North Carolina Newspapers

WASHINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 16 191?~ VOLUME L Last Edition THE CBMPHiT TO CONFER WITH MEN Stock Exchange Mikes Threats to Destroy Stock of^rlna* Cora v, pany Unless They Arbitrate the Made?. , , THERE IS SOME HOPE FOR SETTLEMENT OF TROUBLE NOW . vf'-v ? ? ?; T- i, *^v t --r '/&$.'?$'? > %*???' vj?-' s* The Pioopccta Mvti Brlffbter Xcm Hurt K Has Ben Anxmarcd That Ute Company WOI Hear (lie Labor Leader* ? Phtladeiphiji Mock Ex chuQfe Takea avHam) a ad Thmrtow to Himncr tbe Block of the Com pa ay IT a lea* President Kramer Will Oratt a Coofarcace - ? Many .JNw?d Tbmxlm Wlllxmt hood for Uraktnl. El J Philadelphia. March 15.? Hearten ed by the outcome of the conference brought about between President Kruger of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company nnd the labor lead ers, the commercial and other Inter- { est. of Philadelphia whfch have been struggling to bring about peace today renewed their efforts with fresh rigor. The conference Is generally regarded as the entering wedge. It is the firat recognition by the com pany that there is actually a strike in progreas. The peace conference was today declared to. have been brought about directly by the threats of the Phila delphia stock exchange to no longer support the stock of the Pennsyl vania Rapid Transit if a more con ciliatory attitude were not adopted by the corporation. This threat is said to hare been made through Ed ward Lowber Stokes, broker and son of the founder of one of the com panies which the Pennsylvania Rapid Transit absorbed on its organisation fo 190S. Had the demand hot been heeded, it is believed that the trac tion stock would have been slaugh tered. Resales la M Hoars. Prior to conferring with George H. Earle and other repreeenta tires of the Rapid Transit Coapaay at the ? offices of the real estate, trust build ing this morning. Broker 8tokea said ha wss confidently hopeful that a bails for a settlement fortbe strike would be reached within the next 48 hours. He was aaked what he baaed his hopes upon and replied: "I do not care to state them aow," "Do jou think tb? ?hUh last evening will reeult favorably?" he was aaked. - > -Iwctattrtniy rtfipeettt to, ' waa.hfe . ?piy. , ? . . , In spite of the company's Ostensi bly maintal aing . Its former . attitude that there was nothing to arbitrate, and the cdnrt rejection of the peace plaaa suggested by the Methodist minletree by Prealdent Kruger. the committee of seven of the business men's aaaoclatlon. which called the mass meeting of banking, commer cial. religious and. Internal organi sations to urge a settlement, today begap a move to ctrry the plans to NEW STEAMERS Two Boats for the Chesapeake ' ' Steamship Co. LARGEST IN THE SERVICE Slater Ships For the Norfolk Trade Will Coet *750,000 ? Arcommod* tion* for 400 Passengers On Kach Hhip? Coaipani Owned by South era and A. C. L Railroads. Arrangements hare been complet ed which will enable the Chesapeake Steamship Co. to add two fine new vessels to Its present fleet. President ? Compton says the new ships will be the largest and most oomplete that have ever been built for' the Chesa peake Bay trade between' Baltimore and Norfolk. They will coat $375, 000 each, or $759,000 for the two. Each will be from $10 to $$0 feet long, which is twenty , feet longer than any steamship now sorting this trade., They will have jgf capacity of 700 ions each of hlgh<4ldk? freight j Tt is Intended that ?At*b wlfi have 150; staterooms, with a capa&y of 400! pawragan. B pec locations for th* Vessels are being prepared under the supervision of President Comptoia. ftle ftilly ortr derstands the nedds of-Uhf service the* are intended toausplrv and egy*. that In e<fulpment, bot^ir^r passen ger ? and freight, they 4?eet {hJs requirement ** "They are to be sister ships." he said. "By this I mean tbit in con struction they wIM be Identical. P%* eeagers using elthsr will have the ?*; same service and the same accoromo <# datlons." ; The addition of these vessel**orthft Chesapeake Line was g suggestion of President Compton. He pointed out to the directors the heceastty ef ha* completion. ' The beads of the committee today culled a meeting for tonight, to de cide upon definite steps should the day brine no decisive more for a set Since the committee of seven ques tioned J. Burwood Daly, attorney for the .^ar men. last Sunday, the mem bera of the committee hare been working on suggestions gained from his answers. D. T. pferce. executive assistant to President Kruger, who was also interrogated, gave further Information which the committee haa util{sed In outlining Its plans. Committee Hopes For Peace. "The matter has not been entirely settled, however," aald Chairman E. E. Zlegler this morning, "but the committee will not abandon hope till every resource has been used." One feature of the conference be tween the road's head and the lead ers of - the strike which attracted much attention today waa the fact that the meeting followed the brief vlsk to the city by Senator Penrose. While in the beginning there was I much talk of intervention by political leaders, the municipal authorities have been left to handle the affair by themselves. Although the conference was held in the offices of George H. Earle. one of the city's representatives, on the Pennsylvania Transit Gompsmy direc torship. and the man who la said to have, in the beginning prevented the line from taking a conciliatory standi the attitude of the>clty's authorities today was aon-commlttal. Mayor (osMtoma* AHHtrsUkm Mayor Jobs B. Reyburn today de clared that be had hf d no reason to recede from bis statement made last Bight at a banquet . in whtrla he con demned arbitration, declaring that- -it 'would deprive the workers of their constitutional -rt*ht> to work as l?ng as they pleased, where they pleased and for whom they pleased. W. D. Mihsn, international presi dent of the car men, said today: "No attempt to outline any basts for a settlement has been made. It amounted, in the end. to little more than a suggestion to both sides to think" the mstter over in the expec tancy of further meetings." promise they would soon pay for themselves, and would ?lw*T? be ible to earn more than the Ihterest on the money Invested. The board having entire confidence in the ex | ccutlve, told him to go ahead. He arranged the financial end and Is now engaged on the physical end. As is- known, the Chesapeake Steamship Co. la owned jointly by the Southern Railway and the Atlan tic Coa/t Line Railroad, the first named holding two-thirds of .the stock and the last named one-third. President Compton has been at the bead o( the Chesapeake Steam Bhlp Company only since las* July, at which time he succeeded Mr. Reu ben Foster, but lii point of service he' is an experienced and practical steamboat man, as his 20-odd years 1st this branch Qf the transportation business will testify. Th^building of two new ships so soon after assum ing the presldenoy la significant of the policy of progression Inaugurated | by Mr. Compton, and guarantees con tinued activity toward obtaining the best equipment and maintaining the highest standard ?f service the build er's art affords. - ^ GAntTY THKATKR TONIGHT. The following pictures will b* | ?Hown:, Conn* of True Lore, Blograpb. will be repeated by special request. Don't miss this cme; those who did not get to see It last evening should .to lure snd come tonight. MotltWIeas. after the famous drama of Dfcnen ft Carman. The L'gly Olrl. I Illustrated song by, Mr. Wbltten will 'ba Michael Angslo. an Italian song *lth Una sltdea. There will be tws prlae nights. ThUrsday.aad Friday taentlaiaaa'a drawing Thursday nlgbt. Ladle*. Krld.j sight. '8fcra jroar con poas and don't fall to be on hand for the drawing. Tou (in merar tell whp will ba tha lucky one. Don't forget the Blograph will M repeated t<A night Good waste akd good sons I f? card or I II lUSiL jj ".1 We wish to return thanks to our I many friends, for tketr many klnd I nesaea during the aiskaaM of our mother. Mrs Arralrttt Cossess. Tbelr NEW PENCIL WOODS Will be Tested by the Manufac turers Soon. PRESENT SUPPLY WANING The Forest Service to to Cooperate in ? Test of X N amber of .National Forest Woods to Ascertain If They Ave Sal table For the Pencil lutM try I* This- Covntry. * Recent conferences of repreeenta Utcs of the Department of Agrksal ture with several lead-pencil manu factursra hare resulted la plans for testing new woods to find out wheth er they can be used in the pencil in dustry. According to* some of the manufacturers, the supply of red ce dar, which furnishes practically all the wj>od for the annual output of some 325,000,000 pencils, will be ex hausted within fire years. A substi tute must be found which will whit tle easily, which shall contain a large amount of material free from knots, ! which shall not be porous, nor {spongy, nor unduly hard, and which shall occur in sufficient quantities to meet the raantrfacturers^&emand. In view of this and at thefefcggest ion of the pencil manufacturers, thv Forest 8ervlce is to cooperate In a test of a number of National