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THE WASHINGTON POST SUNDAY JUNE 4 1905 EL DORADO IN GARIBS Long Fabled Land Becoming Present day Reality RALEIGH HUKTED IT IS VAIN Present Genentica Hu Discorered That British West Indies Are Rich in Gold and Diamond ui Other Sonrce of Untold Wealth Queer Mixture of Races tt Trinidad Asphalt Mining Special Corrrspsudeace of The Washington Past Port of Spain Trinidad British West Indies May 22 That phantom land of incalculable wealth El Dorado with Its golden city of Manoa which three hundred years ago waj sought In vain by Sir Walter Raleigh and kindred adventurers has In these latter days hut without the rest of the world knowing mush about It become a great deal of a reallt The Cartb traditions which fired the first Europeans with the spirit of conquest of a lake with shining sands on which stood a beautiful city whose streets were paved with gold somewhere along he mainland south of Trinidad hate been verified in large part at least by the disco ery of rich god mines in Venezuela Dutch French and British Guiana added to which diamonds hate now been found In the last named country Diamond mines and gold fields increare in richntss as they are opened up and whle their development is slow on account of lb dlffic ties alwas encountered the trail blazers It is puite polble that the present generation may see the goden wlll the wisp of cnturles ago transformed into a real Gclconda For all of this great eountrv the old Spanish Main and the northeastern coast of South America with Its promled greatness and untold wealth of burled treasures wh ch hae enly teen fcratched oier In spots with a pla Trinidad the base from which the early navigators sought the fabled El Dorado is the clear log house In the full development of this new empire of the tropics the United States is destined to plaj a large part commerciall and polticaliy Interest here la as deep in the policies framed in Wash lngton as in those laid down In London and sometimes deeper and American influence is growing with the stead increase In American trade Up to date American Wsys There is a hustle and bustle about Trln idad and an up to date American was of doing buines that put it In a different class from all of the other West Indes If it were not for the people on the streets arigated in cilor with all shade of black and brown and fantastic in their attire an American in Port of Spain the commercial center of the island and the home of the governor could easil Imagine himself at home There are three big department stores which would be credit to an American city with a population greater by fifty per cent and long blocks of smaller stores and shops in all of which American goods are to be found in quantities Uncle Sam has the foodstuff market all to himself and he is well represented in boots and shoes machlnrj and other lines The extent to which American methods have been adopted is best proved by the fact that all business Is transacted on a basis of dollars and cents All of the merchants and even the British banks keep their account in American style British fractional silver is used but all of the currency is in dollars In the stores all goods are marked in dollars and cents and American cu rencj is taken at par Nowhere else on earth is there such a strange mixture of races as Is to be found here Of the total population of two hun dred and fifty thousand one half a descendants of the African slaves with which the island was populated bv Ena land in the latter part of the eighteerth century Hot more than a thousand of them are pure African the rest are of ail ehades running from jet black to almost white One third of the population are from the East Indies or of Eat Indian descent The remaining one sixth is mar up of Englishmen Scotchmen Irishmen Germans Frenchmen Spaniards Portuguese Italians Swiss Corsican Vere tuelans Russians Poles Danes Canadianspure and mixed a few Americans and a thousand Chinamen added to all of which are a few descendants of the earths who are of a distinguishing share of brown and have straight hair The Chinese like most of the others have Intermarried or associated with the negro or colored women and their descendants are being merged Into the heterogeneous population Married to Black Men Sixty per cent of the children are born out of wedlock but lllegitimac like a strain of negro blood is considered no disgrace Some English omen who mov In the Island beet society and are welcomed at the gov ernor manson are married to negroes who are unmistakably end decidedlj black However the color of a man skin does not count against Mm if he Is rich or stands well up in a profession There are not more than twenty thousand pue wht people on tha island and the number probably would be less than that if the facts were known Of all of Trinidad many races the East Indians are bj far the most Interesting they give it an air of romance and a dash of barbaric splendor that none of the other islands possess with all of their charm The Trinidad negro refused to work at anv price after he was released from slarerv and the coolie was Imported from East India to take his place on the sugar and cocoa plantations and In the rice fWds The