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New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL.

This event has never been properly celebrated
Just fifty years after its occurrence four young
were riding together in a coach which
travelling toward Wilkes Barre one of
the four was grandson of Judge Fell He had
that day been reading account in an old copy
of well known Masonic book of the expert
ment made by his grandsire, and when he men
toned il, one Of the members of the party han
pened To recall that the date of this event was
just nifty years previous. The young men were
struck by the coincidence. and determined that
something should be done.
When they arrived in Wilkes Barre th,,. set
about stirring up interest. and called = l'..I,lic
meeting, to be held that evening III the same
old tavern in which Judge Fell had carried ~,
ms experiment. The four Young mon v-cre
James Platter Dennis, grandson of JUDGE I1eII.
Henry Martyr HOyt, later Governor of Penn
sylvania; John Butler Conyneham ana cto,In,
Woodward. the latter afterward one of tbe
Ieadlng JuTlsts of the state. These four beconoa
the founders OF the Wyoming Historical ana
Geological Society, formed q result of ,Iat
nights meeting 1t is this organization taat
now purposes 10 celebrate the 1OOth anniy,rs.,r, r,
OF thls experiment Of judge Fell and tho NJ
ueth anniversary Of its own founding IA thc
same tlIne. III was at meeting of this society.
recently that the facts conc tcrninc the oI1 Ia.s.
feli CRATE were learned for paper on ..Vbara
Is the Crate on Which Jesse Fen Made His Suc-
ceSSlul Experiment of Burning AutI,r,rit.
CoaIE was read by the Rrv n T. lta--lan
curator of the society .' -
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17

Pop has just made his debut. and it Will he
years before he attains the fame of Pop Smith
"Davy, the candy man." Murray. the hack
man and Hannibal. whose funeral was held
Wednesday
In many respects Hanabal WAS the most re-
mdr&ab!e OF the long list of Yale favorites. He
was gifted with versatility granted to few
In"n, black or white. He was oae Of the campus
I9vorii@s ia 1868. when G. f. Woods wrote III
f"u. Years at Yale:
Candy Sans chief rival is crafty black
rt-h nltu ..tnHIiai. ~ nose entrance into ba
lpom is always accompanied ~ SOM, such for
nula a.. '\ot WiShiuS 10 C,stuID the gentlemen
IN thcir studies / caH to ste if either of ,n =
a,-Uemen Nou5- like to invest in purcha sin.
from uc some packages OF superior old t,;n-
d" 90 ''."r l.i. ''.ol;Sscs candy THIS rig-
,i,o.'. u: "' I,Si - uaanoa's ,peecnes. Is
dehN'itJ Win thc greatest appearance OF g1av-
i'y "HG without pause pr infection OF any sort d"
ttannibais age was n dispute. lie was said
to nave crossed the century mark one of mi,
original savings when asked how old he was
ns"d 4" ny th,,t he hau a faint recollection Of
the first thundt trstorm in Connecticut
The mock orations he delivered viii i've IN
the memory % ale men long as thcv ch T.
iSh recollection oI the uniVcl sit5- and hardly
an aiumuus will read OF his death without t,.-
calling some aAccCotc of the old negro who sold
candy, gave boxing lessons. sIcght of haod .y-
hbitlohS, sans and danced ami made speech ,s
on Ill occasions.
Early in life he w;ts an instructor IN bo>in,, i'm
the Yale gymnasium. IfC was one Of In. ouic,
est pIalilS's IN action Wh" ever struck a bow
and he met George Dixon la several ho,t ;
without the former negro worlds champion ger
ting the decision. He was thrown into a room
with John l. Sullivan when that champion was
at the height Of his popularity John l. AZ that
time weighed more than two hundred ana fift,-
pounds. and when Hannibal was asked If he
wished TO meet the champion he answered.
Hannibal is not Mahomet and must rttu,. 20
mix II up with the mountain"
Approaching group of college students
Hannibal used TO say: Not wishing to inter
rupt the gentlemen. and wholly in tie search
for knowledge, which has been my unvarying
custom through life. / would like to ask the,
gentlemen here a question, What is the first
thing a gentleman puts on when he gets up in
the morning."
Everybody took a chance IN answering and
when all had finished Hannibal you'd say: Not
wishing 20 place myself above"the gentlemen
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
Constant Reader Tells What He
Missed an Last Week'S Papers.

