North Carolina Newspapers

T 1 I ' In . M n I- h rov T A i 'A: 'it' TWELVE PAGE3 T01DAY. ; RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1907. TWELVE PAGE3 TODAY. :c-me TOLSTOI IN THE pnoz:::3 of tc!z FOjII ' PACIFICS f.IASONS GATHER KffllGEflKli ; CITY OF PANAIJA - . .... BAIfTOAalKG:';' D0LE0FPB0P0E1 HERE r Hl.vJli.bU TIIECMTBLO; KIM S3 When Till Was lfe-fuscd He Took " the Missile Xrom. Beneath His Coat , tfnd HurlWI It. at President RuhIV- ion Ttwfkwo of the Tragedy' t r. the Fourth Sftwt, National .Bank of Philadclplrin. ' . 1 ; t ""V . (By the Associated rtoss.) . - Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. B.--Shortiy .' before noon today an Unknown man hurled a bomb lri tfiff Fourth Ekroat National Rank, at Fourth, and library ' - (streets. The resulting explosion tore ' the bomb-thrower to pieces and killed , W.. Z.' McLear, tho assistant cashier. , Several other .employes pf the bank - and patrons wore injured. ,; ' v ' ' Two of those hurt may die. - The bomb-thrower had demanded money from the presidents Richard H. Rush , ton. When this was refused, he took ( tho missile from" under his coat and hurled It at Mr. Rushton.. ' A Alight 1 fire followed the explosion, and ten , nnts in the Bullitt building in, which the bank is .located, fled from -their , o.Hces. ' ' ,. ,r. ' t " ' The police Were quickly on hand, nnd thoy placed the vnnlta and, the V -eriiiiiiesr of the institution -uhdsr""n" , heavy guard.' ' , J Htory 'Told by RuHhton. V . " Presiden Hushton,. arter. tne ex - plosion, rushed to the eighth, floor of i lie building irom me street noor. io ,; tho rooms of the Down-Town Club, a - dining .organization. He was very much excited and trembled 'like a v loaf. He told, the following story: ' ."A man who gave bis name as G. E. Williams, shabbily dressed, giv ing no place of residence, came Into my office and asked me to lend him -$3,000,' I was busy looking over . some papers on my 'desk at the time and paid but little attention to what the man said- - He Bat there looking at me very suriously until I became . suspicious that he was a crank,; and . nkaA him in AYniiHA Mft fnr'n mlnut.A . ,if t ,f tt .whd. ftffl J " ". . ,1 left the man ha arose and went over m ma tuuii . ""-"" him talking to the cashier, but I not know what he told him, -The explosion followed next. 1 did not see the man throw the bomb, but have every reason to buddosg that he,by Representative Livingstone , of did throw it The man was killed, I . ,,.. j am given to understand by the police. My cashier, William Z. McLear, was killed outright The explosion caused great excitement ' amongst us all. Glass flow from the smashed window . and fell . in' a shower over us, and four or five .women anfong the em ploye3 rushed for the door." i tfnder- : stand that six or seven people were injurod, -but 1 do not know how Berl-: ousiy." v Mr;',Rushton, lett'the Down-Town t. Club and .returned to., the Qrat floor. ' XXa hls way down tho elevator, , ac ; f'compnled by fwveral officials; of the . bitYik, the seriousness oft' thel tragic scene from which ho kad Just escaped overcame him and he was unable to say anything more. His friends sum moned a carriage and sent hint to ' his home. ' ' - " s The Ruin Wrought ' .- . , The oxploRton devastated the inte ; rlor of tho bis banking room. Glass ; and wooilen partitions were wrecked " and leveled to the ground as though vacj clone had swept through the plnce. Dt'.'