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SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
SOCIAL HAPPEMKGB AT THE NA
TIONAL CAPITAL.
Bril Cross Ready for Work to
China if I<> Service* Shonicl Be
Veeileil There —Mentally Deranned
Soldier* From the Philippine*.
Yi*it of il* e Cuban School Teach
ers_Some of the Gay Doing* of
(jay Aesvport—The W hereabout* of
Some Well Known People—Other
Matter* of Interest.
(Vishington, D. C., Aug-. 17.—The wlde
j. , d publi ation that the Red Cross is
already considering what it will do in Chi
_a ] a little premature. The facts, so far
a „ these: I-ast Saturday the Associa
tinn l.eld Hs se ond meeting tinder the act
o' reincorporation, and in the course of
fcusinrss, discussed what might be done in
Crina in the event of war. Miss Barton
referred the question to the Board of Con
trol. Should war appear inevitable, a spe
ci.l meeting of this Board of Control will
he called and arrangements quickly and
thoroughly made. Jllss Barton has had
so much experience, on many fields far
®nd near, that in case of urgent necessity
thne will be no delay. The matter of
fun is, which are now very low in the Red
Cross treasury on account of the enor
mous drain upon it of the Cuban relief
and the Spanish-American war will be
the only I on in the way. But there is,
no doubt, that the generous American
public will obviate that difficulty so soon
h the Red Cross president makes her
wishes known, for it had always respon
ded to every one of her app a’s, even more
liberally than has been required. The
mere mentten of Mies Barton's name is
such an ‘ open sesame” to the hearts and
-urs s that more than once in times now
happily passed, when the Association had
ni legal protection, fraudulent persons
hue used it for their own base purposes.
T might a tale unfold In this connection,
con .-ning the wife of a well-known offi
cer. not long ago prominent, but now
mi ay way "donwn on his luck,” who
p ■ red In, nobody knows how- many
ape s, ostensibly for Cuban relief, but
will h the Cubans never heard nor saw
„-i n of. Beyond doubt the lady acted
upon the Scriptural injunction that Chart
tty i e-ins “at home.” A disclosure in the
y,ruing News of the well-known names
pf ih guilty parties would create a sen-
F , on, but why kir k a woman when she's
1. -especially Wren the kicking would
do no good? Happily the recent act of
Cirgr ss in incorporating the Red Cross
and thus giving it legal protection will ef
f u.ally prevent any repeti'ion of the
swindle. Should the R(d Cross attempt to
flu in China, it will have to fare unusual
prils in the fact that the Yellow King
dent is one of the two nations, (Mexico
tie other) which has never entered into
the treaty of Geneva and, therefore, is not
hound to show any favor to i's represen
tatives. Their charitable dures would ex
tend to sick and wounded Chinese as we 1
xe among soldiers of our own and other
na ins; and in pursuance thereof they
would be in as grave danger of murder
an,! torture as any' foe of the Yellow
D a-on. It is not so much wonder that a
niiion of treacherous, cold-blooded fiends
live tbe Chinese should refuse the benefi
cent treaty; but that Mexico should still
hold aloof—the only really civilized coun
try of the earth not enrolled tinder the
Red Cioss banner—is i as< comprehension.
... * ...
s; caking of war, one of the saddest f a
tures of the conflict in the Philippines is
th gn at number of cases of insanity do
ve op and among our Foldiers. Nearly two
hi nired hopdessly crazy boys in
I Blue have already arrived at St. Eliza
beths. the government asylum near
■Washington, since hostilities began at Ma
nila. while many more have been detained
nt the Presidio in California, or are “how
on their w'ay across the ocean.” Few
I of them are violent enough to need
straight-jacketing, but expert physicians
say that, the comparesively mild type of
rr ’‘ml derangement is practically' incur
able. It is a terrible reality that the
war in Cuba lost us many more good men
V insanity than on the field of battle.
Why It is so, has not'been explained.
T hot climate may have something to
lie with it. but it is more probable that the
entire change of habit, food and occupa
tion has had more to do w ith it than the
climate. The crazy ones are not usually
from the regular orniy, but olerks, stu
dents, farmers, "mother's boy's” gener
ally. used to the comforts of home. For
these the discipline of camp is much hard
er than actual fighting. To suddenly
come down from toothsome pies and
cakes with suitable accessories, to per
petual diet of beans, bacon and hard
< i k, the drudgery of camp life, cr weary
marches in cow-hide shoes and woolen
hose that wear the poor feet to the bone—
ell these and other unaccustomed hard
r'dps conspire with homesickness, that
worst of diseases, to unsettle many a
Before this letter cun appear in print
Ti'.,shington will be crowded from ren
t' to circumference, with Cuban school
teachers, fourteen hundred strong, who
trill devote two days to seeing our
•sight*."
