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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-10

dles and attired much after the fashion of our mothers when they rode that way for the reason, perhaps that riding astride had not even been thought of, for ladies.
 That custom, however. is like the horse drawn vehicle--it is old yet new. The people who ride in horse drawn vehicles in New York these days, are either truck drivers. visitors renting the hanson cabs, or else they are wealthy residents who prefer horses for change and who have uniformed footmen coats of arms and everything. These people also own automobiles in the majority of in stances, but it is peculiar fact that the automobile is, after all, not quite so swagger, even in these days, as the horse drawn equipage with its livery and all that sort of thing.
 Down in the Washington square and Greenwich (pronounced Grenitch, if you please) village sections, in spite of the atmosphere of "gay Bohemia" commonly known to exist whereabouts, there are homes which are another day, and their occupants follow the customs of the days they still love and vainly long for. From the windows of the Salmagundi club, in Twelfth street, I saw recently a quiet little cottage, with little flower garden for back yard, and there was about the whole place a look that told me positively the occupants could not be modern, and when I saw little old lady, in real lavender and old lace appear upon the little back porch, could hardly determine whether I was actually in New York or back in the days of my extreme youth. And in all probability, when this little old lady appears on Broadway or the avenue she dresses just as she used to dress years and years ago. For that is another New York privilege-we may dress the part we love best-and get away with it.
 And in spite of the onrush of the mod erns, Manhattan houses many people who cling to the customs they loved in youth and who heartily detest the habits and fashions, as we'll as the necessities of today Not long ago I met one such. A scholarly old gentleman wearing through preference-an overcoat with a cape to it. He was walking along. in the Washington Heights sections, which is well up toward the north end of the island. He told me that he was a native or this city; that he loved his New York. but that his New York was not the New York of today; that the city he loved was lduinS peIore HIS very eyes, even as age dimmed them. He waved his hand slowly around and pointed out this sec rior and that, where he once looked upon open fields or trees and meadow lands. but where now row after row of apart ment buildings brought the reach of the vision to an abrupt end
 T went to'school by footpath through the fields over there,'' he said. 'and I afterward hitched my buggy under some trees over wonder while I attended church. No, I do not like this New
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-10
THE CITY OF GOLDEN SANDS-By Frank C. Carpenter

set of ice. From then on for the next seven months the city Is shut out from the rest of the world by ice and snow. The thermometer drops to below zero and stays there throughout the winter. Some times it goes to 40 degrees below, and. further back from the sea, still lower
 Many of the people leave Nome to spend the winter in the states, return ing the following summer. Those who remain adopt dress much like that of the Eskimos. They have fur coats, shoes and boots, and protect their hands with fur mittens. Most of the citizens are confined to the town at this time, but there are trips with dog sleds across country. and except during blizzards there is communication between Nome and Council City by hot-air stages.
 This letter is written in the heart of midsummer. Just now the weather is delightful. and 1t is as soft and warm as New York or Massachusetts. The air IS loaded with ozone. and one seems to be breathing champagne It is light all day long. and can read my news paper at midnight.
 
 The people here enjoy life They have their social circles, their clubs and fra ternal organizations. The Arctic Brother hood has a Nome camp, and the best men of the town belong to what is known as the Log Cabin club, an in stitution which is famous all over Alaska. The club takes it's name from it's house, which is one of the most picturesque club homes of the time. It is a cabin nf 1npS fin r,icbn tn with its structure. The main clubroom is of great size. and the table which runs through It's center is five feet In width and about 30 feet long. It is so made that the top seems to be one thick slab cut from a tree. and so smooth that you can see your face in it. The front door is of logs, and the great hinges are of wrought iron. hammered out by a blacksmith. The club is very hospitable. and strangers with good introductionS find it a most delightful place during their stay.
 I am told by the residents that the Nome winter is the most interesting time of the year. Then the people have all sorts of entertainments. They have dances. socials, fairs and amateur theatri- calls. They engage in out-of-door sports, and especially in skiing. It is quite the thing to go from the town to the creeks and mining camps, across country on skis or long, sled-like, disappointed run ners. one of which is fastened to each foot in such a way that they can skate over the snow. Nome has ski club, and tournaments are held, in which prizes are awarded. both for jumping and for speed. Sleighing with dogs is another amusement. A common sight is mi lady. wrapped in furs. sitting in a dog sled, with the driver running behind. holding on to the handle bars. Such sledse are used to go to dances held
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-10

