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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-12
4 Baby Girl.

Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Frazee of Oslo are
the parents OF baby girl. who ar
rived this morning. They formerly re-
sided in Grand Forks.
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Child Dead.

The 1o-year-old girl of Mr. and Mrs.
Gabriel Chalmers. living twelve miles
east of the city died last evening from
typhoid fever.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-12
Paving Committee.

\ meeting Of the joint paving COM
mittee will be held this evening in the
Commercial club rooms.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-12

For the sake of justice to the af-
ficted and for the good Of humanity,
it is my right and duty to recommend
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea. We
owe our country and our fellowmen a
duty. Tea or Tablets, IS cents-Lion
Drug Store.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-12

Wanted ut once several ladies or
gentlemen Of good address who are
now travelling in Dakota and Mime.
sofa to act as Advance Booking Agents
for Concert Company, rs side issue
the work which takes up very little
time, consists Of calling upon church
people, societies, etc, and arrange
bookings.
Ladies and gentlemen In every part
Of the two states mentioned are In.
vited to write for further information
to I. Box 231 Grand Forks.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-12
The Light House.

For anything in light, call up the
light House, 4sS both phones. Gas
and electrical goods, Monley s Smith,
prOprs.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-12
Make Changes.

Make Changes.
Among the visitors in the city to-
day were NJ. E. Harlan and l.. P.
Gellerman, both representatives of the
Northern Pacific passenger depart
ment. Mr.. Gellerman was agent
for the N. P. at Fergus Falls for
a number of years, but has recently
accepted a position with the same
company as travelling passenger
agent, with headquarters at Fargo.
He succeeds Mr.. Harlan who is trans
ferred to Milwaukee, where he takes
better position with the Northern
Pacific. They visited with D. Mulrein,
the local agent today.
c. 0. F. Officers.
The Catholic Order of Foresters
last night elected the following Of
fcers:
Chief Ranger-Nic Simmer.
Vice Chief Ranger-John Dorgan.
Financial Secretary-M. Norman.
Secretary-Gerald Rafter.
Treasurer-Thomas w. Neville.
Trustees-I. Kingman, NJ. Neville,
Noah Bourk.
Delegate to State Court-M. ].
Murphy.
Medical Examiner-Dr. O'Keefe.
A delightful banquet followed the
election of officers at which a number
of splendid addresses were made,
prominent among which were those
of Father Greene, Thomas Neville, NJ.
]. Murphy and J. r. Poupore. The
banquet was served by Mesdames
Biggs and Kelley and was one of the
most delightful affairs ever sat down
to in the CITY
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QUEER COMFY ISLAND
The Multitude That Goes There
for Strange Things.
A HOST ENJOYS THE BATHING
But Majority Of the Visitors Never
Go Near the Water.
FEW BELLIES IN THE SURF
Every One is Out for Good Time and
Apparently Every One Has
Plenty Of Fun.
FEW BELLIES IN THE SURF

