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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-23

Natural toned heavy weave pongee,
cutp lated skirt and box coat, gives
this desirable result. Patches of hand
embroidery that suggest Hawaiian eff
fects trim the tails of the coat, which
Is slit over the hips.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-23

FLOWER AND VEGETABLE
SEEDS
JOHN RECK - Gn~
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-23

these Home Dressnl.....4g
for this newspaper from
Pictorial Review.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-23

Sizes, IA to 20 years. Price, 20 cents.
articles prepare esp y
the very latest styles by Ine
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-04-21
BUILDING NOTES

Joseph Blocker, builder, will erect
$4,000 brick residence and garage at
Third avenue and Liberty street. Price
Hill, for VIM. Hauser.
Helen NJ Finn will build an auto
salesroom and repair shop at 41s2 Ap-
pie street, for the use of Chas. E. Rapp.
Fred Klasened will build an $4,000 du-
plex apartment on lot purchased from
T. A. Brun, on Academy avenue.
The Joseph Lazarus Co., Fourth and
Elm street, has awarded contract to the
Warner Elevator Co. for installing a
passenger elevator and freight lift in
its building. New electric work for same
has not been awarded
The Globe Folding Box Co. has
awarded contracts as follows for its
new plant on Mitchell avenue and c., H.
& D. R. r.. Painting, Stegeman Bros :;
sheet metal, Thomas Lee; roofing, H.
w. Johns Manville Co.
DR.. c. w. Mackenbach is arranging to
build residence to cost about $4,000
on Paddock road, near Blachly avenue.
| he, following contracts are reported
for DR.. Geo. w. Hunters flat building,
to be erected on Robertson avenue and
Duck Creek road, planning, by R. H.
Simonton, architect: Concrete, M. Mer-
razi; brick work, E. A. Curry; plumb
ing, ]. ]. Doud; roofing and sheet metal
work, Frank McNutt. The cost will be
about $45,000.
William Miller & Son, general con-
tractors for alterations to the German
Protestant Orphanage, Mt. Auburn
costing $4,000, sublet the following
branches Brick, August Joehnk; plas-
tering, George Stagge & Co.; stairs
Clifton Stair Building Co.; marble and
tile, Cassini Mosaic and Tile CO.. mill
G. ]. Brethauer Planning Mills Co.; iron
L. Schneider Sons Co.. electric, Al Beck
er & Son. The Miller firm, general con-
tractor for residence for Henry Waf-
fenschmidt, 1910 Delta avenue, let Out
the following sections: Brick, Peter
Lothes; sheet metal and roofing
Schwartz & Fern; electric, Adams Elec.
trio Co.; hardwood, Cincinnati Floor
Co.; iron, B. J. Rowekamp; tile, Cassin
Mosaic and Tile Co.. stairs, John Thai
man; plastering, John J. Greene
The Miller Company also gave out til,
following for fiat building for A. W
Helferich, 1886 Vine street: Brick
Peter Lothes sheet metal and roofing
the Kruckemeyer Roofing Co.; heating
. Love, Piket & Nulsen; electric, Adam
! Electric Company; marble and tile
Charles L. Shannon & Son; iron, Gov
ington Architectural Iron Works; plas
tering, John ]. Greene; painting, Ruef
& Co.; stairs, Clifton Stair Buildin
Co.. mill work, Advance Mill Worl
Co.-The Building Witness
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-04-21
One On His Honor.

A police magistrate in Cleveland was
disposing of cases at the rate of about
two minute, with great exactness and
dignity, being judge, jury and attorney,
all in one.
"Then you are sure you recognize this
linen coat as the one stolen from your
he said to complainant.
eyes, your Honor"
"How do you know it is yours" :.
"You can see that it is of a peculiar
make, your Honor" replied the witness.
"That is the way | know it"
Are you aware, sir" shouted the jus,
tice, turning to closet back of him and
producing similar coat, that there are
others like it?"
Indeed / am" replied the witness
still more placidly. Il had two stolen :
! Case and Comment.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-04-21
EMPLOYERS IGNORE LAW.

