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it pronounced emphatically I'm favor Of
the cottage plan against the congre-
gate system.
Mr. Taft had then been elected. but
was not yet naugurated. While he was
searching for young men OF great execu-
tive ability to become his lieutenants in
Washington. Hilles was recommended to
him. Within the seventh week after
the inauguration the young penologtst
became assistant secretary OF the Treas
ury. with directive authority over the
public health. life saving. revenue cutter
and internal revenue services. besides the
Office of architect OF the Treasury, which
has charge Of the erection of all federal
buildings throughout the country. Soon
Pres dent TAFT commenced to sound his
political Judgment and he was sent upon
party missions of increasing responsible
ity, in all of which he made good.
The children Of the secretary and Mrs.
Hilles are Miss Elizabeth. who rs attend
ing Miss Masters school at Dobbs Ferry,
and two sons, Frederick w. and Charles
D.. jr.. who are at the Morgan School, in
Washington.
The family occupies an apartment in
Mount Pleasant, Washington. but has a
summer cottage on the south shore OF
Long Island. near Quogue. Since relin-
gushing the superintendency of the model
village Mr.. Hilles has been chosen pres-
dent of its board of directors and still
holds this supreme authority. He is also
a director of the Playground Association
of America and of the National Confer
ence on the Education of 1ruant and De-
linQuent Children He is a Presbyterian.
a Mason and a member of the Loyal
Legion.
His salary as assistant secretary OF the
Treasury has been $4,000. but as secre-
tary to the President he will have the
honor of being the first holder of that
Office to draw 81 800 a year. the same
given a United States senator. Until
just prior to Buchanan's term our Presi-
dents had to pay their private secretaries
out of their own salaries of $4,000 per
year. But J. B. Henry, Buchanan's first
secretary. was allowed $500 which was
continued until fifteen or twenty years
later, when $500 was allowed Then
Cleveland had the figured raised to 5000
for Dan Lamont. his famous silent
secretary and in recent years II was
increased again to 5000. During the last
session $4,000 was asked, but Congress
compromised on $500. Until held by
John Addison Porter. in Mckinley's first
administration, the office carried the Il
tie private secretary. but since then
the official designation has been meEely
secretary"
Copyright 1911. by John Elfreth watkins.>
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exercise called sounding in police disci-
pline.
So says Pujo Daudet was so weak
ened by having his neck squeezed dur
ing 300 yards in the fist of the phenom-
enonally big-handed inspector who drag
ged him that Pujo found him in syn
cope. NJ. Lefils, one of NJ. Lepine's d.
rectors, entering, Pujo threatened to
make him responsible; and Lefils was
on the point of putting him in a taxi
auto when Daudet had strength to cry:
Brands skin will pay me for this!
Lefils says that Daudet added: III
blow Brands brains out. Here and now
l make formal engagement to do it,
Where is Bernstein in all this?
Nowhere. They only need his name.
Philippe of Orleans is the real author
and hero Of 'Apres Moi" and all this
rioting is but advertising to accustom
the minds of Frenchmen to the idea that
the kings return is a thing generally
talked about and therefore possible!
They are young men who take pleasure
in noise danger, excitement and con-
spiracy. Doubtless they have their con-
victions; but they also are determined
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FIRST PRNATE .SEcRETAkT
SALARIEP T GOVT

natural home, he said. was the only
proper place for the normal child. and
he proceeded to bring his little charges
close to home surroundings as an in
Stitution could afford.
So around a commanding knoll. known
as Round Top, was erected a colony of
picturesque cottages, whose green lawns
EXTENDED ON the one side to a modern
athletic field and upon the other to a
cluster of greater structures fitted as mod
err schools and industrial buildings Each
cottage was given accommodations for q
family of but twenty children. who have
their own sleeping accommodations and
their separate dining room, under the one
roof. Thus small groups of dependents
were told off to sleep, eat and play in
their own homes. and they We're to con-
gregate In larger numbers only when
attending church. school, the shops or the
events upon the athletic field
~
The youngsters were sorted out accord
ing to age. moral fiber and length of COM
mitment, and from cottages wherein they
slept in dormitories they advanced to
''honor cottages" where they could enjoy
separate rooms. To meet the criticism
that freedom of separate rooms might
lead to dangerous practices, the progress
sive superintendent said:
when they go out into the world there
will be no human being to exercise sur
VIGILANCE. They will there have abundant
opportunities for privacy. They should be
given a foretaste of freedom and indie
pendence."
