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XEWS PONY CONTEST CLOSES ON THURSDAY NIGHT JULY 20-AT 10 O’CLOCK SHARP
« '“'“” THE CHARLOTTE NEWS.^
\0L. 43. NO. 7084
CHARLOTTE N. C., WEDNESDAY tVENlNG‘JULY 19, 1911
P"DT/^pj In Charlotte 2 CentB a Copy aDIly—6 Cents Sunday.
Outside Charlotte 5 Cents a Copy Dally and Sunday,
P:/cn Denies Eve)
iting The Famous
Dick to Dick Lette
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r: Washington to
:]cjcre Prooing Com-
Richaid S, Ryan
scries of Denials,
K7iTL
Speaking Terms**
t's Brother—Only
Alaska Lands
Dealing,
HOSTILE FLEET
PUNS TO “OE-
STROy" N, I
O. !
Richard S.
t'ontroller Bay
a: ins to go to
.ii’swrr to a
!';> houre coni-
tiip Alaskan
. 'la! denial taut
i h-'k to fucU" let-
1 L.o liui u(u know
ro ;u‘r nor fi’.d he
oi the Inte-
■ nou'ih to address
1 K-irmal title,
the firm ho
n ' connection with
oitlier di-
:i I'ar aa he
;n A!u'Ka that we
. M
o s
n-’t ai>.«;olutely on the lev-
tried to use one bit of
-.'‘•.nl or any other in-
ad \rincine: my requests.
„ was based on pure jus-
' one last ^ ord:
” rnte stich a letter, such
, ' or !~:ich an address. [
' SecreiarN Halline:er w^ll
address him by any na:.ie
his formal title I don’t
•^sident Taft';s brother e\en
and conid not possibly refer
This note made public by this
!»eems to me to be something
ers
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By Associated Press.
New ^ ork, July 19.—The city awoke
and V. eiit about its business today un-
trrritiod by the knowledge that a hos
tile fleet was tryin? to steal or fight
its wa\' past a squadron of naval mili-
Ma and a flotilla of torpedo boats de-
teudinc: thf approach through Long
Island Sound. Vntil the naval officials
in charge of the maneuvres made their
reiiort to the navy department the
I'loxements of the opposing fleets will
he largely a matter of conjecture.
V.'iroirss messages are forbidden and
the engagement probably will occur
bevond the range of observers on land.
It is believed, however, that the first
encounter occurred last night. Aided
by the fog that hung over the eastern
end of the sound the attacking fleet of
17 battleships and one cruiser put out
t'> si a yesterday with the intention of
slipiung past the guardians of the city.
In anticipation of the sticcess of such
a movo the guards at the forts along
the sound were doubled last night. If
an\ of the ■ enemy” were sighted with
in lange they were theoretically blown
".o 'e at our own j to pieces, for under the rules of the
Ryan, "and there | naval war game a warship has not a
Kent a gral) in our | chance against the stationary guns
! and shore battery.
r,'".rr a fimr that 1 j Sounds of firing were heard about
f>ne foot of ground at ' midnight off Block Island, but they
in Alaska that the i soon ceased and it is possible that they
meant only the discharge of signal
guns.
The whole eastern end of Long Is
land Sound is picketed by tori^edo
boat destroyers and submarines. The
little craft were sighted during the
ni.uht at various points along the Con
necticut and Long Island shores, but
nothing was seen of the majestic fleet
" the enemy.
The battleships are to make two at
tacks. one by iJght, the other by day,
and the war game must end by Friday.
The defensive line to be penterated
miles off Gayhead, Mass., at the south-
extends from No Man’s Land six
mile^-- off Gray Head, Mass. at the south
vest extremity cf Marthas Vineyard
Through Block Island to Montauk
Point.
War on Block Island.
Block Island, R. I.. July 19.—Mimic
war broke out around this little island
a few hours after dawn today when
nine battleships of the attacking blue
fleet steamed in from the southeast
and were met by five torpedo boat de-
i stroyers and a half dozen submarines.
I W hether the battleships were theo
retically sunk or the defending craft
j destroyed will not be known for some
! time. Naval experts will not announce
their decision until after the reports
have been made on the “battle.”
Fleet Seen.
Rock Island. July, 19.—Dawn re-
P Nelson, serving j vealed a few of the defendang fleet,
r horse stealin;; and'Over towards Montauk Point could
m ine ten years for i be seen a couple of destroyers, while
■rsd d a poFse and cap-1 to the eastward there were a few rip-
mountains. Antone I pies on the smooth surface of the sea,
showing that the submarines w'ere
on guard.
