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Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-01
How Miss Gordon Came

Frances Willard herself has told the story better than anyone
else could. "On my going to conduct a woman's meeting for Mr.,
Moody in Boston in 1877" she said, there wa no one to play the
cabinet organ that was beside my desk IN the platform. An earnest
appeal was made and after a painful pause and waiting a slight
figure in black, with a little music roll in her hand, came shyly along
the aisle OF Berkeley Street church and Anna Gordon gently whis-
pered, AS no one volunteers. l will do the best l can That very
day she had taken her first lesson on the organ, intending to become
a mistress of the instrument. But something greater had come into
her life a fortnight earlier. Her brother Arthur, IS years of age,
nearer to her by age and temperament than any of her other broth
ers or sisters, had suddenly died. This was Annas first sorrow and
broke up the deep springs of her sweet nature. This was her first
visit to Boston since her brother had gone and she had Just attended
Mr.. MoodyIs noon meeting, at which his text had been, Whatsoever
He saith unto me, do it, and had promised in her inmost heart that,
by Gods grace, she would try to do helpful things as opportunity
afforded. and, behold, the very first opportunity was to come forward
before ZOO or 1900 waiting women and start the tunnel l wish
1 could picture her a she looked then in her sweet youth, with eyes
utmost kindness and good will; with soft, fair hair over her fore
head, a pretty brown complexion and a smile full of humor and good
will. She was hardly of medium height and of slight figure. with
remarkably alert bearing and that noiseless way Of getting about
and doing things without ones knowing she had done them. For
three months l led those great meetings, being obliged 10 have a
perfectly fresh gospel talk Of twenty minutes each day at noon. and
! often went out into the suburbs to speak to our temperance women
in the evening. This was a s much az l could manage, for we had a
long inquiry meeting at the close Of the MONDAY service, yet l kept
up in good condition from first to last and this l attribute to the fact
that when l asked Anna Gordon If she could come and play for me
messages. etc, into her faithful care. In the prompt and accurate
execution of commissions, tactful meeting of people and skilled style
Of correspondence l have not known her equal AS soon as the
Boston meetings were over she had a lecture trip planned for M
through New England. l remember she brought her plan to me in
a little book ruled in red and black ink, showing the town, the hos
tess, the time and place of meeting. the time and place of trains; in
deed every item l would need to know, so that I used pIayfulIy TO
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ton, Mrs. Stevens has travelled much abroad as we'll as at home, and
in foreign lands as we'll as her own she has been the guest of the
foremost citizens, in the homes OF the nobility and educators of
worldwide renown.
One of the most interesting women OF the national organization
and one who has had much to do with the preliminary arrangements
for the Omaha convention is Miss Anna Adams Gordon of Evanston,
Ill, vice president at large. Literally and completely she has dedi-
Gated her life to the work Of the Women's Christian Temperance
union. Identified with the organization almost since it's inception,
she has devoted herself to it's interests with a love and a loyalty
paraleled only by that of Frances E. Willard herself. Slight, al
most fragie-lookng. this little woman who has served so efficiently
all along the line is compelling by her very gentleness. 1t seems
fitting that she should be at the head of the work for children, yet
to her have been entrusted some of the most trying and exacting
commissions incidental to one of the greatest reform organizations
of the world.
Through her long and intimate association with Miss Willard
Miss Gordon is peculiarly fitted to carry out so many of the plans of
her distinguished friend. Because of this intimate association with
the woman who was known the world around and loved and revered
by all many regard Miss Gordon with something akin to curiosity
and many erroneous and amusing stories have been told of how she
came into Miss Wizards life and into the Womens Christian Tenn
perance union. and how she came to be during her lifetime mistress
of the Willard home at Evanston.
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seem to have a natural aversion to water of
any kind and not to appreciate the superior
ity of the salt variety. The white-capped,
rubber-booted attendants fly about-"Here,
mother, is your wash cloth and towel"
Mother, don't spank that baby!" Here Is
your talcum powder, mother!" The nurse
appears to be everywhere at once; the ba-
bies do their best to add to the Yivacity OF
the scene-squealing, whimpering, bowling
in American, Irish, German, Russian. Ital-
ian, English, Hungarian, Polish, Austrian,
Rumanian, Swedish, French, Swiss, Norwe-
gian baby dialects. But into the water they
go, mothers flourish towels and soon the ba-
bies, clean and cheerful, are dressed and an
other instalment keeps the scene lively.
The older little girls take shower baths,
also of sea water, and though it takes all
day to go the full round, each has her turn
under the shower. There are many COM
psrtments in excellent condition and the lit
tie girls are assisted in dressing, each hav-
ing her hair neatly brushed for her and tied
up with ribbons. Five-year-old Sophy in
sisted on doing her own hair-it was evil
IDENTIFY her most highly-prized accomplish
ment-and was greatly gratihed when it
was allowed TO pass on inspection. With
shining faces, red with much rubbing, and
with tight-pssted, wet hair. the ex-bathers
pass out and the bathers-to-be pass in.
There is another megaphone announce
ment that causes almost more excitement
than the one FOR baths. This comes at 1880
and tells the passengers that dinner is
ready. Down below it waits, but is not kept
waiting long. Long tables, covered with
clean white oilclOth, clean dishes Of neat de-
sign, and clean, wholesome food present an
appetizing appearance, All the mothers and
the children who are not on a diet have a
good, hot dlnner prepared in the barge's
kitchen. The provisions are OF the best,
the superintendent himself selecting and
buying all the meat. In addition milk is
distributed from a booth on the deck at II
and 8 o'clock and all the bottle-fed babies
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80 'NNNA~
morning certain of the downtown
piers are crowded with children
by the thousand literally-not
running about in childish and frolicsome
glee, but standing quietly expectant in little
groups. A few standersby watch the sort
ing and %embarking of the little ones onto a
large barge, and later out in the harbor the
queerly-laden craft is pointed out as the
Floating Hospital you've heard of so often"
In the late afternoon the megaphone man of
a Seeing New York Yacht informs his throng
of sightseers that they ARE now passing the
famous Floating Hospital"
Go to the East Twenty-fourth street pier
If you would see what is really done. You
will find the crowd waiting-subdued little
boys under 6, subdued little girls under 6,
older little girls who have come to mind
the younger ones in the absence of the
mother-all p~itifully Cleaned up" in their
best, which is none too good, and babies
everywhere. The head of each little group
tightly clutches the ~ahonany-colored ticket.
which has been signed by a doctor signify
ing the presence of a sick baby and which
entities the mother to take her. sick little
one and the rest of her children under G
years OF age Tor a days outing in the sea air.
The precious tickets are tightly clutched,
but it is the baby that is the best ticket.
Necessarily many disappointed ones must be
left behind each time. as even the barge's
capacity OF 1900 will not accommodate the
demand, and the officials have difficulty in
preventing the Transformation of the hospi-
tai into a playground for we'll boys and girls.
superintendent Montgomery and
Whitley busily examine the tickets, on the
lookout lest the ayowed 1O-year-old reappear
In five minutes aged 6; the attendant physi-
clan examines the children to see that no
contagious disease is admitted. and the ma
tron' Miss Patterson. with her five assistant
nurses shows them the way TO the large I'D.
per decks The very sick ones are assigned
TO the two wards on the boat which contain
eight beds each. II any child with a con-
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Head of the Great Order

