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Evening journal., 1912-11-18
James Has a ''Hunch''
A True Want Ad storiette

James had "hunch" of what was
to hnppen
"Hunch' is a new word It is also
popular We used TO say that one
had a warning but that word is OBJ
solete nowadays, for 'hunch" is far
more expressive. II gives the idea Of
a sudden start, of a quick reversal
of thought and action. of instant ces-
sation OF the common routine Of
things of expectancy.
Yes. and there was still more that
James experienced as he opened his
pay envelope on Saturday night. The
printed slip WAS ominOus.
Owing to the present state Of
business uncertainty the firm has de-
cided 10 merge this department in de-
partment A, and IL therefore is oblig-
ed TO dismiss many OF its employees.
1T does this with regret and will give
any assistance in procuring other
positions that it can
Pretty decent, after all" thought
James. u suppose the business is on
its last legs They are pretty low on
business methods, and don't keep up
IN a lot of ways as they might"
The 'hunch" had come true. James
had watched the changing conditions
around him, and he felt inwardly and
outwardly that the days Of the +. &
w. Company were short.
Well, now that his "hunch" had in
deed come true. he must get busy and
find another job.
lie was a stranger in the city OF
a.. He had not been with the pres
ent company great while, and now
he must seek work among strangers
He talked with the manager OF the
company. When he left the Office he
carried with him several letters al
Introduction He followed these let
ters to their destination, and walked
out of several Offices during the mex
two days a disappointed man.
Business was bad. Every place wat
filled II was a hard time of year e
find his special line of work.
He walked from office TO Office an,
from place TO place until his las
spark of courage chased itself dole
fully about under his hat. and he sa
down on a park bench one day. thor
Oughly discouraged.
A man next TO him got up. stretch
ed himself lazily and passed him
newspaper.
James glanced it over carelessly
Finally his eye was attracted by thi
paNgraph:
WANTED-Foundry assistant,
Al man wanted 10 take COM
pleio charge of aluminium cast
ings. crank cases. transmission,
etc; must be able to produce
quality and quantity: give full
particulars in first letter or viii
not be considered. Address Foun-
dry Q Barker Bldg.
Again he was assailed By IN
'hunch' Il was his old line Of busi
ness and the Opportunity seemed I
open then and there. He cut out tn
paragraph. and the mex tday he ap
piled for the position. A few day
passed before he received an answer
but when he did it was a request 10
a personal interview. This Interview
resulted in his acceptance Of the pos
ton.
James declares he is not superst
tious. but that ii was the Want A
which started him on the road {
prosperity. for after he had tried ever
other method Of trying to find a place
the Want Ad was. after all, the ei
fcient and result-producing agent.
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nrArm 0F MRS. LEWIS.

Mrs. Mary A. Lewis, wife Of jacob
H. Lewis. died yesterday at her lone,
No. 4O7 East Fourth street. The fun
eral will take place from her late
residence on Wednesday at 30
o'clock. Interment viii be made in
Wilmington and Brandywine cems-
terry.
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ESCAPE FROM JAIL.
One Man Loses Finger When I'M
prOYised Ladder Falls.


ELKTON. Md, Nov. 1S-Three
young white men, who were arrested
during the past week on the charge Of
illegal freight-train riding on the Phil
adelphia, Baltimore and Washington
Railroad, and lodged in Elkton Jail
TO await hearings, escaped from the
prison Saturday night A fourth one
was seriously injured i'm attempting TO
escape. The men. who were not kept
closely confined, carried the bedsteads
from their cells and tied them together
with strips of blankets and, placing
the bedsteads against the 30-foot stone
wall surrounding the prison, used
them as a ladder TO scale the wall.
Three of the men succeeded in getting
over the wall. but the ladder fell with
the fourth one, sovering one of his
fingers and otherwise injuring him.
He was taken to the Union Hospital
for treatment
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MOOSE oN rHE INCREAsE..

