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New-York tribune., 1911-11-05

II live right over there by the sugar plant,
ensign. Can't YOU have the cruiser run
across and drop me ashore? I'm a tax
payer"
please ask the captain il he won't climb
up to the lookout roost | want to get
snapshot OF him there"
The fleet brought with IL a golden wind
the only ones that didn't shed their charac-
ters as idle pleasure craft To take on that
OF a ferry for visitors 10 the big ships were
the larger yachts. At corners a block from
the pier heads one would have to fight his
way through a smother OF ticket barkers,
who claspcd their cardboards and money
folded between their fingers, after the man
scalpers. They bombarded the continuous
crowds with the cry:
Take YOU on any ship and back for half
dollar. Go on any ship and return for
half dollar! Here y are"
Certain Of the ships' visitors tried To
get the commanders TO load up their larger
guns and sweep the river clear of the
fleets parasites. Some of the launches had
habit Of selling a round trip ticket To a
ship and after landing the ticket holder
there would leave him marooned, so To
speak. If the next cargo OF visitors did not
holder of the return ticket had 10 get
ashore as best he could Sometimes the
ships boats set the visitors ashore and
New-York tribune., 1911-11-05

Illinois State Normal University. became
public school principal. assistant state sec
rotary Of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation and high school principal Next he
was professor of science and art of teach-
ing i'm the University Of Michigan, ana helu
the same position in the University OK
California until 1906, when he became
United States Commissioner Of Education
AT Washington. lie relinquished the fed
eral office to head New York University.
He is the author of various works, includ-
ING THE Making of Our Middle Schools
"The Origin Of American State UNIVERSE
ties" and Government by influence.
New York University was founded in 1890
when council composed Of tho Rev. James
N. Mathews. General Morgan Lewis. James
Tallmadge. Albert Gallatn, Valentine Mott.
Edward Delafeld and Myndert Van Schaiek
was chosen by the shareholders OF the
enterprise \ large. liberal university wa
planned. For half century, barring a
few great spurts of achievement, the uni
vcrsity was one In name only. II wa
chartered in 1881 and opened COR business
at Clinton Hall, corner Of Nassau and
Beekman streets. with 157 students and
eighteen professors. There was a regular
college course and something extra II
mathematics and physical science A ne"
site was obtained in Washington Square
and a quaint, castellsied building put up.
In this structure, opened for classes, in
I 1885. Professor Samuel f. B. Morse carrie
/ on some foolish experiments in tn.
: hope OF sending messages over Wirs
New-York tribune., 1911-11-05

be announced by an official, and he Will
shake hands with the chancellor. FOLLOW
a few addresses, dozen more or less by
representatives Of urban universities, state
universities. women's colleges foreign uni
versities church institutions, New YORK
State and city governments private educa-
tional foundations, as the Carnegie fouh-
dation and the Rockefeller Institute.
This is not all the days work. IL is just
an appetizer for the climax Of celebrating
and speechmaking at the Hotel Astor BAN
quet I'm the evening. At the banquet soma
seven hundred persons will hear addresses
by a notable quartet of college presidents
Hadley of Yale. Butler Of Columbia, Schur-
man OF Cornell, Finley OF the College OF
the CITY of New York. Some one will
talk for Harvard, and Secretary OF the
Interior Fisher will do the lonors for the
government
on Friday there will he an educational
congress at the university. with morning
and afternoon sessions, for discussing the
problems of an urban university. A foot
bali contest with Rutgers on Saturday af-
ternoon will end the week of academic
work and jov
DR.. Brown, seventh chancellor of the
university, was elected last April and took
Office in July. lie succeeded. after brief
interregnum, the venerable Dr. Mac
Cracken. TO whose quarter century OF effort
the present high success of the university
is chiefly due. Born fifty years ago in
Chautauqua County. y. Y, DR.. Elmer
Ellsworth brown was graduated from the
New-York tribune., 1911-11-05

