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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29
Reasonable Oh
Romance Hence Inns Screeo
the Good and Some of the STORES
he Swap When Talking Shop

walk in Washington Square and stumbled onts
the Triangle shirtwalst factory fire just as the
girls were beginning to jump from the win
dows He has never been able to tell what
pulled him in the direction of Washington
Square that day and enabled him to score
great beat" for his organization
The writer was in ST. Louis in 1896, and his
newspaper sixth sense fairly dragged him to
the weather observatory in the Federal Build
ing Tower, from which he viewed, few min
utes after his arrival the passage through the
city of the most terrific tornado that ever
wrought destruction in the Mississippi River
Valley. Again, in 1906 the writer, obeying an
impulse, changed his plans for hot summer
evening and went to Madison Square Roof
Garden. where he saw Harry Thaw shoot Stan
ford White.
1t will probably be said that these are in
stances of good luck. Nothing of the sort.
The list might be extended to fill columns OF
space.
Oldtimers in the newspaper game along
Park Row croak that the profession is deterio-
rating and that the reporters of to-day are not
AS able and rcsourceful as they were ten or hi
teen or twenty years ago. They forget that
times have changed and that methods OF news
presentation have changed with the times. The
writer ventures the assertion that there are to-
day on the newspapers of this city men more
able than the average run of good men in the
DAYS gone by.
1t is probable that the reporters OF ten years
ago had wider acquantanceships than the aver
age reporter of to-day, but New York has
grown so rapidly that it is impossible in these
times to know and reach, for information pur-
poses, so many men as in the days when the
news centres of the city were concentrated in
few blocks Nevertheless it is safe to say that
Frank O'Malley, Ed. Hill and Tom Hanly, of
THE Sun; Sam Fisher, of The Tribune; Gus
Roeder, Louis Seibold, Joe O'Neill and Her
bert Swope, of The Word'; Willie Willis
and Hamilton Petz of The HERALD; "Dea-
con" Terry Louis Lang and Jim Mcbride, OF
THE American; Baron" Warne and Charlie
Hambridge of The Times; Sam Williams,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

regency He did not even think it worth while
to consider these patents of nobility bearing
the vermilion Aourishes of the court penman
and the seal Of the Oldest empire on earth.
Three months ago he told the Yangtse Gen
eral Feng: Exile rather than empire" A
few days ago, when some subordinate Chinese
officials complained that the Mongolians still
had their princes and dukes and that they felt
Inundated because of the lack Of Chinese
titles, Yuan, the President, remarked What
do they want baubes for-to play with2 Till
such as those are empty things" They are.
There is monarchist movement in China.
1t would be strange indeed if there were not.
The Chinese Republic is not yet four years
old. There times when we hear of mon
archist dangers even III our own democratic
country. Only few days ago President Viii
son was formally warned by so-called peace
organization" that some OF his acts "squinted"
toward monarchy. When the American r.
public was as young as the Chinese Republic
is now the monarchist DOGGY was very real
indeed Now we don't fear it at all Neither
need China fear it.
China knows full we'll the source and he
real weakness of the Chinese monarchist move
ment China knows full we'll til, source and
the real strength Ct the republican movement
The Manchus although well provided for
by their generous successors in power at Pc
king. left a multitude OF unproductive drones
to be displaced or taken care Of by the new
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29
By Martin Green

~ ONE fifteen or sixteen years ago the
& body of pretty girl named Jennie
/ y Bosscheiter, who had been murdered,
was found at the side of road outside
Paterson, N. J. She was a worker in silk
mill, and later developments established that
she had been killed by several young men OF
the town, who were convicted and sentenced
to prison. The fact that they are ALL with
possibly one exception, free to-day has moth
ing to do with this narrative
Among the New York reporters sent to
investigate the crime was Thomas 0. Piper.
By close scrutiny of the shirtwaist worn by
the murdered girl he found on the back marks
establishing to his satisfaction that she had
ridden in a leather upholstered carriage and
that some of the nails or tacks maintaining
the upholstering had communicated rust stains
to the cloth
Rust stains" said Piper to himself, would
most probably come from a generally used
and old public hack"
For two days Piper hunted up every public
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

