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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-20
GOVERNOR SIGNS TWO BILLS
One Brosdens Insurance Law; Other
Applies TO County Highways.

Albany. June Ex-Governor Dix to-day
signed the bill OF Assemblyman Hoey.
broadening the provisions Of the insurance
law relative 10 the Liquidation Of corpora
uons. and making them apply 10 an volun-
tarv or uninccrporated associations.
Changes are made also I'M the procedure in
suits for dissolution.
The Governor also signed the bin Of As
semblyman Blauvelt providing that i'm
portant county roads may be made part
~ the system of county highways and
that they shall be- maintained as county
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-20
SAMPLE IAl
Great Interest
Already Being Shown

NV sx DAVIS more and the Newly orK |
Tribunes great Towns and Cities contest |
will begin. Thousands are preparing 70 |
erter the competition. and as the time tOr |
the start draws nearer the interest increases.
Are YOU going be a competitor! II you |
have not already made up your mind-DO ~
NOW and place an order with your newsdeaier
to serve you with copy OF The tribune every
day. as the edition containing the hrst oflcial
Towns and Cities pictures will, no doubt be sold
out and there may be delay in getting back copies.
To-day The Tribune publishes three new
sample Towns and Cities pictures STUDY them
carefully Note particularly how simple and easy
IL will be 70 solve them and then make up your
mind 10 enter and win big prize
The contest is novel one, and promises to
he bv far the most entertaining and instructive
puzze-pcture competition ever nauguratcd by
daily newspaper. l.
1t will consist of series of illustrations rep
resentng the names OF towns and cities located IN
the United States and Canada.
THE FIRST OF THE OFFICIAL PICTURE
WILL APPEAR ON NEXT MONDAY, JUNE 20
Three illustrations cartoons other representa-
,ions of the name OF city will appear IN III
Tribune each day thereafter and similar to the sam
pie pictures and their answers shown herewith
The sample pictures published are intended to CIV
al clear idea and those who planning TO contes
are requested to study them carefully in order tina
they may fully understand the manner IN which tn
The Contest Manager and representatives c
The Tribune are now engaged in selecting the offcia
list Of names of towns and cities that are 10 DC snow
throughout the contest
The contest will extend period Of abou
sixty-hve (55) days.
Everybody. everywhere. is invited to take part al
compete for the rich and attractive prizes that will
awarded.
There will be three Evcritt 80" Automobiles cost
ing l45O each Each will be fully equipped Wit
top. lights and windshield.
Then there will be artistcaly hand carved 81 10
Kralauer Player Piano, prize that will be we'll wort
striving for.
Next there will be $3.50 Christrnan PLAYER Piano
one of the Chrstman Sons very latest productions
an excellent instrument.
Also there will be $3.50 Francis Bacon Playe
Piano an instrument of sterling worth and worldwid
reputation.
In addition to the grand player piano prizes, Their
will be four grand piano prizes handsome sets
furniture trips and many other valuable rewards all 0
which will be announced very shortly in The Tribune
The contest is particularly arranged for every mem
Der OF the fa1ily-ulan woman or child
Every one may take part in this fascinating featur,
Only employees OF The Tribune and members of thei
families will be barred.
Persons living at distance outside of New Yor
will be eligible to enter we'll those who live il
the city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-20

under fundamental law framed with a
, nivW 10 IT'S continuance unless changed
' w.sn equal solemnity, is absolutely at
nalIanSe with the new scheme of govern
en rene oN initiative. referendum and recall
and Arizona V'' -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-20
STILL LOSE ON RECOUNT.

The recount shows the commission gov
eminent act was rejected in Bayonne by
the narrow margin OF votes The original
count gave the opponents d majority OF g..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-20

