The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-29
new YORK CITY GOSSIP
COUNTERFEIT POSTAL, CARDS
CAUSE OFFICIALS WORRY
st. PatricL's Has New statues
hryan Says Jefferson Is Misinter-
preted-DeIay in Building Chill
dren's Court TroubIesome-Pay-
Well for Rare Books.

NEW YORK, April 28.-The postal au-
thorities are exercised over the discovery
OF counterfeit postal cards in the mails
from nearly every part of the United
States.
Postermaster Van Colt says that while
the operations of the counterfeiters COW
ers wide territory, he does not believe
that as yet many of the counterfeit cards
had been used.
We have received only a few Of the
cards at the New York postoffice," he
said. What bOthers us is the fact that
those received have come from so many
different sections. Several inspectors are
working on the case, however, and l
don't believe many more will be used
The cards are such a poor counterfeit
anyway that they would not pass us
now that We arc on the watch for them. .
The description Of the counterfeit cards
given out to the postal employees is as
follows:
Top of name line runs together, genu-
inc is spaced. Lines in Jefferson's face
are coarse and broken, wreath not uni
form. Word Jefferson is light-face, genu-
inc bold-face type. 1t is a coated paper,
not used for cards. The whole appears
to be a copy from an old, WORKOUT
plate.
Water CoIOrists Exhibit.
We have had the Water Color club and
/ the Academy, and can still see the So
| ciety Of American Artists. The season is
| almost at its close when the older or
! ganization of water colorists makes it's
! bow to New York and in quarter rather
! unexpected too, namely, in the galleries
| Of the American Art association on Mad
! ison Square.
The society does several other surpris-
! ing springlike things besides. 1t has put
! its catalogue into a new cover, designed
/ by George Wharton Edwards, Whereon
we see spring herself with a headdress Of
| birds wings, listening to the tWitter of
the migrating fowl, which are flying, all
one way, through d groYe of trees behind
| her back.
Statues for st. Patrick's.
There were placed in inches in the
south trarsept of st. Patrick's Cathedral
| last week the plaster casts of four stat
| ues, representative of four saints and
| doctors of the church, known in the rec
crds of the Congregation IF Rites as St
| Anslem st. Bernard, st. BOnaventura
and st. Alphonse. They are to be cut in
| Carrara marble by Mr.. Joseph Sibbel, the
/ sculptor and replaced in the inches, to
| be dedicated next Christmas by special
| ceremonies. The names of the donors of
| the statues are not now to be made pub
| lie.
St. Anselm was an early archbishop of
| Canterbury and is known in Roman
! Catholic annals as the father of the scho-
| lastics He founded what came to be
| known as the school of new philosophy.
| He died in 1109.
/ ST. Bernard of ClairvauX, known as the
| greatest preacher of rs time, was d
| contemporary of St. Anselm, and his fig
| ure in the cathedral will probably be be
| side that of the English archbishop.
| 7t11ra xUhn cd N
fore having attained his fortieth year,
was a cardinal bishop of the Church Of
Rome and of the Franciscan order. lie
designed the habit of the order and the
rules by which for the most part it is stlll
governed.
ST. Alphonse of Liguori was born in
| Naples in 1897, living to the age of ninety
| years Before entering the church he was
| a law student and it was as a writer
| that he won fame. He was bishop of
ST. Agatha in the archdiocese of Bene-
yenti. Italy, and founded the Redemption
lists.
Bryan ExpOunds Jefferson.
William J. Bryan, in letter read at
| Democratic harmony celebration In
the Bronx, reiterated his view that the
Democratic party should stand by the
| Kansas City platform and should not
adopt Ambiguous" platforms in order
to win elections
| Mr.. Bryan's letter, which aroused lit
tie enthusiasm, was the first expression
| received from the Nebraska leader at any
of the recent harmony gatherings in
this city. The late presidential candl-
date wrote on the characteristics OF
Jefferson, in whose honor the meeting
was held. He said that no student OF
Jeffersons words can doubt that he
would, if living, oppose the imperial pol
icy of the Republican party, which seeks
to establish our government upon a
basis of force rather than upon the
consent of the governed; no one can
doubt that he would, if living, oppose the
private monopoIies which are being fos-
tered by the Republican administration
| No one can doubt that ne would, if liv-
| ing, oppose banks of issue, branch banks
the degradation of silver and the con-
troll Of the treasury department by New
| York financierS.
Juvenile Court Delay Awkward.
The proceedings in the court of special
sessions have been interrupted frequent
| ly lately by policemen coming in with
| child prisoners, sent there by Mag1s-
! trate Pool, who holds that the children
| court law signed recently by Gov. Odell
| is operative Notwithstanding the fact
that the chldren's court building is not
| completed, and he is thus relieved from
| the trouble of attending to the Juvenile
| cases.
Justice Mayer being alarmed at the
| idea that the court of special sessions
crowded with business, must take charge
of all the childrens cases, communicated
| with several of the magistrates in the
city, who sent word that they felt that
| it was their duty to try the cases of
children until the children's court should
be put in operation. Justice Mayer said
from the bench, not mentioning the
| magistrate who had sent the cases to
him:
1.-THE majority of the city magistrates
have shown no desire to embarrass this
court in putting into effect the new law
This is an interregnum, but the major
ity of the magistrates hold with me, act
ing as a magistrate, that we are en-
powered to act in the cases of children
until the children's court is ready fol
the hearing Of their cases."
Rare Editions Sell Well.
For first edition OF John Bunyan's
"The Holy War; London, Dorman New
man, 1862 a book of great rarity, $70(
was paid last week by Messrs Scribner
| at the auction sale of Bangs & Co
of Marshall c. Lefferts' collection of the
works of the chief Elizabethan, Jaco-
bean and Restoration authors.
One Of the scarcest books in English
literature, adam Bell. CIim of the
Clough and William of Cloudisle," Lon
don, A M for w Thackeray, no date,
was secured by Dodd, Mead & Co. fol
$3.50.
A remarkable feature Of the sale was
the record prices fetched by works OF
Mr.. T. F. Dibdin, the general writer or
bibliomania. A catalogue of his library
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