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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-16

.,nuu,. Building activities are scarcely re-
gr5ed by the advancing season, new permits being
sses their stocks nearing exhaustion. Ra lway
l..Snings steadily show gains over last years hy-
e for December thus far exceeding those of 1H0
ireS, a rer cent Foreign commerce returns for No
Msbsr made much better exhibit as to EXPO Is
:hsaasftIffs which surpassed all monthly records
M over years st this port for the last eek
si go while IMPORTS decreased SI.4a 6.o93 Money
yea s r1fed FIRM al hough les abnormal, ~ SO, and
sasar;ties have continued very active and strong
senesjdering the greatly reduced bank resers es
&c cent larger than in the same week last year
Rsle at other leading cities the gain averaged sc
psr cent.
.s,adsareets" says:
holiday trade has absorbed attention this week.
ID reports from al over the country are Unani-
fhu that all records for this stage of the season
5 ,e% been surpassed In retail trade proper there
!. some complaint Of mild weather retarding sales
MET except whore liberal recorders for holiday
HoSss have reached jobbers from retailers. The
49, FOR by first hands, while jobbers making
~ special sales OF goods adapted 10 the season
sip-nfacf,ring industry is still active as ever,
s1assbje in this respect being iron and steel, but
seHess active. Finished products note dinninu-
- n demand and certainly no reduction in high
--1cural material Some western nllIis baXe tlelr
f+fre rail production for 1906 already sold. Mild
s.atser has favored freer shipments of coal from
rrsres and retarded consumption, thus helping
.ale~s TO provide against winter conditions later
N Coke offerings are more liberal cars are sun
ss.srce special complain being made by the iron
f--1her and grain trades but are claimed to be IN
sstter supply west Of the Missouri. with no i'm
rrsnd with rates somewhat easier Collections are
5rszular. varying with weather ana transportation
..s5dtions. Grain, especially new corn and wheat
oTse mere literally. with some effect on values.
rraTsign trade in November was a record breaker
ty that month, with breadstuffs showing the Iarg-
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BOSTON STOCKS,

... $34a. 296, oo1 s848, 4sa, 4s5 $500. a81. T85
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-16

For Porto Ri@0o
Juan direct. foliows;
s PHILADELPHIA Saturday December % noon
S. s. CARACAS Saturday. January q
For freight o passage apply
BOCITON BLISS & DALLETT.
General Managers. - Nau St
Up 70 date STYLES, lowest possible prices for
reliable Furs c. C. Shayne, manufacturer, 41si
and 42d SITS,
sstsssn Broadway and eth an.
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sRound lots.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-16
Lost and Found.

GOLD BULLION RECEIPT LosT-A receipt issued
" by the United States assay once az NeM-York CITY
State Of New-York No 277, T. 1905, for Eight
and So-100 gold bullion payable to Lyman
King order has been lost; the public cautioned
10 negotiate the the has
been stopped United States Assay ONCE
Dated NeN--York City, N Y. Dec. 18TH 1905.
LYMAN s. KING. owner.
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Second call
Thursday.

Quotations for foundry at the Il a. m and l:i5
n calls yesterday compare with the final prices
:, Thursday as fellows:
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T osT.-wednesday evening. mans Swiss Patek watch
il split hand. partly worn fob; teward II re-
turned Address PATEK Box Al, Tribune Office
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Reasonable Returns

with sound security assured in many west
ern enterprises in which personally In
terested. OF which know through cur
banking institutions there. We do not handle
advise mining prospects: but the agri-
cultural. numbering grazing and transportation
industries in Idaho ard adjoining territory offer
numerous opportunities for the safe investment
of money at comparatively high interest. Our
direct knowledge Of the field may be 10 your
advantage, If You will call on or write US,
W. r. HURLBUT s. CO.,
Hanover Bank Building. New York.
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get back her old Job. was up against the
problem Of beginning at the foot Of the
ladder, when past middle life, TO support
herself. II is such cases as this which
scare OF some women from marrying and
incite 80 many others TO az themselves for
economic independence.
L was interested 10 learn from the stalls
tics Of the National Commissioner Of Educa-
ton that in the three years from 1889 20
1902 the increase IN the number Of college
women was 1891 per cent. as against an
increase Of 90 per cent. Of men.
