The Daily Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 227, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1908 Page: 2 of 4
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as second class matter February 24,
1906, at the postoffice at Orange, Texas,
under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE:
month.............................50
$6.00
Per year
REDUCING FIRE RISKS
■
A most interesting and timely article recently
appeared in the Insurance Post under the cap-
tion “Label the Fire Traps.” In tlijs article
it is proposed that inasmuch as the United
States government has exercised its authority
by enacting a pure food and drugs act, requir-
ing all food products and drugs to be properly
labeled in order that we may know exactly
what we are getting when we buy them, it
should now go a step further aud pass an enact-
ment requiring all buildings to be properly la-
beled, over each entrance being affixed a sign
reading “Fire-proof,” “Slow-burning.” “Or-
dinary,” or “Dangerous,” according to the
condition of the building.
Continuing, the article says: “The number
of tenants and the amount of rents the “dan-
gerous” landlords could get ca^*feasily be imag-
ined, and the tlieory is that this would not only
protect the public, which is often sadly deceiv
ed by outside appearances, but would encourage
the demolition of the old fire traps and the con-
struction of fire resistive buildings.”
Discussing the legality of such an enactment,
the Insurance Post says: “It is legal as well
as practical. Food manufacturers at first saic
they could not be compelled to label their
wares, or disclose their ingredients, but the law
stood the test, and they were. They said
should not apply to goods on hand, just as
building owners may urge that it should only
apply to new structures, but the canners were
compelled to stamp the date of manufacture on
all their old stock and let it be sold for what it
was. Wise laws make it compulsory to hang
out red flags where there is smalljwx and rei
lanterns where there is danger. Label the
places where the Red Plague of Fire lurks, warn
the unsuspecting public of a risk against which
he is entitled to protection, and life and prop
erty will Iks safeguarded and the. fire huzari
will be immeasurably reduced.”
There is a world of good sense in the argu-
ments advanced above and we see no good reas
on why such a law should not be passed.
It would certainly result in a better class o:
buildings being erected, and the demolition of
old fire traps with which every city in the
country, and Orange is no exception, is infested.
Many of these fire traps now bring in gooi
revenue because they can always be rented
people who are looking for something cheaper
than the first class buildings rent for. If they
were labeled fire traps, though, tenants wouk
not want them because, even though they got
them for cheap rent, customers would not pa-
tronize them.
There are fire traps in Orange today that
stand simply t hrough the mercy of the Creator
Some day, though, they are going to burn an<
when they do Orange is going to suffer a loss
of other property'feat is really valuable.
The press of the country should unite with
the Insurance Post in a demand for the enact
ment of such a law as proposed. It would be
a good thing for the entire country.
A STORE THAT IS NOT WORTH
ADVERTISING
hg,’’ it would be more commendable to close
up entirely than to try to “sell” it to somebody
ese.
... m-—
The Orange Leader is of the opinion that if
Port Arthur is going to charge wharfage for
the entire canal from Port Arthur to the Neches
river, the harbor master is due to be a very
jusy person. There is, however, a very large
question as to the right of the city to collect
wharfage charges, at least on cargoes landed
in the park. The city^ of course, has the right
to charge for the use of the wharf which it built,
hut as the city had nothing to do with the lake
shore canal, save to concur in a grant of right
of way 16 the U. S. government, it is not clear
wherein any right vests iti the city to charge
a toll for the use of the waterfront.—Port Ar-
thur News.
That’s all right, Stump. Let them go ahead
and collect all the wharfage and harbor dues
they want to. The more they charge, the more
msiness will be sent up the river to * )range
and we want all the river business we can get.
Wild rabbits have begun to appear in the
streets of I^ake Charles, according to the Am-
erican of that city. Now, if the rabbits had
waited to make their apjiearance until a few
days after the first of January, Krebs would
lave had a magnificent argument against the
evil effects of the prohibition law, which was
so rapidly killing the town that it was becom-
ing the habitat of wild animals. But the rah
bits came too soon. However, bigger game may
appear later and tigers he found in abundance
in and around Lake Charles.
A writer with a gift for phrasing once wrote
“If your store is not worth advertising, adver
tise it for sale.” His phrase runs trippingly,
but bis logic halts.
To sell a store that is “not worth advertis
ing’> would be to defraud the buyer—so tliat
the advice is ethically unsound.
