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Of! . 'SS . THE ASSOCIATED . PRESS DISPATCHES LAST EDITION 4:00 P.M. Weather Forecast: Unsettled. VOL. XV. NO. 195 FLiCT ACROSS ALPS ACCOMPLISHED BY MAN -BIRD fcette lei, ASHEVILLE, N. C.FWDAY AFTERNOON. SEP TEMBER23. 1910. pIeW CHAVEZ ES THE BUT LOSES POIZE OF S MPLDN 520.000 Lands at Domodossollo, Breaking Both Legs, Fracturing Left Thigh, and Suffering Other Injuries; While the Mono plane Is Ruined by Sudden Dash to the Earth. THE ROAD BUILT BY NAPOLEON I. IN 1800 WAS COURSE FOLLOWED BY THE AVIATOR Weymann, the American, Rises in Attempt to Follow the Pe ruvian, but Descends After Four Minutes Chavrez Held Machine at an Apparent Height of Near 7000 Feet. MILAN, Sept. 2:?. George Chavez, Hie Peruvian aviator, flew from Brig, Switzerland, over the Siniplon pass, ar riving at Domodossolo, on the Italian side at 2:1!) this afternoon. This morning both sides of the Alps reported clear weather, but the top of Slmplon puss was obscured In haze, chuve rose to an estimated height uf marly 7000 feet. The summit of S-implon pass rises 6G92 feet. Chavez maintained this apparent altitude for nl least half an hour, following the mad liuilt in 1800 by Napoleon. Right in iles brought him over the top of the Sim il on ; he then nulled gracefully over the 18 miles down to Demodns sola. - The remaining distance offers less dllTieiilties, but takes the aviator over Lake Maggiorc and a succession of plains. The distance from Prig to Milan is 75 miles. Experts hud predicted the only al ternative to a successful flight was death, the aviator being required to cross wide chasms, notably the Gorge of Ysette. where safe descent would l.e impossible and accident must mean certain death. Signal fires along Napoleon's road marked the way as far as Dcmodos i. la; the rest of the course was Indi cated by flag and buoys on Luke Motjgjore. A casUv ballMs,sna''d the ilnlsh line at the aerodrome. Cholera Deaths Number 88 J 16 Muring the Present Epidemic There Have llccii 191,070 Cases More Than 2000 Deaths liOst Week. ST. PKTEHSBURO. Sept. 23. Fig ures at the sanitary bureau show that during the present cholera epidemic there have been 191. 07! cases and 88.716 deaths throughout the country. For the week ending September 17 there were more than 2000 deaths. VIIKN NEAR fiHOVNn A RTODEX til'ST CAUSED THE DISASTER. Failure to Reach MiUin Prevents- Ills Winning the S20.000 Prize Offer, cil by Aviators Society. K It Dnmodnssola, Sept. 23. Chaves's Injuries proved more serious than wu at first thought. Both legs were brok en and his left thigh fractured, other parts of the body suffer ed bnd contusions. His gen eral condition, however. Is not considered grave. IE SMS NEXT HOUSE WILL ttiCfliTiC Champ Clark Sajs Republican Dissolu tion Is Apparent to the Dullest Mind. Naples, Sept. 23. The cholera sit uation here Is grave. There have been 50 cases and 30 deaths. The local au thorities do not admit yet that the ep idemic is cnoiera. ACT DEFENDED The Speaker the Author of the Bill Mr. Payne Explains Fail ure to Revise Schedules on Woolen Goods. COMMITTEE WERE UNABLE i TO AGREE, HE DECLARES New York Herald and The Gazette-News. NEW HAVEN, SEPT. 19 WSMjjMteloent plans FOR ASHEVILLE AND ITS VICINITY A General Downward Revision Was Ac complished, With an Increase in Revenues, in Mr. Payne's Opinion. i'-iliOlEJ LYONS. N. Y., Sept. 23. Sereno IS. Payne, chairman of the ways and means committee of the house of representatives and author of the tariff bill bearing his name, de fended that measure today before the congressional convention which re nominated him. Mr. Pavne said the reason the wool en schedule wus not revised was not because the committee was unduly In- nuenceu ny tnuse interested, out tney ould not agree upon the labor cost f producing wool and woolen goods here and ubroud. with a reasonable prollt to the producer. I ou iiwurd ; a Revenue PriMlucer, The law, he said, has resulted In a general revision drawnward and Is a revenue producer. It is easy to say it has increased the cost of living but almost impossible to find a single Hem on which the tariff was Increased on which the price has shown a simi lar increase. The price, Mr. Payne went on to say, has no relation what ever to changes In the tariff act. niimmlnnanlit. Itnlv. Unt. S3. In slighting here Chaves fell beneath his machine and was Injured, and the monoplane was destroyed. Wus Flying for $20,000 ITIxe. f'hnvei was trying for the 120,000 prize offered