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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-20
WILL MAKE CAMBRIDGE
MODEL MARYLAND Town.
Town Commissioners Appropriate
Money For Sanitary Work All
Surface Closets to be Cleaned
Ordinance Passed Requiring
Connections With SewerS-Com-
missioners Determined to Do
Away With Nuisance.

At the meeting of the Commits
sioners of Cambridge last evening,
in the Council rooms, a delegation
composed of DIR. Lumsden, of the
Government Health Bureau, and
DR.. John S. Fulton, Secretary of
the State Board of Health; DR..
Laughlin, of the Government Blu
reau, and Drs. E. A. P. Jones, Guy
Steele, and E. E. Wolffe and Mes
srs. Levi B. Phillips, John G. Mills,
ATbanus Phillips, W. G. Winter
bottom, A. J. Foble, Vernon S.Brad-
ley, was before the Board, asking
for an appropriation with which
to clean up every surface closet in
Cambridge. After listening to re-
marks by Drs. Steele, Fulton, Lums-
den, Wolffe, and Messrs. Albanus
Phillips, Levi B. Phillips, V. S
Bradley, John G. Mills, w. G. Win
terbottom, and others, the Com
missioners appropriated the sum
requested, namely, $500, and work
will be started in a few days. A
systematic plan will be followed,
whereby every home on every
street will be visited, and the ex-
creta from the toilets treated
with chloride of lime and then re
moved.
After this cleaning UP has been
completed, the citizens will be re-
quired to keep such toilets in
sanitary condition, and failure to
do so will result in the imposing of
a severe penalty.
A number of gentlemen, repre-
senting the city's canning industry,
were present, and stated that they
had arranged to treat the waste
from their houses with chloride of
lime, which would, they were adVls-
ed, by competent authorities, re
duce the odor in the harbor,so far
as the canneries were concerned, to
minimum. They urged the Com
mtssioners to treat the harbor with
this lime, ard stated that they
believed the County Commissioners
should, and would, cooperate in
this work
Mr. A. J. Foble was before the
Board, representing the Seminary
trustees,-and filed a plat, showing
| the proposed wharf which they
have under consideration, and made
application for a permit to build
same. The Clerk was instructed
to have same duly advertised.
Messrs. John H. Burgess ane
Gilbert B. Porter were before the
Commissioners and asked for al
extension of two months of theil
franchise for a street railways s OF
account of the war, all projects O.
this character are temporarily helt
UP.
Building applications were receiv
ed from J. H. Robinson to buik
three dwellings, Nos. 443, 445 ant
AT Willis street.
P. Watson Webb, to build galva
nized iron shed, rear 112 High st
The salary of the janitor at th'
engine house was increased to $4'
per month, starting Sept. 1.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-20

Mr.. C. Hazeltine Basshor, form
erly a prominent business man OF
Baltimore, but who for the past
two years has resided at "Algon-
quin' Manor, the splendid country
place which he and Mrs. Basshor
| purchased from the late United
| States Senator Isidor Rayner, late
yesterday evening, while entering
the hall of their home, was shot,
and it was feared seriously injur-
ed, by the accidental discharge OF
So far as can be learned with any
degree of accuracy, Mr.. Basshor
had been shooting guineas earlier
in the evening, and at the time of
the accident had started into the
house from the porch, for the pur-
pose of putting away the rifle. AS
he entered the hall, he stepped on
rug which had been placed be-
tween the door and the stairway;
the rug slipped on the highly pol
ished floor, with the result that
he lost his balance and fell, and in
doing so, the rifle was discharged,
the contents, a small bullet and
load of mustard shot, entering his
neck on one side, and partially com
ing out on the other.
He was found by one of the col
ored men employed about the ma
nor, who happened to hear the
defamation and hurried to the hall,
where he found Mr.. Basshor I'M
conscious, and the blood gushing
from the wound which had been
made. DR.. Brice w. Goldsborough
was hurriedly summoned and ren--
dered surgical assistance, making
the patient as comfortable as pos
sible, and later he was taken to
the hospital.
Upon recovering consciousness,
Mr.. Basshor explained how the ac-
cident occurred, and showed re-
markable recuperative powers. DR..
Goldsborough telephoned to Balti-
more for specialist, and DR.. Dan
ty, of the Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, arrived on the noon train to
day. About three o'clock it was
reported from algonquin" Manor
that the patient was resting quiet
ly, and that his condition was very
satisfactory.
Through his wife, who was Mrs.
Isaac Emerson, Mr.. Basshor is the
stepfather of Mrs. Alfred G. Van
derbilt He is a member of the
Maryland Club and the Elkridge
Club, in Baltimore, in which city
he resided before moving to Cam
bridge.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-20

