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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-11-07
ROBBERS HELD UP
FAST TRAIN TWICE
Frustrated In BraZen At
tempt to Get Plumber
EXPRESS MESSENGER COOL
He Fires Through Car Door and
Thieves Apparently Scatter
Stop Signal Again.
EXPRESS MESSENGER COOL

PHILADELPHIA. Nov. Train No.
"a on the Pennsylvania Railroads busy
Washington division. was held up by
armed robbers twice within one mile
shortly before 10 o'clock last night, while
il was eu route from the Capital TO
This city and New York.
A negro and q white man who had Sc
GREETED themselves ON the front end OF
the. express car when the train stopped
in Baltimore did the job.
The men apparently were familiar wish
the workings of the train. The car
which they tried TO enter appeared at
glance 10 contain nothing more valuable
than crates Of produce and poultry
BUT under some burlap bags were three
heavy iron safes with several thOus-
and dollars worth OF valuabIes in them.
It was these the men were after
The Train Crew.
The train LEFT Washington at $50 in
charge OF Conductor SibIey and Engi-
neer Gordon. The express car ran Im-
mediately back of the locomotive. The
messenger was q young man, IT, Herbert
Garter. who comes from Virginia. and
knows how to handle a gun like a West
eru cowboy Following the express car
were five day coaches and q Pullman, all
comfortably filed with passengers.
Garter was sitting AT his desk in the
express car writing out some bills,
about S.15- The train was then draw
ing near HaVre de Grace, the southern
end of tho long bridge, He heard
noise at the forward end, and. looking
un. saw an iron bar inserted in the
front door of the car.
Because OF the light within the car
and the darkness outside he could not
see who was moving the bar. But the
thought of a hold-up never entered his
head-uOJ on the civilized road between
Washington and Philadelphia.
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widening as they 90. There is no clear ing to be done on either of these sections. The dredges need only go behind Christo- bal Colon Point on the north and to La Boca on the south, and their shovels and scoops may at once begin actual opera tions. This is an immense advantage, as is the fact that Cristobal Colon Point was built by the French. There was as great a bit of extravagailce as was anything the French did; but 1t stands where it is absolutely protecting the northern end of the canal. It is not long enough, nor mouth of the canal to provide adequate several hundred feet into the bay will dredges start, they can easily widen and they must do before they can properly approach the canal itself.
 The Great Culebra Cut.
 On the Culebra- -Emperador cut, where the backbone of the isthmus-the Cordil- leras Mountains-is to be broken, the hardest and heaviest part of the work has been done. This cutting aggregated eight miles in length, but except at Cule bra it Is not an especially noteworthy piece of work. There-at Cuiebra-it as sumes a magnitude which is appalling The engineers who projected the cana chose a depressed point in these noun. tains, where the extreme altitude wal only 363 feet, as the proper place to pierce the obstruction. Beginning at the sum. init the French companies have been bit ing away at the mountain for years. unti
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Culebra cut, where much of great ad- vantage has been accomplished-is of a preliminary character. Thieves did infest the whole undertaking, but, in spite of their industry, the money of France held out long enough to enable the foundation to be laid for completed canal It is that foundation which constitutes the one-fifth part of the whole work which is deemed to have been actually done
 That one-ffth part is of varied nature
 The Panal Canal Company, with De Les- seps at it's head achieved most giganti- cally when it subjugated the route of the canal. That It did this there is no doubt.
 When it came upon the scene the line 1t was proposed the canal should follow had been untouched by shovel or dredges and uncleared. Fourteen years of inac- tivity have enabled the jungle to once more encroach upon that line; but France paid the bill in blood and treasure for the first overturning of the soil Reaching from one side of the isthmus to the other there is ditch actually excavated. It Is not deep enough for any practical use, nor is 1t as wide as present commercial
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count. Out of ths masses of dredging ma-
 chinery now on the ground efficient dredges may be constructed by assemb-
 ling unimpaired and serviceable parts. The portable and stationary engines are
 ready for use, and the portable hoisting
 derricks require little save new cars for
 platforms.
 From this it follows that, besides the
 saving in time the United States will re- | alize from the completion of one-fifth of the required work. there will be a marked
 saving in the cash outlay resulting from
 our ability to turn available parts of this
 immense stock of machinery over to the
 contractors, thereby enabling them to hasten execution of their contracts These
 are advantages possessed by the Panama
 route that influenced the Walker Com
 ms lV5sion to prefer this route over any
 other, after the New Panama Company consented to part with all It's properties l for S40,0O0OO0. I am not attempting to show in any detail the superiority of Pan- l anna over Nicaragua as a canal route. My purpose is merely to present condi- tions here where the work is we'll on the
 way and much material on the ground. | These conditions are in themselves a mighty argument in Panama's favor, for
 surely 1t 1 ssimpler. and win be quicker for us to complete a work already one- fifth done than 1t would be for us to begin l at the very beginning, as we should have | to do at Nicaragua. With the enterprise here in it's present state, American tn- genuity, energy, honesty and determlna- | tion can complete the canal and open 1t to commerce in a shorter time than 1t took the French to steal $2O0, 100000. Should
 we fail in this. or should the work in- volve an outlay equal to the French pil- fering, we shall prove ourselves a sorry To tof canal builders.
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now actually dredged. Neither of these present channels is of any commercial consequence. The flow of the tides, which are unrestricted. and the currents of the Mindi and Gatun rivers on the northern side, and of the Rio Grande river on this side' have carried into the channels de-
 poslts of silt that make them now almost impossible. The banks are once more overgrown with the dense vegetation com mon to the country, and the channels are Too marrow, even if they were deep enough, to permit the passage of a shin
 rowboat may go up from the La Boca end, at low tide, as far as the excavation was carried, and at high tide heavy launch might make the trip. On the Colon side there are places where not even rowboat can navigate; a launch will ground when only two or three miles from the entrance. and the 4kay is open to Bohio only for the lighteSt draft cayucas
 These channels do exist. however and "hen we take hold and begin work it VIII be possible for our dredges to start rom opposite ends and literally eat their way toward each other, deepening and
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mus, a canal one-fifth completed, that one-fifth representing the most deadly ot all the work to be done; a revenue pro- ducing railroad. and an almost inesum- able famount of machinery. The latter we get practically without payment, for the Walker Commission refused to ac- cord it any value, holding that 1t will cost as much to overhaul, modernize and make it serviceable as it is worth.
 The item of machinery on the ground is not a small one, however, and we shall probably discover before we are through with the job of making it servieeable that in getting it for the expense of overhaul ing we have driven good bargain with the French owners. That part of this machinery which now lies in the water of the excavated portion of the sea-level sections of the canal will doubtless prove utterly valueless. It has lain in It's pres ent position for fourteen years, setting slowly in the silt that has filled these portions of the proposed waterway, rust ing and rotting until to repair it would
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-20
THE PANAMA CANAL The Work That Has Been Done
 Upon It.
BY MERRILL A. TEAGUE. Special Correspon lent of The Advertiser.

