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Travelers in Thousands Will Flock Across
Atlantic This Season Indications Are That
All Travel Records Will Be BroKen Europe
Is Getting Ready Her Shears to Cut the
Golden Fleece Steamers Fitted in Luxury.
MORE .Americans plmnntnff to o to
Curop Uiaa nrr before, more ship
to carry tham. an J OooJa of In
quiries poorinc la trrry day for aoccm
pneAaUeaa oa eaatbouad ltnera ail the way
up to the ecd of Auut that la now tbe
altuatloa at the offlces of the tranaaUan
tlo ataemshlp companies, and the outlook
U for the bl(r.t ruih to Europe th'a
year la the history of transatlantic
travel.
That tfct season will differ In many re
spect Irom any that has preceded,
teaaiahtp men arree. Not only does It
promise to be ncarler than any before,
but. JudclRa from Inquiries, the ruah la
roU to continue longer than erer be
fore, and the prediction baa been made
that eTen the month of Anarust. which
vaed te aee sieamehlpa coins' eastward
almost empty, will be one of the hearleat
months this year for outsoins; ship.
When Jasoa and his avaricious mess
mates Hied their rapacious londnfi en
the, ro'Jen fleece, they could see no bet
ter way of ffrtlrtf It than to fit out
at tp and o after It.
Modern Europe haa Improred vastly on
lassie simplicity. It fits up the ships
and then invites the owners of the fleece
to hurry on board, and to com over to
be shorn.
Estimates vary, but the year mi prom.
tsa to be known as the year of the arret
American h!ra. and the number of our
toursjte will probably amount to at leaet
&ou people, coin- by first and second
cabin.
The difference between Americans
touring and Americana la ring at home
waa evidenced on the heels of the Na
tional embarrassment of finance a couple
of years ao. when walls of anculsh
areas from London to Venice, with Parle,
In between, emitting the moat strident
notes of miserable despair. Half the
tradesmen of European capitals beheld
bankruptcy ahead of them, and national
budfeta over there had to taae account
of tbs depletion of the national Income.
Soma of the mors Intelligent tradeamen
even went so far as to call for tho
national he an ae arc Mr. g a. in the hope of
Inducing their brother-bandits to make
the fleece -shearing process more sugges
tive of painlessness, and admonished
them that even Americans could not be
expected to come across forever to let
everybody skin them.
American Is Easy Mow;.
It waa a needless alarm. The Instant
prosperity ripped off her first encour
aging smile, the flock appeared at the
booking offices of the steamers, and this
year sees steamship company directors
rubbing cheery bands and all Europe
eas'.ng Its Itching palms.
Reviewing all the comment, criticism,
wit. humor and patronising Indulgence
which Europe visits upon Its visitors, the
unprejudiced American Is Irresistibly re
minded that be Is at once the most con
spicuous proflt-brtnger of the bunch, and
the most superbly scorned among them
alL He ls the black sheep among tour
ists, credited with all ths Ignorance, bad
manners, waatefulnesa, penuiiousness.
Insolence and timidity which can make
an easy mark and mar a gentleman.
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tlnue to enjoy ths shearing and ths part
ing kick that attends It Is something
which ths long-suffering American pa
tlencs meekly declines to anawer. But
the great steamahip lines have such
faith In the Increase of the tourist bust
neas In the future that they are still pre
paring to put their millions In Invest
ments that must be utterly lot If the
tide of travel cease to swell higher dur
ing ths nest generation.
A recent German estimate put the
number of American tourists at 100.000,
with an average individual expenditure
abroad of 1760. or t!28.000.000 handed
over to Europe, without the cost of
steamship tickets. But these figures
may be too high.
A genuinely conservative estimate
would place the total number now mak.
Ing the European tour from the United
Statea between 160.000 and 200.000, with
11000 as the average total for Individ
ual expenditure perhaps a trifle above
the mark, but with something well
above 1160,000.000 aa a fair appraise
ment of the wealth the travelers from
this country so delightedly carry over
to leave in the lap of hungry Europe.
