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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
TO BUILD CHEAPER
Construction News Declares That
the Price Of Building Mater.
iaIs Is Being Reduced
LABOR TO Be PLENTIFUL

1t might be just as well to know, says
the Construction News, of Chicago,
that the consenus Of opinion upon the
cost of building is to the effect that il
is very little if any lower than it was a
year ago.
The only features Of the situation
which indicates cut is the competition
among contractors and increased efic-
iency Of the workmen, but both are suf-
ficiently acute to appreciate that they
are sacrificing themselves in the inter
ests of others of larger means. Archi-
tects say that there has been a decrease
Of about 10 to II per cent in Chicago.
1t is to their interest to express this
belief, with a view to influencing peo-
pie to build. On the other hand, how
ever, owners and builders say that the
cost of building is about the same as
it was year ago. The people in the
northwest feel about the same way in
regard to it. The Improvement Bulle-
tin, which has a comprehensive know
ledge of affairs, states that there is a
feeling that in the resumption Of build
ing activity prices will advance, elimi-
mating the decline from the high prices
Of last season.
Probably the greatest reduction has
been made in lumber, and first class
hemlock which sold last season at from
$25 to $50 per thousand feet is today re-
failing from $21 to $25 per thousand.
Yellow pine, which is used quite ex-
tensively, has dropped from $50 and
$32 to $26 and 1928. Finishing oak
which sold last season for $50 to $65 per
thousand feet is selling today from So
to SIS lower.
Hard pine numbers have not changed
as much as the other pine, but light
decrease is noticed. White cedar
shingles which sold last season for $4.75
per thousand are selling today for $3.50.
Other roofing material has made a
similar drop, and indications are that
such materials will still go lower.
Cement and all plastering has expert
enced similar drop in valne, but hard
ware remains at the same price as at the
close of the 1907 season. All hardware
dealers have their supply in stock, and
they say they anticipate no change for
the next two seasons. Nails are selling
at So per keg. Other building hard
ware is quoted at the old price.
Labor will be considerably cheaper
than last season, and will be plentiful
Prices have been cut by both skilled
and common workmen, and the great
est cut is expected for the skilled work
men. Labor in general promises to be
cheaper, for many who have never been
without employment are idle. With a
drop in building material prices, how
ever, laborers feel that they will be
kept busy as soon as the spring work
opens up.
Architects report that within the past
several days things have looked better
than they did month ago They say
a great number of dwelling houses will
be erected.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
Property Owners on Rowland Ave.
To Enjoin City Clerk From Is.
suing Bonds for Paving
CLAIM WORK UNSATISFACTORY
Clerk Has Not AS Yet Been Served, But
Bonds Are to Be Issued Within
Few Days and Injunction
is Ready For Service
(From Fridays Daily.)

