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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
Irving to Probe Diseases.

An intimate connection between influenza
and spotted fever, or cerebro-spinal men
nights, now epidemic in Germany, is sur
missed by some Berlin German investigators
Of the cause of the disease. Scientists ap-
pear not to be fully satisfied that the ba-
cillus meningococcus is the sole cause Of
the disease, since the same bacillus is pres
ent in pneumonia.
The so-called Pfeiffer bacillus. which
causes Influenza. has been discovered in a
number of cases of meningitis. The cpl
demic latterly has assumed a more serious
form in Silesia. In the Beuthen district,
out of twenty-eight cases, seventeen deaths
were reported for the week which ended
April 26. and in the Kattowitz district last
week there were forty-seven new cases and
twenty-seven deaths.
Sporadic cases are now reported daily
from nearly all parts of Germany, but the
physicians do not fear a general epidemic
IN Berlin the population is greatly alarmed
Several deaths from meningitis occurred
here within week, and the sanitary and
police officials are publishing comprehensive
instructions for the public, showing the
measures to be taken to prevent its spread
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
To Test Device to. Prevent Wrecks.

Representatives of railroads throughout
the United ..ates and Canada will gather
at Pittsburg today, at a point near Pitts
burg, to witness a demonstration of new
wreck preventing device which has been
taken up by the Pennsylvania railroad and
experimental on for some time. The new
system, it is thought. may make railroad
accidents very scarce thing. 1t is an
automatic affair applied to the engine.
While it can be manipulated at will by the
engineer, it will also work Independently
should he not attend to it.
1t is an electrical device attached to an
ordinary air brake and sets the brake auto
matically in case of a broken rail, an open
drawbridge, misplaced switch or in case
two trains should enter the same block.
1t also will shut off steam at the throttle
before the brakes are applied by opening
another valve. 1t is asserted by the in
ventors that in case of a broken or de-
rallied wheel the train will be brought to a
standstill very quickly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
EN- ROUTE TO WASHINGTON.
Gotham Entertaining Railroad Dele
gates to the Congress Here.

! About 100 delegates to the international
| railway congress, which meets in this city
next Friday had dinner at SherryS Sunday
| night They are making their headquarters
| In the rooms of the Transportation Club
| and yesterday many Of them took advan-
J tage of the opportunity to visit the points
of interest about the city.
On Saturday the delegations from France
/ and Spain arrived at New York and yester-
| day the English contingent reached there
| ON the Celtic. Among them were Col.
Yorke of the railway department of the
| board of trade H. P. Burt, manager of the
Oudh and Rehilkhand railway, India; Err
nest Correvfn, vice president of the Yver-
| dun and st. Croix railway, Switzerland, and
J. J. MERCER de Melin Of the Lausanne
| Ouchey railway.
M. Felix Sartiaux, interested in the
| Chemin de Fer du Nord, speaking of rail-
| roads in France, said:
! 1--WE have privately owned railroads in
France, but our companies are not so free
as yours. We build the roads and operate
them under concessions from the govern
ment, but most of the concessions Will have
expired between 1850 and 1860, and then the
government will own the lines.
Have you any rebates in your tariffs ?"
he was asked
mo; all our tariffs are strictly regulated
and we are forbidden by law to depart from
them IN any way. Then we have no big as
sOclations trusts you call them, to control
the railroads. All our tariffs are pub
lished, and are open to inspection by ali.
Private cars? We have tried to intro
duce them little OF late but in a very
small way. You know the fruit trade is a
very important one with us. In the straw
berry season. for example. enormous guam
titles are shipped from the south to Paris
and England. company has recently been
formed to build and operate refrigerator
cars for this, but 1t has not proved vesy
successful, and only owns at present some
twenty or thirty cars
Our sleeping ears differ from yours in
that passengers have little cabins, with a
corridor running along one side of the
car"
Today the Transportation Club took the
visitors for tour of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
LORD GRIMTHORPE DEAD.
One Of England's Most Learned Men
Died at Eighty-Nine.

