New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1917, Page 14

S MORE WUD, BWRENCH SCENERY gadly Than Enemy Artil- Y, Declares Gen. Maurice E ;t:lflon. August 30, ‘Correspond— —Major General Frederick B. rice, Director of Military Opera- P at the War Office, who has just sned from one of to the front his frequent France, was by the Associated Press corre- dent what phase of battle-front ity had on this sed him most. ways the same thing—the mud, >plied. “It is the most remarkable in the world. As an enemy it is > persistent than the German and 2 deadly than his artillery. had a remarkable object lesson 1e power of the Flanders mud dur- ny week in the battle area. I vis- a hospital where they had two of men who had been rescued after ding thirty hours in the grip of a ders mud-hole. The two men, ncing across No-Man's land in the darkness, had stumbled into an shell-hole and found themselves tricably in the clutches of the < mud at the bottom. When they > found, they had been there for :y hours, and had been drawn it-deep into the clay. \ll sorts of expedients were trled xtricate them, and it was finally ned necessary to fit a harness to n and pull them out with a team nules. Both men had thelr hips | knees dislocated in the process. | t is Flanders mud!” | Mother and Son in Chasseurs. arls, August 29.—A landowner of zeze has received the following let- from his son, a staff captain: ‘heard a strange story today, that omen and a boy of sixteen had 1 found among the men of the bat- in it occasion im- tinvestigation was made and they ! found talion An weno of unmounted chasseurs found ¢n be the wife and {he son of i chasseur who ha letermined not ta he so) him went ted from trenches with the strikin into the they had five months out T hattalion knew, but as you see the SINTS old cha most ho the secret w As an ir yourself, you : will be proud to learn that a father, mother, and son, have been under fire together in your old battalion.” American Air at “Pop” Concert. London, August 29.—An American surprise was sprung on the fashion- able audience at the opening of the annual series of so-called “Popular Concerts” which for a generation have been a weekly feature of the musical season in London. The solo- ist of the afternoon was Miss Carrie Tubb, perhaps the most popular of native Inglish primadonnas. In re- sponse to the customary demand for an encore, she sang with splendid dra- matic effect the famous “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” When the first notes of the piano accompanient tinkled out there were some smiles among the audience, who knew the air principally as used by the Salvation army to carry a religi- ous song in its open air meeting: ut the intense fervor of the singer swept all before her, and the song was heard 'in breathless silence and hailed with enthusiastic applause. CHINA RELIEVED OF PAYING INDEMNITY Germany and Her Merchants Lose Heavily Through Declaration Of War. Peking, Aug. 9.—Correspondence of the Associated Press.—China's entry into the European war on the side of the allies will relieve the Chinese government of interest payments up- on obligations owed to the German government and German corporations aggregatin nearly $235,000 THE FIRST PAYMENT GETS SMART CLOTHES AT MENTER'S LADIES!? See the Stunning New Styles at Menter’s The main oflice of the Menter Co. Fall chain of stores is now located in New York City; in the very heart style section. Every day our huyers are busy se- the choicest lecting with great care, creations of the style masters. Every week brings to this store the produces so that at any time you can see in this very latest that New York store a showing of Suits, Coat Dresses only a week after they appear in New York. Buying as we do for stores we get price conc th 1s ju hy we can and we do se most stylish garments on easy of payment at prices as low a. 80 called cash store. We do as we advertise; knows that our terms are $1.00 tw and $1.00 & Week on any purchase up cor purchases the most given. to § Itheral On 1 terms are cheerfully of the ssions that smaller concerns do not get and that everybody s and the first payment riving il the terms s any Down spot cash will not less than you can our easy terms. NEW BRITAIN® DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1917. infaiis—Mothers Thousands testify Horlick’s The Original Malted Milk Upbuilds and sustains the body No Cooking_or Milk required Used for 3 0fa Century Substitutes Cost YOU Same Price. Greatest single obligation China owes to Germany is the Boxer indemnity money, amounting to about $106,5 000 gold. The next items in import- ance are two loans of $40,000,000 gold each known as the first and the second Anglo-German loans and ne- gotiated through the German-Asiatic Bank. Germany’s portion of the re- organization loan participated in by the five power group, is $25,000,000 gold. Railway loans made by the Ger- man-Asiatic Bank aggregate over $4,000,000 gold. In addition there are miscellaneous short term loans