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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-11-11
ART|CULOS De FAMA

Sin duda aIguna 10 son en- todo el
mundo los que fabrican The Garter q
Ink Company, de Boston, Mass, 4. u.
de America, contandose en- primera IL
nea ell Fluido de escribir de Carter, que
es la tinta mas apreciada hoy en- el
mercado, por sus condolences de fir
meza, color, durabilidad y envase.
El uso de La Tinta de Carter Sc ha
generalizado de tai manera que en- Ia
actualidad es casi la 1nica que Sc en-
plea en- Ell comercio y EN- las oticinas
De venta en- ell BULLETIN MERCAN-
TIL.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1911-11-11
INTERSTATE {

81 usted quiere vender una casa, uh
automovil, una joya, algo de valor ae
arte, ofrezcalos a quien pueda com
prarlos.
" quien puede comprar sin dinero1
La gente que 10 tiene lee Ell BOLE
TIN MERCANTTL.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
TIE CURRIERS'.

William j. OrthWen. at dinner i'm ST.
Louis that preceded his departure for 5.
Moritz, told. naturally enough, a number
of curling stories. For Mr.. Orthwein is
one Of the great curriers' OF Switzerland,
and, stalwart and rosy, he is 10 be seen
morning after morning. on the Kuhn Rink,
plying the smooth stones all winter long.
Il am almost as devoted a curler." 50
Mr. Orthwein's last story ran, las Dougal
Macdonald"
"Dougal Macdonald and his old crony,
Donald MacDougal. were ones opposed 10
each other in a famous match, and the
last two stones TO finish the game were
the two cronies.
Donald MacDougal, with enormous de-
liberation. threw his stone. He threw II
Well. lie made what is called pat lid,
and jumped for JOY
Then 1t was Dougal MacDnnald's turn
His case seemed hopeless. but such a
splendid throw did he make that the pat
lid was knocked of. and his own stone
lay at the side OF the tee, winning tn,
game.
In his JOY the old fellow jumped sky
! high. He came down so hard that h,
broke right through the ice. He sank
| but. bobbing up again. he shouted from
the cold water:
"'Hi lads. We won. and IL | dinna com
oot o. here alive, be sure yet pit that ston
/ on my grave"
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12

the city Of New York. The Chambers
street building becoming inadequate for
the needs OF the library ana school, the
society in 1852 purchased the high school
building In Crosby street, near Grand, with
It's furniture. To obtain an entrance from
Broadway to its Crosby street building the
society later purchased the adjoining house
and lot, or No. Az Broadway. In June,
1877. the society purchased the Suydam
mansion, al No. IS East 18TH street. Later
the substantial structure No 16 to "a West
4ith street, was purchased from Columbia
University.
This magnificent structure, in the heart
Of the club district. is given up entirely to
school and library purposes, and II IL an
inspiring sight TO see the great number OF
men being benefited by the instruction
which they receive. The school has an en-
roment Of 2,3l6, representing 1900 individual
students more than sixteen wears old. and
there are thirty-three instructors in charge.
There Is always a large waiting list
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12

money maker on It's own account that
no one but the Rickers themselves know
just how much money 1t does make.
At the time Cummings started for Russia
he had Just begun the erection of a house
IN Portland which he designed 10 be an
iceal bachelors home. lie bought what
was, and still is, the finest site In the
city, out on the Eastern Promenade, a
parkway that extends about the northern
ord of the city, skirting the crest Of a high
bluff Embraced within its limits are two
ancient forti1cations that date back TO the
Revolutionary War and have since been
parked and turned into garden spots the old
embankments blossoming with flowers ano
shrubs, amid which peer the muzzles Of old
Revolutionary smooth hnrn cannon
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
YEARS OF GOOD WORK
Society of Mechanics and Trades
men Founded in 1885.

