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Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
EARTH FLOOR FOR CHICKS

IN WO points | wish to indorse are
that young chicks should not be
L compelled to live on board floor
and l think that brooder manufactur-
ers are committing a wrong in sending
ont brooders constructed in such way
that they are confined on this floor. My
argument has always been (and is
backed up with twenty-three years
good experience) that brooder should
be so constructed that the chicks have
access to an outside run at all times,
be it ever so cold at night or day.
Many brooders are constructed with a
closed-in pen outside the house with
TOP and all on, claiming it is economy
in fuel. Yes. it is economy, but very
poor economy at that, for it is at the
expense of the life of many chick, and
right there is where l wish to pump
in pretty hard to bring to bear with
all my might that little chick must
have air Warmth alone Will not sue
cessfully brood a chick. They must
have pure air. In artificial practlce lne
natural practice must be initiated Just
as much as possible. Just put an old
hen with a brood of chicks in one of
the boXed-in houses and see how many
chicks she will raise, the while 1nteS-
final trouble will show itself Just the
same. Now as to the use of earth OH
a brooder floor, this cannot be SPOKEN
of in too high a term, but TO say II
is discovery. I will not consent TO
it, Why. the veteran poullryHlah'
James Rankin, southeastern MaSSa-
chusetts. outlined to me the benefits de-
rived from that practice nearly twenty
FIVE wears ago. and it has been my
nractice ever since; and I have pro-
claimed it far and wide in my lectures
at our Wisconsin farmers Institutes
for the past twelve years. Anyone VINO
has followed my writings Will note 1
always condemned the use OF any
thing but an earth floor tor poultry
not only for the broodlns' put IoI taII
admit fowls as well. 1t is natural
condition that they should not be de-
nrived of and you will suffer a loss
sooner or later if they are deprived OF
il Immediately under the house Try
TO have clover chaff if | can get IT, nut
outside the house on all sides want
free access to fresh earth. IL Is not
the earth they eat, it is the cheerlul
exercise they get but I never trust TO
the earth alone to promote Their eXer-
else. I strew it with chair or cut straw
and scatter bran or fine grain for them
to dig after. and thus they dig rlSnt
down to the earth. | do not nke TO
have the earth become entirely drN'
A mart of the pen may be allowed TO
get dry, but at least portion OF II
should be kept wet. They seem to en-
ioy the moist earth. Leg weakness Is
brought about by disuse. AS we all
l5now the most active members of our
hodv are the first to suffer from disuse'
7 have not had a dozen cases OF TINS
trouble since I built my regular b"ooo
house, where I could promote exercise
under all conditions of the weather; and
right there is where 7 always condemn
the use of outdoor brooders. the Weatn-
er conditions are likely to pe sucll
that your chicks must be cohnteu .o9
inne without sufficient exercise. and
hence indigestion (the white intestlna,
troIble) and leg weakness set IN an,
a heavy mortality follows.-Homeste
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
ON HIS ROUTE

Daughter Gin 2OO9)-But, mamma,
know he is true to me even if he is
a travelling salesman. He swore that
| was the only girl on earth for him.
Mamma-True enough, dear; but
they saw he has a girl on every planet
within three billion miles.-Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27

When Champ Clark inherited the
troubles of John Sharp Williams as
minority leader in the house OF rep
resentatives, says Success Magazine,
he was told that Speaker Cannon had
a rod in pickle for him. so Uncle
Joe's gwine to dis-ciplin me, Is ne
he oueried. "Well, l reckon after
fellers been brought up on the brand
o. chastisin' they deal out down III
ole Missouri he won't even shy at can
non crackers. 1t reminds me uh ole
Noah an tn feller t got left out o
tn Ark. or Noah had been eXhortln
an apirootin' round till tn hull XII
an kaboodle was plumb sick o him.
Rv and by tn flood came right on
schedule, an tn ungainly ole ARK went
asailin' down the stream on tn top
most crest O. tn rise. Coin long one
day he spies one uh tn ole onregen-
eratese thet he kinda he'd 1t in fr,
who he'd clim' high up in tn tallest
tree in them parts.
"'Wlel, ye ole hard-shell,' Moan yells
to him, what do you think now|
LAR sputters TIL ole codger up tn
tree. this here amt nary flood.
Down in TIL parts where / come from
tn folks wouldn't think this here little
sprinkle moren a spring shower
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
| Pay My Way

