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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-09-29
TIE HORACE MANN SCHOOL
IT HAS MADE RAPID PROGRESS IN
FOUR YEARS, AND NOW HAS
A HANDSOME HOME.

When the Horace Mann School was founded
in 1887 by the trustees of Teachers College, 1t
was we'll understood that institution of that
Kind was necessary and that it would receive
generous support. But it hardly believed
that its progress would be rapid as it has
been The growth has been constant, and lib
ora hands have supplied funds when new build
mss or equipments were required. Notable
among the generous contributors was V. Everitt
Macy, through whose gift the school has been
enlarged until it extends along the entire
block in Broadway from Onc-hundred- and
twentieth to Northumberland twenty ST,
and is one of the imposing buildings in the nota-
bic group near Grants tomb.
Professor Samuel T. Dutton, of Teachers COL
lere who is superintendent of the school wrote
of the institution:
The Horace Mann School cannot, like the
great schools of England. boast Of its antiquity
or honorable traditions 1t cannot. like the
Winchester School. fer instance, show it's wood
porringcrs from which students for several
hundred years have eaten. or its venerable
Caterspout in the yard where shiVering youths
We're required TO wash themselves in the most
friGid weather; neither can it like Rugby and
Elton point to ugly but sacred Schoolrooms
ratrhcd and hacked by the most illustriOus
En2lshmen OF the past Here everything is
fresh and young. The new building with its
noble entrance hail spacious architecture tint
clean tablet upon which is to be recorded all
that The future brings either Of good ILL., But
it may safely be affirmed that the life and the
effort of the school in its new environment Will
not be unworthy Of the generosity and faith
which have provided such building.
The school besides being an institution where
the head hand and heart" OF one thousand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-09-29
THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES.

From The Florida TimeS-Uno
y canal has been cut into the Dismal Swamp
and another into the OkeednOkee. There
mains but the Florida EVERGLADES, long un-
known merely because of the terrors surround
ing il To the imagination. though it was never
deadly DANCE 10 the Indian ur the hunter.
Now the Everglades Will soon become one ct the
richest portions Of a rapidly drrri"piuS state
that allows nothing To stand idle. 4 company
has been chartered which viii probably drain
1t by cutting ship canal, and another incorpO-
rated To cross il with railroad and telegraph
line from the Gulf To the Atlantic. Therefore
the visitor of a few years henc" VIII find a new
scenic route opened for his exploitation Leaving
ia kSonViIle he can sweep acr, - the state in 4
grand circle and return at his leisure o. wonder
how and why it supposed the southern end
OF or, state was once considered Uuiuua bitabe
as well as uninha bited. We have already
prophesitd the existence of the greatest sugar
plantation the world knows ,tIons a line of road
from Miami To Tampa. Il may be that some now
living Will il.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23

he had been looking for Moulton
since February 9Th. On that date,
he said, M0ulton called upon DR..
James Newcomb. Of this city, and had
him cash q check for $50. DR.. New
comb, Detective Thaynor said, had re-
ceived a number of letters from Chi
cago, Sing Sing, Elmira, Boston and
Buffalo, saying that Moulton had en-
gagged in swindlin Operations In the
cities named. where he had secured
sums ranging from $50 to SITS. 1t is
claimed by the police that Moulton
has supported himself for the past two
years by swindling.
Moulton was removed from the West
Side prison tonight to Bellevue hos
pital. 1t is said the removal was ne
cessitated of the collapsed
condition into which he has dropped
owing to the use of alcoholic drinks
and drugs.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
Government Fish Exhibit.

Uucie Sam will have a splendid
Fish exhibit at the Pan-American Elk
position. 1t is impossible to give here
a comprehensive idea of the beauty
and interest which attach to this ex-
hibit. w. dec. Ravenel, chief of the
division of fish culture, and several
assistants are now in Buffalo erect
ing in the Government Fisheries
building an artistic design for a home
In which will be placed every variety
of fish, oyster, crab, starish, scallop,
clam and practically everything else
that can be found in the Atlantic and
Pacific ceans and their tributaries.
The majority of these specimens will
be alive and will be exhibited swim
ming in their native element. At all
past expositions the exhibits prepared
by Mr.. Ravenel have been so crowded
with visitors that it has been at times
impossible to get within a comfortable
distance of the brilliant and beautiful
inhabitantsc of the oceans and rivers.
In this exhibit will be shown the va
rious methods for the propagation of
fish any oysters and for filling our
rivers and bays with these useful ar
ticles of food.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
COPPER MADE HARDER THAN
STEEL.


