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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
HOW TROLLEY LINES LOSE MILLIONS IN FARES.
Conductors and Failure Collect Blamed For
Ten Per Gent. Loss.


indicates an enormous increase OF
theft in the present year, in which
the affairs of the company have been
prominently in the public eye.
There are 1850 conductors en-
ployed on the New York City Rail-
way lines. In 1904 145f conductors
resigned and 3491 were discharged.
3436 of the latter being less than a
year In the service. In 1906 1892 re-
signed and 3019 we're discharged, of
whom 1854 had been less than a year
in the service> In 1906 1884 re-
signed and 4976 were discharged, of
whom 477G had been less than a
year in the service. In the first six
months of 1907 922 resigned and
1866 were discharged. of whom 3144
had been less than year in the ser.
vice.
That is at the rate of 1914 resig-
nations and $3.50 discharges of con-
ductors for the year 1907, total of
1914, or nearly three times the en-
tire force of conductors employed
on the surface lines in one year. The
tremendous extent to which these
discharges have been for stealing is
indicated by these figures:
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
ABOLITION OF POOLROOMS MAY Be ABSOLUTE SOON
Expected That louisiana
--Joekey Clubs Bitter FshtEvey Means Used Including
Refined Woenee, to Keep Information Secret.

Brooklyn, N. Y.-Abolition of the
poolroom for good and all throughout
the country is expected soon after
January l next. Action begun by the
Jockey Club of New York State, in
conforming to the now famous Bel
mont-Slicer agreement made in 1906
to keep news from the tracks, has
been followed officially in other States
permitting racing and probably will
be In the last two strongholds of the
poolroom men-Louisiana and Cali
fornia.
In both these States the Legisla-
lures are expected to pass acts Great
ing State racing commissions mod
eled along the lines of the New York
and Kentucky bodies. These in turn
probably will be asked to refuse IL
censes to tracks which do not agree
to suppress information to the rooms.
II this be done poolrooms will be
things Of the past.
New York and Brooklyn folk who
are betting this winter ON the New
Orleans races, or on the Oakland con-
tests, are doing so on the English sys-
tenor handbook way They get
no advance information except in q
few instances, and rely entirely on
the morning papers for the prices.
Following of the Belmont-Sllcer
agreement has cost the Jockey Club
thousands of dollars and has taxed
the ingenuity of the best detective
forces in the country. Violence has
been used unscrupulously in the war;
fare, though no actual deaths have oc-
currad ne far nc is known The whole
story of the war between the tracks
and poolrooms probably never will be
told, but If written would make the
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
An Oyerbalnnced Want.

The vicar of large country town
in England visited a parishioner, a
widow, seventy-fiye years old, who
had had ten children. all of whom ex-
cept one daughter had married and
left her. Now this daughter also was
about to be married. The old lady
would then be left quite alone, and
the clergyman endeayored to sympa-
thize with her. "Well, Mrs. Higgins, ="
he said, you must feel lonely now,
after having had SO large a family"
Yes, sir, she said, Il do feel It 'one-
some. I've brought up large FAM
lily, and here | am living alone. An'
| misses 'em an wants 'em, but
misses 'em more than wants EN-"
-Bellman
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
INTERVIEWS WITH LEADING EDITORS
SHOW NEW ENGLAND PROSPEROUS
Activity ant
he Situation $ More Encouraging Than For Years.

orders for goods are fully as large as
year ago, when the demand was alb.
normal The effect of the money
stringency in Holyoke was so small as
to be unnoticeable.
Portsmouth, N. H., expects to have
the busiest winter in its history, while
from Rutland and Barre, Vt, the
situation is described as busy, thifty,
confident.
From Brockton, the largest shoe
manufacturing place in the world,
comes the report that the output for
eleven months of the year will be
greater than the whole of last year.
Lynn and Lawrence and Holyoke
have the same story to tell.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19

