The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-10-19
NEW YORK LETTER.
Items of Interest from the Eastern
Metropolis.

Items OF Interest from the Eastern
Metropolis.
Especial Correspondence to the HERALD
NEW York. Oct II The finest
and greatest yield of oyste In the
world are those vt chesapeake Bay.
The total sales Of oysters from the
Chesapeake in the last century has
been about $250,000,0O0. This in
dustry ia the chief support of 225 600
persons outside of Baltimore, which
city Ia the greatest oyster market In
the world. There are opened an
three million Bushels Of oysters. In
Baltimore more than thirty thou
sand persons are employed in pre-
pairing oysters for market. In the
same city are prepared over nine
tenths Of the worlds product of
canned oy sters, great quantities be-
ing exported to Europe.
Oyster farming is also extensively
engaged in at Long Island Sound.
More than seventy thousand acres of
beds are under cultivation in the
Sound.
The oyster beds are becoming
smaller, and the work of raising
them scientifically has already be-
gun. Only small per cent of
oysters live, the great majority be-
ing either eaten by fish or dying in
the mud. Only those live which be-
come attached to some hard SUBJ
stance in the water. Thus attached
they remain there and grow until
removed by an outside power. The
oyster is not ready for market until
it is five years ola.
Chinese Beggars.
OF the many strange things In
China row none are stranger than
the power exerted by the "Society
of Beggars," which has it's head
quarters at Pekin, and whose mem
hership numbers many thousands.
The head of the society is called
liking of the Beggars." He is rec
| ognized by the government and his
orders are obeyed implicitly by his
subjects. They fear no man save
their king, and when they approach
you the only way to get rid OF them
is to buy them off. They will de-
scend upon a town and lay seige un-
til the merchants of the place signify
/ a Willingness to pay. IL requires
several hundred dollars to satisfy
them, and when 1t is paid they de-
part to another town. They some
times refuse to allow bodies to be
buried until they are paid.
Chinese Women in New York.
There are only about forty Chinese
wo nen in New York. They are
very gentle and often highly intelli-
gent. The hui bands of some of these
women are men of wealth, and they
enjoy no little luxury in their houses,
which arefurnished in characteristic
oriental fashion.
Deaf and Dumb Soldiers.
In the upper part of New York
City is military school for deaf and
dumb boys.
BY means of the drill the chests Of
the boys which because Of the nom
use of the voice are undevelopeo-
become well developed, thus adding
greatly to the health of the students.
Toe boys readily learn the COM
mands, which are given by signs,
and are well drilled. They are not
required to fire, and it Ia not intended
to make soldiers or them.
To Enforce Prohibition Laws.
The Rev. Samuel f. Pearson has
been elected by the Prohibitionists
Sheriff of Cumb srland county,
Maine. The city of Portland, the
largest city in the state, is in this
county. The state has had Prohibit
ton laws for years, but they have
not been enforced.
The Rev. Pearson says that after
J Jan. l5t, the rum shops will be
closed in Prohibition Portland. In
the state of Kansas an { fort is being
made to induce the Rev. Charles M.
Sheldon, famous as the author of
In His Steps," to accept the Office
:. of chief of police in Topeka. in order
to get saloons and disorderly resorts
> closed.
: The Board OF Health OF the Philip
, pine Islands reports that leprOsy
, was introduced by the Emperor oil
Z Japan in 1898, when one hundred
, and fifty were sent TO The islands
Since the number mas increased un.
ell IL Is estimated that there are
: thirty thousand lepers In the Archi.
spelago.
; Tue wealth OF Mrs. Hettie Green
: who Is said to be the wealthiee.
' woman in America, 10 estimated al
Z s60,OOO,OOO. He- husband, +. III
, Green, vaho is also rich. is eighty
: years old and inactive. Mrs. Grees
Dives n Hoboken, n. j but y at hei
roffice in the Chemical Nationa
Bank building, New York City
T early every morning. She care
y nothing for society and dresse
, plainly. Her investments are large
. ly IN government bonds, railroad