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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-21
BUSINESS MEN WHO WOULD SUCCEED IN
 GOVERNMENT MUST BECOME SPELIALIS.S

Mayor Buckingham's discussion of the Business Man in Politics. be- fore the State Business Mems Associa- ton, was clean cut, and entirely frank consideration of a widely pre- yalent error, under which it has been assumed that government is an art that does not demand special training. on the part of, its votaries, and that municipal affairs can be successfully conducted by any shrewd business man.
 No fallacy is more widespread than >s.'- Few fallacies have so little
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-21

with the personnel of his working forces. with the functions and duties of almost independent boards and of ficers, he has, within a few weeks made so many blunders, that his use fulness is crippled and perhaps de- stroyed.
 The training of a business man in some of it's fundamental characters not only does not fit him for the duty of governing a city, but actually un- fits him.
 The business man is master of his own forces. He has arbitrary power of employment and discharge. He does not operate with equals, but with interiors. He is a despot
 The mayor of a city is but one off, ficer, with limited powers The Com mon Council is his superior in legis- lation. The Board of Apportionment is above him in control of the purse, the most important power of all. He may appoint certain officers. but they oiO usually OSyOHO HIS FedCH dIlGE they are appointed
 An untrained business, man in the mayors chair, attempting to run the city as he runs his own business be- comes involved in maze of opposi- tion, confusion and entanglement He does not know by name even the men who could efficiently assist him.
 He is the victim of spacious pre- tenders and hangers-on of politics When at the end of his term, he is beginning to know something about running a city" he has made so many mistakes he cannot be re- elected.
 city is not even a business in- stitution. It is more closely an alagous to a home Business is con- ducted to make profit. But the city is Q great cooperative enterprise, furnishing certain necessities, such as education. police, fire protection and sanitation, at cost
 The city wants a dollars worth for a dollar, but as the home wants it, l not as a business enterprise wants it. |
 The city is opera ted by the CO., in the same way that a home is operated, and not by the absolute | shall" with. which the business man| conducts his affairs
 II sought to convey to the business men?
 It is that a business man who de- sires to practice the art of govern ment must 7earn the art. He must do precisely as he has done in his own business. He must become specialist in the new thing he would 10. When this happens he will no onger be thought of as a business nan. His political opponents will all him a politician His political friends will refer to him as .'muni- ,ipal statesman
 But of one thing he may be sure. IS Mayor Buckingham has said that
  The band will play on the night of lis election, but the anvil chorus will 'egin the morning after,' for politi- al ideals are thus fashioned where yer men have developed the art of elf government Mayor Buckingham, because of his ong experience as a member of the ity government. and because of his wo years in the mayors chair, can airly claim to be a specialist. He as more than begun to know his > usiness.
 Sound reasons should be offered by hose who advocate his displacement. No such reasons are to be had
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-21

campaign in this church will be brought to a close, and it is hoped to most successful climax, at the annual praise service in November, for which a most enthusiastic committee are planning very unique missionary program.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-21

There has been no word directly or indirectly from Senator Judsop that he is or will be a candidate for United States Senator when the pres. ent term of Senator Brandegee eA- pires. Neither has there come an, notice pr any hint from Senator Jud-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-21

If the juice of lemon is added to a pan of cold water, and the wilted vegetables allowed to stand in the water for half an hour they will be as fresh as when gathered.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-21
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Tomorrow evening Rev. John Mac Laren Richardson, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will speak on the third of his series of sermons on the Sunday question, ''The Recreation Sunday, or the pleasure seekers problem. How are we going to ad- just our pleasures to the right use of Sunday? What can we do and what can we not do is the question before he minds of a great many people While it is impossible to make out any catalogue of things good and bad, yet there are certain fundamental princi- oles which always hold true. The pastor will present these principles on Sunday evening.
 In response to the suggestion of the various missionary boards, the La dies Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian church are planning membership campaign for new mem oers. The opening of this campaign will take the form of a prayer service
 o be held on Tuesday, October A, at } o'clock, in the church parlors. The other missionary societies of the churches of the city are invited te, s s4~.<n~A,~l ~l
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-21
Uhr D. M. &ran Onntuatt11.
 Eatahliahpn 1H5z.
Special P. N. Corset
on sale now,

