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always willing to afford every facility in
the way of detective work, and some re-
markable results have been obtained in
this manner. I have succeeded In getting
three men to confess to incendiarism.
and they are now doing their terms in
jail for arson. 1t Is only when / have
actually satisfactory evidence of crime
that I get warrant for arrest. But. l
tell you, parties have been put through
some severe griling. as these self-con-
LESSONS show. When the circumstances
warrant, 1t will be pretty strong-nerved
person who can stand the ordeal he will
have to face at police headquarters I'M
der suspicion of arson. Often a person
will be under suspicion, however. and
not be made to realize the fact. He will
be put through course of questioniD 6
on, perhaps. several occasions, and dis
missed as though his answers were salts
factory. At the same time. however,
circumstances and witnesses are being
examined. and the party. if guilty, is
certainly brought to face his crime.
Petty malice or spite is often found TO
be the motive of those who set fire to
places. A rather funny incident of this
sort happened not long ago. The scene
of the occurrence was not a very fash
ionable one, to wit. Barrel alley and the
perpetrator of the crime was gentleman
OF Color. j his sport HdQ IdlllIlS cut, IN
more or less literal sense. with his
pals and, not being well received at a
social gathering. he betook himself to a
police station in the neighborhood and
lodged information regarding the nature
of the festivities at the house to which
he had been refused admission. He in
duced the police to promise to visit 1t.
But. being of an patient nature, he. as
he said subsequently, to hurry the police
up. set tire to the place. and seemed
rather surprised. when he himself was
gathered in with the rest, to receive an
even heavier sentence.
Not long ago. in investigating a fire
which occurred III an apartment house
where several young women were board
ers l found that it had started in the
room of one of them. BY questioning the
others / discovered that there had been a
row the evening of the fire. and that the
young woman in whose apartment the
blaze had started had threatened to get
even with the rest. Further investigation
and evidence conclusively proved that
spite had been at work here also.
81 succeeded in getting colored man
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IN THE GRIP OF THE BREAKERS.

IN THE GRIP OF THE BREAKERS.
white letters across the bows of the trim
craft.
In the midst of a driving rain the fear
less lifeboat crew drove through the
water. through the dashing, angry break
ers and alongside the helpless yacht.
They found aboard her. ill with sea sick
ness and half persisted with fright and
cold. clinging with desperation to the
nasts and rigging, w. L. Darnell. New
York broker. his wife and two-year-old
daughter and Howard Binney. a New
York millionaire. with a crew of five
men.
-e pale. fainting mother, clasping her
ably daughter in her arms, was lifted
into the hfeboat by kindly arms. and the
drenched. half frozen men taken aboard
a few minutes later.
The story of the wreck of the Mist and
Of the soul-racking, terrifying experience
that preceded the casting Of the vessel on
to Atlantic City's dangerous beach is one
without parallel In the history Of the re-
sort Its detail has just been made public
with the recovery from pneumonia Of the
captain-owner. Mr.. Binney.
Mr.. Binney's life for days following his
exposure to the rough weather was de-
SPARED OF. Double pneumonia, a disease
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breakers rolling to the shore Win quar-
relsome roar that could be heard for
miles inland. there recently came cry
OF horror from the weatherbeaten lips Of
the lookout at the government Hfe-savinS
station
Wake up. mates" he shouted. There g
a ship in distress out thar headin'
straight for the breakers. Looks TO me
like there's wimmen aboard her, too
As his brave comrades hustled into
their oilskins and tugged away at the
long power lfeboat the lookout gazed
closer at the vessel through his glass and
made ont he name Mist, painted in
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Yes continued Marshal Nicholson.
sit is often very difficult to get at the
origin of fire, but persistence and a
knowledge of how to go about 1t often
win the day. The police department Is
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NM ETHODS Used by Fire
lv1 Marshal to Determine
How Mysterious Blazes Were
Started - Where Buildings
Are Entirely Destroyed by
Fire 1t Is No Easy Matter to
Tell How Flames Caused the
Observation-Disclosures Get
Considerable Blame Rats
Gnaw Matches and Cause
Expensive Blazes, and Fire
Marshal Must Determine
How This Took Place
Other Peculiar Instances.
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A Remedy for Divorce.

