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THB reUK-AL NEW-YORKER 
April 4, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—The factory of the 
Eclair Moving Picture Company at Fort 
Lee, N. J., was destroyed by fire, March 
If). The damage is estimated by the 
company officers at $650,000. In the 
basement vaults were completed negatives 
valued at thousands of dollars. These 
were destroyed. Films colored by a re¬ 
cently discovered process and which had 
been imported from France recently at 
a cost of $50,000 also were ruined. Only 
one piece of machinery, a lathe, valued 
at $1,500, was saved. Credit for saving 
$60,000 worth of films is given to the 
girls employed in the joining room. 
The Windsor Hotel, at Milwaukee, 
Wis., was burned March 19, causing a 
loss of $300,000. Eight of the hotel's 
guests had narrow escapes from death; 
many others fled in their night clothes 
and took refuge in the lobby of a theatre 
across the way. 
One man is dead as the result of a riot 
between strikers and deputies at the 
Gould Coupler Plant at Depew, near 
Buffalo, N. Y., March 23, and eight 
others were wounded, several dangerous¬ 
ly. The town was placed under martial 
law March 24. 
The largest business block in Durham, 
N. C.. was destroyed by fire, March 23. 
The Duke Building, occupied by 5 and 
10 cent stores and 200 offices was de¬ 
stroyed. The water main burst, and 
the fire continued to spread. The dam¬ 
age was estimated at nearly $1,000,000. 
The 10-hour woman’s labor law of 
Massachusetts was upheld as constitu¬ 
tional, March 23, by the Supreme Court. 
Massachusetts passed in 1909 a law lim¬ 
iting the employment of minors and 
women in manufacturing and mechanical 
establishments to 56 hours a week and 
10 hours a day, with certain qualifica¬ 
tions. The State reduced the hours from 
56 to 54 in 1911, but the latter law was 
not in question in the case now decided. 
The case was carried to the Supreme 
Court on the appeal of Richard G. Riley, 
a superintendent in the Davol mill, in 
Fall River, who was convicted of requir¬ 
ing a woman to work five minutes over 
ten hours. 
Over $10,000 profit in one year from 
the local saloon, which is owned by the 
municipality, is the report of the citizens’ 
committee in charge of the grog shop, at 
Sisseton, S. D. Sissetou was dry for 
two years. Then the citizens voted it 
wet, and the city decided to hold the one 
license to. be issued. . A manager was 
hired and the saloon opened. The earn¬ 
ings will be divided between the munici¬ 
pality and a special road fund. 
According to Frank W. Schumaker, on 
trial with other officers of the Sterling 
Debenture Corporation in the federal 
District Court for using the mails to de¬ 
fraud investors in the Oxford Linen 
Mills Company, more than 8,800,000 let¬ 
ters were .mailed to prospective investors 
in the two years of its existence. It was 
shown that the circulars cost $753,000, 
of which, at the average cost of 3 cents 
for postage, the i’ostoffice Department 
received about $260,000 before its in¬ 
spectors began to get evidence against the 
concern. 
At a special meeting of the East Side 
Horse Owners’ Protective Association in 
the University Settlement, March 24. a 
committee was appointed to wait on Dis¬ 
trict Attorney Whitman and District At¬ 
torney Cropsey to inform them of a sud¬ 
den recurrence of horse poisoning and 
horse stealing. Morse M. Frankel, di¬ 
rector of the association, said that horse 
poisoners whose cases had been unac¬ 
countably postponed in the criminal 
courts were boasting on the East Side 
that the District Attorney was behind 
them. Within two weeks seven horses 
have been poisoned and 68 stolen. 
FARM AND GARDEN—Frederic W. 
Taylor, director of agriculture in the 
Philippine Islands, has resigned his posi¬ 
tion and will return to the United States. 
C. L. MarlatL chairman of the Fed¬ 
eral Horticultural Board, is authority 
for the statement that, during the month 
of February, 44 nests of Browntail moth 
were detected on nursery fruit stocks im¬ 
ported from France. Attention is also 
called to the finding of an undescribed 
canker disease on chestnut from Hongo 
Tokyo, Japan, by California State in¬ 
spectors at San Francisco. According to 
Dr. Haven Metcalf, the disease appears 
to be of the same type as the chestnut- 
bark disease, and there is every indica¬ 
tion of its being equally as destructive if 
established in this country. 
