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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22
NEW YORK SOCIETY

Washington's Birthday 0cca-
sion of Many Country Parties.
Washington's Birthday coming most
conveniently as it does at the end oil
the week. afforGs to society the oiportuh-
itv for leaving town for blief spell. ana
the anniversary OF the birth OF the
Father OF HIS Country viii consequent
IA no speot to-day to a great extent
amidst rural rather than urban surround
ings. At Tuxedo the hosIitii'les were
begun with the annual fancy dress al
at the clubhouss. and all the Villas ana
cottages are 1l.el with guests. who VIII
remain until Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stuyvcsant Fish nave Il
large house party at their place AT Gar
risons on the Hudson. Miss Anne Nor
gan has n number Of r. eads staying WIN
ner at her fathers camp on Ra4uette
Lake. I'm the Adii onddckS. Dr. ana MIS-
w. Seward Webb are cntrrtd hinS 'eh'-
lives and friends a. Shelburnc. thei'
country place i'm Vermont Mr.. and MIS-
Frederick ". Vanderbilt have housel ~
of guests at their country scat at
rIvde Park on the Hudson. Mr.. and Mrs.
George ]. Gould have big house party
nj Georgian Court. their place at Lake
wood. and Mr.. and Mrs. PAyn' Whithe'
have friends staying with them at the"
country seat on Long leland.
Miss Virginia Murray's marriage 10
Robert l.. Bacon is 10 take place soon az
ter Easter. toward the latter end 81 April
Their engagement was announced yes'e'-
day. Miss Murray is the daughter o.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Alexander Murray :
of No IS West jlst street, Mrs. Murray
havirs been before her marriage MISS
Fannie Morris Babcock. Miss MurraF
made her debut the winter before last
Her fance is the eldest son OF he former
Secretary of State and Anna sador 10
France Robert Bacon. lie was Gradu-
ted from Harvard ak years ago was
for a time with the state Department
and with the American Embassy IN Pans
and is n member of the Racquet, inc
Mcadowbrook and other Nc" YORK ana
suburban clubs. He Is a neph w OF John
T.. Cowdin.
CAPTAIN the Hon Montague Parker of
the Grenadier Guards, brotrc' ana next
heir of the Earl OF Morley. VINO has
achieved some note in come ton WIN
his subterraneau expior"so. = JeiHsa-
Iom left New York yes.c dav. al er a
stay of several weeks at the RITZ Carl
ton.
Baron Won Gwinuer, the Eer,n banker
and Mr.. and Mrs /. J. DreNcl Paul, oil
Philadelphia. have arrived 1T IN" titz-
Carlton.
Mrs. William X Vanderbilt las issued
invitations 10 urer dane On NJ N
dav night at her mouse. ON rii,a a'vi"r.
Mrs. Hamilton Nick. IwombIF figures
ON the programme OF next wcei Tor q
dinner on TUESDAY uignt al ncr house
on Fifth avenue.
Miss Ruth Davis. daughter ot Nj. and
Mrs Rowland Davis. has selected Apfh
[. as tho date ri her wedding 20 Theodore
Stcinvay at tho ,hurch "f the lncaIna-
lion. The ceremony VIII be followed ~
a reception Al hci patents nome. oh
Madison a"enue. Among those prcsen,
will he her aunt. Mrs ,Iilborne J.. Roos'-
vCt.
Mrs. Hermann Oel-ichs has returned ~
Sew York from san Francisco.
Mrs. Philip VI. Lydis VIII give dinner
followed by box party FOR ia ma gee"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22
ROOSEVELT, JR., ON VACATION

