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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-05-27
Christopher Columbus and hundreds
Of other famous people OF the world
LUCY JEANNE PRICE.
FITZSIMMONS HOSPITAL is
TO BE GREATLY ENLARGED
First Congressional Steps Are Taken
For Better and More Ample Facll-
tiles for Wounded Soldiers.

First fruits Of Congressional action
to provide better and more ample IA
cilitles for the care of disabled veter-
ans of the great war were announced
recently. BY authority of Congress the
Treasury Department was recently d.
rected to transfer to the War Depart
ment s75O,OOO for the enlargement Of
the Fitzsimmons General Hospital, at
Denver, Colorado, to enable It to take
care Of tubercular cases among vet
Grams of the late war.
These funds were turned over to tho
War Department on April 20 last, and
an immediate start was made by the
Construction Service of the Quarter
master Corps, in the preparation of
plans and specifications for enlarging
this hospital by approximately 600
beds. This work includes the remod-
cling and completion of six large ward
buildings Of about 100 beds each, the
construction Of a new storehouse,
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on. -
NY

Mary Garden came to town the other
day in an effort to save the scene Of
her first operate triumph in America.
1t was the Manhattan Opera House,
which Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein, the
widow Of the impressario, says she has
practically concluded negotiations to
sell as factory site to some clothing
manufacturers. Miss Garden brought
with her Harold F. Mccormick, prin-
cipal hacker Of the Chicago Grand OPP
era Company Of which she is director,
Let that opera house be turned into
a clothing factory? NEVER" cries
Mary Garden. LET the Chicago Opera
Company have Il which hardly ever
gave me a civil word? NEVER" cries
Mrs. Hammerstein. Clothing not song
shall be made there" It's no wonder
that Mr.. Mccormick, mere man, even
though president Of the International
Harvertes Co., says only, 1--WE don't
know yet Just where we stand"
Ny
WHERE, do you suppose, are wo-
men who will be guided by this fash
ion item which appeared in an evening
paper the other day? "a hat of blue
linen is decorated with bits of china
ware like small square tiles. They
are put on to give the effect of tiled
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-05-27
New!Yorl!
Letter. NJ
ALnyAauueR Price "

New York - Hotels hav grown to be
looked upon as public utilities during
the past ten years until today 1t would
be bold manager indeed who would
dare suggest that they existed for
their owners or the guests They are
used as meeting places for couples
who go happily away to dine some
where else or nowhere at all. They
are Just open house" for the city and
Its visitors. But New York young
woman has got her use of one down to
science. ~ think have discovered
the woman with the biggest nerve in
the worlds" said the clerk Of this
large uptown hotel Every day we
place bouquet of roses In the lobby
for an ornament For the last week we
have noticed that 1t disappeared dur
ing the afternoon. | ordered bellboy
to keep watch one day, and about l
o'clock in the afternoon he saw an at
tractive young woman walk up to the
vase, life out the bouquet and pin 1t
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-05-27

some additions to existing storehouses
the erection of quarters for eight Off
GERS and six n-commissioned off,
GERS, an administration building, addi-
tions to tn laundry. refrigerating plant
and bakery. It also involves the ex-
tension Of water, sewer, and electric
lighting systems and roads, and the
enlargement Of the heating plant.
This week Major General H. L.
Rogers, the Quartermaster General,
sent an officer Of the Conservation
Service from Washington to Denver
with the complete plans and specifi-
cations. Advertisements will be in the
newspapers shortly asking for bids on
this work, which will be started with
in thirty days.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-05-27

