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New-York tribune., 1909-09-25
DIRECTORS

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EARL FURMAN Director the schenectady Trust CO. Schenectady
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= J WEIGH Lawyer g William street New York city
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EDWARD KELLY. President Wharton ~ j. D
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~ SI-ARIN, President Dover. \
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is being repaired. Small boys and girls
arc to be met carrying bundles of brand
new wooden blocks that they have Sto en-.
By the section of the road under repair
they swarm like flies round honey pot
Nobody takes any notice of them. least
of all the workmen. They run up openly
to the stacks of wood. take many as
they can carry and run homo to return
for more The public who pass look on
indifferently; 1t is not their business
The overseers look the other way. they
do not pay for the wood, it does not
matter. 1t occurs to nobody that this is
d question of public interest. And so the
children are encouraged to steal. The
same thing happens at the coal depots.
1t is computed that so per cent of the
Goa brought into the towns is stolen be-
fore the trucks have been in the station
twenty-four hours by children whose ages
range from six to twelve years.
When the Russian children reach the
age of twelve they begin to learn how
to use knives which are as universal in
Russia as the stiletto is in Italy Ninety
per cent of the offspring of the working
classes learn no trade. Literally they
live by the knife" Stabbing is so fire.
quent that quiet. unarnned people avoid
walking in back streets after dark. 1t
is not uncommon for a woman to be
stabbed In the back while passing through
a crowded street. The cuIprit Is, of course
a young "knfer'' who Is learning to stab.
Frequently If caught he can give no rea-
son for his crime but a desire for prac-
tice.
In some towns the knife has been dis
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carded for revolvers, given by revolution
airy adherents who collect their funds
in England and America. These men
used boys and girls to murder police
men and officials; now the boys and girls
use the weapons on their own account
There is little doubt that the revolution
aries are much to blame for the ire
mendous increase Of child-criminals.
When their funds ran short they used
to raid shops and banks. They would
send a girl of ten or twelve first She
entered the building unsupported and,
pulling a revolver from under her shawl.
fired. Her accomplices then rushed in.
taking advantage of the panic and con-
fusion, and raided the safes and tilis.
Now that the revoiutionares have been
silenced the boys and girls raid alone.
to disar,n suspicion, and the band of
the revolutionaries did before them. They
rush up to those in the shop: fire, or put
revolvers to the heads Of their victims.
while the accompl:ces grab the booty and
decamp. AS nobody cares to fire at
child the raid generally succeeds.
These young criminals are inferior to
their elders in their methods OF escape
and In getting rid of discriminating evil
dence. They generally leave some clue
behind that speedily puts the police upon
their track. One boy of fourteen who
helped to raid a country house-shooting
the squire and his wife-carried off the
dead mans fowlng-pieoe and tried to
sell ii few days later at fair held
in the neighborng town. A laborer from
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They confessed to having made the bombs
themselves with old sardne tins, little
nitro-glycerine and some bits of iron. The
police have now issued orders forbiddiug
the sale of nitro-glycerine to customers
unless mixed with some other ingredient
that renders 1t non-explosive.
Perhaps the most callous case Of crime
committed by children occurred in War
saw in the beginning of September last.
A head waiter, who had charge Of the
beer boys, or piccolos, In a we'll known
was found terribly mutilated
at the foot of some steps leading down
to the river. AS he was treasurer of the
walters charity fund the police supposed
that he had been murdered for the money
he was carrying home that evening. but
his money was found untouched. An eye
witness of the crime, who had run away
to save his own life. told the police that
the waiter Owczak by name, was set upon
by half dozen small boys, who stabbed
him with their knives. 1t transptred that
they were the piccolos employed in the
restaurant. Owczak man of excellent
character. had complained several times
of the piccolos' laziness and impertinence
to customers and threatened to have the
most troublesome one dismissed If things
did not improve. Thereupon the piccolos
held meeting at which they determined.
as they said, to uphold their honor" and
punish Owczak. They followed him
home and killed him. When questioned
a bout the crime they admitted 1t. saying
that 'brotherly solidarity compelled their
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scriptons OF the safe crackers and con-
fidence men who sit comfortably in the
chairs gurgling with glee as they read OF
the frantic efforts of the police to catch
the crook who is miles away safely
scanning his own portrait In the paper
II may be true--or west-but as far
as the Congressional Library is concerned
IL is not known that the gentlemen OF
the Underworld make II a hangout There
was murderer from New Orleans who
Is SAID to have paid a visit to the news
paper room there not long ago. but that
Is the only instance OF the kind known.
Inc greatest criminal that the Iibrarv
people have to deal with Is the yandaI
VINO takes out his knife and cuts a news
item from the paper he is reading There
Is nothing that makes regular readers and
employees so hopping mad as that slight
act Of destruction. Besides the rule and
the law on the subject. regulars have a
much higher conscientiousness about max.
ing clippings-a sort OF do unto otherss
papers you would have them do unto
yours idea The minute the page witt,
the hole In it falls under their eyes they
move swiftly to the desk in the middle Of
the room and report the occurrence.
fresh paper is always secured from
the publisher. and if possible the offend
er is brought TO the bar OF justice. There
was one paper which had a poem clipped
from IT, and underneath the gaping hole
a little local item appeared. referring 10
the library in the town in which the pa
per was published. 1t read:
Some vandal has mutilated- one of the
papers in the johnson Library by clipping
a hat column from it. A reward OF $40
is offered for information leading to his
arrest
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THE RENTED CHILDREN.

