Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-02-05
NATIONAL SOLDIERS HOME,
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NATIONAL SOLDIERS HOME,
HAMPTON. VA. Feb "A French
author who recently visited the bay Of
Nagasaka, which is the Chesapeake
bay OF Japan, after an absence OF fiji
teen years, says in the New York Ev-
cnng Post that during his first visit
he did not see a drunkard in the city
OF NaGasaka, except among European
sailors, but now the Japanese sailors
are victims Of alcoholism. They march
arm-in-arm singing and stumbling
through the streets. Many others in
Japanese dress also get drunk on Sun
day and fight i'll the saloons therein.
There are. however, teahOuses that
are very elegant and exclusive. and adj
nit only the higll-brel Japanese ami
distinguished foreigners, thereby pre-
serving the ancient traditions, but all
the others. open to everybody have
become dchlcd and infected with alb
sinthc. One may enter them without
taking Off his shoes. and even wear
wooden clogs. No more immaculate
floor mats, no cushions to sit on but
chairs and tables. On tho butfcts there
is, i'll place OF the graceful china, for
dolls dinners, Il row Of whiSkcy, bran
tly and pale ale bottles. Consignmcnts
Of nearly all the distilled and artificial
~ made malt and spirtuous liquors Of
England and America arc daily
cmpticd. by boatload upon the ancient
city of the Rising Sun.
CosmoDolltc veterans i'll this com
nand after reading the above pessi-
mlsuC Interpretation OF the baneful eff
fcCtS of al Occidental or Western civ
'tl"atlon upon the common nerd OF ia
pau. arc sure 10 become ObtOmstic,
ana surcharSed With an uncontrolla
pc desire to cXclaim. give us dear old
Phothus after all! II is a town that
- NiSited. III inc course OF year. by
male adults from every civilized conn
Try upon the lace OF the earth.
Ana ,his ,)onressiyu ;,,m frou IVA
Danyi]lr III prass. ...Tuosd,v I,r,,.
arv II vas mansion I'm. 81 ~, M.
vill,, Soldiers Home AMI ac us,,l n,.n,
Old veterans f.u nv rho v.,v.i1n III,
were. ,rathorcl ny h>- ,bn ,,i;c, Eo,tv
eight were. arrcstrd between n..,o
O'Clock Yesterday afternoon Ali MIA.
night last night 81 his nnm,or
seven were arrested on 1hc ch,ry,. ~
tlisordcrlv con,)uc, 1wo fur vaorancv
two for loitcrin. ana tha rema;n,,.,,
for drunkenness Ahour thirty.tivn at
the forty-eich, unforjuna,ns ,ynre vn1
Grams Thjrty-1hrc., arrests .wnrn m,,a
between [; y. m. ana midnight Onicers
Garner and Slim made 1,ynntv.fonr nj
the thirtv-thrce arrests Only ono
complaint OF robbery was mad, ana
the police later worked tho case M
and found that there was no,hn., in
it."
Danville is about Two miles from ,he
by the civil authorities. ,o whom zach
offender probably paid between four
and five dollars for his error Of ul.r.
ment For these reasons stranded
cosmopolitans sojourniny here IN mi
forms similar to those in which thcv
cncasel themselves in 1861 ar. firm
in the opinion thai the sooner ,h,a ioco1
manager of that branch Home inau-u
rates movement 10 locate a cluster of
licensed recreativ, resorts near one ,,f
the entrances thereto the quicker viii
the moral status OF the aging yetar
ans therein improve. Recrcatiyc re-
sorts were located hard bv an entrance
to this branch ana the branch at Mil
waukee many years ago and good rc
suits have followed in that the vet
Grams remain. near home and flock
wholly by themselves, ana the Home
not the civil authorities, make all The
arrests necessary; therefore, a cluster
Of cOuyivial resorts at the DanyilIe
branch would enable the officers OF
Danvillc and other towns close bv to
turn the unfortunate veterans over to
Inc Home authorities. instead OF pro-
excessively swelling the criminal an
nails OF Danville county. That humane
custom has been followed by the civil
officers in the towns skirting this com
mand. and the towns adjacent 10 the
milwaukee, branch for % years.