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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-06-13

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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26
PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES

As the evenings grow longer we
wish to call the attention of the peo-
pie of Kennewick to the library. 1t
belongs to you, your taxes help sup
port it, and with the aid of the Wo-
mans club, keep up the running ex-
penses. We have some fine reference
works and many of the leading period
icals. We receive the state bulletins
and material on subjects for debate.
During the past summer we have
had several good contributions of
books and have purchased a number.
Touching on the live issues of the day
will be found: ga Diplomats Wife in
Mexico" with the Allies" Ger
many and the Next War;" by T. Won
Bernhard, and Germany and Eng
land" by j. A. Cramb. Among the
fiction books are: eco Forth and
Find" "The Seed Of the Righteous"
"When Mans Man," "a Woman
Rice Planter" and others.
AClub Stories" written by Wash
ington club women is missing, and we
hope the party having it will kindly
return it 50 it may be put in circula-
ton.
- Librarian.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26
GREAT DEMAND FOR
HIGHWAY ENGINEERS
Felt in East as in West, Reports
L. v. Edwards After 1000
Mile Automobile Trip

That there is growing and insis-
tent demand in the east for highway
engineers men especially trained for
highway building and the same diff
ficulty in securing real highway en-
gineers in that part of the country
that we find in the west, is the conclu-
sion of L. v. Edwards, professor Of
Railway and Highway Engineering in
the State College of Washington, on
his return from an automobile tour Of
the eastern and southern states this
fall. His trip, more than 1000 miles
of which was by automobile, was TAX
en- from Pullman to Raleigh, North
Carolina and back, by way of Detroit,
Cleveland, Pittsburg, Philadelphia,
Richmond, Raleigh, Columbia, S. c.,
and Savannah, Ca, and included a
careful investigation of the different
types OF =. aus travelled over. Of these
the most important were the concrete
near Detroit, the brick roads
in the vicinity of Cleveland, the ma
cadam roads (waterbound and btu
minous) around Philadelphia and
Pittsburg, and the type of highway
common in the south, near Raleigh,
for example, constructed mostly Of
top soil, sand, clay and gravel.
AS a whole, road construction work
in the east differs from that in our
western states. Prof. Edwards be-
lieves, in being somewhat more care
fully supervised. The system of year
ly maintenance there seems also to be
better than ours.
In the east, as here, it is being re-
cognized by highway engineers gen.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26
Royal Society Embroidery Goods

orally as the wiser policy to construct
either a cheap road surface, such as
the sand clay or gravel, or a distinct
ly high grade surface, such as the best
type of bituminous macadam, asphalt
tic concrete, cement concrete or brick;
as it is realized that water bound ma
cadam and other porous road surfaces
fail within few years under the ac-
ton of severe climates and high speed
taffic. .. r
The east is spending each year, in
creasingly large sums of money in
highway construction and has shown
a notable Improvement in its high
ways since 1911, not merely in in
crease of improved highway area, but
especially in the type of construction
adopted.
The south like the east, is alive to
the advantages of the Federal good
roads act, and it is hopefully and con-
fidently predicted that this act is only
a beginning Of the aid that will be CIV
en- the state for good roads by the
government.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26

ing 10 cents, are pouring into the
postoffice daily from women in var
ious parts Of the country who have
Joined in an endless chain" scheme
promoted by the so-called National
Brokerage Exchange. u... as.
Federal agents are searching for
officers of the Exchange" who are
charged with using the mailg to de-
fraud. A room in a business block,
to which all the letters are addressed,
was suddenly vacated three weeks ago,
the authorities say. Nm
To every woman who would send 10
cents in silver and write five friends
urging them to join in the chain, the
exchange" promised "new 1917
model silk petticoat."
"The volume of mail for the 'ex-
change is rapidly growing" said POST
master E. A. PNrdy, "and today we
received $4,000 letters, enclosing 25,-
600 dimes. Thousands of the letters
have been returned to the writers, but
a large majority carry no return
marks and as result the dead letter
office is becoming clogged. Other mail
channels Of the Office are choked daily
by the influx of mail for the Eek
change"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26
CITY OFFICIALS OP-
POSED TO 9 AND Z
Washington League Of Munich
palities Goes on Record against
the Referendum Measures