Written for The Star.
Posted in all the strategical points In the
New York entrance to the Brooklyn bridge
are signs reading:
Entering or leaving cars through the
windows or over the side rails is strictly
forbidden
That simple legend epitomizes the story
of the daily hegira to Coney Island. 1t
tells more than whole sociological library
could tell Of the traits of the army as a
whole. 1t tells what Coney Island is.
Geographically. Coney Island is not an
island. 1t ceased to be one two years ago
when the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
unselishly dumped several hundred thou
and tons of New York's garbage into the
Coney Island creek which had separated it
from the mainland.
Coney Island creek was not picturesque
creek in itself. At low tide it was Just a
gutter lined with black mud of triumphant
odor; but sat Its worst, which was very
worst indeed. 1t was as a. Persian garden
compared with the Square mile of ashes,
broken croekery, old mattresses and, tin
cans with which the dumping cars have
filled its bed. --s-s %. 81
Beyond that waste of ashes and scents
lies Coney Island, scented Itself with odors
that all the ocean breezeS cannot blow away.
That typical Coney Island odor Is COM
pounded with successful impartiality of the
insistent symptoms of insufficient sewerage,
the stale Stops perm eating ten score and
more of drinking places that never close,
sausages OF fearful ancestry broiling on
every corner, and people, people. people OF
all the gradations between those who wash
daily and those who wash never, with the
balance carefully held by the great major
ity that washes once week and is content.
It's Hidden Beach.
Coney Island has a beach-a fine beach,
fronting the ten-mile-wide jaws of the lower
harbor, which is practically the open sea;
but the stranger might well be excused IL he
failed to discover that there is such thing
as a shore on the whole island.
Not that the beach is deserted. The grand
duchy of New York can shake enough peo-
pie out of one wrinkle of its baggy gar
ments to fill every bit of the shore front Of
Coney Island and never know that anybody
has left town. The thing that makes the
beach hard for the stranger to find Is that
the great army that drags him along as 1t
leaves the cars through the windows and
over the side rails surges through the
painted street and into the lath, plaster and
painted canvas side shows and beer and
song dens and dance halls
And all these places are carefully built to
face away from the sea, SO that It's strong
breath may not blow away the more civil
lied smell of beer whisky and cigars.
The beers, WHISTLES and cigars are all of
Coney Island quality, which is unique.
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sible to get out beyond the life lines without
being jostled by other swimmers or bathers.
The line between swimmers and bathers is
sharp on Coney Island! Not one in hun
dred can swim. The majority hang more or
less desperately to the ffe lines and let the
rollers bounce them up and down. choking
and coughing desperately whenever a run
ming wave floods over their heads, and
screaming half in fun and half In fright
when surf breaks over them.
Even among the swimmers there are few
who really know how to swim In a surf.
Most Of them plug" through it any old
way. happy II they get out at last into the
easy, undulating water beyond the breakers.