The Crash is the name of
the most spectacular comedy ever
and which plays at the
Grand Opera House tonight. A
Sterling comedy, that wild delight
you. See the big explosion, the
wild auto, the motorcycle chase, land
the terrific plunge over the noun
tain side. If you want comedy, you
will never see such one again.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-20
c. HAzElT|NE BASSHOR
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.

Found Wounded at His Home, al
gonquin' Manor Had Been
Shooting land Slipped on
Highly Polished Floor as He En-
tered the House, Rifle in Hand
Shot i'm the Neck With Mustard
Seed Shot-Not Believed to he
Dangerously Injured.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-20

He thought she was too sweet
for anything, but now as they are
married. he wishes that some 9th
er fellow had the same opinion be-
fore he did.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01
Ohio Mines Closed.

Nearly $4,000 Ohio bituminous coal
miners were forced into indefinite idle
ness on April because Of the failure of
the recent Chicago conference between
the operators and officials Of the Unit
ed Mine Workers Of America to reach
a new wage agreement to take the
place of the one recently expired.
Pending negotiations for a new agree
ment, coal miners in Indiana, Illinois
and Iowa will continue at work. The
situation in Ohio, however, is agra
waited by a mine run law, passed by
the Ohio Legislature, which will go
into effect May 10. Enactment of the
law was opposed strongly by the op-
orators. The Pennsylvania miners
have abandoned all their demands ex-
cept one providing for change in the
system Of pushing cars In and out Of
the mines.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01
BRIEF LABOR NOTES.

France has a trade union member
ship of over a million.
The employment Of persons under
sixteen in Germany is controlled by
special laws.
San Francisco labor organizations
will make a strong effort to secure the
1915 convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
Officers of the Grocery and Provision
Clerks union OF Boston announce that
many stores are agreeing to their
shorter hour schedule.
William e. Kelly, the new post
master of Brooklyn, is widely known
In labor circles as the president of the
National Letter Carriers association.
In West Virginia there are 70,321 men
employed in the mining industry OF
these 32,6l2 are white Americans.
$4,000 are negroes and 23,709 are for
eigners the majority of whom are
Italians.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01
To Aid Free Labor.

Labor men feel that the bill recently
passed by the national house of repre-
sentatives will prove of great benefit if
it finally becomes a law The bill pro
vides that foreign convict made or pau
per made goods may not compete with
the products of American free labor.
The importation of foreign convict
made goods has been prohibited gener-
ally under the tariff laws since 1890,
but owing to the peculiar construction
of the law it has been difficult to en-
force. The measure passed provides
for confiscatlon and fines not exceed
ing $1,000 or Imprisonment for not ex-
ceeding two years.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01

Drancn 1T which they desire to work
and to teach them any branch of the
trade at which there may be scarcity
of help"
Further than this, our rules speci1-
cally allow the employer to use an APP
prentice at any of the various proc
esses and make it obligatory upon him
to give all apprentices the opportunity
to learn thoroughly the skilled work OF
sizing.
This makes 1t clear that so far from
the burden Of any charge of deliberate
ly encouraging incompetence resting
upon the union it must rest upon the
employer.
Any man who is capable of reason
ing can see that skilled labor is a
unions greatest asset as 1t Is also the
greatest asset of employers. The his
tory of Industrial disputes shows that
unskiled labor is useless to an en-
ployer Is it not then logical to as
sumo that our aim should be and is to
make all workmen as skilled as posi-
BILE in their respective branches, so
that in the event of controversy we
can more easily secure our demands
for better conditions and higher wages?
In regard to the question Of brides l
may quote the law Of the United Hat
tiers. ANY member of this association
who shall receive moneys from appli-
cants applying for membership in the
United Hatters of North America or
from boys who desire to become APP
prentices or from any one on
behalf of said applicant or said boys
desiring to become apprentices shall
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01
THE COAL MINER.

