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K _ Oman's Half Victory in I Pittsburg \ ~d and the Hew Process in Stow Mak* 1 , - - m , i mg Show Woman's Place in Industry I By William Hard , ODAY, in the stogy factories of Pittsburg, there are 2,211 women and only 4G3 men. AND IN THREE PART1UULARI LY LARGE "TRUST" FACTORIES, IN WHICH THE LAST 1 I WORD IN CHEAP, QUICK PRODUCTION HAS BEEN I I SPOKEN, THERE ARE 1,025 WOMEN AND EXACTLY V | TEN MEN. M On the one hand there is the male hand-stogy-maker. KMM He just takes tobacco leaves and, with his own hands, with out the help of machines or even of tools (except a knife clip), constructs, all by himself, a complete smoke. It took him a long -> learn how to do that. On the other hand, the most nearly perfected type of the team-and-machlne process, which Is taking his place, and which mak ? of his single, complete operation a triple one. ne girl who begins the process is not a stogy-maker at all. She is only a "b ich-breaker." With the help of her machine she gives the Inside flllerleav> of the stogy their first outside covering, the '"binder." The second ontside covering, the "wrapper" is still to be put on. Then the half-dressed stogies, instead of being "shaped" deftly and deliCAtfilv hv UlA fl n ffPr.t I no r\f o. nrnWcmon nrr? piiahml ?r% #1 fnrm by "molds" and "presses." The finishing touches are put on by a most ingenious machlno celled a "suction-table. It Is full of lltle holes through which currents of air, sucked downward, straighten out the tobacco leaf, and hold it taut and flat while a die, descending, cuts It Into exactly the right size. The "suction-table" (Mr. RuBkln would have called it a vampire) sucks the last few drops of blood from the art and craft of stogy-making. The girl at the "suction-table" takes the piece of tobacco designed for her by the machine and "rolls" it around the half-finished stogy, giving it its "wrapper" and thus completing it. - TWO GIRLS AND THREE MACHINES HAVE NOW DONE WHAT ONE ANr^D BEFORE. THEY HAVEN'T DONE IT SO WELL, BUT THEY Vf \^TE IT FASTER AND CHEAPER. And there you have a little lion happening before your eyes. Women have driven men into P ov<-he stogy trade in Pittsburg and they havo done it through their ? Or ty with the most modern, the most mechanical and automatic, their ipllfled and cheapened factory processes. their'68 men ln tho 8t?sry factories of Pittsburg, 168 are still complete makers. Of the 2,211 women ln the stogy factories of Pittsburg, e have become hand-stogy-makera and they make Italian Btogies, * held together along the side with paste and have no finish at either . O vintnrv in Pittchlirnr t h nfofrvrn hoa hoa? omLr n nowtlnl tHat/vww .-MV. TtVWVI/ AAA A IVVflUUl kUViV71VI V| uao L/VV II V/Ul J a |J(U kMU v ivtvyi J . ivoman has got into Industry, but not by excelling, or equalling, man's technique.?Everybody's. ^ ^ 'Better Field Than Politics ^ A By Mme. Cross Metohouso, Founder of the ^ ! m Beaux Arts Club %* < !#>? > ? AM not thoroughly convinced that the women of the Bast are I* ' J J yet ready for the ballot. The West is more aggressive than ?> the Bast, and its women with their ballot is the greatest \ J proof of that statement. * > In every other sense of the term "equal rights" I am a firm , ifttgtn+t believer in it. Women should have, as they do have, equal < < opportunity in professional, business and intellectual life < 'ttlMIIII with men. They are advancing along all these lines and are abreast of men. In art and in ethics I believe women are ih the vanguard, but I cannot see that at the present time New York women are ready for the ballot. Their day will come, but it must not come too rapidly. Political education and economics are matters that have ' taken years for men to grasp in their highest meanings, and the woman vote to become a power must be an intelligent, carefully considered asset to the common good. At the present time I believe a matter far more important to women as a rldQC thfin tho rratHn or a# i*Ka KnllAf - ?*I a ? --? A' ? ? A * a>.?