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Newark ®oemng jSrtar
JAMES SMITH. JR.
FOUNDED MARCH J. IDS.
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Dally Advertiser Publishing Company.
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nfllre. Newark.
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Publishers’ Association.
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VOL. LXXX1IL-NO. 199- _ _ __
MONDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1914.
AIMED AT CITY ENTERPRISE.
During tlio three years the harbor and meadow
development enterprise of the city was held up after
it had been authorized by a vote of the people and
planned by engineers, the public wondered at the
delay and could not understand the why and where
fore. It was not known that railroad and affiliated
private interests stood in the way.
The delay was ended when the Board of Works
was wrested from the control of these influences and
set out to execute the engineers’ plans. But the j
work had hardly got under way when a bill was
slipped into the Legislature to create a State com- j
mission to take charge of all harbor development on ,
Newark Bay and 3trip the Newark municipality of i
any authority to carry out its plans. The origin of j
this bill was in Newark, and its motive to kill meadow
and harbor development, for a railroad controlled !
commission was to carry out that object.
The bill failed in its furtive purposes, as it was
amended to leave Newark at liberty to carry out its
enterprise. But that did not end it. The evident ob-;
ject. now is to get control of the mayor’s office and j
break the two-thirds majority vote in .the Board of
Works, with the possibility of control of the hoard.
Mayor Haussling has been a strong supporter of
meadow and harbor enterprise. A hand-picked
mayor in his place would reverse his policies and put a
blight on the city’s enterprise.
It is noteworthy that the names of men identified
with the opposition to meadow and harbor improve
ment appear prominently among those mentioned in
connection with a ’’fusion” ticket for the November
election.
MONOPOLY AND THE “SEVEN SISTLBS. ’
The "Seven Sisters’" act under which complaint j
has been made to the attorney-general of the State by !
the Crew Levick Oil Company of Jersey City against
the Standard Oil Company for rate-cutting to main
tain monopoly, provides for a criminal penalty, as
the act is made a misdemeanor, with punishment of ;
three years in prison and $1,000 fine for each offense.
The Standard acts through its subsidiary com- j
panies, which are merely its tentacles. The rate- i
totting in the price of gasoline had for its object '
the driving of a weaker rival out of business, a
practise which the Standard has pursued for years.
The complaining company has about twenty-five
stations in New Jersey, and this business the Standard
has endeavored to secure by sand-bagging its owner,
regardless of the "Seven Sisters” laws.
No. 3 of the thus far Inoperative statutes pro
vides that it shall be unlawful for any corporation
engaged in the manufacture or distribution of any
commodity in general use to discriminate * 0 *
by selling such commodity at a lower rate in one
section than in another if the effect is to establish or
maintain a monopoly, hindering competition, or re
stricting trade. The law is plain In its meaning.
What does It amount to? It. has been deliberately
violated in this case.
And upon whom is the criminal responsibility to
fall? ‘The law says "any person or corporation,”
and the corporation cannot be sent to jail The out
come of this case, if there is to bo one, will be
watched for with interest.
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UTTERING COUNTERFEIT LEGISLATION.
A public official drawing an increased salary under j
a. law which was never passed is the odd spectacle:
presented in Indiana. In this case it appears to be not
a clerical blunder but a crime for which somebody
ought to go to the penitentiary. A bill granting more
pay to a recorder did not pass either House of the Leg
islature, and yet it reached the Governor, who signed
it in good faith, and it appears on the statute books.
The most singular thing of all is the decision of the
Supreme Court that it cannot "go behind the returns”
and that the act must continue a law until it is re
pealed.
It is not yet known who is to be punished for is
suing counterfeit legislation, which morally is worse
i than uttering spurious money, but the trail of investl
j:nation naturally leads to the county where the hene
I iiciary of the fraud holds court.Nor has legislation
at Trenton
character.
MEXICO AS HUERTA LEAVES IT.
Huerta goes to Europe to take Ilia ease as an
opulent ex-potentate, and he loaves his country's af
fairs In a sorry mess. He has caused the shedding of
torrents of blood, he has contracted Immense debts
and he has given away enormous concessions of the
people's wealth as well as rights to the foreigner.
The man who committed these enormous national
wrongs is a malefactor and an enemy of mankind.
The evil he has done lives after him. He has left
Mexico involved in difficulties that seem insurmount
able. A new provisional government is to be set up
by Carranza pending a new election, but that will be
a mere preliminary. The new government will at
once face tremendous problems. First in the pacifica
tion of the country will be the suppression of brig
andage, and then the finances, the land reforms, the
foreign debt, and concessions, the foreign claims for
damages, and public education to promote a new ideal
of citizenship.
