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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-03-23
Waldorf-Astoria has forty
magnificent public rooms
more than one thousand three
hundred guests rooms and ac

commodaton for between fourteen and fifteen hun
dred people a day. The price of nights lodging
ranges all the way from four dollars for an inside
room to five hundred dollars for the famous royal
sulte-and this does not include breakfast in the
morning. One wealthy paid seventy-fvc
dollars a day for choice room, which she used for
nearly twelve months No meals were included in
her hotel bills must have been of staggering proper
tionS.
At another hotel the Manhattan every piece OF
the furniture used in the eight hundred rooms is
actually manufactured the premises The rough
frames bought in quantities., and on the tor
floor OF the hotel force of skilled carpenters and
upholsterers rapidly transform them into the infn-
lite variety OF chairs divans tables other arti
ces required to conform with the decorative
monte with the Louis XVI apartment with its gold
and colors, paneled ceiling and gobelin tapes
try-a decoration that twenty thousand dollars
Another set must be adapted to the exquisite palm
court Longing room. lighted with wonderful and
softly glowing peoples, created by Tiffany in large
blossoms of glass mosacs. The dining room furni
ture must correspond with decorations carried out
in soft hues OF brown circassian walnut, and the
larger coverings must embody the soft tones OF
brown merging into the tints of the walnut wains-
cotng.
AT the Manhattan, too, there is linen factory
great workshop, unsupported by the guests, where
every piece OF table linen is manufactured Some
idea of what this means may be gathered from the
fact that the laundry in the basement OF the hotel
washes mangles and irons, every day. three thou
sand five hundred towels four thousand napkins
one thousand five hundred Sheets one thousand four
hundred pillow cases. two thousand five hundred
does and six hundred aprons
Forty thousand dollars worth of provisions are
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-03-23
By p. HARVEY MIDDLETON


least idea of the manner in which all his wants
provided for He just button and the hotel
does the rest. Yet, if l asked to name the
most wonderful thing had would unhes
itatngly say 'the works of a New York hotel
These modern palaces house two distinct worlds, as
sharp in their contrasts the popular conceptions
of heaven and hell The first world that with
which all more less familiar-a world OF
glitterng spendor-inhabted by bright assem-
blage of favored beings who live in gay atmos
phere of lights and soft music and flowers and
flashing Jewels.
But if we leave this Elysium and descend by de-
vious ways to the other world find ourselves in
a place which resembles nothing earth so much
as Dante's inferno. And truly it is world OF
ending toll. Throughout every minute of the TWEEN
ty-four hours its inhabitants must labor to provide
for the physical comfort of the Sybarites in the
realms above. One hundred tons OF coal must be
ice must be manufactured and cut into exact cubes
and blocks. Hundreds of walters must carry an
endless procession OF trays loaded down with the
choicest foods and wines, and small army OF
skilled carpenters, painters and decorators must
make and mend the furniture used by thousand
fastidious guests and keep the house in apple pie
order. A dozen cleaning dynamos must provide
light, and fifty miles OF pipes carry heat and water
Every guest must be represented by an employe III
this underworld-an faithful shadow who MN
listers to all the wants OF his temporary owner
These remarks, of course, apply to the largest OF
New York's thousand five hundred and eighty
nine Observation-Disclosures like the Waldorf the
st. Regis, Plaza Manhattan, Astor, etc. IN the lrst
named hotel the underworld is fortytwo feet below
the street level, hidden city with fifteen hundred
Inhabitants constantly employed in insurng the
smooth running of the vast living machine. Here is
the largest private electrical plant ever installed
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-03-23

it's tremendous power driving the
screws of thirty-eight elevators
carrying daily the population OF
a fair sized town-and supplying
the Illuminating energy of twen-
ty-five thousand electric lights.
Although seven great boilers are
automatically stocked with forty
tons of the best hard coal every
day, it is necessary to employ
one hundred and fifty men in
these power rooms.
Descending to the sub-sub-base-
ment, we discover the ice plant,
equal to the colossal task OF
freezing fifty tons of ice and for
ty dozen carafes of drinking
water a day, to say nothing of
refrigerating the four thousand
pounds of meat, fish and game
necessary to satisfy the demands
of the fortunate folk upstairs.
A door is thrown open and the
touch of an electric switch sets
i'm motion revolving refrigerators
for making ice cream. Another
room, heavily barred with door
that would do justice to safe
deposit vault. is thrown back and
we step into a chamber hung
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11
A CHRISTMAS TEXT.


