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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-06-20
CONFERENCE OF INTERESTED
PARTIES RESULTS IN SET
ELEMENT.
AdJourns When Tentative
Agreement 10 AnnouneedAsesls
VIII Be Signed To-day.

After a ten weeks strike on the
part OF the Carpenters union and
several weeks of a strike of all build
ing crafts in sympathy with the car
penters. all OF which eliminated from
the labor troubles experienced on the
Market Auditorium. all were practi-
cally settled last night at a conference
OF the interested parties. when a ten
tative agreement was signed by rep
resentatives OF both sides. and the en-.
tire matter will be closed up to-day.
when a meeting fol ,nis purpose vii.
be held IN the Board Of Trade rooms
this afternoon at 2 O'Clock.
The two factions got together about
midnight last night after an all-night
session of council. at which testimony
was introduced by the Trades Assem-
bly, to show that the labor clause OF
the auditorium ordinance had been
violated. and testimony on the other
hand by the auditorium officials 10
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-06-20
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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05
THE MODERN NEW YEAR.

Some Of our prophets of decadence
think they find proof of national de-
generacy in the modern methods of
celebrating New Years day in New
York and other society centers.
Many middle aged New Workers
look back with pleasure on the de-
corus and punctilious custom of New
Years calls with the bounteously
spread table, the battalions of pretty
girl attendants, the coach loads of
visiting young men in high hats, tail
coats and white gloves and ties and
boutonnieres-the function had the
elegant elaboration of highly refined
civilization.
Today New York and many other
cities witness only scenes of rowdy-
ism, as women blow horns, and men
put confetti down the neck of any
pretty girl they meet in the street.
1t would be interesting to specu-
late why the pretty custom of New
III - 'NSOBllOlo, ollNt lllOlt vi ltSS
general, has largely died out.
An explanation frequently given,
with much truth, is that people be-
came shocked by it's excuses. After
you made 100 calls, in each of which
your compliments to the hostess
were done in 60 seconds, but out of
which several minutes were spent at
the punch-laden table, the final ex.
ercises of the day often consisted of
making courtesies to telegraph poles
and embracing lamp posts. The of
flee and the factory will not now tole-
rate a custom that thus reduces eff.
cheney for work
Perhaps an even more compelling
reason is the dislike felt by the Amer.
lean man for functions that are pure
ly formal. Never before was it so
difficult to drag out the head of the
house for an evening of calls. The
wife may say that social position
depends upon an accurate fulfillment
VI inc opllSdIlOllS VI IHe ellQueI DOOkS
The man feels that he is on very good
terms with his fellows through his
relations on the street or at the ball
grounds or the Country club. A black
coat and fifteen minute duty calls
seem to him a most funereal occasion
The future American will be even
less likely on New Years day to seek
out his comrades amid the clatter OF
tea-tables, Enjoying snow and ice
sports, on the golf links or motoring
down the flowing road, the crisp air
of January will suit him better than
the orchid perfumed air of the former
reception room.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

in council meeting that he favored
this paving. The council voted unani.
mously for the ordinance. In the
meantime there has been municipal
light plant bond election The mayor
was the leader of the movement for
the bonds The people of Norfolk
decided, by vote that they did not
want to invest in a light plant SO
nance refusing even to allow the citi-
zens to vote upon street intersection
bonds, and declaring arbitrarily that
the paving promises much less benc.
fit to the general public than the prop.
osition voted down" The people
might have an idea OF their own in
that regard, but the mayor has done
their thinking for them.
The matter has not yet been acted
upon by the council 1t remains to
be seen whether the councilmen will
stand by their former vote and allow
the people of Norfolk to run their
own business as regards public i'm
provement, or whether enough Of
them will be led by the mayor in his
desire to get revenge for the recent
defeat, to prevent the citizens Of the
city from deciding for themselves
whether or not they want to pave
their streets.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05
THE PRICE OF MEAT.

The trial of the meat packers, at
last fairly under way at Chicago, is
evon more vital than the Standard
Oil and Tobacco cases. The former
showed that a great combine can be
split up into constituents parts. The
beef trust trial is to show whether
individual companies can be made
to compete if they don't want to.
1t is not probable that the govern
ment can produce documents tending
to prove agreements or collision. But
the surprising uniformity of the pack
ing companies in prices paid for
stock and secured for meat, have con-
WINGED the country that definite price
agreements nevertheless exist.
There seems to be little hope, how
ever, whatever the result of this trial,
that meat will be much cheaper at
the provision store.
The Review of Reviews investigated
meat costs last year. 1t placed the
selling price of a steer at 5000, and
the packers profit at $3,4O. That is
something more than the government
estimate of 21a percent on sales.
While few people will doubt that
the beef packers could well afford to
cut this profit of $40 in two, and
sell the steer for $1.7O less, it will be
seen that this would reduce the price
less than percent, which would not
figure out half a cent a pound to the
consumer.
The expense of distribution seems
the worst along the whole line. On
$9040 steer, it is calculated that
the butcher has to add $32.29, And
yet few butchers are plutocrats. At
ter they have paid their help, fed
their delivery horses, pocketed their
losses on spoiled meat, they do not
seem to have much left.
1t costs two to five cents apiece to
deliver a chunk of meat at your back
door. We warmly commend the ef'
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

