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New-York tribune., 1909-05-28
RESCUE LITTLE GIRL.
Chemist Held for attempting to
KidnaD ChHd-Taricab BdIkS MOb.

George Dounzio. an Italian chemist, OF No 1S
ZONES street was lodged in a cell at the Charles
street station last night a charge of having
attempted to kidnap Bertha Schmitt the five
vear-oId daughter of Fred Schmitt, baker. at
No 50 Sixth avenue. The Italian picked up the
child at sth street and Sixth avenue. and tried
TO get a taxicab chauffeur TO drive of. but the
chauffeur would not
newsboy. who saw what happened called a
policeman. and. to prevent crowd attacking
the Italian, PatroIman Ward. with the child's
father iunped into the taxicab and had the
chauffeur drive to the station house.
A son of the prisoner later said the father
was demented. having lost upward of 100000
francs in the gaming house at Monte Carlo
after leaving Naples. where he had drug store
and a chemists laboratory The loss of his
wife. two weeks ago. the son said, completely
unset the father
New-York tribune., 1909-05-28
FCLFILS SUICIDE PACT.
Husband Dies on Steps Of Home
Hhere Wife Hanged Herself.
IBy Telegraph 70 The. Tribune !

Baltimore MAJ 27.-Richard Gibney, fifty
years Old. shot and killed himself at midnight
isst night on the front steps Of his former home
n hollins street. where his wife hanged herself
AS January He came here from Danville. Va
Yesterday 10 carry out what is believed TO have
De'n suicide pact between the couple.
They had met reverses. and some time ago
were found unconscious from gas They as
serted az the time that Il was accidental. al
taoush many of their friends believed that the
approach Of poverty u which Mrs Gibney had
horror, had caused them TO attempt suicide
Later the wife succeeded in an attempt to take
Ter life b. hanging.
New-York tribune., 1909-05-28
BUTTON S4VED HIS LIFE.
1t DETECTED Bullet from a Mans
Heart.

Albany May 27.-Isadore Wachsman. clerk If
the CITY Board of Contract and supply whiie
alighting from Pine Hills car. near his home,
On Pine avenue, to-day, was shot by an Italian.
who fed. but later was captured by mounted
patrolman.
Iyachsnan.s heart and was DETECTED. causing
,,,,,, a flesh wound Two others took effect in
the shoulder and leg. and the fourth struck the
car Uachsman is expected to- recover.
The assailant was recognized as an Italian
Who had been hanging around the City Hall am
who is supposed to have had grievance against
Wachsmap
New-York tribune., 1909-05-28
WOULD BLOW Up TOHN
Model Coal City Nnro7cly Escapes
Destruction by Insane Miner.
rBy Telegraph to The TrihuneI

Pittsburg May 27.-The model town OF Mari
anna. where more tban one hundred min|rs
lost their lives seven months ago escaped de-
struction last night. when an insane miner
planned to blow it from the face Of the earth
with dynamite
Because a friend had been sent TO jail ana
another friend had been killed by fall OF slate
Martin KicholsIli. a giant miner. became tenn
porarilv deranged. and placing dynamite at diff
ferent points. connected It by wire with the
intention OF exploding IT all at once and de-
st-oyIng the town. Something went wrong with
the wiring and there were only two small ex-
plosions The police captured Kicholiski after a
hard fight Had the wires not failed, great loss
of life would have cnsued
New-York tribune., 1909-05-28
SOLEMN WARNING TO CONGRESS.
Told to Take Fifty Battleships and Annex
Canada by Force.
rFrom The Tribune Bureau

Washington. May g7.-Speaker Cannon and the
House of Representatives received solemn nOti-
rcatiou from Portland Ore. to-day that Canada
must he taken by the United States This notif-
cation came in the form OF letter signed by a
..x,a,-ar and a citizen and created little amuse-
r,ent in the Speakers office. where Mr.. Busbey
dacinhered the red ink spots The text of the
letter follows
..To the Past. Present and Future Congresses of
the United States
..Centlemen: You'se all hereby notified what
&c going TO happen II you do not take Canada by
force of arms and put continental flag in the
stars and stripes. You will be men and cheered
by the whole world. II you do not war Will go on
unaer the present flag until slavery exists again
1rba ,Vav IL can be done take fifty battleshtps
and shoot inland and smash the capitol Of Ottawa
Trfve the English fleet off the never to rise
again Scarcely anything cam live where lion
r,,,es The rules is that any human betrg has a
right 10 shoot him until he is dead DO not Do
towards
New-York tribune., 1909-05-28
DIES AMONG LEPERS.
Daughter of Consul Loses Life
U'hIe Caring for Mother.

