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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-03
vAsTNEss OF NEW YORK.
How the Metropolis Loomed Upon 6
Western Visitor.

From the Kansas City Star.
New York Is to the United States what
Westminster Abbey Is to- the British en-
pire; the ultimate expression of the genius
and character of the people, reached with
out conscious effort and perfected by the
inevitable process OF time. They have
Chathams bones in the abbey, but hidden
away in Wall street, gray with age and
silent, is the hall where George Washing
ton took the first oath of office.
They sing the requiem OF the mighty dead
behind the great rood screen of the noble
English Church, but by day and night to
every window of New York there rises the
sonorous note Of It's countless traffic, blend
ed and musical as the noise of rocking surf
on a storm-swept coast Which may be
poor poetry, but it is good fact. New
York cannot be taken in detail as first
impression. 1t Is too big for the focus of
any camera. 1t battles ordinary language
in describing 1t. Words tinkle down it's
mere vastness like pebbles from the face of
cliff. 1t demands the iambics of a Milton
Any man who says that New York on a
first view, does not overwhelm him with its
magnitude and delight him with it's beauty
must be very small man indeed.
And. 1t Is surprisingly beautiful. Even
the Flatiron building is that Photographs
of that building are meaningless. 1t Is an
architectural evolution, the only possibility
for the existing surroundings, neither ugly
nor pretentious. And that Is true of every
other of the great hotels and offices and
stores that march down Broadway and
stand sentinel in Park row. The visitor
who would attempt to criticise this place
or compare 1t with any other city any
where, at first sight. would play a tin
whistle In q cathedral.
And next to the yastness of the city, it's
interminable streets, its roofs that seem to
support the sky, is its fresh cleanness. The
streets seem scrubbed and polished, the
buildings holystoned, the people newly
risen. If they are tagged or overworked
they don't show it, If they are hurried
they are never inconslderate of strangers,
If they are broken by misfortune their eyes
are never red with weeping, If they are
the wastrels of constant pleasure they are
never gross and always gracious. They
are, for simple western folk, good people
to meet and cheerful people to part from
just as their city is place of engrossing
splendor to wander in and marvel at, and
place, too, that 1t is just as we'll to
Journey from before 1t overwhelms the un-
taught pilgrim and makes Of him one OF
its countless slaves.
1t Is the power house of America, but the
fuel and the men come, after all, from the
limitless west, where the corn and oil are
SO abundant and the country grasses grow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-03
AFTER THE DISASTER
How Shaken and Burned San
Francisco Appears.
Fifteen MILES OF RUINS
Society Leaders Cooking Food in the
Cutters.
DESTRUCTION WAS COMPLETE
Scant Food, Little Water, No Homes
Undesirable Devastation
on All Sides.
FIFTEEN MILES OF RUINS
DESTRUCTION WAS COMPLETE
Special From Stan Correspondent.

Special From Stan Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April &c. 1906
l have walked twenty-five miles today
through ruined city l wish I could make
The Stars readers see this horror as it is
but despair
All the way from the Missouri river were
met trains-long trains-crowded with fee
Ing men and women. These trains passed
with increasing frequency as the California
line was approached. On every siding were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-03
Interest Of Nove1ists
in Military Matters

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
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6shbone a. dish made from a shell, the
holes plugged with asphaltum. Here
would he q stone club or mortar OF steai-
&c a snearhead or q snker and shen
hooks that some fishermen centuries ago.
nerhaps had dropped and forgotten. :,
E,vervwhere piles of big, pearly shelis
of a size unknown here were found, tell
ING of tbe lives and work of these people
One mound was found covered by Ihe
ribs of whales. and beneath them a nat
rock herring marks of different kinds, ana
then the owner, a skeleton In perfect
preservation. and all about 1t In the sand
vessels of stone flutes of bird bone ana
the various objects which went TO make
nm the home of this unknown In one
spot six layers of skeletons We're FOUND
the lowest apparently very old. Inc
question of age is always very interest
ing. but no one in contemplating THESE
great shell deposits can form an adequate
idea of their age.
The island evidently has been inhabited
since the earliest times. 1t was doupt-
less fertile then, but the elements nave
consnired against 1t, and it Is doomed TO
he swept and covered with sand. Inc
island is freauented by the professional
collectors, who go over from the mainland
and live here for weeks and months,
canning out on the sand Dunes weight
ing their tents down with rocks to pre-
vent being blown into the sen. Every
morning they go out with their hooks
and poles hunting for the spoils which
have been uncovered by the wind IN the
night, In this way tons of material nave
been collected here and sent all over the
world.
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Open Thanksgiving Day

