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sThe worst thing about the May parties
which run up past the thousand mark,
said one Of the mounted police, lis that
there are 20 many scraps among the chill
dren during the day and so many children
get lost.
Naturally, il is not possible to bring
many adults along or the proportions OF
the party would be swelled to a small
army, consequently, as most Of the boys and
| girls find themselves free to do as they
please, they please to get into a lot OF
trouble often. But unless they threaten to
be serious, policemen never interfere with
the small fights of the picnickers.
They do spend a lot Of time with the lost
children. though, who are carried or led to
the Arsenal and kept till after dark, when,
il not called for, they are sent to Head
quarters, where they can be properly looked
after and put to bed. More than one hundred
lost youngsters were reported after one ofttD
big Saturday May parties last year, and one
policeman went home with his collar almost
torn of by a little chap who imagined he
was being carried to the lookup
The outlook for May parties this year Is
about the same as usual, y said the permit
| giyer. "The McManus and the Frawley
parties headed the list last year as to num-
| bers, the permit in each case calling for
more than 10000.
Even in the case Of a very small party
it is better to get a permit and with 1t the
right to use a certain portion Of territory
or else there may be a mix up with some
party which has already been assigned the
territory taken possession Of by the party
which has no permit.
$50 soon as a very small May party even
appears on one Of the greens a policeman
asks to see the leaders permit, which tells,
or ought to tell, what green the partyis en-
titled to camp on and whether on the north,
south, east or west corner of that green. To
avoid confusion and rows 1t is absolutely
necessary that each party shall stick 70
its own particular territory.
Germans, | think, lead of with small
p%arties. Germans will always take a lot
of trouble to decorate their children any
way, and they are very fond OF regalia OF
all sorts.
out the suggestion that small chlidle en- snail
be tagged with their name and place OF
residence. Pin this information in the
child's cap, we advise. -.
If followed this suggestion will save
the policemen and the officials at the three
mark precincts a tremendous lot OF work.
children at some of the Saturday May
parties, and during the May party season,
mea nj ng about thirty or more week days.
the May parties represented in the aggre-
gate very nearly $50 900 youngsters"
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Of costumes, immaculate gloves and shoes
and an inquiring, expectant air. Second
best and third best clothes may answer for
these young women when coming to town
via one Of the uptown ferries, but when the
approach is by way Of the Wal Street dis
triot the very newest In their wardrobe is
m too good.
BY ones and twos and threes they
come, and 1t is plain to SEQ that the buildings
and the crowds of men in the streets interest
them tremendously. 1t is also quite plain
that not one in ten is sure enough OF the
direction to take when she strikes Broad
way to be able to get along without appeal
ing to a policeman.
But l thought Maiden lane was up that
way, protested a young woman in an Alice
blue costume, looking doubtfully at a police
man who was pointing south from where
he stood near the corner Of Park place
The policeman only looked bored.
-The same thing happens every five
minutes Of every Saturday at the noon
hour, he commented afterward. women
from the suburbs. and from uptown too
sometimes, are just as helpless about find
ing their way alone down here as women
from Kalamazoo would be.
Tell the Kalamazoo woman, though,
how to go, and probably she would step
right along without any back talk, whereas
the others stop and argue and as much as
say, L don't believe YOU
when l was here last, in 1887 IL was.
women in this section were about as scarce
as they are in a Montana mining camp,
and 10 they seem to be as thick as women
at a village sewing bee, remarked q visiting
Westerner to his city nephew, who was
pointing out some Of the changes in the
neil hborhood Of the Post Office. my!
there goes a regular fashion plate. Now
what Is that young woman doing down
here' And there go half a dozen more
who don't look as II they were employed
in offices. Are they?'
sNo," said the nephew. Most likely
they have made an appointment to meet a
business man or woman, take luncheon
with him or her and maybe afterwprd go
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because there were not more policemen
around on such occasions to protect quiet
pedestrians.
Il got back at her with, I'm sorry you
were attacked, madam, but everybody
knows that during the Saturdays in May
the children own Central Park and s~trollers
who don't want to run up against them
would better stay out Of the park or at
least stay away from the neighborhood
of the picnic grounds
More policemen on such oooasions'
Why there are more, about twenty-five
extra ones, but great scott, it would take
one policeman to every half dozen boys
to keep them behaving as some people
think they ought to behave when in the
park
How do the May party children behave
as a rule?" the policeman was asked. ANY
worse than the average child visitors?"
well, yes, The occasion is different,
you see. They have "A right to a certain
section of ground for the day. The leader
of each has q permit in his or her pocket.
1T is a sort Of outdoor housekeeping
which the youngsters take to mean a go as
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pressed with the spirit of cheerfulness
characteri2ing the assembly,
In reply to the question, Are deaf mutes
habitually sad2" one of their W number
answered: very much the same as other
people; sometimes we are like this Ipulling
his face down longl, and sometimes like
this" broadening it out into n wide grinJ.
The impression made on the observer ls
that the deaf mute is usually cheerful IL
not jolly.
He is very much the same as other people
in religious matters, and according to those
who should be authority, not more or less
devout by nature than his hearing brother.
The Church of st. Ann IL the only church
Sunday afternoon congregation Of several
hundred IL composed OF people who come
from all parts Of the city and its suburbs.
At the New York Institution for the In
struction Of the Deaf and Dumb, at Broad
way and 1851 street, services undenomina-
tional in character are held for the pupils
in the chapel every Sunday morning. Even
more peculiar than the church congregation
is the one which gathers here. Professionals,
Roman Catholics and Jews all come to-
gather.
The boys in their gray military uniforms
form in line in the hall below and march
to the sound of drum, fife and bugle to the
chapel, filing in and being seated by mill
tary orders. The girls with less ceremony
are led by classes to seats on the other
side of the room,
Services here follow along the usual
order. At a signal, tho school rises and
repeats audibly the Lords PRAYER. Three
or four hundred voices, in the peculiar
monotone of the deaf who have been trained
to speak, utter the words of the petition
Of which they themselves can hear no
syllable.
Five young girls lead the school in sing
ing by sign language. The instructor then
conducts a catechism Of some kind, prob
ably the Ten Commandments, evidently
calling for volunteer answers, as hands
are raised in response all over the hall,
and one answer after another is given by
the little hands.
The sermon is preached by one Of the
professors, who uses the sign language,
or possibly by DR., Charles A. Stoddard,
president OF the board OF dire ctors. who is
welcomed occasionally for a sermon, and
whose spoken words are interpreted by an
instructor, The school sings the doxoiogy.
receives the benediCtion and files out
class by class.
The same spirit Of cheer that ia noticed
In the church pervades the services here,
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to a matinee, Occasionally a luncheon
lasts 80 long that the matinee is cut out.
aI've been there myself" he laughed.
You see, the girls think 1t q great treat to
lunch in the vicinity of the bulls and bears,
and the surest way ! know for a fellow to
get solid with his women friends is to ask
them to luncheon at a lunch club or a res
taurant patronized by the financial men Of
this district"
Lunch clubs and plate glass, hand
painted restaurants in office buildings, had
not come into fashion when / was here nine
teen years ago." put in the other, and
al fresoo lunoheons with up to date young
women as the guests of honor were not
often heard Of, / guess, below the City Hall.
Not a bad idea that, and the Westerner
eyed appreciatively a bevy Of pretty young
women turning into Broadway from Bar
clay street.
"It's great" agreed the nephew. Last
winter there was quite a rivalry among a
dozen of us as to which would entertain the
best looking girls at luncheon, and when,
one Saturday. / ushered into the luncheon
club my two cousins from Morristown and
a friend OF theirs, who lives up Westminster
way, l could almost hear the other fellows
groan with envy.
"No, it was never decided. Ideas Of
beauty differ too much, you know"
Saturday is one Of our heaviest days.
said the manager OF q lunch club nthe heart
Of the downtown district, although there
are fewer men on hand then, as a rule, than
on the other days Of the week, because 30
many offices close at noon.
