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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08
THE PRESIDENTS WAY.

Tariff and currency have the right
OF way over everything. Foreign
relations are sidetracked. Until the
presidents program OF readjusting the
duties on imports and placing the
banking interests Of the country in a
safer and saner condition our neigh
'bOrs must wait for the settlement Of
disputes that may have arisen.
The president regards the tariff and
the currency as paramount issues, as
the subjects most in deed Of execu-
tive and legislative attention. and will
not listen TO opportunities that would
divert his attention to other things.
With a more rational tariff system
and a more substantial currency sys-
tenn 20 correct evils at home estab-
lished the president feels he can pro-
coed TO the adjustment of outside
matters with a surer footing.
Great Britain and Russia can wait
for the settlement OF questions they
have voluntarily raised. Mexico may
need a little attention from day TO
day and persistent Japan will not be
put olA tilllielys buL the weight Oh the
administration is TO be thrown upon
its legislative program. With con-
gress out Of the way and the tariff
and currency bills enacted into laws
the president will be free to turn his
unembarrassed attention to the com
plants OF our neighbors and do them
full justice.
1t would be possible for Pres. Will
son TO turn these international af-
fairs over to the state department, as
has been the custom in the past, but
ii has been observed that this is not
Pres. Wilson's way of doing things.
He is not much disposed to vicarious
action. He likes to do things himself
and to have what is important come
direct from the white house. The
added force of such a policy cannot
be disputed.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

saloon" otherwise the place of bust
ness Of Barnet Levi, 81 Bayard st. 1t
is hard to get to Barney's bar. The
small room is filled with Russians.
Poles. Italians and a curious riff-raff
of all nations. all haggling over old
clothesl
With his back to one of the dirty
front windows there stands a tall
red bearded man. In big chair be-
fore the other window sits one who is
very fat and clean-shaven. Both Of
them look bored.
THEY are the GREAT MEN of this
old-clothes stock exchange - THE
BIG DEALERS. The small fry bar
ter among themselves over their
shabby garments. When they have
lot that is in good condition they re-
spectfully approach one of the win
dows, and mayhap the naughty
bearded enc or the Indifferent, fat one
may deal with them.
A dark, young man, shock-headed.
sweating, rushes in with a battered
suitcase and deposits it behind the
bar, with a word to Barney. Barney
mods. The young man has likely
been far afoot-over into Jersey. or
up in Connecticut, trading for old
clothes. He rushes out, perhaps to
hunt up some customer or friend in
the throng of street vendors.
"All my bums," says Barney, with
a genial smile, indicating the crowd
in the rooms with a gesture of his
arms. All my buns. Lots Of buns
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08
BY NORMAN.


NEW YORK, July S.-You see a
filled street He wears a hat, and
cidedly second hand black derby.
This extra hat was not given to the
man.
He is not taking il home.
He did not bring ii out of his house
to throw ii away or give 1t away.
He is "a merchant and the hat is
his stock-in-trade.
Another merchant of Bayard st.
leans against a railing. Under his
arm he has a second hand pair of
shoes. His defective eyes peer
through thick lenses. He seems TO be
quite idle But he is not. He is
watching his fellow merchants of the
"curb-clOthing MARKET"
By and by he will have done some
business; he will have. instead of a
pair of shoes, a different pair, or two
pair, or hat, or a pair of trousers,
or a few cents
BY the dozen they dwaddle up and
down Bayard St. in the block between
Mulberry and Elizabeth-these sec
Ond-hand clothing men who have no
store, no" capital, no credit; who exc
out a living by handling no more than
they can carry about in their hands.
People who have travelled and seen
the odd corners of many great cities
say that nowhere is there another
Bayard st.
We will go in "Barney's Tin-Pan
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

