"y y . -b tuiinmiiiiimiiiiiiiini Y)fLy TATETt Tub X lUhcd in th County X f TA? Medium i t Through which yoa reach the . X people Madison Comity ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION !1 a yar in AdVanct i fin i hih 1 1 in fin ii i hi 1 1 laaison County II ' If v x-v' v -wi l i , hi ' ii . ' -.,. . ,ii ,. ii ,i im i.. in, i i i in m v , y POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY. VOL. XI. MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1909. NO. 37. Great Financier and World's Phenomena! Railroad Organizer Passes A Way At His Princely Home At Arden, New York. Arden, N. Y., Special. Edward H. Harriman, the greatest organizer of railroads the world has ever known, met the only lasting defeat of his ac- tive life Thursday at the hands of death. Secluded in the magnificent home on Tower Hill, surrounded by members of his family, physicians and nurses, he succumbed to an intes , tinal disorder Thursday afternoon . after a fight against disease which will rank for sheer grit with his re markable struggles in the financial world. The time was given to the world as d:3o p. in., but Mrs. Mary Simons, sister of the dead man, said that the end had come at 1:30, more than two hours previous. Whether this appar ent discrepancy has any bearing on tie current belief that every effort was made to lessen the influence of the financier's death on the New York stock market is problematical. But it is significant that the time of his death as officially announced was just 35 minutes after the trading had ceased on the exchange. Mr. Harriman died peacefully and almost to the end his brilliant mind retained its integrity. After a re lapse on Sunday he sank steadily and soon after the noon hour Thursday there came a relapse which marked the approach of the end. His wit?, two daughters, the Misses Mary and Carol, and his sons, who have been constantly with him. No spiritual adviser was at hand. The swiftest automobile in the Har riman garage had been despatched for the Rev. Dr. J. Holmes McGuiness an Episcopal rector of Arden parish, and Mr. Harriman 's personal chap lain, but Dr. McGuiness was not at home. When found later, although rushed up the mountainside at break neck speed he did notarrive until death had come to' Anion house". With the secrecy that has been . maintained at the Harriman resi dence unbroken to the very end, news of Mr. Harriman '8 death was convey ed tovNew York before it came to Ar-den and the valley below. Without pomp or eeremony E. H. Harriman was interred in the lit tle country churchyard beside his oldest son, E. H. Harriman, Jr., at Arden, Sunday at 3 p. m. Rev. J. Holmes McGnirness, reetor of St. John's church, conducted the cere mony in the Episcopal church. Short services at the Arden house were held at 2 o'clock preceding the burial. The active pall-bearers were C. T. Ford, superintendent of the Harri man estate; I. W. Mandige, head car penter of the Harriman estate; E. P. Schultz, master mason of the Arden house; Wilfiam Robbins, superinten dent of the Arden farms, and W. A. McClelland, superintendent of stores . ofthe' Harriman estate. These men were pall-bearers according to Mr. Harriman 's wish. , Mr. Harriman was born February 25, 1848, and was therefore in his 62rid year. ' Mr. Harriman, like many other men who startle the world, came up from poverty and started out with little education, but step by step, with an' unflagging ambition, rose to be a factor to borecknoed with by the great financiers of the world. At the time the Union Pacific stock mi going begging and the road was the despair of many moneyed inter ests, . whose ' brains and capital ' had failed to place it on a paying basis, Harriman, backed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and Standard Oil interests, un SOUTHERN COLLEGE FOR Columbia, S. C.,; Specials-Fire at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday morning totally destroyed' Columbia College, built by popular subscription : from Methodists all over yiis' State. The plant was valued at 250,000, and was insured for $75,000 with $10,000 more on equipment.1 .The property was bonded for $60,000 and there were , about, $20,000 more in .floating debts. THE ROOSEVELT TO BE IN New York,'' SpeclaL-r-Commander Peary's ship! the Roosevelt, will be one of the features of the Hudson Fulton naval parade on the opening day of the celebration. J The follow ing telegram was received here Fri day night: V ''Sydney, C. B., Sept. 10. "Hudson-Fulton .Celebration Com mittee: i . .- "Peary Arctic Club applies for position for its steamer i Roosevelt with the North Pole in tercentennial parades. "H. I BRiDGMAN." : .! - " J!--.'