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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-26
ROCKEFELLER'S MAN
AFTER MR. GLADDEN.
Shows Where He Has CARRIED
Court Reports
CONFUSED TWO COMPANIES
Starr j. Murphy Says the Doctor
Should Possess Himself of Facts
Before Making Such
Grave Charges.

New York April 25.-starr j. Murphy
of John d. Rockefeller's private, counsel
today issued the following statement by
Mr.. Rockefeller's authority:
In his latest attack upon Mr. Rookie
Teller, DR. Washington GLADDEN. seeks to
make out a case of perjury, and in do
ing SO assumes paternity for a ralsehood
Which has been frequently published dur
ing the past ten years, and until now
never answered.
DIR. GLADDEN. says
The South Improvement company
was one of the schemes invented by the
Standard Oil magnates TO plumber their
competitors and enrich themselves. The
rganization and the methc s of this
company were abundantly proved in
court, and the company was driven out
of business. A few years afterwards, be-
fore "A committee of the New York legis-
lature, Mr.. Rockefeller under oath, took
part in the following colloquy:
There was such company"
- Il have heard of such a company"
'"You were not in it?'
- was not"
40 'fo3' app Pi ioltlH siQuSf OO
help me God On the same day an
other former trustee and one of the
closest associates of Mr.. Rockefeller be-
ing asked by congressional committee
who made up the South Improvement
company, named among them as the
principal members of the Standard Oil
company, and at the head of them ell
stood the name of John d. Rockefeller
DIR. GLADDEN. makes much OF his posi-
ton as an original investigator, and says
that it is within the power OF every in
telligent man to find out from the origi-
nal documents whether the statement is
true not
But unfortunately his statement is
untrue, and his whole charge of perjury
rests upon garbled report. The testi-
mony is taken from "a report of an in
vestigation relative to trusts New
York Senate, 1888, pages 1920. Any one
| turning to that report will find that Mr..
Rockefeller's testimony to the effect that
he was not in such a company did not
refer to the South Improvement company
at ALL but to another and entirely diff
ferent corporation called the Southern
Improvement company There We're two
corporations-the South Improvement
company and the Southern Improvement
company. The Southern Improvement
company was incorporated in Pennsyl-
vania April 16, 1870, and Mr.. Rockefeller
was not connected with it. The South
Improvement company was incorporated
over a year later. May 6, 1871. and Mr..
Rockefeller was connected with II. The
charters of both these corporations are
printed in full In the statutes Of Penn
sylvania, and are accessible to all IT,
DR.. GLADDEN. has mendacousy garbled the
testimony in order to make out a case
there is nothing more to say If he has
done 1t ignorantly and has confused the
names of too corpora tons, he Is scarcely
less culpable, since before making a
charge of serious a character, 1t was
obviously his duty to possess himself of
the facts"
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Lew Wallace's Unwritten Novel.

Lew Waliace's Unwritten Novel.
From Success Magazine"
The great American novel, accord
ing to the late Lew Wallace, was
"Murvale Eastman" by Tourgee-a
book of fifteen years ago. 1t has a
subtitle, christian Socialist and is
a story that few people have read, as
it was issued by small publishing
house. General Wallace thought this
title detracted from its interest, as
people might imagine ii life of So
cialist leader, or treatise on social
ism.
General Wallace himself had in
mind an American novel. He once said
that 1t was his intention to write this
story after he had completed his me-
moirs. His theme was the striving OF
Americans to accomplish wonderful
things in an Incredibly short time.
His hero was to be restless Ameri-
can who lived for few years in Eil-
rope, then in Australia, in Africa, and
in South America, and who, finally,
after years of wandering, returns 10
his own country, only to start again
upon his journey, never satisfied,
never happy, the spirit of an Indian
within him, and the child-like desire
to see new scenes In each of these
countries his hero was to accomplish
worthy deeds, and when he returns to
his own country It is with the inten-
ton Of leading the life of son of the
soil, but his hero finds he cannot do
so. The story would have been sug.
gestive of The Wandering Jew
with the element Of religious contro-
yersy eliminated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-26
MILWAUKEE BANK
FOUND SOLVENT
CIamoring 0epositorS Reassur-
ed by the Statements
MAYOR DEPOSITS 100000
Presented Spectacular Scene as He
Marched Down Street Surrounded
BY Officers, With Half
Million In Cash.

