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( St N i. THE RALEIGH TIMES THE WEATHEE LOCAL SHOWERS LAST " EDITION ,i, ii - ' - VolLXXI. No. 156. RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Double the Number of Paid Subscribers in Raleigh of aqiy Other Newspaper, GREAT PROGRESS MADE RALEIGH WILL HAVE IN THE CITY OF RALEIGH Rapid Pace Set the Last Few Years Shows No Let Up and There Is Continual Growth On Every Hand Remarkable Activity OVER TWO MILLIONS IN NEW BUILDINGS Amount of Money for Building and Other Improvement Work Now Going On Reaches $3,100,000 Some of the Nw Structures Now Under Way The Great Improve ment Work of the Raleigh, Char lotte and Southern Which is Spending Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Here Many New Peo ple Coming. The growth of Raleigh is most notable at this moment; not so much on account of its great extent as by reason of the variety of de velopment, covering nearly all lines. The last federal census, taken two years ago, gave' the city 19,218 pop ulation. It is safe to say that in no other two years of all Raleigh's his tory, which covers 120 years, has tt grown so rapidly as in the two which have elapsed since that cen sus was taken grown not only in a material way, that is in point of building, but in population. What a story there will be to tell in 1920! The increase in population during the ten-year period which ended in 1910 was forty per cent. The next census will show something passing by far that fine record. The chamber of commerce has been an active and persistent factor In this development. It has in every possible way advertised Raleigh, recognizing fully the fact that a city which has vitality, ambition and ad vantages should never hide its light under a bushel. Raleigh Is surely on the nlap today. Growth begets growth and what Is being done here will certainly bring to this city many people, enterprises and new features. Centrality .. of location is a vi tally important thing. . Raleigh has It. It is the heart of the Btate; the population center. Good railway facilities are a prime necessity. Ra leigh has them; four railways with forty-eight passenger and forty-two freight trains daily. Power to ope rate machinery is something which the world of today is looking for. Raleigh has this requisite too; plenty of hydro-electric power, and it can have more when the call for it comes. These are only three of a score of advantages. They are what the world chooses to call material things. Raleigh is the educational center of the state; a proud position and one worthily held. Here there are twenty-eight educational institu tions, attended by 7,000 students, half of them from other points. Ra leigh is the one place in North Caro lina, and one of the extremely-few In the south, which offers raining alike for the young man and the young woman. This is by reason of the location here of the state Agri cultural and Mechanical College, with all its openings ftfr life work, a business college and female col leges. It is truly fortunate that in one place there are so many literary, technical, and musical advantages. They play a great part in the bringing here of people who wish to get in the most convenient way edu cation for both sons and daughters. But this particular story has to do mainly with Raleigh's material growth; the outward and visible sign . of Its success. What does the reader think of a place having the popula tion of this one being able to show, In the height of summer, so com monly called the dull season,: im provements which reach the fine figure of 2.100,000? Perhaps only a slang phrase will fill the bill and describe the situation "Going some." It ought to delight and it does delight the heart of the new president of the chamber of com merce, Mr. Albert L. Cox,' to see what Is going on in his own city, and it will nerve him and his fellow, members and fellow-workers in that organization to even greater efforts to mora than keep up this growth. How it must gratify President J. B. Pearce, of the Merchants Associa tion, to see such prosperity, and how much it must please Mayor James Iredell Johnson, as he sits in the stately municipal- building and thinks how Raleigh is going ahead. There Is many more time com munity spirit here than before that spirit, which simply spells success. The person who goes about in Ra leigh these summer days will see a great deal pf the kinds of work in progress which snow confidence In a city th confidence of the resident, of the railways and -of the state. The buildings are of a fine class and they give an aspect of permanence and