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THE T'ircCE-A -\Y EEK TELEGBAPH
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1907.
I CANAL ZONE NEEDS Y. M.C.
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Ohio. AprII 88.—Secretary
III ,rr H. Taft arrived in this
n today in a special car over
natJ, Hamilton & Dayton
mpanled by his brother,
Taft; some personal friends
ed by Judge B. F. McCann,
gone* to Cincinnati as the
.1 representative of the Young
Christian Association,
chcon awaited the secretary’s ar-
tnd the succeeding time was em-
1 greeting people and evading
tearing upon political topics,
lony of laying the corner-
le new Young Men’s Chrls-
atlon building began at 2:39
„ ion. and after singing, pray
er md Scripture reading, the secretary
xv,*i introduced by E. L. Shuey. At
the conclusion Mr. Taft formally placed
the relic box In the crypt prepared for
It. nnrl sealed It. The secretary’s ad-
EjnM dealt mainly with the growth and
purpose of the Young Men’s Christian
Association.
After the cornerstone ceremonies,
Sitrttanr Taft returned to Cincinnati,
where he will deliver two, possibly
• hr< e addresses tomorrow. In the
morning he will visit the university of
Clncinnntl. where he is a professor In
:ho law school, and will deliver an ad-
d!-■ to the students. loiter In the
day ho may visit the chamber of com
merce. for a short time. In the even
ing ho will speak to the members of
i\. Business Men’s Club on “The Pan
ama Canal.”
Secretary’s Address.
At today's ceremony Secretary Taft
said.
“The great advantage of the Institu
tion 1 that after long experience It
has come to be conducted on the most
approved business principles. Another
characteristic of the association is Its
non-sectarian religious quality. We arc
nil more tolerant today than formerly.
. I never was as fully conscious of this
fact as when the question arose which
had become intensely acuto In the
Philippine Islands In regard to the con
tinued ownership of a large body of
agricultural lands by certain religious
orders of the Roman Catholic church.
The solution which offered Itself was.
that the Government should buy these
lands from the Friars and then sell
them on easy terms to the present ten
ant'. It was thought wise to send a
representative to Rome to confer with
7,00 XIII. upon this question, and If
pos lble. to bring about a friendly
ard nmlcnhlo solution. The President,
after considering the reports of the
leading protestant denominations,
counted upon the good sense and the
religious tolerance of the people of the
United States, and' concluded to fob-
low the odlnary business principle that
when one wishes to accomplish a re
sult he should deal directly with the
person having the power effectually to
agree upon the re'ult desired, and a
report was sent. The business, after
much negotiation both at Rome and
Manila, was finnlly conclued. and no
persons were more considerate of the
difficulties presented and sympathetic
with the policy adopted to meet them
by the President than the protestant
denominations whose opposition had
been feared. T venture to think that
fifty years ago such a result would
nor have followed, and that the mo
tives of the Government nnd of the
President would have been misunder
stood or misconstrued. I regard that
n«; one striking Instance of the greater
brotherhood that now exists between
the great Christian denominations—a
brotherhood that finds no more elo
quent proof than the continued pros
perity and the growth In Influence
and power of the Young Men’s Chris
tian Association, which dedicates this
building todny.
“Nowhere Is the opportunity for
usefulness of the Y. M. C. A. greater
than among Americans In the Fhilin-
plnes, Porto Rico. Cuba . nnd on the
Isthmus of Panama. It Is inevitable
that a great many of the Americans
-who go first to our tropical dependen
cies. a long distance from the United
States should be wandering and Irre
sponsible.”
He pointed out that even staid and
upright men of good habits at home
often yielded, when in the tropics, to
the temptation to drink and otherwise
to dissipate, due in a measure, he
thought, to the fact that there were
few place-' .>f :i;nu--e:re; tile libraries
were Insufficient and home surround
ing.-- were lacking.
“Nothing contributes.” said the sec
retary. “more to the support of the
views of opponents of our plans of
progre---' than the presence in Manila
nnd other cities nnd towns of disso
lute Americans whose example is any
thing but edifying and who form an
object lesson to enforce the claim
made by our opponents that there Is
l nothing of value In American civiliza
tion f -r them to follow. Their people
are generally a temperate people, as
most tropical people are, while north
ern people In the tropics are not fre
quently glyen to intemperance.
“Now the way to avoid this result
is to furnish a place in which the
leisure hours of Americans in these
dependencies can he passed in ra
tional. elevating an I moral pursuits
nnd entertainments. The Y. M. C. A.
Is one of the most effective instru
ments to this end we have.”
ptveiarj Taft said that on the
Isthmus of Panama. In the American
zone the canal commission had con-
strueted f.-vr - h-v.:<--s one e.n. h at
Cult-bra. Empire. Gorgon*, and Cristo
bal ail alike In design.
A comprehensive plan, he said, had
been devised whereby the commission,
working in cor.j-.tn t'.on with V M.
C. A . will manage these and other
similar buildings in th“ chief labor
centers. In closing he referred to the
appointment of secretaries for these
chib houses and a superintendent of
club h uses, all from the A. At. C. A.
ranks and to the Government’s paying
for i-’-.ot • -.■•••> serv!.-'" at these !' :do
ings. and s id the President had a
right to expend money for this pur
pose under his authority to build the
canal. "To render the canal laborers
efficient for the purpose for which
t]. 0 v are transported there,” he added
“it Is absolutely necessary that they
he surtoiind-'-i with the Influences and
furnished with the attractions noces-
sprv to keep them in a moral and
physical State which will make them
efficie: t laborers, to the end which the
Government has in view in expending
these millions."
