davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-09-09

and the Tooth volume of U. 8. Supreme
Court decisions. In late issue Of
The Chicago Magazine in an article
upon "The Up-Builders Of Chicago"
appears the following:
Frederic Town. Maryland, is the
birthplace of william Richie. He
was born August 20. 1854. He was
schooled at Frederic College and st.
Johns College. both located in Mary.
land, and was graduated from the
latter.
In 1881 he came to Chicago. entered
the law office Of Hon. 8. Corning Judd
(who afterward served as Chicago's
postmaster under Mr.. Cleveland), and
was admitted to the bar in 1885.
Immediately upon his admission the
law firm of Judd. Richie. & Esher
was established. Two of Mr.. Ritchie's
brothers won distinction at the bar.
John served in the congress and was
afterward member Of the court of ap-
peals of Maryland. Albert, the other
brother, served upon the supreme
bench of Baltimore. Their father was
physician. Among his regular pa.
tients was Barbara Fritchie. Whit.
tiers heroine, and he served as execu.
tor of her estate.
William Ritchie also has earned dis.
tinguished place among lawyers of
first order. His victory In the lead
ing cases Of Fowler vs.. Equitable
Trust Company, but one of many of
10 hot hA O,rn
of the United States, induced the
Roosevelt family of New York to re.
tain him as counsel, and ever since
such first employment he has acted In
that capacity for the family. He rep.
resented the estate Of Samuel ]. Til.
den and William b. Ogden In litigated
cases involving hundreds of thou.
sands, and in every case he gained
favorable decision. One of these cases
was brought by powder manufactur.
ers. and is known as Du Pont vs..
Ogden.
In the famous struggle OF 1S98.1S99
of the combined street railways of Chi.
cago. under the lead of Charles T.
Yerkes, to capture fifty-year fran
chise from the city council Mr..
Ritchie rendered invaluable service to
the peoples cause by his unceasing
labors in the press and upon the
stump. He exhaustively investigated
and presented facts and elaborate fig.
ures as to the economic and legal, as
well as the political. questions in.
volved. and his labors threw unpre-
cedented light upon the subject. A
day was set apart by both houses Of
the Illinois Legislature for the pur-
pose of hearing Mr.. Ritchie's discus.
sion Of the question.
In reference to Mr.. Ritchie's labors
In the popular cause upon this occa-
sion The Chicago Daily Journal Of
February ~, 1899. said:
"The fact II no man who ever ap-
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-09-09

certain guarantees and through
pressure of public opinion compel the
granting Of franchise to an auto.
matte company charging the lowest
possible rate.
But It is dificult to get business
men to unite; dificult to make them
resent effectively even the most pal.
pable extortion.
The chief hope lies In the courage.
energy and business knowledge of
such q man as Armour, who has the
money, who 10 not frightened by the
power of monopoly. and who might.
II he chose, be remembered as one Of
the real benefactors Of the country
by breaking down the telephone mon.
opoly and making Of the great tele.
phone convenience blessing within
the reach Of all and as cheap. In pro.
portion, az the national postoiiice.
Action by the city council upon the
question of doing away with the tels-
phones In which nickel Is required
before the attention Of central is oh.
tanned Is likely to be taken at the first
meeting after the council vacation.
Announcement was made by Aid.
Britten of the 23d ward that he in.
tended to present at the meeting an
ordinance compelling the telephone
company to remove whot are known
as "tick tick" phone boxes. His an
nouncement followed the delivering
of an opinion by Corporation Counsel
Sexton that such an ordinance could
be passed under the police powers of
the city. An effort will be made to
have the council take action upon the
ordinance without referring 1t to a
committee, several aldermen having
promised to support motion for the
suspension of the rules for this pur.
pose.
1t is asserted by Aid. Britten that
the "tick tick" telephones constitute
serious menace.
"The installing of these devices
has deprived the persons in whose
homes they are of protection to
which they are entitled against fire
and robbers" he said. with these
devices at work 1t Is impossible to
obtain the attention of the telephone
operator until nickel has been de.
posted In the box. Every one who
is familiar with the nickel In the slot
telephones knows how often one finds
ones self without a nickel.
"A mans home might be burned
down or he might be robbed and mur.
dered simply because he did not have
a coin Of the right size at the right
time. Another difficulty Is that form.
erly person had to take chances
only because his telephone might be
out Of order. Now the telephone itself
might be working, but the slot ma
chine box device be out OF order"
Corporation Counsel Sexton gave
! his opinion on the authority given the
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-09-09

