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The Falls City tribune., 1910-12-16
: MISSOURI PACIFIC DIVISION
What 1t Really Means to Falls City and a Few Good
Things That it Brings With 1t.

there are fifteen large, convenient
office rooms including the offices of
chief dispatcher, division superintend-
ent, traffic manager, yard master, etc
and their assistants. The rooms are
light and airy, equipped with a per-
feet system of electric lights and
bells and in finish and furnishing are
an exceptionally finee and handsome.
Probably one of the most remark
able equipments at the yards is the
Holman patent coaling station of 400
ton coal capacity and 100 ton sand.
1t works automatically. five buckets
on either side carrying the coal up
or down by the simple pressure of a
button. In coaling an engine the
supply may be stopped instantly-it
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tween the round house and the repair
shop. This is a monolithic concrete
building built III keeping with the
other yard buildings. In the boiler
Don are two water tube boilers of
800 HIP each. In the engine room
we find two electrical units, one of
100 X. w. and one of so X. w, these
furnish all the electricity used for
lighting and the various motors.
There are two large service pumps,
pumping from driven wells and sup
plying water to all parts of the yard,
including a fire protection system.
This service is through a tank pres
sure, carrying a supply of 10000
gallons.
There is also a large air compress
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nssga sa@9 @ar1 ~ @a1aaL s@nalN2GA-A
"Tne Very Best We Couic
BY Walt Mason.

