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New-York tribune., 1920-02-08

which they contributed to the found
ing of New York University. The
list of the subscribers to this insti-
tuition, which came into being in
1881, bears the names of many Of
the commercial leaders of the day.
Among them were John Jacob
Astor, who had already won a large
fortune; George Griswold, one of
the great powers in foreign trade !:
Myndert Van Schaick, who had at
tached his fortunes to the great
house Of J. & P. Hone, both of
whom became councillors of the
university, and many others.
The secoIad Institution in the
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was strongly opposed when it was
started, because it combated the
standard belief.
The development of such schools
as that in Trinity Place is consid-
cred sign of the times. One of
these days it may grow into larger
one, with its laboratories and per-
maps its commercial museum, but it.
Will always have the advantage Of
being within only few steps of one
or the busiest commercial centers N
the world. Those who have already
enrolled in the downtown college ara
OF the kind who believe in learning
while working.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
n WELLINGTON TAYLOR, dean of the Wall Street divi
saom OF Nea0 York University and of has classes

From time immemorial trade and
finance have centered about this part
of the rock-bound isle, and in this
year 1920 No. 80 Trinity Place is
in the vortex Of swirling currents of
commercial and financial enterprise.
For Foreign Trade
The trend Of tho day is toward an
awakening foreign trade, and there
fore at the midwinter term which
began last week new classes in
Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese
were introduced. Those who are
preparing to go abroad OF to enter
into correspondence with merchants
on distant shores can learn just the
right kind of language in which to
address them.
The knotty points of trade with
Europe, Asia and Africa are ex-
planned, and the mysteries Of foreign
exchange are revealed. What the
student has learned in the evening
he can apply the very next morning
in the office or the counting room
where he is employed. Of course,
as ne completes various subjects at
the downtown school he gets GER
tifcates of credit, but in practical
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ambitious older ones in the banks
and trust companies to fit them
selves for greater usefulness. The
status of American railroads and all
the problems connected with their
management are discussed by the
auditor Of the Erie.
What has been so briefly indicated
here represents just what the fine
old merchants Of New York, who
made this the greatest port in the
world, would have done for their
young men, and for the young
women too, had it been the fashion
to employ the fa1rer and better Of
the species in their day. There
was probably in all the world no
better trained body of clerks and
employees than those who were on
the pay rolls of the old-time mer-
chants of this city. Many of the
leading merchants who were among
the founders Of American commerce
had been educated in London or in
Amsterdam, where they went in
quest Of their commercial educa-
tions. They applied the exact, bust
ness-like methods of the Old World
to large extent In this city of New
York, and every shipping Office and
counting room was also an academy.
The owners of the splendid clipper
ships and the importers of the costly
merchandise who made New York
famous for its enterprise and COM
mercial daring saw to it that their
clerks were trained to the highest
point Of efficiency. They often took
hand themselves in the instruction.
1t was necessary that every one
should write a round and clerkly
hand, every letter of which was as
legible as copperplate. The great
est accuracy in figures was required.
When the candidate for promotion
had qualified fully in all the princi-
pies of foreign commerce as it was
then conducted, he was sent abroad
as supercargo or agent to make his
studies in the markets of Europe
and Asia.
That was the way in which John
Jacob Astor and Peter HARMONY
and Philip Hone and Philip Lydig
and scores of the old merchant
princes did their part in bringing
up the standards of our foreign
trade and in giving we'll trained and
educated men to the upbuilding of
the commerce of this city of New
York.
That they believed thoroughly in
education as preparation for big
business Is shown by the way in
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dent that every room is in COM
mission.
When the School of Commerce,
Accounts and Finance was founded
in the lower city, as an offshoot of
the main school in Washington
Square, it had Offices at rs Broad
Street and more offices in the Wool
worth Building and the privilege of
foregathering in rooms of the Cot-
ton, the Produce, the Coffee and
other exchanges. This last week the
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
Street School Teaches Problems of Big Business
Banking and Commerce Are
Featured i'm Branch of New
York University

