HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-04-06, Page 3IDLE MEN IN NEW
Between 75,000 sand 100,000 destitue
and idle men are to -day dependent upon
the charity of the city of Now York.
This estimate is based upon the ree.ords
and statements of those wlio are han-
dling tluse men.
Thousands of them who no longer have
the few pennies for a ba in the Bowery
shelters to besieging the Municipal
Lodging House in First avenue, The hos
-
vitals are filling Up with them. Hun-
dreds, self -corms -lifted, have been sent to
litackweirs loland, anil thoueands more
ore still walking the streets in search of
employment,
It is a larger army of unemployed
than has ever perhaps assembled in the
city before, bot its.presence here is Re-
counted for in a simple way by those
who hav studied the conditions. n is
merely the result Of the supply of labor
exceeding the demand in this particular
spot—in New York city—that has
brought about the distressing condition.
New York's gigantic enterprises in trans-
portation improvements and other lines
, lured 'here more men than were required
to do the work. A severe winter has
overtaken them without funds or friends,
and they are hungry.
Theydo not belong with the class of
professional "unemploked," who go
through life with a hard luck story. New
York city, like every other great city, is
never without its quota of that descrip-
e tion.
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But most of this great army of unem-
ployed in New York at present, say those
who have studied them, have • made a
heroic effort to obtain employment and
are here only because they have not the
means to go elsewhere.
Within the last thirty days hundreds
have been sent out of the city to good
places, and the efforts of those engaged
in this work of relief have brought out
the interesting fact that the demand for
men in other sections of the country
more than offsets the oversupply in the
labor market here. So hard pressed are
the farmers in many localities for help
that they are sending money and rail-
road tickets to New York to pay the
transportation of the idle men here. They
are willing to trust to luck and the good
judgment of those in the city missions
and labor bureaus who select the men
for these places.
soo,000 Families Hungry.
Distinct from this phase of New York's
problems is another which is forcing it-
self to the attention of many of the
Aar. wealthy citizens and the city officials.
7 It is stated that in addition to the large
number of transient unemployed there
are one hundred thousand families in the
city on the very verge of destitution. A
movement is on foot to perfect a plan
through the co-operation of combined
charities and the city government to
transplant these families on the aban-
doned farms and into the sparsely pepu-
lately sections, where, it is contended,
they will become self-supporting.
Each year poverty continues to bank
up in New York city, while the country
is b'eaoming all the time more thinly
populated. During the coming year it is
announced that a larger number of Euro-
pean immigrants than ever before will
be landed on Ellis island, and it is ar-
gued that something must speedily be
done to ch'eck the rapid increase of pov-
erty in New York.
.Any night when the long lines of hun-
gry and thinly clad men afh, ranged
along the walls of the Municipal Lodg-
ing House at First avenue and Twenty-
third street, one may get a good idea
of New York's horde of unemployed.
Since the place was opened, in Decem-
ber, 1896, never has such a legion of
destitute men appeared at its doors.
In January all records of the place were
h broken. During that month 8,467 men
j*--- were sheltered and fed, mid they were
not of the professional beggar class.
'The large majority of these men,"
said William C. York, superintendent of
the place "aro the most respectable, de-
serving class of men I 'have ever seen
applyang for charitable aid. Accustomed
as I am to dealing with the hard luck
side of life, the condition of these poor
fellows gives me the blues all the time.
They are men that any humane person
feels like helping."
The Municipal Lodging House has
beds for 300 men. Ahnost every night
since the cold weather began it has ben
filled. Down in Twenty,sixtb street,
near the East River, it has an annex
'where 250 more be acommodated. This
annex consists of two rooms, but there
are no beds there, only bare benches
and warmth enough to keep the inen
from freezing.
On cold nights when the lodging
house proper is filled the overflow is
sent to the annex. and there all through
the night this crowd of men be seen,
oftentimes so thickly horded in the
email Space that they cannot move
about, muttering, cursing and sleepless-
ly awaiting the 'dawn of another day
certain to bring its added torture of
huger and distress. This is .the sort of
life that seventy-five thousand men
are dragging out between Broadway
and the East River this winter.
Warned to Stay Away.
Ordinarly a man does not return a
second time to the Municipal Lodging
House. Each is warned not to do so, If
he goes back more than three times the
penalty is three months on Blackwell's
Island. Cruel as it may seem, the man-
agere of the institution say it is the
only method by which the greatest good
to the greatest, number, can be ob-
tained. Each morning three police pa -
trot wagons are backed up in front of
the place, and into them are leaded a
score of men who have returned for
the third thnis for a free night's lodg-
ing, anti who hove beeih unable :to
give any satisfactory city reference.