Said Abe. (the Nations greatest
mani: I do the very best I can;
and if my course is errine quite, no
argument can make it right, and if
il righteousness I'm strong, no
sopnistry can make it wrong; SO, be
the critic, for or friend, Ill do my
best until the end The fact is
CALLING to relate, but some of us can
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ten inch sewer pipe in the main yards
which carries all sewage 10 the ten
inch conduct pipe which empties into
the lateral ditch a mile away.
The buildings and equipments are
much more extensive than original
ly planned that now, in order that
the different forces and crews may
here and make this at once the
point Of operation, it has been
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not be great; our ways obscure vel
have 10 tread, and hustle for cur
daily bread; our pictures neyer may
be seen In Who's Who book, or maya
zine; but if, upon the Day of Doom,
we come cayorting from the tomb
when sounds the final trumpet's notes
we wont be herded with the goats
if we can say (and make it good !;
1--WE did the very best We could. -
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at the yards the pay roll has aver
aged IS, 900 per month.
The enlarged force of men brought
here means a pay roll much larger
than was estimated last year. These
people become residents of our city,
consequently ii means more and bet
ter business for our merchants. II
will invite other lines of business and
more people. Thus one good thing
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is not necessary to empty a whole BIN
whether that amount is needed or not
There is positively no waste coal and
will result in a saving of at least
- per ZEN in coal. A button places
the sand buckets in operation and
four on either side carry the sand
from cars to bin. 1t is automatical-
" sifted, every particle of gravel and
coarse sand is removed before it is
stored and only the best is carried
back again by the buckets to the ten
der of the locomotive. The coaling
station, too, will be operated by elect
richly but until the power plant is
complete an engine is employed to
furnish power. The cinder pit close
by is also constructed along newest
and most improved lines and is a big
saving in both labor and material.
The yards are fully a mile and a
quarter long, and 10 tracks wide. A
bout twelve miles OF traekage have
beer laid including two ladder tracks,
the six tracks necessary for storing
coal, eoaling locomotive, taking them
in and out of the round house, three
for repair tracks which accommodate
about 100 ears and two tracks to the
power house and shops.
\ complete and perfect sewerage
system takes care of every drop of
waste water and sewerage throughout
yards. There is more than a mile of
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or which supplies compressed air at
at 100 lbs. used to operate all the
boiler makers tools, for forge blasts,
and for the repair tools in the round
house, pipe lines being installed to
all parts of the machine shop and the
round house. Connected with the
power house we find a reinforced col
crete stack. ) feet in diameter and
$50 feet high.
Repair shops are also of monoleth-
ic concrete with flexible glass dome
and when complete will likely be the
most handsome building at the yards.
Within the repair shops are four
locomotive repair pits. a complete
boiler repair shop, a complete forge,
master mechanics office, brass room,
etc. 1t is equipped with steam and
compressed air lines extending to all
parts of the shop, which also operate
various tools and machinery employed
All the floor tools will be driven by
electric motor. This building also
will be steam heated and fan venti-
lated. Every modern improvement
and convenience has been installed,
and the equipment is as complete as
in shops many times its size. About
200 men will be employed in the
shops.
The office building, modern in ev-
cry respect, would be a compliment tC
a city of so 900 inhabitants. In all
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found necessary to make many tenn
porary arrangements for lights, wa
tertanks, pumping station etc. The
recent snow and cold weather was
bad for the contractors having the
work in charge tho the ideal fall
and early winter weather We're all in
theisiqvor.
ltSa9ay be surprising to many to
know that for the past ten months
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Cummings: l wouldn't know
the difference. Where the for
eigners do not colonize and the
children have a chance to learn
English they are very quick to
learn.
Here Supt. Cummings inter-
rupted the account with: "Why,
out of 40 children in our seventh
grade the first place this year was
held by a Greek boy! l forgot to
tell that to Col. Roosevelt. But /
told him they were taken out of
school as rule the minute they
were ID and put to work. In our
high school class this year only
four boys were graduated. Some
years there have not been any.
They go to work, the boys in the
breakers, the girls in the mills.
at work SO close and exacting that
If we gave anything as hard in
school we would be called cruel.
THAT watching of threads, that
constant alertness and tension Is
printed on the girls faces in hard
and drawn features. They look
Continued ON Page Three.l
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talked with the ex-president told
me of their meeting with him.
The region visited by Col.
Roosevelt Gin company with Ly-
man Abbott, jr., and Misses Flor
ence Sanville and Fannie Cochran,
social workers) lies about Scran-
ton and Wilkes-Barre. The
ground covered was marvellous.
The best sections were investi.
gated, and so were the worst.
Col. Roosevelt went into the
homes of towns like Dickson, and
Olyphant, where there are cleo.
trio street lights and other inn
provements, as well as into the
struggling communities on the
mountain sides.
People there in Dickson, Oily
phant and Jessup say they have
the best and steadiest mines In
the country. There about about
10000 people in the district.
It's series OF towns along the
rough, dusty road. with houses
and stores, all frame, crowding
down to the roadside. From this
thoroughfare lead struggling
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streets with more nondescript
houses, rare grass plot now and
then. lots of out-cropping rock,
and some houses, notably those
in the mill district of Jessup, that
are little more than sheds.
One of the first visits Col.
Roosevelt made was to M. w.
Cummings, superintendent of the
Olymphant schools. Supt. Cum
|mings was one of those who
fought to get the Pennsylvania
child labor law, which went into
effect Jan. 1, 1910.
I'm 1907 / found T2 children
in six weeks in the mills and
breakers who were under age"
said Supt. Cummings. "When
the law went into effect the mum
Der was tsill SO great that in Dick
son they had to 4 open two
When asked what Col. Roose-
welt had inquired. he detailed the
conversation thus:
Col. Roosevelt: OF what ma
tionaiity and religion are the for
eign people who live In this dis
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TAXES
SLOGAN At
MEETING
Lower taxes.

Lower taxes.
Every body wants the assessed
valuation reduced and the levy
cut.
That was the unanimous opin-
ion of the citizens who packed
the federal court room last night
at the Chamber of Commerce tax
But how to do it and raise
money enough to meet the de-
mands made by the people is the
question.
Public officials, the city COM
mission, the park board, the Ii
brary board. the school board and
the county commissioners, all in
sist they need more money to do
the things the people want done.
Views Did Not Harmonic.
The question is now how can
both horns of the dilema be TAX
en-.
All sorts of opinion we're in
evidence last night. Some want
ID the assessment of real estate
,ut-they owned real estate.
others wanted the taxes cut on
personal property to encourage
manufacturing had person
II property or wanted to attract it
Here. There was no way of har-
nonizing the different views and
he meeting finally quit with a
movement started to form a COM
nittee of 25 to institste per-
nanent tax league that will dis
'uss and investigate thoroughly
he whole problem of local taxa
son.
County Commissioner Dickson
XContinued on Page Seven.)
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Margaret Ellington Putting On
Finishing Touches
SCENERY AND COSTUMES ARRIVE REHEARsALs ARE
DAILY.

