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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-16
Litigation Against stark Electric.

Salem, Aug. 12.-Engineer B. M.
French and assistant, Carl Fink, went
to Canton to do some work for the
Stark Electric Railroad company. Lit
igation against the company is said to
be about to be instituted in Stark
county courts by property owners re-
siding in Canton, It Is claimed that
the grade OF the, Stark Electric has
caused water to back into q number Of
cellars and to do other damage. En-
gineer French will make map of that
part of the road over which a legal
battle Is threatened.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-16
Attack of Hydrophobia,

Akron, Aug. 12.-Halliwell Radcliffe
canal boatman was bitten by dog
three months ago, Last night it took
two policemen and deputy sheriff
to keep him under control at the hos
pital on account of supposed attack
of hydrophobia.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-16
HIS MOTHER DEAD,
But lnteider Tinker Had to Finish the
Game.

Philadelphia, Pa, Aug. 12.-In the
sixth inning Of today's game between
the Philadelphia and Chicago Nation
al league clubs Infielder Joe Tinker of
the latter club, was handed a telegram
which told of the death Of his mother
Chicago was without an inflelder to
take his place and Tinker had to fin.
ish the game, winning it for his club
by placing a bunt which Wolverton
threw wild permitting Evers to score
the winning run. Tinker and his wife
left tonight for the west.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-16
Died From His Wounds.

Helena, Mont, Aug. 12.-Antonio
Korizek, the assistant lailer. who was
shot three times by the bandit Isaac
Gavelle in the latter's sensation at
tempt to escape from the county jail
yesterday died this afternoon.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-16
Illness of DR.. Rolf, of Malvern.

DR.. James Fraunfelter was called
to Malvern Friday to attend DR.. Roff
of that place who has been Ill for
some time past. Or. Ron suffered an
attack of grip last winter and now
hay fever has taken told of him. 1t
threatens to develop into heart fail.
ure
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-16
New Amusement Park.

Cleveland. o., Aug. 12,-Frederick In
gersoll. representing Pittsburg capital
lists. Is here TO make arrangements to
build big amusement park.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04

not upon hte street attract your
second glance. His age also is mid
ding. He is a man Of many affairs,
but never driven by them. He man
ages all forms of speed upon the
earth: His yacht *Scout" is swift, his
horses are deet-footed, his autos can
kill people on the road (but do not),
he runs railroads and the fastest city
transit: but / never saw him in a
hurry. His voice has suspicion of
a drawl, and he has the formal and un-
+ hurried manner of the "old-school
gentleman" His brothers, Oliver H. p.
and Perry, have both been in politics.
both are in society," both have married
the divorced wives of other men fam
GUS in their world. Neither has paid
any attention to business. August is
the business member of the family-is
In society, also, of course, but not to
the exclusion of other interests. Lat
terly, for the first time, he has been
in polltics-drawn in by his connection
with Mcdonald and others in the SUBJ
way matter.
1nls late attention to political mat
tiers, which are the proper concern Of
every American, has brought upon
Belmont the accusation of being a
trust magnate." 1t is a misft. The
representative of enormous wealth he
is, but not wealth invested in trust
enterprises nor affected by national
politics. The local transit of New
York city is no concern of the federal
government. Belmont has an excellent
bargain with the city, but he took it
up when no one else would, and when
prophecies of disaster were many. No
genius, but man who takes his time
to study things out and then acts
upon his mature reflection, Mr.. Bel
mont is this week New York's most
conspicuous citizen.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04

horse heaven on earth should be.
The Whitney heirs were lucky to
dispose of his horses, as we'll as his
houses, so we'll. 1t is not every mil
lionaire who is willing to step into a
house built or rebuilt for another man,
as ]. H. Smith, the "silent man of Wall
street," did into the great brown
stone mansion Of the late traction
magnate at price of some $4,000, OOO
AS for the horses, no wonder that
men were ready to bid high for them
(the prices ranged up to close to SCI, 900
for favorites) when Meddler's sons and
daughters this year alone have won
$4,000 on the race track. Hamburg,
he is the father of two Futurity win
ners, those of 1903 and 1904, while
Leonidas, also a Hamburg horse, was
second to Hamburg Belle in 1903.
Stalwart, horse bought rather cas-
lily from E. r. Thomas at a selling
race, has won $4,000 in races this
year. Mr.. Whitney's horses cost him
enough while he was alive, in all con-
scinece. They were, at any rate, worth
something after his death.
OWEN LANGDON,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04