sailormen OF the thousands that came
ashore did you see tacking down our chaste
streets with jags aboard?
whole lot OF them? Right you are,
But answer also this Wasn't there whole
lot more that you saw who were as sober
as supreme court judges and whose shoes
wavered not a whit from direct line OF
travel when they walked? A good many
more than YOU saw drunk-was 1t not?
Well, there you are.
And 1t Is to be hoped that Jack saw In
us enough Of humanity to make him con-
slider civilians worth dying for, II ever we
| have to use the feet In a business way.
! There is just the barest chance that those
OF us who visited him on his ship asked
too many unnecessary questions, and the
| lad I'm the wide blue trousers and the Nat
blue hat is entitled to all the laughs he
got from such questions as:
What kind OF a ship il ship ahoy
Wont YOU reef one OF the biz guns so
that Myrtle and ! can see how us done
| Come now, there's dear!'
SAY. mister, do YOU know any good bad
cuss words that could spring on dc gang
next time We meet In de vacant lot'
How does this here turret turn ana VIII
YOU iop II around for u.s.
can YOU shoot one Of the big guns no"
/ want to see my sister jump. A"' DO
"Will YOU speak to the admiral and ask
him If he'll give me an autographed picture
Of himsef?
New-York tribune., 1911-11-05
THE cHANCELLORS OF NEW YORK
UNIVERSITY FROM ITS BEGIN
NINGS TO THE PRESENT DAY.

Four years later the Washington Square
building had 10 be mortgaged to rhse
money for current expenses, and in 1871 II
was even proposed to shut down sessions III
the college.
But there was hope ahead and his name
was Henry Mitchell MacCracken. sixth
chancellor and recreator OF New York Uni
versity lie became professor OF philosophy
in 1884 AMI the next year was elected wee
chancellor which meant the active head oi
the institution. The titular chancellor, d.
John Hail. could not spare much time Tor
the university from his duties as pastor
of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.
In 1891 DR.. MacCracken was elected chah-
cellor. He had long seen that the college
nceaed new site where dOrmitories couid
be huilt. that the emi-proprietary schooiS
should nc brought urder university control
and re,v schools established. and that a
large epdowment had to be raised for these
PURPOSES Three weeks after taking ofhee
as chancellor Dr MacCracken announced
cnat the university had an option on Tue
Mali estate above East l19th street III
less than wear 100000 was pledged ana
twenty acres Of ground purchased. Inc
Ohio Society of New York helped To OBTAIN
funds for All athletic space, which is calleo
Ohio Field. Language Hall and Havemeyer
Laboratory rose on the Heights in 1893 ~.
brick mansion on the property was
turned into a dormitory and named Butter
Hall Wooden buildings were used Tor
gym" and for biological labora tories.
To preserve continuity and avoid break
with a noble If impecunious past, stone
from the old building at Washington Square
was carried to the site above tie Harlem
by the class of "a and laid as the corner
stone of the gymnasium. This happened
ON Founders Day, April IS, 1894 The COL
lege work was transferred to the Heights
I'm the fall of that year. Al the same time
! the elective group system of study was
adopted. Next year came the Gift Of the
Memorial Library, which was opened in
! 1899. Could Hall the present dormltory,
was completed three years earlier.
At the beginning of the new century a
| feature was added to the university which
sent it's name reyerberatng from coast tc
coast and even excited the literary-ac
ademic inhabitants of foreign lands Thi:
was the Hall of Fame for great Americans
New-York tribune., 1911-11-05

He worked away in a room next to chap-
el In the fall of 1885 the farmers who
lived around Washington Square and dro'e
their pigs 10 market Gowl Firth avenue
were astonshed to hear that the eccentric
Professor Morse mad sent tan; over wire
and called. his invention the recording tele-
graph. Wen well! II was not SO sur
Lrising four yeurs later, when another
eccentric. Or John W. Draper, perfecteh
the system Of Daguerre and took the hrst
photograph of the human face ever mace
In the world. on the roof Of the college
building in the same year Professors Ora
per and Morse opened the worlds i1rst
photograph gallery After that the farm
ers said YOU might expect anything from
the professors Of that new-fansled school
DR. Drapers History of the Intellectual
Development of Europe was translates
into many Languages.
But there were no more DrapeTs ana
Morses I'm the faculty. Theology ana law
forged ahead Of the physical sciences haIi
of ,he graduates became minister's one
quarter became lawyers. In 1875 Benjamin
f. Butler Attorney General in Jackson
Cabinet put forth plan for law school
of the university, and three years later IL
was elected principal Of the faculty with
William Kent and David Graham jr.' as
professors To teach law in school IN
stead of i'm a lawyers office was reVolu-
tionary method at that time. IL was felt
that legal curriculum properly began
with sweeping the floor and cleaning the
cuspidor So the law school struggled q
willie and failed.
In 1sn medical school was started In a
/ building on the site of the present Broad
U,av Central Hotel The faculty was head
New-York tribune., 1911-11-05
DR.. n. M. M'CRACKEN.
Chancellor, 1891.19t0.

