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Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09

I that have taken this subject up that
within a few years the McAdoo and
Pennsylvania railroad tunnels under
the river will be in operation, and that
in them the danger to shock and ac-
cident will be greater, owing to the
more perfect confinement in those
tunnels.
In the New York subway the stations
are not very far apart and hope of
rescue is reasonable, but in a steel
lined tunnel two miles long, reaching
under the bed of river, the condi-
tions are quite different and these as
sociations have insisted that these
subadueous tunnels shall be equipped
with reservoirs of sufficient capacity
to draw all the trains that may at any
possible moment even during the
highest congestion be between the
New York, New Jersey or Long Island
City openings.
The fact that the officials of the
New York Central railroad profited by
the experience of the marlborough
Rapid Transit company by installing
an electrical equipment calling for
storage batteries to be used in case
their great power house at Yonkers
suffers an accident will doubtless re-
suit in the introduction of similar
equipment in the subway. The bare
fact that trains may be stalled be-
tween stations by loss of power from
the main generating plant of the com
pany, which is always terrific ner'
vous strain upon passengers in the
stalled trains, is enough to cause seri-
Gus consideration.
DR.. e. C. Spitzka, the eminent spe-
cialst on nervous disorders, when
asked to express an opinion, said:
This is a matter that requires grave
consideration. There is no doubling the
fact that many nervous disorders re
suit from shocks to which the New
York public, or people living in any
large city, are subjected in their daily
of shock to the nervous system You
talk about the manner in which cars
are stopped in the subway, far from
good air and light, with no means of
reaching the stations and always that
vague fear that another train may APP
proach with high speed.
"There are perhaps many causes for
lights going out in trains and arousing
in passengers an element of fear. But
there are other means by which per-
sons are apt to suffer nervous shocks
Hearing is the most refined of all the
special senses and most intimately in
terwoven with the mechanism of the
higher senses.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
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THE suggestion recently made b,

THE suggestion recently made by
DR.. O'Hanlon as to the possibility
of largely extending human life
beyond the present average limit has
given rise to a discussion among doc
tors and insurance men that promises
to develop some very curious facts.
The subject has already been COM
mented on by medical journals and
insurance publications. both Of these
interests being deeply interested in an
indefinite extension Of human exis-
tence-one class in order to preserve
an army of patients and the other an
army of premium contributors. Both
are assured of the dilgent cooper
alton of the subject of the extension.
An investigation of the vital statis-
tical records and the mortality tables
worked out by insurance actuaries
shows that as matter of fact the
term of human life has not been gem
orally extended since the period of
ODSSINdlOll anu ltCOIu bt-
gan. BY this is meant such observa"
tion as vital statisticians and insur-
ance actuaries give to a subject of
this kind whereby the figures are sub
mitted to a sharp analysis and cross
questioning of very searching kind.
That this should be the case in view
of the progress made in the last eighty
years in sanitary and medical sciences
has given this discussion it's present
interesting turn.
Effect of Sanitary Conditions
In the rural districts sanitary con-
ditions are about the same as they
have always been, and so it is unneces-
sary to look there for any of the causes
that initiate against long life. 1t is in
the cities, where population is con-
gested, movement is rapid and pres
sure daily increasing, that search must
be made for the causes that counter
act the influence of medical skill and
sanitary science. 1t Is admitted OH
all hands that in almost every great
city in the world within the space of
time under discussion, particularly in
American cities, the conditions of life
have been very much improved and
some forms of fatal diseases practical
ly eradicated while all of them have
been modified. Why, then, is it that
the figures show no general heightened
life term?
1t has been discovered that this is
due to the fact that for every new
protection some new assault, calling
for nerve and muscle resistance, has
been developed by the necessities of
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09

threats crystallized into demand for
an enormous indemnity. The money
had to be raised at once. The duchy
of Mecklenburg advanced 1,25S,OOO
reichsthaler and took Wismart Neu-
kloster and the island of Poel as Sc
curity
Under the conditions of the loan the
city of Wismar and the two govern
ment districts were to remain in pledge
for one hundred years. AT the end of
the hundred years Sweden could
claim and obtain the pledged city and
land by paying back the original loan
with 3 per cent compound interest. A
further provision, however. of the loan
was that should Sweden fail to take
any notice whatever OF the expiration
of the time, the contract would become
renewed automatically for another
hundred years, The sum which
Sweden would have had to pay If she
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
vedish Town MOrtgaged for More Than Century