papers crowned Yuan by anticipation. Why3
Monarchsts themselves, they think monarchy.
On no other basis could they interpret the
safeguards for the imperial Manchu infant
insisted upon and secured from the revolution
aries by Yuan, saving as indicative that Yuan,
a former servant of the Manchus, meant to
preserve the shadow of the dragon throne
until the time should be ripe for him to ascend
it as the first OF new line of sons OF Heaven.
1T is the logical thing" they told us. Also
they told US in the same breath that Yuan's
reckless financial policy" was 'plunging China
into bankruptcy"
Minister Paul S. Rensch and other well in
formed American students Of Chinese cond-
tons have recently testified as to the fact that
China's financial position has never been so
satisfactory as it is now. There is ample room
for improvement of course, but in fairness to
President Yuan it should be recalled what
legacy of muddle and Encouragement he re-
ceived from the inept Manchus and the mex
perienced officials OF the Marking Congress.
The important thing for us TO know is that the
authors OF the financial bankruptcy" scare
have been proved very poor prophets. l think
those who are crediting Yuan with selfish
ambitions, the desire to add an empty title to
his present real power, will be proved in sine
just as poor prophets, as misintormed upon
what is actually going on in China.
Thrice during the last days OF the Manchu
empire Yuan Shin X al refused the bride OF a
marQuisate offered by the Manchu council OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

Hsu, who then sat on the dragon throne,
K'ang was called to Picking. K'ang so i'm
pressed the young Emperor that a reform
era was inaugurated But the Empress Dow
ager, Tzu Hsi, put her foot down. The odd
Buddha," as she was affectonatey called by
the Pekngese imprisoned the Emperor and
seized the imperial power, which she had
welded with but slight interruptions from the
death of her imperial husband, Hsien- Feng, in
1861 Kang and his chief lieutenant, LANG
Chih-ch 40, barely escaped with their lives.
That was in 1895
The republican agitation in China did not
really begin until the "Old Buddha" crushed
the reform movement. At first it was prac-
tically confined to Canton and the Province OF
Kwangtung. Accident aided the republicans in
China, as accident invariably aids such move
ments. But even during the thrilling days OF
October-D December, 1911, the Manchus and
monarchists still were supreme in North
China. One man alone stood tetween China
and certain disruption. That man was Yuan
Shin X al.
Yuan, chosen by both parties to bring order
out OF chaos, took the oath as the first repub
lican President of China. CDR. Sun Yat-sen,
it must be remembered, was more Presi-
dent of the Chinese Republic than Carranza
is President of the Mexican Republic, although
he was President OF a republican revolution
that was struggling for a Chinese Republic
and had made an encouraging start9 Yuan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

government. Yuan's first task was the restora-
ton Of order Consequently he had to use and
control many men who have little or no SYM
patty with republican ideas and institutions
To maintain order he has to use an army
many of the most experienced generals of
which army are either secretly or openly pro-
monarchist In civil life there are also officials
who sigh for the peacock feather and the yell
low Jacket. They are useful in their way, but
they belong to era that is dead. 1t is not
so very unnatural that some among them
should seek to turn Yuan'S thoughts to mon
archy-in their own selfish interests. Long
settled ideas, old notions, die hard, and this
was particularly true in old China. But there
is a new China.
This new China was born within our own
time.
Thirty-one years ago, when the China Re-
form Society began its campaign in Canton, it
attracted little or attention in a world not
so crowded with great, epoch-making news as
is our world of fateful to-day. Yet the seed
thus sown by the Cantonese reformers was
destined TO produce the greatest transforma-
ton in the whole history of mankind. The
leader was Kang Yu-wei, a scholar, philoso-
pher, writer OF most unusual powers, above
all a true Chinese patriot. He was not then,
nor is he now, a republican. He believed in
limiting, though not in abolishing, the pre-
negatives OF the throne. Through the friend
ship of the tutor OF the young man Kwang
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29
By Patrick Gallagher.