>u6 ui IUC uanui IS UDl acilVK auu sjuipdiueuc TrOrK WllU the wage-earning woman and the women whose limited means makes it necessary for them to battle for subsistence In the lowliest walks of life. The woman of leisure who wants to make her life count should reach her hand out, and not down, to these women. She should Interest herself in bettering the * conditions and environments of those women. She should assist them to get better beds, freer air and more material comfort for themselves and the children depending upon them. Greater than the ballot will the influence of such women be in this great Empire State. The ballot will come, but women must first be prepared to meet the gTeat responsibilities incumbent upon the voter. I Re/lections of a Bachelor I 1 Girl * Zy Helen Rowland MAN'S shoulders are not always as broad as they're j 1 padded. 1 - | You'd think every man was a beauty show from the 1 1 critical way in which he sizes up the women. I Men say they hate anything loud about a woman; It 4 V Hf I must be disgust that makes them always turn around to M stare after a peroxide blonde. The saddest sight on earth is an old bachelor trying to !sew on a button with a blunt needle and a piece of string. There are some men who, before marriage, will risk their lives to pick up your parasol from in front of a whizzing automobile who wouldn't get off the sofa after marriage to pick up anything you might drop, from a hint to the baby. A husband gets so used to his wife's conversation that after a while it doesn't interrupt his reading of the newspaper any more than the punking in the steam pipes. Of course men admire a circumspect woman above all things, but they seldom invite her out to supper. rooming Dores a man worse than the devotion of the girl before the last Love letters lead to all sorts of complications, but post cards tell no tales.?New York Evening World. ^ ? Women Displacing Men f f Striking Increase in Number of Women in 1 f Business Offices I 1 By William Hard 1 OMAN Ifl putting on her good clothes and coming DownWTov/n. Which Is one ot the epoch-making events In her Industrial history. For, while women are not gaining on men noticeably in factories, they are gaining on them every day noticeably, strikingly, overwhelmingly, in salesrooms, correspondence rooms, auditing rooms, and all the other places & conveniently summarised as "stores and offices." j#:\ mmswhJ Nevertheless, while it is true in the factory trades as a whole that men and women seem to have reached, temporarily at least, an equilibrium of relative numbers, it Is also true that HERB m AND THERE, OCCASIONALLY, IN THE CON8TANT GIVE AND TAKE BETWEEN THE SEXES, MEN ARE BEING DISPLACED HY WOMEN. When this happens. It is worth watching, because the industrial character of -woman ia then re-reeled In action.?"The Woman's t?vasMm^4u Everybody'a i E"-' JJIY8W Jf, W' T TAFTANDTHETWENT1ETH i The following unique poem was compoaed by Mrs. Lisette Clayton | Hood, no-v connected with the Mill * Hews of Charlotte, N. CL, on the oooasion of the celebration of May 20th, 190V. Its historic as well as its present day alluaions, together with its ~ rhythmic merit will make ft- a good I scrap book preservation to the lovers of poesy. ^ A Welcome to the President. The loyal folks of Mecklenburg Extend the glad right hand; Sweet smiles from Charlotte's daugb- l Ur8' b The fairest in the land. ? Our gates are spread wide open, k The keys are thrown away, b< Th? Rntfn- J ?in * rii.uscu ?C UJI Will D8 The longer you may stay. ' a In Eastern florid verbiage 0( The town Is wholly yours, j And all that is therein contained In its historic doors. ? _ P We give true Southern welcome o: To our illustrious Quest M Who rules and treats us squarely, m For he deserves onr best. K He freed my native City . From years of deepest shame, Placed white man over white men;- |E All honor to his name! ^ This act alone has won him e< The Southron's deepest love, d He knows the race Caucasian 0' Was meant to keep above. V Observe our senventy columns, Our noble arches three. tc Our granite shaft inscribing tc Those names which History no Has writ and proved illustrious S1 Despite the sneercrs' claim. And tells the world the reason *( For Charlotte's deathless fame. Those brave old Mecklenburpers, in