-'" dertook the rehabilitation of the rail road. He secured a controlling in terest, reorganized the management, and through his transcendent genius, converted the bankrupt company into one of the best dividend-paying roads in the country. In this and later, when he took hold of the Southern Pacific, Harriman 's policy was - one of lavish expenditune, which made the properties as near physically per fect as possible. The matter of div idends was allowed to wait upon their perfection. This policy has continued on all the Harriman lines, and to it has been added a close study of the territories adjacent to the prop?rty and which contributed, or could be made to contribute to their welfare. . Harriman 's most spectacular per formance and that which made his name familiar to all the reading pub lic was in May, 1891, when he strug gled with the Morgan and Hill in terests for control of the Northern Pacific. On May 9 of that yeap the historic Northern Pacific corner re sulted in the stock of the company ,,'oing to $1,000. At the "show down" Harriman produced $78,000,000 in stocks. However, the Hill-Morgan people held the whip-hand through a by-law of the company which permit ted the retirement of preferred stock at any time. Of his holdings $41,- 000,000 was preferred, but Harriman secured a compromise and he and some of his associates were elected to the Northern Pacific directorate Harriman, it is said, controlled 18,000 miles of railway, or six times across the continent; that these lines employ 80,000 men ; that, in addition, he directed 54,000 miles of steamship lines, making 72,000 miles of trans portation in all; that one could go from New York to' Hongkong without ever leaving the Harriman lines and that he could return by another route on Harriman lines nearly all the wav Financiers ' in recent estimates of Harriman's personal - wealth have varied all the way from $50,' 000,000 to $100,000,000. He was, of course, a large holder of securities of the various corporations with which he was identified, including in addi tion to the Union Pacific and South ern Pacific systems, over a score of smaller or tributary properties, not only in this country but in Mexico as well. Report credited him with large personal holdings in various railroad systems. His real estate holdings in this oity were compara tively small. His home at Arden is said to represent an outlay of over $2,000,000. "My railroad methods," said Mr. Harriman once, 'are "to serve the pub lic, and to "give it good service at the lowest possible cost, with, if pos sible, no favoritism. It gets its money's worth from me. My method is to give the public the best equip ment, the best time, the best, track." Shock to Progress of Suth. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special. Jas. U. Jackson, of Augusta, Ga., one of the business associates of the late Edward H. Harriman, and part own er of the Augusta street railway sys tem, in speaking of the great finan cier's death said : j "I do not know what the policy of Mr. Harriman's successor will be, but I know that his death will be one of the greatest shocks to the pro gress of the South that could have been received. I am in a position to know that it was Mr. Harriman's in tention to nse his Illionis Central and Central of Georgia lines for the de veloping of the South 's resources and to further the interests of the more progressive, communities. WOMEN CONSUMED BY FIRE A liquidation would leave nothing but the rock foundation and the grounds; but arrangements, are going right ahead for rebuilding and the opening for the present session in the ,Colonial hotel property, the former plant of the college.' The fire was evidently caused by the cross circuit ing of wires in the northwest dorm tory. ' . , . ' , . HUDSON R.1VER PARADE : A favorable reply , was promptly sent, and the , Riosevlt ; will be as signed to a place, of honor close to the Half Moon and Clermont, which will leadTthe parade In all probabil ity Peary himself will be on boardl together with ; the : members. of the Peary Arctic Club, and possibly other distinguished explorers. Dr. Cook, it is expected, will be in New York City at the time, -but the celebration committee regards it as unlikely that he will be invited to join the Peary party. -' ! . SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT Both the North and the South Hare Had a Season of Unparalleled Ac tivity Statement Showing the Pro duction and Consumption by the Mills of the Southern States. New Orleans, La., Special. Supple menting his report on the cotton crop for 1908-'09, as issued on August 31, Secretary Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, Tuesday -made a detailed report of the crops of the dillerent States as follow: Alabama 1,428,000, against 1,171,000 last year. Arkansas 1,052,000, against 787,- 000. Florida 75,000, against 60,000. Georgia 2,118,000, against 1,964,- 000. Mississippi 1,673,000, against 1, 