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HERBERT E. RILEY, PROP.
1
MAN FOUNDS MUNICIPALITY
IN ORDER TO BECOME MAYOR
(Gladwin, Mich., Dispatch to St. Louis
Globe-Democrat)
If the trust busters ever get wise to all
the things Jim Loy is they will surely lodge
u complaint against him under the Sherman
law. Then the only thing that will save
him from dissolution will be a candid state
ment of his good intentions.
- For, by hook or crook, Jim has managed
to gather unto himself so many political
offices that he is open to the charge of be
ing a monopoly and operating in restraint
of trade. No use trying to swap votes up
in Highwood township, Gladwin county,
'cause Jim Hoy will get most of them any
way you swap, Jim being it in that neck of
the woods. Not only is he justice of the
peace and member of the board of health
find review, but county road commissioner
and mayor of Winegar, also. In fact, he
is Winegar.
Jim WliS LHiril miv-iuui vcai.-s in
town of Hallsvtlle, Ontario, on a cloudless
night in the dark of the moon, when it
was easy to pick out a star of destiny, and
he picked a mayoralty for his. As he
couldnt’ jump at once from the cradle to
the executive chair, he started out to fit
himself for his manifest destiny, to secure
an education and the right to refer to him
self as self-made.
There w-as nothing much to the educa
tional question. He saw at a glance what
talents would be most needed, and pro
ceeded to develop them—courage, political
acumen and executive ability. To stimu
late courage and develop executive ability.
Jim removed to Bay City when 16 years
old and began sailing the lakes, first as as
sistant and general handy man in the cook’s
galley and later as cook.
But he couldn’t be a successful politician
and sail, so he left the cook's galley after
a few years and opened an "eating house”
down in the old Third ward.
What the East Side is to New York the
old Third ward was to Bay City in those
days. It was a grand political school for
the man who wanted to learn the game as
it was then played in American cities. Jim
made his “eating house” a ward headquar
ters and his education progressed nicely. He
became a Republican leader in Bay City and
prominent in all party gatherings. No city
or county convention was complete without
him, and he frequently took a hand in state
affairs. In fact, for some years he was a
regular delegate to Republican state conven
tions.
Hes got a reputation as a man who couiq
<!o things, change the political control of
the city, for instance, if properly backed,
and who knew enough to keep under his
hat such knowledge as. coming to the atten
tion of the other side, might cause undue
activity. But in spite of his hold on the old
Third and his influence as a maker of po
litical destiny for others, his own star was
growing dimmer. He saw it was liable to
go out unless he changed his location, so he
headed northwardly. That was fourteen
years ago, and for ten of the fourteen years
he searched in vain for the city of which
he was to be mayor and thus fulfill his
destiny.
On his migration northward Jim stopped
in Gladwin county, because the glow of his
star indicated that as the promised land, but
shift as he would, he could not find the
exact spot above which it shone. The rea
son was very simple. He was looking for
an established town, having no idea that
destiny required him to build his city as
well as govern it. He discovered his mis
take four years ago when, traveling along
the meridian line, he noticed his star was
shining directly above the spot where it
crosses the Gladwin branch of the Michigan
Central. Jim saw duty and destiny hanging
over that crossing, so he hove to and in
stituted Winegar.
Of course, having built Winegar, Jim Hoy
is its mayor—and who has a better right
to the honor? But Jim was not content
with one office; he wanted more. His town
being in the township of Highwood and the
county of Gladwin, as well as the state of
Michigan, there was no good reason, so far
as he could see, why he shouldn’t reach out;
so he reached. He secured the old and
honored Anglo-Saxon office of justice of the
peace, with the accompanying title of
Usquire, and representation on the two im
portant township boards of review and
health, then extended himself a little and
gathered in the office of county road com
missioner.
In the interest ot tne town it was nec
essary that Jim have a good deal to say
about road building in Gladwin county, be
cause a town needs roads, and Winegar was
considerably shy in that regard. Four years
ago. when he discovered that he must build
his town where the meridian line crossed
the Michigan Central, there wasn’t even a
cow path along the line to mark its loca
tion. Jim needed the line permanently
marked to fix his townsite. What better
method of marking it than a road with the
line its exact center t
So Jim has budded a road along the me
ridian line, and now the fight is ended and
it is determined that the meridian line stone
road shall be built on the meridian, instead
of six miles westward thereof, where the
people of Gladwin tried to have it built for
their own gainful ends. When Winegar
needs it the worst way. why, Jim will build
a better road—a stone road that will hold
the meridian line down for a long, long time.
Ji inruns the only store in Winegar and
sells needles and pins and threshing ma
chines and boots and shoes and canned
salmon and fine-toothed combs and every
thing. In addition to his mercantile and
political work, he is agent for the railro^f
company, and now and again sells a little
real estate.
JUSTLY EARNED
Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux, still famil
iarly known in the British service as “Lucky
Lambton,” for two years commanded the
royal yacht, and once had occasion to re
veal to King Edward how little thought of
in the services was the lavishly awarded
Victorian Order. A yachtsman had forced
himself on the late king’s attention at
Cowes.
“Do you know that man ?” his majesty
asked.
“I’m afraid I do,” said Admiral Lambton.
“What do you think of him?”
“Not much, sir; in fact, he’s a bounder.”
“I’m sorry to hear that,” the king replied,
“because I have just made him a member of
the Victorian Older.”
“Glad to hear it, sir,” the admiral
chuckled. “It serves him right.”—Tit-Bits.
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COURT TERM
BEGINS JUNE 28
Deputy United States Marshal Percy G.
Charles received notification on Tuesday
last that the summer term of court in
Iditarod will commence on June 28. As it
is understood that the Ruby term has been
set for July 26. it appears that a short ses
sion is contemplated here. As was the case
a year ago, the docket is not a lengthy one,
but it is quite probable that the experience
of former years will be repeated, and that
when court opens there will be more busi
ness than can be disposed of at the session.
There will be but few criminal cases to
be tried at this term, so far as known. The
grand jury a year ago returned five secret
indictments. The news of the apprehension
of only one of the indicted persons has so
far been reported, this being John A. Kilday.
former deputy United States marshal at
Georgetown, who is charged with larceny
by bailee. Fie was arrested in San Francisco
some months ago and gave bail for his ap
pear ance before Judge Bunnell. It is pre
sumed his trial will take place at the com
ing term.
A Japanese is awaiting action of the
grand jury at the local jail on a charge of
malicious destruction of property.
There is also a case of embezzlement to
be investigated by the grand jury.
The Secret Indictments
The names of the other persons who were
indicted secretly by last year’s grand jury
have not been made public by the officials,
but their identity has been public property
in Iditerod ever since the grand jury ad
journed. There has been no indication that
they have been placed under arrest, al
though their whereabouts on the Outside
have at all times been known to the offi
cials. It is possible that the arrests were
made and bail given and the matter escaped
publicity. It is supposed that their trial
will come up at the June term, and the
trials will create a great deal of interest
throughout the district.
SEWARI IE OR
PEES MON
An interesting development in connec
tion with the Seward fire is reported from
the Upgrade mine, at the head of Flat creek.
At about 1 o’clock on Tuesday morning last
the men employed there ware surprised to
see in the southeast a conflagration of great
extent, the flames from which seemed to
shoot at least fifty feet in the air. At first
it was thought that Iditarod was on fire,
but it was soon realized that the fire was
in an altogether different direction. It was
then agreed that it must have been a
mirage. The night crew reported the in
cident to the day crew, and it was the sub
ject of discussion throughout the day. Late
in the afternoon the news of the destructive
fire at Seward was received, and the boys
are quite confident now that the fire seen
by them was that which created so much
havoc in the coast city.
