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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-04-16
Michael Angelo Discharged.

One of the stories told by the genial
and delightful Eugene Field was about
the proprietor of western theater,
whose knowledge of art and literature
was extremely limited. Inspecting the
improvements at the beginning of a
season, his attention was attracted by
a new drop curtain.
Summoning the stage manager, he
inquired: whats that picture?"
THAT" replied the stage manager,
rs a scene after Michael Angelo.Y
'Well, Mikes no good" growled the
proprietor. "Give him his salary and
let him go."-Philadelphi Ledger.
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To Colorado In 1903.

The Passenger Department of the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway has
issued very interesting folder, giving
information as to reduced rates and
sleeping car service, with short de-
scription of the various points of in
terest in Colorado usually visited by
tourists, these excursion rates apply
ing on account of the Christian En-
deavor meeting to be held at Denver,
July 9th to 18th. Send 2-cent stamp
for copy, to w. B. Kniskern, Passen-
ger Traffic Manager, Chicago. VS.
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NEWS NOTES.

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Tom O'Donnell spent Sunday il
Racine.
John Ward visited friends in Chica
go Sunday.
James E. Melton visited friends il
Racine Sunday.
William Meyers spent Sunday with
friends in Milwaukee.
W. D. Eaton, of Joliet, visited Ke
nosha friends Sunday.
Mrs. H. w. Marden spent Sunday
with friends in Chicago.
Arthur Mccartney and sister Marie
spent Easter in Chicago.
w. D. Armstrong was home from
Milwaukee to spend Sunday.
A. L. Randall, of FIT. Wayne, spen
Monday evening in Kenosha.
George w. Heup spent Easter Sun
day with friends at Milwaukee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben DeDiemar are re-
joicing over the birth of son.
Walter Melick, of Chicago, spent
Sunday with friends in Kenosha.
Miss Belle Anderson, of Chicago
spent Sunday here with her parents.
Mrs. Whitbeck, of Chicago, spent
Sunday with her mother in Kenosha,
B. F. Windsor returned home Sun
day after business trip to Pittsburg
Mrs. Lewis Eve is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Robert Case, of Chi
cago.
Richard Gaffney was home from Mil
waukee to spend Sunday with his par
ents.
Misses Mamie Ward and May Ben
net spent Sunday with friends in Chi
cago.
T. F. Anderson, State Secretary of
the Y. M. c. A., spent Sunday in Ke-
nosha.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Young, of Mil
waukee, spent Monday evening in Ke-
nosha.
Roscoe Torrey, superintendent of
the Stevensons farm is reported seri-
ously i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Moran, of Chi
cago, spent Sunday with Kenosha
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Balm, of Mil
waukee, spent Sunday with Kenosha
friends.
Miss Alice Cantwell was home from
Chicago to spend Sunday with her
parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. 7. Barkbaur, of Will
Jams Bay, spent Saturday evening in
Kenosha.
Ethel Peters entertained the Y. F. c.
club on Saturday at very pleasant
afternoon.
A social sensation is promised in the
next few weeks ia the way of an action
for divorce.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Towne, of Evans
ton, spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
A. H. Lance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Filbin, of Chi
cago, spent Sunday with friends and
relatives here.
Everett Roberts fell off a fence Sat-
urday afternoon and sustained frac-
ture of his leg.
Miss Calixta English returned to
Madison Sunday night after short
visit with her father.
A new street car is promised by
President Arnold of the Kenosha
Street Railway company.
Mrs. Charles Defrey has been taken
to hospital in Chicago to undergo an
operation for appendicitis.
Mrs. j. Emil Erickson, of Chicago,
is spending few weeks in Kenosha
with her father, Julius Cappelen.
Miss Rodgers and Miss Anna Adams,
Of Whitewater, were visiting friends
in Kenosha Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Emily Cappelen has returned
home after weeks visit with her
sister, Mrs. ]. Emil Erickson, of Chi
cago.
Some one has dumped dead horse
just east of the Golf grounds. The
parties who did it should be forced tc
bury it at once.
During the electric storm of SUNDAY
evening lightning struck the creamery
on the Stevenson farm in the town Of
Somers. The damage from the stroke
will not exceed Eve dollars.
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MARKET REPORT

Closing prices for New York stocks yester-
day and today as furnished by "The Haddep-
Rodee Co. ".l67 Park street;
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BARGAIN COLUMN.

