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CITY MANAGER PLAN SUCCESS San Jose Executive Tells Common wealth Club He Is Well Pleased With the Experiment. "San Jose is a bully city and being manager of it Is a bully job." said Thomas Harrison Reed, city manager of San Jose at the conclusion o' his address to the members of the Com monwealth club at one of the club's .weekly luncheons at the Palace hotel. His topic was, "Eight Months as a City Manager." Reed said his experience has con vinced him that the city manager ex periment is a success. He said San Jose was handicapped for money on account of a dollar limit tax and be cause 15 cents of the dollar went for education alone. "You must look for economy of ex penditure of a limited income," said he. "If he can take a little and make it go a long way and do more than before, I think we are entitled to suc cess. The plan is right and reasona ble, and if it ls not a success it will be due to personal defects in the man ager." Reed explained in detail his work of reorganization of the different city departments. He said he removed the chief of police because the chief "did not co-operate and was not responsive to the new standard required, which was efficiency only." He said when he became city man ager. San Jose was suffering from the "Inefficiency, slovenliness and care les" administration of the old system," wherein the "give and take" of pol itics was the standard. Now, Reed says, he doesn't care if a policeman, fireman or employee of the department of public works is a Democrat or a Republican, and ls not interested in his origin, creed or affiliations pro vided he ls efficient. He said being a city manager exposed one to criticism and made it necessary to fight not only enemies but also friends, never theless he "liked tho job" and was proud of the way things were pro gressing. INFLUENCE OF REALTY MEN Dealer's Point of View May Be of Much Benefit to City or Town, According to an Expert. nenry Turnor Railoy, dean of the Cleveland School of Art, aroused wide comment by a recent addivss before tho Cleveland real estate board. On some architectural oddities-which ho named-his comment was caustic, nis sn.:?rostions were constructive as well as critical. Excerpts from the talk follow : "The real estate man's influence upon the city's future Is immense. Whether that influence is good or bad depends upon the real estate man's point of view. "If he has n narrowly selfish ideal he will crowd his land with shacks, put up by the cheapest builder he can find, thus adding to the tidiness of the city and Its dangers, physical and moral. Or, he will build apartment houses with no architectural beauty, and still further handicap the future. Jacob Rlis used to say that his long experi ence had led him to tho point where he ejuld affirm with positive assur ance, 'Thus saith the Lord, thou shalt have but one family under one roof.' " To Moisture-Proof Brick Walls. The following conting for rough brick walls is used by tne United States government for painting light houses, and it effectually prevents moisture from striking through: Take of fresh Rosendale cement, three parts, and of clean, fine s;md, one part; mix with fresh water thor oughly. This gives a gniy or granite color, dark or light, according to the color of tho cement. If brick color is desired, add enough Venetian red to the mixture to produce the color. If a very light color is desired, lime may be used with the cement and sand. Care must be taken to have all the in gredients well mixed together. In apply ing the wash, the wall must be wet with clean fresh water; then follow imme diately with the cement wash. This prevents the bricks from absorbing the water from the wash too rapidly, and gives time for the cement to set. The wash must be well stirred during the application. The mixture is to be made as thick as can be applied con veniently with a whitewash brush. It is admirably suited for brickwork, fences, etc., but it cannot be used to advantage over paint whitewash. True Child of the Wild. Summer or winter there is no mis taking the arboreal individuality, the unique personality of lady beech. Her very independence and originality have generally excluded her from parks and improved estates and all places where nature is bent and broken by the two by-four rules of art and artificiality. She is a true child of the wild. Given her own way she is one of the best of friends. At all seasons she invites amicable intimacy-and rewards all her woodland acquaintances. But best of all Is her winter mood, when almost alone among the syhan sisterhood she stands clad and seemly, with summer's voice lingering In her boughs and warm kindliness sounding in the music of her crinkled bangles.-Exchange. ac? Brought Home to Him By ETHEL HOLMES a (Copyright, 1917, "Western Newercptr Unie; Judge Weatherly of the crimiu court having finished his day's wo sat in his privare otlice smoking a < gar, as was his invariable custom ? ter holding court, when there was ring at the telephone. Taking up ti receiver he recognized his wife's voie "Come home at once. Somethii has happened." "What has happened?" "Ella has been arrested for theil "Great heavens!" Without stopping for an explanath the judge hurried home, to find a p liceman awaiting his arrival. Mi Weatherly was all of a tremor, whi Ella, the daughter, sat in a sort i stupor. "What's this all about?" the judi demanded. "Your Honor," said the policema "a brooch has been missing from tl jewelry store of Larkins and Swil I was ordered to come here and mal a search of the room of the your lady. I found the brooch in one i her bureau drawers. Here it is." (' The policeman produced a lady watch, it's case studded with jewel "Why, that's one of the watches he sold. "I looked at tu Larkins ar Swift'.