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ment inscribed with his name hlFth anu
death date, with similar recognition to MS
wife ..,s a.,
The memorial To James a. Garheio a.
Cleveland. Ohio. is one OF the mos 81 uiii -
structures in the entire list. In iorm y IS
a round stone tower. 1855 feet high with
historical friezes illuminated WINDOWS
and decorative marble mosalcs, aaol nm
it's walls 1t contains two statues, repre-
sentinK War and Peace.
The remains Of Garfield are placed IN a
metal casket in a crypt, above which. III
a hall surrounded by granite coiuiiihs'
:, noble STATUE of him The memorial was
built from contributions from the Anleii-
,an neople and was dedicated IN le'"
statue Of Garfield may be round III
Washington. 1t was erected by the AInas nm
of the Cumberland al cost oi "o''e'"'
The dedication exercises IN ioo' a.. VIZ IN ~
nressiye for the distinguished guests III
clnded Phil Sheridan, sherman, hose
Grams and President Cleveland ana MS
cabinet A statue of Garfield stands III
Golden Gate Park. San FRANCISCO.
The memory OF Shestef =.
nerpetuated by a bronze memorial sta.ue
erected TO him in Madison Square faiH.
<aw York Both his grave and tha' oi
BENJAMIN Harrison are marked win SIN
pie monuments -.n, a..
of all the PreslueAtS, " litinii'
,<inIex has been most sing gularly ilnmoi-
taIized with memorials. More monu
ments have been erected to him than
to anv other man in like space OF time
in the history Of the world. When the
shot rang around the world September u:
1910, people We're struch with awe anu
horror at the dastardly deed, but
their feelings We're mingled Win
a touch of personal sorrow sun
scriptions for memorials to him DID mol
have to be urged. money was not begged
III poured from every source. WITHIN
A week. the city of Toledo raised Sll.ooo
and upon the first anniversary of his
death unveiled the first monument 10
him.
The memorial in Canton claims pfece-
dence in the long list OF those that FOL
lowed. It is not merely tomb, 1t IS
temple meant to arouse Inspiration as
well as memory. 1t is seventy-two feet
in diameter built of pink granite. with
= ma rble exterior. 1t is severely plain
and stands upon an >eminence known as
Monument HILL seventy five feet above
the surrounding level. Among its deco
ratiye features is sculptured portrait
of Mckinley.
Toledos monument is bronze statue
of Mckinley mounted upon a granite
base in which is roll deposited with
the names of 21.00o contributors. 1t
stands in front of the courthouse and
is the work of Albert Weinert who was
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nave been competing for the award OF
The contract.
\ bust by Volh taken from a mask
made after Tyler's death. is in the state
library OF Virginia.
James X Polk's tomb and monument
sre located on tie ssouEGs OF the capito!
Al Nashville Tenn. The monument is of
limestone designed by William Strich-
land uho was also architect of the CAPT
rol IL is twelve feet square and high,
M the Grecian por!c style The oof is
supported By toar Doric columns, rec
ord OF his life and deeds appears upon the
stone tablet in the center.
Zachary TAYLOR Tombstone at Frank
fort. near Louisville, OiIio - his only
memorial II IS an elaborate one Of graz
.Iaritr sG.alOonted By .'e-si@ed statue
rom Itsiy. The whole is ABOUT forty feet
lsh II wss completed jul. I. 1855. anu
EgeileG tie follow! !i!g September
NIillard FillA.ores only memorial "as
$50 placed upon his grav~ AZ Buffalo. Il
is OF highly polished Scotch granite. twen.
ry-two feet high. with the single word
Fillmore" in raised letters OF its side
The state Of New Hampshire at the last
session of its legislature votec $1,000 to
procure statue Of President Frankln
Pierce. The committee appointed by the
governor and council finally selected A.
sustus Lukeman OF New foFk as seHip
Go.. lie made model and IS now work
ing on the large statue in elay. II IS eN-
nected 10 have /; completed in bronze by
next October. and It Will be placed IN the
statehouse yard at Concord, y. ii.
At present .he only monument which
exists to President Pierce is over MS
grave In the same city. II is OF Italian
marble elaborately wrought. inscribed
with his birth and death dates
James Buchanan's remains res; beneath
a simple monumental single block OF
italisn marble. with branch OF oar
leaves and acorns cut in the cap-"hich
records only the date of bis birth and
death. with the tact that he was the nf-
zenith President Of the United states.
