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VOL. LIU. NO. 76
Leads ail Morth Carolina Dailies in Mews an^Ci^enlation
OFF GOES HEAD OF
DOCK CHARGE BILL
Senate Devotes Day to Immi
gration Measure.
HARD ON THE PIG TAILS
An Amendment Prohibiting the Sale of Liquor
in the Capitol Draws a Few Character
istic Words From Tillman —
The Militia Bill.
(By the Associaed Pres 3.)
Washington, D. C., Dec. 9.—After de
lating the London Dock Charge bill for
almost four hours, the House, today,
chopped its head off by striking out the
enacting clause, 138 to 129. This killed
the bill. The debate was spirited on
both sides and all day the members were
flooded with telegrams. The -withdrawal
of t'ne support of the lumber and meat
packing interests which originally joined
hands wth the flour milling interests in
pressing the measure brought about its
defeat. The final vote was 138 to 129 in
favor of the motion to strike out the
enacting clause. Speeches were made in
favor of the bill by Mr. Tawney (Minn.),
and Mr. Richardson (Ala.), and against it
by Messrs. Adamson (Ga.), Wangcr,
Adams and Dalzell (Penn.), Burleson and
Burgess (Tex.), and Mann (111.)
Mr. Tawney explained at length the
purpose of the bill, which, he said, ap
plied only to the port of London and
was simply designed to relieve the
American shipper of the charge made by
the transporting companies for deliver
ing goods over the side of the vessel.
This charge, he now said, was included in
the contract of shipment. The bill would
prevent such a contract. Mr. Adamson
(Ga.). a member of the committee which
rs ported the bill, opposed it. first on the
ground that it sought to prevent the lib
erty of contract, and, second, because,
lie said, it was supported practically by
a single interest, the millers.
Mr. Mann road many telegrams from
firms, which had formerly supported the
1 ill. stating (hat after Investigation they
desired to change their position.
The Day in the Senate.
(By the Assoiated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 9. —The Senate de
voted most of the day to the Immigration
Bill, and adopted a number of amend
ments. There was considerable discus
sion during the day upon an amendment
offered by Mr. Burton (Kan.), to admit
Chinese laborers to Hawaii, which met
with considerable opposition and finally
was laid on the table. The provision in
the bill prohibiting the sale of liquor in
the capitol building reused a little Gurry
and criticism of tea House for putting
it in the bill. Tho provision, however,
was not stricken out. During the day,
the Militia Bill was discussed. It will
he taken up again Thursday.
An amendment to the Immigration Bill,
offered by Mr. Bailey (Texas), was adopt
ed, providing that skilled labor may be
imported if labor of like kind cannot
be found la this country.
The amendment prohibiting the sale
of liquors in the capitol was taken up
and Mr. Berry (Ark.), declared that the
capitol was not the proper place to run
a saloon.
Mr. Penrose, answering him, said the
paragraph was stricken out because the
committee thought it was not a proper
place for it.
Mr. Bailey (Texas) contended that each
house of Congress had authority to act in
the matter without any law of Con
gress. .
Mr. Tillman said he wanted a little
light on the subject. He had been in
formed, he said, that no liquor was sold
in the Senate end of the capitol.
‘ The House is simply playing a hypo
critical game before the people,” said
he, “and endeavoring to make the Sen
ate attend to its morals.”
Th'' amendment was rejected, which
has the effect of retaining the clause
in the bill prohibiting the sale of liquor
in the capitol.
Mr. Burton sought to secure action on
his amendment, but Mr. Mitchell (Ore.),
of the Committee on Pacific Islands and j
Porto Rico, interposed an objection on |
the ground that his committee should
first consider it. The amendment had
the effect of opening up the discussion
of the Chinese question, several Senators
participating in the debate.
Mr. Burton declared that the Hawaiians
cannot make money because the Japanese
laborers have raised the price of labor
higher than the traffic will bear, and he
added that they are not as good citizens
as the Chinese.