This is the usual yearly sale which women antci- pate who the P. N. This special is made the lines of $2.oo model and is offered
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his apron and made for II. He grab
bed up his eleven months old baby,
called to his wife AMI she ran out
with another child, three years old.
They were caught just where the
current swerved from the course Of
Freeman Run and borne to the op-
posite hillside. Lawler held his baby
very close and linked one arm through
his wife's. She held the other child's
hand.
The four were found 2,00c yards
down the valley. lying just out Of
reach of the water The wife was
dead and so was the little girl, but
Lawler had kept hold Of the baby.
The tiny little person was still
breathing when the rescuers came.
The fathers injuries were the most
severe of any Of those who are now
IN the Northern Pennsylvania hos
pital.
Joe McKinney's three-year-old boy
was carrieu out OF the house by his
mother and they were caught up to-.
gether The mother held her boy
above the water and she was dead
when they found her. Butte young
ster looked up at the man Who grasr-
ed his arm and said: as that thing
coming again. My mamma could not
hold me any longer. She could not
walk any further"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1911-10-04
WARNED FIREMEN OF DANGER
Fire Fighters Escaped to Safety, but
Four School Girls Were Swept
to Death.

John Deziel, carpenter and NOV
ing picture man, was standing upon
the high ground at the west, on Good
years. hill Tle saw that the men
below could not see and he shouted
with all his might. You can see how
close this hill is to the valley when
you know they heard him. dropped
their ropes and ran to his place of
safety.
The hose cart was sceoped up
minute later. Deziel's sister was be-
side him. She screamed and pointed
down to Main street. where four
school girls were walking along arm
in arm, looking into the sky for
sparks. AS they watched these four
we're caught in the force of the wood
and water and hurled against the
brick buildings. Their bodies have
not been recovered.
Just before this Tam Lawler, who
kept bar at the Commercial House,
came to the door to see where the
Are was. He gathered an idea Of the
real disaster from the noise that came
from above. Lawler's house was only
a few doors away and he threw Of
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waters. Leemnn went violently In
sane. His rawlings were pitIful Sew
eral men were required to hold him.
TRIED TO SAVE PARENTS
Daughter Was Guiding Old Couple to
Place Of Safety When Church
Fell Upon Them.

The manner In which the people Of
Austin lost their lives is typified in
the case of the family of State Sen
ator Frank E.. Baldwin. His sister,
Mrs. M. G. Collins, had few seconds
more warning than many. Her father
and mother, MIR. and Mrs. John Bald
win, were in their home in Turner
street, which lay between the dam
and the chief thoroughfare
Mrs. Collins thought Immediately
that her father was crippled and that
her mother was very infirm and al
most blind. She ran to their house,
reused them and started along the
sidewalk that led to one of the cross
streets to the hills. Their way was
past the Presbyterian church and as
they passed this building the ap-
preaching column reached them.
A man who stood upon one OF the
cafe hillsides saw the church topple
and fall upon the three as the daugh-
ter urged her parents along the street.
There is not the slightest doubt but
what Mrs. Collins could have saved
herself. But she died with her father
and mother.
As the quiet men and women tramp
over the fiat plain where the
water rushed 30 feet deep Saturday
afternoon the question that came to
many minds was, where are the
children?" Here and there was boy
who scrambled over the wreckage or
a girl who stood silently looking on,
but there was nothing like the curl.
Gus lot of youngsters that the author
tiles expect at the place of disaster.
All these milling towns of this state
are plentifully supplied with children.
The only answer seemed to be that
when those heaps are cleared away a
great number of small bodies will be
brought out. Saturday, OF course
school was not in session and the
children were scattered ovW the
town.
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SAW THE DAM BREAK
coudersport Man Was on Near HILL
side When Water Burst Out.

