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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS, TUESDAY. JUXE 16, 1914, CITYCOMMISSION TALKS OVER PLAN TO CLEAN ALLEYS Committee From Rotary Club Discusses Important Topic With the Council. LOCAL WOODMAN IS HONORED BY CLERKS WANT IMMEDIATE ACTION Special Sssaion Called for Thursday at Which Time Subject Will Be Thoroughly Considered. rffectire measure that might be tfiopted la ordr to keep the alleys of tfce ffty clean, aions the lines suggest. by the Rotary cub, cri considered at the weekly ir.pfMn? of the city com- Elision yenterday afternoon. A committee from .the club, compos ed of E. H Guyer, H. S. Cable and Frank Mlxter. appeared before the commission to urge some action on the resolutions presented to the body some tiro weeks ago. relative to the Adop tion of a system of a continuous street sad aHey croanrng. Ir. Guyer made an extended tailt to the commission, in which he called attention to the fact that although the petition from his clui) had been pre sented two weeks ago. thus far no more had been made by the council to take up the question of cleaner streets. He intimated that the commis sion at least might have had courtesy enough to notify the club that the com munication had been received. "For years our ordinances have not been enforced." he continued. "They have been ignored. I want to compliment Commissioner Reynolds on the condition of the streets at the present time but I can not say as much fcr the alleys. They are not nearly so e!l taken care of as is the case In Davenport. I understand the Woman's clnb in a meeting til's afternoon is cou riering further plans for Improving alley renditions." Praise far Women. "I want to tak this opportunity." declared Commissioner Reynolds, "to state that the women Iiave been of great assistance to my department In arcusing public sentiment and civic pride in the matter of mak'ng the al leys cleaner. I understand they are going ahead with their plans on a more comprehensive scale tnan ever aid 1 believe that with the intelligent ocreration of the individual citizens, we will be able to accomplish much tonaxd a more sanitary city." Commissioner Reynolds then asked Mr. Gayer, how much of the appropri ation made for his department he thought oueht to be expended for grad ing rurpose. "Niie of it." was tli prompt reply. think this expense should be cared for by special assessment." "Heretofore th? rublici has not par ticularly roncerned Irself a to what specific purposes the money in my d partment 1 spent." as the commis siontr'g reply. "If t'n commission de sires to pass a resolution, requiring" that none of my appropriation shall be used for grading, well and good." "What we are here for." insisted Mr. Guyer. "is to find out what the ccmmiflon expects to do latorg of the law. relative ing refuse in the alleys." Ten Are Arrested. "The records ill show for them selves," answered Commissioner Hart. "Ten warrants in the last two weks j hare been sworn cut and some of our ! 'V t. ' t - ""v V ; - V i ,s T . v. - - - - j . .' .- i V, j ; is i John B. Corken. (Special to The Argus.) Toledo, O.. June 16. At today's election of officers of the Camp Clerks' association John B. Corken, clerk of Camp 1550, Rock Island. III., was unan imously returned as a member of the tecutive committee. Mr. Corken was alio made chairman of the resolutions committee of the clerks' convention. He delivered one of the principal ad dresses at the meeting. with io to dump- they have agreed to follow the ordi nance, we have dismissed the cases. More warrants have been Issued today. We are finding the most trouble with violations relative to removal of ma nure. This is regarded as a purely pri vate matter. Th"e city will not haul it away, the property owner being re quired to dispose of it... I venture to say 50 complaints for refusal to move manure, have been made by the police department. For other refuse, I think receptacles should be provided and placed la the alleys. I am not in sym pathy with the plan to have the recep. tatles kept out of the alleys and placed in the yards." H. S. Cable and Frank Mixter both urged the commission to carefully co'n sider a better system for removal of refuse than that now in ue. Mayor Schriver suggested that a uniform re ceptacle would doubtless have to be provided, as a motley array of odd shaped and size boxes, cans and bar rels, would look worse than the condi tion which it is nought to remedy. Special Meeting. Commissioner Rudgren commented upon the fact that not to exceed 35 l-cr cent of our streets are paved and that he did not believe Commissioner Reynolds would be Justified in spend ing liis entire appropriation for tms purpose. He said that he understood Commissioner Reynold had a force. of men bucy on the streets at the present time and would' keep a reduce! gang busy during the summer. He baid lie was heartily in favor of clean alleys but -aid that lie thought the recepta cles siiould not be placed in the allt-y but on the individual property line. It was decided to have a bpecial meet ing Thursday afternoon with the com mittee from the Rotary club, at which time an attempt will be made to gather some practical ideas on alley cleaning and adopt a fetisib'e plan. NEEDS S60 MORE FOR CELEBRATION Commissioner Jonas Bear Anx ious for Further Assistance for Fourth of July. Commissioner Jonas Bear announced today that he still needed from S50 to ISO to complete the sum desired for the Fourth of July celebration which Is being arranged to be given for the children of the city at Long View park. The commissioner Is attempting to secure 1300 for the purpose. He has not solicited merchants of the city who are dally beselged for aid but has con fined the donations to Individuals who are well able to assist In the worthy cause. An Interesting program Is be ing planned for the day. tangible bond of union the work done was surprisingly effectiva. One or the interesting features of the maneuvers before the opening of the head camp was the effort made. obviously in insurgent quarters to bring former Head Consul W. A. North- cott out as a candidate for that office once more. Mr. Northcott, however. positively declined to allow his name to be considered, pleading ill health and age. He said he came to the head camp for one purpose alone and that was to work for the adoption of an adequate rate, this having been his hobby. If it may be thus lightly term ed, ever since long before be retired from the head of the society. Report of Sacrifices. Rumor bad it before the opening of the camp that the administration forces, in order to hold some of the uninstructed delegations in line, might be prevailed upon to sacrifice some of the old officers such as i Illinois, where some claimed too many honors had been conferred in the past. It was reported that O. E. Aleshlre of Chica go, administration candidate for head banker, would be sacrificed and the place given to some other state, prob ably Indiana, and that an effort was being made to get S. S. Tanner to withdraw as candidate for re-election as director. These reports were in dignantly denied, however, it being claimed that the bead officers had agreed to ail stand of fall together. At conferences of the state-delegation it was said that 22 Missouri dele gates had pledged themselves to vote for H. R, Smith for re-election as di rector, several breaking away from James R. Davit, insurgent candidate from that state. At a caucus of Kan sas 21 out of 28 were said to have been pledged to E. E, Murphy for re election as director and 20 for Talbot as head consul. The Illinois insurgents had a caucus Monday in which they chose E. 1). Shurtleff. former speaker of the Illi nois house, as chairman and B. E. Pinkerton of Monmouth, secretary. E. S. Smith of Springfield was appointed to lead the tight before the credentials committee in the evening and on the committee with him were named M. H. Clear)- of Galena, Frank Brumund of Joliet. T. E. Ryan of St. Charles. Fnil Wilcher of Rock Island and B. E. Pinkerton of "Monmouth. Clerks Discuss Collections. Much more interest was shown Mon day than on Saturday in the session or the Camp Clerks' association at Memorial hall and the attendance was considerably larger. Several -topics were warmly debated. One was the monthly collection of dues and remit J tance cf per capita, which has been TO THE PUBLIC t THE State of New York, through Urn Department of Insurance, has completed the examination of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company which it is required by law to make every three years. The Chief Examiner, in concluding the report saidt "The treatment by this Company of its policy-holders "ia the prompt payment of their claims, in the voluntary payment of millions of dollars in bonuses, and in