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THE MACON TELEGRAPH: SUNDAY MORNING. DECEMBER aj, 190#
Lawson Tells Another Story
GIVING STREET URCHINS
A CHANCE IN LIFE
Thomas W. Lawson, reaches the con
Vlctlon that a first-class writer was
spoiled when he became a Stock Job*
ber. He la a most Interesting writer.
He tells a story well and he makes
his comment as he goes along, like an
experienced editor whose business it
la to draw a moral from a tale. If he
is relating facts, he Is putting them
together In a most attractive way; if
he Is drawing on his Imagination in
his embellishments, he Is doing It with
the skill of an artist. Lawson Is cer
tainly giving a good show.
His article In the current number
of Everybody's Magaslne. Just to hand,
deals with the famous case of the Bay
State Oas Company, in which “Gas"
Art dicks of Delaware was the principal
’actor, and H. H. Rogers, of the the
Standard Oil Company, played an Im
portant part behind the scenes. The
directors of the company, believing
that the gas war was over, had met
at the Hoffman house, in New York,
on Friday. October 18, !«••. Lawson
and his friends were largely interested
In the stock of this company and he
and his associates were in merry
mood, when the telephone hell rang
and Addlcks was called up. He spoke
In his usual tone of voles stjd received
with perfect composure a message
from his private secretary. Fred Kel
ler. Addlcks gave no sign of excite
ment, but when the conversation was
7
over, hung up
Lawson to km
room. As he ei
to his bureau,
slipped It Into I
down on the lo
that when he 1
not believe his
the change In
looked like th<
self snd said
"My God, I’m
fslnt on the f
rred he told 1
was up. that D
himself appoint
pany; had rak
flee Immediate
pointed; brokei
the papers he
an hour or so
dslphia and It
books and pu|
thermore, he hi
hank accounts
charge of (he
dicks admitted
m fact and that !i
every bar dowr
him and the ci
machinery wo
him. ' Lawson
was on the ver
the Impresslor
shot himself. 1
ference. But
dicks and at lei
struck them.
Addlcks was
standard Oil
Lawson was e
an Independen
phone bell rai
Keller, talking
and he gave t
happened. Ds
Dost on broker,
ttaltst and proi
peered In Wt
panted by Roi
attorney, repn
anan. one of
qr Btate One
100.000. The
Judge Wales
interest on thi
and that Add*
assets of the t
In Inducing th<
man receiver,
was pul thrm
that not one c
henchmeen hat
warning could
tlon. Bramnn
the instant hi
xnent was sign
the Delaware i
and seised ev«
He was wnltl
train to Phtla<
ot capturing t
corporation, w
Addlcks in*
the books of t
together with
In Addlcks* *
once to New 1
beyond the Ji
Addlcks and I
the Urge pari
waiting direct
Addlcks instn
take the trur
disappear. In
pany'e counsel
other dlrectoi
in their rooms
trate any attr
on them, for
man and F«sl
Ised they wer
would go to t
additions! |w
wards did.
These plam
Lawson hurri
Rogers, the V
24 Broadway
had occurred,
situation look
made for hi«
son and Addi
the dlssdvant
era! weighty
j cepUnce of
' Lawson, “wo
the public a
the
laid to Straw
fight so Mob
be spared. 1
Invited
private
e went
ut nnd
ion lay
h says
» could
at was
on. He
former
lespalr,
II In a
recov-
gtmo
ad had
d com-
Oil of-
ii ap*
ken utl
that In
Phils -
nll the
Fur-
for ths
o take
I. Ad-
ns per-
lt with
uln for
ils own
ngnlnst
tddlcka
leaves
1 have
Inter
in . Ad-
uit bail
• all a
in. but
It wnn
• tele-
s Fred
house,
ist hud
former
rk cap-
nly «ii-
accom*-
V York
Huch
ders of
He held
liefors
i»t the
default
Ing the
weeded
it Bra
rmance
spldlty
uersble
1 so no
dlrec<
»nt. for
p point
own on
y flute
itnlneU.
is first
purpose
of ths
Llhtra.
nw rush
a trunk
papers
eed
rould be
i* court,
irned to
I to ths
ccurred.
tury to
vnl and
le com-
nnd the
mselves
to frus-
servlce
at Brs
ey real-
id el ph la
urta for
y after
srshlp, but had his labor nnd expense
for u<» pains On Wednesday morning
Braman called on Lawson and when
ne nad thrown !»1* coat and hat aside,
said: "It there Is any business io be
done in this matter. It must be done
quick." There was some dickering, but
finally Lawson asked him what was
his price and Braman replied. “Buch
anan must have the fare of his bonds
and interest, 9160.000, and we must
have at least 91SO.OOO for our trouble
and expense." He agreed that If this
money should be paid It would only l>e
matter of th* number of minutes re
quired to get details fixed before
everything would be as it was before
had interfered. He even agreed
that If he did not make good, he would
not receive' the money. He would ask
for no pay until he had delivered the
goods. He also told Lawson that he
had named the very low figure of |lf#0,-
000. because h# expected to Invest
what he received In Bay mate Gas
stock At 93; sell It at from 910 to |‘20
and make half a million.
At this point LAwaon Interjects the
following comment: “But this Is out
rageous, you say. You call the per
formance I have described by hard
names! Kurely our courts are not
also the creatures of ‘Frenzied Fi
nance?’ you ask. I warn my readers
that this narrative Is no more than a
record of events occurring within rny
knowledge, and that dnrk and vicious
the pictures seem, they ure photo
graphs of actual happenings. Nor
should the public conclude that the
dishonor and dishonesty revealed In
connection with Itay Hints Gas Is ex
ceptional. On the contrary, such do
ings are the rule In the affairs of great
financial operations. Into the rigging
nnd launching of almost every big
nunclnl operation in the United States
during the Inst twenty years, double
dealing, sharp practice, and Jobbery
has sntsred, and what Is more the men
Interested and participating In It have
profited thereby. If the detalln of the
great reorganization and trustification
deals put through since 18H.'» could be [ elation had at least run out too long
laid bare, eight out of ten of our most a run. The losses caused by I he mar-
successful stock-jobbing financiers ket action of the Bay Htnte stock In
ould be In a fair may to get Into J there four days so mixed up Brums
U
/ th
' th
agreed must
the hasty ap
the whole a
ventilated In
The next
arrived In N
made the air
lions. Use
some time i
Addlcks. wit
interview. 1
and Brsroa
r ranged,
nf II. II
i, at No.
all that
that the
had been
•ft U«
\ but on
ere sev
"Hi» nr
>\ M say a
looses to
ida that,
night
L would
ne would
the Art
stitch wa
lurk in
receiver,
lually lie
aaw this
ig In hie
Addlcks.
id Fuster
rage, and
lenuncls
them for
I back
1 a short
see Bog
aman and
d of him
i partner
did as
iway with
in no way
ne Foster
rder from
quickly lsft court worn. A brief
longer was consumed In signing re
ceipts, certificates and other legal pa
pers, and then the performance was
over. Addlcks arose and wont 'out
among his henchmen In the rear, who
eagerly surrounded him. In the bustle
Braman and Foster, each with his own
booty, fled.
The most startling part of Lawson’s
story Is that Addlcks had told some of
hi* henchmen who were well known
thugs that the money In the suit caws
really belonged to him and was to have
been distributed among the mfor cam
paign purposes, hut that It had been
taken from him. and actually arranged
that these thugs should be at the sta
tion: should have a mix up and get
possession of the suit cases and make
off with the money.
But Braman and Foster suspected
something of the sort and rushed with
their booty to a private car and In this
way escaped. In the meantime Law-
son had made arrangements with his
broker to buy large blocks of Bay
State Gas stock upon a word of notice
from him. lie had the telephone con
nection arranged, and as soon as the
case was settled In court, gave Instruc-
tlons to buy. The broker Ixttight thou
sands of shares of stock for I^awson’s
account and the price was rushed rap
idly up. I^nwson sold his stock at 910
a share and then sold short for * ho
knew' that another suit was to be en
tered. When this suit was entered, he
“covered" his short sales and In this
way made a pile of money on both
sides of the deal. Braman nnd Foster,
so far from making money, were heavy
losers. This so shattered the nerves
of Braman and Foster, he concludes.
BOSTON, Dec. *4.—With the coming
of- the bolida? Season, there comes the
time when the great army of the tele
phone operators prepare for the hard-
cat work of ihe year, for during De
cember it seems aa if everybody were
“on the wire,” Probably the busiest
hour of the 8.790 hours of the year
occurs In the telephone exchanges be
tween 10 and 11 6»clock on the Satur
day before Christmas, and that is tan
tamount to my ing that this is the
busiest hour of the year in the busi
ness world."
