1912. 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—A delegation representing 
commercial interests on the Atlantic and 
Pacific coasts called on President Taft Feb¬ 
ruary 28 to protest against any movement 
on the part of the Administration or Con¬ 
gress which may give transcontinental rail¬ 
roads control over the Panama Canal. The 
delegation’s position was that the Govern¬ 
ment can keep the railroads from obtaining 
a monopoly on transisthmian steamship 
lines and thus virtually enforce competi¬ 
tion. The delegation was composed of Will¬ 
iam R. Wheeler of the San Francisco Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce; John M. Teal of the Port¬ 
land, Ore., Chamber of Commerce; D. O. 
Ives of the Boston Chamber of Commerce; 
and M. R. Kelly of the Philadelphia Cham¬ 
ber of Commerce. 
During February, in New York City, 
nine persons were killed and 37 injured by 
automobiles. In 25 months 263 people have 
been killed and 1,663 injured by motor 
vehicles in New York City, according to 
the figures compiled by the National High¬ 
ways Protective Society. The one thing 
necessary for a material lowering of the 
number of automobile accidents in New 
York streets, in the view of the police, is 
the holding of drivers more strictly to ac¬ 
count for accidents. In this respect the 
police contend they already are doing all 
that they can do and that any change 
toward greater severity must come from 
the courts and from the coroners and cor¬ 
oners’ juries which take up the cases after 
the police have made the arrests. 
By a vote of 14 to 0 the New Jersey Sen¬ 
ate passed February 28 Assemblyman 
Thomas F. Martin’s bill, which previously 
went through the House, eliminating justices 
of the peace from the list of persons who 
can lawfully perform marriage ceremonies 
in the State. Gov. Wilson signed the bill. 
The new law will probably prevent many 
elopers from going to New Jersey for quiet 
civil marriage ceremonies, as the only civil 
authorities who will be able to officiate are 
the Chief Justice and each Justice of the 
Supreme Court, the Chancellor and each 
Vice-Chancellor, each Judge of the Court 
of Common Pleas, and the Recorder, Police 
Judges and Mayors of municipalities. It 
will not be an easy matter to get any of 
these high officials to perform a marriage 
ceremony at any hour of the day or night 
and promise to keep the fact of the wedding 
a secret. The only other persons permitted 
under the laws of New Jersey to perform 
marriage ceremonies are regularly ordained 
ministers of the Gospel and the authorized 
representatives of religious societies, insti¬ 
tutions and organizations. The returns of 
all marriages must be filed within five days 
after they are performed. It was held by 
the advocates of the bill that many justices 
of the peace made a mockery of the mar¬ 
riage ceremony in their eagerness to get 
fees, ofttimes uniting in matrimony persons 
who were under the influence of liquor. 
They cited cases where runaway children 
had been made husband and wife by justices 
who knew they were under the age of con¬ 
sent, and dwelt at length on the fact that 
a large percentage of the hurried marriages 
have ended in the divorce courts. 
A commission of 16 to investigate the 
distribution of the population throughout 
the State, particularly in small cities and 
villages, is created in a bill introduced by 
Assemblyman Parker at Albany February 28. 
The commission would learn about housing 
conditions, cost of production and other 
things, with a view of recommending means 
for an improved distribution of population. 
March 7, one of the New York police boats 
became a floating arsenal, when 1,500 re¬ 
volvers, 200 shotguns, 100 rifles and 300 
blackjacks and knives of all sizes and 
shapes were carried out to deep water and 
dumped into the ocean. These articles were 
placed in the custody of the property clerk 
of the Police Department during the last 
year, and many of them have histories that 
are interesting. The intrinsic value of the 
collection of weapons has been placed at 
$8,000 by the property clerk. The revolv¬ 
ers, It is said, range in value from 10 
cents to $50, while many of the shotguns 
and rifles are weapons of the latest and 
most improved models. It formerly was the 
custom of the Commissioner to have an 
annual sale of these articles, but Commis¬ 
sioner Waldo does not wish to come in 
conflict with the Sullivan law, and he has 
decided that the best way to avoid compli¬ 
cations is to have the weapons thrown 
into the sea. 