its social welfare work axe features of the Company's business which deserve commendation." The Superintendent of Insurance, the Hon. William Temple Emmet, in approving the report, wrote an extended review from which we make extracts s THE COMPANY'S GROWTH AND MANAGEMENT. "The administrative officers of the Company have so increased the assets of the Company as to make these equal the resources of many states and even nations. They have at the same time steadily cheapened the cost of insurance to policy-holders, both by direct means and by the distribution of bonuses." The report shows that the Company has given back $35,367,293 in bonuses to Industrial policy-holders in nineteen years. ( "They have extended the Company's business to such an extent as to bring it into contact now with approximately one-eighth of the population of the United States." The number of policies outstanding December 31, 1913, was 13,957,748. "That this notable growth has involved no sacrifice of efficiency in the handling of administrative details, but, on the contrary, has been the direct result of constantly increasing efficiency, is shown by the comparatively small losses sustained by the Company in proportion to the large investments made.' ITS POLICY-HOLDERS SATISFIED. "The fact that the percentage of lapses due to the abandonment of their insurance by policy-holders is constantly decreasing, speaks eloquently to the same effect." j The lapse ratio of Industrial policies has decreased 31.7 per cent, in eight years. "This last mentioned development is perhaps the most convincing evidence which could be offered that the Company's policy-holders are, broadly speaking, very "well satisfied indeed with what they get ia return for the premiums they pay. A very remarkable showing altogether.' - - -v ITS SOCIAL SERVICK. ' ...... ., "This Company waited for no changes in existing law before striking out as a pioneer among insurance companies along the pathway of social service on a huge scale. i "For years it has maintained for its policy-holders a nursing service upon a great scale; this has latterly become a veritable marvel of efficiency and practical helpfulness. Metropolitan nurses made 1,127,022 visits to sick policy-holders in 1913, . ' for which the Company paid the bills. . "Leaving out of consideration the mere numbers of those who have been directly benefited by these activities, I think that the example which the Metropolitan has set to other great business organizations by its early recognition of the new responsibilities attaching to all business enterprises which have attained a certain size, is one of the most beneficial cf recent occurrences in the field of American business. For years it has through its publications upon the question of health conservation been serving multitudes of people as a sort of University of beneficial instruction upon this most important subject.". "' -"lvl . ABREAST OF MODERN THOUGHT. : 'This great institution, having so very recently been under our critical scrutiny and presenting so many admirable illustrations of what an efficient and enlightened modern business organization on a large scale can do in the way cf keeping abreast of modern thought, seems to be in a position where I may properly use it as an illustration that private initiative and enterprise are at their best still capable of doing the finest possible work in fields from which, latterly, all the talk has been that these agencies should be compelled to retire." Assets, S44T,829,229.00 UabUities, 8414,244,327.51 Largest amount of insurance in force of any company in the world S2,81G,504,462.00 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company' t (Incorporated by the State of New York. Stock Company) JOHN re. HEGEMAN, president 1 MADISON AVENUE, NEV YORK best citizens hare been caught. Where POLITICAL ADVERTISING. George H. Siemon HEAD CAfdP OPEN; BIG BATTLE IS OH Continued From I'hkv 1.) xv Georjrc H oth av e thic riti- Siemon of 14.21 is a candi date on the republican ticket for the nomination for the of fice of sheriff. As Mr. Sic is a member of Tri-City Typographical Union Xo. J07, he will naturally poll a eavy vote, bein the only union man in the field on that t'clcet. His many admirers aid friends are predicting a successful campaign. in referring to its own affairs. The insurgents were especially circumspect in dealing with btrangers and perhaps not