There Is, to be sure, a likelihood In
some sections of the country that a
similar hour on the day before
Thanksgiving may have shown as
many call* rushing Into the busy ex
changes. It's a tosi'up. In many cities,
so say those who have It In hand to
compile statlNtfcal charts covering
the subject, whether the people use
the telephone most extensively for
dering Thanksgiving turkeys or for
calling the department stores to ask
about Christmas (presents. Undoubt
edly, however, taking the country ut
large. Christmas has the call over the
Puritan, harvest festival.
Everybody during the holiday sea
son seems to be calling up everybody
else with the result that the weary
operators look forward eagerly to the
lull which occurs in every exchange
after the first of January. For the
rush of business does not cease with
the night before Christinas. There Is,
of rourftq, a big drop in the number of
calls pit day itself, only to
he foifowe<P£pf a.Jump during tbf next
that they retired, having made tip their j week while li^firybody is busy
minds that they did not know
about one end of frenzied finance as
they did about the other. “However,”
says Lawson In conclusion, “nothing
eame of the suit In question which de
pressed the stock, for It was evident
when the transfer of the Boston Oas
Company to Rogers' control became
known that the Bay Htate Oas
S<
York courts to take possession of
all the company's property and then
Utd siege to Addlcks* quarters In the
M Titian. There was great excitement.
They battered down tbs doom In their
find Adflkts, but he dodged
i until he was finally caught in a
elevator. But he had with
him no books, papers or money.
The following week Addlcks led sfl
•xpediUoi; u witetiDfiteu la aa aSort
state or federal prisons."
The question then was how to get
the money to pay Braman, nnd Uw-
son went to Rogers. Rogers said that
could not advance the money nor
uny way become entangled, ns to
so might get him Into a serious
tangle. Hut he finally suggested a way.
He delivered a lecture on the political
situation, saying that unless someth
ing should he done to carry several
of the doubtful states, Bryan would
l>e elected, the worst panic the coun
try had ever seen would be precipita
ted. busltiesa would go to smash, rich
men would be ruined and poor men
would be thrown out of employment.
He further said that In order to carry
the election for McKinley It would be
necessary to raise 9&.000.000 to be
turned over to Mark Hanna nnd Mc
Kinley's cousin. Osborne. through
John Moots, of the Wall street brok
erage firm of Moore A Schley. He said
that It would be legitimate for the Na
tional Committee to pay out money to
carry Delaware nnd that he (Rogers)
would arrange It so that the coin to
satisfy Braman ami Foster would
come through thnt channel. In this
way he would In* completely protected
nnd tt was so arranged.
Lnwsnn again comments: "Doubt-
less the law-abiding rlttarns of the
doubtful states, who resd this nnd
learn how the ’system* defeated their
will at the polls will cry. monstrous!
Can such things be done In America?
and then will resume their Interrupted
cupatlon of let well enough alone.
However, this Is aside from my story."
Lawson then turns aside from his
narrative to explain how members on
congress nnd other officials of govern
ment take udvantngc of their knowl
edge of government afTalrn to make
money In stock trading. “If, for In
stance," says he. "a new law Is to d>e
passed, which must favorably affect a
given stock, legislators, who nre on
the Inside, often buy thousands of
shares to represent the profit of the
rise In value incumbent on Its pas
sage. Or, perhaps, there Is to go
through a law which will Interfere
with the special privilege of nnnthrr
stock and reduces Its price. Those |u
possession of advance Information go
short of that stock—thnt (a sell fof
future delivery—and profit by the
drop. Again, If n high official of the
government were about to Issue a pro
clamation against a foreign nation and
should desire secretly to make a mil
lion or so out of the panic, which he
knew must follow the annoutu ement.
he would cast about him for n broker
who would preserve his sacred confi
dence." Iawsou adds that all these
transactions were done through the
firm of Moore A Schley, who had a
branch office In Washington, for they
knew that the secret would be kept
sacred.
And so the firm of Moore A Schley
was selected to handle this affair be
tween Rogers and latwsnn. John
Moore, the senior member of the firm,
took the matter In hand and called In
Osborne, who had already been talked
lie told Osborne that he had been
er Addlcks* affairs with laiwsou and
that there was no question In his mind
thnt Addlcks should have what was
necessary to curry Delaware and that
he had better haw the committee
ready to put In between 9990.900 and
94rtA,flpA a If R should be called for.
