davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-20

Jak juz z poprzedniego numeru
,Zgody" wiadomo, zostal redaktor
,Dziennika Poznanskiego" DIR. Lee
binski spol!czkowany W Poznaniu
przez p. X. Rzepeckiego.
u lego powodu rDziennik Po-
znanski" ogIasza dnia "a z. m. ma
stepujaca notatke:
,Naczelny redaktor pisma asze-
go otrzymat wskutek znanej napas-
ci diva nastspujace telegramy re
Lwowa:
j. ,.Redaktorowi naczelnemu z
kolezenskiem pozdrowieniem wy
razy szacunku przesyla Nawroc-
Xxi - ,,Slowo'.
,,Siowo Polskie" we Lwowie Jest
organem skrajnoliberalnym.
2. Szanownemu koledze wyrazy
wspoiczucia zasyia Masiowski (z
,Przegladu').
ufrzeglad jest plsmem konser-
watywnem.
Obydwom panom i pismom
przesylamy wyrazy najszczerszej
wdziecznosci "a okazana publicz-
ME solidarnosc w sprawie godnos-
ci dziennikarskiej".
Trzeba w~iedzieG, re wyzej wspom-
MANY p. Nawrocki zostal swego "a
su spoliczkowany we Lwowie przez
p. Panka a p. Masiowski przez PIP.
Cichockiego i Studnickiego.
Jest wiec zupelnie naturalnem,
Re dowiedziawszy sic, il Dir. Lebin-
ski ulegl take ich losowi - wyra-
zili mu sympatje j wsp6iczucie ko-
lezehskie.
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-20

Jeszcze pare wyrazow c~hinskich,
Ola dopelnienia notatki 2 ubiegle-
go tygodnia:
Ksiang macy wies. e n
okreg. Flu powiat. Futa-taj
= naczelnik powiatu. G zi-fu -
prefekt. gubernator je-
neralny dwu prowincyj. Czung-
tang - tytui kazdego ministra.
Thangkwei = cudzoziemiec,
,obcy djabei'. Kiao-se kta albo
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-20

Odznaki srebrne ola grup
So gotowe. PIP. Sekretarze
grup W Chicago beda faskawi
zgfosic sic Pc takowe do blu
"a Zarzadu Centralnego. Ola
grup pozamiescowych tako
we beda wysfane W pude}kach
zaregistrowanych.
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-20

Czy ME naIezaloby temu cara
die? Cry sami ksieza polscy, kto.
rzy przeciez sa polskami ipowinni
dbac o dobro swego narodu, ME
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-20

,,Dziennik Chicagoski'', piszac o
Skarbie Narodowym, tax sic wyra-
Ia: ~ duma patrzymy ma niekt6-
Re nasze parafje, W ktorych wierni
skfadaja W jednym roku wieksza
sumo ma kosci6f polski i ma polska
szkofe, niz Gala Polska przez lat
kilkanascie ziozyla ma Skarb rap
perswylski".
Ma Sunny 6w wykrzyknik jed
nostronnych umysf6w TAX odpo-
wiada pufk. Milkowski: ,,Por6w-
mamie to siusznem by bylo, gdyby
poborce Skarbu Narodowego mieli
ma rozporzadzenie swojc kazalnice,
konfesjonafy i wszelkie &c strony
rzad6w, tych nawct co Polske roze-
brafy, pomoce W zbieraniu skiadek.
o TEN ,,Dziennik Chicagoski" "a
pomina".
Zdanie to zamyka geby pyszaf-
kom, dumnym Z te9o, co do mich
wiasciwie ME nalezy, Doc wszystkie
tie koscioly szkofy polskie wAme-
ryce, to ME jesSwlasnosc polska.
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-20

