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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-10-10
Remarkable Showing
Made by Commission
During Fiscal Year

The Forum has tried to keep it's readers posted on all
matters pertaining to city and public affairs
of The Forum readers will recall the different ar
tces written just prior to the time the city COMMISSION sys
naugurated Fargo showing concuslvy the poor
condition of Fargos finances at the time the board OF COM
missioners took the city affairs.
1t will be recalled that at that time the city had lot OF
debts in the shape of outstanding warrants and bonds for
which there funds provided to take them up.
In statement the public explaining the financial
the sinking fund for the year of That s the city
owed that much than it able to because
of poor business arrangements of the old adermanic SYSTEM
which failed to provide sinking funds for these debts.
The city commission took the affairs OF the city
May 1913 By the end of the fiscal year, which the fol-
lowing Sept the commission had taken all current out
standing warrants and had surplus in the general fund of
over $4,000.
And before the commission had been in charge of af
fairs full they had secured the from the state
per cent interest to take up every outstanding debt
ssl ANOTHER GREAT SHOWING
Today The Forum takes great pleasure in giving the
condition Of the cys finances at the end of the fiscal year
that ended Sept 1914 The following facts compiled
figures made public by Walter Thomson the well known
expert accountant the cys books and issued
a report after the close of the fiscal year.
This report shows that at the end OF the fiscal
closed the city did not have single outstanding warrant
Every dollar of interest up to Sept has been paid.
Every bond due before Sept has been cancelled.
All money needed for the sinking fund to pay future
debts has provided and aside drawing interest
besides that the city treasurer has large surplus
hand in cash which belongs to the people and will be kept
safely in the various funds
The city commission has every dollar Of debt due
against the city and has increased the wealth of the city of
Fargo to the extent of $63O00 little year 1t is
remarkable showing The Forum believes that the city
is be congratulated the splendid way in which its
finances have been handled.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-10-10
CARD. FERRATA
DIED TODAY

Rome, Oct 10-Cardinal Ferrata,
the papaI secretary Of state. who haG
been ill for several weeks, died today.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-10-10
w u II III u n.

Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday.
Cooler tonight with frost or tempera-
ture near freezing. Moderate to fresh
north to northwest winds.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-10-10

Continued on Page Five.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31
FACTS FOR PRESS PEDAGOGUES
Convention Hears About the Bust
ness End OF Newspaper.

Discussions OF business management Of
daily papers were the features of the
second day Of the annual convention of
journalism teachers. The morning SEES
sion OF Yesterday was at Columbia Cui-
Nersity. and in the afternoon the educa-
tors were the guests OF New York Unl-
versIty.
Don Setz OF the World said the idea
that the business management controls
the policy OF the paper IL popular error.
Good editing Is what makes paper
successful. he said, and then the bust
mes Office manages the paper that the
editors have made
When asked If he thought that a
course in newspaper business manage
ment should be adopted by the schools
Of Journalism he replied that It would
not be Il bad feature. but he thought il
unnecessary.
II. y. IydenburE OF the New York
Public Library said that the necessity
for finding a means Of preserving news
papers arose when rags were given up
as the basis of paper manufacture and
wood pulp was substituted. The chemi-
Gals necessary in the making OF wood pulp
paper ruined the texture IN "a short time
" exposed to the air and light The
most practical solution found SO far by
the library was to enCisc the sheets in
very thin japanese tissue paper.
The convention will close ~ noon to-
dav with a dinner AZ the Press Club
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31
DECREE FOR MRS. STRATFORD.
Divorce suit Was Tried In Private
six Weeks Ago.

II became known in Jersey city yester-
day that Mrs. Evelyn VI. Stratford OF IS
Bentley avenue was quietly divorced from
Frank y. Stratford. an officer of the
George &. Stafford Oakum Company. six
weeks ago. Mr.. Stratford. who did not
defend the suit nor appear at the trial n
Advisory Master Charles J. Roe's private
chambers. was charged with infdelity.
The correspondents name was not dis
closed
The trial lasted a half hour. Mrs
Stratiord said that she and her husband
We're happy together until three years
ago. when he Joined some New York clubs
and kept late hours. She employed de-
teCtives and the incident upon which she
based her suit for a divorce is alleged to
have occurred in a New York hotel on
the night Of November 90. 1913. The
couple separated the next dag.
While no alimony was provided for in
the interlocutory decree signed by Chan
Cellor Walker, T. Is understood that Mr..
Stratford has settled a substantial sum
upon his former wife. Their two some.
Franklin Frederick, II years old, and
George c. Stratford. II, are with their
mother. Mr. and Mrs, Stratford were
married on November "a, 1897.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31
ROBINSON WILL QUIT.
r. RS Nephew Has Had Enough of
Moose state Chairmanship

