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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-01-07
Notice.

The regular annual meeting OIL
the Stockholders of the Merchants
National Bank of Brownsville, Tex
as, will be held at its banking house
on Tuesday, January 10Th, 1905
at ) p. m. for the election of Direc-
tors and the transaction of such
other business as may properly
come before the meeting.
]. G.. FERNANDEZ, Cashier
I2-S-1-9.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-01-07
- Monsr - prima ponnas.

Singing for monographs seems to
be as high paid musical exercise as
there is. A photograph company
has offered a prima donna who sings
at the Metropolitan Opera House
this winter $4,000 for four songs
that is, $4,000 as soon as the songs
are sung and $1,000 a year for four
years as a reward for not singing
into any other machine. Great and
many are the means Of income Of a
goddess of grand opera. She could
live splendidly on what she can get
for using a pill, perfume, a piano
or a phonograph.-Chicago Journal.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-01-07

EVERY part Of the Brownsville
section is susceptible Of a high state
Of cultivation, and the man who
will do his part toward tickling the
soil viii be rewarded many times
over.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-01-07
One tsunsrsd sns Fifty MiIs. az H0ur.

1t is expected to reach speed Of
80 miles an hour in the new tests
which viii be made on the high
speed electric line near Berlin. It
will be remembered that the last ex-
periments which were made on the
specially laid track from Berlin MA
rienfeld) 70 Zossen resulted in q
speed of over 100 miles an hour.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-01-07

CONE to Brownsville and plant
a lemon and orange grove. In FIVE
years you will be independently
rich
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-01-07

This advertisement appeared the
other day in the London Express:
sonny-Come home Immediately. Fa-
Their stil unemployed and imbccile. We
are trying 70 get him into the war once.
MOTHER.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-01-07

Here are some autograph verses:
May your path be strewn with roses
And your children have pug noses.
May YOU live long and happy be.
Blessed with little brats one. two and
three.
Think 81 me long.
Think of me ever.
Think o. the fun we've had together.
Poor Ink. poor pen. poor writing. amen.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-01-07
JAMESB. WELLS
attorney
at Law.

successor TO Powers & Maxan,
Powers & Wells, Wells & Rentfro
Wells, Rentfro & Hicks, Wells &
Hicks, Wells, Stayton & Xlehe-S.
I buy and sell Real Estate and
investigate land titles. A complete
abstract Of ali titles Of record in
Cameron County, Texas.
Practice in all state and federal
courts, when especially employed.
Land Litigation and corporation
practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30

ical attention, and naturally, since he can
well afford 1t, Mr.. Aston has established an
automobile repair shop on his place. To be
strictly exact, he has, rather, added to his
already extensive machine shop all the ap-
planes needed to make it complete and
perfect for the doctoring up of broken and
otherwise disordered autos.
This includes "a pit exactly like the pit
in a locomotive repair shop, only smaller,
over which a. railroad engine is run when
it is necessary for the workmen to get I'M
der one of the mighty machines to fix 1t
up. Over the pit in John Jacobs machine
shop there is a crane much like the electric
crane in the big steel works, by which a
damaged automobile may be lifted bodily
from the floor and swung to some other
part of the shop.
John Jacobs machine shop-an earlier fad
of his than the automoble-has been ex-
plotted before. 1t was in this shop that
he built the machinery for his electric
launch a few years ago, said to be the first
craft of its type that ever plowed the
waters of the Hudson. 1t was here, too,
that he made all the experiments which led
to his several inventions, the patents OF
which were some time ago made free to all
who desired to profit by them.
The shops keep several men busy the
year around. John Jacob himself frequent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30

