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TO GIVE STREET
URCHINS A CHANCE
A $3,000,000 PLANT
for TRANSFORMING RAW MATE
RIAL OF THE SLI MS INTO
GOOD CITIZENS.
A Yew York Juvenile Asylum Which
Has Sent Out Into the 'World
37,000 Boy* and Girls—Many ot
Theui Are Sotv Men and Women
Prominent in HiiMlne** and in the
Profession* in Every State in the
I'nion.
Xc\v York, Dec. 17.—One of the larg
est Christmas parties in this great city
this year will be held in a stone build
ing on Washington Hights, where over
1,000 little folks will gather around two
great Christinas trees laden with toys
and the good things appropriate to the
season. To many of this regiment of
children, the gathering will be the first
Christmas party in which they have
been included among the guests. They
have come mostly from the crowded
East Side to be made into good Ameri
cans by the New York Juvenile Asy
lum. an institution which in the fifty
years of its existence has sent out
into the worid 37,000 boys and girls.
The party on Washington Hights
has an especial significance this year
because by the time another Christmas
comes, the work of the institution will
have been transferred to anew home
which, when completed, will represent
an expenditure of $3,000,000, capital
invested in what may be described as
the business of transforming the raw
material of the slums into the finished
product of good citizenship.
Little Victims of Misfortune.
The great majority of children re
ceived into this New York asylum
are the victims of misfortune to which
they have not themselves contributed,
and they do not enter the building on
Washington Hight through the police
courts. Among them are only a few
who have been committed to the asy
lum because of misdemeanors. They
are mostly the orphans of the tene
ments or the children of parents who
have found the struggle of life too bit
ter to enable them to keep their fam
ilies together. These children of to
day constitute the raw material from
which are to be made the men and
women of to-morrow. Left to them
selves or to chance charity in the
crowded streets they would be in con
stant danger of falling into wrong-do
ing. Under the care of the asylum
they are brought under healthful and
heipful mlluence both in the institu
tion itself and in the homes which are
found for them.
It* Beneficiaries In Every State.
In every state and territory in the
union, including far-off Alaska, are
men and women now prosperous and
successful who recall similar Christmas
parties in the asylum building on the
Hights. One of the Christmas ser
mons which will be preached in New
toik this year will be delivered by a
former pupil of the asylum, for he Is
now the rector of a large church in
hronklyn. Another graduate, who a
short time ago added to the Christmas
cheer of the directors by sending them
a generous check, the proceeds to be
aaded to the graduates’ building fund
is a prominent lawyer in a Western
city. In his case, it may be truthfully
said that he got his start in life by
stealing apples from a push-cart on the
Bowery. He was only six years old, a
street urchin growing up among evil
int.uences from which he was removed
because of his theft of the apples, a
tact to which he jokingly alluded in
the letter accompanying his check. He
said that while it might be true that
Eve s fail came through eating an ap
li. it was certain that his own regen
era; ion was directly traceable to the
same cuse.
Wails ot a Great City.
Strange stories are sometimes brought
to light in the history of these little
waifs of a great city, but as a rule
the tale would be a monotonous re
cital of hardships and poverty. There
is little that is romantic in the daily
life of the garment worker, street ped
jer, factory hand or dock laborer liv
ing in the tenement districts of the
American metropolis, but now and then
there comes to light a bit of family
history which serves as the exception
to prove the rule.
Four vears ago three small children,
two boys and a girl, were sent to
the asylum and, after the usual per
iod of training, homes were found for
them in the West. There these chil
dren were heard speaking of a wealthy
New York woman who had recently
died. They said that she was their
aunt. A lawyer was consulted and
the officials of the asylum were ap
pealed to for proofs of the alleged re
lationship. These were obtained and
with the identity of his clients thus
established the lawyer filed a claim
upon the projwrty and confidently ex
pects that it will be sustained by
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dren will each be the possessor of a
comfortable fortune.
