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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-04-01
dict there will little work in the
mines during April.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, April L.
Mining in the anthracite fields is
completely paralyzed today.
Operators will make no attempt
to work their properties until
after the conference April 10.
Little trouble is expected. The
arrangement of another joint
meeting has cleared the atmos-
phere, and there is no bitter feel
ing between employers and en-
p1oyes. 1t is generally believed
the ultimate basis of settlement
will be a ten per cent increase, the
mend emanding 20 per cent.
In the districts of Shamokin,
Pa, and Cincinnati, Ohio, $4,000
men were idle this morning, &C
cording to information here. Re-.
ports from other districts are that
the men have been a unit in quit
ting work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09

, gretfuI more than once. The Germans nave
turned out an excellent underwater boat
and those in active service have been Skill
| fully handled by the Kaiser's officers ana
men. The work which they have done has
| not been limited TO mere haTbor defence
/ but has required that these little vessels
make long and trying runs at sea. In fact'
! they have frequently operated OF the coast
as far as the island Of Heligoland, and have
thus shown their capacity 10 defend the
trade routes leading from all over the world
into Hamburg and to Bremen.
In the matter OF ordnance the later bat
| tories Of the German Drcadnoughts ana
! battle cruisers. calbre for calibre, prob
ably are unsuYpa ssed by those OF any other
! service our own authorities have OK
pressed qualification over the nattcr flight
| and higher pcnetrative power OF the more
taperng shell which we now employ for
| armor- piercing work. but although all OF
this Is true. the Germans were the oriGi-
majors OF this superior form Of projcctilc.
! When the lena was wellnigh destroyed
some wears ago by the spontaneous igni-
! ton OF the unstable smokelcss powder
turned out at the French factories there
was a searching OF hearts the maritime
world over and haste was made To pro-
vide some means for cooling the maya
! zines OF naval vessels The Germans were
an exception Mt that time Of anxiety, be-
cause they had years before provided their
powder rooms anoat with refrigerating
| system which kept them at all times
| and I'm all climates at a safe temperature.
Apart from this the Kaiser's chemists
! had evolved a smokeless powder which was
| of q high order of stability. combined with
excellent ballistic qualities officials OF the
| Fatherland. for good and sufficient rea-
sons. have consistently preserved a spirit
Of rctcence toward divulging matters Of
military moment. and they have been
pretty successful In this policy 81 keeping
! their good things TO themselves
An amusing example Of this attitude was
shown in the way they met the request Of
| a foreign naval attache few years ago
The stranger wished to see a gunnery dril
! aboard q German war vessel and at the
same time desired 10 learn how efficiently
the big rifles could he worked nv hand in
case of the breakdown Of the usual motive
mechanism. The authorities at the Ad-
miralty in Berlin graciously said. Ger
tainly" The naval attache then departed
for Kiel. where he was met by n German
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09

nyallabla for duty nfoat-the twelve others
being extra numbers IN the grade ana re-
strictcd 10 shore duty-and twenty-siN OF
our captains are non-available for service
afoat for the same reason. Tie German
navy IS q per cent richer In officers or the
line below the grade OF commander. ana
I'm mIdshiprncn at sea the Ka!sers person
mel IS nearly a. per cent stronger. by our
law amalgamating the officers OF the line
and the engineer division we did away with
the individuality OF that corps. In Ger
many, on the other hand the engineer OIL
Ger Il not OF the line and We see, BESIDES
the superior number OF her line officers.
that che has body OF expert engineers
totalllng 433. The enlisted force is nearly
5000 stronger than our own, but tho most
significant difference between the two ser
vices lies in the fourfold superiority OF tho
fleet OF tho Fatherand In the matter or
warrant officers.
Tho warrant officer Is the man who mas
risen from the sailor branch. and by anil
fly. personal aptitude and good deal OF
study has become a technical expert IN
one OF the several special branches open
10 him. These men are personally respon-
sible for the intimate training or tho sail
ors, and their example OF position Is
ueverfailing incentive to the subordinate
seamen. Day in and day out the warrant
officers arc forming the rough material or
the future man behind the gun and polish
ing him into n thoroughly efficient lighting
unit.
Admitting that our own warrant ofticers
arc the equals OF their German brothers.
still each OF them can exercise helpful
influence over Just so many OF the men
about him Therefore. Germany. with four
times as many warrant officers. is able 10
rive 10 each recruit or developing seaman
n degree OF intensive instruction and con-
tlnual guidance which is quite Impossible
with us under existing conditions. In other
words. the possibilities Of the individual
can he studied more intimately. and the
result Is a subordinate with sounder and
nerbaps a wider knowledge OF the duties
exnected OF him. This provides new
material for future warrant officers and
at the sam. time raises the general stand
ard Of the so called enlisted grade.
In the German merchant marine there
ara serving to-day more than fifty thousand
men who have seen their three years ahoat
IN the lighting feet. and these are imme-
d,ateIy available in case OF need There
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09

