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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-26
TUGMEN ARE ACTIVE.
Members Are Getting Ready to Tie
Up For the Winter.

The members of the Tugmens Pro-
tective Association are getting ready to
tie up their boats for the season. There
is about one more months work, after
which the headquarters in the Kala-
mazoo block and the Hunter block will
assume a lively air. Andy McGilvray
an old member of the marine engineers,
was here during the week on the
Steamer Gilbert. He usually makes
Duluth his winter home-not a bad
place either, for fellow who has to
face the intense heat of an engine room
all summer.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-26
LABOR IN THE SOUTH.

New Orleans Trade Unions Making
Considerable Roadway.
In New Orleans, since the victory Of
the machinists, the blacksmiths and
blacksmiths' helpers have secured the
nine hour day and an advance in wages.
In fact. all trades are said to have
bettered their condition. Street railway
employees, without striking, have chang
ed their hours from IL and IA to 10 and
1917, and wages have been advanced
from 1871 to Is cents per hour.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-26
beaumont Enterprise Oct 49, 1901 --..a
TESTED HAYWOOD NO. Z
Working Pressure 20 bs Standing Pressure Out
Opinion Is That There No Diinution
Production of Wells
Spindle Top Heights.

doing: The Haywood people claim that
1t will flow 100000 barrels each twenty
four hours. Today's performance SHOWS
that 1t will flow 148. 5S4 barrels in twen-
feet long and through nine elbows. The
running pressure was seventy pounds
per square inch, the standing pressure
LOG pounds per square inch.
ply. or an immediate pumping propos-
1tion? ::
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-26
EAGLE BASE BALL CLUB.
Will Give Their First Annual BALL
at Odd Fellows Hall.

The Eagle Base Ball Club, composed
of number of young men we'll known
in the city, and who glory in the fact
that their club won more games than
any other amatuer club in the city, will
give their first annual ball at Odd Fell
lows hall next Monday evening. Music
will be furnished by LaBrosse's or
chestra, while Peter Mclaughlin will
do the prompting.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-26

John Miksch. a member of the Min
neapolis Brewers union, is in Duluth
and will, probably locate here. He is
one, of, the old members Of that organ
ization, and has been employed at the:
Minneapolis Brewing company for q.
number of years.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-26
BUREAU ] e | Of IAB ! y :
COUNCIL GIVES THE BUREAU SOME
80. LUKE WARN SUPPORT.

Esta blishes q Headquarters ut the
) Armory, Away FROM All Kinds Of
Business-Should be Placed Where
the Private Agencies Are-Give 1t
strate its Usefulness.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-26

The local Retail Clerks union 10
steadily growing. and, Ill union men
should see that their wives when max
ing purchases. call Tor the unton card.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-26

Do not put off buying Diamond Crude
Oil stock until too late. This stock is
as good today as though the we'll We're
actually gushing. and the stock is
really worth par or more. 1t sells today
at 25c per share Call or write for our
prospectus. Diamond Crude OIL Co.,
J. II. Bennett. agent, 514 Manhattan
building, Duluth.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-26
J / UNIONS | !


There Has Been an Organized struk-
sic Of the WORKING Glass From
Ancient Tines-Is. UnioAism Ad-
vaategeous to Laboring Mens
Question Ably Discussed ~ one Of
Lab0r's Competent Champions.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-26

portunity to know are the most conf
dent in Texas Oil and Spindle Top
Heights. where the Diamond Crude Oh
Co. is now sinking its we'll: This well Is
now 725 feet deep and should be added
to the list of gushers very soon, and
upon the direct line between the Hey
wood No. 2 (referred to in the leading
article) and the Export well, Of which
Senator Towne is president.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-26
A Saratoga Well Man Talks.

