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: ' r-n? I uniy Afternoon Paper Between Richmonmnd Atlanta With Leased Wire ant! Full Press Dispatches 1 AiuJi MARKETS. LAST EDITION. . . . THE RALEIGl EV.ENINC VOLUME 30. PRICE fo. RALEIGH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1907. i s':i U. 1 i TIMES pi ' til if BIG STATE FAIR IS FORMALLY OPENED Secretary uf Stale J. Bryan Grimes the Orator of1 the Day ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY PRESIDENT OF FAIR Shortly After Twelve O'clock 1'ro cession Reached tin- Grounds, Whore Colonel J. Bryan Grimes Slakes Opening Speech Secretary Refers to Itaihvny Kate Question and Says Trouble Would Not Huve Occurred Had Kail way Corpora tions Shown Righfc-Soit of Spirit. I'resident E. L. Dnugiiriilgo Slakes Appropriate Address of Welco Rig Fair Begins in Earnest. The State Pair was formally opened shorty after noon today by Secretary of State J. Bryan Grimes. An address of welcome was then delivered by the president" of the association, Mr. 10. L. Haught ridge, and the forty-seventh l annual State Fair had begun in eaiii ost. - At 11:25 this morning the procession formed at the Yarborotigh House and started for the Fair Grounds. Chief Marshal Albert Lyman Cox, on a black charger, with a corps of his marshals, led and the Blind Institute band fol lowed. The carriages, in Which were the president of the association, Col. J. Bryan Grimes and others of tho party, then followed on the. first car riage were Col. J. Bryan Grinus, I'resident E. L. Uaughtrldge, Lieuten ant Governor Winston and Mayor Jas. t. Johnson. Second carriage: Superintendent J. V. Jbyner, Dr. B. F. Dixon. Major G. W. Crenshaw and Mr. Joscphus Dan iels. ". Third carriage: President George T. Winston, Capt. T. H. Parker, Messrs. Chambers Smith and J. H. Currln. Fourth carriage: Col. A. II. Arling ton, Mr. George Allen, and Dr. Mar riott. ' Fifth carriage: Capt, M. O. Shor rlll and John W. Thompson, Major J. it. Young and Capt. T. W. Davis. Sixth carriage: Col. J C. L. Har ris and Mr. J. H, Bobbins. It was a few minutes after twelve today when Hon. J. Bryan Grimes, secretary of state, formtilly opened the state fair. Escorted by Chief Marshal Albert L. Cox and his corps of assistants, the procession-- wended up Fayetteville, then down Morgan, ui Salisbury and down Hillshoro to the fair grounds. Lining the streets on each side wore hundreds, some of whom were up early. As the procession passed along the streets, decorated with flags and bunting, there were fre quent cheers. (Continued on Page Seven.) U. S. GOVERNMENT MAY PURCHASE THE ENTtRE APPALACHIAN RANGE (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, D. C, Oct. 15. Work that may result in tho United States government purchasing outright the entire Appalachian mountain range, reaching nearly the entiro length of the United Stales, will bo started by the department of agriculture October 22. . , .. On that date experts of the depart ment will assemble In Asheville, N. C, to begin a preliminary survey of the Appalachian mountains In Tennessee, In accordance with the stipulations of the act of the last nesslon of the last congress appropriating $i5,000 for a preliminary Investigation to show the advantages of making a national for est reserve of the Appalachian moun tains, whloh reach from Vermont to Alabama, Senator James B. razler, of Tennes see, was In consultation with ofll clul of the agricultural department and with the forestry service men his morning. As a result of his confer once with them they have decided to start the experts to work October 22. This decision v:as reached all the more swiftly because of the urgent calls for action In the matter that have been received In Washington from senators and cepresentatlves of the many states Interested In the cre ation of the proposed forest reserve. As a matter of fat, even prior to the Investigation officials of the gov ernment are practically convinced that something will have to be done to pre vent the destruction of lumber. So urgent is the call for the preservation 20 KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK TODAY (Special Cable to Tho timos.) London, Oct. 15. Twenty persons are dead, more than fifty are in jured, some of them fatally, and the Scotch Flyer, one of tho finest trains' in England, is "a mass of tangled iron and broken beams at a point', uooul inrao-Qiiarters or. a nine casti ast of Shrewsbury station. 