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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-30

one Of the biggest gaming houses IN the nelgn-
borhood, where the Chinese played by nun
dreds every night Simple enough to get III
with an axe and modIcum of strength AMI
patience.
The "icebox' door gets its name from the
fact that it is made of layers of new wood,
two, three and some times even four thick
nesses, nailed together with the grains cross
ing 1t is impossible to split one with single
blow. When the outer layer is taken oil with
an axe there is another and another, and PEI
haps another TO be stripped. BY the time
single door is demolished every gambler in the
block can get away; by the time half dozel
of them are ripped open even the electric light
globes are cold.
II is simple enough, as noted, 10 get into
the main room back of the pseudo shop at 20'9
Pell Street But when the Chinese found they
couldn't play there with safety they descended
into the cellar, building icebox doors and bolt
ing heavy trapdoors behind them Driven out
of the cellar, - -%k to the sub-cellar, cree
ing doors DOORS doors as they went. Now one
goes from the street floor to the lowermost
level by kicking open eleven doors and lifting
two traps.
There are no fewer than five getaways" to
2Oia Pell Street. One of them leads to d
sunken courtyard forty feet below the surface
of the street. CobwebS are festooned across
this exit, but not many months ago it was n
prime demand.
So difficult was it TO get near Chinese
gambling game that it was weeks before Jones,
Baile, Mccormick and Sergeant Keller, Of
DIVERS strong arm staff, realized what task
they were facing. Dwyer had been sent down
from tie Tenderlon to clean out Chinatown,
and his men knew it, How it was to be accom-
pli I ed was the question.
There was gambling house at the corner
ri Pell and Doyers Streets. The moment the
detectives entered the boundaries Of China
town word Of their presence was passed from
the lockout a. Mott Street and the Bowery u
one AT the Mott Street Arcade, from there TO
another at the corner Of Pell Street and thence
to the gambling houes. The hated "umpai'
smashed dozens Of doors in vain. There was
nobody n arrest.
Just once in all his ..me in Chinatown has
one Of .he men seen game Of fan-tan. This
BIZ Of luck fell to Jones-or perhaps it would
he nearer me truth 70 say taat nc zen lHto -
Evadine the lookouts by keeping in the rear
of buildings. Jones climbed a fire escape to
a room where he knew there was game
There was ice on the iron steps. and he slipped
Just as he came abreast Of the window. he
fell, crashed through the sash and landed
plump on n table in the midst Of the gambler
money and thir buttons. Cnaided, ne arrested
seven men. He doesn't recall the disposition
Of the case but doubts whether he got con-
.lction. As he remembers il, the Chnamen
we're taking up collection for the latest
neutral victims Of the U-boats.
The arrangement at 2o's pell i typical Of
other old gaming places, though there Is none
other with double cellars. Acres the street
in No. 10, the gamblers had a basket change
making system modelled on the department
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-30

Though the electric lights in the room had
beer extinguished, every bulb was hot enough
to burn the hand-unmistakable evidence that
the place had been full of gamblers But there
was nothing for the detective to do but re-
tire which he usually did with more speed
than grace
Various police heads tried their pet schemes
FOR driving out the gamblers. Their strong
arm men splintered so many icebox doors that
Louis Duck. Chnatowns carpenter had bank
account larger than the biggest merchant.
Sometimes he stayed up all night making doors
fer the next nights gambling suppy-making
doors and horses and table tops and chairs to
replace those the police had smashed. Police
Headquarters took on the appearance Of
kindlng yard and still the Chinese gambled.
A good many years ago, long before the
door-smashng crusades started, there was
plainclothes patroman in Chinatown named
Burke-"C hew-Tobacco" Burke, they called
him. He's captain now. In his first days
in Chinatown, anxious TO make his mark, he
did an unheard of thing He told a Tammany
henchman named Callahan that he'd have to
close his saloon on Sunday. Callahan laughed
him to scorn; told him he'd have him "brokc."
Nevertheless the saloon was eventually closed.
and so it remained while Burke on the
beat That if you care to go that far back,
may have been the forerunner of the China
town cleanup" as it developed in subsequent
years.
Various police inspectors went into China
town with record to make. Few, with the
exception Of the last two named-"flonest
John" DAILY and John T. Dwyer, the present
head of the Second Inspection District-added
ANYTHING TO their story. Days men did we'll
but Dryers men did better. Days men bat
tered down doors; Dryers made the Chinese
keep their doors open.
To-day there is no gambling IN Chinatown.
That is a statement worth emphasizing. i
sounds exaggerated. but is susceptible Of proof
proved it by the best evidence in the world
ocular evidence gathered in going over the
ground.
Consequent Of this, Chinatown is threatened
with extinction. In another year, those VIII
knew say, there will be hundreds in the dlstrlc'
where once there were thousands. The Chinese
Theatre is gone Stores arc closed, missions
arc working at half time and with reduced
forces for gathering converts. II was a sorry
day five years ago when a missionary couldnt
step outside the door and save the souls OF a.
least half a dozen white girls. To-day the
white women who are in Chinatown are mar
ried 70 Chinese.
Chinatown is near placement because Of
the closing down Of gambling. The Chinese Is
the worlds natural gambler. He VIII wager
on the number Of seeds in an orange, on inc
number Of grains in an ear of corn--on any
thing. in fact that affords the chance. Unles'
he can gamble he does not stay in his home.
Absolutely without home ties, and willing even
to sacrifice his business. Of whatever 1t may
consist. for a chance 20 be where he may bet
something on something, he packs up and gets
out when gambling is denied him.
New York's Chinatown is fast Sslng ii
citizens They are going TO Newark and Jcrsey
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-30

