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11 p J.#>|«|J ^ii;«iLi«H^(pp^p^^linppi^pppipp^i^viiiiijpwj.yf lifipt^pyi^^ ;. ',!) THE NEWS SPORTING PAGE FOR LATEST DOPE ON BASEBALL RESULTS OF GAMES IN ALL LEAGUES »« £»,««, the CH ARLOTTiT NE WS. “»«'«» \ r.L. 7092 CHARLOTTE N. C., FRIDAY fcVENING, JULY 28, Seventy-six WowM Excursionists Brought to Charlotte PRICED In Charlotte 2 Cents a Copy aDlly—5 Cents Sundar. ' Outside Charlotte * - ■ - — ^egro n Trai^ Made Up at ' After the Collision stet day Forenoon d Here Shortly Ajter :k Last Evening, r^oads Gr ueso me , .. f Mint Street Cross- I I) ounded Taken to >uuiantcn Hospital—i ' cenes, i TWO MORE DEATHS. Jame Warren About 1:30 and Oscar Foard This Afternoon. Died -O OEAD ♦ AiVD INJURED. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ all of Durham: ♦ '.A'.:.. .. ♦ ❖ i ’1 V. I t*EKrt^ JAV ♦ EBB. i;:. MILLER. ♦ r AMERON. ♦ ♦ .lams Wareren and Oscar P^’oard. ho at^ stated above, were not expect ed to live through the day, died with in a tew minutes of each other abtjui 1 ;ott. 1 ills uviko- ton dead as the result tht' I (illisicui. There are several others who arc scriousl> injured, but if is oxi'ectcd that they will pull rh rou.?h. Dr. Witherspoon and his corps of as- si'^taiit?, havp been at the hoh-pital prac'tioally all da>. The doctors were divided up into squads, each (luad having a certain Mk ro perform. 1 were three colored women wl'o relieved the nurses of the hospital I.; t nisht. doing valiant work, as did t! I' n iise?. viz: Alary .1. Johnson. 1 «'mpia Wilton and Ora Lee McKin- se\. .Mrs. J. O. Gardner, of the board of managers, has worked with almost su perhuman endurance, at the hospital .-ince yesterday aftf'rnoon. 3:30 P. M. At o;:-{0 the report from the hospital was: “All doing as well as possible. No more deaths.” injured: logs bruised and m-! ^ondi S w r Cents a Copy Dally and Sunday Uncle Sam—Well Togo, you dandy little fighter, welcome to our shores. Admiral Togo arrives August 4, a guest of the United States.—News Item. a.i. h--;:?od about limbs -r‘>\ and cur, and gourds 'in.J ifi- ',1' t -n, bruised ana injured rut a;i;i br-.. .-r(i a)'d ! till i l.i, cu: and and i:i'»M rail>. ■.'‘.o R.)l> nM*n, (“ut an l bruised, j:' ln»''!*nall-. 1 I'^’tHMon, bruispd i.:d cut. rti>^ Kausett. pli^hlly b*;uisod. .M- iiay injr.rcd inrt*iiaUy. Harris, flesh wound, and >"J legs and hips. - Vv ailer, riph' leg br^k'^n and > .V''’'nall V , .! '-rd, thigh broken and ninstj- ■i. i. the hips. iiackney, ankles b.uised and 'ini'! , 1> g hip, and arm t'C i a’ tlie shoulder, le Br*''^n, leg bruised. -• Thompson, bruised and cut. P f i 'a, bruised and cut. ‘ :iiJen, injured Internally. '.••idlo v, injured InternallyJ !.d ix>ckiar. cut and bruised and body. By Associated Press. Saratoga, X. Y., July 2S.—Saratoga toda> experienced a revival of the »nce famous regattas on the Saratoga lake. Over a mile and a quarter Mraightaway course scores of oarsmen v.’ere prepared to battle for America's i('\\ ing honors, today’s 39th annual re- .cHfta of the National .\ssociation of Sniateur oarsmen marking the fifth ime that'champion-'hip contests have I'een derided on the lake. A match Vine between James P. Reilly, the Saratoga vetei.in, and James T. 'I’eu'. k, the Syrar'Ub« varsity cOi.ch had been considered one of the ix>ssibili- ties of the regatta but was abandoned. Canada s^ent the pick of her scullers to compete in some of the events thus lending an international interest to the occasion. Nominations for the championship singles includes a quar tet tp of well known oarsmen, John \\. O’Neill, of Halifax; Samuel F. Gor- (ian. of Philadelphia: Fred Shepard, of New York, and Lou F. Scholes of Toronto, but the latter will not com- P''te. O’Neill, a winner in 1905, is one of the fastest amateurs who ever sat in a t^hell. Shepard with Fred Fuessell, has been in the winning senior dou bles for t\\o years, and Gordan, the Vesper sculler, won the assocition se nior singles last year. Shepard and Fuessell have entered in the doubles in the hoi^e of winning for the third successive time and Fues- sell planned to start in the quarter mile dash, the fourth event on tomor row’s program. It was in this event I T He Will Make Fun and Create Inter est Among all Classes Both Young And Old. Sherlock Holmes, Jr., will soon be i breatli of suspicion the talk of the town. ! raised "against us. has ever been The man of mystery is beginning to be irequeatly oaeuiioned aLni. it -is a safe declaration that before Mr. Holmes ends his stay in Charlotte he is going to have the run of his last year that he rowed a dead heat bi uised about legs and ■ for second place with E. B. Butler, of I the Toronto Argonauts, collar bone broken and i exception of the quarter ; mile dash all the races today and to morrow will be over a mile and a quar ter course finishing near the north end of the lake. Today’s events which were scheduled to begin 3 p. m. half hour intervals Included intermediate single scull shells, senior single scull shells, (association), intermediate four oared shells, intermediate double scull shells champion senior single scull shells and senior four oared shells. u! vr, leg3 bruised and cut; (J iii'i rnall.. j. jack sprained. ; i.ar-'n, .'