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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-24
Mr.. AHEARN ACTS

Borough President Ahearn in the afternoon
informed several of the asphalt companies doing
business with the city that he had nuIIited tbs
contracts where complaints OF violations OF the
eight hour labor law had been sustained lie
cave out the following statement
Under advise Of the Corporation Counsel have
to-day notified the asphalting connps MES. where
evidence was produced before me or violations e
the eight AoCr provision OF tle iaoyI LaW tlat N
obedience to sRid law have nUlli1ed the CON
tracts under whicn such violations occurred TIE
comDanies affected oy the above oruer are the
I-valde Asphalt Paving Company. Appalling
Fourth-lve.. hetweer Eighth and twenty fourth
SITS, Heury-St-- between rutgers Shd Grand SIS
the Barber Asphalt Company aS3haitine Ssconf-
ave. from Seventy-foUrtE n ElEnty-third srS'
S@cOud-ave-. from pne-hundref-a SeeI1hs
70 anCl-t tr-severt hist, Avenue A
from Seveaty-Seventh-st - seVelly-eisnth-SV,
I.enox-ave from Oue-hu1t.re d-anG-te0lt-st. q"
-foUrth-st-- the Continer
tai AsuhaIt Company. Forty-secOnd-st-. between
Seventh and TecJh aVes-
Several weeks ago the men employed by Ihs
sunait companies nauaed complained to CornTlis-
sioner McMackin that they were compelled 20
work more than eight hours a day. and asked
him 10 take action 20 enforce the State .aw- Nr
NcSIackfn and ta4 Peoples Security Company
referred the complaints TO Nj Ahearn.
The borough PRESIDENT gave public hearings
TO tte grievances os the men. and invited the
cCulpo riss complained o. TO answer The com
panies contended that. although it was true the
men were on duty more than eight hours. AZ
rluch OF their tire spent waiting for as
phaIt and o-aeE things that their actual work
ing hours were never more than eight.
The men replied that the State law coHtsrn-
plated a days work o. eignt hours TO mean eight
h1,rx between the hours OF beginning AID quit
ting vvo~k EIr AhsarD sustained their View
md referred 10 the Corporation Counsel who
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-24
Continued on second paEe.
MAGNIFICENT HOTEL. FRONTIER
TTOIrS4ND fGTANDE

open during September. Most delightful season on
the ST. Lawrence River and best hsh!n=--Advt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-24

ltse HH Forr is one OF the inner line OF Work
sooCt and a half miles from the entrance
Port Arthur FIsrbor.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
The News Condensed.

