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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-30

As for more subtle dangers, such as the acquisition of false frenos, the mak- ing of acquaintances with men and wom- en who arc crooks, and the lure of dis guised deceit and treachery, these things are less likely to occur to the SophiSti cated New Yorker than to another. It is the stranger the unsophisticated new comes. who must guard himself or herself most zealously against such.
 One of the first things one learns in this city is to judge men and women by their faces and manner. And it is as certain that nature makes a persons face show what he or she is as it is that con- versation seldom completely conceals thought There are exceptions which merely prove the rule, but, as a general thing, the face of an individual is either an asset or a detriment, and the New Yorker from hard practice, the result of necessity, learns early to judgef well.
 Come we now to the consideration of the danger of temptation; the fascination exerted by the transient joys the white light section has to offer; the call of chance ,as represented by the possibli- ties of the sudden acquisition of vast wealth, via Wall street; the desire to in- dulge in life and display in Keeping with the many overinduigences we, per- force, must witness; the lure of loveliness as we behold it, clad in garments all too clearly indicative of an impurity of pur- pose, and the general tendency to ele- vate the transient and material things to a position of supreme importance in life.
 These things but prove that New York represents a school of experiments a school of life from which, once gradu- ated, one possesses the best possible equipment for living-and dying. Why should we avoid temptation always?
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Women s Clothes and the War

with an abundense of furrs and wraps and bundled up like an artck exporur while hur poor little legs air exposed to the cutting blasts of beek January day. One is at times moved to remove his ovvercoat, if it is long one, and profer it to the victim. with stoical indiffurense the suffurng of kind if am unable to help it. But it fills me with all kinds and varieties of minguled emosions to see fair, yung creature wearing thin pair of summer stockings with breef and flmsy excuse for skurt when the thermometur is Hurting with zero.. It is site that makes all shudder. I go down theere neerly evvery day and shudder. It is verry harrow ing to have to witness all this discumfur and suffer ing, but try to bear up under it with fortude So far am bearing up verry we'll + 'f
 The discumfurts of the street customs air I gret to say, extended evven further when it to dresses the ladies air compelled to Wareon account of Paris being in the war-to the and to balls. The dredfu economy imposed by the necessities of this creWel war air moor acsentuated suCk occasions Then not only air they cut short at the bottum-they suffer like fate, evven so-at the top. Frequntly goes to the theeatre and in trying to focus his glasses acquintense brings
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 felt their influence, and who upon coming to this greatest of all cities, has not felt that here he was surrounded by more and greater dan gers than in any other city on earth? Without waiting for the answers Git is easy to understand why so many people indulge in published argument, let's see what the dangers to be feared generally are represented as being: Are they not thieves, thugs, all manner of accidents and temptation? Such is true, no mat ter what you might answer if you pos sessed the privilege of immediate re- eponse.
 True, gunmen once flourished along Broadway, but the breed is now virtually extinct: the Bowery was once a section to be avoided by those less belligerently inclined than the members of the Ford peace party, but today the Bowery is only | a name a street wherein traffic is peace fully pursued-and sometimes captured. Thieves and thugs once plentifully infest- ed our various thorough.ares. but these are now confning their activities largely to certain sections which are labeled 'Dangerous' for the protection of the public.
 These criminals, however. were not plentiful directly as result of New YorlS's magnitude, but of it's littleness. With growth and advancement along all lines, has come greater protection, and as a consequence, fewer thieves y and thugs at work in the open. so to, speak. Such, comparative population taken into account. are more numerous in smaller cities where the vigilance of tho law is
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more of name than nemesis to them.
 And here even the criminals themselves have shown progress; if there is rob bery committed, it is safe to say that the victim had something to yield up they didn't. waste time with the other sort So, being free from financial en- cunbrances of that character, what has one to fear from that. class of criminals in New York city?
 Upon the streets of no smaller city of the south have I ever felt so great sense of security from dangers or this kind, as I do upon the thorough fares, and even the byways of Man haitian. Few indeed are the streets which are not well lighted, and those who are unfamiliar With them have cause but seldom to enter them. Wom- en go about alone at all hours. of the night, and except in the rarest in stances, the worst they have to fear is that some convivial party, also keep ing late hours, will feel a transient, booze born fascination which deadened caution will not keep within it's proper bounds But-do not many of our late hour demOiselles rather court than avoid such experiences? f
 As for the personnel encounter, re- sultant from other motive than that of robbery--it is to laugh. Verify, here, 'the idea prevails that the tongue is mightier than the fist, and as for the concealed-weapon-ca carrier, be it said to the credit of the city, here he is rare enough to be a curiosity.