Extensive preparations have been made
for their entertainment by the local
Hoard of Trade and Bureau of Education:
end ns your correspondent is to be one of
the official ciceroncs, she will be in bet
ter position to tell you all about it next
week, if yet alive. Under ordinary cir
cumstances. he or she who deliberately
comes to Washington to hunt the Hons
r. this time of year, is either a fool pr
nn Ignoramus, and he or she who offers
to act ns showman is a bigger one. But
♦ hie visit of the Cuban teachers is a rare
occasion, and must be made the most of,
1 hough the mercury hovers persistently
Ground the hundredth, degree. By the
way, that Anarchist of the social world,
Ihe shirt-waist man, whose name is leg
ion in Washington during this long siege
of sizzling hear, has so far failed to se
< ure official recognition.
• ****••*
Between the hours of 8:30 and 9 a. m.,
and again between 4:30 and 5 p. m., our
[streets are tilled with masculine figures
* arrylng their coats on their arms,
sauntering to and from the various de
partments; but H is noticeable that in
nearly every case the garments are
.donned before entering the official doors,
end donned when again outside them.
AH secretaries and chiefs of bureaus
have frowned upon the shirt-waist man
during business hours, but only Secre
tary Long, who is now away on his vaca
tion, has gone to the length of issuing
definite order excluding men without
coats from the halls and elevators of the
havy department. But ell this is only
slightly delaying the inevitable, and the
ting is not distant when the “new man
will be as free as the “new woman to
w*ar his shirt-waist when and where he
Happily, the brand new femi
nine fad of appearing in church without
hat or bonnet has not yet struck Wa*h-
Ington, but it is coming, sure as fate.
For several summers it has been very
much the growing fashion for ladles to
g about the streets with nothing on the
head but their natural (and perhaps some
acquired “crowning glory’—to appear
bareheaded nt lectures and concerts, in
street cars and carriages, in short, every
where but in the so-called House of the
1 rd. To my unbiased mind it would
t fin that a lady might much better sit
quietly |n a clean church with
h*r carefully arranged hair uncovered,
than to expose it to al4 the dust and d*rt
and fsneral disorder to be encountered ir.
long drive or street car ride. It is af
ter uil only a matter of custom, about
the great Creator l* not likely to
trouble Himself—especially as customs
\ar>- so in different sections. I have
been in several Catholic countries—no
tably Peru. Bolivia, Ecuador end rural
-Mexico, where it is a matter of con
science for ladies to go batless to church.
Foreigners visiting those countries, w*ho
are not careful to remove their hats or
bonnets before entering the sanctuaries,
are likely to be at once requested to re
tire, or. tailing to comprehend the idioma,
to be taken by the arm and led out bv
some zealous priest of layman. I have
several times seen it done, when the be
wildered foreigner had no idea wherein
lay her transgression. ,
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Since the social autocrat of Newport
has set his seal upon the shirt-waist fad,
t is now bound to “go,” despite h few
conservative* in high places. The rich
joung autocrat aforesaid appeared in his
automobile upon the fashionable driveway
the other day, a; the ultra-fashionable
nour. and astonished the little sisters
and brothers of mammon bv wearing a
white china-siik blouse and a bow of
baby-fcJue ribbon”— so say the chroni
c pts. As no casualties are reported, it
* presumed that the articles enumerated
were not the entire extent of his toilette.
I i? ky year-after-year resident®
of Newport that nearly all the time
honored customs of that once-dignified and
formal resort are giving way to un
mitigated frivolity under the regime of
;,V® ~e w ®* an and Woman with their
bikes and automobiles. Bellevue ave
nue is no longer a stately pageant of
handsome equipages and mettlesome
steeds, every afternoon from 3 to 7 o'clock.