Many problems Of Importance in
connection with the administration Of
city affairs were considered by the
League of Washington Municipalities
at its seventh annual convention in
Everett, according to City Attorney F.
R. Jeffrey, who represented the city
Of Kennewick at that convention. Rep
resentatives were present from prac-
tically every section of the state and
each one had some problem to submit
to the convention for consideration.
In speaking of the convention Mr..
Jeffrey said: ave fully discussed the
present laws governing cities in this
state and also carefully considered
proposed laws affecting municipal
corporations. / am particularly anx-
ious to inform the voters of this COM
munity Of the action taken by the
convention with reference to the Ref
erendum Measures and upon which
the people will have to vote at the
coming election.
Measure No. 8
Referendum Measure No. 8 Us the
one known as the budget law and re-
lates to INCREASING and expenditure Of
revenues by counties, cities, school
districts, port districts and metropoli-
tan park districts. Every city official
at the convention favored budget
system for municipal revenues; also
every city official present was OPP
posed to. this proposed law for the
reason that the same is so framed as
to hamper the governing officials in an
efficient administration of the city aft
fairs. The law makes the funds in.
cluded in the budget a trust for the
specific uses and purposes set forth
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26
Agents for Ed. v. Price Tailoring

in the budget and makes any public
official who violates this trust liable
personally and on his official bond. It
also requires that the item for which
any money is to be expended must be
specifically set forth in the budget;
that is, you must anticipate a year in
advance what particular road, street
or bridge will need repair and the cost
thereof, and itemize this in the bud
get. If conditions change so that the
money or a portion thereof should be
expended on some other street or
bridge, it could not be done without
the official becoming personally liable.
Neither could funds be secured from
any other source unless the governing
officials of the municipality deemed it
expedient to declare an emergency and
issue emergency warrants as provided
in the laws.
"There are two principal defects in
the emergency provisions of the law.
First, the declaration of the city coun-
Gil .or county commissioners that an
emergency exists is not conclusive
but any taxpayer can take the case in
to court after the warrants have been
issued and the money expended and
the tax levied, and make it a question
of fact in each particular case for the
court to determine whether an emer-
gency existed. With the possible un-
certainties of how the Judge or jury
might view the question no official
would take the responsibility or the
risk of declaring an emergency.
"The second defect in the emer-
gency provision is that the amount
necessary, to redeem the emergency
warrants and accrued interest must
be included in the budget for the sue
ceeding year. From the wording of
the law it would seem that the courts
would be forced to hold that these
emergency warrants must be consid-
cred an item of current expense. Since
the law limits the levy for current ex-
pense to IL mills, which amount is
barely sufficient to meet the necessary
overhead expense Of the cities, and
since the proposed law makes the city
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26
KENNEWICK MIGHT HAVE HAD
LOT OF 1O-CENT PETTICOATS
Not a Few Young Ladies Sent Their
Dimes to Fake Company in
Minneapolis

Had the National Brokerage Ex-
change been all that it was claimed
for it Kennewick would have had an
array of new petticoats that would
have made rainy day look like fall
en- rainbow. About month ago the
10-cent petticoat chain letters struck
town and as a result a good many
Kennewick 10-cent pieces are now
humping round in the u. S. mails.
The petticoat firm was supposed to
have existed in Minneapolis and re-
cent news dispatch fom that city says:
Thousands of letters, each contain
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26
THE FIT WONT WASH OUT

officials liable if they overdraw the
current expense fund, one does not
need to stretch the imagination to
foresee situations where the city could
not raise enough revenue to pay those
necessary expenses and consequently
the governmental machinery would
have to stop.
"There are other minor objections
but considered the ones I have men
toned sufficient to justify the rejec-
tion of the law. The League was unan-
imous in favoring the passage of an
adequate and effective budget system
by the next legislature if Referendum
Measure No. 8 is rejected at the cleo
ton.
Necessity Act !.
"The principle objections to Refer
endum Measure No. z. known as The
certificate of convenience and necessi-
ty act,' is that it takes away from the
cities the right to own and operate
public utilities of any kind or nature
without the consent Of the public ser
vice commission. There is no ques-
ton but that the city council or city
commissioners are as able to deter
mine the cities needs along lines of
public utilities as commission sitting
at Olympia, and in fact the city offic-
ials should be more competent to pass
upon these questions. This act also
tends in a great degree to destroy
home rule for cities and brings them
too much under the control Of state Of
ficials. If the public service commits
sion is composed of able and efficient
men the law might work all right, but
if incompetent men are on the COM
mission, as they have been at times in
the past, then every city in the state
must suffer, while if the matter is left
in the jurisdiction of each city, as it
is at present, then only those cities
will suffer who have elected incompe-
tent officials.
"Many other important questions
were considered such as the division
of the state into Is health districts
and placing a whole-time health Of
ficer in charge of each district; es-
tabishing manager form of govern
ment for cities Of the second, third
and fourth classes; establishment Of
civil service in the clerical work Of
cities of the first and second class, and
general questions such as city plan
ming of port terminals, parks, streets
and architectural beauties"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26

