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HELD CAPTIVE
BE REBELS
A/alter Douglas. Manager of
Mine. Seized—Women Reach
Safety Under Guard.
DOUGLAS, ARIZ., Sept. 11.—Walter
Douglas, millionaire, general manager
of the Phelps-Dodge mining interests,
is a prisoner of Mexican rebels south of
here today, according to advices re
vived this morning. Douglas, accord
ing to the reports, was seized by rebels
while he was traveling between Agua
Pi-iota and Nacozari.
Douglas is held by Escabosa rebels
for ransom of a quarter of a million
dollars. The demand has been sent to
the Phelps-Dodge interests. Escabosa
has also demanded a million pesos from
the Nacozari Copper Company to cease
destroying property.
The news of the capture has caused
great excitement here. It has increased
the feeling of indignation of the people
here against the rebels and it is feared
that reprisals may be attempted.
A party of twenty American women
refugees from the Tigre mine have ar
rived at Isabel station under escort of
135 armed Kickapoo Indians.
Three hundred rifles and a large
amount of ammunition have passed
into Sonora from the United States for
the use of Americans in Nacozari in
defendin gthemselves if needed.
Wall Street Blamed
By Rebel Agent
WASHINGTON. Sept. 11. —The Ameri
can state department was denounced as a
"creature of Wall Street conspirators and
financial pirates in Mexico" today by
Juan Pedro Didapp, Washington repre
sentative of Mexican revolutionists. He
formally protested against the United
States rendering any aid to the Mexican
government in its campaign against the
rebels and issued a statement scoring
the state department for its policy.
"I am compelled," declared Senor Di
dapp, "to protest to the American peo
ple against the state department allow
ing Madero troops to cross American
territory, and thus practically make
American territory a basis of Madero's
military operations. Actions such as this,
an open support of Madero by the state
department, are the cause of hostility of
the Mexican people to Americans in Mex
ico.
Creature of Financial Pirates.
Speyer. Morgan and the Harriman in
terests control the Mexican railways:
Henry Clay J’ierce and the Standard Oil
t' tnpany possess a monopoly of Mexi
can oil lands: big business interests in
Mexico of John Hays Hammond and
i harks I*. Taft, the president's brother
11' • are the big powers which are forcing
‘ state department openly to assist
Madero.
"The state department is merely the
creature of Wall Street conspirators and
financial pirates in Mexico.
"If the state department is as anxious
for peace as it professes let the I'nited
«ates give the revolutionists belliger
ent rights and they will throw Madero
out of Mexico and establish peace in the
republic in two weeks.
If the state department will grant bel
ligerent rights to the revolutionists, they
a ill guarantee to protect all American
lives and property in the republic and
all friction along the border with Ameri
cans will immediately cease."
MENINGITIS EPIDEMIC IN
STOCK IS SPREADING
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—The epidem
■' "f spinal meningitis which has attacked
li'-rses and cattle in Kansas and Nebraska
-Breading rapidly, according to reports
received today by Acting Secretary of
\j>riculture Hayes from experts sent to
combat the malady.
Ihe government experts report their
inability to check the disease and say
thousands of animals have died.
u. S. MAIL SERVICE
FOR BRINSON ROAD
'AVANNAH. GA., Sept. 11. —After a
considerable effort to have a mail service
established over the Brinson railroad be
tween Sardis and Waynesboro, Congress
man Charles G. Edwards has received a
letter advising him that such a service
has been ordered effective September 23.
1 he information comes from the office of
the second assistant postmaster general.
FIRE CAUSES PANIC
IN WHITFIELD JAIL
I'ALTON, GA., Sept. 11.—Fire broke out
m the county jail here Tuesday after
noon. but was extinguished before it was
found necessary to remove the prisoners.
A thick cloud of smoke belched from
one of the cells, throwing the prisoners
into a panic. A mattress in some way
had caught fire.
ARMY ORDERS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Army or.
de r»: *
Hifst Lieutenant Frederick E. Wil
"m. Seventh infantry, detailed as pro
o-ssor of military science and tactics
■‘i Georgia Military college, Milledge-
Captain Chauncey E. HumpTtrev,
from Twenty-first to Twenty-ninth in
fantry.
1 aptain Arthur L. Conger, from
I "enty-ninth to Twenty-first .infan
try.
