davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1919-05-09

any remark on this bill. Personally as
far as | am concerned, and for more than
one reason, | am not in favor of the bill.
If the Government is making a present
of thirty thousand dollars to the Munich.
pality, they should do so with as little
condition as possible. | recommend that
the Council vote for the Committee Re
port the amount is given to US already,
| don't think it would be used any where
else.
End Member for Christiansted Coun ry
District (NeLthropp) endorsed the words
of the last speaker.
1st Member for Christiansted Country
District (MacKay) remarked Mr. Chair
man. | don't think | should say any
thing as there are so nan eloquent
speakers. | intend to vote for the Com
mittee Report.
End Member for Christiansted Town
(CdneqatU) remarked Mr.. Chairman.
1t seems very plain what vote this Coun-
eli is going to get on this matter. | don't
want the other members to feel that we
the members of Christiansted Town and
Country Districts are the only represen-
tatives of the people; ii they feel that
the community is not properly repre-
scented here to-day, J am Willing to let
the matter go to a general election
No one requested the word further,
the Secretary (Caneyata) read the Com
mittee Report.
End Member for Christiansted Town
(Conegato) remarked: Mr.. Chairman.
There is one point here under dispute.
The Resolution is not an additional
Money 81 /. | consider when we vote
the Committee Report we are voting
for one hundred and f|ifty-three thou
sand francs and also the one hundred
thousand francs called for in the Reso-
LUTON. This was agreed upon in the
committee meeting.
LIST Member for Frederikstad Country
District (Fgen2i7g) remarked: Mr.. Chair
man. AS far as we are concerned we
Qe safe in voting for the thirty thou
ssand dollars. / think our Government
isAtoo honorable to refuse 70 give the
thiNy thousand dollars because we
Aknocked out the last bill Introduced in
the Council.
End Appointed Member 1NoW moved
that the vote be taken on the Commit
tee Report and the Resolution separ-
ately.
End Member for Chr stiansted Town
(Canegata) was of the opinion that the
amounts should be consolidated.
, 1919-05-09

Entered as S~econd-cIasS matter Mag
26h 1917 at the Post Office at Christina
sted, st. CrojT, Y. /. Of the y. S. A., IN
der the Act OF March 8. 1879.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13

reau OF Criminal Investigation. He is
the keeper OF the Morgue of Souls.
Year after year he has noted this
singularity: that crooks have no real
intellectual power That is to say,
they cannot reason with perfect clar-
ity. Inevitably their judgment goes
off at a tangent, even when the OBJ
stacle to simple reasoning is simple.
Just as a spike laid upon a rail in a
certain way will ditch train Crooks
may be shrewd as sin, very nimble
witted, very quick mentally-but in
tellectually they are children. Allen
believes that this explains the curl
Gus fact that crooks will continue TO
travel the road which leads to ruin
even when they can see pals just
ahead sinking into the auicksand. A
certain vanity impels them to believe
that this experience OF others cam
not possibly descend upon them. They
forge along with their eyes open. They
simply cannot reason out in advance
the inevitability of the laws triumph,
of the impossibility of succeeding in
the long run at the trade of crime.
The first time or so they are caught
after it is police persecution. The po-
lice won't let them alone, The police
are framing them. The police won't
give them chance to earn an honest
living. Lies in ninety-nine cases out OF
n hundred-lies and inverted, twisted
reasoning.
Allen hasn't much confidence in the
protestations of reformed criminals
All policemen are more or less cyni-
.cal, 1t is true, but this one goes
pretty far toward proving out of the
multitudinous records OF the bureau
that pretty talk following n long pro-
cession of ugly deeds usually amounts
to nothing at all. He can cite in
stances OF men whose promises and
protests softened the severity of judges
and moistened the eyes OF jurymen,
where offenders escaped punishment
and which were followed by criminal
acts as fragrant as any that ever went
before.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13

