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THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
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Combats Work of Agitators Among Foreigners
M®W YORK.—Mrs. T. D. M. Cardeza is a little woman with a great mls-
11 sion. Through her recent appointment as secretary to Mrs. Marian K.
Clark, chief investigator of the bureau of industries and immigration, she is
engaged in assisting the representa-
tives of the New York state industrial
commission in carrying the assuring
message of President Wilson, that no
one who obeys the law will be inter-
fered with, to the great colonies of
workmen subjects of the central Euro-
pean powers who are settled in New
York.
Mrs. Cardeza, who is the wife of
a prominent Philadelphian, is probably
the wealthiest workingwoman in New
York, and it is safe to say without an
actual census she is the only employee of a state bureau in the government
of the United States who presides over her own castle in Europe.
“Poor, bewildered people,” said Mrs. Cardeza, “it is necessary that we
should reach them before the agitators do. These foreign men and women
need someone to tell them in their own language exactly what the president
said in his message. And it is necessary that they should be approached by
persons who understand not only the language but the point of view of the
European peasant.
“Nor is it only for their sakes that the state industrial commission is
sending us from one great plant to another to address these men in friendly
fashion. It is equally important to this country. There are agitators here}
from their own countries who would incite them to engage in undertakings
that might cause untold harm in the United States.”
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Famous Horse’s Last Days to Be Spent in Ease
QT. LOUIS, MO.—Chief, the sorrel tiorse driven for many years by Fire
O Chief Swingley before the automobile became the modern fire vehicle, is
assured of a grassy pasture and nothing to do but eat as long as he lives.
For several years Chief has been
pensioned by the city and was given
his freedom in a pasture on Chesley
Island. Recently Comptroller Nolte
rented the island farm to Earl W.
Jones. Then Nolte faced the problem
ctf what to do with Chief.
Nolte went to the island to bring
back the city stock and equipment not
purchased by Jones. The subject of
Chief’s pasturage was the last subject
brought up.
“Leave the old horse here and I
will keep him free of cost to the city as long as I live on the island,” Jones
told Nolte. His offer was accepted Immediately and the sentimental problem
was solved.
Chief Swingley bought Chief in 1894 at the National stock yards in East
St. Louis and he became the official buggy horse for the chief. He galloped
to all fires with Chief Swingley for 14 years and was sent to the pasture
about eight years ago.
Chief Swingley frequently went to a theater. When a fire alarm sounded
his driver would drive to the theater and stop. Chief, apparently knowing
his master was inside, would whinny and the chief invariably answered
promptly.
Chief was turned loose at fires and loafed about all night, if necessary,
but never did he leave until Chief Swingley returned to the buggy.
Woman Thinks Running Elevator Is “Great Fun”
J> UFFALO.—Don’t crowd, gents. All may have a ride. She enjoys run-
O ning it immensely, and doubtless will be on the job for many months to
come. If you will form in line and wait your turn, we will now introduce
Mrs. May Tyrrell, Buffalo’s first wom-
an elevator operator. She runs the
electric elevator in the new Colonnade
building in Pearl street, opposite St.
Paul’s church.
“It’s great fun,” said Mrs. Tyrrell,
slamming the ground-floor door.
“There is no reason at all why women
should not run ele—floors, please?—
for it is a congenial occupation and
one that it not tiring. First floor!
“It took me only a few minutes to
learn, and—yes, sir, you’ll find the
manager on the next floor—and running an elevator is a pleasant sensation—
at least for a woman who is a beginner at It. I know that—top floor, watch
yohr step, please.”
There was nothing left to do but to step out.
B. B. Burbank, manager of the Colonnade building, said that he engaged
Mrs. Tyrrell because he had found trouble in getting an elevator boy that
would suit him.
; “They have elevator girls in New York and Chicago, so I thought I
;would try it out in Buffalo,” he said. “It is such a success that managers
of one. or two office buildings in Buffalo have been over here to see how
practical It is.”
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iCat an Incorrigible “Nighthawk,” Says Woman
|JALTIMORE.—Among the things which the members of the joint committee
D on police and jail of the city council learned about cats recently, when a
j public hearing was given on an ordinance to tax cats, was that it is as
[impossible to keep a cat in at night _ i
;as it is to keep in a man. Miss Mary
iShearer of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals made
jthis statement. It was In reply to
[statements by some men who favored
jthe ordinance that cats .should fee kept
jin at night and not permitted to keep
Ithe populace awake.
Some of the knowledge obtained
iby the committee was:
Cats howl at night and keep peo-
jple awake.
Destroy gardens.
Play with rats Instead of catching them.
Kill birds.
Carry germs and spread disease.
The ladies who defended the rights of the “tabbies.” however, did not
aee things In the same light as the men who urged a favorable report on
•he ordinance.
Miss Nellie C. Williams said germs have no more affection for the fur
on the back of a cat than they have for the mustache of a man. “You would
(not put a collar and a tag on a man’s neck because he wore a mustache,
'would you?”
It seemed that the several score women who were present all wanted
,to say something in defense of the rights of the feline? j
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TRAINING MEN TO DO UNCLE
SAM’S NAVAL FIGHTING
About 8,200 Men Being Fitted for
the Navy at the Great Lakes
Station.
EVERY MINUTE IS OCCUPIED
Keen Determination to Make Good Is
the Prevailing Spirit of the Camp
—Plan to Make Station Larg-
est cf Kind in World.
Great Lakes, HI,—About 8,200 men
sare being fitted for fighting In the na-
tion's first line of defense at the Unit-
ed States naval training station here.
Not unlike that in a big college
football camp is the routine of their
training. Chief petty officers are the
jcoaches who drill the men up and
down the fields in the final days of
preparation for the big game—war.
Every minute Is made to mean some-
thing. On a dozen fields the air is
filled with the authoritative commands
of the officers and the pounding of
thousands of heavily-shod feet on the
turf. Commingling is the blare of the
bands, which are directed by Lieut.
John Philip Sousa, famous bandmas-
ter, who now has 242 musicians in
training and expects to develop the
finest military band In the world.
But the spirit of the camp Is as seri-
ous as that in a football camp. And,
as evinced by the last days of Novem-
ber in any college, the statement is
not meant lightly. Everywhere about
the station the sentiment seems to be
to stick to the team and make a good
showing in the eyes of the coaches
that a permanent place may be ob-
tained in the greatest game of all. O.
G. SnAth, captain of this year’s foot-
ball eleven at the University of Michi-
gan, expressed this when he said:
“We are going In with everything
wo have. We are going to win and
make the commandant, Capt. W. A.
Moffett, proud of us when we go to
sea or be ground to pieces trying.”
To Train 20,000 Men.
Plans are under way to make the
station the largest of its Kind in the
world. Preparations have been made
to train upward of 20,000 men during
the summer. The navy department,
upon the suggestion of Captain Mof-
fett, has asked congress to appropri-
ate funds for this purpose.
Constructed originally for 100 men,
the war and the resultant influx of re-
cruits has necessitated the springing
up of a white, tented city on the reser-
vation and adjoining leased land. Camp
Paul Jones, lying immediately to the
north of the station proper has been
fully equipped and shelters 5,000 men,
among them the naval militia from the
states of Michigan and Missouri.
It is believed that the station will
train five-eighths of the men who go
to the navy during the war. Recruits
from practically every community in
the middle West are expected, men
from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Nebraska, Kans.^, Mis-
souri, Iowa, Kentucky and parts of
other states being sent here to learn
the business of a man-o’-warsman.
Men of Every Station.
Virile young Americans, from the
colleges, offices, farms and factories
of the middle West, the men at the
station seem to be trained for almost
anything. Here one may see a civil
engineer, enlisted as an apprentice
seaman, using his transit to make
bench marks, while over there on the
.corner of the reservation are the two
rslender, 400-foot wireless towers from
(which a man is sending a wireless mes-
sage to the government station In Ar-
lington, Va. In the heterogeneous per-
sonnel there is a representative of al-
jrlEIRESS WEDS AN $18 CLERK
Connecticut Woman Failed of Happi-
ness in Experiment With a
Neighbor's Chauffeur.
Port Chester, N. Y.—Mrs. Mary Au-
gustine Woodcock of Greenwich,
Conn., who divorced Arthur Woodcock
about a month ago, has married Clif-
ford R. Wilmot, employed as a clerk
at $18 a week In the Westchester
Lighting company.
