The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 32, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 December 1911 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal W. G. CpN NOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE INDIANA ■> —

SHE TRIED THE WRONG FLAP That Was-Why Young Woman With Buttoned/Pocket Couldn’t Find I Car Fare. The real class in fetaialne costumes nowadays is on the model of an umbrella cover, ornamented with many buttons, says a New York newspaper correspondent introductory to his i story. If the wearer is particularly tophole, she has a pocket—a regular, manlike pocket—to which entrance is gained through a buttoned-down flap. The other day J. Dukes Wooters, one ; of Archibald S. White’s New York associates, was riding on one of the oldfashioned pay-when-the-conductor-gets you cars. A very pretty, very stylish very bebuttoned young woman sat down by his side. The conductor called for her nickel and she began fumbling for her buttoned*up pocket. Every now and then her face lighted up with happiness. So did the face of J. Dukes Wooters. Then the young woman blushed and seemed downcast So did J. Dukes Wooters. By and by the conductor, unable to restrain his uncultured giggle any longer, said to the young woman: “Gimme your fare when you get off, miss—and take your time about it. : Three times you have unbuttoned this ; gent's vest.” He retreated to the platform. Mr. Wooters followed him, highly incensed. “Why.” demanded Mr. Wooters, “did you have to butt in? Weren’t V:we getting along all right?” Once Famous Author’s Chef. An old woman who was formerly cook for Alexander Dumas, the famous French writer of romances, has been discovered keeping an inn near Rehaupal in the Department of the Vosges. Here is her account of the somewhat unusual existence she led at her former master’s: “It was in 1868,” she says, “that, being without a place in Paris, I was engaged as cook by M. Dumas at Enghien-les-Bains, in the country house where he passed the summer. He was an excellent man, polite with his servants. The place of cook certainly was not a sinecure at M. Dumas’s. He kept open table and received dally aCleast fifteen guests. But as he was not rich and lived from day to day on the proceeds of his books and plays we were ■ ' often out of linen, the little which he i t owned being at the laundry. Then a bed sheet served for tablecloth or else j the table was spread with linen from • the day before, washed in haste and ' still all damp. After his reception M. I Dumas worked all night, often going : without sleep. Such a disorder pleased me very little, especially as the guests whom he received were almost all Bohemian by nature. Thus I left the house at the end of six months.” Tact. “I won S2OO in last night.” confided a friend. “Good for you!” we cried. “I want to tell some folks about that —the —” “Now, look here —you keep still about it. I wouldn’t let my wife know about that game for anything.” | “But you told me that your wife was a good fellow, and let you play poker all you wanted to.” “She does. She never kicks about my sitting in a game and even if-I lose, she cheers me up and—” “Well, I thought so. Why shouldn’t I tell her about this game?” “Why, you chump! I won S2OO. That’s why. And I need the money. If my wife asks where I was tell her I was out losing SSO on a football tame.” Ups and Downs. Harry Pollock, the financier of the tremendously successful fight in Madison Square Garden, New York, last month, said the other day to a reporter: “There’s money in aviation, they tell me; but I tell them that there’s more money in the fight game.” Mr. Pollock smiled. "I know a chap," he said, “who worked four years in making a monoplane and three years in organizing a monoplane company. Seven years of his life wasted!” Again Mr. Pollock smiled. “The monoplane,” he ended, “wouldn’t go up, Taut the company did.” Hard to Kill This Boy. A sleepwalker in New York, a "bby thirteen years old, a few nights ago, walked out of the window on the sixth floor of an apartment house and fell to the pavement, one hundred feet below. 'He was taken to a hospital with twenty bones broken, besides inzternal injuries, but it is thought he will recover. Money Not Everythinn. “Why does your father object to me?” “Because you have no money,” faltered the girl. ’ “Money isn’t everything. I know a couple that started housekeeping on tobacco coupons alone.”—Louisville Cour! er-Journal. Useful to Blaoksmlth. To hold horseshoes or other articles on an anvil, leaving both hands free, is the purpose of a foot operated device that a New Yorker has patented.

