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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

and sixty years ago by people who
wanted big, generous rooms to
breathe clear air in. When the pos
sibilities Of coming its ancient state
into real money presented them
+ selves to new owners, the big rooms
were chopped up into little apart
ments and advertisements that might
prove attractive to press agents,
secretarial stenographers, newspa-
permen of the higher brow and other
dealers in polysyllabics were insert
ed, observed and acted upon.
The rent for two rooms in many
instances equals that for a whole
fourteen-room house in the pre-in-
flation period. The two rooms are
furnished, of course, with lot of
chintz and few chairs, called
dainty but actually rickety.
A young man leaned impatiently
out of the window Of one of his two
rooms in this section on October / :.
waiting for van to carry his assets
to neighborhood where people ate
steak cut an inch thick and have
1--we rooms and bath. He was sick of
the aesthetic life and French pastry
The minutes rushed along, but
none of the prompt service advcr-
tlsed by the moving company was
Forthcoming. A little express wagon
turned into Beekman Place and
stopped in front Of the house. A
taxicab lolled behind the van and
from its window protruded a tam
o'-shanter (which shook as though
the person under it were agitated
and uncertain. The express wagon
paused in front Of the house, where
the youth leaned out. The tam
o'-shanter and its occupant came out
into the rain. The girl was slight,
as were her effects, which showed
meagrc and scant on the bosom of
the express wagon. She was pretty,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
though father was just kicking the
furniture around.

though father was just kicking the
furniture around.
Manhattan and The Bronx usu-
ally may be counted upon to pro-
vide the maximum in civic commo
ton, and here was no exception.
The cross streets of the East and
West sides and the upper stretches
of The Bronx were lined with vehi-
cles damned with furniture, and
these vehicles ranged from the
cavernous moving van to the tiny
f1ivver.
On West Ninety-first Street, for
example, last Monday afternoon at
3 o'clock there were eleven vans
and crews working between Cen
trail Park West and Riverside Drive.
a distance Of six blocks. Not all of
them were working. Here and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Some Figures

The ordinary moving van will
carry from rs to 1870 articles
and requires four hours for an
average moving job. This leads
to the interesting deduction that
during the course of a ten days
moving season 10000 vans, carry
ing an average Of 100 articles
move from one point to another
100000 pieces of furniture and
furnishings.
These 100000 articles, con-
tributing to domestic needs and
happiness, might be moved safely
and with less cost if the business
Of moving could be distributed over
six months of the year That, in
sum, is the platform Of the van
owners and the one on which they
are prepared to make their fight
through city authorities if neces-
sary
Given this Fundamental reform
and all will be we'll with the movers
world. Without it the New Yorker,
ever a curious and restless roamer,
will continue to be sub ecred to
severe hardships and those little
embarrassments occasioned by
haste, such as man carrying down
the street in broad daylight his
wife's forgotten electric curling
iron.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

incurred because of lack of business
due to concentration and because
the working crews must be main
tanned intact over the year, there is
another deficit, which is caused bv
the extra handling necessary in
packing and storing, the great vol
ume of which comes in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
By Louis Lee Arms

w |HEN play began this sea-
wv son on the giant checker
board that is New York,
there were far more
checkers than squares. Even had
there been sufficient squares there
were not enough fingers to move all
the checkers. Thus there was in
comparable confusion, and pathos
and bathos. And thereby hangs a
tale.
Given some 100000 families (es-
timated) to be moved during the
Aeriod Of a fortnight, with 5000
vans to do the moving, and assum-
ing that the majority of this mi
grafton will take place on Septem-
Der 20 and 80 and October l, and
we'll, it can't be done. Elemental,
Watson" did Holmes say?
What is the answer?
Charles Morris, president of the
Van Owners Association of Greater
New York, says that unless real
estate men mend their ways and
create new system Of leases that
will presume to make spring NOV
ing equipollent to that of fall
in 1920, he and his associates
won't turn a wheel" Mr.. Morris
speaks for 5000 capacious vans, or
$4,000 wheels. Should that come
to pass, where would the checkers
be-and the checkerboard?
Certainly, the current moving
season has been a problem beyond
the ability Of mathematics and
motors to solve. The much harried
New Yorker, caught in the enhlad-
ing fire Of a new situation" has
joked or sworn, laughed or wept,
according to his temperament, or
whether his goods and chattels
were being moved or standing still.
Women in taxicabs or private cars
have made the rounds of trucking
companies and, with suspicious
moisture in their eyes, have begged
to be moved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

ing the books of the Metropolitan
Storage and Warehouse Company,
Mr.. Morris displayed figures which
showed that the vans, drivers and
crews averaged about three and one
half days to a working week as late
as last July and August.
In addition to this loss, which is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

