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The Washington herald., 1912-03-31
BY CHARLES DICK.

An increasing number of industrial cor
porations in the United States are adopt
ing the retirement and pension system for
the benefit of superannuated employees,
and in this departure from former meth
DDS the railways of the country have
been the pioneers, and are to-day paying
out more money for pensions and max
ing provision, present and prospective.
for a larger number OF employees than
any other class of labor employers.
The railway pension systems in the
limited States are a development prac-
ticaIly Of the past eleven years. 1t was
in the year 1900 that the Pennsylvania
Company put in operation plan for re-
firing and pensicning its old and dis
abled employees, and II was the FIRST COM
many TO inaugurate a system that was
not sunported IN part by contributions
from the employees. Other railroads fol-
lowed the example until there are to-
day some twenty-five transportation COM
NAMES including three Canadian COM
panies and three street railway systems
which care for their employees who are
no longer able to care for themselves
or have grown old in the service.
sy.tems Arc Similar.
These various railway pension systems
have more points OF resemblance than
Of difference. With few exceptions they
hx an age of compulsory retirement and
also an age OF voluntary retirement,
Conditioned in both cases upon a certain
number of years service in the employ
ment OF the company. In figuring this
required period OF employment short
breaks in the service are generally not
counted, and employees are credited with
service rendered while in the employ OF
a road absorbed by the company paying
the pension.
In practically every system the age OF
retirement is fixed at seventy
years. Two companies set II at Sixty
The Washington herald., 1912-03-31
Many Corporations
Pension OldEnlpIoyes
Statistics ShoW that Transportation Companies
Pay More Than $3,OOO,OOO Year in Old
Age and Disability Pensions.

I five years and one company at sixty, but
this latter company is the Bessemer and
Lake Erie Railroad, whose pension fund
has been endowed by Andrew Carnegie in
the sum Of S4.Oo0OO0. The age at which
, II is optional for employees TO retire on a
pension varies from fifty-five to sixty-five
years, but in only three cases is this age
below sixty, while in half the systems
the age is fixed at slxty-five. Some COM
panies require their employees who are
engaged in what Is called active duties,
to wit, in locomotive, train, switch yard
and terminal service, to retire at the
age OF siNty-five years, while men en-
ployed in sedentary work need not retire
until the age of seventy. On the New
York Central and the lines under its con-
troll, employees after twenty years serv-
ice may retire at any age If unfit for
further duty.
Salary Is Basis.
The age limit at which employees may
enter the service in order TO receive the
benefits Of the pension allowance ranges
from thirty-five TO forty-fve years, but
on most roads. where the limit is thirty
five years, new Csn will not be taken
on at that age who are not experienced
in the particular line Of work in which
they are employed.
The amount Of pension paid Is based
on the salary or wages and the length
of service. A common method is to take
i per cent OF the average compensation
for the last ten years of service and
multiply that sum by the total number of
years of service. II the average pay for
the last ten years was 500 per month
and the employees had served forty years
his pension would be $40 a month. The
minimum pension paid ranges between 81.
and $50 a month. Only one railroad re-
ports the maximum pension, paid and
that is $50 a month.
The American transportation companies
which have adopted pension system en-
ploy close to a million men, and pay out
annually nearly 100000 TO some 200 old
and disabled employees.
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delegates to the General Conference. 70
urge the preparation of a new course Of
baptism for children.
A memorial asking the general confer
ence to restore the time limit to pastors
which would prevent a pastor remain
ing on one charge for more than five
years caused considerable dissension ana
finally, upon motion Of DR.. sumwaIt, dis
trict superintendent It was decided to
lay the matter over for discussion ana
decision tomorrow morning. Consider
able opposition was shown to-day to the
memorial and few of the members are
in favor Of having the time limit re-
stored.
Rev. Benjamin F. Crawford, pastor OF
Gorsuch Methodist Episcopal Church, of
Washington, is seriously Ill at the Mary
land General Hospital with symptoms
similar to those Of pleurisy.
Mr.. Crawford was stricken after the
sessions Of the Baltimore Conference
Wednesday evening. He was seriously
i'll since but his condition is improved
to-day.
While Mr.. Crawford is i'll in Baltimore
his wife and one-month-old son are ar
their home in Washington. Mrs. Craw-
ford has been told Of her husbands III
ness, but she does not know of its seri-
nns natura-
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Serious Omission.