Mexico City. May 27--Mrs. Alice Chopin. a
daughter of former Austrian Consul TO New
Orleans. died here to-day at the home of her
mother in the leper colony. Mrs Choppin's
fathers name was Johns. He married Rose
D'Altney. Both were wealthy, but lost their
fortunes in the civil War and moved 70 Mexico
Mrs Johns developed leprOsv and with her
daughter lived for years in the leper colony.
The mother is still living. She is eighty five
New-York tribune., 1909-05-28
R4ILRO4D EPIGR4WS.
.. j. Hill Coins Fe1c at Great
Northern Hearing.
"a Tel.eragh . . TrIbune- J

lhs 3efgIafn 10 Inc af4Doiilfi
'-'lleapols. May 27.-Some railroad eplgrams
-. - eoined to-day az the Great Northern rate
nssfins in ST Paul. when James J. Hill went On
The s,snd
passenger ever complains of too much
- Mr.. Hi said. in answering question
-. ue Service. We used 10 light the coaches
ioSs Of candles" he said again. and they
considered very nice and safe"
some others were:
ns Passengers cost railroad more than
s-1's - mile 10 haul them"
ningxs ~
to--. 0te something TO get the tobacco off the
Ca. ion see. the rule enforced on the trolley
enforced on the railroads"
vs,. caches in which the people travel in
rss. rs0a are much better than those the rail-
zee IN New England"
New-York tribune., 1909-05-28
BIG HARTMAN LOCOMOTIVE ORDER.

Philadelphia May Fit was reported here to-
aav that a contract for los locomotives had been
n1aced with the Baldwin Locomotive Works by the
hartman lines This Is the largest order placed
with the local firm since the panic of 1901
New-York tribune., 1909-05-28

GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER.
soc per case OF glass stoppered bottes.-Advt-
New-York tribune., 1909-05-28

GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER.
Its purity has made 1t famous. -AdVt-
New-York tribune., 1909-05-28

eeerroN WOODS hotels, WHITE MIS-. N. n.
T@1resentatives at 1850 B way, Tel. 4f+s Mad
AdVt
New-York tribune., 1909-05-28
The liner appears TO be about to n

STEAMER PRINCESS ALICE ASHORE OFF FORT WADSWORIH
the Sa"ah
New-York tribune., 1909-05-28

ur.,. Oss~ooD INN, Greenwich, Conn.
Al6yt onorrow. Ideal place for holiday outing.
Evening star., 1909-04-25
AROUND THE MAYPoLE.

