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Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08

George Washington Harvey, the IA
nous epicure and restaurant keeper
| of Washington, who has sold his bust
ness and will retire to contemplate al
his ease his fifty years of good eating
and drinking for both himself and his
patrons, is Il very short and very fat
man, says a Washington special dis
patch to the New York World. He
has not been well for year or two.
but he has been around all the time
telling his friends what delicacies he
found In market and advising them
how to get their selections cooked.
Harvey had three specialties. He
considered all food except the oyster,
the canvasback duck and the terrapin
mere raw materials, with which results
sometimes most gratifying could be ac-
complished. Ducks, oysters and terra
Creator to mankind, and he devoted
most of his research and knowledge of
the culinary art TO serving these.
His bill of fare contained almost 200
oyster dishes, many of them unique.
If Il good dinner were needed and Har-
vey were asked about ii, he would al
ways select oysters-and he had some
special beds-terrapin cooked in his
own style and a duck When canvas
backs were not plentiful and good he
served others, but the pinnacle of his
accomplishment was with a canvas
back.
Harvey knew every famous or nota-
BILE or noticeable American who came
to Washington. The reputation Of his
steamed oysters is universal. Almost
every stranger in the city hustled down
to his place to get half peck or a peck
of steamed. Harvey invented this meth
cd of cooking oysters. His steamed
barr has been manned for years by
the same walters. His sauce Is his
own invention also.
When people wanted to have a real
terrapin for dinner they usually went
to Harvey, for he bad the genuine east
ern shore diamond backs in bis cellar.
There are plenty of things that pass for
terrapin among the uninitiated. There
is a Pennsylvania terrapin that can be
had by the ton. Harvey knew all the
tricks, but when he told you he would
give you terrapin you got diamond
back, and you paid for it. But that is
another story. Harvey had grip on
the diamond back market. He gather
ed in most of the toothsome turtles that
came this way. When the canvasbacks
began flying south Harvey got the pick
of the market.
He was joyous when fixing up a din
ner. He kept his walters for years.
BILLY" has been there more than thirty
years and John Scott nearly as long.
"Uncle Peter" who died a year or two
ago, had been opening oysters at the
raw box" more than forty years.
Some of the cooks have been there
more than quarter of a century.
Harvey used to waddle up and down
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08

An ideal high school, equipped with
every appliance and convenience which
can add to the comfort and happiness
OF both pupils and teachers, is to be
erected in South Chicago by the board
of education. says the Chicago Tribune.
Under the roof OF the proposed model
high school, will be found everything
from a rest room for the wearied teach
ers to bowling alleys for the recreation
seeking pupils.
In building the high school no eXtrav-
agance is to be allowed. The building
when completed will cost no more than
any of the other high schools which
have been built recently. The luxuries
will be in the arrangement The school
boards architect, Dwight l.. Perkins,
completed the rough drawings the 9TH
er day. and before the final plans are
drawn teachers and principals from all
the high schools will be called into con-
ference.
Principal Charles l. Parker had a
conference with Architect Perkins and
carefully went over the tentative plan.
Mr. Parker urged that a bowling alley
should be added.
with tuberculosis everywhere, we
should do all we can to give the be. d.
and girls exercise which will develop
their lungs" he declared. THE use of
a bowling alley will give them splen-
did exercise. and it will keep the boys
away from the saloons, where they are
now compelled to go to bowl. 1t is nc
more wicked to roll balls down an alley
than to run races around a track in the
gymnasium
The new high school already has
been named after James III. Bowen.
1t will occupy the block along Eighty
ninth street between Marquette and
Manistee streets. Its dimensions will
be 293 feet by 314 feet. and it will
cost approximately 100000.
One OF the distinctive features of the
building will be the great lunchroom
to be built on the top floor instead of
in the basement. as In the other high
schools. This school restaurant, the
largest ever planned for a Chicago
school. will seat comfortably 75O pu-
pills.
The assembly hall, which will seat
1.20O, Is to be built on the ground
floor in the middle of the building. 1t
also will be provided with seven exits,
and gallery will run around 1t on the
level with the first floor. The assem-
bly, hall will be equipped with stage
large enough to accommodate 100 pu-
pills.
West of the lobby, on the main floor,
will be the principals reception room,
private Office and fireproof vault To
the east of the lobby will be the rest
fh1 20 fho
men teachers and one for the women.
The building will have eighteen large
class rooms. which will be lighted on
two sides-on the one side from the
street and on the other from a large
area In the front of the building on
each floor Will be the laboratories. The
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08

