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NEWS OF SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1913
THOUSANDS VIEW SHAFT
REARED TO MAINE DEAD
NEW YORK, May 31.—Thousands
and thousands of visitors to-day vis-
isted the monument unveiled yester
day. in honor of the memory of the
men who lost their lives aboard the
battleship Maine in Havana Harbor.
They were persons who had been un
able to attend the impressive un
veiling celebration that brought to
gether representatives of the leaders
in thought and patriotism and repre
sentatives of the naval strength of
two nations.
But their patriotism was no less
fin cere. They stood in respectful si
lence admiring the shaft and turned
to give way to others, who likewise
wished to pay their devoir at the
shrine of men who had died for hu
man liberty.
Notable men in every walk of life
united to give credit to William Ran
dolph Hearst and to his papers for
the beautiful Maine memorial.
When Past Commander-in-Chief
Maurice Simmons, of the United
Spanish War Veterans, had finished
his’ speech he turned to the distin
guished gathering in the stand and
eaid:
“To no one man is greater credit
due for this splendid memorial than
to William Randolph Hearst. I think
it is only fitting that he should ad
dress this assemblage.”
There were immediate cries for
“Hearst!” “Hearst!” from ali parts
of the sea of spectators' and someone
proposed three cheers, which were
given as Mr. Hearst stepped to the
front of the stand and began to
speak. His address follows:
“My friends, many of the speakers
in the goodness of their hearts have
given more credit to the committee,
of which I am a minor member, than
we think wie deserve. The committee
has done its best, but it has not played
a predominant part in the erection
of this monument. The monument
was designed by the architect, Mr.
M. VanBuren Magoniple, and the
sculptor, Mr. Attillo Piccirilli; it was
passed upon by the art commission;
the city of New York gave it this
magnificent _site, and the people of
the United States of America erected
it by popular subscription.
“To my mind, the important and
significant fact in connection with
this memorial is that it was erected
by the whole people, for I think that
in the defense and development of
our country the one thing next in
importance to heroism and devotion
is appreciation of heroism and devo
tion by all the people.
“We can not all be heroes, but we
can all be grateful for heroism. We
are not all privileged to lay down our
lives in the service of our country,
but we can all love and honor and
remember the men who have made
such splendid sacrifices.
'‘And in remembering heroes dead,
let us not forget heroes* living. There
are as many men in the army and
navy to-day ready* to sacrifice their
lives for their country as ever there
have been in the whole history of the
nation.
“It is our duty as citizens to see
that such sacrifices shall not be need
less and fruitless. It is our duty as
citizens to supply sufficient ships and
guns in order that these heroes may
have the means and munitions for
our defense, and in order that their
devotion may not be either unappre
ciated or unavailing.
“When we have done this, our duty
as citizens, we will deserve to stand
with the citizens to whom Abraham
Lincoln referred when he wrote:
“ ‘All honor to the sailor and soi-
dier everywhere who bravely bears
his country’s cause. All honor, also,
to the citizen who cares for his
brother in the field and serves, as
best he can, the selfsame cause. Hon
or to him only less than to him who
braves for the common good, the
storms of Heaven and the storms of
battle!”’
Worse to Come.
A crash, followed by a scream of
dismay. The faithful maid-of-all-
work rushes terrified into my lady’s
boudoir. My lady is staring at the
carpet. On it lie the shattered frag
ments of a hand-mirror. Tears stream
from her eyes.
“Oh, Mary Ann!” she cries, “what
ever shall I do? They say it means
seven years of misery if you break a
looking-glass!”
‘‘Never you fret, mum!” comforts
Mary Ann. “If you’ve got cause for
misery, what about me? I’ve just
gone an’ smashed the pier-glass in
the drorin' room!”
From Frying Pan to Fire.
Lake was delighted with his new car.
It combined speed with comfort to per
fection, and the proud owner, glowing
with satisfaction, watched the speedo
meter steadily rising—20, 30. 35 miles
an hour—until the car seemed posi
tively to be flying along the road.
Then suddenly a policeman hove in
sight, and, holding out a hand, signaled
to Lake to stop.
“What is it?” the motorist asked Ir
ritably. as the car slowed down, the fric
tion of the tires against the road caus
ing sparks to fly in all directions.
“Well. sir. I must——”
“Oh, nonsense!” retorted iAke “Pick
that up and keep your mouth shut, con
stable.”
And as the car shot forward again
two half dollars chinked on the road
way. *
Two minutes later he ran into a huge
obstruction, and when he had succeeded
more or less in patching his shattered
self together. Lake murmured faintly to
bis chauffeur:
“I wonder, after atf, if that cop merely
wanted to wars me that a, tree had fall
en across the road?"
ROOSEVELT WINS 6-CENT
VERDICT IN LIBEL SUIT
MARQUETTE. May 31.—Theodore
Roosevelt absolutely annihilated his
enemies to-day and in his suit against
Editor Newett, who had charged him
with drunkenness, won a victory as
sweeping, triumphant and complete
us a victory could possibly be. The
defense 1 ung doggedly on and com- j
polled t’olonel Roos» . olt to put in
every scrap of evident :* he had. And
then it blew up like a Russian bat
tleship in the Straits » Japan.