CHARLES NJ. SCHWAB, at a dinner
~ In Pittsburg discussed his New Year
economies. He said:
1t Is necessary TO economize. to shut
up some Of ones houses and so on, be-
cause of the innumera BILE claims on one.
And all these claims are always just. You
know. Why. l never saw claimant
yet who wasn't quite as sure Of his rights
as the Altoona beggar woman.
"A beggar woman. with three tiny chill
dren shivering beside her, stood on Il
windy corner in Altoona on a bitter win
ter day. A charity officer paused beside
her with a sheer.
You he said, you begging. And
those children aren't yours at al.
Well, sir the begsar woman, indig-
nantly retorted, I'd have less need to beg
if they were mine, for then L wouldn't
have to pay 10 cents day to hire
them -
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John DIS Joke.

John d. ROCKEFELLER had finished
} two hours humorous and brilliant tes-
timony in the governments suit against
the Standard Oil Company when vet
eran correspondent, turning to his neigh
Dor, said:
The nation is beginning to realize
what a keen humorist it has in the oil
king. | remember when lie was testi-
fying in the 81 suit. His presence in the
BOX naturally brought big crowds to
court, and one morning as he sauntered
down corridor, man stopped him and
said:
Il beg your pardon. boss but can you
tell me- where John u. is being trleS?'
Mr. Rockefeller took the man by the
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P0verty's Point of View.

