Weather.
SECOND.
EDITION
Washington, D. C, Feb. 22 Fore
cast for North Carolina for tonight
and Tuesday: Rain tonight and
Tuesday; variable winds south.-v .
ESTABLISHED 1876.
RALEIGH, N. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1909.
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Historic Hampton Roads Has
Not Witnessed Such Event
Since Fight Between the
Monitor and Merrimac
NORFOLK IS FLEET MAD
The Theatre For This Gigantic
Drama Was in Keeping With the
Actors and the Date, Washington's
Birthday, is Singularly Appro
priateEverything In the Great
Pageant Occurred Almost Exactly
According to rearrangement
The Marine Spectacle and Review
Was Something Extraordinary, An
Event Which Will Live in the
Memory of Every Beholder.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Fort. Monroe, Va-, on Board U. S. Tug
Peacock, Hampton Roads, Va., Feb. 22.
This is a great day for the navy and
the American people. Historic Hampton
Roads has not witnessed such an event
since the naval fight nearly half a cen
tury ago between the Monitor and the
Merrimac. When the globe-circling
battleship fleet cast anchor today in
' the Immense watery triangle, bounded
by. Newport News, Norfolk and the
gray old walls of Fortress Monroe,
there elided one of the most spectacu-
. lar and successhil cruises In the his
tory of the world. The fleet anchored
after the review at -the place where it
started more than a year ago, and It
is home in almost as good condition
ns when It began Its 42.000 mile journey,
more than twice the distance ever sail
ed by any fleet in the history of the
world. For a week the cities bounding
Hampton Roads have been "fleet mad"
and the culmination of the enthusiasm
and excitement was reached this morn
ing when the great battleships steamed
majestically Into trie Roads with tho
flagship Connecticut leading the pro
cession and Admiral Spcrry on the
bridge.
The theatre for this gigantic drama
was in keeping with the tutors and the
date, Washington's birthday, Is singu
larly appropriate. Everything in the
great pa, oant occcured exactly accord- ,
ing to rearrangement.'. .'j
. About noon Saturday the great Ar- '
mada, flying its homeward bound pen
ant, was nearly a hundred miles away,
having arrived ahead of schedule and
the fleet steamed at slow speed the
last fraction of its voyage in order not
to arrive ahead of time. Last night the
fleet rode at anchor just outside the
... Virginia capes. Today the anchor
chains rattled through the hawser
pipes in Hampton Roads almost at the
time set, 1:30 p. m. The anchorage
stretches In a crescent for three miles
from Old Point Comfort.
" "With the sixteen battleships was the
third squadron commanded by Ad
miral Arnold, which had been sent out
to sea last week to meet and escort It
homo. When the ships cast anchor in
the Roads there wese 26 in all, of which
twenty were battleships. .
Saturday and Sunday every incom
ing train and steamships brought an
Immense multitude of people into the
cities around Hampton Roads and the
number of sightseers has sever before
been witnessed In these Waters. It is
estimated that between 20,000 and 25,
000 visitors lined the shores or were
. in the scores of pleasure craft afloat In
the roads. The crowd Was even larger
than the great throngs which saw the
fleet depart. People are here from ev
ery state In the Union.
The marine spectacle and review to
day waa something' extraordinary, an
event which will live in the memory of
"every beholder.
v Early In the morning the day prom
' Ised to- be ideal, but about 10 o'clock
the sky became overcast and a light
drizzling rain began to fall, which con
tinued throughout the review. : This
marred somewhat the great panorama.
The ships filed past the Mayflower,
under a lowering sky, and at times the
rain and the mist almost obscured the
tail of the fleet, while the saluting
guns sounded muffled In the- fog.
Otherwise the marine picture was por-
feet.
The cities of Hampton Roads were
gay with the stars and stripes
and festooned - with bunting, elec
tric lights and other decorations.
No person of alt the vast cheering
throngs that lined the shores for. miles
nd those thousands afloat In the
myriad pleasure craft, but who was
thrilled to the core at the magnificent
spectacle, of the power and' majesty of
" the nation, as exemplified by the dis
play made by the fleet.' The fleet, as
It passed In review, ;wa arranred as
,j follows; , " ' ' , j. - . ' .
' First squadron, first division, Rear
Admiral Charlee 8. Sperry, eommand-'r-ln-chJef;
Connecticut! flagship, Cap
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-This is a Picture of the Rattle ship Connecticut, the Flagship of Admiral Spcrry;' in Command of the Bat
tleship Which Made a Circuit of the Globe. The Connecticut Was Also Admiral Evan's "Flagship.