Now this Is a great pity, for all the
swimming In the world the most glorious
is surf swimming, and of all the spectacies
in the nautical field there is none SO fine
as q strong and griceful human being soar
ing through the greenly translucent arches
OF giant breakers. There Is little Of this to
be seen at Coney Island. For fine SURF
SWIMMING one must go 10 Long Branch
Atlantic City or Newport. In Coney Island
the swimmers care more for plain, simple
plough out to tho floats or stagings that are
placed few hundred feet outside of the
life line limits, and to dive or jump from
them into the sea.
But then swimming Is not really what
people seek the water for In Coaey Island
look at the sea at all. the people who do
60 into the sea mostly so there In order
not TO swim. Their greatest fun IL not IN
tho essentially solitary sport OF breasting
deep water They want to be where the
croMf f. and the crowd = hanging to the
: G,sss5ioasns6s i the living. breathing
spirit 81 tbs isIaizd. IA the watsr AZ wen
- e4t pf &. Myen On the most crowded
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE BISHOP OF COTTONWOOD, a
Story Of the Southern Cotton Mills. BY
John Trotwood Moore, author OF "A
Summer Hymnal," &c. illustrated by
the kidneys. Philadelphia: The John
&. Winston Company
By LOVES SWEET RULE, a story for
Girls. BY Gabrielle E. Jackson, author
of Denise and Ned ToodIes." &C. IL
Illustrated. Philadelphia: The John c.
Winston Company.
CONFEDERATE OPERATIONS IN CAN
ADA AND NEW YORK. By John w
Headley. Illustrated by Portraits
New York and Washington: The Neale
Publishing Company.
MIRIAM OF MAGDALA, a study. BY
katherine F. Mullany. New York:
Magdala Company.
AMERICAN POEMS, 177e-19oo. with
Notes and Biographies. BY Augustus
White Long, preceptor In English at
princeton University, joint editor of
English poems from Chaucer to Kip
ling New York: American Book
Company.
MISS NEW YORK. BY Edmund Blair Pan
cake. illustrated by w. 3. B. Stark
weather. New York: R. F. Fenno &
Co. Washington: Woodward & 10th
rop.
HERNANL. BY Victor Hugo With Intro
duction. Notes and Vocabulary. BY
James u. Bruner Ph.D., associate pro-
lessor OF the Romance Language in
the University Of North Carolina New
York: The American Book Company.
THE ORIGIN AND PERMANENT VALUE
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. BY
Charles Foster Kent, Ph.D., Woolsey
professor Of Biblical Literature in Yale
University. New York: Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. Washington: Woodward
& Lothrop.
ENGLISH COMPOSITION. BY Hammond
Lamont, managing editor of the New
York Evening Post, formerly professor
or Rhetoric in Brown University New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
THE DOUBLE DOCTRINE IN THE
CHURCH OF ROME. By Baroness Won
Zedtwitz. New York: Fleming H. Re-
veil Company.
COMMON-SENSE GARDENS; How to
Plan and Plant Them. BY Cornelius V.
V. Sewell. New York: The Grafton
Press.
CALIFORNIA. Rand, McNalIy & Co.'S in
and shippers Guide. Chicago: Rand,
McNally & Co.
HAND BOOK OF THE AUTOMOBILES, a
Budget of Hints and Helps for the Sc
lection, Care and Use of Motor Vehicles
and for the Avoidance of Roadside
Troubles" By Charles e. Duryea New
YORK: The American Motor League.
HERE AND THERE. Poems BY Estelle
Mildred Knapp. New York: The Wag-
ner Press.
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"a Natural Distinction"

