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The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-08
NEWS OF new ENGLAND.


Waterville. Me-. May s.-The l3 dele"
gates chosen TO the Republican Third
district convention we're instrue ted 10
support Ex-Governor Edwin G. Burleigh
as the candidate ,ol congress TO succeed
the late CONGRESSMAN Miliken.
Belfast. Me-, May SIN caucus last
evening the Republicans elected dele
gates TO attend tne Third congressional
district convention and instructed them
to vote for Burleigh.
Delegates from Waterviile. Gardiner,
Hallowell. Bingham. Palmyra, Winter
port and Belgrade TO the Repub' can
Third district convention have been in
structed for Ex-Governor Burleigh TO
succeed the late Congressman Milliken.
Art COMPANY For Spring
Springfield, Mass. May SIT Is an
nounced by the local board OF trade that
the amount necessary 70 bring the
Prang-Taber Art Manufacturing com
pany 10 this city has been subscribed.
The Prang Art company is now To-
Gated in Boston. and the Taber company
In New Bedford. The concerns are
to be consolidated and a large factory
is to be built in this city. the land hav-
ing been secured. The amount raised
concern viii give employment TO 45O
hands, and the annual payroll will be
100000 The works In this city are ex-
pected to be in operation by September.
Bnv state Inwmalers.
Boston, Nay S.-The bill limiting the
term of bri. adler generals was passed
to a third reading in the house, without
the formality OF a count. Under sus-
pension OF the rules, the resolve 10 pro-
vide for military representation at the
dedication a. the Robert q. Shaw monu-
ment was allowed to take all it's readings
and was sent TO the senate. The gov
ernor has signed the $4,000 appropri-
alton bill for state highways. The liquor
law committee voted to report ought not
TO pass on the bill for establishing a
state inspector of liquors. The senate
rejected the co-insurance. oleomarga-
rine, and province lays publication bills.
BASS Celebration at Newburyport.
Newburyport. Mass. May S.--The cele-
bration OF the Tooth anniversary Of the
conservation OF Right Rev. Edward
Pass. first Episcopal bishop OF Massa-
.chusetts, commenced last evening. The
program as arranged covers three days
observance at st. Pauls church, OF which
Bishop Bass was rector, succeeding Rev
Matthias Plant, who died In 1853 Bishop
Bass was stationed at st. Paul's for a
period Of 81 years, six Of which were rs
bishop. The celebration began with a
service, including a full chorus. even.
song and an eloquent sermon by Rev
Leighton Coleman, S. d. r., bishop Of
Delaware.
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HENRY Z, JR.
The New Head OF the Ticket or the Democrac,
OF Thomas Jefferson.

Henry George, Jr.. who Is to succeed his father
at the mead OF the ticket Of the Democracy Of
Thomas Jefferson, is the oldest son Of his father.
He was born at Sacramento. Cal, on Nov. 3.
1868. His education began in the public schools
of San Francisco, but long before it was finished
his father withdrew him from school and set
him at work in u printing office. He came East
in 1880, and since then has lived in Brooklyn
and New York. In 1883 he went to England
with his father and acted as his fathers private
secretary. After their return he Joined the
editorial staff OF Truth. a New York daily news
paper. Later he became the assistant OF James
Ridpath, the historian. in the Office of the North
american Rerie,c.
When Henry George founded the Standard to
be- the advocate Of the single-tax movement
Henry George, Jr., was made its managing edi.
tor. In 1891 he left the Stdnddr to become
tho Washington correspondent for a syndicate
Of Western newspapers. In 1892 he spent six
months in England as correspondent for several
American papers, TO which he contributed letters
on social and political questions. In 1893 he
went to Jacksonville. Fla. as managing editor OF
the Florida Citt-sH. Two years later he retired
from that paper 10 act as his fathers secretary
ana assist in the revision of the new book ON
political economy which his father had nearly
completed.
lie is engaged to be married to Miss Marie
Morel Hitch, daughter OF Capt. Z. ID. Hitch OF
Chicago,
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Cashier Banta or New York Lie smaahes J. d.
Lenvitt's Islander.

