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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-01
Official Statements

first two bonnbardments caused only material
damage. The last. which was particularly
violent. caused several casualties among the
civilian population. Two German machiheS
wers brought down py our pilots on Sepue"-
Der 20. On IN - -;
On the night of September Is--S our ar
oisr.s Lor,hed the station at Colmar and
enemy establishments north OF scissors. drop
ping 1000 kilos of projectiles with success.
GERMAN
BERLIN. Sept So.--The visibility being
poor. the activity Of ell our armies was less
than on preceding days. In Flanders the
artillery duel was severe on the coast. and IN
the evening from the User as tar a. the
Co-,ir.s-Ynres canal Advancing British
rcconnoitring parties we're repulsed at many
poiuts.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-22

Your subway and traction COM
mission has it all figured out where
the people live and how many pass
through the loop. What do they
know about conditions ten years
from now? Nothing. We are plan
ming some big things, such as zon-
ing and redistricting, which may
change the entire character of parts
of the city and overthrow the figures
Of the engineers.
The present franchise Of the trac-
ton lines has ten years to run. Why
should we change and make it thir-
ty? The service is bad enough with
out giving them another hold on US.
Eve advocate better use of pres
ent police and city ordinance pow
ers. We want to wait at least for an
other year. Meanwhile we can have
hearings on this. We object to the
attempt to rush it into the legisla-
tuTe
I'VE feel that we have not had
sufficiently long time to present our
side of the question, and if the mat
ter is to be called up in the council
Monday night we will not have had
a chance OcOnsider it.
81 want to protest against the
habit that transportation committee
aldermen have of staying away from
these meetings. I think every mem
Der should be here to get the facts.
It looks as though some of them had
decided on their votes without even
seeing what the matter is all about.
There is no reason why we can't
wait. The traction lines present
franchise has ten years more to run.
Why not wait at least a part Of this
ten years and meanwhile we can at
tempt to change the state constitu-
ton so as to permit public ownership.
1.-THE transportation committee is
asking us to take the choice of two
evils, a long franchise or rotten serv-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-22

f1AND FOUNDING
Slick Walter Fisher, who gets $3.50
a day from the city, but who argues
as though he were hired by the trac-
ton lines, withstood another day of
pounding yesterday at the 1920
franchise bill upon which the local
transportation committee is having
public hearings. And he came
through in the same tricky, success
full way, shedding questions like a
duck sheds water and handing back
two to the witnesses one.
TOmaz Deuther, representing the
Northwest Side Commercial Mems
assn, again appeared before the
committee and asked that a hearing
be given Saturday to a lawyer whom
the association would hire to point
out the defects in Fishers $300,000,-
600 plans to tie up Chicago body and
soul for at least 80 years, and prob
ably longer, quashing all hope of
public ownership in the meantime.
Fisher tried hard to find out just
what the attorney was going to con-
tend, and, failing in this, he tried to
get the name of the lawyer Why
he wanted this he didn't say.
Morton L. Johnson, president of
the Chicago Public Ownership
league, voiced the sentiments of
those he represented when he asked
in the name Of organized labor that
no action be taken in this legislature.
TEL us what you are for and
against" asked Fisher.
1--WE are against this so-called 30
year bill. We are for municipal own
eTship. We don't want any such
franchise given away by the city.
''The city could finance the same
scheme on AZ per cent bonds. The
traction interests are asking 612.
The difference between these two
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-06-08
ARMY AND NAVY SPEND
 s17.ooo.ooo FOR SHOES

WASHINGTON, June 1-Contracts for 3,450,000 pairs of shoes for the army and navy were awarded today through the national defense council. Delivery is to be completed within eight months, and the average price per pair will be $4S5. The contracts, awarded on competitive bids, were distributed among 27 firms.
 The army will get 2,600,000 pairs of the shoes and the navy S50,000 The contracts represent the largest shoe purchase ever made by the gov ernment, their total value reaching nearly s17,OO0.000.
 The army purchases include three styles of marching and field shoes. The navy buys the regulation black calfskin shoe.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-06-08
DOUGLAS MAN HAS
 DEVICE TO SINK U-BoATS