Copyright. 1916, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
 Nome, Alaska. 1T AM in the Hotel Golden Gate in the
 City of Golden Sands. I can look out of my window upon the beach from which fortunes have been washed with the salt water of the ocean, and all about me is the city of Nome, whose foundations are laid upon soil sprinkled with gold dust. Nevertheless. the view is as dismal as that of Poverty Flat. The hotel is an ugly, dreary barn Of four stories. and it is golden only in the high charges for any petty service the guest may want. It costs me 10 cents to press the electric button which brings the bell boy, and the bills for laundry are beyond computation.
 The city of Nome is one of shreds and pstches. The municipality is the ragged estsI have yet found in Alaska. It has houses enough for 10000 people, but it's citizens are only one-third of that num- Der. The buildings are of every descrip- tion, and they are scattered along streets paved with plank, or gravel, or the sand of the sea shore.
 At the upper end is the Eskimo village It is composed of tents, rude cabins and ahacks of boards, the most of them put up by the placer miners when they were washing gold out of the ocean. and now occupied by squatters and Eskimos. The town proper is further down the beach. -The chief street is Front street, a wide road paved with thick blanks and lined with houses of one or two stories. Some of the buildings contain excellent stores. but there are many vacancies. and signs of ITO Rent" are to be seen in every block. Nome is on the decline. It's popu- iation today is not one-tenth of what it was at the time of the great stampede. Like all placer mining camps, it decreases with the washing out of the gold from the sands.
 Nome lies right on the sea. stood on Front street today at high tide and threw stone into the ocean. It ricocheted over beach which was once a gold mine. Nome is bounded on the west by strip of gold bearing shore 60 feet wide and three miles in length, the sands of which were once mixed with gold dust When this was discovered men came here by the thou- sands from all parts of the world to wash out the gold, and many took away fortunes. As the miners came in each picked out for himself certain part of the beach. He drove in stake where his feet stood and drew a mark on the sand on each side of him as far out as he could reach with a shovel. and this was his claim. This was the condition at the beginning. the claims being small. Nevertheless. i out Of such holdings 800 men took gold dust to the amount of more than 4N2, 1000, 900, an average of $4000 per man. For a distance of 40 miles along the shore the sands were found to com tain gold and the best pay was right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-10

lSimos in mukluks, and garments of skins. Their fat Mongolian features look out of fur hoods, the bristles of which are as long as hat pin. Some are clad in parkas of fur or cotton with reach to the knees There are little Eskimo children that look more like furry balls than American children, until you observe their copper colored faces and see their black eyes twink ling out of the fur hoods There are Eskimo women with babies tied to their backs; the faces of the little ones look out over the shoulders of their mothers. There are Eskimo grown ups dressed half in fur and half in the rags of our civilization. The queerest comes and this just now is most of the time. Then the EslSimos put on water proof coats made of the bladders of the walrus. a skin which is as thin as paper, but which turns the rain and keeps one dry in the wettest of wealth CT. This skin is in small pieces sewed together in bulbous patches. The coats are loose fitting, and they have white hoouS to SoNef tne neauS.
 Among the most striking business features of Nome are the curio shops, stores selling mining materials, and those dealing in furs of every descrip- tion. Some of the latter have polar bear skins costing from $40 to $75 apiece, glacier bear skins worth one fourth as much, and brown bear skins of great size. The stores have also vrr1,t fny e,1y l1- L Il skins of the ermine which are as white as snow with pinch of black on the end of the tail The establishments selling mining supplies and hardware are especially large. I went through one hardware store that does busi- ness of several hundred thousand dol lars a year. <
 The provision stores carry stocks which seem out of proportion to tho size of the community. This is espe- cially so in the fall. for at that time full supplies have to be laid in for the long winter months. The last steamer comes late in october. From then on for six months or more the country is icebound. and such goods as are brought in must be on dogsleds which have to travel thousand miles or as much in freight as the first price Of the goods.
 The place is wholesale center. IL supplies the trade of the camps of the Seward peninsula and also those of the Arctic coast of Alaska. and for much of northeastern Siberia. as we'll.
 The traffic of Nome inclues all sorts of vehicles. You may see automobiles on Front street at every hour of the day. Great wagons hauling six tons of fish at load are drawn by heavy horses over the blanks, and behind them may come little carts pulled by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-10
American Shirts Abroad

