The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-21
GIL'S SUPPORTERS
 HOLD CONFERENCE
MEN PROMINENT IN THE AFFAIRS OF SAN DOMINGO ARRIVE AT SAN JUAN, PORTO RICO, AND DISCUSS SITUATION.

San Juan, P. R.. December @.-The Cuban steamer Julia, from San Domingo and Hayti arrived here today having on board Senor Espaillat, former minister of war of Santo Domingo; Commander Perez of the Dominican army Captain Gerra, Colonel Espailat and other sup porters of former President Wos y Gil. The Julia also brought Juan Medina, who has been appointed by the provision al government of Santo Domingo as ccn- sul general to Porto Rico to succeed Se- nor Morales. The latter, however, re- fused to surrender his office, claiming that the provisional government has not
 been recognized by the United States He has turned over the effects of the consular office to Senor Galvan, son
 of the former Dominican minister Of finance. Senor Medina will appeal to Governor Hunt tomorrow for official re- | cognition.
 The supporters of General Wos Gil ! held a long conference today The mem
 bers of tho party arriving on the Julia i express belief that the intervention or | the United States in the affair of Santo Domingo would be found necessary in the near future. They declare that | crisis is rapidly approaching, and that l the provisional government finds it's lm- possible to negotiate loans. The Julia brought news that former President Jiminez is now at Montecristo; that for
 mer Vice President Des Champs is in
 control of Porto Plata and that General | Morales and Caceres are fortifying the
 city of San Domingo. It is said that an
 attempt was recently made to kill Gen
 eral Jiminez and that General Caceres lives in imminent danger of assassana- tion.
 | According to reports brought from | Hayti a revolution is feared there which may result in the assassination or at | least the incarceration of several min | isters and delegates. The chief of he French bank at Port au Prince has been imprisoned.
 The attitude of the people of Hayti to-
 ward President Nord is decidedly threat
 ening, as they say that he has been
 guilty of embedding public funds. l It was stated in July last that there
 was a serious conflict between President Nord and the chamber, the outcome of
 an alleged discovery of extensive frauds
 in the issue of Haytien government se-
 curities, the amount being s2Oo,Ooo
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 is a crying need for such consideration
 Railroad accidents, their causes and their results, have been considered in judicial
 decisions, and in the deliberations and verdicts of coroners and coroners juries,
 and to very limited extent by state
 railroad commissions, but none of these
 have dealt comprehensvely with the
 subject. and apparently no Improvements | in railroad service nor reformatory l measures of any kind have resulted from
 such action.
 l That many railroads have equipped | ] measure which greatly reduces the
 chances of collisions, is a gratifying fact.
 Some important railroads do not use the | block system Most companies adopt it
 on parts of their lines but not on other parts. Some use it part of the time or | for some of the trains. Some adopt the | principle, but have insufficient regula- | tions. There occurred in the United | States in the year under review an enor-
 nous number of collisions, 5219 and Qn-
 cluded in these) 10 collisions in each of
 which ' or more persons were killed d04
 persons in the 10 cases).
 | So far as we can see the best thing to | do is to introduce the block system. That ] is what England has done, and the inn
 munity from collisions on English rail ! roads is so nearly complete. and the cas-
 ualty records so low as to be powerful
 argument for it's adoption The commits | sion therefore recommends the considera- i ton of law like that in force in Great ! Britain and Ireland, requiring the adop-
 ton and use of the block system in the i United States unless some better device l can be secured
 Earnings and Expenses.
 To present concisely the results of rail-
 way operations, the commission issues
 each year preliminary report on the in- | come account of operating roads, which 1 is published in advance of the full report | on railway statistics prepared by it's sta | tistician. For the past fiscal year this re-
 port comprises returns for roads repre- 1 senting POI .457 miles of line, or about 9S
 per cent of the mileage that will be in- | cluded in the final report The chief re- | suits of this compilation are given in the | following statement:
 | The gross earnings of the railways for | the year ending June 30, 1908, on the mile | age stated were $1,S90150,679 The gross l earnings for. the previous year. on 200.154 | miles, as shown in the final report. were | s1, 7263S0. .267. Passenger earnings amount
 ed to s5OS, ,6SS 009. and freight earnings to l s13357es,5H. Miscellaneous earnings con-
 nected with operation were $45, 699. .O89 l Gross earnings from operations averaged
 s93s2 per mile of line. This average is s757 larger than the average as shown in the | complete report for 1902. Of the gross
 earnings per mile of line. s2525 were as- | signable to the passenger service and s66S0