youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. John S. English died September 2....H. E. C. Ahrens, Walter Wren and John Hughes, of the American-Examiner adroom, are back from their vacations.... Secretary W. R. Miller has been resting from his labors for a few days, visiting in Michigan.... E. E. Pratt is again at his desk in the Examiner proofroom, after spending the summer in Michigan recuperating his health....W. C. Phillips, of the Peterson chapel, is wearing "the smile that won't come off." His family is in town....W. J. Callahan, recently of the American-Examiner adroom, has formed a partnership with Mr. Coombs in the job printing business, the firm name being Callahan & Coombs. Their office is located in the Pontiac building....Joseph O'Connor, an old age pensioner, died during the second week in September. .... Ex-President Colbert is taking a rest and getting acquainted again with his oldtime friends in Chicago....J. Wesley Marsh, from the big printery in Washington, was visiting with relatives and friends the past few weeks.... Fred LaForge has moved into his new home in West Irving Park. ....C. A. Mueller was visiting his old stamping ground around Pittsburg for a few days....E. E. Pleins, of the Record-Herald adroom, was among those enjoying a vacation the past month.... Charley Stewart, better known by oldtimers around Chicago as "Scotty," is back from a few weeks' rest in Hamilton, Canada, where he was visiting his sister....George Hesse is taking in the sights of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle.

William H. Shaler and bride, of Memphis, spent their honeymoon in Chicago. Mr. Shaler was a former member of No. 16, being employed as machinist on the Daily News some years ago. Joe Jessup has been laid up at his home for a long time with curvature of the spine. Joe is one of the best known printers in the jurisdiction of the International Typographical Union, and a number of years ago took an active part in the affairs of No. 16, serving as recording secretary in 1885-6 and as delegate in 1887. For a number of years Joe has been engaged in the prominent thirstquenching resorts about town, where his friends always found a hearty welcome.

The Typo Athletic Association, after a week's rest from the arduous labors of entertaining the visiting baseball fans, is again busy getting ready for the trip to Washington next year. The pool is running full blast, and numerous schemes are in the course of incubation among the Chicago printer fans for making the trip. If one-tenth of our members go who have signified their intention of seeing the national capital next August, Chicago will be represented about one hundred and fifty strong. We've all got the "bug."

One of the most interesting bits of news in the September JOURNAL is to be found on page 44 of the supplement, under the caption of "Benefits Versus Receipts." It is there shown that 60.4 per cent of the receipts of the International Typographical Union is paid out in benefits to the membership. 'Nuff sed. CHARLES L. COLMAN.

UTICA, N. Y.

After an illness of about four years, during which time he was an inmate of St. Elizabeth's Home, George W. Mandeville died, September 2, from the effects of a series of paralytic shocks, the first of which he received at the commencement of his illness. Mr. Mandeville was one of the best-known and personally popular printers in the city. He had been employed at the work for nearly forty years, learning his trade on the old Utica Morning Herald, and in 1882 going to the Press, where he was an appreciated employe until illness compelled him to retire in 1903. He was born in Utica, December 25, 1850, and had always made his home in this city. The funeral services were largely attended, members of the union being present in a body. The floral pieces included a scroll from the typographical union, a harp surmounted by a dove from employes of the Press, and several wreaths and plaques from personal friends. President Kelly was more than pleased with the appearance of the printers when escorting their fellow craftsman's remains. The service, conducted by George H. Perry, was both dignified and impressive, and the selections sung by William Timmermann were appropriate and pleasing.

There is a movement on foot by the members of No. 62 to organize a double quartet. There are plenty of good voices to select from, and their services would be very acceptable on many an occasion.

The Herald-Dispatch chapel gave a clambake September 12, which was largely attended.

Sunday evening, September 6, a delegation from the Utica Trades Assembly attended religious services at St. Luke's Church in honor of Labor day. Rev. A. L. Bryan-Curtiss preached a sermon from Nehemiah v, 3, "Some also there were that said,

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have mortgaged our lands, vineyards and houses." He said, in part:

This was the complaint of some poverty stricken people in Bible times. The appeal of the poor debtors was just and reasonable, for the law of Moses forbade the charging of interest on loans, and provided that the people should never be divorced from the land. The extremes of poverty and riches today are largely due to this fact-that the principles of religion and of Christ are lost sight of. With the fall of the feudal system the moral bond that then existed between master and serf attached to the land was severed. Today the industrial master has no responsibility beyond that of passing out the pay envelops on pay day.

