Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-08
CHICAGO letter
PREACHERS LOSE THEIR HALF
d RATES. ooTBLAcKs MAKE 81
$4,000 Al YEAR.
BISHOP FALLoWs REFuTEs THE
STORY OF FEMALE BoozERs
RAILROADS FAVOR THE
WATERWAYS.

WATERWAYS.
Chicago, Oct. - The clergyman's
wife will have to stretch the clergy
mans meager salary still further at
ter January next, for the western
railroads have decided to cut of the
half rate in states which have new
two ent-a-mile laws. In Texas and
Louisiana the clergy rates will stand
unless the state railroad commissions
reduce the general rates. In Colorado,
Montana, Arizona and Pacific states
the clergy rates will stand, but east
of there the pilgrimages to conference
and presbytery will cost double. Will
this prove the last straw and drive
many men from the ministry into
better paid vocations? Salaries have
not kept pace with the increased cost
of living. The demand for preachers
already exceeds the supply, because
the vocation is ill-paid. The half rate
to the clergyman has been an dnstitu-
ton since railroads were built, and
before, and its end marks a transition
in business affairs from the days
when the priest or minister was look.
ed upon as entitled to more or less
support from the public ito more
well, = different era. In view of the
increase in tha necessary expenses
of preachers, the Rock River M. E.
conference adopted resolutions favor
ing an advance of salaries. The av-
erage preachers pay in the conference
was 1880 a month often paid regu-
larly.
Bootblack kink.
Now behold the Bootblack King Of
Chicago, one who is in the magnate
class, who rides to his office in his
mobile, dictates letters an hour
or two and rides away worrying over
q fortune of 100000 or more. Eff
teen years ago Angelo Geocaris was
backing shoes in dusty Athens,
Greese, at three shines for penny.
Fourteen years ago he landed In Chi
teago with three cents and no educa-
ton. Now he has twenty odd shoe
shining parlors in Chicago, Milwau-
kee, Detroit, St Louis, Omaha and
Kansas City and he employs over $50
men and boys. That is where his
magnate-ship was discovered, for the
federal inquiry into the .padrone
system has put a spotlight on the
Greek boys employed" by Geocarie.
They are said to be paid but a pit
lance although the net. income OF Geo
carts is $4,000 a year. Chicago is
said to spend s3,0OO,O0O a year for
shines and Georcaris has set the unit,
the standard price, at 5 cents instead
| Of ten.
a Bishop to the Rescue.
Indignantly Bishop Fallows has met
the recent shocking and sensation
ar pulpit utterances Of Rev. F. ID.
Hopkins about Chicago Women. Rev.
Mr.. Hopkins declared that drinking
was SO prevalent among the women
OF Chicago that race Of degemer-
ates might be expected. Then to
prove his assertion against the ridi-
cule and emphatic protest of the wo-
men, he visited a number OF cafes
where a wine list is printed on the
menu cards and drinking is matter
OF course. Out of the /, 600, 900 or
more women in Chicago not less than
269 We're actually seen to drink in
toxicants," was Bishop Fallows' COM
ment. Now, candidIy, does that
mean anything? Does it matter
whether he saw 269 take soup, blue
points, turkey, coffee or champagne2
What significance is there in the factg
Does that prove anything about &c.,
731 other women p According to the
first assertions about the sobriety OF
the ladies, bless EN-, it would be nee
essary to prove half million OF them
regularly drenched themselves with
alchohol Women's clubs have denied
the allegation nd described the allie
gator as q scream
Railroads Favor Ii.
One fact looms important when
looking back at the great convention
at Memphis of the Lakes-to Gulf
Deep Waterway association, at which
President Roosevelt among others
helped to stir enthusiastic determine
ton that the waterways OF the conn
try should be put to proper use. The
Illinois Central Railway was found
70 pc friend and not an enemy Of a
waterway Improvement although It's
line VIII be paralieled BY the deep