Instead, the tribes go spinning and whlz
zinf about, on their "machines," big and
■ ltue, away down the Ocean Road until
late in the evening. Nobody wears a hat
and few a coat, everybody laughs and
s " g f. and ha ils everybody else in sight
wNtherfriends or strangers, with the
utmost bon camaraderie
* * * * * *
Queen F’ashion seems to have been suc
cessful at last in her search for an Edi
son or Marconi to invent newer wavs of
entertaining her votaries than the sober
pastimes of "the good old lovb.” There
fe J w omen in the gilded kingdom
of the Four Hundred, whose cleverness
shines out with the brilliant glare of a
locomotive headlight-hut many more in
the same fold whose intellects are better
compared to the dim flickering® of a blue
headed match. The latter continue to give
the same old dinners and dances and re
• eptions—Just as the antediluvian ladies
, for aH we know to the contrary,
and just as their posterity will do to the
end of creation. To the former set belong
Mar Ml 6 " US !! S Wh ° n ° W ntl ' J then <"V*nt
start ing Change-such as the well-remem
bered fashionable ball where the guests
masqueraded as vegetables, and the other
".I™ wore his an.] her clothes
hind side before" so that none could
morea",°sT nS u COmmgr or soinf? - 11 ls ru
mored that the cap-sheaf in this freakish
hoe will be applied by Mrs. Stuyvesant
f ,s ( h ' her 'Newport ball on Aug. 21 It
is to be a "vintage dance” they say
wherein imported peasant girls in native
custom ore <o make wine exactly as they
are in the habit of doing in their far
fve.S,Vn ,K° meS - Tt is whispered, how
bat thp Sb-eolled peasant maids are
not imported (farther than from New
w r! C n and Washington), but that certain
wUh" k wT t"T ty hclresses will dance
wh£w b * i " pon hbt-house grapes
which cost a dollar the pound
* * ’ • •
A notable figure Just now at Newport is
Gen. Daniel Sickles, who Is visaing h U
heautifu, daughter, whose manage to
the young Englishman, Mr. Craeken
horpe, was chronicled in these columns
(wo years ago. Mr. Oraekenthorpe is now
, l "“, r f ,hp British embassy in (he
t lined States; and so devoted father and
daughter, the last of the Sickles family
are again much together. Speaking of
happy foreign marriages-the Cantaeuzene
and Patenotre brides, whose brilliant
weddings were fully described in the
Morning News, are counting themselves
unusually blessed. Mrs. Patenotre, the
young Philadelphia schoolgirl who mar
ried a middle-aged French ambassador
three or four years ago, is just now' -e
--joicing in the possession of her third child.
She is spending the summer in this coun
try, with her parents, at their seaside
home near Philadelphia. Ambassador
Patenotre, who has been stationed some
time at Madrid, will Join his family later
on this side the ocean and accompany
them back to Spain. Mrs. Fred Grant is
still in St. Petersburg, with her daughter,
the Princess Cantaeuzene, and the brand
new baby who may be prouder of the fact
that his great-grandfather was Gen. V. S.
Grant, than of the coronet which figures
so conspicuously on all his belongings.
The Admiral of Ihe Navy and Mrs.
Dewey are now at Beauvoir, their coun
try home near Washington, but will re
turn to Narragansett in a tew days. In
view of the expected greatness about to
be thrust upon him. the Admiral is more
than ever, if possible, a perfect example
of the doting husband. Mr. George W.
Dewey, now the legal owner of the man
sion which a grateful people presented to
his father, is frisking about Dong Branch
along with the Misses Hanna, as gaily as
though his nose were not soon to be out
of joint.
Ex-Secretary and Mrs. John G. Carlisle
are making an extended visit with ex-
President and Mrs. Cleveland, at the lat
ter’s summer home on Buzzard's Bay.
Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle are In mourning for
(ehir son. whosedeath occurred nearly two
years ago. Miss Rose Cleveland, sister
of the ex-Freeident. has Just purchased
a large and beautiful farm at Dark Har
bor. Islesboro—one of the finest properties
of that Northern resort. Miss Griggs,
daughter of the Attorney General, is very
ill with typhoid fever, at her aunt's home
in Hartford, Conn. Senator Chauncey M.
Depew. with his niece and son. who hav"
been in Europe the last six weeks, will
sail for home on Saturday. Mrs. V. S.
Grant and her daughter, Mrs. Sartoris.
headed the list of patronesses at a Kir
mess and summer festival, given last
Wednesday night at Richfield Springs.
On that occasion the cakewalk of Mr.
Richard Croker, Jr., was the hit of the
evening. Senator Pugh and family are
at Saratoga.
—His t'sual Trip.—" What Is meant by a
Sabbath day's Journey?" asked the Sun
day School teacher. ‘ From our house to
grandpapa's and back. replied l reddle
Fosdiok, who knew where his family took
dinner every Sunday.—Chicago News.
—Awful—“These Roxers must be terri
ble people." "Yes. They couldn't act much
worse if they were trying to civilize an
other country.”—Life.
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"Yes. sir; he's dc champeen scrapper
of dis ward " "Why doesn’t he go io
school?” "Oh, his mother thinks he's toy
delicate."— Harper's Bazar.
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THE MORNING NEWS. SUNDAY,’ AUGUST 19. 1900.
POLAR EXPLORATIONS.
MILLIONS OF MILKS WITHIN THE
ARCTIC CIRC Lfci STILL UNKNOWN.
V Knowledge of Thin Waste Neces*a
ry—Effect on Weather Predictions.
Terrestrial Mnanettsm Mineral
Wealth—Polar Exploration Shown
(.renter Finoneial Return Than
Any Other Enterprise—What of the
Fntnre f—Shall the I uited Staten He
ltehiud England and Germany?
