Arizona republican., 1907-06-28

Oi the SlOlIllN CdEttI Niith ho tional hero, Garibaldi. According to a resolution passed by the Italian sen ate. great ceremonies will take place all over Italy. including pilgrimage promoted by many associations to the tomb of the general in the island of Caprera and the decoration of all the numerous statues which have pSe.i erected to his memory since his death. Nor are the 115,000 Italians in New York forgetting the event. It is ex- pected that King Victor Emanuel will send his personal gift to the committee in charge of the preservation of the little house on Staten Island in which the Italian hero lived while residing in America. and which it is proposed to preserve by enclosing it in u marble monument. toward which many mem hers of the Italian colony in New York and other cities in the United States have contributed.
 There is a popular belief that to be poor is to realize General Sherman's definition of war; but. since Andrew Carnegie announced his intention to achieve that condition, life has not been all milk and roses for the rich, in view of the efforts of those who are not to relieve them of the disgrace and responsibility attaching to great for tunes. Miss Helen Gould is only one millionaire among Americas many. yet she has just made public some sta- tistics which afford an interesting basis for calculating how long it would take MT. Carnegie to attain his ambi- ton if he only half tried. According tc Miss Gould's disclosures, she re- Ceived in the last week requests for money and gifts which would require the expenditure of $2.000.000 to grant. Within that time. four brides have asked her to contribute $2.000 toward the purchase of their trousseaux, ele- ven persons. poor but musical. have asked her to buy pianos for them. several men have asked for money to take the drink cure, and one woman applied for the price of set of false teeth. Beside these there were nearly 500 other requests. most of them equal ly intresting. One person wanted to be sent to Europe. one wished to sell a quilt. one needed help to remove a watch from pawn. There were ten re- qusts to aid church fairs. thirty-four for old clothes. three for watches. fourteen for scholarships. while one man yearned for a farm and three cows. Seventeen writers begged only for advice. while 1O7 would have been satisfied with money without advice or any other restrictions as to its use. Seven persons asked permission to name a child after Miss Gould, five begged for sewing machines, three wanted bibles. one wished assistance to open a photograph gallery. and one man. anxious to fill a longfelt want, hesought a job getting up railroad time tables which would really show what time the trains start and what time they actually get there.
 Police Commissioner Bingham is nothing if not energetic and original in his effort to improve the police ser vice of New York. A week or two ago he issued to the public a neat lit- tie pamphlet entitled Blue Book for Citizens" rule 3 of which reads as fol- lows: Tn case of complaint write di- reetly to the police commissioner and mark the envelope Personal" One warm day last week. when the ten- cent fare to Coney Island was proving a distracting problem. the following communication reached headquarters from "a citizen" who evidently takes his advice literally: 'I beg to inform you that the vilest den in New York is run at 434 West Thirty-seventh street. Disorderly persons of both sexes resort to it at all hours of the day and night. This infamous den should be broken up" Instantly there was excitement at headquarters and visions of another shakeup. Forth with the communication was dispatch ed to Captain Steve O'Brien, to whom has been assigned the task of holding down the lid of the tenderloin during the dull summer season. with the in- formation that if Captain O'Brien had not enough men to close up the resort. the commissioner would furnish all that were needed. By return rnessen- ger came the following report from Captain O'Brien: The building 434 West Thirty street. I most re- spectfully report. is the police station house of which l am commander. Re- spectfully, Stephen O'Brien" The citi- zen who had the courage to perpetrate so mean joke on the commissioner has not been discovered but in the tenderloin station at least he is regard- ed as worthy of a medal.
 LONGACRE.