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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-10

Washington, n C., Feb. 9.-The
loss on the McNair school building,
furniture and library is estimated at
$9,509 with $1,000 Insurance. The
house near the school building owned
by Capt. David Hill, and occupied by
Rev. Merrett Owen, was damaged to
the extent of $500. Mr.. Owen saved
some of his furniture.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-10

The "rest cure is bound to become
popular with the average man.
Some men are too contrary to give
even their wives a chance to complain.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-10
sENATE-THIRTY-sECoND DAY

There was a large number of per-
sons in the lobbies Of the Senate yes
terday whe were present to hear the
discussion of the Ward liquor bill, be-
ing virtually an amendment to the
Watts law. But in respect to the
memory of Representative Phippe.
deceased, the Senate adjourned at IL
o'clock and the special order was not
taken up.
On motion of Mr.. Ward, it was set
for a special order for today at l..
o'clock.
There was a flood of petitions and
memorials received from citizens,
acking for the repeal of the charters
and for absolute prohibition.
Mr. Crisp introduced a bill which
amends the act relative TO the mar
riage cf Confederate soldiers and their
widows, and changes the date from
1865" TO 1870"
MIR. Jones, of Johnston, introduced
a bill which would require all passen-
ger trains running through county
seats in North Carolina to stop for
the purpose of taking on and putting
off passengers and baggage. This act,
if passed, will become effective after
June /, 1905.
Few bills we're passed, and on the
Der Of bills with favorable reports
from the committees.
SENATE.
The Senate convened at 1880
C7eIqL 9SFd no penunuoo)
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than 1929. This remarkable increase.
too, is in the face of the fact that the
company employs the most thoroughly
organized detective force of any cor
poration IN the world All sorts of per-
sons are engaged in these schemes TO
extort money from this public carrier
and the frequency with which they sue
coed is shown by the court records.
Last year the supreme court made
special calendar for these cases, and
their hearing lasted from the first Mon
day in October to the last Friday in
June The majority OF them were
brought by claimants whose injuries
were not apparent to the unprofession-
al eye, but there was no lack of medical
testimony on that account.
The big trusts use for the Secret se1-v.
ice organization is not of precisely the
same nature as that of the insurance
and railroad companies, but it is equal
~ imperative and quite as well defined.
The Standard Oil speaks of its defee
tive system, which has its heat7os1a rters
at Cleveland, o., as the intelligence. bu-
reau. It is precisely the opposite OF
that-it swallows with avidity every
thing it can learn and reveals abso-
lutely nothing to the outside world IT,
employees are scattered all over the
world wherever the Standard OiPs in
terests require their services, and thew
are without exception men who an
skilled in the art of hearing everything
and saying nothing. It is their especial
duty to know what every employee in
an important position is doing, In order
better to accomplish their mission thew
sometimes are put into the positions Of
bOoKkeepers, clerks and even laborers
Enough has been said to show the
utter uselessness Of making a scare,
for the secret service omces Of the big
corporations and trusts. There #coulj
be found no member of such a business
combination who would be willing to
afford the slightest information on tina
subject. If the president or even a III
rector of one Of the prominent casualty
companies, for instance, were inter
rogated, he would plead Ignorance. ana
it is very probable that he would he
sincere, but the commercial secret
service is not a myth on that account.
ALIEN BEVERIDGE.
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spurious claims. His scheme is known
professionally as the 'bathtub trick"
He began his operations in Providence
r L, where he took out a large policy in
an accident insurance company as the
first step in the trick. Shortly after
ward claim was sent in to the COM
pany representing that the holder of
the policy had slipped on piece of soap
while bathing in a porcelain tub and
had sustained serious internal injuries
A physician testified to the critical ma
ture of the injuries, the company's
medical man attested the report and
the claim was paid. A few days later
the same man injured" himself in the
same manner at EImira, N. z. Again
aided by physicians, he secured the
amount of his claim. Precisely the
same method was adopted in several
other cities and the swindler was
brought to justice only after one of his
confederates had revealed the game to
the police.
Under the contemplated system such
a series of swindles could not have been
worked. The account of the first claim
at Providence would have been made
known to all the other companies, and
the second occurrence would have ex-
cited suspicion and brought about a
thorough investigation. Under the old
system each company bore its losses in
silence There are hundreds of these
travelling swindlers who roam about
the country in the disguise of mechanics
of various kinds and after securing
work on some job manage almost i'm
mediately to sustain some injury, usual
ly claimed to be internal in character
and often faxed most admirably A
claim for damages against the employ
er is fled Immediately and is frequent
Iy compromised to avoid litigation. At
the same time a claim against an acct
dent insurance company is collected
and the alleged sufferer goes on to re-
peat the process of double knavery at
some other place.
Illustrative of the growth Of this
species of imposture it may be men
toned that seven years ago there were
only f1fty-seven claims for damages
brought against the New York Metro
poIitan Railway company in a single
year, while last year there were no less
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-09

