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The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
PURELY PERSONAL.

c. R. Brill, of the mails and files
division, Department of the Interior,
returned Tuesday from a stay at
Ocean City, Md.
John H. Schanhausen, OF the pub
locations division. Interior Depart
ment, has returned after a months
stay at Atlantic City.
Miss May Brock, OF the Bureau of
Mines, is on leave, visiting relatives
in Brooklyn. N. Y.
Theodore Mack. of the Secretary's
office, Interior Department, has re-
turned from a trip to Virginia Beach.
Miss Meta Harper, Of the appoint
ment division, Interior Department.
has returned after a vacation spent
with her parents at Harrisburg, Pa
Major George X. Weston, former
editor OF the Government Clerk"
and later manager OF the Interior
Department Home Club, has returned
to Washington after an absence of
eighteen months. He will be located
with the Red Cross, continuing a
connection made during his absence.
Lieut.. Col Frank C. Wiser, Medical
Corps, in this city, has been ordered
to duty at Camp Kearney, Linda
Vista, Cal.
Z. NJ. Bryan has received an ap-
pOintment as auditor with the Ship
ping Board.
Associate Justice William Hitz yes
terday concluded his vacation" term
on the bench Of the District Supreme
Court
Lieut.. Col. Garfield L. Mckinney,
Medical Corps, at Camp Pike. Ark,
has been assigned to duty with the
Provisional Infantry Brigade at Camp
Meade, Md.
Walter r. Tuckerman and Mrs.
TuCkerman have returned from South
amptOn, L. l.. where they witnessed
the tennis tournament.
Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. Homer Gron-
niger, who have been stationed at
Fort Myer. Va, for several years.
have taken an apartment at the
Brighton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cuno H. Rudolph win
return to Washington about Septem-
Der Is
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
NEW YORK CITY
Day-By-Day
By o. o. MCINTYRE

New York, Sept. 3.-"Torchy"
Gowanus. of the Eagle Nest Flop
House, on the Bowery. left the per-
cussive roar OF the Third Avenue
Elevated the other day to roam up
town and see what he could see.
Hard liquor painted n vivid car
mine splotch on "Torchy's" nose
hence his flaming moniker. He has
spent thirty years as a handy man
around the famous 10-cent lodging
house, and he knows every level of
poverty, for he himself plumbed the
squalid depths. And yet he has not
soured of life.
He looked enthusia stically at the
lights O. Broadway and his old
heart pumped a beat faster at the
Times Square before-theater crush
the taxis, limousines, the majestic
din, silks and broadcloth and shiny
hats-and all that go to make the
wine of New York's high life. The
battery of lights amazed him.
For "Torchy," like Kasper Hau-
ser, has spent many years in the
dark. That is, comparative dark
ness, for only a single oil lamp
{ lights the interior OF the Eagle
Nest. When the bald old eagles and
young eaglets, too. come in to
roOst. they come in a haze Of booze,
and light means nothing in their
lives. They want only sleep-and
they stumble into their little stalls
a cursing, lCering, ill-tempered lot.
Every type of human misfit has
COME under ''Torchy's" observation
as a handy man about the Bowery
Ia
into granite characters and render
them too low almost for the gutter.
He has heard former college pro-
fessOrs. sodden with rum, babbIing
stray bits of the philosophy Of
Heraclitus or hiCcoughing elegiac
verse.
He has seen men whose names
ashed for brief periods as the
worlds greatest surgeons carried
| biting and kicking down the rickety
stairs to the Black Maria straight
jacket at the curb. Booze may
start en-" says Torchy. but dope
finishes 'em. And when they nit
the dope they always wind up at
the Eagle Nest" Peculiarly,
'Torchy" is for temperance reform.
He does not want it for himself,
but he believes that whiskey and
gin should so. Light wine and beer.
he believes. are harmless. At least
'Torchy" declares he never saw a
lover Of light wine and beer land UP
at his place.
He spent three hours uptown and
| then he declared the blinking lights
hurt his eyes. So he climbed the
flank of a seagoing Chinatown bus and
rolled back to the Bowery where he
says he will stay until the Last Call.
There is nothing that will block
sidewalk traffic so quickly in New
York as a window full of white rab-
bits, puppies or Plymouth Rock
chickens. Except. possibly, a win
| dow with a man in 1t demonstrating
the painless removal of corns by INT
| Beneath the Broadway exterior OF
every New Yorker there turks the
love Of the old farm. This accounts
for the complete suspension of move
ment past a given point when tne
given point Is a window full of domes-
tic animals. There also turks beneath
this same exterior a determination
to get a look at anything anybody
else is looking at anywhere at any
time.
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
JUST IN FUN

