The Weather Today: FAIR.
The News and Observer.
VOL. Lj. NO. 101,
leads allMorthCarolinaDailies inMews anddrcmation
TERRIBLE COLLISION IN THE
NEW YORK CENIRAL TUNNEL
m■ i i
Fifteen Passengers Are Killed and Twice That Num
ber Injured, a Dozen of the Latter
» Seriously.
VICTIMS MANGLEdIn MASS OF WRECKAGE
White Plains Train Plunges'
Into Norwalk Local.
HALF THE REAR CAR TOJN TO SPLINTERS.
The Lights Are Extinguished and
From the Darkness Eise Heartrend
ing Cries of the Injured and Dying,
The Work of Eescne Begins at Once
Heroic Efforts. Defective Block
Signal System Said to Have Caused
the Wreck.
(By the Associated Press.)
New York, Jan. B.—ln the New York
Central Tunnel that burrows under Park
Avenue, this city, two local trains col
lided today. Fifteen passengers were
killed and twice that number were in
jured. A dozen of the latter were seri
ously hurt, and the roster .of the dead
may be extended.
The dead:
ALBERT M. PERRIN, 43 years old,
recently from Chicago: Secretary and
second vice-president of the Union Bag
and Paper Company, residence, New
Rochelle, N. Y.
B. I>. C. FOSKETT. 40, New Rochelle.
A. E. H. MILLS, 33 New. Rochelle.
E. C. HINDALE, 3o New Rochelle.
MRS. A. F. HOWARD, 35 New Rochelle.
FRANK WASHBURN, formerly of Chi
cago; president of the Union Bag and
Paper Company; residence, New Rochelle.
WILLIAM LEYS, 35, New Rochelle;
general manager B. Altman. New York.
THEO. FORGARDO, 30 New Rochelle.
WILLIAM FISHER, or FORCES, 25
New Rochelle.
WILLIAM HOWARD, 48 New Rochelle.
OSCAR MEYROWITZ, 50 New Rochelle,
optician in New York, and secretary of
the New Rochelle Yacht Club.
FRANKLIN CROSBY. 35 New Rochelle.
ERNEST F. WALTON, 30 New Rochelle;
broker in New York.
H. G. DIAMOND, New Rochelle, as
sistant general manager of the American
Bridge Company, this city.
CHARLES B. MARS, New Rochelle,
employed by the New York Custom
House.
A list of the seriously injured follows:
Ernest Coffin, 15 years old, New
Rochelle; serious wound on head. Taken
to Woman's Hospital, 50th street and
Lexington Avenue.
Alfred Wadley, florist, of New York
city; fracture of both legs, shock and
scalp wounds.
Albert W. Adams, a carriage builder
of New York city; left leg cut off below
knee.
George M. Carter, of New York, leg
fractured.
George M. Fisher, 16 East Port Ches
ter, severely injured.
Mabfll Newman, New Rochelle: contu
sions of body and hip fractured.
Mamie J. Rice, New Rochelle, fractur
ed nose, lacerated ear and sprained ankle.
Sadie Scott, New Rochelle, left hand
and left foot, fractured.
Richard Millineaux, New Rochelle, com
pound fracture of thigh.
Thomas T. Murphy, New Rochelle, both
legs broken and internal injuries, eondi
* tion critical.
Winfield Schultze, New Rochelle, frac
tures legs and burns.
A. Mcßae, New Rochelle, leg fractured.
Henry Keene, General Manager of the
Siegel Cooper Company this city, fractur
ed ribs and internal injuries.
George Winter, New Rochelle, com
pound fracture of left leg, the leg was
amputated.
William Brooks, of Erie, Pa., lacerated
face and possible fracture of skull, taken
to Roosevelt Hospital.
A REAR END COLLISION.
It was a rear end collision between a
south Norwalk local that ran in over
Ihe New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad and was halted by block signals
at the southern entrance of the tunnel,
and a White Plains local that came by
the Harlem branch of the Now York Cen
tral. The wreck occurred at 8:17 a. m.
at which hour the trains were crowded
by suburbanites.
Most of the death, injury and damage
was wrought by the engine of the White
Plains train which plunged into the rear
car of the motionless train and was driv
en through to the middle of the car,
smashing the scats and furnishings and
splitting the sides as it moved forward.
Th*> victims cither were mangled in the
mass of wreckage carried at the pilot,
crushed in the space between boiler and
ear sides, or scalded by steam which
came hissing from broken pipes and
cylinders.
Tile engine in its final plunge of forty
lect carried the rear car forward and
sent, twisted iron, broken timbers, split
ting into the coach ahead. Lights were
extinguished and from the wreckage anc
darkness came the cries of the injured
and calls for assistance by those who
escaped.
WORK OF RESCUE BEGINS.
Within a few minutes the work of res
cue, marked by heroism and sacrifice,
began. Alarms that brought every avail
ble ambulance into use, the police
reserves of five precincts and the fire
men of Central and Eastern districts of
Manhattan were sounded at once. With
police, firemen and surgeons, came a
score of volunteer physicians and half
a dozen clergymen.
Ladders were run down the tunnel air
shafts and the firemen and police at
tacked the debris with ropes and axes.
The passengers already had rallied and
were trying to release those imprisoned
in the debris. Father Smith, and Rev.
Dr. Walk ley, Chaplains of the Fire De
partment, crawled in over the wreckage
and ministered to the dying. Lieutenant
Clarke, of the Fire Department, forced
his way to the point where Miss Rice
and Miss Scott lay and stood in water
that scalded the flesh from his limbs until
the women were released. T. M. Mur
phy, a passenger, both of whose legs were
broken and still held by the timbers, vol
unteered to remain as he was until tho-Te
around him were assisted!
Two policemen and Chaplain Walkley
icached Mrs. Howard, and the chaplain
gave her a stimulant. The policemen
were cutting away the seat which held
the woman down when a pipe broke. The
scalding steam drove them back and when
the rescuers returned Mrs. Howard was
dead.
Injured persons in need of immediate
attention were given temporary dressing
by the ambulance and volunteer surgeons
and then hoisted to the street. Many
Park Avenue mansions were thrown open
to the suffering £ut most of the injured
were at once taken to hospitals. The
dead were carried to morgues and police
stations.
An immense crowd heedless of the snow
which swirled through the street, gath
ered about the tunnel entrance and shafts
and watched the rescue work.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was among those
who came to the tunnel but police de
nied him admission, despite the fact that
his family controls the railway.
ENGINEER WISCHO ARRESTED.
Responsibility for the disaster is un
fixed, but Superintendent Franklin said
tliat so far he had been able to dis
cover, J. M. Wischo, engineer of the
White Plains train, is to blame. It is
declared that when the South Norwalk
train stopped a flagman ran back into
the tunnel and besides placing a torpedo
on the track, endeavored to flag the on
coming train. The tunnel was beclouded
with steam and smoke while the snow,
which fell through the air shafts, tended
to obscure the view. Engineer Wischo
and Fireman Christopher Flynn were ar
lested. A signal man also was detained
for a time but was released.
Superintendent Franklin has issued a
statement as to the accident, in which lie
declares that the block signals at Fifty-
Ninth street wei'e obeyed by the New
Haven train, while the engineer of the
White Plains train disregarded them.
"The torpedo on the track went off.”
•said the superintendent. "But he did not;
stop, even though the fireman called to
him to ,lo so. The system of block sig
nals is such that it is a physical impossi
bility for a signal man to make his light
declare the track free if another train
is on the block.’’
District Attorney Jerome visited the
wreck yarn! personally examined many
witnesses. The State Railway Commission
also announced its intention to make an
investigation and similar intent was ex
pressed by the general officers of both
the New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad and New Haven and Hartford
Railroads.
Residents of New Rochelle contributed
the largest number to the casualty list,
because the rear car of the South Nor
walk local was reserved for them aAd
was kept locked until the train reached
that place.
HEROIC DEED OF CLERGYMEN.
When nearly all of the ead and injured
had been removed from the wreck Father
Smith, of the Church of St. Vincent do
Paul, ar.d Chaplain Walkley. of Grace
church, both chaplains of the Fire De
partment, crawled into the wrecked ear
over the hot boiler of the demolished
White Plains locomotive, and found two
girls in the middle of the last coach.
They were sisters named Scott, of New
Rochelle. One sister lay on top of the
other, the sister underneath held by
wreckage which pinned down her body
below the waist. Ore leg was crushed.
The dead body of a man. which was also
pinned fast by the wreckage, lay across
the chest, of the ether sister aud held
her down. Stimulants were administered
to the girls by the chaplain who re
mained with them until they were re
moved.
\t :inc Batallior. Chief Uriel found K
t!i<> -r»*'k n man who gave his name as
T ,Vl. Murphy, and tried to move him.
Murphy said his leg was held fast, and
asked Chief Friel to fee it. The chief
jfound that if he loosened the timbers that
I 1 eld Murphy’s leg, he was liable to let
RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 9. 1902.
clown more wreckage on the bodies of the
two girls. He told Murphy this and Mur
phy said;
"All right. I’ll wait, but please b<l as
quick as you can.”
The chief made Murphy as com pf or ta
ble as he could with a scat cushion. With
his badly smashed leg, he lay there till
the bodies of the injured ones beside him
were removed.
The tunnel in which the wreck occurred
extends from 55th street just above the
Grand Central Station, and is about two
miles long. It is under Park avenue and
there is an air hole in each block. Com
plaints have been made for a long time,
however, that its ventilation was insuft
eient and the New York Central has been
considering plans for the use of electri
cal power in the subway so as to do
away with the smoke and steam from
locomotives.
WHITE PLAINS ENGINEER BLAMED.
J. H. Franklin, manager of the Har
lem division of the New York Railroad,
made the following statement;
"The engineer of the rear train, the
White Plains local, so far as l have
been able to learn, was responsible for
the accident.
“The Norwalk local was due in the
depot at 8:15 and the White Plains local
at 8:1. The Norwalk local was stopped
by the danger signal at 59th street. The
flagman got out with lantern and tor
pedoes and put the torpedoes on the rail.
The engineer of the incoming train failed
to recognize the signal and made no re
sponse and the collision was the result.”
Mr. Franklin said this is the third
accident in the New York Central tun
nel. The first took place in November,
1883. when twenty yersons were killed.
The second occuired February 20th, '9l,
when si xpersons were killed and many
injured.
ARREST OF AN ALLEGED GHOUL.
Almost a riot was caused at a police
station by the arrest of a man accused by
Coroner Soholler of attempting to rob
the bodies of the dead as they’ lay in
the station house.
People had been admitted to the sta
tion to identify the bodies and the man
is supposed to have drifted in with the
crowd. When he was taken before the
sergeant at the desk the friends and
relatives of some of the dead wen- so in
censed that they made several attempts
to get at him shouting "He ought to bf
lyrcbed ! ” The man gave his name as
John Maloney. Coroner Scholler said
he saw Maloney going through the pack
ets of one of the dead persons* clothe; -
"You ought to be burned in oil,” said
(lie sergeant to Maloney, “You are the
meanest criminal I ever saw. Take him
away quick.”
Maloney was taken to a cell followed
by the threats of the crowd.
A ROAR OF GRINDING STEEL
And Through the Wreck Came Bursting the
Locomotive
(By the Associated Press.)
New ork, Jan. B.—Eugene Herold, of
Rochelle Park, one of the passengers on
the Danbury train gave this account of
the accident:
“We were sitting quietly in the next
to the last car aud there were only one
or two unoccupied seats. There was the
usual morning crowd. There were five
cars.
“TheYe were several women in my car
and also in the last car. We had been
stalled at Fifty Sevnth street for some
time. Suddenly there came a terrific
crash. T\je lights in the car went out.
There was a roar of grinding steel and
wood and a chorus of shrieks. 1 looked
back and saw" the car behind telescoping
over the rear of our car and through that
mix up plunged a roaring locomotive.
“I was thrown on my face by the jolt
and I felt some blood splash over my
forehead. Stifling smoke and steam seem
ed to arise from all sides and looking
back 1 could see mangled persons crowd
ing about through the mist.
“Our one idea was to escape. I found
a friend of mine right in front of me. He
cried:
“ ‘Open the windows, for God’s sake!’
1 turned to the window" and found the
glass had all been shattered by the col
lision. We climbed out. I saw several
persons almost covered with blood crawl
ing about."
THE FIRE AT GRIMESLAND.
Another Report ot Disaster, Placing Losses, at
Ten to Twelve Thousand Dollars
(Special to News and Observer.)
Washington. N. C., Jan. S.—Grimesland
was visited by a serious fire last night,
the loss being estimated from ten to
twelve thousand dollars, partly covered
by insurance, the origin its thought be
ing a defective stove. ' The whole north
side of the business portion of the town
was destroyed. Following is the list of
(hose burned:
Galloway & Elks, general store; Pow
ell & Co., grocery and bar; Win. Moore,
general store; the postofficc and its con
tents; H. H. Proctor, general store and
warehouse; J. L. Gibson & Co., bar, and
one confectionary store.
—~A BUSINESS BLOCK BURNS.
An Eleven Thousand Dollar Fire at Ahoskie,
Practically No Insurance.
iSpecial to News and Observer.)
Suffolk, Vu.. Jan. B.—About noon today
one of the principal business blocks in
Ahoskie, North Carolina, a small town
on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, was
sw'cpt by fire. Starting from a bad flue
the blaze fanned by the wind and un
checked by a fire department had soon
reduced six buildings to embers and
ashes. Seine of the contents were saved.
The structures were used as stores with
some occupied above as residences and
some vacant.
The largest losers are F. Powell, gener
al merchandise and millinery, whose
building and stock were worth $6,000
and C. C. Iloggard general merchandise.
whose property is valued at $2,500. Other
places burned were the old Campbell
store and barber shop and buildings
owned by Drew Newsome and W. P.
Newsome, negroes. At one time the At
lantic Coast Line warehouse, and Bran
ning’s Lumber mill were imperiled. The
estimated loss is Sil.ooo. There is prac
tically no insurance. ,
To Welcome the Liberty Be l.
(By the Associated Press.)
Charleston, S. C., Jan. B.—Charleston
ians, all and singular, will give the Lib
erty bell as warm a welcome tomorrow
as it has ever received in the South.
The Philadelphia escort and the bell
will be met at the station by the presi
dent of the Exposition and the directors,
Mayor Smyth and the members of the
City Council, the soldiers from the garri
son on Sullivan’s Island, Naval Reserves,
United States Marines, from Camp Hey
wood, at the Exposition grounds, the mil
itary companies of the city, the Citadel
and Porter Military Academy cadets, j
Immediately upon the arrival of the train ;
a salute of thirteen guns will be fired
by the Naval Reserves.
Mayor Ashbridge and the escort of the
bell from Philadelphia in carriages will
be followed by the military in the march
to the exposition grounds, where the for
mal ceremonies of welcoming will take
place. The truck on which the bell will
be placed will be drawn by thirteen
horses.
Among those who are to speak arc
Mayor Ashbridge. of Philadelphia, Cap
tain F. W. Wagoner, president of the
Exposition. Mayor Smyth and F. G.
Ravenal, a descendant of one of the
South Carolina signers of the Declaration
of Independence.
All of the schools in the city will bo
closed and every school boy and girl In
the city will be given an opportunity to
see “Liberty bell.”
Democratic Caucus Postponed.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 8. —The caucus of
Democratic members of the House called
for January 10 to consider party policies
has been postponed on account of the
illness of Representative Richardson, of
Tennessee, the Democratic leader.
m DIE IK Fills
Mother and Two Small Chil
dren Burned.
I
wo Warrant Out for Dos'or Ham Sullivan
Charged with Telling Small
Patients they Had Itch.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Winston-Salem, N- C., Jan. S. —Near
Viands, Wilkes county, yesterday, Mrs.
Hoxie Johnson and two small children
were burned to death. The mother ac
cidentally fell in the fire-place. Her
clothing ignited and the flames spread,
destroying the house with the mother,
and her two little ones.
Two warrants have been issued for
the arrest of Dr. Ham Sullivan, of this
county. He is charged with advising
people who have smallpox in the north
ern part of the county that the disease
is itch and not smallpox.
District Attorney Holton was advised
this afternoon cf his re-appointment by
the President.
Four negroes attempted to saw out
of jail last night. They were detected
by the jailor, who with the sheriff gave
the prisoner’s a whipping.
A committee, headed by Mrs. Lindsay
Patterson, goes to Washington next
week to extend an invitation to President
Roosevelt to deliver an address at the
laving of the corner stone of Salem Fe
male College centennial in May.
Licensed to Sell Liquor in Hickory.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Newton, N. C~
the board of county commissioners today,
license to retail spirituous liquors in the
town of Hickory, was granted to the fol
lowing persons: Frank Langhim, A. P.
Whitener, S. D. Campbell.
They also drew the jurors for the Feb
tuary term of Superior court, and re
ceived the new iron bridge recently built
over South Fork river.
School at Catawba College will open
tomorrow. The students are arriving to
day, and a large attendance is expected.
Whit Owens Sentenced.
(By the Associated Press.)
Oxford, Miss., Jan. 8. —The jury in, the
case of Whit Owens, charged with oc
in." an accessory to the murder of the
two Montgomerys, United States Deputy
Marshals, returned a verdict of guilty
today The punishment was fixed at im
prisonment for life.
Major B. £. Champe Dead.
illy the Associated Press.)
Nashville, Tonn.. Jan- B.—Major Li. F.
Champe, Assistant Surveyor of Cus
toms, and formerly general ageut in the
city of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, died here today.
Norfolk Peanut Market.
(By ihe Associated Press.)
Norfolk. Jan. S.—Peanuts steady: old
stock and machines, 2 1 / 4<?r2’6. New—Fan
cy. 3Vu strictly prime, 3c.; prime 2%.
Spanish, 77U.
MORE FAVORABLE
ID PANAMA OFFER
Several Congressmen Want
Jt Considered.
THE MORRIS AMENDMENT
This Empowers President ILoosevelt to
[ Select the Boute.
SPEECHES ARE MADE IN ITS FAVOR.
General Debate Will Close at Two o'clcck
Today and Final Vote on the Canal
Bill May be Taken this
Afternoon.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington. Jan. B.—The debate upon
the Nicaraguan Capal Bill in the House
today developed sentiment in favor of
giving consideration to the recent offer
of the Panama Company to sell its fran- j
ehise and property for forty million dol
lars, and this sentiment took the form
of advocating the Morris amendment to
empower the President to select the lat- j
ter route if the Canal Commission, upon
considering the company’s offer recom
mends it and the required concessions
can be obtained from Colombia. Os six
teen members who spoke today nine
favored the Morris amendment. It was
agreed that general debate should close
tomorrow at 2 o’clock after which the
bill will be open to amendment under
the five minute rule. The final vote
probably will be taken tomorrow.
The speakers today were Messrs.
Shackelford. (Mo.); Parker, (N. J.); Lov
ering. (Miss.): Morris, (Minn.); Burton.
(Ohio); Hill, Conn.); Bromwell, (Ohio);
Gillett, (Mass.); Littlefield, Me.), in fa
vor of the Morris amendment and Messrs.
Burgess, (Tex.); Bell, (Colo.); Cooney,
(Mo.): Cummings, (N. Y.); Gibson,
(Tenn.); and I,acey, (La.) for the bill in
its present form.
Mr. Shackelford, (Mo.), believed that
the Eads Tehuantepec route was prefera
ble to any which had been proposed, but
! he did not think the present a time for
cavil. He did not like the Panama route
but if the new proposition of the Panama
Company offered advantages over the
Nicaraguan route, he thought the Presi
dent should have alternative authority
to accent it.
“If you favor this bill,” interposed Mr.
P.artholdt, (Mo.), “why is it that you and
your Democratic colleagues from Mis
souri at the last session voted against
a similar bill?"
■“Because," replied Mr. Shackleford,
“the bill at the last session was passed
through this House to the tune of ‘God
Save the Queen.’ I want it passed to
the sweet strains of ‘Hail Columbia.* ”
(Democratic applause).
“But the Hay-Pauneefote treaty was
not ratified at the last session,” ob
served Mr. Bartholdt.
"True it was not,” replied Mr. Shack
leford, ‘But our English Secretary of State
wanted it ratified and because we be
lieved the wishes of Her Majesty’s repre
sentative in the Cabinet would prevail
we opposed the bill.”
Mr. Lovering. (Mass.), also a member
of the committee that reported the bill,
said that In the past he had favored
the Nicaraguan route because the engin
eer?! had reported in its favor and be
cause until recently he had believed that
the trans-continental railroads were
using the Panama route to obstruct ac
tion. But he had recently satisfied him
self that the railroads were not behind
the Panama Canal. The recent offer
cf the Panama Company he believed, was
in good faith.
Air- Morris. (Minn.), who offered the
amendment yesterday to give the Pres
ident the alternative authority to select
the Panama Route if it was recommend
ed by the Commission after the consid
eration of the Panama Company's new
offer explained the purpose of liis
amendment, which, he said, was not to
impede the construction of the canal,
but to insure the selection of the best
canal—the best as to the location, cost
of maintenance and operation, durability
and freedom from danger from destruc
tion.
Before the Isthmian Commission made
its report he did not believe the Panama
route feasible. He thought it. had been
used solely for the purpose of delay- But
since reading the report ho was unable
to reach a conclusion as to which was
the better route, in embarking upon an
enterprise that was to cost $200,000,000,
perhaps more, he considered it wise that
(he experts should have an opportunity
to consider the now offer of the Panama
Company.
If the bill was passed, in the form in
which It was reported the President
could not entertain the offer of the Pan
ama Company and under it the President
might by treaty bind the United States
to construct the Nicaraguan Canal even
though we afterward became convinced
that the oiher was the better route.
Mr. Burton (Ohio) who led the oppo
sition to a similar bill in the last Con
gress. said he would not be glad to see
the pending bill pass. The events of the
last twenty months he declared had vin
dicated the course of the minority. In
speaking of the advantages of the Pana
ma route, he said, a member of tb<* ocm
inission had told him a few days ago
1-hat the examination of the Panama
j route had been much more thorough
"wrv. FIVE CENTS.
than the other and there was far less
danger of disagreeable surprises as the
work progressed. Air- Burton received
a round of applause as he concluded.
Mr- Hill (Conn.)T at this point read a
letter from Prof. Ward, o 4 Bridgeport,
Conn., who was employed as an engi
neer on the Panama Canal for six and a
half years, contending that the Panama
route was the better on the following
grounds:
First, It has two excellent ports with
a well equipped railroad.
2nd, An established line of steamers
to New Y’ork.
3rd, Competent equipment of cars and
machinery.
■lth, Accommodation for in,ooo laborers.
sth, Actual definite plans for the com
pletion of the canal with all the experi
mental work (lone; and
6th, The serious danger of volcanic
disturbances in Nicaragua-
Mr. Burgess (Tex.), who represented
the Galveston district, supported the
bill in an earnest speech. The only
amendment he favored w'as one declaring
in unequivocal language that the canal
should be fortified. He said that the
American people would make a black
mark against every member of Congress
who voted against the fortification of the
canal at the time of its construction.
Mr. Cummings (N. Y.), opposed the
further consideration of the Panama
Company’s offer. The company wanted
forty million dollars for the work al
ready done which covered about one
fourth of the canal- The completed one
fourth had cost the 1 French stockholders
$240,000,000. At the same rate It would
cost the United tSates $720,000,000 to
complete the canal.
Air. Hopkins (Ills.), asked unanimous
consent that the bill to establish a per
manent census bureau be made a con
tinuing order until disposed of after the
Nicaraguan bill is acted upon.
There was no objection and the order
was made- Thfn the House adjourned.
TO SCALE DOWN PENSIONS
Widow of Lazeare Who Died for Science not
Entitled to Pension
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. B.—During the con
sideration by the Senate today of pri
vate pension legislation in 1 response to
an inquiry from Senator Bacon some im
portant statements were made by Mr.
Gallinger, chairman of the Committee
on Pensions, in respect to regulations
adopted by the committee to govern it in
the consideration and recommendation
of private pension bills. He announced
that none b*t absolutely meritorious cases
would be presented to the Senate for Its
consideration and that the closest scru
tiny would be given by the committee to
every bill introduced. He, said that no
pension exceeding SSO a month would be
recommended by the committee for the
widow of a general officer and that pen
sions for the widow's of other officers
would be sealed down proportionately.
The interesting case of Dr. Lazcare
who at the instance of Johns Hopkins
University and of the Government w'ent
to Cuba and submitted himself to in
noculation with yellow fever through
mosquito bites and died from the disease
tfius contracted was brought to the Sen
ate’s attention by Mr. MeComas who in
quired whether Dr. Lazeare’s, widdw
would be entitled to a pension. No de
cision was reached, but it was the opin
ion of Senators Gallinger and Cockrell
that the ease had no pensionable status.
A JACKSON DAT DINNER
Letters from Hill and Cleveland Democratic
Principles, Declares Bill Will Triumph
(By the Associated Press.)
Philadelphia, Jan. B.—A small circle of
the younger Democratic lawyers of this
city observed Jackson Day by giving a
dinner tonight at the Hotel Belleville.
James W. King, well known among the
younger lawyers, presided. Letters from
former President Cleveland and former
Senator David B. Hill and a telegram
from Bourko Cochran wore read, which f
provoked considerable applause from the
dinners. Mr. Cleveland wrote:
“I am glad to know that there are at
least 39 young Democrats in Philadel
phia, who are to allow Jackson
Day to pass without recognition.
“The inclination to neglect observance
of a day, that has been so long and so
strongly related to genuine Democratic
sentiments, may reasonably I think, be
counted among the afflictive visitations
that have lately weakened and depressed
our party organization.
“I hope the spirit of true Jacksonian
Democracy may pervade in our celebra
tion; and that its participants may de
rive satisfaction and stimulation from
i their efforts to revive and strengthen
the principles and practices of our old
time, honest, consistent and aggressive
Democratic faith.”
Senator Hill, in his letter said;
“Your letter has just reached me. I
givo you this sentiment: "A strict con
struction of the Federal Constitution,
No entangling alliances with foreign na
tions. Insistence upon the reserved
rights of the State, lhiblic taxation for
public purposes only. Opposition to
monopolies and dangerous rotnbinations
of capital. The preservation of the per
sonal liberty of the citizen. No central
ization. Home rule for states and muni
cipalities. These arc Democratic princi
ples which survive all defeats and must
ultimately triumph.”
Mr. Cothran’s telegram read:
“Owing to absence your letter had only
just reached me. Though too late to
write I want to congratulate the men
who have determined that Jackson Day
shall not be let pass unhonored in Phila
delphia. The celebration you project is
a shining and salutary proof that as
Democratic tradition is imperishable, a
Democratic principle will ultimately
prove invincible.”
Governor Aycock yesterday ordered a
special term of court for Craven county
\ for the trial of civil cases to begin Fetj
’ ruary 3rd. Judge Winston w ill preside,