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It*- "?V TEDDY,JR„ONTHEJOB President's Son a Woo! Sorter at $5 a Week. IS THE GOODS, SAY WORKERS 8tarts In on Lowest and Hardest Job In a Carpet Mill at Thompsonville, Conn.—Manager Says He Will Get the Big Stick if He Doesn't Behave. When Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., be came a wage earner the other day he toiled ten hours and a half in the works of a carpet company situat ed at Thompsonville, Conn., with 3,200 others. For five hours and a half he wore overalls and jumpers and bent his back over piles of dirty, smelly wool. "Wool sorter" is the name of his job—the lowest, hardest and most dis agreeable about the works, also the most poorly paid. Yotmg Teddy earn ed by his whole day of labor exactly 63 1-3 cents. He Is on the payroll of the corporation at the fabulous salary of $5 a week. "Tired? Yes, I am," he admitted as he passed out of the gates at night when the whistle blew at 6:15. "It caught me in the back." That's what all new wool sorters say. The president's son reached Thomp sonville in the evening and went for dinner to the home of Alvin H. Hig gins, general manager of the company. After dinner and a chat with Mr. Hig glns he went to the small dwelling ad joining the latter*s home, where he is to live with a married couple who will act as housekeepers. He turned in early to bed, for he had to be up be times the next morning. The starting whistle blows at 7 o'clock. The house where young Roosevelt will live is owned by Mr. Higgins and until "Teddy junior's" arrival was known as "the little white house." Now it has achieved the new title of "the little White House." Promptly at 6:45 o'clock in the morn ing, when the streets were filled with mill workers starting wearily for their toil, Teddy joined the throng. He got into the office of the carpet works at five minutes before 7. Mr. Higgins and other officers made him acquaint ed with the clerks and department heads. At 8 o'clock he met the steno graphic staff—twelv,e typewriter girls, some pretty, some otherwise, but all eager to meet the young man. He bowed and smiled diffidently when pre sented to them. During the morning young Roosevelt WAS shown the office system and was taken through the works. At noon he was allowed forty-five minutes for a hurried luncheon at the Higgins home. He was attired in a dark gray, ready made "working suit," which he had purchased to begin his career in. At 12:45 he returned to the works with a package under his arm, which con tained his overall suit. He put this on when the whistle blew and got on the job of sorting the wool—just as it comes to the mill, without any cleans lag or deodorizing. There he stuck, •^Whout intermission, until 6:15. ^Neither he nor Mr. Higgins would IBScUss the first day's work. "I have JBSp eye on him," the manager said, with a chuckle, "and if he doesn't be have I'll use the big stick on him. All I have to say is that he has a splendid appetite." It may be stated that the* verdict of the working population of Thompson ville is that young Roosevelt is "the goods" and in no sense an interloper. Among the various departments through which the president's son will pass, provided he likes the work and decides to stay and become a full fledged carpet maker, will be the filling room, shading room, designing depart ment and dye house. He will also undoubtedly study other Une^of jmilLjwork, including the vari- ANY KIND OF ous Stadsof carpets ^tiffl rags and: how such a large manufacturing plant is managed, but this will altogether de pend upon himself. All the town saw Teddy during his trips to and from the carpet mills. He saw all the town, too, for there are few persons in Thompsonville except mill workers. The only social diver sions he will have will be the Enfield Country club and the Calumet club, which are patronized by the not nu merous wealthy citizens of the town ship. He is to be put up at both. For theaters, hotels and urban life in general young Roo»evelt will have to journey to Hartford, sixteen miles south, or Springfield, eight miles north. If he keeps on sorting wool, however, he probably won't care for evening di versions. Bed will be more agreeable Raising Almonds In Texas. In Henderson county, Tex.. Cain Cox, five miles from Athens, has not only adhered to diversification in all Its forms, raising fruit, tomatoes and the cereal and hay crops as well as some cotton, but he has been investing some money in other experiments, some of which are about to turn out very prof itably. One of his side experiments has been almonds, he having put in quite a. number of the. young trees about five years ago. The trees are now well grown and are bearing fine almonds, though not as large nor as fine as the imported variety. The trees bore a few almonds last year and many more this year, and by another year Mr. Cox thinks she will get acrot large enough to market. Success of Woman Suffrage. The Finns evidently have not found woman suffrage a failure. Nineteen women were elected to their first par liament. Now twenty-five have just been elected to the second. To Study the Stars For Five Years. With Professor Lewis Boss and Rob ert Yarnum of the Dudley observatory at Albany, Professor R. H. Tucker of the Lick observatory recently left San Francisco on a five year trip to South America to observe