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Yes; s want ad. campaign, if persistent enough, will find a job for you—perhaps in one day, perhaps in ten days; BUT even In “dull times" there is work to be had by the deter mined seeker. VO* JME XIII., No. 247. UPTOH SUMS MTSJJEE SUIT WELCOMES PROCEEDINGS FOR LIBEL, BY WILLIAM E COREY, THE STEEL MAGNATE GOULD EXPOSE COREY Intimated That The Burn ing of Helicon Hall Was An Incendiary Attempt To Destroy Evidence. LAKE PLACID. N. Y.—When Up ton Sinclair, who is spending the sum mer at Camp Kahwudin on the shore of Lake Placid, was today told of the report that William E. Corey may institute legal proceedings for libel, basing his action on charges contain ed in Mr, Sinclair's latest notel, “The Money Changers," the author said he would welcome such action on Mr. Corey's part, as it would enable him to put on record evidence he claims to have concerning the part which he charges the steel magnate played in connection with reprehensible armor plate seals, and in th’s connection he Intimated that the burning of Helicon Hall was an incendiary attempt, not only to destroy damaging evidence against the steel men, which he claims is in his possession, but amounted also to an attempt upon his life. Of the social evils charged against prominent men In the book, the auth or said: "I have not followed the true story In detail, because I could not have helped- indicating who were my informants. "The men whom I am after in 'The Money Changers’ have lef a trail be hind them as wide as Broadway, and if any of them see fit to attack me on that score I shall not be worried. For the benefit of one great person age, 1 will mention that I have met and talked with a little seamstress, who was on board of a yacht, and that while it may be possible to buy hcr off, as was done once before, there is also one of her brothers who has had the story from her own lips, and I don’t believe there is money enough In all New York to buy him,'’ WILLIAM F VILAS FNDOKHOOL MADISON, Wis.—By the will of William F. Vilas, former United States senator and member of Cleveland’s cabinet, an eventual endowment of $30,000,000 is provided for the Uni versity of Wiseons.a. The will filed for probate provides that the estate, now valued at from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000, be placed in t the hands of four trustees during the | life time of Mrs. Vilas. She is to j receive the entire net income, and upon her death the whole property is to be turned over to the university, j subject only to a charge of $30,000 a year for his daughter. Mrs. L. M. Hanks, and some minor charges. After the property is turned over to the university, only half of the net In j come is to be expended until the prin cipal, with increment, reaches $20,- 000,000. Then only one-fourth of the new inoome will be laid aside and added to the principal. This is to continue until the sum of $30,000,000 is reached, then the entire income is to be used by the university. BRIG. GEN. S. GIRARD ATTEMPTED SUICIDE DBS MOINES, la. —As a result of mental suggestion physicians say Brig Gen. Scott Girard, head of the state anti-suicide bureau of the Volunteers of America, tried to kill himself Sat urday night by swallowing 50 strych nine pellets, which had been taken from a man dissuaded from suicide during the day, and by turning on the gas after closing the openings Doctors have little hope for his re oovery. UVERY STABLE HORSE * a HAULS GREWSOME LOAD WA .SH, Ind —With the bodies of a woman and a man, victlma of .i murder and a suicide—in the buggy behind him, a faithful livery horse, without a hand to guide him, trotted to the stable of his owner, where the double tragedy was discovered •arly vesterdav morning Jealousy, 'he police say. prompted ,1 F Baker to slay Mrs. Sylvia Null Hemic* at th» aide of the road two miles from town, place her body In the buggy seat, climb- in beside It, and then fire a bullet Into hit own THE AUGUSTA HERALD PASTOR ARRESTED FOR MOIICT Rev. Leonard W. Snyder of Norwood Ohio, Ac cused of Serious Offenses in Richmond, Va. NORFOLK, Va. —Rev. Dr. Leonard W. Snyder, of Norwood, Ohio, charged in Richmond with misconduct involv ing young boys, was arrested on the veranda of Ocean View Hotel early yesterday. He took his arrest coollv. At the jail tile minister denied that he had been guilty of any misdeed, characterizing the accusation against him as a lie and the’result of spite. Snyder claims to be a native of Germany, educated at Heidelberg, where he was made a doetor of divini ty in the Dutch Reformed church, and later confirmed into the Episco pal church. He said he had been in this coun try nine years and in his present line of work seven years, working exclus ively among boys, helping them to find out what they are best fitted for dn life, and to have them pursue those studies that will be of most advantage to them. Police Have Evidence. RICHMOND, Va.