Osborne then spoke his piece and de
clared that the committee would do
What was decided best. All this, savs
Lawson, was play-acting for the hen-
eflt of Rogers* allht.
tawson then had to straighten out
some tangles with Addtcka. but finally
get Addlcks Into line. There was a
meeting then at Foster’s home In New
Yor, snd the whole nuttier was dually
arranged. The papers were fixed up
and «n Saturday morning the lamiea
all assembled In the court room at
Wilmington.
The scene in court is thus ..v*» rtb#d
“Court came to order. Foster arose,
announced that the claims of hi* client
had been satisfied ami made a formal
motion to dismiss the recelverahto.
Judge Wales formally consented, owl
»• the clerk of the court was entering !
the dismtsaal in his minute ho,* my !
partner telephoned the facts to me. ! He
1 sent back word thnt my du^t.iw
wrere resigning—had resign*,! -that
Rogers’ directors were being « hr*t**d~ | I'll drm>’ nr
had been elected: that th* Boetcn i?-* j
Companies were now transferret *o j She dropped
R'Uters. tU.-n I.
“My partner whispered ray words to » *** ^VhT'h*
John lloore s partner and Huger** j The b so ml
counsel. At ome the two dresa-euit | __ »
cose*, each loaded with currency, were Thrn
slipped to Hr.* nutu and Foster. Hi - | • In faith
multaneousi) th,- messenger who was
to telephone to their broker rose and
i| Foster In their financial accounts
that later they were sued by their cli
ent. Buchanan, who In court stride that
he In turn was so confused ns to wrhnt
was don** In connection with this busi
ness. that he really knew' less after It
was over thnn before the suits were
brought. Hut one thing was Indellby
Impressed upon his mind—that his
bonds had disappeared In the whirl and
that he had not received anything for
them. 1 think this suit "Is still pend
ing.
Love and Divorce.
From the Detroit Tribune.
We never miss the water until the
w'ell runs dry. We never appreciate
the true value of our friends until they
nre taken from us. The normally con-
atltuted married couple who have al
lowed cares of business, household
worries, social ambition and the ac
quisition of great wealth to bring
about disharmony and estrangement
nre apparently eager for divorce. They
come Into court still estranged nnd Ir
reconcilable. They hear the attorneys
go over Ihe pitiful title of petty dis
cords. and It begins to dawn upon them
thnt their hostility has no substantial
basis. Instead of one fell wrong or
one particular characteristic which
makes association Intolerable, "both
parties often discover that their disa
greement Is duo to sti aggregation of
minute annoyances,
pricks of which not one would be
worthy Of attention If It could he
shlered apurt from all the others, ami
which a little toleration ami a llttli
tact could turn aside without barm.
When the aggregation la shown up fjg
the most forceful fashion of the trained
pleader It apparently Just tiles the court
In Issuing a decree.
When a decree Is rendered which
separates a husband and wife between
whom there Is no Just cause for sep
ration, each experiences of strange re
vulsion of feeling. The memories of
the past route like trooping ghost
plead for a restoration of the union.
The memories of courtship days, the
first days of housekeeping, when per
hap* both were* struggling with the
necessary problems of economy, the
birth of children, the rearing of those
which survive, or. perhaps, the memo
ry of sorrow as bath parents stood lie
side Ihe open grave of those who an
gone. These am) a thousand other
things wring th* heart and compel
fslr. unprejudiced comparison between
the Joys and sorrows of the past, such
as nre the lot or every married couple,
and the miserable emptiness or the
present. When the review is fslrly
taken there Is one ex* client way of
ending the embarrassments which be
set the Independent way of both, snd
that l« by doing what l*stlrence C.
Phjpp* and his wife Genevieve appear
lo be doing beginning a
ship, and pleading « n«
upon the recollection of
pledges for the future.
THE GLOVE ANO THE LIONt.
(By LKtiltl HUNT.!
King Francis was a hearty king, and lov
ed s roysl s|H*rt.
And one day as his Hens fought, sat look
ing on the court:
Th# nobles filled the benches round, the
ladles to* their side
And With them sat the Count d«» Purge,
and one for whom he stxhed;
And trub twas a gallant thing to •#•
that crowning show.
