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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-09
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY PARTY
First IocOnotive

The first lOcomtive was completed and put into operation just cen- turS ago, in 1874, by George. Stephen son, who was born in Wylam, Eng land, 133 years ago today, June g., 17S1- He was engineer at a colh hery when he invented a travelling engine to draw wagons along a. tramway StephensOn's first locomotive attain ed a speed of six miles an hour. Im- pr0vement after improvement was made. not only in the locomotive but in the rails, and in 1922 Stephenson opened the first railway, which was eight miles in length Sn 1929 his locomotive, the Rocket, reached a speed of thirty-f1ve miles an hour, winning the prize of $2,5OO offered bysthe Liverpool & Mancnester Rail- wav Company. The entire system of railway locomotion, with stations, signals, tenders and carriages, was completed with the inauguration of the Liverpool & Manchester line in 1890. Stephenson was largely instru> mental in establishing all the Eng fish and foreign lines during the first period of railroading. He died in 1S4s. The centenary of steam loco- natives finds those engines tmprov- ed and enlarged beyond the widest dreams of the inventor but already threatened with extinction by the electric locomotive.
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1 gantfc Tower of Progress, which rig | es to the height of 1000 feet or more On the summit of this tower will be installed a wireless teleeraphy plant and on the lower floor of it's colossal base will be found a world printing g press.
 ''The tower rises in the midst of a circular space set apart for interna- tional congress buildings for medt- cine, surgery, hygiene, law and crin- inology, electricity and invention, az riculture and transportation, all of which are provided with halls, libra ries, museums and accessory offices. To the northeast is the Internatio onal Hall of Justice and to the southwest the Temple of Religions. Complet- ing the conception stand an interna- t1onal bank or clearing house and world reference library, while in gar dens near by are found the interna- dona1 institutes of higher learning. The art center is connected with the physical culture center by means of gardens devoted to horticulture, nat ural history, zoology and botany. An imposing Temple of Art, forming the chief monument of this center, has been planned with spacious halls and galleries for sculpture and painting, surrounding a vast auditorium. The physical center is intended to facili- tate a world reunion of athleticism and to promote the scientific develop
 
 tions. A vast stadium is it's central feature. Near it is 8 large natator- iurn, gymnas1a for men and women, and open fields and athletic quadran- gles for international expositions and contests.''
 The estimated cost of creating such a city, according to the author of the plan, would not be over $10o, 1000, 900, a sum that would not severely tax the resources of the governments of the world if equitab1y distributed. The International Committee, of the or ganization is to determine the site and location of the city at It's meeting next year. Numerous places have been mentioned, such as theV Dutch coast near The Hague; the Riviera, near Canness Turvueren, near Brus- sels; St. Germain on Lave, near Paris; the Marmora coast near Constant nople: the New Jersey coast, near Lakewood; the .Isthmus of Panama; and recently the Island of Cuba. Many leaders in art science, educa,- ton and world politics in the va rious of the civilized globe are taking an active interest in the movement, and the meeting of the International Committee next year will create a worldwide interest.
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A WORLD CAPITAL.
All Nations to Cooperate In The Building of an Ideal
 International City.

A grandly fdeaHstic project has re- gently been launched by an interna- tional organization known as the World Conscience Society,"" The de- tails and plan were conceived and tic labor and study on the part of Hendrix Christian Anderson, an rican-Scandinavian sculptor re- siding in Rome, assisted by some 40 sculptors, artists, engineers, arcfli- tects, and scientists and has for it's object the establishment of an ideal world city where all international ac- tivities are to have their home and Inspiration.
 A review of the massive and beau tifully illustrated volume which em- bodies the plan in it's details was re- gently published in the Monthly Bull letin of the Pan-American Union. This proposed international city, writes the reviewer-'1s to be a city of light, health, wide avenues, parks, playgrounds, fouontains, lagoons, and noble buildings. It is to be a city without slums, a city of efficiency convenience and beauty. Not only in structure, plan, and equipment will it be the ideal city, but it is intended to become the intellectual. artistic, and practical international capital of the world; a clearing house for the
 
