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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 22. 1908.
STEEL TRUST
t APPALL
Pittsburg "Survey" Results
in Disclosing Secret of
Corporation's Success
Small Wages for Men Who
Kisk Lives Every Day.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Pittsburg, Noy. ntutfi from
John Bum, president of the local gov
ernment board of England, was a fea
ture) of the joint opening session here
tonight of the National Municipal league
and the American Clvto association.
Burn lias bean for a lifetime the fore
moat labor leader of England, and has
bean balled this fall as on of the con
servative forces of the present Liberal
ministry m dealing with the Important
economic problems which are facing the
British empire. Ho has visited America
and Pittsburg as a member of-various
commissions.
Burns waa asked what recommenda
tions he would make for Improvement
:' of clvlo and labor conditions In the
Plttaburg steel district
. rawer Zooxs of Work.
"Six days' work a week Instead of
seven," he said. "Three shifts of eight
boure Instead of two shifts' of twelve
no twenty-four-hour shifts; better hous
ing: counter attractions to the saloon:
. wore parka and open spaces; , the Im
provement of the river front; the hu
manising of labor Instead of the brutal
lsatloo of toll. There yeu are.. Those
are Pittsburg's marchina- orders."
. Pittsburg Is on many counts the moat
Oisunctiy industrial city la tne coun
try. This fact has nlayed a lara-e cart
In the makeup of the program of the
conventions.' The opening Joint session
this evening waa riven up to the
"Pittsburg Survey." under this name a
close range Investigation of economic
and social conditions in the American
Steel, district has been carried on
throughout the oaat- vear and a half.
It has been called a survey because the
methods employed have been Ihdse of
toe social and civil engineer. ,
A staff of from ten to thirty persons
has been engaged In the field work, In
culding physicians, lawyers, sanitarians,
draftsman, mapmakers, detective, stat
isticians. Interpreters and professional
workers In a score of lines of social
work. It haa been called the "Pittsburg
Survey' not because Its .findings apply
solely to Pittsburg, but because the
Pennsylvania ateel - Industry haa . been
the laboratory where the work haa been
dona. The survey has been carried on
by the national publication committee,
which publishes "Charities and the Com
mon a." and It has been financed by the
Ruaaell Sage Foundation for the Im
provement of Living Conditions. It haa
enlisted soma of the foremost national
leaders In sanitary and civio work and
haa had first-rate cooperation on every
hand from the, progressive men and
women in Pittsburg. The survey is the
first undertaking of its kind for U
American city.
- Clvlo Problems. ... .
Robert W. De Forest, vlee-presideat
of the Russell Sage Foundation and for
mer tenement . bouse commissioner of
New Tork city, presided at the Monday
evening aesslon, Robert A. Wood, di
rector of South' End house, Boston, ana
one of the foremost civic leader of
New England, spoke on "Pittsburg's
Civic Problem." Mr. Woods sketched
the marvelous growth and power of
the Plttsbura- district which' has devel
oped nnder the "insistent and unoeaalng
spur of a world demand for two or
three of the fundamental utilities of
civilization." He maintained that the
"public physical well-being Is coming to
the very front as an issue of patriotic
foresight"
In conclusion 'Mr. Woods said: "We
all remember how Chicago, on account
of some of the crude moral by-products
of ita rrowth. came to be an object of
acorn from many sources at home and
abroad. By creating the world's fair
and by the exceptionally Intelligent or
ganisation or civic ana social oener
mutt Chlnasa haa coin nailed the re
spect of the country and the world.
Pittsburg succeeded Chicago as the
chosen example of the cynics; Pittsburg
is substantially taking to heart these
large plans for associated and public
enterprise through which alone, as all
the world is finding, a twentieth cen
tury city's prosperity goes hand In hand
with lta honor.''