A couple of hours later
the defending fleet began to
assemble off Sandy Point, at
the north end of the island, and at
7 o’clock the xjutheastern horizon be
came blackened with the smoke of
the attacking battleships. An hour
later nine fighting ships came steam
ing in from sea in line of battle,
passing the eastern side of the is
land shortly after 8 o’clock and
brushing aside the defending fleet,
steamed straight to the notrhward
toward Newport.
The destroyers and submarines
out from their lair behind the north
east light and at 8:30 a. m. the naval
battle of Block Island channel seem
ed about to begin. Rear Admiral Os-
lerhauri. commander of the attacking
fleet, at 11 o’clock, had massed the
gi cater portion of his battleships to
the eastward of Block Island. Nine
the battleships' were lying on
Block Island, cleared for actoin. as
another division of the att^king
fltet, composed of the cruisers Wash
ington. Chester and Salem, came in
from sea end, rounding Northeast
Light at the end of Sandy Hook,
headed over towards Gardiners Bay^
Fifteen or twenty miles to tne
east'J^'S of BIocK ..land and^in the
direction of No Mans
fleet of battleships
swadron In ° s'Sluaaneous attacks
S?,on both Newport and the eastern
entrance of Lon^ Islnad.
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AMERICAN
PRIMA
LUCILLE
MARCEL,
THE
Wickershams Stand
On Regulation Of
All Corpoiaiions
OUTH TOTH
FROM PLA60E
By Associated Press.
London, July 19.—According to flg-
ures received in this city the deaths
from the plague 'n India have reach
ed the enormous to^al of 650.690 for ihe
half year ended June 30.—The d'lsease
has taken such a hold on that country
that its rivages are little heard of ex
cept throush the occasional official
plague statistics.
The British India office in recent re
ports stated that the epidemic w^as par
ticularly virulent this year and that the
most persistent efforts to stamp it out
failed to effect a permanent improve
ment in the situation.
Declared jor a Government
Com mission to Regulate
Great Industrial Orgoniza
tions Same Way Interstate
Commerce Commissioti Re
gulates Railroads,
IG TERM
CftPTORE
DONNA, AND FELIX WEINGARTNER
Paris, July 19.—Lucile Marcel, the American soprano, whom Jean de Rezke converted from a struggling aspir
ant for fame into a successful opera singer, is now in Paris and may shortly visit her own country.
Seven years ago, when she vvas still immature, Mme. Marcel made an attempt to secure an engagement with
the Metropolitan Opera House. New York, but was unsuccessful. Soon after that “Jean” took her in hand and
gave her the benefits of his tuition. In four years the young American had made such progress that she was
engaged for the Vienna Opera House then under the management of Felix Weingartner.
She has also sung with success in the Hamburg Opera House and in other places, but her efforts have been
chiefly devoted to concerts. It is now said she will appear in America next spring.
Only a Few More Hours
And Pony Contest Will
Be a Matter Of History
All Ballots Must H in
By 10 p. m. Tomonow
’ I \ 19.—When Jim An-
• , . .- aped rrom the road
’ near rar.=on yeiiter-
.’ilson. >t^rvinrt 2't years
d. 'w.'s soundly abused
hor-»' thieves and bur-
. hi? word of honor
i;. n FviKev n-'t to escape,
a m> '’.'h ago that
'.re the next man who
'Aab Makes Denial.
’• d Press
hily 19.—Charles M.
- -Irni of the Bethlehem
,‘iou, save emphatic de-
ht ral report that there
rf made at the Brussels
• r-p to make an interna-
■nr to control steel
■ HI attended the Brus-
• V E STRUCK ALASKA
■^EPDAY—CAUSES FLOOD.
i i'r» SB.
; .a July 19.—A heat
V'i-ka yesterday, the
V .ild'^z ri^in'i to 80 de-
rti tii weather is melting
i. i the streams fed by
-'!all\ high Ganr-s of
-' in;.' to save the bridges
■ "lines.
lo.
; r. esp.
19 Roth branch-
' • r ;n ^=-ssicn today.
