East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-15
NEW YORK LETTER.

New York, Dec. 15.-For ecenomi-
cal methods and novel as we'll COM
mend us to the Scandinavian liner |
Hellig Olav, which went aground on |
an uncharted rock near the Kattegat. |
\ small hole was torn in the hull, and |
the captain set the pumps going, and
a run was made for Copenhagen, but
before he got there the captain found
that he had pumped the ship dry. He
couldn't account for this until an ex-
animation revealed the fact that six
cells and a founder animated by a
high sense of sympathetic duty, had
allowed themselves to be sucked into
the hole, sticking there, and saving the
ship at the cost of their lives. plugging
the hole so nicely and completely that
not a drop of water oozed through.
In rapt admiration of their per-
formance the captain and crew, think
ing that they should be given suita-
BILE sepulchre, ate them, each and
every one and found them extremely
tender and toothsome. what with the
strain that had been made upon their
fibres. This is said to be the best way
to prepare eels for eating purposes
1t is probable that ships will not make
sail hereafter until they have several
packages of live eels in stock to be
applied to any hole that the perils Of
the sea may have punched into their
hull, and after the ship is saved to
be devoured by the sailors as delic-
ious relief from the steady diet OF
hard tack.
Taste in Literature.
More people in New York read sub
stantial and deep books than has gen.
orally been supposed. over 100000
persons applied at the Astor library
last year for works of pure science
and applied science while $1,000 calls
were made for works of history, and
mostly for foreign history. People
have not been paying much attention
to geography. Only $4,000 more ap-
piled for works of literature than for
works of science.
Epidemic OF Colds.
New Workers are paying the penal
ty for enjoying the Subway. Never
before were there so many suffering
from colds af greater or less degree
in this city than there are now. These
colds were caught in the Subway or
in the rapid change of temperature
while going in or coming out of the
hole in the ground. The trains car
ried one day this week $4,000 pas
sengers so that TIE system supplies a
need, and is not to be sneezed at as
work Of utility. but it is being
! sneezed at very freely as a producer
of colds and chills and by a great
number of persons every day.
| The sufferers don't leave their
sneezes at the Subway, but carry them
all over the city, and create almost
as much alarm and CONSERVATION as
/ the eHrald's boy whose stertorous
nose scatters so many persons and
| things. 1t would be interesting to
know how many have just escaped
having their noses Topped off or their
threats slit in the barber shops as
their sneezing was about to fling them
upon the keen razor in the shaver's
hand.
No matter how the fight for the
mayoralty may terminate, 1t will lead
to two important results; in the first
place, It is pretty safe to predict that
Mr.. Hearst will be an independent
candidate for governor at the next
election; in the second place, there Is
scarcely any doubt, that the Munich
pal Ownership league has come to
stay and that in the future 1t will
be an important factor to re reckon
ed with In municipal and state poll
itics. The friends OF Mr.. Hearst, first
among them Mr.. Hearst himself are
already laying the wires for his fu-
ture gubernatorial candidacy.