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United labor bulletin., 1913-07-05
PREssMEN.

Martin Sigler. who represented
Pueblo Pressmen's Union at the inter
national convention at Hale Springs,
stopped off in Denver on his return
trip. He Is foreman of the Franklin
Press Printing Company pressroom.
Last Monday about 200 pressfeeders
went on strike in San Francisco. the
employers having refused to grant an
increase in wages of $3.50 a week.
About the same number of printing
pressmen also walked out when the
United labor bulletin., 1913-07-05
ELECTRICAL WORKERS.

At Monday nights meeting of Elec-
trical Workers Union No. Ill Cline
mem, the following officers were
elected, installation to be held next
meeting. Monday, July 7: President,
c. L. Wilcox; vice president, r.
Forbes; recording secretary. l..
Hughes; financial secretary, o. Nc
Murrin; first inspector. D. Mcdonald;
second inspector, J. A. Pearse; fore
man, J. E. Madigan; trustee, S. Higgs.
United labor bulletin., 1913-07-05
THE TELEGRAPH SERVICE OF
FERs MANY OPPORTUNITIES
FOR YOUNG MEN AND
WOMEN.

Telegraphy leads directly to execu.
tive positions. A few months prepa.
ration VIII place you In either the
commercial or the railroad service
wherein are unlimited opportunities
for advancement.
There should be many more taking
up telegraphy to fill the demands
made upon us for telegraphers. You
can attend either days or evenings
and the expense is very reasonable.
Come and see me. This will place
you under no obligations. II incon.
venient to call. send postal card for
literature. mentioning the United La.
Dor Bulletin.
GEO. LaMUNYON. President.
Modern School of Business,
1903 Broadway. Denver.
One block south of State Capitol
grounds.
United labor bulletin., 1913-07-05
ALLIED COUNCIL.

Business Agent Thomas p. Rodgers
of the Allied Printing Trades Council
is now permanently located In room
205, Quincy building. Seventeenth and
Curtis streets. The walls have been
newly decorated. the floor given n
fresh coat of saffron paint and the
windows washed. Therefore the
smiling b. a. is better prepared than
ever before to do business. The new
telephone number is Champa 424
United labor bulletin., 1913-07-05
CEMENT WORKERS.

Cement Workers Local No. 54
meets every Tuesday night in the
Club building. The following newly
elected officers were installed at the
last meeting: President, H. l.. Aus
tin; vice president, William Marvin;
recording secretary, w. G. Smith; ;
financial secretary, Frank Hurley;
treasurer, Frank Frowley.
United labor bulletin., 1913-07-05
WHERE WORKING PEOPLE GO.

Members of all Denver labor organi-
cations are eligible to membership in
the Trades Union Benefit Association
club. It's a common meeting place. If
not a member, see Tim Foley, the
smiling secretary and he'll show you
the way Second floor Quincy build
ing, Seventeenth and Curtis.
United labor bulletin., 1913-07-05
COOKS

r. E. Croskey, state labor statis-
tician, will return as delegate to-
the Trades Assembly, after an alb
sence from that body for nearly two
years. When there before he was one
of the live dires.
Following is complete roster of
officers elected Monday night by
Cooks Union No. IS: President, A. J.
Tranell; vice president, Roy Ridgley;
recording secretary, Charles Mann;
secretary-treasurer, r. E. Croskey;
business agent, Robert Eddings; chap
lain, A. H. Corse; delegates Trades AS
sembly, r. e. Croskey, Ed Pollard,
Robert Eddings; delegates label
League, Charles Mann, Robert Eddings,
William Turner, A. ]. Tranell; mem
bers local joint board, William Tur-
ner, Charles Mann, A. ]. Tranell.
United labor bulletin., 1913-07-05
SIGNS COMPENSATION BILLS.

