Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-01
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SOON TO START
AT windy CITY
New Daily to Represent the
Business Interests Of Loop
District Chicago
Trust Company Romances
Grow More Numerous and
More Striking
School Authorities To Be
Aroused to Fire Prevention
Methods


newspaper soon is to be launched in
Chicaogo, according to credible re-
port, that is to follow unique policy,
tons are said to be we'll advanced
with presses and other equipment or.
dered. This new dadly is to de-
pend for advertising patronage
upon the merchants outside of 'the
loop district" If reports be true, and
refuse the ads of the big downtown
department stores in order to get the
accounts of their lusty competitors in
the outlying districts on the north,
west and south sides. OF late years
the competition of the neighborhood
stores has given the loop merchants
some concern and the plans Of the new
daily promise to produce serious
diversion Of patronage to the streets
where cheaper ground rents and les
sened delivery expenses make lower
prices possible. Already the outlying
"chain" grocery houses have made
great strides during recent months
and with daily newspaper that ca
tiers to their patronage merchandise
ing in Chicago may soon enter upon
new epoch. The capital behind the
newspaper enterprise is said to be
ample to endure a long seige and in
sure success New methods Of deliv-
cry, new circulation standards and
new advertisers will be required. In
recent years the scepter that rules
the big dailes has been handed over
to the business offices and such gal
xies of "stars" are no longer found
on the editorial staffs as in the days
WHEEL George AIDE and Malcolm Nc
Dowell, Peter Finley Dunno and Ray
Stannard Baker, Forrest Crissey and
Barney" Mullaney (who was COM
missioner of public works under May
or Busse) were on the job, with
Schmedtgen and John McCutchen in
the art departments.
Trust company romances grow more
numerous and more striking in Chica-
go as the wealth increases and the
pressure of the strenuous life adds
to the vagaries of humanity. More
and more the burden Of carrying out
the requests of the departed, of look
ing after the affairs of the insane anc
the feeble and Of children falls upon
the trust officers of the big trust COM
panies. They have daily increasing
variety of things thrust upon them.
from looking after cemetery lots to
helping divide the property of couples
determined upon divorce. There new.
er are two days alike said an Off
cial of the Central Trust company,
"ibut it isn't often. thank goodness,
that We have to scatter the ashes OF
the dead on old Lake Michigan" No
offices in the big cities witness such
dramas as those of trust companies,
for it is th1re that the heart Sc.
crets are laid bare One instance is
related when the process Of dividing
between husband and wife stocks and
bonds amounting to hundreds of thou
sands that belonged to both was
brought to a sudden halt when al en-
velope proved to contain letter and
a lock of hair instead of bond. AT
sight Of it the woman bowed her head
to the table with a sob and after the
trust officer and the attorneys for man
and wife had stolen quietly from the
room a reconciliation took place which
proved to be permanent and ended the
shuttle of securities.
To prevent the annual fire horrors
that attend the commencement sea-
son in schools an effort ds being made
by tie League for Public Safety
which has headquarters in Chicago, to
arouse school authorities throughout
the country to the dangers Of over
crowded assembly halls that lack
proper exits, fire escapes and safe
guards against disaster. The Iroquois
theater holocaust is referred to as a
terrible warning of what heedlessness
costs. thousands of assembly halls
are occupied each year as commence
ments," bulletin issued by the league
declares, (which in many ways jeop-
ardize the lives Of every child and
parent who congregates there at the
annual exercises. The public has
failed to realize that not even reason
able precautions are taken against
disaster and each year there is a repe-
tition of fire horrors which should
have been prevented. The fire loss in
the United States in 1910 usually is
given in money figures, 1924, 900 ,OGc,
but there also were 1.449 lives sacri-
feed by fire and 1854 persons in.
iured. This does not take into &C.
count the loss of life due to the col
lapse of over-crow cd buildings and
in stampedes through inadequate ex-
it's. School boards everywhere should
send for copies of the ordinance re-
quirements of the large cities AMI in
sist upon their adoption. These ordi-
nances prescribe the number OF exits
that must be provided in assembly