John Newman, a politician Of
Coudersport," said the state engineer,
told me he was driving along the hill
side away from the dam. His COM
panion turned back to look at the
food of water.
'It seems to me that there's one
awful lot of water coming over to-
day" said Newman. That's right"
agreed his driver, and then as they
looked. Newman shouted: "By God!
there 1t goes!"
"The big lump popped out of place
and catapulted down the stream.
Then like the cracking of a whip the
other snapped out. In another Sec
ond the great mass Of wood pulp was
being flicked into the air like matches.
It went up like a cloud. The smoke
stacks of the Bayless Paper company
were hidden behind the spray and
cracking logs"
The chunk that popped so far down
was the first to give way. 1t was the
top half of section ripped off as
cleanly as II it had been sawed. The
exposed surface and base that remain
ed in place showed today that it had
not been roughened. 1t apparently
marked the end of a days work in
the construction and the only way in
which the next days section had been
welded to 1t was by four twisted iron
bars. which were pressed downward
today.
Mr.. Gannett was not willing to say
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DAVIS GAVE ALARM
Saved Many Lives by Telephonlng to
Town Before Water Arrived.

After the false alarm Of last spring
the inhabitants of Austin decided that
in the event of another Hood they
must place no reliance upon the speed
of horses hoofs and the strength
of a mans voice to warn them. II
was agreed that one long blast from
the whistle of the Standard Wood
company, which had its kindline
yards perhaps an eighth OF a mile
below Main street, should be the sig
nal for the people to spread out OF the
valley and to climb the hills. They
vent further and asked Harry Davis,
the general factotum around Cora
Brooks road house. which Is the near.
est building to the dam except the
pulp mills, to keep an eye out for
danger signs In his leisure moments.
Saturday morning Davis went up to
take a look at the dam with Fred An
derson, superintendent Of the mills
The handy man around the road
house did not like the looks Of 1t, he
said, and he went to his Job a
little bit worried. He went to the win
dow more frequently in the lull in bust
ness around the noon hour.
It was few minutes after 2 p. m.
that he heard the sound of which the
town had been in dread. One look was
enough to show him that the break
had happened.
He ran to the telephone as he had
agreed to do and got the telephone
central, where a young woman named
Lena Binkey had the receiver across
her hair. He gave the traditional
warning Just as everyone else who
had the chance gave 1t. They had been
thinking lot about the Johnstown
disaster, had these Austin people and
in every case they appear to have fol.
lowed the action of history.
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CITIZENS WERE WORRIED
Always Afraid That Some Day tho
Dam Would Give Way.


The dam that split into eight pieces
was not an old structure. 1t was
placed below an antique wooden crib,
a trifle over two years ago. But there
have been murmurings against the
heavy bulk of water that it restrained
even In spite of It's newness. The
women of the town especially have
worried about the day when 1t might.
break. The men were disposed to
laugh at these fears.
Last spring there was an alarm,
when 1t was thought that the brink
was ready to give way. The water
poured over it so freely and with
such violence that man on horse
back galloped down the valley, cry
ing the warning that another rider
once gave in flood in this state. At
that time the people ran to the over
hanging hills, but there was no need
for their fears The flood did not
come. But when the alarm was over
and the townspeople went out to iGok
at the barrier 1t was found that the
concrete had slipped down something
like IS inches. After that the
notches were cut in the upper sur
face to lessen the pressure by per
mitting a large volume of water to
trickle over the edge.
But when the state officials came to
examine the broken fragments 1t was
found that one of these notches had
beer filed up completely with con-
crete and that work was in progress
on the other. Five feet of new con-
crete was found in this gap and the
forms were up for more. Work had
been done upon 1t on Saturday.
The examination of Farley Gannett,
engineer for the state water supply
commission, showed that one chunk
of concrete, weighing perhaps, ton
and half had been projected down.
stream for 100 feet. Another much
longer section lay 60 feet out of the
plumb line of the dam. Mr.. Gannett
found a man, who, from the hillside,
saw that burst of the wall.
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Saturday.