Wilmington Lodge, No. 1874 Loyal
Order Of Moose, has a membership OF
over 900 members and it is expected
that the 1000 mark viii be reached
by January l. There will be a bic
initiation for the lodge on next Friday
evening.
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CARD oF THANKS

GARD OF THANKS.
Mr.. and Mrs Alexis Ackerman wish 20
thank their relatives and friends; also the
Musicians Onion and the Delaware Saengcr-
bund for the beautiful floral offerings during
their recent bereavement.
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and kept close watch to see that
the fire did not communicate with tha
companys main building. The com.
pany's building and stock destroyed
by the fire was insured Sklut how
ever, did not carry any insurance
Mr. Walthers' loss will reach S2500
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ONE WEEK Only.

Beginning November 10Th, We will
sell Solid Gold Front Gun Buttons for
Christmas gift Capitol Jewelrx Co.,
213 Market street telephone 5s25p.s :
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Mrs. Elizabeth Connell

Undertakes attendant aud professional
layer out of the dead 40. ffoi West Sec.
ond strect. j.. a A. phone. fot
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The larger picture shows one Of
the Montenegrin guns ON Maritzan hill
during duel between Fort Tarabos
and the MOntenegrin forces. The
smaller picture shows refugees from
the villages around Chorlu crowding
onto the trains leaving for CONSTANT
nople.
Evening journal., 1912-11-18
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL

BY The United Press.
NEW YORK, Nov 1S-Opening
weak, the stock market steadied some
what during the first fifteen minutes.
The market was dull. Governments
unchanged Other bonds quiet
c. I. Hudson & Co.. say:
we would not buy stocks except on
drives; let go on bulges The mar
ket may we'll work little higher"
r. d. Lackey & Co. say:
Barring any untoward decisions or
developments, prices should work
within narrow limits this week"
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TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

W ANTED-sOLICITOR FOR ATTo
w specially work Must furnish good
reference Address M-36. Evening Journal
nn-aa- nIa-ot
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FrER THIS DATE / WILL PAY NO
n bills unless CONTRACTED by myself Nil
ford b. Maihewsoni Ma 1905 Hutton street.
niS-Jt.
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DEATHS.

Henry Witsn.
James A. Sullivan.
Mary A. Lewis.
Frederick r. Barron.
Mary S. Woodward.
Mary Ann Hardcastle.
Alexander walls.
Frank B. Hughes.
James Crosby.
Ella Buker.
Helen Heckart Frazer.
James Z. Earner.
John j. Garvey.
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nlinistration I called on him in the
White House and recommended a
worthy yirginian for the position of
recorder of deeds in Washington. Mr..
Cleveland was very frank. Your friend
has strong backing, but I will appoint
negro democrat to the position in
question: said Mr.. Cleveland. You see,
the negroes in New York and Indiana,
states usually called doubtful, were
sufficiently strong in numbers to hold
the balance of power. A great many
of them voted for me and of course
1t is only right that I should give the
race some recognition. l find three or
four of the offices in the north already
held by negroes and I will appoint ne
gro democrats to those places
"one of the worst breaks Roosevelt
made when he was President was to
appoint DIR. crum, a negro, collector at
Charleston against strenuous protests
of the whites President Taft may think
that he can solidify the northern ne
groes by appointing negroes to ONCE
in the south, but if he carried out such
a policy it would be great olunoel
even from a political point OF Wow.
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Two Battleships or None

At a democratic caucus held on
Wednesday the House democrats by
a vote of 70 to 81 voted to stand by
their programme against the author
ization of any battleships in the pres
ent fiscal year. The Senate on the
other hand favors two sea fighters.
The vote of 70 to 81 was taken in the
caucus on the proposition to build
one ship as compromise with the
Senate. The House refuses for rea-
sons of economy to be a party to any
compromise.
The bill is in conference, having
passed the Senate containing a clause
authorizing the building of two bat
tleships. The Senate would accept a
proposition to build one, but stub
born contest between the two houses
has arisen. Majority Leader Under
wood favored the proposed compro-
mise, but when Congressman Burnett
moved to table the entire matter the
caucus stood firmly by its previous
decision against the building of even
a single battleship this year.
The subject will now have to be
fought out between the two houses
Messrs. Hobson and Taylor voted last
year in favor of authorizing the build
ing to two battleships. The two
houses disagree over this subject, ano
the pressure of hot weather is the
only thing that will bring them to
gether. What the result will be can,
not be foreseen.
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QUEER NAMES IN LONDON

