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New York.—According to the last
census report on women at work
in the United States, it has been
learned that they number almost
5,000,000, or to be very exact, 4,833.
630. Such, at least, were the figures
at the time of the collecting of the
last census, in 1900, and in the ensu
ing seven years it is generally com
puted that they have increased their
numbers fully 2,000,000.
In the reports of the twelfth cen
sus the detailed classification of
bread winners, with respect to the
kind of work in which they were en
gaged, distinguishes 303 occupations.
Women are represented in all but
nine of these occupations. Naturally
no women were reported as United
States soldiers, sailors or marines;
nor were any reported as members
of the fire department or as car driv
ers (though two were reported as mo
tormen), or as telegraph or telephone
linemen, or as apprentices or helpers
to roofers or slaters, or as helpers
to steam boiler makers. But the
reader may note with interest as well
as surprise that there are already
within these United States five wom
en pilots; that on the steam rail
roads are ten girl “baggage smash
ers," 31 fair brakemen, seven con
ductors, 45 engine drivers, 26
switchmen, yardmen and flagmen;
that we have 43 carriage and hack
drivers.
As to New York Women.
These figures represent the status
of working women of the United
States generally. What about the
working women of New York city
particularly? What are they work
ing at, and why do they work?
Are they entirely dependent upon
themselves, or are they working for
pin money or to have a good time or
fine clothes, as is so often charged?
And last of all but not less interest
ing, are they married?
Of the thousand women asked
these questions by the New York Her
ald, 25 were nurses, 25 milliners. 50
seamstresses and dressmakers; 100
were paper box makers. 50 cigar mak
ers, 100 department store saleswom
en. 50 tailoresses, 50 shirtwaist mak
ers, 50 laundresses, a hundred type
writers and stenographers, a hun
dred teachers, a hundred workers on
novelty goods and workers in fac
tories of various sorts, such as tin
can making, bonnet making, artifi
cial flower making, etc.
; Nine hundred and twenty-five an
swers were received, from which the
following facts are deduced:
The working women of New York
city are as a general thing working
not for pin money or to give them an
increase in the luxuries of life, but
because they have to work to keep
themselves and perhaps others from
starvation.
Working women of New York city
do not look upon marriage as the un
mixed blessing, the great and only
end of woman. While not adverse to
it on general principles, she does not
accept it either with the eagerness or
the complacency which the working
women of a generation ago did un
der the same conditions.
Testimony of Women.
No better or surer proof of these
generalizations could be offered than
the words of the women and girls
themselves upon the subject.
“I am a laundress,” writes one
woman in a two-page communication
accompanying the blank report sent
to her. "I am a laundress and I am
not on the job for my health. To
piece out other income! Well, I
guess not. I am working because if
I didn’t my three kids would be in
the Protectory and I'd be, God knows
where. Yes, I'm married. I’m mar
ried to a man who has never been
able to get along very well, though
he ain’t a drinking man and he has
no bad habits except lie's lazy.”
“I am a paper box maker and I
work because I have to support my
self and my sick mother and two
younger children, which I manage to
do by sewing nights on special work
| for a department store,” writes a girl
j who further appends at the bottom
of the blank a statement of her
age, 23. *
Many Love Their Work.
Answers such as these were re
ceived, not by the score but by the
hundred, as in almost every instance
the women not only took the trouble
to answer the questions put to them,
but to elaborate their replies with a
rich embroidery of personal detail
that had been quite unhoped for, and
which proves of special value in
gathering a table of statistics of this
kind. In the case of 210 of the re
plies the correspondents express
themselves vigorously on the ques
tion of why they are at work. Twen
ty-two of this number declare in con
siderable detail that they work be
cause they love to work, and they
would do so anyway whether they
had to or not. The other 188 express
the very opposite sentiment. They
are working, as their letters reveal,
often from stem and bitter necessity
and not at all from choice. All but
37 of the 210 are supporting other
people besides themselves. Of the
total 925 who answered the question
807 supported, either entirely or in
part, either a father or a mother,
younger brothers or sisters, or, where
married, children, or children and hus
band. Of the 925, ten confessed to
supporting lazy husbands, and 15 were
married to men either invalids or
semi-invalids, whom they supported
either entirely or during certain por
tions of the time. There were 240
married women altogether, and out
side of those who supported their hus
bands either entirely or in part all the
rest stated that their earnings were es
sential to piece out the husband’s and
father’s wage.
