Semi-weekly herald., 1911-06-22
STRAY TOPICS FROM
LITTLE OLD NEW YORK

NEW IORk, June 1f,-InS yeal
is the centenary of the building OF
New York's City Hall and of the
fist session therein of the Board OF
? Aldermen. 1t has been decided to
commemorate this on the Fourth of
July by gathering in the City Hall
of the descendants of the officials of
the De Witt Clinton administration of
the city, before the parade of nations
and the formal exercises, over which
lIayor Gaynor will preside. The
members of the Common Council of
1911 were De Witt Clinton, Mayor and
President; Aldermen Peter Mosier,
Thomas Carpenter, Charles Dicken-
son, Richard Cunningham, William
Hoagland, William Torrey, George
Buckmaster, Caleb Pell, and John
Pell, and Assistant Aldermen Samuel
Jones, Jr., Peter Hawse, August IL.
Lawrence, Elisha H. King, John
Morse, Michael w. Titus, William
yelling, William A. Hardenbrook,
and Abraham Van Gelder. The des-
cendants of these men are scattered
all over the country, but it is expect
ed that many of them will accept the
invitation to attend the commemora-
tive gathering.
Another centennial to be celebrated
in this city this year is that of Public
School No. 2, at Henry and Pike Sts.,
which is the oldest public school in the
city. 1t was opened on November 13,
1911, and the Board of Education, to-
gether with the principal and the
teachers of the school are making ar
rangements to celebrate the centen-
ary in an appropriate manner.
Former pupils of that school will be
invited to take part in the exercises.
Superintendent A. ]. Demarest of
the public schools of Hoboken, is
president of the Civic Pride associa-
ton of that city. He is great en-
thusiast and thoroughly convinced
that the people of Hoboken have
great deal to be proud of. He also
believes that the process of instill-
ing "civic pride" should begin early
For that reason he made determined
efforts to get the children in the Ho-
boken public schools interested in the
objects and aims of the Civic Pride
Association. To keep up the interest
Mr.. Demarest sent to buttonmaker
in Newark and had 10000 buttons
bearing the insignia of the association
and the words "IIoboken Civic Pride"
made. The buttons were distributed
among the children and boys and
girls proudly displayed their badges |
ofQS.Civic Pride" The other day,
however, all the buttons were called
in by Mr. Demarest, who promised |
THE children that he would soon furn- |
ish them with new buttons. The rea-
son for this action was that several |
days after the buttons had been dis |
tributed, the discovery was made that
each one of the buttons bore upon the |
reverse side the legend, Smoke Sweet
CapOral Cigarettes. The firm |
which had furnished the buttons ex-
-plained that in some unaccountable |
manner a mistake had been made and |
promised to supply the school children
of Hoboken with new buttons, devot-
ed exclusively to the advertising of
Hoboken's "Civic Pride"
The severe manner in which magis- /
trates have been dealing recently with
rowdies who caused disturbances in
subway or elevated trains, has taught |
the rowdies wholesome lesson and
such cases of rowdyism have become
greatly less frequent lately. Now the
magistrates should join in deter
mined warfare against the abominable |
male flirts or "mashers," who hang |
around street corners or stroll
through the downtown streets and in
suit women by speaking to women or
trying to flirt with them. Magistrate
House in the Night Court has set
a good example by sentencing one of
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fore him to ten days in the workhouse.
The members of the burglars and
hold-ups mems fraternity in New
York are working overtime. They
are so busy that the nights are evi-
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2 chance to finish their daily pensum
Daylight burglaries and hold-ups are |
getting quite common in this city
and the crooks do not even respect
Broadway in their nefarious trrade.
But all this will soon be changed; at
least so the citizens are assured by |
the police authorities. The new re-
gime promises great reforms and has
taken the first step in the direction of
reform by organizing a "vice-squad,"
consisting of police agents, who are to
mingle freely with the criminal ele-
ments and obtain all the information
they can get before they are found
cut by the criminals and put out of
the way. The identity of the members