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RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1909.
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FINAL EXERCISES
OF HIGH
SCHOOL
AT THE ACADEMY
Ex-Governor Charles B. Ay
cock Delivers Address to
Graduating Glass.
INTERESTING OCCASION
Graduating Exercises at the High
School Held at thi? Academy of
Music An Occasion Fraught With
.Much Interest, -Xot Only to the
Graduates, But to the Whole City.
Triumphed in Spite of -Troubles
and Difficulties Splendid Address
of Kx-Governor Aycock The Grad
uating Class Large Crowd At
tends Exercises.
The graduating exercises of the
Raleigh High School were held In
the Academy of Music this morning at
11 o'clock. It was an occasion
fraught with much interest, not only
to the graduates and members of the
high school, but to the whole city as
well, coming as. it did 'after a year
broken by an interrupted school term.
The city has felt an unusual interest
in the high school, which has trium
phed In spile of trials and troubles
and with all difficulties overcome has
come to a glorious commencement.
Beginning yesterday afternoon
with class day exercises and a debate
last night the final exercises were
held today at 1 1 o'clock in the Acad
emy of Music,
The orator of the occasion was ex
Governor Chas. B. Aycock, who. de
livered the literary address, The
high- school was particularly fortun
ate In having Governor Aycock, who
is one of the most eloquent orators
in the south.
. Seated on the stage were the grad
uates and speakers of the occasion.
The graduating class Is composed of
the following ladles and gentlemen:
Misses Gladys Dewar, -Rebecca Mor
ritt. Corlnna Mini, Myrtle King, Eliz
abeth Bass, Isabelle Haynes, and
Messrs. Frank Smethursf, Russell
Jones. Ivan Proctor, Douglass Jeff
rey. Julian Rand, and Carl Beits.
The girls in their white dresses
and the well-groomed '. boys with
bright smiling faces looking forward
to a higher step in the educational
world next year were an Inspiring
sight, and one to make the city
proud of the work her high school is
doing for the children of the city,.
Supt. F. M. Harper introduced (lie
speaker of the occaion In a few well
chosen words, expressing the pleas
ure of the high school in having one
whom North Carolina loves to htm or
and whom Raleigh now claims as her
citizen, and whom she loves to hear
at all times. He needs no introduc
tion, Ex-Governor Aycock.
Kx-Governor Aycock..
. Governor Aycock said he had never
since a boy refused an invitation to
speak on education. He had made a
good many speeches on the subject,
hut it was always the Bnme speech.
He did not intend to speak to the
graduates, for they were too glad to
day to listen to earnest' words, so he
intended to speak to the audience par
ticularly. His subject was "Universal Educa
tion". The. Bchool-house door must
be open to every child In order to
find out who is most fit.
In order to get the best out of one
child you must get the best out of
every child. The best comes by com
petition. A child will never run a
good race unless he has someone close
beside him on the race track.
Another reason for Universal edu
cation Is because a boy and girl can
not do their best without an appre
ciative audience.
He had long looked for the day
when North Carolina should produce
a genius who should paint a master
piece of the history of the state. But
there must be people to appreciate it
You an hot get the finest out of
yourself without giving the best to
others. That was the spirit that made
Raleigh reverse her verdict and make
this day .possible for the high school,
lie would not live In a' place that
would not reverse that decision.
We must pay for that education.
He would not have it as a free gift.
You can not educate , people from
without and you can not educate peo
ple without sacrifice on the part of
parent and child. The finest educa
tion Is (but that Is being paid for
consciously every day,
If you want to see the world nt
your feet you have to struggle -up
the mountains. When you have
reached tho top and all the. world Ilea
at your feet and when you glance
down you do not see the rugged way
over which you come, you pee only
me roses ana sunsuinp 01 peaceiui
valleys. ' The struggle and pain are
as nothing compared with what you
attain. ,
Education has a meaning to it. It
Is that you may be of use to some
body else.
Strength is given you so that hav
ing attained your height you may
reach down to raise some one not so
strong. Every talent that God has
given you belongs to everybody the
world over.
Turning to the graduates he spoke
his concluding words:
"If you graduates want to help up
the education you have started you
must make sacrifices to attain it.
That sacrifice will be the greatest
pleasure in life. This is the task
young ladies and gentlemen that lies
before you, and If I have made it un
attractive, the fault is mine, for it is
the greatest thing in the world."
It. was such a speech as Governor
Ayc.otk loves to make, and it was a
subject to call forth his best thoughts
fraught with deep significance and
inspiration to the' young people who
were just entering on a higher plane
of education.