Of the 4,833,650 women reported as
engaged in gainful occupations at the
time of the twelfth census, 1,124,383,
or almost one-fourth of the total num
ber, were returned as servants. The
next most important occupation is
that of farm laborer, and the number
pf women reported as following this
occupation was 456,405. It is pointed
out that 442,006 of these female farm
laborers were reported from the south
ern states and that 361,804, or 79.3 per
cent, of the tota! number, were of the
negro race. Also, 277,727, or 60.9 per
cent, of the total number, were mem
bers of the farmers' families, repre
senting the wives and grown-up daugh
ters, assisting in the work on the
home farms.
BY GERTRUDE BARNUM.
Organizer of Woman’s Trade Union
League.
The Herald is doing an excellent
work in endeavoring to find out facts
about working women from the wom
en themselves. Usually the last person
consulted on the subject of industrial
conditions is the worker, the one who,
by all rights, knows most about it.
When I hear of an investigation I
tremble. People collect such one-sid
ed evidence and proceed to issue re
ports which are accepted as gospel the
moment they are nicely.set up in type
and bound In light green with a few
prominent names on the title page.
Meanwhile the situation of the un
named workers who are holding up the
platform for us to strut on remains as
before.
Moat Striking Point.
One thing strikes me at once In
looking over the reports, and that is
that, with pitifully few exceptions, the
women are working without joy in
their labor and working not from
choice but from stern necessity. I be
lieve that these returns, too, represent
truly the state of mind of the vast
majority of working women of Amer
ica—that we have in this land of the
free fully 5,000,000 women to-day in
gainful occupations driven and bound
to work from which they shrink with
all their souls. That is why I am ac
customed to speak of it as slavery.
It is not necessary to produce fig
ures to show that the average wage
earned by women and girls in New
York is not sufficient for them to life
on properly. What sense is there in
spending a year’s work in finding out
what sort of a life a working girl can
live on six dollars per week, when
there is such a crying need of spend
ing that year in some effort to raise
that wage—a wage which is breeding
conditions dangerous nii>e both to this
and succeeding generations? New, as
to the statistics of the government ex
perts, we have nothing later than
f900, and even at that time they were
inadequate. We are not to have-an
other full report until 1912. Accord
ing to the last census report, taken
seven years ago, 4,833,630 women over
16 years were employed in gainful oc
cupations. This number does not in
elude girls under 16, who crowd every
trade and line of work, and it does
not include the women and young
girls and children who work in their
own homes. About 6,000,000 women
and girls, or 18 per cent, of the total
female population in 1900, including
girls under 16, worked for pay, and
I believe that at least a third again
as many would be found to-day. There
is a vast and ever-increasing army of
women and girls practically enslaved
by our present industrial conditions.
The largest number of women in 1900
employed for pay were in domestic
and personal service, or more than
2,000,000.
Figures on Industries.
The manufacture of cloth and cloth
ing employed the second largest num
ber, or nearly 1,500,000. Agriculture
came next, employing pearly 1,000,000.
Women outnumber men in dressmak
ing, millinery and the unclassified
sewing trades which occupied two
thirds of a million workers. The only
other trades properly so-called that
show any such proportion of women,
are the shirt, collar and cuff making,
the overhall and overcoat industry and
paper box making. Since nearly every
thing we buy from hats to shoes,
comes to us in paper boxes, the im
portance of the latter trade can be
easily estimated; 82 per cent, of its
workers are women. The other indus
tries show smaller proportions of wom
en in 1900. However, among tobacco
and cigar operators, two-thirds are
women, and of the bookbinders more
than half. Of those engaged in the
nursing profession 90 per cent, were
women; in laundering, 85 per cent,
and in domestic service, 82 per cent.
The only remaining important occu
pations given over largely to women
were stenography and typewriting,
with 77 per cent., and teaching with
73 per cent, women.
Married Women Who Work.
Now, about women who work after
marriage. Roughly we might say that
In 1900 two-thirds of the dressmakers
and seamstresses remained at work
after marriage, as well as nearly half
of the cotton mill and tobacco factory
operatives, boot and shoe workers,
tailoresses and milliners. As condi
tions are now, with low wages, these
cannot afford to pay for the proper
care of their children while they them
selves are at work, and the condition
of the children of married working
women is often deplorable—such as
will breed disease, vice and crime
when they reach maturity
Reforms Suggested.