and he was also instrumental in replac-
ing the iron rail with one of steel He
was one of the most active prime NOV
ers in making Pittsburg the most i'm
portant industrial wealth producing
center in America.
Under the stimulus of his mastery
oversight and almost unerring good
judgment Mr.. Carnegies efforts in the
development of the Pennsylvania iron
and steel industry We're successful be-
yond the dream of any other than him
self At the time his various proper
ties were turned into the steel trust he
was the largest individual employer of
wage earners in the country. When J.
Pierpont Morgan undertook the task
of organizing all the leading steel and
iron concerns with their allied indus
tries in mining, coke making, bridge
building, structural steel manufacturing
and railroading into one great concrete
whole under the name of the United
States Steel Corporation the prelimi-
nary step in the scheme was the forma-
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and his achievement-the ability to ap-
propriate and direct the wills and brains
OF others as if they We're his very own.
There was nothing sentimental about
his method of securing an answering
devotion to his interests from those who
carried out his plans. In personal mag
netism the little ScOtchman is utterly
deficient and is endowed with few of
the traits which might have made him
a power among his fellows. It was be-
cause he made his service so profitable
to them that Carnegie's lieutenants
yielded him such an undivided and dog
like fealty. He helped them, they help
ed him and everybody hustled This
was the scheme he adopted from the
very first He found it satisfactory in
the conduct of the keystone bridge
works, where he made his first big sue
cess. Afterward, when he had created
the most extensive steel works ever
known he carried this plan to the very
climax of realization. He saw to it that
his twoscore department heads were re-
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THE CARNEGIE E4r1nY