officer and escorted 20 one OF the cider
ships Of tho feet. The guns crews were
piped 10 their statiOus-they were not the
men longest IN the service. BY any means
and they were put through anything but n
particularly brilliant performance. The for
eigner could not ind fault. and no returned
TO his embassy with every outward show OF
pleasure. while iuwardly wrathful over tho
polite but .ncctual manner in which he
had been bluned
The German naval technicist has set us
many other examples OF skllful work. but
these are things In which the layman,
quite naturally. takes no interest, and are
not readily explained. But the imperial
feet is strong not only in the department
Of inatericl. but likewise In the personnel
Of it's nghting body, and this IS phase or
Gcrmauy's strength upon tho sea which we
must never lose sight OF II we are to esti-
mate properly tho potential proves OF our
own and tho Kalser's navy in the time OF
conflict.
Service in the seaman branch Of the Ger
man navy is by virtue Of conscription and
after this period Of sea duty the ex-sailor
returns to civil life. but becomes member
OF the naval reserve and may be called 10
tho colors at any time over liked period
OF years following his experience ahoat.
Therefore. in analyzing the figures of tho
following table one must always bear In
mind the existence OF this immense body OF
trained men upon which tho authorities
may draw in case OF need. We have moth
ing Ike 1t in this country. because service
with US is voluntary. and the man that has
been trained upon our ships OF war Is not
necessarily at our disposal after bis enlist
ment expires The following comparative
ia bic OF the personnel Of the present active
force OF the German and tho American
ravies Is therefore OF interest:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
Canny John Stevenson L Who Made Steel Yield Much Gold
Shrewd Exploter of Hard Metals Thinks That
Large Corporations Will Solve Their Labor
Problems by Interesting Their Employees
Financially in the Business.
asked. His statement had been a little

asked. His statement had been little
vague.
"A mon wad be clean daft TO attempt to
skin his wife," he replied.
II sold her the stock at what I con-
sidered was a guild fgger," he repeated
and soon after Tin Can began to gae
doom. The market price kept on declin-
ing for an over lang time.
MY wife got to thinking I didna know
much to sell her Tin Can. I tauld her nae
doot II wad get better. till one day she
asked me the price o. TIN Can at the din
ner table. couldna refuse to tell her.
1t was further doom than before.
She looked at me over lang and said:
"'Yere no the John Stevenson. Junior.
I married
How did It finally come out1" Mr..
Stevenson was asked.
She has reinstated me-" he replied.
she asked me TO sell Tin Can for her
few days back for $50 share mair
than the purchase figger"
On the stand Mr.. Stevenson was a
source OF delight to the auditors, IL less
attractive proposition for Richard V.
Lindabury, Of the Steel Corporations legal
forces.
He related how competition in wire
nails had been OF the cutthroat variety
before the combination. To illustrate his
point he told the following story:
Competition grew warse and warse the
longer I was in business. 1t was vera
vera active. There waur ABBOTT forty
companies in the trade. all O them Ish-
maeltes-every mons hand raised against
bie oi Of hor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
A WAR STORY.

John w. Hanrahan, surgeon general of
the Grand Army Of tho Republic. said the
other day in Rutland. apropos Of Memorial
Day:
Nothing could be moro unjust than the
idea that all those who didn't enlist in the
Civil War were towards. There were as
good men out Of the war as in It,"
DR.. Hanrahan smiled and added.
81 recall q story about youth who at
tho height Of tho war toured Vermont SELL
ing geraniums.
I'm surprised a patriotic housewife
said to him. I'm surprised to SEQ a big.
strong. hulking chap like you selling se-
raniums here. Why aren't you with the
army?'
why, ma'am. said the yuath, with
bswildered look. they don't want geraniums
in the army. do theyr"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
A BIT OF INSIDE WORK.

