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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1912-08-09

submitted from the floor be sent to
the resolutions committee without
debate Permanent organization was
postponed until Wednesday when the
platform also was to be adopted, and
Col. Roosevelt and running mate
nominated for president and vice
president on the new third party
ticket.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29
PETER WHITE SAYS ITS NOT UNUSUAL TO KICK
 OVER HIS BILLS

From all outward appearances Peter White. the out-of-town audit expert hired by the administration to estab- fish new methods of handling city finances, is little perturbed over the action of the Common Council at it's last meeting. in refusing to accept his bill for services. White showed up at the city hall today, having arrived yesterday from St. Louis. to lock over the work his assistants have been do- ing since he was here last, two weeks ago. He was asked for a statement bearing on the council action, and said:
 'Ive never started work in a city yet but what they did the same thing. It makes me smile to observe the dif- ferent forms of procedure which the opposition take to my work in the diff ferent cities where I go
 "Of course,'' and he smiled, t'it would seriously inconvenience me if the city did not pay me the $4,200. I regard the bill that I submitted as fully itemized as any bill an auditor ever submitted for work of the kind.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29
MRS. TAYLOR
 APPEALS SUIT AGAINST HEF1
Former Bridgeport Woman As serts That We'll Known Bridge port Man Promises to Marry Her

The appeal of Mrs. Caroline J. Tay-
 Tor. formerly of this city, but now of
 Brooklyn, is pending in the New
 York Appellate Division, the jury be-
 fore whom her case was heard having
 denied claim for Q judgment for $1OO,-
 900 against Col. N. H. Heft of this
 city.
 Mrs. Taylor asserted on the witness
 stand that Col. Heft had agreed to marry her, but he said that he told
 her he would not marry her if she were the last woman on earth. Col. Heft testified that his relations with
 Mrs Taylor had been improper and testified to times and occasions of the alleged impropriety
 Mrs. Taylor denied these accusa- tions. Mrs. Taylor also brought suit against Col Heft to recover $6,O0o for
 alleged services in curing his son, Dr. Fl. Stanley Heft of the morphine hab- it. The latter testified that he some times took the drug to relieve pain, but that he did not have the habit 9
 Mrs Taylor alleged that she was
 asked by Mrs. Frances H. Heft, the
 "Colonel's" first wife. and by Heft the morphine habit. She cured him. Mrs. Heft obtained a divorce in Jan-
 uary. 1905. Mrs. Taylor says that af- ter Mrs. Heft had left Bridgeport Heft proposed to her and was accepted.
 But in December. 1905. he married Mrs. Josephine Moore Richardson. Then Mrs. Taylor brought her suits, which
 have been carefully shrouded in mys- tery ever since.
 "Col." Heft was for many years chief of the electrical department of the New Haven Railroad. He is a friend and associate of Prick, Carne- gie, Schwab and other steel men. He was president of the Meriden 6 South ington Street Railway Company, and
 has been at the head of the Bridge port Board of Trade, the Algonquin club, and the Democratic Club of this city. He resigned the presidency ot the Bridgeport Traction Co. in 1903. Col. Heft resides on Park avenue, l this city, in a residence reputed to l be one of the handsomest in the state
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29

I haven't received any official notice of the action of the council or the res- olu.ion that was passed. I will meet the members of the audit committee this afternoon and suppose this mat ter will be taken up. In other towns they have made a cry over bills for such work but that comes usually from the element that gets the wrong conception of the work. This work is something that cannot be reported upon as other work. We work on a basis of facts; we have to establish facts and it takes some preliminary work before these are reached. It would be hard at this time to give an accounting of the work done, which would be intelligib1e."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29
Bridgeport, Conn,
 April 24, 1912.

