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The Brooklyn Bridge crush has been
done in prose and profanity, and poets
have told its story as truthfully as
they could and stick TO their chosen
form. But no attempt till recently, it
is believed. has been made TO describe
IL in music We have il now, how
ever in the Bridge Crush March, made
realistic as far as possible by the in
PRODUCTION of factory whistles, trolley
bells, steamboat whistles and imita-
tiOns of the wind whistling effects that
attack the ears halfway across the
| bridge. 1t remains 10 be seen whether
the Brooklynites will regard this bit of
descriptive music as a song that will
| help to soothe their irritation on ac-
count Of the crowding endured twice
| daily or If they will resent it as an
attempt to make light of their troubles.
A large and valuable collection Of
| geological specimens from the jungleS
! of British East Africa, the result Of
nearly a year and a half of labor on
the part of an expedition sent out by
the Field Columbia museum OF Chi
cago, has just arrived here and will
be forwarded to the West in a few
days.
The collection is in charge Of Carl
T.. Ackerley of the museum staff, who
gathered a majority OF the specimens
and many months will be required to
mount and prepare various groups for
exhibition. This assortment weighs
about seventeen tons.
Mrs. Ackerley took active part in all
of the hunts for big game and it was
her gun which brought down two Of the
biggest elephants, killed by the party,
declared TO be the two best specimens
ever taken out of Africa. She also had
a leading part in the search for and
capture Of big game, including buff
falO, antelope, lions and leopards.
"It is estimated that the total ex-
penditure for all forms of education
in this country, public and private. in
the year 1905 reached the truly colos-
sal sum of 1876, 1896, AIS. This amount
equals six percent of the expenditures
for governmental purposes in this
CONVERSATIONAL, state and local
while the expenditure in all of the
states for publicly supported educa-
tiOn constituted in the same year
twenty-five percent of the total eX-
penditures of all the states, counties
and lesser political units for all pur-
poses whatsoever"
This statement was made by Elmer
+. Brown, United States commissioner
of education, in an address at Cooper
Union recently under the auspices OF
the Board Of Education
AS to the problems still to be solved
Commissioner Brown said:
Our secondary schools must become
better differentiated to meet the needs
of our people and more widely the
needs of our peopl and more widely ex-
tended TO meet needs of all. Our
schools and colleges for trade and
technical education have not yet come
to their full adjustment to either cur
educational or industrial system
When one is told that fully 1900
children are cared for each year by
New York Founding Hospital and
that every child is in due season placed
in a good comfortable home, in most
cases being adopted one realizes the
vast amount of benevolenCe these lit
tie children receive. The age limit
is from infancy to years of age, and
the children include waits. abandoned
children, half orphaned, and in con-
nection with the main building is the
maternity ward where many an un-
fortunate girl finds refuge.
Perhaps one of the most exceptional
Gus home cradle" that is always
standing i'm the vestibule to receive
any little creature that may be heart
lessly abandoned by the father or
mother. Nothing but the daintiest Of
fittings are used in this tiny nest of
outcast is at once sheltered and start
ed upon systematic and careful course
of nursing and development When
such desertions occur, if the child Is
very young. the sisters find suitable
boarding place until the babe Is 10
months Old; but each month it is
brought to the hospital for inspection
and If conditions indicate careful nurs-
Ing the womans card. which she has
in her possession. and there are nearly
1000 cards out all the time. is punched
and she is given a $40 gold piece as
remuneration. Then when the baby
is 10 months old il is returned to
the hospital and is given into the reg
ular care of the attendants.
Ii is said that good share Of the
history of New York is underground.
From the catacombs under ST. Peters.
the Oldest Catholic Church in the city.