week In Utah. 1t
is fifty years since July "a, 1s47, when
the Mormon pioneers came down through
Emigration Canyon In the valley where
the waters of q lake flowed through
short river into an inland sea- The COM
binatlon reminded Brigham Young OF Pal
estine and the Jordan and he accepted
the valley rs the Mormons' promised land
or 1000 pioneers Of AT $50 are left.
Each of them received last week a gold
badge engraved with Brigham Young's
portrait. The celebration, which was
military, religious, historical and social, be-
gan on July 20 and lasted through the
week.
Utah, as will be remembered, Is the
youngest State In the Union. to which 1t
was admitted January 4, 1895. Its popu-
lation is about 27o, O0O."