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:::irno:;-r;:Lc; :.u r:;:i ylai:. CHARLOTTE, N, 0., MONDAY MOKNINU, AUGUST 5, 1C07. ..... pkofits a:;d itjces ;miicvt revelations made . iuniliuuer of Corporations Smith Submits to President Second of Ke- I)its Concerning Operations of Mun.l.ird Oil 0mian.v Sets Forth iIK'huliN ot Mellnxls Employed by 'oriMration, Their 1 '.-feet on Con- Ktmior and on lYoiits irust 8 Claim That It Has Reduced Price r Oil Disproved Increase in An . liuul rrofits From 1896 - to 1904 More Than $27,000,000 Dividends From 1882 to 1908 $551,922,91. Washington, "Aug. , 4. significant revelations are made public to-day in a report submitted, to President Roosevelt by Herbert Knox-- Smith, commissioner of corporations, con cerning the operations of the Stand ' ard Oil Company. In a previous re- iport. the means and methods of the Standard Oil Company were explain ed. The present report 'or4h the results t of those methods and the ef- . tect they have had on thip consumer of oil and on the - profits of the Standard Oil .'.- Company. It deals with' profits and prices, showing Just tiow the manipulation of the 11 In dustry by the. Standard has affected the ' pocket-books f of the -, American ' (people. ' - ( ' ' ' Commissioner Smith eays: ;. "The Standard Oil Company is re sponsible for the course of the prices '-. f 'petroleum and its products during ' the last 25 years. The 6tandard has consistently used its power to raise the price of oil during the last 10 yearn, not only absolute, but ? also relatively to the cost of crude oil." . .The standard' has claimed that It (has reduced the price ot oil; that It fi as .been a benefit to the consumer; and that only a great combination , like the Standard could (have furnish ed oil at the prices that have pre- - vailed. . r '. , COMPANY'S CLAIM DISPROVED. "Baca one of - these claims," says .Commissioner Smith, "is disproved by this report." The Increase la en- ;. tiual profits ot the Standard ' from 1898 to 1901. was over $27,000,000. The report says: - ;? "The total dividends paid 'by the Standard fronU 1882 to, 1906 were . $351,922,904, averaging thus 24.15 per cent iper year. The dividends, , however, .- were ' much.i less than - the total earnings. It Is - substantially certain that the entire . net earnings of the Standard in this period were ' at least , $790,000,000 'and possibly nmich more. , ' , . 'These enormous profits, toave been toaaed on' an investment worth at the . time of its original acquisition not more than - $75,000,000." ' - , Commissioner Smith says: -'"-MTh following. facU-are,.-proved !Thlgt4ndaTd Ims not reduced mar gins during the period in which. ; It ' has been responsible for the prices of olt - During 'the last 'eight' yeans cov ered iby this report (1898 to 1905) it has raised both prices and margins. tjMETHODS USED FOR GAIN. -"Its domination has not been ac quired or maintained by, its superior efficiency, but rather toy unfair com- 1 $eUUon and by methods economically and' morally ."'. unjustifiable.. -The Btandard ' has superior efficiency. . in running Its own business; it has an equal efficiency in destroytng the busi- . ness of competitors. It keeps or 4t ' pelf the profits of the first and adds to these the monopoly profits secur ed by the second: Its profits are far ' above 'the highest possible standard ' ot a reasonable commercial M return ' and have heen steadily increasing. L Finally. history; ot this great ln v nustry is a' history of the persistent Use ot the worst industrial methods, the exaction of exorbitant prices from -the consumer,' and ' the securing of ' excessive profits tor the small group ' ot men who ' over a. long series . of ' years have thus dominated the busi ' ness," . . - 1 In ' a lew days Mother:' section ' of ' the' reDort ' will be made public, set- (Ho forth the importance .pncei disortmlnatlon in restraining the -business of competitors and augmenting toe (profits of the Standard. - SURFACE CAR SMASHES AUTO, j Three Well-Known younjr Men Ooeu pants Frightfully if iNot Fatally Injured All Pinioned . Under , "' Wrecked Machine and Car, Being Unconscious When Taken Out New York, Aug. 4. Thrae well- - known youhg men were frightfully if not fatally injured today ; when their automobile was struck by a ' eurrace car, and after being shoved along for a tilstanue ot 30 feet, was smashed to fragments agulnst an ele vated road pillar. '.'j-'i' : The victims are Swift Tarbell, son : of Gage- E. Tarbell, who was formerly ;a vice president of the Equitable Ilfe Assurance Society; Edward I ; tWoodeson' and William Cutchlng. Tarbell has a broken leg, a dislocated khoulder, gasoline burns on the face ' and body and la black with bruises. . Ill companions suffered bruises and Cutchlng also -had a broken leg, a houider - dislocated and ' what ap ; peared to be a fracture of the kulL : IVVoodeson was most fortunate of the three, tout to badly off through tfaock. - On the way -to Bellevue Hospital where the Injured were taken young Tarbell, who owned and drove ' the car, regained hts senses and incjUlred V i'''-whcther the machine had been ruin i"d. - uponbelng told that it "had been, c' he commented: "I'm glad of it. I'll , ;, never ride In an automobile again." . , , J The party was- bound for Garden ' ( City, L. I., where the three were to . f meet the elder Tarbell. Their 40 Iiotso-power machine was coming ti own the incline on - West Thirty 1 eecond street at fair speed when at , 1 the Junction a Third avenue surface -.v oar crossed their path: The automo Illlst9 say that the street car was , running beyond easy control, while others said that Tarbell attempted to boat out the trolley at thd crossing. The car struck the automobile squarely and Jammed 'it airalnst 'the railway pillar with such force that the car was derailed, the automobile torn to pieces artd its occupants held fast In tho, wreck. Cutchlng was thrown Mnder the - surface car between the trucits and wedged between the brake team and pavement. Had the rear trucks moved a few Inches further ' toey must have cut him In two Tar cll wu caurht between the running lLoard of the car and one side of the Twkfd machine. .Ills broken ler. htd been pushed through the spokes oi a wneei. , vooaeon ws pinioned undnr the trolley's forward trucks. It ' was tieMMrytft rsls-the paing-("r nr oerore tne injured man could be tkcn out All were unconscious. i.rni,i: ciiam.e at casa llanc.y French Cruiser GaUIce OZcra to Uimibanl Town liut Foreign Con suls Prevent Action Europeans Greatly Excited by Nearness ot 2, 000 Arab Horsemen Italian Min ister ArrlvesRasdanl Pressln"; on Bandit HalsulU .; Tangier, Aug. 4. Up to noon to day no further advices had been re ceived from Casa Blanca. The arriv al there of the French cruiser Galilee last Wednesday made a good Impres sion, but the 'Europeans were still greatly excited as 2,000 Arab horse men were"in sight of "the city. The commander of the Ga'Uee offered to. bombard the town, but the foreign consuls prevented this action, ; : All torelgn business houses and the banxs are closed and business is at a standstill, v The Italian cruiser Et na, with the Italian minister aboard, has arrived at CasaBIanca The ex cuses presented by the emissary of Mohammed ElTorres. foreign repre sentative of the Sultan, tor the dis turbances at Casa Blanca hav beeu received here with derision. - There is -no confirmation here, of the report that the Zaer tribesmen threaten toattaek the town o iRobal. . an spite of his wound, It is report ed that General tiagdani. head of the government force , operating, , against! me oanau uaisun, in an enaeavor to rescue Cald Sir Harry MacLean, is pressing on.. It Is said the tribesmen are frightened - at- the manner in which Bagdani Is sacking and burn ing villages and are negotiating with Balsuil for the release of McLean, c MOROCCAX EXCUSES RECEIVED. France Elaborating AVllh Spain and Preparations For Action Aro Pro- . vurtug - Second, Naval Division Sails For Morocco Coast to Be Fa trolled. ' - Paris, Aug 4. The government re ceived to-day through the - French charge d'affaires at Tangier the ex cusese ot the Moroccan governing board for the troubles at. Tangier the board tor the troubles at Casa Blanca and its usual assurances that orders have- bees' given to the governors of the ;varlous ports that they s will be held responsible; for the security of foreigners. But s these 4 platonlc as surances will not. affect the pro gramme the government is elaborat ing with Spain and for which active preparations -. are Droceerllna' -Th 'second naval division, consisting of the uueyaon, oioire, and eJanne d'Arc. sailed from Toulon to-day for Moroc co.- - The entire coast of that coun try probably will be patrolled by French and Spanish fleets until the International ! police are Installed. oF6..Ac etaol etaolii etaoln taolaolln Foreign Minister' Plchoh conferred to-day with. .;, President ' Fallleres at Ramboullet, .concerning the situation. General A. M. B. Drude command ing the First Regiment of the Fourth Algerian Tiralleurs, an energetic, of ficer, .who has spent , his entire career In the colonies, campaigning Success fully In Tonkin," Dahomey and China, has 'been frlven . command of the embarking at Oran for Casa Blanca. s' .TheJmpresslon is general here that In order to put an end to anarchy In orocco, a punitive expedition must march on Fes. , PRETENDER ENTERS A PROTEST Tabes Advantage of Present Situation in Morocco to Curry Favor With Europe -Ijeading Newspaper Ad ; vocatesj Giving Government Free .. Hand. - , ? , Madrid. Aug. 4. -Dispatches receiv ed here from Mellia, Moroccoreport that the pretender has taken advan tage ot the present situation in t:-at country to curry favor with Europe and has sent a delegation of .rebel chiefs ; to protest against the events at Casa 'Blanca.' . , : The delegates, the : dispatch J. says, declare that the pretender as a sign of mourning, suspended the fetes ar ranged ; In celebration of his recent victory and is disposed to co-operate with" European i Initiative ' In measures to ameliorate, the situation In the territory he controls. . The Epooha . strongly reproaches the newspapers which think the gov ernment should, turn its back upon Internal .engagements, - and-- advocates giving the-gpvernment a free, hand. ,t TROOPS BURX V1XIAGE OFHAUTA The DevaKtated Sentinn in rt -in a a. ' w AixMio- Aegotiattons for the V!'! Jiacijean continue.. Tangier, Aug: 4. Official advices received here say that the Shereeflan troops have attacked nd. burnaed the Village, of Hauta, near RalsuU" abode. It transpires that when. the Kmass trlbsmen demanded that xtniBuu surrender cald Sir Harry MacLean, because they feared an at tack by the Sultan's troops, Ralsull suddenly, vanished, taking i MacLean with Mm into the hills, where he left him in charge ? ot , his (attalsull's) broter. MacLean was then badly treated, but after five days he was brought , -back again.: Negotiations for his release continue. MacLean is now permitted to write freely and tin letters to friends, here confirms the foregoing Information. 