One of the oldest societies in New YORK
recently celebrated its i25th anniversary.
II is the General Society of Mechanics and
Tradesmen, which became prominent IN
New York in establishing the first free
night school and library.
The society was organized on November
l. l7s5. by twenty-five representative me-
chanics. Its primary object was mutual
aid. assistance I'm case OF sickness or as
tross and care for the widows and orphans
OF those members who should die without
property. being a modification or the or
ganizations which grew up WITH the oeVel-
opment Of the mechanical arts In the vari-
ous countries OF Europe, and when were
known by tho general name OF guilds. oh
March "A, 1872. the society was incorpo-
rated It's membership Is now about nVe
hundred.
While it's original purpose-benevolence-
hos continued from the beginning to be its
dominating aim. the society has broaoened
IT'S SCOPE. as conditions and income per-
mitted. In 1890 Il founded the mecndlhcs
school. and in the same year the APP
nrentices' library. In 1893 II started courses
~ free lectures, which were continued Tor
many wears In 1896 IL added reading rooms
!
! 20 its library the first Of their kind in the
ci,v, and in 1889 II instituted free scholar
shtns IN tho New York Trade School, which
are still continued.
To-day the work of the society incluoes
corsions which are paid quarterly. and
| eifts which are made in cases OF necessity
"a those entitled thereto. In the school de-
nsrtment free instruction OF the hiGhest
order is given 10 young men In evening
classes. as follows: Architectural ana me
cbapicaI drafting, carriage and automobile
drafting also freehand drawing and clay
| modelling mathematics. both elementary
and advanced. and in the scientific division
rbvsics industrial electricity. wireless
teIegraphy and telephony ar taught ana
comprehensive physical laboratory main
tanned
There are also maintained by tho society
IN the New York Trade School number
., free scholarships available for young
mon de.,rous OF acquiring practical
trowledee OF some useful trade. The
circulating and reference libraries may he
consulted during the ordinary business
torrs ~ the day and evening, well equipped
reading and reference rooms having been
provided for the purpose. The library no"
Contains 92s volumes and circulated dur
90. the last wear 7i.17i volumes. represent
ing 2.759 readers. The museum is open %
the public. and contains an important col
lection of original manuscripts, coins, med
ais and relics OF various sorts.
The first home OF the society was estab'
ushed at Park Place eni Broadway II
ldso3. In 1921 lease was obtained from the
city for a plot of ground at No. 10 to L
Chambers street NOW the site OF the new
Municipal Building). where the society
started the nrst free school and library II
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
NEVER USED BY OWNER.

At the same time that Walter Winans
was contesting for prizes at the horse snow
the furnishings of the mansion built by the
man who had equipped the Winans rail-
roads in Russia were being sold at auction.
The furnishings. which Cummings had
gathered from all quarters of the earth at
a reputed cost Of nearly $4,000, went for
meagre fraction OF that sum. In his par
Ior he had two massive chandeliers or sill
yer filled with prisms of cut glass that had
cost him $3.50 apiece. They were 1T only
for hotel or clubhouse. and sold for $40
for the pair.
His hsnd carved bedsteads, set into the
walls Of the rooms, that had probably cost
him 500 10 sSC1 each. sold for $40 to '2.
Marble nantes brought from Italy sold for
SOS. The heavy draperies at the windows.
ON which tn, master had never seen the
sunshine fall, sold for s. or 50 window
about one-tp-entieth OF what they cost
Amid the trampling of the feet of Curl
osity hunters and bargain seekers which
stirred the dust from tho carpets that had
lain untrodden for years, the cherisned
trea sures of Frank Cummings were trans
| ferred 70 the hands of buyers who were not
vet horn when the goods were gathered by
4
| the railroad man.
Mute evidences Of where the money came
! from to furnish this unique home that he
never enjoyed were afforded by the time
stained photographs of the locomotives
that we're sold to tho Car and put In op-
Grafton by an American upon the first rail-
road built in the Russian Empire. Here
were pictures of the thirty-five-ton loco
motives of those days, with huge spreading
smokestacks of the wood burning type
which is seen nowadays only on some ium-
Der road in the Northern woods or AMID
the turpentine tracts OF the South.
After two days spent in despoiling the
mansion the auctioneer closed the outer
door behind him, and so ended the last
chapter in the life and achievements Of its
eccentric builder.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
A SPLENDID OUTLOOK.

Cummings tract runs along the side Of
one of these forts, giving him a view Of
thirty miles up Casco Bay. with its three
hundred and sixty-ive Islands Zone for
every day in the year, and a view on the
other side out through Portland harbor to
the blue sea that washes the shore beyond
to where the oldest lighthouse on the At
lertic coast stands white and glistening
upon the rocks where 1t has shone as a
beacon ever since 1871.
On the bluff, where no building could ever
be erected to interfere with his unrivalled
view, Frank W. Cummings began the erec-
ton of what he intended should be a bach
elor's paradise. While he was spending
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12

