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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-10
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
Otto n. Kahn
ON RAILWAY LEGISLATION.

In recent discussion Of the effect Of railway legis
lation railway development, Otto H. Kahn Of
Americas leading fnanciers, said among other things
What with the regulating activities Of 43 commits
sons besides the interstate commission the
adoption by state legislatures of ratexng measures.
extra bills and all kinds Of minute enactments (be
tween 1912 and 1915 than 1900 federal and state
bills affecting the railroads introduced and
than 44O enacted the increase within the last
seven in federal and state taxation the steadily
mounting cost Cd labor the exactons of municipal and
authorities will he admitted that
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-10

Missouri is all right, but there are
one or two raw spots that look lit
tie bad.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-10

God reigns and the country is safe
ain God we trust"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-10

Four more years of peace, progress
and prosperity.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-10

Woodrow Wilson won with wary
"watchful waiting"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-10
BUSINESS TO HELP
TAFT KEEP PEACE
Mercantile Interests of U. S. Fa,
vOr Enforcement Pla ! to Sub.
due Belligcrent Nations.

New Haven. Jan. 9. Former Presi-
dent Taft to-day announced that repre-
sentative business interests throughout
the country were indorsing the pro-
posals OF the League 20 Enforce Peace,
which contemplates the use OF eco
monte pressure to subdue belligeren.
rat.ons. lie believes that world peace
has been brought much nearer through
this attitude favoring the leagues pro-
gramme.
In a statement issued to-day Mr. Taft
commends the idea of league of
American republics as the first step
toward worldwide league OF nations
such as is contemplated by the peace
body of which he IL president.
THE vote of the Chamber of Com
merce Of the United States in favor Of
putting economic and military press
ure behind international arbitration
treaties. which has just been announced
from Washington. pledges the hearty
support of a great body Of business
men 10 a definite and national plan
looking toward the establishment Of
permanent world peace al the close OF
the present EuTOpthH Wal, odlu vi
Taft. The 2S2 commercial bodies
which spoke in this referendum repre-
sent every portion of the United States
end must be taken as expressing the
judgment Of the business interests Of
the country"
The former President then points out
that the proposals Of the league Of
which he is head and those of the
Chamber of Commerce are practically
identical. the distinctive feature Of
both being the sanction OF military
force and economic pressure behind an
International agreement for peaceful
settlement.
Proposals OF the peace organization
slip ilate that both forms of argu-
ment with obstinate nations shall be
used by the other nations that make up
the signatory powers. II is provided
that such means % furnishing power
shall be used only II it commits acts Of
hostility against another Of the sigma
tory powers before any question arls-
ing shall be submitted to the tribunals
which are provided.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-10

that he has received complete data
I.om .ur,,on De.e-al Rupert Blue.
showing its advantages over state con
troll. lie has been informed by Act
ing Secretary of the Treasury Byron
K. Newton that the Treasury Depart
ment favors the transfer Mr.. New
ton wrote the Governor that the valid
ity for such q transfer is shown IN
Section of the act of Congress APP
proved February 10. 1893. which reads
That whenever the proper authori-
ties Of state shall surrender 20 the
United States the use of the buildings
and disinfecting apparatus at state
quarantine station, the Secretary OF
the Treasury shall be authorized to re-
ceive them and to pay a reasonable
compensation to the state for their use
IL, in his opinion, they are necessary
20 the United States"
May Require Legislation.
The Governor has been informed by
his counsel, who has examined the
law. that it will be advisable to enact
Legislation authorizing the transfer.
As precedents, the department at
Washington cites the action OF other
states turning over quarantine sta
tons 20 the United States. Inc de-
partment states that after tho formal
transfer arrangements will be made Tor
appropriations from Congress 20 REIN
burse the state for the property, the
amount 20 be determined by the rep
resentatives Of the state and the Fed
eral government. The Treasury De-
partment has also informed the Gov
ernor that it has so increased the IA
cilities OF other stations along the
Atlantic coast that New York will not
be called on TO care for cases not arts
ing in its own port.
Surgeon General Blue expressed the
op;nion in communication TO the
Governor that the objection to the
Federal quarantine Is based on mis-
and that those Low dis
senting will heartily approve after they
have become familiar with the Gov
ernor's fairness in the treatment OF the
shipping interests,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-10

