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377,100; Guantanamo, $801,500;;
Alangapo, $1,389,895; Pearl Harbor,
$9,103,000; torpedo station, $907,
450; and for the naval academy at
Annapolis, $10,640,500.
Secretary Meyer's Estimates
Secretary Meyer's estimates for
public works for principal manufac
turing establishments for 1911 were
5106,000 at Boston, $516,000 at New
York, $215,000 at Philadelphia, $10,
000 at "Washington, $320,000 at Nor
folk, $885,000 at Puget Sound, $107,
000 at Mare Island, $10,000 at In
dian head, $6,000 at Cavite, $100,000
at Guantanamo, $2,045,000 at Ha
waii, $57,100 at the torpedo station
-a grand total of $4,376,100.
Mr. Meyer's estimates for the
years 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1914 to
talled $17,279,550 for the principal
navy yards.
Great sums of money have been ex
pended by the navy on the Great
Lakes Naval Training station at Chi
cago, which was the pet project of
former representative George B. Foss,
republican, for years chairman of the
house committee on naval affairs.
The initial appropriation for the
Great Lakes Naval Training station
was contained in the naval act ap
proved April 27, 1904, when $250,000
was provided for the purchase of land
and an appropriation of $5,000 made
for the expenses of the board to be
appointed for .selecting a site. The
$250,000 was not used for the pur
chase of land as a site, for the site
was donated by citizens of Chicago,
but was devoted" to developing the
station, and therefore, becomes part
of the cost of the establishment.
The appropriations for the estab
lishment of the Great Lakes Training
station were as follows: Naval act
approved April 27, 1904, $255,000;
act of June 29, 1906, $750,000;
March 2, 1907, '15500,000; May. 12,
1908, $1,095,600 (which includes
$75,000 for the tee of the architect
and $25,000 for cost of inspection) ;
March 3, 1909, $413,400 a grand
total of $3,014,000.
The initial appropriation for main
tenance was contained in the act of
June 29, 1906, and called for $26,
940, including $6,940 for a civil
force.
Other appropriations were: March
2, 1907, $26,940, including $6,940
for a civil force; May 13, 1908, $36,
800, including $6,940 for a civil
force; March 3, 1909, $102,769.36,
including $48,139.36 for a civil force;
June 24, 1910, $106,599.36, includ
ing $49,779.36' for a civil force;
March 4, 1911, $106,599.36, includ
ing $44,553.36 for a civil force;
Aug. 22, 1912, $106, S00, including
$44,553.36 for a civil force; March
4, 1913, $98,457, including $44,553.
36 for a civil force; June 30, 1914,
$98,457, including $1,500 for a civil
force; March 3, 1915, $80,000, in
cluding $1,500 for a civil force.
The drop in tha amount for civil
force in the act of June 30, 1914, was
the first year for which Mr. Daniels
submitted estimates.
The Great Lakes Station
The democrats came into power in
the house in 1910, thereby stopping
the flow of funds to the Great Lakes
station, which on August 30, 1915,
contained 893 recruits. At 6 per cent,
interest on the sum that it cost to
establish the station amounts to
$180,840 a year. This sum, divided
by the number of recruits, shows the
cost of each student to be $202
without considering anything for
maintenance. In other words, the im
mense cost of the Great Lakes station
resulted in 1915 in an interest charge
of $202 for each man there.
The government reservation at St.
Helena, Va., was a naval magazine
under the bureau of ordnance. Hav
ing ceascl to be used for tfiat pur
pose about 1913, it was turned over
to the commanding officer of the le-
The Commoner
cciving ship Franklin, for tho train
ing of recruits. Tents were used for
camps, and, later, buildings. For
several years the station had no defin
ite Btatus, although the act of March
3, 1905, contained certain items un
der public works, the bureau of yards
and docks for wharf extension, roads,
storehouses and issuing room for
clothing. Not until July 1, 1913,
however, was the establishment rec
ognized by congress as a training
station.
