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Early, an expert "-.i battery man from the planf of the Gould Storage Battery Company, manufacturers of the storage ffatteries 'turned' on the cars, arrived in the city ; j, Wednesday and at once began placing the batteries in the cars. This work , war concluded vestprd.iv afternoon And the first trial trip made. , That the cars would lie operated down Pollock street during the atler noon had been rumored and when the j' firat one swiig aiound the corner ol ';!'C-'QueiH and Pollock stree's there was a large crowd of spectators waiting all aloiiK the line. Down the direct rolled pe car, he mechanism working per- fectly. Crowds f small hoys on fool A'iind vi het'l followed in it wake and win n the crossing at the corn r of I'ollock and Hancock streets was reached there was a throfig of obser"er.. 1-ast night another trip was made ('own to the curve at M'ddle and Pol lock streets, this time the cars being illuminated. They showed up to good advantage and as on the first trip, v;ojkc perfectly . i he cars will probably be placed on their regular schedules tomorrow. Mayor McCarthy, one of the local managers of the company, stated last night, however, that this had not been definitely decided upon. Fritz Sitter ding, of Richmond, Va., one of the largest stockholders of the company, will arrive in the city 'tomorrow and will inspect the line. The cars in their dress of bright fffijnt showed up well yesterday after noon but last evening with iheir numer ous electric lights aglow they were very attractive and nothing but parise 4ias heard from those who saw them. 'TOO ftfUCH GLOOM IN GRIEF' St. Louis Men Form Club to Get ' Joy Out of Funerals. St. Louis, Dec. 19. "The Jolly Pall feeaxers' Club," whose purpose it. is to get 'what joy there is out of a funeral in now an organized body in Wellston. Chief mourners were -delegated, officers tKre elected and vfc;';bit of crape was dcicded on as a badge of membership.' They propose .wholly and singly, not t6let a funeral dirge dampen the ardor of' their spirits, and to lay'a club com- away in his final resting place ,tfi as much good cheer as ever char- eriies the initiation of a new mem ber. A clubhouse has been provided and 4.hjre the mutuality of life and the probability of death will be lightsomely v ' discussed. The motto of the club is "Joy", with a hand of crape around it. ; t ' They believe in the words of Jo Sim , ' jf' jnins,' ione of the, promoters, t,hat -t 'nhereb? "much "gloom In grief," and y'-5,$f5-?tf9 there are really attractive chances j -of enjoymbnj in a properly conducted , ,' , ' funeral, s Special inducements t..wcrfbIrs. to lie in membership will be made, so ' ihat the club may enjoy as many oc , casions as possible for unconfined mirth. - PROGRAM AT THE ATHENS Vv Happy Johnny Fields and Kathleen -Toring, presenting "The Tramp apd Dancings Girl",', will aopear again to- nivht. This is a good act. 't ' - ' Pictures . follows: 'Bunny at jThe Derby"' If voh have never at-;-. tended the- Derbyi' follow Jfohn Bunny in this picture and. yob will have the lime ofyourTife and see, things that will surprUe and arouse you. . ' t 'J ust LuckTAnother rattling good 'romedyi c , -' . ' 'Venetian i, Lace ,lWorkers"-r-Eyery ' -woman knows the value of hand made Venetian lace, and will (. be delighted with this:' opportunity to witness the various processes of its manufacture; "More Precious" thitn ' Gold" This story deals with the fake mining com panies through which so many people , have lost money, and compares, the - straight forward directness of the West . wjih the high finance methods of Wall .street.. . ( Matinee daily at 3:45. -Show .at r.'iUt starts at' 7:30. . ,;-.- ' House Leaders GladJ, yTo ' Learn He uoes wot vyfrre ' Cabinet Plaf;. RUMOR WORRIED CQLtEAGUES His Hand Needed T-otJloId Party Forces To a Depnte Program;A Washington, Dec. 19Xemocrattc leaders in Washington We're concerned over the report that MijKrtty Leader Oscar W. Underwood haenbefn urged to become Secretary of thevTjjeasiiry and : i : .,4 , . , . . I r. became positively known that tin Alubamian was not eyfe, 'Considering the matter, , , ', Those friends of Mr. Uwood who would advise htm to takc,a Cabinet portfolio, and who would urge Gover nor Wilson to invite the minority leader to join the executive- fainily, could 'scarcely have the best interests of tie pJrty at heart. Ami from the e::ampleS.vX- history it is doubt f i.l if thev woulcfrVVWe 'he best inteiesf. 