The Brooklyn Citizen from Brooklyn, New York • 13

PART 1 IL FACIU Ut M. PART IL PAGES UtM i Kutfirsd ut tiis Post OfMco st fiiot-klj Oi 4, 1 hh AeooncJ ola hi mud umirr A I of Mim li Is YOL. XLI-NO. Cl. BROOKLYN, SUNDAY, MARCH :5, 1)07.

-TWENTY -1 X)UR RAUES. PRICE THREE CENTS. HOW J.D. ROCKEFELLERS VAST GIFT MAGAZINE FOR THE SIGHTLESS WILL REACH AMERICAN STUDENTS IN THE HANDS OF ITS READERS iU IU (U U4 Frederick T. Gates Tells of Plans to Benefit the Colleges.

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1 JkAlTA3t kafvvvV'1 tfAMTXAjerO 1 Ui I (CSC tctc (TFEEjOI. 031, I A I'V MM, lilt fi.niiif It t- I I RH I I 1 'i HI I I i Mrx i i I in i kdv vntffT i A FREDERICK T. GATES AT HIS DESK. JAP PUPILS WELCOME IN BROOKLYN SCHOOLS Some Sidelights on the Way the Little Brown Men Live In This Borough Easteners Know None of the Prejudices Entertained on the Coast. learn, nobody ri ady and proficient lessons, nobody who saentkes more cSTA.

It may lie that our distance from Japan and the relative proximity of California and tile Pacific const generally to that empire accounts for rrrrr differing ntti tudes toward tiip little brow mau. Out 0 9W ea INCOME, $4,329 A DAY Womens Colleges to Receive Their Share How Information About Worthy Institutions Is Gathered By the Board. You cun tell the people of America tfiut we will begin ghing Mr. Korku-fellers fund ut once. Frederick T.

Gutcs made this stute- mont in an interview with a "Citizen reporter at his olhee, No. 26 Rroadwny, Manhattan, in which he described the financlaL workings of the great fund of $82,000,000 which John D. Rockefeller has given to the colleges of America to be distributed through the general edinn-. tion board. Mr.

Gates chairman of the Financial Committee of the board, and iu his hands rests this immense fund. He does not propose to let it remain in his hands long, however. With the other ollicers of the board he has already begun the distribution to various institutions, Wert and East and South. There seems to be a mlsdcrstandiug on the part of the public regarding the method iu which this money will be given to the colleges, said Mr. Gates.

We have received scores and hundreds of lot ters from colleges and ail kinds of insti-Itutions of learning, asking for it portion 'of this $32,000,000. Now the $32,000,000 itself is dot to be disbursed. This is mistake. And it would be a financial mistake to give away the principal of the fundi -The inqjje from this $32,000,000 will fie paid out through the channels of tbe hoard, and 'we shall begin at once. The interest which we will have ajfc our disposal will amount approximately to a day yon can figure yourself just what the monthly add yearly in-' "come will be.

Our income will be perraa- neut and regular. 1 One feature which his not. been brought before the public ko far is the fact that wo shall include women's eol-leges iit our list of institutions to he 'helped. I will say that in this we are anticipating a little, as the board bus not yet officially decided on this step nor se-' i lected the womens colleges to receive aid from the fund. It is impossible for me or for the board to give out at this time the names of the colleges that will receive help from 'the fund.

We have plans for helping hundreds of them. Thegtf'plfios are ten-! ative, and I will say ttiM-whe of the col-1 leges do not yet know that have them under consideration. The board is made up 6f eight men and in this lies the secret of our economi-' cal administration. It cost lis about $20. 000 last year to administer the funds then i In hand, and this cost was very small considering the size of the funds.

Frederick T. Gates is a Baptist minister, 04 years old. His father before him 'was a Baptist minister on $400 a year. The young man educated himself, and fipaliy was given a charge in Miune-V' ipolis." He showed his administrative ability I when In six weeks he raised $50,000 for a small academy in Minnesota, and 1 he was then made chief executive officer of tbe American Baptist Education So-oiotyt It lit was Instrumental In persuading Rockefeller to create the Uni- rersity of Chicago. The once poor Bap-i tist preacher then become Rockefeller's right-hand man in matters of educational i gifts.