and decided to write the great Ameri-
can novel" Every young blade who
aspired to a career in letters has haF-
bored that dream of writing the great
American novel; 1t is as certain as
the measles or the mumps. Sinclair
not only dreamed of ii. but went about
the task, tearing through it at the same
mile a minute gait that he does most
of his work. Finally 1t was done. and
with high hopes he started to the pub
Usher. 1t was the old story. That par
ticular gatekeeper of the road to liter
airy eminence had no suspicion of fu-
ture "JungleS" wrapped up in this
young mans consciousness and sent
the story back. Then the manuscript
went the rounds. Ii is said that ii
made Il record in the matter OF rejec-
tons, having been passed UP more
times than any other tale ever offered.
All the book publishers in the country
had the privilege OF returning II win
thanks" Then the magazine editors
got whack at il and were quite as en-
thusiastic In rejecting it as had been
the book men. In the end ii had scored
the unprecedented number of thirty
seven refusals. Finally ii was publish
ed. and the public rejected 1t with a
unanimity greater than that of the
publishers and editors.
In the meantime the young man was
going through a Grub street." hand TO
mouth existence that was probably
even worse than that of his jungle"
hero. Jurgis. To make il all worse, he
had been married at the age of twenty
one to n beautiful girl named Meta II.
Fuller, daughter Of some sort of n
court clerk In New York All girls are
beautiful in newspaper stories, but this
one was really So Just how the two
ever lived none but themselves will
ever know, and they probably try to
forget II. Sinclair never had any mon
ey. Maybe 1t was against his princi-
piles. At any rate, he starved and
dreamed, then starved and dreamed
some more, and all the time continued
writing at a gallOp.
He told about all these struggles and
the agonies, rebellions and despairs be-
hind them in The Journal of Arthur
Stirling"-rather he took all his own
woes and combined them with those of
n chum. a struggling young poet and
put the double distilled quintessence of
both in his book SO realistic was that
literary wall that most of the critics
took 1t for true journal of some luck
less young Grub streeter," and the
hoax had quite a little run before the
discovery was made that 1t was only
fiction after all. Yet there was more
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08

n OOKS have often made crises.
They have created and precipi-
IL tated public sentiment. They
have called the nation to action.
Among such may be mentioned Thom-
as Paine's Common Sense" which
paved the way for the Declaration OF
Independence; Harriet Beecher Stoves
"Uncle Toms Cabin" which hurried
on the antislavery struggle, and Upton
Sinclair's The Jungle" which has
forced governmental action against the
beef trust.
Upton Sinclair looks like boy, and,
in fact, is boy, being not yet twenty
eight years of age. The slight down on
his cheek seems never TO have known
the touch of a razor. This impression
is accentuated by two or three color
less hairs longer than the rest, such as
those sometimes seen upon a woman's
face. Some scientist has predicted that
when the race reaches the heights of
real civilization men will be as beard
less as women. There are examples of
that sort even now. The poet idealist
Shelley, who seemed set down in the
world out of some age far advanced,
was one. Upton Sinclair, too, IS an
idealiSt, though a more practical and
militant one than was Shelley. He has
the same dream that was In the poets
heart, the dream of a gentler and more
humane civilization in which brother
hood will be q fact rather than a
preachers phrase. He looks on the
present era. as did Shelley on that Of
century ago, as veritable jungle,
wherein wild beasts in human form
tear each other with tooth and claw,
and he holds a vision of a nearing time
when the race shall have emerged from
that savage condition and when true
men and women. with every tiger
passion muzZled.' shall inhabit the
earth and direct its activities.
Regards Life With Joyous Outlook.
Sinclair's smile is boyish. Despite his
past struggles he has the joyous out
look on life, the appreciation and the
enthusiasm of a boy. He has met ad-
yersity, wrestled with it, overthrOwn
1t. but the battle has left no wrinkles
on his face and no bitterness in his
heart. Injustice may inspire hatred In
him, but not cynicism. Over the wrong
he has seen his dream of the right, and
that has kept him sweet. In defeat he
has had the consciousness of the power
TO win victory. and that has kept him
confident. He has dared TO believe
greatly In a cause. and his faith in this
larger thing made hardship seem insig-
nificant. His ideal was bigger than any
personality bigger even than himself.
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08

