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New-York tribune., 1900-05-13
UNION SEMINARY ANNITERS4RT.

The sixty fourth anniversary of Union Theo-
logical Seminary No. 700 Park-ave, will be cele-
brated to-day tomorrow and on Tuesday. This
afternoon at 4S0 o'clock there will be a farewell
communion service in the Adams Chapel To-Inor-
row evening at o'clock the alumni dinner VIII
be given under the auspices of the Alumni Cluo or
New-York City at the Hotel Manhattan, Madison
ave and Forty-second-st.. at which addresses Will
he made by the Rev. DIR. Samuel NJ Hamilton
Professor James NJ. Ludlow and the Rev; Or. l-y-
man Abbott On Tuesday morning at lOS0 o cloGh
the annual meeting Of the Alumni Association VIII
be held In the Adams Chapel when an address Mi
he made by the Rev. DIR. Newell Dwight filllls
ON Tuesday evening at O'Clock, In the AuSiils
Chapel there will be addresses by these meInoers
Of tho graduating class Francis TreadWdy Gay :
ton Henry sloane coffin, Laurell Wesley a Demerit'
and Beniamn Ttnkham Marshall The preseutd-
ron OF diplomas VIII be by John Crosby Brown
president of the Board OF Directors; the preseui-
ton OF degrees will be by the president or the
uty and the address 10 the graduating class VIII
be made by the Rev. DR. Charles Cuthoert hai''
president OF the faculty.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-13

His music is extracted from contrivance which
he works with a pedal, and which looks some
thing like a cross between a small hand organ
and old fashioned melodeon. 1t is tattered
and dirty, like himself. and the sounds it gives
out and then are horrible enough to STAN
pede army mule. Happily, the sounds are
not loud and not frequent. Other familiar fig
along Fifth-ave. and in streets of the shop
ping district are legless man. who uses his hat
a contribution box and clumps along the
pavements with wooden blocks in his hands; sew
eral women who stand at the foot OF elevated
stairweys with outstretched palms, and numer-
blind and decrepit individuals of both sexes
who exhibit their infirmities in way best calcu-
lated to excite the sympathies of passers by.
1t is a we'll known fact that numbers of these
chronic and professional mendicants accumulate
large sums of money by means of their wiles
and trickeries. When of them dies now and
then the truth comes out in the shape of a fat
bank account q hoard stored away in some
corner. IT is a current report that one begSar
owns fine bit of real estate in Harlem, and
might live in comparative luxury If he cared TO
do so. 1t only last year that one of these
street beggars died in a squalid room the
East Side, and the public administrator found
on looking into his effects that he had laid by in
various savings banks the neat sum of S1O,JOO.
Another came to light recently when
woman who had for years been making large
drafts the sympathy and cash of impression
able people on the strength OF her poverty and
decease TO be worth some thousands of dollars in
her own right besides having near relatives who
were wealthy and abundantly able 10 care Tor
her.
1t NAV well be doubted whether a single one
of these street beggars Is actually worthy of as
sstance or is as badly off physically as he or she
would have the sympathetic pubic believe. Ot
course. it Is folly and worse TO drop a coin INTO
the hand of any of these beggars- y writer VINO
put his in sling and wore ragged clothes
got so OF in seven days of begging, working-n
that term can be used-lesS than eight hours
day He felt sure that with experience he could
have brought this up TO $40 a day.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-13
He VAS 4 SPORT, All RIGHT.

ONLY "sKINNEY THE TOUT TOOK AN UNra1a
ADVANTAGE OF HIM.
DO look like a spoort." inquired the stout Ger
citizen Of the Sergeant as he entered the
police station.
We'll. I don't know replied his friend but
come to think OF it, you do appear to have changed
somewhat of late. Your clothing bs OF
a more stylish cut and You step along like two
year-old.''
Vel. vas a spoort-a true-blue blooded von Z
horse spoort."
"A what?"
"A horse spOort-I blay der ponies
Take my advice and you will give IL UP
they will have your beer palace before you can
say Jack Robinson
Dots mine wife says. but 1 too smart
tor dem. vas blunger undt win so much der
bookmakers all afraid of me-
Yes. but how about that story that you were
badly taken in yesterday
II vas buncoed wasn't beaten fair. You see. a
young felIer dey calls -Sknney der Tout comes
into mine blace undt he says dot ne has der big
gist cinch OF der seasonal regular lay down.
tells him dot / hears abOudt dose ctnches uudt
dey vas no good. lie says dot der name OF his
horse vas Beeswax, undt he sticker undr
couldn't lose
20 NIT ii der feller der Odder end he says tell
:skinney der Tout IL he comes by mine blace dot
/ go back nit der bar Skinney vas sim dere. undt
he says l a fool take his Zip.
you vonce-twice. tree times said skinney. Den
We bet $50 undt put der money up mi, Osullivan,
der grocery man. Vei, ven der baperS come Oudt
day dot Skinney's horse Won, sure enough, undt
he gets der money
Yer, l lose mine $50. but l would like ter find
dot feller dot telephone mine biace-
knows his address all right But take my advice
and cut Skinney and his associates on your visit
New-York tribune., 1900-05-13

