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'JEE WEATHER For Raleigh and , Vicinity: I'atly cloudyv tonight and Thursday. ' . For North. Carolina; Partly cloudy, showers on : the const tonight or Thursday. LAST EDITION II A. ESTABLISHED 17C RALEIGH, N.' C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17. 1910. PRICE 5 CENTS. Tt Double the Number of Paid Subscribers in ;the Gity of Raleigh oRViy Other Newspaper. ..... fS$frr ' . a . r b i - mm w . mm i GREAT AIR RACE won BY LEBLAIIC Made Shortest Time In Great Cross Country Flight Over France HAD A CLOSE FINISH M. lhlanc Wins $20,000 Prize Of fered by lip : Matin for Shortest Time in 4 Mile Cross Country Flight Mude Trip in 11 Hours, 38 : Minutes, 40 Seconds Aubruin Was 20 Minutes BehindCrowd Saw the Finish. (By Cable to The Times) O Great Ten-day Aearlal Race at O O O a Glance. Distance, 782 kilometers (489 O & miles.) O Actual distance covered, more 8 0 than 500 miles. ,':''.'..; 0 O Winner, Leblanc. , O 0 second, Aubrun. O 0 Winners' (lying time, 11 hours, 0 0 OS minutes, 4 9 seconds. ; 0 0 Average speed, 41 miles an 0 0 hour. .-.' 0 0 First prizg,-$20,000, posted by O 0 Le Matin. 0 0 Other prizes,- 3 2,4 00. ' ' , .0 0. Starters, eight. 0 0' Date of start, August 7. 0 0 Route, Issy to Troyes, to jNan- O 0 cy ,to Mezieres, to Douai, to 0 0 Amiens, to Issy. ' 0 0 Leblanc and AMbrun used mon- 0 0 oplanes. .0 0 , v". 0 0000000 0"0 0000000 Paris, Aug. 1 The greatest air race ever hold ended this morning when M. Leblanc alighted at Issy Les Moulineux, the winner of the J20, 000 prize offered by Le Matin for the shortest time in the 489 mile cross-country race over northern France which began on August 7. Twenty minutes after the winner came down, Aubrun, who has waged a sensational' duel with Leblanc from the tirst day shot his aeroplane to the aviation Held at Issy. Both men used monoplanes. Additional prizes for the, best time on each of the six laps and other awards brought the total of prizes at stake in the race to $52,400. The total elapsed time of the win ner was 11 hours, 58 minutes, 49 seconds, and that of Aubrun, 13 hours, 2(1 minues, 57 seconds. A crowd of 10,000 persons was at the aviation field at dawn, on edge at the prospect of a whirlwind,' neck and neck finish to the race that has kept all France excited for more than (Continued On Page Two.) PRESIDENT MONTT (By Cable to The Times.) Bremen, Aug. 17 Germany will pay a national tribute to the memory of the late President Pedro Montt, of Chllle, who died here last night of 'heart disease. Arrangements are be. ' ing made today for the return , of the " to Chile. A Herman cruiser will be offered to bear the remains to Colon, where It can be placed on a ChlUean warship. If Mme. Montt prefers to have the body carried on a liner so that she can ac company It a German warship will act as escort. The widow received a personal mes sage of condolence from the kaiser to day. If any services are held the. em peror probably will attend, hough she knew that her husband's hold on life was precarious, the widow Is near col lapse as a result of the shock She Is under thee are of two physicians. -v i . . Hitchcock, in Chicago. ' By Leased Wire to The Times) Chicago, Aug. 17 Postmaster general Hitchcock arrived in Chicago this morning on his way to the' post masters' convention at Peoria, 111. It was intimated that his atop here was made to help In the decapitation of Hoerotarv Ballinger. He denied this, .however, and' declared he would have nothing to do with plans concerning Balllnger. , ' .-. ' 1. 1 f ; . ft, I ' , " 4if ' ' w , I " iK i t ! f J "we"1 j The New York State Senator Timothy IK Sullivan, or "llitt' Tim" as lie is called everywhere, wlo recently planned n his; tree pie and theatre les tival for tlie uewslwys of New York. Tickets were issued for admission free to the City Theatre, that not aseat was left on sale for the public. Senator Sullivan is known from the Bowery in New York to Chinatown 011 the Pacific roast. He was unanimously clroseu stakeholder in ttie big JeN li'ies-.Iohiftoii fight and fio one in the sport inn world dui'inst' the prelimi nary months felt any trepidation as to the safety of the $10 1,000 the sen ator was holding, Senator Sullivan is tile national head of the Order of Ragles, He