please, mister, won't you give some
thing for the Newsboys' Home?"
That hesitating, plaintive appeal,
coming at dusk from shivering little
fellow with a newspaper or two under
his arm and the other blue hand hat
outstretched, will halt thousands Of
homeward hurrying New Workers dur
Ing the next ten days.
Il will be pure and simple fake.
Among the $50 campaigners tina,
start out this noon to raise $780,
600 in ten days for the Boys Club As
ISOLATION there will be dozen mill
ionaires. but not one newsboy.
Newsboys ard just boys have been
storming Richard s. Grumpy, director
Of the Newsboys' Club, by the scores,
begging permission TO help raise the
halt-million. Fifty of them at one
time wanted TO know If they couldn't
sell papers for day and give all they
mnde to the fund Maybe the news
papers WOuIu give bHeih Inv papers ANi
that day. they said.
But the boys clubs never raise money
that way, either for this movement
or for their Thanksgiving dinners and
vacation funds. So the small beggar's
plea for something for the NewsOoys
Home" will be 100 per cent graft, and
a crowd of "newsies" last night asked
a Tribune reporter TO tell EN- so in
ger paper, won't ga, please
Accredited representatives of the
campaign, however, will have no diff
Guilty in introducing themselves. for
they will carry letter OF introduction
signed by three names that Will chal-
lenge attention. In former similar
campaigns boys have appeared carry
ing fake Identification cards of intro
duction signed by the name "P. No
Ian" One boy entered the office OF the
Studebaker Company and collected
1920, but fortunately the manager
called Mr. Grumpy on the telephone
before turning over the money to the
boy.
with Joseph p. Day as chairman,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-10
STUMBLES IN DARK;
FINDS FAMILY DEAD
Husband Greeted with Hudd!eI
Forms of Wife and Daughters.
[By Telegraph 20 The Tribune


Chicago, jar. Q. Charles Maves
picked the door on the rear Of his own
home last night, CROPPED through the
darkness Of the kitchen and stumbled
over an object on the floor. He threw
open the windows, lit light and stag
gered back at the sight that greeted
his eyes.
Lying huddled togethe. In the middle
Of the room were the bodies Of his
wife and FIVE little daughters, all under
seven years old. The open burners OF
a gas range and a pencilled note in
Mrs. Maves's purse showed the manner
of their death and offered meagre
explanation Of It's cause. Sick OF th>
continued unhappiness. In which she
and the lit.le children shared snHe, the
mother had led them into the kitchen
and turned on the gas.
Maves opened the purse that lay in
the centre of the table and found an
unfinished note. saying. "You made my
life miserable. You never gave me any
money, and them
Evidently the mother had begun her
note Of explanation after turning on
the gas. As the effects Of the poison
reached her brain she found IL impos-
sible 20 finish her accusation. and evl-
IDENTIFY thrust it into the purse, which
contained Sl.05.
why. | always gave her my wages"
said Maves. 81 think the trouble was
due 20 her grief at the death Of her
mother in Summit, H.. last summer.
sometimes had little spats with hsr.
but this. this terrible thing, couldn't
have been because we quarrelled.'
Maves's arms were filed with gro
ceries. which he said he had bought
for their Sunday dinner.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-10
CELL LIFE Barred
IN PRISON MOVIES
Shop Activities Shown by New
Film at Reform Confer
ence Exhibit.

DR.. Katharine b. Davis, speaking "a
member OF the Parole Commission OF
New York City, will open the prison
conference at the Washington Irving
High School, Sixteenth Street and Irving
Place, this evening. In conjunction
with this conference will be a prison
exhibit at the Russell Sage Foundation
Building, in East Twenty-second
Street. The joint committee on prison
reform will present to the public mo-
ton pictures taken recently at sing
Sing, Great Meadows and Auburn
prisons. The exhibit and conference
will last two weeks.
The prison films depict conditions at
the state penal institutions. The State
Prison Department and the wardens
and other officials cooperated in taking
them. For the first time In this state
pictures Of daily prison life showing
the cell and shop activities Of convicts
will be presented TO the public. At the
Auburn prison forty convicts donned
the striped uniforms of the old system
and shaved their heads to show condi-
tons of a generation ago.
Farm activities are shown in the
Great Meadows films, and those taken
at Sing Sing present the greatest ar
pument. according 10 the JOINT com
m,ttee, why Sing Sing should be abol-
isbed and a more modern jail or an IN.
dustrial farm substituted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-10
DEFENDS HEALTH
BOARD PROPOSAL
Whitman Sees Transfer Of
N. Y. Department to US.
as Great Saving.
IFrom s,.n Correspondent o, TIE Tribune

