id Hudsen's Arrival
EW YORK. —Wiiie
political parties are
squaring off for a
long batlle upoti a
vA Eg uesomething
called “municipal
ownership.” the
greatest examplein
all the worid of mu-
nicipal ownership
is quietly gelung
itself accomplished
Aaron Burr, be
rather than have it come to New York
when the city would bw certainly and
the state probably in duocratic hands.
| Since then world's fairs Lave grows a
| little onerous to those who get them
i up. Also they have a certain sameness.
| The exhibits are practically kept on the
| more from one to the other, When you
| have seen one fair you have seen a good
| part of the next one
Hudson would find changes if he came |
| gow. There is a bridge across at Pough-
| keepaie; another has long been projected |
iin the Highlasds. A tunnel under Lhe
river is now compiete and Jersey cit-
| zens will soon be able to travel througd
| it from their homes to their offices. The
| metropolis grows in every direction.
| Newark is as much a part of it except
politically as Yorkers, and neither 1s
| techaically a part. In the Jersey
| Oranges almost every able bodied man
| except the grocers and butchers comes
i to New York to work. The city has the
| working population of more than 5,000,
| 000 people
part of one of Burr & jong disused mains.
The Croton aqueduct next got ita pic
ture isto all the schoul geographies
The “high bridge” which carries water
‘over the Harlem river is still the hana-
* pomest in the city. People didu’t know
in those days that water could as easily
* be carried under the river in an inverted
syphon. Then came the new aqueduct
Irishmen Dbullt the frst; Italians built
the second. It made a lake in the val
‘ley of the Croton river 13 miies I0DE,
any number of little lakes
city was consolidated, Hrookiyn
8g inlo the partpersihip a moral
thirst and no water supply for the future
The city kept on growing until the rest
the state became alarmed at (he
menace of its waterworks. Now the
jogical result is a state commission—
that gives both political parties a chance
atthe contracts, too—to parcel out water
‘rights 50 Lhat nobody peed be slighted.
And the pewest pew aqueduct. Hun-
garians will help bulld that. As New
York reaches farther north for water
Lt reaches farther east in Europe for
~ On the threshold of a $200,000,000 en-
bow does municipal ownership
jout in water? Both New York and
Brooklyn began with the supply iu pri-
“wale hands. Five per cent. of the people
are still served Ly private companies
‘Yet the city only owes on its water debt
some $75,000,000, less than $20 for each
gitisen for water brought 30 miles and
into his house. The works have cost
“over $100.000,000, but between $30.000-
“$00 and $40,000,000 of the debt has been
paid off by water rates applied to sink-
ing fund. The rates are not so high
private companies charge The city
on Easy street
New York a Big Place.
EW YOHRKEHRS are
suspected of har-
boring Iarge jdeas
of their city. Bul
it is a pretty big
city. Its pew wa-
terworks are to
drain in part 900
square miles. They
concern eight coun-
ties running as far
porth as Albany
They are to cost
= $161. 00.000 in ten
dun. and DO one really expects them
be finished for much iess than $200.-
The Congressional Library at Wasa
fagton is the wonder of bridal tours
be waterworks will cost 20 tines as
much The German emperors great
plan for east-and-west canals tylpg to
Rather the sluggish rivers of the low
iain of Prussia is to cost for the pres
ent only one-third as much. The Erie
canal enlargement which bas split New
ark politics for years Is a big job. It
will cost Ball as much as the new water
.
And when the waterworks are finished
in ten years, they will last the city with-
out reenforcement just ten years longer
yOu KDow wha! we must do then?
t Is almost worth getting down the old
to (race oul. Well we must either
b 0 Lake Ceorge or to Lake Ontario
OF 10 the Adirondacks. Call it 180 miles
Lake George, the fall is 3u0-0dd feet
——anough to run water by gravity Only
‘a8 Lake George has small affiuents, the
if mounisins to the westward must
funneled and some higher Adiron-
tk streams diverted to fill it deeper
ow you see where the state comes lo
: th a walter system could supply every
town along the Hudson valley as well as
New York. Massachusetts has at Clin-
top such a general supply source tapped
Py all the east-coast towns that chip in
To date, It is the greatest supply in the
‘world, New York's new one will sur-
everything.
to Wales for water, must some time
do 80. But London, Indeed most large
juro| cities, use only about one
Henry Hudson's Day.
in 15409, the same
year that Cham-
plain saw the lake
that bears his
Dame.
