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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-11-04

crowding families together in dark.
airlcss rooms, are much greater in
total. SO tWcnty-three towns and one
city have already forbidden the cree
ton of more three declers.
In the middle Atlantic states bad
housing takes the form of the English
Stun. closely packed little houses
which fill nearly every foot of space
within the blocks. Back yards are
filled with double rows of tiny dwell
ings, which can be reached only by
means of archways under the street
houses. There is no room in these lit
tie dwellings for proper sanitary APP
pliances. so an outdoor toilet at the
end of the paSSageway serves all fami-
lies, and one outdoor hydrant supplies
all their water. In some Of the older
and most crowded sections of these
cities there are large areas without
sewers.
In the middle west and the south.
where land overcrowding has not yet
developed to any such degree as it has
in the northern and eastern cities,
there is bad housing under another dis
guiSe. The one room cabin still persists
in the degenerate form of the board
shanty in nearly all the states west of
the Alleghenies. although even the At
lantic seaboard, which has not known
the pioneer since the United States be-
came a nation. has some Of these re-
minders of him.
The southwest and the Pacific coast
are not free from bad housing. The
corralS of Texas, the house courts of
southern California. have already be-
rome we'll intrenched. And even the
tenement or barrack dwelling has ap-
peared. But it is in northern Califor-
mia and farther north that the tene-
ment ena is the worst.
San Francisco rose from its ashes q
city of wooden tenement houses. Its
enthusiasts boast Of it as the new Ath-
ems under the blue skies of a modern
Greece. It's builders house people in
dwellings from which no glimpse of
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-11-04
Extending the Cleanup Spirit.

Cleaned up streets, alleys, vacant lots
and back yards might be kept in that
condition if from day to day the citi-
zens could be moved by the same spirit
which spurs them to the annual spring
cleaning. An effort to keep civic pride
so strong in the minds Of the citizens
that they will not relapse into careless
habits has been made by the depart
ment of public property Of New Or
leans. A series Of folders, the City
Beautiful series, has been prepared by
the public property department, and a
citizens committee, consisting of mem
bers Of the board Of trade and other
commercial organizations, each ward in
the city being represented. is distribut-
ing the leaflets. The Women's club
has also helped in the distribution.
The folders state that stringent meas
ures will be restorted to in Furnishing
violations of the city ordinances.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-11-04
Movement Nov Includes 1888
Cities and Towns,
BAD HOUSING WIDESPREAD.
Five Years Ago There Were Scarcely
Realized They Had a Housing Prob
lem, but a General Awakening Has
Taken Place.
BY JOHN IHLDER.
Field secretary National Housing ass
citation.

Field secretary National Housing asso-
ciation.]
Years ago Jacob RiiS startled the
other half lived in New York. Due to
these revelations and to the work Of
public spirited citizens year after year,
the other half lives better in New
York today. New York did not like the
revelations. 1t was inclined ut first to
call Jacob Riis Il bad citizen. Later it
changed the adjective to best"
The rest of the country contented it
self with exclaiming V New Works
badness and thanking Providence that
it was different. But it wasn't differ
ent except specifically. 1t had reason
to be grateful that it did not have New
York's tall tenements, solid rows of
ferent forms it had most Of the things
that made New York's tenements SO
bad. Philadelphia with it's rows Of lit
tie houses, Boston with its crowded
north end, Chicago with its stockyard
and west side districts, needed only a
Riis to point the finger Of scorn at
them. They did not have Rises, but
they did have public spirited citizens
who began to understand and grapple
with these conditions.
Then came the turn of the small
cities and villages. They had thanked
Providence that they We're not as the
big cities. But at last even small cities
and villages are producing citizens
who dare to look at their home condi-
tons and say what they think.
Five years ago there were scarcely
half a dozen American cities which re-
allied they had a housing problem.
Today there are 1873 cities and towns
which have awakened to the fact.
Sums have been discovered wherever
there has been an investigation.
Bad housing has been recognized IN
der all its DISCUSSES. In New England
the wooden three decker--the weed
peculiar to that locality - Is being
fought. New England Is beginning to
realize that, though the fire hazard Is
real and that though fires like those of
Chelsea and Salem are spectacular, the
constant, unrecorded losses to health.
efficiency. morals, which come. through
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-11-04
The Substitution.

