The Washington herald., 1909-01-16
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four and one-half miles. have not the
figures showing what Berlin pays its
patroImen, bat Il Is not more than $40
a year. That allows the city 70 get along
with an annual expenditure Of S1,746.0o0
Tor its police fund. paying fewer men
less wages than Chicago does. while our
cost for police the past year reached
nearly $4,000
Take the item OF street lighting. clean
ing and sprinkling. n Berlin this
amounts 10 s1,577e90 In Chicago street
cleaning alone cost Us last year some
thing Ike 100000. although we could
probably have done the same work for
500 90 had the wage scale been the same
in Chicago as ii Germany Our street
lighting cost Us as much more
Give Us an area Of twenty-four and
one-haIf square miles. the streets
all paved and the lighting plant
completed, and the same scale OF wages
as Berlin has. and we viii promise to
keep the streets better lighted and
cleaned for $161.050 a year than Ber-
Inns area"
Discussing the disappearance. OF TIRE
American merchant marine from the sea,
Charles H White. OF New York. who IS
at the Arlington. and IS interested in The
freight-carTyiag trade, said last night
that to-day. with all our vast wealth. our
unlimited resources, our mighty CON-
merce. we have I50oe0 less tons Of ship
ping engaged II our oversee trade than
We had in the early infancy Of the re-
public
IN only one port IN al the United
States is there a greater tonnage OF our
foreign trade carried n American yes
sells than IN foreign vessels continued
Mr. White. and that is IN Puget Sound.
We are spending millions each year in
the construction Of naval vessels. and
when finished We viii have 10 men 70
nan them. We are spending millions 70
improve our herbors 20 accommodate
foreign ships. We are spending millions
10 build the Panama Canal. and when l.
IS finished IL VIII be tTaversed almost en-
tire!y by the ships % other nations.
Our trade IS at the mercy of foreign
combines and trusts that discriminate
against Us. We are not getting our fair
share OF the rapidly developing trade IN
South America and the Orient. What
IS the cause OF those c0udiuons2
These questions can be answered in a
simple nlanEer-higher wages paid in this
country and subsidies paid by other coun-
tries This tells the whole story
Tt costs from - 20 100 per cent more 70
build a ship n this country than 70 build
II in a foreign country. II costs from .
10 - per cent more 70 operate an Amer
lean ship than a foreign ship This a6-
ditiOnal cost in construction and in opera
ton IS almost entirely due 10 the high
price OF labor in this country
IN addition 10 the increased labor cost
the American ship is handicapped BY the
payment Of heavy subsidies BY foreign IA
tons There is not q frst-Class foreign
vessel IN the world to-day engaged IN the
deep-sea commerce that does not direct
" OF indirectly receive a subsidy from
some government"
Clans were the salvation OF the early
settlers" said Samuel J. Fletcher. OF
Boston. who Is at ire Ebbitt. Many a
man VINO boasts a Pilgrim or q Puritan
ancestor. continued AIr. Fletcher, who
is interested IN clam farming himself,
.-or even & Mayfower descent, owes his
present day existence 10 clans Clans
saved the early settlers from starving 70
death on more than one occasion
Elder Brewster. q Plymouth colony.
on a starvation diet Ike his fellows. used
10 gracefully bow his head over his lisa
OF clans and give thanks 70 the A.
mighty. who had given them 70 suck
OF the abundance o. the seas and OF the
treasures hid in the sands
"a number OF the rivers Of Nzssa-
chusetts offer desirable fats for clam
farms. a few offer good fats for quahcS
farms. The delicious qUahogs 60 roc
grow as fast as the clans. but they com
mand g higher price in tie market TIE
clam farmer has TO protect his farm from
intruders. Just as he does his orchard
This necessarily requires that he OWL, O.
lease. fats. so that he may have full
control OF them
While cultivated clans are the modern
demand, yet plain clans have been good
enough for New Englsnders for centuries
The Indians ate clans, and then turned
the clamsheils into money. or wampUnl-
The big piles OF shells at some points %
the Massachusetts coast suggest that the
red men once enjoyed cl9mbakes-
L is hard 70 have q number or clocks
strike together. according TO Ernest H
Guenther. Of Pittsburg, Pa. who IS IN
terested in the manufacture Of timepieces
and Is at the National
You see" he said. some clocks are
arranged to strike half a minute before
the hour. some a quarter OF a minute
before. others q few seconds after. and
so on. Now. Il I regulate them to sJTik5
at the same instant, they WI not be IN
agreement IN point Of actual time and
that IS really a more important consid-
Grafton
'Of course If there are a great many
clocks in the house II Is likely that sew
eral viii happen 20 strike together For
there IS one house which has
twenty clocks. and one OF our men looks
after them. OF these, five or six strike n
unison. and the others all within a min
ute. excepting one. He has orders 70
keep nineteen Of the clocks al exactly
the correct time. but the little jeweled
timepiece IN the bedroom OF the mistress
Of the house is 70 be kept always three
minutes fast.
NJ Ac NtrS tltA 80 A+GA a. tt-~ 49,
ness OF winding clocks and seeing that
they keep time. but he makes fair liv-
ing at t. The horse I Just spoke OF IS
an especially profitable one. OF course,
having so many clocks. They pay him
SEQ a year for his attendance there, which
IS given weekly.
Alfred Walter Won Heymel, OF Bremen,
Germany. young business man Of that
Hanse Stadt. discussing the significance
OF Bremen. said that that city was the
first port OF the continent that under
took TO establish a regular steamship
service with the United States.
From the small beginning in 1871 con-
tinued the reserve army officer. who is
At the Shoreham. 1t has constantly IN
creased its shipping and trade until. dur