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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08

The refusal of the gas company to
assist great public Improvement by
granting the North Western road on
reasonable terms an easement for the
proposed switch track along the river
bank over its lands on the ground that
lit is the intention of the company to
erect new storage tank sometime IN
the hazy future will not have the eff
fleet of making the company any more
bpopular in Kenosha. The river grade
Eswitch track which is designed to do
haway with the grade crossing at the
foot of Main street by lowering the
kpresent tracks serving the harbor bust
mess district is, in the opinion of most
of the city officials and such private
citizens as have been given an out
lime of the plans of the company, one
of the most important features if not
the most important of the plans for the
great improvements in its service which
the railway company proposes to carry
out in Kenosha. The decision of the
gas company officials to do what they
can to block these plans comes as a
surprise aud shock to the men inter
ested in the advancement of the city
for they realize that it may result in
long and expensive litigation or force
an entire change of plans on the rail-
way company There is well defined
suspicion in some quarters that these
plans for new storage tank were
evolved on the spur Of the moment and
simply as an excuse for refusing to
negotiate with the city officials and the
railroad. How soon does the gas com
pany propose to begin the erection of
that tankq How big is it to be and is
there no way the high priced engineers
on the pay roll of one or the other of
these companies can figure out to erect
this tank and still not block the pro-
posed switch track9 This tank plan
looks to be much on the order of those
plans for ultimately putting wires
underground presented by another pub
lie service corporation. 1t is too in
definite to make much of an impression
on the men interested in carrying
through projects for great public i'm
provements. One would think that a
public service corporation which must
constantly ask favors Of one kind or
another of the municipality would hest
tate to put the Sighted obstacle in the
way of a public Improvement that would
be of such great benefit TO all of the
people of the city, would one not? One
would not if one is familiar with the
corporation practice of never making
q concession without demanding value
received and then some. 1t is up to
the city officials to ascertain as deli
rately as possible SO as not to wound
anybody's feelings if there is not some
little concession the corporation that
owns the gas company thinks it needs
In its business that could be traded for
an easement for this switch.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08
CITY CLEANS HOUSE.
Old Records of City Clerks Office are
busted OF by Finance Committee.

The duties Of the finance committee
of the common council are varied.
Not only is the COMMITTEES supposed to
look after the financial management of
the city and take the blame for the
high tax levy, but today the members
Of the committee donned overalls and
caps and went to work to clean out the
vault of the city clerk. Under orders
from the council the committee is dis
posing of a lot of old records which
have Uttered up the office of the clerk
anywhere from ten to fifty years.
There is great lot of old records in
the Office of the clerk which are abso-
lutely valueless from a practical or his
torieal standpoint and these are being
burned up under the watchful eye Of
the committee. It is expected that be-
fore the committee completes its work
two wagon loads of waste paper will be
destroyed. This is the first time that
the vaults have been cleaned out in
ten years.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08
LIFE SAVERS orr DUTY.
Capt. Fountain and His Men Mustered
Out Of Service at Midnight Wednesday

0GNta Z OASlUd1n ctltu Ills MEL Ctt
Out of Service at Midnight Wednesday.
The Kenosha Life Saving Station IS
deserted as Captain Fountain and the
members Of the crew were mustered out
of service for the year at midnight
Wednesday night The men were all
ready to haul down the colors and lock
up the station and it will remain clos
ed probably until the first of next
April Most Of the men on the crew
left for their homes in other cities ON
Thursday. No provision has as yet
been made for the 1914 crew, but it is
said that there will be changes in the
make up of the crew. While the men
are technically off duty several of the
members of the crew will remain in Ke-
nosha during the winter and with Cap
tain Fountain they will be subject to
call for volunteer service During the
closed season Captain Fountain will
make his home at the cottage just back
Of the station and he will keep a watch
full eye over the harbor and the water
front. The season just closed has been
one of the quietest in the history of
the Kenosha station and there has not
been a single important event to rec
ord in the log book.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08
GIVES EQUAL CHANCE TO ALL.
Free Offer Extended to Rich and Poor
No Discrimination Made.