496,000. Louisiana 485,000, against 673,000. North Carolina 747,000, against 089,000. South Carolina 1,298,000, against 1,226,000. . Tennessee 426,000, against 335,000, Texas 3,819,000, against 2,221,000. Oklahoma 704,000, against 950,000. Total crop 13,825,000, against ll, 572,000 last year. He puts the spindles in the South at 11,255,787, including old, idle, and not complete, against 10,661,308 last year, an increase of 594,479. Referring to the consumption by .American mills Mr. Hester says that North and South they have had a sea- son of unparalleled activity. In no past year, he states, have they con sumed so much cotton, and phenome nal as the extent of the business has been it has not reached the limit ol their capacity. The monoy value of the past com mercial crop, he states, is in round .figures $683,794,000, showing that while the number of bales marketed was 2,243,000 bales more than last year, the increase in money received was but $11,509,000, equivalent tc $5.11 per bale for the excess, and yet Mr. Hester contends that considering all the circumstances, if ever a crop was sold at a good round price, it was the one under review. In the South Mr. Hester makes the consumption 366,596 more than last year, ami 120,765 over the year before last. Twenty-one new mills are building in the Southern States, and including additions to old establish ments, 10,000 new looms and 511,294 new spindles are under way. The year's consumption has been divided as follows: State. Consumption. Increase. Alabama 251,871 46,261 Arkansas 6,038 2,190 Georgia 556,119 74,757 Kentucky 26,290 1,694 Louisiana 17,244 3,331 Mississippi 38,691 3,529 Missouri.. 14,826 6,449 North Carolina.. .. 759,295 130,414 South Carolina .... 700,352 75,800 Tennessee.. .. 69,211 9,154 Texas 42,456 8,675 Oklahoma 2,568 95-1 Virginia.. .. .. 77,921 3,382 Total 2,559,873 366,59C In conclusion, Mr. Hester says the facts concerning this remarkable year in cotton consumption speak for them selves, but it is safe to say that had they been estimated instead of plain unvarnished truths, even, extremists would have been justified in classing them as exaggerations. In the South he says: "We have brushed 2,600,000 bales clqsely dur ing, the past year and this close on the heels of the panic with 215 out of a total of 786 active mills from one to two months late in getting under headway. Most of the new not com plete spindles will be in working or der before -the coming year's close, and with these on the basis of the 1904-'05 consumption per spindle the capacity of the Southern mills will be something like 2,800,000 to 2,900,000 bales." " ' ' Marshal Killed By Blow. Jesup, Ga., Special. Marshal G. B, Pope was killed Friday afternoon by a blow over his heart in a des perate struggle with EdwardjTyre, Brantley Tyre and Jas. Tyre, prom inent young white men whom he was attempting to arrest. It is not known which one of the Tyres inflicted the fatal blow. - All were aiyested as they attempted to escape arid lodged in Wayne county jail. ' Say Stories Agree. New York," Special. Scientists and explorers here comparing the : latest dispatches regarding Commander Peary's achievement with the reports which Dr. Cook has sent ! out ' were very ' generally, agreed that Peary 's findings seem ' to confirm Dr. Cook's story in several significant particu lars, thus far raise no points of dis agreement. VThes dentists were more positive than ever .that the contro versy can be settled beyoitd reason able doubt by an inquiry before a recognized scientific body.. , MAN AGAINST MAN IN POLAR DISPUTE Only Negro and Eskimos Ac company Peary. WHITE MEN NOT ON THE TRIP This Information Encourages the Supporters of Dr. Cook Oeorgra phical Society Maintains the Atti tude of "Keep Hands off" for Present. The Washington, D. C, Herald, of Saturday says: It is now merely the word of one white man against that of another. The great polar controversy has re solved itself into a question of the personal veracity, respectively of Dr. Frederick A. Cook and Commander Robert E. Peary. According to the statements of each over his own signature, neither was accompanied by a member of his own race when ho is alleged to have planted the Stars and Stripes at the north pole. That Commander Peary had with him only his negro body servant, Matt.JHensen, and a handful of Es kimos, when he made the last stage of his journey toward the pole, and that he had sent back the only re maining white member of the expe dition when he reached latitude 87.8 was not known until the first install ment of his detailed story of his trip was published on Saturday. One of the principal arguments made by the Peary supporters against ROBERT E. PEARY. the acceptance of Dr. Cook's claims to the discovery of the pole was his own admission that he was unac- companied by