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May 23, 2025 ~ AUSTRALIAN PRELATE HERE.

May 23, 2025

AUSTRALIAN PRELATE HERE.

The Rev. T. Haley is En Route to Father's Home in Ireland.

With a brogue so rich that his conversation could barely be understood, the Rev. T. Haley of Victoria, Australia, was in Kansas City yesterday, en route form that island continent to his father's home in Killarney, Ireland. Kansas City is not on the route of the usual line of travel from Australia to Ireland, the Rev. Haley admitted last night at the Hotel Baltimore, but it was preferable on this occasion because of the general conflict that has torn up most of Europe.

Of recent events in Ireland, the Rev. Mr. Haley preferred not to talk, although it was evident that he was torn between conflicting emotions of loyalty to Australia and his father's country. Australia, he declared, was mustering in men rapidly and sending them to Europe to aid England.

May 12, 2025 ~ LIBERATI, FAMOUS BANDMASTER, HERE.

May 12, 2025

LIBERATI, FAMOUS BANDMASTER, HERE.

Martial Notes of Italian Bugle Calls Stir Him to Patriotic Words.

The bugle notes of the Italian army assembly call rang through the fourth floor of the Hotel Baltimore yesterday afternoon, awaking strange echos. Perfect each note, clear and true, only a master could have produced such tones. Then followed the Italian army reveille, gracefully slurred a stirring call to arise. Again it was played, piercing strong, then delicately soft. The player paused. Standing in Room 435, he held a horn aloft in one hand and gesticulated with the other.

"Fifty years ago today, my friend, a half century ago this very day, I played that call. Played it in the Tryol in the ranks of Garibaldi's army to the music of the retreating Austrians. I, Alessandro Liberati, played it in Bezzecca, where only two months ago the brave Italian army, after fifty years, again made the Austrians flee. So I play the bugle call again, ta-ta, ta-ta, ta-ta, while the victorious Italian army marches over the same ground that I, Liberati, did so many years ago with Garibaldi.

"It is like a dream, almost, my friend. Fifty years ago with Garibaldi, and today the brave Italian army again is conquering the Austrian Tyrol. Few are left of Garibaldi's army. Fifty years is a long time, but I, Liberati, I still play."

April 23, 2025 ~ RECRUITED IN K.C. FOR BRITISH ARMY.

April 23, 2025

RECRUITED IN K.C. FOR BRITISH ARMY.

Man With Credentials Spent Several Weeks Here, It Develops.

SOLVES POLICE RIDDLE.

Disappearance of a number of Youths Thus Is Explained.

The police have been puzzled for the past two months in an effort to account for the disappearance of a large number of men and boys. In several instances lately it has been discovered that several young men have joined the Canadian army for service in Europe at the instance of a British army officer, who has been recruiting in Kansas City.

In the latter part of March a man came to Kansas City and registered at a local hotel from Boston. He said he was a traveling salesman for a book concern. He remained in Kansas City for several weeks, leaving about a week ago for Montreal, Canada.

During the time he was in Kansas City, according to a statement made by the man -- who gave the name Miller -- to several Kansas City people, he had paid traveling expenses of at least twelve young men and boys, sending them to Canada and putting them in charge of the American Legion of Canada as soon as they crossed the international boundary.

Frequented Hotel Lobbies.

The man frequented hotel lobbies and saloons. He said he was born in Scotland and in glowing words told of his romantic experiences as a traveler and soldier of fortune.

Miller, who confidently told some of his "prospects" that he has a captain's commission in the British army, presented papers of identification which showed that he was empowered to recruit for the regiment of American adventurers to join the allies in Europe. Several companies of this regiment already have seen active service in the war zone.

The officer's plan in getting American youths to join the English colors was to tell of his own experiences as a captain in the Belgian campaigns.

"I was in command of a company in Belgium and later in France," he is reported to have told several persons, "and it was at Aix La Chapelle that I was wounded three times. I was among the leaders of a charge on a German battery. The Teutons had a position which enabled them to give us a warm cross fire and I fell, with three shrapnel bullets imbedded in my right leg and in my left shoulder. If you boys want to be real heroes you can take up my proposition. You will be given a mighty thrill when you are able to take a German battery or a string of trenches."