Assuming that marriage IL on the de-
cline or has been for the last decade or
30, nature is going TO resent this unnatural
order Of things sooner or later and event
ually there will be conditions under which
women may marry and yet maintain their
economic independence
Meanwhile do you not think It Il true
that woman IL crowding man out Of the
money making occupations7E
sOn the whole, no. Some women may
have driven some men out Of some occu-
patton, but every time a woman gets
work Il does not mean that necessarily
som, one man IL pushed out Of that place,
~Eo.' instance the proportion Of school,
teachers and principals in the public schools
Is double what II used 10 be. and many
persons believe that the women do the
better work. Then, too, in the majority
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Of the low priced occupations whore en-
ployees are recruited from the lower social
ranks women greatly predominant,
But look at the other side Of the Quss-
tion,
The most famous dressmakers and
milliners In the world are men Everybody
who can afford 1t employs, preferably, a
man cook and displaces waitress TO make
way for a butler. In the hotels and higher
grade boarding houses only men walters
are wanted.
Then the many recent inventions have
increased tremendously the number Of
bread winning occupadc Is open to men.
More than 900 900 men, am told, are
employed by electrical concerns alone.
Therefore, II woman drives man by her
cheaper labor out Of certain occupations,
II is only because there are othsr ocoupa-
lions which he alone can take W, and In
the case Of the higher occupations md the
professions II would seem 70 be q question
Of the survival Of the fittest
1T must be admitted that woman "a fast
catching up with man In her abil ty as a
wage Garner and that the transitional process
through which she has been passing from
an unpaid laborer TO one who must be
reokoned with on something like an equal
money b4sis shows plainly that she has
made and viii continue to make a steady
Effort In the direction Of economic indie
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'oh, moi could never get up my courage
70 get of my feet were IL not for this
trolley
only beginners,' explained the teacher,
fare allowed 10 use the trolley. After three
or four OF FIVE lessons-the number depends
on the oleverness Of the pupn-they must
strike out and keep GhoAt without it,
of course they would never learn self
reliance II they always had q machine 10
hold them up. But while practising the
correct arm and leg movements the trolley
is invaluable and saves practising them
first on land, which many pupils are obliged
to do when learning by the old system.
After one more Lesson by trolley this
pupil will have 70 get along without IT.
and the pupil heard and shook her head
regretfully.
'In my Judgment the teacher went on,
twenty minutes, no longer. IL the proper
time for a lesson, and quite long enough
for any one to stay in still water heated to a
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pendence.r
Does this upward movement not In
dictate that In time woman will surpass
man In many lines Of work2'
L would hardly say that II certainly
does mean, though, an upsetting Of old
fashioned ideas as TO what constitutes a
woman's work, and, perhaps, a different
adjustment Of the work of some men and
some women. both married and single
If the present ratio Of the increase In
college women keeps on indefinitely, is il
not going 20 be difficult for a large per-
centage OF women to find oongenial mates7
Will not the teacher Of Greek be obliged
20 marry a chef or a man milliner II she
would enjoy welded blissl'
"Eow, for mercy's sake, don't ask me
70 solve any matrimonial riddles!' said
Mrs. Gait, with a despairing wave Of the
hand. Il am not a matrimonial prophet.
There Ia no telling what may happen.
In the old days highly educated and quite
distinguished men thought they had a
treasure when they secured a wife who
knew how 70 cook we'll, 10 get up a fine
dinner unaided, and, apparently, they were
perfectly oontented with the partnership.
At any rate, they seldom sought divorce
80, who knows but that the coming
woman Of high mental attainments will be
equally delighted 20 secure an accom-
plished chef for a husband1'
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temperature Of IS degrees, which II the
required degere for inside work.
Some pupils learn to swim fairly well In
eight lessons, others take twelve lessons,
some even more.
The first, second and third arm move
ments are easy enough. It's when the com
bined arm and leg movements begin that
progress il slower. Any one, however,
really In earnest about learning 20 swim
may often work wonders by practising the
proper movements slowly and carefully
and over and over again at home before
going to a swimming pool.