Kings move fast in a great
city like ours. About the
only slow travelling objects
are elevated trims the racn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Suffer

Movers Suffer
1t is Mr.. Morris's contention that
not only are movers put to great in
convenience, but that storage and
moving companies suffer actual loss
through the concentration of bust
ness. 1t provides moving companies
with more business than they can
handle i'll season and not enough to
pay expenses out Of season.
Thus, the cost Of one van for one
year amounts to S2,355.6O for up
keep, or S7.85 a day, to which may
be added on the majority of the
three hundred working days SO for
gasolene and oil, 1888 for driver
S12.75 for helpers and co cents for
compensation, or an expense van
Of S29.53 day.
The cost of van an hour has
been raised from IS to $40, which
would bring in 500 for a ten-hour
day and net the van owner a hand
some profit over a season of three
hundred days if-and here is the
proposition in nutshell--there was
work to be done on half those DAYS.
But there isn't.
AS consequence, the storage and
moving companies that are dealing
with union labor often have to set
their high paid drivers to packing
which ordinarily pays 500 a week
and this cuts into the profits. Open
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Your Move, With the City Checkerboard Fill

space Of a few days. There bein,
at length no available space for TIE
storage Which is contracted, the nro
prietor makes shifts handling and "a.
handling goods, in which the element
Of overtime enters-for goods NAV
not be left on the sidewalk-and for
which pay and half is given. The
way the average warehouse is forced
to handle its business during tba
rush season virtually eats Up three
months profits, according to Mr..
Morris.
The Remedy
This unwieldy situation. tho
president of the van owners de-
clares, can be adjusted by one
simple expedient. It is his idea
that New York realty dealers should
follow the system that has been in
augurated in Chicago, and which
provides for leases that will create
four moving days during the spring
and three during the fall. That
would place the huge volume of
business within the ability of the
organized van owners to handle
and would be less costly to the
mover, and at the same time more
profitable to the van owner.
1t has been argued that the real
estate operator is opposed to this
alteration for the reason that the
concentration of business helps to
establish rent standard. but the
real estate men will not agree to
this, pointing out that the depre-
citation of renting value of any fiat,
apartment or house which remains
unoccupied after October more
than offsets any alleged extra
profit which is gained by the pres
ent modus operandi.
Thus, inasmuch as both parties
agree on the elements of the situa-
ton, the probability is that reform
will be put in order by next season
and that there will be at least two
big moving days, May 1 and Octo-
Der /, as was the custom a decade
ago.
If for nothing else, the present
system of migration could be con-
demned on the grounds of ineffi-
cheney. In many instances two vans
and their crews have stood by
while a third exercised it's advan-
tage in first obtaining the rights to
the freight elevator. Two vans,
static at cost of $40 to $25 an
hour, place moving in a new light,
which is that of outright luxury
Yet in the example given nothing
could be done about it, for the rea-
son that the two vans and their
crews carrying furniture TO an
apartment house were unacquainted
with the fact that the third had
already preempted the moving ia
cilities. That is one reason why
walk-up apartments are favored by
moving companies over those boast
ing freight elevators.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

w 7HEN play began this sea-
wv son on the giant checker
board that is New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

ness of turning a corner without
capsizing is lifted into the realm
of physical science or art. At that,
the goldfish seemed to be the poor
est of imaginable risks.
These and kindred sights were
the result of New York's annual
moving panic, which is best re-
vealed by the light which President
Morris brings to bear upon the stu
alton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