Panama, R. P, Dec. 2S., 1903.-When the Fench, under the leadership of Ferdi- nand De Lesseps, began the work of cut ting a canal across the isthmus their in- tentions were undoubtedly honest. That the whole enterprise should have been converted into a heyday and harvest for the most conscienceless lot of grafters that ever infested execution of a great project is due to a process of evolution. The mistake of too much haste was made in the beginning, to develop afterwards into a cue of which the thieves were not slow to avail themselves; but at that same beginning there was done some most excellent work. This work will not have to be done over agin. and 1t greatly simplifies the task the United States is now scaled upon to perform, and at the same time give to the Panama route for an inter-ocean canal almost inestimable ladvantages over any other projected or agitated.
 This work-except that on the great
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| is stored. On Cristobal Colon Point there are millions of tons of 1t that have never been taken from the crates and packing cases; along, the line of othe canal, even in the densest parts of the,jungles. there are acres and acres of it that was un- loaded from the cars and left to stand idle and neglected. no attempt having been made to preserve 1t beyond coating the, exposed bearing. parts with white lead
 This material includes drainage pipe of the largest diameter ever rolled the piles of which covers acres in the vicinity of Colon;' hundreds of locomotives, Belgian pumps and all their appliances; portable and stationary engines; toisting derricSs; tripods and all the accessories for cable ways; steam shovels and other monster excavating devices; thousands of dumping cars; hulls and machinery for dredges and scows; in short. a more generous supply of every necessary and superfiuous device that the mind of a gang of grafters, bent on realizing commission on contracts,
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demands require the United States to make it; but 1t is there. Its presence at tests the fact that he immense sums erst required to clear the jungle and make an unobstructed path across the narrow neck of land will not again have to be ex- pended. Neither will men by the thou sands be called upon to lay down their lives in the effort to remove the thick layer of decaying vegetable mold which covers all this tropical area.
 Nature of the Work Done.
 That work has been done, and the ex- cavation was carried deep enough by the French to now enable the United States to begin at once the work of digging in comparatively solid soil, where as Sur geon Major Guy l.. Edie, U. s. A., ex- plained in the interview which formed the body of one of my recent letters, there is relatively little menace to health or life. Further: From Colon to Bohio, fourteen miles. and from La Boca northward for about three miles, the canal channel is
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qHE COLUMBUS STATUE.

