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Connecticut western news., 1910-09-29
CIVIL WAR NURSES AND OFFI- CIALS REVIEWING PARADE.

CIVIL WAR NURSES AND OFFI-
 GALS REVIEWING PARADE. steps not so, sprightly as they once were, but with the same spirit they marched the broad avenues of the city and were acclaimed by great crowds of people who came to see the chief feature of the forty-fourth annual en- campment of the Grand Army of the Republic.
 Forty-four states in the Union which they helped to preserve were represented in the procession, and, while the parade was not as large as those of other years, there was plenty of enthusiasm as the veterans march ed past. Every building along the line of march was hidden by the draped national colors, and the side walks were massed with people, whose interest did not cease until the last of the line had passed.
 The commander in chief was sta toned at the end of the route, where he reviewed the remnants of a once great army. Vice President Sherman and Governor Fort of New Jersey also reviewed the parade from the grand stand, they being guests of honor of MT. Van Sant. ...
Connecticut western news., 1910-09-29
HIT TARGETS 6 MILES AWAY.
Atlantic Fleet Gunners Able to Hit
 Anything In Sight.

The Atlantic fleet, the pride of the American navy, has demonstrated that mo mark is too small for it to hit if 1t is shown anywhere above the hort- zon.
 Eight of the sixteen big battleships forming the first squadron and headed by Rear Admiral Schroeder's flagship, the Connecticut, peppered four targets, each one-fifth the size of an ordinary warship, at a range greater than 10000 yards, or more than six miles, in Hampton Roads, Va.
Connecticut western news., 1910-09-29

ening letter. She promised to give Mr. Roosevelt good sound thrashing." She called the colonel "one of the great est scoundrels the nation has ever known" Those who heard of Mrs. von Claussen's threats are afraid that she will carry thSm out if she can get close to MT. Roosevelt.
 MT. Roosevelt said that he had never seen Mrs. vOn Claussen and that, fur thermore, he would pay no attention to the complaint that she had been refused an interview at the court of Sweden through the machinations of MT. Roosevelt and Ambassador Charles Graves. Robert Bacon, ambassador to France, and Alice Wright Graves are also mentioned. Mrs. von Claussen has made the same complaint before.
Connecticut western news., 1910-09-29
BUSINESS CARDS

THE CANFIELD," CANAAN, Ct An up-to-date hotel All the mod ern conveniences. Service unsur- passed. A step from the station.
Connecticut western news., 1910-09-29
6. A. R. VETERANS MARCH.

Boys In Blue Hold Forty fourth En-
 campment at Atlantic City.
 The civil war heroes once more pass ed in review before their commander in chief, Samuel R. Van Sant of Min nesota, in Atlantic City, N. J. With
Connecticut western news., 1910-09-29

W. SLEIGHTER. PAINTER -
 Houses, Signs, Wagons, Etc. Guar
 anteed work. CANAAN, CONN. (Wilcox Shop.)
Connecticut western news., 1910-09-29

L, c. RHoADES, BARBER SHOP. Three Chairs. Prompt Service.
 Ladies' and Children's work solic-
 ited Garfield Bldg, Canaan, Ct.
Connecticut western news., 1910-09-29

GANCI & ORBEN-Shaving and Hair Dressing Parlors. Ladies and chill dren's work a speciality.
 Canaan, Conn. Tn the Garfield"
Connecticut western news., 1910-09-29

A. L. HUGINS, Blacksmithing, Horse Shoeing. Wagon Making, Wood.
 work, Iron Work, Painting, Etc. Church Street, CANAAN, CONN.
Connecticut western news., 1910-09-29
WOMAN AFTER ROOsEvELL

Mrs. Ida Won CIaussen Declares She'll
 Thrash Him.
 Mrs. Ida von Claussen went to Saratoga to whip Colonel Roosevelt Just before the colonel called on Senator Root Mrs. von Claussen sent by a special messenger threat
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
JAPANESE MINISTER
To CHILL WARNS
AGAINST EM|GRANTS
Declares South Filling With
Jap Gamblers-Fears a
Repetition of Pacific
Coast Trouble.