It may seem very materialistic, but
to me it seems of first importance that
wages should be high enough to make
it possible to keep the race upon the
earth, with proper food and sufficient
clothing. In 1900 one-fourth of all
women in bakeries and an equal num
ber in glass factories, though more
than 16 years old, received only an av
erage of $3.50 a week, the year round,
while in the manufacturing of cloth
ing the same proportion were paid
less than three dollars a week. And
yet we wonder that women are tempt
ed by the comforts and luxuries with
which vicious men are ever ready to
lure them.
What is to be done?
We must get at the facts by scien
tific investigation, make those facts
familiar to the public, encourage legis
lation, even constitutional amend
ments, if need be, and last, and most
important and essential of all, help
the organization of women into trades
unions.
To the argument so often offered
that women cannot be unionized I can
only reply that women are organized
to-day, and organized most successful
ly, not in one or two, but in a score or
more trades and professions. I be
lieve it is not exaggerating to say
that more than 50,000 women are pay
ing dues to trades organizations to
day. Indeed, the women’s .trades
union has ceased to be a novelty, and
it must be only a matter of a few
years before the trades union woman
will be the rule rather than the excep
tion among the millions of her sex
who toil for their daily bread and that
c? their children.
“You can fool some of the people
all of the time, and all of the people
some of the time,” began the man
who is fond of moral reflections.
“Well, what more do you want?” in
terrupted his political friend. “Any
better game than that would be too
easy.”
NATURAL BRIDGES IN AMERICA.
World’s Greatest Ones So Far as
Known Are *n Utah.
• It is not generally known that the
three greatest natural bridges in the
world—at least so far as present
knowledge goes—are located in an
almost inaccessible portion of south
-eastern Utah.
The country is uninhabited and un
inhabitable for the greater part, the
only settlement of any account being
the small town called Bluff, on the
San Juan river, and the nearest rail
road station being Dolores, in Colo
rado, 105 miles eastward.
The country of the natural bridges
can be reached via Bluff, going by
wagons to the latter place, then by
horses with pack train.
Last year a member of the National
Geographic society equipped an expe
dition with surveyors and artists and
. sent it out to make a careful study
of the bridges. No one should think
of going into this region without hav-.
ing thoroughly studied all'the condi
,. lions. T*>e few guides, that have been
there have a very limited knowledge
of the country, and the main and side
canyons so cut up the country that a
party may easily become lost.
Of the three great arches the Au
gusta bridge is the largest, the meas
urements being: Height, 256 feet;
span, 320 feet width in narrowest
part, 35 feet, and thickness, 83 feet.
Next comes the Caroline bridge,
'with height. 182 feet; span, 350 feet; j
width, 60 feet, and thickness 60 feet.
The smallest is the slender, graceful
Edwin bridge; height, 111 feet; span,
205 feet; width, 30 feet, and thickness,
10 feet.
The Augusta bridge was so named
in honor of the wife of Horace J.
Long, who in 1903 visited the bridges
with James Scorup-. Mr. Scorup, it ap
pears, had visited these bridges pre
vious to that time, and in showing
Long the way to them stipulated
that the second one should be named
the Caroline, after his (Scorup’s)
mother.
So far as Scorup knew the bridges
were first discovered by . Emery
Knowies in 1805, and he himself vis
ited them in company with two cow
boys, Tom Hall and Jim Jones, in the
fall of that year.
The next party to visit this section,
so far as known, was that promoted by
the Salt Lake City Commercial club
during the winter and spring of 1905.
The Edwin bridge was named at this
time after Edwin F. Holmes, who or
ganized that party and who also
equipped the latest expedition.
These bridges, composed as they
are of light sandstone, might seem to
be wearing away very rapidly. Such,
however, Is not the case, for in the
caves beneath the Caroline abutments
were found ancient relics, including
pottery and well-preserved fiber san
dals.—National Geographic Magazine.
The will of Daniel Fenstermacher.
of Lynn township, Pa., probated re
cently, leaves to his wife the farm
house and -contents and gives her the
privilege of planting each year until
her death one row of sweet potatoes
and two rows of Irish potatoes. She
is also to have the use of the well on
the farm and the gates leading to the
^public roads. The; estate disposed of
is valued'at $20,000. ", 5
TABLE DELICACIES
DAINTY DISHES SUITABLE FOR
ALL OCCASIONS.
