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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10
FEWER PEOPLE ARE
 GETTING MARRIED

London, September s.-(Special.) )-F ewer
 people than ever, in proportion to the pop
 ulation. are getting married in England
 and Wales. In his quarterly return. is-
 sued Wednesday, the registrar general
 states that in the first three months of
 this year the marriages of. S9, 506 persons
 were registered, being equal to an annual
 rate of 100 persons married per 1000 of the estimated population, against an, average rate of 11-4 per 1000 in the first quarter of the 10 years 1901-10 Of counties with populations exceeding. 10o00O. Bucl<ing-
 hamshire, with 7.2, had the lowest rate, and Northumberland, with 11.S the high est. Londons rate was 11.5.
 The. births dealt with in the report are those for the second quarter of the year. They number 225,777, and were in the pro- portion of 25.0 annually per 1000 of the pop ulation.
 | This is 30 per 1000 below the mean birth rate in the 10 preceding second quarters, and in the words of the report, which are becoming stereotyped, fit Is the lowest birth rate recorded in any sec ond quarter since the establishment of civil registration" Sussex has the lowest birth rate, 16.6, and Durham the highest, lS2s.
 The death rate was IS per 1000 below the same rate nthe 10 preceding second quarters. The natural increase of popu- ation last quarter by excess of birth over deaths was 105,793, against 122 TSP, III, ,9S7, and 119,161. in the second quarters of 1908. 1909. and 1910 respectively
 While the natural increase of population declines, emigration grows In the three months ending June 30, of the passengers stated to be of British nationality, the de- partures exceeded the arrivals by 75, ,3o4 per sons, an increase of GA per cent as com pared with the corresponding period of the previous year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10
Bulls Turned Loose on Crowd

Lisbon September -(Special)-A crowd at Lisbon bull fight created riot pe- cause of their dissatisfaction with the quality of the sport" and were prepar- ing to set the building on fire. when the
 proprietor let loose six bulls, and in a twinkling the panic stricken audience fled in all directions. trampling on each other in their eagerness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10
Pays in Turtles

IFrom the West Liberty (Ky.) Courier. If some of our subscribers who are in
 Iarrears and want to pay up. but haven't the ready cash, think that we will be hard on them, ask Jim Elam. He pays his Subscription in turtles at so much per, and he is not a delinquent, either
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10

train and the wild elephant which caused 1t. The animal apparently frightened by the noise of the approaching train, started to cross the track and was struck by the engine. The force of the impact was sui f1cient to throw the engine and tender from the track. The elephant was almost instantly killed by the force of the blow and thrown into a ditch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10
TRAIN IS WRECKED
 BY AN ELEPHANT

Singapore, September 9.-(Specil)-
 Among the remarkable photographs pub lishe6 In the last official report of the Federated Malay States Railways were two showing the wreck of a passenger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10
From Owensboroueh to sObo

From the Hopkinsville Ky.) Kentucfian-
 The government has decre@d that it must be spelled i"Owensborough.v Everybody else spells it -'Owensboro.' except thel railroad men. who abbreviate, to 'Obo.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17

around among the local alumni Of the
different colleges at the Glee club con-
cert at the Boyd saturday evening. De-
oember 30, but II has been decided that
the three upper boxes on one side will be
occupied by the Nebraska men and those
opposite by Michigan. Mr. Arthur Kee-
line Is making arrangements for the
dance At the Rome 20 follow the concert
and says that there viii be a program OF
ten numbers with four or five extras.
Among the notRbles in the Giee club is
j. Del. Harvard, a direct descendant OF
the brother OF John Harvard, founder OF
Harvard college. He lives In the Yard
and has the same room in Weld hall that
Mr.. Arthur Crittenden Smith had while ut
Harvard. Among the prominent Nebraska
alumni OF Harvard who will be present
at the concert are Dean Bessey and Prof.
J. +. Frye. heads OF the botany and lit
erature departments NJ the University OF
Nebraska. There are seventy-five men
In the Nebraska Harvard club, which has
been organized twenty-slx years.
The oberiin Glee club win be here jan
uary and win be entertained at the
University club preceding the concert IN
the evening at the First Congregational
ehurch-
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17