REAR ADMIRAL SPERRV.
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Rear Admiral Snerry, Who Com
manded the American Battleship
Fleet in Her Rcconl-hrcakliig Trip
Around the World During the Latter
Part of the Voyage and Will be the
Ranking Officer in the Great Naval
Pageant at Hampton Roads.
tain HitRh Osterhaus; Kansas,' Captain
Charles B. Vreeland; Minnesota, Cap
tain John HjjLbard; Vermont, Captain
Frank F. Fletcher.
Second division Bear Admiral Rich.
ard Walnwrlght, commander; Georgia
(flagship) Lieutenant' Commander G.
W. Kline: Nebraska. Captain Reginald
FY NIcholsowKcw Jersey, Captain W.
H. H. Southernd: Rhode Island, Cap
tuln Joseph B. Murdock.
New Jersey, Captain V. H. H.
Southerlatid; Khode Island, Captain
Joseph B. Murdock.
Second squadron, third division: Rear
Admiral Seaton Schoeder, commander;
Louisiana (flagship) Captain Kossuth
Nlles; Missouri, captain Robert M.
Doyle; Ohio, Captain Thomas P. How
ard; Virginia, Captain Alexander
Sharp. . .1 . '
Fourth division: Rear Admiral W. B.
Potter, commander; WIscon (flagship)
Captain Frank E. Beatley; Illinois,
Captain John B. Bowyer: Kearsarge,
Captain Hamilton Hutchlns; Kentucky,
Captain Walter C, Cowles.
The Mayflower, having on board
President Rooscvolt, Secretary of the
Navy Newberry and Mrs. Newberry,
the Roosevelt family and Representa
tive and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth,
and several friends arrived at Hampton
Roads early this morning, having como
down the- Potomac from Washington
Sunday afternoon.
The Mayflower was in its position
at It . m. at the Horseshoe Tall and
the battleship fleet, ship by ship, head
ed by the flagship, steamed slowly past
In review, .- 1 . ''.
The ships amid tho thunder of their
guns were in a line which extended for
almost ten miles and Tvom the' time
that 'the Connecticut passed the' May
flower until the last vessel dipped Its
flat and the last salute had been fired
exaotly forty minutes had elapsed, ;
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S 'AFTER II
1 CONXKCTKTT, ADMIRAL SPKRUY'S FLAGSHIP.
Condensed Facts Altoui
(By Leased Wire to The Times).
Norfolk, Va., Feb. 23 Ships mak
ing up the fleet: , Connecticut, flag
ship; .Kansas, Louisiana, Vermont,
Virginia, Georgia, New Jersey, Rhode
Island, Alabama, Illinois, Kearsarge,
Kentucky, Ohio, .Maine, Minnesota
and Missouri. The scout cruiser
Yankton also accompanied the fleet
from port to port In advance.
Commanders of the fleet: When
the sixteen machines of naval war
fare moved out of Hampton Roads on j
December 16. 1907, it was command
ed by Admiral Roblcy D. Evans. On
May 9, 1908, Roar Admiral Thomas
succeeded Admiral Evans, who was
badly crippled with rheumatism
and who retired while the fleet was
in Californian waters. Admiral
Thomas held sway over the fleet just
six days. Then he was succeeded by
Admiral Sperry, who brought the
fleet home.
Distance made by-the fleet; The
fleet in Its tour steamed 40,000 miles.
The route from port to port was from
Hampton Roads to Trinidad to Rio
Janeiro, to Port Arenas, to Callao, to
Magdalena Bay, to Albany, to Manila,
to Yokohoma, to Honolulu, to Ma
nila, to Singapore, to Colombia, to
Suez, to Gibraltar, and thence to
Hampton Roads.
The battleship' lino formation to
day Is ten miles long.
The, fleet has been manned by 12,
000 jnckies.
On Its cruise the fleet used 305.000
tons of coal.
IS
FACT
Charlottesville, Va., Feb. 22 The
$1,000,000 endowment for the Uni
versity pf Virginia is now an accom
plished fact. The news, with very
brief details has been communicated
to the faculty by President Alder
man but public announcement will
not be made until Founders' Day,
President Alderman nad been at
work on the matter ever since he
came to the University. Andrew Car
negie subscribed $500,000 on the
condition that a like amount be
raised, expressing his great pleasure
at his ability to serve the University
of Virginia and through it the states
of the south. Other sums.were add
ed, In spite of financial depression In
the country until, with $100,000
raised in November and $150,000
procured durlnK President Alder
man's revent visit to New York the
$1,000,000 mark has been reached
without Including ono dollar ot be
quests or state appropriations.
