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UMBRELLA VENDING.

NNCE II wa the custom Of the
~ Broadway umbrella sellers, the
transient species, to pick out
busy spots along that thoroughfare
and offer their wares to the public At
so cents each. Fogey and rainv days
and nights were the occasions when
the umbrella sellers made their APP
pearance. They seemed to spring from
the ground a. II BY magic and worked
diligently to dispose Of their wares. at
the same time keeping an eye open for
policemen.
The reason why the presence Of a
policeman was not especially desired
b.. tom wa the fact that the umbrella
sellers cannot procure licenses to
carry on the business Of protecting
from the wet those who are too proud
to take umbrellas with them from
home on q threatening day and they
have to conduct their business with
u lawful permission. Consequently
they are in constant danger OF being
arrested. What the umbrella sellers
suffered moro or less from the activi-
ties Of the police used to be shown by
the large number Of prisoners brought
into the West Forty-seventh street
station on foGgy and rainy nights. Just
when the business wa beginning to
thrive.
However. the clever ones in the
ranks Of the umbrella sellers quickly
formulated q scheme to circumvent the
police. They employed, the same
scheme used by ticket spectators to
outwit the police. namely. hiring .
convenient store to servo a. the depot
for umbrellas.
But the umbrella sellers have also
improved their method Of selling as
well. In fact. the modern method IL 20
good that the police are finding II i'm
possible to detect offenders. The
dealer no longer carries q bundle Of
umbrellas as a sign Of the business
he Is engaged in. Here's the way the
up to date umbrella sellers work their
scheme:
A group Of them hire q store from
which they operate. A stock Of UNI
brellas is kept IN hand so that the
sellers supply can be replenished
no longer carry the umbrellas in bum
dies. Each carries q single umbrella
and mingles With the crowd on Broad
way, offering his umbrella TO any one
who is not supplied and who appears
as II he would like 10 buy one.
The umbrellas offered for sale to the
Broadway crowds are more elaborate
than those formerly peddled by the
sellers using the old methods. The
new umbrellas have fancy handles,
with metal trimmings here and there
to attract the eye. The material used
to the frame Is Of q better grade
than that formerly used. With these
advantages to aid him the modern
seller enjoys more prosperity than did
his predecessor.
Just one moro detail Of the scheme
to show where the supply depot comes
l.. Obviously II wouldn't profit a seller
to be satisfied to sell one umbrella a
night and then quit. and yet II he car.
ried n bundle Of them he would be
prey for the police. 30 the up to date
seller AZ soon as he has disposed OF
the umbrella in hand makes his way
back to the depot as quickly rs pos.
sible and gets another umbrella He
~promenades up and down, soliciting
customers here and there. until he has
disposed Of the second umbrella
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Correct rolutions from:
l.. Thomson. John Wehnau. George NJ.
Lord, A, J.. r.. l.. a. Hart. Jr.. A. w.
warwick. James q. pirkerton. Alexander
Louie. ], ], r. Bronx. willard r..
Draper John RYAN. Angus McDonald.
John Breen. Andrew Shenpard. Thomas
Foy. IRA !. Martin. Owen Fox. .James A.
Green. Albert 7. Ford. p. I. McCarrv.
Albany. n. prior King. e.. r.. Cori,ss'
George Rauer. n M. E'erruson. r w
MCMAHON. George p. rranr,e. II Mum.
!. p. Dec;rofY. lame. Hy,and. r, +
Cross. Fausto Daium,. George
John Victory. Edward Mulrooney,
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This deal was played At nine tables
and some got TIE declaration At hearts,
while others got Il et spades. the bids
usually going up to three or four 1t each
table. The Instructive play 10 As going
game in spades. after bidding four over
Z's four hearts.
r led his partners declared suit,
hearts. and 2 went back with = club. on
which A played the ace. The Jack Of
trumps went 70 Z's ace and he led an
other club. which A won wiUh the king.
the queen Of trumps exhausting Y and 2.
The beginner would probably start In
to ruff dummy with the hearts at this
stage. but this will leave A with 4 losing
heart at the end. Instead Of that A sees
that there are two chances to 90 game.
He may be able to set Up q diamond
trick and get q heart discard or he may
force z to lead tho ace Of hearts and
make the queen good.
When A led the diamond 7 had 80 many
that he felt sure A lead was a short
suit. and probably an attempt to make
both queen and ace. 90 he put on the
king. A club put dummy In. A small
diamond from BIS hand forced the ace
from z and then II did not matter what
2 led. As dummy could run two hearts
IN give A a heart discard on the queen
Of diamonds
Strange to say the player at M table
that wa left III four hearts managed tc
go game at that declaration. through the
| errors Of his opponents. 1t was As
lead. and instead OF laying down the
king Of clubs to show the two trick,
that his bidding did not show. A
started right In with the spades.
z won the trick n led a smal trump
which A passed up. allowing tho ten e
| win. Two more rounds Of trumps left A
with the lone queen. r keeping all his
diamonds against dummy's long suit
| di~scarding a spade and q club.
When z led the ace and ten OF dia'
monds A refused to ruff. discard!ng ths
small club. When dummy won the sec
ond diamond trick with the king ano
came back with the Jack b did not cover
as he knew 2 would trump. but tht:
| gave y a discard Of his small spade
After that all A could mako was his
trump and his two clubs. as rs tel
and Jack Of clubs must be good 20,
tricks by rufing other suits and lead
ing clubs.
To what shall We attribute h Is!
points made on this handf To Z's cour
age In going to four hearts and fright
ening A out of four spades. or to tn,
errors made by A and B In play
Here 10 q hand that will give the be
Ginner some idea of the way in w'hic!
crack players bid up their hands TO thu
limit, and incidentally how they use thu
modern system Of doubling 10 encourage
the partner to 20 on bidding:
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PROBLEMS FOR sun
READERS TO SOLVE
An Original Proposition at
Bridge in Which, Aces Don't
Take Tricks.
pCZZLERS AT CHECKERS

