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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-21

one was IN the boat when it struck
the dam, according to the lockkeeper.
The lockkeeper notified the fisher
men along the river and they started
search for the body. 1t was found
several hours later below the dam.
Only As cents was in the pockets, and
a watch. The watch apparently had
stopped at the time the body was
thrown overheard into the water
SIS. A well defined blue mark across
the forehead showed how death prob
ably was caused.
Moore was big hearted man, who
always was willing to help every per.
son who needed it. He was friendly
with every one and made acquaintal .ces
easily Mr.. Herdman asserted Many
along the river said they had seen him
with three men. Those men were of
the low, INDECENT beacheomber type,
who infest the river banks and live
Dy VnAeVery.
It is believed Moore invited the men
aboard his boat while he was anchored
for the night at Beardstown. In some
way they learned he had money.
Then they killed him. Forty dollars
is a fortune for the river pirates. The
officials at Beardstown have made no
arrests. The body was identified by
card which contained the name Of
Moore's cousin, DR.. Hyde. The chief
of police telegraphed DR.. Hyde, who,
with Mr.. Herdman, then made the in
vestigation.
The coroners of Cass and Schuyler
counties, on each side of the river, got
into q row over the body, with the re-
suit that neither made more than
cursory investigation. The county
pays a fee to the coroner and under
takers for caring for the unknown
dead, and the quarrel developed over
which county's officials should have
the body. William Moore, father OF
the victim, took the body to his home
in st. Louis for burial.
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KILLED FOR sum OF MONEY
Examination of the Body of 'Spider
Hyde Found in Illinois River Gives
Evidence That He Was Killed and
Robbed by River Pirates.

That William F. Moore, formerly of
Kenosha, was the victim of river
pirates and that he was murdered and
robbed of $40 by the combers of the
beach who threw his body over board,
is the latest development found by
Chicago men investigating the death
of the former Kenoshan. In Kenosha
Moore was known as Spider Hyde, "
and the first reports indicated that he
had lost his life by going over the
falls at Beardstown, Ill.
Further information gathered by DR..
D. L. Hyde, cousin, 3941 living Park
boulevard, Chicago, and Harry Herd
man, of Chicago, with whom Moore
lived, developed the fact thai Moore
was murdered. About $40 he carried
with him was missing when the body
was taken from the river at Boards
town.
DR.. Hyde and Mr., Herdman are con-
fdent three occupants of the shanty
boats on the river between Peoria and
Beardstown killed Moore. Persons in
Beardstown said they saw three men
with Moore the night before when he
anchored his craft for the night. The
authorities at Beardstown are not in.
vestigating the case, according to
Mr.. Herdman.
Moore left Chicago last Tuesday
with two boats of his own construc-
tion. He was a mechanic, and made a
speciality of building marine machin-
cry.
A saloonkeeper at BeardsSown told
Mr.. Herdman that Moore, with a com
panion, was in the saloon at $3.50
'clock Thursday morning. They were
seeking information about the river
and did not buy anything. The com
panion was unknown to the saloon
keeper.
But the statement of the saloon
keeper do not agree with those of the
loekkeeper eleven miles below Boards
town and watch found on the body.
The lockkeeper said he was awakened
at about $3.50 O'Clock the same morn.
ing by cries of distress. The two
boats, unnamed, were coming down
the river.
The position of the boats was re-
versed. The launch was tagging be-
hind and the hydro-areoplane foated
ahead. The boats struck the dam; the
hydroaeroplane, drawing less wafer,
dropped over and the launch stuck. No
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-21
LITTLEsT REBEL A REAL HIT
Stirring Melodrana Of the Civil Wal
Time Plays to Large Crowds Here

Manager Rhode offered one of the
finest productions of the theatrical sea-
son at the Rhode on Sunday afternoon
and evening when the "Littlest Reb-
ell was presented by one of the best
companies seen IN the stage of the
Rhode during the present season. The
play itself is a story with a real heart
interest and the company of players
interpreting it was one so perfectly
cast for the parts that the production
proved a most charming one.
Marshall Farnum in the leading roll
was especially pleasing. The settings
were entirely in keeping with the story
of the play. The "Littlest Rebel, I"
is full Of thrilling situations and the
Rhode had more applause On Sunday
than has been heard in the theatre any
time during the season.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-21
Summary.

