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The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-11-06
STRIKE COMMISSION REJECTED

ST. Louis, Mo.-The board of alder
man has unanimously rejected Mayor
Kiels plan to create a commission that
would handle industrial disputes. Bus
mess influences supported the proposed
ordinance, as did several civic organ
iZatiOnS
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-11-06
DEATH IN THE MINES.

Butte, Mont.-The worst mining dis
aster ever known in this State occurred
when 800 pounds of dynamite exploded
at the properties OF the North Butte
Mining company. Nearly a score Of
workers lost their lives, while many were
severely injured
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-11-06
NEW UNION EXPANDS.

Wilmington, Dcl.-Thc Boilcrmakcrs
Union, the youngest in this city, is stead
ily increasing in membership and inter
est. Already there are over 100 enroll
ed, and II is believed this number will
grow four-ioId before the first OF the
year.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-11-06
CLERKS WANT EIGHT HOURS.

BoSton.-At a meeting OF the adjust
mcnt board of the brotherhood OF Rail
road Clerks OF the Boston & Maine rail
road it was voted to demand higher
wages and an eight-hour day
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-11-06
ARIZONA CLERKS ORGANIZE.

Tucson, Ariz.-The retail clerks of
this city have organized with mem
berShip of 100.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-11-06
STRIKE FOR EIGHT HOURS.

Clevcland.-Over 1000 employees of
the Peerless Motor Company struck for
an eight-hour day and other improved
working conditions.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-11-06
Worlds Workers
Plead For Unity

Letters Show War Has Not Chilled Brotherhood Spirit
A. F. of L. Conference Plan At Close of War Is
FaUored President Gompers Declared to Be "Head
and Father of the English Speaking Trade Union
Movement"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-19

The condition of II. +. Mansfield,
who was operated on Tuesday, for
appendicitis at the Alexandria Hos
pital, is very favorable.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-19
TAXES ON 100000.
Report of State Corporation Commits
sion on Public Services in City
And County

Alexandria City and County pubic
service corporations are valued at
more than two million dollars 1oi
taxation purposes, according to the
state corporation commission VINO
have just issued their report Tor Inc
present year. The amounts assessed
against each company in the city OF
Alexandria is as follows: Adams
Express Co., $3.50; Alexandria Coun-
ty Lighting Co., s97,4S7; Alexandra
Water Co., s66,5s2; Capital City Tel
sphone Co., 1852; Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Co., S14,2O; Ches-
apeake and Potomac Telephone Co. OF
Virginia, $17,1S5.s1; Colonial Beach
Co., $4,000; Mt. Vernon and Mars
hall Hall Steamboat Co.. S24'ooo;
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat
Co.. $4,000; Postal Telegraph Cable
Co., s1.O26; Potomac and Chesapeake
Steamboat Co.. S41.750; Southern
Railway Co.. 1921, 929; Washington
; and Old Dominion Railway, SloS;
Washington Virginia Railway Co.,
SAB, 646; Western Union Telegraph Co.
$2,421.
In the county of Alexandria the as
sessments are as follows: Alexandria
county Lighting Co. S10.O65; Alexan-
dria Water Co., 1897; American
Telephone and Telegraph Co. of Viz
ginia. s795 TO; Arlington Electric Co.
$10,0S6; Braddock Light and Power
Co., s5,522; Capital City Telephone
Co.. S375; Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Co. of Virginia, S4,S04 g. !;
Falls Church Telephone and Tcle-
graph Co.. $3.50; Postal Telegraph
Cable Co., $3.08S; Rosslyn Connect
ing Railroad Co.. $4S,33O; Rosslyn
Gas Company, 57,7663; Southern Rail-
way Co.. s23,649; Washington and
Old Dominion Railway, S247 ,430;
MISREPRESENTATION Railway Co..
1871, 74S; Washington-Virginia Rail
way Co., $685. 1873; Western Union
Telegraph Co.. S4,454.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-19

W. Clifford Godsey, of Petersburg
Va. secretary Of the Virginia State
Eiks' Association, arrived in Alex
andria yesterday TO assist the local
committee in completing plans for
the entertainment of the visiting El:s
in this city at the meeting Of the
state association here in Ocober. Mr.
Godsey says that at least 300 visit,
ing Elks will be here for that oc-
casion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-19
LEO NJ. FRAANk'S REMAINS,
Body of Victim of Mob al Union Pass
cnger Station Last Night.

