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The Portland daily press., 1897-01-27
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Harvard college, Cambridge Mass,
Jan 25-Considerabla feeling is being
exhibited on the part of both graduates
and undergraduates over the decision Of
the corr o:ation to abolish the tree ex-
ercises on next class day, and on succeed
ing GLASS days.
The tree exercises have for years been n
prominent feature in the class day pro-
gramme, and have in general 80 i'm
pressed themselves on the Harvard mind
that their absence on class day would
seem to make it no class day at all. The
tree is big elm standing in the small
enclosure made by Holden chapel, Holl is
and Harvard halls. Around the trunk
about 10 feet from the sground is twined
ABROAD zone Of flowers, and high raboye
this is nailed the floral snumbs of the
graduating class. After an interval of
enthusiasticEc heering, body of football
clad seniors, some 200 in number gather
beneath tie tree. Spectators and seniors
sing "Fair Harvard" and the latter
in the big tree, and for the emblem at the
top. The struggle equals that OF 30 foot
ball games all in one.,
The corporation have several reasons
for stopping the exercise. In the first
place it has become a bitter contest be-
tweenEthe prominent secret societies. and
even between private individuals. A
rough and tumble game like this is hard.
ly the thing for Harvard graduate on
class day. There is possibility of serious
injury. Again, the space in which the
tree exercise is held has become quite in
sufficient to accommodate the big ccowd
without some chance of accident. The
class day committee have proposel modi-
fications and have offered to make almost
any change If the exercise may be kept,
but tile corporation remain firm. There
is talk of mass meeting of all four
classes next Tuesday night TO pass reso-
unions and zee what can he done
January 9th is college holiday On
the 25th begin the mid gear examinations
which mark the end =. of she first hall
year. ~. W.
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-27

withdraw from the unhappy union en-
tered into with so-calIed Democrats, free
silverites, etc., to run up the flag of
Populism, pure and undefiled, and to
call upon the faithful throughout the
land to rally around it. To give practi-
cal turn TO these suggestions, and with a
view to reorganization on the old lines, "a
con yention has been called to NEST at
Memphis soon. It shonld be remem bered,
that this is not the only movement which
Las.been started for "a re.alignmsnt4 of the
Populists. Coxey personally may be
a better professor of pedestr1an1sm IMAM
Pupulist leader, still lie has, his fol-
lowers and they too must be reckoned
with. His convention of friends OF re-
form and lovers of Justice which the
st. Louis conference has called, Is TO
meet at Nashville July 4, next. Thls
movement coupled with the one just de-
scribed. cannot fail to have some effect
upon the destinies of the Populist and
Democratic parties. 1t is safe to predic t
that both wings of the POpulist party
will come out squarely for fat money,
and plenty of it. The position it assumed
in the last campaign was known to many
to be false one. 1t favored silver only
as step to fiatism, and for the purpore
of gathering into its nets silver votes
from both of the old parties. 1t looks
very much like a revival of Greenback-
ism on the alines of fifteen or twenty
years-ago. While all this is going on, we
fail to hear as much as Eve would like
to, concerning the future plans of the
other parties to that Chicago compact.
namely, the fres silyerites and so-called
Democrats. They are not disclosing
much, but doubtless they are doing q
lot of thinking.
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-27

DR.. Rains(ord' s criticism Of the Brad.
ley-Martin masked ball still continues to
be prominent topic of discussion iDkthe
metropolis. Almost everybody of promi-
nence has been" interviewed on the sub
ject and the newspapers are full of their
opinions. Those who disagree with DR..
Rainsfcrd generally defend the ball on the
ground that it will put large sum of
money in circulation ESTIMATED as high
as $3.50, 000) and thus indirectly be help
full. If the question we're between hoard
ing this sum Of money and spending it
for ball this defence would be sound.
Money spent, no matter for what purpose,
except an immoral one, Is productive OF
more good than money withdrawn from
circulation and simply piled up; and every
form of extravaganza and waste can.be
defended on the ground that money had
letter lie scattered than concentrated.
But the alternative of wasteful extrava-
gance is not necessarily boarding. Money
may be spent, SO as to assure double
benefit, the benefit that comes from
sCdUI6Fluk IL hUOuu 6uu VAlSh So'hOS
from the thing obtained for it. The
benefit of the ostentat ious display pro-
posed in New York is confined entirely
to the former; nothing is produced by
the sum expended of value to anybody.
A man who builds hospital puts money
in circulation, and he does something
else. lie produces something that will
be of incalcula BILE reneft to humanity
for years to come. In sense men have
a right to spend their own money as they
ses ft-to squander it on gaudy and os-
tentntious display If they will. 1t would
be useless, and viewing it in all its
phases, probably unwise to undertake to
limit or restrain that right. But when
people, most of them men of prominece,
and some of them doctors of divinity,
profess to sac no difference between the
quandsring of money and the spending
of it for objects useful and beneficial in
item selves, because both methods are
equally effective in putting money into
circulation, 1t would seem that there was
noel of some missionary labor in this
country as well as abroad.
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-27
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THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY %.

