will pass into the hands of a new management on July 1, and will be issued as an evening paper. The press franchise has been taken over by the Examiner, while the plant will pass into the hands of the Times, but there is no question that the new paper will be strictly union throughout. The Times has the non-union field all to itself and shows every evidence of wanting to keep it. Another non-union paper would be a trespasser on its domain. There is a rumor that another evening paper is scheduled to make its appearance about September 1, to be known as the Globe. However, we will await developments before inviting any one to come for a situation.

In my last letter I fell into an unpardonable error in my mention of the Western Linotyping

Company. Instead of the partnership being Randall, Reed & Foltz, it should have been Randall, Bird & Foltz. As our membership roll contains the name of only one Reed, it is obvious that many will think that the Reed mentioned is C. F. Reed, of the Examiner chapel, but such is not the case. Mr. Reed has been for several years and is still employed on the Examiner, and has no connection whatever with the firm in question. This firm has only been in business for a couple of months, but already they have been obliged to lease another machine and have now a No. 8 linotype ordered and are working three shifts with the present equipment. The three gentlemen named are members of No. 174.

This letter came near to being my last from the Angel City, owing to the fact that orders were issued for my transfer to Richmond, Va., on April 29. However, on May 1 the orders were revoked, and thus for some time to come the readers of THE JOURNAL will be obliged to put up with my effusions from Los Angeles. Fate played a most unkind trick upon me in connection with the transfer orders. Our regular meeting occurred on April 30, and was the regular date for the nomination of officers. As I fully expected to be gone before election day, I did not allow my name to be placed in nomination for the office of International delegate, and afterward did not have the temerity to hazard having my name written in as an independent candidate. Voting by writing seems very arduous labor to the average voter anywhere. But the event brought joy to the hearts of the other aspirants, and I am content to let cruel destiny move onward in its own way.

L. T. McCullough, who was one of the wheelhorses in the stirring events attending the surrender of the charter of Davenport Union No. 106 and the subsequent consolidation of Nos. 106 and 107 as Tri-City Union No. 107, after essaying the task of trying to make a living as the proprietor of a job office, gave up the unequal struggle, sold out his plant, and is now "showing up" on the ad side of the Examiner.

W. M. Gear, ex-Bostonese and International organizer, after an extended tour of the middle west and south, is back in town and his name appears among the great throng of adroom subs on the Examiner slipboard.

At the present time this city is the rendezvous

of one of the largest "fleets" of printer men ever seen here in lo, these many days. "Sessions" are in order at all times, but the spirit of good fellowship prevails in large measure. May it long continue and may the "fleet" enjoy many days of smooth sailing. Thirty-six cards were deposited last month, but of these twenty got away. Work on the machines is good and the adrooms are doing well, but the jobman had better hold fast to his anchor in other parts.

The city directory is being printed this year by the Wayside Press, which is indeed cheering news, as it has heretofore been considered the "pickings" of the non-unionists.

Organizer Stein paid a visit to Visalia and Hanford recently, finding the union in Visalia in good condition and the printers there prospering. At Hanford he encountered a most peculiar state of affairs, but expects good results from this territory in the very near future. Mr. Stein is now chairman of the organization committee of the central labor council and is engaged both day and night in the campaign to put every organization on a better footing in Otistown. The work is very arduous and the disappointments many, but Mr. Stein says it is mighty interesting, which greatly helps to offset the drawbacks met with. Never be. fore has the movement in Los Angeles been confronted with such desire on the part of the workingman to be shown the light and to array himself on the side of better conditions. With a corps of devoted and faithful men in the field, the unionizing of Los Angeles is only a matter of a short time. More power to them. Some facetious wag said he guessed Stein didn't know there was any eight-hour day for organizers or that we had a six-day law, either. Believe me, Stein doesn't care how hard you may rap him about this part of the program.

