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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-25
ICE HOUSES BURNED.
They We're Located In I0rh Providence
and Belonged TO The Trust,

The storehousss OF the Providence Ice
Co, on Douglas avenue near the Vans
kuck reservoir in North Providence,
formerly the property Of Charles o. An
gell were destroyed by H., ~ O'Clock
last night, causing loss Of nearly $50 =
000 insured
The Geneva Volunteer Fire company
responded to the alarm. but as the nearest
hydrant was half n mile from the ice
houses their run was a futile one.
The cause of the fire is unknown
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-25
WInter TOurs to MexIeo and caIItornIa.

Wl0tcf louTS 10 MtfiCO ana CalfOrnia.
Raymond s. Wb bItcomb were the pio-
neers In taking sight-seers 10 Mexico
and California, and thsif tours In special
trains OF vestibuled Pullman cars furnish
today the best means Of visiting those
regions This company will send out one
of It's special parties OF tourists Thurs
day. January ~. In this connection there
is an opportunity To visit Mexico onty In
round Of thirtyfive days. OF Mexico
and California In seventy-two days. They
have been engaged for a period Of nine
teen years I'm taking American tourists
through Mexico. and for longer time In
bringing Eastern people 10 a better ac-
quaintance with the Pacific coast Full
particulars of this tour may be obta inpd
by writing TO Raymond & whitcomb
Company. SO Washington street Boston.
or 25 Union square. New York An Illus.
trated circular. descriptive OF these su-
perb tours. Will be mailed free to any
address
II see Mrs. Mollneux married the law
yer who got her her divorce"
Served him right L never did have any
use for these divorce lawyers. Houston
Post
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-25
WHY PEOPLE DO|..
ATTEND CHURCH|'EI|"
Second in the Series of Sermons on
Place and Function of the Church
Modern Society by Rev. Asbury E. Krt

the
place and functon of the modern society.
Church and it interested
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-25
40. i. W
ATTENTION

Mass meeting for ali members. FRI
DAY EVENING. NOV. q. at MUSIC
HALL, Providence. r. l.. at s o'clock.
p. s. NJ. w TATE and MILES NJ.
DAWSON. the actuary. are to be the
speakers. COME
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-25
GREENE. STORY NUpTIALS,
Many Friends Atttnt the Reception at Res.
ldence Of Erde'S Parents.

pretty home wedding occurred yes
terday afternoon at Woonsocket when
Miss Ella May Story ana Mr. Stephen
Sprague Greene were united in marriage
the Rev c. j. ! -.-,e. d. D. performing
the ceremony
The wedding took place at the r,,si-
dence of the BRIDES parents. Mr. and
Mrs. George F. Story at 8 Barton street
Mr. Joseph c. Brown acted as best man
and Miss Susie Story attended her sister
as bridesmaid
The bride wore a handsome gown OF
white organdie with deep lace insertion
and carried a bouquet OF white chrysan-
themums After the ceremony an in
formal reception was held and the happy
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-25
C0FRAN
ADMITS
BLAME
Says Hs Started Train That
Caused GouId's Death and
Olsobsysd Orders In So Doing

Coroner Lincoln held another session
OF the Gould inquest. yesterday after
noon. Harry l.. Cofran the rear brake
man being under examination, relative to
the collision in the Charles street yard.
on Nov. 2nd.
Cofran declared that he was in absolute
charge Of the freight train.
After admitting that he was governed
by the tower signals and arms. and that
when he gave the signal to the engineer
to start the train the arm was set against
him
The reason he assigned for doing so
was that the switchman signalled him
to back down. All the time he was
backing down the signal arm was set
in such a way as to show that the right
or way belonged 10 another train and
that the track was occupied or was about
to be.
Cofran said that few minutes later
he saw the caboose Of the freight train
coming around the curve and at once
pulled the signal cord. but as the train
did not Immediately come TO a stop he
pulled the angle cock. which sets an
emergency brake
This stopped the train at once. and
IL was motionless when the freight
struck it. This was contrary to the tes
timony Of most OF the previous witnesses
which showed that the freight had come
TO a stop before the collision, and that
the pasehger train, of which Cofran was
at that time In charge. had run into IL.
The report that Cofran had been dis
charged from the employ OF the Consoli-
dated railroad was substantiated by Cof-
ran although he said his discharge was
not the outcome of the accident that re-
suited in the death OF Lewis Gould.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-25

