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...competitors should report promptly at 3.30 o'clock; and in order that the games may be finished before dark, should be ready at least 15 minutes before the scheduled time for their events...
...greatest progress which has been made in New York to offset this condition has been in the destruction of dark alleys, where poor tenements containing rooms in which no light or air had access, were prevalent. In the investigations made by a committee for the purpose, 360,000 rooms were found which did not have any external openings for light or air. Now the laws forbid the erection of any structure in which there shall be a single room which does not have an external opening. Mr. Riis showed many interesting views of the poorer quarters of New York under...
...northwestern and southern Arabia lie the greatest agricultural districts from which wheat superior to that from America is exported to London, and date orchards where over 500,000 tons of dates were raised last year. As long as the Arabs remain nomads, however, the future of Arabia will be dark. The wandering tribes destroy the railroads, break up commerce and rob the citizens. The Turkish government is offering rewards and free land as an encouragement for them to settle down and cultivate the soil...
...there presented a particularly attractive appearance. Of the remaining nineteen boxes there were three in the Game Room, six in the Periodical Room, three in the Writing Room, and seven in the Dining Room. These rooms were lighted by colored Japanese lanterns, which made a pleasing contrast to the dark green of the palms and laurel ropes festooned on the walls. The Living Room, where the dancing took place, was decorated only with a few palms around the fireplaces and a large crimson 1908 banner on the south wall. The receiving party stood at the west end of the Living...
...there is enough that is yet undone. The last census of the tenements in New York showed that there were in them yet 350,000 and over of the dark rooms the Board of Health deemed fatal in 1866. Since then we have found the bacillus of tuberculosis and the fight with the White Plague has been taken up all over the land. In New York City we have every year 8000 deaths from tuberculosis and there are always 20,000 persons dying from the scourge. Is it any wonder, when laboratory experiments have shown that, whereas...