She just kissed that tall girl
sixteen times" shows she must
love her, eh?" SHOWS she must
hate her, think."-LouisvilIe
Courier-Journal.
Mr.. Batz-You ought to brace up
and show your wife who is running
things at your house. Mr.. Meek
(sadly)-It isn't necessary. She
knOws.-Life.
What do you consider the most
difficult feat in the world" We'll,
there may be things harder than
proving to your wife that she is ex-
travagant. but l don't know what
they are."-London Answers.
Stranger-Can- / get a drink in
this town? Native-Yes, II you'll
hang around a while. Stranger
About how long? Native-why,
until Congress changes the Consti-
tuition again.-Kansas City Times.
$50 poor Marie was drowned. How
in the world did it happen" THE
vain Creature. She wore all of her
engagement rings when she went in
swimming. Life.
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
Cars Unloued
But Cung tc

A street car at the rush hours in
Washington is buster than the we'll
known one-arnIed paperhanger with
the Itch. We do not love our street
car, and yet we hang to its outer
portals with grim resolve, daring
death rather than be parted from the
much-maligned but undoubtedly serv-
iceable vehicle.
Perishing from sufrocation in the
interior of street car, one has suf-
hcient consciousness left to gain these
impressions:
The Jolts.
The jars.
The women. standing.
The men, sitting.
The sudden stop.
The universal loss Gf balance.
The crushing Of hats.
Teh angry remarks.
The perennial lie: Plenty of room
up 'front.'
The sudden start.
The loss of balance. etc.
The breakdown.
The tie-up.
The sudden start. etc.
The same thing over and over again
until what remains of one gets home
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
Let the Police Take Their Cause
To the President.

If 1t is Commissioner Brownlows and his
Tictons that him oppose aaon OF the pocemns
with the american Federation of Labor time should be lost by the
policemen taking their the President As fight stands
is Brownow the American Federation Of Labor There is
little doubt what the President would do.
of the police department that will be forever
removed from politics 1t higher efficiency
that future supentendens Of police will have
to the standard Of the under them.
1t certainly would that roll call officers would be
d vulgar language referring labor alleged
to recently have been used by high officers
Any policemen who has pledged himself
withdraws his membership ft be
Let the policemen take the Brownow to
this time
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
CITY NEWS

Hundreds on Pennsylvania av-
epue last night were attracted by
an auto of the racing type, its ex-
hause pipe splitting a stream Of
fire.
The driver, Arthur Johnson. of
Baltimore, did not know his car
was burning until stopped at Sixth
street. The fire caused consider
able damage to the machine.
David Custy. charged with being
drunk on Pennsylvania avenue Tues
day night, when asked to plead, said:
Il don't know what I did. I had
been drinking denatured alcohol and
my mind was a blank" Custy was
fined so or twenty days.
Victory medals for members Of the
First Division. who were residents of
the District before entering the serv-
ice, can be secured by relatives from
Brig. Gen. Richard D. Simms. COM
manding officer Of the District Ma
tional Guard. at 472 L street.
In order that these men may have
the medals upon their return home, II
Is EcQucsItQ DN zen. SlDILlSp I0at rela-
tivss communicate with him at once
so that distribution may be accomp-
nshed before the parade in Washing
ton.
Frederick Funston Post, No. I,
American Legion. will meet Monday
night In room SO2 Carroll Institute
All service men are invited and all
desirous will be given permission to
air their views on appropriate topics.
Judge Robert Hardison OF the
Police Court bench left yesterday
for New York City. where he will
observe the workings of the police
magistrate system. He will also
visit at the Hardison home in Ken
lucky.
During his absence Judge George
c. Aukam of the Municipal Court
will preside over the District
branch Of the Police Court, while
Judge John P, Mcmahon will sit in
the United States branch.
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
Speeds Wage Conference.

