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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31

After deep thought Prof Prentiss c.
Hoyt, of Clark College, propounds the
opinion that there is no such thing
as American humor. II is not Ameri.
can, but just individual and personal,
thinks the professor. 1t may argue
some temerity to contradict a college
professor. We seem to remember
that one newspaper which SO far for
got the properties and eternal verities
as to "get gay" with Prof. Oscar Low
ell Triggs, of Chicago, was hailed into
court for It, says the Milwaukee Sen
tinel. But really Professor Clark gets
on debatable ground In denying the ex-
istence OF that commonly recognized
entity, American humor Surely there
is a distinctively American twang to
the drollery OF our typical American
humorists, and a family resemblance
that makes their productions recog-
nizable as American in a moment
Artemus Ward and Mark Twain had
their separate individualities but they
had their common national character
istic, and their fun is racy of the soil
1t sprang from.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31

Back of the royal pageantry az the
opening of the British Parliament. In
which the royal family, the court dig
nitaries, the peers and the peeresses
had front places, with all the splendor
of attire and adornment which BELTS
such occasions, there stands the plain
fact that after all the people rule.
This is signified by the announcement
that the Liberal government has OBJ
tained from the king a guarantee that
'1n a certain contingency" there will
be created a sufficient number Of new
peers to give the government control
of the House of Lords. The certain
contingency" means the omission or
refusal of the Lords to accept the veto
provision which the Liberal govern
ment has prepared and which has the
Endorsement of two general elections,
direct appeal having been made to
the people.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31

American schools get another com
pliment, this time at the conference OF
the British Institute for Social Serv
ice in London, when Charles p. Tre
velyan, Parliamentary Secretary for
Education, speaking of the Importance
of physical training of youths as a
foundation for national health. de
clared the United States to be far
ahead of England In providing public
Fairgrounds and in affording oppor
tunities Of exercise for the young
Mr.. Trevelyan showed the sincerity
OF his sentiment by urging England tc
follow the American example. The
tribute to the excellence Of American
practice is all the more significant IL
view OF thN fact that England Is re
garded as a great outdoor" country
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31
INTERVENTION
BY FIRST OF May
Mexican Revolutionary Leader"
Makes a Prediction.
URGES MADERO TO FIGHT
General Carter Issues Orders for His
Division to Be In Readiness
to Move at Short
Notice.

San Antonio, Textile issuance OF
an order by General Carter making
provision for a sudden move, should
1t be required. and statement by Dr.
c. F. Caricristi, of the Mexican revo-
lutionary junta, that "the United
States will intervene in Mexico un.
less there is definite show OF tran
quillity by May l." were the principal
incidents of the week here.
DR.. Caricristi felt sure enough OF
his facts to embody them in a report
to Francisco l. Madero. the revolu-
tionary leader. who at the last re-
port was within thirty miles Of the
city OF chihuahua. DR.. Caricristt
urged the insurgent chief to win de-
cisive victory at all costs by May l.
for, he wrote, President Taft will not
wait longer than that for quiet to be
restored, business resumed and traf-
fic over the railroads to be restored"
The courier left here at once with
DR.. Caricristi's letter. 1t is not an Or
der, for Madero is the leader, but is in
the nature Of report on the meaning
of the mobilization of American troops
in Texas.
"Of course" he said in an inter-
view, "a complete federal triumph in
Chihuahua, the restoration OF com.
munications and other business like
wise would avoid Intervention.
know absolutely that President Taft
Is determined that order shall be re.
stored, and quickly, by one side or the
other in Mexico, with the alternative
Of intervention.
I'm my report to Senor Madero, ]
point out the necessity of capturing
and holding the State Of Chihuahua
If this can be accomplished, am con.
vinced that the revolutionists will be
recognized as belligerents by the Unit
ed States and other governments.
"The financial interests OF the Unit.
ed States in Mexico are immense, and,
with that Of Europe. are greater in
money sense than those of Mexico.
Recently I compiled statistics, which
show that $1,000,0O0, 900 Of American
money is invested in that country, and
that the interest Of Europe is about
hall that sum. It is a fact that 7s
per cent of the credit in Mexico is IL
the hands Of Americans and Euro,
peans."
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31
7,035 IN NAVAL MILITIA.
Total Strength Given in the First An.
nual Register.

