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6lonQcv ana graceful.
1t sur1nounts an edfice that stands on
tho site Of church that was erected in the
early days of the Revolutionary War and
was burned by the British, Some of its
members wero American soldiers in that
war. The present structure was built at
the close of the war. and services arc held
there every Sunday.
The spire is replica of the one that waD
caught up by great storm that swept over
New Jersey few years ago and was hurled
down into the street and smashed.
4 few yards distant il a building that
stands on the site Of the first Princeton
University. If you have lived in New York
for q generation you may know this, but
it is news to newcomers that Princeton
University ever stood anywhere except in
Princeton.
If you are weary you take car and ride
up through the business center of old Eliza
beth and then get off and wander a while
through old streets laid out before you we're
born, even if you are four score. This
costs you another nickel.
A trolley line to Newark whirls you along
a thoroughfare lined on either side 10y
modern homes and we'll kept lawns and
under the branches of great trees, out by
farm lands and over bridges Ieneath which
a river breaks over a rocky Led on its way
to the Passaio.
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careful when you start to mix 1t up with
a tough gang like that

careful when you start to mix 1t up with
a tough gang like that
'Oh, cut out all that papa's advice when
you're talking to me, returned the dwarf
in a voice Us deep and big in volume as John
l.. Sullivans. "Any man that insults me
has got to make good, whether he's 8 feet
tall or only nches"
The prologue Of this incident had been,
1t seems, that some one in a dive had qucs-
toned Mr. Hop O. My Thumbs veracity
whereat the human speck with the sonorous
vocals had attempted to rough house the
place.
In marked contrast to the generally care
full attention to dress Of the dwarfs is the
careless attire Of most OF the other exhibit
ton people of the Island when not on ex
hibition. Here is a man drifting laZily
along Surf avenue in the early morning
wearing pair OF rawhide boots, loose
collarless shirt a paint stained jacket and
rough farmers cap. Unshaven, I'M
shined, he pulls Justify on a short black
pipe.
Three hours later the same man, in an
animal cage, paragon OF masculine
symmetry attired in n tightfitting curas-
sier costume. bows graceful acknowledge
InentS TO n CTO"u Oh WOlneIl VINO dpniuuU
| him for the ease and grace with which he
reduces to meek submission three tigers
that apparently threaten to devour him
pccemeal.
If you desire peep behind the scenes
at Coney, you must go down in the late
afternoon or early evening OF damp, dull
day. Then all the amusement places on
tie island shut up shop and turn their
amusement people loose on the island.
Drop into any Of the delicatcssen shops,
small restaurants or cafes on rainy evenings
and you will get short range views Of the
islands personnel. You will find in these
parties freaks. wild animal trainers baly-
hoo lecturers, acrobats, balloonists, feminine
stars Of concert halls and men who have
made fighting their trade in the ring or
on the field.
One is struck by the extreme youthful
ness of the girl performers in the islands
free concert halls. Enter any one OF
half dozen Of these places any day
from noon until p. NJ, and you'll find
the stage peopled with twenty or moro
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TALKS TO BIRDS IN THEIR OWN l.
E to Get FmhT the
eP,of II z@

Nature study parties under his leader
ship have been astonished to see an Owego
boy call in their own language to the wild
birds of the woods and bring them to his
knee This New York young man is j.
Alden Loring, now we'll known to natu-
rasts because OF his personal intimacy
with those whom he affectionately terms
the little people OF the wilds.
Knowing every bird and mammal Of this
country by its note or cry, he has the knack
Of initiating many species, actually holds
conversation with them in their own tongue,
INSPIRES them with confidence in his friendly
attitude.
He has demonstrated how easy It Is to get
on familiar terms with the wild animals and
birds and is one of the small number OF
modern naturalists who are starting a new
development 10 nature science, vastly more
fascinating and sympathetic than the older
shotgun and stuffed skin method.
