North Carolina Newspapers

Oaiy A:nioon Pcp:r in the State of North TfVT ' - ' " v. . " f ' LAST EDITIOIT VOLTJ1I3 1 ' ' A -V ' ', RALEIGH, "N. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1908. i PRICE 5 T FIRES RAGING Owing to Long Drouth fires Burn Fnrifliislv and ' Hard toChecK SEVERAL LIVES AI LOST Property Worth Millions Been De stroyed .' and- Unless Rain Conies Soon it is Feared Loss Will be ' Enormous People Are Worn Out Fighting the Continuous Blaze and Help is Being Asked From Towns Par Prom the Scene of Fires. (By Leaned Wire to The Times ) New York, Sept. 19 Dispatches from points In the northern part of this state, from Maine cities and Utica and near-by towns and from Michi gan bring news of forest fires raging unchecked, owing to - the long ' drought. Property worth millions ot dollars and several lives have Already been lost and unless rain comes soon It is feared that the loss will be enormous. Smoke palls cover a half dozen states, reaching even to this city. Inhabitants of the devasted sec tions are -worn out fighting the con tinuous blazes and help Is being asked from towns and cities many miles from the scenes. . Outlook Distressing. (By Leased"Wire to The Times) Utica, N. Y., Sept. 19 Reports from many sections indicate that the area over which flames are sweeping in the Adlrondack8 is being rapidly extended and in the continued ab sence of rain the outlook for the sub duing of ' the fire is distressing. In the' vicinity of the upper lake two fires have assumed alarming propor tions and the fire warden eatinot m . cure enough meh'to work at them. 1 More than 1,000 acres have been burned over in the last three days. To the north and west of the city of Rome there are a number of forest fires of extensive proportions. Railroads Fighting Flunitw. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Albany, N. Y., Sept. 19 The rail roads in the Adiiomlacks are using their fire trains continually and are setting fire going at the same time. Hunters are also charged with set ting many fires through carelessness in extinguishing their camp fires. Two calls have come from Westport for assistance. O. B. Richards, town clerk, telegraphed that- many fires had been started there by the Dela ware & Hudson locomotives. GuEA FOREST Smoke Envelopes Maine. ' (By Leased Wire to The Times) , Augusta, Me., Sept. 19 A dense pall , of smoke envelopes the entire state as the result of numerous forest j fires that are devastating thousands of acres of timber lands and causing grave anxiety for the safety of prop erty in at least four towns in this co.unty. Night and day a large army ,f men is at work in th"iffort to ' place the flames under fdLcrol, j The smoke is stifling and the heat Is such as to try the endurance of the strongest Hundreds of the men who for two days have been fighting the fire almost ceaselessly have been forced to give up and fresh relays are ' constantly being despatched to the front So far as known no lives have been lost. The western section of the town of BrookBvllIe in Hancock county is in . great danger. There are five square miles of flame near Lisbon. The towns and villages where the danger is great or damages heavy In- ciuae orooKviim, wem nnutwit, our rey, Dlcksvale, Jackman, Lisbon Scarboro, Blddeford, . Elliot, ;,. York, Clamon, MUford, Cardvllle, and Cos-- ttgan. : ,.,fv' -v: Anxiety lit Canada. . ". , (By Leased TVlre tq The Times) Ottawa, Ont, Sept 19 There is much anxiety throughout Canada as several cities, probably 22 towns and as many villages, are enshrouded in smoke. There are scores of bad bush fires, all due to the long spell of extremely dry weather. The steam ship service on Lake Ontario Is de moralized. A number of lumber camps in northern Ontario are wiped out anA the mod are fighting to save others. Two lives were lost at Parry , 8ound. . . ', ,1' ,; . ' : The flames have approached very near to Ottawa and several of the suburban districts are threatened. THE RALEIGH EVENING Gov. Hughes, of New York, Nominat ed to Succeed Himself by Republicans f : r : ' u ?& K v , ' s' - rj BRYANSPEAKS Shakes Hands With Several Z People at the Grand Central Station i RETURNS TO NEW YORK Was Recognized by the People But There Was No Demonstration A Few Shook Hunds With Him and Others Merely Looked On. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, Sept. 1 9 -William Jen nings Bryan left for New Haven In a private car attached to the regular Boston express on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad at 8:01 a. m. today, accompanied by National Committeeman Green, of Rhole Island, and National Commit teeman Cummlngs and State Chair man Manns, of Connecticut. J. B. Burton, assistant secretary of the national committee, was the only lemocrat of prominence to see him off. .. . . ". Bryan was recognized by the peo ple in the Grand Central station but '.here was no demonstration. A few people stepped up to the candidate ind shook bands with him, but the rest merely watched him for a mo ment as he made -his way toward his ar and then themselves moved on. Bryan goes to New Haven to visit 'he widow of the late Alex Troup, who dropped dead In the Grand Cen tral station about a week ago.; He will make no public' appearance In New Haven and will leave before noon for Providence, where he nakes a speech tonight. : He will be back in New York tomorrow morn ing apd will be taken to Esopus, N. Y., as the guest of Alton B. Parker. Two Lives Ijost. ; ' Wllliamsport,- Pa., Sept. 19 The heavy pall of, smoke still overhangs his section. Ten million feet of logs of the Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company are In danger. ' a . The mountains along the western branch of the Susquehanna river are hidden by smoko and at night the red glare can be seen for miles. The gloom of night settled over this city at least an hour earlier than usual last evening. PROVIDENCE PANICTHREATENS RUSSIANCAPITAL Cholera Epidemic as Deadly Warfare is Ravaging St. Petersburg CLIMAX REACHED TODAY Hospital Are Crowded and There Were a Number of New Cases To. dny Ravaged With ' Disease, Streets Congested With Dead. Threatened, the Scene Presented Today Was Appnlling. (By Cable to The Times.) St. Petersburg, Sept. 19 The cholera epidemic, as deadly as war fare, Is ravaging the capital of Rus sia and conditions reached their climax with crowded hospitals, an additional number of new cases and threatened panic. Ravaged with dis ease, on the verge of rioting and with numbers of the streets congest ed with conveyances of the dead, the scene presented today was appalling in its aspects. . The cases developed in the past twenty-four hours were as many as the whole previous total. At mid night there were more than 480 cases In the hospitals and it was feared that this number would go beyond BOO before noon today. Since the outbreak of the epidemic there have been 484 deaths and a to tal of 1,677 cases. The military hospital Is being utilized for the care of the patients but all available room was occupied I this morning and military author! i ties gave out the information that ' other arrangements would have to i be made. ; ;' , St. Petersburg was wholly unpre pared for the scourge which surged over the city, leaving : death and gloom and despair, In its wake. The sanitary conditions were ut terly unfit, making it Impossible for the authorities to cope .with the sit uation. " While the cholera is not a atran er in Russia,' the outbreak in the city is the worst in years. Hundreds of new inspectors have been sworn in and many worRingmen are en Meed In cleaning the streets, and alleys, es pecially in the poorer sections pf the city. . ', ; i,.1- ... . ,,;. Carolina Vitha Leased Wire Service - - El Charges on Snake House and Overturns Every Cage r and Tank MEN TAKE TO TREES Strains nt the Hobbles That Bounded Her While the Director and Every Guard in Bronx Park Stood by With Pitchfork and Spike In Case Hlie Should Break Her Shackles. Grows Quieter Today and hhocklrs Are Removed liecauie Furious Instantly und Played, Havoc for Awhile. (By Leased Wire to The Times) ; New York, Sept. 1 9 Sending fortn unearthly trumpets and strain ing at the nobbles taat bounded her, Luna, the big elephant brought from Luna Park., where she was known aH Alice, to be a companion for Gunda, the children's friend, in the Zoologi cal Gardens in the Bronx spent the night with snakes hissing about her and other crawling things near. while Director Hoi-naday and every guard In the Bronx park stood by with pitchfork and spike, ready to- attack huge, angry beast in case she should break her shackles. She appeared to be 'quieter at 6:30 a. ni. today and the shackles we,x5 taken from her legs so she could Jie led out.' . Instantly the beast became fur ious. She charged the snake ca,,;os, overturning them, and the rat era and other smaller snakes writhed across the house and made fir " Iho open. The 'big snakes, many of "'m th sort that crush .ylotiuw laetr coll. iw!wf:ieid .hack' by tfio iMi'-d fronts that had been, placed- before their glass cages during the night.) The elephant, made a complete wreck i of the snake house and .