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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-05-27

Read The Capital Journal. 1t is so
chock full Of news that it is read aloud
at council meetings.
Over three score attended last ev.
ening the banquet at the First NJ. E.
church Of the Marion Lawrence class,
and the occasion was much enjoyed.
Miss Ella Hodson, formerly employed
in the state treasurer's office, has ac
cepted a position as stenographer for
Clerk Moreland, of the supreme court.
She will begin work next month.
Tariff schedules of the New York &
Erie railroad, dated 1852, were re.
ceived by the railroad commission to.
day. Cuts Of the old,style trains are
shown, and the tariff schedule makes
interesting reading. Many commodities
are listed. '''
Hotel Kelly, formerly the Irwin, Nye
Beach, Newport, Ore, is now open to
the public. Clean and comfortable.
Tables supplied with the best. Three
blocks from beach. Ere e'bus. Write
your reservations; $500 per day and
up, including meals
Attention, Modern Woodmen! There
will be a special meeting at the office
of Ray Grant, camp clerk, 245 State
street, Wednesday evening May 2s, at
s p. M, for the purpose of electing a
delegate to attend the delegates asso.
citation at silvcrton, r. N. Morris, con.
sui.
The supreme court today heard ar.
guments in the case of the Pacific
Milling & Elevator Company against
the city Of Portland, plaintiff and ap.
pellant, the Portland dock commission
and the state of Oregon, intervenor.
Title to the ownership of tide land on
the Columbia between high and low
water is involved,
Read The Capital Journal. II is so
chock full Of news that il is read aloud
at council meetings.
! An auto party composed of Mr.. and
Mrs. II, A, Liyesley and son and daugh.
ter and Mr., and Mrs. s. G. Sargent, en-.
joyed a delightful tour through the
southern section of the valley last Sat.
urday afternoon and Sunday, They
left in Mr., Livesley's big oldsmobile
Saturday afternoon about 8 clock and
went to Eugene, thence to Springfield
and intermediate points and returning
to Salem Sunday night.
State Engineer Lewis today ap.
proved the several applications of the
Harney Valley Reclamation Company
for water for IS 54OOO.acre project in
iaruey valley The railroad now being
constructed from Vale to Harney val.
ley will pass through this project and
solves the transportation problem,
which has long held back the develop.
meut Of this section, For the reclama.
tion of this project four or six reser.
voirs win be required,
There is lively interest in the
Cherry Fair booster meet to be held this
evening at s o'clock at the Board of
Trade rooms and large attendance is
assured The fair idea is strongly In
dorsed by business men, and efforts
will be made to have one that will be
greater and more successful than any.
thing in the past, The Salem band has
consented to enliven tho occasion TO-
night with some music, and everyone
Is urged to be on hand promptly at s
o'clock.
Read The Capital journal for all the
news, Everybody reads The Capital
Journal--it is even read aloud at coun.
ell meetings, and enjoyed by all.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-05-27
Proposals for Supplying the State In
stitutions,

Sealed BIDS are invited by the State
Purchasing Board for supplies and
stores, for the Oregon State institution,
for the six months ending December 81
1918.
Bids will be opened at p. M, june
10th. Lists, with instructions to bid
ders, may be had by calling on or ad
dressing c. D. Fraser, Secretary. State
Purchasing Board, Salem, Oregon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-05-27

street and the Garden Road, at the ele-
vations set forth in this notice by the
passage Of an ordinance on or after
twenty (2O) days from the date of the
first publication of this notice. This
notice is published for ten (1O) days in
q daily newspaper published in the city
of Salem, Oregon, the first publication
being the 9th day of May, 1913.
CHAs. F. ELGIN, City Recorder
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-05-27
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EARL,
EARL.

At the Salem hospital Sunday, May
20, 1913, to Mr.. and Mrs, Richard II
Earl, 029 Mill street, q son, Howard o.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-05-27

WANTED-Experienced girl for house
work, References. Phone Main
1910.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-05-27
190-Acre Orchard
for Sale

OF prlnes and cherries, one mile
from Dallas, Ore, Five years old and
upwards. In tracts to suit at S225 70
sAOO per acre.
Also 2l6 acres Of farm land at $50
to Sl25.
Payments one-third down, balance In
six years.
By the Fleming Realty Co., Phone
sOS, or s. p Kimball, owner, phone
Farmers SOL, Salem, Oregon,
A. J. Barham, Dallas Agent.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-05-27

FOR SALE-A fine 70.acre ranch, five
miles from Salem, 35 acres in grain, )
acres in timber, fine family orchard
and garden, the rest in pasture; six
room house, barn and other small build
ings, year.round spring. Inquire of
Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-12
The Sargasso Sea
Locusts Threaten Egypt

