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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-28
GIVES $4,000 IN TIPS
IN 20 YEARS ON THE ROAD

II any travelling salesman snoulu
have the audacity to place this item in
his expense account his employers
doubtless would take immediate steps
to have him transferred to a padded
cell.
But that is exactly the sum exacted
from one travelling salesman by the in
dustrious collectors Of gratuities dur
ing the period he was on the road. It
took the hotel underlings, railway help
and barber shop employees 20 years to
separate him from this fortune, but
today they have the money and the
former traveller has retired with the
experience.
G. A. Lorenzen, a cigar dealer al
Ala East Sixty-third street, Chicago,
related HIS experience with the horde
OF tip collectors who hound the travel
ing public, particularly statesmen, from
morning until night.
During the period that he was on
the road-20 years in all-he averaged
not under SIS a month in tips. The
total for that number of years was
$4,000 This is cited as a typical eX-
perience and one Of the reasons why
the state of Texas has made the Civ
ing and accepting Of tips an offense
for which a fine OF $50 may be imposed.
Here is the way the tip collectors
get in their work on a twenty-four
trip from Chicago to Milwaukee. &C
cording to Mr.. Lorenzen's notebook:
TO porter who handles trunk in
Chicago ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. "a
To porter handling grip at depot 10
To Pullman car porter ........ .25
Bellboy who takes guest TO room 10
/ Porter who handles trunk ....... .25
Head porter ton leaving ...... %
4 Tips for three meals (average).. IA
Barber ............-....... .lt
Boy who brushes coat in barber
shop Observation-Disclosures. 0;
Boy who takes clothes 10 presser II
/ Tips for services not scheduled
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 81. 81
The items mentioned are those thai
are demanded OF every travelling sales
man who carries a trunk with him
If he expects 10 cover the same terri
tory the second time he must pay tn
regulation extortioa or be blackliste,
on his return trip. II blackIisted HI
finds that his troubles are increased
to such an extent that he cannot maxi
train connections or get service a
hotels.
"Of course. some statesmen pay thes
tips as a matter of course ahd do no
feel il because they are allowed sucl
liberal expense accounts" said Nj
Lorenzen There are others. howey
err who work on salary or commission
and pay their own expenses. To thes
q matter cf SIS a month is a hardshi
and many men are driven from tn
, road simply because Of the exactioa
, of these tip collectors The none
! given in tips is just the difference be
/ tween making a good living wage an
, making too little 10 live on.
Il always have accepted the tippin
, evil among the other evils that COZ
front one who is accustomed TO trave
ing. But ! realized then and sti
realize that il is a form Of graft tina
5 should not be tolerated and that III
= time is coming when it will be wipe
out by legislation. as is already tn
) case in Texas"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-28

Chicago garment workers are pre-
pairing to hold a mass meeting this
week to raise funds for the New York
garment workers. who are on strike.
It will be held az the West Side Au-
ditorium on a date TO be announced.
Talk OF strike among the local gar
ment workers has died out because
all the contra cJors. it is said have re-
fused 10 take work from New York.
Those that had been doing the work
sent II back last week. At a meeting
/ yesterday Of representatives OF the
various unions affected. the sentiment
expressed was that the task of pre-
venting New York work being done in
Chicago was ehded and not likely to
come up again. Every effort will now
be made to collect funds for the east.
ern strikers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-28

BOARD OF TRADE TRANSACTIONS
Wheat
May, 92as. 92s4. 921s, 92ts.
July, 80, 9O14, 40, 9o54.
September, SS5s, SS7s, SS5s, SS34.
Corn.
May, 519s, 5124, Sis, 51A.
July, 52I4, 52as, SIS, 521s.
September, 5314, 594, 527s, 53B.
Oats.
May, 33al. 1875, 1895, 38A
July, 1894, 1875, 1855, 337s.
September, 1885, 1894, 331a, 1875.
Pork.
January, 1917, 1917, 1917, 1917.
May. 19.47. 1850, 1890, 1887.
Lard.
January, closed 1927.
May. 1910, 1910, 1890, 1890.
Ribs.
January, 1890. 1890, 1870, 1880.
May, 1912, 1912. 1890, 1882.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-28

President James O'Connell Of the
metal trade department Of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor has devised
plan TO organize certain cities. and
it has been Endorsed by the interna-
! tional unions affiliated with the de
partment Each of the international
unions will appoint an organizer who
will report to President O'Connell. He
has selected Erie, Pa, as the first city
to organize. He will have ten assis-
tants, who are instructed 10 follow his
instructions. This is a new plan of
organization and the labor officials
believe it will be successful.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-28
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
OPENING of Market.