Margaret Ellington Bowes. who
has been rehearsing her new play.
Until Eternity" which will have
its first production at the Tacoma
theater on Friday, August &c,
beginning a two-nights' engage
nent, is now daily engaged in put
ting the finishing touches upon
the production in which she ex-
poets to exceed even the success
she made in The Thief" which
dramatic reviewers everywhere
pronounced one of the finest ex-
amples of dramatic work seen I'm
a decade.
During next week Mrs. Bowes
intends to establish a series of
dress rehearsals to continue until
a day or two previous to the pro-
duction on August 26. In doing
80 the company will practically
have the advantage of a series of
performances which will insure an
exceedingly smooth presentation
when Until Eternity" is first
given to the public.
Scenery Here.
The scenery and properties.
which are described as represent
ing the highest perfection of stage
production, have already arrived
from New York, so that every
thing Is ready for the final re-
lhearsals.
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FEAR CHANGE FOR WORST
IN MAYOR GAYN0R

The physicians are not agreed
as to the value of the X-ray in
determining the location of the
bullet. Several declare that it
would be unsafe to operate with
out any other guide than that of
the X-ray. A consultation is
planned for tonight upon the
question of an operation.
New X-ray plates developed to-
day show that the bullet is lodged
la the vault of the pharynx, back
of the nose, whence it could be
quickly extracted if an operation
were undertaken. The patient
has difficulty in swallowing, ow-
ing to the location of the missile.
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|trict?
Cummings: They are mixed.
mostly Slavonians and Russians.
and of Catholic faith.
Roosevelt: What amusements
does the place afford for the
young people?
Cummings: Some nickeIet
picture shows, poolrooms, and the
Holy Ghost dance hall, rented for
lodge parties. But the dances for
the foreigners are rare.
Roosevelt: Are there any Ii
braries?
Cummings: None except. some
circulating book shelves in drug
stores.
Roosevelt: Is there a working
age law in effect for children now
and is it observed?
Cummings: There Is a four
teen-year age law, and / believe
it is observed, at least by all the
children that l have to do with.
Roosevelt: How do the chill
dren Of foreign parentage do in
|schoola Are they as apt at learn
ling as the American childreng
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at clackling machines-girls and
boys whose weazen faces serve
well to back up their certificates
of age--they look old before they
are twenty.
For this is one of the coun-
try's most notable districts
for the coming of youth into
money.
/ have talked with Supt. Cum
minis and with Father Murphy,
with John Pressman and Matthew
Kavanaugh and Mrs. Ely, just as
did Roosevelt, and l have climbed
the stair of the johnson breaker
to the place where Col. Roosevelt
stood when he talked to Fred Da-
Wis, the breaker boy. and have
talked to the boy himself there.
And this Is the story of what 1
saw and Of what the people who
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DOROTHY DALE.
BY Dorothy Dale.

