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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-25
Truth About the Golden West.

Mr.. Christian d. Larson. editor of
the Progress Magazine. has just re-
turned from a two months lecture
tour in the West and Pacific Coast
While there he Investigated the oppor-
tunities and possibilities of that re-
markable country, and he has given
his impressions in the August issue of
the Progress Magazine. He says:
The fact is that no one can possibly
realize how rich in possibilities the far
West is until he goes and sees for him.
self. And these possibilities are not
found along one or two lines alone,
but along almost every line of human
ambition, though it was the remarka-
BILE productive power Of the soil that
impressed me most. When one acre
can produce $1,000 worth of fruit at
average prices in a single season, we
are in the presence of productive pow
er that is marvellous, to say the least.
And there are millions OF such acres
in the West, only a few of which
have been brought under cultivation.
True, not every farmer, or ranch
man. which is the time expression in
that region, makes his acres produce
like that. 1t requires scientific agri-
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-25
Another White Man. Hone.

Mr. Muldoon is the highest authority
who has yet pronounced judgment upon
the memorable prize fight at Reno, for
at this writing the Supreme Court, Mr..
Roosevelt. and Prof. Muensterberg have
not been heard from. According TO this
most eminent authority, Mr.. Jeffries'
lamentable failure was OF an intellec-
tual nature-he was unable to main
tain proper coordination between his
head and his arms. While Mr.. Johnson
was devoting his powerful mind to the
business in hand, the white mans hope,
as we understand IT, was probably try
ing to calculate how old Ann is. His
head. so TO speak, was drifting aim
lessly about the arena, except as Mr..
Johnson thoughtfuliy directed il hither
and thither with right hooks. Mr..
Jeffries may even have labored under a
misapprehension that he was playing
Desdemonia to Mr.. Johnson's Othello.
This inability 10 operate his mental
machinery in q timely manner caused
the white mans overthrow.
Such, we believe, is Mr.. Muldoon' $
view, and TO IL we attach considerable
Importance. Though ii may be true
that the Reno event definitely estab-
fishes the inferiority Of the white race
to the black, ii seems to US that the
whites would be justified in shifting
the contest to some other field, and in
trusting their cause to Caucasian rep
resentatives who are in the habit OF
thinking oftener than once week
thereby keeping their Intellectual appa-
ratus in nmberer, more dependable
conditiOn.-Saturday Evening Post.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-25
The ChiId's Need is Play.

From an article entitled Millions
for Play" in the August issue of The
Progress Magazine.
The Fairgrounds intensity these
play instincts al6ng lines tending to
develop the model man or woman.
Not only is the child's physical being
brought to a state of healthfulness
and strength, but all it's mental at
tributes are stimulated and bent the
right way. 1t is a case Of mind work.
ing on body and body on mind. If
boys and girls are taught to play fair,
the spirit of fair play will probably
become strong in them. Their incli-
nation will be to play square when
they enter business or professional
life. The square boy is apt to be the
square man-and square men are
needed nowadays.
If there is a cool swimming pool in
a playground close to his home, a boy
Will almost invariably prefer it on q
warm summer afternoon to gathering
with others in an alley and shooting
craps -a diversion that graduates
professional gamblers. The boy or
girl who has natural constructive
ability finds pleasure in building a
windmill. a cabin, or boats on the
adequately equipped playground. In
many places the trees and shrubbery
offer fine opportunities for nature OBJ
servation and studies in botany-a
subject that interests most any child
if presented right. AS for the more
vigorous games. such as basketball
and baseball, one student Of child de-
velopment places them first in what
he terms schools of citizenship"
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A Million children ar PIav

