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Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06
BLINDS AND ROSS BOY.
Bank Messenger Loses s1,525 in
E Boldest Robbery Ever Carried
Out in Chicago.

Chicago, July 3.-"Don" Beemy, a
16-year-old messenger employed by the
grain and stock firm, Bartlett, Frazier
& Darlington, was the victim Saturday
Of one of the most daring hold-ups ever
perpetrated in the heart of the down
town business district. While the mes
senger boy was on the way from the
Corn Exchange national bank in the
Rookery building to his office with
money to pay of employees, amounting
to $1.525, he was waylaid by a high
way robber, who threw a handful of
black pepper into the boys face While
the victim was staggering blildly about
the street the robber seized the money,
fed and escaped in the crowded
streets
The victim was picked up by sympa-
thizing citizens, who had not had time
to realize what had happened He was
carried to the Office of Dr. C. Pruyn
Stringfield in the Western Union build
ing, where his eyes were bathed On
coming from the bank with the cash
passerby hurled pepper into the boys
eyes. AS the pepper began to burn his
eyes the boy shrieked in an agony of
pain and the robber rushed toward
him. In twinkling he had torn open
the boys coat and drew from it $1,525
in bills, overlooking the change which
Beemy carried in the outside pocket.
In an instant he was gone.
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06
is SECRETARY OF NAVY.
Bonaparte Of Maryland Takes Oath Of
OHce-Tracey Gets Phil
ippine Plum.

Washington, July 3.-Charles J.
Bonaparte, of Maryland, was sworn in
as secretary of the navy Saturday.
After taking the oath Mr.. Bonaparte
received in his Office, shaking hands
with each one, all the naval and ma
rine corps officers on duty at the de-
partment. Subsequently he received
the entire clerical force of the depart
ment, shaking hands with each. He
then returned to his desk and took up
the work awaiting him there.
Oyster Bay, July 3.-Judge James
F. Tracey, of Albany, n Y, was Sat
urday appointed an associate justice
of the supreme court of the Philippine
islands. Judge Tracey came to Oys-
ter Bay Saturday ana had a confer
ence with the president, at which he
accepted the appointment He is a
practicing lawyer in Albany and a
gold democrat. He will succeed on
the bench of the Philippine supreme
court Judge McDonough, Of Albany,
whose term Of one year has expired
and who has returned to this country.
Judge Tracey will go to the Philip
pines probably about September l.
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06

open, free-fghting ways of the Bowery
when it was an Irish street are gone,
and for the worse. Modern methods
are more to the knife and the pistol.
| suppose that people who have read
the realistic stories of Chuck Con-
nors," the self-styled white mayor Of
Chinatown, imagine him as a plug.
ugly fellow six feet tall, and half as
wide and thick. In fact, he is little
weazened fellow OF perhaps hve feet,
three or four, weak in physique and
''nuttln' on de scrap" He does talk
like his published Interviews and he
is the original Of ''Chimmie Fadden,' -
so far as that gentleman needed an
original.
Paul Kelley and Monk Eastman are
the leaders of the two most famous
gangs of to-day, each bearing its lead
er's name. Each is a small man, though
full enough of desperate fighting pluck.
Neither will ever shine politically.
Kelley is full-blooded Italian. with a
long name too cumbersome for the
firing line Of gangdom. Once in his
boyhood he was hauled into a prize
fighting club and pitched out upon the
stage. What is your name?" his il
troducer asked. The lad had a ready
wit "Paolo Kelley" he replied; the
latter name stuck, especially after he
"icked' his opponent; the former was
simplified. Monk" Eastman is a ma.
tive American, but degenerate. The
most famous fight these two gangs
ever had was in the early morning,
following the great primary in which
the regular Tammany champion
knocked out Bill Devery's man for
leader in the Pump district" where
Devery lives. One gang was repeat
ing on one side, the other gang on
the other-a thing not possible, by the
way, at election. When it was all over
both gangs, full of rum and loaded
with money, rolled down toward the
east side, where they live. There
was bound to be a collision It was a
battle. Every man was armed; the
wonder was that no more than one
man was fatally hurt.
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06

