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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-03-22

SAM Miranda said, looking straight
ahead Of her, you'll hate me when
tell you, but I've got to or I'd hate my
self worse. never had any rich rela-
tons any more than that grasshopper
has. I got a place as waitress IN a
restaurant and did like 1t at first, but
one of the girls told a lie on me and
was discharged. I got another place,
but they didn't want me till the next
week, so I spent that week home,
making goose Of myself.
1.-THE head waiter at the new place
was cross and the weather got hotter
and hotter; wanted to leave a month
ago, but I was ashamed to give up.
until yesterday, I couldn't stand it q
minute longer, and packed my things
and came"
Sam had slipped his arm around her
waist as she spoke. and he looked
down at her as If to make sure that
this was no dream.
would you be willing to live on q
farm all the rest of your life, Miriam
dy?" he asked.
II wouldn't live any other place."
she answered, without hesitation.
Z II know a nice little farm about
five miles from here that can get"
Sam went on, land If you say SO I'll
go and rent it today and we'll go there
in January. Would you like that.
Mirandy?"
Deter than anything else, Sam, she
said SOFTLY. ..--
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office.
Now Red perched himself on the
rosewood desk and chatted with the
cleaners while his sharp eyes roamed
over the room.
1t was his private opinion that Cor
don Gliding, the old mans Son. was
the culprit. He knew that the young
er Gliding had dealings with broker
age firms of which the other partners
were unaware and he escorted the
cleaners on their tour of the rooms
in the hope that some torn scrap of
paper might betray a secret.
He searched the waste basket with
care, but the user had been careful,
too There was not even a hint of
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plaster on the floor and a man was
just fixing it when she came to dust
in the-morning. -
When I saw that circular got
wise. Bender hires the room for Rob-
erts & Co. He fixed the man to put
one of the telephones in the chandelier
and run the wire to the desk in the
room above. His partner is a stenog-
rapher and he takes down in short
hand anything you say that is i'm
portant and sells it to the Blatchford
crowd: That's how they keep wise.
Now don't say nothin'. but CLIMB up
there and give look. It's behind the
rufhes on the light works"
Gliding did as he was told, and
looked back of the filigree. Presently
he climbed down with an odd look in
his eyes. Red nodded sagely as he
saw that he had won, and beckoned
his employer into the next room
again.
you fix up a fake deal with ono
of the big fellows" he advised, and
see how quick Blatchford knows
about It,"
I'm the meantime say nothing"
urged Gliding. when we land the
crowd you shall have the reward"
Red earned the thousand in the next
few days keeping quiet. It was hard
not to brag when the clerks leased
him about his failure to find the war
let's" for Reds detective aspirations
had become an office joke.
But Reds triumph came when there
was a raid on the floor above and the
superitendent's partner was caught
red-handed taking notes Of confer
ence in the office below.
Even then the clerks would not be-
lieve Red until Terhune came out from
the private offices and approached
Reds desk.
HOW'LL you take that rewards" he
asked. Want it in bills or check?"
Red drew imaginary pictures in I'M
aginary dust on his desk.
II was figurin' I'd get you to borrow
it," he said awkwardly. "You en- get
married right away then. and you can
pay me back when you get ready. II
had it don't know what I'd do with
it just now. You keep it for me-
Terhune hesitated g. moment, then
his hand closed over the boys.
| Red" he said, It'll take the loan.
You are a gentleman and you are
right The money will do you more
good later on and meanwhile it will
be earning interest. I will speak to
Mr.. Gliding about it, but I am sure
that he will think it WISE"
He came back presently and smiled
at the boy. "Mr. Gliding will hold
the mortgage for you," he said. Laura
and I are both grateful to you, Red. y
Red caught at Terhune's arm. 'C'n
YOU let me have SO now?" he asked
IT Just got to celebrate the undoin' OF
the varlets.'
He got It.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-03-22
ately had she been dealing In the
generalities. s...~.,s ;. ): - 49,