from the New IOrk Suf.
 That intimate and practically universal garment, the shirt, is ever the subject of argument The more man has tried to de- velop it from it's earliest form the more he has been criticized. America, enamel pated from the showy armor known as the hard-boiled shirt. still struggles with the problems of stripes and checks. starched cuffs and soft. pins and paste board. When the shirtmaker does his work well the laundryman often wrecks the joy of the possessor. i. The war has rot spared the shirt wearer. His 16-34 comes from the laundry with a b1uish taint in the white parts and starchy stiff sheen on the cuffs, reminiscent of the sos. The laundryman explains that because of Europe he cannot get the right kind of soap. starch, bluing or labor. Beyond that he Is in as good condition as ever. As for the pins, tho pasteboard spine and the gloomy little collar but tons, he says that they are necessary Tor the preservation of his art in the tran sit of the shirt from folding board to chiffonier.
 The great American shirt is being drowned at in the markets of the world: not because it is not advanced, but be- cause it is Recently there were com plaints from Spain that the American shirts offered for sale there were all of the coat pattern. Young America de- manded this style so that he could brush his hair before putting on his shirt Old Castle wishes still to pull his shirt on over his head.
 Our consul general at Rio dc Janeiro, Mir. GottschallS, informs Washington that Brazil also regards the coat shirt as fantastic" Also, he says. the Brazilian haberdashers complain that the American shirt is unreliable as to size of collar and length of sleeve; a cry not unknown in America. Another reason why Ameri- can shirts do not appeal to the Latin American is the absence of the little tab which used to be placed at the bottom of the bosom. It Is supposed to be but toned to the trousers or drawers and thus keep the shirt from rising to billowy majesty. The Austrian, Italian and Portu- guese shirtmakers supply this tab. avoid the coat pattern and put the Yankee shirt tv rout As an American shirt com mands in Brazil double the price that 1t brings in New York. the loss to our ex- port trade Is large because we do not give the South American what he wants. Tho Portuguese maker follows tho wishes of the trade so closely that he s'puts little buttons over the biceps 50 that tho sleeves may be pulled up and fastened" :" If South Americans want to roll up their sleeves. let us assist in the true Pan- American spirit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-10
Old Sparrowgrass Papers


 From ''The Point of View in Scrib-
 ner.
 I have just been rereading that almost forgotten skit on American suburban life in the ffties, Frederic s. Cozzens The Sparrowgrass Papers, or Living in the Country" And if it isn't one of the pleas antest back-to-nature books in my library, why, then Elizabeth" never sighed for perfection in her German garden, and Barbara" that most strenuous of conl- muters' wives, never mixed uplift with the seeds for her spring planting.
 That these readable mid-century sketches have not appeared in a new edi- ton since the gardening craze struck America frankly puzzled me when I was remaking the acquaintance of MT. Spar rowgrass, especially his wife would be so attractive an addition to ones list of garden book heroines, She is really nicer than Elizabeth, or that independ ent Barbara found myself saying aloud, and then I suddenly realized that the very quality of that old-fashioned charm was fatal to her chances of elec- ton to the country life sisterhood. Sweet ly subordinate to her husbands ideas about things rural, recognizing him. quite as a matter of course as boss of their suburban paradise, little Mrs. Sparrow grass absolutely and utterly fails to qualify as a garden book heroine In all 
 nous the female of the species is more masterful than the male
 When this great truth first came home to me, I felt quite sure that nothing but laziness prevented me from getting what reporters would call "a new slant" on garden literature. Let me rewrite the Sparrowgrass couple, giving them sur- name less suggestive of mid-century llu- nor. and moderniZing their modest acres by the addition of a garage and a per- gola, and reviewers who never browse in an old-fashioned library would hail me as the daring genius who created something absolutely new in gardening heroines. What relief" I could almost hear them saying. Ito get away from tho tradition of the capable chatelaine who builds slos and runs model dairies, while her husband looks on admiringly in the intervals of signing the very necessary ehecks What could be more charming than the attitude of this little lady who knows nothing about rural conditions. and who accepts so unquestioningly the gardening and farming whims of her better half?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-10

O 0EW YORK, December 9-(Special ) IN\Il The polish of New York city is
 NJ almost prov yerbial. Those who live
 here and those who do not have all heard or know that real Man. hattan manners are irreproachable In fact the standard Manhattanite is something of Brummel and a Ches- terfield as well. In addition to this New York is up-to-date--almost one might say. notoriously so Almost ev- cry other city in this country is either openly. secretly or unconsciously fol- lowing Manhattan's lead in this re- Aspect.
 New York women are said to be the best dressed in America. New York men enjoy the same reputation and in addition are generally supposed to have a finish that the men of other cities have not acquired. Experience here will soon convince one of that. Ask the average girl or woman liv- ing or visiting here which kind of man she would prefer to go out with "a New Yorker or a man from any where else--and she will invariably se- lect the New Yorker.
 And now we are coming to the point-in spite of all this reputation, much of which is based on actual facts, it is also true that New York city and New Workers have much, do much and see much that Is decidedly "old timey." You didn't know that? Of course not. If you had known it, there would be no excuse for the rest of this story.
 There are business institutions in this city which are hoary with age, yet they are daily using the same business methods which brought them success in a greater or less degree when poor Edgar Allen Poe was walk = ing miles downtown to get mere pit tance for his output of genius. And perhaps the most remarkable feature of this lies in the fact that they still exist and their existence is due large ly to the fact that there are also peo- pie .here who retain their faith in these old business methods and pre- fer ito trade with the places which still employ them.
 X You have read of the "one-horse 'Sshay." Some of you, perhaps, have seen it in action in its palmy days Yet here upon the streets of Manhattan it is possible to find 1t with it's old Dobbin of horse still in harness. Nor does it confine it's activities to the se ciuded spots if, indeed, there are any such. You can find the good old shay doing business on Riverside Drive oc- casionally and even venturing into the confines of Central park And there S the hanson cab still making a liv- ing for it's owner along the swagger avenue. Certainly you can hear peo- pie remarking that it is a nuisance, and that 1t should be prohibited by law from impeding the speedier traf-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-10

