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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

H. A lane. manager ~ tho Oklahoma
l'tllitirs association, IN out of town
On trip 10 various Diif hhsorln ions
In thr state ban, IN expected hck
Saturday night
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

Jimmie Chiffon. n Juvenile, was %r-
rested Yesterday on a charge Of in
corrigihility. His case was referred 10
Truant officer webb Jones.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

Offices ai the city hall VIII he cIDSeh
tomorrow on account ot 'Ir'l9n ~
,,ith th. exception of the health de.
uartmcnt which viii remain open untll
noon
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

M abandoned Overland automobile
was found lst night nj 1919 West
Eighth trs't II Was taken 10 police
hesdquhrtcfl 10 await naturalization.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

The Keen cola company. sol West
Main street reported Ia the police lhst
night that burglars entered the buil1-
ina aud scattered papers and records
over the floor.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

Maxcy Graves. sl7 Carroll street, rc-
ported 10 the police yesterday that
someone had robbed him OF pair OF
leather boots.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

An automobile owned by II, n. Ash .
burn. 400 West Frisco avenue, was
stripped OF equipment ~ thieves, a
report to the police states.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

Jevclfy valued NJ $50 WI. stolen
from Mrs Lulu Hopkins 1l0i4 SorIh
broadway. according 10 o. report made
lo the police yesterday
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

- VI. Iinrt. assistant city engineer.
reported 10 the police Yesterday that
some one had stolen horn from ms
automobile
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

J. A Deignan. manager OF the Ford
assembling plant here, Ia In a hospital
recovering from an operation for ton
siltis,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

Harry Slagle, arrested Sunday by
the police on charge " stealing an
oyercoat and other clothing. entered n
plea OF guilty when he was arraigned
this morning before 4. W. McWilliams
Justice Of peace. He II held In the
county Jail to await a hearing in the
district court.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

Two new cases ~ smallpox were re-.
ported 10 the city health department
yesterday BDth yicilins were removed
10 the pest house Tor treatment
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

The case NJ Tony Esies charged
with forgery. was referred 10 the county
authorities this morning hf Municipal
Judge Splitter
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

The Industrial Development committee
Of the Chamber of Commerce was to
meet In the Skirvin hotel nj noon today
to discuss matters connected with In
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

when In a hurry. phone Walnut bs'
''''' (Adv.l
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

duslriaI suryfy Of the clly. arcofding
10 Y. T. Dixon. assistant npn,rrr ~
tho chamber
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

continue their He'd Cros. sewing aciiy.
tiles In separate church units and aid
regularly In putting out The quotas ~
refugee garments required hy tho
FouthNoHtrfn division ~ - Louis,
Mo
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

Mother Nays pies and doughnut' nj
,.n', g,ocer or DOS Hudson tAdv
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

Special street cars bore thousands Of
men women and children TO various
sections surrounding the city yesterday
afternoon. Roth Wheeler park and the
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

DAyESPORT. Iowa, March 81 -.
Lieut. ". H. Kssrler. Der MolneH Won
the national shooting match with u
score of tss. according 10 figures com
piled a. headquarters here today. 7.
x Lee. Of Birmingham. Ah. was
second
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31
Gefmans Seek Food.

CHERBOURG. March 3l.-The
German steamers Java, SecunduS, Bur-
gomeister Won Melle. Won nellie,
Gemma, Kages and Rowna have ar
rived IN Cherbourg harbor where they
will take on new crews before pro-
ceeding to the United States with
American crews and returned Awitr
food for Germany and other Euro
pean countries
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31
CAPT0R Of CONFEDERATE
PRESIDENT is DEAD

JOHNSON CITY Tenn. March
3l--Casper knob'e. ~ civil war vet,
cram and credited with having cap
tured President Jefferson DAVIS at
the close OF the wafris dead al the
Mountain Branch Soldiers home here
knoblc was native ot Switzerland
and enlisted at Cincinnati
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

manage tho Lttlo Rock club Of the
Southern league.
Charlie seems ~ BE- a popular name
on tho Cub team. There n Charley
Deal Charley Pick and Charley llollo-
cher. There lr no desire TO have Char
lev Horse iDtn the team, however,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

x Chaa W. Gun,er School Treas
rrer (Ady)
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

Vote for Gen. Wells-School Treas
urer. (Adv)
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31
Army officer Wins Shoot.

