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ATt'RDAY, OCTORKIl
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
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The Lyceum a Measure of Our Culture.
It is to be hoped that Atlanta will not at any time per-
mlt Ita enthusiasm to lag or Its patronage to wane In the
natter or the Atlanta Lecture Association.
The past record of this admirable series of enter
tainments ll abundant to vindicate its claim to our heart!-
est future support. There- Is not in the realm of entertain
ment so much of pleasure and of real profit to be derived
from the expenditure of so small a sum of money as that
which an annual membership In the Atlanta Lecture Asso-
ciaUon provides.
The Atlanta Lyceum has brought to our people in
Ume past many of the most eminent, eloquent and distin
guished men and women of the United States. Orators,
thlnken, readers and entertainers of national and inter-
naUonal reputation are put upon our opera house plat
forms at stated Intervals at a cost which is scarcely more
than the price of a ticket to one of our ordinary time-
killing and mind-dissipating comic operas of the day.
ft Is a measure of Atlanta's intellectual appreciation
that sne should faithfully sustain a lyce.um association
which for five years past has ranked nt the head of the
American list. The editor of The Georgian has heard men
like Wendllng. Mills an' Ounsaulus declare that the At
lanta audiences of five years ago were In numbers, intelli
gence, . nd enthusiasm the finest of America, and we have
been proud to believe that the culture and appreciation
of our people was being heralded widely and happily by
the nature and numbers of its splendid lyceum nudltory.
The Atlenta Lyceum list for the present season Is up
to the high standard of those that have gone before. The
list opens on November 1 with Dr. Leonard Levy, of Pitts
burg. rabbi of one of the richest congregations of Hebrews
in the world, and himself one of the most Interesting
speakers of his race. It Includes such eminent attractions
as Maud Balllngton-Booth, whose audiences always leave
delighted with the grace and eloquence of this charming
and "noble woman. Frank Dixon, who has frfeqiiently
pleased our people, and who is one of the growing men
of the American platform. The wonderful magician. Dr.
Edward Burton McDowell, tells of the land of I-ouls
Stevenson In "8amoa." The picture play of Lorna Doone
by Albert Armstrong comes, and that prince of the plat
form, George R. Wendllng, has also a strong place on the
program.
These attractions coming In. turn, with many others
probably to Include some of the great political figures
now moving on the horlxon, make up a program worthy
of Atlanta and of the past record of Its great lyceum.
We commend this admirable Institution to the cordial
support and practical patronage of the people.
Let the Auditorium Remember Art.
James B. Townsend, editor of The American Art
News, and for many years a well known figure In the
art circlet of New York and London. In a recent letter
to the editor of The Georgian, asks a question which is
not without bearing upon the Armory-Auditorium project
now meeting with such enthusiastic encouragement from
the Atlanta public.
"Is It posalble,” writes Mr. Townsend, who will man
age the second annual art exhibit to be held In Atlanta
under the auaplces of the Atlantn Art Association, “that
the city of Atlanta has no gallery worthy to house n
representative collection of American paintings? Or no
hall which you use for exhibit, concert-and lecture pur
poses?”
These are embarrassing questions, to bo sure, but
the time Is ripe for considering them, and, certainly ripe
for answering them In the affirmative. The fact alone
that AUanta Is to have annually a great exhibition of
paintings, and at intervals throughout the year smaller
•xhlbitlons of pottery, craft work and other branches of
art, creates a distinct need for an exhibit hall. Such a
hail would soon become as necessary to the artistic and
esthetic life of our city as is the picture gallery to
the artistic and esthetic life of New York, Boston, Buf
falo, Cincinnati, St. Louis or any other great municipality
which recognlxes the vital relation of art to civic devel
opment.
When the great armory-auditorium Is planned, there
fore, let us include a smaller gallery whoso main pur
pose shall he the housing of the art exhltdtlons which are
henceforth to be brought to Atlanta from New York
and from European cities. To those who question the
practicality of such a suggestion. It Bhonid be sufficient
to remember that thlB gallery would tie In* constant de
mand for concerts, lectures and all occasions to which a
vast auditorium is wholly unsuited. At comparatively
little extra cost, It may now be Included in the plans,
while to neglect it would lie to overlook n requirement
which within a few years’ time will have become a ne
cessity.
For In view of the earnest and intelligent efforts of
the men and women who comprise the Atlanta Art As
sociation, It Is inevitable that our city shall awaken, as
other great American cities have'done, to the necessity of
civic advancement, and to the value of nrt interests as
factors in tho best development of our civic and national
life.
We shall learn, as other people in other sections are
learning, that to commercialize the whole of life Is to
lay the ax at the very roots of our civilization; but that
to preserve the true balance between utility and beauty,
cause, is to make possible a civilization which shall one
day surpass in excellence and stability
“The Glory that was Greece.
And the grandeur that was Rome.”
. Saturday Evening and Atlanta.
It is a trite saying and credited to the Atlanta Spirit,
that Atlanta Is the “best city of its size In the world.”
Let us see If there ts not beneath the proud asser
tion something more substantial than a civic boast, and
something more authoritative than the pride and hope of
a loyal citizenry.
Say first that In all the fluctuations of these two
eventful decades, in which trade has turned somersaults
and cities have alternatively waxed and waifed, that At
lanta hat never known a panic, recognized a depression,
or called one moment's halt in her stately stride of
steady progress and development. Is there another city
in the land that caq say as much?
Say, again, that since Sherman's soldiers left At
lanta In the lurid glare of its burning homes, “marching
through Georgia" to the sea, that Atlanta has never been
so prosperous, so solid, so established In credit, so rich
in receipts, so prosperous in manufactures, so bulging
with buyers, so crowded with shoppers, so thick with
investors, and so universally and uncxceptionally comfort
able and well-to-do as she Is today.
And say, that even In the very pomp and fulness of
prosperity, the city strenuous, not resting nor halting, is
going forward now, today and every day with a buzz of
saws, a clanging of hammers and a pounding of masonry
In the most extensive and comprehensive building period
of Its long and eventful history.
Why has Atlanta never known a panic, when her
neighbors have b.en in gloom? Because Atlanta's pros
perity rests upon an industrial life so varied and com
prehensive that only a universal depression could becloud
its trade. Did you know, young fellow Just come to town,
that Atlanta has two hundred and fifty-seven different
Industries In successful operation? Did you know that
this number does not Include the variations of a single
Industry, but counts, for Instance, under tbe general head
of furniture making tbe accre or more of factories which
concentrate their work upon some separate piece of
furniture?
Did you know that no other city of your near or
remote acquaintance and of approximate size has so many
Industrial Irons in the fire?
And did you know that this wonderful variety of
industrial activity Is the sound foundation for Atlanta's
unbroken progress and unvarying prosperity? Why, If
the iron product sinks for a season to depression, Bir
mingham Is in the dumps and long faces line her
streets. If the cotton market slumps continually, New
Orleans and Memphis are in gloom. If the furniture
trade is off, Grand Rapids sobB hard times, and so along
the long list of cities founded op fewer factories.
But Atlanta, when the iron market slumps, goes
whirling her products from two hundred other mills to
satisfy the world. When cotton wanes her versatile
wheels go turning her resources from other lines to
bridge tbe season without loss, and whatever ahadow
fails upon any section of commercial life, she is ready
and prepared trt see and to shed the sunshine that has
been Btored by her genius and energy into tho other side.
AUanta has no panics and no depressions, because
her energies and resources hnve been diffused through so
many various lines of productive work that the wise law
of compensation keeps the balance of her trade in poise.
And she Is safe beyond her sisters for tho future, for
her prosperity, so wisely and discreetly founded. Is
butlded to endure.
Upon this deep theory of diversified Industry we
are Bet to continued prosperity and growth. It is In
dividual as well as general.
A man in West End has six sons. They are growing
capably In six separate lines of business. Nothlug can
bring that family to want If It will stand together. If
the son In cotton falls on evil times, tho sons In iron,
coal and patent medicines are there to bridge the time.
If five of them find business to languish In their lines, the
sixth must surely bo doing something that can hold his
crew together. And as with the family so with tho city
In its many phases of undustriai life.