By Dr. Frederick A. Cook.
(Copyright, 1900, by F. A. Cook.)
New York. Aug. 17.—'The true aim of le
gitimate polar exploration, is not, as it
is popularly* supposed, to reach the north
or the south pole, but to push aside the
realm of ignorance within the polar zones.
There is a blank space of about 3.0<0,000
square miles around the northern axis,
and another of about 8,000,000 square miles
around the southern pivot. We thus
have, at the two poles, an unknown area
equal to the combined spread of North
America and Europe. In this region there
would be room for 200 countries as large
as the state of New York, and then there
would still be space for the British Isles,
Germany, France and Bpain. In a re
gion of such incomprehensible extent, is
there not the prospect of material dis
coveries of interest and value to man
kind? In the dawn of the new century
of boasted progress and enlightenment, is
it not a confession of regrettable darkness
to find that an area equal to one-quarter
of the entire known land surface of the
globe is still a blank upon our charts?
The 310*1 Useful Search Ever Made.
It is the habit of many people to decry
the efforts of polar explorers as being
barren of results comparable to the ex
penditures of life, and time, and money.
Fortunately, for the progress of terres
trial knowledge, these complainers are
the men who measure everything by dol
lars and cents, and such men seldom pen
etrate far enough into the records of ex
ploration to find the far-reaching effect.
A short time ego the editor of a New
York newspaper sept a bright young man
to me with instructions to get a story of
what he called ‘‘The Uolossal Folly of the
Century** the Useless Search for the
North Pole.” I explained to this reporter
that the discovery of the pole was a per
fectly feasible project, but that the aim
of polar explorers had not been and
should not be narrowed to pole-chasir.g. It
should be enlarged to include a thorough,
systematic study of the land, the life and
the weather conditions. Such knowledge
of any area beyond the threshold of the
unknown is quite as important as a mere
dash for the pole. And, furthermore, I
explained that, including- the several arc
tic tragedies, the mortality of arctic ex
plorers was less than that of peAple who
stay at home in New York. But he must
prepare en article, and I was made to
say without qualification, in large head
lines, that "No Particular Scientific Ad
vantage Is to Be Derived From the Find
ing of the Pole.” But I also said: “It
is not more valuable, as a point, than any
other point 600 or a thousand miles away.
The great advantage to he derived from
the discovery of the pole is the clearing
up of the mystery which surrounds the
polar regions. Obtaining definite knowl
edge of the unknown blank space in the
vicinity of the pole is worth striving for,
and no polar expedition can be under
taken—no expedition, that is, properly fit
ted with scientific appliances and correct
ly conducted —without resulting in some
scientific benefit.”
The result of polar exploration ui the
past has been productive of great results,
but these results enter so naturally into
the development of commerce and the va
rious branches of natural science, that,
like the contributory voters of a river,
the original sour.’e is lost in the new
stream. To see the ultimate use of ihe
results of research within the frigid zones ;
is, at first glance, difficult; but a brief
analysis of (he outcome of work of the
past will indicate the complex but impor
tant usefulness. Early voyages into the
frozen seas were directed only by ambi
tions to conquer new lands for commer
cial purposes. From their efforts it now
follows that we have a knowledge of Alas
ka with its limitless gold, of the great
Northwest Territory, and, indeed, all of
British North America, with its known
wealth of furs and its unknown beds or
minerals, ond of Spitzenl>ergon and much
of Siberia. Asa result of the work of
these forgotten explorers we have develop
ed a sealing industry, a fur trade, and
a whale fishery, which has brought a
wealth of billions of dollars to hardy ad
venturers. It is true, that in this work
lives have been lost and much money has
been spent, but the investment has paid
a profit, not to the pioneers, but to the
t‘uc*?eed.iws generations, matfy hundred
times greater than the original outlay.
The I*recnt Benefit*.
The aim of modern polar effort is not,
however, to dis. Over anew passage to
reach the profitable trade of the Orient,
or to find new avenues for the development
of commercial enterprises. It is to gather
information to better understand the con
ditions of the earth, not only within the
arctic circle, hut at the equator, or in
our own locality, as well. To attempt to
study the natural history of the globe,
without a specific knowledge of the two
polar areas, is like attempting to study
the Physiology of the human system vvith
out'a knoWlcdge of the circulation. It is
no more possible to understand the physics
of the regions in which we live without
a better knowledge of the polar unknown,
than it is to understand the function of
the stomadh without n clear conception
of the influence of the brain upon it. We
musi go to Greenland nnd to the Antarc
tic to learn the conditions during the gla
cial epoch of ihe lands upon which we
live. The sand of Long Island and the
boulders of New Jersey cannot he well
understood until we study the moraines
of the polar glaciers. In meteorology there
are various problems which ere hidden by
the hand of Nature behind the icy polar
walls. The number and the importance
of these problems will depend upon future
development. The science of forecasting
weather is stlil in its infancy, hut upon
its perfection depends thousands of lives
and millions of dollars. We cannot hope
to find the origin and destiny of storms
and cold waves, and a hundred other
weather peculiarities, until the atmospher
ic conditions, tlie terrestiai topography,
and the interchange of air end sea cur
rents are carefully noleu at the pole. In
geology nnd in meteorology there is much
to Ite gained by a continuation of polar
exploration. The keys which will open
the doors of the new chapters arc lost In
the polar snows; the search will he diffi
cult, but we must persist in looking,
grrreta to be Revealed.
