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8-A THE OMAHA SVNDAY BKK: DECEMBER 20, 1912. I trim WAGES CAUSE STRIKE little Falls Textile Workers Tell of Drop in Pay. TESTIFY BEFORE MEDIATORS I! h i: !' M Lnvr Limiting; Work lo Flfty-Fonr llonn Per Wpek flrlnit" with It IlcAnPttnn 'In Already Scnnly Ilpmnnprntlon. L3TTL? FALLS, N. Y.. Dec. 2. low traces, which mad it Impossible for them to earn enough to live on despite long hours, was the direct cause of the big strike In the textile mills here, according to the testimony today of a score of wit nesses before members of the State Board of Arbitration, who are acting an medi ators. The strike has been in progress for months and has resulted in frequent outbreaks. Men, women and girls who appeared as witnesses united In saying their only grievance related to wages. 11 of the witnesses, who are member of the Industrial Workers of the World, Mere born In Kusope and have been In this country from one to ten years. Most of them were examined through Interpreters. They were given wide range In testifying, but tholr stories varied lit tle except as to .the. amount of pay they had received'. ' Practically all the 'wlt nesies fcere" piece hands, . None of thHh --1 l V. til m n nlf when . the law limiting their work to fifty-four tj hours went Unto effect they testified that i wagos ii au xauen as.iow o m I week and-even' lower In some cases. ' Wnnt Former J'ny Ilestoreil. Their demands, which they said led to tho strike, were that they should receive sixty hours' pay for fifty-four hours' work and a ID per cent Increase for piece work. Several night workers testified that they worked thirteen hours, with half I an hour off for lunch and received $10 and $11 a week.. Tina 0ll. aged 18, worked from 6 a. m. i to 7 p. m. ofi pWc work. She said she was not compelled .to, work' that number of hours, but did It to .make more money.' She took five mjnulcs for lunch at-noon, nltliouKh permitted to, .take an hour.' AVorklng thus, she said, she made $9 to I6.G0 a week. . Ashlllo Strumbo, aged IS, wna one of , the typical spinners sworn. She said thai j before the fifty-fbur-houV law went lntoj effect she mudo $7.W a' week and after ward but 15.75. Gltisseppl aismondt said that when work was slack' he made. only $3 pr U.n week. When tho mill was running well he made as high as 110 a .week. Frances Kazimtrzaka, oged 23, said alio made $4 a week and that she went on strike when ordered to Increase ner work from sixty to soventy dozens of underwear- a day. Tho testimony of other witnesses was along practically the samo tine. Cement Stucco Construction By Arthur C. Clausen, Architect. N OT more than two year ago Uio author of these articles more than onco criticised the shortcomings of uement eon struc'tlon,' basing most of his criticism on the fact that it wna not then known or had at least not come Into popular use. Any metal lath that would properly withstand the tet of time and much familiarity and dis appointment from Work previous to that time, has ni'jro than supported the stand then taken. The world Is progressing, however, no i fast that It Is not safe to say that any- thing Is Impossible, for no sooner In such i process made then someone haB nccom pllshed It. It Is now known that th ' reason that galvoulzed metal lath would I not do tho work expected of It was be- ' causa It was galvanized before being per- J forated leaving tho raw edges In V e imperforatfon. with the result that w now .have galvanized lath which Is galvanized nflcr being perforated and ex pandad, and tho numerous .makes of this , class of lath now givo satisfactory re- ' suit. There Is now also on tho market a new kind of Iron. A scientifically pre pared Iron. Kvery high school boy knows from his labratory chemical tests j that certain chemical qualities In water i combined with cnrtnln chemical qualities in Iron, 5 and especially In steel, bring about corrosion or what we call rust. Tho new Iron known to the trade as In got iron, a name whloh Ntands for a process and Is not a trade mark, Is so prepared as to havo removed from It the most of those properties, which combined with other chemicals create rust. Ingot iron la now manufactured by numerous conoerni Into every conceivable metal product, such as metal lath for cement stucco, rain water gutters and .conduc tors, cornices, rldgo rolls, roof vnlleys, chimney flashing nnd Imitation tile shin gles. Different manufacturers work up ingot 'iron lath In different shapes, but it all -serves practically the snnio pur- SCORE BOARDjOF PROGRESS Year's Record of Man's Conquest Over Forces of Nature. WIRELESS AROUND THE GLOBE Spent .Mnnln Ilceloix Sump Freaks lliistiipaa Utilities, .M cclinnlcnl Mnnlc, nnd Other ' rueful Developments. MR CLAUSEN'S BOOK "The Art, Bolanca and Bsntlxntnt of Homebuilding." Thirty chapters, 300 tllusttA tions. It covers a - wide rang of subjects, including ths plan ning of bungalows, suburban and city homes, costing from 92,000 to $20,000, letting contracts, choosing materials, proper de sign of entrance, windows, fire places, ato. New third edition. Price, postpaid, 91.00. Address, Arthur O. Olaussn, Architect, 1136-37-38 Lumbir Ex change, Minneapolis, Minn. pose. With this great step in the advance ment of what Is becoming a very popular form of construction, the author -Is now ready to approve of If, having in the ormetriictlon Is proving a suces DD!fH'riO705 f meantime made extensive observations and experiments on actuat work. Of course, only tho test of time extending over soma ten or fifteen years, can bo absolute proof of tho permanency, but ex I tensive labratory tests Intended to give ' a twenty-year trial oh metal lath In a ' few mlnutoft Indicated that the two new I processes of making metal lath will give very satisfactory results. There are, of ! course, things which have to be taton i Into consideration, such as the right mix ture and application of the mortar, but this Is simply a matter of having the right kind of a specification and the right man to carry out the work. Ct mont stucco construction Is used more In the Twin cities, especially In Minneapo lis, than In any other part of the coun try. About six houses out of every ten ''are now being built with this corujtrua Itlon. As now being appllod this form of la Government Desires to Keep Out Castro "WASHINGTON, Dec. 2s.-Clpriano Castro, ex-presldent of Venezuela, said to bo on board the steamer La Tourulne, duo at New York from Havro Sunday, will bo detained at tho Kills Island Im migration station 'until Bccrotury Ilagul of the Department of Commerce and , Labor, has passed upon his admission H to tho United Btutes. Mr. Nagel today Instructed Commissioner of Immigration AMlllams nt Now York to subject Castro to a rigid inspection under the Immlgrot 'T ton lawn to determine his right to enter n und to forward the result to Washington even though tho examination failed to show grounds, for deporting tho Venezuelan. The unusual course la due to the fact that tho Stale department has requested Secretary Nngol to strictly apply the Immigration lawB to the ex president. That department Is searching for evidence which would bar Castro. MM I DD!fH'riO705 i Porch I -rm-i iiupmr, Pown I70W ut 1" I g . CMAMK.R .Cl41 tium.fL r 1 DimriqRoon. V Utf1J., Jj4 lstf i . ..- lyi1-! p. s Xr.y ' szzZ&Z? porch Roor ILKRUL " I iwni ruRUi I I 1 I ' W ( lKiX-V ! ' 17X10-C SxeMtrjtcr 1 OtCOhO f"L00R PtAM SWENSON BROS. STOCK BURNS Wholesale Notion Store at Eleventh and Howard Gutted by Fire. LOSS TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND Change in System of Bank Clearings 'Ilullillnir Owned by Mercer ICatntc mid Stock Insured for Ninety I'rr Cpnt of Value Tlg IlulltlliiKS Heorclieil. 8' "Hi The wholesale notions hous of the Hwenson brothers at Kloventh and How- Janunry 1 Omolia banks will Inaugurate lat d streotn was damaged to the extent Va chango In the method of clearings that of $C3,000 by fire last night at 0 o'clock. nwlll show the. real volumo of . business Mr. Swenson appraised thu stock In the transacted dally. This, It Is believed, will neighborhood of $100,000, about 90 per cent result In giving the dolly clearings a do- of which Is covered by Insurance. cldcd boost, Increasing them, according The fire started on the third floor In to some of tho bankera, fully SO per cent, tho rear. Uy the tlmo the fire depart- Under the new plan each bank In tho ments wero called out tho fire had Clearing Uouso association will report reached the fourth floor and was fast daily to the clearing house the volume reaching the top story. After au hour's of check buslnesn, both checks and drafts work the flames wero checked and ud that como lu through other banks, Un- Joining wholesale buildings, which wero der the present system checks and drafts n great danger of being destroyed If tha drawn direct and that do not pass flro gained headway, were saved from through tho clearing house are not great damage, counted In the totals of the clearings. Tin tun u e by