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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-04
Battle OF ReamS Station.

To the Editor: In your issue of
The News and Observer of 2Sth inst,
note a communication from Com
rade Robert w. Joyner, late Captain
Company e, 9th Regiment of n. G..
Troops, and now of, Richmond, Va, in
which he evidently wishes to make
some corrections in my communication
which appeared in The News and OBJ
server of 21st inst, My Recollections
of The Battle of ReamS Station"
offered my apology in advance for any
error | might make as | was writing
from memory, after a lapse of forty
years. / assure Comrade Joyner and
every other comrade who had the
honor of being in the Battle of Reams
Station. that l intended no reflection
on any troops and would not if |
could, rob any comrade of the honor
of being a participant in the most
brilliant achievement of the Confed-
crate arms.
l know that the Goth n. G. Regi-
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imprisonment varying in length with
the supposed seriousness of the
crime is dscredited. We are feeling
our way to a more rational method of
preventing crime, securing the re-
form of offenders who are willing to
be reformed, and the rescue of chill
dren who display premature symptoms
of wrong-doing by bringing to bear
upon them educational and forma-
tive influences in their youth, and pre-
venting their association with harden
ed criminals one of the most i'm
portant single steps in this thorough
going reform is the hearing and de-
termination of charges against chill
dren in a district court, entirely re-
moved from association with adult
criminals"
This is known as the "JuVenlne
Court system" and has been success
fully adopted in many cities and
States. The preventive work of re-
formatories and juvenile courts is
lessening the volume of crime in those
States. The law recently passed by
Pennsylvania secures the following
safeguards to the children Cd Sep
arate time and place of trial without
Indictment. CD Probation officers in
ever county. CD Room or building
separate from Jail or police station
for children awaiting trial. ca The re-
quirement that one institution may
not receive both dependent and de-
Enquent children. CD The require
ment that magistrates may not COM
nit children to the reformatiVe in
stitutions. but that such commitment
must be made through a juvenile
court. Probation officers are usually
volunteer assistants. They should be
carefully selected. Some States pay
them.
Fifteen thousand cases have been
disposed of in four years in the court
of Chicago Judge Ben Lindsay, of
Colorado. shining example of the
"chiId-sayer." says of the financial
side. 1.-The criminal court method of
handling juveniles cost our country
an average of $42 for each case han
died in court, expenses, etc. 1t now
costs about $40. The criminal court
convicted and sentenced nearly all
for crime. and sentenced seVenty-five
per cent. to iails or reformatories The
Juvenile court convicts no. child for
crime. and is compelled to send only
about five per cent. of probationers
to the industrial school (reformato-
ry). 1t sends none TO jail ana the
detention house will about abolish the
Jail for children.
The Juvenile court being civil
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ment occupied the extreme right of
our charging column and no othef
troops were in sight on our right when
the assault was made, neither did /
know of any troops on our left except
the regiments of General McRea' s
Brigade. My recollection is that there
was some troops in reserve, ana /
heard there was a Virginia Brigade and
possibly a part or all of Il Mississippi
brigade and it is probable other
troops that / knew nothing about. !
think that history will sustain me in
the assertion that but little was heard
of General Hancock's Corps after the
Battle of Reams Station, Va. August
25th, 1864. The Battle of Gettysburg,
Pa, in which Comrade Joyner says
we met Hancocks Corps and it was
not then annihilated, was on July 5,
1S63-one year or over before the
Battle of Reams Station, August 25th,
| 1864. l do not know that McRae'S S
| Brigade was in any regular engage
ment after the Reams Station victory,
up to the surrender at Appomattox
Court House, Virginia.
| hope Comrade Joyner will do the
survivors of the Battle of Reams Sta
ton the kindness to tell what part his
regiment, the 27th N. c.. and brigade
took in the Battle of Reams Station,
also Lanes brigade and any other
troops present.
w. r. UTLEY.
Apex, n. c., Sept. 3, 1904.
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court with officers provided, did not
cost the county one additional cent.
1t is also satisfying to know that the
Governor of the State, in his last
message to the assembly, called at
tention to the saving to Colorado in
the court alone by the different
method of dealing with children, of
over $4,000 in cash. Considering the
far-reaching effects and influences of
some wayward boy, and the awful eX-
pense which every State is under in
furnishing criminals, it demonstrates
beyond any other incident, in my own
experience at least, in our own Jurls-
diction, that it really is wiser and
less expensive to save children than
to punish criminals"
The reformatory is a public neces-
sity. Every day the newspapers re-
cord the incarceration of children.
They are sentenced to the. peniten-
tiary and convict camps. Last week
six were sent to the Guilford camp
six are now in the Durham county
Jail Children are often allowed to
go, but to return to the immoral at
mosphere of what can be called
"home" only by flight of the imagi-
nation, what then? They will inevi-
tably offend again and eventually END
in the States prison.
The reformatory must come. be-
lieVe that with concerted effor
among it's advocates and friends i
will be established by the next Gen
eral Assembly. with it should be pass
ed a juvenile court law This mus
prohibit the public trial Of children
under sixteen and their incarceration
in iaiIs. The judge releasing them OF
probation or committing them to tn,
reformatory. First offenders put OIL
their honor with a probation officer t
encourage and uplift them. The re
formatory should be reserved for th'
incorrigible. / understand that som
of our eminent judges are studyin;
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vest; fourth prize, one pair of leg
gings.
Inc closing event of the evening viii
De a prize waltz, for which a gold
medal goes to the lady and a handsome
SILK umbrella to the gentleman, win.
ming the first prize
Inc management has secured suffi-
clent steamers, in addition to the elec-
lrlc car service to handle the immense
thron" of people that will visit Pine
Beach on Labor Day, 1904, which is
conservatively estimated to be al
least $4,000
The executive committee who have
charge of the arrangement is com
posed of ID. J.Reardon, chairman; I.
II. McCracken, secretary, and G. l..
Johnson, of Portsmouth; II. l.. Hullcr,
j. b. Clinedinst, and l.. A. Hall, treas
urer, of Newport News: G.. f. Norwood
and e. S. Cheek, of Raleigh.
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PLEA FOR CHILDREN
Philanthrophy in Which
N. C. Should Lead.
A Movement to Prevent Crime Which
Should Receive the Hearty En-
dorsement of the People of
the State.