Terrestrial magnetism Is still a name for
something of which we know very little.
What Is It? How dies It originate, and
what about Its function and Its distribu
tion? These questions call only he an
swered by theories. The northern magnetic
pole has been approximately located by
Ross, but it moves, and needs a relnvesd
gation. Borchgrcvlnk Is returning with
the report that b has located the south
tnagnetl . pole, but this has iiei n done lte
fore hltn by four other expeditions, and
still, if we draw a circle with a diameter
of five hundred miles on the still unknown
Vletorlaland. It will only isisslble to
say that ihe polo Is within this circle. The
compass upon which every land surveyor
and officer depends tor dlleetion, is iu
llalre or otherwise In dliccs proportion to
our in* reuse in the i.tiowbdae of tt *■ ex
ac* location of tic magnetic poles and .he
behaviour of tiie ih' la in \arb us parts
of the globe, but ut the poles
Wtie ll me consider that th*- thousands of
modern ships with their precious cargoes
of human lives, and the surveys of ihe
ever valuable land areas, depend# upon
the compass, which in turn depends for
correction upon accurate magnetic obser
vation, the immediate return of polar ex
penditure must be evident.
In the other branches of polar explora
tion. the object ls not so clear. ewpt to
specialists, but to remedy the erring direc
tion of the compass effects the home afki
the family of every man. rich or poor, ed
ucated or otherwise. To point correctly
the magnetic needle, is alone worth all the
time and money spent in searching the
polar regions. The men who measure ail
human effort by commercial standards,
ask. “What is the dividend of this costly
search of ages?” Without a consideration
of the other products of polar work, we
can say that to properly equip the sea
captain and the land surveyor, will save
future life and property, which will repay
every outlay.
What is true of geology and meteorol
ogy and magnetism is equally true of the
other departments of science. The polar
fauna and flora have an all important
hearing upon the early life of the globe.
If we. would understand the life follow
ing the* glacial period, we must go to the
poles to study the penguin, the seal, the
musk ox. the ice bear, the reindeer, and
the whale. If we will gain a true knowl
edge of primitive man we must seek the
Eskimo, who is just emerging from the
stone age. Every phenomena of the globe,
every .speck of life, and every sheet of
earth is Intimately related to some other
part of the globe. The world must be
studied as a whole, because each region
influences surrounding areas and indirect
ly regions far away. If there remain large
blank spaces as these at the poles, the
home lands and life end conditions cannot
be understock as is necessary from a sci
entific point of view.
The In*iunfticn nt Cost.
The habit of condemning the work of
polar expeditions because of the cost of
money and life, is a relic of selfish, nar
row-minded barbarism. It is the spirit
of the man who seeks only immediate per
sonal gain, and has no thought of the fu
ture or of the enlightenment of posterity.
It is the motive of the Indian who seeks,
day after day, only the wants of his stom
ach. But let us look more deeply into thi*
criticism. Is the loss of life, or the ex
l>enditure of money so great as is popu
larly supposed?
From 1848 to 1854, the most active period
of arctic research, there were 520 British
seamen engaged in the service. A cakHa
lation of the total time occupied by these
men would- be represented by 1,878 men in
constant service. Of these various Eng
lish parties there were thirty-two deaths,
which would make an annual percentage
of 1.7. From this it will be seen that
polar explorers do not suffer a greater
mortality than stay-at-home people in va
rious cities. The ordinary risk by climate
and diseases is rather decreased among
polar workers. In the modern expeditions
of Peary and Nansen there has not been
single death from disease, and only one
from an accident. In the voyage of the
Belgica there was but one. death by an
accidental fall, and another from a disease
previously contracted. With our present
knowledge if hygiene and with an increas
ed polar experience, there is no need of
future calamities.
The mistakes and failures of the
past are remembered, but it is forgot
ten that by those mishaps we are to
day able to profit and so plan expedi
tions that there is a reasonable safety to
life. The mistakes of the pioneers are the
stepping stones to future success.
The expense of modern voyages of ex
ploration are not necessarily great. We
no longer need to eend large and armed
forces, as was done during the stage of
commercial and romantic adventure. Small
parties of properly equipped investigators
are more economical and much more use
ful than large corps of untrained men.
