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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-03

the legal department of the city. The
movement has my moral support all
right and l shall expect Judge Slater
to find the way for carrying out the
suggestion. If Kenosha is to have
part in the big conservation move
ment / am in favor of taking care of
every feature of it"
Local storekeepers who have been
accustomed to selling fireworks, when
seen today indicated that they would
not make any contest against any fair
order issued by the city. For years
Kenosha has been curtailing the sale
of the Fourth Of July fireworks until
the business has been cut to the quick
by the Fsafety first" legislation along
these lines. Patriotic organizations
are all sending out calls this year with
view of cutting the waste of powder
on the Fourth of July. They are sug-
costing that in place of the usual noisy
fireworks the people arrange for
patriotic parades and go back to the
old days of the public meeting with the
Eagle screaming and rampant patrio-
tism. Kenosha has not had a real
Fourth of July celebration in decade,
but it is possible that some early call
will be issued to the patriotic people Of
the city to provide for some demonstr2-
ton to mark the day this year.
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County Board to
Form Defense Council
Matter of Kenosha County Aiding in
War tn be Taken UP at Meet
ing on Next Monday.

The Kenosha County Council Of De-
Tense, which is to be affiliated with
the State Council of Defense, is ex-
pected to come into existence follow
ing the meeting of the Kenosha County
Board on next Monday. At this meet
ing it is expected that the County
Board will take some formal action for
the organization of the county along
the lines suggested by the governor.
County boards in ten of the counties
Of Wisconsin are already cooperating
with the state defense council and it is
thought certain that Kenosha will get
into the procession and do her share.
The state council has sent a letter to
Chairman Spsrtz of the County Board
urging the naming of council of not
less than five members and these to
represent every section of the county.
Among the matters to be taken up by
the council are: Increased food produc-
tion and avoidance of waste; recruit
ing for the army and navy; the pro-
motion and extension Of the work
Of the American Red Cross and other
relief organizations.
The officials of the city will be
ready to act with the members of the
County Board in the organization of
the county council.
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who wish to contribute, call her up at
her home, telephone number SAT, and
although she may not herself be at
home, instructions will be given as to
how to reach her.
Work Not Play at Red Cross.
What is Immediately needed by the
Red Cross base in Milwaukee are paia-
mas, bedding and shirts for conval-
escents. They want great numbers of
these articles and it is upon them the
first work VIII be done when the Red
Cross working room in the Public Ser.
vice building throws open it's doors on
Monday next to the workers. It will
be a seriou5 business. There will be no
time for gossip or society patter when
these earnest women get together. 1t
will mean strenuous work, and contin-
ued effort and sacrifice of ones own
feelings and ones own pleasures will
60 hand in hand with the task which
the Red Cross sets for itself.
Mrs. Theirs asks everyone interested
in the work to come to the Red Gross
mass meeting called for eight O'Clock
Wednesday night of this week in the
Guild Hall when speaker from Mil
waukee will make an address.
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MAY STOP FIREWORKS SALE
Mayor Pfennig Claims He Is Ready to
Act Just as Soon as Legal Depart
ment Points Way-Plan Patriotic
Demonstration in Place of Noise.

The double barrelled frecracker, the
torpedo and the skyrocket which have
| been the attending nuisance of Fourth
of July celebrations for every year
since "76'' have fallen before the on
ward march of the conservation army
and this morning. Mayor Charles H.
Pfennig is planning to find a way to
eliminate the sale Of all such baubles
in Kenosha this year. He has heard
the call Of the leaders in fire depart
ments all over the country and he Is
following the lead Of the great city of
every permit issued for the sale Of fire
works. IF the plan Of the mayor, or
rather the one suggested to him, be-
comes effective, Kenosha is going to
have a real sane Fourth of July
this year.
"'The call of the elimination of fire.
works. said. the mayor today, "is
made on the perfectly reasonable
grounds that to manufacture fireworks
takes. up the labor of men and women
who might be making munitions or
raising foodstuffs. The powder that is
going into these fireworks should be
going into something else that is need
ed lot more just at present. If we
are really going to conserve resources
/ do not know of anything that we
can get along without easier than the
Fourth Of july noise makers. Just
how much power the city has TO tell
men who have sold fireworks in the
past that they can not sell them this
year is a matter TO be taken UP by
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BY HAMILTON N. WRIGHT.

