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Our old city is a booming, bustling bee-hive. Tearing down and building up, tearing up and relaying is the slogan now in the building line and street repairing, and men, from street laborer to a mechanic, are at a premium. Why, brother, if you haven't been in the old town within the last five years, you won't know her. She is getting dressed up as a young bride. Local No. 35 is keeping time with the other organizations, and our membership is steadily growing, besides having several permit men working, and the outlook is very promising for a good winter and spring.

Now for a little chat about the brothers here, and the proper thing to do is to start with our honorable president, Brother J. Scott. You have seen him in the picture of our delegates. It is that long, lanky, good-looking fellow towering over the others. He just loves to sink a plunger and pull it out again. He is installing a plunger dumb waiter in the Mohawk Hotel, in Schenectady, for the Otis Company. He has with him as a helper Brother B. Erwin. Brother Erwin wanted a change in his style of running. He had heretofore been running on the level (as a motorman), but thought he was getting too fat, so he applied for a job where he would be running up and down.

Brother Geo. Reynolds is installing two traction machines in the Gas Company's new building for the Otis Company. George is at present home in Philadelphia on a vacation.

Brother Ernest Gillies, our treasurer,

is a noisy fellow and some dancer. He likes to get up on the floor at the meetings and dance around while he is exercising his lungs, but, believe me, he is Johnny on the spot when it comes to getting the cash, and if a brother gets behind with his dues he will take the erring one to one side and whisper to him these magic words: "Pay your dues or out you go," and that generally settles it.

Brothers A. H. Anderson, of Local No. 1; A. C. Nolf and Otto Muller, of Local No. 43, have cleared into No. 35. We welcome the brothers among us, and hope they will stay a long time.

Brother Anderson has just started a job for the Otis Company in the Ten Eyck Hotel Annex, which will be a fifteen-story building. The installation consists of four electric passenger, two electric dumb waiter and two sidewalk lifts. On the job with Brother Anderson are Brothers Myers, Gillies, Nelson, Barnes and Morehead.

Brother Nolf has just installed a push-button machine in the post office in Troy for the Otis Company, and is now installing another in the State National Bank in Albany. He just loves push-button machines.

Brother Muller is finishing the installation of an electric freight elevator in the Mohawk Hotel, in Schenectady. This job was started by Brother Boehme, who has since gone back to the big city. We send our good wishes to Brother Bochme. Brother Muller has with him as a helper Brother J. Sweeny (this sounds green, doesn't it?). These are busy days, around election, for Brother Sweeny, as he aspires to be a politician.

Now, listen, all you brothers who know Brother Pete McCool. Pete has taken unto himself a better half. He fell in love with an Albany girl, and that settled Pete. We wish the brother and his wife all happiness and good luck in the years to come.

Brothers McCarthy and Will Long have taken out mechanics' cards, and we all wish the two brothers good luck, and are sure that they will make good in their new position.

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Just about four weeks ago I informed the Journal readers of the death of Brother Griffin, and it was but a short time after that another fatal accident took one more of our brothers. This brother is Walter B. Hafertepen.

Brother Hafertepen had just returned from his home at Hamilton, Ohio, on Sunday night, where he had been at the bedside of his wife, the latter having suffered with consumption for the last five years, and it was on Monday morning the accident occurred. He was working on a handpower. After he had taken off the counterweight cables, down the car went, carrying Brother Hafertepen, sitting on the cross-head of the car, and the quick stop in the pit broke both his legs and caused a complication of internal injuries, which later resulted in death, about thirty-six hours after the accident.

Brother Hafertepen was taken to his home (Hamilton, Ohio) on Wednesday night, and was buried on Saturday. And the saddest of all was that a day after his burial (on Sunday morning) his wife answered the final call, which now leaves two parentless children, a boy five and a girl seven years old.

So, brothers, be careful.

Brother Harry Renz is getting along nicely.

Brother Mike Mulett has charge of the Crowley-Milner Company job. While Brother Mulett was in Washing

ton, at the convention, and came back, he found out that his job had been pulled, so he had to start another fourteen-story job. And Mike wants to look out for those drills, because they are not made to ride and no mule.

Brother Cooper, the dumb waiter man, is in town again.

Brother Art. Cobey has a nice job running a car in the Elks Temple, and I hope the job don't worry him too much. If so, he will not have much hair left.

Local 36 has about eight men throughout the State.

Brother Martin has got himself a home in Flint, Mich., from what I hear.

Brother Hawthorne is in Jackson, Mich. Supt., the Jackson skyscraper, and the service men help him in you know.

Local No. 36.

FRANK SNYDER.

SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR
CLARA J. DENTON
I'm glad that I am not to-day

A chicken or a goose,
Or any other sort of bird

That is of any use.

I'd rather be a little girl,

Although 'tis very true, The things I do not like at all, I'm often made to do.

I'd rather eat some turkey than

To be one, thick and fat, And so, with all my heart, to-day, I'll thankful be for that.

The teacher had been telling the class about the rhinoceros family. "Now, name some things," she said, "that are very dangerous to get near to, and that have horns."

"Automobiles," replied little Johnnie Jones, promptly.

A Western judge has decided that poker is not gambling, and the judge is right. Poker is philanthropy. It is giving the other fellow your last dollar.

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at Labor Temple, 14th and Woodland Sts.

President-Henry Lohnes, Labor Tem

ple.

Vice-President-Louis Spaeth, 1600 E. 11th St.

Recording Secretary-J. Altman, 4625 Montgall Ave.

Financial Secretary-R. E. King, 3810 E. 26th St.

Local No. 14, Buffalo, N. Y. Meets second and fourth Tuesdays in month at Swartz's Labor Hall, Washington and Gooddell Sts. President-J. Linderman, 528 N. Division St.

Vice-President-F. Gallagher, 47 St. John's Place.

Recording Secretary-T. E. Binnie, 42 Hawley St.

Financial Secretary-Fred Steep, 154 Hoyt St.

Correspondent to Journal-Bernard J. Ehle.

Local No. 15, Milwaukee, Wis. Meets second and fourth Fridays in month at Wisconsin Hall, 861 12th St. President-August Altmeier, 657 Howell Ave.

Vice-President-Gust Lorenz, 894 33d

St.

Recording Secretary-Joseph A. Hepting, 1392 21st St.

Financial Secretary and TreasurerH. Soulen, 767 17th St.

Correspondent to Journal-Joseph A. Hepting.

Business Agent-Harry Soulen, 767 17th St.

Local No. 17, Cleveland, Ohio. Meets second and fourth Wednesdays in month at Cleveland Federation of Labor Hall, 310 Prospect Ave. President-W. Sammon, 2027 W. 81st

St.

Vice-President-H. R. Volk, 899 E. 72d

St.

Recording Secretary-J. I. Lloyd, 6001 Lexington Ave.

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