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New-York tribune., 1906-11-12

the long account did not derive some encourage
ment from the liberal shipments abroad. Specu-
lators awaited impatiently the publication OF
official ginning returns and when they showed
an increase of only 435, 900 bales compared with
last years figures there was a slight rally
from lowest prices. The grain markets moved
within narrow limits. wheat losing all the ad-
vance of the preceding week. although there
was the same supporting influence of small re-
ceipts on account OF inadequate railway facili-
ties But the movement out OF the country
was also disappointing. and consumption by do
mestic millers made a very poor comparison
with the flour output year ago.
Scarcity OF labor is still the chief drawback
to industrial activity. although railway block
ades also interrupt to some extent. Demands
all that could be desired in the leading
branches of manufacture, and 1t is the excep-
ton when comparisons with last years figures
do not show a substantial increase. New Eng
land footwear factories are nearing the end Of
duplicate fall and winter orders, but there Is no
lack Of spring business TO maintain activity of
machinery Cutting has begun on spring goods.
and travelling statesmen receive large orders for
delivery next year. The leather market is very
strong. though quiet. but hides begin to show
the usual seasonable effect OF poorer quality.
which will soon bring lower quotations for the
current take-ofr. although hides of good quality
will be weaker. Cotton mills are sold so
far ahead that there is disappointment over
the decrease in new business account Of the
decline in raw cotton. On the contrary, this
check to speculation promises more permanent
prosperity in the industry. Woollen goods are
in better demand. and there is a good move
ment of raw wool. The iron and steel industry
continues to make splendid progress, another
advance In quotations for pig iron failing to
check the demand
New-York tribune., 1906-11-12
THE PRESIDENTS PROGRAMME

The Presidents programme for his Panama
"Trip is quite characteristic OF him. IT is emf
nenty practical and businesslike. He is going
10 the istnmus primarily and principally 10 look
after American interests and 10 acquaint him
self with them. above all, OF course, the canal.
which is the sole reason for American occu-
patton OF the isthmus He will, therefore spend
most Of his time on the line of the canal. from
the hideous swamps at Cristobal and the site
Of the proposed mud dam on mud founda
ton at Gatun, through the cut at Culebra,
which is considerable ditch, but not the phe-
nomenal monster which some exaggerated i'm
aginatioDs have pictured it across the volcanic
terraces Of Panama, and so out 10 deep water
among the idyllic islets IN the Bay of Gains
The time which he has allotted 10 himself is
q good deal more than the 2S hours and 10
minutes in which q former distinguished Wis
ttor achieved omniscience, and there IS no doubt
that he viii, with his alert observation and
quick comprehension, secure an accurate and
efficient understanding of the whole enter
prise.
IL VIII be noticed, not without some regret
that he finds himself compelled to decline most
of the social attentions which the bosnjtsble
ana cultivated people of Panama would delight
10 lavish upon him-rcgret not because he de
clineS these things in favor OF the more practi-
cal phases OF his visit, but because there is
not time for both. He has even declined the
invitation, rendered through Mr.. Obaldia. 10 a
public state banquet. He will however be
entertained al the Government House and that
single incident viii be sufficient 10 emphasize
The fact that he has smashed one Of the most
sehseless or our national supersttions by Wis
iung foreign land and becoming the guest Of
Its Chief Of State. In this lie viii invest that
youngest Of tho worlds nations with the UNIQUE
distinction Of being the only one that has ever
entertained an American President
III is an agreeable and inspiring circumstance
ulat be is 10 give one whole evening 10 the
employees Of the Canal Commission, in the course
or which be viii probably make 10 them the
only extended public address OF his whole trip
We can imagine that that viii be the part OF
ms programme which viii be Of most interest
10 MIN, and perhaps also % most profit 10 the
nation and its enterprise on the isthmus II
VIII greatly cheer and inspire the "boys"-as
We should not be surprised ar his calling them
Ihere have been innumerable falsehoods pub
Ashed about them, the conditions OF their
WORK ana their feelings toward the govern
ment which they have bitterly resented but
winch they have been pOwerlcss 10 contradict
eHe'flVely. IT win be gratifying 10 them 10
kn0w MAT The truth concerning them is known
through his personal observation. By The Chief
New-York tribune., 1906-11-12

