New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-02
THE PASSING THRONG.

7 q Thomson Of Blue Mountain Lake at
the sturtevant House yesterday He was minus ms
baggage because he could not get
THE ADJ across the lake TO get IL before ne
rONDACKs came away AT this time OF the
IN WINTER year" he said. the ice is too rot
ten 10 walk or drive and not
broken ND enough to allow the passage OF a boat
Having no desire to do the Eliza act l left my
time OF year in the Adirondacks. In summer the
annreciated by plenty Of New-York people but in
winter they are the other fellow country adct
live up there ali the year around This winter how
ever has not been severe one, nf tsa storms
have not done any great damage or tied up Irans-
F. ratber slow about opening The other fellow IS
giving up hard. To get to Blue Mountain no" one
still has To go around by Saratoga nope the
more direct route will be opened UP Tor the season
soon" , -. A.
A friend of Mr. Thompson. who had been to the
lake recently, cut in with remark that one "oHl1
he went there in the winter or the summer Ineyy
you if you turn around up theTe ne say, baya
the piny scent-why 1t comes hIga ~ oo5 ~
been too many high flyers up t9eTe l9E bavs Been
there others will get stuck
Andrew Carnegies idea that work OF fiction
should be purchased for a public library until 1t
has stood the of three years
THINKS CAR cannot help meeting with much
NEGIE'S IDEA opposition from Librarians VINO
UNPOPULAR have the demands OF the puohc 20
meet. whatever their own opinions
NAV he But this very question of the public de-
maud has disclosed 10 H. P. Sawyer. Of Boston
some facts about the general makeup of small puonc
England" he said yesterday at the Fifth
Avenue, there are great numbers OF pubic, Il Il
public that reads the daily and weekly press;
bn0ks mus the best of the current con
publications A refusal TO buy any work OF nctlon
less than three years old would be met BY great
popular opposition and would no doubt drive many
readers. who take other books When tne IaISsC
have found in many cases this desire 70 meet
RI dam of he D1Ibl Ia
in keeping out Of them works OF classics or BOOKS
| one library not dozen miles from Boston where
there is no copy Of Shelleys poems, only one prose
volume by Pater or Newman; The library started.
| its constant effort to keep up with the times it
| has failed strangely 70 lay that :ogndatlon or
| worthy and useful collection of books Why not
| say that for every new book purchased pqbHc
| demands Of a library could be met"
| The sun may never set the English flag, but
! the has Il good old English custom
| There are 10 be no more barmaids
! NO MORE in Calcutta, Whether this means
! BARMAIDS the beginning OF the end of Brit
! IN CALCUTTA. ish rule in India remains TO be
| seen. II Sentimental Tommy
had ridculously hung himself up by the
: jacket on that fence would be alive to-day to
. maids in Canada TO the CONFUSION OF Gilbert
800 a., Cites oTo+6er I,aTa5ian st0rv
Henry A. FarquhIrsOn. a tea planter from ASSN.
. chief thing of interest in Calcutta now this law
abolishng the English custom OF ba rmaids- And it
Lousy Several woman's societies were respon-
/ stble for the conception and passage OF the law
They affirmed stoutly that their husbands were
attracted altogether frequently 10 the bars
/ With men barkeepers they said that there would
De !ar less dFinkin% ana NOR hEPPy nom ne
not say whether counter legislation would be in
stigated by the men prohibiting attractive MAZE