After these movements are learned
II is confidence and self-rehanoe more
than anything else which make q good
swimmer. Women are naturally more
tirnid In the water than men, but of the
thousands Of pupils We taught last season
there was only one woman who could not
learn TO swim.
'She tried TO learn to please her husband,
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the end Of one rope was q big hook which
was slid by the teacher into a steel loop
In the center OF the back Of the pupils
harness. The other rope he held fast.
During the lesson he gave minute direo-
tions about how to use both arms with
equal facility In swimming, but he never
once entered the water and the pupil seemed
TO need no other aid.
When her feet left the bottom OF the tank
she was suspended securely from tho trolley
at exactly the level for correct swimming
and to prevent her from swallowing water.
Relieved Of course from fear Of going to
the bottom, the swimmer struck out in
obedience to directions, which sent the
trolley spinning At = lively gait along the
steel wire.
isn't IL jolly'" the young woman ex-
claimed at the turn, tucl1ing back lock OF
hair out Of her eyes. Il am not the least
bit afraid, and am learning the strokes
splendidly.
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trolley has for nearly a year been included
In the equipment Of the largest swimming
tank there, IL IL declared that women pupils
without exception absolutely refuse to try
any other method at the start.
This trolley said one teacher. 'is away
past the experimental stage. It has come
10 stay.
There lie little woman taking a lesson
now who never in the world, she told me,
could have got up her courage TO learn to
swim but for that trolley, Go in and take
a look at her
The little woman referred to, clad In
a bathing suit Of pale gray brliantine
trimmed with red, was standing at the end
Of a tank forty feet long, while her teacher
fastened around her harness made Of stout
leather straps which passed around her waist
and under her arms.
High above the tank from end to end ran
a stout wire, and along this slid a trolley
from which dangled couple Of ropes. On
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and most spills are unexpected. Mothers
who once warned their small children away
from the water are now sending them to be
taught swimming, and they themselves
are taking lessons.
There are all sorts OF ways 10 learn to
swim, but as a rule the average city woman
prefers 70 make her debut in an indoor.
fresh water swimming tank, and some
women, particularly the very timid, prefer
at the start the trolley method. which sus-
tains a pupil in the water without the near
pres snce Of an instructor.
Proprietors Of swimming schools differ
as to the relative value OF the trolley and
the old fashioned way Of teaching. For
instance, in Manhattan. where a swimming
trolley IL hard to find, teachers are inclined
TO frown upon the method, declaring that it
is wiser for beginner to have an instructor
at her side, even in tank. upon whom
alone TO depend
In Brooklyn, on the other hand. where a
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She has a chair In the middle Of row o,
and every one has taken pains TO get there
before her.
She works her velveteen skirt securely
away from itS moorings at the place where
things come together In the back, and
catches her opera glass, her lorgnette, her
purse, her boa, her mum against the waistcoat
buttons Of irate and upright men, and on
the eyeglasses, hats, fans, laces and pro-
grams Of pressed back, half sitting, In
dignant women.
The symphony has begun and the dimin-
uendo il well on. All the seasoned concert
goers have their eyes fixed on the most
remote point in the ceiling attainAble by
the human optic.
It was a shabby thing Of the man In the
seat next 20 hers 10 leave his London
umbrella leaning like a half shut draw
bridge from bis seat, He docs not like TO
have II snapped In twain by the onslaught
Of the lady. II makes a noise and she
tumbles helplessly into her scat. wondering
II ever again she can twist herself into a
comfortable position and be sure Of the
whereabouts Of the different portions Of
her attire.
There IL a deficiency IN her proportions.
Her legs were not made 10 fit the seat Of the
orchestra chair. To be exact, they do not
reach the floor She has noticed this
deficiency before, but now 1t Il accumulated
by the sidelong twist she has given her
velveteen skirt.
The gentleman Immediately behind takes
this time 10 lean forward and inquire II she
will kindly remove her hat.
She raises her velveteen arms obediently
70 still-hunt for her hatpins and down goes
her opera glaEs with a bang. followed by
her muh and pocket handkerchief. The
gentleman on her right knows be ought to
pick them up, but be remembers his broken
umbrella and looks the other way with a
anil.
The man on her left makes a dive and
spends some moments feeling about under
the seats with his neatly gloved fingers.