the house was completed 1t was unique; no
one could mistake II for anything but
mans creation. Cummings started to des-
,gnate the rooms by letters Of the alpha
be,. and each door bears silver letter or
number like hotel apartments. The alpha
bet gave out. however, before half the
doors were thus labelled and recourse was
had to figures, for there are more than fifty
different apartments In the house.
There Is not dressing room or boudoir
in the whole mansion, sufficient evidence
that no woman had hand In its planning.
The bedchambers are all separate and
oren from the Railways and do not connect
with one another nor with the bathrooms.
There is only one closet, that TO a single
bedroom on the third floor; bachelor was
not ant TO think of the desirabilty of closet
room. since there were no gowns TO be
slowed away.
The finest room in the house is the bill
lard room, which is also In the choicest
mart Of the mansion and commands the
finest view from its windows. In the base
ment Is a full size bowling alley. fully
equipped and the balls and pins covered
with the dust of years. for the master
never had opportunity to use it.
The furniture OF the house was made for
II. and is hand carved out OF black walnut
in the style prevalent forty years ago.
Here the owners peculiar ideas are again
| evident The heads OF the bedsteads are
| set into the walls in many cases, the ward
robes are built into the walls as we'll and
stand out immovably into the rooms The
/ bookcases, set into the plaster. were to stay
where they were built and even some OF
the small tables will be found to be perna-
nently imoedded in the walls against whicn
they are apparently placed.
When. after years of planning, building
and rebuilding, the mansion was 1naly
| ready for occupancy. the master had just
returned from abroad and was in Phila-
delphia on business connected with the
| locomotive works. One night at his hotel
| he was attacked with pneumonia. ard the
physician told him that he had only few
hours TO live A lawyer was called, ana
| Cummings made a hasty will, leaving the
house, his dearest possession, TO his sister
| for life, and at her death Il passed to two
nieces In Massachusetts,, who have just
| disposed Of the mansion and its contents.
| few hours after the making OF the VIII
| the bachelors dream OF princely home
was over, and the mansion which he had
| planned and erected. but in which he had
never lived. belonged to others.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12

most of his time travelling between st. Pet
ersburg and Moscow the workInen far
away in the northeast corner of the United
States were carrying out his directions. At
times during the years the mansion was In
building he would visit his estate, and fire.
quently finding that his original ideas
proved on execution TO produce a different
effect from what he desired, he would have
parts Of the house torn out and rebuilt to
suit his latest fancy.
There was apparently plenty Of time and
there was certainly plenty OF money to
enable him TO crafty his whims. When
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12

Since County Register Edward B. Rear
has been in office the business in that once
has Increased at a large rate. showing thdt
there has been a great increase in safes
Of real estate and the fling Of mortgages
on property throughout the county. The col
lection II mortgage taxes is one OF tne
most important features Of the Office. Dur
ing the last four years the follo"lns
amounts have been collected by hesis'e'
Kear:
leo7.. Si5o.s2o a3i 1909 siisz1s df - ~
iaIS ... lG2 1S4 "a l9lO.....-..' lf'''V' -
The Register receives no fee for cancel
ling the mortgage tax. Two clerks are al
lowed by the State Board of Tax Commits
sioners, and the Register Is held respon-
sble for the acts Of the mortgage tax
clerks. All the money collected In TINS
department is divided equally between the
state and Westchester County. The couh-
tvs share is then sUbdivided between the
towns and the school districts. Upon the
Payment OF one-half OF l per cent mort
gage tax the bonds or mortgages are eN-
enpt from any other taxation, either by
the state, the county or town.
Register Kear has made a number OF
important improvements in his office. Dur
ing the last week the new freproof steer
fixtures and furniture were placed IN posi-
lion in the old portion Of the Hall OF Rec-
ords. which were ia the plans when 'he
new court buildings were erected. Inc
courthouse committee did not have the I'M
provements made for the reason that some
of the supervisors thought the ola Duiiuiiis
would be razed in few years. t'esis'e'
kear. however, obtained the needeo III,
pTovements by having a resolution paSS'o
calling for the steel fixtures
u was only recently that the WeStcne0
ter Lighting Company kept Register N'a'
busy when he had 10 stamp and MAKE "O,
tatons on 24sl bonds in denominations ~
rco each. The mortgage tax collec'o.
on these bonds, aggregaung ElSl'VVV' ""'
,l2,Aj.
The following figures show the Voluii'e ~
business transacted in the Register i'm
by all recorded instruments anecuhs ieo
'stste, showing comparisons Tor iouI S'"'
1907 % 300 1859. ............. -
1905 - n So 0l0...........'. -i''-
During 1910 there were recorded py 'n
westchester and Bronx Title MortsaS'
Company lust 3.452 instruments ana by - 80
other title conpanies I'm the same year 4'''0
The Larchmont welfare society WI,
brate the twentieth anniversary ol .'' ~
corporation Of the village by ho'olms
mass meeting at the Larchmont Vi',rs'
hall on the afternoon OF February - Ih
committee IN charge OF the anar Is l'aI
Up OF William J. Moran, JULIUS "e'i"Vl'
Dr. Otto Ernst. r. Julius NUM- hus"S =
hopkins and Roger Lamson-
1t is now said that the proposed plan, 0
electrifying the Putnam DIVISION u "
New York Central Railroad Company i''''
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12

