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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-20
Firemen's Week E.
al Buffalo


Special Correspondence n The Tribune.
Buffalo. July le.--Firemen all over
the country are looking forward to
frcmen's week, beginning Aug. 10 at
the Pan-Amcrican exposition. with the
brightest anticipation of right good
time. There viii he more firemen as
serlbled ct the exposition during that
week than ever were gatheyed in one
spot before in the history OF this cour-
try. In the great throng will be ex-
empts, volunteers md paid nremen
from all parts ot Canada and the Unit
cd states.
The fifth annual convention Of the
National Firemen's association Of the
United states will be held at Buffalo
from Aug. 90 to "a. and the New York
state Firemen's association will hold
Its annual convention in the same
place on Aug. % and 90. A firemen's
tournament will be held in the mag
nficent Stadium of the exposition on
Aug. % and 20, and an extraordinary
programme of events In which firemen
are to participate exclusively, has been
arranged by the exposition committee
OF sports in conjunction with the Buff
falo Volunteer Firemens association.
matter of reception, entertainment,
etc. In charge. are in receipt of COM
munications from the secretaries OF
hundreds of organizations in different
parts of the country stating that their
companies are coming from 80 TO 800
strong. Tho visitors will be in uni
form and many OF them will bring
equipment. The best drilled compa-
MES in the United States will be pres
ent and will compete for prizes in the
Stadium. No better place for a fire.
mems tournament could be provided
than this grand structure within the
exposition grounds 1t has a quarter
mile running track and an expansive
field, large enough to accommodate all
the events desirable. The seating ca
pacity is 10000
There are about 375000 firemen in
this country and fair representation
of this number at Buffalo means tre-
mendous crowd. A feature of the
week will he a mammoth parade, in
which more than 200 firemen's associa-
tions will be in line.
The Buffalo Veteran Volunteer Fire
mems association has appointed COM
mittees to take complete charge of the
arrangements, both for the convention
and the visitors to the exposition. a
fine entertainment programme has
been arranged. The visiting f1remen
are assured royal welcome and
splendid entertainment in the Pam
American city. At the exposition they
will find one Of the best fire depart
ments in the country and exhibits of
all of the latest things in fire-fighting
machinery.
Elhert L. Lewis.
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Millions in II.

A y INGENIOUS scheme has
~ -jurr come to grief in Wash
l. n ington, ID. c., in the holding
to bail for investigation hy a
grand jurvof Mrs. Carrie T., Hayes.
described in the Washington star as
an attractive lady Of middle age, who
represented an alleged institution
known as the Monte Vista Mission as
sociation.
For, sum of money--$25 ir some
cases. $50 in others-Mrs. Hayes agreed
20 SUPPLY her patrons with well trained
domesti servants for life in addition
to giving title to a quarter-acre lot in
MontSomery county, Va, where the
association was alleged to have in
operation fine training school for SER
wants, With the lot went an Impress
i've looking certificate of membership.
rNese certificates sold like hot cakes
until song hIquisitive person made in
qulrisS which disclosed that the asso-
citation was intangible and the train
ing sohuol, with It's real estate annex
was a dream. This discovery led to
legal proceedings before Judge Scott,
who. after hearing the testimony, is re-
ported to have said that he had never
heard of q scheme that could be worked
so successfully. on the women of the
land. There was no gold mine in the
Anest. or stock scheme In the east that
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COUNTRY CoURTsHIP.