What did you ever do about
them ?" pursued Elmer Paine, casu-
ally.
"Oh, they got so wild we couldn't
do a thing with them and we had to
set lot of steel traps and catch them
the same as you would wolves"
Elmer's story was still growing
And then what do you suppose
happened?" went on the nightwatch-
man.
Give it up" said Elmer
why, the S. 2. C. A. Society got
wind of it somehow-never was able
very old Ned about us using steel
traps on those cats. Said it was
cruelty to animals, you understand,
and l guess they were about to have
Secretary Carlisle arrested. He had
busy time of it keeping the thing
out OF the papers 1 can tell you"
By that time Elmer had a sure
enough yarn. And not a word of it
had ever been made public. He lost
no time getting TO his office and put
ting the story on paper 1t worked
up into a corking Sunday page and
he not only sent il 10 the Ohio paper
he represented, but syndicated il TO
papers in nearly all the big cities
throughout the country. All were
glad 10 pay real money for it. From
the big city papers ii was copied and
recopied until it had been printed in
practically every newspaper in the
United States and many papers
abroad. Moreover. when the checks
began to arrive, Elmer Paine found
that he had cleaned up several hun
dred dollars.
Just about the time he was wonder
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08
got. Look at 'em.

got. LOOK at EN-.
Barney's genial category includes
the clothing dealers, various sorry in
dividuals who are asleep with their
heads on tables. and several "roust-
abouts." or odd-jOb men, who do
small errands for the merchants, at
very small pay.
In a back room of the Tin-Pan
saloon are 100 or more lockers.
These are rented TO the clothing men
for a few cents a week. Here they
store clothing and tinware over night.
Hence the saloons name.
Two locks on each locker. Any
Friday night that the rent hasn't
been paid Barney's lock is locked.
Barney is fond of his "bums"-but he
extends no credit.
A fixture at Barneys is Bill, the
night Waterman, a bit of human
hotsam. Bill was asleep on a bench,
quite drunk, when Dutch Louie"
woke him up so he could talk TO us.
Dutch Louie is a friendly roustabout,
who displays a cOmmendable interest
in art and journalism.
Bill came over and had something.
as a preliminary TO talking 10 us. He
stood behind the bar and looked fix
eddy at Ever. then at me. His mouth
was, as one might say, trimming over
with chewing tobacco, but his light
blue eyes had a childlike, puzzled eX-
preston He was a little bald man,
curiously wrlnkled.
You're happy" he finally said to
u.s. with great earnestness. You're
happy, aintche? Well, l was happy
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08
DIARY OF FATHER TIME.

One day in 1S45, man named
Tramwel, dressed as a Quaker, step
ped into train at Slough station, in
England. and travelled TO London.
When he arrived at his destination the
innocent-looking Quaker was arrest
ed, much 10 his establishment. on the
charge OF having committed a foul
murder in the neighbOrhood of
Slough. The news of the murder and
a description Of the murderer had
been telegraphed from Slough to Lon
don. where detective met the train.
arrested the murderer, who in a short
time was tried and hanged, and the
public for the first time generally
realized the power for good dormant
I'm the as yet little developed electric
telegraph. Thirteen years later the
first electric message passed from the
New World to the Old.
The third spOch-making event in
its history is of recent date. on Dec.
y, 1901, Guglielmo Marconi astonish-
ed the world by transmitting signals
from England to Newfoundland by
= ans Of a kite. long wire, a delicate
toe full OF tiny particles of metal.
and a telephone ear piece
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

ing what to do with the little nest
egg he had picked up, he CHANGED TO
be talking to John Sherman, who
mentioned the great chance for
small investor in a certain piece of
unimproved Washington real estate.
Elmer put all the money from his
rat, cat, trap tale in real estate and
at the end of the year found himself
with a real stake-enough to buy
himself a nice home, a horse and
went scampering across his office one
forenoon, receiving from him sullen
greetings, had turned the trick for
him.
So you see there is a merry little
moral TO this present tale. The moral
is that We should be kind to all
dumb creatures. not even excepting
rats. No one knows the day or the
hour when tho most humble rat may
come as a hal yinger of good fortune.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

