Las Vegas optic., 1909-12-01

it carries the full compensatory duty
as thought it were pure new wool.
A good deal of so-called woolen cloth
such as women's and children's
dress goods and coat linings--is about
half cotton, the warp being Of that
material. The cloth is put into the
wool schedule and enjoys a compen-
satory duty amounting to about half
its total value"
The NewIyweds Enter Society.
The welcome of society in Chicago
to the Gages--the former secretary
of the treasury, Lyman ]. Gage, who
as president of the First National
Bank of Chicago, built it up to gigan-
tic proportions, and his young bride
on their honeymoon-bids fair to be
quite unusual in many respects. There
will be much entertainment attempt
ed, but what will be the success of
the attempts is the subject for much
speculation both, because Mr.. Gage
is 73 and his bride S5, and because
Mrs. Gage, formerly a member of the
'sFlorodora Sextette," was won dur
ing the efforts OF Mr.. Gage to con-
vince her of the truths of Point
Iona theosophy. Former Secretary
Gage had distinctive place in Chi
cago, socially, because of his promin-
ence in public enterprises such as the
Worlds Fair and because Of the
charm of his personality against
which no snobs were proof. The man
still lives who first hired Gage as a
youth of 10, as a laborer in lum-
Der yard and who reduced him three
years later to the job of nightwatch-
man. But Gage climbed fast, once he
got his feet on the ladder, in the
Merchants Loan & Trust company's
bank. He became cashier and then
president of the First National bank.
Three times he was president of the
American Bankers association. In re-
cent years Mr.. Gage has lived with
the theosophists at Point Iona, hav-
ing dropped political and financial as
sociations. Concerning Point Iona,
| where in new home now building,
the Cages will live Mrs. Katherine
/ Tingley, the founder, recently wrote:
"a visitor notes with surprise that
the cooking, the carpentering, the
road-making as well as the teaching
and the music ara done freely and
that the doctor, the dentist, and the
plumber, the linotype operator in the
| the printing shop and the engineer
in the power plant were all working
without wages, working hard, and,
as far as l could see, very happy
at their task. BY organized effort the
troublesome household tasks are made
easy and not only are these carried
on, but the students make most of
their own clothing and much of the
furniture. Many of the worlds ways
these workers gladly left behind
them"
What Has Been saved In Preventing
Juvenile Crime.
The thousands of dollars saved the
public by preventing juvenile crime
and relieving the poverty and despair
of children in the slums of Chicago
have been totalled with the result
that $3.50 per month proves to be
the saving per child to Cook County
alone as a result of the intelligent
efforts which have succeeded in
keeping them out of institutions. Chi
cago's little army of relief and dis
cipline, probation officers who do
this and who dealt with over 10000
children during the nine years end
ing December / 1908, have this year
been instrumental in keeping over
1900 children out of the miasma of
institutional life, not only a gain to
the children but in it's results a big
saving to the public. But the regular
probation officers 1t has been dis
covered are more poorly paid in Chi
cago than in any other big CITY, their
salary being $75 per month with no
allowance for such necessary expens-
es as car fare, stationery and tele-
phone calls. Not only do they fire.
quently house their charges but are
obliged frequently to pay car fare
for the children. Other cities, Allan
ia, Buffalo Denver, Syracuse, Port
land, Ore, and Minneapolis pay $100
per month to probation officers; Bos-
ton, $3.50; Washington, D.. c., Salt
Lake City, Cleveland and Seattle,
$1,000 a year; Milwaukee, 800 a
month and expenses; New York City,
SIS, $1O0 and $125 per month Gin
cinnati, $1,000 per year and expenses,
Omaha and San Francisco, SO per
day and Indianapolis, SO per day and
expenses.
The Stock Show Not What It Was
In Bygone Days.
The decadence of Chicago's one
time famous fat stock show. is the
subject of keen anxiety and an in
quiry which is extending beyond the
corn belt and the cattle range to
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts A