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Changing the Senate Rules. In 'all the talk of changing the rules of congress that has enlivenod political discussion during recent months, nothing has been heard concerning the -possible advantago of amending the regulationg the senate. laws that act in such a way as to bind the lower branch of congress to do tho will of the autocratic speaker have been criticised far and wido as subversive of free speech and detrimental to Republican institutions. Now comes forward senator with a proposition to chango the rules of the upper branch. Mr.
Lodge of Massachusetts, who is often considered the spokesman of. the president in that legislative chambor, suggests changing the rules in order to promoto decency and expedition in tho conduct of business. Senator Lodge offers two new rules; one to forbid members to "'refer offensively to eithor of the "other co-ordinate departments of the Whether or not this suggestion is one. of the fruits of the recent exchange of accusations between the president on the one hand and the two houses of congress on the other the public. is left to guess.
It would not seem that the adoption of so fair a regulation could be construed as an abridgement of free speech. Both senators and representatives might be presumed to have innate courtesy enough to follow tho injunction without the oxistence of a definite and formal stipulation on. the subject. However, if so obvious a duty is likely to be forgotton unless it is written down in black and white in a book of rules, it would seem to be wise to indorse the Lodge suggestion. The lato Senator Hoar, colleague of Mr.
Lodge, was instrumental in getting some such rule: adopted a few years ago, but one' which was neither so explicit nor so far reaching as the one now under consideration. The other Lodge suggestion is aimed to provent disastrous filibustering. It would prohibit a member keeping the floor indefinitely while he, a friend or. a clerk read voluminous reports more or less germane to the matter at hand. This proposed rule, too, is supported by common sense.
The relative sizo of the house and senato makes L' it more important for the orderly and expeditious conduct of public business that the former have rules curbing the human inclination to hinder progress for personal reasons. Yet there must come times when even the comparatively small 14 senate will find itself at the mercy of men whose', idea of the publio good doe's not extend beyond 1. the trumph of their own personal desires. Aldrich as Tariff Adjuster. It is rather disconcerting to be told that Senator Aldrich is to be the final adjuster of the new tariff bill.
It was to be hoped, that the Rhode Island man was so busy getting a new financial bill ready for submission to congress that 1 he would not havo, time nor inclination to interfere with the fixing of tariff schedules. Mr. Aldrich appears to have survived the attacks made. in the first session of the present congress undermine his dictatorial influence in the upper house. Ho is head of the so-called monetary commission which is supposed.
to be studying the question in its largest aspects and preparing a bill that may possibly revolutionize the American financial system and at any rate brace up some of the weaknesses. of the present laws. What attitude will the president-elect assume on the question of Mr. Aldrich's assumption of the role of tariff reformer and critic-in-chief of the bill that will originate in the house? Both Mr. Taft and his party are so explicitly pledged to revise fairly the Dingley law that it would not seem the obligation could be easily shifted or evaded.
Tho Rhode Island man in the role of friend the consumer scarcely inspires confidence that the promise of the majority party will be carried out in the spirit in which it was received. Much has been said of the supposed insincerity of such friends of high tariff as Messrs. Payne, McCall in their act of burdensome schedules into form for the benefit of the great consuming public, but. it would seem to berthe crowning. act of comic opera politics to let Mr.
Aldrich pass final judgment on the long promised bill to bring justice and the tariff into something like harmony. It will be interesting to see what the new president will do, if, as seems probable, the senate under the Rhode Island man, attempts to make a farce of partisan promises and a mockery of political pretensions to honesty. The Newfoundland Agreement. Secretary Bacon takes advantage of his short tenure of office as head of the state department to secure an agreement with England and Newfoundland concerning the fisheries question, and it now appears that this problem will go to the Hague for arbitration. Tho difficulty is as old as the independence of the republic, and in its complications has proved an insurmountable difficulty to more than one secretary of state and more than one colonial premier.
The rights of American fishermen in the waters of Newfoundland were temporarily suspended during the war of the revolution, re-established at its conclusion, again suspended by the war of 1812, settled on new terms by the treaty of 1818 and the interpretation of this treaty is a part of the dispute that has survived to the present day. Secretary Ilay and Premier Bond agreed upon a treaty in 1905, but the senate of the United States refused to confirm it. Mr. Root was unable to get the colonial government and the home government at London into harmony with his own views and was obliged to leave the long pending disagreoment standing when he left the state department to accept a senatorship. Mr.
