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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-12
Waters Had Deathly Stiffness,

If the city's dwellers were tried 10
their utmost limits of endurance. So, too,
were those who thought TO obtain relief
by seeking the winds along the beaches
or embarked upon the water. All the
waters about the city We're mirror-like
in their placid, deathly stiffness. Yacht
ing craft drifted on the surface at the
will OF the tides while their passengers
and crews sought the slight shelter af-
forded by sail or cabin.
The boats looked like white butter
flies which had fallen To the CLASSY sur
face even while they were attempting to
wing their way toward the mirage Of
green woodland in the distance. Steam
boats damned with refugees from the
marched pavements of Manhattan and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-12
FOR ASSISTANT MAYOR HERE
Cullen Bill Would Permit Gaynor
to Make a Designation.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.l

Albany. July 11.-Senator Cullen to-
day introduced bill providing that the
Mavor of the City of New York may
designate in writing a member of the
Board Of Estimate or an officer who is
a head of a department to act as Mayor
during the Mayors sickness or absence
from the city for period OF not ex-
ceeding sixty days.
II no such designation is made or on
the expiration of a designation so made
the president Of the Board OF Aldermen
is 70 act as Mayor. Under the present
law the president Of the Board of Alder
men acts as Mayor at any time during
the absence OF the Mayor.
Senator Cullen's bill is plainly aimed at
President Mitchell of the Board of Alder
men. Mayor GaynOr has had no love for
him since as Acting Mayor last summer MIR.
Mitchell uncovered vice in Coney Island
and Manhattan, with correspondingy lax
conditions in the Police Department
II was originally planned that the pro-
posed new charter should provide for the
election of a Vice Mayor, who should act
as Mayor I'm the absence of the Mayor. SO
much opposition to this was expressed that
+; was cut out of the original draft.
Nayor Gaynor has not yet planned his
vacation for this summer, but IL is said
that he is 10th TO leave the Office in the
hands of President Mitchell. Some doubt
was expressed last night as TO the con-
stituticnality OF law that would take
away from an officer some Of the duties to
which he was elected. Il was also pointed
out that the people would scarcely care
:, have the duties Of Mayor exercised by
some one who was not elected for that pur-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-12
Woodwork Torn and Crushed.

Inside the Pulmans, with the eXcep-
tion of the last two the fittings and
woodwork were torn and crushed into
Mmbled mass. The day car and the
baggage car We're reduced TO splinters
and the engine was so torn apart that
only the main body OF the boiler and
cab were left to distinguish 1t as part
of whole.
on the east side of the Niaduct the en-
bankment Is held and strengthened by
stone retaining wall in which the indi-
vidual stone blocks measure about siA
feet In length by four In width AMI three
In thickness.
The terrible force of the plunging en-
cine. once it had left the tracks, can
be best appreciated from the fact that
(optiauel on tl-1sd ,ys-~A
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-12
RILEY GIVES LIBRARY Dill
.Hoosier Poet, on Sick Bed Donates
Valuable Property to IndlaHapo''''
IN Telegraph % NJ TTlDu

t,dia,anolls JuIy 1.-THE lndi""" ,,',,
uaard of school Commissioners Ieoe',
today from James Whltco"D an with a
"Hocsier Poet" who mas ooe" ,,hs a gift
serious affiiction for severa' n''" sashionabIe
OF property located IN tne d MS ss the site for
PAT library 9l "s and y ysdmnistraon bulGnE aeimatcd
a The T, value Of the property, ~ n,ans carry,
at $1,000 and 7 the present. The he Midds
one 2nc. 0i ,i n"G ne 'gcatcd on the site give" ~
MIR Riley.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-12
McAneny Gets More Light.

Borough President McAneny was in
cliued yesterday TO take exception to
the reasons General Bingham gave for
resigning from the Bureau OF Highways.
Mr. McAneny characterized the Gen
orors complaints. that he could not get
action and was blocked and hampered In
his work. II trivial in some instances
and far from the mark In others Mr..
McAneny said he found 1t diiiicult to
understand the Generals attitude until
he heard yesterday OF his appointmeHt
~ the Bridge Department at a salary of
e. 800 That he said. might throw more
light on the matter
Mr.. McAnenys curt reference Jester
do, to the report which General Bing-
Continued ,r second gage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-12
ow Eares and perteet comtert q c0Iorad0.

