The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-25
new YORK CITY GOSSIP
WoMEN'S KENNEL ASSOCIATION
OFFERS HANDSOME PRIZES.
Importation of Precious Stones Greater
Than Ever Before-Success Of Va
cation Schools Remarkable and Work
Excites Partridge's Admiration.

IL lAlC early ldl1.
That women are capable Of conduct
| ing dog show was evidenced by the
success of the initial venture Of the
| Ladies' Kennel association last year.
The garden was thronged by lovers of
| the high class dog, of which there were
| upward Of 1900 on exhibition. Encour-
aged by their success, elaborate ar
rangements are being made by the Ia
| dies for this show.
Upward of $4,000 in prize money
will be offered, more than has ever
been offered by any club in this coun-
try. A very liberal classification will
be provided for, arrangements having
been made for 365 classes. of which
| sIxty-six are winners.
The most eminent Judges of the
canine world will pass upon the merits
| OF the dogs on exhibition.
Jewels Imported.
This is the busy season among i'm
porteFs of precious stones, and they
are doing a business this year that is
unprecedented. Appraiser Whitehead
said that the appraised value Of pre-
c1ous stones imported through this port
since the first of the year was about
$16, 100000.
OF this sum fully $4,000, 600 is for inn
ports since the beginning of August
This is far beyond the record of any
previous year. All sorts of precious
stones are included in these figures
but they are chiefly diamonds with
pearls as good second on the list.
Vacation Schools Close.
The so-called vacation schools"
which have done such good work this
summer, are now closing This, how
ever, does not imply that the play
grounds are to be closed. By regular
vacation schools" is meant the more
formally organized institutions open
only in the forenoon. The indoor play
grounds open in school buildings in the
afternoon will not be closed until Aug.
30, and the outdoor Fairgrounds will
be kept open for two weeks after the
end Of August. AS a finale to the work
OF the summer schools the supervisors
are arranging at the board of educa-
ton an illustrative exhibit showing at
ta1nment in every branch taught. Some
of the specimens investigators will find
to be unusually, in fact remarkably.
good achievements for childish fingers.
Commissioner Partridge speaks very
nightly of them. He visited several
last week and he says: while 1 was
down there I stopped for while at
the vacation school at Essex and Mar
ket streets. I wish the public were
that Is being done by these vacation
schools. We went into the playground
and the gentleman in charge, a Har-
ward man, took US around and showed
us the system. 1t was astonishing to
see those little boys and girls most of
them ragged and a lot of them dirty,
do what they are told to do. The chill
dren are permitted to choose what they
want to play at, but are required to go
systematically at the thing they
choose. 1t is the finest kind of a thing
Tor them, a good training and a means
OF keeping them away from bad in
ffuenceS.
more of this kind of thing would
mean less need of policemen. More
OF these vacation Fairgrounds are
needed. When 1 got into that play
ground thought that there could not
| be any more children left on the OUT
side. But when We went out we found
the streets swarming with them, so
that we could hardly get along with
out stumbling over Them
Ex-chief Devery Writes Play on Police.
w. S. Devery, termed 1.-THE Big Eel
low" by his constituents on the West
SIDE, has become a playwright. The
hrst work from his systematically
tipped pen being entitled 1.-THE Secrets
OF the New York Police Force. +"
The play is completed and has been
for the first time offered for sale to
broadway manager who is now consid-
er1ng the possibility of making an early
production Of the drama which is in
three acts with eleven scenes,sa deal
Ing with the police force of New York
as seen through the long service eyes
OF former Chief Devery.
The drama contains MANY thrilling
situations and is Spiced with a police
man hero, a female detective to saw
nothing of many other Characters
which will have tendency to keep an
audience in constant expectation of cIf-
makes and antf-clfmaxes during the
action of the play.
FORMER Chief Devery since his adj
vent into politics in his candidacy for
the leadership of the Ninth district.
mas blossomed forth as phiIanthro-
plst, philosopher, poet and many other
things, but his most intimate friends
never dreamed that he had found time
10 write drama until it became
known along the Rialto that the manu-
script of the play had been offered to
several producers, one of whom is now
arranging Tor the production of the
play early this season.
In dlvulging some of the secrets Of
the New York police force in a melo-
oramae FORMER Chief Devery has not
hit on an entirely original idea as For
ner Chief of Police Byrnes. after his
retirement from the force, wrote and
produced meledrama entitled '"rhe
Inspector" which ran for a short tirna
at the Herald Square theatre before his
friends advised him to stop the play.
which had already caused the loss If
several thousand dollars.
Former Chief Devery. althoueh tho
author, will not have a financial inter-
est IN his first work as a playwright. in
tnat deal has practically been COM
pleted whereby the play will be given
It's premier by a theatrical firm which
mas produced similar class of meIo-
dramas at the old Star theatre and the
Academy OF Music In seasons gone by.
Elk Go To Adirondacks.
William c. Whitney shipped from
his october Mountain preserve TO the
Southwest lake in the Adirondacks.
twenty elk, which will be released bv
the New York Reservation commission.
rms Shipment makes total of fifty
elk that Mr.. Whitney has sent to the
Adirondacks to be released. He has 90
more full grown elk in the mountain
preserve.
Split Pearl Duty Is High.
Pearl importers are excited over a
recent communication from the treas
ury department notifying them that
the duty on several large half or split.
pearl importations must be reliauidated
on basis Of sixty per cent. AS these
importations had all been assessed at
a twenty per cent rate, and had been
fqu1dated on that basis, the announce
ment or forty per cent advance. par
ticularly on goods already sold. has
worried the importers.
The order, If put into effect, will
reach some of the biggest jewelers. and
some of the largest pearl Importers in
the country, and will mean a loss Of
several hundred thousands of dollars.
as the pQqrl LAMENTATIONS IaS+ rr,.s~-z