United States to found school ~
commerce, New York UNIVERSITY
has tried to keep close to the Ideals
Of the practical and public spirited
men who brought it into the educa-
tional work. The School of Com
merce, Accounts and Finance was
established in 1900 in the buiIdinc
in Washington Square East. whic,
was built on the site Of the quaint
old Gothic pile dedicated for wears
to cobwebs and the memories Of
Cecil Dreeme. Out of that old
"Chrysalis College," as the gifted
American novelist Theodore Win
throp was wont to call it, came the
university which, through its manv
professional and technical schools
permeated the city.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
Has 1000 Students

The School of Commerce has 4.0oo
students a year, whose attendance is
distributed between Washington
Square and Trinity Place. It has
graduated 2,1OO men and women 50
far, and has trained 2e,49s who
!. took less than the prescribed courses.
but who, through what they had
learned there IN special courses
adapted to their needs, have helped
themselves on the road to promo
ton and advancement OF the
26,493 there are hundreds who have
risen to the highest place as execu-
tives with the large firms and cor
porations Of the city of New York.
The Wall Street division, quartered
now in the Trinity Place building,
was established for the special con-
venience Of the financial district, and
its faculty is made up of active lead
ers in their respective fields of en-
deavor.
The success which has attended
both branches of the School of Com
merce shows that the great need of
business at this time is an instit,l-
ton equipped to develop a science
Of business economics. The time is
at hand, as is shown by the fact that
the great American universities are
either conducting schools of busi-
ness or are about to do so, as is
the University of Chicago. which
has $2,0O0,000 ready for that pur-
pose, when men will be as sharply
trained for business as for other
callings. 1t was once believed that
only in law Office could one learn
to be lawyer, and, in fact, the
law school of New York University
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students of the various classes saw
each other face to face as they
mingled and fraternized in vast hall
ways. The assembly hall on the top
floor will be ready soon, as will
the restaurants and the lounge and
all that will go to make 80 Trinity
Place both college and clubroom.
When everything is running on
exact schedule there will be later
classes to supplement those already
provided for between the hours Of
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08

5:15 and z o'clock. Students may
dine then in their commons and stay
for still later classes if it does not
suit their convenience to get down
to their books at the earlier hours.
AS most of the business offices in
the lower city close at 5 o'clock in
the afternoon, it does not take
long for the students to get to their
college for the first class. They do
not creep; they proceed with pep.
Faster than Jerseyites who are try
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
The College Of Self Help Takes
Education to Employees of
Financial District

advance themselves In the banks or
Offices where they worked. That
there might be no lost motion, the
College Of Self Help was established
in that roomy old structure at
Trinity Place and Thames Street
which the university recently bought
Of Trinity Corporation. Its four
stories and basement have plenty of
space, and in the evening when all
the mullioned windows Of the gothic
pile are aglow with light it is evil
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
Sweethearts Improbable