Mr. Littell McClung. writing in Tho
Progress Magazine for August. saws in
regard to the work of the Playground
Association:
A million children AT nl,y-ou -.
one timei GIL "'
II one could rise in a balloon TO n
SUFFICIENT height and with glasses
powerful enough TO see from the mid
ole or the United States to the Allan
nc ana racine coasts, he would be-
1 nTu On any AFTERNOON this summer a
inlillon or more girls and BOYS getting
In a systematic manner the best there
is 10 be got out OF life. He would see
chlloren ranging from the kindergar-
ten TO the baseball age playing fifty
ulnerent games on splendidIy equip-
peu Fairgrounds In more than three
hundred cities.
The significance Of such a spectacle
could, however, only be conjectured.
Tor the Fairgrounds movement" has
Just begun. Though il has already
reached tremendous proportions and
is vitality affecting thousands of young
nNes, II seems destined to double it
self in the next five years. In cold
hgures its growth in the last half a
decade has been almost startling, con
sidering that it has only Just recently
been on firm and definitely defined
basis.
1t has become not only national. but
Worldwide, changing the social and
moral condition of children through
Out this continent and Europe. In
America 1t is today. with the excen-
ton of the schools. the greatest single
agency for the spread of enjoyment,
increase In healthfulness, decrease in
delinquency and crime, and the gem
eral improvement-moraI, mental and
physical-of the youth of our land.
IT is revolutionary in the best sense of
the world. 1t marks new era in the
development Of child-life, and those
VINO are in close touch with it declare
that its work will be felt on the com
ing generations, who will control the
uncertain destinies of our country.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-25
CHICKEN WITH TEN
TOES CAUSES DOWNFALL

MANASSAS. VA. August IS-If a
chicken with ten toes did not prove
at least it's multiplicity of toes led to
the detection of the light-fingered ne
ferred it from his owners coop to his
own.
"Jeemes" Robinson, q dusky youth.
sold TO Joe Kincheloe, a huckster, sew
eral chickens almost Immediately af-
ter Mrs. +: Z. Conner found that her
coops had been robbed Mr.. Kincheloe
learned of Mrs. Connor's loss shortly
after his wagons had started for Wash
ington to the market. and he FASTENED
fowls could be Identified except one
which has ten toes.
Robinson employed counsel, but his
lawyer, recognizing the futility OF
lighting a chicken with so many toes
declined to argue the case The Mayor
imposed fine OF SIS and gave the ne
gro four months on the road
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ARRESTED AS HE WROTE
WROTE PRESCRIPTION

NEW YORK Special The cru
SADIE against cocaine selling being
carried on by the Health and Police
Departments under the law, the World
was instrumental in having passed
resulted in an arrest in the Bronx
Tuesday which the officials believe
to be one OF the most important yet
made.
Vito A. Pittaro, who has a drug
store at 500 Morris Avenue, notified
Bayard c. Fuller, chief inspector Of
the Food and Drug Division of the
Department of Health, that a MANI
representing himself to be a physi1
clan had presented several prescrip->
tions for cocaine. Pittaro said he
suspected the man was not a doctor.
Inspector Fuller detailed Inspector
Hugh II. MasterSon to make an in
vestigation. Masterson has shown
great cleverness in trapping illegal
drug vendors.
He went to the Alexander Avenue
Police Station and Sot Detective John
Larkin to assist him. They went to
Pittaro's store, stood in a corner
chatting without attracting attention
and half an hour later the man the
druggist suspected came in.
He walked over to the counter and
in the presence Of Pittaro wrote out
prescription in Latin for cocaine.
Pittaro questioned him, and he again
had handed the prescription to Pit
taro, Masterson and Larkin arrested
him.
The man then said he was Harry
simon, of 1862 Mott Avenue; that he
formerly owned drug store and that
ne wanted the drug for his own use.
He was arraigned before Magistrate
Butts in Morrisani Court and pied
guilty TO impersonating a physician.
He was held in $500 bail for trial
In his pockets were found sales
slips for cocaine given according to
law by several druggists in the Bronx.
These slips were turned over to DR..
ernest J. Lederle, president OF the
Board of Health, who said he would
begin an investigation at once.
DR.. Lederle commended Pittaro for
his part in the arrest
-, II is extremely gratifying" he said.
TO nave druggist report a case OF
this kind. If other druggists would
follow Pittaro's example they would
render great assistance in suppressinR
the drug evil"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-25
Southern Building Activity.

