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THE GALVESTON TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1904.
MILITANT VLADIVOSTOK SPIRIT
in
most dignified manner.
AMUSEMENTS
fierv
Bonbons
CRUSADE AGAINST USURERS.
THEATRICAL MANAGERS.
ab-
TRAIN LOAD CHINESE SILK.
HIGHWAYMEN CUT
OFF HAIR.
Her Bangs by
far
and in-
en-
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Com-
KILLS PAIN
the
are
been
had
of sorrow,” and right
the name, for Van is
actions are sufficiently
away the worst case of
One threw his arms around her
while the other sheared off her Mir.
Absent-minded politeness is sometimes
very funny, and goes to show how strongly
habit dominates us, all unconsciously to
ourselves. ‘‘I beg your pardon,” exclaimed
a majestic-looking woman as she stepped
inadvertently on the tail of a large cat
which was sunning itself before the steps
of a Belgravian mansion, and which dis-
appeared with a squall down the area.
Then, realizing that she had begged the
pardon of a cat, she looked furtively
round in an embarrassed manner to see if
anyone had overheard her, and meeting
with roller skates by two very nimble
young men—Marcus and Gartelle—and an
acrobatic turn by the Young brothers,
who did a number of things not ordinarily
seen in such acts. The work of Eddie
Mazier and Horace Conley proved quite
entertaining. There was a very pretty
effect in the last scene, “Moonlight on the
Suanee,” besides giving Eddie Horan an
opportunity to display his cleverness as a
dancer.
HAVERLY’S MINSTRELS,
was Mr. Ashton Stevens, the
au-
be-
em-
and
dis-
in-
dividual had posted every one of
bills upside down.”
By Associated Press.
Ogdensburg, N. Y., Feb. 10.—A special
train of eighteen cars carrying 1000 tons
of Chinese silk, valued at $2,000,000, one
of the largest single shipments on record,
has arrived here today from Vancouver,
en route to New York.
. i lb. 60c
’ i lb. 60c
i lb. 50c,
. i lb. 50c.
. i lb. 50c.
Lowney* s Packages
Full Weight.
Russians; they
as “emperor.”
almost invaria-
or aristocratic
MILITARY CITY.
Vladivostok is a military city.
TOWN TALES
TERSELY TOLD
Money Lenders Arrested by New York
Detectives—Complaint Made.
By 2\ssociated Press.
New York, Feb. 10.—Publicity attending
the crusade in progress here against usur-
ers has brought out hundreds of com-
plaints and three more money lenders
have been arrested, while detectives are
searching for at least a dozen for whom
warrants are out. One complainant told
the district attorney’s attaches of borrow-
ing $25 for which he was compelled to
give notes aggregating $36 guaranteed by
chattel mortgages on his store fixtures
»nd all.lns household goods.
exciting, and af-
of exercise that
physical culture
favorite mode of
a ludicrous picture to the nonresident.
The traveler, anticipating a delightful
drive, takes his seat in the vehicle, and
almost immediately the horse, at a word
from the driver, with a leap is off. The
Cossacks are very proficient in driving
and handling these conveyances. They
start the animals very quickly and stop
with a suddenness anything but pleasant
to the passenger. They are dangerously
reckless in driving, and one must be gifted
with considerable temerity to undertake
a drive especially on the roads of Vladi-
vostok where the prevailing conditions
make driving rather more of an experience
than a pleasure.
WATCHING JAPANESE.
Since the advent of the present Russian-
Japanese imbroglio, the Russian officials
in Vladivostok and elsewhere in the Ori-
ent have spared no pains and trouble in
keeping a close watch on the Japanese in
the country. It is Well known to the offi-
cials that there are many Japanese within
RUSSIAN STRONGHOLD.
The first Russian stronghold constructed
RUSSIAN OFFICERS.