What has the world been doing for the 'dS'
seven days." asked the Busy Man as he @p
preached his friend Constant Reader In quest VI
a hebdomadal dose of information.
1T has kept moving certainly" was the repiS'
but there have been echoes of previous plo
ceedings in nearly everything that has attfacteu
public attention. The visit of Kaiser Wllhehh
of Germany TO England recalls the fact tna' he
has not set foot in 'perfidiOus Albion since the
funeral of his royal grandmother, Queen VIC
tOria The pOther kicked up over the fact that
the legend In God We Trust has been left OH
the new eagles recalls the circumstances under
which it was first put on In the trying times "
the Civil War. The announcement that Wlillah
Jennings Bryan is ready again TO shy his castor
into the ring for the Democratic nomination Iof
the Presidency has familiar sound Even tile
suicide of Charles r Barney. the recently re-
tired president of the Knic5erbOcker Trust CoIh-
pany, serves not only to bring freshly TO mlhd
the October panic but serves TO recall the
death of his brother -in-law, William c. WHIT
ney we'll as the shooting of his friend stan
ford White, and also brings back to those whose
recollection runs far enough tragedy or Ike
character I'm connection with the president OF
the Brooklyn Trust Company. He he'd so seri-
ously involved this company after the panic OF
1873 that he went to COney Island and ended
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
ORIENTAL ARCHITECTURE.

The architects were asked 10 give the quarter a
distinctive cast. They found many difficulties in
the way OF giving a building Oriental features
and still conforming to the building laws. The fire
escapes offered opportunity. They were
elongated into balconies Of ornamental design.
Deep recesses about the windows are filled with
quaint grilles Curved cornices and tiled
roofs not prohibited by the LAWS for class
b. structures.
The architects went even further and added pa
Roda-ke towers TO the corner buildings. They
used copper tng when the Chinese owner would
bear the expense, and by treating the tiles with
acids got green and brown effects. Great Chinese
lanterns We're hung out from the cornices 20 give
heightened Oriental effects.
Some Of the new buildings Of concrete have been
treated with stucco and staff, which permit high
cOloring. Chinatown will be in spots a blending
OF lavender, green and ecru, which gddy
at first glance but proves a harmonious combina-
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
HASTE IN REBUILDING.

There is a reason why Chinatown was rebuilt
before the other parts Of the burned area, even
before Market street had been repaved The chi
nese property owners had trouble in getting
ready cash They did not try to borrow from San
Francisco banks or even from New York money
lenders. The first steamer to China carried long
letters describing the situation Incosed were
backed the San Francisco firms. The return
steamer Drought the gold that needed and
the Chinese could tell their contractors 10 70
ahead.
Ihe building department and the health authori-
ties insisted that the new Chinatown be built ac-
cording TO law. This included cement cellars and
prohibited the curious underground establishments
TO see which was one of the principal features a
visit TO Chinatown before the fire. The Chinese
themselves decided that it was not wise To erect
high buildings. and that three four story build
CTR
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17

Il per cent cur h-tween November l am Tc5-
ruary l. In short. the Jail or the per5t.-. 5iary
becomes a sort o. winter vacation resort E9r
trampS
Many chiefs of police with whom Nh Tsvus
has communicated said that trampS I'm winter
VoJt ash 20 he sent 10 ia.'. and tina. # this
were not done they would sometimes commit
c' noes Tor the express purpose of being ar
rested and sent there Many places ~ Eew
York State arr known hy the trauips as having
"ouStables who VIII give tramp tip OF 20
cents which the constable is nabled 20 pay BY
reason of receiving a fee for each arrest
IL is declared - be significant thar In The
tr1np'S slams the word dump was aDnIfed 20
both lodging houses and jails VIII, a odd
Wiut"r the number of vagraDts IN penitenriaries
AID iailS Increases In 1906 there we're over
ten thousand tramps and Migrants in peniten-
tiartes and jailS, While in 1904 which was a
very cold winter. there We're over fourteen thou
sand on the average, about one third Of the
prisoners are trampS and are warrants This
means that the public is annually raying sew
cral hundred thousand dollars for the avOyved
purpose of Furnishing men for va srarcy but in
reality IL amounts ONLY to furnishing a free
uIcc Of winter rest. Most of the chiefs Of no
Hoe believe that iails end renitentiaries do
Nt:!H good If any iu their treatment of trarnps.
Nrothar Clct is that the sentences for This class
90 C" 'DCNrS ave TOO short 70 accomplish any
results -NbCut - pcr cent Of the sentences Srs
'I,m only dav 20 sixty davS
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
MANY DRAGON FLAGS.

