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Blue-grass blade., 1909-10-17
Some Ministerial Anarchists

of beans, ham sandwiches and other articles of food if you
get drink of beer Sunday they would howl them
selves hoase the immoral and percous where
the difference in the offenses? l from the
standpoint of law and order Some newspaper discussion has
followed this of the minister's and the Catholics have in
tended remark they glad their separated brethren
waking up the fact that education without religious training
is resulting in the formation of clever criminals the multiplied
of reformaOres and to get religious education they
declare there but to establish schools
the Catholics have DONE join the Catholics in their de-
mand that the school funds be equtaby shared for secular
purposes only with anybody which fulfill carefully
conditions the satisfaction of the government leaving the
question what doctrine lack of doctrine is taught
addition to the bodies in control of said schools.
But, until the law changed only the first plan be
legally worked for that purpose So Professionals schools
they read the bible and nst religious into
children let them have parOchal schools and keep their
hands off the constitution of California But why the
active forces Of piestcraf anxious the bible into
secular schools? 1t is not because crime the increase,
but because Christianity all its forms needs bracng up with
every influence that be used utilized If the Catholic
claim that crime caused by lack of religious instruction
true, there would be very few Catholics in penentas
for Catholic stuffed repeon with their brand of
gon Yet it does keep them out and their numbers therein
testify loudly to the falsity of such claim.
With nation where twohrds Of the people have
nection with churches and make profession Of Christianity
behold this fact the great majority of criminals
believers in the Christian religion. And that fact makes
necessary have chapans in these institutions find
them there reading bible without opposition; the State
gives another chance try their spiritual forces their
fellow Christians who went wrong in spite of the bible
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-24
Woman Dies Preparing
 Gifts for the Poor

Greenwich, Dec. 24.-Overwork in preparing Christmas gifts for the poor children of Mianus brought on an acute attack of a long standing trouble and caused the death of Mrs. Stella Allyn. wife of Charles B. Allyn, manager of the Mianus Motor Works yesterday.
 An~her life Mrs. Allyn, who is the daughter of the late Rev. Samuel w. Brown. of Coventry. Conn.,. and a sis< ter of Ray Brown, art manager of Everybody's Magazine. had been prominent in charitable work
 Several years ago she led in the movement to start the Chi,dren's Home in Stamford. and as a beginning took many destitute boys and girls into her own home and cared for them as for her own children For the last ten years in Mianus. she has been mother of motherless children and a friend of the needy.
 During the last few weeks she has been busy in. connection with the cas- tern branch of the United Workers, of which society she was an officer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-24
Baby ShOplifter is
 Arrested Third Time

St. Louis. Md, Dec. 24.-An eight year old girl is held by the police as "the baby shoplifter," She is Annie Pavlinsky. daughter of Frank Pavlin- sky. ..- --. ---
 She has been arrested three times for theft; has spent two weeks in the Industrial school and escaped; has run away from home dozens of times, and makes a practice of slipping out of bed after her family Is asleep and pilfer- ing money from her father and her big brother.
 She was found asleep in a hallway yesterday scantily clad and blue with cold. She mad run away from home on Tuesday after rifling her brothers pockets of $1.50.
 Annie's first exploit was robbing a notion store of 50 cents worth of toys. Two weeks later on July 29, she en- tered a grocery store, concealed her self under a counter and stole SIS from the grocer's till Her Investments in candy and toys caused suspicion; she was arrested again and was sentenced to the Industrial school.
 Fourteen days later, ragged, but well she reappeared at home, having es- caped
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-24

less an overshadowfng evil such as war is, and has been
 Signs are not lacking that a crisis is near. The Christmas ideal has done its work slowly. but surely. Just as the force that impels Vesuvius long assemblies silently. almost with out warning. to burst at the appro- priate instant into a cyclone of en- EUfing lava, so may the doctrine of peace upon earth" engulf in one enormous moment the wrongs 1t is destined to destroy. A ship long building is launched in a brief space. The transition from slavery to free dom was but the instant in which Abraham Lincoln signed his name.
 Christmas is doing its perfect work. It is the foe of everything that is not just Much mote ancient wong will be swept away than the trade of war; even the sweat shop. the white death. and the various means by which man still shows his inhumanity to man.
 The Farmer advises the people of Bridgeport to. make their Christmas this year a real one, be- cause this Christmas marks the high est point yet reached in the battle a gainst social injustice.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-24
THESE TIDINGS BARK NE
 I HOW DISTANT Is THE GOAL?