Forest woods. Among those to be tried are Rocky Mountain red cedar, alligator juniper, western juniper, redwood. Incense cedar, western cedar. Port Orford cedar, and Alaska cypress. Wood specimens collected from the National Forests will be sent to four leading manufacturers, who hare agreed to make pencils of them. The manufacturers will keep a record of the tests and report to ther Forest Sendee the results, as well as their NEW} QUARTERS There wsMa meeting of the Young Uw'1 ChrfstJ IB League at the Cham berof Comx&4 rce rooms last evening for the purpo e of considering the ad visability of r ntlng rooms For a place of meeting. As *nnoua ?d in the Daily News some days ago, the League after April let wlllfhave no place to meet, as thf rinwiti of Commerce will raeste their Mt quarters oa that <!???? Tfc* ?<*> I*. to pac Uw room* over thf J.. ft. Harris Plumbing St Supply CMMV. Last night a com mittee cOBIPmLi of Messrs. Frank A. Wright, ifcMlfeKeel. M. A. Smith, John O. ?n*r. Jr.. and J. B. La tham were , apfco^mted to confer and see what ,jgjpagsmentB could be made. It laphe intention of the se additions will be meat and no doubt 4l, appreciate the iomt in contempla te first meeting of lake place on the The Forest "Ifekrvloe u assisting in this eipertq?almiisuse there sre on the National Poreats large quanti ties of Junipajp and cedars which may. be sultaMcflor pencil manufac ture. For Sdre^M'ot these woods no very valuable ttfte has yet been dis covered. Foreatfp believe thst in the future the >oods from the Ns tional Forests mfrjr. to a considerable extent, come use to supplement the diminishing stock of Eastern woods, ths supply of which has re ceived no protection. STOCK UIW UNO FOREST PROTECTION : North Carolina Geological and Economic Stirvay laaoes Unusually Interesting Press Bulletin. ; . ? ? ? ! WONDERFUL BENEFITS OF THE STOCK LAW DISCUSSED \ i ^ ; i la Sew Hanotfr Couaty, 8 mjn Foreater t. 8. IMtaM, There are Thou- | saada of Acres of Lead Oace Splendid Forests, Bat Che Hoc Hss , Made Tbem a Bartea Waste? This Is Dae to the Ignorance aad Greed Of Man ? The Bolt Is Made Poorer Through Fires ? Fire sad Stock < Mast he Excluded to Iasure Future Prosperity of the Stste. A letter appearing In a recent is sue of the Wilmington Star (Feb. 6. 1910) calls attention to the wonder fully beneficial effect the stock law has had on the forest Isnds of New Hanovsr county. The letter begins: "If the conservators of the forests will pay a visit to New Hanover coun ty, where the stock law has been In force for 1 4 'years, they will have no further doubt that all this is required to restore the forest of the State is to give us the stock law." The Forester to the State Geologi cal and Economic Survey happened to be in Wilmington the day the let ter appeared, and being both person ally and professionally interested in long leaf pine reproduction and therefore an enthusiastic advocate of the stock law. wished to a)|d one more example of Its advantages to the already overwhelming masn of evidence secured by the North Caro lina Geological and Economic Survey. He- therefore- took a hurried trolley trip across New Hanover county to Wrlghtsvllle, and, on the return trip, lay over an hour at Winter Park. All along the track, on land whose chclf value at present Is apparently In the production of timber, there were lqgg leaf pine seedlings, from one year old ftp, scattered nearly unl- I versally through what was once a I solid pine forest, but which years ago I was logged off and oaly a few scat tered trees left, which have served, for jfefd trees. "Thta young growth was from one Inch to eight or ten feet high and In most places dense enough to eventually form a good Wreak This abundance of long leaf pine reproduction waa all t*e more notice able and striking to ttfe Forester, be cause he had just driven through [jstiy miles of country of almost ex actly the same character. In the east ?I- Columbus county, whore tbo people think the* can't afford to bar* the stock law. Hon there ore thouitandn of aeqea of land that war* on or In apfaadM foreeta. hut now, converted hy the (reed and If nonnce of man. aaalated by the hoc, Into an apparently barren waate. There are In moat Mwee. enough old treea left to ?u??ly eeed Tor the arena.