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' I : t I : ; 1. j ci try r.'-J-' ..ju 'i t!r. "j r;.cn and rrc!.:iiij ration la government ag- C'r convictions. It la the t t r.incy to which a young man 7 nan can be subject. As a i I protest' aerainst anv svstem .id:',! on that permits the young r canone to De oppressed Dy ne issue, whether that Issue he faitiom or the election of Re- r Fhannonhoue.' is utterance from the lips of 9 TliirwAtl 1lltrproi1 H'lth nil thn which his firmness of conviction t courage could impart to it, A&A (h VAvnntft nf thA npnti. ts of the men In mass meeting nbled In th Academy of Music I njlght it was In .every sense a ,S(le gathering of men with con- yis and courage to speak and Y them. The entire first floor 4 auditorium was filled and the Ties wrA tint linnrriintod T.ndloa d theoccasloawllhtheirpF . wmie every man in the audi I listened carefully and applauded jally. The occasion was the last lie series of mass meetings of the jness Men's Municipal League. NB SPEECHES : MADE . BY J THOUGHTFUL MEN. '. rdm Btart to finish. Speeches unoe Dy unairman T. v. utn id : Messrs. Armlstead Burwell, Tompkins, Rev. George Page, A. McRae and Crawford D. i.t Not a BnftACh thra n-oi h did not quiver with life from sninr to end. Thar .. w nn j truisms spoken, no appeals to uice, dui every speecn was tne or a man wno nas thought and ng ,wnai ne minus. The interest audience is renAnri in tn rant it the close of the meeting It iciprceiy diminished nercentiblr kef The Woodmand band dls Vwfl inspiring muslo before the 'fropened-and during the inter mS. -. - END TO EXERCISE RIGHTS. t T. C. Guthrie opened the meet by expressing his arid at twin or H upon to preside over a meeting 0 niieresig or an - organisation 1 hoped to accomplish much for ew" city. "It has come to pass," ild, "that thj men in Mecklen county and the men In Char who have the right to a say so vernmental affairs, have got to 'a chance; to exercise that right ard this, .movement as one of nost important that has orlgi- Jn this city in, the nine years e been citizen of It. (Cheers), ows that , the people'- intend to ise their right to participate in airs, to name the candidates (favor, to consider and study the municipal situation and to vote lingly. The Business Men's ;lpaj League was formed to fur vnthod v and a - means by f Tttm"r. opinions may be ex-VuUtCheers)'..-. '-.;-. -s useless to cry us down with ,fyof negro, or liquor, because la sthlng of the past. We can 's -.-halted with; a cry of liquor that question Is not an issue jsitha people in this campaign, neople in V: their wisdom i have .I that 'question. Again, the Ion of the election of subordinate is has been injected Into this ilgrt. If It was desired that the !l should elect the subordinate Is, vhy wasn't there: a law H to that effect? Why not leave .Aermen you elect to perform the Ions with which you have legally lied them " , J3.QE BURWELL SPEAKS, 'fe Burwell was the first speaker hired. "I trust," he. said, "that spoken, by me or by any of , hers who shall speak to-night 'do aught to Interfere with the I the prosperity or the true jss of the new city ..; which is situation to-night fs some peculiar. I was Interested in ie the .extonaJon jvf, h,iif'Bnni member of the committee drafted the provisions and pre them to the board ofalder r therefore derllnAd ha hnnn alTng to you, thinking that, I o juue good tn this - time, I consider- a crisis in tho. iif .city., Later I felt it to be my a come here to sneak in ho- fe the new city which I helped ke. I am her not i but to quell It 1 am here be Ms free people to advocate the fcerclse of our Judgment; to say jie- time has ' come when the ''people should go to the polls Its for -whom they think best Vfor the guarding and the ad Jent of the interests of the people. . inVa prohibitionist: how, though lars ago-1 was a member of Vnall i band ? whose" members W a dispenstry.4 I am a prohi kt to this extent: I believe in 'id enforcement of every law f statute book. Rigid, at any jo far as -the arraignment of Mater for; trial is ; concerned. Kg as I do the frailty of hu hture. I cannot advocate rigid W -of law. , . : . : ': '.. temNOT AN. VISSUE;'; ;" J I do not think that prohlbl Uf into 'thig- campaign. In r place, , I do not believe that M of the citizens of Charlotte jrkded can kbe induced , to