Of course there are not many stores that are
not worth advertising—in this city, perhaps,
none at all. The fact is that no store ever gets
to be worth very much—beyond the mere open
market value of stock and fixtures—until it has
been adequately advertised. Until then it has
exerted no influence as an organization, equipp-
ed f*r useful service to the people. It has sim-
been a place where certain things were
for sale.
it has had the breath of life put into
advertising it becomes a store, in the
CRUSADE
ON OPIUM
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
AT SHANGHAI HAS MANY DIS-
TINGUISHED DELEGATES
The crowd that literally packed and jammed
the Orange theater to the doors last night is
a pretty good indication that people will pu
tronize a first class production that plays to
|>opular prices. Fact is, the number of people
who can afford to pay $1.50 for seats in the
theater are limited, especially when, as a rule,
they see.no better acting than they saw last
night when the Chase-Lister company moved
From their tent to the theater.
First Ford kicked because a pile driver am
a dredge made so much noise that he couldn’t
think. And now that the pile driver and dredge
have been taken away he is kicking on account
of the desolate outlook from his window. Evi-
dently Christmas was not to Arthur’s liking.
—Port Arthur News.
Oh, no, Christmas was all right. It’s the
after Christmas that’s all wrong. But we’l
get over it, never fear.
It’s mighty disquieting to have to sit in vour
office and see one of your debtors taking in a
,ot of money every day, but steadfastly refusing
to pay the bill owed to the newspaper, ant
know that your hands are absolutely tied anc
you can’t help yourself. Orange needs that
•redit bureau of the Merchants’ Association
.nighty bad and the Leader would like to set
it put into operation, for it will affect some
business houses about as much as it will the
consumers.
The many friends of A. S. Johnson, superin
tendent of the Texas & New Orleans railroad
will l>e delighted to learn that his condition
is now showing an improvement and the
-hances are favorable for his recovery from the
very serious illness with which he has been
confined to the hospital in Houston for some
time.
The closing days of the old year have been
made conspicuous by the addition to the sub
scription list of the Daily Leader of a gratify
ing number of new names, thus evidencing that
there are a number of good citizens in Orangi
who have determined to turn over a new leaf
and show their loyalty to the town by support
ing the local daily. By the way, that’s a mighty
good resolve for several score more to make.
The wife of a man in Shreveport attended a
performance of “The Devil,” in company with
a saloon keeper (very appropriate, by the way i
and her husband objected to it by scrapping
with the saloon keeper and lost his life for his
pains, being shot to death. If women just must
go to “The Devil” without their husbands,
they ought to go alone, then they’d cause less
trouble. __
“At one time a sure way of getting your cut
in the paper was by getting cured of catarrh
Today it is only necessary to have Roosevelt
call you a liar,” says the Allentown Call. Even
that’s getting so common now, though, it is
hardly worth a photograph.
“There’s no denying that the first pay day
after Christmas is the most welcome one of
the year,” says the Galveston Tribune. That
depends on whether or not you are the one that
is doing the plying.
LARGE IMPORTATION
Capudlne for "That Headache.”
Out last night? Headache and ner-
rou# this morning? Hleks’ Capudlne
Just the thing to fit you for business.
Clears the head—braces the nerves.
Try It. At drug stores.
Declared Importation of Drug Into
United States Has Had Steady In-
crease Since 1873—Million Pound*
Within the Paet Five Years.
New Chanoellor.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 31.—Dr. E.
Benjamin Andrews, chancellor of the
University of Nebraska, will retire
from that position today and will he
succeeded by Dr. Samuel Avery as
acting chancellor. Dr. Avery will
likely become permanent chancellor
if his administration Is satisfactory
Dr. Andrews, the retiring chancellor,
Is one Of the best known educators in
the couutry.
Shanghai, Dec. 21.—Distinguished
delegates from many nations are here
today to take part In the Internation-
al conference at which the powers are
to fix upon the details for the cessa-
tion of the cultivation of opium within
their territories In order to assist
China in the suppression of the use
of opium among the Chinese people.
The Chinese delegates are practical,
English-speaking men, one of them
being an ex-consul general at Hlnga
pore, one a doctor educated abroad,
and one a railway director well quali-
fied to undertake preparatory work.
It is expected that the Chinese gov-
ernment will hereafier be represented
by an official of high rank, propor-
tionate to the importance of this na-
tional question.
Missionary doctors continue to re-
port a large Increase in the sale of
anti-opium remedies, which, contain-
ing morphia, produce results worse
than opium smoking It is evidently
desirable that effective measures
should be taken by the Chinese gov-
ernment to prevent the illicit impor-
tation and sale of morphia, and es-
pecially Is It desirable that Japan, fol-
lowing the example of other nations,
should prohibit the expoft of morphia
to China.