markedly changed
greatHudson
bridge is thrown
ereek in full view of the river
a
yersary of Hudson's
exposition of 1892, but the ef:
The Last of the Patrons
ILIAEN VAN
RENSSELAENK,
who died the other
day at the age of
60, was Lhe pearest
approach to the
head of New York's
hereditary aristoc-
racy that could be
named. Few oul
side of New York
had ever heard of
him; few in New
York could spell bis
pame. Yet he was the grandson of Ste-
phen Van Rens the “last of the
patroons;”’ his ancestors heid thou-
sands of square miles of lands all Lhe
way from New York to the Canada line,
lands that would have dwarfed the
Scottish estate of the Sutheriands;
lands that po Van Rensselaer could ever
have seen if he had devoted his life tO
viewing them
The Van Rensseiaer manorial home
was Albany There they erecled a
stately house one of the finest in the
country. Of late it grew dilapidated,
practically on the edge of a raliroad
yard, and it was taken Lo pieces, carried
over the mountains into Massachusells
and set up to serve as a chapler house
for a Williams college secret society,
$0 much more reverent of things of the
past is New England
Taxes and neglect of trade were the
causes of Lhe decline of the Van Rens-
selaers. They had land, but in the Us
the state of New York adopted a "'baro-
burner censiitution ASlor was a
parvenu beside the Van Reasselaers.
but he traded in furs and got rich. Ola
Lion Gardiner. on Gardiner's Island, at
the eastern end of Long Island, was to
the English aristocracy that came in
after 1668 what the various Vans were
n Albany; the Gardiners have had bet
ter luck in preserving their strangely
un-American manor untouched by mod-
ern change. but, llke the Vaus they are
prominent, proud and comparatively
poor. Gardiner’'s isiand was one of the
few American lordships outside of Mary-
land, and it is about the only one that
retains much of its ancient form in the
hands of descendants of the ancient
owners
The Van Rensselaers are wealthy, not
as the newly rich reckon wealtn
Kiliaen*was a captain in the civil war,
and served upon various charitable
boards. His family is less prominent
than that of the Roosevells and other
plebelan Dutch immigrants of the old
days who engaged in trade in the city
“
J)
——
seiaer
American Manes
T would be inter
esting (Lo gather uj
the instances ol
manors which In
America retain
some of the char
acteristics of Eu
ropean ways Yo
would have to ip
ciude the Bonapart
ists’ establishruent
at Trenton and In
the Adirondacks;
the Gelesee valley
homes of the Wadsworths, who hav
furcished generals and congressmen
for generations; the Bayards and Salis
burys in Delawape, who long divided
the senatorial seats of the state between
them; the Wentworths, of Newbury-
port, whose home Is one of the finest
survivals of colonial times and whtse
most famous governor gave hig name
Benning. to Bennington, in Vermont
the Van Rensselaers, the Schuylers, the
Philipses the Coopers, the Morrises, the
Liviagwtons, the Plerponts, the Ruther
fords, every one of which families has
had towns, counties rivers streets with
out number named after its members
| The Gardiners would be the most ple
| turesque exhibit; the Lords Fairfax of
| Virginia, best known of all in revolu-
tionary times because of Washington's
friendship for Fairfax of Greenway
| Court, now represented by Baron Falr
{fax, of London and Wall street; th
| Byrds of Westover, the—but the lis:
jengthens as you go south Twenty
| names would nearly exhaust the list of
| those northern families which are at
{ once old and still flourishing socially
in their ancient domains
Will the Vanderbiits in their Id]=
| Hour, the Twomblys In their Florham
| the Webbs in their Shelburne, the Har
| rimans in their Arden Woods
long remembered”?
OWEN LANGDON
be as
——
Getting Used to It.
| Sometimes one is almost templed 10
wonder whether the world is really get.
| ting better or whether he is merely
| with the passage of years, getting ac-
customed to it. —Puck
i
i
Which Is Worzef
It is becoming a question to the chil.
| dren which looks worse father's bald
| head or the little door knob of hair
ou mother's head —Atchison Globe
; Postcards of Peat.
Postcards made of Irish peat from
Foot yh meg Pll dodo fea
tures of the Irish exhibition in Lon.
dom.
