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The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-01
ARE CLEARING DEBRIS.

San Francisco Has Railroad in Main
Streets.
Railroads are rapidly completing
plans for the removal of debris on a
large scale, many tracks already being
laid to the burned district and a large
force of employees being organized.
Large insurance companies are per-
hitting policyholders 10 remove debris
and thus, together with the announce
ment of a SO rate per car. has removed
the last obstacle for cleaning up.
Each day brings the announcement
of the proposed erection o. many new
buildings in the burned district.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-01
Rockefeller to Go Abroad.

The continued illness of his daueb.
yer, mrs. Strong, and of his brother.
William Rockefeller, both of whom are
IN France, is said to have made ,Jobn
d. Rockefeller consent to a trim scrnsa
the ocean.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-01
Nogi Befriends stoesseI,

1t is reported General Nogi has
wired asking Russia whether it is
true that Lieutenant General Stoessel.
the defender of Port Arthur, has been
sentenced to death for surrendering
the fortress, adding that in his opinion
the capitulation was justifable.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-01
Pulls Elevator Rope; He Dies

A special from Ogden. Utah telIs :
the death in that city of Ethan -
a young attorney. He had Gina
into the elevator in the First Na orf
bank to get a key. In climbing on.
again he grasped the rope WINCH "a
trolled the car and was crusn''
death.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-01
Aged Chinese co H..

!. mas been determined to send more
wbn I,OOo aged and destitute Chinese
no were rendered homeless NV The
nre IN San Francisco, back to CHM
at home. Jays III peace
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-01
Fires In Virginia Forss,s

cumberland, Md.-Forest A.,
vicinity of Parsons and Davis ~ n w yne
imm s destroyed lumber plants. sawed
oven Oe ear and standing timber valued Al
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-01
The Dakota Makes Record.

Breaking all tr~ans-pacluc records for
fast steaming, the Oriental liner Da-
kota made the run from Yokohama To
Seattle in nine days and II hours.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-01
Banker

Frank P. Boughton. cashier of the
National Bank OF Battle Creek. Mich
suicided by hanging in the bathroom.
owing to i'll health. Prominent officials
say his accounts are straight.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-01
GALE ON THE GREAT LAKES.

Storm.
Chllled by a tremendous drop in tenn
perature and swept by a gale, Chicago
and the whole northwest lake region
suffered last Saturday. From a sum.
me temperature the mercury slid rap
idiy down the tube. November cold
degrees. 81
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-01
Disaster In Japan.

Tokio.-In a fire at the KuoaTi ~,
iiery on the island OF HokkaluO Ina
buildings were destroyed d
miners persisted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

popular than ever. The troubles of the
servant question are as nothing COM
pared with the discomforts of living
in two rooms and bath and in being
subject to the bad meals at exorbitant
prices served in the restaurant
Now, clergynaen have always claimed
that the apartment hotel craze was
responsible for gambling. wasted days
and marital infeIcity among women
The cause for all this, they claimed,
was the enormous amount of spare
time freedom from household cares left
to the woman living in this way.
It viii be curious to see if the min
listers. are right. Anyway, you may be
sure of one thing-an appearance Of
domesticity is just now very much the
fad, and the two room and bath hotel
is being left to the transient visitor in
town or the chorus girl and her bull
pup.
Perhaps one Of the secrets of the
revival of interest in the home comes
from the clever ideas in furniture pre-
scented by up to date interior decora-
tors
Most fascinating models may be OBJ
tanned at ridicuIously low rates Gre
tonne upholsteries are admitted where
only brocade could be thought of for
merry. and artistic enanels, mission
and wicker chairs take the place often
of the heavier looking expensive ma
hogany. The result is that a pretty
home may be furnished for half the
cost Of former times. and the colors
and patterns are SO dainty they are a
temptation to any woman.
Domestic service. too. is improving.
While wages are ccrta MY not grow
ing any less. capable maids are now
far more plentiful than formerly. They
seem TO have increased in intelligence,
and the only danger seems to be that
they grow too intelligent and copy the
manners of their masters in too perfect
a degree.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

