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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-11-29

HOLIDAY NECKWEAR. In Both Store.
Neatly packed in boxes.
Embroidered Collar and Cuff Sets in large
variety of designs 25c, Soc, 75c and CSC each
Jabots of Fancy Net and Shadow Lace. 49,.
75c to 1.95
Bows OF Velvet in various designs and colors--
some with metallic decorations. SOC each
SUITS, COATS & DRESSES. In Both Store.
For Small Women and Misses.
Remaining Stock of Suits Greatly Reduced.
Made of Velveteen, Corduroy, Broadcoth and
Mixed Fabrics. reduced from $3.50. Z4.5O
Coats of Chinchilla, Heavy Cheviot and Mixed
Tweed. va.,.e $780, 1850
Accordion Plated Dancing Dresses Of Chiffon
over China Silk. value 1880. 1880
Tailored Skirts of Corduroy in plain two
toned effects 5.75
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Mems Suspenders, Csc

Any purchase boxed desired in holly decorated box
Subway Floor. New ewartB Building
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hildren's Shoes-Wanamaker's

is what many mother has written her Saturday Shopping
List We take infinite pains to fit with individual every
of the hundreds of pairs of small feet that every
day.
We really interested in seeing children property s.c
All styles, beginning with babys first soft 50,
Main Floor. New tcwu Euldiny
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Wanamaker Special Shoes
for Women, 81

Ask for them you really want special quality special style
and special assortmens
woman who wears Wanamaker Special may have the
duplicate many novelty shoes usually to be had only SO and
ST. instance the fashionable patent leather dull calf and
tan calf with fancy tops Another specially Of this par
tcuar kind of shoes patent dull leather shoe in dresy
model, yet having low heel.
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
FLOOD SITUATION
IN SOUTH SERIOUS
Rise in Mississippi Breaking
all Records. Fighting 10
Save levees.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New Orleans. - From Nlcksburg
Miss, south to New orleans, the Mis-
sissippi river is from half foot to
two and a half feet above any pre-.
vious stage.
An additional rise this week Of ap'
proximately one foot from New Or
leans north TO Baton Rouge Is pre-
dicted by the weather bureau.
Soundings male by United States
Army engineers show that this record
breaking volume of water In the big
river is moving at the rate Of ST. feet
second or approximately one mile
an hour faster than ever before re
corded in the MissIsippi's flood his
tory.
Danger points In the levee in Loulsi
ana are Baton Rouge, Bonnet Carre
% miles north OF New orleans Nor
rison, plaQuemine, ScottS Landing
Cypress Hall, New Roads and Third
District New Orleans.
Large sections OF 10 Louisiana par
Ishes west Of the Mississippi river are
under water; four other parishes have
some flood water and are bound 10
get more; approximately 100000 peo
pie In that territory have been driven
from their homes trains are taking
out hundreds Of families daily, fleets
Of motorboals and skIffs are being
used TO rescue marooncd people, about
a dozen lives all told have been sacrl
feed, principally because the people
refused to heed the warnings; several
hundred thousand dollars worth Of ra
tons have been distributed among the
refugees who are sheltered In all man
ner Of houses, from cabins 10 churches
and lodge buildings
Every day brings stories Of suffer
Ing and Of heroic roscucs; Of new sec
tions inundated by the waters from
the croyasscs In the loyccs Of the biz
river already made,
The funds that win be required to
care for The rctuglss, many Of them
for months, perhaps, cannot be oX
pressed IN fcw hundred thousand Of
dollars,
Lack Of labor, due largely to the
Wconcorn Of negroes who have beer
drawing government UDIons, has been
the most serious drawback Stringent
tactics have been forced upon The
otrlcol8 and planters, however and
Governor SANDERS ordered the Loulal
ana mOltN 10 round up 800 negroes
ana make them do work ON the leyoop
nt the point OF rifles II necessary Al
Baton Rouge reports came IN that
planters IN several instances were
compelled to corral negro laborerp ai
the point OF shotgunB
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
SYSTEM
Of us. ATTACKED
Statistics Given to Conference
Showing Magnitude OF
Child Labor.
Western Newspaper Union News Service