Sacramento, Cal.-Gov. Johnson has
signed the five workmen's compensa-
ton bills passed by the Assembly
These measures provide for workmen's
United labor bulletin., 1913-07-05

Some men contend the sting of de
feat overcomes the flush of victory
But we don't believe it. The man
who views life rightly glories in his
successes and forgets lifes stings.
United labor bulletin., 1913-07-05

La Belle &c cigar. the best union
made SC cigar in the Uaited States.
United labor bulletin., 1913-07-05

Try Principe de Lees cigar for an
smoke.
United labor bulletin., 1913-07-05

Beats them all. La Belle sc cigar,
union-made.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-10-13

He mopped his forehead for a mo-
ment There was dead silence.
"The completion Of the actual con-
struction within Is years is made
possible only by my invention
known to some of you at least-al-
lanite, a hard steel that Is inferior
to the hardness of the diamond by
working of the hardest rock with
speed and safety and makes possible
/ the cheap manufacture of any amount
of drilling TOOLS
The attention of his listeners was
undated and he plunged deeper and
deeper into details. When at last he
seemed to finish Mr.. Morse asked quiz
city:
What about powerY'
The engineers lips set in a grim
smile
For the actual work of boring and
| the operation of the trains when the
tunnel is completed, I shall need a
quantity of electric current about
equal to that produced by the entire
! Niagara power companies. Niagara is
not in the market any more-so 1
shall build my own Niagara
One or two actually started. All
\ opened their eyes trifle wider. 1t
/ was the first time he had smiled, but
he was evidently not Joking.
Rives saw that here was the place
| to end the talk.
IT think now" he said, rising
quickly, that you gentlemen will wish
to consider this matter for a time, and
| it might be embarrassing to both
| sides If Mr.. Allan were present"
| THAT was my idea also.' remarked
the engineer.
| Miss Lloyd walked with them as
far as the elevator.
! 1T was splendid. Mr.. Allan" she
exclaimed again and again. Wasn't
| 1t glorious. Mrs Allan:
Mrs. Allan pressed her husbands
arm and laughed happily. She was
afraid her voice would break if she
attempted to speak. Miss Lloyds
color was high and her eyes sparkled
with enthusiasm.
Won't you come down with us?"
| invited Mrs. Allan as the door was
opened.
NO. thank you," laughed the girl
She had her fathers high bridged
nose, cast in a feminine mold, and
great dark blue eyes, but their soft
gentleness did not offset the square
chin and militant nose. Il have a
| splendid report to make to father for
the first half OF the evening / want
| to look out for the second half
She held out her hand as to a COM
rade. and he pressed 1t. Then she
turned swiftly back to the table
where each man was rapidly going
over the situation in his own mind.
| and where each was trying to see
| more quickly than his neighbor how
he might grind some particular pri-
vate ak at the general grindstone.
This much each SAVIOR thought
he saw. 1t was plain that IL would
not have called the conference IL he
had not made up his mind to put the
gigantic plan through. Furthermore.
| 1t was plain, by the same token, that
he had already fixed things so that
the lions share Of the exploitation
profits would come to him. They
would have to take what was left
On the other hand. to turn the project
down meant war with 'L"-some-
thing that all of them combined
might have attempted II they had
been free to Join each other or could
trust each other.
And then. if they could manage to
stay out of 1t without an open break
with the yellow-faced specter that
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walked the money earth like a de-
stroying angel, they would inevitably
be run over in the march of this stu
pendous enterprise. Everything in
the world would be more or less in
timately connected with it. Also even
If IL had taken the lions share in
an undertaking so huge the scraps
for the jackals would be stagger-
ing.
Mrs. Allan ate and chatted and
laughed gayly, while her husband sat
opposite smiling in sympathy and his
thoughts with the conference on the
roof.
How long do you think they'll
He shrugged his shoulders. .An
hour--two hours-maybe the whole
night"
The whole night Gracious, What
remarkable lot of men, Macl That
old gentleman-Mr Wittersteiner-
what a splendid head What young
man Mr.. Kilgallan isl But Mr..
Smith
She was interrupted by the tumul-
tuous entrance of Rives. He was in
his shirtsleeves and his face shone
sprang up. The conference had been
on less than an hour. 1t did not seem
possible they could have reached
conclusion.
You ought to have been there,
Mac" he shouted. hitting his friend
terrific slap on the shoulder. They
almost pulled each others hair 1t
was great. 1t looked like a break in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-10-13

