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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15
City Parks Are Worth Over a Billion

now nearly 20 times as much as at the
dates of their purchase. Take for il
lustration Union. Madison. Tompkns
and Washington squares They cost
respectively $ll6O5l in 1888, 500 .952
in I>i7, $693,@5S in 1894 and $77,970
in lN2i, or $353,33l in all, and now
real estate experts say that they are
worth 10000, 900
These numerous parks vary in size
rs much as they vary in location from
small fraction of an acre at the
junction of streets to ! 1856 acres in
Pelham BAY park, the most extensive
park IN the city, and forming a grand
and magnificent system through the
Parkway that connects it with Bronx
park, of 6Gl acres, which, in it's turn.
is connected on the west by Moshom
Parkway with Van Cortlandt park, OF
l.l32 acres.
Manhattan, with its more congested
population, naturally has the most
parks, which number 48. with mag
nilic"nt Central park. containing SAB
acres, leading, as 1t leads the world.
Brooklyn borough. with 80 parks.
comes next with Prospect park OF
SIG acres at the head of the list. The
Bronx has the greatest park acreage,
with II parks, then comes Queens
with seven, followed by Richmond
with tLra2
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15

NEW YORK.-Not the least interest.
~ ing part OF the recent union
OF Gladys Vanderbilt and Count
Laszlo S2echenyi Of Hungary, 80
for as New York society is con,
cerned was the belated recon
ciliation which was made known
when Cornelius Vanderbilt consented
at the eleventh hour and under much
pressure to lend formal sanction to the
alliance by giving away the bride. This
action restores him to his rightful po-
sition as head of the Vanderbilt fam
lily, an honor that was taken from him
by his father years ago when he mar
rled Miss Grace Wilson. The eldest
son had stood out strongly against the
mother and sister and had refused to
consider the young Hungarian noble
man as suitOr for his sisters hand
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15

NEW YORK CITY has one of the
~ greatest public park systems in
the world in extent, and the finest in
convenience for the use of the people
and natural and artificial beauties.
Records Of the city department of
parks give interesting figures and gen.
cral information unknown by many Of
the residents of the city. II is estl
mated that the public Fairgrounds. the
open places that are not only In bodies
OF many acres, but in small plots of
green that are lungs for the great con.
gested districts Of the metropolis, are
worth as vacant real estate 81 200, 900
600. This enormous amount in value
is tied up in land for the health and
pleasure of more than 100000 of in
habitants of the five borOughs and
friends who may visit them and stran.
gers who come to the city.
It Is shown that the original cost Of
these parks, which numbct 1l3, was
about 500, $4,000. ana they are worth
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15

A YEAR and four months after the
IA United States senate decided that
some investigating ought to be done
into the way customs revenues were
coming in at New York the clerk of
the senate finance committee awoke
one bright morning and determined to
act at once. He, A. b. Shelton, did so.
He took trip to Providence, r. l..
(August 4 to T. 1907, inclusive), and
charged it to the government. The
total, including carriage hire, car fare.
telephones and baggage" cost the gov
eminent s455O.
Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island is
chairman of the finance committee and
Mr. Shelton is his secretary. Provi-
dence, II. l., IS given in the congress
siOnal directory as Senator AldriChS 8
home.
The trip to Providence was duly en-
tered in the itemiZed list of receipts
and expenditures of the senate" "On
business of the senate finance commit
Tee is the way it appears in the
record under authority of senate reso-
luton of Ms rch g. 1905
On September 5, 1906, A. b. Shelton
again bethopght him OF the New York
customs revenue. and resolved to act
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15
White House Aids Have No Sinecures

staff officers get tired unto death of
their work and long for the sound of
boots and saddles" at frontier post
or a march order n the Philippines.
1t must not be supposed that the
military and naval aids of the presi.
dent have nothing to do except to at
tend him personally when he is giving
official receptions at the White House.
President Roosevelt is the easiest
man in the world TO get along with,
50 all the aids say, and they are tied
to him in affection, but nOtwithstand.
ing this one Is told confidentally that
the aids think their part in the social
dongs is little undignified. At a big
reception they have to open an aisle
through the throng Of people and then
march ahead of the president like
trumpeters who are sounding march.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15
House to Have a "Homespun Brigade"

