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The Detroit times., 1917-03-16
FIRE BOARD
STANDS BY
ITS CHIEF


Are commission. and hundreds OF
the chiefs friends They regard
the veteran with the siivery locks
"a one Of the best ore chiefs In the
country. and they propose to stand
by him. declaring the jurors might
be good building experts but not
competent persons 10 criticize the
manner In which a Are is fought.
They point to the record OF the
man who has given his life to the
Are department. Chief Broderick
lives In the headquarters OF the de-
partmsnt AZ Wayne and Larned-sts.
He doesn't follow the schedules OF
days on. He sits In his once with
his boots az his side, day tn and
day out. ready for the sound Of an
alarm.
And when a are necsssftatss his
presence. be Is among the first Are
men there. The marvel OF n all 10
that this elderly man eoes thru wa
ter and sIus and smoke without
falling a victim to the ailments that
attack younger men who expose
themselves In this manner Not
more than two years ago he was
badly injured In an automobile ac-
cicent. He recuperated like .
healthy farmer boy. The chief
is unmarried. The department has
been his love. his work and bis life.
Yet. TO those who sat thru the in
quest the reason can nov be seen
Why the Jurors decided that the
chief should step aside and make
way for q younger man. The i'm
preston he made on the witness
stand In the inquest was not such
The Detroit times., 1917-03-16
IT WORKS WELL

a comslnst,or That 10 Doing an In
msase Amount Of Good This spring
A superlstive blood purifying nedt
cine like Hoods sarsaparilla. taken
before meals. combined with a super
lative iron tonic like Peptiron Pills.
taken after meals--makes the ideal
course Of Spring Medicine.
No other medicines possess such
curative properties a. these two
great restoratives working together
They reach the impure. improver.
ished. poisoned, devitalized blood.
and the worn. rundown. overvorked.
exhausted system They awaken the
appetite, aid digestion. purity and
vitaliEe the blood. give renewed
strength TO the whole body, produce
sound. natural sleep. and a complete
restoration to good health-the great.
est OF all earthly blessings. II 10 said
that ~ Invested In these two medi.
cines viii bring better results than
81 spent In other treatment.
n I'LL ~ wfse 10 get Hoods Sara
parills and Peptiron Pnk to-day
Adv.
The Detroit times., 1917-03-16
POLICE NAB
cuckoo" GANG
Gather In 10 Young Men Fol-
lowing Report Of
Robbery

With the arres Thursday. os 10
youths who give their occupations
as newsboys. the police say they
are about 20 rid the city Of lis most
troublesome cuckoo gang The
young men were taken after David
A. Roche. No. "a Boxwoodave, Sas
held up. beaten and robbed ~ an
$50 watch and $40 in cash on N, n
Toe-ave., near Randolph-st.
Only one Of the young men, Louis
Piolrowski. lives IN Detroit The
others are John L.annigan, rs years
cid. Memphis. Tenn; William II.
kurschner. alias Morris Gerber. Is.
Chicago; clifford Williams, %. 81,
Louis: Louis Reiswerg. 20. Indian
spoIis; Harry Halper. 20, St Louis;
frank Lee. Fl. Cleveland; Eddie
Martin. p. Syracuse Charles
Krupp. q. Milwaukee. and Martin
Miller, ~. Los Angeles.
All these lads have been under
surveillance for some time by De-
tectives O'Grady and Wilson When
Roche caTae to headquarters with
HE complaint and related the cir
cnmstsnees Of the robbery The Two
police detectives went TO building
az 0risvold-st. and LSfayette-blvd..
whore they found the young men.
As the detectives entered the baiio-
ing they say that Krrshner dropped
Roche's gold watch ard chain under
q pile Of papers. The 10 were taken
TO headquarters AMI booked On a
charge OF robbery. Detectives
O'Grsdy and Wilson vii bring them
t. court AZ soon as Roche Is asle
TO come 10 the station houss 20
identity his alleged assailants.
The Detroit times., 1917-03-16