Thoro are more just like me who
suahs ts BE- working for YOU. Why are
ysu noe IN the poultry business On
practical baAis, On . commercial basis,
On . PAYING BAsISf The Ipgisweed
Poultry Coloay h the place where the
biggest poultry business In she sosthwest
b being built mp NOW. In the Ingle-
wood Poultry Colony poultry and egss
bring higher prices than they do any
where else, and you can buy supplies
cheaper than yeu can from any dealer.
Buy Q farm In the Ingisweod Poultry
Colony whore the terms are moet reA-
sensbio, whore you win always be
treated right, where poultry raising L. a
business, and where YOU CAN SELL
sverythinG you produce at Tho highest
nserkst prices. Stop and think what
thAs means and get fall Information from
Ingiewood Land Company
Room 349, 206 South Spring
Main se1s, Home Asase.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
TWO MEN GOT FINKEL's GOAT
Barney. the Court Officer, Reads the
Record Of the Case.

Barney, the court officer. having said
"Oyez. oyez' several times and announced
that the court Of Special Sessions was going
10 take an adjournment yesterday after
noon. settled down in the witness chair and
told the story Of "one male Angoria (sic)
goat, the property OF Benjamin Finkel, of
No 1165 Fox street, said goat while in his
care and custody having been feloniously
stolen and carried away"
Said goat" went on Barney. raising his
bushy eyebrows nagisteriaIly. was tied
10 stake in lot about one hundred feet
from deponent's umbrella factory al 9TH
street and Avenue \. Unionport, grazing,
when deponent, who was inside said fac
tory, saw from z window therein. the two
defendants drive I'D 10 said lo1, take said
goat from stake, and drive off with same
The deponeut later found the defendants
al fremont and Westchester avenues in
charge Of Officer C-amp. with said goat in
their possession"
This. said Barney lis The authorized
and legal version OF what happened on June
Il, when Martin Daner. OF No 3476 Third
avenue. and Joseph Kelly. Of No 304 East
92d street. acting in concert. came into con-
tact with Finkel-s goat and the police force
Of Greater New York The defendants were
found guilty and rernauded for invest.-
CATION"
New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
PROTEST BATH STREET PLAN
Property Owners Object to Hav-
ing Narrower Sidewalks.

Considera bic opposition 10 the proposition
70 widen 34th street between Park avenue
and the North River by taking seven and
one-haIf feet from the sidewalk on each
side has developed. and will be represented
a a hearing to be given by Borough Presi-
dent McAneny in the Council Chamber at
the City Hall at $50 o'clock on Tuesday
afternoon Il is said that owners and long
term lessees of property valued at more
than SIS 900 are against cutting down
the sidewalk al this time.
The leaders of the opposition include
John CIafin. Isidor Straus, of R H. Macy
& Co: the Greeley Square Hotel Company.
which owns the large MCAlpin plot, at
Sixth avenue and 34th street: George c
Boldt representing both the Waldorf-As-
toria Hotel and large personal interests N
the street; Benjamin Altman, of B. Altman
& Co; the City Leasing Company, which
represents Alfred @ Vanderbilt, whose new
hotel IS at the corner of Park avenue and
34th street: Louis Stewart, OF James Nc
Creery & Co; c. F. WiIdey, of the Herald
Square Hotel. and Charles D. Wetmore. Of
Warren & Wetmore. architects.
They hold that the opening of the new
Pennsylvania station Will increase the
traffic on the sidewalks to such an extent
that the narrowing of the walks will cause
great inconvenience, while under the pres
ent regulations the vehicular traffic viii
provide for an increase of that kind.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
DIVIDEND CUT, STOCK DROPS
National Lead Common Declines
More Than II Points.

National Lead common stock declined
more than II points in yesterdays stock
market on the announcement that the di-
rectors had declared a dividend of p Of
per cent, a reduction of p of l per cent
from the last preceding payment.
II was said by I. A. Cole. the president
Of the company, that the cut in the rate
was due to decrease in trade and to the
high price of Iinseed oil. Profits had been
thus reduced TO an extent that justified the
expectation of a smaller surplus available
for dividends on the company's common
shares.
The stock sold as low as 81. q maximum
loss OF 17as points. closing al 50. net loss
of l62s. The low price yesterday of the
issue compared with a high for the year of
899s and high last year of o. There was
no change in the preferred stock which IS
closely held by investors
National Lead common has been an fr-
regular dividend payer. and while traders
on the Stock Exhange endeavored 10
create the impression that the reduction in
its rate marked the beginning Of a period
Of lower dividends throughout the list of
stock market securities. the opinion held
in conservative quarters did not favor
such a theory, the action of the Lead di-
rectors being generally accepted as the
result of conditions which could have no
bearing upon the dividends of high grade
investment issues
It was thought, however, that some com
panies that have been paving dividends not
warranted. as in the case Of the Chicago
& Alton, which has just passed its divi-
dend on the common, would be compelled
TO lower or suspend their rates in the
course of the coming six months
National Lead common paid per cent in
1905. AZ per cent in 1907 and per cent in
1908 and 1863. In January. April and July
of the current year IA per cent was paid
and the reduced dividend of 3 of | per cent
declared yesterday is payable October /
Prices in the general stock market broke
Oh the Lead announcement.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
COURT "a RUBBER STAMP
Justice Ford Resents Action OF
the Legislature.

