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Only Afternoon Paper Between Richmond ant! Atlanta With Leased Wire and Full Press Dispatches. LAST EDITION". ALL THE MARKETS. THE BALE IG EVENING TIMES. VOLUME 33. RALEIGH, N. C, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1907. PRICE la. PACIFIC FLEET SAILS FROM HAMPTON ROADS Review of Flee: Today by Presd't Roosevelt Punctuated by the Biggest Gun-Thundering Salutations Ever Beard on the Waters of This Coast 16 FIGHTING MONSTERS IN REVIEW OUT TO SEA The Formalities This Morning Wore of the Most Imposing Character. The Ulg Kattlcships Furnished An Inspiring Spectacle As They Passed Out to Sen, Reing Reviewed by the President From the Mayflower As They Passed The President ; Rack On His Way to Washington and the Cruise of the Pacific Fleet Whose Assembling and Sailing Have Occasioned So Much Specula tion and Comment is Xow a Heal- f hy What Is Said About It Today in Foreign Countries. f Wlrelesslessage Says O. K. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 16. The following wireless has been received from Richard Barrie, representative of the Hearst News Service, who has gone with Rear Admiral Evans' fleet: "Passed t:ie capes 11:30 a, m. and headed south for the Horn. ' "Fleet in fine alignment. Beautiful sight. Sea bare of sail. Land not in sight. Admiral Evans by signal congratulates all commanding officers. Everybody expects successful trip. "Barrie." Roosevelt's Good-bye to the Pacific Fleet. Isn't this a great fleet and a great day? We should all be proud of our navy. I tell you the enlisted men are bully. They are ready to go anywhere S and do 'anything.- Good-bye and good luck." 9 (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Fort Monroe, Va., Dec. 16. The great fleet of battleships Is now on its cruise to the Pacific coust perhaps" further. After a review by President Roosevelt the great vessels steamer In single file past the Mayflower, on the bridge of which President Roosevelt stood and saluted them one by one. There was one great diuphson of thirty-six guns, the rumble and roar echoing and re-echoed over the water and among the hills as the fleet passed out to sea between Cape Charles and Cape Henry, .'.'. Following the flagship they turned southward and became smaller and smaller to the eyes of those who watched their departure. Then they were lost to view. On shore there were relatives of a great many of the 12,000 men on the ships mothers, wives and sweethearts. Naturally they were greatly affected by mingled emotions. They were sad at parting, over-fearsomo for the safety of the men, and,, of course, proud of their sailor men. These emo tions meant tears; many expressions of feature and were the fine, tender features of a great scene one of the most remarkable pictures ever formed by naval manoeuvers anywhere In the world. The start, which was under President Roosevelt's personal direc tion, was most brilliant and Impres sive. The crulser-yncht Mayflower, with the chief executive aboard, was sighted at 7 O'clock. Immediately there was a great activity on the ships of the. fleet. Wig wag signals conveyed a message to all the vessels and immediately the cruisers were flung out. The transformation was bewildering. When the Mayflower was near enough to be Introduced according to naval etiquette the whole fleet explod ed with a simultaneous salute of twenty-one guns. The staccato roar shattered the atmosphere, made earth i and water alike tremble and was deaf ening. The firing was at intervals of live seconds, but with all the vessels firing at one time, the guns made one continual roar. The Mayflower, head ed between the two lines of ships, took up a position in the center. The commanders of the ships then boarded the fussy little launches and hurried to the president's vessel. President Roosevelt, In frock coat and high hat, was on the bridge of the Mayflower. The admirals were in full naval dress, glittering with gold braid. The president knew all of them per sonally. He said the right thing in hearty manner and after the formal leave-taking was over the admirals steamed back to their ships. The launches were hoisted aboard and the crews prepared to sail. Hie May flower steamed to the head of the fleet and the battleships fell in behind, sin gle file. Kach as she passed the Mayflower-.' dressed ship. The crews ve:e at pnrade, bands were playing. Hags were dipping and then individually the guns of each ship again roared out the salute ul iweiiLy-um; kuii.i. y IH.II Olio ship ceased firing another took it up until the whole fleet had saluted. I When the last ship passed the May flower the first could be seen in thei. far distance, already growing smaller to the eye. In a surprisingly short time, the vessels were at a great dis tance, headed south, and the greatest battleship cruise in the history of the new world was in progress. The Detailed Story. (By RICHARD HAllliY.) Norfolk, Va.. Dee. Jfi.