. From the fourteen Southern States
and from Oklahoma and Missouri the
manufacturers Record has received
this week letters from architects. con-
tractors. builders and others at va
rious points giving details of improve
ments aggregating many millions of
dollars in cost under the auspices of
state, county, municipal or Federal
governments, for corporations and for
individuals, recently completed, now
under way or definitely planned.
These letters. which fill nearly five
pages, reveal a notable activity in
building operations of many kinds, in
road and street construction and in
home building, in railroad and levee
work, in bank and Office building, and
in sewers, water works and other pub
lie utilities.
Last year showed a decided revival
of such operations in the South, and
though at some points there is now q
bit of slackening up because of tight
ness in the money market, the general
situation in the South has become nor
NAL. and for that section normal
means activity all along the line in
city and country.
One firm of architects, for exam
pie, has since the first OF the year
completed plans for six churches ag-
gregating in cost $4,000, three resi-
dences ranging in cost from S12. 900 tc
800, two jails costing $4,000 and
stores and offices costing $4,000, and
has under way way plans for three
churches aggregating SIT, 900 in cost
At another point a construction
company is bringing to competition q
$250,000 bank building and contrac-
tor will finish within the next three
months a bank building costing ST.
5000 and has just started upon q
factory building to cost 100000. In q
suburb of a Texas city contracts are
nearing completion, representing an
aggregate expenditure of nearly $780,
600, and in a Florida city, where q
railroad system is preparing to build
a passenger depot $50 feet front and
100 feet deep, the general situation is
described as 'ten-thousand-d dollar res
licences are more numerous now than
five-thousand-dolla residences were
"A few years ago"
Work in filter beds for a municipal
drainage plant costing $3.50, 900, upon
4 three-mile extension of a Tilroad
costing 100000. upon matchmaking
about three miles of public highway
costing $4,000 and upon mile of
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-25
PUSHCART AS AN AIRSHIP
DROPS GOODIES IN FLIGHT

NEW YORK.-Special-A new form
OF aviation was tried Sunday after
noon in Harlem. but without success,
because, though 1t brought a feast OF
Ice cream, pretzels. candies, cakes,
saurerkraut and hot dogs to a pack
of real dogs, it brought sorrow to a
contractor and two pushcart men and
hysteria to a hftecn-year-old girl
The airship was a pushcart, propelled
by an automobile.
AleXa ndre Pell started ont Sunday
afternoon from his home, at &C West
one Hundred and Seventeenth Street,
with his family for a ride in the Bronx
in the Pelli touring car. About
O'CLOCK he was shooting west on the
south side OF One Hundred and
Twelfth Street This in itself was
enough to make any wide-awake po-
liceman sit up and take notice, be-
cause he should have been on the
north side of the street, according to
traffic regulations.
on the southwest corner of One
Hundred and Twelfth Street and Fifth
Avenue there was a crowd of hungry
persons clamoring for the delicacies
above mentioned. which were being
dispensed from puShcart owned and
operated by Herman Jenny, of 1893
Fifth Avenue, and his partner, John
Zuccala, of 209 East One Hundred and
Eleventh Street. Shifting the sauer-
kraut-laden air and yelping at the
heels Of the purchasers was 8 pack of
dogs of the ordinary kind.
No one noticed Pelli and his big tour
ing car until he was upon the crowd.
Then IL was too late to do anything but
get out of the way. Everybody and
everything ran except the pushcart In
an instant II was in the air, following
the graceful curve OF q parabola. Up
II went and down came the ice cream,
pretzels, sauerkraut, hot dogs" and
other eatables.
a pot OF mustard made a sudden leap
nose of Herman Jenny, then the mus
tard trickled down his face. Zuccala's
neck was festooned with a string of
hot dogs" and sauerkraut chung to his
hair.
Not being provided with a parachute.
the pushcart 1oked around for a soft
spot to land on and selected Violet
Greenbaum, fifteen years old, of 81
West One Hundred and Twelfth Street
There was such a wild shrieking of
the frightened women and children,
yelling OF the men and barking of the
dogs as the latter gobbled up the spill
ed contents OF the pushcart that some
excited person phoned to police head
quarters there was a riot at the cor
ner. y sergeant and two policemen
were hurried to the scene.
Meantime DIR. Goldstein, of II West
One Hundred and Thirteenth Street
had brought Violet Greenbaum back to
consciousness and sent her home; she
was suffering from hysteria.
When the police arrived they found
several comnound fra ctures and was
without license. They arrested the
owners and took them to the East One
Hundred and Fourth Street Station
Pelli, too. was locked up, but he OBJ
tanned bail.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-25
She Lost Her Batbine Suit

