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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13

life behind prison bars. But WHY
are those who should if anything
be held responsible in a larger
measure for their crimes treated
with such clemency, and the com,
mon, everyday man who lacked a
good home, kind friends and edu,
cation-what we are pleased to call
the "advantages"-left to bear the
brunt of prison work and prison
hardships?
Why do the soft snaps always go
to the man with money?
The difference in prison caste
can be studied in the cell house. In
the Ohio penitentiary are hundreds
of cells, tier upon tier. They are
about three feet four inches wide,
six feet high and six feet long.
There is no running water and the
stencil can better be imagined than
described when the men are lock-
ed in all day Sunday and on holi-
days.
In another building, comparative
ly new, are cells tenanted by only
one prisoner instead Of two. On
the ground floor are perhaps 80
large, light cells with carpets on
the floor, curtains at the doors.
This is the famous Bankers
Row."
Bankers Row" knows the value
of those curtains Several times a
day ''rubberneck" tours pass by
here, and the financiers have fixed
the curtains so the ''rubberneck
ers' can't stare at them nor their
personal belongings in the cells.
(The next article by Miss Part
Ion will be on From the Viewpoint
of the Cell"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13
Special Correspondence to The Pres

CHICAGO, Jan. 13.-Charity
workers estimate that 100000 men
are walking Chicago's streets to-
day facing starvation.
Malcolm Mcdowell, banker,
and three friends have started a
movement for relief by serving hot
coffee and rolls every night to the
unemployed on the West-side. His
quiet method of helping the desti'
tute has brought home to charit-
able association the need of speedy
action to prevent scores from dy-
ing of cold and hunger.
Last night a cold wind whistled
around the corner of Jefferson and
Madison. Half clothed men shud-
dered and coughed as it struck. A
few laughed Historically. Others
swore. Jefferson st. for two hours
had been crowded to the full length
of the block.
Ten o'clock. A grocery wagon
drove at a gallop into the crowd.
Every man raised his hat and
cheered. Malcolm McDowells cof-
fee cart drew up to the curb. With
out a word the mass of men form
ed into silent line five abreast,
ready to take their turn at the
coffee and rolls.
The most casual observer could
see these men were not profession
al beggars. God bless you" many
murmured as they took the steam
ing black cup.
Tut, tut, don thank me. You'd
do the same for me if | was in hard
luck"
Sure We would. Anything we
could 10
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13
BY NORMAN ROSE
staff Correspondent of This News
paper, with Admiral Evans Fleet

Staff Correspondent of This News.
paper, with Admiral Evans Fleet
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan.
13.-Imagine seaport town of 55,-
600 people, with crowd of some
IA 600 visitors, not all ashore at
once, but coming from day to day,
during period of six days, in good
sized patches, eager to spend their
money.
You would think that town would
try pretty hard to get all the mon
ey they could out of those $4,000
visitors, wouldn't you? They would
in the U. S. A.
But not SO in Port of Spain. The
second day of the stay of Admiral
Evans fleet here was Christmas
day. Did the stores keep one for
at least part of the day, as they
would anywhere in the United
States, to get the money of the Of
ficers and sailors of the fleet?
They did not. There wasn't a
store open anywhere in Port of
Spain from Christmas morn till
Thursday morn, except a few shan.
ties where soft drinks and lunches
were peddled out. Even the drug
stores were closed.
At the Queens Park hotel, the
only good hotel in town, there is a
booth in the Office where curios,
jewelry and postal cards are sold.
American naval officers looked into
the showcases and ratified their
money in their pockets all Christ.
mas day, but there was nothing
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13
PUTS BAN ON FIRETRAP

Commissioner j. T. O'Brien this
morning ordered the Heath build
ing on the corner of Monroe and
Riverside, which partially burned
a few days ago, removed. The
building is owned by Sylvester
Heath and was occupied by the
City of Paris dye works and the
Kosher restaurant. 1t is a wooden
structure and on account of the
danger from fire the board of
works has decided not to allow it
to be rebuilt of wood.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13
SUICIDE OVER TRIEIE

