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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1900
Page
9
The Paris Exposition showcases American machines at Vincennes dominating the American annex with toolmakers, lathes, planers, and innovations. U.S. exhibitors highlight advanced precision, adaptability, and new methods, contrasting with French and British displays in diverse machine categories and power plant gear.
In Chicago I met a magazine editor promoting a pay-to-publish system. Contributors receive ten dollars per short story and five for poems, with total earnings claimed at about seven hundred fifty dollars per page. The editor argues the scheme helps writers reach print and possibly advance to larger markets.
Two Brontë items on view at Mr Sotheran's Piccadilly. One is a rare Anne Brontë manuscript containing a copy of three poems. The other is Charlotte Brontë's only surviving fiction draft, two chapters of a story begun in Ireland after her marriage and within a year of her death. About eighteen pages remain.
Rajputana resident urges Tribune readers to send grain rather than money to aid India’s famine. He argues grain lowers prices, feeds more, and can be distributed by missionaries, citing years of scant rainfall, cattle losses, and hardship under high usurious loan rates. William Clark M D Rajputana, May 17, 1900.
A letter signed Old Subscriber describes severe famine across Rajputana Malwa and Gujarat where grain prices soar Maize now at twenty four pounds per rupee and five million of forty million famine victims have left homes seeking relief works. The piece notes the able are aiding others while the weak perish and wild beasts prey on carcasses. Third seed time will come again and the drought’s toll persists.
Letter from Thomas K of New York dated June 14, 1900, praising Tribune editorials. He condemns a four tenths mile display around the Forty second Street reservoir fence, urging city leaders and the new library trustees to reject the outdoor advertising as an offense to taste and a potential waste of public property. He cites other praised editorials on City Travel Abuses Civil Pension Menace and Contractors on Streets.
A rector praises an anonymous donor who gave 320,00 for a nurses training school and hospital expansion at Presbyterian Hospital in New York. He commends the hospital’s care and calls the gift a Christlike act benefiting the poor, dated June 13, 1900.
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