Concrete has not invariably justified the con-
fdence of its users and advocates, but story
comes from Tunis. IN Northern Africa, which
shows that this material will sometimes hang
together under rather trying circumstances. A
fve-story warehouse. erected in a marshy part
of the city. showed a disposition to assume the
attitude Of the famous Tower of Pisa. When 1t
was tilted over at an angle OF 25 degrees from
the perpendicular the task Of making 1t once
more strictly upright was undertaken. The OBJ
Ject was attained by undermining the highest
side, and in the end the structure stood at a.
considerably lower level than was originally
contemplated, but It is said to have remained
as intact as If it had been single block of
stone.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-12
Nsa21prk Daap Gribnn,e
MONDAY. NOVEMBER u. 1906.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-tA report circulated in Paris that
King Alfonso had been assassinated in Madrid
was denied == Three policemen were killed
and four wounded by p bomb in Tifiis. ==
Mount Vesuvius was quieter. 80 II was stated
tn Paris that there were over ten thousand less
births in France in 1905 than in 1904. -
More than hundred were sent into exile
at Ekaterinoslav and KishineH for minor politi-
cal offences = All the electoral committees
pressed and their functions have been trans
ferred to the town councils. - King Leopold.
lumbago. - The Vatican, it was said in
Rome denies the reports which predict rup-
ture between Spain and the Holy See.
DoMEsTIC.-A wireless message from the
Tortugas. Fla. said that the President was
greatly enjoying HIS trip; with Mrs. Roosevelt
of Surgeon General O'Reilly of the army shows
the condition OF health among the troops is
good; he compares the health OF American
troops with those Of foreign governments; more
officers are wanted for the medical department.
80 Mrs Robert Dey. Of Syracuse. reported
tbe -heft OF ienelrv valued al IS coo TO the
police of that city. --- Members Of confed-
crate camp in New Orleans have had In
scription in honor of the Army OF Virginia,
Army Of the Potomac, removed because the
word revolt" IS used I'm reference TO the CiVil
War. == The sum Of S30oNo has been given
FOR tho greater University of Louisville on con-
dition that a like be raised, toward which
100000 has been contributed. = Three trains
Of army mules reached Newport News from
Western points and viii start for Cuba to-day
or q transport -- fire in theatre IN
Fvapsviile Ind was followed by a panic, in
which several persons were trampled under foot
and seriously hurt
CITY. A Bennett. a member Of the Demo
cratic state Committee. announced that he was
% reOrganize the upstate county committees;
Edward N. Shepard discussed Democratic con-
ditions == o {. Gilbert said that he would
applv to the courts to-day for decision on all
ballots marked void = Efforts to have the
Musicians Union order strike Of the Metropol-
itan Opera Orchestra were unsuccessfully re-
newed. -= Bird s Coler was denounced by
the Central Federated Union == Magistrate
Whitman severely criticised the police for ar
resting women without proper evidence. -
The American Jewish committee, having for its
objects the protection. the preservation and the
extension Of the civil and religious rights and
privileges Of Jews, was organized. -- z. K.
Perkins vice president of the New York Life
arrived home from Tennessee, hut declined 10
say anything about his testimony before Insur-
ance Commissioner Folk. - Five English
school teachers the vanguard Of five hundred
who are on their way here spent the day IN
viewing the city. - The Peoples Institute
opened for the season at Cooper Union.
THE WEATHER-Indicatons for to-day:
Fair and colder The temperature yesterday:
Highest, ~ degrees: lowest, 40
New-York tribune., 1906-11-12
Amuscn1ents.