Now, before the season Is far advanced;
Is the time opportune for gaining acquain-
lance with notes OF BIRDS" he said to the
writer the other day as the two sat among
the great ferns Of Long Island swamp
watching the squeaking fiocks Of heroine
nying among hundreds Of meats In = big
colony. Later the birds do not sing 50
much as in the spring and early summer
He was getting responses from the little
birds of higher order In the foliage all about.
but the herons remained relatively apathetio.
although he intmated their hoarse. henlike
cackle exactly. In answer to an inquiry
lie said
NO, ono cannot get results equally from
ell kinds of birds Naturally those higher
In the scale Of intelligence do best. The
wisdom of the owl is mostly In appearance.
II does not display as much intelligence as
the hawk. though I had little screech
owl that would come when called him.
of the wild birds, one Of the easiest to
bring down from the trees is the chickadee,
and it seems to he done best early in the
spring. | have heard its answering call
come closer and closer through the woods.
til it flew about close above my head.
When seated quietly have had them perch
on my shoes.
There is no such thing as bird charming.
It is simply knack, and can be done by
any one If he knows how. No one, In my
opinion, has any power over animals other
than that VIII oh Is purely natural.
Many blroS come 10 eaCn otneT III answer
to call notes. and it is necessary simply
to initiate these. Often these are distinct
from their ordinary song. With the quail, for
instance. it is not the familiar bobwhite,
but the rarer and more plaintive notes
In calling the larger birds and animals
It Is wise to be concealed. but with smaller
species it is not necessary to be 80 careful.
Foxes weasels and owls can be brought
close by initiating the squeal Of a mouse
In distress. Chipmunks and many other
small rodents will come In answer to a
squeaking or sucking noise with the lips.
The orioles can be called by whistling.
Though the several species have varied
notes, they are easily initiated. Crows
come quite readily too
The familiarity with human beings
that can be inspired In many OF the wild
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ance.
'The process employed was to shorten
the pole gradually, then Use a small stick.
and finally discard both. have often
fed wild birds on the nest with pole.
"A wild bobolink which kept for a while
at home would always straighten up and
obey Justify whenever l said Sing a song,
Bobbie!' Both a sparrow hawk and Il
crow among my pets would come when l
called.
THE latter enjoyed picking at a horse 3
feet, lying low to escape the kick. He would
also tease the dog by pulling his tail.
1.-TWO young ducks ! had would follow
like little dogs when said Come, 90 down
to the river Going in myself for swim,
l would hide, whereupon they would climb
up on the bank and zip as though scared
to DEATH As soon as | announced myself
they would c,iddle close to me and peep
contentedly.
while working out in Colorado for the
Biological Survey l had an amusing ex-
perience with bushy tailed or mountain
rat. 1t had its nest in the abandoned
cabin which was using while at the place.
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island from Eliza Dethport, and the time
of the voyage by ferryboat is less than ten
minutes. This costs another nickel. But it
is worth the money.
You have seen noted shipyard, and a
railroad bridge that was the result of a
fahta site dream OF railroad company
when it was trying to break into New York.
Through the draw of this bridge you ha We
seen coal fleet passing on its way to Perth
Amboy.
Lea wing tho ferryboat at Elizabethport
you walk, If you wish, through C street
which was military road in the days of
the Revolutionary War. II you continue
this walk for n half hour you reach little
park that looks like the campus Of New
England college.
Here you rest beneath tree that is older
than any of tho old buildings, and you can
throw the stump of your cigar against two
ancient cannon that Numbered in famous
war. Somebody will tell you that near this
site Washington's troops bivouacked.
Whether they did bivouac here may be
q question, but certain it is they passed
this way and fought the British.
Continuing your stroll, you come under
the shadow OF a church steeple quite diff
ferent from the church steeples that are
built in this generation. 1t shoots up from
the ground like a clear cut mast. 1t u
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This Is an account OF what q man saw
for eight nickels and three cents on Satur-
day afternoon:
Down the Bay on the upper deck Of a
Staten Island ferryboat the panorama in
cuded the skyscraper aggregation on the
lower end of Manhattan, the Brooklyn and
East River bridges Castle Williams on
Governors Island, the Statue OF Liberty
and Ellis Island, glimpse of Greenwood
Cemetery and Brooklyn Heights, Erie
Basin and the foliage of Bay Ridge, the
Narrows, the gateway to the sea. and a
battleship and cruiser of Tompkinsville.