March 4 the Congressional inquiry into 
the industrial conditions at Lawrence, Mass., 
included evidence from children as well as 
adults. Samuel Gompers, President of the 
American Federation of Labor, added his 
voice to those who are urging Congress to 
order a federal investigation of the condi¬ 
tions in the Massachusetts mill town in so 
far as they relate to the refusal of the 
authorities to permit the sending of the 
strikers’ children to other States where they 
could be cared for during the continuance 
of the strike. Representative Victor Berger 
was also before the committee. The child¬ 
ren told of working long hours for low 
wages, how they had to pay the American 
Woolen Company five cents a week for 
drinking water, which they described as 
“canal water.” Some of them told of see¬ 
ing women beaten by police and children 
knocked down and hurled into wagons “like 
bundles of rags” in Lawrence February 24. 
Samuel Golden, 16 years old, testified he re¬ 
ceived $1.64 for three days’ work and 
never made more than $5.10 in a week. He 
said children paid five cents a week for 
drinking water, whether they drank it or 
not, and were “docked” an hour’s pay if 
they were late. Ills father never made 
more than $9 a week, he said. 
WASHINGTON.—The Democrats of the 
House in an emphatic manner have thrown 
into Congress the important issue of an 
income tax. At a caucus of the majority 
party of the House March 1 a bill propos¬ 
ing a one per cent tax on all not incomes in 
excess of $5,000 was unanimously indorsed. 
The levying of this income tax is the 
means proposed by the Democrats for meet¬ 
ing the loss of $53,000,000 a year in revenue 
caused by the placing of sugar on the free 
list. A bill removing the duty on sugar 
was reported by the Ways and Means 
Committee March 1. It was also indorsed 
bv the Democratic caucus with the members 
from Louisiana and Colorado, sugar produc¬ 
ing States, bitterly protesting. 
The post office appropriation bill, carrying 
$259,827,749, or $1,352,314 less than recom¬ 
mended by the Postmaster-General, provid¬ 
ing for general and experimental parcels 
post systems on city and rural routes, re¬ 
establishing an eight-hour day for letter 
carriers in the city delivery service and 
clerks in first and second class offices and 
prohibiting the use of any but steel cars 
in the railway mail service and abolishing 
the gag rule in postal service employees, 
was reported to the Douse March 4 by 
Representative Moon of Tennessee, chairman 
of the Committee on Post Offices and Post 
Roads. If .the gag rule is abolished it will 
permit service employees to form labor 
organizations and affiliate with the Ameri¬ 
can Federation of Labor. It will also 
give them the privilege, either individually 
or collectively, of petitioning Congress for 
salary increases or redress of grievances. 
These things are now forbidden under the 
terms of an Executive order first issued 
by President Roosevelt and affirmed by 
President Taft. Within a week the House 
Committee on Reform in the Civil Service 
will report a bill extending these same 
privileges to employees in the other de¬ 
partments. One section of the bill creates 
a commission to investigate any report 
on a parcels post scheme to embrace the en¬ 
tire post office service. Meantime the bill 
provides for a limited rural route parcels 
post, with the postage rates at five cents 
a pound for the first pound and two cents 
a pound for each additional pound and frac¬ 
tions up to 11 pounds. This experiment 
is to last for two years on all rural routes 
in the United States. 
James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, 
March 4 broke all records for continuous 
service in Presidential Cabinets. He has 
served 15 years. The longest previous term 
of any Cabinet officer was credited to Albert 
Gallatin, who was Secretary of the Treas¬ 
ury from 1801 to 1813. Mr. Wilson was 
first appointed by President McKinley in 
1897, and was reappointed by Presidents 
Roosevelt and Taft. 
GIVE THEM “CAREFUL CONSIDERATION.” 
At Fig. 131 we print a map of New 
York, numbering the various Congressional 
districts, to aid our readers in writing to 
their public servants on Parcels Post Day, 
March 18. This map is re-engraved from 
the Legislative Manual of New York. Below 
will be found the names of New York 
•Congressmen by districts, so that each 
reader by referring to the map may know 
who represents his county at Washington. 