surging, seething, rushing-splendid or
in poverty, overfed, starving. over
dressed, in rags, gay and laughing,
miserable-the extremes of the earth.
On the left of the picture is shown
the north side of Twenty-third street,
where. several of the country's leading
book publishers have their establish
ments. On the other side of the street
opposite the publishers, is one of the
aristocratic shopping blocks Here in
morning hours, which for her mean
from II o'clock till about 2, may be
seen the automobile of Madam Mil
lionaire when she is in town. The
most extravagant dressing in the west
ern hemisphere is to be found in New
York among the society women who
shop on Twenty third street Their
outdoor gowning is not gaudy. as a
rule. but the cost Of it-good gracious!
Brave clothes they wear, these ex-
quisiteIy groomed women who shop in
their automobiles along Twenty third
street. Are they happy? No. Who
is? The brave clothes of the New York
society women cover many a heart that
aches almost to bursting. There is
Mrs. Billion, wife of a famous financier.
beautiful. refined and a model wife and
mother She was poor when Billion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

and runs up tapering and wedge shaped
to the north end. It is not seen in the
picture, which is perhaps artistically
all the better looking on that account.
Owing to its peculiar shape and Ioca-
ton the wind currents about this
'F'latiron' building are something fear
some, quite equal to those which sweep
the streets of Skagway. Alaska. where
they say the breezes blow the lead out
of a pencil. It is a fact that two win
ters ago a heavy glass plate was blown
out of a window across the street from
the "Flatiron. On particularly windy
days. too, bold. bad members of the
masculine sex stand on the street
around there to watch the ballooning
twisted skirts of hapless women
obliged to encounter the air currents
Occasionally it is necessary for police
men TO disperse. them A window
cleaner employed in, this twenty three
story structure is undoubtedly one Of
the coolest nerved men in America.
When engaged in his work he climbs
from one window tSh another on the
outside walls, surefooted as a cat. It's
too much trouble for him to go inside
to pass from one Window to the next
one, even at the topmost story. Some
times people away down in the streets
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

ICTU RESQ UE. impressive
wonderful, a psychological
study, is the scene at the point
n where Broadway and Fifth
avenue cut into each other at Twenty
thf-H street, New York city. It is all
New York city; it is the world. It is
undoubtedly the busiest, most crowded
spot in the western hemisphere, posi-
bly, on earth, though the picture does
not show this, because it had to be
taken when a Sunday quiet reigned
over the great united thoroughfare. 1t
would be impossible to photograph the
scene at it's busiest. There wouldn't
be any spot where the photographer
could rest his camera long enough to
get a picture.
Twenty-third street from Broadway
20 Sixth avenue is shown on the ex-
IRENE left Of the photograph. On any
fair week day from noon on till 6
o'clock this space is black with people,
hurrying, scurrying, lodging to get out
Of the way Of trolley cars, trucks and
automobiles. No matter where they
are going they are all running as if
they had only a minute and a half to
get there. The hurry. scramble atmos-
phere Of New York has caught them
all. It is a fact that when a rural visit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

Seward in the foreground. Madison
square is now in pleasant weather
mainly a roosting place for hapless
folk, men and women. out of employ
ment in New York city. But forty
years ago. when William Allen Butler
wrote his Flora McFlimsy of Madison
Square" who had nothing to wear. the
heart of rich and aristocratic New
York beat there. To have a house on
the old parks fringe was to be 1t so
cially Now not q single private resi-
dence is left upon its cramped sides.
Flora McFlimsy's wardrobe would be
poverty ana shabbiness nowadays. VIII
liam Allen Butler. who fioated himself
and Madison square alike into fame by
his poem. became one of the shrewdest,
wealthiest lawyers of America. The
simple life was then. as it is now. all
we'll enough in poetry. but William Al
len Buffers law firm achieved regular
" an income of $1,000 600 a year. The
young ladies of his family evidently
never had need to complain after the
manner of Flora McF'linsy. William
Allen Butler died in 1902
The present day most noted struc-
ture at this corner where three ways
meet is the huge, ugly "F'latiron"
building. 1t is wide at the south end
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