of giants should grow enmities as bit
ter and as lasting as the world has
known, and such was the case. No man
in his upward career has made more
vindictfve enemies than has the little
man from Dunfermline.
But it must be admitted that the
world at large has become exceedingly
tolerant of this man of small stature
colossal wealth and amazing benefac-
lions. It is equally certain that his
prodigal founding of Libraries, technical
schools, hero funds and variety of
educational institutes, his wholesale
distribution of millions to meet all de-
mands-here the supplying of a poor
country church with an organ, there the
gift Of a peace palace to the governments
of the world or the endowment of a
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possible and told how much money they
had cost. It is only reasonable that his
name should be attached to all of the
institutions he POUNDS, and more mural
tablets bearing the name of Carnegie
are already in place than similar de-
vices showing the name of any other
man who ever lived. 1t has been esti-.
mated by an ingenious student of such
matters that by the time Mr.. Carnegie
has erected the full number of libraries
which he purposes to father his name
will be printed 5000, 900 times in the
books alone Nothing short of a COM
plete overthrow of society as it is now
constituted could deprive him of a
fame which viii last for centuries.
In 1901, when Mr. Carnegie retired
from active business, he began to
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warded so generously that most OF
them became miIlionaires. mo favorit-
ism and a share of the business for
those who make it" was his oft re-
peated expression in the formative days
AS matter Of course, power little
short Of actual sovereignty came with
the expansion and an income which
was greater than that of any wearer of
the purple There came also fierce and
uncompromising conflicts with the
other industrial and financial princes,
some of whom antedated the steel po-
tentate and many OF whom were soar
ing contemporaneously with him. It
was inevitable that out of these battles
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speculation and young Carnegie found
many opportunities to add to his grow
ing financial Importance. He did not,
like John d. Rockefeller. discover the
secret of transmitting the crude natural
product into streams of gold, but he
profted largely by selling property
when the price was on
During the civil war Mr.. Carnegie was
of great service to the government as
superintendent of military railroads and
telegraphs. It was after the war that
he began TO turn his attention to the
expansion of the iron and steel indus
try. He was a pioneer in the substi
tuition of iron bridges for wooden ones.
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ton Of the firm of Carnegie Bros. & Co,
limited. This was done in 1900, and
it was followed almost Immediately by
the Carnegie Company of New Jersey.
which was organized with a capital
stock of $3.50. 900, 600 and a bonded debt
of a like amount. The par value of the
shares was $1,000 each. and Andrew
Carnegie was the owner of $86.S82.000
of the stock and SSS.147, 600 of the bonds
When the trust went into operation he
retired from active participation in the
business, leaving the details to the
competent lieutenants whom he knew
how to manage so well.
That is the open secret Of his power
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tirely different from those who had al
ways been close to him. He began to
seek the fellowship of those men of
brains who had not harnessed their
energies to the amassing Of huge for
tunes, but had devoted their intellectual
powers to loftier pursuits. In 1887, when
he was fifty years of age, he married
Louise Whitfield. an estinable New York
woman not of the society set but deeply
intellectual and thoroughly sympathetic
and erected a magnificent residence in
upper Fifth avenue. Although he is on
amicable terms with many of the
worlds multimillionaires Mr.. Carnegie
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name long after most of his most per-
sistent critics are forgotten. They are
the deeds which grow more respondent
as time passes, and no one is more cog
infant of that fact than Andrew Carne-
gle himself
Like most philanthropists. and of
course unlike a few. Mr.. Carnegie does
not shun notoriety in the exercise of
his generosity. On the contrary, he
takes the public into his confidence and
almost insists that it shall be accessory
to his benevolent intent In a recent
public address he furnished a list of the
various library buildings he had made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-09

makes no secret of his preference for
of books are more congenial to him
nowadays than are railroad kings, AMI
the time has arrived when he would
ley, the historian and publicist than
with any man of money on either cone
tinent
Although Mr.. Carnegie and society
folk as they exist in America seem to
have little in common, the sturdy lit
tie man of millions likes to consort with
the great folk of Great Britain. and
when he is occupying his princely Scot
fish estate of Skibo he entertains no end
Of titled persons from royalty down and
in return submits to be entertained by
them on both sides of the water he
takes vastly more interest in men who
are in politics than those in manu-
features, commerce or finance. James
G. Blaine was one of his closest friends,
and it was while taking a coaching
tour through England with the latter
that Mr.. Carnegie gathered the ma
teriaI for his AN American FOur-in-
hand In Britain On the same tour he
met the musician Walter Damrosch.
who married daughter of Mr.. Blaine,
and was greatly taken with him, the
intimacy continuing to the present day.
MI Carnegie's friendship and admit
ration for President Roosevelt are mat
tiers of common knowledge. He is also
proud of the fact that in Mr.. Glad
stones lifetime they were intimate
friends. He has a great collection of
letters written in the Liberal states
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-09
INsrRUCTING A sPoTTER.

surance companies had their inspec-
ton bureaus and express companies
their tracers. The modern commercial
secret service is entirely distinct from
all of that and has been brought about
by the craze for combination among
commercial and Industrial interests
which has seized the American people
during the last few years. and its sole
Office is to protect the great corpora
lions against the army OF professional
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lawyers and not infrequently trusted
employees of the very companies to be
victimized. This species Of imposture
has become so common and the burden
of self protection has become so great
upon the individual corporations that
organization Of protective effort seems
almost imperative-hence the move
ment for the establishment of a ma
tionaI secret service to be maintained
by pro rata assessment according to the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-09

swindlers which followed the trusts and
has camped in their wake intent on
plumber.
In spite OF all their precautions these
powerful business combinations have
recently been the victims of numerous
fraudulent schemes concocted by these
often clever criminals. Gangs Of swim
dlers are banded together for the pur-
pose of establishing spurious claims,
and j. .sue with them are physicians.
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WATCHING A SUSPECT.

