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New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
SPORTS ON THE ROOF.

'Of course tenants who aren't deaf and
haven't any children of their own complain.
whole family precipitated themselves into the
elevator to escape from their apartment under
the roof, declaring that a tornado was ripping
off the iron sheeting and scattering around the
states and chimneys. The janitor ~ventured to
the scene of the disturbance and reported that
all the children in the house were on the roof
with a dog teaching him to jump as high as
they themselves could.
"ChildleSs tenants assert that If children could
be kept out of the halls and their noise confined
to their own domains life might be endurable-
Parents say these caviilerS are heartless. AT all
events the liberty Of the halls is seldom denied
to children On a rainy day they make sort
of endless chain the staircase and scurry
from floor to floor when they hear pursuing hall
attendants coming TO stop their noisy play.
Sometimes they make friends with these hall
boys, and then the entrance hall is selected for
romps with an occasional dash out into the rain.
It never appears to occur to parents that ele-
vator and telephone operators not al trained
in manners and morals as associates for grow
ing children, who invariably pick up everything
they hear"
When landlords endure children as tenants
ianitors are prone TO make parents feel that
their little merely endured, and it is
, with great reluctance that they bring from base
nlent regions childish vehicles of various kinds
which must be stored there between the hours
of usage. A child is made to feel early in life
that apartment dwelling has troubles all its own.
First comes the "shooins off that favorite play
ground-the front steps-after which life for
the strenuous child becomes an almost continual
wrangle
4 few landlords. pitying the little ones driven
out of first class apartment houses i'll
Gotham. are constructing houses especially for
families with children. Walls and floors are
being so thoroughly deadened that it Is prom
ised the noisieSt children may play to their
hearts content without fear Of interruption from
irate neighbcr. OF course, this costs money.
Doubtless paterfamilias will find that il comes
just as high as ever TO house his olive branches
The ancient cliff dweIIers best solved the fam
flies-in-f1ats problem. Their apartments were
heWn in solid rock. Children can make good
deal of racket in a rock hevn chamber without
an echo Of IT piercing ~ the ears of the sleep
ing infant of the fat above.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
ALL SALES VELVET"

The chief beauty OF the business at the gov
ernment book store is the fact that it is all
velvet" profit. The stock costs nothing IL
you look at 1t from the point of view of the
superintendent of documents. for it Is continu-
ally accommodating. and would accumulate any
way, whether the book store running not.
Every copy of The Congressional Record"
every farmers bulletin issued by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, every report, document.
book. map, chart leafet of whatever kind.
sort description that comes off the great
presses in the Government Printing Office is
shipped to the superintendent of documents.
These copies sent to him by the hundred
thousand, and they remain on the shelves or in
the monstrous pigeonholes of the old gray build
ing at North Capitol and H streets until they
are called for by some official who has the right
to call. given away to libraries or churches.
sold dirt cheap by the book man.
Few persons either in out OF the govern
ment service have any conception of the number
of books and papers that stored away in
some of the old Washington buildings The
annual report of William l.. Post. superin-
tendent of documents. which has just left the
printer shows that at the close of 1907 there
were 3.065,002 books and pamphlets on hand.
During the twelve months OF 1901, 6422 599 books
had been distributed TO libraries, and under the
exchange or clearing house plan that has been
put III vogue the superintendent received
in his turn 401.It6 books This SAYS the su-
perntendent in his report, represents only a
small part of the accumulation which the
libraries desirous OF turning over. bur which
UP to this time have been unable from lack
of sufficient competent help or storage space TO
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22