When the prosecution rested Edi- ;
tor Newett read a statement admit- !
ting he had no case and was him
self convinced that his charges were;
untrue. Mr. Roosevelt, in a brief
address to the court, said he only
wanted to forever destroy the slan-!
ders uttered against him and that he
was satisfied with a vindication and
asked that the jury be instructed to
return a verdict for nominal dam- j
ages.
The court instructed the jury to J
this effect and without leaving theirl
seats the jurymen gave a verdict in
behalf of Colonel ‘ Roosevelt for 6
cents, the smallest sum considered
under the Michigan statutes.
Apparently the defense had no evi
dence to bolster up its case and never
had any and couldn’t find any, but
hoped that it might develop some
thing comforting to itself from a
cross-examination of Colonel Roose
velt’s own witnesses.
This morning the defense was
plainly defeated. However, the audi
ence in the court room was electrified
when after the prosecution rested its
case at 2:45 o’clock, Editor Newett
took the stand and read his statement,
which from almost the first stated
that he had no case and was con
fessing the fact. As Editor Newett
in a loud, clear voice read, the audi
ence in the court room fairly quivered
with excitement and Colonel Roose
velt’s face became white
M RS. W. B. LEEDS, fa
mous American beauty,
wooed by European nobility,
Has at last decided to marry
Count Helie de Talleyrar.d-
Perigord, of Paris. She is
widow of the “tinplateking.”
CARUSO SULKS.
LONDON, May 31.—Caruso is dis
satisfied with the attitude of London
operagoers toward him.
He got frantic applause on his first
appearance In "La Bo'ieme” and again
at the end of the act, but at the final
fall of the curtain he < omplains there
was almost silence, lie was so re
sentful that he expressed doubt
whether he would appear again.
People here think he has been spoil
ed by over-adulation, and are deter
mined that at Covent Garden he
shall get merely his due.
DIRECT VOTE FOR SENATORS.
WASHINGTON. May 31. — The
long persistent and arduous fight
which the Hearst newspapers have
made to obtain the election of United
States Senators by the people was
finished and illustrated by the for
mality at the State Department to
day at which Secretary of State Bry
an signed and published the joint
resolution which provides for the
seventeenth amendment to the Con
stitution.
SENATE FREE TO ACT ON
CANAL TOLLS QUESTION
WILSON SEES BALL GAME.
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Presi
dent W T ilson to-day* tried his luck on
the golf links of the Washington
Suburban Country Club.
Accompanied by Dr. Carl Grayson,
his private physician, the President
left the White House early in the
morning and golfed until lunch time.
His presence w*as almost unnoticed, |
as but few persons were on the links.
The President made the round ;n ]
good shape despite the fact that this
is his first game of golf since leav
ing Princeton.
The President attended the Wash-
ington-Boston ball game in the after-
I noon.
$262,000 ON WALKER'S LIFE.
MACON, May 31—It became
known in Macon to-day that B.
Sanders Walker, who died from the
taking of a bichloride of mercury tab
let, carried insurance to the amount !
of $262,000. The most of this is pay- ;
able to his estate, although some of it
was carried by his realty and insur- i
ance firm.
Mr. Walker carried a policy of $82,-
000 with the Mutual Life, and also
had large policies in the Penn Mu
tual and the Union Central. In tjie
Empire Life of Georgia he had $15,- '
000 and an application for $50,000
pending.
T REBEL FORCE ROUTED.
LAREDO, TEXAS. May 31.—Fed-
! eral forces numbering 250 men sur- j
! prised a Carranza force of 200 at Co- I
lumbia this morning. They won a 1
j complete victory.
LOSE FIGHT ON DRY LAW.
LITTLE ROCK. ARK., May 31 —
Attorney General Moses to-day held
that the anti-saloon act passed by the
last Legislature and which puts all
saloons out of business after January
1. 1914, can not be referred under
the initiative and referendum. The
saloon interests had attempted to file
a referendum petition of 13,000 names,
asking a vote on the measure at the
general election in 1915 because the
j “emergency clause” in the act did
not contain the word “immediately.”
Pretty Quick.
Irate Customer—You said this cloth
was a fast color, yet it faded in two
weeks after it was made up.
Draper—Well, I don't think you
ought to expect it to fade any faster
than that.
WASHINGTON. May 31—Secreta
ry of State Bryan and the British !
Ambassador Cecil Spring - Rice !
signed a renewal to-day, at the State j
Department, of the general arbitra
tion treaty between the United States
and Great Britain. This is the treaty,
the intention of which was, and it
was so originally written, that “all
questions” between Great Britain and
the United States could be made sub
jects of arbitration.
Various Senators, however, who
looked a long way ahead and who
perhaps had been advised by stories ’
from time to time appearing in the j
English papers that Great Britain :
was to fight the Panama Canal act, 1
amended the treaty by making it spe
cific and eliminating as arbitrable
questions at issue involving the na
tional honor.
The treaty, thus amended radical
ly by the Senate so as to preserve the
independent action of the Senate as ;
against the State Department, nev- j
ertheless was acc;pted gratefully by
Great Britain. The amendments by
the Senate were made with direct in
formation to the State Department
that no great issue affecting the
country* with a foreign nation could
be jammed through overnight. The
Senate, in other words, proved to the
State Department that the principal
figure in arbitration, in whatever
cause, was in the last analysis the
Senate itself.
The State Department, therefore,
can not undertake and carry to a
conclusion, without the consent of the
Senate, any question such as the pro- j
test of Great Britain against the free ;
tolls clause of the Panama act or any
other without consultation with the !
Senate of the United States.
There was no ceremony attending ;
the revival of this general arbitration
treaty with Great Britain except the
presence and signature of the British
Ambassador and the signature of the
Secretary of State with his seal made
out of a coin of the time of the son
of Philip of Macedon.
CHURCH PROVIDES NURSERY.
CHICAGO. May 31.—To increase
the attendance of mothers at the
Normal Park Methodist Church and
protect the church choir from dis
quieting interruptions. Pastor C. J.
Dickey to-day announced the church
would be provided with a nursery or
babies’ check room. The experiment
was tried last Sunday and twelve
cooing infants, upon whom the elo
quence of the sermon was lost, were
cared for in the nursery.
VANDERBILT IS TO GET
$1,000,000 FROM CARNEGIE
NASHVILLE, TENN., Muy 31.—
Andrew Carnegie has offered $1,000,-
600 to the medical department of
Vanderbilt University, according to
an announcement to-day by Chancel
lor J. H, Kirkland.
The only contingency the "lion
Master" imposes is that direction of
: the educational and scientific depart
ment be committed to a board of
seven members, three of whom must
be eminent in medical and scientific
wo tic and research.
Of the sum from Carnegie $200,-
, 000 will be given immediately for tho
i erection and equipment of laborato
ries, while the income from the re
maining $800,000 will be paid annual
ly* through the Carnegie Corporation
of New York tor maintenance.
"Already there is invested in the
medical department of Vanderbilt
about $325,000,” said Chancellor Kirk
land, in making announcement of the
gift, "and while we do not consider
that the million dollars from Mr. Car
negie will give us the greatest medi-
t al school in the country, it will lay
the foundation for one of the greatest
medical schools in the South, and we
will proceed with this idea in view.
We will not hurry. The laboratories
which the donation provides for will
be planned and erected with the ut-
i most care. The three scientists pro-
| vided for in the board of seven will
; be selected from among the most emi-
i rent men in the nation.
"This benefaction is largely the re-
| suit of the great interest taken in
| Vanderbilt University's medical work
by Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, of New
York, president of the Carnegie Foun-
i dation.”
It is understood to be one of the
provisions of Mr. Carnegie's gift that
| Chancellor Kirkland himself be a
member of the board of seven. Dr.
Kirkland, however, did not indicate
to-day whether any names had been
| considered for the remaining mem
bers
Vanderbilt has been favored with
several large gifts, but that of Mr.
! Carnegie surpasses them all. It is, in
J fact, the largest single donation ever
| given the university.
SPECTACLES ARE BLAMED.
CLEVELAND, May 31.—Mrs. Louis
Magrander blames a pair of spec
tacles for the troubles between her
self and her husband, Louis, to whom
she has been married 33 years.
“1 need them part of the time, but
he wants to wear them all the time,
except when he goes to bed.” she says,
“And he stays up late just to keep
hold of them. They fit us both per
fectly."
The husband’s version as related
in a divorce proceeding, charges that
Mrs. Magrander beat him with a
club, the police interfering to save a
knockout, and refused to cook his
meals. Magrander wants the court
to compel his wife to pay him ali
mony.
WALTER PAGE IS GUEST.
LONDON, May 31.—The Duke of
Connaught received the American
Ambassador, Walter H. Page, this
afternoon.
SAVE LIVES AT SEA.
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, May
31.— During a 60-mile gale cm tho
Nova Scotia coast to-day the Norwe
gian ship Freia was dashed to pieces
on the rocks at Sunday Point, v>ff
Yarmouth, and her cargo of lumber
was strewn along the coast for miles.
Captain Olsen, his wife and tho
crew escaped after a thrilling expe
rience.
COFFEE DRINKING CUT.
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Ameri
cans have started out to cut the high
cost of living by drinking less cof
fee. As the price goes up the amount
each person drinks decreases, accord -
ing to figures made public- to-day by
the Department of Commerce.
In 1909 the average consumption per
capita was more than 11 pounds an 1
the average import price 7*4 cen f s.
In the nine months ended last March
the coffee importa 1 ions amounted 10
only 716.327.146 pounds, valued at
$99,881,421. This is a big decrease in
bulk and increase in value.
WON’T STOP HANGING.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK., May 31.—
Acting Governor Futrell to-day de
clined to interfere with the death
sentence of Clarence A. Schumann,
who will be hanged at Hot Springs
Monday for wife murder. To satisfy
himself as to Schumann* sanity.
Governor Futreli last week visited
Schumann incognito and talked with
him in his cell at Hot Springs.
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