From the Philadelphia inquirer.
In no place can stranger nomenclature
be found than in London. How. for ex-
ample, would you like Frying Pan alley
to appear at the head of your notepaper?
Yet there is such a thoroughfare in the
East End.
Until few weeks ago there existed IN
Camberwell Cut Throat lane. 1t was
changed, however, in Difference to the
wishes of local people, to .Cut Through
lane-quite another matter, though still
somewhat unusual.
PeclSham possesses Dog Kennel hill.
and among thoroughfares to the names
of which objection has been taken may
be mentioned Pickle Herring street, in
the southeast district, and its near neigh
bor Asylum road. In the city Beer lane.
Houndsditch and Idol lane have caused
some comment. Up west exception has
been taken to Duck lane and Gore road,
in the East End suggests bloodshed,
though unjustly SO. of course.
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TITANIC WIDOWS TRIP
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
I United by grief born of the catas-
trophe which rendered them each
~ widow within the same hour,
three of the most widely known of the
survivors of the Titanic disaster will this
week travel together to Bar Harbor. Me-,
IN the seclusion of a private car. seek
ing some surcease from the sorrow which
descended upon them in such sudden
and horrible form.
Mrs. John B. Thayer, the widowed mis-
tress of Redwood. Haverford, whose hus-
pand was one of the gallant band who
seood together as the ship sank that
the women and children might be saved,
VIII leave the suburbs over the New
York division of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, of which Mr.. Thayer was vice
president
After arriving in New York she will
go Immediately to the home of Mrs.
John Jacob Aston. whose husband also
perished as the Titanic sank from sight.
If Mrs. Astor's delicate health will per-
NIT, she. too, will board the Thayer pri-
vate car, and they will proceed thence
to Newport, where Mrs. George D. WIDE
ner. the third of the party will await
them.
From Newport, unless there is a change
in present plans, the trio will proceed as
quietly as possible to Bar Harbor. where,
at Four Acres, the summer home of
Mrs. A. j. Cassatt, widow of a former
president of the Pennsylvania railroad,
they will find retreat of peace and quiet
for several weeks.
Out of this bare announcement comes
the story of a three sided friendship
born In the stress of death, privation,
cold, hunger and suffering-the story of
a friendship that has grown to be among
the biggest things in each of the three
womens lives.
At the height of the panic attending
the announcement that the giant steamer
Was about to founder, these three wom-
en-, with others. found themselves in the
same lifeboat. drifting perilously near the
great hulk of the Titanic, and without
man to do the rowing.
Far up at the side rail of the vessel,
three husbands smiled bravely down,
shouted their last farewells, gave their
last instructions as to how those in the
lifeboat might land in safety. And as the
THAMES bow plunged downward it was
Mrs. John B. Thayer who grasped the
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AffIiction is enamour'd of thy parts,
And thou art welded TO calamity.
-Romeo and Juliet.
Bogus Dissolution

