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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-30


Iy result if the strike is Of any length.
The workers point out that the rail-
roads will be as responsible for this
as the workers, but the loop papers
simply won't see it in that light.
Most of the railroads entering Chi
cago today ordered embargOes on the
reception of perishable freight and
of freight that cannot be delivered
before Saturday night. Cities Of the
country will have to feed themselves
on what they have on hand or what
can be hauled into the cities by troll
ley lines or motor trucks.
Chicago seems better fixed than
most cities, for it has on hand an al
most unlimited cold storage supply Of
eggs, meat and vegetables.
Cold storage companies which
have heretofore denied that they
were holding great supplies of meats
eggs and vegetables in their. retrig-
Grated plants to keep up the price Of
these things, let out walls today that
lack of coal to run their cooling
plants would result in the spelling of
enough foodstuffs to supply Chicago
for two years if a strike comes.
Lack Of coal will be felt most If
the railroads cease to run. That was
the statement Of municipal life ex-
perts yesterday in forcasting effects
of threatened rail strike.
Coal means power and power
means light, heat and transportation.
without power, pumping stations
could not run. Cold storage plants
with enough food for years could not
be kept cool without coal for the cool
ing machines.
Street cars and elevated trains
could not operate and electric light
plants would shut down. All this I'M
less more coal could be brought in
when the weeks supply which the
CITY has is exhausted.
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-30
ARMY GATHERS SUPPLIES IN
CASE OF RAILWAY STRIKE

FL Paso, Tex, Aug. 30.-In antici-
patton Of a nationwide strike, quar-
termaster's department of the enemy
is rushing vast amounts Of supplies
here to form a reserve for the United
States troops and national guards
men now modified in this district.
Several hundred carloads Of rations
and supplies are now en- route and
will reach here before the date sst
for the strike e begin. szz a,zn-r.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-30

Practically all Of the ice is Shipped in
by steam roads from Wisconsin and
Michigan lakes. Heads of a dozen
big ice companies declare that they
will be unable to get ice here in case
Of a strike and that there is not a
half days reserve supply on hand in
the city.
It is estimated that Is per cent Of
the milk supply is brought into"the
city by train and that a milk short
age is inevitable in case of strike.
Executives of steam roads enter
ing Chicago issued orders today to
clear the tracks Of all trains by Sun
day night.
The roads are exerting every en-
deavor to secure strikebreakers to
operate trains in case Of a stike.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-08-30
CLASSY GIRL LEAVEs-so DOES
AUTo-SHE DENIES BLAME

F. o. Bulls, a stock promoter Hv-
ing at the Windsor Clifton hotel, in
vited Agnes Ratch, 1911 Granville
av., to dine with him. Agnes is young,
beautiful and dresses classy. She
makes a charming dinner companion.
When they were in loop cafe Agnes
excused herself for "a moment. she
disappeared. Likewise did Dullls'
new six-passenger auto which he left
in front Of the cafe. Bulls is sus-
picious. He caused the girls arrest.
She denies the charge. The car is
still missing.
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dren of ancient Greece and today in
Japan.
The 1ateness of the spring has de-
layed many of the outdoor arrange
mentS. and the May queens may be a
trif,e late in arriving. but they will
make UP in numbers what they have
lost in time. for they are advertised to
appear in the north, east, south and
western parts of the city and will be
unusually interesting owing to the
many new features which are to enter
into the festivities. Uncle Sam is ex-
pected to pay his respects to Shake
spearean May queens. social center
May queens. civic royalties of the sea-
son. charity ones, and even prepared
ness is to come in for share of the
fetes.
The most unique of these spring
crowned heads is the one who every
year appears down in Southwest Wash
1ngton at Neighborhood House, and she
is no less royal for being enthroned
and crowned in the middle of the street
which has been roped off for her court
and the assembled thousands who each
year witness the coronation. Mr.. and
Mrs. John p. S. Neigh are the maitres
des ceremonies and are exacting as
the officers of any of the courts of
Europe that every detail shall be COM
plete and that the note of joyousness
shall reign supreme in this festival.
which is looked forward to, saved for,
denied for and dreamed of.