this silvery white little world for the
first time. So much Is said about the
difficulty of observing it that the reader
when he has found it will probably be
surprised to discover how easily seen it
really is. Through a small telescope it
will apear as half moon, while Venus,
on the contrary, is now nearly round.
After reaching the point e, Mercury will
move swiftly backward toward the sun.
passing Venus on June Z, at which time
the two planets will betwo degrees apart.
Halley's Comet.
The most celebrated comet is still be-
ing Systematically searched for by as
tronomers. who expose delicate photo
graphic plates to the region of the sky
In which it is known that Ii will first
makeits appearance. but up to this date
1t has not been detected. Figure 3 is a
copy Of a representation Of the comet
on tapestry. made by the wife of William
the Conqueror at the time of the Nor
man invasion In 1856. Ever since its cap
ture, more than two thousand years ago.
the comet has pursued a closed path
about the sun, drawing near to the earth
at the interval of every seventy-five
years. 1t has always been a bright and
striking object. sometimes stretching
nearly half way across the sky, and
sometimes being bright enough to he
seen In full daylight 1t is very probable
that on its present temperance 1t will
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American flags. There weren't any flag.
of foreign countries. The show was at.
tended by people of all nativities ant
fiags. including several British i5isi. womer nan
not few noblemen Of the continent d
Europe. and SO on. But American fags
were used solely. :.
Just fawncy the indecency Of It, now!
the Canadian women at my table
breathed stertorously 'It was pairfect-
" outrageous, don't you think? Be fair
now. Don't you rale-ly think 1t was out
rageous?"
didn't think SO. wherefore l. declined
to say SO.
why should the British flags have been
exhibited at the horse show?' inquired,
instead OF admitting the proposition.
didn't know why, and was earnestly de-
sirous Of finding out.
why" they exclaimed. obviously hor-
rif1ed at my bullheadedness. ''in honor OF
the large crowd of Canadians who at
tended the show of course.
Probably" said with great humility,
1.-The managers of the horse show hadn't
an idea on earth that there was Cana
dian within several hundred nautical
miles Of the pier. noticed large crowd
number of prominent Chinese. some Of
them from the Chinese embassy at Wash
ington; any number of important Italian
ladies and gentlemen from New York: not
few exceedingly prominent Germans
from Philadelphia, New York and Balti-
other nations. all of them more or less
classy. Yet the flags of these foreigners
lands were not exhibited at the horse
show. Why, then, should the proxy flag,
as It were. of the Guardianship union
jack, that is to say-have been fluttering
from the rafters at this American horse
show being held on an American pier
In an American city, located on q strip
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foreign flag with equal consistency wher
parties of people from those countries
register at my house? When foreigners
of distinction register here out goes the
nag Of their country next to the Americ can
flag. But only then /.
The Canadians were huffy about it. and
acted real peevish about it, SO they did,
but their peeves didn't get them anything,
and the town wasn't staked to any un-
wonted display Of British emblems flap
ping from the hotel staffs The Canadians
went around grouching about the dis
that word Yankees around back Of
their teeth with considerable gusto. by the
way. do these Canadian folk visiting the
United States. and they employ the word
wholly by way 81 a sneer. They are quite
as fond of tossing the word Yankee
erners mot the real southerners, be it dis
tinctly understood) who find themselves
north of Mason and Dixon's line.
A lot of folks around here have been no.
ticing for some time past the growing
bumptiousness OF the Canadians (due,
waiting few extra acres OF wheat out
Winnipeg waD who visit American cities.
A little while ago, in Atlantic City.
happened to be planted at the same hotel
table with couple Of Canadian women
who had dropped down from a Canadian
city to take in the Boardwalk Easte pa
rade. They attended the Atlantic City
breakfast l observed that they were in
great state of wrath and hetupness. as 1t
We're. What do you suppose allied them?
Why they were per-turb-ed. 1t appears
because there wasn't any lavish display
of union jacks a decorative feature Of
the interior OF the pier on which the horse
show was held. The big pier Enclosure I
should say here, was decorated solely with
Evening star., 1909-04-25

days" he said. Not one French maid
out of fifty in the employ Of American
women at the present time Is even a
passable-looking girl. In fact. very few
are capable m;ddle-aged French women
OF the serving class-capable. but every
thing in the world but pretty. The
vogue of the pretty French maid began
TO decline about ten years ago, when. all
IN bunch, as you say in this country. a
lot OF doings involving good-looking
french maids began to gain the atten-
ton of the newspapers A number of
French maids at that time were eloped
with by young sons of the houses in
which they were employed, French maids
began to figure in narrations OF grief filed
by wounded wives seeking divorces from
their husbands, and SO on.
1t was then that all of the requests
left with employment agents for French
maids began to carry the specific clause
that the maids should not be pretty or
even passable looking. 1t was demanded
that they should be competent in every
respect. but that they should be distinctly
and decidedly not good looking. OF course.
no explanation was given In any case as
to why homely French maids were de-
The women who previously had found It
agreeable to have natty. pretty, spick-
and-span French maids about them Seem
ed to awake to the danger all of sud-
den and simultaneously.
Most of our French maids placed in
service in the United States. particularly
in New York. now utilize the general
LONELINESS of their exteriors as their
chief recommendation, and the pretty
French girls who come to the Ur1teA
States, eager for the good money wMca
they've heard is paid by way Of waee4
to French maids I'm this country. find u
absolutely impossible TO obtain positions.
CLARENCE l.. CULLEN.
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c1ERcYmN