DOUGLAS, June 1.-Charles Cas- tera, a motorman living at 625 Eighth street, thinks he has the big idea for vanquishing the submarine peril. He has figured out a plan he says, that will make torpedo gun as harmless as pea shooter, and will write Sec retary Daniels at once to explain his device.
 While not desiring to go into details for fear some one will rob him of the fruits of his idea, he says the device he has in mind will prevent torpedo from exploding when it strikes a ves- sells side and bob off as harmless as a rubber ball back in the direction it came.
 Castera has been an inventor all his life and is now working on a device for generating electricity by means of wind power.
 Other Douglas men are working on the submarine proposition. It is known that at least one forwarded his plans to the naval consulting board nearly month ago.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-06-08

The suggestion is offered in the ut most seriousness that the Arizona Council of Defense, through an ap- propriate committee-and the subject is big enough and important enough for the executive committee to handle direct-institute vigorous movement looking, specifically, to the speedy completion of the Yuma Project and the reclamation of the area included within it which here is referred to, and that this movement be then broad ened and enlarged to include in it's scope every feasible reclamation pro- ject in Arizona on the Gila and Col ,rado rivers and their tributaries.
 There could be no greater contri- button at this time to the nations preparations for war than the carry ing out of the program suggested, nor does the plan lose it's force when coupled with the reflection that the proposed enterprise is equally desira- ble as peace measure.
 I venture the hope that you will ex- ert the influence of your position in this important matter.
 Very respectfully,
 MULFORD WINSOR.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-06-08
sTockMEN PROTEST
 AGAINST R. R. RATE

Globe, June 3-An agitation was set on foot yesterday to bring the corpor- ation commission to the city for an inquiry into the freight rates charged by the local division of the Arizona the commission will return to Globe after it has concluded the tour of the state upon which it is now engaged.
 The main point at issue, according to those who are interesting them selves in the movement, is the rate on hay The question which will be put up to the commission for settle ment is why it costs $945 per ton to ship alfalfa to Globe from Phoenix, and why it only costs $5 per ton to ship this commodity from Phoenix to Fl Paso, or double the distance be- tween the Salt River capital and this community
 
 concerned in this matter Hay is now selling in Phoenix and vicinity for S15 per ton. If it could be brought here at the same rate Fl Paso enjoys it would result in a material reduc- tion in the local market
 At the present time, hay commands $23 per ton here, and is scarce at that figure. From Stafford, the main distributing point in the Gila valley, it costs $3.60 per ton to import feed into the city, which, in view of the Fl Paso rate, appears to be an ex- eessive charge.
 Communications to Commissioners A. A. Betts and A. w. Cole were dispatched yesterday, requesting a hearing here on this problem The commissioners are now in Douglas, conducting an investigation which is expected to be finished Monday. It is probable that they will then grant the petition of the local residents. and convene here for the purpose of extending such relief as may appear equitable.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-06-08

with which to feed the entente armies of Europe, the starving people of Bel gium and our own army and people Representatives of the government are hurrying all over the country fly ing the banner, Plant, plant, plant and gathering information as to how production of food stuffs may be in creased.
 In the face of this demand, and while money without limit is being appropriated and expended for every other war purpose, and ship-buildfng programs calling for billions are be- ing hurried feverishly through, and armies are being raised and equipped without regard to the cost in dollars, a few millions, or few hundreds of millions for that matter, should be de voted to the reclamation of western lands upon which to raise the pro- duce necessary to feed the world and win the war, and the same feverish haste should be displayed in the con- struction of ne works essential to such reclamation that characterizes the building of battleships and de- stroyers and transports.
 Arizona has hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land susceptible of reclamation. The Gila river and it's tributaries and the Colorado river and it's tributaries, can be made to water tremendous areas. capable of supply ing food stuff for millions. The whole giant project thus suggested should be entered upon without delay. Pre- iminary data is at this moment avail able for at least four feasible projects on the Gila river proper, and two smaller ones on affluent streams while the possibilities of reclamation along the Colorado are we'll known.
 Right here at Yuma's door. where tke Gila and the Colorado meet, and many thousands of acre feet of water flow by daily, a considerable portion CT the famous Yuma rroJecG. begun DN tic EJNtTuu1cllL III lSJ3. ESIuoihS uncomplat,t At least 1T.00G acres of the most fertile alluvial bottom land, on both sides of the Gila east of Yuma and included within the original linn it's of the Yuma Project, lie unre- claimed. The appropriation which would be required to make possible the nroduction of abundant crops on this considerable acreage, would prob- ably not build a submarine destroyer, of which it is said there are to be hundreds constructed. And of course the completion of this important part of the Yuma Project need not in any way interfere with the construction of submarine destroyers, or with any other feature of the naval program.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-06-08
INFLUX OF MExIcANS FOR FARMS VIOLATES LAWS