Antidote* for Crime.
work of such institutions as
this New York asylum is of particular
interest at this time when papers and
magazines are filled with accounts of
the increase of crime in the cities. Not
only are the asylums taking homeless
and neglected children from the slums
and turning them into good citizens,
hut they are sending them cut into the
country to take the places of the young
people drawn from the farms by the
glamor and glitter of city life. More
than ever before it is becoming the pol
icy of the managers of such establish
ments to early implant in the minds of
thetr young charges the love of coun
ty and the New York Juvenile
Asylum, in carrying out this idea, is
now completing what will be perhaps
the most complete establishment of its
kind in the world. Christmas will be
observed with a greater lavishness
than usual at the asylum this vear in
recognition of the fact that this is the
last celebration of the hoiday to be
“f’u * n the building which has been
the home of the society for the last fif
ty-three vears.
The Asylum “Home.”
Early in the spring the asylum will
move from New York to Dobbs Ferry,
where its new cottage colony is being
built on a tract of 277 acres located on
high land near the Hudson river. Arch
itects have prepared plans which call
for the erection of seventy-five cot
tages, school buildings, club houses, a
gymnasium and an electric, heating
and power plant. Each of the cot
tages is arranged to accommodate
twenty boys to be under the care of
a house mother” and a “house fath
er.”
HOYV TO ORDER A DINNER.
Whether to Have It A I.n Carte or
Table d’Hote a Matter of Choice.
From Chambers’ Journal.
Coventry Patmore wrote a poem
which he called “The Angel in the
House.” and if it be your good for
tune to have an angel in your house
who gives a little thought to the prep
aration of your dinner you will never
find any dinner so good as the one
you eat at home. When we go into a
library we do not all choose the same
books; neither when we go into a
restaurant do we choose the same dish
es. I have never known any one who
would not eat strawberries, but I once
knew a man who disliked green peas.
The most perfect way to dine is to
dine ala carte, selecting the dishes
yourself, the dinner being specially
cooked for you and ready at a speci
fied hour. If you dine at the table
d’hote in the Grand Hotel in Paris
(eight francs), and drink as much red
wine as you like, it is the same as
a specially prepared dinner ala carte.
The table d’hote begins at 6:45 o'clock,
and it is all over by 8. If you dine at
the table d’hote in the Hotel Metro
pole in London the system is different;
the dinner is ready at 6 o'clock, and
goes on until 8:30. and you may sit
down at any time that is convenient
to yourself. Under these circumstances
many dishes have to be kept on the
hot plate for a time, and you cannot
expect your dinner to be so perfect as
it would be if you dined ala carte.
Pascal, the chef at Philippe’s restau
rant in Paris, once observed that the
most simple dishes begin to lose value
every five minutes after they have left
the kitchen. More delicately conceived
entrees are yet more susceptible; some
sauces sulk when they begin to feel
cold.
I can recollect the time when, from
the poine of view of Mr. Casimir, of
the Maison d’Or, in the Boulevard des
Italians, there was only one restau
rant in London where you could dine —
Verrey's, in Regent street. How one's
heart goes out in sympathy with Ver
rey's, the little restaurant at the cor
ner of the street that leads up to
Hanover Square; the windows partly
of stained glass, and above the glass
the printed cards, ‘lces, dinners, ices!”
It now belongs to M. Krehill. I have
never known the time when I could
not go to Verrey’s and be sure of a
dinner ala carte nicely served and
perfectly cooked. One night I dined
at Vefours's, in Paris; the following
evening I dined in the Cafe Royal in
Regent street. In each case I ordered
the same dinner. I thought the dinner in
the Palais Royal the better cooked of
the two; but that was in the days
when Vefours's was one of the most
popular restaurants in Paris. The Cafe
Royal may be said to be the first of
the great restaurants on the French
system in London. Now we have the
Carlton, Princes’ • and the Savoy, all
following in the footsteps of M. Nicol,
of the Cafe Royal. It would be diffi
cult to name a more successful res
taurateur than M. Nicol. During the
many years I knew him I cannot say
I ever saw him do any work in his
restaurant; he seldom, if ever, spoke
to a customer. He was fortun'ate in
his marriage; Mme. Nicol was indus
trious to a degree. Then came M.