1t is a we'll known fact that both
Sir Arthur Sullivan and Sir w. S.
Gilbert had a horror Of the titles of
their operas becoming known until the
very night Of their performance. This
fear that they might be forestalled
created considerable confusion at the
initial production of %'Iolanthe; or, The
Peer and the Peri" The opera was
rehearsed for weeks under the title
Of "Perola." 1t was only at the dress
rehearsal hat the company was in
structed to substitute the name To-
lanthe for that Of Perola wherever
it occurred in the text or lyrics. 1t
was no easy task to replace vocally
and in the dialogue a name of three
s%yllables for II Of four. Sullivan.
however, said maybe aside) to one or
two of the actors who were nervous:
go ahead and sing the music. Gil
bert won't be in front" Gilbert never
attended the first night. 80 use any
name that YOU think of first if you
are ratified. No one in the audience
will be any wiser"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-11-04
PLANS NEW ALLENTOWN.

Expert Gives Advice and Commission
Takes Measures TO Improve Town.
Energetic measures for the improve
ment Of Allentown, Pa, are being
taken by the new city planning com
mission, headed by Colonel Harry c.
TreXler. Frank Rooster Of New York
city, IN expert in city planning. has
rendered a preliminary report after u
tory embraced within the three milo
limit over which it has jurisdiction ul-
der the new act of assembly.
Mr.. koeSter finds that Allentown.
like most American towns. was started
as Il village and allowed to grow with
out any scientific plan fox it's develop
ment. He advises the municipality to
break away from rectangular blocks
and to lay out streets according to to-
Biography and the trend Of hills and
streams. He strongly advocates that
the city retain 10 per cent of all an
nexed land for parks, public squares,
breathing places and Fairgrounds. He
thinks factories should be restricted to
Il manufacturing area.
Trolley lines, he says. ought to be
built far out into the suburbs to permit
the erection of houses away from the
~congcsted district. He advises Il law to
remove all sidewalk constructions at
once. so as to relieve the crowded on
dition Of the streets in the heart of the
town. and advocates the removal of
the soldiers monument from Center
square because it is a serious obstruc-
ton to traffic. though from the artistic
point Of view he says it should remain.
He also advocates boulevard lighting
from brackets attached to buildings. so
as to do away with all poles, and says
the supports for trolley wires should
also be attached to buildings of the
most congested district along Hamilton
street.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-11-04

blue sky may he seen. But in Califor-
MIA there is q state commission on i'm
migration and housing. Which is pre-
pairing for the expected Immigrant tide
ny setting better standards for their
dwellings.
In Los Angeles and in some of the
Texas cities boards of health are de-
handing in the interest of the commu-
nifty that housing standards be raised.
III some Of the southern cities there is
progress. In the north laws have been
enacted, companies organized. to build
good, inexpensive dwellings. But all
along the way there are practical prob
lens. The experience of one city is
needed to help another. Opportunity
for this interchange is furnished by the
National Housing association at its
conferences for those who are working
to raise the standard of American
bones.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-11-04

SCHOOL GARDENS ARE
RAPIDLY INCREASING.
Properly Conducted, They Have Proved
a Great Success.

School gardens are increasing by
leaps and bounds. Children show great
interest in gardening, and there seems
a natural love of flowers and plants in
almost every child.
School gardens are & great success
where properly conducted and are in
crcasing at such Il rapid rate that it is
difficult to keep a record Of their prog
ress.
California is one of the states lending
in the encouragement CT school gar
dens, and the city Of Los Angeles will
devote about eighteen acres of land in
vacant lots to school gardens. The in
terest Of the 10000 children working
in the gardens has been sufficient to en-
courage the city to devote $4,000 to
the undertaking, employing many
teachers, with n superintendent to take
charge of the work. In many schools
throughout the United States and Can
ada agriculture is 10Y one of the regu
;ar school courses.
The city of Cleveland, O., is credited
with starting the present school gardcn
movement. New York city is in line,
owing to the determined energy of a
woman. Mrs. Henry Parsons, now 4
member of the school board. Philadel-
pAia has special garden teachers, and
so have other cities. and the federal
government is encouraging the move
mont.
School gardens give the children OK.
crtiSe in the open air at the time it is
needed. 1t is IL welcome relaxation
from the drudgery Of book learning"
and captures the interest, as gardening
is = practical illustration of how things
are actually done and because every
garden plot and the result of every
students work differs as greatly as
each school garden does from another.
Members Of school boards who are not
familiar with this work will do well to
obtain the facts from the boards of e d
ucation where school gardens are in
operation. The idea of school gardens
is growing i'll small communities rs
we'll as large ones. Ere long perhaps
no school will lie colnplctc without one
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-11-04
NOVEL USES OF TREES.
How Some Forest Monarchs Have Been
Converted After a Fall.

