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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-28
HOTEL LOBBY GLEANINGS
QUESTION OF a MANS IDENTITY
THAT PROVED PULLING.
Within Two Days He Sailed Under
Two Different Names-Vis-
itors at the Hotels.

A short man. rather thick set. with close
ly-cropped white hair. registered at the
Denison Hotel about 1890 o'clock Wednes-
day night. He wrote on the register, John
Lowlow, ferris Park, o." He wore a black
hat and a black suit of clothes and was
altogether a respectable-appearing man.
Il am the Oldest clown in the circus bust
ness to-day" he remarked to Clerk Pepper,
as the latter assigned him to Room 149.
The veteran clown did not retire to his
room, but said he would be in later. He
explained TO the clerk that he was repre-
senting the John Robinson circus that was
TO be here in May. and he desired 10 make
arrangements with the DenisOn Hotel to
take care of thirty-eight people on a GER
tain date in May. The clerk made a men,
orandum of this fact and the guest left the
hotel. He did not al his key and did
not call for it again during the night. a
reporter heard that a veteran circus man
was in town and waited long for him to
put In his appearance Wednesday night.
The old gentleman did not turn up. how
ever. and the reporter wrote a paragraph
chrOnicling the presence of the veteran
circus man in the city and announcing
the coming of the John Robinson circus.
Yesterday afternoon the reporter again
inquired at the desk of the Denison for
John Lowlow." About this time a white
haired man neatly dressed stepped up and
the clerk introduced him as "Lowlow." He
was in a jovial mood and shook hands with
the reporter, who thought he recognized
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-28
Jersey Bulletin.

Jersey Dulltlll-
Now will the good doctors who have de
cided that the beard of man is a germ car
rier, and is dangerous to health. and must
''go' in consequence, tell us just what con-
stitutes a "beard?' If they get a law
passed compelling milkmen, for instance,
to remove their boards, how often must
they get shaved? How many days growth
will be permitted before whiskers become
boards? How much of a whisker does it
require for a germ to anchor on? One au-
thority says he found 100000 bacteria on
a fiber less than two inches long, taken
from a cocoa mat on the floor of an ele-
waited railway car. At this ratio, counting
a growth of one-siXteenth Of an inch Of
whiskers a day, we should expect the milk
man to gather up 1880 bugs on each
whisker that was allowed to grow twenty
four hours. This, of course. assuming thai
there is no individuality among whiskers,
and that one hair is as attractive to the
microbe as another. Also, presuming that
the milknan, like a cocoa mat, is laid down
and walked on, as they often are. figura-
lively if not literally. One doctor dis
cusses milkmen's boards as though il might
be customary to wipe boots on them, or to
sweep the stalls of diseased COWS. II
whiskers must go. let them go; start a cru
sade against milkmen's coats and sus-
penders next; If necessary, send them over
their routes clad in a light suit of fumi-
gated thought and a pair of sterilized
SDurS.
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STILL sLAUGHTERING PIGEONS.
'.SpOrtsmen" Go 10 New Jersey to
Evade the New York Law.
Brooklyn Eagle.

CCh "a hoAt
Although the pigeon shooters have been
deprived in this State of their right TO
amuse themselves i'm the slaughter Of birds,
it appears that they find a welcome else
where. New Jersey, otherwise civilized.
tOlerates one of the most shameful spec
tacles that is offered to the view OF men
and women-a spectacle worse than the bull
fights that have been prohibited, except in
Spanish countries, because the birds have
no chance for their lives, and the killing is
unsportsmanlike and brutal. Kansas City.
Mo, is TO become the scene in a few DAYS
der. over two hundred men have entered
their names already as competitors in the
gentle art OF butchery. and no less than
1900 pigeons will be sacrificed 10 make a
Kansas City holiday.
Kansas City is a progressive town. II has
fine. substantial buildings. excellent hotels.
able newspapers. il has held a notable polit-
ical convention, its business is its pride. ii
operates trolley cars through tunnels. but
in permitting this kind OF thing il Is arOus-
ing the wonder OF other cities. Think of
the pain TO be endured I'm Kansas City that
d few hundred fellows who disgrace the
name OF sport may be permitted 10 amuse
themselves. Think Of the brutalizing inhu-
ence of the slaughter on the young men.
and even women. who will attend this re-
markable festival. For il is not merely in
the murder OF these helpless creatures that
the harm consists. IL is in the effect which
lawless shedding OF blood has on the spec
tators. II Is this habit Of taking life that
makes the stOckyard districts OF Western
cities dangerous. 1t is the bull lights that
have degraded Spain. Ii is the cock fights
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Train Schedules Annu1Ied.