Il suppose" said the rural postmistress'
friend, ''you get lots OF enjoyment out
OF reading the postal cards?"
OH. replied the postmistress mot
near so much as ! get out OF the letters
steam catholic Standard and Times.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-25

couple received the congratulations or
Their many friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Greene viii live at Fall
coner, y, Y. where Mr. Greene has
business interests
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19

ARE SECURED
FOR ARBITRATION
% AND CONCILIATiON.
Railroad Photographers Bring Their
Negotiations to a Happy
Conclusion.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. 17.-Negotiations
which have been pending since May
between the Illinois Central Railway
and the telegraphers are concluded,
with the result that the demands of the
telegraphers, slightly modified, have
been granted. The long time taken to
effect the settlement was necessary be-
cause of the fact that the schedules
of more than 1,500 different offices have
to be considered individually. The COLI
cessions consist of greatly reduced
hours and an annual increase in the pay
role amounting to more than 100000.
The average increas Sc in the salaries is
Is per cent. The Chicago Great West
ern has granted the telegraphers the
same rate as agreed upon by the Illinois
Central. namely, $3.50 a month for
operators along the lines at small sta
tions and s72 month for those in large
cities.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
DEcENTLY BURIED.
Why a Union Of Overall Makers Was
Formed in Boston.

BOSTON, Mass, Sept. ia few
weeks ago a young woman employed
as an overall maker in a: local shop
here became i'll and was taken to the
hospital There she was attended by
medical students instead of regular
and subsequently died. She
was about to be buried as a pauper,
when one of her shopmates, learning of
her death, interfered and procured her
q. decent burial. AS result of this
circumstances a union, or society, of
young women overall makers was
formed at theCivic Service House on
Salem street, the object of which is
principally to look after it's members
who may be in i'll health and unable to
work. The union started with thirty
two members, and there is much in
terest in it. It is also intended that
the education and self-improvement of
the members of the union will not be
neglected.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
is ENROLLING MILL
EMPLOYEES OF EAST

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 1.-THE inter-
national union of Flour and Ceral En-
ployes, which was organized in Min
neapolis little over a year ago, and
which has headquarters at present in
the East, and is adding many new
unions to its roll each week.
International President, John M. Fin
is affiliating the unions Of Buffalo and
ley is at present in Buffalo, where he
Niagara Falls with the International
union. Both cities have large -institu-
tions, the employees Of which already
have strong local organizations. The
addition of these to the international
body will greatly strengthen the latter.
President Finley expects to go to To-
ronto before returning to Minneapolis
to enroll the employees of the Toronto
cereal mills in the main organization.
The union will then make good its
name Of an international body.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
WHY THE UNIONS
STAND BY PARKS.
NOT CONSIDERED MORALLY
~GUILTY OF >ExToRTION.
He Only Fined Contract Breaking En-
ployes for Their Underhand
Dealings.

NEW YORK, Sept 17-Wonder is ex-
Parks union and other labor organiza-
ATOMS should stick by him even after
he has been convicted of "extortion.' .
The reason is plain. Whatever Parks
received from the contractors whom he
fined for breaking their agreements did
not go into the treasury of the union,
and out Of it the men were paid for
their lost time. Technically Parks was
guilty, but the union men believe that
morally he is innocent, for he was
working for their interests.
Union men are not upholding ex-
toration in defending Parks. They do
not consider him guilty of any such
thing. Had he put the money into his
own pocket, no one would defend him.
His salary will be continued whatever
the result Of the new trial, if any,
and the effort of the Employers Asso-
citation to disrupt organized labor will
not succeed.
The labor Day parade here demon
strated the extreme loyalty of the
unions that stand by Parks. Fifteen
organizations marshaled $4,000 to $4,000
men. The confusion resulting from the
anxiety of the paraders to cheer Sam
Parks and shake him by the hand
made an accurate count impossible.
There was no question of Siam
Parks triumph. He was arrayed in
red shirt, a white felt hat of rough
ride pattern, a white belt, gray trous-
ers, enameled leather leggins, and a
gold and white sash across his appear
AnCe
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
TWENTY WOMEN
LIVE OFF A FAD
TURN TO THE RAG CARPET FOR
A MEANS OF LIVING.
Charity Aid Association Back Of the
Movement-OId Floor Covering
Fashionable.

