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Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-01
THREE-I MAGNATE DEAD.
Tuberculosis Causes Death of Deca+,
Club President.

Decatur. H., July 1.--V. H. San
ders, president of the Decatur Three-I
league baseball club. dice yesterday
at Albuquerque, y. NJ. of tuberculosis.
according to word received here TO-DAY
Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-01
Standing Of Clubs
LEAGUE.

Games Yesterday.
Chicago l., Detroit 8.
Boston S, Philadelphia g..
New York 1, Washington 2.
Cleveland 80, st. Louis 3-5.
Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-01

A man is never as old as he feels
when he gets up in the morning.
Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-01
FEDERAL LEAGUE.
NICK ALTRoCK A BENEDICT.

Games Yesterday.
NO games scheduled yesterday.
Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-01

Chicago VS.. Detroit. No game. rain.
Boston at Philadelphia. No game.
rain.
St. Louis VS.. Cleveland. No game.
rain.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

girl the Siberian maiden is dressed with severe
simplicity, in ugly frocks. When her hair goes up
her skirts go down and, she has a little spend
ing money of her own, she rigs herself out in the
sort Of kit in which Swede cooks used to go to
Coney with the ceman thirty years ago. She
becomes the trump the arch dowd Of Christendom.
Soldiers swarm in this town. They are sensibly
dressed Instead of the needlessly cramping
Jacket Of our rank and file, these men are clothed
above the waist in merely q khaki tunic shirt,
epauletted with regimental identification and not
tuckeG into the trousers. Russian officer. how
ever. would turn pale at the thought Of wearing
low. vulgar, seryiceable khaki, Like the lily OF
the field in this solitary respect, his srrayal sur
passes III splendor the lounge suits Of Solomon
in-all-his- glory. lie is magnifcenty uniformed.
lie goes through grillng field manPuvrcs in a
pearl-gray cloak and dcve-tinted breeches that
you or would reserve for Sunday afternoon tea
parties with the Gar. The generals cloak is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

SLOUGH about Greenwich Village all the days, dapb-
ing futile cows and landladies' daughters and
dishes of fruit!
Over yonder is the towns "movie" show-the
very last movies" before you cross Asia and
Chamber down through the clouds of the Hima-
layas into British India. four-reel Vitagraph
feature is the piece de resistance just nova
good enough show in its way, but unable TO com
pete with the fifteen one-hour reel film that you
can see outside in the sunshine all day by stroll
ing about the streets.
The Siberians themselves picturesque
crew, the peasants and their womenfolk in crudey
woven homespun and garish prints; men in shirts
Of scarlet blue, women with green or yellow
kerebefs about their heads. Half of the
townsmen wear a uniform. OF their wives and
daughters there is little to say There are sup
posed TO be seven women in Siberia who are pas
SADLY fair to gaze upon; think passed one in
crowd at Irkutsk three years ago. As a school
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
\ MANHATTAN COMPANY WELL SUNK At
READE AND LAFAYETTE SITS.

One Of the earliest of the Manhattan Com
psHy's wells was sunk at the corner OF Reade
and Lafayette SITS. and tank Of iron plates
erected there, subsequently inelosed in the build
ing aow about be demolished. 1t has been
sumed by those who knew the tank still
there, that it was being preserved for the per-
potuaton Of the Manhattan Company's broad
and valuable charter which authorized it TO en-
gage in practically any kind of business, but the
officers Of the company have declined 20 confirm
this assumption The fact that the tank is now
to be destroyed indicates that its preservation
for more than half century after the suspension
Of the water service due to sentimental rather
than practical reasons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
FEW TANKS LAST THIS LONG

@Y the destruction of the century-old four
u story building at the corner of Reade
u and Lafayette SITS New York City will
lose historic relic, unknown perhaps
to most of her inhabitants, but intimately asso-
cieted with one of the most interesting episodes
in the early days Of the municipality. In that
building has been inclosed for than 100
years an iron water tank, a prosalc enough
thing to look at but which recalls to the
mind of the informed spectator the fatal rivalry
between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton,
a rivalry which began the battlefield, grew
bitter at the bar and in politics, extended into
Wall Street and ended only with the violent death
of one and the practical exile of the other.
Alexander Hamilton was the leader in New York
state of the Federaist party Aaron Burr was
the dominant figure in the party then called Re-
publican the ancestor Of the present Democracy
In 1884 Hamilton and some Of his Federalist
friends founded the Bank of New York, the first
banking institution in the city. At that time and
for some years thereafter the Federalists were in
control Of the Legislature at Albany. Politics
PLAYED quite as important part in all things IN
the eighteenth century Is IT does now, and all
efforts TO found a Republican bank were blocked
in the Legislature by Hamilton's partisans until
the sagacity Of Burr. Hamtons arch enemy, took
advantage Of the conditions created by the great
yellow fever epidemic in 1883.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

