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LETTER BOXES ARE
PLACED ON STREETS
Brownsville Need Not Go to Post
Office Now to Post Lexers—Eleven
Boxes Are Provided.
iAn Improvement which has been
needed for some time, and which f?
now completed, was the placing of
eleven mail boxes at various points
In the mail delivery section of the
city yesterday. Assistant Postmaster
Pierce has requested several addi
tional boxes, hut they have not. been
granted as yet. At lea't, it is cer
tain that one more will be placed,
probably at the corner of 11th and
Elizabeth streets.
Boxes have been put up at the
following corners:
Adams and 14th streets.
Elizabeth and 13th streets (Mil
ler hotel.)
Washington and 12th streets
(Herald corner.)
Jefferson and 12th streets.
Jefferson and 10th streets.
St. Charles and 10th streets (San
Carlos hotel).
Washington and 0th streets.
St. Charles and 7th streets.
Elizabeth and 7th streets.
Washington and ">th streets.
Levee and 3rd streets.
Time cards showing when the i
mails are collected at the various
boxes have not yet been arranged,
hut will he as soon as a sufficient
number of collections have been
made to determine the time at which
the collectors will reach the boxes.
When the cards are put up patrons
may fee] certain that their mail lias
been collected, provided they have
placed their mail in the box before
the time noted. The postal regula
tions require that mail carriers shall
not collect the mail from a box even
a quarter of a minute before the time
noted on the card.
The boxes are placed only at cor
ners where there are street lights.
irmation of all, it mav
there is a penalty of
$1000, or imprisonmnent for three
years, for any one caught tampering
with a United States mail box. There
J also a penalty of $100 for hitching
to a post equipped with a mail box.
Only such mail as can be inserted
through the slot in the boxes—that
Is, letter and small parcels—can he
mailed in the boxes, and carriers arc
lot tield responsible for any mail
A'hich may be placed on top of boxes
VALLEY SECRETARIES
I HERE TODAY
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Business Transac*ed this Morning.
Irrigation Legislation Will be
Considered in Afternoon.
This morning at nine o’clock the
Rio Grande Valley Commercial Sec
retaries’ association will meet in
business session at the Chamber of
Commerce. Business matters will
be considered, and it is probable that
a program will be outlinde for a
meeting to be held in the afternoon
at 1:30, also at the Chamber oi
Commerce.
The public is invited to the after
noon meeting, at which time matter
concerning the proposed irrigation
legislation meeting, to be held in
Brownsville during the Midwinter
Fair, will be considered. Plans will
be mapped out for the purpose of in
tercsting Valley people generally ir
the subject.
Charles E. Trimble of San Antonie
traveling staff correspondent for
Manufacturers’ Record of Baltimore
will deliver an address before the
secretaries this morning.
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NEGROES SEND
ANONYMOUS LETTER?
rhreaten to Burn Town Unless Con
Demned Murderers Are Set Fre'
at Once.
Associated Pre;s.
Archer, Fla., Sept. 24.—Mayo
Baldwin today received an anony
mous letter threatening to burn th<
town, unless two negroes chargee'
with murder are turned loose. TTu
negroes killed two officers last Apri
and are under sentence to han<
Friday.
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FOR
SANTIAGO
COL. RICHE WANTS DATA ON
PROPOSED WATERWAYS
All Interested in Certain De<*p Watei
Projects on Texas Coa*t Invited to
Submit Information *o U. S. En
gineer at Galveston.
Galveston, Tex., Sept. 17, 1912.
To Whom It May Concern:
1— The act of congress approved
July 2->, 1912, provide* for prelimin
ary examinations of the following
localities, viz:
ARROYO COLORADO, Texas, up
to Harlingen.
HARBOR AT BRAZOS ISLAND*
Texas.
COLORADO RIVER, Texas, with
a view to its improvemen by means
of locks and dams, or otherwise, and
to the taking over by the general
government of the artificial cut to
Matagorda.
NAVIDAD and LAVACA RIVERS,
Texas.
NUECES RIVER, Texas.
INLAND WATERWAYS on the
coast of Texas from Corpus Christi to
a suitable poin; on Baffin's Bay.
RIO GRANDE from Velard, New
Mexico to the six standard parallel
-outh New Mexico meridian.
2— To facilitate an early report
and recommendation, you and others
interested in these waterways arc
:nvited to submit tQ this office, not
later than November 1, 1912, your
views in these matters.