The United States, without any meddlesome in
terference in Mexico’s affairs after we have withdrawn
from Vera Cruz, can give sympathetic as well a.3
material aid to the Mexican people and thus estab- i
lish a new and better relationship. This should be the j
policy of our government. Mexico has many natural i
resources not yet mortgaged and there is American
capital to develop them. The new Mexico to arise may j
indeed be closely knitted to us in interest and sym
pathy by wise and consistent counsels at Washing
ton.
MANHATTAN’S CELEBRATION INI) OCRS.
New York's celebration of the three hundredth
anniversary of its commerce, which begins on August
12 and will continue for three weeks, will be on a
scale commensurate with the character of the city, j
Elaborate pageants will portray the commercial i
progress of Manhattan since the days of Wouter Van I
Twiller and Peter Stu.vvesant, and the racial elements
that have fvsed into New York's great population will
be illustrated
Grand opera will be sung by famous artists in the
open for fifty thousand people, and there will be land
and water pageants and sports galore and on a lavish
scale. It is fair to say that far the three weeks!
Manhattan will be the meat popular summer resort ;
in the country, for it will attract many thousands:
of strangers, as well as thousands of former New j
Yorkers, to take part in "Old Home Week."
From this well planned celebration the committee
of one hundred appointed by .Mayor Haussling to
make plans for Newark’s two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary celebration in 1910 may he enabled to
take some ideas'. For the Newark celebration should
be on the same lines.
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SEEING BY TELEPHONE.
Almost anything is .possible in this era of wonders
of science and invention, and therefore >ve need not
be incredulous in regard to the reported invention
by a French physician of a method by which two
persons engaged in a .elephone conversation may
be able to see each other while conversing.
Before the telephone came into beiug nobody
dreamed it possible for two people to make their
voices audible to each other o'er a wire when they
were miles and hundreds of miles apart, and this
is now a common utility. Who dreamed of \vireles3
telegraphy until an Italirfn electrician demonstrated
it, and now it lias ceased to be a wonder? The marvel
of todav is the commonplace of tomorrow.
--V- ——
I HE ELIZABETH BUM,El.
The city of Elizabeth has a budget problem, and
in trying to solve it the aldcrmanic financiers have cut
out the appropriation for band concerts and reduced
the playground appropriation to a beggarly $5,500,
The hospitals, too, are stinted. And notwithstanding
these sacrifices the tax rate will be several points
higher. And yet our neighbor city is not prone to
large and expensive public improvements. Tt hasn’t
put up a cent as yet for harbor development, or for a
bay bridge, or other things of a large kind that
are demanded by civic enterprise.
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM THE EXCHANGES j j
Washington and the Actor.
From the Boston Transcript.
It was a chance meeting at an ac
cident on the road a few miles be
low Alexandria, on the banks of the
Potomac, that brought Washington
and the English actor Bernard to
gether. An old-fashioned chaise,
containing a man and his wife, and
household luggage, had been over
turned. The actor was on horse
back approaching from one direction,
and another horseman, coming in the
opposite direction at a gentle trot,
was seen by him to break into a gal
lop on witnessing the accident. Both
men were at work half an hour re
viving the injured woman, who had
fainted, and getting the horse and
chaise out of a ditch and reloading
it with its luggage, it was strenuous
work, under a noonday sun in the
middle of July. "My companion,”
says the actor, "after an exclamation
at the heat, offered very courteously
to dust my coat—a favor tlie return
of which enabled me to take a sur
vey of his person.
"He was a tall, erect, well-made
man. evidently advanced In years
(1798). but apppeared to have re
gained ail the vigor and elasticity
resulting from a lire of temperance
and exercise. His dress was a blue
coat, buttoned to the chin, and buck
skin breeches. Though, the instant
he took off Ids hat, I could noi avoid
the recognition of a face familiar to
me, stil! I failed to identify him: and.
to. my surprise, I found myself an
object of equal speculation if his
eyes. A smile at length lighted them
up. and he exclaimed: 'Mr. Ber
nard, 1 believe.’ T bowed. ‘I had
the pleasure of seeing you perform in
Philadelphia last winter.’ 1 bowed
again, and he added: ‘I have heard
of you since from several uf my
friends at Annapolis. You are ac
quainted with Mr. Carroll?’ I replied
that gentlemans society had made
amends for much that I had lust in
quitting England. He remarked:
•You must be fatrgued. If you will
ride up to my house, which is not
a mile's distance, you can prevent any
ill effects from this exertion by a
couple of hours’ res;.'
"I looked around for his dwelling,”
continues Bernard, “and he pointed
a building which, the day before,
spent an hour in contemplating
*MouiHsY«rnon,’ I exclaimed; anti
then drawing hack with a stare of
wonder—‘Have I the honor of ad
dressing General Washington?’ With
a smili. whose expression of benev
olence I have rarely seen equaled, he
offered his hand and replied. An odd
sort of introduction, Air. Bernard:
out l air. pleased to find you can play
so active a part in private, and with
out a prompter.' ”
In the fupi.al of ( ilanii! j .