1. Martin W. Littleton. 
2. Geo. II. Lindsay. 
3. Janies P. Maher. 
4. Frank E. Wilson. 
5. Win. C. Redfield. 
6. Wm. M. Calder. 
8. Daniel .T. Itiordan. 
9. Henry M. Goldfogle. 
10. Wm. Sulzer. 
11. Chas. V. Fornes. 
12. Michael F. Corny. 
13. Jefferson M. Levy. 
14. John .1. Kindred. 
15. Thomas G. Patten. 
16. Francis B. Harrison. 
17. Henry George, Jr. 
18. Steven B. Ayers. 
19. John E. Andrus. 
20. Thomas W. Bradley. 
21. Richard E. Connell. 
22. Wm. H. Draper. 
23. Henry S. De Forest. 
24. George W. Fairchild. 
25. Theron Akin. 
26. George R. Malby. 
27. Chas. A. Talcott. 
28. Luther W. Mott. 
29. Michael E. Driscoll. 
30. John W. Dwight. 
31. Sereno E. Payne. 
32. Henry G. Danforth. 
33. Edwin S. Underhill. 
34. James S. Simmons. 
35. Daniel A. Driscoll. 
36. Chas. B. Smith. 
37. Edward B. Vreoland. 
The two Senators from New York are : 
Elihu Root. 
James A. O’Gorman. 
Mr. Root is giving the matter “careful 
consideration,” Mr. O’Gorman is in favor 
of parcels post, and has introduced a bill 
of his own calling for it. 
The members of Congress from New Jer¬ 
sey are: 
1. Henry C. Loudenslager. 
2. John J. Gardner. 
3. Thomas J. Scully. 
4. Ira W. Wood. 
5. Wm. E. Tuttle. 
6. Wm. Hughes. 
7. E. W. Townsend. 
8. Walter I. McCoy. 
9. Eugene F. Kinkead. 
10. James A. Hamill. 
The two Senators arc: 
Frank O. Briggs. 
James E. Martino. 
Mr. Martine says he favors parcels post, 
but no one seems to have been able to put 
Mr. Briggs on record either way. 
The Connecticut representatives are : 
John Q. Tilson, at large. 
1. E. Stevens Henry. 
2. Thomas L. Reilly. 
3. Edwin W. Higgins. 
4. Ebenezer J. Hill. 
The two Senators being 
Frank B. Brandegee. 
Geo. P. McLean. 
Mr. Brandegee is in particular need that 
the people of Connecticut should give him 
“careful consideration” on the homeopathic 
principle that like cures like. 
The Vermont delegation seems to be solid 
for parcels post. 
The New Hampshire Congressmen are: 
1. Cyrus A. Sulloway 
2. Frank D. Currier. 
The New Hampshire Senators are: 
Henry E. Burnham 
Jacob H. Gallinger. 
Both Mr. Gallinger and Mr. Sulloway 
need stamping. 
In Massachusetts the Congressmen are: 
1. Geo. P. Lawrence 
2. Frederick H. Gillett 
3. John A. Thayer 
4. Wm. H. Wilder 
5. Butler Ames 
6. Augustus P. Gardner 
7. Ernest W. Roberts 
8. Samuel W. McCall 
9. Wm. F. Murray 
10. James M. Curley 
11. Andrew J. Peters 
12. John W. Weeks 
13. Wm. S. Greene 
14. Robert O. Harris. 
In the Senate, Massachusetts has two 
careful gentlemen. 
W. Murray Crane, 
Henry Cabot Lodge. 
W. Murray Crane says he will give parcels 
post very careful consideration, while Henry 
Cabot Lodge promises most careful consid¬ 
eration. These gentlemen, if left alone, will 
probably spend their time arguing as to 
whether most means more than very. One 
may well be strung on a crane over a hot 
fire of letters, while the other should be 
rooted out of his comfortable lodge. 
Rhode Island has in the lower house: 
Geo. F. O’Shaunessy 
Geo. G. Utter. 
