East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-23
PAGE SIX.
NEW YORK LETTER

~NN" hSANf MAY SS.-heN, James II
Day, ID. D., chancellor of the Syracuse
university, occupied the apex of SEN
sationalism last week, and there are
still some rumblings that like San
Francisco's big earthquake, start other
neighborhoods. Mr. Day is quite a
sensational man. and there's no telling
what day will bring forth. In TAX
Ing hold Of the Standard Oil question
he Just naturally stopped over in a
mighty torrential way. He called the
president of the United States an an
archist, and later hinted that i'm
peachment proceedings would just
about all the bill, for assailing private
rights and naming persons in his mes
sage.
Mr.. Day is a great lover of Standard
OIL and Its officials. He plainly states
that he will take all the tainted
money he can get Mr.. Archbold,
OF the Standard Oil company, has the
Syracuse university under his wing.
being its particular guardian, and
many are the little and big donations
that he has dropped into Its treasury,
and more, much more. Is expected.
Mr.. Day just couldn't help bursting
out in the way he did. for the presj-
dent has hurt his friends
DR.. Day was once pastor of Ca'vary
Methodist Episcopal church, Harlem.
and believed in revivals. He increas-
ed the membership of the church
most remarkably. making it the
strongest Methodist church in the city.
DR.. Day was a candidate for bishop
six years ago, and stayed in the bal
loting three days, but the solid. sober
sense of the Methodist church re-
Trained from electing him. II II had
elevated him to the bishopric, AMI he
had belched out as he has done, in
such an unseemly fashion, there Icuid
have been a howl in the denomination
that might have almost split It in
twain.
A great many Methodist ,iiviaes
smiled when they read his Philippe
against the president, and said, "Oh,
that's just Day" But 1t is not probd-
BILE that any member of congress will
take up the cudgels on Days idea,
and start the ball rolling for Roose-
velt's impeachment. Meanwhile how
ever, matters go on apace. The STAN
dard OIL company, unlike its previous
acts. has opened a publicity depart
ment, and Is answering all questions
asked in the most liberal manner
possible. 1t proposes now to argue
with and convince the public.
1t is at last authoritatively settled
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gator who first sailed up the noble
Hudson, and after whom it was
named, the name chosen for the river
happily having no obscurity about it.
For centuries the navigator has been
called Hendrick, and yet that wasn't
his name, II being simple Henry, Just
like a plain every day American of
modern times. This matter is settled
by Hugh Hastings, historian of the
state of New York, who quotes from
the original contract between tho d..
rectors of the East Indian company
and the Chamber of Amsterdam, made
on the Sth day Of January, 1909, and
which bears the name in the Dutch |
copy, both in the body of the docu-
ment and the signature, Henry Hud-
son." /
Thank the Lord. there has been one
big work for the public that has had |
no suspicion of graft about 1t, and |
lnat Is the most remarkable investi- |
cation this city ever had, the investi- |
CATION Of the insurance companies. |
This investigation took up great deal
of time. the work upon II was very |
strenuous, and there was SIC ady at
tention to every detail. Besides that |
there was displayed a large measure |
of genius in the manners of inVesti- |
eating. that made every shot tell.
And yet the bill of Charles e. |
Hughes. the legal examiner, was only
$4,000, a paltry sum compared with |
the sums counsel received from the |
company in its undisturbed days. II |
he had put 1t at 100000, there would
not have been a murmur, and 1t
would have been paid without hesi- !
attion. as being a piece of work of ex-
ception value. The whole expenses
foot up but little over 100000.
Some of the old-timers would have
spent half to whole million on the
"OTh, anu NOT nave redCneu SUCH cOH-
elusive results.
The school authorities have been
greatly disturbed in regard to the
proper way for the children to carry
their school books to and from the
school houses. They established a
rule that they should carry them first
on the right side, and then on the
left side, doing one on the even days,
and the other on the odd days. In
this way It was thought that their
weight would not tend to make the
children lop-sided by tending to curve
the spines. Many educators, as we'll
as writer's who make a specially Of
school subjects, have proposed differ
ent ways to be ordered, but so far Su-
perintendent Maxwell's idea of shift