far Colonial days, First broke the chains of bondage C( And earned the nation's praise. w Old England sent her minions a, To break our spirits free; "A nest of stinging hornets" c\ They found our town to be. p, Our men are patriots ever, Our spirits just as high, U Our valor still unquestioned, e< As in the days gone by. m Our Southern hearts are loyal, i All struggles past forgot, A And Gray and Blue are blended On this historic spot. "Old Glory" here is waving So free on every side, A type of hope united In one grand, common pride. Observe the gallant escort, Sl Furnished our President, ? The Blue and Grey uniting Old soldiers worn and bent. "We've slain the "Billy Possum," tt And "killed the fatted calf." - * 'ii And give our heartiest welcome % To William Howard Taft. Mrs. Taft Slightly I1L "! Washington, Special. ? Mrs. Taft, suffering from a slight breakdown, hi was taken ill Monday while on her ir way from this city to Mount Vernon u on the yacht Sylph with a party of t< friends, and was hurried back to the &] White Houso. It was said a? the White House Monday night that ai there is ho cause for >larm and that b. Mrs. Taft probably would be all di right again in a few days. She was w unable to be present at an official f< dinner at the White House. ti President Taft himself Monday n< night prepared the following state- n ment in regard to Mrs. Taft's condition : "Mrs. Taft is suffering from a p slight nervoua attack. She attended <. the Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital ' Monday morning, where Charlie Taft ' underwent a slight operation on his Sl throat. She was with him for sev- . eral hours. She then started with the T> JJ..1 ? - - * reuaeui uuu a small party of friends on the Sylph for Mount Ver- "j non. The excitement, heat and exertion were too much for Mrs. Taft's . ner\'es and the party was obliged to J! turn back before reaching A lax andria. Mrs. Taft was quiokly carried * to the White House. The dootor says that after a few days of oom- _ plete reet Mrs. Taft may be able to . resume her social duties. Dr. De- 11 laney is in attendance. Mrs. Moore, ? Mrs. Taft's sister, acted as \jostess at 1 the official dinner at the White House Monday night." More Than 10,000 Murdered in Adana. ^ Adana, By Cable.?The estimates ^ of from 20,000 to 25,000 Christians t killed by Mohammadans in the province of Adana made a fortnight ago must be revised. It is now ascer- ^ tained that the number can hardly j reach more than 10,000, possible iess. Thousands who were supposed to c have been killed in the country dis- I trict have since come into seme one 8 I of the large towns- for relief. It re- * I ?- ?? uiwiis a mci lum iuuco vruuiuy was suffered by nomen. e Alabama Rate Case. t Washington, Special.?The Su- \ preme Court of the United 'States c Monday denied the applications for writs of certiorari in the injunction t cases between the Alabama Railroad 1 Commission and the various railroads $ of that State, involving the consti- t tutionality of the Alabama railroad c rate law. The effect of the decision is against the bringing of the eases i to this court, as that was the purpose 1 of the petition.. * ? *"f?vv if MEWS IN BRIEF terns fit Interest Gathered By Wire and Cable ILEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY ire Items Covering Btoni# of BCore or Lea Interest el Home tai brood. At Uvalde, Texas, last Monday a ailstorm of unprecedented severity, luge of icf weighing 8 and 10 pounds, dl and eight persons wore instantly illed by being in their line of decent FoylervUle, Mich., was visited by tornado last Saturday that damag1 250 houses to the extent of $40,DO. Twenty-five families are homotsa. The State of Pennsylvania has ap ropnaicu $v3,uuu ior me education f deaf, dumb and plind Katharyn [ay Frich. nine years did, who shows iany of too characteristics of Helen '.eller. The Postal difficulties in Paris are elieved to be over the strike havig failed and the men having larger returned to their places. H. H. Rogers, who recently fiiniahi the Virginian Railway as an inividual enterprise at a cost of $40.0,000 died at his home in New York Wednesday. The Alfalfa