The loss of country where tobacco grows"
In this country, as above stated, the signs
where the Indian and the darby, mostly
the former, often holding tobacco leaf, box
of cigars or box of snuff, and to some eX-
tent these are used today. While the snuff
has almost disappeared yet the habit OF
rubbing snuff on the teeth, especially by
fe males, survives. The tobacco soon after
its introduction in England, besides being
used for smoking and chewing purposes,
was snuffed into the nose, the custom OF
sruffers being to carry boxes or the stems
and rasp them on the sides of the box to
a powder and snuff 1t; hence the name
rappee. In America. however, we had no
such boxes, the powder being prepared
ready for the nostril.
The umbrella and parasol maker differed
in this country from his fellow craftsman
in the old country in using for his sign a
tripartite umbrella colored red, white and
blue, instead of one of red and white only.
The business of making such articles is
not a very ancient one. Their use in the
mother country and the fashion and GUS
tom of carrying them for protection were
introduced in the days of Queen Anne.
Prior to that time ladies sought protec-
ton from rain under the cloaks of their
escorts There were, as may be fmaginer,
but few makers of such articles here, the
first in Washington being Peirce, who was
located on Pennsylvania avenue near 18th
street.
Our tavern and hotel signs were not of
such variety as those in other countries.
The Metropolitan Hotel was first known as
the Indian Queen, and a large inquire OF an
Indian queen stood near the door. Nearly
all the others wore swinging signs. most
of them bearing only the names of house
and proprietor. The two or three steam
boat hotels had the typical boats swaying
in the wind; the many bearing the name
OF Union wore the colors clasped hands
There were "Cross-keys," Hand in Hand
and other emblems to be found in this city
bu. none of them appealed to any par
ticular trade or profession.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30
CHAMBERLAIN'S RIVAL
J. j. VAN ALIEN WANTS TO BEAT
HIS ORCHID COLLECTION.



LONDON, April 20, 1905.
Joseph Chamberlain NJ P, who is re-
garded as one of the most enthusiastic
orchid cultivators in Europe is likely to
encounter a serious rival in James j. Van
Allen, the eXpatriated American Million
aire. The extensive alterations made at
Rushton Hall, the historic mansion in
Northamptonshire, which he has acquired,
have already been noted, but that he in
tended to make a hobby of horticulture
there in its most fascinating form has
heretofore been kept quiet. Recently Mr..
Van Allen visited Highbury, where ne saw
Mr.. Chamberlains famous collection of
orchids. His QUICK eye and retentlve mem
DRY enabled him to carry a diagram of
Mr. Chamberlain's scheme of cultivation
away with him. This he placed before
James Carmichael, his head gardener, Civ
ing, at the same time, instructions that
neither pains nor money was to be spared
in the effort to equal and if possible. to
surpass the Highbury display. Carmicha Ell,
who was for many years in the service of
the late Queen Victoria, has been securing
the country for the rarest specimens of
the orchid family and a few days ago sue
ceeded in obtaining what is known as a
duplicate orchid. Three separate speci-
mems cost him close on $1,000, but Car
michael did not hesitate 70 outbid all his
competitors. There are duplicate" orchids
in Mr.. Chamberlain's collection, but if Mr.
Van Aliens flourish at Rushton Hall they
VIII excel, in rarity at least anything to
be found in England
For a number of years King Edward has
had to draw upon the resources of High
bury for his supply of orchids When for
eign potentates visit the king and they
are known to favor this particular flower
a special messenger is dispatched to High
bury and a supply obtained. OF course, 1t
will be some time yet before Mr.. Van
Allen will be able to produce in any large
quantity, but he hopes soon to be in a
position to supplement Mr.. Chamberlain's
efforts in obliging the English monarch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30
MILL|ONA |RES' FADS
Pastimes INDUCED in by
Men of Great Wealth.
HOBBIESARE EXPENSIVE
JOHN ]. AsToR INTERESTED IN
COLLECTING AUTOMOBILES.
Training of Beagles and Horse Racing
Claim Harry Payne Whitney's At
tention-Other Diversions of Rich.
HOBBIESAREBXPE
Written for The Star.

