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The daily sentinel., 1909-03-23

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J e. Mckenzie. the plumber
The daily sentinel., 1909-03-23

Mr. and Mrs. S. NJ. Logan left this
afternoon for Denver on short busi-
ness and pleasure trip.
The daily sentinel., 1909-03-23

w. c. Becker. of Gypsum. is in the
city today transacting business.
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EXPERIMENT TO
BE MADE BY BALLOONISTS

New York, March 23.-Onc of
the most notable balloon ascen-
sions ever attempted in this
country, possibly in the world,
will soon take place from Spring.
field, Mass. when an effort will
be made to reach an altitude
greater than ever before attain
ed by man.
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Largest and latest designs of posta
cards at Cameron's. An Main street
The daily sentinel., 1909-03-23

Phone Junction 176 for Excelsior
Loundry.
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Clarence Lamb. large stock buyer
of Denver. is in the city today
The daily sentinel., 1909-03-23

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$1,000 to loan on city property
Glasco-Lee Realty Co.
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LONDON'S SMOKE PROBLEM.
II Is Attributed Chicny 70 Open Fires In
the Homes.

Tho smoke problem Of London is
chiefly due to the domestic fire crate.
ana for that reason the conference and
exhibition held there In the winter Of 1906
were productive az little visible result.
To an Englishman the open fire graf
with it, smoky fame is n OF the most
essential features OF his domestic happi-
ness and comfort.
Unfortunately no modified form OF
open Hro CRATE which will burn btu
mino'ia flel without smoke has yet been
devised. although many experiments
have pcen made In this direction. Since
the American. method OF heating rooms
by hot air o. by steam pipes Is unpopular
in England. and the coke or anthracite
stove is equally unacceptable, the only
hope that London may in time possess
an atmosphere equal in clearness to that
OF New York. Paris or Berlin lies in the
use Of partially cooked fuels like coalite,
or in the extended Applicant Of a cheap
gas for heating purposes.
Progress Ia no doubt occurring in both
these directions, says Cdssier's Hdpdsine,
and this will grow more rapid as the sup
plies OF thess two forms Of fuel are in
creased and oheapened. Tho domestic
smoke problem in fact not only In London
but In other large towns and cities OF the
United kingdom is likely 70 be solved
along these lines.
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BULLS HEAD TAVERN AS IT WAS IN 1875.

day. What it lacked in brilliancy OF
Illumination it made up in other things,
at least so Charlie Morlath will tell you
at tho Atlantic Garden, where he has
been for half a century watching New
York gradually growing away from it's
old haunts OF pleasure.
OF tina old places where gay New York
used to disport itself in the sos along
tho Bowery only the Atlantic Garden
and the Thalia Theatre are left, the one
much older than the other. for the ITALIA
is hear the century mark, while the Garden
only last month celebrated it's Afty-irst
birthday. Since the time when it sup
piled the Garden with q fashionable
trade between the acts Of the opera the
old Thalla has passed through many
vicissitudes OF management and Of for
tune and is winding up It's days as a !Yid-
dish theatre.
Not 30 the garden, for through the
ffty-one years Of its history 1t has re-
msinsd practically unchanged in appear
Anoe, has been continuously under the
same night management and has to-day the
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
4 NORMANDY FARMHOUSE ~
THE POCANTICO HILLS.

Old Stone Fences Supplied Building
MAtorfsl-mtertor Finished in Eng.
iish Eighteenth Century Styies-Golf
Room and Onlce for Mr.. Rockefe ller.
John d. Rockefeller has long had a
country home in the estate OF two thou
ssnd acres that he owns in the Pocantioo
Hills, but the house which he 10Y occu-
pies was only recently finished. A high
point in this stretch OF rolling country
haA always been regarded a. the inevi-
table. site for q homo which should some
day be put up there. INC when the former
house on the estate was destroyed by
fire the construction Of Mr.. o. kefeller's
present summer home was begun.
Tho site overlooks the Hudson and
sweeps the valley for miles to the south
OF .hs Pooantioo Hills, and the distant
view Of New York is emphasized by the
thip. spires Of the Singer Building and
the Metropolitan Building, Northward
the picture stretches to West Point.
Delano 4 Aldrich were the architects
81. the house, which Mr.. Rockefeller in
sisted should be a simple country home
and not o rival to some OF the ostenta-
nous houses that ornament the West
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same Waterman ever that it had when 1t
opened and invited folks to drop in for a
drink and a sandwich and a little good
music. In a city changing 30 rapidly as
New York you can't find many places
with such a record as this, and that Is
why some Of those who regard 1t as a
landmark and as one Of the few reminders
Of the Bowery's palmy days are concerned
al they sec the great structure OF steel
coming toward it from the waterfront
and realiz re the Transformation that must
take place when its terminus becomes a
traffic centre.
They haven't turned thumbs down on
the old Garden yet. but ven II they don't
the great bridge will come hear to grazing
it, and a demand has gone up from the
advocates Of the City Beautiful for a great
plaza at the Bowery and Canal street that
would certainly wipe out the Garden.
Almost everybody has dropped into the
garden once and almost everybody is
to a certain extent acquainted with the
woman orchestra. This orchestra has
been there thirty-six years, not the same
women TO be sure, but an orchestra made
up OF the tender sex, for it is one Of the
things the garden boasts Of, the intro
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maker was evidently treated by them a. q
joke. The bookmaker wrote across the
return that he made his living BY backing
and laying against horses or, in other
words. by gambling. The law said that
gambling was illegal. and it was there
fore impossible for him TO make a 10
turn OF income obtained In this way.
1t is doubtful whether the income tax
authorities entered into any discussion
OF the means by which the boomsker's
income Ia obtained. They probably t.
sessed him at a good round sum, and
thus compelled him either to accept the
assessment or to disclose his actual in
come.
A case is readable, however, In which
the income tax commissioners. through
a mistake, had a joke played on them by
George Grossmith. the we'll known actor
manager. Long after his fathers death
the commissioners sent MIR. Grossnith .
notice assessing the income Of the de-
ceased at $4,000. Mr.. Grossmith returned
the document to the proper quarter, with
the following note written across II:
Il am glad to learn my father is doing
SC we'll in the next world; $4,000 is q great
deal more than he ever made In this.
Kindly forward this notice TO his new
address and remember me a~Iectonately
to him. 90
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DAY" IN LONDON
Gontfn ued from First Page.

