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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

His father declined to expend any
money on his education, and, finally,
when the boy was seventeen and thor
oughly disheartened. he left home and
went to work for a bank at $500 per
annum. When his salary reached SIG
a week he married Maria Louise Kis-
sam, the daughter of a Brooklyn min
lister. The commodore did not approve
of the match and declared that he
would never do anything for William.
For twenty years he kept his word, his
son in the meantime working faithfully
and prospecting moderately. Then the
crusty parent began to relent and gave
his son a seventy acre farm on Staten
Island
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

looking after the welfare of the guests
horses.
Shortly afterward Mr.. Gibbons. Cor
nelius' New York patron, began to CD
crate a steamboat line between New
York and New Brunswick, and he
made young Vanderbilt captain of the
first boat. In the course of time Glib
bons withdrew from the business and
Vanderbilt continued it on his own ac-
count. He branched out gradually,
establishing steamboat lines on the
Hudson and also on Long Island sound
and eventually going into the coast
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

rather a big job for a boy. Cornelius
was equal to it. however. He origi-
mated a blowing competition among the
neighboring boys which engendered an
enthusiasm that would have completed
an even greater task, and they did
his work within the prescribed time.
Mrs. Vanderbilt fulfilled her part of
the bargain. and Cornelius became
master OF the boat, with which he
established a ferry with regular sail
ings between Staten Island and New
York.
The first year the young ferryman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

ma railroad connecting the two. Later
Vanderbilt returned to the Nicaragua
scheme Of reaching the Pacific. using
the San Juan river and Lake Nicara-
qua to cross the isthmus.
This enterprise was enormously prof
liable. Before he retired from the
isthnlan trade Vanderbilt had made
over 100000. In the meantime the
Vanderbilts had removed to New York
city. Mrs. Vanderbilt did not find city
life congenial and the commodore built
a house on Staten Island, in which they
lived for several years. Later. how
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

cia1 masters, for her father saw that
she did not inherit his love Of study,
and he determined to cultivate such
talent as she developed to its fullest
extent. She manifested a capacity to
acquire modern languages, and the best
Of masters were provided. She became
an excellent German and French schol-
ar and is also an accomplished mu-
sician-
Miss Roosevelt spent the larger part
Of her girlhood days in Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

Alice Roosevelt was born Feb. 9.
1884, and the date of her birth was
also that of the death of her mother
and of her paternal grandmother, who
was Martha Bullock of Georgia. Be
fore Alice was old enough to realize
her loss her father married again, and
the new mother saw to it that the lit
tie girl never had a bitter awakening
The child was educated at home by a
governess who had taught her mother,
and when she was older she had spe-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

IN HERE have been few
81 !. !. 8" !" !. 81 !. !. ].
HC2 young women in
E ~ America, or for that
E4HH ~ matter in any other
IWA country, who have re-
Hen "A ~ ceived so much news
Ft-f ASaFB6 GISf paper attention as has
al Miss Alice Roosevelt.
Since the day when
the distinction Of being a young lady
occupant OF the White House became
hers public interest in her has never
for moment wavered. Her recent
tour to the Philippines as a member of
Secretary Taft's investigating party
has contributed literally to the jour
nalist's opportunity. and he has not
neglected it.
From the first all the world has been
looking to Alice Roosevelt for a ro-
nance. Thus far this capable young
woman has held herself in hand as
firmly and as steadily as she might
pair OF spirited horses and has driven
her social chariot down the line with
all the composure and unaffected grace
of a mistress of the reins. She cannot
dance, drive or ride with young man
twice in succession without seeing her
engagement announced in the morning
papers. Yet although she has danced.
walked and driven with scores Of mar
riageable young men and has been
dattered, courted and admired to a de-
gree that might have turned the head
of many another less capable young
woman she has moved serenely on,
whole Of heart and free from "entan-
Cling alliances" unless, indeed, the re-
ports which persist in Affirming that
Congressman Nicholas LOngworth of
rl..r- fgs
Tier during the eastern tour, is the
happy man should prove to be correct
For thirty years previous to the
Roosevelt administration no family
with a daughter old enough to enter
society had occupied the White House.
The Grants had been the last, and
when the Roosevelts became the ten
ants of the big national mansion the
society of the capital girded its loins
and made ready for a new social ex-
uerience. AS it happened the young
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

most commonly used modern Ian
guages and, above all, positive gift
for conversation OF the sort that
sparlIles at the polygIot White House
receptions From the first she was a
success and a credit to the reputation
which the American girl has appro-
priaUed-she was interesting. She was
also natural and free from self con-
seriousness, and she has never been ac-
eused OF any attempt at coauettish-
ness.
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REPRESENTATIVE LoNewoRTH.