JACKSON, Miss, March 27.-As the result
of a severe rain which fell last night all
rivers and creeks in this section of the
State were out of their banks to-day, and
many families living in the lowlands were
compelled to move to higher grounds. Reg
ular schedules on all railroads entering
this city were annulled on account of
numerous washouts and only one mail has
reached jackson to-day. Several bridges
were torn away and wagon roads were
ruined by the storm. 1t is feared the dam
age to farmers and truckers will amount
TO many thousands of dollars.
The weather bureau reported tonight
that the rainfall from 5 o'clock last even
ing until s this evening was over six inches.
Washouts on the Illinois Central delay all
trains on this division of that road. On the
Little J. road two washouts were reported,
one at Utica and the other at Harriston.
On the Gulf & Ship Island the track in sew
eral places was under water and a num-
Der of bridges and culverts have been
washed away. Or the Yazoo branch there
was a washout at Anding and other places
along the line.
In the city the havoc wrought by the I'M
precedented rain was visible on all sides.
Town creek, which runs through the CEN
ter of the town, overiowed its banks and
ran into houses i'm the neighborhood, COM
pelling the occupants to make hasty exit.
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MRS. KELLY'S LECTURES.
A Committee Arranges for Her Re-
ceptiOn i'm indianapolis.

To provide for the reception of Mrs.
Florence Kelly, of New York, secretary of
the Consumers League, a general COM
mittee composed of Representatives of the
Local Council of Women and of the various
trades unions of the city met last night In
the office of Felix T. McWhirter. 1t was
arranged that Mrs. Kelly should deliver
four addresses while in indianapolis. Mon
day evening, March 81, Mrs. Kelly will talk
at the PrOpylaeum to the general public;
Tuesday afternoon at the same place she
will deliver an address before the Local
Council of Women; Tuesday night, at Ma
sonic Temple, she will speak to members of
the trades unions, and Wednesday evening.
at the residence of Mrs. SewaIl, she will
talk before al invited company. Her sub
jects at these meeting will be those relat-
ing to the betterment of the condition of
employees; the means of eliminating sweat
shops as labor evils; what should be the
policy of fair houses towards their en-
Ployes and kindred topics.
Great interest is being manifested in Mrs.
Kelly's visit by the member of the Local
Council and the Central Labor Union. She
has attained a national reputation as a
worker for the betterment of the condi-
ton of labOring men and women. and as
factory inspector of the State of Illinois she
was able 10 accomplish much good in fight
ing Tor better hours. better pay and
amelioration of the sweat shop evil. After
wards Mrs. Kelly was instrumental in or
ganizlng the Consumers League, the pur-
pose of which is to secure mutual fair treat
ment on the part of employer and employe.
The league has a distinctive label. This
abel on any article is assurance to pur-
chasers that the article was manufac-
tured under proper conditions. While in this
city Mrs. Kelly will be the guest of Mrs.
Sewall.
Those present at the meeting last night
were Mrs. Eliza A. Blaker, president of the
Local Council or Women; Mrs. Felix T
McWhirter. member of the general commit
tee; Miss Lille Fredericks. president of the
Garment Workers Union; Mrs. J. II.
Byers. of the Local Council: Mrs. Frederick
Pentske, of the WOmen's Union Label
League; John l.. Feltman, president of Cen
trail Labor Union, and d. L. Stoddard.
financial secretary Of Central Labor Union.
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Training Dogs.
PHILADELPHIA Record.

