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Washington, May 20 Forecast
for North Carolina (or tonight
and Friday: Showers tonight
and Friday.
ESTABLISHED-1871. l&SStmwm-
RALEIGH, N.'C, THURS DAY, MAY 20, 1909.
PRICE 5 CENTS
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FUNERAL OF MR.
ROGERS WILL BE
HELD TOMORROW
Arrangements Completed and
Will be Held at Church
of the Messiah.
THE BURIAL SATURDAY
Funeral Services Will lie Conducted
by Jr. Robert Collier, With Full
Choral Music Will be Uuried in
Fair Haven, Mass., Where He Was
Born- Services at Fair Haven
Will be Held In the Unitarian Me
morial Church Death Said to
HavcReen Hastened by His Un
conquerable Passion for Work
When Others Got Out to Rest He
Held to His Tasks.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York, May 20 Arrangements
for the funeral of Henry H. Rogers,
vice president of the Standard Oil
Company, who succumbed to a Btroke
of apoplexy, were completed today.
It will be held at the Church of the
Messiah, Thirty-fourth street and
Park Avenue, at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning. The services will be con
ducted by the Rev. Dr. Robert Col
lier, with full choral music.
The music will be furnished by the
Mendelssohn quartette. Only the
relatives and Intimate friends and
business associates of Mr. Rogers
will be admitted to the service. Bus
. iness in Wall street will be practl-
1 cally suspended because the leaders
in business affair there will be at
the funeral. All of Mr. Rogers'
friends in the Standard Oil Com
pany, Including John D. Rockefeller,
are to attend.
The coffin containing the body will
leave the Rogers home at 3 East 78th
street at half-past nine o'clock. The
pall-bearers will be lifelong : friends
of Mr. Rogers. A large squad of po-
1 Icemen will be detailed to restrain
the crush of people expected.
Immediately after the servios the
body will be taken to Fair Haven,
Mass., where it will lie In state in the
Memorial Church.
Mr. Rogers will be laid to rest Sat
urday afternoon In the great white
Mausoleum which, he caused to be
built several years ago in Riverside
cemetery In Oxford, a suburb of Fair
Haven, Mass. He selected life Kite of
the. mausoleum a beautiful spot
overlooking the Achusnet river and
frequently visited it, as it contains
the bodies of his mother artd his
daughter, Mllllcent. He spent near
ly $2,000,000 on. this plot. '..'
The funeral ceremonies in Fair
Haven, which are to be simple, will
be held at 2:30 o'clock In the Vni
tarlan Memorial Church of Fair
Haven, which Mr. Rogers built. The
Rev. Frank Lv.- Phaleij, the rector,
will read the Unltarlal burial service
and there will be two or three hymns
It is the belief of all who knew Mr.
Rogers intimately -that his death was
hastened by his unconquerable pas
sion for work.
He did not love money but he
loved to make it. When his Intimate
friends in the game of high finance
the most terrible in Its strain upon
the human brain and nerves in the
world took the warning of their
physicians and tore thomselvee away
from Standard Oil headquarters, Mr
Rogers stayed on. ' 1 .
When the Standard Oil magnate Is
laid to rest his BtTh, H. H. Rogers, Jr.,
will take his place In Wall street and
the young man, trained In the flnan
cial affairs of the world by his fa
ther, will take up the task of. hand
ling fifty millions of dollars and in
creasing them. The young man la
well- equipped for the long lane of
life before, him. He is twenty-nine
years old, of serious turn of mind
and Is considered a man of capacity
and poise by, his elders in finance
He Is a graduate of Columbia.
RYAN GOK8 TO EUROFE.
Wants to Get Out of the Public Kyc
For Awnue.
(By Leased Wire to the Times)
New York. May 20 Thomas F
Ryan, passenger by the Lusltanla,
said that he had been in the public
eye long enough and tbaUhe was go-
lnar fa Enrone BO that' the public
wnuld foreet him. He added that he
bad proposed nobody for the office of
mayor of Greater New Tom ana mat
if the democrats expect to win ther
will bave to put up good man.
JUMPED 125 FEET
INTO EAST RIVER
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, May 20 On a bet of
1,000 Albert House today dived
from the Williamsburg bridge into
the East river, a distance of 135 feet,
while he was tied in a straight-jacket
nd had weights attached to his feet.
He was picked up by a launch and
rushed to his home in Brooklyn,
where he was later arrested. :
The dive was taken after House,
who was In an automobile with two
friends had been chased from the
Brooklyn bridge by a posse of police,
who had got wind of the proposed nt-
empt.