He cane In the early twilight. When he
knocked che opened the door and pretended TO
be surprised at seeing him.
"Be Il you, JimP'
Jim admitted being at" by curt "yes,"
and followed her into the pirct. n. sat down
on a chair without leaning back, placed his hat
in his lap and clasped his hands over his knees.
She sat on the far sde o. the room with her
hands lying idly one in the other. After lapse
Of fourteen minutes he opened the conversation:
Folks well?'
"All 'cept pap; he's down with roonytr."
Another long and omnous silence-perhaps
twenty minutes.
Coin o begin harvestin' t'morrer," ne said
Dew tell. Must hev airly crops from her
Then the clock had the aoor for another
seventeen minutes.
"Hoss Is sick" she said.
"waai. I'll be durn! Which un'" exclaimed
jim
"Bay mare"
"Ep zooticksr
"Ep zooticks"
After this outburst nothing was said for thir.
ty minutes.
Coin T. tn sngin' skule Saturday nisht7'
queried Jim.
"Nobuddy axt me-" she said.
81 axes "" said Jim, bravcly.
"rll CO." she said
Twenty-Five minutes elapsed.
"Ole Boss he'd a kaf." said Jim Frightening.
Law me!' she said.
Coin" he said, and walked out an the
porch She followed him to the door and they
Fboth stood thus in silence for ten minutes.
Must he after a." he said.
Must be-" she said
Good night, Mandy" he said.
Good night, jim, she said and shut the
door as he walked out Of the yard.
And yet this is the twentieth century. Cleve.
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lines has been done come the same
character of reports We give here a
brief abstract from the Press of Phila-
delphia--a mere outline.
Chicago and Brooklyn are the two
cities IN which vacation schools are
probably carried the nearest to perfec-
ton The scope OF the work done in
the first city can be judged from the
fact that instruction is offered in both
primary and grammar grades. In the
primary grades the children are taught
physical culture, manual training and
simple gardening. Lessons In sewing,
darning and washing are provided for
the girls, and in drawing and the use
of simple tools for the boys. In the
grammar grades instruction is offered
In the care of plants, gardens and
yards, in the improvement of the in
terror of the house and domestic SER
vice. a new course of study has been
added this year in public institutions.
Bathing facilities are provided and
weekly excursions to the country are
given. which offer not only opportunl-
ties for pleasure but for instruction in
forestry and agriculture.
The courses offered in the Brooklyn
schools are almost az comprehensive
aS those given in the Chicago schools
The boys are taught in wood and metal
work and in drawing and the girls in
domestic industrial work and in sew
ing and millinery. No attempt, how
ever. is made TO impart learned in
struction, but everything is smpllhed
as much as possible. The popularity
of these vacation schools can be es-
timated from the fact that three
schools in Chicago have an average of
day of registration in Brooklyn nearly
5000 children presented themselves"
In Manhattan borough. tas what We
used to know as New York city is now
legally entitled,) the accounts that
have appeared during the last two
weeks of this summers opening of the
schools there show as great a pressure
upon these summer schools and as
varied employment and training.
1t is not merely. by any means, the
present health and happiness of the
children of the poor that is involved.
1t is the making of good citizens 1t
is the welfare of the whole community.
If Scranton is wise it will not allow
another summer to go by without start
ing the vacation school work here.
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could compare with 1t for creating in
their money as quickly as the assur-
ance OF having the servant girl prob
lem settled for life, and II was with
the idea of preventing other persons
from being tempted to work it that
Judge Scott said he would place bail at
81, 200.
Perhaps Il should he added. in fair
ness TO the fair defendant. that when
confronted with the proofs of fradu-
lent representation she admitted slight
discrepancies in her statements to
patrons, but said she fully intended TO
bring to pass the things she had prom-
ised. When she does she will undoubt-
edly deserve a monument.
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Wv yE RETURN to the i'm
AN portant subject of va
cation schools for the
multitude of children
who in sammer can never have
a country vacation, whose only
play place is the city streets.
Scranton has as thorough need
OF such schools as has any of
the cities larger than itself. The sole
difference is that it does not need so
great a number of them as do the
cities with larger, but not more cos
mopolitan, population.
There is every reason why the city
of Scranton and its municipal author
titles should arouse themselves to active
interest in this especial form of the
training of good citizens. 1t takes the
children of the least favored classes a
the age when they are most susceptible
to Influences, whether bad or good,
and brings the good TO bear upon
them in the most Irresistible fashion
the way of attraction and enjoyment.
immigration is bringing TO this COM
IL
greater and greater number every
year of the races whose children have
the keenest need of such training as
the vacation schools give. Neither
public night schools nor "assoCiation"
schools reach them at the age the va
cation schools can and do-the age Of
seed sowing which the later attempts
at cutivating the moral and mental
soil can never hope to compete with.
There have been not merely columns
but many thousand pages of New York
and Chicago papers given to descrip-
tions of the varied work done in the
vacation schools of those two cities,
the immense good accomplished by
them, the eagerness of the children
each year for their re-openng. From
cities where similar work on similar
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OPEN THE DOOR.

Open the door, let in the air;
The winds are sweet, and the flowers are fair,
Joy is abroad in the world today;
II our door is wide, it may come this way
open the door!
Open the door, let in the sun;
lie hath a smile for everyone;
lie hath made OF the raindrops gold and gems;
lie may change our tears to diadcns.
open the door!
Open the door Of the soul; let in
Strong, pure thoughts which shall Danish sin.
They will grow and bloom with a grace divine
And their fruit shall be sweeteT than that Of
the vino.
Open the door!
Open the door Of the heart; let in
sympathy, sweet stranger and kin
II will make the halls Of the heart so fall
That angels may enter unaware.
Open the door,
British Weekly
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has been arrested as a vagrant, will
he examined with view of ascertain
ing his qualifications for admission to
a lunatic asylum. Schlatter's career
Is GlarinG example of what can he
accomplished by a talkative crank,
backed and advertised by sensational
newspaper reporters, who invariably
hcralded his coming by glowing ac-
counts of miracles which he never has
performed. Schlatter should have
been confined long ago and host of
his lurid press agents ought to accom-
pany him into forced retirement.
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The Bell Telephone company at Buff
falo has adopted Il directory plan
which it is wonder that somebody
has not thought of before In this
day of progress, when telephone rates
are so low that tho invention is
brought within the reach of the masses
and constant additions are being made
to the lists of subscribers. il is i'm
possible to get out supplements fast
enough to keep up with the acccssions
and give anything like a correct direc-
tory. The Buffalo company has there
fore made arrangements to print adj
ditional names i'm lots of fifty in the
daily newspapers. thus enabling sub
scrbers to make up "A directory to suit
themselves. This plan would be ap-
preCiated in Scranton, where often it
is necessary to call for subscribers not
on the list. the result being rather
strained relations between the patron
and the operators at the exchange.
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AT Pittsfield. Mass, of Rob-
IA ert S. Fosbursh. charged
with killing his sister, May
Fosbureh, on the night of Aug 20.
1900, is attracting widespread atten-
ton and this is not strange in view of
the singular facts alleged.
on the night in question the Fos-
hurgh family. wealthy and of good
repute. consisting of father and
mother son, two daughters and the
sons wife. were entertaining a guest,
Miss Sheldon As late as l1.3O o'clock
the neishbors heard them laughing,
singing and playing upon a piano.
Shortly before o'clock there were
pistol shots and screams and May
Fosbursh, IS years old, was found
dead with a bullet hole through the
heart.
The story told by the family was
that after they had been in bed about
an hour and a half the senior Fos-
hurgh was awakened by the flashing
of a lantern He arose. was confront
ed by a masked man pointing a pistol
at his head, struck the pistol away,
knocking il out of the intruder's hand
had fierce struggle with the burglar,
had rib broken and was finally sand
bagged. His wife was also struck and
as the other members of the family
rushed to the scene the burglars con-
federate, who stood at the door. fired
two shots, one of which killed May
Foshurgh. The story is fully con-
firnhed by all the Fosburghs, including
the younger daughter a girl of II, who
says she saw the entire episode, and
whose circumstantial testimony with
stood searching Cross-examination.
Miss Sheldon, the guest, being some
what deaf. came on the scene after the
struggle was over.
But the police tell different story.
They allege that young Fosburgh
quarreled either with his father or his
wife, presumably the latter. since their
relations had been squally: and that
the sister, acting as peacemakor re-
oeived bullet meant for another.
They say the family then, to save its
reputation, ConcoCted the burglar
story. Some of the reasons they offer
fc! reaching such a conclusion are as
follows: The bullet that killed May
Foshurgh fits revolver purchased
some time before by Robert Fosburgh
and kept in a drawer in an adjoining
spare room. This revolver disappeared
the night of the tragedy and has not
been seen since. They also say that
the nishtgown worn by Mrs. Fos-
hurGh, jr, was torn as by a struggle
and that the position Of the furniture
pointed rather to a domestic row thar
10 a tussle with burglars. The mask
worn by one of the alleged burglars
was cut from a pillow case in the
spare room. and the police say it is
strange that burglars would enter a
house without either pistol or masks
trusting to find same when in Final
ly the lack Of tracks that would cor
respond with the family's version of
the burglars fight over a greensward
covered with heavy dew is cited by
the prosecution as proof presumptive
that there We're no burglars in the
case.
The trial now on has just got fairly
started No wonder people are inter
>ested in its developments.
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To Wage EarnerS
and Others of
Moderate Income

