The Tacoma times. [volume], February 10, 1913, Page 4, Image 4

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f pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.—Chesterfield. I
HOW TO BREAK UP A HOME <$
HOW TO BREAK UP A HOME
•: There lived in a very humble home in New York city Mrs. Sarah Nary, 80
; years old, and her grandson, Joseph McPartland, aged 12. The boy sold
newspapers, and his earnings were the main support of himself and his
grandmother.
A church relief society gave the couple a small amount of groceries each
.week, and they were also aided by an organization called the Association
• for Improving the Condition of the Poor. This association, after considerable
effort, and by overcoming some opposition, had Joseph McPartland taken into
V,court and committed to an institution, alleging that his grandmother was too
r old to be a proper guardian for him.
Having thus deprived the old woman of her principal means of support,
the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor withdrew also the aid
it had been giving, and for two weeks Mrs. Nary had no money or food ex
cept what neighboi-s and cliurch workers brought her.
A newspaper discovered this singular state of affairs, and sent a report
er to, the general agent of the Association for Improving the Condition of the
Poor. After much questioning, the general agent finally divulged that the
association thought Mrs. Nary would bo better off in the poorhouse on Black
well's island than she was in her home with her grandson. Mrs. Nary did not
agree with the association.-
In order to bring her to a proper frame of mind the association had, after
taking away her grandson, withdrawn also its contributions toward her sup
port. To put the matter quite bluntly, the association proposed to' starve the
I old woman into going to the poorhouse.
The reporter asked the general agent of the Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor: "Is this starvation method of persuasion for those
.who shun the almshouse a new one or an old one?"
To which the general agent replied: "I believe it is employed by every or
ganized charity in the country."
His statement would seem to bar out the view entertained by many per
sons for many years past—that organized charity is generally 99 per cent or
ganization and 1 per cent sympathy. " ' j
SAN FRANCISCO EXTENDING
Municipal ownership of street railways in the United States is a go.
The completion of the Geary street line and its operation by the city at a
profit at San Francisco has broken the back of the long dominant traction
combine of the country and from now on there is every indication that there will
be rapid progress along this line.
£, 'Frisco right now is getting ready to branch out.
In December the Union street line franchise in that city expires and the
city will undoubtedly take this line over. The advent of the exposition there
also is forcing municipal ownership. There is no provision on the part of the
; old street railway company to take care of the exposition crowds during the
big show. To get street railway facilities to the exposition grounds the city
vnll probably have to build them and they are preparing to do it. A great belt
system is now being advocated with a total expenditure of about $2,500,000.
v When this is in and running San Francisco will be launched into the mu
nicipal ownership proposition completely and she can never go back.
i Tacoma is not the only city where there is likelihood of further advance
ment in municipal ownership either. ' ',
Tom Johnson waged a great battle a few years ago in Cleveland and prac
tically won municipal ownership there. He was cheated out of the fruits of
victory by the chicanery of the rich traction interests but only for a time.
_ ; . With three cent fare firmly established there, Mayor Newton D. Baker is
: Tight now leading a campaign for the taking over of the whole street railyway
system by the city for a municipal enterprise at an expense of nearly $25,000,000
: The street railway interests have held up the municipal enterprise at Seat
tle through their grip on the bond buyers, but the people are getting onto the
game. _, >
W~: The day of municipal ownership of street railways is dawning in Ameri
ca,, and this notion is going to go fast when it starts in the footsteps of the
; progressive cities of Europe, New Zealand, Australia, where the railways are
paying a large portion of the taxes today out of their profits.
THIS CASE
; Ordinarily there's mighty little satisfaction in seeing a man in jail. Jails
are futile places. They nourish the bad and starve the good in those who
get into —and heaven knows there's already too much bad in the best of
us, and a lot of good in the worst of us, it* it only had a chance.