- store not long ago, when I wi hunting for a birthday gift for Ell I was tempted to buy it, but the pri< was very high and I bought, one i another store." "Likely you can explain the matti to the court," said the policeman. "Give- me time to think," said Judj Weatherly The policeman gave him the desire time, but it availed nothing ; he was i much in the dark at the end of half a hour as before. A cabman was calle j and the judge, his daughter and th j policeman, went to the station. Thei ! the judge gave bail for the uccuse ! girl, and father and daughter rod 1 home. That his daughter was guilty of in theft charged never entered th judge's mind. Some person or pei ] sons had conspired to injure her c : more likely him. He was constant 1 receiving threats from criminals h sentenced, but thus far none had mat? riallzcd. He finally settled down t the opinion that a hardened crimina to whom be had g'.ven the extrem I penalty of the law itwtl who had threat cried to bo even with 1dm in time, ha been the perpetrator of the outrage. That afternoon a message came- t the judge that Mr. Larkins o?' Larkin i and Swift, would like to see him a j his store. Judge Weatherly hurried t< j the store and was invited into the prl vate otiice of the head of the firm. Mi Larkins then handed him a letter re ceived during the day. lt read: "I see by tile papers that a daughte: of Judge Weatherly of the crimina court has been arrested Cor the thef of your goods. This Is tho judge, '. [ believe, who sentences people on films: circumstantial evidente. Not long agc he sentenced Ralph Edmonds to tin penitentiary for ten years on the ev< of his wedding. If Judge Weatherly will secure Edmonds' liberty tin; find lng of a watch in his daughter's pos session will be explained." The letter was typewritten nnc without signature. At first though the judge fancied it might be used as evidence to secure his daughter's tic quittai, but it soon occurred to hiir that in law it would not be received as testimony. Besides the judge wish ed his daughter exonerated, and he decided that a full explanation coule only be gained by acceding to th? terms of the writer orf the letter. The attorney who had defended Ralph Edmonds was notified by Judge Weatherly that he had grave doubt? of the propriety of his charge to thc jury in the case of their client, and ii they would move for a uew trial the judge would assist them to secure it and alter his charge. The attorneys took the hint and Ed monds was brought into the court for a new trial. Ile was a fine looking ? fellow with a countenance that no one I would consider as belonging to a rogue, j His mother was in court and with her I a young girl to whom the prisoner was ! to have been married. Only a short ; time was required for the trial which ? consisted in the Judge's charge to the J jury and was naturally an order for j the jury to acquit the prisoner. This they did without leaving their seats. The acquitted man embraced his mother after which he and his fiancee were locked In each others arms. Then the young lady went to the judge and said: "I determined after tho conviction of my betrothed who I knew was inno cent as you doubtless knew your daughter was Innocent, to bring his im prisonment home to you. I was pres ent at his first trial and knew you by sight. One day I saw you go Into a jewelry store and look at some watch es. I stood at the same counter and when the clerk's back was turned, pur loined one you had examined. Had you or the clerk seen me I would doubtless have joined Ralph In the penitentiary. "The next move was to watch your house and one day when it was left unprotected I entered it. I found my self in a roora. I knew by the articles it contained to be your daughter's. I left the watch in her bureau drawer. Then I informed the police where to look for it J also wrote the letter to the jeweler. Now that I have attained my object I am ready to make an affi davit to what I have told you." 'WALKS EIGHT-INCH BRID Alaskan Tie-Cutter Totes His Prod j Across Narrow Footing, Disre garding Great Danger. i j Carrying railroad ties on 01 : shoulder over an eight-inch foot: across a canyon 30 feet wide, w 150 feet of vacant space between log and a rock-torn mountain t rent at the dark bottom, sounds 1 the spectacular stunt of a circus p former, but it is the daily jjract of Ed Martin, a tie-chopper, w lives at Crow Creek pass on the g< ernment's new railroad in Alas! .writes a correspondent to the Pit burgh Dispatch. Martin has a permit from the fi est service to use timber on the noi side of Devil's gulch to make ties i the railroad, but the railroad ; quires that the ties be delivered the right of way, and to do this t gulch must be crossed. For this pi pose Martin felled a small spru tree from brim to brim, and, wh he finishes a tie, shoulders it a] packs it over. A party of hunters appeared up< the scene a few days since, and, n daring to attempt the frail eros ing themselves, asked Martin why the name of all-possessed he did n fell a safe footing across the chasi The tie-cutter replied that for h I purpose an eight-inch log was ; good as an eight-foot log, and it hf not occurred to him that it was da] gerous. ARMY MEALS COOKED IN Al Food for Italians in Alpine Fighting Heated En Route on the Ther mos Principle. The most novel commissary in til war is that employed by the Italiar in the Alpine fighting against the ii j vaders. The kitchens are oftentimc ' 1,200 feet below the men, writes a Italian correspondent, yet the so. diers get their meals steaming hot. I Aerial tramways are the onl thing that makes the brilliant defens of the italians possible, for wi thou warm food and drink constantly ai riving they would be unable to with stand thc cold in their high post where they command vital passe and hold the invaders back. lt is impossible for the troops oi these high, ledges to have fires, lac! of space and secrecy making a stov or smoke impractical. The cookinj therefore is begun far below ii kitchens, finished in thermos bottle and fireless cookers that bear th food aloft. Huge cuts of meat and thick vege table stews are placed over roaring fires down at the timber line when there is fuel in plentituoe and thei before finished put into vessels whicl apply the thermos principle so tba by tlie time they have reached thei: destination high overhead they wil be cooked through and palatable. WIRELESS PHOTOGRAPHS. 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