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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-17
Court strikes a Snag.

The disposition of cases in the cir
cult court went ahead rapidly this
morning, but snag was struck when
il came to the case of Gordon d Bow
man against Samuel Peterson. The
plaintiffs brought suit to recover
commission on a loan claimed to have
been negotiated for the defendant.
y jury was accordingly impaneleC;
and the trial of the case taken up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-17
Police Points.

William NliXter this morning in
formed the police of the loss of 4
Crescent chainless bicycle that APP
pears to have been stolen.
\. Bersie, a stranger, was found on
Fifth avenue near Fifteenth stree:
this morning suffering with delirium
induced by a lately imbibed cargo of
booze. He was taken to the station
by Officer Thode, to sober up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-17

Having distressing pains in head,
back and stomach, and being without
appetite, 1 began to use DIR. King $
New Life Pills. writes w. p. White
head, of Kennedale, Texas, land soon
felt like new man." Infallible in
stomach and liver troubles. Only %
cents, at Hartz &c Ullemeyer's drug
store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-17
Feet swollen to Immense Size.

81 had kidney trouble so bad" says
J. j. Cox, of Valley View, KY, that
L could not work; my feet were swol-
len to immense size and 1 was confin-
ed to my bed and physicians were I'M
able to give me any relief. My doctor
finally prescribed Foley's Kidney
Cure which made well man of me-"
Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-17
NEW GIRLS co HOME
Several Operators Brought Here
to Take Strikers
Places Quit.
DID NOT KNOW THERE WAS TROUBLE
Tell Their Story on Reaching Chi.
cago-Manager's
Statement.

Several of the young women
brought here by the Central Union
Telephone company to take the
places of the local operators who
went on strike Saturday have
thrown up their jobs and returned
to their homes.
Today's Chicago papers print ii
story of the return to that city Cf
three of the operators who went to
work at Rockford. and found that
they had been called to take the
place of strikers. 1t is evident that
Rock Island is meant instead of Rock
ford.
The Chicago girls say they were in
duced to leave that city on the rep
resentation that they would learn
new system of operating, and when
they found that there was strike on
and that they had been put in as
''strike-breakers" they quit.
Story Told at Chicago.
The Chicago Tribune this morning
says: Hello girls employed by the
chicago Telephone company whisper
ed and gossiped so much last night
that patrons and managers lost their
patience. The girls were excited over
the strike of 20 operators in Rock
ford, ILL.,, and the stories told by three
local girls who had been sent there
to act as 'strike-breakers' and had
returned. The Rockford girls, who
are affiliated with the local Telephone
Girls union, decided to demand more
wages, the right to wear colored
skirts. and not to disarrange their
hair by wearing a patent headpiece.
The company's manager laughed at
them, and they struck. When the
news of the revolt-the first of its
kind-came to Chicago, the telephone
company's officials set about filling
the strikers places. When we got
to Rockford we found everything in Il
muss,' said one of the girls last night.
We worked on Saturday and Sunday,
and then we found out there was
strike on, and we came back
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-17
Statement From Manager.

Manager Richards. of the local cX-
change, admitted today that num-
Der of the operators who came here
have gone home, but he insisted that
none of them was from Chicago. ana
he further declared that none of
them was induced to come on any
misrepresentation by the company.
He said they were experienced opera
tors. and that they had come while
on vacation TO take places that have
since been filled by others who can re-
main.
The reporter was shown through
the building to demonstrate that Il
full force was at work, and that the
quarters were clean and comforta-
BILE. Mr.. Richards said that he has
not been approached by the girls or
their representatives in an effort to
secure arbitration of the demands
that have been made. He denied that
.9% hours has been the regular day
put in by the operators, and declared
at SIS a month has been the mini
mum wages, while many of the oper-
ators received wages considerably i'll
advance of that sum.
The members of the Operators as
sociation are busy circulating among
the telephone subscribers of this city
and Moline the notice published ii.
yesterdays Argus for presentation 10
the representatives of the company
in the two cities. The number of
signers is large and rapidly grow
isg.
Mrs. j. If. Park. 1914 Seventh ave
nue., who believes that the operators
are asking for no more than they are
entitled to. has notified the company
to remove her telephone at once, and
that if the order is not obeyed sh"
will disconnect the instrument and
leave it on the sidewalk. This is d
time when one woman should stand
by the other" says Mrs. Park, "rath-
er than to force these girls to work
for less wages than will procure for
them the actual necessities of life.
TeIenbone Company Makes Corrections.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-17

SchIegeI. TO, nniinlshed: BLUNT, I'D
withdrew; KerSch, 14O. unfinished:
CIausen and Schmidt. unfinished.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-17