SEATTLE, Jan. 13.-The body OF
Mrs. c. H. PomerOy, age 81, was re.
covered from Lake Washington
yesterday. She drowned herself
Friday night because her husband
refused to accompany her on a call
unless she wore a warmer wrap
than she had intended They had
been married two years.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13
Is MILES Of
CEMENT WALK

Chief Sidewalk Inspector Quinn
has filed his years report of pub
lie Improvements under his super
vision, showing that % So miles of
cement walks were laid; IA rs
miles of cement and concrete curb
ing; 2 IA miles of asphalt cutters,
and LAY square yards of asphalt
pavement. The number of i'm
provements for the years are 76.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13

Brownies addition was the scene
about 1870 o'clock Saturday night
of hard chase by Patrolman
Downey after three suspicious men
who, when he approached began to
run and refused to halt. Downey
shot three times at them but did
not aim to get them, and didn't.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13
ONE PENALTY FOR RICH
ANOTHER FOR THE POOR

over 1,500 convicts pass daily in a
hideous caricature of the 'lock-
step" that has been abolished by
law, you will see ragged blue jean
trousers and frayed, i'll fitting coats
cast off by those who have gone
out.
deal more harshly with any man
who must pass any portion of his
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13
SLUGGED AND ROBBED

Otto Potts, who rooms in the
Hale hotel, was knocked down at
the corner of Sprague and Division
late last night and robbed of So.
The thug stepped from behind a
billboard and before Potts could
throw up his arm to protect him.
self he was felled and so bewilder-
ed that the highwayman found it
easy to search him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13
PRISON CASTE
BY Jessie M. partition

Before the law all men are sup
posed to be equal. Our statutes pro-
''ide one penalty for rich and poor.
But there is no one so simply now
adays as to believe the prison of
the poor man is the same as the
prison for the rich.
True, they occupy the same
building, the same grim walls shut
them in, but for the man without
money and friends life on the in
side is vastly dinerent from that
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13
SEATTLE AFFINITY CASE

SEATTLE, Jan. 13.-Deserting a
wife and young daughter, William
r. Williams, until recently secre-
tary of the Seattle commercial
club, has disappeared from his
home, 526 North Broadway, and is
supposed to have eloped with Mrs.
John Buxman, wife of the vice
president of the Pacific & Puget
Sound Bottling Co.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13
LID on OFiE READ

Those who have known Opie
Read, novelist, about the Chicago
Press club or down Sounth, will
appreciate his being banquetted in
Spokane On this city's first dry
Sunday. Thct is what happened to
Read asst hight and he went
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13
Square Deal in
Police Court

Special Correspondence to The Press
TOLEDO, Jan. 13.-With the
new year Toledo's police cour
turned over a new leaf. Jim" Aus
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13

dental that on the ever of her
brothers second trial the countess
filed action in the English courts
for the annullment of her mar
riage.
The countess will be unable to
attend the New York murder trial
because the hearing of her mar.
riage annulment suit coming with
In month necessitates her pres
ence In England a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-13

The troubles of the Thaw family
are verging to a deluge, At the
hrst trial Of Harry X. Thaw the
countess Of Yarmouth. his sister,
was In constant attendance. Pro
tests from the relatiyessof the earl
OF Yarmouth, at the disgrace
brought upon the family name
thereby, intensified the inclpient
dissension between the earl and
the countess. II is strangely coinci.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
The Stock Market,