Prodigious works of steel and con-
crete have not alone made possible
the Panama Canal, the greatest en-
gineering achievement Of all. time,
but have entered into the construc-
ton of the huge piers, wharves, dry
docks and coaling stations, break
waters and other component parts OF
the Panama Canal Zone, ranking
both Cristobal and Balboa as among
the fire ports of the world, and the
entire area as the most stupendous
of show places beneath the stars ana
stripes.
Hundreds of thousands of tons oil
concrete and vast supplies of stee;
have been used in the construction Cd
accessory equipment to the Panama
Canal, that, in its nature, is as monu
mental as the canal itself.
The equipment is constantly being
added to and improved.
An entire battleship feet can b,
eoaAed here.
The largest dreadpsught in tn,
world can go into dry dock
The huge foundries and repai,
shops can restore any broken 0;
damaged part of warship or mer
chant vessel.
The cUnmissary department, which
purchases $4,000, COO of supplies am
nually, could outfit navy with foo,
and other necessaEies for a cruis
around the world
The entire Canal Zone is in a CON
Btant state of progression and tn
many improvements are a tremen
dous addition to the wonders of
trip to pansrma.
The efficient work of the Panam
Ca1aHl organization torches up0
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When the company failed, there was
not enough to pay the debts of the com
pany to say nothing Of reimbursing
stockholders and the men who bought
the stock had little to show for their
investment excep: the highly colored
stock certificates.
"Some time Littand bronze is going
to make good" Littmann told his
friends as he went seeking to organize
a new company, and when it does, I
am going to come back some, time and
make good to the people who backed
their belief in my judgment. Z"
The American Metal Products Com
pany is now company with a million
dollar capital. Il is accredited with
earning fabulous dividends on the in
vestment during the past year and
Littmann is now wealthy man. The
first subsidiary company to be organ
lied by the American Metal Products
Company is the Ampco Rolling Mills
Corporation of Milwaukee. When it
was organized, Littmann told his bust
ness associates that some eight thou
sand dollars of the stock must be set
aside for some Kenosha friends of his.
He paid for the stock and when he
became certain that it was producing
stock, he took the train to Kenosha.
He now proposes to give every man
and woman in Kenosha who held stock
in the Littand Company an equal
amount of stock in the new Ampco
Company.
Ono, don t owe any one any
thing" said Littmann today, 81 but
some of the people mixed up with the
old Littand Company intimated that |
was crook and 'boob. [ just
want to show the people that I appre-
ciated Their faith in my judgment and
know that with this stock in return
for the old paper they hold that they
are not going to lose a cent but get
something that will pay them the re-
turns they hoped to reap from their
Littand stock. Our companies have
been successful and [ want those
friends of mine to share in this sue
cess. There ism t any string tied to
my offer. | am not Turing the Kenosha
people up to Milwaukee in order to
sell them added stock in the Ampco
Company. There is no stock in this
company for general distribution. They
can have dollar s worth of this stock
for every dollar they had in Littand.
They need not come after it. If they
will just write to the company in Mil
waukee viii see that the stock is de-
hvered to them and it is good stock. =
Littmann went farther for he in
serted a paid advertisement to the
owners of the Littand stock urging
them to turn in their worthless shares
and receive the new stock in return.
Now there is going to be a search of
old pigeon holes for the old stock and
it is certain that pretty nearly every
one Of the stockholders viii be able to
dig up the old highly colored stock
certificates and be ready to make a
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$29, 1927, 504.22; the total revenues
were $27, 1885, $3.50.
A new trade is developing through
the Panama Canal. 1t has become a
point of transit for passengers be-
tween the United States, the Pacific
coast of South America and even
Buenos Aires and the River Plate
country on the Atlantic. Through an
arrangement made by the United
Fruit Company, whose feet is the
largest flying the American flag,
with three steamship companies OPP
Grating along the Pacific coast Of
South America, a man is able to
make the trip between New York
and Buenos Aires going by way of
Valparaiso, Chile, and the Trans
Andean railway with a thousand
miles less travel than if he took a
steamer straight between the two
points via the Atlantic Ocean.
Today the steamers of the three
lines, the Pacific Steam Navigation
Company, the Campania Sud Ameri-
cana de Vapores, and the Peruvian
Steamship Company, come to the
Pacific entrance of the canal and go
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through the canal to the wharves at
Cristobal. There they meet the
United Fruit steamers on opposite
sides of the wharf. The lines reach
every port of any size on the west
coast of South America, which are
thus brought into direct touch with
our Atlantic and Gulf ports. The
| trip to Buenos Aires saves time over
the old way and is infinitely more
interesting.
More and more is the Panama
Canal becoming an objective point
| for tourists. Thrice have the
Shriners been here In force. The
steady influx of small parties is con-
stantly increasing. Those who de-
sire may stop at the fine hotels Oper-
ated by the government, the Hotel
| Washington at Ancon or the Tivoh
at Balboa. In all Uncle Sam operates
about twenty hotels on the Canal
Zone. The coEnmiSsary and hotel de-
partment supplies about 5000 peo-
pie daily with food, clothing and
| other necessaries. There are about
5000 white employees on the Canal
Zone and 10000 West Indians. There
are 5000 soldier lads here, bat ulti-
mately there win be $4,000.
Today the Panama Canal Zone is
spic. span and orderly. A ride
through the locks by ship and then
back by train along the line of the
huge waterway with glimpses of the
shipping or of great forests of dead
trees half submerged and covered
with orchids, as a vision Of pri-
meval world, is a popular way Of
seeing mankind's greatest snaiHeess
ipry xzyorlr
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Sign pledge
May Keep Children
Court Declares Children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Dominick Karnope Neglected
But Gives Parents Chance.