Przypuscmy, re koscioiy i szko-
ly tie rzeczywiscie ME NIGGA bye
oddane przedstawicielom innych
narodowosci. Ale to tylko do CA
SUI. Niechaj .iednak W danej parafji
liczba parafjan polak6w zmniejszy
sic do tyla, re ME beda W stanie
juz utrzymac ami ~proboszcza, ami
siuzby koscielnej, ami szkoiy ami
tez kosciola, to czy ten kosci6l i
szkola, W kt6re wlozono dziesiatki
a czasem i setki tysiecy dolar6w z
krwawo zapracowanego grosza
polls ~zostana uzyte ma ia
XII inny eel polski? Bynajmniej.
Wfadza koscielna odda 6w koscioi
polski j szkole polsk9 katoli-
kom jakiejbqdz narodowosci, chloe
by szwabom, tax jak niedawno od-
data holendrom kosci6f francuzki
W Chicago z powodu braku para
fjan francuz6w.
/ to nazywaja nasze organy pa.
rafjalne wiasnoscis polsk9!
Ciekawi ~jesteSmy co sic stanie z
koscioiem polskim, wystawionym
"a pieniadze polskie, W jednem z
miasteczek niedaleko Chicago,
gdzie liczba parafjan polak6w
zmniejsza sic 'ciagle.
Jezeli parafjan tam zabraknie,
TO czy ktora 2 instytucyj polskich
otrzyma choc grosz 2 ~pieniedzy
poIskich W ten kosci6l wiozonych?
Dlaczego vice movie. re 10 kos
cioly polskie, gdy one zlamanego
szclqga Polsce ME przysparzajq9
Czy ME naIezaloby temu cara
die? Cry sami ksieza polscy, kt6.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23

writer of this letter is which has oeeh heal ~
a good deal in the last fifteen years or So ~
means lend of the century.
Now as to the year O. Mr.. Fisk feeis thae ~
would be mighty sight handler TO nave sueh "a
year" The answer to this is the same one which
has already been used. The question is not whether
II would be handler, but whether there was such
a year. And there not Not in history, that
is In the previous article in The Tribune 10
which Mr. Fisk refers, II was not thought well 10
confuse the reader with long explanation or the
astronomical year o. which has no significance IN
the present discussion. But Mr. Fisk is a man
who wants the whole truth. and 1t is fair that he
should have II. Here, then, is quotation from
the article on Chronology in the Encyclopedia
Britannica:
Astronomers denote the year which preceded the
by / B. c.. but chronologers. in conformity with
common notions call the year preceding the era
B. c., the previous year b. C., ana so on
But II will readily be that even If this year
were counted by historians, 1t is not. II would
not affect the question of when the century ends'
because it comes before the Christian era begins
ALL and is not a part of ii. History mace no
mistake. The years were there, and history mad
TO count them they were The fact that astron-
orners chose to differently, for convenience
of making elaborate calculations, has no more to
do with the matter than the fact that certain
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23
THE PRINT CLOTH MARKET

Fall River. Mass, Dec. % (speciaD-Brokers re-
port that the sales in the local print cloth market
during the week amounted TO less than seventy five
thousand pieces. all odds. No regulars wara ds
posed Of during that time there was no demand
for them Cotton goods. though less active than az
the same time last year. none the less stronn
In tone. Quiet trading. however is expected =,
this time OF the year and although advanced nr,oo
are prospective on account of continued high nr,oa
of cotton. buyers are purchasing In only small Iots
In the hope that hand to mouth trading will nre
vent q rise in the price. and keep their trade sur
piled. No attempt will be made to force an "a
vance by the Selling Committee until orders war
rant II and the new price can be maintained
Mills are well sold ahead wide goods and no
concessions are being made in the price Cloth
brokers' here conversant with the situation believe
the buyers fail TO realize the smallness OF tba
STOCK OF cloth on hand. the comparatively small
sales OF the last few months leading them to think
that II they continue buying from hand to mouth
Ior while they may price concessions
manufacturers know OF the excessive needs of buy
ers' ana While prepared TO NIL the demand will in
ssl on good prices for their production Prices fol-
IoW Inlrty and one-half inch "a square az
% men, 6S by Y, 5A cents and regulars "a b
a. 90 cents I o. b. at which the market Is very
nrTnt though inactive. 'N'
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23
FATHER AND son MEET HORRIBLE DEATH

Philadelphia. Dec. 22-Edward Clark. sixty-eight
years old, and his son William thirty-eight both
of Camden, n. j., met horrible deaths while at
work In this city to-day The men were black
smiths employed by firm of machinists in North
Seeond-st The younger Clark shortly before IL
o'clock was seized with chls, and in an attempt
to get relief climbed ladder to the top of a large
boiler. In a few minutes his fellow workmen
among whom was the father heard the noise Of
escaping steam.
the ladder to Williams rescue He missed his foot
ing and fell on big cog Wheel and was ground
TO pieces Meanwhile the was on the top of
the boiler. surrounded by escaping steam. and the
workmen below were unable to give any assistance
untll the steam in the boiler had spent its force
Young Clark was then dead having been scaIded
to death The cafety ball the boiler had dropped
OFF and allowed the forty pounds pressure of steam
IN tne boiler to escape. Both men left families A
fourteen-year-old son of Williams Witnessed The
death of his father and grandfather ~
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23