Special provision is made for the
mothers and fathers of the children to
see the professions and ceremonies. and
if they are not fortunate enough to
have houses fronting on that street
they have first choice of standing room
on the pavement. Four Maypoles will
be erected in the street before Neigh
borhood House, around which the dane
ing wiz take place, and this year In
ture. There will also be Spanish dances
of southern California The Indian
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of Agriculture are divided into three
classes: Professional papers, depart
ment bulletins and farmers bulletins.
AS long as the supply lasts any of the
publications will be sent free on ap-
plcation to the editor and chief of the
division of publications. After the free
supply is exhausted copies may be OBJ
tanned from the superintendent OF pub
lie documents.
If you want TO know what's on the
earth or under the earth or the shape
of the earth in the United States. just
ask the geological survey. There 10
constant practical business need for
this information. If a new railway.
electric or steam. is projected. the en-
gineers before submitting estimates or
cost first send for the topographic maps
from the geological survey covering the
proposed route.
There are 200 geologists constantly at
work digging out such facts. Their ac-
tivities extend into every state and
into Alaska and Hawaii, and reach
every mineral substance from gold to
sapphires, not to mention oil and wa
ter. over 100000 square miles these
biologists have roamed, mapped and
reported showing the location of coal
beds, phosphate beds. iron ores. gold
bearing rocks and placers, silver. cop
per, brass. zinc. limestone, granite.
slate-in fact, every kind of precious
and useful mineral from radium ores
and demonstrating formations to
common brick clay. Thus certain eco
nomic facts have been established
which are of vast Importance. FOR IN
stance our total known coal reserve
is about $500, ,O00, 100000 tons. or more
last year. and our known high-grade
iron ore reserve is estimated at 1900
600 900 tons, or about lSO times as much
as was mined in 1914.
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background such as would have de-
lighted the immortal bard himself
Simplicity is to be the keynote of the
setting for the lightest and merriest
scenes from ShakeSpeares plays. The
woods will be peopled with fairies.
hobgoblins and queens. both large and
small; soulful shepherdesses and shep-
herds signing for their mates. Rosa
linds and Orlandos playing at cross
purposes. katharines and Petruchios.
lovely PerditaS and a company of the
motley throngs which makes these
wonderful plays of all ages and climes.
Miss Sara +. Simons. head of the
English department in the high schools.
calls "A Fantasy of Mockery and
Mirth Composed of Scenes from Vari-
Gus Plays" which will be presented by
five companies of players before Queen
Elizabeth and her court, assembled in
the open, enthroned in all splendor.
with courtiers and ladies in waiting
grouped about. The coming of the
herald is to be announced by a blast
coming of the players. who are led by
their own heralds. Shakespeare, i'm
personated. is to lead the procession
as master of the revels and present
each company in turn to the queen.
after which he speaks the prologue.
The prologue was written by Miss
Simons and is a bit of blank verse.
x
The plays from which incidents are
selected are "A Midsummer Nights
Dream" "The Tempest ''As You Like
It," THE Tanning of the Shrew,"
Twelfth Night" and The Winters
Tale The music will be given by
the orchestras of the five high schools.
and will be played on stringed instru-
ments similar to those used in the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries.
While the last performance of this
Shakespearean pageant is passing on
the 18th of May. in the grounds of the
Smithsonian Institution the little chill
dren of the kindergartens of the pub
lie schools will assemble for their
May festival. which each year grows
in interest and is a source of delight
to thousands of mothers and fathers
who witness it. The enthusiasm with
which several hundred Children trained
in different schools enter into these
games, forming complete whole. is
marvellous to one who has not stopped
to think of the infinite pains taken to
teach them to move as Il unit and in
these movements to give expression
only to the good. the true and the
beautiful" Into all the kindergarten
plays the ball, the type of unity"
enters largely. many of the drills re-
semtling the games played by the chill
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Her System.