In every hotel buffet corridor and bal-
cony one is confronted by the Russian of-
ficer; well-built, natty, dignified and doublj'
proud and conscious of the fact that he is
a servant of the lord, the czar. The word
“czar” is seldom used by
speak of their monarch
The Russian officer comes
bly from the well-to-do
families, and supports himself from his
private income. He could not hold his
social position otherwise, as the czar does
not pay his officers any too well.
Just the reverse to the officer is the Rus-
sian soldier, an inherent disciple of filth,
dirt and squalor. He is irregular of feat-
ure and big of physique, but his stupidity
is most pronounced, and strongly verifies
the fact of governmental neglect of the
lower classes in the matter of education.
But stupidity, however, has its moments
of relaxation, even in a Russian soldier,
brutish and ignorant as he is. The fol-
lowing incident, which happened in Vladi-
vostok during the writer’s sojourn there,
will tend to illustrate the feelings of ani-
mosity against the Japanese which at
present prevail throughout Siberia and
Manchuria. There are numbers of Japa-
Entering any of the many harbors of
China, one becomes immediately aware of
being in the land of John Chinaman by
the numerous pagodas, fishing villages and
harbor craft that confront the eye at
every alteration of the ship's course, says
Ernest Williams Hewson in the Boston
Transcript. The very atmosphere is redo-
lent of that peculiar aroma so character-
istic of China.
Vladivostok differentiates itself in many
ways from other Oriental cities. Japa-
nese, Chinese, Koreans and Russians are
the predominating classes and they have
built a city architecturally rude in char-
acter, but impregnable to assualt. The
harbor entrance from Peter the Great
bay resembles that of San Francisco; not
only are the entrances almost identical
in formation, but also are the names;
you pass through the Golden Gate at San
Francisco and enter the Golden Horn of
Vladivostok.
Every Package Warranted!
If you buy Lowney’s Candies in the
original sealed packages you will find them
in perfect condition, or money refunded.
“Souvenir” ....
“American Beauties”
“Pinks,” “Pansies”
or “Forget-Me-Nots”
“Golfers” . .
“Colonial Dames” . . ....
“Chocolate Peppermints”
“Chosolate Almonds” 16c.
“Chocolate Molasses Brittle”
the involuntary smile on the face of a
passer-by, colored high and walked on
a
the population by sending num-
their own people out either by
or across Siberia by ‘the great
WOOLLAM'S LAKE
The Popular Oyster Resort
Has been thoroughly refitted, and we are
now prepared to serve the public with oy-
sters from our own private beds in any
Style or quantity. For further information
apply to
ED. CUMMINGS,
Phone 717.
“I’d like to show you my riew elastic
cement,” said the soft-voiced man in the
shiny black suit. “I make it myself, and
I’ll warrant it to mend anything that
ever—’ ’
“I don’t need any,” interrupted the man
at the desk, “but if you will tell me the
biggest lie about your cement I ever heard
I’ll buy a bottle of it, merely to encour-
age you.”
“I wouldn't lie to sell a thousand bar-
rels of it,” protested the other. “But I’ll
tell you one thing I really did with it.
You have heard, I presume, of the frog
that tried to swell itself up to the size of
an ox. The skin of that frog, as you re-
member, was not equal to the strain, and
it burst all to pieces. Sir, I happened to
be on the spot, and I gathered up them
carefully together with my cement, and
made the creature as good as new—bet-
ter, in fact, for it is a wiser frog. To
prove to you that I am telling the abso-
lute and exact truth, I will show you the
frog, which I have here in my valise—”
“You needn’t sb v it to me,” said the
man at the desk gloomily. “I’ll take a
bottle of your cement. Here’s your money.
Never mind the change. Good day.”
JAPAN’S MERCHANT FLEET.
The growth of Japan’s navy is no more
wonderful than that of its merchant fleet.
Up to 1870 there was none, if we except a
few coastwise trading junks. In 1892 there
were 214,000 tons of modern shipping.