.lis were ruined and. iron, bars were twisted; In fact, there was hardly an oWwt left Intact in the room. Of it'! i i -i ;oii3 in the room, ot lvast hi", j. 1 , f ; . si rh il,s, were hurt, two ot tii mi i .,' ;i!,!y fatally. . Three of the Injured were sent to the hospital. i The explosion threw every one in (he banking room to t! i for a moment they wore i (f them, not. In.) ii ; n !. penedand fearins; Hint tl v ! i h is an eight-story sir f ' made a m ' !' " . luihton among t . . and '.iny hap- 0 PIECES f f, or the explosion brought tne tenants qu-all. tie ioors to their. Vaot, and a general rushyraB tmajl to"' alevtors and ,tbe,Btairway8, , : , As the'. excited people came.ovt, 'hertf was a-runh-'from the' street to rescue .those it was thought; had been, caught In. the explosion, Ii tha roean Mmsian .alirm of fire .was senn, w'nfl firemen were jjulckly. on the ground, There being Uo Jlrodn the "place, the firemen and policemen ordered fivpry-i thrown about Jha building. ' , , After President Rushton had jet- covered himself he told wliat'Tiap pt'neu,- kuu . seargu lor ujij duiuu thrower was made: . At tho moment It was said he bad not been killed, but In taking out the body of Cashier McLear and looking; for other dead, portions of a body ..were found fhat plainly, indicated' that the man bad been blown td pieces. ' v,Tho escape of- Proaidont- Itushtou waa almost miraculous, for the dam age Is greata3t in lite Office. The ceil ing over his 'desk is bespattered with blood, and a pile pf wreckage in one corner of tho office, and tho head and ishcmlders - of 'the v bomb-thrower, as well aa his overcoat The vexplosidn scattered an the books ..and papers of the Institution that were, not within the vaults at the time," Some of them were blown out of thtf windows. It probably will take days before,, the bank officials are abls to tell how much of the val uabla documents in the bank's cus tody were destroyed, as 'the whole place was strewn with torn .bits of paper, r , . That detective bureau is at work in efforts to identity the man who was the cause of the tragedy.. The , only thing fount that, probably belonged to him was a bunch of twenty-five keys, on the -ring of -which was the name of""W," Steele, Garner, taJ The following la ft list of the in- jjured:" William Crump, private mes- senger to the president pf the bank, wlll'dier Eugene Mcllbone, clerk; Harry Beck, bank employe;. Arthur McNichoI, clerk;; , Harper Mercer, dark; q. R, Horton; A, S. Dominir; William White,.clerk; Ubold, office boy; Albert Smith, hurt by fly ing .glass while walking along, the street. .-,,. . . CONFERENCE ON THE ; FRAUD ORDER MATTER it By the Associated Press.) I Washington, Jan.' 6. Henry W, Taft j Kev york coun8e, fop th N Ym.k cotton exchange Had a. conference to .day with Postmaster General Cortelyou concerning the "application for ths Is suance of, a fraud order against the officers and members of ths exchange 1 Ge Georgia, Mr. Taft's mission to Wash lngton was to ascertain the status ot the case, with a view to interposing A defence of the exchange when the de partment is ready to hear it. He says he Is quite certain that the charges filed with tha department do not -constitute a basis of action against either the exchange or any of its members by the postofflce department. -After his conference with the post- t master general Mr. Taft went to the whit house .to take luncheon with President Roosevelt. " , PLUGGED NICKEL i BETRAYS CROOKS. ' (By the' Associated Press.) ; , Chicago, Jan. 5. Betrayed by "a plugged nickel stol i from a child's saving bank, John Dillon,- 26 years old, said by the police to be an ex-convict, and Joseph Clancy, 27 years old, are under arrest charged with having com mitted burglary In a dozen westslde homes and stealing jewelry, silverware and furs valued at xlO.OflO. r 1 Dillon is said to have confessed giv ing the location of a "fence" where many of the stolen articles were re covered. ' J r rt-rx-r-Ti-'f fnTTrnfiAn ,. cr corro:i cur.i. Mr.. J. E. Green of St. Mary's town ship, Italeiph It. F. D. No. 5, has been appointed collector for "Wake county by the county organization of' the North Carolina division of Mre South ern Cotton Association. He will make a personal canvass of the comitv, calling on every member of the !',oci 'lion for ths Kile levy an,l dues, find he hopes that he will be wel- come. 1 !o is also authc cil to receive to the e;i. ut any time. ,ii,-'.iM' Christians in Vassslitcelto v-Crtofol Peoples- ti lt RELIGION AND CHURCH He Vl'lmo's the One Truth and Good ncss;- the Other Fafsehood , and ' ' vVll-rKelJ;Io fVna , Putrlot'.sfti L Hynonymons Only in he Orient . JMsestahlislunent of Church," J. .'