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT said in .
" recent argument on preparedness:
..They who would rely on a volunteer
militia instead of on a conscript army
know as little about real preparedness as
the lady knew about tobacco
why said this lady. its all nonsense
TO saw a woman can't buy her husbands
cigars AS for me, / never have the least
difficulty
".No? What's your system" she was
asked.
.I Just take along sample stump she
said. and there's never the least trouble
about matching the shade."
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Is Round of May Celebrations for Capital

life. Mr.. and Mrs Neigh and their as
sistant workers in tins settlement will
give play dealing with those prob
lens. This year the dramatis personae
of the play. Mother. Home and Coun-
try will be a curious one. and the plot
will be worked out allegorical1y. DIR.
Germproof. Nurse Antiseptic and Moth
er Helpless viii be the characters that
will illustrate the nurture of the child
and the needs of childhood of the pres
ent generation. The little kindergart-
eners will show how careful the parents
should be. because they initiate every
thing they do in the daily doll plays
which all children like. The act show
ing the history of public schools is to
illustrate the blessings of education
now open to all. Vocational training
is to be demonstrated in an act show
ing the settlement work; and religion.
law and service each has its place.
The national note in the play is TO
be spectacular well as instructive.
The discovery of America, colonization.
progress and achievement will make
up this cycle. and all the performers
will be suitably costumed variety
of tableaux will be given. with Uncle
Sam predominant. Miss Columbia his
leading lady and forty-eight girls OF
the Peace Club representing the states
of the Union and the periods OF their
admission.
Miss Mueller. head worker at Noel
House. the only neighborhood house in
the northeast section of the city, ana
which is not only a sOCidi pul al Vuu
cational and civic center. says II there
were better lighted streets and alleys
in the poorer parts of town there
would be less crime, and the next pest
thing to a settlement house Is a bril-
liantly lighted playground and street
where the children may enjoy compan-
ionship.
So Noel House-which means holiday
house-prolongs It's May festival into
the night and each year sees beau
tiful Maypole erected on the public
playground just across the street. and
dancing on the green. tableaux and
general frolic of games such as make
up an old English festival. and which
is indulged in by young and old alike.
This year there are to be new and
unique specialties introduced. and
everybody in the neighborhood Is get
principal feature after the crowning of
the May queen will be the milk
maids dance. in which twenty girls
will take part dressed in short blue
skirts and white basQues. with be-
witching caps of an early English pat
tern. Half of the girls will carry milk
pals and the other half stools. Then
the minuet will be danced in costume,
the Virginia reel by grown-ups and a
number of folk DANCES by the little
kindergarten children.
On May s and Washington is to
have an elaborate demonstration cele-
brating the centennial of the formation
of the American Bible Society in 1916.
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The Difficulty.

0gERNON CASTLE, before leaving
v New York to join the English
army, was condemning the German sub
marine activity.
ITO murder with submarines and then
deny their guilt-that is the Germans
system. and it would be "A good one,
no doubt if they could make it work;
if they could get their hand in. But
they can't.
They are like the amateur pick
pocket.
Don't you find pocket-picking DIM
cult and dangerous work. the Judge,
in pronouncing sentence. asked.
YES the amateur answered. but
it wouldn't be- he added, hopefully, II
l could only get my hand in"
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May day sports of the barbaric Celtic
peoples of Europe. Their heather fes-
tival was called Beitein and found ex-
preston in the kindling of fires on the
hilltops by night and indulging in
weird revels In Ireland. the Isle of
Wight and in the Scottish highlands
such celebrations continued until the
eighteenth century.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth CEN
turies in England the celebration was
universal. May-day being ushered in
by gathering flowers in the early morn
ing hours when the dew was on the
hawthorne and May blossoms. and the
men and maids stole forth to their
trySting places later to return decked
in garlands and carrying baskets of
flowers to pay tribute to the Queen of
May enthroned on the village green.
