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Evening journal., 1913-11-18
PROBE THE PASS LAW.

The Pennsylvania Railroad has ask
ed its law department for a construc-
tion Of tire law passed by the Penn
sylvania Legislature for a construc-
tion of the State public service COM
mission. The passage upon which
the railroad seeks legal enlightenment
is that which covers the issuance Of
passes, the specific question being
whether passes may be issued to EN-
ployes' families. According to one
Interpretation, the law forbids the is
sue Of passes only to employees. Pend
ing the decision of the laNv depart
ment, the superintendents of the sew
eral divisions are sending out to
employees forms of applications for
passes not only for themselves but
also for their wives.
Evening journal., 1913-11-18
STOWAWAY In
STEAMERS COAL
Americans Lost Passenger
Turned Over to Immlgra-
tlOn Officials

Captain Marklachlaeger Of the
Dutch tank steamship American, rub
bed his eyes yesterday morning as
one Of the crew led before him a
stowaway as the vessel steamed up
the river. The man had been given
up for lost on Sunday. when It was
believed he had jumped overheard to
get his liberty. off Wilmington.
The stowaway, who gave his name
as George ~ Noble. was discovered
on the tanker on November /. one
day after the vessel had sailed from
Antwerp He said he wanted to come
to America to work. He was given
work on the vessel during the pas
sage. Proving tractable. he was al
lowed the run OF the ship.
But when the steamship reached
the Quarantine station at Marcus
hook. on Sunday. an trace OF him
was lost For several hours officers
and crew searched the vessel with
out discovering him. II was then
decided that he had leaped over
board and either swan ashore or was
drowned in the attempt Ina the for
mer case the captain faced fine Of
$500 for permitting an alien TO land
without being properly examined by
the immigration authorities
Yesterday morning a coal passer
in digging his shovel into the bitum-
inous coal In the bunkers TO feed the
boilers. struck something soft whics
emitted a howl OF pain. lt was Noble
hurled almost TO the chin in the Goa
heap He had covered himself After
being dug cut he was hailed. begrimed
before the captain. who joyfully turn
ed him over to the immigration ofl
csls who will probably order hin
deportcd
Evening journal., 1913-11-18
AUTO SMASHES
THIS CARRIAGE

While driving home from this city,
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Murphy, Of Green
Vile, had a narrow escape from seri-
GUS injury when an automobile crash
ed into their carriage, The front
wheels were smashed, both shafts
broken and the front axle snapped.
Mr.. Murphy was thrown to the road
bed and rendered unconscious. but
Mrs. Murphy escaped injury The au-
tomobile driver hurried away, and a
man in another car vainly tried to
catch him.
Evening journal., 1913-11-18
DEMONSTRATING wAL-CAL-INE

Wal-Cal-Ine. chemical prepara-
tion that will clean wall paper
and calcimined surfaces like magic,
also window shades, tapestries, oil
paintings, steel engrayings, etc, is
being demonstrated this week, at
Cartmells drug store, Sixth and Madi-
son streets. The preparation is
something the housewife has long
wanted It is well worth investigat-
ing and the demonstration leaves no
doubt in the minds of the skeptical
concerning the ability of the prepara-
ton to do Just what Is claimed for
Il. Many are taking advantage OF
the opportunity offered them of wit
Messing the demonstrations
Evening journal., 1913-11-18
DRIVES HIS AUTO
INTO MILL RACE

While driving his automobile near a
dam at the plant Of the Marshallton
Fibre Works, George C. Morton OF No.
1907 West Fourth street inadvertently
ran the machine into the mill race IL
was necessary to drain the race before
the car could be hauled back to the
road. Mr.. Morton. who escaped with a
chilly BATH blames the accident on
balky steering gear.
Evening journal., 1913-11-18
HOW THIS WOMAN
FOUND HEALTH
Would not give Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
for All Rest of Medicine
in the World.

Utica, Ohio. .-"I suffered everything
. from female weakness after baby
Evening journal., 1913-11-18
AIDED HospIAL FuNn.

Among the many glSrs to the Homq
opathic Hospital fun which recently
ended successfully, wa Alba y, John
son, president OF tho aldwin Locomo-
tive Works, PhiladelphI.
Mr.. johnson, who & Interested in all
charities and civic bo4rments, was a
large contributor TO chichester Y M,
G. An campaign, which, blso met with
success.
Evening journal., 1913-11-18

be alone. The walk lasts for half
hour, during which time Signora Clio
litti remains up to be sure that he
returns safely. This. however, is the
only diversion which he takes outside
OF her company and this is the only
leisure time OF the day that he ever
spends away from her side.
Evening journal., 1913-11-18

II EADQUARTRRs MAoKENzrF,s or.
IL fee and works 9O7 Shiniev stree.
Everything clesnablc and dyeabie nor4.tf
Evening journal., 1913-11-18
Roy GUNNER SHOOTS FRIEND.