attractiveIy decorated in red and gray,
the class cloiors, and in different school
remnants. The Les Hiboux and the Grand
Bouncer's clubs Of the school will have
cozy corners and d special section OF the
balcony will be reserved for spectators.
AS the prom comes on the even OF the
holidays many alumni, are planning to
attend. The grand march win probably
be lead by Miss Laura Zimmerman and
Edwin Landale, the class president. Har.
old Thomas ana Roy Gould, committee IN
charge.
There is TO be q subscription dance
given at the University club by the
younger members the evening Of Friday,
December %.
Miss Watts and Miss Redfieid will en-
tertain at supper Sunday evening at the
Hamilton cafe for Mise Blanche Moore,
who viii be q December bride.
The active members OF the Phi Kappa
Pei will give a rushing" dinner at the
Omaha club, followed by theater party
"Wednesday evening, December "a.
Mrs. II. c.. Peters will give an afternoon
bridge party Wednesday. December ~.
for Miss Daphne Peters, Miss Bertha
Dickey and Miss Katherine Thummel
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17
COLLEGE GLEE CLUBS COMING
Society Prepares to Entertain the
College Organizations Here.
SCHOOL SET FORMING CLUBS
High school Foot Han squad 60 ne
HonOr Guests az Large Dane
ing Party---stuaeRts Home
n for the HoIidays.


MoNDAY--afr, and Mrs, A. q. Edwards.
dinner Tor MacAllaster-E Edwards we'd
TUEBDAY--wedd OF Miss Bernlce Ed.
wards and Mr, Turner MacAllaster at
ftTEt Congregational church; wedding
% Miss Hazel Deli Deweese and Mr..
RQes Towle at Canon City, Colo; Mrs.
John 9. Gown, tea for Mrs. win Gown
MI Luther Drake. dinner at Omaha
WEDNEsDAY--Mr aud Mrs. Thomas G.
!. byrne, o'clock coffee for Miss Esther
Byrne
THtAtsDAY--Mr and Mrs. George w.
ltQldrege, dance. at Country club for
Miss Leete Holdrege and Miss Mary
ltngwalti Mrs. walter b. Mccormick,
teh for Mrs. q. w. Megeath; Wedding
OF Miss Faber Dow and Mr.. Russeii
t1sheri Mrs. A. r. Hunt, luncheon tor
1irs. ~. J, Hunt and Mrs. n. j. Sackett
Mrs. Ferdinand Adler, afternoon bridge
at the Rome hotel or Night club, ban
quet al University club.
fltlpAf -SubacfiptiO dance at Univer-
SLY club; hop az Fort Crook; Omaha
aiTli school, senior prom.
SATURDAI-Delta Kappa Phi sorority,
evening party at Irownell Hall
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17

AlIaire has been military attache at
Vienna, Austria
Miss Lilah Davis OF Lincoln, who has
been visiting Misses Elizabeth and Anna
Fry has returned home.
Mrs. Joseph F. Boss, who has been I'll
at Garrison hospital, Is much improved
and returned home Thursday.
Mrs. Allan Robinson has left to rejoin
her mother, Mrs. Henry Cady, in Cali
fornia, where they win remain for the
winter.
Mrs. Maurice GunIoek and small daugh-
ter OF Chicago have arrived to spend the
holidays with Mr.. and Mrs Andrew Muir
ply and family.
Miss Helen Matters will return for the
holidays the day before Christmas from
Boston, where she is attending Miss
Chamberiyn's school. sa. a
Mrs. J. J. Dickey, who has been east
since September. will accompany her
daughter, Miss Bertha Dickey. home for
the holidays, arriving Saturday.
Miss Margaret Baum, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. ID. A. Baum, who attends
school In Paris. will spend the Christmas
holidays with friends in London
Misses Evalyn and Helen Miller are
home from the Burnham school. North
anpton, Mass, to spend the holidays with
their parents. Mr.. and Mrs. s. r. Miller.
Mrs. w. B. Willard. who went to Wash
Ington to spend Thanksgiving with her
sons, Ray and 10. who are at school
there, is expected home with them Thurs
day.
Miss Coda Murphy, who has spent
three months in Chicago as the guest of
ff,o, .t,,,.a -. ~ I,t.N q.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17

apt comment on the bride to be and ap-
proprlate Illustrations we're cut from ma
gaines. The little stories or items and
illustrations were then pasted In a book
called Interesting Chapters in the Life
OF RosinA Mandelberg." The table decor
ations for the luncheon which followed
were elaborate and unusual The table
was decorated like a landscape, with a
miniature lake, on which were ships and
a train. The railway station was at the
place Of Miss Mandelberg. and here was
a small trunk filled with dainty hand
kerchiefs for the brides trousseau. Those
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17
For o. II. :. Foot NAN squad.


