The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-06

Walter F. Burgess, an expert engineer
of London The report was exhaustive
and of serious intent but caused much
merriment among the aldermen One rule
for operators of Paris prohibits their
carrying a policeman in any event In
years and then are paid a bonus to quit.
In London the operators are paid but 81
their pay is raised TO sl.S2 week. When
they have been in the service over two
years they can reach a wage maximum
of 1876 a week
Comparison made by Expert Burgess of
in the United States shows America far
in the lead. The service is SO bad in
Paris under government control it takes
from half an hour to an hour to get a
connection, the impudence of the opera
old and miscellaneous that no one tele-
phones who is in a hurry. In London the
service is slow and poor, but standard
American apparatus is to be installed. For
long distance messages in Great Britain
one can talk more than six minutes
but if not ready to stop must wait his
turn. In that way long conversation
will be broken up into minute spurts
and may last more than day. No re
fund is allowed if the other fellow cannot
be heard
gene Field has run across an old bank
book of Windham County Savings spank
of Newfane, Vermont. containing an en-
Little Boy Blue" with s. and has dis
covered that the principal and interest
an old-time newspaper man of Chicago
to relate the reply of the beloved Gene
Louis firm of haberdashers, Hart Sc Leo
nore ct the tine Field came from st.
d M0giS he 70 scraWfed BE sfiIi fond Hart;
farewell my Leonore.
The Chicago W. c. T. U. is down to
the last 100000 in paying for the Wo-
mans Temple. which they hope to make
monument to Frances E. Willard whose
project It was.
To educate the youth of Chicago, which
will have 10000 population. at present
rate of increase, the city will have 70 exz
Which over So 600 will be for additional
school buildings.
Franklin county, Illinois, for alleged fail
ure to protect his employees in the ZelSler
an explosion the story of his corner in
wheat is retold and the inside FACTS give
South Dakota. the distinction Of furnish ISL
ing the wheat which smashed him ana
the price of wheat which benefited farm
ers to the amount of millions OF Gonars.
P D. Armour sent to the most northwest
erIy corner of that states wheat belt and
in Eureka he found hundreds OF carioads
of the grain which he instantly bought
and dumped into the market too fast for
Joe Letter
tors in livestock, who say their business
is discouraged and even boycotted by
some of the packers, now are talking of
reprisals by seeking indictments against
the packers they say are combined There
are some 800 spectators who have been
buyers on the market and they claim
their presence enables shippers to the
Chicago market to get better prices than
would be paid. They say their
profits are made out of the packers, for
which reason they are opposed. Ranch
men, feeders and shippers Will be IN
terested n the outcome
Means to check suicide in Chicago have |
been decided on by the Salvation Army |
which will open here bureau to render |
relief to persons in desperate mood. Sim |
liar bureaus are to be opened in St Louis |
San Francisco, Boston and New York Such |
a bureau in London has been proved a |
success, Salvationists say. The comfort |
and relief rendered were to the sick and |
Incl1ra BILE who see only suffering ahead; /
the drunkards and dope f1ends,r the |
lonely and bereaved and the unemployed |
who are broke" Word that such a /
bureau exists is said to spread RAPIDLY.