'l Mr. I'ndorwoud in prevail ing ep.Mi liiiii to abdicate his present c.min.i:ilin. position toK one subor dinate to President WilsoiT or any other Pre.iilenl. A I he trmn is .and mosCiOartv leaders know it. Mr. I nderwooj W" needed just i VV . rtlien lie now is. fiis Haw -leadership will be of more value tffyfo part y ,a ml to the new adininistri tjian could be any service in the Tretiry or in any other l abinet hertn Wheu the new Congress assemble with' its overwhelming j)rriocratic ma jority, a master hand ffjll le needed to hold rlie parl& forces to'a definite pro gram, l here will te insurgency trom time to time, and unwieldy caucuses .... . : to will prove; a transient- burden to the party in the Housei No less a leader than Mi", fcndirwood has shown himself to be could be de pended upon to get the, tiest; party-results out of such a situation. Arid while' there are other strong men In the Demo cratic organization of the .House, there is not one who could, all at once, step n and take the place now occupied by the prdent majority leader.,') . Since the new rules have beome ef fective and the Speaiership shorn of all its power, the man who occupies the presiding officer's chair it .not the leader of the majority. The jrVPMjkership is far more ornamental fhaoX useful in the present organizatiorrifiA' and this fact seems to eltmin tie House, te Champ Clark from actual leadVrJt 4p ot his party in that body. .-.V.- ; o ' Then, too, the Demoftfcsts; are com mitted to a tariS retorm'-prbgram that is paramount to all other' legislative consideration. This - means that the charimanship of the WayVand Means Committee, carries with it .more Dower to snake or break the pac than the ppshiten held by any othfl individual in either branch qf Congress! Underwood is the greatest Democra tic authoirty on the tariff. Ve has stud ied it during all of his legislative career andj-is better qualified, pelBaps, than- any other m'ember of tn6V House to carry into effect, the- prdwjjsnia de in' the Baliirnore platform. And the peuiocratis tiAlft reform bill which coines out of the next Ways and Means Committee will b&vtfie Under wood bill. It will be the Ajabrtmian's contribution to legislJitiviJ history. By it he will take rank withuch tariff makers as Mills, Wilson,1 3mgle Mc Kinlev and Payne. ".lvv--.; BALL TOURNAMENT . L . . . . - . . t Last Day of Month Be One of Note In Oriental. The citiyens of OrientarVe planning to have, a grand tournament and coro- jtation -ball on . the- last? day'-of this month. .- There ,wili l)e horse facing and other- events dpringthu' day .'and at night fhcre .will te a tiantc at Mid yette's Hall.-, v i v 4 w v.. There arsa nifmber of?(3s-r horpes in Pamlico .county and thcstiill .be en tered ia the races. The "track is now being' put in-condition nr the event and will be in fine shape. A brass tjand has been secured to fufnish t hp music for the bccasiofli . S ' V " . - ' The racing will start wt 0 o'clock Tuesday morning and Vnumhcf of heats will be run. Thiit-'ifternoon there will probably : be '.boat racing. Dancing -will begin at 8 :3k) o'clock that evening . The committee in charge of thses entertainemnts extend an in vation to all to attend, v , ?!: . N-f-; 1 ::- .-; "..r, ,, ,. 5 V f" i2r st-T" i " If ; kdtfa iiLJ.il fi , ' ;-i, .- -r - vit V' ' - Photos by American Press Association. B ROADWAY aaw the queerest New Yorkers alt up and take notice. To demonstrate the evolution of the street car the New York Railways company exhibited all the types of cars that have been used. Followed by the first ot the elec tric type of 1890, the air brake pattern of 1896, the 1908 "pa7-as-you-enter,', the recent stepless side entrance car, the new storage battery vehicle and the late double decker stepless Jumbo, slowly proceeded a horse car of 1860, carry ing twelve passengers and proud of It- This old veteran and the modern taplesa, side entrance car are shown alone. MONEY DOESN'T MEAN WORTH Work Is What Counts, Says Armour, Multi-Millionaire. Los Angeles, Dec. 19. J. Odgen Armour of Chicago, worth numerous millions, does not think money is a guaranty of worth of character or a touchstone of happiness, according to an interview he gave as he strolled back and forth on the portico of the Hotel Maryland, in Passadena. "Maybe you don't think 1 work," he said. "Why, every man must woik if he is worth a (trillion, or if he is worth a hundred millions or if he is dependent on his weekly salary. Wc ought all to take our places in the great organiza tion and work of the world. "You know , money doesn't mean everything-- in fact very little in some cases for the full -value of it - is not gained. ' Take he- sons of some rich men; their - money is squandered in drinking and otherwise. "Sometimes a poor man is far and away better off than a rich man. I vatch my men. T know the lives of many. That doesn't mean only the men who are close about me, but the men in my plant. Some with only a mod erate salary are far happier then men to whom. the worth of a bank means n6 more thaoa box of cigars jn value to, the ordinary person. 