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Miss Helen Miller Gould la making I
a tour of the Weat. inspecting the
railroad properties tn which she is i
financially Interested. She Is being- re-
celved at all the stopping places by
deputations of prominent cltlsens and
all sorts of honors have been shown
her.
Constance Henley Kane named the
torpedo boat destroyer Henley when It
slipped Into the water at the Fore
River Shipbuilding Company's yards In
Qutncy. Mass.. Wednesday. Miss Kane
was chosen sponsor because she Is a
descendant of Commodore Henley, after
whom the boat is named. The Henley !
was to be ready November IS. 1915. so i
the builders are eisht months ahead of ,
their contract. The Henley is unique ,
In being fitted with reciprocating en- I
nines as well as turbines. They are to
be operated together. The steam after
running the reciprocating engine will
be conducted Into the turbine so that
the List ounce of power will be ex
tracted from it. It Is believed the Hen
ley will be the most economical boa: in
the Navy. It Is planned to use this
system In larger boats hereafter.
The New York Mills Company's es
tablishment at I'tlca, N. Y.. has been
under martial law guarded by three
companies of militia. AH saloons are
closed and the soldiers are patrolling
the streets. The strike was started In
an effort to obtain better wages. The
trouble was Intensified when the com
pany attempted to have several fore
men run out the fabric that was In
the looms and get the goods out of the
vat. The strikers objected to anybody
entering the mills and some of the drp
uties were assaulted. It was after
several of these incidents that the mil
itia as called out.
One of the most disastrous floods in
the history of the country overwhelmed
many cities of the Mississippi Valley,
about the first of the month through
the overflowing of the Mississippi, Mis
souri. Ohio and their trlbutar.es. The
flood, which has devastated part of
Memphis, was caused by the overflow
of the Bayou Gayoso. It was greatest
at North Memphis. The gas plant In
that section was flooded early in the
disaster, depriving the city of gas
light. Hundreds of families were driv
en from their homes. Streetcar service
was demoralized and many railroad
lines were abandoned. At Hickman.
Kr.. the residence section was given a
Venice-like aspect by the rising floods.
The il'maml for rowboats was far In
excels of that for horse-drawn vehi
cles. General Tasker H. Bliss has been
chosen to temporarily fill the late
Ueneral Frederick Ient Grant's place
as Commander of the Department of
the Kast. General Bliss Is now occu
pying General Grant's quarters on
Governor's Island, New York Harbor.
Egg rolling by children on Easter
Monday Is an annual festival on the
White House grounds. Adults are not
admitted unless accompanied by chil
dren. gTbls year many surewd young-
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sters picked up small sums by acting
as sons for childless couples eager to
see the fun.
One of the most excltlntr races ever
held by the crews of Oxford and Cam
bridge was that which was made on
April 1 on the Thames River. The
crews raced for a considerable distance
FOOLISH ARRESTS LOW;
BOYS ARE CHIEF MENACE
BY LLOTD P. LONEKGA.V.
EW YORK, April 20. (Special.)
The number of arrests In New
York City has fallen off 70.000 In
a year, according to the official figures
made public by the Board of Police
Magistrates.
This does not mean that the police
re less vigilant Uiaa formerly, oa the
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Identified by means of black bands
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To save the vessel after fire had been
discovered In her hold, the steamship
Ontario 'was recently beached on the
rocky coast of the Eastern end of Long
island.
contrary, under Waldo's efficient ad
ministration crimes of all kinds are
on the decrease: but it indicates that
"foolish arrests' have been reduced to
a minimum.
Minor violations of the law are now
handled by means of summonses and
the work of the courts Is kept down,
much, to the raUacitiloa of Uje JucU:ea,
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common sense view of conditions all
around.
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are the most troublesome element1 we
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law, subject to no parental control,
cynical, viciously wise beyond their
years, utterly regardless of the rights
of others, firmly determined not to
work for a living, terrorizing the occu
pants of public vehicles, disturbing the
peace of neighborhoods and having no
regard for common decency."
It might be added that the magis
trates have decided to do what they
can to remedy these conditions and the
first step in their crusade will be to
deal most severely with car rowdies,
the open season for which Is Just about
starting.