Bridge problem No. 313. by s. C.. Kim
sey. was based upon the rather original
proposition that the players OH one side
were to get the required number or
tricks without any of tn. three aces In
play taking a trick. unless their oppo-
nents gave them these ace tricks.
The curious thing about the problem
n that II 1t were not for this restriction
It would have at least three solutions.
As II Is there Is only one that is sound.
n only one way that the condition can
he complied with. Here Is the distribu-
tion.
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THE SILVER SHEET.

II SILVER SHEET.
Here Is a little puzzle suggested by
Frank s. Busser OF G~ermantown Pa.
which has some very original elements
IN It:
A certain metal worker had a sheet
Of silver exactly six and a half feet
square and very thin. out of this piece
Of metal he was ordered TO construct two
triangular trays. each having Just
enough raised border around it to keep
things from rolling on. After some talk
ing over the matter he agreed to the
following conditions:
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ZINC

Problem No. as, which VAS sent to
THE Sun by A. J. Mozart. was not par
ticdlarly difficult after the key mov
had been found. but as that move was
rather an unusual way to start a prob
lem a good many missed IL and could
not find any way Of getting the win.
This Is not astonishing II We consider
that II Is not often that a player can
finish up a game with a win to his
credit when he has only M king left
and his opponent HI two kings and
three men still on the board.
The distribution OF the pieces Is
Black men on s. 20. rs and 81; kings
on 1. 12 and 30. White men on ., IS,
II and 20 kings on Z. 13 and 10. White
to play and win. Here are the moves
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six four Of clubs king and sven OF
diamonds: ten and four Of spades.
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While conditions remain suitable he
r. Yeats this routine until he has sold
as many umbrellas AZ he can find
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-01
THAT VAIN VILLA HUNT

T OOKING for fine cambrlc needle IL
l. haystack is promising job CON-
pared with the hunt for Villa.
After repeated warnings this peace
at-any-price" administration failed to
furnish proper patrols for the border
states, and because of this, the pursuit
of this bandit was delayed until he had
many days start. If he divide his forces
and himself enter the difficult fastnesses
Of the Sierra Madre Mountains, his cap
ture will be very unlikely.
General Pershing will probably spend
his Christmas in Mexico, unless the
secret treachery of Carranza sooner
ripen into open hostility, in which event
the Americans lacking numbers, arm.
and proper equipments, stand excellent
chances of remaining there permanently
under ground.
Mr.. Wilson'S present Mexican pet,
this same rogue of a Carranza, is ever
now showing his i'll will by refusing
General Pershing the use OF the rail-
roads to forward his war munitions,
and by interfering with his gasoline
supplies.
Three years of the weak, vacillatin2
Wilson policies, together with his absurd
Vera Cruz expedition, has inspired il
the Mexicans a thoro contempt fol
Americans, and if the many warning
factions, led by common jealousy OF
and hatred for, this country, shall unite
under some fairly capable leader, the
border states will be in grave danger
and the whole country have war on lis
hands that will show to all how pitifully
unprepared we are to defend ourselves
even against poor Mexico.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-01
February 1851