3— Full statements of all existing
facts tending to show to what ex
tent the general commerce of the
country will be promoted by works
of improvements contemplated.
4— Any information on ore, lum
ber, coal, agriculture and horticul
ture, etc., showing what effect the
opening of these streams to naviga
tion would have on reducing rates op
raw bulky material and products,
will be especially appreciated.
•r>—The present and prospective
demands of commerce, its value ant’
amount, thp amount being given in
-hort tons, is also desired.
6— The establishment, present or
proposed, of terminal and transfer
facilities, the development and
utilization of water power for in
dustrial and commercial purposes
are points of vital interest.
7— The following questions are
desired answered as fully as possible:
(a) —Are any wharvps, etc., owned
by the public at which terminal
facilities are extended to all on equal
terms? If so, what?
(b) —If such public wharf exists,
does it connect rail and water lines?
If so, how?
fc—— Are there terminal facalitie
held by individuals or corporations
which are extended to all on equal
terms?
(d) —If no wharves, etc., are open
to public use, i* public space avail
able for the construction of wharves0
(e) —Are there any mechanical
appliances for handling freight at
the public or private wharves?
(f>—What arp the differences ip
level between ordinary low water
and ordinary high water. Between
extreme low water and ordinary low
water, and ordinary low water and
extreme high water?
(g)—What are the general
heights of the hanks above low wa
ter? Are the banks overflowed at
high water?
lh>—Are there any pumping
plants along the stream? If so, how
many and what capacity? Also what
are their values and what acreage
is served.
(i>—In general, what is the tota1
annual tonange affected, and what
do you estimate as the annual sav
ing in freights either directly or in
directly as the result of the proposed
improvement?
* C. S. RICHE.
Lieut. Colonel, Corps of Engineers
United States Army.
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LATE MARKET REPORTS.
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Cattle.
Associated Press.
Kansas City, Mo.. Sept. 24.—Cat
tle steady to 10 cents lower; export
steers. $S.r*0 to $10.90. Hogs.
rents lower; heavies, $8.40 to $8.60
Sheep ruled strong and active.
Cotton.
Associated Press.
New Orleans, Iju. Sept. 24.—Cot
ton futures closed steady with a net
advance of 1 to 4 points. Spots were
easy and unchanged.
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MIY THEMES IK
lj HTGENIC CONGRESS
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CONCERNING THINGS THAT IN
JURE THE PEOPLE
Study of Fatigue and Its Application
to the Industrial Workers—De
cayed Teeth a Disease of the
Masses—A arrier of Typhus.
; Associated Pre^s. "
Washington, D. C., Sept. 24.—
With the assertion that "fatigue was
a danger of occupation a* truly as
any of the industrial posions and
must be recognized as such if it is
to be combatted," Miss Josephine
Moldmark of the National Consum
ers league. New York city, addre*s
cd the Fifteenth International Con
gress of Hygiene and Demography
today on "The study of fatigue and
its application to industrial workers
! "The essential Injury of overtimr
is due to what has been graphically
proved in the laboratory with the
argograph," Said Miss Goldmark
"because effort increased with
fatigue; bebcause work continued
after fatigup has set in requires sc
i much more subsequent time for re
jcuperation, but during a rush o
overtime season such time for re
cuperation is necessarily lacking.
"The clerk w-ho is kept in the
great department store until eleven
twelve or one o’clock at night durinr
one or two frenzied weeks befor
, Christmas, the girl who works ai
fever heat stitching women’s waist
in January for the spring tradp i
not relieved of the necessity of re
| porting fro work the next morning
I She comes to work unrested anr
with each day of overtime accumu
ilatPd fatigue necessarily grows.
"It is precisely here that the ai<
of science is so urgently needed an<
has hitherto been almost wholb
lacking."
Dental Hygiene - for Schools.
Dr. C. Adolphus Knopf, speakin
on the topic "Dental Hygiene fo
the Pupils of Public Schools," dc
dared had and decayed teeth wer
a disease of the masses as much a
tuberculosis, and as such must b
combated particularly in children o
school age.
After making an estimate that a
least three per cent of all of th
children of school age of the Unite
States were tuberculous, and Collin
attention to the last report of th
commissioner of education thn
there were 20,000,000 children at
tending public schools in the coun
try, Dr. Knopf declared there mu*
be at least 000,000 tuberculous chi’
dren in urgent need of open-air in
struction. He quoted an estimat
that the average life of the 50,00'
children who die annually from tu
herculosis in the United States wa
about seven and one-half years. Fig
uring the cost to the parents an
community at only $250 per annum
he said the financial loss thus rep
resented was $75,000,000 and chil
dren have died before they have beer
able ^ give any returns to thei
parents or the community.