ployers' liability and workmen's com pensation-in his first speech of the day here, this morning.
 The President also claimed for the Payne -Aldrich tariff the credit for the prosperity of this busy jewelry manu-
 Although it was only 8 a. m., a big crowd packed the station and grounds to hear Taft.
 Taft was very hoarse. He said:
 'tThey have attacked this admins tration for passing the Payne bill. There is one thing the Payne bill did not do, and that was to injure the in- dustries of Attleboro and for that req son as this administration has done well by you I ask you as a matter of man between man why you ought not to do well by it.
 "One of the things that laboring men and worAingmen have the right to complain of was the common law liability of masters and employers to those of their employees who were in- jured. The law seems to have been drawn at time when conditions were entirely different and the laboring man and the workman did not have a fair 1uries sustained In employment. Now that status of employe and employer which exists and comes within the Jurisdiction of the United States haa been looked after by what is called an employers liability act. But not content, and in order to make the in- juriee which the laboring men and the workingmen suffer real basis for in- surance in their behalf, we have ap- pointed a Congressional commission which has recommended a workmen's compensation act which fixes rates ac- cording to his wages and his injury no matter what the circumstances were under which that injury was received In other words, the employees on the railways-that is. the railway em- ployes-are protected by an insurance fund which shall compenate those em- ployes who suffering from the dan- gers and risks of the business are sub ject to injuries which may proven, their earning a livelihood at all. Now I say that that kind of legislation k not only progressive, not only just but it shows the attitude of the ad. ministration.
 'fNow, my friends. I am very sorry am talking with such a frog-like throat, but I appeal to you to make allowance for the condition of the throat and attribute to me a better will than the roughness of the throat would indicate.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29

home, this morning.
 The Coloners reception here was un- expectedly enthusiastic, most of the applause coming from the workers who were well punched at one edge of the immense crowd.
 Salem, April 29NSalem's town hall was packed here at g o'clock when Col onel Roosevelt spoke against boss rule and for the square deal. His stop in Salem drew over 5000 to hear him.
 ROOSEVELT IN LAWRENCE
 Lawrence. Mass, April 29-The larg- est crowd to greet Colonel Roosevelt on his trip, today, gathered on the Common at 11:30 after the city had turned out en masse and led by a band escorted the Roosevelt automo- bile to the place where a few weeks ago the Lawrence strikers gathered to discuss their difficulties.
 Colonel Roosevelt referred to the re- cent Lawrence strike when he said:
 "I hadn't any personal knowledge of the recent trouble here but fec that there must be always order and respect of law. We can not prosper in this country unless we respect law and the man who excites disorder is the enemy of labor. would sugges, that the man at the top grant the in, crease in wages before the strike and not wait until afterwards"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29
BODIES OF YALE
 MEN RECOVERED
Two Notable Eli Graduates Drowned in Long Island
 Sound

Crescent Beach, Conn.,. April 2s- The bodies of George Borup, of New York City. and Samuel Case, of Nor wich, Yale graduate students who were drowned in the Sound here, yes- terday, by the capsiziing of their power canoe, were recovered. this noon. The bodies were found near where they went down and about a mile west o1 Millstone Dock. The bodies were caught in travis. They were removed to the home o1 J. T. Cruttenden where. they will be held until prepared to be- sent to their homes.
 Borup graduated from Yale in 190i and was taking post graduate course in geology. Case graduated in 1911 and was doing post graduate work ins mining and engineering.
 Borup was an arctic explorer and was with Perry when the latter dis covered the North Pole.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29
NEW YORK SUFFRACISTS ARE READY
 FOR GREAT PARADE NEXT SATURDAY

getting signers to pledges to take part in the parade. Some of these suffra- gists took positions in prominent places about the city and presented blank pledges to all women who pass. ed and showed any interest in the tanners tlev displayed
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29

New York. April 29-New York suf- fragists are planning for parade on Saturday. May 4, that will eclipse anything along that line formerly seen. For many days ardent advo- cates Of votes for women have been
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29

khaki waterproof serge with strap-' pings and buttons of black satin. The coat has roomy, yet slender lines, ana the blue veil is attached to c motor, bonnet of material matching the coat. ' Buttoned boots of tan calf complete this costume.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29
Bed Bugs Keep Rooms
 From Renting

Many desirable rooms don t rent for the simple reason that they are known to be infested with Bed Bugs. Spend 9 cents and clean your home, and your rooms will rent. Tell the public your house has been cleaned with Cyrus Presto Killer and the applicant for rooms will be satisfied. There is nothing better made, noth- ing so clean to use and noth- ing so harmless to- human beings-it does not burn. Try a can 9 cents, 1t IS worth money to you.
 THE CYRUS PHARMACY
 Fairfield Avenue and
 Courtland Street
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29
THE STOKER