And Atlanta Is growing now tike Jonah's gourd. We
who do not believe Oils simply do not go around. 'Get
out of the shell In which you work a moment and look
around. Down at the end of the stirring street on which we
work there Is rising a stately structure. Look at It. It ts
five stories high, and it stretches the magnificent length
of two city blocks. Us floor space Is Immense. It is
built of concrete masonry to last a thousand years. It Is
the freight terminal of a single railroad, and it marks
the faith of the Louisville and Nashville In tbe present
power and certain growth of Atlanta. It is spanned by
a long viaduct of atone—the greatest that Atlanta owns—
and It Is going to revolutionise the appearance, growth
and business status of a populous portion of tbe city.
The Bell Telephone Company, which, ten years ago,
was housed In one room In the Healy building, bought
a costly lot and set out, ten years ago, to build a
stately structure that Its friends thought all too large for
Its needs. The company had outgrown the building be
fore it entered it, and was clamoring for space. The
nerth exchange was added, and then the east, and the
west, and today the Bell people are building a structure
nearly twice as large as the first, and twice as well
equipped, and wondering where they shall find more
space. .
Ten years ago Jim Nunnally was fearing that he
had far outbuilt his needs in the little candy factory set
on Ivy street. He has quadrupled It since then, and on
yesterday paid $22,000 for adjoining space to double his
present factory
And Nunnally's la the story of every man who has
staked his Intelligent faith In Industrial Atlanta. Every
cue of them has far outgrown tbe early stake, and the
cry and problem of the hour is more space In which to
but the effort of his body to make room for his crowding
wares. Look at the Pratts, who are So. quiet that you
never hear them, but who are covering acres with fac
tories and mills and laboratories in the suburbs of
Atlanta. Look at Jacob Elsas selling money bags to every
city in the world. Look at the Adairs planting every dol
lar as they make it In Atlanta dirt.
Go anywhere, where there is space, and see if it Is
not filling or being sought to flit.
And, mark you, this great city Is built and being
built by Southern men. With wide welcome to those
who come to us across the border, with wide acknowl
edgment to those from colder climates who have done
their part, the fact stands clear and Inspiring that in the
great aggregate the stately structure of this twentieth
century city Is Southern built, home-made and homo
geneous. , •
This strain Is not exhausted. It might run along
Its current of inspiring facts indefinitely. Atlanta’s credit
Is superb. Its merchants are as much. If not better,
trusted than any business men In the South. It has a
bank which, wt^le 160 banks may outrank it In deposits,
Is yet rated about tenth or twelfth among the substan
tial Institutions of the country. Ita railroads have In
vested $8,000,000 in Atlanta real estate within the decade
Its factories include every necessity from the cradle to
the grave. It manufactures the forceps which expedite our
first protesting struggle In the world. It manufactures
tho coffins which bury our bodies at Oakland or West-
view. It quarries the stone which tells our virtues to
succeeding years', and It manufactures every necessity
that we require between the forceps and the monument.
There fa no mortal man in all Atlanta who is Industrious
and worthy who has an excuse for suffering today. There
are fewer paupers In Atlanta than In any city of Its
numbers In the world. There Is more and swifter charity
for human suffering than In any other town, and there
is not among all the municipalities of modern progress
one whose air is softer and purer, fuller of ozone and
fuller of inspiration than this city of Atlanta.
Let us stop here—not for material, but for breath.
The moral Is In cheer. Let us rejoice In our goodly
city. Let us believe lu It. Let us never deprecate, but
always magnify Its. advantages. Let us have faith that
will speak in service, In affection, and In Investment.
And let us thank God on this Saturday evening that it
Is our happy lot to live, to labor and to love in the best,
the healthiest, the happiest and the most wholesome city
In the world.
HEARST AS I KNEW HIM
Personal Side of tho Man Who Is Now the Central Figure in Politics.
His Genuine Concern for the Under Dog—Many Instances Cited
by One Who Has Had Peculiarly Good Opportunities of Study
ing tho Men in His relations to His Fellowman.
CHARLES E. RUSSELL in Ridgway's for October 27.
