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FUFF TRADE NOT
i OF WILSON,
OE ASSERTS
We Must Weed Out Industrial
Garden That We Have Been
Cultivating, He Says.
CI.EVELAN'D. OHIO, Oct. 12—Gov
ern0". Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic
candidate for president, in a speech
h . l( , denied that he was an advocate of
f. ee trade He said there can not be
free trade in the United States so long
. t he established fiscal policy of the
Federal government is maintained.
The Federal government,” said the
-overnor "has chosen throughout the
’erations that have preceded us to
maintain itself chiefly on indirect in
terest of direct taxation. I dare say we
f h.ii never see a time when it can alter
lh(lt policy in any substantial degree,
ri there is no Democrat of prudence,
0 „ thoughtfulness, that I have met who
contemplates a program of free trade.”
The candidate devoted most of his
thought to what has now become known
8S hl? pet theme— special privilege.
spoke with more than usual ear
nestness and eloquence on this subject
anii roused his hearers to a high state
of enthusiasm.
ln a burst of generous spirit, not al-
W avs encountered in candidates. Gov
error Wilson declared that he yielded
t „ no man in his personal admiration
of President Taft. This sentiment elic
ited rounds of applause. He also paid
R warm tribute to Senator LaFollette,
(gain applying to him-the term of "The
I utle Giant of Wisconsin”—the candi
date declaring that he felt a kindred
t<. all thos# in the ranks of pro
gressive Democracy, regardless of their
In bels
In outlining the tariff policy of the
Democratic party, Governor Wilson
spoke in part as follows:
Weed the Garden of Industry.
What we intend to do, what the
house of representatives has been at
tempting to do and will attempt to do
again, and succeed, is to weed this
garden of industry that we have been
cultivating. If we have been laying at
the roots of our Industrial enterprises
this fertilization of protection we have
found that the stimulation was not
equal In respect of all the growths in
the garden, and that there are some
growths which every man can distin
guish with the naked eye, which have
so overtopped the rest, which have so
thrown the rest into destroying Shadow,
that it is Impossible for the industries
of the United States as a whole to pros
per under their desolating obstruction.
In other words, we have found out that
this that professes to be a process of
protection has become a process of
favoritism, and that the favorites of
this policy have flourished at the ex
pense of all the rest. We are going into
our garden, therefore, and weed it. We
are going to give the little plants air
and light in which to grow. We are
going to pull up every root that has so
spread itself as to draw all t/e nutri
ment of the soil from the other plants
We are going to see to it that fertiliza
tion of intelligence, of invention, of
origination, is once more applied to a
set of industries now threatening to be
stagnant, because threatening to be too
much concent rated. That is the policy
of the Democratic party in regard to
the protective tariff, as I understand it.”
About Taft’s Vetoes.
In speaking of the present condition
of the government. Governor Wilson
said that it was neither flesh, fish nor
fowl, so far as party control is con
cerned. He said that in the senate, a
union of Democrats and so-called Re
rubiieans have been sending a Repub
lican president measures which are
consistently vetoed, and arguing, from
the hypothesis that the next congress
would be progressive, in both the house
rnd the senate, he said that it would be
f r ' yto have a president that would not
move with them, no matter how admfr
able his character, or high and patriotic
bis purposes.
After this manifest reference to
President Taft. Governor Wilson then
Inquired:
Does anybody dream for a moment
bere. that there can be a third party
majority in either of the houses that
J’’*’ be elected on the sth of Novem
-IH' Does anybody think that it would
"iso to have so extremely active a
wntiknian. so extremely aggressive and
'srsatlle a gentleman as is now leading
third party, established alone in
'shlngton without party support or
'-‘• ralnt, an impatient understudy to
!' evidence?”