In a bee line il is not to exceed 250 miles
from Flat creek to Seward, and while this
is a somewhat remarkable distance from
which to view a fire, it is claimed that the
elevation at which the observation was made
and the extreme clarity of the atmosphere
made this possible. During the past several
days the weather has been cloudless and the
atmosphere exceptionally clear. The nights
have been frosty and the days filled with
sunshine. It is said that from the hills at
the head of Flat creek, especially from what
is known as Rag mountain, an unobstructed
view can be had of the country for many
miles around. Iditarod can be clearly dis
cerned from this point. It is also said that
frequently marvelous mirages are seen from
this point, numerous persons reporting hav
ing seen wonderful manifestations of this
phenomenon.
The wireless operator at the Iditarod sta
tion, whose duties compel him to keep late
hours, also saw the great conflagration in
the southeast in the early hours of Tues
day, and is quite confident that it was the
reflection of the fire at Seward.
As having a bearing on the incident noted
above, Oscar Anderson states that at the
time of the Katmai volcanic eruption he
was on the trail between Flat City and
Iditarod, and that he distinctly heard the
explosion that accompanied the fiercest out
break of that volcano. The island of Ko
diak, on which Mount Katmai is located, is
even a greater distance from Iditarod than
is Seward.
But matter-of-fact, unimaginative per
sons, when told the story of the Seward fire
being observable from a distance of 250
miles, shake their heads and point out. that
two ranges of mountains interpose them
selves between this city and Seward, and
if that were not enough, the contour of the
earth’s surface would make such observa
tions impossible. Furthermore, as if to
clinch the matter, they point out that there
was a brush fire of considerable extent at
the head of Boulder creek on the night in
question, and undoubtedly this was what
the boys observed.
——-—
THOSE LOOSE BRAINS
Occasionally in court proceedings which
some reporter is trying to get into the rec
ord some witness will insist on simply shak
ing his head in answer to questions put to
him by the attorney.
There was present such a witness at a
hearing held recently in the county of I-.
Again and again the attorney was obliged
to repeat the answer for the benefit of the
official court reporter. Presently the pa
tience of the attorney gave out.
“Please answer that question,” he said.
“Why don’t you answer the question?”
“I did answer,” was the retort of the
injured witness. “I shook my head.”
“Yes,” asserted the quick-witted attorney
for the defense. “I heard it rattle, and so
did the court reporter, but he doesn’t know
whether you shook it up and down or side
wise.”—Eagle Magazine.
NOT A VACATION
Neighbor’s Little Girl—When did you get
back, Mrs. Browne? Did you have a nice
time ?
Neighbor—Why, I haven’t been away, my
dear.
“Haven’t you, really? I'm sure I heard
mother say you and Mr. Browne had been
at Loggerheads for a week!"—National
Monthly.
DESCRIPTION OF
DEADLYTORPEDO
The performances of both the German
and English submarines in the present war
have lifted this class of sea fighters to a
place of high importance. Certain eminent
authorities, in fact like Admiral Sir Percy
Scott of England—are of opinion that the
submarine has sounded the death knell of
the dreadnoughts, and that to build more
of these costly battleships is sheer waste
of money. American naval experts, also,
in the course of the congressional inquiry
into our national defenses, testified to the
formidable character of this branch of naval
warfare. To date submarines have done
extremely effective work, well nigh a round
dozen war vessels—English German, Rus
sian and Turkish—having so far suc
cumbed to their attacks. Indeed, until the
sea fights off the coast of South America,
the under-sea raiders had scored the highest
total of definite results.
The sensational success of the submarine
lends interest to the remarkable weapon
with which it does its work of destruction
—the torpedo. The jackies dub it the “tin
fish,” and the “Percy Scott,” after its ar
dent supporter. The modern automobile
torpedo is a cigar-shaped steel object, 22
feet long, 21 inches in diameter, and weighs
2.000 pounds. With Its wonderful mech
anism of almost human intelligence, the
projectile in action seems almost to throb
with life. It dives like a porpoise, steers
itself, and plows through the water at a
speed of forty miles an hour. The torpedo
can travel a distance of six miles, and at the
end of its run be capable of destroying or
severely crippling a great battleship.
