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Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-12

New York, Dec. 12:-Several
witnesses, all of them survivors of
the fire in the Triange1 Waist COM
pany's establishment last March. in
which 148 lives were lost, have al
ready testified that the doors were
locked when the employees sought to
escape from the flames. This tes-
timony WAS given at the trial OF
Isaac Harris and Max Black, own
ers of the Triangle factory. Mrs
Mary Cisco, whose name was BuceIll
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-12
FOR IRISH LlEUTENAAcY.

Arthur of c~onnauaht to Be Made Lord
Lieutenant.
London. Dec. 1.-THE belief is gain
ing ground that when a vacancy oc-
curs In the lord iieufenantcy OF Ire
land 1T will be allied by Prince Arthur
OF Connaught.
It ia said be will not be semi to Dub.
In until a home rule bill has been
passed and that be will therefore be
the flrst lord lieutenant under the new
regime.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-12
GIVE FAVORABLE REPORT
ON TREATY RESOLUTION
gpxesag by Untsed Preas Rirs.

Washington. Dee. 12:-~By a
unanimous vote the house commit
tee ON foreign affairs today agreed
ta report favorahly the Sulzer res
-r~ssps Recommending the abroga-
Lion Of the treaty OF 1882 with Rus
aia besauEe OF the latter.s refusal
to recognize transports in the hands
81 American Jews.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-12
EasIna Add Ffulfa.

Acid traits should not bs eaten with
fuo rich In starch. ssleh ~ bneaa asla
rnalks cereals and msat. They com.
bina w@H. IN Nlsh vegetables
Ma& ashe k~zsazE
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ence questions asked. So; volumes
added 1865; in October 1911, 80; by
purchase I53; by gift ID; volumes
repaired 40; U lost and paid
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-12
Reporf 81 Treasurer.

7 IESt5EFSFs
Following ia the report of the
treasurer for November: Balance
IN hand October rs, $253s64; city
warrant, $1,000; October fines and
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-12
Open Every Evening Until Christn
stmas. 1T Pays to Shop EARLY. Try 1t.


A remarkable price for such a
fine Bed Davenport. Best steel
spring construction. The white
felt mattress and ped spring are
strictiy Al. There's real luxury
In having such furniture In the
home, and you cant buy 1t any
where else in the city under $1,000
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-12-12

Dressing Tables
Desk Combination
CHesaI Mirrors
Rockers
Parlor Cabinets
Bookcases
Side Tables
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

money way. The season in Yellowstone Park is only three months-from June 15 to September 15. The business in the first 15 Gays and the last b days is nothing to brag cf Only in July and August is travel heavy.
 There was merit-a great deal of merit in what Mr. Krutthschnitt contended but that lid not weigh with MT. Hartman.
 Have you ever been through the park?.' he asked
 No" Mir Kruttschnitt answered.
 "Then you don't know as much as I do. for I have just been through it." said Mr. Hartman.
 That settled it.
 Surveys had been made of the country to the west and southwest of the park in 1904 and 1905. Hartman examined them closely and decided on the Madison river route as the best Hartman had so much respect for Haynes knowledge of the country that he asked him to go over the surveys and report to MT. Bancroft such suggestions as he had to offer.
 There was scarcity of labor when Hartman began building to the Yellow stone His new line was to be from Poca- tello to what is now the town of Yellow stone, right on the western boundary of the park. Other railroads were active in construction work and many iTigatine projects were being pushed with vigor To get men for the building of the new road the country for hundreds of miles south. west and north had to be secured In the spring of 1908 there were unusually heavy snowstorms. Next came a rainfall heavier than that section of the United States had known for many years.
 The construction work was hamperet seriously by slides. washouts and othel difficulties, but the orders were to hurry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