A woman of splendid breadth aud mental equipment Of rare
order is the president of the national organization, Mrs. Lillian NJ.
N. Stevens of Portland, Ne, who will preside at most Of the sessions
and whose annual address reflects the broad scope of her work and
her ability. The late Congressman Dingley said OF her: Il con-
slider Mrs. Stevens without a peer as a parIiamentaran' While re
tanning much of the conservatism OF method of her wholesome New
England training, she blends with that conservatism the wider out
look, the broader horizon, the greater daring OF the cosmopolitan.
She is ever a fearless leader, a Jealous guardian OF her growing
fofses, meeting unhinchingly the attacks made upon the union Be
cause of her exceptional ability, her close touch with the work. her
tact and her knowledge of conditions Mrs. Stevens was selected to
take the presidency of the National Woman's Christian Temperance
union when Miss Frances Willard laid it down a few years ago. AL
though she had devoted much time to this work, the office Of presi
dent demanded even more. 1t meant much to sacrifice social inter
est and the interests of her home in one Of Portland's most attrac-
tia suburbs, which has been a favorite gathering place OF men and
women OF culture, but she oheerfully made 1t, her task being made
tighter by the cheerful and ever ready cooperation of her husband.
who has ever been n ardent advocate Of the temperance cause. A
married daughter, Mrs. Stevens only child, living close by. assumes
okrge OF the home during such periods as it is necessary for her
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Her Life Work

