Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 31, 1912, Page 4

a ail —— = AGE FOUR. Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE ntered at the Postoffice at Grand Rap las, Minn., as Second Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County NEW JERSEY IS FOR THIRD PARTY Convention to Name Roose: velt State Ticket. sail CHANGE IN USUAL CUSTOM! @emmittee Agrees Upon Features of a “Declaration of Principles” to Be Submitted to Convention in Lieu of a Platform. Asbury Park, N. J., July 24—The New Jersey progressive mass conven- tion met here determined to put in fhe field for the November election a eomplete progressive ticket, but is un- decided as to the method by which this ticket should be nominated. The executive committee of the Roosevelt state organization was in session until 2 o’clock in the morning and met again before the convention assembled. The committee adopted this resolu- tion for submission to the convention: “Resolved, That the state conven- tion be instructed to provide for plac- ing on the ballot in November, in every county and congressional district, un- der the party name which shall be adopted at Chi cago, a full ticket of | progressive can ates pledged to sup | port Theodore Roosevelt and his prin- eiples.” Another resolution adopted declared for a set of Roosevelt presidential electors, but likewise failed to provide | the method for their selection. | The arrangements committee has | agreed upon features of a “declaration | of principles” which will be submitted | to the convention in lieu of a platform. | It was decided that the twenty-eig! delegates, all Roosevelt men, who rep- | Tesented the state at the regular Re- | publican national convention, shall | serve in the same capacity at the na- | official tional pro ive convention, with power to fill the few vacancies. Two of these new delegates, the; committee decided, shall be colored | men. This was granted in compliance | with the resolution of a committee of | four negro leaders who waited upon the committee. The “declaration of principles” will be similar to that adopted by the| Roosevelt state convention at the opening of the primary campaign. MRS. PANKHURST RELEASED Militant. Suffragette Gains Freedom | by Hunger Strike. j London, June 25.—Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the militant suffragette leader, who was sentenced on May 22 at the Old Bailey sessions to nine months’ imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy and inciting to malicious damage to property, was released from Halloway jail owing to her health breaking down on account of the hunger strike which she and her imprisoned followers recently began. The other prisoners, including Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, one of the editors of Votes for Women, who was sen- | tenced at the same time as Mrs. Pank- hurst, are being forcibly fed. | BLEW IN OVER $5,000,000 Estimates of Expenditures of Dele- gates and Visitors. Chicago, June 24.—More than $5,- 000,000 was expended by about 200, ! 000 delegates, politicians and conven- tion visitors in the past ten days, ac- | cording to estimates made by Chicago | hotel managers. | Of this sum it is said that $3,500,000 | was expended for food, drink and lodging. | The convention cost Chicago less | than. $100,000. OkOKOKOROHOXOKOROKOKOKOKOL Keep Your Milk COOL ALWAYS. Don’t let it stand around the barn, especially if there are many flies. Gercis Grew Fast. feo There are always germs: in milk, and they increase at a is warm. THESE GERMS HELP KILL BABIES. O¥O¥O¥O¥0V0¥0¥0¥0¥0¥0¥0¥OXO¥OXOKO¥ Minnesota State Board of Health, | | tremendous rate when the milk | resumed the Score of New York Police Face Indictment. TELL STORIES OF GRAFT Men Accused of Rosenthal Murder Make Astounding Confessions to Grand Jury—Lieutenant Becker Al- leged to Be Leader In Conspiracy. New York, July 31.—A score of po- | lice officials, all above the rank of sergeant, are facing indictments for permitting lawbreaking in return for | a price. A number of citizens, including some high in political life and well! known throughout the country, are also involved. More than a dozen men of nation- wide repute in the sporting world had fled the city over night and others were going. In a cell in the Tombs, restlessly pacing up and down like a caged an- imal, was the central figure in a scan- dal, the worst in the history of New York, Police Lieutenant Charles Beck- er, indicted directly for the amazing murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal two weeks ago in the very heart of New York’s great white light district. In carefully guarded cells in the | city prison were Jack Rose, “Bridgey” Webber and Henry Vallon, gamblers, whose astounding -confession