Rock Islands Limited trains, morning aud
eve niuu nom Chicago and ST. Louis one
night out Every luxury. Tickets ana
booklets. i0l BroadWay.-Advt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-12

h 3d srnitNE TO TAKE LUNCH
hext,N me best American Wines
W. 4 Sons Co. iSs Fulton st. NY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-12

,n,tsit,io -Eryrtok eyeglasses for near and
,,a,a,, y,eion Spcn,cr's, : Maiden Iano-
-Auyt.
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Continued ,r second gage
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17

idea that at least part OF the clientele he
had enjoyed at the Plaza would follow him
TO the new house. But not even his attrac-
tive personality could bridge for his old
friends the gulf between Fifth avenue and
Broadway. Had Rectors been I'm the ave-
nue. many Of Kings followers might have
been attracted TO his new love, but they
could not bring themselves 70 forego the
thoroughfare OF spring bonnets for that Of
white lights King had gone out Of his
zone, so II wasn't long before the mascot
returned to the Plaza as assistant manager.
But while the increasing ability of a
hotel clerk 10 entice rich patrons 10 his
hotel and keep their patronage is reflected
slowly but surely in an increased salary,
the compensation he receives in return for
favors done outside interests is much more
precarious. 1t is here, too, that tempta-
ton doubtless assails him-the temptation
TO betray his friends into the hands Of un-
worthy exploiters.
What does he get in return for his rec
ommendation of a certain show? Few will
deny that his recommendation is valuable.
New York theatres are supported not so
much by the clty's native and adopted sons
and daughters as by the strangers within
her gates. And the man who gets their ear
first, the man to whom they turn most
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
National Mine Safety Demon
stration at Pittsburgh Next
Month Will Be Spec
tacular in Va
rious Ways.
n&HIRTY THOUSAND miners killed in
the United States in the last ten
- years

n<HIRTY THOUSAND miners killed in
the United States in the last ten
u years
Seventy-fve thousand miners injured
many Of them MANNED for life, in the same
period
Eleven thousand widows made by the
deaths of the miners
Thirty thousand children left fatherless
This terrible record represents not only
the accidents in the coal mines, but also the
metal mines. IL is the story Of the tragedy
of the mines but not the whole story. If the
mines OF the United States in those ten
years had had the same standards Of
safety as in the European countries: 81 the
United States had killed two in every thou
sand employed, instead OF three, four or
hve $4,000 of the 10000 American miners
killed might be living to-day. 10000 out
Of the $4,000 injured might have escaped
injury, $500 widows might not have been
widows. and $4,000 orphan children might
still have fathers.
This is the whole grim tragedy of the
mines epitomized. II is one of the most
serious problems Of the country and the one
that brought the federal Bureau OF Mines
into being. 1t is the great problem that
the Bureau OF Mines, under the leadership
OF DR.. Joseph A. Holmes, its director. is
attempting TO solve.
This problem is responsible for the great
national mine safety demonstration which
Is TO be held in Pittsburgh on october 30
and 81, under the auspices Of the Bureau
OF Mines, the American Red Cross the
United Mine Workers OF America and the
Pittsburgh Coal Operators Association.
From 5000 to $1,000 miners. superintendents
and operators are expected TO be present.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
A STRATEGIC POST.

