North Carolina Newspapers

"'v '.A J.ifi;.i'V THE WEATHER. BOMB TIOPUE ASS JO BHFLCS1 , They want to boy or Mil exfaM( they- wut position r- wm- npkrMr of ' tbla, tb Md tb ethMV ad they dnt know bow to co about It, .XjH Stor Bul nes- Locals work for yon I They ftro prao tieally anfalHag of reaoU. , . - v '-r rinudy west; probably rain east por- L1..r;J...v nnT Thru-art v ht" and Thvirsdavr htirti" northeast to norm wmas. -Ik. . elo.unlide: --. ; yoL. XCJJ-NO. 141.' WlJMmGrTOK, K. p., VTJDi? QRimG, SEPTEMBER 3 j 1913, WHOLE NUMBER 13,41 , I' - . , l'. j' . ' . ' ' ' ''" ' -"' '"" - '" ' WRECK ON Bar Harbor . " Express From Rear and Telescoped. Hit Two Pullmans Splintered I to Mass, ofTan gled ' Wreckage. fim SERIOUSLY IliJllRED Railroad Official Admit - Signals in Use Were Not of Aoo roved ; Type Government to Make: ' 5 Immediate Investigation. " New Haven, Conn Sept. 2. Twenty-six persons were tilled and nearly fifty injured, some of whom may die, in rear-end coIlisTon shortly before 1 o'clock this morning, on the New York, New Haven, and Hajtford Rall Tead, six miles north of here- The first gection of the White Mountain Express bound for New ' York, speeding along at probably 40 miles an hour in. a thick fog, rushed: by .-a. danger' signal, it is said, and crashed into the rear' of the second section of the Bar Harbor Express, standing'100 feet beyond the; block signal. Tf 'i ; The White Mountain engine cleaved through the ' two .. jear v -Pullman" r caxsj loth of wood, ' splitting them in two and tossing their wreckage and,1 three score of mangle' human beUgs, come alive, some -dead, on either . side of the track. - . . ' The tnird car also .of wqbd. and oc cupied by 40 -boys'-ton their, way "from a Summer camp', at Monmouth, Maine as lifted into the -air -and fell on its side crumpled up and :rushingtwo t)f the boys to death and injuring others. Some of the Tictiios ft the-tmif rear Pallmanp fwere . burled V fropi t berths war a fenc,e:;naraUejing i the track!50. dothing f Qftndldgment Wte. which the New Haven; ;haa" jwff ered within : - a year ; aAtf Tihtaigurate We1 first day of the Jregtme of Howkfd El liott, the newly elected b-eaci. df the road. Mr. Elliott,- returning- from his Summer home , fau New Hampshire -to assume his duties," passed over , the scene of the wrec- on an earlier train less than an ' hour "before. . '. - - A Practically all the passengers oh both trains were teturning home from TrZJ LbnLW of a camping party of nine, guests of S. Crozer Foxof Elkins Park, Ea; returning from Maine, were wiped out. Fox was among those killed. No one was hurt ia the Wjhlte Mountain train. ; . -v.- " - - The Death List. The death list from the coroner's report and from . the list issued ; by the railroad campany, is:- J - s? ' ;; Killed in the wreck: 'i '"", William Altschul, Norfolk, Va-'; . Harold Every,. New York. ton, D. C. Miss Marie L. Bullitt, PhUadelphia, Albert Green, New York. :. Royar Hotchkiss, New. Haven.- Miss Merritt. Philadelphia. -v . Miss Harriet Niddle, Torresdale, Pa. r .' " - Miss Murphy, New York. H. F. Martin. Bryn, Pa. n Mrs. H. F. Martin Bryer, Mawr, Penn. Daniel McQuillen, Jr., Philadelhia. Miss Stoddart,-New York. S. Crozer Fox, Elkins Par, Pa. Frank B. Butle, Scranton, Pa Miss Emilfe Davis, Philadelphia. Miss Agnews White, Boston. Robert M. Yahn, Philadelphia. '.f Died at hostpltal:i - , ; r.:, Phllo Hotchkiss, New Haven. ' t-eorge T. Korga,fNew -York. Mary Jane . , residence .un known. .- - '.i ..:' Died at Meriden:' - w - Harry K. Inmar. New NYork- Unidentified dtead r Elderly r -man, ageaj60, 145 pounds, graw Van Dyke Heard, otherwise smoothly shaven, clothed only in union suit. ' Elderly "oman, weighing about 200 pounds, evidently of German-birth: v bad - gold oand ring, inscMbed "For Ufe and ror Death 4.sn.7rt " . . -, -. . .wman, aged L ' 35; had; "dlamond-j -UOier ring engraved D. Bi L. (or p t, on left hand, locket with F- B. Rand." . . : ' - . Man. grey hair, brown eyes, smooth m inquirie8 made, for Hale Stein man, Lancaster, Pa;) - ,- :. Signal Defective. , T tn e .ew Haven officials were frank i? admit tonleht; that the so.alled anJ?' block signal system- which 4 yart or the line has not yet oeen re-placed by the semaphore sys em recommended; by the public util-' ues commission last, December wts aitL eusure responsible for the wreck unough the question as to whether train gme of the White . Mountain too mAu?ustua B- Miller was making conH,Uch .sPed under the -weather onaitions i8 -under investigation, r denihl Elkins and his wife, of Phila ManaLa' ere at e. office of Genaral informer;Bardo this afternoon seeking famfiv ?ru about members of their tainaw :Ynen o information was ob in an Le heyent to the wreck scene 1D an automobile. ; : 1 Thr,nfietyv.r,egardinei -""the " safety of Itaiv KNelson Pas"e- ambassador to Harbor V, was known . to left York this ft- - yesterday-was set at rest that tI rSoon we- it . was found hotel 1'' " Vashir,;:; Bnai urgea.