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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-04
In a Paris Shirt Factory.

Ing and going, early of a Saturday morn
ing. at the hour for engaging hands.
other. neN Oil
Have you baby2"
Wees, monsieur"
Bring the baby!''
myself would scarcely have believed
this Is Paris in 19O7-no Isolated case. as
nave learned since. but a factory practice
growing. growing with the beautiful ardor
OF patriotic spontaneous movement! How
long ago was 1t that the charge of an in
rant positively injured a Woman's chances
or employment? Certainly it was but yes
terday that unincumbsred girls had pref
erence Now girlmothers even go before
them!
Babies in a Factory.
I saw the babies in the shirt factory's
nursery, 40 babies, from three years "a
few, among the eldesD down to three
weeks. 1t was three weeks ago. There
must be new ones Because this extraordi-
nary shirt factory has three sunny bed
rooms always waiting at the disposition Of
prospective mammas
capable young doctor Is employed by
the year to spend half his time in the
nursery. Ten maids manage to do all the
work, including every babys daily bath
ILLS Win tHe nelp OF mOtnerS, VINO nave
the right to slip in four times day, ten
minutes each, in alphabetic order, and
the thirty minutes aggregated outside the
visit of the lunch hour are not deducted
from their pay!
What does the factory give the babies?"
I asked the young doctor.
''Sterilized. non-tuberculous milk when
their mothers cannot nurse them-or
ought not to nurse them; all their first
baby clothing. baths. hygienic surround
ings, medical attendance, pure air, sun
light, warmth, safety-quoi the only
things baby needs Apart from these
things, the establishment favors mothers"
Howe"
Had you seen two sights I saw last week
you'd be surprised" he answered Both
were marriages at the marie, very affect
ing; but as l assisted at the preliminaries
of one In particular I have conceived a
great admiration for the proprietor of this
factory, To look at him you would imagine
him hard-headed, cynical business man;
you would certainly have been astonished
at the tact and patience he employed to
mother of his babe wife. q refer to the
youths babe. Of course) Two philanthro-
pists, young widow and discreet retired
business man. friends Of the boss, spend
their time visiting the homes Of our work
women and girls
How are those with babies favored?" ]
insisted.
Secretly! Winter jackets. The coal sup
ply attended to. The landlord tranquilized
about the rent-and indoctrinated Of his
duty not to discriminate against children in
his house. Furthermore, he Is informed
that the girl-mother is at once mans VIC
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Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS, April 81, 1907.
There is tragic hole-in-the-wall in every
ward of Paris.
II is kind of low window without glass,
in the side facade of the local public chart
ties establishment Looking at it you per-
ceive it ends in a closed wooden box, i'm
movable and disconnected with the wall In
side. 1t looks like a dumb-waiter, or dish
elevator.
1t is a dumb-waiter-not for dishes, but
for babies Up the dark side street there
comes a wretched mother. What shall she
do with the infant in her arms? She has
reasons not to answer questions. She
shrinks from investigation. Shall she put
baby on a doorstep?
No. everybody in Paris Is aware of the
strange, sacred holes-in-t he-wall Of the
Assistance Publique.
She waits until there is not soul In the
dark side street. She walks up to the
dumb-water. 1t is at the height of
mothers waist.
She shifts baby to It, She hesitates. 1t
must be done. She pulls bell-rope. No
bell is heard: but the dumb waiter slides
to one side-and the baby disappears!
Ready for Another.
Perhaps the poor mother stands and looks
moment at the hole. All she can see is
just another waiting box space-the size Of
another baby. 1t Is waiting for another
baby. But, inside the Assistance Publique,
she knows her infant is already warm and
fed and cared for.
There. inside, bell is ringing. Dring,
dring!
Hey, there, babys come, Gust.
quicker than THAR" calls the greff1er from
his little office Nurses fit to the hole in
the wall-there is life to save for France,
They lift the sliding box's lid; and baby
looks up at its new protectors!
1t Is the Oldest, most primitive, and-for
great class of cases-the only sure meth
cd of combating French depopulation. In
FAINT mortality, which Is greatest between
the ages of one day and six weeks, wastes
needlessly over 10000 babes in France
each year,
There are better ways; for France Is
waking up. I have seen extraordinary eff
forts. patriotic. touching, lovable. In hard
ened Paris business men-we are in 1907!
Monsieur. l want work.
Have you baby?"
mo, monsieur"
Sorry. No place. Look In later"
1t was at the greffe of a great Paris
shirt factory. Young women We're COM
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Women With Babies Preferred.

