Weather.
Washington, May 7 Forecast
for North Carolina for tonight
and Saturday: : Showers and
cooler tonight; Saturday, fair.
ESTABLISHED 1871.
RALEIGH, N. 0., FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1909.
PRICE 5 CENTS
FRIGHTFULLY BAD ARID
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URISAMTARY STATE OF
MAffiS AT BOME-YARD
Conditions at the City Farm
4re Such As to Bring
Danger to City
A REVELATION FOR CITY
City Has Hud a Revolution and Many
People Stopped Last Night to
Think About the Sanitary Condi
tions Surrounding Them -Men
Who Live In the Southern Part of
the City Complain of the Frightful
Conditions at the Hone-yard
Have to Close Their Doors In the
Hummer to Keep Out the Terrible
. Odor.
Raleigh has had a revelation. The
people stopped to think last night.
Instead of stopping to eat The
startling disclosures made by The
Evening Times yesterday regarding
the slaughter-house situation in this
city has opened the eyes of the peo
ple. Never before have they known
or even stopped to think of what they
were eating. But when filth and dis
ease stares . people in the face they
usually take a halt. As stated yes
terday The Evening Times has just
begun a series of Investigations into
the sanitary food conditions of the
city, and the people are going to get
all the Information we gain just as
we get it. There will not be any
coloring, neither will there be any
thing left out. We are going to tell
the truth and if It hits some man who
doesn't happen to like it, we only ad
vise that he remedy these conditions
before the law gets him. The public
must know. theBft thiuRS.. juata 4Jiey
are and The Evening Times is going
to give them the plain truth In the
matter. v .
Following up the same line of reas
oning regarding the sickness of the
city the representative of The Even
ing Times took a trip out to the city
farm yesterday afternoon to see the
conditions out there. The city farm
lies just south of the city,. and what la
known as the bone-yard Is just about
one mile south of the city.. Dming
the spring and summer Raleigh gets
all its fresh air from the south, as the
winds blow day and night from the
south during these seasons. Kaleigh
does not own a crematory, where all
the animals that die and all the refuse
and filth of the city can be burned,
but Instead we have a "Bone Yard",
where all this matter is taken ami
dumped out on the ground. All the
horses, cows, dogs, and any other
kind of animal that may be no un
fortunate as to die inside of Raleigh
is simply thrown In a city wagon nnd
hauled out to the bone-yard and
thrown out on the ground to decay
and rot. In1 sight of Raleigh and
where all the fresh air for the spring
and summer months must pass over it
before It Is breathed by thq poople
of this city.
Men who live in the southern part
of the city and men who work near
this place, say that on one day last
Rummer as high as 17 carcasses were
hauled out there and thrown out for
all of Raleigh's horde of dogs to live
on during the summer months. It
Is not an uncommon thing to see 25
or 60 dogs those nice cur. dog's and
other pet kinds so dear to some peo
ple In this city going out to the
bone-yard at night and coming back
to town In the early morning.
Yesterday afternoon there were
several carcasses of horses lying out
there, and these dead horses were In
all forms of decay. It Was a hot
spring afternooa, and the air was
frdro the south. The stench from
those decomposing bodies, together
with all the germs, were being waft
ed on the spring breezes back Into
Raleigh. When the hot weather
comes and the death rate is high
among the animals and the bone-yard
Is full, the people who live In the
south aide of the city have to close all
doors and windows at night, as the
stench is simply awful. The people
,-who Hive In the south side of the city
have Just as much right to demand
protection from the city as the peo
ple who live In the eastern, western,
or northern side. If they die: with
fever or other contagious diseases
would the city be to blame for their
death? "'.
In all other places where they even
make an attempt to be sanitary or
have so many expert sanitary officers
they hare a crematory and all the
dead animals and all the decaying
matter and filth from the city is
cremated. Out in Raleigh It ' is
hauled out to the south side of the
city and thrown out on the ground to
decay, and all the odors and diseases
are wafted back into tho homes of
the city on the gentle spring and
summer breezes. Sometimes at least
50 or 100 dead bodies are ''decompos
ing in sight of the city, and the citi
zens in sight of tills awful place have
to close their doors as a protection.
These citizens pay their taxes and
they are demanding protection from
this stench and probablo death.
