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IIKSGIM
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.1 PASSES QUIETLY
v pay Observed by Closing of Business
' .. Houses and services in
. 4 ' Churches". ..
A i RACES ARE (CALLED OFF
' Snowfall Mokes the Day Very In
1 -. riimfXl1 and Mara Its ...
' - , ' Enjoyment.
, T 1 nanasgivwg i.ay in cw unu Mta.
; ed off very quietly. The occasion was
" tenerallyobsirved by the closing of
."'i' man it nf rhe manufacturine' Dlants.
stores and other business houses and
by services at the various churches.
Arrangements had been made to
' . !" have horse raciug and .motor oycle rac
$ f ng( at the Fair Grounds yesterday after
noon but at an early hour yesterday
, morning snow began to fall and for
' C several hours the downfall of the fleecy
flakes continued.
. ' TU (A1l m 1Aaei on Snh Hwn Hilt
warm it thawed within a Bhort while
l ' after it struck the earth. This, how.
. ever, leit tne inorougmsrcs in very imu
. condition tor pedestrians ana aiso
' s hoiWand during the early part of the
i ' day traffic was light. "After seeing that
' i:. . ... . -X -L- i.
It WOUlU Pt impossiuic io uac mi irat,
ine ' prOutOLCTB w iuc invca wcic v.uiu-
' v pelled to postopone them until some
later date. ,
Numbers of sportsmen had made ar
rangements to spend the day in the
I- woods in search of, game. Many of
' these were greatly disappointed while
a few braved the elements and ventured
' forth regardless of the snow and mud.
As usual the poor and needy were not
forgotten. Numbers of well filled bask
'ets wer? distributed during the day both
by benevolent organizations and citizens
and many hearts were made glad. i
RELICS FROM LOST MINER.
Chicago. Cal.. Nov. 28. In 1863
William Eastman, a pfacer miner of
'Trinity,-county, was drowned in the
Trinity river and no trace of his body
was ever found. Yesterday .nearly
50 years after Eastman's death, a
dredger brought up several gold nuggets
which Eastman is known. to have had
in his pocket, a gold piece identified
as his and several silver coins,, two of
which were 12 1-2-cent pieces, common
'in those days. Two dimes were dated
1827 and two quarters bore nearly the
same dates. No trace of the s.eleton
has been found.
GIVE OYSTER ROAST
" Drs. F. S. Duffy andJ. F. Foley Give
, Their Friends Good Time. s
Last evening from 8 to 10 o'clock
- Dry F. S. Duffy and Dr. J. F- Foley
entertained a number of their friends
. at an oyster roast in the laboratory of
the F. "S- Duffy Medicine Company
on East Front, street.
. The bivalves were roasted over an
v open pit in the 'rear of the building
fu and were served in the laboratory
'". c there were the usual relishes and those
V pratking of the hospitality of the two
'. s hosts thoroughly enjoyed the occasion.
r -v' Among those present 'were: W.- Di
Barrington, T J. Roberts, R. C Wood,
S.-H. Coward, A. J. Williams, Alex
t Justice; J R. Ball, R. Nixon, Fernie
V'Gasklll, J. C.' Brown, H.R. Bryan, Jr.,
v C C. Stewart, B. fi. Hurst, J. K, Land,
' - DrE. C. Armstrong, Capt. Pinner,
f T. 1 G- "Hyman. V ' "
,, .. .t Tj. uJ .
the head, ot a procession ot 18,000 tur
J ' keys, 8till,ome governors have done
worse. - - , , -T
PROGRAM 'AT THE ATHENS
Ralston and Son, n of the best
comedy ' acts - we've " ever had, will
'.; appear ; again , tonight. -,' Our a 'patrons
n thoroughly' enjoyed the act last night
'Pictures today;. " ' '
' . "The Red Barrier" Mr- Chas. L.
