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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15

course at the school occupies not less than 16 weeks, and during that time she gets nothing save her board, and must cook her own meals. The course includes theology, oratory, letter-writ- ing, the preparation of reports, the rules and regulations of the army, cooking and general homework, and the general work of the army, such as its rescue and charitable features.
 After they have graduated from the school they are placed on the army pay rolls for the small amount given officers, and out of this they must pro- vide their living and clothing, and for this small wage must labor in the streets collecting funds to carry on the work; must sell War Crys in the business offices, stores and saloons; must hold street services; must go into the poverty-stricken homes of the poor. and assist in the homework of invalid mothers.
 It is women with such traning as this who go into the slums and dives of the city and drag from them the comparatively few who are rescued.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
keANSiMo AsAOs .!!'.,! VI !

from State, was The Door to Hades.
 one of the aristocratic business sections of the city. To-day its dens of infanmy are the cause of more crimes against morality than may be found in any other section of the South side. It is crowded with cheap dance ha.lls under the name of "Dancing Academies,'' and with tough saloons with partitioned, rooms.
 The. dance halls into which women are admitted with Or withou escorts at the small price of ten cents each, are attractive to a class of girls who go there with no intention of inten- tional wrong-doing, but who find in them, as rule, the first step in down ward course which has no end.
 These places are patronized exten- sively by servant girls and by shop girls, young things of 20 and less. Many of them are girls from the coun- try drifted cityward in hopes of find ing opportunities that will place them socially above their home companions. Once they have entered the doors of these places but few ever return to their homes in the country
 These Twenty-second street dives, made famous by half dozen divorce eases in Chicago courts, are but typ ical of those to be found in other sections of the city, though it is % the, South and North sides of tN city that their doors have the great est amount of gilt, and it is the gild- ing which makes them dangerous.
 In New York one evening a friend compared that city and Chicago by saying: "New York is fast and Chi cago is tough" That, I think. .ex- presses it. New York, with all it's boasted wickedness, would not per init such places to run. There is vice there, but it is not so faunted>in the eyes of the innocent as it is in Chi cago. #"..
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15

uVes. dust ridden city. Where the walls, floors and ceilings meet they are roundeds so there may be no possible place for dust to accumu- late Every room is somewhat like the inside of sphere. Every room has an outside window that extends from ceil- ing to floor, and the building is so sit- uated that the sun shines into every room each day. More than this, it sets I'm ten-acre lot, so that other build ings cannot encroach near enough to shut out the sunlight and air. It is heated in winter and cooled in summer by means of fans which keep the air constantly circulating. All around it at every floor are wide verandas where patients will be kept as much as possible.
 It is 0 Catholic institution, built by popular subscription, and is uI- der the direction of one of the Cath ollie sisterhoods.
 Before the completion of this hospi- tal, which will accommodate 25o pa tients, there were but five hospitals in the city which would receive a con sunPtive patient, though city health authorities estimate that 80 per cent. of the people of the city or afflicted with tuberculosis, and 12 per cent. die of this disease.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15

! o1" VI eA'o HH oaioAA' SlQ0 or the DuS1- ness center he has worse streets than are to be found in. other large cities, and above all the city gives him no legal right to the right of way.
 The fire engine, the hook and. lad der or the stand pipe truck, the hose wagon, that go changing down the streets in a wild race to fire, have no more legal rights on the streets than has the horse and wagon of the ped- dler. Should the peddler drive like mad through the streets and run over some pedestrian the law would hold him responsible So. too. the law would hold the fire department driver. There is no law upon the statute books of the city which says to the citizen, 'ekeep o41t of the way of the fire en- zine"
 Another danger which threatens the department drivers are the swing bridges over the river. On dark, fog gy nights it is practically impossible for the drivers to tell whether or not the bridges they have to cross and re- cross are open or closed, yet the rules of the department say the ponderous machines must go rushing onward, and the driver must take his chances of going over or into the water. ..
 The Chicago fire department has the best drivers in. the world, and it needs them. fl. .4 WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
OAKVILLE HAPPENINGS