| Lord Grimthorpe edmund BecketO.
whose death at st. Adams, England, was
| reported in The Star yesterday, was born
| in 1916
| Edmund Beckett Denison, or, as he was
known later, Sir Edmund Beckett. was one
of the greatest of modern authorities on
ecclesiastical law and architecture. Born
in 1916, he was educated at Elton and Cam
bridge. of which university he was wran-
gler. He called to the bar in 1911 and
became queens counsel in 1854. For many
years he stood at the head of the parlia-
mentary bar In 1877 he was appointed
chancellor and vicar general of York prov
ince and diocese, and thereafter he took
leading part in questions of church ritual
and discipline, his vast learning being re-
inforced by satircal wit of the most pun
gent kind. His letters to the London
Times, even on the driest subjects, were
admirable reading matter. He was almost
equally distinguished as an architect and
designed, built or restored large number
of churches and ecclesiastical and other
buildings
Fine examples of his work may be found
at ST. Adams Cathedral and at Lincolns
Inn. He was deeply interested in the
mechanism of clocks and president of
the Neurological Institute. The great clock
at Westminster, with its chimes, was de-
signed by him. and he was the creator of
big Ben" whose rich note is heard for
many miles in all directions. He was the
author of many volumes. including Lee
lures on Church Building" Life of Bishop
orsdale," Should the Revised New Tesla
ment Be Authorized?' Astronomy With
out Mathematics Treatise on Clocks,
Watches and Bells 'St. Adams Cathe-
dral,' besides a vast number of pamphlets
and reviews. His Origin of the Laws of
Nature commanded much critical admira
ton by the vigor and clarity of its reason
ing Few men possessed a larger sto.e of
miscellaneous learning, and his intellectual
activity was undated almost to the very
end of his long life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
Mystery Over Death by the Cars.

Jacob Kendle, farmer, who resided near
Cavetown. Md, at the foot Of South noun
tain, was struck by a through freight train
OF the Western Maryland railroad and sus-
tanned injuries from which he died at the
hospital In Hagerstown. Trainmen saw
Kendle lying along the track near Cave
town with his head between two cross ties
outside the rail, but the discovery was
made too late to stop the train. The jour-
nal boxes on the cars struck his head and
crushed his skull. The freight train was
stopped and Kendle, unconscious, was
placed In the caboose and brought to
Hagerstown. He died without recovering
consciousness. Some of Kendle's relatives
believe he was robbed and murdered and
his body placed on the railroad to divert
suspicion. Others believe he sat down
alongside the track and was overcome by
sleep or illness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
New Move to Break Strikes.

Plans set forth in the annual report OF
]. T. Van Cleave. president OF the Cit
zens Industrial Association In st. LOUIS
for the establishment of an employment
department threaten, II carried out, TO
give the trade unions the most formidable
opponent they yet have encountered. The
proposition advanced practically embraces
the organization of the non-union men
under the fold of the Citizens In
dustrfal Association, with a view Of
giving them preference in employment
by business men who are also mem
bers of the association. The assur-
ances Of protection against the union ana
Of continued employment would have eff
feet wherever the non-union men might go.
The department would furnish the enA-
ployers with an ever ready force OF men
of the country and in any craft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
WAS NAN PATTFRSoN'S RIVAL.
Mamie Kinder Won the Chorus Girls
Lover.

A pretty seventeen-year-old Philadelphia
girl was Nan Pattersons successful rival
in the "other love affair which the New
York chorus girl had while Caesar Young,
for whose death she is being tried, was
showering his gifts and attentions upon
her.
Mamie Kinder, 1.-THE prettiest girl in RoX-
boro,' who away from her home and
her telephone operators position in Octo-
Der, 1903 and for a long while was not
heard of, is the one.
She is the wife of Leslie Coggins, the
wealthy young San Franciscan, to whom
Nan Patterson wrote endearing letters
when she Travelled west with Caesar 1oung.
CogginS gave up Nan Patterson to marry
Mamie Kinder. Roxboro folks reading ac-
counts of the Patterson trial, at which one
of Mans letters to Coggins was produced,
noted the name Coggins, and remembered
that this was the man Miss Kinder welded.
The unannounced return of the missing
girl to her parents home, at Pechin street
and Bolton avenue, long after she had been
given up, created a big sensation in RoX-
boro. This was intensified when she intro
duced her husband, displayed numerous dia-
monds he had given her and donned some
gorgeous gowns to show to her friends, who
showered their congratulations upon her
for her fortunate match.
The notoriety of Miss Kinder's romantic
marriage was so great that Coggins did
not especially relish 1t. He stayed here
only a few days. taking his bride with him
to New York and then to California.
1t is now recalled when in RoXboro Cog
gins frequently referred to woman whom
he called Man. and that every time he
did SO his bride. with more or less annoy
ance. would chde him by saying:
"Oh, forget it,!
The revelation just made that she was
none other than the Nan Patterson now
on trial for her life for murder has created
another big sensation in RoXboro.
Mamie Kinder, for whom Coggins gave
up the chorus girl, is a beautiful slender
brunette She bright and vivacous
and tremendously popular in Roxboro.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
Tragedy in Chicago.