It is five stories high and is built Of logs. In every detail the log cabin idea is carried out except in regard to the beds. They are gilt, and they spoil the exquisite harmony of an oth erwise perfect and novel establish ment. Probably in all the great park there are no more remarkable geysers than the three close to the Inn. Old Faithful the best known and most in- spring of the three, is only a few hundred feet away Every 69 minutes it comes into action and sends a tor rent of steam and boiling water ID to loo feet high. It never fails and is as regular as is the sun in rising. X night, with a searchlight playing on | it, the spectacle is magnificent The | Giant a little further away, is irreg
 ular About once in seven or nine days it becomes active and for nearly an | hour shoots it's immense volume of vapor and water toward the sky. It's power is greater and it's volume larger than Old Faithful. but it never can ap- proach Old Faithful in popularity. The Castle, which gets its name from i;s castellated crater, comes into play by fits and starts, being comparatively
 mild for a week or more and then equaling or surpassing the Giant in | the splendor and intensity of it's out
 burst.
 Yellowstone Lake did not interest Mr. | Hartman much, but he fingered for
 hours at the canyon. The upper and | the lower falls and the great gorge.
 with it's bewilderment and riot of color
 made a deep impression on him. From the
 canyon he traveled 10 Mammoth Hot
 Springs, passed through the Golden
 Gate and the Silver Gate and then
 came upon the great terraces from | which flow the springs that have given Mammoth it's name. The hotel at Nam :
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
SWIMMING ADVICE
 FOR LANDLUBBERS

From the Womans Home Companion.
 It may surjrise some new swimmers to
 know that one can both see and hear
 under the water. Seeing is not difficult,
 when once you have the idea firmly plant
 ed in your mind that water will not hurt
 your eyes. Particularly is this true of
 sea water, the salt in which is soothing
 rather than irritating. But never open your eyes to see under water before you are under water; never dive with the eyes cpen, or go from surface to underneath, CT vive versa, with the eyes open. The water at it's surface seems to have an actual edge, which stings the eye. Learn
 to swim with three limbs, to dispense with ejsner arm or either leg. You may need an arm to bring ashore someone wno needs help. you may have a cramp some lme and have to do without one or your "nl opellers" The trick is easy, it is inerelv more tiresome to swim without one arm or one leg, but not much narder than to swim with all.
 AS the very strongest man in the world is a weakling in the grasp of a good- sized comber, such waves must be out
 witted not outwrestled. And, to be at home in the breakers, even beyond your depth, it is only necessary to know whae | d 1 Many reople believe their eyes, and arc sure that a wave travels. The water moves up and down, and the motion moves forward but the water doesn't travel Consequently. if you get beyond
 the breakers, the waves will go up ana down and carry you with them, but "ohs sweep you forward ,,. Near the shore the waves behave diff 1 ferently: they curl over and break, ana
 there the water. as well as the motion' travels. And, if you are just at the curl | ins no;nt the water will pick you up and sweep you in, and you can literally ride the wsves," than which there IS no liner 1 snort in the sea. But woe unto you 1t l won, eei a b;t ahead of the curling wave front, m for then you will be turned over and twisted around and flung to the bot | tom. ,., .
 Hence it is wise to experiment with lit- tie waves first and learn just where they do break and just where they actually oommcnce to exert a forward movement m vo,lr body before testing your swim m,ng powers in the surf.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

moth is not much to boast of in ap- pearance or appointments, but Harri- man gave little thought to the hotel or it's furnishings. A materialist always and a transportation man to his fin ger tips, he gazed in surprise as stage after stage came in from Gardiner loaded with passengers. There were four-horse stages >and siX-horse stages and as they came up 10 the hotel en- trance and discharged their loads the master of the Union Pacific drowned.
 Who are all these people," he inquired Of Mir. Childe, the president of the hotel company.
 Our afternoon arrivals" was the re- ply.
 Hartman walked up and down the hotel porch once or twice and then went to where MT. Haynes was standing. Haynes" he said, i've should have some Of this business" Then and there he de. cided that the Union Pacific should build from the south and have an entrance to the park that would put it on as good if rot a better footing than the Northern Pacific Once he had come to that detec-
 imitation he was impatient for action. Tho park had no further attraction fo, him. He wanted to get back to his train at Monida to get in touch with Krutt- schnitt, the road builder. He wanted to see all the surveys ever made or the country between the Union Pacific line the Oregon Short Line and the park There was an opportunity to bring busi- ness :o the Union Pacific That was enough to stir the imagination and stimu- late he energies of Hartman. Wher Sruttscbnitt and Hartman got together al Monida and Hartman told his chiei aid of his determination. Kruttschnit pointed out the heavy cost of building such T line in such country and ex. | pressed doubt as to it's worth in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

