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Fair and warmer Saturday; I I i'Zl I i I I V V 'SI -KH JESI .T?dPl I 1 rfilKJ !l -FltT ' 1 I I I MX . Sunday fair; moderate winds. fl , j I I -a 1 I V I'l rri lsfi iM VX 11 hfl KV1 lIvAefflSl7! K. v 1 J I JF V V IV X If You Can "Ralsa the mostly southwest. J V A 3 1 I I I 4l035rfaI : VTl'ISK1 V-J IPJ liw 1 vlSI JkV I I V l Money for Advertlalng." the T Adverting .Will Raise the V DISMISSALS DUE TO FRAUDS Ousting of Employes Brings Sensation in The Service. 01 OFFICE IS ABOLISHED Deputy Surveyor James F. Veil Oust edAction of MacVeagh and Loeb Extends Over Sev eral Months. Washington, Nov. 19. The elimlna tion from the customs service of Act ing Deputy Surveyor James F. Veil, the abolition of that office in the New York customs house, the dismissal of 104 men and 'demotion of 123 others at New York from March 4th up to last nteht together with about a score of other changes including In Col lector Loeb's statement today. from New York, were announced by Secre tary MacVeagh tonight ; There will be no further grants of Inimunitj In the customs investiga tions at New York. Secretary Mac Veagh made this clear, explaining that he received this assurance in a recent conference in New York with Collect or Loeb and others. Colector Loeb, the secretary said, assured him there would be no further occasion for It, that they had accomplished what was needed by the immunity previously promised. , . The three weighers which confess ed to the authorities and whose evi dence has figured so largely in the in vestigation have not been disturbed In the service and they will remain, so. far a? the government Is concern ed. But Mr. MacVeagh 'pointed out that it wa3 questionable-whether they would care to continue in the lime light very long. ' Mr. Veil, who, drew a salary of $3, 000 ; a year as acting deputy surveyor, at Xc v.- York, was until quite recently foreman - of weighers at that port, lie jxises- out of tb-government ser vice with the. discontinuance of the office. . - :l . ' y ; Secretary MacVeagh said 'there were no charges against Veil and in dicated that the fact that he had been the head of the weighevs while the sugar frauds were In progress was at least largely responsible for his de canitation. '.' . '. The object of - tonight's announce ment according to Secretary' Mac Veagh. was t6 Bhow the gradual re babiJitatfon of the . service. Nor Is rJ;e end yet in sight and the changes w-;; keen right on until the rehabilita tion is complete. : : . - Many of those affecte'd by the chang es covered in tddav's statement ap pealed to the President after eettinc notice of their dismissals or demo-1 tions, but the Secretary had already conferred with the President' and the appeals were without effect. Secretary MacVeagh's statement gives "changes in the personnel of the customs service ftt the port of New York from March 4, 1909, to and in cluding November 18, 1909." The changes by months have been grouped as follows: During March demotions, six dismissals; -April, one demotion, 30 dismissals: May. 33 dis missals, no demotion; June 77 demo tions, five dismissals; July 29 demo tions, six dismissals; August, three dfti'otions, nine dismissals; Septem ber five demotions, six dismissals; OctoUer, one demotion, One dismissal; November, up to 18th, one demotion, seven dismissals. All of the vacancies, said Secretary MacVeagh, have been filled. No names except Veil were given in today's statement. ' Greatest Shake-up In History. Ne w York. Nov. 19. "We are in the laldst of the greatest shake-up in tfc,e "story of the Uinted States Customs apartment" said William Loeb, Jr., eollector of the port of New York to-T-Jght when shown . Secretary Mac-' Venn's summary of the work thus ''( omplished in cleaning up the York customs. house. Mon; employes haye been dismissed from th ew York office since I took cnargo than during the entire previ ous history of the service. He con tinued, "and we are not through yet. '"'6 are going to keep vat it. Weare Smg to keep at it until the New York custom house is made thoroughly res. po table. Secretary MacVeagh's state- " ''nt shows that we had accomplished "'P to today added to that the 19 em ployes dismissed today and you will S(,e that we have gone pretty tho- Jr "gniy into the matter. I am contin uiiig my investigation and I can say uidc mere are more heads to be lopped off soon." -. , : , . Mr. l.oeb's house cleaning took him into high places. today;. Among those uiaiiusseu this afternoon were. James N. Vail, dciintv . rrtlortrr nf this nowt. the biggest customs house in the CDun- try; O. E. Bedell, an inspector and for merly chief clerk of the weighing divi sion ; James P. Hyland and Joseph w wrron, ex-foreman of weighing dis tricts. - ,. Mr Vail expressed great indignation at his removal. "I have been made he scape goat," he said.""' "Not only imve I been absolutely faithful to the government for the 22 years I nave I'ppn in the service, but it a known fact at while I was at the hpad of tha v'ighing department 1 ferretted out l"e original frauds."