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New-York tribune., 1908-02-23
USING SEA MED

or late years the chief Use tO which
has been put in this country is a fertilizer and
in this direction the Department OF Agriculture has
made some interesting Investigations As sea weed
taken directly from the rocks contains about VI
per cent OF water. and as Il IS most valuable for
fertiIzing when IL is only partly dried clear
that is useful for that purpose only along the
coast But iL has been carried eight ten miles
inland and still used efTeCtuaily.
4 particularly good fertilizer FOR such crops
as potatoes and clover. which require plenty os
potash IL Is said that there IL place New
England where red clover grows SO vel near
Ryr Beach where the soil has been feTtilized with
sea weed ever since the country settled. N
that locality IL perpetUates ttseif and grows on
the same land year after year without reSeeding-
New-York tribune., 1908-02-23
Foreign Resorts.

When "Rube" comes to town he is a voracious
patron of the free luncheon. partly TO save
money and partly to stimulate business by eat
ing some of the farm products which he has al
ready sold to the cafe. And some there are VINO
say that the large amount of farm produce OF
the free luncheon counter sometimes influences
the farmers views prohibition
A bartender in of the places illustrated
this by story of a dicker he had with shre"d
Long Island egg raiser The farmer had
brought in thirty-seven eggs and the bartender
paid him for three dozen. The farmer objected
to throwing in the odd egg The bartender
finally said. Wen throw in the egg and I'll give
you a drink" "An right" said the egg dealer.
give me a milk punch with an egg in it"
New-York tribune., 1908-02-23
DRAPE EN- OR BREAK EN-.

Meantime the figures Of contention. Oblivion.
ot Jack Frost and the scathing denunciation Of
Mrs. Bowes, continue TO hold their positions and
smile on the passing throng- The figures are Of
gigantic size the huge stone toes protrUding over
the edge OF the ledge on which they stand. Mrs
BoNes and numerous other Chicago women
Think the sculptor might al least have clothed
the figures with something like the ballet skirts
that the charioteers wore in the Roman Coli
scum in the days Of Nero. Such raiment might
have been cut out OF the stone, and would have
saved the sculpIors work, too, for they would
net have had TO be SO careful in cutting out the
deiicately moulded muscles the skirts might
have covered. But the models didn't call for
oharioteers skirts. and the men with the chisels
had nothing to 90 but carve the figures just as
they had been designed
Mrs Bowes next asked the Municipal Art
League, composed OF Chicago's greatest artists
and best citizens, TO condemn the statues and
either have them draped or broken up with a
sledge hammer. Chicago, the best Of Chicago
as found in her refined and cultured people"
said Mrs Bowes, will not stand for this
nudity IN public statues. II is most injurious
70 the morals Of our children, who pass to and
fro before our public buildings, and must not be
tolerated. The preservation Of public morals,
especially in our young people, is of much more
importance than the preservation Of this high
art so called The bare stone would be better
than such works Of art
The Municipal Art League has not yet acted
on Mrs. Bowes's protest. She is carrying on her
fight quietly however. enlisting sympathy
among her associates in society and the clubs
snd among the clergynlen of the city. Some Of
those who have listened 10 her plaint and have
viewed the statues have become so indignant
that they talked of emulating Carrie Nation
s7-- evidently they decided the granite eplder-
MS of the statues would turn the edge of the
hest bladed hatchet-
ry-presieent Brundage. Of the county beard
-. n. essHct.ou 20 the statues. i think they
New-York tribune., 1908-02-23