1 ' It tated that the governing board only condition for a cessation of hostilities, against Raisull is the liberation of MacLean and that it does not stipulate the arrest or sur render of the bandit ' FreJich-SponUh Action in Morocco Discussed to Madrid Cabinet. -. MaarId,tAug.' 4.At a five hours' session of the Cabinet to-day France Spanish action In Morocco and a note to the powers .were discussed. At the close of tha. meeting General prlmo Rlvero, the war minister, announced that the Spanish contingent to Moroc c?.J.w?vld not xceol 600 men. . He said they would. go on board a war ship. 1 ' NEGRO SURROUNDED tN SWAMP. Pursued by ' Angry- - - Mob : Following Wiootlngof Brother of TcoiLssoe Police Chief Lvnchlnt i,,rcd When Negro is Taken ShouM Injur od Man Die; - ' Chattanooga, Tcnn., Au,'r. 4. X tele phone message from Athens, Tenn., to The Times, says: .Charles Pierce, brother of Chief of Police Pierce, was shot and probably fatally wounded by John C. Rockett, a young negro last night at the Southern depot. 'vv . . After the ahoctlng tho. negro cs csped, pursued by a mob. Ha is now surrounded In a swamp north of the city.. Should youi'g Pierce die, his slayer probably will bo lynched when captured, . .' Ricliard James Meade Dead. " London. Aug. 4. -Richard Jam Mwfl, -fourth Earl of Clair Williams. Is dead, ire was born October , 1132. HOMIBLY BEATEN IJilT IN HELPLIXS COXDmOX Another Slurderous Assault Added to Jiecord or nccent crimes Against Defenseless Women and Girls In OVew.York Victim Tills Time Sur- prised In Her Apartments by Coat- '' less, Smooth-Faced Stranger, Who Later Escaped- Mob All But Kill Two Men charged Wlxli Attempted Assault on S-Year-Old Girl WlUtes and Blacks Fight Over Baseball Game, 60 Being Injured, '.Two. Fatally. .,,,v;::,;;r:,. .:?' ' - ... New York, Aug. ,4. Another mur the police record ot recent crimes against defenseless women and girls, To-night's victim was Mrs. (Ellen But ger, . a - woman of middle -age, who wa auacaea, in ner apartments in the Bronx, cruellv beaten an latt In a helpless state. The woman was re moved to a hospital where it wa found that her skull had apparently Deen rractureq, ner face and hands lacerated, anot her body ;. otherwise bruised, 'i There was f ; ev.len v that the woman had made a couragisous fight From what the police were able to immediately learn from her, she was surprised by a smooth-faced stranger perhaps 46 years,, of age. He was coatlesa and wore an outing shirt and dar trousers, v He es caped. '; ;.. ' . : .. saulted, George Kestner, a Russian charged- with attempted assault upon an 8-year-old girl, was set, upon by a crowd of men and all but killed. The cioines ne wore were torn from his T 0 a.nnv,i v V.iVJ P. tlon wrapped jln a blanket ' ?- , Anotner crowd set upon Hylo Ba loda, an Indian i palmist, who : was jimilarlv accused. anA nnlv th ttmnlv Intervention? of police reserves saved mm rrom summary punttnmsnfc ; WHITES: AND BIM.CK5 CSLASH. ; The ' nehtlnsr-.'' nlAmenf mnn th whites and blacks in the vicinity of One hundred and Thirty-sixth street and 'Fifth avenuA lined nn Btrvtfllnr to their racial prejudices again to- uay.wi.nii time to settle ' a baseball dispute and when the argument was ended ! 50 persons ; required, medical treatment and of that number two will die. : Probably 5,000 persons took part In the fight,, but the $00 police men Who dlsDersert th . mnh attar every bn was . fought out,, got only uiuc pnauiiers ana 91 tnese two were women. -, , John "McCue. a truck lrtvn' ii years old, and Matthew . Murtha, aged 35 years old, an dve peddler, re ceived fractured skulls, and wre re moved to a hoanital in a. rtvlno- ditlon. The Injuries of others ramrnJ from broken . noses to serious rasor cuts ' The troubln atnrt.1 at ,.n.. where a white man and a colored man had made a wager, and subse quently quarreled over the ; settle ment rresenuy me sight of a white man and a colored man , fighting started a general rpw. The crowd ireing sdoui evenly divided in color. Everv Sort Of wn nnn .. for olocks th constantly augmented .1,11 Ur8ea wnite tne police reserves from eight precincts hammered away with-their clubs to break the tangle. -FIGHT- BECOMES GENERAL.; 1 . " "." '.noes Of oattle Wern not. vontnf k. tators only of the strife and from w.jiuows ana points or vantage on thd rOOffl PVrv nlana A - 1 7. : vi uc .very r jurnlture that could be spared was nurled down upon the heads of the ...cls, wun recxiess 1 impartiality. Even women and. children Joined the It ' was two hours before the nolle controlled the sitoatlen and the p rol wagons and ambulances. picked up those iwio werp too seriously worn out to aet fh.?1089 i"0?1 had werstokVn to hospitals end the prisoners were look ed up char! with inciting a riot To r8hSi,.eiflmi hu,ndred ottlcers patrcllea the dlHturbed neighborhood. - viH!" S?oni1fr ? ew" M was the v ctlm of the-blind fury ot rioters to night anil will probably die of his in Jurles. He was fnnocenf of wrong doing put fell before a crowd determined to have revenge on some cne. The dangrwoue temper of the people, particularly In the foreign quarters, who l.uve been aroused by the repot tt of at lackaupon women and girls, was ex hibited to.nlrht in repeated Instances. A y that a stranger rad aoproachod a child with familiarity was enough to alert a mob. v-vi-T:..,-v,v. ..,;,, i& A RUS3IAN BADLY BEATEN, t - Sadie Hsmb9rgjr, aged I years, play ing in the hallway ot her tenement home In East Nlnety-nfth street this evenlnK, tried out -haf a man had