M ISIS MAUD ALLAN, conversin-
lE1 with an interviewer in New York.
said:
my critics have been so kind that 7
fear that they have acted as people after
marriage arc advised to do.
"A famous London beauty, you know.
gave this advice at a wedding breakfa 81 !;
Before marriage We should keep our
eyes wide open. After marriage we should
keep them half shut
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INVARIABLY, at a
fire, the average
spectator a S k 8 ::
How did it
start ," Somehow
he is really inter
eSted in its orr
gin. But he is by
no means as much
concerned as GER
tain authorities of
the fire Depart
ment the fire
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AT THE MERCY OF THE WAVES.

Of onlookers tried to tow the boat to
safety. A reward of 81 900 offered by
the sailors in the name of their employer
stimulated the workers to extraordinary
enort, but they were unsuccessful.
The ropes were torn from their grasp
and the Mist was once more at the
mercy of the waves.
With an angry roar the breakers
grasped the prey that had SO long been
withheld from them. and the boat was
dashed violently ashore.
Stuck fast in the sand, the heavy waves
pounded against her sides and tore to
ribbons what was left of the sails.
Her seams were started and she rapidly
filled with water
Soon the record-making craft was just
another derelict. a victim to the rapacious
hunger of old Neptune and the sea
One of the first things visitors to At
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NILE t II e gi a v
lights OF dawn were
streaking the east
ern horizon and
the good townsfolk
of Atlantic City
were wrapped in
slumber, careless
of the ( e ar Z u !
southeast gale that
ragged along the
ocean fitt
S c mt m o n 8 I e r
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brought up in the Police Court not long
ago for setting IRE to his bed clothes. a
proceeding which involved his spouse In q
manifestly unpleasant predicament. The
latter at first bitterly accused and after
ward tried to shield the man. When the
case was tried in court it was shown
from the evidence that the bed clothes
were the property of the man. and the
judge dismissed the latter, ruling that a
person has right to burn what belongs
to him.
"A fire which occurred at a country
golf club near this city succeeded in
tracing to the act of three boys who had
been caddies at the club and who had
been dismissed for their shortcomings.
The fire had started In an outbuilding
of the club. and was limited in Its dam
a lot of dried brushwood piled up inside
the place, and the fire was clearly Of
incendiary origin. BY questioning the
club members and servants I elicted from
three dismissed caddies on the premises
the day before the f1re-the latter oc-
CURED at highland had warned them
of the grounds. He had seen them
hanging about in the neighborhood
later. and at one time collecting dried
bushes. such as were found in the out
building after the blaze had been ex-
tinguished. 1 had the boys arrested, and
learned from the confession Of one the
scheme Of setting fire to the place origi-
mated with the ringleader. and that they
had tried several times during the day
to burn the outbuilding.
The cause Of a fire is often a matter
of considerable mystery to the parties
directly concerned, but a little question
ing will open their eyes. short while
ago a man told me that a fire which had
broken out in the room in which he was
sitting was absolutely unexplainable upon
any natural grounds whatever. 1 asked
him what he was doing at the time the
fire was discovered.
Playing cards with some friends. Who
saw the fire first? His partner. who was
sitting opposite him; he noticed the lace
curtains in a blaze. Was he smoking?
Yes. And then. after some few more
questions. he recalled that he had short
time before lighted cigar and had
thrown the match carelessly behind him.
Seeing that he was sitting close to the
lace curtains, there did not seem to be
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Spectacular Wreck Of the Pleasure Yacht Mist at Atlantic Cit