Of the American section of the Atlantic
ocean?
They staked me to the monocle gaze
then. gave me up as an impossible Yam
the remainder of their brief little stay
at the table which / had been sitting at
for about eight weeks. But 1 didn't mind
at all. bless your simple little hearts!
At the same hotel number of the
Canadians who hit up Atlantic City for
the Easter doings sought to impress their
peculiar forms of speech upon all hands.
One of them. I heard, telephoned to her
room to the hotel desk demanding to
speak with the clark
"The who. madam said the clerk
who himself answered the phone. He
knew what she meant all right. but he
didn't just exactly care to have it wedged
into him that way.
1.-THE clark-the clark-stoopid"' impa-
tiently exclaimed the Canadian woman In
the telephone.
Don't know the party" replied the
clerk answering the phone. Nobody by
that name here just now. Dye want the
bellbOy or somebody like that?"
Il want to speak to the clark at once
spluttered the Canadian woman in her
phone.
you can mean." replied the clerk.
How pairfectly absaird." exclaimed
the Canadian woman in her phone. Per
haps you would understand me IL l used
that vulgar. impossible Yankee wakid
'.Oh. it's the clerk you're wanting to
talk with coolly replied the top clerk
through the phone. AT your service,
madam. i am the clerk"
WhereupOn she said lot of peevish
things to him because he had resolutely
declined to permit her to get away
with it.
what is this singular waird that see
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In Joyous Froic Round and Round the May Pole


town. The exodus starts. and May day
is almost moving day with them. a date
that was fixed automatically untold CEN
turies ago when the first breath OF spring.
and opening of frozen roads and rivers
to navigation first told man that his sea-
son of winter imprisonment was over.
and that the time had come when he could
seek for himself a better habitation. a
roomier cave. more sheltered ledge on
the cliff or a warmer hut.
Emancipation was the signal for re-
joicing. SO the modern prototype of the
clin dweller or caveman rejoiceS when
kindlier weather lets him take up more,
comfortable quarters. and therefore in
many sections the May day and house
warming celebrations can be comfortably
combined.
Charming matrons invite the friends OF
themselves and their younger folks to
assist in the celebration. There Is dane
ing. procession. crowning Of the queen.
and the revelry winds up in feast, served
in the open on tables that radiate around
the May pole under fiowery bowers which
show the advance of the skillful gardener.
Sunday schools and public schools
have in many cases picked out the May
day as time for celebration.
The action is welcomed by many re-
ligieus persons who have felt that it was
a mistake to blend the secular features
to a welcome to spring with the Easter
tide.
With a new holiday added to the list.
one that comes early in the spring, 1t will
be the more readily possible to divest
Easter Of anything but its strictly re-
ligious celebration. and conf1ne the diver
sion and merriment Of the coming OF the
triumph Of the vernal season to the his
toric May day.
England has had it's May day SO long
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consenting to the sale OF Manhattan
Island by the Indians to the Dutch.
The thing is only interesting as indi-
eating the Pickwickian meter of some
clergymen when they get together for
the dreamy purpose of trying to accom-
plish civic reforms. and as illustrating,
too. that the world do move; for, even
so short time as five years ago il would
have been hard to find in New York
even one minister SO willing to surrender
OF grog.
THE other day an excursion party of
some 1000 Canadians. men and
women. swooped upon New York
They scattered themselves around among
the various Broadway and 5th avenue
hotels and proceeded to make themselves
into busy little boosters for the banner
known as the Union Jack.
That is to say, each Canadian party
registering at a New York hotel went
to the manager of said hotel promptly
after registering and demanded" that the
Union Jack be stated in front of the
hotel In their honor.
1t is a point Of intense satisfaction
that ii is possible here to record that
the union jack wasn't displayed in front
queer, kinkish. bumptious demand was
made by the chirky, aggressive Canadi-
ans. Not one of the New York hotel
managers could "see it," and they all
told the Canadians so In more or less
succinct terms.
What for?" was the gist OF the man
ayers inquiries OF the Canadians when
this demand was made of them "Why
shouldn't I exhibit the Italian or the
Swiss or the Spanish or any other old
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arc favoring what they call "open Sunday
drinking during certain hours of the Sab
bath. Their view is that. inasmuch as the
Sunday drinking can't be stopped in this
town. they might as well give their con-
sent to it so that the booze-fghting busi-
ness on the Lords day shall not also
make hypocrites of its devotees.
There's a certain amount of humor. in
this attitude of the grouped ministers.
IL reminds one OF the frazzled old yarn
about the bartender who asked his Irish
boss IL Mike Sweeney was good for a
drink. HAS Moike had tn drink the
boss asked the bartender He has" re-
piled the latter. Then he Is" said the
boss.
Because you see. the Sunday drinking
has been just about as open here as
the face of a ninety-cent watch for ever
SO many years more than anybody cares
10 remember. that the minister's ad-
vocacy of open" Sunday drinking is just
about as superf1uous as a wen or a
freckIe. II is as IL the minister persons
twhose sense of humor is just about what
might be expected passed resolutions
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festival forms one of the events of the
school year. few preparations have been
made as yet. When the girls return next
week from the Easter holidays. however
the choice of May queen will be made
and plans will be outlined for an elabo-
rate floral festival.
This year will see May day taking its
place as an almost universal holiday.
II has been steadily progressing to that
point for a long while. Little by little
people with a love of the beautiful, with
an affection for things of the outdoor
world. have learned to see the beauty of
the yearly festival that comes at time
when the flowers have reached the ulti-
mate of their brilliancy, and the smiling
skies. the sunshine and the soft breezes
Of spring sound a call to mankind to
get out into the open.
Perhaps the first of those who rose
to the possibilities of a revival, or rather
the establishment In this country of the
Evening star., 1909-04-25