milwaukee, Wis, April 25.-Confidence
has again been restored in the banking
institutions of Milwaukee, and the run
on the First National bank and the Mil
waul<ee Trust company which WAS caused
bv the defalcaton by Frank G. Bigelow,
until Monday, president of the First Ma
tionaI bank, of over $1.00OOO0, is a thing
of the past.
While the two banks affected are en-
tirely separate institutions, the fact that
they occupy adjoining buildings and that
some of the First National banks officers
direct the affairs of the Milwaukee Trust
company caused many of the depositors
to believe that one was part of the
other.
Before the hour of opening of the banks
had arrived meeting of the Milwaukee
clearing house association was held and
a committee of that institution, after ex-
aiming the assets and collateral of the
First National bank, issued a reassuring
report.
This report was printed in large type
on placards and pasted on the windows
of the First National bank and also dis
played in store windows on Wisconsin
and East Water streets. Following this
was a statement issued by the board of
directors of the First National bank an
nouncing with absolute positiveness that
the bank was perfectly solvent.
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Millions of people. of nine different
nations, are constant users of Liquozone.
Some are using 1t to get well; some to
keep we'll Some to cure germ diseases;
some as a tonic No medicine was ever
so widely employed. These users are
everywhere; your neighbors and friends
are among them. And half the people
you meet-wherever you are-know some
one whom Liquozone has cured.
If you need help please ask some OF
these users what Liquozone does. Don't
blindly take medicine for what medicine
cannot do. Drugs never XIII germs. For
your own sake. ask about Liquozone;
then let us buy you a full size bottle to
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SCALE COMMITTEE To MEET.
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers May De-
mand Restoration of Old Scale.

Pittsburg, Pa, April 25.-Arrange-
ments were completed today for the
meeting of the wage committee of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Friday.
Suggestions received at the head
quarters from lodges all over the coun.
try indicate that the committee which
meets next week may demand the res
toration of the scale of 10000. This
will mean an advance of about 20 per
cent for the sheet and tin plate work
ers and probably some change in the
base and an increase in the base of a
boiling scale from $3.50 ton for the
puddlerS to IS a ton
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We Paid 500 600

For the American rights TO Liauo-
zone. We did this after testing the
product for two years. through physi-
cans and hospitals. after proving In
thousands of difficult cases. that Liauo-
zone destroys the cause Of any germ dis
ease.
Liquozone has. fer more than 20 years
been the cons ant subject of scientific and
chemical research It Is not made by COM
pounding drugs. nor with slcohol Its
virtues are derived rolely from gas
largely oxygen gas-by process requir-
ing immense apparatus and IA days time.
T..e result is a LIQUID that does what
oxygen does II is a nerve food and blood
fcod-the most helpful thing II. the world
10 you. It.. elects are exhilnrating. vital
izlng. purifying. Yet II is germicide so
certain that we publish on every bottle
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Reduced Rates Are Granted.

Chicago, April 25.-All railway asso-
Citations In the United States and Can
ada except one have granted the Ma
tional Educational association a rate
of one fare plus So membership, for
the round trip to Asbury Park, N. J.,
and Ocean Grove, n. j., for the forty
fourth convention of the National Ed
ucational association, July 81, 1905.
The exception is the southwestern ex-
cursion bureau, with which action is
pending.
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Now Use LiquOzOne.

an offer OF 81. 900 for IL disease germ that
II cannot kill The reason is tina. germs
ap vegetables and Liquozone-like an
excess of oxygen-is deadly to vegetal
matter
There lies the great value of Liquozone.
1t Is the only way known TO kill germs
In the body without killing the tissues.
too. Any drug that kills germs is a pol
son. and 1t cannot be taken internally.
Every physician knows that medicine
Is almost helpless In any germ disease.
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Pleasure of travelling.

Any trip is a pleasure to those who
travel over the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
way. The best of equipment excellent
service. quick time. beautiful scenery.
Finest dining car service. Polite atten-
ton Convenient schedules. Every COM
fort the most exacting traveller could
wish. New York tickets permit stop-over
of 10 days at Washington. Baltimore and
Philadelphia: also the famous Virginia
Hot Springs. u-11-fri-su-we-tf
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Soc Bottle Free.

