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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-31
| ANY BURNED TO DEATH IN
SOUTH CHICAGO FIRE

0OO n NI1lSHAO FIRE
Several workmen have been
burned to death, according to I'M
confirmed reports, in a fire which is
sweeping the plant of the American
Linseed Oil Co., 10th st. and the
Calumet river, and threatening the
destruction of the South Chicago
lumber yard district.
P. L. Murphy, an undertaken, de-
clared the death list was already 16.
L. Rundell, secretary to Police
Capt. Smith, estimated that six had
been killed and six were missing.
Fire department headquarters re-
port that eight are dead.
Samuel Lukeck and Michael Paub-
zick, both of 10808 Terrence av.,
were taken to the South Chicago
hospital, seriously burned.
Another report was that two COM
panies of firemen had been caught
under falling walls.
The fire started in the storage
warehouse of the old company. The
warehouse was full of oil, which fed
the flames. Every piece of fire ap-
paratus on the South Side was hur-
ried to the scene, Firemen were
kept from getting close to the build
ing by the terrific heat of the blazing
oil.
The freighter Tosemiter, locked in
the Calumet river, was set afire by
flying embers and is burning, with lit |
tie prospect that it can be saved.
Adjoining the blazing plant is the |
Wisconsin Steel Co. plant. Firemen |
are trying desperately to prevent the |
fire spreading there.
A row of cottages across from the
oil company cannot be saved, the !
ffremen fear. Residents have been
forced to flee.
The building of the oil company is
valued at $250,0OO and the value of
the stock was estimated at $1,000
900.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-31

New Orleans, La. - Remains of
Gov. Winfield Scott Hammond of
Minnesota, who died at Clinton, La,
yestepYe~Non way to st, Paul
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-06-22
BAsEBALL-sPORTs OF ALL soRTs-BoxING

Final elimination tests are being
held today at the DeSplaines speed
way to weed out the cars not fast
enough to start in the 500-mile motor
derby next Saturday. Sixteen cars
already have qualified. Some of these
may circle the track again in an eff
fort to land better position for the
starts.
Early performances indicated that
% cars would face Starter Fred Wag-
ner. Stutz, Peugeot, Maxwell, Sun
beam, Dusenberg and Porter Knight
people each have three cars which
have qualified. A Delage, Milford
Special, Mercer and Sebring are also
looked on as sure starters.
A fourth Sunbeam, owned in Amer
lea and driven by Carl Limberg, has
made better than the required quail
flying time, but the A. A. A. rules pro-
vide that only three cars of one make
shall compete. Limberg's mount is
the slowest of the quartet.
Porporato in a Sunbeam is now re-
garded as Resta's real rival in the i'm
pending dash. New gears have ar
rived from England for the car, which
will give 1t greater speed than it
has ever shown in. America. Porpo-
ratio is a nervy and resourceful driver
and his showing depends entirely on
the car.
Walter T. Hayes defeated Ralph
Burdick for the city singles tennis
title, 60, 81, 6-1. Hayes played the
sidelines and back boundary with ex-
eellent judgment.
MiIburn Saylor fouIec. Hal Stewart
in the sixth round Of what was to
have been a ten-round bout at Evans
vile, Ind. Stewart had the better of
the milling, Saylor was warned re-
peatedly not to foul.
:. Kid Williams, bantamWeight cham
pion, is so good that he must chal-
lenge contenders for his title. He
has invited Johnny Coulon to bat
al, b,1f FT,a ooran Cn0art midoet Save
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-06-22

From the number of papers which
claim to have saved him, Leo Frank
must have about a hundred more
lives than the well-known cat.
National league schedule makers
and the Chicago weather man are not
showing a great deal of teamwork
this season. Through long period
of rainy overcUat weather the Cubs
were given assignments to play the
eastern teams on the home lot. On
one or two occasions the afternoons
were passably decent for pastiming.
But yesterday and today, when
the sun is back at work from a
lengthy vacation, the Cubs are play
ing such provincial places at Wauke>
gan and Racine. Which, from the
athletes point of view, is enough to
roll up the clouds once more.
Bresnahan used the Waukegan
game to give Larry Cheney another
workout without endangering the
standing Of the locals in the National
league. Larry breezed through five
innings, being hit safely once and
passing two. The main desire was to
assist him IN gaining control and he
seemed to be steering the ball fairly
well in the direction of the plate.
In sliding to the plate Pete Knise-
ley was severely spiked and will be
lame for several days Which is an
other Illustration of the bad judg-
ment National league magnates used
in passing the 21-player limit rule,
now finds himself without
a utility outfelder, and should Schulz
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-06-22
RESULTS YESTERDAY

