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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Tho marriage Of Miss Lillian Emily Clark
daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. T B. Clark 10 william
Gererd will take place in the autumn. Miss LARK 4
- 49, narents are spending the summer al their
@nuntrv home at South Beach, Conn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Mr.. Charles H Baldwin. who has been al mel
vnIa Harbour View at Newport since her return
rom Europe has gone to the White Mountains FOL
a brief visit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12
HOW TO CLEAN COPPER.

Rub a furnished copper vessel with lemon dipped
IN salt wash in clean water and polish with soft
cloth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Mrs.. J. Richards and Miss Richards OF rms city
are spending few weeks al Greene d III
ininej on Tuesday by Mr. Richards and wiz =
into their camp AT Chain OF Ponds, o. inc NC
gantic Clubs preserve. for some weeks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Mr. and Mrs Walter Jennings are occupying their
summer home Burrwood at Cold Spring Haroor
Long Island. The house is one Of the finest on
Long Island
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Ashbel P Fitch ana ranny arc
passing the month Of August al MslunuA' O"'
Head in the Adirondack
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Mr. and Mrs Eugene H. Outeroridse' OF staten
Island are spending few weeks az Cro" ->es''
Maine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Mrs F. D. Foster, sister OF Mrs. ROBERT Jarrett
has purchased the Ledyard villa at Newport oecu'
n,ed this season by Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Beck
man OF this city
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Mr. and Mrs. Quincy ". Boese. Of this city nave
gone 70 Deal Beach. 70 remain FOR about fort
night.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Mr. and Mrs Jose de Navarro are snione ~.
cent arrivals at the Oriental HOTEL ''''
Beach.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12
THE TRTRTNF P4TTERN.
A TISSUE PAPER PATTERN OF BOYS OUT
ING SHIRT NO. 7744. FOR COU-
pom AND 10 CENTS

Plaid madras is chosen for this comfortable shirt.
the blue silk bow tie matching tone Of the color
Ing in the goods The shirt IS simply constructed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

william r Trnvers has gone abroad TO remain
several weeks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Mr. and Mrs Orme Wilson have been travelling
IN Germany They will not return 70 New-York
until late IN the autumn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Mr. and Mrs Charles H Adams Of No IS East
Sixty-seventh-st and their daughter. Miss Agnes
Crtttenden Adams are spending the season at
their country place al Easthampton. Long
Island called Mount Wollaston. after the place
in Massachusetts Of that name, originally settled
ov one OF Mr.. Adams's ancestors. The place TO-
day IL called Quincy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Mrs Henry Montgomery Of Staten Island. who
went abroad early in the summer. will not return
until some time IN October.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Henry Horton and Miss Horton. Of West Fifty
seventh-st., have left London and are now al
Ostend, where they will probably remain until
some time in September. when they will return &c
New-York. Mr.. Horton has not been IN good
health since the death OF Mrs. Horton few
weeks ago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Edwin Worcester and family. OF This city are
passing the summer at Stockbrdge Mass. where
they are occupying the Gavit cottage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Or. Jose Congosto. the new Spanish Consul Cen
eral New-York and the last Secretary General
under Spanish rule In Cuba. is spending the sea-
son az Cape May Il has been his custom 10 pass
his summers az the South Jersey resort for several
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Clarkson Potter. who were
the guests Of the latters mother Mrs. Theodore
A Havemeyer sr. at her villa. Friedhein IN
Bellevue-ave Newport, for about fortnight,
have gone TO Saratoga
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-12

Mrs Robert B. Parsons and her daughters. Miss
Anna H. Parsons. Miss Cornea VI. Parsons and
Miss Bertha R. Parsons. and her sons. Robert E.
Parsons and William B. Parsons. Of Lirodendra,
Flushing Long Island are spending the summer
at Manchester, Vt, where Mrs. Parsons has leased
the cottage known as Brookside.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-02-23