Saturday morning about $50 I begin to
grapple with the telephone. Be sure and
reserve a table In such and such a corner
for 1890 or 1, or 1880, as the case may be-
and Be sure and give me a good waiter Is
the message l expect nearly every time l
pick up the receiver. Whenever a waiter
fs mentioned, ! know there are ladies In the
party. Sometimes l am told, There will be
two ladies in the party and q request will
follow for q particular dish.
yes, there are a good many tete-a-tete
~luncheons, but not nearly 30 many as there
are with two or more ladies in the party.
We always ave more bother when ladies
arc entertained, for the tables are oocu-
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to look upon policemen as enemies any,
way.
None Of us ever makes an arrest I'M
less driven to It," a fatherly looking cop
with small children Of his own explained,
-but Of course the youngsters don't know
that. In fact to make an arrest at a May
party Is not so easy as some folks think.
"A lady came to me one day red with
indignation. She wanted me TO arrest
q boy at once. She said that she had been
swatted with a lump of turf while walking
along a path near a May party.
Certainly, madam l told her, and
started of on the double quick at her side,
quite certain there would be no arrest.
TIC arrest a boy you must first catch
him, and to do that when there are a few
thousand of him in a bunch isn't as easy,
I can tell you, as some Of the ladies who
take walks in the park seem to think.
In this case the lady who insisted on
having the turf thrower arrested couldn't
find him. At least she wasn't sure enough
about the identity of any boy to warrant
an arrest and she went away tuning and
fussing to beat the band, after abusing m
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For I will be queen o. the May, mother
b the most popular recitation just 20
among small girls the city over and espe-
cially with girls In the tenement districts;
but that il just about as far as old fashioned
poetical ideas about May day parties get
nowadays.
There was a time when the best little
firl was crowned queen of the May and the
other little girls were content to take hold
OF ribbons and run around a mayrole,
but those days have passed. As is beftting
under a democratic form of government,
there may be two or three or a dozen queens
In q single party.
They are not always the best girls
either. Some win their crowns simply be-
cause they are chock full of fun and mis-
chief. Also they are iconoolastic and let q
sense of humor guide them in making up
their costumes.
As a result you see all kinds Of royal
robes in the parks when the Nay parties
are going on. Indeed, sometin es you
wonder il a masked ball hasn't dropped by
accident into the place where a May day
gathering should have been held. Pictures
Of a few assorted queens are given here.
The new style of May day makes the park
policemen tremble. Not one of them but
would rather charge a horde OF hostile
Indians than a May party headed by a
sweet looking small girl with paper crown
and red, white and blue ribbons. not one but
know. to his sorrow hat for Saturdays
to come he will have never n minute to SPARE
to chat with pretty nursemaids who need
assistance guiding IeIambulators over
dangerous crossings.
For it has come to pass that the Central
Park May parties invariably run over into
June.
June walks, they are called then said
the man who gives the permits. "You zee,
there is pretty certain to be at least one
rainy Saturday in May, which means that
the parties scheduled for that day must
be postponed to another Saturday when
there will be space to spare On one Of sew
eral tracts of ground apportioned to May
parties and which sometimes are all en-
gagged weeks ahead.
Its first come first served, always.
Well, when n belated or a rain postponed
party appeals for a June permit we're I
to say no | would DO posted far and wide
as the hardest hearted man in New York
and who wants to get up against q reputa-
ton of that sort?"
Most of the park policemen have got
past caring what sort of reputation they
have with the May party constituents, for
the reason that the picnickers are bound
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THE W0MEN'S HALF HOLIDAY,
PRETTY GIRLS COME no TOWN
on SATURDAY AFTERNOON,
From the Suburbs They Descend Upon
the Business Part OF New Y rk for
Luncheon or the Matinee, or Both
A New Sight OF the Town,

From the Suburbs They DESCEND Up0n
the Business Part OF New Y rk for
Luncheon or the Matinee, or Both
A New Sight Of the Town.
The Eruption OF pretty girls into New
York Of a Saturday about noon Ia one Of tho
sights Of the town-one which accounts in
part, says an observing man in New Jersey.
for New York's reputation Of having an
unusually high percentage Of pretty girls.
Most Of the Saturday visitors, says this
man, come from New JERSEY or by way Of
the famous mosquito State.