sign !Jn for an election on the whis jstion ., during the next two j jThe people have too much I We In Charlotte have ' had j of stlife. Besides, I know as r that in no possible way can Motion question come before .ard of, aldermen. attempt, too, ' has been made ( a personal issoe In this earn ed to decide upon a candl-j .cnesa '.by his intention or his !w.:.w, voie aor ; Knannon s recorder. I am a Shannon ian. : I have said it in private ay it In public, that I believe .ent recorder ' :has rendered Ject some young blood into the city government and take it out of the rut into which it had fallen. We won. Our mayor took charge actively and many of the advantages we enjoy to-day. are the result of the reforms he wrought. The great objection then was the prob lem of the races. Turn which way one might the tyranny of the paramount issue stared vone in the face. Others have come and gone since then. We have had the paramountcy of free sil ver, where men were told that if they did not bow to that they were outside the pale. I denounce any such tyranny. We have got rid of the negro, the pro hibition question and all tha others. Let us lay aside factional strife and bickering and work together to make the Queen City the Queen. City of the South in fact as well as fir. name .In the past we have had an army whose IkevinAw rvint1a1tvtA Y o tk flo1 f : A Till v i.i It: j or 1870. r : 3 (' i I j r cf t j ou; t r.icn of the city s r,tel a new deal 3 city. X,'e dcc'Jei we We. wanted to In- place this with a standard bearing this inscription, 'You ra&f be right, Let's reason about. it v"; :-:'ri - "There can be "no true progress if abuse and suspicion are to abide with us always. Andlet me say this: I deny the right any one, even though .they be ministers of the Gospel who come down out &. ftheir pulpit, to suggest that some men, whom this people have seen flit to nominate, will not enforo the 'A prohibition law 4 which they mst solemnly swear to enforce. (Cheers) simply because they do not approve of that law as a public pol icy.: - icy. Do not misunderstand ' me. No man goes before me in my respect foe men of that calling. My father was one of them. But I do say that that is a part of the tyranny which as a free man I object to." MR. TOMPKINS SPEAKS. No speech was better received than the-one-which ; followedrby" Mr." D.A. Tompkins, who was Introduced as one whom many had.desired should.be the. new citys first mayor, He said: MIL TOMPKINS' ADDRESS. "It has come to be 'a serious ques tlon whether the municipal form of government most In vogue in America is an average good one. - There are political economists who think that it is a very bad one. There are numer ous cases where American cities have gone into bankruptcy and , have had to give up altogether the ordinary American form of municipal govern ment in order to get on their feet again. Memphis once went broke, and the nrst step towards reconstruc tlon of the finances and government of tn city was, a new and . special kind of government. The v city pf Memphis was abolished and the tax ing district of Shelby county was re established in Its place. The special government organized , to handle tha taxing district of Shelby county made a success 6f the work of reconstruct ing the fallen- fortunes of the city did its wor so well that Memphis is to day one of the leading cities in the South. The city of -Mobile also got into tangles or finances and govern, ment confusion which made it rieces sary for' the people to abolish the city of Mobile and re-establish in its. place the Port of M6bile under . a special form or government different ,rrom the , ordinary American : municipal form. Mobile Is to-day a prosperous city, "After1 the destruction of the city of Galveston 4 by flood, :the municipality seemed hopelessly bankrupt. The people surrendered their city charter an destablished a new form of gov ernment under . five 1 commissioners, One commissioner was put in charge of each department, and the chair mart of the board of commissioners, corresponding with the mayor, of the city, supervised and correlated the work of all. - There is no board of al dermen and none of . the' usual con constants' of en American municipal government, excepting In so far as is necessary-to-attend to the city's busi ness In a business way. - , . ivc ,M 1. k I ..i i -1 I-r 1 t- . nn-. y airca'y cxx.an '.od. We would h ive'had water work 5, r.'