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New-York tribune., 1908-02-09
POLICE INSPECTORS ESTIMATE,

while the surety companies ara willing 10
make suc1 conservative statements on the bad
moral influence of racetrack gar!b bling some Of
hcers q the law credit even 4 higher percentage
a crime to the betting ring. ana these men
rom association generally know whereof they
speak, New York Inspector of police is au-
ihorily fer the statement that 30 per cent OF
a. the theft. embezzleinent, forgery. highway
robbery. burglary. suicide and murder commit
TED in New York is the direct growth OF the
racing game.
Turning 10 Tie police records for a hasty re
view Of one year. 1So5. these terse items catch
The eye:
George W Pollard cashier Of Hotel .Ansonia,
charged with TIE theft Of $4,000 from his en-
powers. which sum is believed TO have been
lost al the tracks.
AyTon Lewis and wife" as entered on the
register OF the Dry Dock Hotel, found dead in
Aer rooms. The man shot and killed the
woman and then killed himself Cause, the loss
u 3l,Io0 10 booKlnakers at Belmont Park track
Frederick Alexander. Of well known Brook
Hh family when chided for mania of betting
oh he races shot himself at his home in the
tsshlonabIe Park Slope district.
Joseph Brookes. ticker agent at the 5sth street
s.elfon OF The Third avenue elevated railroad
tfested for stealing $3.50, which he had lost to
Miss Lillian DemmeIt Of Kansas City. com
ni'5ed d SUICIDE on july II by drinking carbolic
seio al the Jones cottage after losing heavily
W W SayfOrd, sales manager for Swift &
- - ;ound dead in Elhs Club cafe after shoot
80 AiIlSeI with d revolver, following heavy
Aosses Al the racetrack
,, James P Hennesy, cashier. arrested. tried
Aho convicted for theft Of $4,000, which he
seaanoered in betting ring at racetrack Sent
to prison W
Sohn William George a valet arrested for
sssohs his employer. Spent his plumber at
ne racetrack
EDWARD z. Hale and Harry Snlock. trusted
s-poyes Of MacAndrews & Forbes COMPANY
sHeste=a Tor enbezzlement and confessed that
Makers e " e Doo~
anu SO the record runs with the sequence OF
~'-1es becoming raonotonous before a quarter
eie Twelve months are covered. Here and
.Ae'e through the file of years an occasional
eia more unusual than the rest holds attention
cns such appears the career of an Eliza
eh IN j model, SIS a week clerk in a bank
e establishment who led an exemplary life in
hey ana was held up as q type for other
1eeins accountants TO copy He, however
Ae 100 fastidious in his model career His
directors began 10 wonder how he could
'e so well, enjoy 50 many homely pleasures
- Heep an aged mother and father surrounded
50 many comforts Of life William was
~9oSea and the dream Of the directors was
~eh- 1t was discovered that the family was
pe only establishment this S15 clerk was
= epllg- Across the river in New York was a
'' lat and pretty woman, for all of which
"1s paying In Manhattan he entertained
-tO1sly. played the races and through the
-ef4oin resorts was known as a live one
g. good spender. This clerks peculations
'io 10 have amounted TO over 100000.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09

may even have met royalty itself coasting down the
road. you came.
After luncheon you have your choice OF coastins
down to Christiania by road by the more excit-
ing built-up coast expressively called The Cork
screw" Either way IT IS coast OF good SIX
miles II you elect the latter 1t Is well that you
can manage your steering pole dexterousy. FOR the
speed is great and the turns short and frequent
Many is the tumble. and not always without broken
bones-H. H. ID. Pierce, in The Atlantic Monthiy
for February.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09
NEW ERA WAS AT HAND.

