Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 28, 1910, Page 8

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PARTIAL VICTORY FOR MEN Secure an increase of Ten Per Cent | in Wages and Improvement in Working Conditions. Chicago Dec. 24—The wage dispute between the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers and sixty-one railroads west, north and south of Chicago was settled here today. There will be no strike. J Instead the engineers get an aver age increase in wages of 10% per cent of their 1910. wage scale, giving them a Christmas promise of an average of approximately $192 for each of the 33,- 000 men involved for each subsequent year. Specifically the agreement pro- vides for a raise of 46 cents a day for all engineers, with a differential in addition of 25 cenis a day for 215,000 pound engines, an added differentia of 75 cents a day for the smaller mal- | let engines and a differential of $1 a day for the heaviest mallets. | In a letter to United States Commis- sioner Neill, who, as mediator under the Erdman aci, brought the seitle- ment out of what seemed a sure dis- agreement, Grand Chief Engineer War- ren S. Stone of the Brotherhood @s the reacon for accepting the teri Offered the suffering and loss which would attend a general Western. strike Numerous specific working condi- tions are improved by the agreement formally signed late today. Engineers are given contro] of electric and gaso- line motor cars used as locomotives, with an increase of 50 cents a day in present wages. Hostlers under the protection of the engineers get an in- | crease of 25 cents a day This agreement, coming at Christ- mas eve, gives the engineers on al! the sixty-one railroads affected by the adjustment a total of some $3,889,000 annually. In addition it means a re- lief to the thousands of shippers who have hung on the words of the con- ference da) after day when it seemed that a strike would tie up the whole West and Middle West. ve GIVES HIS FINAL DONATION} Rockefeller Presents Ten Millions to Chicago University. | Chicago Dec. 21.—John D. Rockefel- ler has compieted the task he set for himself in the founding of the Uni- versity of Chicago. Public announce: ment was made of a “single and final” gift of $10.000,006, which includes all the contributions that Mr. Rockefeller had planned te make to the university. | This sum, which is to be paid in ten annual installments, beginning Jan. 1, } will make a total of approximately $35,000,000 that Mr. Rockefeller has donated to the university Mr. Rockefeller says be now be lieves the school should be supported and enlarged by the gifts of many rather than those of a single donc This, he believes, will be better ac- complished if the public understands the limit of his contemplated assist- ance. | GUILTY OF SELLING VOTES) Fifty Ohioans Disfranchised and Fined $25 Each. Manchester, O., Dec., 23.—Fifty Re- ‘| One Infantryman Killed by Monobos publicans and Democrats of Adams county pleaded guilty to indictments charging the sale of their votes at th« November election. Each wae dis- franchised for from five to seven Years and fined $25 ard costs. The pleas came simultaneously with the return of seventy-nine indict- ments by the grand jury for vote sell- ing. Two hundred and forty-one persons have been. indicted on the charge. Pre dictions are made that the grand jury will return nearly 1,000 indictments. BATTLE IN THE PHILIPPINES Tribesmen. Manila, Dec. 23.—Word has beer received here of a fierce engagement | in the Basiaman river district, Davao, between Monobos tribesmen and a de- tachment of the Third United States infantry. Private Holt was killed and a cor- poral and private, names noi stat were wounded. It is said heavy losses were inflicted on the tribesmen, bu: no details have been received [INSURGENTS BURN BRIDGES Trains on Mexico Northwestern Road Unable to Proceed. E] Paso, Tex.. Dec. 25.—The Mexico | Northwestern passenger train which | feft here for Casas Grandes, running without orders, returned and reported || Fire in Chicago | warehouses full of dressed meat, hemp, jetc., a tallow house and other | at $2,000,000. One of the dead is Fire- | pany’s barn. Griess-Pfleiger Leather OVER A SCORE OF FIREMEN PERISH wenty-tour Meet Death at a CRUSHED BY FALLING WALL Chief Horan and Twenty-three Men Killed While Fighting Fiames in Stock Yards District. Chicago. Dec. 23.