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v'- , . s;;;f.u,VfJ:X! yV"'.rf " Weather. Washington, Aug. 28 Pore cast for North Carolina for to night and Sunday: Warm and partly cloudy tonight, Sunday. '7- rV ' Mi ESTABLISHED 1876. RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1909 A"l PRICE 5 CENTS - - , . : :. : , l ; i " ' 11 ' ' I., : n ? tux. r :. -' -.- 5 C ; ,-' : . c f " : y 1 1 THE HOUSE GUARDED BY ARID II Capital and Labor Guests of Honor. OF BALLINOER- PINCHOT FIGHT .- . wnile Preparations Were Made to Operate oo the Master of Railroads EIGHT DOCTORS THERE Believed That the .Magnate Will be Placed Under the Knife Without Delay, Though Some of the Doc tors Favor Delaying Operation Un til the Patient Could Recover Some Strength Grave Possibilities of a Weakened Heart In Present Weakened Condition Any Opera tion Would be Serious. Will tali in Sensational Scandal Before Matter Is Finally Settled EMINENT MEN INVOLVED Arden, N. Y., Aug. 28 Armed men guarded the mansion of E. H. Harriman today while preparations were made to operate upon the mas ter of railroads. With the arrival early in the day of Dr. George W. Crile, of Cleveland, O., known throughout the country 5s an abdominal expert, everything 'wa; in readiness for the operation. Names of a United States Senator and a Foremost Financier Mentioned Among Others That Will Prolwbly be Drugged Into the Affair Before Long Senator's Business Asso ciates Are Pushing Construction of Railroad in Alaska and Have Already Built Alwut Seventy-five Miles of Track From Cordova Inland. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, Aug. 28 The belief is rapidly increasing in administra tion circles that the present Ballin- ger-Pinchot row will probably result in a sensational scandal before the matter is finally settled and that the reputations of several prominent men Kight physicians in all were at the wi" suffer wnen a" the facts become home of the sick railway wizard and. K"uwu- as " seems likely to be the although members of his family de- oa!5' clared that there was no truth in the Ule names of two well-known story it was believed that he would men' in Particular are mentioned be placed under the knife without de- anlonS others that will probably be day, though some of the doctors, it d,'aSged into the affair before long, was said, were in favor of delaying 0ne of tnese is a United States sena- the operation until the patient could tor from a western state who, with recover some of the strength he left nls assoc'ates is heavily Interested in in the baths at Bad Gastein. mining and railroad operations in the A rectal trouble, it is now posi-1 far west, while another is one of the uveiy asserted, Is the cause of the toremost financiers of the world, financier's illness. The proposed op- whose home is in New York. The eration it is said is unlike the one western senator's business associates which was performed January 1 and are pushing the construction of a which gave him great relief. railroad in Alaska and have already In his present weakened condition, built about 75 miles of track from any operation, no matter how trivial Cordova inland, the construction is serious. There are grave possibil- work including the building of sev ities of a weakened heart, it was said, eral steel bridges. fc - ' " i -'i ws. &kti jen? i fi TKO.- KmMTTTTT mf pi rim piTiiTion ---rTOEiw .r , DARING DRIVERS CONTINUE THEIR TERRIFIC DASH Race by Far Most Sensation al Ever Witnessed at Bright on Beach Track IN 48 HOURS YOU ILL BE A DEAD MAN This Message With Black Hand Sign Received by Sup erintendent Welch ONE HILLED ALREADY One Head and Fight Injured in First Few Hours of Rare Mechanician Kilied in Collision in From of (iraiidstiinil Gasoline Tank Fx piodcs isaiiiv llui'iiing Driver and Mechanician Policeman Struck and His Leg Broken-Officials Con sider Advisability of Stopping the Rare Altogether Accident Upon Accident. HORRIBLE STORIES TOLD fjinif-nl nawl ..I i t.1 . cue guests of Mrs. J. Xorden beautiful r-,. .... '"IU,n -''. iiaiTimiin, niul "Tim ir.