Wnter. The greater portion of tho damage to the Swenson establishment was done by water, which poured In streams from the upper stories down to the lower floors and- basement. The building from tho third floor up was completely rutted. Slight damage was sustained by the Trimble Bros,' fruit house eaat of the burned building. The smoke poured Into tho rooms and Injured somo of the fruits Chief Dlncen's horse and buggy, driven by Joe Nichols, was struck by a street I.OOO.OOO short tons of beet sugar now car o.t Kleventh and Farnam streets. The Imported aiuiually, says tho department, buggy was badly demolished, but the oc- wntcn anoum oe raiiea Rl home. cuoants and the horsa wern unlnlured. ine average American consumes While tho fire comnanlei from the eighty-three pounds or sugar each year " downtown section, of the cltv were work says the report, "and only ten pounds Ine on the fire an alarm enme In from of that Is produced in this country. The Fifteenth and Davenport streets. An old jariner oi. wu. i-vuniry buouiu aeep inai two-story frame building, which was oo cupled by negroes, became a tiro and Do fore the flro companies nrrlved the old structure waa completely gutted. Urges All Farmers to ?f Raise Sugar Beets WAS1IINGTON. Deo, , Sl-Wlth the declaration that the United States should raise all of Its sugar, the Department of Agriculture today Issued an appeal to the American farmer to go In for the cultivation of the sugar beet. There are yfaldo Not Sure of Any Police Official, His Own Admission NHW YORK, Dec. 58. "Aro you sure of Hooker?'1 " "I am not sure of any one at police headquarters." This Is tho question which formor Com missioner of Accounts Fosdlok today told tho aldermanio committee Investigating the police department that he asked Police Commissioner Waldo early this year and tho answer which he declared Mr. Waldo made. Former Police IJcutenant Meeker, re ferred to by Mr. Fosdlck, waa recently convicted of the murder of Herman llosenthal, tho gambler, and Is now con fined In tho death house at Sing Sing prison. Becker headed tho "strong arm" squad which rallied many gambling huusos. Commissioner Waldo, who wns also a witness before tho commltteo, denied that ho had hampered Investigators who are probing the workings of his department, by withholding police records from them. I told the pollco commissioner I had been getting a largo number of com plalnta regarding IJeutenant Becker," Fosdlck doctored In his testimony, "and that they came in such numbers we were uneasy about it. Wo asked him If ho was sure of Becker. He, said he waa not sure of any ono at headquarters, but that under the system by which tho Wn watched each other closoly and Jealously he thought It would bo Impossible to carry on such operations." money at home.' COLORADO SMELTING PLANTS HANDLE TWENTY MILLIONS DBNVBB, Dec., SS.-Gold, sliver, lead and copper ore valued at t!U2,431 was M handled at the Colorado plants of ths American Smelting and Refining com' pany. according to figures contained in I (he annual report 'for 11J, Issued today. - The plants are located at Pueblo, Lead- ville and Durango, Tho report also shows that oro from various states was handled at the Colorado plants an follows: Colorado. JH.ir.wy;. Idaho. 13.965,502; t tah. 1,C78,76S; Canada, 1,2U,711. and tmaller ' quantities from Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, British Columbia, South "Dakota and Wyoming, Knights of Zion Hold Informal Meeting CHlCAGOr w FATHER LOUIS EXTEVENON PASSES AWAY IN PARIS NEW TOIUC, Deo. S8.-A private cable ineetagc received today brought news of the death of tho Very Itev. Louis iJxtevcnon, 8. 8. 8., superior general of tho Father of the Blessed Sacrament, in . Homo yesterday after a short- Illness, in his sixty-second year- Ho waa the foundip 1 of he 'house of this order' located hero and was Hs superior for two years. Dec. 3 Three hundred members of the Knights of Zion, a "hack to Palestine" Hebrew organization, met hero informally tonight lu preparation for the annual meeting which begins Sun day. Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Mlonesota Wisconsin, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and the Dakotas are represented. Tonight's meeting was addressed by Max Schulman, grand master of the order, who Urged support for the move ment to return to Palestine, where farm- ing colonies have been formed. Prof. IT. M. Kallon of the University of Wlscqnsln told the delegates that the SO.W Hebrews now settled In the forty-two Zion colonics are not in danger from the Balkan war. The grand master's annual message will recommend that financial uld be sent to Jews In Halonlkl, European Turkey. Lincoln Will Fight For. Gas at Dollar; Beats Franchise LINCOLN, Dec, a. At a special elec tion here today, Lincoln voters by '3.S31 to 1,000 defeated the proposition of tho Lincoln Oas company to extend lu franchise for a period of fifty-nine years along with a compromise proposal per mitting dollar gas from this date and a concession of a two-year rebate of an overcharge to consumers who havo been paying at the rate of 11.20 a thousand. Six years ugo tho city council adopted an ordinance providing for dollar gas. The company took the case to court and the fight will now be waged to a finish. Consumors demand tho full six years overcharge rebate. xlover Injured and Young Woman Killed as Train Hits Buggy Brnest L. Glover, brother of Cyrus D. Clover of a local real estate firm and salesman for the same company, wit nessed the violent death of a young woman with whom he waa riding and was himself seriously injured at Ham mond, La., last night. Dispatches from Hammond last nUht said Mr. Glover waa perhaps fatally hurt. He was riding In a buggy with Miss Sarah Boers, daughter of a wealthy con tractor, when their vehicle waa struck by a freight train near tho town. Mr. Glover was visiting another brother. J. F. Glover, at Hammond. He loft Omaha about a week ugo. Soldier of Fortune Killed on Railroad i KHNO, New. Dec, 23.-Wlth both hands cut off and his skull fractured, Max Von Bulow, said to bo a descendant of Count Von Bulow, the famous German general, was picked up on the railroad track near the state line last night and died two hours later In the railroad hos pital at Starks. Von Bulow was a globe trotter and soldier of fortune. Several years ago he married Miss Christine Plumer, a wealthy woman of Pueblo, Colo., and they trav eled through Europo In regular style, only later to be separated by the divorce court. Von Bulow was highly educated and spoke several languages. It la believed he was beating his way west on a pas senger train last night and fell beneath the wheels. Pickpockets Divide Spoil Before. Victim Ths Persistent and Judicious Use or Newspaper Advertising is the Road to Business Buooea. Smith Gets Decision After Slow Contest SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. Si-Gunboat Smith of Ban Francisco was given tho decision over Frank Monni of Pitts burgh at the end or twonty rounds of slow fighting tonight. Neither man showed anything llko i hamplonshlp form, but Smith was easily the winner In every round of the con test Morau, who had been hooted at In tervals of the fight, left the ring In a olley of hlsaes and catcalls from the rowd. Hearing pickpockets express their .dis appointment because there was only $40 In his pocketbook was the first in timation Paul Almschech of Murdock had that his money was gone. At the time he was entering a street car at Fourteenth and Farnam with a crowd and his arms wero encumbered with many bundles so he could not at once Investigate. He found later that dips on the platform had evidently abstracted his purse from a side trouser pocket and were dividing tho spoils under his very nose. Mr. Almschech Is visiting Pastor Adam of the German Lutheran church, 316 8 street. South Omaha. Since bruto brawn first yielded to thinking brain, longer ago than calen dars can tell, each succeeding twelve month has stood witness to man's prog ress In his conquest over the elements and very forces of nature. Pondering by his hearthslde, working in his labora tories, testing here ana experimenting there, slowly but surely hns he more and more perfected his control of things material, till today he stands master of the earth nnd the air above It, of tin seven seas and the depths of them, in this "steady march of time," 3912 has played nn active part, pushing yet far ther the labors which 1911 had carried far and Initiating movements of Its own destined in a near future to give it high rank In the annals of human achievement. January, In four dispatches, sounded with unmistakable clearness the note which was to become tonal throughout all the days "and wcekB to come. Parts re ported that the pocket telephone had been at last so perfected that all munici pal gendarmes were to be supplied with tho device. London announced that nn lnveptor named Rose had completed work upon a self-recording rifle target, doing away with the dangerous calling of marker" at