Peace on earth Good will to men, For eighteen centuries these two brief sentences have stood for the meaning of Christmas During all this period the spiral movement Of progress among the nations has been toward no less a goal But how dis tant is the goal? The peoples are armed camps. The natives multiply their ships The underwater has been conquered to make killing more cer- tain The subordination of the air is chiefly written of from the stand point of the additional means that are afforded to rain death from man upon man. There are those given to babbling and childish things who argue that this very multiplication of instruments of annihilation will pro- duce its own end As we'll urge that the multiplication of railways will destroy transportation as assert that to breed innumerable men to the trade of killing will ultimately stop the trade
 How near is peace? How distant is universal good will? Nearer per haps than the champions of peace by armed men and Dreadnoughts have supposed
 Upon Christmas day men cease the trade war. They become for one day as they would desire to be on all days The great heart of Democracy throbs for 24 hours with a pulse that vfbrates throughout the universe. and Democracy makes against cannon. and the panoplies of slaughter Dem ocracy is for peace and against dis order Democracy is the force of public opinion and public opinion is a power against which. in the long run, no evil thing can continue, much
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-24
THE $3,0o0,00o
 SEWAGE SCHEME

The demand for an improved sew ase system must be met within q few wears Undoubtedly the sewers or bridgeport have been constructed up on 2 plan that is more. rather than l..ss. haphazard. There gre localities where. immediate relief 1s perhaps reeded. There is need for q com ,..shensive scheme under which sew ..rs hereafter constructed may he put dcu-n sss q part or necessary whole True an ,sffort in this direction has l.ssn made Reference is to the so led S3.OOO.OOO project recommend ed to the Sewage Commission by krn of distinguished engineers. who t,-,ve. however failed to appreciate the conditions in this city, or meet them
 rne project as suggested by the en- .-.risers is unsatisfactory in two ways !. is extraordinarily costly. It pro poses to take the sewage out of the harbo7- without taking it out of Long Island Sound altogether.
 A great part of the unnecessary cost grows out Sof the proposition to carry -rhe sewase through an enormous pipe as-t1vo or three miles into the Sound Pbv use of powerful pumps Nor is 1.-the cost all stated The engineers REnpIy that there will be damases to bav to owners of oyster beds if the
 wage is transported to and spread
 Ter them But the engineers ap-
 kr to believe that these damages
 be slight There is. however,
 ry-reason to believe that the sums
 In would have to be paid upon
 account would be very large;
 beas much as if not more than,
 st of the system itself.
 1t to pay for damage done to oy-
 beds presupposes the destruction
 the beds, and this means the de- truction in whole, or in part, of an Enterprise which furnishes labor for many men, profits to important busi- ness concerns. and trade for the mer- chants of the city.
 Surely the necessity should be strong to warrant such expenditure of public funds and such injury to pri- | vate property
 Upon the face of the report of the | engineers it appears that this ex- | pense, destruction and waste is un- rsecessarR The engineers consider in some degree the purifying power of water At present the sewage, before | it reaches the oyster beds, is so far renovated by the chemical action of | nature forces that it does no injury. If the Chicago drainage canal has fiowage enough to take the sewage of Chicago in a sanitary way, then the | fiowage of the Pequonnock river is more than ample to take the sewage of Bridgeport As to the first the en- ssineers declare the sufficiency of the | canal How they are able to deny the efficiency of the river must remain a mystery to the lay mind
 There is no reason why the sewage | of Bridgeport cannot flow into the harbor. under proper conditions for hundred years to come. But if some body is determined to spend $3.0OO,- O00 on a sewer scheme the money | might better be spent on some sys- tenn that will take the sewage out of | both the river and the sound. An in- land filtration system would be cheap CT in the long run than the method proposed to the sewage commission, but. happily, not recommended by it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-24
BIRMINGHAM FURNISHES
 MONEY FOR JEWEL HINT

Superintendent Birmingham fur- nished the funds necessary to take a man to Hartford today to identify the jewels now in possession of the Hart ford police. The jewels were found on the persons Of two young men ar rested in Hartford, Tuesday evening. They are thought to have been stolen from the home of Mrs. Michael Car roll of 204 Maplewood avenue, Tues day afternoon
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-24

No matter what you want try the Farmer Want Col ' nnn
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-24
SCARLET FEVER IN GREENWICH

Attorney George F. Hill. who is the county health officer for Fairfield county went to Greenwich yesterday to look over the scarlet fever situa- tion in that place. The disease seems to have got away from" the local health officer, in that town. but Mir Hill said he was satisfied everything possible had been done.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-24
PILES CURED IN TO IA DAYS

PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of Itching. Blind. Bleed- ing or Protruding Piles in $ to 14 days or money refunded. soc.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-23
TEETH PULLERS
IN CONVENTION

BERLIN, Aug. 23.-Dentists
from all parts of the civilized
world gathered today in the
stately halls of the reichstag
buildings when the fifth conven-
tion of the International Dental
congress was called to order. The
dentists were welcomed by repre-
sentatives of Kaiser Wilhelm on
behalf of the nation.
During the week meetings will
be held every day. Among the
matters to be discussed are the
following:
1. The establishment of mu-
nicipal dental hospitals for chill
dren; is an international congress
necessary today in the interest of
public health?
2. 1t is the real means of COM
batting infectious diseases, and
particularly tuberculosis.
3. For the improvement of the
health of the people, the military
dentist must follow the school
dentist.
4. Dental care must be intro
duced into infirmaries, hospitals,
orphan asylums and homes for the
deaf and dumb.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-23
33 SHIPS s
SINK A 7
SEA
Vessels Go Down During
Terrific Storms-All
On Board Reported
To Have Been
Drowned
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

(By United Press Leased Wire. J
LONDON, Aug. 23.-The entire
crew, numbering 20, of the Span
ish steamer Ushant, was drowned
today when the vessel went down
off the Brittany coast i'm terrific
storm, according to dispatches
just received here.
The same storm is reported 10
have wrecked, the Dutch windjam-
mer WotilIie, off the Cape Verde
islands, and all the members of
her crew also are reported to have
gone down with the vessel.
At the same time a message was
received stating that the French
steamer Menarandra had gone
down, and that all of its crew and
passengers were lost. The num-
Der of passengers aboard the ves-
sci is not known.
The Menarandra is believed TO
have been lost between Madagas-
car and Cape Town in the same
storm that recently wrecked the
Waratah.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-23
Four Balloonists
Fall Into River
Aeronauts Miraculously Escape Death When Big
Gas Bag Is Wrecked and Sinks Into the Seine
Terrified Aviators Succeed in Swimming Ashore
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
PARIS, Aug. 23.-With three
passengers on board, in addition
to the pilot, NJ. Capazza, the new
dirigible balloon Clement-Bayard,
was wrecked in net work of tele-
graph wires today, and the pas
sengers were precipitated into the
Seine. The big aerial craft sank
in mid stream where it struck
after crashing through the wires
and a clump of willows. No lives
were lost.
Earlier in the day the ascent
was made and the dirigible was
headed toward London, where the
aeronauts expected to descend be-
fore nightfall. They had flown
but a short distance before the
winds drove the big gas bag into
the telegraph wires.
Beyond control the airship
crashed downward into a clump of
willows which caught in the cloth
and tore the bag open. Then the
dirigible lunged into the Seine and
threw it's terrified passengers into
the river. All succeeded in SWIM
ming ashore while the airship
sank to the bottom.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-23
GE I MEN
FOR III.
LINE
THREE CONDUCTORS AND AN
ENGINEER APPLY FOR AND
TAKE EXAMINATION TO RUN
TRAINS INTO TACOMA.

