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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-13
Mormon Senator Declares Charge
That He Has More Than One
Wife Is Due to Ignorance.
HIS LIFE AN OPEN BOOK.
Says if Those Who Are Fighting
Him Could See His Family in
Their Home They Would
Cease 10 Oppose Him.

EEPrEIIC Special.
New York. Dee la-Cnitei States Sem
aior Reed Smoot of Utah. for whose UNI
seating. on account Of his Mormon re-
licio-. scores of women's organizations
are working is at the Holland House in
this city. He talked freely to-day of the
CAMPAIGN against him, incidentally men,
tioning that he contemplated moving 10
. New York and educating his children. Of
s'.Nhom there are six. in the schools of this
city.
The opposition TO his retaining his seat
Senator Smoot characterized rs due en-
irely 10 misrepresentation and erroneous
conception of the facts in the case"
II en- to be interviewed" he said,
want to tell You at the start that
while l am not DESTROYS of going "a. length
into a discussion Of the opposition to me
and TO my holding seat in the United
States Senate. 1 will say that the whole
affair is due to a misapprehension of the
real facts and merely part of the gen
eral opposition 10 anything that is Nor
mon. My life is an open book and 1 do
not fear for any man to read it.
L like New York. and 1t Is very likely
nat ! shall take lip my residence here
With Mrs. Smoct and the children
should like them to be educated here 1t
may be bit inconvenient to make the
trips from Washington and back. but New
York is worth the trouble
SYou are reputed.. said the reporter.
TO have a. generous share of better
j. halves. and It Is for this that the women
: are opposing your staying In the Senate"
Yes. l know all about what has been
said. but the nice part of it is that it is
not true: / know-and any one who is in
touch with the facts knows-that the real
pith OF the whole matter Is the hue and
cry against anything Mormon They are
and has no friends and rest content with
that as cause for any sort OF a fight.
Il bear these women who are fighting
ne no I'll win. I believe that they are
sincere. do not blame them. but say
that they are caught up and carried away
By hue and cry, and that they don't
know how false are the allegations against
me.
'IS It were possible. I should like these
women to take q peep some time into my
bone. II they could see my home life and
sec my children and meet the wife. do
hot believe that they would waste more
time signing petitions and organizing anti
EInoo$ societfes"
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-13

particularly in Mount Vernon recently
have stirred the police Of that city to
unusual action.
Chief Foley is satisfied that one foot.
Fad is doing all the work. adopting vari-,
Gus disguises from day to day. and hopes
TO catch him by having his men in plain
clothes. The hour was changed because
tho man. now known rs the twilight rob-
ber" always works about dusk.
Miss Willis. who. was robbed of her
watch on bridge, Is the latest victim OF
the highwayman.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-13
FOUND BEEHIVE. IN HOUSE.
Twenty-Five Pounds of Honey
Taken From Rafters.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
ert P. Coilins of State street were aroused
one morning recently by a rumblinc
sound. Upon investigation large swarm
of bees was found on the reed roof of the
house.
Mr. Collins. with several assistants, cap
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-13

Iron Company. has secured the possession
Of most OF i, from the court. and 1t Is ex-
pected. the iurx- will find for him as 10
the remaining PORTIONS
ZcigIer claimed the land bv right Of
sQuatter sovereignty. The coal company
has been SO bitterly fought thar sorn. of
Zeigler's children testified against him.
. The old man was overjoycd at his sue
cess. -
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-13

tured the bees and successfully hived
them Carpenters were secured and they
,ippeG open a portion OF the weather.
boarding and there. TO the surprise OF all.
about twenty five pounds of honey was
round. The bees had been at work for
some time and only they knew about their
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-13
WINS FIGHT. FOR COAL LANDS.
Ziegler Retains Property by Right
of Squatter Sovereignty.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Wilkesba-re. Pa. Dec. n.-Hsnry Zeig-
Ter. who for the last ten of his seventy
five years has been endeavoring to retain
possession of million dollar tract of coal
land claimed by the Hillside Coal and
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-13
Boy c.tche. LINZ.
REPuBLIo. spEcI,