'The accident happened at an early hour and is thought to have boon-.caused by the engineer's disregard of an order limiting the speed or trains at. that i point to ten miles an hour. The. point at. which the disaster occurred I is at one of the sharpest curves on : the London and Northwestern Rail-! road and the point was considered 1 so. 'dangerous that, enginemen were instructed to never exceed ten miles'; I an hour while rounding it. Reports. ironi uic wreck say that file train was running fully sixty miles an hour. Every car on tho train excapt the last one went over the embank ment. Miiny - of the bodies are pinned in the wreck which did not catch fire, Dozens of slightly in jured men anil women wore limping painfull)' around the wreck when 'physicians arrived, doing the best they could to relieve the suffering of those caught under the timbers who were still alive. Seven bodies have been taken out and thirteen more can be seen In the tangled mass of timber and iron. OLD SEADOG DROPPED DEAD; (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Richmond. Vn.. Oct. 15. Col. Rich ard Launeelot Maury, -oldest son of the late Commodore Matthews Fon taine Maury, the '-Pathfinder of tha sens," dropped dead of heart disease at his home in this city yesterday af ternoon. '''Colonel' Maury won distinc tion in the army of northern Virginia dining the coiullct between the states. He bad been in declining health fof a number of years. that Pennsylvania Is now considering some method to call a halt on the ra pidity with which the timber Is being cut from tho mountains. All along the range in nil the states tho timber Is being carried away in alarmingly large quantities. When limber is cut from mountnlns, the mountains cease in a large meas ure to absorb the water, and the re- suit Is disastrous, floods and complete revolutions in water courses and sys-: terns of drainage. Then follow dlsas trous pruperty losses. Moreover, if a national forest reserve Is created, the timber, when It is cut, will be cut ju diciously and ;n a manner to insure the perpetuity of the forest growths. Experts who have considered tho matter at all give It as their opinion that, unless something Is done to check the disappearance of tho timber there will be no timber in the moun tains in tho eastern part of the United States within a comparatively brief i! pun of years. When the experts of the department of agriculture meet at Asheville, Oc tober 22, they will be Joined 'by many southern representatives and senators who will discuss with them the best lines of Inquiry to follow to determine the approximate cost of purchasing tho mountains In the south. In addi tion to this, the experts will Investi gate and report of the effect of the aiHappearance or iimoer on ine water i courses and will Inquire into the na- eesslty for the preservation of the forests. COL DICK MAURY FIFTY PE&LE KILLED AND (By Leased Wire to The Times. Terra Haute; lnd., Oct. 15 Th largo mills and store houses of th uuponi. rowaor company on Fontanhvcs of the nowder works ami were et, 1C miles from here.,'-blew up 9 : 1 o clock this morn in's. wrer.kinrhev iirn lmdlv burned and lacerated. uie jown or t onitnict, killing ovi hall tho employees, at tho mills nnci - resulting in the death of many .'menblln:jsed while one hundred '.child women and children in the villii'gi'an wore . within.'" Nearly, all' of .'tho With forty -bodies ' recovered uji tihildrcn are said to have been injured noon and with a train load of injure! nd some loss of life will result. No brought to the hospitals hero tlnr-nd bodies had been taken from the work of rescue is still going on. if. is fori red the death list wil grow to nearly a hundred persons. The shock of the explosion was fel here and for a distance of sixty miles In a circle about the village. A j trawrorusyiiio, a; . miles away f "ly." eio'trlc iigut office building wa gut office building wrecked. At Bloomington, the seat of In (liana University, recitations were in .