pOSS1Dlc USERS Cl
piers SO Tor and costly as these. It
looks as it l. e bluff" were prettJ 7
good.
The ship trust w>s crazy scheme of
over-capitalization by Mr.. Morgan, and
it is now owned by Englishmen, and
doesn't care rap for New York, or
any other American city, yet I half
sympathize with it in the dispute New
York can borrow money at three per
cent. or so, yet it wants the trust to
pay rental of five per cent upon the
cost of the docks. That would be we'll
enough if the steamers had to come TO
New York, but when other cities are
Offering pier space at nominal rentals
it does look as if New York might
come down. For generation the city
has skinned" foreign commerce by
high wharfage charges fixed long ago
by Tweed, by needless pilotage, by
railroad "differentials" fixed by New
York railroad owners in favor of other
cities. The town must wake up if it
wants to keep its trade. The fact that
the headquarters of the cotton gam
blers is being transferred hither from
New Orleans is not recompense. New
York has enough business gamblers.
What it needs is business.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04
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FASHIONS CHANGE FIGURE.
Coming Styles Are Calculated to Make
Women Appear Quite Broad
in Shoulder.

Woman is the anatomical chameleon.
She changes her measurements with
each season.
To the INITIATED male mind she be-
comes long or short wasted, sloping or
square shouldered, big or low busted,
without any apparent inconvenience
a demonstration that the operation,
Whatever it may be, is a painless one.
But she is as essentially different in
each phase as though she had been born
again.
If you study the lady carefully this
year, says, the New York World, you will
ind that she has lost practically three
inches in length of line from neck to
waist (from Is to less than 1917 inches),
that she has gained fully two inches OF
shoulder, and that from neck to toe in
front she has lost something of that
seemingly interminable line which was
a la mode last season.
Why? The reasons are not far to seek.
Gowns are no longer simply bouffant
above. They are trimmed from the hem
up to the knee; they have widened In
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04

The T h r e Story the Belmont man.
i'ans'' r'0o'en'' agement met by
leasing the elevated railroad system.
They are "playing both ends against
the middle" in local transit-the I'M
foreground and the over-ground against
the surface cars. For the purpose,
Mr.. Belmont organized a "holding
company the PETERBOROUGH. This
leases the Manhattan, or elevated sys-
tenn. And already the stock of the
holding company sells away above par
Tue reason is peculiar. Gould, Sage
Ind others owned the controlling in
tcrest in the IL" cars. They managed
upon the cheese-paring plan, and the
surface system, just Electrified" by
Whitney & Brady, got away the pas
sengers. Its stock, the Metropolitan,
sold as high as 1872 in 1900.
Then Belmont bought the elevated
put on electric cars, framed a quicker
schedule and drew passengers back
from the surface lines. Earnings in
creased SO fast that the Interborough
declared a small dividend before the
Subway was opened from the surplus
Iickels OF its leased elevated lines,
Meanwhile the Metropolitan, vastly
cver-capitalized, was running behind
Its managers made a holding company
Of their own, sold it the METROPOLITAN
On guarantee similar to that of the
elevated lines by the Interborough
and ''got from under" Thus the Met
ropolitan, although a guaranteed seven
per cent stock, sold at the bottom OF
the slump in Wall street as low as
99%.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04