cars dominions the Baldwin Locomotive
Works. Of Philadelphia, sent their safes
manager. Frank W. Cummings, over to get
the contracts for the equipment. Cummings
lived in Portland. Maine, and was the
highest salaried employe in the BALDWIN
concern.
He was bachelor and had means sum-
cient TO crafty every fancy of his own
and more besides. for it is reputed that ne
was the original hacker Of the Rickers IN
their purchase of the Poland spring and the
building of the massive Poland Spring
Ilouse. which in after years became such
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
News Notes from Westchester County

New York's water supply in the town Of
Greenburg is concerned. The city contends
that the amount IS excessive and Will op-
pose the report OF the commissioners when
il comes up before Justice Morschauser at
Poughkeepse on February IS. Woodson r
Oglesby Is counsel for the property owners
and favors the confirmation of the report.
although he says he does not think the
amount is sufficient.
Lawyer Oglesby has also asked Judge
Tompkins 10 appoint a referee to fix the
amount of allowances and fees for wit
nesses in this proceeding, and this matter
will come UP before him on the first Mon
day IN March.
A jury in Part Of the Supreme Court at
. White Plains. before Justice Keogh, on
Wednesday. awarded a verdict for $1,000
| in favor Of John Klunck against the Penn
| sylyania Railroad Company. He was in
| jured at Perth Amboy. when a windlass on
| a coal chute broke and struck him In the
face. disfguring him for life. Through
Judge Sydney A. Syme he sued for $1,000
damages. The plaintiff was employed on
the coal docks of the railroad company at
Perth Amboy, and it was alleged that the
windlass was defective.
! Almost every week there is some kind OF
an accident in the section Of the Catskill
| aqueduct being constructed through the
| town Of Yorktown. Last week one man was
killed and another badly hurt. while two
weeks ago another laborer was killed. The
accidents are caused by the caving In OF
! some Of the tunnel sections The last acct
/ dent occurred in the tunnel near Hunters
1 Brook This tunnel Is now nearly a mile
long.
Alberta Lodge, No. IS, Shepherds OF Beth
lehem. is the name of new organization
which has been instituted in Mount Yer.
non. There's Johnson is the past com
| mander OF the lodge.
Justice Morschauser on application oi
Arthur NJ. Johnson. representing j. Add
son Young. receiver OF the Westchester
Electric Railway Company, mas signed ar
order allowing the receiver TO issue receiv
er's certificates for $4,000 for extensions
10 the trolley company's lines in New Ro
cheIle and Mount Vernon. One OF the i'm
portant improvements to be made by tn,
company is the double tracking OF the line
IN North street New Rochelle. The Attorney
General objected at the time of the mo
ton OF the ground that the issue OF Ger
tincates did not provide for the preserva
tion OF the assets Of the road now I'm IN,
hands Of the receiver
Prominent citizens OF Larchmont- on the
Sound have started scheme TO obtain i'm
portant improvements around the Iarch
mont station of the New Haven Railroad
especially on the west side. whcro there or
unsghtly buildings.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
HE GOT HIS ANSWER.

"They who ask unpleasant questions. !"
said Senator Crane, az a dinner In Dalton,
mustn't be surprised If they get unpleas-
ant answers. Yes, the interrogatory poll
ticlan, too. often finds himself in the boots
OF Gobsa Golde.
THE aged Gobsa Golde was quarrelng
furiously with his young and beautiful
wife
Didn't you marry me for my money!
he yelled.
Mrs. Gobsa Golde tossed her head
Yes. of course l did she said, and II
you wasn't so stlngy with IL we'd never
have a cross word
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
Years Spent in
Building House
Never Occupied
TUMBLE or ODDITIES S
Costly Furnishings Sold for a
Song in Bachelor Mansion
Erected by F. w. Cum
mings in Maine.