.clor.t, eco nomic, end paid for in full. I believe that the same results would have been obtained if we could have had a pro fessional mayor in charge of the af fairs of the city after the German fashion and responsible for results to the city. , A DIFFERENCE IN MEN. "Nothing could be further from my purpose than to make any Imputation against the personality of any of our boards of aldermen for tha last five years. Men Who are individually ca pable and individually in all respects honest and honorable, nevertheless, may colectlvely make an Inefficient board, because many of the members may place a particular Interest or a particular cause or cult ahead of the ordinary material welfare of the city. The whole board is made Incapable of co-operating for the fhterests of the city because of thes members lwho are led by special causes and peclal Interests. - I concur with what Judge Bur wb-No Pure Drusr Cougrh Cure 1u,(WbVneded- ,lt a' Cough re like Dr. Snoop's Couh Cura been for 20 year, f he v! ,aw now requires thit If any ont?TtA - h c?u5b. mixture, it j prlntPd on the label or DackaA U nS m0ter8' Oth?J lSi,t on having Dr. Shoon'i 'ure.No poison marks on Dr .b-ls-sno none in the medicine tMiy law be on the label. And onl safe, but it said o k that know It bcst.a truly . ?. cotieh , rpmpdy. Tak iu, ,artici la rly; with your children having Dr Ehnop's jnpfire carefully th j r , ' !! (ifi'TS BPil ft.... r , , ir town makes him an offer. This may go on in me case ot any one individu al man until he may be invited bv the city of Berlin to be its chief executive and run the affairs of the city. " GOOD LEAD TO FOLLOW. , ' "The deficiency in: our imi'fi system lies largely In tke fact that the voting population don't , sufficiently cunsiupr me jmporiunue or electing business men to the positfona in the city government, rather than popular men, or men wno are soliciting votes upon some other qualification that of business capacity ta handle the city's Dusinees. i am, jnennea to tne opinion that it might be a vefy good thing for Charlotte to follow the lead of Gal veston and abolish the board of alder men altpgether and! re-establish in its place a commission to run the city, and of having the very few' commis sioners selected forf their capability to attend to the business of the city and nothing else. PeiVdlng such a change, A j DANGERS 09 PNEUMOA, A cold at this thne if heplected is lia ble to cause pneumonia which 1s so often fatal, and even when ths pntlnt ban rp. covered- the lungs far wftken(i, inakhisr them peculiarly ;uBeeptibs to tv d. rolopment of" cfriHiirnptinn. 1 (,!,- ? v sn4 Turf tt-l'i pt.to the c " 1 'i, .,". "' :" ' 4 t' ! -. -? r "Cltv Kovernment- by a gDeclall r -. - . . - ' i commission nas oeen pnjenomunally successful in Galveston. Galveston Is now in better shape than she ever was under a mayor and a board of alder men. The plan of -a Bmall commis sion, each member being a working manager of the department, of a city has produced results which have not only been gratifying and successful in Galveston, . out surprising to an tne people who know about it., .The news papers tedl that many otner. cities m Texas and the Southwest generally, have either adopted the :- Galveston commission plan of handling a city in a business way, or are considering the adoption of the plan. We all know that corruption and incompetence are far more common 'in American cities than in those of Europe. Europeans ar always amazed at the cost of con ducting the government of American municipalities. In Germany the bus iness of running a city is a profession. It requires a course of special educa tion and training : to qualify a man even to begin the business of under taking city government, Just as in this country it requires a. special cpurse of education ana training to quality a man to begin the practice of law or the practice of medicine. There, a young ! man when he feels himself uaiuiou, ty l4,o i vi - -Liiw uia,i viai uj ; " of a small town. If he eets the Place his bread inthe sweet of hi face. Hep and makes a success of handlinar thei resentatlve government is yet an ex, business of the town well, some larg periment and the degree of its ulti mate success aepenaa upon tne purity of the ballot. It is a fact, as a