Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-12-24

cry employees, and suburban under
takers conducted their funerals with
nearses and without interference of
union pickets Efforts for arbitration
are in progress.
CHICAGO, Dec 22.-The Crane
company, manufacturers of elevators,
today began the distribution OF prob
ably he largest Christmas gift ever
made by an American concern to the
workers in It's employ. The aggre-
gate amounted to $3.50 900 and was dis
tributed among 5000 toilers. Includ-
ed among the recipients were about
500 men and women. not now In the
employ of the company. but who were
at the beginning of the year and had
been laid on for one reason or anoth-
er.
The money was distributed on the
| ratio of time worked during the year
and averaged about 5 per cent of the
| yearly wage. The amount distributed
| this year WAS considerably in excess
| OF that OF any previous year. partly
because the company has about 1000
more employees than It had 4 year ago.
and partly because of the unusually
prosperous conditions that have pre-
vailed.
TOWER HILL, H.. Dec. 22.-Rob-
bers wrecked the safe vault in the To-
cal bank with dynamite today and es-
capped with $4,000.
| KANSAS CITY. Mo, Dec. ga
Summit street cable train came to a
sudden stop today when the grip
caught in an obstruction. and the cars
partially telescoped each other. Mrs.
c. Allen of this city Is probably NOR
tally injured and nine others were al
| so badly hurt
One thing parents who buy candy
| for their children should not forget,
and that Is, that Richey makes all his
own candies. They are pure and free
| from anything injurious to teeth or
| stomach.
| NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-Andrew Car
negie declared today in speech on
the negro question that the negroes
are blessing to America and that
their presence in the South makes this
country impregnable and without need
of a navy to defend Itself Il say hap
py republic because We have 9.000,-
900 negroes here" declared MIR. Car
negie The speech was delivered be
fore the Armstrong association OF
New York, an association for helping
to carry on the work OF General Sam
uel Chapman Armstrong, who founded
Hampton Institute at Hampton, Va
where Booker r. Washington got his
education. Mr.. Carnegie has given
Booker T. Washington more than $500,
900 for his institute at Tuskegee, Ala
and it is understood that he gives $40,
900 a year to Hampton.
How many suggestions have been
made to remove the negro to African
said Mr.. Carnegie. How many gen
tlemen have come to me with such
suggestions? But what is the sense
of these suggestions? Take 1t down
in South Africa. Great Britain is go
ing to lose South Africa as sure as
ever we are living. all because the
Dutch are increasing, the British are
not, and the British cannot make the
Kaffirs work. What would Britain
give for 100000 men as capable, as
lovable as | contend the negro is? The
! negroes give us IL 100000 bales of cot
ton every year and by their labor II
the South give us a monopoly in this
, staple that makes us powerful all ovel
the world.
Suppose Great Britain were to senC
, her war fleets to attack america, Il
would amount to nothing. All that th'
, President of the United States woult
have to do would be to say: Stop ex
porting cotton The war would b'
ended in four days, for England can
/ not do without our cotton"
LONDON, Dec 22-The annua
free dinner given this afternoon b!
: the well known organ of the RADICAL
and labor element, Reynolds newspa
per, to the sandwichmen-men wht
: parade the thoroughfares of the me
r tropolis bearing advertising sigI
} boards-formed one OF the most pic
, turesque demonstrations in London'i
observance of the Christmas holidays
! Long before the festivities begal
, crowds gathered in the streets adja
cent TO the Lambeth Baths, Kenning
ton Road, which was gaily decorated
: without and within. More than 200'
friendless and for the most part home
! less destitutes partook of the Christ
: mas fare.
II was a motley crowd of all sort!
and conditions of men, the fiotsam ant
ietsam of great city. There were
! some wizened, mean. puny. spare mer
, who looked as If they had 10 marrow
in their bones. There were others who
had plenty of sinew. but who had up
on their face the dismal mark of fail
ure, men who betrayed the possession
: of despair and were hall-marked b,
the canker of despondency. Profes
sional men, clergymen. lawyers. jour
nalists and others who might poin
) If they would to Oxford of Cambridge
as their Alma Mater sat at the table
side by side with men to whom liter
} ature was an unknown land. and who
! only spoke the jargon of Mapping.
Two thousand victims of their owl
folly. victims of circumstances, or vic
J Tins of Fate, Whatever might be as
signed as to the cause IL WAS aDparenI