THE news from Peking that the Chinese
government has forbidden poker play
ing is news in Picking, but not in
Chinatown, y. y. Properly Speaking, there Is
= al Of the district threaded bv Mott Pell and
hysrs streets no such thing as news. for news,
Z L is % be news must be of public interest
'sser is OF about as much la-ment to China
Sv1 just now as is the latest twist IN the
',con-Shakespeare controversy.
Tine was when poker threatened the su-
vsmacy of fan-tan. The elusive full house
as taken % the Chinese bosom and players
al up far into the night in pursuit Of the
.lgher learning which tells student Of Hoyle
shen 70 toss away one Of his two pairs for
aat sake Of improving his chances in the draw.
8ci that time is past. In this day poker and
ae Chinese Of Pell Street scarcely speak as
hey pass.
Because poker. with its chance for the indi-
udua player as against games in which the
asiler holds all the advantage, appeals to the
-hinese economo-gambling sense it thrlved
10 Chinatown The American deck was easier
handle, too-and perhaps 70 slip into ca
pacl'us sleeve-than the narrow cards Of the
Orient.
But its vogue was Of brief duration, for
American detectives, who know even more
soa, the game than the crafty Chinese,
rooped down upon it. confscated the cards
nc chips and arrested the players. Fan-tan
are back into its own because, 10 quote one
the detectives who helped put poker out OF
ssncss, "You can't tell by lookin' at bunch
y Chinks playin' tn blasted game whether
styre gambling or takin' up collection for
Belgans."
There was Just one man in the Police De-
srinent who knew enough about the game
Be competent witness in court. He was
'''eetiye named Nohl long since resigned and
''ne 10 California. But even his lucid ex-
,anaton Of It's mysteries did little to check
gambling, for 10 get conviction 1t was
seessary 70 convince magistrate that the
90 was being violated. When he couldn't be
'&os b understand what the game was about,
re was little hope for the police
"hen detectives battered down half dozen
etoo1' doors, broke their heads IN low
''sd passageways and barkcd their shins on
ears thrown in their path by fleeing look
va they often got TO gambling rooms 70
"a from half dozen TO fifty bland China
- sitting about tables and lingering buttons
20 oorninoes. There was 10 money In sight.
Nnetnes they vent over roofs, clambered
s s'n FIRE escapes. dropped into courtyard,
's1red wall and let themselves ii through
.naow. By the time they had pried loose
- non bars covering the glass kicked out the
meow frame and tumbled into Tho room
are was one suspected gambler left. and he
-. !" asleep, his head pillowed Oh gaming
lou wake me op." he'd muttcr. "Yon
'e me op."
Where's all that bunch that was playin
Wan in here minute ago?" the detective
.,'N demand, regulating his profanity to suit
.. occasion.
', "hstte say? Fan-tan7 No play fan-tan.
g" wake me op."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-30
THE SCIENCE OF WORK.

wv 7 ITH the present agitation for an ever
GN increasingly short working days
81 l. =. - ...I..
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-11-04
SeIf.PoSsession

The car over which the driver had
just lost control was big, high-pow.
cred one. 1t mounted the curb at Il
miles an hour, crashed through a plate
glass front and continued it's way
leaving wreckage in it's path, to the
rear of the store, where it was brought
to stop. The Palm Beached driver
looked about, and perceiving it was 9
motor accessory shop, remarked: 20
just dropped In to see If | could get
a new windshield" "You bet, replied
the proprietor, land / can fix that
steering gear for you, too, If you'll
wait about ten minutes"
The Alum Rock Natural Gas com
pany's board of directors at Oil City
has declared an extra cash dividend
Of 81 a share, in addition to the
monthly rate Of 81 share.
Court House Engineer August Hin
Kel, Of Mauch Chunk, was Mortified to
see three-foot copperhead crawl out
OF GOAL in the basement of the court
house, but he killed the reptile.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-11-04
Gums and Health.