The trade unions, however, present a step in advance, and a practical one-that of an understanding and agreement between worker and employer. The workingman, dispossessed not only of the land, but also of the very tools of employment, becomes only a "hand" in a factory and a wage slave in the economy of modern industrialism. His protest against intolerable conditions, against political servitude, of economic slavery, is only a just cry to heaven, with the eternal principles of God for a foundation and the principles of the Christian religion for a justification. It is most difficult for one who has not gone to work since childhood, by the whistle and factory bell, to understand the viewpoint of the workingman. Those who object to unionism will generally be found to be either those who never worked thus, or, having begun life as a toiler and gotten above it, wish to forget it. To

ward this movement of the workers the church has been slow to recognize and bless. But the church moves slowly; it took 400 years to formulate the Christian symbols of the creed. Yet whenever human rights have been squarely drawn the church has not hesitated. P. E. JONES.

CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Preston McGoodwin, managing editor of the Commercial Tribune, on Sunday, September 5, devoted over a half page of the issue to a descriptive article on the Home. It was illustrated with a three-column group of halftones, composed of pictures of President Lynch, Secretary-Treasurer Hays, Trustee Crowley, picture of the main building and one of the tented field. It is the first article of any size in regard to the Home used in this city.

That harmony is rampant in the ranks of the allied printing trades in this city was strikingly demonstrated on Labor day. The members of the different unions of the council fell in behind "Smitties' " band to the number of over 1,000. and were greeted along the line by the cheers of the spectators. Your Cincinnati correspondent is confident that before long he will be able to put before the readers of THE JOURNAL Some of the good results from the feeling now existing among the trades.

The label committee of No. 3 still has a supply of stickers on hand, and will be glad to have the members hand in printed matter to be returned.

This item from the news columns of the daily press would indicate that one unfair office has been having a "lively" time, even if it was not busy with work: "Neighbors noticed smoke issuing from the windows of the Ohio Valley Printing Company's plant, in Baker alley, between Race and Elm streets, yesterday afternoon and notified the fire tower. Engine Company No. 3 responded, and found that the plant was being fumigated by burning sulphur."

Ben L. Mullick, who has been an inmate of the Union Printers Home for a while, has returned to Cincinnati. He is greatly improved in health.

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The baseball club of No. 3 held a well-attended and enthusiastic meeting on September 19, which plans for the tournament next year in Washington were discussed at length and the affairs of the past year cleaned up. Many letters were received from New York, Boston and Philadelphia, thanking the local members for the magnificent time they had while in Cincinnati on their way home from Chicago. The local members are delighted that their little spread took so well, and desire the writer to express the thanks of the local club for the commendations they received. club got down to business by re-electing Michael Maloney president and William Finlay secretary. George Schmeig, who has served the club for two years as treasurer, declined re-election, and Tommy Maddox was elected to look after the coin for the ensuing term. John M. Dugan was elected manager of the club, and will endeavor to gather together as good a team as he had in the trade

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union league a few years ago, when he lost the pennant by two games. The club will give a series of entertainments during the winter, and hopes, with the assistance of the general membership of the union, to have a social season that will be thoroughly enjoyed by the members and their la dies. It has been some time since local members have gotten together socially, and the visit of the eastern delegation of printer baseball enthusiasts to this city has awakened a desire among the local members to enjoy as good a time as our eastern brothers and their ladies. Looks like there will be something doing this winter, all right.

Trustee W. J. White, who was a delegate to the St. Joseph convention, was in the Queen City on a visit. He left in company with Trustee Thomas F. Crowley, of Cincinnati, to attend the meeting of the board of trustees held last month at Colorado Springs.