Peterborough, Ontario.-The Metal
Products company ignored the Canadian
industrial disputes act, which prohibits
lockouts, when its union machinists at
tempted to enforce the standard wage
rate. When the company located in this
city it was exempted from taxation on
the promise that it would maintain
wages. When its workers began an
agitation for this promise to be fulfilled
they were discharged. A complete tie
up resulted and the company was glad
to agree that machinists would hereafter
be paid the regulation wage and time
and one-half for overtime
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-04-21
NEW RECORD FOR PROMPT
ADJUSTMENT
Miners and Operators Quickly Come
to Agreement to Aid Government
Twenty Per Cent Increase Is
Given the Men.

New York, April 1s.-Having set
tied their wage differences, the bitumi-
nous coal miners and operators of Ohio,
Western Pennsylvania, Illinois and In
diana will now unite to cooperate with
the Council of National Defense in
maintaining the production of coal to
meet Government requirements. A Joint
committee for this purpose was appoint
ed by the wage conference before it ad-
journed last night. The conference, ac-
cording to statement by John P.
White, international president of the
United Mine Workers of America, "set
- new mark for the prompt adjustment
of relations between employers and en-
ployes in spirit of patriotism and mu-
tual accommodation worthy of good
citizens in this time of emergency" The
increase in wages agreed upon aver
ages 20 per cent to 225,0OO miners. 1t
is effective from April Is and will con-
tinue in force until March 81, 1918. The
terms OF the agreement provide:
l. That pick and machine mining be
advanced 10 cents ton in the States
and districts comprising the immediate
central competitive field, and that the
screen coal mining prices in the block
coal field of Indiana "be advanced ir
proportion to the mine-run prices herein
agreed to-"
2. That all labor receiving $2.9s and
So day be advanced to S.. go.
3. That monthly men and all other
classes of labor employed in and arounc
the mines be advanced 60 cents a day
except as follows: Trappers shall re-
ceive $1.9o day, and all boys receiving
$157 day or less be advanced to $1.9(
day.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-04-21
TEXTILE WORKERS GAIN.

Toronto, Ontario. : The Simpson
mills, controlled by Joseph Simpson
Sons, attempted to stop employees from
joining the United Textile Workers un-
ion by discharging employees who attend
ed agitation meetings. A strike was
called and the management then agreed
to reinstate all locked-out employees, and
establish the eight-hour day with 10
hours pay. The management also agreed
not to discriminate against unionists in
the future
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-04-21
1.-THE SKY'S THE LIMIT"

Grand Forks, N. DAT meeting of
the Non-Partisan league President
Townley asked the farmers what price
they would put on. their organization,
which has swept the state and captured
an entire state government. He assured
them that big interests would gladly buy
them off, as they are spending thousands
to fight the league. =,
"Surely you will set some figure" said
President Townley. Lets hear what it
is. There must be some limit
"The sky's the limit shouted farm
err and this sentiment was applauded.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-04-21
ELECTRICAL WORKERS WIN.

St Louis, Mo.-The "it-can't-be-
dones" are again confounded by the sue
cess of the Electrical Workers union in
winning its strike against the Kinloch
Telephone company, which operates in
this and nearby cities. The agreement
provides for better working conditions
Davenport, Iowa = Inside electrical
workers have organized and affiliated
with the Brotherhood OF Electrical
Workers
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-04-21
IMMIGRATION FIGURES.

Washington-The bureau of immigra-
ton, department of labor, reports that
23,601 immigrants were admitted to this
country during last February. Ot the
European countries Italy furnished the
largest number, 3,405; Greece, 1,131
Russian empire and Finland. 9o2, and
Spain, sO7. Not single immigrant
came from Roumania, the source OF
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-04-21
TO MEET ON LUDLOW's FIELD.

Ludlow, Col-Sunday, April 22, or
ganized miners will hold an agitation
meeting on the site of the tent colony
where women and children were shot by
armed thugs in April, 1914. In two
short years the miners are in the midst
of vigorous organizing campaign and
have secured three-year contract with
the Victor American Fuel company, one
of their opponents during the 1914
strike.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-04-21
Who Pays for the Stelzle
Advertisements?