Children's New Fall Coats
We have almost 700 new garments to
choose from-ages , to II years.
The styles are cute and natty-far
ahead of any collection we have
ever had before and prices are much
the lowest we have ever named.
For instance, melton jackets with
sailor collar, prettily trimmed with
braid-not $2.75 7E
Other equally good values.
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chamber of commerce we may read,
as if on glowing pages, the progress
of the world for over a century.
We see the organization in it's i'm
fancy reaching out with the magic
wand of trade to China and the far
east. We see it with firm hand de-
nouncing the oppressive stamp act,
and, later, negotiating our CONNER
cial treaty with Great Britain. We
may trace through the minutes of
its meetings it's good offices in pro-
noting all great public works. We
find it's members instrumental in the
construction of the Erie canal, open
ing the waterway through which the
chain of lakes, giving support to the
laying of the Atlantic cable and pro-
noting in every possible way all
projects that give promise to extend
the trade and influence of the United
States. Since it's organization it has
been the advocate of so-called sound
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him for sums above half q million dol
lars; three times has he paid every
dollar that he owed. l don't imagine
that he quits rich. Probably con-
siderable part of his provision for old
age is the $4,000 for which he sold his
seat in the Stock Exchange.
The Deacon is notable for some
things aside from his debt-paying re-
cord. Heis nearly so years old, but has
been in the harness nearly every day
from youth; he was an intimate friend
of Henry Ward Beecher, and one of his
lieutenants in tn. stormy days before
the war; he is an amateur astronomer,
which seems strange enough taste for
broker, but p=rhaps explains why
the Deacon is alive and hearty when
brokers of his day who hang about up
town hotels at night with much con
suming of cold bottles and hot birds
are not only dead, but well forgotten.
The Purchase of Foreign Nob1emen.
Quite a tempest in teapot has been
created by the disclosures of an Irish
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and governor of California four
years. He has been in the national
senate for eight years.
That is the story of the life of
the man who will make this mansion
his home, his resting place between
the busy working days. And here
is the story of the man who built the
house, Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin,
another man whose career should be
stimulus to every young man who
has opportunity to read about him.
Senator Sawyer was born in New
York, and on his twenty-frst birth
day he left the old farm and went
west. He had been "bound OUT for
number of years, but had saved up
enough money to take him to Wis
consin, and had just one dollar less
than two thousand in his purse. His
brother gave him one dollar, to make
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m F JOHN CRUGER, the first pres
81 ident of the chamber of COM
49, merce of the state of New York,
could stand in Liberty street to-day
and gaze upon the magnificent struc-
ture of white marble, the first home
that the organization has owned since
1t was inaugurated $50 years ago, his
widest dreams of the commercial ad-
vancement of his country would ap-
pear prosaic and insignificant. 1t is
a long cry from 1902 to 176s, but when
we consider the wondrous progress
made by the United States compared
to the pace of other countries, the
span of years seems like thousand.
The palace that has been reared in
to the humble structure at the south
east corner of Pearl and Broad
streets, which was the first meeting
place of the chamber of commerce,
but the difference between the two
buildings is by no means so great as
that between the struggling city of
$4,000 inhabitants and the mighty
metropolis VerSlng on toward 4,O0O,-
900 souls.
Wecan pictureto ourselves this John
Cruger, with his high forehead, his
long curls, smooth face, black velvet
coat and white ruffle-more like 4
poet than merchant. We can un-
derstand the conservatism with which
he and 10 of the leading citizens of
the city met and organized the cham
Der OF commerce. If we will we may
follow those stirring early events
step by step; through the dark years
of the revolution when the founda-
ton OF the little republic was totter-
ing; through the periods of CONNER
cial depressions; through the long
days of civil strife on to victorious
peace at home and abroad. From
the dull and dusty archives of this
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form or other the traces of it's handi-
work, and in many instances the sue
cess of important national undertake
ings was due directly to the patriot
ism, activity and sagacity Of its mem
bers.
Unlike the clearing house for
banks, unlike the great exchanges,
the chamber of commerce has never
had any precise or limited function.
1t might most properly be called a
clearing house of ideas, where the
highest intelligences of the business
world pass in review the important
commercial events of the day, make
the debts and credits of theoretical
and practical trade and certify the
balances on the ledger of commercial
integrity. In word, it stands for
the best that is offered to us in the
ethics of business. In it's first dec
laration of principles it avowed it's
purpose to promote and encourage
commerce, support industry, adjust
disputes and procure the passage of
such laws and regulations as might
be found necessary for the benefit of
trade in general. But it has gone
farther than this and has become so
much part of the country that il
must be considered as a national in
stitution rather than belonging ex-
clusively to New York.
This much for it's purposes. AS
for its historic worth, we have but
to turn back to its very first meet
ing in the little building, still intact.
known as Fraunces Tavern, in tho
hall of which Washington babe fare
we'll to his troops on the day the
British evacuated New York.
AS for the sentimental--it NAV be
seen in the long list of charities and
the patriotism of the members.
When the civil war broke out $s,00O,-
900 were subscribed for the United
States at one meeting. Since 1855
the requests for charitable purposes
have amounted to nearly SO 900, 0Oo
The record is one of which John
Cruger and those other stalwart
American citizens with whom he was
associated might well be proud.
The most sanguine of them could not
imagine the powerful nation of a
continuous people of the same Ian
guage, lineage and laws stretching
across the continent from the Attain
tie to the Pacific. But is it more
wonderful than will be our advance
ment in the next 100 years of the
republic? May we then be proud OF
our record for commercial probity
as well as for commercial greatness.
FREDERICK BOYD STEVENSON.
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taken such keen interest in tie tall
young Virginian. He was said to have
come to this country because crossed
in love. That did not prevent him
from leaving vigorous Line of Ameyl-
can descendants.
The Lord Fairfax of ten years ago
was Il country doctor, who used to
plod about the old town of Alexandria,
Va.-Washington's county town-and
treat people for all sorts of diseases
and for fees which he and they usually
forgot. He died a few years ago, and
his son came to New York to earn a
living. His firm, mindful of the value
of a title, sent himto England. There
he is told that he is rightfully Lord
Fairfax; that, however, his possible
seating in the house of peers would
be disputed by the Lord Chancellor
on the ground that he is not British
subject BY being naturalzed as a
Briton he may take his traditional
place. Now, as the title is considered
by the young mans shrewd associate.a
as part of his business stock-in-traGe
Lord Fairfax may sooI rctsrn to The
allegiance which his great great
grcat-great grandfather cast off 81
many years ago. OWEN I.ANGpoN.
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appear out Of place in one Of the busi.
est districts on the face of the globe,
where every inch of available space
below and above ground is utilized.
Ten years ago the erection of build
ing of character like this in a down
town street teeming with commercial
ism would have been regarded as I'M
businesslike and a sheer waste of office
space that might bring in a fortune
annually.
But within the last few years art
and architecture have made great adj
vances, and business men have arisen
above the sordid lines Of barter and
recognize that something more is due
to the growing sentimentality and re-
fipement of the people than tall and
dreary rows of buildings, erected With
the sole view to the rentals they will
earn.
The Chamber of Commerce resem-
bles more than anything else such
temple as the ancient Greeks erected
in gratitude for favors bestowed
upon them by their gods. And it
might be rightly called temple-a
temple reared as tribute to the ge-
MUS of commerce. Like the temple
of the Greeks it is filled with the
choicest paintings. But these do not
represent art alone. They are the
portraits of the men who laid the
firm foundation of our commercial
greatness, and they mark q long chain
of historic events from the days when
our country was weak colony to the
present time of its grandeur.
When we understand the scope of the
chamber of commerce we can scarce
ly realize it's small beginning. Yet its
growth has but marked the growth of
the country that it represents, and if
New York has to-day erected temple
to the god of trade, she has done so
in name only. 1t is not SO much to
commercialism that the monument
has been raised. 1t is rather trib-
ute to the mighty nation that has
made commercialism possible. There
is a touch of the romantic as we'll as
the practical interviewer in the ex-
pansion of this chamber OF commerce.
There i: much of the historic. From
the day of it's inception--April 5, 1868
it has been linked eparately with
the story of the nation. No great
movement = financial, political or
charitable-has been inaugurated and
executed that does not bear IN some
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ures not without Importance; Sher-
man and Lit.auer are sturdy men of
congressional calibre
From New York city what a differ
ent story? George Mcclellan is
worthy son of his famous father, clean
and bright if not particularly force
full. Young Burton Harrison is, rep
resemtative of culture as we'll as
wealth, and will make a good con-
gresham, but it is absurd to pretend
that at 2S, without experience, he will
fairly cope with veterans of national
fame and long experience. Besides
these two there is not one frst-class
man. Two are sons of rich brewers,
who belong to the familiar class of
good fellows" and free spenders."
One, big Tom" Sullivan, is far more
unfit for congressional honors than
ever John Morrissey was. Morrissey
was painfully taught by a devoted and
talented wife until, toward the end
of his career, he was by NO means
destitute of knowledge. Sullivan
knows nothing that is of benefit to
oAAC PuOMS. IL was AC w llo oAiSS O1uS
ged of the success of his picnic"
Every Tammany statesman must
rave a picnic every summer.
"Why, Tim," said friend, "there
must have been HOO people there,
at least" Qn these days 10000 is a
more usual nmmber.)
eleven hundred!" said Tim indig
nantly, "dere was more dan t'ousan'."
In the recent campaign that saw his
electiom-as new member he will