The torpedo is divided into three main
parts: 1. the warhead, or front section,
which holds the explosive charge, weighing
from two to three hundred pounds; 2, the
[ air flask, or central chamber, and 3, the
after body, or tail, containing the turbine
engine, gyroscope, steering gear, rudders and
propellers.
One of thp most ingenious and vital parts
of the whole mechanism is a small pro
peller for preventing the premature explo
sion of the torpedo. It is located at the
extreme point, or “nose” of the warhead.
It accomplish’^ this by locking the firing
pin. When the torpedo enters the water
on being fired from the submarine or de
stroyer, the revolutions of the propellers
release a “sleeve.” which uncovers the firing
pin. This puts it in position to strike the
detonating primer and explode the charge
the instant the torpedo finds its mark.
The central section, or air flask, occupies
more than one-half the total length of the
torpedo. In this is stored the compressed
air which, escaping through a valve leading
to the tiny turbine engine, propels the
weapon through the water. The air cham
ber is to the engine of the torpedo what the
boiler is to the reciprocating engine of a
steamship. Near the tail-end of the pro
jectile is located the wonderful turbine en
gine that operates the propeller blades. The
turbine develops about 160 horse-power,
with a corresponding speed of 40 miles an
hour. Its initial speed is nearly a mile a
minute, with an extreme range of from
eight to ten thousand yards.
The “brain” of the weapon is in the tail
end. It is a little gyroscope that one could
held in the hand, and it is as delicately
adjusted as a chronometer. This marvelous
piece of mechanism, when properly set. au
tomatically controls, steers and keeps the
torpedo in position during its line of flight.
If the torpedo runs afoul of its course and
is deflected either to the right or left, the
, gyroscope—an almost human pilot—auto
matically operates a lever, throws the rud
ders up or down, and to the right or left,
bringing the torpedo back to its proper
path.
It takes almost a thousand pieces of
steel, brass and bronze to make up all the
delicate, ingenious and automatic adjust
ments of the interior mechanism of a mod
ern torpedo.
The torpedo is fired from a tube about
twenty feet lone, located either in the body
of a submarine or on the deck of ‘‘a de
stroyer. This tube is well greased inside,
to enable the torpedo to slide out easily,
ber is filled with compressed air to drive
the engine during the torpedo’s run. An
impulse charge of compressed air is also em
ployed for launching the torpedo out of the
tube. Promptly on striking the water all
the interior mechanism and automatic con
trivances of the torpedo come to life. The
turbine engine and the propellers start im
mediately, driving the torpedo at a swift
pace straight towards the target. After
dealing its blow’, the missile disappears in
its own ruin—or, in caset of a miss, its
motor power gradually runs down, and the
torpedo becomes a dangerous floating mine.
The United States navy is placing great
importance upon these under-water weap
ons, and the latest type adopted for service
is now being manufactured at the new gov
ernment torpedo factory at Newport, R. I.
On board the United States steamship Mon
tana Uncle Sam conducts a school, equipped
with modern torpedo installations. Here the
rising generation of sea fighters is drilled in
the science of torpedo warfare—handling,
aiming and firing the shell, in the same
manner as in actual warfare. The latest
type of torpedo, with its thousand-odd com
plicated adjustments, requires one year to
build, and costs over $6,000.
So far, the warships destroyed by the
torpedo have been mostly old vessels, not
designed to withstand under-water torpedo
attacks. The decisive test of the torpedo
in modern warfare will come when it is
launched against the recently-constructed
super-dreadnoughts, with all their protecting
devices, such as double bottom, inner and
outer skin, bulkheads, water-tight compart
ments, etc. A decisive trial of this char
acter would throw much light on the ques
tion of the relative value of battleship and
submarine, and would also, of course, vitally
affect naval construction policies.—Ameri
can Review of Reviews.
Notice of Forfeiture
To Robert Mathson:
You are hereby notified that the under
signed has expended in labor and improve
ments tlie sum of one hundred dollars
($100) Ten* the year of 1914 upon the
Gold Run Group placer mining claim, situ
ated on Little creek, a tributary of Ganes
creek, in Jnnoko mining and recording dis
trict, district of Alaska. Notice of location
recorded in Vol. 10, Page 96, Innoko Min
ing Records. _
You are further notified that if at the
expiration or ninety (90) days after the
last publication of this notice you Tail or
refuse to contribute your proportion of
such expenditure, your interest in said
claim will become the property of the un
dersigned, your co-owner, under Section
2324 or the Revised Statutes or toe United
S tates
ROBERT EVANS. Co-owner.
Date or Jlrst pubJiwUJon, April-17,-1915.
t Bal« of last publication, jury .17,
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NOTED SCOTCH ENTERTAINER
TALKS ABOUT STINGINESS
Maybe it’s just; maybe it’s all the result
of a press agent’s overzeal; maybe it’s so
true that it would out. However, if I’m not
famous as the “stingiest man on earth,” I’m
surely the most famous of the stingy men,
says Harry Lauder, the famous Scotch
comedian, in the Great Divide.
Stories true and fanciful have circum
navigated the sphere ahead of me, reciting
in extravagant phrases my unextravagant
ways. You’ll say that where there is so
much smoke there must be at least a wee
bit of fire. And if you’ll gather ’round me
you’ll find it and I’ll warm you with it.
It is true, and I don’t think you will find
him who will say me nay, that I am a bit
careful about the expenditure of moneys
which a kind public and an indulgent fate
have sent my way. To begin with, thrifti
ness is a Scotch trait, and 1 come as hon
estly by mine as I do by my liking for
golf. But they say I am even closer than
most of the Scots who have it bred in them
through centuries of mining potatoes out of
rocky soil, wresting a living from reluctant
fields of stony barrenness and paying taxes
far in excess of the scriptural tithe.
Since I have become more or less noted
and notorious as a conserver of my funds,
I have, necessarily, discussed this attribute
» ith indelicate or polite persons who have
mentioned it to Die. To do this intelli
gently I have sounded my own views upon
the matter and their sources.
I find that I am more than ordinarily
economics!. I find that I could spend a
>-eat deal more money if I were inclined
to. But I cannot find why I should. I
cannot find where I am denying myself any
of the comforts of life; the luxuries I never
had much desire for.
The incidents which have been most gen
erally cited as proving my stinginess have
had to do mostly with my failing to tip
servants lavishly, my disinclination to pur
chase liquor for heterogeneous and transi
tory collections of actors at prominent
bars, my plain and modest attire and my
jimmy pipe.
It has always been my desire to pay
those about me for their services. But I
have never been able to see why a waiter,
who is or should be paid by the owner of
the restaurant, should have froifi me 10 or
more per cent of what I spend for what I
want or need just because certain reckless
youths have set a precedent that the waiter
should have it. It being on ray part neither
an impulse of charity nor payment for
what I deem extraordinary service, why,
then, should I throw a handful of change
to the waiter? Because, if I don’t, the man
across the table or at the next table will
say I am “cheap” or stingy. If I give to
the waiter then I will not be doing it be
cause I think he has earned it, or because
I feel moved by a spirit of charity to give
from plenty to one needy, but because an
other, a stranger, a man to whom I owe
nothing and whose personal opinion in no
way binds me, probably thinks I ought to,
and inferentially spends my money for me
before I do.
If, to gratify a fear of this outsiders
bad opinion of my generosity, I do give the
waiter what I neither think he earned nor
feel he should have, I do it because I am a
coward who does what he doesn t w'ant to
or need to in fear of the unfavorable ver
diet of a judge who is appointed without my
consent, whose judgment means nothing m
my life, and whose verdict, even if it did
affect me, I regard as badly founded.
In this case giving the tip is not only ex
travagant. but cowardice.
Now, take my clothes. 1 have an over
coat that has withstood for me many a
rhill blast. It isn’t as new as once it was.
The nap is a bit rubbed. But it if clean.
Ik hangs together perfectly, it keeps the
Warmth in and the cold out. Now, why
should I discard this tried and ioyai winter
^servant ? Because if I don t Tom, Dick and
Victor will cry to Lizzie, Minnie and Pansy
that Harry Lauder is a cheap skate who
hasn’t any pride about his clothes.
An overcoat was made essentially to keep
one warm. Mine keeps me that way and
dry. None that I could substitute for it
would cover me or the purpose more thor
oughly. If I change it, then, I do it for
you, not for me. I think your idea is
wrong. I think a garment should be worn
las long a3 it hangs together decently and
keeps out the wind. I disagree with your
implied idea about it, yet I should change
H against my wish and judgment, for fear
that you, without questioning my intention,
will stamp me as a tightwad. If I do I
am a craven coward, surrendering without
a shot being fired.
If I enter a tap room for a nightcap and
you and all your cronies are there I must
ask you each to drink at my expense or
fear to leave there in the prospect of burn
ing ears. If I met you in a clothing store
I wouldn’t buy you a suit of clothes; if I
met you in a drug store I wouldn't buy
you an ounce of carbolic acid just because
I’m buying myself a nickel’s worth of ipecac.
But in a bar room it is all different, eh ?
I don’t see why. If I did I’d abide by the
difference. But I don’t. Therefore I must
choke my own opinion, adopt yours and
endow upon the foster child a money set
tlement or stand forever in your eyes a
miser and violator of the amenities of gen
tlemen. To act on such premises would
stamp me in my own opinino as buying
others with whom I haven’t the courage to
•opeDly disagree, though in secret I nurse
am unexpressed theory that I haven’t
waived. I’m lying to you if I do it, I’m
cheating myself of my own honest con
clusions’ honest actions if I do it, and all
this brings about the result that you don’t
necessarily say I’m a jolly good fellow or
in other ways repay me for this yellow act
of poltroon dissimulation, but I escape your
saying I’m stingy. Is it worth the price ?
My pipe, which I enjoy hugely, is in the
same category, as against expensive cigars,
which make me sick. I want the pipe, but
I should smoke the sickening cigar with a
fancy band to save you “panning” me.
j Not I.
Whether I give to charity or not is no
j one’s especial affair. As a matter of fact.
! I do, and, in view cf my reputation as a
I jailer of the American eagle, perhaps rather
j more freely and largely than you would
| guess. That’s because I have the moving
; impulse to do it. I do it because I think
! I should, not because you think I should,
j And I wouldn’t do it if I thought it wrong
whether you thought I should or shouldn’t.
1 I have given up some sums approximately
! about $150,000 in my few American tours
| clone because it is against my principles to
j work or play in public on Sundays. Have
' you any idea of how many cigars, drinks
I and tips that amount would have bought?
j Wouldn't that have saved me the ignominy
I of fame as a stingy champion? Probably.
| I have returned to England year after year
and played there week after week at a fifth
; of what I earn in America, because I had
I indiscreetly signed a contract years ago. I
i could have turned my back on it. laughed
at the party of the first part, and stayed in
I America and worked here all year I didn t.
I wouldn’t tell you how much difference in
actual money that meant to me—enough
to tip every waiter on earth and buy over
coats, new and shiny, for an army. But f
didn’t. And if you disagreed with me. as
many American actors did, as to the policy
'■ of playing out an unfavorable contract
when I could have repudiated it and played
a new and profitable one, I still should
have taken the attitude that my princi
ples must guide me, not my whims.
So, you see, it works both ways. By all
the rules, that should make it a good rule,
shouldn't it? Now, next time anybody
says to you, “That fellow Lauder has the
first dime he ever earned,” you say to him,
“You bet he has, and he’ll keep it—till he
gives it to somebody who, he feels, needs it
worse than he does, and it won t be a bar
tender.”
