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-her offensive
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thing that could
have happened
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Meaning of Verdun"
as Winston Spencer
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it, in this week's
Collier's
THB NATIONAL vrrsKLT
PERSHING TO QUIT
AS CARRANZISTAS
PRESS ON BANDITS
Joint Peace Commission Ex
pected to Complete Agree
ment This Week
STRONG PATROL PLANNED
ATLANTIC CITT, J.. Nov. 14. Cen
tral Ttrahlng's column will be out of Mex
ico soon If present plans of the American
Mexican Peace Commission materialize.
The commission proposes to reach a bor
der agreement, probably before the week
end. With doubt over the election passed,
tbs commission today began to put In Its
finishing work.
As tentatively framed, the border agree
ment will call for Immediate or gradual
retirement of Pershing's men from their
posts below the boundary. In the meantime
General Carranza will endeavor to show
good faith by haying General Murgula
prosecute more vigorously than heretofore
the hunt for Villa and his bandits. Mur
gula succeeds Trevino as commander ot
Chihuahua.
The proposed agreement likewise will
look toward adequate security of the bor
der, with the Mexicans assuming a larger
share of this protection than previously.
In planning for Pershing's withdrawal the
Americans will be guided by .American
military men's advice that his stay Is
strategically useless.
With the prospect of getting together af
ter eleven weeks of. conferences, the Mexi
cans especially were overjoyed today.
Various Internal reforms have been
pledged by the Mexicans, but It Is doubtful
If many of these will be Incorporated In
m, formal agreement
MEXICAN. LEADERS TO 3IEET
Luis Cabrera, Commissioner to U. S.,
Coming Here for Conference With
Rafael Nieto, His Assistant
Luis Cabrera, Secretary of the Depart
ment of the Treasury of Mexico, nnd Rafael
Nleto, the First Secretary, will confer to
night at the Bellevue-Stratford.
Senor Cabrera Is one of the Mexican com
missioners at the peace conference In At
lantic City, and will come here to meet his
chief subordinate, who Is at the Bellevue.
Senor Nieto denied this morning a re
port that the conference here Is for the
purpose of Initiating a big loan by Amer
ican capitalists, chiefly Philadelphia, to
Mexico. lie said that while he would not
discuss what he Intended to talk about
with the Mexican commissioner, except to
say that It had to do with the affairs of
the Treasury Department, he would go so
far as to put a stop to the story of negotia
tions In Philadelphia for a loan to Mexico.
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.EVENING LEDGEK-rHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1010
MIGHTY PETITIONS SIGNED
FOR FIREMEN OF CITY
Contlnned from Pate One
Institutions, lawyers, clergy and other pro
fessional men were on the roll. Politicians
seemed to have forgotten party and fac
tional differences In the general support of
tho firemen's request. A single lino
separated tho autographs ot State Senators
Kdwln It. Vnre nnd Jnmes P. McNIchol,
Former Mayor rtudolph lllankenburg. K.
T Stotesbury, John Wanamaker, Arch
bishop l'rcndcrgast, ltlshop Garland wero
conspicuous In tho list ot Individual sup
porters. From this noted category tho personnel
of the signers ranged. Kterjr rnnk of
life In the great variety of men that go
to make up the city's population down to
the humblest householder was Included In
tho list which Joined In asking Mayor
Smith to use his Influence as Chief Execu
tive of the municipality toward obtaining
for tho 071 members of the Bureau of Kire
an Increasa of pay nnd a readjustment of
working hours commensurate with the
service demanded and faithfully performed,
as well as a standard of remuneration that
would lift Philadelphia's firemen to a par
with their brethren In other American cities.
The signatures to tho petition to the
Mayor were obtained by n committee of citi
zens headed by Mr Lynch and by the fire
men themselves. Kor several weeks mem
bers of the fifty-eight rnglno, eighteen
truck, seven chemical, two water tower
and one flrcbo.it companies, comprising the
"field apparatus' ot the Mm Burenu. liae
been sacrificing much of their scanty time
oft duty to camusslng tho city In bchilf of
their appeal.
A committee ot no members of the
bureau, representing the fie grades of the
service, has done yeoman labor In this be
half. This committee Is headed by Bat
talion Chief John J. Mesklll, of the eighth
division, as chairman. The other members
arc Captain Joseph A. Knue, of Kngine No.
49; Lieutenant John 11. wills, or Kngine No.
50 ; Engineer Frederick I. Welgner, of Iln-
Sine No. 55, and Lndderman James M Slm-
tster, of Truck ro. , the latter represent
ing tho bono nnd laddermen
The basis upon which the support of the
Mayor is being solicited Is a reorganiza
tion to conrorm to modern Ideas of condi
tions which hate existed In tho department
since the organization of the Bureau of
Klro In March. 181. The committee points
out that today there are thirty-eight cities
In the United States wherein tho firemen
are better paid than are thoso of Philadel
phia. At the same time more time oft Is
allowed to f-cmen In fifty-one cities than
In Philadelphia. Ilcie, Mr. I.ytich and the
members of the committee Instance, a fire
man when he enters tho service as a hose
man receives J900 for the first two years,
lie subsequently advances until ho attains
a maximum rating of $1100 a year First
grade firemen In New York recehe 11400,
entering the service nt $1000. A recently
enacted ordinance In New ork raises a 1
grades $100 nnnunlly. so that a man In
that city gets $1500 for what Philadelphia
pays $1100. New York's chief engineer re
ceives $10,000, ns against Chief Murphy's
$4800, while his deputy, who has chargo
In Brooklyn nnd Queens, Is paid $7500,
with fifteen other deputies nt $4200 each.