Glass. china, and reputation are
easily cracked and never well mended.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-09
100000 LEFT TO MUSEUMS
Estate of James Gaunt To Be Divided
at Brothers Death

Requests which may amount to more
than 100000 90 to the metropolitan
Museum OF Art and the American MI
scum Of Natural History, under the
will OF James Gsunt. American repre-
sentative of A. and +. Pears, OF Lon
don, which was filed yesterday. The
Children's Aid Society and the Assocls.
ton for Improving the Condition OF
the Poor will receive $4,000 each.
Mr.. Gaunt made outright bequssts OF
81, 900 each to the Manhattan Eye, Ear
and Throat Hospital, the Day Nursery
and Babies Shelter and the Mountain
side Hospital Association OF Mont
clair, N. J.
DR.. Thomas T. Gaunt. brother OF the
testxtor, will receive the income for
life from the residuary estate. At his
death, the two $4,000 requests are 10
be paid. the remainder Of the principal
being divided between the Metropolitan
Museum OF Art and the American Mu-
scum OF Natural History.
Karol Lindeman Fischer, a nurse a.
the employ of Or. Gaunt, receives
$1,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-09
HOOKED BY MARRYING HABIT
Bigamist Refers Latest Sweetheart to
Discarded WE and Arrest Follows
In OHIO fields and kitchens
We have reached and won the goal 4.
We're the winners in the contest.
We are on the honor roll.
And we Won our splendid victory
With the hoe and mixing bowl.

The bigamous instincts of Henry u.
Purssell, the 27-yesr-old scion Of re-
spected Philadelphia family, caused
Judge Mulqueen, of General Sessions,
TO sentence him TO Sing Sing yesterday
for not more than four years and six
months. Purssell had been convicted
last January of having two wives, but
because he promised to support wife
No. l and his two little children Judge
Mulqueen had suspended sentence.
Last September, however, Purssell
fell in love with another woman, who
was living in East Eighty-fourth
Street, not more than block away
from his other wives. He believed she
feared mis- reputation, so he naively
asked her TO 60 around to 1881 Third
Avenue. where lived wife No. 2, and
get a recommendation as TO his general
good character.
Wife No. 2, who was Mary Quinn,
complained 10 the court. Judge Null
queen ordered Purssell's arrest forth
with
II am inclined to have you examined
by alienists," said the court before
passing sentence.
81 am perfectly sane. All ] want is
to go to prison and get this thing over
WITH" replied Purssell.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-09
500 FOR BERNHARDT NOTE
Maurice the Buyer at Beneht III
Strand--slO,00O Realized

Monsieur Maurice, known TO his ad-
mirers as the greatest terpsichorean
artist on earth, paid 500 for let
ter from Nine. Sarah Bernhardt at
Yesterdays benefit in the Strand for
the American Ambulance Field Service
in France. Nine. Bernhard was
scheduled TO appear, but IN her place
came Mile. Dorzist. with letter from
Berrhardt, in which she sent her re-
erets and stated the reason Tor her
non-appearanee- special matinee
which she had not foreseen when she
accented the invitation.
After reading the letter Mile.
Dorziat auctioned it of, starting the
bidding at $25. Maurice's bid was
made in French, but the suctioneeer
cried. "One hundred dollars; IT Is
vours. Your name, please?" and then
he stood up in the box, and every one
saw that il was the Maurice.
After an 1852" overture by the
Strand orchestra, there was an ad'
dress by George Wharton Pepper
The motion picture part OF the snow
was a film called "0ur American Boys
in the European War" and another
called sour Aviators." More than
$4,000 was realized by the sale oil
tickets
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-09
BURLESON TO CUT
OFF MAIL TUBES
Pneumatics to Go in Every
City but New YOrk-Re-
fers to "Insidious Lobby"
lETom The TIihunn Elfeau.

