Denver labor bulletin., 1918-09-28

came here to this boundless land of
opportunity from land where every
thing was forbidden. / don't see why
these people should sympathize with
the fatherland now. We have reached
for them to get onto the band wagon
until our hands are stiff and if there
are any left now who are not on the
band wagon we should tie them to it
and drag them thru the dust of vic
tory"
OCCASIONALLY THERE COMES
to the surface man who backs his
enthusiasm for the labor press with
real money. Such man is w. w.
Slack known to his hundreds OF
friends in the printing fraternity as
Barney" now editor of the Casper
Daily Press, the leading newspaper
in the Wyoming oil region. This life
would be a never ending bliss to labor
editors if there were more Barney"
Stacks, and our great hope is that his
tribe will continue to increase. Listen
to what he says in a letter received
this week: "Dear Houston: / am
sending you a check for $5. Excuse
my delay. This will push my sub
scription over the top for while. You
are publishing the best labor paper
in the country. Especially l keep well
posted on Colorado workers and the
general labor movement bv reading
The Bulletin and cannot do without it.
Success to you and Mr.. Hines in all
your efforts"
THE FINEST RAILROAD TICK
ct office ever operated in the West is
now open for business at the corner
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premises formerly occupied by the
Santa Fe, but greatly enlarged by TAX
ing in more ground floor space. 1t is
the new United States Railroad Ad-
ministration Consolidated ticket Office
and when the doors opened for bust
ness Monday morning at $3.50 o'clock,
there was a long line of customers
waiting to be served. The first day
800 railroad tickets were sold over
the counter 127 feet long, said to be
the longest of its kind in the world.
The force of ticket sellers was identi-
cally the same as those who had pre-
viously been distributed thruout the
seven different railroad ticket offices
in Denver, the only difference being
that they worked under one roof and
are now employed by Director Gen
ticket sellers under John F. Mcclure,
the chief agent. The public is finding
this consolidation a great improvement
over the old system, it being more con-
venient and a great time saver. How
ever, there has been no reduction in
the price of tickets.
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SINCE OTTO F. THUM WAS AP-
pointed state labor statistician and
ceased to be regular MONDAY patron
of the Round Table, Ben Claff, pro-
prietor of the Royal restaurant, says
he is selling more food because there
is less talk. Be that as it may, Otto
continues to hold place in the spot
light. During a pause in his statisti-
cal work the other day he rushed down
to The Bulletin Office for the sole pur-
pose of announcing that he is again
grandfather, news having reached
him of the birth in Cincinnati, Ohio,
Friday, September 20, of Thomas Will
son Smith, whose mother was Miss
Susie Thum before her marriage to
Prof. Edward Staple Smith of Gin
cinnat University. Otto now has ten
grandchildren, six boys and four girls.
When Thum was commissioner of
property under the old city regime, he
took pleasure in announcing that his
score stood four to four for grand
children, four boys and four girls. The
two wartime additions have been en-
tered in the boy column, hence the
score now stands six to four in favor
of the male gender. Perhaps the fact
that the professor is commander in
charge of the students army corps at
the Cincinnati University may account
for the male ascendency. Hence
Grandpa Thum has a right to feel
proud and spread the news about in
his daily perambulations.