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The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25
CONVENTION NOTES.


 Those delegates who were last in the drawing of seats on Thursday have been given chairs at tables just in front of the President and have after all gotten about the best seats in the Hall.
 A great many of the delegates went home yesterday afternoon and last night and others will follow this morn- ing. There will only be left in the city the Committee on Rules and they are hard at work to have the permanent rules for the government of the Con- vention ready by Monday.
 Governor oates made strong fight for the stenographic report of the pro- have the thanks of the people. He was Chairman Of the Committee and made the opening and closing speeches.
 When the committees are appointed, which will in all probability be by Monday, the real work of the Conven- tion will begin. The aspirants for clerkships of those committees which are allowed clerks are very solicitous and will be so until 1t is decided that they shall be employed. That Is left With the chairmen or committees 10 oe- termine and they can employ them whenever they deem 1t necessary.
 A number of delegates who did not get to home over Sunday will spend today in Tuskegee on special invitation of Booker Washington, visiting the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School
 The electric fans that have been placed In. the hall of the House, as had been predicted, make it as cool as i'd be wished by any delegate, and L.ere has not been heard a word of complaint as to the comfort of the hall. Yesterday was warm enough to test the capacity of the fans. and the result was most satisfactory.
 The stenographic reports printed each day in The Advertiser have been highly complimented by the delegates, and even those who voted against the re- port of the committee on account Of the expense or for other satisfactory cause, will admit that it is quite con- venience for the people, who can read each day everything that occurs in the Convention. After a few days of the full report there will not be a delegate who would do without it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25
Condition of Mrs. Brown.

At midnight last night the condition of Mrs Warren D. Brown was reported to be critical with little hope for her recovery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25

It is not necessary for a man to be poor in order to be honest. but some times it seems necessary for a man to be poor if he is honest.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25
Power Looms.

The first cloth weaving by poWex looms in America, was at . factofK built at waitham,, Mass. by Branch e. Lowell and Patrick T. Jackson Of Hoof ton. There was probably 1t the tl1&Q no other mill in the world which eou54 convert the raw cotton into duiehe4 fabric in the same factory. The peWtf' loms set up were the invention of tho proprietors. The machine cost about $500 and was constructed by Paul Moody of Amesbury in 1913. The NnU-I fish power loom had been kept secfet. No drawings of 1t had ever been seous All weaving in America had pr1vtouoly been done by the hand loom.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25
Tobacco.

John Roife began in virginia. tn 1872. the first successful cultivation of tobacco. Its sale increased rapidly n England, and it soon proved that it could be very profitab'y raised in the New World. Therefore great many seized upon 1t as means of wealth. and the first excitement in that Ioux list which has grown up in suhsequcnt years over cotton, sugar cane. silk. and other productions. began with thM date. Very soon every acre of groun4 at command was planted to tobacco- Even the streets of Jamestown were afterwards filled with it. This w29 in spite of the opposition of the Eng fish Government. which at q later day took measures to discourage the growth of tobacco. King James waa so opposed to it that he wrote a "Coun- terbiast to the Use of Tobacco. But that in which great profit was found. could not be easily suppressed. IL finally became the staple products ana the currency of the colony.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25

Governor oates made a strong fight for the stenographic report of the pro- ceedings of the Convention and will have the thanks of the people. He was Chairman Of the Committee and m made the opening and closing speeches.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25
School for rdiots.

In 1918 the first asylum for idiots wne set up in Boston. Previously thte u1- fortunate class had been regarded @ incapable of improvement. They h4d been neglected and abused. It xae soon shown that they could pc raiSeG from state of low degradation into to converse In sign language. and about one-fourth of those admitted were eu- abled to perform the simple duties ok life with toierable ability. There ar~ now thirty such schools in the Union, mostly supported by State patronaees free to inmates.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25

Those delegates who were last in the drawing of seats on Thursday have been given chairs at tables just in front of the President and have after all gotten about the best seats in the Hall.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25

A number of delegates who did not get to home over Sunday will spend today in Tuskegee on special invitation of Booker Washington, visiting the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-27
MORGAN GIVES AMILLION
For Erection of Buildings For Har-
ward Medical School.

Cambridge, Mass, June 27.-President
Eliot announced at the Harvard alumni
dinner that ]. P. Morgan had given
more than one million dollars for the
erection of three of the five buildings
planned for the Harvard medical school
in Boston. The gift is for the prosecu-
ton of applied biological research"
Some months ago, President Eliot ex-
plains, Messrs. Henry and Frank Eiig-
ginson took tract of 20 acres of land,
paying $550000 for it. This they agreed
to hold in trust for the university until
means should be found to buy from
them when they would sell at cost
price. 1t was supposed that the carry
ing out of the plan would be a matter
for the remote future. Nevertheless,
the medical faculty, through a commit
tee consisting of Drs. Henry P. Bow
ditch and J. Collins Warren, proceeded
to draw up plans and specifications for
the buildings which they would like to
have and could use next year if they
had them. The estimated cost was ST.
100000.
Last Friday DR.. Warren received a ca
bic from Mr.. Morgan in which he said:
Referring to our conversation and
plans submitted, / am prepared to
erect the central buildings and two side
pavilions as a memorial to Junius
Spencer Morgan, a native of Massa-
chusettS and for many years q mer-
chant of Boston You can announce
this
President Eliot called attention to
the phrase plans submitted" which he
said included specifications and SAID
that these called for an outlay of more
than $1,OO0,O00 The new Morgan build
ings on Huntington avenue in Boston
will include a hospital.
Coincidentally it was noted that more
than $50 men took the NJ. D. degree.
The commencement was rather quiet
in that the number of distinguished
men present as guests was fewer than
usual. The double disappointment in
the absence of President Mckinley and
Secretary Hay made Baron Won Ho1-
leben, the German ambassador, the
chief guest of honor. Otherwise the
only prominent visitors from other
countries or states were Vice President
Roosevelt, Wayne MacVeagh, who de-
Iivered the Phi Beta. Kappa grafton:
John Bellows of Gloucester, Eng, a no
ted photographer and Jacobus Henri
Gus Van Hof, described by President
Eliot in comforting a degree as the
greatest living physical chemist Sena-
tor Hoar presided at the alumni din
ner, and he and others made extraordi-
nary laudatOry references to the presi-
dent and secretary of state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-27
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HE LIKED THE KING.
Speaker Henderson Spends Pleasant
Half Hour With Edward VII.

London, June 27.-David B. Henderson,
ex-speaker of the United States house of
representatives, said to a representative
of the Associated Press last night:
"I have never enjoyed a more agreeable
half-hour interview than the one l had
with King Edward yesterday. He was
perfectly frank and agreeable and in ac-
cord with American progress He looks
forward to even more cordial relations
than now exist between the English
speaking nations. America may depend
upon the fact that she has no more cor
dial friend in the world than King Ed
ward.
''While the details of our converse ton
may not be repeated. I can assure my
American friends that England may be
depended upon in any ordinary contro-
verSy which may arise between the Unit
ed States and the rest of the world"
Congressman Frederick H Gillett, of
Massachusetts. who accompanied Mr..
Henderson, also said to the representa-
tive of the Associated Press:
I'VE go to SkibO castle to visit the
Carnegies at the end of the week, and
from there we go to the continent We
expect to return to America in Septem-
Der.
eve have been everywhere treated with
the greatest Kindness, and can say that
the cordiality extended to Mr.. Henderson
and myself while We have been in Eng
land has exceeded anything we could
have anticipated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-27
FRoM LEXINGTON.