A y actor was talking at the Players in
New York, about the Ia Mrs. Os-
born.
"A brilliant woman he said. a bril-
liant, original, fortnight woman. No
wonder her playhouse failed. IT was
ahead of the age.
AT the time her playhouse failed re-
sumed the actor. Il heard Mrs. Osborn
lamenting its empty treasury She said
this total emptiness reminded her OF a
dialogue between two matrons that she
overheard in tenement while Summing
on the East Side.
'Wot makes yer man so pale an
grum?' said the first matron
He's got tapeworm,' the other an
sWered.
The first woman shook her head in
sympathy.
Another mouth to feed" she said
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IL his paper had not been put out on the
rack. But he is not. He just sits down
and waits. Sometimes. and frequently.
too, he goes to sleep in the comfortable
chair and perhaps dreams Of other days
in the town from which his paper comes.
The mail is brought in, his paper put on
the rack, the attendant wakes him up and
everything that went on In Butte, Mont
or Dallas, or Sioux Falls or Fredonia Is.
laid before him. He reads and approves
or criticises-and then sleeps again. If
there were only some arrangement by
which smoking was allowed the Congress
sional Library would be the biggest, finest
and most popular kind of auditorium
for the old-fashioned country store poll
ticians that the world has yet seen.
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the Squire'S estate to whom it was offered
recognized it and had the boy arrested
The whole band was rounded up and the
eldest proved 10 be no more than nine
teen years of age.
In another case, a youthful bandit, hav-
ing stolen a gold watch from the body
of a rich farmer he had murdered, i'm
mediately tried to pawn it at the nearest
town. The Jew. struck by the quality of
the workmanship, sent for the police, who
searched the boys room and found proofs
that he had taken part in six desperate
raids committed in the neighborhood.
What these young criminals lack In cir
cumspection, however, they make up in
intrepidity. 1t seems almost Incredible
that ten boys, whose ages ranged from
ten to sixteen. should wreck train load
ed with soldiers. Yet this happened a
short time ago near a station called Lapy,
in White Russia. They put twelve bombs
on the line just before the train was
scheduled to pass. Some of them were
faulty and so only four exploded, injuring
several soldiers and killing the engine
driver. AS the train. like the majority
of trains in Russia, was going very slow
~, the results were less disastrous than
might have been expected. The bomb
throwers watched the explosion from the
forest adjoining the plant and fired with
revolvers. AS soon as the train was
stopped the youthful wreckers were fol-
lowed and arrested. Each Of them had
bomb tied to stick he was carrying.
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THE GIRL AND THE LOBSTER

HORANDO PIETRI, at one of the many
II Italian banquets given in his honor
in New York, talked about professional
athletics.
'Amateurism is no doubt more ro-
mantle then professionalism, he said,
but we live in an unromantic age"
He smiled.
Only the other night at one of your
sayest Italian restaurants" he said. Il
overheard a dialogue that illustrated for
chilly the ages lack of romance
1T was late At the table next to mine
a rich Young italian contractor was sup
ping with beautiful young girl. As
the Young girl played with the stem OF
her wine glass, ! heard her murmur:
"It is true. isn't it, that you love me
and me only
Yes, said the young man, though
this lobster is certainly mighty good
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feet to the top of their closely cropped
hair they are English. There was one
Englishman there all of last week whose
clothes must have been made at one OF
the best shops in London. but which were
just beginning to take on the tinge which
means hard luck" He read the London
papers closely, and wore a disappointed
look every day. Whether or not he was
looking for the death notice of somebody
who would leave him a fortune can only
be guessed. None of the regulars dared
approach him after he answered one OF
them with the most aristocratic stare ever
seen in the library. He was a regular
for a week, but not of the inner circle.
He wore no long beard and chewed no to-
bacco; neither did he sleep in his chair.
There are several Germans who are dis
tinctively not in the sleeping class. They
come there to read good, hard, scientific
stuff in addition to the German papers.
Each one has his seat-and a temper that
displays itself to the man who dares pre-
empt it.
ANY night one can see a fair sprinkling
of brisht-looking young men In uniforms
at the Library. Soldiers, sailors and ma
rines patroniZe the newspapers OF their
home towns and read them almost glut-
tenously. Every now and then a sailor
from a long cruise comes into the news
paper room and begins reading the bound
volumes Of his home paper from the
time he started off on the Journey Some
times two men. who have shipped together
from the same place. come in and have
the best time they have had for many
a day, reading about what has gone on
back home while they have been away
Marines are frequent visitors. Soldiers
from the posts near Washington make
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A Dry Bath.
,opySsht. 1909, by Estelle Klauder J