He lives at Montclair, N. and is president of thirteen of Rockefeller's corporations. Dr. Butterick, secretary of the general education cites the following as a typical case which shows, the method of handling a request by a College to be made a beneficiary of the fnfid: The college president, or some tuein-j her of the board of trustees, writes to 1 1 the board and asks for an application blank. The reply he receives states that the board has no application blanks and '-asks him to write out his, proposition, giving detailed information about his college, its aims, plans, desires and a copy of its charter and financial statement The answer nearly alwiys Indicates to the board many things which It would i he impossible to learn from an answer on a printed blank.

The financial statement, its form as well as Its substance, often Indicates bow the institution keeps its books and Its ideas of accounting. The description of the college, plug what they want -it to be, disclojes their ideas of a college. 1 Every detail of the information reported, together with the request, is tabulated ahd filed at the office of tbe board, ao that it can he found wjthil a minute, SHAKESPEARE AND BUSINESS Apropoa of Frederick Wards Shakespearean lectures now going on the ing question put by a Brooklynite Ik timely: "Do you think that Bacon really wrote the Shakespeare plays? "1 dont see that the question Is worth discussing, answered the theatrical man-: ager to whom it was put. There ie no doubt that Shakespeare was the Important and responsible man. Whether he -o plays or pot, manafod the HOW THU HUXD AUK STL DI.U TUK PANAMA ANAL.

This odc of the ilIiU'tpatJ''ns in tin new nmcazinc for the Mind, A map, beinnine with the southern part of Ploraia ami 4011 tinninj; south to the Isthmus of Panama. bhown iu raised dot. Underneath the map are the following word: Map showing Southern Florida, the llahatiia, Unha, Jamaica, Panama and Adjacent Land and Sea. Some of the points on the map are maiked with onlv the dots rep-reentins the first letter of the name, but in the margin the name is tfpelled out. More Than 1 0,000 Copies Sent Out to Alt Parts of Country I Contents of Book The first magazine for tho blind ever id" is now being sent out to the sightless thousands of America through the benevolent provision of Mrs.

"William Ziegler, of Hus borough, who has donated the funds for (lie enterprise. It is estimated thut the cost to tbe widow of the millionaire bn king powder man will be between and $70,000 a year, PageR of the new magazine furnished The Citizen tor reproduction show the magazine to he about 12 by 13 inches in 'ize. The number of pages will vary from month to month, tlie first number containing about fifty sheets. Compared with other magazines itis bulky and each one will weigh about one pound. The articles will be of ail sorts, stories, news, achievements of tbe blind, poetry, a sheet of popular music and some instructive articles.

The qioritl one will be high, although it will not be religious in any way. Waiter G. Holmes, who is tlie edp has i aught the spirit of Mrs. Zeigli benevolence, and is very enthusiastic over tlie enterprise. Air.

Holmes said: 5 The new magazine which Mrs. Zierler lias founded is now off the press. The first number is going to about 6,000 blind readers among tlie general public. This figure does not include 4,500 stndeuts now in schools for the blind, a) sufficient number of copies will be sent! to the schools for these, and we will coDtinne to send tlie magazine to the students at their homes during vacation, through Mrs. Zeigner's kindness.

This first number of ours is the largest edition of anything ever printed for the blind. i We are using great care In the character of matter we print. For instance, many beautiful songs and poems would he out of place for onr readers. Allusion to moonbeams, starlights, rainbows and clouds we cannot print, as they serve to emphasize to the readers the sense of their affliction. The first number of the magazine eon-tains.

beside minor contributions and maps, the following: 1 President Roosevelts letter to Mr. Zeigler. Helen Kellers letter to Mrs. Zeigler. First installment of Mrs.

Wiggg of th Cabbage Patch, which will run aa a serial. The Espcrante Hymn of Peace. Ella Wheeler Wilcoxs poem, This. Too, Shall Pass Away. Comments on Current News.

WATCHING THE YOUNG. i A Brooklyn corporation which employ a large number of young men In professional and clerical capacities hag a de tective, whose duties for the most part consist in investigating the habits, character and manner of living of the office employees. Many of the yonng men who enter the offices directly after finishing their duties at a university are snprlsed at hearing from friends that inquiries are being made about their college life. Although the detective ia clever more than one of the corporations office force ha become aware that sone one is on their trail, at their hoarding honses or even in tlie neighborhood of their homes, if they are native Brooklynites. This system of espionage, as explained by an officer of the corporation, is for the purpose of keeping tabs on all the young men, so that in case promotions are in order to more responsible positions there will be no likelihood of any one getting a responsible position whose way of life may be such as to put a strain upon his business integrity.