OF the $4,000 persons who went
to Coney Island on Sunday, nearly all
went into the surf, and one of them,
Miss Anna Boyland, of 243 Bay Street,
Sheepshead Bay. had to send calls for
the police before she could, with de-
cent respect to her own feelings, get
out.
Two pieces of her three-piece bath
ing suit had dropped off.
She FASTENED into deep water, but
the three girl friends who were with
her could not conceal her. Shouts
and gibes and dares from the close
pressing throng caused cries for DO
lice, and Lieutenant Joseph Conboy
hurried to the beach at West Tenth
Street.
Get her another suit" he com
manded of a young man.
But the gliding crowd TANNED
closer. Then the officer shouted to
the girls:
Surround her and walk her
ashore!"
Spreading their short skirts, they
proceeded, ring-around-rosy fashion.
through lower and lower water. then
to the beach, reaching seclusion after
a short dash to the pier billings.
There, very indignant, she pulled on
parts of the new suit, but didn't re-
turn to the water.-New York Ameri-
can.
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embankment across q marsh costing
$4,000 represent the activities OF an
other contracting firm.
100000 building. part steel and
part reinforced concrete. for a retail
grocery company, and $500, 900 office
building OF steel and either reinforced
concrete or tile, a $4,000 clubhouse,
three schoolhouses costing $65, 900, a
$4,000 Young Mems Christian Assoc
citation building. a $4,000 planning mill
outfit, 100000 water works and cleo
trio light plant, 1900, 900 cubic yards
of levee work, a $4,000 heating con-
tract. 100000 worth OF lock and dam
work in river improvements. a $4,000
baseball park, an $4,000 hotel, a
$4,000 postoffice, a $225.000 hotel, a
$4,000 office building, a $4,000
drainage contract, 100000 of street
Improvements, a S125,000 sewerage
system. a $4,000 country club. a $780,
600 store building, a 100000 boule-
ward. a 100000 work Of tunneling,
$4,000 OF miners houses at one point
and many private dwellings, ranging
in cost from $1,000 to $4,000. are
among the many other items mem
toned In the letters-Manufactur
Record, July %, 1910.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-25
INSURGENTS MAKE
kCLEAN SWEEP
Get Everything in Republican
Primaries in California-Bel
(Democrat) Has Hopes.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL-Special.-
The Republican Insurgents have swept
everything before them in the pri-
maries, according TO the almost COM
plete returns tabulated today. Hi
ram Johnson, the victorious Lincoln
Roosevelt League candidate for the
gubernatorial nomination, has car
ried all OF the fifty-two counties save
San Francisco. where he ran second.
In the Seventh Congressman James
MacLachlan has been defeated by w.
Il. Stevens. Representative Smith
won in the Fifth by a narrow mar
gin. Representative Mckinley lost in
the second 10 William Kent, a friend
of Clifford Pinchot. Though the Re
publican nomination usually means
victory, the friends of Theodore Bell,
the Democratic gubernatorial candi-
date who also ran in 1906, today
claimed good chances Of winning be-
cause OF splits among the Republi-
cans.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-25
RepelIed ut Fort Monroe.