-The greatest gun-popping exercises that Have ever taken place in','-these : waters greeted President Roosevelt during the lvvi'W of the Pacitie fleet in Hamilton I :o ils this morning, when the sixteen battle ships of the "pace fleet" going to the. Pacific, began to exercise - their guns,- the biggest powder burning fete slmv the battle of Santiago was in progress. It was a roaring good-bye to the pres ident 'of the United States and to the people of the Atlantic seaboard. 'I heir mission is to be one of practice and one of pence; so the president has de clared. The officers themselves, dip lomats to the last degree, also say so. The vessels were not reviewed by the president while they were at anchor, as has been the case twice before dur ing til Jamestown Exposition, when he reviewed them in Hampton Roads. Instead, the review was. arranged for the passing of the vessels from the roads to the sen. The Mayflower, (lying the president s flag, left Washington yesterday after noon and reached Hampton Roads at 8 o'clock this morning. Accompanying the president were Mrs. Roosevelt, Sec retary of the Navy and Mrs. Metcalf. Assistant Secretary and Mrs. Newber ry.. Rear Admiral and Mrs. P.rownson, nnd Rear Admiral and Mrs. Cowles. I The Mayflower anchored at a convin lent point near the center of the fleet. The usual regulation salutes were fired. It was not the intention of the pres ident to go aboard any of the ship.-, but immediately after the Mayflower anchored Rear Admiral Evans, th. commander of the fleet nnd the var ious ofllcers, went aboard the May flower and raid their respects to the president. Immediately upon their return to their respective ships the order was given to get under way and stand out, preceded by the Mayflower, which an chored In the vicinity of the "tad of the horseshoe," the fleet meanwhile passing in review and out to sea. Directly after the review and when the last ship passed by and fired her salute, the Mayflower made ready to return to Washington, where It will ar rive tomorrow morning. The articles of war were read aloud to the assembled crews by the execu tive officers of the various battleships of the fleet at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. The solemn function sealed .he preparations for the long crulsi to the Pacific. The act was porten tous. Drawn up in a hollow square under the double 12-lnch gun on lha fore main deck of each of the sixteen battleships, stood the flower of the nink and file of the American navy. On no ship less than 800 men, and from that up to 1,024 on the flagship, they listened with grim attention to the monotonous Insistence that droned from the raised heads of the reading ofllcers. In the magazines below those clean i rwept main decks repose the biggest , loads of powder and ammunition j which the ships can carry, ever be-j fore have they left port so stifled with: potential warfare. The war heads are j In the guns. The war ratings In the;' turert tops. They have submarine mines enough stowed safely away to , block every harbor on the continent, j Their gunners are tried and have; proven to be the most efficient marks-! men in the navies of the world. The j officers are the youngest, the hardiest and the most experienced in the ser-; vice. Assignment to the fleet is an : honor; presence there a privilege and a Joy. In the chart rooms are sound ings of every South American and Oriental port and In the admiral's cabin are sealed Instructions which ' thall determine his course after the Tent leaves Callao the middle of next ' February. I Another straw in the blowing of this.' great wind , of power, lies In tho attl-; tud of the officers of the fleet towavj their Japanese servants. A week ago there were In various capacities, most ly as stewards, cooks and galley boys, seventy-cone Japanese. Today there sail toward tho land of the Rising Sun thirty-seven Japanese. The command ing officers deny that half their Jap anese servants have been dropped or (Continued on Page Five.) Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans mnmemmt ntnommmmam inj-m.mi. null- j-u n mm I." Ai iifjlM -.l. Krar-Adinii'al Kohlt'y l. llvjuts, ( oimiijindrr v. iuo V:in(i' I'lccl, which ill lor b'in4 lovu'Ui';! hy I'lvsiiloiif IStiiisrvell, stiilod t tula v.- 100TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARYTO BE CELEBRATED (By Leased Wire lo The Times.) Itichmnn.1, Va., Dee. 1 C.