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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." :
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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. .. . -,:,;"':' . '- .
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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.