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Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06
Chance for Commissioners to Make Good

through ruling OF the
nal tax levy parks city commissioners appear to
be worried the of having something
lures TINS year 1t has been suggested that this placed
IN the banks at banks will
III turn loan the needy at to 20 per cent.
With this of ready money sight there is great
opportunity for the what
claimed to be wanting do place hundreds work on
public improvements This the unepoved
question far Denver make times
'o the merchants Nobody would kick except the twenty members
OF the m1snamed Taxpayers League" collect
rents IRON the workers and merchants who in pay
nan million dollars, of do
DUTY IN necessary work would people happy Puttin i
IN banks with expectation Of lowering next wear or the
year after won't help the Paw it out in wages
and every and child will receive direct
immediate benefits. - ~ u'i ~ any
Here grand chance for Perkins Pitcher Thum Hunter and
Misb to make good with majority the people and prove
in what they have been saying to give
a were only deferred from doing by funds was really
It IS needed and where it will do the good
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06
Time to Call Halt on Court Persecution

Public opinion is strongly against further persecution
union officials and miners who participated the disastrous
coal strike The verdict rendered by acqun
strikers of murder charges makes this fact plain required
six weeks and expenditure of money jury
which after the evidence all the
talent ever brought together Colorado criminal had
exhausted themselves took
in which to prepare a verdict guilty
This should the coal that further attempts
to railroad the galows pentenary
viii nmdate and keep their employees from joining the
hopeless About
the courts crowded that the legislature
called judicial districts the burden
taxation accommodate apparent
III the methods being pursued by the coal companies
1he Colorado Fuel and Iron
this respect and young John D. hurry up his
promised investigation trip before his
exhausted for reckless
present employees Some Of the United Mine Workers
have high dozen indictments hanging heads
charged with crimes they heard papers were
served. ~ rf' 49,
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06
WHAT ARE THEY UP TOT

There is considerable complaint heard from
railroad boys especially engineers, over the eff
ciency tests they being subjected to now by
spoilers or whatever title they have on the pay
rolls OF the railroads. 1t will be remembered that
Chef Stone OF the Engineers complained of this
practice before the investigation now going on in
Chicago. 1t is said the +. p is the chief in this
work, with the Burlington, Rock Island and San
Ia Ia re and other Eastern railroads a close second
me R1o Grande and Colorado & Southern are
also said to be giving the engine men a taste Of
tnis high lie to some extent While there is no
question OF the right of the roads to keep their
employees right up to snuff in their duties for the
safety OF the public it should not be carried too
far as IS charged heard OF case on the u. p
where an expert jumped out from the weeds along
the track and gave the big hold" signal which
causes the engineer to throw on all emergency n,
stop l he engineer obeycd and stopped the train
50 quick that several hundred dollars worth ,,f
dishes in the dining car were broken and many
passengers bruised and shaken up. / suppose
they then tried to fire the engineer or make MIN,
pay the damages for obeying orders. At another.
time the same thing was tried just as train was
entering the city limits in the morning and the
sleepers were full of people dressing. but the en-
gIneer realized what he had behind him ard
stopped ordinarily thereby saving many from n
severe shaking up at least if not more serious in
Jury. They tried to have him fired The "Vule
q pictures shown at "a movie house in this tity
was said to be insult to trainmcn as K
depicts them all as drunkards. 1t is understood
n - '->,>>>-
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06

the Southern Pacific furnished the train for She
making of the pictures and stood the expeusc.
Many are of the opinion that the roads have com
bined to harrass their into getting the public
to aid the roads in their fight for increased rates
and adopt this method OF getting action Others
say the idea is to weed of the service he men
who arc prominent in the railroad brotherloods
and make the leading fights for better con Iitons
and living rights. To me it looks like title Of
both and somebody is blundering who sh ,,;d
have better sense. Persecution OF employees will
never bring the results desired and may turn
out opposite. The general public believe that
engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen are
as whole careful and considerate ans. risk their
lives every day to preserve the property of the
companies, and safeguard the lives OF those who
travel. They are all good citizens and respected
IN the communities where they live. and are en-
TITLED to the pleasures and Joys the same as other
human beings. and if the great general public get
to believe they are being harrassed for IN liter
ior purpose. some general managers may have
many bad hours over the dividend and INTERESTING
problems.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06
THE LORDS WAY