Crime is a fairly constant factor IN
the life of a great city. There has been
no notable improvement in New York.
Certain kinds Of crime have been made
more difficult to practise, that Is all.
There are fewer pickpockets because
the trade is getting harder and harder
and the proceeds simmer and simmer.
There is less burglary-that is to say,
there was less before rehabilitation,
for the chart now shows a distinct up
ward curve. There were fewer hold
ups before the end of the war pro-
duced abnormal conditions such as
always follow the end of a war But
swindling in its innumerable varieties
has increased. There Is no evidence
that experience or good counsel Is at
tanning any great results. The pick
pockets trade has fallen off for the
vary practical reason that most men
put their spare money in the savings
bank or invest 1t in low priced bonds
rather than carry It around in fat
and obvious wallets as they used 10
do. Also most men have learned TO
display gold watches not too openly
and to secure them more adequately
than by a dangling fob. Burglaries
are fewer in normal times because
householders don't advertise their
vulnerability so helpfully as they once
did. Not so many people pull down
the window shades when they leave
home, among other things THE police
have been helpful in bringing about
these improvements. Arthur Woods
as Commissioner, got out a list OF
"Don'ts" for apartment dwellers which
was bad thing for the burglary trade.
and since that publication the police
have been issuing various Don't"
lists addressed to bank messengers,
department stores, automobile owners
and various other kinds OF persons
with likely goods.
Therefore every step and tendency
is to make q poor trade pay worse
There isn't a prospect in any form
of commercial crime which ought to
interest man or woman OF average in
telligence.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13
Nays Mystery Ship
MYSTERY SHIP" OF the Amer
lean navy during the war was

y lean navy during the war was
the converted yacht Winches-
ter. This was the fast boat formerly
owned by p. h. Rouss and used by him
as ferry between his place on the
Sound and the city.
The Winchester was one Of the fast
est American yachts. being able to
make twenty-eight knots easily when
she was first commissioned. Because
of her speed she was chosen by Amer
lean naval officers for the work OF test
ing paravanes. the unique contrivance
of Commander Burnly, r. N, for cut
ting the moorings of mines planted by
the enemy.
Paravanes are constructed for three
classes of vessels, slow cargo steam
ships OF about ten knots speed. for
'battleships which can maintain a
speed OF twenty-five knots and for fast
armored cruisers. The paravane built
for the cargo ship would go wild if
towed at high speed.
The paravane testing ground of the
American fleet was western Long ISL
and Sound from City Island east to
Great Captains Island. The Winches-
ter's base of operations was City ISL
and whore the paravanes were deliv-
cred for the test.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13
An Ideal Walk for the New Yorker

little churches. &C., but now all is
changed, for the energetic people of
Edgewater have built here a pretty
little town; yet the river side of the
road is not much changed.
At high tide the waves come up 10
the wall Of the road, and in such hours
leaky old canal boats, old dismantled
hulks, old tugs. &C, have drifted or
been hauled to the flats and left to
settle into the mud and rot away. Also
may be seen ancient steamboats, and
schooners falling to pieces Here and
there slender gangways stride out
toward the navigable depth, half their
support gone and wide gaps in their
planking And sunken barges, placed
end to end, form a queer Imitation of
a wharf.
To all of these wrecks and derel!cts
more or less paint clings, giving
touches of color. Along flows the
beautiful blue Hudson, and beyond,
glittering in the sunshine, rises the
wonderful city whose grandeur is a
tribute to the Hudson's beneficence.
There is thus a world of color and
much picturesqueness in the view ma
terial for many picture and poem.
The only break for many a mile in
this Bergen Ridge is the old Fort Lee
landing. Here a second and higher
frontal begins, the true Palisades eX-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13

have realized 100000 in thirty years
Of criminal practices. Farrell is just
out of prison after serving a term of
five years for grand larceny. He was
seen in Park Row a few days ago beg
ging-and he looked as II he needed
the food he asked for. What has Far
rell got out of it, anyhow? Where Is
the $780, 900 he got by fraud and guile?
Where are the flash friends he had in
the days of his prosperity? The best
friend he has is an old detective SER
geant at Police Headquarters for
whom he once did a decent service.
Every so often Farrell drops around
and gets few dollars from the old
detective.
Women fare no better than men at
the hopeless trade. A week or two ago
it was discovered that the Mrs. James
Montague Sharp held in the Tombs
for attempting to shoot Bill Avery was
none other than May Churchill, "Dia-
mond May" Chicago May" hotel
thief, confidence woman and associate
of the most dangerous international
thieves in the books of the police. The
first record of the lady's convictions is
dated Christmas Day twenty-three
years ago, but the Waldorf and the
Imperial and other hotels had ample
cause in years to come to lament her
lightfingered abilities. She was a
great friend of Eddie Guerin, the bank
burglar, and she helped Guerin escape
from Devils Island that time such a
stir was made in the world. Also she
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13
NE of the pleasantest walks for
the New Yorker to take these
Ana Snri,nrr rnnrninnn L. nln,n