-';.. , ... . ."(.-: ...?-.'-r . ', NERVOUS WEEK FOR COM Conditions of the Crop and Situation on New York Market Mills Re sumed Work Outlook Seems Brijiter. ' New York, Nov. 19. It has been a nervous cotton market dominated fot the most part by lare enterests which in the main are bullish. Also, however, the receipts have undoubted ly fallen off sharply, spot markets have been strong with report of in creased activity here and there, New York sold 5,000 bales in one block on Thursday for export and Eugene Scales denies emphatically a rumor current on Thursday that he was sell ing out his holdings preparatory to leaving New York. From time to time similar rumors have been circu lated supposedly by bear interests and they have caused much soreness among the bulls, who accuse their op ponents of stabbing them in the back At one time a rumor is - circulated that Patten is selling out then again that Scales Is, thon again that the whole bull outnt is liquidating. The answer to this has usually been a sharp rally in prices. Moreover the general killing frost of late In the Southwest, according to bulls disposes finally and effectually of the expecta tions of a top crop in that quarter, tW fart wiling frvsr noc hoon o.n- eral not onlv 'in th snnthwpst hlir also in the central belt and east of the Mississippi that many regard the growing season as ' practically over and they await with impatience tlm Government crop estimate on Decem ber 10th. That will be what Horace Greely used to call . "mighty interest ing reading", for the cotton world. German and Russian reports are to the effect that spinners are having a good trade. Cotton goods in this country are firm in value if trade ha been hindered somewhat by unsea sonable weather. Chicago, however, has had a good trade. At one time a report was circulated that many of the Manchester mills were resuming full time, but this appears to have been a- mistake". 1 Many reports from the South have latterly reported that most of the crop had been ginned. Sea Island cotton has been selling at 33 to 37 centsor about 10 cents high I er man a year ago. some Aiauanw . . - : x . . r- s l i- i mills which, had shut down or nai curtailed operations are, it is stated resuming wor on vrun time. On the other hand spot cotton has been generally quiet and speculation has dwindled. A few large operators have ruled the market. They, insist that prices are ultimately going ,to 18 to 20, cents, but the general public after its recent "rough experience on the bull side has been weary, about re-entering the speculation and it is not improbable that the bulls will have to make good in no uncertain fashion if they are to secure another outside following. In some parts of the South,'' too, it is reported that a practical deadlock exists in the mar ket of spot cotton, holders firmly maintaining prices and spinners hold ing aloof. Of late there has been not a little selling on the fact ,that the National Ginners Associati6n put the total ginning up to " November 14th at 8,09G,OOObales. One rumor was that the total was 8.250,000 bales as against previous Intimations that It was only 7,911,000 bales. . This uncertainty about tne National Ginners' .figures and a good deal of selling by Memphis, Liverpool, Wall Street and the West contributed large ly to the decline of Thursday and Fri; day. Bears look for a -substantial ae clih'e before the first of the year but bull insist that cotton is likely to rule high for at least three years, to come in the general expansion or trade, echomg Andrew uarnegie s statement, "We are in tne tnroes o: prosperity and good times are to have a long, long session. Conservative interests, nowever, ae Drecate any wild or reckless specula- tlon on euner sine ui me uimaci ACTIVITY IN TRADE. Noted Improvement Given in Brad- street's Report F.or tne wee. Mow Ynrk. Nov. 19. Bradstreet's tomorrow will sayf With the arrival of cold weather tnis wee retail uauc. hitherto inclined to lag, has taken nn th annparance of activity and dis tributive trade reports are more uni formly encouraging than tor some time past.. In wholesale' lines gener ally the nearer approach of Winter has nad a stimulating enect uyu" 5" Ueral feeling.- ' ' In the cotton goods traae tne ie tnre'hfl.8 heen a country-wide advance in prices, of , prints. A more or less eeneral tendency to advance prices of other cotton goods and to find buy ers at the higher levels is also notea. Holiday trade Is eood with. Jobbers and the' reports as to Spring trade are "in a high degree encouraging. From the industrial field generally the report is of large output .'In the iron market railroads are buying free ly of track material. . Lumber trade is reported good as a . whole. . -! :.! Business failures . in the United States for the. week ending with N vember 13th were 233 against 221 last week; , and 273 in . the like week of 1908. : - ' . t Wheat, including flour reports from the United States and Canada for the week ending November 18th, aggre gate C.185,598 bushels against 5,533, 474, last week and 5,599,314, bushels this week .la,st year. Corn reports for the week are . 