Gotta trim mings A striking feature in the facade
is the large central tower, of rugged Norman as
pect nearly fifty feet square and about one hum
dred and seventy feet high. II is not merely for
appearance, but is to be utilized 10 carry up the
large vSStilating shafts which conduct the ex-
hausted ~ from the classrooms. and one OF the
corner turrets will contain the boiler Chimney
which Mr.. Snyder has disposed OF artistlcally by
this device without marring the general contour or
beauty OF the structure. The upper floors OF the
tower he has also provided for laboratories
for the special work OF the faculty, the need az
which. IT urged, Is always felt. but has rarely
been provided for.
The Peter Cooper High School when completed
will be the most complete and modern school
structure OF The Bronx. The contract price of
the building Is s6sSS and the contractor is Louis
Wechsler The work. IL is expected. will begin
within a>few weeks. and the building will be com
pleted early in the spring OF 1902
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23
WORK OF THE PEOPLES INSTITUTE.
BY AFFoRDING INSTRUCTION TO WAGE EARN
ERs. IT TRIES TO ADJUST SOCIAL
CONDITIONS.

At the present time, when the conditions of city
life and especially of the East Side, being dis
cussed, II is not amiss to call public attention TO
the work that the Peoples Institute is striving to
do for the wage earners of this city. 1t is now
afrording regular instruction in history and eco
nomcs and forum for the discussion of questions
of the day. that the different parts of our society
might understand each other better. Representa-
tive wage earners were invited to confer with men
of emnence and wealth in forming the organiza-
ton the result being that in March, 1SsS the first
course of nineteen lectures and discussions was
opened. During the second year this number was
largely increased and Sunday evening ethical
ended last May there 225 evenings devoted
to studying and discussing ethical historical Pc
3itical and social questions, Three evenings In
the week were given TO class work the Univer-
sty Extension plan. The number present at these
meetings estimated at $4,000 almost entirely
wage earners In addition to this work of public
instruction and discussion. the institute has en-
deavored to meet the educational and social needs
by founding a club. The Peoples Institute Club A
was founded in February with sixty members, TO
furnish opportunity for the study of the problems
of the day and for social intercourse.
The institute has been supported from the nrsI
by generous friends but it needs greater and
more widely extended help than 1t has hitherto re-
ceived.
The expenses of this institute last year were
over $4,000, the receipts being S. 1858 H. and the
deficit being met by balance in hand from the
work for this year sum of at least $4,000 ought
to be raised
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23
WASHINGTON'S BIG PARK.
THE SECRETARY OF WAR APPROVES THE
PLANS FOR A MALL FROM CAPT
TOT, TO MONUMENT.


For several years the citizens OF Washington nave
discussed the improvement of the park system Oh
that city and much time has been devoted TO ue-
vis,ng schemes by which great park and poule-
ward could be laid out which would include .the
present detached groups of park land THESE
proups include the MALL the Smithsonian Institu-
tion grounds the Agricultural grounds. the Wash
tngton Monumen, and the Potomac Park The
most important part of this territory is the region
between the Capitol and the Washington Mohu-
ment The War Department was authorized Dy
Congress last year to employ landscape architect
to prepare and submit plans for the Improvement
of this territory these plans to be examined anu'
If approved by the War Department, TO be lald De-
fore the Senate for its consideration The plans
prepared by Samuel Parsons. jr assisted by George
F. Pentecost have been approved by the Secretary
of War and before the Senate committee
Affairs of the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Parsons, in speaking OF the PROJECT Ssiu
"The salient features of the design under consid-
Grafton the comprehensive way IN Whlch IL $50
the sensation of being among woods and meadows.
The plan solves the problem OF the preservation
and enhancement Of the effect of the vista between
the Capitol and the Washington Monument-an OBJ
which has always been considered desirable
The roads are screened by embankments, so that
the railroad where it traverses the park, may be
protected with trees as much as possible.
1.-The park scheme embraces an area or about
four hundred and fifty acres, of which three hun
dred acres already in park. When completed
the park will extend from the Monument to the
Capitol in one long, unbroken mall, and the only
buildings within its limits will he the Postofiice
and the group of buildings the grounds of the
Smithsonian Institution"
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23