Written for The Star
The wealth of the multi-milonaire who
doesn't spend lot of his money and most
of his time in the nursing of fads is likely
to increase with undue rapidity In wit
ness whereof we have the examples of the
Rockefellers, the first Gould and his son
George, Uncle Russell Sage and many
others who might be named. These get so
rich before they die that most of their fell
low mortas rise up and call them names
Just because of their over-abundant opu-
lence.
Those who keep the increase of their
wealth down to a reasonable rate by spend
ing their time on fads instead of devoting
it to the accumulation of more money, may
have more fun in life than the money grub
bers. bat in general they stand no higher in
the estimation of the rest of the world,
being condemned about as mercilessly for
their eXtravaga as the accumulators are
for their acquisitiveuess.
John D. Rockefeller IS being abused right
and left because he is piling up his mil
lions 80 rapidly, but. terrific are the
an1tEcmaS pronounced against him in some
quarters. they certainly did not exceed the
pfiiippics uttered against Mr.. and Mrs.
Bradley Martin. when, in 1898, they gave
their famous fancy dress bail. at a great
cost TO themselves ana their guests of sew
crdl hu' dycd thousand dollars
1t seems to make no difference whether he
nurses his wealth or wastes it. the man who
has piles Of gold and bundles of bonds IS
sure TO be held up Il horrible example by
the rest of us.
You might suppose that both those who
gather and those who spend would pay no
heed 10 the criticisms of those less fortu-
nate than they. but your suppositon would
be wrong. The Bradley Martins were so
cut up by what the people. the preachers
and the newspapers said about them that
they departed from America without cere-
mony and with the least possible. loss of
time, and have been residents Of England
ever since.
Instances of Sensitiveness Rare.
Instances of sensitiveness on the part Of
the spendthrfts it must be admitted. how
ever, are rarer than among the accumu-
lators- Though none of the latter has
yet been driven out of the country by ad-
verse criticism, there is plenty of evil
dence that some of them, like Rockefeller,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30
Early Days of Hats.

Hats, that is, the beaver hat. were in
troduced in the mother country from Elan
ders early in the sixteenth century and
later were manufactured by refugees from
France. The English head covering before
had been the felt hat or knit cap. Their
manufacture was first confined to Norwich
and the fashion was to adorn the beaver
with plume or ribbon. Naturally the figure
of such hat was the sign, and sometimes
beaver would be used. Both have been the
signs of the halter in this country, and such
are to be seen today, but simply the name
with the word halter is the more digniied
manner of making the hat store known.
In mother England the shears and the
three crowned needles We're used by the
tailor, while in this country seldom more
than the name with the word tailor is used.
The needles first used in England were of
foreign make, but in the sixteenth century
Spanish negro manufactured them, and
when he died his secret died with him.
However, in 1866 a German commenced
their manufactures since which time the
business has hourished 1t is supposed the
name Thread-Needle given q street in Lon
don came from tailor with the three needle
sign being there located.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30

set to make auto records en- the land his
earlier efforts being in hill climbing con-
tests
Willie X, jr is somewhat of a volunteer
fireman also, and a good one besides. Per-
haps 1t is hardly just to speak of this
branch Of his activities as a fad. Certain
y 1t IS useful thing. a little less than a
year ago, while he was sitting on the
veranda of his country house looking out
over Lake Placid and enjoying a heavy
thunder storm, he noted that a barn across
the lake had been struck by lightning
He had only recently helped form the
Hyde Park fire department and here was
a chance to show his sincerity of purpose
Hastily ordering his automobile, he dashed
away through the rain, arriving at the
scene Of the fire in plenty of time to cap
tain the bucket brigade and to help ma
terially in saving buildings adjoining the
barn
Mr.. Vanderbilt took his first practical
lesson as volunteer fireman during his
honeymoon, when his fathers Long Island
place, Idle Hours" was destroyed by fire
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30

the world. Since May. 1896 ii has made
several successful flights of about one-half
mile each. The machine weighs thirty
pounds.
Another of the Langley airships is quite
similar to the first. with the exception OF
improvements on the propeller and wings
and the third machine is model of Prof
Langley's latest invention, the airship with
which he experimental for several months
last year down the Potomac river
The Stringfellow airshlp was called the
aeroplane, and 1t was exhibited at the
Crystal Palace in London in 1868. 1t 10
notable for having the lightest engine ever
invented In proportion to its power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30
MODELS OF AIRSHIPS.
Hang From the Ceiling of the Ma
tional Museum.