140.407 bushels against .28,818 last week and 239,717 In 1908, : ' v ,''. ":. WELMESTGrTOK, K. C, ET United States Will Not Inter fere' With Revolu tionists. CONFERENCE ON SITUATION Communication Received at State De partment Yesterday Leader of Government Forces Violated the Treaty. Washington, Nov.- , 19. Brooding quiet settJed down today on the strained situation this Government finds itself in with Nicaragua. But if everything was quiet on the surface there was plenty stirring beneath. A communication was , received .at the State1 Department from the Nicaragua legation, the purport of which was not divulged -and the ministers from Guatemala and Costa Rica held a mys terious conference with Assistant See retary Wilson in the afternoon. A Significant development of the day in asnuch as it disclosed this Govern ment's unyielding determination not to interfere with the Nicaraguan revo lutionists was the reiterated announce ment that the State Department would not act to insure the safety of any American vessels that might be held up or seized by the insurrectionary war vessels now blockading tue Gov ernment forces at Greytown or else where on -the Guatemalan coast. The deepest interest is apparent as to the conference between Assistant Secretary WLson, Senor Calvo Minis ter from Costa Rica and Dr. Herrarte, minister from Guatemala. It is be lieved that the infraction of the exist ing pan-American treaty signed here a little over two years ago, was the chief matter .discussed. The violation of the agreement was committed by General Toledo.' in com mand of President , Zelaya s forces, whenthetavaded Costa'fMcatr territory in-his advance on -Greytown, where practically he is now. besieged. - In the tareatened trouble between Nicaragua and Venezuela only a short time ago, the United States stood ready to pre vent, by force if necessary the' pas sage of the belligerents across the neutral territory of Honduras. This is pointed to Diplomats tonight as indi cative of the gravity of General Tole do s offense against the Pan-American compact. That the revolutionists under Gen eral Chamorro are making prepara tions for -the final decisive struggle within the next three or four days was announced tonight by Senor Salva- dore caistrillo, president of the Nicar aguan provisional government. He pointed out that with the coast line in possession of his compatriots, the se curing of ammunitions and 'arms now is a simple matter of only a few days. In the meantime he says General Cha morro holds the Zelayan forces at his mercy. At the time of the closing of the State Department this afternoon no word according to Secretary Knox had been received from the seat of trouble. The two warships, the Des Moines and the Vicksburg, which respectively were ordered to take up their stations on the Atlantic and Pacific sides of the Isthmus, are believed .to have reached their destinations, although no word from their commanders was received. The Department was informed to day 'that Leonard Grace wno is be lieved 1 to have been executed with Leroy Cannon by order of President Zelaya, was a native . of Hempstead, Texas, where his family is said, now to reside. Houston, Texas, Nov. 19. Louis W. Groce who -, with Leroy Cannon was, executed in Nicaragua ' by orders of President Zelaya, lived in Galveston where his cousin, T. J. Groce is presi: dent of the Galveston National Bank, At Hempstead, Texas, 'his former home, Gfoce's father was a physician the son's name being the same as the father's. Groce had been in Nicaragua 16 years as a mine owner and was planning a trip home in December, ac cording to & letter received from him about a month ago. . New Orleans, Nov. 19. With . many rumors afloat as to its cargo and mis sion the steamship Imperator of the Blueflelds Steamship Company sailed from New Orleans this afternoon for Atlantic ports of Nicaragua. It is per sistently, rumored that it" Is hound im mediately for Greytown to carry arms, ammunition and . food to the troops of President Zelaya. Officials "of the steamship , company, ' however, deny that the . vessel ; carries any. arms or ammunition whatever. ' ' , .