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Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1908-05-15
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budzetowa cywilna, wyznaczajaca
razem okoIo $12o,OOo,0OO. Osta-
tnia to wiekszych novel budze-
towych; pozostaje jeszcze ogolny
bill deficytowy nowela budzeto-
wa akademii wojskowej. :.
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giosami przeciw 145 nowele IL
nansowa Vreelanda. Z wiekszo-
scia glosowalo Is demokratow tz.
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zy Prince Illinois.
Washington, is maja.
Wczoraj odbyly sic dwie sesye
konferencye gubernatorow. Rama
sesye otworzyl prezydent Roose-
Welt, potem odstapi} przewodni-
czenie Cub. Johnsonowi z Min
nesoty. James H. Hill, prezes "a
rzadu kolei Great Northern mowi}
O ,,naturalnych bogactwach kra-
ju i ich utrzymaniu"; prof. T. {.
Chamberlain z Chicago, prezes
American Association Tor the
Advancement of Sciences" ,,ni-
szczeniu rolf, a R. A. Long,
Kansas City ,,ochronie lasow".
Potem nastapily dyskusye. Popo-
ludniu znowu wygloszono kilka
NOW. Poniewaz zgloszonych Je'
ieszcze NOW kilkanascie, rezulta-
tow dotychczas praktycznych ME
ma zadnych, a jeden tylko pozo-
sta1 dzien ma dokonczenie konfe-
rencyi, przeto postanowiono mo-
wy niewygioszone dotychczas W
nocy wydrukowac, a piatek juz
obrocic ma istotne obrady. Popolu-
dniu przewodniczyl gubernator
Deneen Illinois.
Guthrie, Okla, 10 maja. - L.
ba poslow legislatury Stanu Okla
homa przyjeia wczoraj nowele Sc
natu, kt6rej przeprowadzenia do
magaly sic tutejsze organizacye
robotnicze, domagajace sic Cd
wszelkich przedsiebiorstw pre-
myslowych skladania obszernych
sprawozdah ze stanu interesow
stanowemu komisarzowi robotni-
czemu nadajaca temuz komisa-
rzowi wladze wyznaczania piac
stosownie do zyskow pracodaw-
cy.
El Paso, Tex, Is maja. -
Trzei rozbojnicy wczoraj zrabo-
wall $4,000 i sciga ich teraz gro
mada obywateli brytanami. Po-
dazyli w cory oddalone 80 mil
ma p6inoc cd Vegas, N. NJ, jesli
i'm sic uda tam dostac, to ma razie
beda bezpieczni. - Rozboju doko-
nano we French, ma malej stacyi
kolei Santa Fe. Rozbojnicy wpa-
dli do stacyi, zwiazali agenta i
specyalnego straznika tam stacyo-
nowanego, poczem rozbili kase o
gniotrwala i zabrali $4,000. Pol
godziny p6zniej pewien wioczega
przechodzac przez' stacye uwolnii
obu zwiazanych, poczem roztele-
grafowano wiadomosc o rozboju
do sasiednich miejscowosci.
Wkrotce potem Las Vegas wy
ruszyl specyalny pociag wiozacy
80 pomocnikow szeryfa i 80 koni.
Rownoczesnie wyruszyl takiz po-
ciag specyalny Dawson, i jesz-
cze jeden pociag powiozi brytany
re Santa Fe. Pieniadze owe przy-
wieziono wczoraj rano Albu-
querque; mialy one sluzyc do
wyplaty naleznosci gornikom W
Dawsonl Pfeniadze przywiozi
cz}owiek uzbrojony Cd stop do
glow; ten wloHy} pieniadze do ka-
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przez otwor wybity strzelbami
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have interest in themselves. Browning
inspect the registry which contains the
original entry of the poets baptism and
to see the bust of Browning made by
Barrett Browning. the poets son. Every
year members of the Settlement visit
Westminster Abbey to lay a wreath on
the poets grave on the anniversary of his
death: and public school children in the
district compete for Browning Poem
prizes"
The parentsDf Browning attended York
Street Chapel. now Brow ming Hall, and
there is a we'll authenticated story in the
neighborhood to the effect that the young
poet-to-be was publicly rebuked for 60
ing to sleep during a dull sermon at the
chapel.
