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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12
- MINOR 49,.

1t is with regret THAT the Clarks-
burg Telegram Company loses the
services of William b. Dimon, who
for the last year and a half has been
the efficient manager of the com
pany's business and publishing plant.
He resigned the position in order to
take better one, as circulation man
ager of the Philadelphia Evening
Times, Frank A. Munsey's new paper
in that city. He left Clarksburg Fri
day night for Philadelphia to take up
the duties of his new position.
Mr.. Dimon's connection with the
Daily and Weekly Telegram has been
highly satisfactory in every respect
He is a capable man possessing
marked executive ability and spleu-
did business acumen. He is also
affable and obliging and during his
career in Clarksburg made many
friends who join with the Telegram
company in expressing regret over
his departure. as we'll as the depart
ure of his estimable wife and pretty
children. All hope that he will meet
with abundant success in his new po-
sitIon Mr.. Dimon will be right at
home in Philadelphia, as he was born
and reared there and was engaged in
business in that city until he came to
Clanksburg He came to the Tele-
gram from the Philadelphia North
American, in whose business depart
ment he held responsible position
For the present, James j. Devfne,
who has been associated with Mr..
Dimon in the business management
of the Telegram, will have charge OF
the business department.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12
Why Proc1-astfnate?

The sooner the residents OF the
city settle the water question the bet
ter. The fact that drouth may be
broken does not necessarily mean
that there will never be another or
that there is no need of better water
works.
The men who served on the special
committee, which examined into the
matter, all urged early action on the
bond issue. The mayor very prop
erly insisted on an early election so
that the work might begin at the
earliest moment and be finished as
soon as possible.
The people can settle this public
question now just aS we'll as next
summer, or the next, or the summer
after that. The need OF action IS
certainly more deeply impressed now
than it would be later, when there
might be plenty of water FOR the
time being.
What good reason is there for
procrastination?
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GIasscock,s Utterances-

Governor-elect GIasscock has said
many good things before and since
his election, Of which number none
is more partinent or timely than the
remarks attributed to. him in the di-
rectfon of friendliness to old and new
business enterprises. What we need
now more than new tax laws in West
Virginia. is new railroads and the ex-
tension OF old ones; new coal mines.
mills, factories and such little eject
eras which bring wealth and employ
ment to the people within our gates.
-Parkersburg-
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According to one OF the reports
submitted to the National CunserV3 y
tion Conference at Washington q
greatest source OF waste ofsstructur-
al materials and OF money values in
this COUNTRY is that due to fres and
IS one which can be most readily re-
duced by the CONSTITUTION OF hre-re-
sistlng building materials for the in
hammable construction now so prev
alanf
The cost of fire to the country. In
Guiding not only property destroyed,
but maintenance of IRE departments,
payment of insurance premiums, pro
tectiye agencies, additional cost OF
water supplies, etc, amounted to over
1856. ABS, 800 in 1907, or about fifty
per cent. OF the total value of the
new building construction in that
year. Fourlhfths of this loss or
$685. ,OOO,0 900, is preventable waste
compared with the present European
standard of building construction and
fire losses.
A notable feature of this Are loss Is
that 2 q per cent. was due to fires ex=
tending beyond the buildings where
they originated. Such losses are the
result of infiammable constru elton,
for with brick and less infiammaDle
buildings fires are more readily con-
fined to the buildings in which they
start. 1t is even more noticeable
that only $6s,O0O. 900 OF this loss
was on brick, concrete, stone and
other slow burning construction,
while double that amount,or about
$r4S, 100000 was on frame butId-
ings. In the last 80 years the total
fire waste amounted to about four
and half billion dollars.
At reasonable estimate, probably
more than one-half the insurance,
one-fourth of the city water supply
and distribution charges. three
fourths of the fire department
charges, and three-fourths of the fire
losses. or a total of $234.192, $50 a
year may he reasonably looked for
ward to as a saving at such time as
building construction in the United
States shall become as good or bet
ter than that now found in Euro
pean coun tries.
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The Haziig OF the statesmen.

