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Admission tickets and reserved seats will be on sale circus
day at the BEXAR DRUG CO., Houston street and Alamo
Plaza, at exactly the same prices charged at the regular circus
ticket wagons.
Bees Mistake Flowers in Hat
for Real Thing and Swarm on Them
An old Greek named Praxiteles once
painted some grapes so true to nature
that the birds came and pecked at them
but he wasn’t in'it with the designers
of beflowered bonnets being shown at
the Wolff & Marx department store,
which have bamboozled even the busy
bee to such an extent that hundreds of
the honey-seekers have invaded the mil
linery department. All efforts have
failed to dislodge the bees, which defy
even a vacuum cleaner in their deter
mination to explore the recesses of Tur
bans, Merry Widows and other crea
tions in the store.
“They are just too sweet for any
thing.’’ said an ardent seeker after be-
Uncle Zeke Prophesies Long Cold
Winter, Major Buell Notwithstanding
“Sho’ gwine hab col’ winter. Gwine
be snow an’ ice and eberyt-ing gwine
freeze up.’’
Uncle Zeke, a patriarch of ante-bel
lum days, enunciated the statement
while trying to talk ten cents out of his
auditor’s pocket. >
“Yas, Boss, sho’ gwine be col’,” con
tinued the old man. “Ahs er nig
ger an ’ Ah needs somep n t ’eat. Gwine
ter need hit mighty bad dis winter.’
“What makes you thiyk it’s going
to be cold, Uncle?”
“Pshaw, Boss, don't yo’ think dis
ole nigger don’t know’ de sines ob col’
wedder. Whas all dem flies pestering
’round’ he house ferf Whas de reason
dem sparrows all piles togedder ebery
mo’nin’ and jest makes er bog fuss?
What fer is dey building odder nests?”
“Humbug!” said the listener.
“Nawsnr, no humbug. You jes wait,
and w’en you’s mos’ freezing jes ’mem
ber dat Un<-le Zeke done tole you.”
“Why, Zeke,” said his listener, “the
SUNDAY,
wilderment in bonnets on viewing the
array of fluffy feathered things when
it was first displayed.
Perhaps a passing scout of the bee
army overheard the remark and wig
wagged it to a host made hungry by the
lack of fall flowers. Anyway, the first
inspection of the hats by the bees con
vinced them there was "something in”
the millinery display and an invasion
followed.
As a result buyers of millinery may
now have their hats "with or without.”
It is even suggested that the hive-bon
net may become a worthy successor to
the Merry Widow and other fantastic
creations of feminine headwear.
United States weather bureau predicts
an exceedingly mild winter. It says
the weather will be the warmest we’ve
had for years.”
“Das all right, das all right,” said
Uncle Zeke, solemnly shaking his head.
“Das all right. But yo’ tell me how
dat wedder buro gwine perdick any
such t’ing. How dey gwine tell hit?”
“Why, Zeke, the meteorological de
partment makes annotations of the py-
I sioiogical conditions and then philoso
phizes and dogmatizes, predicting fu
turity conditions on symbolical agrup
tations which give ground for the prog
nostications which we visualize daily in
the newspapers.”
Uncle Zeke was feazed. He stopped
dead on center. He hadn’t another
word to say except: “Well, ef dat’s
de case, den dey oughter know.”
But he hadn’t forgotten the 10 cents
he was after. He asked for it again
and got it. Then he hobbled away,
shaking his head as he went. Uncle
Zeke was stumped for once in his life.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
THEY FOUND CONDITIONS ON
CANAL ZONE TO BE EXCELLENT
Mr. and Mrs. Wilke, Here on Vacation, En
thusiastic Regarding Panama and Say Big
Ditch Will Be Completed in 1915.
NUMBER Or SAN ANTONIANS ARE THERE
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Wilke, employes of the Panama canal, and a well known
San Antonio couple, who arc in the city spending their vacation w?th rela
tives.
‘ ‘ The pay is good, health conditions
are excellent and all the comforts of a I
modern home in the United States, can I
now be found on the Panama canal.”|i
The above statement is made by Mr. j ;
and Mil. G. C. Wilke, who have just i
returned home on a six weeks ’ vaca-,
tion from the canal zone and are guests :
of Mr. ana Mrs. John P. McDevitt, ii
the parents of Mrs. Wilke, at their' ;
home, 508 North Center street. The ( 1
couple will leave San Antonio to/return j
to their duties on the Panama canal j ।
on October 20.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilke have been cm-1 :
ployed on the canal work for over a
year and this is their first vacation. ;
Mrs. Wilke is the chief operator of the :
canal telephone system, with headquar-11
ters in the administration building at 11
Culebra, with twenty operators under j.
her jurisdiction, scattered along the
canal, and her husband is dispatcher ’
of the Industrial railroad, a narrow j
guage line that hauls concrete for the [
cuts that thousands of laborers are dig-1।
ging daily. His work is only a short j
distance from that of his wife and with
the comfortable quarters provided, .
With all the modern improvements, they
are enabled to enjoy life almost the
same as in this country. Speaking of
conditions as they actually exist on the ,
canal zone, Mr. Wilke said:
“No American need now fear to go
to the canal zone on account of sick-I
ness, as the rigid sanitary conditions <
which have been enforced and are still |
being obeyed to the letter, has entirely :
slumped out malarial and other kindred
fevers. In my opinion there is not a
more healthful spot in the United
States than Panama and all aiong the
route where they are at work in the
tremendous undertaking of constructing
the great ditch, that will by January
1 1915, c< unect the Atlantic and Pa
cific oceans through a strip of land for
a distance of 47 miles.
“Since returning home, we have
heard a very few people speaking of.
conditions that exist on the carnal and
misrepresenting matters by saying that
it is a sickly, tropical climate and a
good place to stay away from. In all
such cases, the men making the kicks
have a pnvate ‘grouch’ against some
one on the canal work and still retain
that bitter feeling on returning home
and continue to ‘knock’ that laudable
enterprise just out of pure spite. Dur
ing our entire residence on the canal,
we forgot what a fly or mosquito
looked like and the first that we en
countered, was when we arrived at
New Orleans a few days ago. This
would indicate therefore that the stories
told about that country being sickly
were merely a made-up ‘pipe-dream’
of the first water.”
How the Men Are Paid.
Mr. Wilke stated that most of the
American employes now at work in
clerical positions on the canal, were
there through civil service examina
tions and in fact all the employes from
the United States were known as “gold
men,” by reason of their drawing their
salaries in American gold money. The
laborers on the big ditch are known as
“southern silver” employes, for the
reason that they are paid off in Pana
ma silver money, which is much less
in value than the Mexican silver dol
lar. Mr. Wilke says that it is an )
teresting sight to see the thousands of j
negro laborers and other natives of the |
tropical climate line up on the first of I
each month to receive their.pay. The
paymaster is on hand with several tons
of Panama silver money and as each
man walks up to the window, there is
enough of the stiver dumped in to fill
I his hat and the darkey walks away with
i a grin on his face. This work of pay
ing off the men is fast and after all
the hats have been filled with the al
lotted sum for each employe, the pay
masters heave a sigh of relief for the
hardest part of their routine work is
finished for that month. With the
I Amer'can. o; gold employes, the pay-
I ment of Salaries is different. They
walk into the administration ouilding
and each receives several pieces of
gold, but these pieces represent as
much as $2OO to each employe, while
the hatful ef silver coin only represents
the small sum of $2O to the other men.
Speaking of the work now in progress
on the canal, Mr. Wilke said:
“Two locks are almost completed on
the Atlantic side and the work is being
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pushed with all possible speed, t-e
work has been delayed somewhat at
the Culebra cut by several bad land
slides, but this will be remedied on the
arrival of machinery, which will be
used in placing solid concrete walls at
this point, and which will in the future
forever do away with the slides. Colonel
G. W. Goethels, of the United States
army, who is chief engineer in charge
of this great undertaking, is the right
man in the right place and there is not
a high government official who has yet
visited the canal and had a talk with
the colonel, but what would stake his
life that that official will complete the
great task set out for him in the speci
fied time. He is a prince in every
sense of the word and there is not an
employ on the canal zone, who has
come in contact with him, but what is
in love with the chief engineer and
holds him in the highest esteem.
San Antonians on Canal.
“There is one other person who
earned the love and esteem of the
Texas colony on the canal zone, and
that person is E. Claude Mills, now
engaged in business with his fatner in
San Antonio. He was the mainstay of
all Americans while he served on the
canal as an employe and all now sadly
miss him. Should Mr. Mills ever de
cide to return to his former duties on
the Panama canal at any time, he can
rest assured that he will be received
with open arms and made thrice wel
come back to his old haunts. Now
among the San Antonians on the eanal
and all holding good positions, paying
as much as $2OO per month are: Jim
and Ed. McDevitt, sons of Station
master John P. Mie Devitt, of the
Southern Pacific; J. M. and W. C.
Wilke, Mace Thomae and several
others. John Weed was employed
on canal work for some time, bnt
is now back in San Antonio and a
member of the fire department. Among
the other employes there from San An
tonio is George S. Markley, formerly
short stop for the Bronchos and other
teams in the Texas baseball league. He
is on the canal zone with his family and
puts in his time fairly well in playing
ball and doing plumbing work for
Uncle Sam.”
QUIET MEETING OF
COUNCIL LOOKED FOR.
The meeting of the city council Mon
day afternoon promises to be devoid of
the transaction of any new business of
any great importance. The probabilities
are that the session will be of short
duration. Numerous reports by stand
ing committees on pending matters will
likely consume the attention of the ai
dermen.
The petition of the San Antonio Trac
tion company to construct a line from
the present terminus of the East Com
merce street line and form a loop in
East End to connect with the Knob
Hill line will be granted, the committee
favoring the petition and after an In
vestigation finding that no objection
exists as to the streets to be used. Nu
merous petitions for individual privil
eges. street improvements and signs
will be reported on, some favorably
and others referred /or estimates of
cost.
HE SUES FOR $lO,OOO.
H. B. Thompson & Co. Made Defer. J
ant In Suit Brought By Bentura
Bara.
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H. B. Thompson and company] con
tractors building the new bridge' over
the Medina river at the- Pleasanton
crossing, wer nid deeafphdants yester
day iu a suit for damages filed
by Bentura daoims that he
was injured thrsfjg n negligence of
the suit is in the Thirty
seventh district court.
Plaintiffyalleges that he was required,
on SeptenYber 20, this year, to go to the
top of d scaffold on which he stood
while Willing on a rope, which hoisted
material The rope broke and the man
fell 4QT feet ,breaking two ribs and
otherwise injuring himself. He claims
that jit was through the fault of the
p o nl ohny in furnishing a rotten rope
that |he received his injuries.
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$B-a-Week Porter Stirs
Up All England's Unions
Landon. England, Oct. L—Wm. V. •
Osborne is in most ways exceedingly
humble. He draws about a $8 a week,
and is technically known as a “port
er,” which means he more or less makes
himself generally useful at a depot,
particularly in connection with pas
sengers' “luggage.” Bnt Osborne, in
his capacity of a citizen before the
law, has managed to stir up a heap of
tronble in the powerful labor unions of
Great Britain.
Osborne is a member of the Amal
gamated Society of Bailway servants.
This union combined with the rest to
maintain labor members in parliament.
No poor man could go to parliament un
supported by an organization, for Eng
land doesn’t pay her lawmakers. 80 the
unions made a compulsory levy of 4
cents a year per member to pay each
labor member of the commons a salarv
of $lO4O.
Osborne liked the idea of having
labor members in parliament; he
wouldn’t even mind going there him
self; the payment of the 4 cents a year,
even, was a pleasure to him. But what
he did object to was paying for the
support of members who held views to
which he objected. In other words,
William V. said that he wasn’t a social
ist himself and he’d see other people a
long way further before he would pay
for the support of a socialist in parlia
ment.