Hogs 10000; &c higher than yester-
day: left over 1883 Light 1904
1921, mixed 7.30d765, heavy 7.20q
7G5, rough 7.20a7.35.
Cattle 5000; slow.
Sheep 10000; 20c TO 4Oc lower than
Saturday
Nine O'clock Market
Hogs strong; sc to 10c higher Light
7.35a765. bulk T.5Oa765. mixed 7.35
qz671z, pigs 5.75d740. heavy 7.2OQ
TO. good 7.40G7.70, rough 7.20d74O,
Workers 1907 7.65.
Cattle slow aad steady. Beeyes 600
$500, stockers 4.S0GT45. Texans 4.65
a5.65. COWS 2TOG7.2O. westerns ) 80
d7.20, calves 7.06d 1875.
Sheep dull; zoe 10 40c lower than
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-28

Saturday. Natives 4.6O66.OO, lambs
6.5O6S65, westerns 4.75@6O0, lambs
6.500S65.
Close of Market
Hogs closed slow, generally steady
at opening price. Light 1867 60,
bulk 7.50@765, mixed 7.35Q7.671R,
rough 7,259745.
Cattle steady, top 900
Sheep weak, top 500.
Lambs weak, top $50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-28
COPENHAGEN men SPECIALISTS

gil FIftevuth St, Second Floor,
MOLINE. ILL.
Hours--Open only on Wednes-
DAYS from In the afternoon un-
III in the evening and Friday
evening to 8, and Sunday
mornings. 3 TO IL During other
days call at Davenport once.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-18
By
FRANCIS LYNDE

his need for her that made him dis
trait and absentmindad at the War
trace Hall dinner table that evening,
and the father, looking on, suspected
that Evans taciturntty was an ex-
preston of his prejudice against the
woman who had taken his mothers
place, and when the son, pleading
WEAKNESS, retreated early to his room
the suspicion was confirmed.
you'll have to be patient with the
boy, little woman said the master of
Wartrace when Evan had disappeared
'I shouldn't wonder if Boston had put
some right queer notions into his head"
The little lady looked up from her
embroidery frame with a whimsical
smile wreathing itself at the corners
of the sensitive mouth. "He is dear
boy she said, 'and he is trying aw-
fully hard to hate me- But shan't
let bin, David
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-18
LITTLE BEAUTY CHATS
Proper Precautions Before Motoring
BIZ BLANCHE BEACON

There is a great deal more in this
very simple phrase heading this ar
ticle, than one would suppose. The
wind and the dust on the road play
havoc with the strongest skin. Even
to the woman who only motors occa-
sionally, my advice would be, to take
all possible precautions against sun
burn, wind-burn and dust-rash.
It is no small part of the prepara-
before going oaIt. Always rub a good
grease cream into them, massaging
them a little. Then always wear
gloves.
The face should be massaged thor
oughIy with a good grease cream be-
fore and after the ride. Try to do
the massa ging before the ride at least
sponge the face off with cold water
before going out. If, on your return,
your face burns and stings, do not
touch it with water. Splather on
plenty of cream-cold cream, I mean.
strongly advise the new amber
glasses instead of the old-fashfoned
goggles, for motor wear. They are
more becoming.
Personally, I do not approve Of hats
for motoring. If you want to wear
one, buy a real auto bonnet, the kind
that does not necessitate hat-pins.
Hat-pins worn in a car, with the wind
pulling on the hat all the time, are a
wretched thing, and ruin the hair. I
do not advocate going bare-headed be-
cause of the dust, but a fne-neshed
auto-scarf wound in a becoming tur-
ban fashion around the head is a
splendid thing.
And remember, that however warm
the day, there will always be a, breeze
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-18
(ContinuedO