Two drops of camphor on your
toothbrush will give your mouth the
freshest, cleanest feeling imaginable,
wilI make your gums rosy and abso-
lutely prevent anything like cold
sores or affections of the tongue. The
gums, by the way, are barometers OF
your condition. If they are clear.
bright red, you are in good realth,
while If your blood Is thin and want.
ing in the mysterious red corpuscles
.hat make one healthy. the gums will
ne pale pink, or if you are in a very
bad way. indeed, and much in need
OK course of dialyzed iron, they viii
-. almost white.--Leonard Keene
uirShberg.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-11-04
overdrawing at Bank of Health.

NO funds"
That's the way your check is
stamped when your bank allowance
gives out.
Every good business man takes care
not to overdraw his account.
But how many men give thought to
their balance in the First Natural Bank
of Health?
Not many. They overdraw when
they oversleep In the morning; when
they overeat at noon; when they over.
work late in the day, and when they
overdrink and everyday at night.
And they keep on overdrawing, day
In and day out, because the accounting
system in the First Natural Bank of
Health differs from that of an ordinary
bank.
They are not brought to a sudden
stop with the warning, mo Reserve"
So they keep on until the day when
disease draws big sight draft-and
then they find their body bankrupt and
not a physical asset in sight.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-11-04

Saloonists OF the lower end Of Lu,
zerne county fear another war against
licenses as a result of visit made
to Hazleton and nearby towns by
supposed spoilers"
Oterbalancing as she leaned out to
shake some clothing, Mrs. Thomas Nc.
Kinsey fell twenty-five feet from the
balcony on second story at West
Fairview and was killed.
Their strike declared illegal by the
district mine workers board, many
of the employees of the Rochester &
Pittsburgh Coal and Coke company
have returned to work.
With record prices prevailing for
both coal and coke. operators of the
Connellsville coke region are unable
to take advantage of the situation be
cause of the shortage Of cars.
Washington and Jefferson college
students who are supporters Of Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson have formed a
Wilson and Marshall club, and will
conduct campaign among the under
graduate body to influence the mem
bers to support the national Demo
cratic nominees.
Increased cost of tobacco is given as
the cause for an advance in the price
Of tobies, announced by a mahufactur-
er in Connellsville. Tobies that for
twenty years have sold at four for
five cents will now be three for five
cents, or seven for dime instead of
eight. Other manufacturers are ex-
pected to follow suit.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-11-04

Notice has been sent out by he
Cumberland Valley railroad that rs
telegraph operates are g-a1-el a
twelve per cent increase
Easton High school udants h.
"tag day" movement to further tne
project of obtaining an athletic field,
and $1O0815 was realized.
Unable to help himself, John Will
kins, aged seventy, was burned to
death in his home on the outskirts of
Castleman, near Somerset.
Richard Maise, Boswell, Somerset
county, was appointed mine Inspector
of the First bituminous district to
succeed w. G. Robey, deceased.
Mrs. William Ehle, Of Lansford, and
Mrs. Mary Hontz, of Summit Hill, are
the only Carbon county women hunt
ers who have taken out licenses.
Many Of the 1900 bituminous coal
miners In the East Broad Top region
who have been on strike for two
weeks are moving to other fields.
John Strousburgh, aged twenty-four,
Of Vintondale, Cambria county, was
killed by Baltimore and Ohio rail
road freight train at Connellsville.
A verdict of $1,000 was awarded L.
King, of Harrisburg, suing Riverton
Consolidated Water company on la.
Dor and material claim, at Carlisle.
A thousand attended the Altoona
funeral of four Bakers Summit VIC
fiy,oe of GRO q oroeci61 ooo;5oat -
there were 212 autos and 200 buggies.
The Rt. Rev. Regis Canevin, bishop
Of Pittsburgh, will on November 19|
confirm a class of ESQ at st. Vitus
Italian Catholic church, in New Castle.
Stephen Covick, driver for McNeal
Miller, a farmer, was arrested at
Shenandoah, charged with selling DO
tatoes by the bushel almost a peck
short.
]. B. Scale, of Millersburg, former
member. of the legislature, has been
appointed a commissioner to take the
vote OF the Eighth Regiment at the
border.
A campaign to raise $4,000 for the
erection Of new Sunday school build.
Ing for the First Methodist Episcopal
church, Easton, opened with $10,329
pledged.
Charged with the murder of J. L.
Beisser, a railroad detective at Le-
moyne, Archie Miller and Joe Fletcher
were held for court by Squire Martin,
at Carlisle.
Bethlehem council has instructed
Solicitor G. r. Booth to draw up an
ordinance for bond issue Of 100000
as the borough's share toward the new
hill-to-hill bridge.
In a report to the state public serv'
ice commission, the Lehighton board
of health condemned as unsanitary
the passenger station of the Jersey
Central railroad, at Lehighton.
Two valuable horses belonging to
Richard Nicholas, Lower Saucon
farmer, got into a fight in the stable
and one of the animals legs was
broken, and 1t had to be killed.
John Stines, of Dunkirk, N. Y, fired
five shots at his nineteen-year-old
wife at Warren and then sent bullet
through his head and died few min
utes later. Mrs. Stines will recover.
The proposed sale of the properties
of the Thomas Iron company, Cata
sauqua and Hokendauqua, to a syndi-
cate of Philadelphia iron manufactur'
ers for $3,50O,000 will soon be consum.
mated.
Because several employees failed to
wear union buttons, 500 men and boys
at Lehigh Coal and Navigation No. Is
colliery went on strike, swelling the
total to 1000 idle at the company's
operations.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-11-04
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
tiOnS Of The State.
CULLED FOR QUICK READING
News Of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.

