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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08

made his climbing skill pay. Though
married five years his wife has never
seen him at his work of scaling the
outside of tall buildings until he I'M
dertook the removal of awnings from
the windows of the towering Flatiron
building Until that time" said the
lady to a reporter, Il never saw him
at the work. | knew he was removing
awnings from the Flatiron building,
so | went over to Manhattan to meet
him yesterday afternoon, and | took
our two children, Lawrence, two and a
half years old, and Hazel, four years
old, and waited for John in front OF
the Bartholdi Hotel OF course |
never thought John would climb that
frightfully tall building. | was stand
ing there when one of the workmen,
who knows me, came over and said:
Your husband will be with you soon,
he's just coming from the ninth story
now | thought he meant John would
be coming by the elevator, so l didn't
look up TO the windows.
'The workman told me to look up.
did, and | nearly tainted, for there
was my husband with his hands on the
sill of a window on the ninth story
and his toes in the groves between the
stones. grew dizzy and wanted to
turn away.
Something held me fascinated,
though, and | watched him coming
down in a sort of criss-cross fashion
as quickly as a man would run down
a ladder. | said to Lawrence, There's
your papa and the baby laughed and
clapped his hands with joy. He didn't
understand the danger, but Hazel did.
and she began to cry. | couldn't look
any longer and | turned my head
away, but | could hear the noise of
the great crowd that was watching
him. | looked again, thinking he
must be on the sidewalk by this time.
Imagine my horror when | saw he had
started climbing upward after l had
turned away, and was then just up to
the cornice. He looked like a little
black fly against the white stone. He
waved one hand and then began to
move down. | watched him, but some
times closed my eyes when it seemed
that he had made a misstep. The
crowd was so great that when he
swung down to one of the store avn
ings | could only see him drop off and
disappear into the maze of men gath
cred about"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08

feats. The name of this man is John
Garrick, and he is called The HUI
man Fly" His occupation is hanging
and removing awnings. To do his work
he simply walks up ana down the out
side of buildings while other workmea
80 from story to story by means of the
stairway or the elevator.
John Garrick before he took up the
trade of awning hanging was a sailor
He followed the sea from boyhOod to
manhood, and during his service on
deep-sea sailing ships he learned to
climb and cultivated his nerve.
A few days ago he was engaged in
removing awnings from the Flatiron
building, in New York. Broadway was
choked with people watching the HUI
man Fly at work. Incredible as it
may seem, he climbed the sheer wall
of that building from pavement to cor
nice, two hundred and eighty-six feet
and down again.
Five years ago Garricl married.
Naturally his wife wished him to quit
iea-faring. He got employment as an
awning hanger and in that capacity he
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08
A Lullaby.
Hush, baby, hush!

Hush baby, hush!
In the west there's glory
With changes of amethyst. crimson
and gold.
The Sun goes to bed like the King in
story,
Told by a poet Of old.
Hush, baby, hush!
There's a wind on the river
A sleepy old wind with voice like
sigh,
And he sings to the rushes that dream
lily culver,
Down where the ripples run by.
Hush, baby, hush!
Lambs are drowsily bleating
Down in cool meadows where daisy
buds grow;
And the echo, aweary with all day re-
peating
Has fallen asleep long ago.
Hush, baby, hush!
There are katydids calling
Goodnight" to each other on every
breeze.
And the sweet baby moon has been
falling and falling,
Till now she is caught in the trees.
Hush, baby, hush!
It is time you were winging
Your way to the land that lies-no one
knows where;
1t is late, baby, late; Mothers tired
with singing,
Soon she will follow you there.
Hush, baby, hush!
e. o. COOKE.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08
COAL STRIKE PROBABLE.
AGREEMENT MADE THREE YEARS.
AGO BETWEEN MINERS And OPE-
RATORS EXPIRES NEXT APRIL.
Hour Day and Recognition of Union.
Owners Will Vigorously Oppose.
Charles Il. Kern.