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cost 25 cents per week up to 40 words. Over
40 words up to 80 words so cents per week.
Try it,
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VXyANTED-A girl for general homework.
wv Mrs D. K. Newell, Wards Corners,
Bristol Wis QWa2I
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

slide down a fire escape and be on the
roofs across the street before the
cops" realizes he is gone. The annals
of the New York police record many
desperate battle fought In this
strange territory. Murder has been
done there more than once or twice.
The JanitOr's Air Castle.
But the romance of New York roof
life eenters mostly around it's multi
tudinous love affairs. In the tenement
districts the roof is Romeo's and
Juliets favorite haunt. Old 1anitors
say that nearly all the leading Tam
many politicians wooed and won their
brides on a tenement roof before the
magic world of graft" had thrown its
doors wide open to them.
The lucbiest owners of real castles
in the air are the janitors of sky
scrapers in New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Philadelphia, Buffalo and
other commercial cities. AS a rule,
| these janitors and their families live
| in little houses built on the sky
scraper's roof. 1t is an ideal location
for a man who wants to be out Of
the busy whirl of the city. The quar-
tiers are generally good, and no cooler
place could be found in the heat Of
summer.
Sometimes people dwell in these air
castles for weeks at a time without
! going down to mingle with the UNDER
world. There is generally a rule
against the janltor's family using the
elevators during the daytime, and,
rather than walk down twenty stories.
| they stay in their eyrie.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

isn't worth living"
In many of the New York tene-
ments pigeons, fowls and other live
stock are kept on the roofs. Quarrels
often arise through one man stealing
another's pigeons. This has been re-
duced to a fine art. Some East Siders
train tumbler pigeons to attract the
ordinary pigeons to their coops by
their queer antics in the air. When
the strange pigeons are safely inside,
the coop is closed. and they are kept
prisoners for a few days until they
regard the new crop as their home.
Other thieves attract the pigeons by
smearing aniseed, which all pigeons
love, on the coop.
Roof ROmances.
The roof life of New York is full
of human interest, as 1t must needs be
when many thousands of people spend
the greater part of their life all sum-
mer in these castles in the air. They
| love and quarrel, fight and sleep, steal
| and murder on the roof, just as other
| people do in the streets or in their
| houses.
Patrolmen who do duty on the East
side tell you that a tough" wher
chased by the police, nearly always
dries to get away over the roofs rather
than along the streets. The average
tough" knows the maze of tenements
fire escapes and roofs far better thar
| the ordinary man knows the streets
1t needs a bold and active policeman
to catch him when he is once on the
roofs. for he will jump from one to the
other with incredible daring; and Their
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09
NEWSPAPERS OF THE PAST
WITHOUT A YELLOW TINT

APPEAR and war against all nations.
In 1899 descendant of David will APP
pear and destroy Cog and Magog, and
in 1900 the remnant of the nations will
gather and live forever afterwards in
bonds of friendship, equality and I'M
feigned love.
Money Was Scarce.
Money was by no means a common
medium of trade in the late nine1es,
for it was too scarce, and all kinds
of produce was received In business
places instead of bills or gold. mil
liner, for instance, advertises extend
ing an invitation to the ladies of Sa-
vannah to call and inspect her stock
of blonde laces, frivolity trimmings,
edgings, feathers. and other goods, all
of which are offered under price for
cash or produce" Fancy Bull street
girl nowadays carrying a basket OF
eggs to the milliner's to exchange
them for rooster tail for her hat!
slaves and Slave Ships.
A large portion of the newspaper
of that time was taken up in adver-
tisements for runaway slaves, and II
is interesting to note the different
amounts offered although almost
every one volunteered the remark that
his slave was likely" and the illus
trations, being stock cuts represent
ing Fiji Islanders in paint ana feath-
ers. being used flrst on one and then
another. The reward offered varied
from SO to 800, and this was very
noticeable difference from the reward
offered for an Irishman, who had been
working under indentures. The mas
ter in the latter case was Wiling 70
nay IS for his detention and return
Announcements of the arrival OF
slave ships from the Windward COAST
OF Africa were often noted, and the
cargoes offered for sale.
A Humane Poem.
But seldom in the pages of the news
papers of those days did anything but
straight facts and adds appear, but
occasionally something would cause q
change. and in the issue of March r.
1894 apepars a column of poetry CIV
ing directions "for the recovery OF the
apparently drowned"
There is not a suspicion OF verses
for some time afterwards, the next
being some months afterwards when a
couplet appears making a play on
Howe's name.
ONLY one in three years does any
thing resembling a joke APPEAR and
this is plainly labelled "anecdote," and
tells of a widow who had two propos-
ais at her first husbands funeral and
was finally able to marry both, in
proper order.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