Prohibition drives men and women
to the use of cocaine, morphine, opium
and other drags, according to Dr.
Hamilton E. Wright, one of the three
United State* commissioners to the
International Opium Congress.
Dr. Wright declares he has found
the drug habit to be advanced fur-
ther in those states having strict an-
ti-liquor laws, while In the "wet”
states the reverse is the ease.
Dr. Wright said that contrary to
the general belief, the Chinese users
of the drug aud the opium eaters both
are anxious 'to Ve th* law enforced
a« to its sale, while the Chinese
"pipers" are strong advocates of total
abstinence from the drug for the ris
lug generation. His in format Ion as
to lhe white users of opium is not as
definite on account of the greater dif-
ficulty in locating theta. .
Dr. Wright declares there has been j
a steady increase in Importation of j
opium Into the United State* since j
1873, though there was a larger Chi-
nese population then than now arid
the laws against Its Importation were
not so severe.
The Importation of the crude pro-
duct In the past five years has in-
creased 1,000,000 pounds; he says
The Chinese physicians, ho declares,
are leaders in the effort to find a cure
for the opium habit. They are now
using a cure discovered not long ago
in Shanghai and they claim for it
success. The new curt* la being tested
officially in New York.
Dr Wright's etudle* have developed
that fitly per cent of the Chinese in
the United State*, habitually u*e the
drug, 30 per rent occasionally, nearly
20 per cent on rare occasion* and a
few refrain from It* us. Seventy-fir*
per cent of the opium brought into
the United States is made Into mor-
phine and 90 per cent of that drag i*
sold Illicitly, according to Dr. Wright
New Orleans, Deo. 31.—-That liquor
cannot be sold to white* and negroes
in the same building is the principal
provision of the Oay-8hattuck liquor
law which goc* into effect in Louisi-
ana tomorrow.
JOHN E. HOGG
Contractor and Builder
Ginikal Kipais Shop
let mt Make Yw Sash, Doers mi WHNtew
*1 CAW DO TOU» JOB WKXT ’
see d. JHorison
Place your property In hi* hands for
Hale or Kent £He I* agant for on* of
the best Insurance Companies la the
United State*.
FOR THE BEST SERVICE
GO TO THE
cottage Market
NEW PHONE 06
They are the best equipped
and they know best what you
want. They handle the most
up-to-date in the mar ket line.
CHRISTMAS IS OVER BUT YOU'VE STM GOT
TO EAT
The New Year it coming and we have already made our reso-
lution. We have resolved to give our customers the very best
possible service in the way of GOOD GOODS, reasonable
prices and prompt service. You had better resolve to to give
us a chance at your patronage and
“PHONE US FOR 6000 THINGS TO EAT”
FORD & SEASTRUNK
OLD PHONE 131 .Iff flSIE »»»
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ESTABLISHED 1M6.
* I nn nrwk Art Departed,with the Insurance Depart-
3> 1UU ,UUU Ult ment of the Btgtg of Indiana for the
pi .,, ',lggg protection of all Policy holders, re-
gardless of th* Stats In which animal* "»«y be located.
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE
INDIANA AND OHIO LIVE STOCK INSURANCE COMPANY
Of Crawfordavitla. Indiana
JANUARY 1, 1908
-Aggregate amount of admitted Asset* ..................1220,997.13
Aggregate amount of liabilities (except CapiUl) ........ **<5itg
Net Assets'.............,......................$134.038 95
Amount of Capital Paid In Cash-..--................■••'•
Surplus ....................................... 34,638.95
Surplus to Policy Holder* .............................$134,638.95
MALONE A LOVE
WC ARE BOLE AGENT* FOR ORANGE COUNTY
VAUDETTE THEATRE
TONIGHT** PROGRAM i
• THE KENTUCKIAN," or "The Squ»w Man"
’SWISS 4U’9" “A SECOND HAND CAMERA"
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Bssaa
Launch Doman
Si HO. WOLFFOAD, Master
Will make regular trip* Orange to
Port Arthur and Return, every Tues-
day and Saturday, leaving Orange at
8 a. m. and Port Arthur at 4 p. m.
FARE ROUND TRIP, »U».
Will take out excursions or (mating
parties at any time. For particular*
call New Phone No. 343
Sunset Specials.
