Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-16
Chicago the Scene of an Odd
Campaign Against Alleged
Comics"
HUNDRED YEARS OF GROWTH.
Centennial History of Chicago Now in
Preparation VIII Tell n Wonder
ful Story of Progress.
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day for the SONS and daughters of Erin |
in Chicago for isn't President Taft the
guest of the Irish Fellowship club tho
day and good luck to him? The Irish
Literary society started the war on
the sale of postcards, pigs, pipes. pad
dies" whisky bottles, hods. and other
green goods fora green people, and went
about 1t systematically, a committee
being appointed to visit the stores and
make a list OF those which displayed
the Objectionable pictures and souve-
Mrs. In this the police force was no
small aid. for the officer Is compare
lively rare whose name does not bear
unmlstakable testimony to families OF
Ireland. In fact the city's official list
has strong Irish ring To It from e ].
Mullaney. Mayor Busse's secretary and
factotum, down to tho sidewalk and
sewer inspectors. The Irish Fellowship
clubs prior invitation to President
Taft seemed u dozen times likely to
upset plans of prominent Republican
and commercial bodies. for it was made
plain to them that in Chicago the presi-
dent was q guest of the irish first last
and all the time.
WEIGHING THE MAILS.
The huge task OF Weighing the malls
on railroads extending west of the Mis-
sissippi and Missouri rivers has been
prepared for in Chicago general offices
with special care. because of evidence
OF overcharginS which has been sub
mitted 10 the postofllce committee of
Cong greSS In proof that the poStoff1ce
deficit Is In part due to excessive pay
for transportation. Each year mail
Weighing Is done in one of four sections
into which the country has been divided
by the poStoffice department, and this
year the district west of the Mississippi
has Its turn. For 105 days from noon.
Feb. IL. every pouch and sack will be
weighed by government clerks at every
postal station to determine the pay to
| the railways for the ensuing four years.
| There has been lively shipping OF
scales and of blanks. The western
malls have grown at an astounding
| rate. for advertising has tremendously
| increased the letter mall (first class)
| os we'll as the third and fourth classes.
| especially the general advertising In
| periodicals. This was illustrated by the
| showing made to the congressional COM
| mlttees that one months nllilingS of
| Woman's World from Chicago, on
| which $1,000 of postage was paid, pro-
| duCed postal business within 30 days
| for half of the advertisers amounting
to over $4,000 profitable postal busl-
| ness that helped to reduce the post
| office deficit This year the Weighing
of mails Will be made with especial
| reference to the second class revenues
| and transportation expenses. tho S32,-
900. 900 deficit caused by the rural free
deliveries and the marvellous annual
| growth of mails OF all kinds. For a
| long time the railroads have been en-
| deavoring to have the method of weigh
| ing tho mails changed. so that the COM
| pensation can be fixed annually instead
! of every four years. In the west, they
say, the amount OF mall carried IN
| crcases by a large amount during the
| four-year period. In many cases the
| heavy mall of a magazine. for instance,
| has been transferred from one road to
| another by n change I'm tho location of
| the publishing office, so that one road
has been paid for business IT did not
| handle while the other road carried the
additional weight free.
HISTORY OF CHICAGO.
| From outpost garrison to city of
| the world power is the record of Chi
cago which will be told In n centen-
NAL history now in process of prepara-
| ton by Il board of editors which In
| cludes ]. Seymour Currey, honorary
vice president of the Illinois Historical
society, Bishop Fallows. Judge Hold
| ON. Isham Randolph. Justice Carter
and Congressman Boutell among 9TH
| ers. The story now Is to be told in
| full from the year of 1878, when the
written record was begun by Father
| Marquette on his voyage of discovery
| with Joliet The lore of historical So
| cictics is to be compiled into five vol
umes which are likely to revive many
forgotten episodes of the city's as
| founding development from footpaths
| to subways Disputed points are now
being settled and Photographic copies
| are being made of all the paintings
| and pictures of landmarks and carly
| day structures, of old Fort Dearborn
| with block houses at the corners fac
Ing John IIinzie's house across the
| Chicago river. and the first postofIice.
one of logs. built on the prairie in 1888.
where now Is the approach to the Lake
street bridge. The days when packet
boats piled daily up and down the IL
linois and Michigan canal-tho Tad
| pole ditch" of todny-have been point
ed to az most important to tho des-
| tinies OF the commerce which has
built the city to n point whore Il now
| Is growing by the very immensity of
| its population. Tho great fire and
the worlds fair are other mllestones
pointed to as tho significant events of
Chlcago's century of existence.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.
That congressman who fail to ''hus-
tie for" the postal savings bank bill
Will hear Enthusiastically from their con-
| stituentS is daily shown in the mail of
| the Postal Savings Bank league In let
tcrs from rich and poor md In all parts
of the country. even the east Occa-
| sonal letters from bankers disclose the
| diverse views among them. also a lack
| of personal knowledge of the measure.
| The dlctum OF the American Bankers
association is accepted with compla-
cepcy by some Breckenridge Jones,
president of big st. Louis bank
wrote: You assume very much in
lecturing on patriotism on a question
| on which the American bankers have
| expressed q negative opinion" The
| reply to Mr. Jones pointed out that
| members of the American Bankers
| association seemed to regard as pre-
sumptuous any divergence from views
expressed by that body and added,
1--WE venture to gay. Mr.. Jones. that
| you have not yourself read the Carter
| bill Is. $3.50 and considered 1t care
fully, for we have found time after
| time that objections raised by bankers
were against things they believed were
in the bill, but which, rs matter of
! fact, were not We are-surc that YOU
as q fair-mlnded banker. will see that
| not only the people but the banks VIII
benefit by a measure which Is certain
| to bring out OF hiding hundreds of mill
| lions OF dollars now withheld from cir