In the course of the discussion which
followed, Mr. Tillman remarked that
there may bo other parts of the United
States that might want labor, and he did j
not see “why we should discriminate in j
favor of a few corporation pets who :
own sugar plantations in Hawaii.”
Mr. Foraker differed with him and In
sisted that it was intended to benefit all
the people of Hawaii.
Mr. Burton said the Porto Ricans taken
to Hawaii proved failures, but the
Portuguese had done very well. White
men would not work in the sun in the
Hawaiian climate. Hence, he thought 1
the Chinese should be allowed to go to <
Hawaii for agricultural purposes only. 1
Ho added that he thought such imint- 1
grants should be placed under bonds,
and in response to Mr. Bacon said he did 1
not consider such conditions would ren- 1
dcr the Chinaman a slave. 1
Mr. Bailey made objection to the propo- * 1
The News and Observer.
sition to invite Chinese to come to Ha
waii and then to deport them when they
become skilled laborers, but Mr. Burton
replied that this view was inspired by
the political opinions of the Texas Sena,
tor. It could not be shown that the
Chinamen's fortunes would be rendered
worse by the change.
Mr. Penrose moved that the amend
ment be laid upon the table. The motion
prevailed without division.
On motion of Mr. McComas, the sec
tion of the bill relating to the exclusion
of anarchists was amended so as to make
it specifically provide for the exclusion
of anarchists, who advocate the destruc
tion of “the government of the United
States or of all governments by violence.”
While the debate on this motion was in
progress, Mr. Hoar remarked that there
are some governments whose destruction
by violence he would accomplish if he
could.
The Senate then, on motion of Mr. Cul
lom, went into executive session and
shortly after adjourned.
Largest in the South.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Mebane, N. C., Dec. 9. —The White Fur
niture Company has decided to place a
siding around their entire plant, which
the Manufacturers Record announced to
be the largest in the South. The factories
as they have just been consolidated, cover
more than 115,000 feet of floor space, and
besides this the company owns three
lumber plants nearby. The force at work
here is to be increased greatly .
$yiCIDl¥T CELL
Sentenced to the Roads for
Vagrancy, the Stranger
Hangs Himself.
(Special to the News and Observer.)
Tarbero, N. C., Dec. 9.—Chas. Muehle
thaler, who was sentenced to the county
roads yesterday for vagrancy, committed
suicide in his cell this afternoon About
5 o’clock. After the pistol found on his
person was taken from him, he requested
one of the officers to loan him his.
It is now evident that lie contemplated
suicide as soon as his sentence was pro
nounced.
Muehlethaler tied a large handkerchief
around his throat, to this he tied another
which he made Last to an upper bar in
his cell. He then got up on a box and
jumped off, thereby hanging himself. Ho
left a note for the sheriff directing that
his remains be sent to his wife at 1272,
Ridge avenue, Alleghany, Pa-, in care
c£ John Geht.
This man wa3 a German, and it seems
that he had been on a tramp. He is a
stranger to the people here .
MORAL LEPERS RUN IN.
Oreensboro Polica Again Raid Disorderly
Houses—Arrested Man Fights Hard.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Greensboro, N. C., Dec. 9.—The raids
made sometime ago on disorderly hous 's
in certain portions of the city made
things more bearable in those sections
for a while, but disorder reached anoth
er unbearable stage last night; Avhen
Branch Shackle, the same party Avho
commenced the disturbance with a fight
Avith tAvo Avomen before, repeated his per
formance. At the former shaking up,
several women Avere given an oppor
tunity to give bond so that they could
skip, which most of them did. Some
Avere fined Avith the injunction to depart
from the city, which most of them heed
ed, but in the round up last night tAvo
Avomen Avho had no means of escape
from the horns of the official dilemma,
were caught again, and they with
Shackle and others will probably *have
a hard time getting leniency of any kind
now. A warrant has also been served on
a Avhitc Avoman, Rosa Burnham, for rent
ing houses for disorderly purposes.