without reason. For to days prior to the opening of camp U'oo'imcn politics crew hotter and hotter. The arrival of every fresh delegation pave impetus to the action about the respective headquarters of the administration at the Hotel Secor, and of the insurenta at the Navarre Reception committees meeting incom ing delegations at the . tations were el bowtd aside ly boosters for the oppos ing sicle and if the newcomers were cpen to argument on the main issues before the society the argument was forthcoming. The delegates who re fused to fctdud tied formed the great element of uncertainty in the situation. Bombard With Rumors. From ieir strongholds in toe two hotels four blocks apert the factions bombarded each other with rumors. "Head Consul Talbot !aims he has enough votes pledged to elect bimuelf and he's not taking much interest in the refct of the ticket." faid an insur gent who was engaged in some of the hca.vy gun work. From the adminis tration end would come something like this: "The itiFurgeuts may say they are cot considering candidates blore the camp but don't let m fool you. It's every man for himself over in their camD and any one of 'em would be glad to be taken in out of the wet. ' And so it went indefinitely, day and night. Over at tbe Becor where the head officers were they had the bigger crowds and made the most noise, but that doesn't mean that they were not doing Just aa much .urn. hoeing as in the other camp. To the Secor came the bands brought out by candldaten and from the Foresters encampment anl there most of the tanes and pen nants and badges were being handed out. Over at the modest Navarre they were not spending so much money, hut tliy were mighty earnest and ttuainekMike arid for an organization without a jaroU or other equally, recommended by the law committee to the head camp and is included In the report of the credentials committee of the camp clerks. Discussion was gen eral and quite warm, some contending that the benefits of having the month ly payments of members always tbe same would be offset by the confusion which a change would entail, not to mention the added work for the local clerks. Finally the matter of recom mending such action to the head camp was put to a vote and carried by small majority. Among the speakers during the day were J. F. Alunger. head of the audit Ing department on "Formation of faea Keport Promptness in Remitting to Head Clerk Common Errors and Their Elimination"; by C. G. Taylor. chiet Of the correspondence depart ment on "Official orrespondence How the Clerk Should Handle bame ; by Dr. F. A. Smith, chairman of the supreme rn-edical board on ine soci ety's Medical Department Clerks' Re lation Thereto," and by J. B. Corken. clerk of camp 1550, on "The Forester Team Its Value to the Cam-p; Should Every Camp Have a Well Drilled Team?" These four speakers, all from Kock Island, bandied their topics in an interesting manner. In the election of officers of the camp clerks Mr. Corken was re-elected mem ber of the executive committee. Work of the Foresters at Camp K. K. Smith, just outside the city, settled do n to a regular routine on Monday, with the usual round of drills and inspections reaching a climax at 5 p. r.u with brigade dress parade by the First brigade under command of Brig adier General Liggett. Additional teams arrived Sunday night and Mon day morning, swelling the number to approximately 4,000, making the en campment the equal in point of size to any ever held. Entertainment for Ladies. Ladies of the Royal Neighbors of Toledo have taken hold of the enter tainment of the ladies of visiting Wood men and there will be some special event for them every afternoon and evening from now on. There are re ceptions, trolley trips to parks, mu seums and other show places. Com mittees meet the ladies at the stations and look after their comfort and wel fare while in the city. With the ladies, as with the men. Rock Island is better represented than any other city outsiae Of loieao. Among those here from Rock Island are Mesdames C. W. Hawes. James McXaraara. F. O. VanGalder, W. A. Frewert. Theodore Harder and Albert Gutzweiler; Dr. Hada Burkhart and the Misses Ward, Lamp, Osterman and Carnaghan from the head office. In addition to Dr. Burkhart other officers of the Royal Neighbors, present include Mesdames Myra B. Enright, Ea Childs. Clara Richards and Susie Boas Rose and Dr. Elnora W.hitemore. 