Browning settlement, which is in a
f1ourishing condition today and shows a
turn over" of more than $4,000 year
is one of those remarkable social expert
ments of which there are SO many in
with his wife and family. took up his
time was one of the most poverty strick
en-, beer sodden sections Of the metropolis
The idea Of the Steads was not to make
a vivisectional study of the life of the
people. but to live among them on terms
of absolute equality.
Where Settlement "Caught On"
Though there Were many difficulties to
be overcome. the Steads made wonder
full progress. and when the usual sus-
picions of the poor were proved to be
groundless the settlement caught on"
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FAR AWAY!

TAR away. where climbing roses
Decorate the cottage door.
I behold the beaming faces
- That I loved in days of yore;
And my mothers voice with
laughter
Sounds forever In mine ear,
AS wander, sad and lonely.
Through this world from year to year.
I can hear the rustic mill wheel
Rumble with the waters flow,
And the song of harvest reapers
Mingling with the cawing crow:
While the shrill notes of the robin
And the redbird on the hill
All commingle with the music
OF the roaring water mill.
And perhaps in some grand region,
Far beyond the sun and stars.
We may meet the friends of childhood
Der the shining fields of Mars;
Where the loved and lost are waiting,
All redeemed from earthly clay,
Winging with the saints and angels
In Gods climate-far away.
JOHN A. JOYCE.
Washington, D. c.
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immense amount of work in the direction
of burying the Ratchet and lighting the
pipe of peace between England and
America.
Founder an Ardent Internationalist.
when we first proposed to celebrate
the Fourth of July in London" he said
to the writer, in the course of recent
interview. I'VE were laughed at as lot
of cranks. 1t seemed utterly preposter-
Gus that British subjects should be ex-
pected to commemorate with enthusiasm
a disastrous war between the two coun-
tries. But we of the settlement looked
upon the matter in another light. We
believe that the American principle Of
federated demOcracieS can make the
world one commemorative: and we have
kept hammering at this idea for nearly
twelve years. Instead of our Fourth of
July being unimportant event in Lon
the head of the international fraternity
movement: and our meetings are every
year being attended by persons of i'm
portance in both countries
The first year the Fourth" was cele-
brated in London-that is. in 1s96-Prof.
and Mrs. Zeublin of Chicago took part in
the demonstration; and Thomas F. Bay
ard. who was the American representa-
tive then at the court of ST. James, sent
cordial letter full of good wishes for
the success of the movement.
The celebrations lacked snap. however,
until the late Ambassador John Hay
took hold" He put into them all the
energy of which he was capable-and that
was a lot whenever it concerned an OBJ
ject near his heart. In 1897 not only did
Mr.. Hay lend his Official countenance"
TO the event but Mr.. Stead scored in get
ting the famous blind chaplain of Con-
gress-the late DR.. Milburn-to deliver an
address at Browning Hall on the Fourth.
This event was we'll written up in the
London papers; and. while some of them
poked fun at Mr.. Stead. most of them
regarded the affair quite seriously.
Prime Minister Was Participant.
From "roping in the American am
bassador, Stead next made a descent
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vance. 1 cent at a time, for the Christ
mas dinner. There are already $50 MEM
bers of the Goose Club who can count on
a good square meal, with real goose. for
society. a clothing club. cycling club.
rambling club. and the latest development
is the Travel Club.
BY means of the Travel Club the
working class wage earners of Wal
WORTH" or wv w VS." have been en-
parts Of Europe. When the sum of SO
each has been saved up by fifty or sixty
members tour is arranged. The ex-
penses of this tour never exceed this $40.
and yet the tourists are enabled to do
various parts of Europe in style.
Chateau for Stun Dwellers.