| The laws of the State relative to professional
oeggars and vagrants are severe enough and II
might be supposed that the vigilance Of the DO
lice and the activity of the societies and special
officers assigned to this work would be sufficient
to keep this class of persons off the streets but
for some reason not easy to understand many of
| them are allowed to ply their arts openly and
continuously on the great thoroughfares of the
| city year after year without let or hindrance
| Certain beggars Of various degrees of flthfness
| and decrepitude have haunted certain corners
| squares and elevated stairways of New-York for
| so many years that they have become as famf
lar to residents of the metropolis as the trees
fountains and statues.
A number OF these more or less interesting in
dividuals have been caught by a photographer
for representation in this article This man had
some interesting experiences while engaged In
the process. One character objected vigorously
at first to being taken offhand so to speak but
wanted to go home and dress up" for the oc-
casion. You ought to see me-" he said with
my store clothes on
BLIND FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES ONLY.
Another ragged and swore furiousy when the
camera was leveed at him. although he bore
upon his breast card with the words Il Am
Blind" third, who has a small dog with a
beseeching physiognomy to help along the trade
could only be persuaded to line up before the
camera after he had partaken of some refresh
ments at nearby drug store. Others expressed
a great desire to them pictures" when they
appeared in print. evidently feeling that they
were taking the first steps toward the land of
newspaper glory.
Most of these old timers, il is true, have some
ostensible occupation to as a disguise for
their begging and them from the operation
of the vagrancy laws. But this subterfuge is SO
transparent in most cases that il seems strange
that the deception should be permitted 10 exist
few lead pencils. whose number Is rarely if
ever lessened by actual sale, serve the purpose
with many, While the occupation of others con-
sists In more or less futile attempts to extract
harmonious sounds from some ancient and bat
tered contrivance of the music box order An
old woman with one Of these boxes has been a
familiar figure in Forty second-st, near the old
reservoir. for years. She may be seen at almost
any hour OF the day or night, the round
huddled up on the pavement with hood drawn
over her face, slowly turning the handle OF a
little box from which is emitted at infrequent
intervals wheeze, a squeak or a grunt audible
but few feet away and awful to think of under
the name OF music. quiet invitation for con-
tributions is given in little tin cup perched on
! the box. On some of the coldest winter nights
! this creature may be seen crouched on the
stones. grinding out her misera BILE discords in
| the usual fashion.
TYPES OF BEGGARS
! Another familiar character with a musical de
| vice is an old man who haunts the neighborhood
| of Union Square. He wears goggles and is
ragged. filthy and repulsve to the last degree
New-York tribune., 1900-05-13
TESS" EyyoNED IN ENGLAND.

Mrs. Lewis Waller produced az the Comedy Thea
tire, London. April Il. dramatization OF Tess
OF the D'Urberviles,'' attributed H. A. Kennedy.
a newspaper writer OF that city Mrs. Waller had
previously given performances OF the play az van-
suburban theatres and In the provinces. Tho
exclusive English dramatic rights to Thomas
Hardy's novel being owned by Mrs. Minnie Mad
dern Fiske. and LOrmer StOddard's dramatizaticn.
copyrighted IN England. being also her property,
legal proceedings at once instituted In her
behalf and application made In the English
courts for an Injunction restrain Mrs Waller
from further representation of the play the action
In the case also being for damages for violation
OF copyright Gable dispatches announce that the
injunction has been duly granted and further rep
resentation of the play prohibited. pending trial.
and the play has been withdrawn from the stage
OF the Comedy Theatre.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-13