'aptain James H. Reeves, from
"elfth to Third cavalry
' aptain Robert E. Wood, from Third
to Twelfth cavalry.
Resignation of First Lieutenant Pres
' m S. Kellogg, medical reserve corps.
'-epted.
1 olonel George R. Cecil, Twenty
ninth infantry, from that regiment tn
il - home to await retirement from
Bl'tivc service
' olonel Joh™H Mallory, assigned to
'"enty-ninth infantry.
GIRLS HEAD HUNT
FDR PIRATE GDLD
With Crew They Sail for Cocos
Island, Seeking $100,000,-
000 of Hidden Treasure.
PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND. Sept. U A
modern crew of argonauts has set sail
from Plymouth, hound for Cocos island,
seeking a horde of pirate treasure
amounting to more than $100,000,000.
which is said '.to be hidden on the island.
The treasure-seeking expedition is
headed by Miss Barry Till and Miss
Genevieve Davis These young women
visited the Cocos islands last year, and
claim at that time to have ascertained
the exact spot where the treasure Is hid
den.
Cocos island is in the Pacific ocean
and lies about 550 miles southwest of
Panama.
The great treasure that it is supposed
to harbor, and which has caused two
young women to journey thousands of
miles over the water, is thought to have
been hidden in a cave in the Island more
than a hundred years ago by pirates,
and represents the tributes that scores
of treasure ships were made to pay to
the buccaneers of the sea. as well as gold
and jewels taken from the Jesuits when
the? were expelled from Peru.
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Burton W. Gibson, lawyer, executor of the countess' estate,
who is held in connection with her death, now being investigated.
Ban on Depot Osculation Wouldn’t Go Here
SCOFF NO-KISSING RULE
The art of kissing as practiced in
railroad stations, long considered cus
tom and good form, may be tabooed if
Switzerland's moral reforms acquire a
vogue in this country equal to the one
accorded its pet political theory, the
initiative and referendum.
Gatemen at the Terminal station are
aghast today over the lengths the
mountain republic has gone to abolish
public kissing, and the further an
nouncement that America may follow
Switzerland’s example.
The Swiss government the other day
passed a law prohibiting kissing In
railroad stations and providing a heavy
fine for each offense.
Thus runs the Swiss law as posted
in all stations:
Considering abuses which have
resulted, honorable strangers are
requested not to kiss each other on
platforms or trains. 'Signed: The
Society for the Protection of Girls
Traveling Alone.
“If they put this law over in Georgia
they will have to detail a platoon of
police to enforce it at the Terminal
station,” said Gateman No. 1.
"Why we can’t keep them from get
ting through the gates and continuing
the pastime all the way down the stairs
to the train sheds, let alone stop the
kissing.
"Such a law would never work here.
CHICAGOANS PLAN
PASSENGER SUBWAY
TO COST $131,000,000
CHHCAGO, Sept. 11. —A municipal
passenger subway uniting the thtee
sections of Chicago, the north, south
and west sides, and estimated to cost
$131,000,000. is recommended in a re
port by the harbor and subways com
mission of the local transportation com
mittee of the city council. The system
as planned touches the most thickly
populated centers of the city and is
designed to permit the operation ol
trains through from one section to the
other. "One city, one fare" is the
motto of the commission, and according
to the plan submitted one fare is to he
charged from any point on the subway
lines to any other point
The plan considers the most modern
methods in trackage and equipment.
Tia ks for both local and expies- lints
are to be included in every blanch.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWB.WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1912.
COUNTESS STRANGLED,
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C ments kissing has just got to be. At
i any rate, I would hate to be the man
who tried to stop it.”
■ Gatemen who have worked elsewhere
are authority for the statement tha’
> kissing in railroad stations is neither
■ more general nor promiscuous in At
t lanta than in other cities.
A second gateman called into the
■ discussion looked at the matter phil
osophically.
■ "This anti-kissing is the idea of
1 cranks and, like all their ideas, im-
• practicable. Kissing didn’t start with
this generation, and this generation is
1 not going to abolish it. Let these anti
kissers take a walk down here on one
of our big days and get an eye full of
this kissing stuff. He will see that he
could stop it just like he could stop eat
ing or other amusements.”
According to the station's attaches,
watching kissing matches Is the only
i excitement they have. Its abolition
f would not only work a hardship on the
I traveling public, but would rob rail
road employees of their one joy in life.