Following the address Prof. Mor-
son, principal of : the High School,
read the names of the graduating
class and announced the winners of
scholarships and medals. They were
as follows. .
The St. Mary's scholarship to the
girl making the highest average was
won by Miss Rebecca Merritt.
The A. & M. scholarship was won
by Mr. Russell Jones.
Two meijals had been offered by
the Raleigh Chapter J. O. U", A. M.
The one to the High School pupil
making the highest average was won
Miss Patsy Smith.
The one offered to the pupil of the
seventh grade of any of the other
schools for the best examination on
United States history was won by
Miss Gertrude Connelly of thelur
phey School.
' Two medals were offered by the
Daughters of the Revolution and the
Sons of the Revolution to members of
the Senior Class. The girl's modal
for the host essay on some phase of
North Carolina history was won by
Miss Isabelle HayneB, her Biibject be
fContlnueil on Past Two.) ;
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MAURETANIA RECORD
Makes Quick Trip Across
the Water
Brings " Many Millionaires Home.
Henry C. Frlck Among the Passen
gers Steel Magnate Says Condi
tions Are Improving.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, May 21 The Cunard
liner Mauretania, which reached port
today, after establishing a new
world's record of four days, 1G hours
and 53 minutes for the long west
ward passage at the average speed of
25.62 knots an hour, brought enough
millionaires to represent half a bil
lion dollars of vested property.
There were ten millionaires In -the
liner's first cabin suites, and a num
ber of them were "multi's". The ten
were Henry C. Frlck, tho steel man
of New York and Pittsburg; F. A. B.
Widener and Mrs. George D. Wldener
and Miss F. E. Widener; Colonel E.
C. Benedict and daughter, Mrs. Clif
ford B. Harmon; Colonel Robert M.
Thompson, Hildreth K. Bloodgood
and daughter, MIbs Vera G. Blood
good; Mrs. Henry O, Havemeyer,
wife of the sugar man; Rhlnelander
Waldo, former deputy police commis
sioner, and former State Senator
William H. Reynolds, the real estate
man.
Mr. Frick, who was the subject of
threats by the anarchist, Henry Berg
man, had his bodyguard called, a
valet, who Is six feet and built ac
cordingly, with him, and the guard
preceded hint down the gang plank
at the Cunard pier. The steel mil
lionaire has been abroad for the past
four months, 'but. has kept In touch
with conditions here during all his
rime away. IJe said that conditions,
according to his Information, wero
steadily .improving and that prospects
for the future were bright.
AFTER A HIPPOTAMU8.
Colonel Roosevelt F-elng Criticised by
Missionaries for Huutlng on Sun
' day, "
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Nairobi, British East Africa, May
21 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and
his son Kermlt have pone to Comltl,
In search of hippotamus which Is re
garded dx the most dangerous hunt
ing they have yet undertaken Some
criticism Is being made by mission
aries '1n the matter of Sunday hunting-
jy Colonel Roosevelt, furiously'
enough Sunday has been his luckiest
day. :. . : .,; .,
Kermlt was seriously scratched by
a leopard which he killed Ton Satur
day last. The timely assistance of a
native prevented what might have
been a serious outcome,'
CONFERENCE ON
CITY PLANNING
(By Leased AVire to The Times.)
Washington, May 21 The National
Conference' .on city planning, the call
for which was issued by Miss Jane
Addanis. of Hull House, Chicago;
Senator Burton and Uallinger, Presi
dent Kliot, of. Harvard University, -and
many other prominent men, began
here toda1-. A municipal exhibit, in-
tailed in one of the hotels here, Is a
feature of the conference. A Forty
cities, eight' states and foreign coun
tries are represented in the exhibit
which shows plans for parks, play
grounds, sewers and various other
municipal and Industrial conditions,
with particular reference to housing
nditions in large cities,
Vice President Sherman will preside
at two -passions to be held tomorrow.
It is -pmhoblc President Ta ft will
speak at one of the sessions. .
PRESIDENT AT I
THE WHITE HOUSE
'(By-Leased AVire to The Times.)'
Washington.-'' May 21 President
Taft and party arrived at the White
house at 11:10 o'clock this morning
from ht-s Petersburg-Chat lotte trlp.'-
The cabinet meeting v.'lll bo held to
day as usual, although the president
had postponed It by telegraph last
night, -The President lias abandoned
Ids trip to Hampton Institute tomor
row iifternoon because of MiS Tail's
i nt Indisposition.' Mrs. Taft is
much Improved today, but deemed it
wise to postpone the Hampton trip.