Club, at the Craigh>n University, Omaha, Neb., will trj > demonstrate that alfalfa is a buian food and that a nnn may subst on its hay. f>r. J. H. Daughertv, a physician >r the insane at Kloan. Tlh. Kna him ;If became insane through sympaletic snggestiveness. Tho great event at Petersburg, Va., i which the Pennsylvanians unveili a monument to Gen. Hartranft as pulled off without break or jar ad was exceedingly satisfactory. Charlotte's great 20th of May coloration was badly marred by dowivour of rain for most of the day. Prof. A. 8. Lovenheart, of tho diversity of Wisconsin it is believ1, has found an antitoxins for fetalis germs. The cotton compress at Fort Smith, rk., was consumed py flre Monday >gether with 5,000 boles of cotton, lames broke out at many places multaneousU', indicating incendirism. The loss was about $300,000, ivered by insurance. Tracy & Co., of New York, went ito the hand of a receiver, the assets lpposed to be half a million and abilities a million. Three thousand gallons of water -om Jordan river, was poured into le sewer in New York recently beiuse no one attached any imporince to it?a financial failure. A distinct earthquake was felt in orthcrn Montana Saturday night. A all of one house felL Prof. David N. Todd, of Boston. us a scheme to go up ten miles hifrh i a balloon and from there to talk ) the people in Mars, by wireless legrapbv. He thinks they know bout it. Alexas Loudent, in an accident in a Alabama mine last week, {jot his ack broken. He was informed that eafh ere long would ensue. An overeaning desire to see his parents be5re death led him to attempt to rolrn to Moscow, Russia, and he is ow on the briny deep making the ice with death. Washington Affairs. The Senate Monday confirmed the resident's nomination of Opcar S. traus to be ambassador to Turkey nd Wm. W. Rockhill to be amba?idor to Russia. The Washington, Baltimore and nnapolis Electric Company ordered mailer cars, and it is said the anual saving will be $150,000 through ie use of direct-eurrent motors. President Taft has returned from be Petersburg and Charlotte funoions. He is none the worse of the rip, notwithstanding the deluge in lharlotte. President Taft wrote a letter to lovernor Stubbs, of Kansas, revokng the appointment of Robert Stone nd resenting the attempt to drag im into a factional fight. Torpedo boats are to be given a est in the battleship maneuvers this umraer. The gunboat Marietta was ordered o Bluefields, Nicaragua last Saturlay, where laborers are rioting and iv?.iu;mg piujiciijr uu uauuna pmnations. * Foreign News Notes. Two thousand men are on the way o reinforce the Russian troops in 'ersia. Rome papers regard the exchange f message* between the Kaiser. Vancis Joseph and Victor Emmanuel s insuring the continuance of the riple alliance. Emperor William is to spend sevral weeks in England next fall. Thousrh renorted to Hp rpstinor * he Ju Ja ranch, ex-President Roose elt engaged in writing an account >f his adventure. The trophies of Mr. Roosevelt' and he job for the taxadermist is thus 'ar oife rhinoceros, six Hons, two prafTes, 20 smaller kinds of game ind a variety of birds, a python and thers. It is claimed for Germany, that ihe will soon be prepared for airship ear with a system of stations suitable for operations. ^ N 1PRESINJ Greeted by Enthusi Petersburg < Charlotte, N. C., Special?Welcomed royally as the head of a united nation with all the honors which a patriotic and public-spirited people could bestow, and responding in a kindred spirit which inspired him to pledge his power to the obliteration of all sectional differences, the Hon. William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, was for twelve hours Thursday the welcome gneet of Charlotte and North Carolina. Culminated then the celebration in boner of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence with whieh all the drenching power of a Gulf coast rain-storm could but partially interfere. Never in the history of the City of Charlotte has there previously occurred such a day, marked by such a contest between the powers of men and those of nature, a contest which had a drawn battle as its final issue, with the