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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-12
TALKS By THE PUBLISHER.

WHEN VIC commenced these Saturday talks
w with our readers and advertisers II was
not our intention TO enter into controversy with
our competitors but IN describing the superiority
OF the fiat rate for advertising, which The
Tribune has adopted In dc.iie to deal hi"ly
with Its customers, IL was necessary TO maEc
some comparisons. In continuing these dis
cussions very little attention will be paid to the
derisivc howls OF contemporaries, believing that
the justnes Of our position will appeal TO the
business men Of the city. We cannot RETAIN,
however, from asking those advertisers who the
Times claims are paying IL $50 per month for
four inches on yearly contract what they think
OF business policy that countcnances the de-
manding OF such a figure from one man and then
accepts an S.inch ad. from another, without con.
| tract, for S25 per month?
-Four inches. on yearly contract ....s96
Eight inches, without contract ...... %
The assertion that The Tribune Is carrying
advertising at cents an inch Is untrue. The
fact that we are inserting business at less than
our present card rates only demonstrates that
we standing by our contracts, which we are
legally and morally bound TO respect. We
challenge any one TO dispute the assertion that
no business has been accepted since April l at
less than card rates.
Aside from the fact that fiat rate assures
the advertiser that he is being accorded fair
treatment, and is not being overchargcd when
compared with prices paid by others, there arc
| many advantages which have been but slightly
touched upon from time to time. Under the
older style OF contracting an advertiser agreed
to insert certain number Of inches every issue
for a given time. II he considered it would
pay him better to publish his ad every other
| dsy--three times a weck--he was taxed for that
privilege. For one.hai the number OF inser'
tions he must pay threc.fourths as much money.
IL twice a week or one.third the number Of
| timcs he must pay onchalf as much. II once
a week. or one.sixth the number OF times, he
must pay one.third as much. To make this
more clear, we will tahulatc We will suppose
| a man wants prices 4.inch ad. once. twice.
| three times and six times week, and wishes it
| at top of the page and next to reading matter.
| The Tribune would charge "a cents an inch for
| each insertion, which would amount to 96 cents
day, or 1915 per week II every day. Now.
| to make parallel case, we will suppose, merely
| suppose, that some paper operating under the
| old style OF figuring would he willing TO insert
| the ad. under the same conditions for the same
price. Now, should the advertiser prefer to run
| the ad once, twice or three times week, what
| would the charges be?
The figures in the first column Of the little
| table below show the prices under the old style
card, while the second column shows the prices
under fiat rate at "a cents per inch:
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~ designating the mosquito as
Il ~ a source of misery is fur
nished in the reports of the
medical experts under DR.. Reed in
Cuba who have been studying yellow
fever and making experiments to de-
termne as to the propagation Of
germs. AS result Of the experiments
being conducted at Quemados, DIR.
Reed is convinced beyond a doubt that
| there is no contagion from an in
fected person or from infected cloth
ing, but that the mosquitoes alone
are responsible for the spread of the
disease. In the course of the COM
missions Investigations six non-im-
mune persons were infected direct by
the bite of mosquitoes which had pre-
| viously bitten yellow fever patients,
and five Of these developed yellow
fever.
| The last experiment made proved
conclusively, Dr. Reed contends. the
theory of propagation by mosquitoes
A special building was constructed of
disinfected material. and one of the
rooms was divided into two sections
by wire mosquito screen. In one
section were placed disinfected bed
ding and clothing, and in the other
bedding and clothing from the yellow
fever hospital which had not been
disinfected. Two non-immunes occu-
| pied both sections.
| In the former were put several in
| fected mosquitoes. The patient re-
mained in this room only long enough
to be bitten; and in four days pro-
nounced case of yellow fever devel-
oped. The patient is now GONZALES
cent. The other subject slept in the
infected bedding for many nights, and
has not contracted the fever. Both
patients have been sleeping for twen-
ty nights in garments worn by yell
low fever victims and in bedding from
the yellow fever hospital.
DIR. Reed says they are growing fat,
and that in TO instance in the course
of the commissions Investigations has
a case of yellow fever developed from
exposure to infected beGdinc, or cloth
ing.
1t has for some time been ">1tendei
that the mosquito Of tn" nor .":In low
lands has been respons'- ,istri-
button of malaria germs, aud the ex-
periments in Cuba seem 10 verify the
theory. The location Of tn, trouble
to the little pest that causes unhappi-
ness at nightfall is one of the most
meritorious acts of modern medical
science, and the discoverers will no
doubt receive benedctions of future
generations that have beeen taught to
invest money in wire netting rather
than quinine capsules.
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NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.