coolies have aved the island from complete subjugation to mgro domination for without them the white owners would have been forced to abandon their estates leaving them to go to ruin or be appropriated by the native negro who no matter what his opportunities will dc only enough work to keep himself alive Bnt for the East In dian Trinidad now would be another Haiti The coolies are brought ov er from India bj the Insular government and are Indentured to the plantations not to the plantation owners for five years Their Jood clothing quarters and medical attendance are furnished them free along with a plot of ground for a garden Thev work seven and a half hours a day and are paid 25 cents a day The colonial government keeps close watch of the coolies to see that thej are properly cared for and If they have ahy Just complaint against their emplojers removes them to another plantation Their passage back to India at the end of the five jears Is Guaranteed but most of them stay on the Island for their services are In demand and they get 35 and 40 cents a day after they are fre to work where thej choose They are not as strong as the negroes but are stead and Intelligent workers Oriental Caste Is Maintained They do not intermarrv or associate with the negroes but live together in settlements They are made up of Hindoos Mohammedans and Christians and all of the caste distinctions which prevail In India are rigorously adhered to They do not drink and are quiet happv and peaceable There is bnt one form of crime among them Only one third as many women as men are brought over and this sometimes leads to lnfidellt which Is swiftly punished When a coolie discovers that his wife Is unfaithful he chops her head off with his machete and goes proud and smiling to the gallow a The coolies are of an entirely different type from the negro They are short and spare but well formed lth regular features and straight glossy black hair Their faces show a pride In their ancestry The women have small hands and feet delicate features piercing black eyes and skins of polished rosewood and many of them are beautiful They carry them selves gracefully and show much art in the arrangement of the longwhite gar ment which envelops them outlining the figure They have the Oriental fondness 1 for ornament and wear the savings of their husbands in jewelry They wear a profusion of bracelets armlets and anklets rings on their fingers and toes from one to three rings In the nose and from one to six In each ear and heavy collars in abundance The arms from wrist to shoulder often are hidden under tigbt fitting rings an enormous hoop suspended from the cartilage of the nose falls over mouth and chin with a smaller one on either aide and so attired with clattering anklets heralding their coming they parade the streets The metal is silver or gold according to the wealth of the husband but In either case It Is pure Their decorations are all the work of coolie smiths who are masters of the art Obeahlsm Is rampant in spite of all the governments efforts to suppress It Obeahmen arc dreaded by all of the blacks ho pay heavy and constant trib ute to them to be relieved of an evil spell thrown around them by some other obeahman or when they want to get rid of an enemy for some mysterious decoc tlon which Kills and leaves no trace If member of a negro family Is taken 111 the ethers immediately hunt around the house first of all under the doorstep for the evil charm which generally takes the form of a little ball of cotton with a few beads and feathers attached If it is found they at once vaor away and conceal their whereabouts at the same time emplojlnc the obeahman to protect them and ward off the spell Hew Enemies Are Removed When a negro wants to kill an enemv he tells the obeahman that some one is In his path The devil worker understands asks him how he wants him remov ed and gives him the poison or for a higher price agrees to attend to the job himself In either case the result generally Is satisfactory as Is evidenced the long list of sudden deaths and mvsterious disappearances all of which are credited to the obeahman Trinidad Is the largest of the British West Indies except Jamaica being fifty five miles long and forty wide with an area of 1700 square miles It was discovered by Columbus on his third voy ajje on Trinity Sunday 1498 His ships were leaking ana nis water suppiy minusi exhausted and he made a vow In the morning that if he sighted land that day he woulc christen It In honor of the Holy Trinity A few hours later the three mountain peaks of Trinidad close together and united at the base were seen and Columbus forcibly reminded of his vow named the Island La Triniaad Columbus found the Island inhabited by Caribs to whom it was known as Iere or land of the humming birds Spain took possession of the island in 1530 It was attacked in succession the Dutch British and French finally becoming a British colony in 1797 The island is best known to Americans on account of the aphalt lake which made it famous The lake Is In the southwest corner of the island and evidently comes from the same source as the Venezu lan pitch lake The as rhalt here however contains only 45 per cent of bitumen as compared with 45 per