- ' Thousand Men Imprisoned . Panama, Nov. 19,--Passengers arriv ing here from Nicaragua reports that President- Zelaya has severed - rela tions with Joa DeOlivares and that the latter's home at Managua is guarded day and night. They say that Zelaya, distrusting his own men, hs surround ed "himself with foreigners and that 1- 000 persons have : been .imprisoned at the Capital either because, they were suspected of disloyalty, or. had- refused to contribute to ' the war tax. It is re ported the Zelay's troops are desert ing in large, numbers. The fear of a rebel invasion of the interior has in fluenced President Zelaya to mobilize his forces there. A serious movement against the eastern coast at present is unlikely; '-, - '. A , ' ; ;-:v:i vr' .r'v' t ATTITUD WARD iGUAN W SATURDAY MORNTNTG, NOVEMBER 20, 1909. CASHIER'S HOUSE IS SEARCHED Bank Officials at Newbern Seek to Re cover Funds Alleged to Have. Been Embezzled by Carra - way Was Fruitless. (Special Star Telegram.) Newbern, N. C, Nov. 19. Acting under authority of a search warrant sworn out before Justice of the Peace J. M. Hines, by Mr. James A. Bryan, president of, the National Bank of Newbern, Pinkerton detectives aided by local officers, searched the resi dence of J. R. B. Carraway all day yes terday and today in hopes of finding a part of the $116,000 which he is al leged to have embezzled from the NaJ tional Bank of Newbern while teller of that institution. - All rooms in the residence, beds, trunks, wardrobes, etc., were search ed and all parts of the yard were probed with rods used every, four Inches apart. Every effort was made to locate some of the missing funds, or to find a clue leading up to the whereabouts of the money. As the work was not finished yesterday Spe cial Officers J. W. Dukes and J. B. Gaskill guarded the premises last night and the search was continued this afternoon. So far as can be learn ed, nothing was found and the search was called off this afternoon as a fail ure. It is rumored that Carraway has been followed by detectives at all times since the alleged . defalcation was made public and from the- best of evidence it appears that there were four detectives working here on the case today. ' ' It has been contended by bank offi cials from the beginning that a part of this money which Carraway is al leged to have embezzled, is in hiding somewhere. They with experts have been working on the matter and have gone over the situation, taking the dates that this money is said to have been taken and recalling what Carra way was doing and where he was at that time", and they have come to the conclusion that he must have hid it away. :Thev claim that he could not have used it because he was always t. the bank, and at his post of duty.' That his appearanee never indicated that he was spending any money ex cessively. That investigation shows that he never dealt in stocks nor other chance games where he could have used the money in any short period of time. In fact.it is said that there U nothing to indicate what Carraway could have done with the money ' ex cept to hide it away somewhere. DR. STILES AT GOLDSBORO. Noted Scientist Delivered Lecture on Hookworm Disease. (Special Star Telegram.) Goldsboro. N. C, Nov. 19. The not ed scientist and philanthropist, Dr. C. W. Stiles, gave a lecture on the hookworm disease in the opera house tonight to a large and cultured au dience. Stereoptican views were shown, being plainly explained by Dr. btues and every pnase of tne sub ject was thoroughly discussed. Ignorance of the ravages of the hookworm disease was inexcusable in this community and although there has been a number of cases treated in this county, the result of this lec ture was a great benefit towards the distruction of the dreaded disease which means much to this city and Wayne county. Dr. Stiles was introduced by Mr. J. Y. Joyner. State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and a. member of the Rockefeller Commission, who in a short, but interesting address, spoke of the. plans and -purposes of the com mission and at the conclusion of his Instructive discussion he was - loudly applauded, for he is held in the high est esteem by all. our people and per sonally, is very dear, to the hearts of Goldsboro people,having at one time been superintendent of our public schools in which capacity he has never been surpassed-. OUTLINE President Taft was a guest of Nor folk yesterday and delivered an ad dress ! to the delegates of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association. He urged a practical system of water way improvement- The dismissal from the New. York customs house yesterday of 104 employes, on account of recent frauds, is said by Collector Loeb to be the greatest shake-up of this kind in thehistory of the United States -In the weekly cotton review the market, is shown to have been nervous during the past week -No further developments were - reported yesterday in the, strained situation between this country and Nicaragua. Several important conferences were held in Washington during the day Some anxiety is felt for col. John Jacob Astor' and party, who are on the missing yacht Nourmahal, which has been out of ' touch with the world for a fornight -Df. C. W. Stiles de livered a lecture An Goldsboro last night on the eradication of the hook worm disease. ' - New York markets Money on call firm 4 1- 2to 5 per cent., ruling rate 5 3 4, closing bid ' 4 3-4, offered at 4 34; flour slow at ' old t quotations; wheat spot -firm No. -2, red 1.26 nomi nal - domestic elevator, No. 2 red, 1.25 12 nominal f. o. b. afloat;, corn barely steady, No. 2 72 lj2 elevator domestic, 73, delivered, and, 72 f . jo. b. afloat; oats - steady, I mixed - nominal: rosin and turpentine steady. r v'j- '"'-"v'f .-.-A'''.'-.-.v-:J--'; .'-v- DAY'S AFFAIRS AI THE CAPITAL Governor Continues Unwell at The Executive Man sion in Raleigh. . CASES IN SUPREME COURT A. C. L. Relief and Seminole Securi ties Getting Ready for Confer ence Adulteration of Ice Cream Notes. (Special Star Correspondence.) Raleigh, N. C, Nov. 19. Governor Kitchin continues quite unwell at the mansion, not having been able to be in the "executive office for three days now. ' He suffers from intermittent neuralgic headaches that are thought to be due primarily to malaria. Members of the Corporation Commission- returned today from Wash ington where, they attended the an nual session of the National Associa tion of Railroad Commissioners. They pronounce the meeting the most suc cessful from official and personal view points, ever held. . The Supreme Court heard argu ment today in the famous case of State vs. Whedbee, from Union coun ty, in which T. C. Whedbee, a well known editor and lawyer, is under sentence to two years in the peniten tiary for false pretense in that he in duced W. C. Heath to give his note for $750 as an investment in the Sem inole Securities Co., the frauds in con nection which stirred such a decided, sensation among business men in North and South Carolina, especially, about a year ago. The conviction' and .sentence were in Union Superior Court before Judge W, J. Adams last August Attorney, General T. W. Bick ett made the argument for 'the SJate in -support of the - trial and -sentence below, and the case for, the defendant appealing for a new trial ; on excep tions, was presented by Mr. 'Cansler. There was argument before the Su preme Court today in the case of Bar den vs. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, from the Seventh district, in which the case for the Appellant railroad company was presented by Mr. Junius Davis and for the plaintiff appellee by Mr. Iredell Meares. In the trial be low the railroad company entered a demurrer on the ground that the com plaint was insufficient in that there was no allegation that the railroad company did not exercise reasonable care and diligence in the selection of surgeons, nurses and attendants i the hospital In which the injuries of the plaintiff were treated; did not al lege knowledge on the part of the rail road -company of incompetence, If there was incompetence, and that the Relief Department under which the care and attention complained of was provided through contract is a chari ty to which the. rule of "respondeat superior" could not, under the law ap ply In holding responsible for malprac tice of its physicians or attendants af ter the exercise of ordinary care In their selection. Counsel for Barden contends that the complaint is suffi cient in every respect, but that if It is not leave to amend is prayed, and, furthermore, that the Relief Depart ment is not a charitable but a regular department of the 'Coast Line's service and subject to the control absolutely of the ofllcers of the railroad. In rounding up his argument for the plaintiff Mr. Meares declared that to dismiss the action would be "the re finement of cruelty to the plaintiff, who has suffered a peculiar and morti fying injury, which will continue through life to give him pain and hu miliation, and it would be a denial qf his right to be heard merely to satis fy the technical spirit of an antiquated judicial procedure." -' Dr. William Black, evangelist,' for the North Carolina Synod, is aiding Dr. W. McC. White, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, in a series of special meetings , at Mount Pleasant, in the "county, in connection with sys tematic evangelistic work for the county that is being inaugurated by the "Men's Society" ot tne f irst church. v An amendment for the charter or thfi Seashore Hotel, Wrightsville Beach,-near Wilmington, has been fil ed with the Secretary or state, in creasing,, the capital from 810,000 to $75,000. The company has announced its purpose to improve the Seashore greatly in. time; for the next season, the improvements to include the con struction of a splendid steel pier to extend 600 feet into the surf and add 80 rooms to the already great capacity of this splendid Tesort hotel, which has proven wonderfully successful un der the management of Mr. E. L. Hin ton the past several years. The preliminary arrangements ; are rapidly being rounded up for the NTnrth Carolina. Methodist Episcopal Conference to be in session here with Edenton street churcn, Deginnmg- next Wednesday. The biggest attendance in the history of the Conference seem a assured, and it is believed that the showing of church progress ,.for the past year will toe. very considera bly in advance of the showing , made fnr anr previous year. Then there, are decided steps in progressive enlarge nient of the-scope of church endeavor J (Continued on Page. Eignt.). BALLINGER MAKES A REPLY Secretary of Interior Denies Charges Against Him in Connection With Government Not -Interested in .Coal Lands. Washington, Nov. 19.- Replying to charges made in magazine publica tion, Secretary Ballinger, of the In terior Department, today took occa sion to deny many of the reports which repently have, been circulated concerning the conduct of his Depart ment and to explain others. "To say that I ever have advised, aided or lent support to any effort to perpetrate a. fraud upon the Gov ernment," he said, "is not only false but is intentionally-' so if made by any one who has taken the trouble to In quire into the facts." In explanation of the charges in connection with the Alaska coal lands he went into the history of President Roosevelt's withdrawal from entry of all the coal lands of Alaska in 1906. showing that the order was so modi fied by Secretary Garfield as to vali- j.i. -11 . .. aaie an applications made prior to May 16, 1907. He then stated v that no Alaska coal claims whatever have been pa tented and says that the investiga tion of all such claims with a view of determining their validity or in validity has been vigorously prose cuted. Mr. Ballinger denounced as "a. plain ordinary fabrication" a renort. that he is interested in 155,000 shares of the Alaska Petroleum & Coal Com pany. Asked about the statement that he had said that the proper course to take witn the public domain was to divide it up among the big corpora tions and let the neoole who know how to make money out of it," Mr. Ballinger replied: "So assinine a statement hardly merits a denial. Of course, I made no such statement Such a thought could not be enter tained by any normal. Intelligence. I have not. only been, consistently in the vanguards of "the conservation movement, hut 1 have snue-ht to cive it permanence , along .lines reasonably witnin tne spirit or present law anu to secure adequate additional laws." He made eauallv emphatic denial of a statement that ' his firm is known as tne Standard Oil legal adviser in Seattle. - CONFERENCE AT GOLDSBORO. Colored Methodist in Annual Session Standard of Ministry. (Special Star Correspondence.) Goldsboro. N. C. Nov. 20 Confer ence reassembled this morning, Bish op Coppin presiding. Minutes of pre vious dav were read and approved. During the reading of the minutes the Bishop took occasion to say to the young men who remained on the second year's class- that if they did not improve in studies and pass up, they could, not remain longer in tho class. The standard of the ministry must be advanced morally and intel lectually, he said. Rev. G. A. Gore was passed to the deaconate and wil! be ordained Sunday morning. Dollar money collections amounted to $2,784.93 this year, St. Stephen's church, Wilmington, raised the larg est amount reported. The Conference donated $103.00 to the mission work as a conference benevolence. This amount was raised by individual min isterial contributions.! Each minister's character was put on its passage this afternoon and the Conference called each man to a rigid accountability for his moral, re ligious, and official past doings this year. ' Every eye was? batned in tears when Tr. James W. Telfair, presiding elder of the Wilmington district, re quested to ' be placed on the super annuated roll. Dr. Telfair nas Deen an hnnnred minister of this confer ence since Its organization some forty years ago. Dr. Wl H. copeneart witn trembling voice and witn sodds maae the motion that retired his comrade to await the roll Call. Dr. Telfair lives at 615 Walnut street, Wilming ton. Last night was the Conference edur cational anniversary. The. report on education was read by Rev. E. R. Williams. He dealt very thorougniy with every phase of the educational! work of the cnurcn. pror. u. J. Jor dan, president of Kittrell College, and Prnf .Tno. R, Hawkins, commissioner of education of the A. M. E. church, were speakers of the hour. This was Prof. Jordan's first appearance before this Conference and his impression was excellent. Prof Hawkins easily sustained his reputation as a speaker. The Women's, - Home and Foreign Missionary, Society held its meeting in the afternoon. ;' Prominently con nected with this work is Mrs. A. Stroud, Mrs. L, L. Copehart, Mrs. Marv Willie. Mrs. J. W. Brown. L. J. King, Mrs. Annie Morehead, former president. G. D. C. WAS BURNED TO DEATH. Aaed. Salisbury Woman Victim Dress Ignited From Fire. Salisbury, N.- Nov. 19. Mrs. Sad ler Brown,, aged 50 years, was burned to death at her home here today. She was seated by an open-fire when her dress ignited, and in an Instant she was enveloped in : flames. The only menfber . of the , - family present was her father, aged so years, blind anJ helpless. ; "WHOLE NUMBER 13,157. PRESIDENT URGES Taft,s Address on Waterway Improvements Ends Convention. "S IDEA BIG JOKE Most Notable Celebration in History of Norfolk -The Attitude of Con gressWaterway on Busi ness Basis. Norfolk Va., Nov. 19 As one of the concluding features of the convention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways As sociation and to accept again the hos pitality of the people of the Old Do minion, President Taft came to Nor folk today, reviewed a military, and naval parade, made two speeches in which he bespoke his interest In a practical system of waterway Improve ment to be carried forward on a bus iness like basis and not merely as a means of distributing patronage; par- a. i m , 100K. 01 a juynn tiaven oyster roasr, under the shadows of the towering Cape Henry light houses, and. attend ed a smoker in honor of a large corps f A . 01 visuing newspaper men. The President retired tnnitrht on board the naval yacht Mayflower on wnicn ne mane tne journey irom Washington to Norfolk. The May flower will remain at anchor in Nor folk harbor until tomorrow morning when she will get underway for Hampton, where the President will at tend in . the forenoon a meeting of the board of trustees of the Hampton Normal institute or wmca ne is a. member. In ttye afternoon he will de-'. liver, an address, to the colored stu dents of the institute and then sail fpr .Washington. .. , ,w-i v. , - , Mrs. Taft accoinpanled the Presi dent to Norfolk today and while he was reviewing the hie parade in his honor and later was making an open air address from the reviewing stand. Mrs. Taft and her sister, Mrs. rnom-. as K.. Laughlln. Jr.'. of Pittsburg, came ashore . from the Mayflower and went on a long sightseeing excursion. The, visited among other places famous -old St Paul's Episcopal church, which still shows the wounds of the Revo lutionary War. The mistress of the White House and her sister were ouite unrecognized In all the excite ment of the- crush, to see and hear the President. Mr. Taft was the din ner guest of Fergus Reid, of this city, and a company of Norfolk pebple, Mrs. Taft dined aboard th4 Mayflower. The President's visit was raaae tno occasion of probably the most notable celebration the city has ever had. At no time during the Jamestown Expos" tion did Norfolk seem to be arousea to the same pitch of enthusiasm as tnAav nnd never before have the dec orations approached the display which greeted Mr, Taft wnen ne stepped ashore shortly t after 9 o'clock this morning. ' a retention to the Norfolk commit teemen and the delegates to the wa terways convention began tne aav s programme and then followed the norade and speech by the President from a reviewing stand erected at the base of the Confederate monument. In his speech there, the President,-' ofter detailing his view as to water ways improvement, spoke a word for the United States Navy, declaring that the. nrestijre of the Nation demands that the Naw be keot to a high stand ard of force and efficiency. The Pres ident also declared that he was in favor of - fortifying Hampton uoaos, the greatest strategical naval base in the world, by erecting an Im pregnable fort on an island placed half way between the Virginia capes. He said he had recommended such a fortification as Secretary of War and hoped to see the plan adopted during his term as President. : " The President was taken by special train to Cape Henry for the old fash ioned oyster roast. The oysters were served so temptingly and with such, a lavish hand that when ' the Presi dent arose to speak he declared he felt like an oyster. . ; The waterways delegates naving practically completed . the busipess of their convention on yesterday,, gave the; day over to participating in the welcome to the President: In his speech at Cape Henry, the President dwelt again upon the ne cessity of taking up waterway im provements on a basis of sound busi ness sense rather than on Ideals and oratory. Mr. Taft also told- a story on Speaker Cannon, 'of how he said he did not see the use of inland wa terways "when it was only a biscuit, thrown over Into the ocean." "But," said the President, ."that is because he comes from Illinois. If he had to go around Cape Hatteras a few, times he would understand the difference in a biscuit throw." , In order to make himself heard at the oyster roast, which was held In a low-ceiling pavilion, : the President stood on a chair. Next-to him sat Andrew Carnegie, Who Joined the Presidential party this morning. r "I feel like an oyster," : began Mr. Taft, "and I ought to be as dumb as, one; but when you get on the solli of Old Virginia there- ls: something PRACTICAL SYSTEM . . . . . t -. - - . r i v":i . '., - V ' ..V . . " "t ' ' ,1 a
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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