The two friends were arrested on
Williamsburg bridge and later wore
arraigned before Magistrate Steers,
In the Bedford avenue police court,
with House. They said they were
Benjamin .Williams,' a real estate
man, and Coleman Manning, an ac
tor... Williams and Manning were held
as suspicious persons, while the po
lice arrested the diver on a charge of
attempted suicide.' For some time It
was believed that the jumper had
perished and the reserves were
rushed out In boats to search for the
body. The mistake was discovered
when the two men arrested in the
automobile told of his having escaped.
SHIP GRIPPED BY ICE
Passengers in Peril From
Ice Floe.
Attempt Made to Take the ."()() Pas
sengers From- the Mongolian This
Morning Failed, Icc-lwat Itself lie
toning Wedded in the lee, :
(By Cable to The Times) -St.hns,
N. F., May 20 At noon
today passengers on the Allen line
steamer Mongolian, wliich Is caught
n the Ice a mile outside the harbor,
began walking to shore across the
ntervening field of Ice. Among the
first squad of the 500 stranded pas
sengers to leave the dangerous posi
tion were two women. : It took an
hour to walk from the ship's side to
shore. The steamer Prospero, which
tried to go to the rescue of the Mon-
olian and was herself caught in the
ice, escaped today and reached port
The ice around tlie Mongolian Is be
coming more threatening every hour.
St. Johns, N. F., May 20 An at
tempt to take off the mail and 500
passengers of the Allen liner Mongo
lian failed today... Surrounded on
every side by great masses of ice and
lce-bergs, gripped firmly In the
tightening Ice floes, with the wind
blowing almost a gale toward the
land, the liner, carrying passengers
for Halifax and Philadelphia, lies al
most helpless a mile outside the har
bor. Unless the wind dies out the
ship is liable to be crushed by the ir
rlsistible pressure of the Ice against
her sides. While the passengers are
In peril, It Is possible for them to
escape over the ice floes, should It be
necessary to abandon the ship. ! The
attempt to take oft St. John's mail
and passengers was made by the Ice'
boat Prospero, which failed to reach
Che Mongolian and now Is wedged in
the ice In the Narrows.
The Mongolian mot the first of the
great fields of Ice just off this port.
Captain Williams endeavored so far
as possible to shape- his course in a
manner that would avbld contact with
the floes. The Ice, however, borne on
the Btoady Labrador current, had been
dispersed so that entire freedom was
Impossible.
The steamer's efforts to run tho
blockade are believed to have Injured
some of the bow plates, but a number
of fishermen who managed to reach
her side over the closoly packed floes
could discern ho appreciable damage
Will Fight Standard Oil.
(By Cable to The Times)
London. May 20 The Scottish
Oil Companies are discussing amal
gamatlon to fight the Standard Oil
Company, which has lowered prices.
It is proposed to establish a central
agency, whence the output of all the
Scottish companies will be distribut
ed. The promoters, of the scheme
believes this will enable them to
meet American competition.
No Alimony For Mrs. Tucker.
(By Leased Wire 'to The Times)
Chicago, May 2d Colonel William
F, Tucker scoroda third point against
Mrs. Mary Eniabeth Tucker, (laugh
ter of the late General John A. Lo
gan, when Judge Barnes yesterday
refused' to allow Mrs. Tucker tern
porary alimony pending the hearing
of her separate maintenance suit,
THOUSANDS OF
PEOPLE GREET
THE PRESIDENT
A Hundred Thousand Visitors
Help to Welcome the Chief
Executive to Charlotte.
GREAT STREET PABADl
President .'Arrived in the Queew City
al IO:!JO O'clock and Whs Greeted
Wild Salute of 21 Guns From .the
Local Art'llery Reception at the
Hehvyn, Followed by lilR Street
Parade Reviewed by the President.
Speeches This Afternoon- Will
lieave For Washington at 11 :JtO
Tonight.
(By ''.Leased Wire to The Times)
Charlotte, May 20--Thousands. ol
people turned out today to welcome
President Taft on his visit to this
it y. It was predicted''' that there
would be 100,000 visitors in town.
irU as the day grow and people con
tinued o pour in on excursions it was
seen that this estimate was conserva
tive. A number of prominent citizens
formed tho reception '- committee;
whose duty it was to meet the chief
xocutivc and escort him to thel Sel-
j'n Hotel. After the formal recep-
on or president latt at nis special
train in North Carolina the program
for the day consisted of a monster
parade of a semi-military and indus
trial character. Convoy recruits to
escort President Taft to the review
ing atand oonaistod Of the RiffhtGenttl
United States regiment band, a dele
gation of Union and Confederate sol
diei's and the widow of "Stonewall"
Jackson.