These circumstances tended TO
raise In the minds OF the jurors
the doubt az to wether the chief IL
active enough TO be In charge OF
the department
The verdict also declares that
the order directing the men into the
death-trAp was an error on the part
OF the chief In charge. The order
was given by Battalion Chief limo
thy Callahan. and Frederick had
nothing 20 do with II. being at some
other point directing his men.
The are commissioner are stand.
ing solidly behind the chief. They
declare no one suspected that the
doors would collapse and point out
that there were no Indications Of
the impending crash when the chief
and his men went thru the building
about lS minutes before the tragedy
occurred.
The closing OF the stairway from
the third to the fourth doors Of the
Fields building hindersd the IRE
men. the jury found, and the fact
that tho department did not know
the stairway wAx scaled. Was at
tTibuted TO lax inspection By the
building department and the IRE
marshal
The jury found that the building
code 10 too elastic and recommend.
I'd that immediate steps be taken to
re,ise II In the interest OF public
safety.
In eriticising the telephone com
pany. the jury declared testimony
showed Il took ave minutes 10 call
the IRE department at 1870 o'clock
in the morning.
The jury was composed Of Otto
Misch. William y. MaIow, Joseph
J. TrombIsy. Daniel Lyons. Joseph
p. Maieske, and Harrison r. Clip
pert.
The Detroit times., 1917-03-16
DVolutlon Hailed
With Joy By Allies

nn4 OovysspeSdsxs Ussted Prsss.)
orDoeg. nArcb ls--Rsssia has
~ fron archaic sutocraey TO
6Nonsen democracy IN three
1& 6ayB. The coet In blood has
~ aImoet inslgnincant consider
~ fn1nneAsity OF the transit
- g he AIMED nstioas was
$3.50 today. Russia's spectac-
Gnnttng ~ Of the Old Man Of
= - vho undenisbly had grave
o r1Dns1 ths wars success was
- q spoehal event. But the
- softsfHcfion wns even
49, - X vAs considered that
49, Gcoun1lsr vim be animated by
= Go1ho 111ab - her slfies-
r6sS Alliance heretofore was
1Doursuity. II wss imposslble
IS 49, shou1d bs IN effective
49, totvesn the autccracy OF
nr3 - he ons sand and the
1G1Dpg e France. OF England
y n - ~ eehsr Entente powers
~ o1hsr.
1 sl11anes win hsreaftsr be
$1,000 ~ Ne powerful strsasth
ooDDooee democracy Of all peo-
~ oonoogned-
- eDofurs o. the revolt indicst-
- ~ v16snOrsad nature of the
go1neu1 md the complete popu-
~ Goontisfnction Of the Russian
$3.50 With the old regime was the
Dogo11ve smoothness and the
11uom 1oes u life with which the
(ton 49, = fsap over three en-.
~ g dsspotism TO popular con-
~ - thses days.
+. - hfost Inflammation obtsinabIe
~ tnoay from various Russian
1900 wns that the duna, the
80. NJ navy and the people were
no agn1nst that element Of Rus.
y W1t6A even n II were not thoro-
cGo0eenan was at least mem
- - 0vfrupt.
IN revolution had long been en-.
1900 here The announcement Of
y ootna1 culminaticn caused no
Dglee. especially In view of the
~ thot communication had been
$4,000 between Petrogrzd and
- since Monday. There was
~ astoaishmenf that the revcI,ers
~ nncoeeded 20 quickly.
n1eofe beads we're particularly
noo6 q evidences Of enthusiasts
~ g TIE new government from
Dc1o1e q the Ncscov and ether
~ >oosers no less than frorl the
~ 6lofrsct<.
t1Dof<ncs WAS sxpreesed
GCDeinl ctrc1os thai ne
The Detroit times., 1917-03-16
bethlehem Earnings Grow.

NEW YORK, March ls.--The net
earnings OF Bethlehem Steel cor
porstion are averaging between IS,
00o. 900 and $4,000, 900 per month
So far earnings have been above
the average OF last year when the
balance available for dividends wal
equal TO t7l share on the presen'
stock
The Detroit times., 1917-03-16

M - - soot 10 prison "a
lo1ooo az The old
Doo61v vssoks1
- kIooA nlcnasI. long sus-
4 otrnon spy. was discos-
- $500 q ne Chinese iess-
oc00lsrs promptly took her
ouDop1y.
mors 1runatSc incident occur
~ ~ last few days Of riotins
a, 49, Of the arrest OF the for
n1nouesr o. war. Gen. sukhom-
4 rrosp OF soldier sand OF
c~av armed people seized him.
~ ons6lsrs demanded hts instan,
re-flcn. recalling vivid stories Of
11rnsr ministers duplieity and
.cc,ohle dealings with Germany
Irrr&y Ksrensky, or saraton' one
l, - dums leaders in the revolt
- nlaister OF justice In the pro
11..,.a rov~rnment. interviewed. Ne
$1,000 70 the mob to spare the
n1n1pr's life, declaring Justice
- ~ mesed out TO him. He de-
-.1 a..khomlinofY desired nothing
>>ce thar immediate execution.
~ crowd wavered and kerensky
30 ths day. i
- then the soidiery demanded
hrar former chiefs degradation suk-
1900 himsei ftore his epaniets
~ ~ shculders and handed them
a so,6iers OF the group which
$3.50 him. He bowed. brokeniy'
~ cubmitted himself 20 their ner.
rottersns In his disgrace and
e,1med With despair he was
11S vtfh difnculty. hardly being
W % walk. He was Imprisoned IN
nr9, raloss. where other nossbles
hel1.
- strusrle between the duma
IL eovernment degenerated
- - opsa conflict on FRIDAY
r> neHulasko sent . special let
~ ~ car askins In peremptory
20 ~ the dismisssi Of the gov
111m6ni - declining al rcsponss
- ~ oontng events IN case inc
M surcoR&ea Golyxin-
- 1oetor vns answered oy
|lHC~oS - q Saturday dissolved
nn. On the ssme day or on
W ~ nlnsch II. the car left hts
'1n1l, y xarskoye Seio where aP-
1912 he NO longer felt safe and
m 1 - the army.
o111lude Of the government
rnr9 clear. the revolution en-
go In fnal stage. which
>a I'm the establishment Of an
40 committee and q revciu-
nv government
Gnma neetins Friday. was
- Of riotous demonsfrs-
np1uAausc and the duma
- ohlngnrsv and Miiyukov
aooazIsd me government
- premfsr. IN the midst OF
- Gnsutins and uprcsr. closed
rl1n spassdss were reported
m ~. 49, s1vsncsd against
uoceo tAreatsnins them with |
- - uttsfins ssvsrest To
The Detroit times., 1917-03-16

scfiye and more efheient proseeu-
ton of the war asaintt Germany
than had ever been possible ueder
tie old regime. n was believed that
the new order may perhaps be the
very step needed TO turn the scale
OF victory 10 the Allies.
The Detroit times., 1917-03-16

as one OF the emergency measures
calling for early attention
The Detroit times., 1917-03-16

~sst we&<sn vas I'm unNfft-
tsu lire e~x FRIDAY ra~wusss. On
her rich costume she wore q spIsn-
did red rose. seated next 10 her
was . little gfyi. clean. but shah
billy dresrsd The child. fascinated
by the blossom. could not take her
sxs on ~ Ine women nc,iosd ~
woman. "Oh. its sweet" exclaimed
the child. Quickly removing II the
woman placed the bloom in the
chiids hands. 1T looks much
sweeter there" she said. Every
man In the car who witnessed the
gracious act snvied that kid
The efnr9sf esavass % the r~turus 81
the pwswsry March 2. aaAs ~ the
city election commission. shows ne
cha IN the list OF nominees In
dicated by the initial count
The Detroit times., 1917-03-16