made by various German firms, which are estimated at a total of $4,000,000 gold. German mining properties whose value -s estimated at $1,500,000 gold will probably be taken over by the Chinese government and sold, the Chinese government holding the mon- ey until the conclusion of peace. The German-Asiatic Bank with | branches at Peking, Tientsin, Tsinan- fu Tsingtau, Hankow and Canton, is the largest German concern doing bus- iness in China, and has a capital of | about $7,000,000 gold. It is charged that the bank has financed much of | the German intrigue throughout the Orient. German capital also employed quite extensively in the cement indus- try in China and controls paper mills, breweries, cotton mills and other fac- tories in various ports. These com- panies for the most part are not very large. Arnold Karberg and Company, one of the most important German concerns in the Far East, has a loan on the Shanghia Dock of about $5,- 000,000 gold is OFFICE NEW YORK CITY MEN-WOMEN CNE PRICE—CASH OR TERMS Cheerfully does Menter offer you the con- venience of the most liberal of credit terms. Menter wants to trust you. To be fitted out at this progressive store in the most stylish and correct clothes re- quires but a very small down payment and gets the clothes. That means that you can get smart Fall Clothes right now and don’t have to wait until the season is half over. You probably know, or have heard, that Menter does not charge extra for credit. All goods are marked in plain price figures and buy a garment for a cent buy the same garment on sn’t That Worth a Whole Lot in These High Cost of Living Days? OMEN’S SUITS 1 New they York se- are lov them—u Up to $40 ly. real $20, Dresses, Waists, Millinery, Sweaters. Boys” Good Suits $5--Up OUR TERMS On any purchase of $15 or less, $1.00 down gets the clothes; then pay as you wear, $1.00 a week. Liberal terms on larger purchases— Menter. MEN’S SUITS and Young Men's Suits also— good, stylish, perfect-fitting clothes. No one can undersell us. $15, $18, $20, 22, $25 Raincoats, Overcoats, Hats and Trousers, Boys’ Suits. 315 TRUMBULL STREET, HARTFORD TROLLEY WORKERS Ten Per Cent. Receive Less Than | 24 Cents an Hour ‘Washington, Sept. 21—According to Bulletin 204 just issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor, 10 per cent. of the regular motormen on surface street railway lines in the larger cities of the United States in 1914 earned 24 cents per hour, 24 per cent. earned under 26 cents, 43 per cent under 28 cents, 61 per cent. under 30 cents, 85 per cent under 32 cents, and 98 per cent. un- der 34 cents. , These figures are drawn from a study of 101 companies in 81 citles, made by special agents of the bureau. Nearly all companies have a sliding scale of wages for motormen and con- ductors, based on length of service. The annual increase generally is about 1 cent and some companies con- tinue such increases for 10 or more years. As a rule, conductors are paid the same rate as the motormen. The length of service for conductors, how- ever, does not average so high as for motormen. Of the regular conduct- ors working for the same companies 13 per cent. earned under 24 cents per hour, 33 per cent. earned under 26 conts, 51 per cent. under 28 cents, 67 per cent. under 30 cents, 83 per cent under 32 cents, and 99 per cent. under 34 cents. “Extra” motormen and conductors are those having no regular runs, and generally are mcén new in service who take the place of regular men when absent, or take such irregular service as the company may have to offer. Their wage rates are lower than the rates of regular men who have been in service a longer time. In addition to the data obtained by special agents the bureau also col- lected by correspondence figures as to wages and hours of labor from more than 300 companies, most of them in cities smaller than the 81 cities spe- clally studied. The wage rates of both groups of cities were classified in 1 cent groups. The bulletin shows the median rate for car employes. By median rate is meant the rate of the man having as many men of low- er rate below him as of higher rate above him. The median rate in the cities visited by the bureau's agents were found to be as follow: Motormen, regular, surface, 28 and under 29 cents per hour. Motormen, extra, surface, under 26 cents per hour. Motormen, regular, eclevated subway, 35 and under 36 cents hour. Motormen, extra. elevated and sub- way, 30 and under cents per hour. Conductors, regular, sur and under 28 cents per hou Conductors, extra, surface under 25 cents per hour. Conductors, regular, elevated and subway 5 and uncer 26 cents per hour. Guards, regular, elevated and sub- way, 23 and under 24 cents per hour. Guards, extra, elevated and subway, 21 and under 22 cents per hour. Tn the group of cties for which data were obtained by correspondence the median rates were: Motormen, regular and extra, sur- face, 25 and under 26 cents per hour. Conductors, rezular and extra, sur- face, 25 and under 26 cents per hour. In this