Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-16
NEW YORK LETTER


prised every one by his oratorical abil-
ity. The contest is open to seniors and
Juniors of the School of Applied Sci.
enees, and prizes Of $75 and $25 are
ava ded annually from the George Au.
gustus Sandman fund, founded by Miss
Anna NJ. Sandman. Six men, all from
the Junior class, were entered this year.
and few expected that the modest
young Chinese would beat all save one
OF his competitors From the start,
however, of his oration, he warmed to
his subject, as though every word he
uttered wee plea for justice to the
members of his race. He made com.
prehensive argument in favor of let.
ting the Chinese come into this country.
George Irving, the last surviving
nephew of Washington Irving, marvel.
0usly hale and active at 50, is living
at the Fifth Avenue hotel. Mr.. L-v.
ing is practically the sole remaining
member of the Irving family. He is
one of the best, yet most nodes, story
tellers of the Amen Corner. He was
graduated from Columbia college when
the university was at College Place and
Park Place. "My. my" said Mr.,
living the other day, "I don't think
you young gentlemen have the fun the
young fellows had in my day, when
we had sleighing in the city a month
and more in the winter, and when
ride over kissing bridge at Canal
street was an event to be remembered
even now, but never to be talke
about, you know Mr.. Irving is pre-
pairing history of the Irving family.
The knowledge possessed by Roland
P. Molineux as to the composition OF
various acids, dyes and other chemical
compounds was in request in the fed.
eral court fortnight ago. The ques
tion at issue in the trial was whether
bromo.fouric acid" is an acid OF a
red dye. AS a dye it would be subject
on Importation to a duty of 80 per
cent ad valorum; as an acid to little
or no duty. Ku'troff, Pickhardt &
Co. imported a large quantity and the
United States board of appraisers
called it acid. Molineux was retained
by the government on appeal as an
expert. His testimony had all been
given before a referee and was to the
offect that the acid was really a dye,
being us,d as such and regarded as
such throughout the trade. Molineux
gave his occupation in the record as
maker of lakes and othe- colors for
the last 20 years. He has been con.
nee'ed with the +. W. Devoe & c. It,
Reynolds company. cakers of colors.
What a time the boys are going to
have on the coming Fourth of July!
One ship has brought over hundre i.
million frecrackers, each from one
inch TO a full three inches in length,
and from a quarter TO a full inch in
diameter. Also there were stored un
der the ha'ches twenty millions Of
bombs, thousands upon thousands of
pinwheels, Roman candles, "Nigger
Chasers," golden fountains, and every
variety of celebration explosive that
the slant. eyed Celestials make in enor'
nous quantities for American eOnsump-
ton around the glorious anniversary.
The steamer also brought eight miles
of punk, there being over 400, 900 feet
of punk in sticks foot long, which
would stretch from Jersey City to the
Philadelphia town hall, as the crow
flies.
Many prominent society men are re-
ported TO feel very ski'tish over posi-
bic outcroppings from the Garfield
Delahunty dispute, and there are peo'
pie who believe that il is a game of
Garfield and Delahunty to scare them
and rake a few hundred thousands dol
lars from them. These people would
pay big lot 80 secure secrecy, Il
threatened, for whatever the delights
of gaming, everybody who INDUCES in
the Illicit pleasure is ashamed Of IT,
and does not want his friends or the
general public to know Of II. Mr.
Canfeld speaks Of the great ealumny 1t
was for somebody TO intimate that the
late William c. Whitney gambled'
But il has astonished some people to
lea-n how great business this gamb'
| ling Is in this city. and how the vice
prevails in the most sacred society cir
eles. And now, that the women have
taken 70 bridge so strongly the vice
is spreading with frightful fapidiiy.
AS 10 the gaming houses II is said
that there are as many as ever, not