The dissolution of the National
Packing company and of the National
Car Line is not accepted seriously by
any we'll informed newspaper. 1t is
not considered a change in the meat
situation SO far as an unlawful COM
bination in restraint of trade on the
part of the big interests" is con-
cerned. The Swift company, the Ar
mour company and Morris & Co. will
work together in the future as they
have in the past. Twill it not be, !"
says the New York Journal of Com
merce, IAN easy matter for the three
great concerns which have been so
long associated together to have an
understanding and an active COM
munity of interest arrangement,
whereby things will go on very much
as before, so far as producers and con-
sumers are concerned? This may or
may not be so as maItef OF IacC,
but what safeguard will there be
against it? Will it be necessary to
wait and see, and then bring new
proceedings if the trust proves not
to have been really dissolved except
on paper, keeping the word of promise
to the ear and breaking it to the
hope?" -
These delusive dissolutions will go
on until the public fully ascertain
that the Sherman antitrust act is a
delusion, and then we will secure a
regulation of industrial corporations
very similar to the present excellent
regulation of railroads. This is the
true remedy for combinations that re-
late to the necessities of life, to say
the least The meat trust will re-
main a meat trust and combination
in restraint of trade until this is
done.
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oars ir the frail craft and took upon her
self the weary task of keeping the life
boat afioat. ~
Since that time the youthful widow Of
John Jacob Astor has said to her closest
friends that 1t was Mrs. Thayer who
saved her life. Mrs. Widener has con-
firmed the statement Mrs Thayer not
only stuck to the oars hour after hour
until the Carpathia arrived upon the
scene. to pick them all up exhausted. but
she stripped from her own back a heavy
fur coat that Mrs. Astor, whose condition
was regarded then as perilous, might be
sustained.
Few friendships rave been closer than
that of the three women for each other
in the months that have elapsed since
that memorable night. When Mrs. Thay-
err lay in her home victim of prostra-
ton, which threatened to sap all her re-
naming strength, Mrs. John Jacob Aston
was by her bedside
At intervals of not more than three
weeks Mrs. Aston has been visitor at
Redwood Mrs. Aston was one of the few
guests at the marriage of Miss Eleanor
Elkins widener to Fitz-Eugene Dixon
short time ago.
Though their meetings have almost in
evitahly been the commemoration of
terrible tragedy in the life of each, never
theless. their friends say, their greatest
comfort has been when with each other.
On the present trip Mrs. Thayer will
be accompanied by her four children.
John B. Thayer. Jr.. aged Is: Margaret.
aged Il; Pauline, aged 10. and Frederick
M. Thayer, aged 7, the youngest.
In recognition of the services he had
rendered, the Pennsylvania railroad sew
eral years ago gave to Mr.. Thayer a $780,
GOO private car, known as No. 120 for his
personal use. and for his family during
his lifetime. Upon his death the courtesy
was extended to the widow and family
during her life.
Whether the party will travel in No.
100. or whether the railroad will supply
some other private car for the trip has
not been decided, 1t was said at the COM
pany offices last night. There will be no
other guests, either upon the private car.
or at the Newport home of Mrs. Ellxins.
or at Four Acres in Bar Harbor.
There was some doubt yesterday as [,
whether Mrs. Astor's condition would per-
NIT of the journey, but she will join the
others II able. it is said, probably ac-
con'panied or followed by her physician.
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optimism in Bull Moose Convention

A lily white, and also black-and-
tan delegation, has been selected to
go from Alabama to the bull moose
convention in Chicago. The blacks
and-tan will contest the seats Of the
lily whites, and thus the old game of
contested seats will be renewed in the
Coliseum.
The negroes were ruled out alto
gether by the managers of the third
party, and this nettled them SO much
that they decided to select a delega-
ton of their own. The new party in
this state is therefore split into two
parts at the very outset.
J. o. Thompson told the mass con-
yention that Roosevelt would not only
be elected but that he would carry
some of the southern states. The
split on the color line did not dimin-
ish in the least Mr.. Thompson's opti-
mism. Chairman Perryman expressed
the opinion that both Alabama and
Georgia would be carried by Roose-
welt. Optimism could not further go.
It's sincerity is, however, of a doubt
full nature.
No negro was placed on the lily
white delegation. The race was
ignored when the list of delegates was
made up and the colonel will become
therefore the lily white candidate in
this state. This will not, however,
materially lessen his vote. Messrs.
Thompson and Perryman still think
the colonel can carry Alabama, re-
CARELESS of the postmasters of the
Taft party, and the democrats of
the state. Optimism is in fact the
chief feature of the bull moose cam
paign.
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NEW FRENCH TIME

