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Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
Enunelatlnu Nothing New.

The Democratic contention is that
the policy of protection has been car
ried too far; that certain industries
developed under it no longer need It;
that as to them protection is DOW a
gift, bounty; that all such duties
should be Topped off. and other duties
reduced to square with the needs OF
the great mass of the people.
A good contention. but it did not
originate with the Democratic party
of today. President Mckinley, pro-
tectionist of protectionists, voiced it
in clear terms in what proved to be
his last public utterance. Twelve
years ago at Buffalo he advised tarifr
revision on the lines of no duties
where duties were no longer needed
and lower duties where without injury
to business they could be lowered.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
NOW AWAIT EVENTS
Tariff Bill Should Have Chance
to Prove Value.
Pcssimism at This Time Is Out Of
Place Until Results One Way or
the Other Have Been Made
Plain.

The steel men who had banquet
in Chicago the other day do not ap-
pear to be suffering from the effects
of the new tariff law as yet. Some of
them, be 1t said to their credit, do not
intend to suffer. But there are 9TH
ers who seem to feel that they are
the victims of oppression. Even Mr.
Schwab, who once boasted of his abil-
ity to do things against foreign com
petitors, harked back with melancholy
humor to the days of high duties.
As sympathy was denied the mourn
ers long before the law was passed IL
is not likely to be poured forth before
the effects of the law can be intelli-
gently studied. The country has fully
accepted the contention that down
ward revision was not partisan ques-
tion merely but a question of Justice.
The purpose was not to deprive men.
of rights, but to wipe out a discrimina-
ton that was wrong. And the time
for debate is now over. HenceforthI
We shall deal with condition, not g
theory.
Instruction will come not from the
lips of orators at banquets but from
the returns of trade and the business
actually done by our manufacturing
industries. If there is decline there
will be no concealing the facts. All
the interested politicians singing In
chorus could not prove that there was
a great output when trade was dull
And an attempt at the pathetic by the
traders and manufacturers when bust
ness was good would be merely a
pleasant advertisement. 1t seems to
be an excellent plan to drop prophecy
and await events.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
GIRL BINDS AND
GAGS HERSELF
Saturates Clothing With kerO-
sene and Starts a Fire.
FAKES STORY OF ASSAULT,
Believed That So Much Thought
OF Danger OF Attacks Became
a Mania With the
Woman.

Chicago. = Fernwood, a residence
suburb, was thrown into great ex-
ciiment when Gertrude Hanson, aged
n, pretty domestic in the employ
of Mrs. Otto V. Johns, was found I'M
conscious in the basement, her feet
and hands tied, gag in her mouth,
her clothing saturated with kerosene
and the basement room blazing with
burning paper,
The rumor quickly spread that the
girl had been assaulted and then
stricken down with hammer and
the house set on fire to conceal the
crime. Detectives rushed to the dis
trict and began rounding up all sus-
picious characters.
After a long cross-examination, the
girl confessed to the police that she
tied her feet, gagged herself, soaked
her clothing with kerosene, set fire to
a lot of waste paper in the basement
and then tied handkerchief over her
eyes and slipped her hands into a
moose previously prepared. The dense
fumes from the burning paper rem
dered her unconscious and she would
have persisted had not Mrs. Johns
smelled the smoke and rushed into
the basement She dragged the un-
conscious girl outside and a chemical
engine company made short work OF
the fire.
The girl is unable to explain her
queer actions or give any motive. She
SAWS eIu fAe baan sfi rnntfa7,N alarm
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
Progressive party's Future.