ATLANTIC SQUADRON IN THE HUDSON. i ; _ ; i v ' '■ ' zz \\ • Irniw' ii « // yv' ■b ■ ■ CTin v 1 \\ I * \1 —Si* 1 //* *1 11 am i 1-4, IWS r IM IA ■ rid-. -J * ; ■■ HEN President Taft reviewed the Atlantic squadron in the Hudson river at New York he saw the greatest fleet of American fighting vessels ever assembled. Our photograph shows a part of the long line and Duke, the most popular mascot of the fleet, reviewing the vessels from the deck of the Dolphin as they passed out to sea. P”* • •

DANGER OF DISEASE

Leprosy and Bubonic Germs Lurk in Hair Factories. 7— Many Children and Young Girls Exposed, Says Dr. Charles Graham Rogers, State Medical Examiner of State of New York. New York—That danger of leprosy «nd bubonic plague lurks in “ruts" and “puffs” and that there are many children and young girls in this city and state who work in factories under conditions almost certain to cause painful and even fatal diseases, were assertions made by Dr. Charles Rogers, mbdical examiner of the state department of labor, at the continuation of the hearing of the factory investigation commission. In the course of his examination by Abram I. Elkus, counsel for the commission, Dr. Rogers was asked about ! factories in which white phosphorous I, matches are made. “There are two of these factories in this state,” he answered. “One is in Brooklyn and the other is in Oswego. Beyond question there are the most dangerous factories in the state. There is very great danger to employes who handle the matches and work over the phosphorous paste. The chief menace is a rotting away of the bones, particularly the jaw bone, due to the action of the white phosphorous. “Many women and children work in these two factories and in my opinion their employment should be prohibited. Although our present law says that children may do nothing in such places but pack the boxes, I am quite sure that they sort the matches. This exposes thens to as much danger as threatens the grown men.” Children, he said, should not be allowed to work in calico print works, in pearl button factories, in gas mantle works, in potteries or in chemical factories of any sort. In one pearl button factory on Long Island, he testified, he found 100 boys and girls under the age of 16. “Every worker that I examined in this place I found to be suffering with laryngitis or bronchitis,” he said. PRISONERS ACT AS GUARDS Men in Seattle Jail Go to Court All Alone and Return After Adjournment Is Ordered. Seatie, Wash.—Hearing of the cut in the appropriation for his office, as made by the county commissioners, and realizing that he must continue to be short of deputy sheriffs. Sheriff Robert T. Hodge has adopted the expedient of sending prisoners to attend court unaccompanied by deputies and on their parole to return. The other day the sheriff sent John W. Dalton, charged with abduction, down to Justice R. R. George’s court on parole, and he reported his arrival at court by telephone and later asked for permission ’to take dinner downtown. “No, you come to the jail for dinner; we’ll fix you up a warm bit®,” said the sheriff. Dalton was back in Jail in seven minutes after he telephoned. Jack Rabbit Is Hoodoo. Dallas, Ore.—Fred Auer, a prominent farmer living near Rickerall, Polk county, accidentally shot himself while driving-some cattle from Rickerall to Dallas. A jack rabbit ran accross the road and Auer reached for his revolver in his hip pocket The hammer caught on his chaps and one hell exploded, the bullet entering his Ide. Radium Rays Deadly. Paris. —Professor Bouchard’s experiments with radium have convinced him that when projected on nerve centers radium produces paralysis and rapid death

In factories where gas mantles are made, he went on, he had frequently found boys and girls in a state of intoxication due to inhaling the alcohol fumes arising from the collodion used in the making of the mantles. In some of the places, he said, wood alcohol was used. “The inhalation of the fumes of this poison,” he said, “causes total blindness in time, completely and permanently destroying the optic nerves.” Germs abound in the human hair factories in this city. Dr. Rogers testified, and he had found all kinds of bacteria, including what he firmly believed to be germs of bubonic plague. Workers in human hair, he said, were exposed to danger of tuberculosis, chronic gastritis, intestinal diseases and abscesses of the stomach. From 80 to 90 per cent of the employes in human hair factories are growing girted he said. “If a woman with an abrasion or a cut on her scalp were to wear one of these puffs,” he continued, and it happened that the article contained any of the germs I have mentioned, serious results would almost certainly follow. “One medical man recently told me of a case of leprosy of a young girl in a nearby city caused by wearing an infected puff or rat.” The danger to employes in these factories, he asserted, lay in the fact that the workers swallowed quantities of fine, small hairs. Pus producing germs on these hairs, he explained, caused abscesses of the stomach if there was an abrasion of the stomach lining. This evil, he declared, could be remedied at small cost by the installation of an exhaust ventilating system. The law at present makes it impossible to remedy the condition, he said, and added his belief that children should be prohibited from working in hair factories. The only other witness Was William F. Tibbs, a deputy Inspector, who testified regarding a candy factory in this city where the conditions were, in his language, “dirty,” and in that of Mr. Elkus, who seemed to be familiar with the premises, “filthy.”