Bacon, his successor, by conceding cortain points, now succeeds where the New York man failed. How vital his concessions are it is not for a layman to say. The Washington authorities are very chary of announcing the extent of the administration's yielding. From St. Johns, however, comes the statement that the American government has at last agreed to submit to the consideration of the Hague the question of the American right to fish in the inlets of the Newfoundland west coast.
Mr. 'Root contended that the United States was given this right by the treaty of 1818; tho colonists have held that this treaty only conferred the right on the Americans to fish along the seaboard. It is claimed that if the Hague upholds the Newfoundland reasoning on this point the New England frozen herring industry will be killed. Reaching the Student. One definition of tho ideal college-a log with Mark Hopkins on one end and a student on the other-is classic and traditional.
Educators of the present generation are not above secking the attainment of that homely ideal. The successor of Mark Hopkins as president of Williams college is Harry A. Garfield. That President Garfield is not out of harmony with the traditions that inspired President Hopkins is indicated by his announcement that he will take his meals with his undergraduates in a now dining hall now being completed at Williamstown. He says not only that he will with tho students at their meals, but he will try to induco as many as possible of the members of the faculty to do the.
same. The president aud instructors will not sit at a table apart from the rest, but will become an integral part of the democratic community that gathers in tho dining room at meal time. How shall the guiding spirit of 8 collogo or university assumo. tho place ho desires as the personal friend and guido of each individual undergraduate? The problem presents itself at every center of education'in the country. 'Some of the earlior ideals of higher education are of neces-sity passing away.
The coming of the large institution and the gradual overshadowing of the small college" brings this among its other difticulties. A collego president could know personally and inspire directly each of a hundred or two students, but how can even the best of executives influence each of several thousands? Manifestly can do so only in an imperfect and unsatisfactory manner. It is stated that President King of Oberlin bofore each academic year is far advanced has come into personal contact with practically every new member: of the college community. Oberlin is among the smaller of the. more important institutions of the country--as is Williams--and the problem presents fewer difficulties there than in many places.
Everywhere, however, the ideal and the desiro is the same-to reach the undergraduate. A no inconsiderable reward of public esteem awaits the man who solves the difficulty for the large universitics. Horses and Spectacles. Medical science is doing something for tho lower animals, too. Surgical aid has been invoked where limbs are broken, dental servico has been enlisted for suffering elephants and lions, cats and dogs have their dispensaries.
Occasionally the oculist, or at least the optician, has beeu called in to aid impaired sight. In England it is suggested that, all horses should have their eyes tested. The statement is made that the baneful habit of shying is usually caused by short sight. This is offered, too, as an explanation of stumbling and backing. If the horse whose sight is weak is aided by the oculist 'it is asserted that many of his bad tricks will be banished.
In England 8 firm of opticians is largely engaged in the manufacture of horse spectacles. Most of these spectacles are designed to promote high stepping. They are framed in stiff leatber that covers the eyes, and the glasses are large and concave. They give the horse the impression that the ground is rising before him and so he steps high to meet it. If the glasses are used while the horse is young the.
effect on his gait is said to be both remarkable and Of course it will be argued that the high stepping spectacles are open to the same class of objections urged against the tight bearing rein, there can be no objection to fitting the horse with spectacles that are designed to improve his sight and make his burdens lighter. They are in line with the humane trend of the age. Mr. Bryan admits that with two exceptions the recent story of his serious automobile mishap is true. 'He wasn't in any such automobile and he wasn't hurt.
his breath he repeats. "'How this world is given to lying!" It appears that the Chicago school authorities didn't say that 4' Dixie," a song. written by a northern man, is treasonable when sung on Lincoln day. The denial of the story came with gratifying promptness. Perhaps Senator Tillman.
had some hidden purpose in view when he favored the executive automobile. appropriation. He certainly was pected to put the pitchfork in its tires. Here is the Mad Mullah again! What a pity it isn't possible to steer the mullah up against the trouble in the Balkans and then forget them both. It is stated that Spain will spend $40,000,000 for a new navy.
