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New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
ROADS IN H4RNONP,
Concerted ActiOn Expected on
Wage Demand an East.

1t was learned yesterday, that al the
Eastern railroads affected by the demands
of the trainmen and conductors for higher
wages, except the Pennsylvania Railroad,
would act in concert regarding the de-
mands. It was stated on behalf of these
railroads that the trainmen and conductors
had not yet asked for conferences. Presi-
dent Baer of the Philadelphia & Reading
had a conference with some of. the general
managers of the other roads. and later
went to Philadelphia.
A number of the grand officers of the
various railroad brotherhoOds were in this
city yesterday and had conferences with
officers of local divisions. Among them
We're w. G. Lee, grand master of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. and A.
B. Garretson. grand master of the Order of
Railroad Conductors.
E. w. Hurley, assistant grand chief of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
said yesterday:
I'VE are now having our biennial elec-
tions of general chairmen of the grievance
committees OF the different systems. This
may take a month. Usually after that time
we confer with the companies, but it is too
soon TO say whether we win ask new
schedules of wages or not
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
PURSUE LETTER INQUIRY.
Federal Grand Jury Close to Man Who
Took Wickersham Missive

Though little is being said by the federal
authorities as to what they know about
the person who got hold of the letter which
Attorney General Wickersham wrote last
June TO United States Attorney Wise, the
letter appearing later in an article on
Tragedies of the Sugar Trust in the
Cosmopolitan Magazine they are getting
close TO the man.
Things got far along Yesterday that
a man whose name is said to be Maxwell
wss taken before the federal grand jury to
tell what he knew about the passage of the
letter from Mr. Wises private files and its
reproduction in the magazine.
There was a TumOr yesterday that an
attempt was being made to connect the
theft of the letter with the ransacking of
the home of Secretary Of State Knox at
Valley Forge. Penn. a month or more ago,
but il remained a rumOr The grand jury
may go on with its inquisition to-day.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
BEGGED TO GO TO WoRKHoUSE.
Saw Two Men Die in Bread Line and
Feared To Be Third.

William Gissel tottered into Essex Mar
ket court yesterday. He said he had seen
two men drop dead in the bread line in
East 26th street Monday night, and he
pleaded that he be committed to Black
wells Island 10 save him from a like fate
Lieutenant Hackett sent out for coffee
and sandwiches, which gave Gissel enough
strength 10 stand before the bar and tell
his story to Magistrate Breen, who sent
him TO the workhouse for three months
"One more night of cold and hunger and
that mans life would be over" said the
magistrate
IT'S a hard thing to admit against ones
self" said Gssel, but I'm down and out
and nearly frozen and starved. / simply
cannot get work. A month ago l got Job
as a dishwasher in a Bowery restaurant
] got sick and lost it, ] haven't had any
thing that even looks like money in more
than a month" He will be cared for until
April 4.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
STOLE TO FEED FAMILY.
Baker Out of Work Since Strike Took
Trousers from Pushcart.

II couldn't help IT, your honor. my wife
and three children were starving" pleaded
Henry Brand a baker of No. IS Attor-
ney street, when arraigned before Magis-
trate Breen in Essex Market Court yes
terday, charged with stealing seven pairs
of trousers from the pushcart of Abraham
Becker, of No. Ia Columbia street
I've been out Of work for six months -
continued Brand. ever since the kosher
bakers strike, and l haven't been able to
get any work.
Magistrate Breen heard the prisoners s
story ana expressed pity but said the law
compelled him TO hold him in $500 bail for
trial. In default of bail Brand was COM
mitted TO Essex Market jail
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
BLIZZARD IN CHICAGO.

Chicago Jan. Chicago is in the throes
of a genuine blizzard tonight. the wind
blowing forty miles an hour ana driving
before it sheets Of binding sieet Pedes-
trians were blown off their feet and plate
glass windows were shattered The mini
mum temperature was / degree above zero
early in the day.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
NEW ENGLAND SHIVERS
Mercury 80 Below in Maine-Sea Bath
ing Near Boston.

