United labor bulletin., 1914-09-19
THE OPTIMISTIC
PHILOSOPHER


is Billy Sundays performance, afternoon
and evening, three times on Sunday,
now being staged in a great wooden tab
ernacle seating 10000 people, occupying
block ON Lincoln street between Tenth
and Eleventh avenues. And Billy plays
to crowded house every night, the
doors being closed Just as soon as all
seats are occupied. A few evenings ago
the o. p. took in the show, the subject
treated on this occasion being Moral
Lepers." Havings always been physical
ly and morally clean, we were able to
enjoy the performance immensely,
though some of the male and female
sinners looked as though they thought
Billy was driving straight at them, es-
pecially when he said: "There are some
men and women in this community SO
unclean morally that they'd have to
take bath every day for two years in
lyosol and carbolic acid before they were
clean enough to touch the doorknob of a
decent home. God is going to peel the
bark some day and he is going to find
lot of YOU people full of worm holes.
God knows how to laugh. That's the
yrea son he made the monkey, the donkey
and some of you folks" Billy's success
lies largely in the introduction of novel
and up-to- the minute features. For in
stance, in place of the usual noiseless
wicker collection baskets. tin pans are
used and the music of coins dropping
therein resounds all over the tabernacle
When the o. p. dropped his two-bit
piece from a sufficient height to bring
proper results, Billy glanced over in our
direction and delivered himself of gra-
cious smile Billy added to the gaiety
OF Denver this week by umpiring a Wes-
tern League ball game between the local
team and Sioux City. Denver lost. To
all those for whom time hangs heavily
we recommend an afternoon or evening
with the Rev. William Ashley Sunday
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Denver town does not seem the same
since workmen last week removed the
clock from the Union depot tower. For
more than twenty years this old time
keeper has extended a welcome to those
who came and blessing upon departing
visitors. II has been a guiding sign
post to strangers within our gates and
looked down upon the rich and poor,
the ioyster and mourner alike, telling
the hour with uufailing fidelity through
darkness and dawn BY IL all residents
OF the North side have measured their
steps going 10 work in the morning and
returning to the family fireside in the
Fisher tower clock was erected the
Union depot clock was to Denver what
Big Ben on the Parliament building
tower is to London Its removal was
made necessary by the constant eNolu-
tions of great city and marks the first
outward sign OF the reconstruction work
on the Union depot, which is to be en-
larged to double its present size. Depot
Manager Heating is only eonsoled over
the loss of the old clock tower by the
knowledge that Denver's growth has
demanded enlarged and more eommodi-
ous facilities for the increasing number
of travellers who day by day pass IN
aud out of the Union depot. The pretty
lawn and stately shade trees in front
of the present building viii also make
way Tor the new waiting rooms, which
will extend out 20 the Welcome Arch at
the foot OF Seventeenth street
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A few days ago the o. =. treated him
self to the pleasure and novelty of visit
ing what i said to be the only ''radium
room" in the world. II is located in the
I Colorado museum at City park. An at
,endant said since it was fitted up only
Z short time ago il had made hit with
discerning people. Last Sunday 1900
/ trooped through the dark room TO get a
glimpse OF the priceless stuff claimed to
I be the only known cure for cancer.
Countless points of intense white light
can be seen under the glasses after the
eve becomes accustomed to the dark
I room. The points of ligh, move and
/ dance upward in flashing stream as
the rays are given off from the radium
and reflected on the phosphoreseent zinc
sulphide which is under the glass and
. IL. .l,,sa
best for the observation of the phenom-
enon. according to Raymond +. Hammer
curator of mineralogy and geology at
the museum. who arranged the radium
exhibit and designed the apparatus used.
\ This ore comes from Central City. Colo,
4 the only place in the world where pitch
blendv, the richest radium bearing ore, is
mined commercially. Samples OF this
ore are on exhibit at the museum. Bug
hole ore is another sort of radium ore
which the visitor may see at the muse
um. II is full OF tiny holes where the
! radium is deposited. Carnotite ore,
which is a grcenish yellow and looks like
great Jumps of sulphur, is the most
common radium bearing ore and is found
extensively in the Paradox valley in
southern Colorado. In 1879 Colorado
shipped out ls grams of this precious
stuff, and last year Ih grams were
shipped. for which prices ranging from
100000 to Slso,oo0 per gram were re-
ccived, or at the rate of about 81 .o0o-
I 0O0 per ounce. just as soon as the O. 7.
\ accumulates two ounces of the stuff he
is going to start a daily labor paper in
Denver and raise wages for printers.
pressmen and reporters.
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In acknowledging recent of a souvenir
Labor Day edition copy of The United
Labor Bulletin, the o. P.'s esteemed
friend. Col. G. +. Ladson of Atlanta. Ga