The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-03
DID U. 5. INFLUENCE
 CHINESE REVOLT? Yale Rooter Blue Over De.
 feat of Team LOTS OF BAD LIQUOR Louisville Man Says New York Don't Know What Good Whisky Is.
 Struggle for the Dollar Impresses Foreigner
Nv ROBERT LEE CARTER


 ,ution in China. That it has been very considerable may not be doubted. There was a short parade on lower | Broadway the other day which Illustrates what I say. There were perhaps 200 pa raders and each one had a flag such as | has never been seen, publicly at least, | in New York before, the sun flag of the new China republic.
 l The parade was headed by a regular khaki clad, cornet band, all Chinamen. Then came squad of a dozen or so Chinese Boy Scouts carrying Old Glory and the sun flag proudly side by side, and they were fine, soldierly looking | lot of lads too. A score of automobiles crowded with well dressed Chinamen, bearing small American and sun flags, completed the parade.
 | It was in celebration of some victory
 won by the Chinese republicans and while it attracted no great attention was
 really noteworthy event.
 Railroad men are enjoying joke which followed the recent Yale Princeton, or should I say, Princeton-Yale football game.
 c. W. Durbrow of San Francisco, Yale man, attorney for the Southern Pa cific, who went to New Haven to sec
 the game, was the gloomiest man in
 New York after 1t was over, according to
 his friend, Edward Chambers, freight traffic Director of the Santa Fe road. These two men, together with G. w. Lucas. assistant to the president of the Southern Pacific, and director of traffic for that line in California, came east to attend the lemon rate case in Washing ton.
 "All the way east' said MT. Chambers,
 'Durbrow was telling us how he longed to see his crowd win. It has been 10 years since he saw a game and he was wild with enthusiasm. He wired his old association all over the country to meet hlm here. I don't know how much he spent, but he told the hotel people to pay anything that was asked for heats. He wired one fellow to come from Mill waukee, and I know he met 10 men, at least, at New Haven.
 Luce and I remained here in the ho- tel and watched the ticker As soon as we saw how the game went Luce could not resist the temptation of joke on Durbrow who is noted for his jokes on others. As soon as we saw he had lost we jumped into taxi and went to store and bought $7 worth of black and white cloth and draped his room. Don't ask me where Durbrow is now" laughed MT. Chambers, flor as soon as he saw this room he rushed for the elevator and I suspect that he is lost somewhere in New York trying to forget. When that bunch of rail- road men in San Francisco hears of WI hat he got here be will get another dose of joking that will last him the rest of his life"
 Just as New York is recovering from the effect of the garbage strike and has become reconciled to seeing Wali street and Colonel Roosevelt agreeing on one subject a man comes along who declares on his word of honor as a KentucSian-and an eXpert-that of the liquid New York has been drinking as whisky 50 per cent is something else.
 New York is strong for fancy la- bels and pretty bottles and does not care much for what is in the bottles," said s. S. Tuch of Louisville.
 There is comparatively little bot tied in bond whisky used in New York. That label means that the whisky has been in a bonded warehouse 48 months and is bottled under the inspection of the government. Most of the bottled goods is a combination of the new whisky, from which the fusel oil has
 been extracted by artificial methods, and which Dr. Wiley said was not
 whisky, mixed with a small quantity of real matured whisky and the com
 bination artificially colored to give it
 the right tint.
 "One reason for this adulteration. of course. is that the near whisky is cheap CT. Another is that there was a shortage in the production in 1907 when the dis tillers could not get the money to do business. There is plenty of good whisky, and you can get the bottled in bonds goods at the first class places. But there
 will be a continued use of the combina- tion for a few years since there also was shortage in 1908 and 19O9'
 "That listens well," said a man in a Tenth avenue saloon, who heard tho ox- planation, but l am 46 years old, and never have seen any bad whisky Every little drop has the fight in it whether it is four years or four days old" New York is to have plenty of seaside parks now. The board of estimate and apportion- ment has authorized the purchase for seaside park purposes of the property at Coney Island formerly occupied by Dreamland, and the purchase, for chl dren suffering from bone tuberculosis. of 250 acres of beach property at Rock away park, with a shore frontage of more than a mile.
 More tlldn @3ou,UUO mas been COHtT1Duteu 1 by various charitable organizations to- ward the establishment of a hospital at l Rockaway on the understanding that the city would acquire the property The Dreamland property is to be >ac- uuired for not more than $1,000,0O0. Con- dernnaton proceedings are to begin at
 once. The action will provide for a park 1 extending from COney Island boulevard westward to Tenth street.
 l
 1 Two things here in the eastern part of | the United States strike me with unusual
 force as typical of conditions altogether different from ours. They are the mighty and aggressive struggle for the dollar
 atd the extremely high cost of living. l This. was the observation of A. l. Silva, representing the McInery Co.,. limited, of Honolulu. MT. Silva is in
 the states purchasing goods for his
 house. This is his first visit to the Unit
 ed States. He was born and reared in | Hawaii, and the house he represents 1 las stood as the biggest concern in Hon- olulu since it's organization 55 years
 ago.
 We transact our business in a more 1 Ileisurely fashion," continued MT. Silva We are always glad to see people come
 to us and we treat them with great l consideration. We do not plunge into
 business the moment a stranger enters
 our doors. When visited one of the
 houses in New York where our firm
 had dealt for many years, the first
 thing the manager asked mo was what
 l was looking for. 1 told him we had
 been doing business together for yeas 5 and this was the first time we had met; lthat what wanted first was to get ao-
 quainted. and insisted upon 1t, put