Five in One Party

To show that his sympathy for the allies was not prejudiced by his Scottish birth, Captain Miller detailed his adventures as a lieutenant in the United States army during the Spanish war.

"I am the Lieutenant Miller you read about in history," he told one young man in the lobby of the Baltimore hotel. "In addition to serving Uncle Sam during that conflict, I held commissions from the Nicaraguan federal government when Zelaya was ousted, and with the Italians in the Turkish war."

Captain Miller said that the joys of traveling and fighting far excel those of persons who are content to remain at home.

The English officer took several young men to the Union station, where he bought through tickets to Montreal. Five recruits went in one party. They signed statements in which they renounced their allegiance to the United States and offered to stake everything for the cause of the allies.

Captain Miller, it is said, left Kansas City suddenly. Before he went he inadvertently said that his recruiting here was successful, and that he had "worked" St. Louis, Cincinnati, Minneapolis and other cities.

April 15, 2025 ~ COMMUNITY BUILDING PLANNED BY HEBREWS.

April 15, 2025

COMMUNITY BUILDING PLANNED BY HEBREWS.

Jacob Billikopf May Forego Intention to Resign From Educational Institute.

A community building to cost possibly $100,000 and to be for the use of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Associations, is assured as the result of a meeting of representative Hebrews of Kansas City Thursday night at a dinner at the Hotel Baltimore. It was unanimously decided by those at the dinner that Jacob Billikopf should be retained, if possible, as superintendent of the Jewish Educational Institute.

Although Mr. Billikopf has received several offers from Jewish charitable societies in other cities, he has declared that he would stay in Kansas City and continue his present work, providing the scope of his labors was enlarged by the provision of more money and additional facilities.

The eighty men present at the dinner were enthusiastically in favor of the retention of Mr. Billikopf, and increased their annual subscriptions of $24,600 by more than $5,000. Twenty-five thousand dollars also was subscribed by about twenty men for a fund for the construction of a community house.

April 13, 2025 BRITISH EXPECT WAR TO END THIS YEAR. ~ The "Big Push" to Come Early This Summer, London Believes.

April 13, 2025

BRITISH EXPECT WAR TO END THIS YEAR.

The "Big Push" to Come Early This Summer, London Believes.

Walking on the streets of London at night is far more dangerous than braving German submarines at sea, since the city has been darkened nightly to give fewer bearings to the Zeppelins, declared J. A. Comar of London at the Hotel Baltimore yesterday. In dodging the heavy traffic in the inky darkness of the London streets a man takes his life in his hands, the visitor said.

"All the ocean liners leave Liverpool at a time that brings them to the open sea at night," said Mr. Comar. "There is no danger from the submarines in the dark nor in rough weather. There isn't much ocean travel now, only those people whose business imperatively calls them abroad are leaving the shores of England.

"English people do not run when a Zeppelin comes," said Mr. Comer. "It is not correct to say that they are not frightened, because the exploding of the bombs makes a terrific din, but there isn't any place to run. One is as safe in one spot as another. The Zeppelins come only at night and the bombs are dropped at random -- they don't know where they are dropping them. Then the Zeppelins get away as quickly as possible.

"At Westcliffe, where my family lives, about thirty-five miles from the business center of London, I was under a Zeppelin for half an hour about a month ago. Bombs were dropping all around and a building was demolished about 199 yards from where I stood. Since I have left home there has been another visit of a Zeppelin to Westcliffe. Mrs. Comar immediately cabled me that all was well with her and the children."

Mr. Comar exhibited a cablegram containing only the two words: "Safe. Daisy."

"We have some wonderful guns to attack the Zeppelins. They throw shells that explode when they strike the hydrogen and shatter the airship. Previously the old guns frequently shot clear through the big bag without hurting it, as it is made up of a number of smaller bags, and the loss of one or two did not affect the airship.

"England is at last on a real military footing. There are 2,300 munition factories in Great Britain, turning out an enormous quantity of ammunition, and there are 4,000,000 men in the field. We in England believe that there is to be a big move made in a few weeks. We look for the war to end this year.

Mr. Comar is in the United States for the first time to investigate oil property in Franklin county, Kas., the Imperial Petroleum Company, owned entirely in England. He will go to Tulsa today.