Of merchandise by mail through the i1i- ral delivery, but they will not pay the fourth class rate. Such a service could be organized for the local merchants and the rural delivery to customers of any one section without injuring or compet- ing with any other service. We have the machinery for it in operation, and it would materially increase the income of the department. By this means a spe- cia] reduced rate of postage could be made upon merchandise carried only by rural carriers l have no doubt of it's practicability. If every one of our rural delivery carriers would take on an aver- age of three packages a day at a cost of 9 cents each there would be return of $16,O00,000 from that business alone. We are now running the department without deficit, but that S16,OOO, 900 would be added to the surplus, for it would not cost us any more than the amount we are now spending.
 ' Afew years ago l recommended that the delivery by rural carriers to commun- ities remote from post offices be SUD- plemented by a parcels post delivery at a special rate of postage of cents for the first pound and of ? cents for each
 
 Il pounds; provided that the goods were mailed at the distributing post office of the rural route upon which the customers 1.-Two. l have no doubt some kind of a satisfactory arrangement could be made which would be of great convenience to the people and to the country merchants.
 Cheap Postage for Foreigners
 As it is now MT. De Graw, merchant living in London or Berlin can send goods through our mails more cheaply than though he had a branch office in New York and sent his goods from there, can he not?"
 That is true" was the reply "Aecord- ing to the present arrangements all fourth-class matter posted ar any one place in the United States to any other place therein costs 1 cent an ounce or l6 cents 9 pound and the limit of weight is four pounds. The New York agent of the London firm, if he sent the goods by mail from New York, would nave to di-
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Not only that but there was character to everything he said and did. If he ersse ed it was in a way to make Mr. Har- rimaD laugh heartily. If he was deserib- ing one of natures strangest forms it sa so plain and yet so comprehensive that it made strong impression. He seemed to know every bear in the park. whether grizzly, cinnamon or black, and he knew its habits and it's moods and its hauuts. He had names for the deer and the elk So, too, it was with every stage horse and every driver
 Hartman knew his companion was q stage owner, but he did not know the ex- tent of his interests, for Haynes, in ad- dIton to his stage line and his photo graphic concessions in the park, is a third owner in the chain of great hotels and eating houses and a third owner in the permanent camps that dot the park
 The circuit of the park is a five-day trip -1G0 rifles by stage. It so happened that Mr Hartman found only a small party at luncheon at the Fountain and only a small humber of persons at Old Faithful Inn There was a good-sized party one days Journey ahead, and a fair-sized party tehind but Hartman did not know this. and got his early impression of Vel lowstone park travel from his own obser- vations. At night in Old Faithful Inn after fe and the small party at the hote had seen Old Faithful spout once ol twice, lie remarked that the Northern Pa citc was not likely to profit much or Follow stone business. Then he got gay and drew Haynes out on stories of the west, and seemed to enjoy himself hugely Persons who met Hartman for the first time that night got the idea that h, was one of the most jovial and kindly. o 1 spirits.
 l Old Faithful Inn is a charming place
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30