All this was directly subversive of
Evan Blount's ideas of the. conduct of
affairs political in a free country, but
he was willing to hear more. ''Well?''
he said
''What we want this time is one of
your shew to the line men, son. Reck-
on you'd like to try it?''
The young man who was less than
week away from the atmosphere of
the law school and its theories was
fairly aghast. That his father should
be coolly proposing him for a high of
fee in the state to which he was as
new as the newest enigrant seemed
blank1y Incredible But when the in
credibility began to subside the despot-
ism of a machine which could propose
and carry out such unheard of things
doomed maleficent.
I'm afraid we are a good many
miles apart. father he said. uncon-
sciously using one of his fathers ia
-orite speech forms, when the pro-
posaI had been given time to sink in.
America is supposed to be a free
country with a representative govern
ment- Do you mean to say that you
and a few of your friends can set
aside the will of the people so far that
you can nominate and elect anybody
you please to any ONCE in the staten
The farseeing eyes were twinkling
again ''Oh, I don't know about our
being so far apart was the depreca-
tory protest. You're just little bit
long on theory, that's all, son. When
it comes down to the real thing some
body has to head the stampede and
turn It, and if we don't do it the other
bunch will"
what other bunch2'
TN this case it's the corporations
the timber people, the irrigation com
panies and, most of all, the railroads"
"Gantry seems to think that the rail-
roads are prosecuted, or his railroad at
least
The senator pulled his horse down
to a still slower walk. "Where did
you see Dick Gantry?" he demanded.
Evan told Of the meeting on the
veranda of the club, adding the fur
Their fact OF the college friendship.
"Just happened so, did it, auer1ed
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-18

YOU'RE JUST LITTLE BIT LONG ON
THEORY, SON."
the senator, ''that getting together last
Saturday night?"
why, yes; I suppose so. Dick
knew I was in Boston, and he said he
had meant to look me up
81 reckon he did,. was the quiet
comment; yes, I reckon he did And
he filed you up chOck full Of Hard
wick McVickar's notions, of course. 1
guess that's about what he was told to
do. But we won't fab apart on that,
son. Tomorrow We'll go down to the
city, and you can look the ground over
for yourself. I want you to draw
your own conclusions and then come
and tell me what you'd like to do.
Shall we leave it that way?"
Blount acquiesced, quite without
prejudice to a firm conviction that his
opinion when formed was going to be
based on the merits of the case, upon
a fair and judicial summing up of the
pros and cons.
He felt that it would be striking at
the very root of the tree of good gov
eminent to allow himself to be the
candidate of the machine. But. on
the other hand, he saw instantly what
a power a fearless public prosecutor
could be In a misguided common
wealth where the lack was not of
good laws, but of men strong enough
and courageous enough to administer
them
He would see If the good to be ac-
eomp1fshed was great enough to over
balance the evil-it was a temptation
10 compromise, a sharp temptation,
and he found himself longing for Pa
tricia, for her clear sighted comment
which, he felt sure, would go straight
to the heart of the tangle.
Il Kaa that thogGht- OF RatEicia and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-18
| ookworm Is the Greatest
Insect Menace to I human
Health
y Dr. NELSON DU VAL BREctFT. Former Assistant SUI

By NELSON DU Assistant Surgeon of United
Public Health Service
r LIZA MOSQUITOES REACHES OTHER INSECTS ARE RE-
sPoNsIRLE DEATHs THOUSANDS OF PERSONS
ALARMING MENACE MANKIND DOES THE
HOokWoRM
has NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH
in
CHOLERA
has beent The DISABLING DISEASES THE
recruits In the parasite of the disease found at NEARLY
EVERY POSTMORTEM.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-18
Present Styles Victory For Satan
Many Drunkards Good Men
By the Rev. D.. LEN c. BRoucHToN Of London

By the Rev. Dr.. LEN C. BROUGt1TON Of London
the
walk Broadway Fifth York. looking the kt
skirts and other styles O.
Until recently knew who not interested in
clothes clothing
around the streets with few clothes possible and making
those few short and transparent possible
MAN.
drunk What Christians ought do them and sit with
them and pray with them. Then they would drinking
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-18

while riding. Moral: take wrap
along.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-18
p n TIE NT g

a. n. WOOSTER, AttOrney-at-I.aB,
Late Examiner U. s. Patent Office
111b MAIN ST.. SECURITY BLDG
BRIDGEPORT, CONE.
Send Postal for Booklet on PaGeufr-
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-06-11
FORMER GOVERNOR
WITNESS TOMORROW
Before the Federal Probe
Committee Sitting at
Charleston Now.

CnN As1oGIATEn Priced
MoRGANTowN, June 11.-Ex-Goy-
ernor william E. Glasscock left at
noon today for Charleston, where he
will appear before the Senate sub
committee probing the West Virginia
mine strike at the Kanawha hotel to-
morrow morning at 8 o'clock. He re-
ceived a telegram from Charles Hig-
gins. sergeant at arms. inviting him
to appear before the committe at that
time.
The governor yesterday wired the
committee that he would be glad to
appear at any time which best suited
the convenience of the committed
Governor Glasscock was to have
delivered the commencement address
at the Fairmont normal school Friday
night. He cancelled this engagement.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-06-11
IS BOILER \.
FIRES STEAMER
GOOD GAsSER
Drilled In on Little lBingamon
by Bingamon Oil ond
Gas Company.