 political aspirations of humanity
 '.As designed it will cover some 10 square miles of ground. Its archf- tectural plans are so drawn that it can be built at almost any spot ac- cessib1e to the sea that the nations may choose. While there is ample room within the limits Of the city for the homes of the permanent inhab- itants and the necessary business and manufacturing plants, the heart of the city is composed of buildings adapted to the unif1cation of inter national interests. These are group ed into three centers devoted respec- tiveley to science, art, and physical culture. The scientific center is connected with the center of art by the broad Avenue of Nations, hanked on either side by palaces which will house ambassadors and delegates rep resenting their respective nations. It has for its crowning motif the g1-
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weak and futile person, but after seven years of intrigue Peter ruled alone. His first wife, Eudoxfa,, was a refined woman of noble birth, but Peter soon tired of her, and imprison- ed her in nunnery. where, fll-clad and underfed, she spent twenty-four years of torture. One of the most pitiful love letters ever written was addressed by Eudixia to Major Gle bof, a soldier who, by his kindness, had inspired passion in the, breast of the luckless ex-czarina. To her lover she wrote:
 s.Come to me. Without thee I shall die. Send me but crust of bread thous hast bitten with thy teeth, or the waistcoaf thou hast worn, that may have something to bring thee near to me-
 In 17oS Peter privately married a girl of peasant birth, who had been a courtesan, and who was the spouse of a Swedish dragoon when Peter first cast anorous eyes upon her. Peter was infatuated with Catherine, who was of Livon- ian birth, because she possessed a sumptuous and voluptuous figure and was an expert at ironing shirts. In one of his love letters, written to Catherine while he was away on a campaign, Peter sighed: 'I am dull wttho you-and there is nobody to take care of my shirts.''
 When Peter was away fighting the hclxle Catherine amused herself with intrigues with her courtiers One of these affairs came to the attention of Peter, and he chopped off the head of the guilty man and exposed it to public view on scaffold in the palace yard. Later Peter had the decapitated head preserved in spir- it's and placed in a. bottle in the Elm press apartments, but this horrid souvenir of her love affair did not daunt Catherine who remained tickle and faithless to the last When Pe- ter died, after very severe suffering, in 1725, the former peasant girl as- cended the throne as Empress Cathe- r1ne l.. and ruled as autocrat Of all the Russias until her in 172T
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Hearing De Petition Of Q. e. Lind
 quist for the Establishment or a
 Grade on Ashley Street, En11o Length.
 At a meeting of the Common Cpu11- Gil of the City of Bridgeport held on June 1, 1914, the following resoIu- ton was adopted: hereby is instructed to notify the per- sons in interest to appear before thl4 Common Council at the Council Room, City Hall, on the 18th day of Tune A D., 1914, at eight o'clock in the evening, and be heard in re- lation to the petition Of c. e. Lind on Ashley street. it's entire leUslh
 Attest:
 J. ALEX H. ROBINSON,
 as City Clerk.
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Peter The Great, Founder Of
 Modern Russia, HonOred Today

In the Russian calendar the ninth of June is a date of pro<ound and historic importance. for 1t marks the anniversary of the birth in 1672 of Peter Alexeievitch, usually styled Peter the Great who was the creator of modern Russia, the rather of such civilization as Russia may be said to Possess, and the founder of St. Pe- tersburg, as we'll as the first czar of 1duscovy to assume the title of Elm Deror All students of history are familiar with the career of Peter the statesman and soldier, who, disg41is- ed as a workman, toiled m an Am sterdam shfpyard in order that he might introduce the art of shipbuild- ing among his people; who, inspired by his tutor, Lefort, a Genoese, de- termined to introduce the arts and sciences of civilization into Russia, and visited Holland, England, and Germany, keneIy observing and learning all that he could or trade. fFsanufartures, commerce and the arts. and who introduced this leaven of civilization into a land which had been plunged into darkest barbarism. The student also knows that the Father of His Country, while reform ing others neglected to reform him seIE-an omission not peculiar to Pe- ter and remaining to the last coarse and brutal savage and tyrant, addicted to the meanest vices, and anding his greatest joy in torturing hfa enemies. Often he topped off ten or twenty heads in succession, and was immensely proud of his horrid ssxterity with the sword
 or Peter the lover less has been written, yet this cruel barbarian was not without romantic proclivities. During the early period of his reign aa jointly occupied the Muscovite kHma wlah min hRStlsaEs Ivan ",
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-09
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY Lee Pape