That has increased in 10 years to 9:14,•jQO
tons in 1902, and the Japanese merchant
fleet is soon to take, if it has not yet
taken, seventh place among the world’s
peace navies.
The growth of the merchant fleet was
most rapid about the time of the Chinese
war, rising from 486,000 tons in 1897 to
796.000 in 1899.
Only Great Britain, the United States.
Germany, France, Norway and Italy sur-
pass the shipping of Japan. The Japanese
merchant fleet is even greater than our
own foreign fleet. It is our enormous
“coastwise” shipping that places us sec-
ond to Great Britain in total.
Japan’s naval vessels are all commanded
by Japs. This has about used up the
available supply of native educated sea-
men, so that most of the merchantmen
are commanded by Europeans. But they
won’t be very long.
Englishmen. The most important fortified
positions in Japan are the entrance to.
Nagasaki harbor, at Shimonoseki, thei
southern entrance to the Inland sea, the
extensive positions on the island of Awaji,
which command the northern entrance to
the Inland sea, and the line of works
commanding the entrance to Yokohama1
and Tokio. These positions
importance to the Japanese,
low no camera or sketching
dius of several miles of
he had
home,
becom-
of the
'Catherine street, New York City, should
be sacred ground to minstrels,” said Billy
Van to a Tribune reporter. “Negro min-
strelsy was born in that street. There
were individual acts before that time, got
up by ‘Jim Crow’ Rice and a host of
others, but the first regularly organized
minstrel company was formed there. I
don’t know the exact spot; I doubt if any
one does, but I was told it was at the
boarding house kept by Mrs. Brooks. Dan
Emmet was one of her boarders. He and
Billy Whitlock were one day practicing on
the fiddle and banjo, when Frank Bower
called. He joined them with the bones.
Dick Pelham dropped in, and immediately
secured a tambourine, and lo! the Vir-
ginia minstrels were formed,
in 1842.
performance, appearing at
That was
That day they gave their first
Bartlett’s
rooms on the Bowery, a great resort for
the circus people at that time. That was
rapid work, and the rapidity of banded
minstrels’ growth is shown by the fact
that this same organization went to Lon-
don, where it proved a huge success.
Booth made his debut in Boston in 1849,
and a year later, when only 17, he and
John Sleeper Clark went down south, giv-
ing a negro entertainment and- making
use of the banjo and bones. They
ployed a real darky as advance agent,
on arriving in the first town, were
gusted to find that that intelligent
their
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“THE STORKS.”
The presentation of “The Storks,” which
will appear at the Grand opera house on
Friday night, has not only been awarded
the wreath of glory for the longest run
in Chicago of any play since the world’s
fair, but it is really “a western article in
every particular.” The Dearborn theater
of Chicago controls the venture; the au-
thors, Frederic Chapin and Guy F. Steely,
are westerners; also Richard Carle (inas-
much as he pays taxes in Chicago
tends to make the Windy City his perma-
nent home); all the scenery and electric
embellishments are made by the Dear-
born theater stage staff; the costumes de-
signed and made by the leading costuming
establishments of the west, and 90 per
cent of the 75 players are westerners,
which most naturally accounts for the
most unusual amount of interest mani-
« fested by everybody theatrically inclined
everywhere you go; and considering every-
thing the local presentation of “The
Storks” promises to be a musical event of
rare importance and one of the most
thusiastic occasions of the season.
It
dramatic critic of the San Francisco Ex-
aminer, who gave to Billy Van the title
of the “assassin
well does he fit
funny, and his
amusing to drive
blues known. He has a way of using his
voice in a manner quite peculiar to him-
self, and this feature is particularly hu-
morous. Van’s songs brought a number
of encores both matinee and night, and
as rendered they were humorous in the
extreme. His monologue was clever, and
only one of the stories he told were very
familiar, the one about the “bug house,”
and even that was changed somewhat
as heretofore given. There were other en-
joyable features connected with the per-
formance of Haverly’s minstrels last night,
and the enthusiasm with which the efforts
of the performers was received showed
most clearly that it gave complete sat-
isfaction. There were several good voices
in the first part, the selections by Messrs.