numerous and highly organised day nuT-
series of the Societe des Creches, while
having their vital raison detre after the
child is well weaned. slow weaned. you
understand? ought not to separate the
baby from its mother even in the day
time!"
ne societe dss Creches has fifty such
establishments in Paris Twelve OF them
ity, but you would not know them from
the others. All are run on the same plan.
Has the poor mother legal domicile In the
there is room and baby is fed and cared
for all day while mamma works-tll night,
when mamma comes to take 1t home with
her. Apart from these. many wards main
tain their own special day nurseries; nor to
speak of fashionable ladies' recently estab-
lished Dolls houses"-very smart and
pretty for those who can gain ADMISSION;
while all survivors in the struggle for ex-
instence at the age Of two years slip safe
into the great maternal schools. the pride
Of Paris for ten years back.
What Paris had neglected-because mod
ern maternity science had not sufficiently
insisted on Infancy inaugurated by en-
largins and municipalizing the private
Oeuvre de la Maternite of Prof. Alphonse
Herrgott, called "Baby's Smile!'
Prof. Herrgott was convinced that the
only way to combat the phenomenal infant
mortality Of France was to prevent any
separation of the mother and her IN
weaned child
III i give money at the start, ne al =
gued "how will it be employed7 Will I
get results? No."
Therefore, he said to each mother quit
ting his maternity hospital:
Nurse your babe from your breast; and
in six weeks come back and see me. The
babe will be weighed and examined. II It
Is In fine condition, I'll give you $50 cash!'
1t was the first cash for babies In
France!
And the results were magical. In course
Of time, Prof. Herrgott had SO many
mothers proudly bringing him their superb
babies-and demanding money at each
weighing-that the private fortune of the
good man melted! Fortunately private do
nations and subsidies from the department
came to his aid. Now the municipality has
it in hand: the work extends over all
Nancy, where the infant mortality has
fallen to 81 per cent-lower than in the
rich wards Of Paris, where per cent was
considered phenomenal.
In Paris the work has been taken up by
the Abatement Maternal-"The Mothers
Nursing''-to which in the last ten years
OF his life the late Casimir-Perier gave
much of his energies and considerable
sums Of money, and which Senator Plot
would possibly pay a nucleus for his great
system in which the state is to pay cash
for babies.
French Depopulation.
You have doubtless heard Of French de-
population, but only figures can bring
home to you the long-gathering results OF
concentrated French Notwithstanding
stresses Of economy and luxury! Accord
ing to the department infant mortality
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Copyright 1907 by Thomas II. Mckee.
The baby's savings bank is an excellent
thing. 1t often saves the grown-ups from
serious embarrassment.
When Seth Radford jr., was born, Seth
Radford, ST., had opened an account
for him in small tin institution,
with a paid-up capital OF 500 and with a
guaranteed interest of 200 per cent per an
mum. In exactly three months there befell
a strIngency in the Radford establishment,
and while the baby was not looking the
father looted the bank. All he left behind
was a little note-here's the very note, this
Is what he wrote:
ION demand promise to pay Seth Rad
ford. If. one hundred dollars S1O0) with
interest at the rate of 100 per cent a month.
Value received. SETH RADFORD, ST."
II was against the law to charge such
usury, and baby was beginning life like
high financier. He would certainly have
been investigated and sent to the peniten-
tiary IL the transaction had been discovered
by any of the magazine sleuths, and pointed
out to any of the new school of district at
torneys.
Two months passed, and Seth, ST., had
not yet managed to repay the infant Shy
lock- except by occa slonally slipping through
the slot in the bank a casual installment of
dimes. quarters or dollar bills.
AS for the baby. he was apparently indir-
ferent to the condition OF the loan market.
He never balanced his books; he never
counted up his petty cash. His main in
terest in life was a small bunch OF live
stockton pink and chubby toes. He was a
miser with respect to these. and seemed
always afraid that one of them would get
lost Besides. his mother was constantly
looking them over. and threatening to bite
them off: and she was such a greedy per-
son that he could never be quite sure OF
her.
The muffied rattle OF the money in his
bank made poor music to Seth. jr.'s, flower
like little ears. He much preferred the rat
tie of a real rattle. Today for the dozenth
time he pushed his bank contemptuously to
the floor. and returned to the pumhegng OF
his toes Seth. ST.. had already picked up
the bank and restored 1t eleven times, but
now the thud OF 1t caught his attention
from a mood OF deep blues that even the
gurgling google OF the baby had not man
aged to dissipate,
Fortune had been having fun with Mr..
Radford. 1t had played seesaw with him
for two years: one month he was soaring
skywards. rich youth: the next month ne
bumped terra firma-with the accent on the
frma. Just now he was of the plank en-
tlrely, fiat on the ground, bruised, aching;
and the seesaw board was high out of
reach.
Two years before he had suddenly real
lied that he was alone. He had seen his
mother laid In a little grave alongside the
grave or his father. The town OF his birth
and his youth suddenly ceased to mean
home to him. He resolved to strike out into
the unknown.
His assets were little cash. a good deal
pf curiosity and fairy-purse of self-renew-
hg hope. He decided that New England
vas . poor place to begin small Texas
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Not Hide-Bound.