and catalogue the southern stars, uumbering upward of 25,000, that are of merit in astronom ical eyes. A temporary observatory will be built in the Argentine Repub lic. The expedition is undertaken un der the direction of the Carnegie insti tution at Washington. MUSIC YOU WANT £an be heard right in your own home or at your summer cottage if you have an Edison Phonograph. There's no limit to its versatility it will reproduce perfectly any sound. An EDISON PHONOGRAPH and a variety of good selections in records will provide you with means for entertaining all your friends no mat ter what their taste. We have an extensive line of rec ords. It includes band, orchestra, violin and vocal mu sic in great variety, minstrels, jokes, etc. These remarkable instruments are so reasonable in price that they are within the reach of everybody. Come jn and hear one play and get our prices and terms. New Biography of Cleveland. The authorized life of Grover Cleve land is to be written by a personal friend, John Finley, president of the College of the City of New York, who desires all persons having letters or other memorials of Mr. Cleveland to lend them to him. EXTRAORDINARY COMPACT. Amherst Professor Said to Have Agreed to Sell His Head For 10,000. Professor John Mason Tyler, stone professor of biology at Amherst col lege and son of America's greatest Greek scholar, is reported to have made an extraordinary compact with scientists of wealth whereby he has told his head after death for $10,000. At the college in Amherst, Mass., the report was circulated, and Pro fessor Tyler was recently asked by a reporter of the New York Herald for Its verification. He declined to make a direct statement, but said that dur ing his student days at Leipzig he be lieves he -made some such agreement. It Is because he is reputed to have the best shaped head In America, with a most extraordinary brain develop ment, that the question becomes of in terest to science. All the experts in America are familiar with Professor Tyler's head, and it is common knowl edge that they regard it of great value to the scientific world. The professor's memory and fund of information are phenomenal. "I suppose this story may be the result of an experience I had years as*a whea_.L5,was_a. student at Leip: You can make records of your own voice With an edison. ^MMU&^ifaaifiilte PIONEER DRUG COMPANY ,s' 4? i*', M&^k^&^V^' && I «IjR" said"the professor. ~rrwa» oifiy a joke. One day an Austrian student and I were leaning over a table study ing, with our heads close together, when one of the old professors enter ed the room. He stood looking at our heads for some time before we noticed him and then said: 'You two fellows have the finest types of the square head and the long head I have ever seen. I wish you would leave them to me after you are dead.' We prom ised' we would. "The young Austrian's head was very square and large, and mine was very long, so I suppose the pair of them did look rather odd there togeth er. That is probably the way this story started." "But is it true that you have sold the rights to your head after death for $10,000 and that Mrs. Tyler is seeking to break the contract?" "Ha, ha!" laughed the professor. "I guess $10,000 would be a pretty good price for a dead man's head, but I am not advertising mine.for sale. As for the story, I will neither admit nor deny it." -.• BOYS PAY TO BE SAILORS. White Star Training Vessel Ships Forty, Cadets at $1,000 Per Head. The White Star line training ship Mersey has sailed from .Liverpool on her first voyage for Melbourne, Aus tralia, with forty cadets whose par ents, have paid $1,000 each to have their sons trained for four years to become officers in the merchant ma rine. The boys will be instructed in navigation as well as seamanship. The cadets have been recruited from the middle class families in England. After passing the second mate's ex amination they will be eligible for a position as sixth mate at a wage of $30 per month. The company has been forced to equip the Mersey on account of the dearth of officers in England. Fifteen years ago the Peninsular and Oriental company had a waiting list of appli cants containing over 300 names, and last summer, the company was com pelled to take cadets who had never been to sea before from the school ships in the river Thames and Mersey as fifth and sixth officers on their lin ers to the far east With forty boys on the Mersey the few able seamen who have,been ship ped to lead the watches will not have a rosy time. The White Star line will not lose money, as it gets $40,000 cash, and the Mersey will be run at com paratively small cost A WANAMAKER BELFRY. Memorial to Thomas B. at Falls of Schuylkill to Cost $150000. What is expected to be one of the finest belfries in the United States Is to be erected as a memorial to the late Thomas B. Wanamaker at the Episco pal Church of St James the Less, Palls of Schuylkill. Pa. It will cost $150,000 and have a set of chimes to be brought from abroad. It is to be erected by the Wanamaker family. Beneath the tower, which will be built of granite, will be the mausoleum of Mr. Wanamaker. Heavy bronze doors of elaborate workmanship will open' into the tower proper and the mausoleum. The interior will be fin ished in fine white marble. The design will be Gothic to conform with the church. Tribute to Uncle