scope and flare at the side, thus fore
shortening the picture.
To 90 back to first causes, the corset
is the foundation for every new figure
The severe straight-front is no longer
chic. The idea remains, but with modi-
| fications. 1t has become possible to
define the waist in front, and it is no
| longer social crime to show suspicion
of the curve Immediately below. While
we are still suppressed, we are more
hygienic.
With the raising of the waist-line
come the heightening of the girdle, the
fullness of the skirt, the increase of the
sleeve and the evolution of the cape. It
is all logical sequence. We are no
longer in the realistic period. We are
grown romantic. Woman has reverted
from the analytical to the mysterious.
The serpentine heroine is not popular,
hence there are no more sheath gowns
that define all the contours.
The woman of to-day is concealing
rather than revealing. She allures by
the prospect of discovery. She buries
herself in founces and frills. She keeps
you guessing. You are as liable to mis-
calculate her weight as you are to err
about her height.
The suggestions of the coming revolu-
ton that last seasons fashions gave
were all tentative. There was hint OF
the old-fashioned basque. This year we
have the basque itself, but instead of the
garment of other days it has become a
little coat with the basque back. The
old-fashiOned basque prescribed the
hustle, but our adherence to the better
lines of the "straight-front" has averted
that terrifying necessity. The introduce
ton Of the silk overjacket of contrast
ing shade for evening frocks is the re-
vival of a caprice Of our grandmothers
1t is worn with gown of chiffon or H.
fusion, preferably white, the jacket be-
ing of some light color. This was a
fashion formerly associated with the
Grecian Bend. But we have now the
beauty of the mode without it's extreme
Last season we touched upon the mil
| itary. This year we have ARRIVED. "
But it is the picturesque military. The
directoire is the favored style. The high
girdle, the flaring revers and the So
| called coat sleeve, which is large and
loose with deep cuff, strapped with gold,
which lessons the length of arm.
The train has become an impossible
ity save in evening gowns. The wide
skirt does not admit of it on the street,
where it would be serious incubus to
the wearer, and an involuntary street.
! cleaner which must arouse every sant-
tary expert in the country
The whole tendency of the year is to
color-not neutral tints, but those that
salute the eye with quick surprise. All
the blues have grown brighter. Scarlet
that is scarlet is in the ascendant, and
the greens are brilliant Woman is not
subtle. she is merely elusive in her pres.
,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04
DAINTY TRIPLES FOR BABY.
Small Luxuries Witch Seem to Be IN
Extraordinary Demand ct the .t
. :: :*ss@@s,. Present Time.

If there is one person who receives
more presents than a bride it Is q baby.
No one likes to visit in the home Of
friends who have new baby without
taking a present of some sort to that
all-important person. And by the time
every one has given Sir Baby some
trif1e, he is likely to have enough dupli-
Gates to start a miniature department
store. II
The Washington Star says that one
of the conceits for baby who is old
enough to hold spoon and feed himself
is food pusher, which comes in set
with spoon. It is silver piece with 9
handle like spoon or fork, but having
in place of bowl silver bar several
inches long with which the small per-
son pushes food on to his spoon. It
teaches him not to use his fingers and
enables him to keep his food within the
limits of the plate instead of decorating
the table linen with it.
A novel bottle holder for the baby
who likes to toss his bottle to the floor
when he has finished with it is delight
to mothers. 1t is metal frame which
can be attached to the arm of high
chair or carriage, and from which hangs
sort of cage-like case for the bottle
This holder swings in any direction, and
when the bottle is fastened in baby can
drink to his hearts content, and, try
as he>may, he cannot throw it away.
In dainty white satin heart-shaped
boxes are sets of bib pins in gold enamel,
and in all designs, connected with fine
gold chains, are baby pins for the back
Of dresses and slips.
Silver cups are given to children for
christening gifts, as we'll as small-sized
loving cups appropriately engraved.
Mugs Of a heavy English decorated
china make useful presents for babies
of two and three years.
A plain gold bracelet clasping invisi-
bly, has little ring inserted in the top
for rOsettes of baby ribbon. This is for
baby to wear when he is dressed in his
prettiest frock. While babies are not
the most successful ring wearers, often
times little gold band is given to
child for christening gift or for birth
day present. The ring is made for the
middle finger so that it can be worn sue
! cessively on the ring finger and later
on the little digit. Amber beads are
supposed to ward off Group and are pop
ular gifts.
Ivory sets, consisting of comb, brush,
powder box and puff, soap box, rattle
and teething ring are arranged in silk
lined baskets.
There are, Of course, no end of bottles
Il, Gil %1oe 4 eil ~;
rubber animals and house balls which
can be selected for little ones, but nova
| days it is the custom to give baby some
remembrance which can be engraved
and kept until he is old enough to know
he had friends when he was small NOR
sci of humanity.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04
SONG PICTURES COME HIGH.
The Public Is Exacting and Artistic
Excellence Must Be Dis
played in Views.

