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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
rion having this end In view is recon-.
A Preacher Delcgnte.

Federal Labor union, No. $500, of
Dwight, ILL.,, has elected the Rev. Shell
don A. Harris, vice president of the
Illinois State federation, to represent
1t at the convention Of the American
Federation of Labor that meets at
Scranton, Pa, in December. He will
be the first preacher that ever attended
the federation as a delegate.
Rev. Mr.. Harris was n journeyman
woodworker in his younger days. For
about seven years previous to being
ordained to the ministry he worked at
his trade in Chicago and studied nights
under Professor Graham Taylor of the
Chicago commons. When a mixed
union Of workers was organized in
Dwight, he became 4 membes of Fed
eral Labor union. No 9.302. and carries
q working card Of that organization.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06

United States Senator Spooner of
Wisconsin was sitting In the west cor
ridor of the Waldorf-Astoria the other
day surrounded by circle of men at
tired in evening dress one of whom in
the course of somewhat pedantlc dis
QUESTION referred to some one as being
"as rich as Midas"
81 have read something about that
fellow Midas and his opulence," said
the senator. "He may have been a
fairly rich man In his day, but If he
had existed today with his reputation
ard wanted TO sustain 1t with the serv-
ants In New York hotel the expendi-
ture necessary would have made him
look like what the horsemen nowadays
call selling platter
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
Hawai-, Needs More Lnborers.

Henry q. Cooper, territorial secreta.
ry of Hawaii, had conference the
other day with Secretary Hitchcock
and submitted his annual report as act
ing governor Of Hawaii. The report
makes a number OF important recon-
mendations, feature of 1t being its
treatment of the labor question. Mr..
Cooper reports that there is urgent
need for laborers from outside the ter
ritory. He shows that during the last
fiscal year between 1000 and 5000
Japanese laborers left Hawaii, while
only about 500 such laborers entered
the territory. Approximately the same
proportion of entries and departures
holds good with respect to Chinese and
other labor, making the bringing in Of
labor from outside necessary. Legisla-
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06

Simon Burns, the president Of the
Window Glass Workers association
and the general master workman Of
the anti-Parsons faction of the knights
Of Labor, has been elected q director
Of the American Window Glass COM
pany. Sitting on the same board with
the representative Of the workingmen
are P. A. B. Widener and w. L..
Elkins, the Philadelphia capitalists.
The Window Glass Workers associa-
ton owns some stock in the glass COM
bine, and in consideration Of this it
was decided to give the association
representation on the board. The
workers We're asked to select n man.
They chose their president, and the
stockholders Of the company elected
him director.
The Window Glass Workers asso.
citation is said to be the richest labor
organization in the world. 1t has less
than 5000 members, of whom many
are Belgians. During the steel work
ers' strike they contributed $1,000 to
the Amalgamatcd association.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
JAPANESE LABOR.
Movement For It's Protection begun
by the Leisure Cinsses.

Movement For It's Protection begun
by the Leisure Glasses.
Japan has no laws, for the protection
of labor or restricting the employment
of women and children, states Consul
General Bellows at Yokohama in a
report to the state department dealing
with labor conditions In that empire.
Considerable agitation, he says, has
risen of late looking to the better pro.
lection of labor; but, strangely enough.
1t has come principally from the edu-
Gated and professional or leisure class
es rather than from the laborers them
selves. 1t is the opinion of Mr.. Bellows
that the industrial and economic con-
ditions of Japan would hardly warrant
the close restrictive measures such as
are enforced in England and the Unit
ed States, but he states as his belier
that labor bill will be introduced at
the next session of the diet.
Mr.. Bellows incloses number of
newspaper articles written by native
japanese, which disclose distinct di-
vergence Of views on the subject of la
Dor. One Of them deprecates the agi-
tation Of sociallstic subjects and as
serts that the gulf between the rich
and the poor of Japan Is not compara-
BILE to that between the plutocrat and
the pauper In the western world. The
content of the working classes this
writer attributes to the lack of osten.
tation in the lives Of the rich Japanese
people, who usually prefer to avoid
any display Of extravaganza.
Another newspaper article states
that Japanese children under ten years
and some of scarcely five or six years
ure largely employed in factories, that
mon and women are made to work for
''injurlously excessive long hours and
that eighteen hours day are often
worked. 1t also calls attention to the
fact that japanese railway company
paying dividends of 80 and 40 per cent
pays its laborers So and SO a month
and works them from fourteen to sew
enteen hours day.
The Asahi, n Japanese newspaper,
deplores the lack Of skilled labor in
Japan on the ground that it seriously
binders the Introduction of foreign
capital into the empire, which is so
earnestly desired by Japanese fnan-
ciers,
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
ccrman Laborer. ont of work.