This is the only charge against these
Men except that they have tried to get
employment in New York city and have
failed. In the oyes of the law they are
*event% They have no visible mectini
of support, and so they ride to the po-
lice court, where the magistrate con -
'lets them of vagraney and they are
tent to the Wand. They go without
protest or complaint. They have ex.
hanstecl every resource known to them
for an honest livelihood, and there is
nothing left for them to do,
"It le n, hiltd thing to see thent
trundled away to prison," said Mr.
York, "As maty of them are only a few
weeke or monthsremoved from good
homes in the country -sone can tell
that by their language and manners --
but what is to be done? Their re.
sources are gone, their spirit is broken,
they cannot get away from the city
that has lured them, and we must
chooee between sending them to the
workhouse while airy ere able to go
and turning them into the street agnin,
500n to land in the hospftels half dead
Pool hung& and expoettre. It is eheitp-
et' for the city to send them to the
'Worklurrise."
Mr. Yerk said that a Very large her -
tentage of these mon are sl f committed.
They veitlize that a few days more mutit
brbig ti Pin to the Implied or the niOrgOi
y, • trieperaovpiadeTtya olofdigeigririeolliesiet woluteh, double
' - At No. 5 Bowery„ beneath the vaulted
ceilings of what was fifty ycers ago the
most fashionable cafe in 'slew York, en,
and they take shelter of the prison as , other eletecliment of the city's army of
the only thing left to them. Accustoill- unemployed nightly assembles. It is now
ed to earning their living, as most of • the Bowery Mission. in 0210 end of the
theiu are, they are not export at beg- place of a pipe organ. The floor is of
ging, and when their last aline has been marble and, rude beneltee occupied by
paid to the cheap Bowery lodging houses hungry men baq supplanted the tables
and the city's lodging house has provid- where Amerlea'e notables dined at ten
ed them with its prescribed three Motif; dollars a plate half it century back,
hospitality the only available refuge fie great was the demand of unem-
then is a cell on Randall's Island. ployed men early in the winter, that a
At the Municipal Lodging House, ne free labor bureau was opened in conitee-
elsewhere, many requests for able-bodied tion with the mission on January 1, and
men aro received from farmers and oat. since then it has been doing a rushing
ers outside of New York, hut the city business night and day. Announcements
of New York provides no funds for the of the bureau are made from the plat -
transportation of its stranded mon. -It form at melt uight's services, and the
cail only offer them three nights in the registration books are open from two to
four in the afternon, and from half -past
lodging house and three months on the
island; Unless a man can show that he nine until midnight,
Scofee of men are being sent to places
has been in the city sixty days be is of employment throughout the country
not a legal resident, and the city is un- every day and in most cases the mil-
der scanty obligations t6 hint at best. ployer sends money fin the ttanspotta-
However, withM the last two months tion of the nutu During the first Hurt
Mr. York has procured places for scores ' 7
of men by sending them to employers days the mission sent 110 men into the
country. That was beforh the work had,.
svhe need help so badly that they aro been advertised' Now applications are '
willing to forward money or railroad i
coming n faster than the clerical force
tickets, relying upon geed luck, and Afr, can attend to them When a reporter
York's good judginent in sending desir- visited the mission 'one day last week
able men. Reports in all these cases the secretaries were all busy and men
are required, and thus far every man were being sent away at the rate of
sent out has proved satisfactory to his about one ev'ery thirty minutes.
employer.
More Men Apply,.
Last year, at an expenditure of
$24,000, the Municipal lodging house
sheltered and fed seventy thousand per-
sons, the largenumber of these being
men. This year the figures will be much
larger. There are no more women ap-
plying for shelter, but many more men.
Usually the only women who apply there
are those who have been suddenly eject-
ed from their homes or deserted by their
supporters in an lour of distress. The
men are almost- without exception wits,re
earners out of work. One of the great
needs of the place, particularly during
the cold weather'is clothing.
This the city does not provide, and
each morning after the scanty breakfast
of coffee and bread men are sent out
from there to begin another day's search
for work, without stockings, shirts or
underclothing. The superintendent made
a strong appeal for cast-off clothing of
any description. He said this was espe-
cially needed for the many destitute men
recently discharged from the hospitals,
Who were sent for their first night's
shelter to the lodging house.
"That you may get an idea of the
class of Men who are coming here this
wtnter," said Mr. York, "I want to re-
late a little circumstance of the other
night. On the day of the recent Wiz-
zard, January 25, in fact, a message
came down here from Bellevue Hospital
asking if we could send up twelve men
to clear the walksand grounds of snow.
At seven o'clock there was a line of al -
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and value, but *04 insist on getting
AS it saves worry and enures satisfaction.