~ The Oakville baseball nine played the Woodbury team Saturday. The former won the game.
 Mrs J. M. Lynch of Newark, N. J., is visiting her parents, MT and Mrs George Babin.
 Henry shieffer, who formerly lived in Meriden, has moved into MT Cowle's house on Knob hill. He is employed at the local pin factory.
 MT slade, Jr, and his wife spent sun- day in Naugatuck Junction.
 MT Macken of Davis street is hay ing his house painted.
 Arthur Straw has left the employ of the Oakville Go and is working in Wa terbury.
 The new barber. Alec Trolland of Waterbury, started work in his new shop opposite the drug store Saturday.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
,WATERTONN JOTTINGS
The Town Baseball Team Lost Game
 at Naugatuck.

The Town Baseball Team Lost Game
 at Naugatuck.
 The local baseball team went to Naugatuck Saturday and was defeated by the Naugatuck fire department team by the score of Il to 3. The game was we'll played and interesting for a few innings, but after that the local team went to pieces and Naugatuck had everything their own way. Ther ault pitched a good game and had he been properly backed up would have won the game, as he allowed only nine hits and struck out eight men. M Sweeney of Naugatuck played good game both at the bat and in the field. 1rbo score. R.HE. Watertown Q 1ooo2 oo-s 8 Naugatuck o 4 21 0<1 0 0-11 9 z
 Batteries -Therault and Hardy; D.. Sweeney, M. Sweeney and Sullivan, Grant; umpire, Kielty.
 Rev Father Loftus of St Johns church has completed the census talk ing and the local number of people in the parish is shown to be 7OS out of which 495 are English speaking and the remaining 213 non-English speak ing. There are 127 families in the parish and 166 Sunday school children
 John Conway of Morris spent Sun day visiting friends in town.
 Miss Annie Dunnigan of New Haven spent Sunday in town. ~#
 The Misses Hannah and Nellie Downey were the guests of T. F. Mo Gowan and family Sunday. <
 F. H. Mattoon attended a meeting of the Brotherhood of St Andrew at IHartford Saturday,
 The regular meeting of DeForest commandery, U O. G.. G., will take place at Pythian hall this evening.
 Sacred Heart devotions will be held in St Johns church every night this week at 7:3O.
 The Oakville base ball team defeated the Woodbury team at Woodbury Sat urday to the tune of 15 to o. O. Buck ingham and W. McGowan of this place played with the Oakvilles, the former playing behind the bat and the latter holding down second base.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
Strange zagnas of a Bullet.

According to a story from Leipzig, the surgeons at a hospital there have been treating a young man who was brought to them with bullet in his heart. The bullet caused no bleeding and did not injure the heart in vital part, for after 1e hours the patient recovered and remained we'll for three weeks. Then dangerous symptoms ap- peared, and an examination with Roent- gen rays showed that the bullet was being tossed about inside the heart ''hke ball bouncing off the sides of a room." After six months the bullet became imbedded firmly in the flesh of the heart, and once settled in an immovable position the patients con dition rapidly improved. The young man left the hospital, and the doctors believe that the bullet in his heart will give him no further trouble.-London Me.s
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15

nifican6 sum of Attraction Of the Midway. s1,soO, leaving behind it a list of cred tors with claims aggregating some thing like $400,06O. The wheeI was bought'by & firm of junk dealers, and at the end of the present summer it is to come down and go into the scrap pile.
 It cost $s6e, 900 to erect the Ferris wheel in the Worlds Fair grounds, where it stood as the star attra ction of the Midway. After the fair several efforts were made to dispose oft prof. itab1y. At one time it was expected the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company would purchase it to add to the at- fractions at Consy Island. The late Gov. Flower was interested in this scheme, but died before 1t was car ried to completion and the whole thing was dropped.
 When the court sale occurred a few days ago 1t was expected that both J. D. Rockefeller and Joseph Letter would bid for 1t. The former, it was said, wished to remove it to Coney Island, while the latter was supposed to desire to take it to St. Louis as a features of the Louisiana Purchase ex- position. If either had contemplated bidding for 1t both repented before it was too late.
 Chicagoans have never taken to the wheel. Tn it's last 1ooation on the North side it has been visited each summer by number of people visit ing the city, but not in sufficient num- bers to make it's operation profitable, and it did but little except to pile new debts onto old ones.
 The cost of disGnantling the mann moth structure will be in the neigh borhood of $Bo,ooo, but it is expected that the boilers and engines and the immense quantity of steel which it contains will more than recompense its purchasers for this expense.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15