The property owners on Rowland
avenue seem to be determined to keep
up the old light over the paving on How
land avenue and it is stated this morn
ing that the attorneys for the property
owners are ready to serve an injunction
on the city clerk to prevent the issue
of bonds for the payment of the paw
ing on the avenue. Some Of the bonds
are ready to be issued to the contractor
and the others W. ready within the
next two or three days. The people
have been closely watching every move
in regard to the bonds and it is claimed
that the injunction which is now being
prepared Will be served on the city
clerk before he is able to turn over
the bonds. The heavy work for the
clerks Office attending the primary cleo
ton and the city election has made it
a hard matter for the clerk to give his
time to the issue of the bonds but it
is stated that they will be ready in a
few days.
The property owners base their in
junction on the claim that the paving
was not done in accordance with the
contract between the contractors and
the city, the specified complaint being
that the curbing was not laid in accor-
dance to the contract. The matter has
been threshed out before the Common
Council and the petition of the proper
ty owners shows that nearly all of
them were in the movement to contest
the payment for the work until the
alleged breach of contract on the part
of the contractor had been made good.
City Engineer Moth when seen this
morning said: cit is possible that some
of the curb on Rowland avenue is not
entirely satisfactory, but the property
owners on the street have no reason to
feel apprehension, as the job will be
made good by Contractor Jones, no mat
ter what defects in the curb or pave
ment are found. The city is holding up
one tenth of the entire contract price
for the work on the street and this
will be more than sufficient to make
good any of the defects claimed by the
property owners.
1t is admitted that a number of the
property owners have refused to pay
the assessments levied against their
property for the cost of the paving and
it is said that they will be ready to fight
in court if tax title to their property
is sold at the annual sale of tax titles
in May.
Similar troubles came up on one of
the other streets of the city but Con-
tractor Jones managed to reach an
agreement with the property owners
and by this agreement the bonds for
the work on that street were issued a
short time after the pavement was com
pleted
Should the Rowland avenue property
owners win their fight there is little
doubt but that such a victory would re-
suit in future work in Kenosha being
done exactly as the contract calls for it.
TO HAVE STRONG TEAM
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
Y. M. c. A. Workers Here To.
Start Campaign for Funds
To Extend Their Work
NIGHT SCHOOL BIC SUCCESS
Work Done by the Association Proving
of Great Value to the People
Of the City In Many
Ways
(FrOm MONDAYS Dai1v.l


A group of men met at the Y. M. G.
A. building last night for the discus
sion Of new financial policy. Aside
from the revenues from the association
building, which amount to more than
one-third the total Of the budget, the
funds needed for the maintenance of
the organization have been received
from the membership dues and from a
very small number of people who have
made generous gifts.
1t is proposed to extend this list very
greatly, not only that additional funds
may be secured, but also that many
more people will thereby have a greater
interest in all that is to be undertaken
for the welfare Of the boys and men of
the community.
Upon the suggestion Of Mr.. c.. S.
Ward, of Chicago, who was present at
last night IS meeting about twenty-five
men will make it their business for the
next three days to call upon several
hundred people with a view of interest
ing them in the project.
An indication Of the kind of work
that counts is shown in the following
report of the Association IS night
school:
One of the most interesting and one
of the most practical things that the
Young Men S Christian Association has
undertaken during the past year was
the night school for foreign speaking
men. In spite Of the fact that there
was no special equipment for the school
one hundred and sixty men were en-
rolled and very many Of these showed
wonderful improvement in their know
lodged of our language and customs.
Locally the school was something of
an experiment but in many Of the larg-
er cities of the country similar schools
are being conducted with great success,
and at our principal ports of entry the
association is rendering a great service
to the immigrant by giving him reli-
able information; proper direction, and
often, employment.
Within the past few years the In
dustrial Department Of the Association
has proven itself to be especially fitted
to deal with the problems that arise in
dealing with the 100000 non English
speaking people employed in the indus
trial centers of the country.
The work Of this department is under
the supervision Of some of the leading
business men of New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, and Montreal, and is being
made very effective by large force
of well trained secretaries
By directing the efforts of the local
association to the needs of the hundreds
of men in this city who are unfamiliar
with our language and our government
great benefit will be derived for the en-
ployers of labor as well as the men them
selves and the condition Of the CITY
morally and politically is bound to i'm
prove. To this end the cooperation Of
all interested is very cordially invited.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
Manager of Milwaukee Lake Shore
Team To Be Out After the Pennant

Manager Joseph NJ. Carney Of the
Milwaukee team in the Lake Shore
League was in Kenosha today and he
declares that he is going to have the
strongest team in the league this sea-
son. The Milwaukee team was ranked
high by the managers last season and
nearly every one Of the men of the
team has been signed for the new sea-
son. Carney has secured a promise
from the Milwaukee American Associa-
tion team to have a pitcher for the
season and in addition to that he is
planning to sign Cumiskey of this city
as an emergency pitcher Cumiskey
has pitched good ball for several sea-
sons and while he has not signed with
the Milwaukee team it is thought that
ne will consider contract with that
team in a favorable light.
Manager Breen is not as yet ready to
announce the makeup Of his team for
next season but he states that it will
be strong one. The Kenosha men are
to report for practice the first of April
and 1t the weather permits number
OF games will be played before the open
ing of the regular league season.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
GIFT FROM BIJOU
Manager o Brien of Bijou Theatre Aids
Fireman's Pension Fund by $40