The contest is simplicity itself There is little
nothing to do on the part of the contestant
All that any one will have to do to compete and
stand in line for share of the prizes is make out
the of the cities they are represented
by the illustrations that will appear each day.
Don't think because you have not travelled ex-
tensvely or that you less familiar than others with
the names of towns and cities that you will be handi
capped contcsting, the nature OF the illustrations
will be such that every will be enabled 70 supply
the correct answers them in nearly all instances.
The of the state province OF the towns or
cities that are 70 be shown IN the competition will
pear upon each illustration in order that the contestant
NAV decide definitely the correct solution tor each
puzzle picture.
The object in publishing three pictures each day is
TO carry the mentally, larger area OF
territory and the time faillarze contestants
with larger number of names OF towns and cities.
Every one knows the OF number of towns
and cities and yet may be possible that one knows
the names of ali of the places that will be shown
throughout the contest
Don't hesitate to prepare TO this entertaining
and instructive competition 1t will require only few
moments of your leisure time each day given to the
solving of the pictures and may repay you handsomely
with big prize.
Parents should encourage their children 10 enter,
as they too have equal opportunity to share the
rewards that will be given The solving OF pictures will
also prove beneficial the young folks well
tanning.
1t would be a good idea begin to-day to prepare
70 take part in the contest.
Place an order for The Tribune with your
newsdealer and tell him that want the every
day from
Il is an opportunity that may again.
The prizes will be magnificent and there will be long
list of them.
Be ready for the opening Monday, June 26 and
GO IN TO WIN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-20

ONLY six days more and the New I orr
Tribunes great Towns and Cities Con'es,
. will begin Thousands are preparing 70
enter the competition, and as the time tor
The Washington herald., 1911-10-29

way cars, $50, OOO. 900; locomotives. $50, =
900; powder So. 10000; agricultural imple-
ments $40, O0OO 900, and many others
Meanwhile, the Sherman law was not
dead. Most of the time. however, it was
sleeping. Now ii is standing up and
fighting man fashion. The department
(of Justice)." Attorney General Wicker
sham says reassuringly, taking his eyes
from his antagonists for a moment and
looking al the country. lis not inaugu-
rating a campaign against the business
interests or an indiscriminate attack on
all large prosperous concerns" But he
purposes TO enforce the law. yet with
care not to unnecessarily injure any in
terest."
Conditions Twenty-One Years Ago.
The debates of twenty-one years ago
gray morning Of the trust era-are Of
peculiar signiriCenCe just now. John
Sherman, a man without passion. was
strangely excited. IF we Will not en-
dure a king as a political power" he
said in the Senate. We should not en-
dUre a king over the production, trans
pOrtatiOn. and sale of any of the neces-
saries of life. II We would not submit
to an emperor We should not submit to
an aUtuCrat of trade. with power to pre-
vent competition and to fix the price of
any commodity" Trusts. he exclaimed,
'aggrandZe to themselves great eAOr-
The Washington herald., 1911-10-29

the minds OF millions of the people, even
as it was in 1890.
At the passage OF the Sherman law
there were, perhaps, but three large in
dustrial corporations which have lived
and done business until the present time
the Standard Oil Company, incorporated
in 1SS2; Swift & Co, meat packers, incor-
porated in 1875. and the American Cot
ton Oil Company. incorporated in 1879.
There were trusts in kerosene, sugar.
beef. whisky. transportation, lumber.
coal, Cottonseed oil. COrdage, fence wire,
and cast-iron pipe-some of them large,
but most of them small, as trusts are
measured now.
The National Lead Company. capital
S50,OOOOOO. a combination of twenty-siX
white lead works. smelters, and so on,
having no fear of the new law, was in
corporated in 1891; also the American
Sugar Refining Company - which aC-
quired the plants of the Sugar Refineries
Company. formed in 1857 - which was
capitalized at 10000 600. The General
Electric Company. with an authorized
capital of $SO.0OO,O00. was Incorporated in
1892, as was the United States Rubber
Company. maker Of rubber boots and
shoes, with an aAhorized capital of $50
ooO, 900. Following came trusts in chem
icals, SIS, 900 OO0 leather, S35 0OO.O 900; lnseed
oil, $33. 800, 600; woolens and worsteds. $50
eOO, 900: paper, $4,000 900: biscuits. S55 OOO,-
OOO Steel 1850 coo, 900; cans. SIS 900 600; rail-
The Washington herald., 1911-10-29
TREES ON CAPITOL HILL
ALSO BEING "DOCTORED"
Ancient Ems and Oaks SkiIIfuIly Treated to Retain
Vitality.
Vitality.

