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T'EST GROW! PAPER I ORTH CAROLINA y H J i n i M fODAY 6i Gr eater Charlotte s . : A. Daily, 1888 Sunday 1910. CHARLIE, N. C, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1914. Price: Daily 2c; Sunday 5c. W ABLOTTE NEWS! night Home Newspaper" EDITlON . l Qnnthein man R aps Railway In Jauhng Matte) Uii Olldl ICO" ' . A. 1(1111111 t - ' interested in L nut its Territory Move to1 ' ! ion. Thinks Raiiroau-; viainiam a Secret m j - auu rami Irges Char- Defiance Cf Ul ... m nil erniu. Mcfnn a Ccai Port Center. jr Associates -r trasbic.stan. ma .sated by aea no; r;; ed in coa! miues " ;-t ia mines els:' js reason :! a: Charleston. s. C. jjiay iarrodaced a ,,lr".''l'L5'ori JO. Charging way was dom- i rii;:;,.a:ially interest ir. it? own territory t-wrere and that for ru was not al through the port C. senator Tillman a rt-.-olution for a : '.v the naval af :: ;. advantages of manent point for a.s compared with iv Chesapeake Bay ;:le cr. coa. .re oier fvat'j A:i 'tn r 1 r S i" a I ; 1 ;:a. Penn-y! wou'i.i be directed aoter and prox tnply: rates obtain i tiei'is near Char : r-'.ations between ni.i Charleston and t'V 'onz and be a; ar-d ow ners of in irgiaia. West inia. Tenne. see and K?n:acy. u::u con-irjuiis or owner iiip of W:iar:'a.ce j'.ro;.erty in Char Has SU'i No. ti, K. Senator Tifti.!!) -ft forth that "it appears from nuaiH-ous complaints be te the interstate commerce commis visii as well as from other sources Sat the power and influence of the sailed coal trust is heing persistent 'y used through flic management of railroads r-?acbir, Charleston to irereat the tree .-..'.! aent. of coal not tu u?t: .'(.'. u-usi, practically s o: such roads o i 11 acually doni luted !y ri: same Muancial interests control t.te4 iv-u cxi. combines i.;;.' our.et -::it!ly throi.gl. Xew ? saraor, I'iiiiatieli.iiia and the ieapeake Bi-y iior:.;." 51" Lilaian dci.ar-d in his resolu 3 ua: "in v:hv 0i jje early com t;?t:D:i o- t!i" Isrhmiar. rmal anrl rf tijflnanf. i. th- United States 1 defense gei.era!--rr of an Ameri- and to the de- V.'ilh f'llTl'Ql a rl .'';i-a:i co,-tit.-ie3, the esab f'2t o; adequate coa! supplying Wuuw ;'JU-a Cape Iiaue- s is iterative ana thf nniv avail. fc? ana :he na:i'n; "'..!? aodern I'-'itLeshis and larger ua'irit ve;s as til as extnsivp C.'. i as extensive tor rue proper hand ocatnd at Charleston, h-rfT3' t:,p ''fi''Cy of the taciiities of pro ittit j'orr, Senator ft tteuR '"niaa (j,c.aren : " . "Tw Southern ita !"'vay Is dominated bAtr'0 -'. financially tav ! -J' lm- outaern Rail- and infh:;;' : eved rha t'-.'. ? an toiir Of Cl.;i' ;, ;f03e coa.netiliV.": , A? i Pnr,-..- . f";-i. if'm, 10!! :ei Jtaer 0v SO fr i 1 :'; Jljnei!tVfc--,h.; :ts for itfi f;0a! , l' dear - sairc .... ti-illh 1 jr. :ttna;e ,:aia Baa e-v oei:e CJ"'S to tr... ,., nor r ., .;: 'jt in Di, ,"'45! tt-o i tit . ' 1 and t tt ; '-r ill v! hC -ted thf ail ; ! rev,.!, : 6o"- mHl it! tVfJpy sifM liar 'f'-'fted in coal :,t' ' due to the tm-te men it is ' Railway is through the -'''h coal might "ueir larger in- rse of the 11a t ia e bouthern '' 'hi years its C aarleston to ;;jt reids of Vir-!-ve?itucky, and l. -: with a pres ti'om twelve to !-''ai which has vater. has mov ;i that port and -'J'-' docks, not funtrois its own -arleston. ' iTort3 are now ,j ais acting for t !o acquire the terminal fa- to monop- 'i;;:e-:s there in :;' '':8 interests harbor, Phil- ' t.ae ports on so-called , ' railroads 'r, :'n a similar '' : private rices wholly : '-ae railroad y unjust to i l e.ie railroads aicii they re- 'protection. ese railroads t-T? same in ?f t !' i.e-making . - "t ae law, '-''y and make 1 aS co De ''1 of competi- practically de- ' the inter fan m so far j , corn ii, . : s!,i,.;.: .' 'ae shiimer anrl llhr,,, , . Pensf ..n ; " ' UC(-'ount of the ' extraordinary delay brought about by the tactic; of the railroad whose agents resort to every method known to political trick ery ." BOD! OF GEO. VAMDERB1LT LftJD TO REST By Associated Press. New York, March 10 The body of George W. Vanderbilt was placed to day in the family mausoleum in the Moravian cemetery at New Dorp, Stat en Island, near the old Vanderbilt res idence, where he was born 52 years ago. The Rt. Rev. David H. Greer, Episcopal bishop of New York, con ducted a brief service at the Tomb. A small company of relatives and friends who came from Washington last night after the funeral services in that city was at the cemetery. M. COMHS TO 10 10 &y Associated Press. New York, March 10. William J. Cummins, one. time head of the de funct Carnegie Trust Company, who was convicted nearly three years ago of the larceny of $140,000, was taken to Sing Sing from the Tombs today to serve out a sentence of not less than four years and eight months and not more than eight years and eight months. By reason of appeals and other moves counsel for Cummins kept him out of Sing Sing for nearly 900 days after his conviction. He will now appeal for a pardon on the ground that he rendered assistance to the state in the hearings regarding the trust com pany. B GEUMSTQATTEND PROGRESSIVE MEET TILLMAN THE WAYS OF HEALTH Special to The News. Raleigh, March 10. Hon. J. W. Bailey and Clarence Poe announced today that one or more leaders of national reputation will attend the state meeting of progressive demo crats at Raleigh and the meeting will be held next month. They ex pressed themselves a3 surprised at the misrepresentation of the move ment by those who speak of it as a new political organization. "The movement," said Mr. Poe, "is not only limited to loyal and faithful democrats but does not even look to organized factional divisions inside the party nor is it the remotest thought of any of us to promote the candidacy of any individual for any office. Its purpose is simply and sole ly to get a definite program of pro gress before the democrats of the state." IVAL m E FEATURE OF 2QTH MAY EVENTS Pitchfork Ben Tells His Col leagues How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Illness by Eating Less Has Learned Many Secrets of Health and Hap piness. Too Much Smoking and Whis key; Too Little Sunshine and Exercise and Too Much Eat ing the Cause of Illness and Death, He Says. By Associated Press. Washington, March 10.--Senators to day were discussing with unusual in terest Senator Tillman's declaration in his address on his non-smoking res olution, that he believed he could lengthen the life of every man in the chamber "if I could only get them to believe what I tell them and follow my advice." The South Carolina senator assert ed bis colleagues ate too much. "Since I was paralyzed, four years ago, and read my own obituary," he said, "twenty-one senators, including Vice-President Sherman, most of them j-ounger than I, have died." A fitting epitaph, he said, for sena tors who have died in service would be "He lived not wisely, but too well, and killed himself eating." "There is no doubt to my mind that this great mortality among us is due to the way we live in Washington," declared Mr. Tillman. There is a continuous succession of banquets, dinners and receptions. Au tomobiles and street cars are used by senators instead of walking, and pure air and sunshine are things of which we get too little." Continuing, Senator Tillman said: "Tobacco, I have been told by phy sicians, is a narcotic or sedative, while whiskey is a stimulant, as every one knows.' Many men use both, and are constantly on the journey from the gar ret to the cellar and back, being whip, sawed and their nerves racked by the constant conflict going on in their sys tem, while the stimulant and the seda tive contend for the mastery. It is the abuse, not the use, of whiskey and to bacco that is so dangerous to health, for in moderation they are both harm less, I think. "Since my illness four years ago I have learned more about the human body than during all the balance of my life put together, and I am sure I discovered some of the secrets of na ture and laws of health of which most men know nothing whatever. The pity of it is that I had to ruin my health before I discovered these things and learned how to live rationally. Had 1 lived ten years ago as I am doing now my health never would have broken at all. "I owe what degree of recovery I have made and I am constantly being told I look a great deal better, and I know it is so to will power and self control in eating the will power to ex ericse my muscles and nerves suffi ciently to give them tone, and keep the rust out of the joints. But the greatest help to my health arises from the self control, whicn enables me to keep from eating things I ought not to." -'-I. -"..It, o V- 0 - -v r ? ' i f ' T' 'c f- JW-.-St -ii i i ' ? v r ' r u r 't ? ri i. i r ii iCi;'S"7s-ii"iir'as- ic-i THE WEATHER S si Forecast for North Carolina: 'if Cloudy tonight and Wednesday, -$ warmer tonight. Light to mod- -M erate variable winds. .V', ."V. O vl .1 . . J . ' J ' . ' . . O f . O f. O - 'A .",r '(I'WIWA-WICI' i ' 'i W -. ',r i-'j?"ii"2? ONTERIEYER DEFENDS HIS RESOLUTION By Associated Press. ' Washington, March 10. Samuel Un termyer's motives in pressing the sen ate banking compaittee for favorable ac tion and the stock exchange regulation bill were questioned today by Senator Hitchcock, democrat, at a hearing. Untermyer, Senator BTetcher said, nad refused to answer questions about his connection with the sale of Kana wha and Michigan railroad stock eith er for himself or for some other per son. Mr. Untermyer said he believed the matter was brought up to obscure the issues involved in the pending bill, but declared the charges that he or his clients had been involved in an impro per transaction in the stock named had been inspired by the publicity de partment of the New York stock ex change. Although he read a letter from John J. Milburn, counsel of the exchange, denying that Untermyer insisted he believed Mr. Miluburn had been "lied to." Untermyer said that Kanawha and Michigan transactions occurred about 10 years ago when he represented a "protective committee" of stockhold ers who refused to sell their holdings to the majority stockholders until the stock had been dropped from the list of the New York exchange. They then sold it, he said, at $170 or thereabouts a share, and he testified that the ma jority, holders had paid only $70 a share or less for the ether stock they bad bought in, by means of which the line passed to the Hocking Valley road and was finally absorbed by the Chesapeake and Ohio. He denied that the committee held out its holdings for purposes of mar ket manipulation. Washington, March 10. Explaining the bill he has fathered for regulation of stock exchanges, Samuel Untermy er told the senate banking committee today that instead of "Russianizing the press," as claimed by Senator Hisch cock it would merely empower the post master general to exclude from mails any publication containing quotations of an exchange not incorporated in ac cordance with state laws. "Permit me to say that the power and momentum of the press are in creasing at such a rate that the danger is that the press may Russianize the people," said Mr. Untermeyer. He declared that opponents of the bill had been forced to admit that federal regulation of stock exchanges was necessary. For state incorporation and postal supervision as proposed in the senate bill, the opponents had failed to point out an effective alterna tive, he said. VOTn 0H00L i 0 ON S TAX ELECT GOING SLOWLY Out of Total Registration of 1,664 Only 308 Votes Had Been Cast, of Which Number 257 Were For the increase in Tax and 51 Against it. The Real Contest Will be Wag ed This Afternoon A Ma gority of the Registered Votes Must be Cast for the Increase Before it Carries Remaining Away After Reg istration is a Vote Against it. The returns from the school tax elec tion for an increase of 10 cents on the $100 worth of property and 30 cents on the poll showed at 1 o'clock today i that the voting was being done slowly. The report from each of the polling places at 1 o'clock showed the follow ing: . First Ward 312 registered; 63 voted, 3 against taxes. Second Ward 138 registered; 40 voted; 6 against taxes. Third Ward 144 registered; 46 voted; 5 against taxes. Fourth Ward 290 degistered; 73 voted; 3 against taxes. Fifth Ward 105 registered; 25 vot ed; 12 against taxes. Sixth Ward-259 registered; 49 voted; 30 against taxes. Seventh Ward 85 registered; 24 voted; all for taxes. Eighth Ward 185 registered; 47 vot ed; 3 against taxes. Ninth Ward 102 registered; 7 vot ed; all for taxes. Tenth Ward 33 registered; 8 voted, 1 against taxes. Eleventh Ward 51 registered; 5 voted ; 1 against taxes. As the vote is against the registra tion, or in other words, since it re quires a majority of the registered voters for this special election to vote in the special tax, the friends of the proposed increase-in-tax idea are busy ' ins themselves to see to it that every body who is hi'favoTrof-t-theelection is recorded today, tnrougn nis nanot, as in favor of it. Out of a total registration of 1,664 only 308 had voted up to 1 o'clock to day. Of these 257 votes were for the in crease proposed in taxes anl 51 were against it. It is seen that by far the larger part of the registered votes had not been cast up to 1 o'clock. It is expected that those in favor of the proposed increase will get in much ef fective work this afternoon and will busy themselves to see to it that every one woh is registered and wrho is in favor of the small increase in taz is properly voted. Berlin, March 10. German artillery ! is the best in the world, declared the i ministry of war today in denying a I report circulated yesterday in Mun I ich that a bill would be introduced for the re-armament of the German artillery at a cost of $125,000,000. At 3 o'clock the votes etood as follows : First Ward 113 for; 7 against Second Ward 60 for; 11 against. Third Ward 61 for; 8 against. Fourth Ward 129 for; 3 against Fifth Ward 21 for; 14 against. Sixth Ward 56 for; 60 against. Seventh Ward 40 for; 2 against. Eighth Ward 90 for; 8 against. Ninth Ward 10 for; 10 against. Tenth Ward 11 for; 3 against. Eleventh Ward 13 for; 8 against. Requires 853 to Carry. It requires 853 of the total number (Continued on Page Nine.) One of the features of the coming May Twentieth Celebration will be a carnival of no mean proportions. This was essentially the decision of the special feature committee of the Meck lenburg Declaration Society which met in the offices of the Greater Charlotte Club this morning. However, since the society is chartered the contracts for the carnival must De approved by the president and the entire matter will : be submitted to President F. B. Mc-' Dowell at 4 o'clock this afternoon. It is understood though that a represen tative of a prominent - carnival com pany has been in the city and that as soon as President McDowell approves the suggestion of the committee the contract ' will be signed. i This is one of the steps toward the actual staging of the Twentieth of May Celebration and brings Charlotta one step closer to the realization of the greatest Twentieth of May Cele brations yet held in this city. ! The committee which met this morning in the Greater Charlotte Club was composed of C. C. Coddington, O. L. Barringer, A. N. McDonald, David Ovens, S B. Alexander, C. C. Hook. WANTED --A JOB. I am an advertising salesman, the best in Charlotte and the hardest worker in the whole country. For twenty-five years I have sold goods for the best and biggest concerns in this city leaders in the field. Spear mint Gum, Coca-Cola, Peerless Flour, Uneeda Biscuits, Block's Crackers, Piedmont and Fatima Cigarettes, Goodrich and Goodyear Tires, Postur and Grape Nuts, and many other "out-of town" concerns are my employers. I work every day in the year, rain or shine. I interview men and wo men of all classes for two or three hours every evening and Sunday morn ing without tiring them. I show things as they are some praise and others criticize, but they all remember me and miss me when I don't show up. I cover the richest territory in this whole southland-Greater Charlotte and Piedmont Carolina. I go out to all the towns within sixty or eighty miles ; I cover the residential districts of Greater Charlotte-Myers Park, Elizabeth, Dilworth, Piedmont, Belmont, Hoskins and Villa Heights. I belong to the Manufacturers' Club, the Colonial Club, the Y. M. C. A. the Y. W. C. A., and all others. I go to Queens College, Elizabeth College, and all other principal educational institutions of the city I go right into The Selwyn, The Central, Stonewall, Mecklenburg, Buford, Clayton and all other hotels. I go into the theatres, cafes and all public places. Men in all the shops and stores of the city receive me in their homes. I talk to more than 40,000 people daily. Lam 12 or 14 pages, seven columns to the page, 21 inches long to the column. I am worth more but will work for a small price. Iam THE CHARLOTTE NEWS If I am not already working for you, 'phone The Advertising Depart ment today and put me to work. I will have a representative see you. 