And Mr. Wilsola is still complacently
pounding away on his typewriter an
swering Germany'a murderous torpedo
fires with his dreadful salvos of paper
threats Were the consequences of
slain mothers, babes and brave men
not so cruelty tragic, 1T would be more
comic than opera bouffe, this IL months
long duel between the White House
typewriter and the German submarines!
The disparity between Mr.. Wilson's
pen and the Teuton torpedo is so vast
one might conclude that Bulwer's oft
misquoted words, 1.-The pen is mightier
than the sword, were untrue, did one
not remember Bulwer qualified his
words, thus:
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword" =
and Heaven knows our poor, weak,
wobbling president is far from being
"entinely great"
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-01

There was no insurance-the pol
icy had lapsed-and the fire sweep
away all Of my fathers means and put
burdensome mortgage on his farm,
two and half miles in the country"
If there had been navy of re-
spectacle size in 1881 John Wingate
Weeks would now be a captain in
stead Of a senator Nor would he
eyer'have become a banker and thus
have set at naught all the traditions OF
the Weeks family for self-respecting,
capable and wholesome poverty.
And yet psychological analysis Of
inherited traits might show that the
senator comes naturally by his talents
for public affairs and finance. ANY
inquiry into his personality must in
clude the Wingates, the chief of whom,
John, an Englishman, emigrated to
New Hampshire in 1860.
The Weekses and the Wingates in
termarried during the second Ameri-
can generation-the Weekses to con-
tinue as farmers, with an excursion
into potato starch, as has been re-
corded, but the Wingates to become
soldiers, preachers and statesmen.
Paine W1ngate, for example, the great
grandson of John, was a member of
the Continental congress and later a
senator from New Hampshire
A Big Man Physically.
John Wingate Weeks Of Massachu-
setts, in his name, therefore, goes back
to the middle of the seventeenth CEN
tury. Perhaps his gifts are equally as
ancient. Wherever they originated,
he has made good use Of them. He is
We1l-to-dO-but has less money, per-
haps, tn an is often represented-and
Republicans in Massachusetts have no
titled the country that he is their can
didate for president. If he is nomi-
mated at Chicago in June, the main
reason will have been that he is q
business man. His candidacy, then,
will be something entirely new in ma
tional poiitics.
In his measurements, Captain Weeks
is a large man. A reasonable guess
at his weight would be ESQ pounds.
His stature. perhaps, is five feet and
eleven inches. His eyes are gray and
his manner is frank and hearty. While
ct the naval academy he could slowly
raise 11A-pOuuu uuHDU6H dDoVe MS
head with his right hand. Then, kneel-
ing with one leg, he could slowly raise
an S7-pound- dumbbell with his left
hand More than that he could lower
his hands to his shoulders and slowly
and simultaneously put both dumb
bells above his head the second time.
A muscular youth, he was recon-
mended by his principal to the "pru-
dental committee" that called at the
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-01
FACE The FACTS!
Weeks Talks About Our Navy
a1Q NdIIOTldI U6T6TlS6.
Insists on Military, Commercial, Fin
anciaI and Industrial Preparedness
Let Us Be Ready for Peace as
Well as War.
BY JAMES B. MORROW,
in the Philadelphia Record.