That the Hartman lines are
preparing to send trains into Ia
coma over the Northern Pacific
tracks was made apparent last
week when three conductors and
one engineer from the Southern
Pacific applied for and took the
examination that would entitle
them to run trains over the line of
the Northern Pacific.
1t is necessary for the Harri-
man men to pass an examination
on Northern Pacific rules before
they can operate trains over the
tracks between Portland and Ia
coma because those trains will be
under the control of Northern Pa
cific train dispatchers.
AS soon as terminal arrival and
departing time from Portland and
Tacoma is agreed upon by the
heads of the various lines inter
ested, the figures will be furnish
ed : operating officials of the
fSorthern Pacific and a schedule
for railroad employees will then
be made up. 1t will take two
weeks to get up the employees
time schedule after the time that
trains shall arrive and depart
from terminals is agreed upon.
There IS little likelihood that
trains from the Hartman lines
will be coming into Tacoma much
before September 1, according to
railroad men who are watching
the game.
Everything is now in shape for
the beginning of work on the new
depot for the Hill interests. The
excavation has been practically
finished nd the steam shovels
have now moved over towards
Twenty-first street, where an ap-
proach to the waterfront is to oe
terraced. Workmen will start at
once laying the foundation for the
passenger station.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-23
Co.
Opens Division
Offices Here
Five Head Officials of
Coast Division With
Their Subordinates
Transferred to
Tacoma

For greater convenience in op-
Grating trains over the Milwaukee
from the Sound, the entire operat-
ing staff of the coast division was
transferred from Seattle to Taco
ma today.
This is a move that has been
contemplated for some time as V
was found that trains could not
le operated advantageously from
Seattle. The transfer was delay
ed for some time because suitable
quarters for the officials could not
be had until the old Tacoma East
ern depot was thoroughly remod-
eled.
Five Heads of Departments.
/ Today there are five heads oi
departments and their assistants
in Tacoma who up to Saturday is
sued their orders from Seattle
They are:
Devision Superintendent p. c.
Hart.
Master Mechanic F. Rusch.
Trainmaster F. e. Willard.
Train Dispatcher L. G. Fowler.
Roadmaster j. Henry.
Force of Thirty.
Each of those officials brings
a corps of office assistants with
him, SO that nearly 80 men and
women who were drawing wages
and making their homes In Seattle
last Saturday are today citizens ,f
Tacoma.
Officials and employees of the
road are getting a taste of pioneer
lrailroading today. To reach any
of the offices 1t is necessary 70
walk plank and when you do get
to your destination there Is some
confusion. Everything is new so
far. The carpenters have not
started their work and the paint
ers are yet to have their inning.
1t Is going to be uncomfortable for
awhile. but so far no one seems
to mind 1t.
Superintendent Hart is located
at the east end of the building on
the ground floor. Adjoining his
office is that of the train dispatch.
er. Upstairs Trainmaster Willard
has the office at the east end oil
the building. Next to him comes
the telegraph Office, the roadmas-
ter's office and the master me-
chanic in the order named.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-23
FACES CHARGE OF
SW|NDL|NG

NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-Donald
Presch, the curb broker, accused
Of swindling Augustus Heinze, the
copper magnate, out of $4,000 by
selling stocks belonging to Heinze,
Today pleaded not guilty to the
charge placed against him when
he appeared in court for his pre-
liminary hearing.
The bonds of $4,000 were con-
tinued, and as his attorneys have
thus far been unable to raise the
required amount, the broker was
returned to the Tombs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-23
Chelan County Ranchers
in Desperate Conflict
With Immense Fire
In Forest-Homes
Threatened

