THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK INTO "TEMPORARY" APPOINTMENTS The city administration is pledged to sane economy. It is supposed to be dead set against .pork barreling and wildcat distribution" of jobs. There have been rumors that heads of city departments were not hewing so close to the line of economy as they rushed into print to say. Recently the edict went forth that city employes would have to stand for vacations without pay, long fur loughs and perhaps a reduction in salary in order to get departments within appropriation limits. Men were laid off. Now some one has come along with the accusation that while the department heads are crying "econ omy" and frightening the old em ployes into fear of not only their va cations but their jobs, that these same chiefs have been making "tem porary" appointments in great num ber. A temporary clerk may be em ployed for a period of months with out having to pass a civil service ex amination. Handing out these jobs is a splendid method of rewarding political fidelity. They pay well generally $100 a month or more. Most of them carry not much more work than necessity to be at the office at reporting in and reporting out time. Aid Nance is going after this sort of business. His resolution directing the making public monthly of the temporary appointment list has been referred to a subcommittee. o o ANYONE WANT TO SELL A BABY FOR A DOLLAR? The city of Chicago has babies for sale. But they are baby bonds, not baby children. Mrs. Cole Unger, Sturgis. Mich., didn't get the thing quite straight in her head. Yesterday a letter came into the city comptroller's office from j I Mrs. Unger saying she understood "babies are selling for $1 each in Chi cago." She added: "I would surely like a nice baby at that," Louis E. Gosselin, deputy city comptroller admits he is stumped. He is thinking of rounding up a nice, cute, little fella that hasn't any home to send up to Michigan and Mrs. Unger. The baby bonds are sold in $100 $h denominations instead of for $1,000. The la'ter price made the bonds "banker's paper." This price was too high for the man of small income, who was forced to put his money in bank at 3 per cent and let the banker who could buy the big bonds collect the profit on -his savings. o o MINES BREAK LOOSE AND DRIFT ALONG SOUTH AMERICA Madrid. Mines planted by bellig erent European powers have broken loose from their moorings and drifted far south along South American coast. Steamer Patagonia from Cadiz reported from Las Palmas, Argentina, today that she encountered a mine floating In vicinity of the equator. Rome. Squadron of Italian aero planes bombarded Austrian camp near Goritz with great effectiveness Monday. Bombardment of Goritz bridge head continuing for several hours each day. North of Goritz re enforced Austrian army is stubbornly resisting Italian attempt to advance. x Minor skirmishes east of Monfalcone. Stockholm. Swedish schooner Daisy, bound from England with cargo of coal, struck mine and sank off Aland Islands in Baltic. Captain Stridback and four of crew drowned, others making shore. ifc London. Demand by English aero nautical experts that government send great fleet of aeroplanes to at tack Krupp gun works at Essen had partial answer today. Dispatches from Paris reported that during night several French aviators made recon naisance over Essen.