Mixed or Natural Green.
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Packets, HIGHEST AWARD ST. LOUIS, 1904.
that time she has taught classes in con-
structive philosophy in New York, halls
ing as her petrons and pupils such fam-
ilies as those of the Vanclerbilts, II. II.
Rogers, Samuel Untermyer and scores
of the wealthiest people in New York.
"I have taught days and studied
nights," he said, "always striving to lay
the foundation for this great work,
which, I believe, is now soon to begin.
Our wealthiest, most intelligent citizens
who have come to know the facts realize
that we are face to face with a very :seri-
ous problem in this city, and, distress-
ing and unpleasant as it may be to some,
we must meet it soon. The solution of
"We have sent aut forty menalready the problem is not rosy, but it is p0581 -
to -day," said J. T. Hunt, one of the see- ble.
,rotaries, "and there are 111110 now ready 1 Many in Need.
to go out on trains to -night. So far we "There are 100,000 families in this city
are sending most oi the men to States on tile brink of destitution, They are
adjacent to NeW York, but we have 350 not of the mendicant class. They are of
applications' ahead of us and some of a class peculiar to America, I might say
these are from Florida, other Southern' peculiar to New York city. They have
States and the West. Farmers every- I pride, they have energy, but while their
where are begging for men. Dairy farm- earning eapaeity bas been narrowing
ers within two hours' walk of the city I their hying expenses have increased, and
are willing to pay big wages for good the awful truth has come -to them that
men. they are drifting into pauperism. Their
"I have many letters here from farm- courage is going—will soon be lost. It
ers who tell me that last fall, while, is not as moral but a physiological condi-
they were offering $2.50 and $3 a day Mon. •
for m'en their crops were lost because i "The causes for it all are ample when
they could not get help to harvest them. one knows them. There is one remedy:
There is a sufficient demand for men Get these people out into the country. If
within a day's ride of this city to take we do not do this conditions in New
'Sark will soon be terrible. Each year
the world's poor are banking up in New
York. rhe countries of Europe have
saVe time these blanks are now being stopped sending us their best or their
sent out to employers throughout the medium population; they are sending to '
country: us shiploads of the wretched people they
FREE LABOR BUREAU. do not want at home. All this adds to
the distress in New York.
"Now, how are we to get these poor
THE BOWERY MISSION. families out? As tenants, as individual
55 Bowery, New York Cityworkers, as communities, send them to
EMPLOYER'S APPLICATION FOR the thousands of abandoned farms in the
HELP. east and south and to the hundreds of
thousands of farmers and other employ -
Name ...... ..... ers who are crying for help. Excepting
Address ....... .. .
Town the one item of cotton, the agricultural
Coun ty
production of this country has not in -
Nearest railroad station creased in ten years. Meantime note the
Nearest postoffice . . . increased population, and particularly
Route by which help must proceed the enormous increase in New York
most two hundred men standing outside city. Take one section of the country
in the street waiting for our doors to . ....... ' ' " " • • • • • " ' • • as an example—the Central South.
ature of help d i
requre
open. I went out and told the men I "Last year along the lines of the Mo -
wanted twelve to shovel snow, but that ......... " • " • " " "' " bile and Ohio and the Southern railroads
there would be no pay in it except 18......... • • • • " • " "offered .
W .. • " ' • ..• • factories came into existence at the rate
e ages ...
•
extra night's lodging. When h lp is •required of two a day. They completely took
"I should think fifty volunteered. I
Married or singleaway the agricultural population. There
picked out twelve, and those men, with- was no immigration to these States. In
out gloves or overcoat, and some of Nationality preiettlea .... , Mississippi only seventy-one persons
Any further par iculars
them without stockings or underclothes, moved in from the outside; in Tennessee
worked there in the bitter cold from 8 ........ . .......... ' • ' • " ' " ' • ' • • only ninety. Everywhere 'through these
o'clock until one o'clock the next morn- References. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Southern States •generations of inter-
ing, when they were obliged to stop from ........ marriage has practically depopulated the
sheer exhaustion and freezing. I walla . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • country. There are untenanted farms
bignature...
not have endured that exposure for any by the thousands. They are capable of
J. G. Hollimond, superintendent of producing diversified crops and the cli-
money, and all these poor men received
the mission, says that in all his exper- mate is mild. At first there would be
or expeoted was a few extra night's
ience in the slums of great cities he prejudice in these localities against the
lodgings. They are willing to work
nearly all of them, but there is no work, has never seen 50011 a class of men aa immis,oration of New 1:ork city's unfor-
for them here in the eity, so they must those who crowd into the place every I tunates, but that could be overcome.