If the book dealers Of The country ws-s -,
to employ the United States mail and wo-.
ss hard as they pleased without paying
they might reduce the price Of their pss-.
q considerable extent. Uncle Sam moi, !.
has the postal service at it's back ani u.a
all the time. II the Postmaster General hsw
objection to the programme he has No. i.
voiced it: and even If he had. he probably -
not say So for the law makes him the d-,. 81
for the Superintendent Of Documents Lac, !. y .
for instance. tse big book store sert "a
postoffice $4,000 packages. which 7rs.-s.
approximately five hundred tons sccor.firx
Mr. Posts interesting report. The greats- -
Of this tremendous bulk carried as -
tered mail BY using the postoffics the 20.
nent book store man is able 70 save fba -
Of express. and. i'm the city Of Washington :.
wages or messengers and deliver boys =
public official or Congressman wishes A cs--..,
book or document. prestol It 10 dropped into -.
mail box on the corner and the meek and hr
postman must carry it to its destination
An idea of the almost Ernitless var;e+,
volume OF publications that are on sale a. -
shop Of the Superintendent OF DocumAr+z
be derived from the fact that the ca,aloeua -
tains works on almost every subject unSs- .,
sun from bread making TO the care Of the es..s
ems. from the explorations Of the Cz,.s.-
glaciers to the attempts the life of the -
boil veeyil- Nearly all the farmers buu..s-
which are put out by the Agricultural ps,,-s
nnent for the benefit Of thcse v-ho till t5a -,
are sold Ut five and ten cents each Ths -. -
expensive publication in the entire iist ~ -
three million publications is Tho Hizror.
the Capitol" by Glenn Brown which ssR. a.
s20 1t is magnifcentIy Illustrated wort,
two volumes.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
SURPASSES COLOSSEUM.
Stadium for Olymp Games TO Seat
Seventy Thousand Persons.

England boast Of a stadium greater
than the Colosseum al Rome. In this country there
number of big athletic fields, notably at
Harvard, University Of Pennsylvania and Yale. but
these places fade into insigncance when compared
with the gigantic stadium built in London for the
Olympic games of 1905. The stadium at Harvard
Will about tilirty-fve thousand persons: the
i'll London will accommodate twice that num-
Der. Harvard has the largest athletic field in this
country.
Never in the history Of athletic sports has there
been athletic carnival compare with the
Olympic games of 1875 mapped out by the Brit
ish Olympic committee. Beginning in April. this
carnival will well into the fall with compe-
titions in branch of sport scheduled for nearly
every day. twenty-five nations, represented by
than two thousand of the best amateur ath-
etes these countries contain viii strive for glory
and honor British soil and water this year.
Every recognized athletic contest is the pro-
gramne.
1t is almost impossible to give idea of the
size of the stadium. Every person Staten ISL
and could find room within its walls, and then
several hundred could be crowded In. The
Polo Grounds in this city have held about thirty
thousand baseball enthusiasts several occasions.
but thousands of these fans had TO stand the
playing field The Olympic stadium can absorb a
crowd twice large and there will oe seat for
every spectator.
The honor of planning the revival OF the Olympic
games belongs to Baron Pierre de Coubertin The
first revival held in Athens in 1886 Then PdriS
had the games in 1850. and in 1894 they were neid
in st. Louis The white marble stadium in Athens,
built at great expense by private citizen. the
scene of the meeting in 1905. 1t proved such a
success that Great Britain decided to be the host
In 1908 It fell Lord DesbOrough. known all over
the world thorough sportsman. TO take charge.
Supporting him in his efforts have been Lord
Nontagu Of Beaueu. Lord Cheylesmon, Sir How
ard Vincent Sir Lees knowles and the Rev Il. :.
de c. Lafan. King Edward himself has been deep
II interested in everything that has been done and
has lent his support in many WAYS
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
IN SPIGOTTF LAND.

Get d carriage" said the man in the white
Hotel. ,.nd will cost you 20 cents Spigotty. I'd
get driver who can talk English. too If l were
ycU, instead Of q SpCotty driver. II might save
ii you TO make more than one trip
''Spigotty?" ] asked. Whats Spigotry?'
way" he replied surprised al my Ignorance.
"a Spisotty is a native, of course"
This my first morning the isthmus. Be-
noon 1 had added the word to my vocabulary
for every American down there has cast aside the
cunbrous "Panamanian" Whatever is native IS
Spigotty- 1t is the broad comprehensive term
which the men who digging the canal have
applied 10 shc small brown persons who inhabit
the Republic of Panama. their products, habits
customs money and morals. So far as the money
or ''monkey" money. and means that what the
Spigotty folks fonCly call Ii dollar, the same hav-
ing been ninted for them in Philadelphia by our
paterIal and protective government at cost is
worth ~ cents. II Is good term too. for most
OF the things Panamanian look Spgotty. if you
imagine comes from the earliest DAYS
o. tie American INVASION to dig the canal, when
there nothing along what is now the populous
busy and clean Canal Zone a few miles of
jungle grown ditch left by the French, much
rusted French machinery, yellow mosquitoes
dirt and desolatioT The early Americans found
the Panama people naughty in the possession OF
their republic. which had been made over
night fo- them by aforesaid paternal and pro-
tectire government. needing n republic there
smaller extent than Colomtls but most anxious
TO reap the benefits Of intimate association vits
these curious people from the north who insisted
digging . ditch the isthnus when there
VAS already railroad there. 10 say nothing Of
gyc1 "a uco travelling On the Chagres River asTt
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
AMERICA HOPES TO WIN.