The President has fixed the second week October for meeting
Of leaders from the forces Of capital and labor for the
Of talking with of ending differences
those who work and those who boempod and employer The
round table conference will is belevedand hopedpont
toward solution for the excessively high of living problem
Such conference suggested by Basil NJ Manly joint
chairman of the War Labor Board article
American
and printed then in The Herald.
Later joint round table resolution introduced in Congress
by Senator Pondex of Washington and Kelly
Pennsylvania President evidently
for slow and hang Congress thing obviously
of need Waiting for months bring and the
Of living level is be toleratedfor there
powder industrial standing nearby. The
do something is spring other Now
The President shows commendable speed getting the
into action.
goodness sake let's the food before Thanksgiving
Day dinner has be bought
No doubt any square table the round table conference
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
Buffalo Strike Looms.

Buffalo. n. Y. Sept. 3-The radical
elements among the 1900 heilroad
shopmen OF Buffalo and vicinity
were reported today to be rapidly
gaining control and despite efforts of
the union leaders, a general strike is
anticipated before the end Of the
week.
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
A LINE o. CHEER
EACH DAY o. THE YEAR
BY John Kendrick Bangs.

Copyright. 1919. by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.l
RADIANCE.
From lofty palaces things below
seem insignificantly small,
And some there be that as they go
We can not see at all,
So, Brother. when oppressed by care,
Seek out the cleaning heights OF
cheer,
And maybe from those regions there
Your woes will disappear,
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
Hinkley Wins Judicial Primary.

Buffalo. n. Y. Sept. 3.-Alonzo G.
Hinkley defeated Justice Philip A.
Laing, Democratic contender for
the Republican nomination in the
Eighth judicial district, in the Re
publican lBimaries, by a plurality
of 1888
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
Thousand Lawyers Meet.

Boston, Sept. 3.-Nearly 1000
judges and lawyers were here to-
day for the annual meeting of the
American Bar Association, which
will continue until the end of the
week
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04

liked TO lead a finer life.
He was also a big child and my
favorite playmate. Oh, how I re-
member the story OF his life which
no used to tell so proudly to us.
He would sit in an armed teakwood
chair, with a long tobacco pipe in
his left hand and hold me on his lap
with his right. and my elder brother
and sister would stand by each side.
First he would take a puff OF tobac-
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04

school and came
home only once
a month. But
my grandfather
n a d re I Ire |
from his busl-
n o S s and he
was about sixty
five years old
then. He was
tall and slender
W i I h X | n d ,
gentle ( a c e q.
And he had a
[ q m p erament
very much like
mine. He liked
to travel. he
Iilrad to dream
and above all he
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
Insurance Hard Hif

New York, Sept. S.-The rate of NOR
tality which American life insura nee
companies had to meet in 1913 was
about 80 Der cent greater than In 1917,
and IA per cent higher than the aver
age death rate for . score of years,
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
Can You Blame EN-?

That spectacular disturbanc.
which startled the mariners at sea
may have been a message from
Mars-an expression of Martiar
opinion OF the way things are going
down here.-New York Evening
Sun.
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
A Dark Question.

The big majority in the country
which favors daylight saving ought
to make Congress understand that, in
stead of being settled. the fight on
that measure has only begun.-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04

Americans generally expressing little sympathy for
American monairesses who married foreigners whose
wealth tied the hands of the Alien Custodian
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
Exterior Decorators.

If painters get their demand for 81
an hour, a lot of the girls We see on
the street will probably consider
themselves in the moneyed class
Philadelphia Ipquirer
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04

We hope all political international and economic problems
solved pay attention the world
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
Grnndmother's Way of Making
Child Behave.


On market day Zone in every five
days.. grandfather would go to the
city of Check HON which is about
six miles from our village. in the
morning and come home at sunset.
And we would go outside the gate
OF the village to wait and welcome
him. For he always had something
for us whether preserved fruit or
candies.
When three years old I left my
mothers care and slept with my
grandmother. For my mother had
to take care Of my younger sister
My grandmother was 50. She was a
small, energetic woman with pathetic
face, smiling wrinkles and gray hair.
She was the main column OF our
household and was very practical.
With the money that my grand
father sent home monthly while he
was in business, she sent my father
to the best teacher OF literature for
an education. She bought lands, built
new house and purchased over
fifty acres of rice fields. She was
from a farming family. so she knew
about farming. She supervised the
farm and she hired 10y Lui foreman
who worked for us SO long that we
looked at him as one of the family.
Her Gentle Ways.
My grandmother was always very
kind to the people who worked for
her and especially to 10y Lui. For she
was working girl and she had learnt
! the lesson OF humanity through hard
ships. She loved work, for she loved
to produce. She never had a moment
to idle, II not tending her grand
children then she would be weaving
or gardening. She loved TO see things
grow and she loved the more to
watch her grandchildren grow-and
that was her utmost happiness.
1t was my mother that l obeyed
but 1t was my grandmother that
loved. For my mother was always
strict
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
by MOON KWAN,
The Chinese o. Henry.
(Copyright. 1872

When l was at the, age of four.
my father was still studying In
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
MY BOYHOOD IN CHINA
The Good Grandpa Who Knew All About Life

co, raise his head and blow the
smoke out through his gray mus
taches, then he wuold smile at us
and begin:
When l was Foung. of course not
as young as you little folks. I took
up my fathers trade as a salt-dealer.
and by it made and saved enough
money to have a home and get mar
ried. After your fathers birth, 1 be-
gan to dream and plan to give my
son good education so that he could
lead better life. But the dream
was beyond my earning power to
provide. Then l heard the clamor Of
the gold rush in America, the New
World. I decided to go there and
seek my fortune. So from Hong
Kong I sailed ard in Vancouver.
Canada, landed. only to find that 1t
was not so easy to, gather gold as /
had dreamed" He paused to take
a breath and my sister anxiously In
terrupted.
Are there any angels there.
grandpa"
Yes" he answers. and looks at
us fondly, there are angels in every
country and everywhere. but only
SOOu COulu see 1nefn. Anu
now you little folks mustn't ask
grandpa any more questions until the
story is over" We all nodded and
he continued.
We'll, / opened a grocery store
there, but did not meet with success.
After a few years OF hard work.
came home with two hundred dol
lars"
Foreign Clothes.
Did you bring those funny foreign
clothes and things home. toos grand
pa?' my brother asked excitedly, for
getting that we were not allowed to
ask any more questions until the
story was over. But he could not
help It for he had been wearing the
English coats and the big leather
shoes and played a part of foreign
monster to scare US. OF course
grandpa excused him, and spoke
! smilingly: Yes"
But my mind was on the two hun
dred dollars that grandpa came homo
with, and I was wondering what he
did with them, so l, too. asked: ::
Did you buy candles and sugar.
canes with the two hundred dollars,
grandpa?"
''Ah, be still. little folks, we are
coming to that now. With the money
went into partnership with another
man. We bought a fower-boat to
follow the travelling shows of the
/ Canton River where the actors came
to eat and anuse themselves. with
the blessing of our ancestors / made
enough to make my dream come true,
, and to provide for you little folks
plentifully. And now you may ask
! questions"
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04

Mr.. H. A. Morgan,
Ga.vez, Leuisia.a.
Farmer and Stock Raiser, Member
Of the Executive Committee Of
the Louisiana Division Of the
Farmers National Educational
Cooperative Union,
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
Packers and Other Industries
The real place occupied by the packing industry in
american lite being revealed by those appearing before the
Committee on Agriculture of the Senate

Mr.. Edward A. Brown,
Farmer and Banker,
Newport, Rhode Island.
Says
"Packers are of
Great Help to the
Retailers"
MIR. Irving c. H. Cook,
Farmer,
South Byron, New York.
Farmers Assured
: of An Open
Market"
Mr.. J. A. Anderson,
Vegetable Gamer,
Morgan, Utah.
"Finds in Packers
Perfectly Fair
Competition"
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
"The Packers
Have Made Pos
sible an Assured
Market for the
Producer"