An examination Of the foregoing re-
port will establish the following facts:
l The water supply of the city of
Kenosha is polluted and is menace
to its citizens.
2 An extension of the intake will
not result in securing supply of a
satisfactory degree of purity.
3 Filtration will afford permanent
relief.
4 The pressure type of filters are
best adaptable to local conditions.
8 The installation Of filtration
plant will result in a remarkable fnan
cial return to the community on the
investment.
Our recommendations, therefore, are
that a mechanical filtration plant of
the pressure type be installed. Land
is already available of sufficient area
for the installation of this plant. We
are satlsned from our Investigations
that the total amount of money requir-
ed for the. construction of such a plant
will not exceed $4,000 and we
recommend that steps be taken for the
securing of a bond issue of this
amount SO that the work may go for
ward in tha nar1v Snrinp
Respectfully submitted,
James Filbin,
Aug. Kisten,
Herbert Thomey,
Jacob Rauen,
NJ. Greenwald,
august Baltzer,
J. J. McShane.
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Plants Visited.

The following filtration plants were
visited and inspected by your commit
tee:
Ashland, Wisconsin.
Moline, Illinois.
Telre Haute, Indiana.
South Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Naval Training Station, Lake Bluff,
Illinois.
OF the above plants, Ashland, Wis
consin and the Naval Training Station
are Of the slow sand filter type. Mo-
line, Illinois, and South Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, are of the mechanical
gravity type; and Terre Haute, Indi-
ana, of the mechanical pressure type.
Your committee was especially i'm
pressed with the plant at Terre Haute,
Indiana, as it seems to be the best
adapted for our local conditions at
Kenosha.
Gravity filters we find are generally
installed on waters of high turbidity
which requires preliminary sedimenta-
tion before same can be successfully
handled by the filter apparatus proper.
Such q gravity filter system naturally
requires double system of pumping;
that is to say, the water has first to
be lifted with low service pumps to
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-21

city of Troy, where the water supply
was not changed, there was no such
dimunition during the same period. =
Hazen. in his paper on sPurifcstion
Of Water in America, read at the
international Engineering Congress at
St. Louis, called attention to this same
fact, that after the change from an
impure to a pure supply of water the
general death rate of certain sommuni-
ties investigated fell by an amount
considerably greater than that result
ing from typhoid fever alone-indicat-
ing that certain other infectious dis
eases were reduced more than typhoid
fever, or that the general health tone
of the community had been improved.
Thus, for five cities where the water
supply had been radically improved
ne found:
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Deaths per
100000

Although there is a wide range in
the typhoid death rates shown in
these tables, nevertheless, there is a
very striking agreement in the per-
centage of typhoid death reduction
following filtration.
The fact that most of the American
plants given in the table deal with
river waters may suggest inquiry as to
what results might be expected in deal
ing with lake waters.
The filtration of supplies drawn
from the great lakes is not general,
nor of long enough duration to afford
statistics that are conclusive. L.
raine, Ohio, has lake supply. Thu
percentage reduction in typhoid death
rate following filtration is 70 per cent.
This is above the general average Of
the nine American cities given in the
table.
Statistics for the years from 1890
to 1896 show the typhoid fever death
rates for 100000 population TO be as
follows:
For Five Largest American Cities
on the great lakes ......... ~
For the Five Largest American
Cities on rivers ........... So
Statistics show that for each death
from typhoid, at least ten cases of the
disease usually occur and entail suf
fering and financial loss. Statistics
further show that for each life saved
from death by typhoid fever through
improvement of the water supply there
follows a further saving of from three
to four lives from other diseases.
DR.. Mclaughlin in his paper Of
March 5, gives the following compari.
son between the average typhoid
death rate in the principal European
cities:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-21
KENosHA MANS SONGS WIN.
Recent Publications by Will w. Can't
way Make Big Hit.

way MAKE Big hit.
Will w. Cantway, the young Keno
sha musician and writer, IS winning
an enviable reputation on his songs
which he has recently published. Dur
ing the past few days his Two latest
publications "With You in This Wide
Wide World" and "Days Of When
Sweet Sixteen" have been sung with
great success in Kenosha theatres and
other productions of the Kenosha writ
er are being featured by wsll known
singers in different parts of the
country. Among the best known of
the songs are "When They Fiddle
That Square Dance Tune" "Whe1
You Own Little Green Canoe" "No,
No, No." and Where My Heart is
Strong" Several of these pieces have
been on the market for some 1aonths
and they have met with large sale.
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Per
100000


