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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-10-01
.L|fE'S BATTLE
WAS VERY HARD
And She Decided To End
1t All.
An EIGHT O0lLiR-A-WEEk GIRL
Had Only IS Cents Surplus
When All Her Bills
We're Paid.
SIX MONTHS ON zoe DINNERS

Chicago. Sept. 26.-Breakfast.
coffee and rolls.
Dinner, beef stew, milk, rice pud-
ding.
Supper. fruit salad, graham
crackers and milk.
The above menu was submitted
to-day to an expert on food values
who is a graduate of many colleges
end knows exactly what he is talk
ing about. He was asked whether it
embraces the elements necessary to
the support of human life.
The expert responded that the
foods have sufficient of fats, pro-
teids and carbohydrates.
Why" he added. there are lots
of people in Chicago who live on
just that"
However. whatever the sustaining
value of such a diet may be, it lacks
one vital essence-something to
make the consumers life worth liv-
ing. The case of Miss Selma Peter
son proves this.
The girl was found dying in her
room, at No. 5lg Lincoln Parkway.
The place was full of gas, because
she had left the jets open. She was
taken TO the County Hospital. where
she was revived, made an ante-mor-
TEN statement, and died. Her ca
reer having thus terminated, clerk
in the Coroner's Office proceeded to
write her obituary. 1t read as fol-
lows:
Selma Peterson. nineteen years
old Suicide at No. SO Lincoln
Parkway by gas asphyxiaton. Ne
relatives. Cause unknown"
The last entry, suggesting mys-
terry, prompted investigation. A
visit to Selma's little room was re-
warded by the discovery of three
items calculated to illuminate the
clerks colorless account of her ca
reer. One of these was Bible. on
the fly leaf of which was written;
ITO Selma from her mother"
A second item was a note in
which Selma had attempted to shed
some light on her life story. It
said:
Wages too low. Life is not
worth living"
The third was a little notebook.
In il the girl had recorded the menu
set forth above. There were other
items in the note book which indi-
Gated that Selma was a desperate
student of economics. From them
it appeared that she was employed
by clothing firm at IS a week. This
income Selma had distributed as
follows:
Meals, s3.l5.
Room rent. $3.50.
Carfare. 60 cents.
Laundry. 81.
Total, 1925.
Thus, Selma had been able to
demonstrate. at the end of each
week. having liquidated all current
she would have left
for orchards, automobile rides and
theater parties a grand aggregate of
20 cents.
At the County Hospital, the doc
tor who was with Selma when she :,
died was asked If she had made \
Yes said the physician, 'she
revived. For short time before
she died she was lucid"
What did she say?"
why. now that you mention it,
she said funny thing. asked her
what made her do il. She did not
answer for a long time. and then
she asked:
Doctor, did you ever live for
SIN months on twenty-eent din
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-10-01

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too long she says a woman who
marries before she is 80 is robbed
OF her girlhood.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-10-01

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A ruined boy is the logical result
OF fond aud lndulgent parent.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02
Moose Initiate
Large Class

At the next regular meeting of
Wheeling Lodge No. 81, Loyal Order
of Moose Friday night, Jan. 3rd, a
class of 1926 new members will be
taken into the Order. District Instruc-
tor C. L. Burnett, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
will be present, and will speak of
the progress of the Organization
throughout the country. Fred A Vivis,
Deputy Supreme Director, who is
heading the local campaign for new
members. states that before the clos
ing of the charter, the local member.
ship will reach 1900. On Friday night
January 18th, another large class will
be taken into the Order, and will
make the local membership over 1000
strong. The new Industrial School
and Health Sanitarium, which is being
established by the Organization, will
be located at Aurora, Ill.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02
GOVERNMENT LOOTED