Justice Ford handed down oeclsiol.
Yesterday In which ne spoke IN IeS7i''-
tone of the power of the Leglsialui0
make "a rubber stamp of the Supreiiis
Court The Justice expressed oouo' '
the lawmakers had such power
If was a motion for the confirmation U
the rano-t of the commissioners OF ap-
n-sisal 10 condemn property in Canal III
ire and Walker streets that called Aoi = -
comment of Justice Ford. CorporatIo'
Counsel Watson opposed the Hotion Oh u
ground that the awards were eAceSsi''
EJs said that the property owners IN il1ei
est had raised the point that the court " a.
bo,rnd To confirm the report under Sscli'i
52 of the rapid transit act. and the CoI-
no-ation Counsel submitted that point W
the consideration Of the court
Justice Ford said in his decision
4sThfs Is motion 20 confirm lne res'i1
of certain commissioners OF appraisal ap
nointed pursuant 10 the provisions OF '''0
-ania transit act. Section 50 Of that act ~
terms makes il mandatory upon the Speci =
Term TO confirm the report The Corp"i-'-
+ton Counsel formally opposes. but ofters no
reasons why the report should not ne con-
firned probably on account OF the
uselessness of doing so, since, accofoiils
the clear language of the statute, the repoi :
must be confirmed in any event douO-
that the LEGISLATURE has power thus 10 MAN
a mere rubber stamp of the Supreme Coui =
b,,+ since there is nothing before me upon
which a refusal 70 confirm can be oasei
that question is not raised here. Ihe re-
port will be confirmed
New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
REAL PIG IN THE SUBWAY
Uproar Follows When Portly
Woman Sits on Him.

When John Go9odino, of Vark street ano
Rtve-dsle svene. Yo1kers, bought 10-ceni
chance on e sucking pig he little thought
that he would win the prize. But he did
WIN II Being a single man. he did not
know what TO dc with his acquisition, but
finally he thought that lady friend of
his who lived on tie East Side in this city
might make use OF the pig.
His troubles began when he started TO
take the pig to her yesterday. The con-
ductor refused 10 allow him 70 board a
South Broadway car because the pig re
fused TO remain silent in the bag in which
Gopodino had placed II. Nothing daunted.
the Italian walked TO the subway and
boarded a train. mis- prize keeping still long
enough for him 10 pass the ticket chopper
Once in ths train Gopodino proceeded 70 go
10 sleep. The bag lying alongside him. A
few stations down the line portly woman.
evidently nearsighted, boarded the train
and sat down beside Gopodino.
The scene which followed beggars de-
scription. The pig saueaIed. the woman
tainted and the pig escaped from the bag.
Guards finally caught the sQuealing Great
ure and put il and Gopodino of at Manhat-
tan street. The twain We're unable to find
transportation on a crosstown car. so Gopo-
dino enlisted the good offices of a truck
driver and completed his journey on the
truck.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
MILLER USES THE AXE
Jobs Vanish in Buildings Depart
ment at Saving of S12,400.