Were it not for the tragedy of week ago.
had Franco remained at the head of the govern
ment and had the general election taken place.
as arranged the month after next the cOnsti-
tutional crisis would have been brought 10 a
satisfactory close. The new parliament might
have been relied upon TO give It's legislative ap
proval to all that Franco had accomplished in
the way of the reform Of abuses and toward
the regeneration Of Portugal. In fact, every
thing would have been plain sailing, with the
prospect of the revival of prosperity at home,
of credit abroad and Of the Inauguration OF a
generally As it is now. with the new
ministers in power and Franco gone. it means
the undoing OF all his work and OF that OF the
late King.
1t means the rev. yal Of all the abuses, the ad-
mnistrative dishonesty and the political cor
ruption. In fact. the condition of affairs it
stands now bids fair to prove a sorry tribute to
the memory of gallant, honest and kindly Dom
Carlos King Manuel. who is q little over
eighteen years of age, and has therefore at
tanned his majority. and his mother. Queen
Marie Amelie. after the first shock of their
grief is may possibly be brought TO realize
this, particularly when they begin TO see the
effect of the dismissal of Franco and the ap-
pointment of the cabinet Portuguese
government bonds held abroad
But it will be difficult for either OF them 20
repair the mistake they have made and by means
of which they have tnaugurated the reign:
for neither of them has the political expert
ence and assurance OF the late King, who dur
ing his eighteen years on the throne had ac
quired knowledge of the men and cOndi-
tions of Portugal Moreover. if the Queen and
the young King were to attempt to make any
change and To recall Franco there might be Il
coup d'etat depriving them OF their throne per-
hars even involving their assassination For
the real authors of the outrage which has just
been perpetrated at Lisbon are so much the
actual perpetrators. who seem usual 10 have
been cuIled from the lower classes-hare-
Drained, haIfeducated creatures who had been
made 10 believe that they were being robbed of
their political rishtS-but Were the people whose
pockets and whose interests have suffered
through the abolition of snecures the suppress
sion of administrative dishonesty and the curb
ing of political corruption.
These the men, ard women as we'll who
for more than a year have been 6enouncing the
late King and Premier with such venom an(,
violence for despotsm and tyranny as 10 in
fame the passions of the fanatics who actually
cid the murder. Conservative and Liberal
as unfit to reign. had urged that he should be
deposed in favor of his socs or of his brother
while some of the Lisbon newspapers had act
ualiy insisted that Carlos deserved the fate of
Louis XVI. namely. decapitation. for hts viola
ton of the rights Of the people. And the papers
in question were neither revolutionary nor Re
publican but professedly monarchicaI and the
organs of the Conservative and Liberal parties.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09
PORTUGAL NOW GOES BACH TO CRAFT.

the very statesman. of all others. whom men
toned above as having drawn for twenty years
the pay and emoluments of Portuguese envoy
at EaIsirs, Ii hnllt ever having left EurOpe.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09
THEY PLAYED THE PONIES.

tnis country boys whirI in gay New
Sew Jersey has contributed another no
49,, character, popular Mayor Of Paterson,
respected and greatly admired. but
-, whom there was not the slightest sus-
- until one day in August. 1905, when he
,L missing. Then il discovered that
''As chief magistrate Of the Silk Mil City
0ceh Stealing for eight years steadily, and
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09
Corrupt Politicians S Restored
to Power by Murder,
Says Elk

copyright 1905. by the Brentwood Company
1t may be a happy augury for troubled Portu-
sal that her King should have selected
as his title that of Manuel II. For the reign
OF Manuel I. away back in the fifteenth century
Was the most glorious and heroic period of the
history Of the nation. Ii was during his tenure
of the throne that Nasco da CANA rounded the
Cape Of Good Hope and another Portuguese
commander, Masalhaes discovered the strait
at the southern extremity Of South America
which has just been traverseJ by the United
States battieship fleet and which bears his
nane-that is. Magellan
Il Was under Manuel 1 that Albuquerque first
eStab blished the rule OF the white race in India
that Fernando Andrada founded Portuguese
settlements the coast of China and visited
Picking, that Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovered
Brazil and that Afnerieo Eespucci gave his
name 10 the New World. II is owing to this
that Manuel has always been styled The
Fortunate in the annals OF Portugal and sine
he, too, was brought to the throne through the
murder of an elder brother. ii may be hoped
that his namesake, despite the shocking tragedy
which has signalized his accession TO the Crown.
may be equally favored by destiny throughout
his reign and may help TO restore the pros
perity and the welfare OF his kingdom.
While the utmost sympathy is felt on all
sides for Queen Marie Amelie, whose life ever
since she first came 10 Portugal its Crown
Princess has been Of usefulness to the la nd
Of her adoption. il cannot but be regretted by
all those who have kept track of affairs Lis
bon and who have made "A study of the pc
lltical situation that she should in the first
moment Of her bitter grief have made of
her power virtually to dismiss from office Prime
Minister Franco and to intrust the conduct OF
the government to his foes-that Is to say. to
the very whom her murdered husband had
spent the last eighteen months Of his life in
bitterly combating.
1t IS perhaps natural that the Queen, who
had always been less opposed the
policy of Franco, should the instant OF her
bereavement have regarded the statesman in
question as responsible for the death of her
husband and OF her eldest son. the Crown Prince.
ON the ground that the revolutionary move
ment and the infiaming ot popular sentiment
against the Crown, eliminating in the
sination, was mainly due to his arbitrary
methods and to the harshness OF his rule. In
this view she supported by her naother-in-
law, Queen Pia, who had had many Quarrels
with Franco the subject Of money matters.
resenting his reluctance to comply with her
pecuniary demands and his attempts check
her extravaganza.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09