Y Cu. W Gun,er School Treas
lrcr (Ady)
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

x Cha,. ". Gunter School Treas
urer (Ady)
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

X Chas. " Gur;cr School. Treas
urer (\dy)
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-31

Kid Eiberfeld. who during the OF
season was an athletic director nj
Camp Shelby. s now ready 10 devote
his time 10 baseball . He Will again
The sun., 1919-10-05

dinner bell. the penalty for lateness
being that some of the good things of
the table might be missed. They could
eat when they liked and where they
liked, a privilege some had often longed
for, when some especially frugal meal
had been served, as was always the
case OF the Sunday night tea. No
more when tired from the days work
were they obliged to listen to the
garrulous widow, forever trying to
impress upon the solemn faced bach
elor that she would welcome his atten-
tons; maiden ladies', continually chat
tering and on the alert TO discover the
scent OF some new scandal; the star
boarder with his loud voice, demand
ing that he be served first even though
he entered the dining room last, and
the fo.bles of the young man with the
blond hair, thanked on either side by
a giggling stenographer.
As rents increased. families who de-
sired to live In apartments whose
rental was somewhat beyond their
The sun., 1919-10-05
SKIN PickERs Of EDUCATION
New York Boarding Houses Are Passing

keeper never to admit that she is max
ing money. But their life was not all
a bed Of roses. Miss Fannie Hurst in
her story, ice Water Pr" thus
wildly depicts the trials and tribula-
tons OF the boarding house landlady:
"Landladies, whole black bombazine
generations Of them, oh, so long I'M
heard may rise in one indictment
Of the boarder. The SCARED bureau
front and match scratched wall paper;
the empty trunk nailed to the floor in
security for the unpaid bill; cigarette
burnt sheets and the terror of sudden
fire; the silent newcomer In the third
floor back hustled out one night in
handouts; the day long sobs of the
blond girl so suddenly terrified of life
about to be and wringing her ringless
hands in the fourth floor ballroom;
the smell of escaping gas and the
tightly packed keyhole; the unsus-
pected flutes that Turk in boarders'
trunks; towels. that querulous and
endless pecan Of the lodger; the high
cost OF liver and dried peaches, of
canned corn and round steak"
In Fourteenth and Twenty-third
streets, wide and I'm years past gener-
ously sprinkled with shade trees,
nearly every second house was con-
Quoted for the refreshment and hous-
ing OF maid and man. Washington
Square and the Greenwich Village dis
trict was the favorite habitation of
those whose tastes inclined toward art,
literature and music. In the Thirties
and Forties the houses were chiefly
filled with actors and actresses, some
Of whom were playing in the metrop-
oils for the FIRST time Chorus girls
largely predominated in many OF the
houses located in this section of the
city.
The principal patrons OF the board
Ing house. however, and those the
landladies were always glad to well
come were the great hosts of office
workers and sales people whose posi-
tons were fairly permanent and who
could be counted on to pay regularly
every Saturday night
The sun., 1919-10-05
How to Devise
Handy Glue Pot