"The surplus capital may be employed IN any way
not inconsistent with the laws and Constitution
of the United States" This the Joker
Even the astute mind Of Hamilton failed to see it,
and the bill for the charter passed both houses Of
the Legislature without arousng any suspicion
that Manhattan Company really meant Manhattan
Bank, and was signed by Governor Jay.
When the announcement was made that the
Bank of the Manhattan Company" would open at
40 Wall st. on September 1, 1899, for the receiy
ing Of deposits and the granting of discounts,
great howl went up, but it too late for the
Federslists to repair their mistake. The matter
assumed political hue and meetings were held to
denounce Burr's duplieity, with the result that
he defeated for reelection to the Assembly,
but even the refusal OF the Bank of New YorE &c
accept any notes issued by the Bank of the Man
haitian Company failed to prevent the new inst
tuition. from assuming immediate importance in
the community. The feud between the two banks
ended in 1900, and from that time to this
they have dwet almost side by side in peace,
one az 40, the other at IS, Wall ST.
While the bank was the prime object of the
organizers Of the Manhattan Company the water
charter was not entirely a subterfuge The COM
pany sank wells, built reservoirs and tanks and
extended its lines of wooden pipes as far north
a. Blocker st. In 1886 the company had twenty
FIVE miles of wooden mains and supplied 1000
persons The service was continued until 1872
when the completion Of the Croton Aqueduct rem
dered il obsolete
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

fiat military caps, and the older students who at
tend the city college, maintained by gold miner
who made lucky strike one morning, and chubby
checked high school girls and their dowdy big
sisters The passing Mongols rein in their horses
and hang about in groups on the outskirts OF the
crowd What a pity it is that our artist folk
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
NEEDLESS FOR BENEpICTs.

"'Know myself is the advice Of the Biels =
the advice Of Socrates, BUT u
The speaker. Judge Melville C. Carter, u v
tmOre, was discussing a disastrous BaluS~
marriage.
But" he resumed, III mans msrrisa
find cut all about himself, anyway"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
TIE PETITION FOR \ CHARTER FOR THE
MANHATTAN COMPANY.

The ravages Of the fever, which all but de-
populated the city, were attributed to the lack
Of a proper water supply. the only source then
being the Collect, the old pond near the site Of
the present Tombs, and brackish wells in the
lower part Of the city. Burr saw the possibilities
in the popular demand for better water and he
caused a petition TO be presented 10 the Legs
lature for a charter for the Manhattan Company,
organized ostensibly for the purpose Of supply
ing the city with pure water.
The petitioners declared that they did not know
how much capital the proposed waterworks would
require. and in order not to risk failure through
lack of capital, they asked permission TO raise
S2.OOoOOO. This, they said, would probably be too
much, and in fairness to their stockholders they
proposed to insert provision in the charter that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
sANDwICHING BITES OF LEEK AND NIB
BLES OF CANDY.

About a third of the traffic turns off the main
street to the bazaar, place of jumbled bOoths
and stalls and dens and warehouses, on the bank
Of the town brook. If you buy butcher meat here
and pretty well anything else-you take !.
away in your hands Paper costs money. Chi
nese coolies in blue jeans are selling leeks they
have brought in from the little market gardens
outside the walls of Mamachn The leek is
almost the only green stuff being vended. 4
couple 81 boys stroll by. taking alternate bites
of leek held in the right fist and candy gripped
in the left
Odd mixtures Of things arc bing sold from
the dusty trays outside the s-csndy and
eartridg cases, eggs and stays horns ieeks and
Bibles. Men saunter up 10 have their pet pipe
bowl fitted to another stem. You select your
pierced rod and the boothkeeper saws it OFF to
the length you choose.
There specialized baekwaters Of trade. The
paddock sellers. the cart members. Some day
I'm coming out here with a couple OF wagons 70
collect padloeks, just one Of each kind.
Padlocks loom large in the life of nomad roam
Of the wilderness II nation lives in tents
its valuahes and household pretty prettes live in
chests. Here are English and American padloeks,
French aud Russian and German; brass and
cleaning steel, dull wrought iron and frsil en-
ameled who knows what The Mongol has the
prefers q great big steel lock. glance at which
is enough to dishcsrten burglar, when he can
afford to patronize European wares. There are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
FROM VILLAGE TO CITY UNDER RUssIAS
IMPETUS

