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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-07-04
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EDITOR GAZETTE: The peo-
pie of Corvallis will be called up
on within a few days to decide
whether we will drift along with
our present unsatisfactory water
system, for an indefinite time, or
whether we will make an effort
to improve the present water con-
ditions in Corvallis.
Notwithstanding all has been,
or may be said, for or against the
water question, this is the issue
and this is the only question to be
discussed at the coming election.
There has been very strong effort
upon the part of the opposition
to detract from and ignore the
very important question involved,
by resorting to all sorts of ques-
tions and subterfuges and mis-
statements, and discuss only mat
ters that are trivial, when COM
pared to the main question at is
sue. They do not advise our
people to vote to sustain the pres
ent water system. This they
know would be resented, but they
hope to get them to vote against
any change by critisizing and OBJ
jecting to rything proposed.
They now claim the proposed
water system cannot De built for
SIS, 900; also claim that it will
not be selt-sustaining, and object
to the kind of pipe suggested by
the engineer.
In answer to these and other
objections of this nature I will
say the Water Committee is com
posed of ten well-known citizens
of Corvallis, whose interests are
identical or in common with their
neighbors and fellow citizens.
All are careful aud prudent men,
and those voting for bonding the
city, can rest assured, that this
! committee will not undertake tc
| build a water system withou
thoroughly investigating ever5
feature of it.
This committee will certainly
not start a plant until they art
satisfied they can construct {
good and durable system for th'
MONEY on hands. This commit
tee will not commence the wate.
system until they are sgre th'
revenues from sales of water, d
reasonable rate to the consumers
will pay expenses and interest
and eventually pay off the bonds
P. AVERY.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-07-04

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26
Mrs. G G.. Newton ana daugh-
ter. Miss Cora, leave Thursday for
a weeks visit to the Fair.
Black edge, leading wall paper
dealer. 30l-
Ralph Pruett spent Sunday and
Monday with friends in Salem.
Largest line of mating in coun-
ty at Blackledges. 30tf
Miss Ella Smith left yesterday
to spend a week at the Fair.
Watch for the special clearance
sal les on Summer Goods at Nose
Bros. 53t
Mrs. Susan Starns left Saturday
for a visit with relatives at Bell
fountain.
The W. C. T. U. will meet at
the home of Mrs. Wm. Crees next
Thursday at 3 p. III.
Joseph McCune has arrived from
The DaIles and is the guest of Cor
wallis relatives and friends.
O.J- Blackledge, wife and daugh.
ter, spent Satu1d " and Sunday
with relatives at Bellfouutain.
Mrs. Ora Reed Hemmenway ar
rived, Monday from Grants Pass
and is guest at the Linville home
Rev. and Mrs. NJ. S. Bush have
taken rooms for the summer a
Captain Crawfcrd's residence. They
moved Saturday.
Mrs. S. A. Hemphil is to leav,
this week for Newport, where sh
will occupy her cottage through tn
summer months.
T. T. Vincent is to deliver the ad
dress today at the celebration a
Summit. His subject is, "Our Ma
tional Heritage"
Miss Mary Winn, Of Portland
is spending a few weeks in our cit,
as the guest of her sister, Mrs. +
A. Hencye.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Fuller wer
in Turner, Sunday, in attendanc
at the convention of the Christia
church, being held there.
Miss Robena Smith, an OAt
student of former days, leaves Wed
nesday for Salem, where she wi
attend the summer school.
/ On retiring from business, afte
being actively engaged iu it her
for twenty-one years, I wish to ez
press to my friends, and to the pub
J lie generally, my appreciation {
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-07-04
Additional Local.