KANSAS RABBIT HAIR YARN. ~ Angora Breed Thrives There and New Industry May Result.

February 3, 2026

KANSAS RABBIT HAIR YARN.

Angora Breed Thrives There and

New Industry May Result.

"Kansas may soon furnish the hair for the very fine Angora rabbit yarn which is now imported from France," said H. Lee Mallory, a manufacturer of New York city, at the Hotel Baltimore last night. Mr. Mallory and his wife are on their way to the coast.

"The finest yarns at present are those of the Angora rabbits. These yarns are woven into the very expensive jersey, or sweater coats, and other articles of apparel. It is a silky yarn, much softer than any other, and very warm. Next to the Angora rabbit comes the llama of South America, the India cashmere and the Angora goat. A few years ago a Kansan happened to be in France at the same time I was, and he took home some of their Angora rabbits. They thrived in Kansas, and the hair he sent me last year was fully equal to the imported hair.

"The automobile is responsible for the popularity of the sweater or jersey coats and costumes," continued Mr. Mallory. "The manufacturers are now turning out complete suits, consisting of helmet caps, or hoods, coats, mittens and slippers. Slumber robes have also been added to the list of articles for the benefit of those who wish to sleep in the open. Dressed in these garments, a person could almost brave a trip to the North pole.

CANADIAN CITIES COPY K. C. ~ Winnipeg Contractor Here Making Investigation of Boulevards.

January 17, 2026

CANADIAN CITIES COPY K. C.

Winnipeg Contractor Here Making

Investigation of Boulevards.

"Canadian cities are copying Kansas City in the plan of its boulevards, in the material used in them, and their ornamentation," said A. R. McNeil of Winnipeg, at the Hotel Baltimore last night. Mr. McNeil is a contractor and came to Kansas City to make a thorough investigation of the boulevard system, the paving materials used and their life under the various sorts of usage. He will call on Mayor Crittenden and the other city officials today in quest of further information.

GEORGE ADE AWAITS THE PROPER GIRL. ~ SAYS "HAVEN'T FOUND RIGHT ONE," WHEN ASKED WHY HE DOESN'T WED.

January 5, 2026

GEORGE ADE AWAITS

THE PROPER GIRL.

SAYS "HAVEN'T FOUND RIGHT

ONE," WHEN ASKED WHY

HE DOESN'T WED.

Sight of Jeffries Recalls the

Days When He Was a

Newspaper Man.

GEORGE ADE, HUMORIST FROM INDIANA.

Now, girls, take notice. George Ade is looking for a wife.

George -- you all know George -- does not say so in as many plain, everyday words, but he intimates his inclination to move up that way, as the lady said when she jabbed the fat man with her hatpin in the aisle of a Vine street car.

But before you put in your application, don't get the idea that life with the humorist, as his wife, would be a never-ending scream of comedy. Professional humorists are a glum lot, and Ade is not more joyous than a bowl of glue. A professional humorist has to think it all you -- you'd never believe it, reading it over afterwards -- and the thinking process, to a humorist, comes hard. For George Ade, it has put a sprinkle of gray hairs all over his head, tracing what once was black with a presage of an early winter.

LOOKS REAL, SMILING.

Of course, you'll all want to know how he looks. Mr. Ade is a man of undoubted length of legs. He has a considerable breadth of shoulder when his overcoat is on, not much to go wild over when it is off. He has a countenance turned to the cynical cast when he doesn't smile, looking lie a chap that would, or might, at least pinch your arm if you didn't move over. His visage is thin and his nose is long, coming to a little hook at thee ends, like a pod of a kidney bean. When he smiles he looks read.

Mr. Ade was in Kansas City yesterday. He didn't come right out and say that he was in the matrimonial market. He, being a humorist, wouldn't be taken seriously if he did. In answer to the question, "Mr. Ade, why don't you marry?" he said: "Because I haven't found the right one."

So now, as the man with a house to build says, he is open to proposals.

Mr. Ade looks young, younger than he would have looked by this time if he had kept on doing prize fights for the Chicago paper with which he was connected ten years ago, when fame came along one day and put the shining mark upon him. The sight of the Hon. James J. Jeffries in the grill room of the Hotel Baltimore yesterday afternoon brought it all back to him.