Leading architects desire to have their pro-
fcssion given the same standing that Of law.
yers and doctors. No man can practice law
until he has been admitted to the bar. medi-
cine until he has passed a required examination
and received a certificate. But anybody can
call himself an architect, whether he is quail.
fed not.
Mrs. W. Boyd steele, of Stephen City. Va.
had been missing -four and other things from her
pantry. Her husband, who is an amateur pho
tographer arranged a camera that II anyone
disturbed the -four the photographs plate would
be exposed and a snapshot Of the thief taken.
The Steele family then went calling and on thcil
return found a very good picture OF neghhor
in the act of stealing flour.
In the collecting of perfumes two processes are
employed. In one, the grease process boxes
with glass bottoms are prepared, the bottom be-
ing covered with pure grease, or suet, and the
flowers gathered fresh every day during the sea
son are laid on trays in the box the grease being
left to absorb their fragrance. In the oil pro
cess the place OF grease is taken by cotton bat
ting saturated with oil, the process being sub
stantially the same.
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Weekly Letter on
Municipal Hffairs
XxXu.-CHICAG0 RUNS
PAwNSHOP.
THE CITY Of Chicago is doing more toward

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for n I. bong talked NJ in other cities A, few
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h,c,.d a ,,nnshon ,,o, +, smaller sale and With
ont tho ,de, ot making t. nro6t in tho business
II ,vss NOT Io,y sucoosst, and tho secret NJ a..
| tai,ure ncrbons NAV he found In the very fact
tbo, ~ y,s of com. charitable character While
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believed 10 have q definite existence, never hav.
ing been isolated. II is believed TO flourish in
mid.wintcr and 20 be favored in ITS assault upon
the human system by cold dampncss slight
arrangement Of the system will invite attack,
and carclessncSs IN the matter OF diet or OF dress
viii facilitate the ravages Of the germ.
II has been suggested that the street cars arc
a prolific distributing ground for the grip germ.
few rides on the Washington conveyanccs at
certain hours will strengthen this belief II hap.
pens far more times than the authorities should
permit that the cars are packed TO the rails
Inside are often assembled between nfty and one
hundred passengers, In all stages Of comparative
health or disease. The man with a cough, the
woman Just mccumbing to the inrosds of the
grip. the child with some other incipient all.
meDt are all there. breathing over and over
again unreireshed air. The vcntilators in the
root are rarely opened. The front doors many
of the cars are kept sealed. Thus people are
forced, in order TO secure riding accommoda.
tions, to take into their lungs air which is more
than possibly contaminated.
This danger is accented by the fact that the
cars are kept none too clean. The expectoration
ordinance is noted chiefly in its violation. In
some states the laws require the thorough clean
ing Of the street cars after each trip, in order
TO reduce the danger Of disease contamination
TO minimum. II is a well recognized fact that
in the ejccta Of the throat and lung lies the
means Of the distribution Of the germs OF all
the diseases which affiict the respiratory system.
When this matter is dried and pulverized into
DUST street car offering ideal conditions for
this process IL floats in the air a deadly men.
ace to all who may breathe IL.
VI would be in the interest Of the public health
for the commissioners to require a more frequent
cleansing Of all the cars in use. particularly at
such seasons as the present, when pulmonary
troubles of all kinds arc exceptionally prevalent
and street car conditions are more conducive than
at any other time to the spread Of the disease
germs. They should also see TO II that the
scheduling are so arranged as to reduce the crowd
ing TO minimum.
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Defending PHILADELPHIA.
"HE Philadelphia Inquirer ha:
boldly taken stand in de.
Il fense of the Quaker City

