Evening star., 1901-06-12
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Young College Graduates Going to
Teach the Fiipinos.
The DAUGHTERS OF ERIN"
Club Women VIII Be Well Rep
resented at Buffalo.
THING IN SWINDLES

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, June H. 1901.
Six youths of mere or less stall
wart mental and physical build, most
of which was acquired at Harvard,
are going out to the Philippines to
impart some of their knowledge to the ma
tives of those islands For their services
they will be paid by the United States
government. The young teachers are Jo-
seph Smith, B. X. Daniels, S. P Thomas
P. H. Eley, E. H. Douglas and w. H. Hill
They will graduate this summer. Hill and
Douglas have had experience in teaching.
They evinced a liking for the manly and
elevating art last summer during the Gu
ban invasion of the Harvard summer
school. Eley is from North Carolina and
is supposed to be excelently fitted for civ
ilizing foreigners. as he is young man
with excellent manners and a reverence
for his elders which pleases all with whom
he comes in cantact. Daniels already is
something of a hero, having served in
South Africa and paraded to the relief of
Kimberley. Smith is tireless when it comes
to studies. and Thomas, although admit
ting coming from Peabody is reported
having been very proficient, so far his
college duties were concerned. He also is
inclined to be literary, and has contrib
uted various articles to the Harvard
Monthly and the Outlook They will go to
the Philippines Immediately after the COM
menCement
To Educate Working Women.
Mayor John Daily of Limerick, ireland,
has inaugurated a movement for the es-
tablishment of an institute for the educa-
tion and elevation of Irish working wom-
en-, and the movement has spread to the
United States. The plans have just been
made public Limerick will be the head
quarters of the Daughters of Erin" and
there they will have their institute. Wom-
en- will be invited to meet for social enjoy
ment, as well for education. One of the
chief purposes will be the teaching and
study of Gaelic. Branches will be estab-
lished here. When he visited this country
Mayor DAILY enlisted the services of many
women of Irish lineage in his new under
taking. and got the promises. too, of the
hearty cooperation of many of New York S
foremost citizens. He returned to Limerick
with the knowledge that the project was
bound to be a success. The Limerick Mems
Association will hold the first benefit for
the Daughters of Erin on Saturday even
ing, June 22. at Murray Hill Lyceum. The
proceeds will be forwarded to Mayor Daily.
Club Women at Buffalo.
Club women will make things hum at the
Pan-American exposition. Besides the New
York state federation, which convenes in
Buffalo the first week in October the Fed
Grafton of Women's Literary and Educa-
tional Clubs of Western New York is now
there and during the summer the New Jer-
sey federation, the New York state bodies
of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton and the Daughters of the Revolution,
the aNtional Womens Christian Temper
ance Union and the National Household
Economic Association will all hold sessions
at the fair. This canny way of combining
business with pleasure is per-eminently
characteristic of "organiZed effort" How
many delegates and visitors Will conscien-
tic usly attend the sessions of their So
cietieS and how many do" the fair re-
mains to be seen. All, it Is certain, will
join in any special courtesies or privileges
that may be extended the clubwomen in a
body. There is no distinctive woman's ex-
hibit at the Pan-American as there was at
the Chicago exposition. A board of woman
managers headed by Mrs. William Hamlin,
and composed of twenty-siX representative
women of Buffalo, is down the program
looking out for woman's interests"
DR. Ida c. Bender, one of the best dressed
delegates to the state federation conven-
tion in Albany last fall is one of these rep
reSentative women.
Clever SwindIe in the TenderIoin.
One Of the cleverest swindles of the dec
ade was perpetrated in the Tenderlcin the
other night. A young man stopped at the
fruit stand of one Giovanni Martinelr to
received his purchase he became wildly
excited and began poking over the rubbish
of the stand. The fruit vender got down
on his hands and knees to help in the
search after he had been informed that
something was lost, but found nothing
The customer then informed Martinelli that
he was a physician and had dropped a
glass eye, when he had paid for the cher
ries, and that it was for a customer who
would call at 10 o'clock the next morning
He left after Offering MartjDe1li a S.fn itS
recovery. The fruitman searched in vain
for a trace of the eye for hours, and then
gave it up. About an hour later a newsboy
picked something out Of the stand and
showed it to Martinelli. 1t was the lost
eye. After dickering a while the fruit
dealer secured the glass eye for $40 and
had delightful dreams of the business tact
which would bring him IS profit These
dreams lasted until he sought the willy doc
tor at the WaldorfAstoria and then the
game was out. The hotel people did not
know him. Now the fruitman is silently
swearing at the tickle goddess-luck while
numerous detectives and wardmen are look
ing for a young man who is fond Of cher
rieS.
George Washington Relic.
George Washington's family coach has
been presented by Augustus Frey, real
estate agent of this city, to the Ladies'
Union Of America. Captain Richardson. a
well-known figure In Harlem, paid $500
for the venerable vehicle at the, centennial
exposition at Philadelphia. He was ia
nous collector of relics and his home.
at Castle Eden, Morrisania was a museum
Mr.. Frey bought 1t of him. It will be
shipped tomorrow to Mount Vernon. where
it will be placed on permanent exhibition
with other Washington relics of which the
union has become the owner From the
centennial to the present time Washing
tons coach has been rusting away in an
old stable in Morrisania, serving as a roost
for chickens and catch-all for discarded
things usually thrown into garrets Many
persons remember 1t as the chief of those
parts Of the centenary parade in New
York which put one in touch with the cere-
monial time of our republican court"
Interesting Class Souvenir
One Of the interesting souvenirs of West
Points famous class Of 1853 was owned by
Gen. Thomas Wilson, who died recently in
this city. General Wilson was a member