Delacoste to help him. If you had
a mission to visit the restaurants of
Europe. M. Delacoste would be a
charming companion. For m'any years
he was the best judge of claret and
Burgundy in London, and he did for
M. Nicol what Bismarck did for the
Emperor William I.
It has been the custom to speak of
the Cafe Royal as an expensive restau
rant in which to dine. I never thought
so. You are charged, say, two shillings
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SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1004.
Take Us At
Our Word
Det us demonstrate to you
that you can save money and
get surer satisfaction by trading
at this store of solid values. No
fictitious prices for Holiday
Goods— straightforward meth
ods that will retain you as our
friend when the old year is dead
and gone.
A Good Thing A
A favorite article for
a Christmas present to
a gentleman is one of
these reliable, always- Ho?
read "A. A.” Fountain HK
Pens. We have them from K|
$2 to $lO. |
Some E
Reminders: R
Gold and Silver Thimbles. SStfsil
Fancy and Signet Rings.
Birtlistone Rings. £
Ladies’ Umbrellas. Ip.* |
Solid Gold Beads.
Stickpins and Hatpins.
Gold Shirt Studs. .
l ink Cuff Buttons. .
Sterling Silver Novelties. j> ;
Ornamental Clocks. JH£
Silver Handles Tooth and E6Si
Nail Brushes. ;
Watch Charms and Fobs.
Gentlemen’s Canes. K\
Gold Tie Clamps.
Military Brushes.
Gem Safety Razors. K
Shaving Brushes and Cups flsK'
Silver Mounted Combs I
and Brushes.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s g
Solid Gold Watches, the Egg jg
lute designs in eases and
line works, from
$25 UP.
There's value In every article
vou buy here. .And here you’ll
find a variety of things to make
easy your choosing.
Ingersolsl Watches.
J. & c. N.
Thomas
Corner Whitaker and State
and ninepence for a sole; but„ then,
the sole is one of the largest and best
the market can produce, and enough
for two portions. In the less ambi
tious restaurants you are charged one
shilling and sixpence, and two portions
will cost three shillings. Asa rule,
in London or Paris you will find that
small prices mean small portions.
Tibbie Shiels once let me see a very
large plate and a bell which she plac
ed before Christopher North, when he
dined at her little inn by St. Mary’s
Loch. If Christopher North had been
served w-ith the small portions com
mon in the Latin Quarter, there would
have been strong language in the
"Noctes” and much ringing of the little
bell.
In 1862 my father took me to dine
at Simpson's, in the Strand. We dined
in the second box upon your right as
you entered, and w r e had roast beef
and green peas for dinner. I had only
just left school, and I w-as much im
pressed when I was told that I might
have as many green peas as I liked.
I went the year before last and dined
in the same box, and I again had roast
beef and green peas. I found the room
in which we had dined unchanged, but
forty years had proved too much for
the entourage even of Simpson’s.
There was no waiter left in the res
taurant who had been there is 1862.
An old friend of mine to whom I paid
my bill did not join the staff until
1864. I have alw-ays enjoyed dining at
Simpson's—the little oval shaped ta
bles wheeled up to your side with half
of a salmon, half of a large turbet, or
a saddle of mutton. You were not
limited to portions; it was hospital
ity in a restaurant. I sometimes
think what pleasant dinners we might
have with people we have read about*
in history or fiction. For example, you
might give a Charles Dickens dinner,
and ask Tom Pinch, Mr. Macawber
and Mrs. Gamp to dine. 1 am as a loss
to think where one could take her to
Princes'. If 1 had to give a dinner to
Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith
and David Garrick I would not take
them to the Savoy; I would take
them to Simpson's.
At times we hear a great deal about
doing away with tips to waiters. Up
to about 1872 there was no charge for
attendance at Simpson's. We gave
the waiters threepence. Then they
introduced a charge of threepence for
attendance, and I do not believe there
was a regular customer w-ho did not
continue to give the waiter threepence
for himself as of old.