The Haziig OF the Statesmen.
Hazing is defended in the Senate
on the ground that it is custom OF
the Senate.
1t is not meant by this that the
dignfied Senator's indulge ia, boyish
FRANKS and bodily violence, but that
the new members are compelled to
take back seats and let the states
men old in service run the machinery
of legislation and do all the talking.
There Is a measure OF justice in
the criticism, ana the protest is time
1y, but the protestants are not with
out some measure of blame. They
will always have the back seats I'M
Eaess. they bestir themselves and fight
their own battles.
Aggressive young statesmanship
has broken down some of the barr
rlers of precedent in times past and
it can do so again.
Mollycodd1es never break anything
nor do they often make anything.
Connellsville Courier.
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IIE DRUM D

:aess
one 4 MINER dreamed &
dream. and dreaming dreamed
ne died
And sfF64 ghtWay % the psarly gate
his sin-st stained spirit hted
And there before the saints he stood
with downcast head and low,
NY records presty rank, r ne said;
II gness I inbound for below:
I'VE smoked lot and drank q lot
confess It 81 II must;
And dfrted, too-and then besides. Q
sorrowl how I've cussed.
The good Saint Peter looked at him
with kindly. smiling eyes,
But shook his head, Don't ask, said
he, "a mansion in the skies. =
The drummer bowed, and in this
strain the aged saint began:
You've gotten up at a. M, and
chased the train mile
Amid the train crews jibes and Jeers
Astounding all the while;
And then you've found as usual the
time-card's played Its tricks,
You we chased the wrong train once
again and your goes out at g.
You've taken some gay merchant out
and spent ten or more,
And then he calmly says he's bought
his goods the day before.
You've spent your life at bad hotels,
and eaten still worse meals.
with 'oleo and waiter girls all run
down at the heels.
You've had your letters sent astray,
your trunks have. wandered, too;
And with porters. clerks and baggage
men you're in constant stew.
And once month, more aftener two,
you get to see your wife.
Now tell me is it true?''
1T is replied the drummer. as he
took his hat to go.
.''Ah, we'll" said good Saint Peter,
as he opened the portal wide;
II am very glad to meet you. sir.
Just Kindly step inside
We will try to make you happy hero
wen do the best we can:
You've served your time in hell, for
you have been a travelling man. !"
w. N. MENTz.
Clarksburg, w. Va.
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pncrile AttocIxs.

Mischevious insinuations as tt
what will become of the money Of
the bond issue, If carried, constitute
about as little business as a news
paper can be engaged in.
Those who make such should MOI
forget some nice things they have
said about members of the proposed
water works commission. For In
stance, Charles NJ. Hart formerly
served In the council and he was re-
garded as the watchdog OF the city
treasury by those politically opposed
to him. Again, Mr.. Hart has been
honored by the people OF the county
by being elected and reelected a
member of the state legislature. The
people certainly have confidence in
his integrity. The mere fact that the
Board of Trade and the city council
selected him as one proper to serve
on the water commission ought not
to be the cause of an attack on his
character.
There has been 10 charge before
that William B. Osborne is not an
honest man. He has clean bust
ness record and is one of the city's
leading business men. The nature
of his business experience has been
SO large LnaL II Is certainty UNJUST -
him to intimate that an opportunity
to serve the city as member of the
water commission would tempt him
TO cast aside a long and honora bla
business career and become a graft
era thief.
Edward ]. Wood was elected may
or of the city by the majority of the
people, and some of those who are
now casting aspersions upon his hon
esty in business or public service
heartily supported him. There may
properly be differences on policy but
there has not been until the last few
days any question as to his honesty.
Those who raise the question are
not only inconsistent but they mako
a charge that even Mr. Woods po-
litical enemies bitterly resent.
The two members of the city coun-I
ell selected to serve on the commits
sion, II the bond issue carries, are
men who have not been found squan-I
dertng the city moneys nor have
they been appropriating them to their
own use. While they have been
members of the council the city float
ing debt has been largely reduced uni
til now it is practically wiped out of
existence. Their public course hasI
not entitled them to be held up toI
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12
Sent TO JAIL
For Three Days is One Man
Convicted of Drunken
ness in City Court.