National League. - Pittsburgh 4,
Philadelphia 8.
American League. - Boston 8,
Washington 8; Washington 6, Bos-
ton 5; Philadelphia Z, New York 6;
Philadelphia Il, New York Z.
Federal Eeague.-BaItimore Z, Chi
cago 2; st. Louis 8, Brooklyn 2; Kan
sas City 9, Buffalo s.; Newark 8, Pitts
bdrgh 2.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-10-22
HENRY CLEWS,
Treasurer, Dollar Christmas
Fund for Destitute Belgians,
Broad Street, New York.
BUSINESS UNIVERSITY
NOTES


Night school has a fair at
tendance, but a number Of others
should attend these evening
classes.
On a shorthand theory exam
nation recently given, Miss Ma
mic Wheeler received the high
est grade.
Miss Mamie Barnhcuse is
visiting friends in ST.. Louis, but
we expect her back in school
next week.
Mrs. John Hulsey of Doe Run
visited us last week. She is spe-
cially interested in the progress
of her son, George, one of our
students.
lack Jennings who has been alb
sent from his school work for
a few weeks, due to illness, is
with us again this week. Mr..
Jennings is doing high-grade
work, and we are pleased to see
him back at his post of duty.
Pres. Moothart, who teaches
spelling, is this week using a test
method to divide the students
into two divisions in order that
some who are, what may be
termed poor or mediocre spell
ers, may be given some special
work in this important subject.
Prof. Moothart spent last
Thursday in Cape Girardeau,
visiting the business College,
and also mingling with the Dem
ocrats at that time. He made an
address to the Business College
students, and reports the Cape
business school in a prosperous
condition.
The September reports have
been somewhat delayed, but are
being sent to the parents this
week. We ask that these rec
ords Of the students class and
examination work shall receive
careful attention by the parents
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-10-22

so as to aid US by way of insist
ing upon their doing from two to
four hours of hard connected
study in their homes each day.
Clinton Rogers, one of our
especially successful graduates,
was visitor in our Office Mon
day. Mr.. Rogers has a very lu-
crative position in the Develop
ment department Of the Frisco
Railroad, st. Louis. He reports
that one Of our other graduates,
Mr.. Buchanan, is also doing
stenographic work in the same
oaice. s
Miss Esther Rudolf was Wis
ting friends and relatives in
Pennington Saturday and Sun
day. She reports Joe Huber has
an excellent position in East st.
Louis, and that Anna Huber has
been promoted to a good position
in st. Louis, while she has the
promise of a promotion in the
near future. These young peo-
pie are working hard and deserve
these promotions.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-10-22

and even little children in Sun
day schools gave freely Of their
penny banks in behalf Of other
children less happy than them
selves.
To the American Commission
for relief in Belgium-tha Saw
iors Of Belgium to quote Cardi-
nal Mercier-has been left the
vital task of solving the food
problem and though the future
of Belgium in 1916 is beyond
prophecy and must apparently
depend to q larger extent than
ever upon American help, one
may feel reasonably assured that
the prospect of famine-for this
year at least, has been definitely
removed. One-third of a sol
dier's ration-enough at least
to keep body and soul together
is now served daily to all ne
cessitous persons in Belgium.
The task now undertaken by
the Dollar Christmas Fund is tc
collect money for shoes, boots
and clothes, which are most ur.
gently needed and for which spe.
cial money must be provided
The necessity is appalling be-
cause at the present time there
are roughly, 100000 destitute
people in Belgium and the num-
Der increases as the winter APP.
proaches. The Belgians are
unable to buy shoes, boots and
clothes for themselves many
even Of the former wealthy are
now in the daily bread line.
This year, as last, our Fund
has the warm approval and valu-
ed cooperation of a committee
of representative citizens, in
Guiding Col. Geo. Harvey, DR.
VIM. T. Hornaday, Victor F
Lawson, Adolph S. Ochs, Prof
Henry Fairfield Osborn, VIM. G.
Reick, Melville E. Stone, Oscar
S. Strauss, Geo. t. Wilson. AL
our workers are honorary and
all money collected viii be ex-
pended by the American Com
mission for Relief in Belgium.
No better guarantee can be Civ
en- that every penny subscribed
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-10-22