the wheat pit for a moment or two.
c. B. Smith wanted to leave, and
they pulled him back. Kilgallan
board and defied anybody to prove
you were wrong"
"Of course-Kilgallani" muttered
Allan between his clenched teeth.
Kilgallan was head of the steel trust.
Then old Wittersteiner got in
word and said that 1t was the biggest
thing that had ever come down the
pike-or something like that-and
he was for it if you could deliver the
plans and specifications. Then And
rus took fall out of him, and they
were all at it again when Helen-Miss
Lloyd chimed in. You ought to have
heard herr
Miss Lloydw cried Allan, and the
lady in the same breath.
"Surel She made a better speech
than you did-and that was some
speech. She told how her father felt
about it and how it looked to her.
and Kilgallan proposed three cheers
for her and three for you and as
many as you please for the tunnel.
and--bang.-it was all over"
You mean"-gasped Allan. He
had suddenly turned dead white. Mrs.
Allan slipped an arm around him and
Rives gripped his shoulders with
both hands.
81 mean" he shouted with a merry
laugh, that you are to go ahead and
bore a rat hole through the earth"
Coutsuued Tomorrow
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-10-13
By GARRETT P. SERvISS

glass covering it. Only an expert
can safely focus such a microscope.
The danger is entirely avoided when
merely the focusing of the eye tube
is under the pupils control.
But the great excellence of this in
vention consists in the double view
Of the same object With the old
fashioned microscope the medical stu
dent, studying bacteria and similar
objects, has to make his observations
without the Immediate assistance and
direction of his teacher. He goes by
the descriptions that have been given
him before he placed his eye at the
microscope. and is unable to call the
teachers attention instantly to any
popularity which may attract his at
tention.
But when teacher and pupil look
simultaneously at the same object the
questions of the former can be an
swered at the moment and the teacher
can indicate the special features to
be noticed with incomparably greater
exaetness and certainty.
1t would be quite possible to ar
range similar device for use with a
telescope, and it would be very adj
vantageous. When an amateur looks.
for instance, at the moon or the planet
Jupiter with a telescope he sees a
multitude of strange things which he
can not describe-complica craters,
mountain ridges and valleys in one
case and shifting bands of clouds in
the other--and in order to have his
questions about them answered he
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-10-13
y SUPERINTENDENT Y

and England along the coast of the
bay OF Biscay"
The silence told of close attention
and he went on, carefully selecting
those points of information that
would Impress these practical vision
aries
The Bermudas and Azores" he ex-
planned, just as II all was settled ex-
cepting the selection of the route
are necessary from a technical
standpoint. These two. together with
the one American and two European
stations. will give up five points OF
attack. This is to say. we will begin
the actual tunnel in eight places at
the same time--both ways from the
Bermudas, the Azores and the Span
ish coast, westward from London and
southeastward from New Jersey.
Thus we will finish more quickly
than If we followed a straight line
and could bore only in two places.
Furthermore, the Bermudas will
absorb all of the West Indies, Central
American and South Pacific trade
through the Panama canal-and the
Azores viii draw from Central and
South Africa and Australasia.
1T is evident" he continued in
the same matter of fact tone. with
out any further commentary, what a
part the tunnel stations would play
in the world trade of the future.
Those governments whose consent we
need can be -compelled-if that is
necessary, which it will not be--to
give that permission.
4 can make them quote the stock
of this company on every stock mar
ket of Europe or ruin their own in
dustriest" he declared grimly.
There was q narrowing of eyelids
and one or two sharp mods. They
needed no details--they could see in
a flash what this company would
mean
THE Bering strait tunnel con-
tinued the engineer, in his quiet, ex-
planatory manner once more, that
was begun three years ago-the
Dover Calais tunnel which is to be
opened this year-these have proved
to our satisfaction that the construc-
tion of submarine tunnels offers no
difficulties to modern engineering.
The Dover-CalaiS tunnel has length
of about 35 miles.
My tunnel is going to be about
8. 100 miles long"
AN IMPRESSION
One OF the two of his hearers
glanced at each other quickly. "Old
man WltierSteiner OF the new ork
National bank leaned over and whis-
pered a few words to J. O. Morse, the
copper king, and both smiled and
turned their attention again to the
speaker. Allan paid no heed.
Ny task, therefore, he continued
calmly, as II planning a new sewer.
will be to accomplish hundred times
as much as the French and English
engineers-although I do not deny
that there will be greater difficulties
that will probably make the character
of the work less pleasant But it is
not necessary for me to tell you gen.
tlemen that wherever a man of today
can find room to, mount an engine
there he is at home.
"Financially''--ther was a barely
perceptiblo tension. This was the
moment they had waited for-"finan-
cially, the execution of my project is
dependent upon your consent. Your
money I do not need he declared
boldly, "in spite OF what Mr.. Rives
has said For 1 am going to build
this tunnel with the money of the
world"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-10-13