Washington, Dec. S.-Discontinusnce
Of the pneumatic mail tubes in every
city except New York is urged in the
annual report Of Postmaster General
Burleson made public to-day.
Mr.. Burleson makes it plain that the
service in the section north Of Grand
Central and Times Square stations Will
not be continued unless there is "a
very material reduction in cost"
The tube company, the Postmaster
General charges, has maintained an "in-
sidious lobby" and TO this, he says, il
due the public impression that the tube
service is more efficient and speedy
than what he proposes to substitute for
| it-a feet of auto trucks.
at is realized by the department"
Mr.. Burleson declares. that an impress
sion exists among patrons of the mail
service in the cities having pneumatic
tube service that the use of the
tubes materially expedtes the delivery
Of all letter mail. This impression has
been entirely built up by those finan-
| cially interested in the continuation Of
cxorbitsnt and indefensible contracts.
In some cities they have conducted an
advertising campaign which absolute
ly misrepresented the facts. II is shown
conclusively by the report referred to
that in the major portion of this ser
vice the tubes offer but an unwieldy,
unsatisfactory and enormously expen-
sive facility, which does not advance,
but rather retards the handling Of the
/ mails.
Expects Bitter Resistance
The department is fully aware that
its action in this matter will be Bit
terly resisted. Insidious Hobbies, which
will put forward as their spokcsmen
we'll meaning but III informed citizens
who believe they are acting In the in
terest of better postal service. will
bring directly and indirectly every in
fuenee possible to perpetuste this in
| cubus; but the department has an
abiding faith that II those with whom
| hnal responsibility rests will take the
trouble to know the truth this handi-
cap OF efficient postal service will be
, promptly thrown off,"
! The Postmaster General comedies
only Two hu|hhtaRtb 10 inc tupcS
that they provide q high rate OF speed
for "limited quantities" Of mail and
I freedom from surface congestion.
Company Heads Comment
In commenting on Mr.. Burleson's rec
ommendation, Merton l.. Emerson. gen.
eral manager of the United States Mail
Pneumatic Tube Company. said:
! Postmaster General Burleson's con-
! illusions are at such variance with the
| actual facts that II Is impossible to rec
oncile them. His statement is based,
SO he says, on the report Of . com.
mittee of his associates. This report
! has never been made public. although
i. was due on October /, le15-fourteen
months ago. The tube companies,
| therefore, are In q position OF being
convicted without knowing the charges
| brought against them.
"The Postmaster Generals charge
that insidious Hobbies have put forward
as their spokesman we'll meaning but
| i'll informed citizens is a gross rehee.
tion on the great civic organizations Of
the country"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-09
Turn to Johnson
as Third Party Leader

The call for a Progressive conference
issued last night BY Matthew Hale en-
phasizes the fact that the rank and file
Of the army that stood four years ago
at ArmAgeddon are searching their
shattered roster for another leader.
Hiram Johnson, OF California, is the
man they have in mind, but his accept
ance Of the commission discarded By
Roosevelt is extremely doubtful
They hope that Johnson will fail 20
reform the Republican party from the
inside and may be persuaded again TO
lead third party.
Johnson himself has not been con-
suited nor, as far as can be learned,
has his spokesman, Chester II. Rowell,
Republican state chairman of Califor-
MIA, who came here yesterday, but sue
ceeded in keeping out of the limelight
IL is known. however, that Johnson,
having been elected 10 the Senate on a
Republican ticket. has his heart set on
"progressivizing' the party as a mem
Der of 1t rather than by lighting IL AS
he did IN 1912
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-09
INDIAN BLAMES
PERTAINS HAND"
FOR TWO ARRESTS
Orators Wall Street Meeting
Interrupted-"Was Modest
ed" Speaker Says

That busybody. bit Of symbolic snat-
omy, the Hand Of England" seems
everlastingly up TO something. Should
you ask DR.. Tishi Bhutis, he will as
sure you with profound conviction that
the sinister member is meddling darkly
in the affairs of the LIST Police Pre-
cinct and rufFiing the placid lives OF
Captain Fsheys finest.
Twice within a few hours yesterday
DR.. Bhutia was arrested and brought
before Magistrate Reynolds in the
Tombs court The first time he was
freed on a charge of pcddling without
a license, and the second, when taken
in on Il disorderly conduct charge, he
announced that he would take the mat
ter 10 Police Commissioner Woods and
snatch aside the curtain which masks
the secretive British hand.
DR.. Bhutia is secretary and orator IN
chief Of the National India Associa'
ton, whose motto is India for the
Indians" and whose main purpose is
TO free that land from British domino.
ton From his rostrum at Broad and
Wall Streets each day the doctor ex-
horts the ghazi 10 rise and unshackle
his native soil from the hated rule OF
the Feringees and restore the ancient
principalties 70 their rightful sstraps.
Yesterday he had just reached an in
teresting point when up stepped Pa
trolman Rummy, who comes from Ind
lana.
"YouT lhave TO be moving on, pro-
fessor,' he said.
DR.. Bhutia paused to flick a speek OF
dust from his frock coat, adjusted his
tie and continued. Whereupon the
patrolman adjourned the meeting sine
die.
II was educated at Harvard" DR..
Bhutia told the court, "snd st the be-
ginning OF the war WAS exiled from
India. | have come here 10 spread the
truth, and constantly have been mo-
Tested"
Magistrate Reynolds questioned the
patroIman and said he was going to the
bottom of the affair, continuing the
case until Wednesday.