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Weather. Washington, May 27 Forecast for North Carolina (or tonight and Friday: Fair on the coast, showers in interior tonight, , l J ESTABLISHED 1871 RALEIGH, N. C., THURS DAY, MAY 27, 1909. PRICE 5 CENTS ftM XPWlftg EDITION SETTLEMENT OF THE STRIKE AS FAR OFF AS EVER General Manager Scott Very Determined as to Some of Negro Firemen. HANDLING THE MAILS Atlanta Papers Send Out Their Pa. pers in Automobiles and Postal Clerk Goes Along With Letters for this People Along the Way No Train Has Moved Since Saturday anil Antomnhilf in tlif Onlv Sloans of Communication General Mana ger Scott Very Determined as to Status of Some of Negro Firemen Who Have Been Long With the Road. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Atlanta, Ga., May .27 With all the mediators working hard for some kind of meeting ground between the officials of tho Georgia Railroad and tholr striking firemen, a settlement of the strike today appears to be as far off as ever. Governor Hoke Smith,' Commis sloner of Labor Nelll, the heads of the variqus commercial bodies of An gusta and Atlanta, and other pronii nent citizens, have. Interested them selves In the effort to bring the two forces together, and but for one or two points raised" by the railroad of ficials, Success might have crowned their effort last night. While General Manager Scott has not agree to arbitration, he is under stood to be very determined as to some few of the negro firemen, those Bwho haye been in the service of the .railroad for years. Meanwhile not a. train has moved over the Georgia Railroad since Sat nrday. The people along the line have established communication with the outside world by automobile and such mail and supplies as they are receiving are being transported by this method. The Atlanta papers are making their deliveries on the Geor gia line In the same manner and each of their machines carries a postal clerk, who distributes the letter mail to the towns on the ' route. The Georgian's car, which left here yes- ierday afternoon, succeeded in get ting to Augusta, 175 miles aawy early this morning and took in a load of papers, United States mail and several passengers picked up at Thompson and other towns who had argent calls to Augusta. Postal Dejiartmcnt Keeps in Touch, Washington, May 27 Advices re ceived at the postoffice department this mornfng indicate that the situa tion in the case of the Georgia Rail way, insofar as the carrying of mails is concerned. Is the same as yester day. Some mall was moved yester day by automobile, wagons, and in one instance by a handcar. The department Is in constant communication with postmasters in the strike district and reports arc made frequently from various points by telegraph. Between Atlanta and Augusta.'tho terminal of the main road, no mall has been carried for 'four days, and today the outlook Is no better. Superintendent of Malls Terrell, In Atlanta, has been instruct ed to request the railway to try to move, mall cars alone. ' - The department cannot do any thing, to help the situation unless the strikers . should stop mall in transit, when deputy United States marshals or troops would be imme diately Bent to protect the mails. Second Assistant Postmaster' Gen eral Stewart returned tovWashlngton from Indianapolis today, and Is in active charge of the situation, Mr. Stewart said this morning that troops or deputy marshals could not be call ed on during the present conditions The only thing that the department can do is to move the mails as best It can. .For every day that the mails are not sent or are delayed a deduc- tlon is made from the amount which the railway receives for carrying the mallB. "We are using every effort to get the malls through." said Mr. Stewart. "Each local office Is handling the terlrtory immediately around It In the best way It can." It Is possible Mr. Stewart will he sent to Atlanta to endavor to clear up the situation this week If condi tions do not Improve. When Post master General ' Hitchcock returns here today from his Cuban "trip It Is probable be will consult w!tb Presi- dent Taft over the situation, but he- fore the president takes any action he will await the report of Labor Commissioner Nelll, who is now at the scene of the trouble. 