the butts, as the position of every shot la automatically recorded n a screen at the firing point. Tho twenty-first of tho month brought tho final word of an engineering accom plishment which not" tho United States only, but half the world beside has for some time w-atched with growing Interest and wonder the opening 'of the Flagler "oversea railway", to Key West. Tho completion of this work Is admittedly one of tho most remarkable achievements In railroad construction ever recorded. Via Wireless. January 2f saw the first message flung off across tho miles from the wireless station at iranjuez, Spain; an Indicative happening surely, for In no other slngls respect has this passing year shown longer forward steps than In tho develop ment of this most wonderful of all modes of communication from man to distant man. Scarce a land but now Is linked to sis ter states the world around by this un seen Mercury. Colombia and Nlcarasua have Installed services, nnd tho far reaches of the upper Amazon basin are now reached by It. Tho recesses of dark est Africa are to be linked with civiliza tion, and ere long the Pamirs will be gossiping with Dawson City and Buenos Ayros. Late In October tho globe-en- clrcllng system of our federal Navy de partment at Arlington was Inaugurated when, crackling and sputtering, the most powerful plant In the world scattered Its j first greeting from tho top of Its lofty I aerials. In February, Admiral Thomas, commanding the Pacific fleet (then nt Honolulu), was Hn communication with Washington via Mare Island inrd and Key West, 4,300 miles, while a span al most Identically as great was covered by wireless when Astoria. Ore., "talked" with the Japanese steamer Yokohama Maru. In March a message from London to New York had been received only a few seconds over ten minutes after Its filing In the British metropolis, while yet an other distinctly new record In this rela tively recent sclenco camo when, on the evonlng of "the first Tuesday after the first Monday" In last November, the clcc tlon returns wero flashed out from San Francisco to 15,000 people on board fifty ocean greyhounds. The Mmi-Iltrd. How this would have astounded old Daedalus, the first of the aviators; how Icarus, his son, who held an altitude "record" in those mythological days (with a most unhappy ending' would have opened lhs archaic eyes at the nows! Yet we take It quite for granted wo who, four short years ago, recorded In awe-struck tones that tho Wright broth ers had actually flown seventeen miles in a light breeze! Wo think nothing of It that 1912 should' havo seen eleven of the "hlrdmen" species crossing the Brit ish channel aloft, within a few moments of each other, lighting at Dovor llko a flock of giant gulls. We treat It us an of-courso of tho dally papers to read that more than $1,000,000 has been won within eighteen months by vail iii sorts uf 'planes In nil kinds of competitions. But the point to be emphasized 3n such a chronicle as this is that swifter airships, llghtor ones, those to climb higher or convey greater passenger weights, are no longer the chief objects of theso In ventors whose specialty Is Un develop ment of aeronautics. Safer aeroplanes and dirigibles that Is (tho goal aimed at, and with Increasing succtsj. Aeroplane stabllzators havo been ex hibited satisfactorily by two of the French experts, Moreau In May and Boger Bommer In October. The Tag llscho Itundschau of Berlin, in closest touch with German aviation circles, an nounces an oven more laudable advance in a 'plane which may bo arrested tn Its flight and held stationary at anv point desired. In the matter of safety for operator? In case of accident, tlu para chute Is being used by Russian experi menters: a devise which operu auto matically should need arise, and tho American, W. I. Twombly, has perfected what he calls a "safety harness," whlcn holds the avjator In his seat n 'he roughest kind of weather but releases him Instantly on the pulling of u tingle cotter-pin. It should also be said that the military authorities of the third re public, where, perhaps, the greatest pro gress In aeronautics Is being now made, are using" a recent Belgium Invention for measuring the altitudes reached, a sort of theodolite adapted to this latest demand. Literally A Thing of Beauty and a Joy Forever. Pre-eminently A Leader in Endurance. The Woods Electric May we show them to you? The Woods Motor Vehicle Co. DR UMMOND DISTRIBUTOR 26TH AND FARNAM "Open every day and night" MAN WHO GIVES COCAINE TO BOYS IS FINED $200 CHICAGO. Dec. 2S.