It has often been a source of great wonder to me as to why it is that there are so many ideas advanced by writers to THE JOURNAL, every one of which requires a great deal of money, yet it is very seldom that one sees the advocacy of any ideas along the lines of constructive legislation or economic and industrial betterment. To make myself clear, I want to explain. Propositions are broached regarding raising the amount of the pension paid, erecting an office building, creation of new death benefit funds, etc. But where are the propositions for the betterment of the live ones? It seems that we are too much on these benefit features. We are a union, organized to work for better conditions and wages, and not to run a fraternal society for the dispensing of pension and death and sick benefits. Here is a proposition which I intend bringing before the next convention in the form of a resolution to appoint a commission to investigate the subject, or in some similar form at least, to establish and maintain a technical school for the education and training of apprentices in all the various branches of our own trade, and besides give them a better education along scholastic lines if they need it or desire it. This is for the apprentice in particular, but I would not limit the scope of the school

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to apprentices, but would give the training to the journeyman as well, but the conditions could be changed for journeymen. I would have the journeyman pay for his instruction, while at least a part of the apprentice's course of training would be given free. An advertisement of what we were doing to educate our apprentices to better earn the high wages which we have come to expect would sound a great deal better than does our constant reiteration of what we are doing for those who did not do in many cases for themselves. Home is a fine thing, but I think this school idea would be a better one. The future welfare of our craft is going to rest with the boys of to-day. Now just look around and see if you can possibly figure out how that apprentice is going to acquire his expert knowledge of the trade. I would like to see a discussion on this topic, as I believe that the trade school period has come, and ours should be in our own hands and not in the hands of a lot of union haters and mendacious exploiters of innocence. [The I. T. U. Course in Printing, with over two thousand apprentices and journeymen participating, indicates that our organization is already obtaining results along the lines suggested by our correspondent.-ED.]

1915.

We are still in the game for the Texas town for 1912, and also for Los Angeles in Friend Brockwell, we will trot you Washin'ton people a fast heat to see who wins the prize, because we need that 'ere convention on account of the moral effect it will have on the ex-union haters of Los Angeles. You notice, I say "ex." By 1915 we will have the town so well organized that the union hater of today will be an "ex" in more ways than one. even have a hunch that the Times will be an "ex" by that time. Oh, no; you keep off that convention preserve.

The first annual outing of the allied printing trades council was held at Playa del Rey, on May 14, and was a fine affair in every way. A large crowd was present and thoroughly enjoyed the fine program of sports which was carried out on schedule time. Dancing was indulged in until the evening hours. Every one went home feeling that he was well paid for his time and trouble and with the hope that this event will even be a greater success next year.

At this date more than 700 carpenters are drawing strike benefits from their organization, but the prospects are more than good that this number will soon be greatly reduced. The carpenters, both union and non-union, demanded a straight wage of $4 per day. Every man who was given this wage was allowed to remain at work, except in the few instances where the union men were either all fired or locked out. Every non-union carpenter who receives $4 per day will be taken into the union upon the payment of $1, and every nonunion carpenter who was forced to quit work after demanding the new wage scale was placed on the benefit roll. Verily, there is strength in union.

The bakers have just about successfully concluded an agreement with the proprietors whereby they obtain the nine-hour day without any strike or other trouble. Only two or three of the larger

bakeries are still holding out against the agreement, and they will be signed up shortly, I am informed.

The brewery workers' strike is a thing of the past as far as the city is concerned, but the Union brewery of Anaheim is still out of the fold. It is a very small factor in the situation, however. Mathie's brewery held out for a week after the others signed up, due no doubt to a stockholders' disagreement and not to a determination to continue the strike. Otis says they are all traitors. Too bad. We have not heard that he came across with any money to keep them from having to be put in the position of being traitors, nor did we hear that the "brave" general came to the rescue when one of the prominent brewery owners put up a genuine rough house at a meeting of the M. and M., wherein the wily little Jew, Zeehandalaar, received a punch on the nose and nearly lost a number of his teeth, besides numerous other injuries. Can't throw the harpoon into them all the time, giner'l, without a comeback.

WILLIAM J. CARSON.

OGDEN, UTAH.

Ogden has become widely known as the "gateway to the west," and San Francisco delegates who plan on journeying to the Golden Gate via the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific will find themselves well repaid for a few hours' stopover here. A trip up the Ogden canyon will only require a couple of hours and will reveal wonders of nature not often found in even a mountain country. The trip is made by electric car, which follows the bed of a boiling, dashing mountain stream, and carries you up to the Hermitage, almost as famous in name and as picturesque in architecture as the Inn in Yellowstone Park. Then we have innumerable natural hot baths only a short ride from the city, which might be of invaluable assistance to the delegates in preparing them for the last lap in the race across the continent.

No. 236 is only a small union and we would not presume to prepare a "blowout" for stopover delegates, but individually we are at your service.

A delegate was selected to the convention in the person of W. W. Gillies, with N. S. Flygare as alternate, but No. 236 has not yet decided whether it can afford the luxury of being represented at San Francisco.