“And what’s more,” said Osborne,
“the union has no power to make me.”
“Don’t be silly, replied the union.
But the courts agreed with Osborne.
The case was carried way up to the
supreme tribunal—the law lords —who
sustained an injunction preventing the
union from making a compulsory levy.
Similar suits are under way against
all the other big unions.
It is charged in some quarters that
Osborne’s legal fight has been financed
bv interests opposed to the labor party,
and to socialism. I
Incidentally, they are trying to expel |
Osborne from his union and dissolve)
the local branch which has supported
him. But William still may be seen
smilingly shutting the doors of the
coaches, running around with boxes on
his shoulder, and accepting “two penny
* *\Vith very little money on hand and
nothing coming in, the labor unions 1
have had a hard time keeping their rep-I
resentatives in parliament up to now.
Contributions come in slowly. At fu
ture elections many of their candidates .
mav not stand for re-election, as the,
unions will not have money enough to
pav for campaigns in every district.
Some may borrow money. The
of this right to levy for political aet '° n
is to the British labor party what the
abolition of the “check-off' would be
to the United Mine Workers of America
the latter union could not keep its
union in its present efficient condition
if union dues were not taken out of
the miners’ wages.
Some English unions urge that the
law be defied, and the levies made as
usual, with dummy officers for the go
eminent to arrest, while the real offi-
X carry on the work. Others urge
that the labor party force the liberals
to pass a bill reversing the Osborne,
judgment by withholding their support
on measures important to the liberals
The radical miners urge a general
strike of the 1,445,708 workers who
are affiliated with the labor party, to
tie up industry and force the govern
ment to allow the unions to levy the as
sessment. . - x ,
The extreme socialists who work out
side the labor party do not think the
unions should make the levies. They say
WM. V. OSBORNE,
Railway Porter Who Caused All the
Trouble.
that if the labor party does not stand
for socialism, the socialist element of it
should frankly come out and get about
its business.
The outcome of it will probably be a
new political organization distinct
from the trades unions, such as exists
in other countries.
NEW SCENES OF
BRACKENRIDGE PARK
The classiest assortment of postcards
ever brought to San Antonio are now
on display at the Dahrooge Post Card
company, 315 Alamo plaza. They are
the acknowledged leaders in the post
card business, and are always on the
lookout for something new and novel.
The latest mottos are always on hand.
Twelve new views of Brackenridge
park are.very pretty, depicting scenes
in this grand spot. A picture of the
First Presbyterian church is also some
thing new. Beautiful and realistic
views of the city, 259 in all, the largest
assortment ever shown by any San An
tonio, firm. A large showing of silk
shawls, all sizes, 40c up. New line of
post card albums at easily the lowest
prices in the city.
It is claimed that Baltimore has the
most incomplete registration of births
of any civilized city in the world.
Theo Artzt orchestra. Both phones.
OCTOBER 2,
BUSINESS STOPS
IN PLAGUE RIDDEN
CHY OF NAPLES
li>ten>ati<nui! Ken Ssrrfes.
Naples, Oet. L— Busnnees asd every
day life is completely stagnated in
this c hotera-riddea city- dantb*
and 35 neyr caaea of the ptagne ven
snnouneed today as the tall far the
past 24 hours. The anthoeities have
ordered all the stores sere a few acc
essary ones closed. Narigetiaa is sus
pended and only a few railroad trains
now enter the city. AH strangers have
departed.
BUSINESS INTERESTS
WITH DEMOCRATS
Do Not Fear Election of Roose
velt Ticket In New York
State.
United Press.
New York, Oct. L— Making ths
point that business interests do not
fear the election of Roosevelt’s ticket
in New York and that they hope for
democratic control of the house. Fi
nancial America in its review Monday
will say:
“Although a large part of Wall
street was absorbed by the political
developments during the week, it
could not be said that the speculative
situation was disturbed. Price move
ments were upward, showing substan*
tially higher figures as the week
ended.” I
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