. -i .By the Associated Press.-! ', Pprls, Jan. 8. Count Leo Tolstoi, has jgtten a letter to' Paul ,Sa batter, -a propos pf the latter'S book on the dis establishment of the church' in Franco In which the Il'ussinn author "predicts tho possible reduction of all tha Chris tlan countries of the west to a 'stats of vassalage to tho Japaties'and other Oriental pooples. Ho bases his. predic tion upon the ground that it is only in the Orient that religion and patriot Ism are synonymous. In thin letter . Count Tobrtol displays all his olc tlma vigor vi .Btyiu uuu nciunew laiai. He cays' In part; - - - ' "Religion Is truth and goodness, the church' faloehodd and evif. X tell you frankly I 'cannot agree with thqsa ivho bellovs! this church la an organization' indispensable to our'' religion. The church has ever been a cruel and lying institution which is seeking for tem poral' advantages has perverted and distorted the truo Christian doctrine. All the concordants have been for It nothing but compacts .with'1 the state whereby the church supported the state in return for specific materia! advan tages. Christianity has ever 'been simply a pretext for the church.- I my be told that there have been and still are in the Catholic world men and wo men of holy life, but I1 answer that thesit sainted' lives are not due to the church but rather in spite , of -the church. ' ' " - ' -"lor spite of all the efforts churrli and state to unite te two" principle, true Christianity Iovel fcumilUy. and kindness) and that of the state phy cal force1 and violence),? the contradic tion has become in -our time so fla grant that .a, solution is bound to come." .','', 4 - ' Oead Bodies of Over 'v - --JJ OTHERS YET ENTOMBED At ; i V -Tuft llio Dlsastef Occurred on the Une .,of a New Railroad. Being Built In ' Heswe, an Jimbankment of a Cat Suddenly Caving Intd the Chasm Vpon Ue Men.- - ' t , r- i p" A t ' i 03y the Assoefated Press.) ' 5 Bingen, Heise, Jaw 6. Forty work men were buried yesterday : evening in the cutting o a new railway line be tween Lanschled and Lelningen. The dead bodies of thirteen of the men and fifteen injured workmen have been re covered. . ' ; ' ' ' , , . i An embankment bad collapsed,' bury ing two men: "To rescue them large parties of other laborers . employed along the. line 'Were Immediately set to work, fend a wide pit : was dug in; wmcn ware about nrty mens' wnen tne overhanging hillside fell, burying forty of the laborers under masses of earth, . Those who were not buried began to dig out their comrades, while messen gers were sent to nearby villages' ask ing for. help. 'Several physicians and a large force of workmen were Bent to the scene of the disaster from Bop pard and 'other towns.'" The ' rescue work, which was continuea tnrougn- out the night, was dangerous .owing to'- the possibility of freBh masses of earth falling on the laborers. - ! ; Most of the workmen; killed ' wers young men. Among the injured are three ehlllireh, ; It Is ; probable that there are stilU fifteen bodies' beneath tho fallen earth. SiyCH BICIIT OF WAY , , t IS LOST TO TJIK KOAU. Tacoma, Wash.,1 Jan. B. A decision of the state supreme court rendered yesterday and approved by the entire FORTY WORKMEN DURP IN CUT '& it: i 11 """,1'"-. ' -.i a Doz- court" has the effect of taking from the j machinery destroyed in Lowell, Arl Northern Pacific Railway In many sona, near Bisbed lust night by the places 200 f t of Its 400 feet right of . way throtu h towns and cities. Pro-1 pert y wort minions In Tacoma and t liokane !. i Hot led. .t s '. . '.V t Sccpnd :f of , Investigation i-H- 4- CHICAGO;.. m&m I -i it - f ' ' ' V if 1 w Tlio ' CoinmiKsloii j'Kxpwts to Viutsb i' Its Work.. In , New York for , tlu "''rivsciit JoHar,, kn'd Will' Take - It Up iii tho Middle Wi-ht .Metropolis NcKt-'WM.'