JEALOUSY NOTICED.

"There's a crowd of gaping men around Jeffries down there," said he, "unable to breathe for admiration and awe." It may be excused the humorist if there was a tinge of professional jealousy in the tone. "It makes me think of the time, away back in '92, when I was writing newspaper stories about such fellows. I wasn't the sporting editor. Oh, no, I was just a reporter."

Mr. Ade is resting from the humorist business just now. He isn't even writing a play. Just taking things easy, and kind of hanging around, waiting for the right girl. No photographs exchanged.

When Mr. Ade talks, he talks English. It's only when he writes that he is picturesque. Yesterday afternoon he went to the Orpheum theater and sat through the programme, not even smiling when a big man in a little play took what he meant to be a humorous shot at him. Mr. Ade looks real good when he his dressed up. Tramping through the snow yesterday he wore a long ulster, buttoned to the chin, the high collar almost covering his ears. He carries a bit of a stick with a silver knob, with all the abandon and familiarity of an actor.

MODERN TRAGEDY.

Mr. Ade says the great American tragedy will be written about modern conditions. "There's lots of good stuff being written now," said he, "and lots of good stuff being staged. Some of this season's new pieces are exceptionally good."

Mr. Ade registers from Brook, Ind. "I live there in the summer and fall," he said, "and in winter I lock up the place and live in a trunk."

COP'S SPEED LIMIT IS WALK. ~ Threatens to Arrest Autoists, They Say, If Machine Goes Faster.

December 19, 2025

COP'S SPEED LIMIT IS WALK.

Threatens to Arrest Autoists, They

Say, If Machine Goes Faster.

Formal protest was made last evening by Mrs. Victor Bell and her son, Dr. Charles Bell, to A. J. Dean, president of the park board, alleging that park policeman No. 14 on Cliff drive was unduly harsh yesterday afternoon in threatening them with arrest if their automobile was driven faster than he could walk on the Cliff drive. Mr. Dean will take up the matter at the next meeting of the park board.

Mrs. Bell and her sons, Dr. Charles Bell and Harold Bell, were halted in their big 60-horse landaulet in about the middle of Cliff drive. They were taking their usual afternoon ride when park policeman No. 14 shouted to them to halt. The chauffeur stopped.

"We were traveling very slowly," said Dr. Bell, who lives at the Hotel Baltimore, last evening, "when the policeman stopped us. At first we were threatened with arrest. Then we were told we might proceed, but that if the policeman ever caught us driving faster than he could walk that he would arrest us without further notice. We objected to this threat because a man's walk is certainly too slow a pace for an automobile. Our driver is familiar with the speed laws. Yesterday the driver took extra precautions because of the ice and snow. This in itself is sufficient for any driver to remain well within the speed limit. I know that we were not running faster than we do in Petticoat Lane.

PROSPERS DESPITE HOODOO. ~ Speakers at Phantom Club Banquet Show Steady Growth.

December 16, 2025

PROSPERS DESPITE HOODOO.

Speakers at Phantom Club Banquet

Show Steady Growth.

Members of the Phantom Club, organized on Friday, the thirteenth of December, four years ago, gave its second annual banquet last night at the Hotel Baltimore. Mayor Crittenden and prominent men about town were the guests of honor. Festus O. Miller was the toastmaster.

After a vocal solo by Lewis H. Scurlock, A. M. Kathrens, the president, reviewed the history of the club. He spoke of its organization and of its steady growth. It now has its own quarters at 1032 Penn street.

Other sentiments were responded to as follows:

"Phantoms in the Future," K. G. Rennic; "Club Fellowship," James West French; "Club Benefits," Estell Scott; "Good of the Order," Samuel Eppstein; "Topics," Clyde Taylor; "Remarks," Thomas R. Marks; "Narratives," Judge Harry G. Kyle.

Mayor Crittenden also spoke.

"DON'TS" FOR YOUNG DENTISTS. ~ Dr. Campbell, at Banquet, Gives Advice to Students.

December 16, 2025

"DON'TS" FOR YOUNG DENTISTS.

Dr. Campbell, at Banquet, Gives Ad-

vice to Students.