The Triangle club OF the Omaha High
school gave an enjoyable dancing party
for the members OF the 1911 foot ball
squad at the Normandie apartments FRI
day evening, about twenty-five couples
being present.
This was tho first soeaf affair given
In honor OF this years gridlron warriors
and was a pronounced success. The hall
was deliberately decorated In green and
white, the club colors, and numerous at
traetive school pennanta. Refreshments
we're served during the evening. Green
and white leather programs ia the shape
OF q miniature foot ball were distrib-
uted 20 the guests as souvenirs OF the
occasion.
The Triangle club IL made up Of sew
eral girls and already has taken a promi-
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17
Personal Gossip

Mrs. r. r. FIndley OF Mercer Pa, IL
in the city, the guest Of Mr.. tand Mrs
]. S. Sykes.
Mr.. Harold Driscoll has gone to WASH
ington, d. c., and viii study law at the
Georgetown university.
Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Allaire
have arrived az Fort Crook. which is
their new station. Lieutenant Colonei
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17
For the Future

Rev. ]. A. jenkins, an oberiin college
alnmnus, win give a stereoptioon lecture
at the Omaha High school wednesday
morning.
At the Omaha High school senior prom,
the most important social event OF the
1919 class, which win be given at Cham
bers' Friday evening. the hall will be
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17
Pleasures Past

Mrs. George LaIer entertained infor-
mally at bridge Saturday afternoon at her
home.
AIRS. Charles Whiting entertained at a
matinee party Saturday afternoon az the
Brandels theater TO see The Newly
weds." Miss Bernieo Edwards was the
guest Of honor. Those present we're
Misses Berniee Edwards. Katherine Pow
ell. Katherine Milroy Eloise Jenks.
Mesdames Harold Miles OF Des Moines.
Charles Whiting.
The members OF the Pl Sigma club en-
tertained az q whist party at the home
Of Arthur Robinson Thursday evening,
the occasion being his eighteenth birth
fhnaa nf,aEants
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17

noon at the home of the brides mother
Mr.. and Mrs. westergard will be at
home after January IS at 1909 Dorcas
street.
A large December wedding will be that
OF Miss Bernice Marie Edwards, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. A. @. Edwards, TO
sdr. Turner MacAlIaster of Oakland, Cal,
formerly Of Omaha The wedding will be
at the First Congregational church, fol-
lowed by q reception at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. Edwards ON West Harvey
street. Mrs. Harold Miles OF Des
Moines and Mrs. Marion Fore Rus
sell OF Lincoln will be the mat
rons of honor and the bridesmaids will
be Miss Katherine Powell Miss Katherine
Milroy ana Miss Eioise jerks. Mr.. Mac
Allaster arrived Monday from California
accompanied by his grandfather, Mr..
Turner. and today his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. r. A. MaeAllaster and Mrs. Benja-
min MacAllaster, arrive and will be
guests OF Mr. and Mrs, w. c. Ross. The
men Of the wedding party will be Mr.
Yale Holland. best man: Mr.. Earl Bur-
ket, Mr.. Jack Webster. DR.. Waldo Scott
and Mr.. Nye Morehouse OF Fremont
ushers.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17

Invitations have been issued for the
wedding OF Miss Mable HeitxhauSsn.
daughter OF Mrs. H. c. HeltEhaussn. 20
Mr.. Alfred Westsrgard. which win taxa
place Monday, December Is ~ han
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17
Wedding Bells

Mr.. and Mrs. Gustav Fries announce
the engagement OF their daughter, Hen
rietta. TO Mr.. Albert johnson OF Los
Angeles. Cal The wedding win taxa place
a. Long Beach. Cal. the early part Of
January.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17

Mr and Mrs. 8. Robinson.
Miss ROsina Mandelberg. who will be
q December bride. was the guest OF honor
AZ an interesting and novel entertainment
given by Miss Sadie Kirschbraun at her
home on South Twenty-eiEhth avenue
Saturday afternoon. Each guest wrote an
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17
DancInE CIuba Tor school Set.

DancIng OIubR Tor schooI Set.
Numerous dancing clubs have been
formed recently by the young people at
tending school. One OF the largest clubs
will give a Christmas party Friday, De-
oember e. at the Metropolitan club and
win be chaperoned by Mrs. Charles c,
Auf.os, urhla ,lt,h tnciuaaa.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-17

since the young men OF the Harvard
Glee, Mandolin ana Banjo clubs win ar
rive from Kansas city tho morning OF
December %, the afternoon tea planned
by Mrs. Arthur Crittenden Smith has been
definitely decided upon, II probably will
be held between the hours Of $40 and 8. %
as the Harvard men are to be dined at
the. Omaha club at 9 o'clock. Among the
assisting young women will be the sea
sons debutsntes.
There are not enough boxes 10 go
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

by themselves for the first time, drove the
servility of Europe out of their veins, and
by association with Americans and con-
tact with American problems they were
finally ground over into good American
citizens.
Now the immigrant comes in by the
million, and hundreds of thousands of him
are dropped down into New York. Phila-
delphia Chicago, Boston and other big
cities. They lead there life much the
same as in Europe Many of them go 10
the sweatshops. and heir blood $ III nned
by the dust OF the factory or mine. They
speak their own language and intermarry.
They have their own newspapers. and are
largely moved by politicians or agitatorS
who preach socialism and anarchism free
from restraint.
The situation is indeed far different
from anything we have had i'm the past.
and il becomes more and more serious
from year to year. / have before me the
numbers of immigrants who have landed
in this country since 1S22. There have
been all told. twenty-eight or twenty-nine
millions. and of them about one-fourth
have come i'm within the past. five years.
We struck the million mark first in 1895
We brought in another million in 1906,
and more than a million and a quarter i'm
81. In the two following years times
We're hard and there was decree Sc, but a.
1910 We came up to a million again. and
this year We have even more. Can Uncle
Sam stand it? The question bulks big in
our prospects for the future, and IL is one
that should be settled forthwith.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

try hall This is a great room covering
about half an acre and filled with a
network of alleys inclosed by iron pipe
fences Each of the alleys is devoted
to one group of immigrants. and the
groups are labeled A, B. c. d, e. etc,
to correspond with the letters borne by
those who come from the ship At the
end of each alley is an inspector In
uniform with a tall desk before him:
He speaks a half dozen languages, and
catechises each immigrant as he goes
through. He makes him pass all the
tests for admission, and If he belongs
to the objected classes decides against
him, marks him l. P. c., or liable TO pc
come public charge, and puts MIN on the
road back to Europe. Behind me was
"A fine-looking old woman, with white
handkerchief over her head. she was
asked as to her relatives. and Whethef
they would support her on landing
/ moved along with the crowd anu
when / came to the gate [ found that
the inspector had the long sheet or
the steamer. He asked each question
over again and cross examined me to
see if I was telling the truth. When
I told him / had s45 he made me take
it out and count it before him. [ OBJ
served that the two girls in front OF
me each had eight gold pieces of the
denominatio of 20 marks. The man
talked to them in German, and the
party in front of them was addressed
in Polish. Indeed. he seemed to have
a whole babel of languages at his
tongues end.
1t took him about two minutes to
finish my examination. and after he
was convinced that l was honest and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

the commissioner of immigration at Ellis
Island. The letter requested that / be
Shown all the processes and given
all information to how the
foreigner breaks into this country.
Uncle Sam is adopting into our national
family more than one million new broth
FRS and sisters each year. He keeps rush
ing them in at the rate of two or three
thousand "a day. or OF more than one hum
bred an hour from midnight TO midnight
all the year through
How do these people get in?
Who arc they?
What are they?
Where do they come from?
Where do they go?
Can We digest them? Or will they lie
Ike lump of sour dough on Uncle Sam 5
stomach. poisoning our national family?
shall answer the last question first
and that by my experience as an immi-
grant. The first chapter of il is imagi-
nary. You must suppose me a peasant
m some little town in southeastern
Europe. My wages are less than a quar-
Ter a day, and the chief part of my diet
d brown bread and water One morn
ng q smooth Well dressed man comes
and offers me all sorts of inducements to
70 across the ocean. He paints the
United States country where sold
aollars can be picked up in the streets.
Ind finally persuades me to pay enough
but of my savings to buy steamship
licket to New York. The ticket is for
i.he steerage and il costs me $50. Armed
with 1t 60 to Fiume, which Is my near
sst port. and. after being examined and
sumigated am hurried with ZOO others
INTO the hold of a steamer. 1t Is the
Heamship company that causes my going.
NJ passage helps to pay It's dividends,
tDd that is the reason their agent has
Jailed upon me-. They get the worth of
heir money. / pay them one-third or
Sne-half much as first cabin pas
senger. but 1 sleep in a bunk. away down
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NEW! fEAR RAGEk
GEORGE WASHINGTON

GEORGE WASHINGTON
~ Set the Example for
Holding Great Annual Levee
That Day-Admonished His
People to Ever Observe 1t,
and They Have Obeyed-
How Taft's Levee Tomorrow
Will Compare With Those of
His Predecessors-Pomp and
Ceremony at New Year
Drawing Rooms of Early
Presidents - Jefferson's Ban
on Order of Precedence
Madison's Gorgeous New
Year Court-Golden Coaches
of State-Heat Plays Hob
With Compilations - New
Year Mob at Jackson's Levee
Fights Over Refreshments
and Sling Hams at One An
other-Quincy Adams Faces
New Year Precedence Squab-
ble-Ear1y Court Costumes.
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THE REGISTRY HALL.