There Is continuous scarcity of
work in Germany. Consul General
Hughes has sent reports to the state
department showing that in the min
ing districts and In the centers Of the
iron working and machine making re.
gions short hours, dismissal of hands
and cutting down OF wages are gen.
eral. In the month Of July, 1900, when
the depression of business in general
was felt for the first time on the labor
market, the decrease Of employed Ia
borers amounted to only per cent,
while in July Of this year their already
inuch reduced number decreased by
further 8 per cent.
There Is marked increase in the
number Of men applying for work at
the public labor offices. In July, 1900.
for every 100 open places 1922 appli-
cants were counted. This year their
uumber ran UP to 1909.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06

rev nights ago, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean. The fire burned to height OF
sixty feet. The Evanston Historical 10
ciety. which has taken much trouble to
preserve this cottonwood monarch, will
try to learn who started the fire.
The Kloupfer tree is historical land
mark. 1t was the meeting place of the
Pottawatomle Indians, who found room
for forty persons In the hollow trunk.
Its topmost branch, ITO feet above tie
ground. could be seen for miles, and
upon its trunk, which is eighteen feet
in diameter, were the marks OF the old
Mackinac trail. Marquette. La Snllc,
Joliet, Hennepin and. many other Jesu-
It's visited the tree with the Indians.
During the days when stagecoaches
ran from Chicago to Green Bay the tree
was used as "blnd pig" and at one
time sheltered homeless family.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
MORGAN'S QUICK TIME.
The Great Firnncier's Remarkable
Transcontincntni Gcin

nne Great Ftunncfer's Rcr'nr.-;;h'c
Transcontincntai 'icip
After a remarkably RAPID "iiN ~ "'3
the continent, and one extreme D.: s.
ant, according to all WHO 'F -
board, Mr.. j. picrpont MOigdi. s,nr
cial train has returned 10 New York.
"There was not an unplca.Nui inci-
dent on the trip" said Rev. Dr. Greer
TO a Herald reporter We made our
schedule time throughout. arriving at
every station on the minute we expect
ed. l cannot say much about the trip,
as WI, all agreed not to talk of it for
publication"
After leaving San Francisco q rapid
where the train arrived ON Friday Oct.
Is. Special precautions were taken foi
Mr.. AIorgan's safety. This was due
not only To the desire of the Northern
Pacific officials that no accident should
befall the party while in their charge,
but to the fact that large colony Of
the alleged anarchists exists within n
few miles of Tacoma.
While the Morgan party was in this
section of the country the police forces
both of Tacoma and Seattle were under
instructions to be especially vigilant,
and the regular detectives were sup
plemented by men of private agencies.
One of the interesting incidents of the
trip was when at Butte, Mon, Mr..
Morgan and several members of the
party, attired in miners clothes, went
to the bottom of the Anaconda mine,
1000 feet below the surface
From Seattle the train sped along
the tracks of the Northern Pacific to
st. Paul, Minn., arriving there last
Thursday afternoon, the only stops
having been at Spokane, Wash, and
at Butte.
During the twenty-seven hours pre-
yious to its arrival at st. Paul the
time made was especially good. One
Thousand miles were covered, a dis
tnnce that the fastest regular passen-
ger train In the Northern Pacific
service requires thirty-six hours to
cover.
After a stop of only fifteen minutes
at st. Paul the train sped on to Chi
cago, which was reached shortly after
midnight on Friday. The train was at
once switched on the Michigan Cen
tral tracks and continued on its way
without delay.
Niagara Falls was reached on Fri
day afternoon after remarkable run
from Detroit.
The total distance OF 277 miles was
covered in 200 minutes. At times be-
tween st. Thomas and Niagara Falls
the speed was about eighty-five miles
an hour.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan made the trip
from Niagara Falls to Buffalo on
Superintendent Bradfield's observation
locomotive of the New York Central,
and that evening visited the Pan
American exposition. They went,
among other places, to the Temple of
Music to hear Victor Herberts orches-
ira and to see the spot where Presi-
dent Mckinley was shot
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
Musk OK brought From the Arctic.

