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New-York tribune., 1906-06-24
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In line with the reform movement, Wisconsin
last year passed law prohibiting the sale and
use Of giant firecrackers and this year the Iowa
Legislature, despite a powerful lobby of knicker-
booker wearers and fireworks dealers. has placed
absolute quetus the Fourth of July noise
fest Under penalty OF fine and imprisonment, an
Iowa youth may not discharge, shoot or explode
revolvers toy pistols and hrecrackers. As the
silent state in the Union. it is expected that
Iowa on independence Day Will be the mecca of
thousands of pilgrims from all over the country
The citizens OF neighbornS states will move there
with mattresses and cots the night Of the
Fourth fl is said and the railroads will special
sleep excursions.
Philadelphia promises a restful celebration, but
whether this refers fewer crackers or a cessa-
tion of usual snores has not been determined.
New York is going TO be beautifully quiet ac-
cordng to the programme of Police Commissioner
Bingham If you go to Headquarters and ask him
about II you will hear df the boys exploding fire
works in Mulberry street will let YOU him say that
he Will tolerate isis, boomD any fireworks
CbangD except on the Fourth. twelve hours pre-
ceding and six hours following (crack, crackD. as
provided by law. The law must be obeyed (boom!
boomD. he says. and although the policeman isn't
a flea. a lot of small malefactors zip, bangD Will
feel the weight of authority.
II is assuredy peculiar ordinance which allows
the sale of fireworks from June 10 10 July 10, but
prohibits their use except for forty-two hours
around the Fourth. The Fire Department issues
selling licenses TO retail dealers. and the Police
Department is expected to see that that which IS
sold is not Immediately used. ANY with ears
10 hear may judge the difficulty of the poceman's
task in restraining out of the trigger fingers
Of juvenile New York
New-York tribune., 1906-06-24
SOON GET CLEAN HABITS.

Some OF these foreign born persons soon 90 regu-
larry 10 the baths, and some. TOO TO whom the
first wash is evidently a novelty one little Ital-
ian pushcart man brought IN 10 US by a
countryTnan Of his about year ago" the super
intendent Of one bathhouse relates He was about
the raggedest and forloryest specimen I ever
struck We put him in shower compartment
and when the twenty minutes allowed were up an
attendant went 10 see why he didn't come out
There that fellow stood with the water pouripg
down on him, and every stitch OF his clothes on
even his old brimless hat. Never took a bath be-
fore. and didn't know how. Well dried his
clothes for him and he off. but 4 few DAYS
afterWard he back and took a bath the
proper way. and he's been coming off and on ever
since. Looks better than he did. too
but bathers not all Of the poorest
class" this superintendent went I'VE get quite
few nice. neatly dressed girls from Broadway:
they work in the shops and stores there. And
that's curioas thing about a public bath: these
girls VIII In and ST down. waiting their turn
by the side OF Of the dirtiest propositions IN
italian women. say. that I saw-people they
wouldn't think of sitting IN a restaurant.
''some OF these girls take the baths for their
health. One who started coming about six months
ago told by her doctor TO take cold shower
every day She was thin and pale when she began
IL but she improved In looks in two weeks and
now she's different girl. Most gyls dread the
cold shower bath al first, but II you persuade
them try II they get 10 like IT"
OF course. there is hot water also for the show
ers and al most OF the baths rubber caps kssp
the head dry furnished, and everything is dons
20 encourage the people 10 take the shower instead
Of the tub: bat many girls and most women want
the tub. and there being a small number OF tubs
and a large number Of showers at all the baths
this frequently makes trouble. Old people and the
sick are given the preference for tubs and II is
astonishing what a lot OF invalds IN. Such
was q massive and siRewy Jewish matron who was
waiting her turn In the East 1lth street bath the
9th ast
New-York tribune., 1906-06-24
Fourth of July Fireworks Injured Over Twelve
Persons Last Year. and There Seems No
to Believe That
Will Be Any Fewer in 1906.

msnt must account for thousands Of unreported
cases. We always have 10 appeal to the police TO
stop the noise on the under the hospital
the offenders away temporarily. As TO the long
time practically allowed for the use of fireworks
by their sale. do not think # makes one single
noise difference in such a neighborhood as this
The poor people can spend only so much on fire
New-York tribune., 1906-06-24
HINTS OF PETTY GRAFT.