Field I Of ago % Mr. ss I who be the
America sent letter the Labor Journals and
ce e fn sn G his
the a fa = tic sa9 the the f h he the
of from BY
nGn @ Of
I'VE believe thew
destroy their fellow union the which
We have the information that number
ion seze appeared against principles
f dis
osensby gospel ~h
e Hs' @ H s @
as S S ws s & a % he the @ sosss
n he wanted @ the labor
MI. stsse is in the but &c fund
s S and s % r
Ss the under
the of by the Antsaloon League
question will press clean,
% s s sr = % Ia"s Of & the wSfe
steI1e with weseryile
ees en of s @ an n % tho @
% 0S is his mnn. o p P
a ss s
w % hs ana
buneo working class
that death workers
ps Keeps ss' year %
higher 16 1000 throughout the United States
which another falsehood AS
Workers life policies
policies
financial circumstances.
strikes
Workers than other
unemployment during
Brewery Workers have of
militant organizations succeeded
their that
by the Mayor New York City
their OrganizatiOn
splendidy his suggestion, then he
of the method the child of his peanut BRAIN
be obvious with common that the
phianthro-
the working class of liberties and
frugal then they, the that be- will
be lie to Our lab JOSEPH PROEBSTLE.
TURNED DOWN BY THE LABOR AD-
VOCATE, AS WE ALWAYS CONSIDERED A A
MOUNTEBANK BELIEVED WAS USING HIS LABOR
CONNECTIONS INTEREST OF PROHIBITION.
IMMIGRATION FIGURES much labor for American in
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-04-21

much cheap labor for American indus
try, and but four immigrants were list
ed from Bulgaria, Serbia and Monte
negro.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-04-21
FOUNDRY EMPLOYEES UNITE.

Philadelphia-Foundry employees in
this city have organized and affiliated
with the International Brotherhood OF
Foundry Employees.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07

fleet, he added historic declara-
tion to American naval sayings.
British officers asked when he
would be ready to join the block
aiding fleet.
1--WE are rady to start at
once" said Sims.
Americas ranking naval officer
Is quiet, studious man. He
thinks and acts quickly. He is
home lover and when on shore
spends his time between his work
and his family, which includes five
children. Cycling is his favorite
exercise and effete Newport often
grins at the tall, bearded man
pedalling slowly along Aboard
ship he has the confidence and
love or officers and men and has
the rare faculty OF making them
respect him without feeling the
superiority of his rank.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
Mars Triumph
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
Many people seem to think this
war is the last great or small war
the world will ever see. wish
did. A very comforting belief
l should find it.
l could read then of the awful
carnage with some degree of
equaminity and even Of exulta-
ton. If l felt this was the end
of it all, that Mars was perishing
by his own hand and would pres
emily yield up from the outraged
earth, | might get thrill of
frightful exaltation from the talde
of slaughter that is put in my
mail box every night.
But have no such feeling. War
will not come to an end in an age
that regards 1t as great moral
opportunity and thinks to wash
away its sins in bath of blood.
When men of God can talk of
the regenerative effects of war,
as our parsons do, when states
men can speak of it as the instru-
ment of justice and the propa-
gator of truth, as the means by
which an international millenni-
um may be brought to pass, I
know that Mars, far from COM
passing his own ruin, is achieving
the greatest success of his long
career.
The doom of war will be sound
ed when 1t is recognized as a
hideous absurdity, and not be-
fore.
The public mind will have to be
taught to realize that war is a
tragedy of the ridiculous, con-
founding all reason and making a
horrible joke of every moral prin-
ciple.
The spectacle of civilized ma
tions after long centuries of famil-
iarity with Christian ethics DELHI
erately attempting to extinguish
each other by starving each 9th
er's women and children and sick
and infirm, can only be accepted
as proof that Mars is more po-
tent for evil than ever he was,
and has succeeded in imposing on
cultured men a code of warfare
from which their barbarous fore
/ bears would have shrunk in dis
gust. j. w. LANGFORD.
Orting.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07

MAY DREDGE
FOR TACOMA

lntimation that the govern
ment is planning to dredge Ia
coma's central waterway, from
the Commercial to the Municipal
dock, was given Saturday in q
letter from Major e. j. Dent of
the Engineer corps, Seattle, who
inquired of Mayor Fawcett wheth-
er or not the dredging could be
done without damage to adjacent
docks.
This work has been asked of
the government as war measure,
because the water is too shallow
for extremely large freight ships
to berth in the waterway.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
E. E. Russell
EDITOR THE TINES:

II III yin II Il M Ed.
Thank you very much for pub
fishing my letter headed Social
list Views" in yours OF June %.
BY this time / hope you have
read the national constitution of
the socialist party | sent you, and
you can now see it is in perfect
harmony with the Declaration of
Independence, also the Constitu-
ton of the United States.
So instead of the socialist party
trying to embarrass the president
by expelling Charles Edward
Russell, any fairminded person
will have to admit that our presi-
dents aim was to embarrass the
socialist party by appointing Mr..
Russell as one OF his commission.
Still he may not have known 1t
was against the constitution of
the American socialist party for
MI. Russell to accept the appoint
ment, and the party cannot afford
to suspend its constitution to
please any one man, be he even
president of the United States.
Now, Mr.. Editor, 1t must have
been very humiliating to Mr..
Root when, on landing at a Rus
sian port, he was met by only a
delegation OF soldiers and work
ingmen, and also to Mr.. Russell
when he went to the hall to de-
liver his address and found II
empty, with all going about at
tending to their own business.
J. X. BOYD.
Castle Rock
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07

AS the date for drawing under
the draft act approaches, increas-
ing interest is manifested in the
new naval militia division being
formed by Rex. S. Roudebush.
Assistant Surgeon Hooker from
the Puget Sound navy yard has
examined 102 men.
Sixty of this number have been
accepted. DR.. Hooker finished ex-
amining those who were enrolled
Saturday noon.
Lieut.. Stetson has informed all
of those who have called at the
new recruiting office In the Provi-
dent building that all Of those
who prefer service in the navy to
service In the army and who de-
sire to serve during the war only
should enlist in the new division
of naval militia at once.
The drawing under the draft
act will undoubtedly take place
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07

ter after letter to the navy de-
partment, planning, suggesting
new ideas for efficient gunnery.
His letters were filed. many un-
opened.
For his pains he was relegated
to Paris as naval attache at the
outbreak OF the Spanish American
war.
He almost lost his commission
when he characterized the gun
merry at the battle OF Santiago as
1.-The most dissraceful exhibition
that ever took place on the globe. F."
Roosevelt, as assistant secretary
OF the navy, took up Sims plans
in a small way and when he be-
came president insisted on more
target practice, but Vt was not
until Sims, as junior officer on
the old Indiana, broke all world S
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
Scantily Clad Youngsters
Dash Madly Thru Streets

A group of boys living in the
Center street district have a most
unusual manner of entertaining
the neighbors, according to re-
ports made by ]. II. Brooks, 2504
South Steele, and Mrs. Arens,
1902 Trafton street, to the police
Friday night.
These boys climb the hill to the
residence district above Center
street, remove most of their cloth
ing and hide it in a clump of TIM
Der, and then dash wildly thru
the streets, yelling like Conan
cbes.
According to the reports at po-
lice headquarters, the clothing
worn by the youngsters is ex-
tremely seanty.
Il don't know what kind of
game they're playing. but they
must think they're Igorottes or
South Africans, from the amount
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07

pOintment Of John Paul Jones
as an admiral in the Russian
navy, which Is Its only par
allel. And Sims is equal to
the job.
His early naval career was an
incessant fight against moscow
cred naval tradition and fossil
isms which had endured since the
old frigate days.
He was constantly at war with
the old school admirals for re-
forms and once or twice his conf
mission was threatened.
But Sims won. A brief survey
of naval history will show that he
accomplished:
(D Adoption Of target
practice on the basis of long
range gunnery and rapidity
of hitting.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07

records for target practice that he
was fully recognized. This was
in 1908.
Even as rear admiral Sims
would not be kept down. At a
banquet in London in 1910 he
bluntly declared that America
would give it's last drop of blood
and its last cent to aid England
IL that country were threatened.
This called down upon his head
a public reprimand by President
Taft and severe criticism in
America.
Mrs. Sims, stung by the criti-
cism, pleaded with Sims to resign
and accept a position as consult
ing engineer with a steel corpora
ton. Sims refused.
When Sims arrived in England
as senior officer of the American
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
TEDDY JUMPS
ON GOMPERS
Omitted Press Leased wire.)


