The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-01-21
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1uUuS u ulPtC LAC 6nAP III WHICH
Robert e. Peary will again seek the
North Pole. The Club has had sub
scribed, principally from its W mem
bership about s55 900, and in order
to avoid delay has assumed the res
possibility of contracting for. and is
tional strength and powerful engines,
to be completed about March LIST.
1905 This ship is the first ever con-
%structed in this country for Arctic
discovery. Additional funds to the
amount of $1,000 0 are necessary for
equipment of the expedition
Among New York's residents none
is more distinguished by birth than
a middle aged woman who in her
own country would be entitled to the
rank of a Princess. She is the wife
of a physician in this city and many
of her acquaintances have no idea
the dignities she might claim in her
native land. She rarely refers to them
herself n has mad no effort to
attract herself the center of al admir-
ing circle. attracted merely by her
own charm of character. Yet in Rus
STA h ranked among the oldest fam
lilies of the nobility.
amount of restitution in New York
this winter are denied by officers of
the Charity Organization Society.
They say that they are taking car
of about 10 or Is per cent more per-
sons than they did at this season last
year. but this increase is not due to
the fact that there Are more unem-
ployed. but is because OF a consider
able increase this yea in pneumonia
and kindred diseases. Altogether, they
say conditions are not to be compared
with those of the winter of 1893.
There is one curfew sounded in
New York that is obeyed TO the let
ter. That is the policeman's whistle
at 10 O'Clock at the skating ponds
in Central Park. At the first blast
skates are off, and the clocks are
hardly through sounding the hour
before the ice is clear. To the skat-
ers 10 O'Clock seems early to n
their enjoyment. but the police ire
firm and dispense the crowd quickly.
In a certain downtown restaurant
a grizzled old man with traces of
faded gentility can be found lunch
ing every day. His usual dish is stew
ed tripe or something equally UMPIRE
tentious. But he seems scarcely con
scious of what he is eating. In his left
hand he always has a little red book
which he reads with the most devot-
ed attention. The book is a treatise
on the art of dining. 1t is illustrated
with alluring pictures of the o
succulent dishes known to gastrono-
needy man gloats, oblivious of stew
ed tripe, Is cents"
The reported intention of w. R.
Hearst to run for nay on a labor
ticket is causing much concern in
Tammany Hall. Mr.. Hearst's purpose
not to support Mayor Mcclellan If the
latter be renominated is evidenced
by the attitude of the Hearst papers
which with pen and pencil are al
most daily caricaturing n anathe
matizing the mayor. What is most
foo rod &c that Mr. HnorQr will mako
a campaign for mayor on lines SINH
lar to his fight for the Presidential
nomination. He would make things
exceedingly interesting for Tamma-
ny If he would spend a quarter as
much money in his m~ayoralty cam
paign as he did wheA a Presidential
candidate.
A musical prodigy has recently re-
turned to New Yorf, but even the
persons who Used to speak so much
of his talents rarely hear of him now.
He was born in New Yor of foreign
parents and brought to the attention
his great talent and set out to edu-
cate him. The instructor introduced
the boy to some wealthy lovers of
music, who declared that he must be
sent to European teachers. In vain
his teacher protested that he was
not yet in a state to be tent away
| He went. however, with the fund his
| wealthy admirers had raised. That
happened three years ago. n after
| struggles with various European tea
cheers he is back in New York But
of the career that he once promised
To have NOT a word is heard Even