The program called for the Presi
dent's speech from the same lcview-
ing stand after lunch, after which
came a trip to the Biddle I'niTc'rsIty
for colored boys, with another ad
dress. ' . . ; ' .'
A salute of 21 guns, fired ly the
Fifth Charlotte artillery. greeld the
president upon his arrival hire at
10:30. He was accorded an olo-fhsh-
ioned southern welcome. :
The reception followed at th'.'Sel-
wyn Hotel, after which the 'president
reviewed, the big street parade.
Tlie president's visit marks tlj cli
max of the anniversary of the sining
of the Mecklenburg Declaration f In
dependence, Charlotte is in f9tivc
garb. The president leaves liei lor
Washington at. 11 :30 tonight, r '
Unless Mrs. Taft's health willper-
mit her to-make the trip the resi
dent, will abandon his visit to ilinip-
ton, Vn., on Saturday. Ho was shed
uled to deliver an address at llmp
ton Institute on Sunday.
During the procession in Mr. 'Ift's
honor and while the lino was nss-
Ing the reviewing platform in ront
of the court house, a large floatfcore
loose a live electric light wire jiich
dangled dangerously close lo the
front of the stand where the fesl-
dent was reviewing the parade. The
mometary danger to him was Rrd-
ed off but for several minutes bre,
or until the current was turne.off,
tho paraders, many of them pi'.tily
gowned women In floats were inlan
ger from the low hanging wire
The 'procession was broken p a
few minutes later by a Violent iwn-
Vnir of rain. Hundreds of pijons
who were in uncovered stands sight
the protection of the presi.nt s
stand. '
A dangerous crush followed, ools
of water formed overhead and Igan
to let down the dripping wat on
the president's head. Ho prortod
as Veil ho could the widow of iono
wall Jackson, who sat besldelim.
Meanwhile the orowd pressed Jout
him. . The stand withstood the fain,
however, and laughingly the resi
dent and his party were hurrieinto
automobiles , and taken amid the
cheering populace back to hlsolel.
This afternoon's, speech had) be
delivered under cover, at the.udl
torium at 4 o'clock.
One Charter Today.
A tharter has been granted the
Salisbury Laundry Company, ron
cern which begins business v.h a
capital stock of 17,600, F. D.eth
co, C. D. Price and A. D. Lin;, all
of Charlotte, are the dtockbolirs.
The Wllmlngton-Southpon and
Little River Company flied afrtlfl
cate changing its name to tht Wil
mington Towing Company al re
ducing lta capital stock from P.000
W f-sv.VvV, , J
SMALL NUMBER
OF SENATORS
PRESENT TODAY
Difficulty in Obtaining Quo
rum Occasions Wait of
Half an Hour.
THE PETROLEUM FIGHT
ludepeiidi'iit Oil Producers !-lieve
They Have Won Their Fight in the
Semite 'For the Imposition of a
Idity on Crude uud Itcfined Oil
oti- n (he Income Tax A inend
iiient.s May Take Plarr About the
Middle of Next Week Vote Will
lie Close on the Amendment.
( Hy Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, May 20 The so-
called. indcpe jleiil oil producers be
lieve they have practically won their
fiKlit in the senate for the imposition
of a duty on crude and refined oil.
I'otroleuni and its products wore
placed on the free list In the house
Mil by a large majority, and no
change was made In the bill reported
o the senate. The so-called inde
pendents;';, who made no contest
jgalnfct -the Standard's countervail
ng duty" in tlie original Payne bill,
lave been fighting; stubbornly for a
ipecilic duty of 50 per cent ever since
the action of the house. The finance
tommitteo is said to have agreed ten
latively to a duty of 23 per cent. An
uuendment tii this effect, may pass
lie senate, but there is doubt of its
icceptance by the house.
?. It was said today that a vote on
ftie" income" lax amendment may take
place about, the middle of next week.
Tho advocates of the income tax have
counted noses?, and while not claiming
that they have enough to carry t lie
amendment, say the vote will be
close. However, this statement is
m'ade by those who are with Senator
Aldrich that the Railey-Cinnmins
amendment. -Is beaten, and that the
Aldrich -plan to refer the whole sub
ject to the judiciary committee to re
port back an income tax bill next De
cember will be adopted.. Senator
Aldrich, it. Is intimated, has consented
to have ;ui income tax bill considered
next winter, and will not oppose it if
the revenue is needed to support the
government.