Burglars raided five Williamsport
homes, and got cash and jeweQry.
o. P. Leibensperger has purchased
the Washington hotel, in Bethlehem
for $4,000.
Mrs. w. w. Stout, sixty-fve, OF
West Berwick, was fatally burned at
a rubbish fire.
Real estate men from adj over the
state met at the capital to form state
real estate board.
An association to regulate the price
of milk was effected by 200 farmers in
a meeting at Carlisle.
Mifflin county farmers want twenty
FIVE cents each for pumpkins worth
five cents year ago.
The state has sued Blossburg and
Ridgway for $12.222 and $6995, theL
shares in road-building.
Using gasoline to hasten a fire, Mrs
Colbel, twenty-six years old, Of Sharon
was probtbly fatally burnOd.
The president has accepted the res
ignation of Major Ell. NJ. Hale. Carlisle,
Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry.
Augustus Dill was drowned, Ralph
ZieglSr rescued, after . skin'S upset
In the river, opposite Duncannon.
Dickinson Law school has bought
a site for the new buildings near the
Carlisle High school, paying $3.50.
The scattering Of tacks along the
highway at Jeddo proved disastrous
for autoists out for pleasure rides.
Kennett Square asks $S4 hundred
trip ticket to Philadelphia and rate
of 1.6 cents a mile on family tickets.
The oficial ballots and lists of can
didates we're certified to the com.
missioners of each county in the state
Seven-year-old Wanda Clay was ter
ribly scalded by hot water poured cut
of an upstairs window at Hazleton.
The large barn on the estate Of Mrs,
Richard Coulter, north Of Greensburg,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is
100000
Agents of the soft coal companies
of West Virginia, Virginia and Ten
nessee are In the anthracite fields for
workers.
A course in military science, with a
regular army officer in charge. prob
ably will be added to Lehigh Univer-
sity's curriculum.
Owing to the scarcity and high price
of ink, due to the European war, the
use of stub pens will. be discontinued
In Hazleton schools.
Joel Leininger, a farmer near Wealth
erly, has 2100f bushels Of potatoes
stored in his cellar, and refuses to
sell at present prices.
Miss Veronica Zimmerman, seventy
four, tripped descending stairs at her
home in Lebanon, and broke her neck
and an arm and died.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-11-04
The Office a Home.

A young fashionable was graduated
from Yale in June. His father is set
ting him up in business. This father
asked US if we would not aid in the Sc
lecting of the office furnishing for the
young man. The father said Spend
whatever you like. Not because have
money, but because when man works
in Il place for so many hours it should
be made as comfortable as possible
Many >rnen spend more catual hours in
their Offices than they do in their
homes. Their offices should therefore
be as attractive as their homes. That
Is my theory, and l am going to prac-
tee 1t for my son."
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-11-04
WALL ST. WOVEN
TOUR l:1A l'Ie,..::S {. les
!"SiIk Stocking, Poodle Dog Bri-
gade" Off to Invade West.
MAKES SUFFRAGE PRETENsE.