by the Italian Aviation society of Milan for a flight from lirlif to Milan. Chaves was unable to complete the trip because of injuries sustal ed in alighting here. It is not lielleved his Iniurles are serious. As he descended n treat crowd gather ed. ile was about SO feet above the Kround when a gust of wind caught and overturned the machine, which fell heavily, carrying the aviator be neath It. The machine was ruined. The weather was excellent the morning clear on the surface: the haze on mountain tops early blown sway. By noon the wind died out. Hut for the mishap there is little doubt he would have reached the goal, as the remainder of the course offers little difficulty. His most no table previous feat was establishing a height record September S, of S271 feet Weymann Tries H Twice ml Fall. Brlg, Btp. IS. Weymann, the American aviator, ascended at 1:10 this afternoon In sn attempt to follow Chaves. The weather was favorable. Ile descended after four minutes In the air. Weymann tried again this afternoon to cross the Alps. Unable to reach the summit of Slmplon, he turned back nd landed S7 minutes after the start. East St. Iuis, Sept. 23. "The In ternecine war of the republicans has enveloped the whole land. To even the dullest mind evidences of republi can dissolution must be apparent," said Congressman Champ Clark, ad dressing the Illinois democratic Btate. convention here today. He enumerat ed the victories of democrats In recent primaries and elections, and predicted the next house of representatives will be democratic. "The most potent cause of republi can dlssentlon," sulil Mr. Clark, "Is the tariff question. It has given no relief to consumers; but the most real increases, made by skilful artists like Senator Aldrlch und placed every time where they would do the most good to the Interests, the most Injury to consumers." Replying to Cannon's Danville speech of Wednesday he said one of the speaker's aasertlons was a rrnum nervenlon of facts. That asser tion Is that the tariff contest today is Just what It has been 60 years, a con test between protection ana tree trade. "He knew the critics of the tariff law are not contending for free trade but lighting to reduce tariff rates to a reasonable naais or 10 a revenue basis." said Clark. Southern Promises to Place Special Man in the Field to Secure Immigration from Other Sections. T A Disciple of Mine. Cavallerl. New York, Sept. IS. A divj'lpl Madame Cavallerl to discovered on EL 1 la 1.I..J i t l t mm.lv Bohemian girl, who refuses to marry rcier jolllah until ha signs an ante- nilnllnl a..-.... I W wlalfla before Tuesday Johanna will be shlp- oacK to Bohemia. Pink Barbour Siaectroeuted. l Ink-. M m. . -.- tlHakAtlW Of A nam. a, a..-.. - .anianrafl I 1I..1L . - saia.Jl a. r in lor ft murder coinniiiicu Harrlionburg, m electrocuted In lhr iniwiuiary thlt morning. E TO SEVENTH POSITION Increased only 9.7 per Cent in Ten Years The Population of Sa vannah Is 65.064. Washington. Sept. S3. Baltlmors the sixth city In population In 1900, has dropped to seventh place accora lug to ngures given out by the censm bureau today, having been out. trip iwl by Cleveland. Baltimore now hat tn a itt n1 Pleveland SS0.C83. The Maryland city grew I.T per cent ih. nasi ten years, while Cleveland grew 4I.S per cent Baltimore has been In sixth position for the past JO years. The population of Savannah, If tii.Uiil, air inorerwn cf 1M per cent President Finley of the Southern at the County Court House To night. Public Invited. HERE was held at the board of trade rooms today an import ant meeting of Southern rall- wv officials and men prominently Identified with the commercial life of the city. The meeting wus really in the nature of a conference, free from formality, everybody speaking, seated, in a conversational tone. J ne inrgesi rnnm nvnllable w lis filled and many stood about the entrance. Discussion turned upon the effort to build up this mountain section, and in the mutter of ways and means took n w ide range. Porhnns the most Important uevei- opment of the gathering was the sug gestion that the Southern Railway company might become Interested In the proposal to initio a urancii im which would traverse me norm i roml and Yancey sections. Judge Prltchard, who presided In the ubsence of President Nichols, explained that he had had some correspondence with President Finley on this suujeci ano had enlisted his Interest. Judge D,i.r.hni-ri nlil that In taking this step he had been Influenced