Washington. - A total Of 7,0S5 is
the strength of the organized and
uniformed naval militia of the United
States, according to the first issue OF
an annual register of the naval militia
Just printed by the Navy Department
The force is composed of organizations
26 warrant, and 1,o5S petty officers,
and 5,3SS men.
The new register contains the names
Of all commissioned and warrant Off
GERS, the organization of each State,
and list of United States naval ves--
sells assigned to naval militia. with
complete data regarding machinery
and armament
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31
PEACE is ENeLANC's CRY.
Pulpits Ring Out With Pleas for Per
manent Arbitration.

London. - The pulpits Of England.
rang with pleas for peace and arbi.
tration. The Bishop Of York and
many other prelates of the Church
Of England discussed with warm APP.
probation the utterances of President
Taft and Sir Edward Grey.
It was the same so far as the Free
Churches were concerned. Eminent
preachers as we'll as obscure ones
took the same topic as text and
without exception they expressed the
hope that an arbitration treaty be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain would be rallied.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31

One hundred and forty-two persons
mostly young women and girls, lost
their lives in a fire that destroyed the
contents of three floors Of a supposed
ly fireproof ten-story iron, stone and
brick structure in the northwest cor
ner of Greene street and Washington
place. This building, in strict ac-
cordance with the law, contained fire.
proof stairways and elevator shafts, as
we'll as standpipes on each floor, but
had no exterior fire escapes, and Fire
Chief Croker, whose men fought des-
perately to save life, grimly comment
ed on the folly of sacrificing safety to
beauty in architecture.
The fire started in the main
workroom OF the Triangle Shirt Waist
factory, which already had several
fires to it's credit, on the eighth floor
of the building, at 4:40 p. m, just five
minutes before the hour fixed for
quitting. On this floor, with a space
OF $500 square feet, 500 operatives
were working. They were attending
as many clicking sewing machines,
when a tongue Of flame was seen to
dart from a pile OF clothing near the
dynamos, on the Washington place
side.
In less than two minutes pandemon-
ium reigned in that room. Several Of
the girls who had finished their work
had started for the cloak room. Three
emerged just as the flames were seen.
Two employees with buckets tried to
extinguish the fire, while Max Ber-
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31

cry, dived headfirst from the window.
She struck the middle of the street
Others followed her rapidly, their
clothing blazing as they sailed
through the air to be killed the mo-
ment they hit the pavement. Twenty
firemen who had come in rush with
nets tried to save the girls, but it was
a futile effort. The force with which
they dropped from the ninth story
caused the net to slip from the hands
Of the firemen, and every victim
struck the cobblestones, bounding six
or eight feet into the air, to drop back
inertly.
One after another these young wo-
men chose the quick death by leap
ing to the slow death by roasting
where they stood at the windows.
Fifty-three Of them jumped. On the
Washington place side a dozen who
had tried in vain to gain the stair
ways winding about the freight ele-
vators also leaped. The singed and
roasted skins Of those who dropped
In this way attested the agony they
had suffered before finally taking their
last desperate chance. The heavy
glass in the vault window OF the side
walk was cracked by the weight of
bodies dropping upon it. Half a dozen
fires were started in the street from
tho blazing clothing of the victims,
but volunteer firemen with buckets
extinguished them.
The Heroes Are Always There.
In the meantime many had been
saved from the blazing rooms through
the heroism of Joe Zito and a fellow
employee, who ran the two passen.
ger elevators. They made seventeen
trips each after the fire startd, and
the cars on each descent were JAM
med to the doors with young women.
One OF them was on fire when she
reached Joe's car, and her companions
beat out the flames. On his last trip
from the blazing eighth floor, Joe
could not close the door on that floor,
and after his car began to descend
the frightened people left behind
dropped on the roof OF the car, until
it was covered with girls seeking in
this way to escape. II was supposed
some Of them were killed. but no
bodies were found on top OF either OF
the elevators or in the elevator shafts.
and hence, it was argued, all of those
on the top OF the car were rescued.
"A
persons visited the temporar morgue
in an effort to identify the victims Of
the calamity. The bodies lay in the
rough wooden coffins occupied by the
victims OF the Slocum disaster of sew.
en- years ago. The great majority Of
those drawn TO the morgue were
curiosity seekers, who used every re-
source to get by the police. At mid
night eighty-one OF the victims had
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31
The 0heyvMe Times
n =. oGBI1EY.
,oLNEYvILLE, n !.
THE STAY AT HOME.