.lightly bruised. • .it'vonh, bruised and ■ ■ J i>;d internally. I > 0 [i.son, bruised about legs • a infernally. j irtin, shoulder bruised. | qui«rou, right leg broken. :a ( ameron, arms and leg ! d cut. j riunier, slightly bruised. ( Ic.nnigan, feet and legs, d cut. . .. hoB, injured internally. | Hall, back sprained and arms bruised and cut. iJisce, cut about head. • • n, I'-Ks bruised and injured President Asked to Veto Wfool Bills slightly bruised. I , iiand cut and bruised t 'lers, injured internally, son. slightly bruised, bruised and cut about ;>rii sed and cut about and By Associated Press. Washington. July 28.—President Taft today was urged by several stand-pat reRublican leaders of the senate and house to veto any wool revision bill that is likely to be agreed upon in the forthcoming con ference on the house and LaFollette compromise wool measures. Senator Crane and Representative Weeks, of Massachusetts, sind Repre sentative Bartholdt, of Missouri, were among the men who gave this advice to the president. It was their belief, they said, that Mr. Taft would not injure hlmSelf in the eves of the country by vetoing bill not bae|d on furnished by the tariff board. The congressmen advanced the idea n, bruised about lega i^at the senate coalition of insurgents and democrats was an attempt to put the president “in a hole” politically. ?]xecutive disapproval of a measure designed for such a purpose, they told the president, could not work to his discredit. While the president himself main tains silence as to what course he will pursue if a wool revision bill Is pre sented to him the intimations are stronger today that he will not hesi tate to use the veto. This would put an end to all attempts to revise sched ule K and would serve as a deterent to revision of other tariff schedules at this time. The house today received the new comi)romise woo Ibill from the senate, no action was taken, the bill being laid on the speaker’s table, and th cotton tariff revision debate proceeded uS, alightly bruised. I fiiised about arm J 'Pd internally, m.sii.i, biuised about head ^ wool revision s-.^'ientiflc data ' Itu, injured internally, i*-. head bruised and cut '1' i'r '''•r, fflce cut and bruised, ail. liiji tmashed. re* t bruised and cut : chest. •i i ft leg broken. •t • broken and side sprained. 53 and hip bruised Bruised. f'T, Junie Olive. Will ^ Maione, John Mebane, v’. Ingram, George ' i’o'VHll. \V. O. Smith, . H I.. Robinson, Ster- HoI-'-rt Albright, Ar- iorllo S-’I a Thorough, Ed. I' lp. vVillle Lunsford, .Unued on Page 5. with. life. When this propos-ition formally open& up there will be a $25.00 cash prize offered by the identification of Mr. Holmes. The first man, woman or child who walks up to the right party and says: “You are the mysterious Sher lock Holmes, Jr., of the Charlotte News,’’ will receive $25 in cash, at the same time holding the last issue of the News in their hand. Now, remember, there are no strings tied to this proposition. All you will have to do to get the money will be to approach the right party at the right time, say the phrase, and have the last issue of The News. It might be well to state that this contest is going to be carried out so that everyone will have the same opportunity. No favorites v.ill he played, and we sincerely hope when the contest is ended, some one will get the money who believes- in the proposition and works for the prize. It matters not to us who gets the prize money. For information, as manager of this proposition, I will state that no living soul outside of the newspaper olTice, will know who Mr. Holmes is, and no one con nected with the paper can enter the contest. We have come to Charlotte back ed by some of the strongest letters that it is possible for anyone to carry. Behind us we have left a string of unbroken success and no fiMId WHEN It TRi mm TRilGK By Assocrafed Press. Burdette, N. T,, July 28.—Fifty or more passengers were slightly in jured when three sleeping cars and a day coach of an eastbound excur sion train of the Lehigh Valley rail road jumped the track near here to day. The train was bound for Atlan tic City, carrying about 250 passen gers. principally from points in the middle west. With the exception of Mrs. W. J. Twenhofel, of Cincinnati, whose back was badly sprained, all of the injured passengers were able to continue their journey on a train made up for them. Is Not Routed. Unr’.er no circun;istances nor for any price is Sherlock Holmes, Jr., ever routed into a place of business. We have found from a good many yearsr’ experience that this is impos sible where a contest is conducted honestly. We do sometimes use win dows to which we route Mr. Holmes, this paper for But never to a place of business in a city this size, be that place large or small. It never was and never will be done except by an irresponsible person who double crosses the public and has no regard for either his word or his business. PREVHILSIII Water OJ Reservoir Was Let To-day Fish Were Dying VESSEL WRECKED— CREW PROBABLY LOST By Associated Press. Halifax, N. S., -July 28.—The steamer John Irwin struck a rock and sank off Beaver harbor last Tuesday morn ing. Willie McLeod, of Halifax, was washed ashore on a hatch at Liscom, ninety miles east of here, and is be lieved to be the only survivor of the dozen or more of the crew. UDEIIMEII Mr. Holmes’ Whereabouts. . Sherlock Holmes, Jr., is cne gen tleman »ho is always master of his own actions. He has no specified Places to visit at any specified times, and wouldn't follow a route if it was given to him. We are liable to run across him at any one in some prominent store, pass you in the postofflce or sit next to you In the cars at any time of the day or night, for Mr. Holmes is a sociable fellow' and is never so happy as when mingling with the crowd, and remember, whenever you say the phra&e to him correctly the $25.00 cash will be yours. Sherlock Holmss, Jr., will demon strate to your satisfaction before he leaves Charlotte that he is a past master in the art of .Jeception and you will net catch him without an effort. You will b9 told throiighout the colunms of this paper just exactly when you can make a run for tti money, and in the meantime, watch the daily story. By Associated Press. Paris, July 28.—Great optimism pre vailed at the capital today, though it was admitted that the negotiations with Germany regarding the Moroccan affair remain difficult. The state ment of Premier A suit h in the British house of commons yesterday and Pre mier Caillaux’s advice to the French to keep cool and be prudent relieved the tension at a moment when relief was most needed and the discreet mil itary preparations of the government were giving rise to the apprehension that war was not impossible* These preparations included orders to the cavalry to be ready for the field at the first signal, the heavy provis ioning of the forts on the eastern fron tier by special supply trains run out of Paris at night and the mustering of all regiments to their full quota. It is understood that Baron von Kiderlen-Waechter, the German for eign secretary, who is conducting the negotiations with Jules Cambon, the French anfbassador at Berlin, has no- Ified his original program and is now i the railway company volunteers to in- Alderman E. W. Thompson, chair man of the special committee of the board of aldermen, appointed on W’’ed- nesday night, to look into the feasibili ty of adding Briar Creek to the city water system in the present crisis, made his report to the aldermen last night, immediately on the convening of the board. Messrs, W. F. Stevens and J. P. Carr were the other two mem bers of the committee. The committee, through Mr. Thomp son, reported that about 700,000 gal lons of water per day could be obtain ed from Brian Creek and recommend ed that 600 feet of pipe be laid at once to connect this supply with the city mains, that a settling basin and pump be installed at the old station and that the w’ater be chemically treated there and turned into the city mains at once. The city biologist had stated to the board on Wednesday night that the water could be made pure enough to turn into the city mains without danger by chemical treatment. The w-ater fi'om this source and why the means mentioned can be used by the city in two weeks, it is said. The board unanimously agreed, to adopt the report and act upon it at once. Seaboard Generous. Besides the arrangement to use the Briar Creek supply, the board heard further details from Mr. Thompson relative to obtaining the supply from the Catawba river at Mt. Holly. The Seaboard Air Line, Mr. Thompson, re ported, offered the use of its pump and tank at Mt. Holly to the city and offer ed to transport the water from the Catawba to the city in tank cars at cost. The Seaboard’s pumping station at Mt. Holly has a capacity of 200, 000 gallons a day, of w'hich the rail way uses only about 40,000 gallons This leaves 160,000 gallons, which are at the disposal of the city. Besides this It Was Found That ike Fish in the Reservoir at Irwin*s Creek Were Dymg and it Became Necessary to Let Off the Water. there is no hope of saving the Ca nadian Pacific Railway Company’s steamer Empress of China, which struck on a submerged rc^ck off Awa peninsula while trying t^ make the port of Yokohama yesterday. THE EVENING NEWPAPER EXAMINING DETECTIVES IN THE LORIMER HEARING. By Associated Press. Washington, July 28.—The multi plicity of indictmects out of the so- called White confession was a subject to which counsel for Senator Lorimer devoted much time today in cross-ex amining Detective Thomas McGuire, a witness before the Lorimer senate committee. McGuire described his work in several of these cases. Steamer Probably Doomed. Bv Asosciated Press. ‘Tokio, July 28.