MISER’S FORTUNE IS FOUND

Money Discovered In Many Odd Places —Disliked His Relatives and Lived in Oklahoma. Carrier, Okla.—To find a fortune in gold and currency hidden in strange and improbable places in his own home was the experience of Gerhart Thelllen, a German farmer living near here. This money, amounting to sll,600.05, had been hoarded by C. F. Schultze, an eccentric recluse, who had made his home with Thielen a number of years. Thielen believed Schultzei probably was worth SI,OOO or $2,000, but had no idea of its whereabouts. The money was found when Schultze died of pneumonia several days ago. Schultze formerly lived in Texas, where he has relatives who now have fallen heir to his fortune. Schultze disliked his kinsmen, and in Texas he boarded with Thielen’s mother-in-law. When the Thielens moved to Carrier, Schultze followed and lived with them, paying them $4 a month, always in cash. He occupied a single room, into which he admitted no one. When the boarder died Thielen went to Enid and asked how he should proceed in caring for the small personal estate that had been left by the old man. Thielen was appointed administrator. During his lifetime Schultze had told Thielen he, should be his heir, but no will so far ai known ever was executed. Thielen upon returning home refused to enter and search the old man’s room unless accompanied by neighbors. E. M. Spade and J. P. Gigoux helped Thielen explore the room.

HOGS IN FIGHT FOR APPLES Missouri Farmer Is Compelled to Pen His Animals Up So They Can Sleep and Not Waste Away. St. Louis. —Here is the season’s prize fruit story. It was told in Edwardsville the other day by Rev. P. T . Buschmann, pastor of St. Paul’s Evangelical church. Circuit Judge Louis Bernreuter had been helping the minister to prepare caldrons of apple butter for the winter, and the pastor declared that the apple crop was exceptional. “Peaches, too, for that matter,” continued the minister. “Why, do you know, one of my church members living at the foot of the bluffs has had to pen up his hogs at night so that they could get some sleep and not waste away. “They eat apples all day long and at night when they can no longer see them they hear a big apple drop to th® ground with a whack and Immediately the whole drove scurries to get it Their owner tells me they were actually wearing away more flesh in this continued pursuit than they put on,' and he therefore had to confine them at night” PLANNING TO CHECK BABIES Western Railroad Alms to Establish Nurseries/on All Trains With All Comforts of Home. San Francisco—Attention, mammas and papas! If this legand, “Check Your Baby,” lures your glance when you enter a passenger station don’t pinch yourself to see if you are dreaming. Just take the baby over to the white-garbed nurse that smiles at you from the portal of the spotless nursery under the alluring legend, get your check and enjoy yourself while baby is having the time of its life before train time. J Or, if you are tired, you mothers, that same nurse will lead you to a comfortable couch. The idea of a special room is now being tried out by the Southern Pacific at Sacramento. If the experience proves successful the rooms will probably be established at all the larger stations. It is the aim of the company to equip the rooms with all the comforts of a home.