the begging concern of which this an
active member employs only artists. What they
get by Aegging they share with him a GER
tain percentage basis He assigns them to their
stations in the streets gives them lodging, takes
care of them when they sick. and gets them
ssts that his business shall be carried on in the
most dignifed and skilful manner He prefers
that his men shall be cripples but he will not
allow them to display wounds or deformities
and they must always be clean In fact. he
makes it a pleasure for the public to support
him, and that It is a pleasure is shown by the
success of one of his employees
New-York tribune., 1900-05-13

case Of Apple Mary" who sought aims though
possessed of a fortune, is in point.
An interesting variation in the usual stories OF
professional mendicancy was introduced when
the police of New-Yorlz City discovered the ex--
istence of what some of them happily phrased as
a beggars syndicate. 1t was discovered through
a number Of beggars who had been arrested Civ
ing the same address. There were five of them
who said that they lived there. Two were
brought in together. and they had only two legs.
That is to say. each of them had one left These
New-York tribune., 1900-05-13

beggars were posted in the shopping district
and one OF them made 1t his business to watch
for the police and warn the others when
patrolman approached.
BEGGAR WITH CULTIVATED TASTES.
detective one of these beggars come out
of the Metropolitan Opera House one night. clad
in evening dress, escortng well dressed young
woman; they got into a carriage and drove
away. 1t was learned that the manager of
New-York tribune., 1900-05-13

Of fashion is retrenching expenses and indif-
ferent to dress Jewellers. florists and caterers
are lamenting the continuance Of dismal condi-
tions and shaking their heads dolefully over
the melancholy opening of what is ordinarily
revel of gayety. The war has clouded If not
ruined the Season; and that Is word which is
pronounced slowly and reverentiaily in Lon
don, and is spelled with large capital letter.
J. n. +.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-13
BEGGARS WITH WEALTH.

FOOLISH GENEROSITY TOWARD THEM
WHICH SEEMS WITHOUT LIMIT.
There is nothing novel in the statement that
large proportion of the men and women who
haunt the streets of cities and towns and the
highways and byways of the country. begging
food and clothing the various pretexts Of
sickness and lack of employment rank
frauds and impostors. who deserve not help and
sympathy, but the stern rigors of the law. The
New-York tribune., 1900-05-13

ONLY "sKINNEY THE TOUT TOOK AN UNFAIR
ADVANTAGE OF HIM
New-York tribune., 1900-05-13

Another familiar character with musical de-
vice is an old who haunts the neighborhood
of Union Square. He wears goggles and is
ragged. filthy and repulsive to the last degree
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-10-08
A DARING SWIMMER.
Young Woman Plans to Swim
Around staten Island.

Young Woman Plans to Swim
Around Staten Island.
A young woman named Raffentz,
who arrived from Vienna, has departed
with 15 followers for Calais, where
she will swim across the channel to
Dover as soon as there is favorable
weather. says the Paris correspondent
of the New York World. While here
she gave an exhibition. swimming
steadily for eight hours around the
part Of the Seine within the fair
grounds without stopping for one sec
ond-
Fraulein Raffentz claims ale swan
40 miles In the Danube against the
current without fatigue. She won't be
followed during the Calais-Dover trial
by any boat and says she must reach
the other shore or drown.
If successful. she will go to Constan
tinople and duplicate Lord Byron's IA
nous swimming feat then to New
York. here she intends to swim from
the Battery around Staten Island and
back.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-10-08
NEW NATIONAL LABOR uNloN
Wage Earners' Gaild, Benencial or.
der, In Organized I'm BomfOm.

Wage Earners' Gaild, Benencfn1 Or
der, In Organized I'm Boston.
A new organization OF interest to
working people In all the larger cities
Of the United States has just been in
corporated under the laws OF Massa-
chusetts by the name OF the Nation
al Wage Farmers Guild, says Boston
dispatch to the Chicago Tines-H Herald.
Negotiations are now In progress for
its establishment In New York. Phila-
delphia. Chicago, Pittsburg. Baltimore.
Cleveland. Cincinnati and st. Louis.
The primary object OF the guild.
which Is modelled after plan that has
been found highly successful In Ger
many for "a great many years, is to
care for the health OF its members and
provide them with the best medical
and surgical attendance at the lowest
possible cost.
In Germany nearly 10000. 900 wage
earners have the benefits OF guilds and
employers are required by law to pay
. portion Of the expenses. In this coun-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-10-08
mig FarminE scheme.