placed at exorbitanf prices. could. thInk to purchase. 4'
 Advantages We Secure.
 This machinery-none of it Is less, than fifteen years old--is far from being avail able, even after it's renovation.3 Much of it win be found obsolete in the light of the recent gigantic .strtdes made in me- chanical devices. Great quantities of it will, however be eagerly sought by the contractors who will do the actual canal work for portions of 1t can certainly be could newer lad more nEoderh tools. The locomotives. for instance. nsed only. aver hauling to be made serviceable, although they are autiquated th style and of q for eign pattern. The dumping tears. too. need only to be plilIed out ofsthe tansie of reeds and vines in which they are now imbedded to be turned tosservIceableF ac-
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be almost impossible. Of this machinery there are lining the canal on either side of the isthmus countless dredges, mon ster machines that originally cost hum dreds of thousands of dollars each; steam, self-navigatins scows that came from the yards of their builders under their own power; steam launches and inspection and barrack boats, many of which have been sunk to preserve them. In their day these vessels composed as fine and perfect a floating equipment as could be procured certainly there was more of 1t than could possibly have been required had the French plans been wholly intelligent and the management entirely honest.
 pr other machinery there Is an infinite variety. From Colon to Panama the land Is literally encumbered with 1t; the rail road runs through an avenue of frame and corrugated iron magazines where 1t
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CONVICTED OF M0oNsHTNTNG.
John B. Vaughn Will Be Sentenced
 Todav

John B. Vaughn of Coffee County, was convicted of Illicit distiiling yesterday m the United States Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
 When the verdict of guilty was read by the Clerk of the Court yesterday it was the third time that such words had heea heard by Vaughn.
 He has for years been considered by the United States Marshavs Office the most persistent moonshiner in Alabama. His stills have not been confined to e mere pot and worm on a secluded creek bank. but have been of pretentious pros portions and are said to have brought him financial success.
 Vaughn will be sentenced today by Judge Thomas G. Jones.
 No other cases were considered by tha Federal Court yesterday.
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each but later it was reduced to sI.2S each.
 \ furry was created during one stage cf the proceedings when Attorney Kumier. rep resenting the Lorenzes. complained to the court that Postoffice Inspector Walter g. Mayer had been talking to witnesses before they came on the stand Mayer denied the charge. When subsequently, the matter cropped out again and Attorney Kumler said he had positive information that Mayer had com- rnitted tho offence. Justice Prftchard rebuked the inspector and warned him against ita repetition.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-20
BAILoTTNa FoR sENAToR.
Smith Leads in Contest to Succeed
 1EcCounAa