ItyN cold weather" said P. c. Marsh,
! the charity worker. at a dinner in
New York. the tramp and his like dis
play a marked hatred of baths. But battle
they must if they come to our societies
for shelter.
"A burly tramp entered an East End
shelter one cold night last week.
Kin you bunk me?' he asked
Yes, said the superintendent. Go
downstairs, strip and take shower.
"A shower said the tramp, making a
wry face.
Yes
with cold water
Yes
his collar 10 depart again. Nix on the
bath. They told me-. he explained, as he
opened the door. that this wuz down
to-the-minute joint where they bathed We
with vacuum cleaner thing.
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But. somehow or other. Congress Will
not let them smoke. However, plug OF
good black tobacco is permissible. And
there you have them--dreamers, schemers,
men who have seen better days. and hope,
through scanning papers. to see better
ones yet; inventors. old soldiers. fathers
who have been reading the columns OF
home papers for years to discover
whether OF not loved son has returned;
sons who seek fathers, and great big
army of men who have nothing to do but
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the newspaper reading to be had at the
Library part of their education.
Any student of newspaper literature and
newspapers in general can enjoy a feast
in the local newspaper room. With pa
pers from points ranging from Cape
May. n. j., to Calcutta. India, every
variety Of news journal is shown. From,
the solemn, sedate paper that has been
a fireside companion for four generations.
down TO the flaring sheet witt, twelve
regular editions and many extras day.
every variety of newspaper sty,e is shown
To take down the rack of East Indian
papers and read that party of sur
veyors was fired upon by tribe OF MILL
men on the banks of one of the unpro-
nounceable rivers over there. and to read
the details of the story. is a guarantee
that Rudyard Kipling knew what he was
writing about An Indian paper is kip
iineesque' all overland that argues that
Kiping is Indian all through-at least
when he writes about India.
The London papers are odd TO the eyes
OF Americans. In one of them the first
right hand column is taken UP with
births, marriages and deaths-ln that or
der as is fitting the epitome Of mans
life Then solemnly follows list Of I'M
dertakng establishments. For three
large pages there follows a sea OF ve~y
small classified advertisements, making
dull gray pages, set off by big black CAPT.
tai letters as the initial of each adver-
~
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HIGHWAYMAN'S PRAYER.

TOM L. JOHNSON, the mayor Of
! Cleveland. was criticising at hoii-
day banquet a grasping corporation.
''They are too transparent" he said
lin asking for the passage of this bin
In fact, they remind me wildly of the
continental highwayman who, laying his
bludgeon and revolver beside him. knelt
down on the road in front OF a wayside
shrine and prayed:
g Il do not ask thee, . Lord. for money
--only send this way an automobiles with
full pockets."
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particular item in the Congressional IL
brary.
The people in charge say that no class
of visitors to the local newspaper room is
as numerous as those who have white
ribbons on their trunks ard rice In their
umbrellas. And every one of them thinks
he is the one original searcher for the
marriage notice.
The regulars however, who get up to
the library at nine in the morning and
sit around until evening are the people
who would be absolutely lost if anything
happened to the newspaper room. There
are quite number of them, and they
take 1t as a deep affront IL some intruder
gets their papers first. Each of them has
his own particular chair, and his right
is recognized thoroughly by the other
regulars.
1t is hard to tell Just where they all
came from originally, but they keep the
so papers which are hung out on the
public racks busy. The papers are the
demand amounting to twice a week for
any paper puts it In the regular class.
Besides those there are more than 800
other papers which are not asked for so
regularly, and which are kept In the inner
'cnms. They all get their chance in the
light. however, due to the brides and
grooms and the myriad other folks who
Smoking Not Allowed.
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ST. PETERSBURG.

Ing generation is considered and stringent
methods are being taken to stop the ap-
paliing growth of child crime which has
become the curse of the land. The chill
dren of the poor have flocked into the
criminal ranks to such an extent that 10
per cent of the crimes recorded within the
past year have been committed by boys
and girls between sixteen and twenty
years of age; while those of the better to-
do classes. though they do not rob- or muir
DER for plumber throw bombs. indulge in
terrible revenges and give way to various
inclinations which are even worse than
those Of their poorer brothers and sisters.
Whereas the first category crowd the
prisons, the second flock to gambling dens
and kindred resorts to an extent prob
ably unheard of In other countries and
certainly unknown In Russia a decade
ago.
1t is enough to cast a glance at the
daily papers published in Russia to see
TO what a pitch the raiding of trains.
banks. shops, etc. by young boys and
girls has grown. The officers who sit at
courts-martial affirm that out of every
hundred prisoners brought up for trial
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HE BRIDE and
groom pitter-patted
through the marble
corridors Of the
Congressional LII
brary, looking to
right and left with
an Ill concealed
self consciousness
that seems to be
the birthright and
distinguishing mark
of the n e ly
welded,
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THREE-MINUTE STORIES.

arm and led him to the criminal court
room He opened the door and pointed
to a downcast individual.
That's John D. he whispered, and
disappeared.
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From All Walks of Life.