rule, that there is less system and business in government than In any other field pf endeavor,- This condition Is In a measure due to a perversion of the ballot. The most patriotio citizens but men of scant , means aften refuse to offer themselves for office against self seeking competitors with pockets stuf fed with money to buy, the offices. Again the wealthiest, ablest, most hon est cltlzehs in the community are 'de feated by. the tricks of political manip ulators. Such things give politics a bad taste, and men of standing and influ ence,' the Very men who should take part, refuse to have anything at all to do with the affairs of government "No political party, no political fac tion, is entirely free from the charge of the corruption of the ballot. Re publicans are guilty: Democrats are guilty. Expediency has been the ex cuse for political corruption; but It reverence with which he spoke, about; the ministers of , the city getting down into the political arena. Temporal government is not a function, . of Christs ministry, and Christian civ ilization has advanced in proportion as religion and government have been separated and kept apart The Master Himself laid down the rule 1 about keeping separated the things that are Christ's and thft things that are Cae sar's. If the concern of the ministers is prohibition and prohibition won't live in the hands of good government then it ought .not to live. I hav no concern but that under good, govern ment prohibition - will - take : care of itself.. : I am of opinion that all the candidates put out by the" Business Men's Municipal League ticket are put forward for the municipal interest and with special reference not only to their . individual capacities and honesty, and also with reference to their independent situation In being free to workfor the city and nothing but the-city;- Many of tfce opposing candidates may be better men (Indi vidually, but the old organization has riot seemed to be co-operative one for the city's interest, and the results of having no pavements, no adequate water-works, and other deficiencies, would seem to justify the apprehen sion that the continuance of the old board as a body would lead to further confusion in the city's finances and further deficiency in the improve ment of the municipality as the popu lation' ffTftWS. ' ' ' ' "' "V "I want to repeat, that nothing I sav shall be construed to he a person bi criticism aeainst any of the gentle men of the old board or any others who may be running in opposition xo the ticket of the Business Men's Mu nicipal League., Put on men who have not got any.other strings tiedto them other than the obligation to .run the city as a business proposition." s A MINISTER HEARD FROM. "I'm not a polItlcian,., said , Rev. George A. Page, the pext speaker. "I've never, been able to learn the tricks of politicians. I am only ' a humble working man and I thank God that I am. I have laboxed.among you for the right the best I knew how for 20 years. I stand here without a collar around my neck or a. string tied to me. I labored to drive the -saloons from Charlotte and If the question was up again I would work: night and day to keep them out But". I cannot concede the right of any man or any set of men to Impugn my motives. In this case. Yet I differ with those who think, ministers should confine themselvs to things religious. If they are to be en trusted with the morals of the com munity they should have the right to fight evil, whether it bo political or moral. -- - "I believe It Is time that a new set j of men -: took charge of the govern ment. Another thing I believe is that offlce-hfelders are the servants of the people and not their masters. Go to the water-works department and ask the man, in charge a question If you want to know,whether he's your serv-ant-Eo,u-.raaaterYtf don't amount to much. Did you ever try to get hold of the poll books when you were on the other side? I have." Mr. Page' took a few falls out of the 4C's before he stopped. He rose to inquire whether the company had to pay anything for the use of the streets. Nobody knew. He thought not and expressed his opinion that the company ought to have tb.pay some thing out, of :its earnings every year tp pay for the maintenance of streeta r ,MR- McRAE SPEAKS. Mr. John A. McRae spoke next He said, among other things: MR.,MQilAE,S ADDRESS. .'' "Years ag the doctrine of the di vine light of kings held almost uni versal sway But step by step the doc trine of representative government has gained grfund until to-day the lead ing natlos of earth have governments by the eople. This tage in political evolutln has been reached by strug gle ana bloodshed. The free man's bal lot is a priceless heritage, wdn by centuries of conflict between the great of arth upon one hand and the we? uifin the other. Tha Tight of surffrage Is a one great , plane upon which all sftind equal. With an incorruptible clt- enshlp, the millionaire's ballot is not ore potent than the man's who earns DoeA Cofltee dlxnerca with vnnr ov ebly ifr flwi! Thon try Dr. Shoon's Health, Coffpa. "Hcftlth Coifce".!, a clever comWination of. narched cr.ln nnrl nits. Not a grain of rent Cofffio. r.inriT,,)rri n Dr. fhnon'g Health Coflr-A 1 : j v ' ?, t -: a I i -'.y. i: : fi .. . i t i - I - - the cl-y cf int:' t . h Ivil c-...Ur.3 would iawnt'J earlier and the genius of the white racs, moved by necessity, would have perhaps ten years earlier evolved the ldij. of the constitutional amendment and avoided at least ten years of po litical corruption. The man who buys a vote cannot go uncrltlcisad any more than the man who sells his vote. Both in law and morals are guilty of wrong doing. WHAT THE LEAGUE STANDS FOR. "The Municipal League stands for purity in politics, It says that the high er the plane upon which you can pitch your political tattles the better will be the people who participate; the bet ter the people wno participate tne Det ter will be the offlcers.Just as water cannot rise about the level of Its source Just so political officers cannot rise above the level of their constitu ency. Mr. C. A. Williams, candidate on the Municipal League ticket for alderman In - - Ward3 announced nnhiinw n fow davs aco that he would give $500 for the conviction of any parsoafor-the rjurcnas-t-rHsaie-ef a vote in . the present election, and that If convinced that he was elected by bought votes he would resign the office. Inspire every office seeker and with noh ieh numoses and the demagogue will be cast from the temple of Democracy ana gooa government will hove like a dove over our people. ; , . v "In religion ana morais tne proureno of the world . Is. onward and upward. fiviiA i iu in nolitica. Let us climb year by year to higher political ground. Let Charlotte, tne oirm pivo American independence, be a place ,im, aiiv ; nt men seek and are chosen to. office. Let them be men broad enough to, enforce the law as written whether it embodies or op poses their personal views. - - ARRAIGNS FINANCIAL, wain- .... .,-ifiRMENT.S"; : iniitt.a AnrfaroA Mr' Crawford D. Bennett, "means or is supposed to mean, pertaining to me jsiam people.-hOf late It haa had a mor.-re- DUlviuu luuwwiuBi - - further sDecial objects, investigation into public flnancles. r thn future of the n9 waAvu vv wa city to-night, but I can't get much of a grasp on tne luture. i m i"'s i tall vnn anma tVitncH T hftVG diSCOV- ered about our finances. I find that six years ago Charlotte, then an in-i coroorated town, wun a coumy wut- hnnu vHth crrailnil BohnnlfL with a city hall, with street cars, with pure water, with policemen, with a record er, and with a mayor, owed $400, 000. I find that We are to-day, six years later," with no improvements on our streets except some dirt that we have to sprinkle water on In summer to keep from blowing away, with not a single new building. Instead of the good pure water, there has been es tablished over on the west of town a mlumhla littln wator stntlnn not blST enough to run the Highland Park Mill Nov 8. You get up In the morning and the ' first .thing you see in the paper is 'Boil your water." It Is 8 per cent, full of bacteria, 4 per cent, full of hokun nocuH and the balance is full of frogs,-tadpoles and wrigglers! A nrt vof linw mnrh dn Wfl OWa, nOW? We owe the nice comfortable - little fortune of $600,000rln addition to the $400,000 we then owed, when this crowd went into office. And I say that those in charge have done one or two things they haye oeen incompetent or wonderfully careless of other peo ple's money. What has been done with , all of it? What answer do we get when we ask for an itemized statement? The sum spent staggers the human intellect It