The Sunset Route amiouoee# the
usual holiday rates, One and one-third
fare a round trip, to all points in
Texas and to point* in Louisiana west
of the Mississippi river, Including
New Orleans. Tickets to points In
Texas will be on sale December 18
to 26, Inclusive, December 31, 1908,
and January 1, 1905*. to point* In
Ixiulxlana December 22 to 25. Inclus-
ive. December SOL 31. 1908, and Jan-
uary 1, 1909, except that ticket* will
be on sale to New tjrleens on De-
cember 18th, 20lh, and 21*t. Final
limit of tickets, January 6, 1909. ex-
cept that ticket* sold to New Orleans
on December 19, 20 and 21 will be
limited to January 17. 1909. 17-tf
MAKING GOOD PROGRESS
Orange &
Northwestern
Railroad
Niftfc M Trail (livtt
it 12:41 fm m.
CUm* connection it Maurkc
Tor Beaumont and Houston
an«i other points wrtf an«i
Tor THrQumcey, Crowley and
other point* cant.
G. W. WINTER, G.P. A.
ORANGE, TINAS
THE FIRST OF THE YEAR
the hlo**o*n of the (amity thould
have a bath Be sure though the
appurtenance, are strictly proper.
If your plumbing n bad, cut M
out II the both tub is * dugrac*
to the bathroom throw it sway.
Bsth tub. tot 11*00 sold hen
arr hi to bathe the daintiest ere*
turv m. sod tre alike hi lor tbs
noblest notdrwr Fat bsth tubs
anil perfection in plumbing, come
here.
W. E. McCorquodale
•*
PlumbinU And Tinning
&PEFCT
IEACHERS
j.”irrTRHAUi
m SKKBT
P/V Farmer
nc " as-
Jr Arm
CMRLUH.
AN0. Tm> I.-TIMB
f REPORT*** ETC.
COMING SCHI
‘ UCVK CAHMVt
The Allentown Call’s egg nog must have
come high this year. Listen to the wail of Bud
Weiser: “Any man can get the reputation of
t sense—intent upon winning friends, being a millionaire these days by going into a
the problems of growth. grocery store and buying a dozen eggs.
dullest store in this eit> can be rejwve --
month until! it finds a place in the
-bat ONLY through advertising. If,
Fourteen years in the peniteniary was the
‘ out by the court to
Brick Week on New Laustn Building
Rapidly Nearing Completion.
Contractor* at work on the new
Lausr-u building, which will he occu- j
plod by Crager1* Specialty Store j
when completed, are making good pro- j
gross on the bandname brick front,
and that *eetkm of the building Will
soon be finished.
NOTICE
I* hereby given that the regular an-
nual meeting of the stockholders of
the First National Bank of Orange,
Texas, will be held at the bank on
Tuesday, January '12th, 1999, between
the hour* of 18 a. m and 12 o’clock
m., fat the purpoee oT electing direc-
tors for the
Opera House
Tonight
CHASE-LISTER
THEATRE CO.
PRESENTING
THE AULD LANG SYNE
NEW YEARS HATINEE FRIDAY
AT 3 P. M.
PrcMttfli Mr Stwitkiil NtW4rMu
«• tar Acts Irtltki
W E A VEIft ’ & SON
SHIP CARPENTERS AND BOAT BUILDER8
Wt build sod ispetr Lsuache* at all sues,
are located between the Lute bet It Moot*
facilities in the South for gtttmg lumber
YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED.
t
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Company'■ two mills,' Bee*
New These 175.
C. A. Russell fresbfralts,VeoetjBles
fish and Oysters
CM No rime 545
Drayage aal Geaerai freifM
Heavy Float* and Good Team*
Ian aH fmrttare Mar»«|
a Sfeciaftv
J. A. McCRORV, PropT
Martel OptM III 10 A. AL Mart
Deiigfctfil Octal Trips
NEW YORM
NET WEST
HAVANA
MALLORY LINE
•ailing* and 1 «*crealtor**, call
on ticket agent or write
J. * DENfgOB. —ryrtl Agent,
tut Strand. Galveston. *
Ask tor 48 ptgt Mallory Line Folder
eiiieiey*
UK snr MM W.
M. J. CARNAL
can be hauled out and repaired
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Caahlei
"THE BUCK H*WK HP I
A. O. McLEAN
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City and County Property. Inquiric
Solicited
ORANGE. .... TEXAS
W. J. BURTON
If you wiei u buy or o*U e homo at (asm
gee me. Room i, Lmk bulldog. Fifth It.
DKANO*. TKXAI
WOOD! WOOD!
A. S. McNEILL
For Dry Stove; Wood
Promptly Delivered
Old 10
New $$$
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Ford, A. L. The Daily Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 227, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1908, newspaper, December 31, 1908; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth643081/m1/2/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.