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Want $155,000,000 From Morgan, Rockefeller et al
THE WEATHER
Generally fair tonight
and Tuesday.
VOLUME XIX, No. 195.
IST GLARING INSTANCE
OF MISMANAGEMENT IN
HISTORY AMERICAN RY’S
Findings of U. S. Interstate Commerce Commission on New
Haven Affairs Submitted to Senate Today Couched in
Most Drastic Terms. Directors Pronounced “Criminally
Negligent.’'
As Sequence, Demand is Made for Suit to Recover $155,-
000,000 Wasted. Will be Directed Against Estate of J.
P. Morgan, Wm. Rockefeller and Others by Minority Stock
holders of the Road. ——
Washington.—" One of the most
glaring instances of mal-ariministra
tion revealed in all the history of
American railroading,” is the inter
state commerce commission's char
acteiization of its findings in the in
vestigation of New Haven Railroad
financial affairs reported today to the
sente.
In a report of 30,000 words, proba
bly the most drastic in terms of any
ever made by the commission, the
New Haven’s directors were pro
nounced “criminally negligent.” Evi
dence pointing to violation of law
lias been transmitted to district at
torneys in Massachusetts. Rhode Is
lan dand New York and the federal
department of justice.
Individually Liable.
“A reasonable estimate of the loss
to the New Haven by reason of waste
and mismanagement,” savs the report
“will amout to between $60,000,000 an&
$90,000,000. Directors should be made
individually liable to civil and criminal
laws for the manner in which they
discharge their trust.”
Ali the commission's strictures were
upon the management of the New
Haven system under former President
Mellen. * ' • ’
In justice to the present manage
ment the commission sgys, it is but
fair to say that Chairman 'Howard
Elliott and Walker D. Hines, special
counsel, “have co-operated with the
Corny Ission and rendered it substan
tial assistance throughout this inves
tigation.”
Significant Instances.” ..
The report cites these “significant
incidents":
“Marked features and significinat
incidents in the loose, extravagant,
and improvident administration of the
finances of the New Haven, as shown
in this investigation, are the Boston
and Maine despoilment; the iniquity
of the West Chester acquisition; the
double prlte paid for the Rhode Island
(Continued on page seven.)
MflilSTS
HUE INJESSIOK
Several Hundred Specialists in
Convention Discuss Protec
tion of Society.
Chicago.—" Prison populations are
composed of individuals who fall be
low the average physical and mental
standards,” declared Dr. Paul E. Bow
ers, physician to the Indiana state
prison, today, at the convention here
of alienists and neuologlsts. Several
hundred specialists from all parts of
the United States were In attendance
.’at the sessions, which will continue
over Friday. The first day was de
voted chiefly to discusing the protec
tion of society from the partially In
sane.
Twenty-five per cent of habitual
criminals are feeble minded, "said Dr.
Bowers. “The feeble minded however,
are not Inherently criminal, except as
they are easy victim* of environ
ment.”
Dr. W H. Lindsay, of Topeka, Kas„
declared that sterilisation of made and
female tncprable defectives was the
only logical step and that the medical
profession has not given up hope that
such a law might be so safeguarded
ss to become operative.
Tarheel Governor
Asks Blease to Let
’Em go to Augusta
Raleigh, N. C.—Gov, Craig today
addressed a letter to Governor Blease
asking permission for North Carolina
troops to pass through South Caro
lina for the encampment at Auguata
in August. In the event of a refusal
pot regarded likely here, the troops
will so by boat from Wilmington to
Savannah.
CHEROKEES APPEAL TO WILSON
• Washington, D. C.—President Wilson
wes appealed to today by a delegation
Cherokee Indians to be showed to lly»
their lives In their own way on a re
servation In Oklahoma and pursue ojd
religious beliefs which their people
lave continued for rnsny generations,
hhev had already talked with Oommls
•w.tij*. Hells of the Indian office and
«,H er government officials, hut had been
told t h elr request In a general way was
against the Indian policy ol the govern
aunt
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
TWAS BIG
DAY IN
ULSTER
On Orangemen’s Day, Monster
Celebrations at Belfast and
Other Points in Ireland. Sir
Edward Carson Hero of Oc
casion.