Dr. Dayton Dunbar Campbell of the faculty of the Kansas City Dental college was the guest of honor last night at a banquet at the Hotel Baltimore given by the members of the Delta Sigma Delta fraternity of the college, and as a fitting climax to the event Dr. Campbell gave a little talk on "Dental Don'ts."

Here are some of Dr. Campbell's "dont's" -- "Don't brag about your practice or the size of your fees. Don't gossip with your patients. Don't do any quack advertising. Don't encourage familiarity on the part of your women patients. Don't knock your brother practitioners. Don't talk shop at social gatherings. Don't be untidy."

The banquet was tendered by Dr. Campbell as a token of the esteem in which he is held by the fraternity members. Covers were laid for eighteen.

WILLING TO BUY CIGARS. ~ Postal Telegraph Girl Operator Glad Missouri Won.

November 26, 2025

WILLING TO BUY CIGARS.

Postal Telegraph Girl Operator Glad

Missouri Won.

"Give me six cigars," said Miss Jessie Wadley, the petite Postal operator at the Hotel Baltimore, yesterday afternoon as she laid a silver dollar on the cigar counter.

"I don't believe in betting," she explained, "but I told some of my friends that if Missouri won this time that I would buy each of them a good cigar. I just felt all the time that Missouri would win."

DO NOT OPPOSE INSPECTION. ~ State Inspector Finds Hotel Men Pleased to Get Certificates.

November 22, 2025

DO NOT OPPOSE INSPECTION.

State Inspector Finds Hotel Men

Pleased to Get Certificates.

"It has been a great surprise to me that my deputies have met with as little opposition as they have," said Thomas L. Johnson of Jefferson City, state hotel inspector, at the Hotel Baltimore last night. "We feared when we started out on our tour of inspection that many of the hotel men would fight the new law, but we have been agreeably disappointed. We have found that the hotel men, as a rule, welcomed the inspector and in fact was proud of the certificate of inspection. In most places, having it framed and hung in the most conspicuous position in the house."

Mr. Johnson came here to confer with deputy William A. Osgood and to explain to some of the hotel men some of the provisions of the laws which they did not thoroughly understand. Mr. Johnson will remain in Kansas City until tomorrow evening.

HOTEL MEN IN ARMS AGAINST 'DEAD BEATS.' ~ MAY PUT CONTRACT ON EACH PAGE OF REGISTER.

November 18, 2025

HOTEL MEN IN ARMS

AGAINST 'DEAD BEATS.'

MAY PUT CONTRACT ON EACH

PAGE OF REGISTER.

Meeting of Association Concludes

Today With Lunch at Sexton

and Banquet Tonight at

Excelsior Springs.

If the plans of the Kansas-Missouri Hotel Men's association are carried out, it's not going to be so easy to walk up to the hotel register, sign your name, and then walk out the next morning without paying, giving the simple excuse that you are "broke." The legislators of Kansas and Missouri will be asked at the next session to allow the following brief contract to be printed at the head of each page:

"Any one signing their signature below hereby agrees to pay the bill as charged by this hotel. Failure to do so shall be a violation of this contract and party violating same will be punishable by law. The proprietor of the hotel hereby agrees to fulfill his part of the contract."

SAM B. CAMPBELL,
Clerk at the Sexton. Oldest Clerk in Point of Service in Kansas City.

Though stringent laws have been passed in both states, they are usually evaded. The present law reads that any one securing a room "by fraud or pretext" shall be punishable. In the future, a man will be starting at a contract at the head of each page, and the hotel men think that it will be a more serious matter.

In fact, the whole session, which began yesterday afternoon in the Italian room at the Hotel Baltimore, was one of self-protection. Every speaker dwelt on the fact that the average inn keeper was the most oppressed individual in the community. Means of getting around the wily "bad check man," dead beat," "loafer," and how to get better legislation was discussed, and committees appointed to see that action is taken.

F. P. EWINS,
Hotel Savoy.

Yesterday's session was opened with an address of welcome by Mayor Crittenden. He complimented the men on their general appearance. T. L. Barnes, president of the association, made a short reply.