DO not spend your money foolishly
because you have SO little of il, but
save what you can from month to
month and invest it in something that
will multiply many fold. The mill
lionaires of this section were laboring
men a generation ago and they pur-
sued this course while most Of their
comrades blew II all in. The pru-
dent ones saw that fuel was a good
thing, that the world had to have
1t, and they bought coal land. little
at a time as they could spare it. and
it has made them rich. and their fami-
lies live and will live in the greatest
their imprudent comrades are labor
ing as their fathers dd-for day
wages.
Keep this object lesson in mind.
The opportunities of that earlier time
were in coal, today greater opportun-
ties exist in oil, which is fuel in a
more concrete form and is rapidly
supplanting coal. because IL is easier
and cheaper to mine and handle, and
is, besides being a more economic
fuel for all large consumers, profit
able for a hundred other uses. The
oil of California is furnishing that
state with cheap fuel for the lack of
which her progress has been woefully
retarded. The entire Pacific coast
will consume oil as fuel. so that
the demand upon the oil fields of Cali
fornia is unlimited. California oil
refiners will hold the markets of the
far East and of the west coast of
South America. 1t is plain to be seen
that the oil fields of California will
be the source of incalculable wealth.
far beyond what the coal mines of
PENNSYLVANIA have been in the past.
All thoughtful men can see that the
thing to do now TO make money is
10 buy the shares of conservative, re-
putably managed oil companies hav-
ing large holdings of undoubted oil
lands secured at low prices, and only
requiring development to become the
source of enormous revenues for
shareholders.
The PACIFIC COAST AND TEXAS
OH. COMPANY has in the most i'm
portant oil fields managers of ability
and integrity and of the highest prac-
tical qualifications for their business,
and the shares of this company are
today, without doubt, the best invest
ment obtainable. These shares would
be cheap at 40c, but are selling for
the time being at zoe per share. to
procure money to bore the first wells.
The price is sure to advance rapidly
to keep pace with the developments
on the company's lands and on ad-
Joining lands. The market value of
the lands is constantly advancing Do
not delay making an investment in
this stock. AS 10 the value of this
oil property and the character and
ability of its managers this company
refers, by permission, TO the presi-
dent of the Broadway Bank and
Trust company, of Los Angeles. Cal.
For particulars concerning this in
vestment apply to the
INVESTMENTand FINAN CE CO
Room I, Dime Bank Building,
Scranton Pa
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Lord Pauncefote's assurance that
new canal treaty which will obviate
past objections is an early probability
is gratifying. Let us hope the trans
continental railroad interests that
have blocked the building of an 18TH
mian waterway for thirty years will
not then get new sprag in its way.
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Next to the five-cent library pamph-
away iom home to become border
brigands or Indian slayers. may be
classed the papers whose editors pre-
fer human interest" stories to actual
news,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-20

Earl Russell, the British peer who
gets three months in Jail for bigamy,
declares he sinned in ignorance that
he was violating any law Evidently
he is not acquainted with the moral
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EDUCATIONAL CONTEST

