La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1915 Page: 3 of 8
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Beggars’ Feud Breeds Riot Among Chicago Cripples
•^HICAGO.—Probably tbe oddest procession of customers In Chicago passer
nightly below the huge wooden "schooner" which proclaims to passers-by
that the "Largest 6 Cent Beer in Town” may be had in the saloon of Isaac
Bobln8ky on South Jefferson street'.
They are the lame, the halt and the
blind.
Bill McGulrk is one of the most
successful of Boblnsky’s patrons. Bill
claims to hare only one leg. and the
police have found no cause to doubt
his word during the three years he
has collected pennies from passers-by
on Halsted street between Madison
and Twelfth streets. BUI claims an
option on the east side of the street
between these bounds. “Blind Joe’
holds title to the west sidewalks by right of conquest.
Down on Fourteenth street stands John Finley, whose business assets
consist of the loss of one arm and deafness.
The other morning McGulrk was told by one of his regular patrons that
he had Just given his dally nickel to a one-armed man at Halsted and Jackson
streets. The loss of the nickel rankled In BIH’b bosom all day. He arrived
at Boblnsky’s earlier than usual, and waited for the trespasser to arrive.
Finley edged his way through the swinging doors at seven o'clock. A
wooden leg grazed his head by a few inches. His friends, who were waiting
for an opportunity to crush the czardom of McGulrk, rallied to his support
Others aligned themselves with their old leader, Bill.
A few minutes later a call was turned in at the Maxwell street station.
When the police arrived they found the floor Btrewn with canes, crutches,
artificial limbs and roller skates. A man leaned against the bar with a sign
on his chest bearing the inscription: “I Am Blind.”
“I didn’t Bee nothin’, but I beard an awful lot,” he said.
Drink Out of Fashion in the Capital of Missouri
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HFFERSON CITY, MO.—Drinking Is going out of fashion among Missouri's
men of affairs. Here Is an incident that shows how drinking has lost
favor among the classes that used to transact much of their business around
the famous Madison house bar.
The general counsel of one of Mis-
souri’s largest railroads asked an ac-
quaintance to go in and have a toddy.
(And the Madison toddy has had a
reputation in its day.)
“Sorry, not drinking any more,”
the acquaintance replied.
“You’re the fifth man I’ve asked In
the last hour to go In have a drink
who has refused “because he Isn’t
drinking any more,’ ” the counsel said.
“Sit down. Let’s see how many
go into the bar. The two sat down and watched for a half hour. Ten years
ago the crowd wouldn’t have been in the lobby. It would have been at the
bar. Five years ago, even, the bar would have been the favorite congregating
spot for such a gathering as that. *
The half hour passed. Not a single one of all the crowd went into the
bar. The men did their visiting and trhelr “milling” in the lobbies over their
cigars. They had left J. Barleycorn off their visiting list. That condition
wasn’t true just of the famous old Madison bar, which has seen politics and
politicians since time without end. It existed at all the bars of the capital
city. So lamented the men who had been mixing “presbyterians” and “south-
easters” for Missouri statesmen for a generation.
As the general counsel remarked after his half hour vigil over the bar-
room door: “Times certainly have changed—even In Missouri."
They have. J. Barleycorn still has hlB politicians, scores of them, but
as for personal acquaintance—even In Missouri—they are striking him off
the approved visiting lists.
HHiriK MR
JENMfJS IS
FINE TO
THINK OF
THIS COURT-1
SHIP IDEA -|
DON’T YOU
Penny Lunch for Poor New York School Children
MEW YORK.—The "penny lunch” furnished by the school lunch committed
IT of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor,
of which Edward F. Brown is superintendent. Is probably the most wholesome
ftvent In the life of half the children
on the lower East side.
Seventeen schools now have this
penny-an-artlcle lunch service. In .'jl °
1916, and In time to provide lunches U&fy ' r W
this winter through the municipal aid . VjkQ
granted, this service will cover 28 Mu’ *
schools with a register of 44,000 pu- — lu II|\ O0
The board of education provides fa- ^—IMb— BtS
duties for serving the lunches— __—| «
kitchen and place for the children to _ yA&v
eat—but the maintenance of the work
is entirely from private contributions. Every article on the menu Is the
result of scientific study. The bowl of soup the wee urchin carries so care-
fully on his tin tray Is of concentrated strength. The two slices of bread
he buys for his penny are made with milk and the best flour. The “water
roll” he probably had for breakfast was of the two-for-a-cent variety, but con-
tained less than half the nourishment of the “school bread.;*
For two cents the average poor mother of the tenements provided a
wretched apology for a meal. For two cents at the “shhool lunch” a kiddle
geta a percentage of calories thst will keep him going for six hours.