W. B. Wilson, secretary of the depart
ment Of labor, while denying that he
is affected with that fine frenzy"
which Macaulay attributes to poets, is
no novice in the art The following is
one Of the poems written by him some
years ago when he was battling with
his fellows to establish the United
Mine Workers:
slight little fellow not yet in his teens,
His arms to his elbows tucked down in
his jeans
No cares Of the present no thoughts of
the past,
No plan for the future, no troubles that
last.
No bird as it sings DER it's nest in the
Its ode to the morning more happy than
he
His loud ringing whistle, clear, piercing
and shrill,
Re-echoes the joys of his heart Ger the
hill.
He is starting in life as a miner.
A youthful-llke parsonage, wiry and
strong.
Deep chested, broad shouldered limbs sup
pie and long,
The coal seems today to be flying more
thick
Than ever before from the point of his
pick.
Fast flows the sweat from each pore in
his face
AS blow after blow brings the coal from
it's place.
What pride in his voice as he says, by
the way,
l want you to know 1 am sixteen today
And 1 want full turn as a miner"
middle aged man with calm, pleasant
air.
His face and his brow slightly furrowed
with care,
Fighting life's battles with stubborn will,
Doing his work with a mastery skill,
Leading his comrades in honors grown
gray,
Taking their laurels triumphant away.
High as a workman has risen his fame
Till over all others is spoken his name.
He is Just in his prime as a miner.
An old gray haired person who walks with
a cane
Every wrong step brings voley Of pain
Walks a short distance, then stops for a
rest
From difficult breathing. pains all through
his breast;
Telling with glee and a care for the truth
Great tales of the digging he did in his
youth,
The soft snaps" he had and the hard
work he'd done,
The foes he defeated, the laurels he won
He has worked all his life as a miner.
plain common coffin, no trimmings of
gold,
Its occupant lifeless rigid and cold;
Gone from this life with It's pleasures and
pains,
It's rises and downfalls, losses and gains
Now all his work as a miner is Ger,
And the tales he once told he will never
tell more.
Green DER his grave let sweet immor-
telles grow
Now, since he's gone where all mortals
must go.
All mortals as well as a miner.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01
The Strength Of Labor
By Charles Perry Taylor, Secretary
Treasurer of Washington State
Federation of Labor.

"The Strength of Labor" is an ex-
preston having many shades of mean
ing. Labor has a strength that is
numerical, physical, moral, social.
There is labor that is physical and
labor that is mental There is a dig
nifty of labor that is an element of
strength And there is potential
strength of labor, a strength that only
time itself will unfold and develop to
capacity.
If we consider first the numerical
strength of adult labor in our own
land only, we have about forty millions
of adult laborers, adults who perform
useful tasks for human society. There
are nearly sixty million children and
aged persons in the United States of
America. OF these forty millions of
adult laborers about eleven millions
are self employed and twenty-nine mil
lions are employed by others. Child
labor, while it exists, is eliminated,
as it should be absolutely abolished
except as a port of instruction.
The physical strength of labor is
shown in the works of man, in daily
individual life, in the public life of the
in, oil hn NJ h1tn n n.
tivity from the humble task of the
humble laborer to the nation task of
digging a world canal.
The mental strength of labor-all
learning, all scientific research and
discovery, all inventive genius, all pro-
ducts of the brain activity of man
kinds, in the language of the wizard
Edison, two per cent genius and
ninety-Gght. per cent hard work.
The moral strength of labor of use
full labor, of creative, productive eff
fort, lies in its power for character
building, the making of great, good,
useful men in all the walks of honor
able life. The moral strength of labor
is one of its greatest attributes.
The social strength of labor lies in
the fact that man is a social animal
a willing worker for and with others.
His social needs compel his seeking
companionship and enable him to per-
form his best work when he enjoys
the cooperative and sympathetic help
of fellow-workers.
God made man to work out his own
destiny in honorable toll. Blessed is
he who works and who loves his work,
and accursed is he who avoids labor
or finds no joy in his chosen task. For
while man was made to labor, to wiring
his sustenance from Mother Earth,
God, the Creator, intended that man
should have the strength for his task,
be not over-worked, and have in his
toll the joy of earnest, cheerful effort
which alone can make the good neigh
Dor and the manly man.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01
INCREASE FOR BREWERS.
Employers and Workers Sign New
Wage Agreement