Theodore Roosevelt. jr.. accompanied o
his wife sailed for Nassau yesterday o
the Ward liner Vigilancia. He said ne e
pected to spend six weeks In tho %
hamas. and was making the trip to escsp
the cares of business.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22
TIE NEW YORK IDEA

said to the manager. Really. my
friend.
Your play IL incxpressibly bad:
| don't ace how people can SIT to the end
OF plot that's 80 threadbaro and sad %
And the manager said with IA trace OF a
grin:
Though nothing that's new We uncorh.
To see II they flock Till we can't pack en-
II ran for three months in New York q"
"Now, here" said the salesman. is lust
what YOU need.
It's tho latest conception IN shoes:
These cloth top effects are most nobby in =
deed.
We have EN- in red. brown and blues. "
Il wouldn't wear those. though bare
footed irod!'
] replied. They arc certainly pork
And the shoe man came back with
They are bit odd
but they're now oil the rage In New
York
I'm stubborn old guy, am free to adj
NIT:
am fcarfully set in my ways;
] insist upon raiment that's fashioned
And like my own Judgment on plays
| refuse To look foolish because It's the
decline To dress up like a gawk:
In matters OF fashion | VIII not go mad
Just because II Is done I'm New York.
Detroit Free Press.
Dr. Joseph ~. Hertz. who will sail from
New York on March to take the place
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22

Indignant over the order. But he can
Use pr EliOt's name IN support OF such
craftsmanship. for Dr. Eliot says ne
never gave IT,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22

The one good road in all Turkey rs
proving 10 be Of great use 10 the BuI-
garian invaders. Moral: Don't have
good roads and poor armies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22

That Mayor from Grand Rapids
Mich. who presumes 10 come here anu
criticise our Mayor must have fallen IN
with "seditious persons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22

\ Kentuckian put on the witness
stand in the Supreme Court of this dis
trict rebuked the fattering JUNCTION of
the examining lawyer who addressed
him as Colonel" Il am the only
kentuckian who is not a colonel. said
the witness. Anybody as progressive
as that ought to have "A seat in Gov
crnor Wilson's progressive" Cabinet.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22

The Philadelphia who saved himself
from = clubbing by taking out his Slass
eye and showing IL TO the policeman had
apparentlv been reading one Of Will.gm
Westall's romanCcs and was trying 10
emulate one of its characters. THIS in
gcnious advcnturcr. being captured by
sayages who purposed promptly 10
transform him into royoOcHr Ia Ac"-
burO. took out his glass cyc and held
ii up for their inspection while he sol
emniy winkcd AT them with the other,
with the result that they fen down ana
,y,rehipu,d him
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Owned and published daily by The Tribune
Association. a New York corporation: OgJeh
NJ reid President. condo Hamlin. Secretary;
James NJ Barrett. Treasurer. Address. tribune
building, No lJ4 Nassau street, New YORK.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22

before had been known. even in that
unrivalled symposium of belligerency.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22

Governor Wilson will retire from his
New Jersey Office next week in blaze
OF party glory. having filled with his
friends and retaincrs not only all eX-
listing vacancies. but also. in advance.
to come. No patronage dispenser could
do more than that.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22

\ Chicago owned bulldog has won
the first prize in the Westminster Ken
mel Clubs show. ts ever, westward
the course Of culture takes it's way.
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Our readers will confer favor by advising
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THE TALK OF THE DAY.

WIKI Nolapuk and Esperanto in the
field. the champion, - each making T.
forts 10 show superiority ag universe.
language. q new aspirsut has appeared at
Marietta. ohio. iu tho form Of what the
inventor co. maker calls world speech
The Xamculoi 90 iu- nov language ls o.
clergyman. who. IN pamphlet on th.
.rblcct de,orcs the fat that the Ohio
Legislature indefinitely postponed action
on q biz introduced in the Legislature at
columbus memorsliziuG Congress 20 c7il
1t world coufcr"uo" Of tn" various nations
Co.. order To- have IL consider the qUestiOl
OF dctIs.ug some form Of universal Ian
suagc. Marietta being tie oldest city IN
Onto. he thinks 10 Well lifted 10 bt the
home OF world srccch ana tn. cradle u
a Language that IS destined to Dee the ua'-
ve.saI language Of al mankind.
What is the most striking feature &
the 1873 model cars that YOU noticed
The price Detroit Free Press
Ia ~ article ou Internal cleanliness. "
Boa III. current ISSUE Vf Health culture. %
JOY NE 10 the utmost: 81 W would stayc
of the obvious signs Of old age (Which -
believed 20 te due - the deposit VI cx-
,retable salts IN t"e walls Of tho arteries
and DO the NarIJu. tissues Of the aodyi,
II $50 would delay the coming of IN. Tread
'',"' -""' t"'' ~ me. il J.
'V' ''' 81 anu
a.
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US when they arc unable to procure copy
OF Tho Tribune from their newsdealer.
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WASHINGTON.
At the White House.