Not far from the North River in the
upper story. of a small brick building in
New York City, group of gray-haired
women, bent and bowed with the weight
OF years, as we'll as the burden of pov-
erty, are to be found every day just
now weaving long strips of gaily-deco-
rated materials into the most artistic
objects of household adornments
They are the INDECENT women of the
tenements, to whom the Charity Aid
Association lends assistance, and the
products of their hands are the pretty
rag carpets of our grandmothers' time.
And so, when nearly all New York
Is OFT ON it's vacation, enjoying the
fresh ocea n.y breezes5 "or inha ilinss.the
women WorkZtth hard est 81 .ord Ter that
the homes Of the wealthy may be beau
titled with the product of their hands.
Now All the Rage.
For this artistic floor covering is now
taking the place of the more expensive
sort, or, indeed, of even that Of the
cheaper grade, and this is the season
when it is most in demand. For the rag
carpet is, to use the stock expression,
all the rage, and every woman who is
up to date must have a collection for
use in her summer cottage or to adorn
the handsome wood floors of her more
pretentious home.
Women whose skillful fingers weave
bright stripes of textiles into these
artistic floor coverings are those who
have outgrown their usefulness or
whom sickness has left incapaciated for
more strenuous employment.
Many are women who have seen
better days; mothers whom ungrateful
children have cast off and left to shift
for themselves, or wives whose hus-
bands have died and left them to fight
the battle of life alone and unaided. In
every case it is a question of the por-
house or some employment such as
this.
Fashion Has Doomed Work,
Remuneration for the work wouldn't
keep schoolgirl in soda water, for it
is only 40 cents day. But it serves to
pay the rent Of a room somewhere,
where rents ane not as exorbitant as
on Fifth avenue, and, together with the
sumptuous dinner served gratutiously
by the society each day at noon, it
enables to keep life in their feeble
bodies.
Industrial work Of this sort has been
carried on for some time, but the
women haven't always been as busy
as they are now. Fashion, that arbl-
trary goddess, has commanded it's
votarise to worship at the shrine of the
rag-carpet rug.
And so much a great demand for
them has developed of late along with
the craze for all things antique that
decorators have standing orders at the
factory for rugs of this description.
Samples of wall paper are furnished to
be matched in denim for floor covering.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
NEARLY GOUGED OUT
HIS PRISONERS EYE.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16.-The al
legged unwarranted brutality of a Fifth
District policeman in making an ar
rest today came near causing a riot
among the colored people living in that
neighborhood, and as a result of the
policeman's use of blackjack one of
his prisoners will probably lose an eye
and the policeman will be required to
make an official explanation.
The accused policeman is Frank
Quinn. The victim of his alleged bru-
tality is Frank Nedab, a middle-aged
colored man. The latter is now in the
Pennsylvania hospital in a badly bat
tered condition. His right eye had been
nearly gouged out of his head by blows
inflicted by the policeman, and the
physicians say that the sight of both
eyes may be destroyed.
Nedab, whose eye Quinn, the police
man nearly gouged out, was charged
by the policeman with interfering with
him while he was arresting Archibald
Prear, colored.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
SALARIES ON THE
FRENCH RAILWAYS.

The total number of employees in the
different departments Of the French
railways including managers and clerks
3,O76; traffic, 1922; locomotive and
rolling stock, 72,24S; road and build
whom 26,754 are women.
The salaries of the officials and work.
men do not rule high, and are regulated
more by the time man has been in the
employ of the company than by the
kind of work he is called on tn per-
form, except, of course, in the case Of
the skilled artisans. Moreover, salaries
vary greatly, not only on different rail-
roads, but often on the same line. It
is, therefore, difficult to give exact
figures, says the Railway World, but
it may be estimated that an ordinary
porter receives $20.s4 a month; head
porter, $24.75; a pointsman from $25.21
to $27.85,and a platelayer $1815 The
driver of the locomotive earns, on an
average, $3515 per month, and his
rewards for saving coal. etc., usually
amount to $14.02. Stokers receive about
$24.25 per month, with $5.45 as extras.
A foreman in the workshops can earn
as much as s4S.50 per month, an ordi-
nary workman $19.40, and an apprentice
$14.O2.
OF the 71,273 men working on the
principal railroads 56 per cent receive
from $16.23 to $25.45 per month, and "a
per cent of the remainder get from $13.54
to $31.02 per month. The men work, on
an average, twenty-eight and one-half
days per month, and from seven to
twelve hours a day. Nearly Is per
cent of the men are lodged.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
DRAGGED BY HORSE
FRONT OF LOCOMOTIVE