:*i;.rocity si)eeches by
ro.vn, of Nebraska and
' !i’:fornia, were the regular
' ■ senate and Senator
■’ souri, who had expected
• -r rday in advocacy of the
niny have the floor today
' A
department emergency
i.irities and the Wicker-
! » \V'i« kersham charges of
lie government to proce-
-ap cases were expected to
■enUon in the houee.
Ballot'^Box Closes at Ten Sharp
And Any Votes Not in at
That Time Cannot be Coun
ted—Be on Time,
DElCmiTS IN
Miss Ruth Solomon Makes Big
Gain in To-day's Standings,
Passing the Hundred 2 hou-
sand Mark,
Tomorrow is the day of days, the
close of The Xews pony contest. At
10 o’clock tomorrow night the last
ballot must be in and as soon after as
possible the count w’ill be made and
the prize winners decided.
From the looks of things in the
past few days it is easily seen that
the real contenders for the pony out
fit and other prizes have come to a
full understanding of what sort of
campaigning they must do during the
last few' hours of the competition.
There is still time enough left in
w'hich to secure more subscriptions
and every moment should be taken
advantage of. You cannot afford to
overlook any possible source that
may yield a subscriptiori, and you
have a mighty short time left in
which to go after them. Make every
minute count.
Ten O’clock Sharp.
Absolutely and finally we wish to
impress upon the minds of all con
testants and ’.heir supporters that the
contest will close at 10 o’clock to-
morrov/ night. Not 10:10 or 10:05 or
even 10:01, but 10 o’clock sharp. If
all subscriptions are not in and the
ballots in the' ballot box at 10 o’clock
sharp they will absolutely not be
counted and can only be saved as re
minders of what might have been.
After the count was made for to
day’s list of standings, the ballot box
was nailed shut and will not De re
opened until after the contest closes
and the final count made. The stand
ings will not be published tomorrow.
Contestants or any of their friends
are invited to be present on the clos
ing night and wdtness the count and
if any contestant is not satisfied w'lth
the result and wants to verify the
count they will be given ample oppor
tunity to go over the ballots for
themselves.
Fair and Square.
As has been emphasized from the
tn ur ivio»«= - Start this contest is being conducted
I. of ^hrstation, whol absolutely on the square and no con-
assistant directc- The testant need have fear of anything
being done that cannot be opened to
the view and criticism of other con
testants and the public in general.
The contest ha^ been a good natured
ofoi-+ A scram-
Land another
was apparently
with the
main
May Kill Fatal
Leprosy Gem
ments now being conducted by the fed
?rt" leprosy Investigation ,Btation at
*Honolul'L undoul.ted.y Will pro^
serums and vaccines fatal to lepro y
germs. a«»rdlng Di;-wK
|^rd"verrly fr'o;’'Hruiuiu Jhe
gSm itself Dr. Clegg said has been iso-
lated.
Condition of John W. Gates.
Bv Associated Press. thnt
Paris Julv 19.—Dr. Gros states that
he found further ii^Proveme^ in ^s
patient when he visited John W. Gates
today.
Tl[ SENATORS
Washington, July 19.—Democratic
leadere in the house are closely
watching developments in the senate
as the time approaches for action
on legislation introduced in the lower
branch. The expressed position is that
Senator LaFollette’s wool bill is now
likely to b tacked to the farmers’ free
list as a fider and that the senate
democrats w'ill keep the bills sepa
rated. The house leaders say they
feel that after the LaFollette bill has
been voted down in the senate the
republican insurgent senators may be
induced to vote with the democrats
on the Underwood w'oolen schedule
bill.
The democratic leaders contend
that the LaFollette bill is not really
a revenue raising measure in the
same sense as the Underw^ood bill.
House democrats have taken the
view that they would rather have
the Underwood bill defeated than to
accept the LaFollette bill. In that
event the democrats claim they would
be in a good position to go before
the country on the defeated meas
ure.
Speech Was Lit'ile Short oj
Sensational—Law of Supply
and Demand no Longer Con-
trols Prices he Says—His
Speech,
By Associated Press.
Duluth, Minn., July 19.—Attorney
General VVickersham, before the Min
nesota state bar association here this
afternoon took an advanced stand on
the further federal regulation of cor
porations and declared for a govern
ment commission to regulate great in
dustrial organizations in the same way
that the interstate commerce regu
lates railways, was certainly most de
sirable and it might be absolutely ne
cessary,
Mr. Wickersham’s speech was little
short of sensatinoal in many of its
features. He declared it was a matter
of serious consideration whether it
would be practical to give to the pro
posed interstate corporation commis
sion the pow'er to fixe prices. He said
to do this would simply require an ex-
tension of the principle by which the
interstate commerce commission con
trols the rates on railroads.