Belfast, Ireland—The Insistent demand
of the Irotestant portion of the pro
vince of Uuster for exclusion from
operations of the Irish home rule biil
lent added Interest to today’s celebration
of the anniversary of the battle of the
Boyne. The celebration was carried out
here with great enthusiasm.
Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster Union
ist leuder, rode at the head of 5,000
Orangemen, accompanied by the usual
fife and drum bands and including a
sprinkling of brethren from the United
States and the British colonies. They
marched through the city of Belfast to
Dmmbeg, where a great open air meet
ing was addressed by Sir Edward and
other leaders.
Carefully Avoided.
The Nationalist quarter of Belfast was
carefully avoided by the demonstrants
and on no occasion during the profes
sion did the rival factions come into con
tact.
Kir Edward Uarson was hero of the
day. Buttons bearing his portrait were
worn by nearly every man in the pro
cession, while great canvases, spread
across the streets In the Unionist sec
tion, bore his likeness.
“For the Present."
It is regarded as significant that in
recent Interviews Sir Edward Is quoted
as saying the only condition of peace is
the exclusion of Ulster "for the pres
ent,” while the more remote action of
the Unionists must In his opinion, de
pend upon the way the Dublin parlia
ment treats Protestants In the provinces
of Ireland.
Throughout the province of Ulster and
notably in Londonderry extensive pre
cautions were taken by the authorities
against possible clashes between the or
ganized forces of the Protestants and
Catholics.
With Cannonade.
Londonderry, Ireland.—The Orangemen
here began the celebration of the anni
versary of the battle of Boyne wth a
cannonade during which they projected
their explosives to that thev burst over
the residences In the Catholic section of
the city.
The Nationalists believing the can'
nonade to be the prelude to aggressive
action on the part of the Orangemen,
organized for defense but up to noon no
collision between the two parties had
taken place.
While the Orangemen were attending
church on Sunday and the police were
busy gunvdlng their processions, the Na.
tlonallst Volunteers succeeded In bring
ing Into the city two auiomoldle loads of
rifles.
Tho rllfes had been landed at the
entrance to Though Bwllly In the north
of Irlenad hy a passing steamer from
America, under the noses of the crews
of a flotilla of destroyers lying In the
lough.
Ordered to Reconstruct
R’way Near Vera Cruz
London.—The manager of the Mexican
railway* cabled today that Huerta’a
government had ordered him to recon
struct the portion of the line near Vera
t'rnz which whi destroyed by the Mexl
can Federal* when Vera < Vu z waa oc
cupied by the Americana
MERSEY DOCK BTRIKE.
Liverpool.—A strike waa started to
day among the Mersey dock employes
to enforce recognition of the work
men's unions and brio* about estab
lishment of a Joint board of work
men and employers to deal with dis
putes
While the strike was not general
many of the irower stations were ren
dered Idle and several liners were
imprisoned In the docks owing to the
Impossibility of opening the gate*.
•
THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 13. 1914.
SENATE MS MEW M¥EM lEPOIT
ARMED CORPS OF WOMEN IRISH VOLUNTEERS
TO PROTECT HOMES IN EVENT OF WAR
WILL LOOK AFTER THEIR HOMES.
Above, at Rrookfleld near Omagh county, Tyrone-Ireland, there Is a corps of armed women volunteers. Tim object
being that the woman In the event of civil war, should be able to # lnok after their homes. One of the glrlH when
asked tn define the object of the corps said' when her brothers were called upon to fulfil the terms of their cove
nant she would stay at home-and pro ten her mother and her father who Is too old to take care of himself. Insert,
Sir pdward Carson, the Lister Untonis t-leader, who formed the "Ulster Provisional government."
SPLENDID CROPS
IN THIS SECTION
From Everywhere in Augusta
Territory Come Reports of
Magnificent Prospects For
Cotton and Other Crops.
IF SEASONS CONTINUE
TO BE BUMPER YIELD
If ?rice of Cotton Stays
Around 12 Cents or Better
Augusta Merchants Will Have
Biggest Year in Their History
From present Indications the vicin
ity of Augusta and this entire section
of Georgia and South Carolina will be
blessed with one of the best crops In
their history. From everywhere come
reports of the splendid prospects for
a big crop nnd In some localities,
where the ruin has been very gener
ous, the crop of corn Is also good. Tho
dry weather has curtailed the yield of
the earlier corn very considerably,
but late corn is fine and It will only
require continued good weather con
ditions for the yield to he large.