From the Canadian Courier.
The new millionaire banquet table was
spread. and the guests about to be sum-
moned.
Are you sure there are no reporters
present. anxiously asked the host Of the
butler.
I've made certain OF IL. SIR
Then go out and get a few" rejoined
the host.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-31
GOLD NOT RESPONSIBLE.
Director Roberts Talks on High
Cost of Living.

New York. March 3O.-The gain in pop
ulation upon the supply OF food and not
increased gold is responsible for the high
cost Of living, declares George Z. Rob-
erts, director OF the United States mint.
Speaking last night at the dinner of the
Iowa Society in the Hotel Astor, Mr..
Roberts said:
Il am convinced. for my part, that the
principal factor in the rise of prices the
world over is the gain in population upon
tine supply OF food and natural products,
and more particularly the change tllat
has come over the United States in
this respect in the last dozen years.
The acreage of wheat in this country
was actually 15 per cent less. as shown
by the last census, than ten years be-
fore and the acreage in corn, our meat
producing grain, was only per cent
greater. a fact that is the more signifi-
cant because the corn crop of the United
States is 70 per cent of the worlds crop.
During the period referred to the popu-
lation increased q per cent. Is 1t any
wonder that food costs more?"
The Washington herald., 1912-03-31
J.pane,e COLONY for Mc.ico.

Tokyo, March 3O-It is reported here
tonight that negotiations between
Mexico and Japan have been concluded
for the establishment OF a large jap
anese settlement at Magdalena Bay. but
an American protest based on the Mon
roe doctrine is expected. The negotia-
tions. IL Is understood, were concluded
several days ago.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-31
$4,000 MINERS
QUIT THE PITS
Continued from Page One.

viii be idle most II not all of April even
II an agreement is reached. and very
much longer IL II Is not. 1t is believed
that several conferences will be held In
April, and then. when a basis OF agree
ment Is reached, Il will have TO be re-
ferred to the mine workers for vote.
This win take some time, and Is taken
TO indicate a suspension lasting from
four to six weeks under the most favor
able circumstances.
Union Leaders Pleased.
One OF the miners leaders said to-
night:
I'VE are greatly pleased with the re-
ports from every district, which show
that all of the men, union and nonunion,
have left the mines, to remain cut until
they are ordered back by President
White. We have assurances that the
nonunion men will observe the suspen-
sion order Just as strictly as the men
who are leading members OF tho union.
This is the spirit that wins, and / am
sure that when the operators SEQ what
the union can accomplish, and they viii
have plenty of opportunity of doing so
before April 10. they will be very glad
to grant some at least OF our demands"
leading operator said tonight:
THE quitting of the men was like the
usual buSpchoiOh " WI A' anu
II will be impossible to tell how many
will obey the suspension order until next
week"
Many OF the smaller coal companies
and independent operators are evidently
preparing for an attempt to 0perate their
collIeries.
Thousands Of strikebreakers and spe-
cial guards have been gVhered at
sections close to the anthracite region,
ready to be sent into the collieries next
week. The smaller operators and the in
dependents believe they can mine coal,
and the high prices which they can OBJ
I ain ,l.In tnrrlTnt than, n
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Knox Leave. st. Thomas.

ST. Thomas. d. W. l., March 3o-Sec-
retary Knox and his party sailed to-
night on the United States cruiser Wash
ington for Santo Domingo after q day
spent here as the guests OF Gov. Lin
pricht. The Washington arrived here
at daybreak from Santo Domingo and
the Secretary went ashore at O'Clock.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-31
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mstim in my case. but today I enjoy perfect
health and devote my life to curing others
After spending SOy0o0 and suffering untold agony
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The Washington herald., 1912-03-31
MONOPOLY CONTROL
Is UP TO CONGRESS
Wickersham Says Solons Have Only
Dealt with Problem in a
Negative Manner.