Following are the offices to be
filled in 1911 and 1912:
November Z, 1911-Ten Superior
court Judges, one Circuit court Judge.
April 2, 1912-One alderman from
each ward.
November s, 1912-President and
vice-president Of the United States,
twenty.seven presidential electors,
governor, secretary Of state, attorney
general, lieutenant governor. state
treasurer, auditor, three university
trustees. members Of congress, mem.
ber Of the legislature, one state sen.
ator from even numbered senatorial
district, states attorney, president Of
the county board. and fifteen mem.
bers Of board, recorder Of deeds, cir.
cult court clerk, superior court clerk.
coroner, member Of board Of review,
two members Of county board Of as.
SCISSORS, ninc Judges Of the municipal
court, three sanitary trustees.
John NJ. Duffy. one Of the best
known lawyers In Chicago and life.
long Democrat, is being urged for one
Of those nominations for Judge Of the
Superior Court. He should be nom,
mated. He IL qualified In every way
for a seat on the bench, and his nom.
ination will strengthen the whole
ticket. The Democratic committee.
men assembled In convention on
September 10 will make no mistake
In naming John M. Duffy for Judge Of
the Superior Court.
Daniel L. Cruice. Democratic candi.
date for Superior Judge. was born In
Buffalo. N. r. June 30. 1868. Edu.
Gated In the parochial and public
schools Of Buffalo. the University Of
New York and Chicago College of
Law. He has the degree Of LII. B.
from Lake Forest University. While
acquiring his education he gained .
vast fund Of experience, owing TO the
fact that circumstances required him.
during the intervals between studies.
TO work on the Great lakes. the Mis-
sissippi and Ohio rivers. and In the
postofnce and railway mail service
Since attaining his majority he has
devoted his spare time to progressive
measures designed to bring govern.
ment within the control Of the people,
and to that end has "stumpsd" the state
In behalf Of the initiative and referen.
dunn, public ownership Of public utili'
ties, direct election Of senators and
direct primaries. As . lawyer he ID
earnest and intelligent And his ex'
perience at the bar qualities him foz
the bench. He deserves your vote.
~6A
We take the following from page
"a of the Report on the Causes Of
Municipal Corruption in San Fran
cisco as disclosed by the investiga'
tions Of the oliver grand Jury and the
prosecution of certain persons for
bribery and other offenses against the
state" made by q committee appoint.
cd by the mayor Of that city and pub
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-09-09
cents, and charges for the wire be.

cents, and charges for the wire be.
sides.
In other words, the telephone mon.
opoly charges more shan twice as
much to carry over &wire q human
voice, which weighs nothing, as the
railroad charges to carry a two.hun.
dred.pound man over thirty miles of
solid steel rails.
And the railroad has to have ter.
minals, and locomotives, and power;
whereas. with the telephone, the
mans own voice is the chief power
involved.
Armour Of Chicago is a man who
could give the people Of this country
the benefit Of cheap telephone service
ii he should make up his mind to do
II. He has proved his ability as an
organizer; he is man Of great
wealth and Of unusual industry and
application. It is notorious that his
working hours are from seven In the
morning until six in the evening, and
that work IL his only amusement.
The idea IL not visionary, for Ar.
mour, associated with others-with the
Hartman estate, with Kennedy Todd
and De Forest of New York, and with
the receivers of the Chicago subway
as a body-has already begun the
work Of giving genuinely cheap and
efficient telephone service to the city
Of Chicago.
In Chicago the receivers Of the sub.
way have installed already more than
twenty-five thousand automatic tele.
phones. They give an unlimited serv.
ice for $S5 q year-about one.half the
charge Of the Bell monopoly. They
give unlimited telephone service to
private families for less than thirty
dollars O year. With a full extension
Of their system even the poorest fam
flies will use the telephones, and be
better OF at the end Of the yeal
through the saving Of carfare.
| The charge for pay stations will
this new system, which 10 backed b,
Armour and the others, is three cent
per call, and the intention 10 to love-
this rate eventually from three cent
to one cent At one cent the prom
would be enormous, with the econ0
mics of the automatic telephone ant
. q sufficient number Of subscribers.
The right plan would be, Of course
! for the business men Of New Yorl
, who pay enormous tolls to the tele
phone monopoly to get together, Il
bind themselves to take new service
An automatic cheap service witt
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-09-09