There was a general feeling that the meeting would like to face a hotel inspector, and Thomas L. Johnson, state hotel inspector, was asked to be present and, in fact, had agreed to come and discuss the laws regulating hotels. At the last moment Johnson failed to appear.

C. L. WOOD,
Secretary of the Association and Manager of the Sexton.

Last night's gathering was purely social. A Dutch lunch was served in the grill room of the Sexton hotel, which is managed by C. L. Wood, secretary of the association. A ride over the boulevards will be taken this morning, and after the report of committees this afternoon the entire association will take the train to Excelsior Springs, where a banquet will be held tonight at the New Elms.

MILLIONS IN LIFE INSURANCE. ~ George E. Nicholson Will Increase His Policies $1,500,000.

November 18, 2025

MILLIONS IN LIFE INSURANCE.

George E. Nicholson Will Increase

His Policies $1,500,000.

Physicians representing a score of life insurance companies have just finished an examination of George E. Nicholson, the millionaire cement manufacturer, who is an applicant for a million and a half dollars' worth of life insurance. The insurance is to be for the benefit of the companies of which he is the head.

Mr. Nicholson is 49 years old. He is a widower, and has two grown sons. He makes his home at the Hotel Baltimore. He now carries four policies, each for $325,000. With the new policies in force, his life will be in sured for almost $3,000,000.

HOTEL MEN'S YELL HAS NO RAH! RAH! ~ "SOMETHING DIFFERENT" TO BE HEARD IN RIDE TODAY.

November 17, 2025

HOTEL MEN'S YELL

HAS NO RAH! RAH!

"SOMETHING DIFFERENT" TO

BE HEARD IN RIDE TODAY.

Kansas-Missouri Association Mem-

bers Here for Annual Meeting.

Local Officers Elected.

Banquet Tonight.

"Kansas -Missouri hotel me are we,
Enjoying ourselves in old K. C.
Kansas Citee, in the state of old Mizzoo,
With plenty to eat, and other things, too.
How do you do, and how are you?"

To show that the collegians who come to Kansas City on Thanksgiving are not the only ones who can boast of yells, a few of the advance guard of hotel men who are assembling for the annual meeting of the Kansas-Missouri association, composed of the above yell last night at the Hotel Sexton.

"You notice that we cut out the 'Rah, Rah, Rah,'" said C. L. Wood, the secretary of the association. "We want something to distinguish it from the college yell. You will get a chance to hear its carrying power when we take our trip over the boulevards Thursday morning."

That the meeting, which commenced today at the Hotel Baltimore and ends tomorrow night with a banquet at the Elms in Excelsior Springs, is going to be the biggest in the history of the association, is the belief of the officers. More than half of the delegates were in the city last night visiting friends. When Mayor Crittenden delivers his address of welcome today, it is expected that more than 100 members will be present.

WAR ON BAD CHECK MEN.

At the two days' session especial attention will be paid to some form of mutual protection against bad check men.

C. D. Tisdale of the Western Hotel Men's Protective Association, will discuss a proposed detective agency to be established in each city and do nothing but look out for hotel "dead beats." It is estimated that there are 1,500 hotels in Missouri and Kansas, and each loses about $250 a year in bad bills. The total loss, $100,000, would maintain a fair detective agency, the hotel men say.

A meeting of the local hotel proprietors was held yesterday afternoon at the Sexton and plans for the coming interstate association were discussed. A permanent organization also was planned.

Though Kansas City has been prominent in the large gatherings, very little attention has been paid to a local association. F. P. Ewins of the Savoy was elected president and James Ketner of the Densmore was elected secretary of the local society.

JAPANESE COMMISSIONERS COME TO TOWN TODAY. ~ COMMERCIAL CLUB ROOMS DECORATED FOR RECEPTION.

November 12, 2025

JAPANESE COMMISSIONERS

COME TO TOWN TODAY.

COMMERCIAL CLUB ROOMS DEC-

ORATED FOR RECEPTION.

Five Women Members of Party Will

Be Guests of Honor at Country

Club Luncheon -- Omaha

the Next Stop.

Kansas City will be the host today to the Honorary Commissioners of Japan, consisting of forty-three of the leading business men and educators of the Oriental empire, who, together with five Japanese women, are touring the United States. No efforts will be spared to entertain the foreign guests during their stay here, which will be from 9 o'clock in the morning until 11 o'clock at night.