How Prices Are Controlled.
The law of supply and demand, Mr.
Wickersham said, no longer controls
prices in the United States. For years,
he declared, the prices in all the great
staple industries have been fixed by
an agreement between th principal pro
ducers and net by a normal play of
free competition. An interstate com
mission, the attorney general added,
w'ould prevent violations of the anti-
Newsboys Keep
Stiike Going
By Associated Press.
New Orleans, July 19.—After a mass
meeting yesterday afternoon in which
the newsboys voted to continue the
strike against the afternoon papers be
cause of an increase in price the boys
sallied forth from their meeting place
and kept the city cleaning department
busy sweeping torn newspapers from
down-town streets. Many news stands '
unguarded by police w'ere raided. j
Headed by a brass band they parad
ed the streets last night taking up col
lections to aid in maintaining the
strike.
The Item and States issued state
ments this morning explaining that the
increase to 3 cents was made in the
interest of the boys, w^ho are thereby
enabled to make a profit of a cent and
a half on each paper sold, whereas only
a penny profit was possible at the old
price.
The boys objected, however, and
voted to keep up the strike. Before , . , j • ^ i, •
midnight last night they were looking,‘rust act and aid busmess men to
for one of their leaders who is said to niaintain a continued status cf har-
have had $150 strike fund in his keep
ing.
By Asociated Press.
Paris, July 19.—The press continues
exercised over the arrest of M. Bois-
set, the French consular agent at
Alcazar, Morocco, by a Spanish patrol
and demands that Spain make im
mediate reparation and publicly apol
ogize.
The Echo de Paris declares that
unless Spain apologizes the French
ambassador at Madrid will be re
called. Some of the newspapers like
the Temps think that the Spanish pro
vocative attitude is due to the feel
ing that she is being ignored in the
pending Franco-German negotiations.
The Matin declares that the Fran
co-German “conversations” are less
favorable on account of the “impossi
ble” demands of Germany, which, in
return for the abandonment of Mo
rocco wishes France to cede to her
the coast of French Congo, including
the town of Libreville on the north
shore of the Gabun estuary.
The paper adds that Jules Cambon,
the French ambassador at Berlin, un
equivocally refused to entertain the
suggestion.
Many Pers6ns Massacred.
By Associated Press.
Livingstone, Rhodesia, July 19.
German district commissioner von
Frankenberg, two white sergeants,
14 black police and twenty carriers
have been massacred by the Okaran-
go tribe of Buchuanaland.
Would Send Ice
Kings lo Jail
By Associated Press.
New York, July 19.—Jail sehtences
and not fines will be sought in the
cases of the oflicials of the two New
York ice companies now' under inves
tigation, according to Assistant Dis
trict Attorney DeFord, who is con
ducting the case.
The formal complaint against the
companies lodged in the local courts
makes s'^eeping charges of conspiracy
in restraint of trade, alleging that
the monopoly maintained in bygone
years by the old American Ice Com
pany is perpetuated by the defend
ants.
TO
Health Officers of Entire
Country May Be Asked to
Fight Cholera Invasion
New* York, July 19.—The health offi
cers not only of New Y^ork, but of the
whole country, may be asked to help
repel threatened invasion of Asiatic
cholera. The discovery of live “chol
era carriers” among the 600 immi
grants undergoing bacteriological ex-
aminatifin at quarantine emphasized
The case of these cholera “carriers”
presents a puzzle. As yet the health
authorities have not decided how soon
it will be safe to permit them to be at
large. Only the careful system of bac
teriological examination put into effect
Xr Health Sffl^T^^S^t/TaTTald | here
about the difiiculty of confining the i is said, have detected the pre^^
disease to the quarantine hospitals of cholera germs in these apparently
competition from the start. A
ble for subscriptions w'hich count the
winning votes and a fight in which
rhe one? who work the hardest and
Continued on Page Eight.
ports of entry.
Dr. Doty is conferring with Surgeon
General Wyman, head of the United
States Marine hospital service, to plan
how the country may be protected
against “carriers” w'ho harbor the
germs while themselves free
their ill effects. A system of general
observation is contemplated, so that
even after the “carrier” is released
from quarantine, the health authorities
of the place where he settles may
w'atch for possible transmission of the
cholera germs in
healthy persons.
