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My“ YORIx LETTER.
, Special Correspondence. '
II. Walter Webb, the lucky third
vice-president of the New York Cen-
tral road is the latest Victim to over-
work. Why did he ov:r\‘.'crk‘.’ Ilie was
greatly envied. He had a “soft snap,”
which a. million men would have
grasped eagerly and' held on to fill the
last trump. ' His'sa‘lary was large. his
time practically his own. his pleasures
many. It is astonishing how many
men break down nowadays. and from
no assignable cause. In the old days
we in the country used to work twen-
ty-eight “hours out of twenty-four, so
to speak and live to be a hundred,
but now We labor eight hours a day
and break down at fifty, or earlier.
The luckiest'men in New York are
the Webbs—General Alexander S.,
president of the College of the C‘Zty of
New York; Dr. William Seward, hus-
band of Lila. Osgood Vanderbilt, presi-
dent of the Wagner Palace Car Con -
pany; vice-president of the Findlay,
Fort Wayne and Western Railway un-
der Jack Astor; owner of Shelburne
Farms, Vt.; member of the Vermont
Legislature, with United States Sena-
torial prospects; owner of Ne-ha-sa-ne
Park in the Adirondacks, a preserve
of 1,000,000 acres; proprietor of private
observation, engines and private cars;
and H. Walter, who started in life on
an eighth and quarter commission in
Wall Street, was banged into the vice-
presidency of the Wagner Palace Car
Company by brother Seward; made
the acquaintance of Cornelius Vander-
bilt, the next natural step, and became
assistant to Chauncey M. Depew, pres-
ident of the N. Y. C. and 'H. R. R.
00.; owns magnificent estates in the
Adirondacks with brother Seward; is
vice—president of the Dunkirk, Alle-
gheny Valley and Pittsburg Railroad;
t'hird vice-president of the Rome, Wa. .
tertown and Ogdensburg Railroad; l
president of the Troy Union Railroad, '
and heaven knows what else.
Even the father of the present-day I
Web-bs, General James Watson Webb, i
was a considerable man of affairs and '
a journalist of note. He it was who
made the New York World possible by .
handing down to posterity tihe Courier
and Enquirer. I doubt if we should
forgive him this offense. President
Zachary Taylor‘ appointed him Min-
ister to Austria, and Lincoln sent him
as Minister to Turkey and Brazil. So
constant luck has attended the Webbs
from the earliest times to the present
day, that I wouldn’t mind being Webb-
footed myself.
Preachers in the Market.
Three New York preachers have been
known to take flyers in the security,
grain and cotton markets from time to
time. Others have been suspected.
In the Street are several ex-preachers,
some members of the Stock Exchange,
some of the Consolidated. l
Henry Ward Beecher was not above
taking a chance now and then in Wall
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ey out of his. books, and invested it all
in the. market. I don'tiknow whose
tip he took, but it is a shrewd guess
that “Deacon? White had something
to do with' it.
have “put” the old man on.’f‘
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rate, every cent was lost, ahd‘Beecher'.
quit the game. .
I heard Beecher tell the story on
himself. .
books—“Eyes and Ears,” “Norwood,’.’
“A Summer Parish” and “Earlier
Scenes”-—amounted to about $10,000
net. Being a trifle hard up at the time
he attempted to increase his fortune
by a. sudden stroke, instead of invest-
ing it at 7 per cent. Some went into
gold mines, the rest in margins. “If
a man has a good business and invests
in stocks," he said, “or is tempted to
put his money in a gold mine, he is
greedy. I know -i-t——I have tried it a
little. All I wanted to make was 25
per cent."
An Old Advertiser’s Advice.
In New York a few days ago the res-
ident partner in that city of the Wana-
maker firm delivered an address before
the Merchants’ Association on “Ad-
vertising as a B-usines Force.” The
speaker based his remarks on a
long experience in extensive and suc—
cessful newspaper advertising. He
began by saying that a retail business
may be divided into three parts: the
goods to be sold, the persons employ-3.1
to sell them and the advertising. \Vhile
the three were considered of equal in:—
portance the advertising was called
“the dynamic power of the business,"
setting it in motion and increasing its
volume. One point brought out is
that the relative importance of adver-
tising .is not taken seriously enough,
that is, not regarded as one of the es-
sentials. The speaker would no more
think of running a. business without
advertising than of owning machin-
ery without a. motive power.
Money, it was admitted, can be
wasted in advertising. The advertiser
may underra-te its value and, indeed,
give but slight study to its principles,
and be soon discouraged. “The most
successful advertising I have ever
known,” said this expert, "is that
which has been exploited on a. very
large scale. The man who has had the
courage to advertise to a. certain ex-
tent and spend $20,000, should have had
the courage to spend another 85,000 and
vitalize all the rest.” In these cases
there is a. lack of the needful faith and
persistence. Advertising was present-
ed as a. necessity of the retail business,
its pulse, movement and circulation.