~ HE Philadelphia Inquirer has
boldly taken stand in de-
Il fense of the Quaker City,
which seems in fair way
to lose its good reputation through the
hullabaloo created over the recent
visit of Bishop Potter to that city. In
an editorial upon the subject yester-
day the Inquirer says:
We should Just like TO know what the pco.
pie, the plain people, as Lincoln used to say,
think Of the way in which they and their city
and the community which they constitute, and
the government which they support, are being
villihed and abused and slandered and held up
to the pity and the scorn and the ridicule and
the rcprobation of the outside world by the set
OF political intriguers who have arrogated TO
themselves the ccrsor's office and who are seek.
ing personal profit at the public cost.
What We think is that the whole business is
an intolerable and abominable outrage, against
which 1t is the duty Of every loyal Pniadephan
TO protest with all his might and which he
should unsparingly denounce. We say that no
city ever was or ever could he more grossly.
more UNANIMOUSLY or more shamclessly slandered
than the city of Philadelphia was slandered in
the letter to which Bishop Potter's presnce, at
the Aea deny Of Music on Wednesday even.
OF that letter contained either explicitly or by
implication fagrant Misrepresentation .
IL is not true, as stated in the Potter letter
that crime is running rampant among us, that
all kinds of vice are not only tolerated but pro.
teoted, and that the condition in Philadelphia
today is as bad as that which prevailed in New
frok city during the worst days of the Tweed
regime. All that is UNANIMOUSLY false The
truth is that Philadelphia is morally and pbys.
ically the cleanest and the best governed CITY
on the continent. There is vice here There
is vice everywhere. There are places here wbero
vice is systematically practced and catered TO.
There are such places in all cities and will bc
I'LL the end of time until human nature has
undergone Transformation. But in no city
Is so high a degree Of public decency main.
tanned as is maintained right here, and com
pared with the situation in New York against
which Bishop Potter has been contending, on,
situation is ideal.
o.. No matter what the crusade against
alleged vice in Philadelphia may re.
veal, there is no question that the
visit of Bishop Potter has given the
city an unenviable reputation thai
cannot be lived down by years of good
behavior.
IL, as the Inquirer asserts. tb,
movement has been provoked b,
false prophets and political schemer,
- the. good people of the Quaker cit,
certainly have a grievance of unusua
magnitude.
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II Is said that Notwithstanding the
generous contributions made every
where in the large cities toward Gal
vcston's relief after the terrible hurri-
cane and gulf storm of last Septem-
ber there is still dire need in the
stricken city. A winter of extreme
severity for that latitude finds thou
sands of its citizens poorly prepared
or altogether unsuppied with shelter,
food and clothing. Contributions OF
bedding. clothes and money are still
acceptable. 1t is not yet time to for
get the Galveston unfortunates.
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"~HE CITIZENS of Montroso,
especially those interested
Il in the branch of the Lack
awanna railroad which con-
meets the town with the main line at
Afford, are delighted with the manner
in which they have recently been
treated by the new Lackawanna Off
cias. The road, which was construct
ed nearly ten years ago, was built
principally by local stockholders.
When the road bed had been COM
pleted the old D., l.. & w. company
laid the rails and grudgingly granted
a train service. Although the branch
proved to be one of the most profit
able feeders on the Lackawanna line,
the Montrose stockholders were never
able to get any sort of an official
statement as to the condition of the
road or its earnings. All efforts TO
secure satisfaction were treated with
contempt by the D., l.. & w. man
agement, and it began to look as
simply made the company present
Of ten miles of excellent road bed.
Under the new regime the local
stockholders began to have hopes that
they might receive some sort of con-
sideration. Events prove that their
hopes have not been in vain. They
have not only been granted better
train service, but at recent meeting
of stockholders-the first in eight
years. officials of the new Lackawan.
ma management were present and In
addition to assurances of fair treat.
ment in future, announced that stock.
holders of the l.. & NJ. branch will re.
ceive dividend in February.
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STRENGTH OF POPULAR sENTI.
MENT.
From the wilkcs.Barrc Record.

From the WilkrsBarrc Record
The people and municipal government OF
Scranton are wrought mp 10 a high pitch Of n-
dienaton over the action of the Traction com
pany susocnding the system Of transfers. The
mayor called special meeting Of councils to
consider the matter ci withdrawing the fran.
chiscs Of tho company on the ground tina. the
company has violated the terms upon which the
franchises were granted, lne Of the conditions
being the issuing of transfer tickets. The coun-
cimcn are also threatening 10 impose a .aX
on the gross receipts Of the company II popu.
lar sentiment in scranton is as represented the
company will undouhtcd! revoke the order
suSpondng the transfer system and cndcavor to
bring about moro amicable relations with the
community,
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The municipal pawn shop Is not an American
institution by right Of discovery, for it has been
in existence on the other side of the Atlantic
for many years. For more than a century the
municipal pawnshop has been one of the recog.
nized features OF Paris, Berlin and later Of
Leipzig. The Leipzig pawnshop was started for
the benefit of the laborins people, and it has
loaned hundreds of millions of marks,
In connection with and as a part OF the city
pawnshop is carried on savings institution,
which is guaranteed by the city, and naturally
conducts an enormous business
Now that the idea has taken root in American
soil, its rapid adoption, in some form or another,
may be looked for in all the leading cities Of the
United States within the next decade.
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COMPARED WITH OTHER CITIES
From the Nicholson Examiner.