To travel with a well-flled purse
Ia well-stocked mind, sharp and intel
ligent curiosity-that Is a delight. TIC
ftake sea trip as tonic-that Is ra
tional, too. But to go abroad, as ceT
tain persons do by the shipload, for
the mere sake of locomotion; TO be
able to say they have crossed the water
(often at the cost OF unspeakable agon.
bes); to stand ignorant upon historic
battlenelds. dumb and unappreciative
before the great shrines of art; to
pass from city to city without knowl
edge of their teeming past, from state
ITO state, oblivious Of their political re-
lations, their polity, their economic
condition-that is incarnate folly
afoot. They were better of at home
in a hammock DR.. Samuel Johnson
Views the matter shrewdly. "The use
of travelling" he says, rs to regulate
Imagination by reality, and instead OF
thinking how things may be, to see
them as they are" says the Philadel.
phia Press. The doctor lived long be-
fore the days OF the perfected camera
and moving picture. To make the
grand tour in his time was almost re.
Quisite to a polite and liberal educa-
tion. 1t is still desirable, though rath.
er perquisite. The stay-at-home
man and woman, IL established in hap
py environment, occupied with congo.
nial and profitable duties, and unmo
Tested by the diabolic spirit which
urges contented folk to roam, have
all the best of life at hand and only
happiness to lose by rowing Gold
smith found 1t so and cried: "The
first, best country ever is at home"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31

stein, an employee, telephoned an
alarm. But the flames rolling across
the cotton goods and lace quickly out
stripped the feeble efforts of the en-
ployees To master ii. The fire spread
from the pile of clothing where 1t
started to a string of new shirtwaists
hanging on a line, and from this line
to other lines, until there were fes-
toons of aanes al about the room In
atae OF Ave minutes. while great vol.
ames Of smoke ALLIED the rooom.
Escaee % Many Girls Wss Cut on
Three ways Of egress wero nrrord.
ed to- tae panic stricken glrls. Thoy
could seek the two passenger elevators
at the north end OF the building on tho
Greene street side, OF the freight ele-
vators on the Washington place end,
II they could reach them, or they
could try, as scores Of them did, TO
reach the street by the stairways,
twisted serpentwise about these eleva-
tor shafts.
One other seeming avenue OF .es-
cape beckoned to many, only TO con-
sign them to a death trap. This was
small iron fire escape, in the area
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31

DR.. Copp OF the Pennsylvania hos
pital for the insane says every one is
crazy now and then. The moments of
arrangement generally come when the
butcher or the grocer gets through
footing up the bill.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31
MORE THAN 14O PERSONS PERISH
IN new YORK fire HORROR
Victims Mostly Girls Employed by Triangle Shirtwast
Company, Were Locked in Blazing Factory.
SCORES LEAP FROM WINDOWS TO DEATH
Go Through Windows Striking Cobbe Stones When Fire
Nets Could Not Hold ThemOtherS Jump Down Elevator
Shaft as Last Car DeScendS Escape Soon Useless

Some Drowned In Basement After Es-
Gaping the Flames Above-Many Get
to Lower Floors, Only to Find No
Escape From Fire and Smoke, and
Are lmpaIed on Iron Spikes IS They
Jump-Others Fall With Broken
Limbs Into Basement and Are Suf-
located.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31