Italeigli's waterworks are locuted
about two hundred yards from this
bone-yard und Its awful stencil.
Spring is here and the hot sum
mer is coming again, and tho people
are anxious to know what is to be
done for this condition which con
fronts the people who live down
South Fayettevtlle street and oil the
south side of the city. Shall the city
have a crematory and burn all the
city's filth or shall it be hauled to
some other side of the city nnd let
the people., on the other sides of town
endure this stench for a, season? ;
Other Slaughter Houses.
The Times man this morning drove
out. to the other end of town to do a
little inspecting of slaughter-houses
in that section. The first one visited
was on Fayettevtlle road, close to the
city limits. This house has not been
much used of late, but. there was
plenty 'of scraps and a large and va
ried assortment of stifling, sickening
Odors present. A bushel or two of
lime hud been sprinkled around the
slaughter-pen and on the great heap
of decaying flesh in the rear of the
house. The lime had most evidently
been placed there this morning or
yesterday. It certainly had not been
on the ground long. With all that,
the odor was terrible. The scrap
heap in the rear was a "medly of
horns and hoofs and heads", mixed
with scraps of meatball piled close
against the rear of the building.
. The next slaughter-house visited
was half a mile or wore to the east.
It. was a deserted one, situated on the
land of Mr. D. H. Byrum. Though
long since left to crumble Into decay
the 'fragrance" whch The Times
man has come to associate with tiie
typical Raleigh slaughter-house
"dung 'round it still". The reporter
could not bear to go into the pen be
cause of the awful stencil. What
must it have been when it was in act
ive service! The building was con
structed on the most approved style
-a la West Raleigh build.
Leaving this place the reporter en
countered two negro men ul work in
the field. He spoke to Hieiu about the
deserted slaughter-house .'.and.' from
their lips ho got no Goldsmil li-escpie
reveries showing that the deserted
slaughter-house lacked the qualities
that made i"swoot "Auburn", the de
serted village, a pleasant memory.
Said one of them:
"That slaughter-house ain't belli'
used now. They've moved up to the
top of t he hill yonder (pointing to a
building nearly a mile to the east),
I lives over there (pointing again to a
rCnntlnnert on Paec Two.)
Ql'KK.V WIMIKLMINA.
" This picture Is from a 1rU photo.
Ri-aph of Oucen Wllhelmlna of Hol
land, who has been the centre of In
tercut In the Netherlands for, the part
few weeks. L , -
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THE PROSECUTOR
MAY INTRODUCE
MORE LETTERS
Threatens to Retaliate On
Officers Who Appeared in
Case Against Hains
PROGRESS OF CASE
Attorney Mclntyre, Angry At Coup of
the District Attorney in Pitting
Army Officers on the Stand Against
Captain Hains Threatens lo Tut in
Evidence: Letters Written by .Mrs.
Ha ins Concerning Her Relations
With These Same Officers Will
Try to Show They Had Other Mo
tives Than Trying to Scrve.tlie Kml
of Justice. '
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Flushing, I.. 1., May 7 .Angered
by the coup of District Attorney He
witt in bringing to the trial of Cu pt.
Peter C. Ha ins, Jr., as wit nesses
against him a number of his fellow
officers, John F. Mclntyre, chief
counsel foe the defendant, declared
today that. In sur-rebutalt, he would
produce letters of the caDtaln's wife,
Claudia Hains, in which the'-names
of certain of these officers would ap
pear in a' sensational light.
The lawyer beieves that when the
jury hears these letters read they will
have the opinion that these witnesses,
who made no appearance at the trial
of T. Jenkins Hains, had other mo
tives in volunteering their evidence,,
which as United States soldiers, they
were not compelled to do, than the
mere praiseworthy desire to serve the
ends of justice. , .
Mr. Mclntyre had hot planned to
put In any sur-rebuttal evidence
whatever but the move of the youth
ful state's attorney probably will
force him to alter his plans.
Dr. Horace G. Houghton took the
stand again today for cross-examination
by Mr. Mclntyre.
The witness was tho first physician
to reach the side of Annis after he
was shot. Ho insisted that Captain
Hains on the day of the murder,
"walked quietly and firmly."
Edwn A. Andrews testified that he
saw nothing unusual about Captain
Hains after the shooting. Charles H.
Huberts,- another, man who saw the
shooting, said Hains acted rationally.