of character which-counts for much. jCon.nn.ue 99 faga Two,, PAYS FATHER Mil 1 Mr. J. V. Higbam and Mr. Robert Conrad Compro mise Suit Mr. J. V. Higham, manager of the five and ten-cent store, pleaded guilty in Wake superior court today to paddling Herbert Conrad, a small son of Mr. Robert Conrad, the boy Having been caught, it was said, taking some articles from the store. Judgment was suspended on the payment of costs. Mr. Higham, it was announced today, had settled with the father for the damages Sustained by the boy, the father re ceiving 250. it will be recalled that , Mr. Con rad had arrest, and bail proceedings instituted against Mr. .':.' Higham shortly after the qccurrence and the defendant was placed under bond. The case was set for today, but a compromise was affected. Because of this fact the solicitor consented to a suspension of judgment upon the payment of costs. Charlie Faucette, a negro, pleaded guilty to burglary in the second degree and was sentenced to ten years in the state's prison. Faucette was indicted for burglary In the first degree, but the plea of the defendant was accepted. Garland Curtis was fount guilty of larceny and sentenced td four months on the roads. Peter Carr was found giulty of larceny and receiving and was sen tenced to eight months. The case against C. B. King, charged wwith selling liquor, was continued until the next term on affidavit of the defendant. 4 , Hond Election in Dunn. Dunn, July 13. The City fathers have called an election to be held on August 1, on which date the ques tion of issuing fifty thousand dollars bonds for a complete sewerage sys tem will be decided. The Indications now are that the bond issue will car ry by a nice majority. Mayor O. r shell has appointed the following gentlemen as dele gates to the good roads convention which meets in Charlotte on August 2; Messrs. G. M. Tilghman. N. A. Townscnd, M. T. Young and S. J. Hooks. . MISTRIAL IN THE CLAUDE ALLEN CASE Wytheville, Va., July 1 3. The jury in the Claude Allen case came Into court shortly before noon and announced that agreement was im possible and were discharged. It is understood four were for acquittal and eight for murder In the first de gree. The court then entered an or der summoning another venire to re-open the case July 17. WILMINGTON NEWS. Red Cross Sanitarium to He Estab lished Bell Company A, rained. Wilmington, July 13. The Wil mington Red Cross Sanitarium is the newest Wilmington institution. The hospital' has been provided for, land bought, money for erecting tne building, and almost enough on band to make it perpetually sound. The purpose of the institution is to light the dread tubercular disease. The Idea is that of the local chapter of the Red Cross society, the good ladies of which have wrokod in and out of season for tha : project for years, and success has at last, crown ed their efforts. A portion of the directors have been el is: sd. Tha others will be chosen at a subse-iuent meeting, at which time the officers will be elected. At a regular meeting of tho r.ham ber of commerce the matter of tele phone service came up, and it was the idea of some of those that spoke, that the local service is the worst yet. It was described as slow and unsatisfactory. Steps will be taken to persuade the Southern Bell to in stall a better service. It was decided in the recorder's court here yesterday that hens is animals and rat poison will bill em A negro woman was punished with a dire : punishment for wreaking vengeance upon a neighbor's kens with Rough on Rats, because th neighbor Insisted upon drinking, at Senator Lorimer Unseated Today In Washington, July 13. By a voto of 65 to ,28 the senate today un seated Lorinier and held his elec tion invalid. The end of the io ig fight came after six days, protract ed debate in which Lorimer hlmseif occupied the floor for three sessions, making an impassioned defense of his election. The final vote was on a resolution by Senator Lea, of Ten nessee, declaring Lorimer's election by the Illinois legislature in 1909 invalid. The resolution carried with it the charge of ."corrupt methods and practice employed in the elec tion of William Lorimer." The closing moments of the Lori mer trial were intenseely dramatic. in his last defense Lorinier said he did not appeal for votes, but for justice. When the vote was an nounced Lorimer rjso slowly, walk ed toward the back of the senate Chamber and entered the cloak room, BY ESCAPING GAS Atlantic City, July 13. The ex plosion of the gas envelope of Melvin Vaniman's airship here July 2, caus ing the death of the entire crew of Ave, was