The truth is. you will never do
away with tips to waiters. I remember
an old gentleman who used to dine
every night In the Cafe de la Paix in
Paris. He always gave the waiter a
franc and any odd coppers left after
paying his bill, but he hud a reward
for his generosity. M. de Garcon was
a friend of the chef, und when the old
gentleman came in at night he used
to tell him the best dishes on the carte
de Jonr. speak to him about the weath
er, comfort him if he had the gout,
and was his best friend; and I am
sure that when the duy came on which
he ate his last dinner ala carte any
gave his last pourhoire, no one would
so sincerely regret him as the waiter
In the crowded restaurant in the
Boulevard des Capucines.
If you have thoughts of visiting the
theater, and you are in doubt a* to
where to dine, try the Restaurant fa
vour In Square; M Phillippe
will give you an excellent table d'hote
dinner at a moderate tost. If you In
sist upon having a hors d’neuvre and
drink no wine, you will he charged
one shilling extra. Asa i-onceaalon to
his English friends., M. Philippe has
always roast beef or roust mutton on
his bill of fare.
Th'-re are many good restaurants in
London that you would find difficulty
In discovering for yourself. You may
call them the restaur.nits of t|ie Ijrttn
Quarter, sltrllur to those in Purls In
tn max* of streets between the river
and the Luxembourg, only a tew min
utes’ walk from Piccadilly cirrus, go
ing aaaiward, you find yourself in
finui street On your right Is the Be*
tiursis Koropeen, It originally le.
luiigod !• M. Vliltnsifft, who made •
little fortune and has returned home
to France to enjoy it. The chef Louis
has been ohef for sixteen years. You
will have no difficulty in telling that
■the restaurant is popular: you may
count eighty napkins in the boxes on
the walls. To save you the trouble of
consulting the menu, there is a slate
with the names of the plats du Jour —
potage au riz, twopence; rouget. sauce
capres, flvepenee; boeuf au gratin,
flvepence.
Upon the same side of the street
there is the Restaurant Albert. Albert
was head waiter at the Europeen, and
being frugal, he saved enough money
to start a restaurant for himself, and
he has been successful. You may
lunch for a shilling; omelette aux fines
herbes, fourpence; veau saute carotte,
flvepence; cheese petit Suisse, twopence
coffee, one penny. Albert gets a great
deal of help from his wife: it is said
she can cook as well as the chef.
She is handsome, and might play the
Marquise de Saint Maur in “Caste.”
They have beautiful children, and the
children sometimes oome to the restau
rant to see them.
In restaurants of this class it is
usual to give the waiter a penny, and
he does not expect more. They have
no license, and send out for wine, get
ting a rebate from the wine merchant
upon each empty bottle. Having no
license, they can remain open all day
on Sunday.
France has given us the language of
diplomacy and of the cuisine.
I shall only refer to one restaurant
in Paris. If you have never dined at
Voisin's. in the Rue St. Honor*, dine
there the next time you are in Paris.
You will have no difficulty in finding
it. As vou come out of the Nouveau
Cirque it is one minute's walk on your
left: opposite to it is the Church of
the Assumption. It is one of the last
of the classic restaurants left in Parts.
Philippe’s, Cafe Riche, Brebant's, Mai
son d’Or, have all gone. When you
enter from the street you pass at once
into the restaurant. On the ground
floor there are three modest little rooms
in which you dine. In the first room
there are two ladies who will make out
your bill, and if you fail to salute them
upon entering you need not be sur
prised if you are charged two francs
additional in your bill. You may sit
down at one of the snow-white tables,
and it by chance a Parisian is beside
you who has enveloped himself in his
napkin so that he resembles a ghost,
do not let prejudice prevent you from
doing the same. Very quiet and peace
ful is Vlosin's. In my recollection they
never kept a waiter who could speak
English. If you order red wine, the
Burgundies and Bordeaux have the
reputation of being the oldest and
most carefully selected in Europe. The
dishes are dear, but you need not or
der more than three. Order a sole
cooked in the way mentioned in the
bill of fare. The ways of cooking a
sole invented by the chefs of France
are innumerable. It must be the am
bition of every good little sole finally
to be taken to Parle and be cooked,
say, ala Colbert or au vln rouge. Se
lect one entree, and finish with a
Chateaubriand aux pommes, and your
bill, divided by two, will not be a
heavy one. If you ordered as many
dishes as you find on the menu of the
table d’hote in the Hotel Continental,
madame would make out a bill which
would be appalling.