honors, all things considered, well carnod by the plucky celebrants. Beginning hours before dawn, the rain, which was predicted set in with unrelented violence, continued until a few minutes before the arrival of the President's tram at 10 o'clock, ceased for mora than two entire hours, only to descend again a veritable cloud-burst jnst as the rear of the mammoth parade had reached Independence Square, two blocks from the stand Where stood America's Chief Executive in review. Its interference with the occasion on which it had in such unwelcomed fashion intruded, forced the change of the place for the Presidential address from the open air reviewing stand to the Auditorium and the calling off of the military drills and the baseball game in the afternoon. Unquestionably it deterred untold thousands from leaving their homes in other towns, and yet special after special rolled in in early morning crowooa irom rront to rear with visitors who knew that whatever happened Charlotte would make good. And she did, so far as lay in human power, in the face of a twolve hours' rainfall three times the amount of that for the month's preceding 19 days. The line from the Selwyn to tlie depot was filled with tho hosts almost every one of whom saw President Taft in his open carriage. The Confederate and Federal veterans escorted the President from the Selwyn to the grand stand, where he was seated with Mrs. Stonewall Jackson on the right, and Governor Kitchin on the left. The parade was a pageant of beauty and suggestiveness as well as an industrial and trade exhibit. It was completed when the torrents of rain broke all into confusion. In spite of the adverse circumstances it was a day of glory for Mecklenburg and the Old North State. The President's speech in the Auditorium was a measure of the breadth of the statesmanship of this great H. H. ROGERS, THE GRE V?1- o i ? ? ? 1 i urn, opeciai.?nenry ?1. Rogers, sixty-nine years of age, vicepresident of the Standard Oil Company, moving spirit in the organisation of the Amalgamated Copper Company, builder of railroads, and philanthropist, died at his home h-are at 7:20 o'clock Wednesday morning from a stroke of apoplexy. Death came about an hour after Mr. Rogers had risen for the day, mentioning to his wife that he was feeling ill. At 7 o'clock he lapssed into unconsciousness, and before the family physician arrived, he was dead. Mrs. Rogers, three married PRESIDENT TArt ENJOYS Washington, Special. ? President Taft, returning from Charlotte, N. C., reached Washington at 10:40 a. m. Friday. The President found Mrs. Taft much improved in health. The President recently was chosen as a trustee of the Hampton Institute, at Hampton, Va., and had accepted an invitation to speak there on SundayLAKE MONHONK ARBIT1U Mohonk T.nlro V v a :-i ??.v, Ai . M. ,f OptJUlHI.? With an imposing array of speakers, the fifth annual meeting of the Lake M-ohonk conference on international arbitration concluded its deliberations Friday night. The speakers included the Right Hon. James Brvce. tho British ambassador; Alfred Mo?dy. London; Representative Richard Bnrtholdt. nf Mien/ *;. vj ward J. Wheeler, Frank Chapin Bray, and Dr. Richard Watson Gilder. Mr. Mosely, a member of the House of Commons, took up the causes which led to the present feeling; between England and Germany, beginEIGHT MEN KILLED BY Hi Galveston, Texas, Special.?An unprecedented hailstorm Monday in Uvalde county cost at least eight lives. James Carpenter, 70 years of age, returning to the Southwestern Ranch, where he was employed, sought shelter in a cattle shed. Hail struck him on the head and killed him. Seven Mexicans were many miles from shelter, in tl?e open praine, . when the storm diught them. All [STRIP SOUTH astic Thousands at and Charlotte man. The following is a quotation referring to the nomination of Judge Connor: "The Federal judiciary should be as much appreciated in the South aa in the North, and if I have an opportunity to make any appointments in the South it will continue to be my chief duty to make such appointments as shall appeal to all the people whether thoy be Republicans or Democrats, and I urge all citizens to