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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
Hugh Kenney Utilities Remnants
of Costly EmbIems.
FOR Forty-fve Years Brooklyn Man
Has Removed Discarded Wire
Frames From Cemeteries In
Gotham and Elsewhere.

New York.-More than $l.500.00 is
spent every year in Greater New York
city for floral emblems for funerals
and 1t is said that 100000 designs are
annually sent to the cemeteries. What
becomes of them? The flowers fade
and wither; the wind and rain help to
scatter broadcast the leaves and
petals, but the wire framework, the
moss and the tinfoil remain to litter
up the most carefully kept cemetery
unless they are disposed of after serv-
ing their purpose.
New York city is reputed to have
the most beautiful and best kept
cemeteries in the world, and II is be-
cause they are cleaned out frequently
and their aspect not marred by OBJ
1ectionable dumps of discarded floral
emblems.
For forty-five years Brooklyn man
has removed from the cemeteries the
discarded wire frames and their &C
cumlated debris and today. with the
assistance of his seven sens, he claims
not only all of those of South Orange
in New Jersey and Kenisco and Wood
lawn above New York city.
This man. Hugh Kenney, receives
no pay from the cemeteries for this
work. His teams or auto trucks call
at the cemeteries at regular intervals:
at the larger and better grades as
often as every three weeks, but at
the smaller cemeteries only once In
six months. From each cemetery he
removes from one to six wagon loads
of the discarded floral emblems and
takes them to his plant In Brooklyn
Here 80 men are employed. who
handle the refuse as 1t arrives. AS
wagon load after wagon load comes
from the cemeteries their contents are
dumped into the large vacant lot
which forms a part of the plant. and
the crew of men, armed with sharp
knives, pincers and wire cutters,
tackles the weatherbeaten, faded
pieces. and one by one they are strip
ped. The tinfoil and moss are rip.
ped away and the stems, natural and
artificial. are pulled from the moss
until the wire framework Is
cleared.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
GIRLS LIKE YANKEE HUSBANDS
Frauiein Mohlau the Latest to Show
Appreciation of Their Superior
Qualities.

Berlin.-Alliances between German
men of title and American girls dow
cred by Millionaire fathers have been
steadily increasing for forty years or
more. The supply of American heir
esses has, however, never been large
enough to meet the demand among the
poverty-strlcken aristocracy OF the
fatherland, so that of late years the
daughters of the wealthy bourgeoisie
have been accepted But in the mar
riage recently at Dusseldorf of Roy 8.
McElwee, formerly of indianapolis,
Ind, but now of Berlin, with Fraulein
Ellen Mohlau the world sees another
OF the rapidly multiplying illustrations
OF the modern tendency OF the Ger
man heiress to throw herself and her
fortune at the feet OF an American
husband.
The par value of the American hus-
band may keep on depreciating among
American girls who live In Europe.
but 1t is fact that the wealthy girls
among the middle classes of Germany
infinitely prefer an American man
even to scion of the most ancient
German nobility And 1t is interesting
to note that parental approval follows
their preference. The American has
the reputation OF making the best hus-
band He is more considerate and
more faithful to his marriage VOWS.
He does not isolate his middle-class
wife from her family and relatives as
the German aristocrat does.
Fraulein Mohlau's father, Adolph
is a wealthy manufacturer OF
Dusseldorf. a royal councillor of com.
merce and president of the Dusseldorf
chamber of commerce His daughter
s pretty and accomplished being an
excellent musician and an expert
lorsewoman. She is credited with
having had numerous opportunities to
marry German men of title.
Mr.. McElwee is the son OF Metho-
list minister of Indiana.
Mr.. McElwee returned to America
or course at Columbia university. 4
tut is now permanently established in
Berlin. He acted for while as rrt- |
'ate secretary TO Andrew D. White |
when Mr. White was ambassador to
Germany
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
0DDSC0TCH CHURCH
Greenock EdIflce at St. Andrews,
N. B., Erected IN 1924.
6uIIdIng ls Novelty In Construction
Y e oueerIy carved--Lias a Large
Double peckcd Pulpit Of Mahoq-
any--cost $500 In England.