Last year. for instance, at the invita-
ton of Countess Renee de Montmort.
fifty women and men from the slums of
London spent a whole week at one of
the finest chateaux of Normandy. 1T
was truly a remarkable experience said
Mr.. Stead in describing this trip. I'VE
took with US working women who had
never been outside their slum cottages
and we housed them in truly palatial
surroundings placed at our disposal by
the countess. Her chateau is one of the
you can imagine the surprise and delight
of our workers when they found them
selves amid such surroundings. They
were lodged in great lofty apartments
and slept in beds dating back to medic
val times. 1t was a transition into fairy
land"
The previous year. for the same amount
Of money. the Travel Club made a reg
ular hegira to Dusseldorf. Germany, TAX
I,zI
mayor CT the city lodged and boarded
the seventy-four 'Walworth wage earn
ers'' in truly sumptuous style: they were
feted. dined, wined and 'excursioned" to
interesting points on the Rhine. This
trip would have cost not less than $3.50
a head if the trippers had had to pay
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squalor and splendor. Some of the shah
best houses have doors of teak wooc so
beautiful that they would ornament any
9Th avenue palace, and these doors open
into the meanest of shops and ware
houses. The architecture throughout is
Mohammedan, and the best-clad people
on the street are those who wear tur-
bans and gowns. Many of the Arab mer-
chants dye their boards a brick-dust red.
and I see scores of women who go about
completely covered by yellow gowns
which fall without break from their
heads to their feet. Their faces are en-
trely covered. and each girl looks out
through a little network of white cords
woven over a hole not larger than visit
ing card, and that so closely that. one
cannot see the eyes behind.
Ten Thousand Hindoos.
About one-sixth of the inhabitants of
Zanzibar come from East India. There
are more than ten thousand Hindoos and
also Kings, Parsees and Brahmans.
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upon the British cabinet and succeeded
in getting Mr. Bryce to attend one Of the
celebrations: and from that time Lon
don's Fourth of July has. so to speak.
increased and multiplied. In the various
celebrations which have been held at
Browning Hall since that time Mr.. Stead
has always been able to get some dis
tinguished person to deliver rousing
speech on 1.-The day we celebrate" Even
Asquth. the present prime minister of
England, has attended this novel cele-
bration.
1t was the present prime minister of
England. in fact. who inaugurated the
Browning settlement in 1895. Besides
those already mentioned others of note
who have spoken at Browning Hall on
1.-The Fourth have been Prof. Graham
William Mcdowell. Justin Mccarthy.
Hon. ". P. Reeves. the late Sir Walter
Besant. Henry George. jr., and many
others. Instead of the Fourth of July
being an obscure event in a still more
obscure section of London. it has begun
to assume almost international impor-
lance. Mr.. Stead is a great believer in
miracles" and he would not be sur
prised to see the Fourth become q regu-
lar British holiday in the not distant
future
Among the most enthusiastic celebrants
Of the day are the children. Walworth is
"across the river'-that is, on the south
ern side Of the Thames-and amid a popu-
lace plunged In poverty. In the neighbor-
hood of Browning Hall there are twelve
hundred people to the acre. as against
fifty-six to the acre for London as
whole. When the Fourth draws near
thousands of children flock to Browning
Hall to take part in the festivity. They
join Justify in singing American hymns.
and wave American flags just as If the
revolutionary war had been Grimm
fairy tale instead of grim reality.
Typical American Holiday.
While the Browning Hall and Settle
ment strongly appeal to Americans, being
the only place in Europe where a typical
American holiday is celebrated " gen.
une foreigners, there are other fea-
lures connected with the place which
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The British Consulate Resembles q
Fortified Castle.

everywhere. They are considered the
best made. and If our exporters would
push them they could crowd out the
poorer goods from India, England and
Germany. The other nations fight Amer
lean goods. and they do everything they
can to destroy our trade. They are study
ing the wants and tastes of the natives
and are making patterns to please them.