OF recent years Russia has been developing
this little outpost Of empire. Twenty years $50
II WAS village. Standard works on the Russian
Far East describe IL as a village. Consequently
IL was a surprise to find il city. small city,
but bigger and buster than many American burgs
LAYING claim to this dignity
An additional impetus has been given Of late
By the breaking loose of Outer Mongolia from
Chinese rule The new republic of Outer Mon
goHa has sought the sheltering wing of Russia
The Russian Consul at Urga is practically viceroy
Of the country Russian military instructors are
drilling the nomsd herdsmen who compose her
Guerilla army Russian trade is usurping the
placc hitherto held by the Chinese. The long
promised branch railway from the Trans-Slberan
70 Picking is coming soon, and Kiakhta viii be on
the line Of route.
This Siberian frontier post consists Of two
towns three miles apart, but their suburbs fusing
into one. In narrow, steep sided valley tha'
cleaves two sinking spurs Of the sandy mountain
70 the north is Troitskosaysk, the residential and
retail trading quarter Up on the hillocks swarm
log cottages Down in the valley fringing
sandy brook that sparkles down from the noun
taips. are the houses Of the welEto-do, and
wclter Of schools and administrative buildings,
churches and shops The churches and public
buildings are walled with whitewashed stone or
cement and rooted with red pale sea green
tinpIate. Houses are massyely built Of huge logs,
aanked bv spacious stocksded courtyards on 70
which give the doors. Elaborate carvings cover
the caves and shutters, and pretcntious carved
archway tops the gates Of the yard Outside the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

An ideslist is college boy who believes -
bathing skirt contains an angel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
THEN ACROSS THE BRIDGE TO KAKHrAs
MARTS.

Half mile on you cross bridge over the br's'
and find yourself in Kiakhts, where the Sieenr
merchants hoard their imports and transact tS'4
business. Large painted and earyen log eottsee
in their pslisaded yards, many Of them dating esc
more than century, line the ayenued road y
little park, denseiy wooded with lsrches sh'
birches. Limewashed administration buildings :
silyer-domed church on hllock. A few ysfe
further on and all unsuspeeting, you have coz
to the frontier A black and white sentry box
your left and your right Ahead strip Of sess
lily grassed sand, couple of stones throws WIG
this 10 the famous Kiakhts neutral belt
Over yonder is the long, low line Of tiled ~
csrven roofs of Maimschin, with upturned gss'>,
which squat dragons and boyle dogs and sns'''
little diyvles that neither beast nor nss
Cross the divide and you pass two yellow sus'
banners and gsudily frescoed evil spirit sefrs'
Then you step through a massive wooden dsf
way into another word-into China. But tbsk q
the economically minded Mr.. Kiplipg USED 70
mark with such brazen frequency, before p
dreamed of Nobel prizes and dollar word,~
is another story.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
BOND OF MISERY WITH EVEN INANIMATE
THINGS.

Il is city that has been thoroughly shaken
IN before IL arrived. Fresh-or, rather, deadly
tired from the bliss Of journcying for days in
springess. cushionless carts, at smart trot over
a rough track with dubious interludes of doing
nights away on the floor OF drafty log huts), !
find it oddly interesting to stare at every man
and woman and pot and pan and chair and table
and grand piano, and realize that he, she or 1t,
too has had to come hither in that abominable
way. I sympathize with them all. There is a
bond between US. forgive the grand piano ITS
fla. notes. marvel only that it has any song
left i'm IT, As for panes of glass, they are
miracles,
Before the Western world knew anything OF
the Chinese Empire but Marco Polo's diary, be-
fore the British and Dutch and Portuguese mer-
chants began to send ships up into the China
Seas and the Jesuit fathers came out from Paris
to Pekng cumbrous caravan embassies were
crawling TO and fro through the steppes and
forests and mountains Of Siberia and the Mon
colian desert Of Cobb. between the Cars Of
Nuscovy and the Emperors of Cathay. The vent
uresomc Russian merchants began to follow IN
their train. After a while it was found more adj
yantageous for Muscovite and Chinese to meet
north OF the Gcbi. Finally in 1927, Imperial
commissioners from Moscow and Peking met a;
Kiakhta and signed a treaty that formally cog
nized the spot as the frontier Of the two empires
and the clearing horse for the produce Of north
ern Occident and Orient A 240-yard strip Of
neutral territory was marked out and at each
side a slobode or stockade cantonment was built
Between the two forts rose pair Of wooden
columns. the frontier marks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02