Hay, Gladdis, I 'sed to my sistir. aftir suppir last nite.
 Wats avn yure mind now. sed GIaddfs.
 Do you wunt to see sumthing orall funy, I sed.
 Ware, sed Gladdis.
 Look in the mirror, sed.
 You serteny are funy nttel fello, aren't you, sed Gladdis, I don't see how you can be so funy and live.
 I no sumthing a hole lot funnyer than I am, I sed.
 Imposserbi1, sed GIaddis.
 Do you wunt to see it, I sed.
 Id luv to sed Gladdis
 Look in the mirror, I sed.
 See heer yung man, sed G1addis, you try that agen and thare will be trubbil, thares a, limit to evvrything, you no.
 Awl rite. I wont say it agen. I sed, but do you reeIy wunt to see sum thing funy.
 Be carefll. sed Gladdis.
 I wont say, Look in the mirror. I
 You wont if you no wats good for you, sed Gladdis.
 We'll, do you wunt to, sed.
 Do I wunt to wat, sed Gladdis.
 See sumthing funy, sed.
 Now mind, be care1ll, sed GIaddis.
 Look in the looking glass; sed. You young dvvil, sed Gladdis. And she startid to chase me and I startid to run, saying, watts the mattir, I dident say, look in the mirror, did I, I dident say look in the mirror.
 It will be a lawng vile befoar you say enything if get a hold of you, sed Gladdis. Wicih it mite of bin, ony she dident get a hold of me, avn akkount of me running up stares and locking myself in the bath room, and aftir Gladdis got throo pownding avn 51,e 1,af q in her room, I calm out and rote avn a peece of papir, Say, Gladdis, if you wlInt to see sumthing funy you no wareA to look, and sneeked up stares and stuck it under her doar and ran down stares agen fast as the dickins.
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NOTICE

Hearing De Petition of s. Bohre for the Spr1nIxIlng of yVnIistom Street from BunneII Street to ssavisw Avenue with Of1.
 At a meeting of the Common Council of the City Of BrldgepOrts held on June l, 1914 the following resolution was adopted.
 Resolved, That the Clerk be- and hereby is instructed to notify the per- Common Council at the Council Room, City Ha1l on the 18th day of June A D., 1914, at eight o'clocE in the evening and be heard an Eela- ton to the petition of S Bo71rer for the spr1nkling of VV1llds6on street from Bunne1I street to SeaVieW ave nue with oiE
 Attest,
 T. ALEX H. ROBINSON
 a& E7tw CilgrE
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NOTICE
Hearing De Construction of sunlhy
 Storm Water Sewers.

Hearing De Construction of sundIg
 Storm Water Sewers.
 At the meeting of the Common Council Of the City of Bridgeport held June 1, 1914, the following resp7 lution was adopted:
 Resolved, That the Clerk be and hereby is directed to notify the per sons in interest to appear before thi9 Common Council, at ftls Councl Room, City Hall. on the 10th day c June, A. D., 191&, at eight o'clock W the evening and be heard in relation to the construction of storm Nflc4l sewers in the following streets.
 Gregory street from Park ervenut to Iraniston. avenue.
 Iranistan avenue from GregoE5 street to Admiral street
 South avenue, a, dlstance or 5uy Aas westerly from Iranistan avenue.
 From South and Iranfstan ayenu across .praSate property to Ceda Creek.
 nue to Cedar Creek.
 Bostwick avenue from Hailroat avenue to Cedar Greek.
 Morris street from BostWtclz avo nue to Cedar Creek.
 Attest:
 J. ALEX Fl. ROBINSON,
 as City CleFs
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trouble from birth and suffered in tensely. Since Mrs. Rouse has been giving him Dr. Ca1dwe11's Syrup Pep sin all trouble has disappeared and the boy is becoming robust.
 Thousands keep Dr. Ca1dwen's s Syrup Pepsin constantly in the house. for every member Of the family can use it from infancy to old age. The users of Syrup Pepsin have learned to avoid cathartics, salts, mineral wa ters, pills and other harsh remedies for their do but temporary good and are a shock to any delicate system.
 Families wishing to try a free sam pie bottle can obtain 1t postpaid by addressing Dr. w. B. Caldwell, 914 Washington St., Monticello, III. A postal card with your name and ad- dress on it will do.
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NoTIOE
Hearing De Construction of Eeult1Ey
 Sewers in Sundry stresis