From toe Now York World.
"There is abnolutely nothing wrong
with business,” Henry F'ord, the great
automobile manufacturer, tells the
president. He insists that there is
not even a psychological depression.
But where does Mr. Ford come
from, and what doe-* he kr.ow about
Wall Street? He seems to be speak
ing about a country outside of lower
Manhattan. It? evidently has in
mind a region which is now engaged
in taking over $10,000,000,000 out of
the soil at the rate of many millions
a day; which will have 300,000,0000
bushels of wheat to sell to Europe
when Europe needs it; which is de
veloping a traffic that forces upon
the railroads the need of putting to
use every freight car within their
i reach.
"Nothing wrong with business?"
What has all this got to do with
business? What about Wall Street,
which is the sou re of all wealth and
the fountainhead of a»l prosperity?
They are not gambling in Wall
Street as they used to do. There are
no more million-share days. Fewer
poeple are at work o • shoestring
margins, and the reacting unem
ployment is terrific. "Th** market
lacks leadership," and no new Na
poleons of 10 per-cent margin finance
have as yet appeared. All is going to
the dogs, and calamity strings out its
daily wail on every ticker.
Automobile* f*?r Plowing.
From St. Nicholas.
Hitching an automobile to a plow
has beer, tried with more or less suc
cess. but a newly-invented tractor
makes it possible to keep a light car
steadily employed for such heavy
work, without undue strain upon the
machine. Any pleasure car of me
dium horsepower can be used for the
purpose, so that the farmer's automo
bile, which carries him to town as a
pleasure vehicle, can. be hitched to
tlie plow when not used for travel
ing on the road. The tractor \yhich
makes this posible is a two-wheel af
fair. with a mechanism for reducing!
the gear, so that the speed is brought 1
down to about four mi'.es. while the
engine runs at a rale that would lie
equivalent to a i'.-mtle gait. The
power is increased in proportion as
the speed is reduced, and in this way
the milling power is tremendous,
being (‘dual to a 10-hnrse power-team
in plowing or cultivating. The tra,c
"ipr is composed of a massive frame
upon which the rear half of Hie
automobile is lifted bodily, the hack
wheels of the car being six inches
above the ground. This leaves very
little strain on the front wheels, as
they merely steer the outfit, and there
is no excessive wear upon the tires.
Of course, the rear tires receive no
wear at all. The gear on the rear
wheel of the automobile is bolted
upon the hub. The tractor wheels
are six feet in diameter and of very
broad tread, which may be wider or
narrower according to the nature of
the ground on which it works. To
this is attached the plow, cultivators
or other farm machinery.
To I’rrrent Forest Firrs.
From the Army and Nary Journal.
Because of the fact that many j
forest fires arc set through the care- ;
lessness of nunters, campers and I
others who go into the Woods for j
recreation, the United States Forest
Service has taken up witli manu
facturers of firearms ar.d ammuni
tion the question of a co-operative
arrangement through which pur
chasers and users of guns and cart
ridges shall be reminded of the fire
danger. Many forest fires are started
by the carelessness of nunters, -,vho
drop burning matches, cigar or cig
arette stumps, or pipe coals in the
woods, or build a fire carelessly.
Forest fires greatly injure the in
terests of sportsmen by robbing both
birds and big game of '.heir cover and
food supply.
It is suggested that the manufact
urers ought to be sufficiently in
terested in the matter of perpetua
tion of game to be willing to help by
printing some brief fire warning op
cartridge boxes or some lip to go
with any hunting or camping sup
plies Several manufacturers hare al
ready expressed their interest in the
matter. _
“HAL” REPORTS
BAND IS BUSY
TO HONOR “JOE”
your Special coireapondint.
Allenhurst, N. jeraey. July 18—Are
Hand is working truley hard too meat
the stricktly reqlroments too play be 4
Our townes hy up oitc/en in whom 1
meen the Hon j. Tumulty, whom as
was said hearin he * rncntiundd Is sec.
