Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-05
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
Ripples on the Current Of Lite IN the
Metropolis.

uItli, HULL tuCy rIN S''-N- ~ -~N0
favored fathers, are not the whole
thing. Not by several. There are
others in position to stretch the roll
I call far beyond round dozen. One Of
the noisiest of nursery favorites is
EMANUEL Lendesdorff of Brooklyn, who
celebrated the arrival of No. 20 recent
l..
Il guess there is not much danger of
| the name of Leudesdorff dying out in
these parts" said LeudesdrOf. Just
listen to those youngsters up stairs"
The youngsters were playing basket
ball when the news of the new visitor
i broke into the game. They came
troOping down stairs joyously. shouting
| for their father. They poured into the
room where Leudesdorff was talking.
swarmed around his chair. tackled him
around the legs and gave about as
strenuous an exhibition of affectionate
childhood as could be imagined. Every
now and then the wall of the twentieth
LeudesdOrff would come down through
the hallway and the father looked hap
pier than ever.
There will be no danger Of race
suicide if every American citizen does
AS l have DONE" said he. II don't
know whether President Roosevelt has
heard about my interesting family. but
I am expecting a letter from him al
most any time. Still. if he attempted
to present one Of his autographed
photographs to every one of my chill
drcn am afraid he Would get a cramp
| in his wrist or run out of photos"
Papa Leudesdorff is Sc and Mrs.
Leudesdorff al. They were married
twenty-four years ago. Sixteen of the
twenty children born of the union are
living.
Having heard that New York is about
to restore the rod in the public schools.
tn" Society for the Reform of School
Discipline. Glasgow. Scotland, sent 20
tho school authorities here copy Of
resolutions adopted recently by III"
so"iety. protesting and arguing against
corporal punishment. The question has
by no means been settled by the school
authorities. The principals still desire
70 WELD the rod but the committee,
which listened coldly to their argu-
mcnts some time ago. seems no more
ia Orab.y disposed toward them now.
Nii' Nl T. ~ tic tIiciitIIfdil, WHO was OD-
posed to corporal punishment, has re-
signed, and Frank D. Wilsey. the act
ing chairman. is in favor of it, but has
few supporters. The subject would
have been brought up before this had
, it not been for the urgency of the con-
sideration Of the budget and the adj
justment of the part-time difficulties.
The number Of men. women and chill
; drcn in the United States who wear
artificial eyes is almost beyond belief.
Throughout the United States all told
10000 glass eyes are sold every year, of
which 10000 pass through the hands Of
firm Of opticians i'm Chambers street.
From 1900 to 5000 Of these eyes are
manufactured here in New York. and
nearly all Of them are of high quality.
TIE cheaper eyes are imported. Arti-
fetal human eyes come in several
qualities. Common stock eyes can be
bought in Europe at prices ranging
from half mark to 20 marks. Eyes of
higher prices are. however. usually
made to order. In America glass eyes
retail anywhere from 80 to 1926 each the
latter price being for the finest product
made 10 order in this country. special
care being taken to match the cOlorS of
, the false eye with those of it's natural
mate. New York opticians say that the
glass eyes made here are better than
nine-.enths Of those which are inn
ported.
Immediately after election ex-GOver-
nor Frank S. Black is to leave for
Frankfort. KY. where he is to enter the
greatest legal battle of his career. with
thc nope of saving the life of Caleb
foWerS. the young man who is await
ing execution in that state for the as
slEatlon OF Senator Goebel. who was
snot down while a contestant for the
ofIce OF governor at the state house
tniee Years ago last winter. Ex-Gover-
/ no. Black volunteered his services to
IN" condemned man free of charge sew
er3l weeks ago. but his action had been
known only to a few intimate friends
ne oeHeEes young Powers is an nno-
cent man and he declares that he will
clear him. even if he has to take tn.
case to the United States supreme
court. Ex-Governor Black first toor
an interest in the case by reading Of II
in the newspapers.
polite and dignified young man
made application for citizenship papers
to clerk in the United States court in
new YORK. Your name. please" said
the clerk. Jacques Marie Joseph
Maurice Des Rosiers De Balaine." was
the reply. Where are thew" askad
the clerk. Il am he" ansuorad 49,
lite young man. We'll. what is vow,
name?" Jacques Marie Josenh Ma
rice Des Rosieris De Balaine." "on,
at time" said the clerk. getting out =,
patience. 1t finally dawned unon him
that the polite applicant owned tho an
tir" lot and Jacques Marie etc cot NJ.
papers.