The senate met at 10 o'clock with
less than a dozen members present,
Nearly a half-hour, was .consumed in
obtaining a quorum. Consideration
of the tariff hill was then resumed,
and at tlie suggestion of Senator Aid
rich the senate returned to the para
graph in tho chemical schedule,
which had been passed over without
action, ;..'
Senator Lafolletto offered an
amendment, to reduce tho duty from
one-half to one-quarter of a cent a
pound on quebracho (an extract used
In tunning).'- Senator Daniel made a
long .'argument: in favor of the pres
ent duty of seven-eights of a cent per
pound.
After spending nearly three hours
in a squabble over the difference of
one-quarter of a cent a pound in the
duty on quebracho, the senate pro
vision fixing the rate at one-half a
cent a pound was adopted. Senator
Lafollette's amendment cutting the
rate In two was defeated by a vote of
38 to 29. On this vote the insur
gents mustered 14, the strongest
showing they have yet made, and
Would have been successful had not
five democrats, Daniel, Martin, Fos
ter,' Simmons and Smith, of Mary
land, voted against It.
Senator Aldrich drew fire from
Sennt.or Tillman by proposing an
amendment fixing a tax of three cents
a gallon on cotton Becd oil. The
present duty is four cents. The
Payne bill places It on tho free list.
Senator Tillman asked If there were
any southern senators who favored the
duty. It was absurd, he said to sug
gest a reduction because cotton seed
oil was exported and none Imported,
and no revenue derived. It afford
ed no one protection and could only
be In the Interests of the cotton seed
oil trusts, and at the expense of the
cotton growers.
Senator Beverldge said that If
southern senators declared the duty
was not necessary It should not be
imposed and taunted Aldrich with
the principle he had laid down when
considering the lead schedule, that
the senate should be guided by the
statement of senators whose states
are. interested in the Industries in
volved. Senator Aldrich said the
duty was necesary to prevent . the
. (Continued on Page Five.) .
DALZELL ACTS
FOR
CANNON
(My tLchki d Wire to Tlie Times)
Washington, May 20 The house
met. at noon today. Chief Clerk
Browning read a letter from Speaker
Cannon announcing that he had de
signated Representative ' Dalzell as
speaker pro teni for the day. Repre
sentative Dalzoll said the queutioii
was on the third reading of the pas
sage of Philippine- tarilf bill and
amendments. Representative Macon
suggested the absence of a quorum,
and on motion of Representative
Payne the house adjourned at. 12:05
until Monday.
Representative Uurleson introduc
ed a resolution calling on the -secretory
of commerce and labor to report
to the. house the effect of the opera
tion of cotton exchanges on tho price
of cotton. The resolution .recited
the fact that this information had
been called for a year ago, and that
the department had submitted sev
eral reports on cotton, but not in
this particular.
Representative Bates introduced a
bill authorizing (lie secretary of the
navy to issue ensigns commissions to
the cadets at.'. Annapolis on gradua
tion. -.- Under the present law cadets
have to take a three years' cruise
before they can be commissioned en
signs. A RECEPTION TONIGHT
Great Preparation for Recep
tion in Washington.
The Capital City Will fiive the
Wright lii-others a (Jreat Reception
When They Return to Washing
ton Next Month to Complete Their
AropIniic Demonstrations.
(By Leaspd Wire to The Times.)
Washington. May 20 Great prep
arations have beeu made here for the
reception of Wilbur and Orvilie
Whight when they return next month
to complete their demonstrations at
Fort Myer, which are expected to re
sult in their aeroplane being accept
ed by the I'll ited States army.
John Barrett, director of the bu
reau of American Republics, and
leading member of he Aero Club ot
Washington, is chairman of the
Wright reception committee, which
includes Admiral George Dewey.
General Clarence Edwards, General
James Allen and other prominent
men. .
The Wrights will be met at the
train by tho .'.committee.' There' will
he an informal reception on the'even
ing of their arrival. On the morning
following their arrival, the brothers
will give an exhibition flight in their
aeroplane from the lot behind the
white house and .the -president with
members of his cabinet will be pres
ent.' ;-;'
The aviators will than be escorted
to the white house. President Taft
will be awaiting them, and he will
present them with the medals that
have been finished to mapi, the su
premacy of American inventors in
the science of aerial flight. There
will be a number of : speeches, the
president delivering one when he
presents the medals.
A second flight in the afternoon
and a banquet in the evening will
complete the activities -of the day.
P.OY SLAYS PHYSICIAN'.
Says Hp Had Wronged His Sister.
Doctor's W(fe in Xorlh Carolina.