A e-ardon iiartv that was to haveTeen
given .by Mrs. Taft this afternoon will
he given in the .. -whl-tu house, owing -to
the inclemency of the weather. ; .
MONGOLIAN STILL
IN GRIP OF ICE Fti)
(By Leased AVire to The Times).
St. Johns, X. F., May '21 Although
the .KM), paseugers on the steamship
Mongolian, of the Allen Line, .which
Is held fast hi a big Ice. 'Hoe a short
distance off this coast, are in no
ranger, many are growing impatient
and threaten to take to the iee and
walk to shore, as live have already
done. -
Today the steamer and the vast
field of ice rise and fall with the sea's
heavy swell. Hut the ; .'Mongolians
steel frame withstood the grinding
weight of her frigid fetters and . she
Is not leaking.
The sealing steamer Diana, return
ing from the from the north coast,
tried yesterday to open up n channel
at the harbor's narrow opening.
The forceful, steady southern--trend
of the Labrador current has -carried
the ice pack and with it the Mongo
lian, a considerable distance south of
the point where the ship lay Wednes
day night. On all sides of the 'vessel
streches the compact but irregular
le Held, reaching further than persons
on the promotories at the sides o the
harbor entrance can see. Even marine
glasses could not discover clear water
. . -, ... t-.. ...i.'.n.l lit
on Its oilier euge. -ic inusi.
least 25 miles from shore.
The Mongolian is now making ner
way towards the Bay of Bulls, twen
ty miles south of this point, where
she will take refuge until the danger
from the Ice blockade Is over.!
ABDUL HAMID
GIVES OVER CASH
( By Cable to The Times)
; Constantinople, May a 1 After
using every delay and subterfuge In
his power to prevent -the ''passing of
his fortune Into the hands of the new
government, Abdul Hamid, the de
posed sultan, has finally signed over
the last $5,r00,000 to the govern
ment, according to a report today,
this money consists of the amounts
deposited by tho former sultan in for
eign banks in the Heyday of his
power and af II uenc.e.
Strike Without Strikers.
Paris, May 20 Tho Parisian press
is calling the Btrlke of tho postmen
and their adherents a "strike without
strikers". Tho leaders pnmiise big
things, but the public seem to think
tho strike a failure uud a joke.
Mrs. ConrcliV Gets $110,000.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, May 20 Mrs. Ileinrlch
Conreld has received $110,000 life
Insurance upon the llfo of. her hus
band. She will qtiullfy as the ad
ministratrix of her husband's estate
on Monday.
CULBERSON ON
FUNDAMENTALS
OF DEMOCRACY
Texas Senator Characterizes
Democracy as Historic
Party of Equal Rights.
THE INCOME TAX BILL
Income Tax Amendment May be
Brought Before Hie Senate For Dis
cussion Farly Novt Week Nearly
Half of Hie Senators Will .Make
Speeches and a Week Will be Con
sumed in the Debate Many Petitions-
Urging; Passage of Amend
ment Xcw Issue For Next Cam
pnign Responsibility as Between
.Manufacturers and Retailers For
' High Prices.' '' :.
(By Leased Wire to. The Times) '."
'-Washington.. May -1 It was said
today that the income tax amendment
will probably he brought before the
enate for discussion early next, week
and that nearly a Week will be con
sumed in debate -before a time can be
fixed' for a vote. From what could be
ascertained today nearly half the sen
ators will make. speeches.. Those who
will vote against the income tax will
desire to go on record to explain to
their 'constituents just why they are
opposed to this form of taxation. A
number of senators who are pledged
to voie against the income tax say
t hey would favor the tax it it was con
stitutional, hut they do not wish to
disregard the supreme, court's decis
ion. Letters and petitions are pour
ing in to senators and congressmen
daily urging the passage of an in
come tax. as thirty senators will he
up for re-election next year, and
members of congress, it will he seen
tout the letters' and petitions. are ex
erting unite an influence in The sen
ate and house.
One of the results of the tariff -debate
In the senate will be a new issue
raised by the democrats in the next
campaign. It will be the responsi
bility, as '-.between the. -manufacturer
and the retailer for the high prices
of commodities. In their arguments
for protection, Senators Scott, Stnoot,
and several ; other .republicans" have
charged that prices were advanced
by retail merchants and jobbers,
rather than by the manufacturer,
and when called to account have
sought to prove their statements.
The. issue has been taken up by Sena
tor Gore, who has defended "the mil
lions of retailers", and by others.