\/OU buy bottle of glue, remove
the tin cap use some of the
glue, and then replace the cap
In a week you wish to use the glue
again. The cap sticks, and because II
does not fit properly the glue mas
hardened by evaporation. Your fingers
become smeared, and if you are past
ing a clipping or a letter the glue
becomes a nuisance.
Whittle a wooden stopper to nj the
bottle snugly Insert a spreader IN j"
Hold 1t over a lighted candle 10 warm
the wood; let the hot candle wax GRIP
over both stopper and spreader, then
hold the stopper we'll up over inc
flame. That will heat the wax ana
cause it to soak into the wood, Aiter
you have waxed the stopper NJ u
carefully to the neck of the bottle ana
leave shoulder on the upper ehd'
Then wax II again.
With such a stopper the give WI"
keep indefinitely the fingers are pro-
tected and the spreader is always 't
hand, for It Is part OF the stopper
itself. The paraffin prevents tho E.uo
from getting hold on the stopper ana
the stopper keeps the glue air'ight
The sun., 1919-10-05
"Keep Well Leaflets"

lTHERE are a great many infor-
nation bureaus and thousands
of questions are answered each
day in the great CITY, but it Is doubt
ful If there is any corps of informa-
ton clerks connected with any or all
Of the other information bureaus
forced to know as much about the five
boroughs as are tho police of the
Bridge precinct, stationed at the Man
haitian end OF the Brooklyn Bridge.
To say the least, other information bu-
reaus are not asked SO many different
questions.
1t is no uncommon thing to stand
at the booth and marvel at the manner
in which the bluecoats are able to
answer all sorts Of questions that are
Aired at them, some pertaining to
streets in New York, Brooklyn, The
Bronx and even in New Jersey. Dur
ing the war 1t was no novelty for the
men to answer questions about diff
ferent ships that sailor lads would ask
them. A great many Of the blue
jackets would come in on a ship after
having been overseas and being I'M
familiar with the big city would forget
where they left the vessel when they
went on liberty. The Bridge cops
made 1t a point to learn as much as
possible about the ships, and In the
greater number OF cases the lost sailor
was directed to his chip. even though
It waA supposedly q secret where the
vessel was tied up.
Streets. institutions. hospitals and
most any imaginable place in the five
horoughs-people come to the police
men at the booth" asking for them,
and on each occasion the person is
directed without a moment of hest
tation. 1t is for that reason no
doubt that the men assigned to that
detail have kept their places for
several years without fear of trans
fer. 1t is probably the only detail In
the department where a policeman
can feel sure there is no danger of
being sent to another precinct every
40 often.
Only recently one OF the men at
the booth spent his two weeks va
cation trolleying through New Jer-
sey to Philadelphia. The trolley trip
took him in and out of both Staten
Island and Long Island. yes,
/ admit it's true" said Harry Smith,
when joked about It by brother
officer at the booth. 81 have been
here for a number of years and I
have never been stumped on a ques-
ton but once and that was when
q couple came up and asked me
about trolleying from Camden to
Philly. / made up my mind 1 would
be able to answer that question the
next time l was asked II / had to go
there myself to find out. I did and
now I am ready for questions about
any place east OF the Mississippi"
1t was one OF the men at the same
The sun., 1919-10-05

Then came the trend of business
northward, and the boarding house
was pushed slowly toward the park.
But for years many refused to give
ground, and thousands of persons still
slept and ate in houses which were
sandwiched between tall factory and
loft buildings.
Many of these boarding houses were
something more than a place to eat
and sleep. They were real homes for
those unfortunates who as yet were
unable or unwilling to assume the
bonds of matrimony and also to
many by whom the conjugal yoke
was already worm. In the evening.
after dinner was finished, the board
ers would assemble in the parlor,
with its gift framed mirrors. stiff
backed chairs and rafting piano,
usually out OF tune through much
usage, and pass many a pleasant
hour. Numerous romances which
eliminated in a happy marriage had
their beginning in the dimly lighted
boarding house parlor after the rest Of
the boarders had retired.
Think of being able to secure a fairly
good sized room with three meals day
for the sum of seven dollars a week.
Yet that was the average price asked
quarter OF century ago. What joy
this would bring to-day to the hearts
of those Who are straining every nerve
to keep pace with the high cost OF liv-
ing and slowly but surely falling be-
hindl
With the passing of the years,
however, a change IN the mode OF
living gradually came about. The
boarding house was slowly supplanted
by the furnished room house, the oc-
cupants OF which "ate OUT in restau-
rants, or more often, especially the
feminine portion. cooked their own
meals over a gas or smoky Oil stove.
This manner OF life appealed particu-
larly to those who found the rules and
regulations OF the average boarding
house irksome. They were no longer
required to scramble madly for the
dining room on the ringing OF the
The sun., 1919-10-05
Bridge Cops Wise Men