Lows fortune. The Pierreponts have
years in Brooklyn. The Lows are Sal
EN- Yankees, the Pierreponts Hugue.
not French Mr.. Schermerhorn. who
gave Schermerhorn hall, Is Dutch by
descent The donor of the only pro-
fessorship of the Chinese language in
the country is of English stock. He
gave the money, 100000, in the name
Of his Chinese servant, at the time of
the outrages committed by the allied
powers in and against China in more
than retribution of the Boxer outbreak.
Two years ago another young man.
aunt, gave 100000 to Columbia to
found the first great dormitory. It's
walls are rising now. Is there any
other great university in the world
that has to build ten-story dormitories
to save space on the campus?
Rich men of New York shamefully
neglect Columbia, but so long as it
owns leasehold real estate that grows
rapidly in rental value, and so long
as it has alumni like Low, Pierrepont
and Dodge, and modest friends like
the Milbanks, unknown among the
great donors of the Carnegie and Rock
efeller class, it will somehow escape
the sheriff that always threatens the
American college-f you will believe
its president.
OMEN LANGDON
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06
Ban ON American Bovcott

Washington, July 3.-The Chinese
government has taken steps to stop the
anti-American agitation and boycott
against American goods. Minister
Rockhill at Peking Saturday cabled the
state department that, after repeated
and urgent representations from the
American legation orders have been is
sued from the Chinese foreign office
to all viceroys and governors in the
empire to cease anti-American agita-
ton and attempted boycott against
American goods.
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06

colony. The town where 'Eben Hold
en- lived is named for them.
A young man of this stock, Ruther.
ford Stuyvesant Pierrpont, has just
given to Columbia college 100000 to
build college hall. He has a very
few millions in his own right from d
Stuyvesant grandfather. He is %, a
good scholar. although also a good
athlete. Fifteen years ago l might
have written because good athlete ~
but scholarship and athleticism have
both grown more exacting. The gift
was to- have been anonymous, but
there are few young men with $5OO,00O
to spare. The fiction of anonymity is
kept up, however. No notice is taken
of the published accounts Of the young
man. He is flooded with begging let.
ters, but no notice has been taken on
Columbia campus Of him more than
of others.
Columbia, with more money than al
most any other college, is always
poor. 1t costs s2,5OO,OOO to add a
modest slice of land to its campus.
1t pays its professors from $4,000 up to
$4,000 a year, the latter figure going
to such men as Brander Matthews and
Harry Thurston Peck, who really is
an excellent Latin teacher, in spite
of writing so much outside. 1t gives
its professors the "sabbatica" seventh
year of full vacation, and pensions
them when old, without waiting for
Mr.. Carnegie. It's chemist, Prof
Chandler, it's international law expert,
John Bassett Moore, it's engineering
experts, are known the world over.
In number of students it lags behind
only Harvard.
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06

as an unofficial critic and commenta'
tor upon all things. the leader of the
Paul Kelley gang" writing for the
papers, and TON Lee" mayor OF
Chinatown, rendered for once voluble
by the pistol feuds among his people,
the picturesque local color men on
the daily press will have no lack Of Op-
pOrtunities
Mayor Mcclellan has been a plenty
criticized for appointing a man like
Battery Dan" to any kind of judge
ship; really he might have done worse.
His honor has lived a lifetime down
among the rough and ready rousta-
bouts that load ships for far voyages.
and what he doesn't know about hu.
man nature is hardly worth knowing.
In common with the other Tammany
leaders, he has a wonderful memory
for faces, and an invincible kindness
for the erring. Upon his first day on
the bench he announced his policy
in message to the court attaches
and personal friends, who had piled
$500 worth of rare orchids On his desk.
He said that he thought when man
had been locked up over night for
drunkenness he had been punished
enough; at any rate, that further pun
ishment would fall upon his family,
rather than himself. Nineteen times
out OF twenty that is true.
A city magistrate in New York gets
$1,000 year. A municipal court JUS
tice, practically justice of the peace.
gets $4,000 a year. These are good
salaries for obscure men. The justices
must be lawyers; the magistrates need
not be. But they are supposed to have
common sense and knowledge of men.
There is apt to be some queer char
acter of strongly marked personality
upon both benches. Before Battery
Dan" was the great Pat Diver" Pat
was the champion beefsteak eater Of
the city, with a record Of II pounds at
a sitting. Ex-Mayor Van Wyck once
ate seven pounds. Diver was noun
tain Of man, rich from saloon keep
ing. The salary of the post was moth
ing to him. 1t is nothing to Battery
Dan" The honor and the chance Of
showing mercy occasionally to an err
ing mortal are dearly priced.
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06
SUIT BEGAN AGAINST ROAD
SANTA FE DECLARED TO HAVE
GIVEN REBATES.
Company Alleged to Have Violated
Observation-Disclosures Pro-
ceedings Started.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 3-Contempt
proceedings against the Atchison, To
peka & Santa Fe Railway company,
charging that company with being
guilty of the violation of an injunction,
issued at Kansas City by Judge John
F. Phillips on March "a, 1902, restrain
ing the road from giving rebates, was
filed in the United States district court
here Saturday at the instigation of
Milton D. Purdy, of Washington, D. c.,
assistant attorney general, who came
here recently at the direction Of the
attorney general to file the suit upon
behalf of the government
Although Judge Philips restraining
order, issued three years. ago, was di-
rected against seven other railroad
companies besides the Atchison, To
peka & Santa Fe, the suit filed Satur.
day is solely against the. latter road.
The other railways enjoined previously
by Judge Philips were the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy; Chicago & Alton,
Missouri Pacific, Wabash, Chicago, Mil
waukee & St Paul; Chicago, Rock IS
land & Pacific, and the Chicago-Great
Western. A similar order was issued
by Judge Grosscup in Chicago on
March 25, 1902, against six other roads.
The suit filed Saturday at the insti-
cation of the federal government re-
cites that the Santa Fe railway up to
the time the injunction was granted,
had been engaged in the practice of
granting unlawful rebates and prefer
ential rates and facilities to certain
favored shippers whose names were to
the complainants unknown, on traffic in
packing house products, dressed meats,
grain and the products OF grain which
were not granted to the public gener-
ally, and that the Santa Fe railway had
also been granting unlawful rebates
and preferential rates and facilities to
certain other favored shippers.
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06

