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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-01
CITY WON ONE I'D" SUIT.
Signs Shat off Light-This Nay
Help SubsCau Fight.

When Justice Morgan ]. O'Brien, OF the Su-
preme Court was Corporation Counsel OF this
city the elevated railroad was disposing adver-
Using signs in various places on its station plat
forms. Complaints arose that these signs were
neither useful nor ornamental, just Indignant
protests have arisen over the advertisements In
the subway stations These signs, ii was de-
clared. were shutting off light. Mr.. O'Brien, for
the city, brought suit against the elevated road.
and after a long battle in the courts compelled
the management to remove all the objection
able advertising which by any possibility could
interfere with any ones light.
This case would form excellent precedent
on which to base action against the subway
company said Colonel Henry W. Sackett who
has acted as counsel for the Municipal Art So
ciety in it's crusades against advertisements
which deface the Park Library fence and some
buildings in the city. The question Of taking
action to have these signs removed which are
cluttering up the subway stations, occupying
space which should be given over to the public
and partially obscuring the identifying numerals
at the stations, will be brought before the So
ciety at its next meeting. Said Colonel Sackett:
have not taken up the i-gal aspect of this
advertising yet, so / can't go into that don't
know what course the society would pursue II
1t determined to bring action. II is maintained
that the subway officials have the right TO dis
pose these advertisements about the stations.
Il seems TO me that it is for the Corporation
Counsel to decide two questions-frst. does the
contract which the subway company holds give
II the right to deface these beautiful stations.
the property OF the city really, with advertising
matter and second. If the contract does give
that right had the Rapid Transit Commission
the right to make such contract?
To have these signs stuck around the stations
TO my mind really stultifes the work done In
making beautiful the stations. To have city
retrogression from the spirit the Municipal Art
Society hoped was growing here. Ar' orr OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-01
MADOO'S MODEL CAPTAIN.
He Is Hussey, Whose Precinct Is
PLANTING Vice and Shame.

The Evening World" last night printed the re-
suit OF investigation into the police cCadi
tons in the new Tenderloin. The greater part of
this district lies IN the Twenty-second Precinct.
which Is commanded by Captain HuSsey. Since the
exposure of the conditions there week by
The Evening World" gambling house has
closed. The place was run by Sonny Smith. and
was not raided. 1t just closed.
This is what The Evening World" reporter saw
Saturday night: A party of college boys drunk.
and many under eighteen years Of age, entered
a gambling house on the north side of Forty-fft
St. near Sixth-ave. In Forty-third-st-, between
Broadway and Sixth-ave., he found three gambling
houses open. Six men entered one on the north
side OF the street in fifteen minutes In Forty
fourth-st seven big gaming houses We're doing
hOurishing business. with two precinct detectives
out in front In the same block iE Forty-fifth-st.
found three houses
In Forty-eghth-st.. near Seventh-ave.. was found
another gambling house
In FIfty-eighth-st. between Seventh and Eighth
aves were two others Both the south side.
not far from the middle of the flock
The excise law was found to be dead letter. 80
no saloon In the precinct there any difficulty
In getting drink after hours and IL some they
were served over the bar Captain DilIon it was
alleged was transferred from this precinct prirna-
saloons. Creep joints" panel and badger
games and black and tan dives we're found 10 be
hOuTiShing.
The Evening World says:
Disorderly. houses are running wide open women
soliciting from the halv.ayss and IN the streets
We're found countless woInRn of the streets. many
enjoying privileges far more extensive than
ever extended during The reign OF Big Bill"
Devery
From Fff,y-nluth-st. TO Forty-second-st.. upon
both Seventh-aVa. ard Broadway. were old and
young women alike. members OF tho unfortunate
class. Their piuched. suffering faces peered Ques-
tioninEiy from every shadow thirty nine OF these
poor creatures were met in stroll down the
side OF Broadway.
How about the pigeons the reply made
10 poor woman The fly cops are sometimes
known as pigeons"
MY dues paid up" the quick reply.
Quered further. she told Of having paid So week
" instalment to police cficer for immunity from
But ! won't squeal," she continued IF die
they would send me up 20 the Island
The reporter says he precinct detective
direct an automobile party to disorderly house.
Commissioner McAdoo is quoted as saying yes
terday: Criticisms OF police work will not in
terest / believe Captain Hussey' OF the Twen-
ty-seconi Precinct is a model police officer.
Captain Hussey would not. last night, discuss
the exposures OF THE Evening World which
admitted to be correct by persons familiar with
the district He said. Il am doing my best 10
clean the district up. ! do not know OF all these
gambling and disorderiy houses which are reported
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-01