In view of the present struggle OF
the newspaper world to get the most
of a story, or perhaps more than the
story, into the top line of the heading,
and then to bring out as many OF the
details as possible in the succeeding
lines which come and almost render
the reading of the article itself useless,
1t is an unique experience to look back
in the files and study over the old
Georgia Gazette, late in the seven
teens,'' with the yellow of age only
marking the pages. The volume in
hand contains the years of 1894 to 1896
and the weekly. four pages are filed
with matter of great interest.
AS intimated at the outset one Of
the most remarkable distinctions be-
tween a newspaper Of that period and
the present day journal is the contrast
in the headline business. In fact it
would appear that the headline ar
tist' must have been born in the
nineteenth century, for he had no
place on the Georgia Gazette at all.
The most exciting news of the world,
probably that coming from the scenes
of terror incident to the French Rev
olution, but a single date line Paris,
November IA, 1893" appears In the
Gazette of January 2, 1884, over
story of a meeting of the Jacobins, in
which one Lullier said:
we must either terminate to war
In three months or resolve to be
slaves. 1t was also moved that 1OO,-
900 sans culettes be sent over to Eng
land, and that the ships which car
ried them over shall be burned to cut
off their return"
Further down the column, without
even sub-head, are shown letters
from various places giving tidings OF
the world, as far as possible, in para
graphs. and all dated two or three
months previous to the date of the
Gazette. The execution of Madame
DuBaTy is noted in three lines. and
The letter is three months old.
The address of George Washington
TO the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives, thanking the people for their
selection of him to succeed himself as
PRESIDENT, has not even a date line.
Some PrOphesis That Failed.
A newspaper, it seems, was fond OF
printing anything sent in, at that time
and the following prophesies. which
We're contributed by a Londoner, VINO
SAID they were dug up from under q
wall that had stood 500 years, are In
teresting. although they didn't pan ouI
very we'll:
In 1890 there will be a great rebellion
against the French King, and wher
me present Pope dies there will be nc
other elected.
In 1871, war amongst any Of the Eu-
'opean Powers and against France.
In 1892 and 1898 wars increase.
IN 1894 few or no forms Of religion
VIII be observed IN France.
IN 1875 and 1895 much destructive
usunion among the Powers Of Eu-
rope, slaughter and bl0Odshed
IN 1897 ana 1898 Cog and Magog viii
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

fresh air on them, and an occasional
Whit of cool breeze.
Erich people often come down here
and pity the poor tenement dwellers
because they have to stay in such
small, stuffy rooms" said the janitor
of an East Side tenement house; but,
as matter of fact, / don't suppose
there are any people in the world
who live more in the open air.
1.-THE children are always out in the
streets all through the summer days.
They romp about, lightly clad and
don't seem to feel the heat. The wo-
men spend a great deal Of the day
gossping out-of-doors, or sitting on
their 'stoops,' or at their open VIM
dows. And as soon. as the sun goes
down they gather on the roof to spend
the evening. Very often whole fami-
I lies sleep there, dragging their mat
tresses and pillows upstairs.
81 don't suppose a summer ever
passes without some people falling off
these roofs and being killed on the
sidewalks. 1t is the commonest of
East Side tragedies. Sometimes a
man simply rolls off in his sleep,
sometimes he gets sleep-walking and
tumbles off.
THE children and young men
scramble about the roofs and jump
from one roof to another in the most
reckless manner. Some of the roofs
are divided from each other by high
| spikes, which are curved so as to
! project several feet over the streets.
! Do you think that stops the young
sters. Not a bit of it. They swing
| themselves around the spikes like cats
! hanging seven stories above the side
walk. 1t makes a mans blood run
| cold to see them sometimes; but they
very seldom, if ever, fall. Accidents
| don't happen to the adventurous;
they happen to the people who just
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09
COL 0NEL MoNR0E'S DOCTRINE
The LincOlaviIIe Statesman Dis
cusses the Unprecedented In
crease I'm Immigration and Its
Pressing Problems.
BY FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS.
Copyright, 1908, by Frederick Upham
Adams.