Sunday, September 19, was certainly a "red letter" day for the bowlers of this city. It was the opening of the second season for the league, and a large crowd of bowlers and their invited guests assembled to attend the inauguration of the season, participate in the hospitality of "Jimmy" Collins and see the two series of games between the Enquirer and Mailers, and the Commercial Tribune and Roessler Brothers. The affair certainly was as fine an opening as any bowling league has ever experienced, and marks the season in a way that leads one to expect some very fine bowling. Secretary Charles Wolf, of the Cincinnati bowlers, would like to correspond with the secretaries of the printer bowling leagues of other cities, with the view of holding an international tournament in some city at the end of the season. Secretaries are asked to address him at 420-422 Elm street. The following eight teams compose the league: Enquirer, Captain J. Mackle; Roessler, Captain M. Nicols; Mailers, Captain L. Querner; Commercial Tribune, Captain W. Hand; Stereotypers, Captain J. Randeyls; Monforts, Captain C. Wolf; TimesStar, Captain W. Finlay; Baseball Club, Captain Ledwick. "Strikes," "spares" and "poodles" will be the favorite topic of conversation with the members from now until spring. During the afternoon two pleasant surprises were sprung, the first being the presentation of a massive silver cup to the league by "Jimmy" Collins, the proprietor of the alleys, and this was followed by the presentation of a silver cup by the genial Harry Granger. Both cups will be placed on exhibition in some of the prominent downtown store windows.

Wow! "There's a reason!" Some one has had the audacity to "post-um" sticker on "the road to wellville" and send 'em back to Battle Creek, Hence the latest screed of the breakfast food (?) maker of the Michigan city has given the label campaign of the International a large amount of advertising. Hope that whoever sent them back was not guilty of buying any of the so-called foodstuff.

President Lynch, in his report to the convention, takes a stand that no doubt meets with an answering amen in the minds of the members, when he advocates a permanent convention city on the

grounds of business and economy. There is no need for the constant increase in the amount of money taken to entertain the convention, and it looks like a shame for a local to spend almost as much for the week's entertainment as the running expenses of the union amount to for a year.

Arrivals-Ralph Hathaway, Harry W. Smith, Al F. Hayne, A. H. Pratt, Warren A. Omohundro, J. C. Wiseman, G. S. L. Deming, Charles W. Freckman, Allen G. Oakley, H. L. Wilson, Victor M. Giffin. Departures-F. W. O'Connor, Taylor Treece, A. W. Ruthman, Harry C. Saffin, Al F. Hayne, A. H. Pratt, G. S. L. Deming.

C. V. WAGNER.

ST. LOUIS, MO.

The postal clerks held their convention in St. Louis the first week in September, and President Hertenstein addressed them on the subject of the Butterick publications. They were already well informed on the matter, but learned something new, and promised to profit by the knowledge.

Mr. G.-Nuts Post had another screed (paid for at advertising rates) in the St. Louis papers lately -of course, aimed at labor unions. From the tenor of it, he has been getting back too much of his advertising matter with the label sticker thereon. There's a reason.

President Hertenstein, Secretary Sharpe and Messrs. Clark, Negele, Sawtell, McKenzie and Campbell represented us at the state federation of labor in Joplin, September 20 to 24.

The allied printing trades council is considering the advisability of acquiring complete ownership of the Printing Trades Magazine, its official organ, and if this is done, several improvements will be made.

The "one-man shop" law has been put back on the books of the allied printing trades council, and now a one-man office must not accept work requiring the label that can not be done in the shop.

No. 8 made only a fair showing in the Labor day parade-190 men being in line. This is not as many as there should have been. If we parade at all we should have at least 500 men in line.

The Women's Trade Union League had a tallyho and nicely decorated float in the Labor day parade. The officers of the league and some members of the woman's auxiliary were in the tallyho.

The union's Labor day picnic, which is looked upon as a fixture, was somewhat marred by a cold rain in the afternoon, but nevertheless those present had a good time dancing, eating and listening to the music. The races were run between showers, and the remark of one small boy after getting his prize describes all the prizes. He said: "Gee, but ain't that a peach?"

Ten new linotypes have been ordered for the Post-Dispatch composing room for ads and heads, to take the place of eight old ones. A typecaster, electric proof press and a web perfecting press will also be installed.

The Republic has replaced the old case stands in the adroom with up-to-date cabinets and in

stalled tungsten lights throughout. This paper always had the best-running machines in town, and now with these changes the Republic has almost an ideal office.

Several changes have been made in the PostDispatch composing room force. Gordon S. Servant has switched from the copycutter's desk to makeup editor and copyreader; Louis Groll, who has been making up, now cuts the copy; John McLaughlin is on the makeup and Al Votruba on the correcting bank.

John Quan says Chicago is too slow and he has come back to "Old St. Louie."

Manager Ed Springmeyer, after the trip to Chicago with the ball team, is now laying plans for the 1910 baseball tournament. He understands his business and is known as the Hughie Jennings of the printers' baseball league.

