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The Washington times., 1907-10-13

PITTSBURG, Oct. PA little town
built on about thirty-one acres OF lard
which was originally a part Of st
Clair township, is one OF the most
unique villages in the country. It is
not on the maps Of the county, has no
township. no government. no taxes, no
schools, no churches, no right TO the
ballot. and no police protection. The
town Is lost to the world and the own
ers OF the property, who have homes
On the land. are living the simple life
indeed.
This small community, composed CT
Feven families. ali Of whom own their
homes. occupy land once a part Of lower
So. Clair township. During recent
years this township has been sub
divided into the boroughs OF Nj Oliver,
Knoxville, and MontOotn. and about q
year ago another subdivision was made
and the borough OF ST. Clair was fo-m-
ed At that time the tract OF ground
referred to was not included, and as Z
IS not claimed by either the city or
other surrounding boroughs, the inhabi-
tants were seemingly satisfied to remain
apart from the rest.
Since the organization OF the borough
OF st. Clair they have been assessed no
taxes and the male inhabitants have
not voted. There are no stores. no
churches. no schools. The people are as
much apart from the real life as IL they
were in the backwoods.
Seldom Seen" is the name selected
as a distinguished appeIladon for tlis
isolated little community. and it was
well chosen, for it is seldom seen by any
but those who live there With no car
lire within reasonable distance and
nothing but a few houses to see when
The Washington times., 1907-10-13
DR.. STAFFORD RETURNS,
HEALTH MUCH BETTER

Or. D. ]. Stafford, pastor Of St Pat
rick's Church. has returned to Wash
ington from Atlantic City, where ho
spent the entire summer. DR.. Stafford
was much benefited by his visit to the
seashore-
Early in the year DR.. Stafford be-
came III, and spent many weeks in
Providence Hospital During his III
ness the congregation collected fund
TO be presented TO him when he left
the hospital. and more than 5000 WIS
given. He had intended going abroad,
but his physicians would not permit
him TO go. and he went TO Atlantic City
to recuperate- DR.. Stafford has not en-
tirely regained his strength, but Is well
on the way 10 complete recovery.
The Washington times., 1907-10-13
NATURE FAKING.

Il have discovered one fact In natural
history" said the smart hopeful OF the
Family.
What is that. my SOM inquired the
proud father.
That trees are about the only things
which can leave and stay around at tie
saIne time Baltimore American
The Washington times., 1907-10-13
The CuStOm-Made City of Gary.

make me to order a city for
100000 inhabitants. You must take
our pick of location and provide for
our industries. You must give the
people every advantage of engineer
ing skill and foresight. Otherwise,
your hands are free. Do your best"
This, or something like this, was
the command of the United States
Steel Cooperation to its Chief En-
gineer as Ebert II. Gary, the chair
man of its executive committee,
pointed on the map to a spot at the
very southern bend Of Lake Michi-
gan. The purpose was not the crea-
ton Of smoke-stack Utopia. 1t was
to make money. To do which, this
body corporate proposes to shift
the manufacturing center of the
United States, to save millions of
dollars in freights, to erect new and
at one stroke the greatest blasting
plant in the world, and to provide
healthful dwelling places for all
the worlmen 1t may need there.
Any traveller who has ever ridden
through northwestern Indiana will
not need be told what the engineers
found to work with. Sand-by the
million yards, loose, dusty, dry,
soggy, gritty, barren-siow-movi
water, scrubby pines, and space.
Out of that they have already made
a great city, while the rest of the
United States has gone on about
it's business and never even won
dered- 1t was chosen because it is
midway between the sources of ore
in the Lake Superior region, coal
from Illinois and West Virginia,
coke from Pennsylvania, and lime
stone from Michigan and the nearer
Alleghenies. Five trunk lines cross
the city limits, and only twenty
miles away is the Chicago Drainage
Canal.
From the Lake Shore to the Little
Calumet river is a distance of
about four miles. That strip, three
miles wide and four miles long, is
the property of the corporation.
The mills are to stretch along the
lake front, and be surrounded on
three sides by water. broadway
and Fifth Avenue" will intersect at
the center OF the town site. The
harbor, which will accommodate
lake craft of the deepest draught,
will be inclosed by two break
waters, and concrete docks viii con-
meet lake and river.
So much has leaked out from time
to time. Harper's Weekly now tells
more interesting details. The spec
ulator and the saloon-keeper are
both excluded from the town. Title
to the land passes only witt the
completion OF building upon it; a
clause in the deeds forbids the sale
of liquor. A school is already fin
ished at a cost of $4,000. A thea
ter is building at cost of 100000.
Churches, a club, gymnasium, and
a swimming pool are all in course
of construction. Concrete, macadam,
cement, and trees are outward
signs of an engineering thorough
ness which is carried to permanently
conduits for light, power, water, !
The Washington times., 1907-10-13
what do you IKE to eat7