has been "Man Bountiful" to the newsboys ever since lie peddled papers himself. . -.Every year he gives gratis a "pie" anil "boat" excursion to some grove adjacent to New York. Before the boat starts the pie is always demolished and the crusts 'thrown at everylM)dy's head, including the senator's. But he only gris and does not call it ingrati tude. - . ". OF LAW Charged That Sherman Anti Trust Law is Violated Fifteen Railroads Have Itefused to Fix Tariff Bates in Accordance With the Sherman Anti-ti'iist. (By Leasfd Wire to The Times) Washington, Aug. 17 Charges that 15, railroads have refused to fix tariff rates in accordance with law and that the Temple Iron Company of Pennsylvania has violated the Sherman anti-trust law, were filed with the Interstate commerce com mission today by William P. Roland, of the Marion Coal Company, of Serahton, Pa. George F. Baer is president of the Temple Company. The railroads accused are the Del aware, Lackawanna & Western, the Long Island, Ontario & Western, New York, New Haven & Hartford, Erie, Erie &Wyoming, New. York, Susque hanna & Western, W'ilkesbarre & Eastern, Lehigh Valley, Pennsyl vania, Philadelphia & Baltimore and Washington, Philadelphia & Read ing, and the Atlantic City. These roads, the complaint de clares, are all connecting. Mr. Boland charges that a pile of thousands of tons of coal located on the D. L. & W. property was made useless to. him through failure of the railroad to furnish cars for its trans portation and fix railroad, rates. Com peting operators were furnished cars and rates on deuand, he alleges, but he was refused because the railroad wished id acquire control of the coal fields operated by the Marlon Coal Company, whose holding are located five miles from Scranton, Pa. Com petitors were given rebates while he was overcharged 30 per cent for switching, he charges. Because of this discrimination he was compelled to 'sell his holdings at great loss, he says. .- . ' ,'; Serious charges against the D. L. j& W In reearri to the mvsterioUS fir ing of a Marion county coal pile, Iom cated on the railroad's land, in which. 75,000 tons were destroyed, also are included in Mr. Boland's complaint. : Negro In Danger of Lynching. (By teased Wire to The Times) Princeton, W. Va Aug. 17 James Dawson, alias Thomas Wayne, the negro accused of murdering Mrs. Lottie Ailiss and fatolly injuring her husband, was hurried here today to nrevent. his being lynched. He was brought 30 miles from Hinton in8j,ip down, the coast, secret, while a mob was gathering abou); the jail there. The mob threatened for hours, unaware that the man was here. . Militia are 'gath ering here. Atlanta's New Postofllce. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, Aug. 17 Acting Sec- retary of the treasury Hllles today announcea iiini ue uus uecu uuimcuiggce 10 me government by the ' contractors that at T.he rate work Is being rushed in the new post- office building at Atlanta It will be , ... , ... . .. . . nAW completed and ready for occupancy.be said today and Sifuday for the late oy &eptenjDer 10 next. . FLEW ACROSS CHANNEL Aviator Moisant Crosses Chan , nel Carrying Passengers Flying Fi-ojn Paris to London Start ed Out to Win I'riA', But AVaH Foreed to Make Stops. (By Cable to The Times) ' 1 Calais, Aug. 17 Aviator Moissant, a young Spaniard who has made but Ave previous flights, arrived here from Amiens by aeroplane this morn ing and at 10:04 o'clock started for the English shore, determined to be the first to complete a Paris-London flight, "I will beat Hubert Latham at the cost of my life," 'he said as he flew Off. Moissant left Amiens at 5:10 with a passenger. He 'made the 80-mile flight to Calais without difficulty and on arriving here was delayed only by the necessity of weaiting for the boat detailed to accompany him across the English Channel., Moissant started unannounced sev eral hours after Latham yesterday. Each aimed to capture the London Daily Mail's $25,000 prize offered for. the first no-halt flight between Lon don and Paris. The men's failure to keep aloft last evening barred them from the prize, but they determined to keep on for the. honor of being the first (Continued On Page Seven.) Santiago, Chile. Aug. 17 A spec lal meeting of congress was called to day to .pass resolutions of grief over the death of President Montt. The nation is in mourning. Special serv ices were held today in all churches, and every flag in the country is at half, mast. The death of Senor Montt came as a shock to the public. : The tentative arrangements for the bringing back of the body include the despatch of the nation's finest war ship to Colon where the body will be taken from Bremen. The Chilean fleet will probably escort the funeral Vice-president Villalobos today held a conference with the president of the senate,' Senor Escobar, and the president of the chamber, Senor Orrego, and with the' member sof the cabinet, in regard to the. succession to the presidency. A call for a council of state was issued. ; United States Minister Fletcher to- jQay formally presented his condol- Bishop Gonzales, of Santiago, has sent notices to every church in the 'country directing that special prayers 1 . I .1 , .1 . . -J O.A, 1n.. A . t. A yiwiuvuw TId'tre old party v '- r Republican Party Going to' Pieces on the Rocks Needs va Man at the Wheel IN PLIGHT Immediate Need is a Man at tin' Wheel Capable, of Dealing and Guiding With ft strong Hand Hev erlv Thrown1 Into Consternation by the Knock-out .Given Roosevelt by New Republicans Senator Crane's Hepoi t Was Also Most Disquieting. ti (By Leased Wire to The Times) Beverly, Mass., Aug. 17 "'Ihe re- publican party today is in the posseSL sion of a ship without a helmsman The immediate need is a man at the wheel and Vresldent-.Taft is now giv ing himself entirely to the question of who this man shall be. His closest advisers declare that there is only one nianltf sight big enough for the job and that man is the president of the United States, i .With his charac teristic caution Mr. Taft is weighing every phase of the bewilderii.gly com plex situation. ; He is not yet satis fied that his councillors are right. If he concludes' they are he will cast hesitation to the winds and come to the front and d&nanfl command with all the force and ability tiiat are his. Otherwise he wiU,?ftrobftbly summon a council of thi .'blggiitfaders in the nation men representing every shade of republican belief and put the situation squarely befoi'o 1 hem with the demand that as republicans they immediately take steps to evert what otherwise will be certutn party disas ter and formulate a program upon which the party can again go before the people us a party." This summary of the republican national situation was made today by one of the men who' share the confi dence of President Taft. In making it he emphasized the fact that : it. should not be accepted as even an in direct utterance of the piesident but at the same time he ionveyed the in ference that it held clo.w to the ex act status of the situation. Senator Crane's report to the pres ident confirmed the worst that had been feared as to the party's condi tion in the pivotal states,, it "Is now known, and the astounding result of the republican state committee meet ing in New York, with its repudia tion of Theodore Roosevelt as a dom inating party factor and the conse quent danger of the bitterest interne cene light the party has ever known in the Empire state, coming on top of Senator Crane's grave tidings pro duced an effect here Uiat lor a time closely resembled consternation. In at least a dozen of the states that heretofore have been rock-ribbed republican strongholds, there are bitter factional tights going on, which, unless they are speedily ad justed, are certain to spell defeat to the party in the congressional elec tions this fall and disaster in the en suing presidential campaign, the president's advisers fear: The issues upon which these fights are being waged are local questions complicat ed with national issues in a man ner that makes them almost impos sible of adjustment by outside in , (Continued On Page Seven.) IN RALEIGH NEARLY EVERYBODY READS THE EVENING TIMES. SERIOUS . 