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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-02

to the exclusion oe every other Csc
Il you wanted to put the thing through
quickly"
The swindling schatchen has two
possible methods of procedure. It de-
ponds upon his nerve Is to which he
adopts. II he be . braxen specimen.
he will advertise himself frankly rs
. schatchen, and bring as many men
and girls together rs possible. ask
ing q commission for his services. The
men are always picked from his own
band, and the same man will marry
and rob half dozen girls before he
decides to leave town and try new
field of activity.
The other method is more subtle.
and infinitely more dangerous. Here,
again, we find the band, the swind;ing
broker, the trusting girl and the black
leg prepared to marry as many wom-
en- as he can conveniently pauperize in
q limited space Of time. But in this
case the marriage broker is less cour-
ageous, and hides his nefarious trade
behind the screen of some legitimate
and blatently advertised business.
Employment Agencies.
The favorite cloak of these schat-
chens is an employment agency"
They have large signs, front Offices.
desks. ledgers, and all the costitest
paraphernalia.
To them come girls in search Of
work-most of them foreigners just
from the other side. The girls names
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-02
SPORTS AND
ATHLETICS

A new indoor sport for The vtAeer.
which. 1t is claimed. far exceeds in In
terest and excitement any Of the games
played at present. Is being introduced
to lovers OF indoor athletics II IL the
game of push ball on roller skates.
While comparatively new in the west
the game as played according to the
rules on level field in the opening, has
prospered in England and in some of the
eastern colleges. The game has been
played in the opeI. usually between the
halves of football contest and also
on horseback. but no one has ever at
tempted the spcrt or roller skates. The
innovation is entirely the invention OF
st. Louis man. and should produce az
much excitement and at the same time
be as fair contest of the strength OF
two clubs as any football OF hockey
match. The art Of push ball depends
ON the skill of the skater and the
strength of the teams. The regulation
push ball. which is used. is six feet in
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-02
Picture Postcards.

Picture postcards have become .
nuisance. The originals were evolved
in Germany. Some are nasty, some
vile, some salacious. some profane-all
vulgar and inane. This country Is fol.
lowing suit rapidly. The post office
authorities are helpless, says the New
York Press, as any particularly objec-
tionable card may be Enclosed in an
envelope and mailed. On the continent
of Europe extra stamp charges constt-
tute one Of the evils of the craze. i'm
able, as majority of the tourists are.
to read the inscriptions printed on tho
cards in the language of the particu-
lar country in which they may be
travelling. they fail to see that nothing
beyond the address is allowed If the
card is intended for foreign destina-
ton unless extra postage is paid. The
result is that the sender writes: "An-
other for your collection" Having q
ripping time" Remember me to the
gang" Have one on me- etc. When
the card arrives the recipient pays the
extra postage and says things about
the idiocy of picture postcard senders.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-02
desire to please, but with strangers he

desire to please, but with strangers he
is cautious and slow of tongue.
He has no regular Office as rule,
but is apt to use upon his card the
address and telephone number of some
influential friend-the alderman OF
his district, or, If all else fail. the big
gest saloon keeper of the neighbor-
hood. He slides in and out of his
adopted headquarters by day and
night, insinuating himself into CONVEX
sational groups or listening sharply to
the talk Of others about him.
Types Of His Clients.
His clients are practically all Yid-
dish. A Jewish schatchen would never
trust a Gentle sufficiently to have
with him or her business dealings OF
80 delicate and intimate a nature. The
type? Come with me to Riverton
street, and stand on the corner where
Norfolk crosses it. Watch the girls
go by. They are pretty in a gentle
foreign way. They wear their hair
low on their necks and very loosely ar
ranged. One and all have white worst
ed shawls wrapped about their slightly
bent shoulders. Their figures are full.
their steps heavy. They have the hall
marks of the working woman, the
beast of burden writ large 'apon their
patient faces and STOPPING backs.
One in seven has bright ribbon in
her hair or q string Of colored beads
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-02
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rather proud of 1t at that, was mar
ried through a schatchen. So, also,
was that pathetic-looking woman over
there, who was recently deserted by
her husband, and is now begging pen
MES on the sidewalk.
Her case brings us to the other
class of schatchens-the men whose
praitice of their trade makes them a
menace to the community, and whose
ill-gotten gains come to about quad
ripple what the honest schatchen makes
by his legitimate business.
The Crooked Schatchens.
These crooked schatchens have been
little talked about until lately. Their
trade has been so secret, their pre-
cautions so complete, and their team
work" so remarkable that they have
operated almost entirely unobserved.
Now and then the complaint of some
deserted wife has started the police
upon scent which seemed bound to
lead to new and important discoveries,
but it was usually found to lend in
squirrel tracks or run up tree"
Even now it is next to impossible
to arrest or convict ''tswindling
schatchen," as the police call them.
The police have been at work on the
overthrow of several for years, but the
game is long and arduous one, and,
as one young detective declared, lit
would take the entire time Of the force
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-02