cent in the Venezuelan lake The two lakes are ex actl alike In appearance The Trinidad lake proper covers about 100 acres and it is nearly circular It Is half a mile in land and Is connected with the shore by a cable earning great buckets from which the asphalt is dumped into the holds of the ships ling at the pier The surface of the lake Is smooth and about as hard as an asphalt pavement In August rhe asphalt Is dug out In large chunks to a depth of two feet and the holes are rapldlj filled up by the pres sure from below With an annual ex cavation of 50 000 tons which Is about the present rate of operation it is estimated that the surface of the lake is lowered a foot a ear Borings Indicate that the supply of asphalt practically Is lnexhaust ible Results of American Enterprise American enterprise is constantly bring Ing Trinidad into closer relationship with the United States A Boston firm has just completed the Installation of an extensive electric street railway system in Port of Spain The American Shipping and Trading Company of New Tork which operates a direct line of steamers to the Island Is extending its Interests throughout the island It operates the largest sugar estate In the island ana has erected in Port of Spain the finest hotel in the West Indies the Queens Park America buvs one third of the Islands cutput of sugar and cocoa and a Philadelphia syndicate now is trying to corner the annual crop of cocoanuts Trinidad is blessed with a delightful tmate the year around and beautiful scenerj of mountain plain and valley opical flowers and plants of all kinds are ever where and the air is filled with sweet perfume The hotel rates are very reasonable traveling Is cheap and the island is fast growing in popularity with American resorters especially during the winter months The thermometer then sometimes goes as high as 85 and occasional as low as 08 at night but 80 is the average In the summer the temperature Is ten degrees higher but even then it Is always cool In the shade for the trade winds blow steadily Trinidad has a large trade with Venezuela from which it is separated orly by the Gulf of Parla and on the northwest and southwest by narrow passages Much of this trade has been carried on by smugger on account of the 33 per cent discriminating duty Imposed bj former President Guzman Blanco on the West Indies In retaliation for their support to Venezuelan revolutionist but thla has recentlj been moderated by President Castro and probably soon will be entirely removed Trinidad Is the home of many Venezuelan refugees some of whom have tried to launch new revolutions from here but all efforts In that direction have been given up Gen Parades is the only one who is still talking of stirring up trouble for Venezuela and his following is la significant HORACE SMITH STABLES AND STUDIOS SHOULDER TO SHOULDER Special Correspondence of Tha Wuhlngton Fast NewTTork June HEN you bear talk about the noise and confusion of New TTorkj when your mind has become overwrought from reading the accident columns ard you shy from imaginary automobiles in your sleep it is good to note the fact that there is one place near the heart of the city where the weary arc The description sounds like a cemetery or an undertakers shop but It Is neither It relates to a real street full size and of more than voting age In Paris It would be called a cul de sac for the far end la an Impasse of brick and wood covered with gentle trails of Ivy and Virginia creeper The street Is Macdougal alley a plain ordinary garden name which you will resent at first Tou determine to call upon the City Fathers and insist that it be rechrlstened Donatellos Court After a while the simplicity of the name attracts and If another should follow out your early desire you would consider it an act of vandalism Tears ago before fashion began to move away from Washington square and Eighth street there was erected a line of stables big and substantial enough for the pairs of bays who made up in dignity what they lacked in speed Coachmen and footmen paraded hi this spot then trim ahd pretentious for the servants families lived over the stalls and borrowed a certain prestige from their em pIoers names But one by one the old families disappeared The stables became the home of cart horses wagons took a cheap shelter there the alley Itself became a resort for gamblers and roughs met and shared plunder In its shadows One day about four or five years ago Frederick Triebel the sculptor whose statue of Mysterious Music exhibited at the Chicago exposition was the only work of art purchased by a foreign country returned to New Tork from a fifteen year vacation in Italy Ona day in late spring about this Urn of year when saddened by the difficulty of transplanting his soul to a city where capital gazed askance at art he found himself at the entrance of Macdougal alley The flagging was rough and grimy there were unwashed bits of humanity playing on the ground but Italy had made him immune to that there was a low jagged skyline giving hlm glimpses of turquoise sky there were queer latticed windows of wrought Iron over topping window boxes in which blossomed vivid geraniums there were splashes of red brick against which vines scrambled toward each other there was color light and a serene atmosphere The usual formalities of lease and land lord were adjusted and In the big stable which stands at the southeast entrance he started the artistic colony which to day numbers Philip Martlgny Charles Hawthorne Fraser Demlng the Indian painter Bush Brown which numbers Frank Millet as property holder and a certificate of leave from Iris fellow workers Present tenants still discuss and compare the work of their predecessors among whom are OConnor the sculptor Ballien Mazettl et al Mystifying Metamorphosis From the day when Mr Triebel lewed it la theday of Its evil habits until now the alley has changed to a place where the chance comer rubs his eyes and for a moment disbelieves that such an oasis can exist within a womans stone throw of clanging cars and busy crowds Each of the artists at present resident takes credit as Is the way th world over for the initial find and not only for this but for the following Improvements To one Is due so he modestly avers the clean flagging which makes tbe floor of the street as fresh as a new laid egg Another says that his is the credit for the night watchman who lantern In hand shuffles on his rounds and mutters Alls weir when there is any one to hear Ah other calls attention to the strict sanitary rules that prevail and admits that he makes the lives of the careless ones of little value until the sticks and straws are gathered up and the clay and paint spots removed Perhaps there is a modern electric bell on Mr Triebels studio possibly there Is but an old fashioned knocker as one or two of the others boast it is Impossible to tell for the place is wide open and at the entrance his hospitable self is standing ready and willing to tell the curious visitors which one of the vine covered buildings was once owned by the Alexander Schuyler home which one by the NEW YORKS TAX SALE Well known Individuals and Concerns in Debt to the City Special Correspondenen of Tt Washington Post New Tork June 1 The tax sale on June 14 will be the first of its kind to be Wield In this city in seventeen years The lay says that such sales shall be hed every thirteen years the theory being that with the penalty of 7 per cent a year added for delinquency taxes double In that time and It is not Philanthropist and the Beggar From Llpplnootf a Madam president of a ph lanthropic so ciet was walking briskly homewarl along a broad thoroughfare Her shoes were comfortableJier furs warm and coz around hepnedlLBhe was planning busil In her head new methods by which the socletv ould make the poor happy The retched dears how she lov ed te help them i An old womafe In a ragged shawl accosted her Saj would yer gimme cento Tin tired of walkln Tired of walking How could ah be thought madam Why walking was one of the jojs of her life and she wiggled her tees in her comfortable shoes va here do you live Goody On street replied the tired one But street Is at the extreme end of the cit my good woman and ou are walking in exactl the opposite direction Yes maam I going to church Ah going to church What church do jou belong to The Catholic Church Which Catholic Church The one free blocks up an four across But why do you come so far to church Well I uster live up this a way oncst But are there no churches near where you reside Ah sure but I likes this one Are ou married Widow ma am Any ohlldrenr Seven maam Do they support you No ma am Do ou or any of our family drink Why Is It your children do rot support jou If our children do not support you who does Do you live in a tenement or Goody ragged shawl began to twitch and her chin went up in the air I ax yer pardon but Id rather be walk In than standln here a freezln ter death while ouse take notes on me famfely his tery I thinke Ive made a mistake Excuse me for axing youse fer cents The society news rouse wants ter know Is worth a dolar And the tired one hustled off AJLL1 szravaj Tai 19 flTsBnBa vow iaanm Kiww ISO A xSf 81 flili I it i I LA JmZV II W5E vmKHMMcr SALLY IN OUR ALLEY IN THE HAUNTED STUDIO Morgan estate and which by the Rhine landers The most Interesting and novel work now engaging Mr Triebels attention are the preparations for the statues of the four great Mexican heroes recently ordered by the State of Tucatan to be erected in its capital city Mr Triebel has just returned from Yucatan and maps photographs and other data are soon In requisition He points out the square at the comers of which heroic figures of President Diaz and of the liberators Juarez Hidalgo MoreloS are to be plac ed I must tell you something amusing You would not think that the game of baseball could have anything to do with the erection of statues In Yucatan but it has When I reached Merida the capital city I was delighted with the beautiful square where the statues were to be placed So many figures are cramped by their environment but there was plenty of space and it had been decided that heroic figures In marble should be ordered The bull fight had gone out and the American game of baseball has come in the people are crazy over it they are more enthusiastic than we are ourselves and matches are played all the time This big square is filled with boys of all ages practicing