1SLOW TO STOCK WATERING. Law-Providing More Stringent Super vision of Corporations Passed. (By Leased Wire to The Times)' Springfield, Ills., May 27 Stock watering by corporations was given a blow In the schafe when the Billings bill, having the sponsorship of the Chicago Bar Association, was passed by a vote of 36 to 1. The bill pro vides a more stringent supervision of corporations, demands the filing of annual reports with the secretary of state and requires the payment of a yearly fee equal to one-twentieth of one per cent of the corporation's cap italization. It Is believed the bill would net $500,000 to the state an nually. SHAKK-1'P IX CUSTOM HOCSR. Collector Loch S.vh the Investigation is Still Going On. (By Lease&Wirc to Tho Times) New York, May 27 Collector of the Port Loeb intimated today that he Is preparing a large shake-up in the local customs department. "The Invcsllgat.iln of tho depart ment Is still going on," he said, "and they warrant a number of changes soon and constant changes among the 2,500 men employed In the service, and these changes for its better ment."" He would not say as to the chopping off of heads of h'gh officials but t,he Intimation given was that the shake-up would prove a big one. Forest Fires in Michigan. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Negaune, Mich., May 27 A report was received here today that the towntof Dalton was entirely wiped out by forest lire this morning. A special train took the residents to safety. Forest lires arc raging in this vicinity and many fishing parties in the woods are in peril. There has been no rain for weeks. COUNT 60NI LOSES SUIT Anna Gould Keeps Her Chil dren. French Court of Appeals Declares Against Count rtoni I)i Castellnne in His Suit for the Custody of His Children and the Gould Millions, (By Cable to The Times) Paris, May 27 The French court of appeals today affirmed the decision of the lower tribunal, giving the Princess De Sagan, formerly Anna Gould, the guardianship of her chit dren, thus giving her victory over Count Bonl De Castellane in his fight for his three boys. This defeats Count Boni's attempt to retain a grasp upon the Gould millions, which were brought as a dowry when he married Anna Gould. One striking feature of today's de clsion Is that Prince De Sagen. the present husband of Anna Gould, may not visit the children although Count Bonl, their father, may do so. The court upholds the contention of the count that Prince De Sagan is unfit to come in contact with the children. Jay, the younger boy, will remain with his mother until he is ten years old, when he must be sent to school. The decree further gives both Count Bonl and the Princess, the mother, the Joint right to select a tutor for Jay. If Bonl cannot agree with tho choico of the boy'B mother, the elder boys must bo sent to school within a fortnight. The court further directs that the school shall be the Institute Lyce Janson De Sallly, where the mother and father may visit them. De Sa gan ia again forbidden to visit the children here. The lads may divide their holidays between the residences of their father and mother. The cost of the litigation will be divided bo tweon tho Interested parties. The suit Is an old ono but. since the marriage of Anna Gould to Prince De Sagan It has boon prosecuted by Count Bonl with redoubled vigor. Last December tho tribunal of the Seine rejected Couit Boni's plea that tho boys be put in bis. custody. He appealed from that decision on January 14. The hearing on the ap peal Was argued during May and has been pending slnco that time. The entire series of bearings has beep marked by the Impassioned oratory of the French lawyers. , Maltre Bon net, the famous French pleader, rep resented Castellane and some of the things he said about t ho present hus band and Anna Gould were far from complimentary. He said that Prince De Sagan would exert a (pernlcuous influence over the mind of a boy, and he wenf further to declare that the surroundings In the De Sagan home are unfit, for ob.Ud.refc 1 ' ' " SUPPLY OF FLOUR GETTING MIGHTY LOW IN CITIES Following Advance in Price of Wheat It Soon Sunk to Low Level. ALMOST TO FAMINE SIZE 'or Weeks tln .Mills Have Been Grinding Only Enough Flour to Keep Pace Willi the Actual De mands of the Customers, and Sur plus Stocks Have Melted Away Like Snow In the Sunshine New York City Has Less Than a Week's Supply of Flour on Hand Other Cities Also Have Far Smaller Sup ply Than Usual. (By Leased Wire to Tho Times) . Chicago, May "7 The supplies of flour in the Tnlled States, following the sensational advances in the cost of wheat, have shrunk almost to famine s'ze. A startling decrease in the. .'surplus stocks was revealed in "report's-front.