t THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOV. I), 1010. WHY PARK ARE fmprovc Social and More! Con ditions of a Community. PAY WELL AS AN INVESTED How Kansas City Has Profited by Us Parking System Methods For Towns to Adopt In Securing Parks Why A . i l ' n nuracuveness rays. I The old idea of parks was that t'u are luxuries and are chlelly for tlio who had time and taste to enjoy tn beautiful. A city or town that couli afford parks was regarded much in th same light as a rich man who nr. Bcssed in his own home beautii.i. paintings, statuary and other works of art These were obtained chlelly to gratify the pride of the owner or t gratify the taste of the family and friends capable of enjoying such thing Soon it was seen that parks not onlj furnished pleasure, but greatly In creased the health and huppine-v f the people and Improved the s-oelal ami moral conditions of the eominunitk-i says .T. B. Baker In Farm and Han. ') I could easily demonstrate this fact, but wo have not time hero, nor do I think it necessary, as It is almost self evident. Granted, then, that parks, parkings, clean streets and everything else that goes to make up the City Beautiful do add much to the pleasure, happiness, morals and health of the people, are these not reasons enough to inspire every city, town and village to go to work at once to secure these things? But I shall pass over all these good reasons and consider for a mo ment the commercial side of the sub ject From the standpoint of the dol lar, parks do pay, and they pay big. Kansas City Is a notable example of what has been done In the last few years. Ten or twelve years ago Un people there realized that almost noth ing had been done to beautify their town and attract the home builder and business man. They quickly ndopt- uriiirTEit or i-chlio morals and health From the American City. New York. ed a plau for the city and worked out a sjstem of parks and boulevards, costing $0,000,000. Already it has proved to be a profitable Investment, and they are getting back In Increased taxes, due to the enhancement of val ues, more than enough to Justify tho outlay, hi opening some of the first parks and boulevards they had to flght their wny by condemnation proceed ings, etc., but it was soon seen that in whatever part of town these improve ments were going on property increas ed In value, so that it was not long before every part of the town was clamoring for such improvements, in some cases even offering to pay for them. Today the people of Kansas City are enthusiastic over their civic Improvements, and they say that parks iay. What has been tho case in Kansas City has also been true in many other places. After studying this question for several years I am convinced that the average town or city is not indif ferent to these things, but they simply don't know how to make n start. If only a few enthusiastic, public spirited people will get the matter on their hearts they will Boon find a way. Of courso the best results cannot be attained in one or two years. It takes time, and the people should not be come Impatient. I would sny to all towns desiring parks, etc.: First Employ a good architect to make a plan Second. Devise ways anil means to se cure funds Third Secure land for parks as early as possible, Urge tracts on the outskirts and severul small tracts In the thickly settled neighborhoods. Fourth. Go to work systematically and Intelligently to beautify the grounds. Fifth. -Don't expect everything to be done In one or two yearB. It takes tlmo to do these things, and no doubt mistakes will be made. It would be remarkablo If they were not. Hut If tho proper start bo made and honest and Interested men ar managing It they can hardly fall to ob tain good results In the end. In conclusion I would emphasize tho fact that if a town expects to attract people it must make Itself attractive. In this day and time no Intelligent man cares to live in a town lacking In beauty and health, and the towns that make tho best Increases In population In tho next ten or twenty years will bo largely the ones that do most to make themselves attractive by clvie Improvements. BE EH C GERMANY'S CROWN PRINCE I Kaiser's Eldest Son May Visit S America on Tour of tho World. i '' '!"'' ' Berlin, Nov. 1. Crown Prince Fred erick William will start this mouth for a long tour of the far east, Includ ing India. It is more than probable that he will return by way of the Pa cific, visiting the United States, al though this is not Included In the pro gram for Ids trip as it is now made up. The tour of tho crown prince will bear an olilcial character, and arrange ments have already been made with the British government for his recep tion in India. lie will visit also China and Japan. How to Open a Can of Corn. One of the smallest of the little girls In a West Philadelphia family had of ten assisted her mother In preparing tho meals. She observed that her mother, who was rather hasty, always talked to herself when she had any difficulty in opening cans of vegetables. The little girl thought that the hasti ness was a part of the operation. "One day she was visiting a neigh bor and went Into the kitchen to help prepare