Almost at the first step gold and currency began tumbling and rattling from hidden places. There was money wrapped up in socks, stored in secret drawers, and in old clothing. Thousands of dollars in S2O and SSO gold certificates were the core of big bundles of old German yarn socks. In an old vest which Schultze made himself was found $5,360 in S2O bills. The money had been sewed in the lining of the vest which Schultze had worn for years. In another vest was $1,910, and in an old billbook was S6O in bills and $1.05 in silver. The vests had been stuffed away in bureau drawers barred by intricate combination locks. In the false bottom of a chest made by Schultze was $4,260 in S2O gold pieces./ Elsewhere in odd places was $2,000 in notes. Thielen deposited the fortune in a bank at Carrier and will hold it for the lawful heirs. New Rule at Northwestern. Chicago.—A new “slow down” sign was erected the other day along the speedway of love at Northwestern university. In segregated chapel Miss Mary Potter, the new dean of the coeds, announced that hereafter men callers at Willard dormitory win have to provide themselves with two cards —one for the callee and the other for herself. If the dean approves of the visitor he will be admitted; otherwise —and Miss Potter made the situation, quite clear—he will stay outside. In-| dignation over the new ruling is great among the co-eds and the mejx etu- 1 dents affected.

NEW NEWS of YESTERDAY I —I By E. J. EDWARDS I s=

Crucial Event in His Career

Gen. Grenville M. Dodge When a Youth Proved He Could Handle and Subdue Gang of Rowdy Railroad Laborers. Maj. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, with the exception of Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, is the only survivor of all the generals who served as corps commanders in the Union army from the outbreak of the Civil war to its close. In the history of the material development of the country he occupies a prominent place as the chief engineer of the Union Pacific who supervised the construction of that first railroad across the plains, and no romance of fiction can be compared with the story of General Dodge’s career while he was constructing the railroad. That period of his life was crowded with fights with Indians, rattlesnakes, buffalo, mountain lions, grizzly bears and other big game. “General Dodge and I have been on terms of friendship for nearly thirty years,” said George F. Parker, the biographer of Grover Cleveland, recently, “and I believe Yhere are only three men living who know the true itory of Geenral Dodge’s advent in the west as a railway engineer. Os course, the general himself is one of the three, and another is Peter A. Dey, the first man to survey a railroad in the state of lowa, and the first chief engineer of the Union Pacific railroad. Both Mr. Dey and General Dodge are spending their closing yeats in lowa, and they maintain the closest friendly relations, which began sixty years ago, at the very beginning of General Dodge’s career in the west. “In the early fifties what is now the Illinois Central railroad was constructing a small branch line in the western part of middle Illinois. The engineer in charge was Pbter A. Dey, who had been conspicuously associated with those who a little earlier had built the main line of the Illinois CentraL For some reason—l know not what — Mr. Dey had great difficulty in maintaining any kind of order or system among the men who had been employed as laborers or in subordinate capacity to build this branch line. They were unruly and defiant; they worked when they pleased and got drunk as often as they chose. Mr. Dey’s duties frequently called him to the main line of the Illinois Central and he was in despair of securing anyone who could handle the rowdies. “At the height of the difficulty.

One Sentence Not Answered

Thurlow Weed’s Explanation of His Reason for Not Printing Daniel Webster’s Speech Favoring the United States Bank. — “Only once during all the years that I wife editor of the Albany Journal while Daniel Webster was alive —and those years were twenty-two in number —did I refuse to print In full a speech of Webster’s; and I did that In spite of the fact that I was a stanch personal admirer of Webster and my paper give him unwavering support,” said Thurlow Weed, the great New York state political leader. “The circumstances of that refusal were these,” continued Mr. Weed. “Andrew Jackson, as you know, was the great opponent of the United States Bank. Daniel Webster was its great defender. He was relied upon by those interested in having the charter* of the bank renewed to persuade by his arguments and his oratory a majority of the United States senate to vote for renewal. Indeed, Webster made one of his greatest speeches in support of the bank. Excepting his speech in reply to Hayne, I do not believe that he ever made a finer speech. “Well, I received a copy of his United States bank speech a day or two after it was delivered. AH the anti-Jackson men of my part of New York state looked to the Albany Journal, which 1 had started as an antiJackson organ, for the report of the speech. But they were disappointed. I did not print it. “Almost at once I received a call -from Ambrose Spencer, chief justice of the state’s highest court, and one of the state’s great intellects; he was the father of John C. Spencer, who was secretary of the navy in Tyler’s cabinet. Judge Spencer’s manner was very stern as he told me that he had called to inquire why I had not printed Daniel Webster’s great speech on the United States bank. “’Well, judge,’ I said, ‘after reading the speech I decided that I could not print it.’ “He turned upon me with some anger and asked if I thought that I was a greater man than Daniel Webster. “I said that I certainly did not, but that after reading Webster’s speech I had turned to Andrew Jackson’s communication to congress in which he opposed the granting of a new charter to the United States bank and there I had found one sentence which Webster, great as be was, had not an iwered and could not answer.