When James A. Garfield was president
OF Oberlin college a man brought for
entrance as a student his son. for whom
he wished a shorter course than the reg.
ular one.
The boy can never take all that in.y
said the father. He wants To set
through quicker. Can you arrange it for
him?' r.
-'Oh. yes" said Mr.. Garfield @ITc can
take a short course; it all depends on
what yon want to make of him When
God wants to make an oak he takes n
hundred years. but He only takes two
months to make a squash. ."-Ladies'
Home journal
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06

The dry" wave spreading over th,
country has begun to have disastrous nf-
feet upon manufacturers OF Intoxicating
beverages. 1t hit kentucky a few days
ago when the Mattingly & Moore Distill-
ing company and +. G. Walker Distil.
ing company, two OF the oldest concerns
OF the kind in that state. filed volnn-
tary petitions in bankruptcy in United
States district court. The Mattinply
& Moore company lists its liabilities at
s2S9,939 and assets s204,394. The +. G..
Walker company schedules liabilities OF
$llO,252; assets, S0l.77O
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06

Henry c. Bolsinger. representative in
the house from Gilpin county. is con-
fined in the insane ward of the County
hospital. How he happened to beat the
honorable" Alphonse PerciyaI ArdoureI
Of treason" notoricty to it is pulling
some OF the apparently sane legislators
on the hill
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06

After January /, 1916, only four
ounces of whiskey can be secured by one
person on physicians prescription and
no wholesale or retail drug store can
have on hand at any time liquors
amounting to more than one per cent of
the entire stock of goods This il the
substance of the law enacted by the
Colorado legislature and signed by Cow
ernor Carlson this week to enforce state
wide prohibition.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06
HOGS AND HOMINY

a Greensboro, \. G.. paper has the
following apt comment on soaring cost of
living: Durham. N. c. is making a
Kick about hog pens being within ZOO
feet Of dwelling houses. With bacon
selling at four thousand dollars side
and ordinary hams requiring bond
issue to float one. the man with hog
ought to sleep with him under his iii,
to hogs" ~
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06

There will be no gerrymander bills
passed at this session of the Legislature.
The attempt of State Senator Peterson
to .shelve Congressman Ed Kcatng by
subtracting Democratic counties from
the Third district and adding Republican
strongholds thereto has been quietly
chloroformed by the committee. at suq-
gestion of Democrats who threatened
other reprisals.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06
THE GUTTER
By ROBERT W. SERVICE

When you're lost in the Wild. and YOU 're
scared as child,
And death looks you bang. in the eve
And you're sore as a boil, it's according
to Hoyle
To cock your revolver and-die.
But the code of Man, says: Fight all
you can,"
And self-dissolution is barred.
In hunger and Woe, oh, it's easy to
It's the hell-served- for breakfast that ;
hard.
you're sick of the game." Well nov,
that's a shame.
2 You're young and you're brave and
you're bright.
You've had raw dealt" I know, but
don't squeal,
Buck up, do your damndest, and fight
It's the plugging away that will win
You the day,
So, don't be a piker, old pard!
just draw on your grit; it's easy to
quit:
It's the keeping-your-chin-up that's
It's easy to cry that you're beaten--and
die;
It's easy to crawfish and crawl;
But to fight and to fight when hopes
out of sight
Why that's the best game of them
ALI
And though you come out of each CRU
elling bout
All broken and beaten and SCARED.
Just have one more try-it's dead easy
to die,
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06

Since the Rockefeller Foundation was
established in March. 1914. $6,397 ,6O4 "a
has been expended for Belgians, Colleges,
Y. NJ. c. A. projects, medical research
in South America and China; purchase
of a refuge for migratory birds and
hook worm work in Central America
British Guiana, British West Indies and
Egypt This munificent total includes
an expenditure OF $50 donated to the
Working Women's Protective Union OF
New York. Please don't overlook the
latter item and compare it with the
worms and insects.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06