a meal. She watched the neighbor take a can of corn, apply the opener and remove the top. "That's not the way to open a can of corn," said the little girl. "Why, what other way Is there?" asked the neighbor. "Well, you take the can of corn and start to open it, and then you bear down and the opener slips. Then you say 'Darn this can!' and finish it. That's the way my mother opens a can of corn." Philadelphia Times. Diamonds to Lampblack. You may purchase equal quantities of carbon for ft cents or n million dol lars. A bargain hunter might invest n nickel and get a package of pure lampblack. The million would secure a blazing diamond, easily turned Into lampblack; not so easily intense heat would be required. However, coal and wood are really more valuable than diamonds. They surrender life giving heat, while the only use so far discovered for diamonds Is to cut glass, and for this carborundum is a good substitute. All diamonds in ex istence could be annihilated without loss to mankind; but, then, to vapor ize diamonds would be costly, as the enormous heat of 12,032 degrees F. in the concentration of an electric fur nace would be required, and then you might get enough graphite to make a lead pencil or a little fine stove polish. Edgar Luclen Larkin in Nautilus. Always Good. Speaking of Jack London or was it Hex Beach? they tell that when in his salad days he wubmitted a story to a great editor the things came back. So London or was it Beach? called upon the great editor and asked: "What's tho matter with this yarn? Don't you like it?" "Yes," replied tho great editor im pressively, "I always did." Success Muiray.lm. NOW THAT PORTUGAL HAS "Sunt i ura MESSENGERS HAD A STRIKE. But Visions of Truant Officer and School Made Them Weaken. Jersey City, N. J., Nov. a. Twelve messenger boys employed at the olllco of the Western Union Telegraph com pany at 71! .Montgomery street caught the strike fever and quit work lo en force n demand for more pay for the regulars nnd for tho Instant dismissal of a number of now boys who had been hired to carry election returns. "I.ivln' expenses Is goln' up, and wo need de money," explained a commit tee of one to Manager Lewis. "De company is rich and enn stand a raise. As for do extry boys, dcre's so many of 'em on do bench now dat we all can't sit down. Fire some of 'em, and den do rest of us'll have a chnnst to make n llvin' eliaslu' messages." When Mnnager Lewis threatened to get the truant olllcer after tho boys and compel them to go back to school they weakened and returned to work. SHOT WITH HIS OWN PISTOL. New Yorker Wanted to Get Handker chief When Gun Went Off. Washington, Nov. a. Samuel It. Goodwin of New York city, a former noncommissioned olllcer in the army. Is In Garlleld hospital suffering from a bullet wound In the head which was received while ho was In the apart ment of Mrs. William J. McClure In the Victoria apartment house. Good win and Mrs. McClure say that the shooting was accidental. Goodwin said: "I wanted to get n handkerchief out of my suit case. My revolver was lying on top of my hand kerchief, and as I stooped over 1 pick ed up tho pistol with one hand nnd grabbed several handkerchiefs with the other. Willie I was still stooping the pistol went off In my hand, but just how 1 cannot say." SOCIETY AT MAID'S WEDDING. St. Louis Millionaire Throws Open Home at Ceremonies of Servants. St. Louis, Nov. 3. A wedding cere mony unique In the annnls of St. Lou is society was performed nt Maple erest, the home of Clarence II. How ard, millionaire president of the Com monwealth Steel company. Tho bride and bridegroom were Martha Snitzmeler, a maid in the Howard home, nnd Daniel Flgnrt, the gardener. They were married in the presence of a score of their friends and the Howard family and some soci ety guests, friends of the Howards. At its conclusion the bridal party was driven in nutomobiles to witness an amateur minstrel performance by the students of Principla school, an institution Howard has done much for SLAYER GETS LONG TERM. Man Freed by Coroner Sentenced to Ton Years For Killing Dooley. New York. Nov. 1. William Heine man, convicted last week of man slaughter for the killing of Itobert Dooley, whom he shot In Jnnuary last, was sentenced to n term of not less than ten nor more than twenty years in state prison. Sentence was passed by Judge Swann in general sessions. It was Ilelnemau who wns released by Coroner Feinberg and later indict ed, tho action of the coroner causing Judge Swann to say that he would take steps to bring the matter to the attention of the grand Jury. Lovesick Youth Kills Himself. New York, Nov. 3. Harold Martin, nineteen years old, who until recently lived with ills mother at 743 Halsey street, Brooklyn, and left his home be cause of a (piarrel about Charlotte Keys, an eighteen-year-old girl of OS Halph avenue, with whom he was keeping company, committed suicide in a furnished room nt 04 Halph ave nue by inhaling Illuminating gas. A Suicide After Quarrel With Wifo. New York, Nov. 3. Simon Hirschko witz, twenty-live years old, a tailor, killed himself by Inhaling gas through a tube in his home, 188 Allen street, after he had quarreled violently with