debutante was peculiarly qualified for
the position she was called upon so
suddenlyto assume. She was very youth
ful-not yet eighteen-but if her future
could have been foreseen she could not
have received more suitable prepara-
ton for it. She had never shown a
fondness for the life of a student, but
she had always been a willing recipient
Of all the knowledge which is so es-
sential in the capitals social atmos-
phere-a speaking familiarity with the
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| WILLIAld 6. NANDERBHI. 81.

cleared $1,000, which was doing re-
markedly well in those days. When
he was eighteen he owned two boats,
was captain Of a third and was worth
$4,000 quite a fortune in 1912. That
was the year of the war with England
and young Vanderbilt made consider
able by carrying government supplies
between New York and the forts at
the Narrows. He had done so we'll that
he began to think of settling down, and
when he was nineteen he married So
phia Johnson, a young woman whom
he had admired greatly for some time
Fortune favored him. One stormy
night he closed his ferry on account of
the rough water and went into the
nearby tavern to get a little refresh
ment. There he met James Glib
bOns, a wealthy trader, who was so
anxious to be ferried across to New
York that he was willing to take any
chance and pay almost any fee. Van
derbilt was attracted by the prospect
and finally agreed to make the trial.
although he felt doubtful as to the re-
suit. After Z. terrific struggle with
the wind and waves the venturesome
bOatman and his equally reckless pas
senger made the New York shore. Glib
bons was SO pleased with the young
ferryman that he invited him to visit
him and presented him with a new
oyster smack.
So Cornelius went into the oyster
business. His wife was a famous
cook, and it occurred to him that it
was mere selishness on his part to
monopolize the product of her industry.
SO he leased a hotel at New Brunswick,
then famous stopover point for tray
elers between New York and Phila-
delphia, and installed her therein as
hostess. This double industry throve
admirably. Cornelius peddled she'll
fish, which he brought in boat loads
from Perth Anboy, and his wife proved
herself abundantly able to manage the
tavern, even to tending the bar and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

HE Vanderbilts have
been building the
family fortune for
about a hundred
years. The Roth
schilds-long the syn
onym of wealth be-
yond computation and
the word which has
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the rest. In the denssly crowded dis
tricts Of the town Protestant gains are
inSigniit ant, and not unnaturally.
The great purpose Of this Episcopal
labor association is to overcome that
present disadvantage by. taking sides
with the working people specifically. It's
organ seems 20 squirt favorably at
municipal ownership. Organized labor,
said Miss KEYsER in a speech at Chicago,
is looking 10 the Church for some or
ganized effort in behalf OF labor In
her speech at the dinner on Tuesday
evening she went 30 far in this effort as
10 criticize the decision Of the Federal
Supreme Court against the constitu-
tionality Of the law for ten hours day
for bakers, and 80 far as TO satirize
President ELIOT of Harvard University
for his views about labor organizations.
1t may be said to be a field Of contro-
versial discussion into which the en-
trance Of feminine passion and oognate
clerical sentimentality are not likely to
prove helpful TO any valuable decision.
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in Wabash avenue Is painted by an artist
OF the Chicago Tribune, a young gentle
man who seems 10 have pondered pro-
foundly the splsndorS and miseries Of
fats:
-ur. sroSu now can nesss his fse, In carpet
srppers and read before . real fireplace on cool
nights. He will not have 10 put up with the apollo.
rlss for nrsplaoes. consisting Of mirror and Ess
lor, such a. modern hsts ohsT. II isa whole house
that Mr.. sroxH lives In. Ne does no, have 10 listen
TO the young lady studying music a. she prao
tlses IN the Ca. above. He doesn't have 10 bother
abou, .jsnitors, freight elevators and the other
,ppurenanoss Of aAtAnd. he d now king In his
own castle.
A whole house has still a meaning
in Chicago. That always interesting
capital has most things. II II hasn't
il orders them. There are still houses in
Brooklyn. Hohokus is a little paradise
OF houses, individual vines and fig trees.
But can this Manhattan even remember
the individual, as distinguished from the
communal, home? In a year some
thirty houses more properly palaces
or public monuments, are built here
The state Of mind OF Mr., STONE OF Chi
cago is scarcely Ineligible in Man
haitian
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07
Work for the vice-Presideut.