He mourned the passing Of the
out-of-towners who used to come to
New York to get drunk. He OBJ
jected to the growing numbers Of
pairs Of sweethearts who visited
cabarets. These people want to get
married, and they are quite eco
nomical, he said. The boys never
wanted to come in cabarets in the
old days, because they might be ex-
pected to buy wine at many dollars
the buy. With wine gone, the
cabarets have been made safe for
timid lovers with celery tonic pocket
books, he said. He added that many
Of the couples sat and looked into
each others eyes over a bottle Of
cider for four hours.
The cabarets, the waiter said, are
not eating places. They have good
chefs and the stuff they buy isn't
bad at all, he amplifed, but the
prices are enough to spoil any but
a profteer's appetite. For that rea-
son, he explained, unless there is
some revision Of price lists the cab
arets cannot expect to draw hungry
crowds, but must continue to WOO
patronage by appeals to the thirst.
He hoped, at this point, that he
had made it clear beyond refutation
that no one should educate his son
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at the way the food is cooked. They
say they hate the service you give
them. Some curse and treat you
like a dog. Formerly they would
often kiss you, when it got late and
they couldn't tell you from the lady,"
Three walters who had tables on
the same aisle as the forlorn sur
vivor opened restaurants in York
vile two weeks ago, he announced.
He assailed the high cost of open
ing a restaurant. In the days when
tips were lavish and nobody waiting
cared whether the one-arm restau-
rant business kept or not, 5000 or
81 600 was enough to start a little
lunchroom, he ruminated, and then
estimated that you need $4,000 or
$4,000 at least to become a pro-
prietor nowadays. The walters way
to fortune is through a restaurant
all his own, he declared, and with
that way barred there is nothing
left for the waiter to do but wait
until death.
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and bills Of lading. The course is
based upon the three documents
which are in common use, the time
charter, the rate charter and the bill
OF lading. This course is one Of tho
most popular at the school, as it is
of great value to the employees Of
steamship men, importers and ex-
porters, freight forwarders and Gus
tom house brokers.
The course in ocean shipping is
taught by Robert E. Amin, the
manager Of the Sigsbee Humphrey
Steamship Company. 1t includes
the machinery Of foreign trade, the
loading of the steamship, the basic
principles Of ffeighting and the
duties Of the traffic manager.
Ports and terminals are discussed
in lectures by r. F.. Lambert.
Marine insurance in all it's phases
is described by William D. Winter.
the third vice-president of the At
lantic Mutual Insurance Company.
Courses in Banking
The instruction in the College Of
Self Help includes courses on ad-
vanced banking methods which will
enable the junior clerks and the
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
Education Taken to Business

Because Of the capabilities which
they had developed either in mill
tary service or in work connected
with the late conflict, there are
thousands of the younger genera
ton who have found that their edu
cation was not quite sufficient to
enable them to lay hold of the op-
portunities which are open to them.
That is why this Wall Street di-
fision of the university got right
DOWN into the business center, where
1t could supply the right kind OF
education for those who wished to
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
Full of the Subject

Mr.. Lehman predicted agitation
for moro wages by those who can
not afford to become proprietors
themselves. He suggested that any
waiter Ia active service be interro-
gated on his views of the present
and hopes for the future.
Asking walters about their "dry"
troubles proved like questioning
middle-aged ladies on operations. It
invoked language by the column.
tho volume and the five-foot shelf.
Only the o'clock ''lights out" or
der interrupted the account. Some
Of the walters wanted to walk the
streets all night and give a few
ssquels. They were filed with their
subject and they wanted to get rid
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
TEW YORK CITY probably
~ will lead the world in
y lunchrooms per capita

~ will lead the world in
Il y lunchrooms per capita
within the next few
months. 1t has been approaching
that coveted honor since July i, when
large increment Of cabaret walters
took one look at their nights re-
oeipts and went into business for
themselves.
Professional waiting In this city
Joined the painting Of book beer
signs among the lost paying arts
when they took the interest out of
liquor.
AS the war-dry days passed, the
bookkeeping Of the walters dwindled
to only few minutes work. They
itepped gloomily among the Gus
toners and watched steady fingers
deal out precise 10 per cent or less
OF shrunken check. The large bills
which semi-conscious patrons had
thrust on them weren't thrust any
more.
William Lehman, secretary Of the
Walters Union, Local No. l, wants
1t known that the members of the
organization are sad and Door.
they are growing sadder and poorer
daily. he declared. He announced
that their hearts arc heavy. Their
deft, clean fingers are becoming list
less, he maintained, and added that
there Is scarcely waiter within tip-
ping distance OF this city who hasn't
price list on restaurant furnish
ings where he can read it between
customerA
New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
~ CHEDULE HARRIED COM
muters and tho homing deni-
. Eens Of tho skyscrapers saw