Models of four airships are now sus-
pended from the ceiling in the east hall
division of technology. of the National Mu-
scum. Three of the airships are the in
ventions of Prof. Langley, secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution. and they were
placed in the hall within the past few days
The other airship is model of the inven-
ton of ]. Stringfellow of England. which
was made and tested in 1866.
One of the Langley airships is the aero
drome. which made its first successful
flight May 8, 1895. at Quantico. Va. This
aerodrome was the first engne-driven ma
chine to fly successfully In the history Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30

" dons jumper and overalls and puts in
hours at time working at one or other Of
the various benches. lathes, drills and other
machines gathered under it's roof.
A Vanderbilt's Hobbies.
Though still somewhat under the spell of
the auto. Willie X. Vanderbilt now takes
more satisfaction in its legitimate child
the autoboat. He still superintends the au-
tomobile contests, but he takes part per-
sonally in autoboat contests, and It is prob
able that he will try to make some new
water records of his own before the COM
ing season is over and past. He was one
of the first of the younger multi-millIonaire
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30
GONE INTO 0BSCUR|TY
Familiar Objects Once Seen
on City Streets.
ESPECIALLY SIC Ms
SHOEMAKING ONE OF THE OLDEST
OCCUPATIONS.
Early Days of Hats and How They
Were Advertised - Some
Other Devices.

With the momentous changes made during
the lives of many not very old citizens Ia
miliar objects have gone into obscurity. es-
pecially in the matter of signs, and the
traditions of some of the trades which came
down from master to apprentice are mostly
hazy in the minds of those familiar with
them in childhood or have passed entirely
from memory.
Few are there aware that shoemakng is
one of the Oldest. of occupations, and that
in the ruins of Herculaneum was sign of
the craft unearthed. This was an angel
with a child's shoe in each hand For some
centuries after the third the name of Girls
pin attached to the trade because of an
old legend 1t Is related that two brothers
sons of king, having embraced Christian
lty IN Rome, set out to preach the gospel
through France, and learning shoemaking,
supplied the poor with sandals, relying for
their sustenance on the angels. They were
martyred in 30S, being beheaded and their
memories were revered by the shoemakers
generally.
The name applied to the shoemaking kit
of tools in old times, ''St Hugh's Bones"
came from a legend centuries old 1t
is related that st. Hugh was the son of a
prince, and when he had grown to manhood
aspired to the hand of pious coquette
named Winifred, but was fitted by her
Then he turned from the temptations of the
court of Venice, then the gayest in Europe
anu SGT out " travel Alter numberIeSS ad-
ventures he was Shipwrecked, losing all his
possessions and barely escaping with his
life. Thus he was driven to working for
living, and taking to shOemaking learned
and followed it. He was finally martyred-
being made to drink the blood of his lady
love, in which was cold poison-and his body
was hung on the gallows as food for the
birds. St. Hugh having nothing else to
give his fellow workmen, had wiIIed them
his bones, and after they had been well
picked some shOemakers took them down
and made various tools of Them giving the
name st. Hugh's Bones to the kit
In England twas said since cobblers
and tinkcrs are the best of ale drinkers"
signs of boot, shoe and last adorned the
tavern signs. Few such signs We're seen on
public houses in this country, but there was
scarcely shoe shop which did not display
the boot or shoe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30
The Gear Described as Frivolous.
From London Truth.

From what hear from a person certainly
likely to know what happens at the Russian
court, I believe that all the stories of the
cars depression and despair are false. On
the contrary, he follows his usual avoca-
tions, and nothing that has transpired
seems to have had any effect on his spirits
This only confirms the view that never was
a man more untitled to be the autocrat
of an empire. 1t recalls the tale of Charles
II playing at hunt the slipper with the la
dies of his court when the Dutch fleet was
blockading the mouth of the Thames
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30
Two Lies Mailed.