From the Baltimore Sun.
The following aneedote recently brought
to Richmond by a Georgia woman is a
true story:
A Boston couple were recently near
Augusta and met an old negro woman. to
whom they took fancy. They invited
her to pay them visit and the black
woman accepted, especially as her ex-
renses were paid. In due time she arrived
in Boston and was Installed In the house
OF the white folks. She occupied ono Of
the best rooms and ate at the same tablo
with her host and hostess. At one of the
meals tho hostess said:
Mrs Jones. you were slave, weren't
your
Yes. marm.' replied Mrs. Jones. 81
b'longed to Mars Robert Howell
II suppose he never invited you to eat
at his table. remarked the Boston wo-
man.
mo. honey. dat he amt" replied Mrs.
Jones. Ny master was eenfienaAn. He
amt never let no Niger ret - - tabis
long or him.
And In making this speech M meene
no disrespoct to the hceteoH ehe meant
merely to| point ont : nAtuf21 d1nt1netien-
= -
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Our Mad Pleasure.


Each one of US, riding with $4,000 others
of us In the cars crowded not only to the
guards but literally to the roof. where some
of US cling happily, enjoys the mad ride to
the .Islandr-the ride that makes your SEN
sitive soul crinkle to the edges with disgust
and offends your nose till you pray that you
might cease breathing
We are the people. We climb through the
windows of the cars, and If you don't like
to have US land IN your lap, or even In your
face, with our shoes as we accomplish the
feat pray rem ember that there are ten
thousand of US who do like 1t against every
one of you who does not.
We are frantic with delight. Ne are drunk,
with anticipation. We see the lath and plas-
ter and painted canvas island swim before
us enchanted-not lath and canvas. but the
island of the blessed.
I To us each fat wonan's den Is grotto
of wonders. The stuffed mermaids are
alive and genuine to us, even though we
| have paid our nickels many times these
many years to see the reality. The trip
Fthrough the canvas Venice is more delight
full to us than the trip through the real
Venice would be to your more or less
faded sense.
What do we care for the sea? We are
out for a good time We condescend to let
the sea remain sea. Presently we shal
wander down in small relays TO look at II:
Perhaps we will even sit on the sand and
eat our luncheon or let the children dig for
time Then we shall yawn and ask,
What can we do neXtf Inc carouseIs OF
the loop the-loopT
The smells of Coney Islands streets are
altar Of roses to us who have lived day
and night immersed In the smells or the
tenements. Coney Islands sky Is canopy
of glory To US, fresh from the black cav
ems and tunnels of our hives, Coney IS
lands structures of Iath are miracles of in
spired architecture, dreams made real and
royal splendor.
Turn our backs on these marvels to look
at a lot of water that does nothing except
move monotonously up and down In waves?
Well, we 100000 guess not-not until we go
crazy.
A Kind Fortune for the Rest.
It is kind fortune for the army that does
like the water that the greater army does
not. If everybody who goes to Coney Island
were to go into the surf there wouldn't be
any sea left, AS it Is, people wait some
times for three hours to get into a bath
house when there happens to be an unusual
rush ON a hot day, Then the surf is black
with bobbing heads and it is all but inipos-
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L. hdNei-I1lii. INcW IOih. join 4dIo
Company.
While it Is bit difficult now and then
filly to appreciate the witticisms Of these
travellers in Cornwall, the account Of their
saunterings and interviews with the peas
antry Is nevertheless instructive. The book
must not be read by Americans for the sake
OF it's lightsome qualities. The author Is
saddest when he jests. But he has man
aged to wiring good deal OF folk lore and
tradition and half-forgotten history ana
biography out of the southwestern tip or
England, and between these elements am
Mr. Raven-Hnps admirable drawings. the
book Is well worth reading.
THE THROwBACK. By Alfred Henry
Lewis. author of "Wolfville Days" &c.
illustrated New York: The Outing
Publishing Company.
An exciting novel OF love and adventure
in the early days Of Texas and the south
west Indian lighting. daring deeds OF
cowboy life, search for buried treasure
and a love story afford variety OF sub
jects for treatment by Mr.. Lewis
THE YOUNG FOLKS CYcLoPAEDIA OF
COMMON THINGS. By John Denison
Champlin. associate edito y,, OF the
Third edition, revised and enlarged.
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
The child who wants to learn about a
wide range OF matters and who Is referred
to the encyclopaedia for enlightenment II
usually COMPOUNDED by the long words and
technical descriptions there found. Mr..
Champlin undertook some tweuty-seven
years ago to meet the need thus created
by preparing comprehensive work explain
atory OF the matters usually sought by q
child In the big works. The immediate
popularity of his juvenile cyclopaedia
proved that 1t filled the want. A second
edition was prepared in 1893, bringing all
subjects UP to date and adding new topics
The third edition, now offered. Is brought
again up to the times by the inclusion of
several subjects moi heretofore discussed
and the general revision OF the whole work
to adjust 1t to the changes of time. Among
the new articles In this edition are those
on acetyline. colleges and college colors
IRE engines and Are escapes. nowers-arti-
iicial emblematic. national and state: holt
days, mechanical powers. numerals. post
age stamps. roads. stone cutting. time.
wood carving, etc. The remarkable devel-
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RECoLLECTIONs OF THIRTEEN PRES
Inl,N.Es H.. = 6