- but tn theae two SB has been excluded from (be open' lands of New Hanover county, with the result that "there la no finer young forest to- he found In tbe coun try." In eastern Columbus countv the hog still renins at large, devour ing thu pine nuts as they fall, and should any egcapc to later become needling*, rooting these out of tbe ground to eat tho succulent roots. These condition* at once suggest tbe question: Is this land more val uable foi; tbe range than for the' growth of a forest crop? Practically all the more indus trious and better class of farmers recognize that the range is of little or no use to them. Most of them feed not oifly their cattle, but also their hogs on their own land, know ing that they can raise a better grade of stock in tbe long run at a cheaper price than by 'allowing It to run at large. 80 these progressive farmers have 4be double burden of fencing their crops against their neighbor's stock and of fencing their own stock in. Again, should these progressive farmers attempt to im prove their stock by the Introduction of better bred animals, the outside cattle will bring the tick, and the hogs will carry the cholera, and these Imported animals will be carried off by disease. In this way the open range Is a very serlon* handicap Iq agricultural progress. But the great argument against In the Increased prosperity of a corn poor man. the man who owns no It is he and the small farmer hardly begun to realise that liwcondltions have taken last twenty-five years, to make the on the re tbat ob the stock the very men to share WARNING Koeper of Oak<tal?~^?metery Makm Complaint TtuU Parties Are Appropriating Flowers. The keeper ?of Oakdale cemetery says that parties are going to the cemetery and appropriating flowers to their own use* One party, states the keeper, actually dug up plants and replanted them. Unless this Is stopped the guilty parties will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. The Daily News falls to see how any one can deliberately go to the City of the Dead and desecrate It in this manner. The parties are known and had better be on the lookout CABLE CO. DIHPLAY. The Cable Piano Co. of Richmond. Va., have now oa exhibition at 143 West Main itreet. formerly Bmlthers' jewelry store, some of their celebrat ed line of high grade pianos, includ ing their famous "Inner Player." Prospective buyers will do well to I Investigate the stock before purchas ing elsewhere. I uiv^ii inrnvt nn. Henry Carrow, colored, whose log was amputated by Dr. John 0. Blount at the Fowle Memorial HoaplUl some days ago, la setting on so nicely that unless something unforseen happens he will be able to leave the hoapltal within the next few days. Carrow Injured his leg at the Moore Lumber Company mill plant. la not fed night and morning; evi dently there Is not enough feed In the range to enable a cow to produce milk. A small farmer on this coun ty, who Is bitterly opposed to the stock law as a hardship on the poor man, pointed with pride to a garden of collards, and told the Forester that he had made all his mest off that garden the past year He had put up the little pigs In the spring and -raised and fattended them en tirely from that garden. And yet be did not realise how little benefit the range was to him. All his land, ex cep the small area that Is fenced and under cultivation. fB In the woods, and yet. owing to fire and hoga, there la little young growth on It, ,so that when the present scsttered stand of old timber has been removed, this land, o^which he is paring the great er part of his tax, will be producing little or nothing. By fending his hoes on the cleared part of his Una sad compelling his neighbor* -to heap their hoga off his wood lend, -this tor Bet area can be mads rswit produc tive and profitable part of hla firm. Unfortunately the evil effects of the old practice of letting the stock run at large are not confined to the woodlands of the eaatern parts of North Carolina. Over the greater part of many of our mountain coun ties cattle and hogs still roam at will. Hoga do less serious Injury to the hardwood forests than to the pine, because the former in many instances are not absolutely dependent on Seed for reproduction, many of our Im portant tree species growing from sprouts. The direct Injury io these woods from cattle is confined to cer- 1 talu species, linn and yellow poplar I reproduction being especially subject to attack. The chief Injury to our forests from cattle, however. Is an indirect one, not only in the mountains, but wherever the stock law is not In force? ^ Evt'ry year fires are set out and thousands of acres are burned over In practically every county in which the cattle still run at large, j the reason given being that "It Im proves the range." There Is no more widespread or fallacious argument advanced as an excuse for burning the woods