Following is the political calendar
for 1911 and 1912:
September 10. 1911-Convention.
composed of Cook county precinct
committeeman, to nominate six Hu-
perior court judges.
November z, 1911-Judicial cleo.
ton.
January ~. 1912-First day for Ill.
ing aldermanic petition.
February 10, 1912-First day for
fling petition for nominations for Of
fees to be voted at April primaries.
February ~: 1912-Last day for
filing nominations for alderman.
February 27, 1912-Primary for al.
dermanic nomini tons.
March z. lsl2-Last day for filing
call for congressional and state con-
ventions.
March II, 1s12-Last day for iilng
petitions for April primary (Munici.
pal Judge excepted).
March 25. 1912-Last day for filing
Municipal Judge petitions.
April .. 1912-eldermanic election.
April Q. 1912-Primary for onices to
be filed at fall election.
April 16. 1s12-County convention.
April II. 1912 Congressional con.
vention.
April 10, 1sl2-state conventions.
November 8. 1912-0eneral sleo.
| 0on.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-09-09
THE cA,cAcO EAcLE.

telephone company to install the de.
vices on nickel telephones where the
money Is deposited before patron is
able to get the operator at the re.
quest of Aid. Charles M. Thomson.
MIR. Sexton holds that the city can
regulate by its police power In case
the services rendered Is unreasonable
or unfair.
Nickel first" telephones will be
prohibited by the terms of an amend.
ment prepared by the city legal de-
partment for presentation when the
city council reconvenes Sept. 25.
The amendment was drafted by
Alderman Fred A. Britten and Assist.
ant Corporation Counsel Hoover.
The nickel first telephone" said
Alderman Britten, ought to be pro
hibited. why, with such an instru
inent in the house, a person couldn't
get the operator to give police OF
fire alarm unless he had nickel. A
burglar could put such telephone out
of business simply by removing the
loose nickels that might be lying or
top Of the instrument"
~6A
Among those most prominently
mentioned for a place on the Demo
cratic ticket for Superior Court Judge
Is William Ritchie, Of Oak Park. Mr.
Richie, when mere student gave
promise Of a distinguished profes
sional career. Over thirty years age
the U. 8. Court in Cincinnati rendered
a decision sustaining as valid tht
Trade Mark Act Of Congress and con
victing a citizen indicted for its viola
ton. Young Ritchie's opinion beini
solicited, he assailed the decision II
an elaborate article published in ,
prominent legal periodical, contend
ing that the Act in question was un
constitutional. Shortly after In q siml
lar case before Justice Harlan Of tn
U. s. Supreme Court, sitting on tn,
Circuit, this article was called to tn
courts attention, with the result tina
the learned justice disregarded tn
Cincinnati decision, quoted an
adopted Mr.. Ritchie's arguments an
held the law invalid. Upon this tn
prisoners attorney in the Cincinnati
case appealed to the U. 8. Suprem
Court, which reversed the convictio
and declared the law unconst titutiona
upon the grounds urged by MI
Richie. These cases are reported 4
the Sth volume of Bisselrs Report
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-09-09