Los Angeles. Cal, Jan. "A billion
dollars worth of California oil bear
ing lands, it is stated, will eventually
be inFeved in the governments litiga.
ton. which has begun here with the
filing of the $250,009,DeO action in
equality against the Southern Pacific
Railway and its subsidiary corpora.
lions. Other suits are to follow il
Which the government will contest the
ownership of a total of $3.50 600. OOO
worth of land. The suit is brought un.
der the act of Congress, passed July
y. 1866, requiring the Department OF
Interior to exempt mineral bearing
and must revert to the public domain
The government charges fraudulent
practice on the part of the railroad
company in securing patents. The
land for the most part is in the Coal.
niger oil fields, and is under lease of q
subsidiary corporation of the Southern
Pacific and is a joint defendant in the
suit. This illustrates, in part, the
piratical policy pursued by the South
ern Pacific Railroad in the domain ii
traverses, and is Illuminating in the
way of showing the tremendous in
Guence which it has drown to Itself
during the long years it has been in
peaceful possession of these lands in
defiance of the law.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02
AN EFFEc TIVE BUREAU.

Alexandria, Va, Dec. 28.-Represen.
tatives of nine business firms of this
city were recently arrested on war
rants issued at the instance of the
Bureau of Labor, charging them with
violations of the state law. Pleas OF
guilty were entered by the represen.
tatives of three factories charged with
employing child labor, and fines of S25
each were imposed. Another fine was
imposed upon another company, charg
ed with working employees more than
ten hours per day. One other case
was dismissed on account Of compli
ance with the law having been had
prior to the trial date. Two or three
other cases were held in allegiance
the parties agreeing to comply with
the law. The Bureau of Labor and In
dustrial Statistics of this state is do
ing splendid work in enforcing the
statutes relating to the employment Of
children hours of labor, and Other
humanitarian statutory provisions.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02
MOTORMEN Want HEAT

The organized street railway en-
ployes of this city recently held a
meeting to approve bill to be~intro-
duced in the next state legislature pro-
yiding for heating apparatus to be In
stalled n the. motormen's vestibule on
all street cars in the state of West
Virginia. The duties of motorman
in severe cold weather are of such a
character that sufficient heat in the
forward yestibule is necessary for the
safe handling or street cars. Punched
withs-eeld it cannot be expected that
a. metorman can control AGAR with as
much safety to himself and the public
as he would where sufficient heat is
provided so that he can exercise his
physical strength in operating his car.
There are states that have statutes in
force regulating the heating of the
forward vestibule, and it is desirable
that this state should have a similar
law.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02

izations interested, and urge it's pas
sage.
Board of Trade Acts.
The Board of Trade Monday even
ing endorsed the action of it's sub
committee in its work in drafting the
charter, endorsed the charter, and
voted to send Secretary Roy B. Nay
lor and G. B. Yaylor to Charleston to-
appear before the legislature in be-
half of the charter
/: Municipal League Joins.
The Municipal Improvement League
joins the march to Charleston with
the sending Of Secretary John Wall
ace and Joseph R. Naylor This action
was decided upon at a meeting of the
executive committee of the organiza-
ton held Monday afternoon at which
the work of the subcommittee on the
charter was approved.
Business Mems Association.
Similar action was taken Thursday
morning by the executive committee
of the Wheeling Business Mems AS
ISOLATION, held in the Associations
headquarters. The charter was en-
dorsed, and the Association will have
a charter fighting force before the
legislature headed by Secretary
Schwertfeger.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02
WORKERS
GET WAGE RAISE

Electrical Workers No. 141 have Sc
cured for their members employed by
the city wage increase of about $40
a month, and shortening of their
working hours to eight per day. This
is the first signed agreement eyer had
from the city by the union, and
Mayor Kirk and the members Of the
Board of Control agreed. Two shifts
will be employed, instead of one, as
in the past, when the men were work
ed from ten to twelve hours per day
Present New Agreement.
Theunion has presented a new
scale to the employing electric con
tractors of the city, asking for an in
crease of 10 cents per hour, and it is
understood that the employers have
offered, voluntarily, 5 cents pei
hour: No conference has yet been ar
ranged The counter proposition is
reported to come from the recently
formed Electrical Contractors Associ
alton, comprising the Sands Electric
Co., Gee Electric Co., Lukens Elec
tric Co., Electrical Construction Co.
M'Kelvey Electric Co., Peterson
Electric Co. and American Electric
Co. r
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02

