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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-03
NC EXPENSE FOR
cR.PPLEDSySTEM
tn Alarm. Constantly Giving
,.ouble. is Proving Costly to City
of Rock Island.
ar NAN BUSY ALL TIE TIME
Service is the Best That is Be-
,,r Secured From Device In
called Less Than a Year Ago.

When the former administration of
:. ci,v Of Rock Island installed
,,sce alarm system manufactured by
eastern company a year
apparently saved about $500
:. ,he cost. The system cost $500.
- of the Gamewell company was
'.-,s.hing more than $4,000.
~ city officials have reached the
.,cIasion that the city is out more
IAN the $500 in attempting to keep
:, system in order. and that the city's
.-,erience is proof that low priced
.,pipulent is not always the most
rauomical purchase.
vincent Murphy, electrician of the
,,lice and fire departments, is COM
Sled to spend most Of his time keep
!, alarm equipment in order. Not
,ly does the city get at best a Grip
Id service, but it is costing a good
sum to get even that sort of serv-
l. II is said that about the only
|sirg that is in order is the wiring
nj was done under city supervision.
mere are AZ alarms and report boxes.
.sked today how many are ordinarily
gt Of commission one police depart
asnt official promptly replied forty
|sven."
There is a recording device in con-
], action with the station receiving
hard, This device has never operat-
4 satisfactorily, and it is in the re-
| ,sr shop more than it is connected
| nth the desk. And even when it is
IN the board it never gives perfect
sriee.
One circuit or another is continu-
/ sly out OF commission. Patrolmen
IRE daily reporting that they can not
hear or make themselves heard over
the telephones which are part of the
ystem, and there is constant I'M
gleasantness between the desk officers
and the patrolmen on the beats as a
result. The efficiency of the depart
nent is seriously affected.
Even Clock Stops.
Even the clock at headquarters is
source Of trouble. 1t stops fire.
laently, and only heavy electric bat
isy power keeps it going at all
Every few days the electrician has tc
| 9end several hours remedying
trouble in the receiving board.
Rock Island made a contract with
be manufacturing company which il
vas thought would fully protect the
ity but officials say now that because
recent developments in the affairs
d the company it will not be pos
lhe for the city to successfully seeI
Increment Of its guarantees. 1t is
'sported that the Gamewell people
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-03
Notice OF Award of Contract.

Notice is hereby given that the
board of local improvements of the
city of Rock Island, ILL.,, at a meeting
held on the LIST day of February, 1916,
did award the contract for the con-
struction of local improvement of
Twelfth street from Eighteenth ave-
nue. south to the junction with Ninth
street, to the Mccarthy Improvement
company, on its proposal as follows:
brick paving, S1.90 per square yard,
curb, 40c per foot, grading, zoe per
cubic yard.
WILLIAM McCONOCHIE,
President of board of local improve
ments. Rock Island, Ill. Feb 2, 1916.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-03

land Woman's club, deeply deplore her
apparently untimely death and bow in
humble submission before the Divine
Will, feeling assured that He who
rules over our destiny doeth all things
well, and be it further
Resolved, That we extend our
heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved
husband and relatives and assure them
that her memory will long be cher
ished among us, and be it further
Resolved, That a copy Of these reso-
lutions be sent to the bereaved hus-
band and family and also recorded on
the records Of the department.
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS"
All the news all the time-The Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-03
CONSTIPATION DJLLS
TIL edge Of HEALTH
Vne Of IA Series OF TALKS on Health
Oy Rock Islands Leading Druggists

By EMIL {. BURKE. Pharmacist.
Health is wealth. No man is too
poor to own it. None is rich enough
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-03
Frank Fl Head TO David Don. lot 2

Frank H. Head to David Don, lot 2,
block 10, Old Town, Rock Island,
$4,000.
CAMEL and Romalie Vermuelen to
Henry Tanghe, lots 80, "a, 30, block
Isl, East Moline, $40.
Herman A. and Minnie Liedtke to
Mary E. Lundquist, lots 7 and s, block
&c, Sixth addition, Silvis, $100
Lars P. and Nellie Nelson to Robert
B. and Grace A. Newell, part lot Z,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-03
ON COUNTY RECORDS
Warranty Deeds.