The same copy of the Enterprise con-
tains q statement from c. M. Ellinwood,
In which he says: I'm the case Of our
well (the Saratoga Oil & Pipe Line CO..
on Block SO. which came in a week ago,
the pressure was so great as to neces-
state the anchoring Of the inner casing
very strongly and the oil came up with
such force as to twist off the horizon
tai 6-inch discharge pipe"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-26

Continued n Next lssue:l
Evening star., 1901-03-04

Advertising is not an expense.
1t is an investment: and, if ju.
diciously made, no outlay will
yield so large and so sure a re-
turn. This is the testimony of
wide-awake business men every.
where.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
PACKAGES FROM GERMANY.
Plan to Avoid Customs Inspection
at New York

o. l. Spaulding. Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, yesterday approved a plan
to allow the Postoffce Department to
ship directly to eleven Of the large interior
cities of the United States all parcels
post packages received from Germany TO
be examined at the point of their desti-
nation by the customs officers instead OF
at New York, as is the practice now.
The cities to be thus favored are Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland.
Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee. st. Louis.
Cincinnati, New Orleans, and San Fran
cisco, and the change viii give the mer-
chants of those cities great satisfac-
ton For over a year the large job
bers in the interior have been COM
planning to the department over delays
in the German parcels post packages
and breakage at the New York Gus
toms office. and Mr.. Spaulding has been
working on plan to relieve them. His
only hesitancy in carrying out the plan
now proposed was owing TO the fear that
the Government would lose large per
centage of the customs revenues derived
from this source. as the customs officers
of the interior cities would not have the
facilities for properly appraising dutiable
goods that the New York office have
He also realized that after granting this
privilege toeleven of the larger cities many
of the smaller ones would demand it and
claim that injustice was being done them.
But he has come to the conclusion that
the merchants of New York have an un-
fair advantage over those of many of the
other large cities in this particular and
the plan will be carried out.
Under the postal treaty with Germany
the Postmaster General has the right to
designate the cities as the destination of
through parcels post matter, but as the
new system will entail a great deal of
extra work upon the German postoffice,
the matter will be submitted to the Ger
man postal authorities before the plan is
put into operation. Under the new regu-
latfons it viii be necessary for the Ger
mans to put up in twelve lots the parcels
post packages that have heretofore been
SIMPLY thrown together and directed to
New York.
Letters have been addressed by the de-
partment to the customs officers of the
eleven cities named asking information as
to their facilities for transferring German
parcels post packages directly from the
railroad stations to the customs stores in
their cities so that they win not have to
go TO the customs division of their re
spective postoffces. The department has
found that generally this can be done
The facilities for appraising goods will be
better at the customs stores than in the
poStoffice as a rule.
While II is expected that the Govern
ment viii lose considerable revenue at
first from this change il is not believed
that the plan will open up a way to
smuggling. but rather TO differentiation
as the appraisers in the smaller cities
have not had the experience and are not
as expert as those In the customs service
in New York
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03

Can it be possible that Judge Magoon
has written an opinion holding that our
esoteric understanding with Russia
during the Chinese war and the Rus
so-American cut and scuttle from Pekin
were mistakes? There is a new and
significant GOODNESS toward Russia in
the Administration circle which is
worthy of close attention.
From various news sources the Gov
eminent as well as the press, has been
receiving stories of hard fighting be-
tw cen the Chinese troops and the Cos
sacks in Manchuria State Department
people state privately that in their
opinion these reports are manufactured
out Of whole cloth, and are sent out to
cover the large addition to her military
force in the province which Russia is
now making as rapidly as transport
facilities will allow. II is even said, by
way Of illustrating the altered attitude
Of the Administration, that it purposes
asking Russia to get out of Manchuria,
as that region is now practically paci-
fed and in a condition to return TO its
owners.
This alleged intention may be exag-
gerated. yet it may be true that Mr.
Mckinley would cheerfully join with
others Of the right sort in making such
a request. That it would result salts
factorily to the proponents we are in
clined TO doubt. There are not a few
evidences that a secret understanding
exists between Russia and China and
with France in the way and Italy luke
warm il is a question whether Germany
would throw down the gauntlet TO the
Car. But suppose that something Of
the kind should happen! Is it not quite
conceivable that Russia might produce
a treaty with the Manchu dynasty, con-
ceding q protectorate over Manchuria
TO the former, and reciting the fact that
the province is an imperial family pcs
session. and is not properly to be in
Guided IN the Chinese Empire?
Were Japan 10 declare war we are
prepared to admit that the situation
might be radically changed. But, in
that event it would be seemingly i'm
prudent for this country TO indulge in
ultimate, unless il were intended TO
back the Mikado with armed force. In
a general way, 1t does not look as If
muddling had ceased in connection with
the Chinese question.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03