This is perfectly true. Between the
hours of II A. NJ. and 2 p. M. or any Satur-
day all the downtown ferries on the West
Side do almost az lively a business crossing
from New Jersey to New York as those at
Christopher, Twenty-third and Forty
tecond streets, From Cortlandt, Liberty,
Sarclay and Chambers streets young
women troop by dozens into Broadway.
jostling apple munohing messenger boys,
gum chewing clerks. worried looking BUSH
ness men, portly bankers and broke and
q snail army Of women stenographers and
typewrters bound for luncheon.
With the stenographers and typewriters
the visitors are never COMPOUNDED. Even
q stranger can tell the difference between
them. The former are in q hurry. They
take corners on the bias, en- route to the
restaurants, and they lose no time in staring
at new buildings being put up or buildings
being pulled down. The skysorapers and
the crowd downtown lost interest for most
Of them long ago.
These young women are generally veil
less; their gloves are carried In one hand,
If at all; jackets are only partly buttoned;
often a move il tucked under the left arm.
The Saturday visitors, on the other hand.
wear charmingly becoming wells fastened
to the most attractive Of hats; the nobbiest
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catch the sound more clearly, but he was
beginning to hcnr 1t we'll enough now.
No traice ever sounded Quite like that.
1t was like an advancing tide, thunder.
Ing, as d horse gallops, over FIAT, level
sands.
a great sea rushing towards---towards
wlint7 aE
rhcn lie lsnew. what that sound was.
At Inst he knew.
lie could hear the individual shouts
that i1inde up the enormous mass Ct mo-
iincing sound.
The nation was coming to take its TO-
vol,ge upon Its betrayer
Mob lazy!
rhey had found him out 1t was as
Schuabe Ind snid--thc great conspiracy
was at an end. The stunning truth was
out flying round the world with lis glad
message
n Yet though once moro the dishonored
Cross cleaned as the one solace IN tho
hearts Of men whose faith had been weak,
though at that moment the glad news was
racing round the world, yet the evil was
not over.
Tho Prince Of the Powers Of the air
had roigned too long. Not lightly was ne
to relinquisll his sccptro aud dominion.
They were in tho orst-whlo quiet street
= =.
the roaring multitude. The cries ana
curses came UP to him in one roaring
volume OF sound, sounds that one looking
over the brink OF the pit Of hell might
hear.
q a heavy blow upon tho stout door Of
old well built house shook the walls
where the palsied Judas lny n1potent.
Another crash The room, was much
lighter now, the crowd below had lights
with them
Fl Crash.
The door opened silently. Lady Llwel-
lyn came swiftly into the room.
She wore long white robe Her face
was lighted as If lamp shone behind IT.
u In her hand was the great cruciflx
which was wont to hang above her bed.
When Christ died and bade the dying
thief ascend with him to Paradise, can
We say that His silence condemned tne
other?
Her face was all aglow with love.
"Robcrt" she said. Her voice was Ike
tho voice Of an angel.
Her arms are round him, her Kisses
press upon him, tho great crucifx is
lifted to his dying eyes
A, great thunder on the stairs furious
voices, the tide rising higher higher
Death. ..
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CHAPTER TX.
At WA1yKERTowN AGAIN.

The news came to Wallsertown, the
final confirmation Of what had been so
long suspected In q short telegram from
BASIL dispatched Immediately ne hau
left Downing Street.
Mr. Byars and Helena had been kept
we'll acquainted with every step In the
progress of the investigation.
Ever since Gortrc had left NVnlkertoWn,
after his holiday visit, his suspicious had
been ringing in the wears cars.
Then, when the matter had been COM
municatcd to Sir Michael and Father
Rlpon when Spence had started, and
Mr.. Byars knew that all the powers OF
wealth and Intellect were at work, his
hopes revived.
The wears faith had never for a single
moment wayered.
In the crash OF the creeds his deep
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broke out into flushed amusement.