1OW Dome Forest MonarCnS nave Been
Converted After a Fall.
During a severe storm in Portland,
Ore, says the American City, one of
the magnificent fir trees which beau
tify Maclay park fell headlong down Il
slope and lay, a hundred foot giant, ap-
parcntly quite done for" 1t proved,
however, that the fine tree was yet TO
serve its greatest usefulness. From top
to bottom OF its immense length II
stairway four feet wide at the broad
est point was cut, and this was edged
on both sides With 4 rustic railing. The
tree is now the delight of visitors to the
park. especially children. 1t takes the
place of q steep and slippery path
which had long been considered dam
scrouS.
Another example of Il converted tree
is the cedar stump used as Il band
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-11-04

STUNT OF TREE MADE INTO A BAND
STAND.
stand in Wright park, at Tacoma.
Wash. This is twenty feet in diameter,
twelve feet high and easily capable Of
holding twenty-five musicians. 1t orig
inally came from western Washington,
where the first proprietor used the in
side as a residence, having followed it
out for that purpose and put in a full
size front door. which is visible in the
photograph. 1t was exhibited at the
Alaska-Pacitic exposition held in Seat
tie, after which it was purchased and
donated to the metropolitan park dis
trict of Tacoma by w. w. Seymour, IL
former president of the park district
and an ex-mayor of Tacoma. The
stump was installed in Wright park as
a band stand by the park district COM
m%issioners.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-11-04
For Better

Columbus and Athens, Ga, have
been selected as sectional headquarters
for the state wide campaign for better
markets for agricultural products which
will DO launched Nov. !.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-11-04
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.


THE EXECUTIVE:
President. Woodrow Wilson
Vice President. Thomas R. Marshall
CABINET OFFICERS.
Secretary of the Treasury. William G.. McAdoo
Attorney General. ".."..Jas G. MacReynolds
iPseteaaEy OF Gsnsrai. .Lind Alba M; s saTE,son
Secretary of the ....Josephus Daniels
Secretary uf the Interior $3.50. Franklin X Lane
secretary Of AAgriculture.... David =; R Ron1ssta9311
secretary U II I frEf5i STATES s M5silam B. wilson
3 : : M IrGnna;s Wa Lasaon
CONGRESSMAN.
IL eiseSon ysii iMl r;}n
FEDERAL OFFICERS.
United States District Judge....C. F. Amidon
United States Marshal...........S.J :. Doyle
United States Attorney. 900. w Engerud
Surveyor General. A. Williams
National Bank examiner Tyler
Collector of Custom..........Jud LaMoure Or
STATE SUPREME COURT,
Associate ustices-C. J.. Fisk, e. T. Burke, Z.
B. Goss, "A acknowledgements"
Clerk ofSupreme Court....""..h. y Hoskins
reporter. w. n'e'
OFFICERS.
Governor. D. hanna
Lieutenant Governor ..........John II. Frame
Secretary of thomas han
State Auditor............Varl u Jorgenson
State Treasurer. ......JOnn cteene
Attorney General. Henry ]. Linde
Sup't Public Instruction ...."."..E p. j, Taylor
Commissioner of Insurance....n.;,W.C Taylor
Commissioned of Agriculture :. Robert L.. Flint
Commissioner of Railroads.&c.. z. N. Anderson,
VIII. Mann, w. H. Stutsman .............
DISTRICT COURT
Judge Seventh District. J; Kneeshaw
Court Stenographer. ..... Laura y. Daubenbers
STATE SENATOR'S.
Eighteenth District. Mclean
REPRESENTATIVES,
Eighteenth District. Ole t.; Axvig
COUNTY OFFICERS.
County treasurer. WORE
Cierk Of the District Court.....C S. Robertson
Sonntv nJ11 udre :. w. Bleakley
Register of Deeds........ ..... John McGanvran
Superintendent of Schools. go. Fred J. Richer
Croonnnty Surveyor. ....... Malcolm Darling
County Coroner. olioihpeis
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
First Com'r District. NIcolson
Second Com'r District...""......Sam lverson
Third Com'r District.........S;G U. Erlcksot
Fourth Com'r District. Robert LANG
Fifth Conn District. Alex Russell
CITY OFFICERS.
W. A. Mcintyre
Aldermen 1st Ward .Jno; Power John Boyd
Aldermen 2nd Ward. R. T. Burke, VIM Stranger
Aldermen 3rd Ward..T B.. Hankey. j. Balgaarc
Gity Treasurer John D. Milne
Chief Of Police james Reed
Assassin Harlan
C;tv ATTORNEY w. B. Dickson
C;ty :Jnstice' Joseph Power
Police Magistrate ............. A. ~ Mc>a'
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-11-04
Community Use of Schoolhouses.