Convicted of drunkenness, David
Crawley was sent 20 jail for three
days in default OF the payment of a
three dollar fine by Mayor Edward j.
Wood at the regular session of po-
lice court this morning.
Frank James was acquitted of E.
charge of disorderIy conduct last
night at the swager saloon
j. johnson was fined $3.50 for
drunkenness and released upon pay
ment of the amount.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12

tiIe 1lie eve ~ Ec0ttlfr
81 int hon are ma spleIy
10 preJ1dfee the opIe asains
eat ana urgent public improE
1ent but such attach on the per-
Gonnei Of tie lr5pq Cd comm on
are 50 puerfie that the citizens Of
ClaflsbSlrg ara cersliIlly FAT too In
telHgent to permit them to make
fools OF them.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12
Rnles d q Dnnning.

This paper Observes a rule e made
itself about dunning It's subscribers
through the paper. The columns of
The Herald are filled each week
with as high class of reading matter
as may be found in the ordinary one
horse weekly paper. The people
appreciate this service by ordering
the paper and paying for it.-salem
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12

The West NiTe,I Man viii be more
Or less 1T the mercy of It's adverse Ffes
for the next two weeks as the meE-
chants are making very heavy de-
4nands ON It's space for advertising
tb6ir Christina goods. However,
We won bs imposed on, remember
mat, IL We have to issue a supple
ment. eairmont West Yirginian.
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Oyerlooked.

A fifty million dollar spinster has
just died in New York in. her nine
ties. There must he some heartaches
over this news in noble European
families who missed such prize
Baltimore American.
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WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY

Chiiton's Withdrawling.

The Charleston Gazette should is
use special edition and devote 1t
solely to the withdrawal Of w. p.
Chiffon from politics to devote his
time to the preclce of law. The SER
ial has been running daily for the
past three weeks.=Fayette Journal.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12

Ninth street IS the tragedy street
of this city. There have been two
murders and three attempted sui
cides on this street besides a number
OF Cutting ferapes during the past
five years. AfoundsviIle Herald
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12
Annnnl Horror.

The meeting of the national law
makers brings around one horror.
The annual jokes about the Con-
gressfonal Record reappear in all
their ghost1y array.-Parkersbu
State journal.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12

There should be no politics In con-
nectIon with the proposed bond is
sue, but when the peoples interests
are at stake, only cool and calm
Judgment should NE exercised
Daily News.
Then why not practice what you
preach?
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12
Hn! Ha!

Grafton is to get a fine new pas
senger station Parkersburg gets
the laugh. Parkersburg Sentinel.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12

Another of the regular semi
monthly testimonials OF Clarksburg's
industrial activity was given today
in the distribution of $4,000 to the
employees of the big sheet and tin
plate industry in eastern Clarksburg.
1t is a testimonial OF a most sub
stantial character as it is felt in all
channels of business and trade in
the city. All Clarksburgers are glad
and thankful that the city has this
big plant.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12

no more the SOLID South says
Prestdent-elect TAFT. mo more the
liquid South" say the Prohibition pa
pers. Just where does the South get
off?-New York Mail.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12

As the Charleston Mail says it is
making preparations to congratulate
the next internal revenue collector
in this State, it is to be inferred that
that official is to be given a great
send or. But just how the prepared
article would suit another than the
one the Mail may think will be APP
pointed is not explained. A compli-
mentary paragraph for one man
sometimes does nor suit another.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12
HOLIDAY VACATION.

The close OF next week will mark
the Christmas vacation at Broaddus.
Faculty and student body Will spend
the holidays At home.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-12
Ibai N,

ar etta DIS Ell man m u q en-
DAVIS are II IA 4 healti Cor
has been "a session for
day ana they ave not been heard
ffoIl Iniont iV'n. News
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on. ForRet n,

Our esteemed contemporary, the
Congressional Record, will now re-
sumo publication.-Ch Charleston Ga
zette.
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"A Evenlnr Echo.