lished by order Of the board Of 81
pervisors, city and county Of San
Francisco. January s, 1910:
1.-THE Pacif- Telephone and Tele.
graph Company bribed the Supervis.
ors to prevent the Home Telephone
Company or any other organization
from obtaining telephone franchise
in San Francisco. No attack Of any
kind on the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Company was threatened
by the Supervisors, and the sole pur.
pose Of the crime was to maintain q
profit which might be cut by the
competition Of business rivals. The
Supervisors were paid In all over
$4,000. The managing committee Of
the board Of directors OF the company
swore before the Grand Jury that they
did not know how the funds were
procured for the bribery"
This report was signed by william
Kent, formerly q we'll known alder.
man and reformer of Chicago and six
other members Of the committee ap.
pointed by the mayor Of San Francis.
CO, Oct. ~, 1908.
John J. Coburn win make one Of
the greatest Superior Court judges
ever on that bench.
william Richie should be nom.
mated for Superior Court Judge.
The Democratic committeeman can.
not name better qualified man.
Give 10 the one cent telephone.
The daily newspapers used to sell for
five cents each. That IL, the Tribune
and Inter Ocean and Journal did. But
the Daily News didn't. Did It ICON.
fiscate" their property to cut the price
to q cent? Oh, no. They are richer
than ever. Give 10 the one cent
phone.
Fred w. Blocki is being talked OF
for State Treasurer. He would prove
to be strong candidate and the Dem.
ocrats could not name q better man.
Judge John r. Caverly is one Of the
hardest working and most conscien.
tious men on the Municipal Court
bench.
~6Ak
John J. Coburn 10 the choice Of
all classes Of people for Judge Of the
SuD0riOr Court His n1ura1itv navt
November will be big one.
Daniel L. Cruice ID fitted In every
way for . seat on the Superior Court
bench. His election by big plurality
10 predicted on all sides.
President Thomas A. smyth, Of the
Sanitary Board. has plenty Of back.
bone. He also has q good reputation
as business man. an oficial and Q
citizen.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-09-09

Mayor Harrison made q popular
move when he ordered . new report
ON the telephone situation. The "ex'
pert" whose report Is now IN the
hands OF the Council Committee fav-
ored the raising OF rates and gem
eral contribution to the necessities OF
the phone gang. His report strangely
enough showed that the Chicago
branch OF tho monopoly 10 owned
body. boots and brseches By the
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-21
splendid spectacle, d moving picture
telling an absorbing story Of the,
wealth and energy Of a region. It Isl
a prose lyric.
Is the sheep PassinaY.

According to the census bureaus re
port there has been a decrease in the
number Of wool producing sheep IN
the last decade in our country. The
number Of farms keeping sheep has
fallen of $4,000 or 20 per cent. about
the only increase in sheep being in
Montana. In other words, wool re.
fuses to be fostered even by the ex-
tortfonate duties Of schedule X.
The explanation of the decrease in
number of sheep throughout the coun.
try. save in Montana, is easy. Those
$4,000 farms raised more valuable
crops than wool and the increase In
Montana was due to that states vast
area of cheap, unimproyed land.
To be consistent, high protectionists
would meet this general falling off in
production Of wool by raising the tar
if The weaker the infant the strong
er the fostering necessary. Clearly,
any effort to cut the 80 per cent pro.
lection on manufacturers Of WOOL Is
merely an attempt to do something
for the consumers of wool.
Is it possible that the sheep is one
Of our domestic animals that is TO
ptacticalnly disappear as has the wild
buffalo, because there isn't room for
1T? We get little wool in our clothes,
now and a satisfactory substitute feTd
what We do get is not among the i mi
possibilities. al
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-21

grandmother, Mrs. Thomas, at Mon.
t III sSR5qEqaS.r ja
at5sa RFickett ( Of MorggSSRtovni
SRF sR 1!55ifi58gSi lSi a mother and aPRt here
Mr.. Joseph Prickett and GRANDSON
and granddaughter, Of Barrackvllle
we're visiting his sisters, Mrs. Rebec-
ca Robes and Ellen Pickett, Saturday
and Sunday. X
Mrs Pauline Hoult and children,
who have been visiting relatives at
Mt. Harmony and Viola, returned
home Yesterday. z ~ .,
= file FB6ting and painting Of the
! sseGHo5IF house 4f, Hoalt was let satdr
lday BY thet S6aFdi Of education. These
repairs Rave long been needed.
The convention Of the Winfield Dis
trict Sunday School Association was
held at Montana Saturday and Sun,
day. The officers elected for the COM
ing year were Mr.. Geo. Hamrick, pres.
ident, and Mr.. David Porter, vice pres
ident, OF Montana; Mr.. Golden Houltc
secretary-treasurer, Hoult. Mt. Zion
was selected as the place of holding
the convention in 1912. FRITZ
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-21
HovLT ITEMS.
HoULT,' Aug. 81
Editor West ylrginiap.