-iily. Hari'imiiii. at Iw-p -eft to right: John In addition to Dr. Crile there are at Mr. Harriman's bedside Dr. Lyle, his personal physician, who accom panied him on his European trip, two assistants of the Cleveland abdomi nal surgeon, Dr. Walter Ditman, of New York, and three other special ists from otaer parts of the country. Dr. Crile arrived on a special train and went immediately to the Harri man house. Owing to an accident to the apparatus operating the incline railway to the house on top of the hill,, the doctor was compelled to make the journey in one of the Har riman automobiles. Several times on the trip up the long and treach erous road in the dark the car nar rowly missed overturning. A reporter last night for the first time since Harriman returned to his palatial mans on in the Ramapos, succeeded in running the gauntlet of armed guards at every approach to the estate and got within eighty feet of the house. The house was a scene of great ac tivity, and from an employe it was learnedthat an operation ou Mr. Har riman was imperative. He stated that physicians had been in consul tation with Dr. Lyle during the day and that in all probability the oper ation would be attempted at once. Lights burned brightly throuehout The construction of the railroad is only one of several impor. .nt enter prises which the big syndicate which has millions of dollars at its com mand, has undertaken in Alaska. It has "gobbled up", as the expression soes, hundreds of mining claims in that part of the country, the prob ble richness of which have been pret ty closely estimated by the syndi cate's mining engineers before the claims were bought for a fraction of their actual value in mineral, but which, owing to lack of transporta tion and with the remoteness from the tidewater, where ore may be shipped to the big Guggenheimer smelters at Tacoma, Wash., the orig inal discoverers of the claims could not. develop. Among these claims is the famous Homestake copper mine, admitted to be one of the richest in the world, situated about 100 miles from Valdez, iind where more than $50,000,000 worth of copper ore, it is claimed, is in sight, to say nothing of that be low the surface of the ground. In cluded in the syndicate which owns this amazingly rich mine are .1. Pier pont Morgan, the Vanderbilts, and other large moneyed interests of New York, but until the railroad is built into that part of Alaska no attempt WEAKLEY WANTS TO BE GOVERNO (By Leased Wire to The Times. ) Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 2 s Judge Samuel D. ' Weakley, former chief justice and the man who framed all the prohibition bills, todav announced for the governorship of Alabama. In his letter he says he will work for the constitutional prohibition amendment. It is expected thai A. II. Carmichael, speaker of the house. win today announce for lieutenant governor. This is said to be the Comer administration line up. ABRUZZ1 STARTS FOR HOME TODAY (By Cable to The Times) Bombay. An. -The Duke of the Abruzzi embarked on tlie steam. r to day for Marseilles. The Duke's hurried return homo is reported to lie at tin- urgent reguest or King Victor Hina li the mansion and the sentries station- is to be made t0 worlt t"e property, "J'1 wll desires the duke to meet .z;n SIX COMPANIES MUTINIED TODAY (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Athens, Aug. iS Six companies of the local garrison, led by their officers, niulinfcd today. They left their bar racks and marched out of the city en camping in tlie si'lierhs. The men are dissatisfied with Ihe present ministry and with conditions in the army. As a result of this the cabinet of Premier J ihallis has re signed, and King George has asked M. Mavromiehaelis to form a new ministry. Makes .Three Rounds All of Which Were Made in Record Time If AS HEARTILY CHEERED TAFT TAKES DIP DEEP Curtiss Was One of (he First Avia tors on the Grounds This Morning ami Made bust Trial Flight Iteforc JO O'clock When the Whitehall Was liaised. Indicating That Cur tiss Had Broken u Kecord Pande monium Uroke Loose Cheering Lasted for Fifteen .Minutes lile iot Made Good Flight. ' O O 0 AMi:i:if.l BRINY Nicholas on month. his arrival in Italy lvxt FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT NORFOLK ed about gave the scene the appear- owinS to the immense cost of trans ance of a camp of soldiers on the POI'tat'on in Alaska under present eve of battle. conditions. With the entrance of the In order to guard against informa- ''al'road into those sections it will be tion regarding the financier's illness Possible to develop them at stupend becoming public, all laborers and ser- ous Profits. vants about the place, with the ex- Tbe railroad syndicate makes no caption of a few trusted ones, have attempt. In Alaska, remote as it Is been dismissed. from the more civilized part of the All telephone comnlunfcation with United States