Any middleman with half an eve can
see what an extremely strategic post the
"ereeter" occupies in the game Of grab.
Almost every male American is a demo-
crat at heart. and any artificial barrier be-
tween hotel guest and hotel servant melts
into thin air at the slightest provocation.
Even intimacies are established and
through them the hotel clerk can to a con-
siderable extent direct the flow or out-ol-
town coin, particularly in the case OF
amusements. And yet he himself accumu-
lates thereby not money as general thing
but friends. who. however. may be capi-
talized as they pile up.
For the value of a room clerk, and con
seauently his pay, rises with the number
OF friends he makes among travellers with
money. Every successful clerk wields
clientele Of men and women who, other
things being approximately equal, stop at
a given hotel because their particular clerk
stands behind the desk He becomes a con-
spicuous asset Of the house in this way,
and his first service in directing the ex-
penditure Of New York's lavish guests is
therefore. toward the establishment which
employs him.
wide experience in the hotels Of other
biz cities OF the United States is invaluable
A, the Hotel Belmont is Arthur OConneI,
who has worked i'm the Palace Hotel In
San Francisco in the St. Charles at New
Orleans. at the Blackstone in Chicago and
in other hotels in central spots. His ac-
uuaintance with the travelling public Of
this continent is both great and deep in
consequence for not only does he recognize
he W y
his desk every hour. but. knowing the local
customs Of the different sections of the
country. he can apply his knowledge TO the
accommodation of his guests, friend and
stranger alike.
A visitor from quieter scenes suddenly
emerging from a Pullman car into the clat-
ter and congestion of 42d street clings 10
the memory Of that friendly countenance
which he knows will greet him across the
way Should homesickness, which steals
over the most inveterate traveller at GER
tain dreary moments, suddenly assail him.
he has a palliative at hand in OConnell
who can recall mutual acquaintance OF
topics Of local interest and take the edge
off that unappeased longing. 1t needs no
stretch Of the imagination to picture guest
asking host under such circumstances what
show to go TO or where 10 buy a straw
hat Even a stranger would do that after
he had received his mail half dozen times
from OConnelps hand and had been tempt
ed by a smile 10 pass the time of day.
Fred c. King assistant manager at the
Plaza, was perhaps as we'll known q room
clerk in his day as any the city held. For
years he worked with Fred Sterry at Hot
Springs, Va, and at Palm Beach. He has
been a clerk at the United States Hotel
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
THE OLD DOLIAGER FTcOr1
PHILADELPHIA r1UST BEPlfCeD
NEAR THE ELEVATOR ON accoOhT
OF HER GOUT:

readily for advice, is the suaye. clean-cut
chap at the clerks desk. with the pink In
his buttonhole. who wishes them a cheery
good morning when he hands them their
mail, who asks them II anything can be
done TO add 10 the comfort OF their nights,
who can, perhaps, retail bit OF gossip
from home or about mutual friends. or can
recall incidents OF n former visit 10 the
metropolis Hotel men OF experience have
said they could remember no instance In
which a clerk vas known 10 have been
directly subsidized by a theatre manage
ment. But the press agent IS losing no
tricks He makes the rounds Of the hotels
with his complimentary tickets. knowing
full we'll the potency OF an innocent favor
in helping such an influential mentor as the
room clerk to a charitable view OF his at
traction
Probably the town contains no room clerk
who doesn't answer every day questions
concerning theatres. l.. w. Parsons. who
presides over the Waldorf desk during part
Of each Cay. says the great majority OF the
queries he gets concern musical comedies.
The average American, so his experience
would indicate, wants always TO know
where he can find the best musical show.
Very few. at least OF the Waldorfs world.
express a preference for anything else in
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
The Measures To Be Exploited
Might, if Adopted Ten
Years Ago, Have Saved
$4,000 Lives in
America.

some said that the helmet had proved
failure. but this was not the truth. The res
cuers death was caused by his zeal in try
ing to save life. He worked harder in the
helmet than he ought 10 have done and he
died from oyereXertion. just like some ath'
letes have done when they attempted su.
perhuman endeayor. The Bureau Of Mines
roscuer was a practical miner who had
spent years underground and he was i'm
bued with that heroic spirit that seems to
characterize all men who share uncommon
dangers.
Long before the Bureau OF Mines entered
tho field 10 encourage the establishment OF
rescue and first aid corps at the mines
the American Red Cross had been at work.
Several years ago IT established first aid
department in charge Of Major Charles
Lynch. Medical Corps. u. s. A. and eni-
ployed DR.. NJ. ]. Shields, OF Scranton, Penn
a pioneer in this work. Doctor Shields con-
fined his efforts at first to the anthracite
fields Of Pennsylvania. and the result Is
that that region is far in advance Of any
other mining section of the United States
The volunteer first aid, rescue and ambu-
lance corps In the anthracite fields are In
high state OF efficiency. Contests between
the teams are held every year and the war
Department details three distinguished OF
ficers TO act as judges. The coal mine op-
orators and the Red Cross award medals
of honor to the members OF the winning
teams.
These teams will compete at the Nationa'
Mine Safety Demonstration and are nc"
fOr he Tho w will re-
ceive souvenirs offered by the coal oper-
ators. After that there Will be parao'
Of the miners
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17