King George has shown himself pos
sessed of most consummate govern
mental tact in making Delhi once
more the capital of India. Calcutta is
essentially a foreign city in which the
people of India have neither pride
nor interest. Delhi is their own an
cient city connected with all their
proudest traditions and this conces-
sion together with the gift to the ad-
vancement of education in India of a
million and a half dollars from the
Kings personal fortune will probably
go far toward softening India's sullen
mood.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The finding of the naval board who
examined the wreck of the Maine is
that the explosion was caused by a
bomb placed beneath the ship, but
not necessarily by the Spanish. 1t is
thought more likely to have been the
work of Cuban patriots, with the
thought that the deed would be at
tributed to Spain and would precipi-
was their only hope of independence.
While the matter will ever remain a
mystery, it is too far gone by and
Spain has been too severely punished
whether guilty or not, to need any
further condemnation.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05
THE PAVING VETO.

Norfolk people are not in sympathy
with the action of Mayor Friday in
vetoing the paving ordinance creating
West Norfolk avenue and North Ninth
street into a paving district. The
property owners of that district hav-
ing petitioned the mayor and council,
according to law, to create a paving
district and pass an ordinance for the
titled to an opportunity, as provided
by law, to decide whether or not they
desire to vote bonds for paving the
street intersections.
1t seems presumptive, to say the
least, for the mayor to undertake to
prevent the people from deciding the
question for themselves, The theory
of the law is that a mayor and council
shall be the servants of the people, not
that the mayor shall be the dictator
of the city, The mayor says he is
perfectly willing that the streets shall
be paved, providing the taxpayers are
not called upon to pay the cost of
paving the street intersections. But
just why he is unwilling to allow the
taxpayers to run their own business,
in this particular, is not explained.
The people of Norfolk are not in
sympathy with the spirit exhibited by
the mayor when he vetoes the paving
movement in order to get revenge for
the recent defeat of the municipal
light plant bonds. They are not in
sympathy with that kind of admin
istration of city business.
Ten DAYS ago the mayor declared
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05
A NEW FACTORY.

Everybody in Norfolk and in this
part of Nebraska will rejoice over the
news that the old sugar factory is to
be put to use again and that a new
industry employing large number of
people is to be established.
Like a ghost the old sugar factory
has stood and now that it is to be re-
habilitated, there will be renewed con-
fidence all around. 1t means much to
Norfolk to get life into the walls that
have been dead.
One thing leads to another and al
ready there is prospect of other fac
tories in the new canning factory's
wake, to keep the employees busy the
year round.
The New Years may be set down
as a happy one for Norfolk. There
is cheerful optimism in the air.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The best paying thing in literature
today is the good short story. Kip
ling gets $1,000 for a 1000 or 5000
word story, while there are a dozen
writer's who command 1000 for every
story they turn out. Dickens and Scott
would have been stunned at such
prices.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The greatest possible aid to en-
phasis in speech is elaboration. 1t
is admitted that Phillip Brooks spoke
at the rate of $50 words a minute,
and that there are noted "gatling-gun"
speakers at the present time, like
President Vincent of the University
of Minnesota, who not only speak
rapidly but have a great deal to say
that is worth hearing. But it still re-
mains true that the ordinary audience
wants time to absorb what a man
has to say, without hurrying, and
that the average man does vastly bet
ter work on the platform, who talks
in straightforward and somewhat de.
liberate manner. Wendell Phillips,
perhaps the most finished and elo-
quent orator that America has ever
produced, is described as steady,
smooth, studied, slow, golden-silenced
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05
TIE NEwsJouRNAL FRIDAY JANUARY 1912

and silver.tongued" William Jen.
nings Bryan owes much of his power
as a speaker to his moderate, well
rounded sentences delivered with re.
markable ease and evident self.poise,
with voice that is as rare in its
beautiful tones and great strength,
in its generation, as was that of Phil.
lips more than half a century ago
The American on the platform as well
as off of it, would gain power if he
would only slow up.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