The Mendle Printing Company has moved to better quarters at 411 North Eighth street. Mr. Florett, who had charge at Meyerson's for several years, is overseeing the mechanical end of the business.

The supplemental trades education committee, composed of J. J. Dirks, Louis Fuchs and Richard Knight, is booming the course among the conditional members. No. 8 pays $5 on the course for each conditional member taking it.

Perrin & Smith have been doing business under difficulties pending the settlement of their insurance claims, but they took care of all their customers just the same.

Benjamin F. Baker, of New York, aged 37 years, died at the city hospital of phthisis and was buried by the union. He had only been here about six

months.

Charles Roloff, aged 38 years, died of heat prostration and fractured skull received in the fall at the time of being overcome. He had been a member of the union about eighteen years and was for several years prominent in the labor movement here. At one time he was secretary of the central trades and labor union and had been a member of the executive committee of No. 8.

The Hub Printing Company and Matlack Printing Company, both one-man shops, and the Web

ster Groves Printing Company, employing two men, have been unionized and will use the label. L. W. Petty, who has worked for the Zimmerman-Picard Typesetting Company for several years, has bought out the Picard interest in the business. The Picards will engage in other work.

The job scale committee, appointed by President Hertenstein, is as follows: Charles Hertenstein, chairman; J. A. Jackson, S. E. Crane (linotype), Frank Benjamin (monotype), Joseph A. Aude, R. C. Colishaw, D. W. Davis. The first two are the only newspaper men on the committee, the balance being job men.

President Lynch, Secretary-Treasurer Hays and Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Shepard stopped over in St. Louis, September 18, while on their way home from the meeting of the board of trustees of the Union Printers Home. They were entertained while here by President Hertenstein. STANLEY E. CRANE.

DENVER, COLO.

The United States postoffice department is still persistent in sending out circulars relative to the furnishing of one and two-cent stamped envelops, with printed business card thereon. The latest one handed the writer contains a price list of the envelops the government will furnish stamped and printed. In this list we notice you can get 1,000 two-cent envelops of the regular business size (No. 61⁄2 xxx rag) printed and delivered by your postmaster for $21.24, or 500 of the same quality for $10.62! Or you can get the same grade envelop with a one-cent stamp thereon and printed for $11.24 per 1,000, or $5.62 for 500. Of

seems feasible, provided the membership desires to pay the additional monthly per capita which will be necessary to float the new amounts to be paid. The gradations of the benefits are quite conservative, but those members who will be most affected by the new law will be between the ages of 20 and 45 years. In reading our International secretary's report to the convention and to the membership at large, I was much impressed with his tabulated statement concerning the mortuary benefits we have paid since their inauguration in 1892 to May 31, 1909. His table states that the benefits paid numbered 8,236, and the ages ranged from 16 to 95 years. In looking over the table I noticed

a verity, looks as though the job printer is strictly brought into competition with the government in the printing industry. Deducting the $20 to cover the two-cent stamps, you can get 1,000 first-class white or amber envelops from Uncle Sam, with your business card printed thereon, for $1.24! Ye gods! Where will the owner of a job plant finally land with such prices? It looks to us as though the third assistant postmaster-general at Washington needs another "interview" from our executive council. The correspondence had with him about a year ago seems to have proved of no avail.

Our membership will be given the opportunity to vote upon the new mortuary benefit law next February. Looking at the law at this time, it

that of the 8,236 benefits paid, 5,697 of them were between the ages of 20 to 50 years, and summing them up in five-year gradations, these figures were found: Deaths at 25 years, 157; at 30 years, 244; at 35 years, 296 (the largest of the entire list); at 40 years, 270; at 45 years, 206, and at 50 years, 180. The thought struck me quite forcibly that our death rate among the younger membership is keeping at the high-water mark, as the death rate has been larger each year among those between 25 and 40 years. Are our sanitary conditions in the printing offices so very bad as to cause so many deaths among the ages mentioned, or what are the causes to be attributed to? Of the sum total of deaths, over two-thirds occurred between 20 and 50 years, while the remainder were be

tween 50 and 95 years. Surely we need to thoroughly investigate the health conditions and surroundings of our membership.