St. Helena Station
During the past ton years the
training of recruits has been con
ducted continuously at St. Helena
and tho station has been improved
year by year. The temporary bar
racks, already referred to, accom
modated about 900 men, 500 addi
tional were quartered board tdu
Franklin, making a total in tho early
stages of about 1,400 recruits. Tho
barracks were later replaced by tent
houses, now called bungalows, which
number about 200, and are substan
tially built, with elevated floors, and
weather boards on the side to a dis
tance of three feet of the sills.
15 &
A WEEK OF TARIFF "HAVOC"
Tho democratic tariff, overybody
knows becauso republicans have told
them, has ruined beyond repair every
industry it touched especially the
textile industries.
Yet not now listening to tho re
publicans, but reading the actual
records these ruined industries by
now must bo eager to welcome some
more ruin of the samo kind.
Here is a list, compiled from an is
sue of the Boston Commercial Bulle
tin, of one week's manifestations in
the ruined industries:.
Groat Knitting Mills, Scranton, Pa.,
incorporated with a capital of $250,
000, to manufacture yarn and knit
underwear.
Goodwin Bag Co. to build new bag
factory at Hatfield, Mass. tt Employ
seventy-fivo workers.
River Spinning Co. to erect new
plant at Philipsdale, R. I.
Taft-Pierce Manufacturing Co.,
Woonsocket, R. I., lets contract for
construction of, a three-story brick
storehouse, 32x140 feet.
Unicorn Cotton mills, Centerville,
Md., taken over by new company to
put mills in full operation by Sept. 1.
Brewer & Co. have opened their
new starch factory at Foxcraft, Me.
Will make four tons of starch a day.
William F. Traubel contracts for a
three-story hosiery mill, 50x150 feet,
at Trenton, N. J.
Bell Cotton Fabric Co. at Cedar
ville, N. J., has been sold to a Phila
delphian who will put in new machin
ery, a leachery, and go to manufac
turing at once.
Holliston Woolen Mills Co., has
been incorporated at East Holliston,
TVTn $t
Bo'ohm & Stehle, dyers, Philadel
phia, are enlarging their plant.
Forsyth Dyeing Works, New Haven,
nnnn.. In buildim? a largo addition.
Present plant is running twenty-four
hours a day.
Anglo-American Cotton Co., capital
$50,000, has been organized in Bos
ton. ,
H. A. Romberger Knitting Co.,
Philadelphia, is enlarging its plant to
increase capacity 25 per cent.
Alonquin Printing Co., Fall River,
let contracts for addition, three stor
ies, 104x255 feet. "Can't keep up with
cloth printing requirements.
Appleton Co., Lowell, Mass., con
tracts for $75,000 storage house.
Bigelow-Hartford Co., Clinton,
Mass., having plans drawn for a new
mill. . .
A knit -goods manufacturer Is ne
gotiating for the lease of the Perker
ville plant at Pittsfleld, Mass., which
has been idle since and prior to .the
passagQ of tho Payne-Aldrlch tariff.
Cedar Cliff Silk Co., reopens its
mills at Paterson, N. J after Install
ing a new electric power plant.
Centrcdalo Worsted mills, Centre
dale, R. I., have installed largo quan
tity of now machinery. Tho mills are
running full time.
Julius A. Gebauer, Frankford, Pa.,
contracts for four-story mill, 64x130,
to manufacture goods for men's wear.
Millheim Knitting Co., Millhcim,
Pa., has started a branch factory at
Pleasant Gap, Pa.
Seekonk Lace Co., nt Pawtuckct,
R. I., contracts for new factory, lOOx
150 feet, two stories, to givo employ
ment to 400 moro hands. Concern is
now working night and day, keeping
its machinery running continuously.
Century Knitting Co., Spring City,
Pa., is enlarging its Pottstown plant.
Bermans Knitting mills have begun
operations at Stapleton, N. J.
Royal Gem knittimr mills. Herkim
er, N. J., are building an addition 20x
90 feet. Mills have beon running to
capacity.
Moreover, the American Woolen
Co., the biggest of them all, says
that its product Is sold several months
ahead, that tho present woolen busi
ness is "excelling any over experi
enced by the company," and that the
prospects are for "tho best woolen
business in the country's history."
Duluth Herald.
ar& tho one with tho -hat on." Oka
homa Farmer.