All forms of gambling, playing the races especially, drinking and late hours in bad company are qnder the ban, as is also the nonpayment of bills. way, to which will be joined th Fourth avenne and other routes will approach the Manhattan Bridge throngh the new latbush avenne extension approach Controller Met therefore says: With your open cellars of the building to be demolished, you have your subway half excavated. Build your subway before you improve the new street This argument has been presented to the Rapid Transit Commission, and tbit body without delay acted on the suggew tion. It instructed Its Committee OH Plans to get the work on this section of tlie Brooklyn end of the McDonald loop, snd the indications now are that the Flatbush avenne portion of tlie subway will be built before the bridge is finished. This will take time and will pre' citizens from trying a promened Ut new thoroughfare $avbdk'toi A jr HUMOR IN A MISSION Chinese Converted Midst Oriental Surroundings.

A BAPTIST SUCCESS1 Washington Avenue Church Work- i ers Have Fifty Celestials Among Their Most Faithful and i Untiring Followers. Located in a little bri building on Soulh Oxford street, near Fulton, is one of the many interesting institutions 'wliiili dot Brooklyn from I'ullon Ferrv hhitluinls. It is a quaiiil Baptist Chinese Mission, looking (Uiinusly out nt pln.e in the heart nt this l.ii-im-- district. Tlie mission is connected with the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, wliitli is located on the comer of Wash ingtou and Gates avenues. The entrance to the mission is sandwiched between the doorwajs of two small retail shops.

It is readied by nsi ending a well-worn flight of wooden stairs, wlinli in spi'e of their age are iu good repair and ns spotlessly clean a- a doorstep in Dordrecht. Oil the fiist floor is the room where the services are held and where tbe natives of the Flowery Kingdom inept to learn English and see tlm light I of. the Gospel. A motherly New England woman. Mrs.

Lee, who luugliinglv declared that her name was not of Chinese origin, was in charge of this room when a Citizen reporter visited the mission. The room is an example of the weirdly beautiful in Oriental decorative art. It was decorated entirely by the Chinese wifo attend the mission, and walking into it suggests a vision of the iuterior of a Mandarin's tea-room. Strung about the walls and ceding are festoons of crepe paper ingeniously scissored into designs of trellises with cherry-blossoms showing through the interstices. Over the piano is a long scarf, which is a conventioualired pattern of peacock feathers, and which was done by a Chinaman who now holds a position as a designer in one of the textile factories of Lowell, Mass.

Printed in golden Chinese characters on a rich red background are religious texts such as God is love and Thou God Seest Me. The two ladies in charge of the mission seemed to be mines of humor when it came to experiences which their pupils had related to them. One Chinaman, Coke Nye, is a laundryman on upper Fulton street, and when the mass meeting to protest against the subway obstruction was held he received a notice to attend. He went to the meeting aud said that when he came in a Meliean man say, Hello, what you merchant and I say Slioits. Another almond-eyed pupil was Li Fat.

His experience was with one of the Brooklyn gas companies. It was recently decided by the courts that the gas companies must refund the $10 deposit paid on meters after they have been installed two years. Li Fat signed his affidavit that he had had his meter two ytjars and collected the money due him. He did the same thing for his two cousiDS, signing their names to their respective affidavits. "When he told Mrs.

Boyd about it at the mission she said, You don't mean to say, Li, that you signed other peoples names to an affidavit, do you? Ll responded. That's all right; I no lie. I tell the gas man last week I am myself and yesterday I am my cousin. Hewwas unable to see anything wrong at all in this proceeding. At the conclusion of the visit Mrs.

Lee said: can say this much for the Chinamen. When you convert one there is no better Christian on earth or one more faithful to the church. They never mis a service and don't stay home to read the Sunday papers. They have already sent four misionaries back to China In the twenty-one years existence of the mission and they have built a church in China at Nomtung, three miles from Canton. They have also sent a pastor there this month to fill the pulpit.