Pytsff@s--the pAsin sesf kfn1--sAss
% Etwkt--Ttrses JsA Depay--Mssn SS3e
The Detroit times., 1917-03-16
THIS PEAR COULD
RESCUE EUROPE

ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla, March 10.
They're starving for fats I'm Ea1-
rope. In Fiorfds the avocado pear
thrives and nourishes. Put these
two facts together and they sug.
sest a valuable idea.
The avocado pear has been de-
scrfbed ~ TN taste like the most
luscious kind Of a pear. with rich
butter spread over H." The natural
OF that yields this favor IL rich In
food values. Duly supplied 70 fat
depleted European nations II might
transform the history OF the world
The avocado pear. not too vel
Known even In its home regions, IN
many ways Ia remarkable Delicious
In taste, n has q 'ripening season
ranging from early September e
late February. The separate spect
mems sell In the north for from 81
TO ti.7s. according to grade and pie
Rod. A healthy avocado tree viii
bear from II to "a fruits the second
year of sixstence. but its future vii
be better II bearing IL held bach
until the tree 10 -four years old.
The Detroit times., 1917-03-16

pvtustns--the pp.iu sect kf~s---sS-t
O. vfskN--Tt~e. Jsh Dswss---Mst~ zssa
The Detroit times., 1917-03-16

TIE ouinIne That Does Not Affect
the Head
Because cf It's tonic and laxative e..
feet, LAXATIVE Bromo Quinine can be
taken BY anyone without causing
nervousness OF ringing In the head.
There In only one "Bromo Quinine. .
y. W. GROVES signature on box
asc--Adv.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-12-18
A DIFFERENCE IN GOVERN.
MENTS AND IN PEOPLE

One advantage that America en-
joys in this war is that her people
are individuals and not automatons.
They are in the habit of doing some
planning themselves and not having
it all planned and laid out for them.
When we take notion to do a thing
as a people, we may not act solidly
as a unit, but the most of us act
in unison and with a freedom and
intelligence that makes the work eff
fective and inexpensive. 1t does not
require an army of clerks and cor
porals and magistrates and prison
keepers to check US up and see that
we do what the king or the kaiser
ordered to be done. The plans are
made and published, we rise to the
occasion and the thing is done with
out waste or loss or friction or stu
pidity. We administer our own af-
fairs for our own good, and each of
us is a general looking to see that
it is done the best wav.
For long time we talked and
argued about entering the war or
keeping out of it. We reelected
President Wilson because "he kept
us out of war;" but now it has all
gone past the stage of talk and argu-
ments and indecision. We are in
the war up to our necks and we
know we have to fight and economic
and save food and fuel and wool and
cotton and many other things, and
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-12-18

and for the care and comfort and
high morality of its troops in q
foreign land. Some of them have
been in the habit OF giving license
to troops to crafty their lust upon
the people and property Of other
lands than their own, but this leader
Of all nations in better things and
lofty undertakings, provides for
good moral conduct in every soldier
it sends abroad just as religiously
as it would at their homes. The
words are upon millions OF lips that
If an American soldier violates the
right or honor of any civilian In
those lands where the army Is sent,
he will meet punishment swift and
severe, and that uncounted millions
of his home people are furnishing
the means of clean entertainment
and pastime for his hours Of rest
and leisure. The American army is
expected to be the best in the world,
and the United States is looked to
already as father and mother to the
nations of the world and the cradle
of liberty.
Do your bit in each national drive
and have the JOY of knowing that
you are part of the~great~ move
ments of your~generation. ~
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-12-18