his wife. Hirschkowltz went home nnd had dlfllculty in arousing his wifo to open the door for him. This made him very angry and started the quar rel. Not Acquired. N. Head now you stutter! Did you ever go to a stammering school? J. Terry N-n-no. sir. I d-d-do this n-nat-urnlb-. Brooklyn Life. A F0ET FOR PRESIDENT. Wilder In Chicago Record-Herald. MRS. WILLIAM H. TAFT. Mistress of the White House Is Sundays.' Opposed to "Continental ('AX .V Washington, Nov. 3. With the sea son but two weeks old, one of tho chief absorbing topics of Interest Is whether "the continental Sunday," as opposed to Mrs. Taft's "old fashioned family Sunday," will prevail, as it did last year. Sunday lias been and is a day of great Jollity among the society folk of the capital and a favorite day for luncheons, tea parties, inuslcales, bridge parties and paper chases. Mrs. Taft is opposed to this and nei ther gives nor accepts invitations for Sunday. In this course she has few supporters, for even cnblnet members give dinner parties and attend social functions on the Sabbath. Baroness Hengelmueller sets the pace for tho "continental Sunday" among tho foreign colony by giving Sunday afternoon inuslcales. This practice also is indulged In by Mrs. Perry Bel 1 mont and Mrs. Edsou Bradley of New York, and the trio of musical hours always draw tho smartest of the local 1 Four Hundred. AUTO TAIISN TO COURT. Accused Man's Machine Shown to Jury In Murder Trial. New York. Nov. 3. The second ex traordinary development in the trial of Edward T. Hosenhelmer, charged with murder in the first degree for causing the death of Miss Grace Hough, whom he ran down wttli his automobile on the night of Aug. 18, occurred. For the iirst time In this state an automobile was introduced in to a courtroom ns evidence. In nddltion, the temalns of the buggy in which Miss Hough nnd two com panions were riding when struck by the nutomoblle were carried into the courtroom. The automobile was brought down to I " W J? tho criminal courts building from .passes,' and again the nnswer, "Let Traillc Squad C's stables In East Thlr- It pass." The third time the possessor ty-second street, where it has been of tho wand holds it over some head quartered for the last ten days, under nnd inquires. "The wand rests over its own power. j whom?" The Hosenhelmer touring car is a j Theu is the exile promptly to nu slxty horsepower machine of foreign jswer, "Over So-and-so," naming the make and weighs two nnd a half tons. The front right mud guard and the front lamps are battered, tho hood Is considerably loosened, nnd the machine in general is In poor condition. FLIGHT FROM OCEAN LINER. Aviator McCurdy Will Return From Vessel Fifty Miles at Sea. New York, Nov. 3. J. A. D. Mc Curdy, nn aviator for Glenn H. Cur tlss, will nttempt an aeroplane flight from the deck of n vessel fifty miles at sea to Governors island on Satur day. Ho will leave port on the Kaiser in Augusto Victoria of the Hamburg American line, which sails nt 10 o'clock in the morning. The navy de partment will send two torpedo de stroyers along to rescue McCurdy in ease of nccident. The Curtlss mnchlno to be used was dismantled nt Belmont park and ship ped to the Hoboken pier of the Ham burg line. Either Mr. McCurdy or Mr Curtiss Is expected to be there to su perintend the building of n platform for launching the aeroplane. It was said tho platform will be 100 feet long and will be built on tho forward deck of the ship. Factory Shaft Whirls Boy to Death Newark, N." J.. Nov. 3. Caught in tho shafting in the bag factory of Wi' Ham Hoemer In 209 Broome street, Ai nold Pfeffer, fifteen years old, an em ployee. was whirled about many times and so severely hurt that he died a half hour nftenvard in the City hospi tal. I It's Nature. i "I noticed in the store wo visited to I flay everybody was crowded around ' the perfumery counter." 1 'That's not surprising." i "Why not?" j "Oughtn't perfume naturnlly to be a ' seenter of attraction?' Baltimore . Amerlcnn. More Alluring. "You grew tired of that young man who kept talking about castles Iu Spain?" said Maude. "Yes," replied Maymle; "I became more interested iu a chap who has his mind on an olllcc building in a busy little American town." Washington Utar For the Children Flying Squirrels and Aeroplanes. Modern inventors have been fairly successful with the aeroplane, but for I a long time two little nuimals have I .. , ..I . .. 11 .. . ... I ....!... t .. 1 1. ..) I usuu a HiiiumL imuilinu iu iiiirii am.