Valor and hoe and a king above, and th#
royal beasts twin*.
knowledglng thc&receipt of presents.
The fluotUaGrinnpl telephone calls is,
fact, an interesting barometer of
the ups and doi^tis of commercial life
in American ojtlea not only In the holi
day season but'throughout the year,
nd the sheets on which the variations
f traffic are plotted In curves of red
and blaUk. after the mariner of mod
ern statisticians, are fascinating docu-
Whoso cafl read them correct
ly may certainly, trace In them sotno-
hlng of current history- from week to
veek. from month to month. As he
follows the general curvature of almost
any exchange, he notes how the line
rises tHrough the autumn months In
t swelling curve to a high peak
Just before Thanksgiving, then drops
little only to mount again as high
»r e\*cn higher Just before Christmas.
Through the holiday season the load
stays well up.then sags a little through
January and February when people
are going about ttielr dally occupation*
sobered after* tho excitement of New-
Year's time. Towards the close of
Lent, in the rjays before Easter, the
urve ascends and Is high through
April continuing upward until Just
before people begin to go away for the
summer.
Then there comes n sudden drop and
the average number of calls through
July and August may be equal to
arceiy more than one-third or one-
fourth of those Hi the height of the
winter season. The lowest point Is
ordinarily reached In the first week In
August when the vacation season Is at
Its height.
TheSe remarkable fluctuations In the
volume of tolcpju’"* traffic mean that
for many hours in u day and for many
mths In year,‘-every telephone central
office has to maintain a larger equip
ment than Is necessary to handle the
average of business. In plnunlug their
xchaqires, thu enginear* of the Hell
system ascertain the number of calls
to he answered during' the bushiest
hours <ff the year and that knowledge
letermine* how large the switchboard
must be nnd how many persona must
he employed, for It In a hard and fast
policy of the telephone management
that calls shall ho answered with the
same dispatch whether they are com
ing thick and fast during the busy
hours or whether they nre flowing
more slowly through the exchange, if
the telephone companies could let their
patrons wait nnd take their turn In
talking over the wire during these rush
hours It would mean a saving of many
millions of dollars now Invented In the
plant. Rut that, of course. Is not the
American practice, find millions nre
spent to make the service an efficient
in the busiest hours af the year as It
Is when the calls are few and far be-
until shortly after 12, when It drops to
lt» low.it midway point at exactly- 1.
Then it rliet again very rapidly to an-
other point, though not neatly so high
aa tho former, shortly after 3 o'clock
In the afternoon. The curve aiguilles
that New Yorkers do the larger bulk
of their business In tho morning hours,
ana that a great many men do not
come bock to their offices at all In
the afternoon.
The curve of Boston almost exactly
follows that of New York with the
single exception that the line in its
upward trend begins to mount at least
an hour earlier and stay* longer at
its maximum in the forenoon. The
lunch hour Is apparently a Utile later
in Boston than in New York, inen
finishing their noonday meul about 2
o’clock. The afternoon highest point
occurs at almost exactly the same time
as in New York. Though the load be
gins to drop off a little later, it drops
with greater rapidity so that the down
ward line almost exactly coincides with
that of the metropolis.
Turning to Chicago, one finds a very
different story. The business men of
the Western metropolis arrive much
earlier at their offices and transact
more of their business In the after
noon than do the New Yorkers. The
maximum load at the Chicago central
office in the heart of the banking and
shopping d'strlct rises rapidly after
8 o'clock and reaches its maximum at
exactly 9, a full hour earlier than in
New York. The pressure continues
high through the forenoon, dropping
to Its lowest point at 1. Apparently
the Chicago men take rather longer
for their lunch, for Ihe curve rises to
the 3 o'clock maximum In a concave
instead of a convex curve, as is the
case in New York and Boston.
The afternoon peak Is nearly as high
as Ihe morning, and It appears In two
distinct summits, the latter coinciding
with live o’clock demonstrating that a
great volume of business In Chicago Is
transacted Just before men go away
for the afternoon. The load in Chica
go also sinks more gradually in the
early evening.