go to the prison or the hospital. night Ninety-five per cent. of thorn, be Past experience shows that it would be
"The profesional tramps and beggars says,, are honest men trying to find so.
do not come here. We know them, and work, and a large proportion are non- 1 "In 1903 the Industrial Removal Soci-
unless they are seeking commitment' to residents of New York city. The major- 1 ety of the Jewish Agricultural ancl Aid
the island they give this place it wide ity of them are under thirty. He tte- , Society sent 2,821 families out of New
berth. It is very pathetic to look over counts for their presence here in this:York, and 94 per cent. of them proved
the faces of the men here at night and way: self-sustaining, Of the unmarried men
to observe their scanty effects when "From the accounts of the vast amount sent out 87 per cent. proved the same.
their clothing is examined. Of course of work, to be done here in transporta- These persons were sent into the New
everything of' value has gone but al!' tion asul other improvements, Woung England States, Pennsylvania and New
most invariably we find photographs, men from the villages and farms in all Jersey, and in ninny cases they were met
letters land pewit tickets.
"The photographs are those of rela-
tives usually—wife, mother, sweetheart,
and often children—and the pawn tickets
are the wretched serial story that re-
lates how first the watch, then the
chain, then the overcoat, the pocket
knife and the last little trinket have
gone into the Bowery pawnshops as the
fight for an honest day's work has gone
on.. Recently we have sent itundreds of
men. to the snow shovelling contractors
and the railroad companies, and many
of these we never see again. Others
come back to us in a day or two with'
frozen hands and feet, and the next place
for them is the hospital or the island'
In the Lodging House.
every idle man out of it and put him
in a good plate."
In order to facilitate the work and
State
directions were drawn to this city. They
came with all the energy and determin-
ation that belongs to the young Ameri-
can, and they have made a desperate
fight. But when they reached New
York, they found there were twenty
men on the ground for every place,
and then began the long search for
something then for anything to do.
"Little by little their money and their
courage, departed. Then came hunger and
cold and sleepless nights. Some would
not go bank to the country and others
could not go back. At length they found
their way to the cheap lodging houses
and than here. We are doing all we can
for them."
Mr. Hollimond says there are 75,000
"Doors open at 7 p. m." is the notice and possibly 100,000 men of the class
on the outer doors 'of the City Lodging he describes homeless and idle in. New
House and never except in extreme cold York.
weather, is this rule departed from. The In the City of New York there are one
men enter on the south side of the build- hundred thousand families on the bor-
ing and the women on the north. It is der of the bread line. Only a fragile
an old, four -storey brick structure, not wall stands between them and utter
an attractive place, but it is clean. Fre- destitution. They are a class entirely
quently a line of shivering, half-starved distinct from the tranaient army of un -
men may be seen there extending 'a dis- employed who are filling the city lodg-
tance of a city block two hours before Mg .houses and the prisons. At present
they are allowed to go inside. At 7 they are distinct from the class of de -
o'clock they file in and are taken at pendent families enrolled on the books
once to the kitchen where they are given of the public charitable institutions.
all the hot coffee and bread they want. They have not yet applied, to these
"Give the starving Man coffee first institutions • for aid. With the little
and ethics afterward," is the rule laid pride and resolution- left they are still
down by Mr. York. Our menu is not ntinuin the fi ht against sup
erior
co g
very elaborate," he said, "only coffee and pones, g
bread, but of this each man may have •/
all be desires." Those who have given the matter
The men help themselves. They are most careful study say that the only
shown where the tin cups are and where method by which these families can be
the bread is, and when they have satis. saved from the fate of public charges
fled their hunger they return the cups to is to send them into the country, where
their places, Having been fed they asoindustrious workers are needed. They
marched back into the main room and are anxious to go, but as yet, no way
lined up about the wall. Then all who has been found whereby the starving
need the services of it physician are re: '111'P1os of Now York's population can
quested to step out of the line. After be transferred to localities svhere they
that the doctor looks over the others to would become self-supporting ,and pro -
discover 11 any may be biding marks of dilative members of society.
ham's Vegetable Compound must be a g 3• . p
Seize pieces, and the rooms were all much Them From Their Brides.
violence. Next each man is registered Ill ft small way this work has been un -
and his record taken. • dertaken, and with success, but SO rap- reme y o grea meri , o ierwise st
d f- t 't tl • • i is liniiieft only by the ability of the opor. iar.,(q. than thoge we have to.da
'q saw a Louis Quinze room tlYIC oth- .An alarm of fire was turned in couldWed-
After
not produce such marvellous re- ator to detect the spurious coins. When i
nesday night about half past eleven from
He gives Ids name, age, nationality idly has the distress of families increas- • • .