f"llldQSlpnld HeCOTu.
The man with the troupe of trick dogs,
while waiting for his turn to go on, was
chatting in the wings about his methods
of training. "A great many people he
said, have an idea that cruelty must be
resorted TO in breaking in a young dog.
That is very far from the truth, unless
you call Ii cruel TO put a dog on short
~rations. That is often very necessary.
The dog that gets all he wants to eat dur
ing his period of tuition is a hopeless sub
ject. The simplest method. and the one L
have been most successful with, is TO make
the young dog initiate the tricks of an old
one. AT meal time l take them both into
an empty room and make the educated dog
do a trick for every mouthful of food he
gets. The beginner goes hungry, although
he gets something to eat later. when he is
alone. This performance is repeated for
several days, and by and by the young dog
begins to get it through his head that if he
acts like the other dog he will get some
thing to eat, too. The minute he begins, in
his clumsy way, to initiate the older dog. L
encourage him in every way possible, and
soon he will be in condition TO take his
lessons with the aid of my regular ap-
pliances. No, highly-bred dogs are not the
best subjects, with the possible exception
of the French poOdles, which seem born
with the acrobatic and comedy instincts
developed. Aside from the poOdles would
much prefer to work with a mongrel."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-28
BY MODERN

New York Herald.

New York Herald.
Several months ago a young man who
had served his business apprenticeship in
the middle West came to New York to seek
a wider sphere. He had nothing definite in
view, but with his experience and creden-
tials felt little doubt of the likelihood of
his securing a position commensurate with
his abilities.
His training. as il happened, had been
followed the beaten track. presenting a
number of letters of Introduction he had
brought.
He waited two months without hearing a
word from a single one of them, and then
made the rounds again. OH once more
regretfully; I'VE mislaid your address and
were unable. TO find you, so were forced TO
engage another man. Should another va
The young man betook himself to the
help wanted" columns of the newspapers
and after writing numberless letters setting
forth his merits and holding many inter-
views with superciliouS junior clerks sent
out by their suDeriors to size up" the ap-
plicant finally secured a position one grade
above that of office boy.
He met on the street last week a youth
from his old home. who in response TO his
questions informed him that he, too, had
come on TO New York to seek a wider
Go right back home advised the man
OF bitter experience. These people here
will pay no more attention to a stranger
than they do to a dog. / believe it's easier
to break down heaven than to get a job in
New York"
The newcomer. however, had been brought
up in modern business methods and he did
not propose TO give UP without an actual
test.
He wasted no time in presenting letters of
introduction, but picking up a newspaper,
ran his eye down the wants" Almost in
stantly he found an advertisement of a sit
uation which he thought would suit him.
1t requested answers to be directed TO a
w~ell-known house on lower Broadway.
mo letters for me-" said the up-to-date
youth. Mine might be the last one ex-
amined."
Instead he FASTENED to the nearest tele-
graph office and dispatched the following
message, addressing it to the head of the
firm so as to insure its consideration at first
hand:
Advertisement in morning Herald noted.
i am the nan you want. Long experience,
best credentials. Wire at my expense when
you want me-"
He was m to an interview that
afternoon, went to work the next morning
in charge of a department and confidently
expects to be made manager of the entire
concern within a very short time.
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Notes of Music Events.

The sale Of seats for the music festival 10
be given next Monday and Tuesday nightsin
Tomlinson Hall by the Chicago Orchestra.
solosists and a chorus. under the direction
of Theodore Thomas. is progressing at the
Starr piano store. The programmes of the
two nights will be different. The Tschai-
kowski Pathetic symphony will be the
main feature of the Monday night concert.
and on Tuesday night the chorus will be
heard in Grieg's "Olaf Trygvasson.'
The sale Of seats for the Paderewski re-
cital in Tomlinson Hall on April II will be-
gin on April Z. at the Big Four ticket Office.
The pianist has had little leisure since he
arrived in this country. His opera. Man
ru.' was produced in New York on Feb. IA.
The next afternoon he gave a recital In
Carnegie Hall and that night he gave a
dinner TO the principals of the opera COM
pany. Then he began an arduous series of
~recitals. His versatility seems inexhaust-
ible.
Thad Rich gave a recital for the Press
Club of Hamburg recently. He has been
playing regularly among the first violins of
the Nikisch's Orchestra at Leipsic. Next
month he will go 10 Berlin to tudy awhile
under Joachim. He will spend the summer
I'm Switzerland and next winter he will
study in Paris under Marisck.
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MADE A FAST RUN.
Engineer Gamers Trip from Indian
apOIis to MaftOOn.