numbers, and. finally. he has detected Chambers
Fncyclopaedia in error by no means obvious
But Of that by and by. The attempt SHAH now DC
made to clarity every point which MI FISK says IS
obscure to him.
The decades begin with the years numbered So
and-so-and-1 and end with the years whose mum
bers end in o. To be of this, II is necessary
only TO go back to the beginning, just as Win 'ho
centuries. The first year began 0heoretcahy just
when Christ was born. and ended when de was
one year old That was Christs first year. the mrs
year of his life the first year Of the Christian Era
the first year of our Lord the year l. The next
year beginning when He was one year oio anu
ending when He was two years old, was his secoiiu
wear the year @ The first ten years were tne years
l234 g. T. s. and TO- That was the 'iise
decade There are ten years in II. Count thein
~ the wear 10 were not counted In IL tnere "ou'o
he only nine and they would not make oecaue
The wear 10 having been counted in the hrst oecao
q cannot be counted in the second. The second
decade began with the year II, and 1t old not nave
ten wears in it, and not decade, uii IL hao
included the year 20. And so on. If ever decaoe
were counted as ending with year whose num-
her ended in g. then year must nave Deeh
aronped out of some decade to make 1t come So
This fact Is not affected by the common express
sion '1n the sixties ''in the seventies These
expressions doubtless mean, respectively the years
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23
PROPRIETOR, BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS, VIRGINIA.
PETER COOPER HIGH SCHOOL
PUPILS IN THE BOROUGH OF
THE BRONX.

The contract has been let for a new, handsome
and fully equipped high school to be erected on
the north side of East
ST. in the block bounded by the old Boston Road on
the west and Jackson-ave. on the east. The build
ing is to provide for least three thousand pupils,
of whom more than twenty five hundred are now
enrolled under Dr. Edward ]. Goodwin, the prin-
cipal in the present quarters and annexes beyond
the Harlem.
The site for this new building. which is to be
known the Peter Cooper High School, will give
it prominence in the neighborhood and 'front.'
age of S12 feet in East ehundredand-si
st. basement under half of the building forms
an additional story at the eastern end and on the
Jackson-ave. side sub-basement will be fitted for
the boilers and the coal supply. Above the base
ment will be five stories, which will provide sew
enty-One classrooms in all for school work. not in
cluding those that will be used for stores, toilet
lockers, for teachers and other necessary purposes
in modern structures.
There are to be twelve laboratories for chemical
physiological. biological. Photographed and other
PURPOSES including three lecture rooms to be used
in connection with them. Independent of the lect-
ure rooms there are to be four large study halls
one on each hoo- and provision for large library
on the second floor. with five other rooms assigned
for special purposes. As this is school for both
boys and girls separate gymnasiums have been
provided each with its running track. shower bath,
locker rooms doctors examination rooms. etc The
auditorium is formed by two story structure at
the rear with entrances from the main building
and the adjoining streets. 1t will seat eighteen
hundred and will be used all public occasions,
as well as for the daily opening exercises
In the treatment of this building c. B. j. Snyder.
SUPERINTENDENT of School Buildings. has selected
modern uses and construction. The exterior finish
is to be of gray brick, gray stone and gray terra
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23

from go to so. including both. and the years from
20 to '79 including both. But it is merely loose
and conversational mode of speech like many
another 1t has no historic mathematical sig
nifcance, and has nothing to do with the question
1t must be borne in mind however that the word
decade" means merely period Of ten years. re-
gardless of when it begins ends. The period
from July T. 1876 to July T. 1886, is just much q
decade as any other period of ten years.
Mr. Fisk and others should also remember that
numbers and their relations are not the inventions
of mathematician cannot help ten years
making ten any more than he can help and
making A. The mathematicians have merely dis
covered and learned many things about numbers;
they have not arranged and dictated those things.
Mr.. Fisk thinks that it would be more convenient
and sensible for decades TO end with the years
70 S9, 99, etc, and for the century to end with
the year '99. That is a matter of opinion, and on
that subject Mr.. Fisk has much right to his
own opinion the Astronomer Royal But the
fact is that the decades and the centuries do not
so end. If all the mathematcians in the world
wanted to make the decades and the centuries end
in that way, they could not do it. To say that It
would be convenient for the century to end with
the year 49, and that, therefore, it does end with
the year &c. would be more sensible than to
say that it would be convenient for men to have
eyes in the backs of their heads
Mr. Fisk is mistaken when he says that, "as-
sumfng that Jesus Christ born on January l.
at the beginning of the Christian Era, if He had
lived till January l. 1900 He would have been 1900
years old that day" He would not and Mr. Fisk
Will see it. if he will count again. carefully He
would have been 1899 years old on that day. Mr..
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23

