The true northerner., 1900-08-17

teach are coming TO have more and
more adherents. Their recruits come
from among the recent immigrants
approaching the blessings of liberty.
here. use the privileges TO plot AK inst
government in any form. To the real
Anarchist d republic is no better tnan
a despo,ism. Their strange ideas OF
society without organized government
are even selling upon tie minds Oh
the young, and handsome young
Italian girl of twenty, was Interview
ed the other day. who confessed that
she was an Anarchist of the most
pronounced type. She was not prepar-
ed TO say that she would herself take
life, but she fully justified the muir
der of King Humbert. The wretched
lives which many Of these people
live, and their surroundings. all seem
to add flames to the fire of Anarchy
which is perhaps the most insane and
dangerous of all political heracies.
Fire Proof Piers
The great steamship companies are
talking of building fireproof piers. The
enormous damage 10 property and the
awful loss of life which occurred at
the Hoboken fire recently has taught
them a needed lesson. The cost or
fireproof piers will be large, but not so
great as many suppose. A method
of treating wood and even much more
infiammable materials has been dis
covered and is now being introduced.
By the use of these new inventions, 1t
is believed that 1t is not only possible
but entirely practicable to make te
piers fireproof.
A New Hair Tonic.
1t has been discovered by the holi-
day makers summering at Manhattan
Beach that the sun is an excellent hair
tonic. A baldheaded man last sum-
mer got the top of his Uranium badly
sunburned, but when the soreness
had passed away, he found that a
new crop of hair had taken root, and
before the end of the season he was
as we'll thatched as he could desire.
This is the story seashore loungers are
telling each other, and now it is the
fashion for women TO go in bathing
and to sit on the sands without hats.
The shirt-waist Man.
"The shirt waist man"-that is. the
man who goes about in negligee
shirt, without a coat-is becoming
more numerous in public places IN
New York every day. Down town, IN
the field financial district, you may
see on any hot day scores of the best
known brokers and bankers walking
about without coats. In the roof gar
dens it is becoming the emineEtiy
proper thing. to appear in shirtsieeves.
1t is thought that by next summer the
fashion will have established itself
thoroughly. At present it takes 1T
tie nerve and the knowledge that the
fit of ones shirt, haberdashery and
trousers is perfect to enable man
to promenade Broadway in a costume
that until now has been regarded as
impossible dishabille.
some Others
For some unknown reason II has
never been the custom to describe the
dress of society men, although an ar
ticle concerning a social function Is
regarded as incomplete II IL does not
picture the gowns of the bellies. The
injustice of this seemed TO appeal TO
a party Of men who occupied box at
the rales recently, for when the re-
porter went to them to learn their
names they insisted that their attire
should be included. and several ven
tured information TO the effect that
one Of the party wore pair of loud
socks, while another's necktie was
extremely gay"
Talatial Residences on Fifth Avenue.
More palaces are to go up in mil
lionaires' row." that stretch of Fifth
avenue facing Central Park, where
property values are high. in harmony
with the fortune Of most of those who
live there. John w. Sterling, the
banker, is to build a mansion just
north of Seventy-second street and
plans for it were finished a few days