Gaskill a former New Bernian is author
' 'of this Vitagraph production, which
: ' describes a '. woman who . married - in
haste and repented in leisure her
. husband fought a . duel with her. old
sweetheart. He Is killed, and his
" haunting presence , stands t a barrier
between their love, A picture full .of
heart interest. ' ', - ,
"The Usurer's Grip'r-A film that
, tells a story too good to be missed by
any body, by the Edison Co. ' .'. .
"Saved by Telephone" One of
Kalem's latest and best dramas. .' . '
, Matinee daily at 3:45. - Show (at
sight starts at 7:30 o'clock.
BLACKMAIL rtO SELL BOOKS
Government . Expects A Number
i-. of Extra Indictments Soon..
New ;Yprk, Nov, 28.' JDther arrests
are expected on the 11 indictments
returned . by the Federal grand - j ury
against members of the jKellar-Farmer
Company, . otherwise '.known .as the
Anglo-American Authors' Association,
who were charged1 with conspiracy in
mulcting rich men and women out jol
$5,000,000 on fraudulent 'rare editions'
James J. Farmer,, head of the coa
cern; -Glenp ' Farmer, - his son Col
William J. Hartley, of the New York
Athletic - Club, and Samuel H. Scott
were released under bonds. -
The grand jury's inquiries resulted
from the $42,977 verdict won 10 days
ago by Mrs. Emma Bird, of Salt Lake
City, against John V. Coggey, receiver
tor the. Kellar-Farmer Company, and
the -members of that firm.- .
Chief Postoffice-' Inspector Dickson
was authority ' for the statement that
the men got $47,000 from. Mrs. Bird
for, alleged rare and deluxe editions
of books that were of little real value.
Other alleged victims Were: ' .
Mrs. James A. Patten, wife of the
Chicago wheat plunger, $55,000, '
Henry C. Livingston, Saratoga
Springs, $209,000.
. Alexander Sellers, Philadelphia, $100-
000.
Clinton S, Martin, New York cheese
merchant, $85,000-
Mrs. Pauline E. Durant, Boston,
$24,000. ,
Jesse Watson, New York, $66,000.
An edition of Theodore Roosevelt's
books was alleged to be one of - the
specialities, put out bu the concern,
and one of the charges made by. the
Government against several of - the
defendants is that blackmail 1 was
sometimes resorted to in' the sale of
fake editions de luxe.
TWO LIVE ON $12 A WEEK?
Comfortably," Says Girl Getting
License.
Baltimore, Nov. 28. "My intended
husband is too busy working and that
is the resaon I am getting the marriage
license," said- Miss Ruth E. Sykes,
eighteen, as she applied for a license
to marry Eugene F. Wolf.
Miss Sykes said she believed a couple
could live comfortably on $12 a week
u the wife was saving. Her statement
was indorsed by a bride of three months,
who appeared to be of about the same
age.
"THIS IS AWFUL"
Five Hundred More Women Than
Men In One Ward.
Chicago, :, Nov. 0 28. Mrs. Lillian
Davidson, a widow, and manager of
the Woman's Exchange of Evanston,
has planned an apartment house de
voted exclusively io bachelors and
maids. ; One wing of the buidling is to
be reserved for men and the other for
women. In the parlors ihe guests are
to be afforded every inducement to
meet socially and give cupid a chance.
'! fitis charming town is full of race
suicide and surplus women," said Mrs.
Davidson. "There are five hundred
women more' than men in the first
ward, and only one woman in eight
over . eighteen is..; married. This" is
awful."
, TAKEN TO ASYLUM.
James Blango, the colored man
brought, to this city several days fego
and placed in fhe county jail until an
examination . of his i sanity ' could be
made, -. has been declared ' insane and
was last night taken to the colored
insane asylum at Goidsboro.v Rouncy
wuioughby, . colored woman whose
home is at North , Ha'rlowe is now in
jail awaiting an examination as to her
sanity ; Al?,
BOTTLED UP
New Bern Cut Off From the Out-
' aide World Yesterdays 1 "
y, As far as being able to communicate
with the outside world last night was
concerned New Bern was bottled up.