Continental society is at the present
time very enthusiastic over a new and
novel form of portrait paintings. Art
lists skilled with the brush paint min
ute portraits on the smooth finger
nails Of society beauties. These are
copied from photographs of friends of
the lady who wishes her nail or nails
to be so decorated. and these tiny pic
lures, being enameled with specially
prepared paint, they do not rub of
when the owner washes her fingers.
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purr of its engines reached the
diners from the landing stage, where
the mechanician tinkered and tested,
for Kilgallan had an appointment in
his Chicago office at the next morn
ing Vanderstyfft's sporty little
monopla1e that he had taken to run
down from his Cape Cod summer
home was poised lightly beside 1T.
And they knew nothing beyond the
fact that L. had invited them to
discuss the greatest and boldest
project of all time,v and had added to
each list of the others who would
attend. He didn't say he had re-
quested them to come. He said they
would be there. They were.
Even without the all commanding
signature to the telegram they might
have come. The words "the greatest
and boldest project of all time"
would have brought them. Great and
bold"-these words tuned the interest
that worked behind their listless ex-
teriors. 1t was not question of maxi
ing much money or losing little.
Money was only Incidental. They
were like a lot OF children who have
been playing with ball of putty
until they have worked 1t into every
shape they can devise and are grow
ing weary of the game. So for years
had these men played with putty
ball that was called the world. They
had ripped ii open and built it over.
They had burrowed under 1T. They
had parted its waters and conquered
It's air.
A NEW FEELING
Singly and in little groups they had
wrought these things, and ii had
never occurred to any of them that
there could be anything big enough
But the greatest of them had found
to learn what ii might be.
Yet it was with the air of ennui
that they turned to Riyes when he
rose to speak. They had outgrown
ordinary enthusiasm. Five younger
men-representatives of the five great
news associations. sat at the foot of
the table, keen eyed and alert. Sew
eral hundreds of their less fortunate
coworkers ragged in the lobby below,
devising ingenious and futile plans to
gain admission to the garden. and
guessed and predicted-from the mo-
ment the word of the impending con-
ference leaked out--until the country
was stirred from end 10 end and Wall
street nuttering and twittering like
an uneasy mother quail.
The Monorail Fast Freight COM
pany was to extend its line to San
Francisco. The United Air Line was
to absorb the Gulf and Pacific cities
in Its regular service so that you
could circle the United States with
out changing ships. John Rives'
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LOCAL FERRY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Via Oakland Pier

70 Oaklund, 18th St, and Berkeley, via shaftck Ave
and Ellsworth St. Linss-Daily-F 600 q. m, and
every twenty minutes until $40 p. M inclusive; then
600 $40. 1920, HOO II 40 p. m, - 20 and 20 m.
Additional boats Saturdays and Sundays only, $40
D. m. $40. loco, 10A0 and l1-20 D.
10 Berkeley via California Street OF Albany via Ninth
Street LInes.-Daily-From 800 .. m, 1870, $40,
100 m, and every twenty minutes until $40 p m,
inclusive; then 600, $40, f020, HOO, 114e p. m,
1920 and 20 q. IN. Additional boats Saturdays and
Sundays only $40 p. NJ, 020 1000, 10.4o and 1l20
p. m.
u Oakland, WashIngton-Broadway, East Oakland,
fruitvaIe and Melross, via Seventh St-Daiy-From
500 m, then every twenty minutes until $40 N,
inclusive; then 900. $40, 1920, 1l00 l1.4o p M.
1920 and 120 a. m. Additional boats Saturdays ana
Sundays only $40 p. N. 920 1000, 10.40 and 1lJa
p. m.
To Havsnscouri. -Daiy-From $40 ,. m. and every
twenty minutes until 40 D. m, inclusive: then 8 20,
900. II 40 p. m Saturdays and Sundays only e40.
1000, 10.40, 11.20 D. M.
Horseshoe 10 Oakland, FruitvaIs,
Alameda, North Side.-DaiIy-From 600 q. m. SIS
$40. 200, 100. 7.40, 500, $40, 940 a.m then 400
pm 40 4.4o, 800, $40. $40 500, go. 6.40 100
and TAO p. m.
To stonshurst Steam ssrvcs)-fs.0o. tsAo. t72o'
1900. 1000 g. m, 40 p. m, 1900 1900. 1870
400, 500, $40 and t620 p m.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-10-13