Memorials 20 Abraham Lincoln aie
eston N-ol.; - NOW "A nrn-Tess upoH
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over the world now. BY ingenious order
numbers they show AT n glance the race,
th,. horse and how many betting unities
have been sold on that horse up to the
sale Of the ticket =.....
Suppose the booths are ready for q
race Against the wall. behind the coun-
ter they pack Il block of tickets for each
horse that will run. The larger number
on each exposed ticket shows how many
tickets have been sold that horse. As
they are always the same unity-two-
dollar booths, fourdolar booths, ten
dollar booths. etc-you can get a vague
idea of what any horse will pay. lima gine
the horse has won. and then divide up the
totals of the losers among many as
have bet on him. If the mass Of booths
have sold in the same proportions the
idea will be correct Often they don't.
Often. there is a run on a horse. in Ger
tain booths, at the last moment which
nodifes all calculations
They pay off in five minutes. Runners
take the totals from each booth TO the
central. The average is rapidly calcu-
lated, and the price goes back imme
diately to each paying booth.
Rich and poor alike bank the sys
tenn Mingled with delicious uncertainty.
there is feeling that great averages
cannot tell lies or manipulate.
In the first year, the mutual betting
held S2o,00OOO0 in stakes. NJ. Oller. whose
commission was reduced to per cent.
pocketed $1G0.u0o. less what he had to
give back to the race societies. But they
wanted his system and were tender with
him
And, once again. il was too good, Poor
NJ. Oller! He who built the Moulin Rouge,
the Jardin de Paris Casino Olympia and
the Rochechouart swimming baths, al
ways erred by making too great sue
cess. Three Years later the French gov
ernment said to NJ. Oller: We compli-
ment you. Your system works beauti-
fully. We authorize all race societies to
use it-and shall administer il ourselves
They took it away from him.
In word. the French state adopted
mutual betting, on condition that itself
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pean countries say nothing of its
morality In the name of prosperity. the
government purified the races by becoul-
ing stakeholder.
refer. Of course, To The mutual bet
ting. which most European governments
administer Joseph oller began by in
venting the ''totalizer.' 1t was d great
booth hauled to the race track. havin.:
numerous dals TO indicate the number of
simple dollar bets put on each horse.
When the race was run they ''tutaliZed'
the dollar bets on all losers and divided
them up among the dollar bets on the
winners, less - per cent for NJ. Oilers
pocket.
NJ Oilers success was so vast that he
lost his head When he set up his first of
all poolrooms in the full boulevard il was
too much.
We can't have public gambling in
nlid-Paris. was the general sentiment
For here was gambling merely for gam
oling-and not as an incentive to attend
the races and make show ground for
fashion and commerce. They declared NJ
Oilers plant game OF chance.
Following on this. came the short reign
OF the bookmakers and the welching
scandals which brought about the Cob
let circular Al one sWoop all betting
was prohibited. / have mentioned how
the attendance fell off and Paris com
merce. joining with the agricultural So
cieties and racing interests. forced the
government to re-establish betting.
The government called in NJ. Oller. Poor
NJ Oller. He brought them still greater
invention. called the counting tickets.
yet a good thing for him today. because
the privilege of printing them is all that
he has left.
With the counting tickets. mutual bet
ting could expand to the needs Of Paris
ian democracy. 1t has the infnity of
numbers A hundred booths can hand out
numbered tickets as fast as the money
comes in-and to double the business, you
merely double the booths.
''Pari means bet paris -mutue!s.
mutual bets. The tickets are used all
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A IRAGIc, LOSER

Just the date. sum. horses name and
race" or place If you win. the same
waiter will very honestly hand you the
governmental mutual betting price. The
rings find ii good business to pay Paris
mutuals prices-they earn per cent, au-
tomatically.
How tax such bookmakers? \ secret
service army wars determination on
them-yet they thrive The people OF
Paris are with them. They permit the
masses to gamble at government prices,
without the trouble, expense and loss Of
time in going to the race track.
Which, of course. is just what the gov
ernment wants to prohibit.
Bet on the track!' they say. but only
on the track They want everybody s
presence.
or course. it is vast success. On
Grand PriN day, the total Iongchamps
public runs to half million. Every race
day of the year, twenty. forty. sixty.
eighty thousand persons pay their 40
cents entrance to the field. 81 to the
tribunes or 81 or 81 to the fiowery pad
dock" And when Lonschamps closes, it
is Auteuil. chantilly. St Ouen. Nincennes,
st. Cloud. Maisons Enghien Or lie Trem-
blay. They are racing round Paris all the
year except midwinter.