A dispatch from China announced
that foreigners would be permitted to
leave Chengtu within few days.
The assembly at Albany passed the
New York city charter bill after four
hours of debate, by a vote of rs to
81.
1t was predicted that the coming
general election in Mexico would be
accomplished without serious disorder
In any part of the republic.
The Builders association declared
strike werepn theverge of settlement
nearly every large building In New
York city and may throw $4,000 men
out of work
Matters in the Irish railwaymens
strike were on the verge Of settlement
when the roads refused to reinstate
the strikers in their old places, and
then a deadlock was created.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1911-10-04
PHONE. GIRLS GOT BUSY
Spread the Alarm Over Wires and
Then Rushed to Safety.

1.-THE dam has burst" yelled Har.
ry into the telephone. "Quit yer kid
ding" said Miss Binkey. "He says
the dam has burst" she repeated to
her co-worker, Katherine Lyons, at
the next desk.
81 tell you 1t has," shouted Davis.
Something in the way he said II made
Lena believe 1t this time and she and
Miss Lyons lost no time In spreading
the alarm. They called up the Stand
ard Wood company, told the man who
answered to send out his warning and
then began calling everyone they
could reach.
Miss Binkey waited till she saw the
wall of water coming and then she
ran into the streets. Miss Lyons
stuck to her switchboard until she
saw the steeple of the Presbyterian
church drop. Then she clattered
down the stairs. She stayed so long
that she forgot her pocketbook. But
1t was just step to the higher
ground for the bank building
was the last one at the western end
of Main street and she came out all
right, as did Miss Binkey.
Somehow the men at the kindling
yards did not sound the flood signal.
Instead of one long blast there came
eight short toots and then sus.
tanned whistle That was the town
fire signal, The immediate result was
that the inhabitants leisurely laid
down their tasks and strolled out to
see where the blaze was. From, the fiat
valley they looked up into the sky
to see where the sparks were flying.
Only one group was active. That was
the volunteer fire department.
They yanked the single hose cart
Of the town into Main street, trottcd
off with 1t and whirled around the cor
ner into Railroad avenue, the chief
thoroughfare, that cut off at right an
gles along the banks of Freeman Run,
the creek that went over the dam
and then rippled through the town
with a width of not more than a
dozen feet. The firemcn turned up
the valley and raced right at the wave
that was spreading towards them.
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POLICE ARREST VANDALS
Eight Have Been Caught and 4
Strict Guard ls Maintained
Around Wreckaue.

For the first time the constabulary
found that 1t had to deal with vandals
who poked among the ruins where
strict guard was not in force. Eight
arrests were made and the prisoners
werN arraigned before Justice John
SON. They had to be locked up in the
school house for the Jail was swept
away. AS a result of these cases OF
larceny, the cavalry police have
mounted their ponies and have es.
tGblished patrol routes over the whole
area where the wreckage lies.
No one is being allowed to cross
over the valley without an escort and
the orders are to drive any one out;
even the men and women who had
houses in the desolated tract and to
ride after and capture anyone who
does not take advantage of the first
warning.
Frank and George Bayless, the
heads of the concern, have. been ex-
pected In town, but word came that
they were confined to their beds in
Binghamton, N. Y, where the COM
pany has its chief offices. as result
of the shock of the disaster
The office of the mills here was
tossed downstream in the impact OF
the pulp wood that headed the wave.
The company's safe which was rolled
over in the sweep of the waters has
not been injured. It will be opened
today and 1t Is believed a consider
able sum of money will be found in
side.
The end of the month was to have
been pay day and the 400 employees
would have drawn their money late
Saturday afternoon. George Bayless
sent word to f. N. Hamlin, the mill
superintendent, to gather all the
hands and to pay them today.
Extra money has been sent to meet
the emergency. Hamlin himself did
not suffer great deal from the
flood. His house was in what is known
is known as Rayless Row, short dis.
tance below the mill and it was close
against the fringe of the valley, In
comparative sofety.
Hamlin was bruised in the flood, but
his injuries were not serious enough
to keep him in the hospital after to-
day. His instructions from President
Bayless are to clear enough of the
pulp wood away to keep the mill
busy. Most of the plant itself was
not damaged badly enough to hold up
NnArly
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Friday.