-Harry Pratt, years old. known to the pollco aa tho "walking drug store," who was charged with having mude n practlco of dls trlbutlug free small packages of cocaine to youths In pool and billiard halls in order to create victims of the drug habit nnd then profit by their patronage, was fined $200 by Municipal Judge Mahoney todu? When arrested Pratl had a dozen large boxes of the drug In hu room. ohanlcal locomotion may He along this path. A railway achievement of 1912 properly to be ranked close to that of the Flagler "over-seas" lino waa the completion of the Trans-Andean road from Arlca, Chile, to La Paz, Bolivia. The 2T0 miles length suggests nothing of what has been hero accomplished by man's patience and in genuity, nor even the elevation of 14,000 feet, which Is reached at one point; tho work has had to be prosecuted through a country of such natural difficulties that a few years back the most sklffed en gineers flatly declared It impossible. Of greater popular Interest than this and falling In much tho same category Is tho annouced perfection of a device for preventing head-on collisions In railroad travel, which has been patented by A. B. Angus, an Australian. The demonstra tion In Somerset, England, last July was thus described: The trains without engineers, ap proaching each other at high speed on the same line, automatically stopped when collision seemed Inevitable. The portion of the railway to bo used had been fitted with steel ramps on Inclined planes be tween tho rails. A shoe fitted to tho en gine touches these with a slight Impact and the engineer Is warned If tho section ahead Is not clear by a combined disk and whistle. Should he not, himself, stop his train an electrical apparatus auto matically shuts off steam and applies the brakes. In the Business World. An apparently successful attempt to solve another of those problems which now nnd then havo led to horrible loss of Ufo through lack of solution, is an emergency door for theaters. Invented by n Chicago man. This can be opened from without ouly by tho use of a Bmall key, though the slightest pressure on any part of Its Inner surface opens It Instantly. Of not dissimilar kind. In that It looks to tho saving of life, is the production by a native of Dortmund, Germany, of an electric safety lamp 'for miners. If this, as would appear, Is absolutely proof against firedamp combustion its Inven tor has richly earned the $3,000 prize which the British government has award ed him. Another prize ($500) for life saving, though it bo of horse, not humans, has been won this year by Dr. G. W. Klnnell of New York City, who has worked out a device which, when attached to the shoe, prevents the animals slipping on greasy pavements. Be It also chronicled that a Callfor- nlan has put on tho markets an auto matic change-making machine; that for the first time In many years of ex perimentlng a typewriter for the Arabic characters has become practical; that yet another typewriter for s recording syl lables. not letters, has been Invented by Paul de Carsalade of Paris, and that a "Slgnagraph" had made Its commercial appearance, by means of which move ments of a pen held In a writer's hand aro exactly duplicated over other checks bonds or what not. A Philadelphia financier Is said to have affixed his signature to 6,000 dacuments in this way In thlrty-elght minutes. Around the Home. After the automatic piano-player comes the automatic vionnisi; aiiomer of Germany's contributions to the twelve month's wonders. Three violins are used, each with a single string, played by a revolving circular bow, composed of 3,000 horsehairs, which, It Is said, will reproduce practically any effect to be attained by the most accomplished virtuoso but one wonders if there is not another side to this penny. May It not be necessary, if this sort of thing multi plies, to greatly extend the use of a certain drug whose virtues are being heralded by A. J. Wlneland. a retired chemist of Santa Monica, CalifornlaT He has a concoction, he says, which, fed to ambitious roosters, prevents early morning crowing. A French agriculturist has gone fur ther than this, however. Knowing that canary breeders obtain a delicate rose pink tinge to the plumage of their birds by mixing Cheyenne pepper with their food, he subjected some white hens to a like diet. The result went somewhat beyond his expectations. For the biddies, flushed violet scarlet whenever there was dampness in tho air. After this "sting