Life — May 20, 1897 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: be any happier or better off in any way from the change remains to be seen, and will depend pretty largely on what sort of a Mayor we can elect. New York's local elections have always been important enough, but the next one—the first under the new charter—will be of surpassing consequence, and we may expect to see it contested with unprecedented vigor. . . “OBWhile there is Life there's Hope.” VOL. XXIX. MAY 20, 1897 No. 752. jj " WORTHY and ac- 19 West Tuirty-First Street, New Yorx. tive contemporary 4 every Thursday. $5.00 « year in advance. Postage to foreign - industry is the establish- in the Postal Union, §t 04 a year extra, Single copies, 10 cents te Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a ment of Audubon Socie stamped and directed envelope. i y 3 ties for the protection of The illustrations in Live. are copyrighted, and are not to be repro- * ‘ A * : duced without special arrangement with the publishers, birds. There is one in a 3 Boston and another in HE arbitration treaty Chicago, both of which failed by a few votes are zealous and energetic. The bird that of getting the requisite excites most sympathy is the heron, whose two-thirds majority in the — plumes, so much favored by milliners, only grow in the Senate. Its friends are brecding season, so that the killing of a mother bird disappointed, but it had involves the death of the nestlings. This is inhumane, been so much amended as and also exceedingly wasteful. The Audubon Societies to represent rather a senti- hope to help the birds by persuading women not to wear ment in favor of the settle- feathers, and especially herons’ plumes, in their hats, ment of international dis- Something may be done in this way, but it is to be putes by arbitration, than an feared that, with the average dame, a hat in the hand or efficient practical means of on the head is a much more influential consideration bringing such a settlement thana bird in the bush. The newspapers tell us that in about. It is a great pity that Venezuela, where herons abound and are valued for their it did not go through, but let labors in killing bugs, the government has taken meas- us not take its defeat too hard. uresto prevent the extermination of them by prohibiting A large majority of the Senate their slaughter for their plumage, and directing that favored it, and there is basis collectors shall wait for them to shed their feathers. If in that for the belief that a the Florida herons could be protected by a similar law large majority of the people it might save them. Lire respectfully suggests that of this country would have the Audubon Societies approach the Florida legislators been glad to have it confirmed. That such a treaty onthe subject, and try not only to have a proper law should have been negotiated, and should have been passed, but to provide for its enforcement. acceptable to the English government and to the . . * executive branch of the American government, is very ‘ pres valued contemporary, the significant, and means almost as much as if the treaty . Herald, conveys an exact idea had actually become operative. i of the condition in which Parisian . . . society was left by the recent fire HE Greater New York is assured \\ a 3. by stating that— now, and though the government Ny 1” ie the Astor: the Belmonts the Living which has been designed for it has : Z “ stons, the Kanes, the Potters, the still to be put in operation, the plan Sey” a - Riveses, the Schuylers, the Hamiltons, has been accepted, and a few more \ the Lorillards, the Fishes, the Newbolds, the ites how works: —A Bronsons, the Winthrops, the Schermerhorns, the months will tell how it works. Any \vermores, the Posts and the Fearings were simultaneously in citizen resident at this end of New mournin, York State, who can find pleasure in This is a brilliant attempt at accuracy, but how about the thought or the announcement that the rest of the Four Hundred who are not included in he is one of three million New Yorkers, this short list ? What have the Vanderbilts, the Burdens, is at liberty now to be conscious to him- the Bradley-Martins and many others done, that sup- self of that flattering truth, and to im- _ posititious bereavements in their families should not be press it upon the minds of persons who considered in measuring an imaginary condition of live insmaller places. Whether weshall — social gloom?