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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-07

from 1898 to 1902 were years when peo-
pie sought diversion in books, when lit
orally there were hundreds of thousands
of Americans to whom reading was
temporarily fad. The first impetus in
that direction had come in 1894 with
the serial publication of Du Mauriers
"Trilby" Perhaps Whistler's identifi-
cation of himself as the Joe Sibley of
the tale started the ball rolling; but
"Trilby' was not merely delightful ro-
nance, it was an institution. Svengali
and his mesmeric tricks were introduced
in every other conversation. Certain
New York eccentrics found huge amuse-
ment in making themselves into like.
nesses of Taffy, the Laird and Little
Billee, and parading Fifth Avenue arm
in arm. The Trilby excitement had
hardly abated when the force of Kip
ling, lately "The Man from Nowhere"
began to be felt. His But That Is An
other Story" was adopted into everyday
talk. Persons whose acquaintance with
verse had hitherto been limited to hay
knowledge that Bryant wrote "Thana-
topsis" and that "The Raven" was Poe's
had caught the lit of "Mandalay" and
felt the grim terror of Danny Deever."
Then came those weeks, in the spring of
1899, when the man himself was hover
ing between life and death in a New
York hotel, when an entire nation
watched and waited with as much anxi-
ETY. as if the sufferer had been a be-
loved President, and when actually
streetcar conductors greeted one an
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-07

the good, gray head of Henry M. Alden
was not so gray as it is to-day. With
the eyes of awed youth he had watched,
in the old Century" Offices that then
overlooked Union Square, Richard Wat
son Glider and Robert Underwood John
son walking to and fro in solemn and
impressive conference. To be walking
down Wall Street and to encounter Ed
mund Clarence Stedman, the Banker
Poet, proceeding in the direction of the
elevated railroad, was an event to be re-
membered; and to call on Mr.. Howells
in his apartment on Fifty-ninth Street
overlooking the park, was to be met
with grave and gracious kindness
that brought thrill, and to emulate the
example of many youthful writers who
have figured in works of American fic-
ton.
In 1899. or about that time, there
were in the field literary magazines be-
sides "The Bookman." Of "The Critic"
edited by Jeanette L. Glider; of THE
Book Buyer" which was associated with
so many men who afterward won con-
spicuous places in other fields; of "The
Dial" and of "The Reader" the writer
would like to say much. But there is
the question of space. So just word OF
explanation as to the reason for the ex
istence of so many periodicals of similar
aims. In the closing years of the nine
teenth century American outdoor life
was limited The motor car was in its
inefficient and ludicrous infancy. Golf
was the diversion of the few The years
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-07

I'm A SHOP window in one of the
side streets in the twenties there
is a series of photographs illus
trating a New York that has practically
vanished. These pictures bear no rela-
ton to the prints found in valentines
Manual" or that adorn the walls of old
chophouses - prints showing Canal
Street when there was canal, or the
old bridge. over Broadway at Fulton
Street, or the home of Banum's Mu-
scum at Ann Street, or the houses that
lined Trinity Place in the rear of Trim
ity Churchyard, or Fifth Avenue In
Civil War days when the 7th Regiment
marched down to entrain for the front.
These photographs show the city as
it was in the closing decade of the
last century, a period and town
within the memory of all of us who
are not exactly of the younger gen
Grafton. Here is the intersection of
Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street,
with the gray walls of the old reservoir
where the present library stands. Next
is the Waldorf before the hyphen crept
in. with the old Stewart mansion across
the street. Pictures of just yesterday,
vet how remote they seem in their COM
parative absence of turmoil! 1t seems
as if by going a little further back we
would be in the midst of that sedateness
which we associate with the old town
of the Knickerbockers. Tt is almost
vanished city, that of the late COS and
it is a vanished atmosphere that the
writer recalls thinking of the first days
of the old editorial Offices of ''The Book
man" on the seventh floor of the build
ing that then stood on the northeast
corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-first
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-07