new ork. doubleday, rage * Co.
Washington: Woodward * Lothrop-
Including jefferson Davis, Mr.. Wise
has been personally acquainted with thir-
teen Presidents, those OF the United States
being John Tyler. Franklin Pierce, James
Buchanan. Andrew johnson, Ulysses S.
Grant. Rutherford b. Hayes, James A
Garfield. Chester A Arthur Grover Cleve-
land, Benjamin Harrison. William McKin-
ley and Theodore Roosevelt 1t will be no.
ted that Abraham Lincoln's name does not
appear in this list. That is because during
Lincoln service at the head of the govern
ment Mr.. Wise was fighting in the ranks
OF the conteceracy. He has greatly regret
TED the lack OF opportunity to know the
man 10 whom was due in largest measure
the thwartng OF the purposes for which he
nmSe4f struggled for four years For Mr..
wise is today one OF the stanchest of pa
triots and a great admirer of the char
hcter OF Lincoln. His acquaintance with
tho Presidents began when he was a mere
boy But being the son of distinguished
Nirginian. he had opportunities to gain an
acquaintance with famous men, and his OBJ
servant nature led him to note their charac-
teristles- His youthful recollections are
exceptionally acute and interesting. In his
more mature judgment of the long range
OF Chief executives he now delivers him
sels in series OF chapters which furnish
nm important stdelfght upon the history of
she country. He says of the Presidents he
aas known:
Every enc of them has possessed fndi-
viGualsty, strength OF character command
ing personality and dominating force, which
stamped him as far and away above medi-
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There is dark rumor that the three staples
of life are all made in Coney Island from
Coney Island resources, and they bear with
in them grim evidence that goes far to con-
Wet them.
The loyalist who created the thought that
some whisky Is poorer than other whisky
Coney Island whisky. Yet even 1t Is not
fatal. for the three hundred thousand who
go to the island on Sundays drink enough
to find out
owing to a beautiful and simple precaution
taken by the sellers. 1t is to fill the glasses
with more froth than beer, thus minimizing
the quantity of the LIQUOR to degree where
its quality plays only an infinitesimal part
Fat ladies and mermatds. old mills and
roller coasters, trips into the painted canvas
bowels Of the underworld and voyages
through lath Venices make up the rest Of
the Island" Everywhere there is an APP
parently studied absence Of reference to
anything that could possibly remind people
of what the stranger might consider the
dominant feature Of a seaside resort-the
sea. 49,
Like Dark Crime.
In the real center OF Coney Islands life
the stranger might walk for hours without
dreaming that there Is sea, SO far as his
sense of sight Is concerned. 1t almost
seems as If Coney Island viewed the ocean
as its one dark and shameful crime, to be
kept out Of sight as much as possible It
doesn't try to hide anything else.
You, the stranger. even though paying
due regard to the crowd on the beach and
in tho water, will look on this thirty times
greater army that eagerly eyades ali sight,
smell and sound Of the sea and wonder
what perversion of taste and intellect 1t Is
that draws three hundred thousand people
through the absolute misery Of voyage
over the worst transportation system in the
United States to seaside resort and then
impels them to stay away from the water
as II 1t were pestilence
You look at these people and wonder
more and more. They are fairly we'll
dressed. They seem to be peaceable and
pleasant They are patheticaiiy eager to
enjoy themselves. They do not look stupid
or especially vulgar.
You win never understand them from
looking at them. You can understand only
Il you know how they live lat home IN
New York.
Stranger, we, the three hundred thousand,
are 0ne-quarter Of the famous tenement
house population 81 tho borouGhs Of Man
haitian and brooklyn, We are the one-duar-
ter thxt II housed IN the WpneE buildings
ever DEVISED BY man to house human be1nG4.
We three hundred Thousand liEe mostly II
rooms that are 10 dark that Whe1 ~ arf9e
IN the morning We cannot tell whether fhe
sun Is elininE with ft1 nook da1nlin8 epIen-
dor or Whether tho day - - Gio6my - the /
srsvs With cloud end rain. Even wheu our
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THE HEART OF THE RAILROAD PROB

THE HEART OF THE RAILROAD PROB
LEM; the History of Railway Discrim-
nation in the United States, the Chief
Efforts at Control, and the Remedies
Proposed, with Hints from Other
Countries. By Prof Frank Parsons
PhD, author of The Railways. the
Trusts and the People" Boston: Lit
tie. Brown & Co.
Prof. Parsons believes that the heart of
the railway problem consists In the fact
which he considers indisputable. that the
common carriers of the United States grant
discriminatory privileges to favored ship
pers This Partially gives rise to inequali-
ties in the field of competition and TO the
establishment of a small class of producers
with advantages which become almost equal
TO vested rights. The problem of the time
is to check this drift toward Partially and
to force the railroads to give equal consid-
Grafton to all who seek their accommoda-
tons, however great or small their volume
of business. This. he believes. can be done
through regulation by legislative and adj
ministrative process. such as Is now pro-
posed by the rate bill pending and before
Congress. But of this there Is doubt, he
admits. and some of the hest informed
Judges OF the question frankly admit their
unbelief in the efficacy OF tho plan of gov
eminent regulation. Still. Prof. Parsons
urges that the method be given an impair
tial trial. and that an effort be honestly
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V1WL2INAl1NVVWlRN Observation-Disclosures
TANNING PARTIES Arr a pRorufNT fEEryRf Of COMFY ISLAND

ing suits, take a short swim, and then lie
for hours on the fiat of their backs face
up, letting the sun burn them black.
In the evening you can find those tan
ming parties" in town promenading the
streets in white yachting toys and inno-
Gently happy in the conviction that they are
being mistaken for yaehtsmen and yachts
women .'just off the yacht"
Coney Island is no less useful than in
spring.
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spment OF the sciences and the mechanical
arts in even thirteen years has given rise
to many novelties, such as the motor car.
the turbine steamer, radium. light rays OF
peculiar qualities and compressed air In its
manifold uses. A child with this work IN
hand is well equipped to become familiar
with the most fascinating and Instructive
developments Of the mechanical and scten-
tito fields OF research.