Lester G. Baker, well known to the craft in this and southern cities, and who has been holding a situation on the Examiner, has joined the ranks of the proprietors by acquiring ownership of the Provo (Utah) Herald.

"Mike" Johnson, of Salt Lake, apparently tir ing of a town overrun with subs, has put his name on a slipboard where the going is always good.

Tom Reynolds came up from Salt Lake and paid us a visit recently preparatory to a protracted junket via the northwest to San Francisco, expecting to arrive there about convention time.

We're glad to see the hearty endorsement that the proposed law abolishing the piece scale re

DEATH OF MRS. MARY A. KING.

A great woman died in Chicago a few weeks ago; a woman who, through a life of 71 years, had been brave and true and strong and tender in an exceptional degree, and who withal had been very human.

You who read this perhaps sojourned in Chicago at some time during the last dozen or fifteen years of "the old handset days" on the newspapers. Possibly you were "broke" when you arrived here, and perhaps some friend staked you to a meal ticket. If he did it was on King's restaurant.

In those days "King's" was a printers' institution, frequented exclusively by newspaper men. It had various locations at different times, but wherever it went the printers followed. It was established by Mrs. Mary A. King, the subject of this memoir. With this restaurant and those who conducted it-Mrs. King and her son Charlie and daughter Annie-thousands of printers and other newspaper men became acquainted. The poet, Eugene Field, was a frequent patron of the place.

During the daytime one of her girls was to be found at the cashier's desk, but at night and until the "owl car" carried her to her home at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, Mrs. King herself was on duty, supervising the help, acting as cashier, advising with Charlie, or, when customers were few, reading a newspaper or chatting with one of "the boys."

The bare chronology of Mrs. King's life runs like this: Born in Ireland in 1840; came to America with her parents when she was 9 years old; married James H. King, for twenty-five years one of No. 16's strong men, when she was 19; widowed in 1883; died April 23, 1911, at her home, 920 Belden avenue, Chicago, having lived 71 years. For over fifty of these years, because of her connections, she had been well acquainted with the membership and deeply interested in the workings of Chicago Typographical Union.

There were born to Mr. and Mrs. King eleven children, of whom ten were living when Mrs. King lost her husband. During the long sickness that preceded Mr. King's death it became necessary for his wife to take up the duties of breadwinner. At first she' did this by serving lunches at the newspaper offices, assisted by Charlie King, then a sturdy boy of 18 years. Later on, with her brother, John Coyle, she started the printers' restaurant.

Charlie King developed into one of Chicago's most successful young business men, and at the time of his death the restaurant had taken rank as one of the largest and best in the city. It passed out of the hands of the family shortly after he died.

Nearly all of Mrs. King's seven daughters married men connected with the newspaper business. Nellie is the widow of James Wright, formerly a

member of No. 16, and afterward on the editorial staff of the Chicago Herald; Carrie is the wife of William E. Williams, at the time of their marriage employed on the Daily News, but now proprietor of the Chicago Heights Star; Minnie is the wife of Michael Colbert, of the Chicago Tribune, an expresident of No. 16; Jennie married Bernard Mullaney, formerly a political writer on the RecordHerald, but more lately commissioner of public works for Chicago; Annie is the wife of Joseph E. Ewing, of the Chicago American; when Julia became the bride of George W. Perkins he was a telegrapher on the Tribune, but since then he has been superintendent of the Mexican government's telegraph system, which position he resigned recently to accept a similar one with the Chicago Great Western Railroad; and Millie married H. Teller Archibald, a business man, but formerly a reporter on the Record-Herald. The younger son, James King, also survives his parents.

I have called Mrs. King "a great woman" because of my knowledge of the brave and effective manner in which she fulfilled what she knew to be her mission in the world. The mother of eleven children, and widowed after her husband's long illness had exhausted their financial resources, she set herself resolutely to the task of providing for her children without neglecting their upbringing.

She had to solve many bitter problems; she had to bear many sorrows. But if she wept it was in secret; if she was downcast or disheartened she kept it to herself. She always had words of hope to give to others, and she turned a cheery face to the world.

At the funeral the priest spoke eloquently of the reward to which she had passed. But even in this life she had not missed her reward. It came to her daily in the knowledge that she had given her best to the task that was set her. It came to her also in the affection and reverence in which she was held by her children and their life-partners. And because of the legacy of character inherited by her children the world is richer.