suns among sick a,nd ailing wome : ' tl in: el in is i or tin i tl c ins are
which was in perfect taste, There
and where last employed in the city. ed within the last few months that - o ; le i 1 e n op a 1 le 0
laid upon a table to faeilitate examine,- ,or slitY box 243 situated in Malate. The fire
• " Soon after my marriage my health be an I Hon, when they are dropped into a hop- ,1‘ as a
After that they are all taken to a great plans are made on a broad Scale to meet Dear Mrs. Pinkham :— pinno in it, a small grand, but vier.
di aping w hich made it deeorative, if it companies prepared as far as they had
thorough scrubbin.g and gets a shower organized charity have been appealed to, unable to sleep, and I became very nervous 1 duit down into the active mechanism,
appetite failed me ; I as I per, whence they slide through a con-
i eliests of drawers which were genuine Cruz company was in harness for the oe.
bathroom, where each man undergoes a the situation. City officials and every so &hum. my
'clid not improve it a aconaties. Two orders to make the Mil and S'anta
bath. The elothing of every ledger is and facts laid before them whieh start- and had shootthg pains through the abdomen ; where they are pushed into a row.
placed in a bniulle by itself, the owner led even those who have imagined and pelvic organs, vvith bearieg-down pities 1 When the last itein has in 1t foreed into T.ouis Qttinye epeeimens, a chaise longue eaSion should a second alarm be turned
being given a cheek,. which he phtees themselves in touch with every phase and IF:(_:.'ustae h 'It
2TTI ziru. nii,(,' ir(g). , itA place by a reciproeating push bar the
them perfeet pieces --furnished beauti. Chief Dingman and Assistant Chief
and four square seven le eliab•s—all of in.
about his neck. He is provided with a of New York's &liftable work. ' and more painful, and I beennie a bueden and
se y. T o ni h y i i...__ ea o e ruins are automatically tiansferred from
clean night robe and is given a elean bed. In a pleasant little office at No. 509 expense to my family instead of allele and 1 a Windier to the wrapper, while a new ft:11,V ahroom 20 lir 22 feet. There Was Moffett turned out in haste and hid.
During the night all of the wearing, ap- Viftli avenue a most interesting work in Veitsure, Lydia. N. Pinkham's Vegetable row is being brought into position. ..-. ' - ..
with vigorous Inhospitality, but they
saw a chance to live well and could not
be driven back to New York city.
"The Italian Immigration Protective
League has sent out 600 families within
the last year. The country wants these
people as citizens whom we must sup-
port as paupers. Texas has country
enough to take care of the population of
the world. Recently 140 Chambers of
Commerce in California banded togethir
and formed the California Protection
League for the express purpose of get -
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RECORD OF A GREAT MEDICINE
A Prominent Montreal Woman Tells
Row Lydia B. Pinkhara's Vegetable
Compound Completely Cured Her.
The great good Lydia E Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is doing among
the women of America, is attracting
the attention of many leading scien-
ists, and thinking people generally.
/Av. 67. ate tell e r
t et 1.1 10.1
The follosving letter is only one of
many thousands which are on file in
the Pinkham office, and go to prove
beyond question that Lydia E. Pink-
131aok,
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ting into their State mull citizens as
they want and to keep out such as they
do Dot want.
A few years' struggle with the extreme
conditions of New York city fits it man
or woman for making a successful fight
for life in a more favorable locality and
these poor sufferers in New York to -day
with very few exceptions would make
prosperous members of society if we
could only give theta the chance and de-
vise a method for looking after them
until they get a foothold."
Controller Grout has asked Miss Cro-
zier and her associates for a full report
covering their investigation and their
plans for relief as briefly outlined in
the above interview,
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was produced, weether in the form of
bright copper pennies or $1,000 gold cer-
tificates, it whuld seem like throwing the
gauntlet down to fate to object to count-
ing them. Yet there are times and con-
ditions when men long for a machine ca-
pable of counting their money for them.
Hence the electric motor coin counting
and wrapping machine.
The object of such a device is obviously
to facilitate the rapid and accurate
counting and bundling of coins of all de-
scriptions, from pennies to dollars, since
there are many lines of business which
necessitate the employment of a large
staff of clerks whose sole duty hereto-
fore has been the performance of this
laborious task.
The machine counts and. wraps coins
at the rate of seven ever second, or 420
IN THE NEW STYLE ROOMS,
This is the era of the empty room,
Fashion, which changes for modes of fur.
nishing as well as Ir everything elee,haf3
swung as far away as possible from the
overcrowded roam that were la style
a. few years ago.