own use and for sale. It is said that
| for every dollar which the association
has contributed six dollars worth of
vegetables have been raised, which is a
fairly good showing. 1t is also stated
that in many cases the training received
| in this work has made it possible for
families to move into the country and
support themselves there
Whether this sort of thing would
work we'll in every city or not can only
be known by trying the experiment but
it certainly seems to have been profita
BILE to Philadelphia. Every enterprise
which relieves the distress of poverty
by assisting people to help themselves is
doubly beneficial. One of the great
problems Of modern life is the relief of
people who have entered the keen com
petition Of large cities and been worsted
by it. They are not accustomed to any
other life; it is doubtful whether they
would do well in the country; direct aid
makes them paupers, While in the spe-
cialized life of the city there is little
that they can do. If the children Of the
family are sent to work too early they
are demoralized, yet this often seems
to be the only solution of the problem.
The Philadelphia plan utilizes ground
which would otherwise be an unsightly
waste, and abilities which would other
wise be unused. 1t results, not in an
accumulation of goods that nobody
wants. but in produce which is directly
useful TO those who brought it into be-
ing, if to nobody else. 1t provides an
employment in which all can be useful,
even the old man who is too slow and
decrepit To be of any value in the fac
tory, and the child too young to be sent
into the world alone; and the employ
ment takes them all into the open air.
Moreover, gardening is a business
which it is always useful to know. In
any place where there is a scrap of
ground large enough to raise vegetables,
the householder can reduce his expenses
materially by raising some; and since
the principles of flower culture and
market gardening are not essentially
different in their elementary develop
ment. the amateur gardeners will I'M
derstand how to beautify their homes
with flowers if they happen to want to
do SO.
Last, but not least, those who are en-
abled to raise vegetables for their own
use by this scheme of benevolence viii
be rescued from one of the great dan
gers which menace not only the health
of the poor, but of the communicative
eating of vegetables which are stale or
otherwise undesirable. Numbers of
poor families are scarcely able to buy
really good vegetables from one end of
the season to the other, and this part
of their diet is supplied from what is
practically refuse. Such a practice
creates epidemics which threaten not
only the poorer quarter of the city, but
the whole community.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
BACK FROM ALASKA.
A Missionary HOmeward bound
After Years of Service.

VICTORIA, B. c., May FEATHER La
Fevre has arrived here from the far away
Arctic regions. For twelve years he has
been stationed at Fort Mcpherson. about
100 miles from the mouth of the Macken-
zie. There he has labored for years among
the Esquimaux and Indians, and has made
several trips to the whalers in their winter
quarters at Hershall Island. So difficult
has been the work among the people of
that land that he was able to make only
one convert as a result of his many years
of faithful labor, and that convert was a
dying woman. ~
The returned missionary says that from
what he can ledrr there is little if any
gold in this far northern district. and the
adventurous ones who have prospected
have not found much 10 reward them. AT
his stations at Fort Mcpherson, the Esqui-
maux are wanderers, building their huts
wherever the whalers congregate. They
are not civilized, and are cruel and rather
barbarous, but he lived safely with them,
life.
AS for ChristianZing them the mission
airy says that work is indeed difficult, for
they know nothing or will know nothing
of religion. During his residence among
the Indians there was no word or rumor
of any passing balloon, nor did he hear
an iota of news which would lead to the
belief that the missing Andree was seen
in that part of the Arctic regions.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
A FORTUNE IN UNION PACIFIC.
More Than n Million Dollars Cleared
by "a Chicago Man.