evening, and at which only the pro-
posed charter was discussed The
Assembly's committee, which had
been acting in conjunction with like
committees of the other organiza-
lions represented in the Joint Char
ter Commission, the Business Mems
Association, the Board of Trade and
the Municipal League, attended every
session of the joint commission, and
succeeded in getting into the draft
about everything that Labor asked
for. %
They made it plain in their reports
to the central body at the regular BIZ
monthly meeting of the organization
a week previous, but it was decided,
in view of the Importance of the sub
ject, to set a special meeting for its
discussion.
After a full discussion the Assem-
bly, endorsed the Charter, and the ac-
ton was unanimous. Not dissent
ing vote was given. This means that
the forces of organized labor of the
city will be behind the charter when
it comes to a. popular vote, and that
the president of the organization, L.
]. LaFlam, will appear before the
Legislature in company with the rep
.resentatives of the other local organ
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02
Mass Meeting

With Mother" Zones making the
chief address, there is certain to be
an immense crowd at the Victoria thea
fro Sunday afternoon, to attend the
nro4est meeting to be held under the
apnsnices of the Ohio Valley Trades and
labor Assembly in behalf OF the strik-
ing coal miners Of this state.
@Mother" Jones has just returned
from q TRIP to the east, where she ex-
NAMED 10 the people of the big cities.
in series of meetings, these deploF-
oh, conditions, and urged them to back
the miners in demanding a congress
innal inquiry into the conditions exist
inc in this state.
She has lost none of her fire since
she was here before.
Y Other speakers will be Marco Roman
and Frank Leivinka. Both are inter
national organizers of the United Mine
workers The former will speak in
Italian and the latter in Polish. Harry
p Corcoran, J. T. Hecker and Matt
Greer comprise the Trades Assembly
committee, and Mr. Corcoran will be
chairman.
The meeting is called for 2:SO O'Clock
Sunday afternoon, Jan. 5. An error
in previous publication announced
the meeting for last Sunday. and
though every effort was made to cor
rect it, hundreds were fooled to the
theatre.
H. W. Houston, who was announced
at first, will not be able to be present.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02
To Kill Wheeling's New Charter Z
With Fake Municipal Code Bill

evers the big interests may have
thought of it in the first place, it is
certain that now that so many pro-
gressive clauses have been inserted
that they are opposed to it. Hard
Cash Ogden has been sneering at
the new charter, using as a principal
pretext that 1t is unkind to prevent
nonresident property owners from
voting in city elections, and Too
Much Haskins is growing quite VIC
lent in his opposition, seemingly be-
cause the secretary of the commission
happened to be born in Canada in
stead of WetZel county
The politicians saw that they were
making the people like the charter be-
cause of their own noisy opposition,
and now they apparently fear vote
of the people on the measure, and will
depend upon killing it in the legisla-
<ture with the Municipal Code fake
for a genuine Home Rule TO- Cities
law.
Trades Assembly Lines Up. E.
Organized Labor, through the Ohio
Valley Trades and Labor Assembly,
has taken decided and definite stand
in favor of the new charter. A special
meeting was held last Sunday after
noon, which lasted until late in the
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02
Clerks Tell Unions
Locke Stores Unfair

Wheeling Retail Clerks Union No.
126 has committee visiting the To-
cal unions of the city, explaining to
then<that the Locke Shoe Stores, on
Main and Market streets, are unfair
to organized Labor. The visiting will
be kept up until every union in
Wheeling is made acquainted with
Labor's views in the matter, and
then the scene will be changed to
the other side of the river On the
Ohio side the hundreds of mine work
ers and other local unions will be
visited. Should settlement not be
reached by that time, a state cam
naien will be made aeeordine e .s.l.e
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02
CARPENTERS