any white man, and that, aside from the records of his observations, the only corroborative evidence he could produce would be the testimony of the two Eskimos who were with him on his final dash. Now, it appears from Commander Peary's own story that he himself was in a like situation. Aside from the negro Hensen, who had been his "Man Friday," for the past twenty years, his sole companions were four Eskimos. There was no white man with him who can now take the wit ness stand and testify to the accu racy of his scientific observations above the lattitude of 87 degrees and 8 minutes. It is needless to say that this de velopment has brought great en couragement to the camp of the Cook followers. They are expressing re newed confidence that when the data of the two men are presented to an unprejudiced jury of scientists, Dr. Cook's word , will be accepted with equal -credence to that of Commander Peary, u: iv.,v-r ..m.jr According to Peary 's own 1 story, when ho Started from Cape Columbia there were seven ' members of the party, seventeen Eskimos, and4' 123 dogs. The members of the ' expedif tion were : Peary. Goodsoll, Alac- Millan, Borup, Marvin, Bartlett and Hensen. From time to time, as the explorers proceeded northward, Peary sent dillerent members of the expe dition back, either in command of so- called supporting parties or for other reasons. Goodsall, Borup, Marvin and Bartlett each returned in charge of a quota of Eskimos, dogs and sleds. MacMillan was forced to re turn on account of a frost-bitten foot. Finally when 87.8 north latitude was reached, Peary's sole white compan ion was Capt. Bartlett, and he was sent back from this point with two Eskimos and the necessary equip ment to supply him until Cape Colum bia should be reached. l'Vora t?itrj on Peary had with him the faithful Hen sen and four Eskimos. In the opinion of the Cook sup porters, the final records of Cook's observations are now just as worthy of credence as those of Peary. They contend that Dr. Cook's previous standing as an explorer renders his unsupported word of equal value to that of Peary. They do not regard the negro Hensen as a factor in the equation. His long employment by the explorer would put him in the class of prejudiced witnesses ;ven if his lack of scientific knowledge uid not bar him. While none but the most radical Cook followers seek to discredit Peary, they point with some glee to the statements made by Peary's sup porters after Cook's first announce ment of his discovery, that no ex plorer could hope to convince the world of the truth of his story unless corroborated by the personal testi mony of at least one other white man. Court of Last Resort. What will constitute the court of last resort in the controversy is still problematical. Various suggestions have been made, but it is likely that no definite movement will be set on foot in this direction until the re turn of the two explorers to this country. The Coast and Geodetic Survey's offer to act as abiter will hardly be accepted by Dr. Cook, in asmuch as peary was, in a sense, au employe of this institution, being on detached duty for it from the naval service during his trip. Both men are lecturers before the National Geographic Society, of this city, and as the attitude of this body has been one of "hands off" since Peary made his charges against Cook, it is believed that the two ex plorers would be willing to submit their quarrel to the adjudication of an int-enational board of scientists to be selected by the society. Already the Duke of Abruzzi, at nime the wearer of "farthest north" laurels, is being prominently mentioned as the possible head of the proposed court. Crowds Cheer Him. Committees from the Geographical Society and the faculty of the Uni versity of Copenhagen saw the ex plorer off. A director of the com pany owning the ship on which Dr. Cook travels made an address in which he thanked the explorer for the honor of leaving on a Danish ship. He said that Denmark believed in Dr. Cook absolutely. Dr. Cook replied feelingly. In the course of a conversation be fore leaving Dr. Cook said that he was willing to place his records he- fore the American CoasJ and Geo detic Survey, provided Commander Peary would do the same. He said there was no reason why he should be the first to apply for such an ex amination. Curtiss Wins Big Prize. Brescia, Italy, By Cable. Glenn H. Curtiss, the American aviator, who won the international cup at Rheims, captured the grand prize in the avia tion meet here Sunday. Curtiss made his flight for the grand prize Sunday, covering 50 kilometres (31.05 miles) or five times around the course in 49 minutes, 24 seconds. His share of the $10,000 prize is $6,000. Rougier, the French aviator, also competed, making a fight of 50 kilometres in 1 hour 10 minutes 18 seconds. He