by the regret table fact that Ashevllle naci very largely lost out In the matter of trade relations with thut section to the north of us, and t'apt. vv. i. weaver Interpolated that he gainereo irmn Slayden, Fakes & Co. that there hud been a material decrease in me wium sale business with that sectloa. Yancey's Wealth. Anntlnn was directed forcibly to ih. wealth of Yancey. In the way of grass, live stock, fruit, farm products and standing limner anu m inn iw bllltles of development by the use of the raw materials. It was further- more pointed out that wnereas mere had been much talk concerning the .ihi. construction of a line through that section, still nothing had been done apart from the bunuing 01 me t..,i..j tin. and a manifestation on the part of the Yancey county people treat advantage mat cm niu ... opening up of new territory. President ltnley. President Finley recalled the letters . t,..i.o Pritrharii. he said, and he of course felt an interest nl their con tents. Jt wss tills same interest, an iniaraat. that Presldont Finley evinced today that is, the executive to aid In such .enterprise.. Judgt Prltchard likewise explained that, ow i in atHct regulation under the Inter state commerce commission, there was very little cutting or rates, or me fierce competition that wss sometltms seen years ago, and he therefore felt .t.. ih. iirat rnnliler.itlon In railroad .. . . . ji.- construction, me .aitcr wi iiiuniiiir conrern to sll the people, was thstf hn Rout hern did not say that 1.1. ..Hniuiif would build such a line nor was he expected to any so. It Is a matter for future consideration. The A BIG GUN BURSTS ABOARD GEORGIA Fifty-Ton Cannon Explodes on First Range Shot of Target Practice, Crew Miraculously Escaping Injury Georgia Is Flagship of Third Division Commander. officials nil, nis it v. s K st K t s M K K K H. a As n result of a conference between Southern railway nml Axheillle husiness men today in the board of trade was determined: First, the Southern railway company will place a man in western North Cnrolina with special reference to the growing nml handling of fruit, especially apple. Second, the Southern railway company will within a short while place a special man in the field to secure Immigrants for Western North Carolina from other sections. President Finley slated that the railway company as a corpora tion could not Invest in a hotel in Ashevllle, but that be and his associate ofticlals would see thut Mr. ti rove's proopscd hotels are brought to the serious attention of moneyed men. or a man of means capable of conducting them. Mr. Finley stated that the present tonnage per mile in this sec tion might not warrant the construction of more railways in this section within some years by his company; development- of the re sources and good roads would bring about other railway construc tion at the proper time. The officials expressed a willingness to revise rates on raw mate rial on certain articles as soon as possible, so as to make the Incom ing rate on a parity with outgoing rates, which they said are low. A conference Is being held today to arrange Tor Ashevllle the Lest winter tourist schedule from Florida and the north Ashevllle has ever had. The Southern railway will co-operate with an organization nl western North Carolina people In exploiting ti... resources of this section for manufacturing and our attractions as a tourist center. L DRIMER HEARING lUPOUS SELECTED AS NEXT MEETING PLACE Odd Fellow. Reject Committee Recom mendation lor a Tuberculosis Sanitarium. 15 TO GMT ON Committee Decides not to Put Off In vestigation Until After Elections, as Hanecy Requested. Chicago. Sept. 2.-!. The senatorial suh-cnmuiittc on privileges and elec- liuns. convened here to investigate the alleged fraud and corruption in the ( lection of William Iirlmer to the I'nileil Sl itis senate. today decided lo proi d with th taking of testimony Mini not postpone action until after the November elections, as was urged by ICIhridge Haitcey. Lorlmer's attorney, if tin- llrrt open session of the commit tee, yesleniay. llancey presented a formal motion f.u- null inna in e. for reasons In sub stance similar to those given yester day hIicii he declared that liriiner would be handicapped Ihroiigh the disinclination of legislators now under indictment lo testify before the com mittee. Tin' I'hicago Tribune's list of witness. was submitted and the com mittee began consideration of meth ods of procpedure. The decision over ruling the plea