Montreal.--At the quaint Canadian
town OF st. Andrews, N. b.. 70 miles
up the st. Croix river from Eastport.
Me-, Is a novelty in church construc.
ton. Greenock church was erected
In 1924. It's queerly carved and paint.
ed oak tree on the front OF the hell
tower can be seen from considerable
distance. Inside the church is a large
double-decked pulpit OF mahogany.
with sounding-board on top and two
fights of steps reaching the preach.
er's stand. II is protected with gates
land an Enclosure OF red curtains. II
was brought out from England at
cost of $500.
At the time this Scotch church was
erected the town was prosperous and
the donor expected his congregation TO
pay yearly dues or taxes, but 1t is
related that they neglected to attend to
this. The story goes that one Sunday
morning the donor mounted the pulpit
and faced a large congregation; that
he displayed brace of loaded pistols
which he fred into the air, and the
frightened people rushed to their
homes. The donor closed the church.
pocketed the key. and said that when
the churchgoers paid their dues they
might have the church again.
The walls and the center OF the
church show decorations OF large
sized Scotch thistles, handsomely
painted and carved. There is heavy
old-fashioned lock on the front door
and the massive, quantity shaped iron
key Is kept in wooden box on the |
ground near the entrance. where any |
visitor can find It and visit the church
It all times.
The church is less than two miles
IN the st. Croix river from where the
world-famed Dement'S island is To-
'ated and where the celebrated French
Explorer Demont and his companion
,hamplain made settlement in June.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
QUEEN ALExANDRA's CHARITY
British Home and Hospital at streat
ham Now lnadequate, Owing to
Her Majesty's Efforts.

Queen Alexandra of England has q
pet charity in the British Home and
Hospital for Incurables at Streatham.
Founded in 1861. the institution soon
became totally inadequate to care for
the enormous number Of cases which
came under its province.
In 1868, however. according to the
Bystander. Queen Alexandra. then
princes OF Wales, became a liberal
supporter. Through her donations
and the influence of her patronage
funds poured into the hospital until
1t gained sound financial basis. For
many years it was situated In Clap
ham road. but in 1894 the buildings be-
came so crowded that new quarters
we're sought at streatham. The pres
ent building cost in the neighborhood
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
MOSCOW PUPILS BIG DRINKERS
Reports Show o6 Per Cent Of Boys
and As Per Cent Of Girls Use
lntoxicants.

MISUNDERSTANDING to official re-
ports prepared by the Moscow town
council. inebrioty is rapidly increasing
among Russian school children gen.
orally, but particularly In the Moscow
district. inquiries show that 80 per
cent Of the adults addicted to drink
acquired the habit while at school, and
OF 1874 schoolboys between the ages
OF eight and thirteen. In the Moscow
district, 1882, or GO per cent. have
taken to drink. The percentage
among girls of the same ages Is
scarcely less appalling. 4.7sa out Of
10.404. or As ner cent
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
WHERE is BATTING HEINE?
tate to Split Up and Cub Hero
Isn't Mentioned.

Kansas City, Mo.-Hundreds of let
tiers from Zimmermans In all parts Of
the United States who seek to share In
the 100000 estate of ]. X. thinner
man, formly cattleman of Waco,
Tex, have been received by Judge ].
e. Guinotte of the Kansas City pro-
bate court.
Mr.. Zimmerman. bachelor, died in
testate in Excelsior Springs, Mo-, on
October 6. s. B. Strother and F. P.
Neal, administrators of the estate,
also received flood of letters.
To date the administrators have
listed twenty-seven heirs who claim
part Of the estate. They are investi-
eating the claims of scores OF others.
The estate is to be divided among me-
phews and nieces of the deceased. It
consists entirely of notes secured by
real estate and chatteIs.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06

Then" she said. you force me to
order your arrest for contempt OF
court. You have shown the bench I'M
mistakable contempt in open court
and as sentence you must pay $50
or remain one day in Jail. Which do
you choose?"
The marshal scowled until his black
eyebrows met But he answered In
voice hoarse with passion:
PAY $50! Well. guess not See
you"
That is why the marshal OF DAILY
City came to be arrested and that Is
why things have gone more smooth
ly In the courtroom of the first WON
an Justice.
Six months ago Judge Jess was
stenographer In the office Of promi-
nent San Francisco attorney. She
lived In DAILY City.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
John D. Is Busy at Golf.