Amelia E. Grotegut to William II.
Christison. lot II, block "a, Prospect
Park addition, Moline, $500.
Charles E. Radden and wife TO
George and Bessie Z. Maskell. lot /.
Charles E. Radden's third addition,
East Moline, s100.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-03
Bids.

Bids will be received at the mayors
office until 10 O'Clock a. ~, Feb. s,
1916, for furnishing the city of Rock
Island with sulphate of alumina until
April l, 1919. City uses approximately
20 tons per month.
JOHN A. MURRIN, +
Commissioner of Public Property.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-03
Her Fear.

Nervous Old Lady (as train stops
suddenly)-What's the matter? Train
man-There's 200 foot embankment
here, and a whole train just rolled
down it. Nervous Old Lady-Oh. DEAR
l hope It wasn't ours.-Judge.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-03

All the news all the time-The Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-03

hears of c. F. Mueller's assessors plat
of W. so acres of N. " N. E. Il sec
ton 6-17-1W, $1.00.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-03

All the news all the time - The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-03

10 Duy IL. EVeTyb BODY
is endowed with it in
youth. Abuse Nature
and you lose per
haps for all time.
c n s tipation is
health's worst enemy.
1t makes work for
the undertaken and
florist. 1t has sent
countless thousands
to their last resting
place. Constipation
and West Baden
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

having given an authoritative hand
book to the section in which has lain
the chief field of Investigation
Mrs. Bailey's Handbook Of the Birds
of the Western United States" is now
in its fourth edition. the ~tandard au-
thority upon it's subject and the main
pathological textbook in most OF the
western universities. Although she
does not give the impression of being a
robust woman Mrs. Bailey has spent a
large part of every summer for many
years in field work in tine west. She
has Travelled from Vancouver to Mexi-
CO, living months for a time in Utah.
Arizona. Texas. New Mexico and can
fornia. making her studies of the birds
of each section.
The las few summers she has passed
in California, North Dakota and Ore
gon. n she Is now sending the re-
suits OF many of her later held expe-
ditions to the leading pathological
magazines Of this country. the scien-
tifc AUX and Condor and the popular
Bird Lore publishing many OF her arti-
cles. She refers with especial pleasure
to one summer long ago spent in field
work VIA Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller.
whom , re-; ADDS as a beloved elder
Born an cd Cd in the east. n with
her home ior many past years In
Washington. Mrs. Bailey is as familiar
with the birds of the east as any other
ten much Of them. To a recent caller
she gave a short talk regarding the
winter care of the little winged
visitors.
birds we had in former years. when
Washington nae groves. large and
small, Of oaks and other trees in almost
every part Of town. but there 10 .
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Mrs. ATIEE PofEgENE Wife OF
SENATOR PGNERINE OF NLO. OF
eulslTDEN ANCESTRY.

among his royal lot of forbears Thi-
bault, brother of Rollo the Viking, the
first Duke Of Normandy.
Mrs. Lincoln Dixon, whose husband,
Representative Dixon of North Vernon,
Ind, is a member of the ways n
means committee, laughingly refers to
herself as a 'ffty-niner because her
husband was first a m of the
Fifty-ninth Congress. She is a pro-
gressive college bred woman n much
interested in college clubs for the adj
vancement of students, and in all
phases of politics. She is familiar with
every nook and corner of her husbands
district, and can talk crops and politics
as volubly with the farmers as she
can discuss Latin prose composition
and modern literature with the high
brows.
From her great-grandfather. Col.
John Vawter, who founded the town
in which h lives, h inherited a
love of all public affairs. Col. Vawter
very remarkably combined the three
learned professions of divinity, law and
politics., and was a success in each,
leaving his mark in the state as a
lawyer, preacher and politician. 1t was
through this maternal ancestor that
Mrs. Dixon descended from the Nor
mar barons of de Valletort, who were
sturdy supporters of William the Con-
queror at the battle of Hastings, and
were later in the twelfth century un-
der King Henry I granted the barony
of Harberton.
They intermarried with the great
families of England and France, and
as early as the seventeenth century
the name began to change from Calle-
tort to Walter, and finally to Vawter.
where it appears in the records at
Plymouth, in England. In this record
is a quaint account of the sale of some
of the lands of the family in which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

