The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-09-18

glory In aresting something above q
hundred subway and "L- train row
dies. Travel ID sardine In our stuffed
transit trust trains Il enough of an
afiiction without q LOT Of roughs and
village cutups making It still more IN
bearabIe. The subway tough b not
az dangerous as the Joy rider. but he
Is more Of nuisance and a bore and
shows the same boorish disregard for
the tights Of others.
Rheims IL not the only aeroplane
town on earth, even II 1t has had
most Of the human dyaways for the
past few days. New York Is also In
terested In the new sport and prom
Uses to have some flying tests Of her
ows In the near future. Not only vii
she have the airship race up the Hud-
son during the e.niing Hudson. Fulton
celebration. but she Is 10 have two
Bleriot monOplanes here for exhibition
purposes. to say nothing Of Wilbur
Wright and Glenn II Curtiss. who. b.
The way. Is a New York product. Those
Of US who have to dodge automobiles
are wishing the new method Of travel
godspeed. II our sporty millionaires
will take up aeroplanes for their joy
riding 1t will make walking safer. The
only way an airship can injure q
pedestrian is to fall on him.
BayonDa. \. j.. just across the bay,
contains the Standard Oh refineries,
Considering the very prosperous con-
dltion Of the head of the trust. Bayonne
concluded thnt she ought to have more
taxes Accordingly she sent one Of
her assessors into the refinery dis
guised as labnrer The assessor
learned enough to satisfy him, and
he raised the plants A~,tion. Now,
the Standard has almost he same re-
pugnance TO paying taxes that it has
to settling $290O0c00 fines. so the
matter Is being taken into the courts,
where II may drag along for years.
As result Bayonne is trying to bor-
row money with which to run her gov
eminent. 1t would be interesting to
know exactly what the town officials
think of the benefactions to Standard
Oil colleges.
One OF the inspiring signs of the
times Is the new disease lighting agen-
cies started by some Of the large mer-
camille houses and business firms Of
this city. A few years ago such
thing would have been laughed ut as
chimerical. but today It Is one of the
established features of our business
lifc. The large employer now consid-
ers the health of his employees mat
ter Of legitimate interest and therefore
supplies doctors. nurses and Id some
cases even hospital equipments for
such as become sick Where the en-
ployer does not take the matter I'D the
employees themselves organize and
help each other One Of our big stores
has a miniature hospital. and nearly
all Of them have tablished free treat
ment, rest cures and other means for
preventing or curing disease.
- -
1t was bound to come. Let man
be reformer and somebody Ii sure
TO knock him Now II Is Loeb. After
he Ind smoked out the grafters. made
the sugar trust pay UP for its fraudu-
lent weights and stopped rich people
from bribing inspectors aud so snug
cling in their purchases, Loeb. who
ought to be held up as model OF
virtue, is now being jumped on by the
steamship captains. They accuse him
Of being fussy and troublesome. where
as he is only trying to uphold the tar
III In all Its dignity But Loeb il used
to being a goat: also a buffer Ii he
could act in that belabored capacity
for Roosevelt through seven stormy
years he should not mind being blamed
for the sins OF the tariff.
1t Is not every girl who would admit
carrying hand bag containing
package OF cigarettes, flask Of whis-
ky. pack Of playing cards and other
contents In kind, but IL the bag also
had In II $2.755 in bills, two gold
watches, two diamond earrings and
other valuables what would the poor
girl do7 Such hand bag was picked
IN on an excursion steamer near this
Sy. There was nothing about It to
Identify its ownership except the ini-
ttals q. L. W." For some days no
claimant appeared. Then Miss Grace
Livingston Wheeler Of Philadelphia,
who would give no particulars about
herself except her name and residence,
came upon the scene and described the
contents SO accurately that the bag
was handed to her without question
It was certainly an embarrassing stu
alton, and the moral OF It Is plain-do
not lose your hand bag.