NEW YORK, July THE Rus
sian war mission is at home in
New York. A young "civil war"
was staged for them when Col.
Roosevelt last night launched a
vitriolic attack on Samuel Comp
ers, president Of the American
Federation of Labor, for his atti-
tude on the East st. Louis race
riots.
Roosevelt accused Gompers of
attempted to Justify the killing of
the negroes.
1t all happened at mass meet
ing of welcome to the Russian mis-
sion at Carnegie hall.
When Roosevelt referred to the
appalling brutality" of the East
st. Louis riots, Gompers came
back with the assertion that he
would yield to none in express
ing detestation of acts Of vio-
lence."
Gompers said the importation of
negroes from the south was IAN
exercise of tyrannic power like that
which existed in old Russia"
Col. Roosevelt could contain
himself no longer and jumping
from his seat he launched his at
tack on Gompers.
Murder is murder" he shouted
directly at Gompers, who turned
white with anger. And I'll not
let you or anyone Justify it,
His eyes blazing, he continued:
Il am not willing that a meeting
called to commemorate the birth
OF democracy in Russia shall ever
seem TO have expressed or to have
accepted apologies for the brutal
infamies imposed on the colored
people,"
Roosevelt shook his fist In
Gompers' face when he shouted:
IF we apologize for numbering
helpless women and children,
then how can we praise the peo-
pie of Russian"
The hall was in an uproar. but
Mayor Mitchell restored order.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
DRAFT LOTTERY IN
HUGE CLASS BOWL

serially will be placed in gelatine
capsules. These will be thrown
into big transparent globe. On
the day of the draft, capsules will
be drawn at random from the
globe. Each slip indicates for
draft every man bearing that
number in each of the more than
1000 counties and cities in the
nation.
The slips are numbered from
one up as high as the number of
men registered in the largest pre-
cinct in the country.
President Wilson's advisory
board has settled upon this
method as the fairest that can be
devised. Every action is open to
the public scrutiny.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07

(2) Adoption of the all
big-gun dreadnaught as the
fighting unit Of the navy.
(3) Changes in the war
college and naval maneuvers
to get best ultimate results.
Failing in his first examinations
to enter the naval academy, Sims,
then II, secured another chance,
"boned" for a month, took the ex-
aminations and passed them. He
was graduated from the academy
in 1880.
AS lieutenant with the Asiatic
squadron in the late eighties Sims
first conceived the idea that naval
gunnery was atrocious and the
method Of target practice entire
ly inadequate.
He conferred with his chiefs
and was laughed at; he wrote let
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
RUSSIA SHOWS
NO LENIENCY
TO PLOTTERS
Omitted Press Leased wire.)

PETROGRAD, July RUS
sia's wrath against intriguers
within her borders is rising daily.
At Karsk, German miller
named Tolman, who had attempt
ed to burn a mill, was arrested
by a big crowd. He was seized
and tied to the rails of the railway
line nearby. The crowd ordered
the engineer to run over the
prisoner. The engineer de-
INJURED. Then the crowd tried
to start the engine, but could not.
They came back to the engineer
and at the point of the bayonet
they forced him kill Tolman by
running him down. The Germans
body was literally reduced to
mincemeat.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
Omitted Press Leased wireJ

WASHINGTON, D. c., July T.
The fate of 9,649,93S men on the
national army registration rolls
will be held In a huge glass bowl
filled with little gelatine capsues.
The number on paper squares
In each of these capsules will des-
ignate the men drafted for Amer
ica's armies.
A final plan of the unique
method of singing out the men
for the first levy is before Sec
rotary Baker today.
Unless shift is made in pres
ent arrangements, this Is the
method of the draft lottery:
Squares of paper numbered
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07

now being prepared on the campus
of the university at Seattle.
Twenty more men are needed
to fully recruit the new division.
Ensign Roudebush expects to en-
roll these men within the next few
days. The physical examination
of the men who enlist Monday or
later will be given in Seattle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
Kills Crippled
Girl Who Is a
Bother to Her

ST JoHNSBURY, VT, July 7.
Because she was a bother" to
her fathers housekeeper, Olive
Bradshaw, a little crippled girl,
S years old, was killed, according
to an admission said to have been
made to county authorities by
Miss Eta Hicks, the housekeeper,
and her neighbor, Mrs. Alvin Ken
niston.
According to authorities, the
women said the girls body was
hidden somewhere beneath a pile
of rocks. A general search is be-
ing made.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07

some time next week. Those who
are drawn under the draft act will
not be able to get into the navy
and will be required to serve in
the army wherever they are
placed.
The men in the new division
will go into training about Aug.
l at the naval training station
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
A Register
Since June ;

Since June 5, selective ser
vice registration day, Sheriff
Longmire has registered "A young
men who fell within the age lin
its, but who had neglected to
sign up, according to the report
made by the sheriff to Gov. Lis
ter Saturday.