E7HERE is a splendid movement
these days in the direction Of q
fuller and finer study of nature.
< and a desire for knowledge about
tie birds OF the country is one of the most
pleasing phases OF the study. In WASH
,nSto,l there resides a woman who stands
among the leading scientists familiarizing
the people of the United States with the
birds Of the land.
Mrs. Florence Merriam Bailey comes
naturally by her taste and talent for
natural history, for she is the younger
sister OF Prof. c. Hart Merriam, one Of
Americas most distinguished and YER
satile men OF science an ethnologist,
biologist and paleontologist. for many
years chief of the United States bio
logical survey. and now conducting
chronological and biological investiga-
tions under a special trust fund for
original scientific investigation. Also.
she is the wife OF a scientist, her hus-
band being DR.. Vernon Bailey, chief
ield naturalist of the United States
biological survey.
IL was. however. her father. Clinton
l. Merriam. a former representative
from New York, from whom Mrs. Bal
ley received her first impetus toward
the real study of natural history. for
he encouraged every early Inclination
In that direction and nodded circum-
stances for the continuance of her sci
entihc work after she had left college
rad had determined to take up orni-
thology as a life study
Mrs. Bailey ranks only second to Mrs.
Olive Thorne Miller, regarded as the
leading woman ornithologist OF the
United States and what Frank NJ.
Chapman has done for the east, Mrs
Bailey has done for the west, each
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can secrete themselves and pounce
down upon their innocent prey.
X
In the cities cats and EnSllsh spar
rows are the greatest enemies OF bird
life, We can do almost nothing with
the English sparrow, n little TO
guard against cats. I would faVor a
license for cats. which would greatly
diminish the number of unfed alley
cats that must hunt for their living
In the absence of this provision we
can make only such substitutes as are
available. There is a kind of wire
fencing. flexible at the top, over Wnicn
pussy cannot climb. and there is a new
garbage can top which cannot be re-
moved by the stray ima wnlch
make their nightly pe~regrinations
through the private yards seeming
what they may devour.
Those who live in the suburos OF a
city can do quite a lot of interesting
bird work. Many varieties Of bros
from the n~eighboring woods VIII come
to be fed if food and water are
larly set out for them. and the iittie
visitors will more than repay the slight
trouble entailed. There are hundreds
of coveys of quail near Wasnlhg.on
which can be looked after; they have
increased materially WITHIN the last
few years. since they have been FED by
the police patroling the outskirts Oh
the city.
THE porch-sleeping habit is a sood
thing il one is developing an interest,"
in ornithology. The birds usually MI
CRATE at night, and one can often near
them. A friend who sleeps out OF doors
recently heard a flock of wild geese ny
ing south over her porch. and from my
w | can see and hear many OF the
birds as they migrate. From our WIN
dows here / have noted over hity spe-
cies of birds. and 1 have seen many
more of which 1 have made no note.
"A wren and a bluebird built close TO
our home year after year in a small
grove Of oaks, but since the trees We're
cut down they have deserted us. We
have some purple grackles this 1all
that come daily for the crumbs thrown
out to them. A little song sparrow
came every day for his food. but one
morning We found his bones on the
doorstep. a sad little memento a cat
had left us of our songster.
"A great many chimney swifts have
their roosts in Washington mney
Early in October they visited the city
by thousands. and one could see them
gathering toward evening from all
parts of town and swarming about the
big stacks of the great buildings
As to planting for the birds, one can'
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great deal which can be lone by the
people to keep those we still have and
to bring back some of those which
have deserted. l should advocate the
organization of bird clubs both in and
out of school-in other cities as well
as in Washington. Bird clubs do no
more for the pleasure and benefit OF
the birds than they do for that of its
Especially as winter approaches
much can be done for the preservation
of a city's birds. II people who have
trees would build houses for them. the
them. and IL they would set up the
little bird tables or shelves near a win
dow or door. or against a tree, and
place food daily upon them. the birds
would come regularly for meals.
"A Washington man who has lone
this finds that the birds return season
after season. One catbird comes every
year to his tables to find food for its
young. Winter feeding is one of h
best methods Of bringing about a
friendly relation between birds and
human Ind
Asked what were satisfactory winter
foods, Mrs. Bailey replied: Birds are
especially fond of cracked nuts of all
kinds: hickory. black walnut, peanut
and cocoanut meats are easily provided,
and all small grains. with shreds OF
meat, fat and suet and cut-up apples,
are all ~favorite tit-bits. There should
be. too. a shallow dish of fresh water
daily for them to drink from and battle
in.
when public fountains and drinking
pools are frozen ortdry city birds SUI
Ter for want of water. But let water
receptacles be placed in the open, Tor
II they are secluded in shrubbery caes
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America have used the coat of arms OF
the family at Market Bosworth. and
afterward in Suffolk n Leicester
counties, England.
Mrs. Sutherland. wife of Senator
Sutherland of Utah. Is southern, her
father, John Percival Lee, being a close
kinsman of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He
married a Mile. Fosque of Florida. and
in his early married life went west to
Utah. She has an enviable line of
ancestors on both the French and Lee
side. Her husband. the senator. was
born in Buckinghamshire. England. and
loves to visit his relatives there.
Mrs. William A.. Cullop, wife-of Repre-
sentative Cu1lop OF Indiana Is
teasingly referred to by her friends
as 1.-The jiner." because she is inter-
ested in and belongs to SO man So
~cieties, giving an elan to everything
she undertakes.
She is a state regent, G. A.. R.. or
ganizer of the Francis Vigo Chapter
at Vinecennes. Indiana, as well as the
builder of the monument to Col.
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No Such Thing.