-before she cot out she had overturned nearly every cage and tank Every sort of reptile squirmed to get in freedom and many of, them suiTOedfrt. Director H.jrnaday and a: dozt men were outside 'the. 'Snake house and the elephant: charged on them. Some of them had a start on tho big trumpeting beast and -escaped to. a further end of Bronx Park. Others took to trees and as Luna passed on they climbed down and began gather ing the snakes that wer twisting, and squirming and hissing as they, glided, to the tall grass- in the park. How many of the snakes escaped i: not known. ' Luna then galloped to t he open. A j park to t he other. Now and then she i attacked some house in her fury, ana ! once she made for the lion cages. I She swiped her trunk .against, the! bars and the lions and tigers clawed ! at her, the Hons roaring and the' tigers screaming. Lun then galloped to the open. A chain was still wound about one of j her front feet. One of the keepers got hold of this chain and connected ' It to another tied about, a tree. When, Luna started to run again she was ; fast and in a few minutes .she was; pinned between two treeR with all j i i i j t Director Hornaday then directed EPHANT RUNS AMUCK IN PARK his men to go through the park and,est pennants In ,the history of tne iContlnued on Second Page.) I Southern League. 1 ; j Not until Wednesday was the race Hon. L. S. Chanlerf: . ' , " j ' ' i : DEMOCRATIC NOM1NKE FOR GOV. I . rilXOR OF NEW I'ORK. Judge Morgan J. O'Brien, Temporary CbaiVm N. Y. State Democratic Con. :rxv ' - . "'.:''...!.'.iiL.rr' 0Ni.CHfflLER CiUINHPHOlO (By Leased Wire to The Times) svew jorii, sept.- I'J iiicre ,wasi some heavy l)ctlinR on the coming election at .the C.raveaecnd race tmcl yesterday, Tim Shaw, made one Wa ger of $5,000 on Olianler at eve'i pioncy -with Holiry Hni-ris. -Roxie Augnrola placed another 000 wa ger and one ot $2.O00 on Chnnleiy hIso at even, declaring that, ne hud $ 13,000 more to pbice on tne same 'proposition. George Wheelock, also a big election better, mi id that ho. had $10,000 to place on Clinnler at RVR" money tun could find no tak ers, several race track men declar ed. 'that they could get $100,000 if necessary, to place on the democratic candidate for-., governor. So far in the speculation in the track there has been a nolable scarcity, of : Hughes money. DECIDING GAME (By Leased Wire to The Times) Atlanta, Ga., .-Sept;-. 19- Today i marl(S the close of one of the warm-. narrowed down to two teams and it ill require today's game, the last, of 1 TWIRLS the season, to decide the champion- i least 10.0UO,oot reet of lumber have ship. Should Nashville win from UPen c-onsiimed, t lie value of which is New Orleans the Tonneneans -will $io,000. it Is quite probable that finish two poinfs to the good. I many people in these camps may not "Old mau" Breltc-nsteln will pitch have escaped. Tlie lumber company for the Pelicnns, while Sitton, who has had 1.200 men there for the last won the South Atlantic pennant for forty-eight- hours working contlnu Jacksonvllle, will be sent to the 0iikIv without food or sleen to subdue mound by the volunteers. BLINDEH BV HEADLIGHT TWO BOYS ARE KILLED A (By Leased Who to Tlie Times) Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 19 BPuded' ' by the headlight of the Unloniown express and heedless of the approach ot.a westbound wreck train, two boys were killed and a number nar- rowly escaped death at a street cross- ing of the Pennsylvania Railroad last night. The dead are Clyde Stok- er, 1 years old; Thomas Conlcy. 15 yean old. and Pull Press Dispatches 1T.T. TTTP TIME I Fly Leased Wire to The Times) Chicago, .Sept, 19-i-Thaf several-of ,,";,.,, toMo ". ters disjie'ui'ed in Chicago contain more colon bacilli than the water that. '-passes through the city's mains aiid that the coin pan ios selling these waters'. nro.-'.perpetrating a. fraud and oiiligl to lie. "''put out of business" were some of the startling disclos ures made by Dr. Biehn, director of 'the Chicago--' city laboratory last nielli. lie spoke to the members of the Chicago section of the American ('hemii'iil Society and while his re marks were a revelation to the lay man, tne experts gathered at the meet ing approved of every charge he made , seemed not a bit surprised, and recommended that the time for a general crusade was ripe. IN FOREST FIRE (l'.v Leased Wire to The Times.) ' Pittsburg, - '-Pa.,-; Sept.. 19 Many lives may have been lost and much valuable property has been destroy ed by forest fires in Somerset coun ty, tl is reported that, three lumber ty. It Is reported that, three lumber by fire, it Is impossible