JOHNsTOWN, Pa, Sept. 16.-Be-
cause his horse made a sudden leap
while waiting at a railroad crossing
at Hastings, landing him squarely in
front of fast approaching train, J. E.
Priestly of Hastings is dead and the
animal which precipitated him into
such fatal peril as a result of his &C.
centricity suffered a like fate
Mr.. Priestly, who was one Of the best
known residents of that section Of
Cambria county, had started to cross
the track today when he noticed a
train approaching. He backed the ami
NAL and waited for the train to pass.
The horse showed no signs of fear or
nervousness until just before the train
had reached the crossing. when, ter
rorized by the apparition bearing
down so closely, it gave sudden
spring and landed man, animal and
wagon squarely on the track.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19

:RE0PEq|5 ! FACTORY
ITS CHICAGO BLUFF OF LAST
SPRING FAILS.
Bakers Union Will Start Active Cam
paign if Trust Employees Nom
Union Workers.

CHICAGO, Sept. H. Last spring in
pyrotechnica1 way the Cracker Trust
closed it's cracker bakeries in Chicago,
sold it's horses and talked as if the city
had been tabooed as manufacturing
centre for it's products. All this was
done to head off demands on the part
Of the 1000 girls employed, for decent
wages and to disrupt the Union.
But the bluff didn't work. The union
Is still in existence, and those who did
not get employment have been receiving
lockout benefits.
Now the National Biscuit Company
(the Cracker TrusD has reopened its
William Schmidt bakery, and prepara-
tions are making to start up in the
other factories 50 long closed.
But the officers of the union are
alert, and unless union labor is empliy-
ed great fight will be made against
the trust goods.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
ANGRY HUSBAND THREW
BABY AT HIS WIFE

WILKESBARRE, Pa, Sept. 16.-John
Griffin, resident of Railroad street,
Alden, was arraigned today before AL
derman Pollock on charges of cruelty
His wife was engaged in preparing
breakfast for the family, and her task
was nearly completed when the hus-
band entered the room. She was pour
ing boiling tea into cups when Griffin
became abusive. Griffin picked up his
three-year-old child and hurled it at
her. The child's face and body were
badly scalded by the hot tea, and her
face will be disfigured for life. When
the child cried, suffering from intense
pain, he offered no assistance to re-
lieve it's agony. He admitted he was
guilty of the charge.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
10000 EMPLOYEES
WANT MORE PAY
MEAT CUTTERS AND BUTCHER
WORkMEN'S DEMANDS.
Officials Are ConeiIiatory-Boycott Of
Union Butchers Raised by
Packers.

CHICAGO, Sept. lit is the hope of
the officers of the Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workers Inter-
national Union that the conferences now
proceeding in Chicago between them
selves and the representatives Of the
packing companies will settle the wages
scale for several years.
The old agreement has expired and
the members of the various unions
involved, numbering in Chicago alone
close on to 100000 men and women, are
looking to a considera BILE increase in
wages
Each union is individually powerful,
for the employees in the packing in
dustry are among the best organized
IN the world, claiming to have enrolled
over 80 per cent of the total help. They
are known as the cattle, hog and sheep
butchers, and the beef boners, coopers,
casing workers and canning employees.
At present they get from $1.75 for
aborers to $475 day for cattle butch
ers. They want Il minimum wages of
81 for laborers and Il 10 per cent gen.
eral increase for the other workers,
except the cattle butchers, who demand
$5 day
The conferences are held in the offices
of Schwalzschild & Sulzberger. The
firms that are represented are the
Swift & Co., Nelson Morris & Co.,
Armour & Co., the Cudahy Packing
Company, and Schwarzschild & Sulz-
berger. These concerns control the
situation and the wages they grant will
be accepted as standard by the other
houses.
The boycott of the union butcher
shops Of Rochester, N. Y, has been
lifted by the packers. There was
strike at the plant Of the Rochester
Slaug htering Company. and later a
lockout. Butchers who have signed the
union scale were refused meat, and
the packers everywhere were in the
ny the Federal Government, and anx-
ious to ullay discomfort on the part of
their employees, the packers have lifted
the boycott and will hereafter sell
meat to union butcher shops
The statement has been made that
upon a guarantee to be given the big
packers depend concessions in wage
scales benefting 10000 men ~imnedi-
ately and 10000 in the future: The.
guarantee is that hastys and Sindisc crimi:--. il
~
elirnlna nennss=
bers of the Union shall: not limit the
amount of work they do in day.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
SCHOOL WILL
OPEN ON OCTOBER 5TH,