not take his seat fora year yet" Tim"
compared himself With the late Daniel
Webster. ''l'll be better member
for this district" said he, than Web
ster would
In a later speech he amplified: 81
mean better member than Webster
would if he was alive; / don't mean
him bein' dead one"
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and the site OF it's
main post office.
The New York
office alone does
some; $4,000, 900
worth a year of
original business.
1t is housed in a
building that was
always a hid'eous
mistit, w h e I e
1000 clerks now
o &C Ply room
meant for 500.
The New York
members would
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flowers of the choicest varieties.
The music room, finished in Moorish
style, is particularly beautiful when
it is Illuminated by numerous orr
entail globes. Concealed within these
opalescent swinging lamps are cleo
trio bulbs, which give an effect so
beautiful as to be beyond vivid de-
scription.
Senator Perkins is quiet man, an
obtrusive, unpretentious and always
so greatly interested in his work as
statesman and business man, that he
does not give much time to society
events and functions, but he is very
proud of his home, and proud of his
wife and daughters, as he has good
reason to be, for they are creditable
to him in every way. The senator
is CD years old, but does not look it.,
because he is so sturdy and strong.
He was born in Maine, reared on a
farm, and when only ~ years of age
went to sea as cabin boy. He
followed that calling and became a
sailor, shipping before the mast in
1855 on vessel bound for Califor-
mia, and landed at San Francisco,
where he resided for many years
He became merchant, afterwards
engaging in banking, milling, mining
and the steamship business. During
the past 25 years he has been oper-
a.ing steamships on the coasts of
California, Oregon, British Column
bia, Washington, Alaska and Mexico.
lie was state senator eight years.
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n 1chE is an oasis IN every deS-
ert, resting place for every
- weary working man, home
for the rich and the poor. There is
no place like home. 1t is the oasis
IN the work-a-day desert, the resting
place alike for pauper and million
.aire.
Senator Perkins, of California, has
been working man all of his days,
and is now as busy a worker as there
as in either branch of the congress.
While other statesmen are yet in
their beds, Senator Perkins has his
breakfast. Almost nobody gets to
work here earlier than nine o'clock
starts for his Office every morning
at half-past seven o'clock. Begin
ning at the bottom, he has patiently
and diligently climbed the ladder of
accumulation until now he is one of
the millionaires of the senate.
Too good a home cannot be provid-
ed for such a man, and his colleagues
do not envy but congratulate him
upon his home in the national cap
ital-one of the most commodious
and comfortable of all the homes in
this city. The house is a brown
stone mansion which stands upon an
angle formed by the intersection of
Il street, Nineteenth street and Con-
necticut avenue. 1t has an outlook
on all three streets, commanding
particularly fine view of Connecticut
avenue, the thoroughfare of the rich
and eminent. Ten years ago Senator
Sawyer, of Wisconsin, built this
home for himself, after a long and
honorable career as working man.
He told the narrator that the house
and furnishings would cost upwards
of 100000.
Every inch of the Perkins home is
first-class material, fashioned by
first-class artisans. It's location is
the center of the fashionable por-
ton of this city. Mrs. Perkins and
her daughters entertained all last
winter with lavish hospitality, and
will do so again during the coming
social season. The young ladies have
become leaders with whip and spur,
Win ioAiE SoddoAJ par llCS UC-
ing well known along all of the roads
leading into Washington. They are
also devoted to golf.
Then the handsome drawing-room
will receive the wealth and fashion
of this city, and the spacious dining
room will welcome the most beauti-
full and brilliant women and the most
eminent men in public and official
life, and again the music room will
resound with mirth and melody, for
this is also ballroom, where youth
and beauty meet to chase the glow
ing hours with flying feet. The
drawing-room is furnished with
Louis XIV. mahogany. The uphol-
STEERING is of satin damask, of deli
cate tints, hand-embroidered with
sprays of wild roses. The ceilings
are frescoed in delicate colorings,
and deep border of La France roses
extends around the walls, painted by
the skillful hands of a true artist.
The gray-green hangings are lined
with softest rose color.
The dining-room is also furnished
in mahogany of massive design, the
table being always adorned with
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FRAUNCEs TAVERN.

Ol SOlIlIuGICe.)
money, and as far back as 1856 we
find it Directing most strenuously to
the proposition to issue paper cur
rency and make it legal tender.
Foreign countries have no cause to
wopder at the commercial supremacy
of the United States, if they will but
pause to consider the enterprise and
the industry of our people. The ear
lest chamber of commerce that Great
Britain could produce was that of
Glasgow, in 1888, at which time our
merchants were we'll advanced on
those plans for the extension of trade
that have placed our ships and our
goods in every port in the world.
The new Chamber of Commerce
building, which was dedicated the
other day in the presence of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and eX-PresiGent
Cleveland, is in strange contrast to
its companions, the dingy sky
sclapers, pushing their roofs toward
the clouds. /: is but four stories
high. and. at a casual glance, would