ately had she been dealing In the
generalities. s--~'s-s :: :. sSs:$$s
She had told many things that
seemed wonderful, until now Virginia
knew that Mrs. Burman had told her.
and the secret was out. -
Holdings was clever enough to let
her eat her dinner without talking
much, and it was not until the check
had been paid. and they sought seats
on the upper deck that she slipped
her hand in his.
VIM" she said, softly, ''you must
realize how convincing it all was when
I could not know that the gypsy had
been posted
II do" he assented as he patted the
hand that lay within his own. but:
now that you do know the truth don't.
you think, dear, that you can change.
that NO to Yes %
II think" said Virginia, refiectively.
as she nestled closer to Hollings' arm.
that you ought to go back and g1va
that head waiter big tip, Win. for
putting me at your table. hated you
when you ordered for the two Of -
but now love YOU"
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dead run tomorrow"
Vinton Gliding, coming to the Of
flee unexpectedly early the following
morning, gasped with amazement as
he threw open the door and found
Red standing on the desk on which
he had placed pile of newspapers.
What are you doing here?" he
Numbered.
Putting in a new GLOBE" explained
Red loudly. lone was burned out and
T got new one from the janitor."
Red leaped lightly from the desk
and with his finger over his lips as a
sign of silence, he led the way into
the next office, carefully closing the
door behind him. Too dazed to ex-
postulate, Gliding followed him.
Does that $1,000 gag go?" de-
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ceiling depended handsome electrol-
Ter of bronze with a wealth Of filigree
work about the central standard.
Beneath this was the rosewood desk
at which Vinton Gliding sat and at
which had gathered most Of the kings
of the financial district, for Vinton
Gliding was power on 1.-THE Street"
and in that room were planned many
of the coups that startled the minor
spectators.
Lately the coups had all gone
wrong, and it was the knowledge that
he was losing his power among his
fellows that had driven Gliding to
desperation. It was being saif - to
join Gliding in a venture was 'urt
disaster, sand the moneyed IT.. we're
growing fearful of the tapestry uraped
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some mysterious fashion even the
boys knew that the ''old man" was on
the wrong side of that market.
The famous bull market had been
Rugged by the bears, and the house
of Gliding, Spence & Gliding was
badly hurt.
All through the day the stock fell
and with it fell a gloom on the face
of everyone in the big office. 1t was
not the first time nor the Goth that a
coup had been frustrated through
leakage. Many clerical heads had fall
en-, and many more were doomed to
fall, yet the trouble still continued.
AS Laura Hastings bent over her
work she wondered if, after the furry
was over. she Would find herself with
out employment.
She and Joe Terhune were saving up
to buy home that should be their
very own. There was still nearly $1,000
place now her savings would go to
pay her board bills until she found
another place, and this, she knew,
would be a difficult task for a girl
who had been discharged.
AS Vinton Glidding's personal stem
ographer she had taken the letters
which had planned the coup and sus-
picion surely would rest on her. Per-
haps Joe. too, would be let out since
it was on his recommendation that
she had obtained the position.
She glanced across the office tc
where he sat at the cashiers desk
and from the worried look upon his
face she argued that her fears were
justified.
1t was just before closing time that
Vinton Gliding appeared in the out
side office. His visitations to the Of
flee were rare enough under all cir
cumstances, but now silence fell
upon the private room and glanced
about the big office room under his
bushy eyebrows.
He had eyes which seemed tc
pierce one through and through, and
as his plance rested in turn upon each
of the employees, only RED" gave
back the look as good as sent. At last
his heavy voice broke in silence.
II suppose it is needless to tell you,
Mr.. Gliding began, that once more
there has been leakage as to certain
plans of the firm. I shall dismiss nc
one-yet will give $1,000 to any per.
son who before the end Of the week
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She was unused to travelling alone,
and ever since she had left the Bur-
mans at the dock, to complete the
journey home alone by a sound sheam-
er, she had felt embarrassed. The
fact that Vincent Holdings was on
board the boat did not add to the COM
fort Of her feelings.
Her progress down the long aisle Of
the dining saloon under the scrutiny
of several hundred pairs of eyes was
an ordeal. and she did not see that she
had been placed at the same table
with Holdings until the head waiter
had busted off with pompous stride to
usher others of the hungry to their
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gered for a chat with them. thereby
acquiring much information concern
ing the other tenants in exchange for
minor gossip about his own associates.
The women did not regard it as
strange that he should visit with them
while they worked or that he should
follow them into the other offices Of
the suite. There were three inner Of
fees ending in Vinton Glidding's pri-
vate room; somber, dignified apart
ment as became the head of so i'm
portant an institution as Gliding,
Spence & Gliding.
The walls were covered with tapes
try and only one or two we'll framed
pictures broke the surface. From the
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there were some faint-hearted jokes
made about the wholesale dismissal
on the morrow. Only Red seemed
confident, and as Terhune and Laura
left he followed them into the hall.
Fear not" he Kissed. RED Finner-
ty is on the trail.'
'Have you really discovered any
thing?" asked Laura eagerly. do you
think you know who it is?''
II got darned good guess" assent
ed Red. Tonight will tell the tale.
Ere the morrow's sun is set justice
shall be done. I'm gettin' wise," he
added in his own words. 1T was a
wrong steer at first, but I'm on now.
Them varlets are goin' to be on the
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TIL a majestic wave Of
his hand, the head
waiter led the girl
down the narrow
aisle between the
tables. The first rush
Of the dinner hour
was on, and Virginia
Milford h ad to
dodge hurrying wait
ers and trays piled
high with dishes.
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IND of lonesome, amt
you, Sam 2"
II amt feelin'
good" Sam answered,
without raising his
head.
Joe B e n t o n
chuckled to himself as
he went toward the
4~l NGrn Dan
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-03-22
VEN Red" Finnerty,