From the Nicholson Examiner
The Scranton Traction company have given
notice that after the 18th OF this month no more
transfer tickets will be issued, the company
claiming that the people were in sympathy
with the strikers they should be willing to pay
for their increased wages by paying more for
riding. This the people do not propose to do,
and there will be warmer contest over ii than
the strike. The service Of the Scranton Street
Car company is not what II should be. The
cars are dirty, and the track is so rough as to
give passengers the idea that they are riding
over corduroy road Compared with the Wilkes.
Barre or Binghsmton systems the Scranton street
car service Is bum.
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Is there any reason why the advertiser should
pay the tax imposed by the old.style card!
Some publishers will claim that il costs moro to
he obliged to move an ad. every day. Docs
Is cost nearly dollar to take little all. out
and put it back in the page once week?
Whatever it costs The Tribune is willing TO pay
and advertisers who buy space in The Tribune
are at liberty to it in such quantities and
at such times as they like, without being taxed
There are many such advantages of the fat
rate which will be fully set forth successive
Saturdays in these talks with our advertisers
Don't fail to read them.
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TWELVE PAGES
SCRANTON, JANUARY IL, 1901.

Tho man who some time ago intro
duced the resolution in the councils
directing that the city arc lamps be
lowered Is still In the woods.
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From an English standpoint the situ-
alton at Cape Colony continues at the
critical stage.
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There seems to be a dispute in Phila-
delphia just at present as to the iden-
t'ty of the fellows who are in the
greatest need of reform.
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The Booz investigation has demon
strated that mathematics and tobasco
sauce are the chief obstacles to a sue
cessful course at West Point.
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Current talk at banquets and else
where is giving the ghost of Andrew
Jackson a very tired look.
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People who now begin 20 agltate
twenty-first century movements will
be known as cranks for at least fifty
years hence.
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The irony of fate is vividly illus
trated in the coming of the grip epl-
demic just as almost everybody has
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-12

There seems to be a disposition on
part of the western press to forget Pat
Grove,
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Grip in Street Cars.

WASHINGTON STAR,
,.s4 .o, of recent date, contained
~ l. the following suggestions
..s. which are applicable every
where:
The physicians report the Temperance Of the
grip. or influenza, In such degree as to suggest
that II Is epidemic once more. In New York the
cases Of clearly defined grip are reported to be in
the thousands while in this city a very large
number Of patients are now suffering from this
complaint, including President Mckinley and
Secretary Hay, The exact cause Of such con-
ditloh Is not known, the bacillus Of grip, though
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Miscellaneous.

EsGINEERs, FIREMl0 MACIIlNISfs AND
Electricians-New I0pagc pamphlet contain.
ing questions asked by Examining Board of
Engineers; sent free. Geo. A. Zcller, publish
er, st, Louis, Mo.
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Statesmen Wanted.


ENERGETIC SALESMAN-SCHOOL SUPPLIES;
country Jrk; 800 salary and commission.
r. o. Evans e. Co., Chicago.
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TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune Astrologer.
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Astrcabe Cast: AS a M, for Saturday, Jan.
IL, 1901.
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child born on this day will notice that the
best way to prevent an attack Of grip Is to
avoid getting into panic upon the subject.
To be firm in ones opinion, right or wrong.
is not conclusive evidence Of greatness. No one
has ever accused a jackass Of lack OF hrmness.
In the eyes Of some people a street car pass
appears to figure as the yeritnble philosophers
stone.
1t 10 a dif6cult thing 10 blun a telephone
girl over the wire.
Everybody is liable to get even" before the
street car row Is over
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Lost.

LOST-h GOLD WATCH, HUNTING CASE, BE
tween steel mill and scranton; Under please
rctu.n to agent at steel mill, Liberal reward
paid ior return.