is prepared by the head chef and its dishes are
daintily prepared and served. Frequently the
free luncheon is presided over by an assistant
chef and has its corps of walters. who are just
as attentive those who serve turtle and cam
vasback. Probably three-quarters of the 1000
cafes in New York serve fairly elaborate
free luncheons, consisting Of soup or meat and
d variety of relishes. salads and cheeses-
1t is a small drinking place, indeed, that does
not spend more than s. a day for its luncheon.
while in the bigger hotels $40 a day for food
alone, exclusive of the cost of chefs and walters
is not an unusual figure. The best of everything
is the general rdle. And in this branch Of the
business the local commission merchants find a
ready market for the choicest produce, from
eggs to turkeys, raised by the farmers Of New
York State The free luncheon counter is also
one of the best consumers of American cheese
and of this dairy product alone it is estimated
fully 2700O0 pounds year are used just to let
the cafe patron have a bite of cheese and a
cracker with his drink
In each of at least score of hotels in Broad
way $500 week is spent for food alone for the
free luncheon buffets. These places offer two
hot meats, usually beef, lamb veal. and there
are always potatoes and vegetables and vari-
ETY. of cold meats as well. Salads of various
sorts are included. to say nothing Of pickles.
olives. cheese and crackers. And on holidays
turkey after turkey is carved.
The free luncheon is set out at half past
eleven o'clock each morning, except Sunday, and
is continued until three o'clock in the afternoon
A cold luncheon is offered from five until half
past six
1t consists of cold meats. including chicken,
usually, with trimmings" Again, during thea
tre hours the cold luncheon is resumed.
Two-thfrds of the men who indulge in a drink
partake of the free luncheon, some with appe-
tites that tax even the suavity Of the assistant
chef: others merely nibbling at cracker. There
are few hotels in Broadway, above the Flat
iron Building, to which men actually journey
from Wall Street, just for the sake of the free
luncheon Some Of their friends may call them
eccentric, but they say that Louis prepares a
luncheon that I can eat and enjoy more than
any kind I can buy outright at other places.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-23
LIKES HOME COOKING.

q am a habitue Of this free luncheon place
because I can get the kind of food that mother
used 10 cook-good American old home food"
said well known man about town, when asked
why the free luncheon habit appealed to him.
Il see what 1 am getting and don't have 70
wait for it Observe how that waiter serves the
luncheon; he's lifting that toast with forks as
dafntiIy as you please. I couldn't get a better
or more wholesome luncheon if paid for II in
q dining room. That's the reason I'm free
1uncher" And he tossed the waiter quarter.
Indeed, so large and well recognized is the
free luncheon trade that it has brought about
the establishment of a new line Of business, con-
cerning which few New Workers have heard.
There now are firms that confine themselves ex
cIusiveIy TO free luncheon catering. supplying
the smaller places with a certain amount Of hot
and cold food every day.
Proprietors of hotels and cafes where the free
luncheon has attained such distinction
unanimous in saying that it pays handsomely,
too Not only do patrons spend as much money
for drinks as luncheon would cost them. but
many of them give the hotels their custom at
dinners before or after the theatre.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-23
EVOLUTION OF FREE LUNCHEON,

Tbe.evoIution of the free luncheon which, it
IS figured now costs cafe proprietors over
million and a half year in this city alone, has
brought about a reversal in caste Not many
wears ago the free luncheon was to be found
only in drinking places where beef stew or po-
tato salad was served in huge platters and
eaten with a communal fork taken from glass
NJ water. The man who patronized 1t was
looked on as broke" hobo"
To-day the free luncheon is a regular lnsti-
tuition in many Of the leading hotels. Its menu
New-York tribune., 1908-02-23

can stand the rigors of this climate admirably
he said, in their present attire do not con-
slider myself incriminated by the indictment
Mrs. Bowes and her associates have brought
against the figures jury Of artists will have
to convict before I will be satirfied that the
statues deserve criticism.
Chicago has numerous statues in its pubic
parks and at historic spots, but all OF them are
protected from the elements by clothes. Abra-
ham Lincoln stands amid the trees of Lincoln
Park just as he might have stood TO deliver
the world famous Gettysburg speech. ulysses
s Grant sits astride his war horse nearby in all
the glory OF his Union generals uniform But
these statutes and all the rest were erected be-
fore Chicago began to aspire for art centre
honorS.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-23
NO MONEY FOR TROUSERS.

This travel club has been all over the world
in imagination. It's members-they are all
Vonen-have communed with the Sphinx: they
have visited the renowned art galleries Of
Europe and seen the works OF the masters ANY
one Of them. therefore, is in a position 10 know
what real sculpture is, and when one of them
SAYS product Of the chfseI Is art or is not art
Chicago sits up and takes notice. For Chicago.
in the words Of ". n. r. French. director Of
Chicago's art institute is striving TO become the
art centre of the United States and anything
that aids or deters her in that ambition is a
subject for serious consideration.
of course" said President Busse, when Mrs.
Bowes's complaint reached him, "we might put
iron trousers on those boys-they're only boys
anyway-but we haven't the trousers and there's
no appropriation for them"
The boys" as President Busse called them
hideous men Of stone. as characterized by Mrs.
Bowes-were heritage from previous pres-
dent ofsshe Board OF Commissioners Of Cook
County. Illinois, in which Chicago lies. Mr.
Busse was not responsible for the designs. but
he had authorized their execution and watched
the figures grow out Of the plain blocks Of stone.
He is not ready 10 admit that a mistake has
been made. either from the point of view Of
art or morals
Il have heard that the objection TO them IS
that they are not properly clothed for this
climate added the president Of the County
Commissioners. Well, II is d little chilly out
where they are Just now. but think how they
will enjoy themselves next summer"
But Chicago women, particularly those versed
in the niceties of sculpture, have pronounced an
adverse judgment on your statuary,' was sug-
gested. They say the figures are not artistic:
that Chicago's taste is nnisrepresented; that
visitors viii get wrong impression OF US. They
declare, too, that they viii corrupt the whole
rising generation
Il an not posing art critic" responded
President Busse, but L must say that those
decorative figures look good TO me. They are
high enough above ground that those who
do not like them need not look at them. No.
sir. haven't ordered any trousers or suits OF
clothes for them yet. Why, they have only Just
been unveiled"
New-York tribune., 1908-02-23
CHICAGO YEhRNS
TO LEAD LIN ART.
YET FINDS IT DIFFICULT
TO TOLERATE THE NUDE.
Instances Shossing Hoo Thoroughly
Her Cfti2ens Are S0used an
4Esfheticism.

Striving 10 become the art centre Of the
United States Chicago is in a stew over the
question Of how far THE altogether" may be
displayed in public places without offending the
aesthetic taste
II was all the fault OF the weather If the
cold north wind had not whiried around a corner
Of the new s5ooo.o00 courthouse and compelled
Mrs Bowes to halt a second to catch her breath
IL might never have been discovered that the
poor statues on the costly structure needed pro
lection and all the hrainstorms might have been
avoided But as IL was, Mrs. Bowes chanced to
take a sweeping glance little above her head
and the human figures chiselled out Of the ever
lasting granite. caught her eye and enlisted her
sympathy
'Unholy city, she exclaimed; you are an
other Poulpeii. and like Pompeii you ought to
be buried forever by Vesuvius upheaval"
one OF the figures clad only in belt and
huchler- over the shoulder OF another was
loosely draped a boys size toga- A third, OF
heroic stature and athletic proportions.
sarbed merely in the style most fashionable
among the dark skinned warriors OF Zululand in
the hottest days of midsummer.
They call that srt," said Mrs. Bowes, Chi
cago art; and then they wonder why woman is
unsafe in the streets. The whole rising genera
tion will be corrupted They're hideous. I'll
nave them covered Up, If it's a life work
She stamped high arched patent leather No,
OF the icebound sidewalk and was on the point
OF shaking q fist at the window OF the County
Commissioners office when she ayyoke to a realf-
zation of the fact that she pedestrian
a shopping tour in busy street rather than
speaker on the rostrum Of her steam heated
club room She gripped her skirt tightly and
hurried on At every step her wrath became
mightier.
I'll report ii TO the Municipal Art League
she said, as she entered q big store. her indig-
nation al climax Within ten minutes she was
making a selection from mountain OF laces and
for the time the stone men on the courthouse
were forgotten.
The next day, however. President William
Busse, Of the Board Of County Commissioners,
was asked 10 preserve the honor and dignity OF
Chicago by covering up the statuary that had
evoked the Indignation Of Mrs. Frederick X
Bowes. founder and once president of the Chi
cago Culture Club and formerly president Of
the Tuesday Travel Club.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-23
The PENALTY OF PROMINENCE.

Dorothys father - militia colonel. ard
occasion Sns him. brave array.
head Of hts regiment
How lid you like YOUR father ~ his Uniform -
the colonel asked his small daughter thar night
YoJ. looked handsome than ANYBODY else SAID
Dorothy. Loyalty. and YOU held your 1ead Up
hlSh But 7 think they not % let YoS
have a drum 70 play on---Xcurh's Companion
New-York tribune., 1908-02-23

The Bushee murder in SOmerviue a Boston sub
urb, is instance OF the utter reCklessness OF
these boys. Two OF them entered Bushee's drug
and asked for five cents worth of paregoric
AS the aged druggist turned TO III the bottle he
struck the head and beaten % orUtaIIy
that he died few days later His asSailants were
caught, however, and II is probable there will De
something than the Juvenile law for them.
Women in the suburbs who have been used 70
visiting friends in the evening unattended now sit
tight at home. and refuse 10 stir a foot beyond
their doors after dark unless they have a
cort. Even In their homes they 90 feel
wholly safe, for nightly there robberies and
burglsries which bear the marks OF the young
amateurs. At church there is not absolute safety
as a young testify whose bag was
stolen while she knelt IN prayer. Neither a
carriage and coachman any protection. for the
woman who left bag containing diamonds worth
= 100 In her barouche while she did little shop
ming thinking that the Coachman equal 20
watching his horses and the diamonds. returned
find her Jewels gone. They were recovered later IN
A pavnshop. and the cuprit proved 10 be a juve-
nile
\ section of the Forty Thieves hand ts called
New-York tribune., 1908-02-23
POUND PEDLER TO DEATH.

If il had not been for sudden disclosure Of their
plans they would have succeeded in q robbery at
Wonderland Bostons Coney Island. last summer
which would have made their reputation for daring
and reckIessness. Their scheme was to go to Won
derand late at night and rob the cashier OF the
entire days receipts. Those who went were 10 %
heavily armed. and pointing their revolvers the
cashiers head, to demand the receipts in
Western style. But some one ''peached."
The reckIessness Of this band is evidence OF the
youthfulness of its members. They knock a man
the head for 20 cents bIitheIy as they do
for $50. They seem to have no care as to life and
hardly take tde trouble watch the newspapers 10
see if they have killed their victim or merely
stunned him Boston residents who must be out
late night feel that they'd rather he held up by
adult hardened in crime than by these juvenile
r$lghs for the former realizes the seriousness Of
taking life least while the latter seem 10 have
conception OF it
Evidences of their daring and contempt OF arrest
are exhibited every week. \ few weeks ago a
Greek peder. pushing his handcart through one OF
the suburbs of Boston was stopped by members OF
the band, and when he refused give up his
was beaten and pounded badly that he
died later in hospital
Two members of the band once wandered into a
department store during rush time and stole
pocketbooks right and left They brought up in the
basement, near the cashiers office cut the wire
netting from the window. stole bundle OF money
and escaped. The department store game is espe-
ciay business Of the youngest members Mere
children i'll kniCkerbOckers go about the store and
while engages a saoPper in answering his inno-
cent inquiry the ether steals her purse The police
and store detectives cannot do not seem TO catch
the offenders. perhaps because they know pro-
bation sentence will be the only result
Not long ago a policeman in Jamaica Plain did
have the hardihood TO arrest OF these juvenile
offenders. and he paid for IL few nights later
he was set by youths who beat him iato uncon-
sciousness and the boys made secret of the fact
that it was revenge for the arrest Of their com
pauion.
In Roxbury. at a bakery where the days receipts
large. the band put the watchrnan ouc OF com
mission by blows over the head with a blackjack
and filed their pockets with money
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-21

ing and practical basis varies with
the time required by the @. r. & y.
to complete the railroad into the m
terror of that rich county However
before the road has reached its des-
tination and becomes a common car
rier, the first seeds of sugar beet in
dustry In Wallowa county will have
been planted.
Officers of the company are now
in communication with head officials
of the o. r. & n. company and on
the result of these communications
will depend the exact steps to be taxi
en-
In the event that the branch line
is not completed this year. Wallowa
farmers viii be given an opportunity
to experiment with sugar beets
Representative Of the sugar COM
pany will visit Wallowa next week and
distribute seeds gratis to the farmers
there instructing and requesting them
to plant the seeds in a tentative way
and should the road not he complet-
ed by harvest time thus shutting off
an easy market for the crop the
growers can feed the crop to stock,
thus making the experiment paying
one IN any event.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-21
ALL EYES TOWARD WEST.
Thousands VIII Come This Spring;
Railroad Officials Flooded With
InnniUsnz

Inquiries.
From the advance notes sounded
by the army of anxious fasteners
who want to come west and settle in
a good country. this is to be the
greatest year In the history of the
westward immigration movement in
the United States, says the Walla
Walla Statesman.
The local land office IL In receipt
of the United States, Ne~ York,
Michigan Missouri, in fact from every
part of the country-making inquiries
. as to the land here. They are anxious
to get hold of a little land in the
country they have heard so much
about and they all express their in
tention to come west and invest what
they have IL they can find anything
worth while.
The railroads, too, have been re-
ceivlng inquiries about this country
and have been almost inundated by
the flood of inquiries regarding home
seekers excursions. There will he
plenty of these this summer and in
dications point to broken record in
the number of homesee&e"s which
takes advantage of them.
Real estate men are not left out
Of the deal by those who want loca-
tlons and nearly every one in town is
predicting a great boom in real estate
this summer. The advice they all
give is "buy while you can."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-21
NORTH BANK POSTOFFICES.
Contract, for Carrying Mali OH New
Line Are Being Signed.

thHt hit btluS SIpHCN.
/ r. A. Whiting, chief of the Seattle
office of the railway mail service, is
in Portland today comforting with f.
w. Vale assistant superintendent OF
chief clerk of the Portland office,
with reference TO arranging the de,
tails for letting the mail contract for
the north bank railroad between Van
couver, Washington. and Pasco, says
the oregon Daily Journal.
Twenty-six towns win besupplied
with mail by this new line. over
which the railroad officials expect to
begin operating trains March Is.
Many of the postoffices are now sup
piled with mail from the star"
routes from stations across the river
on the oregon side.
The recommendation that the con-
tract be let goes from Portland to the
officials at Washington, where the
matter Will be acted upon as soon as
possible so that the contract will have
been settled when the first trains are
put into operation.
The following towns will be sup
piled by mail by the new north bank:
Pasco, Finley, Hover, Expansion,
Coolidge, Paterson, Carley, Alderdale,
Roosevelt, Cliffs, Columbus. Grand
Dalles Lyle, Binger. White Salmon,
Underwood, Collins, Home Valley
Carson, Stevenson, Moffit Springs,
Butler, Cape Horn, Washougal, Cam
as, Vancouver
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-21
VIII Complete G. N. Cutoff.

To complete the work on the Great
Northern cutoff near Newport
Wash, on which a force of men has
been engaged all winter, about 900
men will be given employment about
March / on the construction of big
bridge across the Pend d'Orielle riv-
er, says the Spokesman Review
Superintendent E. l.. Brown of the
western district of the Great North
ern made the foregoing announce
ment yesterday, Mr.. Brown has just
returned from st, Paul, where he at
tended a meeting Of the division su-
perlntendents of the Great Northern,
at which plans for work along the line
during the ensuing year were dis
cussed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-21
Rewarded for Finding Teeth.

81 found the set of false teeth tha
were taken from George Hedger the
night he was robbed by ho,dups ovei
a month ago." said Mrs. ". E. Os-
born last night, "and l received a 81
reward for my discovery Mr.. Hedg-
er identified the teeth, ana they fit.
ted when placed in his mouth. l TOOK
part of the 50 and treated seven chill
dren through whom I chalceI to find
the teeth. They had found a purse
and drew my attention II this,
started a search and soon discovered
the bridge. ."-Spokesm Review.