I told the chairman of tbe commission that If the statues were erected It would be a question of only a few days when an ear would be chipped off a nose a bit of the coatP an arm or leg and mutilated heroes would replace the ones designed An extra meeting was called and the result was that the statues were ordered In bronze is that the boys could continue their games undisturbed Sally in Our Alley While the visitors stand at the door of Mr Frasers atudld across the street Sally comes tripping by on her way down the alley Sally is gowned in gray which matches her eyes and she has a bit of baby blue ribbon about her peck Bally Is a model and at the studio door which bears the name Martlgny she stops to read the placard No Models Need Apply It is the sight of Sally that recalls to Mr Fraser that we have not seen the haunted studio across the way with its revolving dome where the flickle light was caught by a wary painter at every hour of the day Mr Fraser leans against the door edge and weighs the stories of the different ghosts which have come to him from the lips of one and another Tbe young sculptor tries to be judicial but it is difficult for his sympathies are with the frozen model who posed In midwinter without a fire and was found stiff and stark at the completion of his work by the artist who broke his tools and his statue and has left the alley never to return Another story has It that one of the studio ghosts as the helpers are called In a fit of anger broke up a completed work of his masters and then threw him self down the cellar stairs from which place his groans are heard only at midnight and on clear moonlight nights These ghost stories sound very banal In the opn air with the sunlight pouring down but when a rusty key Is put In the lock and the stable door is closed after the visitors and only a view remains of cavernous stairs ending In black depths and festooned cobwebs It is easy to believe anything Macdougal alley has other claims to notice besides those which touch on the artistic and genealogical sides For all the stables are not leased to Art a few retain their original use and an occasional hansom with glittering harness Is driven through the alley while tha coachman exchanges greetings with his artistic neighbors The children of art and industry meet and hobnob gently and a general and all pervading respect for each otters rights marks the social atmosphere Mike Interviewed pn the subject stopped washing the bay flanks and chewed a straw meditatively Then he pointed with a genial Hibernian gesture toward the artists side of the court Theyre all right and they dont do the place no harm I say It as knows It wor a bad ill smelling place afore they came and they keep it clane I dunno how they managed but they got the board of health In and they had the place flagged and Its washed lvery bllssid day Were all friends down here he ends and well stick together to the lnd STATE TO B2BED BLOODOUNDS Mississippi Needs Better Dogs to Run Down Escaping Criminals Spatial Oorrtiposdtae tt Toe WaiMngtea roat New Orleans June 1 Several recent failures to run down escaping criminals with bloodhounds and some mistakes made by the hounds In tracking the wrong persons have convinced tha Mississippi authorities of the necessity of improving the breed of hounds There are no State hounds and the authorities are compelled to depend upon such packa as the sheriffs or fanciers may offer These are fax from satisfactory for the local business done by the hounds Is not sufficient tajustlfy any consider able expenditure In raising or maintaining them On the other hand the greater freedom granted the convicts because of the system of State convict farms renders some betterprovtslon for their recapture necessary The beginning tt a State pack has been made by the purchase by the State of the bloodhound Robin Hood said to be the finest In Mississippi Robin Hooa will be used la vanning down all escaped convicts from the State farm In Rankin County under the direction of Bergt Faney He will be used also to Improve the breed of dogs at the severalState farms Robin Hood came from a kennel at Lexington Ky and has made a fine record in tracking fugitives In Southern Mississippi where he was owned by a man who Is now a trusty convict At Wiggins in Harrison County he took up the trait of a murderer twenty four hours old and ran the criminal earth At Picayune fc was equally successful with a twelve hour old trail and so far he has made no mistake or failure He Is a light brown has a massive jaw that will bring the stoutest fugitive to earth and has the striking dull red eye of the thoroughbred bloodhound He Is so dreaded among1 the negro convicts that his very presence at the Rankin County farm will reduce the number of convicts who break for liberty It Is calculated that the State will save money by using more bloodhounds and thus doing away with the large force of guards which it Is necessary to employ on a convict farm covering several thousand acres and where to secure good results It Is necessary to allow the prisoners considerable freedom WOMEN STATION AGENTS 1 TriAntS tri ia arfVi Hma hA mot fa prudent or businesslike to extend credit avment a beyond that period It Is