that his money carried weight and
that his suspicious were justified
He might have had the same expo
rience as a prospective mover on
Madison Avenue, who chartered a
van and crew at $40 an hour, con-
graduated himself prematurely on
his bit of brigandage, and was later
forced to new terms Of S25 a hour
when the driver arrived with "new
instructions.
No Chance to Vim
A moving job averages four
hours. Thus the Madison Avenue
tenant paid 500 to get moved,
which is the equivalent of a raise
Of $3.50 monthly on years rent.
Assuming that this man had moved
rather than pay a IS monthly rental
increase, he was actually at a loss to
the sum Of $40, to say nought of
passing through that supreme men
tai and physical test which is a part
Of moving.
1t was this overthrow of the law
of supply and demand that con-
verified New York into a moving
madhouse. The household goods be-
littering the streets created the i'm
preston of frenzied persons fleeing
before a fire, or Of a besieged city
whose residents were making ready
for exodus. Again, it looked as
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16
lsPT,TxG-

Way out younder where the mounfai
Lifts It's grandeur towards the Sky.
Where the scnls birds trill in rapture
As they race with clouds on high:
Where a fringe of ragged pine trees
lake n trimming. ever cling
TO the raiinent af the canyon.
Dressed 30 gorgeonsly for spring:
Where the dog-wood blossoms frolic
With the gypsy winds that STRAY
Oh. the lnring woods are calling,
Calling all the live-long day.
Trees are SLOWLY donning verdure.
Bushes wait and watch the sun:
Thickets huddle aIp together.
Dressing only just begun:
Shafts in oozy softness anlble
Gross the pathway. towar>s the light
And the lilies. all a-ramble,
Dot the landscape, purple white:
And The little creek goes chuckling
On its wa8 in merry glee--
oh, the woods keep calling. calling,
All day long. 10 harrass me,
Like a pail my work hangs Ger me.
Filing all my DAYS with gloom.
While each Woodland fairy beckons
With a little wild Scotch bioom-
GRACE L. HALL.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16
A MATTER OF SHELTER
IN INNEAPOLIS, which is
NQk carrying on a most

~ INNEAPOLIS, which i,
TUk carrying on mos
ncour a ging "owr
your own home" campaign, in
cooperation with the United
States Department of Labor,
has outlined four reasons why
an organized effort to promote
building is imperative now.
The reasons are:
j. To provide employment
for soldiers and sailors and for
the many workmen released
from war work.
2. To improve local business
conditions in the home fur
hishing, construction, and real
estate lines.
3. To provide for our COM
I11unity the stabilizing influ-
ence of larger number of
home owners to. counteract the
irresponsible doctrines of ex-
treme radicals.
A. To make our city a more
attractive and more whole
some place to live in by pro-
noting the idea of home for
every family.
Pendleton has a more potent
reason for building than rs re-
presented by any of the four
points emphasized by Mime
apolis. More houses must be
provided here or people will
havetto sleep under the stars.
Our building work is not
Keeping. up with the demand |
for new houses and the situa-
ton is serious, not that our folk
may turn bolsheviki but be-
cause they may get frost bit
ten.
What has happened to our
noble Home Builders Loan
Company?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16
2s YEARS AGO
tFrom the Daily East oregonian
April 16, 1919 =

tFrom the Daily East oregonian
April 16, 1919
Mrs. w M. Blakely Is, in the city
from Seattle visiting her daughter,
Mrs. ]. c. Leasure.
Frank O'Harra lost good horse
yesterday in singular manner. The
animal commenced bleeding at the
nose and soon bled to death despite
all efforts to stop the flow.
W. b. Mays has rendered his resig-
nation as constable of South Pendleton
district. Mr.. Mays doubtless thinks
the job has been more productive of
trouble than remuneFative
James Riley and james Sullivan.
arrested by the police for selling IL
quor to Indians were held to tnswer
by Commissioner Bean Saturday even-
ing.
J.. NJ. Bentley and Co. have sold to-
day another acre tract in Hazel addi-
tion. The purchaser was ]. L. Leu
man.
wilse coyle was here today from
Milton. He is still suffering from the
wound he received recently. -
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16
THE FUNNYBONE
Twas Not Such a Mystery,

