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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 20, Issue 70, 3 September 1909, Page 8

BLOW AT FLATS. Dtufooctd bjr Government Offldil m I Mmam to Moriltlf* tt _ After u ftnvtetlon of tki Hamas *1 the Utah ul Poor la Haw York oitr, AtMi M. Roherteoa ■»- 9MIKI Radical T lie we. The fashionable flats in upper New York tend inevitably to immorality. The greatest menace to the morality of rich and poor in New York ie that it is a city without home*. This is the result of the five days’ observations made by Thomas M. Robertson, expert from the United States department of labor, sent to New York city from Washington with a commission of six special agents, instructed to prepare for congress a report upon the conditions of living among New York working people. Besides that of New York, reports are in preparation in Philadelphia, Newark, Richmond, Norfolk, Cincinnati and Chicago. “I wish I could preach a' sermon,” said Mr. Robertson, “on the crime of tenements. I wish I could make it a penal offlense to build a tenementhouse without a bathroom in every apartment. Most of your tenements are built without a single bath from top to bottom. “Nowhere in the United States are the conditions for working people as bad as they are in Manhattan. In Philadelphia, In the western cities, workingmen have homes. In hew York they have simply a place to go. “If T could talk to Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Rockefeller I would ask them to keep their money away from libraries and away from colleges and to build model tenemsnts. I would see no college endowed and not a book given to a library until the people had homes. “On the lower last side I found the other day a family of a skilled me* chanlc living in four rooms, and there were 11 of them. That is indecent. There oan be no betterment of this elais while this sort of thing is possible. There can he absolutely no privacy, and without privacy there ean be no civilisation.” GLASS BYE CAUSES BEATING. Man from Salt Oily, Utah, Wlalu Ml inns** Hatband Forcibly Raapaada. » James Reynolds, of Salt Lake City, came in to Kansas City from the west over the Santa Fe railway the other day. He hoe a glass eye. Just this side of Bmpori* he got a cinder in his good eye. He placed his hand over the seeing optic and kept it closed. Unconsciously his glass eye was pointed toward a woman with her husband in a seat across the aisle. Frequently the cinder would cause so much pain that Mr. Reynolds would involuntarily draw the lid down over the glass eye. The woman thought he was winking at her end called her husband's attention to the matter. A moment later the cinder began to grind Reynolds’ good eyeball and he pulled the lid clear down over his glass eye and held it there for a brief period. It was a wink that was a wink. The husband, without saying a word, took his umbrella out of the rack and proceeded to wear it out over Reynolds' head. After the husband had broken his bits passengers interfered end explanations followed. It was then discovered that Reynolds had been winking his glass eye. HAS PBT DOG EMBALMED. Vhil Wealthy Joha Moore Dies tb« Bedes Will Be Cremate* Together, J**' Fawley Place, the home of John Moore 111., at Quincy, 111., is In mourning over the death of “Tom Paine," Moore’s pet pug dog. The dogwas put to death with chloroform the other morning by the veterinary surgeon who had beeh in daily attendance. The pug dog was the constant cotnpanior. I of the old man, sleeping in the same bed with him by night. When taken sick with distemper a week ago, Moore called in a veterinary, and no expense was spared in the effort to restore the canine to health. Moore nursed the 1 dog as a mother would a childs and had not slept any for a week. As soon as • dead, the body was wrapped in white cloth by Moore and removed to Undertaker Daugherty’s place, where he left instructions that the body be embalmed and placed in a metal casket and kept until his own death shall occur, whew both bodies shall be placed in one casket and aer/t to St. Louis to be cremated. Moore, who has gained some notoriety by his agnostic writings, is a man of considerable wealth. Telia of the Suae Caaal. The “Histore d’Oeuvre Francaiss,”’ by Jules Charles Roux, is devoted io> a history of the Sues canal. From it it appears that navigation through the canal has steadily increased since its completion. One-half of the vessels-passing went to India. The saving in distance amounts on the average to 38percent., with the line London-flingapore even 45 per cent. The cost of constructing and preserving the canal amounted t0f100.000,000 francs from 1869 to the end of 1890. The number of passengers durihg these 30 years was 4,271,749. The net tonnage of ih« vassal* passing was 156,000,000 tons. In view of the steady increase of the navies and merchant marine, the company expects a further increase of traffic. Teimsala’i Mlaeral Wealth. Tasmania, in proportion to lie area, is the richest of Australaaia’i colonies in mineral wealth.