was awarded the second prize. Curtiss also won the prize for quick starting, his time being 8 1-5 seconds. Leblanc was second in this contest in 9 3-4 seconds. Girl's Body Identified. - Detroit, Mich., Special. Bloodless from the ruthless knife of a murderer and shrunken .by several days' im mersion in the waters of Ecorse cXeek, the dismembered body of Miss Maybelle Millman, 27 'years of age of Ann Arbor, Mich., lies in the conn- 4 ty, morgue. A portion of the lower part of the trunk of the unfortunate girl ' is Btill ' missing. Miss Martha Haimifigj of Detroit, a former school mate of the Millman girl, identified the body. .. . -,:,;"':' . '- . ::- WL'L jo eqi no nejoep tnroqot rrjuenneit tcsg trooip 8qi w eaeM.ej8tp enimmoo on3 -PP3 ipanooi iinooi) uopwi etfl jo go -1061. JOj node n o nipaoooy WASHINGTON NOTES An enormous quantity of French junk is to be sold by the United States to the hisrhest bidder. The junk includes old locomotives, dump cars, tanks, beibzeg, girders, dredges, sheet iron, parts of old machinery, and the like which was left on the isthmusby the French before opera tions were begun by the Americans. Among this huge amount of debris are hundreds of pounds of copper and brass, of which a great quantity has been sent to the Philadelphia mint to be made into Canal medals. Four torpedo boats, comprising the second division of the Atlantic tor pedo flotilla, have left Hampton Roads, under orders from the navy department to proceed to St. Louis and accompany President Taft down the Mississippi river to New Orleans as a feature of his coming trans-continental tour. The vessels are the destroyer Macdonough and the tor pedo boats Thornton, Tingley and Wilkes. On their way around tc St. Louis they will make shot stops at Charleston, Key West, New Orleans and other cities on the Mississippi. They are scheduled to arrive at St. Louis October 3. As a preliminary step to a complete reorganization of the division of Far Eastern affairs in the State Depart ment, official announcement of ap pointment in that division have been made as follows: Chief Ransford S. Miller, Jr., Japanese secretary and interpreter of the embassy at Tokio. Assistant Chief Edward P. Wil liams, Consul-General at Tientsin and formerly Chinese secretary of the le gation at Pekin. Assistant Percival Heintzleman, Consul at Chungking, China. A season's work in the establish ment of a Government horse pasture near Front Royal, Va.. by Capt. C. H. Conrad, Jr., of the Third Cavalry, has confirmed Quartermaster General Aleshire's belief that animals suit able for the military service could be obtained in that section. The prices are reasonable and, indeed, lower than those paid for animals in the West. They are of a fine stock and are expected to prove a valuable ac quisition to the collection of animals at the army remount depot at Fort Reno. Bolivia's- serious dispute with Peru over the Acre arbitral award may be settled through the "kindly inter est" of the United States within the next few weeks. An order involving approxima tely a million dollars in reparation was issued by the Interstate Com merce Commission. It included claims in which is known as the Central Yellow Pine Association territory Louisiana, Mississippi and Western Alabama and involveu a refunding of amounts paia by a large number of shippers of yellow pine lumber from the territory to points in other States of which an overcharge of two cents a hundred pounds was collected by various railroads. Three thousand old soldiers at tended the encampment of the Union Veteran Legion. The President has approved the sentence of dismissal imposed by a general court martial appointed by him at Denver, Col., in the case of First Lieut. Clarence S. Nettles, U. S. A., retired. According to the War De partment 's announcement Lieutenant Nettles was convicted of neglecting to pay many private debts, making false statement to the department commander in regard thereto, and giving a worthless check. The Washington Aero Club has decided to bid for the world's avia tion contests to be held next year. Citizens from Norfolk and New port News presented Acting Secre tary Winthrop with evidence that health conditions near Hampton Roads are not a menace to the men of the battleship fleet. "Through cars from Seattle to Panama" is the ' report " that' cornea to the United States Government from Consul-General Arnold Shank liH at t Mexico. The r proposed trail way is on-3 of the Harriman ideas and plans to run Pullman cars - from Seattle all the way to Panama. The award of the contracts for the two new American Dreadnaughts of 26,000 tons each, - the battleships Wyoming and the Arkansas, will be made to William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, and the - New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, N. J.