A bill Inns been introduced into the
Illinois Legislature living the Mayor of
Chicago salary of $4,000 year.
There are many worthy and
capable gentlemen, who would shrink
from the undertaking of presid-
ing over Chicago's destinles even at
the amount suggested, unless guaran-
tee we're given them, that in some way
the Windy City would rid itself OF its
Doodle Observation-Disclosures the risk to
ones reputation would be very conser-
able.
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-27

The readers of thispaper will all be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages, and that is c.
tarrh Halls Catarrh Cure is the only posi-
tive cure known to the medical fraternity
Catarrh being n constitutional disease, re
quires a constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces Of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving the
patient strength by building up the consti-
work. The proprietors have so much faith
in its curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address f. j. CHENEY o. Co., Toledo, o.
nzg-Sold by Druggists, 15c.
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-27

Sreaking of the loss of the Nahum
Chaplin few days ago, and the drown
ing of all her crew right in sight of hum
dreds of people who were powerless ito
helr, a retired seaman takes the ground
that sailing vessels ~ we'll as steamers
should be compelled by law to carry
some life saving apparatus. He atfirms
that if there had been gun on this ves-
sci by which line could have been
shot ashore, orreven life pre7eryers, some,
if not all, the crew might have teen
sayei,
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-27

The total number of i'm migrants land
lug in this country in the fiscal year 1896
according to governmental reports, WIS
343, 267 and of this number rs, 100 over
16 years of age were iiliterate. In the
face of thess figures. it is obvious that
prompt action by Congress to protect
US from this annual visitation OF ignor-
ance, from the other side of the water,
should ba taken. The need Of some
sort of an educational test is Iecog-
nized by both branches Of Congress and,
doubtless, 1T will be prominent feature
of the immigration bill when 1t finally
passes. The tsst insisted upon hy the
Senate bill was the more exactinR. 1t
provided for the exclusion of persons IS
and write the English language or that
of the country of their nativity. his has
been modified in two ways, the first of
which makes the reading of the language
of the country in which one has resided
before coming here sufficient, and the
second makes the reading of 25 words of
our constitution an evidence of ability to
read the English language. The bill
has heen in conference for some ltime
and strong pressure has been brought to
bear by petitions from labor and other
organizations for some restrictive meas
ure and doubtless some remedial law on
the subject of immigration will meet with
favorable action before the adjournment
of the present Congress.
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-27

The coalition which was formed at
Chicago, in July last, seems at this early
date, to be undergoing the process Of
rapid dis.ategration. Mr.. Washburn's
appeal to the Populistio leaders has evil
IDENTIFY struck responsive chord. Replies
have been received by him from such old
warehouses as Senators Allen, PETER and
very many Others and there is much
unanimity of opinion, that the most
judicious thing to do just now, is to
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-27

The rumor is af1oat that John Sherman
is inclined now to wish that he had not
accepted a position in Mr.. McKinley's
cabinet. He has felt skeenly the criti-
cism of some of his colleagues who have
expressed a doubt as to his capacity to
properly discharge the duties of the State
department, and BESIDES the uncertainty
as to who will he his successor in the
Senate is troubling him. While there Is
little doubt that Mr.. Sherman will make
an eminently safe and satisfactory head
of the State department, there 10 jnst as
little that his lot will not be 80 happy
a one in that Office as in the Senate.
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-27
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY

PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TOURS.
MATCHLEss IN EVERY FEATURE.
CALIFORNIA;.
Three tours to CALIFORNIA and the PA
CIFIC COAST will leave Boston January 26.
February % and March &c, 1897. Five weeks
in California ON the first tour and, four weeks
on the second. Passengers on the third tour
may return on regular trains within nine
months. Stops will be made at New Orleans
for Mardi- Gras festivities on the second tour.
Rates. 1915, 1856 and $500. respectively.
FLORIDA
Jacksonville tours. allowing two weeks In
Florida, will leave Boston January 25, Febru-
airy s and % and March 8. 1897. Rate, cover
ing expenses en- route in both directions,
$66. 90 from Boston.
NOTION.
Seven-day tour will leave Boston December
20, 1896, February IL. March IL, April (six
days. and May IL, 1897. Rate, including all
expenses en- route. with board at Washington's
best hotels, S23 from Boston
OLD POINT COMFORT, RICHMOND
and WASHINGTON six days. from New
York. December 26, January %, February 20,
March 18, April 10. Rate. covering all ex-
penses, 1856.
Detailed itineraries and other information of
Tourist Agent, 2O5 Washington St.. Boston. ..
dec3 W&S tt
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COMPREHENSIVE Notice.