Henry Clews in his weekly financial review of Saturdays date says:
 Stocks have advanced from 10 to 90 points since the October panic, and strong efforts are being made to carry them to a still higher level. The query now is: Will these efforts succeed, and if so, on what grounds? Of course. the greater portion of this rise was the natural re- bound following the panic, when all se- curities fell far below their intrinsic value owing to compulsory liquidation and loss of confidence The natural level of prices to be expected after the panic would de- pend upon a proper readjustment to re- duced net earnings and to the lower rates for money which were bound to follow the crisis. While the general depression of business was an adverse factor to stocks, the great decline in money was an equally bullish factor; and the play for mastery between these two forces finally resulted in partial victory for the latter This Is the history of all pancs, since easy money is an argument for the rise that cannot be indefinitely resisted.
 "In the present instance the advance movement has been unquestionably pro- longed by powerful manipulation. No iin- portant recession, such as would have broadened the market and attracted an outside interest, has yet been permitted. On the contrary prices have been pushed upward with a persistence that impeded rather than encouraged a real revival of confidence. It was evident that the mar ket was in control of exceedingly power ful operators, whose purposes were not at first very clearly understood. It Is now fully appreciated, however, that the chief support comes from those interested in financing the requirements of the railroads and other big corporations during the cur rent year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
Dances for Veterans.

Birmingham may not spend as much money as some other cities have spent in entertaining the Confederate re- union," said one of the committeeman yesterday, but Birmingham will beat them all in the matter of attention paid to the veterans themselves. The idea permeating every committee is that the old soldiers must be looked after first and other visitors afterward.
 Even the beautiful sponsors and maids that well be here from all over the south-there will be 400 or 500 of them-will have to take second place in spite of the worldwide tendency among old men and young to do hom- age to pretty women.
 At the reunion ball which is so take place the last night of the festiv- ities, there will be several dances known as the veterans Marches" for which the young women will make their engagements exclusively with the old veterans. During these marches nc young men will be permitted to take part"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
HOTELS IN EUROPE.

From the New York Telegram.
 To study the American system of build ing and conducting hotels is the mission in this country of Louis Adlon, owner of chain of hotels in Germany, including new &,50O000 caravansary in Berlin.
 Tt has only taken brief tour of your States lead the world in fin, hotels said MT. Adlon at the Hotel Astor yesterday. "A few years ago the hotel men of the United States were in the habit of going to Europe to gather ideas regarding their business. Now the circumstances have been completely reversed, and we are coming to you for suggestions and in structions.
 'In every part of Europe the hotels are being built in accordance with the mod ern ideas which American architects have introduced. This has been in progress for ten years or more and the leading cities of England, France and Germany now can boast of hotels that are replicas of the most modern in your country. We are frank to admit that we are following in your footsteps, and that we are quick to take advantage of any new improve ment.
 'There are few things more wonderful than the advance which has been made in the science of hotel equipment. The art of finding out what is necessary to meet the competition of the present day is one that calls forth all our resourcefulness and energy America may justly be proud, therefore, of it's hotels and Euro peans may feel that they owe you debt of gratitude
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
Interest In the Reunion.

q find much interest in the country dis tricts of North Carolina and Virginia re- garding the reunion of Confederate Veter- ans said a member of Camp Clayton.
 "1 am sending short letters to country papers, telling about the plans and the rates, about Hotel Gordon and about Bir- mineham in general. The publicity com mittee is too busy with the important details of the larger proposition of ad- vertising. I wish to suggest to any per son who knows of a good country week ly anywhere in the United States that they are in a position to address that they write short article of say 300 words, tell ing about the plans for the old veterans and visitors: also that the plans for se- curing quarters for those who will pay for their lodging. The rates, based on ! cent per mile each way. should be em- phasized. I understand that the tickets will be good for about 30 days.
 Many persons would like to see Bir- mingham and its environs if they could only know that they could be cared for comfortably and economically. The way to get people interested in Birmingham is to advertise that the greatest event in her history will occur June to II.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
THE MAN WHO SANG OF CASEY
From the New York World