The snow which fell during the early
morning was evidently much greater
at other points than in this city. . The
Wires of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany, v the Western Union ' Telegraph
Company and ' the Home ' Telephone
and Telegraph Company were down
at 'various points and messages did
not get through until late yesterday
afternoon. At six. o'clock the tele
graph companies " closed t!.ur d iors
and the employes took a rest unt"! this
morning. This left only the tc Vphone
company whose lines was down at
several points between tl :s city and
GoM.boro. .; ". .
WflfiTilHETK
V ORDER flEyflKED
Democrats Want a Chance For Ap
pointment to Fourth Class
Postbfflces.
ASK WILSON XO INTERVENE
President Elect Will be Urged
, To Upset Action of presl
- dent Taft.
With the efection of a Democrat to
the Presidency, hopes were awakened
in the minds of a great many - people
that the countless positions in the
postal service that had been filled by
Republicans so long would become open
to other-people. J
Very little special training is required
in attending to the duties of these, offices
(those . most ' thought of in this coAs
nection are fourth class postoffices)
and in every village and hamlet the
feeling prevailed that without hurting
the service there could be a change in
the offices and the renuineratidn that
they yield be placed in new hands just
as a matter of fair play. '
But a short while before the elect iou
President Taft signed an order placing
all fourth, class offices under the civil
service, which means that the occu
pants cannot be removed except for
cause. President-elect Wilson, when
he' gos into office, can revoke the
order of the present chief executive
and strong pressure will undoubtedly
be brought to bear on him to get him
to do so. i ,-4hftjH4tD OS:
He will also face a sentiment of some
considerable strength in favor of letting
things be, the argument for this course
being that he cannot afford toixwiterfere
with the movement for civil service
reform which was launched by the last
Democratic President, Grover Cleve
land, and which many think is the
best thing for the public j service. "
In regard to the agitation of the mat
ter now going oh, the Washington
correspondent of the Raleigh News
and Observer sends that paper the
following :
The executive order of President
Taft, issued October 15, placing 3$,000
fourth class postmasters, mos): qf fhem
Republicans appointed in his adminis
tration, under the operation of the
civil service law, is being much dis
cussed by the Southern congressmen
who arrive in Washington, from duf o
day.
Growing out of numerous appeals
that have reached these congressmen
from their constituencies, ttx senti
ment favpnng the suspension of this
order for a period after Wilson's. In
auguration has gained some grpunq.
A prominent southern congressman
declared today that' the' president's
order "placing as it does tl)is a rmy
of Republicans to the ' express; ex
clusion of Democrats permapently t
onice, without examination nJ With
out regard to merit or efficiency, will
make honestcivil service a farcp, and
will prove the greatest set-bac If to its
extension and progress within "a gen
eration."" :. It is recalled in this connection that
a ' short time before the close of Cleve-
Uand's . administration the -president
issuea -an oraer, placing rpuway
clerks under the operation of the civil
service law, -and- that within a week
after, his inauguration President 'Har
rison suspended vthis order;' Until the
end of the following day by which
the' Republicans had , ' largely , dis
placed Democrats ih ihe 'setxice,-.
Those congressmen who- lm ve. harken
ed to the complaints that Jiavereah
ed them ' from their:, ditlrieU" atJggest
that the way is open, for Governor
Wilson to suspend' this last' executive
order and by so doing: make it possible
for Democrats to i secure at least 3 fair
representation' in ; the postal service.
Those who have tjeen most impress.
ed by the demands of , Democrats for
a. share of the jwstal work declare
that Taft's aptioii in issuing' this order
on the eve1 of election . when, the re
sult was not' in doubt amounted to noth
ing . more than . the , pre-emption of
36,000 offices to Republicans for life,
and that it was-in direct violation of
the spirit ot the civil service laws. -
Some congressmen ' jhowever, be
lieve that the order relieves theiil of
much unpleasant and perhaps em
barrassing responsibility ' in the dis
position , of patronage. They ,. say
urther that the suspension pi the;
order soon after President-elect Wil-1
son's inauguration would give the ad- j
ministration a "black eye," in tlTat it
might have the sppearance of de-;
noting a willingness to disturb the
ivil service.