customary however to adjourn these sales from time to time as happened In the present case The property that will be offered at the coming sale Is confined exclusively to the borough of Manhattan It comprises every parcel on which taxes or water rent Is unsaid from 188 to 1901 Inclusive It also embraces the property of all public I cnt service corpvrtttum muiti ti the franchise tax for 1900 the year In which the law went Into effect and 1901 This Item alone mounts up Into the millions It Is thought however that the corporations will settle before the day of tbe sale rather than have their property tied up by such a proceeding which would entail the payment of heavy fees and might result In endless litigation Some of the most valuable and best paying property In the city Is Included In the advertisement of the sale and the owners are among the richest citizens estates and corporations In New York Among them are LorUtarA aetata wnilam Rhtaalaadar St Andrew ptrtoaife WIUlm Attor astata RooaaTalt tba New York Historical Society old St Marka Churchy Cooper rnlon tne Proteat aat Episcopal Church houaa la LfiyUa place Goalet estate tha SalraUoa Armj tha Ntw York Central aad Wert Sbora rallroada tha Central Thaoloctcal Stmlaarr tha Airlum tor tha lad Vanderbllt A Hammler Oeort Boldt tha Union Suan Hotel tha If adlaoa SQiura Church houaa Church ot the Epiphany Benedict Kooaarelt HotplUl Phelps Sodfe ft Co tha Lenox Ubrarj Carolina Wi Aator Bcbermer Bora estate tbe WUUua EHlnelaadex estate tha Astor estate aad James Ercrard Against some of the property thej charges are Insignificant but in many instances the amount due from individuals and estates whose ability to pay Is well known is large The largest amount due from a single person or Institution Is the charge against the Lenox Library This Institution owes in the neighborhood of 1200000 for taxes exclusive of the interest which will bring the total up to more than as much again Since the announcement of the sale many owners who were In arrears have paid up together with 7 per cent Inter est and their proportionate share of the cost of advertising When the sale Is held the city will probably be found to be the purchaser of practically every holding offered This does not mean that the municipality will take title to the property but will bid it in pending a settlement of the A Wonderful Change Weak sickly invalids are soon changed by Electric Bitters Into healthy men and women Ttey cure or no pay SOc All tirugcists claims As a matter of fact property cannot be bought outright at these sales It Is knocked down to the bidder offering to take it for the least number of years The successful bidder has to pay all the charges The owner then has the right to redeem the property within two years by paying the buyer what he spent on it plus 14 par cent interest If the property is redeemed the day after the sale the owner must py the interest for two years at the rate of 7 per cent just the same At the end of two years the owner still has six per cent The bidding Is usually started at 1000 years and knocked down to the city at those terms The reason why speculators do not usually bid at these sales Is that they may at any time within one year get a lease of the property for the term under which It Waa bid In by the city by paying the arrears costs and 7 per They generally buy late because in case of redemption they can only get 14 per cent profit If they buy a year after the sale and the property Is redeemed they make a clear profit of 7 per cent Ways and Means From Pack Good citizens said the reformer should band together and get control of the primaries 3ut what method would you advise asked his friend JIu jltsu or plain assault and battery JAPS ARE PAYING AS THEY GO Modernizing Korea with Model Railways and Police From tha New York ETentng Post The Japanese troops are paying liberally for everything In Korea and their conduct is exemplary Civilian Japanese are pouring Into the country coming largely by families It is estimated that 60000 of them are there and they are arriving dally There is practically an uninterrupted chain of Japanese settlements from Fusan in the south to the Yalu the north Railway construction shows a remarkable extension With the exception of one bridge at Anju there Is now complete railway communication from Fusan to the Yalu The Seoul Fusan Railway with its 27 miles of solid permanent way is already paying working expenses though It Is not yet formally open The Seoul Yalu Railway 300 miles in length has been entirely constructed by the military since April of last year and all the trestle bridges will later be changed Into permanent structures A branch Is also under construction to Mansanpo while another trunk line is about to he constructed across the peninsula from Seoul to densan and the Tumen River All the railways are ot standard gauge Simultaneously extensive reclamation of land and harbor Improvements are In progress at Chemulpo and Fusan while the work of lighthouse construction by the customs continues without interruption Order Is kept with the smallest poa FOLLOW1NG JAPANS EXAMPLE I thought you were to visit tha Uew weds I was but they decided not to allow any war correspondents on the