Philadelphia, March 3n-Attorney Gen.
eral Wickersham. speaking here tonight
before the American Academy Of Polit-
Ical and Social Science, outlined a pro-
gramme OF legislation to control monop-
olies which, in his opinion. would effec-
lively solve the trust problem. Con-
gress. he said. should enact affirmative
legislation regulating the formation OF
the giant corporations Of the country
and the conditions under which they con-
duct their business. Thus far, he added.
Congress has dealt with the trust prob
lem only in the negative manner by pass
ing prohibItive laws.
THE elements of a sound, constructive
national policy" said Mr.. Wickersham.
consist mainly. as 1t seems to me, in
first enforcing the Sherman law against
all great combinations. by requiring them
to separate themselves into such parts
which will remove all danger Of monop-
oily.
Second. in breaking up all agreements
and combinations between separate, inde-
pendent. competing concerns having for
their purpose the unfair control OF bust
ness and exclusion Of competition, and,
where the intent to violate the law is
apparent. prosecuting criminally those
concerned in them; and,
Third. in the enoctment Of a proper
adequate national law of corporate asso-
citation, which will enable legitimate en-
terprises to be organized under appro-
pirate legal supervision and so regulated
In its conduct as to make II impossible
to use the organization as a vehicle of
fraud and deception either of investors
or competitors. With such a pSIIcy car
ried into effect the trust problem in fits
present form at least, would be effective
ly solved"
Competition Restored.
Mr.. wickersham declared the dissoIu-
ton of the on and Tobacco combIna-
tons in compliance with the order of the
United States Supreme Court has re-
stored competition.
The recent decisions of the Supreme
Court in the OIL and Tobacco cases, Mr..
Wickersham- continued. have resulted in
n somewhat confused and paradoxical
state Of public opinion
Two schools OF Interpretation have
sprung up, he added. one holding that
made the Sherman law impossible Of en-
forcement by rendering unlawful every
contract which in any degree might inter
fere with free competition and another
school which gives a reasonable inter-
probation TO the law by holding that II
only such contracts as operate
unduly or directly to restrain commerce.
The Supreme Court Mr.. wIckersham
added holds the latter view One por-
ton of the community received the de-
cisions with the cry that the law had
meen emasculated and another element
the impressiont hat every |
trade contract or business association re- |
nained in danger of prosecution.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-31
France Passes Eieht-hour Law.

Paris, March 30-A bill providing for
an eight-hour day was passed to-day
by the Chamber Of Deputies. This ac-
ton, it is believed, will have the effect
Of forestalling a general coal strike.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-31

Paris, March sc.-For the purpose of
fitting himself for the exalted position
which he will one day occupy. the Prince
OF Wales arrived here to-day to complete
his studies of the French language.
While studying hers the young prince
will be the guest OF Marquis and Mar
quise de PreteuilL The marquise before
her marriage was Miss Edith Gardner. OF
Nav York
The Washington herald., 1912-03-31

An electrically driven machine that weighs less
than hftT pounds has been invented TO scrub fooc.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-31
INSURANCE STATEMENTS.
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
Commercial National Insurance
Company of Washington, D. c.,

On the 3lst day Of December 1911. a. required un-
der the District q Columbia Code, amended June
% l9oe. and August B 1911
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ASSETS
Cash in sls 70
LIABILITIES
Reserve required by Sl1 y
Capital l0oo 20
Amount Of risk assumed and character II
business transacted during the year 1911:
Health and accident ms s.
LnsSes sustained during the year Bill l65- @
Mouey received during the year Bill Is ls5 IS
Expended during the year lSi-....g-.--.-... lOSE .
X. J. GRUBB, President.
CLAUDE W. FLETCHER. Assistant Secretary.
Subscribed and sxum to before this I'd day Of
March. 1872 (SeaLl GEORGE J. JOHNSTON.
Notary Public In and for the District Of Columbia.
CNy commission e1pires May a leISl
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STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
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Chicago, III,

