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The Jewish herald. (Houston, Tex.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-12
AUSTIN.

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ Sharman and their
little daughter are spending month
in New York City.
Mr.. Nose Borchardt was called to
New York by his firm.
Mr.. Moses herman, graduate of
the last class in Civil Engineering at
the State University, has accepted a
position in Oklahoma, where he is
now located
:, Miss Moselle Littman left Sunday
to spend two weeks in San Antonio.
Mrs A. Nicholson, Mrs. L. Schuster-
man and daughter, Thelma, are spend
ing the heated term in Manitau.
Miss Eta Joseph has returned home
after an absence of about two months.
Mrs. Hannah Ash, accompanied by
her three children, has gone to Den
yer to spend the balance of the sum-
mer.
Mr.. Kick Melasky is spending the
summer with his father, Mr. B. Me-
lasky, and with his sisters.
The Jewish herald. (Houston, Tex.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-12


Miss Craft, Miss Cohn, Ray Davis,
Rose Rather, Miss Kahn. Mrs. H.
Katz, Geo. Ginsberg, Jake Winner, Ben
Tobolosky, Harry Tausky, Archie Solz-
berg, Sol Gilbert, Sam Rays, Ben Asst
Sam Cohn, Harry Rather. The day
was spent in many different ways, and
everybody was happy.
Mr.. Joe Wolf leaves tonight for
a few weeks in New York which was
previously his home.
Mr.. Sam Epstein of Houston likes
a hit here with the ladies.
The Jewish herald. (Houston, Tex.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-12
EXPULSION OF JEWS.

The kieff authorities have again re-
pealed the order permitting Jewish
merchants to reside there for a peri
Cd not exceeding fortnight. Stimuli
taneously with the new instructions
issued to the local police, the night
searches for our co-religionists have
recommended, with renewed vigor,
and the state Of panic recently Great
ed by the wholesale explosions of
our brethren is once more in evil
dence everywhere.
The efforts of the Russian mer-
chants on behalf of their Jewish col
leagues seem, therefore, to have had
a temporary effect only.
The Ministry of the Interior has
also definitely rejected the petition
of the Taurida Zemstvo requesting
the Government to permit Jewish corn
merchants to reside in the province
unmoested.
More explosions are reported from
Kislovodsk, from the villages near
Pereyaslev and from Siberia where
the authorities have not permitted
Jewish cattle merchants to pay their
usual visits to Asiatic Russia. At
Yalta, too, the police have posted
constables in the port to prevent Jews
from landing there.
The Jewish herald. (Houston, Tex.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-12

Congregation Adath Israel will hold
Holiday services at the Turner Hall
September 18th and 18th and 25th.
All profit derived from sale of tickets
and donations viii be used for the
Fifth Ward Synagogue.
The Jewish herald. (Houston, Tex.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-12

Misses Stella and Birdie Marks left
for Los Angeles, San Francisco and a
tour of the Pacific coast. They ex-
/pect to spend some time in Denver
before returning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam G. Eldridge have
had the pleasure of visit from Mr..
Eldridges father and sister during the
past few weeks.
Mr.. Nose Veith is spending the sum-
mer in Los Angeles with his folks.
Miss Fannie Samuels of Galveston,
is spending a few weeks with the fam
lily of her uncle, Mr.. R. M. Weber.
Mr.. Sol Hal1f formerly of Houston,
has been in the city for few days
visiting friends
Mr. Arthur G. Baer came up from
Matagorda last week to spend a few
days at home. He has returned to the
ranch.
Miss Rachel Josey left the other day
for Beaumont TO visit relatives for a
month or two.
Miss Nathalie Dalkowitz had the
pleasure of few days visit from her
friend, Miss Sarah Hirsch of Laredo,
Texas.
Coming back from a very pleasant
camping trip III the hills near Boerne,
Texas, Miss Carrie Josey of Beaumont
is again enjoying San Antonio's de-
lights.
The Jewish herald. (Houston, Tex.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-12
NOTICE..

The Hebrew pay school conducted
by Rev. H. B. Lieberman will start
again Monday, Aug. 8. Parents are
notified to send their children and be-
ginners may start on this day also.
The Jewish herald. (Houston, Tex.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-12
THE JEWISH HERALD.
FORT WORTH.