They pay all tbe expenses of the mission except the rent, whicht is paid by the Baptist Extension After the services Sunday evening a supper is served which the scholars pay for. They also pay the expenses of the church at Nomtung and a chapel in connection with it. It is hard to find a set of fifty churchgoers who do as for their church fir the fifty pc hate TO CUT A WIDE SWATH IN BROOKLYNS HEART Work of Demolishing Buildings for Flatbush Ave. Extension Will Begin as Trees Again Take on Summer. Adornments-Metzs Subway Building Plan.

atteud bool, nobody so ambitious to 1 learn all that may be learned in the shortest possible time. This is so iu the member be kept to go into as bright asks the doesnt understand, forgets. school nre and Ka-zus among children because dislike of old. His in this and The and without accent with as he By his attention schoolmates, over the dubbed called wanted to and Cassius said clean steward has been "thirty The when conversing a consequence speak the nntive pretty as which American them the asked she, as that man of the that here country dreams of prone to provocation was days ago of the tbe brass Tbe accident The judgment the auto, of him. demolition were got out owning also taking Then he two vehicles ways.

consumed a Court running In or tbe to on the coast he is debarred from the public schools; hereb4a welcomed, or, nt the regarded with indifference. Wlmt ia quite material provoking aud, indeed, ominous to tlieeCaliforninns is immaterial, anf Undisturbing to us. Californias metcast upon Hawaii, is alive with The Japs, who are filling up the islands that lie between the Pm its- coast, aud. their native land, present nothing hut nienaep to the children of the Argonauts. Our eye doesnt carry so far, but spirit is more optimistic, our cosmopolitanism is broader, aud if the Future, ever pulsnting with possibilities unknown to the Present, should justify the fears of the fcoast as to a cheap labor invasion or dven an armed struggle, the East is not in an anticipatory mood nor in a horrow-trouble spirit.

It gives of whnt it has in opportunity to the decent of the whole world. Iu this spirit Brooklyn accepts Jap. Her schools are open to him on the same conditions which govern the admittance nnd teaching of the native born child of parents, white, red, yellow, brown, or black. With that silent persistency and subtle tenacity which distinguishes him, the if faking advantage of conditions here. He is rapidly building up a Japanese colony.

We have our Italian, Jewish, Syrian, Negro, and other colonies, but they are the growth of many years. The Jap colony, which is in Sands street, from Washington street to the Navy Yard is the creation of yesterday. Prior to the Spanish-American and the Russo-Jap wars there were very few Japanese in this borough. Once in tbe while one might be seen in a United States Navy uniform in Sands street, but to him, then, Brooklyn was only one of many ports visited by his ship. Now It is radically There are some hundreds of Japanese in Sands street and its neighborhood, and their number is constantly increasing.

They have opened many stores, dealing in teas, in Japanese delf, ih those light and airy nothings, characteristic of the nniqne art of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun. They have started boarding houses, restaurants, and, as chefs, or cooks. Or valets, have gained employment. In, the one capacity or the other, they are typically bland, peaceful, almost to meekness; farseeiug, wonderfully observant, astonishingly adaptable, emlnentlyv philosophical, in a material way; and, seemingly, almost sublimely, unconscious of tbe fact that they are of the blood of a nation that moves with silent, grim, inevitable determination toward the object of its ambition. What that ambition Is, in its relation to this country, is a question for time to develop and dlsclosti.

Of one thing America well may be assured, however, and that is that in the heart of the Jap there Is room only for ohe patriotism for 'love of one country Japan! Other countries do not even tnterest him. He studies them for whatever in government, commerce, i inventions, arms and ships, may be of nse to him or his country. Otherwise, his heart and his' hope, his pride find ambition, his very being, ia woven closely and securely in the warp and woof of his country. The Japanese colony here, and. where-tver in other lands it may be found, has always an acutely listeuing ear and a silent tongue.

NatiTTall.v quick to learn, the Jap literally absorbs knowledge. He may be found by the half dozen in Pult-lic Reboot No, 1 in Hudson avenue, He is In far greater number in the night schools, hut nhethrr in the one or tK- Candid. utwt reieg to a. other his teacher wilt 4e))fgo that tt, ptwt la ete, notrr'j it raiu case of Ilura kunitaro, who is a of a special class, where he will till he masters euough English the regular elusses. He is nn as sharp as a needle.

He metniing of every word be and once told he never Other eager Jap pupils in this Hannnh nnd Jennie Nnkayama Komateu. These three arc the brightest pupils. The other like tile three little "brownies of the docility, gentleness and horse-play, of the latter. Knzus Komateu is eight years fnrni'r has been only three years country. Their home is furnished conducted in flip American style.

child speaks English excellently even a suggestion of foreign He says that he does not bother the Japanese tongue now at all. wants to learn English thoroughly. and by, he said, he would devote to Japanese. His finding that they had stumbled pronounciatiou of Kazus, have him Cassius. The first time he was by that name he immediately know everything about its derivation history.