- ccssful lllghts. The flying squirrel and the flying ilsh'salt through the nlr and rise and fall on nu acroplnnc of na ture's invention. Our common flying squirrel, with its thin, wlngllko membrane stretched I tightly between the extended legs. Is ' a typical aeroplane. Thorcau In speak ing of such a squirrel says: "It sprang from a maple at n height of twenty eight nnd one-half feet from tho ground and landed easily and lightly on the ground nt tho foot of another tree fifty and one-half feet away. Its flight was not a regular descent. It vnried from a straight lino both horizontally and vertically. It skimmed much like a hawk, and part of its Might was nearly horizontal. There were six trees from six inches to a foot in diameter be tween tho beginning and the ending of its flight, and these it skimmed part ly round nnd passed through their thinner twigs. It did not. as I could perceive, touch a single twig." Other observers have seen crowds of these l little creatures hi similar sportive gam bols which seem to have no other ob ject than playfulness or the mere pleas ure of flight. St. Nicholas. A Thanksgiving Game. A good game to play Thanksgiving evening is called "the wand passes." One of tho company is sent from the room. Another, who is in league with the first, promises that when he holds the wand, which may be a cane or umbrella, over some member of the company the exiled member will be able to tell over whom. Tho door must be left open. The confederates explain that this Is in order not to interrupt tho current of electricity be tween them. The magic monger allows the com pany to chat a few minutes after his J confederate has departed. Then he Buddenly breaks In upon the conversa tion, waving the wand and saying in a sepulchral tone. "Tire wand passes." The exile answers from the next room very solemnly, "Let it pass." Again comes the announcement, The wand right person. The trick is accom plished by having it arranged that the confederate who remains in the room shall hold the wand over the person who spoke last before tho an nouncement. "Tho wnnd passes." All the exile in the next room need be able to do is to distinguish tho voices of tho company. Thanksgiving Day. Over the river and through the wood To grandfather's house we go. The herse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow. Over the river and through the wood Oh, how the wind does blow! It stings the toes And bites the nose Aa over tho ground we go. Over the river and through the wood To have a first rate play. Hear the bells ring. "Tlng-u-llng-dlng!" Hurrah for Thanksgiving dayl Over the river and through the wood Trot fast, my dapple gray. Spring o'er the ground Like a hunting hound. For this Is Thanksgiving day. Over the river and through the wood And straight through tho barnyard gate. We seem to go Extremely slow It Is so hard to waltl Over the river and through the wood Now grandmother's cap I spy! Hurrah for. the fun! Is the pudding done? Hurrah for the pumpkin pie! A Shipload of Toys. Hundreds of tons of toys, dolls and railroad cars, Jumping Jacks aud auto mobiles and flying machines came into Philadelphia the other day on the iteamer Dortmund. Tho steamer came from Hamburg, Germany, and carried no freight except toys. This is the Bret of many such cargoes that will bo brought across the ocean before Christmas for tho l4oys nnd girls of Amerlcn. The c.nallest Island. The smallest inhabited island in the world is tho rock on which stands the Eddystono lighthouse. Robert's Deep Regret. It would be excellent Indeed If a turkey were a centipede, For then it would not be too late For drumsticks when folks reach my plate. French Billiard Tables. It would probably puzzle tho best of American statisticians to estimate oven approximately the number of billiard tables In use In this country. Thcro is no Ruch difficulty in Franco, whoro tho billiard table Is a tnxed lux ury and where its relative frequency in districts of all grades of population and wealth Is made tho subject of cal culations aa elaborate as they are in genious. In all France, according to the latest figures available, there aro 89.G7C billiard tables, divided among 18,601 communes, and realizing moro than $200,000 in taxes. Harper's Weekly. "Stlckley-Brandt" Furniture Is un excelled In material, construction and finish. Only $6.20 For this attractive. Brass Trimmed Iron Ded with heavy continuous post. Oiled with graceful scrolls and fancy brass spindles. Height of bed B0 Inches, and la all regular widths. Beautifully enameled In every detail. A bed ot similar stylo and quality sells tor $8.50. to 9.00. Carefully packed and shipped freight charges prepaid for $6.20. Do you wish to save neatly a third in buying your Furniture. Send today for our factory price catalogue, sent FREE on request. EINGHAMTON, K. Y. A T" T A TT T" AUCTIONEER & CATTLE DEALER You will make money by having me. bell phone 9-u Bethany, Pa. Roll of HONOR Attention is called totne STRENGTH of the Wayne County The FINANCIER of New York City has published a ROLL Or HONOR .of the 11,470 State Banke and Trust Companies of United States. In this list the WAYNK COUNTY SAVINGS BANK Stands 38th in the United States Stands 10th in Pennsylvania. Stands FIRST in Wayne County. Capital, Surplus, $455,000.00 Total ASSETS, $2,T33,000.00 Honesdaie, ra.. May 29, 1008. GUARANTEED Wafer Bonds TO YIELD From 5 to 6 per cent. In denominations of 100, 500 and 1,000 If interested call on or address D. D. WESTON, Office: Poster Block 9th and Mai ii St. Honesdaie, Pa. 71tl6 AltRIVAIi AJfD DUrAKTUHE OP KHIE TKAINS. Trains leave Union depot at 8.25 a. m. and 2.48 p. m week days. Trains nrrlvo Union depot nt l.fO and 8.05 p. m. week days. Saturday only, Erie and Wyoming arrives at 3.45 p. m. and leaves at 5.50 p. m. Sunday trains leve 2.48 and ar rive at 7.02.
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