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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-22
Some of the Horrors of Sugar
Trust Slavery
MRS. CARRIERS WEDDING
ACTRESSES Mysterious Venture Into
Matrimony Has Never Been Ex
plained-Mrs. Burke-Roche
WEEDS Riding Master
BY sgwELL HAeeARp.

New York. July 21-On the heels of tho
beef investigation in Chicago the World
has been making an investigation of the
sugar refining industry of this city. 1t
finds the sugar trust slavery much worse
than that of the Jungle" It says:
This is the plain story OF sugar and
It's slaves in New York They make that
pretty crystal lump of sweetness which
you drop into your morning cup of coffee
1t looks so clean and seems so pure and
white that never a suspicion rises in the
mind of the tants mixed therein and the
horrible conditions under which 1t Is pro-
duced.
What really goes to make this little
white lump is:
One ounce of sugar cane,
One dash of dirt,
One pound of flesh,
One quart of human sweat,
Twelve hours of slavr-driyen labor,
One half-starved family.
One corrupted United States Senate and
One hundred per cent trust profit.
If you look along the Brooklyn shore of
the East river just above the new VIII
llamsburg bridge you will see series of
tall, dingy, red brick buildings lining the
water front. They rise six, eight and ten
stories high, with even taller chimneys
of such enormous calibre as to Indicate
great subterranean fires. These are the
refinerles of the sugar trust, of which
the Havemeyer family are principal own
ers.
In Fifth avenue and Madison avenue are
the luxurious homes of the Havemeyers,
built from the profits OF the refineries In
the United States Senate are men who
have profited by Wall street transactions
In sugar trust stock Elverton r. Chap
man, broker, once went to jail for re-
fusing to tell the Senate who OF these
men were his customers In sugar specu-
lations when favored legislation was being
enacted
Under the shadow OF the tall refineries
are hundreds of small houses of mean
and squalid type. They shelter swarm
ing population of workers that so and
come in day and night shifts from the
great establishments. The man VINO
leaves home at 8 o'clock in the morning
to begin work gives his bed to the tired
laborer who has just ended nights tour
of duty and sleeps all day. Neither fac
tory nor bed is ever empty. The hours
of labor are continuous, measured only
by human endurance Twelve hours are
rsokoned an easy day, but when fourteen,
sixteen and eighteen hours are passed un-
der the spur OF driving foremen, your
lump of sugar contains very nearly
human life.
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The Servant Problem.

Upton Sinclair, another socialist, who
is also the author of The Jungle, has
scheme which he thinks will solve the
servant problem. 1t is to take the form
of a cooperative home in the vicinity
of this city.
Mr. Sinclair in discussing the matter
declared it was not the purpose to form
a socialistic community, as few of those
interested are socialists.
1.-The plan Is to establish home' Mr..
Sinclair said, Ito secure the advantage
of the application OF machinery TO domes-
tic processes and to solve the servant
problem.
Zach family in the community is to
have its separate house, of whatever
style and cost it pleases, but without the
usual apartments for preparing and serv-
ing food and for caring for children.
These latter activities are to be carried
on comparatively. There will be large
central building containing scientific
ally constructed kitchen and dining room.
social halls, reading rooms lecture rooms
gymnasium and rooms and suites TOR
those who do not care for separate
home.
Food supplies will be bought in bulk
by experts. and the management OF the
business AFFAIRS of the community will be
In charge Of board Of directors elect
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Socialists to the Front.

Socialism and its disciples were never
SO much in the public eye as today The
talk was renewed the other day by the
announcement of j. Phelps Stokes, a mill
lionaire, that he had turned socialist Mr.
Stokes has been interested in social bet
terment on the East Side ever since he left
college, having married Rose Pastor a
Jewess, who was once a cigarmaker.
He was a candidate for president of the
Board of Aldermen in the last election
on the Hearst municipal ownership ticket.
Mrs Stokes is credited with having con-
verted her husband to socialism.
IT know | am credited with having
converted Mr.. Stokes to socialism," she
said. But 1t Is truly not so. He had
adopted the principles of socialism before
we met He had leaned that way for
years, and was firmly. thoroughly as
sured that this was the only solution
before | knew him. Well. l may have
fastened the fruiton, perhaps 1 hope
have But It has been almost unconscious
", for of course / have thought of moth
ing else. I have talked 1t at all times.
1t is my life.
81 have been connected with the social
list party for some time. MIR. Stokes be-
lieves in municipal ownership as firmly as
ever, as far as 1t goes. But he thinks he
can do more now by Withdrawing from
that party. 1t Is because 1t seems to me
helping on the thought that am so glad.
SOCIALISM means the common owner
ship of the machinery of production-the
real government for the people, of the
people and by the people. Our forefathers
had a dim glmmering of that Idea, or
perhaps very clear one, when they
framed the constitution. But they thought
then that none would encroach on an
others rights. But when a father gath
cred together a good deal, and son
found it awaiting him and gathered more
by the time the grandson took possess
sion he concluded 1t all belonged to him.
This has grown up so gradually that we
hardly realized 1t till 1t was upon us.
And il Is here now for us to fight
Though Mr.. Stokes has repeatedly de-
MED that he is a very rich man, that
erroneous impression has crept about.
He. keeps his position with the corpora
lions. but he takes from them only in
ratio to the service he gives Them and he
spends those earnings In improvements Of
various kinds SO l am afraid men of
wealth would call him poor
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farm and assumed charge OF course,
when Mrs. Burke-Roche went TO Glen
Court farm to see about her horses she
had to consult Batonyi. Here is where
the gossip started The -Four Hundred
couldn't see why she had TO inquire about
the horses every day, and why it took
several hours each day to transact that
business. But now all is understood. 1t
Is announced that this happy pair were
married as least year ago. That the
marriage was kept secret so long was
probably due to the fact that Mrs. Burke
Roche's daughter, Cynthia Roche. was
engaged In marriage to young Arthur
Scott Burden, the second son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Abercrombie Burden, than
whom there are no prouder people in all
the Four Hundred and none more likely
to object to a coachman as step-father-
In-law to their son.
OF Batonyi very little is known that is
authoritative beyond the fact that he
came to this country many years ago and
got a job as bookkeeper in Durlonds
Riding academy. From bookkeeping he
turned his attention To riding and driving
and became professional riding master
and coachman. Weird stories were told
about his descent from a noble Hungarian
family and it was whispered that some
day he would come into title
James Boothy Burke-Roehe is happy be-
cause his former wife's marriage to Ba-
divorce under the English law. Roche is
British subject and the divorce that was
granted to his wife Is not recognized in
England
Some years ago when Roche was on
temporary visit to New York he did an
odd thing. BY accident he became ac-
quainted with Harry Walker. who was
then editing a weekly publication devot-
ed to the sayings and doings of the Four
Hundred. Roche can write very we'll and
likes to do It, He volunteered to con-
tribute to Walkers paper. but would ac-
eept no pay. One day Walker was called
to Newport and left Roche In charge
Roche filled the whole first page with an
account of the Work family and his opin-
ion of them. Frank Work Is Mrs. Burke
Roche's father, and he didn't care much
for his first son-ln-law. He devoted partic-
ular attention to his former wife and pre-
dicted that she would marry again and
that her next husband would be of the
Servant class" Then he put the paper
to press and ordered 10000 copies printed.
As this was something like ten times the
regular edition. Walker was telegraphed
to by the printer and came rushing back
to town. He wanted to know IL Roche was
crazy but the latter insisted that every
copy would be sold and promised to pay
for all that were left on Walkers hands.
The order went The 10 900 were published
and all were sold. IT thought my fortune
was made" said Walker in telling OF the
incident. IT never dreamed of such a
bound in circulation. I couldn't account
for It. Miss Helen Gould's picture was on
the front page and I thought that was
what caused the increased sale I was
jubiant But the next week the circulation
fell back to the old figure. I found after
ward that Frank Work had bought up
the whole edition.
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He is given an opportunity of retrieving
his character, however. He Is permitted
to walk the deck with the other men,
and should he spot a sailor commit
ting a like offense he at once presents
him with the hated belt and the new
victim has to undergo similar ordeal.
Some officers adopt more drastic meas
ures. II Jack is detected expectorating
anywhere but in the receptaces provided,
a spit kid is strapped to his chest.
and any man who cares to do so may
make use of this curious walking receipt
acle. AS may be supposed, this humiliatlns
punishment effectively prevents the men
from violating the regulations.
Were civilian given two large wooden
buckets, one empty and the other full
of water, and told to bale the liquid from
the full tub into the empty vessel with
a small spoon, he would consider the or
der to be that of mailman or a revival
of ancient fairy lore. Yet this punish
ment has on several occasions been melted
out to refractory sea dogs" Nothing is
more amusing than to see a weather.
beaten sailor carefully bailng out spoon
full after spoonful of water and as care
fully depositing the fluid in a large bucket
at his side
A punishment frequently employed is
that of setting the defaulter to walk
slowly backward and forward along the
deck, nursing in his arms a six-inch pro-
Jectile (weghing a little over one hum
dred pounds). After a quarter of an hour
or so OF this beneficial exercise the
unhappy victim is glad to drop the load
and rub his aching limbs. At the same
time he probably makes a solemn mental
resolve never to repeat the offense for
which he has been awarded this dire
penance.
An old naval captain-one of the old, old
school-was at one time sadly addicted to
stammering. He could not utter simple
sentence without great amount of spiut-
tering and hesitation. This was one day
too much for an intrepid sailor who was
receiving an order from the captain in
that officials usual hating manner, and
he unfortunately burst into an uncontrol-
liable fit Of laughter. This rash laugh he
bitterly repented. Capt. g. was a
disciple of the homeopathic system. Max
ing Jack stand upon the fore bridge In
full view of the entire ships crew, the
officer commanded his victim to laugh
continuously for an hour and q half. This
he was compelled to do, though the pitt
full expression of his weather-beaten.
sunburnt visage denoted anything but a
happy and contented frame of mind.
Whistling in forbidden parts of the ship
has often been punished in similar man
ner. The offender has been obliged to
whistle his loudest Under the eagle eye
of the commander until poor Jacks lips
have become so parehed and cracked that
he could not produce another note.
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Children in the Streets.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
There are two sides to Inspector Cross
recent order to policemen to prevent chill
dren from playing in the streets of this
borough. One side is that of the inspec-
tor, who was moved to take action by the
increasing number of children who are
killed or injured while so playing The
other side is that of the Rev. Howard Me-
fish of Holy Trinity, who says that the
children have no other place to play. and
that the inspectors order is an outrage
Unfortunately, both are right. Most city
children have no other playground than
the streets, as Mr.. Melish says, and in the
crowded neghborhoods ii would be inhu-
man to confine them during the daytime
to the cramped and suffocating rooms in
which their parents live. Play is as neces-
sary to the growth Of child as eating OF
sleeping is, and every child has at least a
natural right to a place to stretch his
muscles That is a law or nature and the
fact that our children has not made al
lowances for IL does not make the law any
less imperative The natural impulse
drives the children into the streets and
there they are run down not merely by
street cars, but by vehicles whose drivers
are using all possible care and diligence
Street accidents are within the domain of
the police. 1t is their business to prevent
them so far as possible, and in the pur-
suance of that duty Inspector Cross issued
his order
The immediate outcome will be that the
police will try for a time to enforce the
order, and, falling. will again grow toler-
ant and allow the children to resume their
old street games. A thorough enforcement
of the order would be impossible without
doubling Or trebling the number of police
men. patrolman goes through a block
once or at most twice in a day. While
he is passing the children will subdue
themselves and as he disappears up the
street the fun will be resumed until warn
ing of his next visit is heard. Parents
may IN a little more careful about al
lowing tl1>ir children to play, for fear that
they may be called TO the police station
to bail the young hopefuls out. but pres
emily that fear will subside and the
old conditions will be resumed.
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WEEKLY AVERAGES
OF CLEARING HOUSE

New York, July 21.--The statement of
the clearing house banks for the week
shows that the banks hold $780, goo over
the legal reserve requirements. This Is
an increase of $6.560,2OO as compared with
last week The statement follows:
Loans. 81, 045 SOS, 200; increase, 50, 4s5, 800.
Deposits, $1,o44 7S9, 200; increase, $40 SO7, zoo
Circulation. 1908 400; decrease. s653, 100.
Specie, $193, 066, 300; increase, $10,125, 900.
Reserve required, $261 ,184,S0O increase,
81, POI, 800
Surplus, $40, S91, 600; increase, $6,56O, 200.
Ex.-Unfted States deposits, 22,3S4575; in
crease, ss.127,575.
New York. July 21.-The Financler this
week says:
Last weeks official statement of the
surprising exhibit than had been either
of those of two weeks Immediately pre-
ceding. An important gain In cash was
foreshadowed by the estimates as a re-
suit of the inter-bank movements and of
ordinary sub-treasury operations, but 1t
was expected that these extraordinary
operations would to some extent cause
a decrease in cash through the return of
$,000,0OO by the banks to the sub-treas-
funds. Though a little more than half
of this sum of 100000 was turned into
the treasury during the first days of the
week, $4,000,000 was surrendered on Fri
day, thus making an average loss of near
ly s2,0oO0O0.
The official statement showed a gain
of S11, 7e0,000 in cash, while the estimates
based on traceable movements of the
money indicated a gain of but little more
than half this amount. Deposits were aug
mented $20,397.200 which very closely
agreed with the sum of gain in cash
and the increase in deposits hence the
statement made a good proof. The re-
quired reserve against general deposits
increased $5,201 800. deducting which from
the gain in cash, left $1,000. 200 as the in
crease In surplus reserve to $40, 391, 900.
Compared upon the basis OF deposits,
less those of $11,9743O0 public funds, the
surplus is $22,3S4,575.
Loans were expanded ST. SIS, 300, probably
as the result of more active speculation
In the stock market one notable feature
was the excess of only 1929 500 in loans
compared with deposits against $l2301, :
400 in the previous week. The daily aver
age of clearings was s270,o00.O00 against
$3.50, 100000 in the week OF July IA.
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WEEDS Riding Master.

Another morsel for the gossips is the be-
lated announcement Of the marriage OF
Mrs. Burke Roche to Aurel Batonyi. a
riding master and professional coach
man. Batonyi became acquainted with
Mrs Burke Roche through her horses. He
was a finished horseman and she engaged
him to train her pets and to teach her
how to drive them. He succeeded SO well
that under his guidance her entries took
many premiums at various horse shows
patronized by the world of fashion In
eidentally she became a finished whip
when Mrs rke-Roche acquired Glen
Court farm in Middleton Batonyi went
along. He took a small house near the
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ed by the members of the organization.
1t is planned that the community shall
own sufficient land to raise much, If not
ALL of its food supplies.
For the bringing up OF children every
one is agreed that the city Is no place.
Parents find 1t lonely In the country, and
mothers are obliged at times to turn
their children over to servants whose
ideas and habits are not to their liking
In a community such as Is purposed the
children would never come In contact
with servants, but would be left in the
care OF trained nurses and experienced
kindergarten teachers and physicians.
Women directors elected by the mothers
would have charge of the building for
the ACCOMMODATION of children.
1T is also purposed to have cooper
alive store boat, livery stable, bath house
and recreation grounds.
"One or two hundred families by COM
blning could purchase from 800 to 1000
acres of land and build their own electric
light and heating plant. By joining In a
movement like this many persons of mod
crate income would be freed from the
bondage of an isolated hoIns and yet
receive all the benefits of such resi-
dence."
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Beef Trust Earnings.

Persons who have been making inquiries
since the Packington scandals began have
found that the earnings of the big packers
are as closely yelled as the revenue of the
Standard Oil company
They have publicly asserted for years
that their earnings are only equal to
about IVA per cent on their gross business.
The gross business of Swift & Co. last
year was $3.50, 900, ooo of Armour, s225,
600, 900; of Morris, about 500, 100000
Within the last ten years Swift has in
creased capital stock from $4,000, 900 to
500, 900, 900. OF this stock per cent is
paid and 1t is quoted now on the Chicago
stock exchange at lo4. 1t sold at ITO
before the Presidents message and inside
support ia now given 1t. There is also
IS, ooo, 900 in the bonds, and the refrigera-
tor company with a capitalization of 81
DOC, 600 and 5000, 900 In bonds.
Armour has but $40 900 900 in the eleva-
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Novelty In Accident.
I'M the London Globe.

FROM the London Globe
Some records are of the kind that
one would not wish to see lowered"
The little French town of Arpagon has
just had such an experience. Two sta
ton masters were killed by trains on two
successive days. The first sacrificed his
life to humanity while trying to rescue
two travellers who had incautiously got
into a dangerous position on the line. His
name was NJ. Jackuemin. On the news
being reported. a M. Grainboeuf was sent
to take charge of the place, and the
next day he himself was killed through
getting in front of an express going at
45-miles an honr.
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Natural Enough.
From the Philadelph

From the Philadelphia Press
YES, he said if he had his choice he'd
rather be an ex-convict than anything
else
What an eccentric idea. Who did you
say he was?
That kidnapper who was just sent to
Jail for twenty years.
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tor and grain business and about $780,
600 in the car-line monopoly. Both firms
have millions in cold-storage plants all
over the country, through which they con-
troll the fish, egg and fruit trade.
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hereby announce myself as a candl-
date for the office of sheriff of Jefferson
county. subject to the action of the dem
ocratio party. ]. p. STILES.
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here announce myself a candidate for
sheriff of Jefferson county, subject to the
action of the democratic primary. August
AZ, 1905 HUGH McGEEVER.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Sheriff.

hereby announce myself as a candi-
cate for the Office of sheriff of Jefferson
county, subject to the action of the dem
ccratic party, In the Forthcoming primary.
ALBERT STRADFORD.
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Higdon will make a good sheriff. His
administration will be fair and clean. 60
to work and help elect him"
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hereby announce myself a candidate
for nomination by the democratic and
conservative party for the office of SEN
ator in the legislature of Alabama for the
Thirteenth senatorial district, composed
of the county of Jefferson.
NATHAN l.. MILLER.