NONE usually well informed Americans
seem to have made up their minds that
China is about to revert from republic
to monarchy. Others seem to have
formed the impression that it matters little to
China or to the world whether or not China
proclaims restoration of the empire, with
Yuan Shih-Ka al or some Manchu or Chinese
fgurehead to be seated upo: the dragon
throne.
only a prophet or fool prophesies'
Chinese philosopher once said under not alto
eether dissimilar circumstances. OF course,
no one knows absolutely what the future has
in store for China, for America for any ma
ton. Yet, without claiming the gift OF proph-
ecy or without qualifying for the cap and BELLS
those who are most in the confidence OF Chi
nese leaders, conservative progressive or rad
ical will not be inclined to take much stock
in reports of pro-monarchcal agitation at Pc
king. 1t is an old story. as old as the Chinese
Republic itself, which is young for republic
but old for news item.
Three years ago most OF the European news
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29
Keystone There Prefers Exile to EMPIRE

as President of all China, restored order; "
suppressed a dangerous counter revopu'"
with firmness and generosity; he unihed 1nD~
with a rapidity which astounded his mos'
veterate foreign critics. he waged cease's
war on the opium curse, on gambling, '"
grating. Peace and freedom from mh'a''
or local tyranny, particularly from exesss''
taxation, were ushered into being by this "',
Chinese leader. His critics say he SEIZE
practically dctatorial powers. lie hao y,
The choice lay between one-mal rule OF ~
rule Yuan did not hesitate. He gave |n"'
a workable constitution, and now he IS ABRAMS
ing to give China real Parliament
Yuan's strength-the strength OF repuoH'''
China-comes from the sober-headed Cnh'''
commercial classes. How do the Chinese 'OD'
mercial classes regard the present regime
China?
have just been shown a dispatch Nv
Shanghai telling how the Yang-tse merehSA-
in convention assembled voluntarily imP''
upon themselves a substantial tax TO heiP
Picking government defend the soverei1"
terests of China, menaced by Japanese Sss''.
sions. Does that bespeak suspicion a. -.
Yuan's intentions3 Do the two natohAi .
nestle loans recently raised by China in''. "a
a lack of confidence in the government -.
yet have reason to know that the repuO"N-
spirit in China is nowhere more evident ""
among Chna's hard-headed, shrewd' U.s.
cratic commercial classes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

Mr.. Gallagher, director Of the Far East
ey1q Bureau since its incipiency, is expert
III informed as to the spirit Of China. He
Hved IN the Orient ten gears White rep
resentative of leading American and Brit
ish journals, one Of the first Occidentals
TO be taken into the confidence Of the Can
tou ref0rmers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

The editor acquiesces, and presents the
newspaper man as Mr.. Green, "the best
relCrite man IN tOlCn," knows him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

George Fife, Harry Stowe, Jack Raner, Max
Fischel, Lindsay Denison and Bill Ingis, Of
1.-THE Evening World; Tom Thorpe and Mar.
kowitz, of The Evening Journal; Tommy
Kenny and Fred O'Connor, Of The Tele.
gram; Billy Cramer, OF The Globe" and
doc" Adams, Of the City News Association
know about everybody in town that figures in
the ordinary run Of news.
What becomes Of the reporters Well, they
do pretty well, as a general thing. Many 90
to the copy desk or TO editorial positions
Many more forsake the business in answer to
insistent calls for their services in the business
or political world There is something abou,
a newspaper training, with its varied angles
and its all embracing activities, that makes
newspaper men of value in ether spheres d
life.
Aldermanic President McAneny was once a
reporter on The World" Fire Commissioner
Adamson and Joe Johnson Of the Public Ser
vice Commission, were good reporters. Mag
istrate Paul Krote was a crackerjack reporter
ten years ago. Theodore Rousseau Mayer
Mitchers secretary, and William A. Orr Gov
ernor Whitman's secretary, were reporters
short time back.
The theatrical business calls many away
from Park Row. Augustus Thomas, our lore
most playwright and now executive manager
of the Frohman Company was a newspaper
reporter So was Charles Dillingham; the most
enterprising and adventurous Of present day
managers.
Literature, naturally. attracts the reporter
who is specially gifted as a writer. Richard
Harding Davis, Win Irwin, Irwin Cobb
Charles f. Van Loan, Samuel G. Blythe Fred.
erick Irving Anderson, Barton Currie, John A.
Moroso, Robert Wells Richie and Raymond
G. Carroll are only few current successtul
authors and special writers who have taken as
signrnerts from Park Row city editors.
Reporters make good business men, too.
Frank A. Vanderlip, president OF the National
City Bank was reporter in his newspaper
DAVIS. John Hetrick left THE World" to prac'
tise law. John O'Brien, one OF the best re-
porters that ever put a witty story in The
Sun" is in business.
This article has mentioned by name only
few of the able and earnest and willing re-
porters who are gathering the news OF Ne"
York to-day Or have gathered it in the past
Really, friend editor there should be more
room here.
Editors Note-JVe cut almost a column on
Mr. Green at that.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29