Now he has, as ho says, down oh, so fine! Lean, hungry chap, Cassius, Kazus. The Nakayamas live in an ideally flat. Their father is wardroom on the battleship Indiana. He iu the United States Navy for years. The mother is an American.

parents speak English only with their children. As Hannah and Jennie language as well as any bright child of their age. They are little pictures, aud their features, are, of course, a blending of and Japanese types, have in best characteristics of each. Are you a little Jap, Jennie? a friend of the family. I am an said proudly as did centuries ago, of Rome who awed the rest world when he exclaimed: I am a Roman citizen! Hannah says, Me, too!" so at least neither Brooklyn nor the at large need bo haunted any brown or yellow peril.

AN EVERYDAY INCIDENT. That city people are qnite ee atop and stare on the alighteet as are their country cousins, amply demonstrated a few when a wagon in tnrnipg in front Temple Bar Building, struck- headlight of an automobile. was of the simplest nature. driver had made an error in and turned too closely upon which was standing still in back The damage was simply the of the lamp. The -consequences of the quietest.

The chauffeur and noted the name of the concern the wagon, and its number, the name of the driver. went back to his place and the proceeded on their separate But in the minute or two crowd gathered which blacked street, prevented care from either direction on that thoroughfare, on Joralemon street, and required attention of eeveal police nieu. zsoxrm -AITEjai CA. described area are to be torn down to a level two feet below the existing curb, and structures which may exNt within any of the buildings, such as engine betk, boiler settings, all stoops aud area walls, shall be torn down to the same lercL Ail partitions, sheds and fences shall be removed from the premises. All brick laid itt mortar, nil floor beams, joists, woodwork of ev err description, and all gas.

water, steam and soil piping. shall be removed from the premises. All combustible matter, such as tar aud felt roofing, broken laths aud fragments of timber, chips, splinters, which are of no value, shall be gathered together by the contractor and burned or carried away. It was the original intention of the Controller to turn the new thoroughfare over to Borough President Coler as soon as tbe buildings were demolished to hare it improved, graded, paved and made generally respectable. That work was to be done during the coming summer, so that by next fall the approach to the new Manhattan Bridge might be ready and waiting.

An idea recently struck Mr. Metz, however, which, if carried out aa he shall insist, will probably delay ths making of a sure-enough street for perhaps two years. Controller Metzs idea Is to plant the new Brooklyn subway in the Flatbush avenue extension before all the old cellars are Ailed in, thereby saving time and money. The Manhattan Bridge should be completed and ready for nse by the public by Dec. 15, 1909, nearly three years hence, according to the terms of the super-structure contract.

One of the chief uses to which the structure will be pnt is the carrying of future subway cars across the East River. Tlie so-called McDonald subway loop project contemplates on tlie Brooklyn side a subway from the Williamsburg Bridge to the Manhattan Bridge, snd tbe route ill be through La- In less than a fortnight contractors and their workmen will be cutting a wide swath through a section of Brooklyn which is now and has been for years one of its sections of thick population. There will be, when the job is done, a new thoroughfare for Brooklyn, or rather a new extension of an old thoroughfare Flatbush avenue. For three-quarters of a mile a 12t-foot avenue will be ent through tile old honev that lie in ths hue of Flatbush aveuue, from the junction of Flatbush aveuue and Fulton street to Nassau street, between Bridge and Jay streets. The latter point is where the new Manhattan bridge will finally strike Brooklyn from its span over the East River.

The Flatbush avenue extension or approach to Bridge No. 3 has been planned by the city and talked of by citizens for upwards of half a dozen year, and the citys draft damage map on file in the office of the Collector of City Revenue of the Department of Finance bears the date of October 14, 1904. But at lest the tortuous rents of acquiring property and laying official plans has been traveled, and the city is ready to say: Tear down everything that atands in the way." One week from to-morrow, March 11, at 11 oclock in the forenoon, all the buildings standing on ground owned by the city will be sold under the hammer to the highest bidders. The buyers will then go to work to raze each and every building sold and cart the remains away. They will have sixty days to dotheir work of destruction, snd by May 10 ail that should he left in the wide ditch between houses and bare walls of rooms should be open cells ra and heaps of bricks, dust and mortar.

Controller Meta has been advertising the sale for weeks. That there will be a complete job made of it is indicated in the thns explicit official notice All the hitiklitig. structures and parts thereof, their fixtures and foundation 41 rv f' -x 0 i rtrt'n fit Cfi..