for delay was an nounced by Senator ruynter of Kentucky. w ASHINQTON, Sept. 2J. Dur ing target practice of the At lantic fleet, oft the Virginia capes yesterday, one of the Dig twelve-Inch, 50-ton guns on the bat tleship tleorgla Durst on tne nrsi ranc .l.,.i Th. mtiscta aa far hack ns the forward end of the jacket wss blown off. The crew miraculously Injury. Tha accident occured to the left gun In the forward turret. The gun Is ruined, probably beyoml repair, ftonnrt reached the navr department this morning by wireless from Rear Admiral Schroeder. The voxels of the fleet were divided In two squadrons, one of which held day practice Wednesday and the oth er yesterday. The Georgia, command ed by Capt. William U Kodgers, Is the flagship of Rear Admiral Samuel P. Comly. commander of the third divi sion of the Atlantic fleet. The accident on the Georgia will not Interfere with the Georgia's partici pating In the coming European cruise of the Atlantic fleet; a gun Is being built at Washington navy yard and will be ready by November 1 to re place the ruined one. MAY HOLD UP SULTAN FDR DUTYJ JEWELS Whether Sulu's Ruler It Exempt Is s Question Customs Officials Are Discussing. Atlanta, Sept. 23. Indianapolis was selected us the next convention city by the Sovereign Grand lodge. Inde pendent Order of Odd Fellows, yes terday afternoon, defeating Los An geles, Baltimore, Chicago and Sidney, Australia. Art he morninif session of the Grand lodge the report of a special commit tee recommending the erection ana maintenance by the organization Of S, tuberculosis sanitarium was rejected. The main argument of those who op posed the proposition was that the several states should provide the funds for such institutions. A motion to limit the membership of liebekah lodges to the wives, sis ters, daughters and mothers of Odd Fellows and the widows of deceased Odd Fellows was defeated at the morning session. This measure would have made Ineligible for membership all unmarried women not relatives of Odd Fellows who are now eligible. The Odd Fellows I'reBs association held its annual meeting last night and the officers were elected as fol lows: President, S. A. Baker of Water town, N. Y.; first vice president, J. H. Sykes of Springfield, O.; second vice president, C. K. Gibson of Waxa hatchle, Tex.; secret iry-treosurer, W. II. i.eily of Indianapolis. Death Rate in Year 1909 The Lowest Ever Recorded Washington, September IS. The death rate In the TJnltt Btates In 01, was IS In each thousand, ac cording to the census bureau bulletin. This Is the lowest average ever re corded In this country. The showing Is hot so food as that I- Cnaiand. however, where U was only 14 to the thousand. General Clwrles R. Nrayton Iesl. Ti,l.na n. 1.. ReDt 11 Oen. fharlaa R. Brayton. the blind leader ika nrntt hi leans, and Rhode Island member f the national republican committee, died here today. IS SOLOJHIIIM She May Be Used in Charity Work, or Made Flagship of Fleet Used In Raising Maine's Wreck. New York. Sept. 23 The Sultan of Sulu. on his way here with if.oo.uuu worth of Jewels, among other things, may be held up by the customs offi cials, as rumor says he Intends to dis pose of his Jewels here. ui.ii. ia una nf the Philippine Is lands, wherefore some officials think anything the sultan may unng in would be exempt from duties. Honorary Professor In Mexico's New jnivrrmiy. ThMn.ioinhtn. Rent. 23. It Is an nounced today that Dr. U 8. Rows of this city, president of the American Aoadamv of nolltical nd Social Sci ence, has been appointed honorary M.f..iir nf Political science In the National; University or Pennsylvania at the opening. ,. . : . New York. Bent 23. The ship Roosevelt. In which Commander Peary went In tha Arctic regions on the way " to the North pole. Is bought by John Arbuckle of this city, who will use It In connection with some of his char ities for working men and women. Arbuckle Is the originator or tne 'floating hotel" for persons unable to pay average rates - for board ana lodging. The Roosevelt, however, may see other service, also. Arbuc kle hopes to secure the coutract for raising the battleship Maine. If suc cessful, he will use the Koosevcit aa, . the flagship of the fleet which under takes the work. THIS WEATHER. Pn Aahavllla and vlelnlfv! Unset tled weather with showers tonight or Saturday. - For North Carolina: Unsettled weather with showers tonight or Bat- urday. . I Continued on pat t f J
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