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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-14
SOCIETY IN NEW YORK
By MARGARET WATTS DE pEYsTER

New York January 13.-(Special )-When the cold weather comes and the snow be- gins to fall the railway and steamship companies which run to California and the south begin to get ready for business. For modern society has no use for cold weather and snow and when the mercury seeks seclusion of the lower levels of the thermometer the flight to California and Georgia and Florida and Texas and those other lands of more or less perpetual sum mer and orange blossoms begins. It is in constantly increasing volume too, for it is possible now for people of moderate means to escape the regions of the north ern winters and they are doing it.
 There is of course, large and impor- tant section of society which finds New York not only comfortable, but more pleasant than the southern resorts, and there will be plenty going on here in q social way, but from now until April, Augusta, Palm Beach, Miami and Los Angeles will share in social interest with New York.
 Women interested in the philanthropic side of the coming celebration are work ing earnestly on features of the Thack- cray centenary, which will be given on January go and 31, in the Sixty-ninth Reg iment armory for Inc benefit of the New York auxiliary of the. Southern 1ndustria, Educational association. The auxiliary board of managers, which constitute the general committee for the celebration, will meet on Tuesday morning at the armory to complete some details of decorations. Tn the evening those who will take part in the tableau and assist in Terres Tav- ern will gather again at Mrs. Henry Ran dolph Sutphen's apartment in the Os- borne.
 Mrs. J. Elliott Langstaff who is chair man of the festival, has her forces well trained and ready for duty. New features which will add interest have been planned. chief among which will be g pageant In which the characters for the tableaux and others in costume will take part.
 The younger set are enthusiastic over the prospect of impersonating the char acters of Thackeray's novels,
 For the benefit of the New York branch of the National Plant. Flower and Fruit guild, a programme of Indian songs and ceremonial dances will be given by Miss zahrah Ethel Preble of Berkeley. Cal, at the Waldorf-Astoria on the afternoon of January 15. Miss Preble has lived among the .zun Indians, studying their customs and habits and this will be the first pre- sentation in New York city of their songs and costumes Mrs Arthur, Iteloefman will be at the piano. Boxes have been
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Miss Allison Douglass Pierce. brides maid at the marriage of Miss Vivian Gould and Lord Decies-and the fourth of the sextette to announce her engagement will soon become the bride of Louis de Beblan Moore son of John Chandler Moore of oyster Bay This was an nounced at the home of Miss Pierces par ents, in Bayvile. Long Island
 It was only last February that the mar riage of George Gould's daughter to Lord Decies was celebrated, and for three of the bridesmaids 10 walk to the altar and fourth to become engaged since that time causes all concerned to wonder when Miss Hope Hamilton and Mss Hannah
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|Sn1e1ting |IrOn Ore
 And Civics