. H-Vi 1- . . I? (pythe Associated Preis.i eW York. Jan., "5. -The interutate-' commerce tjnmniislsorf represented by Chairman - KnapP"" and ''mnmi8-loner Lane nnd HarKin, -oontlhued today at ths- federal building its' inquiry into the so'-cilled ''Harrimari- lines" acting upon Ms gertdial order for an tnvestl gatiort of tho railroads of the country to discover wltfelhcr or not there are comtlnatlons'or 'agreements extinj which are lir WRtraljit 'f trade or vio lata th-Bcta.retatinfir to 4nteri it ftmt. meref. ',- " -ft , " " tspns were, present and this year It Is Today is expected to be the laslt day believed that.'ihere Will be at least of, the- conimisaipn'a sossinna in this'pix hundred. ''All meetings are held city at this time. Adjourning tnis ov1 e Masonic lodge rooms. The ma etilng the-commlsston-.wlllr meet next. jDrm, of the 4elegates wln Rrrive Jn .ycuubji . '- lutnl ..tivi ituul1 i Timnnirtti v nf n initn.1" r-.v-- bo? ofvrromlnent omeers of the Ha'rrl man companies, "Which, 1 was devel oped yesterday, .Consist chiefly of the Union. Pacific Jtallroad Company, the Southern Pacific Company, the Oregon Short Line and the1 Oregon Railroad ijf .el.., L, ... i ' jr. . .' . :'.,t.A unu nviBuui.?..1.r.,. u i onnvenieneeR ttr ."the heHnno-s j tnese ! four companies have been grouped un der the term "th four Pacifies. ' ' The sitting commissioners are some what "disappointed, over the 'inability of E. H. Harrlmao to appear as a Wit ness at this time, but his attorneys de clared that ,1 will be two- weeks yet effects bttf Went'opefatton.,. Mr. Htrwf rlmatt iay eventually give his' test!-1 rnonyir Washlnpton, aa the eommis-1 dion has not decided yet Whether it Wttf retur AMv Tofjt toe-completa its hearing. r j ; t , Koad Prcsfdcmts Witnesses, a, ' E. T- Jeftery', bresld'ent of the Den ver $ Hfo Grande Railroad, and affil iated lines,. ..including, the : proposed Western Pacific Railroad, was the first . wltnesa. before , the , commission today, , . Mr, jeirery nam wnejj tne llpion Pacific took, control of .the Southern Pacific there waa a shrink- j age In the -amount of . business re ceived -ly the Rio Qrande. from the Orpgon lines, "due, no doubt, , added Mr. JeiIery, ,"to the control the Union Pacific bad , o' the Southern Pacific." -t. Prior to the consolidation, were the Union and Southern -Pacific com peting lines?" Mr, Severance asked. '.'Within certain territory, yes,", re plied the Witness. . s ' r t Mr Jeffery was cross-examined by John O;.; Mllburn. of counsel for the Union Pacific. Mr. Mijbufn asked if it waa not true that the $reat trunk lines., leading west from. New -York, like the New York Central, the Erie unit others are , iiiHf. na keenl v. F(im- Deting today for California business against the Southern Pacific steamer to New Orleans as they., were before tlfoi Union. Pacific control of . the Southern- P'icific. Mr. Jeffery replied that there'.as competition, but he would hesitate to say positively that it'Wae aa keen as formerly. ",- "The competition tqday," continued Mr, Jeffery, ''Is under maintained rates. ..--Outside of the .question of rates, there" is no Reason wh,y there should 'not be competition the same as there was twenty years ago."