Theodore NJ. Banta. cashier OF the New York
Life Insurance Company and formerly its treas.
urer. replying to certain charges made by a
lawyer named John Brooks Lcavitt, to the effect
that Senator Platt demanded and received. at
one ii e, $4,000 from the New York Life, in
return for securing certain favorable legislation
for the company. said yesterday that Leavitt
was a malicious and unqualified liar.
The wider publicity that is given to this state
ment. the better pleased Mr.. Banta will be.
Here is his statement, dictated for The Sun
yesterday afternoon:
"The statements this day published, pur-
porting TO have been made by Mr.. John B.
Leavitt at n public meeting last night. charging
Senator Thomas c. Plat with making n demand
upon this company for money, and detailing
incidents connected Herewith and the payment
Of such money, are wholly and unquallfedly
false in each and every particular"
After debating the above, Mr.. Banta said: Il
don't know this man Lcavitt from Adam. and I
never saw Senator Plat in my lifo. II seems 10
me that Ieavitt has wilfully made use OF some.
thing with which Senator Plat could have had
nothing to do. to SANDER him and to reflect upon
this company.
"In 1877 John +. Smyth, then Superintendent
Of Insurance, caused an examination Of several
New York insurance companies to be made.
The New York Life was one OF the companies
examined. When the examination Was com.
plcted. Smyth ordered that the companies pay
the cost of the examination directly to the ex-
amlners. instead of 10 the Comptroller of the
State. 1t should be borne in mind that every OK
animation of an insurance company ordered by
the Superintendent Of Insurance is paid for by
the company. This particular examination cost
this company $4,000, and we paid for it as
Smyth directed.
I'm March. 1897, charges were preferred
against Smyth for causing these examinations
TO be paid for ms they were. He was heard and
acquitted. The New York Lifo has never had
any other similar experience, and this one oc-
CURED in 1877, when Senator Platt was Just n
plain. everyday business man in owcgo. as l
found to-day when l looked up his biography.
Therefore, he could have had nothing to 10
with that examination, and he has certainly
never asked anything Of this company since
| Than
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BUT LOH.
George Mea in tho Trades Unions Will Vote
for HIS Son or FOR Tracy.

George Mea in tho Trades Unions will Vote
for His Son or FOR Tracy.
II any Of the managers of the Low campaign
hoped that the death of Henry George would
have thrown George votes into the Low camp q
canvass Of the labor headquarters yes erdAy
would have dispelled this hope. None of tho
George men who were seen yesterday at Claren.
don Hal or other labor assembly rooms was
wlllirr o accept Low on any terms. When 1t
was announced that Henry Georges son would
be placed on the ticket in his fathers stead most
OF them eclared that they were more than ever
determined to vote the George ticket.
George Wa hington Jones. who has charge of
the George labor headquarters at Clarendon
Hall, said last evening that he had not met a
George man since the death OF Mr.. George be.
came known who would vote for Low. The lat
tor is regarded as cold-hlooded and unsympa.
thelIc. and his decisions in building trade dis.
putes which were referred to him were very I'M
popular, This, added 10 the fact that there has
always been trouble with. non'union men at the
Columbia University buildings, has made Low
Unpopular, especially with the building trades.
James j. DAILY, delegate OF the tile layers
unions, who 10 assisting Jones. said:
mot a single George vote will 20 TO Low.
Now that young George Is nominated he will
get tho VoteS his father would have received"
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his brother until he had almost reached the
motel from his home in Brooklyn. A message
had been sent to his house, but had miscarried.
Tic loIt homo at 8 o'clock In the morning, as
usual, to como to this city and tako charge or
Mr.. Georges personal affairs. The newspapers
had not yet reached Brooklyn. and he camo
across the bridge and boarded a Third avenue
elevated train. While he heard the boys in
the street shouting Extra" he paid no moro
than passing attention to them, never for a mo-
mcnt suspecting tho calamity that had over
taken his family. He got of the train at the
Fourteenth street station. and as he left tho
elevated steps a stranger walking along tho
street, reading a paper, turned TO him, and
said:
wonder what Tammany will do now"
MIR. George looked at the stranger a moment
and. in a puzzled sort Of way. said:
"Why !"
why, Henry George is dead" said tho
stranger, holding up his paper, which contained
the startling in black type.
Mr.. George was so startled that for a moment
he was in a daze. The stranger then said:
We'll. you can't believe all you see in tho
newspapers. anyhow"
Mr.. George did not answer him, but fastened
to the Union Square Hotel, and at tho bottom Of
the stairs met q friend, who confirmed the re-
port.
Tho news was telegraphod TO all the family
and relatives, and soon they began to arrive at
the hotel. Mr.. Georges daughter Anna was at
the Fort Hamilton homo with his second son,
Richard, the sculptor, when they were informed
of their fathers death. Later in the day an
other brother Of Mr.. George. Thomas l..
George, who is an official in the pas bureau
Of the municipal government Of Philadelphia,
arrived at tho hotel. Other relatives OF tho
family who were telegro- hed to were Maurice
Reed George, a brothe ~ho is an engraver in
the Bureau Of Engraving n Id Printing at Wash
ington, Mrs. Joseph Shoemaker, wife OF q mer.
chant at Tuckahoe. n. j., Miss Caroline Pratt
George, Mr.. Georges maiden sister. who lives
with her sister-in.law. Mrs. Thomas L. George.
in Philadelphia, and Mrs. ]. B. Chapman of
Cleveland, o., whose husband isin the telephone
business there.
When the men who had worked with Mr..
George In the canvass began to arrive at the
hotel and learned the tragic news the excite
ment was intense. His friends gathered in one
Of the committee rooms and discussed the death
in low tones. There was an informal meeting OF
those of the committees that were present and
arrangements made for q committee TO take
charge Of the funeral. The following were
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TRACY MEN OFFER EVEN MONEY
Picked Up Every Bct They Gould Get Last
N!Eht Mt Odds ON Low.