field sible display of force A Japanese gendarmerie has taken the place of the worthless Korean police Japan now controls all the communications of Korea with the outside world She has by agreement taken charge of the posts and telegraphs she has secured the right to fish In the territorial waters around the whole coast of the Empire and she has obtained the opening of the Inland and coast waters to navigation of Japanese vessels FIRST HOME OF ANTHRACITE Wilkesbarre Tavern Where Its Value Was Demonstrated Prom the Philadelphia North American The old Fell house where anthracite coal was first burned In a grate and where Its value was first realized is to be torn down and remodeled It Is at the corner of Northampton and Washington streets Wilkesbarre Pa and 100 years ago was a tavern on the main pike between Wilkesbarre and Easton Its owner Judge Jesse Fell had for some time believed that the stone coal as jt was then called would If properly Ignited make a fire better and more last ing than wood Attempts to burn it hadJjust as soon wear last years hat railed nut judge Felt evolved the Idea that a draft was necessary He built in the common room of the tavern a special grate made of brick Laughed at by his neighbors for his contentions he locked himself In the room on February 11 18C8 and filled the grate with some of the best stone coal taken from an outcrop near by Under it be built a fire of wood splinters and then fanned the flame It was soon his pleasure to see the black coals turn red and emit a heat far greater than wood He added more coal and saw the redhot coals ignite the fresh supply The neighbors flocked In doubting to see the proof Tha effect of this pleasing discovery Judge Fell wrote In describing the experiment was such that In a few days there were a number of grates put In operation This brought the stone coal Into popular notice The room pnd the old grate have been preserved and will continue to be While the old place is being torn down end remodeled the room will be boxed in and the new structure built around It so that tbe grate and Its surroundings may remain Intact for many more years arid be honored in the celebration that It is planned to bold upon tha one hundredth anniversary of the event Candies to Match Costumes Prom the Hllwaukee seoilaeL Candles to match dresses Is the latest fad in novelty confectionery said 3 Levy of Chicago The idea Is entirely new and like all other new things had Its Inception in a trifling Incident that was all but overlooked A matinee girl complained to a Mew York candy merchant that the box of sweets he had just sold hec formed a contract with her dress which was perfectly awful He Immediately got busy and looked over his assortment of goods and Is now selling pink mauve and brown shades of candies In a box to match which the matinee girt can allow to repose in her lap happy In tha knowledge that it la another Umbl 1b bar color scheme Tried by a Railroad in Indiana and Found to Be Better Than Men Special Correspondence to the Washlntton Post Indianapolis June 2 The Lake Erie and Western Railroad Is making some signfl cant changes of station agents and It is predicted that the day Is not distant when all the smaller stations will be In charge of women Four stations are now In charge of women and It is said that their work Is very satisfactory The first woman station agent was appointed at Summit something more than a year ago and it was her work that first suggested to the companys officials the policy of appointing women as station agents Her monthly reports were models of neatness and exactness and she had hardly entered upon her duties when she made some valuable suggestions as to how to make the road popular with the people along theJlne But it was not till the general officers made a trip of Inspection over the line that the full results of her administration became known The station at Summit was found to be the best kept in Indiana A little Inquiry resulted In the Information that the station had ceased to be a lounging place that there had been no rowdyism since Miss Catharine Dicks had taken charge that the floors and benches were always clean and that the station had become as orderly and well kept as any private house In the town Prior to that time trips of Inspection had consisted of a scurrying along the line with stops only at the jarge cities and It was at tbe suggestion of one of the Indiana officials that the general officers stopped at Summit Miss Dicks was not expecting them and had not made preparations to receive them but the station floors were free from stains the stove glistened with new polish not a particle of dust was on tbe benchesjrd the pri vate office of the agent was homelike and Inviting The other women agents have been appointed since then and the officials have found that the good results of the change have been the same in every case They have also learned that the women have greater tact In handling people than their male predecessors displayed and fewer complaints have come from their stations It Is also said that passenger traffic ha greatly Increased from these four points and especially during tbe summer season when excursion trains are run the women taking more