Municipal Judge Randall is aiding the
fight to give children chance in Ke-
nosha and on Monday afternoon, after
hearing all the facts in the case, he
formally declared, that the three child
rem of Mr.. and Mrs. Dominick Karnope
taken into custody on last Saturday
and Sunday, were neglected" child
rem In the eyes Of the law.
The mother and. the father of the
children appeared to be awakened to
the duty that they owe the children
and after considerable discussion of
the case Judge Randall decided to give
them another chance. Before this
chance was granted both Karrope and
his wife signed pledge to abstain
from the use of Intoxicating liquors
for a year, Karnope declared that he
would go to work this morning and his
wife declared that she would make
their home real home for the child
rem. The health department. is to
have free access to the house to see to il
that the children are properly cared for
Just as soon as the boys now in the
hospital recover they will be turned
over to the parents again, but with the
understanding if the regulations laid
down by the court are not carried out
to the letter the children will be
taken without ceremony and committed
to some state school.
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every phase of human activity.
Libraries, schools, foundries, railroad
yards, clubs, hotels, play grounds,
lighting and water systems, military
barracks, plantations. penitentiary,
by the government. Private bene-
ficence is also present and in this
respect a marvellous work is being
done at Balboa by the Young Wom-
EMS Christian Association, which
maintains a building where food, rest
and entertainment are provided.
Of supreme interests are the two
huge coaling plants located at
Cristobal and Balboa respectively.
The plants have total emergency
storage capacity of 100000 tons of
coal. Their normal capacity is $780,
600 tons. The Cristobal plant, on the
Atlantic side, covers nineteen acres.
1t can unload coal, brought in for
storage, at the rate of 1900 tons per
hour. It can reload at the rate of
t2,4o0 tons per hour. Ships can dis
charge and receive coal at the same
time at this plant, the unloader
wharf being at one side Of the pier
and the reloader wharf being at the
other side. The plant has approx
mately one-half mile of berthing
space for vessels to moor alongside,
with depth of water of ferty-one
feet at mean sea level. Giant NOV
ing bridges, known as stocking and
retaining bridges. span the vast
coal piles and are visible long dis
lance away. The cealins plant at
Balboa is approximately ene-half the
size of that at Cristobal. The I'm
loader wharf is $50 feet long; the re-
loader wharf 750 feet long. A fea-
t,re Of both plants is the sub
laqueous or under water storage OF
lcOal. The sHb-aqueous "coal bin" al
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to see the fine concrete piers and
whaves, the finest of their type in
the word, to which his vessel ties.
But back, for moment, to the
dry docks, those hospitals for wound
ed greyhounds or bulldogs of the sea
or sanitariums for those that need
physical sprucing up. The great
main repair shops are not only de-
signed to make all the lock, spillway
and power plant machinery and
water and land equipment for the
maintenance of the canal, Of the
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Cristobal is 30Ox50O feet, with the
bottom twenty feet below see
level.
Then there are the big dry dock
available either for the navy or mel
chant shipping. The largest wa
vessel in the world could enter tn.
great dry dock at Balboa at the Pa
cific terminal of the canal. This dry
dock is the second largest in the
world and the largest in the Amer
icas. It is 1000 feet long, ITO feet
wide, and has depth Of IS feet over
the blocks at mean tide. The dock
at Cristobal is 800 feet long and as
feet wide, with a depth at mean high
water of 10 feet inches over the
blocks. Both docks are closed by
mitre gates similar to those used or
the Panama Canal locks.
! Coming into Cristobal today the
| visitor of few years ago is amazed
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Panama Railroad, and of the forth
ications, but they can make any re-
pairs required by the United States
navy or by merchant ships. In ad-
dition there are subsidiary buildings,
main metal working shops, machine
erecting and tool shops, forge and
pipe, boiler and steam fitting shops.
Last year the canal almost paid its
operating expenses. That it will
make profit when normal traffic on
the seas is resumed cannot be doubt
ed. The canal expenses in 1916 were
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-03
GIVES new STOCK FOR old
Milwaukee Man Who Made Distinguish:
ed Success as Manufacturer Comes
Back to Kenosha to Make Good
Stock of Bankrupt Littand Co.