The body of Leo NJ. Frank reacn-
ed the union passenger station in AL
exandria about eleven o'clock last
night on Southern Railway train.
The train soon proceeded to Wash
ington. But few persons were present
Nearly 200 people were at Union
Station in Washington when the body
of Frank arrived at 1870 O'Clock.
When the black box containing the
body was transferred from the bag
gage car which conveyed it from the
South to baggage car which was to
carry it to New York. trouble was
experienced by the employees Of the
railroad in keeping the way clear.
An attempt made by a man in tne
crowd to wrcst Il thumbscrew from
the lid OF the box was frustrated by
detective.
Members Of Argo Lodge B'nai
Birth, Of Washington headed D?
Rabbi Simon and Isaac Cans. and 81
few ladies'. presented themselves 60
Rabbi David Marks and a. E. Mar
Gus. brother Of Mrs. Frank, who
accompanied the body, volunteering
such aid as they might offer. They
were assured that Mrs. Frank was
resting comfortably in u drawing room
car and doing AS well as could be en-
pectcd under the tremendous strain.
One of the funeral party said:
Frank was dragged from the pris-
on in his night shirt. with handouts
on his hands and ankles. Fort six
hours he was driven through the cou--
try, and he certainly must have been
dead or close to it when they swung
him from the tree. That his body
was not mutilated. Or burned at the
stake, as we understand was planned,
we consider as proof that his last
statement. if one was made must have
convinced his murderers that there
was an element of doubt as to his
guilt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-19
FIRE ON 4 STEAMER.

Fire early today caused $500 dam
age to the steamer Volunteer Of the
Potomac and Chesapeake Steamboat
Company, while the vessel was lying
at the wharf at foot of Eighth street
southwest Washington.
The blaze was discovered shortly
after 4 o'clock and was confined to
the upper deck. The steamer carries
freight and passengers between the
city and lower river points. Cause Of
the fire was not determined.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-19

Harvey Struder, who was found in
the Potomac yards ten days ago with
a fractured skull, is improving at the
Alexandria Hospital. He has not been
able to give statement OF how the
accident occurred.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-19
Fried CLAIMS at the Hotel Rammel
Visit the Hotel Rammel Tonight
ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Howard Lumber Com
pany, Incorporated, will be held at
the principal office OF tie Company
No. III S. Fairfax Street, AIexan-
dria, Virginia, at HOO a. m. Tues
day, September 7, 1915. to c,,ect Di-
rector for the ensuing year. and for
the transaction of such other bust
ness as may properly come before the
meeting.
W. II. HOWARD
Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-19
WOODWARD { LOTHRO|
iOth-l1th q G Streets
WASHINGTON, .. C..
A Wizard Mop Should.
Be in Every Home

There is cleaning every Wizard Mop will make
cleaning easier accompishment-and the cleaning will be more
you could do other So why not try the
Of the efficiency of the
Mop.
The Mop will into corner and any
ordinary cleaned by the wlzord
The Hande works just like elbow JOINT and TINS
derabliy of the Wizard Mop
The 5 spread inches and comes already for
yu can get Wizard Posthe best
nob knownor chemically $25 Other sizes in
Wizard Mops at and 75c.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-19

Miss Edna Drew, has returned to
her home in this city. after spending
the past month witht friends near
Leesburg.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-19

LOST-Small purse with change and
night latch key. Reward if re-
turned to Gazette office.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-19

Dr.. and Mrs. T. B. Cochran, are at
the Plemhimmon Hotel, Ocean City
Md.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-19

Mrs. Rody Douglas continues quite
i'll at her home 314 S. Royal St.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-19
SOCIAL And PERSONAL
Interesting News Notes About People
of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In Society.