The institute will be open on Thanks
irving Day the same as other week days.
in order to accommodate the great num-
Der of people who are making every posi-
BILE effort to avail themselves of our gem
erous offer. This offer will not be ex-
tended beyond the last day of this month.
II you want to be cured for ten dollars.
you must apply before Friday night at s
O'clock Do not forget the date and ex-
pect us to give you the same opportunity
after that date. We shall positively not
do so.
This offer means exactly what it says
a cure for S10-not so a month, but $40
paid once and only once for a complete
and radical cure. Our object Is to cure
you quickly, not to prolong your treat
ment from month TO month, as is usually
the case when you pay for your treat
mert by the month. We will cure you
quickly and permanently by the scientific
Physio- Medical treatment. No doubt
many would be willing to pay more than
ten dollars. but ten dollars is all that
will be accepted from any one.
Those who 1.-Two at a distance should
write for our treatment by mail. Pa
tients can be treated at Il distance as
successfully as at the office. Do not neg
lect to write at once.
Tho Physio- Medical treatment marks an
epoch in the progress of medical science.
II IL recognized as the most successful
method known TO the medical world to-
day of treating chronic diseases. and the
Physio- Medical institute established in the
First National Bank building IS in charge
of a physician thoroughly familiar with
the Ply Medical treatment and expert
enced in its application TO every form Of
chronic disease 1t is only necessary to
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Forearmed.