Of course, if she has made up. her mind to do this she doesn't want any advice. A Those brave rescuers who defied death on that' furnace roof Sunday morning remembered when the hero list is filled out: No doubt the most eloquent portion of the numerous Lincoln orations next Friday will be the incomparablo Gettysburg address. No doubt President Gomez of Venezuela received the news that ex-Gov. Castro is a well man with mixed emotions.
Unhappily, it continues to be remembered that Nevada is no bigger in voting strength than a third rate municipality. The oldest negro minstrel has again passed away and made room for the oldest negro minstrel. Dayton continues to keep itself before the public in a highly discreditable way. The groundhog continues to enjoy the open air. Plain Deals.
Coming Home. Across the blue and sparkling deep, From seas whose ripples slowly creep, From Cathay's ports that idly sleep, The fleet is coming home. They leave. the shadows of the east, The tide before their prows is yeast; Unbar the door, prepare the feast! The feet is coming home. Ingratitude.
Isn't it about time for somebody to invite Mr. Taft to a ground hog dinner? Toledo Blade. But, under the present circ*mstances, wouldn't that look like gross ingratitude to the woodchuck? Appreciative and Thoughtful. "Yes, they gave the aged soprano a medal for singing at the charity concert. And they gave her a purse of money, too.
But that was conditional." "Conditional on what?" "Conditional on her not singing again." The Pretzel Centenary. A bakers' paper states that the first pretzels were made in America in 1809. Some of them are still on the lunch counter. -Omaha Bee. Of course, there is no lunch counter in Omaha oldenough to bear the pretzel of the 1809 vintage.
Nor do we imagine that the Bee editor was on hand when the first batch of scorching pretzels came from the kiln. At the same time, what seems to be a mere idle surmise may prove an accidental center shot. That the life of a pretzel can be indefinitely prolonged is attested by many voracious chroniclers. A veteran of the pretzel family pointed out in Potsdam, is said to have been present at the first meeting between Voltaire- and the Great Frederick, and was so overcome that it fell off side of the dish and thus escaped immolation. The fact that it is so casy to restore the outward appearance of a bar worn pretzel no doubt contributes largely to the longevity of the delicacy.
By taking the pretzel firmly between the left thumb and forefinger and scraping it along the dustier angles with a three-cornered file, followed by two coats of egg varnish, 'the restoration is complete. Of course, the interior of the pretzel is beyond the reach of the renovator, and to Insert the teeth through the shell of some pretzels is like biting into tho tombs of ancient Egypt. At the same time, Omaha will have to offer better proof than the Bee advances that she has any personal acquaintance with the pretzel of a century ago. W. R.
ROSE. -0- Inviting Financial Disaster. Chicago Record Herald. Is it sublime confidence or reckless daring that induces 8 mother to send her little boy to the grocery for a dozen eggs? Valuable Advice. St.
Post Dispatch. When you wish to show a person how to use a revolver remove the cylinder, put on the safety catch and keep your finger off the trigger. Liable to Do Anything. Washington Post. Bellicose Nevada next will be calling for the Pacific squadron to be stationed on the TruckeeCarson irrigation project.
Stories Told About Town By Fred C. Kelly. "There goes another of the infernal things!" snarled the man, waiting for the Windermere car, as he stamped his heels against the curb in front of the Colonial arcade. He referred to automobiles. If there: was anything he had it in for, it automobiles.
Every time one went by he would pass upon the subject of automobiles in a general way. He wore a brown mustache that cascaded down over his mouth. This" mustache was separated into two branches by- a thick black cigar which the man' clenched in his teeth, savagely. He looked like a. mean man.
and he didn't care if he did look like a mean man because he felt meatotice that!" he growled, addressing nobody in particular. "'See how those fenders are put on an automobile? They're on an angle so that all the mud and slush they throw will Just reach the sidewalk. Somebody's figured it all out, so that a fender is on just the right angle to get as much mud as possible on a man's trouser legs when he's waiting for a car. When a people used to drive buggies and carriages, they didn't have the fenders on at an angle. It wouldn't have done much good anyhow, because people didn't drive horses more than fifteen or twenty miles an hour through town, and the drivers couldn't succeed in splashing much mud on people.