I the practical and the esthetic, and to let the ideal be*
buna the real as gradually, as logically, as effect follows j grow. Look at Sam O. Jones, whose ample avoirdupois is
ways in which men had tried to change
these conditions, the futility of even
the best meant philanthropy, and the
essential failure of most of the schemes
of beneficences. My faith was in the
coming of another Wendell Phillips,
who, keeping aloof from parties arul
politics, should achieve reform by per
sistent agitation. Mr. Hearst was all
for action, for doing something by
practical means, for controlling exist
ing machinery to secure present re
sults. We talked often of the men In
the United States that seemed able, or
likely, to do these things, and it never
occurred to either of us that he would
try* to put his ideas into practice by
becoming a candidate for office.
From these talks that recurred
through many days and weeks, I could
see clearly enough the origin of some
of his peculiarities. I could under-?
stand, for instance, a thing I had often
noticed in New York—that he would
stop In the street to watch a limping
horse or make an unreasonable ado
about a hurt vagrant dog. I could un
derstand. better, that night in San
Francisco, when there was a storm
and some fishermen were wrecked on
a rock outside, and he was the only
man that would undertake to get them
off. I could see what moved him one
day in Naples when he threshed a cab
man for beating a horse, and that other
time when the sight of maltreated ani
mals In a foreign city drove him to
hunt up an obscure humane society and
give it what was probably the largest
subscription in Us history. As to that
cabman, by the way, we. were driving
In an open carriage, and Mr. Hearst
had twfee told the driver to stop strik
ing the horse. The driver paid no at
tention, so Mr. Hearst made one sudden
leap from the seat, got the cabman by
the back of the neck, and landed In
the street upon him.
And I recalled how. in New York, he
used to insist on going home from the
office by the way of the Bowery and
would observe and comment upon the
human wrecks that drifted there, or In
the ••breadline” at Flelshmann’s, and
these were manifestations of the same
interest 1n whoever or whatever In the
world for any cause fared ill or suf
fered wrong.
But all these things are familiar
enough to the men who hnve worked
with Mr. Hearst, so that they will rath
er wonder why I set them down. They
will recall the many occasions in many
winters when we had to turn the start
Into charity organisation societies®to
go about the tenement houses with
wagon loads of food and supplies; the
tug that he hired to pull a*stranded
schooner off Fire Island bench In the
heart of a howling blizzard: the count
less Instances and ways of which the
outside w’orld has never heard wherein
he has used the machinery of his of
fices to relieve distress; and none of
those men will need to be reminded
that all these sprang from the same
genuine and spontaneous Interest in the
unfortunate and the unassisted.
He hue his full share of faults like
other men, but they are not the faults
that have been attributed to him, and
to my mind they seem unimportant
when weighed against the fact that,
having wealth and power, he is willing
to fight the corporations and try to do
something practical for the men at the
bottom.
No other man in our time has been
so fiercely ussalled. but in all history
every' man that has disturbed vested
Interests has been made the target of
the same sort of attack. The weapons
Mr. Hearst 1ms chosen have not always
been pretty, but It is beyond question
that they have been effective. Any
way, I have no more doubt of his sin
cerity in w'aging war on the men that
he believes are oppressing the masses
of people than I had of his sincerity
... ..... .when he thrashed the cabman; and I
other’s mind* Before we parted It was I understand quite well that In both In-
MTfectlr clear to me that this man be- stances the primal motive was the
_ i _ _t. . Ao in Rsltsrln*z
I suppose ail the mystery that in
some minds seems to surround W. R.
Hearst, the course he has pursued and
the strength of his following, arises
from this; that his position is wholly
new and seems sinister and abnormal.
Here ts a rich man that haa turned
against his order and used his wealth
to fight wealth Instead of to gain more
wealth. We have never before In our
n(fairs known that, or "anything like
The Instant conclusion among the
wealthy was, naturally, that such a
man could be actuated only by the
most wicked, selfish and malign of mo
tives, 'and this Idea, being diligently
fostered by the newspapers that are
owned by or conducted In the Inter
est of predatory wealth, has been ac
cepts! as true by many men that have
had no other source of Information
about him, and has been accentuated
by the prejudices of those already of
fended on what we are pleased to call
grounds of taste because Mr. Hearst
had chosen deliberately to address his
newspapers to the least fortunate. To
these and to many others It has un
doubtedly seemed certain that a rich
man would not attack wealth except
under some strong Impulsion to gain
office and power for himself, and prob
ably to use for evil purposes what he
thus gained. , .