LONE of the Weekses, save John
N Wingate, the senator and the
Massachusetts candidate for
president -toiling as they all did
among the granite humps of New
Hampshire-wase ever noted for his ac-
emulation of cash or property.
They were farmers mostly, begin
ming with Leonard Weeks, who, emf
grating from England in 1856, became
the head and source of the family.
Agriculture sternly practiced among
the embedded rocks and irremOvable
powders taught them to be resource
full and to keep at least one eye open
to opportunity.
So William D., the father of the SEN
ator, was probate judge, and once
essayed to be a manufacturer With
the cooperation of neighbors, likewise
alert and adventurous, he started a
factory at Lancaster for making starch
from potatoes.
81 will never forget the look on my
fathers face" Captain Weeks told me,
when, ON a Sunday morning, just as
we were leaving church, we saw men
and boys running down the street and
heard them crying: The starch fac
tory is burning
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-01

Ail Americans, no matter whether they
cal themselves Democrats or Republi-
cans, ought to have courage enough and
WISDOM enough to face the facts. Europe
IS going to take possession of the markets
In this country if we do not defend our
Selves. You spoke of an invasion by SOL
diers. There can also be an invasion with
products.
ravor all fslnds of defenses-nilitary,
commercial. financial and industrial. And
right here at home l think some of US
need defense against fallacious ideas. For
instance: This is a great business nation
and yet we hear many suggestions that
business be taken out OF the ownership
ana management which have developed it
and made it wonderfully successful so
that il may be turned over to the national
ggernment
Business ought to be regulated, but we
have regulated the railroads so vigorously
that no more are being built, although
tley are surely needed in some parts Of
the country Furthermore, the time has
come when the railroads cannot borrow
ta44=2aA tnr. short periods on as Advantage
Gus terms as can other lines of big busl-
ness. And yet transportation, next to
agriculture, is our most important indus
try.
Would government ownership and oper-
alton improve the situation?
No; the situation would be made worse
State ownership and operation has failed
in France, Canada and other countries.
Wherever it has been tried, expenses are
Increased and deficits created. On the
Western Railroad of France the operating
charges went up so per cent in three
years. More than $500 new men were en-
ployed-no workers on the tracks, engi=
neers, conductors or brakemen, but clerks,
porters and other little politicians, places
for whom we're found around the general
offices and at the stations
Government ownership in the United
states would add 100000 men to our Of
1ce-holding class, and congress would fix
their salaries. Freight rates I am sure,
would be higher than at present and the
cconsumers-the men who wOrk-would be
ioSar7 20d rot gamers
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-01
STILL WRITING "N0TES" !

A LMOST weekly new chapters OF
"A shame are added to Mr.. Wilson s
cowardIy foreign policy. Some weeks
ago the steamer Patria was sunk by q
German under-sea assassin and sever;
Americans killed.
A week ago a British freighter was
thus struck by a German submarine and
an American sailor slain. Last Friday
the large passenger steamer, the Sus-
sex, was also torpedoed by a German
submarine and several hundred passen-
gers mangled or drowned, one or more
Americans among them-all these ne"
outrages like the others, done in per
fidious violation Of Germany's promise
not to sink. passenger ships until the
passengers had been given a chance to
escape.
Mr. Wilson will now start a half dozen
more series of notes informing the
grinning Germans that they will be
''held to the strictest accountability
for these murders The original series,
that of the LusiUania, begun eleven
months ago, is still running, Mr.. Wilson
having thus far written something like
two dozen notes in the case He will
probably stiff be ifitaiittif4g ifitaiittif4gg these feeble
jokes when the disgusted American
people next November put an end 10 the
farce
The whole seriers Of Mr. Wilson'S
notes" has become SO large one cannot
remember them all. Let Us recall a
few beginning with the case Of the
American ship Frye. The Lusitania
which killed lis Americans, the Falaba,
the Gushing and Gulfight. both Ameri-
Cdu SHIPS Lie AuCOIld IlidoSdSEG1 IllC
LeeIanaw, the Armenian, the Arabic,
the Persia and still others we don't re-
call, on one of which an American Con-
sui on the way to his post was drowned.
Now come half dozen more, among
these the Englishman, and the Sussex
all sunk without notice and thousands
of innocent men, women and children
drowned, our citizens among others.
And all these massacres, done in
violation at once of all the laws of
nations and those of common humanity,
have been impudently committed by
Germany over a year after Mr.. Wilson'S
fierce note of warning Illuminated in
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-01
IoDLETowN, DEL, APRIL 1916
FLUCTUATIONS

THE Transcript congratulates its en-
l prising contemporary, The Star
and its editor Joseph H. Martin, on Its
latest improvements $40, 900 Hoe per-
fecting press capable of delivering 4OC
printed and folded 32-page papers q
minute.
This proof of genuine prosperity Is
fully accounted for by the able manner
in which that journal is, in every de-
partment conducted.
At the head of its fine editorial page
it flies the beautiful flag of our country
and beneath it, can American Greed >
a superb resume Of doctrines to which
,,77z.,-7- +7.t.fe American gladly subscrlbes.
SNSAJ II ~ @As-@N--
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-01
Facts to Be Faced.