In Cleveland a somewhat similar
condition prevails, with an even longer
lunch hour, showing probably that
Cleveland business men in large num
bers go home to noon dinner. Denver
presents the same general features,
with two high peaks in the morning,
one at nine o’clock and one at twelve,
Denver has an exceedingly long after
noon, the highest load occuring at four
o’clock and continuing with Icsb of a
drop than in the other cities until near
ly nine. Pittsburg, on the dividing line
between the Hast and West In the mat
ter of business customs, resembles New
York In that the maximum load does
not appear until ten o’clock, and that
the lunch hour Is much shorter than
In the Western cities. Washingtonlnns,
according to the evidence of the curves,
begin to get busy rather earlier than
New Yorkers, mid at about the same
time with Bostonians. They seem to
leave their offices at four o’clock, for
the afternoon load drops steadily after
thut hour.
ANDREW D. WHITE ON RUSSIA’S CZAR
How Nicholas II. Impressed the ex-flinister From
the United States in 1892
From the Century for November. ■ of a petition to him treasonable, to
I was presented to the heir to the I trample Finland under his feet, to
throne, now the Emperor Nicholas II. | grievously wrong and grossly insult
He seemed a kindly young man; but I Its whole people, to banish its best men
one of his remarks amazed and dis- and confiscate theflr property, to muz*
Their First Christmas
»econd court
s' suit based
the past and
Its mi*'
.vired th# lions, with horrid
paw*.
With
* th«* hars. cam#
whtts'r.K through th# air;
Eatrt Frauds. th#n. Tnlth gentlemen,
»i*‘n hotter her# than there"
Dt Hrtnr#*# lov# <V#rh#»rd ths king, u
h**«ut#rtus lively dam#.
With ftmlltng Ups and sharp bright eysu.
King.
1 thins* to
ill look on: th# oc-
»* divine,
rlov# to prove his lo
rttl b# mine.
m and **mlled;
Ticnt |f«p#d among
turn was quick, h#
but not With lore.
"t*. "rightly don#.**
1 Sbrrr tu* nit;
■Jbui vanity, sets
tween.
Many apparently accidental circum
stances cause great peaks and depres
sions to appear In the contours of the
traffic curves. l/Hik over the sheets
from a university city, fqr example,
and you will note how on » single day
In the autumn mouths the telephone
load will leap to a |mi|iiI exceeding
even that of Thanksgiving and Christ
mas.
Inexplicable? No indeed! That
means that it Is the day of a football
game and that th# excited management
Is busy all th# morning answering tel
ephone calls from graduates who have
neglected up to the lost moment to get
their -tickets; nnd that. In the after
noon. newspaper correspondents nre
telephoning l« the editors of newspa-
ers In distant cities the details of the
progress Of the big game. Again,
whenever a great convention Is hold-
such ss that of one of the political par
ties or u religion# denomination—there
Is alwavs nn Immediate upward Jump
In the curve of the exchanges ne;i
which the gathering In In session.
Certain fluctuations at stated inter
vals can alwav* be predicted by th#
traffic engineers. On Sundays through
out the year there Is necessarily
great (dropping off and on moat holi
days. On the other hand, on the day
before any holiday there is regularly s
marked Increase. Thus Just before
Memorial day people nre ordering their
flags and hunting and holiday dinners.
Again th# 3d of July invariably pre
sent# the highest point of ths summer
month*.
In various ways th# telephone curves
are an index of th# customs of the
people In different communities. The
tally rout In# of business men in dif
ferent cities Is revealed by telephone
chart*. Th# period of “maximum
load." as th# engineers call It. varies
considerably throughout the country.
In the West It Is ordinarily between
nine and ten. In such an Eastern city
as Barton, perhaps from 9:30 to 10:J0
would best express It. while In New
York It Is between 10 and II.
In fact, examination of the plotted
cu r' e * ? number of characteristic
cities yields material for interesting
comparisons. The East differs broadly
from the \\##t m that business men
arrive at thetr offices later, take less
time for lunch at noon and get away
earlier in th»* afternoon. Htudy of an
average dolly curve of the Broad
street •£»•*. N#s- York, in the centre
of the bonklr.K district, proves that
business brgti.ii »-> grow about S o’clock
but Inctvos*** x,ry slowly and does
not reach its rr.ixtmam until a little
alter 10, u «u>a iu> * high peak
NEW YORK. Dec. 24.—One of the
largest Christmu* parties In this
great city this year will he held in
stone building on Washington Heights
where over 1,000 little folks will gath
er around two great Christmas trees
laden with toys nnd the good things
appropriate to the season. After these
gifts have been distributed, there will
l»e an entertainment in which very
likely n slelght-of-hand performer
ventriloquist will be the central figure.