- . - quire 5angt0n,' 2'A bill . to te- Muire railroad trt . n.,f on .,,t.)in irain stnnc 7- ."IV"" . r1.""10 Kepresentati3! Z VonM861,!! Levy, to New York. It a Squire .the w inter-state ; com-. ober'tWnWni all : of them' Ne- idate:terant buildings o (CQRtlnned 0Oage EighL) t ..twarfe'New flfm'lA9e9 " -----' ' j"v.-1-,- -'.i-r;---7- . -v.:- , ;v.V-;P',:'' 'M " VEN SUPPOBT FD8 CURRENCY BILL Senate -Committee . Hears ftecommen dations from Leading Bankers vfi.Proposed Changes v -s '. ' , 1 1: in the Money - Measure . .- 7 ; Washington,- Sept 2 .Support for' many'-; priheiples :-of r the adminfsjtra tlon 2 currency ' ' biir was drawn : from leading fnenbers ; of the American Bankers' Association today at the first session of the hearings began by the Senate Committee- on Banking and LCurreBc. : Representatives r of 'the recent 'conference of bankers at Chicago""- whb' appeared to ' present rec ommendations, for amendments to the blU,:,de'caredJ thy did not come in a' spiritr of antagonism' to the bill, but in the hope. that, it could be so amended, as to make' the new system more "at tractive", and more "flexible." "Weydo not -'fear government - con trol, said Sol .Wexler, vice president of the j iWhitney-Central Bank of f New Orleans Vahd one of tne chief spokes men lor tne . aelegation. -r -: " We want only minority representa-: tlon . .on ,: tne Federal reserve board; not: to exercise -undue influence nnnn its 'actions, but to. prevent abuses that : might . arise." , . The strongest; endorsement -of the general . purposes of the administra tion currency reform plan came near the close .of Mr.: Wexlers examina tion, when Senator Crawford, a Re- pubiican member 61 the committee, declared the country banks of a. State like South 'Dakota had nothing to gain andJwould.suffergreatly by being com peifed to 'Withdraw part of their cap- ltar from active business within the State, "and send it outside to a . rej giohal reserve -,bank-: : 4 . x-ft thinto the Senator has drawn -the' picture too. . dark and gloomy " said Mr Wexler:' "I don't think banks should be compelled! to enter the new system. -bt it could be made attrac tive Jendugh" to ..induce them to' come la;. -. There: Would- be. -real - benefits even ifor a State that would have, lit ftte -, -jto dp with sr- regional , . reserve bankvrrv ;. f v James B . "Forgan president of v the chairm ap .of -the Chicago f cos ferettce, J ajlJju Wexler testified ;adaxA.aadl :3A-.tJtie..'8eiieiofngge3ticmAVXof. amendments, tp- th biUimadeiirolic hj;.ie bankers s week ago.. .Sugges tions Aupon which they dwelt-' with chief emphasis today were: . : That, the banks--rather than " the Federal treasury. Issue currency. :. - That : a centra! ' bank, or not more than- five -regional banks. , would - be preferable to the proposed twelve re gional reserve banks. the new Federal system should be optional, not compulsory as the bill provides. " - - " . That the amount of regional reserve bank .capital for which each National bask -must subscribe; should be re duced from twenty per cent to ten per cent of the subscribing bank's capital-stock.' That -.one "regional ' reserve bank should not be compelled to rediscount the. commercial paper, held by anoth er- waged in. the Senate-committee before It. can .reach-any .'agreement upon cur rency, reform , legislation became ap parent' early in- the hearing. Ques tions: .by Senators Hitchcock and 0Gorman, ' pemocxats, Indicated that their . views on t certain provisions of the bill . were at variance with those of the "party leaders who engineered the .measure through the preliminary stages in tbe House; and Republican opposition to many features of the bill warf pronounced.. . , .. - : " The suggestions made by the bank ers' committee, that representation be given to ; the "banking interests on the Federal' feaenre Aboard,,; were met with a couiter suggestion by Senator Weeks; Republican . which it, Is under stood wUt be advanced as a possible amendment '.when the Senate commit tee begins consideration of the bill ' ' This-was that the - bankers of the country should be allowed to submit .to the' President a list'of fifty or one hundred - naenrv and the .