Things have been speeded up in
Great Britain, Germany and France.
The factories, old ones and new ones,
are running. They will be running
after the armies at the front have
been sent home, but instead of max
ing cannon and ammunition, as at
present, they will be operated night
and day in the production of goods
for the American markets.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-03-27

fees of the stores and get their earnings in cash, generally within 24 hours from the time the fish are sold.
 In regard to MT. Gill's report on the progress of the strike, We may say in reply that the situation is unchanged, nothing having hap pened that would tend to weaken either one side or the other. It is not correct, as MT. Gill says, that Seattle schooners have signed up with the union. He probably re- fers to seine boats which are not members of our association, and over which We have no control. These boats engage in halibut fish ing only for short periods and be- ing unorganized will naturally fall easy victims to any demands that the union may make. Some of them do not even carry union crews.
 As to the associations position. 1t is only necessary to say that we never have made any demands on the union. The union on the con trary has made a great many de mands on US. As our members at last decided they could not yield any more, the union called strike or. rather, without notifying us. called it's members out of our ves- sells. We accepted the challenge and have not, nor do weintend in the future, to ask union members to be unfaithful to their arganiza- tion. On the contrary we advise them to stay out until they have had enough of it. Our association's s members, in the meantime, will make living by operating part of the fleet themselves.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-03-27
THE OTHER SIDE
 OF THE STORY
ASSOCIATION EXPLAINS WHY IT REFUSES TO GRANT
 DEMAND.

A few days ago, the Progressive Miner while out looking for news items met the representative of the Deep Water Fishermen's Union who has been visiting every port in Southeastern Alaska in an en- deavor to obtain signatures in sup port of the striking fishermen of Seattle. The strikers represents tive briefly stated the grievance that led to the strike, the reason ,ableness of which greatly appealed to the Progressive-Miner. Now comes the representative of the boat owners association with state ment, explaining the other side of the story. The statement appeared in recent issue of the Seattle Times and is as follows:
 Explaining why it refuses to grant the demand of the striking halibut fishermen that settlement be made with them in the port where the fish are sold, the Fishing Vessel Owners Association, of this port, issued a statement this morn ing, pointing out that the Seattle credit system for it's vessels does not extend to Prince Rupert, B. c. Since last summer a large part of the Seattle schooners' catches has been sold in the British Columbia port,
 The association maintains that the present system of making set clement in Seattle works hardship on no one. It challenges P. B. Gill, of the Sailors Union of the Pacific to prove a single case where the family of a fisherman has suffered from want under the present plan if he had money due him. Gill re- gently issued statement in behalf of the striking fishermen in which he raised that point.
 The Fishing Vessel Owners As sociation's statement was given out by Capt John Gibson, manager. It follows:
 Owners Statement.
 The union makes two demands that are closely connected and must be considered together as their in- tent and purpose would work on parallel lines. These demands are: First, settlement to be made in the port where the fish are sold, and second, second, settlement to be made between the captain, or own CT, and the fishermen.
 As reason for these demands MT. Gill says that heretofore it has been the custom to make settle ment in the vessels home port only. This is true. It is not true, how ever, that fishermen were away as long as six months without draw ing a dollar of their money. A fisherman when employed in one of
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-03-27
Launches l ..sax.s .s Rough Rider and Teddy

Monday, 8 a. m.-chomley Sunny PoInt), connecting with mall carrier for Sulzer and all points on West Coast Prince Of Wales island. Tuesday, 8 a. m.--Metlakahtla, and Dolomi. Weunesday, 8 a. m.-Lorlnq Yes Bay (cannery Hatchery Bell Island Hot Springs and Shrimp Bay. Thursday, 8 a. m.-Same as Friday, 8 a. m.-kasaan, tt Camp, Rush & Brown and Hollis. Saturday, 8 a. m.- HadIey. Monday. Carries Passengers and
 Freight
 Ed. J. Willimas
 Master