During the offer of free examination
and treatment no discrimination will
be made, as both rich and poor viii
have an opportunity to consult DR..
Karass, the German Specialist, whose
Offices are at the Hotel Kenosha each
Tuesday. DR.. Karass offers free X~Rav
examination, and free treatment to all.
the only charges being for medicines.
The Doctor treats all chronic diseases
of the lungs, liver, stomach, kidneys,
ineidding rheumatism, epilepsy, asth.
ma, catarrh stomach trouble, gan
stones, appendicitis, piles, goitre and
diseases of women treated without
operation. DR.. Karass will be in his
office at the Hotel Kenosha on Tues
day, January 9th, and each Tuesday
thereafter. advdw
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08

For many years persons who felt
that secrecy and misrepresentation
were the important factors in develop
ing and maintaining the sale and use
of Fpatent medicines - have been
agitating for publicity in connection
with the active ingredients of widely
advertised nostrums. Despite the siren
uous opposition on the part of manu-
facturers of nostrums, some degree of
publicity has been forced on them
THROUGH the federal and state food and
drug laws which require that the pres
ence of limited few active or marco
tic drugs be announced on the labels
of all preparations designed for use as
medicine, "either for man or other
animals. = A very decided advance ON
this rather limited number of drugs is
evidenced by law mentioned in Pub
lie Health Reports for October 10,
1913. This law KANSAS Laws, 1918,
Chapter 1879 requires that before any
manufacturer, jobber or other person
shall sell or distribute in the state of
Kansas any livestock remedy he shall
file for registration with the director
of the agricultural experiment station
a certificate stating the English name
of each Ingredient used in the manu-
facture of remedy registered" and it
is further provided that when any of
the substances, to-wit: mineral acids;
the following elements or their salts,
copper, mercury, arsenic, antimony, and
phosphorus; the following substances
or any of their derivatives or prepare
tions, opium, belladonna, nux vomica,
pilocarpus, santonin, areca nut, worm
wood, digitalis, strophanthus, calabar
bean, aconite, veratrum, croton Oil,
ergot, cotton-root bark and cantharides
are included in the ingredients Of a
livestock remedy, the percentage Of
such ingredient or ingredients must
be stated on the certificate - ~
Every package Of livestock remedy
sold or distributed in the state of Kan
sas is also required to have a tag or
label affixed thereto bearing legible
and plainly printed statement in the
English language, clearly and truly
certifying the English name of each
ingredient contained therein according
to the manner required in the certifi-
cate described above. This is but an
other illustration that, in this country
at least, the health and welfare Of the
domestic animal is considered of
greater Importance than the health of
the head of the household, his wife
or his children.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08


The town of Pleasant Prairie or
ganized a board of health instantly
when the people of that town needed
a means of regulating dumping grounds
and the other towns in the county
would do we'll to organize boards OF
health to deal with the problem OF the
annual invasion of the ice harvesters
which win be upon them with the COM
ing of the first cold snap. Thousands
OF men gathered by the employment
agencies of the big cities from the lodg-
ing houses and "fops" will be poured
into this county without any competent
medical inspection either at the point
Of departure or after they reach the
lakes in this county. An epidemic
among these men is one of the things
that may be expected at any time and
each town in the county should organize
its health board so as to be prepared
not only to cope with any outbreak
WHICH may occur among the ice hand
.Iers but to enforce such sanitary reg
inlations as will reduce the chances OF
the contagion spreading to the people
of the county to minimum. This city
knows what it costs sometimes to dwell
i'm FOOLS paradise without board of
health worthy of the name and no
means of properly enforcing quaran-
tines, but county towns need not pay
the price. They may profit by our ex-
perience and organize their health
boards before an epidemic of some con
tagious disease has run its course in
stead qOf after.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08

The finance committee of the coun-
ell is exercising extreme care in going
over the old papers in the Office Of the
city clerk and none Of them will be
destroyed that could be of any his
torical or practical value to any one.
There is always an astonishing aecumu-
lation of papers in public Offices that
are of no use to any one and the space
they take in the vaults is needed for
live" files. The finance committee is
not particularly in love with the dirty
job of examining all of these old files
but it viii probably be made regular
part Of its work and done annually in
the future
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08
Miss Ruby May Tillotson Be.
comes Bride of Leslie G.
Lease on Thursday.
ACTIVE IN METHODIST CHURCH

