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New-York tribune., 1920-03-14
rbhon Is Closing Alcoholic Wards and Homes Drunkard
servation Of persons suffering with
psychopathic ailments.

servation Of persons suffering with
psychopathic ailments.
At the Offices Of the New York As
sociation for Improving the Condi-
ton Of the Poor, 105 East Twenty
second Street, ono Of tho greatest
welfare organizations Of the coun-
try, William H. Matthews, in charge
Of the Department of Family We'll
fare, announces that not a single
case Of dependency due to alcohol
ism is now on the books Of the asso-
citation.
Mr.. Matthews said it was too early
to give figures showing tho decrease
r in the number Of cases from pre-
prohibition days, but Major Under
wood, Of the Salvation Army, was
not so conservative.
A Thousand a Day
Before prohibition we had about
one thousand men constantly in our
institutions in and about greater
New York devoted to the care Of
alcoholic cases, or Of persons out of
employment because Of drinking" !"
said Major Underwood.
eve have one place on Forty
eighth Street which cared FOR 200
men; another on 120th Street with
room for 1875 men; two in Brooklyn
caring for 100 and 200 men respect
lively; one in Jersey City with ac-
commodations for $50 men, and
others in Yonkers and nearby places
caring for more than 300.
Mostly Alcoholics
"Of the men cared for In these
institutions at least rs per cent or
IS per cent were alcoholics.
To-day these institutions are al
most vacant, the only inmates left
being aged men, whom we dislike to
cast adrift and who are too old to
make their living in the competitive
fields.
"In other hsvens where W. cared
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14
Hayes Named Four

pftals," said Commissioner Of Char
tides Coler.
"At Bellevue there were formerly
accommodations in the alcoholic
wards for 1926 men and for from 25
to DO women. These beds were some
times all full.
Formerly there were 5000 ad-
missions Of male patients suffering
from acute alcoholism and 1900
such female patients year. The
average stay in the hospital was
five and one-half days patient,
making the average number Of such
patients in the hospital at one time
1O2, Of them 70 being men and 23
women
Down to Three or Four
"There are now only three or
four such patients in the hospital.
The wards are temporarily given
over to influenza and pneumonia
cases, but later will be used for
mental detectives and for observa-
tion and diagnosis"
Commissioner Color said that
there was similar condition at
Kings County Hospital, although
the contrast Is less marked, the
hospital never having cared for as
many "drunks" as Bellevue.
"The hospital formerly had ac-
commodations for 20 men and 10
women, the beds often being all
filed" said Mr.. Coler. "At the time
we made our last Investigation, a
few days ago, there were five of
such men at the hospital and no
women.
1T may be added that the reduc-
tion in the number of these cases
means a considerable saving to the
taxpayer"
In considering the figures given
by Major Underwood and Commn-
sioner Coler it is only fair to call
attention to the. fact, long estab-
lished by welfare and settlement
workers, that men who are profit
ably employed and unworried by
financial considerations arc far less
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14
First to England

England has been a favorfte field
tor American literary ambassadors,
There have been five besides Ban.
croft, and it is a pleasant tradition
with the British that America
chooses the best of her literary men
as ambassadors to London. The
London newspapers have a habit of
measuring new American ambas-
sadors by comparing them with
their literary predecessors.
Charles Francis Adams was the
first literary man to follow Ban
croft in London, and, like Bancroft.
he was a combination politician and
lltterateur. His first choice was the
law, which he studied in the Office
Of Daniel Webster. After being ad-
mitted to the bar he gave himself
to writing for ten years and then
served five years in the Massachu-
sets State Legislature. Various
political pursuits were followed bv
another literary period, which ended
in 1853, when he went to Congress.
remaining there until Lincoln sent
him to London as minister In 1851.
The British ar1stocracy and upper
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14
American Diplomacy and Literature Go Hand in Han
Nineteen Men of Letters Have
Been Appointed Ambassa-
dors or Ministers