-, livery confederate camp in the south will bo urged to celebrate the one hun dredth anniversary ii' l lie birth of Jefferson Davis, president of the con federacy; ; which falls cm June I!, 190$. 'At. that time a' memorial to his memory will be presented to this city. Only two bron.e standards are to be placed cm the monument whicli has already been paid for. The United Daughters of thcCon fedoracy are receiving much praise for raising the money for the monu ment and for arranging nn. appro priate celebration Incident, to pre senting it. to tho city. Tho daugh ters have appointed us a committee to act In the matter, Mrs. Stone, of Texas, president of the Vniicd Daughters of the Confederacy. 'Mrs. William Uelinn," president ' of the Confederate Memorial Association, and Mrs. George S. Holmes, presi dent of tho Jefferson Davis Monu ment Association, all of whom are expected to take part In the cere monies at the monument. It, E. Lee Camp, of this city, liaF been aBkcd to take charge of IIif ceremony and arrange for a suita ble celebration. VI JET v r. WIDOWS OFTHE If! (lly I,c,is-d Wire to The Times.) -.Pittsburg, lu Dec..--1 For the relief of .. widows and 1 .0110 orphiins'-de.-tiiui'e as a re;;ull of tho explosio.i in i lit mines at, Moiiongh on Decenilk'i'' (i, Hie people of fne I'ni'.i d are asked to ronlri'i- uti $21)11,00(1. West Virginia iiloti' cannot . '.ineel the exigencies of Hie occasion ml so sends its appeal f ir aid into every ttatn of the union. The " nt-e.-Is cil' the women ami chil dren' In 'distress are urgent. The 'chamber of commerce here will he 'itskeil fo handle the funds. The Carnegie hero fund commission will meet in a few days to consider the quest ion of relief and ninny rec ommend a large conlribulloa. , A. $100,000 SAWMILL FIRE Mar.lstl(tte, Mich., Dec. I G The most disastrous fire In tho history of the 'city started Saturday night about !):30 o'clock in the Chicago Lumber Company's three hand saw mill, to- iilly consuming the mill, valued at n (in, ono and ; cremating two men, lenry, Hamuli, aged !"2 years, night 'oreman, and Andrew Norton. Over J 100,000 worth of lumber piled In the yards was saved. i ! HELP FOR THE if VICTIMS CENTRAL BANK OF ISSUE PLAN Recommended to Congress byOaiplrcllerRi(J(jeIy PREVENTIVE OF PANICS I is I'seless to Attempt to . Dodge the Issue, Says He It is tile One Komedy Time Will Stand the t'otinfry in Xeed During Financial Disturbances , National Hank of Issue and liescrve is Xeedi'd .More Tlian Any (It her ( Mass of I'iiiaucial I.egislaf ion at I'resent. Details Worked Out. (Ily Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, 1 ). ('., Dec. in. Kstal) lishment of a .'central'' national bank of Issue- and reserve in . Wasliintini as the only remudy nnd preventive ul' de--t i net lve financial panics is (lKain re- I'oliinii -ndi'd . byComptniller of the Treasury. .Kidgi-ley in his annual re- ;. I ..i t made pul. lie today. . . Fi.r - several years past Mr,, Hliigeley.; has made'.' this recommendation, in his Mimial -'report and lias included the; su;t;e:.'f ion : in the ni'ijoiitv . (if l.i s sj jtchi-s during the pasi' .five yeais. J Today, li.nvev.-r. he. argtu-w 'with inore. f.i) -cefului ss than ever and . declares j the-. 'inauguration- -of such an.' institu-1 tiun is the one thins that will keep tlioi rcaintvy eff the reefs of financial ruin. "It is useless.' to try to evade this ' iiuesiion or dodge the issue, . says Comptroller. . Uidneley. "The need Is far more for something that will pre vent .emergencies, and panics than for', devices to be employed in stopping niic after it has occurr'ed.. "The only way to make our system what it should, be is -through the ' agen-j cy "of a national', governmental bank. Kv'ery - country of commercial import ance" has ' adopted this plan. Had we such a l.-ink in operation in the fall of 1 HOT no such panic '"as we have had would have been possible,. Unless we do something of this kind we shall always be in danger of a re currence of the same thins, and we shall In ve panic after panic until wc have learned the plain lesson from ex perience and : adopt the only etflj lent, scientific, and proper means to protect our people in business from such disasters.