Boston. Jan. 4.-Most people around Bos-
ton held on to their ears to-day. for the
cold wave came putting into town before
a stinging northwester. The Weather Bu-
reau held out encouraging conditions for
the ice dealers, but humanity in general
suffered.
The rigorous conditions did not prevent
the swimming squad at the L street bath
house at South Boston and at Revere
Beach from indulging in their morning
plunge and word was received to-day that
two young women at Beverly had also
Joined the winter bathing coterie
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
SNOW KILLS SEVEN.
Fatal Slides an Colorado Fol-
lo1oing BHszards.
by Telegraph to The Tribune. !

BY Telegraph TO The Tribune
Denver. Jan. 4-Big snow slides are run
ming down in western and southwestern
Colorado as a result of blizzards of the
last week. The reports thus far received
indicate that seven men are dead.
Over the private telephone wire OF the
San Juan Power Company the report
reached Durango to-day that four men had
lost their lives there. Charles Brun lost his
life in an avalanche that swept by the
Iowa Mine, near Silverton. The slide did
5000 damage.
In Chaffee County two men lost their
lives yesterday afternoon. A Colorado &
Southern train was caught by a slide. and
a brakeman who was riding on top of one
of the freight cars was smothered to death
under snow. woodcutter on the other
side of the train was also swept to DEATH
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
SEVERE COLD WAVE UPSTATE.
Thirty Degrees Below Zero Reported in
Northern New York.

Utica. Jan. 4.-The severeSt cold wave of
the season overspreads Central and North
ern New York 1t came on with a gale last
night. and tempeIa atures fell to below zero
about midnight As the advance of the
cold wave from the Northwest continued the
mercury in this city dropped to 12 degrees
below. In the northern places the tenn
peratures range to p and 80 below zero
OsWegO. Jan. Zero temperature and be-
low has prevailed in this section for the
last twenty-four hours. High winds have
caused delays in traffic movements on rail-
roads and trolley lines.
Fort Plain, Jan. 4.-ThrOughout this sec
tion of the Mohawk Valley the mercury
this morning registered 20 degrees below
zero, rising To 10 degrees below at noon
WatertOw.-. Jan. 4.-The codest weather
of the winter is prevailing to-day in this
city and vicinity. The mercury dropped
80 degrees in twelve hours registering l6
below zero in this city.
Rochester. Jan. 4.-An inch of snow. a
36-mile an hour wind and > degrees above
zero marked last night here.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
TO BE. OR NOT TO BE

Hamlet's predicament is a
common heritage.
All men at some period of
their lives must founder in the
sea of indecision-it is the eter-
nal test of human judgment.
Sometimes, however, the
answer is obvious, as, for in
stance, to this:
To build or not 10 build?
An owner of undeveloped
property cannot call that a
problem.
Rather, his problem is this:
How best and most expedi-
tiously to improve my property
and turn to immediate account
such splendid opportunity for
revenue as is afforded by New
York realty conditions.
And when he reaches this
point we can help him.
THOMPSON-STARRETT
COMP ANY
Building Construction
Fifty-One Wal! Stree:
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
Hurt Book Sale Begins Today
With Thousands of Books

could only gathered from thorough
book store like this, with its ample stock
splendid opportunity for the public libraries OF
country, well a private collectors
the half less than
half. embraces:
Poetry Fiction History Biography
Travel Social Science Literature Religion
Philosophy Science New Thought
Art Books in Sets Books for Young People
Main floor, Building
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
Fine Fur-lined Coats
inexpensive

Electric seal coats, so inches long.
with a variety of Innings, 500. We
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05

Rochester Jan. 4.-An inch of snow. a
36-mile an hour wind and > degrees above
zero marked last night here.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
An Excellent Lot of Mink Furs
To Sell Much Below Market Price

have had similar qualities in our own
stocks at $50 and SIS throughout the
season.
Black Russian ponyskin coats. SO
inches long, we shall sell at SIS.
though they nearly approach the
quality of SO grades.
A very few fur-ined coats-the
makers samples-will be sold at $50
to $50. Fine fur collars, broadcloth
shells, and good Innings of gray and
white squirrel
Any one of these would make
fine New Years gift
Second floor, Old Building.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15
The One-Horse Farmer
From the Starkville (Miss.) Progressive
4Caruaar nd Gazette

