Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-01

is 81 $50. of whom $50 are women. On
account of the rigorous nature of the
duties women are not appointed except
in cases where no men applicants are
found upon the eligible registers. AS
general proposition, however, the super
visors testify unanimously that women
have shown themselves to be just as
capable and efficient as men.
There are women carriers in SO States
and one territory. Iowa has 81, tho
largest number; Illinois %, Michigan 10,
Indiana II, Kansas Is, Missouri IL, and
other States smaller numbers.
The morale of the rural carriers is re
markedly good and always has been.
Out of 34,660 employees, only PA were
discharged for cause last year, of whom
only % were dishonest and 30 had vio-
lated instructions or the regulations of
the service. 1t is doubtful whether any
other organization, either public or pri-
vate, can show so good a record. At the
same time there have been numerous in
stances where the greatest heroism and
nerve have been exhibited, and an extra
ordinary devotion to duty during storms,
washouts, floods and billiards., when the
carriers continued their service regard
less of danger and suffering. The rules
of the department do not make any al
lowance for the weather. The regula-
tons require every carrier to start at
certain hour and maintain a regular
schedule and arrive at given points at
approximately the same moment day af-
ter day; and they are required to cover
a prescribed distance, and make their
~
der any circumstances, sick or well,
storm or sunshine, and they do it. The
number of complaints is very small and
the cases requiring discipline are very
few.
Told in a Few Lines.
President Roosevelt was elected an
honorary member of the New York Ath-
letic Club.
Engineers and fremen on the Penn
sylvania and Baltimore and Ohio rail-
roads are agitating for increased pay.
Hugh S. Tuohy, the oldest clerk in
the Treasury Department. died in Wash
ington. He served in the department
forty-four years.
The National Board of Trade in ses-
bership a society of Bridgeport, Conn,
organized to resist the tide of socialism
declared to be sweeping over this coun-
try.
Senator Warner of Missouri charac-
terized as ''supremely ridiculous" his
boom for the Republican nomination for
President launched by Representative
Bartholdt. He says he does not take it
seriously himself, nor did he believe
anyone else does.
The price of glass will be advanced 10
per cent as the result of the formation
in Pittsburg of an association OF indie
pendent manufacturers, to be known as
the National Window Glass Company,
members of which announced that the
increase in price had been decided upon.
Evidence of the existence at the Kan
sas City stock yards of an organization
of men to defraud shippers by a system
of overweights and underweights was
disclosed in that city in the trial of Jay
J. Miller. a trader, charged with per-
jury. 4. J. Judy, chairman of the
finance committee of the Traders Ex-
change, admitted on the stand that he
knew about the thefts, that he profted
thereby and was a party to them. He
named nine others in the combine.
Three japanese counterfeiters have
been arrested at Seattle by a secret SER
vice officer and hundreds of dollars
worth of spurious s. and SO gold pieces
captured.