2 the foamier Guve (Governor) of Are
Great state of n. j.. now coupling G
Washs old sect At the Gist of Culuro
ba. Our Leader lvho wells the Bat- }
tin of Are Band in a corse of time wil
anounce the dayte 4 L's 2 posltivly i
apeor. All some playing will bee |
don 2 airlte, O K you Bet. Norwoods
Av. will be roped offe with 2 Hy con
stables of the law with real stars in
there brests' Too emit an rejeckt AH
Autoes and quipages 2 got 2 an frow
without hrek downes to themselves I
and Pedistrlens who are expecked 2
be on hande prnmptely without any
delay to the Programmy. The townes
cummity is 3 hyly promenents Folk
mien) who our too tel Hon j in feu
words Posible 2 eepres Howe the
towne is delited.2 hav Him within
are mydst, O. K. the 1st orater is yet
2 be chosen 4 the asplcius ocasiun,
But, lie will bee the Best hearbouts,
Sure thing. Alien Hursts cassino will
sea your own Special Private cor
respondint next (Sunday) paradeing
after Ive went to church too sea Hon
J P. T. getlng piked offe By the Crowd
who come Their daiey on Sundays,
more Soon again Shortly.
yours Truely.
HAL.
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ODDITIES IN
TODAY’S NEWS
Tbm Kggri* Can Maw Tail* While Manuna
lien la Hatching.
MERCER, Pa., July 20.—John E.
Wright has a hen that lays eggs
with tails. The tails on the eggs
are about thr€*e-quarters of an inch
long and as thick as a lead pencil.
There is no shell on the tail part,
it being covered by skin similar to
that inside the egg.
One of those egg.' has been placed
in an incubator ami curiosity is ex
pressed as to^’. hat kind of chick
en. if any. will be produced.
Wed Twice in 1>»3 to Make Assurance
I»oubl3' Sure.
MONROE. WK. July 20.—When
Miss Edna M. Kies ter. a society girl
of this city, and her fiance. l ewis L.
Torrent, of Muskegon, Mich., discov
ered that they could not get married
within the flve-da.v limit required by
the license law at the hour set for
their marriage Friday, the: mode a
quick trip to Freeport and were mar
ried there. They' returned to Monroe
and v. ere again married at 2 o'clock
on Friday.
C ongregRttons Had in Calico and Overall*
At. ItHiuke to Fa<thiou.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 20.—The con
gregation of East Alton Baptist
Church will go to church next Sunday
in calico and overalls as a means of
rebuking Dame Fashion. The mem
bers noted a decrease in church at
tendance yesterday and decided that
many persons preferred to be com
fortable on Sunday to going to church
and decided or. a scheme whereby
they could do both.
The pastor, Rev. D 0. Blunt, is i
enthusiastic over the scheme and it j
has been adopted by the hoard of
trustees. Some of the persons who
had been remaining; away from ;
church told the pastor they had done *
so because they did not have clothes
which enabled them to make a
“splurge” that compared favorably
with that of other members.
Messenger Boy. Aged Seventeen, speak** I
Ten Languages; Is Studying Others. j
XFW YORK, July 20.—A messen
ger boy who has been in this coun
try tor only six months and is seven
teen years old has an mi usual equip
ment in his quest for a job as nw
ter pro ter in one of the biggest banks
on the East Side, which offered the
position to competition a short time {
ago.
The boy is Alexander J. Tocatli.
He was born.in Kertch in the Crimea |
in JS97. After the death of his father, {
when the hoy was five years old,
young Tocatli began the study of lan
guages. He now speaks, in addition
to his native Russian. English, Turk
ish. French Italian. .Spanish. Greek,
Armenian. Polish and German and i:c
is looking for more languages to con
quer.
Tocatli studies at night and runs
messages by day. He lives with
Joshua Cohen at 71 East 119th street.
He intends to study electrical engi
neering in order, when he has saved
monoy. onough to #paj for instruc
tion. that he ran give his native vil
lage In' Smyrna nli the modern elec- ;
trical -equipment when he goes back i
there, . .
>1ulf* Politico Philosophical i
Thoughts to Vice-President Marshall. |
WILMINGTON. Del.. July 20.— j
Vice-President .Marshall and Mrs. 1
Marshall were the guests of Governor I
•MtUer yeaterdaj at the militia eu
on the State rifle range, j
below New Castle. During a review' !
of the' troops tw o army mules, draw- j
ing .a commissary wagon, balked j
when t hey heard the regimental hand I
playing. Thr Vice-President turned !
•to Senator Saulabury, and said:
“Saulabury, there you are. The,
mules are emblematic of our party, ;
and they are just like some Demo- |
erats 5n not always pulling together.
But when they get started they will
pull al! right.”
Just then thr mules began to run.
“Didn't I tel! you Democrats ran
pull together?" exclaimed the Vice
President.
Turning to Governor Miller, a Re- j
publican, the Vice-President said: !
“One team I would like to see
hitched together is the Bull Moose
and the Elephant."
When the Saulsbury car, containing
the senator and Vice-President, ar
rived at a driveway leading to gen
eral headquarters, it wa* stopped
by a sentry. Lieutenant Saworth
went to 1 he rescue.