A Carrier of Typhus.
Dr. Joseph Goldberger and Dr
John F. Anderson, of the hygieni
laboratory of the United States pub
lie service, said they had trace
typhus fever to the louse, as a car
rier and that their investigation ha
| disclosed nearly 200 cases of th'
I disease in New York, as well as :
number in Chicago, Philadelphia
Baltimore and Washington, altfiougt
it was thought that typhus had no
visited American for many years.
The disease, however, was fount ,
to be in mild form, but they saic ;
mild forms of disease become malig
nant. Thphus fever is one of the sir
diseases the United States consider:
so dangerous that special quaran
I tine regulations have been issuer
against it. The malady usually
j visits those who live in crowder
land insanitary habitations and is t
poor man's disease.
Why the louse should be the onl>
j insect that carries typhus they hav
been unable to determine. One o'
1 these insects which bites a patient
during the fever period will be abb
in about four days afterwards tr
give the disease to any unfortunate
victim he may chance to fasten up
on. Experiments have shown also
• that monkeys may contract th'
disease through the bites of lice.
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arcumula'e wealth but to assist ir
the upbuilding of your community
also.
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SPEAKER WISHES TO
REFORM CALENDAR
VARIOUS GOVERNMENTS IN
VITED TO COOPERATE
M. Cannon LeGrand of Belgium- in
Address Before International Con
gress of Chambers ofl Commerce.
Advocates Reform of Calendar.
Associated Preas.
Boston, Mass., Sept. 24.—Brother
hood as an essential in perfecting
trade relations and world wide peace
was dwelt upon today by Secretary
of Commerce and Labor Charles
Nagel in his address of welcome to
the visiting delegates of the Fifth
International Congress of Chambers
of Commerce.
M. Cannon LeGrand of Mon«, Bel
gium, was also a speaker. He said:
“The international movement to
reform the calendar is making ex
cellent progress. The principal pur
pose of the new calendar movement
is to make the months of more near
ly uniform length and to establish
a fixed date for Easter.
“To take formal action in the
matter the permanent committee has
induced the Swiss government to in
vite the various governments of Eu
rope to an international diplomatic
conference. The American govern
ment has not yet been sounded, be
cause it was considered advisable
first to make sure of the official co
operation of the governments of Eu
rope. Since Switzerland has no of
ficial representative at the vat.iea"
the committee took it upon itself to
•'ound the attitude of the Holy See
“It is the opinion with the major
ity of those interested in this ques
tion, that the reform of the calendar
is not practically realizable except
with the assent of the Holy See.
since the question was largely that
of fixing the dates of religious holi
days. We know, from a reliable
source, that the Holy See has sub
-nitted the question of the reform of
the calendar for the consideration
of the congregation of rites. It ia
stated further that this examination
would be quite lengthy since it
would give rise to an investigation
throughout all Ghristion countries.
“To work out a calendar,” contin
ued Mr. LeGrand, “it is essential to
bear in mind than an astronomical
vear consists of 365.2422166 days.
It being impossible to base a calen
dar on so elaborate a ntimber, the
"ear has been lengthened to 365
days and a quarter. Then, under
Pope Gregory, this lenthening has
been compensated by the dropping of
three days in the space of four cen
turies. If, now’, w’e again round off
the figure and bring it to exactly
363 days, this annual shortening of
the year is compensated by the ad
dition of one day, the 29th of Feb
ruary, each fourth year. But 363
is not divisible by 7, so that the year
is not made up of a whole number of
weeks. It would be sufficient, how
ever, to bring the number of days to
364 to adjust everything.
“The basis of the refrom is the in
genious idea of withdrawing from
the regular course of the weeks the
first day of January. The first day
of January would be New Year's
Day. This day is already, accord
ing to our customs throughou th'
civilized countries, devoted to quite
different occupations from those of
other days of the year; it therefore!
oossesses a peculiar character and
deserves to be distinguished from
all other days.
“In leap year, a day would be in
terpolated, to be known as ‘leap
dfty,' which w’ould be placed, ac
cording to some. afrer the 30th of
June, or, according to others-at car
nival time. This, of course, is a mere
detail.