booth who recently was the victim ot
a great deal OF publicity when stories
were printed in papers all over the
country that he had struck it rich
The story told of the bluecoat hav-
ing befriended a man years ago when
the latter was down and out on Park
Row. The man went West and, fol-
lowing the advice of the policeman,
took a brace. Things went well for
the former unfortunate and he be-
came a rich man, owning several cam
neries. On recent visit to New York
he found the policeman at the same
booth. And Frank Caddell, it is said
by brother officers and close friends,
soon will be fading out of the picture.
The story has it that Frank will be a
big salaried man in one of the can
neries. Both Smith and Caddell are
capital story tellers and scores OF
newspaper writers who have come TO
know them are sure that the face OF
Frank and Harry will stay at the
booth as long as the Bridge stands.
Recently while standing at tho
booth the reporter found the first to
approach was a couple asking shyly
where they could be married; then fol-
lowed a woman with a pet dog in her
arms asking where she could find a
doctor for her sick pet, and when the
reporter heard the policeman direct
an old italian woman to a place IN
Brooklyn where she could buy a good
milking goat, it was then time % leave
convinced that nowhere did they ask
so many queer questions and have
them answered satisfactorily as at the
cops booth" at the Manhattan END
of the bridge.
The sun., 1919-10-05
Navy Newspaper
Is World Wide
.HE. United States NAVY boasts

THE. United States Navy boasts
OF the only. travelling news
paper in the world. The is
sue, four page affair, is known as
the Recruiter, and is published in
whatever city or town happens to be
the special train made up for The pur-
pose Of carrying throughout the coun-
try picked band and the star base
ball team of the boys in blue.
The trip was started soon after
the armistice and its purpose is to
obtain recruits for the navy to take
the places of the thousands of men
who are being released because they
enlisted for the period OF emergency
only. The RecrIdter contains navy
news from ships and stations all over
the world and also breezy front page
that compares favorably with some of
the dailies found in big cities.
The special train consists of diner,
sleeping car and q car for both
lounging and treatment for hurts and
Ills. The best ball players in the navy
were selected for the trip and the ma
1ority OF the athletes have played
in different leagues before entering the
navy. Also picked band of musicians
has been brought together in the
same fashion as the ball tossers.
The best teams throughout the West
and South are booked by the managers
OF the ball team and many thousands
OF fans turn out to see the battle be-
tween their town nine and the fast
navy team. So good a reputation has
the team Of enlisted men that VIC
tory oyer them for a town team means
as much as If they had conquered a
team of big leaguers.
AS they go the paper is made ready
and besides coming into a city or town
with accounts from the previous
games played 1t also shows the resi-
dents the Recruiter either has ad-
vance agents or correspondents, for
something is always found on the
front page about the place and often
an advertisement or two from the
approaching city or town is found.
Between the innings of the base
ball games the navy's best musicians
delight the fans with selections. both
Jazz and classic. With the team Of
ball tossers goes a clown known in
the navy as the only living double
OF the famous Nick Altrock of the
Washington American League club
His antics keep the fans in laughter
throughout the whole contest. The
trip has proved huge success and In
different inland towns and cities Wis
tied youths who have known little Of
the navy and its doings have come
INTO the fold to make their way and
see the world
The sun., 1919-10-05

