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NEW YORK IS SHAKES BY
A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION
Reserve Supply of High Explosives Stored in Rapid
Transit Tunnel Blows Up With Disas*
| trous Results.
SIX PERSONS ARE KILLED OUTRIGHT
A Hundred Others Injured
by the Blast.
THE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY IS HEAVY
A Great Gulf Dug in Park Avenue,
Murray Hill and Grand Union Hotels
and Manhattan Eye and Ear Hos
pital Wrenched and Torn as by an
Earthquake. Official Investigation
May be Necessary to Determine the
Cause of the Explosion.
(By the Associated Press.)
New York, Jan. 27.—The reserve suv>-
jd> of high explosives stored at the Park
avenue shaft of the Rapid Transit tunnel,
now in course of construction, blew up
shortly after noon today. The giant
blast killed six persons, injured a hun
dred others and seriously damaged all
the property reached by the Hying debris
and the vibration of the shock.
The irregular square formed by the
.Murray Hill Hotel on the west, the Man
hattan Eye and Ear Hospital and the
Grand Union Hotel on the east, and the
Grind Central Railroad station on the
north was. the scene of the explosion.
'J be buildings named sustained the great
est damage, but the area affected ex
tended several blocks in the four direc
tions from the center.
J Roderick Robertson, of Nelson, B.
<\. was killed by debris hurled with
the force of artillery into his room at
tin .Murray Hill Hotel. He was general
manager in Canada for the British Co
lombia Gold Fields Company, limited,
and a prominent citizen in the community
v,here he lived. He was a Scotchman
and left a widow and four children. He
"ns said to have been quite wealthy.
The sudden approach to the street rail
way tunnel used by the Madison avenue
line cuts through Park avenue and the
shaft for the RaphrTranstit sub-way was j
run down beside it ut the intersection
of East Forty-first street. The street
railway approach was housed over with
a super-structure used for the opera
tion plant of the Rapid Transit contrac
tors. Temporary buildings for storage
purposes were thrown up against the
superstructure at the mouth of tlie shaft
and there the explosion occurred. It
tore a great gorge in the street, demol
ished the temporary buildings and part
of the superstructure and sent a mass
of earth, splintered timber and twisted
Pen high in the air. Much of it. went
battering against the front of the Murray
Hill Hotel, and although the walls and
main structure of that building stood the
shook, nearly every room in the front
of the house was wrecked.
The Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital
op Hu east of the avenue fared nearly
: . bad and had to be abandoned by the
management. The Grand Union Hotel
lost/all of its windows and glass parti
tions and practically every front window
in the Grand Central Station was shat
tered. The great clock on its front
towers were blown from their cases.
Thousands of windows, some of them
seven blocks from the tunnel shaft, fell
in fragments. It was the shower of bro
ken glass and falling debris that in
tuit I the greatest number.
General alarms brought firemen, police |
reserve and every available ambulance
to ibe district and the injured were
speedily cared for. A majority of the
injured were treated on the spot and the
vd.ite-coatcd ambulance surgeons worked
for an hour in the debris-strewn streets.
IV.li'-e hues wore thrown across each end
tt l- Park avenue and across the inter
secting streets. Several times the police
cleared the street of people in front of
the Murray Hill Hotel. Torrents of wa
ter from broken mains poured into the
tunnel shift while th< wreckage was be
ing cleared from the street railway sub- j
way and it was feared that the street
riight cave in.
The cause of the explosion and the
quantity of explosives that blew up are
not definitely known. Several causes have
been advanced. One. was that a fire
started near the powder room and that
Master Mechanic. Wm. Tubbs, lost his
lifi in a desperate attempt to quench it
h< tore if reached the deadly fuel. An
other was that it started from a spark
ptoduced by a stray current of electricity.
A third placed the blame upon a blast in
the tunnel. Still another gave a gas ex
plosion from electrical contact in the
trolley conduit of the street railway sub
way. It will probably take an official in
vestigation to reveal the true explana
tion. Several men who were very close
to the shaft escaped while others hun
•Uods of feet away were nocked down and
B*riously injured.