There are Englishmen who come to read
the London Mail and the London Teie-
graph. From the soles of their gathered
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Are you looking for anything" politely
asked an attendant.
The newspaper ROOM asserted the
groom.
The attendant knew perfectly we'll that
was what the beaming pair wanted. 1t
seems as if every honeymooning couple
that takes in Washington on the greatest
trip of their lives goes to the Congress
sional Library to find the story of their
wedding safely bound in the archives of
the governments great collection. And
the employees have learned to look for
them.
Each His Own Chair.
When the couple had finally located tho
paper from their town and had found the
exact date Of their wedding they violated
the rule OF silence and both of them
shouted with happiness. Then they went
back to the hotel TO write letters to the
folks back home. telling them how smart
they were to think OF looking for that
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Decem Der II, 1905.
CSSIA'S cancerous
spot" infant crime
and immortality is
just now attract
ing a great deal of
attention through
out the country.
Governors of prov
inces, professors
and police masters
are holding meet
in gs where t h g
state of the grow
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4 FARMING Increase in
4 \ Infantile Crime and I'M
morality in the Land of the
White Father Has at Last
Aroused the Authorities Into
Tardy Investigation - Out of
Every One Hundred Prison
ers Brought Up for Trial in
Russia More Than Eighty
eight Are Under Twenty
Years of Age-More Than so
Per Cent Are Sentenced to
Death or Sent to Siberia for
Twenty Years for Plumber
and Murder-Terrible Condi-
tons Due to Lack of Schools
and to Public and Parental
Indifference-Children of the
Poor Raid Trains, Banks,
Shops and Shoot and Stab for
the Pure Love of Adventure,
While Those of the Rich
Crowd the Gambling Dens
and Low Resorts of the Big
Cities of Russia.
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less than a dozen are over twenty years
of age. The rest are boys and girls who.
in more civilized countries, would be at
school or apprenticed to some trade.
good half of them are sentenced to death
for plumber and murder or sent to Siberia
for twenty years. The rest are set free
again and often reappear, in a few
crime.
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The reasons for this terrible state of
affairs are not hard to find. 1t is due
partly to the lack of schools and partly
to the parents and the public Indifference.
A poor man in Russia is not encouraged
to have his child educated. In fact it
has been the governments policy TO keep
him as ignorant possible. From the
time he is able to walk the child has
the run of the streets and his parents
teach him to beg. The beggars in Rus
sian towns are SO numerous and i'm
Fortunate that in many places the only
way to get rid of them is to take a cab
or board tram. AT every railway sta
ton they besiege the carriages and worry
the passengers till somebody throws a
handful of coppers to get rid of them.
In the majority of cases the beggars
are not victims OF real restitution. Offer
them work and they will not take it.
When there is nobody to beg from they
steal. Petty theft and pi1fering exist
everywhere. but they are carried to
high art in Russia. A familiar instance
of this is to be seen where public street
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From the Underworld.

There was a story in a western paper
recently to the effect that the safest place
for criminal is the newspaper room of
a public library. 1t gave detailed de-
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revenge. as Owczah lad no rig.t 10 d.s-
miss one OF them. since all were equal
The eldest Of them was sixteen. The most
appalling part OF the story IL that ell
tEesa children planned thu murder. t.
gether and no one was found among Lneln
who had enough conscience TO tel TIE
authorities OF IL warn OwcZak Of lie
fate which awaited him.
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Smoking Not Allowed,

Any one would think offhand that a
regular would be frightfully wrought up
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-11-10

Hosiery We have enough for every
body In Laurens county sc, &c, &c
Zoe, BE, 1Sc, 23c per pair