An agreement was signed recently by
representatives of the Master Brewers
Association of New York and of seven
unions Of brewery workers, including
brewers. bottlcrs. drivers, helpers and
inside workers. whereby the wages OF
1900 workers in these occupations will
be increased 81 Il week and the hours
of work will be reduced. The agree
ment went into effect on April l and
will continue three years.
The wages and conditions In the
agreement were offered by the EN-
ployers MS II compromise
Under the compact the brewers will
be paid Il minimum wage rate OF SIS
a week. some of them to be paid $40
and S24 week. The bottlers will re-
celve from $l3 to SIC week, the driv-
ers will receive $50 a week and the
helpers ana inside workers will receive
from SIG n week up. The working
hours Of the brewers will be eight a
day and the working ours of all the
others nire a day. The drivers will be
allowed extra men on all power trucks.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01
STUPENDOUS SPEED MADE
BY STOKES ON A DIRT
TRACK.
By JOE d. DOYLE.

BAKERSFIELD, Cal, March 2S.-
At a speed that sometimes exceeded
70 miles an hour and never dropped
to so commonplace gate as a mile
a-minute, Glen Stokes, erstwhile of
the Milwaukee motordrome and now
of Los Angeles, satiated the speed
craze of thousands of fans at the new
Bakersfield one-mile circular dirt
tracks a few weeks ago. He tore
around the circle so fast that he
nearly Tapped himself, and made the
fence posts look like a fine-tooth
comb, while the dazzled beholders had
to hang onto their seats to resist being
drawn into his suction, or to be lifted
boldly from their feet in their excite
ment.
Dirt track records are a variable
quantity, and nothing but semi-offi
cial notice has ever been taken of
them-for the reason that a dirt track
that may be in fine shape today may
be in punk shape tomorrow and the
only sure thing about them is that
they are never twice alike. But
whether records have existed they
were surely smothered in Stokes dust
AS good judge of speed as Paul j. G.
Derkum, who built he track, and who
has clear recollection of all the pre-
vious dirt track speed bursts, is au-
thority for the statement that Stokes
broke at least two, if not four, worlds
records, and Derkum doesn't ride the
same make of machine as Stokes does
at that. Records sure fell like leaves
from a last years tree before Demon
Stokes and his cyclonic Excelsior.
The ten-mile record went first He
made this in eight minutes six and
three-fifths seconds. Next he as
saulted the mile speed traditions and
made it in forty-six and two-fifths
seconds! Going some? Yes, but he
wasn't through yet, not by a long
shot. His mile record equalled that
of Barney Oldfield in the fastest
automobile racing machine that was
ever built by the worlds best me-
chanics with secret rites and mean
tations, but even this didn't glut the
speed lust of Stokes. The very March
madness was in him. The hour rec
ord was the next to fall. Erwin G.
Baker went sixty-six and seven-tenths
miles in sixty minutes at Phoenix,
but Stokes sent this to the scrap heap,
making sixty-nine and five-tenths
miles for the world to wonder at from
this time on. Remember, all this
was on a circular dirt track Every
body is saying here that this a new
dirt track record, making three scalps
on Stokes spearhead, and all in one
day. And even this isn't all the story.
For dessert, he romped around the
track twenty-five times in the 25-mile
free for all in 21:15, and then went
to his supper. Lucky guy, nothing
to do till tomorrow" The twenty
five miles in 21;15 is hailed here as
another dirt track record.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01
The Vote and Child Labor.