Bankers whose specialty is letters of
credit for rich American tourists, find
that It is a common thing for their cus
tomers to place from f:6.000 to 1.75.000
ready to their hands while they are
abroad, with the average letter of cred
it standing at $3000. A trip lasting
three months usually burns up (t per
cent of the account.
When the annual tourist expenditure
In Europe Is compared with the amount
taken out of the country by returning
Immigrants a problem which, from
time to time, has engaged the atten
tion of anxious statisticians It would
appear to be as great, or nearly as
groat, as the entire amount carried
back during a period of ten yeara via
the steerage.
Analysis of the figures If Immigra
tion and emigration, at the end of
1907, brought out the fact that during
the ten-year period up to that time
the total number of Immigrants waa
7,762.978, 'and of returning aliens, 2,486,
63, or 22.07 per cent. The average
had 420 and more In cash assets upon
arrival in the United States, and It
was surmised that each took back about
1300 on return, although that estimate
was by no means assumed as accurate,
and may well have been overrated.
Allowing it to stand, however, those
scant 2.600,000 of returning aliens took
out of the country, at the most. $290
apiece, or $725,000,000, or $72,500,000
for a single average year out of the
decade. The American tourists, there
fore. In one year spend In Europe from
two to three times the amount carried
back by the returning Immigrants.
(t must be recalled. In this connec
tion, that the returning immigrants
all of them left behind them In this
country actual, concrete valuea In prod
ucts exceeding not only the sum they
took back with them, but also the
amounts they had remitted by bank
and postal facilities during their ten
years' stay here, plus the full amount
requisite for their own support here
during the decade.
That the reduction of time in cross
ing the ocean to more than half what
It waa IS years ago, when 14 days was
not considered a vary long voyage, has
had much to do with the increased
travel to Europe, Is so generally ac
knowledged that It Is not a matter of
argument. The comforts and amuse
ments. Including wireless telegraphy,
newspapers, sun parlors, gymnasiums,
swimming pools, restaurants and shops
where everything from picture puzsles
to chewing gum can be bought. Is also
a very great contributing cause for
the flocking of Americans abroad.
There was a time when life on ship
board was dull, indeed, and when the
majority of trans-Atlantic voyagers re
garded the duration of the trip across
as just so many days out of their lives.
Nowadays many people with plenty of
money to spend look forward to the
passage over and back aa among the
most pleasant and interesting features
of their trip.
There Is "the lady who hasn't missed
a meal at table." and who is naturally
the pride of her friends and the envy
of her fellow travelers, who have their
meals served cold on deck, or tea and
toast 'n their staterooms. i
Then there Is the man with the
marine glasses, who Is forever scan
ning the horizon for passing ships, and
plays a sort of Sister Anne part In an
nouncing what Is doing beyond tho
naked eye limit of gaze of the crowd
that surrounds him. Ue Is constantly
seeing spouting whales and Icebergs,
and he Is wise and can tell Just what
steamer Is passing by the number of
her smokestacks. There te, too. the
mechanical genius, who Is always get
ting up parties to go down and look
at the machinery, and the sporting man.
who proposes the betting . pools, and
then forms a syndicate to win them.
There Is always a "cut-up" from
Camden, N. J., or some similar me
tropolis, and, last but not least, a bunch
of pretty American girls, who are mak
ing their first trip abroad and are curi
ous about everything.
UNUSUAL VOCATIONS ARE TO BE LISTED BY CENSUS BUREAU
There Are Thousands of Strange Ways of Earning a Livelihood in America One Man Bottles Smoke, Another "Fights Booze" Total Vocations Number More Than 7000.
