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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-02

The French have a term, "demi saison,'
which corresponds to our own between
seasons, although it expresses more accu-
rately the periods Of the year that are
neither one thing nor the other. The
summer season in the opinion Of the world
Ia q matter Of history now. The glories
OF Coney Island have faded for another
year, and the summer side OF New York
life for most OF the millions who are here
is thing OF the past. Yet for many more
the holiday days still endure, and will con-
tinue for six weeks to come.
These are the New Workers who occupy
the blocks OF closed houses uptown for per-
haps six months OF the year and pass the
rest of the time in country house, usu-
ally near enough to the city to enable
the men to go back and forth to bust
ness Some Of them have more houses
perhaps at Newport or Bar Harbor. but this
season OF the year they spend in the country
within easy reach Of New York. They are
scattered through Westchester; Long Island
contains many OF these beautiful country
places, and the north central towns Of New
Jersey have these new palaces dotted
about their suburbs. In these retreats
the holiday days Of the year are still on.
Men WHO ~ oub vi loWh III "tch Gnu
visits End that they have as many invita-
tions as ever. The Sunday house party
at this season is as popular as ever Many
Of those who have returned to town are
merely making tho. city q headquarters
during the short time they stay here. There
are visits to be paid here and there and just
at this time housekeeping is a very informal
and irregular affair in many households
which viii not resume their regular course
OF existence for some weeks to come,
When il is reported that MIR. and Mrs.
X have closed their Newport villa and re-
they are to be found in their homes here
They may 60 to hotel for the short time
they expect to spend in the city before
starting for Hot Springs or for some house
again to a New York hotel for the brief
period that intervenes before they start
on again.
Thus 1t happens that the address New
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the Show Stenog
Dher's Day Is Past

the heart OF the city,
-Neatness,. for, one he replied, without
hesit alton. And first Of all l notice her
hands,
If they are clean and fairly well looked
after she is generally the sort ! want to
hire, provided her speed is satisfactory
Ninety nine times out Of q hundred II her
clothes are mussy and untidy she's no
good, or at best is third rate worker.
Il also distrust the girl who wears an
enormous picture hat with plumes standing
in the air and q lot Of cheap finery. A GER
tain degree Of style always carries consid-
cradle weight. A smaItly dressed, stylish
more favorable attention-than q dowdy
looking girl
AT the same time business men have
come to distrust the showily dressed girl.
As a rule she Is too much taken UP with
herself to be valuable to her employers.
Il think 1t is only question Of time W hen
the rule now in vogue In the best dry goods
stores in regard to saleswomen will apply to
stenographers, typewriters. all women
employees. In those stores black dresses
are demanded None may wear q oolored
gown, not even heads Of departments.
In one store the manager goes 30 far as to
prohibit even turnover collar OF blue, pink,
red or any, other bright tint. Turnovers
must be white or else none can be worn.
Neither are fancy chains nor snowy jewelry
tolerated,
Yet tli,k some business men are GO
ing too far do not always find that the
very plainest appearing girls are the best
workers or that the girl who tou ches up her
hair and wears bows in 1t is bound to take
little or no interest In her work. Far from
it.
An almost infallibe test ] find Is this:
When talking with an applicant, IL she
gives me her whole attention, keeps her
eyes In front of her no matter who passes
behind her or at her side, or In and out OF
the Office until our interview il over, am
satisfied that that girl will be able to con-
centrate on he- work.
What New York business men are look
ing for Ii women who in business hours
can put their attention on their work and
keep it there. No other sort is Of any
value no matter what sort of regalia she
wears or what color hair she has
Il have noticed, though, that dark haired
girls are less given to primping in Office
hours and less fiirtatious and appear to be
less taken up with outside interests of their
own, than the blondes. Red headed girls
generally have a good deal Of push because,
as rule, they have quick temper; but a
black haired girl will often beat them at
work"
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2 THE SUN. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1904.

opinion that city departments should be
kept open during business hours, and set
the hours at from 0 A. M. to 4P. NJ, which
was longer by several hours than anybody
he'd ever worked at the City Hall before
That was fearful shock.