The lost art of tempering copper to
a fineness and strength superior to the
finest steel is said to have been dis
covered and by a woman-Mrs. Carrie
Renstrom, Of Seattle, Wash. Accord
ing to a dispatch she has knives of
copper tempered by her secret process
that will cut polished iron. She
claims to have manufactured a trolley
wheel that will wear almost forever,
which will be a mighty boon to the
trolley companies, since the present
wheels are said to wear out in about
five weeks. The ordinary steel file
makes not the slightest impression on
this copper wheel.
If there be aught of truth in this re-
markable statement there is destined
to be a revolution in some branches OF
the metal industry unless the discov-
cry is bought up and suppressed by
capital invested in industries which
this alleged discoverer would knock
into a cooked hat, as for instance Ger
tain tool and armor plate concerns.
Why build great and costly and pom
derous ships of steel, which could be
penetrated like a cheese and the YES
sells sent to the bottom by copper pro-
j~ectiles treated by Mrs. Renstrom's
tempering process?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
THE SOUTH'S WONDERFUL PRO-
T.

Mr.. Richard H. Edmonds, editor of
that excellent trade paper, the Manu-
facturer's Record, of Baltimore, re-
views in the current number of his
journal the remarkable progress of the
South, as set forth in detail in the
last ensus reports, and makes a mag
nificent showing of industrial and ag-
Ticultural wealth. For instance:
The total value of cotton and seed,
of oil mills and of products made in
Southern cotton mills, is set down at
1922, SOC, 900, and in that summary no
account is taken Of the f~attening of
live stock with cotton oil mill pro-
ducts. The production of corn in 1900
is estimated at All, 655, sos bushels,
valued at $234. 64S ,123, of which West
Virginia is credited with 10, 299, 7OS
bushels, valued at So, 64s, S54; Of wheat
at 9s,35s, o6S bushels, valued at $685.
2o4,3 West virginia's proportion be-
ing 4,452.s95, valued at So, 42S, 900; oats,
1898, 256 bushels, valued at $30,371-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
FOUND HIN NOT GUILTY.


Clark Simmons Discharged by .
-Jury-Darton jones Sent to Jail.
Special to the Register.
WESTON. w. Va, March 22-The Jury
In the case of the State against x-Pres-
ident of the County Court Clark Sim
mons, for shooting with intent to kill
Rev. John Rexroad, was out but a few
minutes this morning, when they return
ed with a verdict OF not guilty.
Barton Jones, who Is a Wheeling boy.
and is said to come from R good family,
stood his trial under the indictment
against him for highway robbery to-day.
1t will be remembered that tones was
arrested and given a hearing before
Squire Lockert during fair week. last
fall, charged with picking a mans pocket
at the passenger station. The Squire sent
Jones on to await the action of the grand
jury. A jury was empaneied, the evil
dence heard, the argument of counsel
made, the Instructions to the jury given,
and their decision. four months impris-
onment in the county jail, announced all
In the forenoon oil to-day's session. I'M
der the judges Instructions the indict-
ment should lave been found for petit
larceny, and the verdict was rendered in
accordance Herewith.
This afternoon the case of David Brom-
ley, charged with attempted rape was
* up and most of thee evidence heard.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
One Exception.