Emanuel Katzenstein, an old resident
of Wisconsin, died at his home at Ber-
lin at the age of rs years.
Milwaukee police have arrested Alice
Farnsworth, a green" country girl,
whom they claim is one of the cleverest
swindlers known She is said to have
operated all over the state under many
aliases.
Mrs. Fanny L. Chaplin, widow of DR..
A. L. Chaplin, first president of Beloit
college, is dead, aged 81.
The safe of E. Morgan, at Downing,
was blown and about 5000 in money and
notes taken.
Dr. Paul Malmstrom died at his home
in Kenosha, his death bringing to close
one of the most stubborn fights. For
some time the physicians of Kenosha
and the state board have been making an
effort to force Malmstrom to retire from
the practice of his profession, but he
died in the midst of the contest.
Trial of a. divorce suit which was full
of sensational developments took place
in Waukesha. 1t is that of Mrs. A.
Spaulding against Willis Spaulding, of
Oconomowoc. The plaintiff charges
that her husband was cruel and accused
Ter publicly of being unfaithful.
Angered by drink and because she re-
buked him for gambling, W. F. Notion, a
bartender, shot his wife in Milwaukee.
Notion afterwards attempted suicide by
stabbing himself with a penknife. He
will recover
The sawmill of the Fish & Mullen
Lumber company, at Echo, was totally
destroyed by fire of unknown origin.
Cash, certificates of deposit, and bank
checks amounting in all to $4,000 were
stolen from room over the saloon OF
Bison brothers in Superior.
John Huber, chauffeur for Gov. La
Toilette, was arrested and fined for
running his automobile at speed of
more than four miles an hour at street
crossings in Oshkosh.
The Walworth county fair was held
in Elkhorn with unusual attractions
and many entries. The track events
were of exceptional merit.
The expenditures at the nine chart
table and penal institutions last month
aggregated S57,478.14.
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her western sister (and certainly she
has reduced the number of her gar
ments down to very fine point), she
is none the less a daughter of Eve in
her love of personal adOrnment. For
instance, every time her hair is taken
down, two hours are spent in re-
dressing it. and nothing would induce
her to go to picnic or to the theater
without popping into the sleeve of her
kimono her little dressing-case made
OF scarlet brocade, which contains her
steel mirror and diminutive boxes of
Iip-salve. face powder and eyebrow
renovator, nor would she go to her
temple to pray if her obi did not sit
Just as an obi ought to sit, and has sat
ever since they were adopted by her
remote ancestors.
Undoubtedly with a Japanese wom-
an the richness of her hair ornaments,
and the splendor of her obi constitute
her chief vanities and eXtravagances
in dress, and it is, after all, only in
her short years of mOusmeehOod that
she has much opportunity for annoy
ing other women, or pleasing the OPP
pOsite sex by the beauty and variety
OF these vanities of the flesh. OF the
young wife, the husband demands that
the wearing of her fine trOusseau SHAH
be reserved for his own and his par
ents' eyes only
The older a woman grows, the sad
der and duller her clothes become (as
a child she is respondent as a butter
~
chignon of glossy black hair which she
piles on the top of her head to pro-
claim her wifehood in the eyes of the
world; and, alas! if she is left wild
ow, her fine head of hair is shaven off
to show her desolation.
In Japan the wedding ring is not the
sign manual of married woman, but
the dressing of her hair, and not the
length of her kimOno sleeves. A NOUS
NEE must not have such long sleeves
as a matron, and her hair is less elab-
orately dressed. The tying of an obi
in front of the waist instead of behind
places a woman amongst the I'M
clasSed, but such a sight is never seen
outside the limits of the Yoshiwara.
or on the stage. Gay hairpins of enor-
nous length and variety standing out
from a woman's head like hatpins on
a pincushion, are also the signs by
which ye shall know the women who
are compelled to live in the "city of
no night" Women of the higher
classes only adorn their heads with
veritable works of art in dull gold
lacquer, carved tortoise-shell, and
coral; they are careful never to wear
the skewer-like ornaments with which
all the world is familiarized in paint
ings and on fans, used by their less
fortunate SuSterS.
The magnifcence and richness of
girls wedding trousseau does not 50
much denote the wealth of the par
ents as their devotion to her as a
child, fer her mother begins to save
up and purchase. bit by bit. her
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
STATE FAIR A BIG SUCCESS
Attendance for Week Breaks All
Former Records-Facts and
Connecting Figures.

When the Wisconsin state fair for 1904
closed the total attendance for the week
broke all former records and the officials
declared that the fair had not only paid
expenses but had added nearly Sic, 900
to the treasury With an attendance
nearly double that of last year. with a
programme of fair features which en-
tertained city and country people alike,
with the best Of feeling prevailing be-
tween officials, exhibitors and fair
patrons, with one of the most satisfac-
tory racing programmes ever held in
connection with the state show and with
the largest total receipts, as well as the
largest expenses in the history of the
state fair, the fair of 1904 passed into
history as an unqualified success. The
attendance for this year is estimated at
1O4, 900, as against the estimated attend
ance of $4,000 for last year, an increase
of nearly so per cent. The receipts for
this year are something over $4,000,
while those of 1903 were $44,750, an
approximate gain of $4,000 and the ex-
penditures for 1904 approximate $55, 900,
as against $4,000 spent last year.
While the receipts do not show the
same percentage of increase as the ex-
penses, the fair has demonstrated be-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22