Evening Stars
Daily Puzzle j
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GOtNCj TO)
(Cook You like1)
\l YlAsKE <-—4
A word pertaining fco an srtist.
Answer to Saturday’# I'n^ide;
(feitb.
Song
1 told my nymph, 1 told her true,
My fields were small, my flocks were few;
While faltering accents spoke my fear
That Flavia might not prove sincere.
Of crops destroyed by vernal cold.
And vagrant sheep that left my fold —
Of these she heard, yet bore to hear:
And is not Flavia then sincere?
How, changed by Fortune’s fickle wind,
The friends ! loved became unkind.
She heard, and shed a generous tear;
And is not Flavia then sincere?
How, if she deigned my love to bless.
My Flavia must not hope for dress—
This, too. she heard, and smiled to hear: .
And Flavia, sure, must be sincere.
Go shear your Hocks, ye jovial swains!
Go reap the plenty of. your plains;
Despoiled of all which yon revere,
I know my Flavias love sincere.
-William Shenstone. ;
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NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY :
How General Burnside Won in Rhode Island
The late Colonel Sabin L. Sayles.
who was for a time chairman of. the
Republican State Committee of Con
necticut, and was the owner of large
woolen mills in Eastern Connecticut
and Rhode Island, was a personal
friend of General Ambrose E. Burn
side. He met General Burnside" very
often at the time of the organization
of the First Regiment of Rhode Island
Infantry, in April. 1851. Of that regi:
ment General Burnside was colonel
Colonel Sayles in the early sixties was
a citizen of Rhode Island who pos
sessed a great deal of influence.
Shortly after General Burnside was
elected United States senator from
Rhode Island as the successor of Sen
ator William Sprague, I asked Col
onel Sayles if General Burnside was a
native son of Rhode Island, wonder
ing whether that did not In part e\
olain the great popularity which
Burnside had grained in that State.
“Oh, no," Colonel Sayles replied, "I
don’t think he was ever in Rhode
island until shortly after President
Lincoln called for 76.090 volunteers in
April, iSGl. There is a very interest
ing story descriptive of tile manner in
which Burnside went to Rhode Island.
1 have heard it often, and I have no
doubt of the substantial truth of it.
"He was, I think, a native of Indi
ana, and I have been told that when
he was a boy he was apprenticed tc
a tailor. The congressman who rep
resented his district learned of the
boy and found that he ‘was a very
bright youngster. He therefore ot
tered to send him to West Point, and
the hoy was very glad of the oppor
tunity.
"When Burnside was at West
Point and afterward when he uas in
the regular army he niade up bis
mir.d that there could be a great im
provement in tho muskets, which
were muzzle-loading guns with which
the arrnt was equipped. He was a
good mechanic and lie worked away
at a plan for making n musket
which could he loaded at the breech.
I think he got some of his friends
' rtnVnf'lkfty interested in this plan, but
, lie. wn* .himself personally responsi
ble, He could not get the war de
1 part meat nt Washington to adopt the
gun, and he found himself ruined
' firiaiiMStfly.' Vhat was 8 few years be
fore ihe beginning of the Civil war.
"In some way, William Sprague,
who was Oovernor of Rhode Island
when the war broke out; and who
proposed to go into the, field himself
ni the head of the Rhode Tslajid bri
gade, had either heard of of seen
Hurnalgv't ,s,un The Governor had
also' been told that aftet the failure
of. his oompauy, Burnside went to
work somewhere in the West and
saved every dollar he could, so that
at last he v as able to pay all bis
debts,
"That seemed to Governor . Sprague!
to be die kind of man he wanted for
the command of the First Rhode Isl
and Regiment, especially as Burnside
lvat a West Point, friend of his.
“Therefore, Governor Sprague put
himself in communication with Burn
side and offered him command of i.hu
First Rhode island Regiment. The
offer was instantly accepted, and
Burnside gained great reputation for
the manner in which he handled the
Rhode island troops at the battle of
Bull Run. Then, too, the cut of his
whiskers gave hint a national no
toriety and gave a name—Burnsides—
fo that kind of beard which Is nothing
in the World but the old-fashioned
side whiskers.
"It was not so much his military
reputation a;- i: was a certain kindly,
gentle. ur.aaBumiiig, democratic man
ner which gained for Burnside the
great popularity which he secured in
Rhode Island, and was reflected in his
unanimous nomination for governor
and almost unanimous election the
year after the war closed. I think T
am safe in saying that from 1861 un
til the present time Burnside has been i
the most popular man in the State of
Rhode Island.
(Copyright. 1914, bv Dr. E. . Ed
wards. All rights reserved.)
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How Currency Plates Are Destroyed
-Ml of the notes, bonds, checks and
miscellaneous issues of the govern
ment, including postage stamps, in
ternal re venue stamps and the differ
ent denominations of currency issued
to national banks are printed from
engraved plates in the bureau of en
graving and printing at Washington,
says the New York Times.