At a part of ths tsak of compiling
ths 13th census of ths United
States ths Census Bureau will
pubilath a report on ths various occupa
tions by which men and women in this
country earn their dally bread. Though
tt will be many months before this re
port will be given to tbs public, a con
servativs estimate places ths number of
ciaaslflcatlons of Industry at between
too and too. . In compiling ths list
"rock bottom is being sought in every
rasa. While a carpenter is a carpen
ter, for Instance, bs may bs employed
In any one of ths numerous branches
of carpentry, and according to bis
branch bs is to bs classified.
Ths census of 1900 showed but a lit
tle over ! divisions of labor, having
been compiled without ths delicate distinction-
now being made. Under this
Bew system of tabulation many of ths
beada of rlaealflcatloa will Include but
a few Individuals and some but a sta
sis person. It will bring; to light not
a few queer ways of earning one's live
lihood now ousting. And many of
them will bs found so unusual as to
stand in a class by themselves.
Bottles femoka for Living.
It seems a safs prediction, for ex
ample, to state that there will bs found
but ons man la ths snttrs country
making a living from bottling ths
smoke of burning hickory wood. This
man. who lives in Kansas City, con
tols that his bottled amoks, let loose
la aa alr-tlant compartment la which
meat has been placed, will produce the
sams street upon ths meat as though
cured by hickory amoks in tho usual
manner.
Ths compilation of such a volume Is
an enormous and tedious .task. The
work is being done under ths direction
of William C Hunt, chief statistician
of ths division of population. lie has
held that position for many years, hav
ing been la charge of similar work
during ths tabulation of four census
returns. The mors commonplace oc
cupations Including one-half of ths to
tal, bavs already been "punched by
the clerks on the card Indexes for gen
oral facta concerning population.
Bat ths snusual occupations to bs
listsd itjulre special classification and
art now being prepared by a trained
corps of 9 clerks. Special machinery
and tibolatlng blanks are necessary,
with abbreviations and spaos for ths
entry of an unusual number of facts
concerning ths Individual and his occu
pation. As with most of ths other
work in ths Census Bureau, ths record
Is made by elictrlc and hand punching
machines.
No: extryone Is aware that there are
such persons as JMdgers. fakers, plow
ara, aiurs. busters, beaters out. crip
ple chasers and pancake-makers. Tet
they are one and all engaged In legiti
mate occupations connected with ths
very necessary industry of manufac
turing shoes. Nor would the unitlated
expect to And proft In raising builfrcgs
for their legs or skunks for their oil.
Two New Jersey women, however, are
making a good livelihood by so doing,
and a certain California woman obtains
over $100 an ounce wholeaala for ths
seeds of petunias.
Work as "Iestroyer of Men."
In some of ths reports of ths census
enumerators la ths Held are found tab
ulations so unusual that they require
no end of labor In properly classifying
them at ths bureau. Ons man frank
ly asserted that ha was a "boose fighter-
and another, whs works In a sa
loon, styled himself a "destroyer of
men.- "Fat men" is applied to certain
individuals In ths printing business
who always try to secure ths easiest
part of the work connected with their
trade. "Breaking hind legs" la given
as ths occupation of an Individual who
breaks ths hind legs of animals killed
In packing.bouses.
Such occupations as "pouneer," In a
hat factory; "tobies." a maker of sto
gies: "whlttler," la a straw works;
"dock walloper, a longshoreman; "vi
brator, In a clock factory; 'longer,"
In connection with oysters; "teaser." In
a glass factory: "scab!ler. in quarry
ing; -flosser." In a corset factory, and
"dubber." la ship building, are all ua
osual occupations that must be listed.
In the National Capital especially are
there a large number of people whs
earn their living by performing un
usual tasks. Tbs majority of them are
employe by Uncle Sam la his vsrlous
departmenta of government. There Is
a young man la ths National Mu.eura
Uenry Hendley who Is known ss
ths official portrait-bust maker of In
dian features for a unlqus portrait
gallery of the North American redskin.
L B. Mllner Is an expert modeler In
papier macha of things past, present
and future for ths National Museum.