"Dixie new industrial giant, Birmingham, has such an opportunity as rarely comes ! to a city-an opportunity to make of itself a real community
 a place good to live in and good to work in. ''
 That, in a sentence, is the re- port of THE SURVEY.
 Sounds interesting, doesn't |it2
 Members of THE SURVEY staff, with many local people made a quick social and civic Inventory, putting sharp ques- |tions, receiving clear answers, las to the city's economic forces, |its growing influence not only l in the South of today and to- |morrow, but in the life of the whole nation.
 Their reports-striking, il- Illustrated articles, are pub Elished in THE SURVEY, now on sale in Birmingham.
 It's a social and civic bal lance sheet. Shows the credits
 the big factors making for clean growth; and the debits- some things in Birmingham are Headed wrong.
 No time like this time for setting things right-steering them past the big rocks older cities are cracking their sllins |Dn..
 The first thing is to have all |the facts. Get them in THE, SURVEY. On sale today. Orders of one to two hundred eopies can be filled.
 25 CENTS A COPY Delivered to your house or office bv
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The destruction of the Equitable Life Assurance building, and the burial of probably s1,0OO 0O0. .0O0 worth of securities Tn safe deposit vaults, caused serious in terference with the machinery of the stock exchanges. It has interrupted the transfer of stocks and bonds and led the exchange authorities to suspend the rules requiring specific delivery of securities within regulated limits. For a time the street was III state of semi-demoraliza- ton, and stocks broke sharply in price. Ihere was uncertainty as to whether the great mass Of entombed securities had been destroyed or not. Later on experts handed out the. opinion that the contents or the vaults were intact, a finding which restored confidence in banking and trad- ing circles, although it did not give copr plete relief Many days may elapse be- fore the stocks and bonds are dug out and restored to circulation. The f,.e caused great sensation. but now that people have time to think what might have resulted. had the contents Of the vaults been burned. the gravity of the sit- nation is softened. It is safe to assume that fairy complete lists exist of the contents of the vaults and theylcould, nil would have been duplicated in time. so that in the end owners wouId not have lost much. The insurance cofnpany which owned the ruined building may go ahead with it's old plans for the con struction of a 70 story edif7ce on the site, or it may buy the old Madison Square Garden and move up town. Both schemes are being weighed. Meantime. the 1000 people who lunched and dined daily in the restaurants and clubrooms situated in the big structure are organizing new routes. q
 The banks and trust companies which had drawn the fire of Congres by an iri- terlocking system of directors and off cers. are d,sentangling themselves from even the appearance of having 8 money trust. by resigning and withdrawing from their superfiuous jobs. Hereafter each bank will stand on it's own bottom. so far as it's official list of directors will show.
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will be held January IS at Hotel Astor. Mrs Frank Carpenter. chairman of en- tertainnent, has planned some novel fea- lures for this event.
 Mrs. Parker president of the chapter. will give her annual reception to resident and visiting members of the Uniter Daughters of the Confederacy at the Ho- tel Astor on January 20, this function also commemorating the birthday of Gen Rob- ert r.. Lee
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Another recent engagement was that of Miss Florence Gazeneve Jones' daughter Of MT Frank Cazenove Jones, 10 Mir. Hen ry Warrington Doughten of this city. Miss Jones mother was the daughter of Har- riet C. Lamar. whose father was Gaza- way B. Lamar of Savannah. Ga. Her great grandfather was Commodore Jacob Jones: MT. Doughten, whose family lives in Philadelphia, was graduated from Haverford college in 1906. He is a mem Der of the University, the Philadelphia Barge and Marion Cricket clubs of Phil adelphia.
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OthodOx