If either of them has uttered a word on 
parcels post, we have failed to receive it. 
In the Senate the little State has 
Geo. P. Wetmore, who has been called the 
laziest Senator at Washington, perhaps un¬ 
justly, and 
Henry F. Lippitt. 
In Maine the following gentlemen are sup¬ 
posed to stand by the Pine Tree State. We 
think they will all favor parcels post, for 
the Maine people will get after them. 
1. Asher C. Hinds 
2. Daniel T. McGillicuddy 
3. Samuel W. Gould 
4. Frank E. Guernsey. 
In the Senate from Maine are r 
Chas. F. Johnson 
Obadiah Gardner. 
Mr. Gardner is a prominent member of 
the Grange, and one of the best friends of 
farming now in Washington. 
We are sorry that we cannot this week 
give- a complete list of all Congressmen. 
Those we have named, however, should all 
be attended to. March 18 is Parcels Post 
Day. Up friends, and at them ! 
PARCELS POST IN DENMARK. 
It is certainly a good description Mr. 
Price has given of the German parcels post. 
I notice in The It. N.-Y., page 158, the 
letter from a Nebraska Senator to a voter. 
The voters certainly ought to use ‘“careful 
consideration” next time they vote for him. 
However, he is right in some ways, only 
he does not know enough of what he is 
talking about. He has heard something 
about the railroads parcel transportation, 
and this is for the people a matter of no 
less importance than the one conducted by 
the mail. Having been station master for 
seven years and for the same time post¬ 
master at railroad postoffice in Denmark, 
I know most about it in this state and so 
will try to describe it. 
As to the railroad parcel, the Senator is 
right when he says that parcels must be 
brought to the depot. Only in the cities 
some private contractor will carry them, but 
the shipper must pay for that, and only in 
the cities they are delivered free. Of 
course in small towns and in the country 
the road could not have a delivery system 
for some few packages every day. As a 
railroad man, the first thing I Looked at 
when I came to this country four years 
ago was the train service. I wondered that 
in the same train there were two baggage 
cars, one marked N. Y. C. and the other one 
American Express Co. I had heard about 
the latter, but did not know they had their 
o.wn cars. Though we were leaving New 
York, both cars were nearly empty, none of 
the baggagemen had anything to do. The 
one in the N. Y. C. car could easily have 
handled it all. That is what the European 
baggagemaster must do. If the railroads 
do not get enormous pay from the express 
company they certainly would make money 
carrying the parcels in their baggage car. 
The pay for transportation is very low, 
and the price the same all over the country. 
They can weigh up to 50 pounds, and the 
pay is 20 ore (about five cents) for each 
10 pounds or part of 10. Besides they are 
handled in a way that does not take much 
time. The shipper delivers a package weigh¬ 
ing, say 18 pounds to the clerk at the for¬ 
warding depot, two stamps at five cents 
apiece are pasted on it and a number (num¬ 
bers running continually from 1 to 10,000. 
This number is instantly marked down in a 
book with name of shipper, receiver and 
receiving station, and—off it goes with first 
train. There could hardly be found an 
easier way. With very little work it gives 
the road a big income and is a great con¬ 
venience for the people. I have lying before 
me the annual report from the roads 
owned by the government, 1905. It shows 
that on a total length of 1,864 kilometers has 
been transported such packages to an 
amount of about $154,832. Besides there 
are under private ownership 32 roads of 
length from 30 to 145 kilometers. Now 
please remember that in Denmark they do 
not have any mail order houses. The 
greatest part of them are from wholesalers 
to retailers and from the big stores in the 
cities to the little dealer in the village. 
A woman asks the dealer in the village 
for, say a pair of gloves. He does not 
have the size she wants. She wants to use 
them the same evening, and it is three 
o’clock in the afternoon. The dealer calls 
the city store by ’phone: "Send me so and 
so with train leaving your city 3.40.” Off 
goes the messenger boy and by supper time 
the gloves may be 20 or 40 miles out in the 
country. Of course, the farmers’ products 
are sent the same way, but they are not 
so many, as pretty nearly every farmer is 
stockholder in a creamery (cooperative of 
course), and delivers all his milk there. 