Hearing De Construction of saultEy
 Sewers in Sundry Strssa
 At the meeting of the Common Council of the City of Bridgeport, held June 1, 1914. the following re9eAu- ton was adopted:
 Resolved, That the Clerk be, and hereby is directed to notify the per sons in interest to appear beGOre thts Common Council, at the Council Room, City Hall. on the 1btH day or June, A. D., 1914, at eight o'ciocE in fle evening and be heard in relation fo the construction of sanitary sew CTS in the following streets:
 Tn Wayne street its entire len8c1s from Old hiII Green northeTly to Hickory street, thence westerly. a. 4ig- tance of approximately 800 feet
 Tn East Main street, from Autumn street a distance of 1s50o feet.
 In Monroe street. it's entire length.
 Attest:
 J. ALEX H. RoBuysofT,
 a% City Clerk.
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 WE DEPLoRE LIVES LOST IN WAR AND HAVE ADVOCATES OF PEACE WHO ARE FLUENT IN SPEECH REGARDING THE TER RoRs OF STRIFE, VET, WHILE ONE MUST sYMPATHIzE WITH THOSE WHO HAVE LOST DEAR ONES IN BATTLE, ARE WE AS ELOQUENT AND ACTIVE As RE- SPEcTs THE MANY THAT ARE SLAIN IN INDUsTRY7 WE MOURN THE NINETEEN OF VERA CRUZ, BUT IN THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF THIS YEAR THERE WERE SLAIN SEVERAL TIMES THAT NUMBER IN THE INDUS TRIES WITHOUT GREAT PUBLIC GRIEF, AND THE YEARLY DEATH LIST FROM AUTOMOBILES IN THE STREETS OF NEW YORK MAKES OUR OCCUPATION OF VERA cRUz LOOK RELATIVELY LIKE A PLEASURE EXCURSION.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-09
LEGAL NOTICES
PROPOSALS

Sealed bids will be received by tho undersigned until 12 O'cEoc noon, Monday, June IS, 1914, for &uEuiall- ing and installing steam heating G.D+ paratus at No. Engine HOuse. Spec ifications are on file at this office
 BOARD OF CONTRACT
 AND SUPPLY,
 Room No. 2s, City Han
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college and
 books. is to BIiA1EE FAR lEORI THAN THE LESS FAVORED MAN if he by his ill considered words HEADS OTHERS ASTRAY
 & R e
 AS LONG AS PUBLIC UTiLlTIEi AND OTHER INDUSTRIES ARE % PRIVATE HANDS RESPoNs8BIL ITY Is DEFINITELY LODGED ANE THosE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEI8 ACTS GAN BE REAcHEp. THE MINUTE GOVERNMENT sEcoMEs PRoPRtEToR-T4E WHOLE RELA, TON TO THE PUBLIC OF A GIVEN INDUSTRY CHANCES vlVIpLV-I1 IS DUMPED IN WITH MANY oTH. ER TRANsAcTIoNs. AND IT'S AcTe BECOME THE MYsTERIoUs EFT TERs OF oFFBcGALpoM-
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so READY TO RAIL and to the reform of which they are wiling to de- vote themselves ct So much per week, month or year.
 The so called educated ma n, m c a ming the man of school, ,
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Inefficient, Back Number In
 His Methods
By Secretary of Commerce WILIAMC. REDFIELD
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THE strenuous life is in most
 cases the least effective and
 efficient. It is an infantile view of industry which measures its results by either the duration or the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-09

.T.YE of the United States toda w are suffering from the DH
 STRUCTTVB CRTTECISl of those who are INCOMPETENT TO IMPROVE THE COND1
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e x t e n t of eff fort. Both the H U s T L E R A N D T H E APOSTLE OF S T R E N U- o U s N E s s h ve become b a c k numbers in their meth ods. They are t o d a y in the same category with him who also ran.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-09

Former President Taft delivered an address at the centennial celebration of the founding of New .Harmony. Ind
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College Man to BIsm, For Destructive
 Criticism
By Dr. ALEXANDER C. HUMPHRB4 President Stevens Insfittts of
 TeeEsnoioeY

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NOTICE

J. ALEX H. ROBINSON,
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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-09-26
ACT !, NO "a