>. Yes, indeed, we could do vastly better for our criminals than to put them
in jail. - ;
Yet there's a man in a jail in an eastern city serving six months' sentence
*ho, it seems to us, deserves what he is getting and serves as a useful exam
ple. We'll teave it to you when we've told his story.
gpjHis name is Horsfall. He is rich, prominent and able—the type of man
Who knows better. And this is what he did: v-f ~; \
■•£ He filled up on liquor at his club, jumped into his automobile, threw open
its throttle, tore furiously down the street, struck and fatally injured an aged
woman; and, without stopping, drove madly on. '
'■•' If that had been all, bad though it was, charity for his drunken condition
might have covered it as it covers so many sins. , But when the mjin became
sober, instead of throwing himself upon the mercy of the court, he used his
money and pull to stave off the penalty and succeeded in delaying iustice for
more than a year. B J
Now what do you think? Doesn't he deserve strippes?
When you own an auto, don't be a Horsfall.
m
No matter whether you think it is a
little chilly today—now is the time to
plant thoee sweet peas.
The census cost $15,171,593 and as
far as Tacoma is concerned we would
have been satisfied if the government
hadn't done it.
If the Tacoma Rose society really
wants to see Tacoma "blossom as a
pose" let it establish a central depot
town town where citizens can now get
!©se clippings free with instructions
jow to plan and it will be worth 100,
--100 new rose bushes next summer.
6ditori.il Pasc of Cfic Cacotna Ciroes
If the resignations keep up, another
year will see Tacoma churches all with
out pastors.
It strikes the average Tacoman that
the state board of health, located at Se
attle, is making itself awfully busy
about Tacoma's water system.
Dr. Edward O. Sisson of Reed col
lege, falls into line condemning the
present scope of athletics in the schools 8
and colleges being conducted for the I
purjxKse of developing championship '
teams" instead of training the whole "
student body into vigor of body.
THE TAOP*A TIMES.
.
| WHAT'S THE REASON?
What He Walts For.
Judge (to man arrested for va
grancy)— You have no visible
means of support, but I suppose,
like many others of your sort,
you has some excuse?
Prisoner—Sure!
Judge—Well, what Is It? Why
don't you go to work?
Prisoner—l'm waiting to pull
off a big business enterprise.
Judge—Why are you waiting?
What are you waitTng Tor?
Prisoner—l'm waiting until
navigation of the air becomes
general. Then I'm going to get
the right to paint advertising
signs on roofs. —Judge.
House Hunting.
Prospective Tenants— There's
one great disadvantage about
this house; it is damp.
Landlord—-That's no disad
vantage. If a fire were to break
out it wouldn't burn nearly so
fast.—Fliegende Blaetter.
I)..in Well.
"How are things getting along
in your card club?"
"Splendidly. We've only had
three meetings so far, but I've
won the game each time."—De
troit Free Press.
Another.
"Does it cost much to feed
the giraffes?"
"No; you see, a little goes a
long ways with them."—Harvard
Lampoon.
'Beeleyßport has a dry goods '
store which is th 1 kind of a dry s
goods store where th' clerk Is c
iin'rally standln" out in front eat- ,v
n' an apple."
Fletcher Heights half price, n
Closing out. See ad., page 6. v
' 'Advertisement."
His Only Asset.
Sponger has a great fund of
humor."
"Yes, but he's always short
when It comes to real funds."—
Boston Transcript.
Seen 'em?
Bacon—This paper says New
York has a shortage of lobsters.
Egbert—l think there's a lot
down there that can prove an
alibi. —Yonkers Statesman.
Can't liose 'Em
"I suppose you saw some in
teresting things In the heart of
Africa?"
