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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08

population in the Fifth avenue dis
tricts in New York-where the work
ingman does not live than there are
on the lower east sue, where he
makes his home This is not a state
ment ventured at a mere guess. 1t is
based upon an accurate census. Here
are the eact figures:
Number of persons to each saloon
license on the east side, south
of Fourteenth street. 1915
Number of persons to each saloon
license in the Fifth avenue dis
trlct .1oo
These figures include the licenses
issued to hotel bars, where the Fifth
avenue constituency can do it's
drinking unobserved.
Accol ding to these figures, the peo-
pie in the Fifth avenue district drink
more beer and whisky than does the
workingman. If one were to follow
the example of this college president,
and loosely employ the statistics fur
nished, one might say that this state
ment were true. No doubt this is
true with some individuals, but these
statistics do not prove it. 1t must
| be taken into account that others be-
SIDES those living in this district pat
! roDize the hotel bars, although this
same rule applies to some saloons on
the lower east side.
Sometimes one becomes tired of the
loose talking of some professedly
| learned, but profoundly ignorant
| scholars" just as the unqualified
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08
EMPLoYE AWARDED DAMAGES.
Company Which BIackIisted Him Must
Pay Over So 900 Damages.

Company Which BIackIisted Him Must
Pay Over $4,000 Damages.
Because it Influenced the discharge
of Robert Summers from the employ
of the Mehan Boiler and Construction
company, of Youngstown, O., the Co
lumbus Iron and Steel company was
held liable for $4,000 damages to Sum-
mers by a jury in common pleas court
at Columbus, o. Summers had been
employed by the Columbus Iron and
Steel company previous to his employ
ment by the Mehan company and was
alleged to have been concerned in
strike at the formers plant When he
was employed by the Mehan company
he was sent to Columbus to work on
a building being erected for the Co
lumbus Steel company when the latter
influenced the Mehan company to dis
charge him.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08
READS LIKE ROMANCE.
Vet It Is What Will Surely Happen
After Conference.

To get together and talk Ii out as
men. That is one of the things to be
striven for. Not as officially repre-
senting any particular organization,
while feeling is strong, but before the
occasion for such feeling arrives.
Something like this happened re-
Gently in Scranton. The writer was in
vited by the Second Presbyterian
Church in that city to address the
regular Sunday evening audience
men. Among the officers of that
church are Mr.. T. H. Watkins, appoint
ed by President Roosevelt a member
OF the famous anthracite strike com.
mission of 1902; Mr.. E. l.. Fuller, pres
ident of the International Salt Com
pany; Mr.. Henry Belin, Jr., president
of DUPONT Powder Company; Mr.. T. j.
Foster, the founder and president of
the International Correspondence
Schools; Mr.. r. e. Clarke. general SUI
perintendent of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Railroad Com
pany; Mr.. w. II. Gearhart, a large
Independent coal operator, and MI
James H. Torrey, who represented the
coal-carrying railroads before the
strike commission. Within the church
there are many mine owners. repre-.
sentatives of the large railroads and
men of big manufacturing interests
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08
CREDIT WHERE PROPERLY DUE