once. too. Happy ash you are. But
I made mishtake. An now I gotta
stand for it. / gotta stand for it,"
Bill faded away TO his bench and
sunderland. doubtless carrying in his
bosom very excellent material for a
novel or a play.
Sharp ears in Bayard St
A bare-headed old man crossed our
path, carrying two or three hats.
among them an opera hat "Looki
An opera hiatt" I remarked to Ever.
A few seconds later a soft voice
besOught me, from behind, Like 20
buy a nice opera hat, gentlemen" L
answered no. but 1 had one / might
sell him. How much would be give
me?
His white-grizzled. red face wreath
ed itself into an ingratiating smile
and his bleary eyes became Sits.
''Ah, gentlemen, ] am too old to
have fun" he replied. IF you buy
a suit Of clothes or a pair Of shoes.
you want TO see them first. yes?
Should I buy a cat in a bag2" He
wagged his venerable head and turn
ed away.
The only chance I had really 10 do
any business in Bayard st. was when
II. Frost, proprietor of clothing
store, eased me into his place and Of
fered TO allow me something for the
suit 1 had on as an inducement 10 get
a really good suit from him. But
Ever dissuaded me.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08
Is 1T HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU?
July for meditation
Is the churchly rule,
Our sins for reparation,
Our tendencies to school.

July for meditation
Is the churchly rule,
Our sins for reparation,
Our tendencies to school.
But when there's for discussion
a question so sedate
AS the temperature condition,
How can we mediate?
FACTS" writes a French scien-
fist. appear 10 show that the ten
deney OF woman TO talk less and TO
think more is growing and that If this
decline keeps up the woman of a
thousand years from now may be
mans silent partner, speaking seldom
and only when words are absolutely
necessary"
We hadn't observed the facts nor
noted the tendency. but do not pre-
sumo 10 deny that they exist. Eow-
ever, we are not prepared 10 CON-
prehend woman as mans silent part
ner:
For obvious reasons the scientist
places this contamination in the re-
mote and we consign il TO the scrap
heap.
Besides. who could endure a silent
partner?
1T was Will Carleton. we believe,
who wrote, The editor sits in his
easy chair" etc, but it is apparent
TO us that Will was not subject TO the
squatter and preemption laws that
prevail in some newspaper offices.
For example We have occasionally an
easy chair, but most OF the time
IL is supporting the corrupt sporting
editor or being prostituted 10 the
uses OF the back room. We never
have time 10 write anything because
il takes so long TO find our chair.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08
THE MELTING POT
PERHAPS it is just as well.

PERHAPS it is just as well.
BEING a frequent passenger on
the Pere Marquette" writes :. c. B.,
Il am persuaded that the manage
ment has taken their watches away
from the engineers and substituted
calendars"
WE observe that Rev J. HASTE Cd
gers is pastor of the EpwOrth Memoir
ial church in Chicago, and we are
persuaded that if his parents had
not been so much in a hurry his name
would have been Rodgers.
WITH the approval Of the pastors
congregations have become cOatless.
Now if we can persuade them 10 be
come hatless we might be induced TO
go TO church.
Take Ii As You Like Ii.
Ice goes up as the
Weight goes down.
1T might be well to discuss the
question as TO the relative comfort
OF nighties and pajamas on a hot
night. We imagine arguments could
be adduoed on both sides The dis
cussion should be confined, however.
TO those who wear one or the other.
A GOOD rule more honored in the
breach than in the observance: 1t is
imprudent for a woman and her hus-
band to play bridge at the some time
at the same table.
THE best OF US are apt under pro-
vocation TO say things TO our wives or
husbands that we would forget in the
presence OF somebody else's wife or
husband.
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

In addition TO getting what it
wanted from other sources through
legislation the N A NJ. seems to have
found the government stores a con-
venient supply house
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

Philadelphia has started a raid on
on matinee business. Many matt
ness fan would lose her interest with
out the pretty BOYS.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08
P0DEMSKl FOR MEMBER
OF COUNCIL IN SIXTH

Stanislaus d. Podemski, S21 Union
St, will seek the democratic nominal
ton for councilman from the Sixth
ward.
POdemski is well known among the
Polish residents, having large circle
of friends. For many years he was
a member of the board Of directors of
the Jan III Sobieski Building and Loan
association. He is employed at the
Singer Manufacturing Co.
TRY NEWS-TIMES WANT ADS
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

For the veterans Of the civil war
the curtain has been rung down on
the stage OF Gettysburg, but the last
scene has so connected the past with
the present that the history OF fifty
years ago has become a reality to all.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

In Kansas the women will try to
educate themselves TO become intelli-
gent voters. In Chicago the women
seem 10 know that their first duty is
TO clean up the wards. Perhaps it is
woman's Justly celebrated intuition
that actuates the latter.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

The government IS going into tn
milk business a little deeper with
view TO limiting deliveries to IL hour;
instead Of "a. After being kept p
hours milk shows a high bacteriolog-
ical count
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

Chicago slaughters one-third Of the
animals entering into the interstate
meat business. Kansas City comes
next with about half the number.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

We are advised that the Jones bill.
providing for the independence Of
the Philippines in eight years. is re-
sponsible for the Moro uprising. This
IS giving the Moros more credit for
Intelligence than has been previously
accorded them.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

Particularly tho publishing house
with which Walter II. Page. minister
10 England, was connected continues
him on its payroll at $4,000 a year
in order that he could afford TO ac-
cept the position. II. incidentally.
the publishing house gets a little ad-
OF underpaying our foreign represent
atives.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

The elements seem determined TO
counteract the effects of a sane
Fourth. See accident columns.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

Humanity demands the elimination
OF the fly.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

The president simply asks the
neighbors TO be patient while he does
a little housekeeping.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-08

The Tribune's situation may be de-
fined as a state Of mind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-15

natural place for these people is in
West Keokuk Building lots are
cheap and this part of the city VIII
be improved soon in order to give It
all the possible conveniences.
Keokuk has more good talking
points right now than any city In the
country. The thing to do is to get
out and talk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-15

river below, one Of them said. TT is
his baby-his beloyed-the greatest
thing he has yet brought into exist
ence. 1t is thing that will be mis-
monument, no matter what ever else
he may accomplish
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-15

big benefit to West Keokuk in the
near future.
When factories come in and locate
In the new section there will be a
movement Of the population in that
direction to certain extent. OF
course the tract will provide building
lots and homes for the employees, but
many will desire to live half mile
or more away from their work. The
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-15

shapes and latent strength, Mr.. Cooper
told the story of he greatest turbine
ever invented. He had worked long
on the thing, ana believed he had
competed perfect machine. But ne
realized that upon the success OF that
child of his brain depended thirty
million dollars which belonged to 9TH
er people. II his wheel failed TO do
what he expected it to the thirty mil
lions would be swept away, and this
great undertaking would prove fall
ure. So he advertised all over the
world for competitive plans for q
turbine, offering prizes for the best.
The designs soon poured in and after
an exhaustive examination he still
felt that his idea was the perfect one.
However. he selected designs worked
out by two men Of worldwide renoun
in their calling and invited them to
meet with him to compare notes and
to see if he could not arrive at COM
bination OF perfec ion between them.
These men came and they sat down
around a table. Each started out with
the firm conviction that his design
was the perfect one, and each of them
began to point out the weakness in
the designs of the other two. For a
week they struggled back and forth
without gaining an inch. The second
week opened unpromisingly, but in
two days they had begun to make
progress and by the end of the second
week reached their goal and standing
up they shook hands across the table
and voluntarily agreed in unison that
they had arrived at the absolutely
perfect machine from human stand
point. They each signed paper to
this effect. twenty-five per cent was
all saved out of the wreck of my
ideas" said Mr.. Cooper ruefully, "and
each of the others were Just as for
tunate, the other twenty-five per cent
of the perfected design was made up
from the mass of designs submit ed
by the other competitors. The turbine
you see here. therefore, is not the
triumph of one brain. No one can
say L did it. But it is the result of
the thought and skill Of group OF
men who jointly have the honor of
producing one of the most perfect wa
ter motors ever invented"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-15
The Lure Of Cooper.

When he finishes his present task,
he will provide his superintendent
my boys" as he calls them-with
work in various parts of the world,
while he takes long needed rest.
For FIVE years he has been working
day and night on this undert king an
feels the need of vacation. Where
he will next grapple with the prob.
lens of accomplishment he does not
at present know. 1t may be In this
country, possibly in India; likely as
not the sphynx-like barriers of the
South American Andees Will attract
his attention. But wherever the work
may be, without call or notice, mis-
boys" will come hurrying to his as
sistance, and his old workmen will
swarm about the place like flies
around honey pot. For he has the
command of mems wills, and he
creates in them an enthusiasm for
the larger things.
Sitting in the quiet rooms of the
Riverview club the broad windows of
which overlook the wonderful work
spread out in the river-bed below,
some of his brainy assistants lounged
and talked of earthquakes and of the
growth OF flowers; the sunshine. and
a book that had just been published.
There was the story Of the fellow who
had planned WONDERFUL scheme to
shoot ice blocks down an incline plane
from one OF Alaska's glaciers into
city miles below. and who had failed
to calculate that the friction would
melt the ice before 1t reached the
halfway point; and there was an in
cfdent Of the early sediment of Mas.
sachusetts. But underneath it all
burned the latent fire of energy, and
through It all ran the mental sinews
of accomplishment. inspired by the
personality Of Hugh i. Cooper.
Waving hand in the direction Of
the darkening region Of toll in the,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-15

Future for West Keokuk
The new industrial tract near the
Des Moines river bridge should be a
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-15
A Lazy Mans Job.

The generating room Will be a
place of easy watchfulness on the
part of the comfortably uniformed at
tendants. The position of Waterman
In this place will be a lazy mans job.
The attendant will stroll about at his
ease, casting glance now and then
at the indicators, but mostly with
hands In pockets lazy, comfortable,
and satisfied to let the wonderful
automatic governors do their own
work. It will BE low-salaried place,
too, but there will be no end to the
applicants for the position. And yet
there is not sufficient money in com
mand to induce the creators of this
silent Indicator to accept position
Of Waterman over their own inyen-
ton
Thirty millions OF dollars will have
been spent upon the construction Of
this great power plant. Tremendous
forces have been brought TO bear to
accomplish the undertaking. Hun
dreds OF thousands Of tons Of whirl
Ing turbines and generators. and
miles az rushing water will have been
put 10 motion when all Ia finished,
and so complete Ia the work and so
nearly automatic viii be Its operation
that only one hundred men will be
necessary TO look after the stupendous
plant. Were this plant operated by
the burning Or coal. IT you'd take
twelve hundred men 10 look after It's
operation" sald Mr. Cooper
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-15
The Mysterious Governor.

Climbing back to light and human
companionship, Mr. Cooper led the
way to the upper chamber of the
power house. 1t is long. high cor,t-
dor running the full length o. the
power house, and carrying near its
ceilings on either side, track on
which runs moving crane that could
handle mogul locomotive with ease
This crane is to be used in the work
of putting the monster turbines in
place and of lifting them out in case
there is any repair work 10 do on
them. At present this corridor is
wilderness of valuable things which
ultimately will take shape, and form
the various features of the generating
room-which the corridor really is.
The place was dismal in the semi
twilight fltering through half COW
cred windows, and resounded with the
clamor of busy hammers. After the
| work in this apartment is finished it
will take on the appearance of
stately cathedral nave, with tiled
flooring, and frescoed walls. The soft
glitter of brass and copper will be
there, and the stiffness Of sacred
edifice will reign throughout its length.
save only for the soft purring OF the
monster generators turning III their
twenty-five foot circles at the rate of
/ over fifty-seven revolutions minute.
Near each generator will stand the
mysterious governor that will control
with delicate but indomitable energy
the impulse of the power installment
These governors are about the size or
an ordinary kitchen range, and re-
semble an exaggerated gas meter of
unusual finish. Several dials are ex.
posed to view with little knobs and
wheels near each, by which the at.
| tendant can make any necessary mod
| iffcation in is operation. Its duty
however, is performed in an automatic
manner and oil Is the medium OF
transmission of its dictation to the
churning giants below. A group of
! little STEEL balls that gyrate under the
pressure of the empounded water,
from the pull Of the energy demanded
by distant factories, are the simple
means by which this governor exerts
It's control, handling the 150.000-pound
turbines as boy plays with his
wooden top.