IRON stan torrsspof dent o' Tie Tribune.
Albany, Jan. 9.-Governor Whitman,
in reply TO criticisms OF the recon-
mendation in his annual message that
the Health Department of the Port
OF New York be transferred to the
Federal government. declared that it
was made only after a complete in
vestigation. He said there were nu-
merous precedents for such action,
and in showing the advantages Of Fed
eral control, quoted the following from
a communication received from the
Treasury Department.:
uniformity Of regulation. economy
for shipping interests, fexibility in re-
quirements, scientific training OF off,
GERS, consular reports from all foreign
countries, appointments in the service
for life, international sanitary treat
les. complete equipment, no fees for
boarding or inspecting vessels. CO.
operation from all branches of govern
meut"
The Governor laid that. from a
financial standpoint, the transfer would
benefit the state 100000 year
"The cost o. the department" he
asserted, Gin excess OF its receipts in
the last fiscal year. was approximately
$4,000. The interest on the sum re-
CURED for improvements requested by
the department. with the interest on
the money the Federal government will
pay for the property. aggregates $780,
600 year"
Quarantine United States Function.
The Governor expressed the belief
that quarantine at the greatest port
in the country was a national func-
ton, and that the cost should not be
paid By the state.
The Governor has been in CORE
spondence with the Treasury Depart
ment concerning the feasibility of the
transfer since last February, and says
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-10
Roosevelt to Avert Navy Strike

According 20 "a statement made at
Washington yesterday by John T.
Coughlin, representing the Interna'
tional Association Of Machinists. the
impending strike of the New York Navy
Yard employees will be s.erted by
Franklin u. Roosevelt. Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy. who has found,
Coughlin said. that much OF the trouble
was caused by misrepresentation of the
demands OF the men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-10
Give to Bows Fund. but
Pay No Heed 10 Fake Plea
Of Street Canlils.
$50 BEGIN TEN-DAY
CAMPAIGN AT NOON
Save Ragged Youngsters of
City's Streets, Call Sounded
to Touch Hearts.
SAVE RAGGED YoUVGsT7Rs,
CHORUS FOR BOYS FUND

Gee. five 'underd thousand dol
lars is a lot a money. How many
blocks II that buy
For the boys TO whom the modest
yellow backed bill IL an undreamcd
of fortune you can to-day give
your check. II will build home.
clubhouse, gymnasium and hang
out" for the ragged sparrows Of the
city's streets. Make your check
payable to l.. y. Potter, treacurer
Boys Club Association, So Wall
Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-10
Prisoners Camp Out in Jail.

Morristown, y. j., Jan. 9.-Sheriif
Thompson has sixty prisoners to care
for and only twenty-five cells. He ia
putting two men in each BY : cell
Four cots in the hospital ward are IN
use. The remainder OF the prisoners
will have to bunk on the floor Sheriff
Thompson has sent for blankets, so
that none of the prisoner-campers will
suffer from the cold.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-10
Cotton Wage Fight On.

Fall River, Mass, Jan. 9.--There Will
be special general meetings OF the
labor unions on Tuesday and Wednss-
day evenings 70 discuss the wage stu
alton. A request for 10 per cent ad-
vance has already been made. II has
been learned that the Cotton Manufact-
urers' Association is against the sd-
vance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-10

