Lower coast gazette., 1913-09-20

When arrested ThaW seemed re
lieyerd. Then he hired almost every
lawyer in Colebrook.
Mayor Gaynor died of heart. failure
on his way to Europe. He was shot
in 1910, the last attempt on his part
before this trip to go to Europe. Then
he lowered between life and death. An
insane discharged city employee, who
died afterwards in the insane asy.
lum, was the attempted murderer. The
mayor did not die. The bullet, how
ever, could not be removed. Lately 1t
worked in his throat and brought on
fits of violent coughing.
Mayor Gaynor vas born in 1851, the
poor son of a poor farmer. He studied
for the priesthood, then gave up his
desire to become the Ambassador of
Christ. He then taught school and
studied law. He became a newspa-
per reporter. He began his career of
reform by fighting the unlicensed sa-
looms in Flatbush, a seton of Brook
lyn. He won. From that time until
his death he was always doing strange
things, always reforming, sending his
opponents to prison and himself to
judgeships and fame. His excellent
letters and unique policies excited ma
tional attention. He was of a warrirs
disposition and he died like a warrior.
The State Railroad Commission of
California has ordered the representa-
tiyes of the Pullman Company to ap-
pear before it and answer the follow
ing questions:
% How much the company de-
ponds upon passengers tips in figur-
ing porters' wages?
(2) Why upper berths are pulled
down when unoccupied, making lower
berths stuffy and cramped.
(3} Why the answer mo lowers
left" proves to have been a mistake
the next morning.
() why a passenger must wait the
porter's pleasure when wishing his
berth made up.
90 Why the same berth is often
sold to more than n person.
The cost of living on June 18th was
60 per cent higher than the average
between 1890 and 1900, Is per cent
hlgner than it was two years ago, and
8 per cen thigher than it was in 1912.
The price of bacon in 1913 is 1855
per cent higher than it was between
the years 1890 and 1900.
Pork chops are sold in 1913 at a.
price which is more than double what
they sold for twenty years ago.
OF all the articles upon which this
investigation was based, sugar alone
showed a decrease in price Of 8 per
cent. During the past year the price
of bacon went up 1872 per cent, smok-
ed ham 14.1 per cent, pork chops 1874,
hens 11.S, eggs IT,, round steak 10.l,
sirloin steam 9.8, lard IL, rib roast
6.8, butter ,5.8 and milk Al.
The prices on these fifteen ordinary
articles were secured from all the large
cities Of the country and an average
price deduced from these several
prices.
What a man bought for a dollar in
1896, he must now pay 81. 60 to get.
Since 1895 we have had combina-
tons and contradictions. We have
had trusts which Republicans in 1895
declared would be able to reduce the
price Of articles by diminishing the
expenses of securing the raw materi-
ais and manufacturing the finished
products. This has not been done.
The boon of trusts has eve yet come
to us.
Congressman "Big Tim" Sullivan,
the political Good Samaritan of the
New York Bowery, who shod the shoe
less. shivering feet of his constitu.
ents in winter, and fed them and
clothed many of them throughout the
year-who fought Tammany and kept
it out of his district for a while, then
Joined with it that the added results
of his alliance he might use to make
the place he held in the hearts of his
poor Bowery people more durable II
such could be done; is dead. And
the Bowery is weeping, for the hand
that helped them is l~ifeless, it's am
~bassador, it's Good Samaritan is gone.
Twice he served as Congressman
and was elected again, but he did not
serve. He was crazy. Thirteen days
he was gone from his house and dead
He had been killed by a suburban train
: in New York. His body lay in the
morgue unidentified, before the eyes Of
!, the keeper who had long known the
dead man, but still unrecognized; the
J mangled, dead body lay until when
it was about to be buried in the pot
: tiers field the identity was discovered,
! Sullivan was worth more than Sc.