Henry Biehler is back to work in the
round house after a few days layon.
Ed Feaster was called upon to take
the place of T. j. Bieh1er, blacksmith
helper, during his absence.
The many friends of 7. J. Biehler, of
the blacksmith shop, express their
sympathy toward him and his eStlm-
able wife for the sad calamity that
befeH them last Saturday in the death
of their infant child The remains
were inferred Sunday afternoon in the
Harrington cemetery, followed by a
large procession of relatives and
friends.
Passenger and freight rates are now
established between Harrington and Del
hart, Tex.
A great many people insist on locat-
ing Twist, Tex, on the Rock Island is
new extension. However such is not
the case; Twist is on the Fort Worth
& Denver road, a distinct line from the
Rock Island. The Rock Islands sup
plies for the new extension were
shipped to Twist, that being the near
est railroad point to Delhart, the dfvi-
sion point Of the Rock Island.
One of the first gasoline threshing
engines arrived in Harrington last Sat
urday on the Rock Island, en- route t.
the agent for power for threshing ma
chimes, thus saving the trouble of hav-
ing to keep on hand a water wagon,
hauler, etc.
The Rock Islands TAG employees in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-27

this city constitute very good guar
antee that a railroad Y. NJ. C. A. here
would be well patronized.
Conductor ]. NJ. Barton has been pro-
NOTED to a passenger run on the SOUTH
west line.
Engineer John Monahan was of the
first of the week.
Grading and track laying has been
stopped on the extension for a few
days on account of the high waters in
the Canadian. The river has washed
the foundations for the abutments out
a couple of times. Work will be re-
sumed as soon as the river recedes.
A s. Long relieved Engineer H. z:
Shelton on the goat for a couple OF
days this week.
Engines 735 and 729 arrived Monday,
and have been sent to run the Cald-
Well-C hickasha division.
Switch engine 657 was in the house
Tuesday for repairs.
Engine 701 went to Horton last Mon
day for repairs.
Engine 901 came up from Caldwell
Monday, and was sent to Horton Tor
repairs.
Engine 4S7 left the Harrington division
Tuesday for Fairbury.
Conductor John Wiel has cargo of the
ballast train now at work ballast1ng
the track near Marion. Bob Burke and
Geo. King are the brakemen- Engi :
neer Van Buskirk and Fireman Peck
are with them AS soon as they are
done there they go to Wellington. This
will be some time in August.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-27
YALE'S RICH FRIENDS
Have Subscribed About 100000
to Its Fund

New Haven, June 27-The 199th
commencement of Yale university was
held under the most pleasant condi-
lions. The honorary degree of master
of arts was conferred on F. G. New
lands, member of congress from Neva-
da and Rev. E. L. Smiley, Yale 's9
president of the University of Wyom-
ing. The commencement closed with
statement from President Hadlev of
the amount subscribed to the bi-cen-
tennial fund. He said that the total
amount subscribed was $1,1S5, 900, the
amount needed for land and buildings
With addition of other large gifts the
total, he said, might be expected to
reach 50, 000,0 00 He mentioned NJ c.
DeBorden, Frederick Vanderbilt and
James J. Hill, who gave 800. 900 each.
Seventeen hundred graduates and
friends of Yale are on the subscription
list
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-27
HARVARD COMMENCEMENT.
Honorary Degrees Conferred Upon
Number of Distinguished Persons.

Cambridge, Mass, June 27.-COm-
mencement exercises at Harvard uni
versity today followed the usual order
The president and fellows of the uni
versity, the overseer and the various
faculties met the recipients of the hon
Orary degree. Governor Crane and his
staff and other invited guests. and all
the alumni marched to Sanders the
ater escorted by all the seniors and
other candidates for degrees in the
caps and gowns. The commencement
speakers were: Lawrence Ward, MARI
borough, Mass; Sanford H E. Freund,
New York; Samuel Smith Drury, Bristol,
r. L. and Herbert G. Kahn, Indian
apolis. Following the exercises in San
ders' the various classes held reunions
Polls for the election of five overseers
We're open from 10 a. m until p. m
One of the most interesting of today's
events was the dedication of the gates
of the new fence surrounding the col
lege grounds, by the classes which pre-
scented the memorials to the university.
Today's commencement was note
worthy for the comforting of degrees IN
course upon the largest number of men
who have ever presented themselves IN
the history of the college. The homo
rary degrees were conferred as fol-
lows:
Masters of art, Edward Livermore
Burlingame, author and editor; John
Bellows. authority on Roman antiquities
in Britain essayist, photographer;
Hugo Munsterberg, psychologist; Theo-
bald smith, patnOIOSlSl5 OnarleS S1IOsS'
historian.
The three latter are Harvard profes-
sors.
Doctors of Divinity-David Gordon
Lyon, Assyrian scholar.
Alexander Mckenzie, pastor for "a
years of the Evangelical branch of the
First Church of Cambridge. and secre-
tary of the Harvard of overseers since
1875.
Doctors of Laws-Wi1liam Caleb Lor-
ing, judge of the supreme judicial court
of Massachusetts.
Henry Smith Pritchett, president Of
the Massachusetts institute of Tech
nology.
Jacobus Henricus Van Hoff. great phys
ical chemist
James Ford Rhodes. historian.
James Tyndale Mitchell of the supreme
court of Pennsylvania
Charles Sprague Sergent, first director
of the Arnold Arboretum, Boston.
Wayne MacVeagh. former attorney gen.
eral of the United States and minister to
Italy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-27
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE

A championship contest in chess was
pulled off Wednesday noon between
John Ash and l. HenShaW, both mem
bers of the rOundhouse force Eight
games were played and resulted IN a
victory for Henshaw. One of the games
was a draw. two were won by ASH ana
the other three were won by Hens haW-
A large crowd of spectators were pres
ent and watched the contest from start
to finish. There are a great many card
and chess games in progress among the
men every noon hour, particularly with
those who do mott leave the shops for
dinner. Others put in the time reading
newspapers and current literature, while
the railroad Y M G. A. has a NUMBER
of classes for Bible study running all
the time.
Thomas Checkfeld. a former shop
man who returned only a few days ago
from Albuquerque, N. M, has taken
out a card and is now bolt-heater in the
blacksmith shop
Frank Schwartz, a wiper in the round
house, has donned a new suit of oVerallS
which suggests the name convict to
the other boys around the house. Any
thing, though, but the shirt waist man.
Roy Haynes andd Frank oJnes of
Roy Haynes and Frank Jones of
Wednesday afternoon on No. for Bos-
worth, Mo. where they Will measure
tracks and do some other work that
usually falls to the lot of a civil engi-
neer.
The man who tends switches at the
not he can provide comfortable seats
and ice water for the many people who
are prone to sit down and rest at that
place on their way uptown from the
east side. They have been getting so
numerous lately that he feels some at
tention should be accorded them
F. s Savage, advertising clerk of the
Santa Fee is out in Colorado this week.
He is said to be studying the scenery
of the Grand canon and surrounding
points for the purpose of writing a new
advertising book about that portion OF
the scenic Santa Fe.
The Santa F'e is sending out copy" to
the country newspapers for q new line
Of advertising, booming the low rates
to Colorado and Utah, which are on
during the first part of July and Sep
TENDER.
Fl. .. Nudge went to Galveston We'd
nesday with Third Vice President J. w.
Hendricks
F. T. Dolan, superintendent of the
Santa F'e at Chicago. was in Topeka
yesterday.
c. f. Resseguie went to New Mexico
Wednesday to be gone several days.
He was accompanied by his son, and
two of his sons friends. The three
young men win camp out in Mexico
a. A. Hurd, solicitor for the Santa Fe,
returned yesterday from a trip to En-
poria, where he was in consultation
with the Santa. F'e attorney.
The Emporia Gazette says: There
is much sickness among the men now.
The foreman of the coal and wood de-
partment said this morning that it was
impossible to keep men enough at the
coal chutes to do the work That job
takes the men up where the sun fairly
boils them, weakening them by over
perspiration. Naturally they visit the
ice water key frequently and, as a re-
suit of the two are soon sick Its a
hard job and few men can stand it this
weather"
Albert johnson, who works as a coach
trimmer, left today for Pennsyl vania,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-27
woRKINa In EMPoRIA.
Orient Grading Gang Throwing Dirt
in Town Now.