Sometimes tree doctors put bands Of
iron, or chains or ropes. around trees
which have been partly split asunder.
This is condemned as a bad practice by
the newer school. Far better, they
think, to use the chains and rods, pierre
ing the limbs or trunks and covering
over the wounds as carefully as possible
Among the trees with a history is the
Cameron elm, named after Simon Cam
eron, Secretary OF War in President Lin
coins Cabinet, and later a Senator from
Pennsylvania. One day the Secretary Of
War was passing through the Capitol
grounds when he saw some workmen
preparing to fell a big elm, two
already having gone down before their
axes. The Secretary was much per-
turbed and. urging the men to wait a
little, he hastened to the chamber of the
House and succeeded in a very shorA
time in getting passed a resolution for
bidding any one to cut down the tree.
There it stands to-day, one of the most
imposing and beautiful on the grounds
While it is the policy now to plant ma
tive trees as much as possible around
the Capitol, that was not always the case,
and the grounds resemble to a certain
extent a botanical garden Trees can be
found there from many foreign lands
and some of them possess much interest.
There IS the Christ tree, for instance,
so called because tradition says that
from its thorns was made the crown
placed on the head Of the Saviour. There
is also the crepe myrtle, respondent at
times in its plnkish-purple flowers. And
there are trees from China, japan, Per-
sia, Eastern Asia, Siberia, and the Him
alayas: also the curious magnolia ''cu-
cumber tree whose seeds are reputed
to be a cure for consumption: and the
Kentucky coffee tree, the sea buck thorn,
the fan elm or whahoo, the golden yew,
and the English oak. Native trees are
not without representation, for there are
basswoods and catalpas, naples and ma
tive oaks. In a sheltered spot, where the
southern sun warns 1t on the chilliest
days, is a vine, akin, 1t is said, to the
rubber tree It is far out of its native
habitat, and those full of tree lore say
II is the farthest north Of any of its
species, Some of the finest horse chest
nuts to be seen anywhere and the
European plane trees aligning the ave
nues approaching from tbe west are ad-
mired by all visitors.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-29
b, LAMEs B. MoRRow.

1t is scarcely believable, remembering
the oceans of arguments and explana-
tions that have deluged the subject, but
the Sherman law is only 700 words long.
Still further, it is as lucid an example
of English as can be found inside or
outside of a statute book. Every SEN
tence is understandable There is vigor
in the eight short sections Obscurity
there is none.
This bill, # it becomes a law" OBJ
served Senator George G. Vest, a bril-
liant lawyer and a far-sighted man,
when the measure was being debated in
Congress. must go through the crucible
uf a legal criticism which will avail it.
self of the highest legal talent through
out the entire Union. 1t will go through
a furnace, not seven times but seventy
seven times heated"
The prophecy was fulfilled. Neverthe-
less, the law stands just as it was writ
ten. Nothing has been added. nothing
changed since its enactment One hun
dred judges have passed upon its Ian
guage and its principles. 1t has come
more than once to the Supreme Court of
the United States Millions of words
have rained down like bullets for its ut
ter destruction. A million dollars, per-
haps, has been spent to cripple its pro-
visions. The greatest business experts,
political economists and statesmen in
the country have declared it to be un-
workable and have pleaded and argued
for its alteration. Sometimes they have
threatened. But the law endures, just as
George F. Hoar. the distinguished Sena-
tor from Massachusetts, phrased it and
loaded it for big game.
The words restraint, monopoly
and commerce have been submitted
again and again to judicial inquiry and
Interpretation. The law in its entirety
and its parts, however. was as simple
and direct as was the plain man who
gave it form in language. There were
no long sentences to be divided into
clauses and put against one another in
contradiction. The purpose in mind was
never confused by any awkwardness of
expression. Intent was as clear as sun
light-trusts. combinations, and Conspir-
aCies in restraint of trade were unlawful
Men connected Herewith were guilty Of
misdemeanOrs. No more and no less
And so the battle of the lawyers was
mostly fought over definitions What
WIS commerce and what was monopoly
and what constituted restraint in the
meaning of the statute?
The Two Missing AdJectfveS.
''Unrea sOnable'' and undue" are no.
where to he found in the law. Re
straint" is restraint pure and simple. A
monopoly is monopoly Commerce"
means commerce and not something else.
''Unrea asonable,'' undue" qualifying and
mitigating adjectives, were read into the
instrument by judicial elucidatiOn and
the authority for explanation. or. pos
sibly for modification. Even so. the stat
ute j. long enough and StrOnC enough
to reach the Standard Oil Company, capi-
tai S10O.OO0.OAO. and the American To-
hacco Company. capital $50. .OOO, 600. not
including bonds both or which are being
reduced to their original elements under
the alert intelligence and watchful eye
of George w. Wickersham. the Attorney
General of the United States.
The Sherman law was signed by
The Washington herald., 1911-10-29

executed so successfully that the school
authorities were dazed. They had been
warned by the boys that II the command
from the Provincial Order at Washing
ton was carried out and Father Malachi
transferred to another school, his old
class would walk out, but they did not
take the threat seriously.
They thought it was just a case Of
youthful impetuosity that a threat of ex-
pulsion would speedily squelch. But
they had not reckoned on the loyal af-
feCtiOn which Iae youngsters held for
their old instructor, who had been head
master of st. Mary's School for the past
fifteen years.
Even as the boys marched out of the
class room and assembled before the
school, the officials figured that a reit-
alton of the expulsion threat, together
with the additional threat to notify their
parents. would bring them back. But
again they figured wrong.
Then the arm of the law was called
in and two policemen hastily sent for to
break up the little group that stood out
side, chanting in chorus:
Give us Father Malachi back. or we
won't come back at all"
Two policemen lost ten or fifteen
pounds apiece trying to break up the
strike. They puffed back to the station
house with the report that the boys were
not creating much disorder. anyway, and
might as we'll be left alone.
Meanwhile the school officials got
busy and wrote letters to the parents OF
each of the strikers. And when these
letters arrive 1t is expected that the
strike will be settled.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-29

The tree doctor has been busy on Cap
itoI Hill
In the shadow of the big dome were
trees ancient, as we in the New World
count time, and honorable from their
traditions and early associations with the
great and more or less-good-trees that
disease and fastening, it was feared, to
an untimely and deplored end.
If not the most interesting operation
at least the most interesting subject was
the great Washington elm, at the north
west corner of the Capitol. This noble
tree was not planted, as some of the
romantic guides will tell you, bv the
Father of His Country. but the first
President, while building the Washing
ton house in North Capitol street, often
sat under its shade, so legend tells us.
and ate mis- luncheon.
At that time II was a mighty tree and
experts in forestry tell us that now il
must be at least $50 years old. Il stands
little apart and has developed nobIy,
with a wide spreading crown typical of
its species. But 1t has a defect and a
serious one, for instead of branching
from one stem 1t forks, at a distance a
little higher than q mans head, into four
stems. This is the weakest structure in
a tree. The swaying tops tend to split
the stems apart, and this Is just what
happened to the Washington elm. The
split widened from time l.e and de-
cay ate into the heart l. and the
time Was fast apr acE:r.y when the
splendid old elm would inevitably 90
down before the ak, or would be stricken
by some unusually severe gale But the
tree surgeon gloatingly eyed the elm,
and after the fashion of his kind pro-
nounced 1t a beautiful case, and asserted
that he would carve II with Joy. He
dug into the trunk and revealed depths
Of fungoid depravity that were astonish-
ing He chopped and bored and shaved
and scraped and soused with corrosive
subIimate.
The chasm he produced seemed big
enough to sound the direfuI fate of the
most tenacious life in freedom. And then
he placed ladder against the tree and
climbed up where he could bore holes
through the Jiverging stems, and on the
outer ends of the auger holes he cut
deep places for the boltheads and nuts,
and then he inserted bolts and chains
and drew the chains taut, in such fashion
that the iron bonds prevented the stems
from separating and also bound them
together. so that when they swayed in
the wind they swayed as one. Then he
descended and filled the great cavity,
which also was drawn together with iron
bolts, the heads OF which were counter
sunk in the wood, with composition of
cement; just such cement as they use
when they make an artificial stone side
walk: and he shaped It like the trunk
OF the tree, leaving its surface even with
the inner bark. And Y was filled nicely
into the groove around the edge of the
cavity, put there to keep the rain from
laa In ha rar far lan az
nailed sheets of zinc over the whole
and painted 1t over TO resemble the bark
OF the tree, and his work was done, and
natures work was to begin, for nature
is expected to cause the bark to grow
over the zinc until at last the old wound
will be entirely healed and the scar will
scarcely be visible.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-29
EnvIed BiIIy's wiEEIe.