than this. And the only basis for It is that the young herb age, having no old growth to cover it, 1b available for the stock some what earlier In the spring If the > ground Is burned over In the win Iter. The total effect of burning the [rang# Is very harmful, not only to [the woods, but to the range Itself I The soil gets poorer and poorer year I by year by the destruction of all veg etable matter, while the better qual ity of forage plants are serloualy in jured or killed out by the fire. The quantity of the poorer kinds of grass. ! which make only early spring paa ture, may be slightly lncreaaed tfy killing out the young trees and bushes, but the other forage plants, such aa the beggar lite and other peas, on which the stock fatten In the fall, are seriously Injured or killed out entirely by fire. The sooner the whole State cornea under the operation of the stock law, the better 4t will be, not only for the State at large, but more especially for thoee parts that are now without Its advantages. The chief thing lack ing to make many parts of North Carolina prosperous agricultural re gions It the enforcement of the stock law. Only by putting all the land to Its highest use, namely, by cultivat es thoroughly and raising aa much atock feed m poealbte on the cleared land, an* by keeping the inland the beet possible condition by ex , eluding are and stock, eaa the pre* eat iMi ifuture preateftty at h ?o? LT H TOBACCO MARKET FOR WHSUINGTOI. The Cooditions Are Now, Ideal for Its Establishment, and Ever;: - one Should Lend Support and Effort. ' ? TOBACCO MARKET4-' ' OF CAPITAL EVERYWHERE A <1 vertinln* is i?1rsl Urcnlire to SuccfM ? Wr Must t'onrlnce Other. That We Have a Good Thins, Unless We lto We Just ?? Well Bw? N What We Han-WuhinRtoa Has Untold Advantages For n Tobacct Market? No Section of the Unlte?l States Can Surpass Onrs In the Production of Monef'MaklBg Crops and Other Advantages. Now that conditions are ideal for. securing a tobacco market for Wash- 1 ington let every citizen lend support. I It may be appropriate to tell our peo ple that the richest section of North Carolina producing its wealth from the soil Is that section of Eastern North Carolina in which tobacco has been extensively grown. The towns which have tobacco markets are the centers of capital. In such towns the ! banks are In position to accommo date the merchants during their buy ing seasons, they are also In position to carry the manufacturer when con ditions are such he cannot profitably market his production though he does not care to stop operations. In such tooacco sections there Is ample money for the home folks to put considerable Into mills and fac tories without being cramped. Granville county used to be our leading tcbacco county, but the out look Is. It with several surrounding counties as well as many other sec tions of the United States which have been continually growing tobacco for a number of years, may be forced out of the industry. It is like the fellow eating turkey | every day until he gets sick and can't retain It. For a long time thereafter he can't stand It. Granville tobacco soils have gotten sick with a disease which has been named "Granville Tobacco Wilt." There are several reasons for Us not getting Into our soli. One Is. we en ter Into Ihe tobacco Industry In the advanced age when "rotation" of crops is the order of the day. and provided the soli is not tobacco sick SHOOTS HIS FATHER - ' r - . ~r Boy Fires to Protect Himself and Mother. WOUND PROBABLY FATAL W . H. Bright. of (iiiffnr;, Wounded | bj Hilt Hon, Crate Bright ? At* tcmplN to Protect .Mother nnd is Slapped bj- Irate Father, Where* upon He Hres, Wounding Father. (Jaffnev. S. C., March 1.". ? W. II Bright is lying at the office of Dr. Plttmsn in a critical condition a? the result of a gunshot wound in the abdomen, and his *on. Crnte Bright. I who did the .shooting, ht in the county jail, where he went at C o'clock this morning immediately after shooting, his father. W. H. Bright and his son. Crate, have been conducting a meat market) in Gnffney and did a fairly good busi ness and seemed to be getting on well except when Bright, senior, would] get on a drunk, which was pretty frequent, and at such times he was very violent, threatening to kill ev ery member of his family and run ning his wife away from home. Yes terday he took one of his sprees and followed his wife to her daughter's house at Limestone mills, where she went to help her daughter nurse a sick child. Crate Bright, who lives hear hts sister, was there also. W. H. Bright came to