"Talk about fast running" remarked II.
j. Underhill, a Big Four passenger en-
gineer, at the Occidental Hotel last night,
''some mighty fast time was lately made
by Mon Garner, who takes the Southwest
ern limited out of Indianapolis. The other
evening with Engine S9S he made up a half
hour of lost time between indianapolis and
Mattoon. Garner was able TO make the
run in just two hours and twenty EIGHT min
utes. which is several minutes faster than
the same run has ever before been made.
Garner made an extra stop a. Danville,
and a siding was taken at Lena, Ind, to
meet the Knickerbocker. The run between
Greencastle and Terre Haute, thirty-four
miles, was made in thirty-one minutes, and
the nineteen miles of up grade between
Terre Haute and Paris was covered in
twenty minutes. The train consisted of five
cars. Gamers hat blew off while the train
was passing through Fontanet, but it is
safe to say he did not stop the train to
get it."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-28
CITY NEWS NOTES.

Miss Anna Nicholas will read n story at
the meeting of the Ladies Social Circle of
the First Baptist Church in the church par
Tor this afternoon.
Adjutant General Smock. of the Indiana
Department, G. a. r., has issued an order
10 reorganize Post 80 at Monroe City with
twenty-one charter members. The former
post at that city disbanded in 1925.
The women of Broadway Church will
have an Easter fair to-day and tomorrow
in the church parlOrs. Potted plants. home
made candy. stocks, collars. ties and Easter
novelties will be for sale. Dinner Will be
served this evening from 6 10 Q.
The Shortridge High School Orchestra
VIII give a concert in the assembly room of
the High School at Greenfield tonight. The
Greenfield High School ladies' chorus and
several ~soloists will assist. The concert will
be under the direction of Prof. r.. b. Rudy.
The song service held by the represen-
tatives of the Y. w. G. A. at the noon hour
yesterday at the factory of Louis Meier
Company was attended by a hundred OF
more girls and highly appreciated. The
second OF the series Will be held on Thurs
day. April 3.
Margaret Wallace, f%fty-one years old.
was yesterday declared Of unsound mind
She lives at No. 1887 Ashland avenue. She
claims TO have dreamed that she killed her
daughte and fears she viii do some mem
Der of her family injury. Her dreams also
leave frightful Impressions.
Amos w. Butler. secretary OF the Board
OF State Charities. Will give four lectures
at Purdue University next week on sOcio-
logical problems His subjects will be THE
Reformatory Idea in Indiana, Child Saw
ing" Outdoor Poor Keller and "A Nota-
BILE Factor in Social Degeneracy."
Tomorrow morning at $50 o'clock a spe-
cial mmit OF the Travellers Protective
Association Will go around the city to the
different Jobbers and manufacturers The
trip will be made in a large wagonette.
handsomely decorated. The members OF the
association Will try 10 enlist the support OF
the different Jobbers and manufacturers IN
the work OF the association.
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He Is Charged with Violation of a
City ordinance.

DIR. Franklin P. Gillaspy, of 1910 South
Meridian street. who was censured by the
Board of Health Wednesday for failing to
report a case of smallpox at 2214 South Me
ridian street, which he had diagnosed as
ch~ickenpox. was arrested yesterday on a
warrant and charged with a violation of
the city ordinance which provides a penalty
for failure TO report a contagious disease
TO the City Board of Health. Although
there is a dispute as to the c%ontagion of
chickenpox. it is included in the list of dis
eases which must be reported to the board.
\ warrant was sworn out by DR.. Buehler,
of the Board of Health.
DR.. Gillaspy pleads that he is being per-
secuted for a mistake, and that he has been
one of the most earnest workers in sup
port of the administration.
DR.. Gillaspy was released from the fed
eral prison several months ago. He was
sentenced for connection with a gang of
counterfeiterS arrested in Haughville about
three years ago.
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Public VIII Make the Word.
Philadelphia Record.

1t is announced that there is a crying need
of a word which will describe a message
conigram" has been suggested and has been
formally adopted by a few newspapers. 1t
may happen, however. that there will be
other wireless systems than that of Mar
conf. and IL may be desirable to avoid speci-
flying the lines which that inventor may
establish-to use a word which will mean
just a wireless message without regard TO
the system of any particular inventor. No
matter what word recognized authorities
in word making may suggest il is probable
that the public will use the word wireless
as a noun and reject all others. Already
people speak of being able 10 send a wire
less" and II will soon be accepted in the
reporters department of the newspaper.
That would mean it's permanent incorpora-
ton into the language.
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sorrowfuI, hut Inevitable.
Hartford Courant.