The original dies are never de
stroyed. By a system of transferring
the impression or design is passed
from the die to a soft steel roll, which
is later hardened. A hundred plates
can be produced from one hard steel
roll.
All of this engraved work receives |
the same supervision and is ac
counted for just as accurately as the
securities that are printed therefrom.
Every morning the plates are issued
to the various printing divisions of
the bureau, and in the evening when
the work is done they are returned
to the vaults of the custodian of dies,
rolls and plates, where they are
counted, checked and locked up with
time locks.
After approximately oO.OOo impres
sions are printed from a steel plate it
becomes useless, as far as its original
purpose is concerned. Tne delicately
engraved lines and geometric lathe
work becomes worn and the portrait
loses it* detail. When the plate be
comes so affected as to render It unfit
for further satisfactory printing a
duplicate is ordered to be made for
printing future orders from the treas
ury department. Then the old plate
is canceled and laid aside, subse
quently to be destroyed
This destruction, or. rather trans
formation, takes place just after Jan
uary 1 each year, under the direction
of a committee appointed by the see.
rotary of the treasury, composed of
three person*, one of whom repre
sents Ihc secretary.and acts as chair
man. another the commissioner of in
ternal revenue^and the (bird looking
after the interests of the comptroller
of the currency.
t'nder the directions from the de
partment, the committee makes a
schedule in duplicate of all the can
celed material, the original list being
retained by the committee to form a
part of its report to the secretary, and
the duplicate placed Inside the box tn
which the. plates are to be packed.
The boxes arc made to hold an aver
age of 150 pounds each. As each box
is filled the cover is nailed on and
the box numbered and sealed with the
treasury seal. The sealed boxes are
then stored in the vaults of the bu
reau until such time as is convenient
for their conveyance to the place of
destruction.
The committee recently reported to ]
the secretary the destruction of 4.326
pieces, weighing 41.800 poundB—over I
twenty tons--withdrawn from the ,
vaults. To corn ey this yast amount i
of metal required the services of eight
laborers and a team of draft horses j
attached io one of the huge money !
wagons of the bureau, making eight |
trips to the United Slates navy yard, j
where the cremation takes place In
the foundry.
On arriving at its destination, the
committee directs the unloading. The
boxes ore removed from the wagon
on to hand trucks and taken by ele
vator up to the door level of the cu
pola door. The boxes are here opened,
the carbon duplicate schedule re
moved and the plates again counted
and checked as they are cagt into the
furnace.
From the time the plates are taken
from the vaults of the custodian until
[ the last one is thrown into the fire,
they are under the watchful eyes of
! the members of the committee, who
I s.te that none goes astray, for if one
I or two of these' plates choulcl full into
i illegitimate hands end luter be put to
| improper use, It would prpbably cause
! considerable embarrassment to the
j jovcrnniem.
• in order to *4cerUl& whethei the
destruction has been complete, toe I
committee must wait until ail the I
melted steo! is drawn from the tur- |
naee and the cupola opened and i
cooled. The melted steei is poured
Into molds cove/Ins a r"cn! variety;
of castings th.-.t eventually flr.d their j
way to the armament of our modern
battleships
•t may be a yoke for an eight-inch
gun weighing three or four tons, or It
may bo some minor casting for a
torpedo tube. Ti is not beyond the
range of possibility that the officer
who sights one of the immenseH-lnrh
lilies may have in his pocket at the ]
time a no/e of some denomination
printed from a steel money plate tha.
has developed by a series of evolu
tions into a part of the very gun he is
adjusting to wreak destruction upon
any object in the path of its fljing
projectile.
What appears to be a waste In one
department of the government thus
becomes a valuable asset in another.
More Gold ir: Alaska
"Tin' discovery of a really fine qual
ity of gol-J in districts near Valde::
will sei ve v', thin a short time to revo
lutionize gohl mining in Alaska.” said
W. E. Gllltey, an oldtime Alaskan,
who is at the Arlington "One Mr.
Storm, an expert mining engineer for
the Greenville people. through
numerous experiments jias brought to
light the One substance. The ordi
nary miner, with the sluice box meth
od, has long overlooked this fine run
of gold, which Is not very perceptible.
Storm proposes to invent a device by
which these thin and scattered bits of
gold can be collected along with the
coarser gold. When 1 return to the
North next year 1 intend to have spe
cially made machinery to collect the
fine gold.”
Mr. dike; first went to Alaska six
teen years ago, previous to which
lime he did mining in Idaho, Nevada
and Utah,—Seattle Post Intelligencer
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Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
JULY 20
Francesca Janaushek i
Copyrighted 19t«.