pains ana snowing more energy in working up crowds than did the men The salary of the women station agent is from HO to 50 a month QIlss Dicks is now learning telegraphy and will soon get an Increase la salary as a telegraph operator No Help for It Prom Peck Shall we buy a new automobile The young misband looked at his wife anxiously The voice had a strange tremor In it The one we have Is In perfect running order he continued The engine Is not worn a bit The bearings are like new The tires have all been renewed Everything about is in first class shape and we can I think get along beautifully Dont you dear The wife rose to her full height It was evident that her Indignation was fully aroused You amuse me she said with a slight sneer Are you aware sir that they are not now using those bodies Do you know that mauve awnings have gone out Can you get It through your dull brain that nothing but a llmosanaum body Is au fait And do you suppose for one moment that I would ever demean myself by entering my machine from the rear Why I would TREGOE THE BUSY HAN Baltimore Merchant to Graduate in Law DOESKT Pills TO PRACTICE Took Up tne Study Just Because He Wasted to Know About It Has soTJ2h oa His Hands is Addition to His Business to Keep a Dozen Men Occupied Reads oa Street Cars Whereunon her stricken husband imme diately telephoned to have the back number taken to the Iron factory SpaoiaJ Cemasendaaca at Tha WaahiBsto Peat Baltimore June There Is a whole sermon to be found In the fact that Harry Tregoe of this erty wIQ be handed a diploma next Monday night as a graduate ot the University of Maryland School of Law His name may not be faml lar to you in Washington but In Baltimore and even throughout the State it Is al most a household word fof there are mighty few things In which ha is not Interested or called upon by those in authority to take an Interest Mr Tregoe la not a young man as youth goes among law graduates but In the business world be is still considered a young man Mr Tregoe isprobabr tbe oldest member of bis class which graduates Monday and he is also probably the only member of It who has taken and mastered the law course of tne university Just because he wanted to understand law and not because he had any Intention of practicing How He Is Kept Busy But to get back to the sermon Mr Tregoes graduating in law goes to show that nothing Is Impossible to a manWho works and that there is no such thing as having no time Mr Tregoe can lay claim to that If anybody can for here are the things that go to keep him busy President Travelers and Merchants Association Prseideat or tha Municipal Laasaa aad mamber ot the execntlva committee of that orgaalxatloa la tha last campaign Director tha National Credit Mans Association of which body ha was tha president far two Tears decUalns re elacUoa laat Jaaa Member of tha adriaorr conualtiaea tha local Credit Mans Association Chairman ot tha Jubtlea committee appointed by Major Tlmaaaa arrant or a eelebratloa the rebuilding and rejsTenatloa ot tha city after tha bis Sre famed a tba major an tha pabUa eewerat committee prior to tha pasaaga of tha erdlnanca bj tha city council Named br Got Warfleld aa a member at tha committee which is to present the sllrer aerrtce to tha United Statee cruiser Maryland aa behalf of tha dtj and SUte Secretary and treasurer of tha Merchants Bote Company Active mamber ot tha Beform League Yica President ot tha John A Carroll Shoo Com pany Saperintendent er Oa Saadar achoo at tha Port Mission Coadaeta a weekly dab at bora on Wolfe street to whom ha teaches tha principles et aonsUtvtlonal and International law and erchltectare Member ot Brawn Memorial Presbrterlaa Chares Devoted to Study Mr Tregoe Is always an active member or an active officer of whatever he Is connected with He Is not the sort who simply lend the power and influence of their names He gives his whole attention and energy to whatever he undertakes Imagine then this man finding time to study law which of Itself Is enough to occupy all of ones time aa a rule Here is how he explains It I left school when I was not more than fifteen years old and have been constantly employed In commercial pursuits ever since that time There has never been a day that I have not had employment although I have made several changes I became convinced that if I was ever to amount to anything or to have any satisfactory kind of a career It would be necessary for me to give up a great many things that I was enjoying and get right down to hard studying did this I put aside the boys and the girls and other things and for a good many years I studied about five hours outside of the time I devoted to business and I studied some rather abstruse subjects After a while it got to be a sort of habit and I was hardly happy unless was studying The Mas with the Book About three years ago I conceived the Idea that I would like to know something about the law and for purely educational reasons I entered the law school There la no doubt that It has been a heavy strain to find the time to do the necessary reading and I believe that most of it waa done on the cars On my way down town In the morning and back again in the 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