The whaling steamer Beluga, Captain
Bodfish. reached San Francisco from
the arctic the other evening, seventeen
days from Port Clarence. A live musk
or, said to be the first ever brought to
Gan Francisco, arrived on the Beluga
from the arctic coast and is expected to
be great curiosity, says the New York
Tribune. 1t is the property of Captain
Bodflsh, who will make the best possi-
BILE disposition Of the rare animal Al
though skins Of musk OK have been
brought from the arctic in large num-
bers, attempts to bring the animal itself
to this southern latitude have always
heretofore proved futile, the musk OK
being peculiarly susceptible to change.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
How Fortre.. Monroe Wa. Built.

The manner of constructing the fort
Mt Old Point Comfort is interesting
and throws some light on customs and
practices then In vogue. The work was
almost wholly done by slaves who were
brought to the place by their masters
and leased to the engineers in charge.
The slave owner received 30 ceGts a
day for each slave. and the governmens
furnished each ''laborer," as the slave
was called, with two suits of working
clothes, pair or two Of shoes. ratlons.
quarters and occasionally little tobac-
co. The "laborers" worked with very
little clothes and generally without
shoes. They lived in barracks and were
subject to kind of military discipline.
The owners were regular In coming in
to collect the hire for their slaves, from
which we may infer that the "constitu-
ents" of those days knew how to appre-
ciate a good thing No degree worthy
of the present generatlon.--Leslie's
Weekly.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
Circus Beauty Dying.

the girl. then the beautiful Jennie
Weiss, first met the Baron Won Raden.
He was Russian cavalry officer. He
loved her madly. They We're married.
swept away and his regal wife was
forced, against his wishes, to go upon
the stage and exhibit her horses to
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
TWO EUROPEAN CRUISES TO
THE MEDITERRANEAN


On steamship Auguste Victoria. Jan.
30, and White Star steamship Celtic,
Feb. S. 1902, also tour to West Indies.
Spanish Main, and Mexico. on steam
ship Prinzessin Victoria Luise, Jan.
q, and Feb. s. For booklets. circu.
lays, and reservations call on or
phone C. d. Honodle, ticket agent
Union depot, Akron, o.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
CHEAP RATES AGAIN TO THE
WEST.

On Oct 18th Nov. 9th and 10th and
Dec. 3rd and 18th, 1901, the Northern
Pacific will sell Home-seekers' excur-
sion tickets to western points reached
via Its line, at one fare plus 81 for
the round trip. For further informa-
tion regarding rates. write Il. G.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
FIRE " eaARM eAhHs /

! Central Engine House.
Buckeye Works.
3 Miller Rubber works.
Diamond Rubber Works.
Main and Market.
C No. Engine House, Sixth Ward
Z North Broadway, mead Market.
S Buchtel ave-, and Bowery.
8 Schumacher Mill. Mill street
II Prospect, near Mill.
13 Furnace and Broadway.
IA Main and keck.
10 Ash and Park Place,
1G No. 8 Engine House. West Hill.
II Carroll and Exchnage.
IS Empire Mower and Reaper
Works.
10 Akron Rubber Works.
81 Prospect and Perkins.
% Forge and Market.
"a Sherman, near Exchange
% Main and Exchange.
26 North Howard and Tallmadge.
q West Market ard Green.
% Akron Knife Works.
30 Washington aud Hopp hlley.
81 North Howard and North.
80 East Market and Spruce.
"a West Market and Valley.
80 Carroll and Splcer.
SO Carroll and Sumner.
81 North and Arlington.
3S Vine and Fountain.
80 Coburn and Campbell.
Al Wooster ave, and Locust.
AZ Pearl, near clstern.
43 South Main and Falor,
40 College and Mill.
As Arlington and Hazel.
Al Howe and Bowery.
4S West South.
40 Merrill Pottery, State.
81 Howard and Cherry.
81 No. Engine House, Main and
Falor.
53 Center ST., Railroad Crossing
E "a Buchtel ave, and Union.
50 Akron Stoneware Co.. 9th Ward
81 Lods and Turner.
IS Perkins and Adolph ave.
so Webster, Camp & Lane Ma
chine Co.
81 Case ave-, and Kent.
62 Sieberling Mill, 9th Ward.
G3 Johnston and Champlain.
GA Akron Sewer Pipe Co., Black
Mill.
67 Carroll and East Market.
6S Second ave, and Valley Ry.
90 Johnson and Wilson.
II Grant and Cross.
72 North and Maple.
rs Werner Printing Co.
"A North Union. near Bluff.
75 Robinson Bros. North Forge.
70 The Whitmore- Robinson Co.
rs East Market and Cook.
70 Home, near Lillian.
81 Western Linoleum Co.
50 Summit Sewer Pipe Co
SO Allyn and Cross.
81 Thornton and Harvard.
So The ]. C. Mcneil Boiler Works.
81 Thornton and Camp.
50 Main and Miller ave.
81 Cereal Mills, South Howard.
Schumacher cooper shop. N. Broad
way.
04 Mill and Summit
95 Main and Mill.
9S Buchtel ave, and Fay.
123 Silver and Hickory.
124 South High and Chestnut.
125, West Market and Rhodes ave,
l21 General Alarm,
126 Arlington and Second ave.
232 Renner's Brewery, n. Forge st.
2I1 Sherman and Voris.
251 Cedar and Wabash ave.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06

