The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-03
new YORK CITY GOSSIP
NEW LAW FoRBIDs OFFERS II
PROCURE DIVORCES
Germany Requests Us to Stop sendin,
Her Fruit Destroying insect
Through the MaiIs-SIavonic Socie ;
ties Are Disrupted Over Gift of FIaos


new law just gone into effect which,
in my judgment, is destined to pro-
mote more genuine reform in litiga
ton arising out Of marital difficulties
than any single measure that has beers
placed upon the statute books for
many years and which will go a very
long way toward minimizing the num-
Der of fraudulent divorces that have
for so long a time disgraced the state.
Il would almost wager" continued
Mr.. Hummel, "that of every thousand
lawyers in this state 999 Of them are
in absolute ignorance that such a law
was passed by the last legislature an6
met with the approval of the governor
and as for the general public it is I'M
doubtedly ignorant Of the measure.
Yet this bill is entitled An act to
amend the penal code in relation to
Advertisements to Procure Divorces,
and amends the penal code by insert
ing new section to be known as ABA,
and which provides that any person ad-
vertising in anyway whatever to pro-
cure divorces is guilty sof a misde-
meanor. The penalty for a violation
Of the new law is fixed at a fine of
$500 or one years Imprisonment in the
penitentiary, or both, at the discretion
of the presiding justice.
"The passage of this law forbidding
advertisements means that the poorer
classes who are lured along by specious
promises of non-publicity will be in
greater measure protected.
SIavs Disagree Over Banner. r
Two great bodies of New York peo-l
pie are at odds over the arrival Of the
Hungarian delegates to the United
States, who came on the steamer Staat-
endam.
A Hungarian society in the father
land has sent beautiful flag to the
Hungarians of America This flag has
two notices, one of which is, ITO Thy
Native Land Be Unswervingly True,
o Magyar" The other is, BE Ye
Dauntlessly Loyal to Your Fatherland."
The flag is sent as a kindly token to
the Hungarians of America, and es-
pecially to the society known as the
Bridgeport Federation. The /Hungari-
ans of New York say the Hungarian
government has no hand in this gift.
The flag is brought by Gen. Joseph
Zseny, a patriot and soldier.
There are 100000 Hungarians in New
York city who are pleased at this cour-
tesy of kindred society in the father
land. The East side was profusely
decorated with the national colors of
Hungary-red, white and green. Soci-
cites carrying flags were marching
from street to street around avenue G
to celebrate it's arrival.
On the other hand there is a great
body of -Slavs, originating in Hun
gary and having their own political
views and ideals who do not welcome
the flag. They look upon 1t with sus-
picion that it has it's roots in old-world
politics. They fear 1t is an attempt on
the part of the home government to
create a sentiment in the hearts Of the
Hungarians already in this country
against America. Various Slavonic So
cieties have met and denounced the
flag and an attempt has been made to
place difficulties in the way of it's pass
Ing the customs officials. Some of the
more hot-headed of the Slavs have
covertly threatened to disturb the pa
rade In which it was hoped that 10000
Hungarians would take part. The
to guard against this and they will be
amply protected.
Germany Objects to Bugs.
No more fruit, plants, shrubs or any
thing in which bugs, worms or insects
or their eggs may be concealed will be
sent from this country to Germany by
mail. The German government has in
formed the United States government
that Uncle Sans mail has for some
years been carrying injurious bugs and
insects into the German empire, and
the order has been sent out from
Washington instructing all postmasters
handling foreign mail to refuse to ac-
cept anything in the nature of fruit or
plants for Germany.
"As I understand it," says the New
York superintendent of foreign mails,
"the German people maintain that their
country has been seriously injured by
the importation of various kinds of
bugs, worms and insects, which destroy
their fruit, through packages sent to
them in the American mails. They say
that many species of insects known in
the United States have seemed to
thrive on German soil, but probably
never would have reached their country
had 1t not been for their introduction
through the malls. The German gov
eminent asserts that Germany's fruit
product has been damaged by many
five years on account of this American
importation of undesirable bugs. It is
said that fruit growers frequently send
cuttings and small plants through the
mail to foreign countries and that this
traffic between Germany and America
has been very extensive in the past
Morgan's Fragonard Panels.
Wherever art lovers met their talk
was of the Fragonard panels that J.
Pferpont Morgan has bought. Experts
know them as treasures of art history.
Roger Portals has written of them
with ardor, Virgile JOSE Is lyrical in
his description of them.
Goncourt forgot them, so zealously
We're they guarded in M. Malvilan's
little house at Grasse, in Provence,
when Goncourt was writing Of
F'ragonard. The museum has nothing
valuable by the French masters of the
eighteenth century. Mr.. Morgan in
tends really that his Fragonard panels
and his portrait of the Duchesse de
by Natter, with other
works OF art of the period, be shown
there.
Poor Suffer for Coal.
There has been a big increase in the
price of coal to- the dwelIers in the
tenement. districts during the past
forty eight hours.
The coal peddlers who sell coal by
the pail and bushel in the tenement
districts on the east and west side of
the city are asking 20 cents for pail
and from As cents to 4S cents for a
bushel
Before the strike pail of coal could
be purchased for 6 cents and bushel
for 25 cents.
Many coal peddlers when seen yes
terday said that should the price Of
coal be raised to $12 ton, which they
expect, they would raise the prices
still higher to those who purchase by
the pail and bushel.