Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES

Combats Work of Agitators Among Foreigners NEW YORK.—Mrs. T. D. M. Cardeza is a little woman with a great mission. Through her recent appointment as secretary to Mrs. Marian K. Clark, chief investigator of the bureau of Industries and immigration, she is

engaged in assisting the representatives of the New York state industrial I commission in carrying the assuring message of President Wilson, that no one who obeys the law will be Interfered with, to the great colonies of workmen subjects of the central European powers who are' settled in New York. Mrs. Cardeza, who is the wife of a prominent Philadelphian, is probably the wealthiest workingwoman in New York, and it is safe to say without an

actual census she is the only employee of a state bureau in the government of the United States who presides over her own castle in Europe. Mrs. Cardeza has become a wbrkingwoman with a regular job, and she is quite willing that you should call it that, because she believes that this is the most effective way in which she can at present serve this country. - In her work of assisting Mrs. Clark she travels from one great industrial concern to another, addressing the men who work in the factories and assuring them that if they go quietly about their business and do not engage in any unlawful acts or take part in gatherings whose intent is hostile to this country they will be entirely,safe and free from governmental molestation. “Poor, bewildered people,” said Mrs. Cardeza, “it is necessary that we should reach them before the agitators do. These foreign men and women need someone to tell them in their own language exactly what the president said in his message. And it is necessary that they should be approached by persons who understand not only the language but the point of view of the European peasant. . _ —_ “Nor is it only for their sakes that the state industrial commission is sending us from one great plant to another to address these men in friendly fashion. It ,1s equally Important to this country. There are agitators here from their own countries who would incite them to engage in undertakings that might cause untold harm In the United States.” Famous Horse’s Last Days to Be Spent in Ease ST. LOUIS, MO. —Chief, the sorrel horse driven for many years by Fire Chief Swingley before the automobile became the modern fire vehicle, Is assured of a grassy pasture and nothing to do but eat as long as he lives.

For several years Chief has been pensioned by the city and was given his freedom in a pasture on Chesley Island. Recently Comptroller Nolte rented the island farm to Earl W. Jones.. Then Nolte faced the problem of what to dd with Chief. Nolte went to the Island to bring back the city stock and equipment not purchased by Jones. The subject of Chief’s pasturage was the last subject brought up. “Leave the old horse here and I

will keep him free of cost to the city as long as I live on the Island,” Jones told Nolte. His offer was accepted immediately and the sentimental problem was solved. Chief Swingley bought Chief in 1894 at the National stock yards in East St. Louis and he became the official buggy horse for the chief. He galloped’ to all fires with Chief Swingley for 14 years and was sent to the pasture about eight years ago. The fire chief never had ah accident on the way to and from fires while Chief was pulling his buggy. Chief absolutely refused to collide with, a street car and either stopped or beat the car across the crossing. Chief Swingley frequently went to a theater. When a fire alarm sounded his driver would drive to the theater and Stop. Chief, apparently knowing his master was inside, would whinny and the chief invariably answered promptly. Chief was turned loose at fires and loafed about all night, if necessary, but never did he leave until Chief Swingley returned to the buggy. Cat an Incorrigible “Nighthawk,” Says Woman BALTIMORE. —Among the things which the members of the joint committee on police and jail of the city council learned about cats recently, when a public hearing was given on an ordinance to tax cats, was that it is as impossible to keep a cat in at night

as it is to keep in a man. Miss Mary Shearer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals made this statement. It was in reply to statements by some men who favored the ordinance that cats should be kept in at night and not permitted to keep the populace awake. Some of the knowledge obtained by the committee was: Cats howl at night and keep people awake.

Destroy gardens. Play with rats instead of catching them. ■ Dig seeds out of gardens as fast as they are planted. Kill birds. Carry germs and spread disease. ■ . ■■ ' _ '. \ : The ladles who def Piffled the rights of the “tabbies.” however, did not ■ see things in the same light as the men who urged a favorable report on the ordinance. ' Miss Nellie C. Williams said germs have no more affection for the fur on the back of a cat than they have for the mustache of a man. “You would not put a collar and a tag on a man’s neck because he wore a mustache, would you?” It seemed that the several score women who were present all wanted to say something in defense of the rights of the felines. Woman Thinks Running Elevator Is “Great Fun” BUFFALO.— Don’t crowd, gents. All may have a ride. She enjoys run-, ning It Immensely, and doubtless will be on the job for many months to come. If you will form in line and wait your turn, we will now introduce

Mrs. May Tyrrell, Buffalo’s first woman elevator operator. . She runs the electric elevatpr in the new Colonnade building in Pearl street, opposite St. Paul’s church, i' “It’s great fun,” said Mrs. Tyrrell, slamming the ground-floor door. “There is no reason at all why women should not run -ele —floors, please?— for is a congenial occupation and one that it not tiring. First floor! “It took me only a few mintites to learn, and —yes, sir, you’ll find the

manager on the next floor —and running an elevator is a pleasant sensation—at least for a woman who is a beginner at it. I know that —top floor, watch, your step, please.” -. There was nothing left to do but to step out. - - B. B. Burbank, manager of the Colonnade building, said that he engaged! Mrs. Tyrrell because he had found trouble in getting an elevator boy that W ° U “They 4 have elevator girls in New York and Chicago, so I thought IJ would try it out in Buffalo,” he said. “It is such a success that manager* of one or two office •buildings in Buffalo have been over here to see how practical it is.”