front door 10 wi-nin 20 feet q o
church. whose members Will not sign
the necessary release. The St. Regss
had . heap OF trouble from . similar
cause. being opposed in its efforts to
auench thirst by householders in the
vicinity. In the emo the St. Regis
bought up enough houses to quist the
legal bar to its bar. The new hotel
cannot buy up the church.
Last winter a bill was before tie
legislature enabling the hotel to get .
liquor license without the consent OF
the church, but at the last minute, &C.
cording to Mr.. Plat, Gov. Higgins
having his eyes on the rural constitu
encies. vetoed the bill. Now, the ex.
boss is down upon him. There were
jealousies. too, connected with the in.
surance investigation. Earh OF the
three statesmen had personal friends
involved in the matter. Gov. Higgins
is best off in this respect. The very
neglectful superintendent Of banks is
his friend, but kilburn is on the edge
OF the fray. while the superintendent
OF insurance, Mr.. Hendricks. is the cen.
tSr Of a storm that shows no sign Of
absting.
NJ. hendricks is signal example of
the folly Of taking things for granted.
He 10 IN honest man. . wealthy man,
to whom graft would have no tempta-
ton, and indeed no suspicion Of graft
attaches to him. He is the president
of trust company in Syracuse and
trusted by the citizens of that town,
where he is the local boss. But In his
department. where he has labored by
deputy for six years, long enough to
know what was going on. the most 81
ganttc financial scandal of the day is
being developed. It is so gigantic that
no POI al power is strong enough to
choke IF entirely. Gov. Higgins is
himse.. a man of the Hendricks type
rich. personally honest, but not an in.
stinctive and resolute reformel.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-02

his petitions, because the time of filing
is not expired. But the names have
been taken with formal oath before
notaries at mis- downtown Office in the
heart of the East SIDE. at newspaper
Offices. at a prominent hotel and in
other places.
So much has been said about Jerome
that even during his life fiction builds
legends about him. To the hero-wor-
shipper he is youthful, slender figure,
leading the fray when q gambling
house is raided, strong, swift, agile. a
Roland out of romance. To his ene-
mics he is a dope tiend," smoking Gig
arettes, dreaming dreams, constantly
promising what he never performs,
playing to the galleries.
The real man Jerome is not in the
least like either picture. He is no
more youthful in appearance than May
or Mcclellan; time and care have
craven lines on both faces. So far
from being flighty and fltful, he has re-
formed the district attorneys Office un-
til it moves like clockwork and swiftly
grinds through its great mill the pitiful
girls. of city's crime, where of old
delay and favoritism and neglect held
sway. AS for his personal habits, he
SMOKES as much as some other men.
takes drink when he feels like 1t and
is on friendly terms with many Tam
many district leaders, whom he likes
and who like him.
jerome will have more fun than any,
one else In tho campaign. He is the
only public speaker in New York who
says just what comes into his hesd
no matter wlom 1t hits. It was NO
when in 1901 ne spoke out in meeting
concerning Mr.. Plat. who was sup
porting his t!cyet; his confreres were
aghast at the "tndiscretion;" but the
peODle elected thu ticket.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-02
walk Of ME IL ~ e,....n.ae. n,