of mur- der, general crime and police graft told to the grand jury resulted in Becker’s indictment and promised revelations that will shock the nation. For fourteen days the city has been filled with rumors that the most amaz- ing graft conspiracy ever conceived was to be exposed as the result of the murder of Rosenthal. It was not un- til the last few hours, however, that the matter shaped into concrete form. Accused Men Confess. Then Jack Rose agreed to tell all, and his example in confessing was followed quickly by Webber and Val- lon. The tale they told was so re- markable that the grand jury content- ed itself with the indictment of Beck- er for murder in the first degree and | he was arrested in uniform at his | desk in the Tremont station house. Mulqueen j Arraigned before Judge in general sessions court the police pleaded not guilty. He was granted a week in which to change or amend this plea. When the grand jury reconvened it consideration of the story of graft told by the three con- fessed accomplices, who said they ; had arranged the slaying of Rosen- | thal at Becker’s behest and because | | he told them every resource of the | police department would be exerted | to protect them and the actual slayers after the killing. The three men who had uncovered | the scandal slept on cots in the jrr room in the criminal court building. | In an agony of fear, they had pro- ; tested to District Attorney Whitman that if they were sent back to their cells in the Tombs they would be: murdered by the “system.” Rose’s story was so amazing that | District Attorney Whitman admitted he would not have believed certain Parts of it if Webber and Vallon had not independently related the same facts. Pickings Soft for Both. From the time he first met Becker in an East Side precinct the bald- headed gambler said their relations had been mutually profitable. When Becker went to the head of the “strong arm squad” and took up the raiding of gambling houses, the pickings became soft for both, accord- ing to Rose’s story. He peddled pro- ; tection and collected for it. He paid the money, he alleges, to Becker and | the latter “split it up.” When Rosenthal squealed, Becker, Rose alleged, decreed his murder. Rose said that Becker threatened Webber, Vallon and him with a “frame up” if they failed to put Ros- enthal out of the way. Rose said he knew Becker could do this; that his men had already jobbed | “Big Jack” Selig by slipping a pistol | into his pocket and arresting him for carrying concealed weapons. Rose said that Becker told him sev- eral times that the job must be pulled | off and that three days before the murder he, Becker, Webber and Val- lon met and went over it. Webber, Rose alleged, was ordered to finance the crime and Jack Sélig was ordered to get the men to carry it out. The quartette who shot the gambler to death, Rose said, were Percy Horo- | witz, Frank Muller, alias “Whitie Jack Lewis,” Louis Rosenzwig, alias “Leftie Louie,” and “Dago Frank” Cirofici, the last of whom is already , under arrest. In Road Making Final Article. —Road Main- tenance and Repair. aa } By LOGAN WALLER PAGE, | Director Office of Public Roads, | 1 United States Department of Agnculture. Copyright by American Press Asso- ciation, 1912 HERE is no phase of the subject of road improvement so impor. tant and which is so often neg: | lected as that of maintenance | Roads may be constructed in a most scientific manner and out of the best materials available, but unless they are properly maintained they will soon- er or later go to pieces. On the other hand, roads may be never so poor, but with systematic repair and mainte- nance they may be rendered passable at all seasons of the year for ordinary traffic. No road has ever been so well! constructed that it did not need to be maintained. Even the tremendousiy massive roads of the Romans have al- most disappeared, largely for lack ot maintenance. The terms maintenance and repair are very frequently used as synonyms, but there is a wide distinction between | these two operations. To maintain a road means to keep it always in good condition. while to repair it means to ; Make it good only occasionally. In t CARETAKER MAINTAINING 4 STATE BIGH- ‘WAY IN CONNECTICUT. other words, repair sets in after mair tenance fails to keep the road in proper condition. No state or community has ever built or kept in repair a system of first class improved roads under the persoual | service or labor tax system. this system is not applicable to any class of road construction or mainte- | mance, not even to earth roads. Its principles are unsound. its operations | unjust, its practice wasteful. and the | results obtained under it are unsatis- | factory in every particular. | Undoubtedly