District. Attorney Jerome visited the
sreno and made an investigation to
guide him in the official inquiry and
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possible criminal prosecution that will
follow.
Ira A. Shaler, engineer in charge of the
work at Park avenue; John Bracken, a
foreman, and Martin McGrath, an assist
ant foreman, were placed under arrest
and charged with homicide. William Bar
clay Parsons, chief engineer of ihe Rapid
Transit Commision, said that Sltaier was
one of the most competent and careful
engineers he ever knew.
The damage may oxeeed 5t.000.000. The
first estimate on the Murray Hill Hotel
placed it at SIOO,OOO but later the hotel
was abandoned as unsafe. If the building
is condemned the loss on it alone will
approach $1,000,000. The damage to the
Grand Union was estimated at $40,000
and that to the Manhattan Hospital at
$25,000. The loss at the Grand Central
Station was entirely in glass as was
that of the 100 or more other buildings
affected by the explosion. No estimate
was mada of the losses sustained by the
Rapid Transit contractors.
THE ATTORNEYS REBEL.
Judge Timberlake Agrees to Let Them Ar
range the Next Calendar
(Special to News and Observer.)
Wilmington. N. C., Jan. 27.—The two
weeks' term of New Hanover Superior
court for the trial of Civil suits, Judge
Timberlake presiding, was convened at
12 o’clock this morning and adjourned
this afternoon. Judge Timberlake in
sisted on arranging the' calendar of cases
to suit himself, placing them all on the
docket tor the first three days of the
term. The local attorneys, who had been
accustomed 10 arranging the calendar to
suit themselves, rebelled, and by unani
mous consent agreed to continue all their
cases and ask Governor Aycock for a
special term, if necessary.
When the calendar was called today
there were onlv a few divorce matters
that attorneys would consent to try and
Judge Timberlake said in the future he
would allow the lawyers to arrange the
calendar as they desired. The attorneys
and Judge Timberlake late in the af
ternoon made friends, and the next term
will likely not be beset with so much
trouble as this one.
LOCKHART FOR SUPREME COURT.
Hon. J. A. Lockhart, of Wadesboro, ar
rived in the city today on legal business,
it is now no secret that he "ill be a
candidate for associate justice of the
Supreme court. /
POSTMASTERS ARE NAMED.
Jonas W. Mullen For Charlotte and Edwin L
Ware For King’s Mountain.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 27.—The President
today sent the following nominations to
the Senate
Postmasters: North Carolina—Jonas
W. Mullen, Charlotte: Edwin L. Ware,
King's Mountain.
Virginia—Charles Alexander, Boydton;
Charles 11. Revercomb, Covington; Wil
liam G. Young, Tazewell.
Register Land Offices—John S. Steele,
at Huntsville, Ala.
Dangerous Wreckage Near the Coast,
(By the Associated Press.)
Wilmington, N. C-, Jan. 27.—Captain
Thomas Mumford. of schooner Nellie
W. Hewlett, which arrived here this
morning, reports having passed on the
26th-, inst., part of a submerged wreck
about 150 feet long, about seven miles
northeast of Frying Pan.
The wreckage is considered dangerous
to navigation
Mr. D. Y. Cooper Improves.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Henderson, N. Jan, 27.—Mr. D. Y.
Cooper, who has been critically ill with
pneumonia, is better this morning.
Dr. C L. Raper Invited to Speak.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Chapel Hill. N. C.. Jan. 27.—1)r. C. L.
Raper, "ho holds the chair of economics
has been invited to deliver th<> literary
address at Oak Ridge Institute at the
'next commencement next spring, and
has accepted the invitation. The schol
arly principals of this Institution have
made no mistake in tin- selection of Dr.
Raper.He is a profound thinker, a pol
ished scholar and an eloquent speaker.
General Robert F. Hoke has returned
from Cranberry, where he is interested
in the iron mine. He says tests of the
ore have proved it to be the equal of the
best Swedish for making crucible steel.