The new Chinatown has thrown out more dragon
flags than the old ever possessed. Gay banners
OF red silk with gold lettering hung in the
street. and the window displays are even more
magnificent than they before the fire
The new Chinatown has, Of course. lost such
picturesquenesS found in dirt the
squalor and the tumbledown effect OF the build
inSs To Offset this, however, there will be heavy
gain in hea!thfulness. 1t viii be years before
Chinatown sells off all the souvenirs of the earth
quake and fire which were carefully gathered out
OF the ruins. Several shops in the new quarter
deal IN nothing else. The Chinese 'crockery shops.
the brass and ivory workers establishments. held
much that detied the fire, and If the stock OF
souvenirs runs short before the demand is satisfied
the Mongolians know how to make more TO order
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
SECURED KINDLIER TREATMENT

He obtained for them kindlier treatment on
the part Of the Austrian and Hungarian authori-
ties, and spent large sum of money in
deavoring TO turn them from their nomadiC life
and TO induce them to settle down in order TO
devote their time and energies to the practice
OF the wonderful art of working metal which
they possess in 80 marked degree. He built
a number OF villages for them in the districts
surrounding Pressburg and organized gypsy
settlements But the scheme proved a failure.
The Tziganes. true TO the instincts that they
have inherited from countless generations.
abandoned the comfortable cottages, the blos-
soming gardens and the fields with which they
had been provided by their imperial benefactor;
Ia metal Industry and, reverting to their habits
Of poaching and thieving OF every description,
rendered themselves intolerable TO the au-
thorities and people OF the country around
PressbuTg tnat the aTchduke was reluctantly
compelled TO abandon the scheme to make other
disposition of the villages which he had built
for his proteGes and 10 consent to their dis
persal by the police.
The archduke. TO whom the world owes tho
best TZgane grammar and dictionary I'm exist-
ence. and who succeeded in completely MASTER
ing not only one but several of the dialects az
TIE Romany language, used to relate MANY in
tenesung stories Of his experience with his nro
teges ON one occasion he asked Sc veraI ,,rnex
women whom he met while out riding 70 ten
nlln ms fortune, which they readily Consented
70 90 AS soon, however, as he addressed them
La their own language they declined to proceed
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
VAGRANCY III BOYS EVIL.

Most people look urOu the vagrancy hab IN
logs as no; serious. and a result much of it
goas UNPUBLISHED. Vet the heads cs two Of the
argcst juvenile asylums in New York assert
th5J ;he habit is the largest existing cause II
Juvenile crime and that after boys become ad-
6i~ted 10 tHe habit its effects are extremely
Ear,i II eradicate.
Detectives report an average Of aboyt cHs
AuadryJ bank rohberies committed by criminal
t-2mps known - yeSgmen. each ytor cau-ins
jli-ual losses of over @1aaHJa ii is rr..,clIs
that o. sixteen hundred or more poyto,iicc rcb-
Hv~ics occurring ..nnUaiy in this coUntr.- Gf,,ly
81 Per cent of them are executed by vesss.
'fne committee ON yagrancy and honeIss7ness
called brief attention 70 the gTeSeu, G-p'orabls
tO.ut,.o.-s in yailS S@d ?eNjtel iac. ~ Tie 90
tai deaths ami s~lUI ieS - railway ,i.SSs-lg'rs
thToGs bout the United StctoS We're eI. sized,
there being almost ier thousand deaths and
Injuries 70 tTeSp1SSSrS yearly uDua American
railroads. of which from One-h3F to three
four tbs are 10 tramps.
THE causes os vagranCy being deep seated.
the treatment must tG f3r InO~s, tneiu i2c,tL
continued the committees rer0rt \ ge0eru
movement throughout New York for t'he better
ment OF vaGra1cy conditions was urked Tire
committee felt tEat 4 compulsory IaroA or IL
dUstrial colony tur habitual ve1l94.Ns was
necessity in This. state, as wea as "a stats
hospital for inebriates
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
CHARITY STAMPS IN AUSTRIA.
Novel scheme for raising money for phiIsn.
thropic purposes.
Charities

