The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-08-13
Stray Topics and Newsy Notes
OF Interest From New York
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New York. Aug. 13.-As the work
OF arranging and tabulating the sta
tistics obtained at the last United
States census progresses, bulletins APP
pear In print from time to time, Civ
ing some Of the cities, particularly in
the west. welcome opportunity to
crow over the marvellous growth Of
their population since the last prev
ious census. OF course. that is all
very good and the figures, in some
cases. are really surprising, but after
all. 1t must not be forgotten that the
east too, has few cities of quite
respectable size and population. There
is, for instance. New York. Not that
the city intends to brag of its size,
population and strenuous activity-far
from it, for New Workers. are motor
iously modest-but merely to show
that in Gotham too there is some
thing doing few interesting fig
ures have been prepared by local
statistician. In accordance with these
statistics of the daily life of New
phone calls. and every two seconds an
arrest; every 80 seconds an immi-
grant lands; every minute 40 tons of
coal are burnt; every Is minutes there
is marriage: every hour a fatal acct
dent; every hour and "a minutes a
fire; every eight hours divorce, and
every 10 hours a suicide. Now, let
some other city in the United States
come forward and beat that record.
An interesting school board election
was held in Manhasset, L. l., the other
day in which William A. Warren, the
head coachman Of Mr.. Harry Payne
Whitney, defeated Stephen H. Mason
multi-millionaire resident of Man.
hasset, who was candidate for re.
election. The somewhat surprising
outcome Of the election was principal
ly due to two reasons. One was that
Warren carrieds on a strenuous cam
paign and even furnished ample trans
portation facilities to the polling place
for the voters of the town, while his
opponent refused to solicit votes. The
other reason was that Warren is the
father of a large family-of which fact
he made the most extensive use as
campaign argument-whiel his op-
ponent, although married, has no chill
dren.
Equally interesting was the school
board election at Tarrytown, where
many wealthy and socially prominent
New Workers have their residences.
There two tickets were in the field,
hA 1nl-
ticket" strongly advocated by the
woman suffragists of the town. Al
though the women made. frantic ef.
forts to win and used persuasion and
their automobiles literally, their tickle.
was defeated by a vote of more than
4 to l.
Efforts are being made among the
Roman Catholics Of this city to raise
funds for the erection and mainten-
ance Of a church for deaf mutes in
which the service is to be- read and
the sermons delivered in the sign
language. There are several thousand
deaf mutes in New York City, about
1000 of them belonging to the Roman
Catholic church. 1t is expected that
the Protestant churches will eventu-
ally unite in a similar effort for the
benefit OF the Protestant deaf mutes.
There is an old saying that honesty
is its own reward. That is undoubted-
ly true in most cases, but it seems
that this somewhat discouraging char.
aeteristic is in some cases at least,
also shared by heroisu,. The other
day brave man jumped into the riv-
er and saved the life of a man who
had fallen into the water from a dock.
The man whose life he saved was a
worthless hobo who was in the habit
of loafing on the dock and who had
rolled into the river while taking q
snooze. In saving the hobo's life tn.
heroic rescuer dropped his wallet, con-
tanning 500 into the muddy and swift
ly flowing waters of the Hudson. Talk
about bad luck.
1t has happened more than once
that man shot some inoffensive per-
son installing 1t for burglar. but
new record was established by a
Brooklyn man the other night. when
he shot himself. believing that he was
shooting at burglar. He awoke dur.
ing the night and. hearing some slight
noise. probably caused by mice. jump
ed to the conclusion that there was q
burglar in his room. Cautiously he