STEAMSHIP TICKETS TO EUROPE
Via all leading lines at lowest rates.
Cooks personally conducted tours.
Information cheerfully given upon ap-
| plication to G. d. Honodle, ticket
agent Union depot.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06

the society folk with whom she had
mingled upon equal terms few
months before. 1t was bravery, but
the sort of bravery that society on the
Continent did not understand. Then
her success upon the stage made her
husband jealous.
-Four men in quick succession, in
Vienna and Paris, fell before his blade
because of attention paid to the
baronne. After that admirers ceased
sending her flowers and jewels. 1t Is
said she never cared snap of her
fingers for these tokens, but loved the
Baron till the end. three years ago.
He died. Last January she appeared
at Nizza. She went to bed att her
usual hour one night and when she
awoke she could not see. She was
stone blind. Where were her friends :?
Gone. They deserted her. Her rings
and even her beloved horses went to
buy her bread which she could no
longer earn.
Now the end is near. She is pray
ing for death. And tickle Paris for the
moment is sorry.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
RAILROAD NOTICES.

ONE FARE PLUS 50 FOR THE
ROUND TRIP
Is the rate the Northern Pacific will
make to western points reached via
its line on account of Home-seekers'
excursions. Selling dates will be Oct.
18th, Nov. 9th and 10th and Dec. 3rd
and 18th. For further information
write Il. G. Schoen, ID. p. A. n. p. r.,
305 Park building, Pittsburg, Pa, or
address Chas. S. Fee, G. Il. & L. A.,
n. r. r., st. Paul, MINI.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06

CENTRAL PASSENGER ASSOCIA.
TION MILEAGE.
The Erie Railroad now sells and ac.
cepts G. r. A. mileage orders.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
HISTORIC TREE BURNED.
Giant Cottonwood on the Kloupfes
Farm Is Set on Fire.

Farm Is Set ON Fire.
The gigantic Kloupfer cottonwood
tree. the largest tree in the United
States excepting the redwoods of Call
fornla, which has stood for more than
a thousand years two miles west of the
present site of Wilmette, on land owned
by Michael Kloupfer. was set on fire .
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06

Schoen, ID. +. 4. n. p. r., 3O5 Park
building, Plttsburg, Pa. or address
Chas. S. Fee. G. y. & L. a. n. Z. r.,
st. Paul. Minn.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
LOW RATES FOR CHRISTMAS 4
NEW YEARS HOLIDAYS

Via c. +. & V.-B. & o. r. r, Tickets
on sale Dec. "a, %, 81 and Jan. 1.
Good returning to and including Jan.
., 1902.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
HoMEsEEKERs EXCURSIONS.