. As soou as the North Cfsrolina dele
gation arrives a weettpg i.l be . call-
wants wm
3
10 PIBE-1ERE
Baseball Fan Believes This City
--, Offers Exceptionally Good
FacIHrtes.
WOULD BE GOOD ADVERTISING
It Would Also Be Well Paying
Proposition From Pecuni
Standpoint. A special dispatch sent out from
Baltimore states that Manager Jack
Dunn 'of the Baltimore Orioles will
leave that city Sunday for Wilson and
Fayetteville to select a " place for the
Orioles to train next spring. A lover
of baseball and an enthusiastic rooter
for New Bern said yesterday
New Bern now has a place which
would be ideal for the annual practice
of one of these professional teams. This
is the Fair grounds. Inside the race
track is sufficient space to make two
or three baseball diamonds and they
could be arranged at a nominal cost.
The climate here cannot be excelled
and it is believed that if an effort was
made one of these big league teams
could be induced to come here for their
spring practice.
,"If such was done it would mean
much for New Bern in many ways.
Not only would it be' a big advertise
ment for the city but would be a pay
ing proposition finanially. New Bern
now has ample hotel facilities for taking
care of all visitors. and this matter of
getting one of the big professional
baseball teams to come here for spring
practice should be" investigated by the
business organizations."
NEED HOTEL INSPECTION
Complaints Made About Insanitary
Hotels and Restaurants.
Raleigh, Nov. 28 (Special) That
many of our hotels and restaurants are
not keeping pace with, the spirit of the
times is shown by the folowing com
plaints just received by the State Board
of Health:
"Gentlemen: I am railway mail
clerk. My-run is between W and
W . Two boys have charge of one
of the restaurants at which I eat.
After I had eaten my breakfast I found
one of the boys had taken all the knives,
forks and spoons outside and was cleanin
ing them in the' gutter of the street in
front of the restaurant. Nobody knows
who had spit in the gutter or what cats,
dos, cows or other animals had left de
posits therein.
Here is another example of- what is
going pn some placs: -
"Yesterday r went to the res
taurant. After eating my meal, 1 de
cided 1 would have a piece of pie.
asked for ' a second . fork with which
td eat the pie. The waiter looked at
me and my already used fork in quizzing
astonishment, and finally gave me an
other fork from a pile of knives and forks
on the counter. He then took the
dirtiest towel or rag I ever saw, black
with grease and dirt, and giving off foul
odors, and wiped, the knife and fork I
had already Used and replaced them on
the pile. '.-1 make this statement
in the interest of good health."
Unfortunately, the State, Board of
Health Is powerless to do anything in
such cases. .There are no laws in this
State regulating sanitary conditions in
hotels, vt restaurants or lodging houses.
There , should be.. It does seem "that
for the sake of the traveling public some
action should be taken. hven --.the
railroads are abolishing the common
drinking cup, and certainly the doom of
such things as common' drinking cups,
roller towels,, and un ventilated,, un-
ghted toilets should be sounded by the
coming Legislature. v';; '
.,.'-: 'r,r mi-. . i. -i...
Noah Lee of Arapahoe, captain of the
power boat Fanny Brevard has been
served with a warrant charging him with
doing business in the city of, New Bern
without a license. The case will come
up before Mayor McCarthy Monday af
ternoon. , - . j
S, M., Brinson returned :yesterdayg
morning' from Greensboro . where he
attended a meeting of the County Su
perintendents of Public . Instruction.
The meeting wag "well attended ' and
rrfuch business of importance was trans
acted during the two days session. ,
ed to pass upon the matter if asking
Mr. Wilson to revoke the Taft order.
Represrtative Dorghton is of the
opinion that unless the postoffice order
is revoked the Pemocrats will be de
bated four years hence. Ilia peo; 'e-
,e says, are up Li arms over the Taft
order.