bathroom floor, designed in rectangles
with alternate colors forming the
block patterns"
Ny
Hat fashions can sometimes be seri-
GUS disasters to good many people.
Just now it's the hat check boys who
are mourning. "The worst thing that
ever happened to our business is the
disappearance Of the top hat" said one
Of them the other day. "a Teller wear
ing a stoveplpe lid couldn't very well
take 1t in to dinner with him. But
these soft hats are worn even with
evening clothes in New York now. 1t
hits the business in the theaters, too
You can put soft hat in the rack UNI
der the seat too easily.
Ny
Florenz Zeigfeld. authority on pretty
girls, recently returned from a trip
abroad, and was asked where, in his
opinion, the most beautiful girls in
the world are to be found. His answer
was down on Wall Street any noon "
Ny
The laugh spotter' is the latest ad-
junct to the modern movxie studio. He
is the person who represents the pub
lie to the movie makers and when he
laughs of fails to laugh the bit of film
undergoingsthe test is judged accord
ingly. John Emerson and Anita Loos.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-05-27
IRISH VICTIM IS
TAGGED BY SLAYERS.

Belfast. - Kitty McCarron, killed by
masked men, who attacher a card to
her body inscribed spies and inform
ers beware. tried, convicted and exc
cuted by the Irish Republican army
was the sold support of her aged apr.
ents and mentally defective brother
The police say they know Of no rea'
son for killing her.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-05-27

RUGS AT EXCEPTIONALLY Low PRICES
We bought lot of 9x12 Rugs auction which have since
gone up price but going to give customers the ad
vantage of purchases Plenty Of patterns from which you
select in Velvet Brussels and Administer
Special Price of Is cents yard wide Percale.
Good Heavy Cheviot Work Shirts $780, Sale Price
Special Lot of Corsets SO Cents.
Boys Striped Overall, Sizes to IT, Price 80 Gents.
One lot of Huck Towels formerly SO cents for 26 Cents
Big Bungalow Aprons, Special value SO Cents
Mems Cool Athletic Union Suits checked Diity coolest
derwear for summer, SO Cents
Black Silk Hose slightly imperfect good value at 40 Cents
Mill end Chldrens White Hose 10 Cents.
Fullfashioned Clicked Silk Hose worth $225, $1.49
SEPARATE SKIRTS
These Skirts distinctly styled knife and box plated models
give prominence various shades of blue brown
Wool Plaid Skirts less 10 Percent.
Blue Serge Skirts less 10 Per Cent
Special Rack of White Wash Skirts worth from 81 ST. $29S
CHILDREN BINGHAM DRESSES AT LOWER PRICES
One special Rack of Dresses worth up to $500 at $189
Balance of these dresses less Is Per Cent
SPORT HATS $685.
We placing this sale together with very pur
chase hats store valued $780, for $685. None
hats will be reserved sold before $3.50 Saturday morning
going make Millinery Department big feature sale
Get in early possible because you will disappointed
these bargains.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-05-27

More than $50 varieties Of cheese
are porduced In France.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-05-27

special lot of Boys high shoes On sale $500 values for $500
While you shopping have your shoes repaired
date Shoe Hospital
special 10 Per Cent Discount will be given all Low and
High Shoes in the house.
Ladies Pat Leather Pump with Baby Louis heel Former Price
$1,000. SALE PRICE $500.
One lot Misses Patent Leather Pumps
NOW $500.
One lot of growing Girls patent leather Pumps sizes
that formerly sold ST. So and &c. the special price $685.
One lot of Mems black Shoes gunmetal in vc
kid, an $500 value for S495
One lot of Boys and Mems Shoes that formerly sold $500 and
$780, special at $349
One lot of Ladies Brown 0xford and Strap Pumps with mill
tary heel for the Special Price of $3.50
We will give 10 per cent Discount all Slippers in the
One lot of Apron Gngham Special Price of 10 Cents yard
One $500 Three Finger Mop with bottle of polish Free all
for $1.5O.
The Remnant Table is filled with Bargains Come Early and
avoid the rush
Good 25 Infants White Hose Special Is Cents
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-05-27