Annapolis. Md, Jan Io.-BalIoting for ( United States Senator to succeed Senator Loull 1s E' McNomus began ins the Legislature today tne Senate and House voting separately
 The vote in the Senate vas as follows; John waiter smith, 6; Isador Raynor. 4; Bernard carter. D; Elihu D. Jackson, q; Joshua Miles, Edwin Warheld [ (aii Democrats), and Louis F. McComas. Republican, 6.
 In the House Of Dalegates the vote vvas as follows; Inith. a; Rayhor. 8; Carter, 4i Jackson, 8; Miles. WarfleId. L; James R AendeFsony g. Gall pemocrats), and Louis E S.cComas' Republican. 3. No election. . '
 He that is not open to conviction ia mi QuaIlned Tor discussion.-Whatley
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-20

All voters between the ages of 21 and 45 must pay their poll tax on or before Feb. 1st or be disqualified from voting in any primary, State or Federal election this year. I
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TRIAL OF MAcHEN ET AIS.
Post Office Inspector is Reprimanded
 by Judge pEitchard.

Washington, Jan Te.-The trial of August W. Macheii and thec others indicted with tnim Tor conspiracy to 'defraud the Government proceed ed rapidly today.
 The Government presented evidence having direct bearings on the dealings of the Grofr brothers with Maehen's division In the post office department. The fact was brought out bv two witnesses representing hrTns which manufactured the Groff fastener that the. price to the Groffs of the complete 4astsnef was 20 cents with a rebate of 5 cents on each fastener. conditioned on prompt settlement of bills. The nrice at which the fasteners were furnished to the Government at first was put at sI.5o
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-20
Information Wantad.

Persons who have been benefited through the use of Thacher's Blood and Liver Syrup will please communicata with "A. H." care The Advertiser of. nee. Adv.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-20

The Daybreak Fertilizers are here. See our adv. Marks & Gayle. -tu-thu-su.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-20
OUTFITS PURE MALT WHISKE
PROMOTES HEALTH AND LOMG LlEE

is an absolutely pure distillation of which builds up the worked-out run-doH, Keeps 1t always in condition to throw
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-05
Garfield's Assassination.

Twcnty-thrce years ago today
James A. Garfield, then president Of
the United States was struck down
by an assassin's bullet in the city of
Washington. Who does not remem-
Der that delightful Saturday forenoon
on July 2, 1881, when President Gar
field in company with James G. Blaine,
his secretary of state, were entering
the Baltimore & Potomac depot and
Charles ]. Guiteau, an offce-seeking
maniac, suddenly appeared upon the
scene as If coming from an ambuscade
and emptied the contents of one of
the chambers of his revolver into the
body Of the president.
The news of the tragedy spread
more rapidly than prairie fire in
dry season and within twenty-four
hours after the fatal shot was fired
there was scarcely a soul between the
two oceans that had not heard of it.
For eighty long days and nights
the president hovered between life
and death, sometimes feeling so good
as to give the nation hope of his re-
covery and other times relapsing into
unconsciousness again. He fought
death hard and clung to life as
drowning man clings to a straw. He
was ever patient and hopeful of his
recovery until the day before his
death when in conversation to q life
long friend who was trying to re-ani-
mate his languid spirits by telling
him that he was destined to live many
years yet in order to accomplish
much good the stricken president
naively remarked, mo, my work is
finished" The next day, September
10, 1881, he closed his eyes in peace
full and eternal slumber.
Since that memorable event anoth-
er chief executive of the nation was
murdered by fiendish assassin. It
was our fellow townsman, friend and
neighbor, William Mckinley. who was
assassinated at Buffalo In September,
1901. Both were born poor boys in
Ohio, within sixty miles OF each other
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-05
Quite Right, Brother.