Weather Forecaster +. II. Branden-
burg has gone over records of the local
weather bureau for the past eighteen
years and finds that the sun has shone
in Denver on an average of 1852 days out
OF the 365 every year during that period
1t is certainly privilege to live in Colo
RADIO when nature puts ON such an OPP
timistIc smile all the while
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06

The German budget commission ans
nounces that out Of IL 900 male high
school teachers in the country 1000 are
serving in the army, while nearly ha;r
the high school pupils over IL years of
age have entered the military service.
An awfnl toll, this, on the future man
hood of the German empire
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06
MORE CANDIDATES COMING

O,,;to
Guite number of new candidates are men
toned for the city commissionerships. Dr. II n
Martin Martin wants to preside social welfare boss
mayor PERKINS says he won't run apan In add
ton to Martin, several other prominent pbvs;c;srs
are liig up for try for that place as Il seems 10
De understood that because the coroner's lob i
ayI t,,l tne autIes the medical fraternity claim Il
trimming their new spring bonnets So as =, q,
wei with the place, among then, Ellis Mcredtl
nc" now election commissioner. c. A. hammers Of
by his friends to get into the race for one ~ ~
o.ncr : places. hear that Marshall b. Smith cx.
n ra,iroad :, man now receiver Of the Denver & Lar
l.;cs =. sa',roaa and prominent in Republican poll
commissioner 1t is also said that Halstead RI.
.; tsr who made such showing in the recall cleo lee
,v v,1 Is to be in the RAGE for Of the places.
with wy strong backing. And there are n,auv III.
crs also mentioned In fact. the political words
are sa,a to be full Of willing BarIs, whom Il will
not take rain Of shells get out and into action
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06
10Th CENTURY KNowLEpcF

''How useless girls are today don't
believe you know what needles are for."
How absurd you are. grandma" pro-
tested the girl "Of course know what
needles arc for. They're to make the
graphaphonc play" Louisville journal.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06
WANT TO CUT 1T OUT.

Inc SOCIALIST party organization oi Denver
through its committee. A. c. GaIland. Iesse Vet
ter, Fred underhill, Marshall De Wit, and Mrs
Emma Langdon, are circulating petition for an
amendment to the city charter, to be voted upon
IN May to permit the nomination by political par
ties OF candidates for city Offices and doing away
with the preferential system of voting for can
ddates that we now have Without doubf
signatures will be secured place the proposition
on inc ballot The committee makes the state
nent that political parties are 4 nccess ssity and
were commissioners elected on party platforms
they would have something to stand on and some
substantial backing. instead of conductino Offices
only according TO their own personal views The
cite iigures TO show that OF the present com
missioners received majority vote of the elertor.
ana none received more than u per cent of the
total iirst choice votes. believe that the promo
sition TO do away with the cumulative voting svs
TEN should and will pass as il is hard TO find ,n,n
that favor IT. want to congratulate the Social.
Isl people OF Denver for having the good sense To
take up this matter and hope they will work hard
20 nave IT adopted. II is reform that has not
reformed and to my mind it in no wav permits
full and free expression of the voter One vot.
tor one candidate is enough for any one and .,
tnat way only can the candidate desired by the
people generally be selected. Many candidates
under the present system only get into the field
through the hope that the voter will be careess =,
nestowing his votes aside from the first Choice
'na mus tney may have chance. This was shown
Painiy IN the recall election when candidates with
bare thousand first choice votes ran IN beyond
the 10000 mark IN the totals AS far as aiIow;po
political parties to make nominations. / doub,
whether they could be prevented under III. ,,r.s
ent charter AT any rate they can endorse. or do
tac'tiy. which amounts to the same thing. There
IS SAID to be number of other IDEAS helm.
prepared by other interests that will be submit
ted that would make a great change in The 49,
ent scheme One OF these provides for an increase
from five to seven commissioners. will, mav,,r
elected IN, addition. the commissioners to cpmc
.on separate districts. and reaIignmcnt Of the
duties OF some OF the commissioners now boId;nm
Al indications point to real lively election.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06
THE HOT END OF THE poKER