AWdS 4tDb foiIif a @sAy7tIbss
When a young woman approached
the other, day and said. You .don'f
know me. but I know you very well, .
the latter replied:
II am afraid You are Mistaken
/, Aren't you Mr.. Umson?"
I 81 surely am"
II have known you and your family
for SOME time"
Il can't place you"
mo, you don't know me, but
know more about yon and your wife.
some of your closest relations"
''How in the world"
"oh. there is nothing mysterious
pupils in school"
Kitchen in Mourning.
Here waiter, This steak is posi-
lively burnt black"
Eyes, sir, Mark OF respect. sir, our
head cook died yesterday"
Luck May Make Gambling Pay.
An elderly gentleman was travelling
on a train when he became engaged
In conversation with younger man
in the seat beside him. Eventually
the talk led 70 a personal experiences
''Once | was q clerk in grocery
store at SO n week. said the younger
man speaking Of his earlier life. nut,
like many others. I fell in with care
less compaions, and we were induced
to gamble
'.I sect I see!" interjected the eld-
erIy one. with n sigh. "You gambied
and were tempted to take money that
did not belong TO YOU"
"oh. no." was the retoinder Of the
younger man. Il won enough In
month TO buy the grocery store"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16
SOME MESSAGES HEARD IN *
LOCAL CHURCHES SUNDAY

are propagated. and tn, institutions
for the physical. mental and morarde-
fectives are populated to the limit.
One mighty solvent for the worlds
ills is to make private virtues public
virtues. No matter how devouts how
punctilious in private morals and re-
ligion a man may be. if he does not
make his public activities of like char
acter that mans religion is vain.
We need Jesus Christ to make tri-
umphant incarnated entrance into the
worlds commercial, industrial and
governmental life. ht
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16

1t isn't often that private has any
chance to give an officer as good as he
gets but the following from Camp
kearney would seem to indicate that
II sometimes happens.
The orderly officer was asking for
complaints. when up sprang a private
who declared that he had not received
his nroper ration of butter.
Officers as rule don't like grum-
blers and this one was no exception
Noticing tiny morsel of butter on one
of the doushboys boots he remarked
scathingly: ~
Don't get your proper ration of
butter? There's half of II on your
bootst"
Yes sir restored the private. re-
garding the tiny spot gravely, just
exactly half, sir"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16

as the dinner itself was concerned
Mrs, Robinson was. delighted.
The only fly in the ointment was
Jane. the new parlor maid: she was
slow, clumsy. and her waiting was bad
But, in addition to these faults. she in
sisted on keeping her mouth open.
This so got on Mrs. Robinson's ner-
YES that at last she exclaimed:
Jane. your mouth is wide open,v
Jane withdrew her gaze from the
ceiling and. said. looking down with a
CHEEKY smile assn
II Know it. ma'am; opened IL N.Y.
self!'
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16
How colds Are Contracted.

Colds are due to bacterial germs
that are usually present in the afr pas.
sages of the throat and nose of heal
thy persons. Under ordinary condi-
tions they do no harm but when you
get chilled, very tired or eat two
much so as to weaken your resistance
they are quick to take advantage of II
and almost before you know II you
have a cold. Get a bottle of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy and take 1t
according to tfie plain printed direc-
tions and you will soon be rid. of it.
bupt when You neglect II look out.
Some of the most serious diseases re-
suit from neglected colds.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16
BANK MESSENGER HELD.

SAN f1stNcIsC,o. April 16.-rwo
bandits to-day held up bank of Cal,
ifornia messenger and robbed him o,
$sO90 hn currency. They struck him
over the head with &c butt of "a re-
voivcr. The bandits hacked the mes.
scngcr. who was a new cinpIoyc. in.o
a doorway while pedestrians looked
ON. Tho messenger was en- route To
tho sub-trcas,iry.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16
TRYING THE KAISER

Or HE dispatches from Paris
VI are silent as to the meth
cd that has been devised
TO bring the former German
Emperor to trial, and there is
No hint of the specific charges
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16
Fish hook days are here.
GALE DELAYS FLIGHT.