mirth-provoking sight to see his
slight and slender figure sandwiched
In consultation among the giants of
the Tammany general committee.
Physical strength and daring counted
with all these men In the beginning.
Croker beat out the beginning of his
political fortune with his fists in the
old gas house gang" BY curious
coincidence. Murphy. the present boss.
is the leader for the gas house dis
trict, the eighteenth
The gang leader of the present day
= . different kind Of man. The old.
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06
Hero Ia Killed

New York, July 3.-A five-ton boiler
mounted on truck ran away down
the Amsterdam hill at 134th street
Friday night and killed Joseph Olive.
a watchman, who lost his life while
averting collision between the run.
away and crowded street car.
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06
A CHARMING PLAY-GOWN.
ed of Durable Material Is This
Mothers Delight.

There is no more charming little
lady in the land than Miss Simplicity in
her play -a-day frock, anticipating no
end of fun and ready for anything which
may come to interest her active little
senses. The little play-gown must be,
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06
How Diver Met His Waterloo.

lVVER forgot to
show mercy once;
hence his fall. It
was when some
men of his district
were threatened
with Jail for vot-
ing not wisely but
too we'll and often
upon one day. The
case against them
was pretty strong,
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06

first of all. simple, in order to be serv-
iceable The dress shown here is just
the thing for playing about the house
and yard. wearing to school, or serving
any little lass upon ordinary occasions.
It may be easily made and is suitable
to any material. For a medium size
three and one-haH yards Of 36-inch ma
tsrial are required.
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06
The Leaders of the Gang.

HE average Tam
m a n y district
leader is a noun
tain of a man
physically. When
Edward NJ. Shep-
ard, the ablest
democratic leader
in the state, was
nearly ruined po-
litically by being
run for mayor by
Tammany, 1t was
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06
AT TTRACT|VE HOMES
WHOLLY AGREEABLE ROOMS
NEED FEMININE TOUCH.

Individuality in the Arrangement Of
Trihes-A Woman's Peculiar Love
for Particular Chairs and Tables
Simplicity, Not Quantity of Fur
niture Should Be Desired-Let In
Plenty Of Light-Furniture Ac-
quires Personality of It's Own.
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06
IN THE METROPOLIS
"BATTERY DAN FINN ON PO
LICE COURT BENCH.
SOME QUEER CHARACTERS
New York Justices and Magistrates
Old Leaders Of Tammany Phys
lcal Giants-Columbia College
and Her Professors.

EW YORK.-Nev
Ycrk,which dearly
loves a ''charac'
ter will hail the
advent upon the
police court bench
of Battery Dan
Finn" With Bat
MaSterSOn as a
deputy United
States marshal
Big Bill" Devery
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06
Devotion to an Ideal.

~ W hoS q
rich man as things
go 40 " a d a y S,
when he was
president Of Co.
lumbia. gave it
81, 100000 to build
its great library,
one of the finest
in the world. This
was, perhaps, one
seventh of Mr.
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06
The Deed of a Young Man.