IT mind once We waur meeting at the
Weddell House. in Cleveland. endeavoring
TO improve things We'd fixed the hgger
at 81 % a key, and when We quit for
luncheon Frank Baackes. O. the American
Steel and Wire Company. stepped alang
doom to the first floor o. the hotel to the
telegraph office and sent a telegram to
one o. his customers. saying:
1--WE booked we're order for ten thou
sand kegs at 81 4O'-and We had Just
fixed the fg2er, mind ye.
moo. it happened that / was in tho office
getting ready to send a seemilar telegram
10 my partners, when the girl got mixed
W and handed me Baackess telegram,
asking me II II was right
II read Il and stuffed 1t into my pocket.
and when we got back into the meeting l
handed II 10 the chairman and said: Read
that"
"He aid. and tauld me to kick Baackes
downstairs. and that he wad pay the fine
put ddna do IT," continued Mr.. Ste
vonson. lie was bigger mon than me-"
After the combination, he added, condi-
lions were better I'm the trade.
You couldna call II competeetion o the
cutthroat variety" he said. BY this time
Paackes had got releegion."
When Mr.. Stevenson sold out 70 the steel
CORPORATION there was an output OF about
too 90 tons OF wire IN this country. lie
saws there are produced here now about l.
~ 600 tons He also sold tubing plant 10
the shelby Tube Company In Illinois.
1T was n guild plant" he said. and put
out 40 40 feet Of bicycle tubing a month. -
The market for bicycle tubing was re-
cedlng when you sold out?" no was asked
"IVeel." he replied. IL got into the bust
ness at the beginning o the boom.
And got out at the end OF it?'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
THE ADAPTER.

David Belasco at dinner In New York
condemned certain playwrights who steal
shamelessly from their foreign confreres'
successes.
IT sprung a fable on one Of these scoun-
drels tho other day." said Mr.. Belasco. Il
told him that n playwright of his type
awoke In the dead Of night, and saw a
masked man with dark lantern bending
over his dressing table.
"'What are you doing there? the play
wright Numbered. 'stealingr
"tOh, no. replied the robber. oh, no,
sir. Merely adapting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
SLOWS BEST,

"'slow. but sure is a good proverb. and
so is Make haste slowly" said Senator
Kern. apropos OF one Of the reform move
ments he Is steadily and conservatively
advancing.
1T believe in hitting the nail on the head
n lot OF times gently. rather than hitting
with terrific force the nail on the finger
onoA"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09

Rome hlmsev knocking nj No e Broad
way, and at No. Il Broadway. 10 collect
the Peters pence o labor.
I'm no joking WI ye. cay the Pope o
Rome himsep wad be foolish 10 defy the
labor O. this country.
He'll ne'er collect fra. Teddy" he con-
tinued after q characteristic pause. Teddy
had a r-row WI the Pope in Rome mind.
But he might do some guild wi Taft"
The Steel man. who IL remotely related n
Robert Louis Stevenson. founded the Che
mango Valley Steel Company. which went
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
CASH AND CREDIT.

Charles NJ Schwab, I'm a lecture at his
native Loretto. praised the cash-payins
man.
AT the same time" said Mr.. Schwab.
ct have no praise for the man who pays
cash because he has no oredit--this chap
can't hslp himself,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
TO ostT MAN WIG s9 WITH AN

ne said he I'D SO because they waur vera
anxious for mo to shake the apple tree
again, as the boys say"
In the midst OF these various transac-
lions. involving many millions OF dollars
MIR Stevenson obtained several blocks OF
tho stock Of tho American Tin Can Com
pauy.
II sold some o. the TIN Can 70 my wife.
10 said. at what I thocht was vera
guild ngger.'
"Dil YOU sell Il 10 her for moro than
Won paid for IT." Mr.. Stevenson was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
A CURE FOR VANITY.

The Countess OF Warwick. In her draw
ing room at the Ritz-Carlton. In New York,
told a reporter a suffrage story:
zone husband said to another" 10 she
began: zone husband said to another:
""There Is nothing that makes man feel
his llttleness, his paltry insignifcance and
futility like the presence OF death. Have
you ever. George. stood In the presence Of
death?'
NO George answered. I get the same
feeling. though. when / listen to my wife's
suffrage talk.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
TIT FOR TAT.

"I-he late John Arbuckle. Coffee King
Arbuckle'" said a coffee broker. was
very charitable. but he administered his
charity with rare delicacy.
Coffee King Arbuckle' used to assert
that the poor were as sensitive az the rich.
and he would illustrate this assertion with
an apt As,7cdotA.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09

iona OF his anecdotes was about rich
woman who, while calling on a poor
woman in a slum. said:
doe. your husband drink
".No'm.' said the sum woman. quietly;
'does yours3'"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
TROUBLES OF A DoGCATcHER.

In the French Revolution. ! think the
dogcatcher's name was called Santerre
and what the dogcatcher couldna under
stand was that when he hung the dogs that
he had IN the pound ye follow me- the
women owners howled MARE ABBOTT their
dogs being hung than they did aboot their
neighbors' heads being chopped off.
MOO. that's true. And the public dog
catcher said that that was because the
women owned the dogs but the neighhors
owned their heads. II wasna a had dees-
elimination on the part o the dogca tcher.
"Wcel I reason that II the Steel Corpora
ton, the Pennsylvania Railroad. and other
large corporations get. they should DO.
10 dividing up wi their employees that
which labor helps TO create-the wealth
then labor will be Ike the women in Paris
who waur attached 10 the dogs. They will
stick UP for their employers. instead O.
fighting them.
Did ye e'er think what wad happen in
twenty-five years? Yell live to tho
day when labor will be so strang In those
corporations that nae government wad dare
TO defy them.
why should they? The government Will
wish 10 conciliate the labor 30 much that
some day you may live TO see the Pope O.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
WORkMEN AS DEFENDERS.

moo. for talkin sake, II the law gets
after the directors O the steel corporation
to punish them. or to embarrass their OPP
erationS. these workmen will resent II.
Why? Weel, they may want the United
States Steel Corporation to raise their
wages They may strike occasionally. They
may be dissatisfied WI this and that But
II ye turn round, a stranger. and try to 20
for the steel corporation, these employees
will turn round and go for We The same
as II ye endeavor to stop a mon frae beat
ing his wife. She wadna permit We. an out
slider. TO interfere 1t wad be absurd for
We to try IT. She wad turn round and gle
We knock hersel Isna It SO? It's human
nature.
Il know these men that work. IN the
steel mills. | meet WI 'em. They arc not
gang To let ye thrash the United States
Steel Corporation
IF ye're a busted employer how much
can We do for your labor? Hae We thought
atoot that?
Taft will not injure labor Roosevelt has
always straddled the tariff. Naebody knows
what he wad do. ! think he wad be erratic.
1T may be necessary for the government
TO fix the price at which commodities shall
he sold. In Paris the government fixes
the price O. bread. That is what terr-m
prudent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
One Who Enticed from This Noted Member of the
Old Carnegie Group Some "reminiscences and
Opinions Found the Experience Akin to
Journey to the Land of Bobby Burns

VIII get the nomination. think he will
temper the enforcement OF the law against
, large corporations.
We know that hundreds o them didna
intend 10 be lawless In any o their opera
tons. Mr.. Taft. think. will be forbearing
If they square themselves WI the law.
which, o course, we all ought to do
To put It otherwise-laws are really
made for the lawless. aren't they? Woel.
! dinna know any business men that want
to he lawless.
This United States Steel Company Is an
extraordinary corporation Look at It this
way: Here's a corporation that has $4,000
employes-aboot that. Moo. atween FORTY
and fifty thousand O these are stockholders
own fifteen or twenty millions O. the
stock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09

".Pay as you go--that's my rule such a
chan said to me the other day.
Yes l answered; so many people re-
fuse to believe you. don't they, when you
say you'll pay as you come backT"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
MOVED HIS HOUSE BY RAIL.

''yVeeI in those guild aud days the Eric
Railroad let me haze a freight car wheneer
I wanted one for dollar a car. This was
in the guild days. when a mon Ike me would
hae a pass on every railroad.
But 20 revert TO the arrangement VI thu
company ABBOTT the freight cars. I tore
doom my house piecemeal and moved It to
Sharon.
Did you move II on ono trainr
at took six months to move II. oecauss
I hadna but one car at ume But oi1
the trick for only SIS"
Mr.. Stevenson said that tho story OF the
moving occupied considerable space IN thu
newspapers. Presently he received pict-
uresoue accounts from al over the world.
one arrived from Paris containing illustra-
lions that showed the house stuck on a
mountain top. with long line OF horses
straining at the ropes.
4 man in Kansas. he said wrote ana
stated that after being married for ten
wears he was the father OF twelve-pound
boy.
MY wife and I are overjoyed, and have
differed only about the name" ran the
letter "hut after reading about your houss
rovinr we have decided 10 call him Ste<
venson Jones"
Another man wrote that he was lkswisa
very affectionately inclined toward MS
little home. and would by all means have
II follow him to another town, where hs
believed a better business opportunity OF
rered were II not that it was mortgased
for $500. and the man who held the mort
pape did not embrace the suggestion III
Mr. Stevenson would care 10 help him
out
Some time after the episode Mr.. Stevens
son was on a train for New York. when,
no said. he met n niece OF Charles A.
Dana. The train was passing through Mr.
stovenson's town. and the young woman
remarked that she had recently read about
some man from there ha'ihs h'o'e' '
house twenty-five miles.
| ..r hol,ove I'm the origin of species" said
tho Young woman to Mr. Stevenson. and
know that man must be descehueu iro'i,
,urtle since he carries his house on his
| back" A.
LATER when she learned his name. Mn
Stevenson said, she was vera moruneo ="
| think she had called him turtle.
"But I didna mind bit," said the steel
man. land tauld her So
"Do you enjoy automobilinsT ne "as
| asked.
II never intended TO haze machine o
that description" he replied, and wha'
dive think? l got thirteen o 'em on
had account-a bad debt, ye understand ]
! haze got rid O. eleven o. 'em. Wad 70 cart
! 10 purchase t others?'
He is still in the steel business oy int
way. and once more with company O
| his own.
Yes. Sharon. Penn, is where his mills an
| located. And as for Mr. Stevenson, ne ma
only recently gang ava back.
New York will be less interesting Tor thae
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-09
PERSONNEL

In the case Of the thirty rear admirals
In our own service. eighteen OF these are
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-07-18
To MAKE
THOROUGH JOB

The work of placing concrete
at the depot is well under way and
a most thorough job is the order.
Curbing of granite was unIoaded
this morning which came from
Lincoln, Cal, and is the best that
could be secured. 1t is the in
tention to curb the concrete fac
ing with this granite III order to
prevent the breaking of the work.
The contractors have a gOod-sized
crew at work and a couple of
teams are busy hauling sand to
make the fills and also for the
mixture. An asphalt or concrete
platform should be laid and this
work when completed would be
one of the best general improve
ments in this city
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-07-18
TIME FOR NEW DANCE

Now that the ragging and 9th
er dances that come under that
head are being tabooed through
out the country, the time is oppor-
tune for Ed Mari to bring out his
new dance, the "wobble-wobble. +"
Those who have seen it declare
that it is great and are anxious
for Ed to make it public. AL
though Ed has not said much
about it, it has been we'll adver-
tised. The Appeal does not be-
lieve in free advertising but in
this case is doing what it can to
advance the popularity of Mr..
Mari and his new dance, and
from all reports we have been
very successful.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-07-18
A BIG SCHEME
IN RECLAMATION

A. E. Chandler, formerly State
engineer for Nevada, and II. W..
Marian, soil expert in charge of
the Truckee-CarsOn prOpect at
Fallon, arrived in Tonopah yes
tcrday morning and departed to-
day for Railroad Valley. where
they will make a preliminary eX-
animation of the Carey land pro-
ject that is being fOstered by the
Railroad Valley Company. 1t is
the intention of the company to
secure 10000 acres of land under
the Carey Act, and the two ex-
perts will spend several weeks in
going over the district.-Bonanza.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1912-07-18
GRAND HAS
OPERA HOUSE

The Grand Theater manage
ment has assumed the manage
ment of the opera house and here
after will run both theaters. Dur
ing the winter months the best
Of the road shows will be booked, =,
and it will also be possible to han
die feature vaudeville acts in con
junction with the moving pictures
that could not be housed in the
smaller theater. However the
Grand will be run III its present
quarters.
On Sunday and Monday nights
the Grand will feature a vaude-
vile act direct from the Orpheum
circuit and will present the same
in the Opera House, and during
the next month of hot weather
will continue to run in the larger
theater.
The pictures for tonight are;
lrene's lnfatuatiOn.
Six Little Drummers.
Cholera on the Plains.
The Brotherhood Of Man.