CHICAGO, May More than 100000
clear profit on the stock of one road
through holding it for the rise that was
sure TO come is the fortune OF Chicago
capitalist as the result of the boom in
securities which is breaking records and
exceeding the highest expectations of
SPECTATORS here. 1t is only sample Of
the fortunes realized in the last few weeks.
Arthur Orr is the man who made over
q million dollars and Union Pacific is
what brought this enormous amount He
had l00G0 shares, had bought them three
years ago around 20, and is selling part
at 13l. the price TO which 1t rose on the
New York Exchange today. His entire
original investment was 100000 At the
rate of per cent interest for holding it
three years, $4,000 may be added At l3l
the block of 10000 shares today is worth
81. 3IO, 600. Deducting $4,000 from this. the
net profit on the stock is $1.0S0 900.
Mr.. Orr's holdings have not consisted
Of Union Pacific alone, and he is dspos-
ing of a large part of them, it is said,
taking profits on the ground that the mar
ket is at It's highest point. He has kept
as q speculation considerable blocks of
Northwestern, Omaha, New York Central,
Pullman and a number of other stocks.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
WORK ON THE CUBAN TARIFF.
American9 Interests Demand Every
thing hut Concede Nothing.

NEW YORK; May 1.-The Evening
Post prints the following from its Wash
ington correspondent:
1T is understood that the commission
now at work upon the new Cuban tariff
is much disturbed by the aggressive zeal
of American producers to get their com
modites into the island on easy terms,
and at the same time their seeming indif-
ference to theS Cubans' need of markets
here. v o.
1.-The rice planters of Louisiana are
strenuous in their desire to have the rate
of duty against their product exceedingly
low, believing that they can command
the market there against other foreign
producers. American tobacco manufac-
turers are insistent that Porto Rican to-
bacco shall not be allowed to get into
Cuba, as their interests demand that the
integrity of the Cuban product be main
tanned. Our cotton goods manufacturers,
it is also asserted are making demands
which if granted would benefit foreign
manufacturers quite as much.
These are but typical instances of the
desire to get into Cuba and yet against
her products the markets of the world
seem closed. AS one man connected with
the commission has expressed it: These
INTERESTS are ali EOWllIS ike pack VI
wolves, and yet are not willing to give
Cuba anything in return, not even an
opiate to deaden her sufferings.'
THE markets of Europe are practically
closed against Cuban products. Soon af-
ter the war Spain put a very high duty
upon Cuban tobacco; England already
taxes it roundIy for revenue purposes.
The United States wall is very high, and
as for sugar, the great crop, it must
depend largely upon this market, and to
what extent it will be admitted remains to
be seen. Until these Industrial conditions
are settled the affairs on the island can
not be prosperous.
Considerable misunderstanding exists
here, it is said. as to the commercial
classes of Cuba; they are practically all
foreigners. including an insignificant num-
Der of Americans. The Cubans themselves
are agriculturists, whose future will
chiefly depend upon close trade relations
with the United States.
1T has been decided to make the new
tariff a mixed one, but with a minimum
of ad valorem duties. The merchants in
Cuba prefer a high specific duty TO
moderate ad valorem, such are the diff
culties in getting experts in the custom
house to assess values properly, avoiding
differentiation through dishonest impor-
tiers and the generalization of arrogant
officials. For the peculiar conditions of
the island it is felt that specific duties are
an element of safety, and so the schedule
will adopt them as far as possible.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
MILITARY SURGEONS TO MEET.
Army Medical Department to BE
Represented at st. Paul.

Secretary Root yesterday issued an or
der detailing the following medical officers
to represent the Medical Department Of
the Army at the tenth annual meeting
of the Association of Military Surgeons of
the United States to be held in St. Paul,
Mimi, May 80 to June /, 1901:
Major John Van r. Hoff, surgeon, and
Capt. Alfred f. Bradley, assistant sur
geon, L S. Army.
Major Hof will proceed to st. Paul,
Mimi, in time TO reach that place on or
before May 30, 1901, and upon the adjourn
ment of the association will return to his
station In this city.
The Secretary of War has also detailed
the following medical officers to represent
the Medical Department of the Army at
the annual meeting of the American
Medical Association to be held at ST. Paul,
Mimi, June 10 I, 1901:
Major Timothy r. Wilcox, surgeon, and
Major Charles Richard, surgeon, U. s.
Army.
The officers named will proceed to ST
Paul. Mimi, in time TO reach that place
on or before June 4, 1901, and upon the ad-
JOurnment Of the association will return
To their proper stations.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
THE ILLINOIS DISTRICTS.
Effect of the Reapportionment
the Republican Party.