The remarkable increase in the use
of school buildings for community pur-
poses in districts maintaining a high
school or state graded school is shown
by the tabulation which appears be-
low. The bureau Of civic and social
center development Of the extension
division of the University Of Wiscon-
sin sent out Il QUESTIONABLE to each
Of the high school and state graded
school principals of Wisconsin during
four successive years, with the results
shown in the table:
1910 1872 1873 1914
II. 10. IA. Is.
Number of responses. 17G Al 491 573
'Schoolhouses used as
community centers.. Sc 265 1884 500
Total number of COM
munity meetings.. 1865 2452 1882 N3l
Neighborhood assem-
biies organiZed...... S IS III 200
Principals undertake
secretaryship ........ so l52
SchoolhouseS as poll
ing placeS........... IL SO Y l09
Principals as voting
clerks ........... o II
Seating provision for
adults ,............ 10 "a $50 22
Young people organ
iZeu ..,..-.....,..... ~ 6 l2 a4
Schoolhouses equipped
with gymnasiums... II 81 LOO
Library used by COM
murity .,,.,,,.,...,.. 10 N @B m
5yste m o employing
community secreta-
RES ,',.,,,,,,,,.,,.... y
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-04-26
Young Wife Of Washington
County Farmer Victim
of Crime. !
SLAYER CONFESSES
Mrs. James K. Wilson Tagged.
ShamefuIly Treated. Tied to Bed
Post and Murdered.

Bristol, Tenn, April 26.-Luther
Canter, 25 years old, voluntarily sur
rendered to the officers yesterday
evening, after confessing to neighborS
that he assaulted and murdered Mrs.
James Rufus Wilson, neighbor, in
her home near Bristol. His brother
James Canter, q years old, had been
arrested as suspect earlier in the
day.
Canter, according to information,
given, told that he entered the Will
son home at 3 o'clock Friday after
noon, bound and gagged and assault
ed Mrs. Wilson ard then murdered
her. Canter was afraid of being
lvnched, and pleaded with the officers
to spirit him out Of the community.
He was taken away last night, and
it is understood that Sheriff Miller
was bound with his prisoner for Roa-
noke, Va.
Canter soon fell under suspicion, al
though his brother was arrested first.
A warrant was issued for Cantet's
arrest few months ago on a charge
of having assaulted 4 married woman.
but Canter avoided arrest by leaving
the community. 1t was only last
week that he returned.
Mrs. Wilson was attacked at her
home or the Bristol-AbingGon turn
pike. three miles from this city. while
her husband was on Il visit TO farm
II miles away 1t had been arranged
that she should attend to her house
hold duties and then 60 to the home
Of a relative nearby to spend the
night.
Her assailant bound her hands to
the bedpOst and later stabbed her in
the breast with large knife and
shot her through the body with shot
gun, which he found in the house.
Mrs. Wilson was a daughter Of
Rev. Anthony Ingall, of the Metho-
dist Episcopa! Church. She. was mar
ried to Wilson four years ago. No
children were born to them.
The home o. the Wilson family
vas visited by hundreds Of people
during the day, many women having
called. The house is located within
thirty feet of The main stone high
way running through the county, and
within sigh: Of the Norfolk and
Norfolk and Western Railway
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-04-26
DEATH or +. ". SEWARD.
Associated With Grave Events III
Countvs History

Montrose, \. y. April 26--Frede-
.ick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary
If State in the cabinets OF President
Lincoln. johnson and Hayes. and son
If former Secretary Of State Will
lam II. Seward. died here yesterday
n his eighty-ffth year. He leaves a
wife. Anna NJ. Seward ant on' nro
her. Gen. William II. Seward. Of
Auburn.
Mr.. Seward was closely aSsoclat-
,d with some OF the gravest events
the nations history. 1t was be
yho was sent on that memorable mis-
;;on from Washington to Philadelphia
20 warn President Lincoln that his
life WAS in danger if he followed his
itinerary through Baltimore. Four
wears later he figured in another STR
ing incident after the assassination
of Lincoln. He was AT his tatner
bedside when Payne, one OF bootn
accomplices pretending to be mes
senger with medicine for Secretary
Seward. suddenly drew a. navy re-
-olyer and beat Frederick Seward lntf
,,nronsciousucss. Then dashing into
tho s;cLroom. Payne slashed Secre,
tary Seward many times Both Be,
,,.aTds eventually recovered. Later
payne was captured and executed
with others involved in the plot.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-04-26
ITALY AWAITS War CALL

