Life — July 9, 1914 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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THE HORN loss of the Empress and the big fire in Salem, but, of course, the Claflin re- ccivership is promptly charged up to Democratic legislation. But not with s much fervor as might be expected. he Claflin company is said to have lost about a million dollars by depre- ciation in value of merchandise due to the tariff bill, but that is no killing matter for so large a concern. Mr. Claflin himself attributes his. troubles to the great shift uptown of the New York department stores, which cost enormously and apparently pinched New York houses so hard that the Claflin company went too far afield for business and spread out too much and gave too much credit in the West. Nobody can trace responsibility for real-estate shifts in New York to the Democratic administration, but busi- ness is fairly dull, and that has made the course of entangled concerns by so much the harder. The President seemed to speak the right word when he said that business had been under fire for ten years, and that it was high time it had relief. He thinks the most practical way to help it is to pass the moderate anti-trust bill now pend- ing, and so clear the way for a great business revival. It is entirely true that the troubles of business did not begin with this admin- istration. “They had raged for two presidential terms. They came to the Democrats to be cured, and they have AND THE CAR ARE NOT ALWAYS IN PROPER PROPORTION made a strenuous and valiant effort to cure them, HERE is a good deal left of old Salem, notwithstanding the la- mentable fire there, but for the loss of any good old Colonial houses that were burned up there is abundant warrant to mourn. Because Salem has long been, commercially, pretty dead, the older part of it has escaped the terrible ravages of progress which have assailed more active places like Boston. The earlier Salem traders got rich and built good houses before the total collapse of taste in these States that happened early in the last century. These good houses survived because they were not crowded out by business or new money. It is sad that any- thing of what all the terrors of time and progress had spared should have been wiped out by mere fire working in a vile collusion with a bursted water ND so, after nineteen years of hesitation, Columbia won in great style a memorable boat race at is the Perhaps Poughkeepsie! — This annus mirabilis of sports. Sir Thomas is going to lift the cup! The wonder (and regret) is that Moran did not wipe the floor of Paris with Jack Johnson. Columbia's vi was even more popular than Yale's. Men from the Coast, men from Wisconsin, husky citizens from up the State and rugged Pennsylvanians, all headed at the end of a fine struggle by a light crew from New York! Possibly it will help a little to revise the reputation of New York as a decadent community the worm time enough and he does turn, tory Embarrassing ANYONE who is prone to feet bad about American occurrences tha would be hard to explain to Europe, is invited to brood over the recent cir- that the “gun” of the New York fell out of his ate Sena- cumstance May: clothes and shot a former $ tor through the leg. Both Sides Represented RS. GLYNN, Governor, is opposed to woman suffrage and does not care who knows the wife of the it. So she says, bold woman, but hints that the Governor's feelings are the other way, which leaves one a little doubtful whether Mrs. Glynn has not, after all, some gift as a politician. comicbooks.com