Farmer and Gazette.
Being convinced that one horse cannot
break land satisfactorily or economically,
and that two horses will enable the farm
er to prepare the land better and more
economically, we want to inquire If
system of cooperation cannot be put into
practice by the one-horse farmers of any
neighborhood which will virtually make
them two and three-horse farmers In the
breaking and preparing of the land.
Surely one good two-horse plow will cost
no more than two one-horse plows. Two
horses and one two-horse pillow will break
as much land, and do 1t better than two
horses and two one-horse plows. One re-
versible disk harrow and three horses
will bed more land, pulverize more and do
more towards preparing the land for
planting than three horses and three
one-horse plows. In these comparisons
any difference in the quantity or quality
of work is on the side of the two-horse
implements. The saving of man labor
will more than pay any difference In the
cost of the implements.
Any two one-horse farmers can, there
fore become two-horse farmers by the
purchase of one two-horse pillow and
reversible disk and q smoothing harrow
and do at least one-half more work than
they are now doing. and do it better.
Thew may De lWO-hOIoc idiiHciS III 81
far as the breaking of the land and
preparing it for the crop is concerned.
Furthermore, by the use of the smoothing
harrow they can be two-horse farmers
in the early cultivation Of their crops.
BY the use Of the weeder they can still
further continue methods of cultivation
resembling the approved practice of the
tworhorse, farmer. -
| After this by the use of light one-horse
cultivators,V they can do. about as salts
factory work as the two-hOrse farmer,
although at a higher cost. This H. an
age of combination and CO. operation.
Will the one-horse farmers who really
wish to do better farming consider this
plan? Will they cooperate to the extent
Of buying the implements II, combination
and preparing the lands by Joining their
team force? Such plan Is not equal to
Individual ownership of two horses and
the needed implements. but 1t is Infinitely
better than the one-horse methods now
| in use. 1t may be made the means Of
any two neighboring one-horse farmers
doing better farming than they can pos
sibly DO working separately with one
horse a.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15
MORSE GLAD THAT
HE|NzE is FREED
Banker in the Atlanta Prison
Hopes for Release
MRS. MORSE rs PLEASED
Wife of the Convicted Man Is More
Hopeful Than Ever Tint Her
Husband Will Secure n Re-
lease From Prison

| Atlanta, May 14-Probably no friend OF
| former business associate finds DEEPER JOY
in the acqufttal of F. Augustus Heinze
than Charles W. Morse. the New York
| banker who is serving a 15-year term in
the federal prison near this city, and who
lives in daily hope that efforts being made
in his behalf by Attorney Martin w. Lit
tleton and other powerful friends will
serve to bring to him the same freedom
that Heinze enjoys. The result of the
Heinze trial brings equal pleasure to Mrs
Morse, the faithful little woman who re-
mains near her imprisoned husband in the
city, and who works and hopes night and
day for his release. Mrs. Morse is radi
antly hopeful that the United States SUI
preme court will next render a decision
favorable to her husband, taking the
Heinze case as an omen.
II am glad, indeed, that Heinze has
been cleared, and I expected no other re-
suit from a fair trial." said the impris-
oned banker. Furthermore, I am thor
oughly hopeful that justice will soon be
done me and I will enjoy my freedom
again.
THE case is Identical exactly with that
Of my husband" said Mrs. Morse, even
to the Indictment, and do you know that
Heinze's case was tried by the same judge
who tried my husband, and the district
attorney in the Heinze case was the as
sistant district attorney when my hus-
band was tried.
Il do feel hopeful" Mrs. Morse added,
''and I must feel hopeful
1t was evident, though, that slight
feeling of doubt was manifested in the
tone in which the word must was
ushed, but If the decision is not fav-
oIable," she continued. IT shall present
my petition to the President. and that
will most assuredly have some weight.
for 1 have the names of the most prom
inent people of the country on my lists,
including newspaper men, business men.
professional men, and last but not least.
nearly 200 senators and other officials at
Washington. Their attitude, together with
the justice of my husbands cause, should
most assuredly have effect"
Before coming to Atlanta, Mrs. Morse
spent two days in Washington, working
with commendable courage for her hus-
bands release from prison, and the re-
suits of her efforts we're ever pleasing
to him. Mrs. Morse is thoroughly ad-
mired in Atlanta, because of her brave
fight against heavy odds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15