watch him in fascinated horror while
he performs his great acrobatic stunt.
Everybody is scared cold but his wife.
who peacefully declares that Jim knows
his business.
Abroad, throughout Europe, photo
graphs and Autographs of the Flat
iron" are sold as representations Of an
American freak.
At night, from the street corner seen
in the illustration northward on Broad
way to about Forty-fifth street, New
York is the most dazzlingly illumi-
mated city in the world. Such a lavish
showing of electrical lights could not
be AFFORDED in any city of Europe. I
witnessed the electrical illumination on
the opening night of the Paris exposi-
ton. Even at the Place de la Con-
cordc. where the main gates were. the
light display was nothing like so brill
liant as that which may be seen on
Broadway any clear winter night. Es-
pecially was this true before so much
soft coal was surreptitiously burned in
New York Many business firms have
their electrical signs designed by art
lists. The radiant, changing color dis
play suggests the aurora borealis.
Along Twenty third street all day
long plays the whole human circus,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

color has approving effect on your
disposition
This is the latest silly fad.
ooh, yes murmurs the sweet young
thing. Il have come to the conclu-
sion that I must wear green. Ny
nerves have been in such a bad condi-
ton lately that the beauty specialist
recommends it to me She says it Will
have a soothing effect on my health
and that I have been wearing too
much red lately. And, really, you
know. green does look so cool and rest
full Besides. it is very becoming to
me"
When I interviewed the beauty
specialist who advised women what
colors to wear as an additional branch
Of her business, she was indignant at
my sketicism.
why, even prominent doctors in
dorse the color theory" she observed.
II have known one man to forbid his
patient to wear black as she had NOR
bid tendencies; another physician
would not allow nervous patient to
occupy bright pink bedroom, while
still another told a woman Of a pale.
anaemic tendency to surround her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

or to the great city sees for the first
time Twenty third street at this point
he sometimes asks his city friend:
Where is the fire all these people
are running tor
And there is no fire at all. It is just
a way New York people have of gal
Looping on as if they We're continually
rushing to a fire
The building prominent in the view
here shown is the historic Fifth Avenue
hotel, for generation or more the
headquarters of th : Republican polit-
zeal party as its rival the Hoffman
House, a block northward, has been
quite as long of the Democratic party.
Past the front IF the Fifth Avenue
hotel, toward the right, are shown.
looking northward. Broadway and Fifth
avenue, united in one At the point
where a low, dark building seems to
block the way the two thoroughfares
part Broadway leading to the left,
Fifth avenue 30 the right Broadway
is the only street in New York city
that lies in a true northerly and south
erly direction. and that only in its up
per portion.
To the right of the scene is the ia
nous Madison Square park with its
weatherbeaten statue of William H
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

married her, but he was dead IN love
with her, she was in love with him
Now he neglects her for an ignorant,
homeIy, common bred creature in whom
nobody but himself can see anything
in the slightest degree attractive. Mrs.
Billion dresses and looks her part on
the society stage to perfection yet her
heart is breaking for hers was a love
match. Alas for love matches!
In all the great, brilliant, reckless.
cruel kindly, conceited, furious paced
city probably few persons are really
happy. Witness the suicides, murders.
bankruptcies, embezziements. nerve
sanitariums, insanity. The happiest
persons in New York are the girls and
young men of the working class, toll.
ing for small wages. In summer Their
paradise is Coney Island of a Saturday
night and Sunday. IN winter theiI
ideal of pleasure is to attend a yaude-
vile show or a lurid melodrama at
cheap theater But they marry young
and recklessIy and pay up afterward
for all the fun they had before.
New York, the most expensive OF all
cities to live in, is a delightful placs
for the literary or professional lcna
woman who has made good her footing
financially. MARILLA WEAVER.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22
The New Maid.
a degree

Your up to date maid IS more likely
than not a graduate Of some cooking
school She is trim and neat. almost
a tri1e supercilious-
She will not stay in place where
the mistress is either a scold or a
slattern, and that surprised woman
suddenly finds out that she must
brace up ana reform If she expects
to keep a first class servant.
She knows her place. and. what is
sometimes trying, her mistress place.
She works faithfully. cleverly and
rapidly and asks in return regular
hours. a good room, a well fitted kitchen
and time for her friends and to take
care of her own person
It seems tc me she does not ask toe
much.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