ST. PAUL, Sept. 16.-The state
school of agriculture will open Oct 5.
1t is expected that the attendance will
exceed 500 this winter, which is the
largest in the history of the school.
The registering of students has already
begun, and names are coming in fast.
One of the important extensions to
the curriculum is college course COW
ering four years work. Forestry will
be one of the subjects pursued in this
course. TWenty-seven students have
already enrolled, and many more are
expected.
Work on the new boys dormitory is
progressing rapidly. 1t is a large build
ing with rs rooms. 1t is expected the
building will be completed by Jan. /.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
DEPUTY SHERIFF PLACED ON
TRIAL FOR KILLING MINER

NoRRIsTOWN, Pa, Sept. H.-Harry
McElmoyle, a Lehigh Coal & Naviga-
tion company's deputy during the re-
cent anthracite coal strike, was placed
on trial here today for the murder Of
Patrick Sharpe, union miner, which oc-
CURED during the strike at Nesquehon-
ing, Carbon county, Pa. The trial was
transferred to Montgomery county by
the state supreme court, on the ground
that: a. fair trial could not be had in
Carbon county, because of the general
adverse sentiment against McElmoyle.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
INSURGENTS SLAUGHTER
THE IMPERIAL FORCE

MADRID, Sept. 16.-Private dis
patches from Morocco say that Ben
Jucci commanding a detachment of the
imperial troops and six hundred of his
men were killed, recently in an en-
gagement with the insurgents. The
sultan is reported to: have narrowly es~
capped falling: into, the hands of the
enemy. -, HI. FL .:z:.<sf .= - -
= A. dispatch received by the French
foreign office on August 29 from Moro,c--
1co said that q large imperial force,
which was going to the reli the
troops anded the Sui tan, .zha Il
been slrprisedHan almost annii ated
byiusurgents Il
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
LAUNDRYMEN WILL NOT
INSURE CUSTOMERS GOODS

MILWAUKEE,, Sept. 15.-The princi-
pal business of the National Laudry-
mems association convention today was
the discussion of the topic Insurance
on customers goods
After an elaborate discussion, a. reso-
luton was passed that it was the sense
Of the convention that customers goods
should not be. insured for the reason
that in case of loss it would be hard
matter to collect insurance because of
inability to prove property. The dele
gates were given a boat ride this after
noon. - > s.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
UNION MEN BEST.

Eastern Street Railway Managers Com
ing to Their Senses.
DETROIT, Mich, Sept. NV. D.
Mahon. international president of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
Railway Employees of America, has re-
turned from an extended trip through
New England in the interests Of the as
sociation.
He reports that the street railway
managers in the East are beginning to
see that better results can be obtained
from the employment of men who are
educated to the highest standard and
made to feel their Importance in the
labor world through organization.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
1T is SAID THAT HILL
Is ACCUSED OF GRATING

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 16.-While the
sheriff's office will not divulge the ex-
act charge against Charles r. Hill, held
on a Minneapolis warrant at James,
vile, Wis, it is not denied that Hill is
wanted under an indictment accusing
him of completely in the "graft' sys-
tenn of the Ames administration. Hill
was captain of police and a trusted
lieutenant Mayor Ames. He disap-
peared after the conviction of several
of the Amer officials.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-09-19
WANTED TO DIE ON
HER DAUGHTERS GRAVE

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. 16.-
Driven nearly to distraction by ILL
health and still brooding over the
death of her only daughter, Mrs.
Amelia Miller, fortytwo years old, at
tempted to take her life yesterday
She was. found lying on her dead child,s
.gnaYeSin, .GlenWood xcenleter with blood
wrists u and large bute KNIT .py
her side. 5 M. *5}: ia: -
Only the timely arrival of the watch
man saved the woman's life. He sum-
moned the police and had Mrs. Miller
rushed to the Women's Homeopathic
hospital, where her injuries we're
dressed. Then she was taken to the
police station and locked up on the
charge of attempting to commit sui
eide.
At a hearing before Magistrate Pull
linger in the Twentieth and Berks
streets police station Mrs. Miller was
discharged.