The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-07
CRUSADE AGAINST
DEMON NICOTINE
Appeal to Club Women to Aid
in Stopping Habit of
Smoking.
GENTLER SEX BECOME
ADDICTED TO HABIT
Alice Roosevelt -LongwOrth Set
the Pace for Smoking, 9th
ers Have Followed.
BY RALPH JOHNSTON,

Ioy iseJScu WlIc W ne IIlpule.
NEW YORK, Aug. Gin an appeal
to the club women Of the country to aid
her crusade against the influence OF
Demon Nicotine among the women OF
this nation, Miss Lucy Page CASTOR OF
Chicago declared that not only was the
cigarette habit increasing among the
gcntler sex, bat asserted that the prac-
tce among women had grown to such
lengths that many no longer were satls
ned with mere cigarettes, but had be-
come inveterate users of cigars. She
spoke In vehement terms of what she
called the ''perniclous influence be-
ing constantly eXerted by publicity
gwen to cigarette smoking by Alice
acknowledgement and Miss Eleanor
Sears, the famous golfer and social
favorite of Boston. ''Thc cigarette
habit is growing rapidly among the
college girls said Miss CASTOR, "and
it is high time that something was
done to check it. The cigarette habit
has spread to Chicago, and it is quite
common among society folks. But l
worse in New York, and one of the first
things / shall do when | get my organ
ization perfect this fall will be to APP
peal TO members of the Colony club
here. | understand that most of its
members of high social standing are
cigarette users Women are too nerv-
Gus to try cigarettes to quiet their
nerves, as many OF them do. -
Enlarging His Estate.
John D. Rockefeller s estate at Po
cantico Will In time be rounded out tc
suit the richest man in the world. Al
ready it is one Of the finest estates IN
the country but Mr.. Rockefeller is con
stantly adding TO and improving it.
Recently he purchased stone residence
on one of the highest points in West
chester county, from which views Of the
Hudson river and Long Island sound
can be had. Together with the dwelling
goes twenty-five acres of land, part
of which is heavily wooded. On either
side, to the south, is land owned by Mr.
Rockefeller whose recently completed
residence is within n mile to the south
70 the north Of the acreage is the prop
erty of st. Joseph S normal school. This
is the only one of the recent editions
and additions to the estate which al
ready includes several hundred acres.
Original Press Agent.
I notice today Hamilton. the origina.
press agent. has come back to the news
paper business There is hardly n vii
lage in the land from ocean to ocean OF
from the lakes TO the gulf where the
noted advance agent OF the greatest
show on earth has not personal friends
who viii always be interested In him
He is now editor and proprietor Of a
monthly paper for investors. Since he
ceased being the advance herald of the
Barnum circus, Mr.. Hamilton, after the
death of James j. Bailey, has lived 1T
Baltimore and has devoted his atten
tion to inventions. Recently he IN
vented n coutrivance for taking up tho
slack in a brake. and several of the
prominent railroads have this unde1
consideration. Both Hamilton and his
father were prominent newspaper mer
before HTody' went into the show
business Associated with the only
Tody is Allen Williams, who know:
more about snakes than any man il
the country.
Improving Quality of Horses.
Transportation of high h-grade horse
for purposes of improving the qualit1
Of the general draft horse has begun il
Oregon to Il large extent. Stockgrower
of eastern, central and southern por
tions of the state are buying heav'
draft stations of the purest blood, an,
are paving from $2500 to $500 each
In response to the demand for stalIion
Charles f. Stubbs of Denver; one of th
largest importers in the United States
has investigated conditions in Port
land, Dallas, the Rogue River distric
and other points in the central part o