H. L. Smith, Avhite, was fined in the
mayor's court some Aveeks ago, and not
having the money borroAved it from a
companion, saying that he had a job in
Durham: that he Avas going to at once
and Avould pay the money back from that
place. Tho money was loaned, he left
and had been at Durham no long Avithout
any job or proceeds from any, that a
Avarrant Avas sAvorn out against him yes
terday by his friend, and sent to Dur
ham, whore Smith was arrested and will
be brought here today.
The police ha\ r o been looking for Walter
Smith (colored) for a long time. Walter
it is charged, broke into the house of
Harry Lewis and stole a lot of things,
and also into the room of a student at
the colored A. and M. College. The ar
ticles ],e purloined arc said to be those
found in the house cf Rosa Hege, re
ported some time ago.
Tomorrow night Miss Lottie Price, a
returned missionary from China, will
address the congregation at the First
Baptist church, the occasion being a
mass meeting of the ladies of all the
churches in Greensboro. She is on her
way from Asheville, to the Baptist State
Convention at Durham.
Tho Marines to bs Disembarked
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 9. —Under the orders
issued by the Navy Department, the
marines still on the Panther Avill be dis
embarked at Philadelphia and sent to
their regular stations, including Philadel
phia, New York, Boston, Norfolk, An
napolis and Washington. They Avill be
kept under partial observation for the
present in order to prevent the possi
bility of the development of any infec
tion.
KALKIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MOANING, DECEMBER 10.1902.
BAB OUTJRINDLEG
A Wrangle Over Question of
Mixed Schools*
Fight in Durham County for Admission of Chil
dren of Mixed Blood, May go to State
Couris.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Durham, N. C., Dec. 9. —In all proba
bility the courts of the siate will have
to pass on section 68 of the School Law
in regard to the admission of mixed
blooded children to the public schools.
The board of education of this county is
now wrangling with just this kind of a
question. The controversy comes from the
northern part of the county, and the mat
ter has not only been brought before tho
board of education of the county but has
been referred to the State Superintendent
and by him referred to the Attorney-Gen
eral of the State,
From Avhat can be learned it seems that
sometime ago—probably three weeks —
the son and daughter of George Brooks,
living in Mangum township, were exclud
ed from the public school in that dis
trict by the school committee. There
was a kick against the children by the
patrons of the school, who threatened to
withdraw their children if the Brooks
children allowed to attend. The
complaint was that the children had ne
gro blood in their veins. The matter
then came up before the county board
and the action of the committee was
sustained.
Since then Brooks has employed Mr.
Victor S. Bryant as his attorney and
he made demand on the board to rein
state the children. It was then that tho
matter was referred to the State Super
intendent and by him to the Attorney-
General. State Superintendent Joyner
has told the board to let the courts de
cide the matter, since, if the children
are admitted to the school, it will moan
the ruining of that school. In his letter
answering the one referred to him by the
State Superintendent the Attorney-Gen
eral says that it is not a matter for him
to decide, but should be decided by the
courts of the State. Expecting trouble
over the matter the school hoard has
employed Mr. P. C. Graham, Mr. Frank
L. Fuller and Judge R. W. Winston (o
defend the position taken by tho com
mittee.
Section 68 of the School Law refers
to section 1810 of the Code and says
that the same rule shall apply regarding
schools as that of marriages. The Code
says that it shall be unlawful for mar
riage between the races until after the
third generation. It is understood that
Erooks does not deny that there is ne
gro blood in the veins of-his children,
but that it is the fourth or fifth genera
tion and that under tho law his children
arc entitled to enter the public white
schools.
Tt is expected that the r.p-shot of the
whole business will be tljnt, there will
he mandamus proceedings ’ and then a
long-drawn out fight in the courts of the
State.
It is expected that on next Sunday Dr.
J. William Jones, tho well-known min
ister and Confederate chanlain. wili
preach a special sermon to the oil vet
erans of the county. This sermon will
probably be preached in the First Bap
tist church and the veterans will attend
in a body. Dr. Jones will spend this
week in Durham attending the State
convention.
