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buried here eight sailors (names unknown),
who died on the schoolship Mercury about
thirty-fve years ago. The inscriptions
shown on the plain wooden slabs and on
the stone slabs are:
William Han. Company G. i2Sth United
States Infantry: Jere Mcynahan. Company
@, sixty-ninth New York Infantry: Lennis
, Willard. Company II, Sixth New York
Infantry; Francis Norris. Company X.
Eighty second New York Infantry: Thomas
Flynn. Company b, Sixty-ninth New York
Infantry; James McKenny. Company II.
Sevensy-fourth New York Infantry: J. A,
Bloom. Company b. NTH New York In
fantry; Peter Cline. i17th New York In
fantry: Patrick Martin, Company Z, Eighty
eighth New York Infantry Edward McGrath.
Company +. ie5th New York Infantry; Ed
ward Vandergrief. Fourteenth New Jersey
Infantry: Henry Grub. Company X. i03d
New York Infantry: Thomas Halton. Thirty
seventh New York Infantry: Michael Burns.
Sixth New York Infantry; David Blumbaeh.
Company I. Twenty-fifth New York In
fantry: Augustus WiokenG. Company II,
Fifteenth New York Heavy Artillery: Jacob
Lac. Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania Infantry:
q. r. Neycomer. Company H. Ninth New
Jersey Infantry: j. T. Smith. Company K.
Thirty-seventh Illinois Infantry. Thomas
CODnOHy, honfg seymour, WllNam hunl~
man. Martin Elsner. Henry Scully. Col
7. B. Sedgwick. Peter Witty. Denis
Donovan, Albert Beck, born April is. 1897
died June %. 1880: James Harrington 90.
died October 10. 1875; James Maxwell. 70.
died December IL, 1888: Thomas Maxey. 81,
died August 2. 1870: Anthony Bulser. IS
died October IL, 1881 Denis o 'Brien. GO. died
May is. 1891: John Smith. 50. died October
9, 1880: Dan Donnelly, 90 years, September Z,
1880: Capt. Oscar Won Kropff, born in Prus-
sia, died May 10. 1870. aged 90.
short distance south OF the soldiers
section are the graves Of johnson, Munson
and Dunn, employees Of the insane asylum
formerly on the island, victims Of typhus
fever About 100 feet distant is the grave
Of Catherine Ryan, an old woman who
was FOR long time employed in the
laundry. ANAL slab gives the date Of
her death as September II. 1890. 1t was
her wish to be buriei there and the head
keeper granted her request.
Separated apparently from every other
grave and alone h the last resting place
Of Catherine Campbell. aged liz years,
died March 9. 1875.
The attention Of the chief undertaken
was called TO a mound over a small grave
which Is almost smothered by the tall
withered grass and away from every one
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n vopder that that verv desirable SCAT
shooid nave been passed over ana nat
urally hastened forward to take II.
But when had come to this seat 90
inviting 7 cav han Gins from the COAT hook
.s,-;- !. hs, s - ~ -
pei s'ns ~ ~, nauss s % ass'
coat. Apparently the sect was taken
and vet TO me somehow It looked empty
for tbere was nothing In the seat itself
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of its neighbors. Yes, he remembered
about It. About ten years ago butcher
In Milwaukee died His wife sftor set
tling up her affairs started for Germany,
when her baby girl died on the pier In
this city. The child vas sent to Hart's
Island and received the privilege OF
separate grave.
Head Keeper Bartels told The Sun re-
porter that for several years Mrs. Woods,
school teacher from City Island, came
over In a rowboat to teach his four chill
dren, the only school children on tho
island. He could then boast of having
a private tutor for his children. novelty
for an employee OF the Department Of
Correction.
The situation arose from the fact that
the Board Of Education decided that it
could not neglect the education Of any
children, and as Mr. Barteis's children
were the only youngsters on the island they
enjoyed a privilege which Is usually
given only to the families of the rich.
Lately conditions have been changed and
the two Bartels boys now 60 across TO
the City Island school in the motor boat
Coggey. the two other pupils having
finished their education.
While the Fidelity was blowing her
departure whistle the keeper Of the great
big death register was asked II any vet
Grams Of the Spanish American War were
buried on the island. he said there were
two. The records showed that on April
II, 1890. the body Of r. B. Boyd. aged
50, was buried there. That Of James Ward,
aged 81, was buried on June Z. Both died
in the Willard Parker Hospital the cause
Of death In each case being diphtheria.
. The records at the Health Department
show that Boyd came from the Broadway
Central Hotel on April 4 and died four
days later. and although tho body was
kept in the hospital norgue for almost
ten days no one came forward TO save II
from potter's field
DR.. Wilson of the Willard Parker Hos
pitaI said later that he thought that the
body OF Boyd was disinterred but the
records Of the city cemetery fail to show
that to be the case.
The other young soldier, Ward, walked
into the hospital on May rs and died on
June 4. and his body was laid alongside
Boyd.
The death book shows that the number
OF children buried in potter's field was
twice as great as that Of adults. .
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do you wish for special legislation, o.
new laws. to help you out in the matterf'
he was asked.
"No,' replied pr. Miller, that isn't
what we want. Laws will not do any good
unless they are enforced, and laws OF this
nature will not he enforced unless there
is sentiment behind IL. What we want
TO do is to educate the public and then
we won't need any laws On the subject.
Still, there onght to be reouired
thorough system OF instruction in hygiene
in the schools. We are making be-.
ginning by arranging to have the school
children atten,. the exhibition.
eve have formed In the city an asso-
citation OF clinics, as you see here, con-
tinued DR.. Miller, pointing to a. diagram
map. "but while there are now only eleven,
what we wish s to district the city me-
thodically into about thirty clinics,
Ne want to make the districts small
and give each clinic with It's own nurees
absolute jurisdiction over its own dis,
from one to another. That was the
trouble under the old system; Il q nurse
had case In Harlem and one 10 Bellevue,
for instance, she could make only two Oh
three calls in day. Under our proposed
system. with the nurses attached 70 q
clinic and the cases kept in the district
she could visit a dozen cases a day.
But more than that concluded Or.
Miller. more than the treatment Of the
disease itself. what We desire by this ex.
telsive clinic system is TO gain contro
OF the home. We wish to supervise homt
conditions, we should want the nurses
to visit the homes and instruct the peoplt
against splitting and dry sweeping, .ano
all infectious practices. and teach then
the lessons Of light and cir and santa
ton. In short, We can only Aubceed ir
destroying this disease by the education
Of the individual
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For the first four years, or until July,
1874, when trench No. 1 was made. the
number Of bodies inferred was kpown.
but not, the location OF each body. Since
then the records show where each OF the
unfortunates was buried.
Weeping willows or fragrant rose
bushes are conspicuous by their absence
when the inmates OF the vorkhouse
in prison garb, lower the pauper dead
into the trenches. without tears or OBJ
sequies. 1t is seldom that friends OF
relatives visit this cherries spot. The
ceremony OF interment is very brief.
and then over q single black line in the
great big death book preserved in the
little office which overlooks the last abode
OF the "lower ten is all that tells where
the burial was made. A numbered in
cision made in the plain wood cofins
furnished by the Department OF Charities
is the means whereby the authorities are
able to locate body.
When $50 bodies have been placed
In q trench, which Is IS by Is feet and
feet deep, the bodies being placed in
tiers OF three, a rough mound of earth
Ii made over the trench. a numbered
wooden slab placed on II for identihca-
ton and the grave dggers proceed to
the next trench. The workhouse in
mates spend their spare time sxcayattne
new resting places for castawsys.
Perhaps once a week, or, to be exact.
on an average OF sixty-eight times a year.
a body Is exhumed. On these occasions
the >mourners OF visitors are regarded
as invaders by the inhabitants Of this
island, where every one wears either
the uniform Of a keeper or the striped
garb Of q prisoner.
Fred Bartels, head keeper and ruler
Of this dreary island, has attended to
the burial and marking Of the clay tene-
ments Of the unfortunate for over quar-
ter OF n century. Until six years ago.
when q change Of administration took
place, he had not been on the island more
than seven times. once when he got mar
ried and six times when his children
were christened IN the little Catholic
church at City Island almost directly
across the Sound.
His residence, the workhouse, work.
shop, icehouse and laundry are the only
buildings on this. the most deserted
OF the island chain between New York
and New Haven. Devoid Of vegetation
and with only about a dozen trees. the
wind blows over and among the white
stabbed trenches as over desert.
The island contains about one hundred
acres and is oval.in shape. Although it
has been devoted to its present purpose
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MIR. GOsLINGToN's ADVENTURES.
In q Car Where Every Place seemed
Taken He Finds Choice seat.


-True it is. said Mr.. Goslington. that
many men are disposed to be hoggish
or under sufficient prov location to develop
hoggish streak.
SIn crowded street cars they grab
on TO seats whom they get a chance and
leave women standing, in subway and
elevated stations they push and haul,
at bridge terminals they scramble and
dig In fact under excitement men are
apt TO lose their beads and to betray their
brute ancestry. although In cooler mo.
ments these same men might respect
the rights Of others scrupulously.
you take. for instance, mems ways
In n regular railroad car. Let a man
coming into such car looking for a seat
zee q travelling bag set down in one az
token OF. preemption and almost in
variably he respects il. He may sigh
when he sees the bag there. but he
passes on.
This shows that ethical ooneidera-
tions do control men more or less In their
saner moments. and IL WAS 10 this con.
sideration on their part and accidentally
TO lack OF such consideration on the
part of women that owed my good
fortune In securing a desirable seat In
q railroad car on recent journey.
when walked into the car every seal
in II had at least one occupant, that Il
every seat but one. and that one square
IN the middle Of the car; and 10 seemed
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quarter OF the island has been
used. and half dozen general ons
will pass away befor the great army OF
the citys pauper deade will cause any
overcrowding,
A visitor to the island might get the
impression that the long rows Of unooch-
pied trenches were excavations for the
foundations for new buildings instead
Of being graves waiting for the car
goes OF lifeless human freight brought
by the Fidelity on Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday OF each week
walk through this necessary adjunct
Of the Department Of Public Charities
shows that the cemetery is divided into
three sections, the first and largest being
used for general internent purposes.
The second. having been oonseorated by
the late Archbishop Corrigan. was cot
apart for those who are known to be
Catholics and those whose names indi-
cate that they were Of the Roman Catho-
Ee faith
In section No. are buried some forty
veterans of the civil war. A distinction
is made between them and the others.
Each has a separate grave. and they are
placed side by side.
Until about ten years ago Reno Post "A.
Department OF New York. q. A. r., visited
this section OF the cemetery on Memorial
Day. but at present the old warriors seem
to be forgotten. On May 80, 1877 (Me-
mortal Day.. when Reno Post had larger
membership than at present. 1t erected a
granite shaft about fifteen feet high at the
foot Of the row where it's comrades in
battle sleep. The inscription shows that
it was erected to the memory OF Union
veteran soldiers and sailors.
Soldiers Cemetery. Defenders OF a
Nation is another inscription over a
wooden arch which needs repairing and
stands about one hundred feet to the
north OF the old veterans graves.
Resting on either side OF weeping willow.
the only one on the island. and about
in the middle OF the soldiers plot, are two
plain wooden tablets. one containing
a stanza Of The odore O'Hara's -The
Bivouac Of the Dead the other some
lines by Charles @. Halpine miles
O'Reilly). The first tablet reads:
Rest on. embalmed and sainted dead
Dear as the blood you gave.