UEiIlE DF-fAH . IT
ST. JOHN, April 16--A northeast
blizzard which. swept the entire new
FoundIand coast last night has abated
somewhat today. but seventy mae
ealc continues to blow. making the
start of the transatlantic air flight inn
possible.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16

This is what Mrs A. w. Milne, 81.
George, Utah, says OF Chamberlain
Tablets for biiiousness and constipa-
tion. Get them at the drug store. They
only cost q quarter. -.--.--.s
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16

It was young Mrs. Robinson's first
lChristmas party. and she wastsufferine
all the usual terrors OF the inexperienc-
ed hostess However, the cook rose to
the occasion splendIdly, and, 50 FAR
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16
a pcIla1,Ic+ cough medicine.

'T have given ChamberIaln's Cough
Cough Remedy TO my five children on
occasions without number for the past
fifteen years. 1t IS the only remedy
I could rely upon to cure coughs and
colds and for Group II has no equal;
The children take II willingly" writes
Mrs. c. o. Nesbit. Yandergrift. Pa.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16
-
,00O TROOPS LAND.

5000 TROOPS LAND.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 16.--Two
ports Edward Imckenbach, Mexican
and CarriII0 arrived today with more
than 5000 Officers and men.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16
-4Edsf So Ore4 4onidII
-=-= &C. SS.SS2.....sss.S
that are to be preferred.
Z SUBSCRIPTION RATES

Nhae are 10 D0 preferred.
n Ii is reported that there was
a practical agreement in the
council ION the general re.
sponsibility of the German
Emperor for bringing on the
war" but, unfortunately, that
is not an indictable offense
under the law of nations. There
I is responsibility somewhere
! for every war, but internation-
al law has never undertaken to
Fdeelare that the. head of a
state could be held legally ac-
countable for an appeal to
arms.
If there were any system of
exact justice in the world, the
first and most obvious duty of
a peace conference would be to
send William Hohenzollern
and his former military and po-
litical advisers before prop
erly constituted tribunal to be
tried for their high crimes and
misdemeanors against man
kind. The charges would not
be confined to the atrocities of
actual war, but they would go
to the very origin of the con-
flict and the exact measure of |
guilt would be determined. |
Adequate punishment would I
follow as matter of course.
Unhappily, there is no inter-
national law that meets the
situation, and law can hardly Il
be improvised after the fact.
All the traditions of the Eng
lish speaking people are
squarely opposed to the princi-
pie of ex post facto laws. what 4
ever the offense may be and
however just the demand for
punishment.
A trial of the former Ger ,
man Emperor without due pro- t
cess of law would not be an inn
pressive proceeding, and might !.
DO far more harm than good. !
It would enable his supporters (
in Germany to picture him asa :
and in the end the Will,
helm legend might become as
prolific a source of mischief as
the Napoleon legend.-New +
York World.
~~~~>~e~~>~
The case of HI. L. Pittock !
shows the sad plight of the i
rich man when he dies. If he Is
S real liberal with his heirs he
runs chance of spelling :
hem. If he is tight they will i
.ry to break the will. IN
>o>>e>e
Treason against the country t
n time of war is an unforgiv- !.
able offense and those convict {
I'd of such crimes should take v
heir medicine. The fact the Z
war isover makes no differ =
snce. W W v
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16

Treason against the country
in time of war is an unforgiv-
able offense and those convict
ed of such crimes should take
their medicine. The fact the
war isoyer makes no differ
ence. as ~
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16

The case of H. L. Pittock
shows the sad plight of the
rich man when he dies. If he
is real liberal with his heirs he
runs a chance of spelling
them. If he is tight they will
try to break the will.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-04-16
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
WANT ADS.
NEW TODAY


FOR esALE-Lawn mower. iron bed
springs and mattress. Phone 280R.
FOR SALE-Child's tricycle., for chiIo
to years. Phone 1910,
MARTIN JONES School of Dancing.
Mondays. Tuesdays and eWednes-
DAYS. Liberty Hall. ~
FOR SALE-Fumed oak dining room
furniture. birdseye maple dressins
table and desk. Phone 629W.
WANTED-3 or 4 room house fur
nished or furnished apartments for
family of two. Call J. C. Penney 20.
Card OF Thanks.
We desire to extend to the many
kind fri9ntIs our heartfelt thanks and
appreciation for the beautiful floral
offerings and kindness during our sad
bereavement in the death of our be-
loved son and brother, James b. Cir
ton. MRS. M. GIRTON,
AND FAMILY.