The following bulletin relating to
the cholera situation w’as given out
at quarantine at 9 a. m.:
“At Hofman Island, Domenso Ranci-
tello, aged 68 years, one of the steer-
from age passengers of the steamer Moltke,
was taken sick with
picious of cholera.
“At tte Swinburne
further deaths hjive
symptoms sus-
hospital
occurred.
By Associated Press.
Washington, July 19.—Possibly the
navy is more attractive to the average
young American than the army, but
the fact is that the recruiting offi
cers find little difficulty in abtaining
as many recruits for the naval service
as they need. At the present the en
listed force is only about 600 short
of the full quota allow'ed by law, which
is 47,500.
The recruiting, department has
adopted the policy of refraining from
filling up the quota, keeping a num-.
her of vacancies to provide places for
the trained veterans who are dis
charged on the expiration of their
terms of enlistment with the under
standing that they may re-enter the
service at any time w'ithin four
months.
maintain a continued status of har
mony within the requirements of the
law.
Many of Mr. Wickersham’s declara
tions were the most radical he has
made since his entrance into official
life. There was nothing in the speech,
however, to indicate how’ far the at
torney general reflected the views of
President Taft. On several occasion*
in the last year he has been regarded
as the spokesman for the administra
tion.
The attorney general discussed what
further regulation of interstate com
merce is necessary or desirable from a
broad point of view and said he had
not atempted to express a conclusion
but merely to state the elements of a
great problem.
“That some further regulation ol
corporations carrying on commerce
among the states may be necessary,”
he said, “is coming to be a matter of
current comment. It has been openly
advocated quite recently by represen
tatives of some of the larger combina
tions of capital, probably as a means
of salvation and to preserve under
government supervision great organi
zations whose continued existence is
menaced by the recent interpretation
of the Sherman act, that disintegration
would necessarily be attended by
much loss. To such it is a case of
‘any port in a storm.’ Better contin
ued co-operative life even under a
powerful master than disseminated
properties and segregated activities
without constant governmental suiier-
vision.
“But there are other reasons for
such regulation. The federal depart
ment of justice is not organized or
equipped to maintain constant super
vision and control over business organ
izations. It deals only with ca«es of
violation cf the law. The Activities of
an administrative board or commission
would be directed to preventing such
violations and in aiding business men
to maintain a continued status of har
mony with the requirements of lav.
“Whether or not such a federal in
dustrial commission should have pow
er to regulate prices, of course, is a
matter for serious consideration. The
interstate commerce law' prescribes
as a legislative rule that prices lor
transportation by rail or wire, or pipe
line, shall be reasonable and that no
unjust discrimination shall be made
between individuals or localities sim*
ilarly situated. A similar rule might
be declared by congress with respect
to the prices of commodities handled
in interstate commerce.
“We have become accustomed to the
regulation of rates of transportation
but the suggestion that prices of com
modities be regulated by congress
seems novel and radical.
“Yet the principle on which the
regulation of transportation rates is
based is simply that when property is
used in a manner to make it of publia
consequence and effect the community
at large it becomes clothed with a pub-
lis use and may be controlled by the
Earl Rock, son of W. D. Rock, was
drowned in the Catawba river near
Rozzells Ferry this afternoon.
A messenger came in to report that : public for the common good.
“a boy named Rock was drowned.” “The conduct of the gre^t commerce
a UUJ-, uoiucu . , _ . in staple articles among the states is
That was all he knew. Chief Orr and becoming a matter of public conse-
Mr. O. L. Barringer left at once in ■ q^^ignce and the courts have upheld le?
an automobile for the river. j islation regulating it and presi;ribin
The boy was seen to leave town this j ggj^e of the conditions under -.vhich
morning on a bicycle and carrying ^lay be carried on. To require ab
a kodak. It is said he went to join a ' of these conditions that prices
picnic party. The boy is about 17 , for commodities dealt in interstate
years of age. His father lives near the i commerce must be reasonable, only
Country Club. News of the distressing involves a new application of the eame
event reached Charlotte just as the | principle.
nirrner aeatus - -- News goes to press. No particulars,'! ‘The anti-trust legislation of tiie
hnard the Anchor line steamer Peru-1 could be learned, of the distressing , United States and most of the several
gia conditions are satisfactory.” | affair. Continued on Page Nine.
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