( Hy Leased Wire to Tho Times)
Morcan Citv. La.. Mnv 20 Dr. Al
len S. King, one of the best known
physicians in this part of Louisiana
and a commander in the Louisiana
naval ml I It In. was shot and killed in
his office here by l.eroy Olivier, n
16-vear-old boy. who 'alleges that his
sister had been wronged. Olivier, af
ter .firing two shots into King,
walked to the court house and surren
dered. .
Dr. King's wife and two children
are visiting her parents in North Car
olina. His slayer is a son of the late
Dr. Michael Olivier, who was also a
prominent physician.
Paying an Flection Ret.
Washington, May 20 Oscar E.
N'ulf, who walked from East Pales
tine. O., to the white house, to pay an
election bet, arrived here today and
called at the executive mansion.
Ooiinly Commissioners.
A special meeting of the; county
commissioners has been called for
next Tuesday, the 25th. This meet
ing will be held for the purpose of
meeting with all the list taxers of
the county for general Instructions.
DIG DEFICIT IN
TDE DEPARTMENT
OF SUBSISTENCE
An Urgent Appeal Sent to
Congress for Deficiency
Appropriation
CAUSE OF DEFICIENCY
Commissary and Subsistence Depart
ment Faces'. Deficit of $:80,000,
and But For Ccrlain Laws Unlisted
.Men .Might Actually be Starving if
the Law Were Observed Deficien
cy Caused by the Steady Increase in
the Cost of Provisions and by An
Increase in the F.nllsted Force
Kincr Intimates Were Made.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, May 20 The com
missary, aud subsistence department,
of the ariny faces a deficit of $380,
iioo, and but for provisions of section
j,7;2 of the revised statutes, many
enlisted! men would he actually starv
ing, if the law was observed. An ur
gent appeal has been sent to cong
ress by General Alexander Sharp,
chief of tho commissary department,
for a deficiency ' appropriation;'-.''
The deficiency has been caused bv
ihe steady increase in the cost of
irovisions, and by the fact that the
nlisted force has increased by 1;!,
i!.'!0 since the estimates were made.
For these two reasons, it is ex
pected there will be deficiencies In the
next two years, unless the estimates
and appropriations are increased.
Section 3,732. of the statutes pro
vides that when there are no subsist
ence funds available, the commissarv
may purchase in the open market, bv
drawing on funds "hereafter to be
come, available". This provision in
the army law was made during the
ivil war, as the country was obliged
lo feed the army.
STOCK fiOKS VP,
Rise in Stock of Central Trust Com
pany Which Declined Rig Divi
dend Yesterday.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York. .May 1 9. Stock of the
Central Trust Company which yester
day declared a dividend of $200 a
share, "amounting. to $2,000,000 and
announced its intention to increase
its capitalization from $1,000,000 to
;1, 000, 000 with privilege to present
stockholders to "'purchase .new- stock
oqual to their present holdings at
par. today was quoted on the curb
at $2,S50 bid, offered at $3,000. Yes
terday it was quoted at $2,600 bid
with none offered. The new shares
ire bid for "when issued," at $900
and offered at $1,000.
Steward Arrested For Smuggling.
( By Leased Wire to The Times)
Boston, May 20 Tho customs of
ficials today arrested Vincenza Mar
ra.zo, third class steward of the
White Star liner Romanic, charged
with .smuggling. ..-They found 4,000
pieces of coral on his person, valued
at. $l "iOU. The officers : suspect a
syndicate exists. , , ..
Refused Resting Place in Abbey.
( By Cable to The Times I ;
London, May 20 There is Intense
ndlgnatton today over the refusal of
the dean of West minster Abbev to
admit. 'the ashes of .George Meredith,
the novelist, there. The petition that
.Meredith's dust lie in the Abbey had
the personal support of Premier As
quith and other prominent men of tho
realm..
STATUE TO SIGNER
WAS UNVEILED TODAY
( By Leased Wire to The Times)
-Washington, May 20A statue to
tho Rev. John Wilherspoon, one of
tho Signers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence and celebrated In revolution
ary times as a patriot and phllantro
plst," was unveiled here today In the
presence of a distinguished gathering.
This is the first time that a statue to
a signer of the Declaration has been
erected In the capital. Vice President
Sherman.-members .of' the diplomatic
corps, senators, representatives, and
nearly 200 descendants or Wltherspoon
witnessed the ceremonies. Ambassa
dor James Bryce, of CJrent Britain,
made the principal address. Vice
President Sherman made an address.
Former Secretary of the State John
W. Foster, presided at the ceremony.
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