Local Union No. 3, of Wheeling" will
noio Its first quarterly meeting Friday
evening, January 3, at this meeting
an members aeg required to show
their due books to the trustees for the
purpose OF comparing them with the
DOCKS OF the financial secretary.
All local unions in the district will
hold meetings the coming week
The District Council will hofd it's
hrst meeting of the year Wednesday
evening, Jan. 9Th, when the new coun.
Gil will be formed$Qr the coming wear.
Bro. K. c. holland of No. 3 Is still
at Cresson, Pa, but expects to be
through some time the first of the yeare
Bros. Albert Weller and Elmer Rit.
ter of No. 80 have recovered from
their fall received some time ago.
Bro. w. j. Grassland is still on the
sick list, through an accident received
while working on the Exchange Bank.
Bro. Garland Freeman, president of.
No. II, Bellaire. has about completed
MS new residence and will soon be al
home on thegpike
Bro j. SHChenoweth and wife have
just returned from a visit to Fostoria.
Ohio -
Several of the brothers who have
been working on the City hospital,
and who live in Pittsburgh, spent the
most part of the holidays in that place
i with their families.
Bro. p. D. Nickerson, secretary Of
the D. C., and former steward on the
City Hospital, has been confined to his
home wit ha bad eye.
Bro. N. s. Oum,. financial secretary
of No. 1904, McMechen. spent the
most part of last week in the country
visiting his mother
Bro. James Rowan is still off duty
on account of an injured hand.
Brothers, have you the red card vet?
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02
Want To Pre1e11t
Lead Poisoning

New York icfy, Jan 1..-(Spl,)-
Following. the success of it's efforts
to have Congress- enact aElaw prevent
ing the manufacture Of phossy jaw
matches, the American Association
for Labor Legislation in its quarterly
Review issued today proposes as a
part of it's legislative program for
1913, the prevention of lead poisoning
in this country. The Review shows
the remedy for lead poisoning ito be
as simple as the evils it will combat
are complex and that there is no need
for costly and long experiments as
was the case with PHOSPHORUS pois-
oning. Cleanliness of workrooms and
workers, the use of hoods and ex-
hausts to eliminate fumes and lead
dust will do here what they have done
in England and Europe and what they
are doing today in Illinois.
Results of investigations of COM
parable American and foreign factor
les are set down in parallel columns.
A German Whitehead factory shows
two cases of plumbism among $50
men, an American whitehead factory
shows rs cases among 142 men. An
English white and red-lead factory
employing 80 men, shows no case of
poisoning in five successive years, a
similar American factory shows IS
men loaded in six months, among a
force of So. Another English firm
furnishes no case among 1872 men for
1911, an American factory for the
same year returns so cases among
ITO men. Thirteen cases of poisoning
| ON 7QR dinnnrc n Tn ole nd
pares with Is cases. among 85f Amer
| lean dippers. -
One Day Rest in Seven.
/ Drawing upon the richer experience
of Europe and upon such facts as are
available here, a One Day Rest in
Seven law is also proposed. The usual
Sunday laws are shown not to be eff
fective in the prohibition of seven day
work in such industries as must be
carried on without interruption every
day of the week. A Encouragement oil
shifts under a six-day week is the
remedy proposed. f
Scientists, physicians and employ
ers are quoted to the effect that One
Day of Rest in Seven is essential to
hygienic living and advantageous
from an economic point of view, and
an investigation on behalf of the
shareholders of an English railroad is
cited showing that the rule off s.
days of rest per year in the arilroads
of Switzerland has helped more thar
any other cause to reduce accidents
due to the fault of employees by 81
IEper cent, and to prevent 70 per cen
of bodily injuries.
Standard Schedules.
A working population little less
than half of that of Lawrence, Mass.
is now killed every year in industr!
and a population almost half the siz'
of greater New York is injured. AS
step toward removing this disgrace
to American civilization" uniform re
porting of industrial accidents ami
diseases and the adoption of the stan
dard Schedules is advocated. Eigh
states have enacted the disease re
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02