1 . . . ' "Because a mart has money, that does not make him any, better, l'erhaps it would be better if all men were equal in wealth, st iH if that Utopian condition were,' brought" about ; there" would be some men in the world that would corral the dollars of the others and we would come, back to the conditions of the present day. "but let; me tell you something, right here.I .have jjo 'rich-wen .working for fnc, i don't want them '. When a man takes a position and is rich enough riot to be dependent, on thesalarywhich cornea frttm-that position he has reach ed a stage, when he is not worth a con tinental., N6v,: this is generally speak, ing. Of course there arWexception to ail rules,-- I'don't care to have-a rich man's son in my vw ploy unless tho boy j is there lor work. : , ,. . "la my plant all W the hcacLniba have risen from the ranks. There in . not an office boy in my emploV at the present day. who cannot rise to my position well I wilt- not ; say- mv position, but next to me. "The oBfcc boys are picked most carefully. We' never go outside for a man; we advance them.. - - 'Take T. J.' Connor, He started with our firm thirty years ago as a clerk, with a salary of perhaps S70 a monfll. Now he is one of my head men.'f , Mr. Armour and his wife and daugh ter, Lolita, left later for the Grand Canyon. 1 - ' ' parade In years the other day. It made FAVORS CHEMICAL r Citizen Shows Tlow It Would t i Reduce Insurance Cost. -In commentig upon the article ap pearing in the- Journal yesterday re lative to the purchase of a chemical fire engine by the city of New Bern, a prominent citizen said yesterday that he had made an investigation and found that in cities which use this variety of fire fighting apparatust he insurance is much lower than in this city and that if such an engine was ordered by the city the insurance rate would be considerably r deceased. ; Inyesti gation shows that in the cities in North Carolina , which use . these . engines, ninety per cent of the fires are extin guished with them and that there is no damage by the thousands of gallons of water which must necessarily be thrown on a fire by the type of engines now in service' here. In addition to this the oase of mainteance is lower. BLAZE IN CONFECTIONERY. ' Shortly after 12 o'clock yesterday the fire companies were called to- ex tinguish a blaze which had originated from a 'defective flue in a frame struc ture on Queenj, street near, the Union station, owned by 4saac Smith, Colored, The building is occupied by a small cortfectionery conducted by a. Syrian. The prbmpt response on the part of the firemen prevented the blaze from spreading and it was extinguished with only slight damage to the building. . i Five Days: : to -Christmas f fees i Did You Ever Get Left ? i T.Teli, You Will if You Don't That Christais tt C-ce. That Uzz-j Z C T This IIIr.uts V.Z'tf. ;:t c, Til ' '; : Handles Special Term of Pamlico Court Jo Satisfaction of All Concerned. RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED Only 6ne Appeal Taken Although . About Thirty Judgments ' Were Entered. A special term of the Pamlico County Superior Court, made necessary by the crowded condition of the docket has just come to an end. It was, held by Judge F. A. Daniels and so impressed were the bar with the uniform courtesy of the judge and with the rapidity with which the business of 'the court was dispatched that resolutions of appreciation and thanks were unani moxrfy adopted, by the . bar. These resolutions a copv of which was delivered to the Journal (pr publica tion, were as follows: - 'Whereas a special term of court for Pamlico county was ordered by the Governor on account of the crowded condition of the docket and ludec f. n. uaniels was commissioned 10 hold said term, and whereas during tli said two weeks of said term ,i lar;.; amount of business ha been transacted to the satisfaction of the contending parties and their attorneys, ami only one appeal nas Oeen taken altliough anoui tnirty judgments nave oeen entered : "Now therefore be it resolved. "First: That Judge Daniels ha impressed each one of us with a sense of his upright character, judicial teui perament, profound knowledge of the law, and eminent fitness for the bench second: 1 nat we tender nun our thanks for the uniform courtesy he hah shown each of us, for the large amount of business transacted and we wish him many years of usefulness in the service of the State. "Resolved third: That Judge Dan iels be furnished a copy of these reso lutions, that the same be spread upon the minutes of the court upon a ser arate page, and published in the Bay- boro Sentinel, The New Bern Sun and New Bern Journal and in The News and Observer. "Unanimously adopted by the lawyers in attendance upon the Court." The resolutions are signed by D. L. Ward, Z. V. Rawls, W. T. Caho Larry I. Moore, A. D. Ward, fL L. Gibbs and F. C. Brinson, the latter being clerk of the Court. USES PLAIN WORDS Language of "Drain-Man" Bristles With Strong Verbiage. There is plentyvof plain speaking in "The Servant in the House," the