What do you IKE to eat7
Name the ten very best dishes you
ever saw. read. beard. or can think OF.
and send them to The Sunday Times.
Washington epicures are noted for
their delicate tastes and the selection OF
delicious dishes. They are requested to
mail to the Sunday Editor the half
score most tempting n1orsels that could
be prepared with foodstuffs from any
land or cline anG by the best chefs in
the world.
Seldom is It found that the gastronomlc
tastes OF any two persons agree. There
fore. about every conceivable American
dish should be found in the lists. Cos
mopolitan Washington has men and
women epicUres from many lands where
strange but delicious dishes are pre-
pared. II lists are prepared by them
the vlriety VIII De even greater and
VIII doubtless prove difficult
VIII Print Best List.
The Sunday Times will print the best
selections sent in by Washington cpl
cures.
Millionaire Joseph Letter, whom one
would naturally expect to Include bread
IN his list. since he tried to corns- all
the wheat in the world. recently sur
prised the editor OF What TO Eat by
emitting the stan OF life entirely.
Although financially able to purchase
swans tongues for every meal, Mr..
Letters taste is very simple His ten
selections were as follows:
J. Shirred eggs, with broIled bacon
sauce.
8. ArticholSes.
4.Shced oranges. served as a saad.
with French dressing OF oil and vinegar.
0. Nenison steak, with red currant Jelly.
The Washington times., 1907-10-13
J6e TALKoft6e TOWN
BY THE TOWN TAIKER

A S Admiral Leutze, superintendent
~ OF the Naval Gun Factory and
commandaDt OF the navy yart.
stepped into the west gun shop
the other morning on a tour OF inspec-
ton, large gong in the roof Of the
big building struck three times. From
the door through which the admiral en-
tered with his official attendant, r. saw
man pull rope attached to the big
gong. He was astonished.
The gong had only ueen ia use L day
or two, and the admiral. who knows
every detail Of the big gun plant, lad
never seen nor heard the gong before.
As soon as the clang Of the gong died
away the admiral sent his orderly 70
call the master machinist OF the shop.
When that undercfficial reached
his official superior the admiral said
something like this: rs 1t necessary
when ! enter the gun factory thai the
fact should be made known that I am
making a tour Of inspection, and every
one be on the lookout" The master
machinist stood speechless, not under
standing the admiral, and finally man
oged to tell him so. Then it vas that
the admiral told him as he had entered
the gun shop big gong in the roof had
rUng out as 4 kind OF warning that he
ws-s IN the shop. He did not mince
words, and told the master mechanic
llat he was displeased.
Then the master mechanic explained
that the gong bad been placed on the
little house. high up IN the roof, oc-
cupiod by the man whose duty It was
10 sew the belts ia the shop. The little
room is reached by a long flight of
stairs. TO save time and the necessity
OF climbing the steps the gong had been
placed on the rear Of the little room,
and rope dropped from it to the main
floor, so that when the belt sewer was
needed all that was necessary was FOR
a man to pull the rope and ring the
gong. just as the admiral came into
the shop the belt sewer was needed,
and the gong had been pulled The ex-
planaricn was highly satisfactory to the
admiral, but for a time caused him
much suspicion He proceeded over
the shop, and during his tour the DELL
rang three times
The Washington times., 1907-10-13
THE sTRAPHANGERS IoKE.