devising special equipments for airship
passengers. One offering is an extremely
light airship travelling trunk made OF
aluminium, with cunning leather attach
ments for fastening to the airship car.
The -malle-aero.' to give il its interna-
tional name. has no compartment for the
large. fashionable feminine hat. but II con
tains with other things a small medicine
chest filled with medioaments that may he
useful for a s~ojourn in high attitudes.
Evidently the inventors have considered
the inexperience Of & oenhorns in airship
travelling. For their benefit and guild
anoe the following aerial ten command
ments are printed on the lid:
l. 10 not fear accidents; the airsh.p lie
safe enough and cannot. like q train. run OF
the rails.
=. Keep calm: do not Midget or throw your
arms and legs about In your excitement.
=, Do not smoke.
{. DO not light matches.
S. Do not make a nuisance OF yourself
byV making COMMONPLACE remarks about
the advance OF modern science. Ever, =
body knows 1t Is advancing.
8. Re sensible about your equipment.
!. Do not take useless baggage; the
necessary things are heavy enough.
5. Wear sensible garments. II ia cold
high up In the air.
o. Do not grumhle because there Is no
dining car on the airship.
10. Do not despise ordinary land travel
lers. 1t was not you who invented airships.
The youthful appearance OF the chill
dren Of the late King Christian OF Dem
mark is remarkable. In addition to the
Queen OF England, who eclipses the rest
in this respect, there is the gay and spruce
Georgios OF Greece. To look at him, with
his hat on the back Of his head and an
appreoiable tilt toward n ear, he is a
person OF anything but patriarchal
aspect.
Yet he is a great-grandfather. To be
sure, he became SO only q week ago
when his granddaughter who 10 married
to Prince Wilhelm Of Sweden gave birth
to a son. The Prince is the second son
OF the King Of Sweden and has many
friends in the United States Of America
since his visit a couple OF years ago.
signor Alberto scarpettini publishes
in La Vita OF Rome an account Of a recent
visit he made to Messina. He found the
harbor crowded with vessels loading
and disoharging oargoes.
At the landing place there were about
twenty hotel porters who stood in line
awaiting the arrival OF passengers and
shouted out the names OF the hotels
they represented. all high sounding
names, as for instance: Grand Hotel
MessinA. Grand Hotel Rome, Grand
Hotel Regina Elena. Hotel Messina
Rediviva. Close by there was a cab
stand.
The principal streets cleared OF the
ruins are full Of shops. The ate Of the
ruined city 10 still inhabited and the
1872 provisional huts built Immediately
after the earthquake are all used, al.
though they should be demolished In
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thing Judge Dinnean Of the Gardens
old guard, will tell you as he points ou'
Pop Kelly.
Pop was born on the Bowery a lew doore
away from the Garden and he has worked
and lived there all his life. They put in
one Of the new tangled time clocks not
many years ago. but it has never caught
the old Waterman mapping. Pop Is always
there on the birthday night to meet the
old timers and see the candles lighted in
the empty Rhine wine bottles on the long
table to mark the age Of the place.
enjoy the distinction II once had OF being
one OF the show places OF New York.
Years ago they used to give some OF the
big public dinners there. For many years
too it wa the place where folks went to
hear the famous foreign bands.
Sarro's German military band, which
q the King Of Prussia, and the Red
Hussars, the pride Of the Austrian En-
peror, made their first appearances there;
and it was there that people went In
great crowds in 1865 to see the first
orchestrion ever shipped across the
ocean. II had been purchased by Mr..
for whom II was made. Rumor had 1t
that he had paid a fabulous sum for this
curiosity.
Nothing like it had ever been seen here
before, and for a time II put all the must
clans in the shade. II was finally re-
turned to Germany and in Its place there
was erected the one that took first prize
at the worlds fair, They still use this to
relieve the woman orchestra.
Tho favor Of the past still fingers over
the old Garden, even though the crowds
have changed. Its big auditorium. built
10 seat 1900 people. still holds It's crowds
and the women blow their horns and beat
their drums as valiantly a. they did
when the first womun orchestra there
was a sensation OF tho town, but it's
patrons are now recruited from races
thet the Bowery hardly knew then, and
u IL only once a year, when 1t keeps its
birthdays, that the old Germans who were
wont 70 gather there nightly come back
out Of sentiment to show that they still
remember II.
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chester hilltops,. The architects have