In ante-bellum days. Colbnel Moore of
Kentucky owned large number Of ne
groes. He was a kind master and never
punished his negroes with the whip. One
day one Of the field hands named 'Jupe''
was guilty of some negligence, and was
sent to the woods at once to cut down
and split up black gum tree, practically
an impossible task. Jupe cut down the
tree and labored hard to cut the tough
wood, but in vain.
In the meantime, thunder storm came
up and Jupe sought refuge under, brush
heap. Directly the lightning struck a
large poplar tree near by, splitting it into
kindling wood. After the storm had
passed Jupe crawled out from his place of
security and after taking a careful look
at the remains of the poplar tree, which
were scattered all over the woods, said
Mr. Lightnin'. ! wish you had tried yo'
ham on this black gum Any blame fool
can split poplarv'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15
FOREIGN MONEY
WORRIES TOURISTS
Foreign Measures Are Bother
to Americans Abroad
Great pritain,s Most Unweildy Of All
Small Paper Money Something
Not Known There-HOw
Other Nations Reckon
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
The American going abroad will iino
coinage, distances weights and meas
,res of all sorts a bit confusing al
first. He will have to learn an entire
" new system of reckoning all the these
things, and the sooner he becomes used
n the estimating distances in kilometres
HEAD of miles, and so on, the sooner
Dwill be relieved of a lot of vexing
nkiems. The thing to do is to famili-
liz ones self so thoroughly with the
koxymate relations of foreign and
Herican measures that one will begin
III l1ink in terms of the metric system.
Ills that point is reached the trouble
XHlshes, for the metric system is SO
Hvle. so complete and so straightfor-
Hill that it is bound to commend itsell
IfEhe American mind
leat Britain has perhaps the most
INIbrous system of coinage to De
strdies because the number OF coins
is considerable, and the system is not
n methic, or a decimal one, as in this
country, which confuses the reckoning
OF bills great deal.
The standard of the gold coin is the
sovereign, or pound sterling, equiva-
IL
> American money, 20 marks In Ger
many, a livre or, 20 francs, In france
O, 20 crowns in Austria. The Frencf
liyre is worth less than the Ensilsf
sovereign, of course, a pound being
worth approximately "a francs. Inc
other gold coin IN common use III
Great Britain is the annoying little
half sovereign, a good com 10 nsne s ~.
of. because 1t is SO small as to be easily
lost. Guineas, worth 81 shillings, are
no longer coined, but are stilled used In
reckoning prices, which Is confusing.
II is annoying to have non-existen'
coin used as a price for many articles
: The silver coins are the five and touI
shilling pieces, which are rare, ano
annoying on account OF their unWleioiy
size: the half crown, worth in American
money go cents; the form. or the two
sailing piece, worth 4S cents; the shil-
ling. worth "a cents; the sixpenny
niece. worth cents These smaller Sill
yer coins are very largely used.
There are three copper coins, the
penny, the half penny and the farthlng
worth, respectively, 2 cents, cent ane
a half cent. They are very extensively
,,sed. much more so than the copper
cents In this country, and pocketfu
of them represents good zeal II
weight. The penny serves the purpose
verv general of the American MCKEE
n buys many things that cost nVe
cents here, and is really useful ant
handy coin
Little Paper Money
Paper money is used much less IN Grea'
Rritain than here. There are 81 notes
nut they are confined chiefly to ireland
rhe smallest paper note in circulation II
Nneland is the f5 note of the Bank o.
Tneland which is standard money the
u,orld over. 1t is a big piece or paper
vow thin. and in some parts of England
enc production of bank note causes
treat excitement. The one VINO wants
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15