-~-aEes ee~HtVsO9 Atef8 thinks 1t looks
the best she can. beneath hin, -
be seen carrying the baby. Perhaps.
who knows, he has hopes his wife will
be taken for the nurse; but, anyway, he
simply won't be seen in public carry
ing the child and that's all there is
to it.
Tt is a great pity since he has such
notions OF dignity that he does not
observe how the members of his own
sex higher up in the social scale act
He perhaps would not feel so uppish
about carrying his child if he knew
that men with three times his dignity
to uphold would just as soon think of
dying as Of allowing their wives to
carry the babies while they were
around.
AS a rule. to be sure, the infant is
left safely at home, except for it's
morning ride in the baby carriage. and
&c Is not carried around in the cars or
in the shopping district. but If it so
happens It must be taken through the
streets for short distance you may
be sure it is the father and not the
mother who shoulders the heavy bur
den.
It certainly makes my blood boil
when see the opposite.
Before you decide on your new
tailor made you want to be sure the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

goods it is admirable for the street
worn with a jaunty cloth or silk jacket.
These new accordion plated skirts
are made absolutely plain around the
hips, the graduated plating starting di-
rectiy below the rounding point. and
the result is q very stunning figure.
BY the way. if=you contemplate buy
ing one of these let me give you a hint.
Take two bands Of paper an inch wide
and pin them around the plaits at night
after the fashion of large napkin rings
This holds the plaits close as the skirt
hangs in the closet, and they help pre-
serve It's trim appearance indefinitely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

The old housekeeper treated her like
a machine. The up to date mistress
of the house realizes the mistakes OF
former times and gives her servant
the same businesslilxe consideration
her husband would grant first class
employee.
The result is that domestic service
is improving. because ''the lady Of the
house" has learned common sense and
justice by sad experience and is her.
self improving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

self with as
many cheerful
colors as possi-
BILE. Dear me,
haven't you no.
ticed yourself
the different eff
fects your gowns
have on you?
When you wear
white muslin
with blue rib
bons are you
not Instructive
~ demure ? And
when you wear
steel gray does
not it give you
an aristocratic.
superior sort Of
feeling ? When
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

Clergymen viii have one less topic
for sermons If the prophecies of real
estate men are right.
The latter declare that the apart
ment hotel craze is dying out and that
housekeeping apartments are more
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

Lavender gown don't you often feel de-
pressed, and can you be otherwise than
giddy when wearing a rose colored
frock 2"
Her logic was too much for me. and
when I went home I peeked into my
wardrobe with the unpleasant sensa-
ton that my costumes were alive and
had designs. on my peace of mind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

ants s ONE
rest. Well, and
what about his
wife? Are not
washing, cook
ing, scrubbing
and minding the
b a b y h a r d
work? If he
thinks they're
not I would like
to have him
change places
with his wife
for awhile.
No, I think
the situation
arises from q
false notion of
dignity on the
mans part. He
Ll.s-I--
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22
An omnipresent skirt.

Before close I want to call your
attention to the extraordinary vogue
of the accordion plated skirt.
It is certainly omnipresent. Made Of
black taffeta it is extremely fetching
and is admirable for house skirt to
wear with lingerie waists.
IN white sicilian, or. better STILL voile,
it is fit for the most dressy occasions,
and when made of Scotch or checked
Furnished for half the cast Of former times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22
THINKS MEN ARE TO Be Fitted.

John Oliver Hobbies, the famous now
elist did not share the popular opin-
ion that men have better time thar
women
Men" she said, have to go out inte
the world and struggle for an existence
They are spurred till they night. trans
pied on when they fall. overworlzsd
when they work"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

Is: s; s.: s: II; !: ~: is. g: q. :.
Well, you want to watch
whenever you see a family in modest
circumstances out for a days outing
Father steps along lightly, dressed in
his gIaddest clothes, holding little
Jimmy by the hand, while mother
stumbles along the best she can. hold
ing the heavy baby.
Sociologists have endeavored to ex-
plain this by saying that the father has
been hard at work all the week and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-22

FURNISHED for half the cost Of fo1mer times.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-19

THESE RATES ARE NE1,
Rnsine-s locals cents per line each Insertion.
discount 70 regular advertisers carrying display
nds Advertising accounts payaoie monthly.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-19
Time Table Colorado & Southern Ry.
Secret Societies.

A. f. & A. M.-Kiowa Lodge No. 116.
Stated communications held on first and
third Friday night of each month. Wis
ting brethren welcome. l.. w. Park
hurst, W. NJ; b. @. KILN, Sec.
10. O. F-Elbert Lodge No. SO meets
each Saturday evening. Visiting broth
ers welcome. j. l.. Baldwin, n. g.; j. II.
Purden, Sec.
/. o. o. f. II Rising Star Rebekah
Lodge No. 8s. Meeting first and third
Wednesday night of each month Mrs.
Lucy Whiting, n. g.; Mrs. Nina Purden'
w.-Elbert Camp No 1872. Meet
ing every Tuesday night. Visiting broth
ers welcome. Albert Ne man, Consul;
]. IL. Purden, Clerk.
WOW W.-Fondis Camp No. 400. Meet
ing second and fourth Saturday night OF
each month in Woodmen hall. q. Q.
cox, Consul; John Flurer, Clerk.
10. r. NJ - Satantee Tribe No. 81;
Meeting every Thursday night IN Red
Men hall. Earl Oaks, Sachem; Albert
Neuman, Chief of Records.
10. r. NJ Uncompahgre Tribe No.
30 Eastonville. Meeting every Saturday
night. Visiting braves welcome. Clifford
Dickinson, Sachem; j. w. Dickinson,
Chief OF Records.
q A. R.=Elbert County Post No. lOl.
Meeting second Saturday OF each month
alternately at Elbert and kiowa. f.. 5.
Ramey. Commander; ID. L. Epler, Adju-
tant.
Meeting second Saturday of each month
alternately at Ebert and Kiowa. Mrs.
Abbie Epler, President; Mrs. -------,
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-19

Buy your wall paper early SO as to get
the best.-City Drug Store.
The new firm. successors to Jacob
Epler, will be styled the Divide Supply
Co.
The infant son of Eli Coole. on the Re-
gester ranch southwest of Elbert, was
seriously ill last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Long and daugh.
ter of Kiowa visited with relatives in
Ebert Easter Sunday
Mrs. Ed Grin was taken seriously i'll
while going to Denver last week and was
taken to hospital for treatment.
Charles n. Reynolds, travelling freight
agent of the Atchison, Topeka 4 Santa
f'e railway, was in town Tuesday.
Sick headache results from derange-
ment of the stomach and is cured by
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab
lets. Sold by Fred Long.
Baltz Gaylor, who recently sold his
blacksmith business here to Jacob Epler,
has purchased half interest in a shop
in Denver on Eighteenth street
Local grocers say that they never be-
fore have taken in so many eggs at this
time OF the year. They are paying IA
cents this week and the market is un-
steady.
j. w. Upton has returned to Elbert
county, after residence of several years
in Colorado Springs, and is breaking up
some new ground on his ranch south
west of town.
Fl. H. Dawson OF Colorado Springs. a
real estate and financial agent, was in
Elbert Friday on business connected
with the sale of the Diamond ranch
south of town.
The Elbert Mercantile Co. shipped
three car loads of seed potatoes last
week up into the Greeley district. The
Gates company also shipped out two or
three cars of spuds last week.
Horsemen, let us figure on you horse
bills for the season of 1906 before order
ing your printing; and bear in mind
when placing your advertising, that the
Tribune covers this field thoroughly.
VIII Longbeck of Bijou valley has
sold his blacksmith tools, etc, to g. c..
Cox, the Fondis blacksmith, and left on
Tuesday for Denver, where he has Job
at the crematory in Riverside cemetery
]. ID. Holden has leased his big ranch
lS miles southeast of Elbert to Joseph
Rosco for one year. Mr.. Holden took
charge of the Bijou Basin cheese factory
Monday and has moved his family to
the Basin.
Fl. II. Beckman is setting out 400 fruit
trees on his five acre tract. formerly the
LaVell homestead, and will cultivate the
ground on the same plan adopted by
Parsons, the well known and successful
horticultutist, near Parker.