"City Planning and Housing" waa dis
cussed by Grosvenor Atterbury of New
xora city, arcnitect or tne mipps tnoaei
tenements, who is now carrying on ex
tensive experiments In new methods and
models for low cost dwellings. He de
scribed the cooperative housing move
ment which Is spreading like wild fire
over England and Germany, under which
houses are built in large numbers and
held by joint stock companies In whloh
the tenants, instead of owning their
houses, own stock. The plan haa many:
advantages la rapidly shifting Industri
al centers.
indirect Taxation
The function of business bodies. In Im
proving clvlo conditions waa discussed
by H. D. V. English, formerly presi
dent or tne nttsourg cnamoer 01 com
merce, who has taken the advanced
Kound that bad water, bad sewage,
d houstrig and bad air are a species
of Indirect taxation on business interests.
They not only Increase taxes, but les
sen output Remarkable advances have
been made in tne last tbree yeara oy
the jrittaburg chamber of commerce and
the reform municipal administration la
laying hold of these problems.
In presenting the facta brought out
by the Pittsburg survey, the director,
Paul u. Kellogg, maraea tne snarp con
trast between the superb development
of Pittsburg aa an Industrial center and
Its development along lines of wellbeing
aa a community, with the merging of
Allegheny eity, greater Pittsburg has
between 600,000 and 600,000 inhabitants.
In comparing death rates per 100,000
for a period of five years, with a group
of other cltlea comparable In slse Bos
ton, Baltimore,' Cleveland, St. Louie
he showed that while Pittsburg ranks
fourth In deaths from pulmonary tuber
culosis, it ranks highest In typhoid,
highest in diarrhoea and., enteritis,
highest for pneumonia, highest for bron
chitis and other diseases of the respira
tory system, and highest for violence
excluding suloldes.
Tenement Census.
The lack of adeauate and sanitary
housing conditions in Pittsburg has a
direct bearing on this health showing.
During the past year, the Pittsburg
bureau of health haa made a complete
tenement house census of the city. Over
BO ner cent of the houses now used as
multiple dwellings were originally one
ramiiy nouses ana nave nettner tne
flumbing, the water supply, or the ven
llation for the three, four, five and
six families whloh now Inhabit them.
Conditions In many of the mill towns
are eauallv bad. Homestead, for ' In
stance, has no ordinance against over
crowding, no ordinance requiring ade
quate water supply. '
Tne roreigners live in tne second
warda between the mills and the rail
roads. In 12 eourta atudied in this dis
trict, only three houses had running
water inside the house. One tiundred
BROTHER CHARLES
Oil A TOGA CHASE
By -Way of 'Qualifying for
Race Resigns Offices
With Corporations.
(United Press XiMsed tf ire.)
Cincinnati. Ohio, Nov, Il.-Ult was an
nounced today that Charles P. Taft.
brother of the president-elect, will sever
his connection with the publio service
corporations In which the Taft and Sin
ton millions are invested. He has re
signed the presidency of the Cincinnati
Gaa A Electric company and his direc
torship In the Cincinnati Traction com-
pnj. .'. ....,.
rait s move is coneiaerea ouiywi
o a formal announcement on nls part
if nls aandldacv for the Ohio senator-
ship. He Is anxious to have his affalra
In good shape to handle the coming
fight
DECLARES SUN SPOTS
MAGNETIC BODIES
(raited Pres. Leases WlrO
Pasadena, CaL. Nov. II. Dr, George
El Hale, director of resarch at the Car
negie solar observatory. Mount Wilson,
has today accepted aa fact the theory
he has held that sun epots are magnetic
bodies. The acceptance oomes at the
conclusion of three years of research,
during which the powerful modern appa-
and ten people were found using one
yard pump. Fifty-one out of 139 fam
ilies lived in one room. Twenty-six of
the two room apartments -are used by
eight or more people; one two room
apartment sheltered It; two, 12; two,
11. A crude reflection of the effect of
these conditions la indicated by the
death rate In thla second ward. Of
every three children born there one dies
before It reaches two yeara of age, aa
agalnat one In every six In the rest of
Homestead. . ,
A significant array of facts as to
Industrial accidents in the Pittsburg
district has been brought out by the
survey. A' speoial staff of five people,
including an engineer and a lawyer and
Interpreters, made aa investigation of
the 626 men killed during a single year
In Allegheny county.
IiOng 1.1st of Accident.