There remains no more territory on
this continent out of which states can
be made except Alaska, which is not
likely to be admitted very soon, so
with the admission of Arizona and
New MEXICO we are likely to stop adj
ding to the forty.eight sister states of
the union, at least for some time.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

Andrew Carnegie, with that char
acteristc assurance of his, which
makes us smile at him regardless of
all his millions, has lately said that
the average man should be able to
support family on s25 a week. Poor
Andy doesn't realize that thousands
upon thousands of the best families
of the land are in the habit of living
on less than that amount and thriv-
ing pretty well thank you, in spite of
high prices and the general inclination
for high living. What such men as
Carnegie don't know about life, as
the majority of the American people
live it, would make a very large book,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

fort of the government to enforce the
law. But our hopes of lower prices
for meat depend much more ON the
possibility of pcrsuading the house.
wife to study the cook book more
carefully, and on inducing the lord of
the home to carry brown paper bun
dies through the street, than on the
results to be obtained by failing the
packers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

If Washington society should de-
tect telltale traces of jam on Mr..
Tafts fingers, it should be remem-
bered that Aunt Delia's Christmas con-
coctions are very enticing.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

A Chicago newsboy died recently
leaving $4,000. Another one died
and didn't leave cent. The moral
of this is that there is just as much
difference in newsboys as there is
in other people.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

ing was done on Saturday to get It out
of the way for Christmas, and then
the ironing had to be put off for four
or five days after Christmas because
of the Christmas confusion, and the
result is your Uncle Fuller came near
not having any shirt to wear when he
came to work today. And here's an.
other Monday holiday to tanglc it all
up again
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The railroads have ordered 10000
new freight cars. They may not be
needed to transport merchandise, but
anyway they will assist our leisure
class in securing transportation about
the country.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The indianapolis jury are trying to
trace the dynamiters by examining
hotel registers. If they can decipher
any of the signatures, they will be
able to earn high pay as hotel report
ers for the newspapers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

When men tell you that Taft cannot
is a good plan to hike back in your
mind to the year 1868. Then they
said that Linciln could not be reelected
even if he was nominated. But with
in the year that followed a great many
things happened that changed the
tables and he was reelected by very
handsome majority. While it is not
safe to depend on the blunders Of the
opposition, nevertheless, with the re-
sponsibility for legislation in this ses-
sion of congress resting upon the dem
ocratic majority in the house and in
tense differences already developing
among the party leaders, it will be
remarkable if before next summer ar
rives President Taft is not master of
the situation, having the democrats
hopelessly on the run. We are well
aware that there are many who will
look upon even the suggestion of
such a possibility as the Pigment of a
disordered brain. However, in the
face of these wiseacres, we do not
deem such a turn in affairs outside
the province Of strong probability.
The presidents strength is far more
real than apparent and underneath a
good deal of the criticism that is made
upon him, there is a profound respect
for his recognized intellectual capaci-
ty and his splendid personal integ-
rty
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The attempt to induce Mr.. Carnegie
to name the twenty greatest women
was unsuccessful. The shrewd Scotch
man is not going to be caught in such
trap as that He is trying to pre-
vent war, not cause it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The last time she went to Europe
Mary Garden took forty.nine pairs of
New York shoes with her Anyone
desiring to stand in her shoes must
evidently be active with the button
hook.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

About now Mr.. Lamb marches down
into Wall street to acquire a belated
Christmas present in the shape of a
bear skin overcoat trimmed with
bulls hide. Result, all the little cubs
and calves have sheep food next day.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

Mr.. Taft has been asked to inter-
vene between Italy and Turkey, but
probably he has all he can do to main
tain order at the New York peace
meeting
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

In Bible times they talked of turn
ing swords into pruning hooks, now
the proper thing would be to wish for
the time when battleships shall be
turned into steel rails.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

Having looked over carefully the
holiday announcements of the book
publishers, we are greatly surprised
to find that the Shooting Show Girls
have not yet entered the ranks of
authorship
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

Indiana is going in for apple rails
ing with vengeance. If she is as
successful in raising apples as she
has been in producing literature, she
will be able to provide apples for the
millions.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

Russia now threatens to double the
duties on goods from this country.
She seems to realize the great bene-
fits of removing your nose in order to
make your cheek feel better
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The figures of accidents in the past
hunting season remind one of the re-
mark of an Indian about the game
law: xiii COW moose, pay 800; kill
man. too bad"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05
THE OLD MINISTER.