Penniss, to be sure, are scarcer than ever this winter. The lunch com-
mittee served on an average 400 children a day last year, kgainst >50 this
The answer? Unemployment, business depression, war, high prices.
And so, back of each hatchet-faced, thin-legged child who brings bit
penny to school for a bowl of soup there is a distinct social and economic
problem.
ARMY OFFICERS EXECUTED
Terms Provide for Neutralization of
Sonora Border Town, Removal of
Hill’s Carranza Force, and Close
the American Port of Naco.
Courtship Center Is Started by Boston Church
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tvOSTON.—A simon-pure, true-blue courtship center, where Boston’s young
IJ men and women of marriageable age can gather and become acquainted
with a view to matrimony, has been established by Mrsj Rumsey Jenness,
wife of the new pastor of the Tremont
Street Methodist church, In the parlors
of that edifice, at West Concord and
Tremont streets.
The courtship meetings are held
usually Wednesday and Sunday eve-
nings. They are made more Interesting
by a so-called "chocolate pot,” that Is,
chocolate is served to the young folk,
and also- a light supper.
This courtship center Is the very
latest thing of its kind in Boston, If
not in the world. It Is Just what It
announces Itself to be. More than one hundred young men, Including a large
number of Tech and Harvard boys and moro than one hundred glrlB, number-
ing among them many from the Emerson College of Oratory and the New Eng-
land Conservatory of Music, are already attending the courting meetings.
Mrs. Jenness’ motto Is, “Give the young people a chance."
"I believe In bringing them together and then In letting propinquity do
the rpst,” she says. Cupid In the church 1b well placed. Where could there
be a more fitting place for young persons to carry on their love affairs?
“We have Introduced a great many young men and young women, and
each of the five hundred active workers of the church has been Invited to
come to the ‘chocolate pot’ gatherings and bring a friend.”
The courtship gathering Idea, according to the minister’s wife. Is only
one of a number being planned by the original pastor and his wife for making
the Methodist church center a center of community interests for the ten
thousand persons within the Tremont Street church district
Naco, Arlz.—Brigadier General H.
L. Scott, chief of staff of the United
States army, meets General Villa at
El Paso this week. His mlssiou, it
Is known, is the speedy conclusion of
the border peace pact which he has
been negotiating for two weeks with
the Carranza and Villa leaders, Gen-
erals Hill and Maytorena, at Naco,
Sonora.
The terms now proposed provide for
the neutralization of the Sonora bor-
der town, the removal of Hill and his
Carranza force to Augua Prleta and
the closing of the American port of
Naco. This would concentrate the
Carranza troops at Augua Prleta,
where the Villa leaders say he would
blockaded.
Washington.—General Villa, as com-
mander in chief of the forceB of the
Gutierrez government, has ordered
General Juan Cabral with 8,000 men
to take charge of the general situation
In Sonora, superceding General May-
torena at Naco.
This order is said to have been de-
cided upon by the Gutierrez govern-
ment as the best way to prevent con-
tinuance of hostilities at Naco and
Agua Prieta, where there are com-
paratively small Carranza forces.
Brigadier General Hugh Scott, chief
of staff of the United States army,
who went to Naco In an effort to ob-
tain the neutralization of that place
and prevent bullets from falling into
American territory, has advised the
war department that the Cabral troops
are now at Casas Grandes. Maytorena
has delayed signing any agreement for
the removal of his forces pending the
arrival of Cabral. The combined Cab-
ral and Maytorena forces will total
about 12,000 men, while General Hill,
the Carranza adherent, has about 4,000
men. I
Officials at Washington, beyond say-
ing that the situation would presently
adjust Itself, declined to comment on
it. It Is generally believed, however,
that General Cabral would sign an
agreement by which Naco would be
declared neutral and the Hill forces
would be permitted to go to ’Agua
Prleta.
General Jesus Carranza, brother of
Venustiano Carranza, is being held a
prisoner by the rebel general, Al-
fonso Santibanez, on the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec. General Santibanez shot
Carranza’s entire staff except his son,
Alfonso Carranza, and Ignacio Peraldl.