I suppose, further, that only those of
us that for years and years have been
closely associated with Mr. Hearst,
that from Intimate observation of him
under alt conditions have learned what
he really believes and alms at and tries
to do, can understand how much the
men who do not believe In his sincerity
have mlssfed the dominant keynote In
his character. Not freer than other
men from errors of Judgment, no doubt,
is Mr. Hearst: but none of the men
that have known him Intimately ever
questions the honesty of his convic
tions. nor their essential excellence;
and It sepms unfair In one of these not
to make a protest against what he
knows verv well Is a radical Injustice.
If you Imagine a man among m °oy oc
cupations, distractions and ambitions
that still held always and first to a
perfectly unaffected, unpretended and
Innate sympathy with the less fortu
nate people In the world; that was pro
foundly dissatisfied with existing con
ditions; that really desired to do some
thing to make life better and easier
for those at the bottom of the socle
pile; that was naturally and first of all
Interested In lessening the burden of
misery, and then was determined to
follow what seemed to him tne best
way to better conditions, you would
have b fair view of one side (and that
the most Important and effectlve) of
Mr. Hearst’s character. His way might
not be another man's way and It might
seem to many conscientious persons to
be strange and unwise, but It would be
at least honest throughout and truly
followed. , . „
I go back now to a time when no one
had thought of Mr. Hearst as a can
didate for any office, when he hlmselt
believed that his line of work was
strictly within his newspapers, when ne
used to marvel how any man ever
made a public speech nnd would con
fess stage fright when he talked to his
editors In council. We were traveling
In Italy. I was not then In his employ
(though I had been before and was
afterwards), but our paths happened
to come together nt Florence, nnd we
renewed an old friendship as we Jour
neyed together. Day by day and night
after night ns we were Jolted about on
the Italian railroads or sat walling for
an Italian table d'hote, we threshed
over the subjects In which we were
most Interested.
So thrown together In a x foreign
country, without Interruptions nnd with
no reason for concealment, men usually
come to pretty fair knowledge of each
lleved he had a. work to do In bettering
conditions, believed In his own ability
to do that work, and would follow his
convictions to the end without the
slightest concern about the opposition
he might arouse. His course since
then hes been perfectly consistent with
that Impression—with his views ex
pressed without reserve In many Inti
mate talks—nnd perfectly logical, also,
although eventa have turned out so
differently from anything we then ex
pected.
We used to talk about the steady In
crease of the power of wealth In the
republic: about the Interference of the
corporations In politics and public life,
the control of the government for the
corporation Interests; about the grow
ing evil of slums In the cities, the mil
lions of people that live therein with
out sufficient food, light, air or oppor
tunity; about the startling parallel be
tween the situation In America and
the situation In Rome nt the time of
same.
On Monday night. In Madison Square
Garden, he gave a catalogue of the
tiilngM he has done In the war he has
made. Put together thus, they make an
nmaxltyt showing. On the whole, he
seems to have good eruson to be proud
of the results. This Is what he said
about them:
"Insincerity Is to say something you
do not mean, to profess something you
are not willing to perform. I point not
to my words, but my actions.
"When I first came to Ne>- \o.lt, l
fought and killed the fuel- • o. Then
I fought the Ice trust and the ice trust
mayor, and reduced the "rice of lee
one-half and put the trust in the hands
of a receiver and the Ire trust mayor
out of office.
"Then I fought the beef trust and
furnished the United States govern
ment with Information showing that
the railroads were giving rebates and
discriminations to the packers.
.nc - - "Then I fought the coal trust «n<l
the Gracchi ami the last days of the com peiied Divine Right Raer and other
Roman republic. coal road presidents to produce In
For all these evils lie had the same I court their criminal contracts, and as
remedy—which was the extension of, n result of this fight I Introduced In
democracy and the turning of the first | congress a bill to give power to the In
attention of the government to the state terstate commerce commission to fix
of the less fortunate. Progress seemed , railroad rates. This bill the Republican
to him to mean the progress of the last party two years later stole end passed
man in the procession; and he said he ! and takes credit for.
thought It a much more Important fact "And then I fought the gas trust nnd
that there were people that did not 1 filed an appeal with the attorney gen-
have enough to eat than that we had ! cral to dissolve the trust as an Illegal
built beautiful houses nnd big Cities. I combination. I then enjoined the gas
We used to talk about the different mayor and Oakley from paying three
million dollars of the people's money
In overcharges to the trust, and I
worked to secure the passage of an
80-ccnt gas law, and then went into
court and obtained an Injunction com
pelling the company to furnish gas at
80 cents, In accordance with the law.