The problem confronting the Pro-.
gressive party since its foundation has,
not been to create new type of poll.
tics. The contention that the Progress
sive party is attempting, in the con-
tinuous constructive work which It!
has undertaken. anything impractical
or unusual, and therefore doomed to
be ephemeral, is the reverse of thel
case. 1t has undertaken to make POI
litical activity modern, businesslike..
systematic; to bring into political
work men of the widest interests and
sympathies, not simply men who. hav-
ing nothing else to do or being UNIT
for other labors. must have political,
"jobs" as a means of livelihood.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
New Political Era.

new era is opened in politics.
whose issues are vaguely forming
themselves. The public is more dis
cernlng than ever before and is keen
to detect self-seeking and pretended
virtue. The people are showing more
homogeneousness and less class dis
tinction than ever in the past The
future would appear to belong to the
men or the party who will most clear
ly see where the public welfare lies
and who most truly work in that de
rection. The modern stateman must
be progressive. He must also be con-
EtructiYe.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
THE THIRTEENTH I'll
At WHITE HOUSE
Miss Wilson is Not Afraid
the Hoodoo.
TWELVE OTHER WEDDING !
Great interest Taken BY the Amert
4 ean People n the Eysps Tbs
otasss V, ,eda,ggS rsst Es,
] fN Taken Place There

washington. two weeks one of
the most interesting events scheduled
for this season will take place, and
that is the wedding of the second
daughter of the President of the United
States. Miss Jessie Wilson will when
she becomes the bride of Mr.. Frances
Bowen Sayre make the thirteenth
bride to have been married in the
| White House. From now on specula-
tion will be rife as to the gifts, the
| trousseau, the list of wedding guests,
ana the thousand and one things that
concern the young woman, who fol-
lows bravely in her fathers footsteps
and says, well, thirteen always was
my lucky number"
Mr.. Sayre, who is to share with Miss
| Wilson all the agreeable publicity OF
a White House wedding, probably
cares as little as she that the wedding
will be tile thirteenth o be celebrated
in the romantic old colonial mansion,
dear to all Americans, and known to
all familiarly, as the Write House, In
stead of the more stately and perhaps
dignified name of the Executive Man
sion. In itself it is romantic old
mansion, it even has ghost or sew
eral, according to the old time colored
folk. who claim to have seen the
''haunts" under the big front portico,
But If there is a spook, it must be a
benefcient old soul, for from this
house of dreams the way to happiness
has led for at least 12 other couples.
A White House wedding is an event
to stir ones blood in Washington.
When Miss Alice Roosevelt became
the bride of Representative Nicholas
Longworth in 1906 pages and pages
were written concerning the event for
days and even weeks before. 1t seem
ed to be almost the only topic of news
of interest to the people. And why
should it not be, the White House be-
ing the house of the people, and its
occupants put there by the people?
The wedding of Miss Wilson and
Mr.. Sayre, will be the last up to date
of long list OF historic weddings
which have since 1911 taken place in
the White House. The first was that
of Lucy Payne Washington, sister Of
Mrs. James Madison, the wife of the
then President Madison, who was
married to D. Judge Todd, of Ken
lucky. The others who have pledged
their troth in the famous old mansion
are:
In 1872, Anna Todd, cousin of Mrs.
Madison, who married Representative
John G. Jackson, of Virginia.
In 1925, John Adams. son of Presi-
dent Adams. married his cousin, Helen
Jackson.
An Historic List.
From 1929 to 1887, during the Jack
son administration, there were three
weddings. Della Lewis, friend of
President Jackson's, was married to
Alphonse Joseph Yver Pageot, an at
tache of the French Legation. Mary
Easton, niece of President Jackson.
was married to Lucien B. Polk, AMP
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
EGGS rs CENTS A DOZEN.
New York Dealers Expect Price To Go
Still Hiuher.

New York.-Eggs are so scarce in
New York that dealers have put the
retail prices up to rs cents a dozen for
the best quality, and prospects are
that they will go from 8 to cents a
dozen higher. The present wholesale
price is 81 cents dozen, although cer-
tain brands of Western eggs may be
obtained for 4S cents a dozen. Fail
ure of hens to lay this year and a
shortage in the cold-storage supply are
given by dealers as reasons for the
scarcity.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
PEANUT BUYERS TRUST.
Department OF Justice Begins lnvestI-
cation OF Charges.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of pea
nut trust among buyers operating in
Virginia was begun by the Department
oil Justice. According to representa-
bions made to Attorney General Nc
Reynolds by prominent residents of
North Carolina, peanut buyers have
forced prices down nearly 80 per cent.
in short time. The same men in
formed the department that the alleged
trust made over 200 per cent. profit
last year.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
TOLL OF STORM
ON GREAT LAKES
More Than a Score of Lives
Known to Be Lost.
ONE VESSEL TURNED TURTLE
Property Loss From Three-pays' Gale
and snowstorm Will Run into the
MilIions-1It Hardest At
Cleveland.