 and hurry they did. To get laborers to the grading camps the Oregon Short Line kept a special coach on the trains be- tween ogden and Marysville ali season, but even at that all the men wanted could not be obtained
 That bit of road from Pocatello to Yel- lowstone cost s2,O0O,O00 to build It tra- verses a strange land, a part of which is a great lava bed. When the first train over the new road was run to Y Yellowstone and passengers from the Union Pacific entered the National Park by a new gate way message announcing the fact was sent to Hartman, but Hartman was dy- ing. He did not know then and he never did know that his decision to build into the Yellowstone was based on an error. He died without knowing that the big crowd that climbed from the stages at Mammoth Hot Springs that day in 1907 was due to a tie-up on the Northern Pa cific that delayed various trains and brought all their passengers In together.
 There are men who thought Hartman blundered egregiously. They are not so sure of it now as they were last year, and much less so than they were the year before. The road that was built because a photographer remained silent and al- l lowed MT. Hartman to do his own think | ing Is adding materially 10 the number of persons visiting the Yellowstone. While not depriving the Northern Pacific of bus l mess it is smaking business of Its own- | Last year 1t carried 40 per cent of all | the persons who went to the National | park. It's business in June of this year was 19S per cent greater than in June. l 191O Possibly F. IT. Hartman, despite his mistake, saw further into the future than l any of those about him in that Yelow- | stone trip of 1907.
 l Copyright, 1911, by Richard Spillane)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

"HERE rolled into the little town of
 Monida, on the Oregon Short Line,
 ! one day in 1907. a special train that bore the great star of the transportation world. Edward H. Hartman The over lord of the Union Pacific had been on tour of the lines whose destiny he con- trolled and to round out his journey had decided on a trip to that wonderland of the nation, the Yellowstone National park.
 In those days the Northern Pacific com- manded the only railroad entrance to the park From the Northern Pacific sta- ton at Gardiner, Mont, it is only five miles to Mammoth Hot Springs, and through this Gardiner gateway poured the thousands who fiocked each summer from the far east, the west and the south to see the marvels of nature in that land of innumerable geysers, canyons. boil ing springs, waterfalls, rapids towerin g peaks and marvelously colored lakes, pools and chasms. Mr. Hartman might have had his special train hauled over the Northern Pacific to Gardiner, and he and his party enter the park by that route, but MT. Hartman had no love for James J. Hill or the Northern Pacific. so he went to Monida. From Monida 1t is approximately 70 miles to the western boundary of the park-a two-day journey by stage-and this was the nearest point on the Oregon Short Line to the Yel- lowstone country.
 Mir. Hartman asked Julius Kruttschnitt vice president of the Union Pacific, to accompany him in a tour of the park but Mir. Kruttschnitt, who is big and heavy, begged to be excused. His private car was much more comfortable and, be- sides, he could not afford to be out of telegraph touch with the world In gen. eral and the Union Pacific system in par ticular so long. MT. Hartman asked W. H. Bancroft, vice president of the Oregon Short Line. Mr. Bancroft also had urgent reasons for remaining at Monida.
 The boss of the MY stage line. F. Jay Haynes, was on hand to act as escort for the visitors. MY. stands for Monida- Yellowstone Haynes looked at Hartman and Hartman looked at Haynes. Harri- man was of the east, Haynes of the west. TO Haynes every one from the east is T. dude If he thought Hartman was dude he did not say so. Certainly there was nothing dudish about that slender little man, who was the most potent force in the railroad empire. MT. Hartman hated taIkative people. He did his own thinking When he wanted information he asked for It. He desired to be answered briefly and to the point. Nervous, high strung and irritable, he became ineensed when persons wasted his time with un- sought advice, long-winded explanations or arguments He was too busy man and his brain worked too rapidly for the ordinary run of people. He worked eight cen hours a day and then begrudged the few hours he gave to recreation and sleep, Work was his passion.
 Haynes and Hartman drove out of Monida together, and as Haynes guided the horses over mile after mile of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30