in Saratoga, too, and he helped Mr.. Sterry
open the Plaza. That whole procession OF
prosperous regulars" who make the
rounds OF these four meccas of FASHION
swear by King. AS assistant manager ne
still attracts them to the Plaza, where they
lean on him for advice in all those niue
superficial matters Of expenditure which
one puts up to a good friend OF recog-
nized judgment.
John Peacock, for many years at the
Hoffman House, knows every Democratic
politician Of prominence in the state. In
off seasons when politics languished indl-
vidual Democrats passing through the city
or visiting II for a few days on business
flocked to the Hoffman House because
John Peacocks we'll known features be-
hind the desk reminded them Of more STIR
ring times and because here was host
who could meet them half way in their
"reminiscences and tell them news Of their
friends and enemies. Many a tip, netting
him hundreds of dollars, could Peacock
have sold to the newspaper men who
thronged the Hoffman House corridors, but
| the selling of news was forbidden, so he
gave them his services gratis.
CLERKS Ike these are Worth money W
their inns, and the demand for them is
keen on the part Of those who have new
hotels to fill. But there is limit to their
ability TO attract guests For instance
| John Peacock deserted the Hoffman House
! when it all but closed recently and took
up with the Ansonia, but no one expects
that as a result the Democrats politically
inclined will journey in any appreciable
| numbers to the uptown hosiery. Fred
Kings latest move is another case in point
King was put in as manager of the Hotel
Rector, when it opened last fall, with the
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17

the theatre line. Mr. Parsons gives his sd-
vice, and the theatre ticket agent In the
hotel reaps tho benefit. as lie does In every
large hotel.
II IS harder gtlll 10 understand how brok-
ers. haberdashers. hatters. tailors. steam
ship companies. jarbers Turkish bath pro-
prietors. druggists, florists. doctors ana
dentists make up TO the clerk for his valu-
able good will. unless We believe that they
pay him. too. In the commodities 81 their
several callings. This is probably not true
at least not generally true.
Brokers. Of course. have been known 90
give tips on tho market. but they don't
make a practice OF II. And though taiIora'
hatters. haberdashers. florists and so on
might easily find It convenient 10 accom-
modate the clerk. II not free OF charge. at
least at greatly reduced rates. the steam
ship companies would find II dinicult 20
give him a trip 10 Europe. or even the West
Indie-. when he has only ten days in the
year IN which he can be absent from
the Job
The clerks influence comes dangerously
near .he minimum. however. In tho case OF
| steamships and steamship lines, since his
own experience with them is practically
NIL. In ninety-nlne cases out Of a hundred
he merely refers one seeking advice on this
! subject to the steamship ticket agent in
| the hotel.
Rut about the others-the hotels them
selves are gradually curbing the clerks In
nuence by catering directly or Indirectly
| 10 the multiple wants OF the mod
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17