- "This is a matter of even givater im portance to the business men than the banks of the country." '.Comptroller'-: liidgeley- slates that th. re has been more of a panic among the banks thin -among the people of the country. . Mr. Wdgoley Suggests immeiliate . congressional. legislation to avert a' repetition of the greatest panic In the history of the country. "If a bill should he passed by con gress providing for some emergency issue of currency through the clearing houi'e associations or other machinery now, organi'.ed and existinc so that the 'action ''might promise; to be very prompt and effective; it .'would doubt less be very helpful," says tlie comp troller, "The causes that led to the panic were not a failure of a -few Individual banks.' They were not due to the lack of confidence of the people In the banks, but more- to a lack of confidence of the banks in themselves and their reserves. Hank's . have been fearful that the reserve system would break down, and in consequence it has broken down, and the reserve dcpo.-lts have been only partially available. They were also fearful that not suffi cient currency : could be '.supplied to meet the demand, and ns they all nude the demand at once there has not lieea sufficient currency. Tho result has been a currency famine. ' ; "The remedy for this state of afl'ahs is to improve tin"' reserve system so that the reserve deposits of (lie banks can be kept in a bank where they are surely and certainly available. We must Impart to our currency system some clement of elasticity. . to that when there comes a suddeii d- inainl for currency it can be supplied In bank notes; without depositing the supply of reserve money. "These two most desirable, changes can be best .accomplished - In fid. they jean only.be satisfactorily accomplish ed through the establishment by the I government of a central bank of is I sues and reserve. This js the system which has been adopted nnd found to work most satisfactorily In the- great i commercial countries of the country and Is one that gives the surest prom ise of satisfactory opinion In this country. ' "Such a bank would not only solve the two great problems of our hank- l lug systems, but It would also provide tin machinery for conducting the treasury operations In their relation to the banks with the least disturb ance." Summaries at the close of tin fiscal year ended June SO, 10T. show that there were In operation 13,317 banks cither thnn national, with aggregate re sources of $1l.1(W.!il4,."ilii, being an In crease of l,4tlft hanks and over $S(ir, non.OOO in resources reported th" pre vious year. The returns include 9.H6 (Continued on Page Seven.) GAMBLERS IN COTTON SCARED New York Appeals to Chicago to Help Out FIGHT BURLESON BILL Ilesides the liurleson liill lop. Hep burn Also Has a Measure Directed Against .Y V. Stock Kxcliange. i:iiorl to Amend Hill So As to Stake It Apoly '.-Against' Wheat As Well .As Colto-i l uturi's. , (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington". l. C, )cc. Ifi. The New York cotton --lOxchange has ap pealed to the ji'o'ai-d of Trade of west ern cities, 'especially Chicago and Min neapolis, to conic to its assistance in the, fis;M to . defeat the liurleson . bill, which aims to prevent speculation, in cot ion future -Si-'. It has coiii.e t i flic .'knowledge of the obb ists of lire New York Cotton Ks eiiaiige,, who have been watching th" bit!, that members of'' congress from tile Wheat growing states Will Seek to ameiii.l the bill so as to make it apply tci' speculation In. wheat futures. Burle son, author of tie hill. Iris signified his v il 1 i ii!4 no s to have the bill amend ed in-this particular. If it should pass congress . in the amended form, "it would iMaclically wipe out the boards of trades. In addition' to this'", proposed .'legis lation regulating . speculation through exchanges,. Itcpreseiitative Hcphuin, of Iowa, lias a bill directed against the New . York Stock Exchanges. IS AT GOLDFIELD; INQUIRY BEGINS (By Leased Wire to The Times. ) Goldlleld, . Nev., Dec. 1 C Mem bers of the. commission sent by Presi dent. Roosevelt arrived in Goldlleld last night. -' They are Charles P. Neill, labor commissioner; Herbert Knox hmitli, commissioner of cor porations, and Lawrence Murray, as sistant secretary of the department of commerce, and labor. Mr. Neiil said last night the commission would go at once into the labor conditions in Goldlleld, takiiig up first the mat ters which have led to the presence of federal troops. The merits of the controversy between the operators and mine workers will be exhaust ively investigated '"mid' the whole nii-tter embodied in reports to be made to the war department and to President ltoosovclt. 