D. A. R. RUCUS PREDICTED
Use of Confederate Flag In' Dec-
w ' orations Cause of Trouble.
Washington, Nov. 28. -As a result
of the order given by Mrs. Matthew
Scott, president general of the Daught
ters of the American Revpl.ion,
placing the Confederate fiag on an
equal footing with the Stars and Stripes
in decorating Continental hall for the
formal opening of the recent annual
convention of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy, a controversy is
promised in the annual meeting of the
Daughters of the -American Revolu
tion next April, when Mrs. Scott will
be asked to explain her action to the
convention.
A faction of the Daugheters of the
American Revolution, led by Mrs. Mary
Lockwood of Washington, took vigor
ous exception to the order given by
Mrs. Scott -placing the Condfecerate
flag in Continental hall. Atlhough the
Confederate flags were permitted' to
remain In the hall, alongside the Stars
ariJ btripes and the President b flag,
the feeling engendered by the action of
Mrs. Scott is. such that at the annual
convention of the Daughters of the
American Revolution an eflort will be
made to obtain the adoption of a reso
lution prohibiting the placing of any
flag on an equal footing with the Stars
and Stripes in decorating Continental
hall, no matter what the occasion.
STANDPATISM DOOMED
'Observer "Draws This Conclusion
, From Election Returns.
Editor Journal:
The latest returns give the popular
vote as follows: Wilson, 6,156,748;
Roosevelt, 3,928,140; Taft, 3:376,422;
Debs, Chafin and Reimer about 1,000-,
000, making a grand total of a little
over 14,000,000 votes. Wilson's -vote
is 42 per cent of the whole, or 1,247,814
less than Roosevelt and Taft com
bined, and 236,434 less than Bryan's
vote in 1908.v The latter fact seems to
indicate that Bryan is by far the
strongest man in his party.
In New Jersey Wilson got 178,289;
Roosevelt, 145,410; Taft, 88,835; other
parties 20,100; giving Wilson but 41
per cent, of the vote in his own State.
The lessons of the election seem to be
that stand-patism is doomed, that the
Progressives are in the saddle, though
not yet united under one party name
or organization, that old party ties are
weakening, and that a party must have
something more . than a name and
a tradition to hold the support of its
intelligent followers.
A FEW ARE RESPONDING.
J. Leon Williams, Secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, has received
a number of replies from inquiries
whuch he sent out a few days ago rela
tive to the amount of shipping and
receiving of freight done in this city
each yea,r. Asisoon as this information
can.be secured, on a fairly comprehen
sive scale and compiled it will be turn
ed over to the officials of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railway Company for their
consideration. Mr. Williams, urges
every person who received one of them
inquiries to. answer it witout delay
if they have not already done so.
AUCTION BRIDGE CLUB
Mrs. Owen Guion" the Hostess ToJ
:.j This Organization.
The Auction Bridge Club was charm
ingly entertained Wednesday after!
noon, by Mrs.- Owen Guion, at her
home on Broad street. Exquisite roses
ferns andjpalms attractively decorated
Mrs. tJuion'8 lovely home. There
were four tables of bridge and the place
cards were in unique Japanese design.
Delicious refreshments, were - served
during the afternoon. ' 1 r :
Those present ,were:Mrs. c Stephen
Bragaw, of Washington, Mrs. Margaret
Nelon,' Mrs; Francis (Stringers Duffy,
Mrs.' Robert Du Val Jones, Mrs. Charles
Thomas,' Mrs. Charles Pettit, Mrs.
Cecil "Gabbett,: Mrsr Charles Emmert,
Mrs. Thomas .Williams, - Mrs. Charles
Duffy, Mrs.' Thomas Hyman, Misses
anet rioliister, .Marget;et Bryan, aaaie
Hollister and Mary Oliver. k'H
-. Y OLATED GAM E LAWS. . .
