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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-08-01

There was music in the air at 4o8
Pomeroy street last evening, the ocea-
sion being the celebration of w. D.
Richards birthday. A pleasant gath
ering, enjoyable refreshments, music
and congratulations were INDUCED in
till Midnight. Bert Martin sang in his
usual good style, Mr.. Richards warbled
a few tenor selections and Mrs. f. NJ.
Cleveland presided at the piano il her
usual artistic manner. The guests de-
parted wishing Mr.. Richards many
happy returns of the day.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-08-01

P. D. Carman, well known sales cor
respondent for the Thomas B. Jeffery
company has resigned his position and
will leave. in the near future for In
dianapolis where he has accepted a
position as assistant sales manager for
the Marmion company. Mr.. Carman has
been one of the most popular Of the
younger employees of the Jeffrey office
and his leaving Kenosha has brought
general regret
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-08-01
MAY HAVE OUT DOOR SCHOOL
Wisconsin Anti-tuberculosis Committee
Ready to Build School if the City
VIII Furnish a site. Kenosha Had
One of First Open Air Schools

| - oA0 A1OooIAS VI INC Ooo4o u 00o
cation Wednesday evening, two offers
OF assistance in the carrying out the
progressive movements were received
and proper acknowledgment gladly ac-
corded. The first of these was from
the kenosha Gas & Electric company.
Mr.. Kimball, the manager, has offered
to furnish the gas equipment for the
new kitchen now being fitted up for
the teaching of domestic science at the
high school, This will include the gas
connections and individual gas stoves
for twenty pupils, and also the gas
range to be used for demonstration
purposes. The gift is a very generous
one and helps as do the others, to solve
the problem which the school board
must constantly wrestle with-how to
keep abreast of advanced educational
movements, within the financial limita
tions existing.
The second offer Of help came from
the Anti-Tuberculosis Association,
through DR.. Windesheim, the president
This association proposes that if the
school board viii furnish a SITE they
will build an open-air school. Since
taking up his work here, DR.. McShane
has interested himself in the move
ment for the care of those children
who can not stand the confinement Of
| the regular school. Seventeen children
are now upon the list as candidates
for this school, and Mrs. Bradford has
teacher in view who has been train
er for just such work. A committee
was appointed by the president of the
board of education, Mr.. Burke, to con-
fer with DR.. Windesheim concerning
the location of the school. The school
started here in the spring Of 1911 was
the first cpen-air school in ire state.
At that time the work was new every
where, and there was little in the way
of precedent to help the school board
in their plans. They did the best they
could with the means at hand. Now,
however, it is different. Those under
taking such movement have the ben
eft of the experience of hundreds of
communities, and plans of buildings of
various sorts and Of various prices are
available.
The building erected by the Anti-Tu-
berculosis Association will not be of
a temporary character as was the
other, but will be a permanent struc-
ture properly adapted to the purposes
intended.
1t gave further impetus to this cause
when Mrs. Bradford also announced
the proposition of the D. A. R., made
by that organization some time ago, to
assist the open air school.
The offer came at about the time it
was found necessary to give up the
school then located in the Balm school
yard. At that time it was hoped to
open the school for the spring term,
but the cyclone that tore off the roof
settled that question and hence the
offer of the D. A. r. has never been
acted upon.
This and the action of the Anti-Tu-
berculosis Association, together with
the organization Of the board of health
and addition of a city medical inspec-
tor and a visiting nurse to the edu-
cational forces Of the city, give new
strength to all these movements for
public good.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-08-01
new TEACHERS ARE EMPLOYED
Board Gives Contract for Coal Next
Year to the Great Northern Co. of
Chicago Building Committee Forced
to Tear Down School Cornice,

revision of the budget of the board of
education which was recently sent to
the council and the council finance
committee will make an effort to have
, the school board waive the claim for
$4,000 for the building fund for next
year, holding the proposition of build
ing another school open until the fall
of 1913, with the understanding tat
an appropriation for the new building
will be made by the council in the tax.
levy for 1914. Members of the board
believe that it will be possible to get.
along without the new building for at
least two years and if this can be
done it will not be necessary to make
any appropriation for building next
year. The desires of the finance COM
mittee of the council were presented
to the school board on Thursday even
ing by President Burke and the finance
committee of the board was directed
to meet with the finance committee of
the council and take up the matter.
This meeting Will probably be held
some time between now and the next
meeting of the council. In the budget
the school board has asked for $4,000
for the building fund, this bringing
the total amount demanded from
tie council up to $4,000. With the
elimination of the amount for the
building the amount asked dor the
school would be over 100000. The
members of the council appreciate that
the cost of the schools is increasing
and it is not thought that there would
be any serious objection to the budget
with the amount for the building
eliminated.
At the meeting of the board on
Thursday evening the contract for coal
to be used in the schools during the
year was let to the Great Northern
Coal company of Chicago, the CON
tract price being $50 f. 0. b.; Keno
sha. This will make the coal cost
$3.45 per ton in the bins.
The board employed q number of
new teachers. Miss Alice Fink and
Miss Frank Stuart were employed to
have charge of the ungraded rooms to
be established in the schools. These
rooms will be for backward students
of the various grades and it is expect
ed that they will be great benefit to
this class of students.
Miss Emily Robinson was employed
as primary teacher. Miss Frances
Kaltenbach was elected as assistant
principal Of the Balm school, and Mrs.
j. E. Williams as assistant principal Of
the Frank school. It is the plan of the
teachers committee to name man as
principal Of this school, the election to
be made later.
The committee on buildings and
grounds has found It necessary to re-
build the cornice of the Columbus
school and the tearing down of the
cornice has shown some marvellous
work in the building line. The revela-
tions indicate that the walls on which
the cornice was placed were thrown to-
gether with just about as little trouble
and expense as necessary and the re-
building of the cornice will be quite
an expense to the board. It is expect
ed that the work will be completed be-
fore the school reopens in September.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-08-01

Mr.. and Mrs Charles H. Smith of
Milwaukee, who have been visiting
with friends in the town of Pleasant
Prairie left today for Iowa for an ex-
tended visit.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-08-01
INMAN HEADS PRINTERS.
Typographical Union Holds Annual
Election of Officers Friday Evening.

William H. Inman of the Evening
News force, was elected president Of
the Kenosha Typographical union at
the annual meeteing of the union held
on Friday evening. The full list of
officers elected follows
President-W. H. Inman.
Vice President-Frank 0. Barber.
Recording Secretary-C. W. zweenic
Secretary Treasurer. B. Mayer
Sergeant-at Arms-J. B. Barrett.
All followers of the printing trades
in Kenosha are now allied with the
Typographical union.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-08-01

But seventeen of the 90 candidates
for admission to the state bar man
aged to pass the recent state bar ex-
aminations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-08-01

Two base hits Martel, Pfanmiller.
Stolen bases-Mullen, Tobin 2, Berk-
imoes, HOLSTER, Kratz 2, Martell,
Pfanmiller, Anderson. Struck out-By
Smith, II; by Berkimoes, 10. Bases on
balls-off Smith 4 off Berkimoes ,.
Hit by pitcher-Hollister 2. Umpire
Voight.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-08-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Larsen Of Third
street, are rejoicing over the birth 81
new soy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-08-01

Want Ads Bring Results.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-08-01
Totals
Frost Mfg. Go.

Frost Mfg. Coo 20 0 p
American Brass L 0 IL 0 O TT
The Washington herald., 1912-01-01
Completion of Readjustment After the Trouble
of I9O7-Better Time in Store for Business

everybody now admits to be the vicious
Circle" of increased railway operating
expenses and increased charges TO ship
Ders
The Washington herald., 1912-01-01
CAPTURE A GIRL
AS BURGLAR THIEF
Nyack Police Surprised at
Identity of Prisoner.

Nyack, n. Y, Dec. 5l.-sdn garbed in
the suit of boys clothing she wore when
captured, Miss EsteIle McElroy, eighteen
years old, is a prisoner to-day in the
Hnlburn jail The girl was arrested in
the search for the leader OF a band for
whom the police have been looking for
months. A charge Of attempted burglary
is made against her.
The prisoner was Sunday school pupil
and was one Of the most respected young
women in HIllburn. She was active In
church work and member Of the local
temperance union. For months the po-
lice of all villages in Rockland County
have been looking for a band Of burglars
who robbed factories, private houses, and
post-ofices.
HIIlburn, Nyack, Suffern. and other VII
lagos were visited by the band, and once
robbers stole seevraI thousands dollars
worth of goods from a store in New
City within stones threw of the county
jail.
Just before daylight to-day Constables
Slavin and Sibley, Of HiIlburn, noticed two
figures lettering near the factory Of the
Hillburn Bronze Metal Works. The po-
licemen had not been seen by the two
and they hid under a shell. The two
whom they watched made a round of the
building, and then the smaller one was
seen, the police declare, to pick up a stone
and break one Of the factory's windows.
Both entered the building and the con-
stables followed them. The two suspects
heard the policemen entering the place
and tried to hide, but the larger Of the
two was found under a desk and arrested.
While he was being subdued the other
one ran out and was followed by SIavin.
For more than half a mile the chase
kept up, and then the policeman overlook
the supposed robber. Much to his sur
prise he found that instead Of man his
prisoner was girl, and that she was
crying.
She made no attempt at resistance, and
II was not until a lamp-post was reached
that the, constable recognized her as
girl he had known for years. She re-
fused TO make any statement
The Washington herald., 1912-01-01
LAUNDRY WORKERS
PLAN A WALKOUT
New York in Danger of Fam
inc in Clean Linen.

New York, Dec. 51-If a strike planned
for tomorrow goes into effect the New
York man will be an exponent Of the
week, unless he resorts to the expedient
of buying a new shirt every time he
wishes a change of linen. The strike has
been ordered by the local Laundry
Workers Union and 11,0Oo employees are
expected to obey the order. Announce
ment for the waIkout was sent out to-
day after a meeting of the official of
Local No 126 Of the Laundry Workers
Union OF those who will be called to
stop work about 700 are women. Ef-
forts will be made during the week to
have the other laundry workers unions
in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn
Join in the strike. In Manhattan alone
about 200 laUndTies will be affected by
the strike
According TO officials Of the union,
laundry employees have been forced to
work from eleven to fourteen hours
day. During the rush days, Thursday
and Friday, they worked often long after
midnight without extra pay. Besides
this, they declare, the rooms in which
they worked are most unsanitary.
The union workers now demand that
they will not be called on to work more
than ten hours a day and that all, over
time be paid for at double the hourly
wage scale. They almost demand that
the hyEienic conditions be improved at
once
The Iaundrymen say that they have
been asking for q change In the wage
scale and better conditions for fifteen
years.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-01
ALL PHONES NOW
OWNED BY NATION
Great Britain Takes Over the
Only Rival in Field.

London, Jan. L-At the stroke Of mid
night ushering in 1912, the British gov
ernment took formal possession Of the
$4,000 telephones owned by the National
Telephone Company, and thereby as
sumed actual operation Of all public
telephones in the United Kingdom. The
1900 employees, of the National TeIe-
phone Company viii hereafter be govern
ment employees. protected by civil serv-
ice against the loss Of positions and en-
joying the rights OF all other post-office
department employees to pensions, sick
benefits and annaaI vacations
The inadequate telephone system pre-
viously owned and operated by the gov
eminent will be amalgamated with the
national system and run in connection
with the telegraph system which the
government already owns. The govern
ment, henceforth, has an absolute monop-
ely Of all public means NJ communica-
ton by mail, telephone, and telegraph.
This revolutionary change, which, in
America. would be declared socIalistic,
has been effected practically without
criticism by an ultra-conservatiye press.
In fact, the new telephone regime Is
welcomed on all sides, owing to the
der the former private management The
government, which has, had a commits
sion of experts studying the telephone
service Of other countries. especially In
the United States, promises to Introduce
many new improvements and give better
service at a lower cost.
Already the government telephones are
being installed IN private houses in Lon
don, giving subscribers the benefit Of a
single party wire for only s25 a year.
Subscribers at this rate, unlike New
York, Chicago, and other cities. are en-
titled to call any other subscriber in an
area embracing population OF over T.
oOO, 900.
No ceremonies marked the transfer ex-
cept a banquet OF the employees of the
private company. who celebrated thus
their entrance into public service.
The price. which the government will
pay for the old company's property, is
not yet determined. 1t is being Fixed by
the commission who are taking an in
ventory and will base that decision on
the actual value Of the property.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-01
WOMEN HELD FOR MURDER.
Wife and Mother-In-Iaw Arrested
in Mobile Home,

Mobile, Ala, Dec. 3L-PoIiceman Frank
Wasserlebien, one Of the oldest men on
the Mobile force. was found murdered
in a pond near his home early to-day,
and tonight his wife and mother-ln-law
have been taken into custody by the
authorities. Wasserlebien lived in a
lonely district on the outskirts of the
city and il was at Rrst supposed that
he had been killed by a burglar.
The policeman had been shot three
times and his face was badly battered.
The powder marks on the body showed
that the shots had been fired at close
range. The police at once sent out
search parties in the hope Of apprehend-
ing the murderer, but later changed their
tactics.
A great sensation was caused by the
arrest of the two women. A bundle OF
bloody clothing, found under Wasserle-
bien's house. is believed 10 have actu-
ated the police in making the arrests.
although they decline TO discuss the case.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-01

dissolving a corporation against which q
decree had been obtained under the anti
trust law would be a pro rata distribu-
ton OF its assets among its stockholders.
Decisions Of the Supreme Court follow
ing that of the Northern Securities case
had also made Il plain that mere COM
bination Of corporations was not In and
OF itself in violation Of law. Therefore
in reorganizing the American Tobacco
Company a certain degree OF combina-
ton of the late subsidiaries Of the COM
pany was freely permissible.
The story of the remaining part OF the
financial year is one OF slow but sustain
ed stock market and business improve
ment. The Short grain crops" which
caused such perturbation turing the
summer turned out to be ample for the
country's use, while II became fixed that
the years cotton crop was far and away
the largest on recordT and this last fact
was Of immense Importance because IL
held out a promise, which has since
been splendidly fulfilled, OF a needed re-
adjustment in the textile trade that
could only come from an enlarged cotton
supply.
Optimism steadily Growing.
1t is therefore with cheerfulness and
optimism that the greater number Of
discerning business men in the United
States are looking forward 10 the new
year. No one expects boom. but every
one believes that the worst OF the busl-
ness depression has been seen and that
the future has better times in store. The
idea that politics and not the forces Of
supply and demand Is the cause OF busi-
ness prosperity. or the reverse. Is losing
its hold on the popular imagination; and
II Is getting 10 be appreciated, as yet
rather dlmly, that even a Presidential
election contest that has half frightened
people 70 death year in advance and q
The Washington herald., 1912-01-01

tariff revision programme that has IKE
wise been talked OF inoessently during
the same period comes to lose velxht
after all as business and market factors
When a process Of replenishment OF
stocks OF merchandise and OF general
new life. having its ortgin IN desp
seated economic conditions, once begins
to work IT brushes away politics and
tartn revision like an incoming tide. Ths
President OF the United States has taksn
his stand firmly upon one point. and that
Is that there shall be no tariff revision
that Is not based upon a thorough and
impartial investigation OF the questions
specifically concerned. such as that made
In the case Of wool by the Emory tarfff
board The overwhelming probability is
that the sentiment Of the country win
support Mr.. Taft In this position. and
In the meantime. even though no hill
authorizing a reduction in the wool dr-
ties has yet been offered in Congress. the
woolen trade IN December became more
active than at any time in 1911.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-01