Editor Of The NeU York Tribune.
read NTH great interest Sarah Ad-
dinqton'S able article on the newspaper
aComdn. AS much as the newspaper
aooman is as interesting person as can
be found, in my opinion newspaper
MAN is much more interesting. We meet
him schereuer tCe go-but 1Ce do not kno10
his mans. We read so many Of his inter
estina neics stories and feature articles
but zee don't kno10 WhO he is. There
fore. so that justice may be done to the
newspaper man, 1OOuld respectfully
venture to suggest that you glUe The
Tribune readers page IN some future
Su,dap issue on The Newspaper Man,
Who Is He? What Is He? Who Are the
Successful Ones. think it a0ould only
be far to present both sides Of cues
ton, having presented one. And then,
aoain-it 1oould be such an inspiration
to the "cubs" and the man 1ChO hasn't
made good in the game. NOa0, dear
editor, you know lUhat I'm driving at
-you knoto UhGt I mean--so get your
scribes on the job and lift the success
faI newspaper man-repOrter or editor
out of his lcdrren of obscurity.
Respectfully,
"A CUB"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
eomPeRs ELECTED PRESIDENT.
American Federation of Labor Annual
Session Ends.

San Francisoc.-Samuel Gompers
was reelected president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor at the con-
GLIDING session of the annual conven-
ton held here.
All the officers of the federation
were reelected almost unanimously.
Beside President Gompers they were:
James Duncan, Quincy, Mass, first
vice president; Jas. O'Connell, Wash
ington, second vice president; u. A.
Hayes, Philadelphia, third vice presi-
dent Joseph F. Valentine, Cincinnati,
fourth vice president; John r. Alpine,
Chicago, fifth vice president; r. B.
Perham, St. Louis, sixth vice presi-
dent Frank Duffy, Indianapolis, sew
enth vice president; William Green,
indianapolis, eighth vice president;
John B. Lennon, Bloomington, ILL.,,
treasurer; Frank Morrison, Chicago,
secretary.
Baltimore was selected as the scene
of the Seth annual convention of the
federation, which will take place next
year.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
STOCK AND CROP NOTES.

In % months of operation, the North
Pacific Fruit Distributors have shipped
1926 cars of fruit, have collected and
disbursed through Spokane banks S.
026,701 and have borrowed from Spo-
kane banks for loans to growers
through their subcentrals more than
$1,457 900. Those are the significant
features in a statement prepared and
issued over the signature of j. H. Rob-
bins, general manager.
This seasons bean crop in the Ken
drick-Juliaetta section will aggregate
about 115 cars, according to Manager
Wade of the Kendrick Rochdale Co.
At $4,000 a car, this means a revenue
from beans of about $230,000. This
is divided something as follows: Ken
drick so, Troy 25 and Juliaetta 10
cars. The Rochdale company is ship
ping about 10 cars to Spokane and 25
cars to Montana, the middle west and
SOUTH and the other Kendrick deal
ers are making similar shipments
Cooper & Green and w. NJ Guthrie
at Troy are sending out about 20 cars.
There is an additional 25 cars in the
vicinity of Oroiino and Peck.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEMI
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest
to All the People.