NJ Ouus oh Lo".
The Low bcttors were shut up most effec-
tually last night. loo Vendlg. the bookmaker,
had been at the Fifth Avenue Hotel early in
the evening and among other offers said he was
ready to wager . to l that Low will receive
more votes than Tracy. The:G~Hcre no Tracy
bcttors there at the time. 4 little later three
men with 10000 which they wanted to place
on Gen. Tracy against Low arrived. They
were told of the odds offered and that there wa
plenty Of Low money at the Metropolc. They
went to the latter hotel and soon let II be known
that they would like to hear some quotations..
None was forthcoming. They sent scouts
gut among the bookInakers and betting men and
tried to get some offers of Low money, Finally
booimaker, who offered ST 900 TO $500. taking
the Low end. His offer was snapped up in a
moment, and he WAS asked for more. but de-
INJURED.
This was the only bet which the Tracy men
were able to get for more than an hour. They
asked Vendig for odds; He offered none.
any Low bets. Neither was Il: j. Dean, who a
short while before had agreed 70 bet 81 900
bes' on TS s.SC Il Tob SS Wall REUSED nedu to- b @" al iirs 10
but finally agreed to take III 900 against $500.
No more money ut these odds being obtain.
to 5000 to $1,000. They were finally able 10
place n bet at 800 to 81 900 witt a man named
Baggott, Then one AT $500 to 81 900 with James
White; another at $500 10 81 900 with James
Kuhn; still another at $40 to Si0O with A. n.
Jacobs, and a little one OF S65 to 800 with n
man named Flcishaner. George Foatherston
of the District Attorneys office made all these
bets. There being no more Low money obtain
able at any odds or on even terms. the Tracy
men retired. but not before fehtherston had bet
Dock Commissioner j. e. O'Brien a dinner for
seven that Low will not carry an Assembly
Mr.. Feathcrston and his friends announced
evening with 500, 900 to bet on Gen. Tracy
against Seth Low.
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Ills Heat Portrait. by Himself.

an rietr Of Mr.. Georges death, ] trish. there.
fore, to say to the people Of the city that + shat
gire m.scIf to This contest in their behaJ wiM a
nelc and higher ~reSoiue, as though / had re.
ceired il as Il last charge from his dying iips.'-
From Seth Lows statement on the death Of
Henry George, the shocking egotism and pre-,
sumption Of which resulted in tho instant re-
lection by the George men OF proposals for tho
nomination OF Low.
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National Misfortune.

The Brooklyn Young Republican Club. which
has been Republican in name only for several
years. came within q few votes the other night
of indorsing the candidacy OF Gen. BENJAMIN r.
Tracy for Mayor. The majority OF tho club
which decided 10 support Seth Low issued an
address TO tho Republican voters of Brooklyn.
The inconsistencies of tho argument OF this
apueal for votes are indicated in the following
sample statements selected from it:
"Uuestiuns of national or State politics have
to-day no proper place in the selection Of candi-
dates for our municipal Offices. nor in the prao-
teal administration OF our municipal business.
9TH surrender OF our fair city to Tanimauy
rule would be- q national misfortune"
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DEATH OF HENRY GEORGE.
TRAGIC END OF HIS CANVASS FOR
MAYOR OF NEW FORK.

Stricken with ApopisIy at His Hotel Early
Yesterday SIorninE-nis wire and son at
His Deathbed-Tho city STARTLED by the An
no%uncemeut or isis Denth-FrRrs Had Been
Eatertained That the strain or tho Cam
paiEn would ne Too Groat-His Exhaustion
Apparent White lie was Speaking the NIEht
Before tie Dentb-Messnses or Sympathy
rrora hts opponents and s,mpathiEers.
Since the stirring times OF the civil war few
announcements have been more startling to
New York than that OF tho sudden death Of
Henry George, candidate Of the Democracy OF
Thomas Jefferson for Mayor of the Greater New
York, yesterday morning.
Mr.. George retired on Thursday night worn
out with the hard work which he had been
doing In the canvass; but as he had worked az
hard on previous nights and returned in the
same condition Of fatigue, 1t was supposed that
with his extraordinary recuperative powers he
would get up refreshed in the morning. He had
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ALL VAS READY TO GRAZ.
To Upset tho Law and 10 Paste Seth LOWS
Name over Henry Georges.

