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Literary Supplement.—Tillamook, Oregon, December 21, 1905
tempted to speak at a temperance con­
vention recalls to mind the old story
of Lucy Stone, of Massachusetts a
pioneer suffragist, who, after her .grad-
lilCGBTER OF VANDERBILTS uation at Oberlin, Ohio (the only ed­
AGREEMENT made three years
ge admitting women at that time),
sEES IMPROVED CONDITIONS
AGO HET WEEN MINERS AND OPE­
-sired
to
speak
in
one
of
the
Mass
­
IN HELD OF LABOR.
achusetts churches. The announcement RATORS EXPIRES NEXT APRIL.
of the address was made by the min­
Comparison of Past Restrictions ister of the church in the following
Miners Will Then Demand Eight
With Present Freedom Reveals words:
CONSUELO ENCOURAGES SEX.
COAL STRIKE PROBABLE,
Growth of Woman’s Sphere.
A, exPresident of the United States
thinks it not beneath his dignity to
ulk to the women of the country
through the pages of a popular worn-
magazine, warning them of the
dangerous and undermining effects
noon their character of active partic-
ination in public affairs. The feminine
club life of to-day he especially con­
demns.
Following this comes tho announce­
ment of an interview with a represen­
tative of the new und charming wom­
anhood of America in the person of
Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough. A
daughter of the Vanderbilts, married
Into one of the oldest and, proudest
families of England, surrounded by
every luxury and crowned with beauty,
voutla and grace, yet is she democratic
enough to be Interested in her sisters
of the working world.
"A hen wishes to crow like a rooster in
this church on Thursday evening Any­
body liking that kind of music is in­
vited to attend.''
It seems almost incredible in these
days that time was, and only half a
century ago, too, when woman’s activ­
ity was limited to so small a circle.
As a means of livelihood she had but
three vocations from which to choose:
housework, sewing and teaching; and
all poorly paid, at that. Marriage was
supposed to be the chief end and aim
of her existence. This state she sought,
sometimes as a refuge from greater
Ills. A girl single at 22 or 23 was con­
sidered an "old maid.” No woman,
except among the Society of Friends,
could be ordained to preach the gospel.
The woman physician or lawyer was
an unknown quantity.
The Women Held Aside Their Skirts.
When Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
tlie first woman to graduate in medi­
cine in this country, appeared on the
Women’s Work Commended.
streets the women she met held aside
Concerning woman’s work the their skirts for fear of contamination
from so unwomanly a creature. The
Duchess says:
"It is gratifying to see the Improve- bars of prejudice were high and strong.
CONSUELO. DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.
tuents which have been made in the
touditlons under which women work in
Jhis country since I was last here. Y’ou
know that I am deeply interested in
this question of the betterment of the
conditions of life for women. England
is doing much in this direction, but it
18 to America that we all look for
, \ , h*p 'n movements of this kind,
, “ * am happy to say that our hopes
dare not been disappointed.”
ine particular society in which the
yjichess is interested Is the Young
Oman’s Christian Association. She
“ that organization in England
»»at Helen Gould is to the Y. M. C. A.
n this country—a patroness, generous
r» • ’ money and sympathy.
n/k s evident, however, that the
uchess’ sympathies go out to the
orkers and the work along all the
„ °f betterment for women. She
“ is attention to the various assocla-
■’ns and their enormous growth in
. mbership, and to the change that
«n i i'tn PLee in the position of worn-
3 11 the world’s work during the past
sixty years.
Speaking of woman’s efforts at eman-
k,on ami particularly of the famous
“Wing in beneca Falls, N. Y., she
The first woman’s rights convention
»as held in this country in 1850. Three
; ar’ Iater a woman attempted to
, *n a world's temperance conven-
ion in New York and it took her three
make a ten-minute speech be-
th. of the Jeers and interruptions of
. men delegates. Florence Night-
th. • ’ ^ust about fifty years ago laid
nr »k jmdation for the glorious work
' Red Cross in the hospitals in the
When Efforts Began,
.-/¡’‘'se were
beginnings of the
in» •
w°men in public movements,
80ciaI reform, which now are
lin ng -heir full development in all
fhes °f endeavor. When one reflects
, 11 ’he hardships faced by women
tile ers ,n ’hos,‘ days ranged from hos-
s and rude interruptions to.measures
even more active discomfort and un-
’ .a^antness. reminding one of an un-
th?? V P'’”*’'*’ cnmnal’ni and y»’
fnr. '
have persevered in their ef-
•k7' °np ‘■»nnot help nelng proud of
1, r. Phick and perseverance which
’ had such splendid results.”