Dining one night at a restaurant not
far from the Faubourg St. Honore, I
ordered a sole au vin blanc. When it
was served I carefully removed the
white sauce, and I found it was a sole
to be greeted unbenignly. Some day
I hope we mav have a restaurant in
London where you may select your
food before it is cooked, choose your
fish as you would choose them at
Grove’s, in Bond street, select your
fruit and flowers to decorate the table
as you would select them at Solomon’s
in Piccadilly.
SOME EVERY-DAY TYPES
OF NEW YORK CLERKS
And Thetr Kind Are to tie Fonnd In
Other CHten n* Well.
From the New York Commercial.
“ ‘There is plenty of room at the
top.’ Nothing was ever said that was
truer of the business world to-day,”
said a man whose every-day occupa
tion means direct personal contact
with a wide circle of business men
and their employes in various lines.
“We have a habit of thinking that
our grandfathers, because they suc
ceeded in life, had better opportuni
ties than we have now. It is human
nature to unload our shortcomings
onto other shoulders. It is like the
habit of cursing inanimate objects be
cause we do not get results out of
them. Your amateur chauffeur, who
blames the 'gosh-dingod' thing when
it gives out, whereas accurate knowl
edge of that bit of machinery would
enable him to move along smoothly,
well illustrates the point.
"I lay down the rule that there
would be an end to al! complaint
about insufficient wages if there were
manifested by the employes a suffi
cient attention to business and a
stronger disposition to learn, a greater
willingness to furnish the ‘quid’ for
the ’quo,’ a keener ambition—if you
will call it that—less disposition to
stick at trifles in the every-day em
ployment; and, beyond all, a single
ness of purpose governing all. I refer
to young men—and to the class that is
working for others.
“To illustrate: For several months
past I have bought a- daily supply of
cigars at a shop near my home. The
same clerk has waited on me every
day. It is evident that he has accom
plished one of his main objects in liv
ing—he has 'held his Job’ during that
period. Recently I went Into the store,
as was my regular custom.
“Give me half a dozen this time,’ I
said.
" 'Half a dozen what?' he asked.
"Now. there was a young man who
hadn’t studied his business. No doubt
he knew a lot about the relative mer
its of the players in the National
League. Indeed. I have often heard
him descant learnedly—and as if with
authority—upon them. Yet this em
ployers had a placard conspicuously
displayed In all their stores saving, in
effect, that suggestions for the im
provement of their business were
worth money to them and would be
gratefully received; and some day. no
doubt, this young man will wonder
why he hasn’t had a raise of salary.
I hope my remarks will reach his ear
in time to Have him from becoming a
Populist.
"Sometimes I drop Into a Park Row
restaurant with a friend. X have been
doing this, oft and on. for a year or
more. We have gone in and out. to
gether and have In a sort of way come
to know the intelligent face of the
kfen-eyed money-taker, who —we have
learned from scraps of conversation,
with other*, that have floated from his
lips—ls keen on horses and their Jock
ey* and knows whether or not they
ought to run well or 111 under varying
condition*. One day I dropped In ahead
of time.
•’ ’Has my friend come In?’ I In
quired.
“He looked blank and then he said;
’Now. you don't expert me to remem
ber who you are, do you?*
"He had me there. 1 oughn't to
have expected It. And If It hadn't
been for the cases that rontraat with
hie, I should long ago have ceased to
’expect’ anything.
"fine day I went out to The Bronx
Zno. A young man not an exhibit in
th Zoo 'preaided,' aa they call |t m
the backwoods church social, at the
coffee counter. Now, The Bronx coffee
counter la one of those plane# where
you are expected to p my tor your re
fieehmente b*fore yon have any maana
of knowing Law much money you mag
be called upon to spend. There was
a sign to that effect somewhere up
above the head of the young man. 1
overlooked the guide-post and. in my
ignorance of the young man’s ways, I
made bold to make my wants known.