—News of the ar rest of Rev. Leonard W. Snyder was received here with general satisfac tion. Despite his denial, tfte Rioh niord police say they have Indisput able evidence of his guilt. As a mat ter of fact, officers and a newspaper man spent part of a night at a local hotel in a room adjoining that of the minister. Every precaution will be taken to avoid violence upon arrival of the prisoner, because enraged parents have talked of using a gun. IIRRE RIDES FOR 191111 OFFICERS WASHINGTON—Officers of the army holding down comfortable chairs at the w-ar department, are to he giv en no opportunity to grow soft and fat in their positions. Brigadier generals, colonels, major.) and captains, with major generals to set the pace, are to be hustled into the saddle again and forced to take rides over the country roads sur rounding Washington, varying in length from 30 to 50 miles. Orders to this effect are being prepared at the war office. As a consequence there is dense gloom about the state, war and navy departments, and offi cers are moving about with a “when will this end?” sort of expression on their faces. Two separate rides will be taken, so as not to interfere with the business of the war department. The first will be Thursday, Friday and Saturday, September 24. 25 and 26; the second, September 28, 29 and 30. The first, ride will be led by Major General Wm, P. Duvall, who Is acting chief of stuff The second ride will be eondueted by Brigadier Gene ral W. W. Wetberspoon, president ol the army war college. A number of coast artillery, engin eer and staff officers probably will take the walking test of 50 miles in three days in place of the test in horsemanship. The walking test will be early in October. Major General Frederick D. Grant, in command of the department of the East, will per sonally eonduet an additional test ride of the officers under his com mand within the next few weeks, ac cording to an announcement iiiade at the war department. This test ride will be of 90 miles for field officers at posts In this vicinity and will start at Fort Meyer, Va. General Grant has personally led two of these test rides t.ils summer, one at Pine Camp, N. Y., and the other at Fort Ethan Al len, Vermont. WITH BULLET IN HEAD MAN READS PAPER CHICAGO. -George Blair, of 598 Sedgwick street, is Bpending much of his time at the National Emergency Hospital reading the newspapers with a 22 calibre bullet In his head He seems to suffer no Inconvenience from the ball of lead, Blair, who Is 25 years old, was shot In the forehead with a rifle that he and Lawrence O'Brien, a friend, were playing with Saturday. The wounded man then walked to the hospital, a mile distant. heart, thus making the grewsome load the livery horse pulled up to the sta ble of Fs owner It Is reported Mrs. Hern Ice had planned to leave today for Benton Harbor, Michigan, to be married to Baker's rival, and this, the poliee he i Here, caused him to fire five bullet* into her body after she had made a desperate fight to save her life, and then eommit suicide Baker was a carpenter, about 42 years old, and was married twice be j fora. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 7, 1908. BUSINESS IN AUGUSTA IS GOOD: ARE YOU GETTING YOUR SHARE? Advertising Means Splendid Profits—Use The Herald For Results DEFECTIVE RRMOR PLATE STILL ON BATTLESHIPS Has Never Been Removed; Seamen Lives Have Been Endangered by this Gross Negligence. WASHINGTON—Rear Admiral W. P. Mason, chief of the bureau of or dnance admitted that the battleship Oregan, once the pride of the United States Navy, has carried since the day she was built, 400 tons of defective armor plate. In addition, tho naval officials told that the conning tower of the Ore gon. which by expert testimony given nearly fifteen years ago, was shown to be full of blowholes, which may any day b« called to aid in defending the country agtfnst an enemy. It is also shown that the armor manufactured by the Carnegie Steel company up to the latter part of 1893 which Hilary A, Herbert then secre tarv of the navy, recommended, be stripped from the Indiana, New York, Massachusetts and several other smaller vessels, has never been re moved. Book Caused Investigation The Investigation of the matter was prompted by the assertion in Upton Sinclair's new book, "The Money Changers'' that 'There are