The Elk Grove Realty Company,
operating on Little Bingamon creek.
as the Bingamon Oil and Gas Cons
pany. drilled in a well Tuesday that
is unusual for that section.
The well was good sasser in the
Big Iniun sand, but II was decided TO
make a deep test of it. The fifty-foot
sand added a large quantity of gas
to that above and more gas was de-
yeloped in the thirty foot sand. but
the fourth sand was a surprise. as an
immense flow of gas was encountered
and drilling had TO be discontinued
without reaching the fifth sand.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-06-11
When 1t Blows Up at the
Docks of the Pugh
Goal Company.
THROWN INTO RIVER
Is the Entire Deck and Many
Persons Are Very
Likely Killed.

y RACINE. Wis, June Two score
men were either killed or injured to-
day when the boiler on the coal barge
C. K. Teck unloading coal ut the Pugh
Coal company's docks blew up short
ly before II o'clock this morning
The entire deck Of the steamer.
mass Of debris was thrown into the
river and the deck caught nre.
Twenty 1--WE men were aboard but how
many were killed has not yet been
learned
First reports gave two men dead
ond four badly injured It was
thought also that other victims were
Sun aboard the blazing boat The
boiler Of the barge was blown forty
feet into the air and landed some 200
feet astern of the vessel crashing into
the coal eompany's shed The vessel
was about to shift its position and
had cast OF when the accident
occurred.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-06-11
PARCEL
Post Package Instructions
are Issued to Country's
Postmasters.


WASHINGTON, June 11.-Instruc-
tons to postmasters were issued to-
day for handling of c. o. D. parcel
post packages. The regulations viii
be effective July /. Charges on pack
ages will be collected from addresses
on and after that date provided the
amount on single parcel does not
exceed 500. The fee for collection
will be ten cents in parcel post
stamps to be affixed by the sender.
This fee also will insure the package
against loss to the actual value of the
contents not exceeding $50. The
sender will get receipt showing the
amount to be collected the amount
also appearing on a tag attached to
the package. The addressee will re-
ceipt for the package on the tag,
which will serve as an application
for a money order
c. o. D. parcels may be accepted
for mailing by rural carriers and will
be delivered by city and rural carriers
and special delivery messengers
Such packages will not be mailable
either to the Philippines or to the
Canal Zone.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-06-11
PROBING COMMITTEE
GETS DOWN TO WORK.
tnT ASSOCIATED PREsa'


CHARLESTON june ll-W -
the basis of their inquiry firmly la1o
the members. of the Senate commls-
sion investigating the West Virginia
coal situation today proceeded to lay
bare the process by which the civil
courts were stripped of their power
and more than $50 square miles OF
Yves. virginia were placed under
The domination of a military tribunal
senator Borah. of Idaho, took
charge of the inquiry under that sec
ton of the Senate resolution direct
inr a probe of the charge that c1tl-
zens had been deprived of their
rights under the constitution. me
military officers who were concerned
with the proclamation of martial
law in the strike district and wita
the administration of affairs there
under martial law whom the COM
mittee summoned yesterday were the
arst witnesses to be called today
Their records were needed to make
clear the procedure followed by for
ner Governor Glasscock in the pro
claiming OF martial law
Mother Jones Here.
In the midst of the group OF law
yers representing the miners headed
by Frank S. Monnett, former attor-
ney general of Ohio. sat a gray
haired stout old woman with gray
eyes. swapping from beneath heavy
brows who watched every w1tnes!
with intent gaze, she was Mother
Jones. leader of the striking miners
but lately come from the bull pen 9
the military court and she directed
the questioning of astute lawyers .
The points of the miners case as sh'
had watched it develop in her t%'
Years in the coal fields of the state
.,Mother'' Jones will herself be calico
as one of the witnesses of the miners
later in the investigation.
The committee today planned I
make a ayIng trip into the strik'
territory TO see conditions for itself
4 special train viii be taken from
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-06-11
GRI MNAL G0U.IT
Of the County is Trying
mailman on Felon-
ious Theft Charge.