eesdingly sorry our mathematicians find SO much
oo,1incrty IN nguring II out that way assure you
AI. Eoltor, that have all the deep and lasting
regrets about this matter that the importance az
ehe subject demands. Very truly yours
WILBUR FISK.
III is truly comfort 10 get letter like this It
Is plain. straightforward, candid modest and
honest The writer asks frankly for an explana-
non which he can understand and it is a pleasure
10 try TO give him If he could see the letters
CO this subject which have been received at this
onnce IN the last week, the most OF them stupid
Aho SHY, some of them abusive and all OF them
except MS anonymous, he would blush for his side
OF the case For he is himself obviously a gentle
man and man Of sense. And he is not 50 thick
ne1oeo as ne makes himself out TO be as IS shown
In several ways. In the first pace he has -.
= iohs letter which can be printed without correc
non ana that is a rare thing. even for an old
ana experienced newspaper writer Then he has
discovered that In reckoning from B. c. 10 A. d.
necessary 70 subtract one from the sum OF the
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23

mariners count the day beginning at noon. IN
stead of at midnight, has to do with Mr.. Fisk's
time OF going to bed.
Chambers Encyclopedia" is wrong about the
age of Augustus Caesar, and Mr.. Fisk is right He
died in his seventy-sixth year, lacking a month,
Mr.. Fisk says, of being seventy-six years old En-
cyclopaedias not infallible, is shown by the
fact that the Encyclopedias Britannica" says that
Augustus Cesar died in his seventyffth year. thus
making a mistake Of exactly the same size in the
opposite direction. The writer of the article in
Chamberss doubtless merely added sixty-three and
fourteen, carelessly forgetting what Mr.. Fisk has
discovered, that it is necessary to subtract one
after doing that What the writer of the article in
the Britannica could have been thinking of is diff
cult to see. But the editors of Chambers's really
knew better than to reckon in that way. some
of them did, as is shown by this extract from the
article in that work Chronology:
1t is manifest that, since there is no A. D. and
no Q B. C., we must diminish the sum of the
interval Thus the years between January /, 1853
2,64O.
This is exactly the process which Mr. Fisk rightly
says is necessary in reckoning a period which is
partly B. c. and partly A D. 1t is pity that 1t
is so inconvenient but it cannot be helped. There
are much more difficult things than this in mathe-
matics which cannot be helped.
The of writing the time between mid
night and o'clock in the almanacs as 'O:SO" for
half past II, does not mean that that hour is no
hour or is a zero hour. 1t is obviously the first
hour of the day. and when it ends II is / O'Clock
When the second hour ends it is 2 O'Clock and so
on. The method of writing means that no hours
and SO many minutes have passed since midnight
There was also, perhaps, a feeling that it was
better to have different designations for midnight
and noon, the latter being marked 'I2"
Now, if 1t is possible to make this whole subject
any clearer than it has been made The Tribune
would be glad to do 1t, but 1t is not easy at the
moment to see how 1t could be explained more
smply.-Ed1
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23

ciety, said to-day in regard to dispatch published
in a Chicago paper purporting TO quote from his
speech made on the St. Louis Merchants Ex-
change Yesterday, in which ne was said to have
made the prediction that the American flag will
continue 70 float the island of Cuba:
'The meaning intended to convey was that the
American flag would float over Cuba until stable
government shall be formed capable of protecting
life and property and giving confidence 70 capital
The United States has promised the Cuoans self
government and will carry out its promise. Upon
the Cubans will rest the responsibility OF deter
mining whether that government shall be perma-
nent or otherwise"
Under the escort Of w. B. Homer. president. and
a COMMITTEES from the New-England Society. of
ST Louis General Lee and STAFF, with the women
of the party to-day visited jefferson Barracks,
the Regular Army post south of the city.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-23

Fisk makes the mistake of supposinx that tho
number OF the year means Christs age II does
not; II means the year of His life which is passing
the year OF our Lord Go back to what was said
a little while ago. The years OF the Christian Era
began TO count from the birth OF Christ When
lie was year old one year had passed and that
year which had passed the year l. When He
was ten years old ten years of the Christian Era
had passed, the last of them being the wear IN
When 1888 years had passed and the year 1900 he
gan lie was 1888 years old Can anything be
palmer? Try it another way. How 40 ue o.
dinarily determine mans age In a given vearq
By subtracting the year OF his birth from the
year In question do we not? Very we'll Christ
Is supposed to have been born January / in the
year how old was He on January l. in the
year 1868? Subtract from 1890 and Won bava 1000
ana that was His age. II is 10 be believed that
ar FISK can fail to see the point, when he looks
at II in these two ways
Inc term I'm de Steele" which troubles the