Tarrytown. N Y.-John D. Rookie
feller is making the most OF his spare
time. playing golf every morning and
taking long automobile rides every az
ternoon. Week days he drives his
car around to the North Tarrytown
high school each afternoon and in
vites four or five of the teachers for
a ride. He takes them up through his
estate and tells them some of his
plans for identifying the place The
drives generally last about two hours.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
kAIsER's SHAFT IN TURK cIry
Monument at constantInople n Made
Of Fine Mosaic, and ls surrounded
by Enclosure TO Prevent Theft.

Constantlnople- The kaiser's monu-
ment IN this city was for several years
surrounded BY o strong enclosure to-
discount the possibility Of any persons
or persons with burglarious intent
stealing the fine mosaics with which
the fountain Is richly embelIished.
Lately. however. the enclosure has
been removed, an innovation which IT,
much welcomed by the inhabitants
of the city. as the monument is one
OF the best fountains In Stamboul-
yielding the so-calied pure "sultan's
water" Several stones Of the Mosaic
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
FISH BITES INFECT HANDS;
Ex-senator Receives Them While Dis
engaging Trout From Hook In
Its Mouth.

Vancouver. Wash.-Bitten by a.
large rainbow trout. ex-senator e. NJ.
Rands of this city is suffering much
from an infection on his hands.
Senator Rands was fishing at Inter-
laken, or Four Lakes. on the North
Bank road, where he Is one of several
incorporators of private fish and
game preserve. He succeeded in land.
ing large rainbow trout and when
he attempted to release the hook in.
its mouth, the fish closed It's Jaws
on the senator's fingers and punctured
the skin.
In trying TO release his fingers Mr..
Rands used his right hand and was
also pricked on that member Infec-
ton set in and now Mr.. Rands is
going around with both hands in band
ages.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
CARING FOR GRAVES

The wire frames are then scraped
with wire brushes, bent and twisted
back into their original shapes and
dipped into an immense tank OF ben.
zine to cleanse them. AS they emerge
from the benzine bath, bright and
clean. they receive their final treat
ment. dip into tank of green paint,
and then are once more ready for the
market and are resold to the flor
lists.
All Of the refuse that comes from
the frames is cremated. A crematory
Of the Colorex type, burning liquid oil,
is maintained on the premises for this
purpose Some of the wire frames are
so badly bent and twisted that they
are beyond repair, and these are
thrown into dump heap in the rear
of the lot. Four tons OF the wire
refuse accumulates monthly and the
material is carted to one Of the big
iron foundries in Kings county and
there transformed into sash weights
for windows
or the 100000 floral designs that
are used at funerals in New York
every year, there are about 1900 diff
ferent styles and sizes. ranging all
the way from the simple wreath, or
cross. for probably one dollar COM
plete. to miniature locomotive and
tender. AZ inches long.
The working materials that are used
extensively in the manufacture of the
funeral emblems. besides the wire
frames. are moss, toothpicks, butch
ers' skewers, tinfoil and white
pigeons.
In addition to the millions of flowers
used every year on funeral designs
there is large demand for white
doves" emblematic OF purity. For
these doves pure white pigeons are
substituted. Sometimes the market
goes shy. for the pigeons feathers
must be pure white, without a trace
of color. The hotels, clubs and res.
taurants get the meat for squads, and
quail orders" and the tax
idermist gets the skin and the feath.
ers.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
CITY BEslEGED MANY TIMES
constsntInople Has Been Under
Turkish Rule for Five
Centuries.

