The daily sentinel., 1908-03-07
(By Glenn Guernsey


and dreamers ever since man became
a social animal, will be answered to-
morrow in an address before the
Civic Forum by a philosopher who
has come all the way from Holland
for the purpose of enlightening New
Yorkers.
Frederick Van Eeden is a poet as
we'll as a sociologist and a practical
man of the world as well as social
Investigator. In Waldon, Holland,
he founded communistic colony
that has become famous throughout
the world. More than $4,000 men,
membership rolls of this little social
istic republic, one of a very few of
thousands of similar undertakings
that have been successful.
| Mr.. Van Eeden looks upon Amer
lea as the ideal country for the es-
| tablishment of communist villages
and 1t is said that he may decide to
found such a colony somewhere in
the United States.
| The distinguished visitor occupies
a prominent place among the. poets,
dramatists and literary men of Hol-
land. and is also noted as the founder
of the first clinic for the treatment
of disease by hypnotism and mental
suggestion.
Congestion OF Population.
A novel exhibit will be that ar
ranged by the Committee on Conges-
tion of Population in New York. to
be held In the American Museum of
Natural History for two weeks, be-
ginning tomorrow.
For months the committee has
been engaged in collecting material
and statistics for the exhibition,
which will illustrate, by means of
moving pictures and charts the evil
conditions existing on the East side
and in other congested district of
the city.
A conference on remedies for
these conditions will be held next
week, when Governor Hughes. Mayor
Mcclellan and several prominent So
Geological authorities will discuss this
highly important subject
The committee has recommended
that the Inhabitants of the tenement
districts spread to the suburbs in
New Jersey and Long Island and
thus relieve the density which has
become a menace, not only to the
people of the congested districts, but
to the health of the entire city.
| Such recommendations are easily
made, but less easily accomplished.
Meanwhile, every day finds hundreds
of additional new arrivals in the land
of the free, swarming through the
bleak and narrow streets where mis-
cry, squalor. filth and vice are con-
stantly in evidence.
For the great majority of immi-
grants these tenement-lined streets.
where large families live in single
| ill-furnished rooms, represent Amer
ica-the only America they will ever
know. They present a problem not
to be solved by resolutions or con-
formations or exhibits OF after-din-
ner addresses. -
Treasure Trove.
| The days of romance are not past.
Witness the expedition of Captain B.
e. Osbon and a dozen hardy adven-
turers, sailing forth from New York
In the good ship Research to seek to
uncover a million dollars in Spanish
gold that Is supposed to lie buried on
hamas. Captain Osbon, who is not in
the least romantic, but on the con-
trary. De a typical hard-headed son
of the sea. secured his Information
regarding the treasure from dying
Spanish soldier. Two barrels of
shining Spanish gold, hidden by flee
| ing buccaneers in the old days when
pirates roamed the raging main,
await the adventurers on the Re-
search. according to the tale told by
the dying warrior of old Spain. A
chart given to Captain Osbon marks
the exact location OF the buried treas
ure. and in two months he expects
to return to the metropolis million
aire.
He Talked Too Much.
| II there Ia n diaguqtod man in
Brooklyn. 1t is Magistrate Hylan of
the New Jersey Avenue police court.
During the trial of a case some weeks
ago. the learned exponent of the law
and that statutes permitted himself
the assertion that Women talk too
much"
Later he elaborated on the subject
to a reporter, talking about two col
umns of solid nonpareil In giving
publicity to his views on the faults
and frailities of women folk. but al
ways revertng to the primal sin of
overmuch conversationy r
Since that time Magistrate HyIan
has been besieged by Mtters and pos
tai cards and personal calls from in
dignant women who have taken ex-
ception to the ungallant Interview.
Among the suffragists, his name has
become a synonym for the brutal tyr
amy of man. who would deprive
them of even their purely feminine
rights and privileges.
"Half the troubles Of this world
said Magistrate Hylan. in part, ''the
result of women's talking too much
They begin the instant they are out
of bed. and are still going It like
magpies when they return to the
roost at night. The minute two OF
them get together. 1t is buzz. buzz
buzz-and most of the time they are
buzzing about what does not concern
them at all. Mans business, for In
stance; they are always busxine