Something New In the Line of Break
fast Preparations—A Quick Des
sert—Preparation of Rib
bon Sandwiches.
Dainty Breakfast Dish.—Equal parts
of toast crumbs, chopped boiled ham,
and a small piece of butter. Put in
buttered muffin rings and break an
egg on top. Place in oven until egg
is just the right consistency. Slip a
pancake turner under them and re
move to a warm platter, then gently
run a knife around the ring, removing
it and leaving your muffin shaped
dainty. This may be garnished with
crisp pieces of bacon.
Quick Dessert.—Beat the whites of
four eggs, add four tablespoons sugar,
four of cocoa. Bake in a pudding dish
in moderate oven about 15 minutes.
Serve at once with whipped cream.
Raspberry Ice.—Three tablespoon
fuls of sugar, one cupful of raspber
ries, one-third cupful water, one tea
spoonful of lemon juice. Sprinkle
raspberries with sugar, cover, and let
stand one hour; then mash and
squeeze through cheesecloth to press
out as much juice as possible. Add
lemon juice and freeze.
Juicy Roast.—Heat some beef fat in
an iron pan or broad kettle. Put the
meat into it and with a fork stuck in
the fat part turn until it is a fine
brown on all sides. This is done to
keep in the juices. Put into a hot
oven elevated from the bottom. Now
in five minutes you will find the top
dried, which will make it necessary to
dip the hot fat from the pan over the
top of the meat. Repeat every few
minutes. Add no water to the pan.
When half done add salt and pepper,
as it will toughen if seasoned before.
Vegetable Soup for Hay Stove.—
Clean soup bone and put in large hay
stove bucket; add water, salt and pep
per to taste; two carrots chopped fine;
one good sized onion; two bay leaves;
six allspice berries; one-quarter cup
of rice. Cook one-half hour on fire.
Then remove to hay stove and leave
ten hours.
Ribbon Sandwiches.—Ribbon sand
wiches are pretty on the plate. Rye
bread and white bread in alternating
layers, with cream cheese between, or
Boston brown bread and white bread,
or graham and white will give the
ribbon effect. Another idea requires
three square, thin slices of white
bread and two corresponding slices of
whole-wheat bread. Butter a slice of
white bread and cover it with a fill
ing made of egg paste, then put upon
it a slice of whole-wheat bread and
butter that and cover with egg paste.
On top of that place another slice of
white bread and repeat the operation,
with white bread and whole-wheat
bread, alternating until you have used
all your five slides.
A Good Suggestion.
Often and often you have stood by
the kitchen table laboriously trying to
clean the silk from green corn. Of j
course, you know just how difficult
this can be at times, especially when <
the silk is deeply imbedded. Have a
small brush for this purpose—the
vegetable brush will do—and you will
be delighted in finding how much
more quickly you can accomplish the
work. Another good suggestion is to
use the scissors to “snip” beans
which are free from strings. The work
is done more rapidly than when one
takes the time to tediously perform
the work by hand.
Eggs Baked in Tomatoes.
Cut the tops from as many firm to
matoes as you desire to prepare*—one
for each person to be served—remove
the centers with a knife or spoon,
sprinkle generously with salt and set
in the oven until partly cooked. Re
move from the oven and carefully
break a fresh egg into each tomato,
sprinkle with sf.lt and pepper and
add to each a small lump of butter.
Return to the oven until the eggs are
set. Serve Immediately.
Orange Fluff Is Delicious.
Beat three cupfuls of milk In a
double boiler, stir in three scant table
spoonfuls of cornstarch dissolved in
a little milk, one teaspoonful of butter,
one-half cupful of sugar, the beaten
yolks of two eggs; cook for five min
utes, then add the grated rind and
the juice of two oranges. Beat the
whites of two eggs into whipped
cream.
Sand Tarts.
Stir to a cream one cup butter and
ft cup and a half sugar. Add three
eggs, whites and yolks beaten separ
ately, one tablespoonful water, and a
half teaspoonful baking powder sifted
with enough flour to make stiff enough
to roll. Roll thin, on a floured board,
cut in squares, sprinkle sugar and
cinnamon on top and bake.
Luncheon Dish.