acoept the appointments made, as men, if they are men, who will carry on their high duties with a single eye to the administration of justice, to accept them and congratulate the people on tbcir apointment, and not to make use of them for anv Dar tisan appeal." Virginia Honors the President. Petersburg, Va., Special.?President Taft's visit Wednesday to this battle-scarred Virginia city has been h notable success from the viewpoint of the distinguished guest and of the hospitable peoplo who were his hosts. The President has seen at close range all sorts and conditions of Virginians, for Petersburg seemed to he the cental to which the counties of Southern Virginia had sent the bulk of their population, there being, it was estimated, 25,000 visitors here in the course of the day. The streets were jammed from noon until late evening. The "oldest inhabitant" even is at a loss to remember when Petersburg has been as crowded as it was Wedruisitnv T nine o -?* 1 ?j. "mo ?? fiv/uii-wuiuieu, easily handled crowd and, while it was at no time effusive in its demonstration, it gave the President a very friendly reception and lifted hats to him and cheered him as he rode in the parade through its streets. At Fort Mahone, where the beautiful monument erected to commemorate the heroism of Gen. John F. Hartranft and the Pennsylvania soldiers of the Third Division of the Ninth Army Corps was unveiled, the President made a tactful and impressive address. The environment was inspiring and; although he read his speech from manuscript, he evidently felt the spell of his surroundings. Mr. Taft vied with the Governor of Pennsylvania and Major Isaac S. Brown, president of the Pennsylvania Battlefield Commission, in paying tribute to the valor of the Confederate soldier and in recognizing that the men who wore the gray had proved themselves, equally with the niea who wore the blue, exemplars in the highest degree of American intrepidity in hattle and American devotion to principle. This sentiment evoked an immediate and heartv rpsnnnsp from the hundreds of Pennsylvania \eterans and also from the gray-clad members of A. P. Hill Camp, of the Confederate Veterans, who were massed in front of the platform from which Mr. Taft made his speooh. EAT FINANCIER, DEAD daughters, a son. H. H. Rogers. Jr., ant I)r. W. J. Pulley, a physician who was hastily summoned, were at the bedside when the end caux?. His fortune is variously estimated at from $50,000,000 to $75,000,000, which will make his son. H. H. Rogers, Jr., one of the richest men in the country. Mr. Rogers' first wife died fourteen years ago, and he is survived, in addition to his second wife, by four children, the son mentioned and the following daughters: Mrs. W. E. Benjamin, Mrs. Urben H. Broughton and Mrs. Willian R. C'oe. his Trip to the "south afternoon. He stated on tlve train, ' however, that unless Mrs. Taft was able to make the trip with him, he would postpone his visit to the Virginia institution. On account of the Ha/) WAfifhitr f Kn Proci/lpnt' after reaching the White House, that i? would not be wise to undertake the trip at this time and he telegraphed, cancelling the engagement. LT10N CONFERENCE ENDS ning with the now famous interview of the German Emperor. "I believe,,' he said, "that the German Emperor means well for hie own country and the world at large, but there utterances caused suspicion and have given rise to diseussiottC in the House of Commons resulting in the increase in the navy. S. * "Now it is proposed by some th!?.' Mr. Taft take the initiative .in saying something to England and Germany. But I am not at all sure that Mr. Taft would care to undertake that task. If he does, may I suggest that L _ i l_ ? . . ~ _-? ? i u?j mm nis auennon to liermanyT" lliT IN GALVESTON, TEXAS were struck dead. The atones weighed fl and 7 pounds nnd seme of 10 pounds were found. *. They measured 10 to 17 inches in circumference and they came down for 30 minutes in two separata storms, about two hours apart. Many persons who had started out to search for cattle were caught in the second storm and injured. The number of cattle killed will not be known for several days. C. fi