one Of the courts rules of precedence which allows
me solicitor General to be the first TO submit mo-
tlons Solicitor General Hoyt showed
barrassment, and made the former secretary
conoillatory bow. When he had presented his
motion. the Chief Justice tremendously called
Mr. Root.
Mr.. Roots motion in the New-York
rel, against the State Board Of Tax Commits
sioners PECULIARLY known as the Street Railway
and Gas Franchise Tax cases He asked that
the cases be temporarily passed and restored to
the docket for Monday. December 1s, after the
other cases set for that date. The Chief Justice
assured Mr. Root that the cases in question might
be passed. and that the acquiescence of the court
in the wishes of the counsel might with propriety
be foreshadowed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-01
DIE By FRIENDS BODIES

In the rooms where lay the dead bodies OF rela-
tives two persons stricken and died IN diner-
ent parts of Brooklyn yesterday
Mrs Sarah Brooks. eighty years old. died sud
denly from apoplexy after viewing the body OF Will
lam Lawrence her brother-In-i'tw at his home
No Il6 South Thrd-st The other was that OF
Mrs Jessie Shick. whose grief over the death or
Mrs Sarah Thompson. her mother. brought on
an attack OF neart disease. Mrs. Schick. whose
home is at Harman-st. and Wyckon-ave.. had oeen
nursing her mother at the latters home. No. lt3
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-01
SHOPLIFTERS REFUGE.
Police Watch House They Sag Is
Rendezvous for UOmeR ThieJes.

BY the arrest Of Two women. alleged TO be shop
day the police believe that they have Unea-thed
an organized band Of snopf,ers that for some
months mas been causing much trouble and loss
"a department stores The women arrested said
they we're Mrs. Grace Hamilton. OF No. ~ East
Tv-elft hist. and MIS- Molly Ferguson OF Toronto.
Canada. They were charged with the larceny OF a
cut glass bowl
women are false. and that they live in n house IN
East Twenty second-st- which Is a reudecs 'us fo-
a Sand Of women shuplifters. The police are now
watching this place. with view 10 making more
~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-01
NEW OFFICIAL OF INSURANCE SOCIETY.

II. r. Winthrop was appointed financial manager
OF the Equitable Life Assurance Society az a
meeting OF the executive committee yesterday He
takes the place OF George n. Squire. who has been
obliged 20 undergo a severe surgical operation.
and will be unable 20 resume his duties for many
months, Mr. Winthrop 10 assistant secretary ~
the society.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-01
6O-62 West 23d Street.

houses closely"
district which includes the "TendeTIOin," Mr. Nc
work $500 49,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-01
a Cure for Asthma

The worst cases of Asthma in tba vor,a
succumb readily to the one great cnra tba,
never fails. DR.. Rudolpb ScbtTmann,s
asthma Cure almost performs miracles Lsn
Mr.. Il. NJ. Spencer, $3.50 vernon,
avenue, Toledo, o., says: "Astbma bas
oeen growing on me for years. until last
summer the attacks became so severe that
many nights 1 spent half the time pasn.
ing Tor breath. Doctors seemed 10 give no
relief whatever, and felt there was M
hops for me, when drug clerk recom-
mended your Asthma Cure. Its effec. 4.
truly magical and gives complete rsIief IN
from 2 TO 5 minutes"
So COG oy al druggists at 5Oc and slOe.
s9s, st. Peul. MINI, for a free sam MA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-01

