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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-14
GROWTH OF INSANITY
In Cities is Increasing and Experts De
mand a Change.

In Cities is Increasing and Experts De-
mand a Change.
From the New York World.
What change can be made in city life to
stop its enormous production of insanity
yearly increasing?
Here IS a question which is yet to be
solved The medical fraternity is at loss
for general remedy; puzzled to find means
of overcoming the baneful effects Of a city,
acute activity on it's general mental cond-
ton.
London produces seventy lunatics a week,
and New York is almost as bad, and Its in
crease is greater proportionately. Experts
say that If 1t were not for the fact that
nature steps in and generally refuses to
grant children after the fourth or fifth gen.
Grafton conditions would be far worse than
they are.
The outlook for the future Is not bright
according to medical opinion, unless the
minds Of the city people are better able
within the next few generations to adjust
themselves to their progressive complicated
environment, unless balancing interests and
mental habits are developed to overcome
the unnatural nervous tension of city life.
So complicated is the environment of
those who live in great towns, many and
so varied are the calls upon their self-con-
troll and upon their effort-making powers,
that their mental machinery is apt to be-
come more complex, its parts require more
construction and adjustment, and the
whole machine is more apt to get out of
gear and to suffer arrangement than in the
more primitive and less emotional life of
even half century ago. 1t is not over
work that is the determining cause of the
disturbance of mental equilibrium, but
carking care worry and anxiety.
To the rich insanity is brought by indul-
gence in sensuous luXuries. To the Door,
yrh a va O ha ~ -
crisis, whose financial circumstances spell
Indifferent nutrition, overcrowding and un-
moral surroundings, the condition of mod
ern life bring depression and despair. The
natural result is that they attempt to drown
their sorrows in the flowing bowl Alcohol
Is the cause of one-f1fth of the insanity in
| males and of more than a half of that In
the weaker sex.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-14
Liberal Appropriations.

In his annual report the adjutant general
of the army among other things, says:
II believe, with a continuation of the
liberal appropriations made by Congress
for the militia, It will at the end of five
years in all of the states reach the high
proficiency anticipated. provided special at
tention is paid to the fact that after sol
der gets rife and ammunition the most
important thing of all Is to teach him how
to shoot 1t. With this end in view, steps
should be taken as soon as possible to pro-
vide well-equipped shooting galleries at
such places as may be most convenient for
the company to learn rifle shooting. l
know this has been done in many of the
states and the District of Columbia, but
there are some Of them which are entirely
devoid of these absolutely essential requi-
sites for learning rifle shooting. If the
gallery instruction Is properly conducted
the soldier will have little to learn after
going I'D for the range"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-14
Men Of Leisure.
Philadelphia Pres

From the Philadelphia Press
Il suppose your men of leisure over here
travel a great DEAL" remarked the British
tourist.
"Oh, yes" replied the native, they have
to-
"Indeed?'
Yes, we keep the tramps on the move in
this country, tell YOU
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-14
Barred From National Teams.

The board for the promotion of rifle prac-
tce that met at the War Department re-
Gently to revise the rules governing the
national trophy match resolved that no
shooting competitor who has been a mem
Der of team winning the national trophy
shall again be permitted to shoot on anv
team competing for the trophy. This reso-
luton was subsequently reconsidered and
changed TO barring the first seven men of
the winning team for the contest the fol-
lowing year.
In expressing doubt regarding the wisdom
of this action. Shooting and Fishing SAYS:
1T is an honor to be member of the win
ming team In this great contest for a single
occasion. but it would be still greater
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-14
Recommended by Adjutant General.