—Twenty-four men, including Fire Marshal James Horan, Jost their lives at the stock yards, crushed beneath a brick wall that fell while fire was destroying the meat storage héuse of Morris & Co. By | GREATER POWER FOR COMMITTEE Ways and Means Likely to Gain by New Rules, TO NAME OTHER COMMITTEES Senator Heyburn Joins Ranks of Those Who Want the Highest Sort of High Tariff—Victor Murdock Discouraged by Troubles of Being an Insurgent. Taft’s Offer to Hughes. By ARTHUR W. DUNN. Washington, Dec. 28.—[Special.)—If the Democratic caucus which is to be | held next month carries out the pres- ent plan and authorizes the ways and means committee to name the other ‘REPUBLICANS TO RETAIN PLAGES Clerks and Messengers of Com- | mittees Stay on Payroll. |HARLAN’S HOPES WERE VAIN. | Like Justice Field, He Was Doomed to Disappointment In Matter of Chief Justiceship—House Gets a Laugh Out of Discontinuing Bathrooms—Little- ton to Be Heard From. | By ARTHUR W. DUNN. Washington, Dec. 27.— [Special.j— Many Democratic members of the house made a discovery during the con- | sideration of the legislative appropria- | tion bill. It was that the Republican midnight nineteen bodies, including | committees of the house it will make | officers of the house will hold their that of Chief Horan, bad been dug | that committee the great power in the | present positions until next December from the ruins. Six others were sup- | posed to be buried under a huge mass of debris. Twenty of those killed were fire- | men, Chief Horan losing his life five minutes after reaching the scene. Three of the known dead were stock yards employes. Twelve persons were injured Following is a revised list of the | Tecovered dead: James Horan. fire w fam J. Burroughs fire marshal; Herman Brandenburg, lieutenant: Patrick E. Collins, cap- tain: Thomas Costello, pipeman: Nich- olas Crane, truckman; Edward J. | Danis. Heutenant; Nicholas Doyle, truckman; Andrew Dymuran, fire watchman; Stephen Leon, clerk Chi- cago Junction railroad; Charles Moore, truckman; Albert: Moriarity, truck- man: George Mauraski, pipeman; Edward Schonsette, truckman; Will- iam F. Weber, pipeman: George En- | thof, pipeman; W. G. Sturm, lieuten- | ant, and two unidentified firemen. The buildings destroyed include two shal; Will | second assistant | struc. tures. The fire started trom the explosion of ap ammcnia pipe at 4 a. m. How the Men Mex Death. Several hours after the fire started | @ wooden canopy fell from the beef house of Morris & Co., carrying with it tons of red hot bricks and debris upon two companies of firemen and the chief. crushing them to death and encasing their bodies in a veritable furnace, into which their comrades were unable to dig for several hours, so that practically all those who were not killed outright when the walls fell were roasted to death before hely could come to them. A tant Chief William Burroughs and Lieutenant Fitzgerald were with the marshal under the fatai canopy when it fell and went down to their death with Marshal Horan. Other firemen, witnesses of the dis- aster which met their chief, for a} brief time deserted the other parts of the blazing structure and, rushing to the pyre, scught with their bare hands to drag apart the glowing bricks and debris to bring the body of their chief and his ijl fated comrades to what safety remained for them. Finding this a vain effort they obeyed again the direction of Assistant Marshal Seyferlich and redoubled their efforts to shut in the spreading area of de- struction An explosion occurred on the top floor of warehouse No. 6 and the roof | was blown into the air. Flames shot | skyward and half a dozen companies of firemen who had stationed them- | selves on the further end of the roof narrowly escaped being struck by fiy- ing debris. They managed to clamber down fire escapes in time to escape TWO DEAD; $2.000.000 LOSS Entire Block in Cincinnati Factory Dis- trict Destroyed. Cincinnati, Dec. 22.—Fire in the fac- tory district here resulted in the death of two persons, the injuring of several firemen and property loss estimated | man Robert D. Grear, who was crushed peneath a falling wall. The other is Walter Morris, eighteen years oid, | who was fatally hurt by a falling trol- Jey pole. Buildings comprising an en tire block were consumed. The block from Ninth and Syca more streets to Broadway was swept by the flames. The firms burned out are: ppendorf & O'Neal Shee com- pany. Taylor-Poole Leather company. Cahill Shoe company, Twinleck com- | pany, Sycamore Street Stable com- company. Victor Safe and Lock com- | pany, warehouse of the A. & J. Nurre company, picture frames and holdings: BE. O. Duncan paper bex factory and | the Wildberg box factory. PRICES HIGH IN GOLD FIELD Gugar 20 Cents a Pound and Good Dogs $100 Each. Seattle, Dec. 25-—Men arriving from | Sherman had experience at Sa | last fall when Roosevelt took the tem- that dozens of bridges had been burned | below Lena static The train first stopped sixty-five miles below ! Juarez by a section of dynamited track. An eighty-foot trestle between Lena and Conejos has been burned and every bridge of importance for Nagrix was in flames. | Alaska say prices in the Iditarod coun- | | try were mounting higher and higher. Sugar is 20 cents a pound and ba con, ham and flour in proportion. Horses are in great demand and $5 an hour is the price of a team. Any first class stage dog wil! bring $100. Sixty-second congress—more powerful than the speaker. the committee on all other committees combined The wirepulling that has been going on for the selection of the new w and means membership wil! continue right up to the time the caucus meets. ys By selecting the majority of the ways | and means committee long time in | advance of the meeting of congress and allowing it te hold its sessions during the recess the Democrats will escape a great many difficulties. The other committees can be selected during the long recess and the ways and means} can take its time. It will also avoid persistent personal solicitation from Members whe are seeking good chair- manships and other committee places. Taft’s Offer to. Hughes. When President Taft tendered the appointment of associate justice to Governor Hughes he wrote him that if the chief justiceship was vacant he would offer him that position, but the president did not want that statement to bind bim as to any future action. No doubt for many months the pr dent had it in mind to make Hughes chief just done so if opposition in the senate had not developed to such an extent as to render it impossible to make the ap- | pointment Heyburn Among the Highest. It bas always been supposed tha contest for being the bighes: protec- tlonist. in congress lay between Sena- tor Scott of West Virginia and Con- gressman Joe Fordney of Michigan. But Senator Heyburn Idatid ‘cath bé awarded the honor of being at least one of the high protectionists. In a colloquy with Senator Cummins of Towa and in reply to a que mm as to hew high he would .make the tariff | Heyburn said “T would make it so high that a man | ve a microscope t he would be against it in would net have to b in order find it in no danger of run e and probably would have | + the | unless there should. be an extra ses- sion. Not only do the principal officers | rules and. in fact, more powerful than | remain, but the clerks and messengers | of the committees will continue to | draw their pay, although the commit- | tees pass out of tence with the ex- | piration of congress on March 4. | If there conld be an extra session | long enough to fill all these places with | Democrats the victorious party of last | fall wonld be perfectly satisfied. It | has been so long since there was 2 | change of parties in the house that the | Present Democratic members had for- | gotten this patronage which will con- | tinue to be in the hands of their rivals. Justices Had Hopes. No doubt Associate Justice Harlan bad human feelings the day he took such a prominent part in the installa- tion of Chief Justice White. Twice he has seen a chief justice appointed and take his seat, but the first time was in a Democratic administration, and he did not expect the honor. But he might wel! have hoped that as long as an associate justice was to be ad | vanced to the great honor he might have received consideration. No doubt | his age counted against him When Fuller was appointed chief justice by Cleveland, Associate Jus- | tice Field, 2 Democrat, felt that he was entitled to consideration from a | Democratic president, and he never ceased to resent it. During Cleve land’s second term the suggestion was made that Field should retire in order | that a Democrat might be named to succeed him. but he declared that he | would neither resign nor die to give | Cleveland that opportunity Not a New Joke. {| The house of representatives does | not have at deal of fun. The | humorists not numerous, but those | who do not rank as funny men o¢ easionally say things that provoke | langhter. The house bad a great deal of amuse ment just before the holiday adjourn ment over the subject of lopping off an approprintion of $1,800 for an at the dark, that be would be at liberty | tendant in charge of bathrooms in to conduct bis own business with his | the house office puilding. The joke neighbors or his fellow American citi zens withont the threat that ‘if you do not yield to me L will ¢ in the | Hessians.’ It should be that high, al right.” The Burdens of Murdock. Victor Murdock, the Kansas con- gressinan, who firs an insurg! when he fought against the high rates paid to the railroads for carrying the Mails. bus been made to pay the pen- aliy of independence. Ms “You have no idea what I bave bad | to go through.” he said. “I have been subjected to sneers and insults, to jeers and covert insinuations. 1 hav been ost zed for my opinions. My motives have been impugned, and, in fact. everything possible has been | done to make my life miserable. I tell you, any man who undertakes to do anything different from treading the beaten path marked out for him by bis party in congress must suffer.” The friends with whom Murdock has talked know that this hurt feeling has taken a deep hold upon him. It has poisoned his life and almost discour- aged him from continuing a course which bas brought upon bim so much misery. Danger In Waste Paper. “I noticed in a Gridiron skit,” said a Republican congressman. “that the | member who was taking the part of} Champ Clark as speaker said in an swer to the question as to what he would do with Uncle Joe Cannon that he would ‘make him committee on the disposition of waste paper. | would have had some one come back by saying that Champ ought not to do that. for Uncle Joe might dig up some of Champ’s free trade speech- es and make trouble.” 'Jim’s Used to It.” “Ob, thai» all right; Jim's used .to it,” was the ven of a nator the day that the v president w down on his querum counting act. He went on to s that Vice Pr atoga porary chairmanship away from him. Once when Sherman was presiding in committee of the whole in the house one of his rulings was overturned. It was the first time an effort s made to give Cuba tariff reduction on sugar, and the b suger men and the Democrats tacked on an amendment | which killed the whole thing because it | put all sugar on the free list. Sherman was unquestionably right in his ruling, but the necessity of the occasion disre- garded parliamentary Jaw. irman of the} seemed to be over the possibility of Members tuking baths and whether the Democrats of the next house would use the batbrooms. It is an old joke. In fact, there is no one who can recol | lect who applied the term “great ur | washed” to the Democratic party | But the subject proved one of mirth, | and what is quite interesting is thai | the house not only dispensed with the bathroom man, but ordered the bath room fixtures sold. Should Make His Mark. | Martin W. Littleton, who succeeds W. W. Cocks in the next house from the Oyster Bay district, is expected to be among the new men who will take a prominent place in congress, Littleton first gained a national rep utation as the man who placed Alton B. Parker in nomination for the pres- idency in the St. Louis convention of 1904. He was then a delegate from New York. It was soon learned that he had been a resident of several states, Virginia, Tennessee and Texas claiming him. He has bad three res- idences in New York, Brooklyn, Man- | hattan and now down on Long Island. The defeat of Cocks removes one of the Quakers from the house. Among New York politicians he was familiarly called “Quake.” In the Interest of Economy. “In my efforts to annoy and enlight- en the committee on appropriations,” remarked Congressman Mann of Ili- nois during the debate on an appro- | priation bil], and then went on to say what he found out in the matter of in equality of salaries in different parts of the country, and the surprising part of it was that some of those who received the highest salaries were doing the least work. Discussion of the salary question de- veloped the fact that in the first big | appropriation biJl in the house, not- withstanding the strong plea for econ- | omy and the outery for reducing pov ernment expenditures, the bill was joaded with increases of salaries | which went out on points of order made by the watchful Macon, the Ar ane Ss Ian. who is a real economist He was isted by Mann, who con Yinued to “annoy and enlighten.” Confidence In Carter. “Oh, Tom Carter will get along all right. no matter where he may land.’ remarked former Governor Toole of Montana. “Why, you might set Car- ter down on the plains with nothing but prairie dogs around him and he -would win out. He’d have ‘em all working for him.” } | | a \ }