EN- Red" Finnerty,
captain Of the mes
sengers, moved more
softly than his wont
and for once his
shoes appeared to
have lost their chron-
ic squeak. D. G. & r.
stock was falling with
the sWiftness of a
coaster car o n q
4 - y Ia
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delighted and July hot and AUGUST
opinion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-28
MAY NOLLE PROSS
THE CASE AGAINST
NEW YORK HARRY
State Must Produce Missing
Witnesses or Show Ade-
quate Cause or Such
Action Will BE Taken

Unless the state can produce certain
witnesses or present showing for the
same. it is possible that the case against
Harry Petit, alias New York Harry"
VIII be no3le pressed at the next hear
ing of the case, which Is set for Novem-
ber Il. The case was called In the first
division of the criminal court yesterday
morning and but one important witness
for the state, Postoffice Inspector Greg
ory, responded. Circuit Solicitor Joseph
X. Tate, who is assisting in the capital
week, announced that the state was not
ready on the showing
Judge Fort gave the solicitor few
hours to make a showing for the absent
witnesses This was found TO be al
most impossible and the case was
passed until November with the under
standing that If the state was not ready
at that time or could not show some
good reason why, the cases against
Petit would be nole pressed.
1t is understood that the state has a
number of witnesses who now reside
outside the state and that there are no
funds at the dispoal of the solicitor 70
reach them and have them brought
here. The testimony of these witnesses
Is alleged to be important and neces-
sary.
Petit has been confined in the coun-
ty Jail for nearly two years awaiting
a trial. He is charged with the murder
of Policemen Adams and f<irkley fol-
lowing the attempt to blow the safe
Of tba do "A III 1-fIIL
Ing happened a number of years 40
and two of the gang, Duncan and Mil
Ter, paid the fun penalty of the law
and died on the gallows following their
conviction for the crime.
Petit denies that he is New York
Harry" and says that his name Is not
Petit. He has maintained a strict
silence during his long sojourn in Jail
both as to himself or the crime for
which he has been indicted. lie Is rep
resented by Attorneys Gibson and Davis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-28
BONDS ARE VOTED
BY OVER RWHELMING MAJORITY
DR. EMORY JOHNSON WILL
SPEAK ON CANAL TODAY

At the Hotel Hillman banquet room to-
day DR.. Emory X. johnson of the Uni
versity of Pennylsvania will be the guest
of honor and will deliver an address upon
the Panama canal and its effect ON this
section of the country. The luncheon is
to be given under the auspices of the
Chamber of Commerce and the Birming-
ham alumni of the University of Penn
sylvania. After the luncheon Dr. John
son will be entertained by the alumni.
DR.. Johnson Is passing through Br-
mingham on his return from the Southern
Commercial congress in Mobile where
he delivered an address. He is the man
whom President Taft named to investi-
gate and report on a system OF toll
charges for ships passing through the
Panama canal. DR.. Johnson's report was
included verbatim In the Presidents
recommendations to Congress on the tolls
to be charged at the canal and were
later adopted without change
DIR. Johnson spent considerable time in
vestigating conditions at Panama and
canal matters in all parts of the world
upon which information he based his
conclusions for the Panama canal tolls.
Some 25 or 80 have already signified their
intention of attending the luncheon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-28
electric LIGHTS
ARE USED IN CIRCUS
More Than 100000 Candle
Power Used in Illuminat-
ing Tents and Cages