It can be safely asserted that if any
; society for the protection of girls trav
s eling alone starts an anti-kissing-in
? railroad-stations agitation in Atlanta
they will fimi eight gatemen at the Ter-
. minal station strenuous opponents.
MR. AND MRS. KNOX
DINE WITH EMPEROR;
VISIT MIKADO’S BIER
TOKIO, Sept.® 11.-Secretary of State
Philander ('. Knox, special envoy of the
United States to the funeral of the late
Emperor Mutsuhito, and Mrs. Knox were
received in audience today by Emperor
Yoshihito, the present mikado.
The emperor chatted amiably with the
American statesman, and spoke of the
cordial relations existing between the two
countries He showed a deep knowledge
of American affairs.
Mr and Mrs. Knox were later guests
of Emperor Yoshihito and Empress Sadu
ko at luncheon in the imperial palace.
Following the luncheon, Mr. and Mrs.
Knox paid a visit to the chamber where
the remains of the late mikado are lying
in stale This was the most impressive
part of the day's ceremonies Around the
I bier. when the party entered the death
room, were a number of the members of
the imperial household, who have kept
unceasing vigil since th mikados death,
on July 30. •
Warrant To Be Asked for Ar
rest of Lawyer, Charging
Him With Deed.
MIDDLETOWN. N. Y„ Sept. 11
Deputy Sheriff W. C. Degraw arrived
here from New York at 3 o'clock this
morning with his report on the autopsy
performed yesterday on the body of
Countess Rosa Menschik Szabo. He
routed out District Attorney Thomas
C. Rogers, of Orange county, and In
formed him the autopsy disblosed evi
dence that the woman, who lost her life
| while boating with her attorney, Bur
ton W. Gibson, on Greenwood lake, had
been strangled.
As a result of Degraw's report the
district attorney announced he would
at once go before Special County Judge
Herbert C. Royce and ask for the issu
ance of a warrant charging Gibson with
the murder of the countess.
The district attorney was provided
with the reports of the physicians who
held an autopsy upon the body of the
countess and a number of affidavits
from witnesses who had been found by
Dr. Fritz Fischerauer, vice counsel for
the consulate of Austria-Hungary.
The district attorney said that It
might be deemed necessary by the
county judge to call from New York
some of the witnesses who have been
located by the Austro-Hungarian con
sulate and hear them under oath before
signing the warrant. The district at
torney planned his work for the day
upon the idea that this action was en
tirely possible and arrangements were
made to bring to Middletown the wit
nesses who might be required.
GOVERNMENT SEEKS
MEN FOR CIVIL SERVICE
Radio Inspectors for posts on the
Great Lakes will be sought by the gov.
emment in the examination which is
to he heid September 25 in the local
civil service office. The inspectors will
be paid $1,400 per year and will be re
quired to examine the radio apparatus
on steamships and at shore stations.
Printers who possess enough knowl
edge and ability to teach their trade to
Filipinos are needed by the government
and applicants will be examined for this
service on October 9 and 10. The sal
aries range from $2,000 to $2,500 per
yea r.
KNOCKED HIS EYE OUT:
IT WAS A GLASS ONE
NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—" Without
provocation, he knocked my eye out
and it fell on the sidewalk and broke.”
declared Michael Barbetta w hen Joseph
Florio was arraigned before Magistrate
Herbert, in the Morrisania court, on a
charge of assault. It was explained to
the magistrate that the eye was of
glass.
Florio admitted stnklng Barbetta,
but said that his accuser had followed
his sister and tha' he had attempted
ito remonstrate w i h him. Barbetta. he
| asserted, then az tempted to strike him.
Floi io was heit* In S3OO bail.
GERMINS BACK
D.S. ON DANAE
I
Berlin Post Says It Is to Na
tion’s Interest to Help De
feat England.
BERLIN, Sept. 11.—The Berlin Post,
the leading Nationalist paper, in an
editorial article on England and Ger
many in American public opinion, says:
"Americans are always very friendly
to Germany, and they also know how
England stands with Germany. The
United States and Germany are the
coming nations, and they are well
aware that England is now in full
decadence socially.