They also are held captives.
The exceptions of the members of
the staff took place after Genet—j San-
tibanez had failed to induct Venus-
tlano Carranza to make terms for their
release.
Washington.—General Villa, In a
telegram dated Friday night in the
City of Mexico to his agency in Wash
ington, denies he has questioned the
amnesty proclamations of General
Gutierrez.
“I obey and respect the orders of
President Gutierrez,” Villa tele-
graphed. “I am^Jkls subordinate.”
Further details of the fighting be-
tween Carranza and Villa troops near
Tampico were received Friday in of-
ficial dispatches to the Carranza agen-
cy at Washington.
Tbe following message was re-
ceived :
“General Pablo Gonzales yesterday
administered a decisive defeat to the
Villaistas at Rodriguez, a few hours’
ride from San Luis Potosl. Several
hundred were killed and wounded. He
now is pursuing the enemy toward
San Luis Potosl.
“General Obregon reports that he
has dislodged the Zapatistas and Vil-
laistas from theij strongest position
at Puebla and expects to announce
the capture of this city almost hourly.
“Vera Cruz itself Is almost entirely
depleted of soldiers, although a week
ago there were thousands In camps
there. They are marching west from
Aplzaco on their way to the City of
Mexico and hopes are high here that
Carranza will re-establish his govern-
ment In the national capital In a
period of no greater than six weeks.
Monterey reports that General An-
tonio I. Villareal, at the head of hie
troops, haB left Monterey to engage
the enemy and that the constitutional
garrisons at Laredo and Matamoros
have contributed troops to hold Mon-
terey while Villareal Is in the field.
Laredo wires that General Maclovlo
Herrera, commanding 16,000 men,
routed a Villa force under the com-
mand of Maximo Garcia, who was
himself badly wounded.
The same source reports that Gen-
eral Pablo Gonzales has sent a detach-
ment of 6,000 troops from Tampico to
take part in the operation! against
Torreon. The railroad between Mon-
terey and 8altillo and Monterey and
Tampico is intact.
Washington.—Dispatches to the state
department Wednesday told of the
holding up of a passenger train Tues-
day thirty miles northwest of Vera
Cruz by bandits, who ahot two Car-
ranza officers and eighteen men. The
train was burned.
AMERICAN PASSPORTS
FRAUDULENTLY OBTAINED
An Alleged Conspiracy to Enable Ger-
man Reservists to Go to War
Disclosed at New York,
New York.—An alleged conspiracy
to furniBh German army officers and
reservists with American passports
fraudulently obtained, to euable them
to return to Germany from this coun-
try without danger of molestation by
French or English authorities, was
brought to light Saturday by the de-
partment of justice.
The disclosure came with the ar*
rest of Carl Ruroede, a former agent
for the North German Lloyd steam-
ship line, and with the removal from
the outward bound steamer Bergens-
fjord of a German army officer and
three German reservists. All of them
were charged with conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States government
through the use of American pass-
ports.
The four soldiers were taken off
the steamer which was bound for Ber-
gen, Norway, JuBt as she was passing
quarantine and brought back to New
York on a revenue cutter. All four
bore photographic passports Issued by
the state department to Americana
and alleged to have been furnished
them by Ruroede. Other arrests are
expected In the near future, one a
prominent German-Amerlcan In New
York.
Ruroede said, according to agents of
the department of justice who ques-
tioned him, that whatever he had
done had been on his own initiative
and was Inspired by patriotic motives.
He was held In $20,000 bail. With
him was arrested John Aucher, his
alleged associate, who was also held
in $20,000 bail, and Ruroede’s 17-year-
old son, who was released on his own
recognizance.
The German army officer, Lieuten-
ant Arthur Wilhelm Zachse, was pa-
roled on his honor “as an officer and
a gentleman” not to leave New York
city during the pendency of the pres-
ent proceedings.
The three reservists, Walter Muller,
August Meyer and Herman Wegener,
who recently came to New York from
Chile, were held in $5,000 ball each.
There were detained also under $500
bail each four others as material wit-
nesses, two with American and two
with German names.
Actrsss Would Annul Marriage.
Chicago, 111.—Jane Peyton, actreea,
Wednesday applied for annulment of
her marriage to Guy Bates Post, the
actor. She asserts her marriage to
Post In 1907 waa Innocently blgamofls,
ap she supposed at the time that she
had been divorced from the late Ar-
thur Cecil Gordon Weld, a musician
and playright.
