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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26

D IVALING William Waldorf Astor's
~ largest apartment house in the
United States, between Seventy eighth
and Seventy ninth streets, Broadway
and West End avenue, Henry r.
Francis, d. and John Sherman Hoyt
have signed contract which condi-
lions that by October 1, 1909, the
largest and the most perfectly
equipped apartment house in the.
world will be ready for occupancy. 1t
will occupy the block bounded by
Eighty-siXth and Eighty-seventh
streets, Broadway and Amsterdam ave
nue., and will consist of IT'S apart
ments. in a 12-story building, and a
population of at least 1000 persons
The lowest rental will be $4,000 a year
and the highest $4,000
An electric plant equipped with de-
vices not now in operation anywhere
will supply heat and illumination.
Each apartment will be supplied with
refrigerating plant. so that table
ice can be manufactured for indi-
viduaI use. There will be no cold
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26
TALK Al OF NEW YORK
~~-ua-GoSsip of People and Events Told
in Interesting Manner.
SHINING the Standard Oil Company

his cargo, bales out his sboat~intO bar
rels standing on the waters edge and
goes back for another load.
Along the banks of Newtown creek
are probably more oil refineries than
there are along any other stream in
the world. The surface of the water
never is ruffled, even in the severest
storms, it is so thickly coated with
the oil that. escapes from these re-
fineries and swings back and forth in
a long, wide ribbon up and down the
East river with the movement of the
tides and the passing OF the boats.
The man with the blanket is col
lecting the oil from the surface Of the
water. He manages to accumulate
enough gallons of oil in the course of
a days work to make fair living for
himself. The oil that he gathers thus
he sells at a price somewhat below
that which the Standard charges to it's
customers.
The Standard Oil Company claims
that it's vast profits are due primarily
to the rigid economies of its business
but it never has been able to eliminate
entirely this flow of it's product into
the adjacent stream. Possibly it thinks
that the collections of this oil would
be too minute an economy for even
it's carefulness to consider.
This man with the blanket is known
all along the waterside as the skin
ner This is partly because he skins
! the river of its oil and partly because
he is unique; he skins the STANDARD
! Oil COMPANY.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26

A few days prior to the Marathan
race in the London stadium an advo-
cate of fruit diet, chiefly bananas, aged
43, offered TO run a race with flesh
eater around the island of Zealand.
Since the banana man has earned a
good many triumphs as runner in
the sporting world of Denmark, the
beef-eaters did not show any burning
zeal to accept the challenge till the
welLknown paper. Politiken. offered
n prize of 100 kroner TO the winner.
A grocer's assistant. aged p. was Sc
lected as the upholder of beef eating,
and for two days and half the run
ners kept abreast of one another. Then
the banana man tagged, and when
after nearly five days the young
grocer arrived at Copenhagen, having
duly finished his course. his opponent
had vanished. The butchers OF Zea-
land have presented a silver bowl to
the victor
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26

I \ the great training ring where Al
1 fred G. Vanderbilt exercises his
horses at Oakland farm, Newport,
there was prancing and caracoling by
twO-legged beings the other night
Blue-blooded quadrupeds gave place
to bipeds who also claim pedigrees. In
elabOrateness this Vanderbilt ball was
above any similar festivity in Newport
this season.
Indeed, the millionaire colony at
midnight was calling Vanderbilt "a
life-saver," for he had achieved the
feat of bringing gayety into summer
that was just about to go into history
as the most deadly dull period of sup
posed enjoyment ever known in the
greatest of American watering places
The guests numbered at least 200,
the list including practically all the
prominent Newport summer residents
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26