walk OF life 10 he glaM-houoo -.
SON more foecibly illustrated.
The men who belong to the henls
and lend themselves to the vile
schemes for betraying and robbiug
young girls are all OF q peculiar t7pe.
Shtfty eyes. weak chins. evil mouths
they look and are ready for any Job
that may offer itself-the lower the
better.
Escape Comparatively Easy.
But no crook has ever been SO care.
less as to prepare a job without first
arranging to get away" Many OF
the employment agents" have maps of
the city with the get Always" all duly
marked. The city is so large, and the
districts are SO distinct and separate.
that whenever he finds it too warm
in one locality, he simply moves ON
20 another. and all traces of him Is
lost. The aforementioned map has
estimates Of population in various dis
tricts, and all sorts OF valuable in
formation. Its usefulness in an en-
ployment agency seemed rather OBJ
scure, but perhaps the agents are per-
sons who like to be well informed on
all subjects.
Ono Happy Marriage.
But all weddings brought about by
the old schatchens are not unhappy.
One occurred recently in the Yiddish
quarter which was arranged by an old
patriarch, and the bride and BRIDE
groom looked as happy as any young
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-02
couple entering the holy bonds of we'd

lock could look.
The little bride was as pretty as a
oolored Autograph, and her veil stood
out like a frost-covered lamp shade
from the white flowers ON her small
black head. The bridegroom wors q
black suit and q tall silk hat, and
smiled and perspired with equal pro-
fusion all through the evening. There
were pretty girls with curly pompa-
dours and little hooked noses, and en-
barrassed youths, and patriarchs, and
stout, aquiline matrons. And there
was music, with a great deal Of drum
effect. and dancing, all quadrilles of
peculiarly wooden and seemingly JOY
Gus nature. and there were strange
things to eat and drink. and a COM
plete absence of oxygen in the room.
When the ceremony began the bride
and bridegroom and rabbi stood un-
der a gorgeous fringed canopy. with
long poles held over their heads by
some men. The rabbi talked for a
long time in Yiddish-the service took
three-quarters of an hour-and every
one wept, especially the brides mother.
dear soul, who babe fair to dissolve in
tears. Then the pretty bride walked
seven times around her husband-the
symbolism is obscure and has been
forgotten by most Hebrews. .And final
ly, in little hush that was rather sol
emn, on the whole, q wine glass was
flung upon the floor for good luck. The
little tinkle of splintered glass sound
ed like tiny chime of bells. So they
were married-happily, il one may
trust their faces-and all through the
old schatchen.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-02

are entered, their looks and savings
are estimated, and the willy employ
ment agent talks matrimony, the COM
forts of home and being settled for
life into the girls ears.
The girls who are amenable to the
agents reasoning find husbands speed
lily for the coming. their small earn
ings are taken away, and Immediately
afterward they are deserted and en-
tirely without funds. They may ap-
peal to the police, but the husbands
have gone, and who can touch the
agent? He knew nothing about the
mans disreputable character, of
course. and had nothing to do with
the matter beyond introducing one
young person to another.
Bands Work in Unison.
AS has been said before, the team
work." or concerted action, Of these
matrimonial bands is rather extrdor-
binary. The interdependence of the
members is of necessity tremendous.
and the men all stand in with one an
other SO successfully as to drive the
police and the plain-clothes men iran
tic. The best chance for the force
comes when some one man, to save
and square himself, peaches" on an
other. and SO destroys a little of that
perfect harmony in the organization
of crooks.
Sometimes, of course, broker cheats
one of his men, or man goes back on
the broker and fails to give up the
promised share of the plumber OBJ
tatined from the newest wife, but this
does not help the police. No COM
plant will be made, Of course, for. as
may be readily be imagined. in no
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-02
Business Qualities.
There are many qualities necessa1