will be wisely spent. Mr.. Percy
Bullen of &C Broadway, New
York, has again undertaken the
Office of Secretary.
There are ominous reports to-
day of greater hardships in store
for Belgium, greater strain upon
endurance already so desperate
ly taxed. Stimulated by this
knowledge it is certainly our
privilege and, may | not add, our
duty to appeal to Americans
doubly blessed in their peaceful
isolation and detachment from
the vortex Of horrors and blood
shed and agony of the battle
fields of Europe to help those
who are too poor to help them
selves?
This year, as last, our Dollar
Christmas Fund is in complete
sympathy with every other APP
peal in behalf of Belgian desti-
tute and differs from other APP
peals only in the sense that the
total sum received will be for.
warded as a special Christmas
Contribution from the people OF
this country to the destitute peo-
pie of Belgium, an expression OF
sympathy with sorrow from
one people to another and a tan
gible proof that Christmas good
win even in these days Of strife
and bloodshed has not disappear
ed from earth.
If, as many have forecasted
Belgians have heights Of sacri.
flee and martyrdom so far unat.
tanned to scale this winter, we
can at least insure that the ole
men, the frail women, the little
children-many of them cor
phans of war"-shall not go I'M
shod. And without your aid, as
we know, the barefooted in Bel
GUM this winter will be the rule
rather than the exception. ]
ask therefore with great ear
nestness that you send along
your dollar bill-and send more
If you canl All contributions
should be addressed to the
Treasurer and each viii be
promptly acknowledged.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-10-22

Let us then hand it to the local
government (the nearer the in
dividual the better). They, of
course, cannot levy tariffs, but
/ am quite sure they can grant
bounties, for it has been done in
many instances to rid comnuni-
ties of pests or varmints.
This plan can be applied not
only to sugar, but to any other
privileged industry needing pro-
lection. One might open a
large store at Broadway and
Olive in st. Louis and employ a
thousand clerks at good wages
for the purpose of retailing
shoe-strings, and if the city of
st. Louis or the State of Mis-
souri, would grant a large enough
bounty on each sale, the pro-
prietor could make money. And
why has not the proprietor of
an industry of this kind as much
right to expect protection from
the government as any other
party engaged in an unprofita-
BILE business, for our Constitu-
ton guarantees equal rights to
all.
The bounty plan in a way is
simply the tariff plan reversed,
with the exception that the tax
will be assessed locally and will
be more noticeable to the indi-
vidual. If the people will stand
for it all right, but if they don't
let's not tell them any more
that the foreigner pays the tax
and then hand it to them in
some mysterious manner.
Yours truly,
A RETAILER.
NOTE-The above letter from
a retail dealer is a home-like and
appropriate illustration of the
tariff bug-a-boo, and a very SIM
pie solution of a method where
by the tariff fake could be re-
moved from politics and applied
locally so the burden would fall
on the inhabitants of the locali-
ty benefited, and not upon the
whole people for the benefit of
the immediate interests and
people of the territory where
the industry is situated, as has
been done in, the past. This be-
ing true of sugar, of course, is
equally true of and applicable to
a thousand and one other things
that fall in the Same category.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-10-22
DOLLAR CHRISTMAS FUND
FOR BELGIANS SECOND
YEARS APPEAL
To the Editor,
Dear Sir:

IL CilS GulIOlJ
Dear Sir:
Twelve months ago l made an
appeal to Americans in behalf
of the Dollar Christmas Fund for
Belgians-one of the many Ell
forts made here and in Europe
to avert the threatened starva-
ton of a nation. The response
was prompt and generous. Not
alone the rich contributed but
even many of the very poor with
the happy result that we were
able to send to Belgium a Christ
mas ship laden not only with
Christmas good wishes but with
food and clothing. Those were
the days when every ship load
meant lives saved. Some of our
best friends were newspapers
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-10-22
A SUBSTITUTE FOR TARIFF

To the Editor Of The Republic !:
l read your sugar editorial Of
the 9th inst, also Mr.. Schroe-
der's letter to you published the
same day and was interested in
both.
/ am not sugar expert and
am not interested in sugar in any
way except TO retail it, and it
has always been more than sat
isfactory to me to be enabled to
furnish the consumer with the
maximum amount Of good sugar
possible for a dollar.
1t is natural for the consumer
to wish for cheap sugar, and
just as natural for the producer
to wish for dear sugar, but the
retailer is Indifferent to an ex-
tent because his profits are prac-
tically nil under both conditions.
If anything, he prefers low
prices, as then his investment in
stock is less and his customers
are better pleased when they re-
ceive a great big bag for 81.
This may be the sentimental
side, but looking at it from a
practical business standpoint |
certainly agree that any indus
try which taxes all of us for the
benefit of a few is no business
at all, but a privilege.
Mr.. Schroeder says that the
taking off of the tariff on sugar
will ruin the industry. He may
be right and it may also be a
blessing in disguise for none of
us can positively foretell the flu
ture.
In the event that Mr.. Schroe-
der is correct in his predictions
and the sugar planter finds il
Improbable to raise sugar with
out a tariff (say of l cent per
pound, which / think has been
the average under protection)
would suggest that the planter
go before the Legislature of his
State and ask for bounty to
equalize the loss sustained
through the removal of the tar
iff.
This would place the planter
upon the same footing as he was
before, and the expense of main
tanning a privilege would be
borne by the State whose indus
tries are benefited. If his State
will not grant a bounty let him
go to his county or parish board
Under this arrangement it would
not take long for the people ir
the sugar States or the countries
or the parishes, as the case may
be, to find out whether the in,
dustry is worth while. If it is
not, they will soon cut off the
bounty, and no one will be hurt
except those who have taken 8
chance at somebody else's ex,
pense.
The theory Of Democratic
Government, as | understand it
is not for a strong central pow
er, but one that is distributed
as near home as possible. Il
this theory is correct let us take
tn tariff out of national politics
at least to the amount in excess
of that which would be neces
sarily required for maintain
ing an economical government
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-08-12
A CORDIAL INVITATION.
New York WORLDLY


The president of the German-Amer-
lean alliance. who calls the president
of the United States political bank
rupt," warns him that he has forfeit
ed his reelection" by his notes to
Germany.
We do not yet know whether Mr..
Wilson intends to be candidate for
reelection. but there is one highly inn
portant fact that we desire to empha-
size for the benefit of all our hyphena-
ted friends. The next presidential
election will be decided by American
votes, not by the votes of men who are
at heart subjects of foreign govern
ment.
Most Americans who are Americans
in spirit as well as by birth or blood
or choice have become satiated by the
continuing threat of the so-caIled Ger
man vote in the next election. The
changes have been rung upon this
theme for nearly a year. The German
newspapers in Germany are no less
arrogant than German newspapers and
agitators in the United States in boast
ing Of the decisive influence that this
vote will exert in electing the presi-
dent of the United States in 1916.
We shall have a showdown on that
issue next year. If there is a Ger
man-American vote or any other n.y.
phenated vote that thinks it can elect
a president of the United States or de-
feat president of the United States
let it undertake to translate its words
into deeds. There are great many
important political questions before
the American people, but we know OF
no other question so vital as this
namely, whether the United States is q
free and nIeprde nj nation or semi
detached colony.
Whenever our German-Americar
friends are prepared to take their owl
political threats seriously, there arr
approximately 100000 American
voters who will be glad to settle thi.
matter at the polls,
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-08-12
THE FAILURES IN THE CITY.