WASHINGTON, June "A resolu- tion adopted by the house immigra- tion committee asks Secretary Wilson by what authorized authority he al- lows the entrance of Mexican farm laborers into the United States. The committee holds the secretary's re- cent action in directing the admission under prescribed regulations of Mex jeans for temporary labor on farms of the southwestern states is in violation of the immigration law.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-06-08
WINSOR TELLS OF ARIO LANDS ID
 FARM
MuifoFd Winsor Writes Letter to Gov ernor Which Results in Awakening Council of National Defense.

Under date of May 12, Senator Null ford Wirsor wrote a letter to Cover nor Campbell relative to ways and means of stimulating food production as war necessity, which resulted in the Arizona Council of National De- fense passing resolution directed to Secretary Lane. The suggestion Of Senator Winsor was that the gov ernment spend some of it's millions retaining the arid lands of the coun- try, thereby making it possible to grow food products on millions of acres which are now worthless so far as production is concerned
 As soon as the letter was received by Governor Campbell, the latter wrote Mr Winsor highly compli- mentary reply and referred the con- municatiop to Dwight B. Heard, chair man Of the council, who took the con- munication before the next meeting with the result a resolution calling the attention of the government to it was passed, which was transmitted to Secretary Lane. The letter and reso- fution appear below:
 Thos. E. Campbell,
 Governor, Phoenix, Arizona
 My Dear Governor:
 While the whole machinery of the United States government is being de voted to the preparation of the coun- try for the fulfillnent of it's war re- responsibilities, and the wits of our greatest scientists, inventors and economists are being taxed to devise ways and means of extending the most effective aid to our allies, and billions are being expended in the name Of bumanity and democracy, there is a measure of preparedness that I would suggest for your consid- eration and the consideration of the Arizona Council of Defense, which you recently appointed, to the end that your influence and the influence of that organization may be extended in it's behalf
 The declaration is frequently heard from men high jn authority that the first great need Of the hour is for food,
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-06-08
LUMBER MEN AT
 FLAGSTAFF STRIKE

Flagstaff, Ariz., June Men en- ployed in the logging camps of the Flagstaff Lumber company went on strike today when their demands for a refused by the company The con- pany offered an increase of p cents, but the men refused to accept it, off cials said About 65 men quit work, paid $3 to 1925 a day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-04
PENN FIVE DRILLS
FOR GREEN GAME
Quakers to Play First Inter
collegiate League Match
Saturday Night
EMERY BACK AT GUARD

Penn's basketball team is putting In
hard session of practice preparatory TO Us
third game of the season Saturday night
when Dartmouth will be played at Weight
man Hall.
With the return Of The students to classes
Yesterday. Coach Lon lourdet was aOIe 10
get his full quota Of players out for the hrst
real basketball practice in two weeks last
night. Several drills have been held during
the week. but the Red and Blue tutor was
minus the services Of those players VINO
lived out of town,
with the Dartmouth game only three
davs off, Jourdet drove his players with
a whip hand in an endeavor to bring back
the condition that was spoiled somewhat
by the lay-oGf during the vacation time
. The bat.le with the Green will pry open
the intercollegiate League season and as
most Of the easy games come at the begin
ming. Jourdet is anxious to get a lying
start in the race for the championship
which last year was won by the Qu2Kers III
a post-season contest with Princeton.
with the return Of Carl Emery. the regu-
lar guard, che, Ivory was sent over to the
second team. In the absence of Emery, the
former West Philadelphia High School lad
had been filing il at the guard position.
The Penn players will he drilled again
tonight with n light practice tomorrow, 50
that all will have improved in form for the
battle Saturday night.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-04
A. NJ. GILLIAN DEAD
Sports Editor of the Record Succumbs
to Pneumonia