I0HN L. SULLIVAN said in a temper.
~ ance address in Chicago:
Too many people. are like the Lon-
don avvy. In Londo you know. the
saloons are only open now an hour In
the morning, an hour or SO at 20
and another hour in the evening. The
navy didn't like this.
mo, the NAVY didn't like it. and he
was expressing himself very forcibly
about ii one night at the Marble Arch,
when a stranger said:
but, friend, the workin' clawses
need to economics these ere war times.
Don't you know there's too much
money altogether spent on unneces-
sary beer?
Unnecessary beer?' roared the
NAVY. Unnecessary beer? Why, there
amt no sech thing!'"
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with advantage to himself as wen as
to the birds, set out winter
Evergreen make a beautiful aI-the-
year-round lawn adornment and also
afford shelter for the birds: and If they
are berry-bearing they provide food
for them. A tangle of bushes in a
ward makes a safe winter and summer
shelter. A few trees and shrubs which
will yield food are the wild cherry. the
e~lderberry. the little red cedars dog
wood, holly, sumac, certain varieties OF
the barberry and the black berries on the
Virginia creeper." .
Mrs. Bailey called the attention OF
her guest to an account which demon
strated the results of bird clubs in the
town of Meriden. A recent visitor de-
scribed what he saw in al early-morn-
ing walk through the place. He came
across a father and mother out with a
camera p~hotographing their baby in
it's carriage, a pine grosbeak perched
happily on its cap: a little farther on
an old gentleman was playing with a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09
He Had COPIED Her.

THEY tell a story In London to the
u effect that Miss ChristabeI Pank-
hurst. the militant suffragette, was dis
tributing flowers and cigarettes among
the wounded in a Devonshire hospital
one day when she said in some perpleX-
ity to a very stalwart guardsman:
I'm sure I've met you somewhere.
Bandaged though you are your face 10
most familiar. l am Miss Pankhurst.
Think-haven't we met before?"
The ~guardsman blushed, cleared his
throat and from the bed:
Suppose we let bygones be bygones.
miss. I'm a police hofiicer."
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Good Radiance.

A NDREW CARNEGIE said at a
~ luncheon in his 9Th avenue man.
sion overlooking Central Park:
THE captain of industry has disap-
peared-and a good job. too.
Il refer. of course. to that type Of
captain of industry which is lampoon-
ed in the tombstone story.
Ibid YOU near about the horrible,
horrible DETACHMENT that has happen
ed to the tombstone of the captain of
industry, poor old Trillions?' said a
banker. -.
mo- said his companion. What did
the DETACHMENT consist Of"
".Some scoundrel added the word
friends to the poor fellows %epitaph.'
Yes? And what was the ~epitaph?
ut q He did his best"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

Francis vigo, and preserver of the
President william Henry Harrison
house: ex-chairman board OF MANAGERS
of Good Samaritan Hospital: member
of V%incennes Fortnightly Club, Con-
gressional Club at Washington, of the
Fine Arts Society. vice president OF
the dia State Society of the Ma
tional Capital, and president of the
Woman's National Democratic League.
Mrs. Cullop boasts descent from
Richard Henry Lee of Virginia. a sign
er of the Declaration of Independence,
and from Thomas Watson, a leader in
the battle of Brandywine. She traces
her ancestry from Hamon de Leigh,
son Of Gilbert de Venables, Baron of
Kinderton, and great-granson of Gill
bert de Venables of Normandy, who
accompanied the conquert: to England,
and was a younger brother of Thibault
III. Count of Blois; also she counts
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Not the Soldiers Fault.