The axe has fallen in the Bureau of
Buildings in Borough President McAneny' 3
Office. Superin 4endent Rudolph P Miller
having decided that there were too many
high priced men doing work that could be
Just as well done by others. has abolished
six places. and the present incunbents Will
have from now until the first OF the month
TO ind other jobs. The annual saving VIII
be S12400
Among those hit is John c. Regan, q
brother-in-law OF William s. Murphy, The
former Superintendent of Buildings. He
was transferred from the Tenement House
Department, where he was getting $4,000 4
year, in May. 1907. The following Decem-
Der his salary was raised 10 S2.400. Su-
perintendent Miller found that Regan vas
supposed 10 help Nelson F. McFadden. the
clerk in charge OF the record of unsafe
buildings. who gets only $500 a year.
William J. Colihan. another of those who
has received mis- walking papers, has cor
some time been drawing a salary of $4,000
a year He is rated as a clerk. but under
Superintendent Murphy did the work of
secretary.
Daniel j O'Dalr, rated as a fire escape
clerk. at S2.350 a year. will close d service
Of eighteen years in the bureau. Superin-
tendent Miller has found that typewriters
can make the necessary number Of copies
Of certain complaints and orders better
than they used to be done by several clerks.
Under the amended schedule OF Superin-
tendent Miller no clerk will receive more
than s2.10o. while the highest paid inspec-
tor, under the chief Inspector. will get
s2.40O. Daniel Sullivan Mr.. AIiIIer's secre-
tary. said that politics. like the flowers that
bloom in the spring, had nothing TO 30
with the case. Efficiency was what was
wanted, he explained.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
STRIKE COMES AND GOES
Annual Labor Disturbance OF
Wall Street Messenger Boys.
LASTED JUST SIX HOUHs
Pickets Got After Strike BREAK
ers, Even in That Short I1me'
and Police Were Busy.

There was snort lived strike o. Iie7
s.,-,a- to,rS ero,1o,-ed bv the Anglo-A111er-
ican and the western Union Telegraph
cornnsnIas in the financial district yeslei-
dav. The strike lasted just six hours anu
ended in q compromise, the boys settiiis
part o. the increase in wages tneS Ho
asked for They demanded Is cents aH
hour. instead of the 121z cents they hau
been getting. and five cents message IoI
every call above Fulton street, lnsteau VI
four cents The companies refused lo ~
crease the hourly rate. but agreed 10 pay
five cents for all messages delivered ABOVE
Reade street. This was satisfactory 10 the
t.oys. and they went back 10 work
Before a settlement was reached broad
street. where are the offices OF the Coin-
panies was the scene of several flst nslltS
between the boys who had gone out ana lhe
strike breakers who had been hired 10 Tar
their places. but these were quickly stopped
by the police. several of whom had peeh
detailed 10 the street TO maintain order-
It was only when the power OF persuasion
failed that the strikers resorted 10 their
fists. They had pickets out all through the
financial district. and if a "scab'' was seen
carrying d message he was surrounded ana
urged to reIinuuish the job. If he refused
him and sent his tormentors flying
The first TO go out were the thirty boys
employed by the Anglo-American Telegraph
Company which has offices in the New
York Stock Exchange Building They sue
ceeded in getting a number Of the Western
Union boys from the office at No. 16 Broad
street to join them, but many Of the Amer
lean District Telegraph boys refused 70 go
out and none of the Postal Telegraph boys
went on strike.
The strike OF messenger boys in Wall
Street has become an annual affair, and
yesterdays waIkout did not cause much
excitement in the street. In fact, no one
paid any attention to it, except the police
and those Immediately interested.
AS showing that the boys are not badly
treated by the companies, it was said yes
terday that in rush times they frequently
made as much as $40 or $50 a week deliver
ing messages for big brokerage houses be-
low Fulton street at the rate Of two cents
a message. One of the leaders among the
strikers. according TO the superintendent
of one of the companies, made 800 a week
for several weeks in succession last win
ter delivering such messages. And yet
the superintendent added, ''he was one CT
the first TO go on strike this morning
New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
BEWARE OF UNsEALED SCALES

Disguised as fshmonger. J F BAN
mann, an inspector in the Department of
Weights and Measures, bought a scale in
Fulton Market yesterday which had not
been sealed by law. As a result, a com
plant has been lodged against the scale
dealer under the new law, which provides
a penalty OF 800 for selling scales that
have not been sealed by the department
Rammann says he was told to put the
scales under his apron. so the transaction
might not be noted by any inspector who
happened 10 be around. Chief Inspector
Mccoy gathered in two 3GO-pound scales
and 131 small fish scales in Fulton Market
that did not register correctly.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
PROPERTY OWNERS WORRIED
McAneny Holds Hearing on Widening
West 42d Street.

How it would affect their vault space
seemed 10 be the principal worry of the
seventy property owners who appeared be-
fore Borough President McAneny yesterday
al a hearing on the proposition to widen
the roadway of West 42d street, between
Broadway and Eighth avenue, by cutting
down the sidewalks. He told them that the
engineers had expressed the opinion that
the roofing of the vaults could be strength
ened so as to withstand the heavier traffic.
oscar Hammerstein said that the i'm
provement would greatly interfere with the
profts of the theatrical season If under
taken this fall The Improvement, he de-
cIared. contemplated only ? feet s inches
for encumbrances beyond the building line
whereas the building law required 3 feet
inches for fire escapes. President Nc
Aneuy said he thought Mr. Hammerstetn
would find the Bureau of Buildings of the
Borough Presidents Office willing to exer-
else reasonable discretion within the law.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
NOT so SURE ABOUT POISON
Mrs. Northrop and Quest Held
for Examination Saturday.