-' President be authorized io 5 select from this, list the four'members of the Federal reserve bord;.-.- -.'i' . - -.v ; "'" '.'.. Members of th bankers' committee present today included: : ; ,3eorg'e; M t " Reynolds, president Con tlneataP ana ,4 Oommercial National Bank, Chicago: Festua Wade, pres ident, Mercantile. Trust Company, St. T.iiisr Jv- HilL irice president Na tional Bank, Norwalk Norwalk, Conn.. jpe Chapman-, ' vice presiaent jn onn wsiero National -Bank, Minneapolis; Robert ii-Fi Maddox, vice 3 .president AnierXcfln National Bank, Atlanta. c U'VVE! VESSEL DRIVEN ASHORE Schooner ft. r i-iamy a wmpiew 1 -Wreck Two' of Crevy. Drowned . : j Norfolk JVa.t SeptV. S.The. three masted schooner ; R. F. ; C . Hartly, .Vfaaariten ashore ia a squall 18 miles south- of Bodies Island , on this coast tdday:' Two of her crew were drown e;befoTB lifesavers could reach the t wreck. , Five: were rescuea. ine ves ru.t .wjhiK ar?n will he a. total loss. The- Hartley was bound front New Yi&rk ttf Charleston, S-C., with a cargo bvsalt vl ' ' " ' '' " t tiife aVers made several attempts to launch life boats but .were driven backby higb, seas.! They finally man aged tte launch a tioat. and - went to the rescue ;- of the. ship ; wrecked men.'. When they reached the vessel two i inert : had disappeared. Captain RmmiA. ;nd: four other : men were clinging ' to ' the . riggings. The were brought asnore. 1 ne - built in 1888 in Bath, Me. .She was of 89, tons nej -" -1 j -'f ;: r'zar efdinafid r of Bulgaria knows ' 1 " . J ".'4iit 4 f TXT " r Id : . aviI oilier ' nnw ir ir rt&utfoxMltM te doing some very SSI Will Hear HaleV On Conditions- In Mexico. ; BRYAH STILL OPTIMISTIC .:''. - ' . i . ; - ' Sate Department. Officials now Pro- claim That the Situation is En . - cauraging Americans Con- 'h.-:Y ;-V;';. tjnue Exodus. ; '. ' Washington Sept. 2 President Wil son,, who will' return tb Washington tomorrow - morning from Cornish, N." is. expected to meet William Bay ard: Hale, now en route here; from a special Emission'' to Mexico 'for' thet ad ministration, Mr. Hale's report on conditions in Mexico since the arrival of - John Lind with the peace pro-J posals of -American government, will be made direct to the President. Unofficial reports reached Washing ton today that Mr. Lind who has been at Vera Cruz since the rejection by the ; Huerta Government of the American proposals would . return to the -United States within a few days. No confirmation of this could be pro cured at the state department. Sec retary of State Bryan Said just be fore leaving for a ecture engagement tonight at York, Pa., that - he knew nothing, of such an intention by Mr. Lind, i ; " -.. - i"l had - a message from Mr. Lind today," said the Secretary, "but it did not concern his ; movements. :As to . the Mexican situation, it can' be said that matters Iook encouraging."' Sinre t.h denarture of . the .Presi dent ' from Washington the , daily' characterization of the Mexican situa tion at. the state department "has been unchanged." The renewal of the word "encouraging" just as the 'Presi dent Is returning -to the Capital was re garded in official circles as significant of possible developments. Mr.- Bryan, however, had . no eXDlanation for his 'statement. ; exceDt ar 'smile .the. first ft'-iitsiWorH ih- discussing' the1 tense fuation, wlth Mexico for. many days, 'hit.' Brvah ' today: discussed brotec- tion of s American . property in Mexi co yl.th Senator Swanson,' of Virginia, who called" to submit a complaint of of a. sugar company near Vera Cruz which did not wish to leave its prop erty unguarded by . Americans. Sev eral Requests for further information" as to the purpose of this government with -regard to protection of Ameri can property in-Mexico have been re ceived-here and. it-is probable that President ' . Wilson and Secretary Bryan-will confer on this-mater tomorrow.-. Consul Lespinasse , at Tenosique, Mexico.