seized Iter. The child's atiur seized George Kesh. ner, a Russian book titnder, by the throat The excitement - attracted ' S0Q men and women who fought with each ether to get a chance at the Russian. Thirty poll'emen rescued , Kesliner. bleeding from a score of wounds, and when all his. clothing but his snoes had bej torn from him. The police wrap ped the prisoner, in a blanket and hur ried him away. Sadie's sister corrobo. rated the story Of attack and the father tays lhat he saw his dauchter In tlie grasp of the Russian. , About the same ' time Hylo" Baloda nearly lost his scalp In Thirty-fourth street, ' Ha was accused of having offer ed pennies' to a girl of 13 years. The father wanted to know why and Baloda chowed fight. Ho slashed atout him with a nan knife and then knooked down a pollcaman. A -crowd of perhaps a thousand persons attempted to roach baloda, but police reserves beat them back and took Saloda to tho statloa VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES. - '' 'Louis Conconela was the victim Vot clrcumstancea ; A man ; and : wife quar teled In Ons "Hundred and " Seventeenth street end their youthful daughter went cut to the sidewalk and wept. A paus ing boy slapped her and ran away. The girl's cries and the running boyarouMd the neighbors who chaed the lad. The toy escaped and Conconela who - had out-footed the other pursuers, Was'mts. taken by the mob for the glH's assailant. X)vertak!.i at last Conconela was sot upon, knocked down and kicked until nearly dead. The police rescued' him after he was dangerously Injured. . ,i When John ; Bulger returned to-night to the fiat he and-is widowed mother, Mrs, Ellen Bulger occupy, according to the story he told the police, he found his mother lying uncrnsclous on the floor. He rsvived her and she told him that the had been assaulted by an IiaU Ian who had escaped. . ' Mrs. Buurer sald that she was seised from behind by a man who sh thought came down from tho roof. This man, Mrs. Bulffr said, knocked - her halt senseleM, ami attempted to assault her. Noise in the fiat below frightened htm, end he fled. Later it a as Ud that tlit woman would probably recover. TWO DIE IX 0-FOOT WELL. - ' "" "C Fattier and Son Overcome Ty GflKrs Found Expiring by Man Sent Down to Aid Tlicm. Blrnilngliam, Ala., Aug. 4. James Car rity end ion, living at Refuge, 11 miles from town, were overcomo by gases and dld in a i foot well to-dav. They were - enirnared . In clrsnlng t!e well. The fon, who was 17 years of age, went down to load the buckets, After a short while he called to his father to pull blm out as he felt HI. Tlie father vent down to sld-.th.. hey. tnt , whs fnilcdiy ovareoiufl. Whin snutlH.rr 111411 went down, b t -und the boy dead and the fitter esrlrirg, - ,, KEAYTHJEA1YEEGUUTI0XS HEAVY BONDS ARE REQVIRED President Frames Evicting Set of Rules for , Government of Cus toms Recelvcrsililp Established In San Domingo-f-Every Precaution Taken to Guard Against Irregular . Practices- Provision Made for ' Rigid Inspection 1 of Collections : and Complete 'Vouchers for , Fit . penditures for System of Slontldy , Reports' to Insular Bureau ; and Dominican Government San 7 Do . mlngo ltecelves Lump Sum of .. $100,000 Monthly for Maintenance, i ; Washington, Aug. v 4.-The ? Presl dent lias made a ; set of regulations for the government of the cuBtoms receivership established in San Do mingo under: the terms of the con vention of February 8th, 1907. It Is provided that the accounts of the general receiver shall be rendered to the Con tadurla General, of the Do minican republic and ' to ' the State Department at Washington and re ferred for verification to the Bureau oti'Insular j Affairs, .i which : is given immediate supervision and control ot the receivership, t Every ; precaution Is taken v to guard against Irregular practices, and heavy bonds are. re quired, the amount being fixed by the chief of the Insular bureau, while provision Is made for the most rigid and systematic Inspection of the ma chinery of -collection, for : complete vouchers ' of expenditures and for a system of reports monthly to the in sular bureau and ' to - the Dominican government, covering all the opera tion of the receivership, n The treaty allows 8 pert cent of the gross col lections, to be expended In defraying the cost of collections,' but the regu lations provide that only such, items as relate to the payment of the cus toms expense of the central office of the receivership, Its special' agents and the customs houses themselves, shall be charged oft against this ap propriation, which leaves the reve nue cutter service, customs - guards and other items to be otherwise pro vided for. v t : , . .Under the old arrangement .where by 65 per cent of A the Dominican revenues were . deposited In the Na tional City Bank of New York for the benefit of the foreign creditors, a fund of about $3,000,000 has been accumulated, which cannot be dis tributed until the "new arrangement la perfected., ; UHder the' new treaty the Dominican government Is to re ceive " a ' lump sum of $100,000 monthly out -of Its. collection for its maintenance. It is stated that this is so much more: advantageous for that government ' than the old ar rangement ,of 45 per cent of the collections that the Dominican gov ernment would be; about $800,000 better oft had It, ' originally been placed- s upon the 'new basis. This fact '.will, it - isbelleved here, hasten the - conclusion of the negotiations now in progress In New York between Senor Velasques, the . Dominican Secretary of the Treasury,- and" Us miniiter, Mr. Joubert and the Mor ton Trust Company, which is ex pected to take over the obligations of the City National Bank In this matter. WILLIAM AND NICHOLAS BIEET. Former Conducts Divine Service on t Board Royal Yacht Prince Henry, ' of Prussia, Tenders ' Dinner on Board the Battleship Dcutschland. Gwlnomunde, Prussia, Aug 4.