We don't like the news from Kansas that
the G.. a. r. in that State has fallen or
500 or more in its membership within the
year, and that while three new posts have
been established five posts have surren-
dered their charters and d~isbanded. We
don't like Adjutant F. NJ. Riddle expla-
nation. THE old boys are losing interest .
he says. They are getting too old 10 at
tend post meetings Yes, and many Of
them are getting too old 10 march through
the streets as they used TO. Memorial day.
the line OF march viii have 20 be shortened.
Presently there will come a memorial day
the boys now in school will see it-when
there will be no old soldiers In the streets.
And we don't like 10 think OF n.
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him. "Didn l interview you the other
night as a citizen from Kokomo?' the re-
porter asked. YES" eplied the other,
''but never mind that. my boy; l used to
live in Kokomo and L thought I'd say some
thing nice as a compliment to the town"
The old gentleman still insisted that he
was John LOwlow, the oldest circus clown
living, and that he was connected with the
John Robinson circus, which, he said, was
coming 10 Indianapolis in May. The re-
porter, after this statement. gave il up as
q bad state OF confusion and so did the
hotel clerk. The old man was in a high
state of glee and passed out of the hotel,
announcing that his wife would arrive in
the afternoon. Nothing further was heard
of him at the hotel. and the question with
the clerks and the reporter is whether or
not the man is a private citizen of Kokomo
or an agent for the Robinson show.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-28
VICE CONSUL AT NOGALEs.
Albert II. Morawetz Is stopping at
the Grand Hotel.

Albert r. Morawetz United States vice
consul at Nogales. Mexico, arrived in the
city yesterday and spent the night at the
Grand Hotel. He has been at his home in
Baltimore on a leave of absence and is on
his way back to his post of duty. The
United States consul at Nogales is ]. f.
Darnall, formerly of Greencastle. The in
ternational line separating Mexico from
the United States runs through the city OF
NOgales. Part of the town Is situated in
Arizona and part of il I'm Mexico. Nogales
is in the State Of Sonora and mining is the
chief occupation of the people. The property
of the Indiana-SonOra Copper Mining Com
pany is situated near NOgales. Mr.. Mora
wetz thinks this property is among the best
TO be found in that locality. He says that
for the quarter beginning Oct. I and ending
Dec. 81 last there was exported from the
State OF Sonora TO the United States about
50 COO COO worth of ore.
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Atchison Papers Mistake.
Kansas City Journal.

Kansas City Journal.
Some amusing things come to light in
Kansas occasionally. An Atchison paDer
says II believes in free trade, as against
protection, but that il subscribes Ito every
tenet of the original Republican platforms.
as they are laid down and defended by
Lincoln and his compeers." Lincoln and
his compeers were high protectiOnists. The
Republican party was a protection party
from the outset. In 1S59-1S60 IL adopted a
protection measure in the House. before the
election of Abraham Lincoln. II cam
paigned in 1860 for high tariffs. IL adopted
the Morrill, bill in 1861. 1t added 10 the
protective features of the tariff I'm almost
every session until 1865. Lincoln signed
more protective tariff bills than all the
other Presidents combined. The mistake
OF the Atchison paper is ridiculous.
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large room. Few of them knew each other.
and there was an wkward silence until
Gen. H. c. King. of Brooklyn, judge advo
cate general on the staff, told a story about
one member of a former Governors staff
1t happened on an Inauguration day also.
and the subject was for the first time ar
rayed in his full uniform. When he arrived
at the Capitol he remembered having left
something at his boarding house and hur-
ried back after it. The landlady's small boy
answered the door bell. He didn't at all
recognize the ledger in his snowy regi-
mentals.
who is it?' asked his mother before
going into the parlor.
Il don't know, mamma but 1 think it's
God"
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. March 21.-Since
Wednesday morning at 6 o'clock the rain
fall in Birmingham has been 7.19 inches.
This is one of the heaviest rainfalls ever
known here, and many of the streets and
sections surrounding the city are flooded,
Street-car traffic has been badly impeded
and several washouts have occurred IN
railroads near the city. Rain has f. n
steadily all day without any sign of dimin-
ishing tonight.