second group the regular and extra men were not reported separately. Some companics pay for more hours than are actually worked. The extra man complains of the irregularity and uncertzinty of the work given him and the length of time he must wait to get a regular run. A few companies guarantee a minimum earning to their extra train- men. The chief complaint of the reg- ular man is the length of service re- quired per day, and more especially the long hours over which the work may be spread by one or more per- sons off duty in his day's work. One of the great problems that cenfronts the street railway company s0 to arrange its car service as to accom- modate the variation in trafic from hour to hour, and from day tc day. A regular run is a regular estab- lished day’s work, assigned to a reg- ular man, which he is expected to make day after day regularly. The schedule frequently varies on Satur- day and more often on Sunday. Of a total of 30,438 Monday to Friday rurs on surfa line: 3 per cent were runs of under § hours on duty, 5 per cent of $ and under 8% hours, 11 per cent. of 8% and under 9 hour: 19 per cent. of 9 and under 9% hours, 23 per cent. of 9% and under 10 bours, 22 per cent. of 10 and under 10% hours, 9 ‘per cent of 10% and under 11 hours, 4 per cent. of 11 and under 11% hours, 2 per cent. of 113 and under 12 hours, and 2 per cent. of 12 hours or over. Because of the breaks (times off duty) in the day’s work the time be- tween which the day's work is begun and ended frequently far exceeds the hours on duty. In the same 30,438 regular Monday to Friday runs on surface lines, the outside time of 1 per cent. of the runs was 8 and un- der 8% hours; of 3 per cent. 8% and under 9 hours; of 6 per cent. 9 and under 9% hours; of 7 per cent. 9% and under 10 hours: of 7 per cent. of 10 and under 103 hours; of 5 per cent 10% and under 11 hours; of 6 per cent. 11 and under 113 hours; of 8 per cent. 113 and under 12 hours: of 10 per cent. 12 and under 12% hours; of 10 per cent. 1214 and under 13 hours; of 10 per cent. 13 and under 133% hours; of 11 per cent 15% and | under 14 hcurs; of 5 per cent. 14 and under 14% hours; of 3 per cent. 14% and under 15 hours; and of 7 per cent. of the runs 15 hours or over. In 1 per cent. of all runs the outside time was 18 hours and over. Street railway operation as an in- dustry knows no rest day. The roads are in operation 7 days a week. In- | dividual employes do not all wux’k‘ and and per certain men L0! PITY THE POOR | NASTY MEDICINES BAD FOR CHILDREN It is not often a child requires medi- cine of any kind. If the howels are regular and the general health is very apt to be e: cellent. In any case, pills, powders, and ting or unpalatable compounds, should never be given to children. therapeutic virtue such remedies may possess is largoly nullified by the young- sters’ natural antagonism. For most children a mild laxative, ad- ‘ministered occasionally, is all that iz needed to assure normal regularity sand good health. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pep- #in is a pleasant-tasting combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin, free from opiate or marcotic drugs, acts gently yet effectively; children like it and take it readily, so that it is the ideal remedy for the family medicine chest. It is sold in Arug stores for fifty cents a bottle. A trial bottle, free of charge, can be obtained by ting to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 456 Washington 3St., cello, Illinots. naus; Trm—————— g every day, however, but are absent because of one cause or another. Oc- casionally a road makes a provision for regular days off, but the general rule is that men are allowed time off duty on request. Out of a total of 31,166 regular motormen, including 43 horse car drivers, for whom infor- mation is available, 15,281, or 49 per cent. worked 7 days in the week. Of 9,294 extra motorme: including 4 horse car drivers, 4.295, or 46 per cent. worked 7 days in the week. an 1tmportant factor bearing on ef- ficiency is the change in the labor force during the year, commonly known as the “turn-over.”” The change in personnel varies materially | in different companies. Of 96 com- panies reporting the per cent. of turn- over of motormen, the turn-over wa under 10 per cent. in 13 companies 10 and under 20 per cent. in 19 com- panies, 20 and under 30 per cent. in 15 companies, 30 and under 40 per cent. in 1? companies, 40 and under 50 per cent. in 14 companies, 50 and under 70 per cent. in 11 companies, 70 and under 100 per cent. in 6 com- panies, and in 5 companies it was 10 per cent. or over. The turn-over for conductors was even greater; in 12 out of §6 companies it was 100 per cent. or over. Baby Eight Months Old Had ltching Rash Since Birth onHis Face,Neck and Back. Two Cakes Cuticura Soap and One Box Ointment Healed Above are extracts from a signed statement receitly re- ccived from Mrs. George Woodbury, 4 French Street, Lynn, Mass. 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