NORFOLK, VA Special Two
attacks by an imaginary enemy on
Fort Monroe were detected and sue
cessfully repealed Tuesday night by
the regular and Virginia volunteer
coast artillery inside the fort.
The first attack, made by $50 mem
bers of the 166th Company regular
coast artillery, came Unexpectedly at
IL p. NJ, and the second attack by
the same enemy" at o'clock this
morning came even more SURPRISING
ly to those inside the fort.
lie prints was few weeks later, when
he was picked up in a street in Balti-
more, suffering from the effects of
creosote poisoning, self administered.
Mrs. Pansy Belt was still with him
stopping at hotel. and after his re-
coVery in the hospital there he was
brought home by relatives.
Last night, while he was IN his cell
In First Police Station, he was dis
covered hanging by his neck to the
upper tronwork of the cell with his
belt around his throat. When he was
cut down and revived he stated that
he wanted to end il all, as none of
his friends had called to go his bail
one, a man to whom he had sold VAL
liable property, having refused to do
so.
In court this morning Belt stated
TO Justice Crutchfield that the woman
in the case is not lis wife and that
she is Pansy She pod, of Philadel-
phia, now living Richmond.
Belt, who was nerly a clerk in
railroad office Richmond, came
INTO possession ~ 1000 last Janu-
airy upon becoming of age. He inn
mediately resigned his position and
started upon bright light journey,
taking the girl with him.
He stated in court this morning
that he had spent all of that money,
but his relatives stated that he still
has an Inheritance that has not yet
been received by him and which they
will look out for.
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HARDER TO BEAT
THAN HIS ANVIL

NEW YORK Special.-Under the
towering spike fence the village smith
OF Flatbush stood Sunday and ad-
mired the work of his large and
sinewy hands.
That will never come down and
that grocer viii never get the side OF
his house painted" said Patrick May.
for that is the smithy's name in this
case.
THE smith. a mighty man is he"
quoted Henry Miller, the grocer next
door, but he said II sarcastic like.
Mrs. Kathryn Fox. the widow who
is third party to the Windsor Ter
race sections seven-year-old spite
court proceedings, said nothing that
can be recorded. since she escaped
to the country to avoid the notoriety.
Hundreds Go to See IL.
Hundreds of Flatbush residents
yesterday walked through Prospect
Avenue and halted at the eight-foOt
alley separating 1890 and 1899 to see
perhaps the ugliest spite fence ever
erected. These persons had read yes
terday's story about the unsuccess-
IuI application by Sanitary Inspector
tellows Tor a warrant for the arrest
OF Widow Fox, owner Of 1890. On
that property May, whose shop Is in
the rear OF the widows home, built
the fence close to Miller's home.
when we bought this house we
said Mrs. Miller yesterday. LAS we
owned but two or three inches Of the
strip between this and Mrs. Fox's
house, my husband spoke to May
about the use of the alley, believing
him to be the owner of the place
May said it would be all right. For
a long time we used it. Then May
and my husband had some words, and
the blacksmith built a ten-foot fence
blocking the passageway to us.
My husband and L decided TO get
even by shutting off the light from
the blacksmith shop. We beat May
in the fence building line. We made
ours twenty feet high.
Torn Down in the Night.
What do you think the black
smith did then? He had the audacity
TO tear our fence down in the night
He said it had been built on Mrs.
toxs land. We had a survey made
that the fence was on our own prop
erty, and up it went again. That time
May didn't dare touch it
He has been waiting all this time
Tor revenge. When my husband had
men sent here to paint our house,
and they got to the side against the
alley, May said he'd shoot any tres
passeTs.
The next day we woke up to find
that May had made sure of prevent
ing us painting that side Of the house.
He and his two horseshoers had built
that ugly thing right against our
wall. We could go to law. but rather
sell If we can find a purchaser"
so 1t looks as il Pat May, the
smith, is the winner in the long war
or spite fences, for If the Miller's sell
he may bargain with the purchaser
Tor the tearing down of both fences.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-25
A ConEressmnn's Letters,

This letter was received from man
whom know to be but little interested
in public affairs:
"'Will you kindly send me copies
Of all Government reports which are
handsomely or attractively bound?
An inquiry from me as to what he
wanted with books which would ag-
gregate tons in weight, brought the re-
ply that he wanted them for dummies
to dress up unoccupied shelves in his
library"
The article from which this incident
is extracted was written by a member
OF the House of Representatives who
is on several of the most important
committees and has the reputation OF
getting things" for his constituency.
The article, which appears in the Au-
gust number of the Worlds Work, also
contains this amusing request:
Another request from a then un-
known constituent asked that the
writer be placed on the free-mailing
list for all public documents. This
would mean that he would receive sew
eral tons OF documents every month.
An investigation disclosed that he was
engaged in the manufacture OF an arti-
Gle made from waste-paper pulp. His
idea was TO have the Government sup
ply him with free raw materials