Humboldt-st for ter or twelve DAYS. and seemed
irreConCilable when Mrs Thompson Gied early Oh
sunday morning- yesterday she Went = 20 loGN
her mother for the first time since her death
Soon after Mrs. Schics was heard groanins. ard
was found unconscious on couch. She died withia
half an hour.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-01

chise Tax Cases Passed.
lFKoE THE TRIBUNE BUREAU
Washington, oct. 3l-"Are there any motions %"
inquired CHEZ Justice Fuller when the Surname
S,t o. The United States assembled few rnn,tas
-. noon to-day, bowling 10 the right and Ieft
~ slis chafact eristcally courteous fashion
- 1GSelelaTy Root rose quickly 10 his feet
IT, RI nc court, please" ne began
.JS-b,- i'I II u Justice rather seemed surprised
Solicitor GeneraIs '0 eNPOs'u'Ateo SraVely, the
90, ROT gracefully and with evident contrition
sat down He had in his enthusiasm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-01

E,oR sALE-sweet cider. dirsc; from ne msna'aes-
IL urers warranted strictly pure Adde'S
CYRUS BEYEA * SuS. Baldwin Place. y I
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-22
GOOD AND BAD MEMORIES.
Why Persons Forget Some Things and
Remember Others.

From Notes and Queries: Good mem
DRY is a subject regarding which q
good deal of nonsense is habitually3
talked. We often hear people say that
they have a good m for certain
things, but a bad one for other things
This l believe to be a delusion. Az
mans memor may be good or it may
be bad but it mo well be good for1
one thing and bad for another thing.
1t might as we'll be said that a bottle
was good for holding brandy, but bad
for holding whisky. In the case OF a.
feeble intellect all its faculties will be-
feeble-memory, Judgment and all the,
rest-but they will not be feeble for
one purpose and vigorous for another
purpose. The fact is that our memory
is in itself equally powerful or feeble
FOR all purposes, but we remember best
those things which interest us most,
and so say that we have good memoir
les for those things. Horace Walpole
used to say that his memory was all
retentive as to the names of persons
and of places, but that it was absolute
ly impotent in regard to dates 1t has
been said of him-by Macauley, L
think-that he could tell you the name,
of the ~grandaunt of King I~Ithelwald,.
but that he could not tell you whether
she lived in the year 500 or in the year,
1900. The truth was that he took an,
interest in anne and g~enealogies, but.
none in dates. Similarly, in his introA
ductions to Anne Of Geierstein," Scott
aptly y
Il have through life been entitled to,
adopt old Beattie of Meiklidale's an
swer to his parish ministec when the
latter was eulogizing him with respect
to the same faculty: No, DOCTOR said
the honest border laird, I have no
command of my memory; it retains
My what happens to hit my fancy.'
and like enough, sir, IL you We're to
preach to me for a couple of hours ON
eud l might be unable at the close Oft
the discourse to remember one word of
it. Perhaps there are few men whose
memory serves them with equal fidel-.
ity as to many different classes of sub.
Jects, but l I'M sorry to say that while
mine has rarely failed me as to any
snatch of verse or trait of character
that had once interested my fancy, id
has generally been a frail support not
only as to names and dates and other
minute technicalities of history, but as
to many more important things"
No, it is pretty certain that we have
not got good memories for this anu
bad memories for that, in any othei
sense that hat we remember that
which interests us and forget that
Which interests US not.
| will not insult readers by reproduce
ing here the good old chestnut as to
Dugald Stewards contribution to the
conversation of certain of his friends
who were comparing notes as to them
earliest recollections. But it may ba
lawful to recall Fred Lockers capital
verse rendering of it:
/ recollcct a nurse called Ann
WHO carried me about the grass:
And one fine day a fine young man
Came up an kissed the pretty lass.
She did not make the least objection.
Thinks / aha!
When I can talk III tell mamma"
And that's my earliest recollection
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-22
ANECDOTES OF BEECHER,
Recollections of His Successor in Ply.
mouth Church Pulpit.