fight and stand rough treatment. They
are made for it. But that helpless
them If the worst comes? ! must reach
shore.
so turned the bow of the Mist about
and. carried by the gale at terrific
gasoline in the supply tank. Would 1t
last? oh. how ! prayed that it would.
We were about two miles from shore
when the fuel gave out. ] shall never
man aid. l thought. could stop our being
hurled crashing through the seething
breakers. to be beaten to pieces before
the arrival of help.
and his wife. The little girl. her cheeks
brilliant with the rosy flush Of sleep,
placed her tiny hand confidingiy In mine
and prattled innocently as l told her
threatened US and of the death that
seemed so unavoidable.
I'VE got out the lie preservers and
adjusted them. Mrs. Darneli's courage
scream or faint or succumb to some other
equally natural emotion, but she did
neither. She prayed; prayed like no
minister l ever heard. Prayed for er
husband. her child, the five brave boys
who made 10 our crew. for herself and
for me.
And that petition. backed by the ahso-
Lutte faith of an honest woman. Is what
by the ever-listening Guardian, and our
frantic signals were noticed on shore.
How we watched those hurrying forms
made visible by the approach OF dawn.
How we chung to the sides OF our pitch
ing, tossing boat and watched them man
the life boat Many times l would have
loosed my hold and given up hope of
lasting till its arrival but for Mrs. OAR
nell.
-
with one arm clasped about her little
daughter, the other wound tightly about
the forward mast, she called words Of
announcement to us all. and bade us
hope and be brave.
1.-The rain was falling in torrents and
the wind was biting and Icy. All effort to
guide our craft had been abandoned and
We were drifting aimlessly but every
moment nearer shore.
II don't know how far we were from
the first of the breakers when the lifeboat
come a moment too soon to save US. /
am sure I should have fallen overheard
from sheer exhaustion had the arrival
been delayed u minute.
1.-The crew plucky fellows, stuck to the
ship. Darnell his wife and child and
were lifted into the boat and rode on the
crest of q great wave to the end OF the
ocean pier at the foot Of Tennessee ave-
nue..
There a score OF willing hands hoisted
US to safety and we were given refuge In
the Hotel Traymore."
1t was necessary to. give the whole
party medical attention at once. Mrs.
Darnell and the child both collapsed after
the arrival at the hotel and physician
ordered Mr.. Binney to bed. Pneumonia
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-02
ELECT UNION MEN

San Jose has joined Milwaukee in Sc
lecting Il warKlngmen s administration.
The nobby little city has done itself
proud. In spite of the hypocritical
press and pulpit, the vote registered at
the recent municipal election shows ::
Mayor Chas. w Dawson, Union Labor,
1890 majority; Walter G. Mathewson,
Councilman at large, Union Labor party,
65S majority; Theodore Brohaska, Coun-
Gilman, Union Labor, 1896 majority !;
7. f. Robinson. Councilman, Union Labor
1167 majority.
''Thus,'' says Organized Labor, f'it
will be seen that with the two incum-
bent councilmen in San Jose, who hold
over for the next two years, Union Labor
will control the municipal administration
of the garden city for the next four
years, and it is safe to say that the cleo
tion will help to place a good union man
like our friend, Thomas Graham, in the
sheriff s Office next fall, and one or two
more good trade unionists in the state
legislature.
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LABOR BUREAU CAN'T
SERVE TWO MASTERS
Frank Morrison Says Present De-
partment is Powe-less and Urges
New One.

That the Department of Commerce and
Labor is a failure owins't the inpossl-
bfiity of successfully serving two masters
was graphically pointed out by Secretary
Frank Morrison Of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, at the hearing OF the
Sulzer bill which seeks to create a De-
partment of Labor untrammeled by other
conflicting interests.
"a man would have to be n DR.. Jekyl
anr Mr. HYDE said Secretary Morrison,
''to meet the requirements of the De
partment of Commerce and Labor.
Representative Suffers bill proposes
that there shall be n secretary of labor
under whom are to be six assistant sec
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-02
WuFUL MURDER
IS THE CHARGE
Made to Senate Committee By
Legislative Agent of A. F. of L.
Committed at Bethlehem Hospital