Reminiscent of the days when Alad-
din tramped the streets of historic
Bagdad calling out "New Lamps for
DID," August Littmann, former super
intendent OF the Littand Manufacture
ing Company in Kenosha and now one
of the directors of the American Metal
Products Company, one of the most
successful manufacturing companies OF
Milwaukee, came to Kenosha today and
cried out on the streets just like Alad-
din but his call was "New Stocks for
Old
Littmann came back to Kenosha af-
ter three years of success to make
good Not to fulfill promise or a
guarantee, but simply answering the
call of friendship to a lot of loyal
friends in Kenosha who once back in
other years put lot of faith in his
Judgment. When Littand bronze was
first invented, the Littand Manufacture
ing Company was established in Keno
sha and Littmann was its superintend-
ent. The career of the company s
plant in Kenosha was short lived and
it landed on the financial rocks.
Before it went into the courts as a
bankrupt concern, Littmann who had
great faith in the product of the com
pany. had advised many Of his friends
in Kenosha to purchase the stock in the
company. A lot of them followed his
advice and dropped their savings into
the hopper of speculative stocks until
they had filed it with some eight thou
sand dollars of good Kenosha money.
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MRS. C. ". NASH GIVES $40
Stationers Contribute Stationery and
English Hardware, Company Gives
Wringer Mop and Pail for
Headquarters.