II you need Liquozone. and have never
tried 1t. please send US this coupon We
will then mail you an order on local
druggist for full size bottle, and we will
pay the druggist ourselves for H. This Is
show you what Liquozone is. and what IL
can do. In justice to yourself. please ac-
cept It today, for it places you under no
obligation whatever.
Liquozone costs SOC and ST.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-26
The
Urban
Stamp
'II!I;m!l!l!]
1.-THE PLACID PLACE."

VxTHEN we speak of man as urban or urban uh we
~ mean thathe is cultured. courteous and polished;
The primary significance however, is "cltiled,
the word coming from the Latin Urbs, city there IS
no doubt that the urban city stamp distinction TO
the man, woman child upon whom it is impressed.
1t one of the compensatons Of city life BY the same
law Of compensation people who live in rus-the
couny-must pay for the privilege by certain fus1c-
ity-uncouthness or aWkwardness, however Slight
Therefore those whose means permit them to get the
best of Twentieth Century life prefer to dwell IN the city,
1t is still better, however when possible to combine
the city and county fethat is to live in section OF
the city where the air is pure, where there is no dust
smoke nor noise where the birds still sing in the wood
land and at the same time where the churches, the
Schools the tlleaters and other places OF culture and
amusement are within easy reach.
That is the secret of the growth OF Norwood, OF the
prestige which the "Pacid Place" enjoys. 1t is high
above the turmoil and sWeter and yet by rapid transit
it is only few minutes away from the pulSang heart
of the city and has all the privileges which the moor
poraton confers No wonder that the social life there
ideal and every dWeIler is an enthusiast.
Positively the owestpced residence property all things con-
sideed, in the city. Terms easy and equitable.
Birmingham Realty Go.
2ll8 FIRST AVENUE.
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Nine Nations
Won't You Try It-EreeP

: All diseases that begin with fevsr--aii
innammation-all CATARRHAL contagious
disesses-all the results OF impure or pois-
oned blood.
In nervous debility Liquozons acts as
vitaiizer. accomplishing what no drugs
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Germ Diseases

These are the known germ diseases. All
that medicine can do for these troubles
is to help Nature overcome the germs.
and such results are Indirect and uncer-
tain. Liquozone attacks the germs, wher-
ever they are. And when the germs
which cause q disease are destroyed. the
disease must end, and forever. That Is
fpavitahle
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suItan,s Brother Dead.

Constantinople. April 25-The Sui
tan's third brother, Ahmed Kemal, Is
dead
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Clothes for ParSifaI.

The beauty is, they are ready made. Buy to-
day. get the altering through with and be ready
Thursday afternoon for Parsfal. Saks' Tuxedo
and Full Dress Suits are dfferent-and they are
the same-same as the aors yet different in price.
Different from other ready-mades, because better
fitting, yet the same or lower in price.
Just try-we have opened more than one
mans eyes in this respect The other day man
came in to buy dress shirt and tie he was just
from his tailor where he had ordered Tuxedo suit;
for fun he tried on one of our ready-mades and
and bought-saved SIS. Splendid materials, and
scope of sizes that is wide enough to fit all man.
ner of men.
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HOTELS.
BELLEVUE HOTEL.

Lookout Mountain, Gadsden, Ala.
1900 feet elevation. Freestone, lithia,
chalybeate, and sulphur waters. Best
and only up-to-date summer resort in
the state Under the direct supervision
and management of LOUI HART.
Summer tourists rates: Round trip week
end tickets, one fare in family books.
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Asthma.
Abscess-Anaemia.
Bronchitis.
Blood Poison.
Bright's Disease.
Bowel Troubles.
Coughs, Colds.
Consumption.
Colic-Croup.
Constipation.
Catarrh-Csncer.
Dysentery-Diarrhei
Dandrum-Dropsy.
Dyspepsia.
Observation-Disclosures.
Fevers-Gall Stones
Stomach Troubles.
Throat Troubles.
tuberculosis.
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Goitre-Gout.
Gonorrhea-Gleet.
Hay Fever - Inf1u-
enza.
Kidney Diseases.
La Grippe.
Leucorrhea.
Liver Troubles.
Malaria-Neuralgia.
Many Heart Trou-
bles.
f.. Piles-Pneumonia.
Pleurisy-Quinsy
Rheumatism.
Scrofula-S Syphilis.
Skin Diseases.
Tumors-Ulcers.
varicocele
Women's Diseases.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-03-17
How Government Was Fleeced.