The EngIishman asked the Egyptian
captain of the boat. "Who owns this
grain?" The Egyptian captain said,
Il own IT." Then the EnGlishman ask
eu why ne let the birds eat up the
grain. The Egyptian asked the Eng
lishman, "NVho made the birds?' The
Englishman answered, God" The
Egyptian asked whether grain was a
food which God intended birds to eat.
The Englishman said it was. The
Egyptian said, Can the birds SOW and
raise the grain for themSelves?" The
Englishman said. They cannot" Then
said the Egyptian: Let them eat. God
has provided enough for both them and
us"
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08
How Things smell.

Gas is the fundamental basis of the
sense of smell, says DIR. John Aitken.
f. r. s., according to the Scientific
American. Berthelot says that one
one -hundredth of a quadrillionth of a
gram of musk can be detected by the
nose. DIR. Aitken has found that of
twenty-four odorous substances inves-
tigated not one gave Off its perfume in
solid particles; nothing but gases and
vapors escaped from any of them.
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08
Gold Safety Pin. For Socks.

One Of the famous physicians in New
York supports his socks with gold safe
ty pins attached to his drawers. says
the New York Press. The pins are set
with diamonds anil cost $500 each.
He uses four. He would not wear a
garter for million dollars, regarding
the Circular" as a hindrance to ample
circulation
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08

sinclair came out Ia an interview, In
which still stronger accusations We're
made; charges were hurled at the pack
ers by name, and he dared them TO
| bring libel suits. When they failed to
| take up the gauntlet thus thrown down
the public began to rub its eyes. In
the meantime President Roosevelt had
| read the book and sent for the author
Two Investigations were set on foot,
and Sinclair turned over to the investi-
gators all the material at hand. Sever
al times Mr.. Roosevelt and the author
of 1.-The Jungle consulted. Then the
public was suddenly startled by the re
port that the Beveridge bill for meat
inspection had been tackled on to the
agricultural appropriation bill and
crowded through the senate under the
threat that If 1t were not made Il law
the president would publish the find
ings of his Investigators. Rushing to
New York, Sinclair began his cam
paign of publicity, demanding that the
president give out the report whatever
was done with the Beveridge bill. At
last the public became aroused and
took hand.
A PrOdigiOus Worker.
The life of the young author has seen
about as many ups and downs as that
of most. He was born in Baltimore.
His parents are Virginians. and his ia
ther had gone TO the Maryland metrop-
oils as some sort of a fire insurance
agent. The boy advanced rapidly in
the public schools and graduated early
from the high school. Then he took a
course in the College of the City of
New York, paying his way by writing
jokes, stories or anything that would
sell for the papers and magazines.
When he was only seventeen he had
turned out tale of the dime novel.
"Deadeye Dick" variety. He was al
ways prOdigiouS worker, writing at
tearing rate, having been known to
turn out as much as 10000 words in
one day. Any one who knows anything
about literary work will realize just
how monumental II task this is. With
many writer's 1000 words are consld-
cred q fair days work. Young Sinclair
ran at this steam engine rate while in
school. Before he was twenty he had
sent out 4 mass of stuff equal in vol
ume TO the writings of Sir Walter
Scott
After finishing at the New York col
lege he took four years postgradu-
ate course at Columbia, still doing lit
erary hack" work. 1t is said that he
started on forty different courses and
practically dropped them all. Finally
at the age of twenty-five he left school
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08
Auto Mail Service In New Mexico

What is said to be the first direct con-
tract from the postal department for
the transportation Of mails in motor
cars has been let on route Ill miles
long between Roswell and Terrence, n.
NJ. Three motor cars are stipulated,
one trip each way daily being required.
The third car is for use in case Of ac-
cident to the others. The contract is
for five years.
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08
Model School Plan

gymnasium will be 4S by 112 feet. 1t
will be two stories high, the second
story being used for the running track
Over it. on the third story, will be the
large rooms where drawing will be
taught
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08

The black mare Nancy King, 2:13H,
T. B. Tucker of Toledo, o., winner of
the 1904 Gold Medal of the Denver
Driving club and champion of Toledo
Driving club trotters' seasons of 1904
and 1905, is in foal to Cresceus, 2:021l.
She holds the Toledo track record for
matinee performers.
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08
An Ngyptfan,s Rea.ontnr.