The northern Baptist convention
a better provision for old ministers.
They have raised $250,000, and as an
nounced this past week expect to get
a $1,OOOOOO endowment.
Considering the rather frivolous
choice by so many churches of the
very young clergymen, it seems only
square to do something for the elder
ly men who are set aside by this pref
erence for youth.
1t has been said that clergyman
crosses the dead line at 40, that sub
sequently he must expect lower sal
airy and less commanding position.
And yet in every other profession
man has hardly more than acquired
foothold at 40.
The plight of many elderly minis
ters at 80 to 60 is pathetic. Their
utterance has acquired ripeness,
their counsel worldly wisdom, and
their heart has learned sympathy with
all kinds of people. But because they
feel a little awkward while playing
tiddle-de -winks at the Christian En-
deavor social, they are condemned as
lacking magnetism. OF course, on the
other hand, the more closely minis
Ter keeps to his young people, the
mare he will look at things from their
point of view, and the more he can
interest them
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

In view of the alarming tendency
of the people to vote as they darn
please, the nation looks forward to
the presidential year of 1912 with
feelings of apprehension.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

Although the public seems to have
lost interest in hunting down the per-
sons guilty of the Triangle Waist
fire, we still hold that they should be
caught and fined at least S. and costs.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The complaint is made that on ac-
count of all this undertaking, you
can't borrow any money Nothing
is left but the awful alternative of
going to work.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

1t is a beneficient arrangement that
gives the children a vacation Christ
mas week Otherwise they would not
be able TO do a thorough Job smashing
their toys before Ney Years.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

1t costs a good deal nowadays to
smuggle goods through the New York
custom house but some people think
the publicity's worth the money.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

Mr.. Roosevelt gets 500 letters
day. We trust he shows due interest
in his correspondence by waiting
around the postoffice while the post
master is popping them into his box.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

If we felt that we were to be tried
by a jury composed of women wear
ing inverted waste baskets on their
heads, we should take great care to
keep out of the way of the police.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

From the number of diaries being
started now, future historians will
find ample material regarding the
first ten days in January.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

Seats are all pretty well taken just
now on the water wagon, but there
will probably be vacant places in a
week or So
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

DR.. Sun Vat Sen has been elected
president of China. He will have to
get up early mornings to shake hands
with 4OO,OOO,OOO people.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

Great Britain and Germany both
have compulsory life insurance laws
for the laboring classes. If it works
well in Europe why not in America?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

That new Drexel baby is heir to
$30,000,000. 1t is subject to collie just
the same and can't yell any louder
than the ordinary baby.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

In view of the hold-ups in Chicago
some means of protecting the defense
less police of the town should be de-
vised
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The red haired man who has re-
ceived yellow necktie from his best
girl should be warned in time, or we
foresee sojourn in Reno.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The New York police breathe much
more freely now that the peace din
ner has got by without having to call
out the boy scouts to preserve order.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

Bob LaFollette removed his collar
while speaking at Dayton, O. This
renews our faith that he is loyal to
the peoples cause.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

A want ad campaign will get you
acquainted with lot OF people who
want to buy homes-and the home You
want 10 sell would surely suit some Of
them.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The newspapers give much space to
the fact that shoes will be higher. AS
everything is always going higher,
there is no news in this.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The most practical use we can sug-
gest for the red cross stamps would
be to seal up the mouths of the men
that spit on the sidewalks.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

the Roosevelt possibility the LaF'ol-
lette boom is suffering at least tenn
porary collapse.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

1t is generally conceded that Presi-
dent Taft's political strength is gain
ing instead of losing ground, while for
some reason, probably the revival of
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

Mongolia declares It's independence,
and we hope that no one suggests
making it an American state and
giving 1t two senators.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

We assume that the celebrating is
about over until the early part of
July. But there's nothing like cele-
brating when the celebrating's good.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

There are two classes of people in
the world those who believe in play
ing solitaire and those who think it's
a silly waste of time.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The disconcerting thing about these
forecasts by the weather man is that
they come true.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The trouble with these holidays
coming on Monday is that they inter
fere with two washdays and get every
thing all balled up. Last weeks wash
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The industrious hen is now laying
the foundation for many fortune.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

There is enough pessimism in this
world to insure the first story of a
disaster being exaggerated.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

If you don't believe in cruel and I'M
usual punishment, don't select a re-
porter for your contidant.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

We're starting in the New Year
with two important developments: The
bald spot is not so big as it was, and
we're getting fat for lack of golf.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

The knife has been found. II was
in the smoking Jacket pocket.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05
AROUND TOWN.
Happy New Year!

What's become of the o. f. woman
who kept open house on New Years
day, and the o, f. man who went call
ing all afternoon?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

We have known old bachelors who
weren't so liberal as those in the
Christmas magazine stories.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1912-01-05

Working for a bank or a postoffice
must be an awful snap. Here lately
they've been getting every Monday
off, as well as Sundays.