One no longer stumbles over the so-
called "silver table" in the attempt to
get out of the way of the glass covered
miniature table., arta then falba over the
kidney dish which has been moved, out
to make 2'00111 for the Louis Quinze calk
net. One can now travel without dif-
ficulty through the fashioeahly furniah-
ed room which looks like a Sahara. in cora
parison with the chock-a-block' apart-
ments
of a decade ago.
"The new style is in accord with bet.
ter standards of taste," said. a deeor.
ator who admitted that the fashion Ind
changed greatly in this respect, "and I
believe that the day of the overcrowded
rooms has passed forever. eau remein,
ber some pears ago when the rage for
First Empire furniture began. Anybody
who has seen the rooms in French pal-
aces decorated in the style of that per-
iod, knows that only a few pieces of this
massive furniture were used in every
room.
"I can recall rooms of that kind in
New York, however, so crowded with
Empire pieces that they filled all the
available. space. Chairs, sofas, the
heavy, awkward tables and dishes were
piled about until the ormulu gave the
whole room a brassy look.
'Empire furniture is very much the
no sense of emptiness in this room, with*
ten years ago would have been so clog-
ged with furniture and bric-a.brac that
it would have been all but inmorsible to
get around it.
"The diminution in the number of tas
bles, cabinets and what not has of course
tenied to decrease the amount of bele-
a-brae, since there is no place left to put
the masses of it which. vvere used befnre
the present style of less furniture came
into existence. Consequently the amount
of it to be seen in New York helloes to-
day is smaller than ever before. We
have not yet got to the stage in which
only one piece is taken out at a time,
but we are nearer that Japanese custom
than ever before."—N. Y. Sun.
••••••••••,11 •
EXPERIMENTS WITH
FARM CROPS.
The Members of the Ontario Agricul-
tural and Experimental Union are pleas-
ed to state that for 1905 they are pre-
pared to distribute into every towpship
of Ontario material for experiments
with fodder crops, roots, grains, grasses,
clovers, and fertilizers. Upwards of
1,600 varieties of farm crops. have been
tested in the experimental department
rage just now, and very rare, cense- . of the Ontnrio Agricultural College,
quently costly, the hostesses in such -
huses seemed to proclaim 'Just see how Guelph, for at least five years in sums
-
much of it we have managed to get in- , sion. These consist of nearly all the
to one room.'
"The result of such crowding was of varieties,
some
es nor waieliveehr ahl ahvuenddreende new
"Tho
an entire toes of any beauty the ceedingly well in the carefully conducted
furniture possessed. it was impossible experiments at the College and are now'
to enjoy the outlines because half of the being distributed free of charge for co -
pieces were hidden. It was equally in- operative 'experiments throughout On -
possible to see the beauty in the color tario. sine following is the list of co -
of the wood, because that could not be operative experiments in agriculture for
detected in the huddling together of so 1905:
many pieces. No. Plots.
Experiments.
"The most successful F,mpire rooms I 1 Three varieties of oats 3
ever saw in New York were in a house 2 Two varieties of barley 2
Triiireoo vvaarriieettieess of f hulless barley2
spring wheat2
Two varieties of buckwheat2
Two varieties of field peas for
Northern Ontario
Emmer and spelt.......,
Two varieties of soy, soja, or Ja-
panese beans
Three varieties of husking corn.
Three vaiheties of mangolds
Two varieties of sugar beets for
Three varieties of Swedish tur-
nfelepdni.n.g. . .
Kohl Rabi and two varieties of
fall turnips
Parsnips and two varieties of car-
less than twenty feet broad. There were ' 3
three rooms on the entrance floor, open- 4
ing one into another, making an effect 5
not unlike an elongated Pullman car. 0
The hostess who wanted Empire furni-
ture was fortunate enough to fall into 7
the hands of a skilful decorator, and her 8
roonis were delightful and artistically
empty. 9
"One roomshelld two graceful sfas with 10
genuine ormolu ornaments and covers 11
in yellow silk, of the same color as the
wall draperies, and the curtains, Two 12
eheirs and two cabinets with uoors,
sparingly ornamented with real ormolu,
completed the furniture of this room.
"The middle room leading into the din-
ing room contained a high desk, a
heavy round table and four chairs. This
room was done also in yellow to increase
the sense of space and not have the sis-
ion disturbed by too Many tints in such
a comparatively small area. The dining
room had a hea,vy mahogany sofa and
twelve chairs . All the pieces were the
genuine First Empire and with two con-
soles gave the room just the formal stiff-
ness which was the essential feature of
this period.
"Now these rooms were sparsely fur-
nished for New York ten years ago, but
the woman who owned that house was
fortunate enough to have a good decor-
ator and to put her confidence in him.