and where news trav the house has been stopped. Notice es slowly, to evade acknowledgment was given all newspaper representa- P' its primary intention "to go after uves that if they made any attempt the coal" before attempting to ex to reach the house they would be tend the railroad Into the mining sec treated as common trespassers by the tlons. The coal deposits inland armed guards. As there are ten men from Cordova, which is the railroad's patrolling the house at a distance base, and which is at deep tidewater, of fifty feet it was Impossible to get are of immense extent, while the any nearer. coal Is excellent in quality and suit- It wa? learned today from a man em- able for "steaming" purposes. In the ployed on the Harriman estate that Chugach National forest reserve one of the bh? front rooms of the man. which is within easy distance of the sion has been turned into a temporary railroart In nMn tt, , operating room. The employe respon- J? i - 0aI' "T 8ibieror th ini-ormnfi J,,a pinSs. afe clearly defined, while in he himself had tai charge of the Twork raa?r ca8es the coal proper is visible LeaaTammed ga Ins. a b I of cleaning out the room. He said the ln immense blocks. lll-l l J? I doctors had., complained because "it With the Cunningham claim satis- dldn t look very tidy.!' factorlly disposed of by the deDart- At an early hour today It was in dicated that serious business was on hand. Two more newspaper men tried to ascend to the Harriman home but were driven" away by guards. The Rev J. H. f cGulnue, of the Epls sTopal of Chester, N. T., ! which has received benefactions from Mi. Harri man was thei first person connocteti with his home,, his -railroads . or his " . (Continued on faga Two.). j ment of the interior the patents to the lands In question issued, the rail road interests which are heavily In terested would be ln a position td fix whatever rates they pleased for trans foration from the Alaskan1 seaboard to the Interior, and vice versa, and in vle of the fact that hy now own and operate the larg-est and most im- (Contlhued on PWTwo.) (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Norroik, va., Aug. 28 For the first time in the history of Norfolk a fatal automobile accident occurred this morningat3:4() o'clock, when the car of Frank Whitmore left the road, fell down a fifteen foot embankment and killed Blanche Burns, of 177 Plume, street, Norfolk, Va. The dead woman was one of a party of six re turning to -Norfolk after a dance af Pine Bench, near the site of the Jamestown Exposition. The Burns woman was caught under the car, her ron nine of the water main and her neck was broken. None of the others were hurt, their escape being considered miraculous. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Beverly, Mass.. Aug. 28 Clad in a snow while bathing suit, President Tnt't took his first dip in Salem Har bor since iiis arrival at Beverlv isn summer bright and early this morn ing before any of the summer people eie awaKo. Belore 7 o'clock today me president and Dr. Barker, who is helping Mr. Talt to reduce his avoir dupois had indulged in their daily wrestling match. Both were over heated and at Dr. Barker's sugges tion (bey attired themselves in their bathing suit and went in for a swim. President Taft sported himself in the waler for a long time and he thought no one was looking because it was so early, but he was mistaken for the keeper in the Hospital Point light house had sighted a big white object and he leveled his glasses and dis covered that the president was just in lor a dip. The president was en thusiastic about his first swim and said that he was going in often here. ( By Cable to The Times) Rheims, Aug. 2S Glenn H. Curtiss won the internatio nal aviaiioii cup for America I "!,!.-. Mi., mial time by the ol'iieial rceorriiiig was 15 mi ii tit os. .Mi seconds for two laps or the track, a dist ance of I-.IL' miles, bluing the cream of the French avia tors. The victory of Curtiss means that the contest, will be held in America next. year. o o o o WIN'S (T P o o o o o o o KXr.lXKKR, SAVKS PASSKNGKRS. Banished All Padding. Des Moines, la.. Atnt. 28 Coach John L. Griffith, of Drake University, toaay, nanishert all padding from the football armor, of his warriors. ; "Padding only extra weight," aid Ooach Griffith, vj'and besides' it. Isjoo pffomltihtft." : , ' . ','-. Foiled At tempi s of Train Wreckers by Cool work. boa ford, L. I., Aug. 28 Two hun dred passengers .on the "fast mail" on