years of continuous writing had not IN
the least dulled his spontaneity, and ID
1899 he was publishing what perhaps
remains the most widely read Of all bis
books, Soldiers of Fortune" 1t vas
in that year that the present writer mel
him first, seeking him out for the pu'
pose Of acquiring certain information
about some favorite haunt of Van BID
Der. Again and again at intervals u
later years these meetings were destined
to recur, bringing with them dozens o.
evidences of Davis's kindness and az
probation and generosity Of spirit
Years ago it used to be the habit 70
talk of Davis's poses and to decry nls
mannerisms and alleged Alterations i
there ever was any justification for ths
attitude the present writer was never
able to find it. In remembering tns
author of ''The Bar Sinister" ne ren1em'
bers a man and a great, boyish hear.
But with such memories of persons
nature the writer might go on inden'
nitely. 1t has been his good FORUM"
know most Of the American and some
of the European writer's who have COZ
tributed to the production Of the fctlOH
of the seventeen years. From the wal'
of the magazine Office which he is so0D
to leave the faces of some Of them loOA
down upon him now. And in catchlns
these warning glances he pauses. he',
easy, old friend, the anecdote IN min'
shall not be told. Whether your nam"
George Barr McCutcheon, or O"sD
Johnson, or Stewart Edward White "
Harris Dickson, or Edwin Lefevre,
Albert Bigelow Paine, or Irving Bacher
Ter, or Will Irwin, or Samuel Merwih "
shall not be told. But what plesssH'
ghosts of old ideals and aspirations 'n'
backward glance recalls Seven'e.,,
years ago! All, how young the WI"
was them
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-07
British Labor Is Turning
Down Peace Resolutions

"Of course" said Mr.. O'Grady, 'th.
final proof Of what labor thinks now h
Great Britain Is the records Of our re.
cent great meetings Of trade unioniss
where millions Of trade unionists are
represented. Every one of them, With.
out exception, keeps on turning down all
resolutions for peace negotiations and
all resolutions looking toward media.
ton by anybody! In my judgment
they will continue to keep on turning
them down"
They said these things with an EN-.
phasis which the printed line cannot
convey. | have been a reporter for
good many years. / have never seen
men show deeper resentment or deeper
determination. 1t was clear that they
felt that they had been actually person
ally betrayed by their German col.
leagues in the international labor move.
ment. They were speaking as citizens
of an outraged country, but also as out
ragged individuals. could promise NJ
Oswald Garrison Willard lively half.
hour in their company or in the com.
pany Of any other genuinely typical
group of British labor leaders.
yLloan roca m on Mr. Tillett said.
Look here! One more thing! We
don't want mediation at all. But if we
did want mediation, would we want il
from a country like yours-ali full Of
Germans and all full of daily plots BY
Germans? Is it from that kind of coun-
try that we would want mediation!
What do you think?'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-07

turned around, the very men who NJ
been over here to see US, and joinad
their government against US on the do.
and used against US all the information
which they had gathered here and
which we had sent to them in Berlin
Their labor leaders were spies for them
lust like their manufacturers"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-07
Seeking a Message from the
"EaSf End" TO America

said to him: ''Tell me something, and
tell it without any frillS. Mr. Oswald
Garrison Willard and lot of other peace
people in America are saying that the
masses of British labor would be de-
lighted to have the United States come
forward with an offer Of good offices to
act as go-between in negotiations for
peace. Viscount Grey has never seen
the masses of British labor in his life,
and Lloyd George now sees them rarely.
You see them all the time. What do you
say? Tell me what the plain people OF
Great Britain are thinking to-day about
the war and about American media
tion."
Mr.. Tillett is a truculent person. He
is never at rest. He walks about all the
time, in the manner of man walking
about a boxing ring; and his overcoat
and mufier are always tapping behind
him as in a storm; and his clean-shaven,
clean-muscled face is a fighting face OF
the type that is both disconcertngly
crafty and reassuringly straightforward
crafty because you never can tell from
it Just where he is going to hit you next,
straightforward because it gives you
perfect warning that his general inten-
ton is to hit you somewhere.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-07

n WAS going to write something abou.
British capital to-day, but hap
- pened into Mr.. Ben Tillett and he
said a straight thing or two about
America and about American mediation
in the war II any labor leader in Great
Britain comes close to the masses Of the
plain people" it is Mr.. Tillett Famous
ror his vigorous and even reckless lead
ership of great historic strike, he Is
sill the head Of the Dock, Wharf, River
side and General Workers Union of
Great Britain and Ireland, and he keeps
his headquarters in Mile End Road, in
the poor East End" of London.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-07
British Labor Has Letters
from "Our Mr.. GOmperS"