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The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-07-27
SCHOOL MONEYS APPORTIONEO.
Washoe Gets $23, ,429.42 AS Share
OF Funds On Second Half.
Yearly Division

State Superintendent of Public In
struction j. Z. Bray has filed with the
State Controller at Carson his certifi.
cate showing the apportionment of
State school moneys for the second
semi.annual term of the year 1912. 1t
is distribution of school moneys total
ling $ll4. 1854 06 among the 16 counties
in the State. 1t is based ON a multiple
of $129. .4l9.7 II for each teacher, allow.
ing one teacher for each 80 census chill.
dren in each district, and a multiple of
g., ,652 "a for each census child in the
district. Under this apportionment a
school of a given number of children
will receive the same amount from the
school moneys in every county In the
State.
The statement shows that there are
1859 census children in the State, the
largest number. 3019. being In Washoe,
and the next largest. 1904. being in
Elko. There are sos teachers in the
State with Washoe County leading
with ll9 and l.6.
Washoe County gets s23, ,429 AZ from
the apportionment and Eiko. sl3, 9.08
The other counties rnn from $4,000 to
$4,000 in round numbers.
The details of the apportionment are
as follows:
Churchill, $5344 As; CLARK, $5524.82 /;
Douglas, $2974.ls; Elko. sl3.269 0S; Ee
meralda. s744s.l2; Eureka. s3273 is;
Humboldt, $sll4.S0; Lander, s3i54 3S;
Lincoln. s50O2 SS; Lyon, s5976 "a; Min.
eral, s179226 Nye, sS926 49, ormsby,
s4233 l2; Storey. s3535.94 Washoe. s23.'
429 AZ; White Pine. S9s53.78.
Asided from this an emergency school
fund apportionment of $4,000 is first
made.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-07-27
ACQUIRE MEMORANDUM HABIT
Business Doctor Says Make Your
self Dependable by Keeping
Pad On Your Desk

Put it down exclaimed the Bus-
ness Doctor. "Get into the memor.
andum habit and you will never regret it.
Throughout the Middle West there
once wandered a man with cart and a
whitewash brush, and on every
convenient stone or fence he painted the
two words, Suppress Greed This was
his whole message to the world. 1t was
his all. Throughout the whole business
world to-day there stalks a shape which
has made its presence felt in every store,
in every shop, in every office, and the
two words Of message it brings are, 'Elimi-
nate Chance
1.-THE memorandum habit looks toward
the elimination of all chance. The
human mind is a tricky thing, and an
engagement, a promise, duty to be at
tended to, II once set down in it's proper
place, cannot be forgotten. The pocket
diary, the desk calendar with it's daily re-
minder pad, the pocket card index and a
thousand devices are to be bought for
small sums OF money, which will enable
any man to become absolutely reliable.
He will not have to remem ber things with
these automatic reminders before him.
"The mind which is compelled to re-
taio a hundred petty details and small
duties is never free to attend to big things.
With these petty matters down on paper,
the mind can be given up to big matters,
to constructive thinking. and not exhaust
it. This conservation OF brain force is
alone worth the trouble and pains to
make careful memorandums of all detail
work.
"Put on your desk pad for things to
be remembered, and on to morrow's leaf
put down the things to be done before
the day is done, and you will find them
staring you in the face when you come to
your desk in the morning. Carrya diary in
your pockeb and when you make an en-
gagement ahead. look first to see if you
have promised TO do some other thing on
that date, and il not. put down this new
promise and you will not make another
date on top of it.
"These are the things which earn a
man a reputation for being dependable,
and no matter whether he be king OF f.
nance or porter, captain OF industry or
bill clerk. he can use this reputation in
his business.
"There is no more exasperating thing
in business than the oft-repeated excuse
Il forgot and the memorandum habit is
the best cure for it. The man who has
in HE employ clerk, any sort OF helper,
on whom he can lean with confidence, to
whom he can assign work and then dis
mics that work from his mind with abso-
lutte confidence of its completion, has In
his possession jewel OF the first water
at is such men who are remembered
when the plums are being passed around
the office, and it is the Il forgot fellow
who il left without promotion. In many,
many cases the only difference between
the promoted and the one who was lett
was simply that one had the memo
raudum habit. Get the habit
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-07-27
SETTLING JUDGMENT ACCOUNT
Amounts Assessed Each Director of
State Bank By Recent Compromise