('erupted when the big '-: 'building! moved, leavii:g cracked walls. In tins city window panes wen shattered and chimneys tottered fell. .More serious damage is .re ported at Brazil, Coal Bluff, Burnett and Kosrdale, towns in the immodi-k;llite. ato vicinity of Fontanetl. 'I'he niill: of the powder, company were located two mites ol mo village. The cause1 of tho explosion "probably".' will never bo known. The first train to return from the SEEMS TO RUN I THE FAMILY Now Mrs, Become Involved CHARACTER BLASTING One of the Sisters Suddenly Disap pears from' tin '.Seminary,. Where She Is Attending School, Since the l'riiitlns of the ltoport That She Had ISlackinaileil Her Father to Injure Her Married Sister Seems to I5e Very Properly An 'Tilde- sirable" at the C'ollene. d!y Leased Wire to Tho Tlmes.l Hf......l..t....... X T tr i.i.. ., .. . , , , . , Scott, the seventeen-year-old sister of . Mrs. August Hartje, wife of the n.il - , I.TH, . , i. O ., . VI I. J.I. lll-I llonaire paper inanufaclurer of rills-' burg, is the latest victim of the char-' actor-blasting divorce case which his enveloped so many, persons in that fity - As a result of llic linking of her name with the suit, tho young girl has been sent away from the fasblonal le school in Morrislown, N. J., presided over by Miss Dana. Miss Scott had been a pupil in tho seminary scarcely three weeks vh mi the information was printed that Mr. Hartje had applied for a re-openins of his divorce suit ngainst his beat ti-. ful wife, on the strength of new evi dence said to have been contained in letters written by Ida Scott and her sister Helen. These letters, it is ul leged, were sold to Mr. Hartjo by Howard W. Lappe, whose elopement with Ma Scott was stopped by .Mrs. Hartje. The missive-' contained astonishing statements and seemed to show ihat the Scott girls bad blackmailed their own father by threatening to give evi dence Ugalnst their sister that would enable her husband to reopen his di voce case and win it. Miss Newell, who was In oharga of the school In the absence of Miss Dana saldT that Mis:i Scott hnd not actually loft tho school for good. "She Is not here," she said, "but I can't say whether she will return or not. I must refer yoiMo her father. She has not been suspended, but is merely absent for a few days, becmiso we think she would be better off away from school Just at this time." LOSS OF LIKE AND MONKV ON THK LAKFS. ((By Leased Wire to The Times.) Erie, Pa., Oct. 15 Ono hundred lives and a monetary loss of nioro than $1,500,000 is the toll claimed by the Great Lakes since the opening . , x, , naV'Kttion this year, according to reorts which have been received local BlJ.ppIng circles. in ESTEOYED ono of the accident, arrived here at 1. o'clock, bearing (iff : terribly, in- tirod men. Some of them were cm- akkod up many feet from .the scene re.at loss of life was first reported o::i the lmblic school building which killapsed school building up to noon. he general store also ; collapsed,. illing at least, two persons-. Not a person in Tontaaett escaped ithoat injury or death. First rc- ovts were that miners in the viein- were entombed by enve- Some of these reports have been erified, but no death are known to lve occurred. The scene of the . explosion, . two liles north of tho town, at I fueled the irgest. number of rescuers, hi the ilk'ge men were lifted from their ndhot and thrown, against the side of uildings. The flames shrH..hfgi;v into io air and were ''plainly se.oii in Torre. Aulor.iobiles filled, with doc- rs left hero immediatel;. alter the ws of the neUU'Ut. wa-: received, he shock, wtis .felt! as Tut away, as ainiltou, Ohio. It. 5". "Carvyr.'-.' managing ' editor, of le Torre Haute Tribune, was one of t i EARLY TODAY rf,v teks From Fair! ErondSi and Invades City MliS NtLL ALLEN HURT i Kuiiway i lorse oasiies up lieiiimi liggy in. Which Were Mr, l-assi- t ( and .Miss Allen, Throwing I'.otli the., Hard ravenii'iit Voiii' Toman CiiiTled Home. 1 a runaway early this morning .'Mb Nell .