The voyage of the Belgica is an example
of what may be done with modest means.
With an expenditure of $60,C00. a system
atic series of scientific observations were
prosecuted for nearly two years. A new
navigable highway, in size comparable to
the strait of Magellan, with 600 miles of
the const of anew land discovered. The
various scientific records will form several
volumes of new contributions to the
knowledge of our globe; and who will say
that such contributions are not worth, to
the coming generations, the paltry sum nf
SOO,OOO which was expended? This amount
multiplied by 100 would not represent the
money spent yearly on pleasure yachts
and race horses, and surely these do not
yield a result comparable to our increased
knowledge in the annals of science from
polar exploration.
The prospective value of (his work has
been confirmed by various recent govern
ment enterprises. And by their verdict we
may assume the question as answered for
all time in the affirmative. Individuals may
engage in notional or uselea ventures, hut
a government does not give time and
money to doubtful projects. Norway, Bel
gium. England. Russia, and Germany are
now engaged in (his effort to clear up the
mysteries about both po es, and they would
not bo thus occupied if there were not
tangible results within the range of prob
ability.
\\ lifit of tlie Future?
England and Germany are organizing
expeditions. Will Americans, who have
carried the Stars and Stripes to the far
thest reaches of the earth, stand aloof and
look on? If we are to have A well-equipped
expedition, ready to work with England
and Germany, some merchant king must
come to our rescue. The present govern
ment indications are not favorable 10 such
,i venture, but with the liberal hand of a
Bennett, a Harms worth, or a Newnes, we
could work hand in hand with the sub
jects of the Queen and the Kaiser. The
combined armies of peace could, in thin
way, march into the white silence, the un
broken icy slumber of centuries about the
south or the north pole, and there collect
the needful scientific spoils.
LA* DM\%PB AIU HITFXrTI HF.
Mi r. 'tli'CrfH Hum 4lnde x Marked Sue
of It on n Profession.
New York, Aug. 17.—The appointment
some time ago of Mrs. A. E. McCr< a at
Landscape Architect for Lincoln Park,
Chicago, at a salary of $1,200 a year should
be regarded as a fact of more than pass
ing Inf' rest to women the country over,
since It opens up to the woman wage
earner unlimited opportunities in a prac
tically unoccupied field. Ai present, only
iwo women in this whole great country of
spacious grounds and lordly parks have
taken up this profession; Miss Beatrix
Jones of New York, who has made a <son
spicuouar success of her chosen and de
lightful work, and Mrs. McCrea, who for
ihe last seven years has been the recipi
ent of large sums of money for the lay
ing out of public and private grounds ail
through the Middle Wcn4.
Mrs. McCrea is .? i enthusiast upon the
subject of women's entering this profes
sion, and would gladly encourage any
number- providing they were properly
constituted tempernmemally—to take up
the work, believing th 4 they would not
be long In creating a general demand for
their services.
She laid the foundation of her knowl
edge by years of Intimate companionship
with her husband, who was a landscape
tjardner of wide reputation. It was Mrs.
McCiea’s custom to accompany her hus
band wherever he went upon his business
tries, and 'almost without knowing It,
.jhe absorbed a knowledge of soils,
shrubs and trees, of time** and Ben
sons, of contracts, plans and designs, to
gether with u persona! Acquaintance with
ihe beat growers In the country. In a
semi-serious vein Mr. McCrea one day re
marked o her:
‘ If anything should ever happen to m*.
y tj could go on with m business. You
real y do not appreciate how much you
kvi vv about It Hut If y>u v. r* to ta'k
w th the 1a ’I g nun In t* I profession,
you would I" surprl ed to fi and how near
ly you are on a par with th m "
This casual remaik thrown off at a ran
d m moment, came back to Mrs McCrea
wh#n after weaty m nths of travel and
the hopeless right of her husband against
Despise Not
SMALL THINGS-unless
something BIGGER is in sight.
F'rinstance
Our “25 Off” Sale
Of Men’s
SUMMER CLOTHING,
Hats, Underwear and Furnishings.
STRAW HATS are cheap enough to throw
at the birds. 1
NEGLIGEE SHlßTS,excusing Manhattans.
B. H. LEVY & BRO.
consumption, she found herself alone
with her two little daughters, and a very
meager estate. Her method of begin
ning was to watch the, papers to ascer
tain where government or state appropri
ations harP been made for beautifying
grounds, or even for erecting buildings.
She would then go to the town or city
Indicated, look up superintendent and di
rectors, and ask the privilege <f sub
mitting plans and estimates. Aided by
the reputation of hfr husband and forti
fied with indomitable pluck, she met with
success from the start. Her tirst work
making a hit, she w*B passed along with
a good word from the authorities, and
never had to experience the dreary les
sons of financial embarassment.
fplTdal m1..c0
The Uncle Yard Experiment.