 mountain road Hartman sat and watched the scenery. Probably he was busy witt his ever present problems, but after time the grandeur of the country through whicl he was passing began to challenge his att teption. Maybe, too, he was beginning tc feel relief in knowing he was leaving be hind the shackles of business and that fol few days at least he would be free from the cares of the world.
 Haynes, who did the driving, said noth- ing, but looked steadily ahead. That was pleasing to Hartman. The mountain still ness was soothing to his strained nerves. He leaned back and breathed in the bal samic air and closed his tired eyes and | had sense of ease and rest ne had not known for weeks. For two hours neither man spoke a word. Then Hartman, who | was too nervous and restless 10 iie still Tn | body or mind long, asked question Of his guide. The answer was prompt exact, la comic. An hour later Hartman wanted another bit of information. He got it, but Haynes, did not waste a word
 | Before the park was reached Hartman | had formed a good opinion of Haynes, | and after they had been in the park a day or two this opinion was strengthened. | Occasionally MT. Harrimans mind would turn to some business matter and he would become deeply absorbed. The park l and it's wonders meant nothing to him then. When this abstraction was over lie again would become highly interested iii the things about him, whether geysers, rushing streams, majestic mountains, queer formations of the earth, craters of extinct volcanoes or boiling pools of mag teal beauty of coloring.
 There probably is no man who knows the Yellowstone better than F. Jay Haynes. From the days of the Neg Perces up to the present time he has been going up and down it's broad territory picturng it's wonders and it's beauties AS a photographer he is in the front rank. There hardly is a geyser, a crag, a rapid, waterfall, a scene of rugged character or beauty, a bear an elk, an antelope, a buffalo in all the park that he has not photographed. Some of his winter views, taken when the park was ice clad are marvels. The snowshoe is as familiar to him as the stage coach. Like men who have been much in solitude he can be silent at long stretches, but he is by no means silent person. He is good judge of animals and of men.
 On officious, eager guide or driver would lave made Harriman's trip a horror. Haynes suited the millionaire exactly. Hartman wanted no information except what was asked for. Haynes never gave and except in reply to Harriman's ques- tons. There was no restraint apparent in the case of either man. Hartman was quick to discover what fund of knowl- | edge Haynes possessed and how keenly developed were his artistic and scientific sides for all the bluntness of his speech. I There was a charm in the quaint, pie | turesque, but forceful manner Haynes said things that appealed strongly to Harri-
 man. Every sentence seemed to fit just light.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
An Unfortunate Ablution
tha Washington Post.

From the WaSnlnStOn Fost
 It is an authentic anecdote of Ho- garth says an anecdote in the life of Hogarth," that he was wont Ato make certain miniature sketches on his thumbnai to be elaborated at an after time A certain dramatist followed tho practice He would write plot in tho same limited space in shorthand. He was once consulted on new drama by 6 manager. C. . T have it." the writer exclaimed; {; ana he immediately marked the plot upon his thumbnafl. Weeks passed, but no play was presented The manager consulted the author.
 Now, about the piece! It's done, of course; you took 1t on your thumb- nail"
 ITO be sure" replied the author, 'and there it was for some time; but, as i'll luck would have it, l one morn ing unfortunately-wash my handsi''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

vide them up Into four-pound pacKase- and if they were full weight pay G4 cents for each such package, and should he wish to ship Il pounds, he would have to nut them into three different packages, one of which might be three pounds, and the whole eleven pounds would cost him 1.7c. On the other hand, suppose the Lonoon merchant shipped direct from his house in London. He could then put the II pounds in one package, provided that package was not more than three feet six inches long, and could send It for 12 cents pound, or for S1.Sl For this sum he could mail it to San Francisco, Los An geles or any part of the United States. If ne sent a four-pound package from London instead of it's costing him 6i cents it would cost him As cents, and if two pounds, 24 cents instead of 32 cents, which would be the rate if mailed in the United States. Similar rates prevail for the shipment of articles from here to for egn countries, it being much cheaper to send the same article from Chicago to Cairo or Calcutta than from Chicago to New York In the one case the merchant disc goes by the international parcels post rate at 12 cents a pound and in the other at our domestic rate, which is IS cents q pound"
 The Rural Delivery and the News
 papers
 What has the rural delivery done for the press of the United States?" asked.
 Tt has increased the circulation oi the newspa pers to an enormous extent It has made the farmer a daily sub scriber and has led to the building up of small dailies all over the coun- try. The farmers are the real think CTS of the United States and since the rural delivery has been established they have been doing more thinking than ever. They are more careful read CTS than the city people. They go through the pap ITS column by column reading the news articles and no. merely the headlines. They study the editorials, and the result of their think ing is seen in the letters which com. here to Washington and to Congress