Reduction in total death rate in
five cities with the introduction
of pure water supply ...... 440
Normal reduction due to general
improved sanitary conditions
computed from average of cities
similarly situated, but with no
radical change in water supply 1877
Difference, being decrease in death
rate attributable to change in
water supply .......... 800
Of this, the reduction in deaths
from typhoid fever was ...... II
Leaving deaths from other causes
attributable to change in water
supply $50. ............... 232
From these facts it is evident that
to place the financial loss to a COM
munity at $4,000 for each death from
typhoid fever due to the public water
supply is to use too low a figure. It
probably ought to be several times as
high; but recognizing the lower fnan-
eial value placed on the lives Of in.
fants, and the less serious character
of the other diseases, and wishing to
be as conservative as possible, for the
reason that typhoid fever is not en-
tirely a water borne disease, $4,000
per typhoid death is moderate es-
innate of the loss to the community. -
1t may be readily seen, therefore,
that regardless of sentiment, but con-
sidering merely the financial value of
a pure water to a community, that the
investment occasioned by filtration
plant cannot fail to yield remark
able dividend. M. Whipple has esti-
mated that at Lawrence, Mass, the
financial saving to the community oc-
casioned by the installation Of a pure
water supply was $3.50 per year per
capita, or $665,oO0 per year. At AL
bany, n. Y, $4.75 per capita per year,
or $4,000. Binghampton, N. Y,
$40 per capita per year, or 100000;
and at Watertown, N. Y, $500 zper
capita per year or $4,000 per year.
Illustrations like the above might be
multiplied, but the four cases are suf-
ficient to illustrate the general eff
feet. It is easily seen from them that
the filtration Of polluted public water
supply increases to very great ex-
tent the vital assets of a community;
and the increase, in most cases, is
many times greater than the cost OF
constructing and operating the works.
Money paid to the doctor, the
apothecary, and the undertaken is not,
in one sense, loss to a community,
as it is merely transference of money
from one mans pocket to another S,
but in the broader sense loss of pro-
ductive capacity or any unnecessary
expenditure is a loss. Deaths from
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-21

About the only ray of light in the
financial situation of the city is the
hope that it will not be necessary to
make very large levy for county tax
es this fall. The city pays sixty per
cent of the county tax and reduction
of only few thousand dollars would
be appreciated just at this time.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-21
Filtration of Water and it's Relation to
the Health of City.

The relation of sewage polluted
water supply to the typhoid death rate
is so well known that it seems un-
necessary to dwell upon it. The coir-
cident drop of typhoid fever in the
Improvement of water supply has been
observed in hundreds of instances
The following statistics relative to
typhoid fever death rates in nire
American cities before and after the
establishment of an improved water
supply cover a number of consecutive
years before and after the improved
supply, and are deemed consistent.
Reduction in typhoid death rate fol
lowing filtration of water srpply for
nine American cities:
Reduction
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-21

It might work to give the health de-
partment the problem of doing away
with the clouds of dust on Main street
and it might be done on the ground
that the dust is great disseminator
Of all kinds of eye troubles and catarr-
hal diseases.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-21
Deaths
per 100000
from typhoid
AUrrn Uofa fnvor
Deaths