•teference to t.ie woman who at-
Only the hardiest dared face the
approval of the public of that day.
Hut now the army of stenographers
clerks, physicians, preachers, sori“1
workers and business women attest the
wonderful change in her status. To­
day given capacity, training and perse
verance, there are few, if any, avenues
of legitimate endeavor closed to woman.
If now and then a few overstep the
bounds of discretion and good taste,
and thereby call down the censure of
the better element, who knows but tna.
it is the pendulum swinging a little far
—a rebound from the extremes of
former days. The real balance w 1
be maintained when woman Is permit­
ted to express lier individuality and
to live her own life.
Hour Day and Recognition of Union,
Owners Will Vigorously Oppose.
Charles E. Kern.
With the coming of winter many a
householder has calculated upon the
probability of a strike in the anthra­
cite coal regions and wondered wheth­
er lie should take the precaution to lay
in a full supply of fuel. The day
when the provident man laid up gnat
stores for tlie frozen period of the
year, filled liis larder with good things
to eat and bis bins with fuel, against
the Inclement weather, has departed
so far as the cities of this country are
concerned. Now rich and poor alike,
the provident and the improvident,
look to the merchant to keep their lar­
ders filled. Their only providence is
In laying up the money with which to
purchase supplies when needed.
It is this change in the method of
providing for the lionie, that has made
the strike in recent years so terrible
to the humble consumer, who may
live a thousand miles from the scene
of tlie industrial discontent and know
nothing of its causes except that
which he reads in his dally paper, and
yet be the principal sufferer from the
shortage of supplies that follows.
The effectiveness of the strike is its
power to create such a shortage In
supplies and to bring the country up­
on the verge of a famine as bad as
a food fanning fTraiixportution, l>y
quickly distributing products over tlie
world, has routed the famine of old
that sprang from the failure of crops.
Now tlie cessation of labor produces
the same shortage of supply that was
formerly produced by the uncontroll­
able elements.
The chief protection against the re­
currence of strikes lias been found In
agreements made between employers
and employes, the present agreement
in the anthracite coal fields being
effective until April 1st next. Until
after that date, according to the state­
ments of leading labor organization
officials, there will be no strike, as
they propose to stand for the inviola­
bility of contracts made by any of
their affiliated associations.
The good offices of the President of
the United States were used with
great advantage in bringing about an
agreement, between the coal opera­
tors and the miners three years ago,
so as to make possible the production
of coal. The fact is the President
used only that indefinite power that
may be regarded as the influence of
liis great office skillfully employed
in bringing the two sides to the con­
troversy together.
THE HUMAN FLY.
Wields a Great Power.
Few people understand what an Im­
mense power is wielded by tlie Presi­
dent of the United States when that
office is filled by a man of good judg­
ment The President, by Issuing an
invitation to the men on both sides of
the coal controversy under tlie circum­
stances that existed three years ago,
practically forced them to agree to an
arbitration of their differences, be­
cause, had either party to that contro­
versy declined to enter tlie agreement,
It would have so fully lost public sym­
pathy as to have been eventually driv­
en to surrender wholly to Its opponent.
In that ease the power behind the
President was the power of public
opinion. Not only is public opinion,
when focussed by so skillful a hand
as that of President Roosevelt, capa­
ble of forcing arbitration, but it is a
satisfactory guarantee that the agree­
ment when made will be kept faith­
fully by both sides to the controversy.
REMARKABLE EXPLOIT OF AWN­
ING HANGER WHO CLIMBS
TALL Bl'ILDINGS.