’Read the sign!’ was his answer, sharp,
quick and peremptory. It would have
been a splendid manner In the heat of
battle—hardly the thing, though, in an
’emporium’ that caters to people who
have mgney and will spend it or not,
as they are attracted to the place.
“This young man may be working
for $T a week, ten years from now and
wondering why Fortune hasn’t fav
ored him. The trouble thus far has
been that he hasn't given Fortunt* half
a chance.
”1 don't want to be Irreverent, but
I do sincerely believe that this class
of fellows, young and middle-age, ought
to have anew gospel preached to them
—the gospel of get-up-and-do, of pay
attention-to-your-business, of single
ness of purpose and of courtesy and
good-intent. It would be a practical
preachment, and it would be money in
the pockets of the young men.
"Not all of them are of this sort, by
any means. I know a clerk in a fur
nishing-goods store who anticipated so
many of my long-felt desires one day,
when T went in to look at a 68-cent
soft shirt, that he had my $lO bill be
fore I knew it; and I wasn't angry
about it. either. I honestly felt that
I got my money’s worth. I have in
mind-another young man. He is the
general superintendent of a beanery
and. though it is a little room with an
extremely limited bill of fare, he
makes me like the place and the food
taste better. Some day a live man
will discover this chnp, and then the
beanery will know him no longer—and
a lot of his fellow-workers in the vine
yard will be wondering why they
weren’t born ’lucky.’ 1 am here to tell
you that a whole lot of luck is what
you turn up yourself. It may be
trite, but Its true, nevertheless.
“I don’t know a merchant in town
who would quarrel about wages if he
could get whole-hearted service. The
employe who is determined to perfect
himself will find his level—and he will
be working for himself eventually; not
for somebody else. ‘You can’t keep a
good man down,’ as the cannibal said
after the missionary whom he had eat
en disagreed with his stomach. And
its a good thing for the rising genera
tion to know.
The man who works as If in fear that
his employer will gain too much from
his work swindles himself. He forms
habits that unfit him for anything bet
ter than being the hewer of wood and
the drawer of water. Tell him to move
along and never mind if he does do
$2.50 worth of work some day for $2.
Its good practice, and there are other
employers in the field, looking for that
kind of help. The man is doomed who
does his worst for fear someone may
get the best of him. and until the
country votes that mediocrity ought to
be the national standard he will trail
on behind. Effort to do well costs al
most nothing. It doesn’t even require
an exceptional amount of brains. Any
youth can give attention to his business
and be polite and watchful of oppor
tunities to render service. You don’t
hear the men who started out that
way and kept It up complaining now
because they can't get a living.”
theTnrikisha.
Hansom Cab of the East a Possible
American Invention.
From the London Globe.
The most general impression of the
Jinrikisha, the hansom cab of the
East generally, and of Japan in par
ticular, is that it is a vehicle with a
venerable antiquity behind it, or, in
other words, a survival of some kind;
therefore, when one learns that It Is
merely an infant of some forty sum
mers, there is perhaps cause for sur
prise. The honor of inventing the con
veyance cannot be ascribed to any par
ticular individual if one has any re
gard for accuracy, for there are half
a dozen claimants, among them be
ing—it seems almost inevitable—an
American whose hustling propensity, so
it would seem, was Father abnormal
ly developed. But the Japanese them
selves. who ought to know something
about the matter, ignore the preten
sions of this restless Yankee, and most'
frequently mention the names of their
own countrymen, Tokoyama, Kosuke,
Izume, Osuki, and Sozuk Toklyara, as
the inspired genuises who first recog
nized the necessity for some improve
ments upon the Kago, a kind of palan
quin which was anything but expe
ditious. and the cumbersome four
wheeled ox cart, which, though per
haps truly Oriental, was altogether too
dreadful when the roadways were not
constructed with mathematic precision
as to the uniformity of the stones.
One of these individuals fashioned a
vehicle out of a box. four props, und
a pair of wheels, a very crude and
primitive arrangement, it must be al
lowed, but the idea itself caught on
immediately, and fortunately enough
did not clash with any of the conven
tions in vogue, by which the ten, an
aristocratic two-wheeler, and the koski,
a kind of sedan-chair with an awning,
were strictly relegated for the use of
royalty and the nobles, and could not
be utilized by the mere plebeian, native
or otherwise, because of the penalties
prescribed for such transgressions
against the dignity of blood.