In moving ths exhibits of curios and
SDeclmens from the old to ths new
building ths authorities of ths museum
' are hard pressed for space. They are
solving ths problem by combining the
exhibits wherever feasible. Instead of
a separate model of aa Indian meeting
house, tepes or papoose board, for ex
ample, all ars being combined into
ons model of aa Indian village. It Is
la such work that Dr. Hlllner is en
gaged. Along similar lines la the work of
Edwin Howell, a maker of maps ex
traordinary to the world in general and
the United States Government In par
ticular, la his workshop hs evolves
rellaf maps of certain sections of ths
country which not only indicate rivers
and mountains and towns, but all the
minerals, rocks, flowers, trees and vary
ing soils to bs found there. He makes
maps that enable the Weather Bureau
to more easily ascertain climatic
changes and atmospheric conditions in
different portions of ths land; mapa
for the exploitation of real estate and
"mining acbemes; mapa for residents
of certain sections of ths country who
wish to "make a fine showing" at some
stats or National fair, and maps for
geologists and scientific excavators of
ancient cities.
Upon Mrs. Wllla A. Leonard of the
Treaalury repartment falla the bulk of
the work of detecting counterfeit
money. As ths original Sherlock
Holmes of ths "queer," she has brought
destruction to clever counterfeiters to
ths extent of thousands of dollars. For
over 4 years shs haa been considered
an expert In her unusual occupation.
While specialising on ths detection of
counterfeits she has .counted more
money than would pay off several na
tional debts. In a single day shs has
counted over $11,000,000; lt.000 notes is
regarded aa a good day's work, but
ktrs. Leonard has handled as high as
22.000. Ths Imitation is detected from
the reel by Its -feel." Its coloring, size,
engraving work and especially the vig
nette portrait. Mrs. Leonard believes
that a perfectly engraved counterfeit
note has never been produced.
Declpberfnr Poor Writing.
Another remarkable woman doing an
unusual work for Uncle Sara is lira.
Paul Lyla Collins of ths dead letter
division of ths Postofflcs Department.
For many years shs haa deciphered al
most Illegible addresses on mall mat
ter that had defied the postmasters.
Though not blind herself, she Is known
as ths "blind reader" because of her
remarkable ability In deciphering Il
legible addreases In English and other
languages.
in the Agricultural Department Is a
woman. Mrs. lilca Zeeta Heldemann. who
makes models of the various bugs that
prey upon grain, trees and farm produce
la order that students of agriculture may
receive practical demonstration In fight
ing them. The models, greatly enlarged,
of course, are of Insects with exquisitely
colored silken and gauae wings, cater
pillars, moths, the cotton boll weevil, ths
common house fly, spiders, etc.
In the same department are three scien
tists engsged In ths Interesting occupa
tion of eaamtntng tho contents of ths
stomachs of blrda. They have done noth
ing else for ths past two years, and are
trying to find out whether certain birds
are the friends or enemies of farmers.
Special agents in the field slay ths birds i
by the hundreds and ship their stomachs
to Washington In alcohol. Then they are
microscopically examined by the three
scientists, who tabulate their findings.
In the Treasury Department Is a
chemist who tolls all day long amid
samples of near-butter and fake whis
kies. The samples are sent him by sus
picions Government agents who think cer
tain butter manufacturers and distillers
are evading the law against adultera
tion. At the Washington Navy-Yard a
naval constructor! has a huge model
tank in which h plays with toy bat
tleships, cruisers and submarines. But
he Isn't exactly playing; he is making
scientific demonstrations of the effect
on a vessel's speed, coal consumption,
etc., of changes In ths outward forma
tion of ths hull.
Eating- Dragged Food.
There ars expert tea and coffee tast
ers In the Treasury Department who
tell ths value and grades of these com
modities by placing a few grains on
ths tongue. And in ths Department of
Agriculture there Is a squad of young
men who sat drugged foods to deter
mine just how poisonous they are.