BY and by came the time for making up
the tax budget. II then turned out that
the city finances had almost reached the
jumping of place. More money was needed,
and urgently.
The Mayor frst went through the ap-
preparations for the year and skinned them
clean. Then he announced that he was
going to raise the assessments OF the big
corporations doing business in the city
and make them contribute more heavily
to Its expenses. The Council gasped.
Increase taxes on the Standard Oil
Company? Does he know what he's up
against2' asked the Council.
you'll see" said the Mayor.
Financial statement and tax rolls In
hand, he visited In turn the Office Of every
large corporation in the little city.
'Bayonne, said the Mayor to the manager
Of each, needs 80 much money for improve
ments. The only way to get 1t is to raise
your assessment 30 much. Now here Is a
statement Of the money We must spend
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stood the soldlers-S,0O0 or more.
The long lines Of khaki looked like a
border OF old gold on gorgeous prayer
mat, spread before an altar raised upon
the heights. Afar of on a lofty terrace,
in the shadow OF a green bluff, the priests
had built their sanctuary-an oblong en-
closure marked by banners
THE entrance was a gate Of two slender
tree stems with cross bar, from which
hung two flags, white with q red sun in
the centre, emblems Of Empire and of
the Sun Goddess from whom sprang the
long line Of the Mikados of Japan.
AT the back OF the Enclosure was the
inner sanctuary, formed by four poles
hung with rope, from which were sus-
pended narrow strips OF white paper known
as 90 hei, emblems of purity and resting
places for the souls of the departed. The
altar was spread with a white cloth, upon
which rested a mirror-symbol Of perfec-
ton.
AT the back OF this inner sanctuary
rose a tablet of plain white wood bearing
in Chinese characters the legend To the
memory Of the souls OF the departed
About the shrine stood trays laden
with sacrifcal gifts of food, heaps OF rad
ishes, piles Of rice cake, TASKS of sake, fish
and fowl, the fruits Of the earth and the
waters thereof.
.The bugler sounded the general salute,
air as the solid line OF khaki in the plain
below came to attention.
THE Shinto ceremony had begun. Its
ritual is distinguished by severe simplicity;
it's temples contain no idols; its priests
1tu. . L., IL,
centives to worship are the mirror, which
symbolizes perfection and the white strips
Of paper, which signify purity.
4The high priest, an old and bearded
man Of solemn and dlgnified bearing. who
looked more like a Parsee than Japanese,
wore a sword in a velvet scabbard and
his gown was Of red and black silk, closely
resembling the old-fashioned dimty
1.-THE gowns Of his assistants were Of drab
watered silk, worn over regulation khaki
trousers and army boots that compelled
one to the conclusion that they were private
soldiers clothed for the nonce with sacer-
dotal authority
Advancing toward the altar, the priests
stood before the shrine. clapped their
hands three times, placed them reverently
together. bowed their heads and uttered
the invocation to the dead.
~The high priest thereupon drew near
the altar, and, bowling before 1t. took from
bis breast a scroll from which he recitcd in
m,rm,iring tones the memorial to the dead
hero es Of Japan Il,
stood near the shrine with face turned
toward the East, viii lie one Of his assistants
received the offeri ngs to the dead. a
,.on,ent later. and. at the invitation OF the
h;gb priest, Gen. Nishi stepped up to the
altar. saluted and, opening out scroll
read a eulogy to the dead, ,,,
"A gain the bugles, rang out filing th ne
valley with the inspiring muse h snee strred
to the salute, and the army oe'o" o'hfeu
into life. ..x---s.sz
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rapher's Day Is Past

cashiers; but they are comparatively few
and far between. The great majority Of
business houses hire stenographers to
work, and they make no distinction between
aIn fact in the business world to-day
the question OF sex Is not considered in
laying down rules. If woman wants to
compete with man and do it successfully
she must not look for special privileges.
Now, in the case OF dress. for instance,
l think womans business dress ought to
be neat, inconspicuous, serviceable. Gauzy
fabrics which reveal the neck and arms,
chains, floating ribbons and fiashy jewelry
are certainly not appropriate accessories
to business uniform.
II remember one day I wanted some
dictaton taken In hurry and sent for one
Of the best women stenographers we have
She came, and l began to fire of the sem
fences, trying to concentrate my thoughts
80 as to make the letters as strong as
wanted them to be. They were in rela-
ton to an important deal ! vas trying to
put through and they needed to be care
fully worded.
-As / went on | became conscious that
something was annoying me and l dis
covered that it was rattling., jingling
sound not loud, but incessant. ! looked at
the stenographer She was wearing on her
right wrist a bangle bracelet hung with
lot OF trinkets, and every. time her pencil
viii you please take of that con-
founded thing?' ! said as soon as located
the noise Why in thunder do you want to
wear such trinket to business office,
anyway
scared, then she turned red with wrath
But she took of the nuisance and she also
took herself Off. not to return, when pay
day came round. l was sorry to lose her
and the experience gave me an idea which
| have since followed.
Ia hn a n
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A CAMEL HUNT IN ARIZONA
PLANNED FOR NEXT MONTH.

TOPEKA, Kan, Oct1.-Preparations have
begun for a camel hunt in the Southwest.
The hunt is scheduled TO occur in November
and will be under the direction OF Willie
Sells, the Kansas Snowman, q son Of w. Allen
Sells, who was in charge OF the first
successful hunt for wild camels in the United
States. The elder Sells captured nine
teen wild oamels In the deserts OF Arizona
in 1882, and some of them are yet alive
ana on exhibition in travelling menageries.
The present hunt will cover much the
same territory as that traversed by the
hunters Of twenty-five years ago, but the
younger Sells expects to push his search
into the deserts OF northern Mexico II he
fails to find the animals in their former
haunts. An investigation made a few
weeks ago at the instance OF Mr.. Sells showed
that wild camels still exist in Arizona and
Mexico, but their numbers cannot be esti-
mated
The only camel breeding farm in America
is to be established in Kansas, with the
captured Arizona animals as nucleus
of the herd For two years Mr.. Sells has
been looking for a suitable place in which
to establish a camel and ostrich breed
ing farm. He now has selected a tract OF
2,i4O acres along the south side Of the Arkan-
sas River In Kearney county in western
Kansas.
The route of the camel hunt has been
agreed upon. The hunters who will accom-
pany the Snowman will leave the Southern
Pacific Railroad at ella Bend in Maricopa
county, Ariz This is the place the elder
Sells left the railroad twenty-five years
ago.
The hunters, under the guidance OF
Thomas McCusky, who guided the other
party, will 90 north and west across the
CHA River into McMullen's Valley and
the cactus plains. The other camels were
found in the cactus plains, but Mr.. Sells
is of the opinion that the animals have
moved southwa ard in the score OF years
since an organized effort has been made to
capture them. r u
and the cactus plains is without reward, he
will again cross the ella and search south
OF the Nal Pals Mountains. 1t was In this
neinhborhood that some OF the animals
were seen recently. Amember Of a survey
ing party working 100 miles south OF the
Mexico fine also reported to the show
man that one OF his horse herders saw
several Of the animals about sunset one
day during the last summer.
dThore has been no organized effort
made to find these animals, said MIR. Sells
to-day, 'since my father captured part
of the herd twenty years ago. He brought
nineteen of the animals here and kept them
on his farm east Of Topeka.
They were the widest creatures ever
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saw They would not eat for several days
and it was almost impossible to keep them
in an enclosure.
my father experimental for long time
before he found out how to capture the
animals He tried having the half-breed
Indians OF Arizona rope them but native
horse would not go within 800 yards OF one
OF the wild camels, and that plan was given
My father then returned to his winter
quarters here and shipped back to Arizona
carload Of horses accustomed to the sight
OF camels. The half breeds on these horses
were able to rope nineteen OF the herd.
am going to take my own horses with me.
II do not know how many OF the camels
there are in Arizona now. but have heard
that there were nearly / 900 head. j do not
believe this, but / do believe they exist
there in sufficient numbers TO make it much
less expensive to capture them there than
to send to Asia for them.
The wild camels there are the descend
ants OF those turned loose by the Gov
eminent thirty. years ago. The Govern
ment brought the animals into the country
to use them across the deserts. They
were untitled for the work of climbing the
mountains.