rT IS almost always an honor t.
be the ambassador of on,
rreat nation to anot her
Hardly any political debt can
M b paid by such an appoint
u.nt But in the American diplo-
,,.tic service it has grown to be 8
fr.ouent practice to confer this
honor on distinguished literary
man. Eleven out of twenty eight
pr.sidents have appointed nineteen
,a.rarv men to ambassadorial OF
ministerial posts. One and one
s.urth per cent of Americas prin-
cipsl diplomatic representatives
have thus been literary men, which
apretty high ratio of recognition
Al letters.
President Wilson, who already has
tsrned six literary men into diplo-
rats. has now made his seventh am
hssadorial choice from that profess
Sen. Robert Underwood Johnson,
i is announced. is to succeed
Thomas Nelson Page as ambassador
to Italy. Mr.. johnson has been as
,ociate editor Of THE Century"
from 1881 to 1909 and editor in
chief from 1910 to 1913, and in
1917 was designated director of New
York University's hall of fame for
rreat Americans. He was sixty
seven years old on January ~.
An Italian Admirer
He has always been extremely
fond Of Italy. In 1895 King Hum
bert made him a Cavalier of the
Order of the Crown of Italy and a
year ago King Victor Emmanuel
conferred on him the cross Of a COM
mander of that order. Nh. johnson
was chairman of the American
Poets Ambulances in Italy, which
spent total of s176,sO7 on hospital
equipment for the Italian army dur
ig the war He was always strongly
pro-Ally, and in March, 1917, in his
poem "The Answer of the Lord )"
published i'll The Tribune, wrote:
gave you Law. to guide.
That needed not my hand;
With Reason. to decide,
And Conscience. to command.
Ye are not beast or tree,
fe are not stone or clod,
Your upward path is FREQ
Ye are the sons Of God.
And shall ye then descend
From your divine estate,
The craven neck to bend
And call the yoke your fate.
Wake from the sloth Of night
And drain life's precious bowl.
The hour mas come to s,nite
Or lose a peoples soul
Washington Irving was the first
American literary diplomat. Irving
had lived in Spain from 1926 to
1879 and as a result of that visit
produced four books: History Of
Columbus, "Chronicle of the Con-
Quest Of Granada Voyages and
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14

Discoveries of the Companions of
Columbus" and "The Alhambra. y
The last book was written while he
was secretary of legation in Lon
don, from 1929 to 1881. John Tyler
made him Minister at Madrid in
1S41. where Irving lived a second
time until 1916, continuing his his
torical writing with his work on
Mahomet.
The next literary diplomat was
George Bancroft, who was sent to
London by James K. Polk in 184e.
Yet, though the first volume of Ban
crofts History of the United
States appeared in 1884, it must be
admitted that he was combination
literary and political ambassador
for he had been Collector of the Por,
OF Boston under Van Buren,, Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts and Secretary of the
Navy for year in Polk's Cabinet
and for month Acting Secretary of
War. He established the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, gave the
orders which led to the occupation of
California and sent Zachary Taylor
to occupy the disputed territory be
tween Texas and Mexico.
Bancroft remained three years in
London and on his return to America
withdrew from public life until he
was again called upon TO fill a diplo
raatic post. In 1867 Andrew John.
son made Bancroft Minister to Ber-
lin. who're he remained until 1874
The naturalization treaties he nego
t.ated with Prussia and the other
North German states we're the first
international recognition of the right
Of eXpatriation.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14

TIL two biggest hospitals in the
city caring for alcoholic cases are
Bellevue and Kings County hos
pitals. Both receive cases from the
Department Of Public Charities.
prohibition unquestionably has
had an effect On these two hos
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14
By Arnold D. Prince