Vail, Moore and Voight being especially
good. In the monologue some novelties
were introduced, including a clever “stunt”
hot too small in stature as to be seen and
ferreted out by Russian soldiers, who take
fiendish delight in handling them roughly
and intimidating them. One afternoon a
short time ago a big, burly Russian
trooper, coarse and bloated in face and
figure, and a beard that none hut a Rus-
sian dare exhibit, strutted up to a little,
almond-eyed brown man on one of the
main roads and demanded of Mm his
passport. The Jap, not being gifted in the
language of the country, explained in his,
best English, accompanied by a doff of
the cap and a sweeping bbW, that
left his identification i papers at
whereupon the Russian, probably
ing incensed over the politeness
Japanese, which probably looked to him as
affected, seized the little subject of the
Mikado about the neck and violently shook
him until his head actually rattled, and
marched him off to headquarters, in the
meantime muttering between his teeth in
the most broken English imaginable:
“By-and-by fight, eh?”
mercial houses thrive there. Asiatic aliens
have settled in great numbers, but above
the clattering of commerce, the confusion
of tongues, the click of machinery, is
heard the. voice of the military. The
houses of the lower classes are particu-
larly squalid and dirty; justly fitted to
shelter those whose ideas on cleanliness
are in strict accord with the condition
of their abodes. The streets are like the
houses; dirty, dusty and the receptacle
for the garbage of the poorer classes.
A drive over the roads of Vladivostok
is both instructive and
fords one a sufficiency
even several hours of
could not induce. The
conveyance is the “isiwashchick,” or four-
wheeled vehicle closely resembling a vic-
toria, with the exception that one horse
is hitched between the shafts and an-
other to the side of the first horse, but
outside the shaft. The Cossack driver,
perched unconcernedly on the seat, in
green coat and puffed red sleeves, forms
10,—Miss Susi©
are of vital
and they al-
within a ra-
any battery.
During the past few months several for-
eigners, who happened to be in the vicin-
ity of certain of these positions, were
taken into custody, and had considerable
difficulty in securing their release. The
Japanese alarmist press spread the report
throughout the country that several Rus-
sian spies had been detected in making
maps of fortifications, and had been ar-
rested. Not a little excitement was caused
thereby. So suspicious have the Japs of
late become that any foreigner who hap-
pens to be in a district little frequented
by foreigners is shadowed and followed by
soldiers and police in disguise until fee
makes his way back to one of the open
ports.
While the writer was standing on the
deck of a small steamer in the little land-
locked bay of Nagasaki, previous to start-
ing on his trip to Vladivostok, there came
aboard an elderly man, slovenly in ap-
pearancejind unkempt of face, who took
passage on the- steerage. When the steam-
er arrived in Vladivostok this person was
one of the first to disembark. The next
afternoon the writer was greeted with a
most profound bow from a Russian
colonel of infantry, and recognized in him
the indigent and impecunious individual
who staggered aboard the ship at Naga-
saki—a spy.
If the Russians are ferreting out
Japs in Siberia and Manchuria, they
also losing no time in studing the strat-
egical zones of the Japanese empire
Outpost of the Russian Advance to the Far East
Impregnable to Assault.
MRS. WINSLOW’S
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has been used by Millions of Mothers for their
children while Teething for over Fifty Years.
It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays
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The man who knows it all had
talking and in his ^superior way
settled every question that had come up
until the quiet little man was moved to
speak.
“Will you grant me one little favor?”
he asked humbly, as became a man who
realized that he was addressing one who
knows it all.
“Certainly,” replied the other. “What
Is it?”
“Well, will you kindly permit me to
know something about one or two sub-
jects in which I am personally interested
if I will concede all the knowledge of
everything else to you?”
And after that there was a lull in the
conversation that seemed to indicate
that permission had been given.