ness that-.too several wrinkles ont
OF the general managers brow and
MADE the firm think seriously of in
creasing the plant.
Our Mr.. Crawford" - the firm
spoke OF him proudly in this manner
now-had made himself necessary TO
the perfection Electric Switch Com
pany' out his success had not been
ehtireiy satisfactory to himself. With
hii MS quiet force, the superintend-
ent was very human young man
ne nad hoped to gain the complete
confidence OF the men and women
uuuer MIN. IL was respect he wanted
rather than fear.
Ahe lax, easy going regime of the
iormer superintendent had made that
Sareiess Individual very popular with
,ne Factory hands. They had given
in "ii sorts or presents on his birth
uays and at Christmas time The
uay ms 'resignation"-oh. eupbonic
term'-had gone into effect thew mad
psessnted him with an ornate watch
snarin' and when. red in the face ana
nparrassed he had tried to stammer
~ suanhs, they had cheered him
spunuiy and pressed about him 10
snake MS hand. Powell had undoubt-
suiy peen popular with his employees.
put ms popularity had been gained al
une expense OF results In the outnnt
Of the factory. '"' ou'pu'
unaer the new superintendent the
ga vu'put was satisfactory--and more
Ing question that continually nre-
sen.ea itself to the young mans tron-
nleu mind was whether, in the inter
ss's Of the firm he had not been too
narsn with the employees. In eradI-
ra'lug The evils Jim Powell had
sousnt he had found It necessary
" calculate in cold-blooded fashion
,. - 9e ready with blame and chary Of
3us, 1n,se' The result was inevitable
NJ H''e sh9 profits grew steadily Craw-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
prorilnt.

"There is no foolishness aboat re-
ligion in Southwestern Missouri ,
said a st. Louis man. II had occa-
sion, recently, TO visit a town in that
section, and, while waiting TIA Pleas
ure OF the president of the bank had
business with, caught sight os toe
following notice posted on the door OF
a church across the way:
There will be preaching here
next Sunday, Providence permitting;
and there will be preaching hcsa
whether or no on the Sunday follow
ing upon the subject, lie that be-
lieyeth and is baptizsd.shail be saved,
and he that belleyeth not shall be
damned at 11.SO a. M - Harp sr ;
Monthly
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19

Old Sleuth and Oeadwood Dick stories
look like Sunday-school books.
Armei invasion of premises where
poles overlooking the tracks were
erected; cutting down of these OBJ
servation towers while men with
drawn pistols stood over the work.
men; blowing up a steel tower near
Belmont Park with dynamite, and the
cutting of every wire leading from
town (Saratoga), were only parts
OF the fight. For weeks armed patrols
guarded every foot of every wire lead
ing into the tracks, and dozens Of
spies were employed to ferret out
rooms and from there trace the
sources of information II 1t was at all
complete.
The heliograph and the wireless;
the wigwag system of army and navy
signals; kite flying and the old prin-
ciple of the camera obscura-all were
resorted to to get the news, and in
fighting these and other methods the
Jockey Club agents even enlisted the
elements. Mirrors throwing the suns
rays in the eyes of the heliograph
| men spoiled that scheme; heavy cur
rents of electricity thrown into the air
at various "attunements" broke up
| the wireless; arrest of the wigwag-
gers on all sorts of charges, and other
kites spoiled those schemes, while
probably the most daring was the
| sending of heavy electric currents
over phone wires used by poolroom
men. 1t was fight to the death, and
| If the frequenters of the poolrooms
of the past are to be believed, the
Jockey Club won. The Belmont
Slicer agreement will be enforced just
as vigorously in the racing season Of
1908, IL necessary.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19

Boston.-The Boston Herald pub
fishes a symposium of reports of the
business conditions throughout New
England, gathered from the leading
editors of this section of the country.
These show that the recent furry in
the money market had small effect
upon industries.
of the wheels of activity. The indus
trial situation in some places Is more
encouraging this winter than in for
mer years. Orders for goods from
the West and South are as large as
heretofore. There has been no con-
OF the places OF employment. Many
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
Republics Reward Omcer
Who Ave

Washington ID. C.-The President
sent to the Senate q list OF decora-
tions sought to be conveyed by the
foreign powers to American ofiicials.
Included in the list is a gift In the
shape of large silver urn presented
by the Central American republics to
Commander r. Richard Mulligan, in
command OF the Yorktown when the
friction arose between the Central
American republics last summer,
which he was largely instrumental
In removing.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19


peered keenly through the
heavy lenses of his eyeglasses. "Our
Mr.. Crawford" as he was always
called by the general manager OF the
Perfection Electric Switch Company,
had been transferred from his place
as foreman of the wiring department
10 be superintendent of the factory at
time when an iron hand was needed
to remedy the mischief which the lax
methods and general inefficiency of
his departing predecessor had created.
1t was difficult problem of reor-
ganization that he had been called
upon to face, but time had proved
that the general managers faith-he
had stoutly advocated Crawford
against the firms opposition - had
not been misplaced. The new super
intendent had entered upon his du-
ties quietly, unassumingly, but with
a tenacity of purpose and an unre-
lenting energy that bent all things to
his will. Three of the best years of
his life he gave unhesitatingly and
uncomplainingly to the work before
him. At the end of that time the
factory was running with a smooth
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
LACoNIos OF NOTED MEN.
Origin Of the Word and Many Illus.
trations.

ONiSm VI tnc WOru anu MANY llluS-
trations.
Laconians, whose chief was snarta,
were famous in ancient Greece, not
only for their success in war, but for
their scorn of luxuries and their brev-
ity of speech. When King Philip of
Macedonia, father of Alexander the
Great threatened them, saying: "If |
enter Laconia I will level your city TO
the dust" they sent back the reply:
If" Their short answers give to
the English language the word ia
comic"
There were not few famous la
conicisms of later times. Talley-
rand. when told on one occasion that
a certain notorious parsonage, sick
and in great pain, was suffering the
torments of the lost, made the wicked
reply, Already"
John Wesley once met a blusterlne
fellow in a narrow path, who con-
fronted him, saying; II never make
way for a fool Il always do" re-
turned Wesley, quietly stepping aside.
Dean Hole, being in a railway car
rage with a man who bored him with
many stupid questions, was finally
asked by him; what comes after
itchin'?" "Seratchin," replied the
dean. wearily
f. Douglas Jerrold. meeting bore in
the street, found himself promptly
buttonholed by the latter. Whats
going On?" asked the bore. 81 nm -
said Jerrold, and did so.
To an opponent In argument who
denied the existence OF purgatory a
Catholic cleric replied You might
so farther and fare worse. - Chi
cago News.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
Far Eastern Notes.

The Russo-Chinese Bank has made
good profits since the war closed.
Korea has borrowed $4,000, 900
from the Hypotheo Bank Of Japan.
Nearly al of India's large annual
production of cottonseed goes out OF
the country.
The Full paper mill, OF Japan. Ia
being fitted with American paper mill
machinery of the latest type.
Armstrong & Co., OF England. are
establishing branch cordite factory
In Japan. This is Officially announced
BY the Japanese Minister Of Marine.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19

SSTM lance and the firmness with
go which he held the employees at
work.
There were times-when he was
tired, especially-when 1t seemed to
him that he had merely developed
into a successful slave driver.
Sometimes at o'clock, when the
big gong had sounded, he would sit
by the time-machine and watch the
men file down the stairs. He would
have given much if here and there in
the long line face had been lifted to
his with nod or a comprehending
smile, but the hands" rang in their
time in sullen silence. His very pres
ence seemed to chill their spirits, and
when one of them looked at him II
was either with bitterness or a blank
stare.
Meanwhile the Perfection Electric
Switch Company prospered amazing
ly, and at the same time the superin-
tendent grew a little more stoop-
shouldered, a little more reserved, a
little more heavy of eye.
In November of the third year 1t
happened that "Our Mr.. Crawford
was taken sick. At the time he was
putting forth strenuous efforts to
have an increase of pay for the en-
ployes, In consequence of which he
was at the Office several days when
he should have been in bed He
wanted the hands to understand that
their work had been appreciated, and
although he had to grind his teeth
to keep from crying out with the
pain he went daily to the Office and
argued with the general manager and
the members of the firm.
The firm was obdurate. 1t was de-
cided finally that, in view of the ex-
tensive additions that were to be
made to the plant the increase could
not be granted for another year. Sick
at heart and racked with pain the SUI
perintendent staggered to his apart
ments in the gray November dusk,
went to bed and sent for a doctor.
The physician came, chided the young
man for his carelessness of his health
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19

Camp, who acts as an Interpreter
when necessary, accompanies the
young woman into the classrooms and
takes notes for her, although the lat
ter can understand almost every word
of speaker by watching the motions
of the mouth. Miss Crane, however,
attends examinations alone, and has
not yet failed to pass with high grade.
She has made special study of how
to diet sheep and care for their wool.
Recently Miss Cranes father gave
her a farm near the Crane summer
home at Lake Geneva. She intends
personally to direct the work there
next summer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
rho Field OF Sport.

Cy Young, the grand old man OF
the twirlers' box. Will have conge-
nial task In the early spring He is
TO coach the nine OF the West Point
Military Academy.
Something like twenty baseball
players who have seen service In the
major leagues and then been shipped
to the minors will be given chance
with the majors again next season.
II is announced that Robert Deadly.
OF Philadelphia, Is TO lease the large
new rink adjoining Brandywine
Sprlngs, Delaware, for the purpose
OF giving ten-round boxing matches.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
DEAF MUTE DAUGHTER OF A
MILLIONAIRE TO BECOME FARMER
Miss Mary Crane Heiress Chicago
$

Chicago. - Announcement that
Mary Josephine Crane. daughter of
the multi-millionaire iron manufac-
turer, Charles r. Crane, intends to
become farmer. is arousing much
interest in Chicago.
Miss Crane, who has been deaf end
dumb from birth, is twenty years old.
She is about to finish a three years
course in agriculture in the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, at Madison. Her
proficiency as a student has attracted
favorable attention from the members
of the university faculty and stu
dents.
Miss Cranes companion, Miss
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
Kilbourne Commended For
Fine Work In Target Practice.

WashingtGn.-Oh commenda-
tion has been made of Captain c. e.
Kilbourne, in command of the Thirty
fifth Company of Coast Artillery at
Fort Monroe. Virginia, for results
achieved in target practice at Battery
Parrott, 1.-TWO twelve-inch rifles); 100
per cent. of hits was made, the mean
range being GOAL yards.
Four shots were fred in one min
ute and nine seconds. Three OF the
four shots would have passed through
q rectangular target 8 by 10 yards.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
Discharged

In the present year. therefore, IL
the average for the first six months
is carried out, the entire force Of
conductors on the surface lines viii
be discharged virtually twice over for
dishonesty alone. These ratios have
enabled some of the Inter-Met. di-
rectors to appreciate with warmer
interest than ever before the humor
of the divorce case in which alimony
on a $50 a week basis was asked
from an SIS week man because he
was a conductor on the New York
City Railway
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
Dividing the Graft.

Various statements of what this
system of graft was worth to indi-
vidual men have been made up, but
only as estimates. One man high I'D
in Inter-Met councils said that for
mer valet, who was put in on the
road as motorman found that his
share of the daily graft was from
50 to SO under normal conditions.
1t is explained in this connection
that it is wise for a conductor to
have a motorman in his confidence,
inasmuch as the latter is in a posi-
ton to drag the car-that is, make
it get behind on its schedule sufi-
ciently to fill up very full of passen-
gers. Knocking down fares is a much
easier matter in q crowded car than
1t is in relatively empty one where
passengers can see the cash register,
When the loss Of fares has been
reduced to terms of a percentage of
the gross income of the road, and
runs in the estimates as high as in
the present case, It becomes an i'm
portant factor in the schemes of re-
organization. Leading interests in
the board of the Inter-Met. make no
bones of admitting this to be the
fact and are therefore moved to place
the more Importance upon the intro.
duction of the pay-as-you-enter car,
under the new traffic regulations
proposed by the company and recon.
mended in the main by the police ey.
perts whom the Public Service Com
mission has been examining. The
new car, according to the plans, will
be operated on the basis of a seat
for every passenger, so that both
the company and the travelling public
will enjoy whatever benefits may fol.
low its introduction. -
There is another thing that com.
plicates the situation, according to
information from inside the traction
merger. That is the very largo in.
crease of transfers used, properly
and improperly, which has steadily
reduced the return to the company
per passenger carried until in recent
times it has run as low as 3.25 cents
per five cent fare. With this is COM
bined an increasing competition with
the Subway, which brings in its own
results to the Interborough-Metro
politan Company, but does not sim
plify the management of the New
York Railway as an Independent
proposition supposed to take care of
its own affairs in the system
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19

why did YOU love that girl Instead
OF some other girl2 Why don't you
love her sister, Way does she love
you instead OF leviaS you3 heei
friend? You love somebody. What
makes Your Have Tou sol say y III
neAs ieFl9s To'A aant t''ov 'Y
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19

Jack in the Box = Hands off
there!"
Alice-"Why his hands are off,
silly!"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19

There has been revival Of the
whaling industry A few gears ago
the annual iadustrs swlral 10 fsa.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19

purchased
Metropolitan 1905,
the Catharne orid Wolfe Fund
time OF the lHemtte
daored bring the figures the varieties emotions
but united
ful in searchingly n young"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
HEARTENING THE SUPERINTENDENT
H. C.S,,NO PICAAPD Backed StIEI TON ~

III(NST lord realized that 1t was be-
N(h)J JINH cause of his ceaseless vigil
tMI<NTM lance and the firmness with
ASxAss@i which he held the employees at
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-19
SooNo PICH

THE superintendent was a
tall, thin young man, with
l. slightly STOPPING shoulders
and near-sighted eyes which
Iannn.nd lrAn..I.. AI...-..-.l.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-01-17
Vessel Building in the o. S.

The Bureau of Navigation reports
that sixty-tw0 vessels of 1O,957 gross
tonnage were built in the United States
and officially numbered in December,
1906. Fifty-eight were of wood and
four of steel. The longest steel steam
er in the list is the Sierra, 4s46 tons,
built by the Toledo ShipbuildiDg Com
pany. In the six months ended Dec.
81, 1906, there were Cos sail and steam
vessels of ISL, 04S gross tons built in the
United States and officially numbered.
In the corresponding six months of
1905 there were 542 vessels of 1876, O97
gross tons built and numbered. For
the calendar year 1906 the vessels built
in this country and registered number.
ed 1045, of 1903. 29l gross tons: for 1905.
1854 of $685. 1858 gross tons: for
1904, 1865, of 265, iO4 gross tons; for
1908. 1859, of 36l, $40 gross tons, and for
1902, 1862, of 429, 327 gross tons.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-01-17
W. H. Reed, Shipbuilder.

Many in this vicinity will be interest
ed to learn that w. ii. Reed, protector
of shipyards in Belfast, Rockland and
Bath, has resumed work in the ship
yard he established at Portland. The
Evening Express of that city says:
After lying uncompleted on the
stocks for two years, the partially com
pleted frame of big four-masted
schooner which was started in the yards
at Fish Point is again under process of
construction and gang of 10 workmen
is employed on her. w. H. Reed, who
started building the vessel in the first
place under contract for an outside
firm, was unable to continue at that
time, buS has now made arrangements
with reliable local financiers to back
him and expects to have the schooner
finished by the first week in May, when
if delivered before June it is under
stood that a contract price of $45, 900
will be paid for the vessel
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-01-17

IT Tag SIatlOn.
Limited tickets for Boston al, n.v -.t
800 from i}elfast and all stations ... Lou
Through tickets to all points We, . - En
west, via all routes, for sale by LEWl- , So e1l
Agent, Belfast. GFO. r.II ,s-
Vice President and Geutra Ha.. ..q
T. E. BooTHBy. Gen'l Pass. aNt rict,. ..-
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-01-17

To the Journal reporter the warden
said: cat all times are the books open
to all. have no reason to conceal any,
thing. I would welcome any sort of an
investigation" And in this the Jour-
nal man believes him to be frank and
honest-there is no reason to believe
otherwise when the evidence collected
can show nothing to the contrary.
1t would seem that few, very few,
incompetent officers are responsible for
all of the stories printed by the Demo-
cratic press. And it is limited that
there is more yet to come" regarding
these officers, whose past record is, to
put it mildly, open to inspection.