stance permission refused a high govern
Inent official to draw any longer the salary Of
his father, who had also been well paid
want of the Crown. but who had been dead for
fifteen wears
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-01
;necinl corresnnndence

Special Correspondence.
~ ONE. July 21-Fiorence boasts
~ remarkable quartet of American
v women--a st. Louis woman who
stnnds among the best voice
teachers in the Italian city: a woman
physician from San F'ranciscoj Il
daughter Of Brooklyn who, when bare
ly out OF her teens. founded and main
talned by her own energy and funds an
institution which aspires to be called
The American Industrial School for
italian Working Girls" and Phlal-
delphla woman conducting an ARTS
and Crafts"
The first of these, Madame Bar
rachia. as Kate Bensberg achieved an
enviable success in Italian opera, APP
peai'ng for some years as prima donna
In the chief italian cities and in Monte
Vldeo and buenos Ayres with the cele-
brated Ferroerl Opera company.
YOUNG GIRLS CAREER.
As a young girl, she was sent 10
Madame Schroeder under whose pat
ronage she mado her debut at Krois
theater In Berlin. while still in her
teens After Il season she went to
London ThOre she studied oratorlo
and appeared with a Carl Rosa Opera
company. After two years she went 10
America where for three seasons she
Gang In operate concerts. With the
object Of further study Madame Bar
racchin then returned to Paris where
she became favorite pupil of Madame
Marchesi During her studies In the
French capital sire was often heard rs
soloist at tho American church in the
Rue de Berry. The Paris Figaro speak
ing Of her voice called IL the voice Of
an angel Sonzogno, the famous Mia
neese puplisher and impresario saw in
her an Ideal prima donna for Italy and
offered her an engagement which che
promptly accepted. Under his manage
ment she appeared with great success
in AMBROSE Thomas Hamlet. "
"Rigoietto'' ''TraNata, Lucia" and
many other operas She also created
tho chief role in Leoncavallo's "Pag-
lacci
WAS HAPPY MARRIAGE.
A happy marriage interrupted her
career for time and when she reap
peared 1t was in London in the Queen
hall concerts under Henry Wood. After
two years her work was again inter
rupted. this time by the death of her
husband, and she returned to Italy.
She S, tiled in Florence as a teacher NJ
singing. Madame Rari1cchia has very
decided views on the American girl
students abroad. Speaking to me re-
Gently she said:
As a rule. the American girl comes
abroad Tor voice study too late Three
to four years of study ought to ht a
student for public career and she
should he ready, speaking, of course,
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impressed by tales of the hardships
of italian dress-makers' apprentices.
While obtaining their training they
are sent TO make purchases In the
small shops kept by men of, too, often
inevitable regulations. The results have
made the Florentne working girl some
what notorious. Miss Healy concluded
that. II they could obtain their train
ing in a school and start In life as wage
carriers their future was likely 10 be
more promising. She had read of
Americans social work and accordingly
laid her own plans.
OPEN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
One day she opened her school in a
building on the grounds OF her fathers
home. Later she rented a floor of a
house in the Via Pier Capponi and this
May moved to better quarters in the
Via del Serglie. a street well known TO
all tourists. Recently l called at the
school. Signora Cont who loves every
thing and everybody American, quickly
made me welcome and explained her
work saying that her dream was TO
have it become an endowed work with
the name American Industrial School
for italian Working Girls" The rooms
We're thronged with bright-eyed little
Italians. some busy at lessons, some
sewing hard in the dressmaking rooms.
halls and arranging pots and pans. all
happy-fa and smiling,
Sometimes ] have had as many as
64." said Signora Healy-Conu. we
are required by the municipality to
furnish children who come here with
the compulsory course OF study so /
teach them myself, assisted by tea
cher whom l pay. We have a dress
makor to instruct the girls and I hope
to add military department later. The
domestic course includes cooking,
cleaning, See," and she opened a door.
In large kitchen with stone floor
and hugo Italian range with it's tiny
charcoal fire were a number of pretty
girls busily making soup. peeling pota-
toes. arranging papers in the cup
board drawers, preparing meat. cutting
bread. One girl, IN business-like way.
was taking stock of provisions, giving
out and making records.
I'VE give the whole school a daily
dinner" explained Signora Hea]y-Con-
IT,, the pupils prepare 1t entirely. They
set the table and clean the building.
One girl keeps account, another has
charge OF our little library. Each pupil
however, must become experienced in
all the departments.
LAST OF QUARTET
The American woman who conducts
the Art ana CRAFTS in Florence Is
Mrs. Arthur Murray Cobb, who was
Miss Little of the family OF publish
ing fame.
on the death of her husband this
winter, she took entire charge of the
work which is carried on in Mrs
Browning's old home, Casa Gnidi. and
includes the exhibition of the pictures
of artists. of antique Jewelry, leather
work, etc, in fact, all included in tho
term Arts and Crafts"
EVA MADDEN.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-01
THE FEET IN CATCHING FISH,