-. various, large cities of the country presented at the seventh iinnunl Convention of the National Millers' Convention at the Audito rium Hotel. "'.' For weeks the mills have not been grinding enough flour to keep pace with the actual' demands of custom ers, and the ordinary surplus stocks have melted away like snow in the sunshine. If for any reason the big mills should be shut down for more than n week, a famine" in flour, ac cording to the millers, would become a serious possibility. ; With prices at almost unprecedent ed, levels, merchants, and bakers have been buying only Hour enough to sup ply their wants from day to day. It also developed, that the milling delegates are "sore" at Secretary of Agriculture Wilson because ot the government's estimate of 150,000,000 bushels of reserve wheat on the farms March 1. This was the estimate which "Wheat King". James' A. Pat ten ridiculed as extravagantly.' high and which he said was based on re ports of small merchants and country postmasters. "By count made a few days ago," said W. R. Gregory, of New York, in a report to the convention, "there were only 128,000 barrels of Hour in warehouses and stores of Now York City, as compared with 900, noo bar rels a year ago. Twenty thousand barrels are consumed every day in New York, and if our supply for any reason should be cut off. you can fig ure how long our bakeries would run." ','' Mr. Gregory also declared the sup ply of flour In Boston was. IS, 0.03 bar rels below the normal.. H. T. Lawler reported theie were only 32,000 barrels of flour In New Orleans which was one-half the nor mal amount in storage there Reports from other centers of tho same- tenor startled the flour men. Tho crop reports also submitted by delegates bore out the prognostica tions of James A. Patten. FOOD PRICES ARE EXPECTED TO LOSE (By Leased. Wire to The Times) New York, May 27 With an ad vance of from three to live cents In the price of meat and a further rise In the price of ice announced today, rnlull as well as wholesale provision dealers throughout tho city looked forward to a general rise In the price of nil kinds of food this Hummer to the highest' point In ten years. Retailers were agreed today that tho price of beef will go ten cents a pound higher before the end of the summer. that ice. will be at-, prohibitive prices for the poorer classes, that eggs Will rench the high prices of last winter and that broad and even vegetables will follow suit. It wub stated . today that all the foodstuffs had been raised In price following the original rise in the price of wheat following the Patten cornel1 In Chicago. It Is acknowledged tnat there is no adequate reason for the general except the greed of the big men who .control the product. , Eggs to the value of $1,000,000 have been put away In cold storage by one who could speak authoritatively. The advance In Ice will come heaviest on June 1, when existing contracts ex pire and then further Increases in the cost of gll provisions will be made. COMMENCEMENT AT ST. MARY'S Splendid Exercises Mark the Closing of Old SI. Mary's College. THE CLOSING EXERCISES Address Delivered by lit. Rev. Win. A. Guerry, Jtisluip of South Caro lina Spoke on Character Jiuihl ing The - Program- An Enjoyable One The Announcement of Honor and the Presentation of Medals, Diplomas, Certificates and Distinc tions The Graduating Class Com posed of Six Young Ladies Grad uates in Special Courses The Final Exercises of the School. Tho sixty-seventh annual com mencement of St. Mary's School came to a fitting close today with the graduating exercises in the auditor ium, followed by the religious exer cises In the chapel. Besides the faculty-and students there was a large number of friends of the school present During the long and successful . history of St. Mary's it has sheltered and instruct ed many of Raleigh's daughters, who will ever remain true to her and feel Interest in all exercises connected with the school. The following is the full program of the exercises in the auditorium and in the chapel: GIU I U ATIXG EXERCISES. t".. ' In tJia Auflltnrtiini.. : .. Pomponette . . . . . ... . .... Durand Sarah Vernon Holloway. Salutatory1 .-'; Julia Louise Mclntyre. Jocund 'Spring .......... Herrmann Nannie Davis Lee, Marie Jacquelin - Thomas. Class Essay The Fairy Tale Eva Rogerson. Waltz in E Minor. . . . ...... Chopin Rebecca Hill Shields. Address Rt. Rev. Wm. A. Guerry. Valedictory Georgia Stanton Hales. Announcement of Honors, ' Presenta tion of Diplomas, Certificates and Distinctions. In the Chapel. Processional Hymn Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand, No. 3DC. Scripture Lesson. Benedictus. Creed. Prayers. Hymn I Heard a Sound of Voices No. 404. ' Presentation of College Diplomas. Address to Graduates. Prayers and Benediction. "'..