THE SMOKER
 (By Carl Werner, in N, Y. American) Go thither Sweetest Sympathy where widowed women
 weep,
 Where countless heroes slumber meath the sea; Go sing thy song consong of the of the deep Deny no heart or home that calleth thee. Applaud the splendid courage of the captain and the mate Of wireless heroes dying at the key, The chiyary of milionares the glory of the great, Who fearless faced the end ,nor deigned to fee.. thy soothing presence to phanthropist and peer Pay tribute to the brilliant and the bold; But thine errand endeh, shed thou single tear For the grim and grimy Hero in the Hold!
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29

Foulard and sole souple gowns show a lot of lingerie and lace.
 In open embroidery patterns, ob~ long, square and triangular eyelets appear.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29
MARRIED.

RIFLE CAvANAUGH-In Norwalk. April 24, John M. Kyle of Stamford, and Miss Jennie M. Cavanaugh. M1NKS-VOCK-In Stamford. April 22, Edward D. Vock of New York, and Miss Eva M Minks
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29

Beverly, Mass, April 2s-Appealing for the 'tsquare deaI' and defeat for political bosses'', Colonel Roosevelt spoke for five minutes here to all of the workmen and three-fourths of the
 residents of President Taft's summer
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29
THE SMITH MURRAY 70.
TO-DAY

We begin sale of Sheets Pillow Cases, Table Linens, Bedspreads Towels, Crash etc., etc., at temptingly low prices Country Summer residents hotel keepers board ing house keepers and all thrifty housewives to appreciate and take advantage of these splendid bargns SHEETS AND PILLOW CASES READY TO USE
 Whats the of cutting measuring and sewing when made article can be had at almost cost of plain cotons
 76x9O Bleached Sheets, 48c each.
 81x9O Bleached Sheets extra heavy, 59c each.
 81x9O Half Bleached Sheets, 621ac each.
 81x9O Brown Sheets, 48c each.
 45x36 B1eached Pillow Gases 10c and 121 MUSLIN SPECIALS
 A Beached Cotton, SC yard
 94 Bleached Cotton Sheeting, 24c yard.
 94 Brown Sheetng, 22c yard. DAMASKS, TOWELS, BEDsPREADS CRASHES
 most inviting program at the Linen Department Full Bleached Table Damask, 54 inches wide in wide range of handsome designs, 22c and 29c yard.
 72 inch Bleached Damask 69c9 95c yard.
 Special bargains in Towels, SC, 7c 10c each.
 Special bargains in Crash, 5c and Sc yard
 WHITE SPREADS-Crochet in Marseilles patterns 69c, 75c 98c each FRINGED SPREADS, good assortment of patterns S1.25, $1.39, $1 50 each
 LONG CLOTH, ,36 inches wide, $1 15 piece of 12 yards A RARE BARGAIN CHANGE IN BLANKETS White and Grey Cotton Blankets, 95c, $1 25 pair. 114 Wool Finish Blankets, full bed size, in White Grey, special prices, $175, $2OO pair ROLLER TOWELS, 25c each 36 inch COLORED LINEN SUITINGS 39c yard.
 36 inch BROWN LINEN SUTTINGS, 19c, 25c 29c, 371ac yard. odain Floor Rear'
 THE SMITH-MURRAY co.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29

Set-in sleeves of a modified kimono order are frequently seen.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29

Attleboro. Mass, April 29-President Taft. following T. R.'s trail through the factory district of Massachusetts, abandoned his personal attack on his predecessor and confined himself to his administration labor record-em-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-29
E. H. DILLON 6 60. i1!st iies Main st: enss MAIN ST.. Hartford Conn. 10
 LEADING MILLINERs
 Your Opportunity to Buy an
 IMPORTED PATTERN HAT We are offering all our Imported Hats without serve, formerly priced from $40 to $6O, at $1975 We are also offering exceptional values in Trimmed Dress Hats from worroom formerly priced from $1O to $40, now $7.48 to $35
 E. II. DILLON & CO.,.
E. H. DILLON & co.
TRIUMPH OVER DEATH


  Noble triumph lonely   grea
 
  beside to
  To owe a living Christ doth dwell
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-30
England. |. S..