The company has leased furnaces at
Johnston Citv. Tenn., and it is expected
that in DO days they will be put in bast
and that the-output " ill be 100 tons a
day. '
RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 28. 1902.
OLD NEGRO ABDUCTED
A Handsome Monument Erected at the Grave
of the Late W. H Kitchin
(Special to News and Observer.)
Scotland Neck, N. C., Jan. 27. —Satur-
| day Mr. S. F. Dunn returned from Pitt
county, where he had found an old col
ored man named Isaac Robinson, who
had been carried from home and lost.
The old man was half-witted and had
lived with Mr. Dunn for twenty-five
years. Nearly two weeks ago he become
missing, and after searching in the town
and community, Mr. Dunn had given him
up as lost. The ohl man had about
twenty-five dollars and Mr. Dunn thought
some one had killed him for his money.
News came, however, that the old man
was at Parmelee. When Mr. Dunn found
him he said that a man and a woman
took him from bis house forcibly at
night, took his money and carried him
a long way down the railroad and left
him. He had been wandering about
since he was taken away from home.
There has been placed a handsome
monument at the grave of the late Capt.
W. H. Kitchin in the Baptist cemetery
here.
Merchants here say that farmers are
slower than usual in making their ar
rangements for the year. Farm laborers
are asking more for their labor than
heretofore, aud this in part accounts for
the action of the farmers.
Mr. T. J. Edwards, who left here
about fifteen years ago to live in Rhode
Island, is here on a visit now. He has
become interested in mining and has
succeeded in developing some fine proper
ty. He is now operating a large copper
mine in New Brunswick.
PARALELLS S. DAKOTA SUIT.
Case That Takes Mr Rountree to Washington
Other Wilmington News
(Special to News and Observer.)
Wilmington. N. C., Jan. 27—Hon. Geo.
Rountree left last evening for Washing
ton.
In the United States Supreme court
this week a case parallel with the South
Dakota suit comes up and Mr. Roun
tree desires to be present and familiarize
himself with the method of proceedure
in such matters.
Mr. Fred L. Pearsall and bride, nee
Miss Mary MeArtan, off Fayetteville,
have gone to Red Srings to reside-
The lettuce crop this winter has not
been so good as usual. The crop of
spring lettuce promises much better.
The prices have been very satisfactory.
Prof- Wm. C. Care, of New York, the
eminent concert organist, will give a re
cital here tomorrow evening in Grace M-
E. church. It is to celebrate the installa
tion in that church of a handsome Moel
ler organ, which was purchased by the
ladies of the congregation exclusively.
Peanut growers in this section of the
State are jubilant over the very bright
prospects for better prices. Advices
from Norfolk are thfat at least 83 per
cent of the eastern Virginia crop has
been marketed and the stock in Norfolk
is only about 10,000 bags as compared
with 100.000 bags the same time last
year. With a nor mg 1 demand from now
on. the growers say. the prices arc bound
to go way up.
“CELLULOID” AND “MICROSCOPES ”
A Contribution Throwing Light on Small Pox
Discussion.
To the Editor: Apropos the recent
controversy between my friends. Dr. Lew
is and Dr. Herring, I send you the fol
lowing clipping which I feel sure both
men will appreciate as settling somo
phases of the smallpox matter (no pun
intended):
“During the excitement caused by some
cases of suspected smallpox in a Rock
River village, a son of Erin rather con
temptuously remarked to a group of the
frightened ones, ‘They hain’t got small
pox!, it’s only celluloid.” Whereupon a
Johnny Bull further encouraged the timid
by asserting, ‘There hain't any danger,
anyhow, if you don't get them micro
scopes in you.” The disease did not
spread.”
J. A. HOLT.
Oak Ridge, N. C., Jan. 2tl, 1!)02.
No Small Pox at Clinton.
To the Editor: Dr. R. E. Lee. county
physician, authorizes me |o state that
there is not a ease of small-pox in the
town of Clinton, the nearest being three
and one-half miles.