-reported to the state depart ment .today that the seizure of, a steamer by revolutionists had held up 'eight'' Americans who were ready to leave lor-, the United States. The consul said he had made a strong rep resenation in behalf of his govern ment and believes they will not be mistreated. ' - Cotmul Canada reported from Vera Cruz that, a large number of Ameri cans .were planning to embark there Thursday, on - tne steamer Mexicano for Galveston. Nine refugees on the Norwegian steamer City of Tampico, are. due - in-Texas City tomorrow Consul--Letcher reported that many. Americans in the vicinity of Chihua hua weretv disposed to postpone fol lowing the' advice of President -Wil son In. regard to leaving the country insisting, that they .would rather face hardships' and the - relatively small danger, of present . conditionse than abandon r.thelr property. Consul General Shanklin gave notice than, many Americans at Mexico City were,- desirous or leaving ror JManza nillo. :-; ' - v - v - - - . . . ' It 1 was "reported that about ; 20 persona-' , Wished to get out of that district; -indications pointing to many morev refugees from Mexico City and Guadaiapara; districts; embarking; . at this port Consul General Shanklin reported having provided transporta tion for- -21- refugees by -West coast, sending all .to Manxanillo as that route was cheaper than by way of . Salina Cruz. -,' ' v . - : - '- . , Deputy Consul. General Allen is at Torreoh arranging for such Americans as desife to leave the country. Dis tressln conditions are. reported, there. - ', . -i.rield For Ransom. .. - El' Ptfsb; Texas. Sent. 2. a; W. Mc- Cormickot San AntoJlia, Superinten dent of tbet'Palomas Land and Cattle company in j-North era Chihuahy a. is held prison . by' : Meximo CastHlo's Mexican 'free .hooters for a .ransom- of 10,000. t. This . is the second tiine he has .been held for ransom. Dur ing the Orozco revolution he was forc ed to; pay 15,000. - '-.; :- rC' - ..- ', '-Yesterday a Mexican ; Drought a re port : td; sHaChlta, New v Mexico, .. that McCormlclc was held a prisoner- again and todayan-El Paso bank received a request from McCormick through a friend to forward $10.0001. The mohy.ewas sent to Hachita.v. whence it - j to .be . taKen to tne camp of CastlBot. - : ' ; , - .' tvv6 houses collapse; Thirteen? Families -Who Occupied; the - iBuiiqing Caught invwreckage. : Dublini-, Ireland, Sept. ; 2. Two houses lh;Church - street occupied- by 13 , families. Suddenly collapsed tor nIght;lMf Jlhg : all the inmates. . Sev en aeaa -anfi lnjureoi were quicKiy ex-. tna-cted- by : rescuers. It - is feared1 the death., toll . wilt be heavv. as it is re ported uersons -are missing, v Pite ous criecatne. from the ruins as manf persons son anve, were imprisonea in 'the -'wreckage. " " '- .. '- '. The.'honiies feu without tne slightest warning.'"'- .. -'- ' : . - Church street consists or 01a. cuiap- . . !;. . . . ' . 1 -.J 1 . T, Report Root Appeafe for Vaustlejejr to Wealthy New Yorkers .Lewis Declares; The Sktit4 Pay : I for BtnefiU V ; .'.'-""" ', - ;4 , , . Washington Sepf 2.- An appeal by Senator Root 1 "justice to the people of New- York" tin the leyying of the income tax,", and. . a- reply , by Senator '"Lewis,vpf-Illi.nbls-;. who.-'; de clared that the- chosen few of wealth should be made to pay for the benefits of government, marked today's tariff debate in the Senate. - . Senator Root - declared that his State, who -paid' so large proportion of the Civil War income tax had vol untarily surrendered its; -constitutional protection against unfair taxation, on the ' Conviction' that the;. wisdom of self-control -: and " poaemtion. woiild stay' the other; States from combining to heap upott it th bnrden of .taxa tion. He said that the meariibon wlfom the income tax- woiild fall .were those upon ( whom'New .York- depended as the course xor.Baeetlng its-great yearly expenses. : He ; attac'kedt the-v?3,000 ex emption as. reBevirig tbser agricultural states rrom-tne ouraear of -taxation; and advocated a- $l,00iexentption. -: Senator Lewis- said .New-York . had failed "notablsr tb make itis-rich men bear their share of the bmrden of gov ernment and -that1 in-acoWdance with the- growing ' idea Uhat?. where the states had failed- to act,: thel Federal government must act ;'for them, he was reaay 10 mase iflo ncn pay. we said Senator Root himself had preach ed this doctrine v;While : Secretary of State. . . 1 , ,v-v - . : "Who are the Oeoole. of Ntv Ynrt for whom the Senatorls solicitious?" inquired the Illinois Senator. .