Youngstown Vindicator: The board
of education of Canton has passed a
resolution fixing the number of mem
bers of the board unGer the new code
at five, all to be selected at large, two
for a term of two years and four for
a term of four years. Now that the
present board of education has taken
the action to fix the size of the new
board 1t is in order fors Canton people
to see to it that the five members to
be elected next fall will represent the
taxpayers and patrons of the schools
and not any political faction determin-
cd to get control of the schools to use
them in its business. Politics has
been busy for some weeks In connec-
tion with school matters in Canton,
and it would seem by this time that
sufficient had occurred to arouse Can
ton people to a realizing sense of the
situation with which they are con-
fronted. At the very beginning under
the new code is the. time to strike the
deathblow to political scheming which
has for its end the control of the pub
lie school system in behalf of party or
factional organization.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-05
PEDESTRIANS
Summary OF Their
Rights.

Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The rights of pedestrians to safe
passage over the streets Of cities and
over the highways Of the rural dis
tricts have a nebulous appearance in
the eyes of the chauffeur, and, to a
large degree, in the eyes of the wheel
man, notwithstanding he has abated
much of the imperiousness once So ap-
parent in him. 1t is not to be under
stood that the chauffeur does not. as
rule. concede the right Of pedes-
trlan to live. He merely couples his
belief In the right with impregnabil-
ity of belief in the duty Of the pedes-
trian to get out of the road-or take
the consequences.
Chauffeurs have been Tearing some
lessons to the contrary of late. Much
to their establishment they have been
taught that the right of the pedestrian
in the street is higher than the right
of te vehicle, even,superior to the right
OF the automobile, no matter whether
Tom Johnson's Red Devil imagines 1t
Is piowing down the ranks OF the oppo-
sition or the scorching chauffeur is
scattering the public like chaff in an
effort to compel 1t to put its blood in
circulation.
The latest and the most unique les
son was that taught by Judge Salzber-
ger, of the Philadelphia common pleas
court, The naughty chauffeur had
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-05

merely run down rheumatic old gen.
tleman, not injuring him severely, but
sending him to the hospital for twenty
one days for repairs. The chauffeur
was arrested and taken before mag
istrate, who fined him $21 and sent
him to Jail for twenty-one days. On
appeal being taken to the court over
which Judge Salzberger presided, 1t
was contended that the penalty was
too severe and that to send gentle
man to Jail was an unusual punish
ment But Judge Salzberger said:
"The pedestrian Is entitled to the
freedom of the streets with reasonable
assurances of safety, despite the COM
ing of the automobile Even though
bent with age, or crippled with rheu-
matism, he still retains the right to
life and to limb. and that right must
be respected. The Judgment of fine
and imprisonment is affirmed"
And when the chauffeur gets out he
will be wiser. The vehicle, no mat
ter of what make, shape, build or style,
has no right on the sidewalks at any
time. The pedestrian has the exclu-
siye right to the sidewalk and an
equal right to that portion OF the
street which is assigned to the vehi-
cle-but not exclusively assigned
and the sooner the vehicle man, espe-
cially the chauffeur of the auto, gets
the idea through his gray matter the
better for him and for the humble pc
destrianl ~
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-05
d Liberty and independence.

AS we read again today the Deciara-
ton of Independence, it recalls the
fact that the idea of separation from
Great Britain was not the primary in
ccntive of the American revolution. It
was a fight for liberty and independ-
ence was sought as the means by
which liberty could be secured.
The declaration makes this plain. 1t
is primarily an assertion of human
rights. The king is denounced, not
because he is the king of England, but
because he is a tyrant, and has usurp-
ed the political rights of the people
and encroached on their constitutional
liberties.
The Declaration of Independence
is essentially a declaration of rights.
Every line of it is based upon the as
sumption, not merely that this coun-
try should be free from foreign inter-
ference, but that all political power
is inherent in the people and that all
governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed.
Thus the American idea, which we
particularly celebrate on Independence
day is not independence alone but
liberty with independence.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-05
SWARM OF BEES
Caused Panic at a Ball
Game.

Des Moines, Ia, July 3.-Three
women tainted and thousand men
and women were panic stricken dur
ing the Western League game between
Des Moines and St. Joseph this af-
ternoon as the result or a swarm of
bees settling down on the bleachers.
Men shouted and stampeded for the
exits while women screamed and faint
ed. The umpire called the game for
Is minutes while the crowd was quiet
ed.