Rev. Dr.. and Mrs. S. A. Wallis
are at Atlantic City.
Evening star., 1915-10-17

HIS picture shows what happens if Jockey keeps his
muscles stiff when he is being thrown The
any boy lives after fall keeps his ride again In
this the horse struck the jockeys
boots and stunned him. but did seriously niure
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-20

But now, cutting loose from an the
past life, no prospects of work, no
money in his pocket, Harley packed
his best clothes in a suitcase, babe
his landlady gOOd-by and proceeded
to the street. There was a grim, I'M
compromising glitter in his eye as he
proceeded to a secondhand clothing
store. When he came out of it, Har-
ley was arTayed in a coarse, common
working suit and had a few dollars in
cash as a result Of a sale of his few
belongings.
His next stop was at a labOrers' en-
ployment bureau. Its proprietor
started at this white-handed, refined
faced applicant, who indifferentIy an
nOunced that track work, mining,
farm work, in fact any line of manual
employment would be acceptable.
Harley was required to pay fee
of 81. Then he was given a card. 1t
read: Superintendent Of Construc-
ton, AIlegan, Ia" He was handed a
bit of pasteboard.
THAT is a pass to your destina-
tiOn," advised the agency. when
you arrive there apply for grading
work-$1.75 a day and board" =
That sounds tangiblew nodded
Harley gratefully, and took his de-
parture. Its work" he communed
with himself. 1t will keep me from
becoming a paUper and-it will make
me forgetp'
But adverse fortune seemed to pur-
sue the victim it had kept tramping
the streets for several weeks looking
for the position he never found.
He arrived at Allegan to find work
at a standstiII and the railroad in the
hands Of a receiver. Some two hun
dred wOrkmen had dispersed, or were
dispensing about the immediate vicin-
ity. The farmers in the district were
hilarious over this vast influx of la
Dor, for they needed workers in the
folds oOd under tho nviOnD oioc Of tho
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-08-20
The labor mar

hCI WdS S4uILCu. Every place al k4OW
and harrow was filled.
ooh, well, shall have to strike out
for a new field, that is ALL" he told
himself grimly, trying to fancy he
was imbued with the optimism of an
enthusiastic ambition.
Harley tramped it, brave as a TrO-
jan, for two days. On the morning Of
the third he met his first bit of en-
cOuragement. He had came upon a
desOlate, starVed-looking farm and
hailed it's equally dismal owner wa
tering lean, disconsolate cattle. The
man himself was grim-faced and dis
pirited in mien and talk.
81 might give you board and lOdg-
ing for a weeks work, 4" he said I'M
graciOusly.
'Pu take that, if it's only to get my
hand in," agreed Harley cheerfully.
But say, what's struck the placer"
"a suckerw grOwled the man,
whose name was Evans. ''The suck
er is me. I lost my wife and wanted
a lonely life. I've got it. Traded a
nice village home for this-farm,
they called it. Look at it,"
ct does look foTlorn, for fact"
observed Harley, "but what's the
main subject of encouragement. All,
I see-the sol" scooping up hand
full of the loose, yellow dirt, scanned
it closely, tasting of it, smelling of it,
and tossing it adrift with a thought
full, "Humph! Got any loose CAPT
tal?" ......-i
what if I have?" demanded the
farmer, surlily and with suspicion.
Because, if you have, and win in
vest it in lime and phosphates, I'll
make a cast-irOn contract to do the
rest that will make this place a gar
den of Eden inside of two seasons on
a basis Of fifty and fifty"
'Uncle wasn't so bad, after ALP
many time later Harry soliloquized.
He threw schooling energy and soul
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-07
ELECTRICAL NOTES.

Hot Springs. Ark, will have new
white way.
Electric bulletin boards are now
used by churches
Seven hundred houses were wired
in Topeka, Kansas, last year.
A large Chicago retail store en-
ploys 200 electric trucks for delivers
service.
Submarines utilize storage batteries
and electricity for power when sub
merged.
There are more than 5000 electric
tight companies serving the public In
this country
A new starting device has been per.
fected for Ford CATS by the General
Electric company.
There are 14,152 telegraph stations
in England and 100000 messages
were sent last year.
The days OF making brick by hand
ere no more. Electricity Is now ex.
tensively used in brick making plants.
Owing to the Communicating OF
nearly all gasolene trucks in Europe
for the various armies electric trucks
are finding a ready market.
Electric delivery wagons which are
used by restaurants and caterers are
equipped with electric heating devices
TO keep food hot en- route.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-07