Western Newspaper Union News Service,
Minneapolis, MINI. Employment OF
children less than 10 years old in fac
tories and textile mills was denounced
at the general conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal church
To investigate charges that "in the
textile mills alone 100 Of baby hands
are lost yearly as a sacrifice to the
greed Of wealth." and to formulate an
appeal to all churches to fight for ma
tional legislation against child labor
n commission OF 10 ministers was ap
pointed, whose duty II will be TO go
thoroughly into the subject II was an
nounced that the 10000 ministers OF
the church would institute n vigorous
warfare against what was asserted to
be one OF the greatest OF modern evils
Bringing the matter before the con
ference In the form OF a resolution
Henry j. Coker OF Denver col, asked
for adoption OF the following:
THAT, we, representatives from the
whole earth, declare our utter con
demnation and most determined hos
tillty TO this shameful custom in our
own fair America, and respectfully
urge our churches, officials In state
and nation, both executive, judicial
and legislative, TO do their utmost to
abolish this great oyll from our ma
tIonal domain and the whole earth,
"In their greed fro gain employers
In this country have put about $500
600 children less than l6 years old In
mills, mines, factories and messenger
service" MIR, Cokor declared. 1Of the
10000 children In the textile mills
we are informed that 10000 are less
than l2 years old, and In those mills
yearly about 100 b0by hands ARE cut
Off by machinery In the glass fac,
tories there are 1900 children, In saw
mills 5000 and In cigar factories l2,,
600 children handle cigars at the rate
Of eight cents per thousand This II
nm appalling commentary on modern
civilization Who is II we hear cry
Ing In the stroot corners, suffer the
little children 20 come unto moT IN I,
Jcaus Christ or the greed for gain
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
ALARM SPREADING
OVER RIVER RISE
Southern Portion Of Stream Is
Feeling Brunt of Recent
Flood.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New Orleans.-Panicky conditions
prevailed throughout the flood threat.
ened territory along the Mississippi
river from the Red river and Bayou
des Glaise south to the gulf and in the
territory already stricken conditions
grow worse. The river continued to
rise rapidly at all points south of the
Red river. Telegraph and telephone
wires in the vast section west OF the
Mississippi river and Bayou des
Glaise to the Gulf Of Mexico were load.
ed with messages warning the people
to make preparations for any emer.
gency.
A flash went out from the town Of
Morganza saying that the big Morgan
"a levee, three miles east, had broken.
This bit Of alarming news, which later
proved untrue, or perhaps only prema'
ture, was IN every hamlet and town
south OF Morgan2a within few mimi
tes. The people were panlc.strIckon
IN that entire territory, The breaking
of the Morganza levee, As feet in
height, and one Of the largest river
protecting dykes in the world holding
back the greatest volume OF flood
waters In the history Of the lower
Mississippi. would spell utter ruin to
hundreds OF the finest sugar ana rico
plantations IN southern Louisiana,
would put hundreds OF big sawmllls
out Of com mission and inundoto moro
than 15 towns and small cities IN eight
or nine parishes.
A message from Highland Just
south of the big leyce, stated there
was considerable apprehension over the
situation, and a large force Is working
constantly TO seal up all evidences Of
erosion or caying, On the east side
Of the river 30 miles north Of Baton
Rouge, the protection leyec at Bayou
Sara went ont and the town Ia under
from eight 70 fifteen feet Of water
Several houses were swept away but
there was no loss OF lifc, Back Of The
town, line Of hills forced the flood
waters to return to the MiH9sHlppi
without doing damage
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
Pension Agreement Reached.

Washington.-- n.---Conferes OF both the
houses OF congress Of the general
eeryice pension bill reached an agree
ment on the basis OF the Senate bill,
Will some Increase Off advanced
fAge and length Of service. This action
igltaid 10 assure the enactment Of tho
goneral service bill into law
1he Increase grants SIS n month TO
eAch soldier 6G years old, who served
two and n half years, and Sl9 to those
who served three years Those 10
years old, who served one and half
year get $2ljO, two years $780, two
and a half years $2i three years,
$2b, Those Of rs years who served
one and half years get S27, two and
two and half years, $50,
N Is estimated that the increase IN
the governments pension expenditures
tor five years under the terms of the
Mcement will average $2j,0OO,000
onhually,
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
MesIehns Elro on aeIdIer.

m paso. The shooting Of Private
Baker Of the Twentysocond Infantry
whllo on border parlol duty WAS done
deliberately from ire Mexican side OF
lhc river according TO Col r. y, slee.
yer, who completed n thorough lnyes,
tipatlon, Baker was reclining on his
elbow near tho river bank when two
Noxicahs fired NJ him twice one bul.
10, shot of the so'dlcr'a fingers and
serapcd his foot Colonel Steeyct has
reported details Of the affair TO Wash,
ingteh,
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
Bryan VlsIts Washington.