Seyenty-five members of fraternal
order at Rich Hiss, Mo, held corn
husking bee and harvested the 5o-acre
field of an afflicted and helpless brother
who has a wife and small children. The
fraternity men carried their dinners into
the country, accomplished their work in
a thorough and orderly manner and de-
parted from the house of affection with
the blessing of distressed ones, like a
benediction, resting upon them.
Women of a church society in small
town in Atchison, Kas., husked so bush
els Of corn to make payment on the new
church piano. The corn was donated by
d generous Kansan. The society mem
bers were conveyed to the corn field in
automobiles A public auction was held
in the streets of the Kansas town to dis
pose of the grain. The band played, and
there was a big feast in celebration OF
the day of self sacrifice.
Both incidents occurred within one
week. They constitute striking examples
Of two ways Of obeying the injunction
do unto others
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11
APPENDIX
IS NOT TO BE REMOVED WITH
OUT CONSENT.
THE LAW OF NEBRASKA
The Penalty for Carelessness by Sur
geons and Attendants-A Remarkable
Statement by John NJ. Tanner, Mem
ber-Elect from Omaha District.

Omaha, Neb., Dec. Off law now
proposed is enacted by the next Legisla-
ture, men and women may live in Ne
braska in no danger of the vermiform
appendix being removed without their
consent.
John NJ. Tanner, member-elect to the
State Senate from the Omaha district,
has issued the following statement:
I'VE all know that there is class of
doctors too free with the knife. If a
man has pain in the right side and a
doctor is called, the ailment is pro-
nounced to be diseased appendix and
the man is rushed away to hospital,
where an operation is performed and a
bill of from $500 to $1,000 is rendered
for services.
81 propose to go beyond the appendix.
When the bill comes before the Senate l
will offer an amendment making it a
felony for any doctor, nurse or any
" 1SdPC hi4AFSoS
gauze or other foreign articles or sub
stances in the body after an operation
has been performed.
There are plenty of cases where the
doctors, the surgeons and the nurses
have been careless and left articles in
the abdomen after the removal of an APP
pendix have in mind a case where an
appendix was cut out in a certain town
in this State and six months later the
abdomen of the man vas. opened and
three yards of gauze removed
The proposed law has the backing of
a large number Of the best physicians
and thousands Of layinen. All declare
that the knife is used too frequently and
many times in order that the operator
may secure the big fee that goes with
such an operation.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11
CHARTER
OF THE OIL FIELD LUMBER
COMPANY.