To the Editor: The case of the
infant eight years old imprisoned in
the Fayetteville jail referred to in
your editorial, should arouse our
thinking people to the necessity of
changes in our laws when the age of
accountability is seven years, and
babes of eight and adults of fifty, are
amenable to the same statutes! Phil
anthropists agree that sit is easier and
cheaper to prevent crime than to
punish it," l quote from Charities, -
of New York:
"The probation system, the indie
terminate sentence. suspended SEN
tenc, discharge on parole, and the
plan of permanently segregating ha-
bitual criminals are all SO many in
tegral parts of a comprehensive and
radical reform of the penal system.
The old idea that each offence was tC
be expiated by a definite period OF
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-04
MAJOR VIII. SMITH.
One of the States Sunny
Hearted Men.
A Captain of Industry in Business A
General of GeniaIity as He Makes
Happy Those With Whom
He Meets.
BY EDWARD Il. BRITroN.

This article is to be concerning u
man. There is not a word of sensa-
ton in it, there is nothing but fact.
But if you want to read a few things
about an all-round mans man you are
invited to continue.
This is not a sketch of the life os
Major W. II. Smith. of Goldsboro for
have not asked anybody for any
information about him, nor have /
searched past files of papers to see
what he has done. for he has done
things and done them well. It's just
about Major Smith as | knew him, as
l found him at the encampment of
the North Carolina National Guard.
lately held at Morehead City.
Major Smith was there ON duty as a
member of the staff of the Quarter
master General of the State Guard, and
not alone did he perform his duties
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-04
PROGRESS AT OLD FORT.
Telephone System 10 be Put in-Num-
bers OF Buildings Gong Up.
lSpecial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer
Old Fort, N. c., Sept. 3.-Old Fort
will soon have a telephone system in
operation, the wires are being put up
now.
The population of our town has
doubled itself within the last year.
The census was taken a few days ago
and we find w have one thousand in
habitants.
A number of new buildings are be-
ing erected just now. Mr.. j. >. Brad
ley is putting up two new brick stores,
one to be used by himself and the
othr one will be occupied by Mr.
Harris of the Bee Hive. Mr. George
Sandlin is putting up the new build
ing to be used by the bank, he is also
erecting a very handsome residence
on Main street.
| Sheriff Mashburn is soon to lay the
| foundation for his new residence, on
| the same street.
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MAY ABANDON CRUISE.
North Carolina Naval Militia Will
Probably be Disappointed This
SunImC".