2fApENy Sbf NUs.c-e:i :ie-otheno. Ia1o.
tHAGRR1-o-s-raudsvtlla
AETpR-s-Cvnceline.
$EtAsOo-s:lNThe sirI OF the Golden West.
$lJoCS.b-Nrs wilson-Andreve
SROADwkT-SNThe Prince OF India
CA6INO-s-The Blue Moon
CCLONlAI-2-s-Naudeville
CT2ITEEsOS-S .fS-T'he Little CheruS.
xALT'S-s.15-The Spring Chicken.
EDEN MusEE-The World IN Wax.
GAFIRE-S;lS-fTss House IN Order.
GARrEN-S:-S-Madar Butterfly.
GARRlCk-SiS-Clarce,
AACKETr-S:S0-T'he Chorus Lady.
fzAMMERsTEIN's T1CDORIA-2-sl5-Yaudeyii
HERALD sQCARE-s-About Town.
HIPPCDROME-2-S-A Society Circus.
ETpSON-S. .l5-Hypocsites.
IRVING PLACES -20-Onkel Toni.
ENICKERROCKER-S:l :l5-The Red Mil
lLBERTg-s.I6- Nurse Marjorie
LINCOLN SQUARES :i5--The Love Route
IYCECM-s:l5-The IAon and the Mouse
IYRgC-s The Shularnite-
MADISON SC1ARE-s:l5-Th Three OF Is.
MAJESTIC-S l6-The Tourists
MANHk kTTAN-s .l5-CloJhss.
NEW STERDAM-s:l5-Casar ana Cleopatra
NEW IORk-S-IS- Forty five Minutes from Broadway.
1oIaTNt tsl-SS-S: :20-T'he Great Divide.
sANOY-S.l5-8s igaGier Gerard.
NvAII.ACh SIS :i5-T'ae Rich Mr.. Hoggenheimer-
MEBER-s-S S.ae-TNyiddle- -Twadde.
WEST END-2-s-Eight Bolls.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-12

sated by the campaign we have just gone
through. Gorky has not, in the cabled extracts
from his book, found anything new TO say
about those well worn subjects American slav
cry and the money devil There was time,
back In the consuship of Plancus when Ameri-
cans used TO feel hurt when literary visitor,
his pockets full of our dollars, wrote of us with
unkind candor. But now we feel bored If 1t
is a serious effort TO indict the whole people,
or amused If it is a mere ebullition of bad
New-York tribune., 1906-11-12

Peary and Welman. both now homeward
bound ought to reach this city at about the
same time. The former utilize the railroad,
If he likes. when he once gets to Cape Breton.
The Savoie. which the other explorer sailed
from Havre on Saturday. is not the fastest ship
of the French Line, but does not usually take
more than a week TO the Atlantic. Peary
will undoubtedly have much the better story TO
tell when he gets here, but Wellman may be able
to match It next year If his flying machine is all
his fancy paints II.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-12

Now that bosses having the time Of their
lives to hold their jobs their utility Is being dis
covered. Secretary Bonaparte's Piclkwickian
suggestion of '1egalized" boss is a recognition
of the excellence of an autocrat IL you can only
get the right autocrat. But If we cannot get the
right man TO run for Office, how we going 10
get the right man TO run for boss?
New-York tribune., 1906-11-12

Professor Matteucci believes that the recent
discharge of ashes from Vesuvius does not por-
tend serious trouble. He attributes the phenom-
enon not to a renewal of subterranean activity.
but to the undermining and collapse of a portion
of the crater The world will certainly hope
that his interpretation of the outbreak is correct
New-York tribune., 1906-11-12

Gorky calls New York a greedy. engorged
loathsome stomach" His experience in getting
away to Europe must have been something like
Jonahs.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-12

McCarren intinates that 'Fingey" Conners
and Charlie" Murphy not mind readers.
There's treason for you'll
New-York tribune., 1906-11-12
THE Talk OF THE DAY.