muters and tho homing deni-
~ xens Of the skyscrapers saw
last Monday hundreds Of
young men and women drop out Of
the homeward rush and hurry into
the College Of Self Help. Although
the students got down to business
early, this college, which has just
got down to business, too, is no
haven for tired business men. It is
a live, wide-awake hive Of industry,
of commerce and finance, in the halls
Of which there buzz nearly two thou
sand voices Of an evening.
This is very good attendance IN
deed for a school which has just
moved into its building and still has
the faint scent of kalsomine and
paint. Some Of the students are sit
ting on the old trefoil carved benches
which were used by the small pupils
Of Trinity School, at 90 Trinity
Place, and the desks remind one of
the forms In the classrooms Of Rugby
and Eton. All the same, this is
school for the grown-ups, for here
Big Business Is school trustee and
stands ready to employ at higher
salaries the ambitious seekers after
greater knowledge.
Broadway and Rector, Broad and
Beaver and Battery Place, all the
streets where commerce and finance
rule the towering structures Of lower
Manhattan, are enrolling in the
Wall Street Division of the School
OF Commerce, Accounts and Finance
Of the New York University.
1t gave one an insight into the
ways Of the young business men
these days to stand on the stairs of
old Trinity School that was and
watch the long line pass the regis
tration booth. Straight backed,
clear eyed. well featured young
persons, whose training in the army
vas marked in their manner and
their gait, stand in line. There were
Young women there, some of them in
their uniforms Of navy yeomen
still, others who had borne their
share in war work.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-10-16
FATAL ACCIDENT
At FOOTBALL
MADISON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
sUCCUMBs no INJURIES RE-
CEIvED IN FOOTBALL GAME
YESTERDAY.

The community, especially the
teachers and student body of the high
school, were perceptibly shocked ear
ly today when the report came from
Flandreau that Carl Espie, son Of Mr..
aud Mrs. Chas. Espie, of this city.
had passed away in DR.. Fiske's hos
pital there while suffering from In
juries received in yesterdays foot
ball game.
Yesterdays game at Flandreau had
progressed up to the third quarter
when the Espie boy went into gen
eral pile-up with the remainder Of
the local team only to come out with
injuries sufficient to warrant taking
him to the nearest hospital where inn
mediate attention could be given.
After emerging from the compacted
scrimmage Carl was assisted from the
field and carried to waiting auto
apparently not seriously hurt. In
fact, he did not complain of any par
ticular pains though 1t was known
that he could stand up under the
strenuous playing no longer.
Coach Lowry and the remainder Of
the local team started for home after
the conclusion of the game and also
after getting a Doctors assurance
that the injured lad was at s o'clock
resting well.
1t is conjectured that the sharp
practices Of fellow in yesterdays
game caused the death Of Carl Espie
who was a splendid student and an
excellent player. 1t might have been
kick or some other rough tactics
that blanched the cheeks of the boy
now lying cold and still In death.
Whatever happened was serious
enough for life began ebbing during
the night and all Of Carl's life activ-
tiles were forever stilled before the
sun rose upon the scenes OF new
day. !.
Through this unfortunate ineidsnt
one home in Madison is made doubiy
sad. The mother Of the deceased
has been i'll for some time and is at
present patient in Sioux Falls
hospital. !.
Upon hearing Of his sons failing
strength and the fact that he was IN
hospital Mr.. Espie departed at once
for Flandreau.
The remaining members OF the To-
cal team are silent and sad today
over the loss of q boy who was - =
prince among them both In their
sports and also in that intimate
youthful friendship that athletic
engagements always beget. It will be
sometime before they can recover
from the shock Of Carl's sudden de-
mise
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-10-16

Philadelphia, Oct. 16-District At
torney F. x. Renninger Of Montgom-
cry county, today gave out the de
tailed confession alleged to have
been written by Augusta Pasquale,
''The Crank" in which he told OF
kidnapping and smothering 49,
months-old Blakely Coughlin.
The confession. as made public.
says PasQuale was in the vicinity OF
Norristown last May to raid tele-
phone pay stations and while walk
ing along the road heard a baby cry
ing. saw its mother put it to sleep
and leave the room. This was the
Coughlin baby and from this incident
he conceived the idea to steal the
child for purposes of ransom which
he carried out with aid of ladder q
few nights later.
II killed him by holding him toe
tight against my breast and little
too long," the confession said. $50
took him to the river and sat there
by the track with the boy on my lar
until I saw daylight coming. Then
not daring to hold him any longer
I tied him with string to piece OF
rail. Then I threw him In the
river"
The confession said Pasquale had
to walt until the newspapers came
out with the story of the kidnapping
before he could learn the name of the
child's parents and write q letter to
them for money.
II can't find name strong enough
for myself" Pasquale is alleged to
have written. He said he had no in
tention Of harming the baby and that
he would have returned the child
even IL he did not receive any money
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-10-16
FARMER
TAKES own LIFE
GIDEON G. REYNOLDS DIES IN
sTANTLY FROM sELF-INFLICT-
ED GUNsHOT WOUNDS.