This cost a nickel.
A trolley car at the ferryhouse carried the
traveller to the Elizabethport ferry, showing
him on the way portions of Staten Island.
containing old Dutch settlements, modern
homes, soping lawns, ancient trees. acres
OF vines and farmlands, shipyards, Sailors
Snug Harbor, the Kill Won Kull, Bayonne
and the, meadows beyond. This little
journey consumed half hour and cost
another nickel.
An ablo bodied man could nearly throw
q stone across the kill that divides the
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girls. many Of whom look as though they
were not very far in their teens. Each
hall employs about forty girls These
are worked in two shifts, one company OF,
say. twenty appearing from noon to 9
P. NJ, and the other filling out the evening
until closing time which is A. NJ. The
girls receive from $40 to 81? weekly. They
appear every day, including Sunday. They
are lodged and boarded by the managers
Of the halls. usually in rooms OF the hall
building
Down at the Norton's Point end Of Coney
Is Sea Gate. This district is restricted
and protected from invasion from the
common horde and individual curiosity
by high stone wall, gate and several
private sleuths. 1t is also walled with
sples on its ocean side
Residents of the colony go to and from
Sea Gate great deal by water. This
saves them from contact or commingling
with Coney's visiting masses or resident
colonies. Automobiles also aid in securing
this exclusveness. To the fellow who is
convinced that the world, after ALL is but
very small place. and that very little OF
what is really matters, 1t is delicious fun
to see suddenly engulfed in real Coney
crowd party of fashionables from Sea
Gate who have been forced to uso the trolley
to or from town because their yacht or
auto has broken down. Such grimaces!
| Such shudders.
Coneys courtroom and police station
are always busy. For one thing, Gordon
of detectives are kept in constant service
at Coney during the summer Most of
them are familiar with the faces of rogues
Of record, and as soon as one of these steps
from a train and is recognized he is taken
over to the police station and kept there
until next morning. when he is discharged
with reprimand for having crossed Coney's
dcadline, or is sent to Jail for short term
on the technical charge of vagrancy as
rebuke to his temerity In trespassing on
Coney's territory.
Several of tho merchants of the island
are semi mil!ionaires, their wealth all
gathered within comparatively few years.
But the fortunes Of the island are mostly
precarious.
Fire insurance rates are 80 high at Coney
that only small proportion of the money
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Coney Island the city without q Sunday
or the place where any old day is Sunday,
according to your standard. Is again wide
open. Officially the season was opened on
May 10 last but the weather man changed
the original plans OF the islands mana gers.
and not really until last week may Coney
be said to have been In full swing.
Three weeks OF unfavorable weather
have put the amusement and business men
of the island so far behind In receipts that
even with fair weather 1t will be md-July
before most Of them have recouped their
losses. But Coney Is Coney. winning or
losing. There Is ever from noon to mid
night a blare Of brass from successive
bands in front OF amusement places from
one end Of Surf avenue to the other. crowds
or no crowds; and only a snowstorm can
still the raucous voices Of ballyhoo men
calling attention to their amusements
On fair days Coneys main thoroughfare
Is caked with visitors 30 dense are the
crowds. On wet days sand alley in the
desert Of Sahara could hardly show 9 more
desolate picture.
AS complex as its human compound Of
ds!tors is the composition OF the islands
working personnel. Pretty nearly every
one knows what Coney looks like when the
Island is all dressed up for company
Hardly less interesting in an entirely diff
fercnt way, is the island in the early morn
ing, before visitors are expected
During visiting hours at the island you
can now see at one place or another about
as many different kinds of peoples OF the
earth as one would find at any big national
exposition, all in native costumes. Es-
kiro.. Indians, Igorrotes. Hindus. Fill
rinos, Fits. Japanese, Chinese, dwarfs,
giants. representatives Of all Europe and
the East soldiers, concert hall girls In shoals.
wild animal trainers, circus performers.
museum freaks Of every description make
up most picturesque population. And
Coney's old guard Of frankfurter vendors
Is everywhere.