is $30 for every man, woman and child, black ana wmte, wno was in tne cuy Deiore the limits were extended. To-day the per capita-wealth of - the entire unit ed States is only $30!" THE MATTER OF A BEARD. "Wb arm told." continued Mr. Ben nett, "by a gentleman who has re cently returnea irom a trip over tne great ocean, that beardless boys are attempting to butt in, and that we hart horror tnrrv until we nave RDrout- mn Viati- hnfnra wo Hon tn tnkA a" "part in the government Of the city or . . . . , r. .1.1. . wntcn we are ciiizena. -says hub, wu, while tne breezes or urit&nnia are yei blowinar throuch his :. whiskers. " If hair is to be the judge of merit a hog could put the best, of us .to shame. while for beara a Diuv oat wouia bear off first prize every time. If age la tha rintermtnincr factor. MethUSO- lah ought to have been the gratest man the world has ever seen. But If Methuselah had any other accomp lishment, besides that of growing old, I never heard of it. PLEADS FOR A HIGH PLANE. "I am not so optimistic as those who hope to see air factional strife queHed. But the object of the league as I see it is to place the manige meiit of the city on a higher planer not to let it be In tho hands of a few men who ait behind closed door and select the men who are to be the of ficers of the city. But to leave the matter to the free choice of the whole people. I believe that by this meth od a high class of candidates can be brought out. We want no oracle in our city.- Let us cease our thinking bv proxv and make our fight against the existence of any clique to dictate to us In defiance of our inalienable rights." - . At tha rlnsa nf Mr. Bennett' woWm speech Chairman Guthrie made a fi nal appeal for work in behalf of the 1 1 nlr at and tha maatlna' rlnqail TVirf band burst forth Ito Joyous music an tne -crowa niea out witn animatea faces.- Had It not been for the fire which distracted the attention of the town thrf audience would have been even larger. New Movtnjr rictnro Show. The Edlsonla, a new moving picture show, was opened yesterday 1 In the store room formerly .occupied by the Charlotte Furnishing & Decorating Company The Edlsonla is the prop erty of Mr. J. F. Snyder who former ly lived In Charlotte, but who, for the past five years, has resided in Birm ingham. The new place is nicely fit ted up and was well patronized, yes terday, Its opening day. , Jlr. A. P.. Crnddotk In the City. Mr," A. P. Craddock, vice president of the Craddock-Terry Bhoe Com pany,, of Lynchburg, Va., is spending a few days in the city at tha Selwyn. Mr. Craddock's firm was the first to start the manufacture .of shoes on a large scale in the South and to-day its two large factorlps are turning out 8,000'pairs daily. "Mr. .Craddock has many friends In the city who always wplcnmn hi return.- ' " i ' ' I , V; . 1 i ' - - i ci- r.i.; ; . l (. . ......t. Washirgton, April 13. Tha Navy Department to-day received from Commander Duyle, of . the United Ctates gunboat Chicago, which Is In Pacific " Waters off ' Central America, an important dispatch relative " to plans for a conference between Pres ident Zelaya, of Nicaragua, and Flg uera, of Salvador, looking to the set tlement of the Nicaragua-llonduras-Salvador war. The dispatch was sent to the State Department and there followed, a conference between As sistant Secretary Bacon and Minister Corea, of , Nicaragua, -, Commander Doyle Btated that General Sierra, of the Honduran provisional govern ment,, wheh was set up by Honduras revolutionists after the defeat and mgnt of President Bonilla as the re sult oi nis several engagements with the Nicaraeuan forrps. in. to ha com mandant of Anapala. ine conference between Presidents Zelaya ajyjE-igurealrtalorjrraCet Amapala, or on board a United States gunboat to ha The fact that a Honduran general. wno was one of the candidates of the revplutionists - for the presidency Against Bonilla. is . . -v vv vuiiiuicviiu at Amapala during the conference is resaraea nere as at least a partial iTCuguiuon oi tne provisional govern ment set up after the rout of the Honduran forces, if this proves to be true a settlement of the dispute, It Is believed, will be easily accom plished at the coming conference. When the Doyle dispatch was sent Amapala had not fully completed fts surrender.