Vice-President FAIRBANKS stood in
the White House Friday in the room Of
the President and received officially
the delegates 20 the International Rail-
way Congress The reception was car
ried out in every way as though Mr.
ROOSEVELT had been present. Mr.
FAIRBANKS grasped the hands Of the
transportation experts as they passed
In review before him, spoke 10 each q
word Of welcome, and, unquestlonably
performed the duties delegated 10 him
with dignity and courtesy.
1t was at President RoosEvELr's sug-
gestion that Mr.. FAIRBANKS took his
place in the White House for the day,
and the proceeding was unusual, II
not really unprecedented. Il was, how.
ever, an eminently sensible deviation
from custom The Vice-Presidential
Office is 90 difficult TO fill because its
occupant has little or nothing to do.
Speaker CANNON said that IL he were
elected Vice-President he would call the
Senate to order, appoint private secre-
! tary, and then retire 70 Danville for the
| four years Of his term. Presiding over
the Senate is far different business from
presiding over the House. The Senators
conduct their deliberations as they please.
The Representatives do as the Speaker
and the Committee on Rules want.
Thus, while the importance and honor
of the office of Vice-President have
never been lost to sight, its occupants
have found it hard to put themselves
In proper and useful relation with the
official life Of the nation. II the sug-
gestion contained in Mr.. ROosEvELT's
scheme is cultivated however, tho Vice
President. may take upon his shoulders
many semi-publio duties which even the
most willing Of Presidents finds no time
TO perform. To Mr.. FAIRBANKS, whose
ambition for 1908 is we'll known, such an
arrangement could not be distasteful, for
1t would afford hin many opportunities
to increase his popularity with the pub
lie to which he appeals for encourage
ment and support.
II, however, the duties Of the Vice
President we're thus materially increased
it would be not only proper, but emf
nently reasonable, TO increase the COM
pensation provided for him. And this
should be done by the Fifty-ninth
Congress in the bill which it passes in
creasing the salary OF the President Of
the United States to $4,000 a year
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that nearly two-thirds Of the students
in the free college over which Dr. FIN
LEY presides 80 ably are Of the Jewish
race. Graduating from there they have
entered and are entering largely into
every learned profession and into all
departments Of trade and finance. One
Of the recent examiners OF applicants
for admission to the New York bar
a Christian, says that those who
best stood the test were eight jewish
women from apparently humble social
surroundings. This is very remarkable
in view Of the fact that at the beginning
Of the last century there were in New
York only one Jewish lawyer, SAMPSON
sMsoN, and one physician, DR.. JOEL
HART, and that only within the last fifty
years, and more particularly the last
twenty-five years, has the appearance
OF Jews in the professions become con-
siderable. Now II Is probable that no
other race makes 30 large a contribu-
ton TO them, proportionally. More
over, that element in the population il
increasing rapidly. DR.. WALTER LAID
LAW, remarkable as a Christian expert
in the sociological statistics Of New York
especially, predicted at a Jewish meet
ing last week, presided over by Jewess,
that by 1920 there will be one million
and a quarter Jews in New York; and
perhaps the estimate might safely be
increased TO a million and a half, or
twice as many as are here now.
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IniunCtion and Flat.