The most active merchants at present
are the Germans, who are selling kind
of cottons known as kangas. used as
women's dresses. A kanga is a square
of calico about two yards long by yard
and a half wide. 1t is printed in bright
colors and two kangas form a complete
dress for a woman. One goes around the
waist and another about the body under
the arms or over the shoulders. There is
a change in the fashions of these cottons
from time to time, and the women want
the new styles and colors as soon as they
come Here in Zanzibar / see some
which have patterns of Playing cards and
others which are covered with animals.
and especially lions or leopards. They
cost about 30 cents pair. L understand
there is demand for flannel kangas
would be a large sale for American kan
gas if the patterns were right.
American Goods Sold by Foreigners.
The bulk of the American goods brought
into this part of the world is through
Europeans. mere are some american
firms, but the most of the profits of our
trade go to outsiders. There is man at
Marseille named Klein who is doin.; an
enormous business in American cottons
throughout eastern Africa. He has a
branch house here and one at Mombasa.
and his agents are travelling through
Abyssinia, Somaliland, British East At
RIGA, Uganda and German East Africa.
He has his cotton made to order in Amer
lea In pieces of forty-two yards each. and
he brings a shipload of about four thou
sand tons across the ocean every year.
l met one of Klein's agents on Lake
Victoria This was Eurasian who had
just come from Bismarckburg on the
southern end of Lake Tanganyika, and
was then on his way to MOmbasa. He
had gone to Lake Tanganyika to investi-
gate the confiscation of $4,000 worth OF
ivory tusks by the Belgians.
Klein trades a great deal OF American
cottons for ivory. The elephants tusks
are carried on the heads of porters down
to the coast, or they are brought to Lake
Tanganyika and sent TO Mombasa by the
Uganda railway. The ivory in question
had been bought in German East Africa.
and the porters were taking short cut
through the Congo territory to get ii to
the coast. While on the way they were
captured. and the Belgian officials claimed
the ivory on the ground that the porters
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The Two Idols.
tsK HRS. COURTENAY BENIN

<eK IRIS. COURTENAY BENNETT. our
AVA British consurs brilliant wife inn
putes our last panic to the extravaganza
of American wives" said a New York
reporter.
Mrs. Bennett told me that she thought
American women were far worse than
American men-that the men were not
excessive at all-in their love of money.
.'She said with a smile that. SO far az
our women at least were concerned that
Shanghai museum curator had not been
very wrong when they labeled a Buddna
Heather Idol and a silver dollar
Christian Idol.
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the scent of all the liquors raised by man
and leave some to spare.
During my stay / have ridden out to
some of the plantations. Cloves come
from trees which are set out In orchards
and cultivated. At the age of six years
the trees begin to bear blossoms, and 1t
is these blossoms which form the cloves
of commerce. They are bright red In
color and are full of perfume. They are
picked when they are in full bloom and
then smoked over slow wood fires. dug
ing the smoking they turn from red to
brown. and when cured are almost black.
After they are we'll dried they are packed
up in bags. and in that shape are sent to
Europe and the United States. The Eng
fish have another Glove island. known as
Pemba. which lies little north of Fan
zibar and is governed from here. These
two islands produce more than % per
cent OF all the cloves raised in the world.
Zanzibar City.
The capital of Zanzibar is Zanzibar City.
1t is the chief port Of East Africa, foreign
goods being sent from here to the main
land and carried across to Lake flanagan
yika and other parts of the continent.
At the same time ivory, hides and the
various native products are brought here
to be shipped to Europe. SO that the place
has a great trade.
AS you approach the city from the sea
Ii makes you think or southern Europe.
The shore is lined with three-story build
ings built of stone or brick. covered with
stucco and painted in all colOrs of the
rainbow. There are blue buildings, white
buildings. green buildings and yellow
buildings, all mixed together. The town
appears twice big it is. and 1t looks
both imposing and beautiful. Right out
of the center. on the edge of the sea, rises
the sultan's palace. and farther down to
the south are the buildings of the British
consulate. which look like a white mar
BILE castle.
