TCH HOUSE storal NE ennes, RS ompany. Seat e's ut is Kansas University Weekly. THE ONLY OFFICIAL AND AUTHORIZED WEEKLY PUBLICATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. OL. XII. Geo. Davies. the Student's tailor. has received a new line of fine spring goods. He will run a SUITIIORIUM in connection with his tailor shop. Clothes cleaned, pressed and kept in perfect order for $1.50 per month. The Excelsior Pantatorium. WatkinsNationalBank Capital $100,000. Surplus $20,000. J. B. Workus, Pres. J. A. Hill, V. Pres. H. Tucker, Cust. W. H. Rizzo, Assst. C Reasonable Charges. Phone 13 Reasonable Charges. Phone 13 J. A. NICOLSON, Successor to Geo. F. Godding. LIVERY, HACK, and BOARDING STABLE. RUBBER TIRED RIGS. RUBBER TIRED RIGS. Lawrence. . . . Kansas Chas. L. Hess. Meat Market. 941 Mass. St. Telephone 14 A. P HULTS, DENTIST, No. 735 Massachusetts Street F. A. EWING Pure Mexican Chili and Hot Tamales. Hot Chocolates, Tomato Boullion, Beef Tea, etc. Also a line of good Cigars. 1027 MASS. ST. Our method of buying and selling will save you 10 per cent. 1801 KY. ST. TEL. 018 WHITE McKINZIE GROCERY J. W. O'BRYON, DENTIST, Jackson Bldg. Phone 517 Gray Ed Anderson's Restaurant and Confectionery. Student's Headquarters. DONNELLY BROS., LIVERY, BOARDING, and HACK STABLES. All Rubber Tire Rigs. 10, 12 and New Hampshire. Phone 100 EASTERN STAR BAKERY EASTERN STAR BAKERY Fine Pastries and Buns. Sweet Cakes a Specialty Parties supplied. Best Candy & Ice Cream Parlor. J. Contrakon. Agent for Douglas' Choc Bonbons. WHOLESALE and RETAIL. 713 Mass. St. Lawrence, Kan SAGURDAY. MARCH 12. 1904. at THE HOME STORE Toilet requisites, Sempre Giove ine, Jennesse St. Beaute, Kan sas Toilet Cream, Curodor, Ag naline, Tooth paste, Perfume, etc 1105 Mass. St. MRS. PREN'TISS MRS. PREN'TISS at THE HOME STORE PROTSCH TAILOR. 717 MASS STREET. ATHLETICS. The basket ball team will go to Ottawa Monday to play the return game with the Baptists. The athletic board met Tuesday and authorized Manager Plank to hire Billy Durham from the Kansas City Blues to coach the base ball squad. Mr. Durham came up Thursday, and went out with the boys for the first time Friday. Manager Plank was in Kansas City the latter part of last week making final arrangements for the indoor track meet with Missouri on March 18. There will be an excursion on this date leaving Lawrence at 10 o'clock and returning at 11:30 that night. Excursion tickets will be sold with tickets to the meet, ranging from $1.75 to $2.25, according to the seat purchased. The track men held a preliminary meet Saturday at 2:30 on McCook, to try the relative strength of the men. The winners of the different events in meet will not necessarily be the representatives of K. U. in the Missouri meet. ENGINEERING NOTES. The class baseball managers met Friday noon to make arrangements for the class games. Dr. Naismith presided and Fred Gillette served as secretary. Filkin, Barton, Ward and Klaumann were appointed as a committee to arrange rules regarding eligibility of men for class rating. Alford, Filkin, Jenkinson and Gillette are the com nittee to arrange rules governing the games and schedule. The Engineering department has received an exhibition of whistles, blow off valves, etc., with the compliments of Ludken heimer & Co. of Cincinnatti, New York and London. They may be seen in the mining museum. Plans have been discussed by some of the professors and students concerning a way to advertise our Engineering schools and form a closer relation between alumni students. More of this kind of work would be of great value to the school Prof. Crane has just completed his model of "Iron Mine Working." It shows in detail the parts of the mine shafts and the vein of ore. It is an excellent piece of work. The engineers will hold a meeting Tuesday at 4:30 to talk over matters relating to engineering interests. Prof. Marvin led chapel Thursday, during the absence of Dr. Strong. The term's work in testing laboratory has been laid out by Prof. Hood and the boys are rushing it through as rapidly as possible. JACOB RIIS LECTURE. The New York Reformer Tells of the Slum District In the Metropolis City Jacob Riis lectured Tuesday night in the Opera House on "The Battle with the Slums." No man in America today has done so much toward reforming the wretched condition of the poor in New York as Mr. Riis. For thirty years he has labored to eradicate the unsanitary tenements and better the economic and social conditions of their inhabitants. As a police reporter for twenty-five years he has come in contact with the terrible conditions which have prevailed in congested parts of New York City. By his vigorous war against the municipal evils which have led to the virtual manufacture of criminals and depraved citizens he has earned the title given him by President Roosevelt, "The most useful citizen of New