BY MABV MARSHALL. *-* *
Francesca or Francisco or Fanny
Janauschek was born on July 20. 1S30,
in Prague, Bohemia. She died only
ten years ago after a life of many
strong contrasts, much happiness and
great success as well as unhappiness
that sometimes amounted to misery
and in the end disappointment and
friendlessness. Her life was an ex
ample of the truism that unless an
actress possessed business ability and
balance as Weil as dramatic genius
the. road is likely to be beset with
many disappointments and failures.
From her' early childhood Janau
schek showed remabkable talent if.nd
her first appearance was in Prague.
By the time she tvas eighteen she
was engaged as leading actress in
Frankfort. There sho remained till
she Was thirty, wnon she mads a tour
of the great. German cities. When
she was thirty-set fn-she fits! came
• to this country,'where'she ffif l with
, remarkable success taking such dif
ficult parts as Lady Macbeth and
Medea. She 'finally made her lionta
in the United States and toward the
close of her career she played suc
cessfully :n such roies as Meg Mcrrj
lies.
Finally, when Janauchsk was sev
enty-feur. too old to act pay longer,
she found that all her money etas
gone and all her old trier.da w ore dead
and she was forded to accept the hoe -
pttallty 'of a poor actor's home on
Long Island. New York. Yet, during
the zenith of her brilliant career, she
had been the guest of kings and
princes, and the recipient of many
princely gifts. But somehow she mis
managed her affairs and in the end
she was forced to sellall her jewels
and her wardrobe, which at one time
was the most valuable wardrobe pos
sessed by any actress in the world,
had to be sold to pay her debts.
A few years before her final mis
fortunes ehe said when speaking of
her Jewels: "Epch jewel has a his
tory of honors In various parts of the
world .and many are the reminders of
the happv nights when emperors sent
for me to' visit them in their supper
rooms, which are attached to’ the
royal boxes. It was on such an occa
sion that the late Emperor of Russia
honored me with a gold diadem cdn
tainirtg a solitaire of immense size.
The fine rubies that I have had Cortia
also from Russia, having been a sou
venir ffpni the Grand Duchess Helen.
My parure of turquoise and pearl wa«
also a gift from Russia. My emeralds
w»-e from the Grand Duchess Helen.
I bad many beautiful sapphires. Some
of these came front the Grand Duke
of -V.eclderiburg."
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Hardtack Loses Old Character
Hardtack!
A briquet of solid, iooth-breaking,
hard-baked dough that a rifle ball
can’t pierce? A jaw-buster?
Not at all.
A crisp, bfown, palatable cracker/
Not a dainty, but a real healthy food
that housewives might use to advan
tage.
Maybe in Civil War days when it
was baked in seven-inch squares, two
inches thick, hardtack deserves that
nickname; but now its real name,
hard.bread, is more appropriate.
Flour for hardtack is mixed in five,
barrel lots. It Is dumped into an el
liptical mixing box. mounted on roll
ers. The mixing room is kept at a
standard temperature of SO degrees.
The loaded box is pushed under a
faucet and forty-eight gallons of fil
tered well water, at a temperature
of abou! 90 degrees al e added.
The'mlxing box is then pushed un
der the spindle mixer. The spindle
mixer is one of the oldest of modern
bakery machines and also ono of the
greatest time savers. As soon as the
box is ;n place three steel shafts
about (our inches in diameter are
forced through the floor and water.
.Six arms shaped like half an aero
plane propeller radiate from each
shaft, each connecting with the shaft
to the right of the one below it.
The dough forms rapidly as the
shafts are revolved. It tumbles, turns
and assumes grotesque shapes, re
minding tne observer of the peculiar
movements of growing piants in mo
tion pictures. As sob" as the dough
is free of lumps—usually in four m!:>- i
uies—the mixing is stopped and the
dough given twenty minutes' "rest."
It may go straight to the oven, how -
ever, without injuring the finished
biscuit. ^
Things happen so fast when the
dough reaches the oven room that
one's eyes must travel fast to keep i
track of-one particular batch of dough
from the momont of arrival to the
cursing of the oven door.
The mixing box is wheeled ir. front
of a machine similar in shape to an
old-fashioned hand wringer >, hat 'list
ened or. the edge of a wai’htub. A |
hopper is on one side and sloping plat
form on the ether. A baker gathers!
his arms full of dough. It is dumpeu
into the hopper to reappear on the
platform as a “blanket.’' The blanket
is folded and passed to a man at an
other machine, a series of roller;-:, cut
ters end dies, that prepares the dough
for the oven.
Two rollers press the blanket t<
proper thinness for hardtack. A ro
tary brush **/esps flour over tna blan
ket. now u continuous sheet of dough,
which goes through the machine much
iike a roil of.paper, through a print
ing press.