The queen was crowned. respects were
paid to her and favors asked, then
courtesies to the Maypole after which
the dancing and games were INDUCED
kindied. Even the king and queen
mingled with their subjects. for
Chaucer says in his Court of Love:
Forth goeth all the court. both most
and least. to fetch the flowers fresh"
Poor Catherine of Aragon went a-May-
ing with Henry VIII. Until recent
times the chimney sweeps in London
went forth Realistically dressed. danced
for the last of their work was finished
until the fall began.
In Mexico. in times of peace, the OBJ
servance of the day is very general,
and while many of the rites of "Marys
day" in the Roman Catholic Church are
a part of the celebrat ations. they indulge
in many quaint and artistic ways of
celebrating the coming of spring.
The most springlike. artistic and
merriest pageant to be given here will
be the Shakespearean one on May 10.
IL and IL in Rock Creek Park,
south end of the 10th street reser-
voir, by the five white high schools
of the District. This is to be all
high school Shakespearean celebration
which for beauty. purity of costum-
ing. detail and magnitude will excel
anything of the sort ever given here
by amateur performers. The woodland
charm of forest trees. streams and
natural scenery will make sylvan
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lightful how this May day feeling gets
into ones bones, and just as involun :
tarily as the streams gush forth and
go babbling along. the birds sing be-
cause they can't help it. the ring doves
coo and the woodpecker gives his loud
cry in response to the Shrill shrek of
the bluejay. so the small boy has Wis
ions of bird nest hunting, top spin
ming. marble shooting and the Izaak
Waltons slyly take down their fishing
tackle, pull the comfortable old felt
hat well down over their eyes and
slip away for a few hours of bliss.
flesh is weak.
One who hunted and fshed much
with the late Grover Cleveland, an
unaffected lover of the sport, said the
trip without a copy of Izaak Walton's
"Compleat Angler in his pocket. and
that when time came for bite of
lunch a few pages of the angler We're
also enjoyed.
There is peculiar charm about the
spring in Washington. owing TO its
numerous parks and open spaces. its
broad streets and avenues shaded with
a variety of trees and the green lawns
in front of the long rows of houses
which in most other cities are so un-
attractive as the warm days come on
Besides the green stretching in every
direction there are other ana many
unmistakable signs of the season to
who fill the capital at this time of
year.
The cry of the strawberry man is
heard in the street. and whether it be
the soft drawl of the negro voice, or
mellow tone of far away italy, the air
is filled with the cry of straw b'ries.
strawbries from the eastern sho, and
the accompaniment of the huckster
who cries his succulent vegetables
from Anna -randle" county. The ven
der of soft shell crabs goes shuff1ing
along, pushing his cart.
Horse shows, polo games and tennis
matches blossom forth in Potomac
ers of Mayfair assemble to see their
friends achieve the glories of the saw
dust and display the latest in sporting
togs of every sort
This year pageants celebrating the
three hundredth anniversary of the
death of Shakespeare will take the
place of many of the Maytime festi-
walls, but there are to be May queens
and Maypoles in plenty and the old
games and dances of merry England.
Our May queen corresponds with the
Goddess Flora, worshiped by the
Romans. and in whose honor floral
games were celebrated. beginning on
the 18th of April and lasting several
days. Many of our May day customs
come from them and the superstition
that it is an unlucky month in which
to marry is held in respect by most
latter-day brides just as it was by the
Roman maidens of centuries ago. The
modern floral professions and dances
are relics of the early Romans. while
other of the observances were the
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possible" This went to every hamlet
and every farmhouse having telephone
connections-nearly all have tele-
phones now-in Ohio The smaller
lights were oil stoves which are best
for this work. The larger consisted
of fires usually built of anything that
would burn. Wholesale destruction of
the most sensitive crops was prevented.