Chief of the Fire Department Henry
Isermann, Thursday afternoon received
from Frank J. O'Brien Of the Biiou
Theatre, check for the sum of 1902
which is to be added to the frcmen s
pension fund as a result of four Fri
day night IS performances during the
months of February. Manager O'Brien
has liking for the fremen and he de-
cided that this would be a good way
to show his appreciation Of the ef6ci-
ency Of the Kenosha force. The gift is
one of the first to be received by the
trustees of the fireman s fund.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
CERTIFICATES ON SALE
Kenosha Post Office Now Offering
Foreign Certificates of Postage

Postmaster John B. Maloney has now
secured a stock of the postage certifi-
Gates recently issued by the Post Of
flee Department in keeping with the In
ternational Postal agreement and these
are being placed on sale today. The
new certificates are sold at six cents
and they are to be sent to foreign coun-
tries to be accepted as postage for the
return of letters. The certificates may
be used in any class of business. The
first demand for the certificates came
from Kenosha factories doing large
foreign business and they were sent
out with order blanks in place of the
customary stamped envelope. 1t is
thought that they will also find large
sale among the aliens who will forward
them to relatives at home thus making
It possible for them to pay postage on
letters and parcels from those countries
to America.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
COLLINS HAS TONSILITIS
Physicians Decide That There is No
Cause to Quarantine County Jail

The hospitable doors of the county
jail are opened again for the reception
OF prisoners as the physicians who had
been treating Andy Collins who was
thought to be suffering from diphtheria
held consultation last night and de-
cided that the prisoner was suffering
from a bad attack Of tonsilitis. He IS
being kept away from the other prison
ers but it is certain that there is no
danger of his communicating the d.
sease to the other men in the Jail.
However the men at the Jail are still
giving him a wide berth and they will
see to it that he is kept in close seclu-
sion until the end Of his term at the
jail
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19

before the primary it will cost the tax
payers just $1495.00.
AS is usual in armies, the number is
increased as the demand is urgent
and it is stated that at least a score
more men were put to work this morn
ing.
Most people seem to consider the plan
an economical and effective one for
campaign work and it has the further
advantage that the bills are settled by
the taxpayers and the small amount
from each one does not make the cam
paign cumbersome for any one.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
MARRIEs KENOsHA GIRL
Ralph Colby of Spring Grove, ILL.,, ana
Miss Pearl Sniffen Married

There was quiet little wedding at
the manse Of the First Congregational
Church at three o'clock Wednesday
afternoon, the contracting parties being
Pearl Sniffen of Kenosha, and Raj phi
Colby of Spring Grove, Ill. The cere-
mony was performed by the Rev. E. T.
Farrill in the presence of a few friends
of the contracting parties Mr. and
Mrs. Colby left Immediately after the
ceremony for Spring Grove where they
will make their home.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
SEEK MISSING WOMAN
Police Of the City Asked to Search For
Mrs. John Swartz
(From Thursdays Dafly.)