one OF the interesting developments at th,.
eapitol this week was the announcement in The,
News tnat Governor Carlson has appointed com
Ger are members. whose duty it is to inyestra,e
@ tne political convictions of those people who have
taken the civil service examinations and have Yo,
pos,1'ons on the eligible list. am reminded that
hurried passage OF an act taking out of the oner
aI'on OF the civil service laws about one hundred
employees. And also that his more or less Excel
,,;" 'ne governor very promptly gave this act
,ewel Some civil service experts these. I th;nl
tnat brother Carlson picked up another hot r,t.r
when ne started after the scalp of Henry H;cIs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-03
TO TAKE UP CUDCELS
FOR CITY OWNERS
Allied Interests Say They
Are Worried About Fire
Alarm Notices.

According TO the Allied Real Estate
Interests, owners of real estate are
needlessly exercised over the notices
they have been receiving lately from
the Fire Department, referring to the
installation of interior fire alarm sys-
tens.
In speaking of this matter yester-
day, Allan Robinson, president of the
Allied Real Estate interests, said:
Notices about interior fire alarm sys-
TENS which are being sent out by the
Fire Department are in different form
from the ordinary notices and orders
of the department. 1t is quite rea-
sonable to assume that there is a
ground for this difference. The in
terror fire alarm notices call the at
tontion of owners 10 the provisions Of
the state labor law requiring the in
stallation of such alarms in factory
buildings more than two stories in
height, where more than twenty-five
persons are employed above the grade
floor. A violation of this law is, as
stated in the notice, technically mis-
demeanor, but it cannot be assumed
that any enforcing authority would
take drastic action in case where
the real need for an interior fire
alarm is not apparent In fact, | be-
lieve the experience of many owners
shows that there will seldom be any
difficulty on the part of any owner
who desires a reasonable extension OF
time.
1.-THE Allied Real Estate Interests
would be glad 20 take up specific cases
relating 10 alarm systems with the de-
partment where owners think they are
being unduly pressed. The law as 1t
stands is unnecessarily oppressive.
There is certainly no need of an IN
terror fire alarm system where auto
matte sprinklers have been installed,
and | believe we can secure the CO.
operation of the city officials IN an
attempt TO obtain a modification of the
law. at least to the extent of relieving
owners from the necessity OF installing
such systems where they have already
the sprinklers. am in hopes that
the law can be still further amended
so as 10 obyiate the necessity Tor inc
installation Of interior fire alarm sys-
tens EXCEPT in certain speclhc cases
T. Is the opinion Of our experts VINO
have looked into the matter that the
operation OF a fire alarm system IN
certain factory buildings will do more
harm than good. In many cases the
real danger comes from panic, and not
from the fire itself, and the operation
Of a FIRE alarm system where employees
are not susceptible 20 the same kind
~ training as school children might,
and in the opinion of the experts re-
tered 20 would. tend 20 cause panic,
abo.bar there was o fire or not"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-03
PROMINENT MEN TO
ATTEND DINNER
Mayor Mitchell Among the
Speakers al Queens
Chamber Affair.
DATA OF BOROUGH
FOR MENU CARD
Will Contain Figures of Its In
duStrial Growth in the
Last Five Years.