Some years ago an Englishman was
coming down the river Nile, in Egypt,
on a large boat loaded with grain, and
the birds came off from every village
and ate the grain -niled on the deck.
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08

nues of publicity or at any rate to have
many friends. judging by the roasts
given the poor Jungle" and its author.
But it had its champions also. People
were either very much for it or very
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08

ne mao The goods" He began q pub
licity campaign that was not the work
OF boy, but of n man. Day after day
additional chapters We're issued If the
people do snr all about Packing
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08
UPTON SINCLAIR.

warm.
SO bittST were some OF the criticisms
and so sweeping were the denials, evi-
IDENTIFY inspired by the trust that Mr..
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08

tends a Ike protection indirectly over
every part of the body. Thick wells
are suggested by Professor Hyde for
sensitive persons while in strong sun
light
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08
Sorrow of IL.

Husband during the spat-Anyway,
TN not afraid TO say what ] think.
Wife-No. suppose not. but you ought
to be ashamed to.-Detroit Tribune.
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08

town 1t Will not he the fault OF Sinclair.
When The Jungle" first appeared in
book form last February il was un
Sparingly denounced. The powerful
beef trust seems to control Ioan- II vs-
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08
New Move of House of Commons.

Members of the new house of COM
mons have started prayer meeting.
1t is held on Tuesday afternoons In,
one of the committee rooms.
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08
John L.. Little Dream

John L. Sullivan has recovered his
voice and says he wants to fight Jim
Jeffries.
Rock Island Argus., 1906-06-08

and through apparent failure. through
hunger ana cold he could live in his
hope for tie race. He trusted In him.
self because he trusted in the move
ment of which he had made himself a
part That sort of attitude. that sort of
enthusiasm. always wins sooner or
later. and with him the victory came
early. Now at the time when most
men are only beginning the ascent of
the hill Of fame he stands on its sum-
NIT. His success has not spoiled him
and will not, let us hope. His ideal
should save him from that also. 1t
buoyed him up and carried him over
the peril Of being cast down by adver-
sity; may II have the same buoyant
power In carrying him over the greater
peril of the Imitation of prosperity. AS
long as one can forget himself he Is
safe. Fame sometimes makes us too
conscious of our own personality. The
world cannot spare men like Upton
Sinclair. He has too much good in him,
too much possibility. The big head, to
put 1t plainly, has wrecked too many
young men that have Won too soon.
May his belief in his dream preserve
him from the putting up of the person
al. In the great upheaval that Is upon
US we need unselfish men and women,
such as can merge themselves in man
kind, such as can lose sight of them
selves In the vision of truth. Mr. Sin
clair has shown that he could do this
in the past. 1t will be fortunate for
him and for all If success shall not
prevent him from doing 1t in the future.
At Home In the LimeIight.
There is more than youthful immatu-
rity IN the face of The Jungle au-
thor. however. When the smile dies
out a certain purpose and mature
strength takes its place. The forehead
is broad and high. the eyes blue. steady
and with certain fine effect, the nose
and middle face strong, the mouth and
chin expressive. Though fame came
suddenly. 1t found the man not unpre-
pared; rather, it found him so frankly
and openly himself that he naturally
stepped into the limelight and seemed
at home there. Still there was for the
most part a lack of the thought of self
He was very much in earnest that the
whole story of the depravity of the
beef trust should be told; that it should
be told officially, SO that the people
could protect themselves. When the
New York newspaper men went to In
terview him they found him ready not
with stuff about himself, but with facts
the sending out of diseased
meats. In the language of the street. !
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-14
PART iii