A dance is being given tonight at
Handley in honor of Miss Rathwine
Wretman of Chicago, who is visiting
relatives here
Some of those who will attend are:
Miss Marguerite and Flora Wretman,
Miss Mollie Miller, Miss Runa Carb,
Hortense and Lillian Lewis, Gertrude
Sturman Blanche and Ruby Friedman
Dora Levy, Reba Gilbert, Miss Germs
bacher of Weatherford Rose and Adj
die Neumagen, Katherine Wretman,
Mr.. Meridith and Dave Carb, Joe
Coulton, Abe Hart, Ike Hirshfield,
M Engle, VIII Friedman, Mr.. Wise,
Leo Roth, Dorshum, Mr. Wretman,
Arm and Jake Guernsbacker
A large crowd is expected from
Dallas.
Miss Pearl Brown and Miss Battle
her guest left Sunday to spend a
few weeks in Mineral Wells
Miss Dora Sturman left for New
York to spend the summer.
Miss Bessie Brown is in Seattle.
Wash, on a pleasure trip.
Mr. L. G. Gilbert left for the East
ern market yesterday. He will take
in the Shoe and Leather Fair al
Brockton, Mass.
Miss Bertha Arnof of Dallas is Wis
iting friends here and will remain a
few days.
Miss b. Croft of Chicago is here for
a few weeks and is stopping with rel
atives.
Miss B. Arnof was entertained last
night with a dance at Lake Como
after which followed a swell mid
night supper. The participants were
Mr. and Mrs Fuller, Mr. and Mrs.
Arnof, Mr.. Katz, Mr.. Gilbert, Mr. Solz-
burg, Mr.. Ginsburg, Mr. Asst, Miss
Arnof, Miss Rubenstein, Miss Gilbert,
Miss Bertha Tobolosky of Dallas
left yesterday after a weeks visit
with relatives.
An all day picnic in the woods was
enjoyed immensely by a large crowd
of boys and girls last Sunday, 1t
took two large wagons to carry them.
The wagons left a M and re-
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-27

tpe ,b rlder through the loop, Bill found
eaiS our lust as he was circlipg the
ceIuhng with head downward.
With the experienced riders IN
stnct he felt that he lacked speed
enough and thereby pressure enough to
stuck to the boards. He could not ped
al himself over, for his bicvcle GEAR
was disconnected. IT he fell he WINS
quite sure of breaking his neck, So he
did the one thing possible, threw all
has weight desperately against the han
dlebars and 'buckcd - himself over.
1T was the merest chance, but ho made
II. He actually left the boards for a
distance, but he executed the right
parabola, caught the descending chute
with his fore wheel, settled back aud
whlrlcd down safely.
. After dismounting ''Diavolo" Bill
lit a cigarette and looked up critically
at what was very nearly his instrument
loop he had actuallSy Jumped q distance
of several feet. With more speed he
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10 lower one. which leads him TO the
! ground at terrific speed il is dan
gerous enough on q quiet day. but on q
! windy day the increased resistance of
the air is apt TO make. him miss the
| platform after each midair leap. That
| IS bad. He missed one platform at
Baltimore. He smiled apologetically.
Hence the nose and lip scars, ''You
see?''
Other accidents? Oh. yes. Another
smile, very humble, appealing gesture
and several indicated places from head
TO foot. This collarbone at San Fran
cisco; these ribs. ono here and two
there, were cracked at Cincinnati; this
aukle was broken at Memphis Once.
he smiled sadly, he was unconscious for
sixteen hours. II hit on da head, he
explained gravely.
!'But. - he continued and here for
the first time his voice rose above its
dcprecatlng softness, q do not drink.
Never!
"Most people think they must drink
to keep up nerve. When you stand,
al ready, on high platform and look
down on many faces Of crowd aud their
thep your heart sink. You feel YOU
want little wine but if you tako it
You won last,
''When [ MT da head ard am gone
for 50 long, my fren lie tell me the doc.
tors keep listening 10 my heart, They
make lots of tests. IF lie drinks, they
said. he is a goner, all right. But
fool 'em concluded Volo gleefully,
u come all right fue.'
Upon the walls of the hooking Office
are many photos Of famous ''loop the
loopers, Of ''Prodigious Porthos, .
who IN real life is Joe Fancher, and OF
Santo the Demon. who is also the
straight limbed steel muscled Fancher,
and of Diavolo tue First aud Second,
who are respec lively Messrs. Nandevort
and Matbiesscn,
The original loop the loop machine
was practically what IL is today, a
spindling wooden. platform beginning
with a steep incline, thence rising high
in the air and forming a complete circu-
lar loop which ends in a chute to one
side
Various Thrillers,
This descending chute very carly in
the game got the name of dead man &
curve An upright ladder. stationed
20 one side of the chute as a connected
part Of the paraphernalia. broke six
collarbones OF as many Diayolos - BE-
fore 1t was seen iii TO remove it and
change the principle Of construction
When the intrepid bicycljsL went
whizzing down the steep incline he de-
yeloped a speed, il Is alleged, rs high
as one hundred and twenty-siY miles an
hour. He struck the ascending side
of the loop with pressure Of three
quarters Of ton weight, tins pressure
decreasing swiftly as he rode overhead
and inside the loop till il amounted to
only five pounds or so, Just enough to
make him stick like fly to the cell
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I IN IfIG, GAP II
SPECTATORS.