venereal Diseases. The second Series
embraces these themes: Vacation
Typhoid, Tuberculosis, Cancer. Vene-
real Diseases and Patent Medicines
"All Of these subjects are at leas,
touched on by our lecturers, and sew.
eral of them are exhaustively treated
None fails in eliciting the interest of
our audiences, particularly when thew
are illustrated by lantern slides, for il
Is our aim to make these lectures in.
teresting and to tell a plain tale. Wa
are helped out in the effort to entertain
by various societies, and often by as.
sociating ourselves with the Y. M. c.
A.. The latter furnishes a musical or
other interesting diversion, and we fol-
low with our illustrated lecture. Some
Of these are laugh provoking, as, for
instance, when we show how a patent
medicine made of common salt and a
little borax with plenty Of water, cost
ing one cent per quart, sells for fifty
cents per half pint bottle. It is a Joke
On their credulity which they enjoy"
NfilIinery's Many Manifestations,
The report submitted as to the in
dustrial hazards peculiar to the mil
linery trade as a whole is specialized
because there are so many different
industries entering into it. Artificial
flowers, frame making (buckram,
straw, wire), feathers Creating, finish
Ing, dyeing), velvets and assembling
and selling are parts of this trade, and
Of them all the manufacturing OF artl-
al
the worker most seriously, so the re-
port states. This is attributed to the
chemicals and the machinery used,
some Of the latter being hazardous.
1t is one of the oldest Industries, and
from a small simple home work the
trade has grown so that to-day it holds
most important place in the CONNER
cial world, affording employment 10
many thousands and producing goods
which can almost be considered as
necessary to modern life.
The health hazard proceeds, in the
finding of the committee, from irreg-
ularity of employment due, it is ad-
mitted, to sudden stress Of trade. TO
meet the condition a suggestion Is
made that those working in licensed
tenements be made to procure their
materials from firms who do no man.
ufacturing and that firms which do
manufacture be prohibited from per-
hitting full time employees taking
home on any pretext work to do over
time. Also that the payroll record
be made to include time given to work
at home as well as in the factory.
A quotation from the report made
The sun., 1919-10-05

means, began to take one or two pay
ing guests" In order to make both ends
meet.
But in the past few years, the vicis-
situdes of the war, the exorbitant
prices charged for both rent and food
and the growing difficulty in securing
the necessary servants, which are the
major essential In the conduct OF a
wsn ordered house. have sounded the
death knell OF the boarding house.
To-day, the problem Of those men and
women who have not the means or
facilities to live in an apartment 10 a
serious one
No more does the sound OF revelry
come from brilliantly lighted parlor
windows. Rooming houses do not
usually have parlors for the enter
tainment OF their guests" Every
available space is utilized in the mad
race for gain. Those who still have
rooms in apartments are not wanted
in the parlor. They pay for but one
room. and that alons Ii their domain.
The sun., 1919-10-05
time honored institution,
the boarding house. has all
but ceased to exist in New

THAT time honored institution,
the boarding house. has all
but ceased to exist In New
York city.
Twenty-Five years ago the pages Of
the metropolitan dailies were filled
with column after column of adver-
tisements setting forth with more or
less accuracy the advantages Of each
particular place of abode. A glance
to-day at the same periodicals will re-
veal the fact that scarcely a dozen
houses are now advertising for "pay-
ing guests" What has become of the
thousands who used to be lodged and
fed in the boarding houses, and where
do those who yearly find their way to
the city obtain accommodations
In story and In drama the boarding
house once played an important part.
Thousands of tales have been written
around it. Year after year the stage
has produced plays having Cor their
theme the tribulations and pleasures
of those youths and maidens who,
coming to the city to carve out their
fortunes, congregated at night in the
parlor of q boarding house. "The
Passing of the Third Floor Back" Is
one which still fingers In the memory
of theatregoers. and which was re-
Yived within the last few years. To-
day. while the theme is sometimes
used. 1t is passe. The writer of this
article recently submitted to a maya
zine a story whose plot was built
around a boarding house. 1t was
promptly hurled back at him with the
announcement, Boarding house stories
are out Of date: there amt any such
animal now"
In the early nineties that portion OF
the city from Washington Square to
Twenty-third street was the domain OF
the boarding house mistress. Women
thrown upon their own resources, with
no special training in any line OF bust
ness. opened a boarding house. They
generally prospered, although It is
part Of the creed OF the boarding house