Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-23

The 1871 wage scale Of the 100000 men
who are members Of the New York Build
I ing Trades council has Just been issued
The schedule Is based on eight hours work
per day, with Saturday hsf-holidays, and
all legal holidays observed. Work on sun
day or holidays. or after the noon hour on
saturdays. must be raid for at overtime
rates. The schedule includes: Bricklayers,
$500 per day, overtime, per hour, NiO.
plumbers. $3.50 and $40; carpenters. s.
and tl.25; masons. s. and Sl.25; ironworkers,
: s. and sl.g5; metalworkers. $40 and sl.eO;
decorators, $3.50 and til5; bonermskers
S425 and LIE; painters, - and N.O5. Help
4 ers in the various trades receive from 81
to $3.50 per day. with overtime at Is cents
an hour.
In his article in the American MAGAZINE
Z on the futility Of the laws governing per
sonal property taxation In New York, a.
J. Mock describes the following method
used by one concern to evade this tax:
"One concern doing a large business In
New York refused it's Assessment and re-
ported its headquarters as at Wading
| River, in Suffolk county. The office Of
such a corporation ought to be as con-
spicuous as the Statue Of Liberty in a
place like wading River. but the local
assessor could not find it. never did find
| It.; ard the assessment lRpsed.
The inwardness of the case was this.
! The attorney for the corporation had a
country house at wading River. He had
the firms name painted on a very small
tin sign, posted unobtrusively above his
kitchen door Once q year or oftener he
addressed a letter to himself at Wading
/ River in care of the firm, dropped 1t into
the local postoffice in the morning and
took II out at night. thus being able to
take oath, IL necessary, that the firm re-
ceived mail at wading River. Then once
a year he gathered the directors together,
brought them down from New York In his
automobile. under cover of darkness, and
| together. the law requires, they held
the annual meeting of the corporation at
its principal office at wading River.
1T was an easy matter. The corporation
was there, its sign was there, 1t received
mail there, it's annual election of officers
was held there, all strictly as the law d.
reefs. and it was simply up to the local
assessor to find and assess it IL he could"
| Six undertakes and their assistants.
armed with instruments and embalming
fluids, stood in front of the bar of Brady's
hotel on upper Third avenue just at the
l o'clock hour one morning last week and
! demanded to know of Mr.. keenan,, the
bartender, why he was not dead. Every
one OF the six had been summoned by tele-
phone with calls for service for poor Mike
Keenan,, rest his soul" who had died of
pneumonia, Brights disease, dellrium tre-
mems and smallpox" according to the
notifications. keenan, thinks some joker
in the back room Of the saloon where the
| telephone booth is at the service OF the
public is responsible. The management OF
the hotel offered a reward OF 500 for the
discovery of the miscreants. The police
were called in, but declined to act.
The chairman of a New York committee
in search of pastor has discovered a
new financial possibility.
| Il was at my table in the club the other
day" he said land happened to mention
| the need of our church One of the men
at the table turRed-to me hopef1lly and
said: I'll give you SIS IL you will take our
minister ..-
said another, Hold on. there. How
many are on the committee? / answered
that there were seven. IN give you $50
apiece II you will take ours he said
eagerly"
Begging is said TO be a calling that
sharpens the faculties. II certainly de-
velps sometimes an ingenuity OF impud-
ence, as may be seen In letter which re-
Gently came to the office of the New York
Post and which the paper prints, omit
ting names and places:
Il am a married man, IS years old, en-
ployed as electric car motorman seven
! 40
with losing only one day IN fifteen months
my salary affords us only a moderate liv-
ing.
II have a daughter who is a stenographer.
with a full determination l started
campaign some time ago to make uE a
home in - by donations from the veal
thy. l have a good portion towards 1t al
ready; but not enough. Please slip a s. or
81 bill in enclosed envelope and send it
to me and see II you ever miss IT,
Help me succeed
Use hospitality one TO another without
grudging." Peter 40
The young chap whose morals I trem-
BILE for just now Is my nephew" the city
salesman remarked. He has a position
as errand boy in a banking house. He is a
bright lad and as steady as they make
em, but since he got that job In the bank
his women relations are urging him into
crime. They do not advise him TO pick
his employers pocket or run away with
the days deposits, but the principle in
volved is just as reprehensible They ask
him to abstract few bags that the silver
money is carried in. The women want
those bags for sofa pillow covers. They
. are made Of material that will never wear
out and feathers and down simply can.
not sift through BY boldly asking foI
what he wanted the boy has secured
enough bags TO encase his mothers sofa
; pillows, but II he supplies the rest Of the
/ family / see nothing ahead OF him but a
career Of crime"
e Ice water. tea. sandwiches and maya
zines had been sent up to room AZ in
New York hotel, but presently the bel
rang again. The boy who had been dis.
patched TO attend TO the wOman's need,
returned with the report that what sh,
, wanted that time was six empty spools.
| "Spools?" said the proprietor ''YOu a "a