Special Term of Court.
Governor Kltchin- baa ordered a
special term of court for Rockingham
county to begin April S, and last two
weeks. Judge 0. H. Ouio will pre-
ENDOWMENT
ASSURED
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' The cost of coaling on the long
trip is $2,600,008.'
The cost fdr-tood, for the crewa.has
been $200,000 7-T"lv U
The fleet is fwing welcomed today
with naval ceremonies on a larger
scale than over attempted in the
United States before. A welcoming
fleet steamed out to sea and met the
fleet, consisting of the following
warships: Maine, Alabama, Miss
issippi, and New Hampshire and the
cruisers Montana, North Carolina,
Salem, Chester and Birmingham.'
The trip wan a pleasant one and
marred by very few unpleasant inci
dents. Upon the trip the officered
son of Admiral Evans was court-mar-taillcd;
at Gibraltar Captain Qual
trough, of the Georgia, was court
martailed for drunkenness.
When the fleet first touched Ma
nila theer was a cholera scare which
precluded the possibility of sailors
l.'nding. : .
The fleet took 63,000 pounds of
frozen mutton.
lack Tar consumed 35,000 pounds
of bologna sausage.
He ate 140,000 pounds of cheese.
If all the foodstuff were piled in
bulk it would reach to the height of
a fifteen-story skyscraper.
The fleet has been gone one year,
two months and six days.
Note The Maine and Alabama
started with the fleet from Hampton
Roads but "were ordered back and
their places were taken by the Ne
braska and Wisconsin.
WANTS CORRECT
(By Leased Wire to. The Times)
Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 22 Con
gress is to be memoraltzed by the Ar
kansas legislature to fix the pronun
clatlons of its battleship namesake to
correspond with that ot the state.
Except in the south, the name is
commonly pronounced with a termi
nal like Kansas, whereas the correct
sound is Arkansaw, and this was
some years ago made legal by act of
legislature.
State and other historians assert
that the territory took Its name from
the Arkansas tribe of Indians and
was called the country of the Ark an
sas. The plural came to be the ac
cepted spelling, and In order that the
world may know how to twist Its
tongue the btato will ask this of the
government.
TO BECOME A MONK.
Grand Duke Has Made the Resolve
- and Will Enter Monastery.
' St. Petersburg, Feb. 22 It is atat
ed that Orand Duke Demtrl Constan
tinovltoh has resolved to , become a
monk; He will enter a monastery
forthwith. ... - - 'A-
ROINCIAT ON
IF CAPITOL IS
MOVED
SANFORD
WANTS CHANCE
One Mile From Haywood Which
Lacked One Vote of Get
ting Capitol Before
CONSIDER REVENUE ACT
Mr. Graham Wanted the Committee
of the Whole Adjourn Until To
morrow Momiiiji, As the Member
ship Hod Not Had Time to Con
sider and Reud the Act He
Thought it Would Kxpedite Time.
Sir. Dowd Did Not Think the Mo
tion Proper Tiling Will Take
Four Days to Consider This Rill
Many Local Rills.
The forty-first day's session of the
House of Representatives, North Car
olina General Assembly,: was called
to order at 11:05 by Speaker Graham
and the religious service was con
ducted by Mr. Jno. F. Latham, of
Beaufort county.
The journal committee announced
the proceedings of Saturday were
correctly recorded, and the call for
the petitions, memorials and com
munications brought out the follow
ing: By Butler: Petition of citizens of
Columbus county to protect fish, and
from citizens as to making wine and
selling In quantities of one quart.
Mr. McDonald sent a letter from
Board of Trade of Sanford, asking if
the capital was moved -to allow San-
fed -a-chance, i it waaenty .one,
mile from Haywood, the -place that
lacked only one vote of getting the
capltol when the present one was
built. .
Petition from Moseley Hall town
ship, in Lenoir county, asking repre
sentation on the board of education.
The usual call of the committees
brought forth the usual number of
bills reported from the committees,
and the same went on the calendar.
The senate sent in the usual num
ber of bills asking concurrence.
Rills Introduced.
By Shepherd: To appoint a board
of audit and finance for Robeson
county.
By Shepherd: To provide for
working roads and levying a tax In
Robeson. :
By Shepherd: To amend the law
incorporating the town of Rowland.
By Gavin: To amend the charter
of Warsaw.
By Gavin: To enable Warsaw to
issue bonds.
By Rod well: To incorporate Gra
ham school in Warren county.
By Warlick: To amend the char
ter of Lincolnton.