q. one rlant. then reaches that Of an
other company considerable distance
away. who're there Is no trouble. ana
his develops NOBODY knows. or,
showing. will tell where i all
s.artod. Every one is agreed that II
was the work of outsiders. Who they
were and who they were working for
ia ore Of the things that we are going
20 try and find out.
Austrian with SI06 Held.
Thus far there is not the slightest
indication OF German or Austrian IN
fucnce NJ work. Il is true that an
Austrian was arrested last night with
SlO6 in his possession. but that does
not prove anything.
altogether, We have practically
three hundred men under arrest. On
some Of these we expect 30 be able TO
place responsibility COR the destruc ION
of some Of the houses. These VIII be
charged with arson. SO far. We have
nothing on which to base MURDER
charge. though that may come. None
of the men now Irder arrest Will be
permitted 10 go on fines or be bailed.
We will take no chances on allowing a
man guilty of serious offence 70 get
away on minor charge.
1--WE will. Of course. look into the
hints that the strike was made IN wall
Street. That is one Of the things that
we are after How far we will get IN
that direction is more than ! can now
tell"
Mayor Cunningham told the same
story rs 10 the strangers who were busy
accelerating trouble. He also had tale
Of strange men who came TO HIM ana
offered their services in preserving
order.
81 don't know anything about the
company importing men," he said. but
some men came TO me and offered I"
help US in preserving the peace. VINO
they were | don't know
$4,000 Visitors Sec Ruins.
Twenty-Five thousand sightseers
throngcd the r. MINED streets OF East
Youngstown to-day. arriving in specla!
trains from Eastern Ohio and western
Pennsylvania Every streetcar from
Youngstown was filed. and many prl-
vate owners of automobiles trans
formed their machines into Jltney
buses TO haul the throngs to the scene.
The situation was quiet throughout
the day. At Struthers, where 600
rilitiamen under command OF Colonel
Edward Vollrath, Of Bucyrus, are sta
toned. four shots were fred at sol
oilers by snipers located IN the mis-
but none was injured.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
SIGHT IS RESTORED
AFTER TWENTY YEARS
Prof. Tombo, Long Blind in One
Eve. Operated on Successfully.

Twenty years ago Professor Rudolph
Tombo, formerly of the German de-
partment at Columbia University, lost
the use of his right eye from cata-
ract. DR.. Max Tslmey. of 81 West
I26th Street, then advised the aged
scholar 70 have an operation performed.
His advice was not followed until this
wear. Now. after three operations, the
professor is able TO see perfectly with
his formerly blind eye.
While the vision in the right eye has
been restored, that in the left has been
dstroyed by the devlopmnt OF cata-
ract similar to that which the right eye
contracted d score of years ago.
The first operation on the right eye,
which had also contracted trachoma.
was performed By DR.. Talmey IN the
early part Of the summer. the second
on August &c and the third on Oeto-
Der l6. II was then found that the
sight in the left eye was becoming I'M
paired. Another operation was decided
upon, and DR.. Talmey will perform TINS
IN a few days. -,
IL can see extraordinarily well with
my right eye" said DR.. Tomoo last
night 81 am able TO read small print,
and surgeons tell me that the opera
ton was very successful 1t Is the
cataract on the left eye that is annoy
ing me most now
DR.. Tombo is the author Of several
well known works in German. He col
Elaborated with his son, DR.. Rudolph
Tombo. jr.. who died last year, in the
compilation of several volumes Of
famous German speeches and lives of
famous hen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
CARD PARTY TO AID WELLS
Club Plans to Assist in Raising $780,.
600 Endowment FuCd for College,

The Wells Club Of New York will
hold a bridge, euchre ard five hundred
party al the Waldorf Astoria Tues
day afternoon for the benefit of the
Wells College endowment fund.
Wells, which is in Aurora, \. Y, is
making an effort TO raise an endow-
ment fund of 100000 by June, with
the principal object OF increasing the
salaries of its teaching force. The
General Education Board has promised
100000 if the remaining amount is
raised within the allotted time. Kerr
Duncan Macmillan, president of Wells,
obtained this promise Of aid more
than a year ago. and Immediately un-
dertoos the work Of organizing Wells
alumna throughout the country for
the purpose of making an united ef-
fort 10 meet the requirements of the
board.
Nineteen centres have been estab-
lished in various parts OF the coun-
try. Two Of these are in the western
part Of New York State, one in the
central part and one in this city.
Mrs. O. y. Huntsmar is chairman OF
the COMMITTEE on arrangements for
Tuesdays function. Its other mem
bers are Mrs. +. II. Potter. Mrs. Grace
Starr Tyson. Mrs. H. ". Powell, Miss
Helen Gray and Edward Meinel. Tick
cts are 81.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
BLIND 8 YEARS, SHE
SEES AGAIN AT 80
Celebrates New Years Birthday
and Restored Sight at
Same Time.