5 is -9 1 K Mf j r V' ,rs The Persian I'iiikc M1.111 Klian Stales 10. his ''utile country recently took occasion there anil then to say with the "loo" in this country he and lnitliliilly criticise what maimer naval men by sayiny Hint after several trios to the" Brooklyn Navy Yard he had become convinced that (lie so-called "manner..." of the "400" were not by any means as tenllemaiily and lady-like as tlie politeness and cour tesy he had met with from highest to lowest 011 tlie war vessels of the United States. V E For Southern Railway Tele graphers Granted - . ' - ' .. ' An 8 Per Cent Increase (iraiilctl Also Fifteen Day Vacation With Pay for Kmploy )n Service Over Two Years and Limitation as to ;.. Hours. . (By Leased Wire ot The. Times.) Washington, Aug 1T Increase'.' in. wages 'amounting- to S 'peiveht.- Fll'tei-'n day vacation' each year .with' pn.y 'for employes in service over two years. Where two telegraphers are-employed, ..the-working' -day. shall consist of ten hours. - Where three or .more'.. telegraphers are employed: the.' working day shall be nine hours.-'. , Telegraphers shall be, excused froni service on Sundays' and. 'legal.' holidays "when practical.",; ;. . Foregoing are tlu of the award of th principal features heard of arbitra- tion which demands of has been considering' the the ( irder of Kailvva J- Tel egraphers.. on-- the Southern':' (iaihvny for 1111 Increase in wages, and hefti'r working conditions,: The -final award, signed by W. 1!. Vance, J. S. B. Tliiuuiison and Jolin .1. flerimidy, the throe, arbitrators.", was filed' in the ..supreme court of the I'is tiist of Columbia, today. In the ...matter of wages., the tele graphers -demanded' 'an increase ap proximating' about 25-. percent last .March and while a strike was iinpend " .'(Continued on Page Seven) MUNSEY CARS MAKE PERFECT SCORES (By Leased Wire to The Times) West Point. X.. Y .Aug.' IT Twenty-six out of t.ho is cars in the .Mnn sey run left here; this 'morning with perfect scores. The cars having tlie perfect scores are the Columbia, two Washington cars, three Ford .cars, Elmore, Warren-Detroit, Corbin, Brush No. 1. iio-gal-Plugger, Pierce-Itacine, Enger. Great Western, Krit, Ohio. C.ino, Stayer-Chicago, , Stoddard-Day'roh, kwo . Maxwells, Crawtord, Glide, Kline, Moon, and flie Matheson. . Brush 13 was 'penalized': yesterday three iioinls for involuntary motor stop, and the Interstate was penal ized 49 points. The only incident which occurred u 1 ring the run yesterday was when a horse -attached to a carriage be came frightened by the .'Ohio cars and plunged into the one of which Ross Enwood was driver. The carriage was badly damaged. The run today will bring the cars Into New England and over the fine thoroughfares , of Connecticut. The start was made from the 'garrison at, 8 o'clock. The machines are expect ed to reach New London at 8 o'clock. I L2 who nist liefori- lie left the I nited was liiiiKiiirted (it Aewport. He that ilm inji the lime be had mingled had un excellent opportunity to observe people we are. He pleased the THE INSURGENTS WIN Republicans Nominated John son For Governor Candidate in Whose Behalf Oifford I'iiichot Made.' Several Speeches, V1111 tlir Xnminaiioa Insurgents .".'Curried. Almost Kverytliing in .;. Sight.;.:;,. ::': ";-'.:':,-":,.; (By Leased -Wire to The Times) San Fianiisco, Cal'.,' Aug. IT ln stirgene'jV, has -triumphed in Califor nia. ' This, was made '-.certain" today when the -ret urns of the state's first general direc t primary 'began' to ar rie in full -showing that Hiram W. lo'hnson.: lae candidate of the . Lincoln-Roosevelt League and in whose behalf ' Clifford i'inehot made eight speeches, had secured the guberna torial nomination. The regular re publicans concede ais victory. With five in the field, Alden An derson, the candidate of the regular machine, trailed ' as third, Charles F, Curry .running second. Phil Stanton, speaker of the lower house of the legislature,;, lost even in' tlie soul hern part of tlie state, ac cording to the lal est returns; Johnson heating "him there. Stanton made a sectioiiai lU'ut. decliiring the south-et-n seclion was Cntii led to the. can didacy. Tlie . Lincoln -i:ooe'. el:. League leadt'rs this morning ilainied a '..vic tory for t ue entire stale ticket;, the figure''; showed Attorney General Webb leading Frank' Mi-Cowan easily. Tile insurgents Claimed a victory lor '."Judge' John l.V. Wo;i,s, of Los Angeles, in the ''advisory .vote for I'niled Stales senator. ; - Of tlie -congressional lights,. .-William. Kent beat Coiigressiiian McKin ley in the si'i-oml district, according tii the latest iigre.