Possibly nothing could mark in more
striking manner the progress of the cir
Gus world, it is promised than the new
system OF lighting employed by the Bar
mum e Bailey show. coming here next
Thursday. This makes it possible to para
phrase the old smile, "And the lion and
the lamb shall lie down together into
the lion and the lamp shall lie down
together for in each of the circus cages
that contains wild animals there are two
cutters of 32-candle power lamps, three to
a cluster.
The wild beast, most primitive. most
foreign of all animal nature to civiliza-
tion, is brought into direct contact with
greatest phenomena thus far developed
by civilization-electricity and its mas
terry by man. Instead of the dimly
lighted cage in which the wild beast was
seen in shadowy outline, asleep, in
former days. the animal now Is observed
awake. alert. and in every detail and ac-
tion identical as by day-a real boon to
those whom necessity or inclination
causes to visit the circus by night.
In addition to the lighting of the men
agerie with incandescent lights, the Bar
mum & Bailey circus still employs in
its fullest strength the vapor gas system
of lighting, developed some eight years
ago, and which supplants the old. far
ing, smoky oil torches used so many
wears. Added to this. in the largest tent,
known as, the big top there are So
powerful mantle arc lights, which bring
the candle light illumination up to the
enormous total of more than 100000 can
die power, or about three times as much
light as has ever before been employed
in circus.
cured by a new system of gasoline engine
40-horse power, which by use of heavy
fly wheels is stepped up to over 6o-horse
power. This powerful engine and dyna-
mo are mounted upon a massive wagon;
then by heavily insulated cables the cur
rent is conveyed to the clusters of lamps
about the great center poles In the cir
Gus and to the long line of more than
a hundred cages in the menagerie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-28
TENNESSEEANSTOBE
AT LAND CONGRESS
Delegates Named by Mayor
of Chattanooga and Nash
vile Board of Trade

Realizing the importance of the plans
and purposes involved in the movement
to be inaugurated by the Alabama State
Land congress at its meeting in Blr-
mingham November 4-6, the city OF Chat
tanooga through it's mayor, T. c. Thomp-
son. yesterday forwarded a list of dele
gates to the congress from that city. In
IFS letter Mayor Thompson stated that
all the delegates had pledged their at
tendance. A similar list was received
in the same mail from the Nashville
Board of Trade. to represent that organi-
zation at the congress.
The questions to be discussed before
the land congress are in reality of equal
and the management of the congress is
very much pleased at the evidence of
enthusiastic interest shown by two OF the
cities in Tennessee. The methods to
be adopted by the Alabama Land con-
gress for the securing of more farmers
for the idle lands of tho state. will ap-
ply with equal force to Tennessee. Geor-
gla, MIsslssppi and other southern states
II !s said.
III addition to this phase OF the con-
gress, the address OF Oecar w. Under
wood on THE High Cost of Living ana
the Remedy" II likewise bringing many
out OF town delegates, Delegations are
expected to be named from Atlanta,
Memphis and Meridian. word to that Of
feet having been recsived at the head
quarters OF the congress, Due to Mr..
Underwood'a great work In congress. his
able mastery of tho many intricate ques-
tions involved In the new tariff this dis
cussion of solution of the present high
cost of living will be watched all over
the country ana listened to with great
interast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-28
Over 1900 Babies Entered In
Exposition Baby Contest