"Social decadence must lead to polit
ical decadence, as is always the ease in
history. On the other hand, Americans
know that if the world's peace is pre
served it will not he by England, but
only by the German kaiser, therefore,
there is no reason why any ill feeling
should be created between Germany
and the i'nited States.”
The Post urges the German press not
to join "English howling about Pan
ama." it continues:
"England always has been defeated
by American diplomacy. Conditions
will be all the better for Germany, in
relationship with America, if they get
worse for England. Germany is tired
of stooping before England and taking
her chestnuts from the fire. We must
resist England in every instance, even
if England wants So resort to force If
Germany sticks at America's side in
the present.conflict, war will be avoid
ed and England will only sustain one
more diplomatic blow."
LONDON. Sept 11.—The, London
Daily Express prints on its editorial
page, under the head. "The Other Side
of the Panama Case." a letter signed
"An American," which reads:
"Flippant and Insincere prattling of
the English papers is disgusting to the
I'nited States. It serves simply to con
fl! m the attitude of contemptuous in
difference which that powerful country
has been obliged to take toward your
views on anything that involves the
fundamentals of good faith or unselfish
purpose in international dealings.”
NEW LIGHT CONTRACT
IN MACON WILL SAVE
CITY SIB,OOO PER YEAR
MACON, G., Sept. 11.— As the re»ult
of competition in the electric lighting
field, the city of Macon will save $90,000
in the next five years on a new lighting
contract.
The contract was last night awarded
by council to the Railway and
Light Company, subject to a ratifica
tion of the voters in a special election.
The city is now paying S6O per year
for each of 400 lights. The new con
tract will be for $21.50 per light, a re
duction of nearly 200 per cent. W. J.
Massee’s new company, which forced
the city to ask for bids, bid $32.50 per
light.
Until this year the city was paying
$75 per light, and a five-year contract
was given the Macon Railway and
Light Company when Mr. Massee was
president of that corporation, for S6O
per light. Later, when Mr. Massee or
ganized a new electric company he suc
cessfully attacked the existing contract
on the ground that it had not been ap
proved by the people at the polls.
The city's lights will shortly be in
creased to 500 in number.
It is stated that the cost of maintain
ing a light for a year is about S2O.
PROBE OF SAVANNAH
POSTOFFICE TO BEGIN
VERY SOON, IS BELIEF
SAVANNAH, GA., Sept 11.—Attorneys
and others interested in the proposed
probe of the Savannah postoffice believe
that the investigation will begin in a day
or two. and that speedily the. charges
against Postmaster Marcus S. Baker and
others will be entered into and grounds
laid for the disposition of the complaints
which have been bobbing up for several
months.
For several days. It is understood, mail
has been arriving for the postoffice In
spectors who will conduct the investiga
tion.
There is considerable uncertainty as to
what course the investigation will take.
Those who tiled the charges have, em
ployed Attorney Simon Cazar to look after
their elgal rights in the matter, whether
the investigation takes the trend of a
regular hearing of charges or is pursued
along other lines
FRENCH HEELS CoSfs7,ooo:
PHONE COMPANY TO PAY
DENVER, COLO., Sept. 11.—Beca.use
telephone operators insist upon wear
ing shoes with French heels the Moun
tain State Telephone Company must
spend $7,000 in the construction of the
new fire escape at the headquarters
building
The building is equipped with first
class fire escapes, but in a recent
practice drill it was found that many
rW the girls wore shoes with small heels
and that the heels caught in the holes
in the iron platforms and steps. In
case of fire this would probably prove
disastrous.
JUDGE RULES THAT DUNS
MAY GO ON POST CARDS
PITTSBURG. PA., Sept u. The
right to send duns through the mails on
postal cards was upheld here by Judge
Charles P. Orr in the United States
district court. He ordered Postmaster
W. H. Davis to deliver postal card bills
sent out by the Allegheny County Light
Company.
The cards, designated as unmaila
ble matter, had been returned by Post
master Davis, who says they have on
them terms reflecting on the char
acter of the persons to whom they are
addressed. He will appeal the case.
Children’s “Story Hour’ at Library Resumed
TOTS TO HEAR OF INDIANS
“Story Hour,” so popular last year
among Atlanta’s children, will be re
sumed Friday afternoon at the main
library and on the following Wednes
day at the Anne Wallace branch libra
ry. Miss Henriette Masseling will tell
stories of American Indians to the
smaller children at 3:30 o'clock and at
4 o’clock she will take up stories of
Spenser and the Fairy Queen for the
older children.