,rhe news which had been telegraphe

U0 NcW6 sWIllCttN INV SSASo
everywhere consisted OF q statement
tha archb,shops, that the discovery II,
Palestine WIS forgery executed by sir
Robert Llweilyn, at tho ihstlgntion OF
Constant re sch,inbc. Il, ", u,
n I,I'"'Alnpic ana completely satsfying owl
1dence Is III our possessor." SO the Wora.i
ing run. "Wd render heartfelt sfatltu W.
to Almighty God that Ee mas, II, y, it ~
ha discovered, rho thanks OF tho whole
world, tho gratitude Of nll Christians,
m,,at bo Tor those devoted ana IN
faithful ,it met, who have been II, the
ina r,,,,,ents OF Providence In DIS.
covering the truth Sir Mlchnel
Nnnichoe, tho Rev. Basil Gortre, INC wy.
Arthur Rpo,,, and Mr.. Harold spence
fhnvo alono dispellcd the clouds that haY y
hung over the Christian worh. ~.
bio to know how Il great inagnute among
them, n business confrere. tho menper
Tor their own division, an intimate, should
have dono this thing.
As long as the world lasted the owner
OF Mount Prospect who had SPOKEN or
< their platforms would be acc,lrsed. -
was too startling to realise NJ oncei t ti
thought only became familiar gradually,
in little Jerks, as one aspect after another
presented itself to their minds.
It was Incredible that this nnticnrist
had been long housed among them but
mile from where they stood
What will they do to him7' 5
"Who can say! There's never been
case like It before. YOU see"
well, the paper doesn't say, but OK
pect they've got them safe enough In
London-N1r. Bchuabo and the other fell
low"
Just to think OF onr Mr.. Gortre helping
to find II out! Pity we ever let him go,
away from the parish church," "a
"They can't do less than make him a.
bishop should think" .a 3
Miss Byars, You ought to be proud
OF your young man. There's many folk
blessing him In England this night"
And SO on, and SO forth simple. home
3 ly speeches. not indeed free from n some
what hard commercial view. but Informed
with kindness and era titudc.
At last, ono by one, they went away
It was close upon midnight when tho
lastest visitor had departed.
The vicar rend n psalm to his daugh-
ter:
Lord. now lettest thou thy servant de-
part In peace, according to thy word
For mine eyes have seen thy saliva ton
which thou hast prepared before the face
OF all people,
Basil was to come to them on the NOR
row for long stay.
55 EP1LOGUD.
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Secretary Taft, who has just been yisit-
Ing New Haven. recovered the huge cane,
while there. that he carried while. attends
ing Yale College. It We IN the nossesslen
Of Mrs. George H. IIo. Ahkiss.
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IN. THREE PICTURES.

Notc.-The three pictures ali synchronIse.
The EPISODES they portray take place
five years after the day upon which
Sir Robert Llwellyn died.-G. T.
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"Oh, yea" said the chaplain, "you
will only see those from n distance; we
keep them we'll locked up, ! assure YOU"
The girls laughed with him.
The party went lnughlng through the
long, spotless corridors, pcepng into tho
bright. airy living rooms, where bodies
without brains we're mumbllng and sing
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-06-30

the irrigatinF aud building Of canals.
and the improving Of land ia che Blue
Water valley. The water Cor irTigation
purposes viii be- secured from tHo
rivers the Blue Wntor and the Cot
ton 8Ood, which Join forces just
shove the present owners property.
which ~ present consists 81 shout
80 600 acres
The company iuiepds 90 place hn.
der irriEafion the whole of THESE 81
600 acres. and 20 develop the land.
improve and farm q. and. n theg 90
see 81. 90 later Dispose Of q ln tracts
suitable 81 the purchaser.
Tho project of the new company
which "a backed hy hnanciera and
capitalists ef the east has rather a
large EogTe. aud q ST. intended 90 mako
furihor purchases of land ID the val
ley ard torn the whole into one Am.
mcnae Mrm, unless. aa stated shove.
they see on i0 aali o.
AZ the Blue Water valley ia very
fertile. and az there % q sulicieney Of
Wator therfabouts ior irrigation uur
poses onlf waiting io be turned Into
Irrigation bitches and canals. there 81
no neas0n uhg he venture large Hs a
Is, should MOI prove q ur1iitablo one