Joseph McGinty. aged IA years, OF
Kenneth SQUARE. was shot in the
right hip while cunning by James
Worrall of his same age. Worrall
thought his gun was unloaded. Jo-
seph's wound Is not considered dan
gerous. e'2ia
Evening journal., 1913-11-18
rArnrp SAVES nAuGHrER.

CHESTER, Pa, Nov. lS.-Miss Louise
Leach was badly burned at her home in
Marcus Hook She had gone to the cell
lar to burn a quantity of waste paper in
the furnace when the strong draught
caused the flames TO leap forth. ignlting
her dress. Her screams We're heard by
her father, William Leach, who wrapped
a piece of carpet about her, thus saving
her life.
Evening journal., 1913-11-18

Compound and now / am stout, well and
healthy. / can do all my own work and
can walk to town and back and not get
tired. I would not give your Vegetable
Compound for all the rest Of the medi-
cines ip the world. tried doctor med
icines and they did me no good. Mrs.
Mary EARLEwINE. RID. No.3, Utica,
r,l.t-
Evening journal., 1913-11-18

came. l had numb
spells and was dizzy,
had black spots be.
fore my eyes, my
back ached and ]
was so weak l could
hardly stand up. My
face was yellow,
even my fngernails
colorless and /
had displacement l
took Lydia L. Pink
hams Vege table
Evening journal., 1913-11-18
Another Case.

Nebo, IN. -'' was bothered for ten
7ears with female troubles and the doc
lors did not help me. Twas so weak and
nervous that ! could not do my work
and every month ! had 10 spend few
days IN bed. Tread so many letters about
Lydia E. Pinkhauf's Vegetable Com
pound curing female troubles that got
bottle Of IT, IL did me more good than
anything else ! ever took and now it has
cured me. / feel better than ! have
for years and tell everybody what the
Compound has done for me. ] believe
would not be living to-day but foi
that" Mrs. HETTIE GREENsTREET
Nebo. Illinois.
Evening journal., 1913-11-18
NEM0RIAL TO DAD PAsTOR.