Take one can of good corn, same
amount of dry baker’s bread. Break
into small pieces. Then add the whole
of three beaten eggs. Salt and pepper
to taste. Mix the whole and fry in
lard and butter. This is a fine dish,
and doubles the amount of a can of
corn.
Ginger Cake.
One egg, one-half cup butter, filled
with boiling water; one-half cup
sugar, filled with molasses; two scant
cups of flour; one tablespoonful gin
ger, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one
even teaspoonful soda, dissolved in
boiling water. Beat thoroughly and
bake in moderately hot oven.
Doing Up Ruffled Curtains.
To do up ruffled net curtains,
stretch out on a sheet after starching.
Pin just to the ruffles and leave until
dry. • Take up and iron only the ruf
fles, dampening as you go along. This
will leave the curtain perfectly
straight.
Pressed Meat.
Cold boiled beef chopped; cold
boi.ed eggs sliced; moisten beef well
wi-h stock in which it was cooked;
season with salt and pepper. Put lay
er of beef in jar, then eggs, alternate
ly. until all is used. Press.
SPANS SEAS TO JOIN CHILD.
Deported Syrian Travels 33,666 Miles
for Daughter's Sake.
North Adams, Mass.—To outwit the
Immigration authorities and Join his
eight-year-old daughter here, a Syrian
who arrived in this city traveled over
33,666 miles, expended a small for
tune in transportation, and consumed
six months’ time.
The child was brought by her father
to the city last winter. The girl found
a home, but the father was deported,
making the distance traveled when he
again arrived at Beirut, Syria, 13,506
miles. He reembarked within a few
days for Rio Janeiro, Brazil, 7,425
miles away. His intention was to
enter the states at a gulf port, not
daring to trust himself again to the
immigration officials of the larger
eastern cities.
While in Brazil he reached the con
clusion that it would be better had he
started originally for Canada. At the
first opportunity he embarked on a
vessel for Colon, whence he crossed
the isthmus of Panama. It required
several weeks’ waiting before he final
ly embarked on a sailing vessel for
Victoria, B. C. He arrived early in
May at British Columbia, he had add
ed 8,400 miles to his itinerary.
In June he journeyed from Victoria
to Montreal, 3.291 miles. He then de
termined upon a final cast and headed
for the United States. At this point
he had no trouble in crossing the line
from Canada and made 335 miles from
Montreal to Boston. The night he ar
rived in that city he covered the final
100 odd miles still separating him and
his little girl.
TO ILLUMINATE NIAGARA FALLS.
Mist and Water Will Flash All Colors
of Rainbow at Night.
Niagara Falls, N. Y.—The contract
has been closed for the night illumin
ation of Niagara falls, and the pro
posed plan for lighting the mighty
torrent will be the greatest feat ever
conceived in electrical illumination.
The falls will be illuminated for the
first time August 15. The illuminat
ing scheme calls for nearly 50 large
searchlights, several of them the
largest of their kind and capable of
throwing a beam of light a hundred
miles, and the new color scintillator,
a late invention. The projectors will
be located below the falls in two bat
teries, one at the water’s edge and the
other on the high ground of the Cana
dian side. Every Inch of the two falls
will be under light.
The new color scintillator is an at
tachment fitted to the searchlights
by which the beams of light can be
made any color at will. Thus the
mist and water bathed in all the col
ors of the rainbow, will surpass any
thing in spectacular effect save the
great Northern Lights.
The proposition is to illuminate
Niagara on a scale in keeping with
the surroundings. It is said by the
illuminating experts that the rays of
colored lights when flashed in the air
will be visible at Rochester and
Tcronto.
MOSQUITOES HOLD UP TRAIN.
Millions of Pest Swarm Into Coaches
Near Badgley, la.
Des Moines, la.—A swarm of mos
quitoes, millions in number, literally
stalled a Minnesota & St. Louis rail
road train at Badgley the other night.
For two hours the heavily loaded
train was tied up by its fight with the
pests and the 120 passengers were al
most crazed before they escaped.
The attack was made early in the
evening, just as the train started te
pull out of Badgley.
Because of the hot weather the win
dows in the passenger coaches had
been left open and the mosquitoes,
driven from the marshes by the rain,
swarmed into the cars, attacking the
passengers. For a while the pas
sengers attempted to fight the pests
with handkerchiefs and hands, but as
they increased in number and ferocity
the conductor was finally appealed to
and stopped the train.