In connection with that portion of his re-
mort concerning the organized militia, the
following is recommended by the adjutdnt
general:
That the attention of Congress be invited
to the ACCESSIBILITY of a proviso in the APP
preparation bill for the next fiscal year CIV
ing forage to the horses of mounted militia
troops and of mounted militia officers while
at maneuvers; for per diem allowance to be
made for the hire of horses of militia troops
and batteries while engaged in maneuvers;
for the furnishing of fuel for cooking and
heating purposes by the United States while
engaged in maneuvers; and for the furnish
ing Of straw and hay for bedding of militia
soldiers while engaged in maneuvers.
In order to increase the attendance at
drills, and thus secure increased efficiency
Of the organized militia, that governors be
permitted to utilize the allotment of their
respective states under section 1861, Re-
vised Statutes, for the purpose of furnish
to exceed 43 cents per drill of one and one
half hours, for the purpose of paying en-
listed men of the organized militia for at
tendance at each of the twenty-four drills
annually required by statute.
That. as precedent to participation In
nlaneuvers, the states and territories re-
quire a sufficient physical examination for
entrance into their organized militia.
That on the application of the governor of
a state the United States may detail as dis
bursting officer of state under section II
of the act of January q, 1903, an officer of
the army to act as such during the encamp-
ment or during the rifle competition
That for the purpose of preserving order
In camp no troops of the organized militia
shall participate in maneuvers. unless the
laws of the state to which the troops be-
long sufficiently provide for the punishment
of disorder
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-14

Crimsonbeak-"Thel longer a man keeps
whisky. the better 1t isl
Yeast-'Yes. and the better the man is,
too."-Yonkers Statesman
New-York tribune., 1903-04-17
TOOK WOM4N TO DOCTOR.
John Henry Hammond Cared for
iSerUant His Cat Knocked DO10n.

John Henry Hammond, the lawyer. who lives
at No. IA East Seventy-second-st-, was driving
in his cab down Fffth-ave., last night, when' at
Fifty-sixth-st Mary Hare. servant in the
employ Of John r. Dos Passos, the lawyer
whose home IS at No. is East Fifty-slxtn-st-'
was knocked down by the horse. Dennis Ahearn,
a coachman. of No 915 T1ird-ave.. declared
the coachnan for Mr. Hammond was driving
fast when the woman was hit. She rolled out OF
the way of the horse and coach, and was not
rrn over but suffered two scalp wounds
Mr.. Hammond left his cab. sending the coach
man home, and hired public cao' Ihe glri'
who had been carried TO the sidewalk. he put
into this cab and had her driven to the nearest
drug store which was at Sixth-ave- and Fifty
fourth-st-
Policemen wetzel, Johnson and Rafsky, OF the
East Fifty-flrst-st station, followed the drug
gist refused to dress the girls injuries. saying
he did not know how, but referred Mr.. HAM
mond to Dr. Hubbard. at No. 53 West Fifty
fourth-st Meantime Policeman Wetzel tried
to find out what had happened. Mr. Hammond.
according to the policemen, said the girl had
fallen. Wetzel said he asked the girl number
Of questions, including her name and address,
but he declares that Mr.. Hammond replied Tor
her, refusing all information, and that she
made the same answers Mr. Hammond made.
Mr.. Hammond took the girl into the cab again
and they were driven to Dr. duDDdIuS 1He
police sent for Flower Hospital ambulance.
To Dr. Hubbard's the policemen went also,
and they say the doctor refused TO tell them
who Mr. Hammond who the girl was
Wetzel picked up a card the table and asked
if that was not the card of Mr.. Hammond, and
Dr. Hubbard said it was. Mr.. Hammond re-
fused TO tell his name. He said according to the
policemen:
You have no right to inquire any further.
This young woman is a lady. 1 want you to
know, and it's not your business what has hap
pened.'
Mr.. Hammond departed a little While atter
the ambulance surgeon had entered. BY that
time DR.. Hubbard had put five stitches IN the
girls wound over the right eye and dressed the
scalp wound. DR.. LoyZeaux, the ambulance sur
geon got her name and address, and she said 10
him she had been knocked down by the morse
attached to the cab of the man who had just
gone awav Dr. Hubbard sent her to Mr.. Dos
Passos's home
Mr.. Hammond drove away in cab to the
Sloane home in the Vanderbilt mansion, at
Fifty-second-st. and Fffth-ave.
New-York tribune., 1903-04-17
SAYS ITS DAMAGES ARE $1,000, 900
Western Firm Files Bill for Alleged In
fringement of Copyright.