less bees" sound tame and unpoetlc. though a Lough ton, England, aspirant has obtained somo by crossing Cyprian drones and Italian queens. Brooklyn Eagle. NIX ON THE ROUGH STUFF Chlcnaro'a Clean Lntinnnge I.enirtie Throws the Klliosh Into Lovr rtrovr I.Iiiko. II r Itoad and Hall. Wings have been given the auto, too. On July 12 a successful trTal run was made between Parts and Lyons (111 miles) by a car driven by revolving arms adding new. terror to tho already sufficiently threatened Ufo of the mere pedestrian. Skimming the earth like some uncanny bird It reached a speed of above ninety inllea an liour, till even the placid pigs shuddered In their pens. Another road advance fitly to bo re corded tells of the beginnings of cycles- plus 'planes, or wings; "avlettes," the French call them. Ivvalade, at Juvlsy. lu June, and Gabriel Poulln,. near Paris, In July, has each done enough In this sort (albeit tittle If regarded absoluteh) to prove that a next step la rapid me- coral pinn unjer a steady barometer The Clean Language league of Amer ica, which is plum nuts about being dead set against slang, cuss words, risque stories, purplo ragtime and wriggly cabaret shindigs not because it cares a whoop, but because' such things alwaya sound llko heck to strangers hold a wild-eyed Jamboree In Chicago and cooked up plans for a grand hallelujah campaign to Induce everybody to climb Into tin pure-words wagon nnd swear off on throwing" the low-brow lingo. Quite a considerable bunch of language bug took the splurge and the enthusiasm was all to the velvet. , According to the dope that was passed out today by one of the high moguls, Tommy Russell, the main doings tonight, was to pick out a publicity gang which will have the Job of throwing thl lino of bull Into every state In the union, be ing particularly strong on tho schools and colleges, and not passing up the educa tional hangouts for skirts. The sideshow of the movement will be to go after the kind of music that you hear In tho all night dumps and at public hog-rasslet. Brother Russell declared, bo, that ho crowd had already framed It up with some of the big guys in the music world to put the kibosh on this line of Junk, nnd that It was only a question of tlmo before they would have such pieces aa When I Got You Alono Tonight" com pletely on the pizzazz. Another Idea of tho league Is to put ri straw boss In every other state for tho purpose of hitching up with mutts aa dippy as himself in order to help tho good word along. Tills estate gink Is tu bo a sort of an old-mlss-over-iUl and tho purity expert in his particular neck oi tho woods. The crowd passed a whole lot of hlfalu- tln resolutions. They said that It maJa them as sore aa a goat to have to hear mothers using elans' In tho' presence ol the kids, because it was a ten to ono shot that it would put the little duffers' morals on tho blink. They said that sis ter must not say "fudgo" not even when there was nobody but guineas around-, because "fudge" wasn't a proper dido to) find tn flossie's vocabulary. They pulled quite a bunch of stuff about what was O. IC for little brother to let himself loose on, but they swora to goodness that "doggone it" was a dog gone bad thing to say. and that "gosh aarn" was putrid, and that "hully geo" and "I'll be swlmdlggled" were expres sions that a mucker might use, but that a gilt-edged young gazabo would never attempt to play dp, even before a coon. Tho league said that fathers must not say !?! !, no matter If a guy waltzed up and walloped poor old pop on tho beezer, and that only ple-trlmmcrs nnd hash-sllngcrs would ever condescend to come across with such rough stuff n "Aw, nix on that," "Cheese it" and "Shut your trap." As for the risque stuff, there was quite a lot of hot air about that, too, and everybody agreed that If America was ever going to do tho nobby and quit being a home of roughnecks It was about tlmo that the chickens and other young boobs let up on swapping yarns about what ueed to happen on Uncle Josh' farm. Chicago Journal. Fire In Grand Island Dormitory. GRAND ISLAND, Neb.. Dec. 2S.-(Spe-cial.) Fire yesterday caused about $!,C0') damage to the boys' dormitory at the Grand Island college. The fire Is sup posed to have originated from the toast, ing of marshmallows In tho grate, fot which an especially hot fire was built. It Is the theory that the wood back of the grate charred, smouldered and finally began to bum. Much of the dam age was caused by smoke and water. Key to the SituaUon-Boo Advertising f 4 1