—It i& believed that A canvass of 135 department > stpres in cities of more than > 75,000 population elicited from • 102 the unequivocal opinion that ■ the evening newspaper is a bet- > ter advertising medium than ■ the newspaper published in the • morning. The reason is plain • to see. Six days of every week the • morning paper is read by peo- ■ pie on their way to their offices, ■ and either left in the street car • or tossed to one side in the ofl[ice. The evening paper is cai-ried home. The family reads it. Its contents are likely to be the subject of dinner-table dis cussion. When her day’s house hold labor is ended, the wife sits down with the evening pa per to read the news and search the advertisements for bargains. The morning paper is a sort of casual caller. The evening paper is a visitor, a friend, counselor and companion. Its influence is far stronger with its readers than the influence of the hastily-scanned morning paper. That is why it produces so • much better results for the ■ advertiser. asking for a part instead of the whole coast of French Congo but at the same time naming other conditions w'hich France would find difficulty in accept ing. Nevertheless, there is a strong feeling that a solution will be found. The morning papers welcome Mr. Asquith’s speech as clarifying the sit uation and hastening a settlement. The Figaro understands that Emperor W'illiaru told personal friends that the Moroccan question could be settled amicably with France. Officiai Anouncement. Rambouillit, France, July 28.—At the conclusion of the cabinet meeting today, when President Fallieres pre sided two oflftcial announcements were made. The first was that foreign secretary, DeSelves, in explaining to his collea gues the external political situation, had said that the pourparlers between France and Germany were proceeding normally. The second announcement was that the cabinet had decided upon the re organization of the army which repre sents the “crowning of the military work pursued by the republic for the last forty years.” The German Side. Berlin, July 28.—It is believed in official circles that France and Ger many will be able to untie the Af rican knot by direct negotiations had without opening the doors to the participation of Great Britain and the other powers. Rosy optimism, however, is not manifested. Chan cellor von Bethmann-Hollweg and probably foreign secretary Baron i von Kiderlen-Waechter leave today to join Emperor William who will arrive tonight at Swinemunde from his cruise in northern waters. Definite predictions would be dis placed until after this meeting. The foreign office was fully prepared for Premier Asquith’s statement and now confirms earlier assurances that Great Britain would not intervene so long as Germany and France were trying to settle the matter directly and also that Chancellor Lloyd- George’s speech was not meant as a veto of a Franco-German arrange ment on a basis of a French-Conp imderstanding as a section of the British press has intimated. Loudon. July 28.—The Moroccan sit uation seemed less sultry today and it was generally conceded that Premier Asquith’s statement had helped to clear the aid and, to that extent, to ease the tentlon. It is the hope of the British govern ment. the Algeciras act now^ having been shown to be mere diplomatic patchwork, that some more lasting set tlement will be affected which will tranquilize the European situation as well as tbe Moi'occan difficulty. stall another pump equal in capacity to the one mentioned and this will also be at the service of the city. Still in addition to this Mr. E. W. Thompson of the Southern Cotton Oil Company and a member of the board of alder men will lend another pump with a capacity of 300,000 gallons a day for the purpose of pumping water into tank cars and hauling it to the city as a reserve supply. The offer of the Seaboard will be accepted at once and cars will likely be started today to hauling the 160,- 000 gallons which are available by the Seaboard’s pumping plant now in op eration. Within at least three days the other two pumps, the extra one offered by the Seaboard and t>’^ offered by Mr. Thompson, will be in operation. This will furnish a supply of 660,000 gallons daily from the river as a sup plement to what Irwin’s rceek and Stev*art's creek are already furnishing. If a supply of 700,000 gallons is obtain ed from Briar creek (which can be utilized in two weeks, it is estimated), there will .Je 1,360,000 gallons of water for the city’s use, in additipn to what is supplied by the present system. This, it is believed, will furnish an abundance of water for all purposes and will relieve any possibility of a dangerous situation in case of fire. The board voted unanimously to thank the offiicals of the Seaboard for their