- lEmperor , William oonduoted divine service on board the royal yacht Hohensoliern this morning, Em per or Nidhoiaa was present - At noon Emperor William esJd Prinoe von Buelow, the Imperial chancellor, and his suite attended a speokaJ service and toad ilunchewn aboard the Rus sian royal yacht staaidart and during the afternoon witnessed races be tween laiuncheg and cutters from the warships. .The two Emperors . pre sented the prizes to the victorious crews. .- .'--.;'":,:'...: Prince Henry, of Prussia, com mander, of the German vfleet, gave a dinner, aboard the battleship Deutsch land j to-night to the two Em perors and their suites, " " " . Emperor Nicholas presented Prince von. Buelow with - his portrafl In enamel set with brilliants and con ferred the Alexander Nevsky order on Herr von Tschlrsky, the German .war ; minister, Admiral von Tlrplts, General Count Huelsen-Haeseler, chief of the German military cabi net nd General von Scholl, ARRIVAL OF F1REMEX BEGINS. Wilmington lulling np With the Flame Fighters of tlie State Convention 1 Begins To-Morrow and the Tourna ment WednesdayBig Attendance Looked For. , Bjeclal to Ths Observer, ' Wilmington, Aug. 4.- The advance guard of the firemen for the annual convention of the State Firemen's As sociation and Inter-State tournament here this week has already arrived and every train to-morrow is expected to bring large crowds. Asheville arrived to-night with, twenty-two men and much apparatus.. Newborn, Concord, Winston, Durham and : Raleigh have their apparatus here and : tried the race course this afternoon with some of - the horses. , . v . President James D. McNeill, of the State association, arrived to-night and says he aspects the largest attendance ever at a State meet The convention meets Tuesday; the tournaament ba ring Wednesday morning. The con cord company Is camping out and Has spread canvas near tne- race course on a large vacant lot. It has a good reoresentatlon ot men and apparatus. Many of the visiting firemen were at the seashore to-nigni. WILLIAM'S PLURALITY IS SMALL, VttiiTin finxnrnmf Vardaniftn Nns Ilia Managers Will Conmlo Dcfcni - Canvass or votes rceaHsrr, 10 ex tent to Prove Result of Flection. Jackson, Mls. Aug, 4 Until the votes cast In the Democratic primary of last Thursday are canv.wie.l this Week . by the designated ofHulals. the result of the senatorial contest will, to a certain extent remain' In doubt Complete unofficial returns received by several sources show a plurality In favor' of Congressman John Sharp Williams over Governor James K. Vardaman, but this plurality Is com paratively small, and neither Governor Vardaman nor his managers will con crde defeat, declaring that the pmdil review of the vote will show his eleo tlon toy small EiaJyrlt7 TUfiPEISTLNE TEEE SAVED A TAR HEEL'S XEW IXVEXTTOX Wlten Dr. Clwrles II. Hcrty, of the State University, Invented the Clay Cup lor Catching Rosin Drippings He Revolutionised a Great Industry No longer is There a Needless ' Waste of Vast Tracts ot Timber To Get a Company to Make the Cups , a Hard Job Tlo Demand Cannot Now be Supplied by the Plant That Moulds Them. ; Observer Bureau. 14lr G Street N. W. . , Washington, Aug. 4. , To those who have traveled through the turpentine belt of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia with the ghostlike faces of sapped turpentine trees glaring at them through the shadows, the recent invention of an other system of getting the turpentine from the trees, .without, killing them andwlthout making them so unsightly and ghastly, is Interesting. ' f Already 20,000,000 trees in the South are equipped with small galvan ised Iron gutters attached to the trees, tnrougn wnicn tne turpentine la led Into a little clay cup. The trees are thus preserved for future turpentine production or for i timber and the amount of turpentine from each one ot. these trees has been increased and the price raised because of the super ior .quality, Just four or five Vears ago the new method was introduced and it has already worked noticeable changes in the looks of the forests and promises, in a short time, to revo lutionise the turpentine Industry, as well as the naval stores industry, - The importance ot this, aside from the preservation of the pine forests In the South, can ba better understood when it is known that, according to the last complete reports,' for, the year 190S, there were produced In the country 1,100,000 barrels of rosin and 600,000 barrels of turpentine, worth together 9if,uou,guu. -...'-.- v;;.' -' -. To the country at large turpentine is simply Indispensable, for its indus trial uses. Yet turpentining under the only methods practiced up to a very few years ago, and under the methods still unhappily too common among the less progressive operators, did and is still doing enormous damage to the south, in fact until the cud system came along, it threatened to destroy itself.