From these figures a fair idea is gained of the average pay of British railway labor.
 On the railways of Belgium, which are owned by the government, fremen receive $15.20 to s22.S0 Der mcnth, the higher wage only after fifteen years service. Engineers begin at s22.50 per month, and at the end Of twentyfour years service work up to S3S 6 month. Conductors earn from S179; per month up to maximum of $34.70 Brakemen begin as switch1ne.l at 45 cents per day. When promoted they receive s17.10 per month and work up to S22 Der month. The average rail- way worker in Belgium receives 2.22 francs, or 43 cents a day.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-30
Plan Railroad Across Sahara.

4 scientific mission charged with making the first studies for the con- struction of railroad across the Sa- hara has just set out from France. Starting from Gran, on the Mediter. ran 3an, the expedition will travel first by rail and then by camel to the mountains in the center of the Sahara. There one party will turn west and examine the route of the proposed railroad connecting the Trans-Saharan with the Cape to Cairo by Lake Tchad and the upper Congo Valley; the sec ond will turn east to study the track of tho Trans-Saharan itself from the center of the desert to the Niger at Tinbuktu or Gao. One of the mem- bers of the expedition will be Captain Cortier, whose earlier journey across the desert to the Niger was one of the triumphs of Saharan exploration.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-30
Insect Ecres Into Steel Rails,

Italian engineers have discovered a destructive insect that bores into the steel rails and seems to have the di- sestion of an ostrich. The rails of a railway line in Piedmont became ex- tremely rusty so quickly recently that the engineers examined the rails mi croscopically.
 They found ill the steel numberless worm-shaped creatures. a dirty gray in color and about a third of an inch long. Nature, as always, has fitted out this insect admirably for it's life purpose. Its head has two horns shap- ed like a snaifs but sharp, strong and with thread like a screws. With these horns it bores into the steel with astonishing rapidity. The engineers found iron rust in the insects inte. rior and so, naturally, concluded that the almost impalpable powder it pro. duces is its food.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-30
ENGLISH CARS ARE MODELS
Luxurious Sleeping Accomm odatiors on Trains Running on Indian
 Railroad Lines.

One. of the new sleeping cars brought out from England in sections and put together at the Central Work shops has now been placed in service on the Singapore Mail from kualii Lumphr
 The car contains eight E separate sleeping rooms on either side of g central passage The rooms. are shut off from the passage by doors, thus insuring privacy, and are very con- fortably fitted up. Each contains two berths, with spring mattresses, one above the other, a large half-length locking glass, a shut-up Washstand which,, by an ingenious 3co11trivance, can be converted into a writing table; a folding stool and stepladder for the upper berth. The rooms are brilliant ly lighted by three small electric lamps and one big one, and well ven tilated by two windows with wire gauge screens and blinds, as well as by a ventilator over the large electric lamp in the roof. By each bed are switches for the lights and electric bell pushes which communicate with a number board in the corridor. The sides of the rooms and corridor arr paneled with English oak, while the bed rails. are polished brass. In ad dition to the bedrooms, each car con tains lavatories and a bathroom, witt shower bath and cupboard with wa terproof curtain for bathers' clothes.- Consular Report.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-30

count of danger, the fireless locomo- tives are largely now in use. They are employed in cases where a normal locomotive cannot be used economical ly. Where such a locomotive is to be used, boiler plant must exist, in or der to get the necessary steam for it's propulsion.
 Comparing these freless locomo- tives with the normal, as far as cost is concerned, large savings can be made, for the reason that steam, pro- duced in a stationary boiler plant is much cheaper, and steam partly su- perfuous can be filled in the tank of the small fireless locomotive in spare time Explosions of the boiler are made impossible, because the pressure of the filled steam can never raise, but fall during the work. Besides, the driver of such an engine need not be licensed engineer; any working man can drive it. Furthermore this engine can be left under steam with out watching it, as there is no danger of explosion, for the reason mentioned before.
 she principle upon which these To- comotives are based is that water is able to absorb certain amount of heat, which can be utilized to make steam out of hot water The water Is carried on the locomotive and heated by steam taken from the stationary boiler, so that the latter's pressure is nearly attained in the water tank. When the locomotive has done cer- tain amount of work, that means that the pressure of it's steam has fallen down to 1 Atmosphere, it has to be returned to the boiler in order to get new steam and heat from there. The hot water tank of the fireless locomo. tive consists of cylindric boiler and a steam dome, from which the steam
 is led into the cylinders which are at 1 tached to the outside of the lower i part of the locomotive. The other gears are adjusted on the outside 1 too, so that the cleaning and oiling ol them is very easy. The steering is oi i the Heusinger system and Is Oper ated by small lever. The steam i boiler and the cylinder are surround l ed with an insulating matter, in or der to prevent any loss of heat, and the locopotive is fitted with quick
 working hand-brake Besides the steam whistle the locomotive has 8 i bell, too, in order to give warning signals.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-30
United States Far Ahead.