Miss Mary J. Hsrtelius celebrated
New Years. Thanksgiving and her
birthday yesterday at her home, 1901
Fifth Avenue, Bay Ridge. After an
operation for cataracts last month at
the BROOKLYN Eye and Ear lnfrmary,
the bandages we're finally removed
from her eyes on he- eightieth birth
dav. She saw for the first time IN
eight years
There are lots Of things TO see, and
Mrs. Hartelius does not intend to al
low matter Of eighty years to inter
fere with her seeing them. Under
the direction Of her son, }. q. Har-
telius. who has come from his home
in Georgia to assist her. she Will start
out on a tour of discovery Just as soon
as she can get lenses TO enable her
TO take in the fine points.
Ia the eight years during which she
has sat in darkness the skyline across
the Bay has acquired new Irregular
ties; trains have burrowed under the
river and streets and highway are
honeycombed with subways.
And Bay Ridge has not stood still.
When Mrs. Hartelius last looked out
on the ueighborhood II was practical Y
A meadow. And now look at IT,
Streets galore. numbered way up IN
tho Seventv-nines ana Eighties. real
estate bungalows and groups OF neat
little cottages. with trolley cars clat-
tering by the door. Just to sit by the
window and look out will be like an
II. G.. Wells vagary 20 Mrs. Hartelius
for some time TO come.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
LAKEWOOD GIVES
1915 GAY WELCOME
Golf and Riding Follow Dancing
at Resorts Hotels-GOvernor
Fielder Among Guests.

Lakewood, n. j., Jan. 1.-The pass
ing Of the old year and advent Of 1915
was feraded here last evening by the
largest crowd Lakewood has ever seen.
The presence of Governor and Mrs.
Fielder Of New Jersey at the Laurel
House gave impetus to social activity.
Several large functions are being given
in their honor.
The New Years Eve ball at the
Laurel House was the gayest affair ever
held in Lakewood. One of the many
features was a buffet supper. Covers
were placed for 900. Dancing ceased
at 1l:45, when the lights were turned
out and the orchestra played "Auld
Lang Syne." When the clock struck
u 1916" in red electric lights flashed
out. Dancing then continued until 3
o'clock. Among the dancers were Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Lathrop Pack, Mr..
and Mrs. Girard Romano, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jasper Lynch. Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Os-
borne, Mr. and Mrs. l.. c. Richie, Miss
Peggy Lynch, Governor and Mrs.
Fielder, Senator and Mrs. John W..
Slocum, Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Johnston,
Miss VI. L. Johnston, Miss Edith and
Miss Emma Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. R.
L. Cochran, Miss Anne Cochran, Miss
Ethel j. Lynch, Miss Florence Erdon,
Z. u. Reynolds and S. Haywood Harris.
a New Years handicap golf tourna-
ment was held at the Country Club, p.
S. p. Randolph winning with net
score OF 70. Other players were Archi-
bald j. Mcclure, +. b. Mackey. 5. H..
Harris, Wayland Smith, l.. j. Hunter,
+. G. Heating, II. D. Smith and T. r..
Wilson.
Among golfers at the Country Club
was 4. J. Drexei, jr. Mr.. and Mrs.
Drexel came here TO spend New Years
with Mr. and Mrs. George Gould. With
Nh. DreNel At golf were J. ". Noyes,
{. Stewart and c. Richardson, of New
York.
At Laurel in the Pines are Mr.. and
Mrs. James Archibald. of Washington;
Mr.. and Mrs. c. p. Carter. of New
York; Miss X. +. Robertson. Miss Anna
Newbold, S. X. harrington, William II.
butler, Mrs. NJ. s. Borden, the Misses
Borden. of New York. Mrs. Randolph
Chandler. of Boston, and oc.Ns. Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas J. Ryan. o. New York,
gave a New Years Eve dinner at
Laurel in the Pines. Among their
guests were Mrs. j. Stewart White,
Miss Young, Mrs. W. w. Berkely and
others of New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-02
NEW YEAR PARTY BLOWN UP
Guest Adds to Gayety by Touching OF
Stick of Dynamite

Ardinio Alfarata visited his friends
Joseph Camilla and Giuseppi Bellini. at
"a West Sixty-seventh Street, New
Years Eve. Alfarata had a stick OF
dynamite. II was glorious frecracker
warranted TO bang, he told his hosts.
One of the trio lit the fuse.
The warranted bang surpassed ex-
pectations. Camilla, bruised and burned
was taken to the Polytechnic Hospital
The other two were hurled to the floor
but were uninjured. The kitchen was
wrecked, and the plaster in nearly al!
the rooms OF the tenement was cracked
and the windows broken. Fire engines
added TO the excitement.
Yesterday the three were held by
Magistrate Ten Eyck in the West Side
Court in 81 1000 bail each. Examination
is set for Tuesday.