Remus' Memory. Thomas F. Ryan of New York, capi talist, has contributed $1,000 to the fund being raised for a memorial in Atlanta to Uncle Remus (Joel Chandler Harris). The check was accompanied by the following letter: To the committee in charge of the col lection of funds for a memorial to Joel Chandler Harris, who has made so many little ones smile and wonder and who has lifted, at least for a time, the burdens of care from many of us who.are no longer children and growing old and weary: Please use this check as the majority of your committee may decide would be most pleasing to Harris were he able to direct its use. Yours sincerely, THOMAS F. RYAN. Spineless Cactus at a Banquet, The Burbank spineless" cactus ruff was served as a dessert the other night at the banquet of the Santa Rosa (Cal.) chamber of commerce. This is the first time since the scientist announced the result of his experiments with the cacti that the fruit of the plant has been utilized as food at a public func-l tlon and brought forth considerable favorable comment. The fruit was do-i ^ated by Mr, Burbank. THE S DIPLOMACY. br. Hill's Scholarly Contribution to a German Reviow. Di\ David Jayhe Hill, the new Amer ican ambassador to Germany, contrite utes to a iridrithly review his ^pinions Of modern diplomacy and the duties of modern diplomats. Hitherto, he saySj the fd^dation on which difc&K&cy rested was the dociritte 'oTtn'e Absolute (sovereignty of states,,, fc d$ctrine that each state existed iWr!lte(elf alone, and the chief task %f^tfefe diplomatist was to. help stre>fcfen his own state by, weakening the "others and destroying competitioii *from them in his, own country $tnd injure their trades and in dustry XXL other countries. "Now," says the ambassador, "a dif ferent view prevails^fcnd just as mod 'tirto political economists have over thrown false economic dogmas like that in regard to the mercantile system and the supposed advantage of possess ing the largest stock of the precious metals, so the modern diplomatist must discard the old diplomacy and instead of separating nations bring them closer together, instead of sowing dissensions among them introduce order, law and justice for their mutual relations. "The "best equiplhent- Tor Mm who seeks to do this is a knowledge of his tory, and as a skillful physician pro ceeds to first acquaint himself with the whole physical and physiological histo ry of the patient before prescribing, so a skillful diplomatist should first ac quaint himself with the history of states beforetrying to bring jarring in terests of nations in harmony." The chief danger today, Dr. Hill thinks, lies in the conflict of commer cial interests, the increase of popula tion, the desire to acquire or extend territory and search for new markets and new colonies. He suggests a reme dy by asking, "Is it, then,, necessary to acquire political influence over terri tory in order to obtain commercial ad vantages therefrom and therein?" The whole article is dominated by~ the thought that all states more and more belong to the real family of na tions and the interests and happiness of the *whoie family are to be consid ered on the same parallel with the in terests and happiness of individual countries and their peoples. •Before buying- your wallpaper, carpets and rugs call at our store and see our beautiful new line and the prices. You cannot resist them. J. H. Forster. School opened this week. So have we opened an entire new fall line of school suits, as well as school shoes, at very low prices, no old stock, but new goods, latest styles, every suit or pair of shoes guaranteed to give satisfaction. Real Estate For Sale or Rent. Lot 4, block 75, N New Ulm, must be sold within 30 days and will be sold cheap. FOR SALE—Lot 2, Block 156, North. FOB SALE—Lot 6, Block 206, North. FOB SALE—Lot 6, Block 15, South. FOB SALE—Lot 14, Block 57, South. FOR SALE—Lot 1, Block 119, Soulh. FOR SALE—Outlot N. 138. FOR SALE—Lots 5 aad 6, Block 31 North, New Ulm, with dwelling house, very cheap. Inquire of ALBERT STETNHAUSER. Turner tfall Program of C/asses in Gymnastics. Boys' class, ages 6 to 11: Wednesday afternoon, 4:30 to 5:30 Saturday forenoon, 9:00 to 10:15. Boys' class, ages 11 to 14: Monday and Thursday afternoons,! :30to 5:30 Youths' class, ages 14 to 17: Monday evening. 7:30 to 8:45 and Friday eve ning, 7:30 to 8:30. Girls' class', ages 6 to 11: Tuesday af ternoon, 4:30 to 5:30, and Saturday forenbori. 10:15 to 11:30. Girls' class, ages 11 to 15: Tuesday and Friday afternoons, 4:30 to 5:30. Misses'class, age over 15: Wednesday and Saturday evenings, 7:30 to 8:30. Ladies'.class: Thursday evening, 8:00 to 9:00. Men's class: Tuesday and Friday eve nings/ 8:30 to 9:45. Fencing class: Sunday forenoon, 10:00 to 11:30. Sunday School: Sunday forenoon, 10:30 to 11:45. ,J.*ffr" HERMAN HEIN Instructor. eim CLOAKS&4 OCHS BROS ^n Glasses That Fit! You CANNOT afford to wear any others. Eyesight is too precious to risk by wearing poor glasses—besides it costs no more to GET THE BEST PROP. MYErR EYESIGHT SPECIALIST We are showing 300 numbers of this Fall's Cloaks,the mostcomplete ly handsome assortment ever dis played in this city. The cloaks illustrated are very dressy models, quite elaborately finished They carry the Frintzess quality guarantee and excel especi ally in fit. 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