To many of this regiment of children
the .gathering will be the first Christ
mas party In which they have had In
eluded among the guests. They have
come mostly from the crowded East
Hide to he made Into good Americans
by the New York Juvenile Asylum, an
Institution which In the 50 years of
Its existence hus sent out into tho
world 37.000 boys and girls.
The party on Washington Heights
has hii especial significance tills year
because by the time another Christ
mas comes, the work of the Institution
will have been transferred to a new
home which, when completed, will
represent an expenditure of three mil
lion dollars, capital Invested In what
may he described as the business of
transforming the raw material of the
slums into the finished product of
good citizenship. The great majority
hildren received Into this New
York asylum are the victims of mis
fortune to which they have not them
selves contributed, and they do not
enter the building on Washington
Heights through the police courts.
Among then* nre only a few who have
been committed to the asylum because
of misdemeanors. They ure mostly
the orphans of the tenements or the
hildren of parents who have found
the struggle of life too bitter to ■■
able them to keep their families to
gether. These children ot today con
stitute the raw material from which
are to be made the men und women
of tomorrow. #
l*e(t to themselves Ar to chance char
ity in the crowded streets they would
be in constant danger of falling into
wrong-doing. Under the care of the
asylum they are brought under health
ful and helpful Influence both In the
Institution itself and in the homes
which nre found for them.
In every state and territory In the
Union, including far-off Alaska, are
nien and women now prosperous an
successful who recall similar Christ
mas parties In the asylum building on
the Heights. One of the Christmas
sermons which will be preached In New
York this year will be delivered by
former pupil of the asylum, for he Is
now the rector of a large church Ir.
Brooklyn. Another graduate,f who
short time ago added to the Christmas
cheer of the directors by sending them
a generous check, th# proceeds to be
added to the graduates' building fund,
U a prominent lawyer In a Western
city. In his case. It may b# truthfully
said that he got his start In life by
stealing apple# from a push-cart on
the Bowery, He was only six years
old. a street urchin growing up among
evil influences from which he was
moved because or his theft of the ap
ples. a fact to which he Joking alluded
in the letter accompanying his check.
He said that while It might be true
that Eve’s fall came through eating an
apple. It was certain that his own re
generation was directly traceable to
the same cause.
Still another of the asylum boys who
keep in touch with the institution
where they received their early train
ing Is now a county Judge In a Western
state and has been prominently men
tioned as one who is likely to be num
bered among Its future governors.
He was only 7 years old In 1841 when
he became an Inmate of the asylum.
After remaining there a little over a
year, he was sent West with a num
ber of other boys and girla, a home be
ing found for him in the family ot a
well-to-do farmer. The boy’s foster
father had two sons about the same
age as the little waif front New York.
Years passed and wh#n the three bed
finished tb*lr education i n th# schools
of the nearby town. :h# f irmer offered
to send of his son* to college, but
neither cared t» P>. and so It came
about Ufcit Iqn&vr street urchin
Appointed me. During the previous
year the famine which had become
chronic In large parts of Russia had
taken an acute form, and In its train
had come typhus and cholera. It was.
in tact, and same widespread and
deadly combination of starvation and
disease which similar causes pro
duced so often in Western Europe dur
ing the Middle Ages. From the United
Btates had come large contributions ot
money and grain, and as. during the
year after my arrival, about 40,000
rubles more had been sent me from
Philadelphia for distribution. I there
fore spoke to him on the general sub
ject. referring to the fact that he was
President of the Imperial Relief Com
mission. He answered that since the
crops of the last year there was no
longer any suffering, that there wa* no
famine worthy of mention, and that he
was no longer giving attention to the
subject. Tnis was said in an offhand,
easy-going way which appalled me.
The simple fact was that the famine,
though not so widespread, was more
trying than during the year before;
for it found the peasant population In
‘"inland and In the central districts of
the empire even less prepared to meet
During the previous winter they
had ’ every generally eaten their
draught animals and burned every
thing not absolutely necessary for their
own shelter; from Finland specimens
of bread made largely of ferfia had
been brought to me. which it would
seem a shame to give to horses or cat
tle; and yet his Imperial highness, the
heir to the throne, evidently knew
nothing of all this!