Cairo.--The latest advices from Khar-
toum state that the usual bitches have
been dug In all directions in anticipa-
ton of the summer rains, which, how
ever have, as Yet not put in an appear
ance. In the meantime these bitches are
having their uses, for plague of locusts
has set in. Immense swarms have for
days been passing over the city, says
the ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
I.ocusts, of. course. do vast amount
of damage to the fields. They multiply
most rapidly, and wherever they settle
they deyour every vestige of green. The
Soudanese are waging a vigorous CAM
paign against them, and their zeal is
whetted by the fact that locusts consti-
tute for them very palatable dish. These
insects are usually caught by the ''cy-
prus system which consists In digging
trenches and erecting on their further
side tin screens against which they dash
and kill themselves, eventually falling into
the trenches
1t is not thought that this invasion will
reach Egypt The last time this country
was visited by locusts was in 1904, when
no fewer than 1.OO0000.OO0 egg masses were
destroyed. The work was carried out by
over 100000 men and cost the government
$4,000, which was a cheap radiance of the
plague, seeing that it might quite easily
have ruined the entire cotton crop, not
to mention those of other summer
products.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-12

lion dollars. and these millions are
mostly in the shape of eagles and dou-
bic eagles. / saw little box OF them
in the cash vault this afternoon. 1t
was made of steel. and seemed to be
only for show. 1t was not bigger than
cigar box and still 1t contained 500
double eagles. l took both hands and
raised it from the table. 1t weighed
Ss pounds, and you could have put It's
contents into one-quart measure. Still,
its value was $4,000. That will show
YOU how heavy the precious metal is
1 can hold $1,000 lin loose gold coins
in one hand, and that amount of money
weighs just about four pounds. At the
same time l lifted notes. each of which
was lighter than the smallest feather
on pigeons tail, whose denomination
was $4,000, and held up a budle of
them, no thicker than a euchre deck,
and so small that you could put 1t in
an official envelope, which was worth
$1,000,000, and which would pass for
that in almost any bank upon this
big, round earth.
But I want to take you down into
the catacombs. To get there i was
passed from the office of Secretary Nc
Adoo to that of the Treasurer of the
United States, Mr.. John Burke and
from him to the cashier. Mr.. James A.
Semple. who has charge of the cash
Uncle Sam keeps on hand. He is now
carrying a balance of over $165. 900, 900,
and millions go in and out every day.
He has charge of the vaults as well
as the cash, and his office, which is
lined with marble from the four quar-
tiers of the world. looks like a bank.
There are great vaults on the same
floor in which the ready money is
kept, and We passed through these on
our way to the little elevator, not more
than four feet square, which dropped
us down into the cave of Aladdin. Mai
Quaiffe went with us. The major has
been one of the treasury watchdogs
for almost fifty years. He was appoint
ed by Treasurer Spinner at the close
of the Civil war, and since then he
has been one of the confidential clerks
in charge of Uncle Sans treasures
He carries one of the keys to thu
vaults, and he alone knows the com
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-12
Quaiffe vault dog treasury
or

still and throw up his hands. He said
that he was the Treasurer of the United
States. but the very polite Waterman
with the revolver said that might all
be, but he did not know the Treasurer
and he would have to walt until he
called one of the other guards to
Identify him. He then gave a whistle.
The other guards rushed up and the
Treasurer was released. 1t is by no
means a safe thing for even the Treas
urer to go around about the vaults
at midnight
l remember another scare In the
treasury. 1t was a good many years
agko when Gilillian had charge of the
vaults. The trouble was as to the.
cash room, where the vault in which
the ready money is kept refused to
open. The vault was set with a time
lock and the usual hour was $3.50
seemed to be wrong with the mechan-
Nine o'clock arrived and still the money
was locked up Men came to the tell
er's windows and there was no money
riedly sent for. They got out their
but before they could do so the door
dent the lock had been set for $50
instead of of $50 as usual.
But l am getting away from Uncle
Sans catacombs. want to tell you about
this $500, 900 in bank notes which I'M
$500. 600 900 in bank notes which I'm
Gle Sam has ready in case of panic.
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1t is now several years since they were
stored away and when they were made
brand-new vault was made for them.
This Is nothing like the dig silver
vault which l have described. 1t is
more like safety deposit establish
ment. 1t is two-story structure
furnished with steel racks. The in
terror walls are of Harveyizcd steel
half an inch thick and outside them
are walls of masonry and cement
more than two feet in thickness. Be-
tween the masonary and the shell of
steel is a mat of closely woven steel
wires, each of which is charged with
electricity, so that IL one Of them
should be touched with an anvil or a BIT
or a dynamite pump an alarm would
so off in part of the building near
by where the watchmen are always
on guard. Connected with this electro
cal apparatus is buzzer which goes
off every quarter of an hour inside
the vault. II the buzzer does not work
it is known outside and the Waterman
would be notified.
The door to this vault weighs a ton
more than the one which opens the
silver vault. and It has four combina-
tions instead of two There are two
men who know two of the combina-
lions and two others who know the
other two. SO to open the vault at any
time at least two persons must be
present. Inc door mas also time lock
and according to schedule II must be
closed at five every night.
But how about the money in the vault'
1t is all there | can tell you, and the
whole $500 100000 can be issued upon
moments notice. When the bill making
it was passed. think ii was in 190S--it
was required that the notes be ready for
circulation within 80 days. IL was there
fore a rush job. The printing had to be
carefully done, but they started by turn
ing out something like s2,ooo,o00 day.
A week later they were turning out 81
100000 day and the speed increased up
to the time that the job was completed.
The cost of making the $500. 100000 was
S255,000. and 1t required 100000 sheets,
four notes to the sheet, to print the Whole
issue. Seven million sheets contained
three notes of $40 and one note of $40
each. and there were 100000 sheets de-
voted to So notes. There were 100000
sheets, which contained notes of $50 and
500, and altogether they have made up
the $500 000, 600
] have shown you how our Sill ,0oo,0 COO inc
silver in the big vault weighs less than
5000 tons / am told that the whole
amount Of this s5000o0,o00 In paper
weighs just about 100 tons, a thousand
sheets on which the four bills are print
ed weighing exactly II pounds The value
of the weight Is, of course, a matter of
the denomination $4,000 bill weighs
no more than a 81 bill. and the receipt
which Treasurer Burke gave f,r almost
a billion and half Is no heavier.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-12
British Labor Party Facing Crisis

lens. has lost touch. He has been at
Westminster for eight years and West
minister is a long way from Wales In
the old days, when there was a dispute
between masters and men Bill could put
on his cloth cap and walk around to the
office to talk things over with the mine
manager He knew all that was going
on in the mine and he knew maybe that
the man who was fomenting all tho
trouble was a chronic sorehead and
thinker. If the trouble was genuine his
practical knowledge enabled him to point
out in little friendly talk with the boss
how 1t could be avoided.
Now Mr.. William Jones, NJ p, in his
top hat and frock coat, comes down to
Wales, perhaps accompanied by a cabinet
minister, when he is sent for to settle a
dispute He travels first-class and puts
up at a good hotel and the mine man
ager, who is a rude, rough person, used
to dealing with rude, rough men, doesn t
understand him. Neither does Mr.. Will
liam Jones, M. P, know what has been
going on in the mine and he has not
kept up with the new situation created
by new machinery and improved methods.
He fails where plain Bill Jones succeeded
and strike follows.
How true this picture is is shown by
the figures of the time lost by strikes. In
the five years from 1902-19O6 100000 days
were lost in the United Kingdom. In the
five years, 1907-11 or since the rise of the
labor party, 33,0oO,ooo days were lost and
in 1912 alone over 100000 days were lost
by Industrial disputes.
Now the British workman is hard
beaded person and he doesn't like to be
idle any better than anyone else. He
realizes, too, that altogether Mr.. William
Jones and his friends in the cabinet have
fixed up settlements" that look very
fine on paper he isn't any better Off
He has lost his 100000 days, his wages
are hardly any higher and his food is
costing him more
A factor in the situation which is too
often overlooked is the human factor
The British working man is very hui
man man. He likes his beer. he enjoys
dog fight or a boxing match and he
doesn't mind small bet. BY some
strange freak the great majority of the
men whom he has sent to Parliament are
Puritans. Arthur Henderson, the official
leader, but not the real manager of the
labor party, is Methodist local preacher.
Ramsay Macdonald. the real boss of
the party. never was working man at
all, but is a middle class liberal politi-
clan who knows nothing of the real life
of the working people. Philip Snowden.
who is probably the cleverest man in the
~ lie oI <1n Ii
Is bitter socialist but an ascetic in his
private life and cannot understand why
his constituents prefer beer and dog
fights to Karl Marx and Bernard Shaw.
With all this the labor politicians might
have managed to keep their seats in Par
lament II they had not made the fatal
mistake of greediness. There was a tacit
agreement that in certain working class
constituencies returning two members to
Parliament the liberals should have one
member and the labor party one. Re
Gently the labor wire pullers decided that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-12

r ONDON, October n.-(Special)--
Has the effort of the English trade
- unionists and socialists to build up
their own political party In Parliament
failed? All the indications point to the
conclusion that it has, and that in a few
years labor members of Parliament will
berries in January
The rise of the labor party at the gen.
ereal election of 1905 was one of the ro-
mances of politics. Before that there
were perhaps half a dozen labor social
lists in Parliament led by the veteran
Keir Hardie. The miners had dozen or
SO of their own men, but they were lib
erals and not socialists. They were there
to look after the special interests of the
miners, but on all other matters they
sat and voted with the liberals. The
railwaymen also had one or two repre-
sentatives who were also relied on by
the liberals. and most Of the miners and
railway mems member of Parliament
were helped in their election expenses
by liberal money and given a clear field
against the tory candidates.
In 1905. however. the new party was
born. Politicians laughed when it was
announced that labor intended to con-
test some so odd seats and predicted that
the candidates would be showed under.
When, however, they won nearly 90 of
these seats the politicians were seized
with something like a panic and serious
men were heard to predict that before
many years there would be labor prime
H.,
street When a little later the miners and
railway mems unions decided that their
representatives must "sign the labor
party ticket" by which was meant that
they must pledge themselves to be gov
erned by the party caucus these gloomy
prophets saw the confirmation of their
fears
Now all this is changed. The labor
party is the joke of politics and no one
believes that after the next general cleo
ton, whenever it may come, labor with
a capital Il" will cut any serious figure
in Parliament.
Various explanations are offered for
this astonishing collapse, but the most
generally accepted is that the official
labor party has allowed itself to be
swallowed body. boots and breeches by
the liberal party. Certain it is that the
labor members have consistently voted
liberal on all occasions when their votes
were required to keep the libreals in Of
flee. On one or two occasions when labor
made show of Independence the liber-
ais were assured of enough tory votes to
overcome the labor detection. and the
labor men knew it.
Another and perhaps a more serious
factor is that the labor party has not
made good When it 'came into being
eight years ago the leaders were prodi-
gal of promises of new heaven and
new earth Wages were to be raised
hours were to be reduced. work was to
be made easier. and conditions better
Factories and mines were to become like
ladies' drawing rooms and the millen-
mum was to arrive without further de-
lay. The trouble is that the millennium
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will go with me into certain of
them I will leave my worlSmen on the
outside. We will enter the vaults and
your men can then lock the doors and
my workmen will let us out inside of
an hour"
The treasurer consented. They pick
ed out a vault which had SS,000,000
in It, They went inside and the doors
were duly locked, although the time
lock was left off 1t took Just twelve
minutes to throw the doors open. This
was done without the use OF explosives
of any sort and merely by driving
wedges In between the doors and safe,
In company with this man the treas
urer then went to the committee Of
Congress and by their representations
the matter was remedied There Is no
doubt but that the vaults are abso
lute1y safe now.
Anyhow it would be very brave
man who would try to rob the treas
ury. tunnel might be dug from
somewhere near the trea ~ building
but the robbers would have TO drill,
and they would have to have rail-
road to carry away the silver. After
they had taken a few thousand dol
lars the bags and boxes containing the
remainder would tumble about with
such noise as to apprise the Treasury
guards of their action, and as these
guards are on hand day and night 1t
would be almost impossible TO get
anything to speak of without dis
coyery.
There might be a combination with
the guards, and fortune in greenbacks
or silver certificates taken but these
are all numbered and the thieves would
be sure to be identified. There is a
goodly corps of guards in the treasury
department. and these are divided into
different watches They have to salute
each other from time to time. and a
whistle would bring an army of guards
to any part of the treasury at any
moment.
1t is now some years since one OF
the United States treasurers attempted
to sneak down into the vaults to see
If the men were duty. He sudden.
1y found a barrel of cold steel at his
head and the guard who held the othel
end of the revolver made him stand
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-12
Rag Picker Seeks Title

yncenza D'Ambrosio of s4 Navy street,
Brooklyn, who has made fortune in the
rag picking business he came from Italyl
when 20 years old forty years ago. has
applied to the King of Italy for the title
of count, claiming. that his family is OF
noble lineage and has been traced back
700 years, says the New York Sun.
Directly after arriving in this country
he started picking rags in the neighbor-
hood of the Brooklyn navy yard and has
outstripped. 1t is said, all his competitors
In the country at the job. lie branched
out to Manhattan and employed an army
of laborers. Now that he has enough
wealth to support a title he wants one.
D'Ambrosio is a member OF many Ttal-
ian organizations and has been active in
Democratic politics.
A banquet in his honor has been ar
ranged for September q In the Hotel
Buena Vista, and his friends hope that
they will be able to greet him as Count
D'Ambrosio on the occasion.
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not only hasn't arrived, but doesn't seem
TO be any nearer than in the old days be-
fore labor had it's own party in Parlia-
ment. Factories and mines are still
grimy unpleasant places and employers
still continue to insist that eight hours.
or more, constitute days work. Wages
have not gone up to any great extent
and the cost of living has beaten wages
in the climb, SO that the British work.
the labor party began to promise him a
golden future. lN
Still another factor is the feeling that
the labor leaders have succumbed to the
flesh pots of Egypt. The British Parlia-
ment is really very democratic place
and the younger SON of duke who is a
member of Parliament doesn't mind being