Gradually the idea evolved into the
comfortable, expeditious, and almost
indispensable equipage of the present
day, and at the same time the kumo
suke (coolies employed In the drag
ging of the old vehicles), advancing
with the times, blossomed out into
Jinriklshamcn. Of these Individuals
there are nowadays three distinct
classes, divided into kakae-gurunta,
private coachmen attached to a house
hold; the yado-guruma, plying for
public hire at the instigation of an
owner of a number of rikishas, and,
last of all, the tsuji-guruma, who
work for the benefit of their own
health and wealth. The kakae-guru
ma is a private servant in every sense
of the word, and, being so, enjoys spe
cial privileges, one of the most im
portant of which is that he need not
conform to the police regulations in
the matter of dress. The kado-guru
ma, however, must array himself in
the prescribed costume, and, as a rule,
he generally lives in the Jinrikisha
house, and to the public he is noth
ing more than an employe of the oyo
kata, or boss, to whom the monthly
accounts are, payable, and who is re
sponsible for any misconduct on the
part of the workmen. The latter's re
muneration is not a fat one, for,
though he receives board and lodging,
and obtains the use of the vehicle, he
must pay the "boss” six yen per
month, in addition to at least 10 per
cent, of the fares; and, after sundry
necessary expenditures, there re
mains but a paltry profit left. But.
nevertheless, he never goes short, be
ing able to obtain accommodation by
borrowing from hi* employer; and al
though in the past it was consider al
most a point of honor with the frit
ternity to tuke French leave whei* In
debt, the formation of the Jinrikisha
guild has rendered this pluyfulneMS
quite Impossible. If he were lo at
tempt to get a fresh license he would
probably find his name on the black
list as a result of the thought fulness
of his late employer, and permission to
play for hire would not he grunted.
The third class, or tsujl-guruma, who
are stationed at street corners, are the
freest of all aa regsrds their dally Ilf.-,
but are probably the poorest. The
majority rent their vehicle from some
jinrikisha house and pay 4 to I sen
per diem for the hire. The street J|n.
rtktshsmen's earning* are on an aver
age atiout lit to 10 sen, equivalent to
a Itttle more than la He has a street
stand, where he must wait for hla
We
Undersell
The Others
Prices are nothing
to us now. We do
not care to remain
longer than the first
of the year. Any
thing will buy our
Cut Glass, Silver,
China, etc.
We can stand the
loss. Our copper
stock is doubling in
the West, and we
must go.
Allen Bros.
Mail orders filled promptly.
fares; but though these are free to
all, like our own cabstands, every new
comer find* he must ingratiate himself
with those x-fore him by a. small pres
ent to commemorate his entrance Into
their company. At busy stands the
numbers are always full, and strang
ers are not accepted on any terms ex
cept by purchasing the “good-will” of
a stand vacated by a retiring mem
ber. When the stands are located in
the station Inclosure, or on the ground
belonging to the railway, the men are
even more exclusive. Outside the rail
way Inclosure at some places are to
be seen men who solicit passengers,
and when their fare is-made undersell
it to the men at a stand in the vicin
ity, pocketing the difference. They
are commonly known as gogai, and
not Infrequently make more money
than the bona-fide riklshamen.
Gentleness la not a characteristic of
the Jlnriklshaman, nor Is he given to
honest practices. On the contrary, he
will harangue for half an hour In en
deavoring to swindle a likely fare out
of a paltry copper, more especially If
the Inquirer happens to be a newly-ar
rived European, scorning reference to
the official regulations. These regu
lations, it may be mentioned, not'only
govern the conduct of the men them
selves, hut give directions for the con
struction and color of the Jinrikisha,
together with Its appurtenances, and
stipulate what dress the men shall gen
erally wear, in addition to style and
color of the waterproof donned in wet
weather. The rule of the road is also
given minutely. Keep to the left holds
good In Japan, though there is an ex
ception when troops, commissariat, etc.,
are In sight, for the right side must
then be taken. An unoccupied convey
ance must yield to the occupied, and
when it is desired to overtake another
riklsha traveling In the same direction,
that Intention must be expressed loud
ly, so that the one in front may swerve
to the right. Mall carts and fire en
gines, of course, together with water
drays and funeral processions, have
precedence over other vehicles, which
must move out of the way with alac
rity. The regulations of the police are
seconded to a great extent by the ef
forts of the guilds, one of which exists
In each district or ward, of the large
cities, to which every tsjudl-guruma
must belong. In Toklo there are about
60,000 Jinrikisha*. which are divided
Into fifteen guilds, according to the
number of urban districts, so that
every guild manager, who Is chosen
by the members, has charge of over
3,500 wheelers, a task which Is by no
means light, and compares with the
secretaryship of a trades union In this
country, though it must be admitted
that the duties are decidedly more on
erous.
Frenzied Finance.
The chapter* that have gone before
of "Frenzied Finance,” hy Thomas W.
Lawson, have been printed In a pam
phlet form, and will be sent, post
paid, ori receipt of price (30 cents.)
For sale at Estlll’s News Depot. No.
18 Bull street, corner of Bryan, No. 2
east. Savannah, Oa.—ad.
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BEIL PHONE 2173 BOAJUMRADE BLOG.
AX OLD DOCTOR'S l,Yl'l;nii:Y<lvS.
From the Washington Star.
An told doctor, from one of the
Southern Mutes, a gentleman now well
advanced in the scale of years, dur
ing a visit to friends in Washington
a week or so ago, entertaining a small
party of friends with various reminis
cences in his career as a medical man
and otherwise, spoke of the days when
duello had wide champion
ship In parts of the country where he
lived and practiced his profession.
Doctor,” said one of the party, "we
all know that In your early days, when
you were young and handsome, so to
spoak, you were recognized as a strong
advocate of duelling. Did you ever
engage as a principal In one yourself?”
“No,” said the old gentleman, some
what mournfully, “I did on one or
two occasions invite persons to the
field, but the requests were not com
piled with, and. though I have been
present at a few hostile meetings. X
was there in my humble capacity as a
surgeon, and, of course, to heal rather
than to hurt any one."
Another member of the small com
pany Inquired of the doctor concern
ing his presence at any fatal encount
er. "Did you ever see a man killed in
a regular old-fashioned duel?” was the
question.
"I am very happy to answer that
In the negative,” was the reply. "I'll
tell you of one Incident that I am
personally cognizant of," said the doc
tor, “and that Is seasoned both with
pathos and soma little amusement.
This was before the war, when two
young men, both lawyers and both
married to beautiful women, became
involved in a dispute In court, and
one of them accused the other of pre
varication. He used no stronger lan
guage, but that was enough. The dis
pute occurred in the forenoon, and
before the afternoon was on the de
cline a challenge had been sent and
accepted. The meii were to fight at
twenty paces with muskets loaded with
duckshot at daylight on the next
morning. I was surgeon for the chal
lenger and everything was arranged
all right. The offended man had a
friend who was to remain with him
all night, and his leading second, with
myself, were to call for him at 3
o'clock on the morning of the meeting
and go with him and others to the
ground.
"Well, we did call, but couldn't get
our man. The report of a duel got out
and the young fellow's young wife
heard of it and captured him. She
cried and threatened and fainted, and
went into hysterics about a dozen
times. The result of It was that, so
far as he was concerned, the affair was
off. He couldn’t get away. The sec
ond, however, went to the field to take
his place and I went along, of course.
"We got there in full time, but to
our amazement there was no enemy.
The other man's wife had also scream
ing kicking and fainting and he, like
the other, couldn't get awny. His sec
ond came In the course of a few mo
ments, but after conferring with my
man’s second (they were good friends,
too) the two agreed that It was not
their funeral and there was no duel.
"loiter on an arbitration committee
decided that there was no call for ex
treme measures anyhow, and, with
honors easy, the quarrel was settled.
These two fellows became good friends
afterward, as they were before the dis
pute In court. Both of them were
killed In the Southwest during the
CIvU War."
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