HOMESEEKERS EXCURSIONS.
West and Southwest, via B., & O..
X. r.. Nov. 9th and 10Th. Dec. Bird
and 18th; good returning y days from
date. For tickets and further inforlnh-
tion see G. d. HonOdle, Ticket Agent,
Union depot, Akron, o.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06

253 West Exchange, near Willow.
312 Cascade Mills, North Howard.
314 Fire Chiefs Residence.
321 Adams and upson.
341 Balch and Market.
$40 Maple, opposite Balch.
3i5 Bittman aad Crosby.
351 Exchange and Splcer.
Az Wooster and st. Clair.
4l3 st. Clair and Bartges.
4l5 Water Works, Wooster ave
431 Ewart Tile Works, ~
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06
HoME-sEEKERs EXCURSIONS

Low rate Home-Seekers' excursion
tickets to points in West and South
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-06

Paris, DeN 6.-The toast of the
Jockey club. the beautiful woman who
oueened it over the beauX of the
'Frcnch nobility with the same dazzling
charm that won her fame In spangles
and tights in the ring at the cirque,
the dark-eyed beauty for whom four
men gave up their lives after she had
tossed their love away carelessly, the
, famous Baronne Jennie Won Raden,
blind and penniless. is slowly dying
in shabby little garret at Neuilly.
Society is shocked over the revela
tion.
Offers of aid, many of them from
the men whom she laughed ut when
life was kinder than now, are pouring
In all too late to save her.
The Baronne's stable of thorough
breds, which she exhibited in Paris
and London, have been sold long ago.
She lost her balance on the ladder of
fame and riches and the fall was
abyssmal.
1t was as the most dashing pupil
at famous equestrian school that
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-05-02
The Markets.
Georgetown, May 2.-Whest 70s7S.
A SCENE In A HOTEL.

A domestic disagreement, which gossip says
will end In q separation and possible divorce
proceedings. was in evidence on Monday
evening at the Hyde Park Hotel, at Chicago,
snd for two days Hyde Park society has been
excited. The participants were James b.
Shirley, claim agent OF the Illinois Central
Railroad, and Mrs. Shirley. Che is a daugh;
ter Of James T. Hsrshap, secretary and vice
president Of the Illinois Central road.
The encounter, as described by witnesses,
began at 7:30 o'clock in front OF the hotel.
Mrs. Shirley had been down town shopping
during the afternoon, and when she failed to
come home as the dinner hour came her hus'
band became worried. He sat on the veranda
and told group Of women assembled there
that be was waiting fer his wife to return.
an fix her; watch me csrye her when she
gets home" he is reported to have said.
When his wife finally appeared, Mr.. Shirley
grabbed her roughly by the neck and struck
her in the face. Mr.. Shirley was acting like
a crazy man and alter striking his wife
he ran across into the hotel. Inside the
hotel he struck his wife sgsin, knocking her
down and also knocking down 9 woman
friend. Mrs. Smiley broke away from her
husband and ran down the hall into the put
lie bathroom. Before she could turn the key
Shirley forced the door and began beating
her again. Several men and women went to
Mrs shirley's aid and her angry husband
was dragged away from her. She left the
hotel ss soon as possible and Shirley also die
appeared,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-05-02
swindIed the Jockey Club.

Louisville. KY, May 2.-The nerviest
swindler working today is following
the races. This individual took 800
Confederate bill and with 1t he succeed
ed in securing 500 and ticket to the
track. When the Jockey Club counted
up its money it found bulky bill
which on one side resembled genuine
800 of present currency. On the other
was stamped 800 In queer look money.
The whole bill was so bulky from the
paste that 1t was as thick as three Or
binary ones. The ticket seller who
turned 1t In said 1t had been showed
under his nose In the busiest part OF the
day and that he had handed out race
ticket and 500 In change.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-05-02
ALLIANCE OF sHIPYARDS

Informal conferences were held In
New York yesterday between the
promoters Of the plan for consolidating
five leading shipyards under one man.
aeement, hut few details were added to
the plans formulated on Tuesday. Ac-
cording to one of nose present at the
last meeting. a company with capital
stock Of $40, 100000 will be formed,
and q syndicate has already been
formed to underwrite this amount.
81. E. Huntington, will, 1t is said, be
president OF the new concern, but the
practical work 10 the shipyards will be
under the charge of Lewis Nixon, and
perhaps Naval Constructor Bowles.
One OF the plans is for the establish.
ment of mammoth floating drydock,
probably on the Arthur Kill. The
companies included are: The Newport
News Shipbuildipg Company, the New
London Shipbullding Company, the
Crescent shiDyards of Elizabethport,
N. j., the Union Iron Works Of San
Francisco, and the Bah Iron Works
and Bath Windlsss Company Of Maine.