SCRANTON, Pa, Aug III
came here to see the things Col.
Roosevelt saw in his trip through
the anthracite country, and to
talk to the people with whom he
talked.
A bleak and unlpvely mountain
country; struggling stringtowns
along mud roads,; squalid and
dingy houses; towering break
ers" that roar like thunder mills;
barn-like factories, noisy with the
whir of myriads of spindles-
these are some of the things one
sees here. Also one sees little
boys working all day in the dust
and roar of the breaker, and lit
tie girls carrying heavy loads of
bobbins and winding and lacing
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After a lengthy conference, the
only word vouchsafed was THAT
the president and the senator dis
cussed politics and rubber" 1t
is believed that Mr.. Aldrich in
formed the president that he in
tended to issue further statements
answering Senator Bristow's
change that Aldrich voted for In
creased rubber rates while inter
ested in a rubber company.
The insurgents are expecting
the Kansas senator to ask Aldrich
to explain a little more fully the
reasons for the charter changes
and the increase of power given
the company, as he charges was
done.
Where VIII Taft Stand?
The fact that Senator Aldrich
Continued on Page Eight.)
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The politicians are seeing the handwriting on the
wall, and Joe Mitchell has taken "the PLEDGE
Not the total abstinence pledge, but the senator
ial pledge, agreeing to abide by the peoples choice
and vote for the primary nominee for senator in the
legislature.
Joe filed for the legislature without the pledge.
tie take the pledge? Not much! Why should he
pledge? Wasn't he Joe Mitchell, county chairman
and would-be political boss2 Think he would pledge
himself and perhaps have to vote for Poindexter9
Well, not this year!
That was Joe's attitude when he filed a couple of
weeks ago when the campaign was new and the party
bosses and the interests were cheSty
But the people have begun to talk Straws are
Iflutterlng around showing the popular currents of
Thought to be for the rule of the people, not the rule
of the bosses for the interests and the politicians
have heard something
Yesterday Mitchell sneaked up to the auditors
office and filed pledge to supplement his candi-
dacy, agreeing to VOTE if elected, for the peoples
choice
Concede Nomination to Poindexter
There is no shadow of doubt about the proposition
that the interests and the politicians are in con-
splracy to defeat the will of the people for senator
I'm Washington. The Wilson Ashton Burke cabal
openy hints that if Pondexter gets the nomination.
las they all by their actions practically concede
he will, that the legislature will not heed the voice of
the people. In other Words if Poindexter has the
people, the politicians expect Wilson, Burke and
Ashton to rush to the legislature with their barrels
and try to buy the toga which the people have all,
READY conferred.
Finds Things Are Different
And MITCHELL as the willing tool of the bigger
bosses was in the deal He filed for the Legislature
without the pledge and expected the people to elect
hlm as they have elected party bosses in the past
But he discovers that times are changing He dis
covered that he was likely not to get to the egsla
ure at all to vote for anybody for senator and SO he
broke for shelter
Whether the people will take much stock in this
sort OF deathbed repentance remains to be seem
AT all events it points clear course for other lee
slative candidates.
P. S.-The above article likewise applies to O. W.
Barlow. Barlow filed for the legislature Tuesday,.
but didn't take the pledge His friends were as
founded but Barlow was firm Yesterday the Times
had something to say about it, and before noon todav
Mr.. Barlows pledge was filed at the court housed
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WHAT WILL.
TAF'1 D0?!


D. G., Aug 12-The conference between Pres
W. Aricl, following the pubca
and the charges by Senator
is trust and derives
nroats from the tariff political
From the political
campaign viii be effort to explain the
whole further predict that the clash be-
tween which republican leaders
he primaries will be
even more erya as campaign advances
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Jimmie Still Has His Little Dog
Though 1t Has a Bandaeed Leg

Little Jimmy O'Hara, 3OO1
Madison street, was down at the
dock with his dog.
He was busy playing, and did
not notice the dog. The pup,
however, got into trouble in some
manner and a thoughtless person
slashed him with knife, cutting
bad cash in his leg.
Persons waiting saw the dog
limping and blood streaking the
dock.
Jimmy's attention was called to
1t and he was told to take the dog
and have him fixed up BIB a doctor.
But Jimmy is just a newsboy
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and his pockets were not bulging
with money and he hesitated to
bother a doctor.
j. K. Ingersoll, chief clerk to
the vice president of the Milwau-
kee railway here, saw the situa-
ton and calling an express wagon
he bundled Jimmy and the bleed
ing dog into it and told the driver
to deliver them to the Doctors Of
flee. Then he called up the doc
tor and told him what to do.
Jimmy and the dog are both
out again today and the dog has
his leg sewed neatly with a rag
around to keep out the dirt.
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Harmon Takes ;
Hand Again

CLEVELAND, o., Aug. 12.-
Acting upon Information that
gambling was permitted at the
Randall racetrack with the ac-
auiescence of the authorities, Gov.
Harmon today telephoned Sheriff
Hirstius to stop the alleged vio-
lation of the law. The governors S
action was prompted by the al
legged failure of the authorities
of Newark to enforce the law and
the resultant riots in that city.
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And They All
Sign Pledge