“Then I fought the shipyard trust,
with whleh corporation Campaign Fund
Collector Sheldon was scandalously
connected. I Instituted criminal pro
ceedings, but Jerome quashed them.
"I fought the Ramapo water grab.
"I fought the Brooklyn franchise
grab.
"I fought the scheme to rent seats In
public parks.
"I fought the Seventh National bank
wreckers and had the depositors paid
In full and the president Indicted and
fined $10,000.
"I fought the wreckers of the
Merchants’ Trust Company, and pett
tloned Governor Higgins to remove
Banking Superintendent Kllbum
corrupt and Incompetent. This Hig
gins refused to do. I applied to Je
rome to Institute criminal proceedings,
whleh Jerome refused to do, but we
had the depositors paid In full never
theless.
“I fought the traction trust In New
York city and petitioned Attorney Gen
eral Mayer to Institute proceedings.
“I fought the election cases through
every court, not oqly for myself, but
for all the candidates, and, above all,
for the people and for principle,
will "never cease fighting these eases,
and. If necessary, I will spend every
dollar I have In the world to have these
rotes counted ns cast.
“I fought the New York Central and
other railroads disaster In the tunnel,
anil presented Immense petitions ta
Mayor Low and helped to secure the
electrification of the road now under
way.
"I fought the New York Central and
other railroads for criminal rebating
to the sugar trust, and gave the gov
ernment the evidence, whleh was pub
llcly acknowledged by Attorney Gen
eral Moody. The officials of the New
York Central have lately been convict
ed on all counts.
"I fought The New York Herald for
printing a directory of vice on Its front
page and for sending procurers' adver
tisements Into respectable homes to
lure Innocent girls and wives to their
destruction, and today James Gordon
Bennett nnd The Herald and the bust-
ness innnager of The Herald were In
dicted by the United States grand
Jury on eight separate counts for un
lawfully, wilfully and knowingly de
positing In -the malls of the United
States non-mallable matter, consisting
of 'obscene, lewd, lascivious and Inde
cent advertisements.’
"I have made all these fights for the
public good, nnd certainly my slncer
Ity Is established by the many powerful
enemies I have made.
“I have made all these fights not
only without pay, but at the cost of
hundreds of thousands of dollars. And
certainly that Is some guarantee of
sincerity.”
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
OCTOBER 27.
1800— Benjamin Franklin Wnrip, Minjwrhu-
sntts Btntpsmnn, born. 1»1<*U Mart'll
1878.
W-ra
I nitc ! S’ftntf**.
18M—Mr*. .InuiPft KiihspU Lowell illwl.
—'Thpntloro UooopvpU, twotity-alstli j
1871—••Rom” Ttreed, of Tammany Hall, nr
rested nnd bailed.
1891—London county council decided to ne*
quire the tramway*.
1888— I'bllndelphtii celebrated peace Jubilee,
1899—Florence Mnrryntt, tiorcllat. tiled in
London.
190*2—|»r|p$*i* Alert made half mile In :57\.
1904—The Netv York subway opened.
BOTH LEG8 CRU8HED OFF;
BOY DIES FROM INJURIES.
Special to The Georgian.
Macon. Ga., Oct. 27.—-While playing
along a sidetrack ax Fifth and Poplar
streets yesterday afternoon, Osalo
Rowe, 8 years old, slipped under a
moving string of boxcars, and before
he could be rescued two cars ran over
both his legs. ... ^
He died an hour later In the city I the result of being thrown from
IGOSSIP!
BY CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
New York, Oct. 27.—J. Pierpont
Morgan Is planning an Italian garden
to adjoin his residence at 219 Madison
avenue, to be laid out on the site of the
house now occupied by Mr. Morgan's
daughter, Mrs. Herbert Satterlee.
He Is having a brand-new house
built for her next to his magnificent
library In East Thirty-sixth street.
When she moves Into It In the spring
her present house will be torn down
immediately, and no expense will be
spared to mukc the J. Pierpont Mor
gan Italian garden the most beautiful
small formal garden in the country, xt
will cost him about $1,000,000.
T. P. O'Conner, better known as "Tay
Pay,” both In Great Britain and over
here, where he has been for the past
two weeks on a mission to get sub
stantial help for the Irish party, of
which he Is one of the leaders In par
liament, declared today that he had
been far more successful than even he
had hoped.
Mr. O’Conner was at the Hotel Prince
George, on Twenty ; seventh street, near
Fifth avenue. He sails today on tho
Lucanlo, and his last evening was spent
at the home of Mark Twain, who hail
Invited him to a private dinner to meet
a number of friends of the Irish leader,
and also some noted American writers.
“My mission to tho United States,"
said Mr. O'Conner to a reporter today.
“Is the most successful I have ever
had. 1 am going away most satisfied.
Within the next twelve months I ex-
pect that there will be $150,000 contrib
uted for the cause of the Irish party
as a result of my two weeks' stay In
the United Staten.
“And I am not going away leaving
the work uncared for. I can go away
the better satisfied, although regretfully,
because I am leaving behind two of
my most able helpers—Richard Hazle
ton and Timothy Kettle—both mem
bers of parliament."
Commander Nebolslne, the new naval
attache of the Russian embassy, and
Mme. Nebolslne have reached Wash
ington accompanied by their children,
and have taken a house In M street.
The new attache arrived In this coun
try In June with his family, and has
occupied a cottage at Black Rock,
Conn. Mme. Nebolslne. Is an accom
plished Russian woman and a linguist
of ability.
The doubting surrogate In hearing a
will contest does not believe a woman
could possibly hide her father's will for
30 years and not look at It—not take a
single peep at the precious paper In all
those years. The woman says she did.
I wonder!
Hugh Duffy died 30 years ago, leaving
an estate valued at $10,000. Since that
time his children have acted on the
presumption that he left no will and
have divided up the property.
Recently one of the daughters, Mar
garet Duffy, produced the will and
asked that It be declared the last will
of her father, and testified that while
she knew that the paper In question
was the will of her father, she put It
away In n box and that she never
opened or looked at It from that time
until Just before she offered It for pro
bate.
"Without following the common as
sertion ns to the curiosity of woman,'*
Surrogate Church said In Ills opinion,
"It Is assuredly beyond the realm of
probability that any person would re
ceive a will nnd keep It for 30 years
without ever having opened Jt to res
what It contained.”
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey are enter
taining at their Washington home the
latter's sister, Mrs. Ludlow, wife of
Rear Admiral Ludlow, U. S, N.
The Atlantic- Fruit Company's
steamer, Yumurl, arrived carlS* yester
day from Port Antonio, Jntnaleu, with
a cargo of 15,000 bunches of bananas.
The centipedes, .scorpions nnd taran
tulas that accompanied the succulent
fruit were down on the manifest.
Banana crews have their troubles. It
Is a common sight to see a dozen centi
pedes basking In the warmth of the
forecastle, while the big hungry taran
tulas crawl around nnd dry up in the
warmth.
"That’s all right, though." said one of
the Yumurl's officers. "The tarantulas
are useful In their way. They're so In
telligent, when the mate strikes eight
bells he has no need to go forward lo
all the watch, beenuse the tarantulas
know what's wanted. They make the
sunny, dull, booming noise in the men's
ears until they tumble out nnd get on
deck,”
The Yumurl sailed again for Jamaica
today for another ccrgo.
Thirty-four children from the Hos
pital for Crippled Children who were
out for an ailing In two largo wagons
were made happy when a Imndsomely-
dressed woman gave to each a half-
pound box of candy and n glass of soda.
Their wardens had stopped and the
children were buying candy from a
vender. The woman, after warning
the little ones of the danger of eating
such candy, took them to a shop a few
blocks away and for the next half hour
the proprietor had the busiest time or
his life. The woman would not reveal
Iter Identity, hut she said she had spent .
several weeks In a hospital recently as
■ .... the result of being thrown from a hors*
hospital. The remains were removed and that her sympathies were with all
to his home at 318 Walnut street. [cripples.
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