This action is taken for the purpose Of protecting legitimate
contestants and preventing the possibility Of specuo from
entering the last day and purchasing scholarship
by presenting the Of his friends subscribers and
paying for them himself While nothing of this attempted
last year the close the contest demonstrated that would have
taken much less than to have purchased the first special
reward the winning contestant had only secured for The
Tribune less than s4oo subscriptions The Tribune desires
TO protect the contestants that working so noh for and will
its best endeavo feature the
fair and wishes distinctly understood that the rewards Of
fered in for sale but will positively the
tesants who the largest number Of points, which will be
credited only for and legitimate subscribers.
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Turkey, it appeara, is willing to
stand almost anything in the way of
missionary enterprise but draws the
line at the sweet girl graduate"
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TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune Astrologer.
&s

child born on this day will yet play on
West Side vsduct.
The ice cream freezer is about the only thing
that is in danger of working overtime.
The minister who breaches the shortest ser.
mons generally has the largest congregations.
The absent'minded man can generally FORGET
everything but his troubles
1t is often difficult for college man TO live lin
10 his diploma.
Brilliant repartee frequently ends IN uncouth
wranelng,
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HoMELIKE.

From BroolSyn Life.
Prospective Bolrd-You advertise "homelike
surroundings"
Country Farmer-Yep we've got a janitor
from tie city fer hired man.
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5inghamiO1 PdVat, Trainin, School
JOHN HOWARD HARRIS, President.
GOILEGE OF IlRERaI nRT

for nervous, Back ward and Deaf Mute Chill
dren Manual Tanning Physical Culture,
Needlework Music, kindergarten, Articuls-
tion, Open year round. Circular Prices
moderate S. A, DooLITTLE.
s2 Fairview Avenue.
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next morning. instead Of an indignant dismissal
from further attendance, ne received IRON his
patient a confession that he had diagnosed her
complaint quite correctly.
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Agunaldo appears TO have dropped
out of sight, but Mr., Bryan continues
to snjke the leftover campaign pre-
variCatiOrTs
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Indeed, an analysis of the export figures Of
manufactures for the eleven months now avail
able shows in most cases an increase over 1900,
and that the decrease is confined to few ar
ticlcS and i due in some cases at least, to
tall in price rather than reduction in guam
tity. In Illuminating oils, for instance, the cN-
port figures for tho eleven months ending with
May. 1901, show a decrease Of four and half
million dollars in value hut an increase II
nearly j0,0OO,00O gallons, the accurate figures
being: For eleven months ending with May,
1900 663.55i.52s gallons, value jl,7j3, 797; and
for the eleven months of 1901 III s42, 276 gallons.
value Si7,22S,is3.
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Ajacchus' Advicl

Cultivate contentmcnt, hut not tie kind that
makes man satisfied 10 take his meals from a
tomato can 10y the roadside.
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Two other great articles Of our exports Of
manufactures show a reduction in 1901 as com.
pared with 1900, viz, copper and cotton manu-
features, and these indeed, form the chief
duction in the grand totals for the year 1901 as
compared with 1900. In the latter, cotton manu-.
iacturcs, the reduction is due entirely TO TEN.
porary conditions in China The total exports Of
cotton manufactures in the eleven months end.
ing with May, 1901. are Sl7,27j,209, against S22,-
0SO, ,5SJ in the corresponding months OF last year,
4 reduction OF Sl-s0j2s4 while an examination
of the figures Of the exports Of cotton cloth TO
China shows that they fell from =, ,2ss 0i6 in the
eleven months Of 1900 TO 5000 127 in the same
months of 1901, a reduction Of sj2si,2lo in this
item alone Thus the reduction in the eAporta.
tion OF cotton manufactures is entirely accounted
for in this single item OF cotton cloths TO China,
where the reduction is, Of course, hut temporary,
due to the disturbances in that country during
the first half Of the fiscal year. The only re-
naming item in the list of exported manu-.
fdctures which shows material reduction is
copper, which shows fall of IS, $40 pounds
IN qusntity, and Sll,sig,5ls in value, during
the eleven months ending with May. 1901, as
compared with the same period Of 1900, though
the value Of copper exports in 1901 is moro than
S6,oOo,OOO in excess Of the corresponding months
OF 1889
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When the Ohio orators mounted the
platform at the Pan-American, all
within hearing became fred with a
red, white and blue feeling.