By Carlton: To amend the school
law of Spencer.
By Majette: To amend the law as
to county buildings. '
By Bolton: To prevent Sunday
excursions in Bertie and Northamp'
ton.':
By Connor: To amend law as to
Wilson county issuing bonds.
By Gibbs: For relief of E. E
Marshburn, of Swain county.
By Fagg: To change Danbury
township line.
Ry Fagg: For relief of J. S. Gibbs,
Stokes county.
By Perry of Vance: To amend the
poultry act.
By Perry of Vance (by request:)
To work roads ot Hertford county.
By Crumnler: To validate all
marriages by unordained ministers.
By Kennedy: For relief of James
Eld ridge, of Sampson, a teacher.
By Weaver: To amend act as to
Graham railroad.
By Gaston: To amend law as to
prosecutions and defense.
By Gaston: As to roads In Beaver
Dam, of Buncombe.
By Rascoe: To establish the of
flee of treasurer In Bertie.
By Myatt: To exempt W. J. Y.
Thurston from license tax on account
of Infirmity.
By ,Martln: To protect fur-bearing
animals in Currituck,
By Livingston; To cubmit the is
sue of bonds to Columbus township,
liy Polk county.
By McWilliams: For Hpeclal tax
In Hyde county school district.
- By Lovelace: To amend the road
law of No. 2 township in Cleveland
county. .
By Lovelace: As to appointment
of justices.
By Butler: Tp repeal law as to
abolishing tax collecting officer ot
Columbus cbunty. ; , :
(Continued on Pafce Five.) '-'
ROB N
COOPER
FIRST WITNESS
CROSS-EXAMINED
Court Room Packed With Spec
tators This Morning Robin
Unruffled on Witness Stand
CHARGED WITH PtRJURY
Young Cooper Was Curried' Back
Over His Movements of the Morn
ing of the Killing Admitted His
Father Was Armed -That Morning,
and Did Not Know Why Mrs. Kast
liian, Miss Fold and Others, Who
Had Testified Against Him, Would!
Perjure Themselves to Convict
Him.
( By Leased Wire to The Times)
Nashville, Tenn,, Feb. 22 With a
packed court-room this morning the
cross-examination of Robin Cooper
was begun by Attorney General Mc
Carn. The witnesses answered the
questions as on Saturday in a quiet,
respectful manner, but occasionally
his brow wrinkled perceptibly as he
deliberately replied to some of the
questions of the attorney-general.
Young Cooper was carried back
over his movements of the morning
of the killing. He admitted he had
seen his father armed that morning
and that he knew of no reason why
Mrs. Eastman, Miss Fold, and others
who had testified against him would
perjure themselves to deprive him or
trts-TtWjwfendants of their' Ufa or lib
erty. - .- ? ,"':-".-;' ::; ' :'." , t '
The witness persisted, however.
that their statements were false.
General McCarn carried Robin
Cooper through the story of the kill
ing again. Witness said he first rec-i
ognized Senator Carmack nearly a
block away, lie reiterated that Sen
ator Carmack shot him twice be
fore he fired at Senator Carmack. He
stated that when he fired at Senator! to offel' rewards In certain cases. Ju
Carmack the latter was standing erect I diclary.
at the first shot. He did not know! S B- U33t Senator Pharr: To
about the others, but thought Sena-!amend chapter 50, laws of 1901, rela
tor Carmack was in the same position
all the time.
The witness was asked to hare his
breast and show the jurv the wound'
In his neck. He. was asked if it d!dl
not range at an angle of more than'Mi,,s- Rutherford county. Manufac-
45 degrees upward. This question
was evidently asked with a view to
the state's insisting that Carmack was
falling or nearly down when he shot
young Cooper. The witness . was
asked to put on the collar and tie he
wore when shot, which he did.
The jury was then shown the range
of the bullet, which was slightly up
ward, ns the witness put it. The
crowd in the court-room watched with
interest as young Cooper stood be
fore the jury. Again was attention
riveted on him when he took a re
volver and impersonated the position
of Carmack with General McCarn rep
resenting the witness.
A flutter of excitement pervaded
the court room as Robin Cooper left
the stand at 11:40 o'clock this morn
ing and the audience waited to see
who would follow him. All eyes
turned to Colonel Duncan Brown
Cooper, but the old gentleman re
mained in his seat with his head bow
ed as usual. Then all eyes turned
to the tall, heavy-set fellow who got
up from behind the table and tool:
the witness chair. It was John D.
Sharp, tinder Indictment on the
charge of being an accessor- before
the fact to the killing.