able TO find miners who have been over
come by the poisonous gases and bring
them 10 the surface before they die. \
number Of lives have been saved by these
helmet men.
The rescuers in addition. have been
trained In nrst-aid dto-the-injured work and
carry the necessary equipment. including
a wonderful piece o, apparatus an oxygen
reviving outfit that works automatically,
pumping the poisonous gas out Of the
lungs OF an asphyxiated miner and filling
the lungs with oxygen. This apparatus
, has brought apparently dead miners back
to life. II has. in several instances. re-
suscitated miners who had been given up
for dead.
The rescue cars visit the various coal
mines OF the country while not engaged In
actual rescue work. and instruction is given
\ to the miners in the use OF the oxygen
helmet, the oxygen reviving apparatus and
In first aid 10 the injured. AS "A result OF
this work volunteer rescue corps, fully
equipped with modern apparatus, have been
established at many mines, and an impetus
has been given to the ambulance and first
aid-to-the-injured corps. Rescue and first
aid teams from the principal coal mines OF
the country will attend the demonstration
and give friendly exhibitions Of their skill.
An expert corps from the Bureau of
Mines will give an exhibition OF rescue
work Immediately following the coal dust
explosion In the steel gallery. The rescuers
will rush into the smoke-flled gallery and
bring out the supposed victims. Demonstra-
tions with the oxygen revivlng apparatus
and nrst aid will follow. Then the teams
from the coal mines will show how rapid
ly and accurately they can work in an
emergency. There will be "a contest in the
bandaging of dangerous wounds and brok-
en- limbs. The miners will show how to
stanch the flow of blood from "a severed
artery. how they splnt the body for a
compound fracture OF the thigh, and how
they wash wound to prevent blood po-
soning.
At the Pancoast disaster In Pennsylyania
Il will be recalled that one OF the Bureau
OF Mines trained rescuers lost his life while
wearing the oxygen helmet. At the time
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17

ern traveller. Many, II not most. hotels
OF Importance to-day sport their own bar
ber shops. for example. Many have their
own florists and Turkish baths and an ap-
preclable number rent ground floor space
10 brokers. druggists or haberdashers
Guests anxious 10 patrcnize any one or
more OF these purveyors are naturally d.
rected 20 the hotels own.
As for doctors and dentists. the hotel
management in a great many instances
makes a special arrangement with certain
members OF each OF these professions for
the care OF guests who themselves are not
pred,sposed toward some particular prac-
titloner or other The clerk refers the
ailing 70 the regularly accredited doctor or
dentist and receives free treatment In re-
turn.
In most cases to-day the hotel manage
ment also prescribes. so far as possible
what shall become OF It's overflow. At the
height OF the season in November. when
the Horse Show is In fun swing. the more
fashionable hotels are almost always forced
10 turn visitors aside or provide for them
somewhere else. Big hotels. which have
experienced this condition in the past. have
found Il good policy 10 form alliances with
one or two smaller houses, which they MI
up with their overflow and thus keep all Of
their customers The clerk can't say,
therefore. Go here or there" to the man or
woman who wants TO know the next best
place 70 stop. lie can no longer make him
self solid with rival.
His hands are tied in the same way
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
The Armies of Guests in New
York's 1000 Hotels Find
Guardian Angels Be.
hind Desks.

LMOST any day in the year. except
N perhaps in the middle of summer
n Manhattan harbors within It's gen.
erous confines 10000 or 100000 transient
guests And to house this horde, or most
OF II, 10 pamper 1t With soft beds ana
snowy linen, 10 feed 1t with tempting deli
cacies and TO make IT forget the cost and
long to come again, there exist within the
greater city a lesser city Of hotels and a
regiment of hotel clerks or official well
comers
Something like 1000 hotels, to be more
exact. dot Manhattan's brick incrusted
bosom, but not all Of them can be said 10
pamper the stranger. Only little over
two hundred have each fifty rooms or more
and it is these alone that stand for luxury
that form. in fact. New York's two hun
dred." Their eight hundred assiduous
clerks compose the aristocracy Of public
hosts and. with $4,000 rooms at their dis
posal, can at a pinch take care Of 10000
guests.
The rest Of the transient visitation and
a part OF the 70,Oo0-since almost never are
all the two hundred" taxed to their ca
pacity at the same time-must seek tile
cheaper mercies Of the boarding house and
the Raines law hotel or visit friends.
But the point Of this tale is that between
the army OF true spenders which marches
in never ending procession through the
hotel corridors Of New York and the ma
tives and near natives who hang about
with mouths a-water stand firmly facing
their fellow townsmen in defensive phalanx
the hotel clerks Here on one side OF an
imaginary line press tens Of thousands OF
strangers anxious to pay real money for
goods and entertainment, and on the other
side hundreds of thousands Of New York 8
niftiest jostle one another, eager to pro
vide the goods and the entertainment-for
the money. Imagine the slaughter II the
hotel clerk, laconic hard worked and poor
" paid, did not police the boundary.
stand backH he cries TO the seething
citizens; zone at time. and show your
credentials" Unof1cially he is the guests
guardian and trustee.