With the coming of winter many a
householder has calculated upon the
probability of a strike in the anthra-
cite coal regions and wondered wheth-
er he should take the precaution to lay
in a full supply of fuel. The day
when the provident man laid up great
stores for the frozen period of the
year, filled his larder with good things
to eat and his bins with fuel, against
the inclement weather, has departed
so far as the cities of this country are
concerned. Now rich and poor alike.
the provident and the improvident,
look to the merchant to keep their lar
ders filed. Their only providence is
In laying up the money with which TO
purchase supplies when needed.
1t is this change in the method of
providing for the home, that has made
the strike in recent years so terrible
to the humble consumer, who may
live a thousand miles from the scene
Of the industrial discomfort and know
nothing of its causes except that
which he reads in his daily paper, and
yet be the principal sufferer from the
shortage of supplies that follows.
The effectiveness of the strike is its
power to create such a shortage In
supplies and to bring the country up
on the verge of famine as bad as
a food famine. transportation, by
quickly distributing products over the
world, has routed the famine of old
that sprang from the failure of crops
Now the cessation Of labor produces
the same shortage of supply that was
formerly produced by the uncontroll'
able elements.
The chief protection against the re-
currence of strikes has been found in
agreements made between employers
and employees, the present agreement
in the anthracite coal fields being
effective until April LIST next. Until
after that date according to the state
ments of leading labor organization
officials. there will be no strike, as
they propose to stand for the inviola
bility of contracts made by any OF
their affiliated associations.
The good offices of the President oil
the United States were used will
great advantage in bringing about AZ
agreement. between the coal opera
tors and the miners three years ago
so as to make possible the production
of coal. The fact is the President
used only that indefinite power that
may be regarded as the influence of
his great office skillfully employed
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08
CONSUELO ENCOURAGES SEX.
DAUGHTER OF YANDERBILTS
SEES IMPROVED CONDITIONS
IN FIELD OF LABOR.
Comparison of Past Restrictions
With Present Freedom Reveals
Growth of Moman's Sphere.

An ex-President of the United States
thinks it not beneath his dignity to
talk to the women of the country
through the pages of a popular wom-
ans magazine, warning them of the
dangerous and undermining effects
upon their character of active partic-
ipation in public affairs. The feminine
club life of to-day he especially con-
dennis.
Following this comes the announce
ment of an interview with a represen-
tative of the new and charming wom-
anhood of America in the person of
Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough. A
daughter of the Vanderbilts, married
into one of the oldest and proudest
families of England, surrounded by
every luxury and crowned with beauty,
youth and grace, yet is she democratic
enough TO be interested in her sisters
of the working world.
Women's Work Commended.
Concerning woman's work the
Duchess says:
at is gratifying to see the improve
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08
A NEW SEA GIANT.

The new twin screw, Amerika, which
came sweeping into New York barber
the other day. after her maiden voyage.
is one of those new leviathans of the
deep, the dimensions and appointments
of which would have petrified even the
owner of Aladdin's lamp, had he been
able to produce such a result. The
Amerika is said to be the largest ship
ever built for passenger service and is
a sister to the Kaiserin Auguste Vic.
toria, now in progress of construction.
The Amerika is some 700 feet in length,
rs feet wide and over so feet deep. Her
capacity is $4,000 tons, which is some
thing over twice the tonnage of the
famous Oregon, Captain Clarke's great
battle ship which made the long jour
ney around the Horn in time to con-
tribute to Cervera's defeat
Although she is a passenger ship and
has accommodation for 3,400 passen-
gers and 600 crew, she has also a capoc-
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08
in bringing the two sides to the con-
troversy together.
Yields a Great Power.

Few people understand what an i'm
mense power is welded by the Presi-
dent of the United States when that
office is filled by man of good judg-
ment. The President, by issuing an
invitation to the men on both sides of
the coal controversy under the circum-
stances that existed three years ago,
practically forced them to agree to an
arbitration of their differences, be-
cause, had either party to that contro-
versy declined to enter the agreement,
it would have so fully lost public SYM
patty as to have been eventually driv-
en- to surrender wholly to its opponent.
In that case the power behind the
President was the power of public
opinion. Not only is public opinion,
when focused by so skillful a hand
as that of President Roosevelt, capa-
BILE of forcing arbitration, but it is
satisfactory guarantee that the agree
mcnt when made will be kept faith
fully by both sides to the controversy
More Drastic Measures in Reserve.
But while the office of the PreSi-
dent, with all its effective although
indefinite power to force compliance
was used in that case, it is a well
known fact that the President was
considering other means for forcing
an arbitration, had the mine opera
tors declined to agree to lay their
differences before a board of arbitra-
ton. The President not only has well
defined powers that are constantly eX-
crcised, and with which the people are
fully acquainted, but he has other still
more important powers which he can
exercise at his discretion in cases of
great emergency, and which it was I'M
dcrStood at the time of the great an
thracite coal strike he considered
using in order to bring relief to the
shivering multitudcs of the land. lie
may do many things for the public
good That is an indefinite term
allowing Il wide Interpretation, but
there are many people who believe
that had the coal strike of 1902 contln-
ucd 4 little longer the President would
have declared martial law in the
anthracite regions, and not only would
have thrown troops into that section.
! but would have ordered the mining of
the coal and its distribution to relieve
the distress of the country.
But, according TO assurances that
have been given to the public the
| country is safe from coal famine. at
least until April 1st, 1906. Then there
will be another meeting between the
miners and the coal operators and the
miners will demand both an eight
hour day and the recognition of their
union. The recognition of their union
will be resisted by the mine owners
to the last, and willie it seems but a
sentimental issue it will be insisted
upon by the miners, and it may event
ually be made the cause of another
strike. One thing which may he
borne in mind is that in case Of a
strike, the public. in the last analysi, $.
pays all the costs.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08

ments which have been made in the
conditions under which women work in
this country since l was last here. You
know that l am deeply interested in
this question of the betterment of the
conditions of life for women. England
is doing much in this direction, but it
is to America that we all look for
leadership in movements of this kind,
and / am happy to say that our hopes
have not been disappointed"
The particular society in which the
Duchess is interested is the Young
Woman's Christian Association. She
is to that organization in England
what Helen Gould is to the Y. M. c. A.
in this country-a patroness, generous
of time, money and sympathy.
1t is evident, however, that the
Duchess sympathies go out to the
workers and the work along all the
lines of betterment for women. She
calls attention to the various associa-
tions and their enormous growth in
membership, and to the change that
has taken place in the position Of wom-
an in the worlds work during the past
sixty years.
Speaking of woman's efforts at eman-
cipation and particularly of the famous
meeting in Seneca Falls, N. Y, she
says:
1.-THE first woman's rights convention
was held in this country in 1850. Three
years later q woman attempted to
speak in a worlds temperance conven-
tion in New York and it took her three
hours to make ten-minute speech be-
cause of the jeers and Interruptions of
the men delegates. Florence Night
ingale, just about fifty years ago laid
the foundation for the glorious work
of the Red Cross in the hospitals in the
Crimea.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08

ity Of 10000 tons of cargo. She can
carry 1890 steerage passengers, but
she has also provision for passengers
who have little money to spend. One
of her Imperial" suites for a voyage,
affording accommodation for six peo
pie, can be secured for $2,500 or an
average of about $50 a day for each
person.
One Of the novelties of the Amerika
is the electric passenger elevator which
whisks the passengers up and down be-
tween the five decks of the ship. A
Marconi wireless telegraph apparatus
found on the Amerika has now become
an established feature of all large mod
ern vessels.
The Amerika, while not designed, it
is stated. to be a record-breaker in
speed, is driven by quadruple expan
sion engines of over $4,000 horse power
and is scheduled to make the trip
across in seven days.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08
THE HUMAN FLY.
REMARKABLE EXPLOIT OF AVN
ING H4NGER VINO CLIMBS
TALL BUILDINGS.
Witnessed by Gaping Multitude, He
Assembled and Descended the Tow
ering "Flatiron."-Mife and Child
ren Among Nervous Spectators.

There is a man who climbs the outer
walls of the highest buildings and
who uses neither rope, tackle nor seal
ing ladder. This man does not tell of
his daring feats, nor has he a press
agent to exploit his dizzy achieve
ments. He performs this work in view
of gaping multitudes who cheer and
shudder as this man goes up sheer
walls, digging his tough and nimble
toes into the interstices of the stone.
catching a cornice or a window sill
and Ginning" himself up AMI doing
other most venturesome acrobatic
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08
CoNsUELo. DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.

Only the hardest dared face the dis
approval of the public of that day.
But now the army of stenographers,
clerks, physicians, preachers, social
workers and business women attest the
wonderful change in her status. To
day, given capacity, training and perse-
verance, there are few, if any, avenues
of legitimate endeavor closed to woman.
If now and then few overstep the
bounds of discretion and good taste,
and thereby call down the censure of
the better element, who knows but that
it is the pendulum swinging little far
"a rebound from the extremes of
former days. The real balance will
DE maintained when woman is permit
ted to express her individuality and
to live her own life.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08
THE WEATHER FOECASTS.
la Spite of Raileries the Government
Prophesies Remarkably Accurate.

PropheSieS Remarkably Accurate.
Fifteen per cent. of error, said Chief
Willis l.. Moore. in an interview. is
the record of the Weather Bureau. Not
only is this proportion lower than in
any foreign bureaus. but in ten years
not criticism of its work, he adds.
has come from any commercial, mari
time or scientific organization. Ger
tainly. if ii does what it sets out TO
do, eighty-five times out of a hundred.
the weather service ought to enjoy an
enyiable degree of popular esteem.
What praise would be showered on a
Congress that acted unwisely only Is
per cent. of the time!
In spite of the constant gibes di-
rected at the Weather Bureau, there is
undoubtedly among farmers and ship
pers an underlying sentiment of friend
illness and confidence. 1t has grown
into a national joke that the forecasts
are always wrong, just as Bostonians
live invariably on beans and Philadel-
phians are always lethargic. But these
whimsical articles of faith do not IL
the least affect anyone's practical at
titude toward a forecast, a Bostonian,
or a Philadelphia.
A contributing cause to the railing
at the weather bureau is the activity
of the long-range prophets. The SUI
perior usefulness of forecast for next
month over one for tomorrow being
manifest, even sheer guesswork for
the former period is preferred by thou
sands to scientific determination for
the latter Recently a moneyed indi-
vidual offered a substantial prize for
the best weather prophecy six months
ahead. If the Government bureau
should try for that and win it-and it
ought to be able to guess as well as
anybody-it would become the most
popular institution in the country.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08

tempted to speak at a temperance con-
vention recalls to mind the old story
of Lucy Stone, of Massachusetts,
pioneer suffragist, who, after her grad
uation at Oberlin, Ohio (the only col
lege admitting women at that time),
desired to speak in one of the Mass
achusetts churches. The announcement
of the address was made by the min
lister of the church in the following
words:
"a hen wishes to crow like rooster in
this church on Thursday evening. Any
body liking that kind of music is in
vited to attend"
1t seems almost incredible in these
days that time was, and only half a
century ago, too. when woman's activ-
ity was limited to so small circle.
AS a means of livelihood she had but
three vocations from which to choose:
homework, sewing and teaching; and
all poorly paid, at that Marriage was
supposed to be the chief end and aim
of her existence. This state she sought,
sometimes as a refuge from greater
ills. A girl single at % or % was con-
sidered an "old maid" No woman,
except among the Society of Friends,
could be ordained to preach the gospel.
The woman physician or lawyer was
an unknown quantity.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08
The Women Held Aside Their Skirts

When Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
the first woman 10 graduate in medi-
cine in this country, appeared on the
streets the women she met held aside
their skirts for fear of contamination
from so unwomanly a creature. The
bars of prejudice were high and strong.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-08
When Efforts Began.

"These were the beginnings Of the
activity of women in public movements,
involving social reform, which now are
having their full development in all
lines of endeavor. When one reflects
that the hardships faced by women
speakers in those days ranged from hos
tile and rude Interruptions to measures
of even more active discomfort and I'M
pleasantness, reminding one of an un-
popular political campaign. and yet
that they have persevered in their eff
forts, one cannot help being proud of
their pluck and perseverance which
has had such splendid results"
Reference to the woman who at
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