While still living in st. Louis, Henry
Blossom, even after Checkers had made
him very much talked of person in the
book world is said to have looked upon
New York as sort of lions den for any
one who had dreams of trying to be
somebody in the first city In the world.
Knowing New York only so far as an
occasional trip might acquaint him, young
Blossom was wont to shake his head ap-
prehensively when his fellows in the west
ern city used to pat him on the back and
suggest that he turn his face toward the
east that meant Manhattan. 1t wasn't
until a New York theatrical manager,
who saw possibilities in stage version
of Checkers" sent for the author, that
Blossom had courage to pack his suit
case and come on. With the career of the
author since, most patrons of the theatre
are famiiar-"The Yankee Consul" mile
Modesto and 1.-THE Red Nip tripping
successfully one after another from his
pen. The other day, at the Players club,
New York. friend during a talk re-
hopes. asked him what he would have
done if he hadn't caught on from the very
start after arriving in New York. Bios
som answered by digging down into a
card case and pulling out frayed green
slip of paper torn at one end. 1t was the
return end of a railroad excursion ticket.
When he had liked to New York from
st. Louis, the budding author hadn't been
taking any chances about how he was
going to get back.
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the persons who were cured, because of
the rapidity and certainty with which the
cures We're effected. Hopeless cases, treat
ed elsewhere by other physicians and
meeting with failure, have come to the
Physo Medical Institutes as a last resort
and have been cured.
DISEASES WE TREAT.
We treat all diseases, such as chronic
and nervous diseases diseases of the kid
neys, liver, heart, stomach, interstnes,
eyes, skin and scalp, locomotor ataxia
paralysis agitans. rheumatise, loss of
voice. Bright's disease, diabetes, dropsy.
ulcers. tumors coughs colds, headaches,
stiff joints and weakened muscles, ca
tarrh of the stomach, nose throat, liver
or bowels, neurasthenia and diseases of
men and women.
Stomach, Liver, Heart, Lung, Bladder
and Kidney Diseases, Dropsy, scrofula,
Fits, Sore Eyes, Pimples, Blotches,
Burns, Scads, Bols, Cancer, Ulcers,
Tumors and all Skin and Scalp Dis
eases, rheumatism, Paralysis, Con-
tracted Cords, Withered Limbs, Stiff
Joints and Weakened Muscles, Spinal
and Brain Diseases, Coughs, Colds,
LaGrippe, Enlarged Tonsils, catarrh,
Asthma, Hay Fever, Loss of Voice, Par
tial or Total Deafness, Piles and all
Rectal Diseases, Nervous Debility,
Blood Poison (from any cause), Nerv
Gus. Periodical or Sick Headache, ST.
Vitus Dance and all Female Diseases,
Pin, Stomach and Tape Worms. Per-
sons afflicted with Asthma, Consump
ton, Heart Disease, Paralysis or
BrIehts Disease, who have been given
up as IncurabIe, should consult us.
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pulled the bell they would open the door
suddenly and pounce upon him before ne
could get away. Then, If he were small
enough, they would spank him soundly;
or If he were too big for that, they would
shake him vigorously and send him back
to his fellows discounted.
but despite such occasional repressive,
or more likely, only Oppressive. Incl
dents as these. the sport of ringing the
bell and running continued to flourish
until the introduction of the electric bell,
which was really the first blow to 1t. For
the electric bell had no handle to yank,
but simply a little push button, which
could be moved but fraction OF an
inch.
"There was no such fun in pushing this
button as there was in yanking bell
handle out as far as it would go and
hearing the old bell jump and dance and
Jingle. There was action in all that
Certainly there wasn't so much fun in
ringing an electric bell and running, and
so with the introduction of electric door
bells this sport began, at least in some
spread building OF apartment dwelling
houses, however, that gave this ancient
sport its hardest blow.
obviously IL boy is going to ring the
bell and run he must have some place to
run to, and SO, practically, he can pull
only such bells as are on the street. But
now there are thousands of people whose
front door bells, so to speak, are not on
the street at all, but inside another build
ing, and may be up two or three fights
of stairs, and these bells are all cleo
trio.
Thus opportunity is less frequent than
it was, and such opportunity as presents
itself Is less alluring. especially with the
elevator boy waiting to nab us in the hall
below.
$50 the ancient and once universal
sport of ringing the bell and running no
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ling more game than you, personally can
use is not playing fair to either the game
or 10 your fellow-countrymen who are
doing their utmost to preserve the re-
naming wild life of America
| There are a lot of men called sportsmen
who have not the first instincts of the
breed; in most cases they would be known
as butchers if they were rightfully brand
ed Some of them are members of sports
mems clubs or leagues, where they sit
among the elect because forsooth they
/ have killed "big game; many of them
are luxurious gentlemen who affect par
ties and switch their private cars onto a
siding while they and their friends
slaughter all the birds within reach dur
ing a few days shooting"
Heaven deliver us from the loud-Voiced
persons who swagger abroad with gun
in the belief that a shooting Jacket or a
'record-head' encompasses all the claims
requisite to craftsmanship!
A sportsman does not achieve distine-
ton by reason of the size or variety of
his game bag, but by the manner in which
he uses his opportunity and his tools at
the triumphant moment.
There is SO ptiful an ignorance con-
corning the qualities that go to the MAX
ing OF q SpOrtSmaf-and, atter all, IL Is
only another name for loyalty to purpose,
honesty and charity; the man who does
his work modestly and to the very limit
of his skill and endurance.
Be gentle, If firm, with your dogs-you
can accomplish so much more with them
| If you are; and they are so faithful and
| deserving. If you must punish, do so in
| mercy; and to punish in mercy is to pun
ish instantly and thoroughly-that the
chance of repetition may be the more re-
mote.
Kill your game Clearly; to bungle is
| neither merciful to the quarry nor the
| attribute of a sportsman. Pick your
! spot and shoot close; unless for ruffed
grouse there is not the need for so much
snap shooting as is common on the up
| lands and in the woods. Except in the
expert class, it tends to careless work
Never pull the trigger until you clearly
distinguish the object of your aim; so
many sad accidents have happened
| through snap shooting at something that
moved in the brush, or at a brownish,
| reddish spot which looked like a deers
! flank and turned out to be a mans back!
| There is literally no excuse for installing
a man in the woods or out for any other
animal than he is; those who do should
be criminally prosecuted.
Be a good American, as well as a sports
man, by observing the laws that are made
and are making for the protection and the
preservation of our wild bird and animal
! life
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Water PROCEED Silk Coats.