w HATEvER the merits in
" the prohibition agitation,
partial survey Of con-
ditions just completed in
No" York and throughout the coun-
~ seems to show that with the sus-
p'nnon OF the sale Of LIQUOR radl-
'al changes resulted in institutions
'sVosed to the care Of alcoholics or
?" persons who became dependents
0scause Of excessive Indulgence in
liquor.
Arrests Fall OFF
AZ the same time the records Of
'% police courts show a marked fall
ns Oft in the number Of arrests due
amortization. Savings institutions
''p0'1 Increases in small deposits,
'u' as these are partly attributed to
"'sn wages and plentiful employ
'sns not all the benefits can be
credited to prohibition.
" the organizations which came
INTO direct contact with the LIQUOR
,''0'em none was more prominent
'a'' the Salvation Army. Major
onward Underwood, head OF the
s'''ern Social Welfare Department
NO Salvation Army, announces
's' the activities Of the five hun
homes, 'shotels" and shelters,
''a'ained throughout tho United
Ss BY the Army for the care Of
uankards," have been so radically
s'ed that serious consideration
lung given to the proposal to
S'''s most Of them.
peonolic Wards Empty
- oelievue and Kings County
p'ssis' which cared for thousands
- 'nollc cases annually. need for
J" these wards virtually has
eared, and they are to be con-
INTO wards for the care of
esfsc6yas and for tho OBJ
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14

for from forty to fifty men only
eight or nine remain now.
Because of this condition we are
seriously thinking Of closing down
a majority of our homes for alco-
holics, and would have decided to
do SO already but for the fact that
in case there is an industrial de-
preston there may be demand
for room from men thrown out of
employment, and the Salvation
Army desires to be in q position to
care for these"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14
Homes May Close

Major Underwood frankly ad-
n1itted that he is on the side Of the
Anti-Saloon League in the fight now
being made for a relaxation of the
prohibition laws, but he insisted that
the figures given out by him were
absolutely accurate nevertheless.
"Not only has our population of
drinkers been all but wiped out, but
there also has been a curtailment Of
other charities, much Of which at
tribute to the shutting off of the
supply Of liquor" said the Salvation
Army official.
"As you know, It has long been
tho practice Of the Salvation Army
to distribute Christmas dinners. For
the last ten years that I have been
in New York about 5000 baskets
we're sent out each Yuletide, and the
demand was generally for twice that
number.
"Last Christmas, even though
prohibition. was not then fully in
effect, the demand for Christmas
dinners fell off to such an extent
that we gave out only about $1,000"
Court Records
At the Office Of the chief city
magistrate these records were OBJ
tained, showing the number Of at
rests Tor iptpdcaton pads IN lsla,
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14

behest of President Roosevelt in
1907. He remained in that post
until 1918, when he resigned on ac-
count of i'll health.
President Wilson has been the
most prolific appointer Of literary
diplomats. Besides holding over DR..
Egan from President Taft, he has
appointed seven literary ministers
or ambassadors on his own account
The five besides Robert Underwood
Johnson and Walter Hines Page are
Thomas Nelson Page, DR.. Henry
van Dyke, Brand Whitlock, Paul S.
Reinsch and Norman Hapgood.
Thomas Nelson Page was a law
yer by education, writer by choice
and diplomat by inculcation of
ideas. When he was appointed Am
bassador to Italy in 1913 ne had
never taken an active part in poll
tics, but his home in Washington
was one of the handsomest in that
city and his social doings were
among the exclusive diplomatic set.
DR.. van Dyke had had the excellent
diplomatic training Of twenty years
as pastor Of the Brick Presbyterian
Church, after which he went to
Princeton as professor Of Englisf,
literature. He and President Viii
son were at Princeton at the same
time, which may explain why DR..
van Dyke was glad to go to Holland
when Wilson became President.
Whitlock and Belgium
Brand Whitlock has been so many
things that it was hardly possible
for him to escape diplomacy. The
ease with which he carried through
the work of representing seven
countries besides his own in Bel
GUM during the war Is explained
by his having been four times Mayor
of Toledo on an Independent ticket
and being compelled to refuse a
fifth term. He was born in Ohio.
which state. in former years sup
piled more Federal officeholders
than any other one state in the
Union, and this alone would have en-
titled him to public office. He be-
gan life as newspaper reporter.
became secretary to Governor Alt
geld Of Illinois, studied law, wrote
poetry and finally took up being
Mayor Of Toledo as career. Pres
ident Wilson rescued him from To-
ledo in 1913 and sent him to Bel
GUM.
DR.. Reinsch. had long been a stu
dent Of Far Eastern affairs when
he was sent to China in 1918. He
has written extensively on law and
politics, and his books have been
translated into japanese and Chi
nese. He gave up the post of pro-
fessor Of political science at the
University Of Wisconsin to become
Minister to China. Norman Hap
good followed DR.. Egan In Copen.
hagen, but did not stay long.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14