Chicago.-The shores of Lakes Su-
perior, Huron and Erie were streWn
with the wreckage of a three-day gale
and snowstorm, which cost the lives of
probably three-score persons, turned
bottom up in mid-lake 300foot vessel,
with its crew, wrecked or grounded
numerous other craft and caused a
property loss as yet unestimated, but
which will run into millions.
On land the storm hit hardest at
Cleveland, Ohio, where 21 inches of
snow fell, five persons were killed and
ten Others lost, and where $2,OO0,0OO
damage was caused to property, chiefly
telephone and telegraph systems, thus
keeping that city out of direct COM
mnnication for two days. The death
toll, with many ports unreported, is
told thus: o
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
WHOLE FAMILY is DEAD.
Wife Kills Son and Herself Following
Husbands Death.

Richmond, Ky.-Mrs. Benjamin L.
Banks. one of the most prominent
women of Kentucky, shot and killed
her only child. boy. aged 12 years,
then blew out her own brains at her
home in this city today The tragedy
followed the receipt of news announc-
ing the sudden death from pneumonia
of her husband in Adair county, where
he had been visiting his parents. Mrs.
Banks was formerly secretary of the
State Federation of .Woman's Clubs.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
GERMANY FOR 1T.
Combination OF Powers In Support OF
American Policy.

Berlin-At the German Foreign
Office it was said that a combination
of the powers in support of the United
States would be considered by Ger
many and other European powers in
case the United States expressed a
wish in that direction. If, however.
such suggestion came from Pro
visional President Huerta, it would not
be considered by Germany unless the
United States desired it.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
larson SQUAD" USES BOMB.
Wrecks Cactus House and Fires Two
Buildings.

London,--Militant suffragette arson
squade and bomb troops were at work
In several parts of the British Isle.
The cactus house at Alexandra Park,
Manchester, containing a collection
valued at $4,000. was wrecked by a
bomb. Begbrook, fine mansion near
Bristol, was badly damaged by fire.
The Bowling and Tennis Clubs house
at Catford, southeast of London, was
burned down.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
e WINS N THAW csl
Nav Y. ReaaisItIol

view ft-ass Fht4NtSittVi, E ts
Concord /, -aoseraor 7 81 assllkeer slker
bf New York for the extrag Ion of
Harry X. Thaw. The case'Vis now
transferred automatically TO the Fed
eral courts, where writ of habeas
corpus on behalf of Thaw is pending.
The Governor based his decision on
the indictment returned against Thaw
In New York county, which charged
him with conspiracy to escape from
the insane asylum at Matteawan,
N. Y, to which he was committed
after his second trial for the killing
Of Stanford White. At a conference
of COUNSEL following the decision it
was agreed that the status quo should
continue for a week, Thaw remaining
here in his present custody, during
which time his counsel will prepare
the papers for the procedure in the
United States Court.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
POULTRY PLENTIFUL.
Arrival OF 1856 Car Loads In New York
An Indication.

New York.-The arrival of 1876 car
loads of live poultry in New York
establishes record and indicates an
immense stock of poultry throughout
the United States, it is declared here.
The shipments come from almost
every State in the Union, particularly
from the Middle West. An estimate
of the total receipts of live poultry for
1918 to date is 5000 car loads, making
New York city's poultry bill thus far
this year over S16.000.000.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
TREATING coNvIcrs KINDLY.
Stripes Abolished At the San Quentin
Penitentiary.

San Quentin, Cal.-At San Quentin
Penltentiary there are but six striped
suits worm These are used by the
men in solitary confinement. Around
the bonfire which destroyed the
striped uniforms stood nearly 1000
convicts in gray cadet suits. Music
of the prison band mustered out the
historic convict marking. Hereafter
there will be marks for the different
classes
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
BOY KILLS MOTHER.
Accidentally Puts Bullet In Her Brain
With New Rifle.