everybody now admits to be the vicious
Circle" of increased railway operating
expenses and increased charges TO ship
pers.
Demands by Labor.
Close upon the heels OF each advance
In freight charges came further extor-
tionate demands by railway labor. and
the process had TO be put an end to. In
consequence OF the Interstate Commerce
Commissions refusal railway economiz-
ing began TO be practiced with salutary
severity and the upshot OF the whole
matter is that railway operating ex-
penses are now under control and that
the railway business is down to a stable
basis.
After this came in point OF time but
by no means in point Of general and per-
maDent significance the decision. IN May,
Of the United State, Supreme Court in
the American Tobacco and Standard OIL
cases by which the court established
the principle that the prohibitions against
restraint OF trade in tho antitrust law
only extended to unreasonable restraints.
Before this the standard that had been
set up by the courts was that any re-
straint of trade whatever was condemned.
But the Supreme Court finally declared
that this first construction OF the law
was impossible and untenable, although
the court argued that as a matter of
fact n such construction ever had OBJ
tanned.
The decision Of the court involved the
reorganization Of the American Tobacco
and Standard OIL companies. but 1t was
Of immense and incalculabIe value to the
business interests OF the country. II Is
true that the lawyers began to quibble
over the matter and 20 complain that the
court had not pointed out definitely Just
what unreasonable restraint Of trade
meant. But most people now understand
that no such definition is possible, and
that even II IT were made 1t would con-
stantly require redehnition. There are
certain phrases Of law that never can be
Tobacco Plan Approved.
The more cheerful views. engendered
by considerations OF this kind were
strengthened by the approval given by
the Attorney General of the United
States and by the courts TO the plan Of
Of the American Tobacco
Compay, which demonstrated that the
Sherman law. even when successfully in
voked against an Offender" did not ex-
tend IN the slightest degree to the con-
hscation OF property interests. Here
again was an event that has been long
foreseen by financial people who kept
their heads, but to which Wall street as
a mass seemed blind.
The precedent almost certainly TO be
followed by the United States courts in
dealing with the question was that set in
the Northern Securities case. in which
the Supreme Court held that corporations
not parties to the original suit had no
right to intervene In the proceedings
after judgment had been pronounced; and
secondly. that the only fair method OF
The Washington herald., 1912-01-01

Considered from the point Of view OF
speculative Wall street a fair comment
upon the year Just ended might be per-
haps that, as II was said of Charles / OF
England, nothing in its life so became II
as the fact of its taking OF. II was a
year Of scares and hysteria; OF a selling
of stocks through pure fright and nerv-
ousness accompanied by large and for
midable bear" attacks; OF a considerable
although popularity exaggerated amount
OF depression in business: Of foreign mill
tary and financial alarms, and even OF
extreme and erratic weather conditions.
Looked at in a mere sober and philo-
sophie way, the curious and annoying
variabilities of the year were just such
as might have been expeced toward the
end OF an era Of financial and business
liquidation. At such times the nerves of
people get in an uncertain state. their
calm Judgment vanishes, they become
financial hypochondriacs. are terrified at
bugaboos, and quake at every possibility
of future disasters which as the event
proves were at no time really likely.
The salient feature OF the year 1911 In a
financial sense was a winding up and
completion Of the business and financial
readjustment made necessary by the panic
of 1907 which was the elimination of a
is no allusion on any ones part that
what may be called the secondary work
OF readjustment is wholly at an end.
There are still weak spots TO be strength
ened; but that the main task in this re-
speot has been accomplished appears TO
be the judgment OF the greater number
Of sensible men.
Higher Freight Rates Refused.
The first important financial event Of
last year was the refusal Of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission on February
Q TO allow the railroad companies to
make an advance In freight rates. This
was for the time being very discouraKing
to railroad interests. and all the more so
because OF the well nigh universal ex-
pectation that the commission would al
low at least a certain increase IN rates to
take effect.
There are those who assert that favor
able action OF this sort was virtually
promised to the railway companies when
toward the close Of the preceding year
they were inducted to grant a large in
crease IN pay to their employees. But as
time has passed the more mature judg-
ment of the people, and even OF railway
interests themselves Is that the action of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
made for better things rather than for
worse things in the long run.
It Is probably true that the railway
companies made at least a technical mis-
take in enlarging the pay schedule of
their men until Il was settled whether
q corresponding increase in freight rates
could be secured. and 10 this extent the
railway managers have had to suffer.
perhaps unJustly. for the liberaIity dis
played by them But as It has turned
out the action OF the Interstate Com
msrce Commission put an end 10 what