REPGBLIC SPECIAL.
Butte. Mont. Dec ia wild lynx was
caught on the streets Of Butte by r.
year-old boy named Thurman Bray. and
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-13

Cheap Trips South west. December IL.
Cotton Belt. 800 Olive and Union Station.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-11-27

for furnished houses of the better class
is something extraordinary and that
they cannot begin to meet it. Only a
few weeks ago Gen. Corbin was notified
that he was to leave Washington and go
to Governors island. The order ap-
peared on the bulletin one afternoon;
and that same day Gen. and Mrs. Corbin,
passing a real estate Office, stepped In
and placed their house, furnished, in the
hands of the real estate dealer for rent
They had barely reached home before
the real estate man called upon the
telephone to say that the house was
leased at $4,000 year. He had dozen
applications on his books for just such
a place which he could not satisfy. This,
too, in spite of the fact that half dozen
swell apartment houses have opened up
in the fashionable section in the past IL
months.
A man of means can live in Washing
ton more reasonably in winter than he
can in New York, Boston, Philadelphia
or Chicago, and he can get great deal
more for his money.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-11-27

81 100000 for the new building as IL
was erected from the current profits Of
his paper without trenching upon cap
ita..
Newspaper men say, too, that such
things can't be done now. I'm not so
sure. Farther uptown another new
conner to New York, who has been in
the city about five years, is building a
monument to another success. Mr..
Adolph Ochs came to New York from
Chattanooga, as Mr.. Pulitzer came
from ST. Louis.
Mr.. Pulitzer is a great editor, a tri-
bune Of the people, his mind ever at
fever heat with indignations at wrongs
intrenched; sarcastic, powerful in ar
gument Naturally his paper stirred
mems souls to conflict. His was fight
ing entrance.
Mr.. Ochs is business manager. He
retained the old traditions of the New
York Times, kept such Of the staff as
remained after severe wedding out
for economy, and dropped the price OF
the paper to one cent. Practically ev-
cry newspaper publisher said he was
crazy to do this with the Times Glen
tele, but he persevered. He now con-
trolls great paper in Philadelphia,
shares the cable dispatches of the Lon
don Times, and has won a quiet. con-
sentative business success which is
very gratifying.
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have paid heavily for protection" but
they have received it and run in open
violation of the law and public senti-
ment. Now public sentiment is to have
the upper hand for time, at least, and
the red lights of the levee districts are
to be extinguished.
1t is too much to say that Chicago is
to be a clean city. From the political
standpoint that is an impossibility. The
reform administration of New York did
not entirely cleanse the city. 1t bet
tered conditions; it did not receive pay
for protecting vice; but that was all.
Mayor Harrison now proposes to con-
fine the vicious element to three clearly
defined sections of the city. 1t is not a
nice way to put it, but it is practical.
The administration that attempts to
close up the dens of iniquity entirely
would not last long in cosmopolitan
city. The mayor is practical, and knows
this. though he incurs the enmity Of the
sentimental class in society when he
says so.
Another thing which the graft in
vestigating committee has done. 1t
has published to the world the fact that
much of the vice of the city is harbored
under roofs owned by the so-called re-
spectable element. That will do more
than anything else towards cleansing
the city. Social ambition will force
these men to find different class of
tenants for their buildings.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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UUU a year. LII lnC
orthodox churches it is the exceptional
man who receives more than $4,000 an
nually, while there are hundreds who
drop to a thousand or less, and some
get down to as low salary as 500 per
year.
In the Methodist church, there is one
minister in the city who receives as
much as $4,000 year, and OF this
amount 81 900 is charged him for rent
of the parsonage, leaving him but $500
in actual cash. Yet this man is min
istering to a fashionable congrega-
ton, and must live in keeping with his
place in society. Both he and his wife
are expected to devote practically all
of their time to church work, leaving
the home cares to servants which he
must pay for. The street car conduc-
tor, with his SIS month, can save more
money than can this fashionable
preacher.
Of the hundred and more Methodist
churches in Chicago, but seven pay
their preachers $4,000 a year or better.
The majority pay less than $1,000. The
pay in other orthodox churches will av-
erage about the same, or perhaps a lit
tie better, excepting in the smaller de-
nominations, where it will run far be-
low these figures The First Bohemian
church of Chicago pays its pastor but
500 year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-11-27