In view of the limited opportunities for
professional training in this subject, Mrs.
McCrea*s advice to those, wishing to equip
themselves for the work is to first secure
the best books upon the subject, and to
famillarlize themselves with the funda
mental principles common to all, and
then begin experimenting. One’s back
yard, if only a city lot, will do for the
ilrst efforts. If this lot is enclosed by a
high board fence, one should begin by
painting that color to harmonize with the
foliage. Against this should first appear
j few high-growing shrubs like, lilacs,
spirea, etc., Ihe n perhaps some that do
not grow quite so high, then something
still lower, and so on, with a pleasing va
riety of low-growing shrubs end plants at
the base—always preserving a harmony of
color and form, while avoiding anything
approaching a symmetrical arrangement;
one should also plan for ail unbroken
continuation in bloom from spring to fall.
A distinct mark of the amateur is the use
of variety, the professional contenting her
self with a few simple species that per
fectly harmonize, and so arranged as to
give the effect desired. A good course in
drawing and designing la recommended by
Mrs. McCrea as being of inestimbale value
when one comes to the work of submit
ting plans for parks or any considerable
public or private grounds. In her own
work, Mrs. Mct’rea’s whole aim is to keep
close to nature, carefully shunning any
suggestion of the artificial and reproduc
ing wherever she <an ideal naiui.u
rusticity. She always has her sketch book
with her, and whenever see sees a charm
ing effect in nature—a grouping of trees
or bushes, shaded bank or verdant up
land, she makes a little sketch of it for
possible reproduction In her special line of
work.
The Knowledge Required.
Among the first requisites to success in
this work from the practical Hide, is to
add 40 a thorough understanding of the
requirements of plants und trees, an ex
pert knowledge of soil. In order lo grow,
a plant must always be surrounded by
Us native conditions. You cannot, for in
stance, take a plant that has been grown
in day and expect It to live. If trans
planted to a sandy soil. The making
up of flue earth in which to receive anew
plant or tree, Is, therefore, a matter of
the first Importance. Mrs. McCrea has
become as sensitive to soil as most wo
men are to flowers, aiui says that slie
can never pass a bit of good earth on the
roadside, without wanting to pick it up
and carry it home with her. It la in
deed through this* knowledge that she
hopes to save the city a large amount in
the annual loss of its trees. Illustrative of
this point, she cites a circumstance that
once came under her personal ohserva
4lon In Chit ago. A number of young
trees had been purchased for one of the
parks, and wngonloads of street sweep
ings had hern reserved to put over the
roots on the supposition that this refuse
material would he particularly* good as a
fertilizer.
“Now they mlgh4 Just ns well have put
Hve coala of fire on those tender lift!*
roots.” remarked Mrs. McCrea; “they
could not work more deadly results than
the carbonic acid gas generated from the
street sweepings. Thousands of trees die
every year from Just 4his kind of treat
ment; no one knows why, nnd the grower
w'ho chanced to sell the trees is usually
blamed. Whole carloads of black dirt are
frequently brought in from the country,
in which there Is nor a handful of
color ar.d does not necessarily Indi
cate rlchneaa, although frequently, of
Even Boys
Revel in the luxurious extravagance
of
25 Per Cent. Discount
On SUMMER CLOTHING.
Wash Suits, Straw Hats,
Underwear, Neckwear,
Negligee Shirts,except Manhattans,
Furnishings.
PA! TRADES HERE,
and “JOHNNIE” has his rights, too.
con rue, the dark earth is exceptionally
g-ood. Only the expert' can tell by the
feeling and texture as to the quality. Your
clay Band loam must bo mixed entirely
according to the native conditions of the
plant which it Is supposed to sustain.
Of course many of Ihe trees din from
this treatment, and no one knows where- j
fore. The hole should be of a size that
every tiny rootlet may have plenty of
room In which to stretch itself quite at its
will. Over this should go a layer of light
earth Riot has been curefully mixed and
prepared, with plenty of air between its
molecules; then may come the heavier
and richer earth.
Avery common way of humbugging the
Inexperienced buyer of trees Is the Offer
to transplant a good sized tree and guar
antee tt for two years. That sounds a very
fair offer, until one comes to know that
any fair-sized tree can live two years up
on the sap that tt already contains, and
that after the time is up the chances are
ten to one that the tree wifi die.
J am very particular also to superintend
every bit of my own pruning, and may
almost be called merciless In that direc
tion, as I am a great believer In cutting
off at the top to give additional strength
to the roots.
