AMERICA, DAY BY DAY

Evening Star, Issue 16050, 29 February 1916, Page 4

AMERICA, DAY BY DAY

{Specially Written for tub ‘.Evening Star.’] 29 MILLIONAIRES DINE. TOGETHER. Almost for its voidest existence America depends upon the world’s attention through its claims to originality, and its innate craving in that respect frequently borderson the grotesque or bizarre, as witness a remarkable gathering in New York a few evenings ago. T'w'eiit'y-nine m<?n. who si ..score of vghts ago in_ overalls ate from their ‘' dinner pails ’ m the steel mills of Pittsburg, had dinner this year under entirely different circumstances, with surroundings grossly dissimilar. They were the men whom Mr Andrew Carnegie delights in calling his ’ K, - V 1 S - ’ ’ r h* 7.000,000d0l palace of Mr Charles M. Schwab., the Steel King, took ”J e . place of the roaring, clanging scene of industry where they first met. One of Acw Yorks most famous caterers provided the dinner. Musicians and singers of world renown were the entertainers. The guests are now men foremost in the world of steel, who reckon their earthly possessions in t/h-e reunions. Tho&e present were • Charles M. Schwab, Charles W. Baker, W K. BaJsinger, W. W. Blackburn, H P £?!». -Albert C. Case, William Ellis Corev! Milliam -B. Dickson,, Thomas Morrison, "• M'Causland, Jolm M’Leod, Gibson D. Packer, James Gaylev, Joseph U. -Schwab, A. R. Peacock, H. E. Tenor E H. Utley, Charles L. Taylor, William Abbott, D. G Kerr, D. M. Olemsen, Janies Scott, William P. Palmer, Robert A Franks, E. S. Milk, George E. M‘(W, J. J. Campbell, Alva C. Dinkey, Asa B Hunt, and Homer D. Williams. For 14 years they have met annually to recall old times, at the home of Mr -Andrew Carnegie, the aged ironmaster, who started them on the road to wealth, .the illness this year of the millionaire Laird of Skibo, who is in Florida, caused Air Cchwall to entertain the former associates of Carnegie. “-Andy ” sent a message of good-will and good-luck to his old boys.”, “SWIM WITH GIRL” IS COURTSHIP , TEST. Another bid for the bizarre comes from the Rev. James Whitcomb Brougher, nastoi- of Temple Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California. The rev. gentleman has discovered a new method of courtship, warranted to work satisfactorily if adhered to in all essentials. First he would have the girl get. her father, brother, or a detective to look up tho complete record of the man she desires to marry. Nest, the man should go In swimming with his sweetheart—at a public beach, of coui-se When a girl has a, complete record of a man’s life and he has seen her hair slicked down and the paint crashed off, if they still love each other, they edn hunt up a minister, for its all right! The ladies, however, are expected to rebel at this rigorous test lor in the majority of cases fully ouofourth of their lives is spent in “efolliiwup with powder and paint, which are laid on lavishly, and should a few spots of rain fall they hurry like hunted rats to save then' faces from showing their real complexions. Beauty is generally only skin beep, and tho manufacturers of cosmetics, face powders, and other beauty preparations reap a, rich harvest, for appearances are deemed the one and only tost for male attraction; FRO AT “SCRUB GIRT/” TO ARLSTOCRACY. . T „ war is no respecter of persons is aptly illustrated in the case of the Hon. .P's. Henry Lyndhurst Bruce (formerly Camille Clifford), widow of Baron Aberdare’s son, who was killed at Ypres. She has returned to work again in America, where she rose from a “scrub rirl” to stagejieauty, and then stepped into a. position in the British aristocracy. A decade or so ago Camille Otterson, who reached Boston from Norway in the steerage, was a scrub girl in the “ hub ’’ city. From that menud.position she was advanced to that of maid. Later, as Camille Clifford, she became ono of t-lio bcsf-Icnoavn »st<i (y c beauties in America. As the famous"Gibson girl,” 3ier fame extended even bevond the seas. She was much courted in those days, before the Hon. Henrv Lend hurst Bruce took lier to the “little' Church Around the Corner” at St. George’s, New York, and made her Iris wife. At Ypres Captain Bruce, of the Royal Scots, fell in battle. His widow is now in America to appear as a “ movie ” picture star. CARNEGIE FASTIDIOUS. *