- " "WhaJ element f - competition is there at Ogden?" tasked Chairman KnapR.., :, "None, when these roads are under common control." f , David Wilcox, president of the Del aware & Hudson Railroad Company, said he was a director, in both the Union1 and the Southern Pacific corn? panies. ' "f " - - s ' i .''At whose reqaest ; did you Join these boards?" f - . "Mr. Harrlman (suggested it, t be lieve." . k:-b fERE prion- El Paso, Texas, Jan. 5, Nine build ings were wrecked and much mining accidental esplosh n -ot dynamite in a mine store house. So far as. reported no lives were lost, AU the windows In town were broket , A -,' t . - - Annual Meeting . of Ersnj iLdge of North Carolina LIST OF DELEGATES '.,,1'' (X. Wt llo Much' Iiargcr ,than tast VoaiwExpected Hmt There "WU1 V lie 'About 800 Masons In - Attcwl-ane(-Mu;-h Important lluslncss is to Be Transacted. c sj'- a " The. Grand Lodge of Masons will meet , in Raleigh next Tuesday and wfH be in session until Thursday af ternoon. It will be the, regular an nual meeting of the Grand Lodge for tiorth Carolina, and Masons will be In . attendance from , all oyer the stte," indications pointing to" the at tndan&e being the largest In the his- ffi ry of tr.e Grand Lodge. Last year ibetwoeu - four and five hundred Ma- ,.- ,., Mondnv afternoon or ,i During the past year the Masonic order has made great progress In the state, the increase in membership be ing about; 1,400, twelve new lodges have been established and charters restored tn four. The recelnts-afl . ..: . 1 -Z'T- r. compared to eleven years ago show an increase of more than ,50 per cent-, and. the membership then was 9,842, whereas it is now 16,836. The 'order has shown gratifying growth along; all lines during the past year. 9 At the meeting the 120 annual "ommimlcattoa. to he Grand Lodge win oe iuau oy iu bikimj oeuioiaiy, Mr. John C. Drewry, The work of the tirand Lodge will be exemplified by.!lhvi,gj."and cuatodlans and. grand lectijreijSi Lieutenant-Governor . F.,I. Winston is grand master .at the pres (Contlnued on Page Five.) , COULD NOT SEE LIGHT Engineer" Ilildctad Under -a CroSaffire LONG HOURS ON DUTY Tells the. Commission IThat Very Ofn . ten Men; Were Called to Go Ont on Runs Wnien They Had lot Had Sufficient ' Best-Thought OS in Washington. ' " By the Associated Press.) . ' ' . Washington Jan. 5.-Tb,e Inter state commerce commission today 'continued its Investigation into? tho block signal system employed on the Baltimore & Onto Railroad, ' wlth particular reference to the wreck of last Sunday night.; The star witness of yesterday Harry -H.',. Hildebrand,. the engineer of 2120.. tne. "dead" train, was again put upon the stand. He bad practically finished his story of the wreck "yesterday, .'but-, there were further points Hrhich the com mission were anxious to have "more cjearty4 brought ont. Nearly; all Of the employes and officials of the Bal timore & Ohio who have any knowl edge- of value to. the commission will be asked to tell what they know. . Assistant General Counsel 'Wilson of the Baltimore ft Ohio 'Cross-examined Engineer Hildebrand. ,, In reply to a question of Mr. Wilson Hilde brand said that it was impossible to see any lights at Terra, Cotta when he struck the Frederick Local..!. Tt would have stopped anywhere If 1 had seen a red light," he added. - Replying to a question ot Commis sioner Clements he said that he had seen a white light at Takoma, which waa a platform, Us' t. vv. - ,a : "I had no reason to believe that No. 66 had not reacted Washington,"; said. Mr., Hildebrar 1. -j Jopked M my watch ' at Silver Springs and I knew that 66 was then six minutes (Continued on Page Five.) THE Pcssitle That- It Was .WcS- THE SHIP HAY BE SAFE She Sailed From San Francisco for Uie - Is(Suus ' December TlUrty first A' Heavy Southeastern Gale' . Him fleen Blowing for Several . Days Along Mie Pacific Coast, 'SI By the Associated Press,) San' Francisco, Cal.. Jan. 5. A report was received m this city late last night that sev.H-al life rafts and other wreckage' with the nnma "City