lined with scarlet silk. As for the uniform with
in-oh la-la! The pity of it is that along with
these refulgences his manners and customs are
often vile For instance: ] breakfasted few
weeks ago in the restaurant OF a station on the
Trans-Siberian at the same table as a general
a major general. lie t Id the walters about ave
dropped the vittles they were bearing TO humoie
mortals-to bring him coffee and bread ana
butter your exceliency? 2" NO!
"Ha! like this Spartan dietary in high
places" remarked to myself But alas! He
fsbed a battered old 'bacey tin out of his majes-
tic breeches pocket and opened tit was MS
butter However, was relieved to hear him or
der SPOON and subsequently TO hear him eat 1t
with that spoon He might have used his fingers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
Kiakhta Has Sprung Up
Like Magic, to Tribune
Tourists Amazement.
BY BASSETT DIGBY.


a. clocks not the standardized stuff
that has subsidized prOsaically into our
children's school books, but the gcOg
rapby Of remote outpOsts Of empire, Of the spots
you can't do" with Bsedeker or a check to
tourist agency.
Some wsnderer visits these places and brings
back tdings OF them that, widely circulated in
newspaper or book magazine, FIX certain pict-
ure in the minds eye OF the world. few years
pass, snd often an entirely altered scene awaits
the painting.
Here is case in point, have just found IL
after jolting through the mountains and forests
OF Southeastern Siberia, from Nerknie Odinsk.
4 city has sprung up at the Russian gateway
to Mongolis. A city telephones, tagged pave
ments BARRIERS with waXcn ladies' heads IN the
windows. brewcries, automobiles, movies showing
NitSgraph films
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
BROUGHT MANIFOLD WARES THITHER FROM
FAR PLACES.

& To Kiakhta the merchants from Museovy
Wrought bales Of cloth and tin mirrors brass
ware and iron ware, sprinkling of most OF the
manufactured goods Of Europe; and, surrept-
tiously. quantities Of furs. the export OF wh'ch
was strictly prohibited. The Chinese brought
silks and damasks, satins and dressed leather'
gauzes and crepes gold thread and velvet toose-
co and porcelain, tea and ginger crystaIllzeo
orange peel and aniseed, pipes and arthelai "o"-
crs dolls and wooden combs, rice paper DOORS
and cnamclled trinkets. pearls and brandy fans
aud rornor An official sent by the Department
for Foreign Affairs at Picking, in conjunction WIN
ar official from Muscovy decided all disputes
and Incidentally they were kept pretty busy,
for tho Chinese we're much smarter lot than the
Russians.
So great drain on the small quantity Of cur
,c,cv then sAoat in Siberia the outgo o.
co.rs ~ Kiakhta that soon ukase forbade the
.ir,, NJ money in these transactions. mat
d,l not bother the traders. They tossed their
cold money into melting pots and cast II IN the
form Of candlesticks. idols, knife handles ana
what not and traded these with the Chinese.
The imperial ukasc ordered barter. Well and
good. This was barter
soon the trade in tea became by far the most
important Seventy years ago practically all the
tea consumed in Europe and Eastern America
came from Kiakhta caravan after caravan OF
chests toiliing across Siberia from the northern
frontier Of China. Since then Kiskhta has re-
eeived-aud survived-two SCATTERING blows. The
treaty ports Of China we're thrown open sixty
ve.rs ago to international trade. The Trans
siberian Railway came 10 link Russia with Man
eh,,ria. and Manchuria linked herself similarly
with Picking, and Peking with the south. But
great trade is still done in other wares, mostly
hides and cattle and grain from Mongolia, and
GOOD deal Of tea still comes through
FROM VILLAGE TO CITY UNDER RUSSIAS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-02
CARAVANS WITH MEEK HORSES OR Oh
STREPEROUS OXEN.