Americas chief strength this year will be in
track and field athletics. fund 81 $4,000 is now
being raised in this country to send athletes
abroad. Contributions being received from
colleges athletic clubs and individuals all parts
OF the country. The American team Will not be
drawn from any section, but will contain men
from the East and West and the North and South.
Trial contests IN various sections will be held in
June and the best at these meetings will be
selected uphold Americas honor in England.
Records show that in all events, except possibly
the distance runs, American athletes supreme
Naturally the long trip and the change of climate
Will prove handicaps and Americas chances of
success will be lessened. but barring
foreseen accident the general feeling is that the
Stars and Stripes will triumphant
This country will also send best swimmers.
Wrestlers, shooters. lawn tennis experts. oarsmen
golfers. symnass and bicycIists. OF all the
athletes will not go to England at the time.
as the various competitions extend over a long
period. The trackmen and the swimmers and
wrestlers viii be together their events come in
the same week. With the exception of Great Brit
ain, this nation will probably have the greatest
number OF competitors at the Olympic games
President Roosevelt s the honorary president of
the American Olympic committee, he was when
the Olympic games held at the St. Louis Fair
in 1904 James Z. Sullivan the virtual head of
athletics in this country. has charge of the detail
work incident to sending the men abroad William
Halpin, of the New York Athletic Club. who
manager of the American team which Won at
AtnehS III 1922 viii act IN the same capacity this
year Accompanying the team will be Mike"
Murphy, now at the University of Pennsylvania,
who is acknowledged TO be the greatest athletic
trainer in this country, If in the world
produced more champion runners jumpers and
weight throwers than any other trainer.
Many of the American representatives arc ex-
pected to be college The majority of them
already in training for the trials which will de-
terlnne who viii wear the Star and Stripes. Some
of those who seem TO have excellent chances of
making the team ". r. Dray. of Yale; GUY
Haskins formerly of the University of PennsyI-
vania: n. J. CartmeN and J. =. Whitman and w
r. Moffett, all of Pennsylvania: Dan Kelly, form
erly Of the University OF oregon; Forrest Smith
son formerly of Yale; J. Z. Taylor OF Penrzyl-
vania. and John Cfarrells of Michigan
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
DOUKH0B0RS DISBAlD
Canadian authorities Find FRI
Lore Among Pilgrims.

Fort VaI1an1 Ont. March fa-P-s--f~ss -
most degrading immortality were brought 70 a
in the coroner's court held here 70 inquire i--,@
death OF John CzIin. one % The Doukhobor ufr-,
who had tramped across the prai-fes ro- or~
thousand miles in attempt 70 ind Better az
Arriving here. the pilgrims car1ped in a .r,r
house with Iean-to shed. and provided tbs~ A.
not indulge in their exercises Of PRAYER uuon =.
streets of the city the police Ieft them alone
4 few days ago Chief OF PcIfcs Io,14z "a. :.
party Of these Doukho5ors d-awin, a hor,sr,as.
sleigh. for they do not believe in making ani7ss
do any labor Stopping the procession to invest.
gate. the chief informed that one OF their u,,
ber had died. and they were taking the bosr n,
some secluded spot that the wolves might tea- ts
flesh from the bones and allow IRE spirit 70 ase.rt
to the great beyond They said that IL The bod
was buried after the custornary manner the s,--
would be unable 20 leave the body. and everlasting
damnation would follow for the dead man al
those who assisted at the burial
This led to the inquest. All the Doukhobors r.,
willing to attend it. but refused 70 be sworn ay
ing it against the will q God that they ssous
take oaths- The information was eI-sted tszt
Czlin had been sick for three weeks dr-f7- vbe.
time his companions gave him all the prunss a-i
raw vegetables he could eat. They explained II,
a doctor was not called in because one was IT.
necessary. Jesus being with them all the time s-s
If il is wtlled that OF them : TO die no porr
on earth can save him. and even PRAYER in sueh
case is useless The jury visited the Doukho5-
dwelling, which, in their opinion was large eroug,
for possibly eighteen people at the most but hs.
they found seventy-six men, women and child-sr
ranging in age from fifteen TO sixty years y-;
about the small rooms. nude and uncovered VII.
out the slightest regard for decency or cor1r-
morality
The jury found that these people practised r..
love. marriage being unknown 10 them Ths CHI
h.N-r- Co., -
for out OF the common fund In this way r-s
grow up and become lost TO their own parents
an early age. becoming the free wives OF the res
of the community. Such conditions were found o
exist that steps were at once taken to Gishand ia
commune, and Investigations are % Be mad. y
determine whether similar conditions exist througs
out the Doukhobor villages N Saskatche9a1 zas
Alberta
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22