ing. As he made the top curve. head
downward, and then came down the
descending segment of the loop the
pressure increased again and sent him
flying out TO the end OF the machine
and up to the reserved seats of the eX-
hlbltion with u grand triumphal finish
Just momentary consideration of
that terrific speed and pressure is all
that is needed to convince one Of the
loop the looper's strain and danger. The
hrst swift rush down the incline tends
with mighty power to throw the body
backward. II takes a powerful back
and arms and shoulders to overcome
that viselike momentum and bend for.
ward and keep tho eyes glued to that
narrow blurred, almost indistinguish.
able wooden pathway.
Again, any one who has rideu bicy-
Gle knows how easily the roller bear.
ing handlcbars will turn and spin
around: Imagine the grip IL takes to
keep them straight in that whirlwind
loop with an impact that changes in a
traction of a second from three-duarters
of ton TO a mere five pounds. One
realizes why the hands of Joe Fancber
arc ribbed with steel-lille ribbons of
muscle and why Volo S are large and
ungainly past al natural proportion.
The, original loop the loop was deadly
most exactlng audience, but the novelty
Of these feats soon wears off Some eX-
ira element of danger-some additional
- thrill must constantly be added
His Close Call.
One day "Diavolo" Bill Barbour
very nearly came to grief while testing
a newly constructed loop the loop ma,
chine. 1T was not put up correctly. The |
incline was rot steep enough to send
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-27

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blood polutes
qualities
entire Thousands
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nanhood handicapped i'll health and unted
given n thor gy LIFE would have this It would have
thor and ASSISTED each to into strong beautiful manhood
down the bottom OF the trouble and ceanses the of all
and and under the purifying effects Of this
FORM and children
persons o1
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-27

could have cleared greater space
say fifteen feet Certainly, Well, if
that were possible, why have the
boards there9 Why not spectacular
gap Fine. He talked the matter
over with Manager Mccormack, who
has brought out such 'big ones as
Joe Fancher. Mathiessen and Wander
" thriller for tho sensitive minded
public was q loop tho loop with an
overhead gap.
Out of this grew the Leaping the
Gap" act, from which the big loop
was eliminated. The first steep in
cline ended in a short upturn, which
threw the rider high III the air, over
the gap and down upon a receiving
and lower incline with such force that
he was carried completely around the
arena beneath the delighted spectat-
ors.
Various kinds Of hurdles were placed
in the gap to tickle from time to time
the jaded appetites of the spectators,
Joe Fancher leaped over thc backs
of ten elephants, a leap so difficult and
involving strain so intense that after
each ride tho nails Of his fingers were
driven deep into tho palms Of his
hands, and sometimes, by way Of di-
version, the splnters OF the reserved
seats were driven quite deeply into his
scalp.
Stopping the Rider.
With circus, and when the tent
space is too cramped to permit the final
triumphal circllng of the arena, a "me-
chaniG - is used TO stop the rider. The
mechanic is strong rope stretched
between two posts which are anchored
by coiled springs The force of Fan
cher descent can be Judged by the
fact that in one instance he carried
away the mechanic - and six men who
We're steadying it, 1t might be added
that he was thrown and knocked
OUT against those same obtrusive re
served seats. The spectators applauded.
When the novelty of ''Leaping the
Cap threatened recently to be wear.
ing off Joe Fancher went into brief re-
tirement and came forth with a pleased
expression. His name has been 'Santo
the Demon which, to say the least.
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L O O P y