HE Pierreponts are
a quiet, land-own-
ing Brooklyn fam
lily. One of the
finest streets on
the Heights is
named for them.
They were land
owners in the days
when sixteen fam
lilies of patrons
owned the greater
mart Of Naw York
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

F T. FRANK, NJ. D. c.
Graduate of Chicago Veterinary College
Post Graduate Kansas City Veterinary College
Member Mimi State Veterinary Med ASSN
-. WARREN, MINI.
Warren sheaf., 1905-07-06
BY MARGARET E. sASGsTER

The other day I spent a half hour
in a woman's own private sitting
room, which seemed to me to be char
acterized by everything such room
should have. The walls were neutral
tinted, and formed the best of back
grounds for few well chosen pic
lures. A rug in dim, somber colors
covered the floor There was a large
table. and a bookcase well filled stood
at one side in an aloove; there was a
divan and there we're few easy chairs.
The outlook was over bay. where the
green waves were ruffled by the spring
wind, and the ships went to and fro.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-02-15
NotcIas de Arecibo

GIadlatore.

ARECIBO, FEBRERO Is. Ha
fondeado Ell este puerto ell vapor anne
ricano <Arkadia> con variada carga.
Aver tarde en- la plaza hubo un
meeting de la Federation, hablaudo el
senior don Santiago Iglesias, ell cusl
demostr6 10 im%procedente de las huel-
gas en- estos momentos y exhort6 q los
brsceros q que vuelvan q su trabajo.
Fueron muy aplaudidos los ~conceptos
conciliadores vertidos por ell <leader,
de la Federation senior Iglesias.
Los vecinos ~suplican 81 Alcalde
ordene Ell riego de las GALES, pues 81
polvo es causa de muchas enfermeda-
des.
Aver tarde cogi6 fuego una pie.
"a de cana de la hacienda xSanta
Barbara, quem&ndose unas % cuer-
das, pudiendo detenerse ell fuego gra-
cias 4 los auxilios prestados, pues Ia
lntensidsd del incendio era aumenta-
da por el mucho viento que hacia. In
policfa sufri6 lijeras quemaduras.
Hay bastante animation para la
velada que dar& Ia JLnta de Carload
81 pr6x1mo domingo en- el Teatro q be-
neficio de los pobres, y la que promote
quedar muy lucida, dado los elemen-
tos que en- ella toman parte.
-Siguen con actlvidad los prepa.
rativos para el festival que preparan
las Escuelas para el pr6ximo dia %
en- honor del natalicio de Washington.
En- to1as las h~acienoas 90 ira.
baja y vuelve a verse la animation dc
los dias pasados antes de la huelga.
FL movimiento comerclal ha aumen-
tado esta semana.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-02-15
IA LIBERTAD MUNICIPAL

-~Se.arguye que esos pueblos Sc en-
cuentran bien hallados con la anexi6n.
81 es asf 6porque protestan de ella?
iPorqu6 clarhan por su independents z
5Porque e~xteriorizan quejas y mas
quejas, qua acusan una situaci6n VIC.
lenta y desesperada?
Nunca los pueblos protestan por
ell mero hecho de p~rotestar capricho-
samente. Revela siempre su protesta
algo que es punible, que es odioso, que
es ~censurable. Ella expresa siempre
aspiraciones legitimas, imperiosas ne.
cesidades que no han llenado, nj rea-
lizado todavla.
No hay argumentos que destruyan
la raz6n de tales aseveraciones; sobre
TODD, cuando existen precedentes en-
nuestra historic politica que la robus-
tecen mayormente.
Todas las undergraduates que
fueron anexadas & otras, con arreglo
q la ley votada por la Legislature de
1902, sufrleron ~precisamsnte csc terri
BILE golpe q su libertad, dentro de un
verdadero estado fscundo y pros.
per en- sus asuntos locales. Su
administration era diafana, salts
factoria para sus administrators. No
solo cubrfsn sus presupuestos, sine
que oil final de cada aho e~con6nico,
llevaban q sus cajas notables esupe.
rabitss que infundfau en- todos los
mayores ~alientos, hacienda concebir
lisongeras esperanzas para ell mafana.
Los partldarios de la anexl6n, ma
do pueden arguir en- contra de las ten
/ dencias v~indicativas del bill de segre.
gaci6n. No tienen I'm solo argumento
que pueda destruir 10 raz6n poderosi-
sima que abona oil acto de Ia actual
Asamblea Legislative, de devolver gu
libertad q q~uienes merecen gozarla.
P~rocedieron con passion, con miras
egoistas, los legislatures republica.
nos de 1900. No buscaron en- Ia ane-
| xi6n, ell mejoramieuto de unos cuantos
municipios; solo propendfan q un fin
dnico; q poner al partido republican,
en- condolences ventaiosas de sumar
fuerzas y ganar elecciones, no impor-
tandoles para NADIA los medios que Sc
pusieran en- practica.
Y este salta & la vista, SO com.
prende p~erfectamente, 81 tenemos en-
ouenta que Vega alta, Gurabo, Ba.
rranquitas, Juncos y Arroyo eran pc,
blaciones eminentemente tederales en-
1902; este es, eran ndeleos p~odsrosos
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-02-15

