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Show , ; A THOl'NAND "KMS." ' The Union Printer Send a Tribute to the ChUtla-Drexel Fuiiil. PinLAiiKLfHiA.- May 12 Special. Today is George W. Child's birthday, and following tho usual custom, the union printers east of the Mississippi river set up their "thousand ems'1 and contributed the proceeds to (he Childs-Drcxel Childs-Drcxel fund of the International union. Saturday night the Philadelphia association asso-ciation iif ex-delegates fo the Interna lional Typographical Union celebrated Mr. Child's birthday with a banquet. On each anniversary of Mr. Child's birth every printer east of the Mississippi Missis-sippi river donates the proceeds of one thousand ems of type to the Childs-Drexel Childs-Drexel fund. These west of the Mississippi Missis-sippi do the same on the anniversary of A. J. Drexel's birth. The fund wiil sometime in the future he used in the establishment of some lasting monii- mem 10 ine two geuiiciiieu iiaiiicu probably in the erection of a home for indigent and aged printers. Mr. Childs was in receipt of many congratulatory congrat-ulatory letters and telegrams during the day and crowds of people called al the Ledger oflieo to pay their respects to him. |