She thanks him IN a hushed whisper a. be
omerEos and deposits the eTTing. articles
A her lap.
she oontinuas-tozforaro. sha-shstuina5
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There are Ave Of them IN braided gridiron
through her pompadoured hair. And yet
the newspapers are fun Of letters from In
dignant man, inquirtnG why woman does
not remove her headgearin public plaoesi
She pulls out one and puts itin her mouth
II Is a deadly menace to the life and safety
Of all around. The man on her right shud-
ders and imaginary remnants q his UNI
brella pierce his soul.
This IL but beginning. She pulls out .
second a third. a fourth, nth. and sticks
them 10 her belt. She gives hor hat pre-
monitory shake to see II II u loossning
from its moorings.
The Pyramids themselves are not more
firmly embedded. There must DO another
pin.
But wheref The people around to q
radius Of three seats deep are becoming
Interested. She blushes 10 a crimson hue
and ties 10 screen herself behind the tall
woman in front.
Several more things slide down her lap
and find a noisy resting place upon the
floor. Nobody picks them up. The hat
occupies tho center Of the stage. The lime
light Of attention IL focused upon Il.
She feels cautiously about underneath
the flowers and at the roots Of the feathers.
No pin. She gives q yank TO her hat, there
by unsettling the foundations Of her hAiE.
Hat and hair are still inseparably united.
Where is that Turing will o. the wisp,
the knob Of the last hatpin' She plJmges
wildly among puts and frills, tearing lace
and ripping velvet. Her shining. we'll
groomed tresses tremble at the onslaught.
The hat retains them IN its orablil<e grip.
The program goes on with undiSturbed
serenity bet what IL that TO herr Il 10
easier TO play trombone OF lEettledrums than
Kindly TO remove her hat
She notes the baldheaded man In the
scat next the aisle resting his polished pate
upon thoughtful hand. and feeling Of
unchristian envy EnaWs within her. HE
hat comes Oh and on at will
The gentlemsn behind IL getting restless
because he cannot 80 the Eyrations of
the conductor and'tho faossthat the haut-
boy-playors mahoA jnayB thlnnlnp Tho
rWlthShimss hSuSsll1 pmtsds l1iF.
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and Psyche knot at the nApe Of her neck
are lessons to her sisters. Her hat was
fastened by q rubber band and lee quietly
In her lap, IL u q vague construction,
with uncertain outlines, and was probably
Of English origin.
But wait. The structure Il yielding. The
fervor Of contest iA-renSWed. The daylight
Of triumph looms.
Suddenly, Unexpectedly, ths frrssponal-
bic source Of trouble, the elusive hatpln,
gives q leap into the afr and lands in the
back Of the lady In front. She, quiverinR
with agony, gives q muf1ed shrek and turns
and glsres at her unwilling antagonist.
The gentleman whose umbrella was
broken sympathetioally plucks the weapon
out and returns IL to the owner with
steady stare Of disapproval. She tries TO
murmur APOLOGIZE 10 the victim, whose
companion rubs her between the shoulders
and coldly ignores all proffers Of assistance
General attention is again focused on the
lady, this time With marked diGappro-
baton.
But calm has come. The hat IL OF, and
makes another object 10 be guarded IN
her limited lap.
Her hair is In Wild confusion. Somebody
hands her a program and she tg4na 10 get
Der bearings. In vain. A mist 10 before
her eyes and her spirit has been auelled.
The program is Inscribed within a small
space. and advertisements Of hair oil, con-
fectionery, soaps, theaters, photographers
and kindred matter, loom large before her
uncertain vision.
She gives u up and sits -meskly through
largo, scherDo and preSto-looking forward
70 the end, the time when the dilapidAted
hat will again have 10 b welded on
and her scattered belongings CROPPED for In
the Stllmsas Of the forsa1ep hall
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but II was no use. She had bad oass Of
nerves and excessive fear Of the water
combined.
Almost any one can learn TO swim, and
in my opinion every one ought TO learn
the simpler points, anyway. Fancy swim
ming and long distance feats are Just as
we'll left to men, / think.
A woman should always swim slowly
deliberately, and learn, above all things, TO
float on her back, which 10 the easiest posi-.
ton OF all. II Is lot easier to swim In salt
water than in a fresh water tank; therefore
pupils who learn indoors improve tre-
mendously just as soon as they get into
salt water.