LESSONS schools. All of
these schools are crowded throughout
the year, and are annually turning out
thousands of graduates to begin the
struggle for supremacy in their chosen
professions. To them come all classes
of humanity at all ages. 1t is not an
unusual thing to find gray-haired man
studying medicine beside the youth of
20. Nor are they patronized only by the
well-to-do. The poor classes of the for
eign element are sending hundreds of
boys into them, seeking training that
will give them place in society ahead
of that occupied by their parents. The
instilling of American ideas into the
head of the man from Europe has given
him new ambitions for his family. He
is not willing that his son should fol-
low so closely in his footsteps as he
did in his fathers. The philosophy that
taught the shoemaker to stick to his
last has been swallowed up by ambi-
ton.
Another thing which tends to fill the
schools for professional training is the
tendency of the labor organizations to
limit the number of apprentices in the
trades. Employers of union labor are
no longer permitted to employ as many
boys as they wish, but must limit the
number of boys according to the num-
Der of men employed. For example,
in the printing trades there must be
but one boy for each five men.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-11-27

900, and not more than two or three will
reach thasfgure. The average practicing
dentist, the man who conforms to the
code of professional ethics, will not
make over $1,000 year, out Of which
he must pay Office rent. In this line
there are large number of graduated
students working in the advertised dem
tai parlors for from $12 to $50 weekly,
less wage by half than the majority
OF the mechanical tradesmen are max
ing.
mere are number Of night schools
OF recognized worth for both medical
ana dental courses in Chicago. The
students at these schools are men and
women who are employed at other call
ings during the day, many of them are
engaged In the mechanical trades.
know student at one of these schools
printer earning about 500 weekly.
also know two professors at these
schools, and know their income. The
printer student is making more money
as a printer than either of these two
professors are at practicing medicine.
l know doctor in Chicago who grad
uated with honors four years ago, since
that time he has had one years expert
ence in a hospital. and has also served
as assistant to one of the best surgeons
OF the city. For two years he has been
attempting to build up a practice of his
own Now, at the end of two years of
EFFORT, his income will not average $50
monthly. And this case is by no means
an exception.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-11-27

party associates and frequently leads
them.
He was in command of confederate
troops in Missouri while McClellan's ia
Their was commanding the union armies
in the east. He is pushing, aggressive,
with all the courage of his convictions,
and nobody would ever think of calling
him the creature of anybody else
1t is related of Cockrell that during
the war he lead his troops, barefoot
across the range fields of Missouri, and
he refused to wear shoes or socks be-
cause so many of his men had to go with
out them.
The old confederates of his state love
him and they will keep him in the SEN
stand in the breach and make try for
the presidency.
Crockrell looks. like the caricatures
of Uncle Sam. He dresses with Just
about as much regard to style as his
patriotic prototype. To see him in ac-
ton in debate sometimes one would
take him to be Sam, crabid, snaling and
altogether unlovely, and yet the old man
is down at the bottom one of the most
tender-hearted and kindly of men.
He has been watchdog in the senate
for great many years. The appropria-
ton that passes his scrutiny may be
said to have clean bill of health, for
he scans the items in the supply bills as
jealousy as miser counts his money.
Nobody remembers when he first be-
came a member of the appropriations
committee. Whenever the democrats
control the senate he is the appropria-
tons chairman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-11-27