 Often has my progress along the Manhattan thoroughfares been delayed by what promised bloody murder within the next two minutes. Quarrels of that sort are by no means infrequent, but. invariably. when the prospective com
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Says Chickens Beat Garden

from the ottawa (kan.) Journal.
 When Fred Stolz retired from the cigar business here he decided to ex- pertinent on chickens. He had always had garden in his back yard, but he thought the fowls might make better return for the money invested. On Mo- vember 8, 1914. he bought "A hens for a practical demonstration. He kept a close record for year, at the end of which time he had netted S1.29 in money, the use of eggs to the amount of $12.04 and eight chickens which he ate which he estimates as worth. 50 cents each. or a total of s4. Besides this he has increased his stock by 80 pull lets and he has two hens that laid 250 eggs each in the year
 "1 wanted to experiment on chickens to determine whether or not I could get more out of the space in the back yard from chickens or a garden" MT. Stoltz said. And I believe. considering all things, the fowls are the better in- vestment. The garden only produced a few vegetables during the summer months and the ground was idle tho remainder of the time.''
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ALASKAS NEW GATEWAY IN NORTHERN PACIFIC

over it and roll down the steep slopes of the mountain.
 Standing upon Acropolic hill. one has good view of Prince Rupert. Off to the front is the harbor, sparkling in the sunlight and backed by noun tainous islands of green. At the back are forest-clad hills, lost in the clouds, and between. is the city, it's business section made up of two and three story frame buildings. painted in mod est colors, With roofs red, brown and black. Here and there the spire of a church rises above the roofs; and should you take your glass you might pick out the signs of banks, stores, real estate offices. and, I regret to say, of saloons. As to the morality of the city, the mayor tells me that it is just medium, not too good and not too bad. He asserts, moreover, that during his three years of admlnistra- tion, although~.Nast. sums-$1, 000. GOO last year--have been spent in public improvements, there has not been one nickel of graft. l wonder!
 Returning to the view. let us take look at more of the buildings. The city hall is a three-story structure. of frame, the biggest hotel has five stories and 1t is made of brick, while near it you can pick out hole in the rocks that has cost the Grand Trunk Pacific railway $40, 900 to make and is to form the site of a s2,000,00O hotel when the present financial stringency has passed
 The private residences of Prince Ru- pert include many comfortable homes. They are one and two-story frame cot tages, rising out of the uneven green of the muskeg. Many have blasted out the ,stumps in making the foundations and some of the people have built up leYel yards about their houses and have lawns as green and smooth as those of old England. All kinds of vegeta- tion grow luxuriantly The town has many beautiful flowers and the whole country is green. from one end of the year to the other.
 The; climate of Prince Rupert is milder than that of Baltimore, Rich mond or St. Louis. It is not so cold in the winter and it is more mild In the summer. The mean. temperature in summer is about 60 degrees Fahren- heit, and in winter the thermometer seldom falls to below or 10 above zero. As to rain the town reminds me of southern Chile, where they say it rains 1S months every year. The rain- fall in some years is no inches or more, and just now it showers all the time. There is but little. snow in the winter. although you may have two feet within a few hours. The snow melts quickly, however. There are keavy frosts on account of the moisture. The frosts sometimes cover the plank roadways to depth of three inches and then the people have coasting and
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proper punctuation. we have: .'The Un- chastened Woman "Alone at Last with Potash and Perlmutter" Hip, Hoorayi"
 Wrestling has New York by the ears. as it were. Many of the wrestlers now wiping up the stage at the Manhattan Opera House nightly have been seen in southern cities, and they have wrestled each other there, but for some reason the game has Caught on'' here, and the house is filled nightly, while among the audience are to be seen many women in evening gowns, taking an evident interest in the bouts. No cry of fake" has yet been sent up by the press but this may follow later. In the meantime, the grap- piers are reaping all kinds of harvests. The New York press is earnestly agitat- ing the question of women proposing dur ing this leap year. There are all sorts of arguments advanced for and against this reversal of. form" with a majority. ap- parently,, in favor of the women doing the asking.
 It has even been said that many men are too timid to ask the women they love- to marry them, and it has also been stated that the men of New York, as a rule, are not worth the asking. It seems very safe to state, however, that a large number of New Workers will receive pro- posals of marriage this year. now that at least some people have expressed themselves as believing such a proce- dure to be "all right
 Naturally, in city the size of New York, one sees more unpleas asant sights than he would in village. and more pleasant ones as we'll yet there are mill lions here who would walk a. block to avoid seeing the serious results of an
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tobogganing parties on the roller coaster highways I have described.
