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scheme the payroll will foot up total Of
81, 100000 a year.
Congressman Bourke Cochran has been
installed as grand sachem Of Tammany
society. Twelve years ago he had bitter
quarrel with Richard Croker then leader
of Tammany Hall. At that time Mr.
Cochran was a member of the council Of
sachems of the society, but he retired at
the next election and held no office in the
society and had no standing in the po-
litical organization until the Murphy re-
gime, when he was elected grand sachem
of the society to succeed Justice OGorman.
The election to the Office of grand sachem
is for life unless the incumbent resigns
The chief function of the grand sachem is
to don the silk hat and regalia OF office
and preside at the annual Independence
day celebration in Tammany Hall on
July 4.
The Tammany society is the only Or
ganization which has continuously held In
dependence day celebrations for more than
a century. Since it's organization, in 1883,
by William Mooney, 1t has regularly held
patriotic exercises on the Fourth. An
other interesting feature is the book which
contains the constitution of the order and
the signatures of every man who has been
elected since it's foundation. This book is
in the possession of Thomas F. Smith, as
secretary. The first signature signed to
the constitution is that of Mooney, affixed
October 13, 1850.
There are upward of q 600 signatures to
the constitution in this book, and the
pages become filled new ones are added.
A member, once elected, holds his MEM
fOr xryffh
on initiation and 81 at the time Of each an
nual election if the member wants to
quality to vote for sachems.
Burials in the old family vaults around
historic st. Paul's church, on lower Broad
way, are of such rare occurrence these
days that the sight of gravediggers bend
ing TO their work in Gods Acre" halted
hundreds of hurrying pedestrians The
vault that was closed on Saturday mo
graves have been dug i'm st. Pauls church
yard in fifty years., was that of the
Staples family. On February 26 Ernest
Staples died at his home, in New Rochelle,
and at II o'clock Saturday his body was
lowered into the tomb and laid beside the
rem ms of his father. William j. Staples,
and of his grandfather, John Staples, who
died in 1910. When the knot of n'ourners
emerged from the church. led by the cur
ate, bareheaded. in spite of the driving
rain and followed the casket TO the mouth
of the vault. spectators stood three deep
outside the ratings Of the fence. In every
window in the slyscrapers overlooking the
chapel was a group OF faces To the ae-
compartment of changing trolley car gongs.
the shouts of impatient truck drivers and
the rumble OF trafflc in Broadway, the
body was carried down a flight OF stone
steps into it's underground chamber.
No business I'm New York feels the effect
of weather conditions quicker than that of
the hair dresser. One rainy day viii crowd
every establishment in town, for no sys-
tenn has been devised whereby the Marcel
wave will Withstand a downpour, and
whether II rains or shines womankind must
be correctly waved" The absence Of fog
and damp weather this winter has caused
a marked falling of In the receipts OF
many fashionable establishments though
last month there were enough rainy days
to make the business pick up a bit. At
one popular place the other day a woman
called for her bill. On glancing it over she
remarked meditatively, "Hu-m-m, $50. and
nothing but shampoos and waves / do
hope the sun shines more next month"
The removal OF hats by women in
churches is under discussion in Brooklyn,
owing to the request by Rev. W. II. VII
son of the Arlington Avenue Presbyterian
church. that hereafter the women OF his
congregation take off their hats a few
minutes before the beginning Of the serv-
ice. Mr.. Wilson explained that male par
ishioners had called his attention 10 the
fact that they could not see him while he
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women should remove their hats their
vision would not be 40 much obstructed.
About a year ago an Episcopal minister
In England became wroth because mem
bers of his congregation appeared with
their heads uncovered This minister de-