the next time he went back TO South
Carolina he brought back a bolt Of
cloth and presented it to the speaker.
"Uncle Joe" had it made into a suit
which made him the envy Of every
man III the house Since that time Mr.
Aiken has been able to get recognition
and postofflces whenever he wanted
them. but he has been brsiesed by
score of members for cloth enough to
make suit like Uncle Joe's"
Last spring when he went home he
engaged the old woman to make all
the homespun she could during the
summer The result was three suit.
ings. These Mn Aiken brought up
TO Washington and presented to
Representative Ryan Of New York,
Representative Lee OF Georgia and
Representative GIisss of Georgia.
These three, With the speaker and Nh.
Aiken viii form the charter member.
ship Of the honespun brigade" other
applicants VIII be admitted when the
oll woman turns ou, some moro jeans
It Is costing Mr.. Aiken q l5t for uni
forms. but he doesn't mind that for he
= Is everything l!se Ls wauL-.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15
Senate Investigation from Car Window

with vigOr. SO he took another flying
trip to Providence, r. |. This time
it cost the senate contingent fund
$5l.05.
On October 3, A. B. Shelton hap
pCned to think of going to New York
on his way to Providence, II. l., to in
vestigate the revenue receipts, and ac'
cordingiy took a three-day trip to
Providence via New York Cost,
S4G10.
On November 4 Mr. Shelton tried
the scheme of investigating the reve-
nue. receipts by going first to Provi-
dence, r.. l., and returning on the third
day via New York city Cost. $54.55.
On December the experiment Of
going direct to Providence and re-
turning through New York was re-
peated 1t must have been success,
for it took bu. two days to be back in
Washington, and It cost the govern
ment but s4375.
But on January 5. 1907, the first
method of investigating New Yorks
customs revenues-namely. from the
car window-was resumed. and Mr.
Shelton ran on to Providence and
back without disembarking in wicked
Gotham. Cost to Uncle Sam, s3695.
Now, isn't 1t funny that Mr.. Aid
rch's secretary should have to go to
Providence X. l., every time he
wanted to investigate the New York
customs revenues? And isn't it funny
that an investigation authorized in
March, 1905, should not begin until
August, 1906? And should not cease
until January, 1907? And should not
then produce any report?
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15

AIRS. JOHN JACOB ASTOR gave a
VI dance the other night at which
she taught the -Four Hundred that th"
newest way to serve flowers as fayors
is from the depth OF an old fashioned
WheclbarrOw
So many guests were invited and 50
many innovations had been provided
that Mrs As'or used both her own
mansion. at $40 Fifth avenue, and
that Of Col Astor's mother nest door.
After sherry had served luncheon at
midnight III a dining room decorated
win mygads Of pink roses American
beauties and lilies, Mrs. AstOr began
the distribution o. the most costly set
uf fayoFs given TO guests a. any social
function il New York thia winter
out .. to first box u9rre4 roae
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15

AN indication OF the important part
~ that the nIckcls and dimes Of the
public play in the everyday life Of this
metropolis is the leasing of the boot
backing privileges in the new twin
McAdoo terminal buildings, on Ccrt-
landt street, for IL years at rental
aggregating $l24OOO. This Is at the
rate Of $10.333.33 l-3 year
TO handle the apparently insignih
cant job Of shining th~ shoes Of the
permanent and transient population
Of this immense building a corporation
called the Hudson Terminal BOotblaCk
ing Company has been formed. The
names of the men who are putting up
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15

w WASHlNGTON.-If one is inclined
w to doubt whether the American
people are interested In the proceed
ings OF congress he should become q
reader Of the Congressional Record
and note the number Of petitions and
memorials that come up to the legisla.
tive body daily from avery section OF
the country From two to four pages
OF every days Record are filled with
the suggestions from the people. And
it may be said that congress is dis
posed to listen to these petitions and
memorials. There was a time when
such communications were treated
lightly. Not so now. The first thing
every senator and representative does
when he reaches his office in the morn
in@ is 10 have his secretary compile
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15

THEY are going to form a home
! spun brigade" in the house and
- back to first principles Repre-
sent atjve Wyatt Aiken of South Caro-
III - the organizer OF the brigade
During the Fifty-ninth congress Mr.
Aiken came up from his home in Ab-
beyillc with his rotuud figure clad in
=. oldfashioned homespun suit One
daE he was rassing through the speak.
er.a lobby and encountered Uncle
Jos Cannon
Aiken said the speaker vaera
tha dafil dill yon ge. that iaans2 DO
y9a know. / haven't seen any Of that
cLata since vas Jay n Norh Caro-
lima
' aiken explained that ain Oh
49, - l. his 4l.,glc. had made it, aad
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15