"Some of the best moving pic
ture shows it was ever my pleas
ure to attend."—Cincinnati En
quirer^
I THAT SUFFRAGET PARADE AT WASHINGTON IS GOING TO f
j MAKE WILSON'S INAUGURATION LOOK LIKE A SIDESHOW |
Uy Gilson Gardner.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The
suffragette sideshow to the Wil
son inauguration, March 3, is apt
to bo the main circus. It has
overstepped all other features in
Interest. There will be five thou
sand women In line, and no end
of big "features"
"It la not a question of getting
,women to march," said Mrs.
Glenna S. Tinnin, one of the
managers, "but what to do with
thousands who want to. The
committee is almost overwhelm
ed with the bigness of this dem
onstration."
The women's parade will be
tnuch more worth seeing than
the so-called "Inaugural parade."
The latter Is really nothing but a
military escort to accompany the
president up the avenue.
The women's parade, begin
ning at 3 p. m., will be unique.
In addition to the marchers there
will be prominent women, wive*
of senators, congressmen and
governors—there will be floats to
symbolize the professions and i
occupation* in which women
work side by side with men. The 1
last float will represent the state, i
but following this there will be' I
no contingent of marching i
women.
The floats will typify litera- c
The Debt Owed.
"What a debt we owe to medi
cal science!" he said, as he put
down the paper.
"Good heavens!" she exclaim
ed. "Haven't you paid that doc
tor's bill yet?"— Chicago Post.
Not Too Proud.
"She is very proud of her an
cestors: Aren't you proud of
yours?"
"I don't dare to be; too many
of them are alive yet."—Houston
Post.
A True Tragedy.
Three men set out to gold brick,
A very ancient crime;
Dut they tried to "do" a Scotch
man,
And now they're "doing" time.
—New York Sun.
Exchanging Titles.
It Is settled. President Taft
and Prof. Wilsou will ride to the
capitol, mid President Wilson and
Prof. Taft will ride back together.
Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
Xow-a-Days.
"No use locking the stable door
after the horse is stolen."
"I should say that was the
very tinio to lock it. They might
come back after the automobile."
Washington Herald.
Cause of Events.
This curious thing called "Busi
ness,"
As 1 have heard It stated,
Is not considered a success
Till it's investigated.
I■.nj.i.vs It.
Blobbs —Your wife suffers
from nervous prostration, doesn't
she?
Slobbs —• Well, sometimes I
think she possibly enjoys it.—
Philadelphia Record.
Very Much So.
"I dare say that grump old
millionaire did not leave one joy
ful recollection behind him when
he died."
"Oh yes, he did. He left a
merry widow." —Baltimore Amer
ican.
The Obstacle.
Joy Rider (talking on the
telephone)—ls there anything to
prevent you from getting a car
around here promptly?
Garage—Yes, sir; your last
bill. —Satire.
Evidence Enough.
"How do you know you have
been fartherest North?"
"I got where I couldn't buy a
post card. Sure I've been."—
Kansas City Journal.
A Prying Plant.
"Oh, George," exclaimed the
young wife, "here's a flowering
vine that's climbed right up to th°
window as if it were trying to
look in on us. What kind of plant
do you suppose it is?"*
"Don't know," murmured
Oeorge, sleepily, "unless It's a
rubber plant."
Small Fry.
Teacher—What can you say
of the Medes and Persians?
Young America—l never kept
track of those minor league
teams. —Harper's Weekly.
ture, followed by marching wom
en writers; the legal profession,
followed by women lawyers;
medicine, with women doctors;
war, with nurses; manufacture,
with factory girls; and so -on.
A section of mere men, who
are to be permitted to show their
devotion to the cause of women's
enfranchisement, will include
statesmen from states where
women vote. Men like William
Kent, of California; Senator
Poindexter, Washington; Rich
mond P. Hobson, Alabama; Con
gressman Taylor, Colorado;
Commodore William Moore, 17.
S. N.; Rev. U. G. B. Pierce, pas
tor of President Taft's church;
Justice Wendell P. Stafford, of
the district supreme court Jus
tic© S. J. Peele, of the United
States court of claims; Judge
DeLaeey, of the juvenile court,
and Oswald Garrison Vlllard, of
New York, will march.