MAP SHOWING RAILROADS IN CENTRAL CUBA.
center of the island. 1t begins at Port
Isabel, which is the port Of Sagua la
,Grande, and runs south to Las Cruces,
within 20 miles OF Cenfuegos. A branch
also runs from Sagua and forms a con-
nection with the Caibarien railroad,
near Remedies. The line has been kept
in fair condition during the insurree-
tion.
Then there is the Matanzas railway,
which has a number of lines running
southwark and eastward through the
sugar district. One of the best systems
ON the island is the one controlled by
Cuban. money known as the Cardenas
y Jucaro railway. 1t runs as far west
as Esperanza and has lines running to
the important sugar centers OF the in
tervening territory. In addition to this
In the middle western district are the
Sagua la Grsnde railway and the Cal
BARREN railway.
These lines form n perfect network
by reason of the many spurs in the mid
die of the island. These spurs run off
to sugar plantations. inasmuch as the
large duty of these roads was to take
care Of the sugar output there was very
little necessity FOR Interchange OF traf-
fic. Each road had its own seaport. on
general merchandise there was some in
terchange but az there was all the time
in the world to do the transporting a
little daI9y made but small difference.
The largest system In the matter OF
mileage is the United railways. At a
comparatively recEnt time { passed un-
der the control Of English capital, and
representatives OF English money are
managing the properties. This compa-
ny has plenty of money at its command
and as soon as circumstances will per-
init viii bring material into the c0Un-
try and improve its rolling stock and
equipment II has line to Matanzas
and from there on to JoVelapos. In 8
southern direction 1t uIns down to Ba-
tabano ana has line paralfel to It's
northern line running 10 GuinGg and or
to Union.
The operation Of railroads in the is
lands is a very expensive matter. The
coal used costs al the yards 81 ton
and sometimes a little mare. An epgi-
neer, who must also be a mechaHic, is
paid $3.50 month in gold.
The irst requesLof the American mil
itary commissioner somewhat dazed the
Spanish and Cuban railway officials,
1t was 10 the effect that all writing, all
bills of iading, all negotiations, must be
done in English. When this paragraph
was read to the assembled managers
and presidents, they threw up their
hands and said II would be impossible
To this the representative of the
American government was equally firm.
He further said that there was no
need of temporizing on the subject,
as 1t was only question Of time until
the business would have to be done in
English, and they might as well make a
start then and there. At last accounts
the Cuban railroad employees were
struggling hard with English
FRANKLIN PRICE
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-02-23

by hersdity. He was born As years ago
in Kentucky. At II he left school and
went TO work in railroad office in
Louisville. He began as a clerk at So a
week, but he mastered every detail of
the business so rapidly that he was
quickly advanced. He was MAIDS secre-
tary aud then superintendent.
When he was Is the invented a steel
rail for street railroads. He spent al
most his entire capital in securing the
patent. Then he tried to get some one
to manufacture some rails. The rolling
mill men laughed at the smooth faced
youth. At last he induced mill man
to turn out sman quantity of rails
These were quickly sold. In few
months steel mill was making John
sons rails and he was reaping the first
fruits Of success. His rails are row in
general uEe all over the country.
When Tom johnson was 30, he bought
his first street railroad. 1t was little
bobtailed line on the outskirts of Cleve-
land. 1t began nowhere and ended no.
where. Nobody seemed to want it and
80 the budding capitalist bought it
cheap. Next he persuaded the city coun-
Gil to grant him a right of way into the
heart Of the city over the rails of other
lines. Then he extended his road TO the
other end of the city, and, before any
one realized it, Tom johnson owned the
longest street railway line in Cleveland,
and the one which was soon paying the
biggest dividends
From that time on he kept buying
street railroads, and he has stopped only
recently. Besides in Cleveland, he has
Operated in Indianapolis, Chicago. De-
troit, Brooklyn and Boston.
A train boy changed Tom johnson s
career by selling him Henry Georges
book, Progress and Poverty" He read
it and announced that he was a Single
Taxer from that ON.
And so he has been. After two hot
campaigns he secured an election TO
congress, making his canvass on the
principle of single tax and free tariff
His whole career as a representative
was in line with these principles. He
was Single Taxer first, last and all the
time. He even had "Protectio or Free
Trade" printed in The Congressional
Record and sent out thousands of copies.
His latest political venture was in
1897, when he championed the late
Henry George for mayor of New York
and undertook the management of the
campaign which WAS marrUd by the
death of the great apostle of reform.
In personal appearance Tom johnson
is tall, square shouldered, red checked,
rotund man, with light brown hair
which curls, and eyes which never seem
TO lose their fire. He dresses in excellent
taste and enjoys the good thingi which
money will buy. Rut, for all that, he is
democratic in his dealings with men,
Above all. he is terribly in earnest, and
those who know him best expect his
crusade to be a strong and stirring one,
ANDeFw Downs
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-02-23
MRS. JAMES L. FLOOD.