followed generally the plan OF a Nor
mandy farmhouse. although they have
!BarriAced other considerations to the
physical characteristics Of the site, They
have sought to make the house appear
as the natural summit Of the hill on which
It stands.
The line OF the elevation is carried out
In the house and especially emphasized
In the towering roof Of green slate. This
10 three stories high.
This material OF which the house was
built came chiefly from the old walls
which used to cross the estate. The
best OF the stone in form and color was
selected and it also serves for the ter
ncea 1t has the advantage Of being
weather stained and thus imparts to the
house. an appearance which might other
wise have been delayed for years.
Tho house will be occupied chiefly
during the open air months and that
Characteristic is revealed in the form Of
the building. On the south the piazzas
optn to the terrace and gardens with a
descent Of only a few steps. About this
-ieyet Of the house there are piazzas or
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continued such a short time-and still
Enthusiastically English.
The simplicity Of the entahlature coun-
.terbalances the elaborate o~rnamentation
of the chimneypiece. The metal masks
OF the four branched soonces are made
to match the smaller masks Of the fire.
place. Details appropriate to the period
are the fire screens done in the manner
OF Angelica Kaufman and the lamp
shades, also true to the Chinese sugges-
ton Of C~hippendale not only in their
pictures but in their form as well. The
rooms with the round top windows have
elaborate hangings Of richly harmonious
colore.
An exception to the rule OF white pan
elled woodwork and mahogany is found
in MIR. Rockefeller's Office. which is done
in oak. 1t conforms &c the decorative
idea of the period OF William and Mary.
The woodwork is rich brown in color and
the furnishings OF a deep red. The sofa
and chairs are in upholstery Of glowing
red with a small design. The round top
windows are hung with harmonious
draperies and the entire walls are com
posed OF the red oak.
There is red rug on the floor to match
the furniture and the lights are placed
in brackets made in direct imitation Of
c%andelabra of the period. The portraits
OF famous French ~hnanciers hang on the
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duction Of a real. genuine lady orehes-
ira, as the programme calls 1t, TO the good
people Of New York.
When old William Kramer, the founder
Of the Garden, was looking about for ways
to entertain his patrons he thought OF this
and got straight from Berlin the first
woman orchestra that ever arrived in
America. IL was under the direction Of
Nine. Blechsohmidt, and IL caused a
great sensation when the Madame waved
her baton for the first time up in the old
gallery that preceded the present stage
and the newcomers from Berlin showed
that there we're women who could drum
and play like the men.
Although IL cant be recognized as IL
stands to-day, part Of the Garden is the
old Bulls Head Tavern OF the Revolution.
Washington Is said TO have made his head
quarters for a time In the old tavern.
The tavern was three stories high.
They nave built on TO il since, but IT is
still there. 1t had no cellar and there isn't
you to-day. The old hand made beams
OF the tavern still help to support the
present building.
Behind the old tavern was a cattle yard,
and when William Kramer opened his
little beer garden in 1858 this had become
a coal yard. Later "a business grew he
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terra ces on every side. The southern
end Is finished by the formal garden.
The ground falls of toward the north
end Of the house abruptly and here there
are six stories. The first or ground floor
on this side of the house contains a So
called golf room which is supplied with
lockers. bathrooms and such v
fences. The entrance to this room leads
to the links, and eight windows with
rounded tops light the room.
Over this room is a broad piazza COW
cred with a pergola. William Welles
Bosworth. the landscape architect who
laid out the grounds, has also made use
OF the old stone which provided the build
ing material for the house.
The portion OF this first floor not oocu-
pied by the golf room Is used for the SER
vice quarters OF the house, and these are
for the most part finished in tiles and
enamelled brick.
On a level with the formal garden on
the south OF the house which it over
looks is the main floor OF the house.
Here are the drawing room. Mr.. Rookie
feller's Office. the central hall. which con-
tains a pipe organ and serves as a music
hall, the library and the dining room.
All these rooms open on the terraces
Eleven masters and ten servants sleep
ing rooms are on the second floor.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
Don't Diet For Fat