Governor Wilson declared that the
as noir constituted were inade
'■> meet with the present condi
tions
- said with a good deal of force. I
' " ' to admit,” said Mr. Wll
- I’>at merely to make laws and
their application to the present
r ' with their present procedure is
very likely way of reform, be-
' present procedure of our
’ means that individuals must
<mge the power that is being ex
,( ■ against them, that an individual
gj ' * ait until he is injured and then
~ " ’ourt for redress, and that he
M ” money enough and courage
r / I go to the court and ask for
I "i the worst of our present
- 1 Is that It requires courage to
the power of the men now
of our industries bv resorting
' j r *bunai whatever. Therefore. I
’admit that we may have to
~ ''•>! tribunals, special proc-
dnr ' 1 am not afraid for my part
, ivation of special processes and 1
''ibuna -. but I am
!r ,0 leaving it to the choice of
'bunals what the * oeesses of
h ‘ and the matins of reinedt
r ' the ditto erne between the
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Boy Robbers Boldly Plunder Downtown Offices
EMULATE FILM BANDITS
Confessing that they sought to emulate
the daring robberies depicted by sensa
tional motion pictares, four boys, the
oldest fifteen and the youngest giving his
age as just twelve., stood before Judge
Bell, in juvenile court today, and told of
a string of thefts in downtown office
buildings that hava been mystifying the
police for months.
Howard and Marion Elliott. Allen Moore
and Eddie Willbanks, all living in the rep
utable neighborhood around Williams
and Spring streets, and members of what
is known to the lads thereabouts as the
"Boston” gang, startled the court by ad
mitting to plundering offices in the Aus
tell, Grant and Temple Court buildings
of typewriters and office supplies.
According to the authorities, the youths
worked in broad daylight and said they
planned their operations to get money
to go to moving picture shows. Five
typewriters, which have been recovered
bv the police, were disposed of for sums
ranging from 65 cents to $3. The boys, it
is said, marched boldly into the offices
during the noon hour, having watched un
til the places were deserted, and walked
out with the machines.
DENEEN IN T. R.’S
‘ffINIMB"
Assails Governor for “Willful
Perversion of Truth”—Calls
Him Lorimer Ally.
CHICAGO, Oct. 12. —Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt today assailed Govern
or Charles S. Deneen for “deliberate
and willful perversion of the truth” in
a recent speech in which the governor
charged the colonel admitted that only
34 of the contests brought before the
Chicago convention were made in good
faith. Roosevelt also denounced De
neen as a friend and ally of ex-Senator
Lorimer. ’ ■
Roosevelt declined to address the
Italian societies engaged in the celebra
tion of Columbus day, in conjunction
with the Knights of Columbus The
colonel had been invited by Thomas
O’Shaughnessy to take part in the
pageant and make an address. Presi
dent Brown, of the Knights of Colum
bus, objected on the ground that the
Knights 'took no part in politics and
that O’Shaughnessy was the artist in
charge of the pageant, but had no au
thority to invite any one o make an
address. When he learned the facts,
the colonel said he could not consider
the invitation.
The attack on Governor Deneen was
made in a statement issued after a
conference with local leaders.
The colonel spoke to a crowd jam
med around the LaSalle hotel when he
arrived from the station.
“This fight is the fight of the peo
ple." he began.
An enormous crowd greeted the colo
nel and cheered him as he motored
from the station to the hotel.
Democratic and the Republican parties,
or rather between the Democratic party
and those various other groups and
parts of parties that are masquerading
under all sorts of names, Is that they
are willing to accept the discretionary
power of individuals, and we are not
willing to accept anything except the
certainty of law. That is the only
thing that has ever afforded salvation
or safety.”
Governor Wilson affirmed that the
problem confronting the American peo
ple was not one of revolution, but of
readjustment.
“And what I want to suggest,” said
he, “is that the only basis, the only
standard of readjustment, proposed or
suggested by our opponents is the
standard of principle. The expediency
of the situation is merely to see to it
that those who receive special privi
leges behave themselves, whereas our
principle is that nobody ought to re
ceive or retain special privileges at all;
that every special privilege shall be de
stroyed, not with a ruthless hand, not
in such a fashion as suddenly to upset
the conditions of business, but. never
theless. with the firmness and kindness
of the judicious parent. For the gov
ernment of the United States, at pres
ent, is a mere foster child of the special
Interests. It Is not allowed to have a
will of Its own. It is told at every
move, 'Don't do that You will inter
fere with our prosperity.’ When we
ask. ‘Where is our prosperity lodged?’
a certain group of gentlemen say, 'With
us.'
People to Be Trusted.
"If I thought that the American peo
ple were reckless, were Ignorant, were
vindictive, do you suppose I would want
to put the government in their hands*
But the beauty of Democracy Is that
when you are reckless you destroy your
own established conditions of life:
when you are vindictive you reek your
vengeance upon yourself, and that the
whole stability of Democratic policy
rests upon" the fact that each interest Is
every man’s interest."
After outlining the conditions of mo
nopoly which preclude from the field
of commerce all small competitors, the
candidate said:
"I want conditions created which will
permit a man to begin business on ever
so small a scale and let him be safe in
beginning It on a small scale. He Is
not safe now. because if ho enters the
field where a great combination has
established a market, that combination
will undersell him in his local market,
which is his only market, making Its
necessary profits In other parts of the
country, until he Is killed off. and en
lei prise after enterprise is nipped in its
Infancy by the monopolistic control of
our Industrial markets. It "would seem
as If America were about to see a
generation grow up which must be a
generation of »-u>p »y> «-s. unless it
In planning a raid one afternoon the
lads went out to the vicinity of the water
works and entered a house, taking cof
fee, bread and other food. M. King, a
man living near the waterworks, missed
a cow valued at $45 shortly afterwards
and notified the police. The animal was
located at the Union stockyards, where a
stockman said that he had bought it from
some boys for $lB.
The daring downtown operations began
September 26 and for days the police
were puzzled over the peculiar character
of the thefts. The boys were arrested a
week ago and have been held at the de
tention home in Central avenue, pending
further investigation by children’s court
authorities.
Parents of the boys asserted that they
thought they were in school all the time.
The lads explained that they had been
faking excuses.
The "Boston" gang, according to the
description given the authorities, is an
organization of about 25 or 30 boys mak
ing the corner of Simpson and Spring
streets their redezvous.
No action was taken in the case of
young Moore. Willbanks and the Elliotts
today. The lads be held until next
Saturday
RAGTIMEWINS
WORLD VICTORY
English Press Concludes That
What Is Scoffed at Is a
Fascinating Craze.
LONDON, Oct. 12. —Ragtime music,
which some hold first flowed brokenly
out from the darkies’ cabins in Amer
ica's Southern states, seems about to
conquer the world.
This music of the syncopated time
has already captured England.
It has been said truly that “the hard
est thing in the world is to persuade a
Briton to do anything he never did
before and the next hardest is to get
him to quit doing that thing after he
has once started.” •
The Briton scoffed at ragtime for
years: now it has become a craze, a
passion with him. Most gravely tl ?
London newspapers are discussing
analyzing this nervous brand of mu
sic.
Heading them, an American brought
up on ragtime has a mental picture of
an old man dissecting a butterfly.
The London Daily Standard prints a
column story, headed “The Psychology
of Ragtime,” and gives interviews with
many London musicians on the “fas
cination of this new and wonderful lilt.
America has again turned a trick and
the whole busy world is humming its
new music, which rushed just as fast
as its modern hustling life.”
The Daily Mall in a column article
on Its editorial page refers to it as
“the musical ideal of American life,”
and goes on saying: “A craze, a boom
if you will, but nevertheless a force in
our social life. Every tune is like a
live current switched on to the emo
tions and, with all its eccentricities and
novelties, it contains the virtue of vi
tality.”
The ability to sing and play ragtime
has cost the British army a fine sol
dier —Captain Arthur Wood, son of
Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood and
nephew of Mrs. Charles Stewart Par
nell, who was known as Kitty O’Shea
before she married the famous Irish
leader. The stage has won him from
the army.
Captain Wood, who has a good voice
and plays the piano well, used to revive
his fellow officers by singing to them
around the camp fires of Colenso and
Spion Kop during the Boer war.
He accompanies himself on the piano
and is loudly applauded. His salary is
five or six times the amount he drew
as a captain.
BECOMES R. R. SUPERINTENDENT.
COLUMBUS, GA, Oct. 12.--W. T
Griswold, who for several years has
been yardmaster, of the Southern rail
way in Columbus, has been appointed
superintendent of the Atlanta and St.
Andrews Bay railroad, with headquar
ters in Panama City, Fla. This line
extends 82 miles from Panama City to
Dothan, Ala. Asa G. Candler, of At
lanta, is vice president of the road.
makes up its mind to be a generation
of masters. The great militant, fight
ing. triumphant America the world has
known and admired is a nation of offi
cers, a nation of men who are their own
masters, a nation who will originate
their own processes of Industry and of
life, and we shall never see the day, I
confidently predict, where America
will allow itself to be employed and
patronized and taken care of.”