T. ROM the confess ions OF a man with
army connections it may be said
that all is not JOY with the military
and naval attaches of the American
service who are on duty in Washing
ton with White House duties as side
issues of the regular routine. The
places of aids to the president, social
aids Washington calls them, are much
s0a2ht, but it is declared that after
a few months of it most of the social
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15

intimately connected with
the Of the kind in the world
he holds York
the lie
OF people
New
combined
had crushed
soninaw of the late Secretary Hay
Of Mr.
mand in him stevens Is mild hammered man
him he vowed TO have Wads"ohF
and he
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15
WOULD PAY Ex-PRESIDENTS

Senator James r. McCreary of Kentucky,
who proposes to pay all our eXpresidents 1--WE
have only one) a salary of $4,000 a year and
have them serve on all international exposition
commissions, is one of the best examples of tie.
nacity in American public life, He had been for
over 30 years a leader in Democratic politics in
Kentucky.
Senator McCreary is an imperialist in sense;
he is no parochial politician with outlook
bounded by the limits of his native town. In the
II years he sat in the lower house of congress
he had more to do with international questions
than probably any Cher man. He devised the
scheme of uniting North. South and Central
America with a railway; and If there is ever a
road built cOnuoC. uudSOn'S hay with the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15

public schools
learning his
Finn elected legislature in 1873 serving three terms
Republican
claimed his 1t Finn who
1899 Finn who
he
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15

Straits Of Magellan
the medical which Washington
1896 He
a
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1908-02-15
PROMINENT PEOPLE

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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-06-11
PERSONAL.

Fred Schultz and wife are here
from st. Louis.
Miss Mamie Roehry went to st.
Louis Thursday.
John w. Harral of Bismarck
was in Ironton last week.
G. E. Downey and wife arrived
from Arizona Friday night.
Jno. M. S. Stricklin of Warren's
Store was a caller last week.
Miss Mabel Davis will arrive on
a visit from st. Louis Thursday.
E. B. Inner of st. Louis spent
last week with relatives at Pilot
Knob.
John Tolleson of Charleston,
Mo-, visited his parents at Gran
iteville this week.
County Treasurer Jones and
wife are visiting Mrs. Jones' par
ents in Madison County.
Mrs. Guirey, who has been
quite i'll, will be taken to a hos
pital in st. Louis to-day.
Mrs. M. A. AXE and Misses Dora
and Myra AXE left Monday morn
ing for a few days visit in St.
Louis.
q S. w. Andrews, Jr., has gone to
Fredericktown where he has a po-
sition with the North American
Company. -
Mr.. R.. D. Lewis and family, of
st. Louis arrived at their beauti-
full valley home, "Mountain View"
last Thursday, for the summer.
Col. James Lewis and family are
expected at the "Ozark Home
Thursday for the summer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-06-11
From BellevieW.

Having been very busy the past
week, we have not been able to
get out and around after news
items; hence this communication
is short.
John Goggin was down on I'M
hoden Monday last after some cat
tie he had purchased.
Owing to the meager prospects
for corn crops in many parts of
the country, corn is to-day selling
for eighty cents per bushel. A
letter just received from Central
Illinois states that very few farm
ers are through planting corn;
while many are not through break
ing the ground for corn, owing to
the almost continuous rains in that
locality.
Arch Campbell and Cleve Mo-
yer spent a few days last week
visiting relatives in Lesterville.
Lem Logan, who has for the
past five or six years assisted his
father in the mill here, left last
week for st. Louis, where he will
probably engage in business. 1t
is reported, however, that he may
first make a tour of the West.
We have during the past five or
six years done considerable busi-
ness with Lem and found him to
be perfectly honest, and wish for
him success wherever he may go.
Hessie Price who has been stay
ing with Mrs. Heinz, visited her
parents Friday afternoon.
Newt Warren and son, Will,
made a trip to Arkansas last week.
Philip Hawkins, who has for the
past two years been in Oklahoma,
is expected to visit his parents
here during this month. Phil is
now engineer on the R. R., and
from what we hear from him, we
presume he is getting to be one OF
the best engineers on the road in
that country. Not long ago there
was an occasion to put on the road
a special train to make a very fast
speed, and, of course, the best en-
gineers at command are wanted for
such occasions, and we are inform
ed that "Phil' was chosen for this
occasion. We r glad to learn
that Phillip is getting towards the
van in his chosen work.
1t is reported here that Mrs.
Tharp has purchased town proper
ty in Oklahoma, and that she will
remove to that country the coming
fall, and make her future home
there.
j. T. Patterson is building a
porch to the room which Jack
Middleton built for him last fall.
Quite a number of people from
town attended church at Cedar
Grove last Sunday, the attractive
feature being "Children's day."
p,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-06-11
Middlebrook Items.