?, was peculiar coincidence that at the
...-v time Of the first visit to this country
- waiter Winans. whose fortune was ac-
-,.mulsted through the building by his
cher OF the railroad from St Petersburg
:, MOSCOW, the last page in tho life and
.cb,eyenents OF the man who equipped
IA, road was turned and the book closed.
,f.e- William Louis Winans began 10
,.,na the famous railway through the
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12

l,jth street to Yorktown has been aoan-
Goped bv the company. The residents III
tho towns along that division had eXpec,eu
vast improvements.
Now that Chairman Edward Forsyth OF
the Westchester County Board ot super
vjsors has appointed special committees 10
act with committees of the Nestchester
Chamber of Commerce. II is believed that
defnite steps will be taken TO get an aoui'
.icnal suDuIy of water for the dlHereht
towns in the county and thereby avert any
,osei,1e future water famine. the colh-
nit+ee will investigate the cause oi the
rocert water famine in many towns Oh
tho county and report on what action
ebouId he taken to obtain the necessary
'reIief. II may be necessary 10 get dIui
,ionol Hesitation to require New YORK Clly
I 20 giva water TO the cities Of Mount yer
ror Yonkers and the towns Of Arosles y
Hastings. Dobbs Ferry and MainaroneoN'
These towns were the most aHecteu ny '
famine few months ago
II is reported. however, that tne l",
,,rbar water Company, which supPheS
Mount Vernon and Mamaroneck' hlte"u9 ~
r,,,ctase a larger watershed and buliu
new reservoir. 20 cost hOVu' 74'N'SNS' l..
outskirts of Mamaroneck' III oTuer "
Mount Vernon more water -
Tho rain last week filed all the reservoir
and lakes I'm the county. and no" W.
chester has plenty Of water. Ihe oiiie'."' ~
committees which viii investigate
water question follow:
Poard of Supervisors-Edward a. foI
s,tb Of Yonkers; Benjamin !. Iayio' y, y,
Harrison. and Chauncey 1. Secolo,
sccrsdale. and Mayors Colwell OF no"
pncbelIe Edwin ". FIske Of Mount Nei
ia 1ar,es r. Lennon OF Yonkers
proeiderts Of villages-John J. Brown ol
White Plains. Norton J. Sanos oi o,
chester and Frederick g. HinsseI VI
ings -, Commerce
committee from Chambers of ConiiileIoe
,r,bur w. Lawrence. Of BronxVillei iie'',
barrett. of White Plains, and Charies -
vou Fossen. OF Hastings.
, caveral reports Of commissioners OF dp
,raisaI In the condemnation proceeui'e
,,ougbt by the New York, Westches"i
: poeton Railway Company In the Guy =
-, Rochelle. where land was seized io
~. tight Of way needed by the compah'
- INST been confirmed by Jusu0'
,Io.sobauser They include an award o
az ooo 10 Emma S. Siebrecht ana ~O'""
The Wvkagyi Country club ana Myt''''
D,shroy. as administrator Of the pisOro'
estate.
The ci,v Of New York is going 10 heh
~ oo,ermstion Of the report OF the com
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
DRESS GOODS
Getting Ready
For Stock Taking

II is easier to count cash than measure
and list goods therefore prices 10
quickly clear all surplus:--
Fine All-wool DiaSonals-partcuiarly
elegant goods in variety OF the
rich grays and tans thar Will be
specially favored IN Spring
also other good shades-jo inch -
regularly 81. 80 ...................'.' .o6
This seems an incredible value.
but ~ affords Investigators an
excellent opportunity TO test our
values.
Fancy Serges GRANTEES and Basket
Weaves-44 70 "a inch-all wool
navy and manv other desirable
colors-were Sli9 20 81. .........'''' .Id
Clearance Of fine Bearskin Cioakings-
gray mottlsd or with white
SNOWFALL spots--50 inch-smal lot
were Sl3s ................''''' '''.''''.'' zoo
Black Moire Caracui Cloakings--
80 inch-were s29s and 1898 .........,'1 I'd
Heavy Diagonal and Zbeline
C1oakings-b.ack and white--4 mch-
were 81 80 and $3.50. .s9..................... .SS
Fancy All-Wool Cheviots and GRANTEES
a nch--gray. brown, navy. cadet
and other stylish shades 90.
were 80 ana 3s. s....'''..''.''.'''''''' .Op
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12

When the box office receipts are high
the impresario blesses his stars.