-'y---,: v- :v-v:v'j;v;- :';. - The cup system does away with the "box," which Is eimply a pocket chop ped In the : tree , Itself, to catch the resin, or crude turpentine, which bleeds from the face above. It was a primitive device, but it had the merit of cheapness and simplicity. It meant early death to the trees and devasta tion ot the forest, besides being waste ful of the turpentine itself. It result ed in a large if not a complete loss of the timber, for the lumberman was seldom able to follow close "enough upon the heels of the turpentine oper ator to be ahead of the wind to which the weakened: trees easily succumbed and the Ares which fed on the fallen -wood an-d spread the destruction fur ther. Yet ail this was tor. a long time regarded as ot little Importance, since it was easy enough to find new territory In which to repeat the opera tion. ' ' . AN ECONOMICAL METHOD. Nowadays, however, the owners of Southern pine are growing more par ticular. Many of them refuse to al low turpentining on any terms, Oth ers are agreeing to it on 'condition that the cup system be used. With an intelligent, business-like manage ment in charge this system Is as much to the advantage of the operator as t ) that of the tlmberland owner, for It results in a larger quantity-of crude turpentine, allows less of the spirits of turpentine to be evaporated, produces higher grade rosin, and lengthens the period during which the same "crop" of trees can be worked. Under a slip-shod, incapable management It will fall to make good, because it re quires attention to details and Intelli gent oversight ' But for the man who owns the trees. It means a vast deal whether boxing is permitted or not. This is both because the box Is wholly needless and because with the cup and gutter the harmful effect of the chip ping itself can be greatly reducad. But the tox Is being gradually dis pensed -with, and a few miles from Chattanooga is a pottery which runs night and day throughout the ; year turnfhg out millions of these clay cups. They are much" like a medium-sized flower pot, nd all are of exactly the same size and pattern. Each cup has a- small round hole in the side and near the top. The moulding is done by machines which were Invented for the purpose and which 4pake them at the rate of IS a minute, or practically one In every t seconds, ' And with ail this the pottery can not keep up with its orders. The casual visitor finds It hard to guess for what use this great output ot cheap cups, all . In variably alike, are intended and he la inter ested to be told that Into each of the twenty million already In use la slowly dripping the rosin which ootes from a "chipped" or scarred surface in the trunk above Into two shallow, down ward slanting galvanised iron troughs op gutters. ' The Inner edges of these gutters are thrust Into cuts deftly mad with an. upward stroke of a broad-ax at ' the lower edge of the chipped "face." Each gutter catches the drip from approximately half the face. The two cut slant "towards each other like the sides of a greatly flattened V, but do not meet for they are at different levels, and so placed that the higher drips 4nto the lower, which in turn discharges Into the cup. TX PAIl : HEEI THE INVENTOR.' - The credit foj" the new system be longs to Dr. Charles H, Herty, profes sor of chemistry a the University ot North Carolina. ' As a Southerner In terested In the welfare ot his region he set out to put a stop, if possible, to what ha felt to be a reckless and un necessary impoverishment of a great natural resource. Hi has hal many obstacles to meet and stfenount. First came the difficulty In devixlng a method of gathering the turpentine which should be at once cheap, elm pie, capable ot .being used' by the kind of labor available, not likely to be in terfered with by; graxing cattle and hogs and practical, A number of de vices had been brought : forward by earlier Inventors, but all had failed Iti one or another of these requirements, Then came the difficulty of prejudice on the part of the negroei. who were to do the work. "They were ashamed to be seen with me,!, said Dr. Herty with a grin, In telling of his early ex perience during a recent visit to Wash ington, ;l had to pick them up out side of town because they would not ride in the wagon with me through the Xntreets." But their prejudice changed to enthusiasm before -they had been long at work. Now It would he hard to find a turpentine en nip in which there are not come hands who have used the cup system: Though it was only five years ego that the ftr.t expcrtmi-nti'On ft commerclfit scnle. were mmio. a large fraction of the to tal product is gitiwired by, the new, mnfhA.4 nn1 (lt niimKa e9 nrinro nra who have adopted it is steadily in creasing. FINDING A POTTER, Whan ,v,rv ntVit ntwfaMA haA hopn surmounted, after it had been proved by actual experience that the cup sys tem k'-t m n-jtii-a KIa an A .milri ; YiA made profitable, came the question of geuing me cups maae, tor -nuino time no pottery could be found with faith ennurh In a riptrn1 for the CUDS to prepare to make them. At last Dr. j Herty round a potter, an old acquatn- taneav vhn rna willing- hnnuiHA of his personal Interest in the young enthus iast to unaertaae to maae me cups. "And how many could you make a wn aiara n, . Uartv. "Whv: ; I could I make 100,000 if necessary." '., hla la a n,H nf mdllnni nf cups a year.'f That tended the busi ness. The notter resrardod hinweif as a practical man. "You have been among your college men too mucn, you are dreaming." ; At last there wis no other -way open for the inventor but to organlsea company and buy a pottery to make tne cups. . it wi niAnned at first to' make the "cups only during a part of the year, but the time has never some the making of cups could stop. Good turiirmAnt ma chnvn In choosing the location of the pottery.; The clay used in ma King tne cups is nu i K,mta Minn ( hand, coal comes in wagons from the mouth of the mine, and tho point is central for shipment to all parU of the South. 