From the Congregationaist.
 "lf St. James Bible was good enough for St. Paul, it is good enough for me- This was the emphatic protest of a New England deacon against the reading of the revised instead of the King James version.
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1 taken by Mines. William Van Vazan | Hayes Douglas Robinson, James Roose- welt, W. Bayard Cutting. William Pier
 son Hamilton. Temple Bowdoin. F. P. Wheeler. A. Murray Young and Robert l winthrop
 The list of patronesses includes Mme. Chalres B. Alexander, Fordyce D. Barker, Frank s. Witherbee. Frederick W. Van derbilt, Sampel V. Van Dusen, C. Ledyard
 Blair, John J. Chapman, James Speyer. Jacob Schif. Herbert L. Satterlee, Levi P. Morton, Eben Richard. John T. Pratt, Paul D. Gravath, Sidney C. Borg, Wat son Gill Brown, Geo. s. Boudoin, George D. Pratt, F. R. l.. Gould Charles de Rham. Jr.; Ernest Flagg. Richard Irwin, Arthur M. Dodge John Henry Hammond, Victor Guinzburg, J. Borden Hartman, Russell A. Hibbs, Robert E. Livingston, J. Pierpont Morgan, Daniel s. Lamont, William D. Sloane. J. Douglas Nisbet,
 Nme. Gadski, Misses Sophia R. C. Fur
 misc, Annie Leary, Louise Whittin and Mary R. Cross.
 1 One of the institutions of New York so- ciety is the annual Charity Ball, the first one having been given in antebellum days. From generation to generation
 women of prominence have lent their aid
 to, keep the ball up to a high social stand ll to be the most exclusive of the semi
 public balls. This year the ball will come on February 6. the same night as the last Junior cotilon ball, which will not pre- vent the attendance of the debutantes. who will have an opportunity to take In both. The presence of officers of the army and navy always adds tone to this ball. and invitations have been extended to many of them.
 Miss Gwendolen Nash, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Nash of Rye. N. Y., and Savan- nah Ga, will be married to MT. Douglas German of Baltimore, Md. son of MT William II. German and a nephew of the late Senator Arthur r.. German, in Savan- nah. on February 10. She will be attended by her sister Miss Eleanor Nash, and Misses Mary Shotter and Jane Meldrine of Savannah Katherine Harding of ,J[an- sas City, Fanny Ballard of Louisville. Ky: Alice Lesher, Shirley Wattorf and Cornela Mclaughlin of this city
 Mir and Mrs. Edward NJ House of Aus tin Tex, have announced the engage nlent of their daughter, Miss Janet House, to MT. Gordon Auchincoss of this city. Miss House has been out in society for several years, and is spending the winter with her parents at the Gotham. MT
 Auchincloss is A son of Mrs Edgar &
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Auchincloss, and a grandson of Mrs. Sam uel Sloan. He was graduated from liar ward last June.
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The annual ball of the New York chap ter of the Daughters of the Confectionery
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Randolph. the other two bridesmaids, will fall before the pies of Cupid.
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The statement which has been made that railroads have been obliged to lay off 10000 men, since being refused per- mission to increase freight rates, although
 severely criticised, is probably not very much of an exaggeration after all With the additional burden of s50,0O0.00O year in wages, increase allowed by the rail roads under tacit agreement that the iI- terstate commerce commission would per- init rate increase, the transportation companies were obliged to economize somewhere. Aggregate traffic decreased rather than increased on most of the roads. and the easiest way to cut oper- ating expenses was to lay off men wherc- ever it could be done. As results have shcwn labor stung itself by being greedy for a larger participation in reveniies An
 analysis will show that the big end of the
 money that has been saved by the rail- roads during the last year came from the payrolls. Those who retained em- ployment received larger wages. but the,e were vastly fewer men to receive the
 money. This is something. for the states men in Washington, and the various commonwealth centres of political ac- tion to take into account when legislat- ing to spend railroad earnings It is q matter 10 which railroad homogeneous are giving most serious consideration, and which is an important though silent stock market influence.
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of bookings of new orders is cited as evi- dence to the contrary but someway this incident, while reassuring, is not convinc- ing. Tho large volume of new business booked by the steel companies during the month of December was taken at low. prices, and there is small margin of profit for manufacturers. True, 1t gives employ ment to an army of working men who might otherwise be idle. but from a man ufaeturing standpoint the producing com panies are not getting anywhere" They. are keeping their machinery from rusting. and their plants from deterioration. which is a good thing as far as 1t goes-a splen- did thing for operatives and their fami lies, and the general public, but not in- dicattVe of a tremendous business boom. as people would like to have it. The. country is going through the process of building up to its overextended productive capacity in the industrial field, and until it makes considerable more headway, cap ital invested in that field of enterprise will probably have to be contented with small profits, condition distinctly bad for holders of common shares in a large humber of industrial companies.
 To illustrate the extent to which man. ufacturing capacity has been over-ex- tended. frequent mention has been made in these letters of the steel industry. Inn mense profits, due to the benevolent "uIn- brella holding'' policy of the United States Steel corporation aroused the cu- pidity of rich steel makers and they poured hundreds of millions of dollars into new plants. The result is that the growth of the country has been discount ed by several years, and we seem to be in for a rrotracted period of hot compe- titfon. Even though the current year should be a record breaker in the matter of production, there will still he room for a large additional consumptive demand before the limit is reached Steel rail capacity is now about 6,0O0,O0 tons year, Or moro than double last years needs Indications are 1t will be double the requirement for 1912. The rail- road equipment companies can make 3O0- 900 railroad cars year. Statistics show that last years output approximated 72,- 900 cars. It is difficult to suggest a more telling exhibit of what struck the equip ment companies last year, or the ailment that still afflicts tbem.
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That general business is not picking up as fast as prophesied a month and two months ago is becoming evident. The i'm
 mensely favorable report of the United States Steel corporation in the matter
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-12-12
To INVOKE
THE LOTTERY LAWS
Would Stop Bank Trust BY
Taking Up idea Of Thomas
w. Lawson.