Pictures illustrating the stories the
little ones are told will be exhibited in
the library and books about the life and
times of the characters in the stories
will be placed at their disposal.
The circulation of books In Atlanta
homes has reached 26,619 volumes, ac
cording to the report of Miss Katherine
Wootten. librarian, to the board of
tiustees at the regular meeting
Further report showed that 291 vol
umes had been added to the library in
the last month and that an average of
seventeen persons joined the library in
that time.
‘JERSEY LILf TO
SET STILE MCE
Actress to Show Newest Ac
cordion Plaited Skirts in
Tour of United States.
LONDON. Sept It.—Lily Langtry
(Lady Deßathei has been busy fitting
herself out with some wonderful new
frocks for her approaching twenty
weeks vaudeville tour in America.
The Jersey Lily has kept her figure
to a marvelous extent and much of her
good looks, too, and is still able to
launch a mode with the youngest of her
sisters. The chief lesson to be learned
from the frocks and frills which litter
her flat at Regents Court is that the
hobble skirt may be regarded as a back
number and that the accordion pleated
skirt has returned to stay.
The pleating, however, is not nearly
so close as was the case when ft was
last in fashion and the result is far
more graceful, the garment outlining
the natural lines of the figure. Other
points to be noted are that evening
dresses all have separate foundations,
and that though there are no panniers,
many of the skirts are gauged round
the hips, producing a slightly pannier
effect.
One particular gown is a pleated shot
gray and silver charmeuse over pale
pink satin, veiled with gi*ay ninon. This
frock has a tunic of gray net embroid
ered in silver and pearls.
Mrs. Langtry Is relying on her suf
fragette sketch, “Helping Along,” for
her tour, but may also produce another
sketch. She says she finds American
audiences more stimulating than the
English, and naively adds that, whereas
in England critics only talk about her
frocks, in America they give her credit
for her acting also.
So sh» is looking forward to her
trip, her only sorrow being to leave
her garden, to which she is devoted.
She attributes her health and young
appearance entirely to the hours she
spends daily in gardening at her coun
try home near Newmarket.
CAUGHT READING OFCRIME,
SLAYER IS BELIEVED INSANE
PHILADELPHIA, PA., Sept. IL—
Harry Tyson, a printer, was shot and
instantly killed by James M. Winter
stein. a jeweler, his most intimate
friend, after a quarrel over a woman.
Three hours afterward Wlnterstein
was found in the roll room at city hall
calmly reading the story of his crime in
an afternoon paper. When the police
asked him why he was Interested he
eaid: "I'm the man who did it."
He was arrested and held for exam
ination regarding hie sanity.
SLEEPS WEEK: AVOIDS TRIAL
ON CHARGE OF BURGLARY
NEWBURYPORT, MASS.. Sept. 11.
The case of a man named Smith, who
Is asleep, is puzzling physicians of
Haverhill. AU efforts to awaken him
have proved futile.
Some weeks ago Smith was arrested
in Ila verhill. When the time came for
him to go to court he was asleep and
could not be aroused. He slept a week.
Then he was released.
He was again arrested, charged with
burglary. He fell asleep again, and it
has been impossible to awaken him.
MANY BURN TO DEATH IN
PORTUGAL FOREST FIRES
LISBON, Sept. 11. —Many persons
have been burned to death and thou
sands of acres of land surrounding
Reguendo, in southwestern Portugal,
have been devastated by forest fires.
Hundreds are homeless.
Half a dozen bodies have been re
covered in the wake of the fire, and
six fire fighters were burned so badly
that they probably will die. The tires
are still burning.
RED WALL PAPER, LESSON
IN “HOME” ART COURSE
PITTSBURG. Sept. 11. —"Art begins
at home,” said Valentine Kirby, art
director in the public schools. "Red
wall paper absorbs heat and boosts the
gas bills. It's this sort of thing the
children must learn.”
PRISONERS FELL KEEPER
BUT ESCAPE_PLOT FAILS
NEW HAVEN CONN., Sept 11
Six prisoners In the New Haven county
jail this morning felled a keeper and
attempted to e«cape from the institu
tion. All were captured.