BESIDES the ordinary traffic of busy COM
n,erciaI and garrison town there are the cara
vans. long professions Of cumbersome little two
wheeled carts. eternally coming and going. With
4 horse caravan you need only have driver to
everv eight or ten carts; the rest jog along with
out urging The oxen are revolutionary They
want 10 cast off the tyrants' yoke. They have to
be tied the head of each to the tailboard OF the
cart ahead Convoymen have 70 trudge back and
forth along the line, cursng catastrophe curses
and cracking their whips. A Monaghan draft OK
never suffers from ribs humanitarlans,
cheek that gale Of applause lie suffers from
battered nose, Clipped teeth, pulped lips and
blinded eyes 1t is not pretty sight, the APP
plication of physical suasion to caravan OK
but by the beard Of the Prophet! it gets results.
Now a couple of Boorist tarantasses rattle past
driven by hat-faced almondeyed men in blue
quilted lampshade hats, topped with crimson
tasscl. Now a gathering gun carriage
knot Of bronzed Mongols, in robes of burned
red homespun. wearing upturned peaked hats
that look like women's fur toques of the SOS,
with ridged peak of cloth at the summit, red
and yellow ribbons futtering skttishly from the
back gailop up the hill from the frontier to take
a glimpse at the new world of which they have
heard such strange in the distant fast
nesses of unknown Asia More bullock carts,
high piled with hides. The thud of approaching
hoofs; here comes the military governor Of the
town dashing along in a carriage drawn by three
high steppers abreast, mounted soldier escort
riding around him.
Round a corner, at a swift jog trot, SLOUGH four
camels. Probably you've never seen camel
hurry They run in the unsteady, pot-wolloping
manner of puppy that has just found its feet.
These Monaghan csmels, who know what hard
work is, have lost that supercious pass along
to the monkey hoUse and be damned to you!"
expression of the bean fed lotus eaters at the
Bronx Gardens.
The evening world., 1914-08-21

dance anything but the plain. de-
cent dances. think there would
be a far greater number Of good.
sincere young men and women
and 20 many more HAPPY mar
riagcs.
/ wonder n the ssnnbls. up
right young man prefers the
stylish" tango" Il always want
20 have . good time" mis- 70
the plain, sweet. modest, home-
Ike girl whom II comes to o mat
tor Of settling down and getting
married. I doubt Il.
Granting that the pajority Of
New York young mon are prone
70 be moro attracted to the
stylish" ooQustts. I'm almost
The evening world., 1914-08-21

BY Vic

positive that IN most cases this
attraction = nothing but . pass.
ing fancy. And granting that
quito . number Of marriages re-
suit from this Attraction" an
inclined b believe that most Of
these marriages turn eut 70 b
unhappy onee-soms turn out In
divorces.
IT'S high time shs respectable
girl woke up. Many . decent
young man would be only too
glad to got married-he II waiting
for the plain, sweet, modest, homo.
Nike s4ri to appear. AN AID.
AIRER OF THE MODEST,
HOME-LIKH GIRL.
The evening world., 1914-08-21

srs. nor DO they make up their
faces. "Watchful walters" call
'em. They have been keeping
company for from three to eight
years with their respective gem
usmAn friends. and when they are
out with these champion time
wastsrs" and . doll" passes by.
their companions never fail to
comment on her a. "some blonde"
10.
II n any wonder girls paint and
fix up7 The simple stun doesn't
seem TO get you anything but In
difference and waiting. There's
one man out q . hundred that
prefers Mics simplicity to an imi-
tatiou Vampire. Men won't admit
Il, but who gets the most atten-
tion and the most good times7
Why. the girl that makes every
body look around after her and
the other follows Jealous. 80
It's the New York men them.
ssevps ~ havs SAaASsd ~
The evening world., 1914-08-21
late 70 win anything but Q eonse.
lation nrixS-or huah md

late 10 win anything but Q eonse.
lation prixs-or husband.
Naturally these observations viii
have no effect upon the born beauty.
The law of compensation usually
makes her something Of q fool and .
good deal OF an egoist. But I am
thinking Of that much moro repre-
sentative young woman who COM
bines reasonable personal attractive
ness with sterling qualities of mind
and heart. She jeopardizes all these
natural advantages when she ap.
pears with tho face OF badly
painted wax doll and the costume OF
demi- mondaine. II she once
glim psed the humdrum destiny usu-
ally awaiting real loneliness. she
might end her crudeiy futile tmita-
ton Of II.
DEFENSE OF THE ARTIFICIAL
GIRL.
Dear Madam: know PERSONAL
ly four pretty girls. or rather
ve0eA w ~ ~ aAsAy leGs