dian clubs "and such like" in his edi-
torial rooms and used to delight when
nearly 80 in beating out his middle
aged editors at feats of strength.
The Post has less than $4,000 circu-
lation and doesn't care who knows It.,
asks a good price for it's advertising
space and gets it, and sells for three
cents a copy. 1t has no art staff, no
sensationalism, small but excellent
staff and prides itself upon it's editorial
and critical columns and it's varied cor
respondence. 1t is printed in very clear
type, and is a good three cents worth,
and makes money.
A paper of similar type with some
what larger circulation is the Brooklyn
Eagle, which is setting the Tribune
the example of charging it's building
The new Eagle building will be when
completed one of the finest in the
United States. In Brooklyn there is
no need to economic room; the editors
will have spacious and beautifully fur.
nished private rooms to think great
thoughts in.
OWEN LANGDoN.
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as they could ask. Maj. McCauley, per-
formed the introductions and he got op
swimmingly until he came to three Japa-
nese jackies, whose names stuck in his
throat. He stumbled over the first one,
but he caught himself on the second,
slurring the words which could have
had almost any Interpretation. The
president waited till they had passed
out of hearing and then he mischievous-
ly asked Met auley to repeat the names
which the versatile major domo was
quite unable to do.
1t is not true, as is so often asserted,
that great proportion of the sailors
aboard American men of war are for
eigners, but there are enough of them to
make an interesting collection When
the Illinois was in Swedish waters King
Oscar came aboard, and was very much
struck with the fine appearance of the
marine guard which was lined up to re-
ceive him. One fellow in the front rank
was especially conspicuous and soldier
like, and the king singled him out for at
tention Where were you born?" he
asked as he passed by. "Sveden!" was
the prompt reply in Scandinavian &C
cent. The king enjoyed it immensely;
but not so the officers of theship. There
after pains where taken to have no.
body but native born marines in the
front rank.
LOUIS A COOLIDGE.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-11-27

Tho nrass roon,s MuLs ey at the Telephone
below the subway the papers can be
hoisted up and loaded for uptown or
downtown in jiffy. Above the sub
way tunnel are the mechanical depart
ments; the printing and editorial
rooms are as usual 20 stories away,
and all between are offices to help pay
the bills.
The Herald is the sharpest contrast
to the others. Its building, occupying
an entire block and only three stories
high, is one of the architectural orna-
ments of the city. 1t is built upon
leasehold property. Some one asked
Mr.. Bennett why he put up so fine a
structure upon land that he did not
own and could not long control.
What do l care what becomes of 1t
in so years." was the not unreasonable
remark of the bachelor owner.
The uptown newspaper row will soon
be increased by Mr.. Hearst, who plans
to put up building on the edge Of
Central park, fully five miles from the
post Office.
Frank Munsey may follow the exam
pie of Mr.. Hearst and seek an uptown
site for the Daily News. Though he
has made something of mess of it
thus far, he sticks to the idea of max
ing a great daily out of it.
Of the slap-bang methods of great
editors of the modern school" they
tell good one on Mr.. Munsey. The
News was an afternoon paper, in the
old days the organ of Tammany Hall
and once the leading newspaper in New
York as to circulation. Without warn
ing Mr.. Munsey changed it to morn
ing paper, bold step, greatly increas-
ing the expense and the difficulty Of
making both ends meet Late the first
night Mr. Munsey went to the tele-
phone and called up the Associated
Press office to ask why he was not get
ting any press dispatches.
why, Mr.. Munsey, you have no
franchise for morning paper. We
cannot send you any dispatches"
1t had never occurred to Mr.. Munsey
to inquire into this little matter. Nor
to this day does the News get the "a.
p stuff" as it is irreverently called for
short.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-11-27