; two ; , young white,;nienV'who; 'gave
their names as "Newell and McLawhorn
and whose homes are In Carteret
county, were before Justice of the Peace
S.v R. Street -yesterday .to answer a
warrant sworn out by George B. Waters
Game Warden for this county, charging
them with shooting quail out of season.
They pleaded guilty to the charge and
were fined five dollars each and taxed
ith tbe costs of the cases. The
c.Tcnsc occurred several days ago near
lid lie Cypre.
BED flOSS SEALS
BI THE fill
Go On Sale Today In Almost Every
Large City and Nearly J
Every State. J
THEY COST ONE CENT EACH
Every One Sold a Bullet In Fight
Against Dread Disease, j j
, Tuberculosis.
BegiiBing to-day over 80,000,000
Red Cross Christmas seals will hp
placed on sale in almost every large
city arid nearly every State of the
United States, the proceeds to go for
the benefit of the anti-tuberculosis
movement in' the community where
the seals are sold. Tins announcement
was made from headquarters of The
National Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis which is
directing the sale from its New York
office.
So carefully has the sale been or
ganized throughout the country that
with the exception of the -States of
Florida, Oklahoma, Nevada and Idaho,
Red Cross seals will be on sale in al
most every city ,town, village and ham
let in the United States and even in
Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Canal
Zone.
The seals will be sold from drug
stores, department stores and other
kinds of stores and shops, from post
offices, railway stations, booths on the
street, hotel lobbies and in numerous
other places. The number of agents
handling the sale in this way aggregates
over 25,000, while the actual number
of individuals engaged in the sale, al
most entirely volunteirs, will reach well
over 100,000. Society l&d ers in almost
every large city of the country, notably
in Pittsburg, Brooklyn, Cleveland,
Chicago, Cincinnati, San Francisco and
elsewhere are taking a leading part in
this campaign.
.The American Red Cross has already
printed for the work over 85,000,000
seals and probably the edition will
number-100,000,000 before the end of
the campaign. Fully 10,000,000 pieces
of advertising literature have already
been sent out, and several million more
are being distributed from local and
State agencies throughout the country.
Itjisjplanned to make the campaign
this year the largest that has ever been
held. If the anticipations of the anti
tuberculosis workers are realized, ' no
less than $400,000 will be obtained
from the sale of Red Cross seals.
Practically all of the money remains
in the State or city where the seals are
sold, only a very small percentage of
it is going to pay for the cost of printing
and distributing the seals and for the
expense of rutfning the campaign.
The National Association announces
that in case any person cannot obtain
seals in the community where they live,
they can secure them by writing to
Red Cross Seal Headquarters, 715
Union Trust Building, Washington,
D. C. Red Cross seals cost one cent
each and every seal sold is a bullet in
fight against tuberculosis.
FUEL DEALERS RUSHED-
Local coal. .and wood dealers did a
land office business yesterday. As
usual there were a large number of peo
ple unprepared for the inclement
weather which prevailed during the day
and the delivery wagons were "kt in
service from early morning until late
in the afternoon. The price o wood and
coal is about the only thing which has
not increased during the past month or
two and the "dealers have a steady de
mand.
- ISSUES WARNING.
Insurance Clmmissioner James R.
Young has sent to the sheriffs, consta
bles and police officers of this county a
circular calling attention to certain
parts of the Insurance laws of the State
of North Carolina' designed to protect the
the people against insurance and invest
ment companies not properly licensed
and-. therefore '"not responsible for "the
fulfillment .of. their contracts. ' This is
a part of the campaign instituted by the .
department to give full publicity to the;
acts of the legislature Covering' these...
points in d helping farmers and" other
business men "to differentiate between
companies and irresponsible agencies,
These circulars will be at the .disposal
VI laic fHUHV V ij .--.j
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
A," Caster- Alter tne turxey nasn. ;
A. T. Willis Co. Get the egg, J V .
M .-Rom Ranlrinor anrf Tl-llif Pf
a ". m 'Am . 1 " V. 1
The law of hearth. ,
T. T. H. Moore Valuable city pro
perty for sale at auction. i . v i