Arizona republican., 1906-07-17

| them-no small pleasure either, for | they are as pretty and vivacious
 band of maidens as one could imagine l They seemed to have enjoyed them
 selves immensely, and wherever they 1 have gone the town has been theirs
 At the Union Square theatre the other night, they rose in a body and gave | cheer after cheer when Dixie" was | sung; they went down to Ellis Island | soon after and inspected the immi- 1 grants, successfully begging off two lit i tie Italian boys who were in danger of ! being sent back because they were too 1 young and poor to meet the require ments of the law and beatifying Com
 missioner WatchhOrn by bestowing ] upon him a grateful kiss, administered 1 by the youngest of the party. Besides l this they have visited Wall street, l Bronx park. the Wistaria grape -arbor. ! several theatres and all sorts of other | places, and being photographed along
 with a couple of lions at Coney Island, having a perfectly splendid time"
 every minute of the day and winning
 smiles from everybody who enjoyed the sight of youth, beauth, good spirits and [ the unspoiled joy of life.
 The metropolis has found some in terest during the week in William R. Hearst's announcement. in San Fran cisco that he is not a candidate for the democratic nomination for presi- dent. MT. Hearst did not say anything | about his rumored candidacy for the governorship of New York, but is well | understood here that he intends to try for the office, either capturing the dem Ocratic state convention or running on an independent ticket. There is no question that Mir Hearst has a great fplInyH-ipgy i'm, \var oft h11t ale tions are still decided ''up-state" and there is some doubt as to whether the country districts have become imbued with admiration for the great exponent of municipal ownership. A straw in dicatng the direction of the prevailing political breeze was afforded by the special election held last week in the town of Ossining. In this case the supporters of municipal ownership
 were forced to choose between the proposition advocating a decided i'm crease in the tax rate and that of op- posing needed public Improvements. selected the latter course and were de-
 cisively beaten. From this the political wise-acres have concluded that munic-
 ipal ownership is not particularly pop
 ular with the hard headed York state
 farmer and that MT. Hearsts chances of becoming governor of the Empire
 state are not over bright.
 We'll the Fourth is over. and the list
 of accidents so far amounts to about
 2.000 great and small, with the tetanus
 cases still to hear from. Twelve men,
 who were old enough to have known better. were arrested for discharging revOlvers in the streets and one par ticularly enthusiastic citizen was gath
 cred in while amusing himself with
 a rifle and pistol, both loaded with ball cartridges. after he had shot a woman in the leg. Still, things were quieter than they have been for years, owing to a severe rainstorm which prevailed during the early morning and effectu- ally squelched the far too numerous and noisy element who neither feared God nor kept their powder dry. The rain also prevented many fires which would otherwise have taken place, and for which the firemen had been fully prepared, all members of the depart ment being constantly on duty at the engine houses for eighteen hours. Op- position to the old fashioned methods of celebrating the Fourth has never be- fore been so general and it is probable that within a year or two the use of crackers and other pestiferous prepa- ratiOns of powder will be entirely pro- hibited.
 The possibility of excessively hot weather holds new terrors for the New Yorker confronted by an ice famine and the prospect of higher prices for the artificial cOolness which is so es- sential to metropolitan comfort. Ordi- narily it requires something over four million tons of ice to keep New York cool, but owing to the mildness of last winter less than two million tons are available for this purpose. Unusual sources of supply may be drawn on to some extent, but not sufficiently to ill the wide gap indicated by these figures. The American Ice company, familiarly referred to as the ice trust, although it controls only about fifty per cent of the city's trade has urged it's patrons to avoid waste and to economize in
 the use of ice in every way possible
 In spite of precautions, however, the price is likely to advance considerably before the season is over for much of the reserve supply is held not by the companies who deal with the public
 but by speculative individuals who will
 not be so likely as the companies to foregO profit through any consideration
 for the consumer. The speculator has
 noted the popular alarm heightened by
 the lurid exaggeration of the "yellows"
 and is thereby confirmed in his de- termination to hold out for famine
 prices from the selling companies who
 supply the public.
 One of the original "Gibson girls"
 has just returned to this country, the bride of MT. William Waldorf Astor,
 once an American but now a Britisher. She was Miss Mamie Langhorne of | Virginia, one of five beautiful sisters
 whom Charles Dana Gibson made fla ] nous with bis pencil and the secnnd