Chicago Chronicle.
There is one distinct island the prop
erty of the United States to which the
constitution has followed the flag. It's
inhabitants enjoy all the privileges OIL
American freemen, except that they DO
not as yet vote for President. They
have local self-goyernment. Their lib
critics are guaranteed by the constitu-
ton and the laws. There is equality
before the law. No man assumes to
Cypress another and to none is any IA
voritism shown. Syndicates and trusts,
land grabbers and franchise ecker
are unknown. There are no troops TO
oyerawe the inhabitants and the near
est 500. 900 federal Judge is many miles
away.
While a benevolent interest is mani
tested in the welfare of the island by
an official representative OF the gov
eminent at Washington, who visits II
occasionally, the people are entirely
free to govern themselves as they may
deem proper. If it be urged that they
are without representation at the
American capital it must be said IN
fairness that they also are unacqua1nt-
ed WIN the American tax-gatherer.
The island referred to is that or
Molokai. one of the Hawaiian group.
It is inhabited exclusively by lepers.
So far as heard from, it is the n new
possession of the United States IN
which the e~xploiters take no interest,"
and in which, therefore, 1t is entirely
safe to establish a rule of law.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
LA BELLE IRON WORKS MAY
MOVE TO STEUBENvILLE.
Reported That Improvements Are
Contemplated to Cost 81 900 600.
Manager Wright Buys Home.

Special to the Register.
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio. March q
Rumors are current here that the La
Belle Iron Company will shortly begin
improvements which will cost over a mil
lion dollars. 1t is given out that the
La Belle will move all its plants at
Wheeling to this place as soon as pos
sible. General Manager Wright has pur-
here at a cost of s12, 900, and will remove
here about May LIST. The furnace here
which has been idle, is to be repaired
and put in operation by May list. No nails
will be made here until the mill Is moved
here from Wheeling. An old brick build
ing near the mill office is being torn down
and an addition is to be made to the Of
flee. The old Jefferson shaft now owned
by the La Belle is being pumped uot and
will be put in operation as soon as 1t Is
free of water. The new Universal mill
and the old rolling mill are operating sat-
isfactorily.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
ANOTHER FREAK BILL.

In the Legislature at Harrisburg,
yesterday morning, Uncle Jerry Roth,
of Lehigh county, introduced a bill 70
regulate, or rather designed to pro-
mote, marriages, some Of the features
of which are decidedly odd. For in
stance it is provided that if the male
applicant for a marriage license is
over forty years of age, he shall pay for
such license the sum of 800, and If,
being of that age he marries out of the
State and returns, he shall pay into
the State treasury the like sum of 500,
and in default thereof said marriage
shall be declared null and void. For
the purposes of the act the State is
divided into three districts, and the
sums accruing from said licenses where
the groom is forty years of age or over
shall be paid to certain specified
Homes for Old Ladies, not now in exis-
tence. In effect it will be seen that
the male citizen of the State, or emf
grants from other States who allow
forty years to creep by without taking
to themselves a helpmate, must con-
tribute to the support of the old maid
and spinster class, who are presumed
to have remained single because of the
%inattention and neglect of youthful
suitorS.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
Divergent OPINIONS Of
anthracite SITUATION.
MINERS GENERALLY NOT THOUGHT
TO FAVOR A STRIKE FOR
RECOGNITION.
PRESIDENT MITCHELL GLUM.
HAS RESPONSES FROM OPERATORS,
BUT THEY ARE NOT FA-
y0RABLE.

SCRANTON. Pa, March 22.-Presi-
dent Mitchell has nswers from a num-
Der of coal companies. The nature of
the messages is not known.
Mitchell to-day appeared detected
and refused to make any statement for
publication. The direct question was
asked:
Have any answers been received
from the operators?" and the miners
leader hesitated several moments be-
fore he answered. he finally replied:
we have received letters from sew
eral operators, but | have nothing to
say"
H. H. Sivelly. secretary of several
mining companies, said about the pos
sibility of a strike:
My personal opinion is that there
will be no strike. / 40 not think there
is any likelihood of the operators agree
ing TO attend a conference with the
mine workers officials. and, moreover.
believe that the latter are now await
ing the time when they can gracefully
retire from their present position"
A prominent miner says the miners
as a whole are decidedly opposed to a
strike unless some more tangible rea-
son is advanced. "All this talk about
recognition strikes ME as mighty Pc
culiar anyway. AS long as the oper-
ators are granting our demands and
continue to pay the increase granted
last fall they are giving the union all
the recognition we strikers want. A
strike would prove exceedingly disas-
trous to the union.
I'VE have entrusted the matter 70
President Mitchell, but if he uses his
power to declare a strike I honestly be-
lieve it will be against the wishes OF
the great majority of men"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
Gibraltar on her way to Morocco to
take a little conceit out of the Sultan
thereof.
The Franchise Business.

