Arizona republican., 1909-02-01
ASSOCIATION IF CHARITIES. Bisbee Organized For Sys-
 tematic AInsgiving
 A SEMI MONTHLY PAYROLL A Thing Desirable But Not So Easily Attainable-- The Difficulty of Suppressing Gasoline Local option Fight in that Place.

Bisbee, Ariz., Jan. 29.-(Special correspondence of The Republ;can.)- The Bisbee board of trade held a meeting yesterday at which many i'm portant things were taken up and disposed of. There had been talk of sending a delegation to Phoenix for the purpose of lobbying for q semi monthly pay roll on the theory that it would tend to benefit greatly the small merchant and make 1t more possible for him to compete success fully with the company source, for the reason that with a small capital he is now unable to carry the nec- essary amount of credit accounts. There is no doubt that such a meas ure would be beneficial to this camp as everything is very quiet about three weeks of the month and mer- chants and others are greatly rushed during the other week; the churches, too. and various other societies plan to have all their entertainments as near pay day as possible, which causes a congestion. However, it was suggested by Attorney O'COnnell that the higher courts of the majority of the states had held such a law un- constitutional and that it would be well to act with deliberation and to do more Investigating before appoint ing the committee. There was con- siderable discussion over the matter and it was finally settled by the ap- pointment of Judge O'Connell, Mayor Neale and E. 4. Tovrea to investi- gate the matter.
 Professor Brown, a gentleman who seeks to establish a business college at this place, was present and made a talk. Everyone expressed himself as pleased with the prospects of hay ing such an institution in our midst, but no financial aid of any kind was offered
 The ministers of the various churches, the acting commander of the Salvation Army, the secretaries of the I. M. c. A and I. W. C. A, together with three gentlemen from the board of trade, now constitute the Associated Charities of Bisbee. It will be their duty to pass on all applications for aid and inquire care fully into the standing of each appli- cant This action is a wise one and the organization can be the object of much good if rightly handled. At the present time, and for some weeks past, Bisbee has been overrun with those seeking aid and there Is little doubt that most of them were frauds.
 The recent ordinance passed by the city dads" prohibiting the use of gasoline within the city limits seems to have already become a dead letter. Saturday evening on the streets of Bisbee there were burning four sepa- rate gasoline torches, presumably after having been licensed by the proper officials. although the city council when passing the ordinance stated positively that their use would be prohibited. All over the city gas oline stoves are still in use.
 Considerable interest Is being felt in Bisbee over the return of Morris Denn, head of the Denn Arizona Michigan company, from Europe. Martin Patterson and other of the officials have frequently stated that the reopening of the Denn mines de- pended largely upon the actions of MT. Denn when he returned from