For that reason our rule here, when
the season is far enough advanced to make
Il practicable Is TO take adult pupils who
have learned TO swim fairly we'll in patches
Of twenty-five, with four instructors, 10
the seashore and give them a practise
swim to float some distance from the
shore and back
we are teaching m ore youngsters than
usual just now. one little girl Of and q
boy Of Q being among the most proficient
The little girl cut up awfully at the frst
lesson, and only because her mother was
determined she should learn and begged
me 70 continue the lessons did consent
TO 60 on.
"No, since we have used the trolley I
do not 60 into the tank at all. Even after
the lessons cut the trolley out Of practise
/ issue all my directions from the edge Of
the tank ready Of course to drop in at q
seconds notice II necessary. But 1t never
lie necessary, and most women find prefer
not 10 have an instructor in the tank with
them and like the newer method Of teach
ing swimming better than the old.
Time Is up guiding as he spoks the
swimmer in the tank toward the steps.
Really was the answer. why, Idont
believe have been here more than ten
minutes. It doesn't seem any longer
anyway, for the reason, l suppose, that
was not the least bit scared and am not
at all tired
-One Of the newer movements 1 am
teaching 70 women ts called the crawl
stroke said a Manhattan instructor IT
is a hand over hand movement not unlike
that made by fly In crawling, and II takes
one through the water easily and at good
speed.
sBy the way he added, Il tell all ny
pupils who are ambitious 70 learn TO swim
in a hurry to have their suit made Of bril-
ianttne or mohair, which lie not so heavy
as flannel nor such an impediment 10 free
movement as Ii silk
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A voman's leading characteristics are
fapt to show up plainly when she il learning
20 swim. In this respect swimming re-
sembles card playing.
There Is the woman who, the instant her
feet leave terra firma. sei1es her teacher
I'm q drowning grasp, paying no heed to
his repeated assurances that be can and
will keep her head above water. Another
type Is the lmow-it-all woman who, as she
wades In for her first lesson, remarks
blithely to the teacher:
you need not touch me. am sure l
know the trick Of keeping my head out Of
water without help" The next instant
. choking and struggling. she abandons the
attaunpt to learn swimming In a rage be-
cause the instructor took her at her word.
Instructors, by the way, generally do take
beginners at their word, 1t is the quickest
way known, they say. to bring the know
it-alls TO terms,
There is also the woman 90 constitu-
tionally timid that lesson il piled upon les
son before she Ia able OF willing to try an
independent stroke. Her teacher may not
leave her side once for the fraction OF
lssoond and she Is inclined TO lay her in
k2Dtuty 70 learn AZ MS oOOIs Lu SphhNouSS
abe tells her friends that she doesn't think
much Of him as teacher.
Then, few and far between, are the mod
1satly self-reliant women, willing to take
advice and to do the same thing over and
over again, 40 the face Of repeated failures
II h women of this type who are the solaoe
Of every swimming teacher and the most
likely TO come out OF the swimming school
knowing a trihe about swimming.
Strange to say, though, the woman
apparently willing and determined 70 follow
her teachers commands IL In the minority
among the Tremendously large number
Of Women-Women Of leisure, business and
professional women, who are now taking
10 swimming e. they once took 20 golf.
That golf is an old story Is perhaps the
reason, whereas the woman who can float,
swim, dive from the end Of pier or arow-
boat Is still regarded as something Of q
prodigy.
One reason given for the unusually large
number Of recruits to the swimming schools
Of late IL the Slocum disaster Of last sum-
mer. Since that time, thousands OF per
sons who never gave the matter q moment'1
thought before have determined that II
would be a good thing 20 know at least
the trick Of keeping ones head above water
IN case Of an unexpected spill far from land.
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sAslbVVllS eorrespoAdsAes Indianapolis Nsos.
A nno driving horhe owned by Clarence
Hldebrand and a larEs bull we're In a field
near Martha when the bull. baooning In
furiated. GorOd the horss.
A nsrcs nGht took piAos which resulted IN
ths death Of the here. ThosssHho saw the
asAs ss,S@D.:S = ':g,.a.se aa.Hasl.e p.