of Pan-' ama,, on them came ashore at warden Beach- early last evening. . The City of Panama sailed from here December 81 for tpe Isthmus.7'-' Among her passengers waa Dr. Henry Waldo Coe of- Portland," "who was booked through to New York and while at Panama' was to investigate the hy gienic surroundings as far as they af fect labor, He was to make a report to the medical editor association . pf which he wu president and to. Presl dent Roosevelt. Mrs.' Coe was with him and a number o( prominent Ore- eonlans also. ,- In addition to her cabin passengers the City of Panama carried twenty- five Chinese and twenty in the steer age. Her cabin passengers were James Bowbry, W. a. McPherson, R. O. Mc Pherson, pr,' E. Rutherford and wife. Dr. H. Wi Coe and 'Wife, T; E. Prince, Frank ' J: Gluyas, ' Thomas Clark, Charles L, fihafferd, J. V. Conty end Harry Cooper, wife and child, .' ' Wardef Beach Is on the coast In San ta Cruff county about 2 miles north of Santa Crus City; and very remote from any telegraph; 'or telephone com munication. - ' Th new of '. the' wreckaga-7; being washed ashore at1 that point was brought to Peacadoro last night." Pes? cadoro- is about' fifteenr miles Jiorth cA WaAxifcH Beach. " ' 1 : i A heavy southeastern gale has been blowlne for several davsj and it is DOS- slble that the wreckage found on the beach has been washed overboard. The City of Panama is owned and operated by the Pacific Mall Steamship Com pany and has- piled between San Fran cisco and Mexican and Central Ameri can ports. She is an iron screw steam er of 1,49(1 tons and waa built In 1S7S. : : It is known (hat the' steamer upon leaving here on Monday In the teeth ef a heavy northwest gale had some trouble on the bar as she. was stopped there for a time -before proceeding on her way south. ; . , ' The City of anama, one of, the oldest vessels on the Pacific Mail "fleet, was commanded by Captain A W. Nelson. The vessel carried besides the cap- fain of the first officer, Piysbury, for merly commander ' of the Manchuria, two other officers, a freight elerk ana store keeper with a crew of twelve,' fifteen men in thtj engineer's , depart ment and eight in the steward's de partment." In. alt the crew numbered fifty-six J 1 f There were fifty-six passengers on board. Fifteen, occupied the first cabin and fifteen were in the steerage, The other twenty-six were Chinese. ; Had the City of Panama, continued uninterruptedly on her way shw would have been due yesterday at Mazatlan, Mexico, her first port of call. , The beach there Is now being patroll ed for miles, watching for bodies which may drift ashore. - - Bo Not Think Ship wrecked. s. The offlcialB of the Merchants Ex change here do not believe that the steamer City of Panama . has been wrecked. The company confidently expects to' hear of . her arrival at Mazatlan tomorrow or the next day Evidence tending to show the safety of the City of . Panama is furnished by the master .of the Standard Oil Company steamer Naverlck, who re p.ortB that he passed the City of Pan' ama headed eouth off Ppint Sun Monr terey county), over one hundred miles below Point Lobos.-at 2 o'clock p. m. Monday. The City of Panama 1b due to arrive at Maiatlan tomorrow. "- Advices by telephone from Pescadore state that .a number of people have gone to Warden Beach, where the raft were discovered on the - shore, but no report from them can be received until this evening when they return. The reason Is the absence ot telephone and telegraph facilities, ATTORNEY JAMES BLAIB ' pfcAD IN UOS ANGELES If irtv -th woclxted Prena.) : . Los Anrelea, Cat, Jan. t.