From The Trih.u, Bureau
Washington Feb. q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22

\ man in New Jersey is sent To jail
kiddo," at another mans wife in the
street. If that is fit punishment for
the offence against the plaintiff. thirty
DAYS more might he added for reviving
slang Of the vintage of-was IT 1900 or
earlier?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22

The mechanical tip is likely TO pro-
duce the mechanical waiter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22

The legislative chaplain who at
tempted in the guse Of prayer to tell
the members what laws they ought TO
pass was rightly stopped 10y the pre-
siding officer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-22

II the Bulgarians have really sent
100000 men across Thrace to the neck
Of the Chersonese. admiration Is stag
gcred at the thought OF how many more
they must have between that point and
the Rhodopian Mountains TO guard
their lines OF communication and 10
hold tho Turks AT Adrianoplc and
Tchataldja.
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Nf,u 1lork Tribunc:

SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 70, 1919.
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Entered al tho Postofilce at New York as
Second Class Mail Matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-13
BY HENRY COLT

to build a canal between the Rhine and
the Elbe. The result of this policy is
that officials are political slaves. They
are accustomed to look to the state for
lifelong employment; they are mostly
incapable of making a living except as
officials, and with a dread of dismissal
always over their heads they are turned
into willess tools
Even in his private life the unluclly
European official is not free man. The
slave driving state which gives him au-
thofity to browbeat add look down on the
civilian, allows in return the higher au-
thorities to treat him without considera-
tion or respect. For years past officials
in Berlin have not been free to
choose their place of abode. A municipal
official is forbidden to live in the suburbs,
three miles from his work, unless he can
get doctors certificate The reason is
that a group of great house owners who
influence the municipality profit from the
congestion of the inner parts of the city.
The human dignity of the bureaucrat
slave is even less respected. At present
1900 Berlin officials are in danger of die
missal owing to their revolt against a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-13

he would make a big success Of the en-
terprise.
All the persons who went to the park
were not drinkers of soft stuff. Various
gentlemen, seeing what crowds were being
attracted to the park wished they could
induce Humphrey to let them have the
bar privilege at his newly made gold
mine. Some approached him on the prop
osition. but never again. Then they did
what they considered to be next the best
thing. They opened. saloons across the
broad highway from the main entrance
to the park Some of those saloons we're
pretty tough
Humphrey did not like his saloon neigh
bors. He determined to get rid of them.
Rigging up powerful searchlights in his
grounds, he directed the rays of the
searchlghts upon the saloons. Nobody
could enter without being truly in the
spot light. Decent men didn't like to
make exhibitions of themselves, so they
lodged those saloons. The liquor men
threatened lots of things to Humphrey.
but went no further than 10 sue out an
injunction restraining him from using his
batteship searchlights. That was pie for
the popcorn man. The papers made big
stories out of the fight Humphrey got
more advertising than he could have
bought for thousands of dollars. And the
Injunction was set aside. Thereupon the
searchlights came into play again. The
crowd at Beach parq thought it highly
enjoyable to see an occasional person try
to get into a saloon without being spotted.
People went out just to see this show
The searchlghts drove the saloons out
of business and Beach park never has
seen one since. 1t has increased in popu-
larity year by year and today is a re-
markable monument to the worth of hon
esty and deceney In an amusement park
Every palatable soft" drink is sold there
but nothing with suspicion of done
There is no ballyhooing, no deceit no
loudness. Every visitor gets value The
whole establishment-and it covers many
acres-is conducted nationally efficiently
ana yet most profitably.
There has been so much profit IN
Beach park as he conducts it that the
popcorn man has had to look about to
employ his money. Liking the amuse-
ment field and believing he was doing
good service in providing for those who
want to take their pleasures in a descent,
respectable way. he built a great winter
carnival right in the heart of a city.
There he has hockey tournaments. ice
ing plant is so tremendous that this rink
is said to be the biggest in the world 1t
is a pronounced success. The games and
tournaments have come to be features Of
the winter life of the city and the pop
corn man is now declared to be the most
prosperous amusement purveyor in Amer
lea.
Good old Humphrey. He still sells pop
corn. He stil makes 1t. too, but not on
the kitchen stove. He has % stands
throughout the home city at which he
sells his corn. his candy and his peanuts.
There must be a big profit in all these
articles, for the rents Humphrey pays
for some of the stands are higher per
square foot than paid by any merchant
in the city Nothing is too big for him
or too small for him Everybody respects
him and none more than the men who
unloaded the Beach park on him and
thought in 50 doing they We're singing
the popsorn man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-13