box which will seat about two hundred persons
will not look much like the b'eachers of American
athletic fields. II will be shaded by conntieSS
r,tteG trees all the seats viii be rlchy upnos'eie'
and gayIy dressed guards and attendants VIII W.
on duty at all times when the E'rg is occupy -
Ing If.
One Of tie great DAYS in the stadium will oe J'iiy
Il when the track and field athletes compete lhlS
will also &c Americas big day, Tor she hopes ahu
expects TO be victorious she at Athens t"o
years ago. On that day the worlds greatest run
ners i,u,pers hurdors and weight tossers VIII
match brain. Drawn and muscle. All the events
correspond nearly as practicable TO the compe'i
tio1s OF the old Greeks Perhaps the countries
which will win the greatest number OF points Oh.
this day will be America. Great Britain and
Sweden.
rzesi6es the .ronk and field games other events
which will be held within the stadium viii be
swimming, Rugby and Association footoaIl gaines
the finish OF the historic Marathon race OF t''eh'S
five miles, bicycle races and numerous lhilol Sp
There will be several buildings-some OF Wnic'
sra already con1pIeted-outsfde the stadium one
Of them will contain touring, mountaineering ana
exploration exhibits. another game ana pastln1e
exhibits and st another purely sporting e&hDi's.
These places will be open TO the pubic at All
times and are expected to attract much interest
While the chief interest centres IN the staoiuin.
supremacy in the various branches or sports VIII
be decided elsewhere. Competitions in rne rnlnla-
ture rifle revolver and pistol shooting Will take
nIace ar Bisley early in July The rowing races
will he held on the renowned Henley, where
American oarsrnen have strven in vain against the
Britons for so many years. The yacht races VIII
be at Ryde, just before Cowes week. Whlch peshS
on August 4 Lawn tennis racquets and squash
matches will be decided private grounds, as
will the golf contests
Everything in the sporting line in England this
year will be subsidiary the Olympic carnival,
which takes on a national aspect and IS be-
ing supported by every sport loving Briton- In
recent years Great Britain has lost several chan-
pionships which she had held for years, notably
rowing, which the Belgians captured; short dis
lance swimming. by G. NJ. Daniels. a New
Yorker: court tennis won By Jay Gould. an AneTf-
can; lawn tennis, by the Australians, and
some other minor championships This year the
EnsIishnlen will make every effort to regain these
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22

They don't have 10 live down the seven years
hoodoo.
Along with the bump of destructiveness there
exists in them well developed passion for max
ing noise. Some apartment houses are bulIt
with 'deadened bricks in walls and under floors
to render them inpervious to sound. Builders
had in mind pianos and family jars. kitchen
scraps and such things. Nothing renders the
racket of hearty children impenetrable. Actual
ly. to judge from sounds proceedings from
places where they romping you'd think the
children were ripping up the floors, throwing
around the furniture and swinging from the
chandeliers. How do they do it? Search me.
''One old couple used to shutting over to
the next house, taking time to put on hat or
wrap. to find out who or how many had been
killed, whether chimney had fallen down or
a wall fallen out only to discover that it vas
only the children going downstairs.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
Il "HELLO" F.ULTRE.
GocCrHment O1rnershP Of Tsls
phones Unpopular in Manitoba.