The newspaper column is the mer-
ch-ants’ rostrum. In using it to address
the public his statements must be veri-
table. Advertisements must be well
expressed, and the illustrations of a
good grade. It has been the Wanama-
ker policy to advertise in a terse, direct
style, though freely as to space, and to
use a typography which newspaper
readers soon recognize as distinctive.
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SPORT-8’ PARADISE. :
CANADA’S GR’E'AT ”AREAS ‘OF VIRGIN
FORESTS FILLED WITH GAME.
Streams Full of Trout—Almost a Million
Square Mile: of \fooded Land Open to
the Sportsman—Which Can be Easily
Reached. .
On .every hand one hears the ques-
tion propounded, “Where can good
hunting and fishing still be obtained?"
In some instances the idea of time or
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but in the majority of cases it is. An-
other question is sure also to be asked:
“Where can one go to find restful soli-
tude and unlimited sport? Surely not
to any places within reasonable dis-
tance in the States."
But a very few years ago how readily
the anSWer would have come: “Seek
the Adirondacks.” To-day one would
rather say “Avoid them.” Why? Sim-
ply because they have become too civ-
ilized. So it is that as readily as we
formerly said the Adirondacks we now
say Canada. ' '
A. P. Low, of the government Geo-
logical Survey, one of Canada’s great—
est explorers, has made some extensive
journeys, and has discovered an im~
mense region full’of wonderful things.
He started about the middle of last
June to complete his explorations in
the territory east of Hudson Bay. This
expedition covers the ground from the
head waters of the East Main River
through Labrador to the Atlantic coast
at the mouth of the Hamil-ton River.
Mr. Low’s previous trip was made into
Labrador, lasting two years, and he
returned in the summer of 1894.
According to the latest explorations,
the forest possessions of Canada are as
follows, divided into areas;— '
First, commencing at the northwest
! border of the Dominion, is a. tract be-
tween 9,000 and 10,000 square miles in
extent. This approximates Belgium in
size, and lies betWeen Alaska. and the
Arctic coast. The next area comprises
about 30,000 square miles, lyling west of
the Yukon River, also bordered by
Alaska on the west. The third area,
nearly as large as Scot-land, comprises
about 27,000 or 28,000 square miles, and
is bordered by the Stique, Pelly and
Lewes rivers. The next in order is one
of the largest areas. This comprises
fully 100,000 square miles. It lies be-
tween the Pelly and Mackenzie rivers
and Iis twice the size of England.
Reaching into this territory for sev—
eral hundred miles is the northern end
of the Rocky Mountains.
The next area is about half the size
of the one just mentioned—50,000 square
miles. This lies between the Arctic
coast and Great Bear Lake. The fifth
area is between Great Bear Lake, the
Mackenzie River and Great Slave
Lake. It is 35,000 square miles in ex-
tent and about equals Portugal. Be-
tween the Skeena and Peace rivers, on
the south, and the Lair and Stique. on
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and 8;,00“: square miles. Thirty—five
thousand square miles are comprised
in the next area, lying southeast of
Athabaska ‘Lake. The next‘ area is
about half the size of Smrtzerland, or
8,000 square miles. This lies between
Coppermine River and Bathurst Inlet.
East of this is an area fully equal to
Ireland in size—abbut 32,000 or 33,000
square miles. , I
. The second largest of the areas is
one bounded by Great Slave Lake,
Backs River, Athabaska Lake, Rein-
deer and Hatchet lakes,
River and the west coast of Hudson
Bay. This comprises nearly 180,000
square miles, and is much larger than
Great Britain and Ireland. The great—
est agd last of the areas is the most
easterly one, which comprises practi-
cally all Labrador peninsular. About
290,000 square miles in extent, it would
more than equal twice the area of
Great Britain and Ireland, with New
Foundland added.
It is difficult to get a proper appreci-
ation of such immense areas. Yet the
territory is there, just as described—
underestimated, too, rather than over—
estimated. Probably -it will never be
completely explored.- Here is where
the hardy sportsman, with ample time
and money at his command, can find
an inexhaustible supply of fish game
and enjoyment.
But here the great majority will ask,
"Of What service is all this to us? It
is beyond our reach for many reasons."
The answer can be readily given.
There is very nearly as good territory
for sport lying at a distance of about
150 miles north of the St. Lawrence
River as that just. described. This is
the extreme southern border of the i-m- ‘
mense Canadian wilderness, and one
need penetrate but a short distance to
find ground that he is absolutely the
first white man to visit. This can be
done at very mode-rate expenditure
of time and money. The means of ac-
cess are very good as several railroads
run near it. In fact, about twenty-
four to thirty hours from New York
or New England starting points is all
the time necessary to reach this spOrts-
man’s Mecca.