Memorial services were held in
Bethel A. NJ g. Church. on Sunday
afternoon. for the Rev r. William
Fickland a former pastor of the
church The services were we'll at
tended despite the nclement weather.
Or. J ~. Palmer, q lifelong friend OF
Mr. Ficklnnd delivered the eulogy.
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song for a requiem recital, and might
get electrocuted by the cells before the
python's embrace became really uncom-
Portable.
1 numbered my camera and took last
look around before opening the shutter
for time exposure. I perceived then that
which convinced me that the death strug-
gle | anticipated would certainly be not
without its finer nuances OF novelty. For
a few feet away, unclaimed and upright
on his bowlegs, leaning gracefully against
a crate of tortoises, stood young orang-
outaug-that VIGOROUSLY belligerent mon
key with the long orange cocoanut smell
hair. who renders life gay in the jungles
Of the Malay Archipelago. He was sur
viewing me with interest. l turned and
levelIed the camera at him. but he showed
his teeth like a homing actress meeting
the ship news reporters. so forbore.
Ciel Heavens What an epic death. ]
plotted out the combinations as ! opened
the lens Of the camera and waited. If the
orang-outang sprang at me ] would dodge
NV sudden movement would cause the
unfurling OF that steel spring python.
The orang-outang would alisht on the
pvthon's back Just i'm time 10 get carried
ON through the four thousand canary
birds as the python rammed me- Neat
automatic and instantaneous. We shoulh
all meet in the electric eel tank-the
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nates its specialized hood and begins TO
sway TO and fro.
Faster and faster it sways, charmed by
the more and more lively tune played on
the charmer's reed pipe. Anyhow, that Is
your surmse. As a matter OF fact the
boot is on the other leg. II is the charmer
tsic) who skilfuily adapts his music TO the
rising wrath of the cobra, which has
been rudely shaken up before being tilted
out of the basket. Finally IL strikes. but
the charmer knows that snake can
strike more than third OF its length and
he takes good care TO be just outside Its
range Now, cobras inflated hood Is
hindrance 10 its instant regain OF equilib-
rum. IL takes II few seconds TO draw
up its head again and assume a coiled
and braced striking posture. That is why
the charmer works with a cobra. He has
time To pounce on it, catching II behind
the neck, and 10 toss ii back into the
basket
Medical schools and anatomical labora-
tories take a few snakes, and geological
parks. Of course, are good customers.
Now and then private collectors are en-
countered Not long since there was a
wealthy man dwelling in an apartment
on the West Side, who gave the Rune
house a lot OF orders. lie kept number
of serpents in his fiat Landlords with
mysterious bachelor tenants, take notice!
The pythons imported are of three spe-
cies-the reticulated. the West African or
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from the foam. exactly what was going
on. But I got out alive,
What Louis Ruhe. who does business on
the lower East Side. doesn't know about
the wild animal trade In general and
snake brcking in particular Is not OF much
importance. His grandfather was IN tho
trade In Hanover nearly a century ago.
Ills father carried on the firms business,
coming TO America 10 establish "A con-
nection over here. and Mr.. Ruhe has fol
lowed iu his fathers footsteps.
The Ruhc house. with its establishments
I'm Hanover AMI New York. has several
score collectors constantly az work IN
the wild regions OF the earth. Each fall
IL sends cut. for instance, three snake
collectors to British India. one goes %
Calcutta, one to Bombay and one 10 the
Ganges delta; and all meet presently IN
the interior and square notes on captures.
Pythons arc their chief objective. and to
obtain these giant snakes they journey
up the swampy river banks with gangs OF
natives who boldly wade into the water
and net them.
Other collectors arc sent out To Singa-
pore. I'm Straits Settlements. and to Java,
Sumatra, Celebes and other Islands OF the
Malay Archipelago. catching their own
snakes and picking from the collections
already made by nativs collectors on the
ground. Singapore. says Mr. Ruhe. is the
snake clearing house OF Asia. Chinese
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dealers there collect stock from half a
dozen adjacent countries and Islands and
keep II until the Ruhe and other agents
call 10 buy.
The collectors bring back their finds TO
Hanover, and from thence shipments
each I'm charge Of feeder and attendant
are made 10 New York. usually by the
Hamburg American liners.
still more collectors are busy in South
Africa and Brazil and their finds come
M TO Hanover and New York, respect
lively.
who buys all these snakes?
There is pathos I'm the answer-gener-
ally the fake snake charmers OF our cir
cuses. The American circus is the great
est absorber OF big snakes 10 be found on
earth II is FOR this end that the ro-
mantle and dangerous life OF the German
Jungle collector is spent.
The American snake charmer is usually
a Young woman In a maximum OF smile
and minimum OF skirt. who passes the
lethargic python or boa around her neck
and arms while the band plays tom-tom
music. The pythons bite is rarely be-
slowed and not poisonous. The Asiatic
snake charmer on the other hand. is at
all events a sportsman. for he operates
with the deadly cobra and not infrequent-
~ comes To an untimely end. You see
him tip the cobra out OF basket. The
beast gathers itself together. sits up. IN
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was at the time filed with friends OF
personal liberty" as Governor Hill used
at that time, i'm moments Of pathos, 10
term everybody who regarded as tyranny
any restriction on the sale of liquor. Gala
hans saloon had never before I'm its his
tory been closed, and 10 have green
"cop" tell him 10 close II seemed to him
so incredible that he regarded it merely
as bad jest. on his next round Bourke
stepped in and repeated the order. Gala
han felt that the jest had gone too far and
be- way Of protest knocked Bourke down.
This was an error of judgment on his part
for when Bourke arose ne knocked Gala
han down. The two men then grappled
and fell to the floor, while the friends
OF personal liberty" danced around the
fight and endeavored To stamp on every
thing they thought wasn't Callahan. How
ever, Bourkc. though pretty roughly
handled. got his man and shut the sa-
loon. When he appeared against the law
breaker i'm court next day he found the
courtroom crowded with Influential Tam
many Hall politicians, backed by one or
two Republican leaders of the same type,
for Callahan was baron OF the under
world, and both his feudal superiors and
his feudal interiors gathered to the res
cue His hackers In court included Il
Congressman and state Senator. and so
deep rooted was the police belief I'm pull
that his own superiors had turned against
Bourke and were preparing to sacrifice
him Just at this time 1 acted on the
information given me by my newspaper
friend by starting in person for the court.
The knowledge that knew what was
going on. that ! meant what ] said and
that / intended 10 make the affair per-
sonAl were all that was necessary. Be
fore / reached the court all effort To de-
fend Callahan had promptly ceased and
Bourke had come forth triumphant | inn
mediately promoted him To roundsman.
lie is a captain now. lie has been on the
force ever since save that when the Span
ish war came he obtained "A holiday with
out pay for six months and re-entcred the
navy, serving as gun captain in one of
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NEED PERMANENT POLICE COMMISSIONER SAYS MR. ROOSEVELT