Witnessed by Gaping Multitude. He
Ascended and Descended the Tow­
ering “ Flatiron.“—Wife and Child­
ren Among Nervous Spectators.
made Jiis climbing skill pay. Though
married live years his wife has never
seen him at his work of sealing the
outside of tall buildings until he un*
dertook the removal of awnings from
the windows of the towering Flatiron
building. "Until that time,” said the
lady to a reporter, “1 never saw him
at the work. I knew he was removing
awnings from the Flatiron building,
so 1 went over to Manhattan to meet
him yesterday afternoon, and I took
our two children, Lawrence, two and a
half years old, and Hazel, four years
old, and waited for John In front of
the Bartholdi Hotel. Of course 1
never thought John would climb that
frightfully tall building. I was stand­
ing there when one of the workmen,
who knows me, came over and said:
‘Your husband will be with you soon,
he’s just coming from the ninth story
now." 1 thought be meant John, would
be coming by the elevator, so 1 didn't
look up to the windows.
"The workman told me to look up. 1
did, and I nearly fainted, for there
was my husband with his hands on the
sill of a window on the ninth story
and his toes in the groves between the
stones. I grew dizzy and wanted to
turn away.
“Something held me fascinated,
though, and I watched him coming
down in a sort of criss-cross fashion
as quickly as a man would run down
a ladder. 1 said to Lawrence, ‘There’s
your papa,’ and the baby laughed and
clapped his hands with joy. Ho didn't
understand the danger, but Hazel did,
and she began to cry. I couldu't look
any longer and I turned my head
away, but I could hear the noise of
the great crowd that was watching
him. I looked again, thinking he
must be on the sidewalk by this time,
imagine my horror when I saw he had
started climbing upward after I had
turned away, and was then just up to
the cornice. He looked like a little
black tly against the white stone. He
waved one hand and then began to
move down. I watched him, but some­
times closed my eyes when it seemed
that he had made a misstep. The
crowd was so great that when he
swung down to one of the storo awn­
ings I could only see him drop oft and
disappear into the maze of men gath­
ered about,”
There is a man who climbs the outer
walls of the highest buildings and
who uses neither rope, tackle nor seal­
ing ladder. This man does not tell of
his daring feats, nor has he a press
agent to exploit his dizzy achieve­
ments. He performs this work in view
of gaping multitudes who cheer and
shudder as this man goes up sheer
walls, digging his tough and nimble
toes into the interstices of the stone,
catching a cornice or a window sill
and "chinning” himself up an 1 doing
More Drastic Measures in Reserve. other most venturesome
acrobatic
But while the office of the Presi­
dent, with all Its effective although
indefinite power to force compliance
was used in that case, it Is a well
known fact that the President was
considering other means for forcing
an arbitration, bad the mire opera­
tors declined to agree to lay their
differences before a board of arbitra­
tion. The President not only has well
defined powers that are constantly ex­
ercised, and with which tlie people are
fully acquainted, but he has other still
more important powers which lie can
exercise at bls discretion in cases of
great emergency, and which it was un­
derstood at the time of the great an­
thracite coal . strike he considered
using in order to bring relief to the
shivering multitudes of the land. He
may do many tilings for tlie "public
good.” That is an indefinite term
allowing a wide interpretation, but
there are many people who believe
that had the coal strike of 1!M)2 contin­
ued a little longer tlie President would
have declared martial law in tlie
anthracite regions, and not only would
have thrown troops into that section,
but would have ordered the mining of
tlie coal and its distribution to relieve
the distress of the country.
But, according to assurances that
have been given to the public, the
country is safe from a coal famine, at
THE WEATHER t RECASTS.
least until April 1st, lOOtJ. Then there
will be another meeting between the
miners and the coal operators and tlie
In Spite of Rallerles the Government
miners will demand both an eight
Prophesies Remarkably Accurate.
hour day and the recognition of tlieir
Flteen per cent, of error, said Chief
union. Tlie recognition of their union
Willis L. Moore, in an interview, is
will lie resisted by the mine owners
the record of the Weather Bureau. Not
to the-last, and while it seems but a
only Is this proportion lower tban in
sentimental issue it will be Insisted
any foreign bureaus, but in ten years
upon by the miners, and it may event­
not a criticism of its work, he adds,
ually be made the cause of another
has come from any commercial, mari­
strike. One tiling which may be
time or scientific organization. Cer­
borne in mind is that In case of n
tainly, if it does what it sets out to
strike, the public, in the last analysis,
do, eighty-five times out of a hundred,
pays all the costs.
the weather service ought to enjoy an
enviable degree of popular esteem.