Steel manufacturing concerns in Penn
syl!ania were characterized as human
sia ,ghter ouses'' vnd Ii is charged that
in the hospitals "wilfIi nturder'' was
committed on the theory tha: dead men
wee less expensive than crpples, at a
nearing before the senate committee on
pupIic health and national quarantine
in connection with the Owen bill provid-
iug for the creation of del artment of
labor and health. THE sensational state
merts were made by Arthur F. Holder,
legislative agent OF the American Fedora
l,"n of Labor.
"A few months ago. saii MIR. Holder
- was sitting in tie office Of :. Pennsyl-
,ania member Of congress and was in
formed that in the hospital C one of the
pennsylvania steel concerns wilful mur-
der was committed wher j, was found
thar it would be better Tor TIE company
20 nave 4 dead man than 4 cripple.
Senator Smoot demanded to know the
name of the firm accused of the crimes
and the name of his informant. Mr.
Holder responded that the r"me of the
concern was the Bethlehem steel company
and he promised to supply tie committee
u'th all the f3cts connected with the
charge.
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Fetafles presiding over sub departments
OF industry relating to agriculture, man
ufacture, telephones. and telegraphs, min
ing, building and mercantile industry.
You have departments of state, war
and agriculture, argued the Secretary
OF the A. +. OF L., ..but where is your
department of Laborf'
There are at least five million farm
ers receiving benefits from the Depart
ment of Agriculture, but where is the de-
partment looking after the welfare of
the four million farm laborersS
'Over twenty million laborers in this
country have no department represent
alton. IT they had, do you think this
country would permit the conditions that
today exist in the steel Industry
There is the great steel plant at Beth
lehem," continued Morrison, nenioyinp
the protection of this government through
millions of dollars OF contracts, where
men work thirteen and fourteen hours
day for seven days in the week The
Government should have just as much
interest in these laborers as in the mil.
lonalres who own the plant.
The great interest that organized Ia
Dor has in this proposed measure of Rep
resentative Sulzer s was shown by the at
tendance at the hearing of President
Gompers and score of labor men of
national reputation
1t would not cost this government
as much to run this department for fifty
years as it cost the city of Philadelphia
for one week of the last strike,' was
the startling assertion of Sam DeNedrey,
editor of the Washington Trades Union
ist
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PRISON TRUST OWNS CHARITY
BODY

St. Louis, Mo.-That the National Con-
ference of Charities and Corrections,
which has just adjourned here, refused
to utter word in condemnation of the
vicious, antiquated, brutal contract sys-
tenn Of convict labor because Edward
Boyle, its treasurer, is the attorney for
the prison trust, is the charge made by
the National Free Labor Association
1t is charged that Boyle is attorney
for the leading companies engaged in ex-
plotting convict labor in this country.
Also that he is chief owner of concern
which manufactures "prison stripes. -
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-02
ATTACH DANBURY HATTERS
PROPERTY.

Norwalk, Conn.-The latest develop
ment in the Danbury hatters' boycott
case came when one of the attorneys of
ID. E. Loewe Company, who won the suit
against the Hatters' Union for $222, 900
appeared in the Norwalk town court, and
filed judgment liens on the property of
seventeen union hatters.
Previous to this time the personal ac
counts OF the members of the Hatters'
union in Danbury, Bethel and Norwalk
have been attached for the sum of $685.
OOO
1t is expected that the Hatters' union
will put up money to redeem the attach
ed property, and prevent the defendants
from foreclosing the liens
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there the day after the Milwaukee vic
tory, there would have been something
doing in the Windy City.
Before leaving, reporter from one
of the leading capitalist papers in the
city wanted prediction from Berger
as to the nearness of a comjete Social
ist triumph in this country The Nil
waukean said he was not prophet, nor
the son of one. He said, however, that
in about five years he could feel justi-
fed in making prediction along that
line.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-02
URGE FEDERAL LABOR DEPART
MENT


ashingten.-President Gompers and
Secretary Morrison of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor appeared before the
hearing of the House Committee on La
bor and in eloquent speeches urged the
passage of Representative Sulzer bill
which seeks to create Federal Depart
ment of Labor, untrammeled by other in
terests.
'' I am satisfied Gompers said, that
If there had been in the. President s
cabinet at the time of the railroad strike
IN Chicago and the west practical rail
road man, the strike would never have oc-
curred.''
A man would have to be DR.. Jekyl
and Mr.. Hyde, - said Morrison, "to meet
the requirements of the present Depart.
ment of Commerce and Labor
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-02
LABOR PRESS BILL
IS AGAIN BLOCKED
Post Office Department and Other
Enemies Of Union Journals OBJ
struct Passage of Dodds Measure.