Xe-rt, die cutting fourteen wide
and four (loop, impresses *r.d •‘dock
ers" tire b scons. “Dockers are the
holes in common crackers. They
seme ;o bold thiy dough down while
baking The biscuits are placed in
the oven on wooder, shovels.
The regulation of the oven is the
important part of hardtack baking.
The oven heat must be maintained
steady ai 45u degrees-. Fifteen minutes
are required to complete the baking.
The intense heat and long time are
necessary to remove every particle of
moisture from the hardtack. That
very essentia!. Salt is not used in
hard bread making for the reason that
it attracts moisture. Baking powder
and other ingredients sometimes used
in baking ordinary bread have been
found toanipair the life of the finished
biscuit. ,
After baking, the biscuits are given
twenty minutes to cool This time Is
taken traveling down two stories on
an endless chain hoist to the handling
rooms. Further time for drying and
hardening i» given, if possible, but
the hardtack may be packed imme
diately.
The government's regulations re
quire that hardtack be packed in
eight-ounce packages, from twenty to
twenty-five biscuits making this
weight. The biscuits are wrapped in
oiled paper,then inclosed with a paste
board box, which is further w'rapped
in tough gray paper and sealed at
both ends. One hundred oC those
packages are placed in tin eases,
which are sealed air and water tight.
The tins are then placed in wooden
boxes. Steel bands are na lied'oh* the
crate, making it extremely improba
ble that rough handling will damage
tile hardtack.
In all' the operations connected-with
the palling, handling and packing the
greatest care is taken to exclude all
moisture and possibility of moisture.
Hardtack, not thoroughly dry, is sus
ceptible to mold. A pin hole In on
rtf the tin boxes may cause ike en
tire fifty pounds to be ruined. Mayor
Davis, the inspection officer for hard
bread baked in Kansas City, is in
sistent -that the packing be perfecl.
Hardtack biscuits look like the or
dinary cracker, slightly thicker and
perhaps browner. Crackers are baked
in the same manner, but are givar
only a third as much time in 'the
oven. The familiar circular water
cracker, served often with che'ese .it
hardtack
Soldiers rarely eat hardtack as f.t
is issued tc them. The field ration is
commonly made Into a "mulligan”*
stew. ■ It is sometimes fried in oa
con grease. - * Hardtack consomme is
hardtack broken into coffee. Then
methods do away with the flat taste
caused by the lack of salt. They
make he-rtack a palatable food.
Array men who have lived on the
field ration for several weeks say
hardtnek continues to be palatable. A
month on food is a pretty severe tesl.
The zest for ii outlasts that of the
salted cracker. Hard bread for con
sumption within a few days or possi
bly weeks is glsu prepared in the
army field o,rens. That would suffice
for a scouting partv. Whenever pos
sible fresh bread is baked, keeping
the hardtack In reserve
i| LABOR NOTES^f i
Stock is being sold to secure funds
to build a labor temple at Marshall.
Texas, unions and union_ men only
bemg permitted to "purcha'se.
Last year, in May, there were thir
ty-nine strikes of tv.enty-ftve or
workers in Massachusetts that were
brought to the State Board’s atten
tion. In May of this year there wore
only ten strikes of like proportions
There is only one factory in Norway
in which women are employed as
workers in the manufacture of elec
tricai and telephone apparatus. Their
wages vary from eight crowns ($2.141
to fourteen crowns (S3.751 per week
TJ-e International Brotherhood of
Blacksmiths (ship and mactjlnq), by
referendum vote, has defeated ’ a
prdposftidn to establish a funeral
fund and to pay expenses of dele- ■
gates,to the international union con
vention.
The DctioU Federation of Labor
will circulate petitions'asking tha .
the people be given a chance to vole
on tire questioii/of a minimum wage
for municipal' workers when the
charter amendments are submitted.
Only about 150,000 to 200.000 persons j
are employed in modern industry in
China. Of these about one-third arc
women and children, who are paid
about five cents a day for twelve
hours’ labor. The women and chil
dren work in the mills exclusively, -
producing cotton and silk. There are
probably as many children as women
employed.
In 1S18. when the New York Typo
graphical Society, was .chartered, the
Legislature refused to permit the in
corporation until the society assented
to a provision prohibiting it to "at ■
any time pass any law or regulation
respecting the prtpe of wages of labo;-.
or w'orltmen, or any other articles, or
relating to the business which the
members thereof practise or follow for
a livelihood."
One
Investment
That Needs
No Watching—
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Old Line Life Insurance.
It provides a practical and
safe way of investing
money. A policy is not
•
influenced by conditions j
that cause other invest
ments to depreciate; it
guarantees security.
The Prudential <
FORREST F. DRYDEN, ^ resident
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