(tf0m thursdays Da1Iy.)
The police Of the city received tele-
phone message from the village of
Somers this morning asking them to
make an effort to find some trace of
Mrs. John SWartz, well known woman
Of that village who disappeared on last
Tuesday afternoon and of whom no
trace has been found. Mrs. Swartz left
her home just after noon and it is
claimed that she carried suit case.
1t is thought that she is in Kenosha.
Mrs. Swartz is forty-fve years of age
and her husband is employed in Racine
at one of the big factories there. It
is said that the woman formerly suffered
from mental disease and that she dis
appeared a year ago and after being
missing for several days was located
at Waukegan. Thus far the Kenosh2
police have not been able to find any
trace of the woman.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
WISCONSIN STATE CIVIL SERVICE
Notlce OF Examination for Expert Stem
ographer for the Railroad Commission

Notice is hereby given that a com
petltive examination will be held at the
Capitol in Madison and at the City
civil Service Room in Milwaukee on
Saturday, March %, at nine clock A.
M, Tor the position of expert steno-
grapher for the Railroad Commission.
One position. Open to men only.
salary SlOO month with chance of
promotion for the right. man.
The candidate must be competent to
take dictation at ITS words minute.
He must be neat, accurate, rapid and
rellable. Candidates must provide
typewriting machines, small tables and
unused note books for the examination.
Want ads OF con4s 1917
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Total per day. $4,000
1t this continues for the ten days left
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Want ads. 25 cents a week.
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Want ads % cents a week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-11