TAFT EXPECTED TO
MAKE AN
Political Interest this week centers
In the possibility of a definite an
nouncement of his candidacy for the
Republican nomination for President
on the part of Secretary of War. Taft.
On Monday he is scheduled to ad
dress the Business Mens’ Club at Cin
cinnati. He Is expected to have a
conference with some of ills political
friends in Ohio, -out of which some
positive action may come.
About 1,000 delegates are expected to
attend the convention of the Inter
national Kindergarten Union, which
will Ae held in Xew York city, begin
ning on Monday, and continuing four
days.
The question as to who will rule
Zion City, built under the direction
of John Alexander Dowle. Is expected
to come to an issue on Wednesday,
as Wilbur Glenn Voliva has Issued an
ultimatum declaring that unless the
people 6f that community, accept him
as their head 'by May 1, he will tako
radical action to assert his control.
The Independence Cigar Manufac
turers at Havana have decided to
close their factories April 29 in sym
pathy with the strikers of the tobacco
combine and as a result 9,000 cigar
makers will be out of employment on
that date. The employes of the com
bine struck two months ago to com
pel the payment of wages in Ameri
can instead of Spanish money.
The International Maritime Exposi
tion organized by the French naval
union under the official patronage of
the French Government, will open at
Bordeaux May 1, and continue until
October 81. Elections for members
of the Spanish Senate will be held
May 6.
UNION TEAMSTER DIED
OF WOUNDS OF STRIKE BREAKER.
SAVANNAH. April 2?.—Guarded with
the utmost secrecy, the deliberations of
local lumbermen. In a conference with the
j officials of the railroads entering the city
i and steamship companies plying between
: Savannah and coastwise points, have
j been persistently withheld from the news
paper men of the city. Yet despite the
extraordinary precautions taken by
Chairman Harvey Granger and associ
ates. it Is learned from an authentic
source that at a special meeting of the
Board of Trade which was called April
24. the railroads were given a practical
ultimatum by the lumbermen, which will
result in legal proceedings should the
railroad and the ocean carriers Involved
continue obstinate and refuse to grant
the concessions asked by the lumber in
terests of the city.
The special meeting held last Wednes
day was a “monster affair." The entire
fourteen members of the lumber commit
tee were present, besides some ten or
twelve railroad and stamship men. and
members of other committees such as
transportation, etc., were also requested
to be present in order that they might be
thoroughly familiar with the steps taken
at the meeting.
That there was some pretty warm talk
indulged in bv both sides is not to be
denied. The lumbermen presented their
side of the controversy which deals with
the questions mentioned in a previous
letter, viz: the refusal of the Central
railroad and tile Merchants and Miners
Transportation Companies, alleged to be
working in unison with a previous under
standing. to accept shipments, and since
the railroad mentioned practically refuses
to book further orders for placement of
cars on the terminals of the company, the
lumbermen, naturally perhaps, feel that
they have Just cause for complaint.
The railroad and steamship officials on
the other hand say that the lumber Inter
ests have no Just cause for complaint:
that if they wish to nfMI to accept cars
of lumber from other lines entering the
port they have every right to do so. and
that there is no law which can force them
to do so. The lumbermen, however, think
otherwise, and they have given the rail
road and steamship company a few days
to consider the matter before giving a
decided answer.
It appears, however, that there Is lit
tle likelihood of the railroad either taking
the cars until they feel so inclined, or the
Merchants and Miners Transportation Cn
placing additional steamships on the Bal
timore and Philadelphia schedules. It is
therefore obvious that the opinion ex
pressed last week that the matter would
And its way into the courts for adjust
ment is being practical!*• verified by the
very interests which denied the report
less than a week ago.
The Savannah lumber market other
wise Is in good shane. Orders are plen
tiful and prices show a stiffening ten
dency.
“BOSTON, April 28.—Michael Cun
ningham, a union teamster who was
shot by a strike breaker in South Bos
ton last Wednesday, died of his In
juries today. William Harris, of New
York, is under arrest charged^ with
shooting Cunningham. 4 '
While one of the teams employed by
a firm involved in the strike was
passing the South Station this after
noon. a crowd collected and the driver
fearing trouble, fired three or four
shots, none of which struck any one.
OFFICERS OF CHINESE NAVY
AND ARMY HAVE ARRIVED
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2S.—The
steamship Siberia, which arrived to
day from the Orient, had on board a
distinguished party of Chinese officers
who are to repsent the Imperial
army and navy of China at the James
town Exposition. The party consists
of Lieut. Liu Sung Chwang. of the
navy: Col. LI Ting Hsin, Maj. Wang
Yu and Capt. Wang Yen Pin, of the
army. V
The party was met by Capt. A. W.
Brewster, U. S. A., who will escort
them across the continent. Admiral
Brownson, ltitely in charge of the
Asiatic squadron, was also a passen
ger on the Siberia.
ATLANTA WILL RAISE
FUND FOR THE FAIR.
ATLANTA. Go.. April 28.—Secretary’
Frank Weldon, of the Atlanta Fair com
mittee nnnounred today that the total
subscriptions to the guarante fund for the
State Fair had reached $12,492. leaving
something over $2,500 to be raised by
Wednesday. Uq_ states this amount Is
assured and that the fair will be held in
Atlanta.
INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS
PROMISING IN NEW ENGLAND.
BOSTON. April 2S.—According to
the union officers and business agents
of working men’s organizations, the
Industrial situation in New England on
May 1 will be marked by fewer con
tentions between capital and labor
than for many years. In the build
ing trades several small strikes are
threatened in a number of cities, but
in Boston there promises to be little
suspension of work in any branch of
industry- The building laborers union,
the members of which are unskilled,
have registered new wage rates In
Boston and vicinity. It is understood
that prospects for settlement without
a strike are favorable. The painters
of Eastern Massachusetts are endeav
oring to establish a uniform wage of
S3 a day minimum in Metropolitan
Boston, but there will be no strike in
May. ns the wage question will not
be adjusted until later.
The most serious condition existing
in Boston is due to the strike a month
ago of teamsters. In New England
at large there are several causes for
unrest in cotton mills, and It is re
ported that an attempt will be made
to advance wages in Fall River seme
time next month.
SAVANNAH. Ga., April 28.—Contrary
to what had been expected by the greater
portion of the trade, spirits of turpen
tine during the past week developed a
further weakness, and while there was
really no actual changes In the current
price, the undertone generally was bad
| toward the latter part of the session
which ended yesterday.
I The re-entrance of foreign buyers into
the market war. a feature of a rather un-
interresting week. Exporters and brokers
for days prior to the opening of the week
1 just passed, remained out of the market.
apparently for the purpose of awaiting
j until the market touched "bed rock” and
then getting in on the ground floor. The
I actual sales effected for foreign require-
| ments were rather limited, however, and
of the total purchased but 150 casks were
forwarded.
Despite the fact that it was another
of these "five day” weeks, the volume of
business was considered good. Buyers
for domestic requirements were "In” at
J all stages with the single excep»on of
Saturday, when, because of the uneer-
to intv n C otMilnnn .1 In 4ha tona
FATHER DID HOT SAKE;
BOY SAID HE SLEPT
STRIKE AT BEAUMONT
REACH CRISIS TODAY.
BEAUMONT. Tex., April 2S.—Late
reports from the Batson. Saratoga and
Spindle Top oil field, where a strike
of the employes of the Guffey oem-
pany is on, are to the effect that a
crisis may be expected tomorrow, when
the operators declare that a large num
ber of men will be put to work in the
places of the strikers. An officer • of
one of the Guffey companies states
that any of the strikers who desire to
return to the employ of the company
will be given work, but that recogni
tion of the union is out of the ques
tion.
A lagre number of special deputies
have been sworn in by the sheriff.
The union men still declare their
intention of using every effort to pre
vent the introduction of strike break
ers.
BIGGEST ELK IN WORLD
WEDS AT WAYCR0SS
TVAYCROSS, Ga., April 2S.—W. T.
Brinson, who weighs 585 pounds, and
is claimed to be the largest member
of the order of Elks in the world, was
married this afternoon to Miss Lucius
Allen, of Soperton, Ga., daughter of TV.
G. Allen, of that place. The wedding
occurred at the Methodist parsonage.
Brinson is a wealthy turpentine oper
ator, and is a widower of about a
year.
tainty as evidenced in the tone. v they
doubtless thought it prudent to stay out
until Monday's opening. It was rather
the consensus of opinion that the market
would ease off to 65c per gallon, or JAc
below official board values.
Turpentine. however, remained at
65%c throughout the week, but shifted
to “steady'' at Saturday’s opening and
to "quiet” at the final call.
The lower grades of rosins remained
practically unchanged during the past
seven days and were in exeetlant demand.
There was quite a deal of “bear” activity
evidenced In the pales and mediums, and
during Friday and Saturday some sharn
declines were recorcd. amounting in all
to about 25 to 30c. The quotations at
yesterday’s call were: Water white.
$5.50; window glass. $5.45: N. $5.10; M,
$5.35: K. $5.25: I. $5; H. $4.80; G. $4.65:
F. $4.60: E. $4.50: D, $4.45: CBA. $4.35.
The statistics: 1907-8 1906-7
Receipts Spir. Rosin.
Saturday 505 1.632
Week 2.416 7.674
Month 8.359 25.5S6
Season .8,359 25,586
Exports:—
Saturday 1,070 2.4S7
■Week 2.178 2.557
Month 10.600 44.189
Season 10.600 44.189
Foreign 250 26.01S
Stock Saturday..4,216 23,813
Spir. Rosin.
549 1.891
3,634 9,540
11.126 28.884
11.126 28.SS4
WAYCROSS. Ga., April 2S.—Accord
ing to the verdict of the coroner’s jury,
John Grantham, thirty-five years old.
was murdered 'by unknown parties at
the new A. C. L. shops here this
morning. The body of the dead man
was found by his little son at 12 o’clock
today when he went to the shops to
carry his dinner to him. The boy
thought his father was asleep and ran
home and told his mother that his fath
er was asleep and that he could not
wake him. Mrs. Grantham then went
to the shop and found that her hus
band was dead, a bullet having en
tered his breast near the heart. The
body was about seventy feet from the
building in which Mr. Grantham’s pis
tol was found with one chamber empty.