The finest selection of Rainproof
Silk Coats Is to be enjoyed at this
store. No need to give details, only
to say that they are exquisitely
made and beautifully trimmed.
Price as low TX on
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BEATING DRUM HIS HOBBY
ATCOST OF $2O,OOOA YEAR

| formed, the brewer offered to play the
plishment laughed. However, Bernheim-
er was unanimously selected when he
showed his friends how skillful he could
thump the big instrument. For years the
wealthy man pounded away in the or
chestra, happy and contented. When the
Amcitia was dissolved in 1900 Bernheim-
er was disconsolate.
y friend who realized how deeply the
brewer felt upon the subject suggested
to him that he form a band of his own
Bernheimer thought the idea a happy
one. Six years ago the Amicitia ANA
teur Band was formed. 1t has grown
to be full military band of 65 pieces.
comprising some well-l1nown and wealthy
amateur musicians. Although the MEM
bers pay dues, the burden of the expense
falls upon the organizer. lie willingly
pays.
The Amictias play only for pleasure.
They have appeared at the New York
Athletic, The Crescent Athletic, the
Brooklyn Yacht club and other clubs.
Once year they give a concert in Car
negie hall, packing that place to its ca
pacty. Saturday night last the Amicitas
played at a concert in the Iiederkranz
| club.
Bernhemer has the best bass drum
| that money can buy, and he never allows
| II to leave his possession. The other
members of the band as a rule carry
their instruments to and from the places
where they play. Both dignity and the
| heavy weight prevent the brewer from
doing likewise. lie has had trunk made
especially to hold his drum, and this he
! expresses TO his destination.
The Amicitias rehearse every Monday
night in a hall at Fifty-slxth street and
| Third avenue. Bernheimer has never
| been known to miss a rehearsal He
was seen there last night.
81 have nothing to say about the band, -
| replied he to a query 81 just beat the
| bass drum--thats all"
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From the New York World.

From the New York World.
w HAT small boy Is there who has
wv not envied the pompous person
who beats the bass drum in the
band and who has not hoped to become
as great as he? To few do the cherished
dreams of boyhood become realities. An
exception is Simon e. Bernhemer OF this
city, known to his friends as "the mill
lonaire drummer" who not only beats
the bass drum, but actually owns the
band
With vast wealth at his command,
Bernhelmer IS content If he can get into
an obscure corner and solemnly boom
out the noisy notes at the wave of the
leader 5 baton. 1t is his only hobby, and
1t costs him about $4,000 a year As his
estimated wealth Is s15,0OOooO. this is a
mere bagatelle to the "angel' of the
Amiciua Amateur Band, which is the or
ganization Bernhelmer owns and in which
he is a humble drummer The man with
the strange amusement is also official
bass drummer of the orchestra of the
exclusive German Liederkranz club, in
East Fifty-eighth street, but he derives
his chief pleasure from his own band.
Bernhemer is of the firm of Bernheimer
& Schwartz. brewers at 12Sth street and
Amsterdam avenue. lie is also the own
er of high-class apartment buildings on
Washington Heights, as in the Harlem
district. lie is the son of the late Eman-
uel Bernheimer. was born in New York,
and is now OF years old. Bernheimer is
a bachelor and lives at No 107 West
Flfty-seventh street. When Il years old,
after a public school education. lie went
in a brewery as laborer and after u
years entered into partnership with Au-
gust Sehmid, building up the great bust
ness which he now controls.
Although musical i'm his tastes, Bern
heimer never had a musical education.
He did not get an opportunity to in
dulge his passion fully until 20 years ago.
He found that although he was the proud
owner of bass drum, he could not play
1t very well at home without exciting
circumstances from neghbors. There
was also some slight objection in his own
home. No one seemed to appreciate as he
did the delights of a bass drum solo
In 1856, when the Amieltia orchestra, a
private organization of music lovers, was
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PULLING BELL AND RUNNING.
Old Time Sport of Youth that Under
New Conditions is Fading Away.