1T requires patience and money to
produce slides for popular songs nova
days." said music publisher to New
York Sun man, ''but stereopticons and
moving picture machines are still the
best medium in booming songs. Al
most every theater devoted to vaude-
vile has one of these machines as part
of it's properties, and with the aid of
a good singer and a clever manipulation
of the machine fair entertainment can
be given at nominal cost.
But the public now expects some
artistic merit in these slides, and will
not accept them unless they reproduce
accurately scenes which the theme of
the song demands. Formerly such slides
were faxed without Eluch trouble and
at small cost. The public did not mind
if the song happened to be good. But
now conditions are reversed. The public
seems to be more exacting about the
slides than the song
''Most of these slides were made in this
city, no matter what locality or scenes
the song described. But soon these
slides lost their attraction. Then pub
Usher revived interest in the entertain
ment by making the slides accurate III
detail and locality but the return paid
handsomely for the outlay.
Recently a firm spent $4,000 in pro-
ducing slides for one song. The scenes
were laid in the valley of the Shenan-
doah. To be as accurate as possible the
publisher had to send men to photograph
number of historic spots in that Sec
ton. Then he had to hire a regiment
of soldiers to pose for the pictures. This
meant several days work and when
everything was done and he was salts
fled he found that his expense bill was
a large one without the cost of manufac-
ture.
ION another occasion this same pub
Usher paid to have a minister and his
whole congregation pose for him for a
song called Just Behind the Times,
which was popular five years ago. He
could easily have faxed this by having
the scene painted, but he wanted to have
it all correct and was willing to pay for
it. 1t is said that the slides for this
song cost him nearly $4,000.
about ten years ago publisher
hired a whole minstrel troupe and hall
to get a. set of slides. But this is not
in it with the publisher who sent a corps
of photographers to San Juan hill for
negatives. He also engaged several Off
GERS to pose for him. The publisher,
who writes his own songs, had soldier
ballad which eventually made hit Be-
ket his bill was nearly $4,000. But as
the song had large sale he got the
money back with interest.
IF the song goes expense in boom
ing it is not considered much"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04
Japanese in Battle

I saw two soldiers who were pretty
badly shot; one of them had at least
three bullet wounds. The only thought
of these men seemed to be to con.
ceal their wounds. They hurried into
the thick of the fray, and upon them
was that thievish air which you some
times catch in a bad boy or a man
who is hounded-the air which seemed
so i'll at. ease on the face of a Nippon
soldier, and so striking too, because
so rare. They were frightened. these
fellows, who laughed in the face of
death, lest they might be caught by
the hospital corps.-Leslie's Monthly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04

Plants artificially fed in sawdust do
not seem TO require so many roots as
when they grow in soil. With tn,
limited space in the egg-shell, saw
dust and the plant food are therefore
preferable to soil. 1t is not difficult
to have plants grow in sawdust until
they are more than two feet high, al
though there is so little space in the
shell for the roots i
To support these unique, round-bos-
toned flower potts." it will be found
convenient to have board with holes
bored in it just large enough to have
the eeg-shells set firmly, one in each
hole Don't get the holes too near
together. Punch small hole down
through the shell for drainage.-St-
Nicholas. ~ ri IT. -. : - H.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04
Canada Finds Use for Dog Fish.