- "Are they those who breed around - Waif Street and . flock" t6 .th' Waldorf rAs toria? Are they those whose names ar.e ; seldom -" found 0i - the assessor'a list; but .who hover "Around- the Medi terranean in -uift- gumroer;, ana tne islands or the van-mean m the Win-i ter?. - Are there no -boor-and' humbla in hi& State? Why should the Senator ask ; that . -my.- people'.- should be ex empt from the burden, of -government The object cc Democrats, is not to make illegail war. on our National wealth, but legal war on legal wealth. With war: hanging over Jus with . Mex ico, who would be the first to hasten to this capital to have the army and navy be sent out? It would be mv people' who would want the farmer's! property. . and . prevent ,- invasion of the coumry. - Let taem tssy fothe great x '- ' - . . . , . uenenis 01 goverranent: wmcn iney- en joy, and .let not 'all the ' burden be placed, on the .helpless that tly may become ..the hopeless, too." - - Several, items passed over- on - the first reading of the bill were agreed to during the closing hour of the day's session. The Norris amendment to free list substitutes for office, and one by Senatpr Jones to. remove the duty from jutebags-for grain exports were defeated. .- . Tonight the Senate Democrats catt- cussed to , undertake1 final disposition! or various disputed sections of the bill that ; had been referred back to the. Finance committee. The two most ! Important matters to be considered were, the proposed increase in the in come tax on larger incomes, and the cotton futures tax amendments. . LUlMBERTON GETS $5,000 MORE, j Total of $10,000 for Site for $75,000 Public Building. (Special Star Telegram.) Washington D. C, Sept. 2-The de ficiency bill which was reported to the House today carried an additional ap propriation of 15,000 for the. site upon wnien, a y&,ouo puone hiHlding -will be erected at LumbertonjtReoresen- tative Dodwin hadalready secured $5,- uuu. Dut it was round thafc 5,00 more was needed The next nuhlic. "build ings will carry -the appropriation for the building. . , ... - Mayor White and Frank- GoughJ of Lumberton. conferred with Mr. God win and officials of. the Treasury De partment with reference to selecting the site for . the - new building " it is understood they- have about decided wnere the building will; be located. Representative .and Mrs.- Godwin and - Misses Ruby and Mattie Belle Godwin left for Damn tonight. I - ' - -' ... P. R. A. .LET UP ON STEEL TRUST Levy Would Stop Government- Suit .. . Because of Trust's Good Deeds Washington Sept. 2. Representa tive Levy, of New York, today intrp- auced a resolution to direct the atr torney general to . suspend further proceedings in the Federal dissolu-tion'-suit against the United r- States Steel Corporation upon - the eround that the corporation , during the past aecaae nad expenaea $1,575,000,000 for 'iaborr decreased the cost of pron ducing steel, ahd-increasing iron' and steel'- exports. '". .:, :. : -. - ou - President : Wilson s- wieturn ?. to Washington today from Corish,- N? H. Upon' his return -ne is .expected to hear a.7 report on conditions . in Mexi co from William ;. Bayard; Hale, . how" en route from a special mission in the trouble . zones k ; ; - j- -. -v vH Harry K. Thaw-must remain in jail at Sherbrooke . Jintil Judge -.'Matthew Hutchinson renders his. decision on the question of . sustaining or . dismis sing the writ 01 napeas corpus , on which arguments were, heard yester day. . . ,-?' - ' ; : Twenty-six persons were killed, and probably, fifty injured, , in a rear-end collision oh the, New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, six miles north of New Haven Conn. : Former President 1 art addressed the , members - of? -tne 'American Bar Association ' in: . session .at Montreal. making a plea ' for - greater . indepen dence of the. judiciary.-J ... New York mark etsr Money oh' call steady,-.' 2 3-8 3 - per cent. ruling rate" 2 3-8; closingbid 2 1-2 4. 3 Flour steady. Wheat firm. ; Corn .strong. Rosin -quite. Turpentine steady. Spot cotton quite f middling uplands 13.00 ; guii. M.zt)j no saiss. ATTACK BEGUN Oil "HARO GOAL TRUST" Suit Filed to Dissolve Read ' ing Company's Control of . Coal Interests. ; SECOND STEP III BIG' FIGHT Attorney General Mc Reynolds -to . Wage War on Most Patentiaj Combina- -; tion' in the AnthracterCoartf. v, Fields. Philadelphia,, Pa., Sept. 2.