to estimate iho Hiiinnirn nrrnrntnl v owlnir to the (UM1Ke (lokt,. It s known that at the flitmo3. GIVES HIS LIFE IN TRYING TO SAVE GOW (n Leased Wire to The Times) Altobna. Pa.. Sent. 18 Frank Mc- MuIlan.V" years old, n Pennsylvania , Railroad freight brakoman, forfeited his life near his homo at Tyron last evening to save a cow. Hl-s train was moving slowly when the animal was 'seen on tho track, Mullan ran ahead to drive the cow off the track and was struck by a training moving In J the opposite direction. GREAT DAMAGE ALL THE HAT THE BUILDING OF THE TEFJPLE How ilis Dreams o!Hi2L'::c of North Carolb Came True BUILD A HOME FOR AGED Temple Makes Possible the Estab lishment of Home for Aged and Infirm Income of the Temple About $12,000 Cost Masons of State About 9175,000 No Debt on Grand Lodge Funds in Sight to Pay All Indebtedness. ' Not content with what they had accomplished in the way of charity, not content with having built and endowed a splendid home for . the protection and education of the or phans of their brethren, th Masons of North Carolina dreamed of the day and longed for its coming, When they could establish and maintain a Home for Aged and Indigent Mas ons. Today in the city of Raleigh, at the corner of Fayetteviile and Bar- gett streets stands the great build ing which has made their 0ream come true. This magnificent struc ture completed, eight stories - nigh (counting the basement), ,built of Indiana limestone and Ohio .pressed brick, the framework of reinforced concrete, every office beautifully 1W nished, the whole beautiful structure dedicated to the carrying out of the one great purpose, the Masons of the state find in . it the attainment ; of what they have so long hoped. for. ' The Masonic Temple is one of the finest office buildings in the state 6f North Carolina. Thoroughly modern from basement to roof garden, fire proof throughout, and built .ot the very best material money could pur , chase and good judgment select, the building is one that Raleigh , has st right to be proud of. There is jcepi tainly not a better or more beauti fully arranged building in the state. The Masons of the state have done themselves proud in the erection of this great building. Masons sever do things by halves. Whatever they do they do' Intelligently and thor oughly. They begin right. The building of the Temple was no excep tion. They attacked the great prob lem with their usual foresight and Intelligence. For their building com mittee they selected five staunch Masons and level-headed business men, whose equals would be hard to find in the state. These were Orand Master Francis D. Winston, ot Wind sor; Messrs. S. H. Smith, of Win ston; J. D. Elliott, of Hickory; John C. Drewry, of Raleigh; and Or. R. J. Noble, of Selma. Tlie committee went to work. Plans for the building were drawn up by Mr. Charles McMillan, a prom inent architect of Wilmington. A site for the building was purchased at a cost of $35,800. The contract for the building was let to the Cen tral Carolina Construction Company, and the work began. i. As planned, the Temple was, to cost about $160,000. To date the ex penditures of the committee bate reached $175,000. At present, there Is practically no debt on the Temple. There is more than enough money in sight to pay every cent ot its indebt edness. Without compensation and with only the good of their great or der at heart, the committee labored' unceasingly for the completion of the building. It stands today an en during monument to their seal. Near ly all of the offices have been rented. The Income of the great building is about $12,000 a year. This sum will go to the establishment and main tenance of a home for aged and in digent Masons. This has been a hope long cherished by many Masons in the Btate. Long ago they estab lished and paid for a home for the helpless orphans of. Masons, and with the Income ot their magnificent new building they will now provide a home for their destitute and un fortunate old members, who have been unsuccessful In the battle tt life. .' - , . ' The achievement of the commit tee and especially the work of Mr. John C. Drewry, grand secretary, through whose hands the contribu tions passed, is the more remarkable when one takes into consider Jtioa the fact that the. vast sum need'' f erect the Temple came from'j wj' N.', r9 that sifsivA In aim a It abm Xit. It- skv ing about two dollars 4ca; 4, i .(Continued on Pa em A! ft.-. j' j -, ' , . - ;' .... ; V '' ,''',- !" ' -.-'. '..' ' ,;?'-" '.'.'"'''": .' .- ' t :,,;l)!y.-f;.-.,:-, ( r 1.1 Jj- 1 1 TTlCIITV A MM II irv T (Ct iPl T TTT"