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February 2, 1924 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Alarm Clock to Control Gas Lights of the mu h thin* 1 layer 5 "of case, on trial before Judge Learned Hand cant beds in government hospitals, while 
Many of the readers of The R. N.-Y. , ’directly niton these This‘would in Federal District Court, New York, the government has nearly 5,500 patients 
do not have electricity available for id the expense of concrete walls and were dismissed January 21 at the close in contract hospitals. He said he wanted 
... .. TTnl n floor raised of the Governments case. The dismissal all veterans m government hospitals, 
lighting their poultry houses, but do * floor of viood. Unless a floor raised ^ on fhe recommendation of Peter j. President Coolidge asked Congress Jan. 
have natural gas which makes a very hunpatli. McCoy, Assistant United States Attorney, 22 for an appropriation of $300,000 to^be 
from 
explaining 
of 
___ _ _ ___ _ |_ r ^ complaint 
employ of the Crager System, Inc., 60 of about conditions surrounding admission 
leased by the heat of the burning oil pital in District No. 10, site not yet se- 
nearby, the authorities said, covered the lected, to replace hospitals at St. Paul 
oil, and fumes arising from it were be- and Minneapolis, now leased by the gov- 
lieved to have overcome the struggling ernment at $166,000 a year. Purchase of 
firemen. the State Hospital at Muskogee. Okla., 
Indictments against seven defendants now leased for $23,000 annually, for 
in the Crager Glass Casket stock fraud $500,000. Hines said there are 9,700 va- 
make an unnecessary trip to the houses 
late at night or early in the morning. 
erly 
caretaker. 
3. A poultry house should have from 
By bolting a wooden lever to the l ^ g %%wS ffv/you tht 
throttle which controls the gas for ail tne m i n i mum amount. A simple shed roof is 
lights in the houses, the use of a spool most economical to build. This should 
on the alarm wind of a common alarm be tight boarded and covered with a good 
„ . , I t , . , . f grade of roofing. Ratters of that lengtn 
clock, and attaching a string fr»m the are not eagy to ge ^ bu t a center support 
winding spool to the throttle lever, the 0 f posts will enable you to use short 
lights which are turned low at the time sticks for rafters. Make the front 9 ft. 
of setting may be turned on at any de- high and the rear 4*4 or 5 ft., with front 
sired time windows reaching nearly to the plate. 
I turn the lights low at seven at night 
and at seven in the morning and set the 
alarm for four o’clock which bring on 
the lights, without personal attention, as 
it begins to grow dark at night and 
early in the morning before some of us 
care to get out on a cold Winter morn¬ 
ing. 
DOMESTIC.—Mrs. Lauretta Morrison 
of 27S Nineteenth Street. Brooklyn, one 
of the victims of the Fifth Avenue Ele¬ 
vated line wreck- at Flat bush and At- 
-whose officers and salesmen were in- of immigrants, 
dieted for using the mails to defraud, Jan. 21 E. W. Bok appeared before a 
in connection with the sale of stock of Senate committee which is investigating 
the Glass Casket Company of Altoona, the activities of lobbyists and propagand- 
Pa. The dismissals reduced the number ists, said to be trying to influence the 
of defendants to 23. judgment of .Congress. He said he alone 
Capt. Herbert G. Sparrow, one officer financed the peace plan project for which 
and two radio operators of the United he offered a prize of $100,000. Mr. Bok 
States cruiser Tacoma were killed in the bluntly refused to answer questions re¬ 
storm which swept Vera Cruz, Mexico, lating to the amount of money he had set 
Jan. 20-21. After the Tacoma struck the aside to influence public sentiment in 
reef Capt. Sparrow and 19 men remained favor of the League of Nations peace plan 
aboard. The wind made it necessary to decided by the committee of award to be 
withdraw the crew which was working to the best among the 22.165 submitted, 
get the Tacoma off the reef. The author of the successful plan which 
Another charity was ordered Jan. 22 to the award committee, headed by Elihu 
discontinue business within 24 hours Root, preferred, is to received $100,000. 