FOUR KILLED BY DYNAMITE.
Bex Explodes at tho Bottom of a Mine Shaft
With Disastrous Results.
(By the Associated ■Press.)
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Dec. 9.—Four men
were killed and ten injured, three per
haps fatally, by the explosion of a box of
dynamite in No. 5 mine in the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, at South
W.lkesbarre today. The names of the
killed are:
ROBERT HUMBLEBEE, carpenter, aged
55, married.
ARTHUR JONES, company hand, aged
28, single.
MATTHEW PHILLIPS, miner, aged 36,
married.
JAMES McGLYNN, laborer, aged 35,
married.
The fatally injured:
George Knorr, Charles Stafford, and
Thomas Evans.
The most seriously injured:
John Rustiu, Neil Sweeney, Dominick
Hart, and James Peckems.
The men had been lowered into the
shaft, which is 110 feet deep, with a box
of dynamite weighing fifty pounds. When
the bottom of the shaft was reached,
Phillips took the box off the carriage. It
slipped from his hands and fell to the
ground. The concussion, exploded the
dynamite and the twenty men who were
In the immediate vicinity getting their
tools in readiness to go to their re
spective chambers, were huled in all di
rections. Til'' wood-work at the bottom of
tho shaft also was torn and scattered
about. As soon as possible, word was sent
to the surface and a rescuing party was
sent down. The dead and injured were
brought to the surface as soon as possi
ble. Phillips was mangled almost beyond
recognition. McGlynn had his arms torn
off. The injured were wrapped in blan
kets and sent to their homes.
To Grant the Tunnel Franchise.
(By the Associated Press.)
New York, Dec. B.—The Railroad Com
mittee of the Board of Aldermen, bv a
vote of 5 to 4 today decided to report in
favor of the granting of the Pennsyl
vania railroad tunnel ranchiee. The
question of granting the franchise will
coine up before the board tomorrow.
CAST OUT BLIND AND
ILL INTOJHE RAIN
Stories of Cruelty That Rend
the Heart.
MARKLE’S WHITE SLAVES
Thoy Testify Many Cruelties —With Bitter Sobs
an Old Miner Tells How His Sick
Wife Was Thrust Forth
to Die.
(By the Associated Press.)
Scranton, Pa., Dec. 9.—Tales of evic
tions from houses owned by G. B.
Markle, the narration of the death of a
wife as the result of an enorced removal
rom her home, and the story of another
whose husband was killed in the Markle
mines, of how she and her two boys
struggled years to pay the Marble’s the
back rent and coal bill she owed them,
were the principal features of today’s
sessions of the Coal Strike Commission.
The testimony as presented by some of
the witnesses whose lives are given up
to the coal mining industry, was at times
pathetic and surprising to the commis
sioners, who listened to it with un
divided attention.
After closing the Markle case, the
representatives of the miners called wit
nesses who had formerly been employed
in the mines of several companies to
show that a black-list exists, and that
some of the companies had broken the
agreement which ended the strike and
resulted In the appointment of the arbi
tration commission. It is the intention
of the lawyers for the miners to take up
tomorrow the conditions at the collieries
of tho Lehigh • Vafiley Company, and
others in the, Hazelton region.
Henry McColl, a Markle miner, told
how his family, including his mother-in
law, who was a hundred years old. was
set out on the road with their house
hold goods. He gave a graphic descrip
tion of how he many times
in the mines. Lcompany gave him
nothing unlit the employes took up
a collection for him, then he was given
SSO after being on the injured list for
two years. The company took out of the
collection the rent he owed.
In answer to other questions he said
that he was one of the thirteen evicted
by the Markle Company. Then followed
the most pathetic story yet told the com
mission. The old miner, decrepit from
many injuries, told, under the examina
tion, of how the eviction was carried
on. The Avife Avas sick and her one
hundred-year-old mother Avas blind and
unable to Avalk. The day on Avhioh they
were “thrown out" was rainy. He took
them as best he could to Hazelton, seven
miles aAvay, and placed thorn in a cold,
damp, empty house.