there called upon Mr. Dey a young man seeking employment. He was tall, straight as a pine tree and darkeyed, and his manner was inherently thA. of one who knew how to exert authority. ‘‘Mr. Dey asked him what he could do, and in reply the stranger said that he was a civil engineer and bad ben graduated at Norwich university, in Vermont, a year earlier. “ What is your name?’ Mr. Dey asked. ’’ ’Grenville Mellen Dodge.’ “'Well.’ said Mr. Dey, ‘if you have a diploma from Norwich university you are competent to take charge ot the surveying of my branch line. But what 1 want to know is, can you handle men?’ “ ’Try me and see,’ was Mr. Dodge's succinct reply. “ ‘You are pretty young.’ said Mr. Dey, looking him over critically, ‘but I’ll try you.’ “So hd employed Grenville M. Dodge, and watched him closely. Within a week the young man had the rowdies under his control. Those that he could not manage because of their excessive drunkenness he sent away. It a month he had as orderly and efficient a gang of workmen as was to be found anywhere in the west; and he also had gained what was of lifelong advantage to him — the confidence and esteem of Peter A. Dey. So, when Mr. Dey was employed to survey for the extension of the Rock Island railroad across lowa — the first of the state’s railroads —he

Courtship Like Jenny Lind’s

Patrick Sarsfleld Gilmore’s Story of How Euphrosyne Parepa Wooed and Won Carl Rosa, the Famous but Bashful Violinist. “Very likely you have heard of the romantic courtship which preceded the betrothal and the marriage, in 1852, of Jenny Lind, ‘the Swedish nightingale,’ and Otto Goldschmidt. Well, I can tell you the story of a courtship carried on between another great prima donna and a very modest yet noted musician which, I think, will match the story of Jenny Lind’s courting of the modest piano playing Goldschmidt Gold schmidt, you may recall, though he loved Jenny Lind, felt that he was too far below her to tell her so, and so.

“Judge Spencer with great dignity asked me to point out that sentence. I tooK Jackson’s message and marked a single sentence. It was this: “‘To recharter the United States bank wfti be to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.’ . “ ‘That sentence,’ said I to I Judge Spencer, ‘will appeal to every/American citizen except the few who possess great riches, and until some one so speaks as to show that to recharter the bank will not make the rich richer and the poor poorer, 1 shall certainly not attempt in my paper, even by Indirection, to take issue with Andrew Jackson.’ “Judge Spencer looked at me with a queer expression for a moment, and then, taking his hat. went from my office without saying another word.” (Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) Stevenson Dreamed a Plot. Stevenson used to assert that the lUplration for his finest work was given to him in dreams. It was the “Brownies” or “Little People” who made his unconscious brain the vehicle for their activities. He tells the story of how he came to write “Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” “I had long been trying to write a story on this subject, to find a body, a vehicle, for that strong sense of man’s double being which must at times come in and overwhelm the mind of every thinking creature. . . . For two days 1 went about racking my brain for a plot of any sort; and on the second night I dreamed the scene at the window, and a scene, afterwards split in two, in which Hyde, pursued for some time, took the powder and underwent the change in the presence of his pursuers. All the rest was made awake, and although I think I can trace in It much of the manner of my Brownies." Slayer Notified Police. The Cupar (Scotland) police were horrified the other evening to receive the message “I have shot my father. Come and arrest me,” over the telephone, from William Hourton, living on an estate near Cupar-Fife. On investigating they found that the crime really had been committed. The young man and his father went out shooting, but shortly afterwards the son returned alone and told the estate overseer of the murder, adding: “I’m going to telephone the police." The old man was found dead, his face covered with blood, and a gun and revolver beside him. The youth la thought to be insane.