wished to claim Wismar and the two
government districts is figured as
amounting to $27OOOOOO. and this alone,
quite apart from considera tions of
policy. operated doubtless as a bar
against the assertion of her rights.
Thus we see that while the immediate
business transaction dates back but
ABOUT one hundred years, any diplo-
matte s:iuabbles over the city now
would have to revert to the surrenders
and armistices of the thirty years war
Q6lS-4S). And the fact that Wisma'
heretofore really was Swedish terri
tory explains why Germany has not
fortified the port, which is considered
the finest harbor site OF the entire
Baltic coast. Under the Swedish
Danish treaty fortifeations were not
TO be built. and when the duchy of
Mecklengurg took over the place the
stipulation was renewed.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09

should not rebuild the fortifications
The place thus lost its strength ana
importance and became instead an
element Of weakness to the Swedes
It's great sea trade was ruined and its
inland trade lost.
Under these circumstances it was not
surprising that the Swedes tired at
last of their white elephant, So in the
reign of the incompetent and extrava-
giant Gustavus ". with territory lost
to the French in one war, with Finland
lost to Russia, with defeat in a war
against Norway. the Swedes seized
an opportunity to relieve themselves OF
the burden Of possession.
The direct opportunity was given by
the cancellation by Gustavus Of his
engagement to the daughter of Duke
Frederick Franz l. That person not
unnaturally resented the insult and
threatened dire things. Finally his
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
time you write please e2
. Y plain what tram is"
II don't understand

v plain what tram is
II don't understand what
you mean by buggy You speak as
If it carried you about. How does it
go?''
49, have recently been examining some
of the letters exchanged between the
public school children of the United
States and the board school boys and
girls of England, and in an American
letter just ready to be sent out to Eng
land and an English letter received by
an American boy / came across the
above quoted demands for information.
1t seemed that the London boy had
written that he had gone from near
Westminster to the Tate gallery in a
tram. The American boy, in writing
to his unseen English friend, had
vouchsafed the information that he
had been around Central park in a
buggy" Each boy was puzzled and
each wrote for the solution of the
puzzle.
The solution arrived in London and
New York in due time. The London
discover that buggy was a sort OF
cart or small carriage, and the New
York boy was greatly entertained to
learn that tram was just a common
everyday street car
Nothing more interesting and i'm
proving in the way of study has been
taken up in our American public
schools than this adoption of the cor
responding exchange idea between the
American boys and girls and the boys
and girls of other countries, Especial
ly helpful have American pupils study
ing German found this interchange of
letters with German pupils, but by far
the larger amount of correspondence
is carried on between the English and
the American school children.
For the American boy or girl no
book on English history and geography
can be half so instructive and at the
same time entertaining as the fort
nightly or monthly letter which comes
across the water from a boy or girl
living right within sound of Bow Bells
or almost under the caves of Westmin-
ster abbey, old st. Paul's or the Tower
of London, What joy to the American
boy or girl to be informed that "the
bust of your poet Longfellow stands
in a good light, and a great many Eng
lish as well as American travellers visit
1t every day. What pleasure, too the
American boy derives from the graphic
account of ride on the top of bus
through the principal thoroughfares of
London. and does he understand the
story OF Guy Fawkes half so well when
he reads It in his history as he does
when an English board school boy tells
h-a all about 1t and explains how he,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09
Cruelty to Animals

London has a physician, DR.. Bill
ings, who for years has been active i'm
the prevention of cruelty to animals,
often carrying his ideas to great ex-
tremes. one day, while the doctor was
writing, large fly annoyed him by
buzzing ON the window pane. The
doctor called the servant. "Open the
window and put that fly outside" said
he But" said the servant, thinking
of the wetting the room would get,
ITS raining very hard outside" "oh.
is it?' said the doctor. "rhen put the
fly in the waiting room until the storm
is over"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09

The population Of Bombay amounts
to 76O persons per acre in certain
areas, and in these sections the street
area only occupies one-fourth OF the
whole. II the entire population massed
in the streets for any purpose the
density would equal SO4O persons per
acre.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-09