producers, say they have Just added
three Of these people to their staff and
are finding them Of great value. "The
laugh spoilers must never know they
are being used as such, or they get
self-conscious and don't laugh natur-
ally and their value Is gone,' said Mr..
Emerson. Consequently they are
given nominal tasks in the studio, but
are required to attend all film show
ings. 1t takes long time to find a
man who can accurately register the
public taste, especially as the fact
must be proved by REPEATED experiment
before he can be used as a spotter."
Ny
In an apartment in West End Ave-
nue. is a whole fortune In old and in
teresting signatures. The owner, Will
liam w. Cohen, who In his downtown
hours is conservative and exceeding
ly business-like business man, finds
the collecting and cherishing Of these
autographs a tremendously romantic
avocation. nj one room the blinds are
never raised because the light might
fade the ink with which the precious
letters were formed. They are not
simply autographs. but letters and
documents attached to them, many of
them of great interest in themselves
There are letters signed by George
Washington, Catherine de. Medicl, and
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-05-27

NO GOODS IN THIS SALE WILL BE CHARGED, ExcHAN
PRICES ON NEWEST STYLES OF LOW SHOES
SEEKING LOWER LEVELS
Our Shoe Department well Fitted to take of all
style Slippers You should choose your shoes early while sizes
are unbroken
Leather Former prices $780, SALE PRICE $685.
Ladies Black Brogue oxfods Of calfsn all sizes and widths
from 3 to g. SALE PRICE $495.
One Special of Ladies White Canvass Lace Shoes for 81
TEN PER CENT DISCOUNT given every Shoe and Slipper
in the house, regardless of SIZE color or prices
of Pumps worth to $095 Sale Price So
ankle strap Suede Pump with silver plated buckles
these exceptional value at $685.
NEATEsT REPAIR WORK IN TOWN DONE IN OUR SHOE
HOSPITAL
IF YOU WANT TO SAVE MONEY GLANCE DOWN THIS
COLUMN
special lot Silk Crepe Chine this sale ONLY 81 9 yard
Best made Table olcoth will be sold for 35 CENTS.
Government Huck Towels hemmed size 1894 for 30 CENTS
We have Government Blue Bed Spreads left and
going to close them out for $119
Polly Prim Aprons 40 CENTS
We placing in this sale 10 dozen Bleached Sheets made Of
good quality cotton 85 CENTS.
THIS SALE COMING AS EARLY AS IT DOES IN THE SEA
SON ENABLES YOU TO BUY YOUR SUMMER GOODS AT THE
RIGHT TIME AND AT PRICES IN MANY CASES BELOW THE
COST OF PRODUCTION.
Special lot of Plaid Dress Bingham Of excellent quality for 10
Cents Yard.
THE REMNANT TABLE Is ALWAYS INTERESTING
MOSQUITO BARS These the u s. Government $700
apiece We Offering them in this sale for Sl25
STAPLE MERCHANDISE BROUGHT DOWN TO OLD TIME
LEVELS 49,.
Daisy Beached Cotton good soft cotton without any starch
1914 CENTS. Limit 20 yards to a customer
IL BROWN COTTON special price for this sale 7 CENTS
good heavy blue Work Shirt worth ST. will for SO Cents
One lot of Government Hickory Striped overas good for
summer SO CENTS.
Special Purchase of large white Bed Spreads worth $500
enables us to sell them at $3.50 y
One special lot of Lace Spreads that worth $780, in this
sale at $685..
MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT THE REMNANT TABLE
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READY TO WEAR DEPARTMENT BRISTLING WITH
BARGAINS
The aim of this sale to enable every patron assemble all the
wearales necessary happy consummaton of Spring and
Summer plans. Choose early
ALL SILK AND ALL WOOL DRESSES IN THIS SALE
The racks of Dresses open your selection Choose
Dress early because they will be natced quickly The Dresses
cheap their former prices and know that further reduc
ton will make them 60 in hurry
SILK DRESSES LESS 10 PER CENT.
WOOL DRESSES LESS 20 PER CENT.
SUITS AND COATS REDUCED 20 PER CENT
Every Suit and Coat in stock will bear substantially reduced
marking during this special sale which Saturday There
lie handsome garments to choose from prices within reach of ALL
New-York tribune., 1921-05-12