the sunboats and doing his work, as was
to be expected. in first rate fashion, es-
pecially when under fire.
Let me again say that when men tell
me that the police are irredeemably bad
remember scores and hundreds of cases
like this of Bourke. like the case | nave
already mentioned Of Raphael, Ike the
other cases | have given above. lt Is use
less to tell me that these men are bad
They are naturally first rate men. Ihere
are no better men anywhere than the men
of the New York police force. and when
they go bad IL Is because the system is
wrong. and because they are not given
the chance to do the good work they
can do and would rather do. | never cod
died these men. | punished them severely
whenever / thought their conduct re-
quired IT, All did was 10 try TO be Just
TO reward them when they did well; IN
short, to act squarely BY them. peiieVe
that, as a whole they liked me. When
i'm 1872 | ran for President on the Pro-
gressibe ticket i received number OF
unsigned letters inclosng sums of money
for the campaign. One of these inclosed
500 The writer, who did not give his
name said that he was policeman. that
had once had him before me on charges
and had fined him $50; that, as q matter
of fact. he had not committed the offence
for which | fined him, but that the EVIL
dence was such that he did not wonder |
had been misled, and never blamed me
for il. because l had acted squarely and
had given honest and decent men a
chance in the Police Department; and
that now he inclosed a $50 bill. the amount
of the fine inflicted on him so many years
before. / have always wished | knew
who the man was.
The next instaiment Of Mr.. Rooseveh's
! "Chapters Of 10 Possible Autobiography
continues the chapter entitled The Police.
the Politicians and Vice" IL will appear
in the Issue Of September ].
Published by special arrangement with
| THE Outlook" OF which Theodore Roose-
welt is the contributing editor through the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate. Copyright.
1918. by The outlook Company. All rights
reserved. including rights Of translation.
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The saloon was the chief source Of mis-
chief II was with the saloon that | mao
TO deal. and there was only one way to
deal with il. That was 10 enforce the
law. The howl that arose was deafening.
The professional politicians raved. The
yellow press surpassed themselves In
clamor and mendacity. favorite ass2r-
ton was that ! was enforcing blue
law. an obsolete law that had never be-
fore been enforced. As matter of fact
| was only enforcing honestly law that
had hitherto been enforced dishonesty.
There was very little increase in the
number OF arrests made for violating he
Sunday law Indeed. there were weeks
when the number OF arrests went down
The only difference was that there was no
protected class. Everybody was arrest
ed alike. and / took especial pains TO see
that there was no discrimination. ana
that the big men and the men with po-
litical influence were treated ike every
one else. The immediate effect was Whoi-
~ good. ] had been told that 1t was not
possible TO close the saloons on Sunday
and that / could not succeed. However,
I did succeed. The warden OF Bellevue
Hospital reported, two or three weeks
after we had begun. that for the hrst
time I'm it's existence there had not been
a case due to drunken braw In the hos
pital all Monday. The police courts gave
the same testimony. while savings BANKS
recorded increased deposits and pawn
shops hard times. The most touching
of all things WAS the fact that we re-
ceiyed letters, literally by the hundred
from mothers In tenement houses VINO
had never been allowed to take their
children to the country In the wide-open
DAYS and who now found their husbands
willing to take them and their families
for an outing on sunday. Jake kiis ana
I spent one Sunday from morning III
night i'm the tenement districts, seeing
for ourselves what had happened
During the two years that we were VI
office things never slipped back TO any
thing like what they had been before
Rut we did not succeed In keeping mem
quite as highly keyed as during THESE
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first weeks. As regards the Sunday CLOS
ing law. this was partly because public
sentiment was not really with us. The
people who had demanded honesty. but
who did not like to pay for IL by the
loss OF Illegal pleasure, joined the openly
dishonest I'm attacking us. Moreover, all
kinds of ways OF eyading the law were
tried, and some OF them were SUCCESSFUL.
The statute. for instance, permitted any
man To take liquor with meals. After TWO
or three months a magistrate was found
who decided judicially that seventeen
beers and one pretzel made mediator
which decision JOY again became uhcon-
fined In at least some OF the saloons ana
the yellow press gleefully announced that
nv tyranny" had been curbed. But my
prime object. that of stopping blackmail'
was largely attained.
All kinds of incidents occurred In con-
nection with this crusade one OF them
introduced me To- a friend who remains a
friend vet His name was Edward j.
Bourke. lie was one of the men who en-
tered the police force through our exam
nations shortly after took office. had
summoned twenty OF tHlIlS VI th' 9"'
cessful applicants to let me look over
them, and as ! walked into the nall one
of them. well set up man, called our
sharply to the others "Gangway' max
ing them move to one side. i found he
had served In the United States navy. The
incident was sufficient to make me Keep
him I'm mind A month later ] was notl-
fled by police reporter. very good TEL
low that Bourke was in difficulties and
that he thought / had better look into the
matter myself as Bourke was being ac-
crsed by certain very influential men oil
grave misconcoct in an arrest he had
made the night before. Accordingly i
took the matter up personally. ! found
that ON the new patrolman's beat the pre-
ceding night-a new beat-there was DIG
saloon. run by man of great influence N
rolitical circles known as King" Gala
han. After midnight the saloon was stiil
running i'm full blast. and Bourke, 'step-
ming inside, told Callahan to close UP. 1t
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Continued from hfth page.

