The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-02-19
UNITED STATES News IN OUR OWN STATE


memorial hotel IoT unemployed.
Charles q. Dawes, former Control
Ter Of the Currency Of the United
States, built memorial hotel at a
cost of 100000 in Chicago as a tri-
butte to his son Rufus, who was
drowned at the age Of twenty-One,
a little over a year ago while saving
others from the depths of Lake
Michigan.
The hotel provides lodging and
food at absolutely nominal cost for
men, and helps them TO
obtain employment. Five cents
is charged for a clean bed, and eight
cents pays for a meal consisting of
soup, coffee, doughnuts and pie.
Every man takes a shower bath and
is furnished with clean pajamas be-
fore going to bed.
Tramps are discouraged as the
is meant for the worthy
No man will be given
permanent lodging but all possible
aid is given to one looking for en-
ployment.
u. s. Begins Atlantic Ice Patrol.
President Wilson has ordered the
revenue cutter Seneca to patrol the
Atlantic iceberg region until June,
observing dangers to navigation and
warning ships by wireless. This
is one result of the recent internal
tional safety-at-sea conference re-
Gently held in London. The cost of
the patrol will be borne by nations
having ships on the north Atlantic
lines.
100000 Dogs Killed.
Four hundred thousand prairie
dogs in the Cochetopo and Dixie ma
tional forests in Colorado and the
Tusayan and Cocinina forests in
Arizona have been killed at a cost
of $4,000 by the department of Ag-
riculture since its campaign of de-
struction was declared on the ro-
dents. The forage devOured by the
rodents would have fed 1880 sheep
or 1900 head of cattle, and was
worth si5O,OOO.
$4,000 Gold Notes Lost.
Four thousand dollars worth OF
unfinished $40 gold notes have dis
appeared from the governments
factory in Washington. Secret ser
vice men are searching for them. II
is not known whether they were
lost or stolen. They cannot be cir
culated unless sealed, stamped and
numbered.
A Walking Candidate.
Henry f. Roethe of FennimOre
Wis, candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor of Wiscon-
sin, who is running on a platform OF
economy and lower taxes, is pre-
pairing to walk 5000 miles.
He will open his walking cam
paign March IS, making 25 miles
day, discuss lower taxes at country
stores and tack up placards. He
limits his campaign expenses tc
$1,000 and expects to save 5000 by
walking. He plans to visit every
county in the state by Aug. IS.
Ground Broken for Lincoln Memorial
On Feb. 10Th, while the freezing
winds swept across the Potomac
from the sloping Virginia hills, {
bareheaded southern officer Of the
Civil War, opened the exercises thai
marked the breaking ground for tn,
construction Of the great marble
memorial the nation is about (
erect to Abraham Lincoln. This i:
the one hundred and fifth anniver-
sary of Lincoln's birth.
Joseph C. 5. Blackburn, former
senator from Kentucky, was thu
first to sink spade into the ground
and then with uncovered head, hi
spoke in high praise of the mem
DRY of Lincoln, who is now regard
ed as the greatest of all Americans
so held by the South as well as the
North.
The memorial will be erected il
Potomac Park at a cost of S2,00O,000
Senate Pass Bill to Elect Senators
The Senate passed a bill to pro-
vide a temporary method for the
nomination and election of .Sena-
tors in states that have not legis-
lated to carry out the seventeenth
constitutional amendment for the
direct election of Senators.
This law will be effective only I'M
til the various states provide theiI
own machinery for nominating anC
electing senators.
To Investigate Labor Conditions in
United States.
The United States Commission oil
Industrial Relation will inauguratt
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