“If we therefore concede that the
day following New Year's Day is to
be January 1st. we can then divide
the year into four equal periods of
three months each, each 91 days
tong, and. by a happy coincidence,
°ach of these quarters would consist
of exactly 13 weeks.
“It will therefore be sufficient to
consider one of these quarters to un
derstand the whole.
“In order not to change too much
our present customs, we divide the
quarter into three months, consist
ing of 30, 30 and 31 days. Only the
last month of each quarter would
have 31 days, and these 31st days
would be Sundays if we begin the
quarters on Mtyidar. It will be
seen, therefore, that we should pre
serve our habit of speaking in half
years, quarters, months and weeks.
It seems to us, therefore, that there
would be a good chance of persuad
ing the public to accept a modifica
tion of the present calendar.”
CAMPAIGN MONEY
ANDJIfOOL BILL
Senator Clapp Would Inquire Into
Relations Between Failure of Wool
Revision and Campaign Funds.
Associated Pre5s.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 24.—An
I investigation to determine whether
jcampaign contributions had any
thing to do with the refusal of con
gress to revise the woolen tariff at
the special sesison of 1909, has been
started by Chairman Clapp of the
senate committee investigating cam
paign contributions.
It is understood he is preparing to
submit to the full committee a list
of witnesses including the names of
former Speaker Joe Cannon, and
Congressmen McKinley of Illinois,
Weeks of Massachusetts, and the
various representatives of various
branches of ihe woolen industry,
with recommendation that they be
questioned as to any knowledge they
may have of the campaign fund5
furnished in the congressional fight
in 1909.
SAN BENITO DRAINA6E
TAX RATE REOBGED
Considerable Cu* Po^ible* Principal
Not Payable Till After Thre«*
j Years— Interurban Gets Franchi^
By an order through the county
commissioners’ court, now in special
session, the tax rate for the San
Benito drainage district No. 3 has
been decreased from $2.20 to $1.75
on the $100 valuation. This de
crease was made because of the fact
that none of the principal will have
to be paid until after three years, or
until 1915. The bond issue is for
$450,000.
The court granted a petition by
the San Benito & Rio Grande Val
ley Interurban Railway company,
through its general attorney. Samuel '
A. Spears, asking for a franchise for
its road, as now constructed, over,
along and across the public road,
commonly known as the San Benito
Boulevard. The line runs north and
south from San Benito.
The petition included requests for
switches and sidings, but these were
denied.
Most of the day yesterday was
spent in considering routine matters.
The court will resume its session at
10 o’clock this morning.
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After all is aid and done, it takes
laboring men to build cities.
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SAN BENITO
THE
BIG CANAL TOWN
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The livest and largest new town in Texas in the
LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY
San Benito has grown from nothing to over four thousand population In
four years and today offers best location for commercial and in
dustrial nterprises in Southwest Texas. Natural advantages
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and improvements already ma de insure city cf importance.
The growth and development have only started.
NEARLY HALF A MILLION
Dollars railrc d business on St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway
at San Beniio, in one year. Sixty-seven per cent increase ov«r bceineM
of previous year.
Vear ending April 30th 1911 1912
Freight received 142,819.44 235,880.20
Freight forwarded 42,839.33 96,100.31
Express received 12,539.64 15,426.23
Express forwarded 18,098.34 19,025.44
Ticket sales 31,460.95 43,960.66
Excess Baggage 292.25 478.70
Switching, storage, and
demurrage No record 3,204.11
Total Value of Businesa 248,050.95 414,075.65
Above represents only the amount paid to the St. L. B. ft M. for hand
ling business shown and NOT THE VALUE OF PRODUCTS HANDLED.
EIGHTY THOUSAND ACRES OF RICH DELTA SOIL
irrigated from the big San Benito Canal surround the town of San Ba
il i to. Twenty-five thousand acres al ready in cultivation.
INTERURBAN RAILROAD NOW IN OPERATION
over 40,000 acres of this tract serving every farm with convenient
freight and express service. Extension being made on the balance of
the tract. Rio Hondo, Santa Maria, Carricitos, Los Indios and La Paloma
on interurban road out of San Benito. Convenient schedule.
IT WILL PAY YOU TO INVESTIGATE SAN BENITO
before engaging in farming, commercial or industrial enterprise# else
where in Texas.
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Means Profit and Economy
TO CATTLE FEEDERS
Call at our New Oil Mill and let us convince you.
First 50000 pounds sold to T. J. Law ion,
of this city.
We continue to manufacture the
best Ice obtainable.
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