What praise would be showered on a
Congress that acted unwisely only 15
per cent, of the time!
THE FLATIRON BUILDING,
In spite of the constant gibes di­
rected at the Weather Bureau, there is
teats. The name of this man is John undoubtedly among farmers and ship­
Garrick, and he is called "The Hu­ pers an underlying sentiment of friend­
man Fly." His occupation is hanging liness and confidence. It has grown
and removing awnings. To do his work Into a national joke that the forecasts
he simply walks up and down the out­ are always wrong, just as Bostonians
side of buildings while other workmen live invariably on beans and Philadel­
go from story to story by means of the phians are always lethargic. Bjit these
whimsical articles of faith do not in
stairway or the elevator.
John Garrick before he took up the the least affect anyone’s practical at­
trade of awning hanging was a sailor, titude toward a forecast, a Bostonian,
fie followed the sea from boyhood to or a Philadelphian.
A contributing cause to the railing
manhood, and during his service <.ii
deep-sea sailing ships he learned to at the weather bureau is the activity
of the long-range prophets. The su­
climb and cultivated his nerve.
A few days ago he was engaged in perior usefulness of a forecast for next
removing awnings from the Flatiron month over one for to-morrow being
uuildir.g, in New York. Broadway was manifest, even sheer guesswork for
choked with people watching the Hu­ the former period is preferred by thou­
man Fly at work. Incredible as it sands to a scientific determination for
may seem, he climbed the sheer wall the latter. Recently a moneyed Indi­
of that building from pavement, to cor­ vidual offered a substantial prize for
nice, two hundred and eighty-six feet the best weather prophecy six months
ahead. If the Government bureau
and down again.
Five years ago Garrick married. should try for that and win it—and It
Naturally his wife wished him to quit ought to be able to guess as well as
sea-faring. He got employment as an anybody—it would become the most
awning hanger and in that capacity he popular institution in the country.
A Lullaby.
Hush, baby, hush!
In the west there’s a glory
With changes of amethyst, crimson
and gold.
.
The Sun goes to bed like the King *
a story,
Told by a poet of old.
Hush, baby, hush!
There’s a wind on the river
A sleepy old wind with a voice like a
sigh,
. -------
And be‘sings to the rushes that dream­
ily quiver,
Down where the ripples run by.
A NEW SEA GIANT.
Hush, baby, hi’sh! .
The new twin screw. Amerika, which ity of 18,000 tons of cargo. She can
Lambs are drowsily ble "T
carry 2,300 steerage passengers, but
Down in cool meadows where daisy came sweeping into New York harbor she has also provision for passenger,
the other day. after her maiden voyage,
buds crow;
who have a little money to spend. One
And the e-ho, aweary with all day re­ is one of those new leviathans of the of her '‘Imperial” suites for a voyage,
deep, the dimensions and appointments
peating
¡of which would have petrified even the affording accommodation for six peo
Has fallen asleep long ago.
I owner of Aladdin’s lamp, had he been pie, can be secured for 12.500, or an
, able to produce such a result The average of about $60 a day for each
Hush, baby, hush!
Amerika is said to be the largest ship person.
There are katydids calling
of the novelties of the Amerika
"Good night” to each other on every ever built for passenger service and is is One
the electric passenger elevator which
a sister to the Kalserln Auguste Vic-
breeze.
whisks
the passengers up and down be
And the sweet bahy r moon has been 1 toria. now in progress of construction. tween the five decks of the ship. A
: The Amerika is some 700 feet in length,
falling and falling.
Marconi wireless telegraph apparatus
Till now she is caught in the trees. 75 feet wide and over 50 feet deep. Her found
on the Amerika has now become
capacity is 23.000 tons, which is some­
Hush, baby, hush!
thing over twice the tonnage of the an established feature of all large mod
famous Oregon, Captain Clarke’s great ern vessels.
battle ship which made the long jour­ The Amerika, while not designed, It
ney around the Horn in time to con- is stated, to be a record-breaker in
speed, is driven by quadruple ex pan
I tribute to Cervera’s defeat.
Although she is a passenger ship and sion engines of over 15,000 horse power
with singing.
Soon she will follow you there.
has accommodation for 3.400 passen­ and is scheduled to make the trip
gers and 600 crew, she has also a capac- across In seven days.
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