New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-05-31

THE PASSING THRONG.

John Moakley. the athletic trainer at Cornell.
who has in the past put many famous runners into
shape including Tom" Burke.
A TRAINER and who has been known an
ON THE expert Handicapped. Is in New
CHANCES York with the Cornell track team
Discussing the intercollegiate meet
last night at the Park Avenue Hotel. he sad
I'VE haven't much TO complain of. as We did
about well expected to. The battle Is
going to be between Harvard and Yale when the
finals pulled off to-day. with the University
turning out some good athletes that way now.
It seems to me Harvard ought to win on me race ace
feFan is ss" b ou ia he
dash. Both made the same time to-day-ten sec
onds flat-but Duffy finished with more up ms
benefit of experience. He's hard man 70
beat but ssheks likely to find him ts aSo should
be pretty a race has been pulled OF In a
fn{ the standard Of our American athletes is
keeping up high"
Peter H. westingarde. of Scranton. Penn. speaks
feeIingly of the benefits of summering on the
Atlantic seaboard. Times have
THINGS ARE changed trifie since the Puritans
SELDOM landed" said Mr.. westingarde at
WHAT THEY the Plaza yesterday. Then the
SEEM hardy pioneer proceeded arduously
from the coast inland Now, with
equal ardor and almost as many difficulties. the
American moves from the interior TO the seacoast
One summer my wife and L decided to take the
children 10 the seashore and picked out the High
lands Of NaveSink the spot. My wife liked
the elevation. The house rented was delight
fully placed. comfortable, had abundant grounds
about IT and was reasonable I'm price, Thought
they would be we'll settled there, and. my bust.
ness brought me from time time to this city and
being with them. But the first thing that l dis
covered was that something about the climate in
eaPactated the natives and they had thereby a
dlslnclinat1on for work The grass needed cutting
My boy, VIII. tried the lawn mower, and found
the extent of the work too appalling A native was
called in with scythe. He stood in corner of
the property for several days, making occasional
sweeps at the grass. and then guessed he'd have
70 give II up Money was no object down there.
We could stand the grass going TO seed. although
the mosquitoes got rather numerous But in about
Ihe mouse with water ran dry, and the townspeOple
fatty refused to the pump. / took my vacation
and went down there. My business gives me a
siderable acquaintance with machinery, and / had
looked at the difficulties of running that pump with
the Well bred familiarity of contempt II lifted
water from an artesian we'll by the river to barn
up the hill behind the house. But the trouble was
that the little hot air engine had TO be by the
power OF the human eye. You could sit there in
the broiling little engine house from in the
Ing TIL sunset and with due feeding the thing
stepped out to much as skip q stone on the
river, or dozed-phizz! the engine would halt and
stop They used to bring my meals down to
the engine house. We had to have water above
No one can keep house without water And when
1 returned from my vacation enviOus friends said
they too, wished they could get away from the
heat and monOtOny and routine of their office work
told them they couldnt-they were just born that
way, and couldn't"