little aprons round the loins, called
hoshi-maki, and a sort of shirt called
the suso-yoke, Neither a mans obi nor
his hair are, of course, his glory and
pride as they are with a woman; the
narrow male sash is not an item OF
great Importance, for although it is
always made of rich silk, it is worn
not SO much for show as for use, to-
keep his kimono in place, and to serve
as waist-belt through which he can
draw the rich chain and netsuke (but-
tom of his tobacco and pipe-case, and
if he is a merchant, his lOng-handled
inkpot and pen-hOlder.
IN the severest weather both the
sexes wear padded kimOnOs, and the
men have a short haOri, or Over-jacket,
which only reaches to about their
knees. A woman's complete outfit
costs much more than a mans, al
though the actual number of the gar
ments she wears at one time are few
err. Prof. Chamberlain, in his Things
Japanese" says: "A Japanese lady's
dress will often represent value of
5000, without counting the ornaments
for her hair. A woman of the smaller
shop-keeping class may have on her,
when she goes out holiday-making.
some $40 or $50 worth. A gentleman
will rarely spend on his clothes as
much as he let's his wife spend on
hers. Perhaps he may not have on
more than $50 worth. Thence, through
a gradual decline in price, we come to
the coolies poor trappings, which may
represent as little as five dollars, or
even two dollars, as he stands
The coolie class in Japan are dis
tinguished partly by their want Of
of their employers, which is stamped
on the back of their butcher-blue cot
ton coat (shirushi-banten). Under this
coat they wear a pair of short white
drawers, almost as close fitting as
tights. The jindiksha man. does not
wear the crested coat; and, indeed, it
it is only by the strict eye of the pro-
gressive police laws that he can be
induced to wear any clothes at all
worth consideration. In the old days
his loin-cloth was all-suflcient Well
do l remember how on approaching a
country police sentry-box, or village,
the shafts of the hand-carriage very
suddenly dropped, and the steaming
steed would politely request me to rise
from my seat and let him take from
his trunk below the cushion his run
ming drawers. When the village was
left behind, and the eye of authority
nowhere in sight, the drawers were
hurriedly pulled off, and once more re-
turned to their place in the box-seat.
DOUGLAS SLADEN
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
Few Indian Berry Pickers.

Fifteen hundred people are picking
cranberries on the marshes in Wood
county, and but 100 of them are In
dams. A few years ago nearly the en-
tire crop was picked by Indians.
Water on the marshes did not
cause this change, but firewater. Wom-
en- and children have proved the best
help for harvesting this crop. The pick
ing continues about three weeks. The
berry is somewhat inferior in size to
that of former years, but in flavor and
keeping qualities it will compare favor
ably. 1t is being picked greener than
usual, as the season has been late, the
frost of August reducing the crop about
One-haIf
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22

Wisconsin has been honored by an
event which took place recently at San
Francisco. The new cruiser Milwau-
kee has been launched successfully
from the ways of the Union iron works
in that city. The tide served at 1850
a m. the day of the launching, and by
that hour large fiotilla of small craft,
steam and sail, had taken up positions
to greet the latest addition to the Amer
lean navy when she took her maiden
plunge, and the yard was packed with
an immense crowd to witness the cere-
mony, including g large number Of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
Grant Fair Breaks Records.

The attendance at the Grant county
fair. which was held in Lancaster, was
the largest in it's history, over 10000
people being on the grounds on the clos
ing day. The weather throughout the
last three. days OF the fair was all that
couId be desired. The Northwestern
road ran specials out with crowds from
Fennimore, Montfort, and points be-
tween Lancaster and Platteville. All
the Pike attractions coined money,
these features being new to the patrons.
Thia was the most successful fair ever
he's IN Grant county.
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IN =: !: e: e.: +: +; :. :: q: 4:
"a nary tourist to discover.
TIT ! Not knowing the Ian
guage of clothes, they at
first sight seemed to me delightfully."-
simple, if, from a feminine standpoint,
rather lacking in excitement. In a
country where millinery is an I'M
known quantity, and the style and cut
of your gowns never change, what can
the ordinary woman have to think
about? Imagine land without fash
ion papers or advertisements Of
straightforward cOrsets!
A woman's wardrobe appears TO
consist of an outer and inner kimonO,
a gorgeous obi or sash, some exquisite
hair-cOmbs, and fan, while, instead
of a watch, she carries a valuable to-
bacco pouch and pipe-case.
There are, or couIe, few more
articles of seemingly less importance,
such as the tabi or thick, white foot
gloves, which serve as both stockings
and slippers, and the high wooden
clogs or gaia, worn in place of boots,
and always put on at the front door
on going out, and knocked off there on
entering the house; and last, but not
least, the dress-improver or obi-age.
which supports the butterfly sash, and
gives it the correct hump.
But If women in Japan do not tight
lace their straightforward corsets,
they make up for this western lido
syncrasy in dress by binding up their
Ioins SO closely that they cannot walk,
and are compelled to shuttle along
with that peculiar rythm of movement
which is quite their own.
Although a Japanese woman seems
to be much more simply dressed than
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
Firm Sues Grocer's Union.