Must Redeem Our Trust.
After declaring that the people of the
old world had realized their dreams of
liberty in America, mentioning particu
larly Hungary and Italy, the governor
concluded with the following eloquent
words:
“We are trustees of the confidence of
mankind in liberty. If we do not re
deem the trust, if we do not fulfill the
pledge, then we are of all nations the
most to be pitied, for the -more high
your aim, the more disastrous your fail
ure to reach It; the more glorious your
program, the more contemptible your
failure.
“Why did we lift this vision of peace
before mankind if we did not know the
terms on which peace could be realized?
Like an army indomitable, irresistible,
we have enlisted in such wise that no
prolonged night of darkness and extin
guished camp firgs can make us the
less confident that the morning will
dawn, and when the morning dawns
and the mists rise, men shall discover
their manhood again and put on that
armor of the righteousness of God
which makes any nation unconquer
able ”
FITE GRILLED FOR
CONTEMPT: ‘DID
NOT MEAN IT'
Judge Adams, in Powerful Ar
raignment, Scores Conduct
of Accused Jurist.
Judge Augustus W. Fite, of the
Cherokee circuit, came to the bar of
the court of appeals today, in answer to
a rule for contempt, and entered a con
fession and plea in evidence.
The judge admitted the things the
court charged him with saying, but de
nied that he meant to be contemptuous
in saying them.
During the morning session by tai
the most impressive feature of the
hearing was Judge Samuel B. Adams’
plea in behaif of the court.
In that plea he unmercifully scored
Fite, charging him with criminal con
tempt against the court, and vehement
ly protesting his attempt to saddle upon
the court of appeals presumption of
sympathy for a negro would-be assail
ant of a white woman.
Judge Adams’ address was listened
to amid breathless silence, and evi
dently impressed the crowded court
room tremendously.
Judge Fite listened to it, pale of face
and plainly nervous.
Fite Late in Appearing.
The respondent was not in court at the
hour set for a hearing, because of a late
train, and postponement was made for
one hour and thirty minutes in order that
he might be heard in order and in full.
Judge Fite was present in court, but
responded through his attorneys, T. VV.
Milner, George W Gober, Sam P. Mad
dox and J. M. Neel.
The court, of its own motion, was rep
resented by Judge Andrew .1. Cobh and
Samuel B. Adams.
Judge Fite's newspaper card, to which
the.court of appeals took exception, was
read in full.
The court of appeals, in Its rule against
Fite, set up that Fite's newspaper card
was contemptuous, and calculated to
bring the court into disrepute and to em
barrass it and impede it in the adminis
tration of justice.
A second newspaper article from Judge
Fite was then introduced by the court’s
attorneys, and which appeared several
days after the first card appeared, to show
the deliberate intent upon the part of
Fite to be disrespectful and contemptu
ous.
“No Direct Contempt.”
Fite’s attorneys, after the introduction
of this evidence, asked time to amend
their answer to meet it, but this was de
nied by the court.
Respondent’s counsel argued that there
was, at least, no direct contempt of the
court, but that it was constructive and
indirect, and not a proper case for the
court’s indignant attention.
It was contended that any man, judge
or private, has a right to criticise courts,
and that Fite's card was well within that
rule —that he had the right as a man to
criticise the court through the newspaper,
and that he did that, and that only, with
in reasonable lines, and that he had dis
claimed any intent to be contemptuous or
disrespectful In his articles.
Adams Grills Fite.
Judge Milner insisted that any citizen
has the right to criticise any court, save
in pending cases, but not to insult it, and
that Fite positively denied in his answer
all intent to insult.
Judge Samuel B. Adams, for the court,
contended that the contempt was not only
well defined but positive or criminal.
He said it was not a question of con
tempt against persons, nor was it any
thing in the nature of a civil contempt,
which was a much less serious offense,
and that it was particularly outrageous
in that it raised the race issue and the
sanctity of womanhood to the prejudice
of the court and its malicious embarrass
ment. ,
Judge Adams said that no more repre
hensible case of criminal contempt could
hardly be Imagined. He denied the con
tention of respondent's counsel that, at
the time of Fite's contempt, the McCul
lough case still was pending in courts, and
that the defendant's ease was not legally
concluded.