For years cattlemen have dominated
the grazing country around Okmulgee,
the capital of the Greek Nation In
Oklahoma. Now a Kansas City firm
has entered that section and proposes
to turn the rich valley into gigantic
wheatfield, says the Philadelphia
Times.
Already 25.0O0 acres have been leas-
ed. The Indians have for years re-
ceived only 25 cents an acre from the
cattlemen for grazing privileges, and
the entire country was given up to this
The new firm offers them 25 cents an
acre for all kinds and 81 for all lands
In cultivation. In addition 1t binds
itself to erect a wire fence around
each lease. plant an orchard and ereci
q comfortable house.
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-.
try the new guild will not have the ac-
tive assistance OF any laws. but the
cost of membership has been put SO
lows cents a week-that It will be
within the reach of all working people.
This weekly payment will secure free
medical or surgical treatment at home
or In the guild hospital, and In the
event of death $500 win be paid to the
relatives or family Of the member.
Should a member desire to retire from
the guild at the end Of any "prabective
period" about two-thirds OF what he
has paid in will be returned to him.
The guild has started in to become
Immediately helpful In Boston by Sc
curing two adjoining buildings on East
Brookline street, which are now being
remodeled ih-o q modernly equipped
hospital Any guild member who de-
sires 1t may be treated there or ai
home if he prefers that. The doctors
In charge will be the best and besides
treating the members. they win under
take sanitary inspection of the homes
Of members and their working condi
tions, these latter being capable Of I'm
provement by process OF law IL found
to be bad.
The incorporators Of the guild arr
Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale. ]
Thomas Baldwin. president Of a life
insurance company; Rev. Peter Roman
rector of St Peters Roman Catholi,
church; Henry D. Forbes, bank cash
Ter; Nell Mcneil, a merchant: Henry E
Miller, a manufacturer, and Robert A
Woods of the South End House, a col
lege settlement.
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dLN5TOh Is nUT hAIIdhtD.
The Afflicted City the Victim Of the
Ever-Ready Hendacious Tongue.
SIanderous Reports without
Foundation-No Threaten
ed Infectisus disease.

Galveston, Tex, Oct. THE
Galveston News tomorrow will
say:
The terrible experience through
which the people of Galveston
passed just one month ago today,
and the examples of heroic,
manly, self-sacrifcing work on
the part of the thousands of
men in all ranks of life, has left
an imprint for good upon the
lives and natures of many citi-
zens. Their viewpoint of life
has changed, their confidence in
and love for humanity deepened.
Men have learned to really know
each other; friendships have
been cemented and enmities dis
appeared. Men-some of them
lost little, some of them lost
all-have forgotten self in work
ing for the community, in per,
forming the most difficult tasks
in solving the most difficult prob
lens that men were ever called
upon to face. But, unfortunate
ly, the experience of the great
storm, the scenes of suffering
the trying days following the
hurricane, have seemingly beer
insufficient, to extract from tht
black hearts of some fiends il
human form the malevolenc'
and deviltry which has found ex
preston in silly babbling and
inene tattling. While men wer'
working day and night to reliev'
the distress of the wounded, II
feed the hungry, clothe tn
naked, bury the dead and cleal
the city, these creatures sat will
idle hands, but busy tongues
croaking and crlticising, aspers
ing their betters and giving al
terance to statements of char
acter calculated to disquie
timid, nervous people, alread'
tried to the limit of endurance
Time and again have thes
fiends put in circulation a repor
. that Galveston would be yisite
by another storm, fixing the dat
! with a nicely, first as Sept. l.
then Sept. %, and so, as dat
: after date passed without thei
! direful forebodings being rea
. lied. Concurrently with thes
, reports OF storms to come, br
J which refused to come, report
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A floating dock is now being built
In England for installation In Bermu-
da, which viii be the largest Jet built
1t will be 545 feet long and 126 feet
wide. whereas the great Havana dock
purchased from Spain By the United
States is 450 feet long and 100 feet
wide. The dock itself, according to
The Pathfinder WIN re0riro 50 feet Of
water TO float in. and IL win receive YES.
sels drawing as much a. S3 feet OF
water. The total lifting power, pro.
duced by pumping the water from the
hollow interior. win be 1850 tons
The largest vessel In the British nayy
can thus Be docked at Bermuda
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COMING IN LINE.