matron for the principal heir of the
Flood millions. When Mrs. Flood died.
it was common gossip that her sister
would take her place at the head of the
Flood household The younger sister is
more brilliant in personal appearance
than was Mr.. Floods late wife, but she
has not the amazing regularity Of fea-
ture which distinguished that very
beautiful woman.
While yet slip Of girl Miss Maud
went to live with her sister, and, ex-
cept for the time she spent in school
until the death Of Mrs. Flood, some
thing more than year ago, she was a
member of the Flood household. She
was the companion, the petted little
sister, and her return to preside over
the Flood home aud assume the care OF
the little daughter seems but natural
sequence.
The little 6-year-old, Constance Mr..
Flood 3 daughter, had never been away
from Miss Fritz since her mother
death. Last spring they Travelled to ia
pan, accompanied by a brother of Mis-:
Fritz, Mr.. Flood and a retinue of serv
ants.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-02-23
In SPITE OF TRUSTS.


New YoRK, Fob lS.--R. q. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review Of Trade. issued
today, said in part:
Beyond question business is expanding, and
in many branches 1t Is larger, notwithstand.
ing speculative combinations which tend to
reduce IT, All monopoiics or attempted mo.
nopolies, stimulate business while they are
coming, but tend 90 sune 1t after they come.
and the throng o. combinations and trusts
which have been formed or proposed have
given n temporary, but very questionable I'M
petus to trade. But DnyUud the influence Of
these there Is a genuine ard substantial en
laagcmcnt OF business due 10 the uncxlmplrl
prosperity Of growing population.
The weeks output u pigirpn Fob. ! was
237 ,639 tons, against 2435l6 Jan. !, and 30, ,j2s
| Dec /.
The stoppage Of several furnaces for ncces
| sary repairs at "A time when the demand IL
most pressing has caused some fear Of famine
| although quite a number Of other furnace,
| have started since Feb !, or are about tO start
| Pigron has advanced, but the largest con.
| sumption ever recorded IN any month is in
| part due TO the hasty purchases Of products
| about TO be controlled or advanced in price by
| n combination. There are so many of these In
| the iron and steel industry that the present
| market does not clearly indicate the magni
| tude Of the demand and disappointment IN
| some branches u not Improbable. But the rise
| Of 81 in steel rails with the entire capacity o
| all works engaged until after July /, is not
unnatural, nor the strength in plates, fol
| which the legitimate demand is beyond al
| precedent, and the same is true Of bars, the
| quantity required for cars, railway and agri
| cultural implement works being enormous
| In pipe the association lifted prices per cen
with very heavy order from Indiana ga
works, as docs the expected combination il
| sheets.
| No fictitious demand has caused the rise II
| grain, for tho exports continue so heavy IL
wheat and corn that the advance Of 81 cent
in wheat is abundantly justified and the ris
| of "a of u cent In corn seems scarcely CnOugl
| for the occasion.
| There is much more inquiry for wool ant
the manufacturers have a larger domand 70
heavyweight goods, but they maintain tina
they cannot pay prices now demanded TO
wool, and most Of the purchases made appea
10 have been at some concessions, Sales a
the three chief markets were $1,000 pounds
which Is about the weekly consumption wit
eastern mills well employed, but they wer
partly on speculative account, and in fine an
fine medium territory sales are mentioned d
~ cents cleaned, and in Ohio Xxx at % cent
and upward.
| Failures for the week have been l7S in tn
/ Cnited States against 295 last year and Is /
Canada against 35 last year.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-02-23
RAILROADS OF CUBA.
A TANeLE OF POORLY MANAGED
AND LOOSELY CONNECTED LINES.