Government by injunction has had a
new triumph. Domestic government,
which has seemed TO be breaking down
has been set on its feet again by memoir
able example, This great and happy
double rose Of events blossomed in Chi
cago, where most things happen.
Mr.. ABRAM l.. STONE, real estate owner
and dealer, lived with his wife and
daughter at s149 Wabash avenue. Lived
In a comfortable old fashioned house,
entirely 20 his taste, good enough for
him A three story house high ceilinged,
rich in freplaces, full Of agreeable cor
ners. Home Is home. be 1t ever so COM
Portable, and the fact If fact il be- that
Wabash avenue Is not illuminated with
all the social splendors was rather cheer
Ing than otherwise to the owner OF Sl4s.
Tastes differ, and he is able 10 be happy
In a street where there ia no continual
swift funeral procession Of devil wagons,
where the horn Of those waRgish man
hunters Is not heard, where elderly gen.
tlemen with a certain tendency 10 deaf
ness and 10 weakness Of heart are not
the butt OF hanson drivers, where miles
OF fat and superior ooaohmen, footmen
OF ample shank or cherubio and diamond
edition tigers do not remind the man Of
moderate means Of the insolenoe Of
plutocracy.
The women folks Of the family didn't
agree with the simple ArcRdian notions
OF Mr.. STONE. It was the privilege OF
the ladies TO dissent. When they do the
dissenting opinion is almost invariably
sustained, so ohivalrous and 80 much
the slaves Of petticoats are American
men. In this case the ladies wanted to
move into fashionable fiat or apart
ment, in Michigan avenue, that Bel
Rravia, Mayfair and heaven within
heaven Of Chicago. According 70 a re-
port in the Chicago Tribune, Mrs. STONE
had attended women's clubs and had
heard Of the advantages Of living In a
fashionable fat At womans club all
good things may be learned. 1t seems
likely, however, that not the woman's
club, but maternal affection and ambi-
ton moved the lady toward moving:
-sbs said the young daughter was 70 be soa-
sidersd.-
Our young ladies must be launched
from the right social yard. Old folks
must give way TO young folks. Each
generation must be sacrificed 70 the
next. SO Mrs. STONE selected beau
tiful apartment with a gas stove and a
telephone and an outlook on Michigan
avenue Mr.. STONE went 20 his law
yer. The man Of parchment we'll and
truly drafted a bill asking for a writ OF
injunction TO prevent Mrs. STONE from
moving and depriving Mr.. sToSR OF
all the comforts Of home. A master in
ohanosry promptly advised that this
injunction ne Great domo should issue
against the lady. who should not A
learned Judge granted the injunction.
This felicity q our Conservative friend
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07
American EmiEraats 70 western CAnadA.

Wtnuipeg eofftsp0ndfHoe Jofonfo heut
Hitherto the grcat bulk Of the innuH frsm the
United states has been from along the niernAo nbl
boundary and the greGt central State. but now
settlers are preparing 70 hook IN 10 our West from
all pATts OF the republic 70 the south The bulk
OF the newcomer thIs year will probably continue
20 be from the great wheat and corn States, but
the Past, South and West will contribute . greater
share than hitherto. and the proportion bids fAlr
10 Increase In the future
New sottlen Will be arriving this season nom
far on States, such a. the CarolinAs and TeKAs,
but the most prominent new district from which
people are beginning 70 move west h the New
England States, which fact has recently moved
the government az Ottawa 70 appoint special AGENTS
a. Boston and PittsburT. Tho Immigration from
the United StAtet hts increased from 1900 IN
tpOoi 70 5000 In 1904. and the indications are
that the nGuret for the present year viii far exceed
past records.
The rsportt that these people send home 70 their
relatives and friends are the bet Inducements
70 bring along more and more newcomer: and
this h vhA, daily occurring, until has become
difncult 70 estimate the proportions Of thh mighty
army Of our American cousins which In the neHt
few yeAu VIII move across The border 70 thh greatsr
America Of ouu.
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The Free City College.