Washington william Jcnnlnqa Bry.
an, Just returned from the South. Wis.
lted the capitol, conferred with Speak.
or champ clark ond with other Demo
cratic leaders and was focotloualy call.
cd 'Salm' by former Speaker Can.
non Mr. Bryan, dlaolaImlng that no
was on any political mission announc.
ed that he had discussed with Demo.
cratic leaders the bill to provide for
direct election Of United states sena.
tors, which hds been In conference
since last summer.
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
Claims 10 Have Fired Fist Shot,

Chattanooga "A special from bal.
ton, Ga, says Dan Carey, who claimed
70 have fired tho first shot Of the Clyll
war, died there recently Mr. Carey
was u mombor Of tho Charleston ca,
diets who volunteered their service
when the state eeceded and Mr. Carey
claimed to have been on picket duty
on Morris Island and fired the frat
shot on the star OF the Wcst' Tho
cadets then opened fire At thla alarm
ana the ninth shot struck the vessel
and II backed out 20 Bea,
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
Mexican Predicts Peace,

Washington Martinez Y. Crespo,
retiring Mexican Ambassador told of.
flclals he was confident from private
edyccs, that The rebellion In the
Southern republic wosld be sQuclchol
within two months At the most Ito
said the Mexican people wanted peace
and that their pride would lmpel them
to dlsIre restoration to the high place
they formerly held among LatIn'AmerI
can races,
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
ASKS FREE SEED AND AGENTS
3iII Before Congress Would Benefit
Flood Victims.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
iM Washington. The Committee on
Agriculture Of the house reported fav.
0rably the bill to appropriate $780,
0pO to supply seeds and services OF
special agents OF the Agricultural De-
partment to flood sufferers in the
Mississippi valley.
Congressman Goodwin OF Arkansas
and Ransdell of Louisiana were before
the committee to champion the meas.
ure, and were questioned as to the
conditions In the flood stricken area
They are confident Of favorable action
BY the house,
The bill proposes TO send special
agents from the demonstration divis.
ion OF the Department of Agriculture
70 advise the farmers as to handling
crops as in many places the water
will not recede in time for cotton
plnnting and other profitable crops
will be recommended and seed fur.
nbhed free through these agents.
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
Troops 20 Guard bitches,

b Washington One company OF the
Twelfth Infantry, which made propora
tIon to leave Monterey cal, for the
Mexican border, VIII divide Itself bc
tween Yuma, ArI2o and CaleSlco, Cal
The Imperial Valley irrigation cana
leaves American territory at Yuma and
se'urns at calcSco and It In probable
the troops will guard the works, II II
declared at the general staff hcod
quarters here that these were The
only troop movements which had been
ordered or are In contemplation.
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
'postoffIee Bill Passes.

MNashIngton. Tho postoffce appro.
prtn tIon bill, carrying approximately
- &Nt 100000, was passed by the house
u 2N TO ., The measure carried, In nd.
diNon to the appropriations necessary
Tor the conduct Of the department,
rlkH fcdcro aid for good roads, the com
j ne pu'tory publication by newspapers
mala2lnos and periodicals OF tho
e' o. nam Of their owners, and the cstab'
IRON unbmcnt Of parcels post In connoc
lmo' tloh with the rural free delivery ser
d" vior The good roads provision added
betweoh $4,000, ,OO0Nnd SlS,0OO0Oo to
'hheu the appropriation, and this amount. It
su~ 10 expected, will be materially in,
Nv" crensed In the next postoffco
MEASURE,
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11

oIrcuI, courtroom In tho courthouse
here on November go last year, win
be heard At star CITY, In the Lincoln
circuit court on september 10,
Judge Grace granted tho application
OF Attorneys Lewis Rboton and J, NJ,
Shaw, counsel 70, the defendants,
when their easee we're called, asking
change OF venue on the ground that
the sentiment In ths county wis no
atvng against tho accused men that
they could not got n tair and Impair
tlal trial In this city,
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
Contracts Are stopped.