Atlantic Magazines: On April Mr..
Beecher found in his morning mail a
letter containing only the words April
fool" "Nell, WE'LL" he said; Il have
received many a letter where a man
forgot to sign his name. This is the
first time 1 ever knew of a writer sign
ing his name and forgetting to write
he letter."
After 1 took the editorship of the
Christian Union, say the Rev. DR.. Ly-
man Abbott, I urged Mr.. Beecher to
give his views on public questions.
AS it is now" l said, any interviewer
Who comes to you gets q column, nd
the public is apt to get you views in
any paper as in your own"
Yes" he said; 81 am like the town
pump. Any one who will come and
work the handle will carry off a pail of
water
On one occasion I argued for Cal
vinism that it had introduced splendid
characters. Yes" Mr.. Beecher replied,
"Calvinism makes a few good men and
destroys many mediocre men. 1t is
like a churn. 1t makes good butter, but
it throws away a lot Of buttermilk."
Charles Sumner, in the senate, and
Thaddeus Stevens, in the house, were
pressing the reconstruction measures
for forcing universal suffrage in the
south. In conversation with me Mr..
Beecher thus diagnosed the situations:
The radicals are trying to drive the
wedge into the log butt end foremost.
They will only split their beetle They
did. They solidiied the south and di-
vided the republican party. If he a
been preaching on reconstruction the
figure would have flashed on him then,
and he would have given it to his con-
gregation from the pulpit.
Mr.. Beecher was denouncing the in
consistency Of church members;
stopped; imagined ar interlocutor call
ing him to account for exposing the
sins Of church members before the
world and thus replied: do you not
suppose the world knows them better
than | do? The world sees this church
member in Wall street, as greedy, as
~rapacious, as eager, as INSCRIPTIONS as
his companions. He a Y to himself:
Is that Christianity? I will go to
church next Sunday and see what the
minister says about this He goes,
and what is the minister saying?" In
stantly Mr.. Beecher folded his arms
upon his breast, held an imaginary cat
purring comfortably there, as he
stroked it with the other hand, and
continued: THE minister is saying,
Poor pussy! poor pussy! poor p~ussy!'"
Mr.. Beecher made his congregation
laugh, not of set purpose and never for
the sake of the laugh, but because he
himself saw, and made them see, those
incongruities which are the essence of
humor, and often the most powerful
arguments.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-22

bilious, and perhaps of all women her am
billions are the most futile.
L he better dressed, to give more
sumptuous and smarter parties than her
neighbors, to read her name daily chron-
icled with laudatory In the pa
~pers-these are her highest aims.
The writer, who signs herself simply
"Mondaine," goes on to praise the Arneri-
can woman's charm of manner, taste in
dress, statuesque appearance, her origi-
nality, gayety and general ~aniability.
"Mondaine" is surprised hat daughters
of the American bourgeoisie so often fall
to betray their affinity with an undesir-
able ancestry, and are remarkable for
grace and refinement, while in England
the faint Of %vulgarity is so difficult to
elface even by the most expensive Fin
ishing' process.
A Social Power.
To sum up, the writer comes to the fol
lowing melancholy conclusions:
Such as she is, lovely in person, ex-
quisitely dressed, witty, charming in man
ner. and irrepressibly frivolous, the
American woman is a power to be reck-
oned with in English society, for she is
today moulding English manners and
ways to her ideas in an uncompromising
and rapid fashion.
She has by her example enormously
encouraged extravaganza in dress and en-
tertainments.
She has originated and carried to a fine
art the practice of acknowledgements, and
she has given an impetus to the worship
OF money which is running society,""
The Countess Of Yarmouth, one of the
newest Of titled American ladies, seems
to be OF a rather retiring disposition in
contrast to others OF her sisterhood. She
has not identified herself with that cos
mopolitan Anglo-American set who are
even more at home in Europe than they
are in the United States.
Although she is only a bride Of a few
months, she has already been home on a
visit.
It is probable, however, tina Lord and
Lady Yarmouth will follow the example
Of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough,
and build themselves a lordly mansion in
London.
Lady Yarmouth has been credited with
considerable social ambitions, and should
she become a hostess, she will but carry
on the noble traditions of her husbands
family.
She has found a very kind friend and
chaperon in her mother-in-law the pres
ent marchioness Of HEREFORD, who was de-
lighted with her sons choice.
Lady Yarmouth is one Of the few fair
Americans who will probably live to see
themselves British marchionesses.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-22
PARAGUAY Tea.

