Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-24
MeOptirnistic
Philosopher

the Dig SCOre. In MS Will ne leIC EN-
ployes of the Denver Dry Goods Com
pany, who had been with the firm
from its incorporation, a bequest of
81 900 cash. Their names are: T. H.
Protheroe, Louise Blanchard, Kathryn
M. Bennett, William G. Cams, William
Hoggman, Hugh Shields, A. L. Evans,
Joseph X. Mcdonald, Joseph Sullivan,
John Murray and Laura Larsen. Mr..
Owen left an estate estimated at ap-
proximately $1,O0O,000. Most of it
consists of 1,O4O shares of stock in
the Denver Dry Goods Company, val
ued at $SS3.95 a share. Hundreds of
citizens gathered at the home to pay
last tribute to the departed Denver
merchant, who numbered his friends
from every class, many of them
among the ranks of organized labor.
Burial services were in Paramount
cemetery, conducted by Oriental Lodge
No. 81, A. F. and A. NJ. A body
guard of Knights Templar accompan-
led the body to the grave.
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THE REV. CHARLES L. MEAD,
pastor of Trinity Methodist church,
arrived home from France this week,
after a six months speaking tour
among the Y. M. C. A. huts with the
AHeficdu eApeuilloIdIy loICSS. hiS
work took him all over the fighting
district and thru many villages behind
the lines. He visited Verdun, which
he says is pitiful pile of ruins, not a
woman or child left within a radius
of ten miles. The once beautiful hills
about Verdun are bare of vegetation,
nothing being left but stripped and
twisted trunks of trees. He says the
American troops are making re-
markable impression upon the French
people and they have every confidence
upon a quick decision, as the turn
ing tide of the war came with the
arrival of the American forces. DR..
Mead's thousands of friends in Den
yer have extended him a warm well
come home, and are anxiously awaiting
the time when he will make public
addresses telling of his experiences in
France.
A SHOCK WAS FELT BY DEN
yer people, and especially those rep
resentatives of labor who attended the
luncheon at the Albany hotel recently
dustrial mission, headed by NJ. Albert
Metin, minister of labor in the French
cabinet, when the news was printed of
his sudden death in San Francisco a
few days ago. According to the press
dispatches the distinguished French
mans death was caused by exhaustion
due to over-strain in his tour across
the continent. M. Metin was 40 years
old and is survived by widow and
two small children, now in France.
The body is being taken back to Paris
by M. Thomson, a member of the COM
mission, who represented the labor
movement of France. The remainder
of the mission, headed by General Pau,
sailed from San Francisco for Aus
tralia this week.
THE ORGANIZED WORKING
people of Colorado will be more care
full next time when a mountebank
asks to be received with open arms.
The "Rev." s. R. Maxwell, who
preached" in Pueblo and Denver
about year ago, posing as special
friend of organized labor, has sold
himself to the corporation interests
for price said to be $4,000, to write
articles pretending to "expose" the
National Nonpartisan League. Soon
after coming to Denver, Maxwell hired
himself out to the Nonpartisan League
as an organizer, travelling over this
and other Western states. He fell
out with the officials Of the league be-
cause they would not permit him to
be the big thing. 1t will be recalled
that Maxwell came near getting the
league in bad here in Denver by pro-
German talks he made before various
societies. So for a price he has be-
come the servant of "Big Biz" and is
the impossible in trying to
break up the farmers movement.
These facts are attested in sworn
affidavit by H. M. Thomson, who has
been with the league since the Degin-
ming, in many official capacities.
.CLAREN J. MOORHOUSE,
statistician in the state labor depart
ment, has volunteered for service in
the quartermaster department OF the
national army and is undergoing the
usual examination by recruiting Off
GERS at Fort Logan. He is slightly
over the draft age, but took advan-
tage of recent call for men beyond
the draft age for service in the quar-
termaster department. Moorhouse IS
one of the best known union labor
men of the city, being q long time
member of the Cigarmakers Union.
His many friends will wish him a
safe return at end of the war and ex-
tend congratulations upon taking ad-
vantage of this opportunity to be OF
added service to the nation.
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