Governor Harris of Georgia has
signed bills from the legislature that
will cause the state of Georgia to go
dry May L, 1916.
William Dean Howells of New York
Friday. was awarded the gold medal
by the National Institute of Arts and
Letters for distinguished work in the
writing of fiction.
The cost to Switzerland to the end
OF October of guarding her neutrality
was $51 100000. This figure is given
In an official statement. The govern
ment proposes to raise $5,000,00O more
annually from tobacco.
Federal Judges Sanborn of Minneso'
ia, Munger of Nebraska, and Elliott of
South Dakota, who recently heard ar
guments on a case involving the con-
stitutionality of the new blue sky law
of South Dakota, have filed an opin-
ion holding the law was unconstitu-
tional.
Charles b. Munday vice president OF
the La Sale Street Trust & Savings
bank OF Chicago, of which VIM. Lori
mer was president, was found guilty
Monday of conspiring to wreck the in
stitution, and his punishment was fix
ed by jury at five years imprison
ment
The 10 federal reserve banks earned
1921 1854 during October, while theil
current expenses during that periot
were $134,O17, according to a state
ment issued by the federal reserve
board. The earnings were about So
600 greater than any previous montl
shown and the expenses were create
than those in September and August
but less than those in July. Only on
bank, st. Louis, failed to show an ex
cess of earnings over expenses.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
In State Dining Room.
INDUSTRY AND IMPROVEMENT

Expenditures of s1,7oo.OoO by the
Union Pacific system and the Oregon
Washington Railroad & Navigation
Co. for ties and other equipment and
in the reconstruction of the main line
of the o. & w. between Blalock and
Coyote, Ore, has been announced by
j. P. O'Brien, vice president.
Work is to begin soon on the Cen
trail Washington highway beginning at
Ritzville and extending north to
Sprague. The first unit will extend 16
or Is miles toward Sprague, but the
survey will run to that place. James
A. Davis of the state highway depart
ment has had charge Of the survey
together with Mr.. Doolittle, oversee
ing engineer. 1t is understood that
about 900 will be spent on the
work, and completion is expected
within four months.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
NOTED PERSONS DIE

Harrisburg, Preferential s. Shan
sman, 60 years old.
Portland, Grew. s. Newbury, who
was mayor of Portland from 1877 to
1879
New York. Fred Helf, who wrote
the words and music of more than a
hundred. popular songs.
Franklin, Pa--George p. Cronk, age
80, former grand exalted ruler of the
Benevolent and Protective, Order of
Elks.
Londonderry Charlton Bastian,
consulting physician of the National
Hospital for the Paraly ed and Epi-
leptic-
Ionia, Mich.-General John H. Mitch
ell, major general in command of the
Modern Woodmen of America, Fores-
ters' uniform rank.
Rabbi Solomon Scheechter, presi-
dent of the Jewish Theological Semi
nary of America, and widely known as
a traveller and author, in New York
City.
New York.-The Rev. Father Will
lam Henry Ironsides Reaney, chaplain
in the United States navy, who was
with Admiral Dewey in the battle OF
Manila bay
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

George M. Scott, who was the first
Gentle mayor of Salt Lake City, died
at San Mateo, Cal, recently.
Farmers of Douglas county, Ore,
realized $4,000 from the sale of their
turkeys for the Thanksgiving market.
A southerly gale Sunday that was
by far the most severe of the season,
struck Astoria. 1t continued only an
hour.
Every portion of western Oregon
and parts of eastern Oregon were
stormswept Monday Rain in torrents
were the rule
w. H. Peterson of Hope, Alaska, was
killed Thursday in the woods near
Anchorage by large brown bear that
he had wounded.
Leslie Reed, an actor, aged 26, cast
as the william in motion picture play,
was killed on a mountain road near
Santa Barbara, CAL, in an accident.
Game Warden Baughman of Alaska
has recommended fencing of section
of Kasullo river on Katchemak bay
to save the lives of moose.
An earth shock lasting from 20 sec
onds to about one minute duration,
was felt at AIS p. m. Saturday all
through the extreme southern part of
California.
w. S. Turpen, an architect, lost his
life near Marshfield, Ore. Sunday.
With his nephew, Horace Byler, age IS,
he mas in a rowboat, duck hunting,
when the boat overturned.
Bear, the last vessel of the Boring sea
patrol to return from the north, ar
rived Monday in Seattle from Nome,
Alaska, completing a seven months
cruise.
Ed Hopkins is probably the assumed
name of the double-chinned alleged
murderer, and Harry Rogers is posi-
bly, the name of the man whose body
was found in the trunk fished out of
the Willamette river at Portland Sat
urday, according to the statement of
the police.
California's ripening citrus crop will
approximate $4,000 cars, or practically
the same as last year, according to
preliminary estimates made public by
the California Fruit Growers Elk
change recently. The prospects at
this time were said to indicate a
shortage of valencias, compared with
last year, and heavier yields of navels
and lemons.