sky. assistant editor Of The Idaho
Republican Is with the Utah boys as
a member OF the field artillery, ana
he writes often. He never com
plains. We ask him to mention con-
ditions as they are and mentions
them. He says most Of the fellows
are in the army in about the same
frame of mind that finds a man at
the dentists office. There Is no use
in being pessimistic or enthusiastic
or having any argument over a bad
tooth. He mentioned recently that
he had been helping with the office
work and was making up the lists
of allowances and handling the boys
insurance papers. BY the time they
pay their premiums and arrange to
have some money sent home there
is nothing left out TO their wages
and they sit in camp per force. Holt
days hold no charm which they can
take advantage of IL it takes car
fare to get away from camp.
Again he mentions that the
weather is fine, but they are expect
ing rain in January. The sun gives
out some heat during the middle or
the day, but towards night Il seems
farther away and is not good stove.
He missed a fine lecture at the
the. night before because 1t was 80
cold he froze out. His sweater had
arrived now and he had 1t on; two
of them and an overcoat, and he
had his jumper wrapped around his
legs and was quite comfortable as
he wrote. Some of the boys had not
received sweaters yet, and not all
of them had fine wool socks. Later
he said that he had given away what
was q gift to him. One OF his sweat
ers, Che had received two) he handed
to a zcomrade who WAS shivering with
cold, and 1t did not seem like losing
his social standing at all to give
away what was gift to him. He
mentioned one fellow who was send
ing his last 500 to his divorced wife
and carrying insurance payable to
his mother. The Sunday dispatches
tell of thousands Of soldiers being
quartered in churches, school houses
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-12-18

the city hall, where those two old
posts with cluster lights family IL
illuminate the landscape for forty
feet, and take chances of being seen
going into the council room to make
kick against improvements at any
price. Nobody will lift his voice,
not even the editor of The Republic
can, who used to stand up and talk
single-handed against the whole city
administration united against him,
while the county government lent
their moral support" to showing
that the meals for the prisoners did
not cost the city and county more
than $40 a meal and that 1t was
right for the sheriff to have 1t be-
cause it was customary. The bellig-
erent editor formerly so fond of a
scrap will probably be content to say
thru his paper that the city had bet
ter put its energies into winning the
war than to be throwing away
fairly good lighting system to put in
one that is considered more fashion
able. He will probably be content
to say thru his old newspaper, that
| it is better we should be pouring our
money into the great NAV of the
war-god and providing weapons,
food, kits and comforts for the men
at the front and in the training
camps than to be ripping up good
pavements to put in more fashion
able lights where we already have
things hundred times better than
have our soldiers moving forward to
mortal combat. The probability is
he will go to the council meeting
and sit around like bump on log,
and that the council would not take
him seriously If he did speak, having
had his say thru the columns Of his
old twice-a-week. Therefore i'm
provements will probably improve,
and progress will continue to prog
ress, and when the soldiers come
marching home in future years a
proud citizenry will walk down the
streets with them and show them the
fine lighting system we have built
while they were in the trenches and
the hospitals and which they will be
invited to help US pay for as the
bonds become due.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-12-18
COUNCIL DECIDES LIGHTING
QUESTIONS TONIGHT