20,000 at Park Exercises. Formal opening of the triennial head camp of the Modern Woodmen, the dedication of Camp R. R. Smith, and the observance of flag day took place at one and the same time with impos ing ceremonies at Bay View park Sun day afternoon. Twenty thousand peo ple were present, the crowd' being so large as to greatly interfere with the exercises. Major General John H. Mitchell of Ionia. !Mich., head of the Foresters, was in command. As the flag was run up on the tall steel staff, the band play ed "The Star Spangled Banner," the Foresters stood at "present arms," or rather axes, and the men in the great crowd uncovered. Then camp orders were read, there were short talks bv Head Consul A. R. ITalbot, Head Clerk C. W. Hawes, Directors R. R. Smith and E. E. Murphy, and others, and tbe Foresters team of Camp 2G of Rock Island, in command of Captain E. F. Johnson, took the field and gave the Butt's physical manual to music ' by the Fremont, Ohio, band, no word of command being given during tiie intri cate evolutions,. Though hamrered by rough ground and han'nt the manual in public but ontv Trinity church minstrels in Rock at Washington. Colonel Normoyle warmly greeted many Rock Island friends. An exhibition guard mount closed the day's military exhibition, 800 Tents In Camp. Camp R. R. Smith 1b one of the fin est the Foresters have ever been priv ileged to occupy. It is in Bay View park, which Is located on a small cape jut ting out into the bay into which the Maumee river empties. There is near ly always a cool breeze from Lake Erie. The camp is laid out with mil itary precision on open, level ground. There are 800 tents, each arranged to shelter four men, and they are prac tically all filled. Ranged around the camp at the north and west are the officers and departmental tents, mess and cook tent, postoffice, hospital, etc, while at the south is a large, open par ada ground. Baseball will be a favor ite diversion for the Foresters during their leisure hours, there being three or four well kept diamonds in the park, maintained by the city. Ord.-rs foi the week were issued yes- j m.ia, l,j uturrai amcLlcil. xieveiiie given j will be sounded at 5:30 each morning at the I and t;;ps a; 11 at nicht. liorninca will Is-; be taken un larcelv with vi,ihitinTi and mree r8 agoine mci: acoj.it- ruard n:ou:u and brigade drill. tea xnemseives wnn great cred.t. van ning a hand from the crowd and prrise from tbe eight regular army oSityrs who were present and who will juo? the drills for the prizes later In the week. One of these officers, by the way, is Colonel J. E. Normoyle, former ly of Kock Island and now stationed Out- sit'e ft .Less parade at 5 p. m., the men will In-.v? n'.V-rr.oous and evenings to Co as th. y v, i?l;. Major C. W. Hi we.;, rt'Iring head citik. was volt J a life membership in the Locl Camp Clerks' association at the meeting yesterday .fteruoon. The matter was brought up by A. II. Hoop er of St. Paul, the oldest camp clerk in point of service in the Jurisdiction. . Mr. Hooper paid a warm tribute txt Major Hawes, and on his motion a col lection was taken' to purchase soma substantial token for the retiring head; clerk. Clerks Change Name. The organization changed its Dame to the National Association of Camp Clerks. All tbe old officers were re elected, Including F. H. Norllng of . Kansas City as president and W. T. ' Copeland of Wapokeneta, Ohio, as sec retary. Addresses at Saturday's ses sion included those by Editor T. O. Van Galder, who explained tbe manner in which the publication office Is con-; ducted; Assistant Head Clerk James j McNamara on the relations of the) head clerk to the camp clerks; R. T.I Carpenter of New York City on pre-' vention of lapsaticras, and Myra B. En-; right of Kansas City, supreme oracle of the Royal Neighbors, on thd work: ' of the ladies' auxiliary. The evening; session w as called off and the business i concluded today, addresses among oth-; ers being given by Dr. F. A. Smith. Cf G. Taylor, J. B. Corken and J. l Mun-5 ger of Rock l.Und. Not Her Fault "It is the duty of every man and woman to be married at the age of) twenty-two," said the lecturer. "Well," said the woman of thirty, with some asperity, "you needn't tellf me that. Talk to the men." Phila delphia Ledger. j lEasy-Opeing-BoK,, ) e i i lTiot uio uuni the f. Popular Polishes Black, Tan and White ... DO 1 10c P W a a iifc . at a mm Hamilton. Ont.