Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-08-25
NEW YORK NEWS LETTER.
Lights and Side-Ights.


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New York, August 19.-"Strikc is
the word most seen in newspaper
headlines these days. Hardly had the
great street car strike been settled,
ahen the demands of the trainmen
brought on another crisis threatening
to tie up the 227 railroads of the
country, and strike of the farmers
of five states make milk famine
imminent. AZ
But a little vigorous investigation
and wholesome publicity has made
short work of the trouble between the
dairymen and the few great milk COM
panies that control the distribution
of the city's daily supply of $780,
600 quarts of milk and cream. 1t was
shown clearly that the milk dealers
by dividing the producing territory
among themselves and carefully re-
framing from bidding against each
other, had forced the price paid to
producers far below profitable fig
ure. Then when the milk trust threat
ened to "soak" the consumers, it was
shown that they were fully able to
pay the farmers cent more a quart
without advancing the retail price of
milk in the city. 1t is settled that the
dairymen will be better paid and the
milk trust is in for a searching inves-
tigation of its prices and methods.
Trouble on the street car lines of
Manhattan is brewing again, owing to
the stubborn stupidity of the Shont-
Hedley management. 1t is definitely
charged that the company broke the
agreement forced upon it by Oscar
Stratus, in that it refused to re-em-
ploy 40 men who had been active in
the strike and discharged others
Besides this the company has under
taken to compel its employees to sez
lect new committees to represent the
workers, ignoring the union commit
ees previously chosen.
While the Presidential campaign is
not making any appreciable progress,
the fight for the governorship is live
ly enough and mighty mixed. AS US
ual Tammany has played deep and
clever game, securing practically a
unanimous upstate Endorsement Of
its chosen candidate, Justice Sea-
bury, by pretending to oppose him,
and has bagged some radicals of the
Progressive party.
But Governor Whitman, invited by
Bull Moose Leaders, instantly agreed
ito contest Justice Seabury's title to
the Progressive nomination. Mean
while the backfre kindled in the G.
y. p. against the Governor
by the busy B's-Barns and Brack-
ett-is being vigorously famed by
the old guard. They are trying des-
perately to overthrow the Governor
whom they could not boss, thereby
commencing him highly to the voters.
The most remarkable part of the
war on Governor Whitman is the al
Of
with Barns in the efforts to put over
Harvey D. Human for Governor and
Robert Bacon, former Morgan part
ner, for Senator. With these two at
the same table, it is hard to say
which one will have to eat the most
crow. 1t is striking commentary (
on the thorough way in which Whit
man has broken Barnes that he has
taken up two T. R. pets. And it illus
trates the political isolation of the,
Colonel when he is found in the com (
pany of Barnes. I'm
Yes, there is lighter side in the
news of this busy metropolis There
are other things than strikes and po- a
lltics to weave into the story of the \
day. There is, for example, the rag
ing controversy as to the length Of ,
women's skirts, which fabric makers, I
are trying to pull the lower hem
down to the ankle and the shoe men
and the stocking men battling to 4
keep their wares in view. But you
say that women will settle this mat
ter for themselves? Not at ALL There
never was a time when the hand
that rocks the cradle ruled the world
of fashion. Mere man does that
the man modiste u.
And there is the kissing lawyer, VI
divorced for the intolerable practice
Of infiicting hour long kisses on his
'heaven-given" bride, and now yoked
to former sweet heart who blithely
braves the suffocating perils.
AS for the tragedy, there was the
fireman, retired after 80 years of per-
il, with record of dangers faced
and lives saved from fiery furnaces.
He had stood on a topping wall 30
feet above n roaring inferno, and
when it bulged and crashed into the
,treet, he leaped lightly to safety. But
he other day he stood on the side.
walk, his back 10 the street, waving
ldieu to a friend, when an automo-
lille ran wild and hurled him through \
. store window to eternity.
Another case is that of the head \
Mailman and elevator starter in an "
'ffice building. Just so, in the prime
II life, diligent and competent, he Z
vas highly valued by the owner. But \
great public utility corporation I
'uys the building. This concern has 4 (,
ule against employing any man over.
Is years old. So the steady, expep-
enced man is tramping the streeA !.
boxing for work and careless boY,E
as the older mans place. Yet thisei
ompany from time to time issues
lowing accounts of it's "social up-
1T" work. III