LESS HATE IN EVIDENCE
Significant evidence of a now per
spective in Europe may bo found in
recent statements concerning the fa
mous "Hymn of Hate" against Eng
land written by Ernst Llssauer, a
German poet.
Llssauer was 'decorated by the
kaiser for writing his hymn, and It
acquired tremendous vogue. But a
week or two ago, tho Cologno Volks
zeltung published a protest against
its inclusion in school readers, say
ing that it did not represent tho fool
ing of tho German people, and the
protest was taken up in other cities.
Llssauer has now issued a declara
tion that ho wrote tho hymn when
laboring under supremo excitement
and that he doubts whether it repre
sents tho feelings which he will hold
In the future. Thus it passes to the
discard.
The Volkszeitung's protest and
Lissauer's recantation may be inter
preted in two ways. Either tho Ger
mans do not hate tho English so
much as they thought they did some
months ago, or they are striving to
win the approbation of neutral coun
tries by evidence of moderate feel
ing. Even the latter supposition im
plies realization that hate is un
worthy, and when a nation starts
self-criticism, if only for effect on the
outside world, it is in a frame of mind
to welcomo an early ending of hostil
ities.
The theory that Germans and Eng
lishmen hate each other has probably
been overworked. Most of their hate
has been bred of mutual fear, and
the violent antagonisms have not
gone deeply Into tho masses of the
people. A little Instance back of tho
trenches will Illustrate the irlenuli
ness of the everyday citizens of the
t-mn onuntrloa. A crroun of British
soldiers and German prisoners ar-j
ranged a musical programme, over
which one of tho Tommies presided.
After a few selections by Britishers,
the chairman announced: '"ans and
Fritz will now oblige with the 'ymn
of 'ate." Des Moines (la.) Tribune.
ritEGEDENI FOR BRYAN PEACH
XKKAT1K8
Madison, Neb., Sept. 22 To th
Editor of tho Omaha World-Herald:
During Colonel Bryan's negotiations,
whilo secretary of stato, of poact
treaties with other nations, ho was
frequently sharply and facetiously
criticised by a part of the press and
by magazine and other writers in his
efforts along that line. If thoso who
ridiculed and sought to raako gara
of him had road tho treaty between
tho United States and Tripoli of 1796,
thoy would havo observed that It con
tains a provision to tho effect mat in
case of dispute neither imrly should
appeal to arms "nor hhall war bo de
clared on any pretext whatever," but
that a year should bo uivon for an
adjustment of difficulties, "during-
which timo no act of hostility shall
bo permitted by either party." This
provision was carried into article 15
of tho treaty of 1905 between Urn
United States and Tripoli and is now
h force.
Thus it will be observed that tha
early policy of tho United States was
pacific and that this government was
early inclined to prevcut war by
peaceful methods, and that a year
was to interveno beforo resorting to
war. Colonel Bryan had ample pre
cedent for his treaties in tho Tripoli
treaties and in tho drift of public sen
timent on tho subject.
It la easy for thoso who differ with
a man occupying a public position to
find a pretext to criticise him and his
dlscbargo of public duties, but in
this instanco, as in many others, Mr.
Bryan was amply fortified by prece
dent for tho courso ho pursued.
WILLIAM V. AiiLbN.
INCOMES TAXED JW PER CENT
A London cablcgra-, dated Sept.
25, says: The Income tax provided in
Chancellor of tho Exchequer Mc
Kenna's new budget, with tho super
tax, will bring tho total tax to from
3 shillings and 7 pence on the pound
(89 cents on $5) to 6 shillings and
10 penco ($1.70). The latter figuro
represents a 34 per cent rate. In
comes of 100,000 ($500,000) will
pay 28,000 ($140,000); incomes of
500 ($2,500) will pay 42 ($210J.
The difference is Between earned and
unearned Incomes.
It Is believed In financial circles
that the budget will bo successful.
COULD PICK HIM OUT
Toung Hlbbard was exhibiting his
pictures to a charming girl. "This
one," ho said, handing her a picture,
"is my photograph, taken with two
French poodles. Can you recognize
me?" "Why yes, certainly,", oho re-.
piled, looking .at. ,it intently, "Youj
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