that the taint of them ever chngs to their skirts.
 The army in Chicago has leased new and larger quarters than any they have ever before occup1ed'here. A paro of these quarters are devoted to the use of training school for women officers, and the requirements for ad- mission and promotion are quite as strict, in their way, as is Uncle Sanr''s military establishment. A committee passes upon every candidate for admis- sion to this school. She must have good health; her character must be above question, and she must have more than usual intelligence. Tbs
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
NEWS / FROM / THE SUBURBAN / TOWNS
WATERVILLE TALK
Class Day Exercises in Pythian Hall
 To-Morrow.

I
 Class Day Exercises in Pythian Hal To-Morrow.
 The class day exercises of the Sprague school will be held at Pythiar hall Tuesday, June 16, at o'clock There will be no invitations issued this year. All who are interested in the exercises are cordially +invited. Seats will be reserved for the board of edu. cation, committee, parents and the junior class. Following is the pro, gram: <
 i. Song-"Away to the Fields'' r.......-.~.~...... Chorus 2. Salutatory. .... Alfred Lachance 8. Roll Call. .... William Stansfield
 4. "Ride of Jennie McNeal". .,. zs................ Hazel Kott
 5. Essay-"Rome". Willis Obenaur 6. Piano Duet ................ .s,. Misses Scofield and Wickwire
 z. "School Boys Strike. ... un...~..... Frederick Hotchkiss
 8. Whispering Hope".. ............. .s......... quarter 9. Class History ..... Hazel Kott 10. Mandolin Solo. Louis Merriman II. "Spartacus to the Gladiators''
 .............. Alfred Lachance 12. Essay-"Switzerland" ......
 .......A... Ralph Lane 13. Piano Solo. ...... Jennie Keliher 14 Glass Prophecy Edith VanAlstyne 15. Essay Thomas Edison" ...
 ................ Robert French 16. "Jane Conquest. .A1leah Noble IT. ,Essay-"CoraP. Nelson Jackson IS. Piano Duet .................
 .... Misses Scofield and Wickwire 19. Essay Washington .....
 ............ Ada Hotchkiss 20. ''How the La Rue Stakes
 were Lost. |. Edith VanAlstyne 21. Essay-"Magnetic Power'..
 ................, Louis Bacon 9. Presentation of Flag.
 ..........--.-... David Hubbell B. Class Will. ...... Harold Faber 24. Valedictory ..... Jennie Keliher 25. Address. Charles Y. Kent 26. Song-"Legend of the Bells"
 OuOruS
 James Couch spent. Sunday with his parents at South Manchester.
 Frank Mcdonnell of Sheffield street is confined to his home with severe attack of diphtheria.
 Glass meeting at Grace M. E. church tomorrow evening in the class room at 7:45 o'clock, James Gift leader.
 The regular meeting of Court Pine Hollow will be postponed for one week so that the school may have their grad uation exercises in the hall.
 Children's day was celebrated at Grace M. E. church last evening. The church was very tastefully decorated with roses and wild flowers. There was no sermon in the evening, the children taking entire charge with songs and recitations. t'
 The Waterville baseball team defeat ed the Norwoods on the Pin shop diamond Saturday afternoon by the score of 8 to i. The Watervilles are playing good ball this season having lost only one gome.
 George Lachance of Boston spent Sunday with his family in town. George is playing good ball this sea- son. Did you notice those stolen bases. .-.
 Good Will lodge, K. of P. will hold their regular meeting in Pythian hall this evening at o'clock.
 The Ladies' Aid society of Grace M. B. church will hold business meet ing this evening at the home of Mrs Northrop of Main street at o'clock.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15

without becoming tainted-the Sal vation Army las sic. ,e.
 The. amount of good the women workers. of the ar- my accomplish in this city Is ines timable. No place is too vile for them to, enter if by so doing they can accomplish a work of rescue;
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
France A1so Has FIoods.