Following the arrival here the party will breakfast in their special train. At 9:30 the men of the party will be met in automobiles by the members of the Commercial Club and the next hour and a half will be spent in a reception in the club rooms. The club rooms have been decorated with palms and ferns, the stars and stripes, the Japanese national flag, the mikado's coat of arms, and the Japanese man-of-war emblem. Judge W. T. Bland, president of the club, will head the receiving line, and in it will be the forty-three Japanese commissioners, the officers off the Commercial Club and all former presidents of the club.

WILL VISIT HIGH SCHOOL.

At 11 o'clock the party will be taken to the Westport high school, where Baron Kanda, head of the school of the nobility in Tokio, will make a short speech. Baron Kanda speaks English fluently and is a graduate of Amherst college. The address will be followed by a drive through Swope park and a stop at the Evanston Golf Club for a buffet luncheon.

After the luncheon the party will be driven through the city, up and down the principal streets, over the boulevards and through the leading parks.

The first place of interest to be visited will be the Bank of Commerce. This will be followed by an inspection of the Burnham-Munger overall factory. A drive to Kansas City, Kas., is next in order, where the party will be shown through the plant of the Kingman-Moore Implement Company. These will be the only places visited during the day.

While the men are being entertained by the members of the Commercial Club the five women in the party, Baroness Shibusawa, Baroness Kanda, Madame Midzuno, Madame Horikoshi and Madame Toki will not be forgotten. A committee composed of the wives of the Commercial Club directors and Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Clendening will entertain them. A visit to the Westport high school, a noon lunch at the Country Club and a tea at the home of Mrs. W. R. Nelson will be the events of the day which have been mapped out for the women.

DINNER AT THE BALTIMORE.

At 6:30 o'clock in the evening a dinner will be served to the men in the banquet room at the Baltimore hotel. At the same time a dinner will be given for the women in the Japanese room of the hotel. At the conclusion of their dinner the women will repair to the banquet room, where the entire party will listen to the addresses by David R. Frances, Senator William Warner, Baron Shibusawa and Baron Kanda. Judge Bland will act as toastmaster.

This will conclude the events of the day. The visitors will be taken back to their train, and will leave for Omaha, from where they will work west to San Francisco, from which port they will sail for Japan, November 30.

LEADING FINANCIER.

The Japanese arrived in Seattle from Japan September 1, and when they leave will have spent eighty-eight days in America, visited fifty-two cities, and traveled more than 11,000 miles. During this time they have visited plants and institutions representing nearly every American industry. Many of Kansas City's leading industries will not be visited, as the party has been to similar ones in other cities.

Baron Elighi Shibusawa, who is the head of the commission, is one of the leading men of Japan, being both a statesman and a financier. His individual efforts have raised the status of business men in this country. In 1873, Baron Shibusawa organized the first national bank in Japan under the capital stock system, and has been connected since with all leading banking institutions in Japan.

One Pullman dynamo car, a baggage car, a Pullman dining car, four ten-compartment sleepers, one twelve-section drawing room car and a six-compartment observation car comprise the equipment of the special train that will bring the Japanese to Kansas City over the Burlington railroad. The train will be in charge of W. A. Lalor, assistant general passenger agent for the Burlington at St. Louis.

LIVE ON SPECIAL TRAIN. ~ Geo. M. Cohan and Company Solve Problem of Travel Accommodation.

November 1, 2025

LIVE ON SPECIAL TRAIN.

Geo. M. Cohan and Company Solve

Problem of Travel Accommodation.

George M. Cohan has solved to his satisfaction as well as that of the members of his company the problem of living accommodations while making their tour of the country. It is by living in their special train which is sidetracks as soon as they reach a town. Each member of the company has a compartment.

The train consists, in addition to Cohan's private car, of two specially constructed sleeping coaches, a diner and three baggage cars. His automobile is stored in one of the baggage cars and the others are used for stage wardrobes and scenery.

The special train arrived at the Union depot yesterday afternoon from Memphis.

In Kansas City Cohan himself is stopping at the Baltimore.