“We Avere greatly AA’orried, because of
our having been turned out of our house,
and one night," the witness said, be
tAvcen sobs, “she died.”
“She died?” exclaimed Judge Gray,
who Avas pacing to and fro across the
room, as he quickly turned Avhen he
heard the man’s last words.
“Yes, sir, she died and I buried her
yesterday.”
No one cared to cross-examine him,
and Judge Gray said: "That is all, Mc-
CoJI, and that's enough.”
Mrs. Kate Burns, of Jeddo, told a story
of how she and her tAvo boys worked
thirteen years to pay off an accumu
lated bouse rent and coal bill due to the
Markle Company, the narration of Avhich
deeply interested the commissioners.
She avus examined by Lawyer Harrow,
and in answer to his questions she said
her husband was an engineer inside the
Markle mines. Tho husband was killed
underground, leaving her with four chil
dren, the eldest of which was a boy of
eight years. The company neA r er offered
her a penny, but the employes gave her
about SIBO to defray the funeral ex
penses. After her husband had been
lulled, she moA-ed from her four-room
house into one containing only two, one
room above the other, and for the next
six years she struggled as best she could
to get along. She took in washing,
scrubbed for the neighbors, and, once in
a Avhile she was given work cleaning the
offices of the Markle Company. When
the eldest child AA-as fourteen years old,
she sent him to the mines. At the end
of tho first month, the lad brought home
his wage statement, shoAving that the
mother owed $396 for back rent. The
boy’s Avagcs lor the month had been
taken off the bill anrl he came home
empty-handed. In the course of time
her next boy Avas old enough to earn a
living and, he, too, was sent to the col
liery. Like the older brother, the sec
ond boy received no pay, his earnings
being deducted for rent. The mother,
on the Avitness stand, was by this time
swelling up, and when she added that
the money she earned for cleaning the
MarkJe office neA'er was gh-en her, but
kept by the company for rent, the com
missioners looked at one another in sur
prise. She said it took the throe of them
thirteen years to make up the debt.
A New Coal Company.
(Bv the Associated Press.)
Bristol, Tcnn., Dec. S.—The Clinchficld
Coal Company, with $500,000 authorized
capital, was granted a charter in Bristol,
Va., today. The officers of the company
are:
President— George L. Carter.
Vice-President—J. Uorment Powell.
Secretary-Treasurer —C. B. Anderson.
The offices of tl*e company will be
located in Bristol.
PROGRESSTHE WORD
Flash Light on Greensboro’s
Remarkable tnterprize-
Splendid Hotels —Phenomenal Increase in
Freight Forwarded by Greensboro Whole
salers—Street Car Service, etc.
(Staff Correspondence.)
Greensboro, N. C., Dec. 9. —Progress is
the pass-word here, where every busi
ness enterprise is meeting with success
and where visitors to the Elm City are
given a pleasant impression at the outset
by being ushered into the finest hotels
in the State for entertainment on the
occasions of their visits to this city.
It is given out on the authority of a
railroad official that during the last
thirty days Greensboro has shown an
increase of nearly one hundred percent
in freight forwarded by Avholesale houses
of this city to the ’trade in North Caro
lina. From the hotels come the statis
tics that during the month of November,
this year, Greensboro entertained more
than three hundred more guests each
Aveck than were entertained during the
same period last year. More residences
end handsomer ones are in course of con
struction at this time than at any pre
vious time in the history of the city.
More money is being invested than ever
before, and independent concerns are
fighting their way to the front Avith w'on
derful records to he equalled in the fu
ture.
Such institutions as the Security Life
and Annuity Company and other insur
ance organizations are making fine prog
ress. With the forward movement of the
greater organizations Avith their hand
some homos are many noted improve
ments in smaller offices where elegant
furnishings are being put in place. Nota
ble among these are the offices of the
Odell HardAvare Company and Peacock
and Gold’s general insurance office.