-Attorney General McReyn old first and most im portant attack.'on the "hard coal trust" was begin here today with the filing of- -a civil suit -for the dissolution I of the Reading Company's icohtrol of coal mining and , coal-carrying - railroads the most potential combination in,' the anthracite fields. The, Reading Com--pany- -with its 'subsidiary , and 'allied corporations, including the ; '-Central Railroad of New J.er3se and certain "of their officers arid- directors,; are charged; by the Federal .Government with violating both the Sherman anti-; trust law .and the '.commodities clause. of the Inter-State Commerce act, - in an attempt to monopolize the 'produc tion arid transportation of anthracite, ; --This combination, controlling at the present time; 63 per cent of the entire unmined deposits of anthracite and marketing about - 30 per cent of the annual supply, will own or control. in time, if notv dissolved, the Attorney General warns, "every ton of .com mercially available anthracite known to exist.'' . ! - The importance of the- suit' is em phasized with the declaration that in this Case '"only the law can afford re lief." If it pointed out that in Jalmost every other , industry if ' is - at least possible for' a monopoly to be broken by the influx of fresh capital attracted or niKnr prorits. nut. against a mono poly of hard coal, the suppjy of which; is iimueqv 1 tnere can pe? no. sucn . pro-j ! Tiecuon. Toay -s suit l8?&'4tobteQt the Department of Justice to solvethe "hard coal trust" situation 'slnc-the decision - of the "Supreme:' Court -last December ..- Cancelling the -v so-called sixty-five per cent contracts and: Ord ering the dissolution of . the .Temple Iron- Company. " The" court held- the government had failed to -prove a gen eral combination among all ; the" Coal--carrying s- railroads and left-; bpen i.to future litieation- the so-called minor combinations of whieh the -. Reading is the most important.- ' - 1 - v Former Attorney General j.wicners- ham. filed -a civil suit along similar lines and which is now - pending against the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. V- ' '.' Attorney. General McReynOlds ' now is considering the question of attack ing other alleged combinations of coal- carrymgr railroads . ana coai.-umimng companies, particularly the a Lehigh Valley and the Erie ana" their allied coal companies. 1N0 decision as to probable action has yet been, reached. The Parties to suit. Followine corporations and .'indivi duals are named as defendants . in the petition in equity filed today: ': V - Reading company, capital : j.4v,vuu,- 000; ; debt, $130,000,000. -'- .. ---': Philadelphia & Reading .Railway Company, capital, $42,481,T0Cidebt $49,385,582. . ' ':,, '-,"-, The Philaiielnhia. & Reftdihg.' C6al & Iron Company, ;.capitaU$8,000,QW)i debt. $74,576,529. --. v-r-YHc The Central Railroad Company j. of New Jersey, capital, $27,436,800 i debt, $47,848,000. :.v- ;'"-v-;-''- The Lenlgn , & wiiKes-uarre.. tfoat Company, capital, $9,212,500;; -debt, $16,996,000. ...-'-' , ., i-r;.:,;--The Leigh Coal & NavigatlonKCom pany, : capital, $26,5557,950; debt, $21, 409,333. ' . ' ;i . v-ry, Wilmington & Northern Railroad Company, capital, $1,500,000 jr debt, $894,000. V - " . Thitrh Wiidsnn River Railway Company; capital, $1,340,000; . fiebt;$3,- ooo nnn : :. ' :. . '::' ;''' vi Lehigh & New England Railroad Company, capital $1,000,000; debt, $7, 770,000. - sy. I . ' ' Geroge F. . Baer, Philadelphia; George F. ,Baker, New York; Edward T. Stotesbury , Philadelphia 'Henry, Ci Frick. New York: Peter.JA.B. Widener, Philadelphia ; Hefii'yv A du Point, U united states senator, irom Delaware; Daniel Wlllard, Baltimore; Henry P. McKean, and Samuel DiCk-" son; Philadelphia. ' h I? - . : . Dissabte Holding Cb.'f.-': .The nine individual defendants' are declared to-be responsible for" theori tinuance of ; the - combinatlpnSfS and monopolizations embodied . in. the? for mationx of the:- Reading Holding Com pany, which is - declared to c be j "in and of itself" a combinatidn in rest traint of trade and a monopoly, ; : Reading 1 Company'a control )f 1 the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey; of the : Philadelphia J -He ing Railway Company; of , the Phila delphia & Reading Coal & Iron: Com pany; of the Schuylkill Navigattpn Company, . and of - the Wilmlngtop, '& Nnrthm Railroad . Comnanyi . i L Dissolution - also as sought of tfie joint, control by the Central , Railroad Company of New- Jersey and the I,er high- Coal Navigation Company" of the Lehigh & Hudson River : Railway Company, and the. Lehigh &N'ew Eng land Railroad Company. Wants Real Dissolutidn , ; In seeking these dissolutions Attor ney - General - McReynolds; . ' who s; -Is averse to the -pro-rate distribution jor the stock of a dissolved "trust' as be? ing inadequate,; specifically urges that the" stocks be disposed ' Of under , the supervision and direction of the court to persons not the stockhdldars' or agents or otherwise under the.qoniol or -Jbfluence' of the present- .owners. Pending the distribution the -r govern- I : '(Contljiued on. Page Eight.) rpy, Southern Beaiitiejs SIS ma,- .V. ...'