tho last literary ambassador to Lon
don He was appointed by President
Wilson in April, 1918, caught just
as he was about to do what he really
wanted to do-be North Carolina
farmer. He had never been con-
cerned in politics, but had always
been either newspaper man or a
magazine editor, greatly Interested
in his fellow countrymen. The Brit
ish were pleased with his appoint
ment. They are always pleased
when America sends them q literary
man. and he soon achieved a per-
sonal popularity with them which in
no wise diminished during the try
ing, exacting labors Of the great war.
Mr.. Page returned home in October,
1918, just before the signing of the
armtstice, because Of his failing
health, and died but little more than
two months later.
George H. Boxer was the only
American playwright who became a
diplomat Among his plays were
"Anne Boleyn," 'Leonor de Guz-
man." Francesca da Rimini" and
S'The Widows Marriage" Fran
cesca da Rimtni," which has been
revived several times and was often
played by Barrett, was the best
known. President Grant took him
from writing plays and poems to
send him as Minister to Turkey In
1871, and Transferred him to Russia
in 1875, where he remained under
Hayes until 1879.
Hayes Named Four
President Hayes had four literary
ambassadors. Besides Lowell in
Spain and Boxer in Russia he sent
Bayard Taylor to Germany In 1878.
Taylor had had brief diplomatic
experience as secretary Of legation
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14

classes were pronouncedly in favor
OF the South, and the British gov
eminent occasionally let it's favorit-
ism be manifest. Adams's position
was most difficult, and Lowell later
said of him: "None of our generals
in the field, not Grant himself, did
US better or more trying service
than he IN his forlorn outpost in
London"
Founded the Tradition
Adams came home in 1857, and
President Grant sent John Lothrop
Motley to London in 1869. He was
an entirely literary ambassador, de-
spite the fact that he had been
Minister to Austria from 1861 to
1857. Motley served his country
faithfully and with tact in Vienna.
but his reputation rested on the solid
foundation Of his work as q his
tortan, his "History Of the Rise of
the Dutch Republic" having ap-
peared in 1855 and the first two
volumes Of his History Of the
United Netherlands" In 1850. His
tenure Of the London post was COM
parattvely brief, as he was recalled
in November, 1870.
Ten years later, in appointing
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14
Author of ssBe1l-Hur''

President Arthur's literary d;plo-
mat, was lawyer and a soldier be-
fore he became an author, but was
an author before he was diplomat.
General Wallace was born in 1927,
studied law in Indiana, served IN the
Mexican War, practiced law again
until the Civil War, in which he
served with distinction, and once
more resumed the practice Of law.
His novel "The Fair God" was writ
ten in 1873, while "Ben-Hur," which
achieved a remarkable success, was
published In 1880. 1t was in 1881
that he was appointed Minister to
Turkey, where be served until 1885.
DR.. David Jayne Hill goes to the
credit of Presidents Mckinley.
Roosevelt and Taft, while DR..
Maurice F. Egan is credited to Presi-
dents Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.
DR.. Hill is the author Of biographies
VI w 0OA44lS COu IL Vluk 6uU w lIll9H1
Cullen Bryant, but the majority of
his books have dealt with questions
of government or international rela-
tions. So much of his life has been
given to diplomatic affairs that it Is
perhaps, questionable If he should
be classed as a literary diplomat,
though he is probably best known for
his writings. Before he entered the
diplomatic service he had been presi-
dent of Bucknell University and the
University Of Rochester. He re-
signed the latter position In 1898 to
study law and diplomacy. President
Mckinley appointed him an as
sistant Secretary Of State in 1898.
and In 1903 President Roosevelt
made him Minister to Switzerland.
He was promoted to Minister to the
Netherlands in 1905 and in 1907 was
named Ambassador to Berlin, which
post he held until be resigned in
1911.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14
Preferred the Farm