NO MORE "RATS" FOR THE POSTAL GIRLS. ~ DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S ORDER EFFECTIVE NOV. 1.

October 29, 2025

NO MORE "RATS" FOR

THE POSTAL GIRLS.

DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S

ORDER EFFECTIVE NOV. 1.

One Will Declare Hair Real, Will

Take Such Commands Only

From Husband and Dares

Investigation.

"On and after November 1, all lady clerks and employes must discontinue the wearing of 'rats' in their hairdress. Please govern yourself accordingly. -- A. B. R., Supt. Dist."

Will the Postal Telegraph Company whose district manager issued the above order, insist that it be obeyed, or will it hearken to the murmurings and declarations of their female employes and forget it?

This is the question which is bothering the girls ever since they received copies of what is declared to be the most famous order ever issued by the local office. That the officials of the company will have no easy time enforcing his order goes without saying. In fact, one of the pretty wire girls declared last evening that she, for one, would resign, and that in a hurry, before she would permit the manager or superintendent to dictate to her the sort of headdress she would wear.

"Why, the first thing we know they will have us in blue uniforms with brass buttons, a la messenger boy style," she said.

TAKEN AS JOKE AT FIRST.

The order was issued Wednesday. The girls, when they received it, took it for a joke, but yesterday when they discovered that it really was in earnest, and that the order meant what it said, there was excitement in plenty. If the ears of Superintendent Richards did not burn and buzz all day yesterday and until well into the night, it was not because the girls were not talking.

More than a score of operators are affected by the order. Half a dozen of these operate keys in various public places about the city, the principal branches being in the Hotel Baltimore, Coates house, Savoy hotel, New York Life building and the Chamber of Commerce. Then there are almost a score of girls employed in the main office of the company.

What objection to the wearing of "rats" can be is known only to Superintendent Richards and as one of the girls expressed it yesterday, "He won't tell because he doesn't know."

"It's nobody's business what is meant by the issuance of that order," said Richards last evening.

"I guess 'A. B. R.' will buy us all new hats. He will have to if he insists on us taking the rats out of our hair," said one of the operators as she adjusted a handsomely plumed beaver.

NOT TO BE COMMANDED.

"Why, we never would be able to wear a stylish-looking hat and I know that I, for one, am not going to let any man dictate to me for a while, yet, as to the sort of hat I wear. Of course, if I get married I may change my mind, but I am still single."

"I threw my order in the waste basket," said another operator,"but on second thought I fished it out and took it home. I may have it framed, or I may send it to a friend in Chicago. I only wish I could say things like a man can. I would certainly talk to 'A. B. R.' "

"Lots of foolish orders are issued at times, but this is the worst I have ever heard of," said another operator. "I wear a rat and have to in order to wear a hat which is in style. If 'A. B. R.' or anyone else thinks that he is going to tell me how to wear my hair he will be disillusioned. If he asks me I will tell him my hair is natural and if he tries to get familiar and ascertain for himself there will be something doing, in which I will not get the worst of it."

TURNING OVER THE LEAVES. ~ Metropolitan Train Crews Attach Sacks to the Car Fenders.

October 27, 2025

TURNING OVER THE LEAVES.

Metropolitan Train Crews Attach

Sacks to the Car Fenders.

BATTLING WITH AUTUMN LEAVES.

"I have seen brooms, brushes and even scoops attached to fenders of street cars at different times in various cities of this country but it remained for Kansas City to give me the jar of my life this morning," said P.O. Vandeventer, an insurance adjuster, who is stopping at the Hotel Baltimore.

"I have a habit of taking a walk after breakfast and when I got down on Main street, I was surprised to see portions of what had apparently been old cement bags and other pieces of duck died to the fenders and dragging along the tracks. After the second car passed I determined that the rags had been placed there by orders of company officials and asked a few questions.

"A motorman suggested that I ride along with him and I would see the object. Half a mile from the business district and and along the streets which have made Kansas City famous because of the beauty of their foliage, the streets were covered with leaves. These leaves, so the conductor told me, fell so rapidly that they could not be cleaned off fast enough by the white wings and when a street car passed over them on the grades that it was just like applying oil to the wheels and track.

"The rags, I was told, provided the most effective plan for ridding the tracks of the leaves."