the foot of the Palisades of the Hud-
son. 1t is an old place, whatever way
you look at it-you might say one of
the Oldest in the world, for the Hudson
River lies in a great crack in the geo
logical basis of things. The water
course is as ancient as the continent
itself. 1t is old historically too, for
here the Dutch in the early days came
to set their shad nets. And ever since
1t has been busy place for mankind.
Yet north OF Fort Lee it's wildness
remains almost primitive.
There is no woodland about New
York so easily reached, and yet how
many of us have ever been there?
You take the ferry at 130th street, and
in less than a mile northward you may
stroll among the forest trees and Itch
ened rocks.
Even this preliminary mile is inter-
esting. Not many years ago 1t was an
unpaved road alongside the river,
shaded much of the way by gigantic
elms and cedars and bordered on the
other side by the orchards and gardens
of once fine estates and by their half
ruined houses and barns. Great piles
of stones stood where once had stood
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13

tending thence for a score OF miles
to Piermont; and here. between the
Bergen Ridge and the Palisades, has
wound upward since colonial times an
old road which leads back to the
Hackcnsack Valley.
During the Revolution this was an
important place and it was Wash
ington who caused to be erected the
historic Notifications named Fort Lee.
Nearly all the traces of this redoubt
are gone, but the road twisting up the
gully and over the Bergen Ridge re-
mains and until recently was little
changed from early days. Good old
Holland Dutch lived in this village
then. Now italian predominant
And so one may walk for miles.
The history OF this talus is interest
ing, as one may read it along this
path, which sometimes dips almost
to the waters edge and again 1t rises
high around some mass or trap of
sprawling tree stump. This bank
is now a State park.
Against the dark brown wall and
amid the verdant spring flowers CLEAN
the white sprays of shadbush and flow
ering dogwood, the rough barked
sassafras, pines and many other trees
among the prevailing oaks and juni-
pers, 1t is also a fine place to study
ferns and in the early spring to find
saxifrages, bloodroot, Dutchmans
breeches and dog toothed violet. Later
one will see the columbine and many
others. And when you are too tired
to travel further. II you be reasonably
nimble You can rest on a big rock on
an outlook which commands miles of
river and hills, the great city filing
the scene to the east and glimpses OF
the sea beyond It.
Then one can walk back through the
woods to the highway and turn down
Palisade avenue in Englewood- Oh
the most beautiful streets in America
and 50 reach a trolley or a steam
| railway which will take him home.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13
Home Made Tea Carts

HE Home Economics Depart
ment at the New Jersey Agrl-
cultural College suggests an
easy method OF making a simple tea
wagon from an old table or an old
fashioned wash stand.
A table about 80 inches high with
top IS by 80 inches is n good size
to use. 1t should have a lower shelf
about II inches from the floor, or IF
II has no shelf one may be made and
fastened to the legs OF the table. Put
a small moulding around the edge OF
this shelf to prevent the dishes from
slipping off. Tho top of the table may
be fixed in the same way or IL may be
covered with felt or cardboard. A
piece of glass cut to fit inside the
moulding, with cretonne or lined to
match or combine with the color
scheme OF the dining room. placed
under the glass adds to the appear
ance of the tea wagon.
The rubber tired wheels from an
old baby carriage or gocart may be
fastened to the legs of the, table or
casters may be used instead. Fasten
a curved rod at the back OF the tea
wagon by which to push 1t. a short
curtain rod or towel holder serving
well for this purpose.
The table may be waXed or painted
and makes a useful and attractive
piece Of furniture for any dining room.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13
An Ome]ette That Was Fatal