From London AnsWerS
A deep sigh of sorrow broke from the
lips Of little Freddie Stockman-
"I WISH" he said plaintively-l wish
wuZ Billy SMITH!
His mother was astounded-shocked.
..why Freddie?" she asked. Billy
Smith has none of the nice things you
have. He doesn't get any pocket money.
And he isn't as big as you, and he's not
nearly so strong. His father never buys
him presents, Or
Yes; I know all about that" said
Freddie. But"
"And then look what a nice home you
have, and nice books, and you never
have to go out when It's cold and wet
to carry papers, and
Yes; / know thst." said Freddie irrl-
tably, annoyed at his mothers strange
lack OF sympathy and understanding.
But Billy kin wiggle his ears, and I
can'tg'
The Washington herald., 1911-10-29
NEW WHITE HOUSE VOLUME.
Col. w. II. Crook Publishes His In
terestInG "Reminiscences.

One . OF the most interesting and
"Chattiest" volumes dealing with the in
innate domestic side of the White
House has just heen published BY Lit
tie, Brown & Co. 1t is entitled The
Personal Recollections of Col. W. H.
Crook, Some Time Bodyguard to Lincoln.
Since Then, DIshursing Officer of the
Executives
Out OF the fullness Of his experience,
ranging over forty-six years in the
Executive Mansion. Col. Crook has writ
ten OF many President from the per-
sonal si't,. and has told a story of espe-
pial interest to WGshingtOnians. The au-
thor has simply delved into his diaries
and there found an abundant harvest.
His anecdotes reach back to the regime
of Lincoln. and yet the developing social
life Of the White House in the past ten
years has not been sighted.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-29
OMAHA INDIANS HISTORY
REVEALED BY SCIENTISTS
Bureau of American Ethnoogy Makes Public Its
Twenty-seventh Annual Report.

There is probably no subject which
would appeal to as many people, or
present better opportunities for investi-
cation, than the history of the Ameri-
can Indian. Yet II is a subject not gen
orally known or appreciated, in spite of
the fact that the Bureau of American
EthnOl1gy has been for the last thirty
two years publishing the results Of COM
prehenSivc resaar hes into various phases
OF the life history OF the native Ameri-
cans. In the course Of its service the
bureau has conducted esearches into In
dian languages, customs, government and
social organizati Dns, religion, music, and
arts and industries, as well as into the
physical and mental characteristics of
the people studies covering nearly sixty
linguistic families and more than 800
tribes. Its publications total twenty-seven
reports, fifty-one bulletins, and several
volumes of miscellaneous contributions.
Monograph Lengthy.
The latest publication. designated as
the twenty-seventh annual report. deals
in the first part with the administration
and operations of the bureau, and in
the second with the story of the Omaha
tribe, the latter a monograph of about
$50 pages, illustrated by sixty-five plates
and l&2 text figures. This monograph is
the joint production Of Miss Alice c.
Fletcher, wko for thirty Years has en-
joyed exceptional opportunities for ethno-
logical studies among the Omaha people,
and Francis La F!esche, himself an
Omaha, the son OF a former principal
chief This peculiarly fortunate collabo-
ration gives the paper especial signifi-
canoe as an important contribution to
American ethnology, and it forms the
most complete monograph Of an Indian
tribe which has yet appeared.
The Indians forming the Omaha tribe
now live in che Stale of Nebraska, in the
counties of Burt, Cunning, and Thurs
ton, where land was ceded to them by
an act of Congress in 1852, amended in
1893. On this reservation. selected by
them in 1854, is gathered the remnant of
a once great tribe of Siouan stock, which
had begun, several centuries before, a
westward migration from its home in
the East, near a great body of water"
probably in the Appalachian Mountains.
Although there were at one time many
tribes which together constituted the
Omaha group, to-day only five have
obvious cOnnection-the Omaha, Panca,
are closely bound together by language.
organization. and religion.
Both the Omaha sacred legend, with
which the paper deals at some length
covering their early migration to their
settlement in the West, and the re-
searches of the authors show the Omaha
TO have been quiet and peaceably in
clined people, maintaining an attitude
of defense rather than arrogance to-
ward other tribes and the white settlers
II is recorded that the Omaha were never
at war with the government and that 1t
is the only tribe which has continued to
live in Nebraska since the advent of the
white settlers.
The Omaha Villages.
When not travelling. the Omaha estab-
hshed their villages near streams. con-
Venfent 10 firnlar ard .,anaraIlv ~, ktal.