No place on earth perhaps oan show moro
complications Of human interest In any
twenty-four hours than Coney. The Is
land police station and hospital are busier
during the summer than any two like in
situations in the biggest cities are during an
entire year.
Romance, heroism, self-sacrifice, mar
rage, divorce, death are daily elements OF
the islands news, the logical hotsam OF a
people day come for folly.
To the observer caring for Impressions
odd, Coney is a Mecca, especially Coney
In dishatile. Not al is gold that gitters
at Coney, For instance:
Yesterday morning a tall, lean, sum
drowned man in the trousers Of Turk
the burnoose Of a Moroccan with the cast
OF face Of a sheik led camel along the curb
way of Surf avenue. Beside the man a
little woman, in an Arabian aba, sandals
and loose diaphanous skirt, trotted COM
Ilacently, sunbrowned also like the man.
The camel the sandals, the burnoose, the
eta and the tanned faces Of the man and
woman at once shot the Imagination far
across strange seas to distant lands whence
IN" couple must have journeyed before
reaching Coney.
Then the man said to the woman in
of'gue not to be put into type: .m
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OWN LANGUAGE

a while, and many Of them came baoA
into the cabin while was there and ate
the bread threw within their reach.
"Of the rodents, those fondest OF human
company are the poroupine and It's relative.
the Cuban rat, or iuta. One OF the latter
crawled into my pocket and followed mo
about like dog
AT the Bronx Zoo we had an Asiatio
poroupine so tame that 1t was allowed
to run at large. 1t sought to pick
fight with a peccary confined within an en-
closure. The porcupine raised his quilts
and backed UP to the wire fence by way OF
challenge, but the peccary oontented him.
self with crashing his teeth.
-Of course, the anthropoid mammals
show the most nearly human characteris-
tics as pets. While was one OF the cura-
tors at the New York Geological grounds,
before everything was ready for the open-
ing, we had three or orang-utaus tom.
porarily In the same building which
occupied.
Late one night the temperature fell TO
point dangerous for the orangs, 30 giving
the other two an extra blanket, took tho
most delicate ono to bed with mel may
remark that they had regular baths. For
some time no sat up trying to catch tho
shadows cast by the night lamp. felt my
eJoballs and stroked my hair.
.He laid himself down whom I admon.
ished him little sharply to keep still, but I
had not been doing long when was again
disturbed. He was sitting on the wash.
stand and In his frightened obedience to my
sharper command upset the water pitcher
over both Of us and put out tho light 10
climbed up my legs, hung around my neck
and cried like a child while l replaced the
drenohed bedding.
"A Japanese bear when first brought to
Tho Bronx was 80 unpleasant that ono
could not get near him, but finally became
so we'll acquainted that he would watch for
my coming, and at sight Of me would como
tearing down the rocks for the meeting. :.
Then he would wrestle and play and
tenderly bite with such enthusiasm that
people thought l was being killed: had
to tickle his ribs to escape from his atten.
tions-he couldn't stand that.
All the animals Of the mammal depart
ment were always glad to see me and sorry
to have me leave. There was a little coyote
that would howl every time initiated his
cry, whereupon the whole pack Of coyotes
and wolves would join in chorus.
Il found much amusement in doing this
while bringing friends through the dark
woods at night. Their haste to get into
the open was keenly entertaining
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The BiggestEIephant Tusks Ever Found
One of Them Made Load for -Four Men-New York Has Relic ct
Notable Central African Monster

This is picture Of one Of the two largest
tusks that ever came into the ivory trade.
Both came from the same animal.
The specimen here supported by four
ivory carriers weighs 247 pounds. Think
OF carrying around to very venerable
age a weight of nearly 500 pounds in tusks
alone! No wonder that an elephants
neck is so thick and muscular.
One day about eight years ago party
OF black elephant hunters on slope of
Mount Kilimanjaro saw the animal that
Was carrying these wonderful tusks around
and killed it. The villagers down below
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that was more than a one-man load
The tusks were taken to Zanzibar where
they were the talk Of the town. The bid
ding for them was spirited. and naturally
enough they were purchased for the Ameri-
can trade. Both of them came to New
York, but one crossed the ocean again and
is now in the British Museum.