The bride, daughter of the late Wil-
liam J. Smith, on the death of her fa-
ther received $500,000, the Income of
which she has spent liberally. Her
first husband was chauffeur for Mrs.
J. B. Converse. The wedding followed
an elopement on May 11, 1910. Mr.
Smith did not learn of the affair until
the following January, when he for-
gave the couple and sent them South
In hia car for a two-months’ bridal
tour.
Mrs. Woodcock divorced the chauf-
feur on the ground of desertion. It
was said in Greenwich that Mrs. Wood-
Icock’s marriage to Wilmot was wholly
lunlooked for. Several prominent men
most every trade, profession and busi-
ness.
Home-sickness is a disease that has
little place at the station. There is
not time for it. Lying in the sun-
swept harbor of Lake Michigan, below
the wooded bluffs of the reservation
are United States navy warships,
aboard which the men get some of
their training. Eor the leisure hours
the dimpling waters of the lake in-
vites the more hardy to bathe.
Then there are organized athletics,
UDder the supervision of a naval offi-
cer. Regular track meets, boxing
bouts and baseball games are held.
Also there is a gymnasium and a fully
equipped library to occupy the time.
Earn Money on Side.
Many of the men earn money other
than their pay by doing odd jobs for
their fellows. There is a letter writer
who for a small sum will write a
descriptive letter to a parent or a
burning love letter to a-young woman!
for a mate who finds it less easy toj
express himself. Over in Camp Paul
Jones is a tented barber shop in which!
several barbers are kept busy scraping!
the faces of their comrades. Along-!
side is a shoe-shining “parlor” and!
nearby is a cleaning and pressing es-i
tablishment; all of them do good busi-:
ness for among the first things a re-!
cruit is taught are neatness and per-'
sonal cleanliness.
Nor do the men want for a woman’s
interest. Mrs. Moffett, wife of the
commandant, herself the mother of
three small sons, tries to take a moth-
erly interest in every man in the sta-
tion. As president of the Great Lakes
auxiliary of the Navy Relief society,}
she has direction of the caring for the;
needy families in the middle West of!
officers and enlisted men of the navy!
and marine corps. Gifts, received atj
the station, she distributes personally,!
frequently offering bits of kindly ad-1
vice simultaneously.
And when, finally the men are ready
to take their places in the American
battle fleet, each seems obsessed with
the idea that he, personally, must make'
good.
GERMANS DESERT ARMY IN DROVES
Story From Holland Says Uhlans
Were Sent to Shoot Them
Down.
BEG FOOD AT DUTCH BORDER
Weary of War and Depressed by Hun-
ger They No Longer Believe in
German Victory, but Are
Eager for Peace.
By W. J. L. KIEHL.
(Special Correspendence of the Chicago
Daily News.)
The Hague, Holland.—On the south-
ern border of Holland desertions from
the German army occur on a large
scale nowadays. At firs-t it was only a
single soldier here and there, then they
came by threes and fives, later In
groups of ten and twenty, but now as
many as seventy and eighty come in at
a time. A few days ago a little army
tried to desert—some 500 to 600 men,
mostly fusileers, marines and land-
sturmers.
The Dutch report says that they at-
tempted to cross near Cadsand, but the
German military authorities got wind
of it, and 200 Uhlans with two machine
guns were dispatched from Bruges to
head them back. A formal battle raged
between the two forces; it was viewed
from Holland. The machine guns got
in their deadly work, and almost all
the would-be deserters were either
killed or captured; only eight wounded
men succeeded in reaching Dutch soil
and safety.
Every fresh arrival, deserter or es-
caped prisoner, tells the same story of
famine conditions in Belgium and Ger-
many, and depression among the sol-
diers, who dread being sent to the
front. They no longer believe in Ger-
man victory, but are eager for peace.
Only one escaped prisoner had a dif-
ferent story to tell, and that man was
a Russian general, who arrived in
Maastricht accompanied by two Ger-
man “flight lieutenants” who had es-
caped with him.