In the September number of THE JOURNAL the editor had a pleasing article upon the topic, "Our Union and Our Employers," relating to the "contractual bond of amity, peace and good-will" that governs the industry in which we are employed, so far as it includes the great newspapers of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, and he emphasizes his article by publishing the speeches given by President Lynch and H. N. Kellogg, commissioner of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, at the recent convention held in St. Joseph. This same friendly condition is gradually getting a foothold in the job printing offices throughout the country, and in no less a place than Denver is this spirit of friendliness between employer and employe becoming manifest. In my last letter to THE JOURNAL, I mentioned the annual picnic given by the Smith-Brooks chapel, in which the proprietors took a leading part. Since their outing occurred two others of the same class have been "handled" by the Williamson-Hoffner Engraving Company and the W. H. Kistler Stationery Company, in which the proprietors were generous participants in the festivities. The outing of the Kistler chapel occurred August 21 at Dome Rock, in Platte canon, and was styled Kistler's "kinderspiel." A neat program of ten pages was issued by the chapel, and was filled with humorous sketches and witty sayings concerning its members. The following little verse appeared at the head of the program, viz.:

Uncork the jug of joyfulness and limber up your lungs,

An' stretch your rubber necks a bit, an' exercise your tongues;

Let out the wild Comanche whoop, an' make it good an' loud,

We've got to show the tenderfoot that this is Kistler's kroud.

Refreshments and prizes were furnished by the Kistler company. There were five prizes for the men and the same number for the women. A dance program of eleven numbers was also a part of the day's outing. About 200 people were in attendance.

mer resorts.

The Williamson-Hoffner Engraving Company chapel held its outing on August 28, at Pine Crest, near Palmer Lake, one of Colorado's famous sumWhile the weather conditions were bad, rain having fallen for two days just prior to the picnic, the afternoon cleared and a very pleasant time was enjoyed by all who attended. In each instance the proprietors lent their generous assistance and financial support. If we had more of these outings among the chapels, a greater friendly relation between employer and employe would result.

Sidney Eastwood has purchased the former Reed Publishing Company printing plant, and consolidated it with his plant on Tremont street and otherwise enlarged his office. He was one of our former energetic and zealous workers in the ranks.

Frank C. White, of the Robinson chapel, has taken a respite from job printing labor and is now

gathering luscious peaches off his fruit ranch near Hotchkiss, Colo. He reports a fair crop this year. The frost nipped his orchard the past three years.

Labor day celebrations in Denver were divided this year, a portion going to Pueblo, where the governor addressed the labor masses, while the portion going to Eldorado Springs was addressed by some of the labor leaders of the American Federation of Labor. Large crowds were in attendance at both celebrations.

Resolutions of condolence and respect, anent the death of W. H. Montgomery, were adopted at Our regular September meeting, and ordered printed in the October JoURNAL.

A special meeting was held September 12 to adjust some grievances existing in the Post chapel, and at this writing the labor atmosphere is clearing up to a satisfactory solution.

WILL H. HEDLEY.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.

There will be many a pleasant surprise for those who attend the minstrel performances to be given by Typographical Union No. 1, November 9 and 10. A committee, consisting of William J. Spires, R. E. Darnaby, Edward J. Hecker, William A. Cummings and B. F. Whitaker, are laboring unceasingly to make the affair an artistic and financial success. The entertainment will be given at the German House.

The printers' showing in the Labor day parade was very creditable. The day was ideal for marching, and the way that old veteran, Roll Irwin, carried the flag would have done your heart good to gaze upon. At the conclusion of the parade, the members marched to the hall and gave a rousing reception to Joseph P. Turk, a member of No. 1, who is a candidate for city clerk on the democratic ticket. William Pierce, who failed of nomination for the same office on the republican ticket, was also remembered.

Many printers and their families took advantage of the annual picnic given by the woman's auxil iary at Brookside Park on the afternoon of Labor day. The feature of the event was the big table full of good things to eat.

The September meeting was the largest and most enthusiastic held in months. The report of the label committee, regarding local conditions, was received and the good work commended. A committee will be selected by the president to confer with the publishers' association, looking to a readjustment of the newspaper scale, beginning with January 1, 1910. The delegates' report of the proceedings of the St. Joseph convention was well received.

James Tole, president of New York Union No. 6, stopped a few days recently, en route home from a western tour. Miss Anna Wilson, of Washington, D. C., was also a visitor during September.

Robert H. Myers, for many years assistant foreman of the Sentinel composing room, died September 11, at Tacoma, Wash., where he went for the benefit of his health, which failed him about a year ago. For several years he had been engaged