. iV.'.V. .V.. mmmm am mmmm m&. Mi ::fe:::::j:S!:y: :-:-::-:-:-:-x-:w-x:K":-:-; asm 7ft- S:-::: AT CONSERVATION EXPOSITION (Fromtop to bottom : - Mrs: Homer Van Derventer, president - of Wo: man's Board: Mrs. W: W. "Wood ruff and Mrs. W. S. Shields.) Knoxville, , Tenn., Sept . 2 i The very-, cream of feminine beauty and aristocracy of the South are aiding their, husbands, fathers' and brotheps in making the National "Conservation Exposition, which opened here Mon day and : will continue until the last of November, one. of the most: suc cessful ventures of its kind ever at tempted, below - the Mason , and ; Dixon line. -Eleven largeand -beautiful build ings; '-dedicated to" various industries, and "many ? smaller buildings are scat tered; about the' grounds which with lakes-.ahd ..drives embrace-" more than a hundred acres, t . v.. . TAFT ADDRESSES BARRISTERS Advocates' Greater Independence 1 of - The -Judiciary Before American - . Bar Association Wilson's ; - 'Mexican Policy Endorsed. Montreal, Sept: 2.The - President of the -United .States ;,an ex-president, anda former candidate fof jthe presi dency, -figured today by nameor -by actual "t presence, V" in" the proceedings of the ' American J Bar Association's annual , meeting. . The association ad opted a resolution enaorsing - Presi dent Wilson's action in regard to Mexico. Ex-President " Taf t address ed, the -members tonight, advocating greater independence of the judiciary. Judge - Alton B. Parker, Democratic candidate1 for president r in 1904,', pro posed the 1, resolution, 'unanimously adopted) for the. .approval of the - cele bration? of a:, "Century of -Peace" be tween the United States and Great Britain. "''; Mr. Taft's '. address delivered at Royal - Victory college, -was 'the event of the -evening. Kis - subject was "The SelectkCn and Tenure of Judges"' Tomorrow 'the - ex-President will .speak before the section -on legal education orivJjThe Social Importance of - Proper oia.uuarus riur AuuiiBsiuii to -j-kx. Reports : from 23 ; committees iwere discussed today, by delegates to the association, The : committee on' com mercial law enforced - the Pomerene bill on uniform bills of lading, and opposed , repeal of the national - bank ruptcy .act' ,- K- v - ' -4 A resolution asking the association to condemn use of the "third degree" was?- disapproved - by s the ; committee The, committee'-also- distapproved abol ishing the. life tenure - of Federal judges. , , . . - - :,, v .' -. '..-- -The committee ,on uniform , state laws submitted a so-called :"marriage evasion- act,'r and- a special committee reported in favor of uniform laws for Ml'J'S-OIILY GAIU IS FURTHER Result of ' Habeas , Corpus Proceedings Pending De--' cision of Judge.' CASE ARGUED KJ CHAMBERS Judge Must Decide 'on Sustaining, or V Dismissing Writ The Prisoner Spends Day of-Alternate Joy and Depression " ; Sherbrooke, Que., Sept. 2,-Harr K. Thaw won .more delay; today in! hla . fight against return to the..Matteaw&ii Asylum, and ,4 tonight' be was-; back fn -his cell at the: Sherbrooke-jail; There he' will ; remain; nntil Superior. ,Cpurt , Judge . Matthew v Hutchinson . renders ' 1 his , decision . on tjie. .questipn of .sus taining or dismissing, tne naDeai. cor- , pus writ, arguments" on which were ; heard V today" in chambers.; vThe -decir sion: may come' tomorrow,, but more probably on Thursday. -T .-.i. It was a . day . of alternate, oy and depression for Thaw. At the opening of tthe hearing he faced a; new and dangerous- opponent in Aime Geoff rion, of Quebec, special emissary from the-: Provincial Attorney .General .and Pre-!, meir, . Sir Lomor' Gouin, and : from' hia; lips Thaw ' heard that the ' Attorney General waa" insistent : that 'there ; be no- more delay in the cafiev .ahd that the habeas corpus wfit falling, other steps would be taken. to insure Thaw's release, and seizure by the - immlgra tlon authorities:; V This "would mean the start of the return trip to the asy-: lum on- the Hudson. -, ' : - ' . - i Thaw Nervous.' ' ' From his counsel Thaw heard ar-: guments against -sustaining' the" fwrtt;, from them also . he ' .heard, . ineffectual 1 pleas for " delay; . f roni2. the crowd that packed tiie couff-bonser andatreamed -j oyerr the lawn,, he heard eheera . and ; shouts :, and, (wox daot i -eaQouragament. He wameryoas, tnrougncror tn n-ueai, and 'returned? to;his;cl tired- ipntwithu the excitanrefat.f i ' $ , V - . r t ' ; DELAY The Arguments. , f. v , ' Counsel for NewvYoTk State "argued; that the - writ should. ; be. eustaiheki and- Thaw'si lawyers opposed 'it, Shurt- . leff, -while Frazier :--and McKeown,. spoke in turn, characteridirig the pro ceedings by which ' Jerjome- Boudreau; the rchief of police ot Cjoaticook, liad, asked for the writ,- as; smacking of ,, hypocrjsyj McKeown spoke last. . '-"' ' , " inis ease, . ne saia, oy reason ui wide publicity, has' assumed, a posi- ; tion of international: importance, the eyes of the world are-oentered ' here. . The writ' of -habeas corpus is-known throughout the worldi , Although we have searched every , rcord -,we have failed to find an instaftce, where the writ was resorted' to. in. a case like this."! If it is sustained, ;it will revolu-; tiQnize the whole .basic: principle of habeas corpus." ',''-'" J ';- '.- ' ' ' Here he emphasized-tbat the. use of ? the writ by BoudreaU-"In Thaw's be-.' harf," without Thaw's consent, was, ; in his opinion, a fraud and subter- fuge- "It is being used' her continued,- "to hand Thaw, front xone' -jurisdiction to another. The: hypocrisy of Boud- :(.r reau's attitude is apparent.'" ' , ' ' - "As an alien under: th -British flag, 1 Thaw has his rights, and; is -entitled to ,5 his full measure or;time..to prepare ,v for trial. We shall catjey the case to j vvi the foot of the throng'. tr nepessary.", .' M; Geoff rion leltrherbkie.-tbl:,; afternoon for Quebed, and 'did not I an nounce whether he wxuld -retum.r :. . , v v- f "I do not toow(;V-be'jaaiidr "whether, . v; Thaw will be deported of qLa,? do .; not care, but our provincial; jails -can- ; j. not ibe-used as a boarding nouse. or as ., a place to escape the"4tomlgratlon laws." ...' . : ' '.-. . i. ''' The belief prevailed' iti Sherbrooke tonight that' if the "Writ is'.thrown . out ; the attorney general ;wii Itake inimedl-, ate steps to have. tnf commitment ... quashed. Thaw theft riwill toe free, . . that is, for the brief .instant before he . is taken in charge by the immigration authorities. - - . 'r i"V -'-.v1? - " ' "'.V; TWO KILLED JN;t;RASH - ' : r .'---r Electric Car ;SniaKii '.Wagon v Filled -With Picnio Party r .' Charlotte, N . - C, .Sept.; At. 3 . o'clock this .afteraobp .an" interurban electric car coming'. into ;, Mount Holly from Gastonia, struck a vWagon filled with a picnic party ,f!tomSbuth Point on their way tb Riverside -: Park,; Mount Holly, for : ah,-duting;' ' killing two and injuring" four, others.'; None of those injured wasseriouslyi hurt - and they were able . to be taen to . . ' their homes.,, Ther Wiled; are Miss" Emma Sandford-aged . 1 9, arid Isaac' Brymer, vaged 'SO. .Tne horse and ' mule driven to the wagott were both killed.; The picnic arty; attempted to. . cross the , track; anead'-'tif' the car,- ' which was c6ming down' grade;-, when; r the car struck thewagon hurting the t . occupahts into the air kluihg the two' persons named, and the team instant-' ly. A sister and brother of the young woman killed were also HnJ the wagon, but.wef not 8eriousyird. . ."'u? v' ' : :: v'4-. '." ' 1 ' . ' ' ' ' : ; '' ' ' Colon, Panama; Sept. . 2.-The visit- . ing American Shririera sailed' for home today, bound for New' Orleans'. - Prince George of Battenburg, .tBe cabfain and officers ; of the British cruiser New -Zealand, were -the gueeU today of. Lieutenant . Colonel .. Goetbals,- who took ithem. on a1 sightseeing ;expedi tioni . s-. - ,:' . compensation, for industrial kpcidents . and "their, prevention . ; ' . ., ; Thomas W. Shelton, . -chairman of the - r.oihmittea' on - uniforrri - ludicial procedure, - reported ;that . ex-President Taft's "Dream .or. inter-state judicial, relations' V seemed - near -..consummation." i- . ! 1 J - . - -i si . ' -:';.w.v. 45, V - - 7 - r f -. . - V-v: