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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-07-03
FEDERAL INDUSTRIAL
COMMISSION
BY Peter Radford.

The recent investigation Of the
United States Commission Of Indus
trial Relations brought together the
extremes of society and has given the
public an opportunity to view the rep
resentatives of distinct classes, side
by side, and to study their views in
parallel columns.
Capital and labor have always been
glaring at each other over CULTS of
misunderstanding and if the Federal
Industrial Commission attempts to
bridge the chasm, it will render the
public a distinct service.
The farmer has been sitting on the
fence watching capital and labor fight
for many years and incidentally furn-
ishing the sinews of war and it is
quite gratifying to find them talking
with, instead of about, each other
When honest men smile and look into
each others souls, it always makes
the world better and far more salts
factory to the farmer, who in the end,
bears the burden Of conflict, than
resolutions, speeches or pamphlets
containing charges and counter
charges.
The love for justice makes the
whole world kin. Understanding is an
arbiter far more powerful than the
mandates of government, for there is
no authority quite so commanding as
an honest conscience; there is no de-
cree quite SO binding as that Of the
Supreme Court of Common Sense and
no sheriff can keep the peace quite SO
perfect as Understanding.
We suppose the time will never
come when capital and labor will not
be occasionally blinded by the light
ming flashes of avarice or frightened
by the thunder peals of discomfort.
But Understanding is a Prince of
Peace that ever holds out the olive
branch to- men who want to do right.
A mans income is always a sacred
thing for in it are the hope, ambition
and opportunity of himself, and fam.
lily, but there is nothing in a humar
heart quite so divine as Justice ant
Understanding is its handmaiden.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-07-03
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
IIl.--JuIius kruttschnitt
On Financing Railroads

tho Legislators and the Commits
sioners.
Managing railroad is quite differ
ent from managing government
where the money is raised by taxa
ton. When the expenditures. for
good reasons or otherwise, increase,
taxes can be equally increased. The
railroads, while servants Of the pub
lie, cannot raise money with such
ease and facility. The railroads must
keep their expenditures within their
incomes because while they have
some control over their expenditures
they have almost no control over their
incomes. their rates being fixed by
public authorities.
There is not a railway manager in
the country today who is not fearful
that under the press Of increasing de-
mands the transportation systems OF
the country will, In few years, break
down, unless the railroads are allowed
to earn larger funds wherewith to
build it up. There are vast sections
Of the country. especially in the West,
where more railroads are needed and
they cannot be built unless the rail-
ways raise new capital.
People invest money In order to
make money, and they are skeptical
as to whether they can make money
by investing in concerns that are dealt
with stringently and unfairly. Rail-
road securities must be made more
attractive to invite investments, and
in order that they may be made more
attractive, the roads must be allowed
earnings that will enable them to
meet the increased capital charges
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-07-03
DARIUS

The neigh of horse made Darius
King Of Persia. the six contending
powers for the throne agreeing among
themselves that the one whose horse
should neigh first should possess the
kingdom. This ancient method Of
settling disputes among politicians
could be revived with profit today.
If our partisan factions and petty pol.
iticials could only settle their dis.
putes by the neigh of a horse, the
bark Of dog or the bray of donkey.
1t would be great blessing and would
give our citizens a better opportunity
to pursue the vocations of industry
free from political strife.
Let those who pick political plums
by raising rows and who fash swords
dripping in the blood of industry un-
derstand that they cannot turn the
public forum into political arena and
by a clash Of personal aspirations
still the hammer and stop the plow
and that their quarrels must be settled
in the back alleys of civilization.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-07-03
A DIVINE COVENANT.

God Almighty gave Eve to Adam
with the pledge that she would be his
helpmeet and with this order Of COM
panionship, civilization has lowered
to it's greatest heights. In this rela-
tionship, God has blessed woman and
man has honored her and after four
thousand years of progress, she now
proposes to provoke God to decoy
man by asking for suffrage, thereby
by amending an agreement to which
she was not party.
Woman, remember that the 1sraelite
scorned divine covenant, and as a
result wandered forty years in the
wilderness without Cod Likewise
man should remember that it is a
dangerous thing to debase woman by
law. Rome tried lowering woman'S
standard and an outraged civilization
tore the clothes off the backs of the
human race and turned them out to
roam in the world naked and un-
ashamed. =
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-07-03

have to say. Mr.. Kruttschnitt, exec
utive head of the Southern Pacific,
has written an article dealing with
the financing of railroads. He said
in part:
'The financing Of a railroad is a
function which the people, through
their servants, the Railroad Commits
sioners and the Legislators, have
never attempted, but it is a most i'm
portant problem, especially to Sec
tions Of State where new railroads
are needed The placing cf securities
has been left entirely with the pro-
moter and owner of railroads.
"The immediate determination of
what earnings the railroad shall be
permitted to receive and what bur
dens it shall have put on it is in the
hands Of other servants of the public
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-07-03
THEMISTOCLES

When Themistocles was asked by
his host at a dinner party to enter
tain the guests by playing the lutte. he
replied that he could not play the
fiddle, but that he could make small
town a great city. We have in this
nation many politicians who are good
"fddlers," but they cannot make 9
small town great city. We are over
run with orators who can play upon
the passions of the people, but they
can't put brick and mortar together.
We need builders.
Let those who hunger and thirst for
power understand that the highest
glory of a statesman is to construct,
and that it Is better for man that he
should build public highway than
that he should become Governor of q
state. and that he start plow than
that he become the author of a law.
The true test of craftsmanship Is the
plow and the hammer, SO let those
who would govern. first build.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-07-03
THE BATTLE Of
THE TIRES

| Agricultural and Commercial Press Service ]
| 1t is interesting to watch the forces
Of civilization battling for supremacy.
The struggle now going on between the
rubber and the iron tire promises to
be the liveliest contest of the Twen-
tieth Century.
The struggle is a silent one and
there are no war correspondents to
write vivid descriptions of the con-
fict but the results are more far
reaching to present and future gen.
erations than the war of Europe.
The rubber tire has been maneuver-
ing for point Of attack for several
years and has captured a few unim-
portant positions in traffic, but it has
now pitched a decisive battle with
Its iron competitor by hurting mil
lion "jitneys" at the street railways
and the battle is raging from ocean
to ocean. Upon the result Of the
struggle depends the future of the
rubber tire. If it is compelled to re-
treat, it's doom is sealed, but if it wins
the battle 1t will revolutionize the
transportation methods of this nation.
II the rubber tire conquers the
street traffic its next struggle is with
the railroads of the country, and then
the greatest battle between economic
forces ever fought out on the face
Of this earth is on, for iron is the un-
disputed master in transportation. and
is fortified behind billions of dollars,
and millions of men.
Stephenson applied the steel tire
to an iron rail in 1914, but it was 1869
before the golden spike was driven
at Promontory Point, which bound
the country together with bands Of
steel. 1t took the iron tire fifty.fve
years to creep from ocean to ocean,
but the rubber tire while warm from
the creative mind of the inventive
genius sped across the continent like
an arrow shot from the bow of Ulys-
ses. The roadbed was already pre-
pared and therein lies the power of
the rubber tire over that of iron, for
government builds and maintains the
public highway.
But iron is a stubborn metal and
1t has mastered every wheel that
turns; has fought battles with every
element above and beneath the earth
and has never tasted the wormwood
Of defeat, and when rubber hurls its
full force against this monarch Of
the Mineral Kingdom, it may rebound
to the factory stunned beyond recov-
cry.
The rubber tire first made its ap-
pearance on the bicycle, but it proved
a frivolous servant and was dismissed
for incompetency, 1t has always been
too much inclined to revel in luxury
to be taken seriously as utility ma
chine snd its reputation e ~: - -
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-07-03

lnsplre III -.o IN ne..,j tramc
performance.
But to those who care to watt into
dreamland, it is enchanting to note
that there will be marvellous differ
ence between a rubber and an iron
age The rubber tire will scatter the
cities throughout the valleys for with
transportation at every mans door,
why city? 1t will traverse the con-
tinent with net work of Macadam
highways as beautiful as the boule-
ward built by Napoleon. 1t will par
alyze the law making bodies of this
nation for how could the legislatures
run without the railroads to operate
on?
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-07-03

The farmers of
this nation need
to become better
acquainted with
the railroad men
and their prob
lens. 1t Is only
those who know
that can give US
information and
the farmers OF
America should
listen attentively
to what the men
who manage rail-
road property
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
TWO APARTMENT
HOUSES OF QUALITY
They Are the Burr-Hami;-
ton and the Oregon on
the West Side.

Under the management of Slawson &
Hobbs are numerous modern apartment
houses, so those persons seeking an
apartment house are likely to find just
what they want by consulting this lead
ing firm. Among two of their attractive
houses are the Burr Hamilton, at the
rorth corner of Riverside Drive and
l14th St, and the Oregon Apartments,
at Seventh av. and saith ST. The Burr
Hamilton is an absolutely freproof and
soundproof structure, arranged in suites
of five, six, seven, eight and nine
rooms, with two and three baths. The
main entrance is on Riverside Drive,
and there is an artistic and elaborate
auxiliary entrance on the street. The
house is on one of the most exclusive
residential avenues on the West Side,
the Riverside Drive section being UNI
der the jurisdiction of the Park Depart
mont.
The Oregon is a modern twelve story
treproOf apartment house of the high
est class. and is within walking dis
tarce Of the shopping, theatre, restau-
rant and hotel centre. The Broadway
surface cars pass the building, and sub
way, elevated and some other transit
lines are very convenient. The suites
are unfinished and equipped for
housekeeping.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
AN INCREASE IN
MANHATTAN JOBS
July Building Report,
However, Shows De
crease in Cost.

The report Of the Manhattan Bureau
of Buildings for the month Of July
shows that plans were filed for fifty
new buildings, costing S4,097 0S0, as
against forty-three, costing $4,605 $50
the same month las. year. thereby
showing an increase Of seven in num-
Der of buildings. but decrease in cost
Of S5O8.27O.
The report further shows that plans
were filed for one dwelling costing $50
coo, against three costing $4,000;
nineteen tenements. costing 81 $4,000,
as against sixteen costing $4,000, 900;
one hotel costing 100000, as against
one costing $185,OO0; eight store and
loft buildings, costing $lAliOOO. as
against five costing $45o,OOO; no office
buildings, as against :wo costing ST.
$4,000 last year; two factories cost
ing $1,000. as against four costing
$500 900; one church costing S2OO,OOo,
as against none: one schoolhOuse cost
ing $500 600. as against none; one mu-
ricipal building costing $1,000, as
against two costing $4,000; .One place
Of amusement costing 100000, as
against three costing sl54,000; twelve
stables and garages costing total of
S122, 080, as against three costing S43,-
COO. and three other structures costing
Sl1. 600. as against four last year cost
ing 81 $50.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
MINEOLA ATTRACTS
BIG STORE KEEPERS
Three Newcomers Own
String of Food Sup
ply Places.

The growing Importance Of Mineola
as a home centre is evidenced this
summer by an increase of three addi-
tional grocery stores in the business
section, which were established to
meet the larger local consumption of
food supplies. Each OF these stores
was established by we'll known cash
dealers who operate chains of stores
in the various borouchs Of New York
City.
The early summer witnessed the
coming of one of these endless chain
grocers, who leased a large store, with
modern front, and who had to pay
a rental premium to get it. Soon one
of his rivals from New York hired
store nearly as large across the street,
al a high rental.
As both Of these dealers proceeded
10 thrive. the third chain store dealer
in groceries at low prices observed
the progress Of the others, so he de-
cided to be a rival and seek some
OF the Mineola trade by opening
store in the same street. Because OF
the few vacant stores IN Nineola and
the inceSsant demand for business
space the third dealer had 10 content
himself with a smaller store than the
others a block distant, and he had TO
pay premium to obtain it, as it was
already rented to another tenant. This
store had an antlquat ID front, which
the new lessee has made as modern as
the store fronts of his rivals.
This rental movement has tended
TO enhance store rentals and lergthen
the terms of leases throughout the
business section of Mineola.
The erection of hundreds of new
dwellings in this the county seat OF
Nassau County has caused further
home building movement, especially in
the Boulevard section, where numer-
Gus plots this week were sold for i'm
provement with substantial villas. The
demand is for the better type OF sub
urban dwellings, which has been &C
centuated by the easy accessibility of
Mineola to and from all parts of Queens
County by trolley roads and the i'm
proved service of the Long Island Rail
road.
Mineola has attracted many new
corners by being adjacent 20 famous
golf links, tennis courts and country
clubs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
INVESTS AT PEEKSKILL
Recent Buyer to Erect Home
on Nelson Estates.

At Peekskill-on-H Hudson a most at
tractive plot has been sold by the Mel
son Estates, Inc, associated with the
Robert +. Farley organization, to Otto
Wuestonhofer, Of Mount Vernon, \. Y,
where he is preparing 20 build a resi-
dence. Mr.. Wuestonhofer's plot is IN
Union Avenue, commanding a me view
of the Hudson River and entrance to
the Highlands.
On the same street and nearly ad-
joining. W. B. Greed. of the firm of
Greed Brothers, lumber dealers, Peeks-
kill, has purchased and also intends
to build very shortly. Charles Miller,
of Peekskill, has added to his holdings
in Nelson Park, on Nelson Avenue.
Plans for three houses. 70 be erected
by the Nelson Estates for the fall mar
ket, are being prepared. The rough
grading on Union Avenue in the Nelson
Estates has been completed, and work
on Depew Street viii commence
shortly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
FINE WASHINGTON
HEIGHTS HOUSE
The Fairfield Occupies One OF
Best Plots in the
Section.

The Fairfield apartment, at 81 Fort
Washington av.. which is in charge u
Kempe & Co.. occupies one of the finest
locations on Washington Heights. The
structure is six stories and fronts on an
avenue lined with tall shade trees.
Every part of the city is easily acces-
sible from the premises.
Among the features of the house are
entrance halls and vestibule finished in
Italian marble. with mosaic floors, per
fectly arranged suites of four and five
rooms and bath and six and seven
rooms and two baths, dining rooms,
living rooms and chambers of unusually
large size, kitchens containing numer-
Gus valuable sanitary appliances and
electric elevators, operated continuous
~ and in charge Of capable and courte-
Gus attendants. Every apartment has
spacious foyer and an abundance of
closet room.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
CRESCENT ST. OWNERS HIT
Court Says They Brought
Their Action Too Late.

After condemnation commissioners
have been appointed and have com
menced taking testimony in a proceed
ing to acquire title to a city street 1t
is too late for property owners to sue
coed in stopping the proceedings, even
though some of them may suffer al
most confscation of their property
from assessment that will be levied IN
the proceeding. This was the decision
handed down last week by the Appel
late Division of the Supreme Court, IN
Brooklyn, in an action to stop the pro-
ceedings for the widening of Crescent
st.. in Long Island City.
Crescent ST. leads from greensboro
Bridge 10 the Hunters Point section
of Long Island City.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
BIG HOME CENTRE
ON JAMAICA BAY
It IS the Howard Beach
Estates. Thirty Minutes
from Broadway.