in the neighborng camps. and the men run races with each other. carrying their sweethearts in this way, while they and the dogs do their best to outdistance their fellows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-10

The worlds highest powered motor ship has been built in Italy for tho Brazilian navy, it's oil motors devel- oping 6400 horse power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-10

A young married couple recently built a house and garden on the roof of a skyscraper here. The movement, it is thought, will result in homes on roofs all over the cits. One fellow said of the plan: Ut offers great secluson and much fresh air. and one can raise anything from hell to heliotropes undisturbed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-10

concert at Carnegie hall. Nothing was done about 1t, and it is quite possible that, emboldened by the success of tho maneuver, women will soon begin smok- ing on Manhattan's streets. One really wonders why they have not started doing that long ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-10

The traffic of Nome inclues all sorts of vehicles. You may see automobiles on Front street at every hour of the day. Great wagons hauling six tons Of fish at a load are drawn by heavy horses over the blanks. and behind them may come little carts pulled by
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-07
Ert SI,aferNotes
[spsciai star-Buretin corrsspondencsI

Especial STAR Bnlletin Correspondencsl
Comsy. Sgt. and Mrs. Lee Cohen
were hosts at delightful dinner party
Friday evening at their quarters in
the cantonment in honor of their
eighth wedding anniversary. The
house was tastefully decorated for
the occasion with ferns, sweet peas
and tropical flowers. Attractive Jap.
anese place cards marked the places
of the Is guests. Those present who
enjoyed the delightful evening were:
Color Sgt. and Mrs. Clarkson, Ord
Sgt. and Mrs. Dysart: ON. Sgt and
Mrs. Ely, Sgt. Mai. and Mrs. Burns,
Sgt Mai. and Mrs. Birmele, 1st Sgt.
and Mrs. Whitaker, CPL and Mrs.
Rcssen, Mrs. Daniels and Mr.. and
Mrs. MARROW.
Target practise is the all absorbing
subject at the. fort at present and
every morning and afternoon one can
find squads busily engaged in gallery
practise and getting instruction in the
art of shooting. Lieut. Polhemus with
his details is getting the range In ex.
cellent condition and by April 1. when
the I'd Battalion will commence its
work On the range. all Will be in reau.
mess. The Sd Battalion will follow
the I'd and the LIST Battalion win 60
on last.
- -
The new hop committee for March
has been named and they have an.
nouneed an informal dance for Friday
evening The members of the new
committee are Capt. William B. Coch.
ran. Capt Thomas r. Harker, LIST
Lieut. John b. Richardson and I'd
Lieuts. F. A. Sloan and A. K. Polhe-
mus.
- %
Lieut. col Benjamin W Atkinson.
Cd Infantry, has been designated by
the War Department to make the an.
nual inspection of the military depart
ment OF the Kamehameha School.
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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-07
ARTILLERY BAND
GIVING REGULAR
DAILY CONCERTS

The Artillery Band at Fort Kane
hameha has commenced its series of
outdoor concerts. There viii be reg
nlar concert programs every evening
from Monday TO Friday inclusive at
about 6:20.oclock each evening. Since
there is no suitable bandstand as yet
with proper acoustics the open air
hall at the back of headquarters is to
be used until such time as Colonel
Rafferty, decides upon Il suitable band
stand location.
Mr.. Safranek has been selecting
some very fine programs for these con-
certs, the following being the list for
this evening:
Overture, Festival--Leutner.
;Valse Militaire-W aldteufel
Scenes from Coppelia -Delibes.
Song, The Holy City-Adam Thy re-
quest.
Melodies from Bohemian Girl
Balfe. tBy request)
Captain French is exerting himself
to furnish a h.gh-class entertainment
for the post in the theater, having had
several vaudeville performances late
~, with more coming, as also the best
moving pictures that the islands az
ford He has also installed a five
piece orchestra that Is giving consid-
cradle pleasure.