Lucerne and Lake, Switzerland.
Karl Johann Street, Christiania, Nor
way.
Christiania and Harbor, Norway.
A Mountain Road, Norway.
Interior Palace Church, Fredericks-
burg.
Palace of Fredericksburg, Denmark.
Gotta Canal, Trollhattan, Sweden.
Statue Of Charles XIII, Stockholm.
Sweden.
Royal Palace, Stockholm, Sweden.
Church Ceremony, Kremlin. Moscow,
Russia.
Great Bell. Moscow. Russia.
st. Petersburg and Neva River, Rus
sia.
Kremlin, Moscow, Russia.
Cathedral of the Archangel, MOSCOW.
Russia.
Fountain in Royal Park. Peterhof,
Russia.
Market Place and Fountain, Vienna,
Austria.
Church of st. Stephen, Vienna, AUS
tria.
Grand Staircase. Imperial Museum,
Vienna, Austria.
Entrance to Royal Palace. Budapest.
Austria.
Tiber and st. Peters Church. Rome,
Italy.
Doges' Palace. Venice, italy.
Bridge of Signs, Venice, Italy.
Venice from Campanile, italy.
Street of Fortune, Pompeii, Italy.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-14
PART w
PART iii PARl N
Is POlyChrOme Views Is POlyChrOme Views

General View OF Florence, Italy.
Lazzaroni, Naples, Italy.
Rialto Bridge, Venice, italy.
Interior of Turkish Mosque, Jerusa-
lem.
A Well Pump in Palestine.
Mount of Olives, Palestine.
Ocean Front Showing Incline Ap~'
proach. Algiers.
The Palm Fringed Nile. Egypt.
Shepard's Hotel Cairo, Egypt.
Residence in Pretoria, South Africa.
Entrance to Palace, Singapore, India
Aqueduct Ruined by Earthquake,
Manila, Philippine Islands.
Picturesque Thatched Houses of Fill
pinos, Philippine Islands.
House Boats on the Pasig River.
where many natives live. Manila, p. I.
Front of Martha Temple, Toxic,
Japan.
Golden Pavilion on Lake. Kinkauji.
Japan.
Toilet in Japan.
A Tea Garden in Japan.
Honolulu and Harbor, Hawaiian ISL
ands.
A beautiful Residence Street. Homo
lulu.
Islands.
Harbor and Floating Dry Docks.
Valparaiso, Chile, South America.
Plaza Mayor, City of Mexico.
Moro Castle, Havana, Cuba.
Unloading Ocean Freighter, New
York City.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-14
BuiIdino Rifle Ranqe

An indoor rifle range is being built
by the Western Hardware and Arms
company in the basement Immediate
ly joining their store on the south side
and it will be the only fifty-yard indoor
rifle range in the city. The basement
is peculiarly adapted to this purpose.
being 26 by 1866 feet in size, and with
the Improvements being made by the
company, which includes bulkheading
of ample strength and construction OF
make impossible any accidents in
shoots, it will be one of the coolest
and most elaborately equipped rifle
ranges on the coast. Improved methods
of lighting the basement and targets
are being adopted and as the range is
being constructed in accordance with
standard regulations all records made
upon it will be given full credit
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-14
PART II
Is PolyChrO1ne Views

Near Lands End. England.
Piccadilly Circus of London, Eng
land
Windsor Castle, England.
Tower Bridge, England.
Worcester Cathedral, England.
Farm Yard Scene, ireland.
Muckross Abbey, ireland.
Drybrugh Abbey. Scotland.
Birthplace Of Robert Burns, Scot
land.
Melrose Abbey, Scotland.
Grand Opera, Paris, France.
Place de la Concorde, Paris, France.
Great Bridge and Art Palaces, Paris,
France.
Bedroom of Napoleon. Versailles.
France.
Eiffel Tower and River Seine, Paris.
France.
Monte Carlo from the Casino, France.
River Seine and Paris Imposition,
France.
In the Bavarian Highlands, Germany.
In the Market Place, Cologne, Ger
many.
Krolrs Beer Garden. Berlin. Ger
many.
Cologne on the Rhine. Germany.
Heidelberg Castle, Germany.
Market Place. Basic, Switzerland.
Street Fountain and Old Clock.
Berne, Switzerland.
Along the Tete Noir Road, Switzer-
land.