Judge Adams quoted numerous rulings
of other courts to show that Fite's not
only was direct and not constructive, but
criminal and subject to the court’s au
thority. He said that Fite’s assault upon
the court of appeals was particularly vi
cious in view of the fact that he himself
is a judge and charged above all men,
therefore, with maintaining the dignity of
the courts. Judge Adams said that no
man had a, right to call a court corrupt
and dishonest, and then say he "didn’t
mean it”--anff that that was all Fite did.
Emphasizes Contempt.
He particularly emphasized the con
tempt of Fite's attempt to raise a pre
sumption of sympathy upon the part of
the court for a negro assailant of a white
woman, and said that was the most in
sulting and contemptuous utterance of
all Fite said.
Judge Adams address was delivered
with extreme dignity and listened to is
breathless silence by an evidently pro
soundly impressed audience.
At the conclusion of Judge Adams' ad
dress. the court adjourned until 8 o’clocl
this afternoon.
Retracts “Pitiful.”
Judge Fite, in his reply, said that he
intended no injustice in not having ihe
jury polled, but wanted to expedite mat
ters to appease mob passions. Among
other things, he said:
"It is probable that this honorable
court did not recognize, as did your re
spondent, the necessity for prompt and
immediate action upon the rendition of
the verdict, or the existence of such ne
cessity as a reason why this respondent
overlooked the right in defendant of hav
ing the jury In that case polled, if he so
desired. It will be recalled that this de
cision was quoted at length in the daily
papers of the state, with various criti
cisms of tlie same, not all of which were
calculated to engender in the public mind
that respect for your respondent as a
court, so essential to every trial court
who directly seeks to administer fustice
to the litigants in his circuit.
“In the decision rendered by this hon
orable court, where many assignments of
error were made with reference to the
charge and the refusal of the court to
charge requests, all of the actions of your
respondent were approved by this hon
orable court, with the exception of allow
ing the defendant to poll the jury.
“To be specific as possible with refer
ence to the article published, respondent
refers to rhe following parts, to-wit:
Where it is said that the 'reversal' is
based upon a pitiful misconception and
misconstruction of the record.' the word
•pitiful' should not have been used, and
the Intention was only to show that the
two records in lite same ease being sub
stantlally the same the judgment in tin i
first ease should control.”
PRINCE OF WALES
COMING TO 0. S.
Heir to Great Britain’s Throne
Is Due to Arrive in City of
New York in 1914.
LONDON, Oct. 12.—1 tis now pretty
definitely arranged that the Prince of
Wales will visit New York, as his
grandfather, King Edward, did when he,
too. was Prince of Wales.
Should the young prince set foot on
American soil he will be the guest of
Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid,
who, in New York, entertained the
Duke and Duchess of Connaught and
their captivating daughter. Princess
Patricia.
So. of the three women to whose
motherly care Queen Mary will have in
trusted iter first born, two are Ameri
cans.
The prince went to Paris as the guest
of Marquis De Breuteulle, whose wife
was a Miss Garner, of New York.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid will be his host
ess in New York.
In Ottawa he will be under the ma
tronly eye of his grand-aunt, the Duch
ess of Connaught, who was Princess
Louise Marguerite of Prussia.
Brother Coming Too.
It was arranged within the last few
days that the prince- will visit Canada
during 1914. On condition that he goes
there, the Duke of Connaught is ready
to remain longer as governor general.
Accompanying the prince will be his
brother, Prince Albert, not yet 17 years
of age.
It was Queen Alexandra, always so
gracious and friendly to Americans, who
suggested that the heir to the throne go
to New York. Or, as the queen mother
expressed it, laughingly: “It would be
discourteous for Dave to call next door
and not to iirop in on New York.”
With all his high sounding titles, the
Prince of Wales is "Dave” in the inti
macy of his family.