the best system of main- , tenance is that which provides for the | permanent employment of skilled ta- | borers or caretakers who may have charge of particular sections of road or who may be assigned to any part of ithe county where the work is most i meeded. Men employed in this way be- come experts in their particular line of work, and if they make mistakes one year they are pretty apt to correct them the next; but. under the labor tax | system, these mistakes are repeated | from time to time. If one man is em- ployed to look after a particular stretch of road or to do a particular class of work he will soon learn to take pride and interest in his work. While it would be manifestly impos- | sible to adopt this system throughout , the entire country on account of limit- ed resources and sparse population, | still it is believed that there are many places where it might be used with great success. It would be difficult to find a county which is so poor that it could not afford to employ continuously eight or ten laborers and three or four teams to maintain and repair its roads There are many counties, vovvever. which could well afford to employ ten times such a force. That such a pian | would be more effective than the labor ‘tax system would appear to be self | evident. | Of all our roads the earth roads are probably the most neglected. Experi- | ence has shown that by proper main- | tenance earth roads may be transform- ed into something better than elongat- | ed mudholes. The first and last com- mandment in the maintenance of earth roads is to keep the surface well drain ed. Water is the great enemy to our clay or soil roads and must be removed immediately or much mud and very bad | Poads are the result. To insure good | drainage the ditches must be attended to and obstructions removed and a | Smooth, raised crown of the road main- tained. For this purpose the split leg drag or some similar device is very useful and at the same time ines- | pensive. The drag can be used on a | sand-clay or gravel road just as effec- TWO ARE BURNED TO DEATH | tively as on an earth roud. Three Others Injured, One Probably Fatally. Pairlee, Vt., July 31.—Two persons were burned to death and three oth- ers were injured, one probably fatally, in a fire that destroyed the Danforth House here. The dead are Miss Effie Perkins a Flushing, L. 1, and Miss Florence 4} Mass. The following points should be bomme in mind in dragging an earth, gravel er sand-clay road: The drag should be light and should be hauled over the road at an angle of about forty-five de- grees in such a way that only a small amount of earth is pushed to the cen- ter of the road. The driver should ride on the drag and never drive faster than a walk. The dragging should begin on i the side of the read, or whee! track. | In fact, | -rain, when the mud ix in such condi: tion as to puddle wel! and stil! uot ad here too much to the drag. A few trips over the road will give the operator a clew as to the best time to drag. Drag at all seasous of the year, but do not drag a dry road. If « road is dragged immediately before a coid spell the foad will freeze smooth. Always drag a little toward the cen ter with the aim of keeping the slope | of the crown about an inch to the foot. If the drag cuts tod much shorten the bitch or change your position on the Grag. The -best results from dragging ate obtained only by repeated applica- tions. A good system of dragging is that which is practiced in Kansas and lowa, where road authorities are au- thorized to let contracts to farmers for dragging the roads abutting on their jands. in the maintenance of hard roads, such as gravel and macadam, different methods must be pursued. The causes of wear on hard roads are the weather, the wheels of vebicles and horses’ shoes. The weather acts to some ex- tent directly on the materials, but to a much greater degree indirectly. Frost is one of the most active of the destruc- tive agencies. The expansion and con- fraction caused by frost sometimes lead to a general disintegration of the surface. This is especially true where qlay is used as a binder and where the road surface is porous or the drainage poor. When such a road thaws out after a hard frost the macadam will } practically be a layer of loose stones, into which the traffic will cut, forming ruts. Frost has but little if any effect | ona dry, well kept road. Look after the drainage very careful- ly in the fall and be sure that the sur- face is as nearly waterproof as pos- sible, so that the road will go into the winter dry and not full of water. Vio- lent rains often wash out the binder | and sometimes the smaller stones as | well, leaving the surface both rough and porous. The amount of material Jost from the road