Merrill Downs, a member of the
Baysido Yacliat Club, said Hains was
not excited after Hie shooting but
handed out one of his cards "when
asked who-had done Hie shooting. .
Eugene Fallon, a detect ve, (old of
being in the station house when
Hains was brought In after the shoot
ing. He said Hains appeared normal
and asked for paper to write a note.
About noon Assistant District At
torney Wortliington commenced to
road the long hypothetical question
to Dr. Charles Brink, alienist for the
state, then on the stand.
The state's other alienists were In
court to hear this reading so that the
long interrogation containing more
than X.000 words would not have to
be repeated to them. They Were Drs.
George O. Fostfr, Abbotto Carson
Combes, and Dr. Hicks.
Dr. Brink swore that in his belief
the words and actions of the man de
scribed in the question were rational,
that he was sane when lie shot An
nis; that' he knew the nature and
quality of the act he was performing
and that the act 'was wrong.
"What did Captain Mains suffer
from at the time he kiled Annls?" he
was asked.
"Merely emotional outburst."
."I do not. believe he was suffering
from any mental trouble. I think his
act was that of a novmnl man," said
Dp. Brink.
On cross-examination Dr. Brink de
clared that he did not see Dr. Clarke,
for the defense, to be an eminent
alienist. i
"He is better known as a neurolo
gist," he said.
Mr. Mclntyre fought to keep out
this reply but could not.
North Carolina Postmasters.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, May 7 Fourth-class
postmasters were appointed today as
follows:
North Carolina: Stella, Mrs. Clara
I. Pelletier; Wayside, John B. Stiles.
North Carolina (Joes to Alexandrettn.
(By Cable to The Times)
Gibraltar, May 7 The American
cruiser North Carolina left here to
day for Alexandretta. The Montana
la Btlll coaling.
MANYAREBADLY
HURT IN CRASH
More Than a Hundred People
Seriously Injured, Falling
Several Feet
CROWD FANIC STRICKEN
Great Crowd Assembled in Xew Na
tional (itiard Armory Railing
Around Balcony Gave Way and
Two Hundred People Were Thrown
Into Anna Below. Landing in a
Tangled .Mass of Suffering, Moan
ing Humanity .",((( Spectators
I'anic-sliiekeii Men, Women, and
Children Piled Three and Four
,' Deep on Floor.
(By Leased. Wire to The Timer.)
Seal !!'. Wash., May 7' tiotween
150 and 175 people were injured,
many fatally early today when an
iron guard-rail in the balcony of the
national guard armory on Western
avenue gave way. . '
Fully "i.nOO spectators were as
sembled in the armory on the occas
ion of the indoor track and field
championships of the Pacific North
west Association of the amateur un
ion, and they were thrown into a
wild panic. The accident occurred
just at 'the' 'finish of an exciting race
between F. Jackson, of the Seattle
A, C, and K.. H. Crabbe, of the Allen
preparatory school, of Portland.
As the contestants crossed the line
near the centre of the armory, the
great crowd surged to the front of
the balcony and as near the finish-line
as possible. ; At the moment Jackson
eroded the line the iron guard-rail,
reaching 300 feef "along the east side
of the structure gave way for its full
length, and from 200 to 250 poople
were plunged headlong a distance of
1 6 feet to a hard oak floor. They
landed in a tangled mass of suffering
moaning humanity.
Many arms and legs .we're": broken
and most of the victims sustained se
rious Internal injuries. Several wefe
found to have' fractured skulls.
Men women, and children Were
piled three and four deep upon each
other, Sickening and heart-rending
cries of distress rang through the
building. ...
Inslanily there was a wild panic.
There were many national guards
men and soldiers in the crowd, and
after the first, excitement had sub
sided they began the work of rescue.
Adjutant-General Lamping, of the
national guard, assumed command.
His eyes fell first upon the prostrate
form of a brother .'guardsman, Maur
ice Thompson, one of the dangerously
injured. His wife was also badly
hurt:. The two wore found lying side
by side. Both were unconscious. .
Alarms Were sent to all parts of
the city and every-available, ambu
lance responded, as also did ah .emer
gency squad of -police and two com
panies of firemen. Physicians came
by the score and gave their services.
The serious injured were conveyed to
the various hospitals. Some of those
less seriously hurt were removed to
their homes.