gained his freedom, he is more tactiurn
than ever.
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ones. 1t was an inhospitable region,
but the people were afraid to disobey;
and shortly Peters town boosted quits
population. In 1705 the Swedes de-
cided they would like to regain their
lost territory and made attack upon
the town Peter was trying to build.
The invaders were not successful, but
the attempt led Peter to erect a
fortress near the sea, and Cronstadt
was built.
The tsar now had his fortress and
port, and what matter if sometimes the
waters rose and almost drowned the
jewellers in the town, made up of
small islands? The tsar but laughed
and commanded workmen proceed with
their labors. Disease, cold, various
hardships thinned the numbers, but
Peter never gave up his idea of max
ing st. Petersburg a great city. And
presently, after the Swedes were en-
tirely vanquished, the thought Of max
ing it a capital presented itself to him.
He hated Moscow, he would transfer
the capital, make of st. Petersburg a
city that should surpass all other Eu-
ropean capitals.
He ordered the nobility quickly to
change their principal place of resi-
dence from Moscow to st. Petersburg.
He commanded landlords, clergy, gen.
tlemen to build themselves houses here
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| ton treaty did not cover the charge
made against them, which was con-
spiracy to embezzle. The privy council
has decided that Judge Caron had no
right to interfere, and that the crime for
which the two Americans were indicted
comes within the terms of the treaty.
Woman Causes a Quarrel.
During their five years residence in
the Dominion these two fugitives, al
though living in luxury, were socially
ostracized. For long time after they
fed to Quebec the exiles lived in sumptu-
Gus style at the Chateau Frontenac,
where their lavish expenditures amused
and sometimes awed the simple people
of that city. They were together every
day, but they had a quarrel and separat-
ed. For months they were not on speak
ing terms 1t was this estrangement
that led them to abandon their palatial
quarters and take up, separate private
residences.
lie is said that there was a woman in
the case, and that Greene leased house
in the outskirts of the city in the name
of Gaynor, which fact, when he discov-
cred it, was bitterly resented by Gaynor
for domestic reasons. Gaynor declared
to his companions in the barroom of the
Chateau Frontenac that Greene was un-
grateful, and that he would not have
coat to his back were it not for him.
Greene, who is an educated man and the
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that Gaynor and Greene were moving
heaven and earth to hush the matter up.
In December, 1899, Gaynor and Greene
and the other members of the Atlantic
Construction company were indicted by
the United States grand jury at Savan-
nah for a conspiracy to defraud the
United States of $575,9499O. A few
days later the indicted men surrendered
to United States Marshal Shields in
New York.
Then followed long struggle against
extradition to Savannah. Gay Ee9s land
Greene had appeared in Savannah and
had each given a bond of $4,000. Step
by step the case was fought, and when
the United States suprkme court finally
swept away all distractions between
them and their trial, Eaynor and Greene
fled to Canada, and heir bail bonds were
forfeited. 1t is said that the bondsmen
were afterward reimbursed by the fugi-
tives.
The two men went to Montreal first
and then to Quebec.
Kidnapped by Detectives.
Extradition Commissioner Lafon-
tame at Montreal issued warrant for
the arrest Of the fugitives on the ap-
plication of the United States. Then
followed dramatic event On May Is,
1902, party of detectives went to
Quebec secretly with Commissioner La
fontaine's warrant, bounced upon Gay
nor and Greene, thrust them into closed
cabs, put them on the tug Spray, the
swiftest vessel On the st. Lawrence,
and started at full speed for Montreal.
Gaynor shouted from the cab window
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How Government Was Fleeced.
To understand this extraordinary case
it is necessary to recall it's events. On
April "a, 1888, Capt. Oberlin M. Carter,
of the United States corps of engineers,
took charge of the improvement of riv-
ers and harbors at Savannah, Ca, for
which work millions of dollars had been
appropriated. He so managed matters
that the Atlantic Construction COM
pany, consisting of John F. Gaynor.
Capt. Greene and E. H. and w. T. Gay
nor, got control of the contract.
In May, 1897, Capt. Carter was APP
pointed military attache of the United
States legation in London against his
protest. Capt. Gillette, the engineer
officer appointed to succeed him in
charge of the Savannah improvements,