ST. ETIENNE, France, June f5.- Violent rain storms have flooded many mines in this region, compelling a sus- pension of work Washouts have also interrupted railway traffic. The rivers Coise, Mare and Glen are in flood, while the Loire is ten feet above its usual level at Balbigny. The damage caused by inundations is already esti- mated at millions of francs.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
Large Artificial Lake.

Tn a gorge of rock little more than 200 feet wide the United States gov ernment has decided to construct a dam of solid masonry, the first under the Hansborough-Newlands act, at the Tonto Basin site, that will create in the valleys of the upper Salt river and Tonto creek the largest arti- f1cial lake in the world. It will irri- gate 200, 900 acres. eN
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15

V O greater n u m Der of lives. Eve y few n o n t h S a m oral s tr eak strikes the police q e p 8 rtEnent and the worst of the dives are closed, only to reappear again in a new sec Gion.
 A dozen years & g O. Twenty-sec- ond street, east nG CA4 ~
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15

for consumptaves erected in the city. In several ways it is a pecu- liar building.
 tsmost peculiar feature is it's lack of corners. There is not a square corner in the en- tire building, and for this reason it is as nearly dust proof as it is pos sible to make a building in this
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15

end is not yet. The fair was not & money maker for anybody. In fact it brought financial disaster to many, and another chap ter to the long drawn out story of losses was add ed when e few days ago the Fer ris wheel was sold under the ham,
 ner for the insig-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15

d r 1 v c r. In the q o W n t own dis trict he encoun- te1-s a greater con gestion of traffic than any other : city of the coun- try knows; within. this district he has more obstruc- tions to look out
 for in the way of street car tracks
 and elevated road structures; out
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
Where Man Is Small

To ordinary eyes man 1000 yards away-say, on a rife range-appears as dot; he could not be known as 8 man except as being @ smaller dot than a horse. 5... .
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
Big wl1d Ani1na1 Trade.

A dealer in wild animals in Ham burg collected and sold last year 76 lions, tigers and partners, 42 bears, S2 elephants, 64 camels and drome- daries, 75O monkeys and a large num- ber of smaller animals and birds.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
More Waterbury Proof.

Mrs A. Carter B North Elm attacks rheumatism back and sometimes body that it almost very Kidney Pills W. drug store greatly relieved and have hesitation in recommending valuable tion Doan's Kidney Pils.'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
THE GOSSIP
 OF CHICAGO
A Digest of What Is Doing in the
 Western Metropolis.
Salvation Army Lassies Try to Coun. teract the Work of the Dives The Ferris Wheel Sold
 for Song.

Chicago.-There was recently dedi- eated in Chicago the first sanitarium
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
Goimr tn a Fire

Chicago is chased as the worst city in the world for the fire department
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
Work. of the saIvationists.

There is one class of girls who enter these dens and emerge from them
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
The Ferrir whee1 aoinE.

For 10 years the Worlds Colum bian exposition has been passing, and the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15
Where Immortality Relgns.

The dives of Chicago are like the proverbial cat, only more so-that
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-15

CA @ T oE Raeas She e Ina Kind You Hay8 Always BtEgha s'sist''' 7 &,1aZEzx
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-03-04
Shorthand and Typewriting Lessons.

