The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-27

private secretary, is himself, one OF
New York's really important men
With the exception of Jacob A. Riis
he has done more for improving the
| condition of tenement house dwellers
than any other man in New York
I Riis is a close personal friend OF
President Roosevelt, and was. recent
ly offered an important diplomatic APP
pointment by him. which he declined
because he was unwilling to give III
his tenement house work. Private
Secretary Reynolds is still at the head
of the University Settlement Society
which offers instruction and recreation
to tenement house children: teaches
tenement house mothers how to cook
and make their generally squaliC
houses attractive: tries to provide
lounging places for tenement house
fathers who would otherwise go to the
saloons for rest and gossip; gives ex-
cursions in summertime for sick babies
and thus doubtless saves many lives
has sewing classes and other things
for shop and factory girls, and in other
ways does much good. These things
have greatly endeared Mr.. Reynolds
to thousands of people on the East Side
Many marriages are performed in the
City Hall. One happy Irishman who
had gone there with a blushing maiden
of his own race on matrimonial pur-
poses bent, insisted on having Mr.. Rey-
nolds as one of the witnesses and he
good naturally consented. After the
ceremony the man shook hands with
Mr.. Reynolds and thanked him.
Faith" said he. but it's glad 1 am
you was here. I want yez to see to
it Misther Reynolds that Norah here
lar-r-rns how to cook"
"All right" said Mr.. Reynolds, de-
lighted at this practical fruit of his
work on the East Side, come around
Norah and I'll see that you have every
chance"
AN Misther Reyonlds," put in the
bride, will yez show me how to keer
Mike home nights?"
We'll do our BEST" said Mr.. Rey-
nolds. but 1 fancy that he wouldn't
want to be away from you much
mot on yer life," said Mike. An say!
| will yeZ fix 1t so the children can
p-l-lay on the sand heaps and swing
in the swings an ginerally injoy thin
selves?"
What children?" asked Mr.. Rey-
nolds, somewhat bewildered.
But Mike had no chance to answer
Norah, furiously blushing had dragged
him away before Mr.. Reynolds mild
blue eyes had ceased to show a gaze
of wonder.
A number of New Workers have
made a combination which has for its
object the foundation of q Summer
Colony on Cape Cod. w. D. Howells
the novelist, is one of the group which
have made plans which will enable
them to sing as Aunt Sybilla Cradle
bow did:
10! on narer neck O. land
'Twixt two unbounded seas I stand
Hamlin Garland is another of the
literary lights who will have summer
residences on the Cape. The move
ment had queer beginning Some
years ago newspaper man went with
his wife to Orleans a small town on
the Cape, for his vacation. While there
ne heard that the sand dunes around
ProVincetown were moving in. A sand
dune has ways of it's own. There are
pine forests on Cape Cod which were
f1ourishing ten years ago, but which
are now drowned by sand. One If these
groups of stunted hills is covered al
most completely so that only about
six inches of each of it's tallest trees
protrude above the sand when
dune starts to move it is as inexor-
able as fate. Nothing can stop it. II
may take ten years to overWhelm the
obstacles which stand in its path. but
it will eventually overwhelm them lust
the same. If you are a Cape Cod
householder and a dune starts toward
your place, you will move, if YOU are
wise. The man at Provincetown saw
ruin coming to his place when by
measurement he found that a dune
had advanced four inches in a month
His only chance was to sell out To
some stranger who did not understand
the ways of Cape Cod sand dunes. The
stranger he selected for a victim was
newspaper man, who, with his wife,
was spending his vacation on the Cane
The place was really worth pretty
nearly a thousand dollars, but the
sandwise Cape Colder, knowing that
the dune had doomed it, sold it to the
newspaper man for less than half its
value.
And here is illustrated the contrari-
ness of dunes. The following summer
the prevailing winds were from the
west instead of from the east and the
dune moved away more rapidly than
it had moved on. The house was a
pleasant old place and the journalist
invited various friends to visit him
there. They liked the strange location.
and now the old farmhouse stands
pretty nearly in the center of a eroun
OF pleasant cottages, each of which is
occupied during the summer by a man
whose name is known to the whole
American reading public.
New York is to have a new Mace
of amusement patterned after one in
Havana. Where Durland's Riding
Academy stood before it was burned,
at Fifty-ninth street and Eighth ave-
nue. is to be erected a Jai-Alai Court.
Jai-Alai is pronounced in Spanish as
II II spelled Hail. Jai Alai is a
strenuous game and is wholly Span
ish. 1t is played with long bats.
somewhat like those used in lacrosse
1t must have building with smooth
and solid inner walls, for many of the
best plays come when the ball is
caught by the bats on the rebound
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, who was
governor general of Cuba. became a
deVotee of the game in Havana and
most of those who know II well pre-
dict that II viii become a FAD in New
York. Its principal drawback is that