John D. Sharp gave a version of
the killing that was exactly in ac
cord w ith that of Robin Cooper. He
said he saw the killing from the cor
oner. The witness did not go down
there, he said, or follow the Coopers,
I because he thought the meeting of
the Coopers and Carmack might be
come a serious affair. He swore Car
mack drew his weapon first and firod
twice, first at Robin Cooper, who had j
Jumped between ColonePCoopcr and
Carmack. : Robin, Sharp said, then
circled the posts and fired there times
at Carmack, the latter falling Into
the gutter. Sharp denied that he
went to the coroner With the Coopers
by prearrangement, but swore In
stead that Colonel Cooper had asked
him to walk up to the governor's
mansion with him and that was why
he was in company with the colonel.
London Bar Silver. ,
(By Cabls to The Times)
London, Feb. 2a Bar silver, quiet
at 23 B-16d.
TO INCREASE
PUBLIC
SCHOOL
APPROPRIAT
Senator Danghton Introduces
Bill Which Would Increase
Appropriation Fifty Percent'
MANY BILLS INTRODUCED
Senator Kniple Introduces Resolution
to Adjourn in Honor of Washing
ton's Birthday and the Home-coming
of the "Globe-encircling Fleet".
Bill, Providing Separate Quarters
For Colored and White Convict in
Jails, Convict Camps and Peniten
tiary, Passes Final Reading) Many
House Rills Are Considered.
Senator Kluttz, president pro tem,
called the senate to order at 12
o'clock.
Senator Means led In prayer.
The journal was reported to be
correct. -t
Committees answered to the roll
call and many bills were placed on
tho calendar.
New Rills Today.
New bills were introduced today as
follows:
S. B. 1127, Senator Bar ham: An
act relating to appeals from justice's
courts in civil cases. Judiciary.
S. B. 1128, Senator Ormond: An
act to amend article 8 of constitution.
Constitutional ' Amendment. i
S. B. 1129, Senator Ormond: To
amend section 100 of Revlsal, rela
tive to domestic insurance companies.
Insurance. '; . ;. .:';' i
S. B. 1130, Senator Starbuck: TO
permit judgments on appeal bonds
where bankrupts are defendants- 'Ju
diciary. : , '; i ' " '
S. B. 1131, Senator Elliott: To
amend charter of West Hickory.
I Counties, Cities and Towns.
S. B. 1132, Senator Pharr: To
amend chapter 440, laws of 1907,
i and authorize county commissioners
itive t0 publlc h'ehways, bridges and
j.ierries in Aiecaienourg county, voun-"
Uos- Lltles and Towns.
S- B 1 134, Senator Mills: An act
t0 Protect operatives of Cliffslde
turing.
S. B. 1135, Senator Johnson: An
act to fix compensation of county
treasurer of Currituck county. Coun
ties, Cities and Towns. :
S. B. 1136, Senator Emple: To es
tablish a criminal court for New Han-
over county. Calendar.
S. B. 1137, Senator Scott: A reso
lution that when the senate adjourn
today it do adjourn in honor ' of
George Washington and of the return
of the "world-encircling fleet."
S. B. 1138, Senator Peele: To
amend law relative to court calen- ,
dar in Scotland county. Calendar,
S. B. 1139, Senator Fry: To incor
porate the Southern Assembly. Cor
porations. S. B. 1140, Senator Kluttz: To
amend charter of China Grove. Cal
endar. S. B. 1141, Senaor Johnson: To
amend law relative to fishing In Pam
lico Sound. Fish and Fisheries.
S. B. 1142, Senator Dough ton: An
act to Increase state appropriation for
public schools from flOO.OOO to
$150,000. Education.
PaHsed Third Reading.
The following bills passed their
final readings:
S. B. To allow Charlotte to levy a
tax for support of Carnegie Library.
S. B. To authorize commissioners
of Halifax to Issue bonds for court
house. ' .'
S. B. To allow Kernersvllle to
Issue bonds.
H. B. To allow Beaufort to issue
bonds.
H. B. To authorize bond Issue for
bridges in Harnett county. )
II. B. To build bridges In Madi
son. H. B. To amend charter ot Besse
mer City. : .
II. B. To change name of a Scot
land village to East Laurlnburg. . 1
S. B. To provide for working pub-,
lie roads of Northampton. -. '
H. B. To provide building ot per
manent roads in Granville. ' - I
H. B. To provide separate quar-.
ters for races In Jails, convict camps,
and penitentiary. ... , ''' t ,
H. B. To amend lair relative to
operation of freight trains in North
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