As a result site Ile% er grew tired of Em-
pire furniture. When it went out of
style, her ronis were just as beautiful
as ever, because they had been done
with a sense of what real taste and the
periods of time require.
"Naturally, women with their houses
packed with Empire furniture until they
looked like auction rooms or junk shops
grew sick of this excessive supply and
got rid of the costly furniture if they
could afford to. No style is more dif-
ficult to adapt to so-called domestic use
of the present day than Empire furni-
ture. It is rather a degraded, pseudo -
classic fashion that must be used as all
classic styles are and allowed to retain
some of its remoteness and severity.
Trying to jumble a lot of Empire furri-
ture together to make it seem home -like
is a most futile task."
The decrease in the amount of furni-
ture used nowadays is in a measure due
to the artistic methods of decorators.
Rooms in first-class new houses for whiell
their owners pay large sums are now de-
corated more artistically than they used
to be. Formerly there was a stretch
of vacant wall, interrupted only by the
cornices, the base board and the doors.
This had to he covered with wall paper,
and then the object of the decorator
was to fill up that wall as inuch as pos-
sible with pictures, or else get the room
so full of furniture that the sense of , ple remedy in the home is therefore an
bareness was removed. ; absolute neccesity, and for this purpose
hs a measure, mueh furniture was lit" there is nothing else so good as Baby's
cessary in these big rooms, with their I Own Tablets. These Tablets promptly
lack of distinctive style. The differerce cure all stomach and bowel troubles,
to -day in the work of the decorators ex- I break up colds, allay fevers, destroy
plains the difference in the quantity of ,1 worms, aid teething, and make little
furniture needed. ones healthy and. cheerful. Guaranteed
Nowadays a (Inswing room will be doe- I to contain no opiate or poisonous sooth-
13
14
rots ...... .. • • • • • • . • I
15 Three varieties of fooder or silage
corn ...... 3
16 Three varieties of millet ..... 3
17 Three varieties of sorghum 3
18 Crass peas and two varieties of
vetches ...... 3
19 Two varieties of rape 2 '
20 Three varieties of clover 3
21 Sainfoin, Lucerne and Burnet3
22 Seven varieties of grasses
23 Three varieties of field beano3
24 Three varieties of sweet corn3
25 Fertilizers with corn 6
26 Fertilizers with Swedish turnips6
27 Growing potatoes on the level and
in hulls a
28 Two varieties of early, medium or
late potatoes ...... 2
20 Three grain mixtures for grain
production ...... 3
30 Planting corn in rows and in
squares ...... 2
The size of each plot in each of the
first twenty-six experiments and of No.
29 is to be two rods long by one rod
wide; in Nos. 27 and 28, one rod square;
and in No. 30, four rods square (one-
tenth of an acre).
Each person in Ontario who wishes to
join in the svork may choose any one of
the experiments for 1905, and apply for
the same. The miterial will be furnished
in the order in which the applications are
received until the supply bi exhausted.
It might be well for each applicant to
make a second choice, for fear the first
could. not be granted. All material will
be furnished entirely free of charge to
each applicant, and the produce of the
plots will, of course, become the property
of the person who conducts the experi-
ment. C. A. ZAVITZ,
Ontario Agric. College, Director,
2
2
2
3
2
3
3
3
IN THE NURSERY.
Every mother sheuld be able to treat
the minor ailments of her little ones.
Prompt action may prevent serious ill-
ness—perhaps save a child's life. A sim-
()rated, wilt
in Louis beize. fashion. slile 1 ing, stuff. Mrs. John N. Pringle, Forest
coins 'every minute, and does this contin- nails will be panelled, witl! moui.dings 1 Fans, Ont., says: "I think I can thank
uously as long as the motor Truhietscoaitit.1 abont the silk .or pietures. fhe ceilings '
i Baby's Own Tablets for my baby's life,
coins are fed into the hopper. - will be treated in the setae way. The t'f. ' He was badly constipated, but after
are wrapped compactly at the rate of feet of tins decoration is to furnish a giving hint the Tabtets he was relieved
front eight to twelve &males per min -
room very initch more. than, the. plan good when
at once. I also find them
ute, according to the size of the coins,
old wall paper ever did, There is, of he is at all restless, and feel I cannot
Since an expert is enabled to count and
ecturse, no need for the quantity of far- say too much in their favor," sold. by
wrap only fifty coins a minute manta
that used to be wanted, and fine all druggists or sent by mail at 25 cents
ally, it will be Wen that the inaelline will,'ll;
1 I • 1 .
it box by writino the Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Broe mile, Ont.
1 : 1.
A CRUEL JOKE.