There are many qualities necessary
to success in modern business lie;
but there is none of more Importance
to man holding position OF respon-
sibility than the power to make
plain, Straightforward. business-hke
statement, either by speech or In VIII
ing. The quality Of fuency Is not so
much what is required as the qualitles
of accuracy and clearness, definite
ness and brevity, tact and judgment
writes Prof. w. Ripper. in Technics.
II we are not clear and precise 1t Is
certain that those who listen to US
will be no more clear, when We nave
finished, than we are ourselves-pTop-
ably much less so. We must have no
vague and misty ideas about the SUD.
ject. but they must be crystallized ana
definite. These qualities OF our
thought and speech, however, cannot
be left to chance. They are ATTENDED
as the result of effort, OF careful ana
independent thought on the subject for
ourselves, of looking at it from many
points of view. and thus satisfying
ourselves and those who listen 10 us
that we thoroughly understand what
we are talking about. It clears ones
own mind in thinking out subject to
talk it over with a colleague. or 10
write out a statement of it, or to dc
tate it to a shorthand writer. Having
decided what to say, and having prop
erly arranged it, the last point is how
to saw II. The first essential is to speak
distinctly. then to be natural, straight
forward, lucid; neither to strive after
effect nor to exaggerate. but to give
the impression that we are ourselves
convinced of the cogency and force OF
our own contention.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-02
Methods Of Schatchens, Straight and
Crooked, Among Girls Of the
Yiddish Quarter.
ARE A MIGHTY power FOR GOOD AND EVIL
How They Ply Their Trade Among the limo
cent Young Jewish Maidens of the East
Side-Swindlers and Their Subtle
Methods Described.

New York.-On the great East side
OF this wonderful metropolis. waere
the innocent foreigner naturally drafts
on his arrival in America, to seek his
brother countryman, the \schatchen
finds q rich field fol-. plying his trade.
The schatchen pronounced shot
ken). better known as marriage
broker, is one OF the most curious sur
vivals Of ancient orientalism which
one may find in many q days travel.
He is q busy, prosperous man, with
q good business and large following
Of clients, and he has developed his
ancient and picturesq ue trade along
the modern lines of commercial Amer
ica, but withal he remains the sctat-
chen-the matchmaker, the traficker
In young men and maidens, the inde-
fatigable, serene, obseQuious. popular
marriage broker.
In the heart of the "rogues' dis
trict," where the criminals of all
classes are wont to gather, is where
the schatchen finds his best work
ground. Here it is that he plies his
trade and wins his gains, rightful or
otherwise. And here it is that his
good faith brings queer, pathetic.
manufactured happiness, even as his
treachery brings suffering and shame.
For good or for i'll. he is curious and
mighty power in the Yiddish quarter,
thus schatchen, agent of matrimony.
broker in men and women, buyer and
seller of lives.
Cuisines. Irokers."
In older days aat older lands the
schatchen wore The dull red and
green and russell robes of the orient,
he jingled with chains and ornaments,
or slipped on silent feet into the
dwellings of the east; in this city he
has a card, printed stating that he
deals in real estate, and is also a
business broker
Business broker" means but one
thing in the part of town particu-
ularly affected by the schatcnen.
Everyone knows what his business is,
and he carries on On excellent trade.
The schatchen is almost invariably
of one type. He is not very tall; he is
bearded; patriarchal and intensely
Yiddish. He walks silently and
watches every chance passerby with
eyes that are both furtive and keen
He slips in and out of places almost
without making his presence felt.
When he speaks it is with marked
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-02

which was otherwise notable a. illus
trating the baronial state in which
wealthy American families do things
now.
Winthrop is bright young Harvard
man, friend Of Jimmy Hyde. II old
er men had not built up the insurance
system for his undoing, he might have
been an ordinarily successful man of
business, with no Equitable since to
suffer for. In fact, the system which
he was prominent in administering.
was made long before his time. As
the manager of the EQuitable's finance
committee he was Hyde's righthand
man in vast financial transactions Of a
semi-shady character before he was far
out of his teens, and no doubt intoxi-
Gated with his financial Importance.
Very different is his case from that
of George Perkins, who rose from the
bottom of the insurance ladder. There
was the less excuse for Rogers in that
he was wealthy to begin with; more
excuse in that he less appreciated what
he was doing. 1t is still a mooted
question how far restitution of ill-got-
ten profits can be enforced from the
directors and associates who robbed
the Equitable and other big companies.
Probably not far enough to seriously
worry the new bride, who Is vastly rich
in her own right.
The honeymoon Of the happy pair
is spent in Stow house. great baron
ial mansion near that of the Mackays
in Roslyn. A touch of comedy is lent
to the proceedings by the request of
brides family that the thousands of
dollars worth Of presents designed for
the young couple be not sent to Stow
house. 1t is two miles from the station
and thieves might easily carry of a
few thousand dollars worth of plate
and jewels.