The Superior Cash Grocery company
has commenced suit against the Gro
GERS union. Recently four grocery
firms started a new company in Supe-
rior, operating four stores, and they
began to sell below the union scale.
Upon refusing to pay the fine levied
by the union the comOany was ex-
PEELED. 1t is claimed that after this all
the commission houses in Superior ex-
cept two refused to sell to the grocery
company which had been expelled.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
Haze Anti-Cigarette Bows.

Initiating the university students, 800
boys of the Madison high school en-
gagged in a fierce hazing affair, which re-
suited in score of them being ducked
in Lake Mendoza. A number belonging
TO the ANTI Cigarette league were
ducked, and then forced to smoke cigar
cites. The president of the Madison
Anti-Cigarette league secured warrants
for the arrest of five Madison merchants
on the charge of selling tobacco and
cigarettes to minors, and this brought
down the wrath of some of the high
schoolboys on league members.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22

daughters wedding outfit from her
very infancy, and her bridal dress,
which is always white, does not signi-
fly her virginia. nature, as it does with
us, but her burial shroud (for white
is the mourning color in Japan, and,
therefore, never worn by children;
for bride goes to be married dressed
like corpse, to show that from
henceforth she is dead to her own par
ents, and although her trousseau
should be large enough to supply her
with clothes for the rest of her life,
she must pay her first visit to her own
people after her marriage i'll kmono
bought by her husband, and stamped
with his crest.
A Japanese woman f1irts las far as
she knows the meaning of the word),
with her sleeves and fan, and not with
her eyes and smiles. By the different
movements Of the ends of her kimono
sleeves. she manages to convey to her
admirers all sorts Of messages
Between the sexes IN Japan there is
very little difference in the main feat
lures of Dress and little children are
only beautiful little miniatures OF their
parents, more gaily and richly dressed.
A tiny girl may wear the richest en-
broideries and stiffest brocades of
flaming scarlets and gold made in ex-
actly the same way as the soft gray or
brown kimono of her mother In tiny
children the distinction of sex is
shown by the color OF the clothes, not
the style in which they are made.
Boys wear yellow, girls red.
Under his kimono a man of the up
per class wears a sort of killed, divided
skirt, something approaching the ma
ture of trousers. This is called the
hakama, and is always made Of stiff
silk A woman wears, instead an UNI
der-kimOnO Both sexes wear two
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
GAINESVILLE Man Heir to Millions.

Through an advertisement for heirs
for the estate of the late John Thompson
Hilton, of Virginia City, New, Gustav
Hilton, of GAINESVILLE, is, as near as he
can ascertain, heir to $20,OOO,OO0. In a
search through archives and genealogy
Of the family, Mr.. Hilton finds that he is
a. first cousin of the millionaire. The
correspondence was quietly taken up
many weeks ago. The children of Mr..
Hilton, who will doubtless come in for
a share of the estate should the claim be
satisfactorily established, are: L. L.
Hilton, Daisy Hilton, of Chicago, and
Mrs. William Bailey, of Chamberlain,
who was formerly Emma Hilton
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
Snake Spring in Western Ohio.

A South slider who returned from his
summer vacation few days since mar
rates an interesting story of spring in
western Ohio, known as the Snake
spring. The name is said to be due to
the fact that it has proved a mecca for
thousands of water snakes who rendez-
vous in a shad pool within few feet of
the spring. Snake spring is situated in
the midst of a comparatively primitive
section of the Buckeye state, and is sur
rounded by settlement of persons who
are materially influenced by the su-
perstitions of their forefathers, and con-
sequently, are not disposed to disturb
the legions of Shiny creatures and their
favored resort.-CoIumbus Dispatch.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
Two Die in Bridge Wreck.