Instead of Offering bounty for the
destruction of dogfsh, the Canadian
government has decided to establish
three reduction plants to convert the
fish into fertilizer and glue. They will
cost $4,000 each, and the government
will itself operate the plants, paying
the fishermen a good price for their
fish offal and for all the dogfsh they
can bring in. It is claimed that the
venture can be made to yield a salts
factory profit. 1t is calculated that
the price paid for dogfsh and the de-
sire of the fishermen themselves to get
rid Of the nuisance will be incentives
enough to them to keep the reduction
works supplied with all the material
they require.-Kennebec Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04


p-eeeo' miles of it are a
true tunnel, but the rest is no more
than an open cut filled in after con-
struction. At one point on Manhattan
island, and again where it crosses the
Harlem river, it becomes for a little
way an elevated railroad, as does at
times the London underground" The
difficulties met have been immense
sometimes quicksand, sometimes the
oozy bed of some built over and long
forgotten creek, where Dutch girls
washed their clothes in the old days.
usually such maze and tangle OF
sewer, gas, water, electric wire, heat
ing and telephone pipes and conduits
that it is a worlds wonder how the
work could be done at all. The dis
lance, not counting extensions, is %
miles, not all now ready for opening,
however, and the cost is $35,000,000.
The price per mile is not far from
that paid upon the really far less diff
cult Simplon. l do not see why New
York may not briefly brag of it's new
thoroughfare, particularly as it be-
longs to the city, though leased for
the time
How it will work in practice l can
not say, but the test trips the tunnel
has nobly stood. The walls through
out are glazed tiles, laid in putty. The
stations are beautifully decorated, diff
ferent colors being used for important
stations.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04
70 Teach Graceful Sleeping:

How to sleep we'll and gracefully To-.
according to an advertisement. to be
taught in Paris, in what surely should
be night school. Among the points
of the curriculum will be lectures on
how not to snore. Precepts for prevent
ing ones mouth from remaining wide
open during slumber and how to COM
pose the limbs artistically and restfu1ly
before doing Women will be instruct
ed as to the best way in which to do the
hair before lying down to repose. The
idea Of the school is to insure Its pupils
that they shall always wake up cheerful,
fresh and good. tempered,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04
PRE- TTY EGG SHELL GARDEN
Just How to Manage a Novel and
Easy Experiment in Artistic
Home Decoration.

1t is easy to have an egg-shell gar
den. Carefully cut off the end of tho
egg for about one-third of it's length.
treating it with more respect than the
cook does, for she breaks it in two
in the middle by cracking it on the
edge of the cup. Fill the shell with
good earth, and plant almost any seed
that you like. If plant food supplied
in tablets is used, the shells may be
filed with sawdust or with gravel.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04
Absentmindedness No Crime

Judge-Not guilty! Why, the police
man says ne actually caught you with
your hand in this mans POCKET.
"Mebbe so, your Honor. But once
l had a coat of the same pattern, an
I'm little absent-m1r ded at times.
Fact, your Honor."-N. Y. Times -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04
No Time to "Slum."

Rich Caller (who is making the
round of the tenement district)
must go now. Is there anything I
can do for you, my good woman?
The Other COT the submerged)- mo,
thank We, mem. We mustn't mind it,
mem, if l don't return the call. I
haven't any time to go slummin' me.
self.-Tit- Bits.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04
Jews in America.

The statistics gathered for the
American Jewish Year Book" cover
ing the year from September %, 1903, to
September 9, 1904, place the Jewish pop
ulation of this country at 1927 ,26s and
with this population the United States
ranks third among the nations Of the
world in respect to the number Of Jews
within its borderA - u.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04

Hudson river for
large ocean-going
steamers. Now it
is confronted by a
bluff" of the
steamship trust
that it will run
it's great ships to
other ports unless
New York makes
more reasonable
rentals. AS the
German lines have
their own piers in
Hoboken the trust
and the CunarG
line are the only
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04
Promising Future.

Did your son have any trouble in
passing the examination for college?''
Trouble? Not the least. They told
aim if he could keep up his present
style of interference he'd be on the
regular team in less than two weeks"
Chicago Tribune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-11-04

dicate?" Where
do the Belmonts
come in?
Well, t h o u g h
Mcdonald had ia
ken i'm pO rtant
contracts, even he
was not quite
ready to tackle a
$4,000, 900 one ;
besides, there was
the problem of
operation a f t err
wards. The prob
lem of competi-
ton. The latter