widely discussed play which is to be present ed at the Masonic Theatre on Dec. i.6th. Mr. - Kennedy, the author doesn't mince words when it conies to speaking about crying evils, and some of the language he puts into the mouth of the Drain-Man. the elemental man who typifies the glory of labor in the play, fairly bristles with strong ex pletives and picturesque verbiage. He doesn't like .clergymen because "he !ates the sight -of "their 'alf-baked silly mugs;", his brdther's wife is referred to as Bill s old geezer; he consigns a worldly bishop to perdition with easy grace and refers to him as "a silly old josser," and in his famous speech in the, last act in which he tells about his visits to the 1 cess-pool underneath the church, he makes use of a number of good Old Saxon words of one syllable that -sometimes make supersensitive persons wince ' LEAVES NEXT WEEK. Rev. J. M. Wright, who for the past four - years has been the pastor xf the Methodist xchiiVch at Bridegtont and: who at Jfne last conference was trans--! f erred ' to v Goldsboro, ' will leave- next week;. for V his ihew field.- Mi". Wright made ' many .friends Jn. ; both!. New , Bern .and Bridgeton and they regret to see him leave, while at, the same "time they wish him much -success in his new home. s ,' .' 1 . JOURNAL ADVERTISING .FAYS The New Bern Journal Is in the hands and homes of the best peo ple 'in New Bern in the morning, hours the hours that Immediate ly precede the shopping rush. - In a word, it reaches the buying cluss at the "psychological mo ment." , -' ..'.; That's why Journal advertsing pays. ,' No Admission To School Event On For Tonight In Criflin Auditorium. PUBLIC CORDIALLY INVITED Refreshments Will Be Sold For The Benefit of Athletic Association. The appended program has been arranged for the recital to be given in the Griffin Auditorium this evening at 8 o'clock by the Music Department of the Graded Schools. The public is invittd to attend and tlierf will be no charge for admission. After the exei.ists the High Siliool gills will sell refreshments in the Hall on the first floor. The proceeds of this sale will be donated to the Athletic Associat ion. Program (dory to 'Aid in the Highest 1 ne t lotin. A (ir.i. d Soloist Ida II ill, Dolly C.odl. -. 1 Begin Uu . P. Willy Mareai, t 1 b.lli-ter, Mary Hi V lil-K-k Tale I 01 Viol 1 di I -t li, i IMIc- NewUnv ( aii : -,c hall, Kadi.-use Delplnne Sjn i m i , 1 im iii.i l.oui-i Kela-e Wishiiij; Son Wilbur i o ( ' ".raile Slreabbug . I I'elile t,iin,i,,l (.eorgia Kin-ne, Helen Simpson Donizttt ' .SeMit from "l.uci.i de I amnierinooi " Marguerite Wallace Cibulka Slephanie (lavotte ( (idlest ra A Holly Song and Dr Kldridge Six A ( .rade .e fiiMlianle Moszknwski ... Brahms Hungarian Vab )ame. Oil. 6. 1-or Violin Albert ina Jones ea ... Uugbee I Ruby Bryan Wzel Mat lies' I Our .A Grade ...Bye-lo Dolly Amelia llahn Four Little Maids at Jeannette Hi Addie Uanks L. E. Orth Wagner. Pilgrim's Chorus from "Taun- hauser" I.avinia Folsom, Ellen Guion Violin obligato, Mrs. Pinnix Rubinstein ... Kainennoi Ostrow, No. Nannie Willis Havdn "Stille Nacht" German Class TRAIN FOR INAUGURATION One From Here If .Sufficiently Large Number Will Go. City Ticket Agent T. H. Bennett of the Norfolk Southern says thai New Bern can have a special train to Washington for the Wilson inaugu ration if it wants it badly enough. The rate would be ten dollars for round trip. If the required number of per sons will indicate their willing ness to buy tickets at that rate the train can be had, Mr. Bennett invites every one who wants to take this trip to let him know as soon as possible. The train, if arranged for, will leave here Monday, March 3, at 7:00 a. m. and will reach Washington at 5 p. rn. the same day: Returning it will leave Washington at 7 a. m. Wednesday, March 5, and reach here at 5 p. in. ot the same day. It is believed that there is a large number of people here who would like. to take the trip, but whether the number will be sufficiently large to induce the Norfolk Southern to. run a special train remains to be seen. fersons interested are urged to let Mr. Bennett know right away. ORIENTAL FULL OF LIFE. '.ohn Gibson of Oriental was among the visitors to tlecity yesterday. Mr. Gibson says that there is much doing in his town. $he people' are preparing for Christmas and the merchants are enjoying .a lager trade. pwing to- the' fact that the Roper. Lumber Company's' big plant there has been closed down quite a number of persons are out of employment but tbe company, . it is ' understood, will resume operations after the first of the year s ?' f . ,NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.' Broad Street Grocery .Co.-vOrangcBj; ; apples,' etc. ' , i J. O. Baxter Diamonds. - " ,w New Bern Banking and Trust Co.-- The corner stone of success. - k- tlf Davis' Pharmacy For , Christmas a John I. Smith Horse shoe shop. ;