way that was mortised into the north
wall OF the building. This escape on
each floor could be gained through two
windows. Iron perpendicular ladders
led from floor to floor. To climb down
these ladders was a more hazardous
feat than to scale the ratlines OF q
ship at sea for these young women.
Not single exterior fire escape
marred the beauty OF the exterior
walls of this building, with its sixty
feet Of front in Washington place and
seventy-five in Greene street. The
throng In the main workroom OF the
Triangle Company ran first to the ele-
vators on the Greene street side. The
flames pursued them, and they sought
the stairways leading to the roof. A
few had the presence Of mind to run
downward to the street. Hundreds
started for the rear fire escape.
Girls Drowned In the Cellar.
Pressing one upon another they
the round iron rungs of the ladders.
Frenzied they stepped upon one an
others heads. And when those that
could reach the first floor they found
that even the ladders descended no
further. The biting fire was behind
them. They were forced to leap off
into the ub-basement, a distance of
% feet Some Of the unfortunates
were impaled on the sharp prongs of
an iron picket fence hat separated
this areaway from the sub-basement OF
the adjoining building. Others, who
leaped after them struck the bodies
OF their companions and fell to the
cement floor. Thus 20 or 80 unfor-
tunates were piled up in this well-like
area, helpless until the flood of water
from the fire engines covered and
drowned them.
Blazing embers from the fire, which
had spread to the ninth and tenth
floors and had worked its way down
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31
@. w. Wanmaker Out.

New York.-George w. Wanmaker.
appraiser of the port of New York. has
resigned. Representative Herbert Par
sons, at the request of Mr.. Wanmaker,
presented the resignation to President
Taft.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31
EnqlIsh shoppinq Week.

Observation-Disclosures shopping week.
which has been organized by the
Union Jack Industries League. In or.
der to stimulate interest in British
manufactures. was formally opened by
the Lord Mayor.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31

A Frenchman who is in jail has
challenged a Frenchman who Is out
of jail TO fight a duel. and the chal.
lengee has asked the authorities TO >et
the challenger loose long enough for
a meeting on the field of honor. You
simply cannot beat the French for 20
liteness
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31
TEN YEARS FOR olEo MAKERS.
Three Chicago DaIrymen Also Fined
S5,0t7 Each.

Chicsgo.-Judge Lands iHed Joseph
F. Width. Tony wirth. his brother.
and Patrick Raidy. his brother-in-law.
each s5.017 and sentenced each to
serve a term averaging ten years. in
the penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth
for oleomargerine moonshining.
There was a smell Of fraud OF the
nastiest kind in all the evidence In
this case" said Judge Lands.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31

Cincinnati.-The strike of the white
fremen on the Cincinnati. New Or
leans & Texas Pacific Railroad (Queen
& Crescent) has been declared on.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31
stoo BONUS FOR BABIES.

In "Stork Mayors" Bill u "Gives Dou-
bic" for Twins.
Chic c1go.-Senator Beall, the "Stork
Mayor" OF Alton. has aroused the in
terest OF Chicago wives by his bill
to give a bonus of 800 for each baby
born within two years after marriage.
IL goes double for twins and three
ways for triplets. But II is not re-
troactive.
In 1909 there were 2o.s3s births In
Chicago.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31

The New Yorker who gave theater
party for eight damsels whom he had
loved and lost deserves a Carnegie
medal.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31
Taft Better OF "Pink Eye"

Washington. President Taft Is
rapidly recovering from an attack of
the pink eye" which has caused him
a lot of inconvenience for several
days
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31
FIST FiGTH IN LEGISLATURE.
Missouri Representative Strikes Clerk
and Starts an Uproar.

Jefferson City. Mo.-Both branches
of the General Assembly endeavored
to clear up their calendars for ad-
journment and the deliberations OF
the lower body were enlivened by a
fist fight.
Representative Stark, OF Cass
County, struck Percy Smith. clerk
in the State Fish and Game Depart
ment, knocking him down.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31
DIES AT fio; WIFE 100.
MIssouri's Oldest Man Was Temperate
In All Things.

In All Things.
Sedaiia, Mcdaniel Bartlett, said
to have been Missouri's oldest man.
died here from pneumonia. He was
born at Bonneville. Mo-. IN 1901. For
many years he had been In perfect
health. working as a laborer much OF
the time.
In an interview a few days ago he
attributed his remarkable physical
condition to simple living.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-03-31

Chicago.-Charles L. Merriam. Re-
publican nominee for Mayor OF Chi.
cago. was badly injured In an auto
mobile accident
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-03-18
ACCIDENT ON ROOSEVELT ROAD

Yesterday afternoon about 4 O'Clock
DR.. r. +. Palmer was called to Fish
Creek on account Of an accident Par
ticulars were not received. but the tele-
phone message was that the stage had
gone off the hill and that nan and
woman were seriously hurt.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-03-18
TEMPE
ARRANGEMENTS MADE
FOR ROOSEVELTS VISIT
He Will Be Here Between $50 and
10 Monday Morning.