ito please Ga people. IF YOU do vour
act too we'll they shrug shoulders and
say, Poufi That is easy. Il is no good.
If you make a mistake and break YOUR
neck they look down at YOU aud saw,
'Da fool lie ain It got good sense 10
try so dangerous thing You see, it
is kinda hard -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-27
The Geneva Resort,

north of Provo, on Utah Lake. has
opened for the summer Fine boating
and cat6shing, good hotel accommoda
tions and fine grounds for camping.
Special rates on trains on Sundays from
Salt Lake and Eureka.
Fine bass and trout fishing, Season
opens June Is. Accommodations for
entire season.
JAKE WESTFALL. Manager.
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Dips Of Death.

You see. he rides bicycle down a
steep incline, at the upturncd lower end
of which he leaps into the air through
spoutine flames and on "a a second in
cline: then through air and flames again
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-16
The San Francisco Sunday CAL
3 8 u

straight ahead passing Alcatraz. His
eyes are on the tawny hills of the main
land.
With proper majesty. slowly, cutting
the water smoothly. yet with every
mark of irresistibility. a Japanese liner
passes. Along the rails. well forward
are many faces=faces of Americans
sick for the feel OF their native land
beneath their feet-eager. thrust for
ward; thin. sharp faces Of Japanese,
seeing for the first time in its reality
the country of which they had heard so
much; faces of Europeans taking the
Asiatic route round the world. gazing
hither and thither tcuriOusly. And as
some turn to LOOK at the island, then
learn from others what it is-or see for
themselves-the gIadness and the eager
ness die for the moment
So they pass Alcatraz by day,
in endless procession, the ships from
a dozen seas And passing they ignore
the island, and the people on their
decks turn their faces away. AIcatraz,
aloOf, grim, has no part in their lives
But it is not always so.
When the gray fog cTeeps from the
open sea, wreathing the tops of the
mountains of the Marin county PENN
filaments. mantling the hiIltops OF the
city and filing the streets, and cling
ing 10 the water. spreads over the bay
then Alcatraz cries aloud Her brazen
voice bellows over the hidden waters.
finding its way through the mist
wreaths Of the hills on the further
shore. finding its way seward TO the
heads. landward past the busy COM
merce. And it never ceases.
4
promise: a voice of alarm; il peaIs in
never ending cadence and the fog bank
Shivers with its deep Fever berations.
1t is a voice OF warning
And how the homing ships remember
Alcatraz. On deck weather beaten
faces turn toward her hidden bluffs
listening for her cry anxiOusly The
throbbing of the screws has all but
died. The great engines sigh slowly.
with whistling breaths. The prOwS
creep along. as though they feared to
advance into this GraTness which
thickens ahead. hiding thousand
perils. And then the cry rings out.
full thrOated. 1t comes from ahead,
from the darkness of the fog. unmis-
taxable. and the tension of the faces
OF the watchers relax. a bell jingles
the water in rhy thmic throbs. And the
vessel goes onward like a blind man
who has found hand to guide.
At night. when the shore lights
shake in streaks across the black water
and darkness hides each landmark.
there flares on the highest point OF
Alcatraz a yellow eve. 1t flares, then
closes. and then it flares again Miles
away the ships catch3its flash and turn
toward it. So long as darkness lasts
they look for the island.
Grim, unlOvely; in sunlight disdained
or given averted look, AIcatraz greets
the homing ships. crying aloud to them
through the fog bank. leading them in
darkness by flashing beacon
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-16