A contention of Greensboro men, which
is probably generally admitted, is that
Ibis city has the best equipped street
car service in the State. Along the lines
of new steel may be seen the greatest
improvement in building, and merchants
say rapid transit is a great factor in in
creasing the city’s retail business.
Great improvement is noted at the Agri
cultural and Mechanical College for the
colored race, where a new building is in
course of construction. The students of
the college are erecting the building from
its foundation. The brick Avoro made
by them and the building bids fair to be
a handsome monument to their work
Avlicn completed. President. Dudley has
just announced a noAv course of ten
Aveeks in dairying. Colored men now em
ployed on dairies in this State and re
ceiving from $8 to $lO each month by
taking this ten Aveeks’ course may equip
themselves so as to make their value
tAvice that amount.
Perhaps the most successful year in the
history of the Van Lindley nurseries is
just closing. It is understood that dur
ing the year this concern has received
more than twice as many orders as they
were able to fill. With the increased ca
pacity their business for 1903 promises
to eclipse all records.
Every feature of business life In this
progressive city promises to be cA r on
more progressive during the next year
than during the successful twelve months
just closing. The record Is remarkable.
W. H. BAGLET.
A Batch of Burlington N- ws.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Burlington, N. C., Dec. 9.—The Caro
lina Steel Bridge Construction Company,
of this place, which Avas incorporated last
Aveek Avith an authorized capital of $150,-
000, Avith Goo. W. Anthony and J. B.
Thompson, of this place, and 11. M. Brady,
of Chattanooga, as incorporators, is the
newest enterprise of our town. They are
incorporated to construct steel and iron
bridges, construct and operate railroads,
gas and electric plants, etc. It is un
derstood here that they will put in an
electric and gas plant to furnish light
and poAver for Burlington, Graham and
HaAv River.
The land commission of the North Car
olina Railroad met here yesterday and
laid off the lots that they propose to
sell, and they were immediately put on
the market and several Avere bought be
fore night. The selling of this land will
open up a most desirable part of town and
permit it to grow in a different direction.
There Avill be many new business sites
in the lots in the center of town, and
by their sale a new section of busi
ness bouses will be added to the town.
The prices obtained for the property are
very reasonable compared with the prices
prevailing for other real estate in the
town.
Mr. O. F. Crowson, editor of tho NeAvs,
has announced his candidacy for assist
ant engrossing clerk in the next General
Assembly and has some strong backing
for tho place. He is eminently fitted for
the place and will make a capable assist
ant.
Mr. R. B. Faust has sold his interest
in the Southern Broom and Handle Com
pany here and will shortly leave for New
York. This company is doing a hand
some business in their line.
Cards are out announcing the marriage
of Mr. J. M Cates, the popular clerk at
Alamance Grocery, and Miss Annie Lura
Petty, tho handsome and accomplished
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Then. F. Petty,
at the Christian church, Wednesday
evening, December 17th, at 5 o’clock.
Railroad Trade Alliance.
(By the Associated Press.)
Chicago, Dec. B.—The Tribune tomorrow
will say:
“The Illinois Central and Southern Pa-
cific railroads have formed a close traffic
alliance on business from Chicago via
Ncav Orleans and the Pacific coast. The
arrangement for close connection between
the Louisville and Nashville and South
ern Pacific has been sundered. The
Southern has joined with the Illinois
Central in the building of a new union
depot at NeAV Orleans. The new deal
will become effective January 1.
“The Queen and Crescent is expected
to join the new combination. A serious
fight between tho Louisville and Nash
ville, and the combination is anticipated.
The former threatens to join with the
Texas and Pacific and throAv its influence
to the Gould interests.
“The two fast trains between New Or
leans and California points lately put
on by (ho Southern Pacific make close
connection A\ith the Illinois Central, and
it is said that the Central will run
through sleepers via New Orleans to
the Pacific coast and compete Avith the
Santa Fe and Rock Island lines.”
Cornelius Vanderbilt has Typhoid.
(By the Associated Press.)