Sheriff Peter Crawford, of Colum
bia county, was In the city Monday,
and he declared that the crops in his
county are magnificent, especlaly the
cotton which is doing Just as well
as It can possibly do. There have been
good rains In that county.
Mr. M. A. Mallard, the well known
Augusta traveling mail, who was
In the lower section of Burke county
a few days ago and he declares the
crops there could not be better. Mr.
Mallard was recently a visitor to the
Comer farm at Millhaven and he says
that there are 8,000 seres of cotton
on this farm that is wonderful to be
hold. The rotton Is about three feet
tall and a yield of much more than a
hale to the acre is expected If the sea
sons continue good.
General Manager Dixon F. Kirkland,
of the Georgia & Florida Railway,
says that the crops throughout the
section traversed by his road are the
best In the history of that portion of
the country.
Not only Is the cotton crop good but
the corn crop Is excellent down there
and large yields of watermelons, can
taloupes and other crops are being
made. * *f
Mr. A. W. Htulb, another Augusta
traveling man. says that the crops
across the Savannah river In South
Carolina are splendid. Mr. Htulb has
seen the crops In three or four Caro
lina counties near Augusta and he
predicts big yields.
What the farmers need from now on
Is a god shower of rain about once a
week. Too much rain, like too much
Continued on Page Seven
REGRETS BOMB
DIBIT GO OFF
Intense Pride of Militant in
Trying to Blow Up Famous
Old Church in England.
London. —When Annie Bell, a suf
fragette was arraigned today for try
ing yesterday to destroy Archdeacon
Wllberforce’s famous old church of
St. John the Evangelist, Westminster,
with a bomb, she said “the only thing
I regret Is that the beastly thing did
not go off.”
The prisoner exitressed intense
pride in her act. She congratulated
the woman worshipper who had de
tected her setting fire to the Tuse at
tachd to a can of gunpowder and said
her smartness wos worthy of a better
cause. She advised her to become a
militant suffragette.
“I meant the bomb to go off and
blow up the church right enough,”
said Miss Bell. The prisoner then
stretched herself at foil length on the
seat In the prisoner’s enclosure and
asked the woman warden to give her
a pillow and wake her when the case
had been concluded.
“Good bye, you paid bully,” was
Miss Bell's farewell to the magistrate
when he remanded her.
Billy Baxter, Old Time
Minstrel, Passes Away
Chicago. Billy Baxter, old time
minstrel who played with nearly all
of the leading minstrel companies of
America and before the royalty of
Europe, is dead here from cirrhosis of
the liver. Horn In Ulnclnnatl, Ohio, In
IK6I, he turned early to the stage
Where his musical talent soon won
him a place aiooung the stars of
minstrelsy. He made several tours
of the world nnd on many occasions
rulrs of Europe requested him to ply
and sing the old “darkey” songs.
A few years ago he retired from the
stage and since then had made hla
home at the press flub In this city.
Nearly every night he entertained the
newspaper men with his stringed In
struments and old time southern mel
odies
DISABLED STEAMER ARRIVES.
Havre, France. The French line
steamer Virginia which broke down
on her voyage from New York, tyhenee
she aailed June 27 for Havre, was
brought Into port here today by the
British freighter Etonian.
$5,000,000 OFF
to cm
Villa Agents Also Forward Car
Load of Stamping Machines
to Complete Rebel Currency.
El Pn»o. Plvo million dollars In con
stitutionalist currency, nnd a frclKht ear
filled with stumping machines, were lu
ll verr*d In Jurez, Mux./ today by Villa
ngrints to AlbtTto l’anl, special represen
tative of Cairn nzn. The money and
machinery wero eel zed several week*
ago in Juarez by Vllla’fl officials from
Hern pi o Aguirre, treasurer general of tho
Constitutionalist*.
The currency wlij no shlped to Car
ranza hendfpmrters In Monterey, ac
cording to Constitutionalists officials
here. It was reported that Treasurer
General Aguirre and other Carranza of
ficers who have been prisoners In Chf
rhuahun were at liberty nnd would ar
rive on the border this week. They will
necompnny Villa to Juarez when ho
makes his flying trip northward, said
Carranza agents here today.