Leo Pranikoff, a musician. at Chicago Sat-
urday attempted to asphyxiate hinseir ana
his four children. AS result Pranikoff
and one of the children are dead and two
of the other children are not expected to
live.
During the last few months quarrels had
occurred between Pranikof and his wife.
The trouble eliminated last Sunday, It 10
said. when the man drove his wife from
their house with a knife. Friday the
woman began divorce proceedings against
her husband.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
Philippine counterfeitine.

John e. Wilkie, chief of the United States
secret service. is at San Francisco on his
way to the Philippines to Investigate the
counterfeiting of American silver coins The
work Is supposed to be done by FiIipinos
and Chinese. 1t has grown to such an ex-
tent that the business of the islands is be-
ing seriously menaced.
Chief Wilkie will organize a large secret
force to break up the gangs OF counter
feiters. and on his way to the Philippines
will stop over in Honolulu. where branch
of the secret service is about to be estab-
lished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
May Moving

Disinfect as we'll as clean the
house or apartment you move into.
The former occupants may have left
the germs of some disease. Putty
every suspicious spot with Platt's
Chlorides, the odorless disinfectant.
Sold in quart bottles only, by. drug
gists, high-class grocers and dealers
in housefurnishing goods. Prepared
only by Henry B. Plat, New York.
sp29-my1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
New Theater for Baltimore.

A new buriesque theater, to cost $3.50, 0OO
is to be erected in Baltimore. at Baltimore
stree. and Post Office avenue on the site Of
the old Raine building. by the Columbia
Amusement Company of New York. accord
ing to an announcement made In that city.
A contract specifying that the theater must
be ready by October / will be given out, 1t
is said. as soon as the plans are completed.
II is also said that half g. dozen architects
are preparing plans for the new playhouse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
Chartered by Russian Companies.

The steamers Australia and Montana Of
San Francisco have been chartered to carry
merchandise to the Siberian coast. While
considerable secrecy is maintained as to
the mission of the vessels, 1t is said that the
steamers have been chartered in the inter-
ests of a Russian company having conces-
sions to conduct sealing and fishing in
dustries on the coast OF Siberia The Aus
tralta has been idle In San Francisco for
three years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
Childish Waste of Money.

Amusing stories are told of the childish
disposition of colored people to crafty their
fancies and of their ignorance of the value
of money. One of the largest planters In
the Yazoo valley told me that he paid out
over $1,000 to his negro hands last year and
1t was all thrown away for trif1es. He said
that one of his most industrious tenants
bought a full set of brass musical instru-
ments for $16O, although neither he nor any
member of his family could play upon one
of them. l heard of another who bought
two buggies with the surplus proceeds of
his crop-one for himself and one for his
wife; and other instances were given of the
folly exhibited by weli-to-do farmers.
Another planter told me a story of one
OF his tenants who at the end of the sea-
son had 1914 to his credit and demanded 1t
In silver dollars. When 1t was delivered to
him he put II in raisin box and carried it
about under his arm, showing his treasure
to his friends. He then brought II back to
the office of his employer to be kept safely
for him. For some time thereafter he came
In every day with his wife and children,
and, calling for his money, would dump the
COINS out on table, where the whole fam
lily would play. with them as children play
with blocks In a nursery. One day he came
to his landlord and inquired whether the
latter would let him have for the next sea-
son the same land, animals, tools and sup
plies that he had been using, and, being
assured that there need be no change in
their relations, he took his box of money
uiuei MS arm anu oisappedTeu- lie was
not seen again for month. although there
were ten or twelve bales of cotton remain
ing unpicked In his fields. Some weeks
later the landlord received a letter from
him. written at one of the landings I'D the
Mississippi river. asking for money enough
to bring him and his family home. The
money was sent as requested, and when
the truant returned he explained that he
had spent all of his surplus In travelling.
He had not gone anywhere in particular;
he had not seen or learned anything. he
had simply been boat riding" and "car
riding in different directions with his en-
went along. until his money was entirely
exhausted. From that time until now his
employer has furnished him food clothing
and other supplies and will continue to do
so until his next cropis harvested and sold.
| This man was described as one of the most
reliable and Industrious farmers in the
| county, and this story was told to Illus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01