This general believed the Germans
can never be reduced by hunger. “They
will eat grass or the dust from the
street rather than surrender on the
allies’ terms,” he said. He told how
bad the treatment and the food was in
the German prison camps; he had been
In seven, so he could judge. After ev-
ery attempt to escape he had been
transferred to a different camp, but
everywhere the prisoners were treated
brutally, the officers as well as the
men. How he had at last succeeded
in getting away with his two compan-
had been paying her much attention.
One admirer called himself count; an-
other was a well-known Manhattan at-
torney.
NEWEST OF AIR HAZARD
“Barrage Bumping” Described as Ex-
perience That Tries Soul of
an Aviator.
London.—“Barrage bumping” la a
new phase of air work which has de-
veloped with the war.
After the British have gained
ground their artillery opens a furious
barrage fire against the territory be-
hind the German lines to prevent re-
enforcements from coming up for a
counter-attack.
Aviators are sent out to fly over the
German positions and ascertain their
condition and strength. As the ma-
chines are compelled to fly at a low
altitude to get a good view, they nat-
urally have to pass through the shells
from their own artillery. This is
known as “barrage bumping.”
One has to be “all man” to go
through many “barrage bumping” ex-
'ions he preferred not to say—because
he feared that would make escape
more difficult for his comrades still in
captivity. He did, however, say that
what made escape very difficult was
that it caused great surprise to people
in German towns and villages to see
three able-bodied men walking about,
and he and his companions had been
obliged to invent all sorts of tales
about having been wounded and being
now on leave to account for their ab-
sence from “the front.”
German soldiers frankly beg for food
on the Dutch border. The officers don’t
go quite as far as that. There is a sort
of neutral zone along the frontier
where Germans and Hollanders can
meet. There the German officers often
congregate and make overtures of com-
radeship to their colleagues on the
other side. Friendly relations exist,
and when the luncheon h»ur comes,
and the Netherlanders see what poor
provisions the Germans have, they in-
vite the Germans to lunch. A picnic
is held and the Germans consume in-
credible quantities of rolls, sausages
or ham sandwiches, and loudly praise
the coffee the orderlies of their Dutch
comrades serve. They say they never
get good coffee any more.
Although the Dutch officer often
meets his German colleagues, it must
not be supposed he always agrees with
their methods of discipline toward
their own men. Both officers and sol-
diers in Holland, by far the greater
number of them at least, strongly dis-
approve of the brutal and heartless
way in which most German officers
treat their men. The younger officers
show this by chaffing the Germans
about It.
Merchant Ranks Over Noble.
How the spirit of caste still rules in
the German ranks is instanced by a
little anecdote told me by a Dutch
officer. He had come on friendly “cof-
fee” terms with a German officer, Von
S., the personification, to the very
monocle, of those “schneidige lieuten-
ants” often lampooned in Germany.
One day Von S. came to lunch bubbling'
over with indignation, for a simple
“bourgeois,” a former Berlin merchant,
had been given the post of captain in
his regiment, and he himself was first
lieutenant.
“Denken sie sich, lleber Kamerad 1”
he exclaimed. “Ich! Von S. Unter
einem Kaufmann aus Berlin !” He felt
disgraced. But officers are beginning
to get scarce in Germany, so the re-
serve officers who have acquitted them-
selves creditably have to be promoted
to positions they would never have at-
tained in peace times.
Fruit acids are among the best mouth!
cleaners.
plolts without losing his nerve. In ad-
dition to the shells of his own guns,
the German high angle artillery is
pumping shrapnel at him as fast as
the gunners can load and fire, and
usually he is low enough for the In-
fantry to peck away at him with
rifles.
The machine Is usually kept at an
altitude of about 500 feet and it sways j
and bounds In the “bumps” In the alt
caused by the passing projectiles.
The noise Is appalling. Aviators si
the guns sound as though they wei
only a few yards away.
Paris Cuts Off Gas.
Paris.—The minister of subsisted
has ordered suspension of the use
gas in France for an aggregate of
hours daily. Hotels and private hou^
also are ordered not to use hot ws
except Saturday and Sunday.
Fussed Up Her Hair.
Elyria, O.—Katie Fuss, in hei
vorce petition, says Steve Fuss fill
up her hair and exhibited a buncl^
it to friends to prov* he was vie
in the broil.
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The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 106, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 10, 1917, newspaper, July 10, 1917; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906751/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.