From the Emporia Gazette.
The editor has been accused of keeping
liquor in his cellar. This is malicious and
unspeakable falsehood. The liquor Is kept
In the pantry. between the dining room
and the kitchen. Why not tell the truth?
1t is also alleged that the editor of the
Gazette has the govt. caused by high liv-
ing. Yesterday for dinner he had home
picked sourdock, mustard, dandelion,
hOrseradish and beet top greens, boiled ba-
con and potatoes, cornbread and onions.
Would You call that high living7
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30

He was awakened by the flames too late
to save the house, but he helped rouse and
rescue other inmates of the structure, and
he saved many articles of value from the
flames with his own hands His bride, born
Fair, of the famous California bonanza
family, worked as coolly and efficiently on
that occasion as her husband.
1t is one of George Gould's fads to belong
to the fire department of Lakewood, but
unlike Willie X, jr., Mr.. Gould never runs
to fire.
Whitney's Kennel of Beagles.
Harry Payne Whitney who married Ger
trude Vanderbilt, a cousin of Willie X, jr,
makes racing his most costly fad, II some
thing which in skillful hands should make
money may properly be termed fad.
His favorite pursuit, the raising and train
ing of beagles, is, however, a fad pure and
simple. Beagles fit for nothing but
exhibiting at bench shows, and the track
ing of such small game as rabbits-or
hares, as the anglo-maniacal millionaire
generally designates them. Mr.. Whitney
has a large pack of these dogs, and, since
there was little small growth or underbrush
on his Long Island place to shelter them
when he settled there, he has planted shrub
berry upon it by the acre in which the hares
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30

]. p. Morgan and others who might be
named, resent it bitterly.
Plausible reasons for their actions are
given by both sorts of millionaires. Those
of the one sort hold that as the spending
of money puts II into circulation, the rest
of the world is helped by their free-hand
edness, while those of the other sort claim
that their conservation of money enables
them to invest il in industries which give
work to thousands the payment Of whose
wages puts il into circulation quite as eff
fectively and with much happier results.
Both reasons are received by most per-
sons with tongue in cheek and winking
eye. The rich man who spends time and
money. on fddS does so solely for his
amusement and satisfaction. The one who
keeps on piling up his wealth does so for
exactly the same reason. Neither is wor
rying much about the rest of the world.
But when you get down to the facts in
the case, both kinds Of multi-milliOnaires
have their fads. For some years there
have been more automobile faddists than
those of any other type. At least half OF
the Nanderbilts are of this type, Frederick
w and mis- nephew, Cornelius. being note
worthy exceptions Willie X. jr., is per-
feet crank on autos, as every one who
READS about the big auto races must re-
member
John Jacob Astor's Costly Fad.
But the most interesting auto faddist is
the present John Jacob Astor. He doesn't
race automobiles himself though, nor does
he engineer races in which other auto en-
thusiasts take part. He just collects au-
tos. the same as James J. Hill, the victor
in the Northern Securities fight. collects
precious gems. J. PierpOnt Morgan choice
works of art and your children rare post
age stamps.
You d. not need to think twice 10 per-
ceive that the collection of automobiles is
an expensive pastime. John Jacob owns
from fifteen TO twenty of the costly ma
chimes. the largest number. they say in the
possession Of any one private individual,
and gathered together at a cost of 100000
at the least.
He houses his machines in a building on
the celebrated Rhineclffe estate, put up
originally for a carriage house and hay
barn. but now given over entirely TO his
horseess vehicles. 1t is worth while seeing
them. either ranged neatly on the floor or
paraded outside in the sunshine, their poll
ished paint and metal cleaning in the
light, and John Jacob takes great pleasure
in exhibiting them to his friends.
They Include little runabouts and big tour
Ing cars of gasoline, steam and electric pro-
pulsion-eyerything but racing cars Some
are of domestic make. some are of foreign
manufacture and whenever a strikingly
new type is brought out he adds It promptly
to the lot.
Naturally so large collection of auto
mo biles needs frequent and skilled mechau-