The Johns Hopkins lacrosse team defeat
ed Lehigh at Baltimore Saturday afternoon
by score of 4 to 8. while the Mount Wash
ington team met defeat at the hands Of
Swarthmore, o to 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
Farms Owned by Negroes.

crease in the ownership of farms and homes
by negroes during the last ten years, but 1t
Is almost entirely confined to those states in
which educational advantages have been
provided for them; and from localities
where schools are most numerous the most
encouraging statistics concerning agricul-
tural industry are reported
1t will surprise people to learn that one
negro out of every ten, counting men, wom-
en- and children, either owns farm of his
own or cu1tivates one on shares. Not more
than one in four of this population is an
adult man, hence those competent to farm
number 1639,543 The negro population of
the south is 1922, 969 and the number living
in the country districts is 6,55S, 173. We
know by the census that 1851 farms are
operated by negroes. OF these 557, ia are
rented, 49, 1877 are owned by the negroes
who work them, and LIZA are managed by
negroes on salary for white owners. This
means that nearly one-half of the adult ne
groes in the south are operating farms.
These farms embrace SO. 233, 1888 acres,
which is an average of 512 acres each. A
negro usually cultivates what is known as
a 'one-mule farm'-that is from twenty to
fifty acres-which requires only the labor of
himself and his family Nearly Is per cent
of the farms operated by negroes are of
this class; about 20 per cent are "two-mule
FARMS, containing between so and 100
acres; 8, rs have between $50 and 500 acres;
2,007 have more than 500 acres, and 486
1 have more than /, coo acres.
You will notice that about one-fourth of
the negro farmers in the United States work
their own lands. The highest average is
found in West Virginia where q per cent
of the negro farmers are land owners; in
Virginia 80 per cent are owners; in Mary
land, % per cent; Florida and Kentucky, 4S
per cent; North Carolina and Texas, 81 per
cent; Tennessee, q per cent, and in the
other states the percentages range from Is. I
in Georgia to 25.4 in Arkansas.
The largest proportion of tenants is found
| in the black belt of Mississippi and Ala
bama, where the land is owned in large
tracts and the negroes have the least edu-
cation and intelligence.
| The assessed value of negro farms in 1900
! was $3.50, 943 1874: the value of the crops pro-
duced upon them during the census year
was 500 1901. l02; the amount paid for labor
was IS. IS9. 792, and the amount paid for fer
tilizers was $5,614, S44.
The average value of the crops upon farms
operated by the negroes was about $3.50.
One-third of them yielded an average of
$500 and one-seventh more than $500. In
proportion to area negro farms are more
productive than those operated by white
men. The value of the products of negro
farms in 1900 was equivalent to 40 per cent
of the assessed value of the property, while
the corresponding percentage for white
farmers was only III per cent. This means.
however, that very little of the land owned
acre, while a comparatively small portion
walton. Negroes produce one-half of all the
cotton of the south, one-third of all the
rice, one-fffth of the tobacco and one
seventh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-01
ARE MAKING PROGRESS
Truth About the Negroes in
the South.
THEY OWN MANY FARMS
ADVANCE Co-INCIDENT WITH
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES.
Coed Influence of Industrial Schools
Proneness of the Race to Waste
Money on Trifes and Travel.
By WILLIAM E. CURTIS.