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Men’s Suits
Every suit we show is well worth consideration. Evers
new and soappy style, single and doable breasted coats
e lapel, broad athletic shoalders and
shape retaining front, beaatifully tailored and finished
with careful attention to detail, made of Scotchy cheviots,
tweeds aud worsteds, in the nobbiest patterns and color-
Overcoats for Old and Young
Overcoats. mediom leagth for men, very popular and
dressy styles which have many admirers, cat single
breastad with fall skirt, ine velvet collar, broad shoulders,
friezes and kerseys, $15.00 and 20.00, now
ings the markets produce.
price
Men's sack suits, ditdles and double t
patterns that were 15.00, now
$10.00 and 12.00 suits, sale price
sive clothing boasta
Boys' suits sizes I to 17 years made
smart styles, regular value 5.00, 6.00
Sale price. .
single and double breasted styles
$2.00 and 2.25 suits, containing ev
boy can wish for, from $1.40 to
Young Men’s
$1.50 and $3.00 pants, now
$2.00 pants, now
breasted
$7, now
$1.98
$3.90
Young
of warm
and 6.50,
* $3.50
" $2.25
$1.25
Pants
ery kink
2.15
2.00
$1.35
$9.50
$6.75
men's long belted overcoats, in black
Former price $9.00, now
= $4.98
29¢c
1c
39¢
92c
39c
79c
Je re they are:
Boy's knee pants
Boya' single vests
Boys' caps.
Children's fleecs lined underwear: worth 250
and 35c a garment
‘
Single Coats
Single coats for men in all sizes, in black
and gray, worth $4.00, sale price
2.25
3.75
6.90
91c
21c
Men's all wool resfers, were 85.75, now
Black Irish frieza, ale with extra high col-
lar, doable breastad, wool lined, $8.00, now. ..
Heavy caavas coats in black and yrows,
wool lined, were $1.50, now. verrad
10 dozen boys’ vests, former price 60c, now
Suits for Young Men
Young men's single and double breasted
suits brimfull of all the character that the
most particalar young man could wish for,
$12.00, 15.00 and 16.50, sale price
" $8.16
$6.26
$4.50
Abso-
$8.00 and 10.00 suits, sale price
$6.00 and 7.00 suits, sale price. ............
Remember this is a cash sale.
lutely no goods charged. Money must
accompany all orders. A small amount
of it does a large basiness at this sale.
Store brilliantly lighted at night.
Stora open early and late. Don't forget
the location and date of the opening.
a Salmon Story
quickly told lies in your answer—either
way—to the question: Do you prefer
tall cans or the steak in flats ? Have
this noble fish at your order packed both
ways -qnality the same; i. e.. that from |
west. Anyone who has ever eaten fresh |
Chinook Salmon on the Columbia will
appreciate our line of the canned article.
Yours,
C. U. INGHAM & CO. |
REAL ESTATE BARGAINS |
bargain prices. Houses to rent.
ANDREW EVARTS,
Home phone 61-M
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“The Satisfactory Place.”
printers and a new, u
equipment are at your service.
~ Our patrons cay we have “the
our pr omises.
Talmadge Bullding. Elmer Ave., Sayre,
Valley Phone 142a.
WE PRINT
DEALER IN
Forelgn and Domestic Fruits.
Olive Oil —Quart 85¢, Gallon $3.00.
16 different kinds of Macaroni at low
| prices for this week,
No. g Rlizabeth St
AGH VALLEY T, 1.
(lo effect Dec 3 190%.)
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RASTBOUND
Waverly
(2: (E Fittston, Wilkes-Barre, Mauch
Chunk Allentown, Bethichers, New |
Vork, Fniladeiphls, Baltimore and Washinton
A.M Daily for Tunkhannock, Pittston, |
2: Wilkes Barre, Glen Summit Springs,
White Haven, Maoch Chunk, Allentown,
chleem, New York, Philadeiphia, Baltimore
and yy ar
(Waverly 645A. M) Week days
Ak for Athens, Ulster, Towanda, Mon
roeign, New Albany Dushore, Batter-
2 falls, Willlamsport, Wyslusing, Lacey
ville, Ture eeget: Pittston and Wilkes-Barre
(Waverly § A. M) Dally for
8:50: a Tunkbannock, Pittston
Wilkes-Barre, Glen Sammit ngs
White Haven, Peun Haven Janction, Mauch
| Cua Allentown, Bethlehem New York, Phil.
10:00 Raltimore and Washington.
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0:00 zim alusing, Lass
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Louis and points west.
LM » Daily for Geneva, Rochester, Cal.
Batavia, On, Couzects for
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Varick and
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