'Howdy, Mr.. Asset2" said the Idiot,
cheerfully, as he encountered the strap
hanger on the Subway express Hope
you are feeling pretty bobbish this
bright autumn day?"
What was that you called me?''
frowned the Straphanger
Mr.. Asset" said the Idiot Didn't
you see that, in his testimony before the
Public Futilities Commission, General
Manager Hedley, Of the Interborough
lines. testified that you straphangers
were assets?"
'Ha!' grinned the Strapaanger Did
heF Well. he's wrong. We may be
asses to stand for this sort of thing
but we haven't any place to set. and
Hedley knows it, = John Kendrick
Bangs. In Broadway Magazine.
The Washington times., 1907-10-13
CAN'T sOUELCH HIM

Perhaps" said the after-dinner
orator, Strengthening out a reef in his
waistcoat and beaming upon the assem-
hled guests. you have heard the story
Of the man who ordered the two eggs at
a restaurant"
we have, interrupted the entire
audience, IN unison.
Then you know. Of course, that il
goes like this
ThereupSu he proceeded. IN his calm
est and mos genial manner, to tell the
The Washington times., 1907-10-13
China RubS Her Eyes.

Every fourth man in the world is
a Chinaman. If the Celestial Empire
were to awake, therefore, if its
! children were to be educated, its
women freed, the strata and re-
strictiOns of caste moderated if not
destroyed, we of less populous ma
tons would find ourselves not with
one Tartar on our hands but with
4OO, 100000.
The Nashville Tennesseean pub
fishes an interview with a certain
I. r. Lounshury, of San Francisco,
which indicates that the curtain of
Oriental self-suficiency is lifting.
'Soythern China is being covered
with Japanese educational appli-
ances specially adapted for Chinese
use, says he. school books, maps.
globes, anatomical, and other charts
ali helping to rescue the people
froIs their ignorance. Every school
teaches physical and military drill.
In every town of any size, and often
in villages, there are now schools
with foreign fittings for teaching
Western learning"
This, we think sufficiently remark
able. The classics of Confucius are
no longer all in all. Geography,
telling the truth as to the size and
Importance of other peoples; his
tory, revealing the stagnation of
China these past 1000 years; physi-
cal training, to eliminate the de-
formed feet of the women and make
the men alert; military drill to give
the youth Of China a conception of
discipline AMI an insight into mod
ern methods of warfare-in this lies
the dawn of n new China, which will
upset all present balance OF power
among the nations.
But a more remarkable thing yet
is to be told. 1t came 10 light in
connection with the reception at
Shanghai to the American Secretary
of War. The dispatches put it so:
This reception marked an epoch in the
matter of the status OF women in
| China, for today Chinese women of
aristocratic families were present at the
reception, and even presided at the
tables, whence they served refresh
ments. This is the first time such a
thing has happened in China. This
Chinese welcome to the American Wis
itor was most significant and the mer-
GIANTS and high officials present con-
/ trasted II with Mr.. Taft's former visit
to Shanghai, and the days Of the Ameri-
can boycott.
All history points to the position
Of woman as one of the last tradi-
tionaI determinations to change.
Turks have become maehinists, en-
gineers, even Christians, but their
women have yet gone yelled and
fed from the sight of men other
than their husbands. In China, they
have been property, sighted from
their birth, kept in a position of
conscious inferiority in the home,
made to submit 30 the presence of
other women until conditions worse
than pOlygamy. Now, without warn
ing to the outside world, as an
abrupt step-in the light of the
gradual change of such traditions
from generation to generation
they are brought into the open, led
to meet foreign dogs" permitted
to assume the full equality with
their husbands which prevails in
other countries. When this happens,
China has, indeed, begun to rub her
eyes
The Washington times., 1907-10-13
CASE DISMISSED.

Magistrate-The plaintiff affirms that
you sold him an absolutely rank cheese.
although you told him it was the king
OF cheeses when he bought It OF you"
Defendant-Quite true; but I never
said 1t was a good one I simply said IL
was the king OF cheeses.
Mag1strste-Weli?
Defendant-Well, IN my opinion. the
king of cheeses would be,she worst Are
Pele Mele.
The Washington times., 1907-10-13
Hunts without Socks.

When the weather is at all cool Ben
always hunts without socks. This to
keep his feet dry. Instead OF wearing
socks. he cuts large holes in nis shoes
so that the water can run out Of them
after he has been swimming or wading
through the bayous. He keeps right up
with the dogs, and when they get a bear
he's there
The Presidentll do pretty well If
he keeps up with Lilley," observed the
mule tooth surgeon.
He just can't do It, that's all there is
about it. Ben Is getting little old, too;
he must be fifty-three or four by this
time, but gee whiz, you ought to sec
him go through a canebrake. They've
cut great big paths fer the President to
ride through, and they'll make things
just as easy for him as they can. but
IL there's a real chase after the game,
Ben's mighty likely to forget that he's
with the President. and leave him be-
hind. But the plan Is to have the
President shoot some bear whether any
one else gets one or not.
IF Ben can only keep his hunters
instinct down, he'll station the Presi-
dent at a likely place. probably at the
intersection of two of the cross roads
they have cut in the brake. and will
drive bear In his direction. Then If
body's fault but his own. If he misses
him after having a shot at him. Ben
Lilley is mighty likely to follow that
bear on foot till ne gets him.
The Washington times., 1907-10-13