Although the sub bcommittee of the House
Committee on Post Offices and Post
Roads has reported the Dodds bill favor
ably, the whole committee in now, with.
out reason or explanation, holding up
this measure which, if made law, would
grant second class mail privileges to
Journals owned by labor unions and
other organizations that carry advertis-
ing.
1t is believed that the antagonistic ad-
ministration, working through Represent,
ative Stafford of Wisconsin, is respon-
sible for the attempt to put the Dodds
bill in cold storage. 1t will be remem-
bered that Stafford played similar tao
tics while the bill was in the hands of the
| Subcommittee.
Legislative representatives of labor or
ganlzations who are waging an aggres-
sive campaign for the passage of the
Dodds bill call upon all those interested
in securing protection for the labor press
to use all possible influence on mem
o>A' Va SoheoASoo, ASpA lHtH
tricts, so that the Dodds measure may
be written in the statutes in the United
States.
That the Post Office Department is
most eager to cripple the labor press
even when the question of whether jour
nails published by organizations for the
benefit of their membership may be car
ria6 Seson1 o1ocs &c
before Congress, has been shown by the
action of the authorities in the case of
the Toledo Union Leader.
The Union Leader, owned by the To
ledo Central Labor Union, has been no.
titled by the Post Office Department that
the paper s plan of allowing unions to
subscribe in body and take the money
out of the treasury ''is contrary to a de-
cision of the department, and is therefore
illegal
The Toledo unionists are now devising
ways and means to save their paper from
this death dealing ruling, and are also
doing their utmost to help in getting ia
vorable action on the bill introduced by
Representative Dodds of Michigan.
There is no doubt that the administra-
tion is opposed to giving mail privileges
! to journals owned by central labor bod
les, international unions and fraternal or
ganizations. Proof of this charge lies in
the fact that the administration post of
fee bill, introduced by Representative
Weeks of Massachusetts, specifically pro-
! hibits such journals from carrying any
advertising.
The administration post Office meas
ure, on the other hand, has not single
word in all of its 294 pages which would
in any way stop the Post Office Depart
ment from paying the railroads nine
cents n pound for hauling mail matter,
while express companies get similar
matter hauled for one and half cents
n pound.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-02
COFFIN BEARERS THREATEN TO
STRIKE

Paris, France.-The coffin bearers have
issued ultimatum to the undertakers
that'unless they are permitted to supplant
the uncomfortable opera hats by caps
while officiating at funerals the union
Will call general strike.
The request threw the undertakers into
fine French frenzy. They replied that
the dignity of French funerals must be
preserved at all hazards
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-02
KEAN AND HUGHES BLOCK THE
BOILER BILL.

shington.-Senators Hughes and
kean are said to be responsible for the
holding up of the bill providing for the
Federal inspection of locomotive boilers
The hearings are now over, and all that
IS necessary now is to get Il committee
meeting to decide the fate of the bill, but
these Senators always have an excuse for
not attending such meeting
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-02
LYNCH AGAIN HEADS 1. IT. u.

indianapolis, Ind-Latest returns show
the election of the following officers for
the International Typographical Union ::
President, James M. Lynch; vice presi-
dent, George A. Tracy; secretary-tr
urer, }. w. Hayes. Delegates to the
American Federation of labor: Frank
Morrison, Max s. Hayes, Hugh Steven
son and Y. w. Mccullough.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-02
RUSSIAN PEASANTS IN PEoNAGE

New 1ork.-Declaring that 1000 Si-
berian peasants have been enticed into
peonage by planters in Hawaii and are
now being held against their will, num-
Der of prominent Russians here went to
Washington to ask the Department of
Commerce and Labor to take action.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-06-02
HAVE READER IN CIGAR FACTORY

HAVE READER IN CIGAR FACTORY
Chicago, Ill.-For the first time in this
country, plan was instituted by the
employees of the Newlander cigar fac
tory by which reader is employed for
the education and enlightenment of the
workers. The scheme is supported by the
proprietor of the factory.
In the morning, the reader seated on
a raised dias, reads newspapers, and in
the afternoon, works on literature and
sociology.
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WOMEN UN1oN1srs GAINING.

London.-The Women g Trade Union
League of England has just published
its annual report. During the past year
In spite of economic depression, the num-
Der Of women unionists is everywhere be-
ing maintained and even augmented in
many districts.