Declaring that THE American and English En-
cyclopedia Of Law and The Encyclopedia OF
Pleading and Practice" published by the Edward
Thompson Company Of Northport, Long Island,
are largely made up Of material copyrighted by the
West Publishing Company, of st. Paul. Mimi. the
latter concern has filed bill Of complaint for in
frineement Of copyright IN the United States Cir
cult Court in Brooklyn and gives notice that on
MAY ! a motion viii be argued for preliminary
Injunction restraining the Edward Thompson Com
nanv from the further sale of its publications un-
Ill the final de termination Of the and perpetu
ally thereafter.
Later argument will be heard on a petition for a
decree for an accounting OF all Of the law encyclo
pedias sold by the Thompson Company and of all
profits realized by the defendants from such sale.
and compelling them TO pay over the amount there
Of besides the damages suffered from such publica
lions and the costs Of the suit.
The suit involves matter covered as alleged by
nine thousand copyrights which said TO have
cost the West Company S3O00.0oO. 1t declares that
OF the copyright is not less than SleoD0O The
profits Of the Thompson Company through the sale
Of their encyclopedia, the plaintiffs say, have aV-
eraCeG 100000 for several years, and that the
Thompson Company has saved from two-thirdS 10
fve-sxths OF the labor they would have had TO ex-
pend in preparing original matter. Among the
papers filed sffdaVitS made by former employees
Of the Thomson Company. IN which they ailege
passing on sheets copying from the digests
owned by the West Company for fifteen years.
The Edward Thompson Company has been estab-
lished bout twenty-five years and is the main sup
port Of that village employing as II oes between
three hundred and four hundred men. Its president
*
New-York tribune., 1903-04-17
KILLED IN HIS OWN HALL.
Passaic Police Baf3ed by Murder
Victim Not Robbed.

Passaic April 16.-Oalogero Caleco was shot ana
killed in the street hallway of his home. at NO.
225 Third-st. in the Dundee district OF this city
late last night. and after twenty-four hours OF
work on the case the police are completely at
loss to account for the murder except on one basis
That is that CaIeco surprised man in the hall
way and knowing he had no business there, ac-
costed him, and the man, being bent on ROBBERY
shot him in order to escape
Caleco was about thirty years of age. lie hVeo
with his wife, and had two young men as ooaru-
ers. They had in this city less thah TWO
months CaIeco came here to work for the an
MORT Construction Company. He had no enemies
IN Passaic and no close friends. and those he kne"
were those he had met here since coming.
He and his wife retired last night ABOUT ~
o'clock The boarders also retired about that time
An hour later Caleco awakened his W1fe ana co!ii-
planned of feeling sick After little time ne oe-
cided to go to drug store for medicine Inns oe
started to do. 1t is presumed he left the oooi le
ing from the street partly so he could cash!
enter upon his return, and that the murderer en-
terad tba hail Shots we're heard about ten min
Mes later and Caleco was found dead. he was
not robbed.
The police learned that couple of men VINO
were In the street heard the shots ana coulu Il0I
locate then, but saw a man from near "a
Ieco's house toward the bridge Mhle tne ne P"lo ne
were still hunting In the neghDoi hoou loL & Tad
cew there shot was hear9 a Tai hurTed over and
foiInd on the bridge Steve Roman, a young Sdr-
three Chambers OF which were empted and from
which least charge had oeeh nre4 "1ett tntaS
few minutes Roman was locked up, he StdIgu
that he had been visiting friend in Belmont; he
was on his way home, and as he approacneu ra6 tae
He said that in Belmont there was gang OF th9gs
and robbed them He fred the shot simply to show
that he prepared He asserted II was as no ,h gh
6Opbn0 h thing e 5o r poa his
The police also picked up two italians on general
principles but let them go later
New-York tribune., 1903-04-17
ENGINEERS EXPECT TO WIN.
Ferryboats Alone Would Continue To Run
if They Struck.