And that is how Anna Gordon came into the Women's Christian
union and how she grew into the life of Frances Will
lard. OF a fine old Boston family, educated at Lasell seminary and
reared amid the most cultured surroundings, Miss Gordon was we'll
fitted to step into the exacting position that has become hers. For
fourteen years she lived with Miss Willard and her mother at Rest
Cottage inHEvanston, and at Miss Wizards death that home became
hers for use during her lifetime. 1t is adjacent to the Headquarters
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1t was Miss Gordon also who made the first Womens Christian
Temperance union flag, and of this Miss Willard wrote: I'VE were
up in Connecticut with a friend of olden time, when said to Anna
one day, 1t is a shame we have no standard to carry at the head OF
the regiment in our peaceful war i will see that there is at
the next national convention said Anna, and, calling in the advice
Of our friend and the service of a skilltul lady who could design on
satin the dear old first flag that is now given into the custody each
year of the state having most members, was manufactured, with the
trailing arbutus and the motto, For God and Home and Native
Land!' Idoubt If we have ever had a prettier flag in all the rich
variety that has developed since ="
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Great National Organization That will w%a % wn% Noted wmn omaha Connection with Work aMm Along Mm
Great National Organization That Will Bring

HILE Omaha has sue
Y \ cessfully accomplished
NV many undertakings
that have attracted the
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tation az speakers, educators, phiEanthropsts and reformers'
A reform organization has rarely enjoyed popularity ouC WHEN
a body of women rose up and directed their enorts against an III
stituion antipodal IN it's remoteness from all Oh WHICH, "N@
and mothers and sisters ire supposed to know, they we're net WIN
pttless opposition. The liquor traffic turned upon them Its full "
ganized strength; men not yet familiar with The idea Oh women oul-
side the narrow sphere of the home, or, at most ssoHate MI III
aid societies were scandalized; the more conservative members OF
their own sex n those who had been shielded from actua conse-
of intemperance drew back their skirts hguratlVely n
literally in that piuless exclusion that only women can mantest'
while from the press and the rostrum they were rdicuied' mislhter-
preted and misrepresented. But all of that was forty years
more ago And what a change the years have brought! Strenth-
ened in numbers a thousandfold the Womens Christian temperance
union has hourished under opposition, the Misrepresentation o ns
opponents only serving to recruit thousands who recognized ns
splendid purpose and to disgust the fair-minded until It's was
finally granted a hearing and it is today recognized a s IN OF M
greatest organizations of the world. The noblest and Inc los
cultured womanhood of the world has been pleased to ally ltSeh
with It, while kings and emperors have honored Its lei u pro
claimed 1t good.
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OF the National Women's Christian
Temperance union and there she
makes her home.
AS honorary secretary Of the
Worfd's Women's Christian Temper
ance union Miss Gordon enjoys a rep
utation that extends beyond the on
fines Of her W country, but 1t is as
the friend Of children that she is best
known on both sides Of the Atlantic.
AS general secretary Of the Loyal
Temperance Legion Miss Gordon has
made a large place for herself In the
hearts of the young people the world
over. without apparent effort this
gifted woman holds vast audiences OF
children, sometimes they number into
the thousands. Her music, especially
her marching songs, have been an i'm
portant factor in p%opularizing the
work Of the Loyal Temperance Legion
in enlisting the youth of the world in
the temperance cause. She has also
written several songs for the women
combined in the White Ribbon
Hymnal.
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that have attracted the
attention of the ma
ton, 1t still remains for it to enter
tain a large convention Of women and
to demonstrate to them that it stands
for the things to which the woman
hood of the world is giving so largely
of its efforts, as we'll as for CONNER
cialism and material progress. With
the advent of October-October 22 to
27-there will be held in this city the
thirty-sixth annual convention of the
National Women's Christian Temper
ance union, a truly noble body. The
Transmississippi exposition and the
exposition of the following summer
brought many distinguished women
to Omaha and from time to time, as
guests in the home or in some special
capacity many others have been en-
%tertained here, but the convention
next October will be the first real
of women of distinction,
manv Of them OF international repu-
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say if l should only pin on of Annals directories to my back 1 might
go the country over in the capacity of an express package. Well
from that day to this she has been doing these things, only they have
multiplied until sometimes her duties number anywhere from forty
to sixty distinct lines of occupation. l should not feel equal to CIV
ing a list SO long and varied"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-19
CAUGHT UNDER TONS OF EARTH
BODIES OF THREE MINERS RE-
COVERED AT PORT HOPE, M.
Accident Occurs in Old Working OF
Mine Not Worked Since
Revolutionary Days.
Special Dispatch TO JTae Star.