Secretary. Mac Veagh. of the Treas
ury, employs a man to sign his sig
nature to various routine papers that
must be signed each day. And Mrs.
Mabel P. Leroy. of the Interior De
partment, does the sams thing for
President Taft. receiving $1200 a year
for doing so. ' It Is estimated that
she signs her name to patents Issued
by the land offlce (000 times In a single
month.
A man with a deft hand and an ac
curate eye receives the same annual
salary In the Treasury Department for
cutting up paper money. All day long
he places under a mutilating knife
large stacks of worn and soiled paper
money that comes to the Treasury for
redemption. He destroys on an aver
age of $1,600,000 a day and over $400.
000,000 In a year.
Every September a Nswton, N. J .
man ships 60 pounds of rsttle-snakes to
the New Tork Zoological Garden. After
catching them on their native heath
he packs them in a box with a small
screen wire netting nailed on tightly
all around and then turns ths hissing,
bussing load over to tho sxpress com
pany. Another man from Seattle, Wash.
finds It a profitable business to secure
ths mustaches from walrus killed In
Bering Straits and sell them to the
Chinese for toothpicks. These stout
bristles ars plucked from the nose of
the walrus by Indians, tied into small
bunches and sold by him on the Pa
cific Coast to agenta who ship them to
China, where they ars In great demand.
In an aged bull walrus the bristles
are about a foot long and as thick as
the lead in a pencil. Besides being
extremely tough they can be pushed
between the teeth without injuring the
enamel. Last year the man In ques
tion sold 20 bushels of them at a profit
of nearly $900.
New Tork boasts the only repairer of
cigar store Indians in the country; an
artist who spends the entire year In
drawing carlcaturea used In the so
called comic valentines: a man who,
day In and day out, takes several dime
novels and pieces them together so as
to form one continuous story for pub
lication as a book; two woman wire
less operators, - one on the top of a
Fifth avenue hotel and the other on an
ocean liner sailing from New Tork, and
two coopers who have a monopoly on
packing money into casks for shipment
by New Tork banks to foreign coun
tries. Sod for a lawn, of a vivid green color
and with a tuft as thick and close as
velvet, will yield a profit of from $300
to $400 per acre, according to a woman
near a large Middle West city, who has
13 acres of land under cultivation for
that purpose. Each acre can be har
vested but once every three years, so
she is not making a fortune at her
unique task. She is, however, making
a comfortable living out of It.
Another woman, residing near Pitts
burg, Pa... earns her daily bread by rais
ing Persian cats and selling them for
from $25 to $500 apiece. She has be
come an expert in breeding animals of
class, and frequently makes large sales
to wealthy cat fanciers. Still another
woman, the wife of a Pennsylvania
farmer, clears on the average $600 a
year by raisin; pigeons.
Woman policemen are becoming
really quite commonplace. Unlontown.
Pa. boasts a fair deputy Sheriff, who
Is a graduate of a well-known South
ern college for women. Los Angeles,
CaL, la said to have had the first po
licewoman ever appointed in this coun
try, and Long Beach, a seashore town
in the same state, has a Wellesley
graduate, the daughter of a millionaire,
on Its force.
In the business world In Gotham
there are two women and maybe
more who occupy unique positions.
One of them is employed by a number
of wholesale millinery and dress goods
bouses to entertain women buyers from
different parts of the country. She en
tertains them at dinner and then takes
them to the theater, charging every
item up on her expense account, of
course, to the house employing her in
each Instance. Her individual charge
Is approximately one-fourth of the to
tal expense.
Tho other woman makes a business of
being discharged from the department
store In which she Is "employed" once
or a dozen times a day it occasion de
mands. When a haughty, pompous cus
tomer complain of negligence, or im
pertinence, or what-not on the part of a
clerk, the woman in question is sum
moned to the front office as the one In
charge of that particular department,
given a good dressing down before the
angry customer and peremptorily dis
charged. For the men, there Is a youth
who acts In the same capacity. Not In
frequently both of them are discharged
over a dozen times In a single day.