Editor West yirginiap:
This cool weather is quite contrast
to, the hot weather we nayebsen hav-
ing. SS4 =
There was rejoicing among; the
farmers over the rains Of the.past
week. The drouth, the most disas-
trous in the memory Of "the Oldest cit
izen'' has been broken and vegetation
which was brown and almost dead
sa revived and all nature looks fresh
and green once more. The rains were
too late for many crops but were great
help to late corn. late truck and fall
pasture.
One of the odd and peculiar results
Of the late drouth was the premature
coloring Of the leaves. In woods and
Tickets where there is much poplar,
gum, sassafras, &C., the red, brown
and yellow leaves make one think It is
October insteadof August. And since
the rains the ground has become so
carpeted Rith'brown leaves as to COM
tplete the deception.
Mrs. Charles Finn and children
Eva, Bernard, Virginia and Helen,
from Williamsburg, Penn, were Visit
ing friends in Hoult the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs, Clark Bowman, Of
Morgantown, were the guests Of his
brother, Jas. D, Bowman, Saturday.
I Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W. Wolford are en-
tertaining many guests among whom
are Mrs. Crawford, OF Ellenboro; mrs.
Myrtle Hartley and children, Of Graf
ton; Mrs. Cummings. of Pennsylvania,
and others whose names We did not
learn.
, Miss Dora snider was visiting her
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-21
MRS. NARY .GR0NI. dead
WELL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IAN.a
b NlNeToN DIES uppsNLY Or
PARALYSIS.

Mrs. Mary .. CroWl Of Manning.
ion, died suddenly on saturday even
ing. Her death was due to paralysis
and was very sudden. She had just
returned from q visit in Ohio waere
she attended the meetings Of the
Lady Rebekahs. White she Was at
home Of her daughter, STr s. Samuel
sank down and expired within a few
minutes.
The deceased was fifty.nine years
old. She leaves two daughters and Al
foster daughter. She was an aunt of
Messrs. VIM. A. crowl, Jackson, Al.
bert and James crowl. Her husband
was brother Of Joseph Crowl.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
at two O'Clock from the residence.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-21
NIGHT RIDERS.

The characters portrayed in THE
Night Rider which comes to the
Grand on Friday hight August +
sensational meiodtaaia dealing With ia
political intrigue and fraud bear "a 2
striking similarity humble e J!
Characters in real life where cotrap.
ton enabled the tobacco trust recent.
liz ordered by the United States su:
preme Court to dissolve, to keep foit
so long a strange hold on the tobacco
Industry. In Kentucky, Tennessee
and other Southern States as we'll
the play, while an imaginative piece
not based on any particular corrupt
.deal! consummated with the aid Of
grating politicians, Judges, ETC. win VII.
furnish food for deep thought 70
many who helpeatt The octopps 70 re-
'tainits monopoly. ss.5'i
The part Of Judge Andrews who i
was elevated to the bench througl stfle
influence of the trust Is d role tas:i
miliar in real life. Greedy torsthe
handsome remuneration his decisions
affecting the trust bring, he sells bis hfs
honor, only to redeem himself IN. the
end through the love he bears his
daughter. The character Of Ben Ste.
pens, an energetic and brilliant young
lawyer, striving to be elected district
attorney, is another character tanil;
lar in real life the country over. Ar.
rayed against George Brewing, thetri.
val candidate, and his cohorts, la q
battle for decency, clean politics and
the overthrow Of the powerful trust,
his struggles can be llkened to q COM
bats4n many a political battle-ground.
Brewing is a typical type Of theisun.
ming and corrupt politician, a compos
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-21
WITHOUT A PRESIDENT;

MoRGANTowN, ! Aug. e1-The
West virginia University is without a
president, in fact, the institution has
not had a president since the thirty.
frs day of July, and will not have one
until the first of October. The situa.
ton Is not Of any serious consequen.
ces, however, and under the rules for
the government Of the institution, Dr..
"A. R. Whitehill is acting president
and has been ever since the explra-
ton Of the term OF DR.. D. B. Purintoh
on the thirty-first Of July.
Dr. Purinton's resignation was ac'
cepted to take effect on July 81, 1911.
Ii was Dr.. Prunton's impression that
his resignation was accepted for Az;
gust 81, but a glance at the records
shows that he was mistaken. The
entry is for the thirty4first Of July,
DR.. Thomas T. Hodges was elected for
term beginning October first. In
the interim the University has no
president, but DR.. A, R. Whttehilli Is
the acting president. His duties will
not be heavy. The summer school
has closed, and the regular term does
not open until late in September, As
a consequence, there will be a very
small part of the Institutions period
Of activity under these conditions.