To see the horses run" Think YOU
To see the new STYLES? Magnificent. as
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personally acquainted with the martyred
President.
Six months prior 10 the unveiling OF
the Toledo monument Muskegon, Mich.
gave the order for a Mckinley memorial,
1t is in the forth of an eXedra. from the
center Of which rises Mckinney hgure
in bronze.
Closely following, Adams, Mass, erect
ed, in bronze. heroic sized psrtrait
by Augustus Lukeman. Its granite pedes-
tai contains tablets bearing some OF
the Presidents famous speeches.
Aat San Jose and San Francisco gifts OF
statues of Mckinley have been made 10
these cities Springfield has beautifully
modelled monument of a woman repre-
senting Fame reaching forth a palm leaf
10 a bust of Mckinley which surmounts
a central pedestal Columbus will also
have a Mckinley memorial. I'll. A. Mac
Neil is now AT work upon models for Two
groups to be executed in bronze. to adorn
opposite ends of an eNedra. from the
center of which will rise a statue.
Philadelphia's memorial is IN the form
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sS..0o0.oOo bet in governmental booths.
principally OH nine Partisan race tracks.
whose total was. in round figures, S62
100000. Other French cities and resorts
did the balance.
Eight per cent on Ss5no.otn makes
SO. 10000 profits To the French state
and from mutual betting only. Germany
proposes to raise half Of her six millions
by taxing booknakers.
Tho bookmakers in France escape tax
alton. After the great shake-up, the
more honorable among them formed the
club which still exists. No money passes
on the track The bookmakers just
lounge at ease. accepting bets by mods
and fingers from the rich gamblers whom
they can trust. At night they all meet
at the club and settle. They assimi-
lated to private gentlemen.
The. greater mass are clandestine, make
no books and do not go near the races
This is why they are untaNable. In al
most any cafe you can place a bet II
waiter knows YOU He will call con-
frere who is agent for one OF dozen
rich bookmaking rings. Taking your
money. the waiter-agent viii write you
a ticket on sheet of plain white paper
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Nv EiR was berI n
so brilliant
Yet Germany is
Gisquieted
Much Of this br.i-
liant public life IS
due to racing: Oh
the ether hand. too
many citizens arc
learning to bet,
Il is tine eter;Ie
dilemma a OF E.ti'u
pean states. who
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tonishing. amusing. rich and often laugh
able as is the spectacle. the real attrao-
ton Is betting-betting in an atmosphere
Of optimism and excitement amid vast
thrones all agos. with rumors. tips and
fiurries. in a setting OF pure beauty.
Whare do they get their money to bet
with? Here is the continual mystery to
the present writer. It is not SO niue
the poor clerk who goes wrong. but tho
good father and dear. patient mother
who go out and lose the rent money
know retired general who is WASTING
his daughters marriage portions on pre-
text Of increasing them.
| know Paris business man who's.
firm is making money. His partners
value him and seek 10 vcan HIM from
the races. He saws that his health re-
auires him 70 take air il also make.
him win lose so" Of an afternoon
| know Young woman Who made
success drcssmaller Hackers Installed
her in a Rue rronchet lease. with cuttcf
ten hands and two manneuuins She used
to pay dividends Now she finds il mes
essary to follow her manneduins to th,
races. when theN show the gowns ~
She meets lady customers. who chat WITH
her and introduce her TO others Vet is
it not queer" She has stopped rs,ine
dividends.
know young bourgeois couple y 10
live Handsomely the income or stock
and bonds which their parents gave them
when the married. She wanted TO
the STYLES at the races and row they
have broken into their capital,
know know N-listen. The daily ma
pers have their race service. indicatrr
winners. with reasoned chats Of past re-
IF ,f taiai
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OF heroic statue mounted on a stanfts
pedestal at the foot of which s Srour
enbodying the idea of pro patiia. the
mother figure instructng child in the
principles of patriotism. pointing TO the
figure above as an example.
Buffalo has commemorated the saddest
event in the history Of the city with an
architectural monument erected at =
cost of 100000. 1t is an obeiisk OF Yer
mont marble resting upon series o.
broad steplike approaches. At the base Of
the shaft rest four lions also of Vermont
marble. executed by 4. Phmister Proc
tor, one OF the country's foremost ami
NAL sculptoTs.