Kingston, y. Y.-Twelve-year-old
John KLEIN, proud possessor of a new
rifle, was shooting at files on the din
ing-room wall when his mother entered
the room, just as he shouted warn
ing she stepped in front of the weapon.
The bullet entered her brain through
the eye and she died.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
TRA|NMEN GET
WAGE INCREASE
Eastern Employees Raise to
Average Seven Per Cent.
MEANS $1,000, 600 TO ROADS.
Federal Board Rules Against Work
men on Four Out OF Five Points,
But Finds For Them On
Higher-cost Argument.

New York.-The long-lived con
troversy between railroads of the East
and their conductors and trainmen
over the laItter's demands for more
pay is at an end. The employees are
granted an increase in wages averag-
ing per cent. and totaling $6,O00,O0O
annually-about half of what they
wanted-from October last, effective
for one year. One hundred thousand
men will share in the increase.
Thus ends, by arbitration under the
Newlands amendment to the Erdman
act, controversy that threatened at
one time to tie up by a strike the
transportation facilities of all States
east of the Mississippi River and north
of the Ohio. The award of the arbi-
tration commission, filed in the Fed
eral District Court, is binding and
final. The two board representatives
OF the employees filed minority report
in addition and the two representa-
tives of the Al railroads a dissenting
opinion.
In reaching its award the board
ruled mainly against the employees on
four out of five points submitted as
reasons why the increase should be
granted and found for the men the
firth-the increased cost of living.
Since 1909, when last an increase was
granted, the arbitrators found the cost
of living has increased per cent.
Certain minor contentious embraced
also were conceded TO the employees.
It was, therefore more than a CO.
4 incidence that tlle increase sgrapts "a
sr,s a.a4 n N " aasi a. AZ III &
COST of lising, az oatlined by docu-
ments introduced by Nhe employees
THE hoard does not found fits action
entirely upon the increased cost of
living" reads the award, document
of rs printed pages, Though it looks
upon this as basic"
Without attempting to standardize
the rates of pay between railroad en-
ployes of the East and the West, the
board asserts its belief that 1t is de-
sirable, but not possible at the pres
emit time, AS TO this, the award voices
the opinion that Congress should make
an inquiry as to whether there is any
longer substantial reason for the
maintenance of wage differential be-
tween the two sections.
Such an inquiry ought to result in
q recommendation, reads the award,
''if 1t is found that such a differential
ought to exist, as to what the diff
ferential should be. Those making
the, inquiry should be empowered to
report upon existing wage scales in
all territories for the purpose of ascer-
tanning, If possible, a scientific basis
for the payment of railroad employees
who operate trains. This suggestion
does not contemplate that the body
making such inquiry should attempt
to fix wages"
1t is suggested that the Committee
on Industrial Relations, recently ap-'
pointed by President Wilson might
be competent to carry out the sug-
gested inquiry.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
RECEIVERS FREE FROM TAX.
Supreme Courts Decision On Corpora.
tion Law

tion Law
Observation-Disclosures of insolvent
corporations are not required to pay
the corporation tax imposed by the
Payne-Aldrich law, according to a de-
cision by the Supreme Court The de-
cislon was in the case of the Third
Avenue Railway Company and the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Of New York, but the principles laid
down are applicable to many other
corporations placed in the hands of re-
ceivers by courts. The contention
that such corporations were not doing
business within the meaning of the
law was sustained.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
MRS. LUCINDA GODDARD DEAD.
When SO Years Old She Was Mar.
ried To a Student, Aged 20.

Hartford, Conn. = Mrs. Lucinda
Treat Goddard. aged 73, whose mar
riage to Charles A. Goddard, 90
year-old Yale student, brought her to
public notice in 1909. died at her home
Death was due to apoplexy. At the
time of her marriage to Goddard, her
son made an unsuccessful effort to
have conservator appointed for her
estate, which is said to be extensive.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
OLD HARVARD ALuMNus DEAD.
Was Father of Professor Renouf, OF
Johns Hopkins.