T IGNORANCE OF cooking is not
often the direct cause of a mans
death. but such an instance is
found In the history of France. In
the time of the French Revolution one
Monsieur Condorcet, upon whose head
as an aristocrat price was set, sought
refuge with a friend, Monsieur Suard,
who bade him return at nightfall when
means of escape would be provided.
Unhappily Condorcet, being unable
to exist without tobacco, went into a
tavern to buy some. Still PROSTATE
from fatigue he thought he would take
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13

advantage OF this opportunity to get
some dinner and ordered an omelette.
How many eggs do you wish to be
used?" inquired the landlord, who had
been cycling him suspiciously. The in
nocent Condorcet was at his wits end:
he reflected upon the size Of the ordi-
nary omelette.
Twelve" he boldly replied.
His fate was sealed; none but an
arlstocrat could be so ignorant or so
eXtravagant. He was arrested and led
away to prison, from which he never
emerged.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-13

tried to kill him, for once her affections
are engaged she stands no masculine
nonsense. But crime has paid her
small returns. Men used her and dis
carded her. Thousands she got her
hands upon were spent to Spring"
male crooks. The diamonds she was
so fond Of and which she used to dis
play so lavishly have long since dis
appeared. Going on to fifty years of
age she finds herself merely in prison
once more and hard pressed for funds
to pay a lawyer. They say at Police
Headquarters that Diamond May
earned" at least s25O,OO0 in twenty
years.
No Real Intellectual Power.
So the list of wasted lives runs on
Joseph Fay, Mott Haven Red OBrien.
burglars, counterfeiters, wireless wire
tappers, swindlers and cheats OF every
shade and variety. Not one of them
alive does more than exc out a miser-
able, harried. apprehensive existence.
They that are dead are the truly for
tunate. Here are examples enough to
prove the contention. The same thread
OF futility runs through the life story
Of every broken crook. There is a
curious similarity throughout.
Police Lieut.. John II. Allen, who
has spent a lifetime in criminal in
vestigation, who is a student of the
trade of crime, presides, under In
spector Joseph Faurot, over the Blu
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1919-03-11
THE SCHOOL BOARDS PROBLEM SOLVED
By j. L. puI LOT
Department Of Sociology Economies and Government West
Texas State Normal COLLEGE, CANYON, Texas.

lI0m er.. .. .uc o'clock and from
f.. O'Clock and 600 Gay SAT-
n... ...E .ra uuN being wasted
Hl. . IMPAIRED .o thp rock while
u. mHI. portion OF the days
NOW employed may apply 20 the
nH.au rl. public is being made
.a carry DDS .ock extra burdens of
alaror a.ru-. Jos back without any
reason .h. ham liar of custom
There . ESQ elements which en-
....I. ... solution of this financial
..U... r.. f., e.onomiziug oi
Hm. which result, in the ecouomi
Iae Gloon space and properly
scheduling fhs subjects now being
Offered TH. following suggestions
gro 0T.... ID. probable solution 90
r. ....I.. O.. providing Tor thc iu-
rs.. Ho.. population without
..rr bonds Cor urw buildings for
.... n..... .l incidentally make
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1919-03-11


iug 10 possible TO raise tae salaries
ot the teachers
Use Sis days boz Co., week by
working orc-half the o. hers and
pupils from to 1880 clock and
ouo-hllf ICON $50 io u'c'utk
SO more teachers ia fcluir-
ed under ,ha 80, day pHsIam than
under the live day nr am
Under che presy eve day
program %. tive and oI iaii hours
pen day In some cities 1000 ave n
others U.U fu iHD3, and one io
'ltoo.th.If. or one 90 I.frc as lhe
case may beI twenty ana One
hall hours arc used I. week Tor
Che former and twenty '. Tor the
latte. Under siNd1N program oi
iotr and one.n1ii hoW per dhF
Ieight to 1898" for our nali one
teachers and pupil. auJ to ii'c
Tor the other mltl I.n'}-se'en
nouns aro used
D. Miss "a "iii i..h Tor exc
ample. the .oN Iih ei" from
eight to tw.'rrthlIy She ANA
her pupils VIII hr free f.r .he AFTER
noon s N ani Dr.. pupils VINO
Wer. off during the "1.nns will
occupy Che Sam. room irum Twelve
thirty Go uFc.
Every four Sly. or nine weeks
US ihe school authQrIt.c- may desire.
The moru.ns grade tcaeu'.s ana pa
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1919-03-11
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS.

Special Associated Press Leased
q re Service.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1919-03-11

Entered as secoud-class matter Al
tee postofiice az Amarillo. Texas
under the act OF March 8. 1879
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-05-07
Bid BREATH
Ok. Edwards Olive Tablets Get
at the Cause and Remove It
Yesterday

D.. IGvorIs' Olive Tctlees, the cutct:
ute for calor1a!, &c. g:.tiY c. liz tcH'c.
| md positively 1, - y1or;:.
People afflicted y.it!. 5c-l o-'2--.:.n 8.
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Olive Tablets. The I,,:::::c.--:c..t c. Co:
coated tablets are t-!iGc. g 2ad 90 90
~ ali who i::,ow them.
DR.. Edwards Give 1'acicts &C: GO.
but firmly c.: Ii1e boo-c,o I'd l.Tc-
stimulating them % n.::;c:r.ccl c..
clearing the blood ard Ca....y r2-i-y;a
the c-.:tti-e system. Thcy to TT r'::!c
dangerous cc-lc:.ei docs CTi te.,,ca::..tc a.
OF the bad after effects.
All the benefits of nasty, sic:ee.?,.Ir!:
criping catF1artics are derived from II
Edwards Olive Tablets without gc::2i-is
pain or any disagreeahle effects.
DR.. F. M. Edwards discovered the
formula after seventeen years Of prac
tice among patients afflicted witt
bowel and liver complaint with TIL
attendant bad breath. =.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are purely
vegetable compound mixed with olive
oil; you will know them by their olive
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-05-07

you are entitled 70 pi@S Viii Ing
enclosed articles
The packages were addressed to
Governor Bilbo, Mayor Scott and
Frederick sullens, editor OF the
Daily News, and bore all the ear
marks Of others in the mails re-
Gently containing explosives and
addressed to prominent men through
out the country.
A volle:y of revolver shots rlddled
the packages at the State fail
grounds here. When they failed to
explode several loads OF bucksho1
were used. After this ceremony
performed before a huge audience
the packages were declared TO Dc
harmless and were opened by post
Office officials.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-05-07

inspectors, after attempting a vain
to texplode three packages which
hey5believed contained internal MAJ
chimes, ripped them open and found
thew contained tiny tea and coffee
sets. carved out of wood. A card
in each package bore these words:
eff you have opened this package,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-05-07

SIX KILLED, FOURTEEN HURT
Columbus, Ohio, May six
persons are known to have been
killed, fourteen injured and at least
one is missing in a fire which de-
stroyed an apartment house here
Yesterday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-05-07

This is Nn-4a1Gl Bicycle Wrak-
May 5 TO 70. THIS IS the week to
buy bicycle 70 Sc. the greatest good
from it this Spring.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-11-21
PARTY troR sRloE-To. BE. 4

n
Lake Crystal Union: The home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. T. Owens was THE
scene of jolly gathering last Monday
evening when their niece, Miss Try
phena Lewis, entertained about TWEEN
ty of her friends in honor of Miss Ma
bel Rudberg of Mankatc, who is to be
a Thanksgiving bride.
The first of the evening was spent
playing progressive games, in which
Mrs. Emil Brederson and Miss Emma
Larson carried off the honors and the
"booby prize" Then the lights were
turned out and the guests gathered
cozily about the open fire while Mrs.
Stanley jones accompanied by Miss
Gladys Cooper sang Perfect Day."
and Il Love You Truly" Immediately
afterwards the familiar strains of
the wedding march were heard and
little Miss Barbara James entered in
fun bridal array, bringing cluster of
pink roses and Basket of useful
gifts for the guest of honor-in fact
Barbara made several trips before all
the daintily tied packages were deliv !.
erd. The color scheme of pink and
white was beautifully carried out in
every detail of the delicious luncheon
which brought the pleasant evening to
a close.