fgIHE copartnership heretofore existing I'M
Il der the firm name Of Rogers q Nc
Conky Co. is dissolved by mutual consent.
business will be carried OH by Fred W. Nc
Conky under the firm name of Fred W. Nc
Conky.
All bill owed by the firm are payable by
me, and all bills owed the firm are payable
to me. FRED ". McCONhY Y. -.
Nos 1O5 and 1o7 Oxford St., Portland, Me:
jan 23dtf
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-27

While it can hardly he said that Mr..
Mckinley has absolutely settled upon
Mr.. Lyman j. Gage of Chicago for the
treasury department there seams to be
little doubt that the President-elect is
strongly inclined to tender him tie ap-
pointment There is no doubt but Mr..
Gage is thoroughly qualified for the
place He is an unsompromising goln
standard man, however, and those who
have lean expecting that Mr.. Mckinley
would "do something for silver can
get but very cold comfort out Of Mr..
Cages selection. Not even international
bimetalism has been looked upon with
much favor by the Chicago banker.
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-27
Annual Meeting-InternaiionaI Steamship Co.

THE annual meeting Of the stockholders of
held at the office OF THE company, Railroad
wharf on Wednesday, the 9th day of Janu-
airy. 1897, at O'Clock p. M, for the purpose
of choosing directors for the ensuing year, to
take action upon an amended coue Of bylaws
and for the transaction of any other business
that may legally come before the meeting.
VIM. E. HOLDEN, Secretary
Portland, JAM IS. jan1Sdtd.
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FINANCIAL.
Joliet Rail WAY co
3 Per Gent.
20 YEAR GOLD BONDS,
Dated August LIST, 1896.
Principal and interest Payable
i'm Portland, Me.

The Joliet Railway Company owns and
operates the entire street railway system
in Joliet. ILL.,, and a line to Lockport, a
manufacturing town five miles distant,
situated at the present terminus of the
Chicago Drainage Canal.
The population of Joliet incl uding
Lockport, is over 10000.
The Joliet Railway Company owns
sixteen miles of track, large brick and
stone power house with double equip
ment of boilers, engines and generators,
large stone car-barn with capacity of
over 40 cars, and other valuable real es-
| tate.
The property has cost over 100000,
and the present owners are now expend-
ing on track and car equipment about
$40, 900 more. The present mortgage is
for $3.50, 900, and covers all present prop
erty and all that may hereafter be ac-
quired.
The railroad has been recently pur-
chased by Portland parties and is con-
trolled by them. The net earnings of the
road are two and one-half times the in
terest on the bonds.
The officers and directors of the road
are J. A. Henry, Joliet; w. B. McKin-
ley, Chicago; J. E. Burnham, Edward
Woodman, Weston F. Milliken, Henry
P. Cox, Walter, G. Davis, G. L. Baxter
and George f. Duncan, all Of Portland.
Price and further particul ars upon APP
plication. 1871 @
GEORGE r. DUNCAN, \
AZ Exchange St. Portland. Me
jau27d2W
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WHITES BOOT & SHOE STORE,
OPPOSITE PREBLE HOUSE.
ionRandtf
5.THE ATWOOD LEAD co.
Notice of Annual Meeting.

Notice of Annual Meeting.
TElhE annual meeting CT the Stockholders
Il of the Atwood Lead Co. will be held at
the Office of the Company, No. 432 Fore ST.,
O'Clock p m. for the election of Officers
and for the transaction of any. other bust
ness that may legally come before the meet
ing. AUG. 7. FULLER, Clerk.
Portland, january, 23rd, 1897. 23dtd
The Portland daily press., 1897-01-27

cEoRcEF. DUNCAN, \
AZ Exchange ST., Portland. Me
jan27d2w
The sun., 1897-09-26
BOUND TO FIG HI FOR CUBA.
YOUNG Carlos BermudAs Beat Going Bael
to AveaGe His Father.