The best government Is where the
people obey the magistrates and the
magistrates the laws.-solon.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-18
BUILDING PERMITS.
PERMITS.

PERMITS.
Durand & Co. 40 Franklin street, bi-
cycle she'd, frame, $50.
E. Vanderhoof. PSI Broad street, al
terations, dwelling, frame, $95.
F.. w. Mum & Co, n. j. r.. X. ave-
nue. and oliver street, wagon shed,
frame, $500.
Bertha Cochrane, 266 South Sixth
street, dwelling, frame, $1,000.
]. c. Legschwick, 500 Fifteenth ave-
nue.. alteration, dwelling, frame. SIS.
John Venters, IL Vincent street, alter
alton dwelling, frame, $40.
Thomas A.. Sandford, 345-S41 Broad
street. alteration, store and dwelling,
$500.
standard Leather Co, so-s4 Delaney
street. factory, brick, $4,000.
James Sapienzo, 1913 South Orange
avenue, store and dwelling, frame, So
900.
George Schierer. jr, CAS- South
Eiehteenth street. alteration. store,
frame, 800.
Garrett Downing, 45 Elliot street. alter
atoms, store. frame, 500.
NJ. Deterlie, 80 Ann street, alterations
dwelling. frame, $780,
Asphalt Flint ROonnS 70, Ion w"
Jersey Railroad avenue, shed, frame
sa5.
Laura c. Hill. 591 Clifton avenue
| dwelling. frame, $4,000.
Feibleman & Lehman. 226-22s HalseS
street. garage, brick. $4,000.
Newark Fire Insurance Company
741-743 Broad street, alteration, once
brick. A,271.|
Amos H.. Van Horn. 10 Market street
alteration. store, brick, $4,000.
Matt Pfeifer. 50 Magazine street. al
teration. dwelling. frame, 500.
Sam Sugaman 2S2 Orange street, al
teration. store. brick. 500.
Margaret Reilly. Chester avenue an.
Hinsdale place, dwelling, frame, $4,000
Morris Groth. 5s Mead street, dwell
ing, frame, $3.50.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-18
CONTRACTS FILED.

These contracts have been filed in
the County Clerks office:
Saint Venanteis. owner. with l..
Noeck, contractor. plumbing, Sl.43O;
Henry street, Orange, Same owner,
with j. Nelson, jr,, contractor, mason
81. 1911; same premises. Same owner
xith*A. Bitterle. contractor. carpenter,
81, $50, same premises.
G. Allen owner. with |. LANG. con
tractor, thing, $500; 81 Harrison street
East orange. Same owner, with Bucco
BROTHERS. contractor, carpenter, $500;
same premises.
s. and A. Bovosa. owners, with f
Della, contractor, erect building, s1,46li
sanford street, East Orange.
Standard Leather Company, owner
with T.. Berla. contractor. plumbing
s1,5ss; Delaney street. Same owner
with r. KiIgus, contractor, carpenter
work, 81, 562; same premises.
8. G. Memory, owner, with H. w
Hoffman. contractor. plumbing, $500
Roosevelt Park. Maplewood. Same
owner with a. Shells. contractor. car
penter work, M,92b: same premises.
z u. Vanderbilt. owner. with W
Johnston, contractor. erection building
1851; South Clinton street. East Or
anae.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-18
TENEMENT HOUSE COMMITS.
SION REPORT.