C%larksburg Post.
West Virginia is one of the States
which took up the business of issuing
franchises for profit, initiating New
Jersey and Delaware. The result is
now under discussion.
In the annual report of the Auditor
of the State to the Legislature he sheds
some light on the general character OF
a large number of these corporations.
The report shows that from 800 to 1920
West Virginia companies annually neg
lect to pay their license taxes and thus
lose their charters. Companies, domes-
tic and foreign, are being incorporated
at the rate of 1000 annually in the Of
fee of the Secretary of State, while In
the Auditors Office fully that number
forfeit their charters. In the year 1898
1,1O7 failed to pay their license taxes,
ranging from $40 to $50 a year. In
in 1900 1,200 were forfeited. OF these
1900, 412 were domestic and 738 for
eign companies. The total NUMBER OF
domestic corporations in good stand
ing on May l, 1900, was 1,541; foreign,
2,l61. The collections on these incor-
porations by the Auditor in 1900 was
$4,000.
Most of these companies secure their
franchises for foreign use, and secur-
ing the proper license, permit h
franchises to be forfeited SO far as
West Virginia is concerned. but con-
tinue in business Indefinitely, in the
case of failure leaving their customers
with the bag to hold" Such charters
are unjust to other States in which
legitimate work is carried on, unless
there is proper provision to test the
genuineness of the company.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
HARDLY A GOOD WITNESS.

After successfully eluding the mob
landing on the other side Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie fell into the hands of the
omnipresent interviewers. Asked
whether the existence of trusts did not
tend towards national bankruptcy, or
whether they might not prove a step
in an evolution towards socialim, Mr..
Carnegie said:
THE man behind the trusts is just
as important as ever. Consultations
prove beneficial. The chances of An
drew Carnegie, if he landed a penniless
boy in New York tonight, would be
as bright as they were in 1848, and
he would have even a wider field"
On this point the great preponder-
ance of opinion both among theorists
and practical men is arrayed in dia-
metrical opposition to MI. Carnegie's
statement, the fallacy of which one
AOCS NV nave W AZ % uOCp ~ LIZ
cover. Suppose Mr.. Carnegie landed
a pennyless boy in New York tonight.
he would probably be able to work his
way up to a certain point in the en-
ploy of Others as he did half a CEN
fury ago. But when he started to EN-
bark in business for himself, where
would he begin in order to become the
great ironmaster he was? He would
find it abolutely impossible to go into
where in the United States. With
everything from the raw material of
manufacture to the mean of transport
ing the finished product to market abb
solutely owned and controlled by great
monopolies, where and how would he
begin?
Of course, the man or force is bound
to push himself to the front now as
ever, but the opportunity for 1ndivid-
ual enterprise in the present monopoliz-
ed condition of the country's indus
tries is hardly anywhere to be seen.
There is no chance whatever for the
small independent manufacturer and
it would be absolutely impossible for
Mr.. Carnegie in this day to duplicate
by the means he used the immense
steel industry that bore his name n
which, great as it was, has been swal-
lowed in a ten times greater combine.
Ingenious and industrious men of mod
crate means, whether manufacturers or
traders. are crushed out by enormous
m%onopolie, which hold all industrial
power, and the brightest and best bus
mess men in the country to-day are
rapidly being forced to become mere
salaried employees of corporations with
vast capital. Such a condition cannot
'prove beneficial" as Mr.. Carnegie
says it will. Such a system can only
have a degrading and deteriorating eff
feet upon society as a whole.
But probably Mr.. Carnegie, the bulk
of whose fortune consists of S204 ,000,-
900 of the bonds of the greatest of all
trusts. is hardly an unbiased witness.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
GIVES DEMOCRATS CONTROL.

Special to the Register.
PARKERSBURG. w. Va, March q
Several weeks ago Lloyd E. Smith. a
member of the city council from the Sec
ond ward. took charge of a hotel at Ports
mouth, and the Republicans claiming that
his removal left a vacancy in the council.
nominated a candidate for the place to be
voted on at the approaching election. To-
night a special meeting of council was
held. at which the resignation of Mr..
Smith was presented. and Henry Van
Wrinkle was appointed to fill the vacancy
This will insure the Democrats two hold
over member out of the five. and the
prospects are that they win control the
after the election.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
MAY HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED
Ten-Year-OId Boy UnaccOuntably
Missing From His Home.
Special to the Register.