Nashnglon- The failure OF con.
~ Al, krets to poes u resolution appropriate
on ne' ." .s F,'v,VVy lor ,ne reueI o' 'no rIoou
Merers along the Mississippi river
cacted the army to Instruct Major Nor
mosle, In charge Of the work ut Mem
Gid nv pa;s, 20 cease making contracts fof
s n wpplles, and prompted nc American
National Red Cross Society to issue a
one d seoohd urgent appeal for fu ds to take
up the work OF relief whes the army
tops Congress II being VI ked TO NO
llnA
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
NEWS Of CONGRESS.
Rivers and HarbOrS Bill Agreed
to by Committee Conveys
$8,OO0,000.
POSTOFfICE BILL PASSED
Favorable Report Given to House on
Measure to Distribute Free Seed
to Flood Sufferers.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
II. -. Dnn..n,.inl-rr y nc 1 n1 [

q Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-Con SS,O64,Ul0
sin addition to the appropriations pro-
vided by the house, the rivers and
harbors appropriation bill, aggregat-
ging $31, 1876 $50, has been agreed to by
8the Senate Committee on Commerce.
Hard will be reported in few days.
The bill authorizes surveys to deter
3mine the feasibility of navigation on
1.-THE St Francis river in Arkansas, and
survey for cooperative improvement
of San Juan porto Rico) harbor.
TGalargest single increase to the
house measufe was $2,5OO,OOO for the
NIississippi river, making $6,OOO,OOO
for that waterway,
The appropriation as increased by
#the Senate committee include:
8 Gulfport harbor, Mississippi, $780,"
boz.
Key West harbor, $4,000.
III Waterway between Brazos river and
Natagorda bay, Texas, $4,000.
W lulduu Mditl way .Nul lOlh W i'N'N'
fort, n. c., for dredge, 100000.
Cape Lookout harbor of refuge,
100000.
Cape Fear river, 100000.
The bill authorizes the appointment
cf board of three engineer officers to
examine Galveston harbor and chan
bel, Texas City harbor and channel
And the Port Boliyer harbor and chan.
nel, near Galveston, with a view Of
securing a depth of 35 feet, the nec-
essary cutting off of bends or widen
ing of channels in the neNechez
canal, Texas, and change of the route
Of the channel from Aransas Pass to
vavolla so as to pass by the town Of
PORT 0'COnnOr TpY
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11

S. Louis, Joseph Meyers, lOl
years old who lost slS chodren and a
chicken farm by floods, has started to
chicago institution OF charity with
five cents IN his pockets IT. declared
no would cover the distance afoot
Ancr the Galveston tidal wave had
killed his two sons and four daush.
ters, Meyer gathered what remained
Of hs $4,000 fortune aud started n
chicken farm at Hickman, Ky, A flood
there last month destroyed his chick,
ems, and everything elsc but u few
odds and ends,
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
rurkn Selln cAntAIn.

Athens, Notwithstanding the pro.
tests Of the American and Crock con.
suls the captain Of the steamship
Texas, which was blown up few days
ngo In the Gulf Of smyrna was forcl
bly removed from the Crock hospital
10 Turkish prison lnlIrmOry Tho
Turks oecuae him OF spying In llalya
behalf A large number Of passengers
and crew we're drowned when the TEX.
as sank An inquiry into the dlsastcr
showed that the Turkish forts fired a
number OF solid shots at the steamer,
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11

Judge, chief OF police and mayor po
lice Judge Archer declared the coun'
ell had acted without legal authority
and that ho would Ignore tho mayor
aud chief Of police,
The councils action was taken after
the Judges monthly report was read,
and showed that although SS7b IN fines
had been inflicted, the prisoners had
not worked out that amount on the
streets. The Judge had remitted the
fines OF number and this Ia tho
cause OF the trouble
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
M'VAY GETS CHANGE
win ne Tried In star city In sep,em.
Der Term OF Court.

western Newspaper unloa News Service
Pine hiuif The trai Oi Ed and
cullen Mevay, under indictment on a
frat degree murder charge In connee.
ton with the killing of !, w, Eth
ridge Of Fall Back, Nlea,, who WAS
shot Down AZ no was leaving the
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
OFFICIALS AT WAR
Police Judge Of Hot springs Resents
Action Of Council

Western Newspaper Union News Service,
lI0i Springs There are prospects
Of n war between the mayor chief OF
police and the police Judge, the two
former opposing the latter AZ a Sos
sion Of the city council resolution
was adopted creating n so"t OF par.
doning board composed Of the police
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11