-.Allen, daughter of Mr. Jab K. Allen, ot North Hloodwortn stier, and Mr, j;ooeri i,assnor were I ,1 1.. 1....... .....1 uonn vuuil'ii ni'Ul it . iimi iiuu ' . . billed on the hard pavement in rront " , , , , , . . ori!rie;gs' hardware store. A horse ( , , ,,mf(,SRni Tp(T,.Pva ;1, ,,, Fir Grounds caused the trouble, lining run all the distance without btiig slopped. As the animal came ti Fayettevillo street, hitched to a bgK.v. it plunged into the rear 'of R". Lassiter's turnout, upsetting both bin and the young lady. The horse kpt on up Fayetteville street-' and kocked down a delivery horse he-; linging to the Boylan-Pearse Com pny. The runaway was halted at tie-, corner of Fayetteville and Mor pm streets. Both Mr; I.assiter and Miss Allen vote injured. Mr. Lassiter was con siderably bruised and his dim and laudh were scarred. Miss Allen, be sides receiving scratches on her lianas and fneo, was so Injured in her knee that she was unable to bear her Voight uion it. Sho was lilted RUNAWAY to a tarriage and taken to her home, i of Odd bellows, and P. II. rln'ash. a A 'phono message from Miss Al-; well-known distiller of this .'city, on ion's homo today staled that sh.i was I gaged I n a personal encounter on j doinf nicely. Dr. Jas. H. Rogers, i Pat Ion avenue last evening and con , who Was called In to Cress - the . sidernblo .excitement ensued 'for se- wourds, stated that her injuries weronot serious and that sho would be all right again in a few days. . UNITED CIGAR STORES SHIFT. New York, Oct. 15 A rumor has 'election Mr. Thrash is alleged lo have been ia circulation several days dliat said something to Mrs. McBrayer Ihe Unjted Cigar Stores Company Is i which Dr. McBrayer took as a gross to pass from tho control of the Amor- j Insult and the fight yesterday was tho lean Tobacco Company. No absolute result. confirmation of the report could be ! A party of United Slates senators obtained at the offices of either com-' and representatives In congress will pany today. Tho statement that the : shortly make a trip over the proposed United Company has secured sufflc-i Appalachian forest preserve. The lent stock In tho parent organization j party will Include Congressman to discontinue such close relations. Brownlow, of Tenncsse, and one was not. unconfirmed. j night v'H bo spent In Asheville. It Us thought that the dissolution (Preparations! are making' hero to ox- Is caused by tho prosecution of tho. 7 , ' , . . trust and the tobacco company feared prosecution for maintaining a monop oly. :' EXPLOSION the first, to roach the scene in an au tomobile 3To says about lift y persons had been killed." From quick survey of the situation I should say fully fifty persons were killed arid one hundred in lured." ho said. "Where these three powder- mills once stood .'nothing-' but big black holes filled with burning timbers were found remaining. The whole town of ontanet is in ruins, and the one hundred or more residents in panic." General Superintendent Monahnn .of the powder company, is said to have perished with his men. Members of his family who lived In Foiitanet, wore Injured.' The explosion is bound ' I have resulted from friction sparks on a heavy shovel usjd in the mixing mills. The first three explosions were? within a few moments of one another. A fourth occurred almost an hour ami a half later and caused ndditiona' damage and injury. . Latest Particulars. Brazil, lnd.. Oct. 1."- 1 p. r. messenger just in from .: 'Fonta nel!' says tho list of dead will run between 3S and 40. Five hundred "nosps wore demolished and fifteen hundred people are homeless. Thro .school buildings were destroyed, one "con taining HO pupils, another nit'.eiy and the third t wo hundred. ' Many, were killed and injured. . r. Superintendent John ('tiiinliVihui'i. his wife and two children, who lived near tin1 mills, were killed. THRASH GETS Asheville Men Have a Belli- cose Meeting ENGINEERS LAID OFF Soul liei n Cut ling '.'' Mown Force in Tliird Division A Doubh-Track l'lan Also Abandoned Many Workmen and I tail road lliifiineers, Firemen, Conductors, anil Train men Must Hunt Jobs I'.lsewhere. Party of Sfalesnien to Make Trip ; Over (he Proposed Forest ICeserve. (Special to The F.vening Times.) Asheville, Oct. jo It is learned here that '' the Southern " Hail way Company In culling down Its 'engi neering staff in the third istrict and that during tho past few weeks twenty-five -'engineers have been laid off. It is also said that, the Southern wilt not prosecute its -'contemplated double-tracking between .Asheville 'and Morrislown; that when the double-trucking operations between Mot; ( stown and Knoxvillo are eoin lilete work will cease. It. is fi;Vih:r understood here that the do ible track concrete trestle across the French Broad Hiver at Asheville will not lie completed now; that v.'ien the concrete piers now being.. hoist. a;e 'above. the water some (iisiaiK e work i will cease. , ; Dr. L. B. Mellrayer, a in'omiiient physician of Asheville and a iiu-niber of tho North Carolina Grand Lodge eral minutes, until the men were sep- : arated. Dr. MeHrayer struck .Mr. Thrash a vicious blow icross t ho side of the head with a walking, stick j when- -the. two met. It is said the irouuio grew out oi an election nay Incident, when during the prohih! j on tend a formal welcome to the dis- . . . .. , , j Unfinished visitors during their short stay of a night in the city. Just (Continued on lxth Pago.) A THRASHING THE NEGRO QUESTION IS DISCUSSED TODAY THE EXERCISES it Tiir Trwnir! AT THE TEMPLE Program Arranged for Big gest Day in History Addresses by masons i: Ci: of Kd,ecoiobo and ! i Ciivi'viiiir Win i.jii the )r:i! :;:. t 'or:iei'sl one Laying- to f'e i:i,i)ressie Ceremony Official rro-.ca:!i of Line of March as Or ut red I'.y (Ji-neral Woodruff. v. Ti.moiTuv '.tit noon will; witness the most i'r,.r.e:,slve cereiiionies in the history of Xorlli Carolina ; Masonry, when the c ornerstoiie of . the -Ma-Bunto' Temple, now in course of eroc limi. will . be -laid. ; The exercims will be--in at 1- o'clock and .the pa rade will form at 1 1 at Metropoli-' Ian Hall. Hundreds of Masons from North Carolina will lie on hand and ' the prj'.cc.-.sion will bo headed by - the chief of police and a platoon of po lice. ; The -Masons will bring up. the rear.-..'." I Hon. John W. Daniel, United1 States senator from Virginia, who was invited to' bo present, wiir not be able to be present tomorrow. This fad is regretted not only by the Masons, , but by hundreds of others as well, for tho Virginian is an oral or of power, and is one of tho brainiest, men of the nation, Hon. W. it. Cox will deliver an address on the history of Masonry in North Carolina and the movement for the erection of the temple. Lieutenant Governor Francis D. Winston will deliver an address and will tell of what is being done by the Order at the present time. ; The parade will indeed be a grand pageant.-.. ' In it will be 'hundreds' of Masons, besides the various bands and cadets and military companies. Brigadier General Carlo A. Wood ruff, of tho I'nited -States Army, will officiate as chief marshal. General Woodruff has Issued the following orders: Raleigh, N, C, Oct 11, 1907. General Orders. No. 1. Having .consented to officiate as chief marshal of the parade on the occasion of the laying of tho corner stone of the Masonic Temple In this city on Wednesday, the sixteenth in slant, I hereby announce the fol lowln:;' 'appointments: T I'.e adjutant general: Col. Alfred- Williams, National Guard of North Carolina. To bo assistant adjutant general: Lieut. Colonel It. L. Lc.inst.er, Na tional ('ttard of North Carolina. . To ie aides: Major 11. M. Albright, '.'bird h-fanlry; N. G. N. C; Capt. H. '!'. Winston, Kiiited Slates Army; First' Lieut. .Ino, S. K. Young, 9th Cavairv, U. S. Ari.iy: .1., W. Hunter, Klcnr Haywood, Charles E. -Johnson, .I.'