York." His books writter upon tenement life and conditions are true stories of the horrible conditions that have obtained in our metropolis almost up to the present time. "How the Other Hall Lives." "The Children o the Poor." "The Making of an American." "A Ten Year's War." "The Battle With the Slums." and "Out on Mulberry Street." are his principal publications In his lecture he illustrated his words with lantern slides made from photographs taken by him sell Mr. Riis began his talk by outlining the vast field of work which the battle had to do with 30-,0000 people occupying the congested district of the city. He described with graphic words the habitations of these poor, huge tenement houses containing hundreds of rooms where no sun or light ever entered; the only openings to the outer world being a narrow filthy alley. Whole families lived in one or two of the small rooms without any sanitary advantages without the possibility of a social home life in abject poverty amid dirt and squalor that would shame beasts. One whole block of tenements contained a single bath tub and that belonged to a tenant. The physical conditions were bad enough but did not compare with the deprived social life which was a direct result of such surroundings. There was no home life, hence the men went to the saloon and the children to the gutter for recreation. The influence of the streets encouraged only the evil tendencies in the child and his ultimate end was a life of crime. The reclaiming of these people, the building of suitable habitations for them, the revolution of these dens of wickedness into clean American homes has been the work of Mr. Riis for thirty years. He told of the struggle with the legislators to have laws (Continued on last page.) DEBATING COUNCIL The debating council has made arrangements for the preliminary contests and also for the interstate debates. It was decided to make the Missouri preliminary a private one so as not to interfere with the interest in the final debate. The Colorado and Nebraska preliminaries will be held in the chapel on the same night, having two sets of judges, one for each question. The question of whether we should have faculty or down town men for judges was not settled, this being left to the faculty members of the council. The sentiment of the council, though, seemed to be that there should be at least one faculty members among those who choose our debaters. The date of our inter-state debates was discussed and it was decided in as far as possible to have the Missouri-Kansas contest about the 15th of April, the Nebraska a week later and the Colorado the first week in May. The Missouri debate is the only one which occurs here and it was decided to have it first Knowing the importance of having the right kind of men for judges, the council directed the secretary to enter into correspondence with prominent men in different parts of the country looking to securing their services as judges in our inter-state debates. Kansas proposes this year to secure men of prominence and men who will not be biased on the question at issue, if such a thing is possible. PHI BETA KAPPA BANQUET. The Fourteenth Annual Banquet of Phi Beta Kappa was held in the parlors of the Presbyterian church Friday evening. Chancellor Strong acted as toastmaster. The following program of toasts followed an elegant banquet: Lucy Abel - Recollections of England. Louise Alder-The Shadow of Oread Arthur H.Basye—Port Arthur. NO. 23. Jessic B. Bennett—Every One an Artist. . Frank E. Burford—The Embryology of a State. Kate C. Clark—Grades. Edward S. Cowdrick — The Professional Dilemma. Caryl J. Dodds—Plate Matter. Walter D. Easton — College Barbarians. M. Florence Forrest—A Poem. Mary L. Johnson — College Segregation. George W. Nutting—Kansas. Roxy H. Oldroyd—The Benefactions of Science to Women. Eleanor J. Patterson—Susan B. Anthony. Chas. Harker Rhodes—The Insufficiency of Wheat. Hazel K. Smith — Academic Heredity. George H. Willis—The Presence of Plato. Jasper B. Wilson—Economic Interests of America in the Orient. Bessie M. Wood—Folks vs. Books. Following the student responses to toasts, Judge Smith, Miss Hazel Smith's father, responded to a toast and Prof. M. A. Barber spoke on Phi Beta Kappa, explaining the nature and history of the society. NEW INRTRUCTOR IN VOICE. Mrs. Blanche Lyons has accepted the position of assistant instructor of vocal music in the K.U.Music School, Mrs.Lyons is not a stranger to K.U. students. She has sung a number of times for chapel exercises and never fails to delight her audience. Mrs. Lyons won both state and inter-state contests at Hutchinson last year and is the most popular teacher in Lawrence. Kansas University may well consider itself fortunate in obtaining the services of Mrs Lyons as instructor. SENIORS. All seniors desiring a class pin, give their names to RHODES.