Ocean front residential sites in or
near New York City have become so
scarce. or been held a such high prices,
that the family of moderate means has
long been unable to enjoy Waterfront,
privileges. In the last two or three
years, however, the development of a
shorefront home community along ia
maica Bay has afforded opportunity for
the salaried man or wage Garner to own
a waterfront home and enjoy the bene-
fits and pleasures of salt water bath
ing, boating and fishing.
This development is the property
known as the Howard Beach Estates,
on the north shore Of Jamaica Bay,
along the Rockaway division of the
Long Island Railway, just thirty min
utes from Broadway. When completed
the Howard Beach Estates will have a
waterfrontage on the bay and private
canals of more than five miles. while
no lot will be more than two and a half
blocks from the water. The improve
ments are Of a permanent character,
including paved streets, cement curbs
and sidewalks. shade trees, city water
and electricity, with gas to be laid
soon. Docks on the canals and a 800
foot fishing pier will afford ready &C
cess to the water. A private bathing
beach, equipped with life lines and
guards, make bathing exclusive and
safe for the residents of the estates
A commodiOus casino is located on the
beach front, where refreshments and
dancing may be enjoyed, while two
miles of asphalt roadway bordering .he
waterways and bay will shortly afford
autOlsts a beautiful waterfront drive.
There are more than forty bungalows
and cottages, all-year homes, now oc-
cupied at Howard Beach, and many
more in process Of erection. Building
operations are 70 be carried on extern
sively this fall, and 1t is expected that
more than one hundred homes will be
erected and established within another
year. Restrictions along reasonable
lines assure the upbuilding Of com
munity OF one-family homes, ranging
in price from 81 800 to $4,000. The es-
tates is thus planned to interest the
man of moderate means, and the lib
eral terms allowed make home owning
easy at this attractive development
The proposed new highway across ia
malca Bay to the Rockaways. shorten
ing the present motor route by twelve
miles, is projected through the Howard
Beach Estate for a distance Of one
and one-half miles. 1t Will border the
mile-long Stilwell Canal. which bisects
the estates. Conduit Parkway, 70 be
built across greensboro by the city,
will also cross the estates.
Frederick W. Kavanaugh. banker and
manufacturer of Waterford, n. Y. is
president of the Howard Estates De-
velopment Company. and with him are
associated several prominent business
men Of New York City and state NJ.
Kavanaueh Is an optimist and a firm
believer in the future of waterfront.
property IN New York City.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
An East 57th St. Deal.

Pease & Gilman have sold for the
Ess Eff Company, Scion L. Frank, presl-
dent. the two three story stables. SO
and 15S East 57th St, on a lot 50xl00.5
feet. situated on the south side of 57tn
st., between Lexington and Third avs,
and almost directly opposite the Fourth
District Courthouse. II is the first
sale in this block in many years and
is particularly interesting in view of
the large volume of traffic which now
uses 57th ST. in going TO and from the
greensboro Bridge 1t will probably
be improved with a modern building
on the expiration OF the present lease.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
GOOD SUBURBAN BUSINESS
E. H. McWhorter Says Fall
Outlook Is Bright.

Suburban operations are reported TO
be more satisfactory than last year.
+. H. McWhorter, president of the
Brentwood Realty Company, sums up
the real estate market conditions as
follows: "All suburban operators are
recovering from the period of depres-
sion which recently hit the local market.
The outlook for very active fall sea-
son is bright. New York City and its
surroundings lead the country in build
ing operations. Bankers are foretelllng
a wave of good business. The farmers
are rejoicing az lumper wheat crops.
In fact, everything seems TO point 10
a regeneration Of confidence and bust
ness. Real estate in its turn ought to
absorb some benefit from this slim
illus"
In the suburban field Suffolk County
reports promising sales. The demand
at Brentwood Park, particularly, has
been brisk and steady.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
To Erect 100000 House

Plans have been filed with Building
Superintendent Ludwig for the con-
struction of twelve story freproof
apartment house on the west side of
Park av.. between 5Oth and 51st SITS.
II will have frontage of zoos feet
and a depth Of 70 feet, with a facade
or brick and limestone in French Re
naissance style Ii will contain apart
ments Of three. seven and nine rooms
on each floor. with the servants bed
rooms on the entrance floor, and there
will be four elevators. The Park Ave
nue. Improvement Company. Inc, Harry
Fischel president, is the owner. War
rem Wetmore are the architects and
have placed the cost at 100000
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
INNOVATION IN BUILDING
First Dancing Studio School in
City To Be Built.

The building 10 be erected for Louis
H Chalf, the Russian dancing teacher,
at 1863 and l65 West Fifty-seventh
Street will be novel. G. A. & H. Boehm,
who have drawn the plans, say it will
he the first large building to be built
for use as a dancing studio school in
this city.
The building will occupy a plot 30
by 100 feet, will be five stories high
and will be freproof 1t will contain
studios for classical and ballroom dane
ing and kindred arts, with a roof gar
Gen dancing floor, many dressing rooms,
Offices and two elevators. The upper
floor will be used by Mr. Chalif and
family as a residence. On the second
floor will be a private ballroom, elab-
crately decorated in Russian Byzan-
tine stvlc.