But now they've got it all down to such a fine point that the automobilist can't lose. He knows just how close to get to the curb to make sure of ruining somebody's clothes. He seldom makes a mistake. "There! See that feller sort of throw on a leetle more power as he went by here? I fooled him though. I got back on the sidewalk too far for him.
He came mighty near gettin' me at that. By George, he did get a little splash on this shoe, didn't he? Oh, there much use trying to dodge 'em. Lordy, how I do hate the things! "Wonder who was the first man to think of automobiles," went on the man, talking now to the sad eyed little chap at his left. "Whoever was, I hope when they sort out the sheep and goats, that they get him in the right place, and that somebody runs over him with a million-horse power automobile about forty times every afternoon. I sure do.
Why, honestly, friend of course I wouldn't want to see anybody get hurt or anything--but I don't see one of these gasoline wagons blow up into a million and one pieces some day, same as a toy balloon, then I won't die happy, that's all. Whenever there's all auto accident -wheel smashed, or even a busted tire, I just hang around and keep the proprietor of the outfit, and fairly revel in his troubles. That's the way I stand on automobiles. Funny, too, about these fellows that have 'em. Decent sort of chaps lots of 'em, if you meet 'em on the street car, or anywhere else, but the minute they get of those diabolically conceived machines, they' lose all sense of respect for other people's rights.
"Why, I know a fellowThe man with the brown mustache was interrupted by somebody calling his name. It was a friend of his in an alltomobile. "Want to ride out?" asked the automobilious friend; "'I go within a block of your house, I guess." The man with 'the brown mustache was already climbing in--climbing in the front seat where he could watch wasiout and keep tab 'on things along their right of way? "Don't care if I do," he assented. "Been waiting for an East End car there for. about forty minutes it seems to me.
Car service sure is something approximating the limit." The auto was getting under its full statute violating speed again. "Look at that fellow dodge," laughed the man with the brown mustache. "Wanted the whole crossing to himself, didn't he. That's right, toot the horn and see 'em Jump out of a seven years' growth. Does beat all what a lot of lunkheads.
there are walking about town. They'll stop right in the middle of a crossing and look at you like a castor, oil bottle. Don't know enough to go straight ahead and let you steer around 'em. Of course a fellow doesn't like to see anybody get a broken leg, but honestly it would serve some of 'em right if they did get hit by a good big, husky auto. Then they'd know, how to act next time.
"Say, this thing certainly does move along nice. Just like sliding along on a big ribbon. "Well, well, here we are pretty nearly, isn't home it? If already. there's Better'n anything street I hate it's to sit in a street. car with a lot of silly looking old women lookin' at me and whispering mean things about me amongst themselves, because I don't give up my seat.
'Tisn't often though that I get a seat. Oh, there's some sense to this kind of traveling. You betchuh! Ah, here pre are. I must say I'm sorry it wasn't a longer ride. Well, mebby in another year I'll have the price of one of these carts myself.
S'long, and much obliged to you!" Chinamen Can Stand' Pain. an' actual pleasure to. All a tooth, or said pull Dr. a F. tooth TV.
for Frey, a dentist. never hear a Chinaman climb into the dentist's chair and ask if it's going to hurt much, or fume and fret over the nerve racking. sensations he's going to endure. He points out the tooth that's troubling and leans back in the chair resignedly, like a true stolc. That's the way it's been with the few Chinamen I ever had in the chair, and I've been told it's characteristic of them.
"Chinamen don't like to take either. They'd rather put up with the pain a million times, than to take any chances on hitting that particular kind of a pipe. "Of course the Chinese are of a rather stoical temperament anyway, but they probably put up with the pain of having a tooth pulled. in this country, because it's easy by comparison with the way it's done in their own country. Over there the native dentists literally pry the tooth loose with their fingers, so I'm told, and it must not be a particularly joyous occasion for the man who's undergoing the operation." New York News Notes.
Plain Dealer Bureau, 1109 World building, NEW YORK, Feb. 8. Capt. Fredrichs and his officers on the German freight steamship Lichtenfels, which steamed today for Bombay, Calcutta and the ports of China and Japan, viewed with some apprehension the stowing away the hold of the steamship of some 400 cats, of 'all sizes and descriptions, which are being shipped to Japan to kill the rodents that are overrunning the little island empire. Cats have from Chicago for shipment to Japan via the Pacific coast and now the collecting of ordinary garden variety tabbies, is progressing in the east and these will be sent from this port to Japan to help kill rats and thus destroy the plague that is rapidly spreading throughout Japan, carried all over the empire by hundreds of thousands of rats with which Japan 1s' afflicted.