We make some gains for the children
by the method of persuasion and peti-
ton. We must continue to use 1t for
the sake of the children and also for
the e.s.ation which such work affords
for ~ who engage in 1t. But child
labor can be abolished only when the
women of every state are given equal
authority with men in the political,
social and industrial life of this re-
public. Florence Kelley. Secretary Ma
tional Consumers League.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01
APPRENTICES RIGHTS.
They Nay Safely Be Left In the Hands
of the Trade Unions.

oi tnS iFdCS SF'O''S'
In n recent iSsue Of the New York
World there was an interview with
James l.. Carr. Il retired hat m0nufac-
turer, on the subject of improper re-
straints and abuses in connection with
apprentice hip. writes NJ. j. Green, n
member of the Ilatters' union. The
charges which he makes may be brief
~ summarized ;tS follows:
First.-Thnt the real object of the
unions Is t. prevent people from learn
ing trade and to see that those who
do learn it never become competent
workmen.
Second. Tint unions are strength
ened by increasing the number of I'M
skilled workmen because the less
skilled Il workman is the more de-
pendent he is upon the power of the
union to keep him in job
Third. That the officials of the
unions will accept a bride in connec-
ton with allowing a boy to become an
apprentice.
Confining myself to the hat trade
with which | am thoroughly familiar, |
wish to say that these charges are alb
solutely without foundation in fact
The rules governing the system Of ap-
premiership, as printed In the laws Of
the United Hatters, provide that sit
shall be the duty Of all members Of
our trade to assist and instruct brother
members who are not proficient in the
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01
The Cement Sewer

The increasing demand for cement
sewer pipe among leading engineers
is so well known, that extensive com
ment or reference is unnecessary.
Take for an example the manufacture
ing of this pipe here in our own city
by THE HARBOR CITY CEMENT
co. During the past year this plant
has done $4,000 worth of business
making in all more than 80 miles of
cement sewer pipe; securing its ma
teria and labor from among the tax
payers of the county.
This example in itself will convince
many that cement sewer pipe has
passed the experimental stage, but
for anyone who is yet unconyinced of
the durability Of this product, atten-
ton is called to a report from Mr..
j. T. Sherer member of the Board of
Public Works, Milwaukee, Dis, who
states as follows:
In all places where we had to re-
place the sewers that were put in in
the early history of Milwaukee we
found the concrete pipe to be intact.
For instance, only recently we were
required to take up 12-inch pipe and
replace it with 20-inch and for the
entire length that pipe was found to
be in elegant cOnditiOn-very much
stronger than when first placed there.
There was no defect or flaw from one
end to the other
Cement sewer pipe withstands alter
nate freezing and thawing without in
jury, even when partially immersed
in water. Clay pipe is completely
destroyed by such treatment 1t is
also much easier TO lay cement pipe
owing to the fact it is always true to
tho mold whereas CLAW nine will warn
out of shape in burning.
VI 'l"iiu 0i1'o''' - "'~N -
sVrucIloH Vi seIlIeN' 90"ei pipe' mn
is recognized as the strongest and
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ments. In support of this statement
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01

upon conviction be deprived OF all
rights to membership in this associa-
ton"
/ think | have said enough to show
that in the interests of the apprentices
themselves nothing should be done
which would take their training out Of
the hands of the union.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01
Child Workers Discharged.

The new Massachusetts law prohibit
ing the employment Of children be-
tween fourteen and sixteen years Of
age more than eight hours a day re-
suited in the discharge during the first
year of 1000 out of between $4,000 and
10000 employed, according to a special
report filed with Governor Walsh by
the labor and industrial commission.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01
Aid For Strikers,

Several of the girl strikers engaged
in tagging MilwaukeeanS to raise funds
for the shoe factory hands out of work
reported receiving rs high as 50 apiece
for tags.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01
To Aid Co.operation.

A check for $500 will be paid to the
manager of the first cooperative laun-
dry to be established and successfully
operated in Wisconsin. This is the
offer made by former Dean w. A. Hen
ry at a meeting Of the state grange,
held in Milton Junction. eighteen or
more years ago. and renewed again by
him recently.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-05-01
UNiONiSM FIRST.

While organized labor cannot
accept the profit sharing theory
as a substitute for trade union
ism because Of the necessity OF
organization among the workers
to protect themselves against I'M
fair employers and while organ
lied labor cannot indorse every
thing connected with the Ford
plan, it must still admit that
there is vast difference between
eight hours at the Ford plant and
twelve hours in the mills OF the
steel trust; also there Is a vast
difference In the wage scale and
also In the profit sharing plans
of the two concerns. Still, 1t Is
profit sharing, just the same, and
the size Of the dividend does not
determine the soundness Of the
principle.