TOXIC, Feb. 5.-Mr. Heki, Japan
csc representative in Chile, reports
most unfavorably on the character
of the immigrants entering South
America from Japan. He alleges
that many of them are men with
out any fixed trade, with whom
gambling Is a business, while some
of them act as hucksters, walking
about with trays suspended from
their necks, selling cakes. The
minister believes that unless very
much greater care is exercised in
selecting emigrants an anti-Japan-
csc movement may be experienced
in South America. similar to that
which has caused so much trouble
on the Pacific slope. Meantime
the Japanese authorities are max
ing efforts to colonize Formosa. 1t
is announced that 1860 families will
shortly be settled in the Taito re-
gion of the island.
FOSTER HATRED FOR JAPs.
Feeling against the Japanese is
apparently being sedulously fos-
tered in Manchuria. Toxic news
papers publish an account of a
school said to exist in Mukden
mainly for this purpose. The re-
cent boycott of Japanese goods in
that city was doubtless due mainly
to the affair of the Mukden-An-
tung railway, but it is asserted that
the seeds were sewn in this school,
where the principal item of the cur
riculum is. the greatness of the
Flowery Middle Kingdom.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
LABOR NEWS % S % F.. k S UNION NOTES.
UNION PRINTERS OF THE MA 7ION GIVE ONE ID
MINUTE EACH DAY TO SUPPORT OF HOME
Have Bullded Sanitarium
Valued at 100000 at
Colorado Springs.

A library which has been added
to the Union Printers home re-
Gently was erected at a cost OF
$4,000. This money was volun-
tarily contributed by the member
ship of the International Typo
graphical union. The library houses
10000 volumes, gifts of union print.
ers and employers throughout the
country. The new building contains
an up to date kitchen, with modern
utensils, serving room, refrigera-
ton plant, bakery, store room, serv-
ants dining room and other modern
conven!ences. The library addition
is to be dedicated February 16.
One minute of his working time
even day is wha. every union
printer in North America gives as
his mite toward the maintenance of
the Union Printers home at Colo
rada Springs, Col. Every month
every one of the $4,000 members of
the International Typographical I'M
ion pays an assessment of Is cents
half cent day. or less than the
amount the average printer will
earn in a minutes working time. 1t
Is small sacrifice, but it is this
small sacrifice, coming from every
man. working in cooperation with
his fellow laborers, which gives the
home an annual fund of 100000 for
maintenance and improvements.
In the beginning, George w.
Childs and A. J. Drexel made a gift
of $4,000 to the International
Typographical union. With this as
the nucleus. the home fund was
started. Since the foundations for
the main building were laid, in 1891,
nearly 100000 has been spent in
buildings. furnishings. improve
ments and maintenance. Every cent
Of this, with the exception of the
Childs-Drexe fund and the income
from the Julia A. Ladd endowment
of $1,000. has been contributed by
the printers themselves.
Not only has the Union Printers
home proven to the world splen-
did example of what can be accom-
plished by harmonious cooperation.
but it has been to other labor I'M
ions and to fraternal organizations
an inspiration because of its hui
manitarian features. 1t has been
the pioneer institution in it's field
and has become the model from
which others copy ideas and meth
DDS. The Modern Woodmen Of
America have recently opened their
sanitarium north of Colorado
Springs. while the National Associa-
ton of Letter Carriers has selected
that city as the site for their home.
A number of other organizations
are considering the plan, and in
many cases it has been an investi-
cation of the Union Printers home
that has decided their committees
to recommend the building of such
an institution.
The property, which stands on a
commanding eminence east of Colo
RADIO Springs, is today valued at
$1.000.0O0. When. 20 years ago,
this tract was barren prairie land,
which could have been bought up
for few dollars an acre.
OF the residents. some there are
who are cripples: some are blind;
many are old; and numbers have
been "exiled" with a death sentence
from tuberculosis. but are slowly
building up the bodies that have
been wasted. by disease. And the
hearts of all beat true to that
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
HUNDRED OF men
. MADE IDLE
Stor Buses Displace Half
Hundred Horse Buses in
One Week in London.