Emporia, Kas.. June 27--The Orient
grading gang moved to town early this
morning. They are grading on Second
avenue from East street to Exchange,
and win grade on from there to Com
mercial before leaving town.
Contractor Eliot is busily hunting for
men. He wants at least 50 more, and it
IS safe to say that there is work for all
who viii apply
Between Mechanic and Market streets
over the sewer ditch IS a stone culvert
upon which the gang will have TO do con-
siderable work before it will be suffi-
GENTLY substantial to cross with the
track. Until this is repaired the men
VIII work where they are, cutting down
the street west from East street and
pning it on west from that to bring the
embankment up to grade.
When asked what the company would
do about the block of territory crossed by
the new Santa Fe sidings, one of the
surveyors gave. it as his opinion that it
would do nothing. In his opinion the
Orient has never cared for that partie-
ular strip. and would rather buy right of
way than to have a suit with the Santa
Fe even were they sure of winning. Right
of way through the block next east of
there can be purchased for a trihe and
it is probably there that the Orient sur
veyOrs viii set their stakes. This is a
simple and pea eable solution of what
promised to be q. knotty problem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-27
Vacation.
For your summer outing allow US to
-.,c.cr,t (.lc,.- IL. fa t,ao11e r. .c..Id ..or

For your summer outing allow US to
suggest Colorado, famous the world over
for it's magnificent mountain see merry
and picturesque summer resorts, which
are located on the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, The Scenic Line Of the
World Very low tourist and circle
tour tickets are now on sale via this line
to all points Of interest. We have one
circle tour in particular, Of 1000 miles,
for $28. 90, which comprises more noted
scenery than any similar trip in the
world If you want to know more about
Colorado and its wonderful attractions,
write for illustrated pamphlets sent free
on application to s. K Hooper, G. P. &
T. A., Denver. Col.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-27

for the storm nor for the behavior of the
car on that fatal night Many more let
ters passed between the officials, and
finally the Pennsylvania management
sent a bill for $206 in settlement Of all
claim for the lost car. The Gulf & In
terstate replied again explaining the cir
cllnstances and adding that the company
was not responsible for the cars wander
ing or floating OF in the high tide: But
capped the climax. It asks II the car was
in transit when It met with the accident,
and If any other property In the vicinity
suffered from the storm The letter also
inquired for information about the hurri-
cane, the extent of the storm and amount
Of damage sustained in the vicinity of
Bolivar Point
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-27
ROCK ISLAND LOCOMOTIVE
New Style Which Dan Pull q Heavy
Tram 90 Miles an Hour.

A new style of locomotive has just been
brought out by the Rock Island which
Il Is claimed can run a good sized train
at from so to 80 miles an hour without
special effort It is known as the
Chautauqua" type, and in regard to
arrangement of wheels and outside ap-
pearance IS much like the Atlantic en-
CINE, so well known in the eastern states
However, certain differences and inn
prOVementS in design caused the builders
to give new name to this particular
type The engine has a four wheel swing
truck, two pairs of drivers 7S15 inches in
diameter, and pair of trailing wheels
secured to the engine in such a manner
as to allow conSidera Bile lateral motion
to the rear end. A duplicate of this en-
CINE is now part of the Brooks loco
motive works exhibit at the Pan-Ameri-
can exposition at Buffalo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-27
ROCK ISLANDS WISE MOVE
Will Make a Strong Bid For Trans
Atlantic Freight Traffic

Chicago, June 27-In recognition of
the growing Importance of South Chi
cago as a port, the Rock Island man
agement is expanding between $500, 900
and 100000 in improvements there for
the purpose of getting better facilities
for handling freight. Along the Calu-
m ct river at One Hundred and Sixth
street the company is building a new
dockhouse, 500 feet long by SO feet wide.
1t is located on the Rock Island slip,
which is 1000 feet long and $50 feet
wide. The material is brick and stone,
and the building will be used exclu-
sively for merchandise. The company
contemplates building another large
slip near the present one, and if this is
done a second 1reproof house will be
erected.
The warehouse and the new slip, with
its accompanying freight houses, viii
be used largely by the new steamship
line that has been established between
Chicago and Hamburg, Liverpool and
other European ports. The first boats
of this line that sailed from here were
loaded from the Chicago river freight
houses of the Rock Island road, but
hereafter they will receive their con-
signments from the conpanys new
warehouse on the Calumet.