The dead man was watchman at the
shops, and it was at first thought that
he accidentally killed himself, but after
the body was examined by a physician
and the coroner's jury it was decided
that from the course of the bullet it
would have been almost impossible for
him to have accidentally shot him
self, so the Jury returned a verdict to
the effect that Grantham came to his
death at hands of parties unknown.
Mrs. Grantham is overcome with
grief and her condition is said to be
serious. Grantham was a native of
Vermont, but had been in Waycross
since last June.
Fiftieth Anniversary of Their Wedding.
COLUMBUS, Ga., April 28.—Mr. and
Mrs. I. Joseph, two of the oldest and
most prominent residents of Columbus,
celebrated today, with a family reunion
at their residence on 'Broad street, the
fiftieth anniversary of their wedding.
All of their ten children were present
and the occasion was a most happy
one. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph were mar
ried fifty years ago today in Trinity
Episcopal Church, in this city, and
have resided Jtiere ever since. . Mr.
Joseph, who is now retired, was for
merly engaged in mercantile and
steamboat enterprises.
OUTLOOK IN COUNTRY
100 ESCAPE PLUNGE
TO DEATH H WRECK
PITTSBURG, Pa., April 2S.—Two
men were killed and one hundred pas
sengers had a thrilling escape from
a like fate in the -wreck today of a
passenger train on the Wabash Rail
road, when the engine and one c’oach
left the track a half mile west of the
Bridgeville station, near here and
plunged into Chartiers Creek, forty
feet below. Scores of people missed
death or Injury through a circumstance
which is now regarded as providential.
The dead are: Marion Boyd, en-
glneman, of Rook Station; Frank Mc-
Isaacs, fireman, of Barberton. Ohio.
The train was made up of four pas
senger coaches. When it was crossing
g trestle over Chartin' Creek, without
warning, the engine suddenly leaped
from the rails and shot to the stream
underneath, taking the first coach with
it. The forepart of the engine sank
several feet into the mud of the creek
bed. The coach was smashed to splin
ters by its terrific impact with the lo
comotive. By what railroad men re
gard as little more than mere chance,
there were no passengers In the front
coach. The coupling between It and
the second coach was wrenched in
two when it was torn from the tres
tle by the engine. None of those in
the three rear coaches'knew of the ac
cident or realized how close they had
come to death until several minutes
NEW YORK. April 2$.—The open
ing of the outdoor construction season
finds’ New York, both city and State,
without apprehension of serious labor
troubles. In the building trades
especially prosperous and reassuring
conditions prevail. There Is a largo
nnd well met demand for both skilled
and' unskilled labor, due to the exten
sive private construction projects now-
under way and the tunnels, railway
tenpinals and other undertakings of a,
public or quasi-public feature. This
contentment is generally reflected in
the manufacturing and industrial cen
ters and beyond a few localized and
sporadic strikes, the labor situation is
regarded as brighter than for many
years.
Never So Harmonious in Chicago.
CHICAGO. April 2S.—The relations
between employer nnd employe were
probably never so harmonious in Chi
cago as they are now. In the past, on
May 1. there has usually been differ
ences between the labor unions nnd
the employes in Chicago, but this year
there is scarcely a cloud on the in
dustrial horizon. Every union In tho
building industry, with the exception
of the Structural Iron Workers has
renewed contracts with employers and
the iron workers expect to reach a
settlement without a strike. Machin
ists have demanded an increase of 3.»
cents a day in wages, but the indica
tions are that there will practically be
no trouble in putting the new schedule
into effect. Most of the larger firms
In the city have signified a willingness
to grant the increase and if any
strikes are railed Mav 4 they will bo
The
— - , , , . r j confined to individual firms
afterwards, when the ears deprived of | brickmakers arp now holding confer-
their motive power, slackened their j cneeq vvItb their employes and will
speed and came to a step. probablv reach a settlement, before
A new schedule went into effect on ; r . week
the railroad 'today, and to this fact ; * -
many owe their lives. Under the new | Better ; n st. Louis Than for Years,
schedule, train No. 27 left this city I OUTS \pril 28—Employers
forty-five minutes earlier nnd over fifty j aad j abrir , ea) j ers 0 f St. Louis and' the
persons missed the train for this reas- , Southvvest roport labor conditions bet-
on. On account of the reduced number ; f Mav ' t thIs year than for many
of passengers all were placed in three ; ' t Practically all wage
rear coaches while the front coach was j '^ s in st Louis a nd the surround-
unoccupied. iw territory of 200 miles are signed.
Boyd and Mclseacs were crushed to ; ™« " is , one tbfs ino ,udes 120-
death. A short time after the wreck j The unions allied with
Odd Fellows Celebrate*
FITZGERALD, Ga., April 28.—The
Odd Fellows of this city observed the
eighty-eighth anniversary of the
founding of the order in America last
night by a fine program. The Empire
band furnished the music.
BODY OF PROF. NOBLE
TAKEN TO CINCINNATI.
NEW YORK. April 28.—The body of
Prof. Thomas S. Noble, who died at the
Presbyterian hospital last night
taken to Cincinnati today.
Professor Noble tstts 35 years old. head
of the Cincinnati Art School and was
well-known as a painter.
DELI LINE Bf MR
ROOSEVELT PARTY RETURN
TO WASHINGTON SUNDAY.