city life, and so the sum Of all the
effort of medical and sanitary science
has been, in regard to the extension
of the term Of life, practically a fail
ure. A glance at the conditions of
life in a city like New York, for in
stance, convinces even a casual oh
server of how the nervous shocks
and the strains to which a resident
there is subjected have increased to
q point where only the most perfect
nerve constitution can hope for health.
| These nervous attacks are so subtle
as to never amount to enough to cause
one to complain, but their continual
reiteration and repetition are grad
ually wearing out the nerves of the
community.
| Stop to draw a comparison of a man
in ordinary business going to his
counting room today and using the
telephone to Chicago, Washington and
Boston, reading in his newspapers the
accounts of critical debates in foreign
cabinets, bloody battles on land and
sea, on whose result the fate of en-
pires depend; receiving mail, cable
grams and kilograms from all four
quarters of the world, seeing the price
of commodities in which his fortune is
involved, either by investment or spec
ulation, bob up and down the scale of
values, with the composed life of a
gentleman merchant in any center of
commerce sixty years ago and the
contrast is startling.
Strain of City Life
The assaults made upon the senses
and faculties of such an Individual
/ and such individuals make up a large
portion of the community. call for the
expenditure within twenty-four hours
of an amount of nerve energy and re-
sistance that would have sufficed to
carry man fifty years ago months,
it may be years, along life's road.
Half-hourly editions of a dozen
newspapers proclaim the Incidents as
they occur and millions of people,
young and old, are practically brought
within the influence of the rngside
excitement or the ShOck OF diSappoint-
ment over q fumbled ball, and all this
is added to the existing nerve strain
of whatever business they are en-
tangled in. And then the newest in
vention of all, the nerve racking
transportation paraphernalla of a
modern city, is still to do it's work
with them. At the present moment,
for instance, something like quarter
of million of people ride every day
in the tunnel and quarter of a mil
lian human hearts are linked up di-
rectly with a seventy~five thousand
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
WHERE rHEY PLAY nd

WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
Philadelphia az New York
Chicago at Pittsburg.
Boston az Brooklyn.
st. Louis at Cincinnati
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
Bet on championship series,

New York oct 6.-The first big bet
)f the worlds series between the Gil
ants and the Athletics has been made
IN New York. Jake Fields and Dave
Johnson were talking baseball. Finally
the argument turned to the coming
worlds series between the champions
Of the National and the champions of
the American League.
Fields allowed that he thought the
Giants We're pretty good and said he
was willing TO back up his opinion
with cash. Dave Johnson agreed with
hmm as to the baseball qualifications
of the Giants but when Fields offered
odds on the outcome Of the games
Johnson snapped up the proposition
and 10000 TO $4,000 was wagered by
Fields that the Giants would beat the
Athletics In the series.
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
LOCAL HORSES FAILED
TO WIN THEIR RACES
Barnett b Second at Mt.
Holly-Maud l. and Gen.
Kuser at Washington

Delaware horses were unsuccessful
in the harness races at the various
fairs yesterday. Barnett B.. the PAGER
with record Of 2.O6. was defeated at
Mount Holly. n. j.. IN the free-for-all
pace by Frank Yokum, the latter VIM
ninG in straight heats In 2.06 Ia,
2.O9 IL and 2O7 -. Barnett b.,
which was driven by w. b. Biggs, Of
Middlatown, finished second, third and
second. respectively.
In the 220 trot at the same place,
James Dudley also driven by Mr.
Biggs, finished fourth. while Ia the 2.25
pace. Miss Flora Bell, driven by E. H..
johnson, Of Dover. also finished fourth.
In the 2.24 trot at the York Pa. Fair
yesterday the bay mare Electa, driven
by A. H. Tyson of this city. was
unplaced Although six heats were
trotted the race was unfinished.
AT the meeting at the Brightwood Driv-
ing i-urk. Washington. d. c.. this week
the dun mare Maud l.. and the black geld
Ing General Kuser, both owned by DR..
W. y. Miller OF this city, each finished
second. They We're driven by Michael
Faer Maud J.. started IN the 22S pace
ON Tuesday and General lIusor started In
the ZIG trot on Wednesday.
The pacing race was won by DR. Bell in
straight heats, the time IN each heat be-
ing 2-el Ia, S. ID. r.. also won the trot-
ting race i'm straight heats. the best time
being 2eOls.
Maud l.. was recently purchased by
Dr. Miller from r. p. Golding for a price
said to be $500. She is well-lnown to local
horsemen. having appeared in the matinee
races OF the Delaware Horse Show Asso-
lclation regularly this season
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
BENDER HERO OF THE DAY
Local Eleven to Play Mutes at South
Side Park.

Washington. d. c., oct. 6.-"Chief"
Bender, by his remarkable pitching
and batting landed the Athletics win
ner in two games with Washington
yesterday. the scores being to and
3 to z. The Athletics now have only
to win one more game to make the
pennant sure, even though Chicago
should win all five with st. Louis.
Bender nearly equaled the feat of
Charley Ferguson, who I'm 1884, pitch
led the Phillies to victory i'm a double
header with Detroit Coakley started
In TO pitch the second game today, but
the Indian relieved him in the third.
Bender practically won the first
game by hitting one Of Townsend's in
shoots to deep left field in the fourth
inning. with three men on the bases,
and scored "A moemnt later on Hartsers
fly to Jones. The Chief also made two
singles. one of which scored Schreck in
the eighth inning, giving him batting
average of 1000 for the game. Be
sides this ne held Washington to
seven hits. striking out seven, while
but two Washington players reached
third base.
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
TEDbY, JRu PLAYS FOOTBALL
He Was the First Harvard Man In
jured This Season.

Cambridge, Mass oct. 6.-Theodore
Roosevelt. Jr, candidate for the Har-
ward 1909 freshman football eleven,
yesterday cut himself over the eye
while tackling a fellow player on Sol
diers Field and was compelled to
withdraw to the locker building.
The cut itself was interesting rather
than serious. Interesting because for
days Teddy Jr. has been the one man
talked Of in Cambridge and the centre
OF attraction on Soldiers Field. Also
because up to the time Of his injury
not one single man Of all the hundred
other freshmen trying for their class
eleven had received as much as a
scratch.
After he had left the field several
were banged and bruised, and it SEEM
ed almost as If they were trying to im-
itate him. Now that he has a discol-
ored eye patched up with a fuzzy CO.
coon, Roosevelt, Jr., win be more of
football player than ever so far AL
though light. he has made a very fav-
orable Impression. He is not half so
green as many other men on the squad
and plays with lots Of enthusiasm and
dash. The squad was divided into
several elevens and Roosevelt played
end on one Of these.
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
$50 sl2 7as 25ss
THE STANDING.
BOWLING NOTES

Chester stil has 1900 per cent They win
be n hard team TO beat out this year.
The season is now three weeks old but
very few OF the bowlers are rolling mp TO
their last years form. This may be due
20 lack of practice
Din, OF the Peirce team had a splendid
start for a big score but fell short in his
last game at that he totaled OBS
Waller captain Of the Academy team
rolls a strong game.
The Washington got set hack last
night They did not expect 10 lose 5hres
to the Corinthian team.
u. Jones of the Casino Is rolling a
very steady game and IL he continues "a
ron in the future as he has in the past
will make a bid for one Of the high
average prizes
Plank. OF the All-wilmlngton. is not
rolling the game Of which ne is capable
All Of the Warren team rolled 500 CT over
last night. They should finish first or
second this year
Hoopman rolled 594 on the New Castle
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
THE eve.

alleys. He must have found the spot -
The whereabouts Of a very prominent
lowlcr of the Warren team is worrying
a large number Of his friends. He has
iot been seen since the game in Chester
Thursday week.
Our old friend Tom was a sick man
Il the finish OF the second game between
Olympia and New-Century. johnny
Green can telling him something about
making the five pin.
Grand Duke Harvey was an interested
spectator at the l-wilmington-Acadcm
game.
Day was the only man on the Washing
ton TO go over 800.
Maroon and Winters OF the New-Cen
tury roll "a clever game.
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
ro-DAY.s scHEnuLE

TO-DAY'S $ SCIIFoULE
Athletics al Washington.
Chicago a st. Louis.
Detroit mt Cleveland.
New York at Boston.
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
Samuel LEES Gu, FIT, 5. .ss e. Pa."s' S.,s., s.,

lantic City; $1,000 from Trenton; S9.75
from Lambertville; $500 from Phil
lipsburg; $1,000 from New Brunswick,
and at proportionate rates from other
points, including Bordentown, Mt
Holly, Cape May, Salem, Wilmington,
West Chester. Norristown and princi-
pal intermediate stations. A stop
over will be allowed at Buffalo within
the limit of ticket returning.
A special train of Pullman parlor
cars and day coaches will be run
through to Niagara Falls. An extra
charge viii be made for parlor car
seats.
An experienced tourist agent and
lchaperon viii accompany the excur-
sion.
For descriptive pamphlet, time OF
lconnecting trains. and further infor-
Imation apply to nearest ticket agent
Tor address George w. Boyd. Genera
Passenger Agent Broad Street sta
'tion, Philadelphia.
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
HUNT CLUB MEETS
Four Important Racing Events, One in
This City, This Month.