hold I'D her head!'
"How?
Not Hide-Bound.
well what is the matter with supplying
her with filled-gold wedding ring to dis
play on the proper finger? And why should
not her landlord instruct his janitor to
speak of her as a young wife whose ener-
getic husband has preceded her to Algiers,
there to found home? Or, If she prefers,
a widow? We are not hide-bound partisans
of the impossible, like the Societe de la
Charlie Maternelle!'
That rich and powerful society-arst Of
its kind to help young mothers. and founded
as early as17s4-acts on the principle of rem
dering girl-mothers pecuniarly attractive.
Its vast influence is exercised in every ward
Of Paris: and its unique gesture Is to offer
money inducements to young men to marry
their victims-in country, like France,
where the inquiry into paternity" much
more the swearing Of baby. is not en-
forceable by law. On condition that they
marry. the Charlie Maternelle will lavish at
tentions on the couple; but, as the young
shirt factory doctor points out, the girl be-
ing nearly always willing, why should she
and the baby lose their chance to patronage
by the backwardness Of an uninteresting
third party?
"The Baby's Smile"
Mother and child are the interesting
couple; they are the hope of France" he
SAYS; land there are vital reasons why the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-04
"The Baby's Smile. ,

Mother and child are the interesting
couple; they are the hope Of France" he
saws; land there are vital reasons why the
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The Short Distance Champion.
From the New YORK Sun.
Knicker-"Why don't you get a touring
carr"
Bocker-'What's the user I AWAY
smash in two blocks anyhow {
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
RATIFY HILL ORE LEASE
United States Steel Stockholders
Hold AnnuaL Meeting.

At the annual meeting OF the stockholders Of the
United States Steel Corporation in Hoboken yester-
day the eight retiring directors reelected and
a resolution was adopted ratifying the Hill ore
lease to the Great Western Mining Company on a
royalty basis, to be guaranteed by the United
States Steel Corporation
There represented at the meeting. in person
and by proxy, 1,s7S.ss7 shares OF preferred stock
and 26s7.535 shares of common stock. Less than
two hundred shares of preferred stock was repre-
sented outside of the proxies held by Chairman
Gary for the management
When the motion to ratify the Hln ore lease
came up. Clarence II. Venner. q stockholder. read
a statement that he had recently instituted suit
against the Great Northern Railway, the Lake Su-
perioT Company ]. J. Hill and others, as trustees
IN which he held that alNthe lands and properties
properties OF the Great Northern Railway Com
pany. He also told the management that he had
asked for receiver OF the properties. that the
lease invalid. and that neither the Great West
Mining Company the United states Steel
Corporation could obtain any right TO II. He FUR
theT told the management that copy OF the com
plant in his On had already been served on the
Nenner had finished reading his protest and max
ing his statements, the motion to confirm ana
ratify the lease was carried
At the annual meeting of the stockholders OF
the following subsidiary companies Of the United
States Steel Corporation the retiring directors were
reelected: Carnegie Steel. American Steel and
Wire American Bridge National Tube. American
Sheet and Tin Plate. American Tin Plate. National
Tube Works. United States Steel Products Export
Shelby Steel Tube and American Mining.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
SELLING MINING STOCKs
Produce Exchange Also Deals IN
IndustriaLs.

4Faains IN mining and Industrial stocIz- natf4,
u "hleh has been printed in The Tribune began
Yesterday on the floor OF the New York Produce
E1change The formal opening took place AZ "a
O'Clock with a call presided over by Andrew n
4ooIny' chairman Of the general COMMITTEES On S.
curlues- The opening call took about half an hour
4heFe was large attendance Of brokers and com.
mission merchants. who manifested considerable
interest in the departure.
some 2.IOO shares were disposed OF durin- th.
day and conservative members expressed than
selves as satisfied with the start that had bean
made big volume OF business was not ex-
pected at the beginning. large proportion OF the
members being unfamiliar with such dealings in
a general sense The physical arrangements also
are by no means perfected as yet. Many brokers'
orders but found IL difficult to execute them as a
the market.
The first sale on the call consisted OF 100 shares
made in about half the 150 mining ana Industrial
stocks listed The list includes most OF the promi-
nent stocks dealt in the curb. we'll as some
which as yet have had no public market For
Produce Excange ticker. though It is said that in
time the members will have wires TO London and
other financial centres. and to CiOldield New.
IL Is generally believed that yesterdays trading
in securities is the first in the history of the ex
change but matter Of fact. similar securities
dealt in In its early history. At that time tt
called the New York Commercial Exchange
Members generally expressed themselves yeSteT-
day confident OF the success of the plan. though
they said IL would take several days before ths
new department was working smoothly.
In honor Of the opening the flag the Produces
Exchange was flying during the hours Of trading
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
INSURANCE ECONOMIES.
Equitable Life Schedules Shosc
PAIRING Al Along the Line.

A comparison Of the schedules OF the Equitable
Life Assurance Society. showing its operations IN
1903. recently FLED at Albany. with report OF the
society for 1884, was made yesterday. for the pur-
pose OF ascertaining the differences in economies
for 1904 were taken for comparison because the
Armstrong committees investigation In 1915 led TO
changes in the management OF the society ana a
general houseceaning.
There Is taken into account in the comparison the
fact that under the new insurance laws the amount
OF new insurance that the Equitable was per
nlitted 10 write iE 1906 much less than in 1904
Its income therefore was S79O66S5 IN 1904 OF which
$50 sf3 $50 was premium income. while last year It
had premium income OF SS7.2S.2O and a total III
come Of S76.s5+l6sA
Deducted from the incomes were the amounts
paid TO policyhoders lapsed and surrendered
policies S. 73O IN 1904 and SlSSl56ss 1906 There
cash dividends and Ss0g $50 In additional insurance,
and I'm 1901 S. 967S IN cash dividends ana ItSto0
In additional insurance.
Among the economies shown by the comparison
are the following: Commissions and bonuses 10
agents. S. 4O0S1 IN 1904 and S2S so5 IN 1896; medcal
fees ssS 523 in 1903 and sos $50 in 1896; nome once
salaries $t11T50l in 1904 and S49llS IN 1872 aeveT-
tsfns expenses, $25SfI in 1904 and &lA% IN 1870, a
large part OF the saving in advertising having oeel
due 20 cutting out of the advertising lists or the
Equitable many insurance pubucations Whlch were
STATIONERY $40 go in 1904 and SIS $50 IN 1879; postage
STi T3s in 1874 and S0.0S In 1896; legal expenses.
S2O4Oi In 1S0t and $3.50 in 1905. ,
OF this latter amount, according 20 the
filed I6 represented expenses OF the society be-
fore legislative bodies and In connection with egis
lation and out of the figure last mentloned $1V1
BLACK for services rendered during the investiga-
tion OF the Armstrong committee
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
PAINTERS FOR SYMPATHETIC STRIKE
Non-Union Men at Work on Hotel Yazs-
Would Raise Arbitration Plan.

The business agents Of the Amaigamated Paint
ers Society and the Brotherhood OF Painters. and
those OF several other unions. visited the Plaza
Hotel yesterday TO see II nou-UniOn painters were
employed in place OF the striking members OF ths
Brotherhood
The programme was, in such case. to so to ths
secretary OF the general arbitration board and as
that the arbitration plan be raised this and
other buildings where nOn-unfon painters are em~
pIOyed that sympathetic strikes Of the other trades
could ordered The delegates reported that nine
teen nOn-uniOn painters were employed and were
induced to quit
The Consolidated Board of Business Agents Of
the building trades viii meet to-day and a commit
tee Of the local national officers OF the painters
will ask that the board order sympathetic strikes
Of all the unions il controls
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
BROKERS SEEK TO RECOVER se5,OOO.
Franklin, Scott & Co. Begin Second Suit
Against Hoadley, Letter and Judson.