NEW YORK, April 28.—The sea
son of field and track sports, amateur
as well as professional for 1907. will
be fairly well underway with the com
ing of the present week. All the lar
ger colleges booked to participate in
the annual rowing regatta are turn
ing attention to ..the conditioning of
their crews and with the coming of
May track athletics will take on new
life. The baseball season of the major
leagues has progressed far enough to
permit the followers of this popular
sport to size up. the chances of their
favorites in the pennant races and the
yachtsmen will break out their sails
to the early May breezes. Chief inter
est in horse racing necessarily centers
in the Metropolitan tracks on which
will be run all the old established
classics with prospects of an unusual
ly large number of contestants for the
rich prizes.
The college cre.ws are all aboat now
working hard for the Poughkeepsie
regatta to be held June 26 and subse
quent races. Reports from all training
tables say the 5 oarsmen are rounding
into form nicely. Yale’s green crew—
there are only two old men in the
boat—is making vigorous efforts to get
into shape for the match with the
midshipmen at Annapolis next Satur
day. Bolton has been- definitely pick
ed to stroke for the Blue, and the sons
of Old Eli hope 'to wipe out the defeat
administered by the Middles last year.
The navy boat has but two men in it.
Harvard-Dartmouth Meet.
Harvard and Dartmouth will meet
in field sports in the stadium at Cam
bridge Saturday. Much interest is
evinced in the negotiations now going
on between Harvard and Yale for an
athletic meeting on this side of the
Atlantic during the summer with the
Oxford and Cambridge universities
teams and the hope is everywhere ex
pressed that tiie Englishmen can be
induced to comef'over.
Miss Annette Kellerman, the worlds’
was j champion woman swimmer, will ar
rive in New York during the week and
will give exhibitions in various cities.
It is not improbable that a race be
tween the Australian woman and Miss
Ellaline Golding, of Bath Beach, New
York, will be arranged.
The rules and conditions of the Van
derbilt automobile cup race on Long
Island the blue ribbon event for mo
torists, will be announced May 15.
The race will take place this year two
weeks later than last season. The
course may be somewhat changed this
year. _ , .
Richard Croker’s Stable.
The English turf will again see
Richard Croker’s stable on the famous
tracks there this season. Croker has
sent a string of horses across the Irish
channel with Orby, a grandson of
Flying Fox, who won the derby in
1899, at its head. With this horse Mr.
Croker hopes to land the much coveted
is best thought of by the handicapper,
who has allotted him top weight 126
pounds. The Pickfet is ten pounds
better off, and Water Tight has still
one pound less to carry. Grapple Pul
sus, Brookdale, Nymph, Kuroki, Jac-
quin, Creina and Lambesia are among
the entries.
Police Inspection.
COLUMBUS, Ga., /April 2S.—The
semi-annual inspection of the Colum
bus police department.. took place to
day at noon. The officers, attired in
their new uniforms, were addressed by
various city official?. The department
made, as usual, a fine showing. Capt.
Wiley Williams, chief of police, was
in charge of the ceremonies.
T. P.
A. STRONGLY FAVOR
FLAT 2XCE/ T PASSENGER RATE.
WASHINGTON. April 2S.—Return
ing from the visit at the Jamestown
Exposition and the day’s holiday on
the James river. President Roosevelt
and party arrived here on the cruiser
yacht Mayflower this afternoon. All I
of the party were well. The May-
flowe was late:- than expected.
The Mayflower reached the Wash
ington navy yard dock shortly after :
1:30 o’clock. President Roosevelt t
stood on the starboard side of tho j
vessel and waved a greeting to the ;
crowd and officers who had gathered :
to welcome the party home. The 1
President was the first to come ashore
and he was greeted with cheers. The ■
Presidential party were at once driv
en to the White House. Secretary
Loeb said that the President and ev
ery member of his party had a de
lightful trip. There was no special in- j
cident on the return trip.
KNIGHTS TEMPLARS
INSTITUTE COMMANDERY
NORFOLK, Va„ April 2».—Something
new under the sun is the "Water Belt j
Line” that has just been projected as
a means of transportation between the
Jamestown Exposition grounds and the
several cities and points of interest
around Hampton Roads and Tidewater
Virginia. The “Belt Line” on land, by
steam or trolley cars, is a familiar in
stitution in many cities, but here for
the first time has been organized a
water belt line, boats instead of cars
being used. 1
Splendid observation steamers will be 1 derbv this year, but turf followers
run on this novel route. Each steamer j cannot see that he has a chance,
will carry about 1,500 passengers with- ' Universal regret is expressed on the
out crowding. A regular schedule of continent that William K. Vanderbilt’s
trips will be made, the boats starting ! s tar performer. Maintenon. has gone
from Campbell’s wharf In Norfolk, j wrong and has been relegated to the
touching at Portsmouth, the Norfolk ; stu d.