Plans approved by the Board oil
Tenement House Supervision for the
week ending July II. 1905:
NEWARK.
Isaac Schwart, 80 Jones street, New
ark. N. j., one three-story frame, al
teration, $500. Joseph Sirritella, PA
Drift street, one three-story frame, al
terations. $1,000. Sadie Pottes, 35o New
street, one three-story frame, altera-
lions, $3.50. A. Kaufer, 43-45 South Or
ange avenue one three-story frame,
alteration, "a, 900. Trinity Construction
Company, 1872, 1874. 1876, 1873, 140, 14l, 14S,
las and 147 Ridge street, ten three
story frame, SAC, 600. F. Nadel. 149-lol
South Sixth street, one three-story
frame, $4,000.
CLIFTON.
Augusta Costantin. north side Lake
avenue, $50 West Parker venue, one
three-story brick, $4,000.
ELIZABETH.
Frank Kriotek, AZ Bayway, n
three-story brick, $4,000. C. May Hol-
lister, southwest corner Rosehill and
De Hart places, one four-story frame,
alteration, $500. Jacob Breen, Cos
Elizabeth avenue, one three-story brick,
alteration. $500.
WEST NEW YORK.
Angelo Monaco. south side Fourteenth
street. east of Bergenline avenue, one
three-story brick. $4,000.
NORTH BERGEN.
Maria Desantis, 1855 Hudson Poule-
ward, one three-story brick, alteration,
S4eO.
PASSAIC.
John Baker, AZ Monroe street, one
three-story brick. alteration. $4,000.
Leonard Hooyman, southwest corner
Hope avenue and Van Buren, street,
one two-story frame. $4,000. Philip
Richmond. 167-169 Fourth street. one
three-story frame. alteration, $500.
JERSEY CITY.
W. r. & II. Ford, 450 Bergen avenue
one two-story frame, alteration, $4,000
Bernhard K~lingenstein, 176 Carobridge
avenue, one two-story brick, alteration,
81, 500.
EDGEWATER. 90
Daniel F. Murphy, River road, near
George road, one three-story brick,
SO, 900.
WEST HOBOKEN.
August Costa, southwest corner Ma
lone street and Herrigan avenue, one
three-story frame. $4,000.
HOBOKEN.
NJ. Romano, 500 Madison street. one
fve-story brick, alteration, $1,000. Louis
Bahr estate, 222 Bloomfield street, one
four-story brick, alteration. $3.50.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-18
THE MUSIC.HATER
AND WHAT HE MISSES.

What a puzzle music must be to those
unfortunate people, stricken with spirit
ual cecity, to whom the art is no more
han so much sound and fury, signify
ing nothing. They know that to others
it constitutes a whole world of ex-
perience, yet are themselves excluded
from that world by an insuperable bar
rier. They must take it on faith, as the
color-blind must take the rainbow n
the sunset.
If they are honest with themselves,
they will admit and lament this defect
of sense, accepting the unavoidable,
gazing wistfully at the walls that sep
arate them from a realm of whose
glories they know from trustworthy re-
port, but into which they may not
enter. Sometimes they are not honest
with themselves, averring the very ex-
istence of the realm TO be a fable, and
those who claim its franchise to be self
deluded. finding realities in what are
but vain imaginings. They allow music
TO be sound more or less agreeable. but
they stoutly deny, although in the face
of an overwhelming mass of testimony,
that it has any spiritual meaning.
The province of music is the entire
emotional and spiritual life and the in
~tellect, although a necessary philo-
sophical concept, is no more to be
caught by itself than those equally
necessary distractions. the perfect PEN
dulum and the economic man. Science
comes nearest to being pure when it
takes the mathematics form, but we
cannot forget Kepler's spiritual exalta
ton in contemplation of his laws of
planetary motion and W. may also
recall what Abt Vogler thought about
the whole matter;
THE rest may reason and welcome
'Tis we musicians know"
What are the substantials of life" ~
Science is certainly one of them, bu
there are at least three others-art,
etchics and religion. And If we allow
that the one is only here N there
touched With emotion. the other three
are surely suffused with 1t through and
through. And the relation of music to
all three of them as surely needs nc
argument in its proof. For music is
itself an art. it Is a potent influence
upon character. and it Is of the very
essence of religion.
But being as much more than sound
as poetry is more than words printed
in black ink upon white paper. tht
character of music as an art Is beyond
cavil, and any lkening of its effect t.
that of food upon the palate is SUI
premely ridiculous. There are many
indeed. who would go so far as to cal
1t the highest of the arts. holding With
Pater that every other art constantly
aspires toward the condition Of music.
which. Is "the true type or measure .
perfected srt."-The Dial.