Hot Springs H. 4. Hall, aged 30,
prosperous farmer residing near
Buckyile, was drowned In the ouachi.
IA river while on route 20 this city TO
meet hls mother, who has been visit
Ing friends here for tho past week,
Details were not learned. Hall ls sur
yIyod by hia wito and two children,
one son and ono daughter
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
DEEP WATERWAY RESOLUTION
II Desired Measure Passes Congress
Mississippi River VIII be Gateway.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. - Following is given
the resolution drawn up to be pre-,
sented to congress for the improve
ment of the Mississippi valley water
way. If the measures passes as desired
It will mean much to Arkansas and
Louisiana and other states.
The resolution is AS follows:
Whereas. The recent snd still pre-
vailing floods in the Mississippi river
of Unprecedented volume and desruc-
tive force rave overtopped or broken
many levees, causing loss of life and
sweeping away property in crops, live
stock and buildings of immense value,
the loss of which has brought distress
and ruin upon numbers of citizens of
the Mississippi valley; and
Whereas, This river is a navigable
water of the United States its control
rests as a moral responsibility upon
the government; and
Whereas, There is well consider
ed and fully matured plan for the con,
troll of this river from Cairo south to
the Gulf of Mexico which has been
adopted by the government and upon
which vast sums have alredy been
spent.
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
$8,0O0,o00 for LeVees.

Therefore, 1t is urged that the com
mission after having this work in
charge for the government be instruct
ed to redoube its efforts to carry the
priect to completion; and that the
work may not be hampered for lack OF
money it Is further urged that a con
tinuing appropriation of S8,OOO,OOO per
annum. or so much thereof as can be
wisely and successfully be expended
in revetting the banks and protecting
lands from overflow by building levees,
and deepening Of the channels by
removing sand bars and distractions
from the river be authorized by the
congress,
And, whereas, There has been no
project adopted for improving the
Mississippi river to a depth Of IA feet
between grafton and Cairo, Illinois,
an whereas a commission of engi'
neers is now in existence appointed
by the secretary Of war under provis'
ion of the bill Or, r. 206@, Pub. Doc.
264l to report on a waterway from
Lockport H., TO Cairo III; and
Whereas, There has been referred
to the said commission a project for
the Improvement Of the said river be-
tween the mouth Of the Illinois river
and Cairo, which project involves the
building of two dams with locks there.
in, upon which project no report has
yet been made.
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
Asks Early Report.

NSNe Gd''y Ncpo't
Therefore we pray that the secre.
tary Of war be urged to cause the said
commission to hasten its work and to
report upon the project referred to It
as above stated, giving their conclu-
sions as to its practicabilty and cost;
and
Whereas, The said commission has
made report on that section OF the
waterway between Lockport and Graf.
ton at the mouth Of the Illinois river;
and
Whereas, The governor OF Illinois,
o. behalf OF the people OF his state,
has protested to the president Of the
United States against the project
which the said board proposes for that
stretch OF the Illinois river between
Utica and Grafton; and
Whereas, The president Of the
United States did in his message to
Congress, transmitted December o.,
1911, ask that the report OF the said
board be referred back for reconsider.
alton, we urge that the sum Of 81 ,000,'
600 which was appropriated In 1910
be made Immediately available for
work IN the Illinois river and, in ad.
dition thereto, that n further sum OF
81 100000 be now appropriated for the
carrying on OF the work Of improving
the Illinois river and creating a.
foot waterway therein Of n width not
less than 200 feet, and
Relation 70 Panama Canal.
whereas, Tho Panama canal Is fast
approaching completion and will soon
be opened to the commerce Of the
world, and whereas, this highway OF
the nations should be rs fully avail
able TO the people OF the Ohio, Mis-
sIssIppI and Missouri valleys Ns TO any
other portion Of our common country;
and, whereas, the said Panama canal
can only become available to the said
valleys as the result Of improved
channels In the Mississippi river ond
the streams tributary thereto
Therefore we urge upon the con.
gross iis adoption OF project for n
waterway from the Great Lakes TO the
Gulf OF Mexico Of naylgable depth
not lcsa than II foot"
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11

pper, tin and
carriage and
ss and spring
remarkable in.
value Of prod.
I'd by manufac
OF 1904 to 1909.
- brick and tile
industries dc.
OF products and
nufacture, while
'iustry decreased
and the furniture
and carving IN.
value added by
The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11

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