On Friday a celebration Of the founda-
ton Of the College Of the City Of New
York, or more strictly Of the Free Acad-
envy from which it developed, took place
IN the present insufficient building Of the
institution at Lexington avenue and
Twenty-third street The college win re-
move thence on the completion Of its new
and extensive structure at lSSth street,
or probably before this year closes
In lS46, when the Board OF Education
at the suggestion OF hs president, Town
SEND HARRIS, appointed a committee
with reference 20 the establishment Of
a free high school in New York, the total
number Of students in the only two ex-
isting colleges Of the town was PAS. Now
the College OF the City Of New York, de-
veloped from that beginning, has on its
single roll SPAS students, though its
establishment as a college distinctively
goes back only TO 1865. Moreover, since
its present president, DR.. JOHN HUSTON
FINLEY, entered upon his duties in 1908
the institution has advanced scholasti-
cally TO a much higher place than any 10
which it had attained heretofore. In its
new and spacious home the advance
ment is likely 10 be even more rapid. A
college bearing the name OF the city Of
New York and deserving Of the support
Of its.municipal treasury ought to rank
with the highest American institutions
Of learning.
II is notable, as indicative Of the in
oreasing Jewish population Of New York
and Of the zeal Of that race in taking
advantage Of educational opportunities,
that Of the 3,245 students now enrolled
in this free college, about 90 per cent.
afs Jews, though Of the whole number
Of inhabitants OF the town that race
forms less than fifth, and in Manhattan
borough specifically, about a quarter.
In the yublic schools generally, as we
have before pointed out, Jews furnish
more pupils proportionately than any
other race, and they form an important
part Of the stan Of teachers under the
Board Of Education. They are also
numbered by thousands in the Normal
College and the various departments
Of Columbia University and the Uni
Versityof the City q New York.
HkA.AIeUA lgRiaeaat. SiEosnstAnce
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07
No Longer Secrecy in Technical work.
From De EnetassriHc Rteord,

THOSE who have been reading ths technical
journals Of the leading Industrial countries during
the past winter must have been impressed BY the
unusual publicity Eiyen 70 methods OF production
and the detailed design Of apparatus St In course
Of development. II would seem a. though the old
policy OF secrecy In such matters had largely dis
appeared. Not only have works formerly forbid
den even 70 large customers been thrown open 70
the Inspection Of properly credited visitors, but
technical processes stin inoomplstely developed
have been described IN papers before scientific
societies. The spirit Of she tciehilhe Investigator
has possessed the engineering word during the last
sl1 months. and progress has been oorrcspondlnEly
rapid.
IL has been generally recognized for some years
that the day Of secrecy In business was past, but
the publicity Of late has nevertheless been sur
pr1EnH,
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IMPORTANT KEG QUESTION.
Has Art Yet Produced the Tws~GAilon
KeE for Election PurpOSeSf


To TEE PDIToR or THR sUN-Sir: Am up
against Il again and am coming to you again
70 help me out. Tho other night the boys
got hold Of a political story in one Of otT
literary publications and were having quite a
time Over II, I'LL ] put In and sort Of cooled
them on,
II was all about carrying Northwest
constituency with q two-Ballon keE OF rum
When the political managers had about given
up hopes Of carrying that election for their
party, because Of the loss OF supposed loss
Of the votes Of settlement Of h r-breeds.
just then. however. along came one Of those
Western chaps who knows everybody and Is
known and liked by everybody. He said he
thou ght he could hold that vote n he had a
two gallon keR OF rum that somebody had
found after Il had been buried about city
years.
He got the rum, and Oh he started with the
keE strapped 10 his saddle. just here II was
my turn. for / could not see how that key
was 20 be strapped 10 a saddle 80 as to ht the
backbone Of the horse or the ba ckbone Of
the rider with any sort OF comfort during a
ninety-mlle journey. This mentioned. but
they had me fast enough. for the story was
illustrated, and there the keE was strapped
20 the saddle and aeemingiy fitting as nicely
IS though itS surface had been following
The sTtist had got the keE on the horse
fast enough, but there was another thing
about the story that ] couldn't understand.
and which didn't believe even an artist
could nT, and that was the sire Of the key
The story teller said IL was two gallons but
that / had 20 doubt for had never before
heard OF two:gillon key. The sizes for
Nauor kegs are five gallons, ten gallons and
twenty gallons. and there is no other. When
liquor Il 70 be carried in smaller quantities
than hve FAllons II goes in a jug. / could
easily understand how that election could
have been influenced with a two-EAllon Jug
Of rum, but not with q two gallon key,
When ] told this 70 the boys had them IN
a tight place, for none Of them had ever heard
OF a two gallon key, However, they did not
rve In that their fayorte story teller had
been caught putting bic rum IN key whom
he should have put II in n Jug and would not
they said, untn they hsd something more
substantial 20 rely upon han their own opin-
ions against his, and 30 10 vas left till such
time az We can hear from you.
Kindly make inquiries and let Us know,
You can easily find out from a tight barrel
cooper whether or not a two gallon keR Is
ever made, think not
TItsoNBvRo. Ont. May !.