FL Proyecto de Ley del senior Ca
munas que trats de la desanexi6n de
municipios, es sin duda uno de los
mas importantes presentados q Ia ca.
mara de Delegates. Tambien entra-
fla una singular i%mportancia, ell acto
de su aprobaci6n por ese cuerpo legis,
lativo, que al proceder de tai suerte,
ha vuelto por los fueros de la liber.
tad municipal, arrebatada & muchos
pueblos en- dias aciagos para Puerto
Rico.
No admite excusa ninguna ell he
eho de usurpar q unas cuantas munich
palidades que cubren perfsctamente
u presupuestos, los medios de ad-
ministrar sus propios intereses loca-
les. Y este, de una manera impensa-
do y~apasionada, SO hlzo en- pasadas
legislaturss, sin qua bastaran q dete.
ner q los Legislatures republicanos en-
sus tremendos desaciertos, las hume.
rosas protestas que SO le%vantaron en- el
seno de los mlnicipios qus fderon VIC
timas del despojo inaudito, rechazado
la anexi6n por absurda, por inj lsta,
por srbltrariai protestas en- las cuales
GO demostraba la sinraz6n de una ley
que ponfa los intereses de varias 8
importantes undergraduates, & mer.
oed de las conveniencias de IN parti.
do politico.
81 acto de re~ivindicaci6n de Ia ca.
mara en- 1905, no es, no puede ser en-
eoncepto alguno, igual al realizado
por 10 legislature republican, en- 1902.
81 primero revela una grandeza
suma; 10 grandeza que revision las
buenas y laudables acciones del pa.
triotismo. Ell tiende & devolver q
pueblos que les fueron asurpados de.
rechos i~nalienablss, Ia vida decorosa
y libre de que estan uecesitados para
prospersr, para sentir los efectos de
un bienhechor progreso.
Puede muy bien cslifcarse dc Cat.
tsrio, la vida que han llevado los mu-
nicipios anexados, desde que en- NAL
bora 80 decret6 por la msyorfa repu-
blicsna en- 1902, una ley liberticida y
odiosa, como todas aquellas que coar-
tan 10 libre acci6n de los pueblos.
Sus asuntos, q veces, los mas trascen.
dsntales, para la localidad, eran so.
l~uctonados, por f~uncionarios descono.
cedores de sus mas apremiantes nece.
sidades, y los que p~rocedian con ARE.
Clio & las conVeniencias de una deter
minads..colectlvidad polftica.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-02-15
Acadia Municipal de ManaH

En- ell dla de hoy participa q esta
Acadia doha Juana Chaves, viuda
de Rivera, haberse aparecido en- la
inca rdstica que posee en- Ell barrio
del Coto de esta Jurisdiction, un caba-
Ito sebruno, dos .cabos hlancos, un lu-
zero blareo en- Ia ~frente, pobre de cri.
mes y cola corta. Lo que Sc hace pd.
blico para general conocimiento. Ma
natl, Febrero 10 de l905.--El Alcalde,
r. !. Colon.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-02-15

de fuerzas que hlelerOn prever q nues-
tros adversarios una derrota vergon.
zoss, 10 cual era precise evitar, ain
cuando fuera precise apelar, como Sc
apel6, q los grandes crfmenes de lesa
iusticla y de lesa libertad.
Gladlat0re.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-02-15
Salidas de la Capital y Bayam6n

Biktes baratos para dias festipos
En- 10 clase de Capital q Bayam6n,
Ida y vuelta Is ctvs.; en- % 10 ctvs.
En- II de Bayam6n & Catsdo, ida y
vuelta Is ctvs.; en- % 10 ctvs.
Billete ordinario de Capital & Gaia
DO en- % clase & 3 ctvs.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1905-02-15
lhea Ferrea del Oeste

ltinerarlo del servicio lie Trenes y
Vapores que empezar6 q regir
81 dfa Q de Mario do 1902.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1905-02-15
Long Staple Cotton Seed.
Laureus, S. c., Dec. IS, 'o4.
Mr.. p. B. Bailey,

1F0l VI " DSN' ID, O4.
MIR. p. B. Bailey,
Clinton, S. c.
Dear Sir:
Your letter of December 9th,
received. The long staple cotton
bought from you for the Watts
Mills gave perfect satisfaction, by
mixing it with the Mississippi
long staple. consider your cot
ton better than the Floradora,
both III length of staple and
strength. Yours very truly,
r. G. FRANKS.
Dict-to M.G.B.
BY Mr.. Franks.