. The republicans, realizing that the
retailers and jobbers are more num
erous than the 'manufacturer's, fear
they have made a blunder, and have
been attempting to qualify their ar
gument. The senate met at 10 o'clock this
morning. Consideration of the tariff
bill was resumed. Senator Culber
son began ,i long speech on what he
termed the fundamental principles
of the democratic party.-..' He charac
terized it as the historic party of
state rights, the party of the consti
tution, individualism and of equal
rights against special privileges. He
reviewed the abuses which he as
serted bad grown up under the rule
of the republican party.
-.'Air-amendment offered by Senator
Aldrich proposing a duty of thirty-five
cents a hundred feet on petroleum
coke, elect rie light carbons was fought
by Senator Lafollette, aided by Sen
ator Kayncr. Lafolletfe said that the
apparent reduction against the carbon
In coiinnoii rise for eomiuerclal pur
poses and wotild place a monopoly in
the hands of a National Carbon Com
puny. Senator Kayncr read a statu
iiieiit showing that more than half of
the stock of this' company -was. water
and that it was controlled largely by
the Standard oil .Company. I'nder the
3,ri cent duty there could be no com
petition, he said.
HACK FROM TOl'R.
Dr. It. I'. Dixon Finishes a Strenuous
:. - Week.
Dr. P.. F. Dixon, state auditor, re
turned today from a speaking tour in
the eastern part of th,e stale. He Is
very much". In demand n a public
speaker, especially In educational eir
cles. lie Is a valuable man In local
tax campaigns and Is much sought
after. Beginning last Suturday at
Atlantic he has made addresses at
the following places: Beaufort, New
Bern, Wilmington, W'hllevllle, and
Plkevllle. He will apeak' at. Littleton
on the 2tilh and on June 4, will ad
dress tho old soldiers at Hoxboro.
MOTHER SLAYS'
HER CHILDREN
(liy Leased AVire to The Times.)
Kast Hampton, Conn., May 21 Mrs.
Louis -Carsten cut the throats of her
three children and then her own early
today at the Carsten home, a farm
ibout two miles from the center of
if this villlage.
Two of the children, Louis, aged ID
years, and a ten mouths-old girl, are
had, and Mrs. Carsten and a seven
year old buy, John, are dying.
No reason Is known for the woman's
act. and it is thought she must have
been insane. - .
PROSPECTS FOR WHEAT.
ConsnvKHiiiun. Cousins Takes Issue
With Patten and Says Prospects
Are Good.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Chicago, May 2.1 -The declaration
of .lames A. Patten that, higher wheat
prices will continue and a short wheat
crop bo harvested was criticised by
former Congressman Hubert G. Cous
ins, of Tipton, la., who 'is at the Au
ditorium Hotel.
"I have just returned from a tour
of the middle west," he said.
While Patten is a man with large
experience and a great scope to draw
from in his predictions, what I have
seen and know don't support his con
tentions, especially regarding the
coming wheat crops. Prospects for a
great crop and excellent yield were
never better. The winter Wheat crop
may be a little short, but spring crops
will be ' bumpers'. - In; -many- places
people arc sowing wheat in . their
door yards, every foot of farm being
under - cultivation. Mr. Pulton' has
over-drawn the true condition of af
fairs."
Diplomatic Breach Healed.
.Mexico City, .May 20 The diplo
matic breach between Mexico and
Honduras, which threatened war be
tween the two countries, has been
closed by an apology from President
Dnvilla from Honduras and a mone
tary consideration.
FUNERALOF MR. ROGERS
Standard Oil Pays Him
Tribute
Sixty-live Thousand Employees of
the Standard Oil Company Stop
Work While Funeral Services Are
Being Held In All Parts of the
World Workmen Pay Tribute. .
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York. May 21 Sixty-five
thousand toilers of the Standard Oil
Company ceased work today when
the brief funeral service was spoken
over the bier of Henry H. Rogers in
the Church of the Messiah, Madison
avenue and Thirty-fourth street.
During the two hours of the rites
today the entire business of the stu
pendous Standard was stopped.
Cables had carried the notice of sus
pension to the furthest corners of the
earth where Standard Oil fleets lay
in distant harbors, where caravans
struggled under the burden of the
Standard's output and where refin
eries and oil wells cast up their bur
dens of the Standard's natural
wealth.
The famous money kings and mon-
archs of business solemnly paid their
respects to the remains of the nun
who was so lately one of them.