The second trial of the suit brought by Franklin.
Scott e. Co. brokers' against Joseph r. Hoadley.
president of the International Power Company;
Joseph Letter. Of Chicago. and Cyrus Field Judson
to recover balance OF ss5.cOO. with interest. on
also 10 the purchase of stock the question was OBJ
begun yesterday before Justice GiegeTich in the
Supreme Court. The complaint says that lo0o
shares OF the stock bought by the plaintiffs at
1875 for the account OF Cyrus Field JudsOn special
on April co. 1902 the day which the great slump
in the stock occurred alleging that the defendants
had formed a pool TO manipulate the stock.
Most Of the session was taken up with con-
troversy between f. l. Mooney. counsel for the
plaintiffs, and A NJ. Beard. counsel for Mr.. Letter.
,bo snterDosed countless objections 10 the intro
duction of testimony. Ez-Justica D. Cady Her
rick represented President Hoadley. George lsham
Scott testified 10 buying the stock, but when Mr.
Mooney asked him whether the stock was listed
Mr. Beard objected and was sustained. lie was
withdrawn and William B. Franklin. another plain
tiff was called But when he was about 70 testiiy
Also 10 the purchase of stock the question was ob-
iected to and ne was withdrawn ,ss
cyrus Field Judson. though one OF the ueteho-
ants was the principal witness for the prosecunOh.
He said that both Hoadiey and Letter had 0HlceS
at No 253 Broadway with the lnternutona! rover
Company and testified the formation or q pool
between himself and them. Mr.. Judsons eXainlha-
tiOn will be completed to-day.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
FIFTH TELEPHONE BOND INsTALMENT
Syndicate Takes Up $aO,oOo,OOO-Price
Has Been Reduced.

The underwriting syndicate for the &oOVsVn !
per cent convertible bonds of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company took up yesterday
a fifth instalment, OF 90 per cent on the bonds
Four instalments. each of 10 per cent, had pre-
viously been paid. and yesterdays instalment made
20 per cent or S7OO0OOO0. Of the bonds for which
the company has received payment. The bonds
were taken by the syndicate year ago at 9il2
but have not found ready market, the bond mar
ket having long been In depressed condition
When. in January of this year, the company de-
sired place issue OF S25.0O0Oc) per cent three
year notes. the syndicate as a condition OF han
ding the issue asked for reduction IN the price
of the bonds and the company: II was ann0unced
q the time lowered the price from Sile 20 81
OF the cash received from the $SlI0O~o or the
bonds called yesterday it is said, the American
Telephone and Telegraph. Company will use $2O.OOO-
900 for paying off the $20OO0O09 per cent collateral
trust notes maturing on May l.
New-York tribune., 1907-04-16
FIGHTING OVER PORCELAIN VALUES
Hearing on Alleged Misstatement of Prices
Question Of Retail OF Wholesale.

Tho hearing on alleged undervaluation OF between
500 and 400 casks OF French porcelain consigned 70
New York dealers, will be resumed to-day before
General Appraiser Byron G. Waite, at the General
Appraisers Stores According to the statements
fled by special agents Of the Treasury Department.
the goods entered at from 20 TO 50 per cent OF
their value.
The first OF the consignees to he given hearing
was Havlland & Co. of No IS Barclay street.
Their counsel is Henry +. Wolf. Of the firm Of
WINS Mason. Wolff & Hoguet, who said yesterday
that he believed tho dispute to valuation arose
from an error in the prices obtained in the French
markets by the Treasury agents, and that the case
will probably be decided this week
Paul B. Haviland. head OF the firm. discussed
the matter freely. He said:
The agents who investigated for the customs
evidently took retail prices for wholesale prices In
France. think that some OF the information as
TO prices might have been given by persons working
In the interests Of domestic manufacturers Of pOrce
lain The prices Of standard porcelain ware do nor
nuctuate much frequently. and have no doubt
that have clearly shown that there was no
differentiation
Among tho other firms who are consignees OF the
porcelain under detention are Theodore Haviland q
Co or No 25 Murray street, and William Ciuertn a.
Co Of No 80 Park Place. Mr.. Guerin said yester-
day that he did not care to discuss the nlatter at
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