Miss Ruby May Tillotson, daughter
! of Mr.. and Mrs Frank Tillotson Of Ly-
man avenue, became the bride Of Les
lie George Lease ct a notable New
Year s day wedding celebrated at Park
Avenue church on Thursday afternoon
at four O'Clock, the wedding being one
Of the most notable events Of recent
years among the Methodist people Of
Kenosha.
In honor Of the nuptial ceremony the
church was beautifully decorated with
palms and ferns, the chancel being
completely hidden beneath a cloth Of
green shrubbery.
More than two hundred guests at
tended the reading Of the wedding
service. The Rev. Peter Stair, pastor
of the church, officiated and the full
ring ceremony was used.
The music for the wedding ceremony
! was of an unusually. elaborate natuge
Miss Zoe Shafer, organist for the
church, presided at the organ, Edmund
Stella, Louis Nelson and William Nor
! row at the violin, while chorus Of ten
| young ladies, all members of the Sun
| day school class of the bride, sang the
Lohengrin wedding march as the bridal
party entered the church. Just before
| the reading of the ceremony Edison
Hardy sang 90 Promise Me- by De
Koven. During the reading of the cere-
mony Miss Shafer played the Angel IS
Serenade and the occasional was the
Mendelssohn march.
| The bride was given away by her
father. She was charmingly attired in
a wedding gown Of white silk and car
ried a shower bouquet of bride S roses.
Little Helen Stair acted as ring bearer
The maid of honor was Miss Eva Lease
Of Chicago, sister Of the groom. She
wore nile green crepe de chine and car
ried a basket of pink and white rose
buds. The brides maids were Miss
Florence Finnan of Chicago, and the
Misses Florence Foxwell, Grace Noel
vain and Amy Wickham Of Kenosha
All, wore white chiffon decorated with
nile green rossettes and carried bas-
kets of rose buds.
The groom was attended by Roy e.
Tillotson, brother of the bride, as
best man. The ushers were Earl Lease
of Chicago, and Sydney Maddox,
Richard Hardy and William Tronvig
of Kenosha.
After the ceremony at the church a
| wedding dinner was served at the Til
lotson home at which covers were laid
for twenty-five guests. The tables
were charmingly decorated in a color
scheme of white and green.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lease left on Thursday
evening for Chicago and they viii
spend short honeymoon in the east.
They will make their home at 62oS
Blackstone avenue, Chicago and will be
at home to their friends after the
| first of March.
Both the bride and groom are widely
known in Kenosha. The groom is a
son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Lease
of Chicago and he holds an important
position in the organization OF the
Ford Motor Car Company. Mrs. Lease
has been prominent in the young so
lciety of the Park avenue church and
has been most active as a worker in
the various organizations connected
with the church.
Many guests from other cities came
to Kenosha to attend the marriage
ceremony.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08
CARVER" GRADE rRorrER.

Formerly owned by Ed. G. Shepard
of Kenosha, now the property of A.
F. Mcneil of South Bristol, Kenosha,
Co., Wis. Carver will make the sea.
son at the stables on the Barker Pic
kens farm in South Bristol Registered
No. 1874. Terms: SOTO insure a live
foal. advwtf
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08

Honesty now, how many OF those
chronologies and summaries OF the
events Of the year that all OF the news
papers published did you read we
often wonder if there is enough inter
asst taken in them to warrant the time
and money that it takes to get them up.
However, it is the custom in all news
paper offices to publish these tables and
records and custom is mighty power
in new ,aper Offices as elsewhere.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08

Kenosha had a real welcome for the
New Year Wednesday evening in which
everybody joined. Some of the people
who helped celebrate had to think
hard to fine a valid excuse to take part
i'm the festivities but they finally put
it on the broad ground that everybody
was lucky to be alive and let it go
at that.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08

The members of the Kenosha Court
OF Honor entertained at an informal
dance at the Moose Hall on Friday
evening which proved a very enjoyable
event. The charter of the local court
viii be closed on January 18th and it
IS expected that class Of hundred
new members will obligated at that
time.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the
annual meeting of the Paris Mutual
Fire Insurance Company viii be held
at the Paris town halllon the first Tues
day in January, being January 6, 1914,
at p. M,
W36adv Mike Stollenwerk, Secy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08
NOTICE.