For two hours the train was stalled,
while the passengers, driven from the
coaches, built fires along the right of
way, making a dense smudge which
afforded them a little relief. The
smudge was then carried into the
coaches and the mosquitoes finally
driven out. Many of the passengers
had hands and faces almost eaten raw
by the attacks.
Historic Flag Exhibited.
Washington.—The historic national
banner of stars and stripes, which
inspired Francis Scott Key to com
pose “The Star Spangled Banner,”
and which floated over Fort McHenry,
Chesapeake bay, during its bombard
ment by the British on the night of
September 13, 1814, has been placed
on exhibition at the Smithsonian in
stitution in this city. The flag is the
property of Eben Appleton, of New
York, who has loaned it to the gov
ernment. The banner is 28 by 30
feet and will be draped on the wall
in the hall of history of the institu
tion.
“New Citizens” Break Record.
Washington.—All immigration rec
ords in the history of the country
were broken by the aggregate returns
for the fiscal year of 1907, which end
ed on June 30, last. The total num
ber of alien immigrants landed in
America during the year was 1,285,
349, as against 1,100,735 during the
fiscal year of 1906. The increase was
about six per cent, over the greatest
number of immigrants that ever ar
rived in America heretofore in a sin
gle year.
Doyle Will Hunt for Jewels.
London.—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
anxious to justify his reputation as a
real Sherlock Holmes, has offered his
services to Sir Arthur Vicers, the
Ulster king of arms, in unraveling the
mystery of the loss of the jeweled in
signia of the order of St. Patrick,
which was recently stolen from Dub
lin.
Berlin, after a careful study of the
proposition, including returns from
Jamestown, has decided not to hold a
world’s fair in 1913. American cities
without money to cast to the birds
will probably live up to that standard.
'CAMERA AS AID TO POLICE
The Bertillon system has been amplified in such a way that the photo
graphs now' taken bear a much more exact relation to the originals photo
graphed than was possible under the old system. The distorting effect ob
tained by the use of the ordinary camera and method is well illustrated in the
second of our photographs, in which the part of the body that is nearest to the
lens is enlarged and out cf all proportion to the rest. 1. A room divided into
sections, and arranged for the Bertillon system of photographing criminals
and dead bodies. 2. A photograph taken in the ordinary way by an ordinary
camera, showing the distortion caused by the usual method of photography.
3. The arrangement that enables photographs to be taken by followers of the
Bertillon system in such a way that the figures in the resulting prints are
absolutely true to scale with the figures photographed. 4. A perspective pho
tograph taken under the new Bertillon system, which makes possible the pro
duction of negatives that in no way exaggerate the object photographed.
ONE MAN’S TROUBLES.
HE IS A MEMBER OF THE NAVY
YARD BAND.
Fred Beversee, Trombone Player, Or
dered to Pay $36 a Month Ali
mony When He Makes
but $32.
New York. — Frederick Beversee,
who plays,the trombone in the navy
yard band, is trying to figure out a
plan by which he can pay his wife
$36 a month alimony out of a total in
come of $32 a month. All the mathe
maticians in the navy yard and in his
lawyer’s office have failed to get any
satisfactory answer to this hard prob
lem. but Beversee must have an an
swer. •
If Beversee doesn’t pay his wife $4
a month more than he earns he will be
in contempt of court and some hard
hearted judge may lock him up in a
little room so small he will not be
able to slide his trombone.
Beversee has been ordered to ap
pear in special term over in New York
county and explain why he has failed
to pay the $36 a month for the last
two months, and also to explain why
he shouldn't be adjudged in contempt
of court and locked up in some hot
jail for the summer.
Lawyer George Hiram Mann, who
has a big practice among the people
attached to the navy, will be in court
to help Beversee explain, and, also
to make the court see the injustice of
demanding alimony in greater amount
than Beversee can earn. Beversee is
able to prove that his present cash in
come is only $32 a month, which he
gets from the government for playing
the trombone twice a day. In addi
tion tfi this he gets a place to sleep
and a daily ration.
Some of Beversee’s friends have
suggested that he raise the extra four
dollars by selling his ration; but that
would leave him without anything to
eat, and, besides, he might run up
against some hard regulation against
disponing of a ration allowance.