cd by DR.. Valentine Mott, the celebrated
surgeon. and DR.. John w. Draper, pro-
fessor Of chemistry. This school was sem'-
proprietary belonging more to the profes
tcrs than to the university. The profes-
sors took most of the fees by way OF sal
airy: the university won merely gradua-
tion fee i'm exchange for diploma, sue
cess attended the medical school, which
had four hundred students by 1850. In the
next year the faculty bought lot on the
site Of the present Tammany Hall and
erected new school building. which was
destroyed by fire IN 1866 After tenn
porary shift a new building. in East 96tl
street close to Bellevue Hospital, was put
up and occupied I'm 1876 This Is the site
Of the present medical school. Back N
1853 the faculty largely advanced the cause
of medical science by obtaining the passage
~ a state law legaizing dissection. Before
that time II had been a felony to dissect
a dead body, and, despite the zeal OF body-
snatchers surgery languished. \ surgeon
had TO learn his anatomy al the expense
Of the living.
The school of Law was revived In 1858.
II was semi proprietary. ike the medical
school The faculty included Judge CIerke
ex-Attorney General Chattield and United
States District Attorney Sedgwick.
For its first half century the university
consisted of two sem-privato schools and
one college. with a maximum enrolment
OF two hundred students. There was no
college community, no dormtories, nothing
but a place for recitatiors. Finances were
I'm bad way. Wealthy phanthropists did
rot come to the front. Offhand gifts OF few
millions to a university were indeed rar'
In those days. When tuition fees were abol
ished i'm the college IN 1872. contributions
had to be asked To pay professors salaries
New-York tribune., 1911-11-05

The Observations of a Land.
lubber Among Our Recent
Guests Are Herewith
Set Forth.

sometimes they paid another OF the
launches an additional two bits to freight
them back, thereby saving the first return
check as an unloved souvenir Of the fleets
visit
( The knowledge that the fleet would soon
| yank its anchors and ny hence stimulated
many owners Of these lesser craft to flights
of audacity that they wouldn't otherwise
/ have dreamed of even I'm their cups. one
of the big river excursion steamers that
had been pressed into service a. a see-the-
| fleet rubberneck boat was accosted in mid
stream by the unkempt sNpper-onsneer-
crew OF a decrepit old launch
Alloy, there, cap" called the launch
owner.
What do YOU want?" yelled one of the
steamers officers. AS the steamer slowed
down r
Cant YOU lend me a hundred or a hun
dred and fifty life preservers?"
What do We want TO lend You life pre-
servers for-you look all right? Need any
help"
Nav / don't need Lelp I've got 20 get
lot Of preservers before they'll lct me
carry passengers out, and I noticed that
U
The officers answer to this as the boat
steamed ahead did credit To the fame sea-
men have gained for vividness and en-
phass OF English i'm expressing deep emo
tion.
"Al right. sir" piped the launch owner
as he bobbed on toward the Manhattan
shore "AIl right for YOU. sir That's per
fectly all right" But the tone ne said Il
In implied that the captain had better loon
sharp or he'd find holes in the hull Of MS
boat some dark night.
The harmony with which the war gray
color OF the ships blended win 'he
grays of the river mists impressed any
close observer with the idea that II woulu
be very difficult to see one Of the dread
noughts IL it We're at all fogsy. ana th"'
they ought To be able in time Of war "
sneak up on an enemys vessels anu II"
'em fun of tcn-inch holes before they us
covered what was going on.
Just the same. there are some oil u'o
officers who aren't yet satisfied WIN w
effectiveness OF this particular shaue -
gray.
Look at any of the ships on the sA'.
line" one OF them said. You see '""'
while the color of the hull and the suPo''
structure mets with the graHs oi w
river mist. wherever the masts or luh"'''
stick mp over the horizon ana aPPo"
against the sky they show up PLAIN aHv
black Now. we're working to get Ilu
that little defect What we want 10 w
To shade the gray.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-05
HAD a FULL COURSE.

The sign in front of Harlem restaurant
attracted the eye of a farmer, and he went
i'm. He had a raw. fry. stew, a pan
roast, a broil and steam-on-toast. When
he got through he laid quarter on the
cashiers desk, only TO be told that he was
shy a dollar and a quarter.
mo, by jng" said the farmer. "A
quarters right. Doesn't your sign say.
oysters IN every style for twenty-five
cents" ""-Lippincott's
New-York tribune., 1911-11-05
The Idea of Tar as a Man
with a "Souse" and Sway
Seems to Have AL
most Vanished.

r%IAT riverful Of scrapping steel which
bounded the West Side OF Manhat-
l. haitian few days back, has gone
wherever II has gone. Once more is the
broad face Of our well known Hudson given
over TO the waddling ferryboat and the
New-York tribune., 1911-11-05

gentle scow from the peaceful up-country.
Rut both of us-the sailor man and the
o,,,za,-ore much the wiser for the visit.
We kpow, things about each others GUS
So and habits that were never dreamed
of before
We civilians had hazy impression that
a sailor was a four-fsted person who made
nm for having to live I'm pressed steel
,.ua.r magazine by getting stewed up
70 the topnost gills whenever he set loot
on Isnd-slso, that he never used the term
"drvo when he referred 10 the land II
wa, for this sailor Of our ignorant magma
tton g stopoyer where the rampant aico-
hol Aowed free 10 him that had the price,
lard furnished with q wealth OF cops TO
esht and lick IL too much Of the afore-
New-York tribune., 1911-11-05
M of Fame 10 Witness Picturesque Induction Ceremony This Week

1t will he helpful to have some more
marching after luncheon. This time the
column of learning after involuting as be-
fore will defle into the library chapel and
pass over the rostrum. AS each individual
passes his name and scholarly rank VIII
New-York tribune., 1911-11-05

SUNDAYS NETWORK TRIBUNE
Mailed anywhere in the United States
for $3.50 year.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-05

said wetness hadn't been already slowed.
After shatterng the windows Of several
barrooms and putting deep dents In the
hearts Of as many female landlubbers, he
sailed away and was never heard from
more New windows were put In the bar
rooms and time healed the dents in the
hearts.
Thus we thought Of the marine fghting
man. AS TO what he thought OF us, who
can tell? We were 10 him dun dwellers
on a solid, sordid earth who knew not the
mvsterious ways OF the sea or the ways Of
the men who went down to 1t In dread
noughts
Both of us know little better now.
Don't make the truth elastic. but answer
me as your own eyes have seen-How many
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-03

Wife Given Divorce. - Judge Lett:
granted a decree of divorce to Mrs
Mary Paul from her husband, Fred
Paul. Desertion was alleged
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-03

That was his one best trick. wasn't
ftp inquired Phillip.
mo doubt of it." returnedsthe other
I'm the first Rensselaer, in a hundred
years who has been able TO battle
without the aid Of a valet and the first
one to have blood enough to gush
when he was cut, and my mother
well, she was a real woman. gentle.
but brave, too; sweetly feminine. but
strong and healthy; tactful, but sincere
and honest" His voice quavered, and
he stopped
IT wish I might have known her,"
said Kelvin" THAT Is good country
to produce real human beings"
Rensselaer, turned to him quickly.
"Of course I'm not going to ask you
what your plans are nor how you
reached your present point" he observ-
ed, "but you're doing a stunning thing
II IT'S your aim to gain profitable con-
spicuousness. There hasn't been 30
much real money in the financial dis
trict In years You certainly must have
put in a remarkable Eve years Where
did you go from MontanaF
"Oh, down to Tennessee In the real
estate business" said Phillip guarded
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-03

any woman, Rensselaer, found himself
deciding. He decided wrongly. Kel-
vim had found himself strongly drawn
to Elsie, but he sternly suppressed
that tendency as quickly as he recog-
nized it in himself.
81 don't know" replied Elsie to her
mothers question. There seems to be
some slight change. but to me he is
just the same old Phillip, whom I'm
glad to see again and hope to see
often"
81 suppose you're married by this
time" suggested Mrs White.
II have never stayed in one place
long enough to get married, except in
Tennessee and there was too busy"
laughed Phillip.
ELSIE has never forgot you," Mrs.
White next observed. "She thinks
about you all the time, and she's been
talking about you ever since we moved
away"
The connection of Mrs Whites re-
marks was so absurdly palpable that
Rensselaer, could not help letting his
eyes twinkle, and Elsie, catching his
glance of amusement, laughed out
Il5llJ hhC1CuPoH IHC l"O JO1u-
ed her. very much to Mrs. Whites
surprise.
You was a mighty busy young man
even III that six months before we
moved away" ratified on Mrs. White.
I'VE was all sorry we had to go and
leave you behind, and it nigh broke
Elsie's heart But she's KEEP track OF
you all right. She made us take a
paper from back home on purpose.
First we saw that you struck oil on
that cheap little two acres of ground
you scraped together and bought. then
you bought some coal land and built
foundry and a railroad or what not
1 don't know what all you done, but
Elsie can tell you every bit of it, from
A to lizard. She's
Mother, did you call fatherY' In
terrupted Elsie demurely.
Yes. he'll be right in. He's out in
the garden pottering around. You
know he always was crazy about gar
dening, and he amt working now"
How are the rest Of the family?"
Kelvin asked.
Both Elsie and her mother looked
concerned.
"Grace is married." said Mrs. White.
ED got his spine hurt in a football
game, and he's upstairs now. You
must see him before you go. He al
ways liked you so well. ALI three of
the children did. for that matter, al
though none OF them put crown and
a royal robe on you like Elsie did Yes,
you did, Elsie, you know you did. and
you never would give any encourage
ment to a beau from that day to this
I'm afraid Eds going to be an invalid
all his life"
''Oh, that must be seen to-" protested
Phillip, shocked In spite of his embar-
rassment Perhaps a specialist could
bring him out all right"
Mrs. White shrugged her shoulders
despairingly. Specialists cost money, |
and we amt got it-not these times"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-03