Queen Alexandra thinks he should
have a free foot; she strongly disap
proves of tlie almost puritanical strict
ness his mother exercises over him. He
is a chap of 18, agile and pleasant look
ing, but very young for his years. His
favorite adjectives are “awfully’’ and
“jolly,” often in con-junctiop. He loves
the sea and hates all ceremony
Punished For Scandal,
Sir Schomberg Kerr McDonald’s res
ignation as secretary of the commis
sioners of works on his retirement from
Sick headache is caused by a disor
dered stomach. Take Chamberlain's
Tablets and correct that and the head
aches will disappear. For sale by all
dealers. (Advt.)
ALDINE CHAMBERS BRANDS
EVERY MAN WHO VOTED
FOR JAMES G. WOODWARD
“A COMMON BLACKGUARD”
To those who have listened to the abuse which Mr. Chamber*, candidate for Rm
heaped upon Mr. James Woodward, his opponent, and said to themselves, probably Mr. Cham
bers is sincere in his belief, or is being influenced unduly by hot-headed advice, we present the
following extract from a half-page advertisement published i> The Atlanta Georgian ant The
Atlanta Journal on October Ist and signed by Mr. Chamben
Mr. Woodward is a common blackguard, and all who vote for him are of the type. Thera
can be no misconstruction of what Mr. Chambers meant, or what he said. The foilnwtaf quo
tation is exactly what Mr. Chambers published, and can be found in H-point type in a heW
page advertisement in either The Journal or Georgian of October 1, 1912:
HERE IT IS WITHOUT
A SINGLE CHANGE:
"This campaign is simply an issue of decency agafnet Indecency and involves mere
ly the question of whether a common blackguard, who will stoop to any unscrupulous
slander, and who has adopted such methods in his race for mayor as to almost frighten
any decent man from entering a race against him, shall be placed by this city at the
head of its government, and thus advertise to the world that a majority of her people
are of the Woodward type.”
• (Signed) ALDINE CHAMBERS.
STOP AND THINK IT OVER
Is Mr. Chambers, who stoops to such methods In his political gymnastics in order to gain
votes, big and broad enough to be your chief executive? We leave it to you. To all those
who so honored Mr. Woodward with their vote in the last primary, Mr. Woodward and this
committee extend their most sincere thanks, and deeply regret that Mr. Chambers should so
far forget himself as to openly insult them for their loyalty to Mr. Woodward.
The People of Atlanta are aroused to their own interests, and Mr. Woodward will be nom
mated Mayor on October 15th, by the largest majority he has ever received at the hands of the
People of Atlanta.
WOODWARD CAMPAIGN COMMITTEIk
LOOT HOME OF $12,000
IN DIAMOND JEWELRY
MEMPHIS. TENN.. Oct. 12.—Thieves
entered the fashionable home of J. W.
Falls on Bellevue boulevard and stole
$12,000 worth of diamonds and jewelry,
court has excited much comment In so
ciety. The Earl of Antrem's brother,
long principal secretary to the Earl of
Salisbury. Sir Schomberg, is in the
prime of life and ambitious. But King
George and Queen Mary will have no
one near them or even serving them in
directly in the government whose moral
character has been impugned.
Sir Schomberg has beep cited as co
respondent by Major Harrison in his
pending divorce suit. Mrs. Harrison, a
pretty little woman, is well knoyvn In
society; her father, Henry Davies, has a
villa at Naples, where many Americans
have enjoyed his hospitality. Major
Harrison, who was devoted to his wife,
is in the depths of grief and shame.
The fact that their majesties should
so punish a government official is caus
ing agitation. Rabid Tories are scruti
nizing the private life of Lloyd George,
chancellor of the exchequer, and other
men they hate, in the hope that they
may be compelled to resign office.
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Every large city in the South will be
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which will be held in Atlanta In December
If the plans of the committee on foreign
trade are adopted by the Atlanta Cham
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day.
The committee has decided to ask each
city to send two representatives a gen
eral plan of action by the Southern states
to make the most of the opening of the
canal will be outlined.
The committee of the Atlanta chamber,
which Is headed by St. Elmo Massengale,
believes that the opening of the canal
will broaden greatly the commerce of the
South and that it will not only open
the. South to international trade, but also
will increase coastwise commerce.
SUMMER RESORT BURNS.
MONTICELLO, N. Y„ Oct. 12.—Fire
practically wiped out Mountaindale, a
summer resort village on the Ontario
and Eastern railroad near here, today,
with $75,000 loss. The postoffice and a
store were the only buildings left in
tact.