No impious footsteps here shall tread
The herbage Of your grave.
The second tablet has this inscription:
And though in life growing older,
Still in line shoulder to shoulder
Brothers evermore we'll be.
In addition TO the veterans there are
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CIIYsOH HHE PAUpER DEAD
MORE THAN $4,000 IN NEW
YORk'S POTTERS FIELD.

Forty Union Veterans ana Two spaniSh
War Veterans AmOng Them-seDas
rate Graves Accorded 20 These-A
Visit TO the Harts Island Cemetery.
The potter's field Of New York,
officially known as the City Cemetery,
In on Hart's Island. Up to November %
last iS5.1os interments had been made
there since It's opening in 1869.
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Language Of Business.

Il understand that your wife a.
daughters have acquired several foreiLL
languages.
Yes" answered Mr.. Cumro1. when
they re having good time in society or
at the opera they talk French or Italian.
they get back 70. plain English. 90 that
can take q hand.
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~ why interest in the instrument and In
The compositions produced for 1t now at
tracts so many persons outside OF strictly
musical circles
When the forst four manual organ ever
built in America was completed in 1850
10y Boston builder and Bach's st
Anne's Fugue' was played on IL by John
IIndel the critics went into ecstasies
declaring that Mr.. Zundell was probably
the only man in America who could play
'Nt. Anne's Fugue.'
Think of the difference now. venture
IN say that in even the smaller cities OF
the United States there are organistf
va, can play not only thct compara-
tNn'y 81 PIE composition but almost
all # Bach's works Nowadays hundreds
81 ypung men and young women are de-
tu'i.g themselves TO studying the
creel, and in this country there are prob
- more expert organists than In any
Other country, not excepting England
Ns a natural sequence things have
rolced arouno 10 the point where most ol
tn" owners OF fine mansions In and out oil
N", YORK feel tnat IL is the .4rt oI wisdom
g" It in an organ built ny specialist
In chamber organs. II would be possible
10 install in house q small church orgar
witch would make the life OF the owner
r,nrahe He couldn't livn with II, II
Tact II Is possible also to put IN the
in.aest size -four manual church organ ir
a private house, which even at Its fullest
power will be entirely agreeable.
-ft takes a very high grade OF organ &c
sound we'll in room where the acoustics
ar bad and so far only a few organ
nut|ders have learned the art OF overcom'
i'g defective acoustics. Special treat
eni Is required when pipe organ u
deed under low ceiling or In room
,H"i mp with rags and lot OF upholstery
he value Of a house organ, Of any organ
isn { to he estimated by the number o.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-07
John A. Johnson.

John A. JOhnBOu,
 Concerning Gov. Johnson. Thomas D. o'Brien says: John A Johnson is the most available candidate the Denver convention could select. He has made it eminently respectable to be a Den- ocrat in Minnesota, and if he were the candidate of the party for President
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-07
Stray Topics From NeU York

New York, June 6.-~eSpecial. )--In spite of the interest that Is always aroused by Presidential campaign, the condition of local politics in New York just at the present time is suf- ficiently acute as to engage the atten- ton not only of the politicians but the public at large, almost to the ex- clusion of everything else.
 As the situation is at present ma" jority of the highest elective officials of New York City and county. excius- i've of the judiciary, are either facing dharEess Of off1ciAf misconduct, or.~are under investigation, or their title of once is challenged. If many of these prSceedings should be decided adverse ly the city would have a number of new officials and consequently there would be sweeping changes made among the minor office holders who depend on the city for a livelihood.
 Mayor McClellan's title to ofhce is being challenged, and serious charges have been brought against District At- .torney Jerome as to the conduct Of his onice. Besides these three borough presidents, Ahearn, Bermel and Har- fen. have had charges brought against them, which caused Bermei to hurry to Europe, after hastily resigning, and Ahearn, who was once removed and then reelected. is in danger of being removed again. In addition to these 1t is planned to have investigations made of the fire and finance departments, which will likely result in the removal of some men high up in those branches of the city service.
 The afternoon tea habit has gained ground steadily this year In Manhattan and bids fair to be continued all sum-
 ner with the added attractions of outside terraces and cool gardens with which the big hotels are providing themselves.
 The women have not been the only patrons either, for there have been many men who have formed the habit of dropping in for half hours refresh- ment before the more formal engage ments of the evening.
 The pleasant palm gardens of the St, Regis, Plaza and Waldorf-Astoria ho- tels with their string orchestras play ing soft music. the kind of music that does not distract attention from the chit-chat of the tea tables, have proved the most popular with the fashionable folk. Several private tea rooms have heen opened and are doing a thriving
 one of the latest opened on Forty third Street just off Fifth Avenue, Is patronized by such we'll known soci- ety people as Mrs- Sorheit 3iiuel | hiit Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt, Mrs. setb Low and Mrs. Jack Corbin.
 The afternoon tea habit is by no means confined to the fashionable ho- teis, and at last it is becoming GUS | tom in the downtown financial district | m England 1t has long been a custom | for business men to have cup or tea with either mumns or crumpels servsd In the late afternoon. Wher-
 ever an Englishman happens to be at 5 o'clock there also you will find tea am He will either have it served at hIs ofice or his club or If he is man of any social standing he will drink his tea in some private drawing room.
 rha Tav York business man has not
 vet been converted to seeking a draw ing room for his afternoon tea, but many of the men in Wall Street have tea served in their offices by some
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-07
CharIea A. CuIberson.

Concerning Senator cuIberson, Tom Ffnty, Jr., says: When Mir. Bryan's eloquence swept. the Chicago conven- tion off its feet. the venerable John H. Reagan and former Governor HogE. both of whom Culbsrson loved, joined other members, of the Texas ieisgation in begging Culberson. the chairman, to permit the Texas guidon to asoin in the frenzied march .areundi the Coliseum. Calm and unmoved by the excitement, he answered that the gulaon would not march. and march 1t did not. We are instructed for Bland said he, and so far as II am concerned, we stay for Bland When the ballot was completed, the Texas guidon, like the flag. was still there Only when Bryan had been nominated did st mova"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-07
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-07

or finishing touch being shown every st4+ia while. There are narrow ties or ve1vet ribbon or striped bias taneta tha4 ara tied in smart bow In front with thA ends several Inches long, nointed and finished with gold tassei ar with a fringe of colored beads Inese are worn at the base of high lace s.e.,, onS inc color should match some Sc Sccs~sorv in the costume. A new fad is tInv heads knitted in design ana dscorated with fringe this oelns nsssAd around the neck once. huge bovvs and frIlls of net have hemstltch- ad lace or embroidered edges, These are worn with stocks of tucket net The very newest neckwear IS maoe ot the finest silk mousseline or muIl, n la fu1iv eight inches wide with deep ",,,nraiaare5 ends and Is tied in four Icons and two wide ends. The smaller lace bows and the plaited tabots nave not seen many changes and are much worn with the embr oidered llnon col lars and the tailored shirtwaists'
 one of the most charming gowns ev- or seen was made for bridesmaid m Empire princess style. The materials were white marquisette over canary yellow satin. The Empire ower-dress was nnished with BruEes lace which fell over the deep-shaped hem of vel low satin. There were undulating rows of soutache above the lace points which alternated with a band of lace insertion and medailions. The bodice was trimmed with the soutache. medal lions and insertion. the latter outlin-- Ing the yoke. The oversleeve was or Bruges lace and was cut with the bod ice while the undersleeve was draped with white net over yellow satin. A line of moss-g green velvet just outside the yoke and at the elbows on the un- dersleeves. gave character to the gown. The draped girdle, not very wide, was of green satin and fell in the back with lrnotted enda