THOUGH the finds" have never
1 been important enough to tempt
anyone commercially, Manhattan
island is not a little of a Golconda. In
its rocks nearly every time a big ex
cavatiOn is made there crop out gems,
oftentime of no small value. Even
gold is to be found under the build
ings and streets of New York, and
diamonds and emeralds are pretty
nearly the only stones of adornment
that have not been discovered.
The gold is not in sufficient guam
titles to make a prospecting expedi-
ton worth while, as at best it will not
run over two dollars ton in value;
but it exists nevertheless. There have
been discovered also nearly 120 diff
ferent varieties of gems stuck on the
rocky ribs of Manhattan. Garnets take
the lead of all. A few rubies and sap
phires have been found, but they sell
dom are of great value. With garnets,
however, it is quite another thing.
In Twenty-fifth street, near Broad
way, there was discovered, not so very
long ago, one of the most beautiful as
well as one of the largest garnets in
the world 1t was unearthed in the
course of digging sewer The vi
cinity of Madison square has proved
a fairly rich garnet field, good many
having been brought to light in that
neighborhood Some old excavators
who have a casual knowledge of min
erals say that it would not be sur
prising If garnet mine OF fair value
might not be some day discovered
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26
Copyright. by shortstory Pub. Coz \

thief! Quick. boys, lets cut him down
and give him respectful burial fore
he's had the time to be insulted!"
There was wild break for the
door and Wilkins went down and was
walked all over; but, mad as hornet,
he was not the last to reach the To-
cality Of the hanging.
You're a pack of fools!" he shout.
ed to his companions. And the next
mothers son of you 1 catch with a
shirt on, I'll hang for stealth the
Shirt"
The Irishman almost wept. Boys
twas an error aY judgmint and not
av heart. Cut him down and tell him
So"
The face of the Man under the Tree
had swung around to the west, and.
as the little body of remorseful set
tiers drew near, a peaceful smile
gathered upon the hanged mans lips
and suddenly his eyes opened wide
and looked down at those beneath.
Holy saints in hivin!" cried the
Irishman, kneeling in his saddle.
Look at him!"
One of the eyelids of the Man under
closed over the eyeball. The specta-
tors could scarcely believe their own
eyes. The Man under the Tree was
winking.
Cut him down." Numbered Will
| kins
Cut him down YOURSELF" groaned
the Irishman. The divil I'll touch it.
It's a ghost!"
At these words shudder went
amongst the men and each seemed
without the power of motion.
Wilkins braced himself in his seat,
took steady, deliberate aim at the
lariat just above the head of the
hanged man, and fired. The hair thong
parted as clean as from knife cut,
| and the Man under the Tree landed
in the soft earth, upright and rigid
on his feet, instead of falling prone,
| as a decent corpse would have done.
1t was with the greatest doubt ana
| trepidation that the others watched
| Wilkins as he freed the Man under the
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26
A Duty of the Rich.


New York socie,y in the aggregate
has been made to suffer reproach for
the sins of few of the unculturcd and
selfindulgent wealthy Most people
who know society in New York, Cleve-
land and Pittsburg, cities which have
recently been sensationalized by the
social errors of the reckless rich,
would say that the majority of people
in what are described as "exclusive"
circles are well ordered, quiet, intelli
gent people Still, DR.. Lee states the
true principle in saying that the
wealthy and influential are under a
special obligation on account of the
conspicuous position which makes
their example for good or bad conta-
gious. Ethically, remarks the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger, the duty of up
right living is the same for rich and
poor. Socially there is the difference
that the rich and eminent are Of ne
cessity more widely observed and
closely copied. They loosen the bonds
or behavior among many il they pre-
sent the excuse of bad example. New
York society is not as careless as 1T
is painted, but all fashionable" coter-
les could be improved by strict ostra-
cism of those who do not follow the
rules OF social morality.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26