The city commissioners have over 1900
names of babies of Alabama which are
entered in the San Francisco exposition
baby contest, it was stated yesterday.
There are $4,000 in cash prizes in this
and there is keen competition. The CAPT
tai prize will be Sl0o0 and the other $49, 900
is divided up into graduating prizes
amounting to several hundred in number.
All that is necessary to enter a baby in
the contest is to send it's name and ad-
dress to the Birmingham city commits
soners which have been designated to
act in this capacity by the officials of the
1915 exposition. The names and address
must all be In by the last of November.
After the entry lists are closed, an Off
cial photographer of the exposition com
pany will come to Birmingham and take
pictures of the entries, These photo
graphs will then be sent to the exposition,
where they will be exhibited in the great
ohildren's building, and the Judges will
award the prizes from the photographs.
In addition to the three or four lists of
names that have already been published
in The Age-Herald, the following are
among the latest entries in the contest.
Ralph Nelson Abercrombie, 1914 North
Thirty-first street; Jack Andrew. 47l2
North Second avenue; Charles Barnes,
sQ7 Montgomery street; William Hurt
Baskewill, 1916 Avenue ]; Felix Murphy
Bryan. Woodward Ala. Clyde Oliver
Blakely. Gate City; Maxine Ethel Blum
berg, 2215 Seventeenth Avenue, south;
Mary Anna Elizabeth Cebrat, 9O4 South
Eleventh street; Daphne Celeste Cooper,
Vance; Beatrice Lille Grain. Wylam;
Margaret L. Conley, Inglenook; Mary f..
Conley, Tnglenook; Majorie Cornell, 1904
South Twelfth street; Irene, Esther
Ehrensperger. Cullman; William Howard
Ford. 904 North Forty-eighth street; John
Raymond Frauley, 1903 North Thirtieth
street; James Manly Gregg, Tuscaloosa;
Nellie Ruth Geiger. Boaz; Margaret t..
Giles, 20l7 Fifteenth avenue. north; Mary
Margaret Graves, 1920 North Twenty-tifth
street.
Ralph Samuel Hesse, Sayreton; Morris
George Helms, Jr, 14l7 Cullom street;
Lucy Ethel Handy, 6S Highland avenue;
Ozmyn p. Hall, 1912 Louise street; BagbX
l.. Hall, 1912 Louise street. Pearl Harper
3219 Thirteenth avenue, north; Farrie Hall,
Alfalfa; Margaret Hail. Attalla Rufus M.
Jones' Jr., 1870 North tHteenth street,
Howard Alfred Langley, Jr., 1406 Seven
teenth avenue, south; Pollie Lackey, Bev-
erly Place. West End; Charles Lanier Nc
Gowen. Admission; Annie Laurie McKin-
ley, 7514 Sloss avenue; Guy Roder-
icl Mckinley, Jr., 7414 Sloss avenue;
Lucille Noble Muslin, Tuscaloosa; !;
Algene Holland Mckinley 7514 Sloss
avenue; Sarah Elizabeth Meeks, Besse-
mer, Ala: Nadine Marie Mcclure, 1910
South Eighteenth avenue; Charles f.
Meeks, 440 South Fifth street; B. p. Nc
Donald Jr, 1924 Fourteenth avenue,
south: Stirling d. Mallory 1404 North
Twelfth avenue; Louise Mcintyre 1041
North Nineteenth street. Charles Potter
Neal, 2613 Avenue T.; Thomas l.. Nash,
2015 North Fifteenth avenue; Violet Fe-
liace Nappi, 40S North Eighteenth street;
Joe William Pullen, BoaZ, Ala. Lucy
Athea Pratt, 2s16 North Twelfth avapue;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-28
COMMITTEE TAKES
Up FINAL DETAILS
OF BIC EXPOSITION
Time for Receipt of Appli-
cations for Space in Home
Products Show Is Ex-
tended to Thursday

Final details for the Home Products
exposition to be given next week by the
Birmingham Adj club were discussed at
meeting yesterday of the Ad club spe-
cial committee, ]. D. Rosenberg chair
man. in charge Of the affair. The eX-
position is TO be held in the Gipsy Smith
auditorium on First avenue November
3 to s.
The committee decided to continue the
time for receipt of applications for space
for exhibits until O'Clock THURSDAY
evening. After that time they will refuse
all applications It was stated that
enough space has already been contracted
for to insure the exposition being
success and to pay all Its expenses. The
purpose of the exposition, the Ad club
members state, is not to make money
but to develop the manufacturing spirit
Of Birmingham and show the people OF
of the Panama canal in miniature and
miniature ships pass through it to demon
strate the workings.
The exposition will be open from l to
10:30 clock every day and nearly $500
has been spent for amusement features
for the nightly programme which will
include musical attractions, contests OF
all kinds and other matters. Carpenters
VIII go TO work IN the morning 1enclns
off the exhibit spaces and the building
will be ready for the placing of exhibits
the following morning it is stated.
The Ad club has made arrangements
to heat the big building and everything
is to be done TO insure the comfort and
enjoyment OF the visitors TO the exposi-
tion. The building Is being decorated
elaborately the inside.
Birmingham what products are made
here.
position w We tho mechanical working
model or .sie Panama canal. which Will
be shown on a stage every day OF the
exposition and VIII be explained by a
lecturer This Is a complete reproduction