A. NJ Gillian. for more than n quarter
of a century sports editor OF the Philadel-
phia Record and one Of the best-known au-
thorities ON sports Of all kinds in the | nited
States. died last night at his home, 227 East
Logan street Germantown lie went home
last Thursday night with severe cold,
which developed into pleursy and later into
pneumonia. Mr Gillian was about nifty
tiye years old and unmarried.
In 1853 Mr.. Gillian, who was born in
Bradford County Pa, came TO the Record
from Boston, where he had been engaged
iu newspaper work. 4 year or two later his
health became impaired and he Went South,
remaining for about year, when his con-
dftion improved. ana he returned 10 his
desk At another time ne made an expert
fnent in advertising with "A big New York
retail house. but did not like the work and
again returned to the Record after about
three months. Since then he had fun charge
of the sports department and had come
To be ranked among the most authoritative
writer's in the country.
He attended and described many Of the
big fstc events staged in various states,
and was known to all the puglistic cham
pions of the last twenty-five years Known
for his absolute fairness, Mr.. Gillian had
the respect even of sporting men he crit
icized, sometimes harshly, lie was always
deeply Interested in baseball and college
football, and did much to enforce honesty
in amateur sports. Arrangements Tor the
funeral have not been made.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-04
SCRAPS ABOUT SCRAPPERS
BY LOUIS II. JAFFE

ID Georges Carpenter and Les Darcy. the
Mnuayunk mauler is being mistaken t7r
m!ddeweight, yet the philadelphan really
is a welterweght. Loughrey is a legitimate
boxer in that division, as he can make lf2
pounds at ringside without weakening in
the least. LouEhrey made the mistake of
meeting middleweights on his return from
Australia, and the big disadvantage in
weight greatly handicapped him. Now
Frank Is under the management Of Joe
Lewis. and Joe plans to send LOughrey
against no one over the ~" limit Frank
has been raising the dust over the hills
OF Manayunk. and Lewis says he is ready
for a fling AT the best of the welterweghts.
Jack Britton, Albert Badoud am. Ted Lewis
are three boxers Lewis suggests as oppo-
nents for loughrey.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-04
AMERICANS LEAD
in ICE SKATING
Gustave Hoglund Gives US.
Athletes Edge Over Eu-
ropean Performers
EXCEL IN FIGURE WORK

Gustave Hoglund. the wel-lnown con-
tnental figure skater. in II discussion of
skating In this country and abroad, said:
IL have skated in practically every city
IN Europe where riults are maintained, and
! must admit that the skaters here are
more generally proficient than they are
abroad
"For long I slsated at St MorIt2, and
Il Is conceded that some Of the best skaters
in the world skate there: but when one
considers the average skater am convinced
that the prize, ngurat!vely speaking, must
be handed to the American skaters.
II attribute this to the natural athletic
ability Of Americans, There is no doubt
that Americans excel in nearly every
branch of athletics, and when everything
is taken into consideration skating is Il part
of athletics.
1T Is like running. jumping or anything
else. II requires a great deal OF practice,
and the more practice the skater gets the
more proficient lac becomes
American skaters master the most diff
cult continental figures more readily than
any other skaters. l have given instruc-
tlons in all of the cities where ] have
siated, and therefore, l feel that am in
a position 70 judge. Ii is the ability OF
Americans in other lines OF athletic en-
deavor that helps them so much in skat-
ing
"Suppleress Of the body Is an essential in
skating The body must not be held rigid
and stiff This is true in other athletic ac-
tivities, and has prepared Americans Tor
skating. or course, l am speaking e%-
cusvely Of figure skating and dancing on
the ice.
once the European war Is over and in
ternational competitions are resumed on
broad scale, / know that the American
skaters will prove more proficient in the
aggregate than the European skaters"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-04
MORRISETTE is SIGNED
BY NEW YORK GIANTS
Former Mack Pitcher to Train in Lum-
ber Camp Before Going South
With McGraw