Tree of the moose about his neck and
severed his bonds: but, instead of fall
ing down, a corpse, or vanishing like
ghost, he gratefully stretched his
limbs, cleared his throat. licked his
cOngested lips, and. singing out the
Irishman, addressed him pleasantly,
If somewhat hoarsely:
Good afternoon, sir
At these words the superstitious Hi
bernian collapsed, looking for all the
world, with his great, lank arms and
legs, like some queer kind of game, all
tentacIes, thrown across his horses
saddle
Wilkins, not having seen the man
hanged, was less affected than the 9th
ers, and he was the first to find
speech.
We owe you an apology, SIR he be-
gan. rather lamely.
The Man under the Tree held up
his hands deprecatingly. NO apollo
gy. no apology. sir; no occasion to
apologize ! like a pleasant joke now
and then as well as any man."
At these reassuring words all the
remainder of the company, saving the
were their calculations of wonder and
delight as they dismounted and crowd
ed around the Man under the Tree.
Why, you or'nary cuss," cried the
former speaker of the quorum, you'll
hold whisky yeti"
Whisky, said the Man under the
Tree, meditatively. Whisky! 1t
seems to me / have heard that word
before Ahi'' He took one of the
several TASKS hastily proffered him.
and holding it high over his head,
cried: Gentlemen, toast. Here's to
the man who likes whisky when it's.
good and men when they're a little.
bad-Myself,''
This toast was drunk with the high
est approval, and the. Man undtT the
Tree proposed a second.
Here's to the man you can't hang,
for his windpipe is silver, ami the
rope only tickIes him and makes him
la1gh-Myself!"
There was crash of broken glass.
and the Man under the Tree drank
the toast alone. for those about him
had let drop their TASKS in she. SIR
prise
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26

BY way of further emphasizing his
notion that a college education for
young women means a glorified spin
sterhood, rather than wifehood and
motherhood, Prof. G. Stanley Hall now
tells OF an unhappy youth who fell in
love with one OF these glorious be-
inSs He longed to offer his heart and
hand. but his modesty was so great
that he feared she would sacrifice too
much in marrying him. So he with
drew and left her to her triumphs.
actuated, we are told, by the high
motive that he would rob the large
social circle which she adorned by
tempting her to become housewife.
Poor chap! Does the higher educa-
ton of young men destroy their
courage?
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26
Gems Plentiful on Manhattan Island

there, in the course of blasting for
deep building foundations. The trou-
BILE about finding gems in the course
of such work, however is that neither
the contractor nor his men are in
search of them, and when they do
come to anyOne's notice it is purely
by chance. 1t has been by the purest
stroke of fortune that any have been
found at all. Probably hundreds
more, better and more beautiful, have
been carted away with loads of rock
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26

The problem of aerial navigation is
by no means completely solved. but
already the flyers are divided into diff
ferent factions. Count Zeppelin, who
has done some extraordinary work
with dirigible balloons. compliments
the Wright brothers of aeroplane fame
in what they have accomplished, but
says all that will not minimize the util-
ity of his own airships. However. he
is frank enough TO admit that both
are imperfect yet" That is the best
assurance OF further effort in the
same direction that could be given,
and the rivalry of the different
schools is likely to increase the de.
termination OF each to do its best
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26

The universe has many surprises and is
perpetually upsetting the theories of the
wise men with fresh revelations regarding
its nature and treasures. So that the wisest
are in state of habitual readiness for
novelties and pin no faith to past and pres
ent modica of knowledge other than that
they serve for the time being, To do other
wise is fatal, as scientific history testifes
again and again.
When Mother Shipton predicted instan-
taneous communication between continents
her prophecy sounded visionary, utopian,
chimercal But the invention of the tele-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26
Proofs of
the
World
Invisible
By SIR ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE

cOgnzance Of
All powerful and universal forces
vibrations of almost infinitely aenuated form of
of modern
electricity magnetism and probably vitality and gavitaton
evel be but modes of motion of filling ether there
manifestation development
from the other of these.
And these manifestations of force produced by
mpapab that only by its effects does
what call ethereal
the of these ethereal
from which all force, all motion, all life upon originate
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26

A Vanderbilt is suing car com.
pany for infringement of patents
This is a case of Greek meeting
Greek. which will vastly interest the
general public and particularly inter
est inventors, who. having more pat
ents than millions. find it uphill work
suing big corporations. But this is a
r real tug of war.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26