~ ~-9-~~t ~NS~P
Adams.
Listen to this" said Judge Saw
yer, looking up from his paper and
adjusting his glasses. Here is some
thing which should cause every
thoughtful American to pause and
think" and the judge read the follow
ing dispatch from Washington:
" Nearly 100000 of the inhabitants
of foreign countries have been added
to the population Of the United States
in the fiscal year just ended. The
exact number of arriving aliens dur
ing this time was 921,315, an increase
of practically 100000 over the previous
year, and the largest number which
has arrived in this country in any one
year in It's history. OF this number
631 $50 landed in New York city, and
only 6,446 were debarred. When an
analysis is made of this vast food of
humanity tie result is startling. The
countries of Southern Europe are be-
ing depopulated of their lowest class
of population, and the United States
is being deluged with a horde of Ital-
ian pushcart showers and organ grind
ers, with an army OF Ignorant I'M
skilled and degrading humanity from
Austria-Hungary, and with band
equally as large from the Russian en-
pre-"
''Well, what of it?" demanded Col
Monroe calmly. "This is a free coun-
try to all but Chinese. who are barred
] suppose. because they have fifty or
more centuries of civilization behind
them. We started out to run kinder
garten in the study and science of gov
eminent, and the more that attend the
merrler After we have assimilated
all of the paupers and criminals OF
Europe we will take on those OF Africa
and Asia. shall not be here when
that happy time arrives, and 1 cannot
say that / am sorry"
II assume from what you say that
you are opposed 10 the present system
Of Unrestricted immigration" remark
ed Judge Sawyer.
II am." was the decided response.
80 am l." declared the judge.
Me. too" added Postmaster Jen-
kins. III I had my way about il there
would never be another foreigner
landed IN the United States. That's
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

come and see my real roof gar
den" said a well known New Yorker
to his guests after dinner one hot
summer evening, II fiatter myself that
it's a new stunt"
He took them on the roof of his
house and showed them one of the
best small gardens to be found any
where in the city. The flowers and
plants were growing in real beds of
soil-not in pots and tubs, as is usual
with gardens cultivated on the roofs
of houses in large, congested cities.
A small fountain played in the center
amidst a shrubbery of Japanese dwarf
trees. and cosy seats were provided in
shady hooks for young men and
nadens who might like to study
astronomy together, as young men
and maidens have done every since
roofs were invented. Altogether, the
garden was delightful place. A man
could linger there and imagine that he
was in a real old-fashioned rustic gar
den. instead of on roof in the heart
of a great city.
A BHbyIOnian "Stunt."
What do you think of it?" asked
the host. Isn't it really new stunt
Doesn't 1t beat everything in the rus
IN urbe' line ever attempted"
Well, hardly said one of the
guests. Wasn't there Babylonian
king who did the same thing some
thousands of years ago? He took a
country girl for his queen, and nothing
was too good for her, in his estima-
ton. He loaded her with gifts, as only
a Babylonian king could.
"Rut still she wasn't happy. She
didn't like the city life, and she want
ed her old garden.
My love, we are rather crowded
here said the King, but we will dc
our best for YOU So he sent for his
palace chamberlain and ordered a gar
den as you would order lunch
20 King! said the chamberlain
Undoubtedly you are the greatest
monarch that ever lived, but DOM
quite see how you can have garden
We are too crowded here. There's nc
room anywhere on the ground.
Then make one on the roofs saic
the King, and thus it was that the
hanging gardens of Babylon became
one of the seven wonders of the world
They were the original roof gardens
and none of our American limitations
is ever likely to equal Them
The Rich Mans Roof Garden.
Nevertheless, New York manages tc
get a great deal of pleasure out of Its
roof life, even though it is way behind
Babylon. In other crowded American
cities, life on the roof is a great insti-
tuition, but nowhere else is it SO much
practiced as in New York. New
Workers." says a widely Travelled man.
dwell on their roof tops far more than
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

the Orientals, about whose roof life so
much has been written"
When the good old summer time"
spreads it's bot hand over the city,
life is not pleasant even in fash
, ionable and spacious apartment house.
Parties given on the roof are always
far more popular than those given in
tire room below.
st have noticed" remarked a con-
| flrmed diner-out, chat if the hostess
| leads the way to the drawing room
after dinner during the hot spell the
| function is always a failure. The
guests sit around Imply in easy
chairs, mop their heated broYs, and
| are as dull as ditch water. They talk
about nothing but the weather. No
body is inclined to play, or sing, or do
| anything entertaining.
| But if the hostess says, Shall we
go on the roof?' everybody becomes
alert and jovial at once. Cushions and
! light chairs are taken up, the banjo
and the guitar are produced, every
| body remembers a coon song which
| his negro nanny taught him in his
| childhood, and the guests don't want
! to go home until long after midnight
so delightful is it to sit out under
| the stars and enjoy the cool night
breezes with the humming city far
beneath you"
In the Tenements.
To wealthy people who remain in
| the city during the summer, roof life
is a luxury. but to the poor folk in
| the tenement districts it is a stern
| necessity. When the mercury in the
! thermometer is mounting steadily
| upwards to the great prostration point
| life in their boxed-in, ill-ventilated
| cubicles becomes uncomfortable. The
| very roofs themselves are often hot
| to the touch long after the sun has
gone down, but at least one can get
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

turn to the unfortunate mother and
try to make her take it down to her
rooms. Then the father offers to fight,
and there's a rough house.
Sometimes the people who live on
the top floor don't care to go on the
roof themselves and object to other
people doing so. They say the noise
keeps them awake. L have known
them to block UP the passage to the
roof. and defy anybody to try to get
up. Then. of course, there are qu9r-
'rels and fights, appeals to the land
lord, and complaints to the Board of
Health. And the poor janitor has to
mix up in the squabble until his life
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

lie down quietly on the roof until they
fall over some night in their sleep"
isn't the roof rather small some
times for all the people who want to
use it?" the janitor was asked.
Yes, it Island that's our greatest
trouble. The roof causes more quar-
rels in a tenement house than any
thing else. On very hot evenings you
can see them lying there packed al
most as close as sardines in a box.
One man walks over another who is
sleeping, and wakes him up, as cross
as a bear with a sore head. Or. per
haps, a baby insists on crying and
keeping everyone awake, until they all
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

Eugene Mccarthy. who is only %
years of age. ran for the assembly in
New York last fail and was elected
This was largely due to the efforts OF
Miss S. NJ. Goodwine. a school-teacher,
who made a personal canvass OF the
district IN support OF Mr.. Mccarthy
and went with him on his speaking
tours. Such devotion has its reward.
Miss Goodwine will spend the coming
winter at Albany, the wife OF Eugene
Mccarthy.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

form of wages the more they will be
able to buy. 1t is useless to manu-
facture things unless you can sell
them. The worker is the principal con-
sumner, and unles he can buy back
with his wages the greater part of
that which he produces he works
himself out of a job. And when he
is out of work because he has created
more than his wages viii allow him
10 consume, the fool employer who
ground down his wages goes into
bankruptcy.
La Junta tribune., 1903-10-10
County Commissioner.

The board OF county commits
sloners were in regular session the
first three days of the present
week, adjourning at noon Wednes-
day. A synopsis OF the proceed
ings is as follows:
The board made their regular
quarterly examination OF official
bonds and found all 60 cd andsuf-
ficient.
The contract for furnishing all
material and constructing one
span bridge across Timpas creek
to replace the bridge known as the
BEST Bridge" was awarded to
the Pueblo Bridge Company.
Petitions for rebate of taxes for
the year 1902 on the ground Of
being assessed excessively high
were received from the following
taxpayers and on motion denied:
Fred 6. Thede, Shaw Clothing
Company, Nj. l.. Meyer. McCar-
~ q Anthem, w. c. Darlington,
ID. A Kennedy, Mrs. NJ. c. Mus,ck,
a. l.. Kellogg, +. Martinez, ad-
ministrator OF the estate OF Thur
clio Rosales.
In the matter of the appointment
by the State Board OF Stock In
spection Commissioners of an in
spectoT ior cattle for Bent Canon
Stock Association, it was on mo
ton unanimously ordered that
this board recommend the appoint
ment OF q. +. McCauiey OF Las
Animas, as inspector.
After allowing the usual grist Of
bills the commissioners adjourned
at noon Wednesday.
La Junta tribune., 1903-10-10
s..,n... Increasing.

The Postal Telegraph Company
is giving its lines general repairs
between Albuquerque, Los Angeles
and San Francisco. There are now
three gangs OF men working, each
gang consisting of about twenty
men. One gang is working be-
tween Albuquerque and Winslow,
another between Ash Fork and
Needles. These Improvements
mean new cross arms and the
stretching Of new wire demanded
by the increase of business.