- There -were Salvadorean troops in Amapala and in regard to these it' has been agreed .that thej should be permitted to embark foi La Union. Salvador, taking with them all .officers, private property and side arms. The fact that there were Sal vadorean troops there makes It Im possible for Salvador to disguise further the fact that! thla - country was an "ally of Honduras and actually at war with Nicaragua. It was said further that arrangements are how being made for the-election of a eon stltutlohal President In Honduras. SIIIPPERS, DESPATCH C03IPANY. A New Organization Which Will Begin ;v Business May 1st. Mr. W. G. Crutchfield, the agent of me .aoumern Kan road at Greensboro, wus in vnariotte yesterday. He has re signed his present position, his resiir nation to take effect May 1st, when he will take the management of a new organization, the Cotton Goods Ship pers' Despatch, which will begin with that date. It is composed of a large number of the manufacturers and shippers of' the State and its business will be to trace and handle cotton gods shipments in and out and to look after other traffic matter. A member who may have a claim, may have a delayed shipment on the road, or any Other businessTtertalnlnir tn fralo-ht transportation may put it in the hands oi tne . manager, whose office will be at Greensborpjind who will co-operato with the railroads. Mr. Crutchfield has been in the railroad business 22 years and has first class qualifications for work of this class. He has been agent of the Southern in turn at Salisbury, Char lotte, .Mobile, Ala, and Greensboro, and his railroad standing is of the best. Tha fnttnn ClnnAa Rhlnnan' rtoa- patch should be highly servlcable to tnose wno Become interested in it. A Card of Tlianks. To the city fire Department: We desire to express to the members of the city fire department and to any others who may have helped, our sin cere appreciation and thanks for sav ing our home at 321 East Avenue yesterday afternoon when the large lumber yard" of Messrs. Asbury & Finger was burned. MISSES HOLTON. "A Curd to tlie" Public. To the public: v In behalf of the members of -the fire department I desire to express t those, who so kindly assisted at the fire yestrday afternoon our sincere an. preciation for valuable heln rendered. without which a much ereater nrot- erty loss might have been sustained. W. 8. ORR, Chief. Apropos of the Fire. To the Editor of The. Observer: The writer would like to . know why it is that a private citizen or call member of the fir department, had to take charge rot-keeping - back the crowd at the fire yesterday when we are supposed to have a polio depart ment with an efficient chief. , A TAX PAYER. Commissioner Yerkes Roslgns. Washington, April 18. John W. Yerkes, commlHsIonef or Internal rev enue, has resigned and his resignation has been accepted by the President He leaves the service of the govern ment to enter the practice of law, His successor has not been named. ; , 1 Snow at Nashville, Term. Nashville; Teofl.7" April : I3J now has been falling here for several hours The thermometerregisters at the freezing point. Advices from southern Kentucky and north Ala bama indicate that early fruit has been killed "by the snow and cold, Ohio Fruit Crop Damaged. , Columbus, ! 0., April 183. Reports from farmers in central Ohio are that the fruit crop has been badly damaged by the cold weather of last night To day it snowed and a freeze to-night Is predicted. Revere Frost at Wlehlta, Kan. Wichita, Kan., April 13. Small and large fruit and gardens In Kansas were injured last night by frost. It is believed the Joss will bo heavy. . Mrs. W. H. IIowzo, of ' New York, is spending several days In the city with friends. 1 f To t:.. i vy.:.,:-,, r:.. LSTe i -r.aco l.as r; The TC-IuiM : Iu,!;)es9 In 10D3 wu C. U.ls, much Li rrca accom; II l.c I V. :,t H The total as,t3 of the Society on January 1, 176,211.84, and on January 1, 1801, c-.rcgatod : The payments to roUcy-nolders durins 58. .Of this gum $7,283,731.81 was paid in dlv. holders. In 1901 the policy-holders received 70.4 per ci dollar disbursed by the Society to 29.6 per cent. u ' f and taxes; la 1005 they received 71.65 per cent to paid out for all other purposer ; and in 1906 out of cv disbursements 80 per cent went to policy-holders, v; per cent was expended for the conduct ot the buslnc a reduction of about one-third In the expense