richness of her voice to the molten mass.
In America today, men are pouring the
children of the nation into the vortex
of commerce with the hope that the mass
shall be increased and that they may DO
made the richer. They are doing 1t de-
spite the heartIessness and cruelty of the
act. at the expense of the bodies and
minds and the souls of our children
Their hearts are of adamant, for when
the appeal of the little child fails to
touch, when its smile fails to soften the
heart, when it's love fails to entwine it's
tender tendrils around the life, there IL
no hope.
How long, oh cruel nation.
Will you stand to move the world on a
child's heart,
Stife down with mailed heel it's palpi-
tation
And tread onward to your throne amid
the mart?
Its blood splashes upward, oh gold
heaper,
And vour purple shows your path,
But the childs sob in the silence curses
deeper
Than the strong man in his wrath
DESPITE the avarice of a mill owner
who values a dollar more than the Ire
of man, if the people were aroused
IL a public Sentiment were created, the
thing could not and would not continue
for day And herein lies the task of the
future Men who have worked to nave
needed legislation adopted know the IN
fluence that have to be met and the op-
stacles that have to be overcome. Ihey
know the value of the peoples Will and
the battles that can be won with II ana
must be lost without it. The people are
vet supreme and whenever they snai
speak and follow. their voice with ue-
mand for the enforcement OF the law, the
ayarice of the mill owner will be power
less. the influence of the worthless father
will count for naught and the chiio shah
come into its own.
The masses of the people are yet true.
The nation has a heart that can be east
ly touched The life of the child has TOO
great a hold upon the world, for 1t is IN
deed the worlds master, the master OIL
its affections, its achievements ana It's
destiny. The great American people are
not willing that from the life OF the
child shall be taken it's sunshine ana ns
play: they are not willing that It's little
hratn shall be unnurtured and it's mind
unframed for a development that COO
himself has given it. They are not Will
ing that its body shall be stunted anu
IT'S shoulders rounded by the weight OF
mans work and mans responsinl.i.y.
they are not willing that the children
shall toll in shop and factory IN tne
play time of youth, and that the furnace
and the mill shall call them to work IN
stead of the morning bell to school ana
books. Let the people be aroused: Let
the message be carried to them Let US
save for the republic the lives of its
children, the beauty of whose innocence
no man can express, the extent OF whose
possibilities no man can measure ana the
Joy and sweetness of whose life no man
can tell.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15
WeeviIs Endanger Flour

Washington, May 14.-"Flour lying
any length of time in New Orleans is
subjected 10 weevil contamination,
charges Special Agent John M. Turner
OF the department of commerce and
labor in report upon the Latin Amer
lean flour trade, sent to Congress to-
day. Much cotton is shipped from that
port and the docks and wareh ouses be-
come infested with the eggs of more
kinds of weevils than millers gener
ally know are in existence" says Mr..
Turner
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15

Berlin, May 14.-Four aviators fell
during the course of the competitions
at Johannisthal today. Thorup, Dane,
and Thelen and Jenan, Germans, were
were wrecked. Captain Englehardt was
severely injured. All four aeroplanes
were WRECKED. Captain Englehardt was
pupil of Orville Wright. He had a
bad fall last December at the johann
nisthal field, when his aeroplane lost
its balance and plunged to the earth
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15
CONTRACT FOR HIGH
SCHOOL rs AWARDED

Tuscumbia. May 14.-(Special)-T con-
tract for the Colbert County High school.
located at Leighton, has been awarded
to Madry & Marsh, contractors of Flor
ence, at 81, 290. The building will be
two-story pressed brick structure with
a concrete foundation. In front there
will be a wide collonade with large con-
crete pillars. The contract for building
the new American and German bank
at Lawrenceburg, Tenn, was given to H.
B. Austin of Florence
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15
OidfieId After Record

Denver, Col, May 14.-Barney Oldfed,
in his 2e0-horse power Benz, covered a
mile in 81 seconds and two miles in Lac
here today, establishing new TRACK rec
ords for both distances. A wet track him
dered his efforts to lower the worlds one
mile circular track record of so 4-5 sec
ohds Ben Kirscher, in a Darracq, also
tried for the worlds record, making his
mile in IS is seconds
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15
Nine Injured In wreck

Wichita, Kan, May 14.--Nine persons
were injured when Kansas City. Mexi-
co and Orient passenger train No. 2
was wrecked tonight near Milton, Kan.,
80 miles southwest of here. The in
jured were taken to hotel In Milton,
wise physicians attended them
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15
Home of LAWYER Burns

Huntsville, May 14-(Special.)-Th res
idence of Robert C. Lawler, representa-
tive-elect from Madison county in the
state legislature. was destroyed at
Brownsboro last night. Mr.. Lawler and
family had gone to the closing exercises
of the district school and no one was at
home when the five broke out. Nothing
was saved. The loss is estimated at
slightly over $4,000.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-15
johnson Easy for Langford

Philadelphia, May 14.-Sam Lang
ford of Boston had things practically
all his own way tonight in the six
round bout with Jim Johnson of Ten
nessee. Johnson made a good showing
for a novice and there was not much
to choose between the fighters in the
first three rounds. After that, however,
Langford punched johnson until the
latter was forced to clinch. Johnson
was very tired when the bount ended.