The funeral services were held at St. Vincent's Roman Catholic church. Mrs. King's six living sons-in-law were the pallbearers. Chicago, Ill.

PHILIP L. BARKER.

DAVENPORT, IOWA.

At the last regular meeting No. 107 elected and installed a new set of officers to serve for the ensuing year. There was an unusually large attendance, probably due to the fact that there was some important business slated on the board to be transacted that evening.

The contest for the honor to represent No. 107 at the Iowa State Federation of Labor, which meets at Sioux City in June, resulted in L. N. Gansworth being selected.

Of the three candidates in the race for International delegate, J. A. Purcell proved to be the favored one.

Another piece of important business transacted at the last meeting was that hereafter all the delegates to the various trades bodies and labor organizations shall receive 50 cents for each regular

meeting which they attend. It is hoped that this inducement will cause the delegates to be more regular in their attendance.

The Salt Lake proposition carried by the ratio of 3 to 1, which goes to show that the membership of all the Tri-Cities is highly in favor of the proposed substitute. HAROLD JACOBSEN.

MIAMI, FLA.

During the recent primary for municipal officers in Miami, Fla., No. 430 decided to try its strength at the ballot box, and insisted on Casper Hefty becoming a candidate for aldermanic honors. Mr. Hefty finally agreed to make the race, with

WATERBURY, CONN.

At the May meeting of No. 329 the dues were raised to $1.25 per month, with a rebate of 25 cents if a member attends the regular monthly meeting of the union. Previous to this the dues had been $1, with 15 cents rebate for attendance at meetings.

On receipt of a communication from President Lynch, a paper was started for subscriptions to see that the accused structural iron workers do not lack funds to enable them to make a defense. And Waterbury printers will give their mite.

The Jackson Printing Company is now established in its new quarters on Harrison avenue. It now has a ground floor office, and, according to Manager McLean, business is good with very bright prospects.

There is much interest here in the outcome of the referendum on the bonus question. Waterbury's scale provides for a bonus in the newspaper offices, and it has worked very smoothly here for some time.

Secretary F. W. Wiggins and William Suydan are our representatives to the Springfield convention.

We are sorry, but we can't get a man out to San Francisco this summer. Perhaps next year we can do better.

Edward Britt, who came to Waterbury during the eight-hour strike, has left the American and gone to Poughkeepsie, where he will engage in the confectionery business.

William Chadbourne was in town recently in the interest of the Springfield convention souvenir, and reports that the book will be a big success. FRED S. GORHAM.

President Miami (Fla.) Union No. 430

the proviso that the central body would endorse him as a representative of organized labor. This they did without hesitancy, and the result was that Mr. Hefty received 20 per cent more votes than the highest man on the municipal ticket of twelve, and will assume the duties of alderman next October.

Mr. Hefty is president of Miami Typographical Union No. 430, and has been a resident of Miami for the past ten years, coming here from Indianapolis, Ind., after his apprenticeship with the Sentinel Printing Company. He now has charge of the mechanical department of the Miami Herald, is a gentleman of pleasing address, and 30 years of age. His friends predict higher honors than have yet been conferred. J. A. SHAW.

NOTES FROM THE UNION PRINTERS HOME.

The resumption of work on the library addition, which was suspended at the close of 1909 upon the completion of the building up to the second floor and temporarily roofed, was begun in the latter part of April and will now be continued until the structure is finished by the addition of the second and third floors, thus completing the wing on the northeast end of the main building, which will be in the same form and style of architecture as that of the original building-Castle Rock lava and Manitou sandstone. The new library addition was dedicated on the evening of February 16, 1910, by President Lynch, following a public reception in the afternoon, when hundreds availed themselves of the invitation announced in the Colorado newspapers to visit the Home and inspect its buildings and grounds. The dedicatory exercises and ceremonies were held in the library building on the handsome sectional stage, which, when in position, is fully equipped with a beautiful scenic curtain, sets of scenery, proscenium arch, electrical fixtures, footlights, etc. An audience of 400 persons were seated in the auditorium on the occasion of the dedication, and when the curtain was raised President Lynch, Trustee McCaffery, Superintendent Deacon, Mayor Avery, of Colorado Springs,

President Close, of Denver Union No. 49, and D. S. Gilmore (part proprietor of the Prompt Printery of Colorado Springs) came upon the platform and were welcomed by a hearty demonstration on the part of the auditors. All mentioned made addresses during the evening, which were varied by an entertaining program specially prepared by Superintendent Deacon.