The fourth annual dinner OF the
Chamber Of Commerce of the Borough
of Queens. which will be held on
Wednesday evening January -, at the
Waldorf, will be one Of the biggest din
ners Of business men Of New York
City this winter. The dinner commit
tee is greatly pleased by the many
reservations which have been made for
the occasion.
County Judge Burt Jay Humphrey,
who is chairman of the dinner com
mittee, announced yesterday the fol-
lowing speakers and guests:
Mayor Mitchell, William {. Redheld,
Secretary of the Department of Com
merce; W. Morgen Shuster, former
Treasurer General of Persia; Justice
Frederick +. Crane, George McAneny,
President of the Board of Aldermen;
Edward +. Mccall. chairman of the
Public Service Commission; Maurice h.
Connolly, President of the Borough OF
Queens; F. J. II. Kracke. Bridge Com
missioner; william A. Marble, presi-
dent of the Merchants Association OF
New York: Lawrence VI. ID. Mcclure
president of the Real Estate Board of
New York; Milo r. Maltbie, Public
Service Commissioner; j. Sergeant
Cram, Public Service Commissioner
and Robert c. Wood, Public Service
Commissioner.
The secretary Of the chamber has
prepared the following data. which will
be printed on the menu card for the
occasion, showing the industrial and
commercial development Of Queens
Borough:
/. Queens ranks seventeenth in the
United States and fourth in the State
of New York in the value of its man
ufactured products. being exceeded in
that respect by only the Boroughs of
Manhattan and Brooklyn and the City
of Buffalo.
.. Estimated value of manufactured
products for 1914 is S225,000,000 The
value Of same increased from S35.427,-
600 in 1899 to s151 $4,000 in 1909.
8. Estimated number Of factories in
1914 is approximately LOO Number
of factories increased from 395 in 1899
to al in 1909.
4. Capital invested in manufacturing
increased from SGT 100000 in 1899 to
S145,307, 900 in 1909.
>. Salaries paid by factories in
creased from S1,264,0O0 in 1899 20 $i,-
100000 i'm 1909.
6. Estimated number Of employees IN
1919 is 10000. This number increased
from 1860 in 1904 10 27,495 in 1909.
:. Queens Borough has over two
hundred miles of waterfront.
8. Industrial directory Of New YORK
State for 1912 shows 10 different
lines Of manufacturing in the Borough
of Queens.
9. Queens has the largest gas pro-
ducing plant in the world; one Of the
largest copper refining plants, electric
vehicle factories, sugar refining plants,
auto service plants, bag manufacturing
plants and enamel ware plants IN the
United States.
10. Attractions for new industries IN
Queens include location, rapid transit
facilities, nearness TO largest market
in the world, good roads. ample labor
supply, best housing facilities, cheap
ness Of land. railroad facilities-in-
Guiding New York Connecting Railroad,
barge canal and freight terminal facll-
tiles and metropolitan freight rates.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-03
BUSY STUDYING
TAX METHODS
MAYORS Committee Was Named
Last April to Undertake Big
Municipal Task.

The Mayors taxation committee was
appointed In April. 10 is busy studying
methods Of taxation in use here and
in other cities in this country and
abroad.
The committee, which is a voluntary
one. is composed OF Alfred +. Marling
Robert S. Binkerd, George Cromwell
Frank Harvey Field, John y. Francolinir
Frederick &. Howe, Hamilton Holt
Jeremiah W. jerks, Walter Lindner
Frederick G. Leubuscher, Cyrus C.
Miller. Louis II. Pink, David Rumsey
Oscar r. Seitz, Robert +. Simon, +. r
A. Seligman, f. 5. Tomlin, Delos n
Wilcox, Lawson Purdy, Charles 7,
White, John J. Halleron, Collin Wood
ward, Ardolph L. Kline, Frederick b
Shipley and George V. Mullin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-03
COL. RUPERT A BIG
BUYER OF REALTY
The Gramont Apartment and An
mex Among His Manhattan
Purchases Last Year.

Colonel Jacob Rupert was one Of the
largest buyers in 1914 Of improved
properties in Manhattan. HIS pur-
chases represented an outlay OF many
hundred thousands. As many OF ms
Investments OF this character were
features OF the trading in the local
real estate market, some weeks after
the outbreak Of the European war. they
tended 20 scatter much OF the pessim-
ism then in the paths OF builders and
buyers.
Colonel Rupert recently bought the
Gramont apartment house and the era
mont annex. az the northeast corner OF
esth St. and Broadway. from the era
mont Holding Company, through KICK
& Sharrott. The apartment houses
were held at Sl,50O,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-03
BETTER TIMES COMING
Treacy Expects to See an I'm
provement Soon.

P. s. Treacy, in commenting on the
real estate market for the new year,
said yesterday:
al consider the outlook in building
and real estate in this city TO be for
the better. Early In the year 1915 |
expect 20 see an improvement in con-
ditions."