Paris. April 26--MarieI tachim a
Paris deputy. t"lagraphs rom North
IN Italy the following: The hour
i ItaIy's intervention III the VA Is
bout TO sound. Thcr" . no Italian
sho does not say lie fees tins. iAeFe
: nothing but war talk IN the streets
iotcl> and trains. There are tnou-
;and indications Of w&r al every
,and. and in the last few days events
ave tumhled over one another with
uch startling lapldity that the OK
plosion may occure at any moment.
-Four hundred thousand Italian
roops are massed on the austrian
'rortier and: ev"ry train to- Northern
taly is filled win soldiers. All haNe
,rms. horses nnd ammunition. sIhe
concentration has been silently out :
nethodically carried out during che
ast few geek. 9nd iaiy no" ma"
,ooo. 900 men ready TO fight and a.
'eady quar;ered OF the future bat
:IefeId.
The whole Country IS preparing
hospitals and ambaiances' he m'~
lcipality Of Milan Is building con-
1ecting rail: between the railroad
and tramways for the rapin trans
}ortation OF the wounded. lnefz c
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-04-26
MURPHY MAY Be
CALLED TO STAND
Bipartisan Boss VIII Ap-
pear at Behest of the
Defense /.
FINAL SAVIOR OF CASE
Secretary OF Tammany Hall sub.
pOenaed-l'oosevelt Said 10 Have
Spent $500 Last Week.

Syracuse, n. Y. April 26-- Tute-
rest lin the RarreS-RooSevel libel
suit centers today in lh@ probability
that Charles f. Murphy, the Tam
many leader, will be called as a wit
ness. 1t is said mere tha, lie chances
are the man whom Colonel Roosevelt
linked with William Barnes, IT., as q
bipartisan boss will appear ~ the be-
hest of the defense
Those who have listened with keen
relish to Colonc' RonSevelt'S empha-
tic testimony. and who anticipate
eagerly the "eblttal OF Barnes. feel
hat it will taKe the presence ana
story Of the t;Acit1nn Tammany chief
ia;n to give the celebrated case is
iinal Savor.
1t is known thar some % the colo
nel's counsel think it wo"lJ be good
strategy 10 cal! Murphy. 40 matter
2hlt he might say on the stand.
Thomas I Smith secretary Of Tam
many Hall is here under subpoena.
Smith is expected to admit cha; Aur-
ohy is the Democratic boss of New
York city. and not a little interest
,cntels abou, tk, extent 70 which he
will go in outlining The inils -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-04-26
WAVE OF DEPRESSION
Berlin Newspapers Realizea Terrible
Miscarriage in Acute War
Dreams

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Inc co''se'Fafs'c Hc'''n paper DeF
'ag writes '''''' "e'in'n! Nv"
paying os"f!| 1"' I''e '"eN % lo'e-
syn ana unoE'e9'''haA''' O ,nt enc
my on the mart 81 German diploma
NC REPRESENTATIVES, "'-'''' ana ,''''''
men at nome
we nav "''oe ~! '''s '''''''-
! cuiat!ohS everywhere t''V P''e' ''s
we eXpected lhaF '''u'" ""''' ''ss
III open re"F''I'i d. liz ~ ~
'i the guns ~ r..rope, anu ..'T ,"o"
sands ana ron 'hooS"lI"S VI h'".'''''
are lighting *''o !he r'"S',''' Is:',s' ,!
US. We expected 10 7ee ,''e ,''Si'',e
grafton Of the -'''!lAh e'"Pi'e' o"' '''F
British colonies nave c'''e ~ !"e as
SisTanee OF the m''neE 'o,'Nr'! IL .
way they have never 'o''e 'ei".e ~
expected +"cceSSiu' "pi 'si''s ~ !" :
. tish South Ahrca' anu have 'es''
nothing hnt h"sco' we eNpe''e'
disorders IN 'sla'o' anu ''
ireland has sent some Oh "e' De"t 'no'
against us. We believe Vnal 'ne peae,
.' any r 49,, !, has drsanpeared
in England, but u mas p'Sapp "a. -, 81
in the genera en'N''S'',,," u w. w.
war against "e'"'"'F " ,-S
that England was . "e ! ,.to,
unfit to become y" ,"'po' ic ,,'"' -,
in 'ne "''' .'' nan,,