constantinople. :. The history Of.
Constantinople was said years ago to.
be chiefly a record Of sieges. Put on
the map by Constantine the Great in
$50. II withstood It's first siege CEN
fury later. II was threatened by the
Huns In $50. by the Huns and Slavs
in the next century. and by the Per
slams and Avars In 626. Thrice the
Arabs assailed Il. Four times the
Russians were driven back from its
walls, and It fell before the Turks only
after the second expedition made In
the fifteenth century. In most OF its
many sieges 1t drove back the enemy
1t was entered on only three occa-
sions.
Since It has been under Turkish
control the city has been threatened
only four times-once by the COM
bined Russian and English fleets in
ITO; a second time by British
squadron in 1907; the third time by
the Russian army OF liberation in
1877, when hasty peace stopped the
czar's advance, and the fourth time
by the Bulgarian forces today.
For eleven hundred years Constan-
tinople was one OF the important
cities of Christendom. For less than
FIVE centuries II has been under the
crescent. II would be an historic event
II the Bulgarians, as they have pre-
dicted, could sing TIE Deum In the
great mosque OF st. Sophia. which
once was Christian church.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
WOMAN ON BENCH
Justice, DAILY City, Cal, Teaches
Marshal a Lesson.
Had OFFICER Jailed for contemps Of
court-six Months She Was
stenoGrspher for = Prominent
San francisco Attorney.


DAILY city. cal.--"Arrest him To-
contempt OF COURT" The order cam,
from slender young woman, some
what excited. It is true. who had jus
arisen from her seat on the bench. TIL.
him" In question represented sia
feet OF indignant official manhood
glowering at her
Arrest him." she commanded again
i can't" stammered deputy con
stable to whom the words were adj
dressed as he looked covertiy at the
bulk OF his prisoner to be. You see
I've just resigned"
Then I'll take him to Jail myself"
announced the girl And she would
have done It In all probability If she
had had to. but 1t wasn't necessary.
At any rate, Miss Jess won that
fight as she has won others In the
courtroom and elsewhere. and has be-
come figure in the affairs of her
home community and In the state. 1t
happened this way: There is no long
er a bar to women holding office In
California, and In due time Miss Jess
was appointed city recorder of DAILY
City. across the San Mateo county
line. Now the Office carries with 1t the
duties and powers Of a justice and
Miss Jess found herself suddenly the
arbiter of the minor legal and Grim
Inal difficulties OF the place
There were men in DAILY City. how
ever, who felt that IT was not just the
thing to be bossed by woman. and
among them was the marshal.
With the lawyers II soon became an
other story. To one she remarked
candidly: III you don't know the law
you had better learn something about
It before you appear in courtroom
sacred to its usages." After that they
let her alone.
With the marshal and certain other
officials 1t was different. He had been
ordered to act promptly In a case in
which a Civil war veteran had been
swindled out Of his savings, The mar
shall had been given the warrant, but
he loitered and the culprit remained
free. Thea Judge Jess summoned him
before her.
why haven't you served the war.
rant on this man Simpkins?" coldly
Intercepted the girlish Judge.
Cant find him around here" the
marshal muttered angrily.
You haven't been making any very
strenuous effort that can see," re-
sponded Judge Jess acutely. why
cont you go to San Francisco and ap-
prehend him there?"
The marshal stood at bay. I'm not
going to San Francisco to find him."
he uttered finally. the veins in his
forehead working with volcanic wrath.
IF you want him you can send the
sheriff of San Mateo county for him.
] haven't time to go on such chases.
anyhow"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06

of f27.0oO. which was subscribed by
the public.
The beneficiaries in the home are
all persons of what the British term
the middle classes-persons who
shrink from charity and who prefer
death to life in paupers' home.
They are known as guests Of the In
stitution. and their number includes
university graduates. army and navy
officers, members of the medical and
legal professions.
A new wing is being added to the
hospital. which is to be called the
Queen Alexandra wing. by permission
of the queen.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
Insane Woman Leaps to Death.