Senator Simmons, Democrat, de-
Tended the dyestuffa provision
After the bill had been passed, SEN
ator Penrose, chairman of tho Finance
COMMITTEES. obtained the adoption Of a
motion that the Senate insist on its
amendments, request conference and
name conferoes on the part of the Sem
ate.
The conferees selected are Senators
Penrose, McCumber and Smoot, Re-
pablicans, and Simmons and Williams,
Democrats. Indications are that the
dyestuffs amendment and some of the
Senate provisions as to anti-dumping
and valuation will arouse controversy
in conference, but no lengthy delay in
disposing of the bill Is expected.
Roll Call ON Measure
The vote on the roll call for passage
of the bill was:
Far the hil}e
New-York tribune., 1921-05-12
Il ariff Bill
asses, 03-23,
I'm the Senate

would introduce resolution asking
for an investigation of the dye monop~
oily and "into the influences that have
secured this and other legislation for
the monopolies and trusts in the United
States"
Senator Borah suggested that there
should be an agreement TO omit the
words Democrat" and "Republicann
when discussing the tariff.
They have ceased to have any mean.
ing in that connection" said Senator
Borah.
Hitchcock Assails Monopoly
Senator Hitchcock also denounced the
dye monopoly, which, he said, was
headed by the American Dye Institute,
with headuarters st $40 Broadway He
declared that under the regulations Of
the State Department. person who
would import dyes must go to the
American Dye Institute to ascertain
If such products as it is proposed to
bring in are being produced in this
country. He called the situation with
respect to the dye monopoly "a scan
dal." He called attention to the fact
that the American Dye Institute not
only controlled the market here, but
in the last eight months did business
of $17,246,4s4 abroad, in competition
with the world. He did not understand,
how even a protectionist coulds put
American manufacturers who use dyes
under such disadvantage as the en-
bargoing of dyes will place them under,
II deem this amendment one of the
most Infamous provisions ever inserted
in a tarirf bill" said Senator Hitch
cock.
Senator Knox replied that there was
something entirely familiar in these
lamentations Of the Senator from Ne
braska" over the exclusion of German
dyestuffs.
Senator King, though the Knox pro-
vision was adopted on roll cali in
committee of the whole, moved to
strike out when the bill reached the
Senate proper. This was beaten 25 to So.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-12
Coal Strike to
Close Biggest
British Plant
Vickers Shipbuilding Works,
Employing $50, 600, Faces
Shutdown; $4,000 More
Daily Losing Their Jobs
Idle Exceed 3,O65,8OO
l,7O7,262 Toms of Vessels
Tied Up; Long Queues
Volunteer for Dock Duty