The arrangements for the presence
President Theodore Roos welt have
been as nearly completed as they can
well be under the circumstances
President Matthews of the Normal
paid visit to Mesa Thursday after
noon for the purpose of comforting
with Professor Evans of the Evans
school and DR.. Wilbur. These two
gentlement will have Mr.. Roosevelt
with them Monday morning for an
auto tour of the south side and the
hour when he will arrive in Tempe
will depend almost entirely upon
them
They have agreed with President
Matthews that thew shall leave Mesa
at nine O'Clock and will reach the
Normal between $50 and 10. This
is as near as il is possible to give
the hour at this time and is probably
as close as il can be figured at any
time. However, unless there is some
Unforeseen obstacles, it can be pretty
safely figured that Mr. Roosevelt will
arrive at the Normal campus not
earlier than $3.50 and not later than
10. For the benefit Of the half dozen
or so readers Of this who still stub
bornly stick to the sun time. ii may
be well to state that the above re-
fers to mountain time
Arrangements have been perfected
for accommodating the public at the
campus in a manner that will give
every one a chance to hear and see
the eX-president. He will speak from
the front SteDS of the main building
and il is anticipated that there will
be standing room in front within
hearing distance for all who will
likely be present The school children
will be given the choice Of position
directly in front of the steps while
the older citizens will arrange them
selves to suit their own convenience
on either side II is announced that
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-03-18
EDUCATIONAL RALLY.

The Sunday schools Of the nation
have been incubating They are now
beginning to hatch. Some of them
are really beginning To scratch and
do business. The Bible school is
really a national institution. Great
problems confront il. 1t is awak-
ing TO a sense of it's responsibility
In evidence is the educational rally
now Systematically sweeping the en-
tire country. 1t has reached us.
Tempe dav is Tuesday. March 81
Speakers OF national reputation are
To be with us on that day. See pro-
gram. John Harden. chairman.
Educational rally program at the
Methodist Episcopal church, Rev
Wilbur Fisk, pastor. Tuesday, March
p. 2:30 p. m. Mountain time)
Song ......... ......... Congregation
Bible Lesson and Prayer.
................ Rev. w. d. Rudisill
Solo..........M Miss Josephine Palmer
Address. ...D DIR. w. c. Merritt
Address. ....R. G.. WaterhOuse
Roundtable. DIR. W. c. Merritt
soc p. m. CMountain time)
song ........ congregation
Bible Lesson and Prayer. .
..........R Rev. r. l. Creal
Chorus. ... Christian Church Choir
How We May Train Our Future
Teachers. ...... Prof. Il. III. Scudder
Teacher Training Observation-Disclosures.
........R Rev. c. w. Thompson
Address. DR.. w. c. Merritt
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-03-18

for the show that they take them to
the office of DIR. A. J. Chandler. where
they will be shipped direct to Los An
geles. The Mesa oranges and lemons
are all shipped and there will be none
of them for a showing. but there are
other things which would help advertise
the section if they were sent to Mr..
Hanna.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-03-18
HIS FOOT CRUSHED.

Last night Joseph Huber suffered an
accident that injured his foot badly.
He was on a hayrack ride with the
members OF the Atheneum society and
in the crowd fell off the wagon in such
a position that the heavy wheel passed
over his foot. crushing it badly Medi-
cal aid was ummoned Immediately and
the foot dressed, but it was found that
one of the small bones was 50 broken
that il would have To be removed. and
this morning the necessary operation
was performed. II is hoped that Joe
will be able To resume his school work
again Monday. although he will not be
able to walk on the injured foot for
some time
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-03-18

DIR. De Wore motored over today on
his regular visit.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-03-18
CLEANING UP TIME.

This is cleaning up time with Tenn
pc and Marshal Brown now has a
force of men at work on the streets
cutting grass and weeds. The mar
shall requests the announcement made
that the town will keep the streets
free of weeds but that he expects
the property owners TO keep the
walks cleaned in good shape. Where
a property owner fails to do this
within reasonable length of time
the work will be done under the SUI
pervision of the marshal and the ex-
pense will be charged up against the
property the same as taxes