1t, is an right to talk about making
+ the automobile as playful as kit
q ten, but TO do so is to presuppose that
e The. owners, did not buy it because of
1.-THE, thrills attached. Think OF pay
d ing $1,000 for chance to amble along
at a good live wheslbarrow pace.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26

al. tt LOOKS through Walls, NeWS past and future,
finds forms in empty space. Flammarion writes that
pass through air without effort, but find iron
resisting
Our world is unexplored. The universe is as yet
mrevealed. We do not know the future that awaits
We do not know what will be revealed about
selves about the world the stars the sea- the invisible
powers the dead, the unborn Glorious things NAV
be expected They We merely have not found
them. The coal lay in the bosom of the earth ages
before it was mined. Steam and electricity existed
long before they utilized. The earth itself the
sun the and stars swung in their orbits mil
lions of years before human eye either inhabited OF
studied them.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26

All one can do when sack of sand
falls on ones head is to cast a re-
proachful glance upward at the fleeing
airship. At least that is all one can
do unt.l this police are equipped with
wings
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26

That intelligent beings may exist
around and among us unperceived during
our whole lives, and Yet capable, under GER
tain circumstances, of making their pres
ence known by acting on matter will be in
conceivable to some, and will be doubted
by many more, but We venture to say that
no man acquainted with the latest discover
les and the highest speculations of modern
science will deny its possibility. The ex-
istence of such preterhuman intelligences,
if proved, would only add another and
more striking illustration than any we have
vet received of how small a protion of the
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26

BY the time the airship really ar
rives serious complications will be
added 10 the problem of patrolling
frontiers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26
The
Railway
Three Periods of
Its Development
in America
By THEODORE p SHONTS,
President Inerboroudh MetrOpOlItan Company

Of a
IN development.
- greatest builder world her
highways which
BS advanced of the of transportation then
and made possible the development of her territory
M strongly this essential feature recognized by her
that with territory ubdued her first act
the construction of roads develop its
discovery and the development
impossible hundreds
develop the territory developed to-day.
studying history of this country d
periods pioneer
lines that thrown advance of the population by
hardy who had foresight and faith and
all the of their udgmensuch the
Hmtngtons, the Crockers and the Hills.
period development involved problems of
those of the The demands for
multiplied rapidly that construction unable keep
grew and with them imperative demand
facilities which would be sufficient only needs
from one-ha onehrd of what they
other the world rOadwa and bridges had TO be
installed had be
equipment provided scale that had
anticipated; and before this reconstruction work
peed increasing demands had the engagements 1t
realized railroad
still but
and keep pace with the growth of the
The third period is the period of governmental control and
Honestly laws that will with
the reasonable approval of the patrons
stock-waeng stock bbery right proper
that unreasonable looks
the defeat of the very purpose which is sought attain
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1908-09-26
World
Not
Yet
Explored
By COUNT FERDINAND LORREZO.

possible York and Francisco Paris and Lon
don immediate communication When teegraPhy
reality. But for
Without this medium communication would
impossible that wireless tegraphy here
5 accepted a possible.
epathy, the intercommunon Of
aborers laboratories
demonstrate the latest novelty.
indesruCbe, longer the
and the conservation nfalbe
tulato But and dcta changed then
Our themselves be progressive and they advance
they the world They find elaborate
The five well enough but the sixth undO the work of them
Z looL thrnrmh rrnllS SrnnStn 4 fnn1
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-08
THE PANAMA PURCHASE.
Democrats Need Excitement and Will
Try and Find It There.