London Chronicle: There comes from
Paraguay to the Journal OF Tropical Med
icine news Of an apparently harmless
which is the sole stay and stimu-
liant of the working classes in Paraguay
and the Argentine Republic. 1t Is often
known as Paraguay tea. or mate, and an
attempt made to introduce it into this
country some years ago failed because
as we may guess-there were more DO
tent competitors in the field. 1t Is usual
ly drunk as a hot infusion. through a.
metal tube, but may be taken like tea,
with milk and sugar. WorkGnen take it
with them wherever they go and sip it
occasionally. Wood cutters will work on
1T for five or six hours before breakfast.
and the writer declares that, taken at
night, it makes nursing, study or what
doctors call might work." real pleasure.
Analysis does not explain these results.
and lifelong and persistent lse appears,
to nave no evil consequences. This would,
be a good substitute for the nj berless
patent medicines which supply 2 ohol to,
women, or even, in at least one .lmiliar
case, cocaine.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-22
FETCH DOCTORS ON THE congo
The Men Who Have Just Stirred Up a
Revolt in the Free State

Revolt in the Free State.
New York SUM- dispatch from Lon
don says that fetch doctors in the
Lomami district of the Congo state,
about 800 miles from the Atlantic, have
stirred up many natives to revolt,
terrifying their courage TO this point
by lamentations which will render them
invulnerable to the bullets Of the
whites.
Fetichism is recognized as an impedi-
hnent to the progress Of the Congo. Just
las the Congo state has made the crimes
of slave raiding. ca~nnibalis:n and hu-
man sacrifice punishable with death,
$50 it has placed the arts Of the fetch
doctor on the list Of misdemeanors, and
Furnishes these men when they are
caught plying their trade.
These fellows live by their very r.its.
They keep alive faith in the efficacy of
charms, believe in witchcraft and many
ptller harmful superstit1ons. Anyone is
aikely to be accused of being a Witch if
he happens to nave property that is
coveted by the chief or the fetch doc
tor or has incurred the hatred of some
one whom the fetch man desires to
please. The natives believe that the
person thus accused is a wizard, and
when he takes the poison test, and
staggers and falls under the influence
ri IllC I'll US, llo SOlll 10 COIlSluGEGO as
established. and the bystanders rush at
him INC bea him to death.
DR.. Bentley Of h Baptist missions
Wrote a while ago that many hundreds
of terrible stories of this kind with
pnuch variety Of detail might easily be
collected. He told of a case on the low
er Congo where eighteen men were
compelled to suffer death because a
fetich doctor accused them Of causing
the death of six men who had been
drowned by the upsetting Of their
canoe.
AS fast as the influence of the Congo
state is extended over it's vast domain
fhe authorities are making much trou-
his prestige and Furnishing him for
ibis phestige and Furnishing him for
practicing his art. So he regards white
men as his special enemies, and, il
possible, stirs up the native against
them.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-22
The Way It HAPPENED.

Il hear your brother died and left a
lot Of money"
Yes; the Waterman shot him before
he got out of the bank with it"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-22

Myra Kelly in January NJ Cures
And do zone of you know aaything
about the country" asked the .eacher
sadly.
ooh, yiss ma'an, I know" said Eva.
G~onorowsky. The country is the
Fresh Air Fund"
Then you've been there" cried Miss
Bailey. Tell us about it, Eva"
mo, ma'an, l amt seen it," said Eva,
proudly. I'm healthy"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-22
A Kiss,

A kiss is a peculiar proposition. OF
no use to one, yet absolutely bliss to
two. The small boy gets it for moth
ing, the young mar has to steal it, and
the old man has to buy it. The baby's
right, the lovers privilege, the hypo-
critics mask. To a young girl. faith:
to a married woman, hope, and to an
old maid. CAarity.-Nashville Banner.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-22

Nearly one-third of the 3S1, 900 inhab-
ltants of Cleveland. O., were born in
Europe.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-22
Wise Buruiar.

hi Burglar-Say, judge, I WISE.
you'd postpone me trial fer a week. ]
wants ter get a lawyer.
The Judge-Why, the police caught
you right in the act. What could your
lawyer say?
The Burglar-Dat's what 1 wants ten.
find out.