their tongues in weird babel. and faces
of all degrees of color crowd the docks,
it steamed into the lazy Red sea- 1t
touched at Bombay and leisurely made
the Straits settlements. From palm
lined waters it came northward; an
chored off the muddy mouth of Chi
nese river among litter of thatch
rooted households whose families
swarmed them like flies. and then
turned its nose eastward until the east
stopped and the west began. On the
deck knot of swarthy lascars. lean.
large eyed. eating their rice from I'M
def1led vessels, raise their eyes to the
island. and on an exclamation from one
of their number stare at it moment
fascinated Then they look away as
though gladly.
battered whaler crawls up against
the tide, two years out About its bow
the ironwood sheathing shows deep
dents, the cruel marks of the ice foes
teeth. The paint is all but gone from
its sides Two years from home. in
that time it visited the uttermost end
of the continent, where the world be-
gins to slope away to the pole. Late
summer found it turning a tardy prov
to the west, and winter swooping sud
denly southwark trapped it on Her
schel island. Dreary days followed.
when the fiickering aurora Knocked
weirdly at sunlight; then slow spring
and ice foes that tried to grind it to
pieces. Two summers the crew hunted
whales in the northern ocean. Eoyaging
west from the place where the long
with it's cargo of bone and oil. The
crew, made up from the riffraf of the
docks, finds time to scowl passing the
island prison.
From Alaskas west coast comes a
three masted schooner 1t spent a
summer fur trading in mountain lined
inlets, where black forests frown on the
many colored waters and glaciers,
clinging to lofty peaks, catch a thou
sand opalescent tints from the morning
sunrays. Tribute of the forest it
brings in the hold. gathered by long
haired Copper river Indians, who spent
long winter months visiting their traps
on snowshoes; by Siwashes. daring the
ocean swells in tiny skin bidarkas hunt
ing sea otter: by thriftless Americans,
who forgot their own land years ago
when they bought their klootchmen
from the fathers and adopted the life
OF their fish eating neighbors. Trim
lined as yacht, the schooner rode out
a half dozen ugly gales and came flying
back. The skipper. at the wheel. gazes
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close beneath its bluffs. disdainful.
The ships come. each with its re-
nance, the romance of the farther end
of the voyage. They pass in never
ending procession, weary. seeking their
berths now close at hand. For they
have travelled far and bear heavy bur
den from strange lands.
A four masted square rigger. widesof
beam, comes in tow of a foul stacked
ocean going tug. It's painted ports, su-
perstitious relic of the privateering days
when merchantmen disguised them
selves as line of battle ships, tell as
loudly as its country's colors that 1t
came from England. Pig iron from
half a dozen furnaces, whose haring
threats paint Hulrs gray skies a sullen
red in Iurid intervals, weights it deep.
1t fought its way through a North
Atlantic blizzard before the voyage was
10 days old; and months afterward bat
tied against Antarctic gales where the
fog hovers around Cape Horn. It's
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-16
By Fred R. Bechdolt

+" LUMP of rock, man hewn. Al
catraz island. rises from the
n waters OF San Francisco bay,
and in the shadow OF its stark
sides the waters. elsewhere green and
blue and f1ecked with dancing white
become sullen gray The island frowna
upon them like an armored battleship
To the south, across channel ia
nous for its rushing tide, the citys
rooftops kiss the sky To the north
and east, three miles away golden
foothills. climbing toward the sun
caress. reach cloud Swallowed noun
tains. Westward the headlands loom
beside the Golden gate. Bin and head
land. mountain and teeming city-all
arc remote from Alcatraz.
Rising sheer from the narrow shin
gle. the islands cliffs end in success
sion OF terraces, crowded with build
fncs. This terrace formation and its
outline give it resemblance 10 huge
warship lying at anchor across the
stream on the city side. near the
south end, is a cluster Of wooden build
ings, inclosing them a high board wall;
around this. near its summit, plank
walk. And always, pacing to and fro
armed with rifle, one may see from
shipboard soldier. The combination
is unmistakable.
A prison is always a grim thing.
The very sight of its walls brings a
shudder to the most hardened felon.
Ana. though he may have laughed ever
so boldly when he got his sentence, the
biggest braggart of the stews has be-
come q pitiable wretch, indeed, when.
at the end Of his journey with the
officers, he sees the reality in stone
and steel Add to this realization the
knowledge of memorable army disci-
pIine, and you gain an idea Of the blow
which must smite the heart of him
who first crosses the bay to begin his
term in Alcatraz.
The island itself makes the impress
sion more formidable. Save for a
clump or two of trees it is verdure-
less 70 him who sees it from the water.
What beauty Of ruggedness nature had
given the rock has been destroyed by
man, who has gouged it out to straight
outlines with steel and powder. and
so those who pass it in ships are apt
TO look briefly at its bulk, then turn
away; or If their gaze fingers there
Is in it none Of the softness with which
It greets the golden hills and the city.
Alcatraz stands alone, unloved.
Alone. unloved, it parts the waters.
And past 1t comes the commerce Of
e dozen seas. The homing ships come