United States of America, State of
Louisiana, Parish of Caddo: Be it
known that on this the 9th day of De-
|cember 1910, before me, Frank A. Blan-
chard, notary public in and for the
said parish and State, duly commits
stoned and qualified, on this day person.
ally came and appeared B. H. Bolinger,
S. H. Bolinger and B. B. Terry, each of
whom declared to me in the presence of
the hereinafter named and undersigned
competent witnesses, that availing them
selves of the laws of the State of Louis
lana, they do hereby organize themselves
into and create corporation, and adopt
the following articles as the charter
thereof to govern themselves and such
others as may become associated with or
succeed them.
ARTICLE /.
The name and title of said corpora
ton is THE OIL FIELD LUMBER
COMPANY.
ARTICLE Ii.
It's domicile is declared to be in the
City of Shreveport, Parish of Caddo,
State of Louisiana
ARTICLE III.
The duration of said corporation shall
be period of ninetyznine years from
the date hereof.
ARTICLE ".
& The purposes for which said corpora
ton is established and the nature of the
business to be carried on by it are: To
operate and maintain lumber yards at
Mooringsport, Louisiana, and other
places in Louisiana, as may be deemed
advisable; to retail and wholesale tim
Der, lumber, ties, slaves and such other
wood products that may be manufac-
tured; to manufacture, buy, sell, lumber,
to buy, build, and operate saw and plan
ing mills, plants railroads, telegraph and
telephone lines, to conduct general
merchandise business, and to do all
things connected with Or incident to any
or all of said purposes.
ARTICLE v.
Every citation or other legal process
shall be served upon the president, and
in his absence on the secretary-treasurar
ARTICLE VI.
The amount of capital stock of this
corporation, which this corporation is
authorized to issue is ten thousand dol
lars ($Io,ooooo) divided into two hum
bred shares of the par value of fifty dol
lars $4,000 each. This corporation IS
authorized to commence business as
such when one hundred and twenty
(I2o) shares of its capital stock shall
have been subscribed and paid for. No
certificate of stock shall be issued until
full payment is made therefor, which
may be by money, property, services or
any other valuable consideration moving
ito said corporation; and a resolution OF
| the board of directors of this corpora
ton that the consideration given for any
stock is fair and adequate shall be con-
elusive evidence that it is such; but nc
stock shall be issued for less than the
par value thereof. The remaining stock
shall be placed on the market at such
times and in such blocks as the major
| ity of the stockholders deem for the best
Interests. of the corporation, the existing
stockholders in all cases being allowed
sixty days within which to purchase tht
same at par in thu proportion of thei1
holdings by preference over all othel
purchasers.
ARTICLE VII.
The board of directors of this corpor
Ia+fo,, ct,aff he c0n,oosed IF not less thar
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11
B. H. BOLINGER.
S. H. BOLINGER.
by B. H. Bolinger
B. B. TERRY.
Attest:
ESTELLE. NOLAN.
R. L. NOLAN.
Attest:

R. L. NOLAN
FRANK A. BLANCHARD,
Notary Public Caddo Parish, La.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo:
The above and foregoing charter of the
Oil Field Lumber Company being this
day presented and after having been ex-
amined by me, same is hereby approved.
Done at Shreveport, Louisiana, on this
the 9th day of December 1910.
J. M. FOSTER,
District Attorney for the First Judicial
District Court in and for Caddo
Parish, Louisiana.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo:
| hereby certify that the above and fore
going is a true and correct copy of the
original act, as the same now appears
on file and of record in my office. Given
under my hand and seal of office this
10th day CT December 1910.
F. A. LEONARD,
1911 Clerk and ex-Oficio Recorder
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11
ARmCLE VII.

The board of directors of this corpor-
alton shall be composed of not less than
three stockholders, who shall be elected
at each annual meeting of the stock
holders for the ensuing year; the board
Of directors shall have authority to adopt
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11

set of bylaws for the regulation OF
the business of this corporation, to
adopt a corporate seal, to hypOthecate
or dispose of any portion of the prop
erty of said corporation for such con-
sideration and on such terms of pay
ment as it may deem advisable; to direct
and control the officers and employees of
the corporation; to pass all rules and
regulations which it may deem necessary
for the conduct of the affairs of said
corporation; and to vest in a general
manager by resolution all or any part of
the powers given by this charter to the
board of directors.
ARTICLE VIII.
The officers of this corporation until
the first annual meeting of the board of
directors on the first Monday in Feb
ruary 1911 are B. H. Bolinger, presi-
dent; S. H. Bolinger, vice president; B.
B. Terry, seoretary-treasurer, who shall
constitute its first board of directors. At
the end of their term of Office the Of
fcers of said corporation shall be elected
by the board of directors. The regular
annual meeting of the stockholders shall
be held on the first Monday in February
of each year.
ARTICLE TX.
shall ever be held liable or responsible
for the contracts Or faults thereof in
any further sum than the unpaid bal
ance due the company on the shares of
stock subscribed for or owned by him !;
nor shall any mere informality in or
ganization have the effect of rendering
this charter null or of exposing any
stakeholder to any liability beyond the
unpaid balance, if any, on his stock.
ARTICLE X.
In the event of the dissolution of this
corporation by expiration of time or by
resolution of its stockholders passed in
accordance with law, the stockholders
shall elect from among their number
two liquidators to dispose of the assets
of the corporation, pay its debts and
distribute the remainder of the proceeds
among the stockholders according to in
structions to be given them by the stock
holders at the meeting appointing them.
When said liquidators shall have COM
pleted their duties, they shall prepare
and file a process verbal of same, have it
recorded in the mortgage records of
Caddo Parish, and give notice thereof
by registered mail to each stakeholder.
Thus done and passed at Shreveport,
Louisiana, in the presence of Estelle
Nolan and R. L. Nolan, competent wit
nesses, vino hereunto sign as such, to-
gether with said appearers and me, no
tary, on the day and date first herein
above written.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11
HELD on THREE COUNTS.