1 The cost nf ttiav rMirui has heen reduced from 4 eents to 1 0 cents apiece, i A larg part of this-reuueuon nas uccn possible by the invention of a machine n.Ki.K tairaa tho nia.ce of moulding by Kami T l fortunate thins for the South and the rompany tnat tnese cupa are being made ana pu. .0 u ... .k mn BT-atlv needed for lumber and so rapftlly diminishing. -, Besides the ciay cups m tacles are being Introduced by many operators. These are made ft tu vanned iron, ana are '.w",, more expensive than, the clay cupa n ih. ih hnn4. thfcv are more dur- -Kia : Thaw however, in some respects less easy to manipulate. Yet large numbers 01 .wm ' . .in. .a .anA -Mitit a that obtained will, bu oi.'.- 1 . . from the clay cup, in doing away with the evils of boxing. ' OTAM BATTLE FOR CENTENNIAL. The Amerlcan-BritlsU Conflict at GuU- ford Court House to lie lirpruuuTOi Boer Sold in the Gate City Under Name of "Yellow-Ade"---The Stuff i Went like Hot Cakes. Sredal to The Observer, n....rf.a, a t,0- 44 .When the celebration of Greensboro's centenni al is held here next year nei probably be many teatures o :.. .ii,a tmm a hiiitnrical and . literary standpoint, but probably the one that will attract most attention wiu we sham battle that will represent vas perfectly as possible the batt be tween the . American and British forces at Guilford Batue urouna in Marohi 17gl. , It is the : purpose of those behind the centennial movement to carry this out on an elaborate scale and it will nd"36ubt be of the very greatest Interest.;-. ir:-;'-n .sv-"'' nr. smith, a vountr. white man. was arrested here yesterday afternoon charged with retailing ana was piaueu in Jail to await a hearing before Mayor Brandt Monday. The young man nneneri il l nlace On East Si'Ca- more street a lew aays ago mm wun out a merchant's license, -no ponce allan that h had beer ShiDDed tO him in plain bottles in large quanti ties. ' He labeled the bottles "Yel- low-ade" and sold the beer to people who understood the nature ot his bus iness. He.was getting aleng splen didly and was coining money rapidly when the oollce became aware of his in..inaaa Vcatarilov afternoon Msv. or Brandt and Chief ot Police Neiiey canea upon tne man ana iney nsa ine ilrlnl, taataA hv n tnnn who la a mod Judge of such things, and the latter declared it was beer, a crowa was gathering about the place and the man aaalnv that tharal tmilhtal III UM V-.11 ft - - w ' " - ahead, dived through the crowd and disappeared down tne" atreeirr- no was pursued by officers and captured a ihnrt tlma tutor In a nos-rO ailhnrh. The county board of. equalisation seems to have done its work so far with reasonably good satisfaction to nil (nnearnml. - A fan- of the mponertv owners still kick on assessment, but not to a great extent. FORTY-ONE FfHlSOXS DROWNED Locomotive Plungre From Trestle Dratnring Down tlie Tender. Bee , gage and Third-Clase tr All of the Victims Except the Engineer Were in the Latter coacn. - ' Angers, France, Aug. 4:Forty passengers In a third-etasi railroad car, and the engineer ot the ttyin were 'drowned this afternoon In a railroad accident three miles south east of this town.! The locomotive of a crowded train Jumped the track when entering the bridge over the river Lolae at jLes Fontde-t;. The atone railing gave way and the engine plunged into the river (fifty feet below, dragging down wjtb, it its tender and the :baggaga and; tnira-ciass cars. Fortunately no ether cars went into tn water, as the coupling between the second and third cars broke, , . . . . ; The conductor and the.' firemen were the only persons whose lives were flayed. ; ' They escaped .by iwlm mlng. . j. The thlrd-clasi car was well filled with passengers, but although, part of the roof was blown off by the con fined air as it san. not a single pa, senger extricated .himself and ' all were drowned like rats In a-trap. The engineer perished beneath the loco motive. . Russian Rookery Guards. Cfcnci.rw , . ; . Jap Healing Boats. Victoria, B, C, Aug. 4. Advices were received to-day of an attempted onslaught on eeaia by the Japanese sealing, schooners lke and Midori on June 1st in the sea rookery at Copper island, guarded by Russians. The achooner , Kaike ? returned tc Japan and reported, .'three sealing boats and 1 3 : men captured and one man ahot by Rumrtana The Midori, which" had been anchored close to ths Kaike, was fired on by h Russian rookery guard, mast was damaged by shell fire from a 'field gun on ShPrS,..;i;,;: c. i .-.-''. v; :,V Vu.;!v ; Large IVrtlllxer Manufacturing riant Ilred by IJghtnlng. v Jacksonville, Fia., Aug. 4. Light ning struck'and set fire to the large fertiliser' manufacturing plant of the Armour Fertilizer Company In this city at 1 o'clock this afternoon and completely detroyed the building, which was valued at $80,000, and damaged the stock of fertilizer and frtUl?.er-mnt-rlal therein to th" e tent of $35,000. The loss U tul'y covered by 'insurance ' WEEK'S NEWS FOUECASi.; INTEREST CEXTIUJS IX OIL C . Standard's Attorneys Arraciiii: f it- Appeal ironi Dcrisioa or .is: ' Landis and Inipoiitlon of Jlot -vere Penalty in History of Aratvi. can Conrttr llnal - Arrar- 1 1: , Being Made for ; Start of v--i niander .Peary in Search of Norili role Hghtli International Hoik ing Congress Opens in Ijondon Monday Two Notable Ajiiorinui Marriages. In