when Alexander Lehman, Assistant Dis- one-half down and the remainder when 
trict Attorney, ended his investigation of the Senate adopts it in principle, 
the Marine Relief Society, which has of- President Coolidge has issued an order 
fic-es at 57 Whitehall St., New York. Mr. to the Department of Justice to keep in 
Lehman found that four-fifths of the close touch with every important devel- 
money collected for relief work for sailors opment in the Senate committee’s investi- 
had been paid to those who collected the gation of the lease by former Secretary of 
money. The society said its purpose was the Interior Fall of the naval oil reserve 
to get jobs for seamen and to help sea- at Teapot Dome. Wyo.. to the oil inter¬ 
men in need! Samuel Solomon of 120 ests headed by Harry F. Sinclair, and to 
Patchen Ave., secretary of the society, be ready to take any action in the courts 
said that it had 9,052 members and had that the evidence justifies, 
taken in $8,725 since it was founded, of Approval was given Jan. 22 by Secre- 
which $6,453 was paid to collectors. He tar.v Hoover to the proposal that the War 
said that the books showed a balance of and Navy departments be stripped of all 
$23,073, but he could not explain to the civilian activities. He favored the crea- 
satisfaction of Mr. Lehman the discrep- tion of a department of education, but 
ancy in his figures. Ronayne Sullivan, feared the addition of the term “welfare” 
investigator for the Department of Wei- might be interpreted, he said, “as an inyi- 
fare, said that he believed the organiza- tation for the government to expand its 
tion had taken in at least $45,000. activities in fields better covered by the 
Thieves at night, Jan. 22, held up a efforts of State, municipal and private en¬ 
truck loaded with silk as it was passing terprises.” 
through Irvington. N. J. The drivers put Advised Jan. 22 by Elbert H. Gary, 
up a battle and three of the bandits were chairman of the board of the United 
shot. One, struck by a bullet in the face, States Steel Corporation, that elimma- 
fled in a passing automobile a£.xr he had tion of the 12-hour day in the industry 
ordered the driver out of the car. The had increased production costs 10 per 
two other wounded men were unable to cent, President Coolidge expressed the be- 
flee and were arrested. The men on the lief that the added costs as reflected in 
truck put up a stiff fight. The police steel prices should be borne uneomplain- 
were notified and brought the two prison 1 ” ^"ent¬ 
ers to the police station in Irvington. 
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company 
The diagram shows how it is done. By lantic Avenues. Brooklyn, June 25 last, has been ordered to reimburse employes 
using a lever on the throttle which, pro- commenced suit against the B. M. T. for who suffered a loss in wages and to rein¬ 
jects each side of the throttle, it is pos- $60,000 damages in Brooklyn Supreme state those discharged when freight han- 
. ti* „ i* f j Court January 18. Her husband Adrian dlers on its piers at New York ai.d Brook- 
. , f j \ uim •January 10. jljlul n ubu.iuu xxuj. uicrs on ns piers at new xuiiv ai.u niooh- x axviu . «*•->** » 
sible, by having a properly auju. t suec i f or $25,000 damages for loss of her ly n were reduced in pay -or discharged tion against the Live Poultry Dealers 
stop, to turn the lights low as well as to services. Shortly after the trial started, when this work was contracted out in Protective Association, Inc., and the even¬ 
ingly by consumers in view of the benefit 
to the workers. Mr. Gary told the Presi¬ 
dent that steel men hoped tlie increased 
cost could be wiped out through improve¬ 
ments in operation, but that this would 
take time. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—An injunc- 
turn them 
the lever 
Andover, 
— - liearir ~ is impaired. 
\A/«t np nrv Mash William Fischer, 28, of 2066 Watson 
wet or ury rnasn Avenue, the Bronx, convicted of rob- 
Is wet mash superior to dry mash for ber.v, was sentenced January IS to 10 
egg production? I am using Cornell ra- to 20 years at hard labor in Sing Sing 
tions at present. A neighbor feeds wet prison by Judge Gibbs in Bronx County 
mash all year, and gets remarkable re- Court. Fischer held up Irving Selof, 
suits. He feeds also Cornell rations. a dru^ist at 1566 Minford Place on De- 
Spencerport, N. Y. c. S. cember 2, and robbed him and an as- 
sistant of a diamond ring and the contents 
That is a disputel question theie s the cash register, after binding them 
no doubt, however, that tbe majonty of t0Rether with s tele phone wire. 
poul toymen Lei < y S counter- Eighty persons arrested for operating 
ing moist mashes s , , . • d motors with defective brakes were fined 
balanced by the ® x tra labor cost incurred. f $10 to $50 each by Magistrate 
Since heavy egg production necessitates Marsh * in Traffi * Court , New York City, 
hea\\ food cons i , . January 18. Seventy-five of the defend- 
than.dry^mash wiU beyaten, itjeems rea^ antg ^ driverg of motor trucks . The 
.sonable to believe that more eggs may be 
^.enfroma .£«. moist “a SSf 
mashes than by g o , * motor accidents. The prisoners were 
mashes only* 1 ® ® pp feedine rounded up and arraigned by the Safety 
d . 1 . ge8ti .v?flifnnSes nre f eT n iwsuch Bureau, which is headed by Lieutenant 
w hen mo st y • • ‘ , ‘ ‘ 0 _ Noonan, and the operatives of which 
duction below what it would have been -ire automobile experts They watch 
uiR in i u . .riven Tlnon motors when they are stopped at street 
ihe whole I think that the consensus of intersections, and those that do not stop 
opinion among poultrymen would favor nmckly enough are^ordered out of line and 
dry mashes for best results, at least with 
large flocks. 