{! LONDON. Feb. 5.-The disap.
pearance of the horse drawn omni.
bus, to give way to the swiftel
motor bus, has steadily and rapidly
taken place in the streets of Lon
don. Now one of the last hopes of
the old horse bus has been doomed
by the amalgamation of the London
General Omnibus Co. with the Van
guard and Roar Car Cos. The i'm
mediate effect of this has been the
removal of SO horse omnibuses this
week from the London streets.
Few people will regret the prog
ress of motor power, of which this
is sign. In itself it is an excellent
thing that street traffic should be
uniform, swift and clean. There is
no excuse for sentimentality over
the passing of the omnibus horse.
But, unfortunately, progress for the
majority often brings temporary
disaster to minority, and it has
happened in this case. The removal
of those 80 omnibuses of the old
fashioned kind has thrown out of
work so drivers, 80 conductors, and
hostlers, stablemen, harness men
and others to the number of about
100 more. -e
These men. most of whom have
wives and families, suddenly find
themselves at the beginning of the
year thrust out of work, and so far
without any prospect of finding
work. They also complain bitterly
that the company did not give them
any notice.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06

ry either of us what we will do
with the money he earns, with only
one child to rear and educate and
to pay doctor bills and pay for =
bone and look out for old age
What is worrying US Is to devise
ways of making his wages reach. :
SOMETHING WRONG HERE.
There is certainly something
wrong in this city, and don't
think that to raise the wages would
help one bit, but there Ia one thing
that would help, and that is to cut
out the grating, which Is the ruin
alton of any city. II the labQring
man got 25-cent raise, how many
grafters would sharpen their PEN
ellis and begin figuring how to get
that 25 cents? The price of every
thing is too high compared with
the price of work, and 1t Is any
thing but a boost for Spokane"
The letter is duly signed by the
writer's name, but out of courtesy
it is withheld from publication.
This letter ably voices the senti-
ments and pleads the cause of the
general run of the laboring people
in the whole city of Spokane.
The mayors Question:: III your
salary was raised what would you
do with the money!" which 10 con-
tanned In the printed slips sent out
to the iaborino people to assist in
the investigation, 10 generally an
swered after the following fashion:
~ would try to buy home with H."
Another which asks: "What ne
cessities do you deny yourseIf?" %
generally answered, "cLoTHEs."
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
NOTED SCULPTOR TO
MARRY AMERICAN
GIRL
Frederick MacMonnies Quits
Important Work for Nup-
tials-Bride Daughter of
u. S. Senator.

PARIS, Feb. 5.-The interference
of Cupid may result in a delay In
the artistic works which Sculptor
Frederick MacMonnies is now en-
gagged upon. Sculptor MacMonnies
has ceased work entirely upon the
Denver pioneers monument and
fastened away to Rome to prepare
for his nuptials to Miss Alice Jones,
a daughter of ex-United States Sen
ator Jones of Nevada.
For upwards of fortnight Mr..
MacMonnies worked with feverish
haste upon the monument. but the
call of love could not be disar-
ranged. 1t requires a great deal of
red tape when foreigners marry In
Italy, so that Mr.. MacMonnies may
be compelled to spend some time in
Rome, preparing for the ceremony
which will take place there.
Ultimately the bride and groom
will go to America and make their
future home in New York.
81 love America and want to COM
plete living there" said the sculp-
tor before leaving for Rome. MY
greatest works have been OF Amer
lean scenes. | wish my greatest
works of the future to typify Amer
lean ideals"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
RAILROAD BUILDERS
STALLED; WAITING
ON FRANCHISE

NORTH YAKIMA, Feb. 5.-The
North Coast railway may have to
secure another franchise before 1t
can build through this city. It's pres
ent franchise calls for the line up
First avenue, while its right Of way
is between First and Second ave-
nues. A conference took place to-
day between Engineer Pittman of
the North Coast and the county
commissioners to settle upon the
new location of the county road
through Union gap, below North
Yakima, so that the North Coast
may build through. Nothing def
mite came of the conference. The
road cannot begin construction
through this difficult pass until this
matter Is settled.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
NEARLY TWO MILLION IMMIGRANTS
CAME ACROSS ATLANTIC IN 1903
Less Than Half Million Cross to Old World-Passenger
Traffic Picking Up

LONDON, Feb. 5.-Some figures
respecting Atlantic passenger
traffic in 1909 are now available.
The preceding year. it may be re-
membered, was the worst on record
in the Europe-New York trade. The
returns now forthcoming suggest
only a moderate Improvement, the
excess over 1908 being just over
100000 travellers. Steerage traffic,
the backbone of the business,
shows an increase of $4,000 as re-
CARDS westbound passengers. But
there is drop of $4,000 in east
bound traffic of the same class.
This means the European emigra-
ton picked up handsomely, but
that the effect was largely neutral
ICED by the arrest of the exodus
from the United States which the
bad times of 1907-S brought about.
The steamship companies cannot
have it both ways. AS it Is. how
ever, their position is not alto
gether unenviable. In prosperous
periods they take out emigrants
from the old world. When America
Is suffering from trade depression
they bring some Of them back
again. When matters improve, peo-
pie emigrate again.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
FIFTY THOUSAND MEN
SUPPORTED BY
Necessity Forces Women to
Seek Work for Family's
Support in the Cities.

When Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
gave a jolt to the public the other
day by stating that $4,000 women
in New York were supporting their
husbands she did not speak rashly,
but was combining herself to figures
culled from the last census, 10
years ago.
"Now," says Mrs. Gait, the
times have been SO hard and con-
ditiOns have changed so much that
the number is probably doubled"
bands are living in innocuous
desuetude while the feminine half
of the firm thrusts her hatpins
firmly through her headgear and
starts downtown to hustle the liv-
jng,
"The number of women who are
helping to support their families by
working in a way that does not
reach the public---doing fancy work
women's eXchanges-can never be
known. In a city with a population
of approximately 100000 it Is a
conservative estimate to say that
several hundred thousand women
are part sharers in the money-mak-
ing end of the household"
"Why do women do it," she was
asked
ut usually starts from necessity"
she replied. THE man gets out of
work, can find no new job, rent day
and the grocer loom ominOusly. The
woman starts out to see what she
can do, and Is simply luckier than
the man in finding employment.
81 had a stenographer in my EN-
plOy whom had known before she
WAS married Her husband was a
highly educated man, teacher in a
boys school. but considerably older
than she. He was thrown out of a
position and 1t seemed impossible
for him to get one again. Then he
tried doing anything he could get.
He took jobs as night Waterman
and work of that kind, which to a
man of his equipment was a dis.
tinct comedown, and for which he
was badly equipped physically. The
little he made was insufficient TO
keep his wife and family, so she
took couple of boarders. and they
kept the family for whole winter.
Then the wife went back to her
business and as the man was max.
Ing so little. and someone had to
look after the children. the husband
quit his Job and stayed at home to
do So"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
OPTIMISTIC MAN
SEES VERY GOOD
TIMES AHEAD
Teamster Predicts So Much
Work That Teams and
Men Will Be Unable
to Handle It All.

work is going to open up in this
town at such lively pace within
the next few weeks that we can't
scrape together enough teams to
get away with it." Such is the
optimistic assertion made by a
prominent member of Spokane
Transfers union local No. 202. A
look through the business and resi-
dence district of the city and about
the streets of the outlying sections,
where preparations are already be-
ing made for a building boom and
street improvements would indicate
that perhaps this knight of the
leather lines comes near being right
in his predictions.
CHEER UP-IT'S NEARLY OVER.
Work has been going slowly for
many weeks, both for common Ia
borers and the transfers, as well
as practically all other outside
tradesmen. 1t has been said all
along that conditions were such
only for short but indefinite time,
and that as soon as weather condi-
tons would permit, the work would
open up on an extensive scale.
During the coming season devel-
opment work will be carried on in
all sections of the city at lively
pace. Street grading, sidewalking,
parking, leveling of building sites,
parks and lawns, excavations and
work of many other descriptions
will be on in full swing within a
comparatively short time. For some
time the common laborers and the
teamsters' busiest moments have
been in the fight for fair living
wage, but also men of skill in labor
and trades will come in for a share
in the benefits of building activity
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
RAISE IN WAGES WOULD
DO NO C00D,' WIFE SAYS
Laborng Mans Wife Blames Grafters for High Cost q
Living in Spokane.
Believes that if Wages Were Raised Two Bits Grafters
Would Immediately Figure to Get It.