Tuesday evening, the eighteenth
Of December, is the night to make a
protest against the city council in
stalling the curb lighting system If
you have any objections to it. 1t
is not case of going out and doing
something in favor of it If you want
the curb lights, but case of doing
something If you do not want them.
This gives the preponderance of
weight in favor Of the new system,
because it is easier to forget the time
or let the opportunity pass than 1t
is to get out and act. There are
a good many people who are opposed
to it, but we do not believe there
are a dozen people In town who will
walk to the city. hall on all those
hard, cold pavements in the night
air and then sit around on the hard
chairs during roll call and during
the reading of the minutes to get q
chance to stand up and hear them
selves talk while they state their
views to council that will only sit
and listen and not pay them mileage
for coming. 1t is too much to ex-
pect citizen to do, to stand up
there and talk like a piker and .
knocker and tell people he is not
willing to take on more financial
burdens for himself and his neigh
bors just to have a different quality
and quantity of street lights in the
business blocks 80 they can be en-
joyed by visitors up town in the
evening and by passengers on the 8
o'clock train going north and the 2
o'clock train going south If they hap
pen to wake up and look out of the
car window. A man who objects
to tearing up the new pavements
along the curb to lay the under
ground lighting cables and to install
a row Of iron posts that people can't
tie their horses to, might be held
up to scorn as an enemy of fashion,
for it is fashionable to remove all
hitching posts from the streets be-
cause they are in the way and look
so bad, and it is fashionable to in
stall other posts because they look
so nice.
Our pavements are new and good
and are guaranteed for number of
years, and If we get busy and tear
up streaks extending mile and
half around the best blocks and
patch them and thereby start a
breaking down of the present sur
face, it may give the contractors a
chance to unload responsibility and
leave the expense of up-keep on the
city as did the sewer contractors a
few years ago when our city fathers
paid the second time for the back
filling of thousands of feet of the
new sewer when they had a guaranty
bond for $4,000 lying idle in the
vault at the city hall to compel the
contractors to make good on the
backfilling if it caved in, which it
did all over town.
People nowadays" haven't the
courage to speak their thoughts like
they did in the good old days when
time was young. Nobody will want
to go up the white way in front of
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-12-18
THE WASTE in
SHADED LAMPS

" The open or unshaded lamp for
out-of-door lighting does not gather
dust so readily as the lamp within
the globe, where the whirl OF air
makes natural eddy to stop the
dust. If shaded street lamps were
kept clean and the globes kept clean
it would require great deal more
electrical energy to do given amout
of lighting than with the unshaded
lamps. Then add to this the de-
creased candle power caused by
film of dust accommodating on the
lamp itself and another film on the
outside of the globe, and a rather
thick coat of dust that gathers on
the inside of the globe, and you win
fhave accounted for waste OF some
thingIike half of the candle power
thru dust and dirt-|Fhe new street
lamps proposed for installation along
the curbs in Blackfoot will be or
this latter kind, and samples can be
seen in front of the city hall, where
two clusters of lamps, the pride OF
the town, do not show that they have
ever been cleaned. If the town does
not clean two clusters of lamps and
keep the dust out of them, 1t will
not be likely to clean large number
of them.
The tests made to determine the
loss of candle power in the shops OF
the Edison lamp works as reported
in the December, 1917, Electric
News Service Is as follows:
Very few housewives remember to
dust off the electric light bulbs and
shades. Even a thin film of dust de-
duces the candle-power materially,
thus increasing the consumption OF
current and the cost of lighting.
When a lamp becomes coated with
dust, and does not give anywhere
near it's rated candle-power, other
lamps are turned on, or a larger
candle-power lamp is purchased,
when an application of damp dust
cloth owuld be sufficient.
In order to discover just how
much dust and dirt cuts down the
candle-power an interesting expert
ment was recently conducted by the
Edison lamp works of the General
Electric company at Harrison, N. j..
These tests were conducted in fac
tory. The air in the room was moist
and laden with steel dust particles
from the grinding machines. This
condition was more severe than
would be found in the average ma
chine shop, but less severe than in
foundry or steel mill. In order to
secure average working conditions in
plant, the lamps were cleaned one
week after installing. No other
cleaning was done until all the lamps
were taken down. The group OF
lamps with a weeks accumulation OF
dirst showed an average absorption
lof 1873 per cent with minimum OF
1888 per cent and maximum OF
Il9.8 per cent. Those removed at the
end of three weeks had an average
absorption of 21.9 per cent with q
minimum of 10 per cent and a maxi
mum of 1852 per cent. These tests
show conclusively the economy OF
frequent lamp cleaning, for at the
end of a month an increase of over
&c per cent wattage was required,
and after three weeks near a % per
cent increase in wattage in order to
obtain the same illumination as Sc
cured when the lamps were cleaned
1 n