LONDON, May 11.--Further indica-
tions of the seriousness Of the coal
shortage caused by the strike Of the
miners, IN progress since April l., in
furnished Ivy the announcement that the
Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering
Works, at Barrow, the largest concern
in the United Kingdom, employing 150,-
900 men, will be forced to close at the
end of next week unless coal mining
Is resumed and fresh supplies Of fuel
are obtained. The iron and steel
works of the plant already are shut
down.
Complete closing Of the Vickers
plants would accentuate the unemploy-
ment situation notably and swell ap-
preciably the total of unemployed men,
W. women rs boys and girls on the, register
OF the labor exchanges, which at the
end Of April totaled ,S65,800, with the
number working on short time total
ing LOTT 900. These figures are ex-
elusive OF the 100000 idle miners.
1,l60 Ships Tied Up
The number OF workers idle in the
600, and in the iron and steel trade
as 100000. 1t is estimated that each
day of the stoppage of coal mining
adds $1,000 people to the unemployed
list. The idleness of the miners is the
chief cause of 1,160 ships of 1,707,262
tons being laid up in the thirty-six prin-
cipal ports of the United Kingdom,
while the effect was further reflected in
the Board of Trade returns yesterday,
showing decrease for April of nearly
$50 100000 in the value of imports and
of more than $50, 100000 in the value
of exports.
The Board of Trade announces that
the government has arranged for the
importation Of coal to supplement the
existing stocks and to insure, as long
as the mine stoppage continues, the
maintenance of the services essential
to the life of the community
May Divert Non-essential Supply
Measures will be taken, it is said,
to move the imported coal to meet the
vital needs of the people, but privately
imported coal, for non-essential pur-
poses, will be liable to diversion in the
national interest.
The determination of the authorities
t. move coal brought into the country
by sea, despite the threat of the trans
port workers to Illustrate the govern
ment's plans through refusal to handle
reopenlng Of the recruiting Offices
for volunteer transport workers. These
offices were first established when
there was threat of general strike
IN the earlier stages of the coal tie up.
Long queues of applicants formed out
side the reopened Offices this after
noon.
The London Times understands that
the chartering of steamships to bring
coal from the United States has sub
sided in the last two or three days, the
slump being due probably to the length
of time occupied in crossing and also
to the limited facilities for unloading
vessels of the tonnage required.
The amount on the way, or expected
shortly to be on the way from the
United States, according to The Times.
is unofficially estimated in freight and
market circles as more than 100000
tons
New-York tribune., 1921-05-12
$1,000 Strike ait
Paper Mills of
Seven Companies
refuse Pay Cut as Contracts
Expire; 8 Concerns Sign
Agreement; Unions Main
tain Guards at Plants

More than 1000 members of the Tn
ternational Brotherhood of penor
Makers and the International Brother
mood of Pulp sulphite and Paper Mill
Workers stopped work at 8 O'Clock
yesterday morning in the mills Of
seven large paper manufacturers in tho
onlted States and Canada. A state
menu issued late yesterday bv the
LABOR aa. bureau, Incy / Union Square.
co""ering "Trg the situation, says:
The companies affected are all
among those having contracts whit +
expired to-day. Efforts made hv Tho
o UNIONS to avert the strike in the elev-
entn hoour by conferences with the
companies on Monday and to.da " V
proved unsuccessful, the manufactmry,
efs refusing, to reccde from their de.
mands, which called for 80 per cenr
cut IN pay. among other things Tho
ADOPTION Of nine-hour day and the
abolition of overtime rates" N '''s
Two thousand men walked o,,+ f,a..
the mills of the Union Bag and panar
corporation e;,o at Hudson Falls, N. Z:
Sheboygan, Wis, and Kaukona WIS
ana sou men from the plant of the 81 81
Maurice Paper Company. I,im;ted %
subsidiary at Three Rivers. Quebec :
The other mills affected sre ~
Aolflbl, Limited, Iroquois Fails 0n- M
tarlo; Spanish River Pulp and pana.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-12
Paper Box Makers
Against a Wage Cut
National Convention Here Dis
cusses Possibility of Further
Price Reducs;nxa

The third annual convention of the
National Paper Box Manufact1rera,
Association opened at the Waldorf
Astoria yesterday The members were
welcomed by Francis P. Bent, chairman
OF the investigation committee Of tho
Board Of Estimate, representing the
municipal administration, and Percy q.
Straus, Of II. II. Macy q Co, speaking
for the Merchants Association. There
were abeut eight hundred present.
Desire to effect further price redus-
tlons without resorting to wage cutting
was the dominant feeling at both the
morning and afternoon sessions. and
the majority of the speeches concerned
the means of attaining this end.
Among the suggestions were uniform
cost system to cover the entire indus-
ttry' various new labor saving devices.
improved arrangement of work, and in.
dustrial training to increase the nro-
ductlon OF the individual employee.
-, among the speakers yesterday were
W. Y. Carlson, president Of the largest
box concern in the country: r. q
FORBES, editor of Forbes Magazine. and
,George. +. Barber, president Of the Bar-
ner r. Industrial Service Company. There
wiil De two sessions to-day. foIIowaJ
66y u closing banquet at which senator
Lenroot, of Wisconsin, will be the nr;u.
clpal speaker. ''S SsiH-
New-York tribune., 1921-05-12
Stone Says Labor Faces
Worst Crisis i'm History
One-Fourth of Railroad Engin-
eers Out of Jobs, He Reports;
Silent ON Wage Question