pie who haven't risked even protest on
behalf of law and order and peace in the
world. when we are risking everything
we have? Not likely. More than not
likely. No! Just no. The United
States was the greatest neutral. 1t had
the greatest opportunity to raise voice
to check the militarism that took Eu-
rope into war. Now does it think it is
going to be welcomed when it tries to
raise a voice against the anti-militarism
forces that are going to take Europe
into peace? Some of our middle-class
pacifsts, like Philip Snowden, might
listen. The British WOrkingmen will not
listen. We have had letters from your
Mr.. Gompers, of your American Fedora
ton Of Labor-letters about peace.
They came to our trade unions. Every
trade union that got them, so far as |
know. turned them down, and it didn't
take us two minutes to turn them down.
If Oswald Garrison Willard thinks that
the British workingman is tired of war,
why-now let me tell you something.
The British workingman was always
tired of war. Let me tell you how tired
he was"
BY this time we had reached the
House of Commons and had made our
way to one of the refreshment rooms
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-07

ish workingman doesn't think enough OF
to want advice from, it's yours"
| thanked him. l had asked him to
leave the frills off, and clearly there
were no frills on that remark. "But,"
said l, don't go on to strafe America,
because l can strafe Great Britain just
as long as you can strafe America. Only
give me just one big reason, if there is
any one big one in particular, why the
British workingman takes that view of
America"
1--WE don't hate America" he said
That's not it. But we hate America
present conduct. Germany has desc
lated Belgium and Serbia. The only
peace is to get Germany out of Belgium
and Serbia. The United States has not
spent one dollar or one man to get Ger
many out of Belgium and Serbia. Then
the United States is always talking
about peace. We will never listen to
people who are always talking about
peace without ever doing anything to
get peace. When l say get peace don't
mean that the United States should
fight. But the United States might at
least have thrown into the scales of this
conflict the weight of its solemn pro-
test against the unlawful and brutal
and beastly attacks on Serbia and Bel
GUM. Are we going to listen to a peo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-07
WHAT | HEAR IN ENGLAND

votes. But it was resolution often uiS-
cussed In Great Britain and in France
and in Great Britain and In France 1t al
WAYS had many supporters. believed
in it myself heartily. 1t was resolu-
ton declaring that if ever war broke
out in Europe the working class OF every
country concerned should at once go on
a general universal strike. Industry
would be tied up. The war would have
TO stop. Well, what happened at that
meeting? When that resolution was
reached there was not one German who
was even willing to get up and discuss
il: and worse When it came to vote
there was not one hand raised to vote
for it. Not onel 1t simply died. Died
in silence. Died without one single word
said and without one single hand for 1t!
I went to the leaders and / said: This is
all your Kaiser wants to know. All ne
wants to know is that there is not one
of you who dares even to say word or
TO raise a hand for resolution for
adopting the one and only practical way
in which the working class can ever stop
war; But we are Germans, they said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-07
What the German Workers
Told the Kaiser

"'We're not allowed, they said, to take
part in any such resolutions That's
lust it. | said. You don't dare. And
now he knotUs you don't dare and ne can
start war whenever he wants to- He
started one month afterward, and the
leaders of the German working class in
the Reichstag, while the British Labor
party was still appealing for peace, voted
war credits to the Kaiser to break the
bodies and souls of the people Of Bel
GUM. They tricked us and they tricked
the working class Of France, and they
tricked and massacred the working class
of Belgium. We were always sick OF
war. Tell Mr.. Oswald Garrison Willard
that. We were always sick of war. But
we are not sick of this war, and we will
never be sick of this war till we put
down that kind of trickery and con-
spiracy and beastliness in Europe"
"They were good" said Mr.. Sexton.
"They were good. They used to come
over here and say they loved us, and
they used to listen to our meetings
against war. They persuaded us to put
our international labor headquarters in
Berlin. And they studied all our anti
war demonstrations. And then, we know
now that they made reports to their
government all about the extent OF the
anti-war sentiment in Great Britain, and
they said the British workingman would
not fight, and they gave all our statistics
to their government, and they still pre-
tended to be our friends. And then. the
very moment Serbia was attacked, they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-07
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the dtorship Of "The BooEmon take part in the
Relief Work in Belgium He sailed yesterday
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-16
Change Made in Den Show;
0oCherty Succeeds Reed