-rha members of the Marine Engineers BenehciaI
Association held a conference yesterday at their
beadouarters No 2S3 TIudson-st-, and discussed the
question Of the demands which they have made, 10
60 into effect on May L George Hall, one OF the
business managers OF the assocauoIl' Ih1No d 0'N0
nent in which he said:
1.-The marine engineers are licensed by the United
States Government. and such have duties de-
out In the last thirty years. while all the differ
ent classes Of labor have received increased wages
the marine engineer stands to-day where he stood
thirty years ago. It is not our policy 10 lie up
anything If we quit work will quit as any
Quate." =, ..-. 49,
Wallace Pollock, manager of the transportation
service of the New York Central Railroad, delned
that the wages of the men had renamed the same
for the last thirty years. least far as his com
pany was concerned. Last OCTOBER the comps .
engineers received advance some 10 81" d
month; others to SlOO IL, -.
others because they have greater respoIls5
as their carry passengers The railroad conf
panies cannot stand any more expenses, and II
looks If the men were trying 10 XIII the 6oOSe
that laid the golden eggs. -.
George KOib, the head of the organization. VINO
has been out Of town, returned late last evening"
IThe demands OF the engineers" he said, do not
affect the ferTyboats, which the engineers re-
ceived an advance last October. The present De
nands were made a week SO ago. and affect the
engineers of every big railroad company, OF the
Sound steamship companies and the toWboat cCm-
panies will submit demands before May l.; II lhey
are refused every engineer Will resign. THIS VIII
tie up the harbor. I believe the demands VIII De
granted as the could not be replaced
The chief engineers demand $50 q InoTth @ll1
board and the engineers on the smaller DoetS SIup
a month and board They also demand seventy
two-hour working week of seven days
New-York tribune., 1903-04-17
CHILL AT THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION

1t will be remembered that at the time Of the
Buffalo Exposition The Tribune translated articles
from Chilian press indicating that the Santiago
Government did not expect commercial and
industrial advantages from its participation in the
exposition, but that this necessary to the po-
ltical international interests of Chill. AT that
time the question Of the Peruvian provinces of
Idena and africa, occupied by Chilian troops since
1888. in defiance of the Ancon Treaty agitated.
and the Santiago Government anxious not TO
be absent from exposition where Peru and
Bolivia were 10 figure prominently. Now. the
signing with the Argentine Government of ap-
parentiy friendly arrangement. which is quite dis
tasteful to the Argentine people. has left Chill free
to pursue her policy to get. by reason or by
force" said her minister at La Paz final pos
session Of the Peruvian Bolivian provinces. she
cares still less than before about the opinion of
America
This is why the Chilian press is not favorable to
participation in the st. Louis Exposition It's most
important representative "EI Mercurio' which is
published simultaneously at Santiago and VAL
paraiso. respectively the political and commercial
capitals of the country, printed recently a long
editorial the occasion of the arrival in Chill of
Mr.. Wands. special delegate and commissioner
of the St Louis Exposition. The 'Mercurio' took
as text why Chill ought not attend the
exposition the present poverty of the Gillian
ury 1t said. among other things:
Nobody can deny the usefulness and advantages
Spe SF to go to e eaHe
sidering the result OF her presence at Buffalo.
nations OF Europe and America II is certain that
need propaganda abroad TO exploit prod
ucts and attract the capital and the arms which
In need Of and this is provided by participa-
ton expositions in all countries. Those are
reasons which would induce US to press our gov,
ernment to accept thu invitation OF the United
States OF North America. and to have Chill present
herself at ST. Louis in the best possible manner
But, unfortunately. the country Is not In a condi-
tion to do so. The expenses OF the armed peace
maintained during so many years. to the great
Injury OF our finances. have produced economical
situation very unsatisfactory. which must
remedy at any cost; aid so long ii does not get
a
treasury. Il Is impossible to preoccupy ourselves
with other objects. but rather we must regulate
our situation by Of strict system OF
economies, thanks TO which we might re-establish
our equilibrium and raise again our lowered credit
In normal epochs IL would have been the evident
uuty OF the government 10 have Chill present at
the ST Louis Exposition. and To DO IL in way
Which would have elevated our name before the
Soncourse OF all nations congregated there. To-
oay considering the psriod OF crisis through which
We are passing II would be real folly 70 think OF
ps expenses for representation and propaganda
,. |,nen the financial history OF the year has been
closed with deficit
New-York tribune., 1903-04-17
PRESIDENTS OUTING.
He Reaches Fort Yellowstone, ana
Reports a Splendid Time.
GREAT HERDS OF GAME ohIN'