The Receiving, Providence, General
and Minor hospitals were quickly
filled, and many of the injured had to
be taken to private hospitals and san
itariums. A crowd of several thous
and people assembled about the
armory and fought to enter. The po
lice had great difficulty in restoring
order. ' .
Among those known to be hurt are:
Captain Maurice Thompson, of the
national guard of Washington, skull
fractured and internal injuries; Mrs.
Thompson, Internal injuries and
bruised from being trampled -.upon;
Lionel Hibler, 13 years old, cut across
head ; Jessie ; : Hiber, Internally in
jured; Cecil Thornton, fractured
skull, nose broken, serious'; K.
R. Cabbe, second in the Mara
thon, foot sprained and back badly
wrenched, through people fulling
upon him; F. Jackson, winner of
Marathon, bruised nnd crushed be
neath falling crowd; Howard Bal
lard, of Fremont, boii of Dr. Ballard,
slightly hurt; Nathaniel Stewart,
Fremont, hip wrenched; Gus Havers,
secretary of the Seattlo A. C, inter
nal Injuries; Jack Grace, fraternity
man of the University of Washing
ton, leg broken; William, Paddock
shoulder and collnr-bone broken,
dangerous condition; Cecil Hatfield,
Internal Injuries; Hoy Parkhonse,
arm broken; K. Hatfield, left foot
broken; J. D. Davidson, cut about
the head and face; John Doyle, leg
broken; 13, M. Stuyvesant, broken
IN WESTERN CITY
ankle; Krnest Richards, wrist bro
ken; Marshall Libby, leg broken;
Eart Wilson, arm broken; Robert
Gerald, both arms broken; James
Donaldson, both aims broken; Mrs.
Edwards, arm broken; unknown wo
man, unconi.cioii!; from internal in
juries; Edwin Conklin, spine hurt and
internal injuries: .Mrs. Siinonson, in
ternal 'injuries.
Five or six person:, are unconscious
and have not been identified.
Tiie armory, where the disaster oc
curred, was but recently finished, and
had not been accepted by I lie national
guard. Matthew Dow & Co. are the
contractors, ami lliev claim the struc
ture Was .substantially - built..: How
ever, Adjutant-General- Lamping as-i-erti
thai the accident was undoubt
edly due to faulty construction: that
the I'.uard rail was not secure. Had
it been securely fastened and braced,
lie savs, such a crowd could not pos
sibly have torn it loose.
FACING STARVATION
Exposure and Pestilence En
Thirty Thousand People Have Perish
ed by Bloodshed and That Many
More Face Heath I'l-oni Starvation.
Better Conditions in t'oiistanti
lionle. :
Constantinople, May 7 While ful
ly' thirty thousand 'persons perished
in "the 'reign of bloodshed in Asia
Minor, an equal .and." possibly greater
number, largely women and children,
now face death by starvation, expos
ure and, pestilence.
Meanwhile, conditions in this city
continue to improve and it is 'prob
able that within a very few days the
military restraint imposed , by what
amounts to martial law will have
been entirely removed. '
That the new sultan is responsible
for the cessation of public executions
became known today. On Thursday
he sent for the grand vizier, Tewfik
Pasha, and generalissimo, Shel'ket
Pasha, and declared to them:,
"I am willing to faithfully respect
the constitution but I also desire that
my rights and privileges be respected.
My surprise was very great on hear
ing that no amnesty had been accord
ed oil the occasion of my accession,
contrary to all preceding usages, and
that instead of fetes being held the
population had contemplated the
spectacle of hanging corpses of those
executed, without my knowledge and
whose sentences bad not been sub
mitted' lo nie for my sanction, forget
ful of the fact that I possess the right
of pardon.
"I 'insist that' in the future there
shall be no repetition of this."
It is, nevertheless, probable that
the sailors who assassinated their of
ficers w ill bo .hanged on Saturday, but
this time with the imperial sanction,
and without I he: public exhibition "01
their, corpses during the entire day.
KSCAPF.D CONVICT.
Fd.
Walker Gets Away From State
Farm May ."ilii.