1 • , .
to see that there are no plugged piecri,
'ohm in the rooms that were furnished
iron washers iThe thd lead silugs nt trixed ,sivha ' tine originally
with Louis Quinze or Louis Firemen Hoax Their Chief and Lure
do at least as much work as eight men. , • - •
'NI, hat furnishes the.se rooms proper -
It is true that each machine 'requires 1
whose work consists of Hts" dechrator told the Sun reporter,
an operator, a few fine specimens of the furniture
mere cursory examination of the coins, 1.1'1
- . .- ding farewell to their new nutde brides,
went tearing down calle Bagurehayan,
parch of tlte lodgers is thoroughly disin- this direction is going forward. There omponncl cured Inc within three months. As the mins reaeli the wrapper it roll
past the Luneta and down ealle Beni
feeted by extreme heat. At 5 o'clock. one finds a vast amount of information Soon after I began using it X felt a change of paper is fed by three driving rolls
in the morning all are nroused, given an concerning the condition of New York for thesbetter, end at thatime of my next inrieed aromul the bundle of milts. Ily a to the Malate district, with their gonga
eriod I noticed a great difference, and the ,,, ringing tts a warning to all to keep the
other ration -of breed owl coffee and, eity's poor, which represents years of Pain gradually diminished until I vas well, ' 1s0"'llg motion the istper is v. 11111 ,i
gangway clear. On they dashed forg,et-
are sent (Mt into the street. farn stronger and look batter thanId!fl lie. . around the isfins twice., ‚.'.l(( 11 it hi ent
After being warned not to return 'there, patient work in proeuring, There also
ful of home and love and beauty, Net -
are suriwising statistics nod facts show. fore I was married, ant there is grc.it rejoic- , off by II V-shaped knife. The itev.t and
ls-
,very day a corps of iner
spectors e big how keeilly other seetiona of the ing in the house over the wonders ;roue fl d. ' finishiug proeeaa is turning in the son's wateltword "duty" being their guid
pro -
sent out to 111V1 Stillitte the references eintittl7 ere in need of HIM MI 1110 W0l`. fettle worked." --Mrs, IL A. C. Letellier, 11)2 . pawl eflgt-s of the wrapper, avhich is ing stem They made a record run to the
given by the lodgers of the previous thy families now strage with desti- ; Cadieux Sb, Montreal, Quebee. ' dime by itteiThs of erinmers, ilra winghe. tseene o.na finding no blaze investigated
night. If these vete:oleos are found to tution on Alanhattanglin
The one It :Veal havo EmP,Ilressekor Painful. edges in opposite direetions, ona finally the box that had called them out. Upon
nel
menstroetain. weauness of the stonve undue 'out siteadhly paekage the box they found large card upon
be all right, the word "favorable" le writ-. problem now is, How shall tide trots -
i, indigestion, bloating, leneorrhrea, held firmly in plitee without the uhe of which wits printed. "eongratulatione."
ten on the books opposite the lodger's formation be effeeted?
tame, but if the person has teVer em- At the head of this 'work is Miss L. 11(k:ding, nervous prostration. diz/.1- paste. The elder and assistant both -Raid:
ployed the lodger who gave his naine, (iraliron Crozier, Associated with her ere nese, faintness. " don't -cure" nod- :Ss the invteitor fasetionsly remarked, . "Well I'll be and returned to their
then rt record of this renult mule and foal Herman rren)ery, " want-to-be-left.alone 11 feeling, ex- tia. 118511) oho soon:ash end wash. happy horaes and their brides. --Man-
s
101011 thiS 10eltrr Again opplio4 for a 11(111 IWO W011101,Y YOnng Students; of Cottle- eitability, beet:Relit or the blues, theses :
pail maellide hail never lii:forts been hi- illa Times, island of Luzon.
lie ie adjudged it vagrant and dealt with bit College, who ale devoting their time are sure indications Of female weillt. .rent,.4 was beeanse inrentas never bail
itess, some derangement of the uterus After ft is too late the fillow who
itecordingl v. and money try the working out of this money to (lima, The leteilless rf the in- '
c
But With all these restrne ictiothe great S0(•jol(if.tieni 111111 Id)) 'For piglit- Ot ovarian tronble. In 1001 ti tit th0to setitco. cif this particular &sive WW1 to ain't stand prosperity an't understand
place has become greatly overerowded, een years 11tiss Crozler MS praeticelly la elle tele(' and true leinedy—Lydia. volleet, mint and bendle pennies taken 8ora. girt, are surely on the bun*,
tind during the present year the eity is devoted her life to it, , During most of EL P1111,10014 Vegetable Ceealiamal* in by weighing and other slot machinet. 114
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