How American Capitalists Plan to
Unite the Roads into One Big sys-
tem--some oddities of Trnnsportn-
tIon-New students of English.
American capitalists are already
working out schemes for getting control
of Cuba's railroad lines. The recent
sale of the Sagua railroad to a syndi-
cate is one of the first moves which have
been made. The line which has changed
hands is not important in itself. but 1t is
a good paying property and will be
made the basis of operations of more
extensive character.
The central part of Cuba is most curl
ously cut up by railroad lines which
seem to have been built independently
Of each other and in the most hap
hazard fashion. These lines make only
occasional connections. They do not fur
nish continuous transportation around
the shores of the island, and they do
not take you directly across 1t at any
place.
The management of the various roads
has been of Just such a diverse and va
ried character. Each road has had It's
own rates and it's own idiosyncrasles as
to time schedules. rolling stock and the
like.
The live American railroad men whC
are now in Cuba with carpetbags full
of certified checks will soon change
these things. Plans for consolidating
all the railroads of the island have al
ready been formed by rival syndcates
and some Of them will probably be car
ried out. Had these roads been in the
United States they would have long age
been combined into one intelligently
managed system. As 1t is, Cuba has a
number of lines all out Of proportion tc
its size.
The SaEua railroad, which was re.
Gently sold. runs through the sugar
lands of Santa Clara province, in the
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-02-23

CLEVELAND, Feb. 15.--The Standard
Oil company again refused to produce
its books in evidence IL the .nvestiga.
ton resumed here before Master Com.
missioner Brnsmade, and Attorney
General Monnett asked that Secretary
+. B. Squire of the Standard be com.
mitted to jail for contempt of court.
Colonel Brinsmade refused to send
Mr.. Squire to Jail, but said chat he
would certify all the records to the su.
preme court and let the court decide
whether penalty should be inflicted
for the refusal TO answer the question.
Squire was the only standard Official
who appeared at the hearing out of the
half dozen or more summoned.
Secretary Squire submitted his rea-
sons for refusing to show the company
books as follows:
First-Bccausr they are demanded in an
action instituted against the standard Oh
company for contempt OF court, and am in
| formed that To enforce their production fUI
| such purpose Is an unreasonable search and
| seizure,
Second-Because the books disclose facts and
circumstances which may be used against the
Standard, tending to prove II guilty Of Ohense'
1
| Ohio passed April 10, 1893,
Third-Becausp they disclose facts and cir
cumstancos which may be used against my
| self personally ~ an officer Of said company
| tending to prove me guilty Of offenses mad,
| criminal 10y the act aforesaid.
+. w. Brown, who for many years
has been with Scofcld, Shurmer & Tea
| gle, an independent firm which has
| fought the Standard, was put on the
witness stand. The object of Attorney
General Monnett was to prove that thC
Standard Oil company ignored the order
Of the supreme court and that the so
called constituent companies were neveI
in competition with the Standard o.
each other.
Nearly every question put to Mr.
Brown by Mr.. Monnebt was objected tc
by the Standard attorneys and in nearly
every instance Commissioner Brins
made upheld the objections, so that Nlr
Browns testimony was of little value
Mr.. MOnnett left for Columbus muci
discouraged.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-02-23
SENATE EXPRESSED SYMPATHY.
Resolution Passed Regarding the DEATH
of President Eaure.