A subject which is one of the most
vital in connection with the fishing out
fit and least likely 10 be properly I'M
derstood. is that of footwear. 1t Is a
matter upon which the success OF the
whole trip really hinges, for, since
walking Constitutes the greater portion
of the hard exercise during the day, It
behUoves one to give due consideration
to the comfort OF the feet. | have tried
wadlng the streams In great variety
OF rigs, including the rawhide moccasin.
heavy hip rubber boot and the high
wuding pants and only after repeated
experiments, which always left some
thing to be desired, / tried wearing n
combination of short golf pants, prefer
ably of wool, heavy. long wooden stock
ings, and pair OF strong leather shoes
With the golf waders there is really
no set limit to the depth one may VEN
ture The water drains on naturally
and the wool with the heat of the body,
keeps one warm and comfortable In
connection with this outfit a short coat
made specially for wading and for sale
by the sporting goods dealers. s very
desirable The pockets are all high M
out of the water and there are no coat
ends TO be- continually dragging In tho
wet. With this coat on. one Is quite
sure 10 have dry, warm Jacket with
tho contents Of the pockets safe unless
one takes dip all over.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-01
A NOIsEIEsS ROOM.

For many physical researches a per-
fectly noiseless room is dosideratum.
II such could be devised. II would open
out new possibilities OF research At
the University of Utrecht the problem
mas been apparently successfully
solved by the room designed by
HwaArdemaker, Tho walls and cell
Ing OF the room are II inches thick,
and are formed Of six separate layers.
The first consists OF felt-like mater
lal OF horsehair known as trichopiese;
THIS is followed by a layer Of porous
stone Isolated from the floor by sheet
lead, An air space OF about an inch
Is followed by wood. and then a course
OF ground cork and sand. The Anal
layer Is OF specially-prepared ground
CORK known as korkstein --London
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-01
BRITISH MAIL FACILITIES.
Introduction of Collect on Delivery
Parcels Post Feature.

The British Board OF Trade Journal
makes the following official announce
ment OF the inauguration OF a COLLECT
on delivery system for the shipment
OF packages by parcels post from the
United Kingdom:
TO Increase the facilities for trade in
small articles within the empire the
Postmaster General has been In nero.
tation with certain OF the colonies and
dependencies for the establishment az
a natural cash delivery system. Under
thls system goods can be posted from
TINS country and the money collected
tor me vendor by the postoffice at
ulelf destination, and vice versa
The first of these services was broueht
into operation on June l. 1908. and js
available between the United Kingdom
and Egypt, Malta, Cyprus, and the
BRUSH postofficc at Constantinonln
smyrna Beyrout, Salonica. and Tan,
gier In outline the procedure is as
follows: The vendor takes his packet
TO postotfice, fills in the form. and
pays special fee Of I'd. q cents) lie
IL given q certificate OF posting. which
ne ultimately restores to the postoff,ce
when receiving the cash.
The postoffioe collects from the nd
dressee the value as stated by the
vendor IN the Form, and RENTS II by
money order or postal order tn tho
vendor, after deductng whatever may
be the commission on the money order
"r POSTAL order Itself, IN ADDITION To- the
delivery fee WV
Tho -hief restrictions ar, that the wrn
to be collected (the trade charCe')
must not exceed POI. 1897 33). thai the
system Ia confined to goods sent I'm
fullfillment Of an order and that the
goods must be sent by parcel post
unless they are registered or in-
Bured
Detailed Information concerning this
cash on delivery service may be- obtain
cd al any postoffice. II win also be
given In the July number OF the POST
office Guide.
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on general principles. when she is about
Ok ~ o6 ot the la test "