Atwood and Ely, aviators, were In
an aerial collision at the Canton, o.,
meet and both were injured.
Several deaths were reported among
the men injured by the explosion on
board the Liberte on Monday at Tou'
lon.
At least ten persons we're drowned
when an auto bus broke through a
parapet on Paris bridge and fell in
TO the Seine.
-Four persons were killed and 10
injured by an explosion of rockets and
bombs in a church at GuadalaJara.
Mex. while festivities attending the
arrival Of Madero were in progress.
The department of justice filed suit
In the federal court at Denver against
the so-called lumber trust, alleging
conspiracy to restrain trade In at least
20 states.
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STEAM DERRICK AT WORK
Clearing Wreckage Around Goodyear
Pond, Where Many Dead Are
Thouuht to Be Buried.

A big steam derrick was put to
work on the broken end Of the Buff
falo & Susquehanna railroad and the
work of clearing the wreckage around
the Goodyear pond. where many per-
sons are supposed to be buried, is
progressing rapidly.
With the arrival at Austin of car
lead of collins the grimness of the
tragedy which has practically oblit-
Grated that town was impressed upon
the survivors and considerable num-
Der of workers began anew their ef-
forts to mine deeply into the hard
hills of debris
Many evidences OF the tremendous
power of the food were seen by the
workers in. the town. Engines weigh.
ing 25 tons were rolled along the
ground, an immense steel hopper was
carried half mile and thrown through
the side of a house and steel freight
cars were bent double
The greatest damage was done by
the piles of cut lumber swept before
the food. They acted as great bat
tering ram which swept buildings
from their foundations and unques-
tionably caused the deaths of scores
who otherwise might have escaped
after surviving the first rush of the
wSter.
Investigation into the cause Of the
breaking of the dam will be started
a. once, according to officials in
charge of the work of rescue. That
there had been constant danger Of
the catastrophe of Saturday, due to
the instability of the structure and Of
the great water pressure, was known
tc many residents of the towns and
thorough investigation is demanded
by many of the survivors.
One of the mcst pathetic in the long
list of tragedies is the case of Joseph
Leeman, a night worker, who was
asleep at his home and did not hear
the alarm. When the rush of water
swallowed up his little home, he was
tossed out upon pile of floating de.
bris and eventually floated 10 a land
ing, mile and a half below the viii
lage.
Wounded and bruised he made his
way back, only to find that his wife
and four children had perished in the
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Thursday.

The Bank of Egypt failed in Lon
don; its assets wer esaid to he worth
SO, 100000 its liabilities being stat
ed at $750O,OOO.
A battle between Chinese troops
and rebels occurred on Sunday ten
miles south Of Chengtu; the insur-
gents suffered the greater loss.
Sonora Julia NJ. Creel, sister-inlaw
OF the Mexican statesman and one
of the richest women in that coun-
try, died in her California home.
Governor Dix removed Lawrence
Gresser. president of the borough o.
Queens. New York city, for neglect
of duty, incompetence and ineficiency.
A cable dispatch from Madrid,
Spain, saws that Don Jaime. second
son of King Alfonso. has recovered
his hearing.