the immigrant on his way. The bags
were large and the food was good.
Indeed. 1 doubt whether one can get
AS much for the money anywhere else
i'll New York. This is all regulated
by law.
The immigrants bound for other
parts of the country are taken charge
of by the railroads and put on the
right cars, and they are carefully
watched and cared for by the railroads
until they reach their destination.
And now as to the wOuld-be immigrants
who are sent back. They are brought
here at the risk Of the steamship com
panies who carry them and are sometimes
sent i'm by countries and cities abroad
who want to get rid of supporting them
and make Uncle Sam pay the bills The
classes who are excluded are definitely
set down in the laws. Here is a list OF
them as the commissioner Of immigration
has given 1t to me.
i,
Idiots. imbeciles, feeble-minded persons
and epileptics. Insane persons who have
been insane within five years. Paupers
and persons likely to become a public
charge. Persons having tuberculosis or
a dangerous contagious disease. Persons
suffering from mental or physical de-
fects which may affect their ability to
earn a living. Criminals, polygHm istS
and anarchists. Prostitutes and procur-
ers Contract laborers. Persons whose
citation, municipality or foreign govern
ment, and lastly children under sixteen
unaccompanied by parent.
All sorts Of frauds are attempted to
get these classes through. Diseased eyes
are doctored and the lame are taught to
walk without limping as they pass by the
inspectors Lies innumerable are told by
the immigrants and every trick Is played
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

Il hallway and rushed single file up long
pair of stairs. At the top of these We
passed into room where a dozen men III
uniform stood. We then walked across
into an alley shut off by ratings so that
only one could go ahead at IL time The
men in uniform We're the doctors of the
marine hospital service. The first man
who inspected me was on the outlook
for any signs of deformity or contagious
disease. lie looked at my legs to see If
they were the same length and sound.
he grabbed at my collar to see If / had
the goitre, and with his eyes examined
me from my crown to my toe for signs of
tuberculosis. 1 had noticed that he had
put a chalk mark on the girl ahead of
me and was relieved when he let me
go by.
y little further on l came to a gate
where another doctor was standing.
could feel his eyes go through me as L
approached, and then I felt him go
through my eyes. He had little wooden
stick not bigger than a toothpick, and
much like the orange stick used in
nail cleaning. He grabbed my right eye
lid and bent it back so that he could see
the whole ball of the eye. He then took
the left eyelid and did the same. He was
looking for contagious trachoma or
ophthalmia, and had it been there he
would have taken me out of the ranks
and made the steamship company carry
me back whence | came. This is done
with every immigrant. and the immigra-
ton doctors look at two million eyes in
this way every year.
My eyes were all right, however and i
was showed along with those who could
be passed. as far as their health was con-
cerned- II was far different with others.
but Of them l shall speak farther on. l
should say at least 81 per cent were held
back for special inquiry. each receiving a
yellow card bearing their names and the
reasons why they were held.
My next experience was In the regis
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titutes and about 500 were laoorerS who
came to work under contract.
And nov let us look at the million new
brothers and sisters who got in. We
have adopted them all into orr national
family. Who are they and where do they
come from? 1 wish you could have
tramped over Ellis Island with me and
taken look for yourselves at the sawed
off. anemic, unintelligent classes who
passed through the doors at the same
time l did. There We're 800 of them
altogether. and the majority were under
sized and uneducated. They came from
southeastern Europe, and We're composed
largely of Hungarians, Slavs, Italians,
gypsies and Polish and Russian Jews.
They were in about the same proportion
as those we imported last year, only the
number this year will be greater. In
1910 we admitted 1,O41,O00 immigrants,
and of these more than 100000 were
shipped here from Europe. We had more
than a quarter of million from Austria
Hungary; we had over 100000 from Italy
and $4,000 from the Russian empire and
Finland.
There was only bagatelle from north
Europe, and the bulk of the whole came
from the southeastern countries of that
continent. where from % to so per cent
Of the people are illiterate, and where in
some places more than the majority can
neither read nor w-:te. This holds true
Of the immigrants We are now getting,
and it is In striking contras- to those
who came in in the past.
For many years our adopted brothers
and sisters were from England, Scotland.
Ireland. Germany and s Sc a,!a.
was high. Only about per cent of the
Germans were illiterate, and I per cent
Of the English and Scotch. Only 3 per