In proportion to it's population, the United States has much greater trans portation facilities thaL Great Britain. The area of this country is A times that of the United Kingdom, while the density of population is less than one twelfth. Yet, on proportion to area. this country has over tWo-fifths the miles of line and one-fourth the miles O. track of the United Kingdom. In proportion to population, the United States has over five times tho miles of line and three and one-third times the miles of track of the United King dOm
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-30

County Treasurer: PatteTson, 139 venable, 355; Smith, 205.
 Assessor: Bell, 4o6; Shirley, 355 Hawkins, 301; Ross, ITO; Smith, 147
 County Surveyor: Perry, 1340. (ua- opposedD
 Coroner: F. T. Ccott 1910, (un- opposed)
 Justice of the Peace Ecore Fabre township Gnclud ng the city of Cam den:) Martin, 25o; Pope, 260; Davis 23S, nominees. Purifoy, 201, d9- feated.
 ? Constable Ecore Eabre: Uncle John Bird. (unopposed).
 1t will be seen that the miss ng box cannot change the result of any county offices, the nominees being named first under each head.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-30
Oxygen Compartments for Travellers

On the nearly completed railway from Africa, Chile, to La Paz, Bolivia, which goes to an altitude of 14,105 feet above sea level. the effect of the quick ascent and great altitude on people having weak or abnormal hearts, is to be enumerated by having oxygen compartments in the passenger cars Passengers subject to mountain sick ness or any affection of the heart may, by occupying these compartments, breathe air having the same percen- tage of oxygen as at sea lcvel.-Sci- entific American.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-30

twenty-five three miles, nineteen two miles and eight are a single mile from end to end.
 Every part of the country furnishes specimens of these dwarf roads, says the Railroad Mans Magazine. They are found in mining districts and scenic sections; they are the handy helpers around industrial plants and terminal, centers; they climb moun- tains that would be impossible other wise.
 The Johnstown and Stony Creek Raflroads which is only mile long, connects with the Pennsylvania and thes Baltimore and Ohio in Pennsyl- vania at two points named in it's title. Freight is the speciality of the road, and in the two years of it's existence it Is said to have made very satis- factory financial return to it's owners.
 Ever hear of the Due West Rail- road? No? We'll, it's hardly to be wondered at, seeing that it's scarcely three miles long and slowed in an out of the way corner of South Carolina. Yet'it has a unique history of it's own. The road runs from the town of Due West to Dowell. It's construction was the outcome of the craving of the ir- habitants of Due West for easy trans portation to Dowell. So the people of Due West. in the name of their town, issued $11,0O0 of railroad aid bonds on behalf of the construction of the line, which was opened for traffic in 1908., =.
 I The road was a financial success from the start and is comfortably paying it's way. It has neither debts nor bonds of it's own, in which re spect it is almost without parallel in railroad history. The total cost of the construction of the road and it's equip ment, including it's two locomotives one passenger and one baggage car, is . said to have been less than $30,000.
 Mary Lee is the sentimental name of little freight railroad that runs between East Birmingham and Boyles, Ala, a distance of seven miles. It connects with the Queen and Crescent Route, Southern Railroad and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Mary, according to published balance sheets, is a paying proposition.
 Fulton Chain Railroad is only two miles in length, but this Lilliputian line has brought enjoyment to thous- ands of summer vacationists. It runs from Fulton Chain to Old Forge, N. Y., and is operated by the New York Gen. tral lines mainly in connection with the hot weather traffic. Last year 1t carried 53,670 passengers; it's net earnings were s6,019, and it had the comfortable little surplus of $13,341 tucked away in it's jeans.