After Lowell there WAS a lapse In
London until 1897, when President
Mckinley made John Hay Ambassa-
dor, the post having by then been
raised from a legation to an en-
bassy. The appointment Of Hay was
in accord with the best traditions
Of the American diplomatic service.
He was not only literary man Of
high rank, but an experienced diplo-
mat and had been intimately associ-
ated with statesmen and national
affairs from the time when he was
one of Lincoln's secretaries. He con-
tinued as ambassador until he was
recalled to become Secretary Of
State.
The late Walter Hines Page was
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14

.'unes Russell Lowell as Minister to
England, President Hayes founded
he British tradition of American
literary diplomats. While Lowell
had always been intensely interested
in important political questions, a.
evidenced by "The Biglow Papers" In
10A6, satirizing the Mexican War,
and the second series of "Biglow
Papers," published from 1852 to
1855, satirizing the slavery party Of
the Civil War, he had never been in
any sense politician. His first po-
litical experience was when Presi-
dent Hayes made him Minister to
Madrid in 1877. In 1880 he was
transferred to London and served
there with distinction until 1885.
His speeches are still remembered
and quoted by the British, who hold
him In reverence and love as the
type Of the best in American diplo-
macy.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14

the figures being divided into three
month periods for the purposes Of
comnarison:
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14
Washington Irving Was the First
to Represent the United States
at Foreign Capital

he resigned the presidency of Cornell
he gave that university his histori-
cal library, comprising about 10000
volumes and 10000 pamphlets and
manuscripts. He was Minister to
Germany from 1875 To 1881 and was
sent to Germany second time by
President Mckinley in 1897 and re-
NAMED there Until 1902. In the
mean time, he had been Minister to
Russia from 1892 to 1894. In 1899
h+ was chairman OF the American
delegation to The Hague peace con-
ference.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14
Egan a Teacher

DR.. Egan. who had been an editor
and the author Of several popular
novels, came out Of retirement as a
teacher Of English at the Catholic
University at Brooklands, on the out
skirts Of Washington, to accept the
post of Minister to Denmark at the
New-York tribune., 1920-03-14

Disorderly Arrests Gain
At the same time, however, the
arrests for disorderly conduct in
1919 increased, the figures being:
Men. Women. Total
First quarter..... 8,744 2,4o0 lila
Second quarter. .1o,7s3 LIZA 1857
Third quarter. ... 1890 1854 14,744
Fourth quarter. :. 1880 1,4o3 1912
The averages a day for the same
periods were:
Men. Women. Total
First quarter-..... 81 81 1924
Second quarter. 11s 1S 1S1
Third quarter. 49,. 148 II 100
Fourth quarter... 1873 Is 14s
At the same time, these figures,
compiled by the Commissioner of
Correction, show how the popula-
ton Of New York City's penal in
stitutions has been decreasing in the
last nine years:
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1920-01-23
trees, Daylight overlook US st the

trees, Daylight overlook us at the
edge of slough, which bordered lit.
tie lake, where in the gray dawn, Tim.
by lucky shot. managed to kill Grip
pied duck, which later furnished us
with meager breakfast. In the Sc
curity of nearby cluster of trees, we
ventured to build a fire, and, sitting
about it, discussed whether to remain
there or press on. 1t was decided to
remain where we were and rest.
L need not dwell on the details Of
our flight. They remain in my memory
in all clearnesS, each scene distinct,
each incident a picture engraved Oh
the mind. My map proved utterly use.
less, confusing me by its wrong loca.
ton of streams, and its inaccuracy in
the estimation of distances. We must
have wandered far to the north from
our direct course, led astray in the
dark, and by our desire to advance
swiftly. For there soon came to us
warning signs that we were indeed
being pursued; and some evidence
also that we were even within Indian
territory.
The savages had left their unmis-
taxable mark for our finding. 1t was
in the early twilight of the second day,
the western sky already purple with
the fast fading cOlOrs, the prairie be-
fore us showing in patches of green
and brown. To our left was a thick
wood, even then grown gloomy and
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