The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-02-14
More Fires In 1912.

H'- NHt year WAS Ab,h0o, against lao q
in 1911. However. the loss 10y fire was
comparatively smaller in 1912 than I'm
the year before. During the first half
OF the year the number of tenement
house fires was unusually great, but
after the beginning of the investiga-
ton of the conspiracy of the arson
trust there was a marked decrease in
the number Of incCndiary fires This
seems TO Indicate that the suspicious
of the authorities as To the cause Of
many of the tenement house fires were
well founded.
After Men Higher Up"
The confessions of Fox. the police
man who pleaded To bribery few days
ago. are likely to lead to further sensa-
tional disclosures concerning the graft
system i'm the New York police depart
ment. So far only the minor graftcrs
have been exposed, but IL seems now
probable that ii will he possible for
the district attorney To obtain evil
men higher up
otock exchange reforming,
Some people are inclined to believe
that the Millennium can't he far of,
now that the New York Stock En-
change has not only joined the reform
reform itself. The most radical reform
movement ever inaugurated by the
Stock Exchange was the passage the
other day of a new rule 10y the Gov
Crning Committee, furbidding hctiti-
GUS transactions 10y members of the
exchange. This rule, which became 4
law Immediately. refers especially to
the practice of juggling the market by
means of matched orders which in
Volvc no actual sales and real change
OF ownership of securities but are ar
ranged merely for the sale of manipu-
lating the quotations of the securities
involved
Are Unusual Citizens.
The city of Eonkers can boast OF
the proud distinction of having six
residents who object to being overpaid
for public service. These citizens We're
commissions. After viewing the land
they fixed the nominal damages and
filed their reports The Board of Is-
innate and Apportionment decided up
on the sum of 800 each for their fees.
But the six men concluded that as they
had devoted only about eight hours of
work To thcii duties. 500 was too
much compensation and they appealed
10 the mayor toIhavc the compensation
reduced to s25 each. Now The Su-
premc Court will be asked to fix the
proper fee.
Only tho Labels Imported.
The National Ladies' Tailors ANA
Dressmakers' association has begun 4,
determined war against the practice of
cheating American purchasers of gar
mcnts by attaching To the latter labels
bearing the name and address of some
Paris establishment. 1t is said that
such labels are imported from Paris
IN large quantities and that in many
cases the label is the only part of a
garment alleged to have been imported
from Paris. that really did come from
that city.
A Man OF Courage.
Isidor Steinberg. Russian jew. was
sentenced to an indefinite term in the
penitentiary the other day, after hc
had pleaded guilty to the charge of
bieamy. His lawyer made a plea for
clemency upon the ground that Stein
berg's first wife had induced him to
marry the second wife. because she
wished to return to Russia and cx-
pected to obtain the necessary funds
from the dowry of wife No. =. The
Judge. however, promptly cut short
the pleading and Informed the lawyer
that the court had evidence Of the fact
that the prisoner had not merely two
but actually four wives. one of them
In Russia. the other three living In
New York city.
Some Letter This.
There Is man in the employ If
| the Westinghouse Electric company
who has "A very low opinion of the par
GELS post system recently installed in
| the United States. When he arrived
| here from Pittsburgh ~ few days ago
he found he had forgotten travelling
bag I'm the Pittsburgh office of his
company. Having heard a great deal
about The advantages of the parcel
post. he telegraphed to the Pittsburgh
Office asking to have his bag sent to
him by parcels post. The bag arrived
In good order, but It's owner was
greatly chagrined when he learned
that he would have to pay $40 post
age due in addition to the Ga cents
parcels postage which had been af.
iiXed to the bag In Pittsburgh. The
bag having been locked. was not mall
able as parcel but only as letter
ana as such had to pay letter postage
suppose said the owner as he
counted out the money, that If the
l bag had strap around IN. the postal