In explanation, I was afterward told
by a person who had known him in
timately from his childhood that,
though courteous, his main character
istic was an absolute Indifference to
all persons and things about him, and
that he never showed any application
to business or a sparke of ambition
of any sort. This was confirmed by
what I afterward saw of him at court.
He seemed to stand about listlessly,
speaking In a good-natured way tr
this or that person when It was easier
than not to do so, but on the whole
Afferent to all that went on about
him.
After his accession to the throne,
one of the best Judges In Europe, who
had every opportunity to observe him
closely, said to me: “He known noth
Ing of his house If he can help It. nnd
this explains In some degree the In
sufficiency of this program for
pence conference at The Hague and for
the Japanese war, which, ns I revise
these lines, is going on with fearfi’
disaster and disgrace to Russia.”
Take also the dealings with Finland.
The whole thing Is monstrous. It Is
both comedy and tragedy. Finland Is
by far the best developed part of the
empire; it stands on a higher plane
than do the other provinces ns regards
every element of civilization: it has
steadily been the most loyal of nil :he
realms of the czar, nihilism and an
archism never having gnined the
slightest foothold. Yet today there is
nobody in tho whole empire strong
enough to prevent sundry bigots, mil
itary and ecclesiastical, leading 1he
emperor to violate his coronation
oath, to mnke the simple presentation
zle its press, to brutalize Its peasantry
and thus to lower the whole country to
the level of the remainder of Russia.
At the Finnish capital, Helsingfors,
is one of the most Important universi
ties of Europe, with a noble public
library, beautiful buildings and
throughout the whole town an atmos
phere of cleanliness and civilization
far superior to that which one finds
In any Russian city. While in Russia
there had been from time Immemorial
a debased currency, the currency of
Finland was as good as gold; while in
Russia all public matters more the
marks of arbitrary repression. In Fin
land one could see the results of en
lightened discussion; while Russia the
peasant is but little. If any, above
Asiatic barbarism, the Finnish peas
ant. simple, genuine, is clearly far bet
ter developed both morally and relig
iously. It is a grief to me in these
latter days to see that the measures
which was then feared have slnc>i
been taken. Finland is to be ground
down to a level with Russia In general.
Not long since we heard much sym
pathy expressed for the Boers In South
of Finland. The little grand duchy has
done what It could to save Itself, but It
recognizes the fact that its two million
of people are utterly powerless against
the brute force of the 130.000,000 of the
Russian Empire.
The struggle In South Africa meont,
after nil, that if the worst came to worst,
the Boers would within a generation or
two enjoy a higher type of constitutional
liberty than ever they would have de
veloped under any republic they could
eminent nnd to come under the rule of
brutnl Russian sntraps. These have al
ready begun their work: nil I* to be “Rus.
Siftedthe constitutlonnl bodies are to
be virtually abolished; tho university Is
of our time.
Former emperors, however much they
have wished to do so. have not da red
brenk their oaths to Finland; hut tho
present weakling sovereign. In his Indif
ference, carlessness and absolute unfit
ness to ml#, has allowed tho dominant re
actionary' clique about him to accomplish
Its own good pleasure. I nut on record
here the prophecy thnt his dynasty. If not
himself will bo punished for it. All his
tory shows that no such crime has been
committed without receiving punishment.
Revolution imminent.
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What’s Jupiter Runnning For?
From the Boston Herald.
Th# planet Jupiter Is now culminat
ing In his greatest brilliancy, nnd It Is
the testimony of the astronomers that
no heavenly body thnt adorns our
evening sky. except the moon nnd. at
times. Venus, can compare In glow
ing splendor with the mngplflcont orb,
whose diameter ts eleven times greater
than the earth’s.
had the benefit of thrt higher educa
tion. After graduating he studied law
and was admitted to the bar. He has
since made a name for himself, has
been prominent In politics of his stnte,
serving In the upper branch of the leg
islature, and numbers among his
friends many of the leading of the
country.
Many other instances might be cited
of the beneficial results which the In
fluence of the asylum training has
brought about In the lives and charac
ters of Its charges. At least one of Its
former pupils has actually held the
office of governor, serving ns chief
magistrate of one of the territories,
and there nre today hundreds of men
nnd women occupying positions of use
fulness nnd responsibility in the com
munity who gratefully acknowledge
thnt they owe most of their success In
life to the early training they received
at the asylum nnd to Its efforts in
finding homes for them In the West.
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