 Prince Rupert is a healthy city, There were less than 30 deaths last year in the 5000 population, and the births were 150. There were only five cases of typhoid fever, and three of these came from outside. The town has a hospital which is but little used. It..has a jail, up-to date fire. depart ment, with motor engines. It has good public schools, including a high school, with a, building of four stories. It has three daily papers. a public reading room; and it's people are quite as in- telligent and much more progressive than those of similar sized towns in the east.
 For instance, the town. believes in municipal ownership. It has a hydro electric plant that cost more than a half million dollars, from which it not only supplies the several public utili- ties. but it also sells power to factories and individuals at SIS per horse power phone and electric light plants. The telephone rates to business houses are $4.50 per month, and the plant pays profit to the municipal treasury. The mayor tells me he hopes to put on mu- nicipal iitneys to carry the people to and from their homes along the board roads.
 Prince Rupert believes in the single tax, and the most of the revenues of the city come from tax on land only. Improvements pay nothing. The Prince Rupert hotel, for instance cost $125,- 900 to build. It is on lot 100X200, and this lot is valued at s50,000. The tax is levied on the lot only. There Is nothing paid on the building. Just across the way is vacant lot of the same size, and it pays just as much taxes as the big hotel. The result is that people cannot afford to hold valu- able real estate without they improve 1t. The present taxes are a little over values, which are about 60 per cent of the real values.
 Prince Rupert started with boom. It was all planned and partially de- veloped before a single lot was offered for sale. The Grand Trunk Pacific rail- way decided upon a site, and sent Its, engineers to clear the land, level the hills and lay out the city The company. had 24,O00 acres of land, in- cluding the owpsite, and the first subdivision covered one-twelfth of that area. The woods were cut away the land cleared, the business part of the city excavated and leveled and plank roads made. The future city was. advertised and then auctions were held in Victoria and Vancouver. The first lots brought high prices. and the boom continued, until the present if nancial stringency began. Now hard times have reduced the prices and progress Is halted. The war has stopped business in all parts of Canada. money
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cording to the grades and the valleys In some places the blanks are spiked to a trestle work from 10 to 20 feet high, and in others they lie on the bed rock of the hills. The blanks are three inches thick and the roads are substantial enough for heavy teams and the score or more auto mobiles owned in the town. Prince Ru- pert has 21 miles of such roads, and in addition many miles more of pathways of boards five or six feet in width. The lat ter connect the main roads with the houses
 :. It was in company with J. II. Pills bury, the civil engineer who laid out Prince Rupert, and M J. Hobin, a mem Der of the board of trade, that I took We had a two ton, passenger car which seemed to me unusually wide, and I expected a collision every time another car passed. The plank road was so narrow that turning out places have had to be built at the cross streets and curves, and the inclines are such that we flew up and down as though we were going over the track of a giant roller-coaster Now we would shoot around a cure where a slight skiddng of the car might have hurled us into a ravine; and now climb hill with the posts and the trestle-work trembling beneath us. At one. time we rode for some distance through Lovers lane," a part of the 90 acres of forest that forms the public park of the city, and at another we climbed the steep slope of .Acropolis hill, although MT. Hobin suggested we had better walk, for the road was a bit old, and the posts might be too weak to support the automobile.
 It was on top of Metropolis hill that we inspected the waterworks of the city. The supply comes from Lake Woodworth, on little mountain five miles away and it is brought in an eight-inch pipe across country. to this reservoir. The reservoir has been dug out of the bedrock, and 1t contains more than a million gallons of water in addition to the usual needs of the city.
 On another. part of this same hill are the municipal tennis courts and base ball park. These have been made at the expense of the citizens, it having cost $25,00O to blast out the rock and level the space for the baseball dia- mond. It will take $500O more before the ball ground is as the mayor. says it should, be. The park is so situated that the hills about it form the grand- stand, and consequently there is free admission. The pay of the players is collected by passing the hat. The mu- nicipal tennis courts have been made by laying level plank floor upon the uneven surface of the rocks, and erect ing about it fences of wire netting so high that the balls cannot possibly fly
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into the range of vissinm large blank of pure white, and for the momint is under the impression that the walls have decorrasions at this point Latur, upon closur obsurvason, he finds that it is meerly broad expanse of the back of sum sosiety dame One feels sorry that hard times and the have so redused us that when go to show wife has hang her vertebre clothed in nuthng but electric lite. ovver the back of hur sect, while she is enjoying the performance.