The "400" 011 the Lichtenfels were caged separately in small. boxes and stowed underneath the main deck amidships where they can be attended by the Lascar sailors during the long voyage to the far east. At least more cats will be shipped to the far east, within the next two months and by May 1 it is expected that nearly 500,000 cats will have been sent there. Strong's Assailant is in Irons. Louis licite, the young Brazilian, who Ma Biff Says.
1 Par I allus feel sorry fer a woman when her husband don't, smoke. 'Tobaccy does SO much keep peace in th' family, 34 Building and Material. 1 1 By Frederic J. Haskin. The National Builders'.
Supply association' meets in convention today at Louisville, Ky. The progress of the trade during the past year will be talked over and there will be a general discussion of matters pertaining to building, and exhibit building In connection materials. with There the convention, in which new A materials and of construction will be demonstrated. The result of the exchange of ideas along these lines will probably be shown in further advancement in the trade. One of the most important questions which will be considered by the convention is the bullding of earthquake proof houses.
The recent catastrophe in Italy has demonstrated the necessity of the general adoption of some system of construction by which buildings in the earthquake zone in this and other countries can be made reasonably safe. In the' United States there has been an impression that structural steel will meet almost any earthquake test. This impression grew out of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, from which a number of steel frame buildings emerged in comparatively good condition. Earthquake Proof Houses. In other countries, however, steel is not the favorite.
Japan finds frame or bamboo construction the safest. Ileretofore Italy has used stone and brick almost exclusively in building construc. tion. Those materials have been weighed in the balance and found wantIng. The United States government is instituting an innovation in Italian building operations.
Half a million dollars are being spent for lumber and other materials for frame buildings. Half A dozen ships are carrying these articles across the ocean. American boss carpenters are superintending the construction of 2,500 frame dwellings: in the earthquake stricken districts around Messina and Reggio. How the Italians will 1fke these wooden houses remains to be seen. They are absolutely unlike any dwellings they or their ancestors have lived In for hundreds of years, or ever since the denudation of the Italian forests.
There is reason to believe, however, that if Messina Reggio nad been built of wood Instead of stone the loss of life would have been less appalling. A German inventor claims to have perfected an earthquake proof house. The structure looks much like any other house, but it is erected on a sort of platform sunk to the level of the surrounding ground, but detached therefrom, except at the center, where there is a sort of pivot upon, which the platform and its burden rock and sway, maintaining its center of gravity during seismic disturbances. That is what 1 it ought to do, theoretically, but it is not recorded that the scheme has ever demonstrated practically. The builders' supply and building trades in America have shared in the prosperity that, until the panic of 1007, was general throughout the country for ten years, and which bids fair to be revived and continued indefinitely hereafter.
Building materials used In the sumer not less than $500,000,000 AnUnited States a are costing the connually. This. Includes lumber, hardware, which are not included in the trade term "builders' supplies." That term means only stone, brick, cement and other materials used by masons, but, properly speaking, building materials 'should include everything fused in house construction. A few items In the list of purchases of the American building owners each year are more than 0,000,000,000 bricks, 000 barrels of cement, 40,000,000,000 feet of lumber and many million dollars' worth of roofing and finishing materials. These purchases show a tendency to increase until one is tempted to ask when is the construction of buildings in this country going to stop, or come to a standstill, as is said to he the case in European countries at this time.
The answer is that building construction will not stop increasing here until tho increase of American population ceases. Even then construction operations probably will continue on A large scale, until many buildings of a more or--less temporary character are replaced, with substantial ones, There is this difference between bullding in America and in Europo: In the former country a structure is expected to last for a few years, or at most for a generation or two; while our European cousins build houses that will last for centurles. American builders are fond of speaking of their improved materials and methods, but they can produce no brick that is better than that over 6,000 years of age which has recently been dug up in the ruins of Babylon. Nor can modern building methods produce results that will excel those attained 4,000 years ago when Pharaoh built pyramids. However, for ordinary purposes, American methods and materials suit the time, the place and the people better than any other systems, ancient or modern.
