The National tribune., 1909-03-25

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mother was a granddaughter Of John
Jacob Astor) came flying down to him
when they heard of the tragedy, but
Mr.. Chanler would have none of them,
and refused to allow them to come to
Merry Mills"
Our navy yards employ large num-
bers of workmen who do not belong to
the service, but are engaged and paid
by the Government, and the comfort
and well-being of this class has become
the special care of Miss Anne Morgan,
the generous-hearted, philanthropic
daughter of j. Pierpont Morgan. That
is, Miss Morgan is to do for the Brook
lyn Yard what she hopes will be done
for the other yards over the country.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard is in a neigh
borhood where there are no good res
taurants, and the workmen have been
forced to go to the saloons for their
luncheon. Miss Morgan has secured
from the Government the use of a large
warehouse in the yard, which she is to
convert into restaurant. The building
will accommodate 700 men, and Miss
Morgan intends they shall have a good,
hot, appetizing luncheon at a small
price. She is aided in this movement
by many well-known society women OF
the Metropolis. There is no member
of the wealthy, leisure class more ac-
tive in good works than Miss Morgan.
Her charities and philanthropic inter-
ests are too numerous to mention, and
embrace almost everything from teach
ing in the Sunday School to the per-
formance of her duties as Chairman of
the New York section of the National
Civic Federation. 1t is said that Miss
Morgan receives from her father a
yearly allowance of $4,000. out of
which she spends only $1,000 on her
self. All the rest she puts into her
charities. Money: does not always, thank
God, make people unmindful of the
sufferings of those less fortunate than
themselves.
The people of Pittsburg are generally
very wide awake, indeed, and little
which takes place in their city escapes
observation, yet Mr.. Carnegie has Just
put up a s1,000,000 building there with
out anyone, except those connected with
its construction, knowing really any
thing about ii. The new building is
che Carnegie School of Applied Science.
and is fine structure. Mr.. Carnegie
felt he had a great joke on the Pitts
burgers by getting his big building up
without the usual talk; but, all the
same, it is difficult to see how he did
accomplish this.
If the bill now before the Illinois
Legislature becomes law, it will put a
good many men in a decidedly uncom-
Portable position. The bill prohibits
any habitual drunkard from marrying
in that State, and an "habitual drunk
ard Is defined as one who gets drunk
twice year or oftener. Any man wish
ing to lead to the altar the woman Of
his choice must, upon making applica-
ton for a license, also make affidavit
that he has not been on more than one
real spree" during the year Any leg
islation which really keeps a girl from
marrying man pretty certain to prove
bad husband is a good thing for the
community. But a man who twice a
year or so takes a little too much does
not by any means consider himself an
"habitual drunhard," and would hotly
resent any such insinuation, yet the
moderate drinker is really a menace to
society and his example a pernicious
one, for from him is evolved the habit
ual drunkard." Would this bill, how
ever, If passed, either stop the practice
OF moderate drinking or prevent matri-
mony2 1t is doubtful. The only way
to break up temperate intemperance is
for the girls themselves, not one class
of girls, but ALL rich girls and poor
girls, girls in high society and low. to
take decided stand on this question,
and really refuse to have anything to
do with young man who looks upon
Wine when 1t is red or any other color
Miss Annie Peck, our crack mountain
climber, the Providence woman who
would rather scramble up a mountain
side than do anything else. has received
a fine gold medal from Peru for her
successful ascent Of Mount Huascaran.
in that country. The mountain is sup
posed to be $4,000 feet high, and I'm at
tanning its summit Miss Peck made her
self the champion of the world in this
respect No man or woman of any land
has reached a similar hight. Poor Miss
Peek had a dreadful time during this
climb, lost one of her mittens and near
~ froze her hand off, etc. but she stuck
II out pluckily to the end. OF course
she has done all the usual stunts of the
mountain climber, and refers to Mount
Blanc, etc, as another woman would
speak of run down town. Miss Peck
is slender, rather frail-Iooking little
won2an, and at one time was professor
of Latin in Smith College, at Northamp-
ton Mass.
Missouri has the greatest number of
apple trees of any single State in the
Union, 20,040,399, but New York pro-
duces the most apples. There are near
ly 30O, 100000 trees bearing this fruit III
the whole country. Two men enjoy the
distinction of being. called apple
kings" one FOR the quality of his fruit
and the other for the quantity. The
first is Mr.. Horan, of Wenatchee, Wash,
who was awarded prize of $1,000 for
the fine flavor and appearance of his
fruit at a recent apple show, and who,
speaking of his apples and other fruit
which he raises on his farm, said he
had been offered $4,000 an acre for
land which cost him so cents The other
Apple King" is Judge Wellhouse, Of
Topeka, Kan, who has over 1000 acres
of apple trees. and has sold more than
a half million bushels of apples from
sales