generosity in helping the city to solve a difficult problem. It also voted Mr. E. W. Thompson its thanks for his untiring efforts in relieving the situa tion and for his generosity in placing I the Southern Cotton Oil Company’s cars at the disposal of the city. Street Railway Heard From. The board consumed only a little time in dis:’'0sing of the water ques tion. Harmony and unanimity of opin ion made the consideration of that jnat- ter of short duration. But a different condition prevailed when representa tives of the Charlotte Electric railway asked the board to exempt the compa ny for paying for more than 14 inch es of permanent paving on each side of the street railway tracks. Mr. Z. V. Taylor and Mr. W. S. Lee, jr., ad dressed the board on behalf of the company, each reciting what the rail way company had done toward develop ing the city and declaring their ambi tion as members of the company to do yet greater things for the Queen City, their adopted city, if given a chance. A long wrangle by the board follow ed the hearing of the street railway representatives and its final vote stood 13 to 2 in favor of allowing the railway to be responsible for only 14 inches of the permanent paving on each side of the car tracks instead of 30 inches. Both Mr. Lee and Mr. Taylor urged Continued on Page 8. The Dead Fish Would Have Contaminated The Water Basin Causing Worse Trou ble—Water Board and May or Issue Orders, The water situation is more serious today than yesterday. It was found necessary this morn ing to let off the water in the reser voir at Irwin’s creek in order to prevent the fish dying and contami nating the basin. The water may possibly be turned on for a very short time this after noon to allow people to get drinking water, hut that will be all. Not a drop of water can be had un til then. The water board today noti fied all parties using the city water for building purposes on construction, work to quit, under penalty of $25' for first offience. The mayor issued an order warn ing people that only domestic and drinking water can be supplied; also to make provision for surface closets. Activity at Brier Creek. The water board and city are at work today at Brier creek arranging I to install pumps and boilers, Mr. Gilbert White, engineer in charge of the line to the Catawba river, arrived in the city last night and is today acting with the water board at Brier creek. Every effort is being made by the board to get water by the quick est way. To this end both Brier creek i and the river will be called on as i soon as the machinery and the tank! cars can be operated. Stewart’s creek is giving a compar atively meagre supply, while Irwin’s creek is to all intents and purposes, dry. The members of the water' board held themselves in readiness to con fer with each other, officially or un officially, at a minutes notice. A conference lasting' an hour or .so was held in the mayor’s office yes terday afternoon. The board, as stated, is working on the Brier creek proposition. The pumps are being taken from Seventh street. Some think that water can be secured from Brier creek m four or five days. “I hope such will be the case,” said Superintendent Vest. Tank Car Tomorrow. It is thought that one tank car can be brought from the river tomorrow. It will be a small tank containing not more than 50,000 gallons. Mr. Vest’s Statement. At 3 o’clock Mr. Vest made the following statement to The News: “The situation is w'orse than it was yesterday. It is as bad as it can be. The water is cut off for an inde finite period.” RILL TO - By Associated Press. Washington, July 28.—Discussion of the cotton revision bill began in tha» house today. Chairman Underwood, of the ways and means committee, opened the debate with a complete ex planation o fthe provisions o the billj the amount of revenue that will be produced by it and a defense of the reduction over the present tariff meas ure. The bill, it is expected, will be passed by the house next Thursday, Aug. 3rd. “A reduction from 47 to 28 per cent in cotton is too radical, I have heard it said,” declared Mr. Underwood, in explaining the bill. “We do not pro pose a radical reduction, but we hope to reduce every tariff schedule before we get through to a revenue basis, but not in a radical way.” Bacon Postpones Trip. By Associated Press. Paris, July 28.—Robert Bacon, American ambassador to France, had planned to sail tomorrow for New York on a leave of absence, but the negotiations of the Franco-American arbitration treaty not being conclud ed, he has postponed his departure. CONSTRUCT SURFACE ♦ CLOScTS. ♦ Out of two evils I recom mend that the public construct and use surface closets until this water famine is over. Be very particular to use plenty of lime and other dis infectants around closets and all exposed places. Boil all the well water you use. F. O. HAWLEY, Superintendent of Health. Charlotte, July 27.
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