FORMER PRIZEFIGHTER
MATERIAL FOR GOOD SOLDIER
NEW YORK, April 18.—If Jack Munroe,
the Butte miner, really is in England as
one of the Canadian volunteers, Montana is
going to have one good representative at
the front.
Munroe should be an ideal soldier. He
is a trained frontiersman, a good shot, an
athlete and a cool, thoughtful, courageous
fellow.
Munroe has had a varied experience.
When a boy he began playing football on
the great Butte football team, then one
of the best in the country, anl champion of
all the West. He traveled through several
seasons, playing in western cities, and finally
moved to San Francisco and played with
the Olympic Athletic Club team there.
While tackle on the Olympic team Jack
entered the coast amateur boxing cham
pionships and won the heavyweight title.
Not long after that he became a profes
sional, but went back to prospecting. After
locating a copper claim in Idaho he went
back to Butte to earn money to develop
it. He was a level boss when Jeffries came
to Butte, and he fought Jeff four rounds,
winning the purse Jeff offered to anyone
who could stay with him over that route.
That made Munroe famous. He came
East and knocked out Peter Maher, Lim
erick and a few others, beat Tom Sharkey
in a six-round bout, and fought Jack John
son six rounds in Philadelphia. Jeffries was
out for revenge when he met Munroe in
San Francisco in a return match, and he
polished Jack off in a couple of rounds.
Munroe told how every time Jeffries landed
he thought a mule had kicked him. That
bout finished his fighting career. He had
some money and he went prospecting for
copper and silver in the Northern Canadian
wilderness. Here he struck it rich, located a
number of valuable claims, became “Mr.
John Munroe,” a person of prominence in
Canadian mining affairs, and was for sev
eral years mayor of Elk City. If Munroe
is fighting now he has gone to war as a
wealthy citizen of Canada.
GRATIFYING RESULTS FROM
CAMPAIGN FOR PURE AIR
BROOKLYN. N. Y„ April 17. In a r?
port made by Darwin R. James, Jr., chair
man of the tenement house committee of
the Brooklyn Bureau of Charitie-. at the
semi-annual meeting of the directors of the
bureau, there was one significant sentence.
It was this:
“The number of windowless rooms has
been reduced from 1.076 on October 1. 1913,
to 97 in October. 1914 ”
This means that Brooklyn has practi
cally no dark room problem in its tenement
houses.
It is a little over three years since the
relentless warfare against the dark room
tenements in Brooklyn was inaugurated with
a mass meeting at the Academy of Music.
At that time Theodore Rooseelt and the
late Jacob A. Riis, who stood shoulder to
.shoulder in the fight against the disease
breeding tenements of Manhattan, came to
Brooklyn to start the war here. and in the
evening Mr. Riis spoke from the platform
at the Academy of Music.
There were then 50.000 bed room« in
Brooklyn without windows. In 1903 there
were in round numbers 140,000 dark rooms
in Brooklyn. Now there are only 97. Mr
Riis pointed out at the time of the academy
meeting that there were 3,000 “unnecessary
deaths a year in Brooklyn” caused by dark
rooms.
YUKON GOLD COMPANY
ON KENAI PENINSULA
It is likely that the Yukon Gold Com
pany will take two drills to Seward this
summer to prospect the Kenai River prop
erty and the Kenai Dredging Company’s
property, says the Seward Gateway. A deal
is on for those properties to the great syn
dicate which is the owner of the ^ ukon
Gold Company. The deal has not vet been
consummated, but there is a belief that it
has been virtually concluded. Some of
those interested in the properties are James
R. Hayden, Frank Youngs. James Kyle,
Louis Simpson and Frank Nickerson.
Sam’l Applebaum made a hurried busi
ness trip to Dikeman last Saturday, and
returned Sunday evening.
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