"A Frenchman then brought in bunch
Of the camels and used them with some
degree OF success on the Yuma desert.
came and he turned his animals adrift.
From these two bands the herd has
grown. For years nobody molested them.
Indians occasionally shot them, but they
are almost too wary for the ordinary hunter.
Their sense Of smell is highly developed
and they can see an enemy great dis
lance.
-One OF the greatest obstacles to be over
| come In hunting the camels is that caused
! by lack of food for man and beast and the
entire absence of water In the neighpor-
hood Of their haunts. The camel can travel
a great distance without food or water and
can remain a long time away from water.
| "On the other hunt We had to take wate
and food along to follow the camels into
their pasture. They could remain two or
three days travel from water-longer than
our provisions would permit OF our re-
naming, and that made 1t very difficult to
reach them. We are going this time with
full knowledge of their ways and the best
methods of finding them.
Il believe we shall be successful on this
hunt IL we are not, we will get the camels
for our breeding farm from herds already
in this country or we will import them
The latter plan will be tried last, as 1t il
one of the most difficult things to get camels
from foreign countries 1t costs a show
man more now to get a camel than an
elephant
1T is for this reason that have decided
to invest some money in breeding farm.
More circuses are beginning business every
year, and all OF the owners of shows are
DESTROYS OF enlarging their camel herds.
The sandy valley of the Arkansas will
be good place for camel raising and the
climate in that part of the State is not too
severe for the animals"
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matters have described since az an archaic
basis. Pop Robinson, the seventy-two-
year-old City Collector, gathered In the
receipts and deposited them In q bank
In his own name. When bills accumulated
the City Treasurer would stroll into Robin
sons Office and say:
Want some money, Pop, for such and
such fund. Let's have about 5000
or whatever the amount might be.
II there was money enough in the bank
and the Collector was kindly disposed,
the Treasurer got It. II he didn't get 1t
the bills had to wait.
THAT" said the new Mayor emphatically,
Is not business"
He appointed his nephew City Treasurer
and had the city's funds deposited In the
city's name. Presently came auditing
time. The city accounts had always been
audited by local accountant, good
fellow in Democratic politics and q Sinking
Fund Commissioner in the administration
Wouldn't you consider that sort OF hav.
ing us audit our own acoounts?" said the
Business Mayor. Lets have a real audit
He called In Alfred Rose, q New York
expert known as an investigator OF trust
books. In day or two Mr.. Rose pointed
out to the Mayor that the old bank de-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-02
MAGIC POWER OF THE
SPRUCE TREE IN MAINE.

newspapers and magazines and book
would be much higher In price, and their
circulation correspondingly restricted.
Even the mails would be lighter by far
but for the spruce tree.
Millinocket, seventy-five miles north OF
Bangor, on the west branch OF the Penob-
scot, Is a spruce town. few years ago
Millinocket consisted OF q flag station and
one Indian hut. The Indian murdered O
Spaniard and was sent TO State prison,
and the hut was burned, leaving only the
flag station and the man who tended II.
Then a big paper making corporation
looked the ground over, saw a fine chance
to make pulp, and built an immense mill.
Then came the town. 1t Is called "the magic
city," because II came into existence so
suddenly.
The pulp and paper MILL which eats up
about eO,oOooOo feet Of logs yearly, en-
ploys in one capacity or another about
thousand men, and there are in the town
$500 people. Where bears and moose
roamed half dozen years ago, there are
now streets lined with stores. dwellings,
schoolhouses. hotels and churches, and
lighted with electricity.
When the original settler. the Indian,
murdered his chance guest, the Spaniard,
reporters who went up from Bangor to SEQ
about 1t had to make meal on sailed pigs
shoulder and saleratus biscuit at the flag
station OF the railroad. Now they have
one hotel at Millinooket where the English
language Is considered inadequate to de-
scribe all the dishes on the dinner bill.
