t body will 
prepared and 
commission — 
istance, April 5, and so 
_of the hands 
ir I at 
esigned as|accouchment. _ Y 
d él he} “I was forced to scrub floors and lift 
Freehold- |heavy trunks the day my baby w 
“wrangle resulted | born,’ she declared. 
his successor. _ _ Ske said that an overworked doctor at 
e president ‘of the | the heme had expressed to h 
eting president, was {that he would be unable t 
ommitteeman, and properly the necessary obstetrical cp- : oth 
and Judge Kimmel | erations when her baby was born. This aoe melpamecned a nee 
John D, Gates, their proved true, she said, for one Lt ha of | that body. A plain statement. 
job. a the infant was punctured by an instru- Complaint is required to be w 
it the opening of the ment, , by te Dlainant.' — Compl 
was presided over by Witness was at home nine month ed: LP time in the 
ecretary of the club, | She said, and she worked at scrubbing minission. F . 
copy of the new public-servii 
copy of the rules of the’ com: 
Q > and gso any attorne 
d 6 a ‘ of either ma 
or réatiest tot € commission, _ 
nt had not authorized 
nored Orcutt. ay : 
ident the constitution | Cften unfit to eat. 
“suspended, and after 
Wehr was chosen to the : 
B fhp oiiieemant tend chapel three times a day, and 
Gates was the only 
floors and waiting on table till she 
{dropped from exhaustion. The food, 
she asserted, was scant and very bad, 
- Overwork and hardships impaired her 
health, She said. The girls had to at- 
when they were ill they didn’t feel like 
| kneeling down and have visitors pray. 
Yat? them, 
The commission will hold re 
Ty sessions at its office in Jeff 
gst Tuesday in each month, ¢ 
o’elock in the morning. Under ¢. 
the rules. the commission is op 
ously for the transaction of usi 
every day of the week except ; 
legal holidays. -Othér session 
mission will be “helad”in Jeffer 
elsewhere, as the business: réqi 
No rate of any public utility 
i hich’ ‘ 
Deter Perot Marcia Berlyn Weinberg, who was 
Bs ie dentist of the home for a year, testi- | 
‘which he announced | ~. x agnee 
z; i fied she had criticised the practice of 
idate to succeed Aloe bee ee Bg 
Banci him for un- | ™4king girls scrub floors until the day 
Rhine ie Ao f “, | their babies came into the world. : 
ee Re ae She asserted the head. of the institu- Hees eas corporations of the 
tion had once scored the girls In a ser- m\ additon to scrutinizing 
mon, declaring that they shoula “ho |PYPose for which such bonds 
jnotes are to be issued. the com 
| can be’ increased after April 
j}law’ became effective, without 
notice and consent of t 
e exercis 
issuance of stocks, bonds and 
fourteen of the sev- 
Committee. entea 
i i ‘forced to eat under 
Sor at a meeting 
the table, like 
insulted, he saia,| 2°8* 
nfairness made by 
he had done noth- 
am AE aN 
d and hooted when 
_a fight threatened 
yy of sarcastic re- 
him, he shouted 
ie, Indians!’ | Sev- 
k exception to the 
d it their right to 
" - 
WAGE COMMISSION TO MEET. 
Chairman Calls Members to Gathering 
fin St. Louis May 15. 
Michael J. Kinney, chairman of the 
Special committee created by the Mis- 
souri Legislature at its last session to 
inquire into wages, working and living 
conditions in the State, yesterday is- 
;sued a call to the committee to assem- 
ble in St. Louis May 15. i 
“The investigation will be similar to 
that recently conduéted by the Illinois 
Vice Commission. 
The examination of witnesses will 
begin soon after May 15 and will in- 
clude factory and department store 
owners and managers and attaches of 
all kinds of industrial plants where a’ 
large number of persons, especially 
girls, are employed. : 
The testimony will be submitted 
the Legislature. 
$200,000 FOR CANCER CURE 
Henry Rutherfood Leaves Rockefeller 
Institute Special Bequest. : 
NEW YORK, April 28.—The Rocke- 
feller Institute for Medical Research is 
left $200,000 by the will of Henry Ruth- 
erfood of Grand Isle, Vt., who died here. 
erfood of Grand Isle, Vt., who died here 
February 26. . 
The will was filed here to-day. The 
income of the bequest, the testator 
2 hurriedly made 
Machine and no at- 
to Orcutt when he 
BBO AN 
r to accept the 
ers’ and, as a re+ 
iasm when. ‘Mr. 
in nomination for 
ected before it“was 
‘person was’ pres- 
im, the man who 
: to 
=R CALIFORNIA 
: | ‘a a 
ril, 28.—Declar- 
been pledged 
wer California 
sts, W. J. 
y owner at 
I- |says, is to be used to find a cure for | 
7 | cancer, 
require an itemized statement 
Penditure of such moneys, veri 
of some officer of the public-s 
ration, to be filed with the comn 
the sales of such stocks, bonds 
In this way the commission fe 
moneys and obligations . of. 
corporations on whicn the publi 
a return in rates should be { 
estly and expended properly fo 
est of the public, as well as the 
utility. i 
The rules set out tn full form 
Dlaints, applications and other 
before the commission, which w 
terest to lawyers practicinge befc 
mission, and also to all utilitie 
ulation of the commission, 
satisfy the complaint or answe 
ten days thereafter: also a co 
complaint is sent the party 
against. 
is not satisfied, then the commis 
an order for a public hearing, 
party compiained against ten | 
of such time and place. aa 
In this way it is hoped the bu; ? 
the commission will. be ‘expedi 
leng dravy.n-out litigation. 
—————<a 
Welfare Delegates Appoi. 
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. A 
State Superintendent W. P.. 
day appointed as delegates to 
enteenth Child Welfare Natio 
gress of Mothers and Parent 
Associations, which will meet 
ton, Mass., May I-20, Mis: 
Griffith, St. Louis; Miss Wstell 
Springfield, and Miss Ella Vv. 
“eam 