M. B. D. 
Henhouse Construction; Raising Chicks 
for Fall Sale 
their brakes inspected. 
A reward of $500 has been offered by 
Samuel Cohen of Monticello, N. Y., for 
the driver of the car which struck and contract entered into between the road 
killed his son January 15. The boy was and the contractor for handling freight at 
returning from school. Just before he the piers is in violation of the transporta- 
died he whispered to his father that the tion act in that it purports to remove em¬ 
it raised about 2 ft. above the ground. 
2 What would you think of buying baby 
chicks in the Spring, raising them, and 
ice 
northern Ontario, lost their lives Janu- IS a program for improvement 
ray 20 in a fire which destroved the ties for disabled veterans based on pas- 
office of the Kirkland Combine Mine sage of the Langley bill providing $6.500,- 
:Ti ‘ xj'oii n„ T in which they were sleeping, at Kirkland 000. Included in the plans are establish- 
sell when fully matured in the 1 all. as I Lakft) 0nt> The building caught fire ment of a $3,000,000 hospital with 1000 
cannot attend to them » from a wood stove, and the men appar- beds for mental patients to Lake the pin 
ter? I am away ^e at “y b usi- ently were suffo cated while sleeping! ----- 
ness from early morning u < Seven men were drowned in oil. two 
evening. Do you .. captains and five hosemen of the Pitts- 
a little profit in it, Cc r e • burgh fi re department, while fighting a costing «tj... imM/mr. i'ucr‘wi 
way. 3. Mill you kind y g 0 fire a f- the Butler Street plant of the At- to Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, to 
dimensions of a chicken c - P ' . ^ lantic Refininfi Company January 21. accommodate 200 general patients and 
fowls, and what kind ot root u J The bodies were recovered after the fire 100 tubuereular patients at a cost of 
advise. J. . . had been brought under control. The $900,000. Erection of a tuberculosis hos- 
Flemmgton, IN. J. captains and their men were on a ladder pital at Aspinwall. Pa., with 200 beds, at 
1 I see no objection to your plan, which extended above the top of a tank a cost of $1,000,000. Erection of a per- 
thougli I think that, if to avoid dampness adjoining the burning oil. The oil in this mament hospital for aggravated cases of 
is vour onlv object, you can accomplish tank was being drawn off when the ladder mental patients on government owned 
the result more cheaply by raising your broke and the men fell into the tank. A land at Great Lakes, Ill., near Chicago, 
concrete floor a little above the surface chemical extinguisher, automatically re- at a cost of $600,000, and a 300-bed hos- 
Many a backyard flock of chickens come to be true companions. It is the nature of 
tl\e hen to be wild, but you can gain her confidence. 
poultry shipped here annually was asked 
Jan. 18 by William Hayward, United 
States Attorney, in a petition in equity 
filed in Federal District Court by direc¬ 
tion of Attorney-General Daugherty. The 
action is the result of an investigation 
conducted by the anti-trust division of 
Mr. Hayward’s office, in charge of David 
A. L’Esperance, special assistant to the 
attorney-general, into the purchase and 
sale of live poultry in New York. 
Summer Farmers’ Week at the Connec¬ 
ticut Agricultural College will extend 
from July 28 to Aug. 1, inclusive. 
of Hospital No. 81 in The Bronx. N. Y. 
Erection of a national volunteer soldiers’ 
home at Sawtelle, Cal., with 500 beds, 
costing $1,500,000. Fireproof additions 
Elizabeth came to school one day in 
a state of suppressed excitement. Going 
straight to the teacher’s desk, she ex¬ 
claimed exultantly : “I’ve got a new little 
sister!” “How very nice,” replied the 
teacher. “Yes,” said Elizabeth, “but this 
is only a half-sister.” “Why, that doesn’t 
make any difference, does it?” “No, but 
I never can understand where the other 
half it.”—‘Harper’s Magazine. 