Book \Vurmn.
These curious little marauders, who
inhabit old, unused books, are attract-
ed by the paste in the binding, which
is made of a dark brown wheat flour.
Here these crawling nuisances find a
rich pasture, but they show an appar-
ent choice for colors, having a. decided
preference for dark-colored paper,
while light yellow paper almost always
escapes. The yellow paper is probably
colored with chrcm‘ate of lead. One
of the papers that always eScaped is
light green—arsenicai paper. So it ap-
pears t‘hat these insects may be tri-
umphed over by careful selection of
the paper used in books—Golden Days.
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NEW YORK- WOMEN’S CLUBS.
Sorosis Always Stand. First in the Lieu
Dating from 1868. ‘
'That this is a women’s century:
seems in nothing to .be so strongly em-j
phasized as in the women's clubs.i
They show more clearly than anything:
else the wide diversity of women’s in—‘
terests, interests which it is felt need
the help of organization to bring them'
to fruition. They cover, too, a. start-‘
lingly wide range. There are political
clubs, suffrage clubs, clubs for women
of the stage, and women who writefl
study clubs of various kinds, clubs for;
the study of children, art clubs, phii-i
anthropic and literary organizations“i
and almost everything, even to one off
the very latest organization of women,
the Women’s Klondike Expedition
Syndicate. . _‘ “ i
JENNIE JUNE CROLY. .
There is some earnest thought or
purpose at the foot of all these bodies
of women, and there are perhaps only,
two interests which women might pro-f
mote that are not generally represent-g
ed and these are domestic and social.
interests. There may be reason for
this. _ Women feel that their domes-j
tic interests are always present with
them and that they can best develop
them along their own individual lines
of experience, and as a. woman’s soci-
ety life goes along hand in hand with
all her other interests and the presence
of men are necessary, clubs of a do-
mestic nature have recently become
more numerous. -
In speaking of women’s clubs Sorosis
is always the first on the list. Sorosis
is called the mother of women's clubs,
though occasionally a club is heard
from which disputes her right to sen-
iority.
Sorosis dates its birthday back to
1868. There were a number of bright
women who held occasional meetings
in the parlors of the charming sisters,
Alice and Phoebe Cary. There were
Jennie June (Mrs. Croiy), the pioneer
newspaper woman; Fanny Fern, Kate
Field,
Celia Burleigh. There were , twelve
women in all who decided to form an
organization and became the charter
members in that new and strange
thing, a woman’s club. The Blue-
Stocking Club they proposed to call
themselves, at first, but thought bet-
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taken by unnumbered godchildren all
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Mrs. Jennie June Croly has been
called as Sorosis as a body is, the
mother of women's club‘s. Mrs. Croly
succeeded Alice Cary to the presidency
of Sorosis, and has been an active
worker in the organization ever since. .
At the meeting of the State Federation
of Clubs in Brooklyn two years ago she
was made honorary presidents
.Mrs. Croly is also the presidentand
was one of the founders of the New
York Woman’s Press Club, another
prominent woman's organization,
which has a large membership of pro-
fessional and semi-professional wom-
en with regular literary and social
meetings. As a penwoman Mrs. Croly
is well known. She has been writing
now for over forty years and her edi-
torial, journalistic, magazine, and
other work has been prolific.
INGENIOUS SOUNDING APPARATUS.
A Method by “'hich a River Bed “'83
Leveled.
Rapid-test soundings were required
in some work on a railway line be-
tween Paris and Havre, where the
cast-iron viaduct of Bezons was re-
placed by an arch bridge alongside.
The old foundations for six channel
piers were removed to the bottom of
the river. It was required that the
river bed should be carefully leveled.
After it had been dredged the bottom
was explored by means of a. horizontal
bar of iron about twenty feet long,
which was suspended at each end from
a framework uniting two flat boats in
catamaran fashion. This beam was
lowered close to the bottom and the
boats were gradually moved along in
the direction transverse to the length
of the bar. When the scraper encoun-
tered no irregularity, the suspending
chains hung vertically, butas soon as
either end was deflected by contact
with any obstruction an electric cur-
cuit was closed, which caused an alarm
to be rung. The boat was stopped.
and the obstruction located by means
of sounding poles. In this way. small
stones, down to a diameter of four
inches, were easily located, and the bed
of the river was leveled .to within that
amount of irregularity. This method
proved rapid and successful.—-Savan-
nah News.
Left Behind.
"I have a good mind to renew my ef<
torts to annoy people who publish car-
toons!” exclaimed the ambitious legis-
lator.
“What's the trouble now?" inquired
his colleague.
“They’re showing partiality. It has
been at. least two weeks since any of
them have promulgated my portrait."
—-VVashington Star.
He who is intimate on short acquain-
tance is liable to make people short
on an intimate acquaintance.—Boston
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