'fl.lv Leased Wire to The Times.) Hiniiiiighani, Ala., Dec. It! Short ly afcr 10 o'clock this morning an ex- j plosion occurred in the mines of the ! Yolande Coal and Coke Company, near Bessemer. A relief train on ! fhe Louisville & Nashville has just Melt licssemcr for the scene. There 'were lil'tv men in the mines. Dr. G. 1!. Crowe, of tTiis city, president of i (he company, lias hurried to the mines in an nu'oniobile. There is no further particulars jet. NAT. COMMISSION ANOTHER MINE HORROR TODAY 'thousands, of Japanese, Btill are AhdiK "."I Dead; HO Ihilombed. j coml:g into the country by stealth. l!irmlng:.aiii. Ala., Dec. 1G. The1 explosion In Mine No. 1 caused the:J3IQ. TIMBER CO. ueiu.i ,n dci wvo.i liny anci seventy-1 I live iiijii, and wrought great dam- i ago Iniie mines. t Is estimated at i I this time th t not los Ihiin Ktvtv lire - , ' still in the mine, A itreinendous crowd is round the mine and every assistance Is being extended. STATS TREASURER IS NOT DYING Chelsea, Mich.. Dec. HiFrank 1'. Glazier, slate treasurer, who failed j for over a million dollars, is not dying (as reported In the morning u li,ii,ni-al tt n-nu D I ol Il,l'f' ... ..unt.i ' ' .,'. , ', ' A', . ' may Issue diplomas and conduct a homo this morning that Glazier is a j trnlnln school for nurses. N. A. very sick man and must have rest .Thompson Is president and H. C. Laur aiid quiet. 'cure is secretary. A BIG INCREASE IN IMMIGRATION The Great Horde of Foreigners Who Come to U. S. RECORDS OUTSRIPPED .Mori Than One and a Quarter Mil lion People From the Old World Land On American Shore Many of Tlirni Ought Not to He Permit ted to Do So If This Kate Keeps I'p the Vnited States Will in Four Generations lie As Densely Popu lated as China. (V.y Leased Wire to The Times.) W'a'ihington, Dec. 1 61 Immigra tion to the United States during tiie year ended June 30, 1907, was vast ly greater than in any previous year of the history of this country. This fact, with all its interesting ,ud Im portant details, is placed in strong light in the annual report of Frank P. Sargent, 'commissioner' general of immigration' and naturalization, which was made public today. Of this great Hood of immigrants, Com missioner Sargent says: "An army of 1,285, 319 souls, thoy have'' come, 'drawn hither by the freo institutions r.nd the marvelous pros perity of our country on the chance here .-afforded every honest toiler to gain a livelihood by the sweat of his brow or the exercise of his intelligences-surpassing in numbers the record of all preceding years. "With a net increase to our popu lation by immigration of 1,000,000 per annum, which is less than tho present rate, and the present rate of natural increase, the United States would reach the density of China in about four generations, or, more particularly. In 134 years, at which time we would have a population of 950,000,000." '-'-. Referring to the "white slave traffic," or : the importation of girls and women for immoral purposes, the commissioner general of immi gration says that the traffic has been greatly decreased but much remains to be done to wipe out "this disgrace ful blot upon our Christian civiliza tion.'' '. Commissioner Sargent says it ia of particular significance that many immigrants landed at ports In tho south during the past year, and he refers especially to a party of 473 HelKians excellent type of lmmi grauts received at Charleston, B. C, having been induced to go there by the state authorities. The in crease of immigration to the south, . the commissioner says, "is directly connected with the growing desire of the southern states to draw with in their boundaries a number of the better class of .immigrants, it being considered by practically all of the leading men of that section that the future development Rnd welfare of the south depends upon its ability to receive and absorb a reliable la boring and farming element. Strik ing increase are also shown at New Orleans, Galveston and Hono lulu." In commenting on Oriental Imml gratloa the report shows that thou sands of Japanese landed in Mexico during Hie past year, and ultimately gained -admission, surreptitiously, into this country. Once in the Uni ted States it was Impossible to locate them except in the rarest instances. While the regulations concerning Japanese Imimgation have tended to reduce the number of regularly ad mi;ted Immigrants hundreds, if not FOR WILLIAMSTON ! follows: The Martin County Timber Company nt Wllllamston. The object of tho corporation are to sell timber and timber lands and to do n general lum ber business. The authorized capital Is $10(1,000, but the company may be gin business on STii.OHO. The Incorpor ators are: John T. Lynch, New York, 2r.O shares; Hobert White, Jonesvllle, 2.rll; Jus. O. Godnrel, Wllllamston, 250. Luinberton Sanitarium, Incorporat es!, changes Its name to Thompson louollnl lw.n,.r,M.r,li,.l Tha V.,..rvll.,l
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