Our system 18 in a class by itself. The skyscraper is an example! of this fact. The last building of this sort that New York is to permit has Just been begun. Breaking Building Records. American builders are record breakers.
case of the East St. Louis contractor who recently built a four-room house from excavating for the foundations, to painting and finishIng the structure throughout, one day. A bride, and groom were EL am, to go to housekeeping. SO after getting materials on the ground and labor engaged, the builder promised to complete the Job in a day. He started at 7 o'clock one morning laying lines for the foundation.
Meanwhile carpenters were sawing boards for the superstructure. During the exterior construction the masons turned their attention to a chimney. Plumbers, painters, roofing experts, glaziers, and other workmen fairly trod on each other's heels. A few of them worked over the eight-hour schedule, but after fourteen hours, during which 11.000 feet of lumber had been used, 12,000 shingles, 6,000 laths and 375 yards of plaster had been put on, and 75,000 nails driven, to say nothing of painting, plumbing. the happy couple moved in that evening, and, after having cooked supper on their own gas stove.
entertained their friends at 2. dance. Could any European builder, ancient or modern, beat that record? The American builder is constantly. being called upon to use 'new materials In his business. These arc becoming so numerous that it is difficult to keep with them.
They result in part from. the growing scarcity of lumber in this country, which makes it necessary to obtain substitutes for wood. The success of the American inventor in this connection is evident from the fact that there are real and Imitation varieties of many materials. Of late years we have plaster "lumber," paper "board," cement and asbestos. "shingles," metal "tiles," metal "woodwork," and "stonework," wire "lathing," and 80 on.
Many of these new materials are said to possess advantages over the original articles they designed to take the place of. Por Instance, what lumber can' be bent liko "board" that is made of paper, or like flexible sheets of combination of aSbestos and cement? Metal will not break like the real article. Asbestos "shingles" can exposure to falling sparks Ag wooden shingles can. No plaster will holi EL nail like the patent plaster "lumber." Sawdust is 1'e- placing sand in mortar and plaster and is just as good. Perhaps the greatest discovery of the builder for many years was that of 111e latent possibilities in concrete and r'eenforced concrete.
Gen. Marshall, chief of the army engineers, originated the idea of using concrete in engineering construction 1 number of years agO, Since the days of tho' cave dwellers man has been wont to build his dwellings by adding block to block or board to board, like a child at play: Now he is entering upon an agO of monolithic architecture, when houses and other buildings are cast in one piece ng butter is molded or bread kneaded. The house invented by Thomas A. Edison, wizard of the electric world, is considered tho best. and cheapest of the ready made concrete houses.
By his scheme a house can be built of concrete in a solid block in one week at a cost of $1,000. lowever, concrete and other materials have not yet overtaken wood. Of the building permits issued last year over GO per cent. were for wooden buildings, the 1'0- mainder being divided between ('011- creto, steel, stone and brick. A Sanitary Mouse.
A number of houses will 10 constructed in Washington according to 1. model which took first prize at tho International Tuberculosis congress last fall. The model shows a perfect sanitary dwelling made of concrete inside and out, with windows on all sides, a glass, enclosure On the roof. There are air passages running through the bullding in all directions. There are no square corners to catch dust, the heating and plumbing SVAtems are strictly modern and sanitary, and the concrete construction allows each room to 1 be flooded with hot water from 8 hose whenever desired.
Tho United States government recognizes the Importance of the building trades and the necessity of using only materials that will stand they aro likely to be subthe tests jected to. Government experts operate two testing plants. One at St. Louis devotes its attention largely to testing stone; sand, cement, brick, :18 well as the various kinds of fuels. This WAS started during the Louisiana Purchase exposition.
At the arsenal, Watertown, the government tests steel and benedis other derived from these official tests are instructural materials. The supply valuable, dealers generally accept these and builders and builders' government reports as authoritative. Copyright, 1009, by Frederic J. llaskin. Tomorrow the Cotton Industry.