The gardeners around the cities raise all 
the vegetables. Only in some cities nearest 
farmers have a weekly market-day for eggs, 
poultry, fruit, etc. 
In the mail service the rate is for pack¬ 
ages under two pounds, four cents; from 
two to five pounds, six cents; from five to 
10 pounds, eight cents, and from 10 to 30 
pounds, 13 cents, with unlimited distance. 
Just let me mention the wrecks and acci¬ 
dents. In the year the trains ran altogether 
11,328,240 kilometers with the highest al¬ 
lowed speed, 95 kilometers per hour. Of 
travelers there was one killed, one badly 
and one slightly injured, all by careless¬ 
ness (jumping on a moving train j. Of em¬ 
ployees killed five, injured 23, four and 20 
of these by carelessness. This is a little 
different from American records. There 
was in the year 15,722,251 travelers and 
10,570 employees. pane. 
Holstein Association in Maine. 
The first cattle association to be formed 
in Somerset County, Maine, was organized 
March 2 and is to be known as the Kenne¬ 
bec Valley Holstein Breeders’ Association. 
This grew out of the efforts of one of the 
biggest breeders here, he seeing the need 
ol’ co-operation in buying, marketing and 
bull service. That the Holstein breed of 
cattle is to take the lead in the county of 
all other breeds is shown in the fact that 
in less than two months there have been 
about 10 farmers who have bought cows 
or calves to begin the breeding of the cat¬ 
tle. There is one young farmer hero that 
paid $75 for a calf and other farmers have 
paid $150 for a cow. The object of the 
association is to promote the breeding and 
Improvement of nigh grade and purebred 
Holstein cattle in the county. The associa¬ 
tion plans to have a meeting a little later 
of all the breeders of this stock in the 
State, and there have a bill framed up to 
present to the State Legislature, asking 
the State to purchase a $10,000 bull and 
then make some arrangement with the 
railroad companies for the transportation of 
the animal from place to place over the 
State for the service of the Holstein breed¬ 
ers. This will tend to raise better stock 
and benefit the agricultural interests of the 
State. The officers of the new association 
elected were : President, W. O. Chase ; vice- 
president, Charles II. Tuttle; secretary, R. 
T. Patten ; treasurer, W. II. Boyington. all 
of Skowhegan. j. e. t. 
We have been having some terrible 
weather lately. Friday, February 9, six 
degrees below zero; Saturday, six degrees 
below; Sunday, nine degrees below; Mon¬ 
day, two degrees below; Tuesday, two de¬ 
grees below, and this morning two degrees 
above. Railroads practically put out of 
business and trolley roads running far be¬ 
hind, but now I hope it is over and that 
we will have some milder weather. It is 
terrible weather to try to ship produce to 
New York or anywhere else. I had two 
cars of apples between here and New York 
City that got froze pretty badly; the last 
one arrived in New York badly frozen, a 
loss of probably $100 to $200, I expect, but 
still we have to keep going as the future 
on apples looks none too good. w. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
During January and February we have 
had much cold weather, the temperature 
being below zero several days at a time. 
Most of the time there was a good covering 
of snow, but wheat seems to be in a bad 
way. Feed is high and scarce; stock do¬ 
ing well, as the mud has been frozen up 
for over six weeks, so there has been no 
feed wasted in sloppy feed lots. Stock of 
all kinds dull, but better prices for horses 
are expected by well posted horse men. 
Notwithstanding cold weather and snow 
robins, red birds, jaybirds, crows and 
doves have been with us all Winter, due 
to the fact perhaps that the cold has ex¬ 
tended far southward. Grass and clover 
seed high in price. Seed potatoes very 
scarce and good seed corn will likely be 
hard to get at any price. w. e. d. 
Southern. Ohio. 
—MAP OF THE ^ 
STATE OF NEW YORK 
—SHOWING THE 
37 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS 
- i*—§=1=5 OF THE STATE —$ 
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