Theodore Douglas Robinson after n
talk with his uncle. Col. Roosevelt. has
decided Ia resign the Progressive state
craftsmanship. He Said yesterday:
II have been chairman for two years
and 7 want somebody else to have try
81 IT,"
state and county Progressive head
quarters is to he moved from ~ Wash
ington Square on February |. when she
lease expires, to the Forty-secoud Street
Building. where it viii he combined with
national headquarters. Expenses are 10
be cut The telephone switchboard at
national headquarters was removed yes
terday and direct communication with
the central office was substituted.
Mr.. Robinson came down from Herki-
rler county to succeed William II. Hotch-
kiss as STATE chairman when Mr.. Hotch-
kiss retired after the campaign of 1912
He wanted to resign last summer hut
was persuaded to keep ON, Recently hs
has been in Brazil His resignation VIII
be accepted At the next meeting OF tht
state committee. The new chairman
may he Chauncey i. IIamlu Of Buffalo
or Horace Wilkinson OF Syracuse. There
Is no Wild scramhl" for the post
The county committee has no chair.
man, Francis w. Bird having resigned.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31
J. C. RUSSELL LEFT $41S,l75.

James G. Russell Of the firm of Will
Jams, Russell a Co., and a member OF
the New York Coffee Exchange, who died
in Brooklyn March ~. 1913. left net
estate of s4iS.175.97. The gross amounted
to S436,sJ6.l0. of which s402, 500. 10
was personally. The three children
OF Mrs. James H. Welles of Norwich.
Conn, get $4,000 each. The remainder
is left to the testators mother. Rebecca
G, Russell, and his two sisters in shares
OF Slli.39l.99 each.
The appraisers report shows some eS-
ceednglY fortunate Investments, three
notable instances being l0j shares Of
Corn Exchange Bank stock, S33,390; 80
shares Continental Insurance Company,
1000, and 100 shares Woolson Spice
Company, $4,000, The par value of all
these stocks is 100, according to the re-
port
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31
MAYOR SEES MIR. WHITMAN.
Tells GOvernOr-eIect of Legislative
Needs; Is We'll PIrssed.

Mayor Mitchell spent an hour with Gov
ernor-elect Whitman at MIR. Whitman g
home, 81 Madison avenue. yesterday, ex-
planning the legislation desired by the
city administration. The conference was
arranged because Mr.. Whitman was un-
able to attend the dinner which the
Mayor and Corporation Counsel Polk
gave to Republican leaders at the Uni
Versity club last week
When Mr.. Mitchell returned TO the City
Han he said he did not try to exact any
promise from Mr.. Whitman
IT wouldn't dream OF asking him to
commit himself on legislation that must
come before him." he said 1--WE had
quite a long talk and It was very pleas.
ing and satisfactory to me-"
one OF the topics discussed was the
probable abolition of the Coroners' office
which Commissioner OF Accounts Wall
stein is almost certain to recommend A
bin which the Board of Estimate will
indorse is likely to he prepared by q
civic organization.
Mr.. Whitman, accompanied by Charles
A. Perkins, who Is to be the next District
Attorney. and his counsel William Hay.
ward, will leave for Albany at O'Clock
this afternoon. State Chairman Tanner
County Chairman Koenig and group Of
New York Republicans win see the in.
auguration.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31
PROMISES OLD TIME
REPUBLICAN REGIME
Senator Brown Says Party Will
Wipe Ont Democratic
Reforms.
REMEDIAL LAWS PLANNED