Letters From the People Suburban Protest. Editor Plain Dealer--Sir: It has been brought to the attention of the Oberlin board of commerce that the council of the city of Cleveland is about to order the Cleveland, Southwestern Railway Co. to abandon use of the Fulton-rd. route entering the city. Inasmuch as present day effort is ditoward securing rapid transit to rected to and relieve from city suburbs, congestion, in An we are endeavor at a loss to understand the attempt to enforce EL longer route than the one now in use.
The use of the Fulton-rd. route shortens the schedule time from Oberlin to the Public square in Cleveland by minutes, and protests from all twelve quarters are being made against a return to the old route. By the present route, a service of one hour and twenty from Oberlin to the Public! minutes square is maintained. People living In Oberlin andre transacting business in Cleveland already clamoring for 2 service than the best now quicker offered and we lolieve It is in line with progressive Cleveland assist in maintaining the fastest service possible. In behalf of those people living in Oberlin and along the route to Cleveland, who travel daily from their homes to business, in Cleveland; and of those who make the journey less frequently but suffer the annoyances of long hours on the cars, we would ask the Plain Dealer to use its influence toward' a reN Paterson follows the examplo of Newark in establishing EL' vensorship over billboards and all public posters, and to judge from the character of soine of the things which have been displayed hitherto in that city there is need of such 3.
body. The same may be said of many other places, for Paterson has 'been no worse a sinner or has been sinned against no worse, than the average city. Indeed, IVA should say that such at r'Cform was needed here in New York, except for our reluctance to waste energy In impossible. advocating that which is Intrinsically, 1 attacked Prof. Charles A.
Strong, A sonin-law of John D. Rockefeller, on the North German Lloyd liner Barbarossa, from Italy and Gibraltar this port, was still in irons in the shop's hold this morning with a ship's steward standing guard over him. Later he was sent to Ellis island. At Ellis island the tall, dark haired, muscular South American, was placed in the psycophatic ward for observation by government surgeons. Ordinarily the of procedure would be to deport him on the next steamer of the Iine which brought him here, providing the physicians have first pronounced him insane, but Garcia Leao, the Brazilian vice consul, who called on Commissioner Watchorn today, said he 1111- 'derstood Lelte belonged to a wealthy and prominent family in Rio and it may 'be that he will be detained until sone word comes from his people.
Prof. Strong is confined to his rooms at the Hotel Belmont. Jerome Has Narrow Escape. District Attorney William T. Jerome and Mrs.
Jerome had a narrow escape from death by gas early today in their apartment on the third floor of 3 Rutgers when a servant girl committed suicide by asphyxiation in the apartment near by. In a' dazed condition Mr. Jerome was awakened by the smell of gas and was barely able to stagger to the window and throw it up and let in the fresh air. Mrs. Jerome had been more nearly overcome than her husband was unable to arise for some time.
Sarah Schwadron, ninteen years old, an Austrian girl, was 3. servant in the family of Jacob Korkes, who has a clothing store on the ground floor of 3 Rutgers and who, with his wife and four children, 'lived in the apartment 011 the second floor. For the third time in six weeks last night she turned on the gas with suicidal intent, in her room, and this time she was successful. The gas flowing from five open Jets escaped through the dining room window into the airshaft and thence into the Jerome apartment. Cortelyou to Head Gas Trust.
In the financial district, today there was a persistent report that George B. Cortelyou, at present secretary of the treasury, would soon become president of the Consolidated Gas of this city. It Is expected that Mr. Cortelyou plans to take up his new offlce goon after retiring from the Roosevelt administration on March 4. This report about Mr.
Cortelyou taking command of the local gas company has been more or less' recurrent for some weeks. Today, a Anancial paper says that it has it on good authority from a man closely identified with the interests of the company, that the place has been offered to secretary of the treasury and that' Mr. Cortelyou has accepted. tention of the short schedule, not upholding those "little Clevelanders" who would force a slow schedule upon suburbanites becauso of a fancied loss of trade to certain localities. If it is, a matter of trade, it would appear that merchants in the heart of tho city have causo for complaint if tho schedule is lengthened, adding additional handicap to their greater distance from the suburban home.
If shoppers desire to visit the market house district, it is simple matter change cars at the Lorain-st. car barns, But it is not so simple a matter to mintain a fast suburban service entering the city by way of Lorain and Pearl-sts, The Oberlin Board of Commerce. By its executive committee, N. STONE, Secretary. Oberlin, Feb.
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