The agent Of Berlin Museum arrived In
Zanzibar few days after the tusks had been
shipped and was greatly chagrined because
one of them had not been purchased for
him. He had left sum Of money there
with instructions that if anything unique
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birds Is wonderful. With q little pains
any one can get them to come into the
house and often to feed from the hand
IL dish OF water be set on the lawn in the
summer they will come and battle in it.
Robins and catbirds will come quite
close II given cherries or strawberries.
Seeds and breadcrums will attract spar
rows, and in short time they will
become 80 tame as to eat from your hand
By placing nut kernels on the window sill
in winter ohickadees and nut matches can
be brought into the room.
Ono summer at home taught a wren
to eat from pole which held near him.
That he did not forget the training while
away for the winter was shown by his
readiness to do 1t at once the following
season.
Then inside OF two weeks I induced
him. while sitting on clothes line, to take
q worm from my fingers. By holding a
camera In the other hand I managed to
get several photographs Of this perform
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invested in buildings can be protected in
this way. Coneys last big fire two years
ago cleaned out about ten OF the islands
biggest business men. Most OF these have
gone about the work OF reconstructing their
fortunes.
Any one Of the islands biggest money
powers may be met almost any day along
the walks or on the main avenue in shirt
sleeves and hatless, too, for that matter.
The other day two men were noticed who
together could produce million dollars.
One of them, in the seediest old clothes
imaginable. was pegging away with ham
mer and nails at an old shed he was build
ing and the other. almost equally seedy
in costume, with lighted candle in hand
in the darkness of tho cellar under big
dance hall and restaurant he conducts was
overhauling crates of eggs.
Many of the islands merchants in the
late fall, after Coney's season is over, HE to
the South for the winter. Many others
retire to houses they own at the island,
rarely appearing in public again until the
temperance of the crocus.
Conveys hospital is a great training ground
for young physicians and surgeons. One
sees more kinds of bodily injuries in the
Emergency Hospital in one week than in
long experience at an ordinary hospital.
| One man lowering etween life and death
from the bite of RATHER; another clawed
| by tiger; n third pounded unconscious
by an elephant. innumerahle victims of
cranal fractures from assault; railroad
victims pitiably mangled: men and women
poisoned by gas and opium; all stages of
alcoholic aftermaths; victims OF shooting
and stabbing, victims of runaways and
autos were among the cases treated there
in seven days last year.
An institution of Coney that is fostered
with n great deal of interest by resident
islanders is the Coney Island Rescue Home.
In this sem-hotel of about forty rooms are
harbored hayward girls found at Coney
Island who show disposition to reform.
The home is maintained almost entirely by
the business men of Coney Island and does
much real good in a quiet way
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Indians XIII whales with Lances.

Tacoma correspondence Los Angelica Times.
The tug Wyadda has arrived at Neah Bay
with a whale captured yesterday ten miles
OF Flattery by six canoeloads of Nea Bay In.
dams When the Wyadda reached the In
dians they were killing the monster with
lances.
Another tugboat had been lying by during
the chase. which was long one Members
OF the crew state that it WAS most inter
esting sight to watch the maneuvers OF the
Indians and the great dexterity with which
they handled their frail craft In the nasty sea.
several canoes being fastened to the whale;
The leviathans wild plunges all but swamped
thom
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Accide nt Makes His Legs Even.

From The Somerset Herald
The injury sustained last week by Ralph
Knepper in a runaway will probably prove,
to be blessing in disguise.
When Knepper years old he fell
under a wagon and his right leg was crushed.
When he recovered the right leg was an inch ,c
runaway last week Knepper's left leg was
broken. The physician states that when
the bone mends the leg will be the same
length as the other one. '!'
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were mi oh asst n shed when they saw for
men carrying the ivory down the noun
tain They hal never seen tu'k before
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HE Protection.

HIS PrOIcSslOn.
Mrs. Glvcm--Dut you were here only last Wcdnes
day.
Weary wrly-Ycsm. thcm's my days. wedne s.
day and Saturday: I'm a matinee idle.