He admitted that the old-fashioned in
stitution restaurant, where hundreds of
children ate in the same big room, was
more economical to administer.
But conversation is almost a lost
art in those big refectories.' he added.
And speaking OF economy in such mat
tiers. he went on to say:
THE city of New York annually ex-
ponds $50 on each child In the public
schools: she annually expends SIS on the
education Of each child in the institutions.
She would seem to say that if the pre-
ferred stock is worth 100, the common
stock is worth only 30"
There you have Hilles.
He filled his cottages with 100 young
sters and his "children's village was at
once recognized as representing the most
advanced development yet suggested by
penologists. 1t was the first American
institution to subdivide its wards into
such small cottage groups.
His work had not been long finished
when President Roosevelt called at the
White House two years ago, the famous
conference on children. Hilles came
down from Dobbs Ferry to attend it and
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ing both dragged in to make an oppor-
tunity for that response.
A second pigeon flew from box 18,
then third, fourth, fifth. Soon twenty
frightened birds were darting round
the auditorium. making worse inter-
ruption than any noise.
All the while the police were trying
to break into box No. Is, one of those
old-style grilled loges. where visitors
of rank can see without being seen.
Behind, its doors had been fixed shut
from the inside by wrapping many
thicknesses of copper wire round lock
and handle. To cut it, thickness by
thickness, nippers had to be fetched,
while six policemen pushed the door
in to make a small opening.
The next night four such boxes were
wired shut by royalists, with honks.
horns, whistles and new kissing ma
chine. So, wire-cutting being slow and
the men exasperated. crash! in went
the panels of box No. 9, and crash!
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same school, this time as financial Off
Ger. He was now twenty-five, and he
was to remain at this incOnspicuOus and
seemingly unpromising post for eight
years. But this was a most momentous
and happy period in the young mans
life, for within it he wooed and won Miss
Dollie Bell Whitley, a fair daughter Of
Lancaster, the town where the reforna-
tory was located. He married her when
he was twenty-nine. and hen there was
a wait of four years before he realized
his ambition to become superintendent of
the institution. He was then thirty-three.
Few were the works on sociology, pail
biology, criminology and penal reform
which Hilles had not read up to this time.
In his views concerning juvenile de-
pendents and delinquents he was a
progressive of progressives, standing for
all of those reforms which within the
past decade have withheld the prison
brand from the brows of juvenile and ir-
responsible wrOngdOers.
He had been at the head of the Ohio
institution scarcely two years when the
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L1NCOLNS %
PRIVATE SECRETARY

great state Of New York commenced to
ransack the reformatories of the country
for man to head it's juvenile asylum,
founded half century before be Peter
Cooper and other philanthropists. And
after sitting all of the available men in
the country the board of directors chose
Hilles. So he left Ohio and came to the
metropolis. That was in 1902.
He found the asylum on Washington
Heights to consist of cluster of great
buildings in which groups of hundreds of
boys and girls, mostly immigrants from
the tenements or slums, were congested
under one roof, were fed at great
tables and were put to sleep in the
old fashioned congregate system. Hilles
had been advocating the plan of separat-
ing all such children in small, carefully
shaded groups, each separated from the
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answered box No. IA across the audi
torium. In these bagarres, poor
woman, boX-opener, received a ter
rible thrust in the breast with the end
Of a cane and a rack of ladies' hats and
cloaks was knocked down and tram
pied out of human semblance.
Deserter. Vive 'farmee. Vide lie
roy."
Silence, bandits!" Honk! Honk! =
Exterior work was directed by Max
ime del Sarte's tried phalanX-the
etat major of 5000 excited students. AS
many republican students might have
been there to hustle them-but for the
simple detail that they utterly lack
organization or desire to organize.
Put a pin there.
Though the kings tent was the
Cafe de PUnivers. all those cafes round
the place were sure retreats for roy
alists. Behind barricades Of chairs and
tables. hhey onspu-ed"--Bernstein.
BRAND. Fallieres and the republic.
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to be at the head of something. In a
word, they are exactly like the young
men of the Latin quarter in the middle
Of the second empire, who rioted sys-
tematically in the name CT the republic.
Gambetta, Jules Ferry and Rochefort
were perfect prototypes of Leon Dauiet
Jean Drault. Gustave Terry, Maxine del
Sarte and Maurice Pujo. They were
Napoleon III police for years. Then,
finally one day of bad news they picked
up public power where they found it,. in
the street''-to use their languaee-and
became the fathers of the republic.
Without venturing any estimate Of my
own, l may suggest that the eventuality
up to the hour they sprung Unjust
have seemed as unlikely to Napoleon Ii
as it's imitation seems to us today.
OF course. ii is the usual and proper
thing to say that France proved her re-
publicanism In the ,slate elections. But
what does French popular vote amount
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1t was a matter Of some augury that he
began his career as a private secretary
not to a statesman or captain Of indus
try. but to the superintendent Of the Ohio
Industrial School, for street boys, at Lam
caster, some eighty miles west Of his
native heath 1t was here that he first
mounted his life hobby, and he COM
menced at once TO understudy the head
of the institution But in three years
the opposition party got control of the
state offices, and a new superintendent
came in, with a private secretary of his
own, and young Hilles went back to his
country home. In two years, however.
William Mckinley became Governor of
Ohio, and HilleS was sent back to the
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making sallies on the place with chairs
and tables to roll between the legs of
the guards horses.
This was inside the Gordon that held
back 5000 students and as many idling
citizens-who, from mere light-hearted-
ness, took up the cries. 1t is a Partisan
trait. observed from the days of Basoche
and Fronde; and a striking sample of
Rujo's contagious leadership was Van
denputt. the Belgian who owns the Uni
vers. AS Police Captain Jean reached
for blond bearded youth, haranguins
from a table:
1--WE are driven here, to our last trench,
because we wish to save France If this
violence continues, all means will be
good to us. Down with the republic
Vandenputt interposed to save him, cry
ing ''Vive Parmee.' 1t was too much,
and the proprietor of the big cafe was
boxed up like simple kings came
lot!
Photographers risked flashing their
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STERLING HEILIG.
A Good FOOIer.

r Fl. SOTHERN. apropos of April ].
- told at a dinner in New York q
story about his father.
MY father in his youth" he said. was
once playing in romantic drama. where
in he made a tremendous leap-a leap
from his lady loves tower to a mattress
behind a wooden rock on the stage. far
below. 1t was a thrilling leap, and my
father no doubt enjoyed the applause 1t
won him: but one night he. sprained his
ankle and vowed he would leap no more.
so the manager hired a professional
acrobat. made up my fathers coun-
terpart, to do the leap, while my father
would slip back under cover OF the tower
wall and descend to his dressing room
by means of a hidden ladder.
THE afternoon the acrobat came to
the theater to rehearse he made the leap
and then he set up loud complaint
What's the natter asked a young
member of the company who happened
to be in the theater.
Why said the acrobat, in a Disguised
voice, this here leap is too tame. It's too
easy. A man with glass eyes and cork
legs could do 1t. Now. if they'd let me
throw two fiipflaps in the air as / came
down
Splendid! cried the young actor
The very thing
"'You don't think the boss would
mind? said the acrobat, doubtfully.
Mind? Why, man, he'll be tickled to
death. Ten to one he'll raise your SAL
ary'
That evening when the great leap
scene began my father was gratified to
see the acrobat, a perfect picture Of him
self. crouching In the shadow of the win
dow.
Love. goodnight, good-nightr my "a
Their cried.
Stay moaned the heroine, and she
threw herself on his neck. Stay! That
leap lie deathr
Nay. nay. my own, It's honor.
leap. tbs true. but there Is that within
my heart will bear me up-thtne image.
love. And so goodnight, goodnight
He kissed her madly on the brow, tore
himself from her clinging arms and rush.
ed across the open space into the shadow.
Jump" he Missed between his teeth.
'And out, straight into the air, shot
the acrobat Twice his 1.-THE shape whfrl-
ed round like a great nywheei. Then he
lit lightly and easily on the topmost point
Of the wooden rock
"Roars Of laughter and thunders Of ap-
plause shook the theater. The acrobat
bowed stifny and strutted of into the
wings with his arms folded. But the re-
marks of my poor father on hih ladder
have not come down to US"
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TN splendid weather Nice, the play
ground of the world, has just cele-
- brated it's grand annual carnival, and
the procession scored an unprecedented
success Enormous crowds Of pleasure
seekers from all over the globe gathered
in the Avenue de la Care, the Place Mas
sena and the adjacent streets.
Both in number and originality the
floats and chariots by far surpassed those
of the past few years. Besides the three
official ones there were nine chariots.
seven cavalcades ands some hundred
groups of costumed figures. And last, but
not least, several thousand masked and
Enthusiastically CARRIED people Joined in the
recession on foot, dancing, singing and
cutting up all kinds of capers, making
merry along the entire route of the pa
rade.
The Nice carnival opens at sunrise on
the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, and
the merrymaking is continued without
any apparent interruption both night and
day until the following Tuesday mid
night.
Other cities, among them Rome, Venice
Mentone and Paris, also celebrate the
three days preceding Lent with carnival
festivities, but none of them attracts the
wide attention nowadays as does the
carnival at Nice. This is DUE perhaps
as much as anything else. to the splen-
lid winter climate of the southern city.
wiich permits the fullest out-of-door en-
,oyment in the warmest of sunshine.
The city is situated on the Mediter
ranean at the foot Of the Alps and on
The western extremity of the Riviera.
The town and bay are protected by the
mountains on the north, and the climate
is consequently most delightful. The
fashionable season begins at Nice soon
after January / and lasts until June 1.
Out Of season-n fact, the very day
the season closes-Nice becomes as dead
as an unsuccessful summer resort in zero
weather The cafes and restaurants.
which have been kept ablaze from jan
uary to June, are then suddenly closed.
locked and bolted until another season
again brings the $4,000 or more pleasure
and health seekers and their pocketbooks
to their doors.
The old adage about making hay while
the sun shines holds good in Nice If any
where in the world. The yearly crop
which the good Nicois gather in would.
it seems, make the most modest landlord
OF restaurateur a multimillionaire.
In the middle ages 1t Is said the city
was infested by pirates, some OF whose
descendants have evidently continued to
the present day. A few OF these have
taken to the strenuous life of hack driv-
Ing. others to the cooking and serving
Of hot birds and cold bottles. and still
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to? Six months before the fall of Ma
poleon III the famous plebiscite gave him
a majority of 100000 votes, something
which the present republic has never en-
joyed. Six months later the Paristans,
without arms. entered the legislative as
sembly and Hotel de Vile and proclaimed
the republic. Yet Eugene and the little
prince had surer defenders than a mere
vote-a great centralized administration,
devoted police, gendarmerie and guards
The morning before her flight Eugene
imagined her reign secure. 1t was secure
All went to pieces with few kilograms
of bad news And those despised boys
of the Latin Quarter picked the public
power up where they found tin the
street!
1t may be interesting to know what the
present batch say of themselves. They
call 1t a conspiracy in plain daylight"
Talking loudly about it is their supreme
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subtlety. Rochefort. old, cynic brilliant,
caring for nothing but art and the pa
geant Of things, alone recognizes 1t OPEN
ly.
Incidents without gravity says
Charles Maurras. can produce the psy-
Geological state favorable to our coup
d'etat 1t has no need to be Sedan or
Waterloo. It is infinitely more likely to
be one of those pieces of false news
which determined all the popular move
ments of the first republic
OF Maxine Real del Sarte, one OF their
youthful generals, they say:
THE young avenger of Jeanne dare
became prince Of the Latin Quarter. One
day the Sorbonne was captured by brute
force, another day by surprise and con-
spiracy, amid a multitude Of spectators
at first inert, then attentive, charmed,
seduced!
These riots" continues Detroit-Crozon,
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Worlds Greatest Carnival
Was Held in France

others to the pleas life OF the gambler.
No place in the world offers a better
opportunity to study human nature than
the Promenade des Anglais, Nice, at
noon during the carnival period.
The street is alive with an ever NOV
ing, cosmopolitan NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Russians, Englishmen in white flannels,
alert Americans, rich and lazy planters
from Brazil. Austrian officers, Chinese
and Japanese of rank, people from
every country in Europe and from the
east and Guatemala. Pretty girls
galore old ladies in wheeling chairs
and mean-looking, hard-jawed gamblers.
Every ones spirits are high, for the
very sunlight itself seems full of cleo
tricity. celebrating ones spirits and
resting ones nerves. The center Of
life during the carnival time in Nice
is the square Massena, on which stands
the bronze statue to Massena, who was
born in Nice. Here at night during
the carnival much dancing takes place.
Adjacent is the casino. an attractive
modern municipal structure contain
ing gaming rooms. a theater and an
entertainment garden.
From the casino the public garden.
exceptionally attractive with its palm,
pepper. myrtle and laurel trees. reaches
to the sea and terminates in the spIen-
did iron and glass pier promenade.
From this point west along the bay
for distance Of over two miles is
the wide magnificent Promenade des
Anglais. fanked by villas and spacious
hotels and having gardens Of orange
and lemon trees and acres OF flow
ers. The origin Of the carnival.
the days Of revelry Immediately be-
fore Lent is almost as obscure as the
eral theories have been suggested.
There is little doubt that the custom Is
in a sense q survival Of the old Roman
festival Of the Luperealia, which was
held at the same season Of the year. ana
that the church, as in so many other in
stances attempted to regulate and sane
tify what 1t could not entirely suppress.
Originally the carnival time extended
from the feast Of the Epiphany January
81 to Ash Wednesday. Then It was re-
duced to eight days, and finally reached
It's present scope Of three
A congratulated custom In the Paris
carnival has been to lead in the process
sion fat OK. followed in triumphai car
by child called 1.-The King OF the Butch
ers." Otherwise few OF the traditional
festivities are kept alive. except the
throwing Of confetti or sweetmaats and
flowers. the blowing Of horns. the masked
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magnesium. which caused frightened
horses to trample many. One operator
had three fingers blown off, d lady her
face mutilated. Jean ordered the mas
nesium machines captured: but after
crushing charges amid screaming men
and fainting women, no magnesium could
be found in the cafe. 1t was flashing,
once again. round the fountain of the
place. where some 500 students attempt
ed to plant flag. One operator lost an
eye and three students were so badly
burned that they were taken in ambu-
Iances.
Malric was arrested with Daudet-son
of the famous novelist-a great kings
man. Dragged 300 yards. Daudet claims
to have been kicked, choked and punched
in the face, liver and kidneys en- route"
At the police station they stretched
Daudet fiat on bench. and while police
held his feet and arms and sat on his
chest and stomach another banged his
head rhythmically against the bench-an
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: - -
Presidents new sec
rotary, G h arl e s
Dewey Hilles, is
the uplift of the
waif of the tene-
ment and slums.
AS another Judge
Lindsay, he is re-
garded by his old
neigh bors up at
DobbS Ferry, where
he still re t a / n S
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OR a week the
Theater Francois
has been the scene
of riots, fights,
scraps, stranglingS,
h al r. ul ii n & S,
k n o C kin & down
and dragging out,
mob frenzy, whole
sale arrests. res
cues and charges
that recall the
palmy days OF the