New York, Dec. B.—Cornelius Vander
bilt is ill of typhoid fever at his home
in this city. He has been confident to his
bed for a Aveek and his physicians have
diagnosed the disease as typhoid. This
bulletin of the condition of Cornelius
Vanderbilt Avas issued tonight by Drs.
Flint and Janeway:
“Patient is resting quietly; no com
plications.”
A CABINET WRESTLE
WITHJICK.
No Decision is Reached as to
His Reappointment
to Office.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C., Dec. 9.—The ques
tion of the re-appointment of Samuel H.
Vick, colored, postmaster at Wilson, N.
C., which has devedoped into an issue in
North Carolina, which equally involves
people of all shades of political opinion,
was discussed at the Cabinet meeting to
day, particularly by Presiden Roosevelt
and Postmaster-General Payne. No de
cision was reached as to the disposition
of the case. * i
THE CIVIC FEDERATION-
Cleveland and Hanna Exchange Viewe--sev
eral Spssk-rs Make Adcr:sscs
(By the Associated Press.)
New York, Dec. 9. —The second day’s
meeting of the Industrial Department of
(he National Civic Federation began to
day with a large attendance. Ex-Presi
dent Grover Cleveland Avas one of the
early arrivals. He and Senator .Hanna
spent some time in conversation, after
which Mr. Cleveland met a number of
oher gentlemen. On entering the meeting
hall, he was greeted with applause. Im
mediately after his entrance, Chairman
Hanna called the meeting to older. The
subject for discussion Avas “Restriction
of Output,” and the first speaker Avas
John R. Commons.
The chairman then introduced Fred
erick Halsey, editor of the American Ma
chinist, whose topic Avas “The Premium
Method of Payment.”
James O’Connell, president of the In
ternational Association of Machinists,
folloAved Mr. Halsey and opposed the
pieceAvork and premium plans.
Mr. Gompers said, in answer to (he
question Dr. Rainsford had addressed to
Mr. alsey, that the question in America
is no longer the limitation of the num
ber of apprentices who learn a trade,
but the limitation of the number who
learn an inflnitosmal puert of a trade. Mr.
Gompers said he avc & 1 bo opposed to
Bade schools, but would be heartily in
favor of manual training schools.
Henry White, general secretary o? (ho
United Garment Workers of America,
spoke on the “Problem of Machinery. ’
SOUTHEFN RAISEB WAOFS
Tho Engineers Receive an Advance to “Stan
dard Pay.”
(By the Associated Press.)
Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 9.—A1l en
gineerss of the Southern Itailya system
ha\ r e been granted an increase of wages.
The increase is from the pay Avhich the
engineers ha\ r e been reciving to what is
knoAvn as “standard pay,” four and one
half cents per mile for freight engineers
and three cents fer passenger engineers,
and pay for over-time Avhen laid out,
etc. The increase will amount to at
least ten per cent., but the best feature
is that tho standard scale , is more sais
factory to the men. It Avas necessary to
send a committee of one man .rom ca< h
of the diA’isions of the read to Wash
ington before the matter was settled.
The conductors of the system stand an
excellent chance of getting better money
for their services. A committee is now
at Washington for the purpose of con
ferring with General Manager Ackcrt.
The conductors also want the standard
wage schedule and Avill probably get it.
ABREBT OF ANARCHISTS
Surprised While Taking an Oath to Assassinate
King Victor Fmmamxel.
(By the Associated Press.)
Rome, Dec- 9.—Thirteen anarchists
were arrested near Spezia last night af
ter a desperate struggle. 'The police sur
prised them at a meeting Avhile they
were in the act of taking an oath with
poignards to assassinate King Victor
Emmanuel. One of the anarchists and
one of the police Avere severly wounded.
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HEART BE ATLANTA
Aroused by Red Glare in the
Wee Sma’ Hours.
ALMOST A BLOCK BURNED
Reported Loss of Life Afterwards D enied—Fire
men’s Splendid Work Confixs Fire to
Narrcw Are;. —Loss May Reach
Half a Million,
(By the Associated Press.)