From the New York World
 It is Sunday morning-Sunday in Massa- chusetts, in Mudvillc and in Boston. Base ball is forbidden, but net pensiveness nor the poet George Whitefeid D'Vys en- ters Franklin Park and lies in the grass with his waistcoat pockets close to na- ture. His mind is filled with a. vasue unrest. The universe is gray, despite ] the Sunday sunshine. He is remember Ing that critical moment of a recent ninth inning when King Kelly "fanned'' with two on bases, leaving the score dead against the Hub. Of a sudden the gloomy 1 thoughts of D'Vys assume rhyme and rhythm He seizes a pencil. On the spot Casey at the Bat'' takes form, a national poem of power and pathos. The future of baseball in letters is assured. A classic is established in 1S stanzas which De Wolf Hopper. coming comedian, is 70 save for many a rainy day in recita- ton.
 It is now about 20 years later, and the story indicated above, offered by a pub fishers newsman, is reJected not on &C., count of lack of literary merit There are grave questions of fact involved. Not even "The Breadwinners' has been fa- vored with so many and such a variety of authors as Casey ct the Bat" But the testimony of a cloud of witnesses marks Ernest Lawrence Thayer as the writer of the poem and San Francisco as the city of its first appearance Was it written on Sunday by a man lying in the grass? There are no such details Some thoughtful friend told the author it was good stuff-of it's kind"
 MT. Thayer is now a wool merchant of Worcester. Doubtless he goes some times to see the game. Blessed umpires, if all the fans might learn from his lines to do nothing more violent than verses when the third strike is called on Caseyl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
Music For Children.

"In listening to chorus of 200 children at the High school auditorium last Friday night I was impressed with the fact that music easy enough for boys and girls of the sixth grade and under may be at the same time of ar tistic value as well IS pleasing to an audience not musically educated" said an amateur Every number on the programme was good and two or three of the pieces were by classic composers. As the children sang The Wanderer, by Schubert, I thought how much moro suitable that song would be for Sun day school. with Sunday school words of course, than most of the pieces that are sung there. With few exceptions Sunday school music is, or rather it was when I was child of little musl cal or artistic merit. It was often worse than trivial. The leaders of Sunday schools seemed to have had an idea that any other sort of music would have been over the heads of lit tie folks. One has only to hear the music, simple but beautiful, sung ny the children of the Birmingham public schools to find that musical ideas have changed and changed for the better. Good music-real musicians wonder fully refining effect on children, while the mediocre stuff vitiates their taste, aesth etically considered, and makes 1t harder for them to take to classic music later on."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
Effect of Sentiment

As is often remarked, business is affected in large measure by senti- ment. After financial panic, restora- tion of confidence, which Is a matter Of sentiment, is always necessary be- fore prosperity can return. A feeling that good times are not far distant helps to bring better times. This. of course, is sentiment. While there can
 be no solid prosperity without some. thing tangible to base it on, chiefly abundant crops, business revival would be backward and halting, but for the direct stimulus resulting from mere sentiment
 Notwithstanding the fact that the majority of industries in and around Birmingham continued in operation re- gardless of last October's panic. the starting up the Sloss-Sheffield fur
 mace plant on First avenue, few days
 ago, had telling effect for good, be- cause it's smoke is seen by everybody
 in the city. Aside from the increased
 pay rolls, the blowing in of furnace. | for months idle, greatly cheers the
 community, by reason of the question of sentiment involved.
 Likewise from viewpoint of senti- ment, the official announcement made Saturday by the president of the Ten nessee Coal, Irch and Railroad com pany that operations at the steel works at Ensley would be resumed Vn June
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AtIanta's Population.

Atlanta is one of the few southern cities that has not extended it's limits since the last census,' remarked com mercial traveller "In 1900 Atlantas popu- lation was 5000. Its population today is well over the 100000 mark but it will scarcely exceed 1000 unless it takes in it's suburbs. With the environs annexed the population in 1910 would probably reach 125,00O
 "As the extension of city limits involves a good deal of legal machinery the Great CT Atlanta will hardly be realized by the time the next census is taken, unless the matter is taken up and pressed without delay. Atlantans are beginning to see that without an extension of the boundary lines the metropolis of Georgia will come into the census table with less popula- tion than Nashville or Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
NAT GooDWINs WAYS.

