Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-01-01

oriental fashion. The procession tool
hours in its march
After arriving at the yiceroyaI',
tent the princess took leave of LORD
Curzon. and the latter retired with
several of his staff and Lord Kitchen
er- After two or three days he will
receive visits from the princes, which
will be continued until the day of the
durbar. There will be practically nc
other official entertaining until the
durbar is over
DELHI. Ind. Dec. 3O.-Viceroy
Curzon opened the Indian fine arts ex.
hlbition feature of the durbar this
morning. 1t was organized by DIR,
watt and consists of the finest collac.
tion of oriental treasures ever gath.
cred. The Duke and Duchess of Con.
naught. representing King Edward
attended the opening. as did the ma.
tive potentates. also grouped about
the hall on raised daises In gorgeous
clothes, while Lord Curzon made the
address
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Despite the
fact the New Year will dawn upon
this country in an enjoyment of an
era of nnwonted prosperity. there are
expressions of dissatisfaction in all
quarters because of the continued
scarcity of coal This has been the
one dark cloud to duh the brightness
of the Christmas holidays. And what
is worse, there is no hope held out for
RELIEF. The city has appropriated
S25O,O0O for coal for the poor, but II
Is doubtful If 1t can be obtained much
longer at any price. The rich are
suffering along with the poor and the
prices of clothing as well as food are
raised on account of the inability to
obtain coal.
No commissioner of street cleaning
since the late Colonel Waring has re-
csived such unanimous praise for his
work as the present head of the street
cleaning department. Commissioner
Woodbury. is the right man in the
right place. The rapidity with which
snow is removed after the storms
which are now so frequent is highly
appreciated The city is now divided
into eleven snow districts. with a to-
tai OF 1876 miles, or 5000. 900 square
Yards. This is the territory that the
contractor for removing snow has to
grapple with.
The interest of the business men OF
New York is divided between the leg
islation of two cities just now-the
proposed $sO,0O000O improvement of
he canals at Albany and the preven-
tion of discrimination in railroad ter.
minal charges; and at Washington.
the reform of the currency the
amendment of the bankruptcy law,
the extension of tho powers of the
Interstate commerce commission, the
regulation of the trusts and the es.
tablishment of department of com
merce
The Retail Grocery Clerks union
niversal O'Clock closing. 1t is
pointed out that there are in Greater
New York $4,000 grocers' clerks, who.
for the most part are compelled to
work fifteen hours day for five days
of the week and eighteen hours on
Saturday. Members of the organiza-
tion here claim that in this respect
they are much worse off than clerks
in Boston Philadelphia and other cit
les, where the closing of grocery
stores at o'clock has been observed.
A building that has long and
unique history is soon to be demolish.
ed. II is the Germania theater The
n n at no
street and was erected as a Reform ID
church In 1910 the congregation
sold the land and moved uptown to
the present site in Eighth street
Years later II was occupied as a Cath
olic church and then sold and became
! theater, OF recent years perform
ances in German have been given
there.
New York now has three banks cap
italized at 10000 900. The third is
the Western National bank recently
formed by the consolidation of the
Western National and the United
States banks. The other two are the
Bank of Commerce and the First Ma
tional The City Bank has capita
OF $4,000. 900. This will be closely
rivalled in strength. however. by tht
Western National. for the simple reas
on that the latter has behind 1t tn,
Equitable and Mutual Life Insuranc,
companies and the Mercantile ant
Holland Trust companies whose com
bined assets represent a billion of dol
lars
The theatrical season is at III
height and never before was ther,
such an era of prosperity. dramatical
ly speaking. Some idea of the vas
extent of the theatrical business II
this city may be obtained from tn
fact that sixty-Hve different plays, OF
eras and concerts are on the pro
grams for this week. This mean
about $50 different performance
which will probably be witnessed
by upward OF 100000 iIf
New York is notorious for law
delays. 1t took four years to deter
mine that Roland b. Molineaux wa
innocent of the murder of Mrs. Catf
crime Adams. and the case cost tn
state not much less than half mi
lion dollars. There are like delay
in the administration OF civil law.
is said that an action begun In tn
supreme court cannot reach trial 1
less than two years and probably nc
in three. There IL a good reasol
therefore. for the appointment OF
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