on general principles. when she Is about
25 or &c at the latest
DO YOU find the American girl-stu-
dent industrious?"
Nadine Barracuda smiled. 81 once
heard q well known musician in Paris
say that there were only two kinds
OF American girls. one the serious
American and that she was the finest
woman in the world. the other the
frivolous American and she was the
most frivolous; there was no medium
species | don't know that l am ex
actS OF his opinion. but l have OBJ
served that the American student
sometimes wishes to accomplish too
much In q short time and then over
works, for She comes over here and
wishes' to combine study and the so
called having n good time. It means
waste Of time and ruin to ones future
prospects every time. The young stu
dent must remember that art is an ex'
acting mistress and many sacrifices
must be made in her favor
MAY COME ALONE.
And what is your opinion of her
coming abroad alone?"
ut is better. of course. for a girl
TO come with some older and expert
enced person, If possible. but there !s
no reason why a sensible and well
brought up girl with a Just sense OF
her own dignity 'should not come over
to study alone. AS long as she be-
HAYES herself. no one will notice or
modest her. She must observe the or
binary standard of what is proper in
any respectable walk of life. Ii would
be we'll for her, however. to remem-
Der that conditions of life in n large
foreign city are not the same condl-
? tons peculiar to a little country town
Yin the United States, and she cannot
bring the freedom of American girl
ihood into foreign cities and not pay
isOmc cost.
NOTE OF PROTEST.
And another thing | cannot pro
test too strongly against girls offering
tmoney to secure engagements. 1t is
mot necessary. A good voice always
commands price even If little in the
beginning, and the girl who cannot
secure an engagement without paying
must PERSUADE herself that there is
something wrong in her musical outfit
and had better go back home and save
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herself years of bitter experience. ]"
OPINION OF DIR. HARRIsS.

DR. Mary Harriss, Florence's Ameri-
can woman physician, does not agree
with Madame Barracuda about the
American girl living abroad When
] found her in pretty apartment in
the Hotel Berchielll on the Lung Arno,
she replied to the question in the mega
tive. She has considerable experience
to base her opinion on, since, after
practising in San Francisco. she came
abroad studying in Vienna and Ber-
lin. Last year the earthquake in her
city left her the pOssessor of four
front stone steps in place OF splendid
apartment house, and after a visit
home she decided TO settle perma
nently in Florence.
The worst thing" she began in
answer to my inquiry. is that our
girl students come abroad with too lit
tie capital. 1t was quite right years
ago when living over here was really
cheap. But things have changed here
as well as at home. Prices of all
kinds have gone up, particularly in
Italy, In Germany one can still live
cheaply, but hardly at the rate these
girls expect. They hear OF the cheap
ness abroad and come expecting to
live on money on which they would
starve at home. Now. for instance.
] have met girl who arrived with
$500 to last her five years. Some one
had told her that teaching could be
found for her support. How can that
be true when teachers are everywhere
willing to give lessons for even so
low as few cents an hour? In Ger
many there are women giving lessons
for half mark or lay cents an hour
Here in Italy the usual price for Eng
fish lessons is lire twenty cents) an
hour Another girl had $500 for a
year to include passage money, lessons
in music and languages and board. In
Paris such cases appear at the worst.
There many girls are struggling along
on almost nothing.
The economies. unfortunately. arc
along the lines OF food and fire. Many
also live alone. In consequence, sfiv-
ering and chilled. they eat food bought
ready cooked in small quantities, bad
ly served and without the repose Sc
cured by sitting down to a properly
served meal. And all the time the
brain is being worked hard when do