his daughter's house aftejfl^aidnight and ordered his wife to go' ftome at once, and when she refused he struck her a heavy blow in the face. leaving a bad mark, and when Crate remonstrated with him he also slapped him In the face. Mrs. Bright then went uptown and asked the polic* to put her In jail for protection against her husband. Officer Hallman told her to stay in the waiting room of the station, and that they would protect her. 8he had her baby In her arms. In a ahort while W. H. Bright came and persuaded her to go with him. When they reached the house Mrs. Bright refused to atop, but went to Mr. Smart's a near neighbor, where she {found her son. Crate. In a few min utes Bright came to the Smarts', and commenced to abuse his son and charged him with keeping hts moth er away from hone, and When thej boy denlod doing so. he atpick him in the face and the boy shot him. < Crate Bright to about It ynn of t(e and Is married, but has BO rhll-< dren. Dn. PUtHM and Steedlr an attending U? wounded Baa, vhoaa coadltloa to eaeeedinclr tUttcal. tn? iateaUnea Mm puacturod la urnl (and ours Is not) will keep the dis ease from the soil and so increase* the yield as to equal the amount grown by another on his acre plant ed to tobacco every year. Therefore It is not likely that we will ever be troubled with Granville's tobacco wilt. This makes the conditions for se curing buyers, establishing a marker and growing and securing good prices for our tobacco ^deal. Washington has untold natural ad vantages. For years your Secretary has been making a study of these ad vantages and assures you there Is no section of the United States can sur pass ours in the production of money making crops. The year 1909 was an average one in the production of money making crops In both North" Carolina and California, yet how many of yon kuow that In that yeaj the value per square mile In Eastern North Caro lina far surpassed any portion of Cal ifornia except an area surrounding Ssn Francisco smaller than Eastern North Carolina which did about equal Eastern North Carolina, and yet by putting their best foot forward In attractive advertisements they have within the year taken from un two families having between them from thirty to flfty thousand dollars in cash. We must secure this tobacco mar ket. then advertise, for no matter how good a proposition you have if you cannot develop It yourself nor convince others that you have a good thing you had Jus! as well bury It. GROWING - ? The Methodist Mnaday School Is Ad* dt?g PwpMa Kjm.Ii Week ? Sunday a Rrrordbreaker. The Methodist Sunday school un der the auperlntendency of Mr. E. R. Miaon. is making rapid strides. Last Sunday was a record breaker, there being 301 members present. The Sunday preceding this there were in attendance 2?0. The number of ac tive members on the roster of the school is 33a. In the Home depart ment there is enrolled 101: in the cradle roll 76. and in the regular school 335. making a total of 512. Those in charge of the different de partments of the school are to be congratulated on the work they are doing towards increasing the attend ance. The Sunday school is in a flourishing condition. MKXIt'AVH ("III Ml-:. ! | The f!eni offers as a head liner to j night a thrilling Western drama, J Mexican's Crime. A love story runs through it. supplying the heart In terest required to make it interest ing. The action is strong through out the picture, containing much of the spirit of the plains, with an ex citing chase across the country by the cowboys. Who Owns the Coat is a Rood comedy picture with plenty of action and a good laugh In every line. This coupled with good pho tography is sure to please all. For a magic picture Invisibility is entire ly built along the comedy lines and without a doubt a wonderful picture of Its kind. There are works of magic which astonish one. Tonight we offer to our little patrons, the children, free admission to the Gem when accompanied by an adult. On Thursday and Friday nights there will be a prize drawing, each article Is something beautiful as well as use ful; will not wear out or go out of style and you always have a remin der of your good luck at the Gem. * New Advertisement # ? n Today's News ? ? CUm Th?at?r. ? ? Midna. ? ? Paw OlaMMft- ? ? Oaten Tbaatar. ? ? Hromet. - ? ? ? f. U O'qulnn, Flariit ? Bulb?. ? ? ChaupwM Kaaasklp <*>. ? ? Laxative Iran Qulalna. ? ? Spriwor Bror ? Hoy>' Clothing. ? ? Jaa. E. CtoMt^NknU' ? ? Harris PluaMac * Bupplj Co. ? * m<M vm ? ? Wrtfkl'a Tatl.rtai riartora ? ? * y MWI USWMU, *''*? J ?Jf* ? ? ? ? ? ... ... .