by this means is | traffic. The following hints aay ane found uSeful in the maintenance and repair of gravel and macadam roads: Never allow a rut or hole to remain on the road, but fill it at once with | chips from the stone heap. When the | Toad is built the contractor should be required to place at least 100 tons of | surface material and screenings at a | convenient place for each mile of road often larger than the toll exacted by | HALF PRICE Remnant Sale THIS WEEK THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY We have gone through the stock and pulled out every remnant and every short length. We have measured them up, marked the yardage on them and piled them out on our center tables at One Half of the regular price. There are remnants of Silks, Dress Goods, ings, Linens and White Goods. Remnants of Curtain materials, Wash Goods, Domestics, Domets, Musilins. Remnants of Ribbons, Braids, All Overs, Flounc- ings. ; There are Remnants of every conceivable kind, many hundreds of them. Every women who has any use for any mater- ials in short lengths should take advantage of this sale where goods can be bought at half price. SALE--on Remnants DATE--Thursday to Saturday, August 1st to 3rd PRICE--Haii of regular vaiue THE ITASCA DRY GOODS COMPANY Successor to itasca Mercantlie Co’s Dry Goods, Shoe and Milllinery Dept’s. Lin- | constructed. Always use chips for patching and for all repairs during the summer months, } by cross picking and raking the sur- | face can be kept in the proper condi- tion and cross section. The rake is ; the most useful tool used in road | maintenance. Large patches of stone width of the road at oie time. The | bulk of all repairs should be minde be- | fore Christmas, so that the road will go through tie winter in good condi- tion. In moderately dry weather always pick up the old surface into ridges six inches apart and remove al! large and projecting stones before applying new material. Never apply stones more than one stone deep. but add a second layer when the first is worn in if one layer is not sufficient. Never crack stones on the road, for if you do a smooth surface will be out of the ques- tion” Never leave the stones in ridges: All large stones, blocks of wood and other obstructions used for diverting traffic should be removed at nightfall. or the consequences may be serious. pairing purposes that will not pass fréely in every direction through a two! inch ring. Smaller stunes should be used for patching. Macadam’s advice’ was that vo stone should be placed in a macadam road which the workmati could not get ip his mouth. Traproek: granite and other hard stone should be broken finer for repair work than the limestones and other softer rocks. Use screenings if possible for binding together newly laid material. Road sweepings. horse droppings. sods aud other rubbish when used for this pur- pose will ruin the best road ever con- structed. Water worn or rounded stones | Never put fresh stone on the road if | should not be spread over the whole | Never put a ston¢ on the road for re: | tetintte Rontentetatentesdetenteeteeteetnts sSete ee aceaiek eetestostoetents ont oahestote eRe afoetretent * oe aston’ TOS aes HERE is no doubt about meney in the bank, zat is sure and positive. Mayby slow, but * there. is the satisfaction that it is safe. ao tlve in every way, both that it will grow,Zandithat it ee GRAND RAPIDS. aa pital $25,000,00 8 5,000,00 CARETAKER W5EO MAINTAINS FIVE MILTS OF KOAD IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. THERE ARE NINETY-FIVE IN THE COUNTY. { sould not ve used for repairs, as they | {wali not bind. Never allow dust or | ‘mad to lie on the surface of a mac-, adam or gravel road. for either of these | will increase the cost of maintenance. The middle of the road should a! ways be maintained a little higher than 1 the sides so that the rains “may ron into the side gutters at once. Water tables, culverts, gutters and ditches should never te allowed to clog up. The caretaker or patrolman should al- ways be on his road, particularly in ‘wet weather. and shouid fill up at once with fine stone or screenings any holes or ruts where the water may lie. OFFICERS President, F. P. Sheldon. Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge Jr. Cashier, C. E. Aiken. DIRECTORS F. P. Sneidon. D. M. Gunn. A G. Wedge. W. C. Gilbert. Cc. E. Aiken John Beckfelt H. D. Powers. : | Setieeoets eae a a a aaa * Villagelors 99 DOWN | AND $5 PER MONTH sn a a ee te We have choice residence lots all over town and we are seiling them on such easy terms that anybody can buy. $5 down and $5 per month is certainly easy. Come in ang talk the matter over. We aiso~have some choice business lots on our lists. COMPANY See REISHUS-REMER LAND | ——_+ ol