Another unique profession is that of
flower doctor. In these days "milady"
must have her floral decorations Just so
and her corsage highly scented; there
fore, it Is up to human Ingenuity to
make perfect where nature has failed.
So there are men who remove imperfect
portions of delicate flowers, paste to
gether fragile blooms and scent violets
and roses that are not aa fragrant as
they should be.
MARTYRDOM OF GENIUS
LIST PROVES MANIFOLD
Eev. Madison C. Peters Speaks Words of Encouragement to Those Who
Fear They Have Tailed in This Work-a-Day World.
BT MADISON C. PETERS.
IF any of my readers have become
discouraged because they have so
far failed, been disappointed and cir
cumscribed, let tham read this list
of the martyrdom of .genius, which
might be multiplied Indefinitely, . and
then thank God and take courage in
the fact that they have not fared worse.
Aiisitldes was exiled, Aristotle had to
flee for his life and swallowed poison;
Archimedes was tabbed, and Alexander
the Great died at 30 of a broken heart.
Bunyan wrote "Pilgrim's Progress" in
the prison cell; Beethoven was stricken
deaf, and John Brown was shot for
trying to free the slaves. Cromwell's
bleached bones were hung in chains
and burled among thieves and murder
ers; the irons bit into the flesh of Co
lumbus and neglect Into his heart; Cer
vantes, creator of Don Quixote, was im
prisoned for debt and suffered want:
Caesar was assassinated by his friends;
Charles I was banished; Cowper was
tinged with madness and poor; Cortez
was beheaded; Dante-was banished from
Florence; DeVoe, author of Robinson
Crusoe, was thrown into Jail for express
ing his opinions, and Dtyden lived In
poverty and distress.
Galileo was made to repent under pen
alty" of death; Garibaldi was condemned
to death and compelled to flee the be
loved Italy .he helped to free; Goldsmith,
always poor, died In misery, and William
Lloyd Garrison was mobbed in the streets
of Boston for preaching freedom for the
slave in his "Liberator."
Homer, the first and greatest of the
poets, was blind and a beggar: Hannibal
took poison to escape falling into the
bands of his enemies. Henry of Navarre
was assassinated and Huss burned at
the stake.
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake;
Johnson, who wrote "Rasaelas" In order
to raise money to bury his mother, died
of scrofula and in poverty. Leonldas,
the Greek patriot, was hanged. Luther
was excommunicated: Lafayette, In
France. Imprisoned and starved; Lee in
vented the spinning Jenny to earn bread
for his children, and Lincoln, emancipa
tor of a race, was assassinated; Milton
was smitten with blindness: Mary, Queen
of Scots, was beheaded, and Mozart died
penniless and sleeps in an unknown
grave; Napoleon, who strode the world
like a Colossus, was sent to St Helena,
and Marshal Ney, "bravest of the
brave," was shot for alleged treason.
Otway died through hunger. Philip of
Macedon was assassinated by his own
bodyguard; Palissy, the potter, had to
burn his own house to feed his fur
nace; Wendell Phillips was mobbed in
the streets of Boston; Willjam Penn was
Imprisoned; Plzarro murdered and Paul
beheaded. Sir Walter Raleigh was be
headed and Madame Rulans met the
same fate; Socrates, educator of Greece,
in its palmiest days, was made to drink
the fatal hemlock; Sclpio was strangled
in his bed; Seneca was banished; Spen
cer, author of the "Falrie Queen." died
of want, and Savonarola was burned on
a heap of faggots.
Tasso. whose "Jerusalem Delivered,"
made his name immortal, was exiled, im
prisoned and died in poverty. Sir Henry
Vane was beheaded because he was the
friend of liberty. William, Prince of
Orange, was assassinated, Xerxes was
shot in his sleep.
Verily, the men we boast today we
roasted yesterday,
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