While the Low men were in their scrambl
Yesterday for the Henry George vote. Edward
NJ. Shepard came to their help with this va!ua-
BILE opinion on the law which forbade the past.
ing OF seth Lows uame over Henry Georges on
the ballot:
The provision of sub. ! OF sec. 90. that whore
a vacancy exists il shall. not be lawful for tho
other party or independent body. / am clearly
of the opinion is void. 1t Is "a preposterousiy
can be disqualified for nomination or support
by a PARTY committee because he has been
Court of Appeals in the Albany Poll 9 Boar
case, Rathbone VS.. With is, in m opinion, do
cisiye on that question:.
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named TO servo on this committee: Hamlin Gar
land. August Lewis, Tom l.. johnson. Arthur
McEwan, Louis F. Post, and the Rev. DR.. Nc
Glynn.
News OF Mr.. Georges death was sent to the
Coroners' office, and Coroner Fitzpatrick and
his deputy, DR.. Donlin, called at the hotel and
viewed the body. DR.. Donlin gave a permit for
the removal OF tho body, and agreed with DR..
Kelly that death was caused by cerebral apo
ple1y. The death certificate as made out by
DIR. Kelly is as follows:
CERTIFICATE AND EcoRD OF DEATH
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The Talk or the Town.
simpson's new Loan once and Safe Depoait YAults
lZ8 West I2d Of. near BroAdWy-Ad1
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n. a w. l.. a w.

Yolo. Yolo. Yolo.
% .~Lock.Front" oollST.-Adv.
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COAtia-LAd on 1Aird PAGE.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-04-18
HOME, SWEET HOME
A Tribute 70 the Song and the A~fhor by
the Late Senator Toorh-es.

n Tribute TO the Song and the Asxthor by
the Late Senator Toorhees.
To the Editor of The San Francisco Call
SIR: l venture 10 send you the tribute of
the late Senator Voorhees, to John How
ard Payne. author of Home. Sweet
Home" 1t is a piece of oratory as beautiful
ana touching. perhaps, as the English
language contains. / was formerly clti-
zen of Indiana and intimately acquain ted
with the ''Tall Sycamore of the Wabash"
am an ardent admirer of his, and have
in my possession copies of all his great
speeches. The speech referred to was de-
livered by the famous Indiana orator on
June %, 1885, at Greenville, Tenn, in the
course af his address 10 the jury in de-
Tense of Captain Edward T. Johnson. VINO
was on trial for the murder of Major
Henry, the destroyer of his wife and
home. Speaking of John Howard Payne
ana his immortal song, Mr.. Voorhees,
said:
He wrote one song in which he embodied
and unbosomed the most precious desire and
the most undying emotion of the universal
heart OF man, woman and child. He wrote
"Home, Sweet Home" There are but four
teen lines in this blessed song, including the
chorus, but 1t will live as long ss these blue
| mountains stand. 'Home. Homel Sweet,
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Junior Order America, Mecnanics.