The bridge across Lake ST. Croix,
which is half mile long, extending to
the Minnesota side, caught fire. The fire
department in responding to the alarm
was followed by crowd. The fire had
so weakened one of the spans of the
rather ancient structure that when the
fire apparatus and the crowd attempted
to cross it it fell into the water, about
20 feet below. About 20 persons were
precipitated with the wreckage into the
water, and two were killed and five Sc
riously injured.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22

knights Templar and visitors attract
ed to the city by the grand triennial
encampment of that body. The me-
chanical arrangements were completed
early in the morning, and everything
was in readiness to speed the powerful
looking warship on her first journey to
the sea, when Miss Lillian Jeffrey, a
daughter Of California, gave the signal
to release the massive steel hull from
it's berth on the stocks.
The christening ceremony was per-
formed by Miss Janet Mitchell of Mil
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
CruiSerMilWaukee Is Launched
Latest Addition to American Navy Takes Maiden Plunge at
San Francsco-Miss Mitchell Does HOnOrS.

Becker, Miss n Mitchell, Mrs. w Mar
tin, Miss NJ Marty, Mr.. and Mrs. Lang
hoff, Miss Cohen, Miss Singer, G. d.
Wilkinson, NJ. Macllie, Philip Jung and
Mrs. Morrison. Not hitch occurred in
the proceedin and the Milwaukee
gracefully moved down the ways and
into the waters OF San Francisco bay,
as the customary bottle of champagne,
released by Miss Mitchell, broke on her
bow.
The keel of the Milwaukee, the last Of
the warships lately resting on the ways
of the local shipbuilding works, was
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Dentistry Course Four Years.


Students who wish to obtain di-
plomas to practice dentistry in this
state must still take the four-years'
course, despite the fact that at a con-
yention of the National Association OF
Dental Faculties in St. Louis several
weeks ago it was decided to recommend
the three-year course. At that time DR..
w H Earles, of the Milwaukee Medical
college, announced that the course at
his institution hereafter would be three
years, but the National Association of
Dental Examiners, which is composed
of members of the dental boards of the
several states, has concluded its session
in st. Louis, and that board declared en-
phatically in favor of course of %
months, which is in effect the four-year
course
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
Family Fatally Poisoned

Isabelle Millermaster, of Milwaukee,
is dead, her mother was made fatally
sick and four other children in the fam
lily narrowly escaped a similar fate as
the result, of eating something in which
ptomaine poison developed. DR.. Ralph
Elmergreen says that he has been unable
to find anything that would give clew
to the source Of the poison. The health
department was notified and it's food in
spectors endeavored to locate the cause.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
Gift for Girl Heroine.

Miss Gertrude Sawyer of Menomi-
nee, Mich, the young girl whose cour-
age saved party Of five during bad
storm on Green bay few weeks ago,
has been given gold watch by Isaac
Stephenson, of Marinette, as testi-
monial of his appreciation and admi-
ration of the courage, skill and judg-
ment" which she showed. 1t was a
feat of bravery and Skill" he adds
(which to my knowledge has never
been surpassed" Inside the case is en-
graved Isaac Stephenson to Gertrude
Sawyer, a Heroine"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22

A man employed in Paris tea store
has invented an apparatus that will fill
and tie up parcels at the rate of 40 :
minute He says that when the machine
is in full working order it will do the
work of 20 persons.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
,Phone Service Extended.

By a new line which the Wisconsin
Telephone company has under construc-
ton from Greenfield avenue and the
Hawley road, Milwaukee, south to the
GAINESVILLE pike, A square miles Of ter
ritory will be in direct telephone touch
with Milwaukee, and inside of the toll
lines
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-22
Couldn't Stand for One.

"Here!" shouted the suddenly rich
man from the west to waiter in the
highest-priced hotel on the beach,
s'bring me another knife"
'Yes, sah."
Understand, after this, that I never
eat mashed potatoes and boiled cab
tage with the same knife. Detroit
Free Press.
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laid on July 80, 1902. She is protected
cruiser, and, with the exception of her
two sister ships, the new Charleston
and the st. Louis, is the largest vessel
of her class in the United States navy.
Her length is 424 feet; extreme breadth,
&C feet; mean draft, 22.S; displacement,
900 tons. She is designed to maintain
a maximum sea speed Of % knots with
81 900 indicated horse power. When
completed she will carry battery con-
sisting of IA 6-inch and Is 3-inch rapid
fire guns; - 3-pouRders and semi-auto-