Washington Dec. 1.-The Democrats
of the House are planning to demand
an investigation of the purchase OF
the Panama canal property and Rep
resentative Raney of Illinois today in
troduced a resolution directing the
Speaker to appoint a committee of five
to ascertain how much of the $4,000.
900 which appears of record to have
been paid to the French company was
really paid to that company"
1t is said that the national Demo-
cratic committee requested Mr.. Raney
to present the resolution.
The resolution provides that the
committee shall ascertain if any por
ton of the s4O,o00,OoO was directly or
indirectly paid to American citizens to
an American syndicate and if any
member or senator profited by the
transaction.
During the recent campaign it was
charged in newspaper articles that the
Presidents brother-in-la Douglass
Robinson Of New York, and Charles
P. Taft of Cincinnati, brother of the
President elect, had profited by the
transaction. 1t was these charges and
newspaper comment thereon which
provoked the letter from President
Roosevelt to William D. Foulke of
Indiana. denying the statements and
saying that all the papers in the mat
ter were open to the public.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-08
Only Makes 115 Per Cent.
On Capital in West.
Standard Of Indiana Seems to
Do a Little Better.
Earns s55, 900, 900 On si,ooo,.
600 Capital In Seven Years.

New York. Dec 7.-Some profits OF
the business of the Standard Oil GO.
in various parts of the country became
part of the court record in the federal
suit to dissolve the Standard Co. to-
day when John D. Archbold resumed
the stand fer brief examination, and
Henry Tilford, president Of the Stand
ard Oil co. OF California, testified at
some length as witness for the de-
fence. The governments attorney on
figures submitted showed that the
Continental Oil Co., Standard On
subsidiary concern in the Middle West.
made profits of 115 per cent. on ITS
Capitalization of 100000 and that the
Standard Oil Co. Of Indiana on cap
italization Of $1,OO1.OO0, earned about
s55, 900, 900 between 1899 and 1906.
Counsel for the company declared
that the actual assets of the company
were greatcr than the capitalization
because the companies had turned back
into the property large sums from
earnings.
Through Mr.. Tilford the counsel for
the government sought to bring out
that in California and other states or
the Far West the Standard made con-
tracts with it's competitors whereby the
Standard obtained all the crude OIL
supply and thereby enjoyed the REIN
ing 1ield to itself. Mr. Tilford said he
had little knowledge of these contracts.
Referring to oil trade rate cutting wars
in Colorado and in the West Mr.. I'll
ford said that the Standard never cut
prices to undersell its competitors. but
simply lowered rates to meet the re-
ductions of it's rivals.
Mr.. Tilfords examination will likely
be concluded tomorrow and either Will
liam Rockefeller. or Frank S. Moffett,
president of the Standard Oil Co. OF
Indiana will be called to testify
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-08
Virginia Chancery Court
Decides For Mrs. Maybrick'
Gives Her and Mother Decision
In Their S2,500,00O Suit.
United States Supreme Court viii
Probably Decide the Case.

Richmond, Va, Dec. 1.-THE case OF
Mrs Florence May brick and her mother,
Baroness Won Rogue of New York. in
volving title to land said. to. be worth
about $3.50, 900, was decided today in their
favor in the chancery court here.
Judge Glinnan announced the decision.
Under the decree deeds conveying 2,5Oo,O 600
acres of land in Virginia. West Virginia
and Kentucky to D. w. Armstrong OF
New York, former counsel for Mrs. May
brick and her mother, are set aside ana
Armstrong is ordered to give an account
ing OF all lands and money handled by
him while attorney for them. They in
herited the land from the first husband
of the Baroness. They employed Arm
strong as their attorney to secure deed TO
the enormous tracts of land shortly after
the death of Mrs. Maybricks husband
for which she served a term in British
prisons. Armstrong, they charged sold
one tract of land to company IN Ken
lucky for SIS, 1000. after which he is said
to have represented the whole property.
comprising 2,50O,G0C acres. was worth only
So COO and bought it himself at that price.
The snt has been pending IL years.
Counsel for Mrs. Maybrick and the bar
oness claimed that the deed was invalid
because Mrs Maybrick was in such
frame of mind as to make her irresponsl-
Bile when the deed was executed.
1t is expected an appeal will be taken
and finally the supreme court of the
United States will pass upon the title to
the fortune.