Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-02-05
GOTHAM s NEW AMUSEMENT
Study of Old Clothes by Society
May Result in New Styles.
Gotham Interested in NOhnmmcd0n In
vasion-Fifty Million Dollar Check
In Hume wnII street TRANSACT
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New York's society women have found
new amusement. 1t has been said by
people who ought to know, that New
Works society women had tried every
amusement that there was in the world,
and so the discovery of a new one is
something If an event. This time at any
rate, there is no question about It's new
ness. New Yorks society women are
studying clothes. OF course, they know
more or less about clothes already. 1t
might seem at first glance as If the only
thing In this field would be for them to
start teaching other people about clothes.
The point is, though, that these are his
torical clothes, and the study is in the
history of custume in America. In con-
nection with the new interest in antique
fashions a Museum of style" has been
opened in the Colony club the most ia
shionable womens club In town. The col
lection includes dresses, mems clothes,
and different articles of costume, dating
all the way back to ITO. Every article
in the exhibit was loaned by a club men,
Der and almost every one figured in its
day in the highest high society" that
America boosted. One magnificent bro
cade gown was worn in l77f by Mrs.
Avery, a daughter OF Governor Gushing
of Massachusetts,. Mrs. John Aston loan
ed the exhibitors a gorgeous court suit
of blue and scarlet velvet, worn by Ed
ward Willing at the French court when he
was ambassador in 1890 These are only
a few. Wedding dresses worn at Astor
and Noyes and Duryea Weddings Of the
first half of the 10Th century are plentI-
full.
About 100000 strangers arrive in New
York every week, according to the latest
figures. and the chances are that most
of them expect to startle the town be-
fore they get out-at any rate, that is
what the Gothamlte is tempted to be-
lieve after he has seen a few Of them In
action. There was quiet, round-faced
man who come in on one Of the liners
the other day who has not promised any
thing startling, but who for once has
come to the city with something to say
| that Is worth saving, and h" Is getting n
respectful hearing and arousing not
| little public interest He is Professor
Snouck Hurgrange of the University of
! LeYden in Holland, and his mission Is
to explain what has happened to the
Mohammedan religion and it's followers,
and what is going to happen to it, For
! II years he was special adviser to the
| government of the Dutch East Indies in
matters pertaining to Mohammedanism-
there are 35,0QQO00 Moslems under the
| Dutch flag. For seven years he has been
professor of Arabic and Slavic languages
at Leyden. He is one of the few living
men who have entered the forbidden
sacred city of Mecca, where he went dis
guised as a Mohammedan pilgrim. Even
the dogs outside the city, who are said
to know a true believer by smell, let
him pass unchallenged The professor
message is in brief, that the Moham-
medans throughout the world are swiftly
assimilating western ideas Just as ia
pan. China and India have been doing.
THE &c raj Mohammedan awakening
has hardly been heard of in the western
nations, and Dr. Hurgrange is the first
to announce it to the new world.
A single check for $5i099, go was paid
over to the State controller the other day
for an issue OF bonds which had been
sold as a whole to a big Wall Street
banking syndicate. Wall Street has seen
50 many huge transactions of the sort
that the incident passed over as part
of the days routine and nobody paid very
much attention to it. That makes the
figures even more striking as an instance
of what Wall Streets days work is Oft
en- like. 1t took the syndicate just two
hours to sell the bonds on the floor OF
the stock exchange and in that time
the bankers made Il profit of S59S,23o.
That is si,3Sj minute, more than s7S a
second, If the payment had been made
in gold, and the money had been only
one day in getting from New York to
Albany, the single days interest on s54,-
G99,27o figured at eight per cent, which
is low rate for large a sum- would
have amounted to S1l ,904 81. AS the pay
ment was by check, the loss of interest
was avoided and the syndicate saved
nearly $4,000,
Under the new tariff law II now ap.
pears that New York will rapidly be.
come a great meat distributing center
and it is likely to supplant Chicago as
the food supply source of the country
D according to an expert who had just ar
rived here from New Zealand New Tea
land meat companies are planning al
D once to rush large quantities OF theii
mutton, lamb and beef into the United
States by way OF New York, and the In,
vasion has already begun Australia and
D Argentina, the two other world source:
OF meat. will also ship to this port r
rapidly increasing quantities. the New
Zealander predicts, Meantime, he says
y the production of beef at home will con
tnue to shrink, or at least remain sta
; tOnary, while our population will &c
ahead by leaps and bounds New Yorl
will hold it's place as the center of al
. this import trade because this port alone
} has the outward bound freight with which
! to fill the meat bearing ships on theil
! return journey, o. is the return cargo
: which is usually the deciding factor in ;
' question Of ocean TRANSFORMATION.
Fifty men and boys who wanted t.
= get rid of the cigarette habit lined up il
|, "A courtroom across the river in Hobokel
y the other day and had the curse put on
" under the direction of the court officers
n 1.-THE curse" which was to cure then
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