enough to be beneficial. He says. "A
large proportion OF people. including
the medical profession, seem to be
uniformed On this most important
phase of the tuberculosis situation"
and he gives some valuable figures rs
the fruit of his own experience and
observation at the well known North
Carolina resort.
AS everybody knows, tuberculosis
is the disease of the many, not of the
favored few the vast majority OF
the sufferers being those who live
from hand to mouth and who can so
i'll afford a suspension Of their daily
labor that the disease usually reaches
an advanced stage-demanding q 5or-
respondingly long period OF treat
ment-before they seek cure that
entails inactivity. It is. too, pre-emi-
nently a disease Of the earlier years
Of productive life, with a MAXIMUM
mortality between the ages of 90 and
80, i. e., it strikes down the wage
Garner who has not yet had time to
make much, il any, provision for such
an emergency.
In estimating the expense of treat
ment at health resort several facts
are commonly overlooked. In the first
place, short stay is generally use
less. Many patients arrive at Ashe-
vile nearly insolvent, expecting to
be cured in a few weeks. wien at
least ten months may be requisite
In such cases the money spent in
travelling expenses could be used TO
much better advantage in home treat
ment. Again, climate is, according to
Dr.. Frazer. the least Important ct all
the factors that maxi for Improve
ment in tuberculosis, and unless sup
ported by the essentials -frasl air,
good food, proper care--the most per-
feet climate must prose valieless.
Good food and care are expansive
Economy in these ess entails may de-
feat the object of the visit. Tits,
while it may be possible to set a
room on the third floJr Of an Ash
vile boarding house, VITA board. for
IS a week, while firstflocr room
costs $40 or $12, the exerti;n Ctclinb-
ing stairs may be more tnan the pa
tient can safely undertake. There
are various extras" OF which the pa
tient perhaps knows nothing until
his arrival. A minimum expense of
500 for a ten months stay is fair
estimate for Asheville.
In view of the number OF people to
whom such an expense is either abso-
lutely prohibitive or certain to be a
crushing burden upon their families,
Dr.. Frazer's figures appear to be a
powerful argument for national
scheme of health insurance even
more far-reaching than that with
which Great Britain is now expert
menting.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-07
EE BRUARY,

February, says the Chicago Post, is
the first month Of spring. although
March has that honor OF man and of
the calendar In this latitude the yege-
tation begins to spring in late Feb
ruary, and if springing is not a sign
OF spring, what is? On Washington
birthday if the man who doubts that
spring has arrived will take walk
% the country that skirts the damp
lowlands at the base of some south
ern slipping hill, he will find the
swamp willows in bud and very likely
the skunk cabbage pointing painted
spear at the sun.
The blackbirds and the meadow
larks reach us in late February. Some
times perhaps a dozen or two of rob
ms will show themselves In this
month, but these first redbreasts,
probably, have been with us all winter
and, therefore, cannot be thought on
as heralds of the spring. Robins &C.
casionally stay all winter among the
cedars If they can get food and shelf
err, they are careless of the cold. The
meadow lark and the crow blackbird
frequently reach the fields in Feb
ruary, and as they have come from
the south it must be that they have
answered the call OF spring.
In February the sun makes itself
felt. Spring is warmth, and the earth
OF our northern fields Is warmed by
the rays of the mounting sun. The
owls get noisy In February. 1t is in
this month that the great horned owls
fancy turns to mating and homestead
ing. The nest Of this owl, with the
mother bird covering the eggs, fire.
quently is found in this calendar
called winter month 1t has been
said many times, but the signs prove
the seasons" February is the first
spring month.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-07

We are glad again--for the
third time in two years--to an
nounce a big reduction on
Goodyear tires, effective Feb
ruary LIST.
Goodyear policy on price Is to
give the utmost in a tire at the
lowest possible profit. Our re-
auctions are made to that end.
without ever reducing the quail
ity.
That always means, with our
matchless output, more for the
money than any other maker
can give.
AS rubber came down our
prices came down. AS our out
put multiplied, reducing factory
cost, our prices came down with
it. In two years our reductions
including the preseht-have
totaled As per cent.
Last year we increased our
output l6.6 per cent. A few days
ago the embargo on rubber was
modified so that supplies seem
assured The market price for
rubber seems for a time estab-
lished. Fabric costs less than
last year. So, under our mini
mum profit policy, we announce
this new reduction.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-07

The farmers who attended the insti-
tute and corn show at Donnellson and
many who we're unable to attend, feel
indebted to The Gate City for giving
such extended reports of the sessions.
The Gate City sent staff representa-
tive to the institute and therefore Sc
cured an accurate and instructive re-
port which was served promptly to
the subscribers of this paper. The
farmers are praising us for our
interest in the meeting. The Gate
City did not depend on its competitors
to furnish the news of the sessions.
but incurred the expense in order to
get a report that real live news
paper should have.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-07
WHO rs GOING
TO HAVE PALESTINE?
At the End Of the Great War the
Country May Belong to the
United States.