I know the road of the farmer boy is
rough and hard-but it's the road that
makes big, fearless, robust, manly
men! Back yonder in those harsh days
/, too, longed for the city just as per-
chance you are longing for it today, bpt
I understand a lot of things now that 1
didn't understand then. Viewed from
the distance the bright lights look en-
hanting enough-but once familiarized
with them, the enchantment soon dies
away. Cities annually kill thousands
of boys and girls while the country
builds them into splendid men and wo-
men and paints upon their cheeks the
rose-hued flush of health Today
every city in the land is crowded with
erst-while farmer boys whose muscle
and vitality is being fed into the maws
of its giant ndustries-farmer boys
who stoke it's fiery furnaces, who ruT
it's heartless machinery, it's street cars
or who perch upon high chairs up II
some tall skyscraper and who wher
the days weary grind is at an end, be
take themselves to.some dark, crampeC
tenement abode where vile smells anC
poverty are ever comDanions-boy:
who have learned that bright lights ant
the music are only for those who hay
tile time and the money to pay to-
them.-Exchange.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-08-12
MAN BEHIND THE COUNTER

When the man behind the counter
has a manner gruff and surly, when
his brow is dark and sullen and his lip
with scorn Is curly, when he filings the
goods across with a cool, Indifferent
air, much as saying That's a loss; for
your customer we don't care" then in
sadness I am driven to the slow but
sure conclusion that my presence in
that sa1esroom is regarded as intru-
sion. / have traded with the fellow
eight long years, or maybe ten, but I
say, Perhaps I'd better never enter
there again
when the man behind the counter
says Good morning" with smile,
when he jokes about the weather in a
free and friendly style, when he calls
me by my name, though it's humble,
I'm aware, when he treats me just the
same as a millionaire. irresistibly I'm
drawn to the gratified conclusion thai
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-08-12
WILL HE OPPOSE MR.. BRITT.
Forest City Press Failed in Effort to
Learn if Man Wanted the Job.
(Forest City Press.

(Forest City Press.1
The Free Press man had heard it
rumored that representative j. f.
! Alexander Of this place would be IN
/ the race for congress next year. gfo
get the straight Of the matter the re-
porter went in quest of Jake He
was in the front yard at his handsome
home fooling with some shrubbery all
the while keeping an eye on the fish
disportfng themselves in the fountain
nearby. He was beaming with good
nature and the reporter began de-
coyly.
Notice there are several men in the
rave for congress?% eyes, the inter-
rogation point belongs there-we
meant it for a query).
"That orbor-vitae overe there is COM
ing along fast" was the disheartening
reply.
OF course the arbor-vitae was grow
ing, but that had nothing to do with
the congressional fight. The reporter
tried again:
Heard your name mention in"
"Say isn't too bad about that bunch
there in front of the steps? Guess it'll
nave " w &c SOIs A0S-SIOpPOu Lie.
willy one.
Once again the reporter started:
"The opinion of many is that you
Been thinking about widening that
driveway. It's too narrow for a big
car"
X The reporter scratched his head.
eff your friends put your name"
%See that blackjack there by the
piazza Some people think it out of
place with the nursery trees, but 1
wouldn't take anything for it. 1t car
ries me back to my boyhood days on
the farm
The reporter looked but he couldn't
catch the enthusiasm. 1t was only a
scrubby oak-just like thousands of
others over the woods For a minute
he was stalled, but started again:
I'm the event your friends"
Don't you think a pergola would
add to this side Of the yard?"
eyes, yes, but what about the con-
gressional-'
"Let me tell you about the garage.
Got Bob Griffin to paint it for me.
Told him to make it brick color. When
Bob finished he noticed that it was not
exactly the color of brick, he hadn't
mixed his paint just right So he got
an old brick bat of the house, painted
it and put along by the side of the ga
rage to prove to me that he was right.
Fine idea eh?" and he chuckled heart
fly.
The reported was getting desperate
and he put it bluntly:
Say, are you candidate for con-
gress?"
Going over to Polk county one of
these days to eat grapes with my old
friend, Sheriff HILL Come go along"
Gentle reader, that is all we know.
Decide for yourself if ]. F. Alexander
will be in the race to succeed Mr. Britt