In Mckinley Park Chicago. is a statue
of Mckinley. The park is also equipped
with a natatorium. built as a memorial
Grover Cleveland. the last of our Pres
dents to die. has not been memor:alized
IN bronze or marble With the American
penchant for such demonstration so wei
developed. it is but q matter of time be
fore the country will be hearing of a new
Cleveland memorial.
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ENGLISH BRIDAL COUPLE
AT THE RACES

| per cent. And per cent goes to the
race societies which produce the money
and by their embellishments and attrac-
tions make a brilliant Paris season. Also.
they have to settle with NJ. Oller-pay
him for printing those tickets!
Last year the profits were s per cent on
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Germany Plans to
Raise Six Million Dol
lars This Year From
Her Race Track Gam
blers VIII Tax the
Bookmakers French
State Holds Eighty
Five Million Dollar
Stakes = The Failure
to Stop Gambling in
France-Bleeding the
Gamblers H eilig
Tells What the Horse
Races Mean TO Paris.
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hold and distribute the stakes ana pocket
the profits!
The idea is that such great profits, from
such dubious sources. are justified only
by worthy uses. The rake-off is S per
cent Charity gets per cent. Hygiene
gets ! per cent. Agricultural prizes get
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Andrew loEnsons $ grave at Gfeenville
Tenn. is marked by a marble piinth, his
orly memorial. X records the time of
his birth and death. with the fact that
lie was the seventeenth President of the
United States.
The next name upon the presidential
list is that of Ulysses 5. Grant. His ne
moria.s are interesting because they rep
resent the zenith of artistic endeaNof
along this line of design. The Grant tomb
on Riverside drive. New York. IS huge
and solid mausoleum OF white granite.
built az a cost of SG0D0OO 1t consists OF
a lower story in Doric style, ninety feet
square. surfnounted by a cupola, pofile
by Ionic columns. It's total height Is 1oo
feet. The arrangement OF the interior IS
analogous to that of Napoleon tomb at
the Hote! des Invalides, Paris.
The memorial being erected in Washing
ton az the foot of the Capitol is a splendid
bit of sculpture and design. Its cost viii
be $3.50 600 The completed work consists
Of a ma role superstructure. the setting OF
four bronze lions surrounding pedestal
on which will rest a bronze equestrian
statue of Gen. Grant Either end OF the
platform will re fianked ny two large
groups representing the cavalry and ar
tllery.
In Lincoln Park. Chicago. is the Reoisso
statue OF Grant: the Partridge statue
stands before the Union League Club in
Brooklyn; Leavenworth, Kan. once his
home, and Golden Gate Park, San Fran
cisco. also have statues of the famous
soldier President.
At Fremont. Ohio. the grave of Huthsr-
ford s. HAYES is marked by a plain monu-
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seek brilliant pablir life for thei,
cities ana successful seasons tor then
resorts
ST.. this year. Germany taNes ho".
makers.
They hope 10 bleed betting thusly for
100000 extra revenue PEI ear in
Berlin alone there are 200 professional
bookmskers VINO offer odds. accept
stakes and make bets with the public. In
all German they number 6e5o. dong
business with some 21p,G0 citizens who
play the races in t1i cities snd towns Of
the empire
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Nome's Name.

OF all the queer Incidents attendant
- upon the christening of nameless
Capes. rivers and other natural fea
turee in territory newly acquired by
Uncle Sam. the most amusing is that
connected with the naming of Nome.
When unnamed natural features are
10 be incorporated in the official maps
of the government the matter IS re
ferred TO the Secretary Of the depart
ment which embraces the coast anu
geodetic survey. Uncle Sans ofticia
map-makers. When the rush TO Alaska
came upon the heels of the discover.
of gold in the klondyke placers in the
early nineties there was q hurry up cal
from every fortune hunter in that
frozen land for official maps; without
these no prospector could make =.
accurate or valid location Of . mine.
Accordingly the Secretary OF the In
terror, whose department at that time
embraced the cbast and geodetic sur
vey. had that service make survey OF
the gold bearing districts. From these
survey notes the craftsman in the
service at Washington made his hrst
rough map and, according TO the prae-
tice, submitted il to the Secretary for
the giving of names to natural Yea
lures hitherto without official desigra-
tion. The then Secretary duly labeled
the map to the craftsman that he
might make from it the complete. OH
cial map.
At this juncture the craftsman found
that the Secretary had failed to give
a name to q prominent cape juttins
out into Bering sea. Not wishing to
delay the work by returning the map
to that official, the draftman merely
wrote with lead pencil! the word
Name" opposite this cape on the COM
pleted map, meaning to call the Secre-
tary' attention to the omission before
IT was sent to the engravers.