Navy Yard. Newport News, Old Point ] Much of the $246 000 won by the
Comfort, Fortress Monroe and other 1 Vanderbilt stable last year was
historic points en route, and complet- I brought heme by this fleet horse. Wil
ing the one-way trip at a fine pier to be ][ am Duke the Vanderbilt trainer,
built cut into the waters of Hampton was pointing Maintenon for the Ascot
Roads directly in front of the exposi- go i d cup> ; n which Mr. Vanderbilt had
tion site. Boats will run every fifteen . hoped to reverse the defeat of Main-
minutes. A minute and valuable feat- tenon bv Spearmint in the grand Prix
ure of the plan is to issue coupon tick- > de Paris last year. Both horses were
ets on these trip?, giving the passenger ent ered for the gold cup.
the privilege of disembarking at any Toung Jay Gould- it is expected, will
or all of the stopping places mentioned win t bt5 amateur court tennis cham-
and taking the next boat or any boat pi 0ns hip now being contested in Lon-
later in the day. This will give oppor- d on. H | s p i nv irfg thus far has shown
tunity for seeing all the sights. The him to be {„ a c i ass by himself since
round trip to the exposition in this p-ustacc Miles decided not to defend
manner will be full of incidents. These bl „’ tuIe
Water Belt Line trip? are to be in no “ Interest in Pugilism.
soe'C' on on the order of the average ; A degree of international interest
"cheap excursion.” where the riffraff bas bi , t Cn aroused in pugilism since
and bobtail of humanity usually take tbe arr j va ( a t San Francisco of the
possession of the boat:_ on the contrary; Australian champion heavy weight,
RURAL FREE DELIVERY
SCHEDULE APPROVED
WASHINGTON. April 28.—Post
master Gener.'.l Meyer has approved
the detailed idjustmen: of salaries of
rural free delivery carriers, which was
submitted by Assistant Postmaster
General DeGr.tw ar.d the new s.hdule
which will became effective July 1 next
will make .1 graded increase in the
compen-a:Ion of carriers of from nine
to twenty-five per Cent, based upon the
number ef miles traversed by carrl - rs
ns shown bv the records of the de
partment. The readjustment adopted,
with the increase of upwards of $5.-
000.990. made in the appropriation ay
Congress, will involve an aggregate ex-
L pendlturr for rural service during the
fc.
FITZGERALD. Ga.. April 25.—The
Knights Templars Instituted a enm-
rr.andery here last night with thirty
members Eminent Grand Recorder
W. S. Rockwell presided. The work
was exnmplified by the team of Cyrrno
Commandery No. 13. of Cordele Emi
nent Commander P. H. Willis presid
ing. A class of twelve rereived the
Rod Cross and Temple orders. The
Red Cross was conferred before sup
per and the entire company adjourned
to a banquet at the Lee-Grant Hotel.
After the banquet the Temple order
was conferred end at 1:30 the com
pany adjourned to the Seiby Cafe for
a morning lunch.
Csrdi-a! G'bbcns Goes Home.
NEW ORLEANS. La.. April 25.—Car
dinal Gibbons, who came to this city
at the direction of Pope Pius X. to
he'tew the pallium upon Archbishop
Plonk, of New Orleans. last Wednos-
dav left tonight for his home in Balti
more.
they will appeal to the best class of
people, no liquors being sold aboard
and no rowdyism being permitted.
Besides the regular trips, the com
pany is planning to have numerous ex
cursions to such places as Jamestown
Island. Yorktown and other points of
historic interest In and around Tide
water Virginia.
At Yorktown. where Lord Cornwallis
surrendered to George Washington, Is a
beautiful monument erected by the
Government to commemorate the great
victory. There stands the first custom
house ever opened in the L,ni--:-d States
The ruin? of the old church built in
1660 are still to be seen.
Of equal Interest is the trip up the
James river, on the way ro Richmond,
to Jamestown Island, where the first
permanent English settlement was
made. Here can be seen the ruined
church tower and the old graveyard
wi;h its historic tombs and inscrip
tions. The peninsula between the
James and the York rivers has been
tho scene of more bloody conflicts than
have occurred or. any territory of sim
ilar size in the Xew World.
William Squires. • who comes to these
shores with the highest reputation as
a boxer of class. Americans have not
forgotten the other great fighters who
came from the antipodes, and made
their way against this country's best
and are inclined to take Squires as
the only man in sight capable of giv
ing battle to Champion Jeffries.
Squires must first show his worth,
however and as an earnest of his de
sire to do so. he has posted a large
forfeit at Los Angeles to meet the
winner of the Jack O’Brien-Tommy
Burns contest, scheduled to take place
in that city May 28. Should he defeat
th° winner of that match the Aus
tralian champion will ask Champion
Jeffries to give him battle and thus
will occur a real international ring
contest in which there is always in
tense interest.
The next big stake event of the
Eastern horse racing season will be
the Metropolitan handicap, to be run
May 9 at Belmont Park. Twenty-
seven horses, a majority of them good
! performers, are entered. Accountant
ATLANTA. Ga.. Anrii 2S.—C. L. Hol
lingsworth. member of the board of direc
tors of the T. P A., stated i’t an inter
view today tba* the attitude of Max
Krauss. of Savannah, against the re
duction of the passenger fare in Georgia,
is inexplainable. except on the basis that
Mr. Krauss favors the railroad? He de
clares that the State board of directors of
the T. P. A. Is stronglv in favor of a
flat 2-cent rate and will work to that
end.
