The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-03-23

start Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock
on campaign TO attract 1900 new
members 10 the Board OF Commerce
The teams have assumed the names
OF those In the American. National
and Federal leagues. TO lend a base
ball atmosphere TO the strife. The
team which secures the largest mum
her or new members Will be re-
warded by free transportation to the
Board Of Commerce cruise next sum
mer a Il. Ewing IL general chair
man of the committee I'm charge. The
captains OF the teams have been
named. and they are choosing their
players with much care and dis
elimination. The strife Will con-
tinue for four days,
Mrs. Maurice Black has presented the
Detroit Museum of Art with 'The
Shrimp Fisher on Horseback one
OF the most admired OF the works or
Constantin Meunier. recently exhio-
tied here. The Zimmerman" has
already been presented. and Acting
Director Burroughs says that IL IL
likely that third Meunier work
will be presented within a few days.
The two works already presented
are valued at $4,000; 1t cost the mu-
scum $3.50 to exhibit the Meunier
collection The common councii
ways and means committee has al .
lowed $4,000 for exhibitions, next
year, and in view OF the results this
wear II is believed that the board OF
estimates will allow that amount.
"The Zimmerman" and THE Shrimp
Fisher" will be returned to Detroit
after exhibitions in Chicago and st.
Louis
No hmm ediate action will be taken ny
the Pere Marquette regarding ITS
mail contracts, according to Henry
NJ Campbell. attorney for the ROAD
Judge futile has refused the receiv-
ers an opinion as TO whether t.e
road ought to carry parcei posi- mat
ter under its present mail contract
and the receivers Will await the &C
ton OF the special congressional
committee that Is investigating SINH
lar complaints from other ROADS
Judge futile based his refusal on
the ground that he had no right TO
issue an opinion on matter under
congressional Investigation, ana on
the fact that evidence on the point
was insufficient to justify ruling
District Attorney Webster contended
that remedy might lie In re,
Weighing of mail. and suggested
that relief In that direction must
come from the postmaster general
rather than from the court.
The second number Of The Micni9sn
suHragist. official organ Of the Mich-
igan Equal Suffrage association, mas
been issued. 1t is 12-page paper:
containing suffrage news from az
over the country. and reports Iron
many counties OF Michigan; Win
this issue. the program Of the edu-
cational committee begins. Its
chairman is Ella A. Knapp. A. NJ.
PHI. d., for some time head OF tne
English department OF Holyoke COL
lege. and later professor OF the Eng
iish language and literature In the
PENNSYLVANIA College for Women.
Or. Knapp has prepared bipiiog
raphy on the topic: Tho social ana
industrial condition OF women
workers" for the instruction OF SUI
fragists who desire a practical ac-
quaintance with the topic. Eacn
month DIR. Knapp will furnish q
similar list OF readings on topics
related to the suffrage movement
The Michigan Sunragist IL issued
from state headquarters Kalamazoo.
Detroit banks are formulating plan
for Interesting school children In
in savings banks. and will suggest
the scheme to Supt. Chadsey ana
the Board OF Education within a few
DAYS The Endorsement OF Postmas-
ter Nagel's plan for postal savings
in the schools. by Supt. Chadsey. en-
courages the bankers TO- believe that
their scheme will also be approved.
that will not take too much OF the
teachers time. Walter @. Toepel.
cashier Of the Peninsular State bank.
and a member OF the committee on
school savings bank systems OF the
savings bank section of the Ameri-
can Bankers association. says that
the plan under consideration diners
former Eupt. Martindale and dis
missed by him on the ground that
II would consume too much OF the
teachers time