The Wilmington Dispatch has the
following:
Discouraging news has been re-
ceiyed in regard to the proposed
cruise Of the North Carolina Naval
Brigade. While Commander T. c.
Daniels, of New Bern. had nothing
official to say about the matter. it was
learned from him that he is not at all
encouraged at the prospects and he
sees very little to give hope that the
cruise viii be held this year.
There was some misunderstanding
about the matter in Washington and
it now looks as il the cruise of the
North Carolina militia will have to be
abandoned. The cruisers Yankton
and Hornet, which the government or
dered put in readiness to take the
naval reserves of this State to sea,
have now been ordered on other duty.
The Yankton has gone to Newport,
T. l., to act as q tender to the torpedo
boat squadron and the Hornet is now
on her way to Key West with naval
supplies.
Commander Daniels expects to hear
something definite from Washington
this week, but he has very little hope
or carrying out the original plans for
the cruise.
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satisfactorily to the capable and genial
Col. Francis \. Macon, Quartermaster
General but in every way in his power
ne made the encampment source OF
pleasure to the men. women and chill
lren with whom he came in contact
at Morehead City.
Major Smith has won as his right
more titles than that of Major. He is
one of North Cardinals Captains Of
Industry and Generals of Geniality. HQ
is a sunny-hearted man and he is &
worker. His career as one of the best
and most successful business men of
Goldsboro, where he has manufacture
ing and other enterprises is known. No
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this subject with the object of proba-
bly, proposing such a law for our
State. The State Board of Charities
endorses it.
The press is the magnet which
draws the best from all thoughtful
people. VIII you not give this letter
space in your paper, thus calling at
tentiOn to this subject that it may
be discussed? '"There is no work sc
important or so Grand and noble in
it's results as that for little children
DO not hesitate, then, to protect them
from neglect and vice and to aid them
in the development of upright char
acter.''
DAISY benson,
Secretary State Board of Public Chari-
ties.
Raleigh, N. c.. Sept 3, 1904.
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one who has been with him for five
minutes but viii recognize that he is
sunny-hearted, generous, kind. He is
of that class Of men whose hand
clasp is pleasure, whose smile lights
up his face and your heart.
He does not know that l am writ
ing about him, and that l am going
to print his picture. In fact the pic
ture is meant as a surprise to him. 1t
shows him in his uniform as he was
seen at Morehead City and it will recall
to hundreds and hundreds the many
pleasures received through him at the
.(Continued on Page Two.)
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TWO days court last week. When
dld It ever happen III Chatham county
under fusion rule? says the Pittsboro
Enterprise.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-14
BOLT FROM SKY
KILLS OFFICER
Nathaniel E. Bower, an Army
Lieutenant, Is Struck by
Lightning on Target Range
DEATH INSTANTANEOUS
Popular Graduate of West
Point Meets .Untimely Fate
While Watching Riflemen
Special Dispatch to The Call.

FORT LEAVENWORTH. Kansas.
June 13.-Second Lieutenant Nathaniel
E. Bower of the Engineer Corps was
instantly killed on the rifle range this
afternoon by a bolt Of lightning. The
lieutenant was on the firing line with
his men and was watching the distant
targets through his field glasses when
the lightning struck out of an almost
clear sky The lieutenant was struck
in the shoulder and instantly killed.
A wide, red scar showed the path OF
the current.
Lieutenant Bower was from Moores-
burg Penn, and a West Point grad
uate of the class of 1901. He was en-
gagged TO be married soon to Miss
Nickerson of San Francisco, who Is
now at the post visiting her sister,
Mrs. Captain Deakyne. The engage
ment was announced but a few weeks
ago. Bower was known as an excep-
tionally bright and studious officer and
was very popular.
Shortly after the tragic death OF
Lieutenant Bower, a guardhouse pris-
oner named John Kelly, of Company
B, Engineers, was almost killed by the
accidental explosion of a cartridge. The
shell had been thrown into garbage
pile by some soldier and later one OF
the cooks threw some ashes in the can.
Kelly was emptying the can into cart
when the shell exploded.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-14
OFFICERS HUNT
FOR GREENW AID
Government Inspectors Find
That He Is Again at His
Old Tricks of Smuggling
CONFEDERATE CAUGHT
Evidence Obtained That Chi
nese Have Been Admit
ted on Bogus Certificates
Special Dispatch to The Call.