GRADUATE NURSES
WILL HOLD CONVENTION
SAVANNAH. Ga., April 28.—There
will be a convention of the graduate
nurses of Georgia for the purpose of
forming a State association, held at
Savannah on May 15, 16 and 17, Will
all graduate nurses holding diplomas
from training schools in good stand
ing, and who wish to attend, commu
nicate with Miss Wilson, Savannah
Hospital, president Graduate Nurses
Association of Savannah or Miss
Clark. Telfair Hospital, Savannah,
secretary Graduate Nurses Associa
tion of Savannah.
der'"the ^ debris Vn^the^tallow ’ water ! Ending "Trades Council here aro
A wreeki^cAw"wa'Vspatched'from i «'• ^^^"men‘empfoyed' 6 m
Rock Station and after a delay of sev- j There 'are SSW 0W
ral hours the track was repaired and j ’J™* 1 ' lh r ~ imlrms . other branches
with an engine attached to the three , l " 1 '^^joWv'"■ood ^; ('ondl-
coache S which escaped the wreck the J " f ‘ ra< L e *fe-v^^workeri who were
passengers were taken to their desti- j Hon. he ; ’ „„„ have now
nations. The cause of the accident -S8S5
a mj el 2l J sav there will be nothing this year in
local circles to hinder great building
MILES WILL DC BFST TO
DEFEND CHAMPIONSHIP j activity.
LONDON. April 38—Eustase S. j M- A^rently Satisfied^ PiUsburg.
Miles, holding the court tennis cham-5 PITTSUuku. Apr i
Miles, nomm? me court lenms ' - lf , to
pionshlp. says he will do his best to Pittsburg and vicinity Is expected to
{srrway* ■ms&.n -HrKSw
to be played Friday and the winner trades, but this year scales Mmvmn
-e -vriW dofenU was signed and tbe men are apparently
of it. by reason of Miles’ default, was , - t ho exception of the
t0 Jay Gould. 6 file ^American player, who machinist* about 300 of whom art
has reached the semi-final stage to- £ 'amfcably adjust-
day expressed annoyance at this I :V S ° The machinists are striking for
den change In Miles’ plans. He. said j ed. ^ a nd shorter
he came here expressly to meet Miles. --- -------- 0 foundries the men are
but as the champion had declined to hours. At . f the union
plnv he had accepted the situation and 1 non- out “”A el I h ° r ’ b]e wil ] become
Enrrlend immediate- and it is said the trouble Will oecome
arranged to leave England immediate . tb( ,
FriSr s,m ' “ pw ’ a -“issatw i.
the union scale is
REFUSFD TO ENDORSE LABOR’S
ATTACK ON THE PRESIDENT i
ST. LOUIS, April 28.—The Central
Trades and Labor Union bf St. Louis |
todav refused to endorse a resolution j
by the pattern makers organization j
attacking President Roosevelt for his
terming "undesirable citizens” Moyer Jj ... _ r
nnd Havwood officers of the Western fact (ll3t twelve iarim .mim-s have been
Federation of Miners, charged with in opera tion for two days .'1 mine No. 35
complicity in the murder of former 0 f ;he Berwind White Company, Foust-
Oov Steunenberg. Members of the j well where sewn 1men ^'’^J^^ater
Central Labor Union declared^ '^a'bandonrd' working?, so little
process has been made that the miner
UdL
JOHNSTON. Pa.. April 28.—Despite the
No matter what we may think of
Mr. Roosevelt we must, as good citi
zens, respect the office of chief mag
istrate of our republic.”
GREAT DAMAGE WROUGHT •
WHEN ARCH OF BRIDGE FELL
Italian Bank Stranded.
BALTIMORE. April 28.—A dispatch
to the Maritime Exchange from Cape
Henry. Va„ reports the Italian bark
Oriente stranded on the outer bar
500 yards off shore from the Poyners
Hill life saving station and says that j completely"” damming the
she appears to be loaded and to have . The Ioss is variously ~-‘ !
been abandoned, as there is no sign j -
RICHMOND, ,Va.. April 28.—A Bed
ford City. Va. special says abput a
hundred feet of the arch of the new
concrete bridge over Utile Otter riv
er at Lowry. Va., gave way yester
day and fell in the stream below, car
rying with it many hundred tons of
not be reached in time to save their,
lives. All day the tapping on the com
pressed air pines -continued.
The floo d was due to the breaking
away of a wall between headings. Die
men caught were all in the employ or
Michael Boyle, a contractor of the en
tombed. who alone knows their names.
Experts say that a rescue would be im
possible until tomorrow afternoon. The
miners have now been shut off from the
world for nearly 72 iiours. Their supply
of food is long since exhausted and it is
only a question of time, untliti*.' supply
of air In the heading in which they are
imprisoned will be exhausted.
esti-’ UNION WOULD NOT CONDEMN
Deen aDanaoneci, as mere is no sign 1 ~----- . .„ a quarter to a half |
of life on board and a part her doUars, besides the delay
sails are set some of them being badly . the road .
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
tern. The Italian bark Oriente was
last reported at Iquipue March 11,
in completing the
CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR
RAPIDLY INCREASING IN U. S.
WASHINGTON. April 28-—The'Con
sumption of sugar In the I " ite £
in the fiscal year which ends with the
month of June will probably exceedI that
of any of tho earlier year in the history
of the country, according to a statement
issued bv the bureau of statistics of the
I department of «\mmerce andalbortoday
The uuantitv of sugar imported into'this
1 country in the nine f onths of the fiscal
year ? s larger than in the corresponding
THE KING NEVER LEAVES THE SIDE neriod of anv'earlier year and the estima
ted quantity of siigir 'produced In the
OF THE QUEEN NOW.
United States in 1906 was'larger than that
of any earlier year.
ROY rflLLED WHEN GRAND STAND
boy pARK collapsed .