-.' Recessional .Hymn Jerusalem High Tower. ; The following young ladies com posed the graduating class and those taking certificates. The Graduate The College Class of 1001). Sallio Haywood Battle, Rocky Mt. N. C; Georgia Stanton Hales (First Honor), Wilson, N. C; Minnie Leary, Elizabeth City, N. C ; Julia Louise Meliilyro. (Second Honor), Mullins, S. C; Eva Rogerson, Edcnton, N. C; Frankio Lenore Self, Hickory, X. C. Certificate in the English Course. Annie Caroline Wood, Edenton, N. C. . Diplomas in the Business School. Ella S. Mlal, Raleigh, N. C; Vir ginia G. Newsom, Raleigh, N. C. Certiorates in Stenography and Type writing. Mary Habel, Ethel It. Waltt, Mary McG. Vann. Certificate in Bookkeeping. Laura Maud Bunn. Commencement Athlrcss. Rt. Rev. Wm. A. Guerry, Bishop of South Carolina, made a beautiful address to the graduates on charac ter building. Taking as a basis for his remarks the thought that life is composed of three dimensions length, breadth and height. Length of life does not mean length of days, but length of purpose, singleness of aim. It is necessary to have a definite object, without which life is aimless, there will be no port to reach. When there are great gifts It is easy to" determine what one wants lo do. But the average man and wo man has not these exceptional gifts and It is not always easy to decide early what one would like to do. Consecration In life must always precede vocation. Many lives miss their beauty because they are not OBSERVED TODAY consecrated to an unselfish purpose. When you know what this object Is, follow it with unflagging energy and zeal. Breadth of life. . If one has an aim in life, they can become very narrow. There is the danger of becoming sel fish In the pursuit of this aim, or be coming narrow minded specialists. Ono danger we have to guard against is specialization in education. The speaker believed in education for life' and not for '.labor only. There is no word more difficult to de fine, than culture. We know it when we see It. There are various kinds of cult ure. Culture in its broadest sense is knowledge of .mankind,' hu manity. We cannot have culture without the 'study of language and letters. The greatest study of mankind is man, and the great work of man is, his language and literature. There is another element needed, breadth of view. Nothing gives tills like ed ucation and travel. . This is needed especially in the south, where. we are in danger of provincialism and sec tionalism.-'' We need above all to realize that' we are Americans, we must be loyal to the nation and flag as well as to the south. We cannot do this without breadth of view. The south does not exercise her proportionate share in the nation. The south can't do it unless her peo ple are more broadly educated. Height of life, which means faith. Life may be broad, may be cultured, be very definite and intense and yet be of the earth earthy. Without faith It lacks Inspiration and ideals and cannot develop to perfection and fullness. Study the life of Christ. In Him we have the three dimen sions. No man ever lived with a clearer view or conception of life. He was the Universal Man. Build your life along those lines and it will be beautiful and ever de veloping. Your education does not cease here. Go on with your culture. grow ing more and more in the image of the one perfect life. Charge of Dr. Lay. Dr. Lay rector of St. Mary's, spoke a few concluding words to the grad uates and students. In looking back over the work of the year there were (Continued on Pae Two.) IN VALLEY Great Damage in Mississippi Valley. trains Tied Vp and Wires Down in Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama. and Ijouisiami Great Damage to Crops and Several Towns Flooded by Raging Rivers". (By Leased Wire to The Times) Memphis, Tenn., May 27 A cy cyone has passed over northern Mis slssippl, ; wrecking many houses. Trains are tied up and telegraph and telephone wire .are down. Reports from the surrounding country bring advices of devastation of recent rain and wind-storms. Mississippi and Arkansas seem. to have suffered most The Arkansas river Is out of its banks, and flood warnings have been sent out. In both states the crop: are said to have been almost totally destroyed, while numbers of town:: are partly under Water and familicii have been driven to the roofs of their homes, and the only means of transit is by boat. Great damage haa been done lo the railroads. Mobile, Ala., May -'27 Practically every river and creek in lower Ala baina and Mississippi are at flood stage: all lowland crons are. under water, and there has-.-been great de struetlou among cuttle and in luni her.'-' .'