When, six years ago, man wanted to
take a bath at Millinocket, he had to jump
into the west branch and take his chances;
now they have porcelain tubs, with water
at temperature to suit. To-day they have
at Mi!linocket about everything in the way
Of conveniences that can be found in any
small city, they are shipping 240 carloads
Of paper daily, the brass band plays almost
every night, prohibition has as hard luck
as 1t has anywhere-and the spruce trees
did II all.
The best Of 1t is that there is enough
spruce In Maine to last indefinitely. for II is
mostly owned by great corporations, and
no waste is allowed.
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There is a whisper going the rounds OF
business Offices in which women are en-
ployed that employers are getting more
fussy every day. Some of tie older W women
point out complainingly that there was a
time when practically all man did or
said when engaging a woman clerk was to
look at her credentials and ask how much
salary she wanted.
That was in the days when women stenog-
raphers were almost scarce, when wo-
men typewriters were less plentiful than
they have since become and when burn
ing desire for an independent supply OF
pocket money did not so often impel girls
as soon as they put on long dresses to apply
for Office employment.
At any rate, whatever the reason, it
seems to be true that since the supply OF
women photographers and typewriters has
grown to exceed the demand employers
are becoming more and more exacting in
regard to the appearance OF the young
women they engage to work for them
This is just as true OF the large uptown
dry goods stores which employ thousands
OF women as it is in downtown offices and
wholesale business concerns.
A young girl came out from an Office
building the other day, her nose in the
air, her face flushed with indignation.
The ideal" she exclaimed to a waiting
friend. THAT horrid man told me that
he expected his clerks to wear high linen
collars and not low neck waist. Just
as il my waist could be called low neck"
The girl was wearing white cotton
waist cut round at the throat and finished
with narrow edging instead of a high
neckband. In place Of the neckband
was string OF blue beads
Afterward in speaking OF the occurrence
the unappreciative employer, who seemed
to be anything but hard hearted, said:
Il am awfully tired OF seeing dressed
up clerks in this Office I don't mean to
have any more OF them. These are not
show parlors.
4The women clerks don't have to re-
ceive visitors nor to entertain customers.
Stenographers and typewriters are here
to do that work and nothing else
Il believe there are still Offices In this
city who like to make showpiece of the
stenographer. just az there are restaurants
which employ none but exceedingly pretty
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Summer Not Over for Some
Though Coney Island Has Closed

York appears more frequently on the
hotel registers now than at any other season
Of the year. Women's interest in town
at present is confined chiefly TO dress.
and when they run in for a few days to
visit shops and seamstresses they put UP
at hotels and avoid the trouble OF opening
a house that is to be occupied so little.
These autumn holiday makers out OF town
have their parties to the city, which serves az
contrast to the week end sojourn in tho
country. To come into the city and take
brief taste Of metropolitan pleasures sweet
ems the JOY Of country life in October The
women spend the day in the shops while
the men are at business, and the party meets
for dinner and the theatre Then there is
supper afterward, and no feature OF a win
ter's evening in town has been lacking.
year or two ago such party was Kent
in New York by necessity, But the nsto'-
possib lie to drive home under clear sky in
the crisp autumn air. The maid may stop
all night In town and bring out the trunk
the next day.
One sees every night in the restaurants
parties OF this kind made up OF well known
New Workers fortunate enough to be able
to enjoy their combination of town and
country life.
To many who linger still at country
homes there is no drawback in the short
ness OF the days. To the men who are in
business the pleasure Of the country may
be considerably curtaied, but most OF
those who enjoy the possession Of these
homes near the city are able TO remain in
them several times week long enough
to enjoy the daylight, too
Life in the evenings is as attra ctive as
ever Dinners begin late. At one informal
dinner given at a palace in the Wheatley
Hills last week the guests sat down at Q
o'clock. They did not remain at the table
so long as they might have done in town.
for bridge was the real object of the gather
ing,
Most OF these houses were not occupied
" their owner when the great majority OF
New Workers were taking their holidays,
for they are places of derni-saison" sojourn.
1t is becoming more and more the fashion
for New Workers, even when they do not
dwell in these great houses. to stop away
from town later than they did formerly.
So, in spite Of the closing OF Coney Island,
and the disappearance Of the excursion
boats, many New Workers are still enjoy
ing vacations.