New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-01-04

unioue compared with the hundreds of other
holiday festivities. 1t the observance by
the pupils of the Socialist Sunday schools me
celebrat ton joint affair by the two ieao-
ing schools and took place this week Inc most
nroninent feature was a performance called
santa Claus" in which the actors were oc-
casonaIly assisted by the children on the floor
The socalstic sentiments of the participants
found expression in the songs. recitations ana
speeches A verse recited by child of SIX
years was as follows:
Your hills are ours with their vinecad bowers
We masters of mountain LI. and and glen glen
Are the voice and the mighty pen
The principal addresses were made by two
teachers Both were strongly socalstic and
made bitter references to child labor
DR. D X Pearsons benefactor of the small
colleges in the West closed the year by giving
nearly 100000 to four institutions in different
parts of the West each of which complied with
the easy conditions imposed by the giver with
his gift this week the total DR.. Pearsons has
given to educational institutions amounts 10
S4OOOOOO. But while DIR. Pearsons is praised
by educators and the press alike for his gener-
ositv to the cause of education. his friends are
more pleased with the advice the aged philan-
thropist is giving to the youth of the country.
When few days ago he announced his New
Years gift to the four colleges, he was asked
what course he recommended TO young man
starting in life. His answer was: Get land,
get land. Go out in the northwest corner OF
Colorado. There snow topped mountains
spread with tall pines, and there green val
leys and swift running water Get land Win
coal under it Get pasture land. where cattle
ran be erazed Get meadow land and tillable
land Buy all you can and hang on to it. Then
go to work Go to stay. and do not be dis
hea rtened by hardships. Go where there is not
a railroad for sixty miles and you have to enter
on horseback. The railroad will follow soon
and those who fight hard will come out on top,
Mining agriculture. numbering, grazing-all
branches are full of promise"
Dr. Pearsons added that the young man would
find more than money by following this advice
he would find health Many successful bust
ness man in Chicago declares that the college
benefactor's advice to young men is worth
money.
The woman's Club has taken In hand and
given vigorous start to a movement long
agitated by the press of Chicago for the found
ing of children hospital-an institution OF
public character, where special attention will be
given to crippled children and the treatment of
contagious diseases. That the movement de-
serves success is admitted by citizens and au-
thorities alike for there is an almost scandal
Gus lack of facilities for the treatment of such
diseases especially among children, in Chicago
The city has many hospitals. but among them
all there only fifty-two beds-tn the county
institution-for the treatment of contagious dis
eases. Yet these diseases kill hundreds annual
ly AS a result of the lack of facilities. such
pitiable sights are presented here as that of
parents going from hospital to hospital begging
for treatment of their sick children and unable
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admit patients suffering with contagious dis
eases the existing hospitals are not to blame
They have not the facilities for treatment, and
to admit them would be to expose to grave
risks the patients already within their walls
and prevent their receiving others. That SUCH
conditions can exist much longer in city or
two million population and vast wealth is
hardly to be believed, for the benevolence OF
Chicago. when worthy object is properly pre-
scented, is always ample. 1t is believed that the
wenlans Club WILL with the aid of the physi-
clans who are cooperating. succeed in supplying
this need of Chicago. 30 long neglected by the
municipal and county governments.
The Rev. Dr. David Beaton has called down
upon his head the wrath of those Chicagoans
who are not advocates of blue laws in metro
poiitsn communities. In a sermon recently he
said: Here are the Thomas Orchestra, the
Apollo Club and the Harmonic Society giving
Sunday performances like the lowest vaude-
vles." DR.. Beaton cannot according to Chi
cagoans who profess TO be Christians, holding
reasonably tolerant views, find enough of puri-
tanism here to sympathize with his stigmattza-
ton of the Thomas Orchestra, the Apollo Club
or any other of the capable and reputable mu
steal organizations which give Sunday concerts.
A prominent business man. who is regarded as a
pillar of the church of which he is active
member, commenting on DR.. Beaton's strict
ures, says: THE performance OF the Messiah
by the Apollo Club with the Thomas Orchestra
last Sunday incident of the highest moral
and artistic service Many of those present
could not hear this supreme religious work
under any other conditions in a city like Chi
cago. Every musical service Sunday at
| tracts thousands who otherwise would be
| PEELED to spend hours in misery. would be
misled into seeking recreation rest in places
| less calculated to refine edify." However. DIR.
Beaton declares that his chief objection to such
Sunday performances consists iTf their being for
pay. "If these musicians" he says, will give
| their concerts without pay, there can be no OBJ
| lection to them