Resolution Passed Regarding the Death
of President Eaure.
WASHINGTON, Feb. lS.-The senate
adopted a resolution instructing the
vice president of the United States as
president of the senate to express to the
government and the people of France
the sympathy of the senate in the be.
reavement that has fallen upon the
French republic in the death of Presl.
dent Enure.
The naval personnel bill, for which
the navy department had been contend
ing for so many years, was passed by
the senate.
The remainder of the days session
was devoted to passage of bills on the
private pension calendar, "A in number,
and to the reading of the Alaska code
bill. The agreement under which the
Alaska bill was read provided that no
other business than the formal reading
should 10 transacted.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-02-23

.fsncied was a strong facial resemblance
in me to the president. At any rate at
one time when the president rode in a
closed carriage was ordered into the
barouche with the chief of police and
MIR. McKinley's charge daffaires and
commanded to take off my shining silk
tile whenever the crowds on the street
cheered This worked like charm, and
the public howled itself hoarse at my
scattered hairs and fine Roman nose
with all the zeal of patriots, little think
ing that the distinguished looking man
they greeted was only policeman, who
in his work of protecting the nation 3
chief had been ordered to pose for a
brief half hour as that chief himself. "
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-02-23
a MODERN CRUSADER
WHY MILLIONAIRE TOM JOHNSON HAS
TURNED REFoRMER.

How the New Single Tax Leader
American Parndox"--Tbe story of
His Money Making.
Tom Loftin johnson Of Ohio and else
where, who has recently announced his
retirement from the vast business en-
terprises with which he has been 80
long identified and has declared his de-
votion to the single tax crusade, is one
Of the most unique characters in our
national politics. Any man who an
nounces that he is going TO stop getti0g
richer and make his life work the
promulgating of an idea is bound to be
unique in America.
Years ago Tom johnson was dubbed
"the Great American Paradox Now
| he threatens to live down this apt nick
name. A living paradox he has been
however, for more than score OF years
AS q congressman he fought against pro
lection, while rs manufacturer OF
steel rails he admitted that protective
tariff gave him his big profits. AS q
single tax leader he was big real estate
owner. He denounced monopolies, but
as trolley magnate he worked and
schemed to build up his gigantic street
railway monopoly. He posed as friend
Of the workingmen, yet fought them
In one of the most bitterly contested
strikes ever seen in the eastern states.
But Mr.. Johnson has always denied that
he was inconsistent.
81 find certain condition OF things
and live accordingly, but believe a
different state of affairs would be better
for humanity, and am trying to bring
about the change, has been his reply
to critics.
Although the possessor Of many mil
lions, Tom johnson is not a plutocrat
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-02-23
senEpnce
THE PRESIDENTS DOUBLE.
A Chicago Detective Who Posed n,
the ChIeS Executive.

the ChIeH Executive.
William ii. Murphy, a Chicago de-
tective, looks so much like President
Mckinley that thousands of persons
have mistaken him for the chief execu-
tive of the nation. During the presi-
dents visit so Chicago at the time of
the peace jubilee Detective Murphy was
one Of the squad of seven men detailed
from police headquarters to look after
the safety Of the city's distinguished
guest.
Murphy teNs of his experience as fol-
lows: For nearly week l and my six
companions were touching elbows with
the president Of the United States from
early morning nntil late at night. We
were his personal guards Our orders
were to watch all the people who ap-
preached the president and to see that
no harm came 10 Mr.. Mckinley. This
we didearefully, tirelessly. without los
ing sight of single suspicious charac-
ter and noting every stranger who
seemed too anxious to get near to the
man at the head of the government
"My selection was due, have heard
it said. because of what my suiperiors
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-02-23
BIG NAVAL APPROPRIATION.
The Bill Considered In the House sun
dry Civil Bal Passed.


WASHINGTON, Feb. lS.-The house
finally passed the sundry civil appro.
priation bill, to which it had devoted
over a week. No important amend
menJ had been adopted. The speaker 3
ruling upon the motion te recommit
the bill with instructions TO incorporate
in it the Nicaragua canal amendment
was sustained-!5j to 96. The naval
appropriation bill was taken up ana
over half the bill was completed during
the remainder of the day. There was
no general opposition to the measure,
although it carries $i4,OOD,OOO, being
IS, 1000, 700 more than the largest naval
appropriation bill ever passed by
congress.
An attempt to defeat the provision
for a joint arrangement between the
government aud the FItchburg Railroad
company at the Boston naval yard
failed. A point of order against the
provision iii the bill relative TO the re.
arrangement and reconstruction of the
buildings at the naval academy went
over until today.