Thirty-three principal
cities in Russia, Swe.
den, Norway, Aus,
tria- Hungary, Ger
many, Denmark,
France, Belgium,
Holland, England
Scotland and Ire
land y ....... 31,5O0,ooO 6.5
Fifty American cities
of 100000 inhabi
tants or over $500. 2O,25o,0OO $50
Excess of deaths from
typhoid fever in
American cities -. 1876
He further adds:
$50 that on an average in over
100000 population we had, compared
with European results, 1875 deaths and
at least $50 cases of typhoid fever
which should never have occurred. A
| conservative estimate for 1910 will
place the deaths from typhoid fever
above $4,000.
'tThe excess Of Is deaths per
100000 in the urban population alone
shows that we have had in the fifty
cities mentioned above, at least $500
deaths and probably $4,000 cases of
typhoid fever which Were preventable
and should never have occurred. For
the whole United States the number of
cases for each year preventable by
methods within our grasp would prob
ably reach $4,000 and the deaths so
avoided would be 1920. In 1909
there were more cases of typhoid fever
| in the United States than there were
cases of plague in India, in spite of
the fact that India s population is
two and one-half times that of the
United States"
George G. Whipple, a noted authori-
! ty on sanitation states Gin the Value
of Pure Water, page s. that consider
ing the number of cases in relation to
the number of deaths from typhoid
fever and taking into account the ex-
pense of medical treatment, nursing
and medicine, the loss of wages for
month or more, together with other
accounting, $4,000 is very moderate
estimate Of the financial loss to the
community sfrom typhoid fever for
each death from that disease.
He adds: "Typhoid fever is by no
means the only disease transmitted by
contaminated water. Dysentery and
various other diarrheal diseases pre-
cede it or follow in its train, and in
most instances these are probably due
Ss the same general sources of con-.
! tamination as those which caused the
typhoid fever, although, of course, to
different specific infections. The re-
duction Of the typhoid fever death
rate following the substitution Of
| pure water for a contaminated water
is often accompanied by a drop in the
death rate from other diseases Thus
if the five years before and after
! filtered water was introduced into Al
bany, n. Y, are compared, it will be
| seen that the reductions in deaths
from general diarrheal diseases and
| the deaths of children under FIVE years
| of age were much greater than in the
case of typhoid fever. There was al
SO a reduction in malaria, but this
probably represents faulty diagnosis
of typhoid fever cases before the in
PRODUCTION of filtered water rather
than a real reduction of malaria. That
the reduction Of infant mortality and
deaths from diarrheal diseases was not
due to other conditions seems probable,
from the fact taat in the neighbsssng
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-21
RECOMMENDS FILTER
Report of Special Committee
on Filtration Sent to
Council Today
PUT COST AT ABOUT S15O,OCO

( Committee Makes Lengthy Statement
in Regard to Conditions in Kenosha
and Shows Demand for Filtration if
Plrer Water is to be Secured.
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following filtration of water supply of
four European cities:
Ra6ucf1on
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-06-03

Carpets ana rugs thoroughly
cleaned by vacuum process, L. J..
Hope. Els State street. Tel. b44-J.
Also agent for American Steam
Laundry.
6O26-4-6-3t-wk-Sa- -Tu-Th. no.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-06-03
Y. M. G. A. CAMPAIGN
WILL COME TO CLOSE
AT7 O'CLOCK TONIGHT
Committee Expects 10 Report Nearly
$4,000 Raised by the 200 Work.
ers During the Past Nine Days.

With the meeting of the team
workers for the Y. M. c. A. at 7
o'clock tonight the nine days cam
paign for the raising of $35, 900
among the citizens of the city will
formally come to a. close. 1t is ex-
pected that the reports of the vari-
Gus captains will bring the total
amount up to nearly $4,000. 1t is
the sum needed for the erection of
the building from the industries.
Several addresses were made in
the churches yesterday furthering
the work
C. A. Green, General Secretary of
the Madison Y. NJ. C. A., spoke ct
the Danish M. e. church. He said:
Solomon said, Where there is no
vision the people perish and Joel
said Your young men shall see Wis
ions About seventy years ago that
young man, George Williams, had a
vision, the result OF which is the
greatest religious organization the
world has ever seen
To-day there are nearly million
young men banded together for mu-
tual helpfulness in the Y. M. C. A.
1t has the confidence and help
Of business men. Last year eighty
three new buildings were erected.
costing $6,7O7,0OO, one building
for every four and one-half days.
This year eighty-seven buildings to
cost $12, 100000 are to be erected
These buildings will be the homes of
many young men; there are now
over 10000 liVin , in dOrmitOries
"Most young men coming to the
city from the country cannot afford
to pay the prices asked for good
rooms, and must be content with
small and often cheerless rooms.
They naturally seek pleasant sur
roundings, and If there isn't an AS
sociation in the city the young men
are forced to go to saloons and 9th
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-06-03
PERTH AMBOY IS
4TH AMONG THE
CITIES OF STATE
From the NEWS Correspondent