sent for Grenville M. Dodge and associated Mr. Dodge with him in that great work. “Then the Civil war Intervened and the young surveyor became a major general of volunteers when only thu> ty-three years of age. Hi* fighting career over, Peter Dey employed Gei\ J eral Dodge to help him survey the Union Pacific. As long ®s Mr Dey remained chief engineer of that road, General Dodge was a trusted assist ant, and when Mr. Dey resigned post General Dodge understood so well the engineering problems of the road that he was made chief engineer. And to this day Mr. Dey is of the opinion that if Grenville M. Dodge had not shown himself equal to the first opportunity that came to him to prove his ability to handle men—desperate men —he would never have ultimately gained permanent laurels by his work in surveying the Union Pacific and supervising its construction.” t (Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edwards. AH Rights Reserved!) Some Few Changes. “Well, well!” said the man who had wandered back to the old village. “So the Eagle House is still the Eagle House. No change after twenty years.” “There have been a tew changes,“ responded the oldest inhabitant. / “Since you’ve been gone the hotel has been respectively the Grant Central, the Grand Union, the Grand Junction, the Great Northern, the Great South ern, the Imperial, the Regal, the Empire, the Regent and the Mansion House. She’s just starting around the circuit for the second time.”

Jenny Lind being in love with her pianist, and realizing why he hesitated to tell her of his love for her, was practically forced to do the courting. “It waa In 1867,” continue* the greatest bandmaster of his time, the late Patrick Sarsfleld Gilmore, “that Euphrosyne Parepa, who had quite as fine a reputation between 1860 and 1874 as any grand opera singer, and Carl Rosa, who was l regarded as one of the great violin players of Europe, made a tour the United States, where Parepa had come two years before. I saw them in concert in Boston, and it did not take me long to become aware of the fact that Parepa was casting decidedly kindly glances toward the young violinist who shared the applause of the audience with her. He was indeed, a master of the violin. “Before he went on the stage, Parepa, who, had the blackest, merriest eyes I ever saw, would approach Rosa, whose hair was fair, whose complexion was jjink, and whose eyes were the bluest I ever saw, and ask him in German how the weather affected his violin. She would do it charmingly, her eyes dancing, her olive tinted cheeks suffused with a delicate blush. Then, after Rosa had finished playing and had sought the wings she would approach him and say fascinatingly what in English amounted to this: ‘Ah, my little violinist, you brought the music of the heavens out of your instrument!’ The boy—he was then only in his twenties, while Parepa was in the thirties —woftld blush like a school girl at the compliment, atd'look with sly, furtive glance at Parepa while he stammered his thanks for the compliment. “When Parepa’s turn came to appear upon the stage she would flash the merriest of glances at the timid violinist and say to him that she wanted him to listen to her singing because, if she knew that he was listening, then she would bq sure to sing her best. And again the violinist would blush furiously and look furtively at the great singer, and his long, drooping blonde mustache would tremble in his agitation. “As soon as she had finished her song Parepa would seek out Rosa in the wings and say softly, ‘Well —?’ and then wait for the compliment which she had invited. And the embarrassed boy, blushing red, would say stammeringly to her: ‘You will see how you inspired me when I play my next selection.’ “Oh, it was a beautiful case of visible courtship and Parepa made love not coquettishly, but charmingly. And she had to. The fact was t-hat Carl Rosa was so modest and so complete a devotee of Parepa and admirer of her artistic work that he was afraid to assert himself as her lover. Like Jenny Lind with Otto Goldschmidt, she had to do all the courting; she knew that Carl Rosa’s timidity was all that stood in the way of his becoming a most devoted and impassioned lover. At last she hinted to him that her hand and heart were his for the asking, and the next day, I have been told, Carl Rosa played superbly andsParepa sang as never before. “They were married shortly after in New York. Then they reorganized the Parepa-Rosa English opera company out of which, after the death of Parepa tn 1874, grew the Carl Rosa English opera company, the most successful and the longest lived of all the comS antes organized to give opera in Eng■h” (Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edwards. AU Rights Reserved.)