"General" Rosalie Jones, who
headed the New York to Albany
march, will bring her army to
Washington, marching all the
way. A troop of "bifurcated cav
alry" will ride from New York to
Washington. Another troop of
horsewomen will ride from Balti
more and another marching con
tingent will "hike" from Balti
more.
Green and purple decorations
over white dresses will be the
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PHI IIV r N Circulation ]>ept. Muln 12.
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—776-778 COMMERCE ST.
Bill Hughes, Labor Union Card
In His Pocket—U. S. Senator
I'nited States Senator-elect Win. C. Hughes.
BY Mary Boyle O'Reilly.
TKEX.TON, K. J., Feb. 10.—
Twenty-one years «;o "Hill"
Hughes, just turned nineteen, put
a brand-new union card into hi.s
vest pocket and walked to it work
bench in the cotton mills of I'm
erson.
On next March 4th, Hughes,
and Mill "Bill," will walk into
the United States senate, no less,
AND HIS L'XION CARD WILL
STILL BE IX HIS YKST
I'OCKET.
For "William C." Hughes, as
he hates to be called, is the first
man to serve in the upper house
of America who is entitled to
carry a union card. He is the
first man to be, as it were, a di
rect representative of organized
labor in "the American million
aires' club.' He is the first
actual WORKINGMAN who has
fought his way into that place to
which only money has been wout
to buy a ticket.
"Bill" Hughes was Imrn on
Klin's isle in historic Drogheda.
His father was an ii-on-molder, as
liis forbears had been through
Iwo centuries. When Hilly was
very little lUs father, pioneer that
he was, emigrated to I'atersou,
keeping up his old-world connec
tion with his union.
Hughes, senior, here found
that wages and trade conditions
in America were even worse than
in Ireland, and the upshot of it
was that at the age of eleven the
new senator from New Jersey
went to work in a flax mill.
From flax mill he passed to
cotton mill, from cotton mill to
file works, learning in each stage
the bitter reality of child-labor.
At 19 he took a look ahead and
tried to figure a way to reach
the sunshine.
And so—
He sought work as a dredge
man that he might secure some
uniform. These are the colors of
the "cause."
One of the interesting fea
tures will be the pageant on the
south steps of the treasury. This
side of the building faces the
Washington monument and the
White Lot. The steps are wide
and gradual and near the top
there are immense monolithic
granite pillars which lend them
selves well to the purposes of an
extemporaneous stage. Here
tableaux will be presented show
ing woman's progress toward
freedom. Many prominent wom
en will take part. Madame Nor
dica will be "Columbia."
Miss Inez Milholland, famed as
the most beautiful woman in the
suffrage movement, will ride at "
the head of the procession in the
costume of a herald. Disputing
her title as the most beautiful
woman will be Miss Gladys
Hinckley, of Washington, as Joan
of Arc.
Headuarters have been opened
on F street, near the Willard
hotel. Until March 3 there will
be an average of five meetings
every night in the city to discuss
woman's suffrage and to arrange
for the demonstration.
Eventually permanent head
quarters will be established In
Washington from which a na
tional campaign for suffrage will
be conducted.
Monday, Feb. 10, 1913.
scant leisure in which to stud}
stenography.
Two years later he became
court stenographer, with a fresh
union card in his pocket.
Then came the summer of the
Spanish-American war with the
country-wide call to arms. Be
cause he alone of four brothers
was free to enlist, "Bill" Hughes
went to the front. Being a sten
ographer he was detailed to the
governor's staff, later to General
Fitzhugh Lee's headquarters.
Peace found him penniless and
with a court stenographer's bent
towards the law. Bill Hughes be
came a lawyer in 1900 and his
rise was then fast. In a few years
he wont to congress.
Fletcher Heights half price.
Closing out. See ad., page 6.
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