TUCSON, Ariz., June 13.-The Bureau
of immigration for Arizona and New
Mexico has discovered that there are
between two and three huRdred
Chinese in the two Territories who
carry Illegal certificates and who have
been smuggled across the line.
Charles T. ConneI. Chinese Inspector
at Douglas, and V. NJ. Clark. a special
agent, have just captured c. A. Spring
stine, head of the gang of smugglers,
which furnished the Chinese with
fraudulent certificates and smuggled
them into the United States.
Louis Greenwald, an old San Fran
cisco smuggler and the real head of
the gang, is still at large and is be-
lieved TO be in Victoria. British Colum-
bia He visited Cananea, Hermosillo
and Guaymas several months ago. Sc
cured agents in each place and gave
Springstine a complete outfit for man
ufacturing Chinese certificates which
can hardly be told from the genuine.
Greenwald was TO receive a commits
sion on all certificates sold and accord
ing to Springstine. who made con-
fession, Greenwald went TO Victoria TO
return with a shipload Of Chinese,
WHICH were 10 DC SIluEEitu lillV AilC
United States and supplied with certi-
ficates at 500 per head. Greenwald
was convicted of smuggling at San
Francisco in 1892 and sentenced to a
term Of six years in San. Quentin.
The Chinese inspectors on the inter-
national line knew that the smuggling
was going on but could not locate it
until. after three months, Inspectors
Connell and Clark found that Spring
stine was issuing the certificates.
Clark posed as confederate or
Springstine and secured the confidence
of two Chinese who had purchased
certificates. The exact location of the
plant was discovered and with the per-
mission of the Mexican authorities,
COnnell, Clark and other American and
Mexican officers raided the establish
ment, arrested Springstine and took
possession Of the outfit, which included
a supply of bogus certificates, stamps
for filling them in. limitations of the
original signatures and a bogus seal,
with the following impression: 20. NJ.
Welburn, Internal Revenue Collector,
First District, California" This name
and title was signed to all of the bogus
certificates.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-14
CURATOR'S ZEAL
CAUSES A ROW
Scientist at Honolulu Mu-
scum Imports Specimens
Objectionable to Farmers
VIGOROUS PROTEST MADE
Arrival of Giant Crab Con-
signed to the Professor
Arouses Planters to Action
Special Correspondent Of The Call.

HONOLULU, June 4.-The Bishop
museum in Honolulu has curator who
is enthused with science and seemingly
has the bump Of destruction largely de
veloped on his Uranium. Prof Brig
ham loves TO study insects, bugs. birds.
crabs and any old thing that most peo-
pie shrink from with horror. If he can
get his specimens alive SO much the
better for science. But this is where
he runs up against sugar planters, live
stock men, farmers and foresters who
fear the curator's live stock may breed
too freely and be scattered far and
vide TO the detriment Of invested capi-
tai
Recently Brigham imported some
kea birds from New Zealand. They
are notorious as sheep destroyers. An
appeal 10 the trustees of the museum
resulted in an order 10 Brigham TO kill
the birds. But the curator ignored the
order az he runs the museum. Another
attempt on the part Of the professor
TO import & destructive pest was frus-
trated by the customs authorities. \
communicating crab was the latest
agent Of destruction that Brigham
wanted 10 study" The crab was
brought 70 Honolulu on the steamship
Ventura from Tanning Island. The Gus
toms authorities held up the crab and
refused TO pass il. An appeal TO the
Inspector was made by a representa-
tive Of the museum TO admit the crab
alive II was admitted that the crab
was a female and that the importation
Of the creature alive might lead TO an
increase Of the breed in these islands
IT was argued that the crab was to be
studied for scientific purposes. The
collector decided that he would pass a
dead crab with better grace than q live
one. so he ordered the crab destroyed.
In view OF the request that the i'm
pOrters wanted 10 preserve the era b
for mounting purposes it was decided 10
chlOrOform the crustacean. which was
killed al the Oceanic warehouse. The
creature was very powerful specimen
Of the crab family. Its big claws
would have enabled il TO climb the
largest cocOanU tree. The crab climbs
trees and eats cocoanuts. II is very
destructive and has become a serious
pest in the countries where ii abounds
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-14
'THIRTEEN CLUB" MEMBER
ENDS LIFE WITH BULLET
Wealthy German Follows Example
Set by Other Members of the
Organization.