NEW YORK. Jan. 4.-Billy AIorrIsette.
who played with the Athletics and Balti-
more in the International League last sea-
son. has signed to pitch for the Giants.
Morrisette Is a produce o. Mount st. Jo-
seph's College of Baltimore. In order TO
gpt into condition for the trip to Marlin.
Morrisette has gone to a lumber camp in
the north woods.
In condition he has shown himself to be
a good pitcher
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-04
CHICAGO BECOMES CENTER
OF STAR TRACK AND FIELD
ATHLETES, SAYS MEREDITH
Western Performers Invade Newark and Take
Away Many Big Honors in National Champion
ship Events-Title Brought Back
BY ]. Z. CTEDl MEREDITH

tion. for il is this organization that has
been the leading light in athletics and the
pace setter for the Middle West
II ~ true that other clubs and the col
leges have also done many helping things
for that same cause, but, rs | mentioned,
the Chicago Athletic Association has been
the paCe.sCtter. while the OtHers have been
more or less imitators Of its work.
The Far West has contributed and helped
greatly the work of the NIid5le West and
has sent ON to us some grca men in Fred
Murray, Thompson, Fred L. .ly and host
Of others. II has been through their work
that the Middle West has gained the prize
that il now can claim-the center OF track
athletics
The West will no. I've allowed to hold
this title. however, without a struggle,
for the East will not give up the battle so
easily. In fact, the y. Y. \, c. has entered
the field for honors within the last year
with more interest than that club has ever
shown in the past. The athletes are round
ing up and putting in shape team which
will be a contender for the titles, and one
which will he hard TO beat.
The East vii miss, however the great
help which has been given in the past by
the irish-AmeriCan A. e. This club has
been losing the great interest for which it
has heretofore been noted. and also it has
lost most of its champions by retirement
Great Stars Retire
This change also echoes the passing of the
great athletes who have made New York
and its clubs famous for the last ten wears.
II Is with great sorrow that the followers of
the track in the East see such men as Mel
Sheppard, Platt and Ben Adams Abel
Kiyiat, George Bonhag. Jack ElIer, Pat Me
Donald. Matt McGra.h HanUes Eohemainen
and "A host of others pass out of competition
for these men are gone from the track so
far as the active competition goes. with
them goes the great strength of the East,
which has been going down gradually until
now the West can claim the position once
held it,
The West, however. has not taken up the
work where these men left il and been con-
tented with that, but has gone ahead and is
doing things on the track which even these
od-timers did not do in many cases. The
East never produced the hurdlers that the
West has put on the track those last two
years.
The new year will see great things on the
track by reason of this change. The
two sections are being drawn more closely
In competition, and with it will necessarily
come greater performances, as always has
been the case where competition is strong
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-04
Jasper Strong on Home Floor

Jasper as the es
this has Jasper
its twHr all depart
sensational work at home @
break the Jewels winning streak The contend that Trenton unoea nc
stake The Jewels will go into the Handicapped by
In stride
of
back one wen terms with The Greys
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-04

EASTERN LEAGUE PENNANT AT
STAKE WHEN JASPER TACKLES
REJUVENATED TRENTON FIVE
Victory for Jewels Virtually Will Clinch Title fol-
First Half of Season-Greystock in
Wonderful Form

virtually stake
is a the
tInbe Grey
stock
the kennsonans Saturday they can get ava"
tonight
ally cln the pennn looked like for Jasper camden
the o
the hh1
ave
o team n he
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-04
Greystock Playing Wonderful Ball

time this
of
be McWnnms the greatest
out Of the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-04
HORSENIEN START SESSION
TO REVISE TRACK RULES

COLUMBUS o., Jan. a. With fun
power 10 act finally, committees Of the Ma
tional and American Trot-ing Associations
are in session here for the purpose of re-
visi7g rules of racing harness horses so
that the codes will be uniform. An at
tempt viii he. made to have the laws made
mandatory on AL tracks that are members
% the controlling organizations,
John c. WeIty Of Canton. O.. is presd-
ing over the joint conference. lie Is presl-
dent Of the National Association.
The conference likely will extend over
several days