Tom Meyer and John Carey are
painting at Bismarck.
Mrs. DR.. Trauernicht, of Ironton,
visited at F. Rodach's last week.
G. E.Scaffer visited R. E. Johns
ton last Wednesday.
Joe John, the peddler, was in
town several days last week.
Thomas Hill has sold his mill
shed to Harry Hughes, who is
tearing it down and hauling it to
his farm, near Graniteville
Miss Edna 0esterle came from
Pennington last week.
Miss Marie Rodach and Mrs. DR..
Trauernicht went to Bismarck on
No. rs. Thursday and returned on
%.
Mrs. John Gassman and daugh-
ter Freda got on No. % Thursday
en- route to Ironton.
Miss Delsie Johnston went to
Pennington last week; her brother
Raymond came back home with
her.
w. L. Cox, of near Edge Hill,
took a couple of loads of goods
out for j. S. Eaton.
Mrs. DR.. Trauernicht returned to
her home in Ironton Friday even
ing on No. %.
Thomas Hill and wife visited
VIM. Sutton on James Creek Sat-
urday; they returned home Sun
day evening.
Louis Seitz was in Bismarck
last week.
Fritz Gassman is painting the
home place.
Our road o%verseer, French Thur
man, has been doing some good
work on the roads.
Grandma Block went to Bis
marck Sunday on No. 26 and Q
turned on No. %.
Mrs. William Kness and Miss
Delsie Johnston went to Iron
Mountain on 26 and came back on
25 Sunday.
Fritz Gassman went to Arcadia
Sunday.
David Goggin got on 26 Monday
en- route to Flat River.
r. E. Johnston went to st. Louis
Monday.
Ed. Doyle and George Foster
went to Iron Mountain Lake Tues
day morning fishing. Look out
for fish stories.
John Gassman, who has been
acting section foreman at Irondale,
came back Saturday evening on
%.
w. A. Mcpherson and wife, of
st. Louis, who have been visiting
relatives in this vicinity, returned
home Tuesday morning on rs.
SCRIBBLER.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-06-11
Pilot Knob News.

Miss Alma Robertson visited
Arcadia Sunday.
Mrs. Chas. Dennison of Edge
Hill visited her mother, Mrs. Har-
bison, here last week.
Mrs. F. Kaths is home from a
weeks visit in st. Louis.
The warmer the weather the
more beer they drink. We have
seen places they called blind tig-
ers, but we think he has both eyes
open here.
Jesse Sheriff. visited home folk
here Sunday.
There is some talk of a wedding
in the near future.
Albert and Francis Light of
Munger we're here last week.
Scarcely a day but that some
stock is killed on the railroad.
Jake and Geo. Wise are visiting
in Flat River.
Perry Patterson and family of
Marble Creek visited Mrs. Patter-
sons parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Dett-
mar, here Saturday and Sunday.
MI. Sherrells and wife of Flat
River visited here Suday.
Mrs. Spitzmiller is quite sick al
this writing. BLUE BIRD.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-06-11
Bids for Depository Of Funds Of Ironton School
District, No, !, Townships 50 and
81, N. Ranges ; and 4 Eas.

The Board Of Education of the Ironton
School District, will receive sealed propos-
ais from any banking incorporation, associ-
alton or individual banker in said Ironton
School District desiring to become deposito-
ry of the funds of said district from the time
a selection may be made until May, 1900,
and will proceed to open same at the Public
School Building, I~ronton, Mo-, at s o'clock
r.. M, on
Monday, hy oil, 1905
that banking interpretations, associations, or
individual bankers in said district submitting
sealed proposals., must state the rate Of
interest TO be paid, and each bid must be
accompanied by check for not less than
one half Of one per cent. of the School Dis
trict revenue of the preceding year as a
guarantee of good faith on the part Of the
bidder; and that the Board reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
Done by order Of the School Board, Iron
ton, Mo-, May II, 1908.
w. H. DELANO,
Secretary Board Of Education.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-06-11

lows. Inc nlckelodeon is q NOV
ing picture show, the admission
to which is five and ten cents. 1t
is amusing and instructive, but
none of them that l have seen are
tainted with immortality:
The late Grand Jury in one in
stance showed its inability to
think clearly. 1t was at the point
OF its illumination against nickelo-
deems, whose prosperity, or some
thing else, seems to have excited
the hostility of a great many peo-
pie. l hold no brief for the mana
gers of these cheap show places,
but certainly the fact that they in
corporate a new idea, or that they
are prosperous excites 10 envy in
me. Likewise, let us be fair and
honest with ourselves. The Grand
Jury, catching the Folk fever to go
cunning for gnats and mosquitoes,
and suffering the confusion OF
ideas, such as is generally a
characteristic of fevers, %incorpo-
rates a bull in its last report tell
ing what vicious influences these
little places are in the community.
The Grand Jury finds that num-
berless boys are tempted to be dis
honest to secure money to see
these little shows, i faith! Just
let that idea bump around in your
mind for a little while. The shows
are so pleasant and attractive to
youth that youth is tempted.
Therefore the proper point of treat
ment is the effect and not the cause.
| once knew a servant girl, who,
because of her great passion for
pickles, robbed her mistress. Now
had the April Grand Jury been in
session, and had the mistress
placed the case before it, it would
have indicted the pickles, denounc-
ed all groceries as "hotbeds of
crime" and recommended placing
all sellers of pickles under heavy
bond. The argument of the April
Grand Jury is that anything is
culpable in being too pleasant as
it may tempt somebody to do
wrong in order to enjoy that par
ticular pleasure. These same boys
whom the Grand Jury believes
are tempted to theft through nick
elodeon fascination, are also fond
of fireworks on the Fourth of July,
and both boys and girls like can
dy. 1t is possible that the liking
for irecrackers and candy has
tempted boys and girls to pilfer,
but shall we on that account
bring indictments against these
two commodities of childhood?
The April Grand Jury says we
shall-says in effect that anything
too pleasant, too good, too crafty
ing, is by the same token danger
Gus and should be legislated
against. The histology OF the
April Grand Jury, its contempt
for logic, its confusion of ideas, is
common enough. 1t is the theory
that instead of the moral fiber of
the individual being strengthened
and made proof against tempta-
ton, we should somehow, some
way abolish the temptation-a
thing wholly impossible, seeing
that if contemplation be destroyed
it is no trouble at all for the weak
in character to find something also
that will serve fully as we'll as a
temptation to wrong.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-06-11
Will Cure Cons umption.

A. A. Herren, Finch, Ark,
writes: "Foley's Honey and Tar
is the best preparation for coughs,
colds and lung trouble. / know
that 1t has cured consumption in
the first stages" You never heard
OF anyone using Foley's Honey
and Tar and not being satisfied.
Sold by all druggists.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-06-11

THE opposition to Taft, like that
against Bryan, is dissolving as the
dew under the light of the morn
ing sun. Poor old GID! Poor
old World!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-06-11

ACCORDING to the RepabEic, Bry-
an has already obtained two
thirds of the delegates to the Den
yer convention, with a goodly
number yet to be chosen who will
very likely be added to the ma
ioritv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-06-11

THINK my antl-saloon neigh
bors should, at least, make good
the 5000 that the recalling of the
Kerwin license, at their solicita-
ton, cost the county in "cold
cash." That sum had been trans
mitted to the State Treasurer, and
could not be recalled so the coun-
ty treasury has that much of a de-
felt, Come, gentlemen! Prove
your faith through your pocket
nerve.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-06-11

THE Financial Statement, sent
out with this issue OF the REGIS
ter, is, as complete and compro-
hensive as any declaration of re-
ceipts and expenditures published
in the State. Every dollar of the
public funds of the county is ac-
counted for: from what source re-
ceiyed,f for what and to whom paid
out. l have used car to print it
correctly, but types are kittle
things to handle. Still [ hope it
may be found free from conse-
quential error.