From the New York Sun.
ar inst occurs to me-" said Mr.. Nod
fast. chat ringing the bell and rum
ming. one of the old time sports OF YOUTH
has now. with changed conditions, fallen
somewhat into allegiance, II indeed 1t is
not now threatened with total extinction.
.In old times when everybody lived In
houses everybody had door bell with
hell null at the front door on the street.
These bells are universally bells or the
Jingle type, with a tongue in them, the
bell being attached to the end OF coiled
wire secured to the wall somewhere In the
hall and from which ran wire through
fine door lamb and to the bell pull knob
without.
.When YOU pulled the bell wire it jim
cled the bell hanging attached to the
end of the sensitive coiled wire. the sport
of ringing the bell and running consist
cd in running or snealking up the front
steps of house and pulling the bell and
then running away.
Not all boys actually engaged in TINS
srort. Out of two or three boys, or big
ger bunch of youngsters. there was al
ways one holder or more daring than the
lest who crept up the steps and did the
actual pulling, while the rest stood
around at the foot of the steps on the
sidewalk the more tinid the further
eway. and all ready to run when the bell
was pulled and the puller came scamper-
Ing down to join them. Wherein they
were like grown up men who may lack
the nerve to do a thing. which they may
applaud or secretly enjoy.
THE object of ringing the bell and run
ling was, of course, for the fun of maxi
ing somebody come to the door to find
nobody there. Putting people to ineon-
venience and annoyance for the fun of
the thing might seem like displaying a
rather crude notion of the humorous; but
there are older people who seem to have
no more sense
Sometimes persons who had been per-
sistently annoyed in this manner would
silently station themselves In immediate
adjacency to the front door on the in
side, all ready, and when the youngster
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OF imported Cravenette material
styles are exact copies of importe
models. A big collection of variol
modes and patterns to insure satisfa
tory choice These garments, If bougl
elsewhere, would cost $500 to $500
Thanksgiving 10 III
Sale Price. =. ..............,A% 'o
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Spare the Birds.

Caspar Whitney. In the Outing Magazine
for November
Spare the birdsl When your bag holds
a dozen plump partridge Quail so-called),
take the shells out of your gun and go
home. BE a sportsman! And bear in
mind that a sportsman is no occult ge-
nus, but just man who plays fair. Kill
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GOODYEAR RAINCOAT COMPANY.
TREET Opposite LOVeman, Joseph & Loeb

longer flourishes as once it did. 1t is now
in a state of at least partial atrophy. If
not decay, or if not yet quite in the sere
and yellow it is, let us hope now tend
ing that way"
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know that the physician in charge of the
institute is a graduate of TWO of the
foremost medical colleges IN this country,
as well as having followed "A long period
of post graduate study in this country
and abroad, after receiving The degree
of Doctor of Medicine. 10 know that by
placing him IN charge of this institute We
have given you the opportunity OF con-
sulting a specialist whose ideals are
strong.
The cures performed by tho Physio-
Medical treatment have astounded even
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sin ONLY SIX D. DAYS MORE Sin.
W NV =======-AT THIS FEE--= W @U
FOR A COMPLETE RADICAL CURE
AT THIS FEE.

Tho re Nt a ch lie % ghatmnt had
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