Mr.. N. G. MacLean,
President, Chamber Of Commerce
East St. Louis, Illinois.
Local Packer
Prospers in
Direct Cornpe-
tition with the
Big Five
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04
Mr.. l. G. Thurmond,
Cattle Man and Banker,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
"Packers Have
Done More Than
Any Other Line
of Business for
the State of
Oklahoma"
Mr.. John Waters,

Mr.. John Waters,
Farmer and Manager Of the Farm
ers' Cooperative Society, lne.,
Postville, Iowa.
"The Efficiency of
the Live Stock
Market of Today
Is Due to the
Packers"
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04

we depend upon two of the larger packers and the
retailers teel they we'll taken care Of under the
ent practices and methods of the packers They are
age taken of them by the packers In my experience in the
retail business covering period of thirty-four wears
nave never seen the packers try take anv
lhe packers are great help to retailers"
I'VE certainly feel we have an open market at the
buffalo yards The Independent packers as we'll as the
have never heard of any complaint whatever of unfair
competition"
The Washington herald., 1919-09-04

goodness let's the food before Thansgi
Day dinner has be bought
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02
BIDS FOR NEW WATER PUMPS
OPENED, but No Awards VIII Be
Made Now

Bids were opened today by the De
partment of Public Works, for four
centrifugal pumps to be installed in the
Queen Lane pumping station. No
awards were made.
The bids will be held until the Su-
preme Court decides the dispute over
city loans. Money for the purchase OF
the pumps is to be taken from the 3d.
600 900 appropriated by Councils for
the improvement of the city's water
system from the S12,070. 900 loan.
The city main has FIVE pumps at the
Queen Lane station. Owing to the
condition of the pumps, it is said, the
average supply of water pumped from
the Schuylkill River at Queen Lane
daily amounts to only about 10000, 600
gallons.
The new pumps will give the city
double its present supply of water from
Queen Lane.
The bids opened were: Worthington
Pumping Machine Company. alterna- =
tive bid, 1894, 1856 to S415.SS5. David
Doyle. alternative bid, $372,300 to
S4O4 600; 'Southwich Foundry and
Machine Company, 1886, 900; West
inghousc Company, S407,7O0 and
Poole Engineering and Machine Com
pauy, $3.50, ,153.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02

and must get back at certain hour.
If he does not keep schedule time he
gets demerit mark.
He walks about twenty miles every
day. On his busiest days he has more
questions to answer than at other
times because he sees more people.
But he must not give curt answers in
his haste to complete his work.
No Government Aid When Ill
He must move rapidly, knowing that
every minute counts in the system es :
tablished for efficiency. and vet he must
offend no one. for short answers may
bring him demerit mark.
NO arrangement has been made for
the letter carrier when he gets hurt or
is sick. The government gives him
nothing. although he may be allowed
leave of absence for year with the
hope Of reinstatement when he returns.
I'VE are fighting for n new system
which will include compensation when
n letter carrier is injured and pensions
when he is retired.
AT present the letter carriers are
forced to care for one another. The
Philadelphia Local, No. 167, in the last
year paid $7700 in sick benefits and
$1,000 in annuities. This burden
should not be placed upon men who are
so poorly pnid."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-02
LABOR DAY TRAVEL LIGHT

seashore ExcursIonists Few In Com
parison With Those In 1917
Seashore travel over the Philadelphia
and Reading Railway on Labor Day
was below expectations. Figures show
that travel was actually less than in
1917. No comparison can be made with
1918, as excursions were eliminated that
year. due to the heavy troop move
ment. ,.t. ms g.
On Labor Day southbound travel
consisted of forty one regular trains
and seven extras, carrying $500 pas
sengers. Northbound there were forty
two regular trains and twenty seven
extras, carrying q, 800 persons. In
1917 the railroad ran forty three regu
lar southbound trains and thirteen ex
tras, carrying 1850 passengers. and
forty one regular northbound trains and
twenty seven extras, carrying 81 ,656
passengers.
Seashore travel both ways on Labor
Day this year aggregated 33,100 per-
sons, against 44,336 in 1917. The
difference was due to the fact that
the dollar" excursionists this year
numbered only about half as many in
1917.