CLEVELAND, May 11.-Organized
labor is facing the worst crisis in its
history, Warren S Stone, grand chief
engineer of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, declared to-day in
his report submitted ct the opening of
the organizations triennial convention.
Twenty thousand members-almost
one-fourth of the total-are without
jobs, he said.
Mr.. Stone refrained from comment
on the wage reduction cases now be-
fore the United States Railroad Labor
Board. He reviewed the brotherhood's
wage movements in the last three
years, and declared that had Woodrow
Wilson not been stricken on his west
ern trip conditions would have been
different" He said the former Presi-
dent had promised that upon his re-
turn, he would place "the entire power
of the government behind the move
ment to curb the constantly increasing
cost of living and profteering."
w. F. McCaleb, manager of the,
brotherhood's cooperative national
bank, reported on its growth. Deposits
increased from s650,00O on November l
last to $7,000,000 to-day. Establish
ment of similar banks in other cities,
the first to be in Chicago, was recon-
New-York tribune., 1921-05-12

who use the roads for hire paying for
that use," added Senator Townsend.
Senator Cummins called attention to
he fact that the railroads had them
selves received large land grants and
1t was hard to say whore the benefi-
senee Of the government should stop
with respect to the highways.
railroad building, Mr.. KTuttschnitt
said:
I'm 1920 ssa.2s4,ooo went as re-
turn to those who paid for the proper
ties, while sixty times as much Cor
S3,G42,0o0, ,000l went to those who are
employed on the railroads. This an
swcrs the question. why don't We build
more railroads?'
"rhe fall in railroad construction
began in 1905 and, with a negligible
check in 1915. has continued ever
since, so that the new mileage con-
structed in 1920 was less than the aver
age IN the five years from 1870 to 1876.
New construction was only one-eighth
of one per cent"
Labor Heads List of Expenses
Mr.. Kruttschnitt said that for the
railroads of the entire country in
creased expenses in 1920 over 1919
were as follows:
: Actual expenses for 1920, $6,163,13S.-
Actual expenses for 1919. $4,667. .774,-
1871.
Increase for 1920 over 1919, s1,495,-
So4,2lo, detailed as follows:
New-York tribune., 1921-05-12
A. Z. of l.. Opposes
Sales Tax; Demands
Luxury Levy Stand
Council Charges Plan to
Shift Burden From Cap
ital to Toilers; Seeks
Repeal of Kansas Law

CINCINNATI, May 1.-THE Ameri-
can Federation of Labor will oppose
any attempt to repeal the present sys-
tenn of excise Or luxury" tax and sub
stitute 8 sales tax
This policy was decided upon by the
executive council of the Federation in
session here to-day The council, it is
understood, regards any effort to sub
stitute a sales tax for the excise tax
as an attempt to shift the burden of
taxation from capital to labor.
Labor officials contend that the sales
tax would not only place the burden of
taxation on the workers, but would add
materially to the cost of living and re-
new the opportunity for profiteering.
The stand of the executive council will
be incorporated in the councils report
to the annual convention of the Fed
Grafton in Denver in June.
The council also decided to-day to
carry on the fight to obtain the repeal
of the Kansas Court of Industrial Re-
lations law. The council has con-
demned the bill as an act establishing
Involuntary servitude for the workers
of Kansas" and as an unjust, a tyran-
nical and un-American" institution.
The council also will urge that the