There is a peculiar person on the
staff of some of the Japanese news
papers, known as the dummy edi-
tor" whose sole duty it is to go to
jail in the interests of the journal
Whenever a paper publishes some
thing unfriendly to the government
it is suppressed and the dummy edi-
tor" sent to prison. while the real
editor simply changes the name OF the
paper and continues to publish 1t as
before.
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Do You Know
That

Holland. which. along with Den
mark, takes the lead in agricultural
delivery in red bottles. Medical rea-
sons are responsible for the innova-
ton. Red. the expert says. is color
that acts as a preservative of milk.
Bottles wrapped in red paper or made
of red glass viii consequently pre-
vent the milk from turning sour, and
will in addition discourage somnolent
bacilli from bursting into life.
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He had commanded and they had
come. Their yachts We're anchored
in the Hudson and their private
trains waited, putting. in the yards.
The three cagoans-KilgalIan
Mullenbach and G. Morris-had ar
rived but an hour before the meet
ing in Kilgallans aerial yacht. The
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-10-13

A favored method of stealing rice
with Chinese coolies is to lean up
against a pile OF sacks and stick a
tin tube through the saeking, the
rice. which is dry. flowing naturally
through the tube into the cooly's
clothing. Flour is also stolen in this
manner, and a common punishment in
this case is to let the thief obtain
large quantity and then pour water
into his clothing, which makes mat
ters rather uncomfortable for the cul-
prit.
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must remove his eye from the tele-
scope, let his instructor take his place
and then try to make the latter I'M
derstand by word of mouth what the
special features are that puzzle him.
But If two looked into the telescope
together, as with the double miscro-
scope. the needed explanations could
be promptly and easily furnished.
ANOTHER IDEA
Indeed, it is a question whether
such an arrangement might not prove
of value to experts in making difficult
observations on heavenly bodies, such
as those relating to the planet Mars.
Two eyes and two brains working to-
gether are frequently better than one.
and when the object under examina-
tion is of a doubtful nature. two OBJ
servers working together and able in
stantly to call each others attention
to any particular feature might read
ily arrive at a conclusion which would
be more certain than either could
reach alone.
Professor Lowell has never been
able to convince many astronomers
that some Of the canals on the
planet Mars are actually present there
as he describes them. How much
conviction might he not be able to
produce IL he could place doubter at
his side. bring the mysterious objects
under the eyes Of both at the same
instant and under the same iIlumina-
ton. and then discuss the question
with scientific calm while the subject
of dispute was directly before them?
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LII teachers who have to instruct
n their pupils in knowledge of
the world under a microscope
will appreciate the advantages of an
invention to which my attention has
just been called-a microscope with
two eye tubes. so arranged that two
ob-ervers can see the same object at
the same time.
The image of the object to be ex-
amined, after being formed by the
object glass, is reflected by double
prism into two eye tubes, placed OPP
posite TO one another. Each eye tube
is furnished with lenses giving exact
" the same magnifying power, SO
that both the observers see the object
under an Identical magniGcation.
The tube used by the teacher is
alone supplied with the apparatus
necessary to bring the object glass
into proper position, while the other
tube has an Independent focusing
screw which enables the pupil to adj
lust its lenses 10 give him perfect
vision without disturbing the object
IRIS ADVANTAGES
everybody who has ever used a
nigh power microscope will under
stand the advantage of this arrange
ment. because It is often necessary
10 put the object glass SO close to the
object that the slightest awkward
ness or careIessness in changing its
position is apt 10 result in the de-
struction of the object or Of the thin