Washington, Dec. 9.--Denial OF the
mails and prosecution under the Sher-
man antitrust law, as conspiracies in
restraint or trade. face the nations
stock exchanges and bank clearing
houses. That was the assertion today
OF Representative Arseiie p Pujo. Of
Louisiana, chairman or the banking
commission and head OF the money
trust investigation.
III believe 1t is clearly shown that the
stock and some OF the produce ex-
changes. as well as most OF the clear
Ing houses are conspiracies In restraint
OF trade Mr. Pujo said.
such all the interstate business
should be barred from the malls. The
committee. / feel certain, will recon-
mend such action. In listing securities.
In limiting the size or their member
ship and by various other restrictions
the stock exchanges and clearing u
associations have become In effect, 81
gantic trusts.
DO AZ Was Done to Lottery.
s'The New York stock exchange Is a
striking example OF this business domii-
nation. The postal laws will be i'm
voked to exclude the exchanges. asso-
Citations OF bankers and brokers from
use OF the mail In interstate ommerce.
unless complete reorganization Is made,
IL they are not reOrganixed they will be
treated exactly as the Lhslisiana lot
terry was treated.
II do not believe federal incorpora-
ton or stock exchanges will be att
tempted, but federal supervision Will
be demanded"
Mr.. Pujo said bills TO enforce the
drastic regulations OF business will be
introduced early In January. Threat OF
prosecution will be. held over the organ
ix1tions to force them to reorganIze.
The money trust inquiry, which will be
resumed Monday. Is to obtain additional
information for the purpose OF framing
legislation along the reorganization
lines.
The lawson Idea.
"Clearing houses. composed OF vol
untary associations OF banks as ave-
hicle of exchange, must and will be re-
organized he said. IT understand that
several clearing houses are voluntarily
removing restrictions upon membership
and business methods. Some. i hear,
have agreed that their members may
give exchange without charge to their
customer IL they so desire. But the
clearing houses must change their
methods-and radlcally-or face prose-
cution under the Sherman law as som
s~piracies In restraint OF trade
This proposed bill Is modelled after one
advocated by Thomas w Lawson, or
Boston. the millionaire stock exchange
operator. In his article 'sThe Remedy.
now running In E~verybody's Margarine.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-12-12
PASTORS UNITED FOR
UPLIFTING OF DRAMA
Raise Funds in Ohio City to
Stage Rival Attractions to
Burlesque Shows.

MassiiIon, o., Dec. N.--Six prominent
clergymen, after considerable discus
sion and m~anoeuvring to secure the
necessary funds, have announced that
they are determined to purge the
drama in this city of all that Is noxi-
Gus and indecent. They have declared
that assiElon people shall eventually
zee only the cleanest and most whole
some or plays that teach q moral les
son.
The plan evolved by the sextet OF
divines has passed the embryo stage
and arrangements have been completed
whereby a French concert company.
negro Jubilee singers and other attrac-
tions Will be brought here and staged
in competition with the burlesqua
shows.
All the ministers are or high stand
~ ~ Y $500 ~ 10 Hsy W. ~.
the present theatrical interests Of this
city.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-12-12
POISON CANDY SENT
WOMAN THROUGH MAIL
.-------.---
Kansas Man Arrested Charged
With Crime, Denies Sending
the Deadly Package.

Topeka, Kan, Dec. 9.--Frank Nc
Kenna, OF Oskaloosa, Kan, is in jail
here, having been arrested at Valley
Falls, Kan, on q federal Indictment
achargtng him with sending a box OF
poisoned candy through the mails to
Mrs. Ida Coons, divorced wife OF George
Coons, a lumber dealer or Oskaloosa.
When Mrs. Coons received a box OF
chocolates by mail several weeks ago.
the appearance OF the candr aroused
her suspicious and an investigation by
the federal authorities led to the dis
covery OF poison.
McKenna was arrested, the authori-
ties stated, because the handwriting on
the box bore q marked resemblance to
that on letters he was known to have
written. He denies the charge against
him..
McKenha.s wife sued him for a d.
yorce and she and Mrs. Coon's be-
came joint proprietors Of an Oskaloosa
hotel.
George coons 10 said to be In Mexico.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-12-12
'CICARETS MET by
TOILERS' TONGUES
Woman Investigator Shows
Photo Of Home workers
Mostening Pills.