NEW YORK, June 13.-George
Wagner. a wealthy German resident
of Bridgeport, Conn, committed suf-
eide by shooting himself with a re-
volver at the Morton House last night.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, June 13.-
Wagner was the moving spirit of\a
club of well-known German residents,
first organized as a "13" club. Later
on, one after another of the congenial
spirits began to die by suicide. That
gave rise to the report that there was
a suicide club" in Bridgeport, an al
legation which was stoutly denied by
the Germans who made Wagner's
place their headquarters. 1t is note
worthy that practically all of the men
who were formerly identified with that
organization have died by their own
act. There is said to be one member
left who is jeweler here.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-14
CONSIDERATION FOLLOWS
WORDS OF SALVATIONIST
Address of Mrs. BalIington Booth In
Fashionable Church Makes Con-
Sregation Uncomfortable.

NEW YORK, June 1S.-In an ad-
dress at the Madison-avenue Re-
formed Church Mrs. Ballington Booth
has caused much CONSERVATION among
the members of the fashionable con-
gregation. She was speaking of work
in the State prisons of the country and
success in the reformation of so-called
"habitual criminals
L see before me many examples of
what the love of Jesus Christ can do
for habitual criminals" she said. Il
sec here former convicts with their
wives and some even with children"
Many of the listeners looked at one
another as if each felt that a neigh
Dor might be one of those to whom
Mrs. Booth was referring. Suspicious
glances We're cast and many looked
askance to see q telltale blush, but
none was observable and Mrs. Booth
continued her remarks, assuring the
congregation that she did not intend
going into details.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-14
rrins EAST From the WorId's Fair.

california and Pacific Coast visitors
70 the st. Louis Worlds Fair who may
wish to journey eastward can reach
principal cities and towns without chang
ing cars by going over the Vandalia-
Pennsylvania lines, the shortest route
from St Louis to the East. A regular
daily service of seven through fast exc
press trains from st. Louis to Pittsburg
and the East enables passengers to leave
the Worlds Fair city at convenient
hours throughout the day. Purchasers
of first-class tickets to Philadelphia or
lines may have them routed VIA Wash
ington for the asking, permitting visit
of ten days at the national capital and
Baltimore. For further information
communicate with E. M. Pomeroy, 621
Market street, San Francisco. Cal
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-14
EASIER TIMES
FOR STUDENTS
Princeton Faculty Makes
a Complete Revision of
the Undergraduate Courses
TRUSTEES PASS ACTION
Change Announced as Most
Important Since Reorgani-
Zati0n of Studies in 1870

PRINCETON, N. j.. June 13.-The
Princeton faculty to-day announced
complete revision of undergraduate
courses of study leading to the bache-
lor's degree. and the action has been
passed by the trustees.
1t is the most important restatement
of the Princeton course of study that
has been made since President McCosh
reorganized the course in 1870 Candl-
dates for the bachelor of arts course
will be examined in the following SUD
jects only: The classics, mathematics,
English, one modern language and his
tory, and candidates for the courses of
bachelor of science and bachelor OF let
ters will be examined i'm mathematics
elementary physics, Latin, English his
tory and two modern languages. There
will be reduction in the number TO be
taken. each student taking five instead
of seven studies each term, with con-
sequent increase in the amount OF time
given to each course in order to make
it more substantial. Provision is also
made for insuring cOherency and con-
tinuity In the elective choices without
interfering with the students full free
dom after this essential condition for
the exercise of freedom has been COM
piled with.
Princeton continues to stand for the
full four-year college course, consisting
solely of liberal studies and organized
under as many, and only so many,
bachelors degree as represent the lead
ing types of liberal education. Full
recognition is made of the increasing
class of students who come to college
without Greek. Those who come to
Princeton without Greek will be thor
oughly drilled in Latin and will be ex-
pected to replace Greek by an addi-
tional amount Of mathematics and
modern languages. Both the classical
and modern sides are thus organized
on equal terms.