TBy H. NJ. Sarle, United Press STAG
Correspondence
: LONDON, Jan. 20. (By mail to New
York. WHO is going to have Pal
estine when the war is oyer? is one
of the questions which is already be-
ginning to worry the allied associa-
ton OF new map makers. and the ra-
sponsive query Shall it be the Unit
ed States?" is receiving more consid.
GRAFTON than at first thought. might
seem possible.
Whatever happens to Germany and
Austria. the allies determined that
Turkey shall be pushed completely on
the map of Europe, and on the great.
er part Of Asia Minor, and there WIN
be rare old scramble for leg por-
tons when the Ottoman bird is
carved.
Certain portions Of the turkey have
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-07

already been hooked. England has
annexed Egypt and Cyprus, and will
almost certainly insist on retaining
that part OF the Persian gulf and
Euphrates valley captured by the Au-
gio-Indian troops. Arabia won't be
much use to anybody, as its inhabit-
government, and anyway, England
ton planted along the route to In
dia. Russia will grab most Of Asia
Minor and northern Persia, and there
Palestine came under Turkish
dominion in 1916, after the war be-
tween the Ottoman sultan and the
Egyptian Mamefukes, and for 300
years the sanguinary quarrels of the
exactiOn Of oriental grafters kept the
preston. In 1910 the power of the
sheikhs was broken and the Turks
began to strengthen their hold, but al
though they have done much for thu
improvement of the country, the blight
OF Ottoman rule still oppressed the
Land of milk and honey" and keeps
lcElllc ipldluS Auu Valleys St0IAS.
At first sight 1t would appear to be
the simplest plan to grant the Zionist's
appeal for Jewish state, but there
are difficulties in the way. II there
were the nuclei Of Jewish admins
tration in the country, it might be
easier, but there are not, and the
Zionist movement has not led to any
great stream OF Jewish immigration.
There has been but little agricultural,
political or other development among
the Jews in Palestine, and the Zion
list leaders were. perhaps, more i'm
PEELED by the desire to restore the an
| cient religion in the holy places.
Right here the christian powers
would object strongly. federation has
never been very marked in Palestine,
but with the Turks in control the
holy places were at least kept by neu-
trails. Neither the Roman Catholics,
Greek orthodox, nor protestant
churches would permit one denomin-
alton to obtain absolute control over
the places which are holy to them all,
and it Is clear that there must be neu-
trail or joint administration. A chris
tian state under British protection,
is England's idea of the solution, on
the GROUND tuat GfeaC bT1taln mas udu
! more experience in governing peoples
of various races and creeds. but the
other nations will naturally protest
that England is grabbing more than
her share Of the plumber.
A neutral state guaranteed BY all
the great powers, order being kept
by, and the guardianship of the holy
place entrusted to an international
igendarmerie, is another suggested So
luton, but recent experiences Of In
iternational control, in Macedonia.
crete, Albania, etc., do not promise
the elimination of friction. Looking
round, then, for an impartial ad-
ministrator, removed from the whir!-
pool Of European politics and relig-
ious squabbles, the powers may ind
no more satisfactory candidates for
the Job that America. 1t is pointed
out that the United States has for
many years taken q leading part in
missionary and educational work In
Asia Minor and no country has dis
played more enthusiasm with less idea
OF personal aggrandisement. Hence
the possibility OF the stars and stripes
waving over Jerusalem is by no means
remote, according to international
dopesters' here.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-07
GAVE TnE oLp ORCHARD.

BEFORE anv farmer cuts down inc
o,d rim down orchard on his place,
which a good many are doing, he will
And II worth while to advise with
en- bort,culturtsts at the experiment
station at Iowa State college. In
new bulletin On orchards, No. 152,
aurenz Greene. station expert. says
that It fs not Impossible to make such
nrchsrds hear profitable crops.
"I, there is a so percent stand o,
trees in good. healthy conditions
go. Mr. Geene. "and IL there Is q
email nercentage in addition that can
-, brought back into bearing by prun.
ins ana the removal of disease,,it Will
10. re undertake the work or reno
pa;ing the old orchard" or course,
M Greene points out, the man VINO