big Business" with the assistance
of its handmaiden, tLittle Politics, u
is planning to XIII the proposed COM
mission charter for Wheeling in the
next legislature hxk "Munic1apl
Code" bill.
The plan is to hare the Capitalist
forces punched at tn sgis1aturei and
divert attention to the Municipal
Code" bill, which, twill be promised,
will give the cities Of the state the
opportunity to werkAo ut their own
problems and adopt sheir owp char
teFs. The answerf will then be made
to the Wheeling contfngen 1--WE
can't bother with local charter bills;
we have this MunicipaL Code bill,
which is to go into ffect within
ninety days after passaen, and then
you can have for you1se IS whatever
charter you want.
The merry pirates of public utili,
ties hope to get By with this before
the people discover It'll But they will
finally learn thatSthe Municipal Code
bill limits thet city in eeEry wax, so
as to just prevent the taking of the
very steps that the present proposed
charter contains.Ss
Politicians are lined up unanimous
ly against the prsposed charter. What
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02
Automobile Victi@ Dies;
Dailies Suppress Facts

Lee c. PAUL, local insurance man,
struck James Reilly with his automo-
ole early Thursday morning. Decem-
DER 26. The victim died within
'~eNe houes. Some strange influence
hePt Mr.. 'Paull's name out of the daily
papers, though Reilly, being work
Msman. got the kind of publicity
most likely to break the heart of. his
Sorrowlng wife. From the evidence
Drought out at the coroner's inquest,
al Which PAUL was the only eye-wit-
ness' Mrs. Paul not being called, held
M tne Jury room at the corut house
IaS. friday. 1t was brought out that
b auil and his wife were automobiling
noiue"ard at 1:30 a. m. Thursday,
@Hen, on McColloch street near Four
t ts ne noticed man clinging to
ste iron railing and waving his arms,
h hno' Just as the machine reached
D. D. threw himself in front of it.
w arl says he stopped the machine
coni running over the man. and
dona ding 70 a passerby whose name he
M not Know, asked him to notify
W. pYilce: He then proceeded on his
nass aoll1ylng the fire station as he
f faa "a and calling UP the police of
after rom Si his home in Highland Parl
noa Stranger seems to have disap
80 ~,eu' put the police got the message
p om me fire house and brought
cell w; - ne was locked up in {
Sac " o,o, medical attention unit
Dr. Ny y c a in the morning, whel
icantS lam found the odor of intox
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02
TRoLLEYMEN GET RAISE.


Hamilton, Jan. 2.-The organized
motormen and conductors on the
street railway lines in this, city have
arrived at an amicable agreement be
tween the company and the men as to
wages and the extension of the pres
emf agreement The employees are at
present recen ING Is cents an hour fol
the first Year; ~ cents for the. second
and q cents for the third year and
thereafter. Tne new schedule in
.creaSes me m4se to 20 cents for the
FIRST year, % cents for the second aQd
% Gems lol me third year. and there
a.eer. !. &c present. agreement, which
will expire in March, 1914, has beer
extended with the rates above refer
FED to incorporated for two years, OIL
until 1915.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-02

at 1870 p. m. An autopsy was held
later in the afternoon attended by
Coroner DR.. Barnett. Health Officer
DR.. Milan, and Drs. Plant, Reed, and
Campbell brought out the fact that
Reilly's death had been caused by
conclusion of the brain, there being
fracture at the base OF the SKULL
and that there was evidence OF an In
jury over the kidneys that would nave
caused death in time.
The easy explanation was offered
that Reilly had fallen some time pre-
Viously and that the automobile naa
not injured him. This explanation
was accepted as satisfactory by IKE
firing Prosecutor Handlan and the
new prosecuting attorney, Il. M. Al,
dleman. The coroner's verdict placed
ali the blame upon Reilly. The daily
papers keeping Paull's name out, &C
cused Reilly oof being AN haDltual
drunkard The idea seemed to be 20
create the impression that he ought
/ to have been killed, anyway.
| Unfortunate Victim.
| James Reilly, it viii be remember
cd by most readers, is the man VINO
lost his three children in the fire thai
tdestroyed his home in Mt. de Chantal
three years ago. He has always been
Ian industrious and hardworking man
lint since that loss there have beer
occasions when he apparently trleo
Ito dull his suffering in drink,
/ But even then, it will be wondered
lhnw ne was able to stand by tns
4 fanca and wave his arms II be has
f.. fractured skull. conclusion OF tns
main 4 ss and s ruptured kidney And WI!