ALBANY Dec. 30.-"We will restore the
comfortable administration of state affairs
which existed before Gov. Dix was in
Quoted into office four years ago" declared
Elon II. Brown, who IL to be the Re-
publican leader in the state Senate. when
he reached Albany tonight from his home
in Watertown.
Republican politicians from all sections
OF the State are focking into Albany.
Not since the second Inauguration OF Ben
jamin T.. Odell AZ Governor in 1902 has
there been such an atmosphere of regular
Republicanism about the hotel corridors.
The Democratic officeholders are fully
alive to the situation and expect to be
eliminated with much less ceremony than
| the Democrats four years ago accorded
the horde of Republican oiiiceholders thev
found IN state Jobs, which they had been
holding down since the election OF Levi
! L. Morton in 1894.
There Is to be no ripper legislation"
| declared Senator Brown, but all of the
| things done by the Democrats during the
| last four years are to be undone and the
| bills accomplishing such purposes will
flow into the Legislature rapidly after u
| convenes on January g."
shortly after the Inauguration on FRI
day, the Republican leaders will hold
! conference to agree upon remedial legis-
! lation which will separate the ma iori'y
OF Democratic ofiiceholders from their
Jobs
For instance under Gov. Sulzer he
Civil Service Commissioners got fixed
terms and increased salaries, and the re-
suit Is Govornor-clect Whitman cannp
name his own civil Service Commission.
The first bill to be introduced and passed
will make the terms OF the Civil Service
Commissioners end with ;he Governor
appointing them and will restore the
salaries TO $4,000, instead OF $1,000. and
an additional 81 1000 for the president O,
tho commission.
Gov. Whitman already has picked out
his three Civil Service Commissioners
one Is n civil service reformer another IL
a Republican without special organization
proclivities and the third IS an ant-Tam-
many Democrat
Next will be two bills wiping out the
Departments of Efficiency and Economy
and the state Fire Marshal. GOV Whit
man Will not consider suggestions from
certain Republican legislators that these
Departments be roorgauized and kept In
existence under other names, but insists
that the Republican platform pledge that
these departments shall be eliminated az
unnecessary additions to the adminis'ra-
tons of the State government shall be-
kept without eguivocatior.
fourth bill will eliminate the State
Board of Claims, COMPOSED OF business
members, and substituting lawyers as
members OF a new court OF claims such
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31
ALBANY WELCOMES
WHITMAN TONIGHT
CAPITAL Crowded With Guests
for Inauguration and
state Ball.
HEAVY GUARD PROVIDED

ArpANy, Dec 30.-Gov elect whitman
will arrive at the Executive Mansion at
Z o'clock tomorrow night, guarded by
three New York detectives who will watch
over him until after the inaugural cere-
monies on Friday.
Albany hotels already are crowded with
inaugural guests. There are so many
reservations that applicants for rooms are
being turned away. Large numbers or
militia officers have taken rooms and the
display of gold lace on New Years Day
promises TO outshine all former events.
Careful preparations have been made
to protect the Governor-elect and his
family. not only at the inaugural bail
tomorrow night but also at the public
reception which will follow Mr.. Whit
mans formal installation in Office.
Adult Gen. Henry Dewitt Hamil-
ton. Chief OF Police James l.. Hyatt OF
Albany and representatives. OF the neon
ing Governor have talked over plans ana
arranged for a bodyguard. Chief Hyatt
will be in immediate charge of the police
arrangements and will have about lso
men on duty. Only persons with tickets
Of admission to the Assembly chamber
for the inaugural ceremonies will be adj
mitted to the building after 10 o'clock in
will be closed and "a thorough search VIII
be made OF the Capitol to make sure that
no one is In the building who has mol
business there.
Special care has been taken in distrib-
utlng tickets OF admission to make sure
that none reaches "A person who might
be inclined to attempt the life OF the new
Governor Mr.. Whitmans friends are
apprehensive lest some of the New York
gunner whose companions he has prose-
cuted make an effort to even up the
score. His activity In the Ban case also
has made him number OF enemies, 30
his friends believe, and they want every
possible precaution taken.
Even when Mrs Whitman reached AL
bany on Tuesday with her daughter the
marty was accompanied by a detective
sergeant from the New York city police
force.
Major Stanley Moore. military secre-
tary to the new Governor. also has con-
ferred with Chief Hyatt and an officer
in uniform has been detailed 20 watch
the Executive Mansion.
Lieut.. Col. Lewis NJ. Stotesbury. the new
Adjutant- General. and Mrs Stotesbury
reached Albany tonight. registering ut
the Ten Eyck. So did william 4. Orr.
secretary TO Gov. Whitman. and Mrs. Orr.
with their children. MIR. Orr has rented
a house In Mercer street between Lake
avenue and Quail street. Major Stanley
Moore, military secretary to the Cover
nor, came 10 Albany with Mrs. Whitman
on Tuesday. He has rooms In State
street opposite Washington Park.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31
MRS. WHITMAN WILL
BE HOSTESS TONIGHT
Dinner viii Start Social Activi-
ties in Albany of Governor
elects Wife.