The work of preparation for Red
Cross activities goes rapidly on under
the energetic and systematic direction
of the president, Mrs. E. G. Theirs,
who is devoting all of her time, with
out reservation, to it.
1t is now definitely decided that the
work days at headquarters, when all
members will be expected to come,
wearing either wash gowns or large
wash aprons, will be Mondays and Fri
days and the hours from to II a. m.
and / to p. m.
Aprons Sanitary Precaution.
Those wash gowns or large white
aprons may sound like an un-important
detail but they are particularly ina
portant, as the Red Cross physicians
place especial emphasis upon the great
care necessary in making the hospital
dressings. Gowns of wool stuffs are
much more apt to have mischief max
ing germs clinging to them than the
washable garments, hence the regula
ton.
Still the gifts continue to come in
Mrs. G. w. Nash headed the list OF
money contributions with $40 and sew
eral smaller amounts were received
from other individuals. Stationery
was contributed by the three station
cry firms of Glerum, Ernst and Robin
sen. The English Hardware Company
sent over a wringer, mop and pail t.
be used in headquarters.
More gifts Of money or materials arr
solicited and Mrs. Theirs asks that an,
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swap. In the meantime this modern
Aladdin has the consciousness of hav-
ing made good not only for himself
but also for his friends and he declares
that he is satisfied with this reward
of virtue.
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Mr.. and Mrs. n. A. Rowe who have
been in Florida and other parts Of the
south for more than two months are
not expected to return to Kenosha be-
fore the middle of May.
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Roll of Honor
Enlisted in the Navy.
Silas L. Morton.
George Raine.
William Eisenhauser.
John P. Schultz.

Kenosha put little pep into the
campaign to secure recruits for the
navy this morning when big posters
were put up all over the city which
had the caption Join the Navy First. "
The recruiting officers have explained
that they do not desire to interfere
with the recruiting for any other
branch of the service, but that they
feel deeply the need Of the navy for
men. Four more recruits from Keno
sha went to Milwaukee today to join
the navy This makes a grand total Of
more than a hundred and twenty men
that Kenosha has offered to the nary
since the big drive for recruits bpgaa.
More than eighty per cent of the men
have been accepted and many Of the
men are now doing actual sea duty on
board thu American ships.
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Miss Marjorie Young, 500 Exchange
street, entertained two tables at auc-
tion bridge last night.
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MORE GO TO THE NAVY.

Four More Kenosha Men are Sent TO
Aid in the "Navy First Program
of the Recruiting Bureau.
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A Want Ad viii Sell That Lot.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-22
SEES SON RUN
over; Voice OF
singer LEAVES
Miss Marsh Cancels All Of
Her Engagements
SON ESCAPED UNHURT
She Was To Have Attended
Local Festival AS A
Spectator
SON ESCAPED UNHURT

The Banner TO the effect that Miss
Lucy Marsh, who was to have appear
ed before the Choral Art society of
Mansfield, planned to come to this
city to attend the May festival.
Miss Marsh will not come here.
Neither will she appear in Mansfield.
An exceedingly dramatic story is the
cause of her cancellation of the Rich
land county engagement.
Recently, in Providence, r. l.,
son of Miss Marsh, who is Mrs. Cor
don in private life, was run over by
an automobile The son was not in
jured at all. Miss Marsh witnessed
the accident. The sight of the auto
mobile running over her son so un-
nerved her that a nervous breakdown
ensued The worst result, howev-
er, is the complete disappearance
of Miss Marsh's beautiful voice. Ply
sicians hold out hope that it will re-
turn when she RECEIVERS from her
breakdown. Until then, she must
perforce not sing at all.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-22
DISCONT|NUING
Of Pennsy Trains At Gam
bier Mere Report
Station Agents Have Received No
Word To This Effect, Although
Rumor Persists

AS far as can be ascertained the
report that is current in Gambler
that the train which leaves here at
$40 o'clock in the morning for Co
lumbus and the train returning from
Columbus which arrives here at s: 33
o'clock in the evening will discontin-
ue stopping at Gambler has no offic-
ial authority back of it and is proba-
bly, good deal talk. The Pennsyl-
vania ticket agent, George A. Chey-
ney, of this city has received no word
of such change in schedule.
The discontinuance of the day
trains to and from Columbus from
Gambler would be rather alarming to
the people of Gambler as well as the
Kenyon students.
The report has been that the trains
would discontinue stopping at Gam
bier next week, but until such a no
tice is received by either the Gam
bier or Mt Vernon ticket agent, it
has no official authority back of it
and is merely a report.