Claude d. Altman was on trial in
the criminal court wednesday on an
Indictment charging him with the
IeIonious theft of suit OF clothes
belonging to George swiger.
Robert A. swiger got his case con-
tinued until the next term of the
court but he was required to give q
bond of $500 for his appearance then
to answer the Indictment against
him.
An Indictment against samuel An
sci was quashed but bond of $500
was required of him to answer an in
dictment at the next term OF the
court, il one be found against him.
Ed crutchfeld. colored, charged
with shooting Charley Maryland.
colored, In. a heel with intent to kill
him, was acquitted by jury.
A felony indictment against Thurl
wiseman was quashed.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-06-11
Graphic Description of Bat
Ties Fought between Mine
Guards and Strikers.
RELATEs.sT ORIE S
OF Men Ambushed and Shot
Down at Paint Creek
and Cabin Creek.
esy HasoeiArEp raEsap


CHARLESTON, June J1-lndus-
trial war in west Virginia was today
described to the senate mine strike
investigating committee by Adjutant
General Charles d. Elliott. who de-
scribed in graphic fashion battles
fought between mine guards and
strikers at Mucklow and Holly
Grove ins the Paint creek section. he
told of
sArmored Trains
carrying machine guns that swept
through the strike district and re-
lated stories of men ambushed and
shot down. At least score or
skirmfshes were detailed by General
Elliott in nearly all OF which men
were killed and wounded.
General Elliott told of the c1'ture
by state troops of six machine guns
capable OF firing $50 shots a min
ute and 1900 rounds of ammuni-
ton. He identified photographs
OF
Sheet Iron Fort
built by mine guards at Mucklow
and told of the capture of hundreds
of men-killing guns, many of them
hidden in hollow trees and mountain
caves after the militia took charge
of the strike district. Trains held up.
mine tipples burned, pitched battles
between mine guards and miners
were all detailed by General Elliott
who said all of the affairs were re-
ported to him. He detailed gem
eraI engagement at MucKIow, Holly
Grove and Paint creek and Ronda
on Cabin creek February, 10. when
a mine bookkeeper and miner
named Estep were killed. This re-
suited in second declaration oil
martial law and General Elliott
said that when he went into the
field with troops the night of Feb
ruary 10 a dynamite bomb was
found on the track ahead OF his
troop train
Not Militia Affairs.
"All of these affairs were between
mine guards and strikers" said the
general. "The militia had nothing to
do with them and know of them only
through information brought to me
by both sides"
General Elliott gave the committee
documents showing the operation of
the military which took charge of the
strike district during the first martial
law period, showing the disposition
made of prisoners.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-06-11
BANKERS MEET
In Annual Convention and
Listensto Address by Treas
urer of United States.

ELKGNS, June d 1one hundred
bankers, representing every part Of
the state. attended the opening ses-.
sion OF the twentieth annual meet
ing of the West Virginia Bankers
Association here today. The morn
ing session was devoted to organi-
cation and the reports of officers.
The session was opened with
prayer by DR.. Frederick H. Barron
following which an address of wei
come on behalf OF the G2ikfns bank
ers was made by the Hon. e. d. Tall
bolt, which was followed by an adj
dress on behalf of the city By. G! z.
aIoyle. To the addresses Senator
sampeI v. Woods, of Phidppf. re-
sponded. The Hon. John Burke,
treasurer of the United States, spoke
at the afternoon session.
7 p 5 ID
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-06-11
BROTHER ARRESTED
On Suspicion of Being Impli-
Gated in the Murder of
a Violinist.
..y A..aetsrre paGss,

GALEsBURG, Ill, June l1.-Ernest
Lindoft, of Arlington, ILL.,, was arrest
ed today on suspicion OF being i'm
plicated in the murder of his brother,
Prof. Charles A. Lfndoft, the violinist,
who was killed early Tuesday morn
ing in his home in Galesburg. Blood
hounds PLACED on the trail early to-
day followed a scent to room in
which Ernest Lindoft had spent the
night. Until the bloodhounds start
ed the sheriff and police were baffied
as no clues had been found.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-06-11
NEW RECORD
OF Endurance on the Floor
of the Ocean is Made
by Six Men.
rnr Asnac,Arrr rnrnas

tnN AsHociNTtu FItABa81
LONG BEACH, Calf, June 11.-Six
men sealed up in new type of sub
marien boat surpassed the submerg-
ency endurance record on the floor
of the ocean off here today, They
went down yesterday morning at 8
o'clock and in massage telegraphed
shortly before noon over marine
cable leading to shore declared that
they expected to remain down until 5
o'clock this afternoon.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-06-11
LIFE TERsEER.

FA8RMoNT. June 11-Jen Tay-
lor, a notorious police court charac-
ter and Jail breaker, has been found
guilty of stabbfng Rade Mikovitcn-
This is his third conviction for a
felony and he viii probably go, to
the state penitentiary for life as a
third conviction under the statutes
carries with it a life prison term.
Mikovitch was not seriously stab
bed.