Beversee’s wife is suing him for
separation. The two lived together
quite happily until two or three years
ago. They have been living apart for
a year. Their son, who is a seaman
19 years old, made an affidavit a year
ago, in which he took sides with his
mother, and alleges that his papa was
a very bad man in his treatment of
Mrs. Beversee. Now, Mr. Mann is
armed with a new affidavit from young
Beversee which tells of the splendid
qualities of his father, with whom he
fs now stopping. In his new affidavit
young Beversee throws some light on
the effect of beer and hot weather
upon affidavit making; in fact, he
makes it appear that the combination
of lager and high temperature caused
him to make the former affidavit. He
says that after drinking beer all day
■in hot weather his mothehr induced
him to go with her to her lawyer’s
office in the Pulitzer building and
swear to allegations which he now
declares to be untrue.
After Mrs. Beversee's suit had got
under way the court ordered her hus
band to pay her $36 a month. Bev
ersee was able to pay the amount
at that time, as he was playing at
night with a big uptown orchestra
in addition to his employment in the
Navy Yard band. He is a musician
of high class, and he says that he
would be able to get employment out
side now but for the meddling of his
wife. He paid the $36 a month up to
eight weeks ago, when he found it
impossible to pay that amount out
of his navy pay.
JUDGE LINDSEY AIDS LAD.
“Wanted to Get Ahead”—Gets Place
Paying $2,000 a Year.
Denver.—“I want to get ahead, so
I came to work for you.”
Two years ago Judge Ben. B. Lind
sey was Interrupted at his work by
a boyish voice. Looking up, he saw
a youngster with a shock of bright
red hair and mirthful blue eyes. He
was wearing knee pants and for a mo
ment the judge wondered what the
small fellow could do. The vermilion
crown appealed to him.
So Jay Bacon was kept in the juve
nile court and given a chance to ad
vance. First he was made a sort of
messenger boy and "handy Andy” for
everyone. He was given the dignified
title of clerk, but the young man is
authority for the statement that he
frequently did many services beneath
the dignity of his title.
He had studied stenography at
I Home with his stepfather, D. H. Col
burn, who is one of the probation
officers, and his first attempt at tak
ing dictation from Judge Lindsey con
vinced the latter that his clerk could
hold his own.
Then Judge Lindsey was appointed
judge of the new juvenile court. Un
der the statute creating the court he
was to name a stenographer at a sal
ary of $2,000 a year, almost as much
as stenographers to district judges re
ceive. The next promotion had cone
to Jay Bacon, for without considering
any other applicant Judge Lindsey
appointed him to the place.
The Plain Thing.
The Vassar graduate stood at the
corner looking at the threatening atti
tude of two angry urchins in thei
midst of an eager and expectants
crowd. “Are the intents of those boys
bellicose?” she asked. “No, ’m,” i-e
plied the boy addressed. “Them’s
only going to scrap.”
Big Dog Adopts Chickens.
Five Orphan Chicks Are Cared For by
Large Black Brute.
Des Moines, la.—Performing all the
functions of a mother to five orphaned
chickens, a large black dog is attain
ing wide notoriety on the east side.
The chickens lost their mother in
some unaccountable manner and five
little screaming fowls made the neigh
borhood miserable with their piteous
cries. The chickens belonged to M.
M. Friedman on East Fifth street,
where the dog also belongs. The
chickens huddled together after los
ing their mother and during the night
were taken in charge by the dog, who
protected them from the chilly night
air. Now the dog has come into con
stant attendance on the five chickens
and watches over them all day long.
Ed Sunberg. constable of Lee town
ship, hearing of the strange incident,
went to investigate and tried to take
one of the chickens out of the box
where they bad huddled around the
dog. He received a bite on his hand
as a reward for his attempt to molest
the little chicks and the dog is now
left severely alone with his little fam
ily.
Brick Lost with Body in It.
Pittsburg, Pa.—Friends of Herman
Unger, the musician who committed
suicide in Boston some time ago and
who directed that his body be cre
mated and the ashes made into a
brick, .are much alarmed over the
present whereabouts of the brick. It
has disappeared and all efforts to lo
cate it have been fruitless.
The brick was shipped from Bos
ton more than a week ago by the
secretary of the Boston lodge of Odd
Fellows to Morris NosokoC, of this
city, the nearest friend of the dead
musician. Nosokoff has the price
less violins that Unger owned, but
he was very anxious to secure tire
brick as well.
Wise men make mistakes; but on
fools repeat them.