MADRID. April 28.—Queen Victoria
went driving thi3 morning, and this
evening attended a banquet at the palace
in honor of Cardinal Aguirre-Y-Gareia.
bishop of Borgos. upon whose head King „. nc — v ,-. IT y X J April 28.—By the
Alfonso today placed the red hat. a stand with people watching
The King never leaves the sldo of the thL afternoon Russell Neil-
Queen now. He has abandoned ail of his » ball game this an d a num-
usual automobile excursions. Tho dowa- sen. r. } ears mu, u in _
per Queen Maria Christiania and the ’Tj; , of men ana '
Princesses are busily engaged in making jureo.
NEW YORK. April 28.—The Central
Federated Union today instead of
unanimously condemning President
Roosevelt for his action in the Moyer-
Haywood matter stood about evenly
divided on the question which has
stirred labor unions all over the coun
try.
The discussion, which lasted for
more than three hours, was the most
hitter one ever heard at a Central
Federated union meeting. The up
shot was that the meeting, represent
ing more than 100,000 workers in
Manhattan, ordered that the commit
tee of three appointed at last Sun
day’s meeting do what It was in
structed to do—that is go to Wash
ington and have a heart to heart talk
with President Roosevelt on the sit
uation.
additions to the layette for the expected
royal babe. A royal perambulator, a gor
geous specimen, arrived at the palace
Saturday.
The Queen is going about almost as
busily a s at any time since her wedding.
Her favorite amusement has rc->ritly
been visitng the. circus entertainment Sli»
has been there three times within the
past fortnight and each time with a feel
ing of superstition sat In the same chnir
occupied twenty-one years ago by the
Queen’s mother Just before the present
King of Spain was born.
It has been sett!id that after th« birth
of the Queen’s child the royal family will
go to the Granja palace where the' King
and Queen spent their honeymoon.
KB EM
fllEnHH
REV T D SIMMONS FOUND
' UNCONSCIOUS ■■
N ROOM.
PARKERSBITtG. W. Va. April 28.—
J. D Simmons. of this cliy. editor of the
Baptist Banner, was' found unconscious
today in his room at Buchanana hotel.
He had suffered a stroke of apoplexy. He
cannot recover.
IT
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AN '^OTHe'seIVaR JAMAICA.
XEW YORK, April 28.—A section of
land 80 b- 390 feet on the east end of
a barren island, which lies between the
entrance to Jamaica bay and the At
lantic ocean, siipoed into the sea tods}.
About one-third of a large new building
of the New York sanitary utilization eem-
nanv containing several large garbarge
diggers disappeared under water. Loss
absut $1 ft 9,0G0. , ,
The eddvinp of the tides around the end
nf -v.f. 1 , n’ge breakwater built to protect
. . have unrler-
ATT-AXTA. Ga.. April 28.—In a warm
prelude to his sermon at the Capitol ave
nue Baptist church this morning. Rev.
Dr. T. T. Martin .waved high above his
head a copy of an afternoon paper in
which was published an grti-re by Rev. E.
D. Ellenwood. of t'-e Universalist church,
containing a stat- I :-nt to the effect that
everv Christian v. no accepts Christ is
filled with cowardice and selfishness to
an extent to be unable to appreciate the
higher virtues, such as gratitude, and de
clar'd that it was a gross libel upon the
entire Christian religion. He said that
adverstis meat of saloons were as noth
ing to this article, and demanded that
the paper which published it should re
pudiate it in tdto.
the island" is supnosed to have under,
mined the end of the island.
The 1500 employes of the companj lit -
ing ‘on the island are alarmed, fearing
the whole island is doomed.
EODY OF “SILENT” SMITH
HAS ARRIVED AT FRISCO.
SAX FRAXCISCO. April 28.—The body
of James H<>nry Smith, of New York who
died recently at Kioto Japan, arrived .o-
dav on the steamer Siberia and will leave
tomorrow for tbr East-on a spefla' train.
Accompanying the body are the vidotv
and the Duke and Duchess of Man
chester1 who we--e traveling with Mr and
Mrs. Smith who- :he death of Mr. Smith
occurred. The Duchess of Manchester
V--.C me* bv h"r father Eugene Zimmer
man. of Cincinnati. The body of Mr.
Smith will be conveyed to New York for
burial.
a SICILY
SIIC SHOCKS
VEGETATION IS DAMAGED IN
BOTH COUNTRIES.
NAPLES, April 28.—Frequent slight
shocks of earthquake were felt in Cala
bria todav. The populace of Southern
Italy, especially in Calabria, is fearful
lest" there be a repetition of thfl earth
quake disaster of 1905.
CATAIAXIA, Sicily. April 2S.—The
royal observatory on Mount Etna reg
isters an extraordinary eruption of the
volcano on the Island of Stromboii. The
volcano Is throwing out large quantities
of ashe3 and cinders, which are dam
aging vegetation in both Sicily and
Calabria.
GEJXOA. April 28.—The Stromboii
volcano is again in active eruption. An
explosion so strong that the concus
sion broke a window here was felt to
dav. The peasants were terror-strick
en. The extent of the eruption is not
known here as the cable line with the
Lipari Islands Is interrupted. The only
news received at Messina has been by
means of signals.
GOV MAGOON SUSPENDED
COLLECTOR OF PORT.
HAVANA. April 258.—Governor Slagoon
hr- suspended Ygnaeio M -ntaivi. collector
of” the pert of Guantanamo, who is
charged with demanding tribute from the
railroads and importers.