The accidents fall on Americans aa
well as foreigners: 224 were native
born. The ranks of steel workers and
trainmen suffer most the pick of the
workmen In the district It was found
that It was the young men of the dis
trict who go down In the course of
Industry. '
Eighty-two were under 20 years of
age, 221 between 20 and 80. Over half
the men killed were earning less than
$16 a week, a faot which raises the
question If the law Is fair In assuming
as it does in Pennsylvania, that wages
cover flsk. Fifty-ono per, cent of those
killed were married men with families
to support; an additional 80 per cent
were single men partly, or wholly, sup-
?ortlng'the family. It was shown that
he greatest losses are not due to the
spectacular accidents, but to every day
causes. In the 'steel Industry, for in
stance, 42 deaths were due to the opera
tion or electrlo cranes, 11 to the opera
tion of broad and narrow gauge rail
roads in the mills, and yards, and 14
to falls from a height or Into pita, vats,
tc.
"Pittsburg has stamped out small
pox' said the speaker, "Its physicians
are fighting tuberculosis; the munci
pallty Is checking typhoid. Cannot en
gineers, foremen employers and work
men come together In a general cam
paign to reduce accidents T
Tatus of the Mount Wilson observatory
has been brought Into use ana photo
graphs o the gun spots taken, almost
On June 1 a photograph of a sun snot
shows a great mass of hydrogen being
sucked a distance of 87,000 miles tot its
center. The magnetto power of the sun
spot is terrific These photographs show
the hydrogen 87,000 miles away.- and 10
minutes latex It waa drawn. within the
a pot ,
GUKB0AT BENNINGTON
IS TO BE REPAIRED
(United Prees Lekeed Wire.)
i Vallejo, CaL, Nov. tl. Orders- were
received today at the Mare Island navy
yard to take up work on the gunboat
Bennington, which haa been out of com
mission since the disastrous -explosion
at San Diego four - yeara ago. This j
task will be commenced Immediately 1
after the collier Prometheus la launched,
December 6. The Bennington explosion
entirely wrecked the engine room and
It will be necessary to put- In new boll
era at a cost of several hundred thou
sand dollara The vessel will then be
renovated throughout
The Vicksburg. which la now under
repairs at the navy yard, will soon be
turned over to the treasury department
to be fitted up aa a revenue cutter. ; (
tfANCE O'NEIL IS -"SEEING
THINGS"
Boston, Mass., Nov. 21. ranee OTTell,
the California tragedienne, la preparing
today to leave her magnificent country
home at Tvnaboro near here because
she says Its hallway and rooms ar in
habited by a family of spooks.
The actress declares emphatically
that their antics caused creepy sensa
tions to pervade the entire household
knd that finally she became so fright?
ened that ahe sold the place.
The purchasers are the Sletera of the
Notre Dame academy, who are reported
to have . paid 116.000 for- the estate
which la -valued at t7.00: The house
haa 22 rooms and five bathrooms, and
la surrounded by 880 acres of woodland,
"CAMEO KIRBY" :; M 'Z
WINS SUCCESS
'-"' (United Prees teesea Wire.
Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 81. Nat Good
win Is hailed aa-the creator of a new
role, following' his success recently
at the Great Southern theatre in the
title role of "Cameo Kirby," a new play
by Booth Tarklngton and Harry Leon
Wilson, dealing with Mississippi river
romance. :. . -
Goodwin played the role with a -dash
that made a decided hit rortravln the
cnaraoier or cmre-iree gamoisr,
He
was avr-ported by,Maude Fealy, hit
newadlna lady. ' "- '
. Mrs.- Goodwin, formerly Edna Good
rich, sat in a box and Joined In the ova
tion given, her husband. 7 -
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,' '. .Sotfiern to Tour South. ; : ''
t Beginning tomorrow E. H, , Mothers
will start on his first tour In three
yeara of the aouthern states. From New
Orleans Mr. Bothers will move toward
San Francisco, eomin huk frim ti
coast In January, opening in an en
gagement la. Chicago the teat- week of.
, -- " v uva mm
York during the spring season. . y .
VPben a 18-foot python in a Chicago
amusement park became chilled while
hatching 40- eggs the Uvea of the
mother and her young were saved by
the use of electrlo heating pada and aa
electric radiator. . . ,
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