(By United Press Leased Wire. J
WENATCHEE, Aug. 23.-
Ranchers in the vicinity of
Twenty-five-Mile creek, in Che
Ian county, are fighting for their
lives today against great forest
fire which has been raging in the
Washington reserve since last FRI
day.
Owing to the inaceessibility of
the region attacked by flames,
only meager details are obtain
able. these tending to show that
the homes and crops of the ranch
ers are In danger.
(. Started In Camp Fire.
While the fire Is eating its way
through the reservation, the for
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-23

ssDo we have our troubles?"
Miss Edna Morris, the chief op-
orator at the Sunset company's
building, corner of e and Elev-
enth streets, drew long breath,
tried to speak, shut her eyes, then
said.
'sSee here, Mister Man, sit in at
this switch board for a while and
hear what you hear. You move
that plug around anywhere you
want to. 1t plugs in on any line.
You can tell there what the oper-
ators are saying to the subscribers,
and what they're saying back"
1t was an interesting and con-
vincing demonstration.
Number, please?"
.Nn-oreLgrr-ty-one."
"What was that, again?"
s'Good- heavens, why don't you
listen? said MAIN 4-9-THIRTY-
ONE. DID YOU HEAR THAT?"
.Click-click.
"Number, please?"
"Say, what do you think you're
paid for? L been a-waitin' here
five minutes, jangling the bell.
What've you been doing? Sleep
ing7"
Number, please?"
Here I'm in big hurry, and
have to be tied up on phone for.
five or ten minutes because you
girls don't tend to your business.
Lemme talk to the chief operator.
I'll find out why l can't get any
service on this line"
Click-click.
"This is the chief OPERATOR"
came the voice beside me.
sSay, what's the matter with
my phone? been waiting 10 min
utes, right in the middle of lot
Of business, because can't get
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-23
SAY CROAK DIDN'T
SELL THEM STOCK
SIX CITY INSPECTORS SOME CONTRACTORS STOCK
DEAL DECLARE 1T HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH
WORK-THEY BOUGHT2OOOOO SHARES FOR $4,000.

Whether the council will take
any action to look further into the
matter is not known.
Councilman Rankin says IL II
was straight sale of stock from
a willing salesman to a willing
purchaser he does not see tina,
the city can interfere.
Commissioner .McGregor denie.
the insinuations of some of thu
councilmen that there have been
any favors shown or that any com
petent men have been fred be
cause they bought stock or did no.
buy stock.
There have been no old men
let go when they were competent,
said McGregor this morning
They are all working yet except
ing possibly Pelegren and Pande.
Pande we kept on right along
from the last administration.
"And l want to say that the city
is getting the best work now II
ever got. Streets were never
graded right in Tacoma until now.
There is good work being done on
all the improvement work IN
town"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-23
JAPAN MAY YET
RULE THE ORIENT

ficials of the British foreign office
say, the unmistakable evidences
of Tightening of japanese infiu-
|ence In pekin. The mikado 8
representatives show the utmost
|politeness but they do not allow
~ to interfere with any OF their
plans.
The Antung-Mukden railroad
incident illustrated their methods.
After waiting what they consider
ed q reasonable length of time ror
China to authorize the improves
ment OF the line. they peremptor-
lily demanded it.
China declined. wherenpon
Toxic notified Pekin that the ROAD
would be rebuilt anyway. Then
work was actually begun on 1t.
Al this China nleekly yielded.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-23

Backfiring was resorted to ali
day yesterday by gangs of men
set out by the lumbermen. who
have faced practical ruin.
Dig Trenches.
Trenches were dug at the foot
of the hills along the Pend 'Oreille
river by gangs of fire fighters, and
back fire was started to meet the
oncoming conflagration. The
fight was of no avail, however, for
the flames of the great fire leaped
to the blackened space left by the
back fire, and the intense heat
ignited the short grass and under
growth behind the trench. So In
tense was the heat that those
fighting the flames were compelI-
ed to take refuge In the river.