The following candidates filed
with the county auditor this morn
Ing: Ernest M. Card, judge of the
superior court; Wesley l.. Lloyd
democrat, representative, Thirty
eighth Legislative district; Fred r.
Taylor, of Steilacoom, representa- :
tive Thirty sixth district; ]. II. East
erday, representative, Thirty-sev-
enth district; VIM. ID. Askren, rep
resentative, Thirty-sixth district.
All the Legislative candidates filed
the pledge.
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MITCHELL and BARLOW flee To COVER
fires RAISE
THE DEVIL

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
MISSOULA, Mont, Aug. IL
1.-THE forest fire situation looks
worse. The high winds that have
been blowing along the Montana
Idaho divide are raising the very
devil" In these words Forester
Silcox of the forest service sum-
med up the condition of fires in
Western Montana today. At Bear
creek the forest confagration to-
day swept away tents, tools and
equipment of the fire fighting
forces stationed there, men and
pack horses barely escaping with
their lives.
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By United Press Leased Wire. }

HOBOKEN, N. j., Aug. 12.-
The following bulletin was issued
at st. Mary's hospital at Z o'clock
this morning:
Mayor Gaynor passed a good
night. He slept seven hours and
was comfortable this morning. He
is in excellent general condition.
Temperature 100; pulse TO- res
piration 16."
A surgeon who will direct an
operation upon the patient, if such
is determined upon, is constantly
on watch beside the mayor. APP
prehenSion is felt that infection
may appear.
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HELENA, Mont, Aug. IA
Thomas Daley and f. @. McDon-
aid. Great Falls census enumera-
torres, pleaded guilty to padding
census returns in the federal court
yesterday afternoon and were sem
fenced to twenty-fOur hours in jail
and fined 81. 900 each.
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The Second infantry, Montana
national guard, left Camp Cos
grove this afternoon in response
to a dispatch from the governor
ordering them to join the forces
fighting forest fires on the Mon
tana-Tdaho line.
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Augustine Angelcake was on a
ranch for the first time. For the
first time did Augustine stack up
against the wild part of the woolly
west.
Augustine sauntered forth to
examine the cows and other ag-
ricultural implements.
About the soonest thing he saw
was a ntive Texas steer.
so, boss" cooed Augustine,
tripping up to pet it.
Some moments later they iden-
titled him by his red necktie.
(THE END.)
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BEATS WORLDS RECORD
FOR AEROPLANE

LONDON, Aug. 12.-The
worlds record for altitude in
an aeroplane flight was>bro-
ken here today by j. Arm
strong Drexel, an American
millionaire, He attained a
height of 6750 feet.
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I q : q U : D fUV WHIIUI HdU UVtII
signed that day at the White
House. This particular one
meant, it said, that Spain should
take its troops out of the West
Indies at once, release all claim
to Cuba, cede Porto Rico an6
other islands to the United States
which would also hold Manila
pending the conclusion of a treaty
of peace.
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See Handwriting On
Wall and Take Pledge
Both Agree to Vote for Peoples Choice for Senator
to Save Themselves Even Though They Concede
It Will Be for Poindexter
HERE Is THE PLEDGE.

II hereby declare to the people Washington
ana particularly legislative district
OF Office always will
senator who has received the highest
position
eeing the election senaor; and in such
cases there shall be opposite or
Just below said candidates
vote for party choice United States senate"
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LOUISVILLE, Aug. 12.-That
Miss Lille Hunt died as the re-
suit of swallowing her false teeth,
the near-molars lodging in her
throat and strangling her. is the
verdict of the coroner's Jury here
to-day. She was chewing gum to
keep her mind off her work while
sweeping i'm her home and alb
stractedly detached her removable
teeth, swallowing them.
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Here is one woman who doesn't
want alimony from her divorced
husband. Nellie b. Perkins filed
n motion In the superior court
asking that she be permitted to
rent out her house and to relieve
.. F. Perkins from the obligation
Of paying her $40 month. She
asks the court TO allow her TO take
her son. Cecil. to Idaho, where the
qry climate viii improve his
lealth.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-12

The biggest reunion of Spanish
American war veterans held in
the Northwest for some time will
be at a banquet by John R.
Thompson camp at the Armory
Tuesday night in honor of the
visiting members. 1t is expected
500 Will be present. All the COM
panies of soldiers at Camp Cos
grove have some Spanish war men
among them, and several of the
officers saw service in the Philip
pines.