been in their estimates The city was
not big enough TO support so large
an enterprise as the park. The best
thiats they could do, they decided, was
TO sell the property.
1t is one thing to want to sell and
another to find purchaser. Men will
ing to buy lakeside parks and having
money enough to pay the price are
scarce. To announce the amount of
the yearly deficit would not enhance
the value. The owners looked around
carefully and cautiously for a person
upon whom they could unload. Some
how the popcorn man came into cal
culation.
1t seemed ridiculous when his name
was suggested, but investigation
showed he had considerable money.
and when the proposition was put up to
him he gave it consideration. He
looked the property over carefully. He
inspected the bar and, frowned. He
looked at the fakes and scowled.
Everything that seemed profitable to
the owners met with his disapproval.
About the only thing that pleased him
was the location. He looked out over
the lake and his face cleared He
gazed along the beach and seemed
pleased. He watched some children
play and nodded his head approvingly.
A few days later he closed deal for
the purchase of the park and the men
who had been holding the bag for
years breathed easier Humphrey was
the purchaser.
Tho pa1aorp ,,,oa ,o+ IT..
to strong waters, closed the bar the
first day he was in charge. In doing
this he basely deceived large numbert
of thirsty gentlemen who had jour
neyed out to the park the following
Sunday. 1t was hot-frightfully hot
and their thirst had not been cooled by
the five mile ride from the centre of the
city in the crowded trolley cars. They
let out roar that was unpleasant to
hear. They scoffed at the attendants
who mildly suggested that there we've
plenty of soft drinks to be had
The closing of the bar was bad
enough, but worse followed. Gentle
men who had sought the pleasures of
the dancing pavilion and cast aside
their coats and vests as they had been
accustomed to do in order to be cooler
and more comfortable while they
danced were fighting angry when in
on the floor unles properly clad.
The park employees were mild
voiced, but unyielding. They simply
We're obeying instructions, they ex-
planned. Protests, cuss words, ridicule
and sarcasm availed nothing. These
rules were enforced and a lot of WIS.,
itors went home vowing they never
would visit the place again.
Beach park was a sad affair for the
rest of the season. The respectable
element would not go there because of
its general reputation and the rough
element would not torture itself in
such deadly duh place. Women and
children went there on summer days
and found relief from the heat of the
city and persons who loved boating
and fishing continued to give their
patronage to 1t, but the receipts were
decidedly less than under the old
regime.
Next year Humphrey had a desperate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-13