Special Dispatch 10 TSe Star.
DOVER, n. j., November 19.-The bod
les of the three miners who were killed
in the Leonard mine of the Empire Steel
and Iron Works at Port Hope. have been
recovered. The dead are Andrew Betner.
Michael Rosnack and Frank Krania. Bet
ner was married and leaves a family in
Hungary The other men were not mar
ried.
Supt. Marmaduke Peckitt says that the
part of the mine where the men had been
working had recently been retimbered.
and is considered very strong. II was
not there that the accident occurred, but
in an old working. through which it is
supposed the men had gone to get some
drills.
Many Hours Work to Get Bodies.
Either on their way to the drills or COM
ing back they were caught by the giving
way of the timbering of the old working.
TINS of earth came down when the tim
bers reaching from the floor to the roof
Of the chamber collapsed and the men
were buried under the mass. II required
many hours Of work before the bodies
were reached.
vestigation this morning and granted
burial permits. He said 1t would be un-
necessary to hold an inquest. The mine
has been worked since revolutionary
days. During the war of the revolution
Lord Sterling made cannon balls of the
iron found there. Several mines in the
vicinity are known as the Sterling mines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-19
PLAY TO BE STOPPED
WHEN 1T IS DANGEROUS
DR.. w. B. Hudson Advises Enforce.
ment of Present Rules.
HARM ONLY IN INFRACTIONs
Principals Of the City High Schools
Call OF the Remaining Contests
Of the Season.

Prohibit all playing Of foot ball that
In dangerous to life or health.
Allowing the police to step into any
game ~ soon ~ Il becomes danger
Gus.
Require q license for all foot ball
games.
A regulation embOdying these features
has been suggested to District Commits
siOner Macfarland by Corporation Coun-
sci E. II. Thomas as practical way to
regulate foot ball in the District So that
the playing will not result in the death
or serious injury ot the players.
The regulation which Mr.. Thomas
favors would simply state that ''the play
Ing of foot ball that is dangerous or in
furious to life and health" is prohibited,
and that before any game can be played
O license must be procured from the po-
lice or other proper authority.
Police to Act as Censors.
The effect of such a regulation. he has
pointed out, would be to place all foot
ball games under the immediate super
vision of the police. AZ long as the games
proceed in accordance with rules that do
not make the play unsafe for those en-
gagged in 1t the police will simply be
spectators and will allow the gridiron
struggle to continue. but as soon as the
police think the playing endangers the
PLAYERS they will have the power to step
in and order the game to stop.
In this connection 1t lis pointed >Out that
prize fighting has been regulated in a
similar manner In some jurisdictions.
The fistic mill is allowed to continue un-
der police supervision until one of the
fighters is threatened with serious injury.
Hudson Regards Present Rules Safe
That some definite regulations would
have to be framed by the police. outlining
how the game can be played in a safe
and sane manner, is also suggested.
Should the police adopt the view of DR..
w. B. Hudson, the local foot ball expert
who has been in consultation with Com
missioner Macfarland, this would mean
that the present rules of the game would
the bluecoats would be instructed to see
that all the games are played In accord
ance with such rules. DR.. Hudson has
told Commissioner Macfarland that the
game, would not be dangerous IL the
present rules were literally followed.
The police might adopt the rules in gen.
eral making some notifications that
would make the game even safer. Such
a procedure, 1t has been suggested, would
require the development of some officers
as foot ball censors, specially trained in
hall r.r1nu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-19
FLOODS OVER CANAL ZONE.
Panama Railroad Under Water and
Trains Are Stalled.

COLON, November 19.-The United
States cruiser Des Moines sailed from
Port Limon, Costa Rica. yesterday. 1t
is believed that she is en- route for Blue
fields.
Floods continue throughout the 18TH
mus The railroad in the vicinity of Bo-
hio and Frijoles is under water. Trains
from Colon for Panama were unable to
proceed further than BohiO today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-19
OF THE DEAL
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PROB.
ING TELEGRAPH MERGER.
Considering Whether or Not II
Violates the Sherman Anti
Trust Law.

The Department of Justice has q num-
Der of agents In the field making a COM
plete investigation of the recent merger
Of the Western Union and American Tele-
phone and Telegraph companies. The
agents have been instructed TO report as
early as possible SO that Attorney Gen.
eral Wickersham and Wade Ellis. the
trust expert of the department, may de-
terrnine whether the merger is in viola
ton of the Sherman antitrust laws.
Complaints have been reaching the De-
partment OF Justice for years that the
telephone trust has been relentlessly
squeezing out OF business all independent
rivals, and much information has been ac-
cumulated on this subject.
The bureau of corporations of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor has
been engaged for more than year in
aScertaining every possible tact in con-
nectiOn with the telephone and telegraph
business throughout the country, and the
government will soon be prepared for any
step 1t may See nit to take.
No Definite Plan Outlined.
Department Of Justice officials doubt
whether they will be able TO proceed
against the latest combination. although
they are not in possession of sufficient
facts to enable them TO definitely predict
what will be done. 1t is pointed out that
the big telegraph and telephone COM
panies have the best legal talent in ,..e
United States. These lawyers understand
as fully as the lawyers of tie govern
ment just how far they can go in the
combination business, and it is quite
likely that they will keep their clients
within the provision of the law, IL they
can pO ssibly do it.
There is no doubt in government circles
that the combination now includes not
only both telegraph companies in the
country. the W WeStern tmon and the
Postal. cut liEenise TAX IS in tue telephone
trust, Clarence If. Mackey of New York
and j. Pierpont Morgan being the con-
trolling spirits back OF the wnoIe thing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-19
Reputed Desperate Captured.

DURHAM. ". c.. November Ia
Charged with eight highway robberies.
twice shooting victims with a rife and
escaping three times from authorities,
Bud McLaurin. said by officers Of che
law to be a noted Richmond county des-
perado of North Carolina. was caught
here late last night. The negro says he
came here from the Norfolk shipyards
where he worked last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-19
Fire on Morgan's Yacht.

NEW YORK, November 19.-Fire on
board J. Pierpont Morgan's steam yacht
Corsair, undergoing repairs at a ship
yard in Hoboken, N. j., gave the yard
workmen and firemen a lively fight today
The fire broke out in storeroom amid
ships. 1t was discovered before il had
reached dangerous headway and was con-
fined to the vicinity where it originated.
The damage was not heavy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-19
PINCHoT WRITES FARMERS.
Delegates to National Farm Land
Congress Listen to Letter,

CHICAGO, November 19.-Delegates to
the national farm land congress, in ses-
sion here today. listened to letter from
Clifford H. Pinchot. chief forester of the
United States. Mr.. Pinchot said:
There can be few patriotic duties more
important than to promote the develop
ment and proper handling of all the farm
lands of the United States. Such develop
ment means not only a vitality important
increase in our food supply, it means also
an increase In the proportion of our peo-
pie who live on the farm, and in an age
of concentration in cities that is an object
of national importance
He also emphasized the necessity of in
creasing the attractiveness of farm life
Following the reading of the Pinchot
letter. Alva Adams, former governor of
Colorado, told of the agricultural pOssi-
bilities and achievements of his state.