-4-James H Blair an attorney prominent in New . York, is dead Jn this city, Mr. Blair Was durjng his early career associated liitfc Senator Hoar1 of Massachusetts and with Judge Dillon.' He was coun sel' for'lhef Iowa jCentraV Railway and other corporations and was for a time Judge , of the Judicial circuit in Ne-; . fjti. - " ""I 1 , Tn D'EsKr.1:: t- " v ' " " SITE-IS Fortjrfonr Ao-oa ' Adjoining V,.l a , Parlt-7-Hope " t Begiu 'Vo.!. i Btiihllng' in the Siirmg I.:e ;: pitul a. (Gmujbijrj' and Norfo'" , , Under "fefstew of i'harity.-, i 1 -1 1 "'. j 'i .Ther is soon 4o be 'established j htore a public hospital undtir a System - Tike the, one la vogue at Grehsborci and;. Norfdlk Hhat . is, to be: carried on by the Sisters' of Charity.' ' - A corporation known as the' Apos tolat Comoanir, has secured a tract of forty-four acree f land adjoining Pullen Park on the west as a site for' ' the proposed hospital. ; There is ali o in option on a number of acres mot e adjoining this' tract, wjaicb may be purchased as 'the needs require. ' -Some of the money for the nroleet wornes through .the Catholic Church-' and 'orphanage in Raleigh, and some has been donated from outside. " V, It Is hoped, Father Price, tola a reporter for'. The Evening Times to day, to get to work on the construct tion, of the' buildinjt some time dur ing the coming, spring. . The etrnci ture is to be of concrete and fire proof, and will contain two public , wards and twenty rooms. The reporter for The . Evening Times has, learned from sources cut side of the orphanage that its super intendent, -Father Price, has . been working hard at this, plan In Lis quiet, unobtrusive way for more than a 'year, and that It is due almost en tirely to his efforts that the money, something like? fifty thonsani dol lars', haa been raised for-this uii.i -taking, which means so much for t..e city of Raleigh. . There can be no doubt that a mod- "' era, .well equipped hospital means a great deal more to a city, even In R commercial and industrial way, than the' majority of the people' seem to realise. ., Usually a large percentage of the patients are from out-of-town. Many of them are wealthy and of. a very desirable class. , It Is common for patients to form ties while under treatment in a pit? that last to. the ' end of their lives, ties commercial as ' well aa of friendship, It is some thing very much like this that has made the state of Florida what it is. and the city of.Ashevllle a ground. tor the Investment of' much- outside capital. , , . The , proposed hospital is to be modern in every respect and equip- " ped with all the appliances and de vices knowq, to up-to-date science. In addition , to ; the charitable side, , a feature) will be. made of the accom modations for private patient. Noth ing will be' omitted that can add to the attractiveness ot the institution ror this, class ior.people. ..The fact that it Is ,to be out of the city, al though; within easy reach of jlt, will be appreciated by those who deslra ' quiet and seclusion."' ..V'-'v - ; . For years, owe of .the. crying needs . of this, city, has been a modern, .thoi--, oughly equipped hospital, and Ral eigh is to be congratulated upon the , prospect that is opened to it through the energy tof Father, Price and .those ' who have worked with him. , . '- H"'"Y"j m- 1 i PRAYER OrENS EE KEVS CtauHIT ttf i' V . . (By the AssacUted Prens.) Kalamaioa, Mich-. Jin. S, John A. Ross, managing editor of te Kalama too Gazette, yesterday amrounoed thut the news, department o$ the Oazettij would te 'opened every, day In the fu . ture with prayer by. hlmselfe or mlnic. tars of the city. - The announcement created consider-' able surprise, aa Roes' until rec nt'v expressed but ' little relleious Koni,, ment.V ' ' ''" V V I believe tha't the l -Aters will ) able to do better work and that ti,3 object of the newspaper will be morn . thoroughly reached In this w - t!i: i heretofore," said Mr, Advance 'in t. ' t Bj, the AsRocfated T PltUhuig, Pa.. Jan. 6. T,,,. Oil Company advanced the trU e Ragland five cents today, making ..WPtfttion.M.