not due to the action of the sun's rays, as first supposed, but to faulty construction which allowed the expanding gas to exhaust di rectly over the exhaust of the pro peller engines, thus igniting the gas, according to Charles Hillman, an expert, who has made careful in vestigation. STILL FAVORS RECIPROCITY. Western Canadian Province Reaf firms Its Faith in Reciprocity With United States. Ottawa, Ont., July 13. Saskat wan province reaffirms a wish for reciprocity with the United States by the return, of forty liberals and eight conservatives, with four seats still in doubt. The farming dis tricts especially voted overwhelm ingly for access to the United States markets. Italy Wants to End War. Paris, July 13 Italy recently in formed the powers in an official way, according to authorative in formation, that she was ready and anxious to end the Turco-Itallan war. Italy is willing to pay a heavy cash Indemnity for the transfer of sovereignty rights in Tripoli and tho Islands in the Aegean Sea already occupied by Italy. Germany Getting Ready for Opening of Canal. Berlin, July 13. The German ministry of marines is making charts of the tiulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, preparatory to tho opening of "CAWN SANG 'EM! ! the Senate By a Vote of 55 to 28 Senator Smbot throwing an arm over his shoulder:- - By the vote to day he passes out of the records and never official held a seat in: the senate. In his closing sentences he ex pressed gratitude for the tributes paid by. senators to his private life. Ho said thiit if at the beginning he had believed one man had been bribed to vtte for him he would have walked in and laid his resignation on the vica-presidents table. Lorimer Compares His Case to That of Percy. There was a well-defined belief when the senate met today ;o con tinue the Lorimer case, that pro Lorinier forces -were-working to de lay the fiial vote in the hope of changing several wavering votes. Lorimer's speech yesterday, it is said, changed.-tho attitude of t'ul lom, of Illinois, and Tillman, of South Carolina, counted antagonis tic to this trial, to Lorinier. Lorinier took up the analysis of the testiiiiiny in his case wliee he left off yesterday. The analysis was OF REBEL ROYALISTS Lisbon, Inly 13. Wholesale ar rests of rcyalist conspirators were made nt lellas, eleven miles north west of Lhbon, where the rebels had cut the telegraph wires and planned to seize the batteries of Fortness. Tho plot tilled because the republi cans .discovered a store of guns and dynamite ind women's divided skirts in which the royalists Intended to disguise tiemselves. Royalist bands are showng activity at various frontier points. Six were killed in one encointer. Kntoiiibei' for Two Days Without Discovery. Shamolin, Pa., July 13. En tombed ly a monster cave In -in tho Burnside coal colliery since Thurs day morring, nothing was known of the accident until the mother of Harry Dtrrlck called yesterday and asked wly her son had not come home, another entombed man is William Way. Desperate work was done all last night to reach them. Nothing las yet been heard of them. Society Objects to Helnjr Photo graphed. Newprt, July 13. Photographers and mo lug picture men are taking so man pictures of society people that Mn. Vanderbilt and several others lave appealed to the police. The stae supreme court recently held tha it is not unlawful to photo graph i-person, even though thoy objcctei. lllgiimage to Nea (Jlrt. Wasbngton, July 13. There will be a pifcrimage of democratic mem bers of the house to Sea Girt next Saturda- to see Wilson. Nearly a hundred already here applyed for space ii a special to be run from jjer? B84 Saturday., ... r n much along the lines brought ou by his counsel at the committee hearings. I He compared his case to that of Senator, Percy, of Missis sippl, saying the conspiracy to fasten evidence of corrupt practices on Percy s election was thwarted by the fortunate discovery of the facts Bailey, of Texas, decided to answer any speech made, against-Lorimer following reports that LaFollette, Kern, and Kenyon might reply to Lorimer. Lorimer attacked Senator Craw ford, of South Dakota, who spoke and voted against him before, refer ring to charges against Crawford of which he was acquitted. He headed an affidavit charging Crawford with having employed a man to file a public land claim to his interest Lorimer's tone took on deep feeling The effect of the appeal .apparently was not lost on the snale. lie re furred, to Detective Burns as having "driven to the grave a senator, be lieved now not. guilty." The -ref erence was thought