Or do you want to have me reduce that
to writing and go and make oath to it
before notary?'
oh no. nothing like that. am sure.
my dear" smiled Mrs. JobsOn. only 1t
seems to me that if the cap had been
around the house since our return that
time I'd surely remember having seen 1T.
and the fact that l don't remember haV-
ing seen it proves
Proves madam. either nothing at all,
or just what I've always suspected. that
you grope around this house most of the
time as blind as Mammoth cave eel.
Mr.. Jobson interrupted. Now / come to
think of 1t, that cap, until a very few
days ago. was hanging over that gas jet
in my room that 1 never use-hanging
there as big and lively and wriggling and
visible even to the eye of a ground slug
as the aurora borealis. That's where it
was, I'd be willing to gamble house and
has happened to it since I last saw it
there is for you to know. or course,
you're as likely as not to have tossed it
into the scrap basket. while somnambuliz-
ing around here, under the impression
that 1t was bread poultice that had been
used. or a hunk of dried-up pound cake.
or something of that kind. Nobody knows
what you do around this plant when
you're in the midst of the household sleep
walking. But all this caloric persiflage
isn't getting me my travelling cap, and
suppose it ticlkles you almost to death to
think that I've got to jam back and forth
on railroad trains, on about the hottest
day of the year. wearing stif-brimmeC
straw hat that's about seven pounds
heavier than the helmet Of uhlan iT
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cations? Isn't it hot enough around here
as it is without trying to make people
work overtime?"
Il meant to say said Mrs. Jobson,
that if you could only remember when
you last wore the cap. why
IF ] could only remember how far the
Straits of Sunda are from the planet
Neptune ] might be able to pass a civil
service examination and nail a job as
fourth assistant box packer with the
bureau of entomology or something"
grouched Mr.. Jobson. IF I remember
all about that cap and what happened
to it after last I wore 1t and all of the
minor details and secondary facts about
it, do you suppose that I'd be running
up and down stairs like something de-
mented in A vaudeville sketch, asking
you where the blazes the cap was? Or
climbing and vocal exercise when the
figures. and. If you think that, what
the"
Let me see." put in Mrs. Jobson, mu-
singly 1T seems to me that you have
not worn that travelling cap since we
came back from Bermuda away last
March, and II that is the case. why
''Oh. say, come out of that. won't your
groaned Mr.. Jobson. agonizedly. I've
worn that cap about forty thousand times
since we got back from Bermuda. I've
worn 1t on so many trips to Baltimore
that 1 couldn't keep track of 'em all
with a carpenters pencil. I've worn il
out to the golf links more times than I've
got hairs in my head since we got back
from Bermuda. Why don't you come
right across and be done with it and con-
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E,,naror Pills army These are the
things I'm telling you. that make me
weary--this gag of having everything l
get hold of lost on me. There are some
fellows that can buy one traVei1ns cap
when they go off on their wedding journey
and have it kicked around the house Tor
the remainder of their lives. always
handy to be put on when it's needed. But
fellows like that haven't got wives that
dope around in a half-waking state and
chuck their things in the kitchen stove
under the impression that the gear Is
meant for fuel
Really" said Mrs. Jobson. Il am
awfully sorry. but-now, pul-lease don
get excited my dear-but l am perfectly
certain that the cap Is in the suit case
that you left at your office after we came
back from the Bermuda trip. and If you
only telephone down there and find out
why
ooh, say broke in Mr.. Jobson. hopping
his perspirey forehead how many times
have l got to request you to forget mat
suit case that / left at the office on my
way home from Bermuda? Just try and
forget it, won't you? You're one of the
loyeliest and cheerful little forgetters
in the western hemisphere in any and
all circumstances excepting where it's a
good thing for you to work your forgetter.
But give me little run for my money
this time, won't you. and forget that
suit case at the Office You know what
that suit case contained when We returned
from Bermuda. don't you? You remember
that l stuffed it full of oranges and
lemons and other citrus fruits, and
pineapples and alligator pears and such
like junk for the fellows at the office
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passenger that the sleeper crew always
sort of celebrated the little occasion.
That suited. me up to the notch. or
course I said to myself that no doubt d
be expected to come across on the 1ol-
lowing morning with pretty cute tip
for the porter for being so scientifically
obseqllious and obliging, and I consid-
cred. too, that I'd have to be there with
something not silvern, but pulpy and
crackly. for the conductor. in view OF
his letting me have the drawing room all
for my own and all like that. But that
didn't worry me. What + was getting and
enjoying would be worth the money. and
/ didn't begrudge the tipping stun that
was ready to let loose of on the following
morning.
II took good long look at both of the
beds in the drawing room. and It seemed
a pity and shame to me that / wouldn't
be able to lie in both of them. SOS to
muss up the bed coverings and get my
full moneys worth. Finally, of course,
l chose the lower one but / made 4
mental resolution that il I should hap
pen to wake up in the night I'd slip into
the upper one and take at least a short
crack at that one, too. You can see how
I just naturally hated and despised to
let anything get away from me.
1.-The car was still empty and creepy
and understanding. with none of the
berths down. when / got no as we
skidded through the CatSkillS along to-
ward o'clock in the morning. l hur-
ried with my dressing SOS to enjoy an.
other waking hour or so with the hull
car to myself Mighty fine and superior
business, this thing of having every one
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and howled and threw their hats in the
air and generally behaved something
scandalous. But 1t didn't rattle the
Hon. Charles-Hanford-W William Jennings
Bryan little bit. He gets the glad hand
pretty nearly every night in his own right.
So when the last ripples of enthusiasm
mad DIED away he stepped to the front.
slushed down glass Of spring water to
clear his whistle and started In.
Out in that section of the country they
do say as how Billy Bryan never made a
better speech. Mr.. Hanford-Bryan trifled
with politics some. in spots but mostly it
was glittering generalities and glittering
Seneralities was what the crowd seemed
TO want. He trampled upon octopii. he
asSaSsinafed railroad corpora tons he re-
stored per capita wealth to the poor and
downtrodden. and he evera stingly drew
rings around the initiative and referen-
dunn. And when he wound I'D with a py-
rotechnic peroration that nearly blew the
tent from its guy ropes and brought tears
10 the eyes of some horny-handed sons of
toll who hadn't wept before in thirty
years. he bowed himself bacR to his seat
only to stand up a minute later to receive
the thanks of his auditors expressed by
Il rising vote.
William Jennings Bryan, who had been
forced To forego his date at the little
town in question by reason of a wreck,
washout or other railroad catastrophe
on the line. nearly had a spasm the next
day when he read about the wonderful
speech he had made and the ovation he
had received. e..
Nowadays he and Mrs Hanford are the
best OF friends and they get lot of
mutual enjoyment out Of the striking re-
semblance. l wish to heaven this was