bohm Tree, VINO is regarded as one OF
the greater lights Of the English stage,
and those OF Richard Mansfield were
under diacussiaF- Tree IS, as few know
a German Hearsw. and has his own
Ideas OF just how well his fellow-play-
ers In London stand in their profession
Some time ago" said Mr.. Abingdon,
Tree sent for Lewis Waller, who, as
you know, Is classed among our promi-
nent actors IN England Tree has a
peculiar ilabit OF strOking his chin all
the time he Is talking. He speaks with
a drawI, distinctively indicative Of his
nationality
Waller he said. I'm thinking OF
putting On The Tempest and should
like to have you for the production.
What wiz you come for?'
waller, unhesitatingly, replied, Hun
bred and fifty pounds
Tree strOzed his chin. and then in
his familiar drawl said, Yes, yes. And
Waller. would you mind closing the
door when you go out?
The Washington times., 1907-10-13
CITY TWILIGHT.

Behind the wilderness Of roofs
The blood-red sun sinks down,
The evening bats. like timId scouts
Wheel round about the town
The soldiers OF the day retreat
With trailing pennons bright;
Then suddenly rush down the stars.
The legions OF the night.
Reginald Wright Kaufman. in tht
Broadway Magazine.
The Washington times., 1907-10-13

Girls who go to Europe to get hus
bands" says Hetty Green, deserve
what they get-and more" Isn't that
putting It rather strong7
The Washington times., 1907-10-13

The only trouble with that visitor who
thinks the Greenough monument bad
enough to move is that he stopped with
the Greenough monument.
The Washington times., 1907-10-13

1t is possible to get to Washington
from Philadelphia, according TO the
latest record run, in 1856 minutes. That's
good for Philadelphia.
The Washington times., 1907-10-13

The Keep Commission can hope for
mighty little sympathy from our Dis
trict school teachers.
The Washington times., 1907-10-13

The Tigers ran so hard to get to mix
in that fight with the Cubs that they
didn't have any breath left to fight
with.
The Washington times., 1907-10-13

A party OF New Workers is to spend
SlOO,OOO seeking savagery in South
America Why go so far from home?
The Washington times., 1907-10-13

Mr. Cannon charges some politicians
with hollow horn" This is short for
'holler- blow-their-own-horn.
The Washington times., 1907-10-13

Those Louisiana bears are in a good
way to lose tneir licenses.
The Washington times., 1907-10-13

appointing three Commissioners. who
acted in the capacity Of mayors and
made daily report OF everything they
did; among the duties Of the Commits
sioners, the elderly man told the ladies',
was 70 make the laws. subject 10 the
approval Of the governor general; that
the mayors, or commissioners, collected
the taxes and paid them over to the
President; that Congress passed all laws
the Commissioners asked for; that the
men in the District could not vote be-
cause most OF the male population were
employed BY the Government. but that
the mayors would ask Congress 70 es-
tablish universal suffrage next year
when the women as well as the men
would be entitled 10 vote; that one OF
the Commissioners would be a member
Of Congress, and a lot OF similar stun
and nonsense.
The Innocence Of the ladies was pain
ful They believed every word the old
man told them and were none the less
happy for it. The old man appeared 10
ne as a man who thought he was i'm
parting secrets Of state at first hand.
The Washington times., 1907-10-13

II JHEN Jack Frost blew into
NM town last week and made
v everybody rake their winter
clothes out OF the chest, a
little negro boy boarded a Brookland
car bound for Washington. II was very
early in the morning. and the crowd
OF wage earners on the car were shiver-
ing In the sudden change.
What's your name, boy7'' the con-
ductor asked, as he took the youngsters
fare.
Nah names Oscar" the boy replied
piled.
"oscar7' said the conductor. oscar
what?"
oscar Summerville." came the an
swer.
Summerville- Humphi You're out Of
season. boy" the conductor ventured.
as he shivered and moved along ths
aisle
The Washington times., 1907-10-13

w WILLIAM L ABINGDON, the
NM English actor, was In Wash
ingtOn a few days ago. The
The Washington times., 1907-10-13