Again the Secretary overlooked it.
however. When the map ca me into the
engravers hands that gentlemaa. loo
ing at the dim lead pencil Writin@.
mistook the "a for 20" and. taxi
ing the word Nome to be the name
of the cape. thus engraved it on the
map.
Soon after gold was discovered ~
the vicinity of the cape and a pros
porous camp sprung up there. taking
its name from the observation-disclosures
Nome City.
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>pee,,l Correspondence OF Tpe >,at.
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formidable 5rcfeass % betting II
explains the new tax and the .'Niraofo;-
nary sum alleged 10 be expected from r.
The bookmakers. OF course. Will get eac :
their s3.ono.na from the betting pu6lic-
who will bet less with them. proba bly,, :
their odds become less tempting. Ger-
many is willing, even If she gets less
taxes from the hookmskeys. She desires
TO drive the public from them senti! the
IRON hand in the velvet glove. The more
so, as the more hardened public Will go
and bet more with the government own
paris-mutuels on the track. from which.
in 1918. the empire took a rake-off Of
S3,isSOeo for its trouble in supervising
them.
So Germany hopes to realize near
S6mO,000 from bookmakers and mutual
betting: and il less be produced, Germany
will rot care 1t will mean less betting
among small beginners-vast proportion
OF the 100000 estimated by the Pub
I:zstiche Argeiten. Think. S5.roOo rake
or calculated per cent. would maze
he average sports total betting less than
sD per year.
Ge-1sry's action is logical
=. :
z IS proved taat racing without betting
zEaot make a brilliant season. And
s4,.lag .i,Eo-t state Supervision invites
al II. evils which drove racing IRON.
sEer.ce
TIE experience o: France = instructive.
rance r-.sd honestly to crush betting,
rnings we're -ery bad at the time. Com
5inatfcrs Of bookTa.Icrs were owning
i.orses aad deciding winners in advance.
and Joseph Oilsr. the inventor oi mutual
betting had opened a paiatial poolroo.n i'll
-he center Of the boulevard for clerks to
risk their money. Then came the ia
NOUS Goblet circular. which stopped all
betting and pat a Paris season to the
bad
M.re!S spectacular racing coIld not
maintain Itself. The attendance fell off.
The great agricui,lralists protested.
season was dull Wealth. tourists did
not stay. Paris luxury and commerce
mad no triumph in a Grand PriX gone on
strike
Then Paris commerce made its voice
heard. The powerful syndicai chambers
~ dressnl4keFs, millinerS. lingerie. Jew
elers florists. corset-makers, the united
department stores, art dealers, cab COM
pan.es and associated theaters, music
halls cafes. restaurants and hotels, all
spoke with no uncertain voice
Bring back real racing.
rne solution was simple
I; is that OF Germany and most Euro
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inion of the Cnited States. which he
saved.
At Springfield H.. in Oak Ridge ceme-
cry, where rest the remains OF Lincoln, an
elaborate national memorial has been
built at a cost of s20n.o90. The base on
which pretentious obelisk rests is
seventy two feet square. with projections
back and front for catacomb and me-
mortal. The obeiisk itself is eighty-two
feet high. A heroic statue OF Lincoln
rests. to the front upon separate pedes-
tai, in which he is represented as hold
ing the emancipation proclamation.
Washington boasts of two statues 10
Lincon-one placed in Lincoln Park,
was paid for from subscriptions from
freed negroes: the other stands upon
high pedestal before the courthouse.
Paramount Park. Philadelphia; Lincoln
and Grant parks. Chicago, and Golden
Gate Park San Francisco, all contain
statues of the beloved President. The
Saint Gaudens statue in Chicago is per-
haps the most wonderful Of all. 1t is
about To be erected in Grant Park. Chi-
cago. Saint Gaudens considered It his
finest work.
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PARIS May : t3li
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surprise. my hand was an well and tho
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services held by the couEregatIun this
sunday. but r' IRE Cordially invited 20
attend the Mhitsundny services a. -.
Luke's. which sunday marks the TWEEN
fy-fifth Anniversary 90 the r@rfurehtp OF
The Rev Or Nottingham All are ala,
invited 20 20 present Ht tho reception 20
be held In the sunday school room At =
=. m. Monday. juno 1et Due notice
viii he given through these columns -
tho time and place whore the regular or
dor of the services Of 81. Matthew g
church Will b held sunday. June 7th.
and thereafter.