Mrs A R,, Miner, of Canisteo, near {Syracus/2, is official picklemakor to Mr Andrew Carnegie. The latter, although he is able to choose from the products t»i all the pickle factories in the world, finds none to his taste bub those Mrs Minor packs for him. No matter in what paifc of tlio world the Carnegie family may be staying, Mrs Miner provides the pickles She shipped a- kuje box of her delicacies to the Laird of Skibo only a short time ago. It is ten years since Mrs Miner became picklemakor to Carnegie. Every season finds her shipping the ironmaster another consignment- Andy is almost as fastidious over his “mountain dew,” for wherever he travels a few bottles of a certain brand of real Scotch whisky accompany him, and he admitted tho’truth of this when in San Francisco a couple of years ago, pleading that it was'once ordered for him ny a doctor, and in order t,o avoid further illness he always carried some in his baggage! LOSES TOOTH ON CAKE LIKE ‘‘MOTHER MADE,” Declaring restaurants that placard things like mother used to make” are delusions, [Nathan M, Solomon entered suit, in tiho Municipal Court of Philadelphia against the management of the Glcnwood Restaurant, in the Quaker City, for a, tooth lost in biting into cake which, ho says, was proclaimed the land '‘mother used to bake.” Solomon said the cake contained a “largo piece of stone,” and that his tooth broke upon coming into contact with it. Ho declared that In’s mother never resorted to the quarry or gravel pit in mixing her cakes. The loss of the tooth and the finding of the solid substance, in the cake, Solomon swore, occurred on December 27. Tho evidence for the, defence has not yet been given in court. MORALS WAR BEGUN OX WOMEN’S SKIRTS. Tho disgraceful type of women's dress now worn by the average female in the United States has at last caused the voice of man to bo heard condemning the. latest lad in women's garb. At Toledo, in Ohio, Councilman Stanley Kryzaniak has announced that ho is about to launch a- cruzado against women’s fashions in abbreviated skirts. He is framing ;i.ii ordinance providing five dollars’ (£1) fine for any woman convicted of appearing in public wearing an outer skirt higher than her shoo tops. Ho asserted that, short skirts are bad for morals. After the American woman lumiossed herself uucomfoitably in the sheath gown, she went to the other extreme of a .long, trailing tidier dress, abounding in pleats. Then came the abbreviated skirts, which appear to be coming more disgraceful every month; but Miss Columbia must attract attention and allow modesty to Jlib to the winds. SMUGGLER TRAPPED AS CAMERA CLICKS. The peaceful little Californian city of Hanford has forced itself into the public prints. J. W, Loweiithal, United Stales innvdgnition inspector, of PJuciiis, Arizona, claims lo hays trapped Young Bew, a Chinese, o' Hanford," in violating the Jaw by the use of a camera.. Lnwenthal delivered a. letter, a- copy of a contract, Young C|ung, a Chinese ipipiigraiit, to Young Bew, receiving in exchange £OO dollars (£4O). As tho money was paid Lnweptlpil snapped ins camera, getting a photograph of the transaction, Young Ching . was onq of a party of four smuggled in January 15 over the Mexican line. , The others arc in Los Angeles. Young Bow was arrested. EAGER., TO JOIN ALLIES, BUT - ' HALTED. A stoker arranging his coal aboard the Union Steam Ship Company’s steamer Wailiemo at the south end of the San Francisco waterfront, preparatory to sailing for Wellington, came across a number 14 shoe j*rotrudixnj from. a. l«mfeer s Xn, Jjhs hhp l ?

was a foot belonging to " Jimmy ” Blacky a stowaway, who, when pullecl Of thql coal, declared that ho -was tiding to beat his way to New, Zealand.to join the for service somewhere in Franck or SaloA nikar Search of the steamer revealed another stowaway in the person of Tony Williams, who told a similar story to that of Black. Tile pilot schooner A d'venturera was hailed by the officer on wa.ich aboard the Waihemo,- and tho two chagrined volunteers were forcibly taken ashore. 1 San Francisco, February 2.