Assistant Chief Boss Davis's salary Is
$3000. Battalion chiefs In New York are
paid $3000 each, which Is $1000 more than
Is paid to the eleven cquU stent ofllccra In
Philadelphia.
Comiwirlson of the salaries paid In Chi
cago, Boston, San Francisco, smaller mu
nicipalities, show similar higher pay for
relative equal rank, even Atlantic City,
which has the two platoon system, paying
Its hosemen nnd laddermen $1200 each.
To this end nn ordinance tins been pre
pared for Introduction Into Councils cover
ing tho legislation necessary to make ef
fective both the salary Increase and the
additional men required to place the depart
ment on n two-plat'on, twelve-hour basis.
This ordlnnnce. In part, reads:
Seotlon 1. The Select nnd Common
Councils of the City of Philadelphia do
ordain, that the sum of $243,30 bo and
the snmo Is hereby appropriated to the
Department of Public Safety (Bureau
of Fire) for the year 1917, to provide
for twenty per cent Increase In salary
to the present force of the uniformed
men. nnd $36(.fi20 for 353 nddltlonnl
lio'c and Intldenncn nnd uniforms. In
order that the uniformed men of the
Fire Bureau shall have excry fourth
day off duty, and every other fourth
day. thirty-nix hours oft duty.
At present Philadelphia's firemen are on
ilut at their stations twenty-one hours out
of cxrry twenty-four, the three hours oft
duty being nominally meal hours. They
get these If they .ire not on duty nt tho
moment nt n fire or other active service
Tho hour Is timed from the moment they
leave the flrehnusa until they return. In
the case of men who nro detailed at sta
tions remote from their homes the actual
tlmo possible for Intercourse with their
families is a matter of a few minutes for
each meal The firemen get every sixth
day off also nominally A shortage of
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men, through Injury or sickness, or a trans
fer to another company lo relieve such a
shortage, may deprive a min so relieving
of his day off for revcral weeks. During
the car strike a few years ago no member
of the department was permitted to go
home from quarters for fifty-six consecu
tive days. One captain, whose company Is
located In the business district, today re
called that his tour of house duty during
the trolley strike lasted for thirteen con
secutle weeks, during which time he was
able to remove his clothing only for bath
ing Tho proposed system by which conditions
such as these could be obviated Is thus
nummarlied by the committee, which has
laid Its suggestions before the members of
Councils In the hopo of securing appropriate
legislation to make It cftectUc;
"We suggest that four men be added fo
engine companies, making a quota of six
teen men to an engine company.
'Three men to bo added to a truck corrt
pany, making a quota of sixteen men to n
truck company.
"Three men to be, added lo a chemical
company, making a quota of eight men,
nnd three men to each auxiliary truck com.
pany.
'The quota of the flreboal nnd three pipe
line companies to be sixteen.
"Working hours: Every fourth day off,
with additional twelve hours every second
fourth dy.
Thlrty-jilx men to be distributed equally
nmong battalion chiefs.
This system routd bo worked out to n
great advantage to the department and city
In general. There would be twelve men
on duty each day, allowing for one man to
be detailed to fire prevention, one man to
Are school nnd ten men on duty at station
during the day; meat hours, with no more
than three away nt a time, would still
leae eight men at station during meal
hours. In addition to this, the battalion
chief would have additional threo men to
distribute to companies In his battalion
where they were short.
Cm rnfttnn companies, 4 addltlnnal men
criuals ,.,. ........., ........ -33
lit truck compunirf, S additional men.
fqUKlS ,.,.ttt. ,. 4S
7 cti-m ! companies, 3 nddltlonnl men,
!uaU St
1 (lr boat company, A additional men,
rquala 4
I nian.prrni.urB ouit'iiir, iur int a
companies S
tualliary cnrnpanirii.
80 men to M saatsnrd to
V auaiuiry vniiii'iiiiiri., .. mrn rpen.......
80 men to h aailaned to 11 battalion chief"
tllatrlets
Total .
Number of hours In sear.
limner ni iui. vu umr. n,,,i
ivumner ot nours on uuiy divu
Also an Increaso of twenty per cent in
salaries.
imn
CAItltANZA'S TllACTABILITY
DELAYS WASIHNflTOtf ACTION
U. S. Encouraged by Extension of Mino
Operation Limit
WASUINOTON, Nov U. Announce
ment by Luis Cabrera, of the commission
nt Atlantic City, thnt Carranm has ex
tended to next January the tlmo within
which mine owners In Mexico must reopen
their properties, has delayed firm action by
the State Department for annulment of the
necree. The time ot Iglnally set by General
Carranra expired today, the penalty be
ing confiscation of all unopcrntcd mines.
This decree drew bitter resentment from
about 160 American owners of mines In
Mexico, nnd a vigorous protest was made
by tho State Department to General Csr
rania against this confiscatory measure,
Cabrera's optimistic statements that Gen
eral I'ershlnc'a troops soon will be with
drawn from Mexico Is not shared In Wash
ington. It Is explained that If Penor
Cabrera's hopes for evacuation are based
upon his promise of leniency with the mine
owners, he may hae to wait a long time
for their fulfillment.
Carranra will be pressed to abandon alto
gether hU design to confiscate i,.-.
mining property nw
This mining decree Is retafJM ki J
one of the most "hltb.r.ahrf.r'.,1
Chief han Issued. Officials declare h-.Tv?!
acceptance by the United Wili VSSS;
acquiescence in a deliberate atUm.. . i
Americans of their property by .!.? 1
order. T Mtlv, f.
State Department officials deela.M ,v A
the mining decree was responsible for 2i
less exposing of Americans to din.?.??!
the Chihuahua mining dl9trlctwwr ')
pcclally around 1'arral, cltl-en,5,1? .H
United States liavo been att.,Jl!0.f 'V
back to their properties. I0
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