ALpANY. pee. 3O.-Mrs. Whitman. wife
OF the Governor elect. had "A new expert
encc this afternoon, being interviewed by
group Of newspaper women. five in all.
While there was q little newness on the
part OF all present at first. this soon wore
of through the charming manner Of Mrs.
Whitman.
1T is the first time so many newspaper
people have called on me at once said
Mrs. Whitman. "A regular siege, and l
am hardly settled in my new home
Il have not made any definite plans so
far as entertaining is concerned except
TOR over New Years. The social affairs
at that time will include a small dinner
party New Years eve. preceding the In
augural ball luncheon on New Year 8
day In honor Of my husbands military
stan and my house guests, and dinner
party New Years evening for those who
will receive with me that afternoon"
Mrs. Whtman's house guests over New
Years Will include Mr. and Mrs. Seth
Low and Mrs. Hans Nangemann. an aunt
of the hostess. Mrs. Whitman's guests
at dinner Friday evening Will include Mr..
and Mrs o. ii. L. Belmont, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Seligman. Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Curtiss James. Nine. da Cana. Mr.. and
Mrs. Chauncey Pratt Williams, Mrs Will
lam Barnes. Gen. l.. W. Stotesbury and
Mrs. Stotcsbury. Gen. John T.. Organ and
MlSs - Ryan, Tue ltA.l llS ''NtI wv anu
Mrs. Gynn. Mr. and Mrs Edward
Schoenck. Mr.. and Mrs. william Wallace
Wotherspoon, Mr.. and Mrs Francis NJ.
Hugo, Mr.. and Mrs Eugene VI. Travis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank VI. Williams. Mr..
and Mrs. willard Bartlett. Mr. and Mrs.
T.. Werner, Mr. and Mrs Frank Hiscock.
Mr.. and Mrs John A. Hogan. Mr.. and
Mrs. Emory \. Chase, Mr.. and Mrs
Nathan l.. Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Seabury.
Mrs. Whitman has appointed az her
special secretary Miss Marguerite Deter
ling Of Rrooklyn who arrived Tonight at
the Executive Mansion. Miss Deterlng
had been with Mr.. Whitman for the last
five years In the District Attorneys office.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31
SAYS GLYNN AIDED WHITEWASH
Honest Ballot Association Accuses
Governor In NOOrhis Case.

A letter accusing Gov. Glynn OF "ac-
puiesciuS in an obvious whitcwash" in
generating State Superintendent of Flee
lions John n. Voorhis from charges Of
negligence and lneifcicncy was sent to
HE Governor on Tuesday by Talcott Will
.ans, as pres dent OF the Honest Ballot
Association, ana made public by the as
sori' ton yesterday.
The charges against Mr. Voorhis. who
~ grand sarhcm of the Society of Tam
many, were made by the association and
referred hy the Governor to Special Com
missioner Mcmahon Mr.. Williams SAYS
mat the Governor unlawfuly gave his
heclsion without hearing that ho per
united delay Of eight months, which
carried the case over tho state elcction.
ana lhal Ia SWING Il verdict eleven days
aftof the '"uuulr~uu"i's report was re-
ceivcd Mr.. HiNun Vas guilty Of "exces-
\s.ve haste"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31
WILL TAKE OATH TOMORROW.
New district iiiurn~y iW ne sworn
In by Judge Mott Of General Ss~si q ms

Charles Albert Perkins. who will sue
coed Govcrnor-elect Whitman as District
Attorney of New York county. will be
sworn In by General Sessions Judge
Charles e. Mott, Jrs AT 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning in the Criminal Courts
Building Mr.. Perkins will go to Albany
this evening and Immediately after mid
night will be appointed to the position
He will return to this city on the
O'Clock train.
MIR. Perkins will then announce some
Of the appointments to his star. Two
$500 assistants are TO he named and Il
is understood that they Will be promoted
from the present staff Those prominently
mentioned are Royal II. Weller. George
y. Brothers and James l.. Smith All
are now 200 deputies
The members Of the District Attorneys
staff will attend the Inauguration in Il
body. leaving in special cars attached 10
the Empire State Express.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31

as existed before the Dix law was passed.
Then Will come the legislation subst!-
tuting a single headed forest. tish and
game commission with bureau heads to
look after the different subdivisions OF
this work and with reduced salaries
The bill establishing a new state High
way Commission along the lines Of the
Hughes law also will be passed during
the first few weeks of the session Sena-
tor Emerson already has drafted hill
Edwin Dufrv OF Cortland is mentioned
mission
The Republicans also are determined
to cut the big salaries fixed during the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31

Democratic regime. such as the roe
increase Of the state Architect f'om
$500 to st0.0O0 and to cut OF extra 'oe.
OF $50 day TO AN advisory architect
senator Brown does not expect amen
adjournment, unless unusual Cel"r'r .~
shown in putting through the remedial
legislation blocked out. The ,yastitu-
tional convention conveues on April To-
the Assembly Chamber and - has been
suggested that the Legislature adjourn
from Friday, April >. until Monday, Apr
II, giving The constitutional oorvcat."'
a week In which to organize and then
adjourn until the Legislature cui. pie.ss
its work about the first week n May
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31
Dependent ON Alien Navies.