Ed Walker, a black negro, was six
teen years old, live feel two and
I nree-iuarter inches high and weigh
ed "HO-pounds -when lie came here
four years ago; -brown eyes, black
hair; sentenced to the state prison
from Brunswick county September
L'tith, 1905, for a term of seven years
for larceny, escaped from the state
farm on the Oth inslant. For his re
raupture the prison authorities will
pay a reward of $25.00 and all ex
eessary expenses.
DI KE IIKMtV OF MECKLKXIU RG,
This is a plrtnre of Duke Henry, of
llerklcnhurg, husband of the Queen
of Holland.
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CR010FWY
WOMEN ATTACKS
MRS.HELENBQYLE
Authorities Have to Take
Steps to Save Woman
From Mob
JOSTLED OFF SIDEWALK
Great Crowd of Angry Women Gather
About Court-house Today and
Make Loud Threats Against Helen
Boyle, Whose Trial as an Accomp
lice in the Kidnapping of . Willie
Whitla is in Progress Crowd AN
tacked tiie Woman Last Night and
Police Had to Use Force to Keep
Her From Suffering Bodily . Harm.
Mis. Boyle Wants to Fight.
(P.y Leased Wire to The Times)
.Mercer, Pa., May 7 A crowd of
women gathered about the court
house here today and were loud In
their threats against Helen Boyle,
now on trial as a participant with
or husband in the kidnapping of
Willie Whitla. The demonstration
became so pronounced that the au
thorities look steps to protect the
Boyle woman from a repetition of
last night's attack when Mrs. Bovle
was attacked in the streets by a
crowd of many hundred women while
going from the court-house to jail.
The Boyle woman is apparently
not afraid of the crowd. In speaking
of last, night's attack today, she said
the mob was composed of cowards.
and if she only had her freedom she
would "face the whole bunch and
make them take to their heels".
In the affray last night several min
sters and business men aided Sheriff
Chess and his deputies and this alone
kept the mob from doing the woman
bodily harm. She defiantly offered
to fight the crowd, many members of
which were armed with clubs and
stones. Two women carried clothes
lines.
The. woman.; was. being taken from
the court-house with James H. Boyle,
who bad been convicted of kidnap
ping by a jury that was put only a
few minutes. Mrs. Boyle was placed
on trial immediately after Boyle's
conviction. '
News that Mrs. Boyle was in the
rickety school-house Which is being
used as a court-house spread over the
town, and when Deputy Stuart slip
ped handcuffs' 'on her and left court,
fully l.titio persons were In the mon.
More than half were women.
riiere she is! They won't need
a jury if they let nie at her," shouted
a .large woman, trying to get to Mrs.
Bovle. "
'Go home and wash your face,"
Mrs. Boyle retorted, starting for the
spokeswoman.'- Then hundreds
screamed and jostled the deputy and
.Mrs. Iloyle (iff the sidewalk, manv
trying to hit.' her with brooms and
sticks.
Lei's bang her! Get the rope!
Get the rope!" shouted some of the
mob, Boyle, in charge of Sheriff
Chess, tried to break away, but was
hurried into the jail, the sheriff sus
pecting that possibly there was a plot
to free the prisoners.
The Rev. .1. S. Duncan, of the
Presbyterian church, tried to pacltv
the angry Women, but was brushed
aside and told to. hold his peace.
Badly flushed, Mrs. Boyle finally was
landed In jail.
With a cheerful smile and whole
hearted '.good-morhing, . Mrs. Bovle
addressed several of the jurors when
they filed in I he jury box. She was
slightly nervous, but brought all the
wile's of a woman into play.
Former Judge S. H. Miller, coun
sel for Mrs. Boyle, threw down tho
gauntlet at the opening of court this
morning and the biggest legal battle
In the history of the county was
promised. When the prosecution re
fused to accept his offer to admit por
tions of the testimony of "Billy"
Whitla, given yesterday, in an en
deavor to save time, Attorney Miller
declared that the case must be fought
out on strictly legal lines.
The Whitla family arrived from
Sharon in two automobiles, but F. H.
Buhl, an uncle of the kidnapped boy.
was not In the party today, the only
reason given for his absence being
that he was fatigued with the excite
ment of yesterday's trial."
The court-room was packed at 8:45
a, m. and the doors were locked.
Just before the opening of court,'
Court Crier Bell announced that the
women would be requested to re
move their hats;; Mra. Whitla and
Mrs. Buhl were the first to remove
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