country saying that he is the one who
ought to be nominated by the next demo-
cratic national convention for president.
Especially as he halls from the Empire
state, which many believe will be pivotal
in the elections next year.
After all, it may depend on the kind
of a record he makes during the first six
months of the term as mayor, soft is i'm
possible to say yet whether his prestige
will continue until nomination day or
not.
Whether Mcclellan. has presidential
stuff or not, he is going to be missed in
the house. He is such likeable fellow
that he has fully as many personal
friends among republicans as among
those of his own party, and it has some
times seemed as though he would be
more congenially placed in the repub-
lican side of the aisle.
He Is boyish, genial, an entertaining
talker, and possessed of quiet humor
which appeals to his political opponents,
many of whom have come to know him
personally outside of his political posi-
ton.
To tell the truth, Mcclellan has never
"fiocked" with the members of his own
party to any great extent. He has been
in a minority of one on good many
questions; but where the democratic
minority has been divided into so many
smaller minorities, perhaps that is not
so very much of distinction.
Mcclellan has been a member of the
ways and means committee, the other
democratic members of which have
rarely acted together Of late years, and
he has been fond of styling himself hui
morously, 'The Mcclellan democracy"
He is so young-considerable under 40
that the older heads in the party may
doubt the wisdom of putting him forward
for the presidency; but he will be talked
of a great deal just the same, and he
will surely be marked man during
the short official session which will
signalize the close of his congressional
career
Young as he is, he is just about the age
his father was when the little general
commanded the union armies in the civil
war, and not far from his fathers age
when the latter ran for president in
1864 on the platform that 'The war is a
failure"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-11-27

Tribune extends Elbowing the Sun
behind the Sun, forming complete
81" about it. Mr.. Reid would pay an
enormous sumNfor the Sun site, which
would complete frontage of 200 feet
for the Tribune and make one of the
finest sites in the city. 1t cannot pay
the Sun to keep five-story structure
on land Sc valuable, but it's proprie-
tors are conservative. They once, IN
deed, threatened to do something pref
ty radical. Bruce Price, famous pio-
neer in tall architecture, worked out O
plan for 35-story Sun building upon
its present site-a simple shaft 400
feet tall and rs feet square. 1t was to
nave its heating plant and power house
on less expensive land down the street.
This monumental Office would have
been built and it would have been even
now the tallest Office structure in New
York, but just then came a financial
panic and when that was over other
plans prevailed 1 saw the plans
hanging in Mr.. Laffan's Office, where he
could look upon them lovingly. They
may be there yet. Things do not change
much in the Sun Office. So long as he
lived Charles A. Dana worked in a
shabby little box about ten feet square,
completely filled with books and pa
pers, utterly confused and disorderly
Editor Henry M. Alden, of Harper's
Magazine, is the only important editor
In New York who still maintain such
a cubby-hole of a "sanctum."
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Tribune building of ten stories was
erected. 1t was the marvel of its day,
and one of the highest Office buildings
ever erected in the old-fashioned way,
before the steel skeleton method was
invented of raising ''sky-scrapers. Its
lower story walls are as thick as those
of a castle on the Rhine. l remember
well reading, as a lad in the country,
the description of the Tribune's new
building and wondering If | should
ever see it. The avid memory of youth
reminds me how the architect proved
that in it the limit of profitable height
was reached. The argument was. plau-
sible The walls of masonry had to be
increased in thickness with every add
ed story, so that there came a time
when it did not pay to go higher, be-
cause the mass of masonry became too
enormous, and the valuable room in
the lower stories was too much en-
croached upon. Ten years later an an
mex was erected of the steel frame type.
The contrast in the wall thickness of
the two structures is startling.
The Tribune building is an important
asset to the paper. Its rentals are high,
almost the whole of it being occupied
by the offices of Hearst's American,
which distributes press rooms and spe-
cial departments over half a dozen
buildings in the neighborhood. The
enlarged building will be one of the
most profitable structures downtown.