A bulletin board which is to be placed
in the main entrance hall will become a
regular feature of the library. Notice
of any public meeting or of any club
meeting may be posted here after being
submitted to the librarian.
Those who wish to make extracts
from the books in the reference room
will find themselves no longer put to
the inconvenience of bringing their own
typewriters or of writing in longhand,
as typewriters made after the familiar
slot machine type have been installed
in this room. Writing paper will be
furnished with them at a nominal cost.
Miss Amelia Whittaker, a graduate
of the library training school and at
present in the library at Savannah, has
been appointed to succeed Miss Ethel
EVerhart, who has been granted a
year's leave of absence.
Miss Wootten has extended a special
Invitation to all study clubs to meet in
the library, the only proviso being that
the club file with her a list of its dates,
so that no confusion will result.
TRUST COMMIT
GROmRGEST
Institutions Have Increased
1,000 Per Cent in 15 Years,
Banker Reports. /
DETROIT. MICH., Sept. 11.—"WhtT*
the population of the United States has
increased 33 per vent and business has
increased 100 per cent, trust companies
have grown 1,000 per cent in the past
fifteen years.” said F. H. Fries, of Win
ston-Salem. N. C„ president of the trust
section of the American Bankers asso
ciation, this morning In his address in
reply to the address of welcome of
Controller David E. Heineman, of De
troit. In reviewing the growth of trust
companies In America h? said the trust
companies have shown an increase of
21 per cent in national banks and 23
per cent in savings banks.
The second day of the American
Bankers association was devoted to
meetings of the various sections in the
Pontchartrain hotel. The trust com
pany section was called to order at 10
o'clock, but the savings bank, clearing
house and state secretaries sections
started proceedirigs half an hour
earlier.
To Prevent Misuse of Name.
Mr. Fries reported for the committee
on legislation, telling of the work that
is being done to prevent promotion
companies from using the name “trust
company" and described the efforts that
are being made for currency reform and
other changes affecting trust compa
nies.
Theodore L. Weed, director of the
postal savings bank system of the
United States, read a paper on "The
Postal Savings Bank and the Banks.’,’
He said the government banks encour
age saving on the part of the masses
and indirectly helps the business of the
savings banks; that most of the money
that goes into the Federal depositaries
could not be reached by regular insti
tutions.
Numerous other department reports
were received during the day.
GEN. W. W. GORDON,
FAMOUS SOLDIER IN
TWO WARS, IS DEAD
SAVANNAH, G.A., Sept. 11.—General
W. W. Gordon, brigadier general com
manding the Second brigade. First di
vision of the Fourth army corps,
United States volunteers, during the
Spanish-American war. and a Confed
erate veteran, died today at White Sul
phur Springs. Va., according to a mes
sage received here today.
The flags of the Savannah Cotton ex
change, of which General Gordon was a
former president, are at half mast in
his honor. For half a century he was
the head of the cotton firm of W. W,
Gordon & Co.
General Gordon was one of the best
known and oldest citizens of Savannah
and was also one of the most distin
guished residents of Georgia.
His military career was varied anc
active. He served throughout the war
of the Confederacy, leaving Savannah
very early after the call for volunteers
as second lieutenant of the Georgia
Hussars. General J. E. B. Stuart’s cav
alr.t. At the fight at Fredericksburg
Md., he distinguished himself and was.
put on the roll of honor. He was cap
tain and inspector of Mercer's brigade
of Infantry and was wounded at Love
joy station, Georgia. He served as cap
tain and adjutant of Anderson's bri
gade, Wheeler's cavalry.
He entered the war against Spain as
brigadier general of the I'nited States
volunteer forces. He served front May
27. IS9S, until March 23. 1599. For sev
eral months during 1899 he was a mem
ber of the Porto Rican evacuation com
mission. serving with Rear Admiral
Winfield Scott Schley. U. S. N., and
General John R. Brooke, U. S. A.
TO ADVERTISE FOR “COPS:”
COUNTRYMEN ARE WANTED
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 11.-Director
Porter, who is working with the mayor
and civil service commission .to in
crease the efficiency of the police de
partment, has decided to advertise in
the newspapers for policemen. The idea
of the director is that there are many
available men in country towns who
would make good patrolmen. The civil
service board has prepared advertise
ments expressing the needs of the city.
Other municipal departments are go
ing to try the same plan.
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