/ came to be sure it was you"
81 don't see why" objected Phillip
when you knew me I was as poor as
q church mouse"
"I know, but that was five years ago,
and I felt sure that in five years you
ought to be stopping at the Esplanade
or you wouldn't be the Phillip knew"
That's a very pretty compliment.
Philip" said Rensselaer,.
This young lady couldn't say any
other sort OF thing about me IL she is
like she used to be-" replied Phillip.
placing bis hand affectionately upon
her shoulder. "She was one Of my
stanchest adherents in those days, long
before she was a young lady. How
old were you when I left, Elsier
Fifteen" she replied
Give years ago" unused Phillip.
''Now you are twenty"
"And you're thirty-one," she re-
turned. my, how old we're beeom-
ing!'
She led them into the little parlor.
which opened directly from the stoop.
In one corner was a music rack filed
with music, and though that corner
WAS uIeO VIII Ule chair IL SCclncN
conspicuousIy bare. To Phillip. who
knew the Whites so well, that space
told its own story. The payments on
the fnstallment piano had not been
kept up!
Elsie called back across the dining
room to the kitchen:
''Mr Kelvin is here. mother"
A very much faded looking woman
of forty-two or forty-three came in,
drying the backs of her hands with her
palms
I'm mighty glad to see you" she
said, shaking hands with him. and her
tired eyes grew q tribe brighter. my,
how solid looking you've grown!
Seems to me you look as II you was
hunting for somebody to contrary you
You didn't use to look that way
when you boarded with us-did he.
Elsie?'
Kelvin turned to Elsie, and in his
gaze Rensselaer, thought that he read
friendly admiration and nothing more
His look had not that rapt eagerness
Of Der gaze and never would haye for
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-03
DAVENPORT

Licensed TO wed-Jesee Dur1er and
Hazel Wilbur. both Of Dwight; Harry
Wilcox. Dixon, and Esther Miller, Den
ison.
y
Held for Stealing Ciocs<-Stealtng q
good sized clock from the wall on
which II hung for months and dispoe-
ing OF Il al a eecond hand store, only
to be arrested Q short time later on q
charge-of larceny. Is the brief summary
OF the actions OF George Anderson, now
locked up tn the county jail He did
not deny his guilt when arrested by
0ncer Elmer Randolph and when con-
frouted by the owner Of the piece OF
.1eweiTy. Anderson was arrested on
East Front street He had been resid-
ing at 416 East Front street. which
place Is also occupied by W. Mills.
The clock was bought by Q, Woods
from q Rock Island concern. and later
when he moved out he turned the time
piece over to William Mills, now occu-
pant OF the house Anderson took the
clock while no-ons was In the house.
Woman Released on Habeas Corpus.
MARY Cunningham, who for over a
year has been patient in the fnebriate
department Of the state institution at
Mt Pleasant. has been ordered releas-
ed on q writ OF habeas corpus, which
has been sustained by Judge Let's.
The woman had a hearing In the dis
trict court Friday afternoon, and upon
presentation of evidence was given her
freedom. In June, 1910, she was order
ed committed to the state hospital for
being an tnebriate and has been con-
fined there since that time. About two
weeks ago she fled an application for
a writ of habeas corpus with the court
asking for her release She averred
that she had been entirely cured of the
habit, and that she was being illegally
and wrong9ully detained and was plac-
ed with insane people in work. The
defendants in the suit were Charles F.
Apologize and F. T. Stevens, officials
at the institution
Wife Given Divorce. - Judge Let's
granted a decree of divorce to Mrs
Mary Paul from her husband. Fred
Paul. Desertion was alleged.
$30o,00o investment Company. An
investment company of a semi-public
character with an authorized capital
stock of 100000 was organized at a
dinner at the Davenport Commercial
club. The sole purpose of this invest