Mrs. Nellie Northrop, of Mariners Har-
tor. Staten Island, and John Quest, a young
man Of the same place. who were arrested
in Brooklyn on Wednesday night on sus-
picion Of knowing something about the
poison said 10 have been put into the food
Of William Northrop, were arraigned before
City Magistrate Handy. al New Brighton,
yesterday afternoon He committed them
ro the Richmond County Jail for exanina-
ton on Saturday morning
Northrop has almost recovered from his
illness, and viii be able to appear in court
on Saturday
Mrs. Northrop and Quest emphatically
denied having administered strychnine 10
Northrop, and declared their arrest was
al outrage
DR.. Conway. OF St Tincent's Hospital
who examined Northrop when ne was taken
10 the hospital. said yesterday that he
could not positively state that there was
any strychnine in Northrop's stomach when
he examined him
\ chemical analysis IS expected to de-
ternine whether or not the food was poi
soned.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
GET GREAT WHITE DIAMOND
Latest Big Find at Premier Mine Is
Worth S150.000.

4 report reached Maiden Lane yesterday
from johannesburg. South Africa of the
fLding OF another large diamond at the
Premier mine The gem is said TO weigh
more than 1e1 carats. and is described as
a pure white stone, absolutely fawless. and
measuring two inches long by about three
fourths OF an inch thick It tapers in
breadth from one and one-fourth inches TO
three -fourths of an inch at the smallest
end. and is estimated to be worth S150.O0O
uncut
A Maiden Lane authority said that judg-
ing from the description of the uncut stone.
the largest perfect diamond that could be
cut from il would he pear shaped, but that
it may be found more profitable to cut il
into smaller gems. He said it would be
hard to place q valuation on the stone.
When cut. he thought, it would be worth
at least $4,000
The Premier mine became world famous
in January. 1so5 when the CuiIinan dia-
rnond was discovered by Mr. Wells This
gem the largest ever found, weighed 3,032
carats in the rough It was cut into
smaller stones and presented TO the late
King Edward VII by the Transvaal gov
ernrneut. The latest large diamond to he
taken from the Premier mine will probably
also rank among the world s famous gems.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
ON SAVAY'S TRACK NOW
Lively Dissensions in American
Civic Alliance Grow.

n Lafayette Savay. the founder of the
American Civic Alliance is IN q fair way
TO have his presidential chair wrenched
from underneath him. if the predictions of
David NJ Neuberger are correct
Mr.. Savay has acted in such manner
that 1t is impossible for gentlemen 10 asso-
ciate with him any longer" said Mr. Neu-
berger wrathfully, last night - told him
what thought Of him to-day at the meet
ing before all of them. He's not the Ameri-
can Civic Alliance, he's not the constitu-
ton and he's not the majority. although
he thinks he's all Of these And he's got
a great big Ego It's due to him that so
many people have resigned. That's his
tactics. He acts so arbitrarily that many
gentlemen have resigned from the organi-
zation. and he wants to handle the rest Of
the men like 81 much mush.
But he can't do me that way continued
Mr- Neuberger, hes got one man in his
board that he never bucked before. He
said 10 me to-day, I don't want TO offend
you by what I say and I said 10 him.
You! YOui Well. who are you? Do you
think your size scares me" You know the
bigger they are the better I like EN- The
board viii certainly take some action Mon
day I am willing to bow 10 the will Of the
majority. but I think the whole organiza-
ton is tired OF M Savay. and won't stand
for his nonsense any longer
In the anteroor1 Of Mr.. Savey's Office at
No 5G7 Fifth avenue hangs a motto just
Ike this: "Whosoever thou art. Thou art
earnestly requested by Aldus 70 state thy
business briefly and TO take thy departure
promptly. IN this way thou nayest be OF
service. even as was Hercules 20 the weary
Atlas. For this IS place OF work for all
who may enter"
AIdus in the form OF Mr.. Savay was
talking 10 2 small man, who was endeavor-
ing 10 take his departure promptly but
each time he half arose Mr.. Savay pushed
him firmly into his seat. and the small man
patted his right leg nervously and heard
more.
No sir" said Mr.. Savay few minutes
later. we did not have q meeting. Seven
constitutes a quorum, and there were only
six trustees present