The annual meeting of the somers.
Mutual Fire Insurance Co., will be held
at the town hall at 10 a. M, Jan. 9th,
1914 Three directors to be elected and
such other business that may come be-
fore the meeting. advw36
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08
PLEASANT PRAIRIE TAX PAYERS
NOTICE.

The undersigned will receive taxes
for the town Of Pleasant Prairie for
the year 1919 at the Merchants and
Savings Bank, KenosEa, ON January 10.
II and s1st, all other days at my Office
IN Pleasant Prairie
Thos. Al Yates,
dw3Tady Town Treasurer.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08

Cards have been received in Keno
sha announcing the engagement of
Miss Sarah Fuller, daughter of Mrs.
Percival Fuller of Racine and Malcolm
ErsKine, also of Racine. The date for
the wedding has not as yet been
announced.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08

Irving Fish formerly of Racine and
well known to many Kenosha people,
has become member of the well
known law firm of Quarles, Spence and
Quarles in Milwaukee.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08

Night work was started in one of the
departments of the plant Of the United
Refrigerator company on Friday even
ing. Other departments VIII be put on
the all day and all right shift later.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08

Can you write it 1914 every time
now without slip2
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08

Mr.. and Mrs. William Gray are here
from Denver, COL, to spend a month
with their sons.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08

Daniel Fisher of Moline, ILL.,. Is here
for visit with his son, Fred Fisher.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1914.

All over now. Time to get down to
business.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08

Miss Harriet Lewis has returned
home after short visit with friends
il Chicago
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-08
AUCTIoNEER.

Years of experience. / know the val.
ues and know how to get them. P. B.
johnson, Zion City, Ill, Phone
HIM. advw41
Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1914-07-22
F0fRAL MEDIATION BOARD
CONSIDERING STRIKE
Of ENG|NEMEN
cosr1IIATORS NOW MEETING IN
CHICAGO; ARBITRATION REFUSED
me1Y.sIx CONFERENCES ARE IN VAIN

r;hv.hve thousand locomotive engineers.
e...n and ho.tlers on the 90 western rail-
~. have voted to strike because the man.
..,,,. association has refused to consider
-, request for small increases in pay and
l.. ,roud;s,ed all Of the schedules that have
.Ln he men 80 years to build up.
he officers OF the organization and the
eA.;uwen Of the workers on al the roads
k.v, been in Chicago for the last four
,esthA trying to come to q settlement with
IL managers. Thirty-six conferences have
k.ea held. No progress has been made
,sv,sd settlement.
As managers have called in the federal
isasd Of mediation and conciliAtion. The
,ea have agreed to submit to mediation but
psGiivek refuse all overtures Of arbitration
. seeoant Of the fact that in the past the
ssaA have ignored the arbitration awarda
ne mediation conference between the
80 nea and the managers 10 in progress
i 0;cAso At the present time. The con.
h,aee opeaed Monday. News concerning
4 4 he difficulties existing between he
- aad he roads will be found in this
sfisa Of The Bulletin.
Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1914-07-22
|l2EhSE TRACTVE POWER
AND CAR CAPACITY BUT
WAGES-OH! NO
IN PRODUCE MORE FOR ROADS;
COMPENSATION REMAINS SANE
Mt Productive Efficiency ~ Pa ceat

The Great Northern railway Is In an envisblc
financial and physical condition. and Its opera,-
ny Performance Is the admiration and envy of
"ifosd officials throughout the country How
NJ productive efficiency OF the employees has con-
"sated TO the prosperity of this company may
seen from III. following figures
isse the Great Northern transported i.12:.ss3-
"a ton miles and In 1913. 7sst.e5s.,s ton miles
increase of 5.all .173.ots. 3t3 per cent. This
III Vas accomplished bS increasing IN. tractise
Cs3 Of Its locomotives. tn" capacity Of It's freight
an and the movement of a larger number Of
sssea ears per train.
rvsts Lead. is~r~ss~ ~ P~r sest
tns net result of this remarkable progress in
.0'shnE efficiency MAS the growth of the aver
~. ss.nae freight train load from 32l tons In
- 70 Ss tons ia isia or an increase Of ss per
- During this period tn. number of freight
van miles advanced only i,o per cent. Measured
s."s .'"s OF traffic handled the productis. eff
a.! ~ nremen aud engineers employed by the
INt northern during this period also
~sssd gain Of ~ per cent
~ the fac. of his remarkable operating per
A. h"s"s~r ther. was an actual decrease
:, ,% s revenue train miles made by each engineer
:, -. 20, miles "t per cent and by each fireman
miles or y hundr.dths Of per cent
a..s s'ieet of the operating achievement of the
80 ss' northern was attended by a decline In the
.sss as shiiitf Of It's fremen aud engineers The
- ioeomotit" - an intricate piece Of mshcln-
49,, shieh requires high standard of mechanical
"a ~, :" hs nl"n who aperat. n and the shopmen
.so take OF H. A. we'll a. great physical en-.
'e on III" part Of III. nremen.
EsrsisG Power U~~itses
,..-Hhsiahding the fact that each engineer and
~, ~ hsulsd NOR. ton or passenger miles In
To- "sh 1919. owing to the development Of train
t,.s "h IN" Increase In the arduousness and dufa-
dec.. 'n'ir lahnts, their earning power actually
s.c.n' IN III" taee Of - greater output per man
np.S a. "'N Nefr not able 10 make many train
~ IN IN isi3 as In 1910. A. a consequence. they
n,,s,'Aed asked Tor higher rates OF pay In order To
M. their accustomed standards Of work and
my believe they should receive greater
~. ~ OF participation In the profits of their
Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1914-07-22
L. c. ASKS RATE RAISE
WITHOUT GIVING REASON
ts~ss H~ss~ss. state sti'stes Cs.eiss,ss ss Ia
crease Tariffs ~nst. Wss,.s. Li.ss.

]. n Cherry. assistant general freight agent Il
the Illinois Central railroad. acting chairman
for tn" railway committee. appeared before Com
missioners Thompson. 0usn. and Yates wednes
da, and asked for the right to increase freight
rates within the maximum limi, allowed by the
commission without giving reason for the IN
crease 10 the commission
other railroads which represented the
Burlington. the Nsndalia the baltimore and Ohio
system. and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
John brennan. attorney for the Illinois Central
argued that since the railroads were obliged
Ia give any reason to the Interstate Commerce
Commission for increases In their freight rates
long the rates did not exceed the maximum
fixed BY the commission, they should not be
Obliged to gtse reason 10 n state commission
Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1914-07-22

Itnrins IN. period 1909 to 1913 the traethe power
f IL. locomotives increased more than 100 per oehi
Ther. was also a decided iner.as. In the tons OF
freight per loaded car and the average number OF
TINS IN zach freight train Increased from 33s tons
In 1900 10 az tons In 1913. or s5 per cent the
Effect Uf those increases has fallen IN gfeat
measure uuan the .nginemen. Greater mechanical
sktil l. required Of both. especially IN" engineer
In the handling Of these complicated machines
That the ftrcmen's lahors have Increased pro
narflnnatrlV Is shown bs the figures on coal con-
.nn,ntlon submitted by the company 10 the Inter
stat. Commerce Commission. computations from
,h.s. figures show that the amount of coal con
Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1914-07-22

sumsd per locomotive mile In 1900 WAS 10 pounds.
and In 1913. 2lt pounds. increase of ~ pounds.
In other words, a fireman has had to handle ~
r~r cent more coal for each mile travelled by his
locomotive
Essassg Fewer neeseoseA
The unfa,orsble effect upon the earning power
Of eng ineers and fremen II no less significant.
owing the development of train loads In freight
traffic and the increase In the arduousness of their
iabors. the earning power OF each engineer and
fireman actually declined In the face OF greater
output per They not able make
during a specified period many train miles In
isi3 In isoo Heavier trains longer runs and
NOR. arduous work caused a pronounced decline
Ia their earning ability.
For each unit of traffic transported II costs the
Union Pacific less now In terms of firemen and
engineers than Il did In 1900 even though higher
rates of payment per locomotive mile have risen
during the past thirteen years The present de-
mands OF the enginemen have been rendered i'm
perative to offset the reduction In their earning
capacity caused by harder working requirements.
and constitute just request to be given . greater
measure Of participation In the profits Of their
o~n advance In productive efficiency