From the Pathfinder.
All that about the ''witching hour of
midnight" and the clock being lust on
the stroke of 49, ETC., will now be obso-
lete among the French. Their midnight
hereafter will be called ''24 o'clock"
There will be no need of using the terms
"a. M" and "p. m" or saying u .'noon,''
etc. Each day will be reckoned from
what is now midnight, and the clock
will count the hours from to "a. The
hour hand in new clocks will go round
once day instead of twice. Those that
don't want to invest in new clocks can
have extra figures placed on the dial in
side the old ones, as a makeshift. Peo-
pie in Paris now do not go to the theatre
at p. M, but at 20 o'clock. Numerous
changes are required by the adoption Of
the new system. which went into effect
by law July l. For instance, new sets
of dating stamps had to be furnished to
every postoffice in France. with the nov
hours on them.
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ever, TO estimate its merits or de-

ever, TO estimate its merits or de-
merits.
Let us, however, congratulate the
people that the Senate committee on
postoffices and postroads has discov-
cred that public sentiment demands
parcels post. Senator Bourne is
chairman of the committee and Sen
ator Bankhead is a member of it. Be-
tween them they seem to have brought
the committee to a report that will
probably prove satisfactory as be-
ginning of a genuine parcels post.
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Parcels Post Before the Senate

The postoffice appropriation bill
has been reported in the Senate en-
bracing a parcels post system with
changes based on zones of distance.
This is a genuine surprise, for the
Senate was in the days of Senator
Platt and Senator Depew controlled
by the express companies and inter
locked railroads.
The House bill provided for a par
cells post on rural free delivery routes
only while the Senate seems inclined
to adopt the zone plan of Senator
Bourne That is to say, package
weighing up to II pounds would be
carried so miles at one rate and 100
miles at another rate. Until the As
ISOLATED Press presents the Senate
rlan in full it will be impossible, how
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Politics and business.

General business has been remarkably
brisk during the past few months, not
withstanding the fact that political agi-
tation has been of the sort that would
naturally brighten capital" said William
j. Northrup of New York.
II have witnessed many presidential
campaigns, but | recals only one that was
accompanied by more disturbing factors
than the one now pending. 1t may be that
some of the trusts need getting after,
but the political side of the trust probes
in Congress has been calculated to retard
trade.
II am not connected with the steel
trade, or any trust, but the most hurtful
thing that has happened Is the proposed
amendments of the Sherman act embod-
led In the bills agreed upon by the ma
jority of the Stanley committee in the
House of Representatives and yet, in
spite of 1t all. business seems to be
going along fairly well.
1.-THE regulation of the trusts similar
to the regulation of the interstate rail-
roads would doubtless be a good thing,
but the bills prepared by the Stanley
committee are entirely too revolutionary
They will never be enacted into law, and
because business interests have discount
ed the failure of the proposed measure
accounts for trade holding its own.
81 have an idea that after the cleo
tion-no matter who Is eleoted-this coun-
try will start on a genuine BOOM"
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a. 10 MIR. Thompson. successor

President Taft will make mistake
IL he appoints colored man collector
of internal revenue vice. Mr.. Thomp-
son, who will vacate the office" said a
well known citizen.
1T seems that DR.. U. G. Mason, col :
ored, has been slated for the place. I
know DIR. Mason and esteem him. He is
man of education and character. and
has proved himself an excellent citizen,
and one in whom his race should feel
proud.
Several years ago when an effort
was made by leading citizens to or
ganize a company to build a million
dollar hotel ] recall the fact that Dr.
Mason voluntarily subscribed $780, 1t
was highly commendable act on his
part because. on account of his color
he could never be guest in the hotel
which his money was to assist In
building. He subscribed $500 simply as
token of his public spirit. No colored
man in the south stands better than
DR.. Mason. and no one understands
better than he the necessity of the
color line in the south.
"A negro might hold federal po-
sition in the north where negroes arc
comparatively few in number and moi
cause much unfavorable comment, but
it is in the nature of things very diff
ferent in the south.
president Cleveland treated the ne.
gro question admirably in both admin.
istrations. He said to southern men il
substance this: 1t is a question of vita
interest to you people and l will no
Interfere with existing conditions. TIL.
few negro appointments I make viii
be in the north. l will appoint no ne
gro to office in the south