Boston.-Mrs. Lizzie Fee. wealthy
woman. while suffering from the
hallucination that she was being pur.
sued by burglars. desperately attacked
and seriously wounded three women
attendants in her house An over
turned lamp fred the building and
Mrs. Fee jumped to death from win
dow on the top floor. clutching her
boarded wealth In her banda
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
THIEVES AHEAD TWO TO ONE
London shopkeepers Give suffragettes
Window Smashing score-Women
Are Still at II.

London.-The window smashing
campaign inaugurated by the suffra-
gettes continues merrily. Although
1t is a serious matter to the shop
keepers. some of them manage to
keep up their spirits during the ordeal
A we'll known cigarette shop in
Bond street which has had the mis-
fortune to suffer window breaking by
burglars as we'll as by suffragettes
shows the following sporting notice
in its window:
Our window has again been broken
by burglars. The score now is
Burglars 2. Suffragettes l. Burglars
are leading by one point"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
chIcaeo Girl Rides porpolse.

Los Angeles.-Miss Caroline Kim
bell. recently from Chicago, believes
in sea serpents. She tainted in the
surf after being carried several feet
on the back of large playful porpoise
Regaining consciousness. she declared
she never would attempt surf bathing
again.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
WAR BOOSTS COST OF EGGS
Price Is Already 81 Case Higher In
Austria and May Increase
More.

Vienna.--As result of the Balkan
war there is an egg famine in Vienna.
Many cities in austria and Germany
get their supplies of eggs from Bull
garia and Servia- This source being
cut off now, eggs have already jumped
81 case and will go higher.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06
Man. %. rakes Iona Ride.

Hot Springs. VA horseback ride,
possibly the longest on record for
man Of his years. was taken by Fred
erick Aver, Of Boston. aged ninety
two. The distance covered was "a
miles.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-01-06

President Taft the other day pre-
sented the medal of honor to five
young army officers for bravery under
nre. The recipients were Capt. Julian
GauJot Capt. Archie Miller, Lieut. A.
n. Wilson, Lieut.. J. t. Kennedy and
Quartermaster Sergeant Joseph Hen.
derson. Captain Gaujot earned his
medal at Douglas. Ariz. and the 9th.
ers In the Philippines.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-10-30

Theo. Jensen drove out to the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
P L Jensen, in the town of Mar
tell, Tuesday evening to assist in
the care of his mother, who had the
misfortune to break her right limb
that afternoon jumping from a car
riage when the horses became un-
manageable and ran away.
Mrs. Dena Perkins, formerly Of
this city, has sent word from Min
neapolis that she has received her
insurance for total disability, from
blindness, from the Beaver Lodge.
and that she wishes to thank the
members of the River Falls Colony,
No. 1874, for their kind efforts in
her behalf, and to assure them that
their kindness is heartily appreci-
ated and will always be remember
ed by her.
Several auto loads of young men
from New Richmond drove down to
attend the River Falls-Superior
football game last Friday. Brown,
of the local team, and Brickley, of
Superior, were both former stars on
the New Richmond high school
eleven. There were also a number
of cars down from Hudson, Dickie
and Nelson, of the local team rep
resepting that city in the game,
Ellsworth, Beldenville and Roberts
also had few rooters on the side
lines, watching the play Of "favorite
sons"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-10-30
SWEDISH MISSION

Sunday Nov. 2 Morning SER
vice in the Mann Valley church at
1890. Afternoon service in the
city church at 2 80.
Mid week service in the Mann
Valley church on Wednesday even
ing at s o'clock and in the city
church on Thursday evening at 1890.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Mann Valley church will hold its
meeting at the home of Mrs. Nels
Larson next Tuesday afternoon
Nov. ~, at ego All ladies are
ordially invited.
Our conference was we'll at
tended one and blessed one, for
which we are thankful to God. The
sale which we had last Saturday af-
ternoon in the city church was also
a success. Thanks to all who con-
tributed to the same.
You, who are Scandinavians and
have not as yet been with us at our
services, we invite you to come.
A. w. NoRDEEN, Pastor.