There are rumors occasionally of petty graft in
the city baths. of attendants who reserve the
choice tubs for f1vorcd bathers, and for a cor
sideration let them stay in long as they like.
who rent towels for good price and make II
unpleasant for those who do pay tips. Will
lam H Walker. Superintendent OF Public Build
ings. was asked about this
That's my ears" he said ''and I've
made investigation. So far I've found nothing
worse than the occasional renting of a towel. and
I don't see how that's De stopped II a bather
comes in without a towel. and IA attendant loans
him one and then the bather hands over five
cents. what's 10 prevent the bather making that
little PRESENT."
To return to the personalities Of the bathers II
is rather surprising find the Allen street and
Rivngton street baths always crowded. be
cause they in the heart of the Ghetto. and the
Yddish are generally sunDosed 10 be rather behind
New-York tribune., 1906-06-24

works. and if they spend all their money before
the Fourth. they can't celebrate that day"
An official of the Fire Department said that
while most Fourth of July fires did slight dam
age. the total loss from 100 fires on July 4, 1904
being only 2.ou, there always possibility
of serious disaster The fact that all firemen are
on duty Independence Day and that showers
usually come their assistance accounts for the
New-York tribune., 1906-06-24
STIRRED BY SKITS.

Springfield Mass, June % (SpeciaD.-A stir
has been created among the Central High
School boys and girls and their parents by the
publication of The Alphean," the official annual
of the Alpha society of the school. IL has been
strongly denounced by many fathers ana
mothers as vulgar, fiippant and fmpudent' ana
II has aroused an antagonism which may mean
the end Of the high school fraternities in this
New-York tribune., 1906-06-24

record If few extra large fires started up
in different parts the city a dry Fourth
there might be object lesson taken TO heart by
ordinance makers The fires generally occur In
piles of backyard rubbish or through awnings
catching a spark In lieu of the ideal prohibition
of all fireworks in the city Cincludiug those for
political parades all the year roundl. and their
relegatiOn TO seaside amusement resorts as spec
tacles worth seeing the activities OF the small
boy should he confined to the middle of the street
Backwards and roofs obviously dangerous. The
Fire Department made an attempt last year to
get control of the explosives situation, but the
Corporation Counsel rendered an opinion that the
city charter forbade any further exercise Of au-
New-York tribune., 1906-06-24
THEY ARE APPRECIATED.

That the people on the whole appreciate the
baths and have need OF them is truth any one
discover by the most casual study OF the
figures. AT the Elisabeth Milbank Memorial which
has ninety-two showers and nine tubs 2.TOo people
bathed on one day alone OF this year. MAY 10 Az
the city baths the numbers large. or larger
AS the summer advances the bathers Increase
There are good many people who do not see the
OF water tha skin unless the weather Is
New-York tribune., 1906-06-24

,Sev YORK and vicinity % uOrtslly injured
Fires NG-hatl4a and Bronx 6s' or more than treble
I1o-ease q havoc Chicago from 1899 10 1903 in
elusive. KILLED 10: injured los 10 Sl4; fire loss
SD fluS Chicago totals for five years: Killed
a. Injured L@U Arl loss, s3s'3, ,ocO
A supplementary table interesting II somewhat
less accurate. shows that:
Men women Jumped the air. 50 2ss7Ss
EnerFy lost l8O0 600 horsepower.
OF folk, cegreeS
New-York tribune., 1906-06-24

sought TO matriculate in her class, with a mes
sage 70 his mother that she would not have him
back till he had had bath. Inside OF ten minutes
the mother appeared at that school with the boy
in tow.
How vas Able 10 haf bath now. amt it?" she
protested, hotly. IVY. I haf him sewed up for de
winter"
Attendants at public baths say that sewing up
for the winter" is not at all an uncommon thing
among the foreign born. though most of them drop
the practice soon after arriving on these shores
out or a batch Of seyenty-hve inmierants lust
Ianoeo who came TO the Rivlngton street baths not
long ago a man who works down there re-
marked TO the writer, "forty-fve were sewn I'D
IN their underwear. and it wasn't with thread
either, but with great coarse twine. And the
worst of II was that when they cut the dirty
things Of they left 'em around on the floors for
US TO clean up. They had bought American clothes
10 put on. The first thing an Immigrant wants
TO DO as a rule, when he reaches here is 10 get
Amer1canized as 10 clothes. This batch OF seventy
nYe was rounded up at the Rivington street bath
by one OF their number, a Pole who was a bit
more intelligent than the others. But we get
lots OF immigrants. You remember that week in
May, think II was when such q record brea king
number landed at Ellis Island? That was a week
for US! And the way some Of those Russian Jews
were sewn up IN their rouge fanneIs was sight"
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REACTION HAS SET IN.