Interurban Bonda Registered.
Austin, Tex.—Tbe Bryan and Can-
tral Texas Interurban Railway Com-
pany, acting upon authority of the
railroad commission, Monday register-
ed In the state department an Issue
of $79,000 first mortgage bonda on
twenty-one miles cf completed line In
Burleson and Brazos cqunttes.
Watar Board Bets Hearing Day.
Austin, Tex.—Hearings bars bean
set by the state board of water en-
gineers for Feb. It, 1911. at Austin.
THE Ciucian Gates, r-Rori the aourr*
Farm Lecturers’ Routes Fixed.
Austin, Tex.—The following itine-
raries of farmers’ institute lecturers
have been announced by the depart-
ment of agriculture:
J. W. Neill—Goldthwalte, Jan. 11;
San Saba, Jan. 13; Burnet, Jan. 16.
Joe E. Edmondson—Calvert, Jan.
11; Hearne, Jan. 13; Jewett, Jan. 15;
Buffalo, Jan. 16.
Paul,Wlpprecht—Crystal City, Jan.
11; Dilley, Jan. 13; Moore, Jan. 14;
Devine, Jan. 16.
R. H. Taylor—Meridian, Jan. 11;
Clifton, Jan. 12; Valley Mills, Jan. 14;
Crawford, Jan. 16.
William Connally—Sherwood, Jan.
12; San Angelo, Jan. 14; Ballinger,
Jan. 16.
J. O. Allen—Kilgpre, Jan. 12; Over-
ton, Jan. 14; Cookville, Jan. 16.
T. A. McGalllard—Queen City, Jan.
12; Atlanta, Jan. 16.
Turpentine and RosIn'Contraband.
Washington.—The British embassy
Sunday issued its first statement on
the shipping situation since the pub-
lication of the American note. It
cleared up one point on which the
United States had asked for informa-
tion by announcing that turpentine
and rosin shipped from this country
before those articles were declared
contraband would be paid for when
seized.
Value of All Texas Crops.
Washington.—The total value of all
Texas crops for 1914 will reach $352,-
000,000, according to figures just fur-
nished by the agricultural department,
as against about $400,000,000 for 1911.
Texas will not hold Its place of first
In the list of states, as one year ago,
owing to the reduced price of feotton
and a falling/off in prodnctlon Income
of the hlgh-money crops. •
Belgian Minister Protests.
Washington.—The Belgian minister
Wednesday filed with the state de-
phrtment a protest against the re-
quisitioning by German military au-
thorities in Belgium of merchandise
worth about 57,000,000 francs. . He as-
serted that the policy of the Germans
meaht “the ruin of Industry In Bel-
gium.”
felt a tingle of expect-
11/ ancy from the moment our
WVB Turkish wagon started to
W W trundle over the series of
mud holes and hillocks
which pass for streets In Tarsus. For
we were to go right through that most
famous pass In history, the Ctliclan
gates, over the crest of the Taurus
mountains, on to the high plateau of
eastern Asia Minor, writes Basil
Mathews In the Quiver.
Alexander the Great poured his
hosts, onto the plain of Cilicia and
Into Syria through this narrow, pro-
found gorge, which could be barred
by the single gate of an ordinary
castle. Cyrus and his 10,000 Greeks
plunged from the great road on the
Anatolian plateau which lies beyond
the snow ridge of Taurus down on to
these plains. Later the Roman legions
thundered down this road to Tarsus.
This, too, is the gorge into whose
shadow Paul passed, to come out on
the shining tableland' of AnatolU,
where Iconium and Derbe and Lystra,
with Pisldlan Antioch, waited for his
word. Through these “Qates” also,
Frederick Barbaroesa poured his
hosts to join Richard the Lion-heart
at Acre.
Tho araba or Turkish wagon (which
was to be our home for the next two
days) Is a seatless spring carriage,
covered from end to end with a hood
borne by eight supports. From the
hood hang curtains which can be
rolled up In fine weather and dropped
to keep out rain and wind. You lay
your bedding on the floor of the
wagon, your steamer rugs on t!'« bed-
ding, your traveling cases at the back
to lean against; and In this oriental
repose look out on the scenery—or
sleep.
Our wiry, slight horses pegged on,
breaking Into a trot on the occa|lons
when the road’ really wa: a road.
Their bridles sparkled with blue
beads, which are most powerful in
averting the evil eye. The araba-ji
(wagon-man) was a stoutly-built
young fellow, who drove with one leg
curled up under him, and made slow,
large gestures when he spoke, with a
rare mixture of unconscious dignity
and oriental leisure.
Across the Plain.
For an hour or more we drove
across the plain, the arched hood of
the wagon framing tbe huge white bul-
wark of the Taurus. The range lifted
Itself as though to bar tbe way. The
great, brown, comfortable Cllician
plain, fertile with the deposit of a
thousand centuries from the moun-
tains, was broken here and again by
the uprising of the sharp conical mass
of some hill—like that of the Seven
Sleepers with Its cave. Every here
and there sprays of anemones (of
every tint from palest heliotrope to
deep purple) were scattered among
crocuses whose white and yellow
heads broke—almost stalkless —
through the earth.
We took a backward look at the
great plain, flooded with afternoon
light, caught the distant glint of the
sea over Meralna, and drove on north-
ward. A short, precipitous, forbidding
ravine of brownish-gray scarred rock,
so sheer and steep that it looked as
though some angry god had hewn It
open with an ax, was the one strik-
ing break In tbe normal gradual rise
of the road, up and pn, twisting and
recoiling, but always finally moving
north.
Swinging round a rocky corner, we
made a narrow plain—a miniature
plateau of the hMls, where, behind a
khan, the camels were grouped in
brown circles, heads down as though
"scruEj^lbut
travelers who had been told with
cheerful Iteration of the vermin-haunt-
ed dlrtlnqps of the old khans. It had
all the primitive antiquity of appear-
ance that the most enthusiastic hunt-
er for the real eastern life could de-
sire!
Up thp Pass.
By the time the next morning was
fully fledged our wagon was creep-
ing once more up the pass. A new
note of wild grandeur began to sound
In the ravines. The road now clung
to the almost precipitous sides of the
gray rock, which lifted Itself In
jagged, swift leaps a thousand feet
above us, while beneath, the Icy, tum-
bling stream filled the whole valley
with the sound of running waters.
Some peaks were bare, with the stark,
unclothed grlmness of mountains of
the moon; others were covered .even
to the dizzy peaks with pines which
clung to the rock with tenacious roots.
Ancient hollow sycamores, as gray as
the rocks In which they were rooted,
thrust their gnarled trunks over the
stream.
Contrasted with the valleys and
plain behind us, It was as though we
had swept from the alluring har-
monies of a Beethoven symphony Into
the wild and crashing discords of a
Wagner overture—with all the stir-
ring blare and appoal of brass and
string and wood. Yet through It all,
like a strange haunting theme from a
folk-song as old as men, strode the
tinkling strings of camels, sounding
bells that vartod from the tiny neok-
bells in the high trebles to the bari-
tone of the long bronze bells that
swung from their aldee.
Precipitous bluffs, their gray and
white thrown up defiantly against the
blue of the sky. gave a strange feel-
ing of castles built by giants to defend
this eerie pass'agalnst armies of Jinn.
At last it looked as though tbe end
had come. The gray bul
hurled In front of us, an
Impenetrable, unscalable n
denly a thin edge of light
there, cloven In the rock, was a
sage—narrow and between sheer preci-
pices, with sharp-edged summits.
The Split Rook.
All the thunderbolts of Olympus
must have riven the roek that tho
stream of water and of humanity
might pour through It In the world
there are few places suggesting so
wonderfully the powor of the simple
physical facts of hdl and mow
and plain to control history. A
rock, through which a loaded
could barely pass (till Ibrahim
blasted awav the rock to give
for bis artillery), has deflected t!
of the contest and contact of East and
West In history. And, as scenery, the
“Gates” are the crashing
the Taurus overture.
Passing out ef their
came out Into open vs
north and northwest, on a i
ual that, when the actui
was reached, It could b«
cerned. And, curiously
waters that flow north and south
this point do not reach seas
from one another, each finally
Ing the Mediterranean.
Our road ran north and
ping now gradually, now .
till, passing the last string .
camels as the sun set ahead ol
reached the old khan at 1
Ahead lay the carr-----
which Greek am
er have come,
they
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settling Into a Rugby
Then we tamed sharply
gateway of Yenf-khan (Nai
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