The hunt clubs are now arranging
for their fall races and there promises
to be some fine programs pulled off in
this section this month. Here are the
four meets:
White Marsh Valley-Chestnut Hin,
October Z. Thomas stokes, secretary.
Rose Tree Hunt-Narberth, October
.12 and IA William A. Stotesbury, sec
retary.
Lima Wilmington, October 21,
Joseph NJ. Dohan, secretary.
West Chester--West Chester, Shell
Ter track October 2S, Percy S. Dar-
hngton, secretary.
At the White Marsh Valley meet to-
morrow two score of steeplechase
horses are entered in the cross-country
jumps The principal event will be the
race Of two and one half miles across
country for the White Marsh Valley
Hunt Cup, valued at s4OO, which has
been presented by William NJ. Kerr of
Trainer Pa. IL must be won twice
before becoming the property of the
winner and only members of the club
are eligible to compete.
The entries are; Charles r. Inger-
soils Buck Bee-No Fool, Welsh
lStrawbridge; Temerity A. J. A. Dew
lereux: Iron Heart. A. ]. A. DevereuX
ICastor. White Marsh Valley Farm
Buck Bee. c. e. Ingerson; Governor
Budd. Richard Vaux; Barricade. Wal
tier Stokes
Mr. Kerr's old Fort will start h the
mile and a half race on the fat for G
cup presented by William Dsston
His good jumper The Diver viii also
compete in the Hunters Steeplechase
for a cup presented by r. Nelson Buck
Hey
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Nl.srlnllnAY,S SrnRES

Athletics. S; Washington. o.
Athletics Q; Washington. z.
Boston, TO- New York, g.
Detroit. q; Cleveland. o.
ST. Louis and Chicago not scheduled.
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
FAIR SCORES ROLLED
IN TRI-CITY LEAGUE
Teams Rolled Weekly Game S
in Wilmington, Chester
and New Castle

Fairr good scores were rolled Dy The
rrLcity Bowling League teams last night.
The Casino team on its own alleys took
an three from the Peirce ave. while the
Olympia On its own alleys took two from
New-Century Of Chester. on this Aoad-
eay alleys Warren won ala three from
luPen whao She Ai-Wilmington team
nul4rod all three from The <Academy
-ls-.,g De.i 90 Kew Castle and wen thre,
aasaos. The Washington i've lost an three
sams 30 ;he Corinthlan at Chester Tn,
scores follow:
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
National LEAGUE,

Philadelphia. 4; New York, I.
New York. 8. Philadelphia. J
Brooklyn. N, Boston. s.
Brooklyn. .: Boston. l.
No other games scheduled.
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
ORANGE VS.. MT. AIRY

The football season will open in this
city tomorrow when the Orange eleven
viii play the Mt Airy Mutes at South
Side Park The local eleven has been
practicing hard for this game and is
in good sshape. The two teams will
line up as follows.
Orange. Positions Mt. Airy.
Crawford (Capt). left end. .ODonell
JoJnes. .....left tackel. ...,.. .StrunlS
Lynn. left guard. ....... .KaEs
(Ainsworth)
Draper right guard d..... Kelleher
Zcbley. right tackle. ... Robbins
(Bacher)
Hauber. .....right end..... .Achman
Mcl<enna. ... quarter back. .kuellar
(Greenwood) (Mahaffy)
Hackman left half back Capt Weidner
Mcclure. right half back. Williams
, Goodwin. $500. full back. Barnes
......K s ogMssaS ?'rslxfg ?jD h
Evening journal., 1905-10-06

Bean cake is the ,hief commercial
fertilizer in China
Evening journal., 1905-10-06
Last Niagara Falls. Excursion for the
Season via Pennsylvania Railroad.

The last popular Pennsylvania Rail-
road ten-day excursion TO Niagara
Falls from Philadelphia and adjacent
territory will be run on October 13 via
the Delaware Valley Route. On this
date a special train viii leave Broad
Street Station. Philadelphia at S.O7 a.
M; West Philadelphia at $40 a. M.
North Philadelphia, $50 a. p. Bris-
tol, S.45 a. m; Trenton, $50 a. m;
Lamhertville, 9.26 a. M; Frenchtown,
9.45 a. M; Phillipsburg. 1914 a. M;
Manunka Chunk. 1O.44 a. M, and ar
rive Niagara Falls at p. m.
Excursion tickets. good for return
passage on any regular train, ex-
elusive OF limited express trains. with
in ten days will be sold at $1,000 from
Philadelphia and all points on the
Delaware Division; SLIPS from At