"our merchandise, being carried chiefly
In English ships and ships of other bellig-
erent nations is to-day dependent for its
security on the navies of the Powers
whose merchant vessels carry our goods.
q humiliatiug and expensive situation for
Americans"
The report of Senator Fletcher said:
The annual toll paid by the United
States to vessels flying foreign flags is
variously stated at from $500, 900. 900 to
$500, 900, 900. This seriously affects adj
versely the balance OF international
trade and by itself is matter calling
for legislation to work a change.
Our great and growing foreign COM
merce. aggregating over Si2jO, 600. 600
yearly of which our exports form much
the larger part, depends for its ocean
transportation chiefly upon the merchant
marine Of the nations which are our own
commercial competitors In the markets 20
which We all sell. by reason of this
control by others of our needed transit
facilities We are subject alike To their
primary interests and to their risks.
'The lack of vessels. even those flying
foreign flags has resulted In grlevous
advance In freight rates amounting to
from 80 to 1000 per cent, depending upon
the merchandise carried and the ports
or final destination.
AS this report is written shipowners,
chiefly foreigners. reap rich harvest OF
profits at the cost of American producers,
whose prices are necessarily diminished
in proportion 20 the excessive tax upon
their wares for the benefit of the owners
OF ocean transportation lines. When II
costs SIS a bale merely to transport cot
ton across the ocean IL is evident that
rhis charge is a heavy handicap on our
entire cotton producing Industry at a
time when We have the largest crop in
our history.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-31
Helpless Before Opportunity.

AT a time, therefore, when the United
States abounds in crops OF wheat corn.
cotton and apples, for which "A profitable
market exists abroad. and the world, both
that part OF it which is In arms and that
which remains at peace, is calling as
never before for the products of our mines
and factories. we are all but helpless in
the face OF the largest opportunity We
have ever known.
Even at present higher rates ships are
not available for many purposes until
March. The situation is emsrgent. eXpcn-
eive. and II Is impossible with any due re-
gard 10 the interests of American com
merce 10 permit 1t to continue a day
longer than Is necessary.
This legislation so far "a II permits
the control of ocean freight rates by
Transportation in vessels under Govern
ment direction is in line with all recent
legislation. 1t provides for the ocean car
ricrs what We long ago provided for the
common carriers on land. Government
direction OF vessels of the Kind proposed
by this measure is the only way availabl
for that power over rates which We have
long exercised on shore and which present
circumstances show US is badly needed at
sea
Private enterprise has failed to give
our people these advantages under the ir
own control. and by that failure has seri-
ously interferred with the fullest develop
ment OF our foreign trade. II now re-
mains for the Government by wise legis-
lation to initiate a greater American mer-
chant marine"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-16

tory, Algebra 2, Plane Geometry, and
German B.
James Wickersham: English A
Ancient History. English History, AL.
zebra 1, Algebra 2, Virgil, Latin Com.
position and French A.
George Bailey: Algebra 1.
William S. Bailey: Algebra 1.
Robert w. Seitz: English B, Plane
Geometry. German A, Cicero and
Latin Composition.
George S. Bennethum: English B.
English History, Algebra 1. Advanced
Algebra. Solid Geometry and Trigo-
nometry.
Albert H. Stackpole: English A,
English B and German A
Recommended College Entrance
Board-Robert v. Finney: Algebra
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-16

zebra 1. Plane Geometry. Solid Geom-
etry, Latin A, Latin B. Latin C, French
A and German A.
w. A. Smiley: English B, Ancient
history English History, Algebra l.,
Algebra IL, Plane Geometry, Latin A,
Latin B.
Craig Smith: Algebra 2, Plane
Geometry, Latin B, Latin c, Greek A
and Greek B.
James H. Stewart: Plane Geom-
erty, Latin A. Latin B, Latin C, Ger
man B.
Recommended to Yale
Edwin j. Baum: Algebra 2, Plane
Geometry, Solid Geometry and Ger
man A
Alfred w. Clemson: Algebra 2.
Solid Geometry and Plane Trigonom-
etry.
Edward N. Cooper: Ancient His