The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-09-23
NEW YORK LEADS
IN TELEPHONES
EXCEEDS TOTAL OF GERMANY's
TWENTY LARGEST CITIES
JENNIE THE MONK" IS DEAD
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION,

A New YORK, sept -A.-NcW iolp
: pndisputcdly the greatest :tele9hpr
I. city in the worl4. Enoashswofds ~
Ispoken over its telephones every da
to fiji three freight cars with bool
containing them. Should one man a
tempt. to rcpcat the messages OF a sii
Q gle day the end Of his life would m
him with his task unfinished IN
metropoIitan area contains more IN
struments than are to be found =
: all France, Belgium, Holland an
Switzerland combined. or more thai
' there are in the twenty leading cltle'
n az The German Empire. These teln
iphnnes outnumber the whole popula
Il lion Of amy Of the following political
divisions Of the country; Arizona,
4 Delaware. District of Columbia, Idaho
4 Montana. Nevada. New Mexico, North
.lnakota, Utah, Vermont aud Wyoming.
There are $50 900 Instruments now in
use here, enough for instance to give
ona to every man, woman and enid
lin the state Of Vermont With the mere
4 tribe or 490GD left over. The total
nruber Of employees engaged in the
Operation and management Of the
New York telephone system alone az
! rrruatcs 1900 or several hundred
more than those of the whole Bell sys
| Gem throughout the entire country
nine years ago. Americans are not
only the greatest users of telephones
IN the weird bat they demand and get
The NEST. Since every Improvement
In telephony is brought into use here
as soon TN its permanent value y
proved. foreign experts look upon this
country, with New York as its best
example. as setting the standard for
them to follow Engineer Stegmann
cf Mnaicb, indeed reported after IN.
vostigation that the local telephone
eompanys organization should be
taken as n model. a compliment over
which Father knieFerbocker more
used to criticism than praise, is natur
ally bit puffcd np.
Monkey Gave Alarm.
Jennie the Monk" is dead and the
fire department is in mourning Jen-
mic is the only monkey over to achieve
membership in the department. anl
for twelve years, ever since the time
when she was sponsored by Chief
as sksr h H fg fqhl sa1 4t haS h RSsP
quarters, having as bunkie during
all that time Fireman Murphy, II
whose .afBsst she died while all the
members OF truck twenty looked sor
rowfully on. Jennie's name is on the
official records for service performed
just. like that of any human being |
One bitter winter night after the |
iiremen who bunked on the fourth |
noor where Jennie was chained hal |
turned IN worn out with fatigue, the |
heat of radiator set fire to some |
matches In the pocket of q coat hung !
on 1t to dry. The fire spread filling |
the room with smoke aud flames and \
menacing the lives OF the sleepers |
The Waterman was three floors below |
Suddenly he was surprised by pool !
balls coming down the iron stairway !
Jennie's chain allowed her to go only |
as far as the top of the stors but from !
that point she threw down the balls |
from the pool table aud brought the
Waterman As n result of this after !
the fire was cxtinguished Chief Worth /
his report In which he stat
"a that the fire in the Headquarters
# the third battalion was reported to
the department by Jennie the Monk
And that's the way il stands Jennie's
end had been foreseen for some time
On account Of her age and for six
months she has eaten nothing but
Malaga grapes provided by her feI
low firemcn
Industrial Education.
Secretary J. A. Emory of the Ciu
sens Industrial Association OF Amer +,
ca has collected statistics showing
hat nearly geo 600 children entered {
he schools Of the country this fan 1
Based on previous experience It may
We assumed that less than 250.o 600 of J
hcse will reach the high schools and {
ess than 100000 will enter college.
rhe vast majority of more than 5.
10000 will leave school from choieo 5
n necessity before they are sixteen
and more than half of them by the
ime they are eleven or twelve. While |
! certain proportion of these may re-
GIVE some special training from bust |
less schools, BY far the greater nun
Der viii begin life with no such fitting
IS Is needed to enable them to become !
skilled worEmen. With the disaD.
pcarance of the apprenticeship sys q
EN- there is practically no chance for
most of these BOYS to become any
hing but unskilled laborers or opera
ors of some kind of machinery reauir
ng no special intelligence. These
isures illustrate the imperative Do
maud for a comprehensive system of :
nsBual training schools that will turn :
mt trained artisans and at It's annual T.
convention which is to be held IN Bat- :