Labor Papers and Orators Long Ago
Attacked All Sorts of Corruption.
If it is given to the departed to look
down upon the affairs of earth, the
faces of labor's old worthies-Richard
Trevellick, George Mcneil, P. j. Nc
CURE, John Swinton, Thomas Arm
strong, Henry George, John Siney.
John James, Mingo Parks, Uriah Stew
ems, Edward Gould and hundreds of
others must be wreathed in smiles as
they view the trend of present events.
Long years before Miss Ida Tarbell,
Lincoln Steffens, David Phillips,
Thomas Lawson, Upton Sinclair, or
any of the "muckrakers," called, by
their writings, public attention to mat
tiers which have brought ineffable re-
proach upon the American name, the
orators and writer's of trades unions
pointed out and held up to public gaze
with Photographic fidelity the matters
which have recently caused the Amer
lean heart to blaze with indignation.
Every civic corruption, every corpor-
alton greed, every public land STEAL
every sweatshop evil, the padrone sys-
tenn, the Standard Oil iniquity, the
workings of the coal trust, every
wrong which has wrought up the pub
lie mind of late, stands exposed in
the columns of the labor papers and
in the speeches of labor's orators of a
generation ago. They read like an
epic of villiany-a very Iliad of wrong.
Labors heroes trod a thorny path
to the stars. Their courses were
marked with blood, hunger the sum
of human woes. 1t was the Pinkertor
thug here, the praetorian guard there,
and, like the men of 49,
eff they missed the judge,
Then they met the dragon"
But the Tarbells and the Lawsons
have misplaced the source which fost.
cred and protected the wrongs. These
things are not due but in a slight de-
gree as much to a reasonable senate
as to a corrupt and pliable judiciary
The future historian of the affairs of
the state will read the expose of the
present fostering corruption and then
seek why it f1ourished unchecked
They will find that every effort of
congress, legislatures and efficient
prosecutors was baffied by an iniquit
Gus judiciary, and then it's name will
be blistered with infamy. No more
vivid example of the sublime faith the
carrion trust, the Standard Oil trust
and the poison squad have and are re
posing in their protectors, the judici
airy, than when they clamor for a
court review. Mine Workers Jour
nal.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08
CHANCELLOR DAY CHALLENGED
Rev. Charles Sickle Pulls the Figures
On Union-Hater.


On Union-Hater.
The president of an eastern univer-
sity recently declared that these OPP
pressed workingmen support 10000 sa-
looms between Harlem and the Bat
terry in New York City" incidentally,
in this come cticn, he paid his re-
spects to organized labor, forgetting
that the trades unions arc doing more
f,r the cause tf temperance than all
the universities combined. This very
astute college president seems to imag-
inc that workingmen have a monopoly
of these 10000 New York saloons. AS
matter of fact, there are Just few
university men waD arc helping to
support them. Possibly our college
friend would be surprised to discover
that there are more saloons to the
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08
SUNDAY BASEBALL BILL.
Measure Is Killed in Kansas Senate by
NN$A

Measure Is Killed in Kansas Senate by
a Tie Vote.
The bill against Sunday baseball is
dead. The Kansas senate killed it by
a vote of II to II. It did not come up
for final passage. but on the motion of
Senator Simon that it be printed and
placed upon the calendar in spite of
he report of the judiciary committee
that house bill No. % be not passed"
There was a satisfied hook upon the
faces of many of the senators when a
contrary report was read from the jul
dietary committee on the anti-Sunday
baseball bill. This, it was thought,
had put the bill in a permanent ~ceHa-
tose condition. But Senator Young
and Senator Simons, advocates of pre-
venting Sunday baseball, got busy.
They counted noses and just at noon
Senator Simons- made a motion that
house bill %, generally known as the
upon the calendar in spite of the ad-
"Skiddoo BILL" be printed and placed
verse report of the judiciary commit
tee.
Those who were against the bill con-
cluded it was proper time to fight 1t
out and roll call was ordered. Those
voting aye were supposedly against
Sunday baseball. Following is the roll
call:
Yeas Baker, Caldwell, Dolley, Full
ton, Gilbert, Griffin, Hodges, Hughes,
Tower, Martin of Woodson, Miller,
Quincy, Robertson. simons, stannard.
Tucker, Young.
Nays-Benson, Buschow, Chapman
Conner, Fitzpatrick, Getty, Harrison
Haskell, Hayden, Huffman. Porter Of
Crawford, Porter of Montgomery,
Smith, Stewart, Stillings, Waggener.
Wilkerson @
This kills the bill, as it cannot be
revived except on a motion that the
vote by which Simons' motion was lost
be reconsidered. This will take two
thirds vote.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08

Also there are miners, machinists,
molders and laborers of all grades
within the organization.
After the formal address, about
two hundred men adjourned to the lee
turo room of the church to partake of
refreshments, and there occurred what
the local papers called "the most novel
scene ever witnessed in this commun-
ity." Large and prominent coal oper-
ators were shaking hands and eating
and drinking with union officials whom
they had fought for years but had
never met; Mr.. L. E. Nichols, the
president of District No. 1, United
Mine Workers, and recently elected
as a labor representative to congress,
came in touch with the forces that
had opposed his election most strongly
and bitterly; officers of the Molders
Union Cat present on strike) were
found chatting with the ironmasters
and owners of foundries from which
they had withdrawn their workers
Hugh Frayne, known throughout the
labor world of America, was seen Oh
the best of terms with the attorney
representing the great coal-carryins
railroads who has been trying for two
years through the courts to break III
the Mine Workers Union. 1t was 6
novel sight.
An open parliament was conducted
1t was carried through with the utmost
good nature. Representatives of both
sides expressed their views and il
was my privilege to act as mediator
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08
PRESIDENT HARTzELL HERE.