Held On IHREE COUNTS.
Will Trout, ex-oficer, was arrested
yesterday on three counts for violation
Of the prohibition law. His case was set
for trial next Saturday.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11
NEW YORK WORLD
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The Caucasian is always newsy and
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
APPEAL TO THE FIVE SENSES.

Imagine Howells's Altrurian or Herbert
Wells's Utopian taking in these midnight
splendors. a five-minute survey would con-
vince him that the American king is g bit
of a barbarian. Like the Oriental mon
archs the Broadway frequenter demands
that all the five senses be gratified stimuli
taneously. And this is how the restaurant
keeper does it:
For taste food and drink; for hearing an
orchestra and singers that may draw sala-
ries exceeding $500 a week in the aggregate;
for seeing, gilt. marble, onyx. theatrical
performance: for smell, the flower boy ped
ding bouquets; for touch. exquisite table
gear and souvenirs the latter item alone
costing one firm of Tenderloin caterers no
less than $4,000 a year.
In brief, the gay New Yorker and the
New Workers. country visitor go to the
night restaurant in order to compress into
a single evening all the fun and enjoyment
possible. The restaurant keeper constantly
finds new devices. He starts the whirligig
going at 6 or o'clock in the evening and
he maintains open house until the last stray
jewellers energy or pocketbook IS ex-
hausted.
Some of these places, especially those in
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HOUSE OF LORDS.
Continued from third column

or nearly all OF whose inhabitants were
the course OF the bitter controversy
which has been raging between the
House of Lords and the House of Com
mons. had occasion TO reveal in a public
speech that he had spent ten years in
mining in the United States before sue
ceedlns 10 the earldOrn. and that durin-.
three OF those years he had worked as
an ordinary miner. for union wages, in
a gold mine in Montana. where he was
known as Charlie" and as mo. 1861 TO
the management.
He has for the last two years been
one OF the pioneers OF aerial navigation.
He is descended from Philip Yorke.
who in the early part OF the eighteenth
century became Lord Chief Justice OF
England at the early age of thirty four.
being at the same time raised 10 tha
peerage as Lord Hardwicke. and who
three years afterward. at thirty-seven.
was advanced to an earIdom and TO the
woolsack as Lord High Chancellor ot
England EX-ATTACHE. !,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

hued mulatto. has married a Boer, and
as the legitimate daughter Of an earl
retains her title. The widowed countess
is also married.; this time to South
African breed Of the name OF
PETER Pieterse, and has thereby for
feited her rank and prerogatives as
Deeress of the realm.
The school teachers victory BESIDES
converting him into a peer of the realm
invested him with an income of ABOUT
$4,000 a year, which, on the death OF
the actress widow of the seventh earl
and the reversion thereby Of certain
estates 10 the title, was Increased 10
more than 100000 per annum.
He would have been even stlI rlcher
had not the seventh earl disentalieo
much of the family property, when ne
left at the absolute disposal OF MS
widow. who bequeathed the leicester
shire estates to Mrs. Arthur DuncoInpe
and the Staffordshire property to the
wife of Sir Henry Foley.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
ADVOCATES RADICAL REMEDY.

In an interview with a Tribune reporter
DR. Williams said:
II foresee the time when the normal and
intelligent citizens of New York, and IN
other communities. shall decree that the
great class of degenerates. criminals ana
insane shall cease to be. They will do TINS
by enacting laws which call for the ster-
ilization of criminals aud degenerates, thus
rendering il impossible for them to repro
duce their kind. Already three states nave
ma ssed laws to this effect-IllinOis, oregon
and Connecticut. The advance OF human
inv. as a whole is of far greater impOr-
tance than the welIbeing CT a single indi-
viduaL Criminals and degenerates who
now draw their support from the energies
of the producing class will be gradually
eliminated, and the enormous cost of car
ing for them will cease Not only will this
eliminate in 4 large measure the hundreds
of charitable institutions that now tax US
for support but it Will reduce TO an I'M
foresseabIe extent the cost Of maintaining
HOSPITALS and dispensaries. criminal courts.
the law departments of a city and the
police departments
Dr. williams believes that if race of
physically normal persons could be devel-
oped many of the great sociological and
economic Problems WOulu ulodppC6Es anu
man would be enabled TO concentrate his
mental energies upon constructive efforts
which would result in greater progress n
every form of activity. a greater race
than any that the world has ever seen
would thus be developed. The full results
OF eliminating the unfit. he says, would not
he attained in a single generation. The in
vestigations Of Nautilus go TO show that 1t
takes three generations in the process of
evolution TO fix a type
DR.. Williams argues that the cost Of
living would be greatly Iessened IL the vast
expense of caring for criminals. the insane
and other degenerates could be eliminated
"A total OF Sc. SEQ Ooo.' he said. lis appro-
prlated for 1910 in this city for the follow
ing named departments: Corrections, Char
tiles Police, Dependent Children. Courts.
Health, Tenement House. Law and for the
care of the insane. L think do not need
to say that the great bulk OF these expen-
ditures would be unnecessary In city all
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~Poce Tbof X ill., q FetO
Gives a Lix,fnS 10
Many OTHERS.

to have 10 pay the city's aster-rne2frs Iooo
and drink bill for a single season
As to the increased cost OF living. tnar
tends 20 augment rather than diminish tho
volume OF the night business For Broad
way goes forth TO spend. always iavisniy.
often rIotously. sxtravasantly- IL anything
costs more than common-hothouse fruits.
epIcureaR meats. vintage wines-thar Is an
added reason why Broadway should buy Y
The rrequenter OF the lobster palace wouid
have IL known OF all men that he 10
Croesus be may not have 800 saved. but
he "chucks a bluff"
Considered from another point OF view.
the night Broadway reveI gives employment
to at least seventy-fve thousand workers
There are twcr.y thousand walters 10 obey
the jewellers beck and call sfteen thousand
chau1eurs 1--WE thousand coat boys and on
nibuses. twenty thousand chsZs. cooks and
scuIIions and fifteen thousand barnsn, en-
tertainers, musicians and helpers OF various
sorts. All these are making a good living.
and those WHO come in PERSONAL contact
with the guests. like the head and table
walters the chefs and the chaureurs. ars
getting rich The coat checking privileges
alone in some OF the gilded restaurants -
let for $1,000 year The commissions
from the taxicab companies. from the sails
of flowers and other minor privileges, are
modest fortunes In themselves. The servi-
tor Of to-day becomes the capitalist Of TO-
morrow unless he. too. joins the Broadway
whirI and spends in his own private rsvei
what the other jewellers have csrelessly
thrown him.
Though the Broadway theatres have SUI
fered the reverses OF an in-and-out season.
the Broadway restaurants have never done
better than in the amusement year JUST
closing All have been quick 10 grasp the
new idea OF combining theatrcaIs with
music. eating and drinking. and IN a year
or two the theatres may feel keenly this IN
vasion Of their field by the night caterers
OF Broadway and adjoining thoroughfares
in the Tenderloin.
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the side streets west of Broadway. are run
professediy to allure and startle the baser
sort and to alright the visitor who has
read much of the modern Babylon You
are assured with much vehemence that
the real Partisan revelries are duplicated,
nay, exceeded here. No cards Of intro
duction are necessary; neither the con-
duct OF the patrons nor the tables are
reserved. and you can readily find a part
for a drink or a dance. But the dis
corning soon discover that the chic and
''verve' are labored and the atmosphere of
sayety chiefly artificial
That girl slipping champagne at an ad-
joining table in an entr acte OF the vaude-
vile programme is known as the White
Slave" You think at once OF George Kibbe
Turner's horrid disclosures and Of the
Junior Rockefellers efforts TO wipe out the
hideous traffic. Your friend explains: Yes,