of August 10. 1915, this warning went
TO every gulf town from New Or
leans to Brownsville, Tex:
Tropical storm in center of gulf
moving northwest Will probably reach
Texas or Louisiana coast by Monday
morning. Warn all Interested to take
every precaution. All shipping should
remain secure in port At pm. wire
less report from the east central gulf
showed barometer 27:54 and wind
seventy miles an hour from the east"
According to schedule. the second
fury early the following morning But
there had been full twelve-hour
warming. This, and the fact, too, that
during the lull OF years after the first
hurricane the Galveston seawal had
been built by the government, pre-
vented a repetition of the first dis
dSter.
Similarly food warnings now prepare
the communities of the Mississippi and
the ohio valleys for the crucial tests
OF their ieVees days in advance. 1t
mas come to pass even that the au-
tnorIties in New York city, advised
from Washington what to expect. as
sembie gangs for snow removal work
before the snow begins to fall.
Information rules the world and the
world is ruled we'll II it be accurate
Department of Labor recently under
took to provide the American Industrial
world an intelligence service reflective
Of la Dor conditions the world over and
recording the fluctuations of supply
and demand in various parts of the
United States. The results are COM
piled In the Monthly Review issued by
the United States bureau of labor sta
tistics. Increasing demand for this
publication has proved it's practical
value to employers
Recently one of the trade scouts of
n big manufacturing concern read six
lines in the Daily Commerce Reports
Of the Department Of Commerce and
secured orders from a Portuguese firm
aSgregating more than S1OO.OOO There
are eight bureaus in the Department
of Commerce. All are concerned in
some way with industry and COM
merce.
Largest and most directly related to
business of these eight bureaus is the
"hredu OF IoIelSH ana domestic COM
merce. II gathers trade information
from all over the world and passes II
out to American manufacturers and
exporters. Most of the information is
printed in the Daily Commerce Re
ports. These are compiled from reports
rendered regularly to Washington by
'", men employed In the United States
consular service and stationed abroad.
II is the largest and most complete
foreign commercial service maintained
. vWorld
normal times. Recently the work OF
sitting and editing the reports on con-
dltions and opportunities abroad has
been brought to high state OF eff
cheney. In other words. the whole idea
has been TO make the information thus
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dutiable and free articles. 1t is upon
these fluctuations that tariff arguments
largely base. 1t is this document, too,
that tells the story as to the balance
of trade" considered so important in
determining whether prosperous con-
ditions exist within the United States.
Other publications of the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce deal
in detail with commercial conditions all
over the world. These are sold at a
nominal price. and may be had from
the superintendent of documents, or
from any of the district offices of the
bureau. The latter are located at New
York. Boston. Atlanta, Chicago. St
Louis. New Orleans, San Francisco and
Seattle.
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The federal reserve system is the
largest of the entirely new government
activities which deal daily and directly
with business men. Its federal reserve
bulletin has come to be regarded as a
financial barometer that the man of
large affairs must have on his desk.
1t was originated for the purpose of
keeping the officers and the member
banks of the system in close touch
with it's operation. This bulletin is
issued on the first of each month. and
is sent without charge to the officers
and directors of the system and to
each member bank. 1t is obtainable
by others upon application to the fed
eral reserve board in Washington on
the payment Of a small subscription
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hood House. where stage is erected
and bleachers put up for the audience.
However. the bleachers accommodate
only a small part of the crowd. so the
windows and housetops of the sur
rounding houses are utilized. and the
houses fronting on the alley help to
make perspective in the stage setting.
The people who are heart and soul in
this work have demonstrated that
there is more than one way of giving
an outdoor performance.
The May festivities at Neighborhood
House will begin on the 4th and con-
tinue until the 9Th. AS all plays must
be educational. especially in the prob
lens which go to make up the daily