The funeral services were simph
The old-fashioned hymns which
bring peace were sung. Only rela
tives and near business associates of
the dead 'man were admitted to th
church. At half-past nine o'clock the
body was carried Lorn the Rogers
residence. The pall-hearers wert
John D. Archbold, William 'Rockefel
ler. E. T. Bedford, James A. Moffett
Samuel L. Clemens, E. 11. llarriman
Raymond DuPiiy, E. H. Gary,-Mel
ville E. Stone, John D. Ryan, James
M. Beck, Charles A. Peahody. Dr. C
C. Rice, George' W. Perkins,' Colone!
A, C. Paine, and General James Jor
dan. The Rev. Robert Collyer conduct ec
the services, The Mendelsohn quar
tette sang, "Lead Kindly Light"
"Abide With Me", and "Nearer Mj
God, to Thee".
. Immediately following the cere
mony the body was carried to the
Grand Central station, where a spec
ial train was walling to bear It to
Fair Haven, Mass., Mr. Rogers' birth
place. There the body will He In
state until Saturday afternoon In the
Fair Haven Memorlul church, which
was built by Mr. Rogers.
At half-past two o'clock on Saf.ur
day the last rites will be said. They
will he conducted by the Rev. Fran
L. Phalen. Then the body will be
laid to rest In the Rogers mausoleu
In Riverside cemetery.
CUBANS WANT
ANNEXATION TO
UNITED STATES
All Classes In the Island,
Cubans, Spaniards and For
eigners Want Annexation
FEELING OF UNREST
W. j. Oliver's Representative Wlio t
. in Washington for the Purpose of
(lotting the State Department to
Aid Him in Collecting a Debt from
the Cuban Government, Thinks
Annexation is Round to Come
Says Government of the Sea Island
is an Opera Boufl'e Affair and Can
not Last Much Longer.
(By Leased AVire to The Times.)
AA'ashington, May 21 -L. C. Gun-
ter, confidential representative of
William J. Oliver, of Knoxville,
Tenn., millionaire railway contractor,
and the man who bid for the con-
truction of the Panama Canal, Is In
Washington for the purpose of pre
senting to the state department and
iilisling the aid of Secretary Knox
in collecting a claim of several hun
dred thousand dollars from the pres
ent Cuban government, on a contract
which it is claimed the government,
under the Pal ma administration, en
tered Into with Oliver, for public
works in Havana, but failed to carry
out fully, or to settle the sum due
him. - :-'-.. '
Mr. Gunter consulted with officials
at the state department today con
cerning the claim, and Mr. Oliver is
expected to arrive here In a few days
to further enlist the aid of the gov
ernment in collecting the amount he
claims is due him.
Mr. Gunter said today that inter
vention on the part of the .-United
States in Cuba can be only a question
of a short time.
"The government of Cuba is an
opera bouffe affair and cannot last
much longer," he said. "To begin
with, all classes of foreigners on the
island ardently desire that Cuba be
annexed to the I'nited States. Ger
mans, English, Danes, even Span
lards, would rejoice If the Island
were annexed. All realize that while
at present things appear tranquil In
Cuba, there Is no guarantee that this
condition will continue; there is al
ways a feeling of uneasiness among
the business and monled interests
that something is going to happen.
The present administration is plung
ing the island into debt. There are
a large number of dissatisfied office-
seekers, mostly negroes, many of
whom are veterans of the war with
Spain, and it would take very little
to induce them to start another In
surrection. The present president,
landed in office by means of a revo
lution. AVhen I left Havana there
were many secret mutterlngs of dis
content already by those who had
not been placed on the government
pay roll.
"At any time some of these people
may start trouble. There Is a gen
eral feeling of insecurity in the is
land among business men. This re
strains capital from investing in Cu
ba. The more intelligent classes in
the island would welcome Interven
tion and annexation to the United
StateB, for in such a case the island
would be assured a stable' govern
ment as loug as the United States ex
isted. Many prominent Cubans even
favor it. Indeed, the present minis
ter of the United States, Garcia Ve
laz, accidentally allowed the opinion
of the educated Cubans to become
known when he said In an Interview
on his arrival here to occupy his post .
a short time ago, that annexation
was bound to come, though he after
wards denied the Interview In a
cable to this government, realizing
that he had said too much."
WOMAN AXD CHILD ABDUCTED.
Carried Oil' in Automobile, the Wo
man Screaming.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Boston, Mass., May 21-The po
lice are today working on one of the
most desperate abductions that has
ever startled Boston. On Sterling
street, Hoxbury, lust night, a young
woman and her Imby girl were
snatched from the sidewalk and
driven off , In a covered automobile
after a fierce struggle. Joseph O.
Writing rushed to the assistance of
the screaming woman, only to be
beaten back by a terrific blow from
the abductor, who then escaped with,
his victims In an automobile.