formally taken up by committee OF the
Central Association OF Liquor Dealers III
an interview they held with Mr.. Martin
my Tammany predecessor as president oil
the notice force In a matter OF course
way the editors statement continues
IAN agreement was made between the
leaders OF Tammany Hall and the hquoi
dealers according 10 which the moh'hIS
blackmail paid TO the force should be ois-
continued In return for political support
Not only did the big bosses state ana
local. treat this agreement and the cor
ruption 10 which IT was que, as norma
and proper, but they never even TOOK inc
trouble 10 deny what had been done "heh
n was made public Tammany ana the
noIice however did not fully 1--we up 10
tho agreement, and much discrimination
~ very corrupt kind. and OF very ex-
generating kind 10 liquor SELLERS VINO
,,.isbed "a be honest. continued In connec-
lion with the enforcing Of the law.
In short the agreement was kept only
with those who had pull These men
with .pulI" were benefited Wheh thei'
rivals were bullied and blaokmailed by the
police. The police. meanwhile VINO nau
bought appointment or promotioh' ana ''o
noliticians back OF them, extended the
blackmailing TO include about everything
from the pushcart pedler and the big or
snail merchant who wished to use the
sidewalk illegally for his goods. up to the
keeper of the brothel. the gambling
housc. and the policy shop. The total
blackmail ran into millions of dollars
New York was wide-open town the
bip bosses rolled in wealth. and the cor
rupt policemen who ran the force lost
All sense of decency and justice. Never
theless | wish TO insist on the TACT tha'
the honest men on the patrol posts. tine
men with the night sticks" remained de-
sirous To see honesty obtain although
they were losing courage and hope.
This WAS the situation that confronted
me when 4 came into Mulberry street
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THE GIANT INDIAN PYTHON.

The Indian python is the biggest or
the three and can readily crush a tiger
or an OK TO pulp. 1t was an Indian.
python that was the VILLAIN" of the
most alarming episode in the history OF
the London Geological Gardens not long
ago A keeper was offering fowl TO the
huge serpent, which was just then she'd
ding it's skin and nearly blind, in con-
sequence. 1t missed it's aim. and In
stead of seiZing the bird. grasped the,
mans left thumb and flung its coils
around his arms and neck. The keeper
tried TO force it's head from his hand,
but i'm vain. The snake threw him and
he was being slowly crushed to death
when two other keepers rushed in and
pried him free.
The "borgenzdrigtor," that terrible
and romantic creature whose name we
so lovingly rolled Off our tongues as
small boys. is imported from South
America. IL seldom runs to more than
fourteen feet
The anaconda, another frequent import
OF the New York snake brokers, is the
giant of snakedom. nported from the
SNdIlpS anu JhlASi'o VI Nh' phiohdS ohs
Brazil IL commonly reaches length of
thirty feet, and sometimes OF forty feet.
and even more. The monster is equally at
home on land or water. Its favorte posi-
ton is along the jutting limb OF a bank
side tree, from which il can swoop down
on it's prey, which is often man. IL can
swallow a man whole with the ease OF a
moccasin enveloping a young frog.