the Long Island Railroad were saved from death or injury today by Engi neer Forbell. Train wreckers had piled ties and stones upon the tracks near Massapequa at a point where the train usually, attained a speed of 50 miles an hour. The engineer saw the obstruction and Jolted the passengers out of their seats by an emergency stop Just as : the pilot of the ' engine scraped up against I the i C The victory of Curtiss O O means that ihe contest, will be O O o : o o o o. ( Hy Cable to The Times) Klieims, Franco. Aug. 2S Glenn Liiniss, tin- Ainer can representative in the international cup nice slatted in the couiest ai 1 n : I a. m. by heat ing Mil pivvioie; record:; for fast tilin around the track. He completed his tirsi round in 7 minutes, 57 2-f sec onds. Tito second lap was niiule in 7 nim utes, .r7 seconds. The third round was also made in record time. M. Louis Bleriot, the daring Krenchehnian, was on the track al most simultaneously with Curtiss in his .SO horse-power monoplane No. 23. He made a trial spin around the track, doing the lan In 7 minutes. 5 8 1-5 seconds. Curtiss was one of the first avia tors on the ground this morning and made a fast trial flight before 10 o ciocK, tno hour lor the openng of the international cup contest. weather conditions were perfect and there was an entire absence of wind. Curtiss flew high ln the air. Some times he soared to an altitud'3 of 100 feet, where the haze prevent ed him from being seen. His ma chine seemed to pitch slightly at' thu end of the coarse. The distance to make in the contest was two laps, ot the course, or 12.42 miles. At 10 o'clock the contestants wer Summoned before the committee for their final Instruction. ' Qourtlandt Bishop, president bf the Aero Club of America, -commander "F. K Cr.anirr 1 (By Leased Wire to The Times) Brighton Beach Race Track, N. Y., Aug. 28 With a record of one dead ind eight injured in the first few hours of racing, the dare devil auto mobile drivers still kept up their ter rific dash around the track in the 24 hour race todav. Leonard Cole, mechanician of Car .No. ( is the dead man. In a collision in front of the grandstand, Cole was pinned beneath the wreckage and in Ktantly killed. The spine of Laurent Grosse, tiie driver, was broken and he is believed to be dying. The force if the crash hurled Patschke, driver of Car No. 3 and iiis mechanician to the track and both were badly hurt Pauchke. narrowly escaped being run down by one of the other automo biles. Hugh Hughes Car No. 8 and his mechanician were badly burned when Ihe gasoline tank exploded. Their clothing ablaze, they jumped from the machine and extinguished the llanios by rolling in the grass. Both were treated at the Emergency Hos pital Shortly afterward word was receiv ed that Car No. 5, driven by Heina had been overturned on the west turn. The car, according to Heina. overturned when the right front wheel collapsed and both he and his mechanician were injured. Policeman Corrigan, on dutv on the back stretch of the track, was in jured when Car No. S, swerving from tlie course, ran into one of the elec tric light poles, knocking it. down and striking him. He was rushed to the Emergency Hospital, where it was found that his right leg had been hrok en. The race was by far the most sen sational ever witnessed here and for a time the advisability of stopping it altogether was considered hy the of- lieials. Alter a conference, however, it was decided lo continue it. The accidents following each oilier in quick succession, kept the specta tors, Including many women, in frenzy of excitement throughout the early part of the day and the daring drivers were wildly cheered, regard less of life and limb as they ran wild ly past the grandstand. lu pursii' of the (lying leaders Gross had put on full speed as he dashed past the club house, and it was with great difficulty that he and his mechanician were able to hold their seats. They were just mak ing the turn when Car No. :! tool the track. Tearing along almost on even terms with Gross was Basle, in Car o. 12. The shouts of the crowd warned them of the danger. Basle, risking over turning his car, swerved sharply and took the middle of the course. Grosse, without slackening speed, tried to take the inside of the track. For several yards, Grosse and Patschke tore along side by side. Then suddenly, according to wit nesses, Patschke swerved and crash ed onto urosae s machine. With a deafening crash the axle split. The machine, hurled