new council, organized by the efforts OF
State Vice-Coupcilor Beilinger at University,
Los Angeles County, will be instituted by the
organizer next Tuesday.
Alexander Hamilton Council has presented
10 James A. Garfield Council a magnificent
altar emblem. The presentation was by Coun-
cior Frank Miller and the response by c. 6.
Maggie. At that meeting there were present L.
W. Close of Starr King Council; S. J. Theisen.
d. s. c.; state Councillor Fl. c. Schaertzer and
L. I. Wilton, VINO made ddresses.
r. E. Grear, Stale council conductor, has
gone from the State for three mon his, during
which time hr will be in IdHho and Mon taua.
The councils of Alameda Countr Will hold a
union meeting in the han of Yosemite Council
on the 9th inst
President Mckinley has appointed w. G..
Cassart, National representative from Mary
land, a chaplain in the United States navy.
Alexander Hamilton Council on last Friday
gave its first entertainment to its iriends il
Laurel Hall. ShieIs building. The II,
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Sweet Homep' Its strains have visited all
lands and encircled the globe; they have
ravlsned the listening ear in The palaces OF
royalty and wealth and in the PEASANTS
lonely hut John Howard Payne sung the
song OF home; he interpreted the human
heart. There is no place like homeP the
poet cries; and the whole world cries In
unison. "Be it ever So humble, there is no
place like home!" Can this be true, can this
song i've ii the detler's step may cross the the
threshold OF home with impun1ty? The
habitatlon may be built OF boards, or
its walls may be constructed OF unhewn
iogs; IL may be shielding on the
mountain side or howell In the valley
below; the bleak winds of autumn and winter
may blow through it; the rains may descend
through its trail roof, and leather string
may be its latch-key by day and by night: but
IL is home, the home where the wife and
mother loves and nurses, where children are
porn ard bloom In strength and beauty, where
JOY and smiles greet their coming, and groans
ana tears their departure l appeal
10 you 10 permit my client to make one honest
nsnt LOT the purity OF home In MS early
youth he fought under the beautiful, the
starry nag, emblem OF united power and glory,
ana with eager enthusiasm offered his young
ne IN the cause OF his country as he saw the
right. On the 23d day OF September, 1854,
inns sad and lonely man, bereaved ana
stricken beyond cure in this world,
male one battle, down in yonder mountain
gorge. twelve miles away, not merely to pun
IL n the destroyer of his own dear home but In
vlnd:ciuon of the principle which makes all
MONIES secure from intrusion. He fought Tor
home, Home, Sweet, Sweet Home ana
when the report of his double barreled gun
echoed on that autumn morning throughout
THESE mountains OF Green County and through
out the State OF Tennessee and all over The
Union 1t was welcomed as tit accom- panl-
ment TO the spirit, letter ana melody OF the
immortal song. Had the villain cut
his victims throat, had he poisoned her TO
death, she would still have been precious
memory, mourned by husband, son and low
Ing friends It'll PHYS self be dead" while the
sweet June roses would have bloomed over
her hon ored grave with no faint of impurlty
In their perfume. Had he burned the defend
ants home II could have been built again;
had he robbed him ard taken all
his worldly possessions he would still
have had honor left Human history
makes but one answer The darkest crime,
the one without pardon or mercy from God or
man, is the invasion of the home and its de-
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Group Of Characters Who Will
Appear IN the California Thea
ter Next Wednesday Evening
IN the Cantata ruth and
Naomi" for the Benefit of the
Unemployed of This City.

school OF the Geary-street synagogue pre-
scented the cantata before delighted au-
dieEce, the proceeds going into the treas
ury of the school. The parts in the can
tata were taken by ITO performers, of
whom about seventy were girls and the
remainder boys, ranging in age from to
16 years. 1t was genuine surprise as
well as treat to the friends of the school
who witnessed the performance, so much
so as TO bring forth an urgent call for a
repetition.
II ha. been decided to repeat the can
tata on Wednesday of this week at the
California Theater with the original cast
OF characters. costumes and stage settings
for the benefit of the unemployed. Gen.
eral admission with the privilege of re-
served seats, 30 cents, with 25 cents extra
for orchestra chairs. The box office will
be open on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day at the t. eater for the sale OF tickets
and the securing of seats.
The cantsta follows the biblical text
and action very closely, and abounds in
dramatic situations and picturesque tab
leau1. The music is Of the sacred order,
and ontains many sim pie and touching
melodies and choruses.
The principal characters in the cantata
are:
Naomi Sadie Mendelssohn; Ruth, Alice
Lewis; Orpha, Mabel Benjamin; Jewish
msidens, Phebe Wolf, Adele Morganstern,
Lily Fulda, Goldie Harris and Mabel Koch
mann; Boaz, Rosie Fulda; messengers, Ida
Levy and Albert Abrahamson; First Reaper,
Leo Levy; Second Reaper, Abe Myerson; Ser
want to Ruth, Emanuel Levin.
The little girls who will take part in the
dances are:
Resale Sybil Goldstein, sybil Harris. Oracle
Rothholtz, Lulu Cramm, Florence Stern, Hilda
Kochmann, Adele MorRanstern Ida Lew
Jeanette Harowitz, Phebe Shipper, Celia
Jacobs, Miriam Livings tone. Ethel Shaen,
Hattie Rosener, Violet Posener. Pansy Pearl
man, Eva Friedman, Annette Lansette, Gertie
Rothholtz, Hazel Kochmann, Myra Fass.
Flossie Levy, Rose Wolf, Elsie Wolf, Gertie and
Hazel Cohen, Goldie Harris, Flora Gollober,
Mabel Deroos, Alma Newman, Helen Cramm,
Ruby Friedberg, Mabel Franklin and Hazel
Peiser.