 We stand today committed to reform. We will sign petision to Paris in the form of round rob bin or enny uther kind of appeei to give us back the styles of few yeers ago. when theere weer clothes and less newmonia. Viewing the situasion rum all angus-and if theere is angul haven't veewed it. frum we will appresiate it being pointed out to us-we can see no legitimate reesun for crowdng in sum spases with dress goods if barren spots air to be left in uthers. This is unlawful dis crimminaSion-if it ant unlawful it leest has not been passed by the Nasonel Board of Sensorshp Let us have reform. In claryon tones demand it.
 Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES. Washington. D. c.
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States cities, and it promises to be the fast freight route for perslable prod ucts between Alaskan waters and the rest of the continent. Already train loads of fresh fish are being shipped weekly from here to our cities and every train that starts out has cars of halibut and salmon, fresh or frozen, destined for Min neapolis, Chicago, New York and Bos- ton.''
 I wish I could show you Prince Rupert. The town lies on beautiful bay. guarded by islands. Its harbor is IA miles long, and large enough to hold all the fleets that will ever sail at any one time to- ward Boring strait It reminds me of Jaffa, the port for Jerusalem. It is right on the sea, and the buildings climb up and down the mountains of rock, close to the shore. The chief difference between them is that the hills of Jaffa are all bleak and bare while those of Prince Rupert are wooded and clad in perpetual green.
 Seven years ago the site of this city was a forest Pines and. cedars covered the mountains, and today the sturnps ris- ing out of the sloping town lots look like the black bristles of an unshaven chin. The town has COCO people. I ven- ture it has more than 6O,0O0 stumps: The stumps are rooted in the crevices of the bed rock, and the space between them is matted with muskeg, a messy vegetation two or three feet in depth that holds the water like a sponge, and makes it impos- sible to go across country without thick boots or rubbers. This muskeg covers the whole region about and it was one of the difficulties that had to be con- uttered in laying out and building the city.
 Another and still greater difficulty was blasting the rocks from the sides. of the hills and making level places upon which streets might be laid and houses be built. The site was all rocky mountain and every bit of the town is founded on the bed rock. The sewers have had to be blasted from the sides of the hills and built up in the valleys. The same is true of the roadways in the business part of the town, the whole having required pro portionately almost as much grading and blasting as the Culebra cut of the Pana- ma canal
 In the residence section the streets are of blanks resting upon trestle-work or upheld by posts. The townsite. which covers about 200O acres, is made up of sharp hills, which run back to wooded mountains over POGO feet high. The place is so rough that to build solid roads through it would bankrupt the city many times over, and so the roadways are wooden. looking like lines of continuous bridges. The streets run up hill and 0own and they are 16 feet wide. They rest upon posts of various heights, ac-
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White Pass railway over the Coast range to White Horse and thence sent down the Yukon river to the Klondil1e and on into interior Alaska. The Alaskan business Of Vancouver is a bagatelle In comparison with that of Seattle Its chief trade is with the Yukon territory and especially with Dawson, to which city almost $4,00o.- GOO worth of Canadian goods are shipped every year.
 The third and last water gate to Alaska is Prince Rupert, the new terminal of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway. This is the farthest north of all the doors to our territory, being, in fact, only 40 miles south of the international boundary It took me less than six hours to come here by ship from Ketchikan, and a fast ocean steamer could go in two hours from here to Dixon Entrance or the Port land canal where Alaska begins.
 Prince Rupert is more than 300 miles north of Vancouver, and more than 500 miles north of Seattle. It is about two days nearer. Alaska by rail than any other port, and its people think it of fers by far the best route from the east ern and southern parts of our continent to the United States of the far north.
 I have just had talk with the mayor of Prince Rupert. He claims that his city is two days nearer Alaska by steamer than any of the Puget sound ports, and says that now that the Grand Trunk Pacific railroad has been completed, trav- +l.z ,orte ,f do and the United States can reach our ter ritory two days sooner by coming this way He claims, and rightly, that the port will eventually give the shortest route to the orient and that it vii, cut down the steamship trip to Yokohoma. Japan, more than 800 miles. The chief reason for this, is because Prince Rupert lies so far north on the globe, and, there fore, has a shorter water route. to the far east.
 At present." to use the words of the mayor "thet troubles in Europe are pre- venting the establishment of new steam ship lines from here to the orient, but this will; be changed as soon as peace comes, and via Prince Rupert will be the shortest sea route around the world. By it the voyage across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will be greatly reduced as to miles and days. It is only about four days from Europe to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the Grand Trunk Pacific railway begins. The road runs from there in one continuous line across the North American continent to Prince Rupert on the Pacific. It crosses Canada far north of the great lakes to Winnipeg, then cuts through the wheat belt to Edmonton and goes on to climb the Rockies by easier grades than any other road that crosses cur continent. It has short cuts by vari- ous connections to all of the United