There is q reaction today from making the lion
,o-- and lie eagle scream Fire insurance men,
nerve doctors parents, state and municipal authori-
ties have Joined The movement for peaceful and
rational Fourth. Their claim that war and foot
hsu could u1t De worse than prevailing methods Of
celebration IS somewhat borne out by these figures
for the country last year:
New-York tribune., 1906-06-24
mo WANT A T00SCH.'

We'll" said the woman attendant 10 her briskly.
YOU want toosch don't you?' ''Toosch" is Yid-
dish for sboN.r. and "vanti.'' spr tub bath. aD-
New-York tribune., 1906-06-24
AL NOT so EAGER.

Il is 1r-e tat 1ot all tenement dwellers feel this
Wsy- There are some who consider that bath is
e Thing 70 be tal0ep only very special occasions
r & Taylor. 5r.. superintendent OF the old a
g hsth, tells of two Jewish girls he encountered
ioi long ego They came into the wornen's side.
tne ore q them asked for soap and towel and
oasaDpesred bathwEIds. The ether sat down on q
benon
Dor't you went q towel and some soap. tocr-
Ne Eupsr1ntenoent asl1e6 hxTs
Oh. no" Ehe said II g Eurpztsed tone. i don't
ant 10 bath. She" with 3erx OF her head IN the
direction 1he other girl had taken, shes goin' 10
81 married"
hlt every good Jew even II he belong 10 the
LARS most Indifferent 20 soap and water. has O.
oath once q year. and that is st Passover. April
~ Therefore. is d busy 1rns at sn public baths
anywhere N the vicinity OF the ghetto There Is
ID certain proportion who deem the ceremony
-Iefru9us al other seasons. particularly in win
Last autumn school teacher on the East
N'l' found Il necessary 20 send home q boy who
New-York tribune., 1906-06-24

70 the average New Yorker. even TO him who
sves II one OF the cheaper new law model
teoeue1tS. bodily cleanliness is a simple PROPOSE
don Ee has but 70 step into his own bathroom
ana turn on the water and there he is. Far other
wise is = with the submerged tenth" OF this great
town They are submerged IN poverty and dirt,
but Their facilities for submereing themselves IN
cleansing water are limited. It is easy to take
E bath when E person is one OF, say, eight inoi-
r.duals living IN three small rooms, and the sole
water supply tr1ckles into mouldy sink IN the
hal that is common 10 the rwo three or four
families on that floor.
However. there IS q way for even such as these.
and Tor those who stfu lower IN the social scale.
have no ho-ue-o1ly an occasional bed In teT-cent
lodging house or a bench IN Battery Park New
York IS waking Up TO the truth Of half. az least
OF Henry Ward Beechers remark. that the first
STEP toward tie uplifting OF & who IS down is
to give him q good bath and a square meal New
York has been a trihe slow about IL
F-cteeu years ego this summer the Association
for Improving the Condition Of the Poor opened a
peoples bath n Centre Market Place, and for some
rrae that remained about the only Of its kind
IN tae city. But toward the dawn Of this century
New y0rk began 10 take notice in the matter OF
public baths and to-day the municipality has SIX
permanent C-es in operation, not counting the
magnificent new building which is TO be opened
tomorrow in HelPs Kitchen. in Goth street. near
the North River u plans foot are carried
out the number VIII be greatly increased in the
who know FOR SIX, eight ten public baths are only
crop II ne bucket, put against the vast tene-
mert population and the food OF incoming for
e!gners-
Does s-ly one say that these people DO not want
20 bsthes Some OF them DO not. but, as Borough
President Ahearn observes building public baths
IL the Only way of educating the desire into them
And rlere srs plenty of them who want 20 bsthe.
Ally one VINO ooItss II hes only 10 stand OF a
sandsy morning opposite the old bath IN Centre
AA-Est Plaoe and watch the SCORES Of Italians
Il sns there on the street-Ioen waiting their
rur .uT I 5etf-or 20 look into the waiting rooms
O. TIE mems side or on the women's side tn the
pablo bGaa II Tsfngton street. or the one IL Alsn
rreet- n Dsst 18th street. When the writer
e11lsc tie yet unopened bath in West Sth
F1est last week. knots OF youngsters hung around
Tie sl.rErces. end che appearance Of the engineer
a ore q ths Doors the signal for a chorus OF
srpealz
1es Oo1ne n an have a bath. mister
Mex week. 10 told them. good-nstu-ediy. It'll
os EeAcy for voc by NEXT week"
oh. please Jet us come IN now. mister"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-09