New York Cor Cincinnati Times-Star.
 It doesn't even cause fiutter In this dovecote nowadays when Nat Goodwin changes his mind. Time was when he was good for a story, whether it was on a faro bank winning or the effort of faro bank proprietor to cash check, or a new show, or a new leading lady, or whatever. Nowadays Nathaniel can go IS far as he likes, and Gotham just lifts a tired eyelid and murmurs: What? Again?' and turns over. Goodwin took his latest show off here, said he'd never play again and was going to the mines. He got as far as Chicago and then he de- cided he wouldn't go to the mines and would put the show on again. The latest is that he has taken the show off again.
 Finnigan. and started for the mines again. Which reminds old-timers of one of Mats early changes of purpose. He was playing in London at the time. Something peeved him. Whether he didn't like his notices or the leading lady was saucy to him or he got up with grouch, no one knows. But he posted a notice that his show was closed, grabbed cab. hurried 10 the JOCK ana was Un d NeW York-bound steamer without even engag- ing a room aboard. Arriving at New York, he found 1t was a frightfully hot day in midsummer. He drove uptown, walked through a dozen barrooms, found that all of his chums were out of town or at the races or something, drove back to the dock in the same cab, got on a steamer that sailed for London at 3 o'clock that same afternoon, and was back in that village before people there had learned that he had left them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
Where Our Coffee Grows

Official figures for the last fiscal year do not sustain some of the asser- tions of our coffee vendors. We grow no coffee, and the custom house re- turns are therefore trustworthy and comprehensive. Let us see, therefore, where the coffee we drink comes from.
 Out of a total importation of 940,- 100000 pounds in the fiscal year ended June 30 last Latin America sent us 90O.- 100000 pounds, and Brazil alone sent us 727,000,000 pounds. Just about seven-ninths of all the coffee we con- sume comes from Brazil.
 But out of 4O,OOO,OOO pounds that does not come from Latin America may not some come from Java and Arabia? Possibly little may, for we took from the East Indies II .O00- 900 pounds, and some of that may have been grown in Java. From Asia and Oceanica" we received A. 100000 pounds. Some of us try to think that a little of this amount was Mocha coffee, but the amount must have been so small that none of if filtered to the interior districts. All the coffee imported from the East Indies and Asia and Oceanica would not supply one of our large cities, and the pretense that we drink at break. fast Java or Mocha, or both of them mixed, is too attenuated to be credible / The truth is we drink Rio coffee under wide variety of names and blends, for our importations from Bra gil are S5 per cent of our enormous importations. Very likely not pound of Mocha is brought to this country. The crop is small at the best, and the ,magnates and trusts no doubt get what little Java is brought here.
 The figures presented in this article are strictly official, and whoever dis putes them goes back on Uncle Sam's custom house officials, none of whom are participants in the coffee trade. Presumably they tell the truth, and 5.ha coffoa daalare ehOuld dO Iixouioo Some of, them do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11

tariff benefieiaries would be glad to see bill put through that such tariff reVisers as Payne and Dalzell had prepared. They are revisers who re- wise in the interest of the beneficiaries of Dingleyism and never in the inter- est of consumers. They would really revise to prevent real revision. The country understands them and it wants Eone of their work
 The result of the November election will determine the nature of the com ing revision. The House of the Sixty first Congress aill undoubtedly be democratic, and if the Senate stands In the way of real revision the sub Ject will go over until another appeal cap be taken to the country. The re- vision when it comes must be real with an eye single to the plain people and the consumers, and no eye what ever to the trusts and monopolists.
 The Payne resolution is probably booked for adoption, but it is simply piece of campaign deception-a de- fusion and snare-a mere piece of tuneombe intended to deceive the un- wary and to serve the robber bene- fciaries of Dingleyism.