While it will be a greatly improved
and considerably changed show that
will greet Nebraska editors Monday
night at the Den, one Of the changes
is involuntary on King Ak-Sar- -Ben's
part and is greatly regretted. Ken
meth F. Reed, one of the veteran and
reliable performers at the Den, will
be out OF the city on business during
the rest off the summer and his part,
that OF Sandy Haig," will be taken
by Charles R. Docherty, the versa
tile stage manager. Reeds fuzzy
Scotch dialect will be missed, but
DOC" isn't so bad at it himself.
One Of the new features at the Ker-
mess will be the appearance OF a
printed program called The Ker-
mess Kicker" and edited by anybody
who has anything on his mind.
Secretary Dad" Weaver has sent
contracts to the bosses of the Wor-
than shows, which will be the big
noise at the carnival here September
26 to October e. Mr.. Weaver saw
the shows at Danville, ILL.,, recently
and pronounces them bigger and bet
ter than ever. The contracts will be
returned, signed, within a very few
days.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-16
Ten Central High Cadets
Qualify as Crack Shots

Under command OF Lieutenant Os-
car L. Keating ten Centra' High
school cadets have qualified as marks
men and two as sharpshooters in the
rife class, composed of noncommis-
stoned officers. The cadet. had
weekly L get practice the range
at East Omaha,
Morris BramnSan turned in the
highest average, with a score of l23
out of possible 50. Stephen Vizo-
viska took second honors. His score
was l20. Both qualified as sharp
shooters. Those who qualified as
marksmen were William Rogers, H.
Wilmoth, Chester Slater, Frank
Campbell, Leland Potter, Richard
Gillen, Robert Booth, Fl. Geisler and
Robert Dodds. Clarence Rogers,
Harry Keiner and Leonard McCoun
were selected alternates.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-16
GUARDSMEN HAVE
Big LOAD OF COIN
Invade Buttermilk Stands With
the Money Given Them
by the Cornhusker
State.

The Union Pacific Special which
carries members of Company B,
Fourth Nebraska National Guard,
from their camp on the Iowa side
across the river was particularly
crowded Thursday evening. The
guardsmen, heavily laden with gift
money from the state, invaded the city
and bombarded the amusement places
and buttermilk stands with a vigor
that can only be displayed by one
who has suddenly became a million
aire for day.
The gift amounted to SIS for each
man. Although Nebraska did not
vote as much money to its soldiers as
did several neighboring states, the
khaki-clad men agreed that the money
looked like a mountain.
A general squaring of old accounts
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-16
CORN RECEIPTS AT
OMAHA STILL HEAVY
Local Market Runs Neck and
Neck With Chicago and
Far Ahead of the
River Cities.

Local grain men are amazed over
the continued heavy receipts of corn
on the Omaha marke. For a month
or more almost daily they lave been
running neck and neck with Chicago
for first place. During the same time
they have been far ahead of either
St. Louis or Kansas City. For many
days in succession they have been as
great as the receipts OF these two
markets combined. Friday the corn
receipts were lS2 carloads, as against
l6+ in Chicago.
Corn prices here and elsewhere
were off, the cereal selling at $l.64
to Sl.65, drop Of ~ to "a cents
from Thursday.
Wheat was to cents of and sold
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-16
Movements Of Troops Work
Havoc With Tourist Travel

According to the officials of the
passenger departments of the rail
roads, the movement Of troops has
worked havoc with tourist travel in
every direction. 1t has not only de-
layed the movement of the tourists
who had laid their plans for going to
the lakes and the mountains, but it
has put good many OF the roads in
a position so that they are short of
power and equipment.
With the troops being assembled at
army posts, railroads have been
forced to assemble equipment on
short notice and about all of the avail
able cars on many OF the lines have
been pressed into the service. Later
on, however, passenger service men
assert that cars will be released and
that then there will be plenty of cars
to handle the tourist business.
Persistent Advertising is the Road
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-16
Picket Fined for Hurting
Brick at Strikebreaker