Vaccination is compulsory. Th<- scare
is over. No chicken pox.
W. E. STEVENS.
Clinton. N. C., January 27.
The Constitutional Convention.
/(By the Associated Press.)
Richmond. Va . Jan. 27. —The Consti
tutional Convention today received the
report, of the Committee on Agriculture.
The bulk of the session was devoted
to a consideration of the report of the
committee on education.
One Hundred Collection Boxes,
At ihe meeting of the committee on
the Sir Walter Raleigh monument, held
yesterday afternoon, it was decided to
distribute one hundred collection boxes
throughout the State, and to place sev
eral more here in the city. These are
the boxes ordered for the committee by
General Carr, and they will be placed at
their different points of vantage as soon
as they are received from Chicago, where
they arc being made.
The attendance at the meeting yester
day afternoon was necessarily quite
small, ns many of the members were at
the meeting of the subscribers to the
stock of the new tobacco company, which
took place at the same time.
RESENT CRITICISM
BY ARMY OFFICERS
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Now in Order to Reprimand
Gen. Wheaton.
CASE OF MILES RECALLED
Wheaton’s Criticism of Schurman’s
Boston Address.
DUBOIS BRINGS MATTER UP IN SENATE
A Padlock, Declares Tillman, is lo be Placed
Upon the Mouth of Those Who Dare to
Criticise the Administration’s
Philippine Policy.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 27.—An animated and
prolonged discussion was precipitated in
the Senate today over the fight of army
officers to criticise utterances made in
the Senate or elsewhere on the conduct
of affairs in the Philippines. At times
it became somewhat acrimonious, officers
in the Philippines being taken sharply
to task for statements attributed to
them in dispatches from Manila.
Rising to a question of privilege early
in the session, Mr. Dubois (Idaho) had
read an Associated Press dispatch from
Manila in which General Wheaton was
quoted as criticising some utterances of
Professor Sehurman in a speech deliv
ered in Boston. Mr. Dubois thought the
President, in the cirwcumstances would
be warranted in reprimanding General
Wheaton for his criticisms. He de
clared that such comment upon the ac
tion of the Senate was “outrageous and
indecent.” aud that the minority had had
quite enough ' threats and blackmail.
Mr. Lodge. Massachusetts, suggested
that it would be wise to ascertain be
fore General Wheaton was reprimanded
whether he actually made the statements
attributed to him. General Wheaton, he
said, was an officer of ability and char
acter and no hasty action ought to be
taken in such a case.
Mr. Teller: “I don’t think there's any
doubt that General Wheaton said what
is attributed to him.”
Mr. Lodge: “They may beta great deal
of dotibt of it.”
Mr. Teller, continuing, said such a
situation as had arisen was one of the
blessings growing out of the conditions
in the Philippines. A pad-lock, he as
serted. was to bo placed upon (he mouth
of every man. Congressman or private
citizen, and all criticism of the Admin
istration's Philippine’s policy was to be
silenced. He referred to the criticism
of Senators who had antagonized the
Administration’s policy in the Philippines
declaring they had been charged with
treason. 1
“I suppose.” said he. “that no Senator,
after a while will be able to read on this
floor the Declaration of Independence
without subjecting himself to a charge of
inciting treason.”
Mr. Lodge said Mr. Teller’s statement
concerning the Dec! a Nit ion of Independ
ence was “silly.” What President Shur
man said in Boston, did not in his opin
ion, concern the Senate. The only point
was whether a general of the United
States army had criticised the Senate.
It did not appear from the dispatch that
General Wheaton had referred to the
Senate at all.
In response to inquiries by Mr. awlins*
Utah, Mr. Lodge said lie did not know
whether newspaper dispatches sent from
Manila were censored or not, and he did i
not know whether the War Department
had or had not taken steps to ascertain
whethir General Wheaton had made the
statements attributed to him.
Mr. Carmack, Tennessee, questioned the
right of any officer of the United States
army so criticise either the actions or
the utterances of any private citizen.
Mr. Tillman, South Carolina, inter
rupted to say (hat the General com
manding the army had been reprimanded
by Ihe President for agreeing with the
Admiral of the Navy upon a question on
which “all the people of the United
were absolutely agreed.”
Mr. Carmack did not think that Mr.
Tillman's interjection was entirely rele
vant.
Mr. Hoar. Massachusetts, contended
thiq no unsupported newspaper report
on a matter of this kind ought to lx? ac
cepted by the Senate.
Later Mr. Lodge said he desired to
apologize for referring to anything Mr.
Teller may have said as “silly.” He
insisted that there was no disposition
upon the part of anybody to suppress
news or views.
Mr. Rawlons insisted that, the suppres
sion of opinions and information was so
notorious that one could not, depend upon
the statements coming to the United
States from the Philippines. The
Philippine Commission, he asserts, had
arrogated to its* If the functions of Con
gress; indeed, the commission had done
many things which Congress never would
have done.
Mr. Dubois insisted that the dispatch
which he had presented bore evidence on
ils face of accuracy. "We have bee it
threatened and blackmailed,” be said,
“as long as we ought to endure it. Such
utterances as have been instanced are
offensive to us and they ought not to be
permit ted to pass without a reprimand
by the President of the United States.
They are. coming from the officers of the
army, in exceedingly bad taste.”
Mr. Spooner deemed it the part of w is
lom to ascertain first whether General
Wheaton had made the statements at
tributed to him, before any attempt was
made to secure his censure.
Mr. Tillman (S. C.). interrupted to in
quire who would furnish the proof that
the dispatch read had not been in
spired.
Mr. Spooner replied that he did not
believe it was either inspired or cen
sored but felt the Senate ought to await
definite information. General Wheaton,
he added, was a fine officer of high char
acter and notable achievements.
“Yes,” interjected Mr. Tillman, “he is
a brilliant officer doing some very dirty
work. That is my opinion.”
“Well, it is not mine,” replied Mr.
Spooner. “I have the word of the Sena
tor from Indiana, Beveridge, that the
* ertsorship of news dispatches in the
Philippines was abandoned some time
ago.”
Mr. Money made an extended speech
in criticism of the Government’s policy
ir the Philippines, declaring: “We are
committed to it. I suppose, until we have
a lucid interval and we are not likely
s'oon to have that ” He maintained that
the United States in acquiring the islands
end holding them had done one of the
most foolisli tilings ever done by a na
tion and he was afraid we should “not.
have sense enough to retrace our steps."
Mr. Hale interrupted to say that the
situation in the Philippines will grow
worse instead of better and that it is
i nomalo is to mix the military and civil
government.
Replying to a question of Mr. Hale as
to what he would do with the islands,
Mr. Money said: Let them go to the
devil and take care of themselves as far
as the American people are concerned.”
Mr. Money answering Mr. Hoar said
that before the United States declared
war there were village governments,
peaceful aud successful in the Philip
pines. Mr. Hoar said that was the test
of capacity for self-government. Des
pite, said he, all our platitudinous utter
ances concerning freedom, the United
States had not sent a word of encourage
ment to the Boers, who were struggling
for liberty against one of the greatest
nations of the world. Our action in the
Philippines he likened to that of Great
Britain in South Africa. »
Ir a brief statement Mr. Platt (Conn.),
said he did not want to let this occa
sion pass without expressing his em
phatic dissent from Mr. Money’s re
marks. He contended that if the United
?taies bad the right to acquire terri
tory and hold sovereignty over it. it
would be a stiultideation of ourselves to
yield our rights to tbat territory as soon
as the inhabitants of the territory might
demand their independence.
In coneludng the debate "Mr. Dubois,
referring to Mr. Spooner's remarks, said
he was entirely satisfied that the Asso
ciated Pxqs& dispatch, was accurate.
“No Associated Press reporter," said
he, “ever put words into a man’s mouth
that he did not utter. I have every rea
son to believe the dispatch is accurate."
He said, however, that if the state
n ents regarding General Wheaton were
not true, then the reprimand of the Gen
ital which he proposed would not 11c
against him.
After an executive session, the Senate
adjourned.
PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE.
tßy the Associated Press )
Washington. Jan. 27. —The House to
day adopted a resolution calling for docu
ments relating to the old training ship
Vermont which was pfiiced out of com
mission last sumpier and also passed a
bill to provide for the compulsory at
tindnnoc of witnesses before registers
.end receivers of the General Laud Office.
A bill to appropriate SIOO,OOO for estab
lishing homos for the teaching of speech
to the deaf was defeated. The House
chaplain in iiis invocation today referred
feelingly to the death of the wife of
Representative Davis, of Florida, which
occurred last, night.
The House adjourned until Wednesday.
GOOD CITIZEN GONE
Mr James Carroll Dies Yesterday in His Fifty
Fifth Year
After an illness of a few weeks, Mr.
James Carroll died at his home, 207
North Harrington street, early Monday
morning. The funeral will be held this
afternoon at 3‘o’clock at the First Bap
tist church.
Mr. Carroll, who has been living in Ral
eigh for thirty years, was about fifty
five years old. He entered tbe Confed
erate army at the age of fifteen, and was
a bravo young soldier. For six months
lie was a prisoner at Elmira, N- Y.
Mr. Carroll's occupation was that of a
carpenter, and he had done service in the
Seaboard Air Line shops,, and of late
years for the North Carolina Building
and Supply Company.
He is survived by his wife, formerly
Miss Bettic Hall, and eight children. He
was a devotod member of the First
Baptist church, and his life was one that
brought to ilim respect for both physical
and moral courage.
No Needy Districts.
Wayne county informs the State Sup
erintendent of Public Instruction that
it will not need anv part of the SIOO,OOO
of the State appropriation to bring up
their schools to the four months’ term.
This information came to the office
yesterday, and in referring to the mat
ter the following information was furn
ished concerning the schools of.Wayne:
“We can have a term of four and one
half months, and in some townships a
five months’ term. This being true we
deem it unnecessary to report to you on
blanks marked “Needy Districts.”
Every school in Wayne county is in ses
sion now for a four and one-half months’
term, except about four, which have
been closed by the Board of Hftalth on
account of small pox.”
The hot corn dealer is the oue who
lias to put up another margiu.
BREAKS OLD EGGS
AT WRITE HOUSE
Roosevelt Disgusted With the
Charges by Southern Repub
licans.
“OUGHT TO BE IN JAIL.”
That is What He Told Two Alabama
Rebuplicans.
CONGRESSMAN KLUTIZ A STORY TELLER,
Senator Simmons Will Send Most of the Seed to
Western North Carolina. A Story About
Seed Distribution.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 27.—Those who
are near to the President say he has a
great ease of disgust over the squabble
between Southern- Republicans. The
on here in droves and hardly fail to
prove that nine fellows qut of ten ought
to be in the penitentiary instead of hold
ing office. In North Carolina the Pres
ident has saved himself from the scan
dals only by leaving everything to Sen
ator Pritchard. There was a gang here
who talked about some of the candidates
.for District Attorney in away that was
wonderful to hear. If half they said was
true, there are some bad eggs applying
for office from North Carolina. But
Senator Pritchard managed to keep that
talk in North Carolina circles, and none
of the rotten eggs were broken in the
White House. But if the President had
once let in the sluice, the White House
would have needed more formalin lamps
for fumigation than could be found in
Washington.
The Republicans from other Southern
States managed to break some of their
rotten eggs in the White House. Here’s
an account of how President Roosevelt
is disgusted by a New England Con
gressman, upon his return from a visit
to the White House:
“As I got up to go the President look
ed over to two young men who were
waiting. ’You are from Alabama, aren't
you?’ he asked, and before they had
time to answer, he added: ‘You want So
and-So appointed?’ The young men re
plied that they did. but before tehy
couid explain why, the President told
them that lie was sick of hearing their
patronage squabble- ‘Y'ou say the other
candidate for this office ought to be in
jail, don't'you?’ he went on. ‘Yes, sir;
he ought to be there,’ was the rely. ‘Well,
now,' said the President, ‘his friends as- !
sure me that your man ought to be in
jail. I assume that you are both right.
1 wish you would go to the Attorney
General and put in writing the reasons
you have for believing that the other
candidate should be sent to the peniten
tiary, and I will have a similar state
mint made up in regard to your candi
date, then we’ll let the Attorney General
look both both over and decide what is
to be done. Perhaps, if you know any
thing good about the man you are back
ing, you had better put that in writing,
too, and give it to the Attorney General.’
That was all I stayed to hear, but it
struck me as characteristic.”
Lieut- W. D. Pritchard, son of Senator
Pritchard, will leave February l for Satt
Jose, Porto Rico, where tie will be at
tached to a native regiment. This regi
ment is the one which attracted so much
atttention here at tie time President
McKinley was inaugurated lab March.
Representative Kluttz. of the Salis
bury district, is regarded as one of the
best story-tellers n (.'on-iro?3. He can
imitate the Dutch brogue to pci frit ion,
and is full of good stories- Today's
Washington Post gives the following as
Mr. Kluttz’s latest cloak-room story:
“The pension debate in the House a
few days ago w is'verv interest ing to us
Southern Democrats.” said Representa
tive Kluttz, in the Democratic cloak
room. when he had touched on some
reminiscences. "It recalls an incid nt
of a Fourth of July celebtapen in my
younger days.”
The crowd gathered around, tor Mr.
Kluttz is a prince of story-toilers. “You
know, many Hessians settled in North
Carolina after the Revohii onary War"
continued the warm hearted Tar Heel.
“Their descendants are among cur very
best citizens today. Those soldier, s
marchc'd down through tbat eoun'.ry « iih
Cornwallis: many of them fell out of the
ranks, took up farms, married opr girls,
and, in fact, were very glad to become
American citizens.
“Well, in my boyhood days no Fourth
of July celebration was 1 omplctc with
out a soldier of the Revolution By the
year 1 have in mind these patriots had
become very scattering, and the country
was scoured to securu such a soldier.
The jubilant citizens placed th*- hoary
veteran In the same carriage with th
orator of the day. He rode through the
streets of the town in triumph, and oc
cupied a seat on the platform. The en
thusiasm over the recital of Revolution
ary achievements waxed great, and the
celebration was nearly over, when some
inquisitive, person asked the veteran
"hat. battles he had been in.
“‘I was at Trenton, sir,* eatr> ihe re
ply in the deep-throated voice of the
Dutchman, for such .)<- was
“ ‘Ah, then, you must have crossed the
Delaware with Washing ton.'
“ ’No; oh, no,’ answered blue subject of
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so much popular adoruion, m a set liter
voice- ‘I was on the other side.'*"
Mr. A. D. Watts, private secretary of
Senator Simmons, is not stuck on the
good looks of Mr. Roosevelt. With a
party he called at the White House a few
days ago. and writing to his paper, the
Statesville Mascot, he says:
“The President shook hands with each
one as they were presented to him, re
peated the name and said: '“I am do- -
lighted to meet you.” His tone seemed
to me to be an affected one, and the fre
quent repetition of the same phrase, in
the same tone, made it seem parrot-like
and almost senseless. The President is
a man of medium height and weight amt
a pronounced blonde who looks his full
years. At a distance and before he be
gins to talk he looks pretty well, but
when you get near him and he shows his
teeth he is indescribably ugly. I did not
have a very high opinion of him as a
man before I saw him, and a sight of him
has not elevated it. The Lord and
Roosevelt will yet save the Democratic
party.”
Apropos the story that Congressman
Moody has sent a whole car load of gar
den seed to his constituents in the moun
tains. Col. Ruppert, member of Congress
front the tenement district of New York
city, who has been sending seed to his
constituents, has received the following
letter: ,
“For the love of the Board of Health
quit sending those garden seeds into this
district. Half the tenants in my model
house have filled their porcelain lined
bath tubs with soil and have started
model truck farms with the seed you sent
them. I must add that they have a splen
did and'entlrely successful system of ir
rigation, which you might recommend to
our friends from the arid regions of the
West." * --v
The new room of the Senate
Committee was elaborately decorated on
walls and ceiling by a marine artist.
There are broad expanses of sea and pic
tures of all sorts of fishes and ships.
The artist ran pretty hltavily to whales,
and there is a monster or two on every \ .
wall, spouting .v-qter up to the cetlug. w
"How comes it there “"are so many
whales on 'he walls?" a friend asked
Senator Hale, chairman of the commit
tee, the other day.
“They typify the size the appropria
tions we are expected t
f ator replied, gravely.
Senator Heitfeld Is
cooking. There Is a
| near the Capitol that
quently. Theothenda i
hands, and the Senato
stranger when he went in tor a iuuui.
“What have you got today?” he asked.
"T have pig’s feet, lamb’s tongue, boar’s
head, deviled kidneys”
“Stop!" thundered the Senator. “I
| don’t care about your l ailments; 1 canto
I in here to eat,"
I Senator Simmons has decided to send
the bulk or his seeds and documents to
the Democrats of the Eighth and Ninth
districts, now represented by Republiy"*'-"'
cans, except to those counties supplied
by Congressmen Bellamy and Kluttz^JOf
course he will reserve enough to fill re
quests for them. If any of ouj Demo
cratic friends have been overlooked by
Congressman Kluttz and will write io
Senator Simmons, stating what they
want, he wil be glad to serve them with
seeds or documents, 'f he did not sup
ply the Democrats of the two western
districts, they would not g*ct any, as the
Congressmen from th«*se districts will
send theirs to Republicans.
SYLVESTER BEARD FROM
Said to be a Noted Crook, Jim Holder, of
Qhioago.
Sylvester, he m the kid gloves, miss
ing shirt, counterfeit detective, bogus
cheeks, etcetera, etcetera, who figured
so prominently awhile ago in Raleigh,
has been heard from-
This news reached Ntaieigh yesterday
through Mr. - Roscoe Mitchell, of Ala
mance, who has been visiting Washing
ton. He learned from former State De
tective that in the rogues gallery there
wus to be seen Sylvester's picture,
though he is known to the detective
force as Jimmie Holder, and his home
is put down as being in Chicago, where
he has the reputation of being one of the
noted crooks of the couivtry.
Speaking of what had been told him,
| Mr. Mitchell said last night:
“Mr. Shaw says lie feels certain that
it was Sylvester who opera ted In Ral
eigh. His l'afnlly is said to be an excel
lent one. but he is a black sheep in the
Hock." f -
Raleigh Had Another Big Bear
But it Has Left the City.
The city had another bear yesterday,
Imi it has gone away.
It looked like “Our Own Rear" out at
the zoo might have n comrade lull it i;,
not so.
“Jim." a huge cinnamon bear from
Urjt ish Columbia, Monsler Jean Braughan
and Monsler Parole Brod'cigareigha, his
owners, were all captives inside the bars
in the city undepground lockup yester
day.
'[’he bear,*guided by the sing song
music of Hie Frenchmen did a stunl-d'u
various p»ts of the city yesterday
drew a crowd. "Jim,” as his name
is an interring bear, a 'huge fellow of
•175 pounds.' an d his clumsy antics were
amusing. 1
But the crowd, and the fact that the
t*re shy of a license caused
a blue cofd to take them in tow atul
march to station house, a great street
parade f<Bp*ing. After resting for
awhile in pe loekupT'thc trio were re
leased by Mayor Powell and moved
quickly beyond the city limits. They had
reached Rfleigb from New York, via
l.mingion. fn 'oo,t.
The makes a fool pf himself
seldom being self-made. a