The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07

Allowing that each man had five checks
 to cash, his own and others 1t would appear that the rate of payment Is about
 4bO men an hour. At the Baldwin loco- motive works in Philadelphia 15,O0o men,
 or more than thirty times as many, are
 paid off In an hour. Commenting on the sub-treasury system one of the news papers said recently that to maintain the system had cost the goverya ent $50, ,0CO,- 900 in loss of interest on If nds in the
 last tlrty years This nly one Of
 many instances of the 2 dity of gov-
 ernment red tape.
 The recent strike of the drivers of the street cleaning department furnished a splendid example of what might happen
 unLer municipal ownership as advocat-
 ed oy William R. Hearst. For days the
 garbage lay rottlng under a hot summer sun in the strets of the crowded East side tenement district threatening pestl-
 lence and death. And all this because
 a few employees of the city were dts
 satisfied with the minor rules and regu-
 lations of the department. Discussing the question a morning newspaper said ::
 Suppose the ctiy of New York, in ad-
 dltion to sweeping It's own strets and
 removing its own garbage, also owned
 and operated It's own stret cars, It's own
 gas pic nts and It's own telephone sys-
 tenn. Suppose all these public employees
 were organized-ss they would be-after
 the manner of the drivers, and suppose
 these organizations were affiliated-as
 they wt uld be- What would be the situa
 ton.
 New York would be the abject slave
 of it's hired servants. They could stop every car whel as the drivers stopped
 every cart wheel. They could leave the
 city in darkness at night and in terror by
 day. They could make 1t all but i'm possible for one part of New York to
 communicate It's needs and It's calamities to another part. They could tie up the
 business the industry the activity of the metropolis, and hold the city gov ernment in state of siege.
 Pittsburg should form society for the
 protection of its millionares. The duty
 of this society should be to keep the
 rich at home. but above all to keep them
 away from New York where so many of their brothers have been led astray There's Harry Thaw. William Ellis Corey and Charles M. Schwab, but why recap itulate? Every one Is familiar with their stories. The latest snare set for the Plttsburg millionaire, who comes to New York to escape the smoke of his home
 city Is a faro swindle. The trap was eXpOSeL DV D l. DdVlS, WedltnY oil operator of Ohio, who last s76,000. Davis i was approached by two men who said that q friend of theirs was a dealer for
 faro game in New York. The dealer they said was angry with his employers and wanted to get even. An agreement was mt de that Davis was to put up s25,- GOO and the dealer would so manipulate ths cards that he would win not less than s100,O00. Davis lost the s25 GOO but stll di1 not suspect that any thing was wrong So eager was he to win that he charter ed a special train and went home to get more money which went the same way, The confidence men then informed him that it was a swindle or he might have been playing yet. Davis said on the witness stand that he knew of several wealthy Pittsburg men who had lost a million dollars or more between them and that two had been ruined financially. The Fourth of July possessed a double eignifio ance to those in this country of Italial extraction. On that date fell the centenary of the birth of Garibaldi whom some call the washington of Italy" To celebrate the event the Italians dedi- cated a Pantheon on Staten island
 where Garibaldl made his home whils t-