Atlanta, Ga., Doc. 9.—Fire today in tho
heart of the downtown section of At
lanta wiped out almost a block of busi
ness houses, causing a loss estimated at
between SIOO,OOO and $500,000. The fire
originated in the furniture store of
Snook & Austin, on the Whitehall street
viaduct, and was first discovered about 4
o’clock in the morning. It spread with
great rapidity to the Norcross building,
a structure on the corner of Peachtree
and Marietta streets, whose six stories
were largely taken up with the offices
of physicians, dentists and attorneys.
The Norcross building and the Snook
building were entirely consumed, only
portions of the walls remaining.
The building occupied by the Jacobs
Pharmacy Company, adjoining the Nor
cross building on Marietta street, was
completely gutted and the Jacobs Com
pany and the Snook Company sustained
the heaviest individual losses of the fire.
Water did considerable damage to sev
eral stores adjoining and across the
street.
The Williams House, a small hotel lo
cated on the upper floor of the Jacobs
Pharmacy building contained about
sixty-five lodgers, and for some time ru
mors prevailed that loss of life had oc
curred among the guests of the hotel,
but Fire Chief Joyner declared tonight
that all the guests had escaped un
harmed.
The entire street car service of the
city was suspended for a period of about
four hours, during the fiercest progress
j of the fire. The burned buildings were
most of them old and their material value
was not great. The Nopcross building,
the most valuable of those destroyed was
to have been demolished within a year
' to make way for a modern office struc
ture. It was built at a cost of about
$50,000.
The heaviest monetary loss falls cn
the merchants In the various burned
buildings who lost their stock and fix
tures.
There was considerable apprehension
early in the morning that the flames
would spread to the Kimball House and
involve the entire central business por
tion of the city, but the heroic work
of the fire department confined the fire
to a comparatively narrow area. It is
not believed that the Whitehall street
i viaduct is seriously damaged.
The Snook building was originally the
old National Hotel, which, during early
reconstruction days was the headquart
ers of Robert Toombs, Benjamin Hill,
Alexander IT. Stephens, and other South
ern political leaders.
The heaviest losers, with insurance, so
Jacobs Pharmacy Company, $75,000; in-
Jacob’s Pharmacy Company, $75,000; in
surance $50,000.
P. 11. Snook & Austin Furniture Com
pany, $30,000; insurance about the same.
It. M. Rose & Company, liquor dealers,
$15,000; covered by insurance.
Hammnek Drug Company, $20,000; cov
ered by insurance.
Guarantee Clothing Company, $25,000;
1 insurance SIO,OOO.
Williams Hotel, S 7.000; insurance $5,000.
The other loans have not been tabu
lated, but they will swell the aggregate
to an amount over four hundl%d thous
and dollars. Almost all she plate glass
windows were broken in the retail stores
across from the Norcross building, on
Pcachtrea street.
TIE UMpT SET
The Ultimatum to Vtmzuela.
Castro Shows no Signs of
Yielding.
tP.y the Associated Press.)
Berlin, Doc. I). —!t was learned this
that the ultimatums to Veneue
-3a did not a time limit for an answer,
out mat the officials of the German and
British legations were instructed to
leave Caracas at the end of twenty-four
hours, after their delivery, if there was
no i rospect of a favorable reply. This,
however, was left to their discretion.
The officials could have extended theiri
stay at the Venezuelan capital if they|
thought it advisable to do so. and the
fact that they left is taken to mean that
President Castro does not show signs
of giving in.
London, Dec. 9.—One of the largest
English creditors of Venezuela informed
a representative of the Associated Press
today that the ultimatums of Great
Britain aud Germany had a seventy-two
hours’ limit, and therefore, will expire
on Wednesday. The Foreign Office, while
i not denying the correctness of this state
ment, intimated tonight that the period
is liatle to extension. There are seme
(indications *of : a / possible settlement,
thought apparently nothing definite liu3
1 yet been decided.