.' Rains were heavy In Clark, Wayne Green and Jackson counties, Missis sippl, and Monroe, Choctaw and Washington counties, Alabama, In many of these counties the' '-heavy rains were followed by hail etorms which ruined the growing crops, and damaged buildings. The Mobile & Ohio Railroad ha sunerea a serious interruption o tai'fllc. It has been necessary to op erate trains of this road out of Mo bile, over the Louisville & Nashville owing to washouts on tho Mobile ti Ohio, In Clark and Wayne counties, Miss. New Orleans, May 27 Train serv Ice on many roads in Louisiana, Mis slssippl and Alabama was badly crip pled lust night through tho heavy rains. Many streams- are out. an several towns have been cut off. The crop damage Is large.' No extensive property damage and no loss to life are reported. Shot Wife For Iliirglur. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Indianapolis. Ind.. Muv 27 Mis taking her for a burglar, George W Thompson last night shot and killei his wife at his home. Thompson is held at the police station for fear he will harm himself. UMMI NS SPEAKS AGAINST SUGAR TARIFF SCHEDULE Wants. Beet Sugar Industry Properly Protected Against Sugar Trust fHE DUTY ON HIDES Amendment to Put Duly on Hides Will Not he Reported I'lum f i nance Committee I mil Free List Reached Senator 'I illiiinn and Senator Smith or .'Michigan Have Several Verbal Encounters With Senator Cummins Cummins Says the licet Sugar People ('iiu'l. Start a Factory Without the Permission of the American Sugar Refining Company. , (By- Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, Mav 27 The amend ment -In put a duty -on hides, II was id today, will not be reported from the finance committee until the free list is reached. As reported, the fi nance committee made no change in the Payne bill affecting hides which were placed on the free list by the house, hut the western and south western senators who have insisted on a retention ot tno present, uiteen per cent ad valorem duty on hides, were assured bv. Senator Alditfch hat their request would be granted. he-amendment-when offered will a use a lively debate that may con tinue for several days before a vote s reached. The senate convened at 10 o'clock.. The tariff bill was Immediately taken up for consideration. Senator Cum mins attacked the sugar schedule. He asserted that the conflict, between -the cane and beet sugar industries would never he repressed and that he did not -believe both industries should be perfected in the same bill. f the beet sugar industry was prop erly, protected, it could, in a few ears, supply the entire country and make the importation of foreign su- r unnecessary. The present bill delivers the beet sugar manufacturers nto the hands ot the cane sugar re fineries. ; Senator Cummins bait several ver bal encounters with Senator Tillman and Senator Smith,, ot Michigan. Senator Tillman wished to know If it was his purpose to build up the beet sugar industry at the expense of the cane growers. Senator Cummins re plied they 'ure -conflicting interests, and should be legislated for separate ly, A beet sugar factory cannot be established unless permission is obtained-from .the American Sugar Re fining Conipanv. Senator Smith said that such a view was pessimistic and declared that the beet sugar Industry hud grown in the past ten years, and would continue to grow. "The senator from Michigan," re plied 'Senator' .Cummins, ' is always charming, always interesting, and al ways irrelevant and immaterial. He declared the cane sugar refineries fix the price of sugar. KKI PPS WANT ROYALTY. IHm't I'liderstimd How Americans Are Making Armor Plate Without Their Process. (By- Leased Wire to The Times) Pittsburg, Pa., May 27 The mys tery which has attended the visit of Baron Von Jiodenhausen, of the Krupp interests, to America at this t ime has : to some extent been dis pelled by a' man--connected with the armor plate industry here, who says that for some time no royalty has been paid to the Krupps by the Amer ican makers of armor plate because tho Mldvale, the Carnegie and tho Bethlehem concerns have each in vented an armor plate hardening fcys tem of their own which gives better results than that of the Krupp pro cess. It is $13(1 per ton cheaper, as tills is the royalty which the Ameri can makers have been paying. it is now no secret that Baron Von Bodenhausen, who landed yesterday In New York, has come here for the purpose of clearing up the ; armor plate case once for all. It Is known that the Germans have not believed that the three Anwrican makers of big armor could have Invented three different forms of hardening plate as good as the Krupp process. German Liner Aground. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, Mav 27 The litfor Prlnzess Alice, of the North German Lloyd line, outward bo'ind for "Bre men, went aground in the bay today Just oJX Fort Walworth,
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