Keene. N. H.-Rev. DR.. Edward
Augustus Renouf, rector emeritus Of
st. James Episcopal Church. died here,
aged 50 years. DR.. Renouf. was one
of the oldest alumni of Harvard, from
which he was graduated in 1888. He
Us survived by son, DR.. Edward
Renouf, professor of chemistry at
Johns Hopkins University.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-14
The Death Toll.

Twenty-Five, perhaps 40 men, prob
ably drowned in the overturning of a
freighter found floating in Lake Huron.
Five bodies washed ashore at st.
Joseph, on the Canadian side Of Lake
Huron (four had belts marked Wex-
ford and one wore belt marked Lon
don).
Three bodies washed ashore on the
west shore of Lake Huron. Two
todies were washed ashore opposite
spesation of the overturned boat.
ix members of hghtship drowned
lake Erie near Buffalo, N. T.
Fhe ESCAPES from death were npnler-
Aft8r the storm about FRIDAY
fss. ~ 49, y 1-ssti7 !, ~. ~ 81 -
b. 9TS the siiip gupt j. ~. BuddIe.
SqA the stsatntp.s b. G. Waldo navi-
qm, srDy smally Inaccurate compass
@Ahe aid of ia lantern held by a
sa In this way he guided himself
end crew to reef, where the crew on
landing suffered intense cold and
hunger until their rescue today.
The crew of the Turret Chief, when
the ship struck the rocks in Lake Su-
perior, were forced to go ashore
scantily clad. They built a hut to pro-
tect them from the blizzard.
Property Loss Heavy.
1t was impossible even to estimate
the loss to vessels wrecked or damaged
by grounding. Shippers in Detroit
estimated the loss in Lake Huron and
the Detroit and st. Clair Rivers alone
to be several hundred thousand dollars.
Three of the wrecked steamers in
crease the loss by 100000, while the
scores of smaller craft driven ashore
an Lake Superior and Lake Erie will
send the total much higher
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-13
James Blakely, Home
 Again, and Criticises
 City Management

-
 After an absence of nearly five years James Blakely, who for years en1iven- ed the public hearings at the Common Council chamber with his views on municipal affairs and his opposition to useless improvements, appeared be- fore the Council Monday in opposi- ton to the laying of Warrenite on William street.. MT. B4akely owns considerable property fronting on that thoroughfare he said and he is dis satisfied with the way public i'm provements are made in Bridgeport. For several years past MT. BlakeIy has been visiting in Newark and vicinity.
 tIf you want to see public improve ments properly carried out, go to South Orange or East Orange, New Jersey, he said There you will see good roads. Roads of macadam if properly laid are the best you can get, but the foundation must be laid deep. The trouble with Inacadannized streets in Bridgeport is that the foundation is not laid to the proper depth and there fore the road wears out quickly.
 <fThen again our sewers are good. They are not. built properly and no matter how. much anyone talks, you can't get the people here to build them properly I have lived in Bridgeport 45 years and now with the high cost of living like a great many other property owners, I cannot pay ex- penses let alone make money on my property. I could stand here for five hours talking about the bad manage ment and waste of money that I see in Bridgeport, but what's the use?s'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-13
TO LESSEN HIGH
 COST OF LIVING
In Cooperative Organ nations Must First Report To U. S. Department
 Of Agriculture

Washington, Aug t3-Co-operatton In marketing with a view to 1essen1ng the Thigh cost of living seems to have taken such a hold on the people of the United States that the depart ment of agriculture is being fnun- dated with requests from such co- operative organizations for an iavestt gation of their individual merits.
 The department, it was disclosed, has not yet fully organized it's new bureau of markets which was design ed to organize and systenatize the economical distribution of food be- In it's announcement it is set forth that less than 64 applicants for the position of specialist in cooperative organizations disclosed the proper qualifications and that the civil ser vice commission would require some time to make a recommendation
 After the specialist in co-operatibe organization has been selected,'' says the department statement, 'f1t is pos sfble that this officer, as opportunity arises, may make personal observations as to the conduct and methods of some of the numerous organizations in the United States to assist the department in giving the most valuable infor- nation and advice to groups of per sons desiring to effect Organizations g
 Until that time however, the depart ment will decline to tackle the ques- ton of cooperative buying and sell ing.