F. W. Cragin, until recently a member of the faculty of Colorado College, Colorado Springs, visited the Home institution a short time ago and spent the better part of the afternoon in the library. When the professor severed his connection with the college he traveled over various portions of this intermountain basin to ascertain by study and observation the antiquity and present development of the Indian tribes, principally those of Arizona and New Mexico, together with a more perfect knowledge of the early French and Spaniards and their descendants. In examining the Home's prized collection of books, he was amazed to find several that treated of his objective researches-volumes that could not be obtained in Denver or other cities of the West, he believed, except at the California University in Berkeley. He is sincere in his praise of the Home library and was grateful for the courtesy shown him by the superintendent of the institution.

The student orchestra attached to the Colorado State School for the Deaf and Blind, and which institution is but a short distance west of the Home, were entertainers in the Home library on the evening of April 28 and a splendid concert was enjoyed by an audience composed of members and employes of the institution. The musicians included first, second and third violins, cornet, piccolo, violoncello and pianist (all blind), and under the direction of a Professor Cape (also similarly afflicted). The director and his orchestra were accompanied to the Home by Superintendent Argo of the state school. The musical numbers were rendered in a pleasing manner and evoked rounds of applause at the conclusion of each selection. Superintendent Deacon, on behalf of the Home residents, gave expression of thanks and appreciation for the two hours of pleasure provided by the visitors.

The moving picture entertainments, commenced in the middle of November last and given on Sunday nights in the Home library, were discontinued April 30. The motion pictures were varied on each occasion with illustrated songs, instrumental solos, victrola records, stereopticon views, etc., and each program afforded a delightful entertainment on each recurring Sunday evening during the winter and spring.

W. J. Shanahan, Louisville Union's resident member, told the story of the Union Printers Home to the Lexington (Ky.) Leader and the article, covering three columns of that journal's magazine section, was published in that paper's issue of May 7. The write-up is very entertaining, and, besides giving a history and general description, includes the writer's personal impressions of the conduct and management of the institution.

President Lynch and Trustees McCaffery and

Shepard, members of the finance committee of the Home corporation and its board of trustees, arrived at the institution on May 10, where a series of meetings were held in the board room. The completion of the library addition, new boiler house, cottage extension, etc., decided upon by the board at its annual session in September last, were matters of importance which necessitated the visit of the committee on the occasion, and who left for their homes on the Saturday following.

Sanitary drinking (bubble) fountains are now installed on the Home grounds-one inside of the archway gates at the south entrance and the second on the south side of the croquet grounds. This method of quenching one's thirst by the use of aqua pura, and without the aid of a cup (which is used by all persons), is thoroughly appreciated and generally commended.

The national flag was displayed and waved from the steel flagpole which fronts the main building from sunrise until sunset on May 12, in observance of the nineteenth anniversary of the dedication and opening of the Union Printers Home in May, 1892.

Phil Corcoran, the efficient librarian of the Home institution, when questioned by your correspondent concerning the present status of the department under his control, told the following story of his stewardship: "The latest book recorded in the library accession is numbered 9546. A count of the books marked 'stored' is 1,565 in number. Subtracting the stored from the accession 7,981 are visible in the sectional cases. Quite a number of the books in storage are duplicates, state documents and other printed matter with no present day value, and therefore laid aside for the purpose of giving space to volumes of up-to-date literature. Not more than 41 per cent. of the books come under the classification of fiction and is amply sufficient for those who indulge in nothing deeper. About 85 per cent. of the books loaned daily are those of fiction.

"The Home library, according to the opinion expressed by scholarly visitors, has a greater diversity of sound literature than any institution in the west, with the possible exception of the Berkeley University, in California.

"Compiling and classifying the books of the library covered 445 pages of manuscript. This work has been turned in to the office of the superintendent, who will have four typewritten copies made for the use of those having access to the library. Besides giving a broader conception to the volumes in this department, the book-seeker easily finds the volume of which he is in quest and notifies the librarian-he only being permitted to remove from or return books to their cases. The catalog gives the title of the book, author, case, number, and name of donor (if such be inscribed in the volume), and all in alphabetical arrange

ment.

"In the front rank of donors to the library with the collection of books owned by the late Amos J. Cummings, numbering 800, and presented to the library by his widow, is B. Frank Swigart, of St. Louis, an honored member of the International