New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-01-21
GATHERED ABOUT TOWN.

Many are the devices and surely many are
needed) that the photographers have to get child
to ''be good while his picture is being taken one
pins his faith to stuffed bird that he hangs near
the camera. Watch birdie. Hear him sing, ne says
to the child TO get the attention and look OF interest
desired Another favorite device is little elephant
Look at the elephant shut his eye" he says TO
the child. The third has brilliant red picture
A bright boy of five the other day was having MS
picture taken at 5th-ave: studio and al me
devices of the photographer 70 keep MN sun We're
little Eaii III box He put it on top of his
camera and began making the Jack appear. ms ms
Coy quiet he started to pose him Everything went
er s and np put the cloth over head Il to
the picture man." the boy eriea; ny ny oTar -
look at him." came the reply, hes SO homely.
! "I suppose every college has tradition about
student once stealing the presidents horse, said
graduate of one of the New-England colleges at
his club the other night, ''but think have new
version. There two students in class
in the late co.'s, so 1 told when I was an
undergraduate. who night wanted to go 20
city about ten miles distant from the institution.
The only way that hour to drive. and So
they took 'prexys' horse and carriage. Next day
they came by train but left the rig in the city
There was great oqt 4Ed for days Ths
a gift from friend who since had died.
city tSat Read about the theft He Immediately con-
left there BY some 0Ge he did not know, and thus
the animal got back The story got into print one
the late co.'s. reading II to me. Ny class
was rs. He began to laugh immoderately. My sus-
Tor the first time did learn that the hero or villain
this brother OF mine
Chester c. Mercury OF Boston. was an arrival on
the steamer City OF Washington from Colon Mr..
Mercury who Is a hardwood importer. has made
business trips through the Central American re-
publcs on an average Of four five times year
for dozen years. Seen at the GiIsey House, Mr..
Mercury said: II have traversed the Nicaragua
Canal route many times. and have crossed the 18TH
mus between Panama and Colon probably hun
bred times. feel that know that country, and
have noted with surprise that as yet no apparent
canal construction 10 improve the sanitary cOndi-
tons along the proposed canal route. as prOtec-
ton against yellow fever except 10 equip the houses
with screens to bar cut the mosquitoes. That Is
the root OF the matter Malaria that is bred in
the miasma OF the swamplandS is foreTunner OF
attacked, the mere barricadeS against mosquitoes
lives of those who MUST visit the canal zons are
menaced. II the canal Is 10 be sea level one, and
remembered that SiOOOooOOO less was estimated as
the cost of the Nicaragua Canal including its
maintenance for ten years.
John p. MacEwen, OF San Francisco, arrived a
few days ago from Jamaica. on his way from
South America. Seen at tho Waldorf. Mr.. Mac
Even said: Il left San Francisco in August to
Investigate the nitrate producing district OF Chilli
/ went by coastwise steamer to Panama. where I
reshpped for valparaiso-a total distance of sixty
six hundred miles. After visit TO Santiago. the
capital returned TO Valparaiso and went up the
coast nine hundred miles to Iquique. which is one
OF the ports from which large quantities OF nitrate
are shipped. The nitrate beds on the pampas
elevated plains that parallel the for about
six hundred miles, and have breadth OF sixty to
seventy miles The nitrate lies in a body from
| SIX to eighteen feet thick immediately below the
grass roots and is from 81 10 80 per cent pure. The
richness OF the CHILEAN deposits may be measured