. Thomas Holt Wharton and Karl Johnson. Alt of tho above named are re (Itios'tod to report; mounted to the chief marshal at eleven o'clock a. m. on tho day of parade, on Fayetteville street, at or near Metropolitan Hall. All possessing uniforms, are re quested to appear in service uni form (Olive drab or Khaki) and l;le arms. CARLE A . WOO DK 1' F F, nrigadier General, V. S. Army, (('on.inued on Page Seven.) jSfAYETTEVILLE SS :. ENTERTAINING' MR. ".r i i try F?N r iSp; i lal to The Evening Times.) Fayetteville, N. C. Oct. 15. William Jennings Bryan arrived in tho city at noon today, receiving a great ova tion by thousands, ineludins farmers, merchants, bankers, lawyers, physi cians, manufacturers, mill operators, and distinguished men from all parts of the state. lie was immediately driven to tho residence. -of Major K. J. Hale for luncheon. - lie Is now speaking at the fair grounds to a crowd estimated between S"all There Be a Segregated Negro Episcopal w THOMAS NELSON PACE DEBATESJUESTIQN Bishop Xelson of Georgia Produces Some Interesting Facts and Fig ures Concemina the Work of the Protestant Episcopal Church Anion:; the Negroes in the South, Showing; That the Increase in Number of Black Communicants Ha-i Been Much Greater Than That Among the V hitvs North era Delegates Generally Op)Osid lo Creation of Negro Bishops Other Business of the General Convent ion Today. (By i:lizabi:tii E. POE.) (Hy Leased Wire to The Times.) tUehmoudi Va., Oct. 15. At today's session of the Kpiscopal Convention the negro (e.iestion will occupy the 'center of the idatform and a notable sjieeeli is promised for Thomas Nelson Pago, of Washington, on the theme. At t'n mass meeting Bishop Nelson of fieorgia defended the negro work of the church and gave the follow ing interesting statistics in support o his arguments: "To begin with, at home, where I know the conditions best," said Bishop Nelson, "in the diocese of Georgia, the number of negro communicants have in the last fifteen voars increased over '( per cent, -while among these same years', the number of white commun icants has increased only 60 per cent. During the thirty years between 1ST" and 1907 the churches and mis sions have increased from white 3,323 to 7.300, an Increase of 12 per cent, while among negroes from 37 to 193 an increase of 420 per cent. During the same time the increase of clergy has been among the white from 3,082 to 5.160 or 66 per cent, among the ne groes from 15 to 116 or 650 per cent. During the ten years from 1S96 to 1906,. the increase in the number of ne gro communicants In ths southern diocese alone has been from 5,449 to 10.500 or 90 per; cent with an appro priation of only $75,000 per annum for between seven and eight millions of negroes, while in Liberia a confessed ly successful mission of the church, where so-called race contlicts and dis sensions have no place with a racial lilshop iiiv.i a yearly appropriation of $r.2,(KMt. for only 250,000 negroes to work among, the Increase during these same ten years has been from 1,113 to 2.069, only SO per cent; two-thirds as much money spent on one thirty-second ns many people and still 10 per cent less Increase.- The Increase of white communicants In these same ten years in this country has been from 605,579 to ; S0S.527 or 33 1-3 per cent; while the Increase for the negro for the same time has been from 9,221 to 20,000 or 110 per cent. "Now I dare anyone to say the church lias made an utter failure In her work among tho negroes." The bishop declared. The negro question soon became the order, at 11 o'clock, today. The program for today Is: 10 a, m. Meeting of both nouses In business session. 1:30 p. m Luncheon at Masonic Temple. 3 n. m. Both houses of convention resume business sessions. 5 p. m. Woman's Club reception to I the members of the house of bishops and their wives. 7 p, n. Bulness sessions of both houses. 8 p. in. Church unity society In Grace Kpiscopal Church. 8 p. in. Gathering of nlumnl of i Trinity College. Hartford, Conn., ad dress by President Luther and Infor (Continued on Second Page.) r t'm r B M V fl 1.! I 1 eight and ten thousand people. Hay street Is decorated for one mile. Ono noticeable feature of Mr. Bryan's reception is that five hundred mounted men paraded the city's streets and received him at the station in line. At 4 o'clock this afternoon he holds a publln reception on the grounds, and tonight will deliver a lecture at the armory for the benefit of the Ladles' Civic Improvement Company. Mr. Bryan leaves with escort on special train tomorrow moruhig for Greensboro. i ''j -I if h. ,.siiiv-l1--J