WASHINGTON, Pa, March 2S.-Albert
Hays, aged ten, is mysteriously missing,
and there are grave fears of kidnapping.
He left home at noon Friday, and has
not since been heard from, despite the
utmost exertions of the police here and in
neighboring towns. The youths mother,
Mrs. Sarah Hays. of No. IA West Straw
berry Alley, is almost frantic with grief
and apprehension.
The supposed victim is a bright looking
boy, heavily built, but not tall, fair COM
pleXion, dark eyes and hair, the latter
slightly long. When last seen he wore a
cap. brown short trousers. black coal,
square cut. and black shoes.
Color is lent to the idea of kidnapping
by the fact that on Thursday he was So
licited by a stranger to go away with
him. There is 40 other known cause for
his absence.
At two o'clock this morning no trace of
the missing lad had been obtained, al
though every resource had been exhaust
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta CONSTITUTION.
"Pegleg, the one-legged turnkey, who
was pretty we'll tanked up last night
when he left the commissary, did not
report for duty this morning. Fearing
that Peg had frozen during the night,
we set out to hunt him up and soon
found him about half a mile from
camp. When asked why he did not
come to start fires this morning he re-
plied: Cap, l couldn't. Some -
niger stole mer leg when l wus sleep;
an T couldn't walk and then we look
ed and saw his leg was gone. After
searching a short while we o o found
it covered up in pine straw. We at
Peg to his leg and set him off
to work"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23

If the acknowledgements of the vast
mass of ignorant freed slaves by Re-
publicans after the war is admitted
to have been a bad thing, as almost
all honest and thinking Republicans
do admit when brought face to face
with the question, why is the disfran-
ignorance not a good thing? The
Southern States have the same right to
regulate suffrage the New England
States have, and the action of Mary
land and other Southern States in this
matter is directly in line with real pro-
gress and the elevation of the ballot.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
BEATEN BY
Thomas Hunt, of Keyser, w. W., Al
most Killed for Whfskey He Car

Special to the Register.
CUMBERLAND, Nd. March 22.-Thom-
as Hunt was brought here this afternoon
from near Keyser, w. Va. in an uncon-
scious condition, and nno live. He was
found last night with wound about the
head, and before sinking into unconscious
ness, stated he was held up by two me-
groes, who beat him over the head with an
iron bar. Hunt was an engineer on the
improvements being made OF the Balti-
more & Ohio. He was given the whiskey
to take to some of his fellow employees,
when the negroes followed him.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
SOMETHING WRONG.

SPRINGFIELD, Tenn, March o.
R. H. Moulton's mother will start to
New York tomorrow morning, in re-
sponse to a telegram from her son,
which reads:
Il am in trouble. Come at once"
An uncle of the young man, it Is
reported, said the family had suspected
that something was wrong with Moul-
ton for the past year.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
HELD TO COURT.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
PARKERSBURG, w. Va. March o.
Walter Bootman, who claimed to have
been robbed and assaulted last evening,
by four men from Parkersburg, swore out
warrants for their arrest to-day and they
were all arrested and held to answer
Indictment They are James Kincheloe, G..
w. Ward, Walter Carragher and Bert
Muncey. Bootman says they asked him
yesterday to go driving with them and he
got into their carriage. They drove him
several miles into the country, assaulted
him and robbed him of two dollars-all he
had with him-and then left him to walk
home.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-23
America and the MonrOe Doctrine.

Atlanta Journal.
President Cleveland, in his second
term, when the boundary dispute
arose between Great Britain and Vene-
Zuela, laid down the Monroe doctrine
in terms quite as emphatic as Monroe
himself used in it's original proclama-
ton, and Great Britain readily sub
mitted. Since that time, however. we
have left the western hemisphere and
established our power in the Orient.
Can we, therefore, in reason, still
claim to control this hemisphere and
forbid all European powers to acquire
territory or agrees in any way either
in North America, South America or
the seas of this half the world?