hUMPHREY'S father left the farm
to him. Some persons may find
= pleasure and profit in tilling the
soil. but, hard as he worked, Humph-
rey made little headway. He lbnged
for the comforts and opportunities of
city life and the more he dwelt on what
the city held in promise the more dis
satisfied he became with his lot Final
ly he got SO tired of cropping it." as
the agriculturists call farming. that he
determined to sell out He put the
farm on the market and got a pur-
chaser Then he moved to town.
One thing Humphrey liked was pop
corn. He dotted on 1t as a boy and
his appetite for 1t did not diminish as
he grew older. When he got to town
and looked around for some work with
which to employ his energies, he did
not find so many openings as he had
expected Idleness was abhorrent to
him, so, more to keep himself engaged
than with any thought of going into
business permanently, he made popcorn
on his kitchen stove and sold it to men
who had stands about town
No one knows more about the art
of popcorn making than Humphrey.
The corn should be of a special growth
and it should be kept three years to
season and 1t should be cooked just so
or it will not have the flavor and del
icacy that real popcorn should have.
The people who bought Humphreys
popcorn relished it and the sidewalk
venders developed a trade in popcorn
they never had known before Hum
phrey made little money-not much,
but enough to make him ambitious
to broaden his field. Out at the lake
side was a big pleasure park. 1t had
cost many thousands OF dollars to
build The men who had started it
expected to make fortune, but had
been disappointed. AT first 1t rdid
fairly well. but gradually it's attract
tons paled. Then the owners let 1t be-
come fly paper proposition. Every
visitor got stuck.
Humphrey sold popcorn to the Beach
park people. That was one of the few
things sold at the park for which the
people got the worth of their money.
His popcorn sold so we'll there and at
. the stands in town that Humphrey took
up other lines. He made old fashioned
candy and sugared peanuts and grad
ually built up a trade in those articles
that permitted him to add little
to the money he had put in the bank
as a result of the sale of farm
Although Humphrey prospered, the
owners of the Beach park did not The
reputation of the big amusement place
did not improve Roysterers got to
going there at night and occasionally
there were disgraceful brawls The bar
did the biggest business in the estab-
lishment. Every sideshow had a bally-
hoo man and most of the freaks were
fakes of the worst order.
AS the years went on, respectable
people began to avoid the park There
always is an element that delights in
riot and roar, but 1t is not altogether
profitable. The owners of the park,
facing larger and larger deficit
every year, became more and more dis
gusted. They saw how wrong they had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-13
Research on Leprosy

The work of Prof. Raoul Pictet of Gem
eva (Switzerland) on the use of liquefed
carbon dioxlde as a specific for leprosy.
has lately been discussed In the news
papers. Wholesale cures are claimed for
it in Hawaii. Pictet's discovery is
method OF cauterzation, but whether
more effective than other long-used meth
DDS along the same lines remains to be
seen, SAYS the Scientific American.
Until recently leprosy had not been pro-
duoed in animals for purposes of expert
mental study, and ii is barely four years
since the germ was first isolated at the
Louisiana leper house. The work of Du-
val and Couret in the laboratories of
pathology and baeteriology at Tulane uni
versity (New Orleans) has given a new
and sure foundation for future investiga-
tion of this disease.
They have established that ieprosy cam
not be given to any animal by a single
injection of its germs; repeated injec-
tions are necessary in order TO make the
body sensitive. This is doubtless true OF
human beings. and explains the relative
infrequency OF leprosy even when per-
sons have lived among lepers for some
time.
This Is in agreement with a long line
of new theories regarding the modus oper-
andi of infection Typhoid germs take
two weeks to make the body sensitive
enough to give the disease a start. Dur
ing this period of incubation millions of
germs may be produced in the course of
4S hours. but the disease is not produced
unit 1.-The body reacts. In leprosy 1t would
see mthat the germs are repeatedly killed
Off by the body.
Duval says that ito produce the dis
ease experimentally. 1t seems necessary
to give the animal repeated injections of
large numbers of leprosy bacilli at given
intervals for a period of months" His re-
search shows that an injection OF first
100000 and later of 4,o00. 600 bacilli
were given before the disease took"
Even after the first injection of 100000
bacilli and for nearly two weeks after the
injection Of the culture containing 4.000,-
100000. there was no evidence of either
localized or general infection" The an
imal first infected with leprosy was
monkey (Macacus rhesus1 the initial In
lection being given October. 1910. 1t was
not until the following March that he
was recognized as afflicted with a dis
ease having all the clinical characteristics
of human leprosy." and death did not
ensue until December.