Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-07
NEW YORK LETTER.
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ges of further avoirdupois. 1t is pro-
vided tha+ any man Of good appetite
who weighs $50 pounds is eligible Tor
honorary membership while anyone
weighing over 800 pounds is eligible to
life membership and will be entitled to
.ast one ard two-thirds votes. The by
laws also provide that any member
losing ten pounds in weight shall pc
suspended until he recover it. THESE
bylaws can he changed either ly
two-third vote by numbers or by vote
Of two thirds Cf the weight of the club
irrespective of numbers. For the latter
contingency a pair of hay scales has
been provided. The president of this
rlub is light weight of only $50
pounds The sergeant-at-armS weighs
SIC pounds.
According to experts on nerve dis
eases, New York is the nervous CEN
ire of the country. Certain inveStlga-
tors who have interested themselves iE
he question of the amount Of nervous
energy expanded in various cities of
the United States have compiled Il to-
Die which places New York first in an
alarming manner. According to The
table this city leads all other cities to
4 surprising extent, since for each 100
units of nervous energy expended in
New York other municipalities, rank in
the following order, Chicago 81 units,
FittSburg so units, Philadelphia Ga
units. san Francisco 60 units
st. Louis As units, and New Orleans II
units. Of course there are various 9TH
er intermediary cities but New York is
so far ahead of the rest that the con-
servaton of its nervous energy has
Lecome major problem, especially in
view of the uoubt as to whether New
York gets a propOrtionately greater re-
turn for ITS nervous expenditure as
compared to other cities. Various So
lutions looking to a more quiet life
have been suggested. The Rev. DR..
Aked. k2ckefeller's pastor in an article
for AppletOns magazine, suggests more
faithful church attendance. THE Am
ericanS who live hardest" says he, ''are
those who attend church least" Inver-
sely, therefore, New York must be the
wickede5t AS well as the busiest city in
the world. Aside from this, however,
doctors assert that if the city does not
let down in its nervous expenditures its
municipal supremacy will soon ne
thing of the past
one u the last vestiges of British
royalty IN New York once the 'rory
center Of the country, before it becam.
the United States, has just disappeared
The big English oak known as the
Prince of Wales Tree which has
stood in Central Park for nearly half
century has just been cut down. Curl
ously enough the axe which brought il
low was welded by a loyal Irishman
The Prince of Wales Tree" or Kings
tree as it was sometimes called. was
really living monument to the pleas
ant relations existing between England
aid America at the time of it's planting
Dy royal hand. 1t was during the
visit OF the then Prince of Wales, now
King Edward VII, to this country III
1860. when he Travelled under the incog-
nlto of Baron Renfrew that the famous
tree was set out. 1t was done at the
suggestion of Mr.. A. H. Green. then
controller of The parks. Many prnmi-
nent me,i were present at the ceremony
TO observe future king shovellng dirt
WIN an ordinary spade into the hole
IN which lie tree was set. At the same
time when the English oak was planted
"Baron Rerfrew" also set out close by
an American elm. The oak is gone
no" in spite of all the efforts of arbor-
lculturists to save it, but the elm is
still fiourishing. The trunk and larger
branches of the famous oak have been
preserved and will be cut up into
souvenirs
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