Foreign Countries. Important news events of the com ing week will include the preliminary steps by: attorneys of the Stardnnl ou company In - their appeal ' from the adverse decision of Judge Eand!s. or inicago, andthe imposition of the most severe1' money penalty in the history' of the American courts; tho ; start of Commander . Peary in his. latest expedition In search of the North Pole, . and the return of Secre tary Taft from his vacation in Canada, Just what form the appeal of the Standard Oil Company 1il take has : not, been decided upon definitely as yet but undoubtedly the attorneys for the company, in addition to pro testing against the penalty of the court as excessive and . contrary to the spirit of the law, will protest against the decision itself as being unjusf, and they will declare that the company la - not "guilty of any contravention of the statutes. PEARY. SOON TO SET SAIL. . . v Commander Peary left hl home In Portland, Me., last Sunday , for New York to make final preparations for the sailing of the Arctic steamer Roosevelt r These preparations will be completed early this week and tho steamer-is expected to start on the long voyage to the North at an early day. .... Two : prominent American - mar riages will be celebrated this week In foreign countriesthat ' of - United -States Senator Albert J. Bevcrldge, of Indiana, to Miss Katherine Eddy, of - Chicago, at the home of Am- : bassador and Mrs. Tower in ' Berlin, August 7th. and that of Miss Ka trlna Wright, daughter of Gen. Luke E. Wright, former governor general of the Philippines and re tiring ambassador to Japan, to Charles Day Palmer, - manager ot the International Banking Company, of Manila, at the American embassy at Toklo. on August 10th. . HOU,SINO CONGRESS TO MEET. The eighth International , Housing Congress will be convened Monday In London under the auspices of the : permanent international ; housing committee and the national housing reform -. council. Invitations to par ticipate have been extended to all European and - American countries, as well as Japan. The 'subjects to be considered are house inspection. Blum Improvement and . destruction and kindred subjects. -After a three days' meeting the delegates will make tours to different ..cities In . England to study housing schemes. From August 6th to 10th the Inter national Congress on School Hygiene will be in session : In London. Dr. Luther H. Gullck. of New York UnK versliy, will represent the United States, ... BIG INCREASE IN A YEAR. In Twelve Months - Canton Grows From a Tosvn of ISO People to Ou of 1,680 Property Values m lleaveruam Townslilp Trebled. Special to The Observer. Canton, Aug. 4. The latest census, which was taken by a house-to-house canvass, shows the population to be 1,680. This Includes only the peo ple who have as yet permanently settled here, but does not ,'uclude the huh norausr si Doaraers wno ire here only temporarily working on ' ths plant of the , Champion Fibre Company. Last year there was a census taken abput.the, last, ot Au. rust, and showed only 360 inhabi tants,' but the Incorporate limits have been , greatly enlarged by the ' last Legislature. ;ri; . In addition to these 1,$0 people, many others would have been here if they could only have found houses for their families. . Thers is fully , one house complete being built each day in Canton, and has -already been rented before it was begun to be constructed. , P . Flbrevtlle, the Champion ' Fibre Company's beautiful town, situated about a half-mils below Canton, contains from SOS to 400 people, and Sagamore Park, another suburb of Canton, located upon the hills Just opposite Flbrevllle. "nas from 200 to $00 people, making between two and three thousand people within Canton and the surrounding tillages, which i a tremendous Increase from 350. which iwas the ' population a year ago. The board of tax listers and as sfssor for Beaverdam township bavo Just completed their work 'and tne results show an Increase in valuation of property In ;: Beaverdam township to be more than three times what ic was last year. This shows wonder ful growth In -such a short period of time, and 4a only a small amount of what the valuation will be wnen the Champion Fibre Company's plunt gets - Into operation : so that It can mating its true valuation. Captain Held Rssponsiblo for Cut . . Usion of Reamer a. San Antonio, Aug. 4. A special to The Express from Tanrpico, Mex. says that as the result of investifra lion Into the recent OoMlsloo between the national steamer Puebta and the llarwburg-Amerkan kner Forsteck. in wfclch the latter rammed lhe form er, the pilot in charge of the Gor man, who was first arrested, man lite.-i released and Oapt Max Dlvern. ol the Forsteck, arrested and l.eld with out ball, f r Boy Killed by Lightning. ; Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. r 4. At Fulton,, a small town on the Saint John's river, 18 ; mile from here, Charles Leldy, ; Jr., ! years of ag". was killed by1 stroke of lightnh:;? to-day, the bolt running down the front of a building and entering a door. It struck the boy on the r,ei k, breaktng .the spinal enrd. Thr, - others In the building were rend.M- i unconscious, but all rscovered U.u-.i an hour. Tlie Boll VcelI ' Mri-o. San, Antonio, Tex., A'-t. 4. . clat from Durana, lex., t 1". 0 i press Sftys; t,!-t :ca' o.i r .numjr cotton plantt'i of thit OuerK'amo district of w'inti- s-- - nrnvert tn ho, th hi..'! I. r t ws!": '- f !rh r t j 3; i.l t 11 1 1 J I : -3 j
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