to be to the lat Senator Mitchell, of Oregon. GHAFIN AND AGAIN Atlantic Citv. N. J . .Tulv 1 it Th national prohibition convention con dllrlcr t-H hihoru here, hiut iihrh witli the nomination- of the party standard bearers ot tour years ago Eugene W. Chafin, of Arizona, for president, and Aaron S. Watkins. of Ohio, for vice-president. In each case the nomination was made acclamation after a single ballot h indicated the preference of the de gates. - .. P.A ILEY'S I A 1 1 VAX ELL. Thinks Disaster 'Mav Overtake Coun- li j If Tilings Go On As They Huv Jlcen. Washington, July 13. Senator Bailey, of Texas, in a farewell ad dress to a score of colleagues at. private dinner last night said if con ditions in the I'nlted States change as much in the next thirty years a in the last thirty the country would face a condition similar to that o France at the time of the French revolution. The Impatience of th minority, of which he -aB a mem ber, he said, is largely responsibl for the state of mind of the peopl today for they had grossly exagger ated the evils of the country. Prohibition Convention. Atlantic City, July 13. After night session the new national com mittee of the prohibition party which adjourned early today, W O. Calderwood, of Minnesota, was defeated for reelection as secretary by Mrs. Francos Beachamp, presi dent of the Kentucky W. C. T. U. Fruit Tree Agent Wounded Richmond, July 13. T. B Speight, of Connecticut, a fruit tree agent, was probably mortally wound ed in a pistol tight near here in dispute over trees with a farmer named. Gibson and, fionfbla Brawn 'i A PAID DEPARTMENT i , - ; - irst Class Fire-Fighting Apparatus to Cost Less Than $35,000 Will Be Installed By Capital City at Early Date nnn nnm.. run b State Farmers' Convention In Augi ust to Be of Great In terest to Profession The tenth annual state fanners' convention will be held at the A. and M. College at Raleigh, August 27, 28 and 29. The program is al most complete and speakers of na tional reputation have been secured. Dr. C. O.:. Hopkins, of the Illinois experiment station, will discuss the Use of Rock 'Phosphate as a Fer tilizer." '.Dr.-Hopkins is considered the best authority in the United States on this subject. Other speak ers for the first day are Prof. C, L. Goodrich. Washington, D. C, on Humus;" E. G. Moss, of Granville county, on the "Quality as Compar ed with Yield of Tobacco;" Prof. W. Massey, "Apostle of the Cowpea," and Mr. Bradford Knan-v in charge of the demonstration work in the SOUth. : . The second day is "Live Stock Dav," Mr. C. L. Opperinan and Mr. Helnier Rabild, of Washington. D. C, and Mr. E. B. Moore, of Char lotte, will talk on subjects related to the production of livestock. . Also on this day the North Carolina Berkshire Breeders' Association will hold their second annual sale of 50 pure bred Berkshire hogs. Tho third day will be "Lconomic Day." Or; .1. Coulter, of the cen sus bureau will discuss "farmers Co-operative Societies." -'Mr. .J.'- O. Brown,, ot Raleigh, will talk on tne Relation of the Banking System to the farmer;" Mr. J. W. Bailey, of Raleigh, on the "Torrers System of Registering Land Titles. A special program- is being pre pared for women and will be an nounced later. For complete pro gram or information, address I. O. Schaub, secretary, est Raleigh, N. C. . Voliva- Will Open Moving Picture Show. . Zion City, Hi., July 13. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, Overseer of Cion ( ity, a foe of tobacco, drugs and theatres, is to tight "evil with evil" by open ing a moving picture show in opposi tion to one by independents. TAKE THE HONORS Stockholm,' July 13. Most inter est in the Olympic games today was in the t'mal heat, -too meter Hat race, in which only one non-American. Hans Braum. of Germany, putted against four American sprint ers, James K. Meredith, of , Mercers burg Academy; .Charles D.. Reid patch, of Syracuse University; Harold 1). Haffat, of the .University of Michigan, and F.dward F. Lind berg, of Chicago A. A. Four other events were on the program, standing high jump, final; S.tiuo melre race, final; discus throwing, right and left hand,-final:, and some events in Decathlon, in which three participants must.; show all round ability in a scries of ten events. Roidpath won first. Brown second, in the 4UU-meler race final. Lindberg, Chicago A. A., 4flil meter. United Sta;es Sweden second, England 3,01)0 meter team race. third, first, third. The Nicaragua!! Loan. San Francisco, July 13. Adolfo Slavos, Niearaguan consul general here, replied to the charge made in New York by Manuel Urgartt that tho Niearaguan : loan is the most monstrous and shocking negotiation ever attempted. He said the action of the United States had helped Nicaragua out of financial struggles and opened the way for reservation credit abroad, and that the republic would be in ruins but for tho United States. Cyclone in Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids, Mich., July 13. This city was hit early today by a cyclone which injured forty or more, and did thousands of dollars worth of damage. The roof of the baseball grandstand was hurled to pieces, and scattered over the adjoining market crowded with farmers. Sev eral horgeg Wfie killed, uuuriuM 1 TA FORWARD STEP IS TAKEN BY THE BOARD With One Dissenting Voice Aldermen Adopt Report of Fire Committee Recommending Purchase of Motor Propelled Fire Trucks and Other 1 mproved Apparatus A c t i n Made Absolutely Imperative Be cause Insurance Rates Would Surely be Raised 30 Per Cent With Present Department Ses. sion Harmonious and Aldermen Work With Zeal The Proceedings.- That Raleigh will soon have a modern, paid fire department is a fact, the board of aldermen last night voting to accept the report ot the fire committee, which recom mended the purchasing of equipment to cost at the outside less than $35,000. The matter was left in the hands of the committee to act at once. As- the members of the board of aldermen saw it, a modern lire department is absolutely impera tive. The fire insurance companiea have been holding up their new rat ing cards for Raleigh at the in- ; stance of Alderman Webb with the expectation that something would be done at once. Raleigh was des tined for a second-class rating, and the insurance rates would be in creased more in a single year than the total expenditures for a fire de partment. With such a condition facing the) board action was deemed imperative. Chairman Clarence Johnson and Alderman J. Sherwood Upchurch, two members of the fire committee, spoke in advocacy of adopting the report, and both showed a thorough knowledge of the matter. They had investigated the apparatus used by other cities the size of Raleigh and larger and had reached the conclu sion that motor-propelled trucks were the things to buy. Alderman Geo. W. Harden op posed the plan, he stating that it was his opinion that the horse waa better for fire purposes than motor trucks. Mr. Harden said motor trucks were being abandoned, and cited several instances where he saw horses drawing apparatus. Alderman Upchurch differed sharply with Alderman Harden, and said that, he saw both horses and motor trucks at fires where Mr. Harden saw only horses. The plan is not to dispense with the use of horses, the board thinking that a couple of teams might come in handy. A Good Mooting. The meeting of the board wa rather harmonious. The urgent ne cessity for action, the immediate prospect, of increased insurance rates, and the danger from fireB con vinced all that the time had come when Raleigh must be kept in the first-class division. Members of the board, in criticising the department, let it be understood that nothing was personal. Aldermen Johnson, Upchurch and Webb are members oC the fire committee. Proceedings of Hoard. Art ordinance Introduced at the last meeting requiring the screening of ice cream placed on sale was adopted without debate.. Mayor Johnson read the report of the -municipal building commission, of which. Col. Chas. E. Johnson was) chairman and Albert Li Cox was sec retary. The commission made its final report to the board. Its duties have been ended. Alderman Harden said lie had been told that the build, ing leaks and that there were other detects and suggested that a com mittee be named to see that the con tracts were carried out properly. Attorney W. C. Harris asked for an opinion, said offhand that the commission should see that the con tracts were properly carried out. A committee was appointed to confer with tile commission. Street Paving, Alderman Cooper said that a number of people on Blount street, between Morgan and Hargett, had claimed that they had not received proper notice of street paving and suggested that these persons be al lowed to pay their taxes while the finance committee investigates the matter. The question was left to the committee and attorney to as certain if such notice was given. Alderman Baker presented a mat ter of property on which taxes bad not been paid since 1894. The prop erty was in the colored section. Tha penalty will not be attached. Alderman . Ellington brought nil the question of damages sustained . W Elf fcNfrJ M
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