Pitman's Late Improved system
taught in few weeks time with only
one hours study each day. This is the
SHORTEST and most RAPID system taught
at the present time. Avail Yourself of
the opportunity to learn this useful art
without putting aside your present
work
Learn to use the typewriter without
watching the keyboard Pupils are
taught to write this touch System
from the start without looking at the
keyboard OF the typewriter, which is a
great saving of time in stenograher'
work Lesson hour arranged for your
convenience, day or night. Work guar.
anteed or no tuition. Call at l0le North
Second street, next to Abstract office
and investigate for yourself,
6-tf H. h. MITCHELL. Teacher.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-03-04

Brown Leghorn eggs for sale, $3.50
per setting OF Is; guaranteed extra fine
pure bloods. F. r. Henry, Selah, R. F.
ID. No. 8. Stf
Send in trial order for groceries to
John Differs new store at Mulhollan' g
old stand. A fine fresh stock just re-
ceived.
For Rent.-Two furnished rooms, one
block from Yakima hotel. Call at this
office. Aft
Must Be Sold-Fine registered black
Percheron stallion; weighing 1000
pounds; very cheap as owner wishes to
leave country. +. F. Burgess, near
Selah valley school house. SGT
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-03-04

remember the things he must know be-
fore he is ready to enter into the schools
of business and experience? 1t is law
of nature that the conditions and cir
cumstances surrounding child's school
life will govern, to a great extent his
character and education; and no pupil
can grow up with a good healthy mind
and character who has been bullied and
logged through school.
If one will count the boys from 9 to II
on the streets OF this city today, Ito say
nothing of those who should be in the
high schooD they will be surprised to
note that they outnumber Che pupils
ate nding the largest school in Yakima.
Yet it's so; and out of 10 of these boys
"quit' because of trouble in school.
The other two do not attend because
they do not have to.
Perhaps it is the policy OF the school
principals to teach the pupils to fear them
to make them meek and mild and sub
dued, but they are mistaken if they inn
agine they win respect as well. But how
can they expect to gain respect, or any
thing else from pupils they are treating
as gang of hoodlums instead of as a
class OF ladies and gentlemen?
And, after all the wrong and injuries,
both mental, moral and physical, that
grow out of corporal punishment, there
is absolutely no good to offset the bad
How can good spring from evil? And
why uphold a system that will bear
only evil results? Ii the people of this
city want their children to learn and
grow in a healthy, fertile atmosphere
capable of bringing forth the best of re-
sults-good educations and splendid
characters, let them agitate this ques-
ton of thrashing school children until it
is abolished; for not until then will the
school be proper and healthy educa-
tional institute for those who wish to
learn and do it in the right way.
Miss A. ID. SPENCER.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-03-04
CITY WILL ADVERTISE
ITSELF AND COUNTY.
Council Meeting Monday Night
Brought ont Some Good Measures.
Police Judges Big Report.

The city magistrates convened
Monday evening with the full council
present, viz: Aiken, Fisher, Liggett.
Moran, Switzer, Wyman. The most
important business transacted at the
Monday evening session was the motion
which passed, appropriating 800 to be
added to fund coming from the citi-
zens by subscriptions and the Com
mercial club and expanding the same in
gathering data and compiling statistics,
in other words getting out printed mat
ter descriptive of the Yakima valley to
circulate over the country and be given
to tourists, that this section may be
more thoroughly advertised. Ira p.
Englehart and A. +. Larsen as a COM
mittee from the club requested the CO.
operation of the council in this matter
and Mr.. Englehart spoke upon its inn
portance setting forth many well found
ed reasons in support of his contention
He said that immigrants were daily look
ing to the western states for future
homes, that Washington was getting
her pro rata or even exceeding it, that
Wenatchee, the Palouse country and
other sections not to be compared with
the rich fields of this valley were
launching big advertising schemes, and
catching the eye of the tourists and re-
ceiving the benefit Of the settlers fat
purse.
Attorney Nestal Snyder recommended
to the council that they act according to
the suggestions OF the committee from
the club, so did Mayor Shaw speak ia
vorably of the proposition.
The report of police Judge Taggard for
the shortest month in the year amount
ed to Sl06S from the following scources
of revenue: