The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-30
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the metropolis. or as many as can af- ford to, flee the city every summer outsiders who come in by the thousand manage to find a good deal of enjoy ment
 Already signs are apparent that the celebration of the Glorious Forth this year will be an international event. Although in New York the fire mar shall has cut down by two weeks the period during which fireworks may be sold at retail. the wholesale dealers re- port heavy advance orders, and the Board of Health has taken the precau- ton to lay in a corresponding stock oi lock-jaw serum. Curiously enough many of the orders for fireworks are from patriotic American citizens across the Canadian border, who propose to make the eagle scream in the very face of the British lion Not only is 1t the great American holiday. but with the Germans 1t is the birthday of their future Kaiser, and Italians in all parts of the world will celebrate the day as the centennial of the commencement of the stormy career of their great national hero. Garibaldi. According to a resolution passed by the Italian Senate, great ceremonies will take place all over Italy, including a pill grimage promoted by many associa- tions to the tomb of the General in the island of Caprera and the decoration of all the numerous statues which have been erected to his memory since his death. Nor are the 175,000 Italians in New York forgetting the event. It Is expected that King Victor Emanuel VIII send his personal gift to the com mittee in charge of the preservation of the little house on Staten Island in which the Italian hero lived while re- siding In America, and which it is sup posed to preserve by closing it in a marble monument. toward which many members of the Italian colony in New York and other cities in the United States have contributed.
 There is popular belief that to be poor is to realize Generals 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 efforrs of those who are not to relieve them of the disgrace aRd responsibility attaching great fortunes Miss Helen Gould Is only one million aire among Aemica's many, yet she has just made public some statistics which afford an interesting basis for ca1cula- ting how long 1t would take Mir. Car negie to attain his ambition if he only half tried. According to Mss Goulds disclosures, she received in the last week requests for money and gifts which would require the expenditure of $2.00o.000 to grant. Within that time, four brides have asked her to con tribute $2,000 toward the purchase of their trousseaux, eleven 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 equally interesting One person wanted to remove a watch from pawn. There were ten requests to aid church fairs. 34 for old clothes, three for watches fourteen for scholar ships, while one man yearned for a farm and three cows. Seventeen writers begged only for advice, while 107 would have been satisfied with money without advice or any other restrictions as to its use. Seven per- sons asked permission to name a child after Miss Gould, five begged for sew ing machines, three wanted Bibles, one wished assistance to open a photograph gallery, and one man, anxious to fill a long-felt want, besought a job get ting up railroad timetables which would really show what time the trains start and what time they actually get there.
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