Association Formed for Mutual Protec-
tion arid Benefit.
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 10.—Theatrical managers
of this city have formed an association
for their mutual protection and benefit.
Only fwo prominent managers were
sent at the first meeting.
While the recent action of the city
thorities in closing several theaters
cause of alleged failure to obey promptly
orders for changes in exits, etc., was the
direct cause of the managers coming to-
gether, it is understood they will seek
to establish control over many matters
such as bill posting, passes and speculation
in tickets.
nese in Vladivostok following various vo- 1 through the medium of government agent,
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in the far east, Vladivostok stands today
as the. pioneer outpost of Russian advance
into. that region. Situated on a gentle
slope of hills, on a curve of the Golden
Horn, the city is so screened as to be en-
tirely concealed from without the harbor.
Owing to the strategical position of the
many small islands lying in and about
the harbor, heavy pieces of ordnance Jhave
been mounted on commanding and ad- I
vantageous points to insure safety from I
a sea attack. While in the city the writer
counted 45 fortified positions protecting
the harbor entrance.
Vladivostok (pronounced *Vlafl-e-vo’-
stock) is essentially a port of and for the
Russians. This is manifested in a marked
degree by the absence of English-speak-
ing clerks in the hotels and commercial
houses, which is not the case in any other
part of the Orient. The Russi^pp do not
encourage immigration of Jajiensjbut sup-
plement
bers of
steamer
railroad.
The city has probably the poorest hotel
accommodations in the ea^t. Thesje places
look sumptuous and comfortable from
without, but experience and contact with-
in these self-styled hostelries has unmis-
takably proved that the Muscovite has
yet much to learn concerning the man-
aging of hotels. The English-speaking
traveler enters the hotel to discover to
his chagrin that the hotel staff has not
been coached even in the simplest Eng-
lish monosyllables. Taking into consider-
ation the language of Russian to be an
accomplishment requiring strenuous labor
to acquire, it is obviously certain the poor
foreigner who. chances to come into close
quarters with a Vladivostok hotel will
not better his temperament in remaining
too long a time.
MAP SHOWING THE THEATER OF ACTIVITY-IN THE FAR EAST.
get the relative locations of the folfowS TointsTnlrb^ vlafflvoJok^Port ^thVaitflSl 7”* WitWn & time’ !t Is necessary *<>
It will be seen that, except by land, there can be no communication between Vladiov^to/^n^Z^ °n mainlaud and a11 heId by Russia.
I’ or that reason the Korean ports, especially those along the strait are likelv to fic-m-A • & fleet controls the Korea strait,
voned by Japan, the strait is ver. narrow, and the charje^r^ “^hZX^^
James Daley to Joseph Meyer and wife,
east half of lot 4 and west half of lot 5
in block 335; $800.
H. M. Burroughs to trustees of First
Baptist church of Galveston, lot 14 in
southeast block of .outlot 62; $10.
their city and thereabouts acting in the s
capacity of merchants, but wrho are in I
reality government spies. Because ofi
these stringent measures adopted to keep
the wily Jap from seeing too much there
have been frequent clashes between both
Russians and Japanese, imprisoned Japs
and oftentimes recourse to the Mikado’s
diplomatic representative, which has re-
sulted in many cases in the alleged offen-
ders being sent out of the country.
The Japanese find it exceedingly diffi-
cult to move about in any part of Siberia
or Manchuria without the Russian officials
becoming cognizant of the fact. This is
the main reason why they (the Japanese)
are entirely at sea concerning the quota
of Russian forces at present in the
east.
7 anything else in the World.
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JOYfKEp
Chocolate
Trenton Girl Robbed of
Two Men.
Trenton, N. J„ Feb.
Jenkins, of this city, has offered a reward
for the return of her bangs.
Miss Jenkins, while passing through Al-
len street, last night, was accosted by two
men.
neck,
Then her assailants tore a pocketbook
from her waist and made their escape.
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