n. j., has given the hospital new ambu-
lance.
vided with spiked planks to throw in front
Of automobiles whose sCorching chauffeurs
refuse to stop when ordered.
AS result Of a number of serious acct
dents bill will be introduced in the Con-
necticut legislature TO compel all drivers
Of motor vehicles to he licensed.
SO far behind is the patent office in its
work that it Is said no one can secure a
patent relating to automobiles or their
parts inside of two or three years.
Many automobiles are already being used
by rural mail carriers throughout the cOun-
try now that the Postotice department
has given permission FOR their use.
The results Of the town motor carriage
competition held last month by the Auto
mobile Club OF Great Britain and Ireland
were highly favorable 10 American cars.
A Pittsburg physician recently carried
three persons in his car from New York
to Boston and back at an averag sc cost OF
$4,000 of a cent per mile per passenger.
The Treasury department has sustained
the ruling Of the New York custom house
that As per cent ad YalOrem duty must be
paid on automobiles imported for exhibi-
ton.
Bullet-proof steel highway signs have
been erected by the Automobile Club Of
Southern California TO replace those shot
to Pieces by malicious and mischievous
gunners.
Il often feel inclined to jump into an
automobile and nash on for a couple OF
days, returning full Of energy and con-
tentment," said the kaiser in a recent
interview.
why's and Wherefores Of the Automo-
bile" q handy little book published by the
Automobile institute of Cleveland, Is brim-
full of Information concerning the gasoline
motor car.
French manufacturers exported cars val
ued at SIS, OGl, 400 during the first eight
months of this year doing nearly A.5O0OO0
more business than in the corresponding
period last year.
A scheme to combine the various interests
at present operating motor omnihuses in
London Is said 70 be on foot, which will
involve a capitalization Of S20,H0OoJ and
100 vehicles.
Capitalized at $4,000. the Long Island
course approximately fifty miles long and
$50 feet wide. William *. Vanderbilt, jr.,
is its president.
On his way In his car TO New York Ia
Rumbaugh OF Asheville, n. c., took out a
license for the short spin across the state
Of New Jersey
The principal demand by intending pur-
chascrs at present seems 70 be for motors
flexible enough TO drive their cars through
on country roads.
The 1907 Grand Prx Of the Automobile
club OF France will have as its only regu-
latiOn a Limited fuel supply, contestants
being required 20 cover 497 miles with 81
gallons OF gasoline.
The Quaker City Motor club will have
an endurance run from Philadelphia 10
Harrisburg, Pa, and return January I. A
500 cup has been given the club as a per
petual prize for such events.
An eaNern tombstone manufacturer has
introduced Lhe automobile as a design upou
three monuments recently made. one was
Tor q man made wealthy BY a Patent, the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-09

Motorcycles do not require licenses in
Indiana.
Philadelphia has an automobile police pa
troll wagon.
Calcutta, India, will hold show, begin
ming December 10,
There are approximately 1O2,4AS miles Of
good road In Iowa
There are over 700 registered machines
IN johannesburg, Africa.
San Antonio CTex.) motorists have formed
the san Antonio Automobile club
Roumania's king recently purchased an
automobile Of German manufacture.
There are almost 5000 automobiles in the
state Of Indiana, according to ofnclal hg-
Ures.
elected Colgate Hoyt Of New York presi-
dent.
The constituuonality of Pennsylvania >
anti-speed law was upheld by the courts In
q recent decision.
A new Boston manufacturing concern has
offered 500 as a prize for the best name
suggested for its cars.
one great cause OF bad roads in Maine
is the almost general use of narrOw-tired
wheels IN the country sections.
A distinct advantage about motoring Is
that IL does not give one a gluttonOus appe-
lite" says an English medical journal.
The 1891 contest for the Herkomer touring
trophy IN Germany is to be run over a
route Of about lis miles, in ave stages.
Because OF the unsettled condition OF the
country the havana Automobne club has
I
winter.
Several French manufacturers are direct
ing their efforts to the production or low
powered, low-prced machines Tor the
masses.
So pleased is Senator Chauncey NJ. De-
pew at mis- recent experiments with auto
MODELLING that he has sold all his horses and
carriages.
Al the present rate Of increase the tax
ON automobiles in Massachusetts will reach
S6OOO0. The money is devoted 10 road nm
provement
The Standardization OF spark plugs Is
being considered by the mechanical branch
OF the Association OF Licensed Automobile
Manufacturers.
Although ninety-eight years old, Mrs. IL.
C. Cottle Of New York recently enjoyed a
two days ride in an automobile from that
city 10 Boston.
over mountain roads and across sandy
stretches, Fred 6eigert OF Los Angeles, Cal,
recently drove q car 10 Ionopah, 80 miles
IN thirty-stN hours
Tighty-three different makes Of automo-
niles siNty-three American and twenty for
eisn. we're exhibited at the nrst New York
show the last week.
During President Roosevelts recent visit
10 Porto Rico he crossed the island IN an
| autOmobile built OF native woods for tie
| Infanta Eulalie in 1885,
Rrazil's congress Is considering scheme
| TO control all rubber the country produces
! The bill permits the government 70 borrow
! $50 OOO, 90 to foster the plan.
A simple expedlent In many cases Of
| theui so that the unworn faces OF the
| teeth play against the chain.
t7ecause he was carefully removed 20 the
1 wells Memorial hospital, New Brunswick'
r. u. when injured Ia an automooile ac-
cident. nj. +. Metcalf OF South Orange,
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Monument tn srmnrd.