-.'iMimgh the race was close. Congressmaii. Hayes, who aligned himself at Washington, with, the in-surge.ntK,- .claimed. ..-.t.he- -''.'lift It , over Mayor Davinon. of San Jose, his 011 ponent; . . In the srventii William.. P. Steph ens 'gave.- Congressman Mcl.achlan a hard run and in the eighth L. B. Kir hy, insurgent, '.claimed to have, beaten Congressman S. ('. Smith. . Cause of Infantile Paralysis. (By. Leased Wire to.The Times) Council Bluffs, la, Aug, IT Phy sicians here are convinced that they have discovered the cause of infan tile paralysis that has reached the contagion in many localities. Now they will search for a remedy for the disease. After laboring for weeks they unite in announcing that in their opinion the disease is produced by a small 1 flying insect known throughout the world as the buffalo gnat which makes Its appearance during June and disappears with the coming of the first frost in autumn. Next to a lecture advice is about the most useless thing. . t GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF Means the Saving of Millions of Dollars to Eastern , North Carolina LOWER FREIGHT RATES ( ol. .1. Bryan Grimes Writes About (lie Proposed Purchase of One of (he ( anals in Lastern Carolina by the I nited S(a(es Would Save Millions of Dollars to Twenty-five Counties Would Mean a flreat Ke duction in Freight Rates for Ral eigh Merchants Important Meet ing to be Held in Norfolk, Septem ber . The old light that for several gen erations has been waged between the Albemarle & Caesapeake Canal and the Dismal Swamp Canal, bids fair to be settled at. the ineeting in Norfolk, September 6th, when the government board of engineers will have a hear ing of the interests representing the two canals. Each canal is anxious to be purchased by the government, and it is a most momentous issue to many thousands of people in Eastern Carolina. , The purchase and making free of one by the government means the practical confiscation of the other, and necessarily a depreciation of values to some extent In the terri tory served by the toll canal. The making free of either of tfiese canals means the re-establishment ot boat lines that have been brought up or strangled by the railroad companies; it means that about twenty-five coun ties in Eastern North Carolina will get much lower freight, rates, as Nor folk is a great basing point tor mak ing rates and is the great distribut ing gate way for the counties of North .'.Carolina watered by t he Pas quotank, Perquimans, Little, Cho wan, Blackwater, Meherrin, Roanoke, Casliie, Sclippernong, Alligator, Pam lico, Tar, Neuse and Trent rivers, and Currituck, Albemarle and Pam .lico Sounds. What a Business Man Says. A successful business man, a large mill owner in Eastern North Caro lina, writing in answer to an inquiry as to the amount of savings in freight that the making free ot the Albe marle & Chesapeake Canal would mean to the people' ot Eastern North Carolina, says: . '.-"The. figures 'have been carefully estimated covering the question you have asked, but. in doing so both the Albemarle and Chesapeake and the Dismal Swamp Canal were taken into (Continued on Page Fivo.) E INTO A TREE ( By Cable to The Times) Amiens, France, Aug. IT Hubert l.ailiiiiu started from here todav to continue his Paris-London flight, but -collided with a free. His .machine was wrecked, hut he was unhurt. Latham was greatly disappointed at his inability to follow Moissant in the 20 'mile tliglit to London..' M probably will go to Paris and get another-, machine," he said, "and then I can niako a lresh start. I hope to be able to make the entire trop to London without, a stop on the next trial, and so win the $25,000 prize." Shortly after the accident Latham was told that Moissant had left Calais and a few minutes later that he had been sighted at Dover. "He is a brave lad," said the dis appointed Frenchman. t 1 nthnnt'c Jl.n.nnln.. jjuLuaiu c uiaauuu 11 un . wh iwii . fold becauseof his failure yesterdny.vf when motor trouble compelled him'td n11l,f 1, ti : .. i... i. .. a"1", iioic. ji ib unaiaiaiiLH mjjiiii, much of the night overhauling Rl machine, and this morning he hi my self directed the finaf repairs to hla - propeller. He set off and thea camAi the crasfe. CANALS J
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