New York, Dec. 10s--StiH more stories
OF the horrors OF home work done
by women and children In unsanitRry
tenements were told here at the on-
tinued hearing OF the state factory
commission. The members heard or
the padrone system, by which subcon-
tractors fatten while the workers
starve.
The commissioners listened 70 tales
Of youngsters who are not permitted
to play In the daytime on the street
because they can work by sunlight,
which costs nothing. whereas gas ii
expensive. One story was about d 81
year-old girl who had been asked how
long she had been working. she rel
piled, In q tone Of what would he ut
ter despair in an adult. Ever since I
was"
Ficw Girls suffer.
And to these were added an even
darker chapter OF the already conibre
recital. Miss Maude r. Miner, secre~
tary OF the New York Probation assoc
citation, enumerated specific cases OF
young girls who, through the indis-
crirninate crowding together OF the
sexes In the small tenements and espe-
ciaily because OF starvation wages. have
been driven to immortality.
Miss Miner was careful to add that
these cases were not common. She said
that, considering the conditions, the
morality Of the girls was surprisingly
good.
Standard Men Slaves.
A byproduct Of the general discus
sion was the statement that the stand
ard Oil company In Its plant 1T Green
point, regularly makes certain OF its
men work from IL to ia hours q day FOR
366 days la the year. This Information
was volunteered by Timothy +. Healy,
head OF the National Organization of
Stationary Engineers.
And tits worse than that added
Healy- Some months ago the stand
ard used to work men from z a. m. on
Sunday TO II q. m. on Monday. Then
come back again at 4 /, n. to work for
another IA hours. The company only
stopped this because the men threat
ehed to strike
Chairman Wagner, OF the commits
sion, said something about unions. Mr..
Heaiy laughed.
Can't unionixe Them.
Union Nothing doingle he said.
John ID. won't stand for IT.
Isn't there q welfare depot there?.s
again sarcasticaIly.
1t was Miss Elizabeth G.. Watson. the
commissions CHIEF investigators Of tene-
rnent work, who told the story or the
little girl who had worked sever since
she was" and Ii was Miss Watson who
related the evils OF the padrone system.
In the embroidery trade, she said.
the contractors received so cents from
the manufacturers. for which the con-
tractors paid the workers only 25 cents.
Things are even worse In the haL$
get only is cents a dozen for brushes
for which the contractors receive AS
cents. All hair brushes, added Miss
Watson, even those supposed to be
perfectly h~ygfenic, are made In often
filthy tenements. In this trade small
chiIGren work after school and as late
as 1880 al night, sSss
The padrones are often m and
one woman will have as many as so
families working for her.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-12-12
EPISCOPAL WOMEN HOLD
BAZAAR IN OLD SALOON

lott rlerre, 80. Dec. st-Nhen the
around for a place in which to hold
their annual bazaar, the only location
that seemed at ell available was the
room occupied by Bob Yokum's saloon
until Fort Pierre went into the dry
column this spring.
Nothing ,daunted by the big sign over
the door. which advertised the business
formerly conducted In the building,
those In charge or the bazaar went
ahead with their plans. Patrons of the
affair found prominent Fort Pierre
women behind the bar selling Christ
mas knick- knacks. Dolls, doilies and
the like took the place or drinks as
stock In trade and d thriving business
was done In those commodities.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-12-12
BIG PREMIUM LIST FOR
~ y ~ STATE POULTRY SHOW

n Mitchell, S. D.. Dec. 10-The premium
list for the thirteenth annual exhibition,
of the South Dakota State Poultry as
~sociation has Just been semi out. Sec
rotary Scallin says that the ~associa-
ton is putting up sorne better prizes
hibition are from January "a to Febru-
AIRY /. Twelve silver and copper cups
have been put up in the different
classes. aside from cash prizes, which
are given In all departments. Local,
shows Will be held at Redfield and
Woonsocket just previous to the state
show. and 1t lis expected that many Of
the prize winners will be sent here.
and John Nolt has been named as the
superintendent. A poultry institute
will be held in connection, conducted
by Prof. A. A. Brigham, Of Brookings
Agricultural college.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-12-12
EFFORTS TO WIDEN SCOPE or
ANTI DISCRIMINATION Law

Pierre, 8. ID. Dec. a.-The South Da-
kota anti-discrimination law, recently
sustained by the United States supreme
court, was introduced into the legisla-
county, now receiver OF the Timher
Lake land office. The bill was aimed
directly at the Standard OIL company.
Several efforts have since beer made.
without success, TO enact a law which
shall supplement- this and provide
against unfair discrimination In buy
ing, being aimed purely at line eleva-
tors which purchase grain at many
points In the state and pay unwar-
ranted prices at competing points,
while buying upon their own terms at
non-competitive places,