CarlossBermudas, u Cuban boy, II years old
was a prisoner in the Harlem Police Court yes
terday. He was arrested by Policeman De-
laney at Third avenue and Ninety third street
late on Friday night. Citizens had noticed him
in the neiGhborhood, and told the officer that
the boy had been hanging around begging pen
nies for food. He said that he was tired and hun.
cry. but would say nothing further about him.
self. He was fed and taken TO the rooms OF the
Gerry society for the night. On reaching the
society rooms he told an agent that he had
been living with Manuel Ross at 1861 Madi-
son avenue, and Mr.. Ross was at once COM
municatcd with. Ross Is secretary to Senior
Estrada Palma, head Of the Cuban Junta in
this city. Mr.. Ross went to court yesterday
morning and gave Magistrate Simms this ac-
count OF the boys life:
Carlos is q son OF a Cuban General who
fought under Maceo and was killed fourteen
months ago in a battle In the Pinar del Rio
province. Young as the boy is, he had been in
the field with his father and served as drum
mer boy He took part in several engagements
and escaped unhurt. On the death of Gen. Ber-
mudas his widow felt that she could not risk
losing her son also. and withdrew him from the
army and sent him to New York to live with
Manuel Ross, who was an old friend OF the
family. This was eleven months ago. The
since he arrived In New York. and insisted that
he would return II for no other purpose than TO
ayenge his father Mr.. Ross discouraged this
idea as much as possible, but only succeeded
in convincing the boy that he would be de.
tained II his purpose to leave for Cuba was Vas
| told Mr.. Ross that he had spent the interval in
| a persistent effort to find vessel on which nc
| could return To the island. Four days ago he
found a trading schooner lying at a North
| River pier taking q cargo aboard for Cuba.
| find a place TO stow away in the hold when he
was discovered and put ashore; He had had n
| pretty hard time getting food, but got 1t In any
| way that he could. He said that workingmeI
had often shared their meals with him. and he
| had better success in getting food from that
class OF people than from others better able to
| give to him.
Magistrate simms surrendered the boy tc
| Mr. Ross care. Mr.. Ross said that he wa,
satisfied that the boy would run away agar
at the first opportunity. and consequently h'
had .made arrangements to send him back Il
Cuba by steamship; Carlos said that, Mr., Ros
had been very kind TO him. but that he did no
like New York he did his native place anC
that he was determined to return and fight
The boy Is OF slender build and tall for his age
and the marks OF exposure to sun and air hay'
himself understood in English. but has a de
cided accent. His mother lives in Santiago d
Cuba and Carlos is her only child.
The sun., 1897-09-26

WASHINGTON. Sept. 25.-The Lighthouse
Board has decided to erect light of peculiar
type on Pollock Rip Shoal. of the Massachu-
setts coast An iron framework. conical in
shape, Joined By rings, has been constructed.
and will be towed to the shoal. The rings arc
expanded by heating and placed over the ends
OF the iron bars at the point of angular juxtapo-
sition, in a manner somewhat similar to that in
cool. a firm Joint Is given. The even framework
does not furnish any marked resistance to the
waves. The framework will stand thirty.five
feet above tho water. and will be topped BY an
oil beacon. 1t is said at the Lighthouse Board
that q recommendation that this type of light
be erected at Hatteras was not approved by
Congress.
The sun., 1897-09-26
THE YELLOW FEVER SITUATION.
A Physician said to Have Rus Away from q
Case In New Orleans.

Ezy ORLEANS. Sept. o5-Emile Series. who
died to-day Of yellow fever was deserted by tho
attending physician as soon he discovered
that It was a case OF yellow fever Series was
found dead on the floor in which he had fallen
in his delirium. case OF yellow fever was re-
ported from Jefferson Point, just above New
Orcans. the patient being an Italian and a
refugee from this city. The Mayor. on the
recommendation OF the Board OF Health mas
prohibited all meetings or entertainments no
matter for what purposes given.
DR.. Swearingcn. the Texas health ofiicer, oolects
TO the manner in which the mails are fumigated
and disinfccted in New Orleans. and will close
Texas to them unless they are treated in
furnace hereafter. The Alabama quarantine
officer has auarantined the State against At
lanta because OF the cases Of yellow fever oc.
curing among the Mobile refugees thete. imo
hundred refugees reached the detention camp
at Fontaincbleau to-day. Three new cases Oh
yellow fever were sent 10 the hospital there.
The labor unions OF New Orleans have mp.
penle,i 10 Gov. Foster to mitigate the rigors or
the quarantine now existing against New or-
leans polnting ont that unless the ouarantines
are modified II will infiict great suffering on the
the factories to close At Lake Charles La. the
largest lumber manufacturing town on tne Gult
coast a majority OF the big lumber mills shut
down last night and VIII not resume business
until the present stringent quaFahIihes ase
The tennessee Board OF Health has rescinded
| ali quarantine orders, and freight and persons
| from the infected district may not stop IN an y
| placc In Tennessee At several towns in Louisi-
| ana mass meetings were held to-day protesting
| against the rgors OF the present quarantine ana
| demanding the opening OF trade with New
| There were thirteen new cases in New Orleans
to-day. Mobile had five new cases