Special Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald.
Everywhere in the south one hears the
white people deplore the fact that the ne
groes are making little progress in ma
terial sense; that very few of them are
buying lands or homes or cattle or other
property. 1t is asserted that they will not
work half their time, and that when they
get their pay they waste it In trifies and
save nothing. Yet the most encourag ing
statistics concerning the negro race to be
found in the census reports, to which / re-
ferred yesterday, concern their agricultural
industry and the increase of the farms and
homes owned by them. 1t is undoubtedly
true that large proportion are shiftless
and improvident, and have no idea of the
value of money and the advantages of
economy and thrift, but it is nevertheless
true that many are making progress and
accommodating property and proving them
selves useful citizens.
Bishop Galloway of Mississippi who is
one of the truest and most active friends
of the race, estimates that 80 per cent of
material sense and are improving their con-
dition by their own efforts. Other white
gentlemen with whom 1 have discussed
the question are more liberal and esti-
mate that 80 per cent are making progress.
This difference of opinion Is easily ex-
planned. In some places the negroes are
doing much better than in others. There
are spots in the south where they are
pushing ahead while in other localities
they are standing still or going backward,
and it is fact of striking significance that
the most rapid improvement has been made
in every locality where there is an agrf-
cultural and Industrial training school for
the young men and women of that race.
Another fact of striking significance is
that wherever the ratio of illiteracy is low
est, there the largest number of negroes
own their farms and homes, and as the
number of schools decrease the ratio OF
ownership invariably grows smaller.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-04-13

ordinance No. 0S of CITY OF Belding.
An ordinance providing for the issue Of
bonds OF the city Of Belding, Michigan. in
the sum OF sixty-five thousand ($65,000)
dollars, for the purpose Of raising money
with which to construct a general system
OF Water Works within the said city Of
Belding.
Whereas. the city Of Beldng. Michigan,
being city duly Incorporated under a
special aw OF the State Of Michigan, en-
titled An act TO incorporate the City of
Beldlng, in the County Of lona, and State
OF Michigan, being Act No. 8 Of Local
Acts OF the year 1898, and amended by
Act No. 426 Of Local Acts Of the year
1895, and by House Bill No. 48o of the
year 1905.
Whereas, in accordance with the pro-
visions Of said Act, as amended, the ques-
ton OF issuing bonds TO the amount OF
sixty-five thousand ($65,000) dollars, as
aforesaid, and for the purpose of con-
structing general system of Water
Works within said city of Belding. and to
issue bonds therefor, was properly sub
mitted to the electors of said city at its
annual election held on the 5rd day OF
April, A. D. 1908.
And whereas, amajorty Of the electors
voting at said election, voted in the af-
firmative on said proposition,
Therefore, the City of Bedding hereby
ordains:
Sec. /. That for the purpose of con-
structing generaLsystem of Water Works
within said city Of Belding city bonds be
issued in the sum of sixty-five thousand
1865, 0o0) dollars as hereinafter provided
Sec. 2. Said bonds shall be of the de-
nomination OF one thousand dollars
Isl ,o0o) each, numbered consecL-
lively from one to sixty-five inclusive, and
dated the / st day Of August A. D. 1905
and shall become due and payable on the
lst day of August, A D, 1885.
Sec. 8. Said bonds shall bear interest
at the rate of three and one one-half pei
cent $40 per annum, payable annually
| from date thereof on the st day Of Aug
ust in each year, and the several .insta H.
ments of interest shall be evidenced by
coupons attached to SAID bonds, and bott
principal and interest shall be payable as
| they come due at the office Of the City
Treasurer of Beding, Michigan.
Sec. q. Said bonds shall be signed by
the Mayor and countersigned by the CLERK
of said city, and have affixed thereto the
corporate seal Of said city, and said in
terest coupons shall be signed by sale
Clerk
Sec. S. The Mayor and Clerk of sale
city are hereby authorized and dreote d
so soon as practicable, to prepare and ex-
ecute said bonds and coupons. therein
pledging the faith and credit of the city
for the purpose thereof. and when ex.
ecuted they shall be used for the purpos'
of constructing general sys:e Of Water
Works within the said city,
Sec. 6. This ordinance shall be known
as ordinance Nc. 90 of the City of Beld.
ing. and shall take immediate effect
Adopted and approved 10th day {
April, A. D. | 9o5.
WILLIS F. BROKER, Mayor.
VIM. E. FISHER, City Clerk.