THE apportionment bill which has
passed the Illinois Legislature at SpT
field, will, l think. be conceded by
Democrats to be fair and equitable not
withstanding the fact that in the Fifts
eighth Congress the Illinois delegatior.
will stand about eighteen Republicans Z
seven Democrats" remarked Civil Service
Commissioner Rodenberg last night to a
party of friends Under the apportion-
ment bill which was passed by the Demo
Gratis during AltgeId's administration.
said he, the districts were so arrange
that. although the State went Republican
last year by 5000 majority. the del
ton elected TO the Fifty-seventh Cong :
was evenly divided, eleven TO clever
When the Democrats redistricted 70
State they created several districts with
5,0O0 Republican majority.
''Of the eighteen districts which viii clecs
Republicans to the House in the F.
eighth Congress, only one might be
ed as doubtful because of the small -
publican majority. and that is the district
now represented by George w. Smith His
new district will be Republican by about
700, but if Smith is renominated. anI
believe he will be, he can carry the els
trict against any man the Democrats
up. This fact Influenced the Legislat p Q
when the reappOrtionment bill was dT.-
up. or course, If some other Repubiit p
should be nominated the Democrats v
have good fighting chance to elect
man, whoever he might be ! know
of the Illinois Democrats say they p
not been treated fairly, but just co.,
what the Missouri Legislature die
in their reapportiOnment bill tt
souri, Democrats have so gerryn1a nd
the State that in the Fifty-eighth
gress the Republicans will only have
Representative out of fifteen. They ~ zee
placed Representative Bartholdt in DIS
trict with 30.000 Republican majority en-
have practically legislated Representative
Republicans have more cause for con-
plant at their treatment than have u
Illinois Democrats
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
A HIGH TRIBUTE TO REESE.
Promoted to Grade of Commander
Without an Examination

Lieutenant Commander Corwin 2. Reese.
who was executive officer of the flagship
Olympia in the battle of Manila Bay, came
to Washington Wednesday from Newport
TO attend the Dewey anniversary dinner
Wednesday night, and incidentally to be
examined for promotion to the grade of
commander. The report of the examina-
ton was received at the Navy Department
yesterday. 1t shows that when Lieutenant
Commander Reese came before the board
its members adopted the unusual course of
passing him without asking any questions
to test his professional efficiency. They
said merely that his record as shown by
the Navy Departments data was so ex-
cellent that no personal examination was
necessary. This action of the board was
high tribute to the professional ability
of Lieutenant Commander Reese.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-03
THE PETREL ORDERED HOME.
Only One Vessel of Dewey's Fleet
Left at Manila.

The Navy Department yesterday order
ed the gunboat Petrol to return to the
United States from the Philippines, thus
leaving the Concord the only fighting yes
sci of Dewey's feet now in Asiatic wa
tiers.
The recall of the Petrol marks the in
auguration of the reduction of the large
force of United States naval vessels on
the Asiatic station, a natural result of the
practical collapse of the instruction in
the Philippines and the quiet conditions
prevailing in China.
1t is expected that Rear Admiral Remey,
commander-in-chief of the Asiatic sta
ton and the naval force, will return 10
the United States late in the summer.
Rear Admiral Kempff will probably be
left in command Rear Admiral Rodgers,
who is senior to Admiral Kempff, is on
his way TO Manila on the flagship New
York to become second in command to
Admiral Remey, but with the recall of so
many ships from the Far East, the Navy
Department may be enabled to re-estab-
lish the European station and it is said
that Admiral Rodgers is in line for that
command.
The Petrol will be placed out of com
mission and overhauled at the Mare ISL
and Navy Yard