What would be the chances for a
Iaboring man after the heart Of
Teddy Roosevelt, the advocate Of
large families, subsisting on the
Spokane Iaboring mans wage?
Such is practically the substance
Of question that has been asked
Of Mayor N. S. Pratt by the wife of
one of the city's Iaboring men who
has been attracted by the mayors
probe into the high cost of living.
CAN'T AFFORD APPLES.
eve have lived in this city about
eight months" this woman an
rounces to begin with. I'VE came
from Minnesota, and we have found
that it costs much more to live
here than it did there in cities
where everything the people eat
had to be shipped in, and here in
this city, SO near to where the prize
epples of the world are grown, the
laboring people cannot afford to eat
any such thing or even good, nour-
ishing food.
"My husband has cooked for the
laboring men and knows they re-
quire more good food than the man
who sits in the office, and certainly
man out in the cold requires
more clothing than the one in the
steam heated building There is
more wear and tear and yet less
money to buy; more exposure,
hence more liability to sickness.
CAME FROM FAMILY OF 10.
81 have often wondered how a
man with a family of Is children
would survive in this city. My
father supported such a family; fed
and clothed them and sent them to
school without a bit of outside help.
We never went to bed hungry and
our bill of fare was not corn
beef and cabbage. We had more
turkey dinners than l ever expect
to see here in the west. His girls
were not put in somebody's kitchen
to help support the family; not that
he thought it dishonor for girl
to work, but he figured that home
was the place for them.
him and his health just as precious
as a son of a millionaire; we came
here especially for his health.
GO TO NO ADJUSTMENTS.
"My husband has worked at
various kinds of hard labor since
we came here, and he has not been
looking for snaps. for we soon
found that for him to be idle meant
that we would run behind with oul
bills. Amusements are out of the
question. In the first place, il We
had the money we would not go tt
places of amusement downtown. II
our home there is no money spen
for tobocco, whiskey or smokes.
81 cook food according to my hus
bands work. When he works hare
he eats heartily and there are nj
fancy dishes here. 1t will not wOr
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
LAND INCREASES
500 PER CENT IN
VALUE; FIVE YEARS

= WEISER, Idaho, Feb. s. =
= For a consideration of $4,000 =
. a tract of land, known as the =
= Delbaere tract, comprising 100 =
. acres in the Weiser valley, =
. three miles west of this place, =
. has been sold to Miles Can =
. non, George Cooley and Fay =
= Lloyd. The buyers have cut =
. the entire tract into acre lots =
. and three of these have al Z
. ready been sold for 1915 each. Z
. This is another evidence of Z
. rapid increases in the value =
= of the land in this valley. This Z
= tract, when covered with sage Z
q brush about five years ago Z
= was purchased for $4,000. Z
q - = . . q . - = - q Z
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
BRICK LAYERS MAY
ASK INCREASE
in WAGES

Demand for an increase of 50
cents in wages is likely to be made
soon by the Bricklayers' union
This would bring their daily wage
Zip to $3.50 per day. Much talk
has been heard from members OF
this union of making a demand that
the wages of the brickmasons shall
be advanced to 81 per day, but it is
said that circumstances at the pres
ent time make it impracticable for
them to ask such marked In
crease.
But little more than one-half OF
the unions 200 or more members
are now at work in Spokane. How.
ever, it is declared that this idle
ness is out of preference with a
great many of them, for there is
said to be room for a much larger
percentage of them on the wors,
Under way in the city than are at
present employed. The bricklayers
are optimistic concerning the com
ing season, declaring that in theil
opinion there is going to be ever
more work offered to them thar
they will be able to do.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
TRAVELLING IN SECOND CABIN,

AS regards saloon traffic, there
was an increase of something over
10000 in first cabin travellers, the
bulk of the improvement being in
voyagers outward bound from Eu-
rope. Second cabin figures are cur
ious. Westbound they were aug
mented by $4,000, and eastbound
they fell off by 5000, leaving a net
gain of 10000. A possible explain
alton Is that second class cabin Is
nowadays so excellent on the best
boats that some people who would
formerly go first cabin have been
rather drawn elsewhere. Maybe it
is this increased patronage of the
second cabin which has led some of
the companies to put up the second
cabin fares on certain of their boats
from January 1. The total west
bound traffic was 1,269,291, and the
eastbound 4S6.274, making total
of 1,755.565. The corresponding
figure for 1908 was 1,552,O1S. Taken
altogether the statistics are not
specially encouraging, although
they point to certain degree of
recovery.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-06
LABOR WILL ASK FOR
FREE BOOKS IN ALL
PUBLIC SCHOOLS

COLUMBUS, Feb. 2.-Organized
labor will try again for free text
books for all public school children.
The new bill will retain the pres
ent provision that boards Of educa-
ton may at their option provide
for free text books, as is now done
In Toledo, Youngstown, Canton and
other cities.
1t will provide further for a
referendum of the voters where
boards decline to take action. II 10
per cent of the voters petition. the
board must provide for referen-
dunn.
Other measures In which labor is
definitely interested are the en-
ployers' liability bill, eight-hour day
for women, non-partisan judiciary.
automatic brakes for street cars,
boiler inspection. any legislation
that makes for home rule in cities.
and the initiative and referendum
amendment to the constitution.
Daily and Sunday Press,
IN contc q vuook