capital invested and to be available to
ali members of the association
Under former methods it was pos
sib1e for a clever swindler to work the
same trick in several cities without be-
ing caught A shrewd rascal who re-
Gently came to grief in California made
a leisurely three year trip across the
continent in the course of which he Sc
cured many thousand dollars from no
less than seven insurance companies on
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various Independent
commercial secret service bodies
which have been in existence for many
years. but have never been united in a
national organization. The matter was
not discussed openly at Philadelphia,
but plans were made quietly for a sub
sequent meeting and representatives
from all the known local bodies were
appointed. More than fifty of the lead
ing corporations of the country desig-
mated representatives to assist in the
organization Of a national secret service
and the scheme is rapidly approaching
realization.
Although it is a matter that has been
discussed scarcely at all and concern
ing which very little has come to light,
it is q fact. nevertheless, that the great
trusts and corporations of America have
brought into existence the most COM
prehensive and skillfully conducted Sc
cret service in the world. For reasons
that are obvious the big commercial and
industrial Institutions have refrained
from making public the details of the
service but more than 5000 trained de-
fectives are employed today in this
work. Every large express company
insurance company, construction COM
pany or transportation concern is pro-
vided with its force of expert detectives,
many Of them trained in the govern
rneut. secret service and not few from
The police departments Of the large
cities. The Metropolitan Street Rail-
rva.v company of New York employs
about a hundred. and the Standard Oil
company and the beef and tobacco
trusts require the services Of an equal
number.
This secret service is not identical
,vftb the system which was in force a
generation ago. In those days railroads
had their detectives and spoilers, I7-
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JRING the annual con-
vention of the Ameri-
can Street Railway
association, held re-
Gently at Philadelphia,
an importantmOve was
made toward bringing
into concrete form the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-09

0DREW CARNEGIE'S
recent communication
in the Echo de Paris
advocating the forma-
ton Of a triple ALI
ance between the
United States. Eng
land and France has
not only attracted
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-01-25

200 BLBLIo1EcA DEL BoLETIN MERcANTIL

200 BlBlINlf(t DEL BOIEIlN MERCANTiL
gr9ndes crninales, nj los band1os nj los salteado-
ri os grandes poducos de IA gnorancia de la in
dgenca 81 elias esta represenado ell asesinato 10
por q gun borracho hrut9; el robo por agtin fu
Hero.
Sc halla el truhan el bauGdo Una vez, al echar
la red en- Ia Episc que Paris 10 que 10 acre-
ssardo para Saint Ma6 Ia pocfa cogio Lacenare.
Esas guardas % admiten todo. La caida es una
nvelaci6n al|f la honrad9z harapienta es
sabido que Ia virtud la probidad iene
No debe estmar nvaa Die los Louvres nj des-
pfecar los p-esidos FL respeto pdblico al gua de la
Reproduction universal queren discutidos.
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pera el estercolero halazgcs sombros deslum
bradores Ia que estan 10 posibe. La Jecessar-
de mas bien patio que casa y mas bien ua
p0zo que patio No teni4 habtaclone; que desen
la c2le.
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Los rRABAJADORFs DEL MAR

despues de cenar De esta "a ida resut6 que pudo
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donado cargamento Esto llamo la ateuci6n tratan-
dose de I'm hombre exacto como el.
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amigo el cambsta.
Volvi6 dos horas despuGs de ha er dado Nogucte la
oraci6n Esa campana brasiena da toque las
dlcz; de consgulente va media noche
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resignation.
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con los debereS 1mpneStoS por nue>tr4
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-01-25
JOSE REEVES CaLuER0H

Se ofrece para gcsilonar asunt0s en-
los centres administrative de esia
Capital garautIzardo actividsd cons
tante en las gestiones
Hacc traducciones del irglfs Al oS-
panol v vice versa precios modicoA.
Dire cion san Francisco 81.
San Juan, p r.
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Los automobiles
TRASLADO DE LA AGENCIA

La Agencia de esta empresa Sc ha
trasladedo su nucvo local situado en-
la calle de la Cruz NUN. 4, donde sc
expenden los tiques y Sc daran infor-
mes de todo 10 concerniente este ser
vicio.