Kvaeuatlon by the Federal* of Ouny
mas, Honora. on the California gulf still
was In progress today, according to of
fjcal reports to Carranza fVorri Gond
ola Jra by way of K 1 P:;:;o. Constitu
tionalists here Wild it would take sev
eral days to complete the evacuation an
the Huerta troops wern waiting for
transports to < arrv them to some point
In lowtfr California.
Wilson Continues the
Conferences on‘Business'
Washington. Mr Wilson continued
toilay his conferences with business
men on conditions throughout the
country and their bearing on the an
ti-trust program. He saw Raphael
Herman, of Detroit, and Joseph G.
Branch of Chicago. Other conferences
of a similar nature will be held at tho
white house later this week, Mr.
Merman told the president that In lilh
opinion business men generally agreed
that anti-trust legislation Hhould" be
put through at the present session of
congress and that business conditions
generally were Improving
MELVILLE E.TnGALS IS
BURIED AT CINCINNATI
Cincinnati, O. The hodr of Melville
K. Ingalls, financier and railroad man
who died at. his summer home at. Hot
Hprlng, Va, arrived here early today
oil a special train, It was accompan
ied by members of the family and sev
eral friends Funeral services this
afternon were at the Unitarian church
conducted bv lt < pastor. Rev. Geo. A
Thaver, The pull bearers were: f’has.
I’. Taft. Judge John W. Warrington,
Ilarry (lest, Arthur Htem, Frank Wl
borg, Judson Harmon, E. F, Osborne,
J. V. 11. HcHrbornugh, vV. W. Brown,
Joseph Wllby, Win. Worthington and
(• K. Holmes all of tide Ity, and Geo.
Ktlmson of Los Angeles, f'nllf Burial
will he Iri the family lot In Kprlng
Grove cemetery.
$6.00 PER YEAR—S CENTS PER COPY.
HUERTA, HI LUST, WILL
if CHAPULTAPEC ON
SOME DAY THIS WEEK
WILL TAFT
SUCCEED
LURTON?
Much Speculation Regarding
Appointment to U. S. Su
preme Bench Following Sud
den Death Sunday of Justice
Lurton. Others Mentioned.
Washington.— -Discussion continued
hero today a sto whom President Wil
won would appoint to tho Bupromo
court bench to guccccd Associate Jus
tice H. H. Lurton, who died nt At
lantic City yesterday, The name., or
those mentioned in connection with
tho vacancy Include former President
Taft, members of tho cabinet, and oth
ers.
In official circles no one cared to
venture an opinion as to whom the
president might choose. It Is not be
lieved that lie has yet considered any
name In connection witli the vacancy.
Ah a result of Justice Lurton's death,
the president will be called lipAn to
make his first appointment to the su
preme bench.
Those Mentioned.
In addition to Mr. Tuft, those men
tioned Include Attorney General Mc-
Heynolds, Secretaries lame and Garri
son, Senator Shields or Tennessee, i
former Justice of the supreme court of
that state; Frederick W. 1 yell man, for
mer solicitor general and one of the
American delegates to Mexican pea-3
conference at Niagara Falls, and John
W. liavls of West Virginia, the solici
tor general.
Taft*® Ambition.
Former President Taft is known to
have had an ambition to round out his
Continued on Page Seven
Mrs. Nelms Asks
Shriners to Aid Her
Atlanta, Ga. —An appeal to Nobles
of tho Mystic Shrine throughout
North America to aid in the search
Tor her missing daughters. Mrs. Elolse
Dennis and Miss Beatrice Nelms was
Issued hero today by- Mrs. John W.
Nelms also invoked the assistance of
club women of the country to the
game end.
In explanation of her uetlon In call
ing on the Shriners for help, Mrs
Nelms said that her husband on his
deathbed had given Mrs. Dennis his
Hhrlners pin and that Mrs. Dennis
afterward gave this pin to Victor E.
Innas, who told her that he was a
member of the order.
Woman Cashier Robbed
of Satchel With SB,OOO
Bt. Louis. —Minx Esther Cohen,
cashier fur a wholesale grocer, was
robbed of u satchel said to contain
19,000 In cheeks and cash, on the
street hern today.
Miss Cohen was on the way to a
hank when a man darted from an area
way, snatched the satchel and fled.