A S Admiral Leutze, superintendent
~ OF the Naval Gun Factory and
commandaDt OF the navy yart.
aferrcd I'M, H. -..nnt ..-,, strnr,
The Lamar register., 1907-02-13

l stared at the bit of pasteboard.
fascinated. How the deuce had this
got into my apartments? A Blue
Domino? Ha! l had it, Old Friard
had accidentally done up the ticket
with my mask. A Blue Domino; evil
IDENTIFY l wasn't the only person who
was going to masquerade. Without
doubt this fair domoiselle was about
to join the festivities of some shop
girls masquerade. where money and
pedigree are inconsequent things. and
where everybody is either a "loidy'' or
n gent" Persons who went to my
kind of masquerade did not rent their
costumes; they laid out extravagant
sums to the fashionable modiste and
tailor. and had them made to order
Blue Domino: humph,
1t was too late to take the ticket
back to Friards: so l determined to
mail it to him in the morning.
1t was now high time for me to be
on. got into my coat and took down
my opera hat. Outside the storm was
still active; but the snow had a prom
The Lamar register., 1907-02-13

New York.-Ridgway's. the weekly
magazine which started simulta.
neous publication last fall In a dozen or
more cities. with an editorial and bust
ness stan in each. and has been drop.
ping the outside cities for some time.
has suspended Its publishers found
no held Tor 1t and have sunk nearly a
quarter of million dollars.
Denver.-It was decided Ly tho d..
rectors of the chamber OF commerce
Thursday night at the annual meeting
Tor the election of officers that imme,
date action shall be taken for the
erection OF a new chamber building
somewhere on Seventeenth street
toward the upper end of the business
s sec Deeds will be secured from
the city for the lots on which tho
chamber now stands and tho bniIdin.
and ground will he sold NJ aoop no
purchaser can be found. Meyer Fried
man was elected president of tho mr.,
Sanisation and Arthur william. , o
reelected secretary. "' was
The Lamar register., 1907-02-13
psImas to Defend Thaw.

New York.-The defense of Harry X.
Thaw. under the direction of Attorney
Dolphin NJ. Delmas of California, began
to assume definite shape "Wednesday.
When court adjourned testimony had
been placed before the Jury to INF
effect that Stanford White had been
heard to make the threat to kill the
defendant. coupling the threat with
the display of a revolver; that Thaw 8
actions following the killing Of White
on the roof of Madison Square Garden
was considered by several eye Wit
nesses to have been Irrational" that
an uncle Of the defendant was insane
that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw passed
note to her husband during dinner az
the Cafe Martin the evening of the
tragedy: that District Attorney Jer
ONE has this note and refused, on the
demand of the defense, to Introduce u
in evidence,
The Lamar register., 1907-02-13
GREELEY CAR SHORTAGE.
Dealers Cannot Ship Potatoes East or
South.

Denver.-A Republican special from
Greeley says: Potato dealers have
practically been forced out of business
because of the shortage of cars, the
lack Of shipping facilities being worse
than in the late fall. when every posi-
BILE effort was made to get cars.
The Union Pacific will furnish cars
only to the Pacific coast. where there is
no demand for potatoes. Cars cannot
be obtained to ship into Denver and
there be transferred. as was allowed q
month ago. The 500 or 600 cars owned
by the railroad company are all on the
western coast and will not return in
time to be used for the remainder OF
the potato crop.
The bulk Of orders for this district
come from Texas and dealers abso-
lutely refused to quote prices for Texas
points. Now and then a car Is obtained
from the Colorado G. Southern road
and sent to old customers in Texas.
but the supply In no way equals the de-
mand. Two-thirds of the potatoes have
gone to market. There are $500 to g.
carloads on hand. Farmers are selling
freely and dealers are buying at from
GO to so cents hundred. hoping that
later cars may be secured for the crop
marketed.
January 9Th dealer shipped a car
load OF potatoes to Kansas City. The
merchant. after reasonable delay.
wired for Information and the car was
found In the Denver yards. II reached
Kansas City February I'd. a sufficient
time to have shipped it to Europe. The
Greeley Commercial Club wired to-day
to General Manager Hohler at Omaha
for immediate relief and has asked the
legislators from this section to help
alleviate the car shortage.