By scripps-McRae Press Association.
Scranton, Pa, Oct. s.-All but
one of the important coal com
panies of this district have
signed the 10 per cent. advance
agreement.
The Penna Coal Co. is not yet
posted, but they give notice that
they will do so.
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have been starred by iusiuuation'

have been started by insinuation
and inuendo, concerning the
health of the city, and suggest
ing the presence of some cpl
demic disease. How any one,
witnessing the distress of the
poor, storm-swept people OF
Galveston could have the heart
to probe her wounds and add to
the snfferings of her people by
such cruel and slanderous state
ments, passeth the understand
ing of all right thinking people.
Galveston has had her meas
ure of woe filed to the brims
The great majority of her people
buckled bravely to the task OF
rehabihtating the city and caring
for the helpless. They have had
enough to contend with. God
knows, without having to meet
the lying product of perverted
brains. No man is justified IN
giving credence to disquieting
stories, coming as they do with
| out any authority whatever,
fatherless, illegitimate; and no
man is justified in repeating
them. The truth has been told
by the officials of the city, by
the relief committee, in the pub
! lie committee concerning every
thing affecting the welfare Of
the people, and there are too
many sources of trustworthy and
reliable information at hand to
render it necessary to give ear for
one moment to the yarns manu-.
factured by the Infamous hounds
who could outstrip the most am
bilious efforts of Ananias. Con.
cerning the health of the city,
DIR. Wilkinson, city health physi
clan. today addressed q note "a
every physician in the city ask
ing him il he had in his practice
any case of an infectious or epi
demic nature. The replies were
in the negative. Tonight DR.,
Wilkinson gave the following
signed statement to the News:
Galveston, Tex, Oct z.-Ir
reference to the rumor circu
lated in Galveston and elsewher.
! that there is yellow fever n
Galveston, I desire to say that
have made a personal and thor
} ough Investigation of the rumol
! and find there is absolutely nt
! foundation for it. The city il
) perfectly free from yellow fevel
, and any suspicious cases.
G. H WILKERsoN,
City Health Physician
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WANT A SETTLEMENT.

BY scripps-M -McRae Press Association
Hazleton, Pa, Oct. 8.-The ma
tional officials are unanimous in
declaring for a settlement of the
strike and win exert great in,
fiuence with the delegates to the
convention to accept the offers
of the companies.
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BOUND TO HANG.

By scripps-McRae Press Association
Elberton, Ga, Oct. 8.-William
Branch, colored, who killed two
white men and fatally shot the
wife of one of them, was placed
on trial here this afternoon. A
mob is formed to lynch him if
conviction fails.
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GEN. CORBlN INFORMS SHERIFF
he WILL SEND TROOPS HOME.
5TpIkER5 fhD plIhn MQuII5
Crowds SIm Eager 60 Hear che Silver
TOakued Orstor From Nebrssks-The
Youtsey case-TroubIe for a Geor-
aia Nearo-Teddy lweIcOmed.
TO END STRIKE.

Hazeltou Pa, Oct. 6.-Presi-
dent Mitchell of the United Nine
workers today issued a call for
a convention of the miners at
Scranton Friday. tits expected
that the 10 per cent. offer of the
operators will be accepted and
the miners will resume work
next Monday.
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THE YouTSEY JURY.


Ry scripps-McRae Press Association.
Georgetown, KY, Oct. 8:-The
jury in the Youtsey case was
completed this morning.
AS sworn in the jury is made
up of eleven democrats and one
prohibitionist.
The defense presented a mo-
ton to set aside the jury setting
forth the fact that the last ten
jurors were not bystanders as
required by law but were sum
moned from distance and fur
ther that all jurors we're of one
political faith.
Motion overruled.
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WILL WITHDRAW TROOPS.
, scripps-McRae Press Association.

By Scripps-McRae Press A@s0clMtlon
Shenandoah, Oct. g. Gen.
Goblin informed Sheriff Toole
today that unless the necessity
for troops presented itself in
the mean time the remaining
soldiers would be Withdrawn to-
morrow.
The battery will be sent home
this afternoon.
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STRIKE STILL GROWS.

By scripps-McRae Press Association
Hazelton, Pa, Oct. 9.-The
strikers congregated along the
highways leading to the various
mines this morning did active
missionary work among the non-
union men and further gripping
of the mines still in operation.
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jects and plans are being jeal-
ously guarded. It ran like wild
fire though the West India
Islands and is spreading through
Florida among the Cubans.
Freedom for Cuba Is supposed
to be one of the objects of the
order.