Ne~ 1eh1 Dy NCNGut SonlpTofntsc
The compromise order in the State
Bank case at Carson and the order al.
lowing such conclusion in the case
against the directors, has been signed
by Judge Langan.
The sum of $500 is to be paid to
the Receiver, who has stated that he
will distribute the same without delay
amongst the depositors Of the defunct
institution, and he hopes to shortly de.
clare a dividend of ten cents. In the
judgment order the following sums are
to be paid by the directors in person:
T. b. Hickey pays $4,000, together
with interest at per cent.
George w. Mapes agrees to pay slS..
600 as his share.
Wills Brougher will pay the sum OF
$4,000.
George H. Meyers is to pay the sum
of s6i25.
o. L. Bender agrees to pay the sum
of $4,000.
]. p. Woodbury. is to pay the sum
of $3125.
p. N. Petersen is to pay the sum Of
s3125.
DIR. s. l.. Lee is to pay $2625.
An execution of the order was signed
and the case is closed and the records of
several Thousand pages will be filed
away.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-07-27

the Seven Troughs Coalition Mining
Company.
Governor Oddie Asks Assistance
Carson City. Nevada. July 19.-Gov.
ernor Oddie, as President of the Red
Cross Society of Nevada, to day issued
the following call for relief for the sur.
vivors of the disaster that wiped out
the town of Mazuma:
To the People of Nevadas
On the afternoon OF Thursday. July 18,
the town of Mazuma and portion of
ths town of Seven Troughs were de-
stI ,y0d by a wall of water following q
clo.'dburst, resulting in the loss of many
liv, and the injury of others. The Ca
tas ophe is so great and the needs of re
lief so urgent that, as President of the
Red Gross of Nevada, / urge upon the
people of the State the duty Of generous
and immediate action.
Contributions may be sent to me per.
sonally or to any of the following as
sociate mem bers of the Red Gross Board
of the State: Hon. Lem Allen, Reno /;
Hon. John Henderson, Elko; Judge
Peter j. Somers. Goldfeld, and DIR. j.
E. Stubbs. Reno. The members Of such
board are hereby requested to forward
all contributions received to the First
National Bank of Lovelock, Lovelock,
Nevada
Tonopah Is Flooded
Tonopab, Nevada, July 20.-This
camp was struck by the rush of sweep
ing waters from a cloudburst Thursday
night and for two hours the streets
were swept by raging torrents, result
ing in disastrous damage to many stocks
of goods in the cellars of business
houses.
AT Tonopah junction, six miles south
of Nina, over a mile of track Of the Ne
vada and California narrow-gauge rail-
road was washed out near Tonopah
Junction and telegraph lines were pros
trated. Traffic is in bad shape in sew.
eral parts of Southern Nevada.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-07-27
Prize Fight Pictures Barred

Prize fight moving pictures last week
became a thing of the past in the
United States when the House passed
a Senate bill prohibiting the transporta-
ton Of snch moving picture films be-
tween the various States and Territories
or from foreign countries. The Presi-
dent, said to be in complete sympathy
with the legislation. is expected TO affix
his signature 20 the measure.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-07-27
Tragedy Was Sudden

While the precipitation in Lovelock
three days, the rainfall has been slight
in Seven Troughs. AS an indication of
the suddenness of the disaster. it is re-
lated that John Trenchard remarked TO
his wife yesterday that it looked like
rain. He stepped to the front door of
his store to note weather conditions. A
few drops of rain had fallen. AS he
reached the door he heard a heavy roar
and was confronted by wall of water
Is feet high, which carried him and his
wife two miles away.
The Mazuma Hotel was turned upside
down by the water.