Winnipeg. Man March 20-So "a as this pr1T.
1ncs Is concerned government Ownership q tds
phones is not meeting with the success which va
promised while the present government vas cs1
vassinS the province for reelection The spesksis
told the people that under government ownersh9
existing telephone charges would be cut II s,i
that after several years of operation ths rsts
would be sti1l further reduced They cited ~s
Bell schedules as ridiculous and exorbitsnt rt
quoted the dividends being paid 81 t1s Bel CT
Germ.
All these assertions ard promises are foryc-s
now that the provincial governments has purcasss
the Bell system in Manitoba. and Instead Of Be
ductlon IN the rates an advance has been orders
IN certain classes Tbs provinces paid 6 sNyM q
the Bel lines and equipment. and when 1s p1'
chase price was snnoUnced Francis Dsgss-. Ats"
phone expert. who is known al over the Ars1a'
continent. declared that ar tbs price paid % ~
government the system could rot be run on 'A'
ing basis unless the rates were advanced
The local government then apparently sesss"
realize the fact that at least a million dc-S
too much had been paid 20 the Bel people -
some competent experts alleged an excess ls
ment of a much greater sum. To ursSs . Is''T
able showing an order vas issued by ths e'A
mission appointed TO look after tEs vcraIS
the system that under no circumstances so%
free telephones bs sliowed. and the ninsly rs''s
ments for which revenue vas being rsce-..
undsr tne Bell regime weTs taken out urssS
users cared to pay the regular rates 10 have =
remain. This Increased the earnings OF ta' -
tenn by sorle s3.5O0 year. Fut Tits ras
enough. SO order has now been issued III.
ing all doctors and purses that IN future -
yearly rate Will be So. instead ~ so uno7 -.
Bell rule. and thus another s5'..0 or 500 is 81
To the yearly receipts OF the Department. o. W
Phones.
These two items. however. amount 70 Tits
now the commission Is considering otlsl !.
TO increase the revenue. while tns general s'' !,
given to subscribers is no better than hefo's
fact, many persons assert that TIE Msnitess
ernnlent is not giving good service As r-' =
company did under the same conditions. Ines
Use OF reduced rates seems as far from fs-llA
as ever. sud whenever member os ths ps'-.. =.
Department of Telephones or a member %,
commission is asked when the promised reu-ss
OF rates Is likely TO become snectivs Do s.,
with the now stereogypcd phrase. i As'e W.
for publication oa the matter ~
And such - the public ownership OF ts''s-
under the Manitoba government
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22

OF the way and trail that could be used at a
pinch
All Americans alike. They do not bother to
learn foreign languages when they go TO foreign
country but they force the natives to learn Ameri
can So when the Panamanians presented them
selves, if they could talk English, they prefaced
their attempts cheat the Americans out of some
thng-it really made little difference what-wlth
the statement, accompanied by eloquent gestures:
'Spik d. English If they couldn't they said: mo
spik d. English One the other was. the uni
Versal opening OF conversation, and those early
Americans soon ciassed the whole race OF
u no could could net "Spik d. Eng" as "Spki-
ties" and from that grew the harmonious and de-
scriptive Spigotty.-Samuel G. Blythe. in The Sat
urday Evening Post.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-22
ODD ANIMALS IN HARNESS

The morse must look ~ his laureis. a. . IL &
OF odd competitors Tor his place as the - 81
man a,tc sp-iuSins UP. At Andheiul. a &C. &C. hsss
uemeut in Southern California, oStiI1ls' ,,.us
been trained to draw light four whseie r.i q
one ~ these birds hnrnCSseci haS N .x,sr
nlie "A three minutes. or at "a rate ,-,srB
miles au ho.ir The African zecra vs. =, O.
regarded being too wild and Nic'o'' .,,s al
Use IN harness. giut time has ehais'V - z,srss
now IN British East Africa an$ nu'V0 I, b-tgs
can hc purchased r,sdv srained % biz .ll ,., Al
The zebra VII be fcUad most usNt''' ~ !. ,.ofse
Indie. ,s n is exceedingly StroN~. ahich sssE
auj 'mn,Gne from many diStaSss, =, haFneSs !
horses Psri9arS the odttcSt 1uund4 '1r-,s1,.a esa
:hc wiII bo..r which - driven hy d.ss ga az
aut ~ aIoatlucOn. I; Is row tnte,,.t AT. y
- able to draw 4 srlall tWO wEec,se., 20 sas ~
bit is OF no use. the reias are atracn'A
mails eye tseth.-AnsHerA