Many Members of Party Travelling on
Train de Luxe Repudiated by Lead
ers of Women's Movement - Paie
Speakers to Do the Talking For
Them.
Wall Street is too busy harvesting
Democratic prosperity to go campaign
ing-but it is sending its womenfolk,
The greatest aggregation Of wealth
and social distinction ever represented
by fuss, feathers and femininity left
New York Monday, Oct. 2, by special
train de luxe, to tell their sisters Of the
West how they should vote. Many OF
these women, claiming to be equal suf-
frage workers. are repudiated by lead.
ers of that movement.
Stopping at Albany, Utica and Syra
cuSe on their first day, the itinerary
takes the women's campaign train
through the principal cities Of the
north route across the continent aEd
brings them back through Colorado
Nebraska, Missouri and Kentucky, s
tour lasting until Nov. 4. The expenses
are paid by and the tour is conducted
under the auspices Of the Women'E
Committee of the National Hughes Al
lance.
''Women's Hughes Alliance" sounds
innocent and harmless enough until
one examines the personnel of the or
ganization and discovers that it repre-
sents the feminine side Of the organ
lied and Norganized wealth Of Wall
Street.
The treasurer Of the, Women's Com
mittee is Mrs. Mary Hartman Rum
sey, daughter Of the late Edward II.
Hartman, railroad magnate and "prac-
teal man" Of the days when Theodore
Roosevelt received campaign funds
from the crooked business" which po-
Htical exigencies later led him to de-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-01
FORD INSTITUTES
HIS ADVERTISING
CAMP AICN TODAY
"Our Boys Are at Home and
We Have Peace With
Honor" He Says.


New York, Nov. 1.-The first Of
Henry Fords advertisements urging
the reelection of President Wilson
will appear in a few days in 500
papers. They will be signed by Mr.
Ford and be devoted to the achieve
ments Of President Wilson's admins
tration and the reasons why it should
not be discontinued.
The first ad. will take up half a
page. 1t is headed Humanity and
Your Vote" A few of Mr.. Ford
most emphatic paragraphs read:
HE president Wilson) is entitled
to be rewarded for his great service
to mankind, and the only way we can
reward him is by giving him the op-
portunity to be of still greater SER
vice"
although nominal1y Republican
all my life, T am for Wilson, and urge
my fellow citizens to stand for him,
because he has kept us out of war
and has done much to bring about
the remarkable prosperity which we
enjoy, and because Wall Street is
against him.
I'VE should guard against Wall
Street influences again securing con-
troll Of our government. They have
been rooted out during the last four
years, and they are working hard to
get back.
"Al1 other great nations are being
consumed and destroyed but we have
peace with honor, and our boys are
at home. Special interests are de-
handing war and the President is be-
ing criticised with many words, but
stripped Of all unnecessary words
their real complaint is that he has not
plunged the country into war for their
profits.
"Great prosperity covers the land as
never before, legitimate enterprise is
assured a proper reward. There are
no bread lines and everybody is en-
p1oyed that wants to be. Our people
are contented, prosperous and happy.
Why should we make a change?
II am for Wilson because he has
caused to be passed large number
Of wise and humane laws, most of
which had been promised by the poll
ticians Of both parties for many years
without fulf1llment. Not one class
has been favored, no one disregarded.
He has served the United States as
whole"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-01
GIRL EMPLOYEES
IN POLICE DEPT.
! ITO BE UNIFORMED
Brass Buttons and Tight
Fitting Clothes Ordered
By Stanley.

John c. Stanley. whose idiosyncra-
:1cdes as chairman OF the board Of po-
stice commissioners, have many times
I1tartled Bridgeporters, Is going to
bnniform every woman emp1oye at po-
gzice headquarters from the telephone
ixfrls to the janitress-
/ What's the idea? No one on earth
Knows but Stanley. Hereafter when
1.-THE janitress shoulders her broom she
kwill look ike a militant suffragette-
HerS Is description Of the uni
fUrm. which the girls, including three
phone operators, hust soon don I'M
k7ess their present discomfort becomes
topen rebellion and c$nses the police
icomn11seioner TO revoke his order:
A blue pea jacket coat, with mill
tzary collar. fitted in yest-1ike fashion
about the bust and waist, adorned
with two rows of small brass buttons
running from the collar to the bot
tom OF the coat The pants-no,
these win not be forced upon the fe-
male employees. bat they must wear a
abort tight fitting blue skirt. just to
Fhamrer ia a measure their efficiency,
t1sver1Ah1y awaiting SANKEY'S next
reform In the department.