President Hartzell of the Interna-
tional Union of Bricklayers and Ma
sons was in Lincoln the first of the
week, visiting with President Bowen
of the local union and informing him.
self as to conditions in this section
by the local members and given every
opportunity to see that the local brick
layers have been wideawake and full
of union enthusiasm all the time
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08
ELECTRICIANS.

EIEC RICIANS.
Electrical Workers Union of Detroit
has decided to give a series of social
sessions during the winter, to which
the wives, daughters, sweethearts and
friends of the members will be invited.
The strike of electricians against
the Chicago Telephone company has
work. The men secured recognition
of their union and wage increase Of
so cents a day. Under the terms of
settlement men are to be paid mini
mum scale of So day and the cable
and switchboard men 81 day
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08
A GOOD BILL.

presented an amendment to the city
charter to create board of plumbing
spection. The board is to consist of
four members, including the city
health officer, plumbing inspector,
who is to receive salary of 81 500 per
year, one journeyman plumber and one
managing plumber. This board is to
have jurisdiction over all sanitary
construction.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08

A special from Morgantown, Ky.
says Thirty masked men called
Jesse Phelps from his home and
whipped him severely. Phelps was
accused of cruelty to his three-year-
old child and was out on bail. It is
claimed he stuck pins in the child and
burned it with a hot poker"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08
sTEREoTYPERs.

New York, No. claims Brother
James Pettiner to be the Oldest active
member of our craft. Mr.. Pettiner is
76 years old. In his forty-three years
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08

The Lyric has an unusually good bill
scheduled for next week.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-08

typographical Union Ball, Monday,
February rs, Fraternity Hall. Quick's
Orchestra
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-20
CITY TO Pay MR. UINS.


William NJ WINS is to get his pay-$12, 600
for Investigating the Street Cleaning Depart
ment, a task that ne finished about ten months
ago. Alderman Little Tim Sullivan who has
opposed tho payment of the WINS claim for
months. fell into line yesterday and actually
urged his colleagues on the Democratic side 10
support the resolution.
Alderman Olvaney said he opposed to pay
ing the bill.
"NIr WINS came here and passed rs a friend
OF the city and accomplished nothing, and now
he proposes to milk the city of 81, 800. |
vote No" " said Mr. Ovaney.
In moving the resolution Alderman Sullivan
said:
Il understand that my old friend. 'Bil' WINS
Is in need OF a little cash. and ought to give
81 10 him"
When the vote seemed TO he about to go
against the proposition, Alderman Sullivan said:
II trust that this resolution viii go through.
the work has been done and Mr. WINS is en-
penses but the whole investigation If we do
not pay it, it VIII look like petty spite and the
Corporation Counsel viii only have 10 confess
judgment. The city owes the money, and il is
only a reasonable fee. | vote Aye"
Alderman Peters said the fec was exorbltant.
Alderman Frank Bowling. who was on the
investigating committee end until yesterday
had opposed the payment Of the bill. had a
change Of heart. He said that Mt. Wins burned
midnight oil in looking into the workings Of the
department, and had worked with an upright
motive. The resolution was passed with three
dissenting votes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-20
FLOWER AND FRUIT GUILD.
New York Branch Separates from National
Society.

Henceforth the National Plant, Flower and
Fruit Guild and the New York branch will work
separately with separate corps of officers, al
though maintaining headquarters together at
No. 20 Fifth avenue. Yesterday at the house
of Mrs. James Roosevelt announcement Of the
separation was made together with a statement
of the work done by the guild during 1906.
Distributions by this organization included BIO
1I6 punches Of summer flowers, 34,J15 punches
Of function flowers. $500 packages OF seeds for
window boxes and gardens, 1,4S4 bulbs for gar
dens 400 rooted plants for gardens. 1872
ported plants for window boxes and home, 159
glasses of jelly, 93l2 barrels Of fruit and veg
etables 3,l00 geraniums to children in schools
and institutions. and IN addition SEQ permanent
window boxes were placed in tenement homes
and 30 tenement yards were made into gardens.
Among the new work of the New York branch
was the Dolly Madison farm, conducted by a
girls club at the University settlement. Mrs
Samuel Lewis IT. one Of the girls told about
It; Wallace Fitzpatrick. head Of the Chryste
Street House. said that nothing gave him more
pleasure last summer than 70 distribute the
guilds flowers in the tough neighborhoOd where
he lived. Miss Lillian d. Valid, of the Nurses
Settlement. told Of the great grab" among the
nurses when baskets Of flowers came from the
guild. Mrs John Sherman HOyt. OF Rowayton,
made urgent plea for a development of the
country end OF the work. and Miss Ada i. Fair
field, the superintendent Of the New York
bItutQ, gave Il llL4S SLcIeopJlCpi ltttuIt hioN-
ing the wretched tenements into which the guild
carries beauty and cheer.
The New York branch has now ninety-three
country branches. forty-three Of which were
opened last summer. Last years income
amounted TO S3,724. and there was deficit OF
5000
Mrs. James Roosevelt chosen honorary
president; Mrs. John Sherman Hoyt. president:
Mrs. John Wood Stewart. Mrs. I. y. Phelps
Stokes and Mrs. Levi p Morton, vice-presidents;
Mrs. L Cohesion Wick, secretary, and Miss Mary
r Cross. treasurer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-20

land to be on a footing Of equality with you
who can see. They don't want you TO be con-
tinually putting your hand in your pocket and
handing them out the means Of subsistence.
William Hall Patrick. president Of the Blind
Mems Club expressed himself similarly.
I'VE abhOr segregation" he said. We want
TO be everything that you are. But when / go
into a restaurant with sighted friend the
waiter says TO him, Shall I cut up his meat for
him" He doesn't give me credit for knowing
whether or not I want my meat cut up and
when l ring for a messenger ne asks some one
else, where shall I take him.? "
letter from Helen Keller said:
when people are once convinced that the
blind are capable OF higher workmanship than
they have yet reached, they will not be slow to
encourage them and give the staff of usefulness
that shall bring the sGhtless by a path they
knew not"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-20
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS
From The Tribune Rureau.l

Washington, February ~
THE OREGON OBSOLETE.-Quesrion has been
raised in the Navy Department whether II Is
worth while going to the expense Of nearly $4,000
10 place in repair and restore state Of modern
efficiency such ships the Massachusetts, which
will be overhauIed at thet cost at the BROOKLYN
navy yard. and her sister ship. oregon destined
for similar extensive work at the Puget Sound
navy yard The point has been raised by some OF
the officers. who have submitted a memorandum
to the effect that it would be better 20 attempt
nothing with these vessels IN the manner contem-
plated. IN any case, II IS insisted It Will be I'm
possible to make them the companion vessels OF
the latest battlesh.ps designed and building for
this government The Massachusetts and the
oregon cannot 1t is stated, take their places the
first limo of battle, and il Is alleged that they VIII
he as eihcent Tor any duty 70 which they may De
assigned if they are not OVcrhaUled and improved
TO tho extent proposed on the other hand the Navy
Department takes the view that IT is out OF the
question 10 get new battleshlps TO replace those
which need moderuiZng. IL IS OF decided advantage
have these vessels put In condition for the best
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-20
PROHIBITION AND DRUNKENNESS.
Census Figures That Do Not Support the
Claim of Temperance Extremists.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Al the hearing ON the Weber bill. providing
for prohibition i'm the District of Columbia, the ad-
vocates OF the proposition revamped the old OFT
refuted theory that prohibitory laws are the oNE
practical remedy for the evils resulting from the
abuse OF alcoholic beverages The statistical state
ments made by them are utterly false as VIII be
seen from the following tables. comparing III" ratio
of nebriety in the three prohibtory states Maine
Kansas and North Dakota with the proportion OF
drunkenness in the State of Wisconsin. All the
figures apply to the year 1903. the population being
officially estimated on the basis OF the census of
1900; they are taken from the United states Cen
sus Bulletins Nos. 20 and A.. and cover every city
Of over 500" inhabitants in these four states have
selected Wisconsin, partly because the license fee
in that state in 1898 IL low $50, but prin-
cipaIy because IN many OF the cities. among them
Milwaukee, beer Is to all intents and purposes the
common drink of a large percentage OF the popu-
latlon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-20

The very first two items on the tables speak
most elOQueutly In support OF my assertion. Here
we have prohbitory Portland without any saloons
with population OF $50 aud one arrest for
drunkenness Tor every tWehtyfour Of the total pop
ulaton. and, on the other hand Milwaukee. with
population OF 3l2.p25 with 2.l45 saloons. and only
one arrest for drunkenness out OF every ninety
seven of tho total population
The totals speak volumes. there IS up EalusayIng
them; they ouauatc from uUHupcaclahle source.
Placed In the balance Of logical reasoning these
ever published
In the twenty cities Of the three prohlhltory states
with an aggregate population Of a7s.152 have
one arrest Tor drunE"un~ss FOR every furtytwo go
OF the population In tLr twenty two cities OF Wis
Coustn, with an aggregate population OF est D.
hnd one arrest for drunkenness for every ninety
seven go OF tie population. In other words the pro-
portion Of nebriety Ia the three prohibtory states
IS considerably more than twice large I'm the
state OF Wisconsin. q. THOAfANN.
New York. February lG 1891
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-20
TO HELP THE NEGRO.

Al q meeting last week at the home Of William
j Schteffen the committee for improving the in
dustrlal condition Of Negroes In New York voted 10
open an office and engage a secretary This move
is made necessary by the notable development dur
ing the few months OF the work Of the different
committees on craftsmen. tradesmen. social cen
tres, employment, etc.
The meeting addressed by Miss Frances A
Keller, general director Of the ntermunicipal re
search committee. and Mrs. s. W. Layton, OF Fha-
dephia supervisor OF the National Associations for
the Protection Of Negro Women. who described
the work in behalf Of Southern Negro girls who
come North for domestic service Cooperating as
sociatiOns have been formed in New York, Balti-
more Philadelphia, Norfolk and Washington where
the girls are met on arrival and agents sta
toned in Richmond, Charleston, Savannah and
Jacksonville 1t pointed out that steerage ac-
cOmmOdatiOns on many northern going boats are
exceedingly bad. Few have stewardesses: others
herd and women together IN a demoraliZing
way; lack Of waiting room at the docks makes tho
girls p~eE for sharks, and In New York no
police protection is afforded the docks, as IN
Philadelphia.
The meeting voted the appointment OF a special
committee OF three to cooperate in bringing the
matter OF improving conditions before steamship
officials and the Police Department.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-20
NARROWED OFF ERIE BASIN.
Two Hundred of the Stapleton's Passengers
Held Up When Pump Breaks.

off Erie Basin yesterday the Municipal ferry
boat Stapleton. which broke down on her trip
from the 18th street terminal, Brooklyn. to the
ferry landing n the Battery.
The accident was caused by the breaking a.
air pump. When the pilot found the ferry
boat not under control he sgnalIed for help
and two tugboats which went to the Stapleton's
assistance lowed her to Pier IS. Brooklyn
The passengers were transferred to the ferry
boat South Brooklyn and brought to Manhattan
4 number of trucks and carriages remained
aboard the ferTybOat until she was subsequently,
towed to her slip at South Ferry. one woman
tainted. but apart from this incident there was
no alarm among the passengers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-20
EVERY GIRL WANTS TO MARRY

The woman Is not born who does not desire q
home Of her and a husband" declared Mrs.
Frank L Croulse at the Society for Political Study
yesterday. Even the bachelor girl wants TO be
married but she isn't in such hurry 10 take the
first man who offers she once was Why do
women mRrry2 For love, Of course But I notice
that there and more accessories being ia
sisted be paid for IN the coin of the realm.
If a girl has lots Of money" pursued Mrs
Cronise, she goes IN for settlement work or ath-
letcs. II moderate amount, then for college and
a profession. All the same her ambition and her
mothers Is for her TO marry we'll That means
marry a who will enjoy her society when she
chooses to give u-and pay her bills In return
viii promise her love, but not TO honor obey
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