ships in our navy covered with rotten armor plate that was sold to the government for four or five times what it cost," Referring to the investigation in i 1893-94, which resulted In the ceie j brated armor plate scandal, the au- j thor says; "Nothing much was ever done about it. Tin government could not afford 1 to let the real facts get out. But, of : course, tin insiders in the navy knew about It and the memory will last an long as the ships last.'' This part of the book Is a bitter at tack on several well known men who have been connected for year* with the steel industry and whose Identity, it Is easy to traee. It charges that at the time of tin- armor plate scandal they bought out the democratic party and secured the support of a presl ! Idem of the United States. Following up a reference made in h, book to a Pittsburg lawyer, who gave the Information upon whleh the government Investigation was placed and a “plate" *519, said by the book j to hav,. been manufactured for the Oregon, reporters discovered all the j evidence that was laid before the in | vestigators. Statement From Secretary of Navy. inasmueh as 15 year* have passed! sine,, the dkte of the Investigation i this evidence Is not more amazing than the matement obtained not only] from the i hies of the bureau of ord j manc<, lor tko navy, but from m, aec I rctary of the navy himself, that tin defective armor plate Is still on tho ships on which It was placed origin ally. “I cannot state correctly whether tho armor In question la still on the Oregon and the other Vessels which were Involved In the Investigation, without referring to the records of tho bureau, ’’ said Admiral Mason when first Interviewed. “This la also In formation of the kind which cannot he given out without the permission |of the secretary of the navy," he added. Secretary Metcalf wan then visited. He sahl that he would have a confer ence with Admiral Mason during the day. In the afternoon he notified the reportor that he had Instructed tho chief of the ordnance bureau to show what, records were In his office. "Th« navy department cannot be held responsible for the fact that the armor manufactured prior to the In vestigation in 1893 Is still on the ships for which It was intended,” said Ad inlral Mason. "Captain W. T, Samp son, then at the head of tills bureau, recommended that It be removed and tested. Also thp Cummings congres sional committee, which took the mat ter up In March, 1904, made a slinllnr recommendation. A resolution was later passed by the house of repre sentatives concurring In this, but. lh" matter got through thr. senate with out explanation to provide funds fur such work the armor could not have been removed. And today th>- entire armor equipment in commission Is obsolete. Investigating Board’s Report, "The report of Captain Sampson, Professor Phillip II Alger and Lieu tenant Ackerman, who composed the investigation appointed by Secretary Herbert, was then produced. In part it is as follows: "We have carefully considered the affidavits made by several men who either witnessed or participated in the manufacture of the groups of ar mor. They affirm that the armor was carelessly or wrongfully treated with th< view of increasing the output They State that In many eases the [dates were treated only at the end*, from which the- lest specimens were to be taken. They affirm that In at least two cases test plates were treat ed after they had been selected by the government Inspector "Finally we nav* to slot., that In our belief the whole quantity of ar mor supplied bs this company is at cast 15 per cent below In quality tip best that they can furnlih, ami that the government, has been damaged. We therefore conclude that the gov < rnment has been damaged to the ex tent of, first, all premium* paid to the Carnegie company, because wrongfully obtained; second, 15 per cent of all armor furnished by them; third, the vniite of all plates contain ing serious blowholes or other serious defects whleh hav ( . been concealed. "The amount, which the navy ex perts testified would lie a proper for feiture on the part of the Carnegie company, varied from $40(1,000 To $700,000. The steel men appealed, however, to President Cleveland witli the result, that the total amount of the fine without other penalty wuh reduced by the president to sllO, 484.94'.’ The position taken by the president Ih shown In this letter addressed to the secretary of the navy and now filed with the other records of the celebrated ease. The award of the board, altlmugh exhibiting an Honest desire to meet the case fairly, does not satisfy my Inclination to give the company all reasonable benefit of the indefinite ness of the proof obtained. It appears that the fire Irregular! ties of construction was discovered by the third day of November, 1892. On the Kith day of September, 1893. ranis Intimation of tin- Irregularities reached the managers of the com pany and a letter Is produced written by one of the superintendents enjoy ing greater care in the preparation of armor. "I am willing to assume that the faulty constructions began on the third day of November, 1892, and was corrected on the Kith day of Hep tern her, 1893. On all armor manufactur ed for the government bet ween these dates, f Ihlnk ten per cent from the prlc,, should be deducted." The amount so manufactured be tween these dates Is reported to lie ; 2,647,93 tons, and Its value $1,404,- 898.41 Ten per cent of this value , Is the amount, In rny opinion, that | should be forfeited by the Carnegie company to the government. 1 This letter, which was signed by President Cleveland himself. Is the ' basis for the charges made against tiie formei president in Upton Hln | flair’s book. Tiie records show that when Ur* ! appeal was made to Mr. Cleveland the iCarnegle Steel company was repre rented by Senator Knox of Penney! vanlft. f'apt W, T Sampson argued tb<» ease for the navy department and the reporta show that he fought lq have the position of the board upheld by the president. MARGHERITA OPPOSES MATCH. I’AR4H The Martin's Turin cor ‘respondent Oates that the Count of I'Min, brother of In duke of the Alt ruzzl, visited the J'lc< n Mother Mar ghcrlta recenfl and begged her to withdraw hr r opposition to the mu •• r'lge of !b Duke of Ahrttzzl and miss Likins Cm n M«r*h»rlla refined, but the "fatin' e- rr* ..undent as * Ihe rnar j rlago will take place nevertheless. DAILY AND SUNDAY SG.OO PER YEAR. IN’S FIRST IFF. SUES SEGOND WIFE Says Number Two Deli berately Set About To Rob Her Of Her Husband MEADVILLE, I’a Crawford county has been thrown Into a state of ex citement over a suit for $5,000 dam ages which has been filed by Mrs. Mary K. Snodgrass, divorced wife of l)r. 1). (!. Snodgrass, against the pres, cut. Mrs Snodgrass. The former Mrs. Snodgrass, it ap pears, has com { > across a bundle of old love letters which she claims were written by the present Mrs. Snodgrass to Dr. Snodgrass before he divorced Ills first wife, and the claim is made by the divorced wife that Ihp present Mrs Snodgrass, who was then Miss Pauline Van Horn, a nurse In the Memorial Hospital, of New York city, deliberately set. about to rob her of her husband. PROMINENT WHITE Ml SHOT NEGRO BARNWELL, S. C- About flvu o’clock Hal unlay afternoon, Mr. Lenord Milos, a prominent white farmer who resides about live in 11 ns from town, shot. and killed Krhler Nix, oolored, ol ibis piece. The as mir was brought about by the negro, who wan under the influence of whis key. Nix, in walking down Main street, run into Mr. Mile’s little boy, which reHiiltod in the negro drawing a knife on the boy and cursing him. The father took the boy’s part of the fuHi., and the killing wuh tin* final outcome. Mr. Miles is a good, law abiding citizen, and would not have done the killing could It have been avoided. ELECTRIC PLANT GETTING II SHAPE »■ It Ik probablo that by tin* last of this week complete eioctrleul utility H«rvle« will be resumed by she rail way company. Tin* new machines are being installed as rapidly as possible, and evw thing is progressing nicely. Mr. .fames U. Jackson, of the rail way company, said this morning: "We would not like to promise that the lights will 1m- turned on tonight or tomorrow night and then fail to do so on account of some unforeseen de lay. We are doing everything we can. You can say that to the public. Wo confidently expect to be able to re sunif. full service not later than the last of the week. It Is possible wo can turn on some of* the street lights tonight. As wo are able to turn on more new power, we do so, and every volt, of current generated at tin* power house Is utilized as fast as tiio ma chines turn It out. The flood struck us at n most Inopportune time. We had Just taken down one or two old machines on Monday before the Hood cunie Wednesday, and had the new machines ready to install. The water rose in the plant, and came very near ruining both the new machines and the old ones.’’ / Street car schedules are being im proved every day, and service Is now much better than it was when flrst resummV Lights for domestic use are also being used on more circuits ev ery day. NOTHING DOING 111 HOUSE UD SENATE ATLANTA The house and senate both met at in o'clock this liinrnlng to again wrestle with the convict problem. The senate immediately adjourned subject to the call of the president. The third conference corn mlttce made no report but the coni mltiee Is known to have been unable lh reach agreement. In the house a resolution was offered to adjourn out of respect for Labor day, and debated This Coal Dealer Feeds Roll Of Bills To Horse WATEWfL’RY, Conn Robert Me Cormlck, n e.ifti dealer, sold a house Friday and goi $1,300, all In hills He got |t. hi night. Going home he d* elded that It would ho safer In the barn than In tin house, so he put the roll of hills In a sack of feed In llii morning he fed his hors out of (he same sack At breakfast he was trilling the family about sell If yon have any kind of woTk to offer, to any kind of a work or, your want ad. will find raoro oager readers than tho most interesting nows dispatch In the paper. , BRYAN LASOR DAY GUEST IIGHIGAGU WAS THE CENTER OF THE GREATEST CELEBRATION EVER HELD IN CHICAGO. MADE MANY SPEECHES Talked to Union Mon On Injunction, Also Made Speech to Electrical Workers CHICAGO.—On the ove of a apq a Ic ing tour us three weeks, beginning here today, Hon. William J, Bryan be came the victim of holla. These plo blan afflictions developed over night on hln trip hero from Linooln, Neb., and tho candidate bravely and smil ingly stepped from tho Rock Island train at 5.40 this morning, with a handkerchief protecting the back of bin neck from contact with his col lar. Mr. Bryan was met at. the station by Col. Martin, the sorgeaat-at-arms of the national committee; National Com in ft lee in an Miller of Oregon, and a number of local labor loaders, ac companied by n brans bund. Ho was roundly chi en d as be made bis way to the carriage which took him 1o the Auditorium Annex. At tho hotel Mr Bryan hud u brief opportunity to confer with the chiefs of the party before tin' Labor Day parade began. The speaking tour begun today will carry Mr. Bryan through Illinois, In diana, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Rhode island, and New York. Mr. Ilryuu was today the rented of a Labor Day celebration that out ranked similar celebrations In Chica go for years past. From the moment of his arrival, except for an hour that he spout ns guest of the Iroquois club at luncheon, he was In the hand* of labor men practically all day. The Hist public appearance of the democratic presidential candidate was on the reviewing stand, on the bal cony before the natioual democratic headquarters at the Auditorium An nex, where the Labor Day parade, approximately 20,000 union men and women In line, passed In review be fore him. Mr. Bryan was met nt the railway station by a committee representing the Injunction Reform League, which organization was Ids host for tho day. and escorted him to auditorium. Af ter the parade he was whisked away to the Iroquois chili luncheon, where he made a brief talk to the club members. He then entered an auto mobile, which wus to convey him to Forest Park, where be was to address the union men at I o'clock on the subject of abuse of Injunction In labor disputes. This evening ho was to speak lo electrical workers at Brands Bark on the northwest side of tho city. • . DISGUISE NEARLY GOST IN'S LIFE DBS MOINES, la The wonderful j "make-up” of Roy Henry, a prosper mis grocer of this city, came pretty near costing him his life at the hands of a mob late Saturday night. Henry suspected ilia: his wife was going out to meet James Beefing, and he de termined to follow her. Then he conceived the Idea of dis guising himself as a negro. Thus dis guised he followed ids wife and lleer Ing until his anger got the better of him, and be went for the affinity, in a down town street, and proceeded to pummel him with Ills fists. The black Henry was on top of the white Beering when the crowd got there, hikl was punching him hard ami fasi The crowd’s sympathies werr; with the white man. They haul ed llr-nry off him and handled him roughly. "Ilting him!” cried some one. "Say, you blanked Idiots, can't you see I'm a white man? Here, look at my wrists and arms. That’s my wlfo, I and I've caught her with another man. ! I4*t me get at hint again.' J Beering escaped. Mrs Henry was hysterical. She went home with her ) grocer-actor pugilist husband | ing the property, when Mrs. McCor mick suddenly asked him: "What did you do with the money?" That s nrted him for the barn at a quick step, where he found that he had given the $1 ,300 roll to the hors* for breakfast jin'* that the intelligent animal had trim to eat It, but finding It lacking In IMvor, had nosed it along ih>- manger while cleaning up Uls feed ,7)11' money wa* InUtch