Cinnabar Mont. April 16.-President f1oo
Welt came into Fort Yellowstone to-day app'"
ing in splendid condition and enthusiastic "
the good time he has had Secretary Loeo L.
him at Major Pitchers headquarters anu -
two transacted some routine business the t ni9'
tbe President has done with his secretary s''iOo
he went into the park. After returning iioi,
his visit to the President Secretary LoeO i9S00N
the following statement:
Major Pitcher reports that the Presldeht .a,tt "d
his partv have Just returned from thsII i 80
days' horseback trip in the nortn Oh IIIe IrHsjst
and along the Yellowstone The party - Soi t3,,r
ed of the President. Major Pitcher JollIi tba
roughs with an orderly, the scouts an a-tv
hackers with the mule train All Oh LiS - -
are in excellent health. and not an acclug .ha
auy kind occurred. On entering tne Pdin Ia
President informed Major Pitcher that ne wo' 80
not under any circumstances hre q enO enSS.tar
ANYTHING while in the park, and ne t0oh Hr ~ertt-
rifle nor shotgun with him. Inc p 80
had some good fishing, and the eresiaene .a.. 49,
Mr. Burroughs spent a large part or ~ tnelI ~, .to
in following and watching at close quartetS ~
great herds of game. chiefly elk, but also IloUi4
tain Sheep deer and antelope -, J.,
The party will start tomorrow 1or tn1 II ~
terror Of the park, TO visit the geysers ana PEI
hans the falls Of the Yellowstone. They wiz 20
in sIeighs on horseback or on Skis, accOfuins
To the condition of the snow
New-York tribune., 1903-04-17
THE BEAUTY OF NIAGARA.
Some Power Developments Detract from 1t
and Some Do Not.
from Engineerlng News.


The need OF action for the preservation Of Niagara
Fails Is being sgitated by the New-York Tribune
end opinion has been expressed that unless
prompt action is taken to check the water power
development 81 Niagara the time viii come not
many years hence when the flow OF water over the
great cataract viii be SO reduced that its beauty
aud grandeur viii be forever destroyed.
serve for The nation and the world the natural
beauty Of Niagara. but the immediate danger is
not so much the moderate amount Of water sub
tracted from the the transformsti ton OF
its vicinity BIZ power houses and manufactures in
such manner as TO greatly detract from the
When the first power house was built Niagara
permission for utilization Of the water only
obtained the plea that the power house was To-
Gated so far away from the falls lover mie) that
Il and the accompanying industrial development
would not infure IN the slightest the natural
scenery around the great gorge. Had other power
sevelopnents proceeded similar lines. believe
that objection could rightly have been raised
but when IL was demonstrated that Niagara water
power enterprises would pay, plenty Of people were
ready TO undertake them by the easiest and cheap
plan.
What we do maintain IS that the development Of
power al Niagara should be confined 10 works
red Tines similar to those OF the Niagara
Fails Power Company. the power being taken from
far away from the cataract, and discharged through
q tunnel into the gorge below the falls. This
method only saves the scenic features around
the cataract from injury but II is in accord with
sound engineering principles II utilzes the whole
power Of the fall, including the descent OF the
rapids above the cataract, amounting TO nearly
sixty feet In some OF the current schemes Of
way the water IS taken near the foot Of these
New-York tribune., 1903-04-17
WILL OF N. w. HUNT.

The will Of Nathaniel w. Hunt, retired whole-
sale grocer, who died on April at his hone' NO
3l Washington-ave., Brooklyn, was filed Tor pro-
hate by the counsel of the Brooklyn Trust COM
pany as executor and trustee, in Kings county
Yesterday. He left a, large estate, including a
large number Of railroad securities his city home
and his country place, known as st Elmo Island
IN the ST. Lawrence River. opposite the town of
Alexandria Bay. The city and country homes are
to go to Mrs. Emma Isabella Hunt the WIDOW
and the executor directed to set aside for her
use enough of the securities to yield a yearly in
come Of $4,000.
Louis Thompson Hunt, the adopted son of the
testator, is receive $1,000 annually until he
reaches the age of thirty-five- In ADDITION ne Is
to receive 81 500 when he reaches the of twenty
five and $500 at the age Of thirty These pay
ments to be doubled if the young man marrles
before he is twenty-five years old. II Mrs. Hunt
dies before he reaches the age of twenty-five the
entire estate IS to be turned over to him at that
time. II she living a that time the residuary
estate is to go to the adopted