(From the NEWS CorTespondent)
Washington, June 9:-Perth AM
boy ranked fourth among the cities
of New Jersey in the value of manu-
factured products in 1909, according
to the statistics of industries of the
state just issued by the Bureau Of
the Census of the Department OF
Commerce and Labor. Perth Amboy
is surpassed only by Newark, Jersey
City and Bayonne. Perth Amboy
has advanced from fifth place since
1904, displacing Paterson.
The following comparison or
figures shows how Perth Amboy has
grown: In 1899 the city had an
average number of wage earners of
zoos; In 1904, 1850; in 1909,
5,866. The value Of products in
1899 was s14,061, 1,072; in 1904 it
was $34,800,402; in 1909 1t was
s73,092,703. The figures since 1909
will not be obtainable until after
the next census Is taken, but 1t Is
generally admitted that at the pres
ent time the figures far exceed those
of 1909.
1t is interesting to note that New
Brunswick is twelfth in the list of
cities with an average number of
wage earners in 1909 of 6,264; and
with the value of her products for
that sane year at $10,004,802.
Newark has an average of ,955
wage earners in 1909 with q value
of products at s202,611, 1,520. Jersey
city Is second with an average Of
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-06-03

25,545 wage earners and a product
value of s128,774,9 1913. Bayonne
has an average number of 7,bl 2
wage earners and products are val
ued at s73, $40, 800.
Regarding the principal indus
tries which are Of interest to Perth
Amboy, the census bulletin says:
Smelling and refining, copper
Measured by value of products, the
industry was by far the most i'm
portant in the state in 1908, the
value Of the output, $125, 1851, 600,
representing II per cent. Of the total
value of all manufactured products,
and In this industry New Jersey
ranked first among the states in
1909, 1904, and 1899. From 1904
to 1909 the value of products in
creased $62, 1000, or 1901 per
cent, and from 1899 to 1904 the in
crease was $24,431, 900, or 63.7 per
cent.
Pottery, terra Gotta, and tire-clay
products-The name of New Jersey
is intimately associated with this
class of manufactures, and the state
held second rank among the states
in the industry at the censuses of
1909, 1904 and 1899. From 1904
to 1909 the average number of wage
earners increase 3.5 per cent. and
the value Of products 12.1 per cent,
the corresponding increases from
1899 to 1904 being 16,9 per cent.
and 81 per cent, respectively.
Continued on page ~
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-06-03
WILSON BOOM
GIVEN BOOST
Last Week Was an Encourage
ing One for the New
Jersey Governor.
SURE OF NOMINATION
Backers Believe Recent De-
velopments Have Made Him
Choice of Convention.
SURE OF NOMINATION
fFrom the NEWS correspondentJ

Trenton, June Ex-Governor Wood
row Wilson presidential stock advanced
many noin+e last week and his New
49,. /. oon,o+
S'J mana gers say i'o" '''''t nv
be beaten for the nomination. Inc
governor s overwhelming victory in this
state last Tuesday, his winning the
Minnesota delegates and his carrying
the Texas state convention, the three
victories giving HIM 88 votes, were the
main things which inspired the rise in
the Wilson stock. Another booster
to the Governors hopes was the strong
endorsement Of the New York World.
State Chairman Grosscup and National
Committeeman Robert S. Hudspeth both
said today that the governor was now
sure of 32S votes in the Baltimore con
vention, while Speaker Clark has only
29O.
Mayor Wittpenn. of Jersey City. to-
day voiced the sentiment Of the Will
son Democrats at the State House. lie
said: ''The result of the New Jersey
primaries has done more to boost Gov
ernor Wilson than a half dozen other
primaries. The result here has proved
how idle has been the talk about the
povernor's 8 weakness in his own state.
/ expect the governor will win the nom
ination easily.n
1t is expected that the Wilson dele
gates will be called together in this city
In few DAYS to plan for tho National
Convention. Former Judge Westcott, Of
Camden. one of the deiegates-at-large
and who probably will nominate the
Governor at Baltimore, has conferred
with the governor as to such meeting
and the governor thinks it should be
held. The work of the conference will
he TO select A chairman, vice chairman.
secretaries, the .ew Jersey member Of