A suicide of more than the average
deliberately planned kind occurred
at 3 a. m. today in Clarno township
when Gideon G. Reynolds, a wealthy
and successful farmer, came to the
end of a period OF brooding over the
death last winter OF one of his favor
ite sons and placed the muzzle of a
twelve guage shotgun against his max
ed breast while standing in the front
room of his home. When the trigger
was pulled in the deliberate act of
self-destruction q heavy load of shot
entered the lung lobes and emerged
through the back.
Careful preparation had been made
beforehand. The gun was loaded,
and, before using it, the mentally
disturbed self-slayer threw back his
shirt and proceeded to place the
deadly weapon where it could not
fail of accuracy.
The deed mentioned above was
committed at a time when the re-
naming members of the family were
asleep in their respective rooms. Up
on the report OF the explosion the
family arose only to make gruesome
find. There on the floor in pool OF
blood lay all that was mortal OF a
loving husband and kind parent, a
pitiful victim of his own moods.
After a very brief interval fol-
lowing this tragic affair telephone
call was sent to Madison for Sheriff
E. A. Keller and Coroner R. s. West
aby, both OF whom made hasty prep
arations and left by auto for the
scene Of this regretable affaie. It was
plainly evident to both officers upon
reaching the Reynolds home that
the case was one of suicide.
1t is notable how carefully Mr..
Reynolds prepared to end all. Just
yesterday he visited . local attorney
here and proceeded to draw = will be-
Queathing his property according to
his own uninfluenced desires.
Deceased. besides the grief strick-
en- wife. leaves as survivors two
daughters and son. all of whom
comprehend their serious loss in the
death of their father.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-10-16
ENGINEER Ed FOLEY
PASSES AWAY
DECEASED MANY YEARS A RESI-
DENT OF MADISON AND PROM
INENT AMONG RAILWAY
MEN.

An unusual stiffness pervades a
residence in the city today at 426
First street N. W., for the reason
that the spirit Of Ed. Foley has fled
from its temple of clay and found a
more lasting abode among the mys-
teries of the great beyond. Death
came to Engineer Ed Foley after
many years of loyalty to his home
as a breadwinner and faithfulness
to his duties while in the employ of
the Milwaukee railway. The attack
of heart failure was sudden, SO grip
ping his energies that relief from its
terrors came at $3.50 q. m.
At the time of his demise deceased
was Sc years Old He is survived by
a wife and three children. All of the
latter, Harold E.y Helen and Monica,
are now at home. There is also. a
mother. Mrs. Mary Foley, residing at
Lacrosse, Wis, and three brothers
and two sisters also living at that
place.
Engineer Foley was best known for
his love of home and family and for
his 38 years of untiring service on a
freight locomotive that ran over the
north line on a regular schedule. All
the local railroad men knew him for
those noble qualities. that drew his
colaborers to him in close open
friendship and it is they together
with the many friends himself and
family have in this city who bow
the head and shed the tear in his
memory.
Deceased had not felt exactly well
since last Tuesday but before that
date he had been enjoying compar-
ative good health and an ambition
to be found on his regular run to
Bristol.
Funeral arrangements have not
been arranged for, but will be CON
Quoted under the auspices OF st
Thomas Catholic church of which the
deceased was respected member in
good standing.
The community offers it's heartfelt,
sympathy to the immediate family
and relatives who sense this shock
with feeling of the deepest grief.