Jesse Griffith, 1880 North Twenty
third street, pleaded guilty to disturb
ing the peace and paid a fine OF $40
and costs Griffith was acting as a
picket for striking teamsters and in
order to intimidate a strike-breaker
by the name OF Schwager, who paid
no heed to his arguments and threats,
threw a btick at him. In pronouncing
sentence Judge Madden told Griffith
that future cases of this kind would
mean jail sentences for the offenders
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-16

that before the day is over it will be
reached.
In buying bonds, the Nebraska divi-
sion OF the Union Pacific took Sl78,-
$50; the Colorado division, $87 $50;
Wyoming division, $l88,45O; Kansas
division, $l25,450; general agents de-
partment, S33,230; dining car depart
ment, $50,50O, headquarters, $4,000
and shops, $64,250
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-16

Independent Lumber Co.-Union driver of express
wagon joined three union pickets in telling
driver that he would be "hurt' if he stayed on
the street. Police protection required
Enterprise Lumber & Coal Co-Driver threatened
and abused by union pickets, who said they
would 'knock his block Off if he proceeded.
Police called Another driver threatened by
union pickets that they would "beat him up" if
he kept at work. Police protection required.
Third driver so badly frightened that he did not
return to work.
Boyer-Van Kuran Lumber Cold man, driver
threatened by union picket, "if you haul another
load we'll get you. Pm alone now, but I'll have
gang here Later, this driver threatened
with assault by two union truck drivers.
Central Coal & Coke Co.-Pickets travelling in auto
mobile, started to mhitch team at Twentieth
and Leavenworth streets, but were frightened
away.
Nebraska Fuel Co.-Driver stopped while delivering
coal by gang of union pickets and warned to
get off the streets" Police protection required
Later same driver stopped again. Threatened
and forced to get off truck. Pickets said they
would upset truck, but left when police arrived
Cady Lumber Co.-Driver delivering shipment at
Burlington depot stopped by three union pick
cts. They threatened him that there Twill be
something doing if he did not turn around and
go back to the yard. He at first refused, but
finally frightened by their threats, he returned
to the yard, the pickets following him. They told
him not to try to go out on the street again until
he joined the union. Later the same driver again
stopped at Fifty first and Davenport Threaten
ed with "a beating" if he "ever came out
on street again" Two union pickets started to
climb on his wagon, but policeman arrived
and saved the driver from jury
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-16

driver stopped at Thirtieth street. near Spauld-
ing, and threatened by union pickets that "if
you don't get off the streets and stay off, you'll
be knocked off with bricks"
Ideal Cement Stone Co.-Driver stopped by four
union pickets near Forty-fifth and Military
avenue. Ordered to join the union if he stayed
on the street. Gave them 81 and got application
blank, which they said, would entitle him to the
privilege of driving a wagon on the street.
McCaffrey Lumber & Coal Co-Drver stopped at
Fifteenth and Jackson streets by gang of union
pickets, who called him vile and obscene names
and ordered him to go back to the yard. He was
forced by them to turn around and return to
the yard. Another driver stopped at Fifteenth
and Nicholas streets and not permitted to pro-
ceed until police came. Still another ordered
back to the yard from Sixteenth and Dodge
streets. Driver Of this company stopped at Ff-
teenth and Webster street by four union men,
One jumped on the wagon and meanwhile call
ing him vile, obscene and profane names, tried
to grab the lines out of drivers hands, Driver
whipped up horses and called upon a police
man for help.
Chicago Lumber Co.-Started team for East Omaha
with driver and office man in charge Six union
pickets stopped outfit, abused and harassed
driver until the office man made feint of tele-
phoning for police. Another driver told "your
head will be beaten off if you keep on" He was
so frightened that he refused to leave the yard
again. Still another driver stopped on way to
railroad depots, threatened that he must ego
back or we'll dump. your load" He was so
intimidated that he returned to the yard.
c. N. Dietz Co.-Driver at Twenty-sixth and Dodge
streets threatened by an automobile load of
union pickets that "We'll beat you up if you
don't turn around" Another driver at Ninth and
Farnam streets told 'You've got to stay off the
streets. If we don't get you in the day time we
will at night. Police protection required.