The position of landscape architect for
any parge park affords employment for
every day In the year. In the winter plans
and designs are thought out, nnd con
tracts made. Mrs. McCrea says by the
way that an expert can detect any variety
of t ee or shrub more readily by the bark
than by Its foliage, and also arrive at
names.
A special Inducement to women to in
ter Ms profeslson may be the fart that
Mrs. McCrea is a most incredible example
of perpetual youth. Who positively doesn't
look half the age, to which site confesses.
She says that she walks practically all iho
time and is never tired. Della F. Davis.
PHILOSOPHY VS. PARROTS.
flow the Owners, the Stnnll Roy, nnd
the W ise Man Mixed Ms Iters.
From the New York Times.
"Foil-Foil-I’retty—Pret-t-l-y Toll. Pol
ly want a cracker?"
The words were intended to he reassur
ing and seductive. The only answer wa
a hoarse, guttural laugh. *
"Ha! Ha! Hahn! Haha!” It sounded far
up In Ihe branches of one of the tall trees
In City Hall Park yesterday afternoon.
A crowd always gathers on such occas
ions, and the usual gathering of children
was reinforced by men and women out
for a Sundny etro:i. The man who was
trying to entice his parrot from the lofty
perch was red and perspiring. "D that
burrn.l,’ 'he said; Ihen he added aloud and
diplomatically: “Nice Pol-come." He
turned and explained to several bystand
ers that he had let the bird out of the
cage to give It a chance to enjoy the
green.
"Haha! Haha!" came from above.
"Bully boy, good thing. Haha!" There
was an echo again, and some askel if the
bird was a ventriloquist. The man didn't
answer. He was busy gathering sticks
and stones. The small boy suggested the
usual saline method. The man threw a
thick at the boy.
A pale-faced man came along and In
quired the reason for the gathering.
"All! Indeed!" he remarked. "Nothing
easier. You should not frighten the bird,
my good man. The parrot has very acute
perceptions. Almost human—almost hu
man. He sees the sticks and stones. He's
afiviid. Use kindness. So! Now, Polly,
nice Polly. Polly want a cracker? t ome
Poll; come ”
"Come off. Ha. ha, ha!” was the
hoarse answer. “Oh, my! Ha, ha. ha!
Ho, ho, ho!" came the echo.
"Well, 1 declare." said the pale man.
"Well, I'll be d—d!" came from the
branches.
Then ihe owner of the bird laid his
sticks and stones in a pile under the
tree, politely lequerted the crowd lo !ook
out fur filling missiles, und the lombard
ment began.
Whirr! A alick flew harmlessly by the
moving green patch on the limb. Several
more were equally Ineffective, but finally
the man's atm Improved, lie broke short
• violent "fia-halng ' by girthing the bird
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full on the side. The green patch tumbled
to the ground. Just as the man bent down
to pick up the bird the crowd was sud
denly forced to part, and a woman
rushed forward with a shriek.
‘ You brute!” she shrieked. "How dars
you? I’ll have the law on you-—that I
will. Give me that bird, you wretch! I
want my bird.”
“Your burrud? Waal, I nlver. Say, do
yex moind tillin’ me since whin you are
the owner uv this burrud?”
“I want that parrot this Instant. It’s
mine, and I’m going to have It."
At this moment a policeman appeared
on the scene and prevented what might
have developed into violence. “What's
the row?” he asked.
Tfle woman did most of the talking.
She explained that she had been In the
park with her bird, and that It flew away
from h<r. She had wandered around
looking for it. nnd had arrived Just In time
to see “ihat brute” knock the “poor, dear
thing” senseless.
When the man’s turn to speak came ha
asfierted his rights. The policeman looked
confused.
The parrot slowly opened Its eyes. Then
In a weak voice It piped forth: *‘Oh, dear
me! Ha, ha, ha, ha. ha, ha!"
”Ha, ha, ha!” came a full, hoarse voice
from above. The policeman turned hla
head up quickly. So did everybody else,
and there was a sudden whirr of the top
leaves ns the parrot flew quickly down
and perched on the woman’s wrist. She
looked sheepish.
”! guc.<R that ain’t my bird.” she said.
‘ I'd wring Its neck if it wor,” said the
man.
—Queen Victoria will make a at ay of
about six weeks at Osborne, leaving for
Balmoral at the end of this month. There
is, by the Queen’s command, to be no
Hrucmar gathering this autumn. Prince
Henry XX.%. of Reusw was made h com
mander of the Koyal Victorian order dur
ing his short visit. The Queen's Journey
to Oeborne was safely accomplished; her
saloon carriage was kept cool, with block!
of Ice. Her Majesty crossed the Bolent on
the royal yacht Alberta. The new royal
yacht Victoria and Albert baa been float
ed and Is now to be finished and In road
mess for the Queen’s uaO. Sim Will b* *
handsome vassal
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