high in the air, turn ed three complete somersaults and landed on the track with the unfor tunate occupants pinned underneath. Shortly before ft o'clock, as Car No. i), driven by Heina, was rounding (he back stretch turn at a terrific clip, the front axle split between the left wheel and the body of the car, The machine was sent hurling over a ditch into the outfield. Driver Heina and Mechanician Bur- cot were hurled heavily to the ground. The car first struck on its side, then turned a complete somer sault, finally righting itself. Heina was only slightly bruised, while But- ct escaped unhurt. Sensational Confirmation of Many Stories in Circulation of Brutal Treatment of Workmen and Con firmation of Charge That Men Con' petent to Give Damaging Testi mony Were Concealed in Filth Drill Pits During Tour of Plant by Investigators lUeaten With Clubs and Blackjacks Held in Restraint Within Stockade. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 28 "Within forty-eight hours you will be a dead man." This message, with the sign of the black hand' and a skull and cross bones was received in a letter by Samuel Welch, superintendent of the land company which is a subsidiary of the Pressed Steel Car Company and controls the company tenements at Schoenville and Preston. This is the first instance that black hand letters have appeared in the big strike, and Welch, who is blamed for the evictions of the foreigners at Schoenville, has taken precautions to protect his life. The letter has been tuimed ovuir.o. the township police. It is believed fo . be the work of some evicted striker and not the message of any organiz ed band. Sensational confirmation of the niany stories in circulation-' of brutal treatment of workmen and' confirmation of the charge that men competent to give damaging testi mony were concealed in filthy drill pits during the tour of the Pressed Steel Car plant at McKees Rocks while the investigators were going through the works was elecited at. a special night session of the govern ment investigation. One man, James Morris, of New York, fainted from illness when on the stand and later was found to be suffering from pto maine poisoning. The testimony proved that men were held in .re straint within the Schoenville stock ade by clubs, blackjacks and riot guns. eak and emaciated, one hag gard and unshaven strike-breaker, . after another went on the witness stand. Each had his own story to tell about life in the stockade and nearly all of them declared that they were ignorant of the strike when they were recruited in New York and Philadelphia. Some told of being beaten with clubs and blackjacks, others of being cast into the filthy box car lock-up when they became recalcitrant and tried to leave and nearly all agreed on the matter of impure and Im proper food. There were many wo showed acute signs of illness. It was testified that sick and dis contented workmen had been hidden in dirty drill press pits when the gov ernment officials inspected the plant and told that Foreman Samuel Cohen and chief of the Pressed Steel Car Company Police A. T. Farrell were the chief figures in Intimidation and abuse of workmen. . : , Many of the men seemed eager to give their testimony when- assured they would he protected from the brutality of the guards and bosses and all of their testimony, tended to show that the half has not, beqn told or conaiuons at tne last cnance, as the plant is known in Jaljor cir Daniel Shaw, of New York, Inject ed some humor into the grim BtoVy by telling o poker games la one pt which Shaw' won 50 from a' deputy sheriff. At this point Attorney Pen ny, acting for Sheriff Qumbert, flfl deaovred to learn losing deputy name, but Shaw a .d be was winner and would not "squcaL' ' if The game was broken up whjan Chief Ferrall and Foreman Bam Cohen endeavored to establish "kit ty" for their own benefit and ttt players demurred. " , t Shaw then told of a plan lie IM conceived for making enough momty -to get back to God's country," New ' York. ' . ifv ' "Two of us," he -said,' Thought . about $27 worth 4f- underwear, , shirts and socks, whlci.-w intend ?d '' selling at the plant among tfce man. We figured tra noogll .ftttflttfo U v us Back t&New York r j - 3, I "Foreman Cohen told 'me-1 r The score at the end of the twelfth hour, when half of the race had been pny .would, not stttnd for tuaauMu, iouows: i . Mike that and took V a :tt . t A 3 t J" 1'- 1
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