You have no appetite for cruel. have your
By the same token. II you scale In excess
OF $50 pounds. ! know you have no rreN
liking for gymnasium stunts. IA q rue
fat folks are neither athletic nor asceoc.
except under compulsion, and nowsdsys
they are not under compilation to ne
either. no matter how necessary II IL ior
them to reduce. There il . third, better.
and surer "a OF getting rid OF supernnou'
desh.
The trouble with both dieting and eisf'
else Is. first. the trouble; second. the dan
ger fatty hesrt): third, wrinkles; ana,
fourth. stomach disgust. You are hsoi'
to all four II you exercise or diet. On the
other hand. you can sidestep all four ana
still reduce a. much or little as you please
even up to losing . pound . day II you SEE
At. by taking . t~easpoonful After mean
and at bedtime OF the following simple
home receipt: one-half ounce harnoiA'
4 ounce Fluid Extract Cascara
and az ounces Peppermint water.
Any druggist VIII oil this prescr1ptlon
perfect confidence that II Will DO no mSn.
ner Of harm. lns,oed II almost inysri Som.
plext0n.
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walls and then, anaehronistic pendent, 10
a typewriter, which Is about the only
thing in the room to suggest modern
business.
The mouldings on the long oak panels
are without ornament. while at eithef side
of the round top windows arc pilastsrs
meeting a perfectly single oornice. An
old mirror OF Queen Anne design hsngs
over the chimney hearth. which contains
no shelf. The wall treatment OF this
o ID in the manner Of Christopher
Wren.
To suggest the work Of another noted
decorator OF the eighteenth century. there
is the cupola in the hall OF music room
copied after that which lingo Jones put
into Ashburnham House in London.
Thus has Mr.. Goldman completed il the
ornamentation Of the first floor his anthol-
ogy OF British decorations.
The eighteenth century also pTeySiiB
on the floor above, which Ii dedicated To
the sleeping rooms. Mrs. Rockefellers
oom 10 finished In the style OF the Adams,
while Mr.. Rockefeller's room is Chippeo.
dale. The guests rooms are equally true
TO the eighteenth century English dcoora-
ton. They are furnished to a consider.
able extent with rare old pieces appto-
riate to the period OF the room and carry
out the decorators idea Of elegance and
simplicity.
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order to facilitate the clearing OF the
ruins.
Two wooden encampments have been
built on each side of the city, the So
called Piano della Giostra on the left
Further away is the American village,
connected with the Piano della Moselle
by means Of a bridge IS metres long
spanning the Zasra. The following are
the numbers OF all the huts built at
Messina: Inside the city 1908 Italian
huts, 9s2 American houses and IS sheds
for Offices: in the suburbs and nearby
villages, 1904 Italian huts, A Ameri-
Can houses and 80 sheds for offices.
There are besides over 541 huts. not yet
completed, being built by foreign relief
committees, and about 5000 provisional
huts which must be demolished.
One passage in Signor Scarpettini's
article is as follows;
i cannot understand why American
wood and labor should be praised SO
much. The American houses are built
Of wood only 4 millimetres (,157e inch)
thick and they have been built by Italians,
as the two American master carpenters
and twelve bluejackets spend most
OF their time playing baseball, for which
they have laid DOT a special field. Mean
while OH Government is spending $500
a day for building these houses"
Spanish prisons have 80 long held the
evil reputation OF being dank and fear
some dungeons that il comes as a surprise
to learn that the NINA ties OF the Central
Prison Of Madrid have been having a real
good time; 80 much 80 that Senior Salillas,
the governor OF the prison, has just been
dismissed on account Of his too tolerant
views on prison regime.
1t appears that among other privileges
enjoyed by the convicts in this model
prison was that Of publishing a weekly
journal appropriately named Force.
Copies of this were sold in the prison at n
peseta 90 cents) each. but the PRINCIPAL
source of revenue was the advertisements
Several long sentence men were allowed
to keep stocks OF wine, coffee. scnp and
playing cards, which they retailed to their
comrades, advertising them for sale,
for instance. at Cell No. - second
gallery"
Inc Minister OF ule INFERIOR learned the
facts and suppressed the journal and the
prisoners traffic In commodities.
The sale OF rare first editions OF Swim
burne's works. including several very
little known books, realized rather small
prices. contrary to expectation. The
following were sold for sums which are
likely to be greatly enhanced when next
they are put up to auction: -Atalanta in
Calydon.' with autograph. 1895, ses;
-Poems and Ballads three series, 1906
1880, sss; Dead Love- lin original
wrapper). SIS; CLEOPATRA lin original
wrapper), s24; Under the MICROSCOPE
very scarce; an attack on Robert Buchanan
and Alfred Austin, ss4; The Question:
1887. a poem whereof only twenty-five
copies we're printed, 500.
The income tax authorities sometimes
reoeive returns which are rather pushing,
but the return recently made by . book.
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piece is especially severe, but shows
In it's decoration all the characteristics
of the Adam school. The windows in
these DON have square tops. the round
curtains" to which Sheraton devoted
a part Of his book on upholstery being
reserved for the dining and living rooms.
Tho dining Dom has more ornate carved
surfaces than the drawing room and the
furniture 10 Chinese Chippendale. The
dining table is distinguished by the rare
lattice work. As a nuance in the school
OF Chippendale there is a aide table in
this designers French manner-rare,
since this devotion to foreign goods
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SANE OLD ATLANTIC GARDEN
GOING ALONG NOW AS IN THE
BOWERY,S PALMY DAYS.

strange Races Now Listen to Its Woman
Orchestra Instead Of the Germ ans
Of Early Days, but Otherwtse II ID Tn.
altered-Oid Employees Who Hnger.
Many interesting changes are about
10 be wrought in the heart OF old New
York Al the Maphattan Bridge nears
completion. The bridge is going to
carve a great hole out OF the very centre
Of the district where the young blades
Of tho sos used to disport themselves
At night. where folks vent in their car
riagcs to the opera and supped and wined
just as they do to-day uptown.
They didn't call the Bowery the Great
White Way in those days because the
electric light hadn't appeared, and the
best they could do was to use the fitful
gas light. and not very good gas at that.
and with this sort OF illumination no.
body thought Of giving the old Tenderloin
q name such as It's successor bears to-
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The owners office Is across the hall
from the drawing room. The dining
room and library are on the western side
Of the house. and besides opening on the
broad terrace at this point they have q
beautiful view of the Hudson.
Ogden Goldman. who decorated the two
lower floors Of the house. has kept within
the limits OF the eighteenth century.
although allowing himSelf a wide range
among the styles Of that period. The
various rooms show the styles OF Sheraton.
Hepplewhite and the Adam brothers.
The most striking feature Of the rooms
as a whole is the white ~panelled wood