A CERTAIN army officer took in to
~ dinner at a Washington party a
young lady who had just returned from
England.
"The young soldiers" she said. are
having it all their own way with the
girls over there now. Too much their
own way, in fact. l know of a young
lieutenant in the Blues who is said to
be engaged to seven girls simultane-
ously."
"Oh, WELL" said the officer, with a
deprecatory smile-"oh, well, Cupid, of
course, is using a machine gun these
DAYS"
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white breasted nuthatch which he and
his wife had tanned and which came
daily to the house for food.
AS he walked on he met a group of
chic children. He spoke to them. and
they said he might accompany them to
the bird sanctuary" where they were
going to scatter food. Throwing il
upon the ground. they stood quietly by
to watch the birds of many species
come for it. They were observing the
habits of the various birds, and would
doubtless later relate at their club what
they had noticed.
Mrs. Bailey is a member of the Or
astrological Union, the Biological So
ciety of Washington and serves upon
the executive committee of the Audu-
bon Society of the District of Column
bia, and is a member of the Washing
ton Academy of Sciences. Two early
books, in which she embodied her notes
of birds in the east, are Birds Through
an Opera Glass" and Birds of Village
and Field"
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and how much they knew, yet Mrs.
Clark becomes enthusiastic when she
reminisces about her ancestors. for
she may well be proud of them.
Through her mother, Mary McClung
McAfee Bennett. she traces an an
cestry from the early kings of Scot
land. and glories in two of the McAfee
ancestors. father and son, who fought
at the battle of the Boyne. The sons
son, James McAfee. came from Ireland
in 1749 to Pennsylvania. emigrating
from there to Virginia. where
Mob. near Salem, Va, was named for
him. The fighting blood of the old
royal stock was paramount in her
great-grandfather. George McAfee.
who served in the revolutionary war
under George Rogers Clark; also in
her grandfather. George McAfee, who
was a soldier of 1872, serving under
Col. Dick Johnson of Kentucky at the
battle Of the Thames.
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth. wife
of Representative Nicholas Long
worth of Ohio, is also descended from
a long line of Scotch kings, SO when
she was called the American prin-
cess on her tour Of the Philippines
and the orient. during her fathers oc-
of the White House. the title
was not SO far-fetched as it sounded.
Through the Irvines of her p%aternal
grandmother's side she is a descendant
of Robert Bruce of Scotland: of Guy
de Ballot of the eleventh century. an
cestor of the famous Scottish house
which gave a king to Scotland; also
from the kings of Norway. the earls
Of Stratherne and Orkney. and the
setons. from whom descended queens
and heads Of other noble houses of
the realm. Mrs. Longworth has a
poetic ancestry besides. having on the
same grandmother's side. Donald Bull
loch Macdonald. son of Donald OF the
Isles.
From the same state comes Mr..
Pomerene. wife of Senator Atlee Pom
creme. She confesses to but one hob
ery morning when the Senate is in ses-
sion. rain or shine. she drives the SEN
ator to the Capitol in her smart electric,
waiting to wave him a goodbye al he
disappears within the doors of the Sem
ate ONCE building.
While Mrs. Pomerene boasts of a dis
tinguished English ancestry in whose
veins flowed some of the bluest blood
of our mother country. she is not a
member of the Society of Colonial
Danes or of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. AS she cleverly
expresses 1t, her most distinguished
forbears were on the other side dur
ing the revolutionary war. and not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

AL RS. FLORENCE MERRIAM BAILEY, an Authority on
l'l Birds, Says Cities Should Have Bird Clubs-Field Expedi-
tons to Study Members of the Feathered Flocks-Cod Weather
Especially Hard on Birds of the Cities-Developing an Interest in
Ornthology by the Sleeping Porch Habit-The Birds of Wash
ington.