The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-06
DEATH Turks IN
THE MILK WAGON
Alarming increase in Mortality
Among New York Infants
Easily Explained.
CRUSADE ON I'M NEW YORK
ART PURCHASES OF J. PIERPONT
MORGAN.
CRUSADE ON IN NEW YORK
special to The Herald.A

new YORK, Aug. "a crusade against
impure milk is in full progress since the
a alarming facts about the great increase
or infant mortality have been made pub
ic Inspectors stop milk wagons in the
street, examine their contents, and if the
milk is found to contain more than a Ger
tain percentage of bacteria every can is
ruthlessly emptied into the gutter. Thou
sands of quarts have thus been DESTROYED
curing the past few days and the inSpec-
llon sun continues more rigid than ever.
II is found that most of the milk is
Drought into town pure and wholesome,
put that II is often kept too long in the
nanas OF small city dealers, such as gro
cerymen and bakers, or has been i'm
properly stored, in consequence of which
IL becomes dangerous for babies, although
adults may use it without injury. Milk
can De Kept for twenty-four hours at q
temperature of fifty degrees, but when
that temperature is exceeded bacteria
appear and multiply. The increase in the
child death rate in hot weather is ascribed
almost entirely TO this overhedted milk.
Parkhurst's Old Church.
Pictures of chorus girls ornamenting the
front of DR.. Parkhurst's old church on
1emoiitlon. considerably surprised passing
New Workers. the other mornings. All
sorts OF rumors began to fly about re-
garding the possible future uses which
the properly might be put 10, although
d
long time that a big insurance company
Is TO occupy the site. Later on the pic
lures were found to have been so thor
oughly blackened over with printers ink
that they no longer conveyed any hint of
their character, and this, of course,
started another set OF rumOrs, for Madi-
son square froquenters have little to do
but exercise their imaginations. The
truth proved to be that one of the church
trustees. scandaliZed at the sight of the
posters, and no doubt alarmed about what
DIR. Parkhurst now in Switzerland, would
say II he heard OF this invasion of his
old enemies, had ordered the pictures to
be obliterated so far as ink would do il.
Thus the incident closed.
New York's Power Supply.
That New York is four times greater
than London in its available supply of
power for manufactures by electric cur
rent has been conceded by experts from
each metropolis this week. The story of
the stagnation in Industrial activities at
the British capital is being told on the
arrival of every steamship from English
ports and the story of the supremacy
of Yankee enterprise in the matter of
the supply of motive power in the Ameri-
can metropolis is being rehearsed. One
thousand million units of electricity are
supplied annually in New York city alone
10 turn the wheels of industry. In Lon
don, with almost twice New YOrk'S pOpu-
latiOn. only a little over quarter of that
amount is available. The London manu-
obtain cheaper current and much more
of il the Industrial interests of the city
will die a natural death. Nevertheless
these same men are fighting tooth and
nail the proposed electric supply bill,
which authorizes the municipality to sup
ply the sOraly needed power medium.
Much as they need electricity on a big
scale. the London manufacturers say
they object to municipal trading in its
supply more.
The Goddess of Liberty.
The Goddess of Liberty on Bedloes
island. who has never had a new gown
or been in any way smartened up since
BarthOldi gave her to the American peO-
pie nearly twenty years ago, is TO be
generally repaired and reJuYenated. Con-
gress has appropriated SCI. 500 for the pur-
pose, and various improvements will be
made, beginning with her torch, which
of late, so far from enlightening the
world has not even Illuminated the har-
Dor TO any noticeable extent. The torch
will be provided with ten electric lights.
instead of five as at present, and by in
amount of light will be tripled. An ele-
vator Will also be put in to carry passen-
gers from the base 10 the torch, the
foundations will be finished off. new ap-
grounds renovated, and the whole statue
painted inside and out. All these inn
provements will remove the shabby and
poverty stricken appearance which the
Goddess has too long presented and make
her a much better eXemplar of the
wealth and luxury only a mile or two
behind her.
Morgan's Art Gallery.
Three millions for paintings and CuriOs.
100000 for a single picture-such are j.
Pierpont Morgan's reported expenditures
in Europe during the last three months.
The picture in question is Sir Thomas
LaWrence's Portrait of Miss Farrcn.'
which sold for $444 in 1868. and for 81. 30
In 1897. The enormous increase in price
is said to be due to the fact that the pOr-
trait was owned by another millionaire
who refused to sell for some time until
Mr. Morgan's last offer proved too great
q temptation to be withstood. The Brit
ishers say that Mr.. Morgan knows moth
ing about art, but simply buys the most
famous pictures he can get hold Of by the
simple process of outbidding everybody
else and then packing his purchase away
in one of several repositories which h.
maintains abroad, neither looking at il
Himself nor allowing anybody else to do
So He likes to know that he owns such
treasures and that other people don't.
Yet he is credited with the less selfish pur-
pose of forming vast collection of paint
tngs and antiques, which he VIII some
time present TO the New York Museum of
Art in order TO perpetuate his name to
future generations. Whatever his real