a movement has been inaugurated In Sc
attic 10 erect a monument to perpetuste
the services Of William Henry Seward, sec
rotary Of state under Lincoln and John
son. by whom was negotiated the treaty
with Russia whereby the United States ac-
quired possession OF the district Of Alaska
for a consideration Of t7,2Ol,O00 II is pro-
posed TO erect by popular subscription a
monument in the heart OF the city TO be
unveiled on the same day that the Alaska
Yukon Pacific exposition Is opened 70 the
public, which is set for 1909. Since the
acquisition Of Alaska by the United States
more than sos 600 In gold has been dug
out Of the ground, and the gold discoveries
we're the beginning OF soattles develop
ment
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vented them from being tried to the extent
that was necessary to enable one team to
avoid kicking constantly. If the ball touched
the ground without being touched by a
player on either side on the spot where the
pass was made this prevented forW ard
passes by a team near it's own goal, since it
could not afford TO risk a fault giving the
other team a chance to score then and
there. So, too, the restrictions forbidding
the ball to be passed forward except out
side Of five yards on either side Of the CEN
ter, preventing it being received by any
player except the ends of those on the line
Of scrimmage, all served to unnecessarily
handicap the play. Either something must
be done to remove these restrictions or
some means must be found to encourage
and make possible end runs II the game is
not to degenerate into a kicking duel ex-
clusively. in defiance Of its original inten-
tlon.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-09


Three thousand miles for a chance TO win
a prize. That is the trip that Arthur Van
derstuyft, the pIucky little Belgian cycling
champion, who for the last two years has
been a contestant in the six-day races,
teamed with John Stol OF Holland has just
made for the purpose OF taking part in the
six-day race at the Garden on December
to Is, The management of the race, In
search for new faces and new champions
had rejected Vanderstuyft and Stols entry
this year. This refusal was not good
enough for Vanderstuyft, and without
word to anyone except his partner he took
a steamer for America and in person de-
manded that the entry OF the famous Bel
glum-H Holland team be accepted, and It was
Vanderstuyft began riding a bicycle in 1895
He is % years old, weighs 1H pounds ana
is only feet inches in height, He makes
up in the width Of his legs. II would take
a column to enumerate the Belgian's long
string Of victories. He won the Bel dor in
Paris last year and broke the worlds hu-
man-paced twenty-four-hour record riding
during that time, 943.GG5 kilometers. His
victories this year have been numerous.
Starting with the Grand PriX at Marseiles,
! IN France he continued his winning streak
and "copped" the Grosser Sommer Preis
Of Berlin and the Golden Wheel race OF
| Treptow, andd finished second TO Darragon
in the worlds championships at Geneva,
! Switzerland
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-09

Floyd MacFarland, Long Mac" the ia
vorite OF the six-day-race fans" will ride
this year in the big grind at Madison
Square Garden, December 8 to Is. The news
Of MacFarland's entry in the six-day race
will be received with enthusiasm by the
lovers OF the sport who turn out each year
for the big event in the Garden. There is
no more popular rider in the world today
than mcfarland, and he is, II possible. a
bigger favorite among the New York con-
tingent than anywhere else. Walter Rutt.
the champion Of Germany, will be MacFar-
lands partner. Rutt stands forth as one
OF the greatest cycle riders that ever Jour
neyed to this country to compete for the
great prize He began racing in 1900 and
came at once into prominence winning the
grand prize of Hamburg in which such
champions as Mayer, Huber and Arend
were competing.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-09

Experts are beginning to get a line on the
new rules, 1t is well understood that dur
ing the present fall the sport has been on
trial On the issue Of the seasons play