SHOT WOMAN FATALLY,
THEN KILLS HIMSELF
Wilmington, Dot. John Clifton
Wilkes, 31, of Brunswick, Go. a cor
poral In the Thirty*lll xtii Company
('oast Artillery Corps, Fort Mott, N.
J., Hunday shot and fatally wounded
Mrs. Lulu Finnan, aged 113. lie then
killed himself The tragedy occurred
on the New Custle road near here.
United States Senator Wllllard Saitls
bury, who was passing In his automo
bile, took the woman to the state hos
pital at Farnhurst,
HOME
EDITION
End of Dictator Near. Car
ranza to Enter Capital
With Only Small Force
to Preserve Order After
Peaceful Transferral of
Government to Carha\a\.
Washington, D. C. Mexico City was
looked to today as tlie stays for tlie next
.stem* in the Mexican situation. With
iliurta about to quit and turn over his
affairs to his new foreign minister
Francisco Carbajal, hope was expressed
tli.it a way might be found peacefully to
irunsfer the government to the constitu
tionalists and avert irdiitary conquest
' t tiie capital by their triumphant forces.
FaVranza has announced his unwilling
in s to deni with Carbajal, regarding him
the creation of Huerta. Nevertheless
t haH been current that the parleys
might take place if Carbajala appeared
In the role of representative of a faction
i *tli*v than provisional head of govern
ment which the Constitutionalists re
in se to recognize.
Europe Might Frown On It.
Carranza, it was declared, intended to
follow the plan of Guadalupe,” which
provides for military occupation of the
capital. However weveral European and
Houth American nations, it was said,
might fmwn on such a course. They re-
Kurd with nprpehenNion the possibility of
fighting in Mexico City and forceful as
sumption of power without some previ
ous guarantee to the populace
The Impression previled widely In
Washington today that hostilities in
Mcixeo were near an end. Ft wna. sug
gested that if arrangements of peace
were settled upon, Carranze would en
nui in at tho capitol's gates or near their
present headquarters to he dispersed
upon the restoration of peace.
Accept Only Surrender, m
Ail hope of any parley between repre
sentatives of Huerta who took part In
tin- Niagara proceedings and the Con
stitutionalists upon tlie basis proposed
by Month American envoys practically
htis been abandoned. Carranza has not
formally replied to the mediators pro
posal but official messages from his
headquarters at Raltlllo have indicated
what his reply would be. Carranza was
quoted as saying the only thing he
would a< < ept was the surrender of Hu
erta and his army.
Huerta it was believed might quit
Chupultepec some day this week. Au
tomatically the new foreign minister,
Francisco Carbajala would nssume the
role of provisional president.
Man of the Law.
Carbajal iu a man of law. He is lees
than 50 years old. Of an academic tem
permanent, he never has served in the
army, lie came into interi>itional promi
nence as the envoy of Diaz at the Juarez
peace conference in 1911 after the Ma
dero revolution. A few weeks ago he
was elected chief justice of the republic's
supreme court, after serving several
yejirs ms associate Justice |f#j is said
to hi* of a conciliatory disposition, anx
ious for Ihe restoration of order and not
likely to elect to resist witli an army the
approach of the Constitutionalists.
GUARDING I. ¥.,
none PLAGUE
Unusual Precautions Being
Taken by Quarantine Author
ities of the Metropolis.
New York -Unusual precautions are
being taken by quarantine authorities
to guard New York against Hubonic
plague. All vessels from Infected
infected ports, are thoroughly disin
fected on arrlcal and are compelled to
place rat guards In position.
As a further precaution Dr. Joseph
J. O’Connell, health officer of the port
has appointed Dr. Oscar Teague, of
the Cornell University Research Lab
oratory as director of the new bac
teriological laboratory at quarantine.
Dr. Teague waa sent to Mukden
from Manila In 1911 as the American
delegate to the International Plague
Conference when the epidemic was at
Its height In Manchuria. Dr. O'Con
nell said today there was a risk of in
fection from New Orleans, Havana,
Hantiago and South American porta.
8,000 Workmen Ret urn
at Westinghouse Plant
Pittsburgh,—The strike In th«
Westinghouse factories was formally
ended today when approximately 8,000
men and women returned to the shops.
All plants were placed on full time
and nil strikers were taken hack with
the exception of two or three hundred
whose places had been filled by Im
ported workmen during the strike
Half a dozen deputy sheriffs were am
guard at the works.