Dr. J. W. Robertson of Ottawa was 
re-elected to the presidency of the Cana¬ 
dian Seed Growers’ Association at its 
concluding session. Mr. L. H. Newman 
of Ottawa was reappointed secretary. 
A special feature arranged by Prof. 
A. II. Nehrling, of the Massachusetts 
Agricultural College, was a floricultural 
day which was held March IS. The pro¬ 
gram was very comprehensive, and the 
addresses were interesting and instruc¬ 
tive. 
All sorts of expositions are being held 
but here is a new one, the “Vermont Ju¬ 
venile Agricultural Industrial Exposi¬ 
tion,” will be held at Windsor, Vt., on 
October 26. This is a new one, in the fact 
that it is the first time, probably, that 
an exposition has been held in New Eng¬ 
land for the purpose of showing the work 
of children. The exposition will include 
all sorts of farm products and all manual 
training products, such as, sewing, cook¬ 
ing, cement work, etc. It is an admirable 
scheme and has been planned by the 
Windsor County, Vt., Y. M. C. A. This 
association has held its children’s corn 
show very successfully for three years, 
and we hope this exposition will be 
equally successful. 
The Senate passed a bill, March 23, 
which authorizes the carrying in the 
mails of bulbs, seeds, plants and bushes 
at fourth class rates instead of second 
class as at present. 
Plans for a nation-wide cooperation 
of farmers, backed up and financed by 
national and local banks, were discussed, 
March 23, at a luncheon given by the 
executive committee of the National Civic 
Federation at the Hotel Astor, New 
York. Chief among the speakers were 
Lieutenant Governor Sheffield Ingalls of 
Kansas, Andrew Carnegie and Dr. Al¬ 
bert Shaw. Agricultural educators from 
all sections of the country were present, 
and Dr. Seth Low, president of the feder¬ 
ation, presided. The high cost of food 
products as one of the direct results of 
the lack of “industrialized agriculture” 
was one of the chief points Lieutenant 
Governor Ingalls made in his address. 
While the United States, he said, had 
been developing the theory of farming to 
its utmost point European countries had 
been making practical use of this knowl¬ 
edge, to the discomfiture of their teach¬ 
ers. 
The New York Board of Water Supply 
wants 1.250,000 little evergreen trees to 
plant along the 40 miles of shore on the 
Ashokan and Kensico reservoirs in the 
new Catskill water system. It has asked 
contractors to bid on supplying the trees 
and setting them out within three years. 
They will be expected to replace trees 
that die. The trees are to protect the 
water along the thousand foot strip that 
the city owns on the shores of the re¬ 
servoirs. The Board of Water Supply 
wants evergreens because leaves from 
deciduous trees are apt to turn the water 
brown in the Fall. The board grew 1,- 
000,000 little evergreens in its own nur¬ 
series and set them out last year, and 
500,000 more, which it bought from the 
State Conservation Commission. 
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Horses eat up a big part of farm profits. They work less than a third of 
the time but require feed all the time. A Rumely OilPull Tractor will work 
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The New York Milk Committee, 
through Paul E. Taylor secretary, has 
sent a protest to Governor Glynn and 
the State Legislature against the Webb 
bill in the Assembly and the Wheeler 
bill in the Senate, which were designed by 
their authors to strengthen the pure milk 
law and to hasten the elimination of 
bovine tuberculosis. The complaint 
against the bills is that they provide for 
a physical examination of cattle rather 
than the recognized tuberculin tests, and 
that they would not reach the necessity 
found for stamping out the disease in the 
dairy herds. It is pointed out that the 
tuberculin tests discovers 9S.S of tuber¬ 
culous cattle, the physical examination 
from 3 to 5 per cent. The bills are at¬ 
tacked as uneconomic. The Milk Com¬ 
mittee says 500.000 of the 1.500.000 dairy 
cows in the State are tuberculous and 
that the present State appropriation of 
$200,000 to pay for them is inadequate. 
Recently Mrs. C. W. Morse brought 
a box of “meadow ants” from Europe, 
which she kept as pets. They were held 
by inspectors at New York, and the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture finds them “in¬ 
jurious insects, damaging meadows, 
lawns, and in some instances field crops,” 
and decrees that they be shipped to 
Washington for destruction. According j 
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chapter 501. any insect injurious to vege¬ 
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