charged Capt. Carter with conspiracy
to defraud the government in connec-
ton with the harbor contracts. In De-
cember, 1897, the secretary of war Or
dered the trial of Capt. Carter by court
martial. The charges were, roundly,
that Carter drew the specifications for
contracts SO that no firm but the Allan
tic Construction company would dare to
bid on the work, that interior work and
materials were accepted and that the
surplus moneys above the actual cost
were divided pro rata between Gaynor.
Greene and Carter.
1t was shown on the trial that these
payments were frequent, and that when
they were to be made Capt. Carter would
go to New York, where he would draw
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suited to their station; and these were
to be of stone. The reply that there
was no stone to be had caused the
intrepid tsar to send forth an edict
that every vessel entering port should
bring in stone proportioned to its size,
every PEASANTS cart certain load.
An edict went forth that nowhere else
should buildings of stone be raised
all the masons were needed at St.
Petersburg. Foundations were laid for
the cathedral of ST. Peter and st. Paul,
the two patron saints; ground Sc
lected for winter and for a summer
palace; sites approved for hotels for
the ministers, for various colleges, and
for an armory. In 1718 st. Petersburg
became capital MOSCOW is still the
official capitaD. At Peters death the
city, but % years old, had a popula-
ton of $4,000 souls.
The branches and canals of the river
Neva gave Peter his idea of modelling
his city after the Dutch towns with
canals all through their streets. To-
day visitors to St. Petersburg are at
a loss how to describe it, with it's
waterways it reminds one. of Venice;
again Amsterdam is recalled. In win
ter 1t is most interesting, it's frozen
waterways populous and presenting a
brilliant appearance. Electric lamps
light land and ice, river fairs often
add to the picturesqueness Some
times colony of Laps make camp
for the winter at st. Petersburg, they
and their reindeer strange feature in
this town that to-day is such center
of fashion and magnificence.
The northenmost capital of Europe
boasts the most magnificent court in
the world. The entertainments given
at the winter palace are far famed,
the ball room there, with the adjoining
concert hall, can accommodate 5000
guests. 1t is said the palace houses
enough people to make a fair-sized
Russian village. Along the principal
thoroughfare of st. Petersburg, the
Nevsky Prospect, one can travel five
miles and find palace succeeding palace,
costly monuments and public buildings
of number. The bridges, of which
the city has almost 200, add no small
degree to the unique character of the
city.
Everywhere one is reminded of Peter
the Great and Of Catherine the Great.
A mammoth equestrian statue of the
former stands, in Alexander garden;
in Alexander square is the famous
monument to Catherine: gallery and
library bear innumerable reminders of
these two master spirits.
Mention must be- made of the i'm
perial public library and its immense
collection of books and MSS, the nu-
cleus of which collection, by the way,
was the 100000 volumes taken as
spoils of war when Warsaw was cap
tured. Mention must be made of the
Hermitage, built by Catherine, and
where she held her famous salon; of
the admiralty building, the Academy
of Fine Arts, the cathedrals., On the
spot where Alexander the Second was
assassinated a great church now
stands CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER
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ter. The dates of the checks thus drawn
correspondent with Carriers visits to the
Union League club in New York, of
which he was member. 1t was esti-
mated that Carter's share of the plum
der amounted to $722,52S.
Capt. Carter Convicted.
Carter was tried by court-martial.
found guilty and sentenced to a fine of
$4,000 and five years Imprisonment, be-
sides being dishonorably dismissed
from the army. He has expiated his Of
tense and has regained his liberty.
It took long time to secure Capt.
Carter's punishment, and it was said
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that amusement now. On the other
hand, Capt. Greene, who lives with his
wife and servants in an equally fne.
house in the same quarter of the city,
is practically a recluse and sees nobody
but on the strictest business, applying
himself entirely to study. In spite of
their money, in spite of the clique OF
lawyers and politicians who have, for
pay, helped them to defy justice, public
sentiment in Quebec regards these two
fugitives with scorn. Greene alone
seems to understand the real bitterness
Of his lot. And now that the privy coun-
Gil has overturned the plot by which he