of adii.! total disbursements. Still further Improvement along tl be the endeavor, , " '- The ratio of expense to premium Income was 21.43 I 1901 and 22.60 per cent. In 1905; this was reduced to 1 cent, in 1906, a decrease in ratio of 20.8 per cent from It per cent, from 1905. The ratio of the Society's total expenses to Its total ir. 1.2 per cent. In 1904 and 17.38 per cent In 1905; this was to 1 iilS per cent In 1906, a saving of 25.4 per cent, fr and 16.7 per cent, better than 1905. The Society loaned during 1906 to its policy-holders policies $17,969,165.76. Tlw loans made on Real Estate 51 t amounted to $14,542,412.50. On Honda In which the Soei legally invest It loaned $13,350,000, the market value of the i being at 11 ttme9 20 per cent. In excess of the loans. ,- The Income ot the Society from Its Interest and rci $1,009,373.39 greater In 1906 than In 1905. The average Interest yielded by the Society's Investments which mo S.90 per cent. In 1904, was 1.03 per cent In 10p5 and 4.28 i in 1906. This Increase In Income from Investments has ,1 compllshed without the sacrifice of a single point of safety. . THE EQUITABLE SOCIETY HAS NEVER, SINCE 1 ISTENCE, BEEN IN BETTER ITXAXCTAL CONDIT1IOX AT THE PRESENT TIME. ITS ASSETS WERE NEVEIl SECURELY INVESTED. With a surplus, including amour awaiting apportionment upon deferred dividend 7 policies, c 720,332.74, policy-holders and prospective patrons of the . can be -Absolutely assured of its Impregnable financial ' strt .make every contract good. .. :, K';s Messrs. , HasWns Sells CcrtifletlPnblic Accountonts, 1. ..jfied the Society's, statement of receipts and disbursements i year 1906 and have certified the financial condition of the as of December 81, 1900. A copy of their report will be upon request to any one Interested. The Society is complying squarely with the spirit and tl of the new insurance laws of the State of New York, and c the Insuring public the new standard policies prescribed I.. laws, safeguarded by unquestioned security and backed bj termination on the part of its Directors and Officers to so . the Eqidtable Life Assurance Society that It will continue t mend Itself to present policy-holders and command the patrc insurance buyers. - PAUL MORTON, ' x".-' ' v., .a PrcsiJ Information concerning the New York State standard gladly furnished on application. W. J. RODDEY, Mana; , ' . . Rock Hill, RIDING QULTIVflTC Buckeye & Planet Jir We have a large stock of these Cultivators and i wholesale trade will make some very low Write us and we will make it interesting to 3 v - .' : ;"V' ;'.' '...'-... -.,:v" '.''...'' ....' ' ,', "'.'."..". ;',,.'., ' WEEDERS We have also a large stock of W Special prices for quick sales. We mean to scl We-are-aelling 1 Odorless -Refrigerators rapidly. are the best refrigerators and the people are 1 it out. WEDDIflGTON IIAIIDVAI1E COMIi ' 29 E. Trade Street CIIARLOTTE, I" G.' B. EURHAN9 TKHTIFIK5 AFTER - ,'M-: . . FOUB YEARS. O. B. Hurhans. of Carlisle Center, ft. T., writes: "About four years ago I wrote you stating that I had boon en tirely cured of a sever kidney trouble by takina , less tha two- Uttle -of Foley's Kidney Cure. It entirely ttop pl the brick dust sediment, anil pain and rymptomn of kidney tli8aa d! sap pea rod. 1 am rlid to my ih-it I fiiiv nevf-r had The American IVIaohina Manufacturing Co. SUCCESSORS TO THE MACHINERY: A3JTD COXmCTIXG OP THE BUSINESS OF THl D. A. TOMPKINS CO. All the machine building and contracting r pair work heretofore done by the D. A. 1 Co. will be continued by ' the new - compair. takes this over. UO'itk, v&sQ-,.t &rJ4 C ;Thernew company takes over the Dilwortli and real estate and the shops will be at on: larged. Additional capital will be put into business and it is expected to t materially inc; the facilities oMhe business. We solicit orders for the machinery vo facture and for repairs. TIis American Wc3:.: ' -ManufacturinilC Charlotte, IT. 0. Dilworth Floral Gardens Fc? fc: In dealing tvlth our customers in flllin? or rect--our motto ir. Tnt Yc" "f i t JU 1' '&cnd us your orders nni we will refo' f you here in 'person 'to r -vl. , Wo ; ' , i y.- r place n ! ir, ' - r-
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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April 14, 1907, edition 1
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