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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-28
WATCH ON THE TELEPHONES.
Tours of the Inspector and Defects He
Looks Out For.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
In residence districts of the city the tele-
phone inspector gets around about once in
two months and in the business districts
once a month. though in either region he
may come oftener, once day If his serv-
ices are required.
There are hundreds of inspectors con-
stantly making their rounds in New York
inspecting telephones. In the residence dis
tricts a single inspector covers a number
of blocks; in the business sections he takes
only a single block or the telephones con-
tained within smaller area still.
Telephones in the dwelling districts of the
city require less frequent inspection for the
reason that they don't get such hard usage
as do many telephones in the business dis
tricts.
On his tour of inspection, in an apart
ment house, for instance, the inspector
looks the instrument over inside and out
and tests the wire connection with the ex-
change in the house, and tests the conneo-
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ton with central, where he always gets the
wire chief to that the connection is all
right and to see If the chief has any orders
calls al points off his regular route Every
inspector keeps all day in touch with his
wire chief.
Everybody everywhere uses the telephone
nowadays, and so telephones are now to be
found in all sorts of places, and in very
many places there are now used portable
receivers which stands on tables, desks or
brackets, maybe on the head OF barrel in
a fish market, or on q box somewhere In
some store-they are everywhere, and what,
with the vastly greater number of tele-
phones used in crowded business districts
and the number of portable receivers liable
to be knocked off their stands or otherwise
Injured the inspectors in such districts
make their rounds oftener than in the resi-
dence parts of the town.
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CHeTazHH20 Reac1

the force So II nothing unexpected hap
pens, ne will pay off the debt and have
few cents to spend
AS all human Institutions are governed
by rules so 1t is with the bathing beach,
and after careful and mature elaboration
the District Commissioners and Superin-
tendent Stevens have set forth rev
things which will be prohibited and some
things which will be permitted. Primarily
the rules presuppose that only ladies. gem
tlemen and boys will care to take advan-
tage Of the free bathing facilities, Tor noth-
ing a all is said about the girls. 1t Is PROB
able, however, that the girls are included in
the class with the ladies, for few ladies
with swimmin' lnclinations will admit she
has passed the girl age The beach VIII
be open to the general public every day In
the week from 10 am. until pm. ana
from pm until sunset Ladies and
their escorts" may bathe-at the bathing
beach, of course-from Z a. m. until 10 a. m.
Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays.
No one will be permitted to battle who
shall not have registered by properly ming
out and deposting a description card on
the form provided at the beach, correctly
stating the date. name, age. residence, sex,
color and a few other minor and tri1ing
details of identification of the applicant 1t
is said by some unkind folks that this
requisite of age will result in an almost ex-
elusive male attendance, for some ladies
will object to having their ages made
matter of record. This Is further empha-
sized by rule which says these records
must be preserved in order to be a means
of ready reference for the Commissioners.
Continuing, the rules say:
every bather must wear a suitable bath
ing dress covering the body and the other
half of the thighs, and must undress and
fully dress in a dressing room.
mo charge will be made to bathers who
provide themselves with suitable bathing
suits not belonging to the bathing beach
Separate checks for rooms and tickets
for suits and extra towels will be issued by
the clerk at the office.
"Valuables deposited for safe-keeping by
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the teacher isn't looking. Of course-and
holding up two fingers. Where Is the young
American that doesn't know what that sign
means, and where is the old American who
wouldn't like TO follow the lads for frolic
In the water7
Superintendent W. Y. Stevens, the patri-
arch of the bathing beach-the man who has
devoted years in the effort to provide
free place where the boys OF the capital
city might swim-is arranging for the open
ing next Saturday. 1t is not to be for
NAL affair. this opening, because Mr.. Ste
vens hasn't any too much money to spend
for this sort of gayety. He will merely
marshal his army of juveniles in one long
line. headed toward the bath houses and bid
them enter. The transformation will be
wonderful. for II there ever was a quick
change artist, II is the small boy when he
is in a hurry to go a swimmin'. Before
Mr.. Stevens can say Jack Robinson" or
anything else, for that matter, the Juvenile
army will be reversing its line of march,
attire in scanty but sufficient uniforms,
and ready TO do battle with such docile and
harmless waves as find their way into the
basin where the bathing beach is located.
Mr.. Stevens has just completed strenu-
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now that the tropical mosquito, which har-
bors and transmits the disease, won't stand
a northern winter, though there have been
a few cases where the mosquito eggs were
protected and Matched out the next spring,
thus renewing the Infection But at that
time no one knew anything about the mo-
something mysterious and deadly fascinat-
ing in the way the epidemic spread past all
quarantine safeguards and invaded houses
whose inhabitants had locked themselves
up for weeks to avoid the contagion.
Then there came along the germ theory
and we got after germs Of all sorts. We To-
Gated the cOma-shaped bacillus that causes
cholera and proved that rational measures
would check any old sort of a cholera cpl
demic, and that there was nothing con-
tagious nor really dreadful about the dis
ease. Well. the cunning for germs with a
microscope continued for some years. and
we got about everything we went after
from whooping cough to bubonic plague
But yellow fever kept US guessing.
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But Mike was aboard, sleeping peaceful
ly in double irons in the brig 1t seems
that just nine days. twenty-three hours and
fifty-five minutes after O'Kane had quit the
ship a sampan had heaved alongside, and
Mike. still wearing his sllver-trimmed SOM
brero and fresh serape of many brilliant
colors but barefoot had with great diff
Guilty assembled the gangway ladder and re-
ported to the officer of the deck. He had
made for the ship when told him that his
time of grace was short and threatened to
butt In the doors of the 'dobe.
"O'Kanes thirty days in the brig-five of
them in the solitary brig on bread and
water-passed quickly enough and, al
though he shipped over at the time of his
enlistment 1 haven't heard of his breaking
out since.
But, right down to the present day-and
all this happened nearly six years ago-the
natives of Acapulco inquire of every man
o-wars man, officer or man fOrard, what
has become of the mighty, the venerated
Commandant O'Quieano, who once visited
them ashore and spent more than a million
dollars in bright gold in less than ten
days"
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"One of the ensigns, who went ashore
on the next morning. saw Mike OKane,
too. O'Kane, with no coat on, but with
over his shoulder, a poncho thrown over
the other shoulder and a three denied
sombrero trimmed with silver and with
many tinklng little bells hanging from
the rim of it, was walking by a church,
when dozen little girls, all in white and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-28

II saw OKane on the following night.
I was strolling through the narrow, 'dobe-
lined streets to the east of the town,
when the sound of some rather appealing
music coming from a date palm grove di-
rectly ahead reached my ear. | walked to
the rubble fence that inclOSed the grove
and looked in There was Mike OKane,
lolling around in the seat Of a grapevine
swing with q torch at either side of him.
Two violinists We're squatted on the
ground in front of him. saving away
plaintively. while a cello player stood be-
side them, executing arpeggios with much
grace and effect-all the musicians were
Greasers. On the stumpS of a cluster OF
felled palms were many bottles Of mescal
bottles vacant and bottles tenanted.
when this music ceased pair of gull
tar players accompanied by an old man
with a book in his hand, emerged from
light radius of the torches. The guitar
and the old man with the book began to
recite to Mike OKane. The book he re-
cited from was volume OF Emilio Cas-
telar's verse O'Kane lolled in his grape
vine swing and listened to the chant and
the harmonious monotone of guitar
chords with a grin. Mikes knowledge of
Spanish halted ut 'manana,' and he could
only employ that one Spanish word when
entirely sober. Well here was Caesar in
the garden of MaeCenas, a Horace thrum-
ming the Tyre. 1t was very affecting. 1
remained at the fence. listening, as long
as | could without shrieking and thus de-
stroying the charm of the occasion, and
then l came away.
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THE germ would not be caught and ex-
amined like other weIl-behaved germs, and
whenever there was report that the baciI-
lus of yellow fever had been isolated, there
was momentary hutter in the scientific
world, and then it always proved that It
had been some other germ usually a harm
less one, and yellow jack still eluded the
microscope.
The first announcement of this sort
caused whole lot of excitement. One Dr.
Domingo Freire, down in Brazil published
a statement that he had cornered the
htheftO elusive yellow fever germ in the
form OF a mlcrococus. This was in 1885,
me whole scientific world wished him 10Y
or his capture till Gen. Sternberg the then
surgeon general of the United States army.
who, whatever else might be said of him
was one OF the finest bdcterlologists that
ever lived, put the kibOsh on the announce
ment by Identifying Freire's discovery as
another sort Of cocus with a triple-jointed
name. 1t was very mid-mannered germ,
with no vicious habits that had been wan
dertng around without chain or collar for
some time previously
Then a doctor named Carmona, down in
Mexico, made the same announcement All
microscopes were turned on his germ, only
to ind to the disgust of the scientific world
that IL had nothing to do with yellow fever.
The hunt Jagged till along in 1897 Dr.
SanarelH OF Rome announced that ne hao
The yellow fever bacillus thrown and tied
lie said II was one of the strangest animals
that had ever trespassed under a micro
scope. Then the Marine Hospital got busy
ana confirmed all OF Sanarellfs findings
lilS yellow fever germ was esteemed TO be
lhe real thing Till the surgeon generals de-
parunent went to work again, and there
was a half-suppressed smoker over tbe
Inedcal world when it was proved that the
dreaded and mysterious germ of SanareuJ
was hothing more or less than hog cholera
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"Foreseeing possible international COM
plications the skipper sent corporal of
marines and three buck marines ashore
marching order, with instructions to fetch
O'Kane back to the ship forthwith, If they
had to saw and split him into sections of
his three men returned to the ship about
o'clock in the morning, saying that
their understanding of the situation was
that Mike OKane was bound overland for
the City of Mexico as main guard of q
Notwithstanding outfit.
ON the following afternoon Mike was
seen by one of the ships quartermasters.
A weary greaser householder with whom
Mike was temporarily domictled had COM
planned to him, 1T seems, that his chimney
smoked great deal. When observed by
his shipmate, the quartermaSter, o Kane
was obligingly engaged in cleaning the
'dobe chimney, using for the purpose his
costly seTape of mixed hues. The quar-
termaster said that while Mike had sure
been a sight, he didn't seem to mind; on
the contrary, he had been carroling right
merrily, as he let the serape weighted by
an unbaked brick, up and down in the
offending chimney.
ION the following morning we heard on
board ship some strange music from the
silvery chimes in the bell tower of the
Acapulco church. There were long inter
walls between each note, yet there was no
doubt that the tune was Believe me, If all
those endearing young charms We learn
ed later that the chime-ringer, as we, Of
course, suspected, was OKane, practicing.
When the Mortified greaser sexton had come
him with a gold piece or so, and went
ahead and performed Garry Owen until
the priest made his appearance and vetoed
the performance.
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Thinks He Can Afford It Then.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
81 know what will happen when I'm
worth a million
Yes You'll try to be satisfied"
mo; I'll try TO be honest"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-28
His Inference.

From the Detroit Free Press.
TOMMY grandfather must have been
a very thin man.
Dlck-What makes you think so?
Tom-Because he's always referred to as
the skeleton In the family closet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-28

been bred and raised in the laboratory and
had never been near a case of yellow fever,
nor had any chance to acquire the deadly
germ.
Meantime the surgeon generals office
was mean enough to go ahead and raise
more germs of the same sort out Of over
ripe bananas. 1t turned out that the much
heralded micrObe was a yeast ferment,
more or less like that which could be bought
at any corner grocery store for cents
cake. The Marine Hospital again came to
time and admitted that they had been
barking under the wrong tree.
X
Then 1t was conclusively proved that
the yellow fever germ was elusive enough
to go through a Berkefeld filter. which will
strain out any known germ. 1t was found
that blood from a yellow fever patient
could be passed through one OF these filters
and be to all appearances perfectly free
and uncontaminated, and yet would con-
vey yellow fever to healthy subject.
All the work and experiments 1t took to
reach this and other conclusions about the
disease would make interesting volume.
You certainly ought to know all about the
mosquito work down at Columbia barracks,
in Cuba, and how the responsibility for car
rying the disease was finally fixed on the
mosquito, and how sixteen volunteers all
submitted to being given yellow fever
through mosquito bites. 1t is true all of
them fortunately got well, but 1t was
fine an exhibition of nerve as has ever
been shown in the cause of humanity or
science.
But that Is where the chase of the yell
low fever germ has stopped, at least for
the time being. The conclusion of those
best qualified to know IS that either the
fever is transmitted by some micro-organ-
ism entirely different from the average
bacteria, or else that 1t is ultra-microscopic
and outside the reach of the most powerful
lenses that We can now bring to bear on it.
However, 1t stands at present a s the one
important germ that has kept away from
psychologists, and that is something worth
knowing"
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beach. OF this sum, $500 goes to Mr.. Ste
vens and $3.50 to Waterman. All but $50
of the balance is used for the running eX-
penses of the beach during the open
season. and this is not enough. according to
the superintendent. Last year there was
spent about 500 over and above the amount
appropriated and this sum Is to be deducted
this year; consequently Mr. Stevens finds
himself not only broke, but $3.50 in debt.
All of these things have induced him to cut
the open season down to 80 days and reduce
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-28
WHEN O'KANEIIAD
THE TIME OF HIS LIFE

with wreaths of flowers on their heads,
emerged from the church, conveyed by
white-robed nun. The little girls had just
been making their first communion. AS
they passed by him OKane's hand went
into his trousers pocket and he pulled out
handful of gold. To each of the little
girls he gave a $40 gold piece, and to the
nun two of them. In return each of the
little girls gave Commandant OQuieano
a flower from her wreath. and Mike SOL
EMMY tucked the flowers away in his
shirt.
Just the little girls were disappear
ing around the corner, O'Kane standing
watching their disappearance. a greaser
who had been up to San Francisco and
heard some rag time there walked along,
playing an American jiggle-tnne on one
of those big Mexican jewsharps. That
was too much for Commandant OQuie-
amos feet. He executed a breakdown on
the plaza of the church for twenty min
utes. and then. said the ensign, disap-
peared around the corner with mob of
the populace that would willingly have
made him Emperor of Mexico.
Our next news of OKane came aboard
on the following day in the shape of
natty little lieutenant of the Mexican
regular infantry, wearing more gold lace
than any admiral in full dress. Unto the
skipper this little Mexican army officer
related with many gesticulations. a ter
TUylnk story Oh q huge IndulaCal AIneTi-
cano wearing portion of the uniform of
a marine of the United States navy, who
had sW ,oped down upon forty-two SOL
diers of the Mexican army in Acapulco
for the annual maneuvers, as they sat
peaceably a their pulque in a tavern the
night before. and who had knocked the
heads of each and all of them together,
impartially but to the permanent injury
of their skulls.
"'Forty-two you sayT inquired the
skipper. not unnaturally surprised.
The number had been no less, the natty
lieutenant of Mexican infantry replied
Were not the entire forty-two at this
hour in the hands of the surgeon, their
poor, bruised heads-the lieutenant spoke
very movingly-swaddled In miles and
miles of bandages?
Well said the skipper-and I grfeve
to say that he winked in a most undig
nitied manner at the executive officer
what do you want me to dOY
The lieutenant was only instructed to
make the commanding officer the most
respectful salutations of his general and
to inquire if it would be desirable and
convenient for the so-much beloved COM
manding officer to detach the gigantic
Americana with the Gargantuan strength
and jag-frOm the confines of the
public of Mexico thereby insuring peace
and unmutilated carcases to the citizens
thereof.
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This Is a poor, barren outline of that
progressive drunk Of OKane's in Acapulco.
On the ninth day of Mikes absence the
skipper became really worried lest O'Kane
should fail to show up IN time to escape
the deserters brand The result of the
shippers worriment was that 1 was sent
ashore at the head of the marine guard Of
the ship to get Mike.
Il established a chain guard, and we
gradually closed in on O'Kane and besieged
him IN a two-story 'dobe. He had the
downstairs door stoutly barricaded when he
saw US coming, and he leaned out of the
second-story window and RECALLED US with a
most rollcking ballad when l demanded
his surrender on pain Of having the doors of
his hosts house broken in. There We're then
but two hours remaining for Mike before
he would be declared a deserter from the
ship. He suddenly disappeared from the
window. few moments later his host
opened the front door of the 'dobe and in
Vited us in. Commandant O'Quieano? Oh,
the commandant had departed He had
gone only moment before I'VE had entered.
And so Mike had We spent the night
securing the town for him, and then, baf-
fed, put off to the ship. l was con-
templating much wrath in my commanding
officers eyes over my failure to spring
O'Kane.
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bathers shall be checked and cared for
without charge.
Bathing suits will be kept for hire at
the following rates: Fifteen cents for
adults suits in two pieces with one towel;
10 cents for each youths suit, with one
towel; cents for care of suit, each, dur
ing bathing season; % cents for each suit
kept and cared for at the bathing beach
after the bathing season; for the exclusive
use of a dressing room for one hour and
a half, % cents"
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GERM CHASER DISCOURSES
ON YELLOW FEVER GERM
Gives Few Pointers to the Receptive Listener
That Are New to Many PeopIe-fiot Air
Not All of It Merry War.

did you know said the man who chases
germs for a living, that they had never
succeeded in isolahng the parasite of yell
low fever"
NO. I didn't" said the Receptive Listen
or and It don't seem to me 1t would
make a whole lot of difference TO the peo-
pie in this latitude II they never did"
THAT shows all you know about It," said
the Germ Chaser. 1T Is really one Of the
most interesting facts OF modern science. I
suppose at least you have heard that the
mosquito is generally considered 10 be the
distributing agent of the disease?' There
was SO much Of scOrn in the inquiry that
the Rec ptive Listener was forced 10 bluff
and say that he had heard some rumOrs
20 that effect.
We'll" said the Germ Chaser. that Is
n far as they have gone. and l am much
minded that II is as far they will get
till some one invents a new microscope
that Will show things a good deal smaller
than we can look at now.
but the fact Is there has been merry
war going on for some years past between
the Marine Hospital Service and the army
medical corps as to the isolation of the yell
low fever germ. 1t has been the subject of
enough newspaper articles by people who
knew nothing about IT to I'LL a good-sized
volume that could have been devoted to
better cause.
Know how long yellow fever has been
known as a disease2'
There was no way OF four-hushlng out Of
this. and the r. l.. confessed he did not
Then III tell you said the Germ EX
pert 1T was about 213 Il. c., during the
siege OF Syracuse, and there was afterward
epidemic in Rome But that is too far
out of date to matter very much Yellow
fever did not really get In Its work on the
modern community till along In sixteen
rod "a ODD hs4 hon frar y1r1g had
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when Mike had been gone from the
ship some three hours, a Greaser brought
the mail off to the ship in Mikes bag, but
there was no sign of OKane. The master
at-arms-Jimmy Legs. the bluejackets call
him-was sent ashore to fetch O'Kane
back to the ship. dead or alive. Four hours
later the baffled Jimmy Legs returned to
the ship and reported to the officer of the
deck-your obliged servant to command
that there was neither hide nor hair of
O'Kane within or without the precincts OF
Acapulco. Nor, went on the Legs. had any
OF the natives, men, women, children or
dogs, clapped so much as an eye on the
honored Commandant O'Quieano.
That's what they tell me, anyhow
added the Legs. in an aside to me. But
I seen two or three 'dobes RACED to the
ground, and O'Kana's cap was smoldering
In the ruins of one of EN-. But they swore
that it was an earthquake that leveled
the 'dObes
Il conveyed the news of the master-at-
arms fruitless quest of Mike to the COM
handing officer. The skipper was just
after eating luncheon, and consequently
II philosophical frame of mind
Have the sergeant of marines pick
me out another mail orderly he said.
Perhaps he added, regarding me with
slow smile-'perhaps this-er-little lapse
was coming to OKane, anyhow. Man with
a spotless record. But the whelp might
have asked for liberty. However, Wen
let him be for the present. I'll have a lit
tie heart-to-heart talk with Mike when
he returns aboard