held being OF little value. for 1t was thought
that ii would not burn except under forced
draft Although there We're millions of tons OF
it lying about and under the Wyoming. Lacka-
wanna, Lehigh and Schuylkill regions little OF
it used for this reason. the black
smiths claiming that when once ignited II would
not burn unless the bellows were kept continu-
ally in operation. Judge Jesse Fell did not
believe this. and by disproving II IN burning
the anthracite coal in an open CRATE he opened
the way to an industry which gives en-
ployment TO 1GS.OOO men, who produce 90 600
600 tons of anthracite coal annually. and which
has given millions of dollars in royalties to the
owners of the lands, and made them the social
leaders in the communities OF which Wilkes
Barre and Scranton are the centres
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
CONGRESS TO MEET.

THE coming session of the Goth Congress,
which will meet on Monday. December :, is be-
ginning to engross public attention. With tire
admission of Oklahoma the fOrty-sixth state
in the Union she becomes entitled 70 full repre-
sentation in both houses instead of the single
territorial Delegate to which each of the two
territories combined In the new state has been
entitled Her Representatives have been chosen
and the men selected TO be Senators. but the
choice of the latter must be ratified by the
Legislature. which can now convene. With the
birth Of the state the old Indian Territory,
set apart first for the Five Civilized IrfOeS from
the South and afterward made the home of the
remnants of many of the savage tribes in va
riOus parts of the West, passes out of existence.
Oklahoma a name which means Home of All
Indians and first applied to the portion
of Indian Territory set off from it a score or
more years ago. is now the designation for the
entire region. With its fertile prairieS and
animal, vegetable and mineral wealth, begin
ming its career with a population nearly equal
to that OF the thirteen colonies when they
achieved their independence it has the taireSt
possible future prospects President Roosevelt
is already putting in shape the matters 10
which he will direct the attention Of the new
Congress the members of which were elected
or reelected year ago. and his message VIII
be more eagerly awaited than usual from the
desire to what he will set forth in relation
to the financial situation and especially his
suggestions for currency reform. 1t Is expected
that the President will urge legislation 10 pro-
vide for emergency currency based on bank
assets and so taxed that its retirement as soon
as its immediate usefulness is gone will be as
sured. Anticipating this recommendation. Mr..
Bryan has denounced an asset currency in ad-
vance The message is also expected to recon-
mend federal licenses for corporations doing IN
man antitrust law in regard to corporations
in restraint Of trade. the graduated Inheritance
tax. to which the President has already com
mitted himself. and the revision OF the Phlhp-
pine tariff which was left over last session -
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17

present in knowledge l beg 10 say that all yor
gentlemen are wrong. The first thing a gentle
man puts on in The morning IS his foot-on the
floor"
His Latin oratons were his spe, ialties. He
had attended commandments half q century
ago. had learned ly he7rt some Of the addresses
and had copied tt pronunciation of the speak
erS.
A. the installation of President Porter HAN
aibal headed the procession. ridiu. n white
horse. He was veteran OF the Civil War en-
listing and serving through the conflict as a
member Of the 10Th Connecticut Neero Regi-
ment.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
CHARITY STAMPS as USED IN AUSTRIA

A novel scheme for raising money for charitable
purposes has been devised in Austria 1t Is the
charity stamp. This is similar a postage stamp,
but somewhat larger. They especially de-
signed and attractive in color, and are used
pastors on the backs of letters and additional
stamps on postal cards They advertise the nsti-
tuition well as bring in from their sale.
The stamps have no postal value but their use is
perEitted by the Austrian postal authorities, as
they do not interfere with the regular postage
stamps.
A person wishing TO show his interest in one or
more charitable institutions will buy a lot OF the
stamps OF the institution and paste them on his let
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
YALE lIOURNS H4NNIBAL
Quaint old Negro Candy Nan Had
an Interesting Career.

New Haven. Nov. 16 (SpeciaD.-The death OF
Hannibal, the regro candy man. has left Yale
with no mascc' but Pop" Warner. the cross
eyed expressmau whose auto truck now takes
an official crowds to all the athletic games
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
THE NUMBER IN EUROPE.