Car Rowdies Sought.
These young hoodlums make travel
in New York, especially on Sundays,
extremely uncomfortable. They play
ball In cars, throw things at passen
gers, fight with the guards, while their
elder associates insult women and oc
casionally beat men.
The magistrates at a recent meeting
decided that car rowdies hereafter will
not escape with fines, but that In every
case where they are found guilty a Jail
sentence will be imposed. They hope in
this way to stamp out the trouble be
fore it reaches the proportions that it
has stained in former years.
What can be characterized as the
"bullheadedness" of the Government
authorities Is causing Fire Commis
sioner Johnson much concern, but he is
powerless to remedy what may be a
dansrerous condition.
The New York, postoffice is a fire .
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trap. Everybody knows it. In the
case of ordinary Are traps the Fire
Commissioner, has power to enforce
needed regulations and even if neces
sary to order unsafe buildings va
cated. In the case of the postofTice,
being "a Government reservation," he
is unable even to see that extinguishers
are Installed.
There is a notion in certain official
circles that the existence of a Federal
reservation In the heart of a city car
ries with it the right to maintain any
and all kinds of nuisances. In New
York there are city ordinances provid
ing for fire prevention, prohibiting the
burning of soft coal and compelling
tenants to clear sidewalks of snow and
Ice. All of these are regularly disre
garded, on the pretext that the city
laeks authority, and so it does.
Government Ignores Law.
Of course, if the postofTice Is ablaze
some day and the fire department ex
erts its energies solely to protecting
adjoining property, there would be a
big howl from the Government author
ities, but in the meantime they calmly
continue to set the city's laws and reg
ulations at defiance, on the ground that
Uncle Sam is above all law.
Rural correspondents of New York
papers are hard put to it sometimes to
word their items so .that they will get
by the eagle-eyed men on the city
desk. Here is the beginning of an
article which shows how a reporter
in Summit, N. J., solved the problem.
"James W. Perry, the one-armed
colored hackman, who made himself
famous by ejecting Anthony Comstock
from his cab one rainy night into a
puddle of water, has gone to his re
ward. The horse that Perry had
hitched to his hack the night of the
encounter with the vice crusader also
died, but on Saturday."
The correspondent then went on to
tell. In half a column, all about the
case, with full details of the last lin
gering illness of the lamented colored
hackman.
Rebel Never SfRhted.
Brigadier-General Asa Bacon Carey,
U. S. A., whose funeral was held in
this city a few days ago, had a re
markable Civil War record. He was a
line officer all through the struggle,
fought bravely, but never was in sight
of the Confederates.
Carey graduated from West Point in
1858 and took part in the Utah expedi
tion of 1S59 and the march to New
Mexico in 1860. Throughout the Civil
War he fought Indians in New Mexico
and was twice brevetted for gallantry.
In 1863-4 he took part in the campaign
against the Navajo Indians, which re
sulted in their being conquered. With
150 picked men General Carey passed
through the Canyon de Chelly, a feat
never before accomplished in time of
war with the Indians. After the war
Carey was transferred to the pay de
parement, retiring in 1898 as Paymaster-General.
So far Is is known he is
the only Regular Army officer who
served all through the Civil War as a
fighter, but never met the boys in gray.
WOMEN PLAN ECONOMIES
Temperance Workers, to Practice
Self-Denial One Week.
The week between May 5 and May 13
was fixed as self-denial week in which
to raise money for the National conven
tion, and also May 14, 15 and 16 were
the days appointed for the whirlwind
campaign for new members by the
County Women's Christian Temperance
Union, at the institute held Tuesday in
the Friends' church at Lents.
Mrs. Mary J. Mallett, county presi
dent, who presided, explained the ob
ject of these events. During self-denial
week, she said, every member of a W.
C. T. U. in the county is expected to
make a personal sacrifice if some item
of expense in order that she may con
tribute toward the fund being raised
for the entertainment of the National
Convention in Portland this Fall.
In the consideration of "Child Wel
fare," Mrs. Lizzie Hoskins, of Lents,
declared the habit of smoking ciga
rettes among women and girls Is on
the increase and ought to be combat-ted.