House Bill No. $50. BY Mr.. Manion
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to the Con
stitutionl Of the State OF Louisiana
giving the power to the Board Of
Commissioners OF the Port of New
Orleans to dig, build. erect and
operate or acquire and operate
navigation canal, and the necessary
locks, slips. laterals. basins and ap-
purtenances thereof, in the city Of
New Orleans, to connect Lake.
Pontchartrain and the Mississippi
Z river.
Section l. Be It resolved, by the
General Assembly of the State of
Louisiana, two-thirds of all members
elected to each House concurring.
That the Board Of Commissioners Of.
the Port Of New Orleans is hereby
to dig, build, erect and
operate or acquire and operate a nav
igation canal In the city of New Or
leans. together with necessary locks,
slips, laterals, basins and appurte-
nances thereof, and other structures
necessary therefor, to connect Lake
POntchartrain and the Mississippi
river, In aid of commerce. The To-
cation OF said canal shall be fixed
and determined by the Commission
Council Of the city of New Orleans.
and shall be constructed under plans
and specifications to be first approx
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-09-26
THOMAS G. BARRETT,
Lieutenant Governor and President
Of the Senate.
L. E. THOMAS,
Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives.
Approved: July 8, 1914.
L. e. HALL,
Governor Of the State Of Louisiana.
A true copy.
ALVIN e. HEBERT,
Secretary of State.
Act NO 1q3.


House Bill No. 181 BY Mr.. Caulfield
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Article
3O3 Of the Constitution of the
State Of Louisiana, relative to PEN
sions for Confederate veterans, and
for the purpose Of providing a
sufficient revenue for the carrying
out of this Article Of the Constitu-
ton.
Section /. Be it resolved by the
General Assembly Of the State of Lou
isiana, two-thirds Of all members
elected to each House concurring,
That article 3O3 of the Constitution
of the State of Louisiana, be so
amended as to read as follows:
Article 303. A pension not to ex-
coed eight d liars ($8.00) per month
shall be allowed to each Confederate
soldier or sailor veteran who passes
all the following qualifications:
I. He shall have served honor
ably from the date of his enlistment
until the close Of the Civil War, or
until he was discharged or paroled,
in some military organization regu-
larry mustered into the, Army and
Navy of the Confederate States, and
shall have remained. true to the Con-
federate States until, the surrender.
2. He shall not own property of
more than two-thousand ($2, 10000
dollars.
s 5. He >shall not be salaried or
otherwise provided for by the State
OF Louisiana or by any other State
Or g0vornment. In case he enlisted
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-09-26

ana, except that the District ATTORNEY
shall be entitled to and shall receive
all fees and emoulments of the ONCE.
The said Assistant District Attor.
ney shall receive a salary of 5000
per annum. to be paid by tia
State. payable monthly on his own
warrant, and such additional salary
as the legislature may fix, to be paid
pro rata by the Police Jury Of tia
parish or parishes Of said judicial
District.
Section 2. Be it further resolved
ETC., That the foregoing amendment
to the Article of the Constitution AZ.
this State, if adopted, shall become
operative on the first day Of January.
A. D., 1915. q
Section 8. Be it further resolves
ETC., That upon the official ballots "a
be used at said Congressional cleo
ton shall be printed the words ..For
the proposed amendment to Article
125 of the Constitution Of Louisiana
relative to District Attorneys, and
the words Against the proposed
amendments to Article 1875 Of the
Constitution OF Louisiana, relative ID
District Attorneys" and each elector
shall indicate, as provided in the
general election laws Of the State.
which Of the propositions, For or
Against" he votes for.
L. 3. THOMAS.
Speaker Of the House Of Represen-
tatives.
THOMAS c. BARRETT,
Lieutenant Governor and Pres.-
dent OF the Senate.
Approved: July 9, 1914.
L. E. HALL,
Governor Of the State Of Louisiana.
A true copy.
ALVIN E. HEBERT.
Secretary of State.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-09-26
ACT NO. 1872.

Senate Bill No. 10. BY Mr.. Favrot
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to Para
graphs 2 and Of Article PSI of
the Constitution Of the State Of
Louisiana, as amended by Joint
Resolution, known as Act No. / 81
Of the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana of the year 1912
and adopted. at the Congressional
election held on the 5th day of
November, 1912, and as readopted
by the Constitutional Convention
of the State of Louisiana for the
year 1913.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
General Assembly Of the State of
Louisiana, two-thirds (2-3) Of all the
members elected to each house, con-
curing, That paragraphs Two (2)
and Three Cd of Article Two Hun
dred and Eighty-one (281) Of the
Constitution Of the State Of Louisf-
ana b amended 20 q to road = fol-