'Phone 115. U. S. Will Demand Punishment Verga ra s Assassins LL TH01 SOCCEEI CH AS. WEB Special to The News. Raleigh, March 10. Members of the state democratic executive com mittee are coming in rapidly today for a meeting tonight to select the date and place of the next etate con vention. There is no doubt about the con vention coming to Raleigh, it is said, and the date probably some time in June. Chairman Charles. A. Webb said this afternoon he may or may not resign as state chairman, but that he does not have to do so to hold the western district membership. However, he most probably will, it is believed. Thomas D. Warren will be elected to succeed without opposition, it is reported. There Will Be No Conflict Be tween Federal and Texas State Authorities Over the Recovery of the Body Sec retary Bryan Issues Statement. T. TH LIST F ROM FIRE PLACED AT 31 By Associated Press. St. Louis, March 10. Firemen to day entered the ruins of the Missouri Athletic Club, which was destroyed by fire early Monday and recovered three bodies. That brought the total number of bodies recovered to ten. Five have been identified. Twenty- two bodies still are believed to be in the ruins. One of the bodies taken out today was identified by two empjoyes of the club as that of Marshall iBer, head of Marshall Bier & Co., fur dealers, of St. Louis. Another body was identified as that of William J. Kinser, treasurer of the Kinser Construction Company, St. Louis. The body thought yesterday to bbj that of Allen R. Hancock was identified ; today as that of L. P. Ruff, department manager for the Simmons Hardware Company, St, Louis. St. Louis, Mo., March 10. Compari son of the number of persons known to have been in the Missouri Athletic Club just before it was destroyed by fire Sunday night and the number of guests safely accounted for today, re sulted in a death list of 31, and it was said that might be slightly increased. Seven bodies were recovered from the building's ruins yesterday and five were identified. ' Fifty-five persons in the building when the fire alarm was given escaped with more or less serious injuries. Firemen today continued to throw streams of water into the smouldering ruins and it was believed several days would elapse before the debris coma be thoroughly explored for bodies of victims. Until then the exact number of dead can not be determined. The raiiRft of the fire and the reason for its tardy discovery remained mysteries today. Fire Chief Swingley said today that some time ago he warned the manage ment of the Missouri Athletic Club that the building was not safe for sleeping quarters. "I found conditions particularly bad on the three upper floors," said the chief. "The building was not construct ed for hotel purposes but for a busi ness house. It had been converted into a hotel by dividing the upper floors into rooms." James A. Smith, former building com missioner, said that he refused to ap prove the southwest fire escape be cause it ran directly across the win dows. "I held," he said, "that in case of fire, flames bursting trom me win dows would cut off escape. That is ex actly what happened." Former Building Commissioner Smith said that after personally in specting the club house he had ordered the board of governors to put in two fire stairways. ' , "The governors objected, said Smith, saying that to do so would ruin their lobby. So I cited them into court The club had good friends at court and the judge was inclined to compromise. After interminable wrangling I suc ceeded in getting the club to put in a proper fire.stair, enclosed in concrete, with correct fire doors on each floor." Ed Bonnmueller, secretary of the club, said the members often had discussed the danger of fire. "Still we could not jump into the street,"' he said, "we had to stay somewhere and we anticipated no such tragedy. The building was provided with enough fire escapes, we thought, as well as hose reels, fire buckets and extinguishers on every floor." hTe explosions which firemen re ported were attributed to escaping gas. One of the bodies recovered today was identified as that of E, P. Wil liams, a banker of New York. The body was fully dressed and unmarred. Apparently he had been suffocated. Friends of Ranchman Secured the Body Texas Rangers Played no Part Whatever in the Affair What Exams . nation of Body Showed. By Associated Press. Washington, March 10. No .con flict will arise between the federal government and the state of Texas over the recovery of the body cf Vergara, the murdered American ranchman. Further eteps demanding the punishment of Vergara's assas sins will be taken. That was the status of the case after a cabinet meeting 'today. The officially accepted view wai raat Ver gara was lured across the border and murdered and his body was sub sequently rocovered by his own friends, who crossed into Mexico aa private individuals and not as an armed expedition. After today's cabinet meeting Sec retary Bryan made the following par aphrase of American Consul Garrett's telegrams : "Consul Garrett went with Capt. Sanders of the Texas Rangers, and a .deputy sheriff of Palafox, Texas, last Saturday for the purpose of mak ing further investigation in the Ver gara case. They went to the Vergara ranch and examined witnesses who saw the horses belonging to Vergara taken by the Mexicans and who als saw Vergara cross the river and those who saw him captured. The in vestigation kept them up late Satur day night when they reached Cole man's camp two miles above Palafox where they ate. supper and 'conclud ed to remain overnight. About 4 a. m. they were informed that Verga ra's body was on the Texas side oi the river. "Consul Garrett roused his chauf feur and went five or six miles away to a point opposite San Enrique's ranch about three miles below Pa lafox. Mr. Garrett there found the body with a number of the relatives of Vergara who had also been noti fied to come and identify it, Mr. Garrett was informed . that a small party of Vergara's friends had gone over the river at 2 a. m. exhumed the body. and brought it acros3. Mr, Garrett adds that the Texas Rangers had no hand in bringing the body over but went there to view it when notified aa he was." Secretary Garrison received today from Brigadier General Tasker H. Bliss, commanding the American bor der forces, the following report on the Vergara case by Capt. H. P. How ard, of the 14th United States cav alry: "Investigation shows Vergara was. taken from the Hidalgo cemetery Sat urday night by relatives of Vergara and hired Mexicans. Capt. Sander states positively no Texas Rangers, crossed the border. He met the body at a landing opposite San Enrique with Undertaker Convery Sunday morning. Convery brought the body, to Laredo 7:30 p. m. Sunday. He states there were no signs of burna on the body. Found four bullet holes. Neck chafed but not broken. Body decomposed but pants match coat left at home by Vergara. Identification seems reliable. Recovery of body said to have cost S. T. Hill, brother-in-la.v of Vegara, $400. Body being held at request of Aujutant General Huachings. No excitement." Secretary Bryan entering the cabi net meeting, eaid American Consul Garrett reported that Vergara's rela tives recovered his body on Sunday and that Texas Rangers did not cross the border. Consul Garrett said he had been notified that if he would go to a place on the American side of the Rio Grande across from Hidalgo Mexico, at 4 o'clock Sunday morn ing he would find the body. He went there in company with Captain San ders of the Texas Rangers, and the body was delivered by friends of Vergara. Members of Pary Unknown. Austin, Texas, March 10. No furth er information on the identity of the party of Texans who recovered Cle mente Vergara's body from ite Mex ioan grave was expected here today pending conclusion of the official in vestigations no win progress by both federal and state authorities. Gover nor O. B. Colquitt is out of the city on a two days' trip to Fort Wortb. Henry Hutcfilngs, state adjutant gen eral, has begun at Laredo an investi gation ordered by Governor Colquitt. The governor did not make public what specific instructions, if any, he gave Hutchingo. It is known that the stories of torture based on the charred condition of one of Vergara's hands will receive close attention in this inquiry. There still was no intimation so far as known here, from Capt. J. J. Sanders, of the Texas Rangens, as to the identity of the person or per sons who, he says, informed him he would fiid the body on the American shore of the Rio Grande river at S:30 o'clock Sunday morning. V , . :-f J 5. V
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