course across the western heavens. The
midsummer star Spica. the beautiful
biuish sun which marks the spike Of
wheat held in the hand of the Virgin, has
nearly reached the meridian. while in the
southeast the claws OF the Scorpion are
well above the ground, and soon this
figure. the most striking of all the sum-
mer groups, will have risen entirely from
the horizon.
The entire winter branch Of the Milky
Way lies along the ground in the west,
and in the east the summer branch is
just appearing, SO that now for a few
weeks both branches can be seen at one
time. On q clear night this pathway of
stars may beseen to extend around the
entire heavens from the southeast
through the north to the southwest
The enormous constellation of the
Great Bear, of which the Great Dipper
is a part, is now almost exactly over
head. while near this one may trace
out Bootes. the Driver. the delicate lit
tie northern crown. and the large but
less striking group Hercules, with it's
wonderful star cluster at c, Fig. 1. To
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A MAY DAY PARADE IN NEW YORK.

that no one knows when 1t really started.
The generally accepted idea is that it
sprung from the open air ceremonials of
the Druids. that curious and awesome
Of residence In the British kingdom in
the ruins of Stonehenge. believed to have
been one OF their temples.
The Druids had many pantheistic ideas
They were worshioers of nature. Their
religious rites included many gorgeous
professionals. and tradition tells of how
the spring1ide was ever welcomed by
marches of gaily dressed maidens, rich in
flowers and ornaments.
Rome and Greece both have similar pro-
cessionals in honor of the worship, for
instance of Venus. and the Vestals took
part In professionals that might we'll
serve for the origin of the cresent-day
customs.
Along the Rhine the worship Of Freia,
Goddess of Youth. in heather days in
volved dancing and singing on part of
the beautiful young girls Of the kingdom.
and in many other countries can be traced
ceremonials of similar nature.
In the United States the custom is Curl
ously mixed up with the memory of a
great Indian chieftain, whose name is
borne by one of the most noted political
organization OF the new world. Tam
many, the ruling power in the politics
of New York city.
1t is a somewhat curious thought to
connect the chieftain of the Lenapes, a
stern, intelligent Indian. with the frivols
of a Mayday celebration, yet it a
fact well demonstrated that the early
festivals on the May day in this coun-
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All the bells OF the cities used to he
rung, there were parades on part of the
militia and feasts that included elaborate
spreads Of fish and liberality OF wire
that would startle the most hardened OF
modern diners-out.
But time came when the memory Of
Tammany no longer availed to produce
the May-day fete and possession Of the
day gradually passed over to the laboring
man. with his parades and his unions.
Many times has capital trembled in
apprehension over what upheavals might
follow the proceedings of the May-day
labor parade, and especially has this been
the case in monarchcal countries, where
the coming of the springtide day was
made the signal for demonstrations of
strength on the part of socialists.
But with the coming of better under
standing between employer and employed
it begins to look as though the beauti-
full festival, floral May-day celebration of
charming young girls and children would
be the only form of observance to pre-
vail. ceremonial of peace and charm,
divested of all pcrtent Of strikes or strife.