Roughly speaking, there are about seven hun
dred thousand Of them in Europe. although
some students of the Romany question place
their number at high as fourteen hundred
thousand. Austria and Hungary, Rumania,
Russia and Spain credited with the most
Of them. There r-env also in France, Eng
land. Wales and Scandinavia. They are to
be found in Brazil in the United States and
Canada. in Persia. Egypt and Asiatic Turkey.
tions. beliefs and fundamental principles OF Ian
guage are identical They Indifferent to
the laws of the country in which they happen
to be- rendering obedience only to their own
chiefs and TO their own ethics.
In spite of the most extensive researches
nothing positive is known as their first ap-
pearance and all sorts of theories are current
about the matter. number of scientists insist
ing that the TZganes Of the present day are
identical with the SigynnaR of Herodotus. Not
however, until the fourteenth century do they
begin TO figure conSpiCuouSly in the records OF
the day and in the annals OF the time as
TZganeS, as Zingari, GitanOs, as Bohemians
and As gypSies, and Ii is a noteworthy fact that
in every instance where they are mentioned the
reader is left to infer that they We're not in any
sense of the word newcomers, but had been
known a people for several hundred years
previously. And throughout history down unto
the present time they have always been de-
scribed much in the same manner as a race of
mysterious origin, incapable of assimilation with
people Of other nationalities as refractory to
the laws and customs of the country in which
they dwell, as dishonest. and in one word as
thoroughly undesirable aliens
EX-ATTACHE
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
LIKE JAIL IN WINTER.

Mr. TOwne also brought out the fact that
tramps like To go to Jail in winter. Instead Of
considering Jail sentence for that part of the
year as form OF punishment they welcome il
as a chance to keep warm and loaf at the
pubic expense. OF the commitments Of tramps
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
NEw-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE SUNDAY NOVEMBER II.

and declared that they would not cheat one
of their own" Being explicitly asked by him
whether they believed in telling fortunes, they
replied laughingly, No; that is good enough for
the non gypsieS."
New-York tribune., 1907-11-17
WARNED BY A GYPSY.

On another occasion the archdul1e, just before
the battle of Sadowa, in 1866, was awakened in
the peasants cottage in which he was lodging
by a gypsy in the middle of the night on the
being brought TO his presence the dusky
visitor informed the archduhe in Romany that
the enemy was approaching, with the object OF
surprising the AuStrians.
The ou:. .osts have not heard anything sus-
piCioUs,' the archGuke remarked.
No" replied the Zingari, because the enemy
IS still a long way off"
How do you know this?"
Come to the window" exclaimed the gypsy,
leading the Grchduke forward 10 the narrow
oDening in the rough wall and directing his gaze
TO the dark sky illumined by the silver rays Of
the moon. You see those birds flying over the
wood toward the south?"
Yes" replied the archduke, Il see them.
What of it,
What Of it?" rotorted the gypsy. DO not
birds sleep as well men? They would GER
tainly not fly about at night time thus had they
not been disturbed. The enemy IS marching
through the woods southwark and has fright
ened and driven the birds before it
The archduke at once ordered the outposts to
be reinforced and his camp TO be alarmed. Two
hours later the outposts We're fighting tiercely
with the foe. and the prince was able TO realize
that his camp and his division had been saved
from surprise and destruction by the keen OBJ
seTVatiOn and sagacity of gypsy.
The archduke used always to favor the argu-
ment according to which the TZiganes are or
Hindustani origin and that they hail from the
slopes of the Himalayas, pointing out that the
word for snow, which in Hindustani is 'hima,"
is in the gypsy language him and that the
word for to carry to bear" in Hindustani
is ''aya" and in Romany "leva" that in both
languages Himaiaya means the bearer of
snow" Their real religion. such as 1t IS, is fire
worship. aud every cEiId Immediately after it's
birth is virtually initiated as a member Of the
tribe by being held by the elder of the tribe
over = large open fire. They do not believe In a
life after death. Their language has no word
for paradise or for heaven. God they call
'Devel" and the devil they call Beng" They
fear both and class them with the good and
evil spirits. They swear by their dead and
that is their most solemn oath. which is rigor-