AS you come nearer the marble turns
70 whitewash: and the sultan's palace
dwirdles in grandeur until it looks like
one of our great seaside hotels 1t is.
In fact. a three-story building Of wood
painted yellow. with galleries running
,,Jc&i Il from S;ory - story. These gal
!aries are about twenty feet wide and
they are for all the world like hotel
pOrches. The roof is red. and. as 1t seems
10 cover a roof garden, the hotel effect is
still mere in evidence. IT is there that
the >Illtan lives with his numerous wives.
-! do not know how many dusky ladies
there are in the harem. His majesty Is a
Mohammedan and he keeps such things
20 himself. I only know that the soldiers
are always guarding the doors and that
the cannon at the entrance seemed to
frown at, me as / passed by. There is no
royalty. however about the looks of
the palace. and there is but little power
in the hands of the young man OF twenty
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From the first it departed radically from
the usual "experimentaF' type of these
undertakings. Browning settlers aimed
at fraternity and "neighborliness." AS
illustrative of this difference Of attitude
a little story might be told. A rich lady
one of the usual type of settlement work
ers, abruptly called at the house OF a
Walworth laborer one afternoon and
rapping authoritatively at the door, said
to the housewife: Good afternoon. Does
woman angrily, does yours?" And the
door was slammed in the would-be re-
formers face. 1t is owing to this some
what high handed attitude that most set.
Elements have come to grief.
The first move of the Steads in trying
to capture the hearts Of the Walworth-
ians was to give what were known as
"P S. A. meetings-that is. Pleasant
Sunday Afternoon" talks. The talks We're
On living subjects of the day, ranging
from santa alton in the home to politics
The women also were encouraged TO
meet Tuesdays. and, under the direction
of Mrs. Stead. their interest was stimu-
lated in all subjects connected with the
homes of the poor. No conventional re
ligion was exploited. but the main ldea
was to show the people that they could
help themselves. From a religious point
of view Mr. Stead takes at times a
rather startling attitude.
Civic Prayer Meetings.
In one of the agitations started by
Browning hall. in which municipal issues
were at stake, civic prayer meetings were
held every day and huge poster was
issued with the words IF Jesus were a
Walworth carpenter how would He vote
next Thursday? Let your conscience
make the answer and vote accordingly.
From the "P S. A" meetings saw
ings banks were started and the people
began "banking'' on cents week. They
now make deposits in their various say
ing institutions amounting to more than
$4,000 a year. In addition to these funds
there are what are known as goose
clubs" whereby money is saved up in ad-
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were smugglers. Klein's agent succeeded
in getting the ivory back. and ii is now
coming here to Zanzibar across country
on the heads of porters. 1t will be trans
ferred to boats al the seacoast and
brought here for shipment.
How Ivory Is Bought.
/ asked this young man to the selling
prices of ivory. He tells me that the or
binary price in the interior for tusk Of
$50 pounds Is about 12D rupees. or $40.
At Mombasa the same tusk would be
worth s4oO or $500 The ivory varies in
price according to locality. and that which
is worth Is cents a pound on Lake Tam
ganyika will sell for s2.6s a pound at the
seacoast In buying ivory of the natives
the current money is American cotton
sheeting, which is turned in at the rate
Of 10 cents a yard The same cloth sells
in Europe for about cents a yard. The
European and Indian cloths are cheaper.
of the American. Many OF these cloths
come from Bombay They are so thin
that one can see through them. The
German cloths are little better.
Our goods are known as Americana all
over East Africa. and they are the only
kind that really sell themselves. This
man Klein keeps a big stock OF Ameri-
cani at a number of interior trading sta
tons. He has a branch Office at Tabora.
which lies about midway bstween here
and Lake Tanganyika. where he has now
something like $4,000 worth Of Ameri-
cant on hand. This gives one idea OF
the extent of the trade. Indeed. the de-
mand is such that do not hesitate to adj
wise our American cotton factors 10 study
the market and to send their agents to
Africa to investigate the possibility OF
building up big business in colored cot
tons and print goods.
FRANK c.. CARPENTER.