The slang expression "es" according to 'aThs
Boston Advertiser" comes from New York and IS
police and hospital term. The psychopathic ward
III Bellevue is numbered g. When a person ar
rested shows any sign OF insanity he is sent to
ward 23, and the police have become accustomed
TO saying 'Twenty-three for him." as they send
him to the hospital
RURAL RONDEAU.
Jest about tn best b'gee,
OF the things ever see.
Wuz tn dinners I recall
Down upon the farm In fall.
ShuChs! They tasted good to me.
There was 81 nd Hen-ner-ee,
ma my pa, he seq. seq he:
"Aaint them dinners best Of all?
Jest about!'
Rural poet twenty-threei
Drop your diaieotio drawl;
OF ths Seaa e aand Sa Us .fg 9ps The Ss sta
Jest about.
Puck
Canadian bishop on a trip through the wilds
stopped at a log cabin at the roadside. AS he sat
by the fire he asked
MY good voman there any Episcopalians
in this vicinity?'
II hardly know. SIR" che replied hesitatingly
"The men did kill something under the barn yes
terday but whether II was Of them things or
not I cannot say"
Seen yer"' cried the smart aleck when he caught
them kissing al the college ball.
NO. sir! Freshman retorted the woman.-Buf-
falo Express
record breaker IN Observation-Disclosures Is GER
tainly Paris citizen, who appeared the other day
before magistrate 10 ask for a marriage license
He answered correctly and without hesitation all
the questions to his name, age and occupation
but when asked for the name OF his fancee he
became embarrassed, and finally replied dejectedy
that he had entirely forgotten to ask her for II
This. remarks Boulevard paper. recalls the dis
traction OF the famous fable poet La Fontaipe
Meeting day in a salon young man. he WAS
ravorably impressed by his conversation that he
expressed his admiration for him in the most fat
tering terms But he Is YOUR own sonP' exclaimed
a guest in astonishment. rs II SOP" replied the
poet: then the moro delighted to maks his
acquaintance"
The millionaire who can't disest
The food his palate Graves may be
Long featured solemn and possessed
OF never ceasing misery
Bqt ,,tahl, think Of & those poor people who.
Have stomachs which refuse to do
The steady duties that theirs
Chicago Record-Herald.
Swiss child. aged three years. has been SEN
fenced at the Criminal Assizes at Wenfelden In
the Canton OF Thurgovie. to three and n half
months Imprisonment for theft It appears that
ing some toys dangling IN the street helped him
self 10 two three articles OF little value and took
them home. The child was carried into court and
In answer TO questions frankly said that he took
the toys home TO play with his little sister as
they had none. To the great astonishment OF the
court, the presiding judge sentenced the infant to
three and a half months Imprisonment The little
fellow was carried out OF the court CRYING and
handed over to n prison official The Swiss press
Is indignant at the unprecedented action OF the
judge and condemns the verdic, as Illegal
Teacher What is 1T that bees make. Tommier
New-York tribune., 1906-11-12

Magistrate OF the nation and their own chief
commander.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-12

The slang expression '23." according to 'oThs
boston Advertiser" comes from New York and is
q police and hospital term. The psychopathic ward
in Bellevue is numbered g. When a person ar
rested shows any sign of insanity he is sent to
Ward e. and the police have become accustomed
to saying, "Twenty-three for him." as they send
him to the hospital.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-23
Thanksgiving Proclamation.

Washington, d. @. October %
President Roosevelt this afternoon issued
his annual Thanksgiving proclamation
setting Thursday November 2stb, as the
date. He says: The time of year has
come when, in accordance with the wise
custom of our forefathers, it becomes by
duty to set aside special day Of Thanks
giving and praise to the Almighty be-
cause of the blessings We have received
and of prayer that these blessings may
be continued. Yet another year of wide
spread well-being has past.
Never before in our history or in the
history of any other nation has people
enjoyed more Astounding material pros
perity than in ours; prosperity so great
that it should arouse in us no spirit OF
reckless pride, aud least Of all spirit of
needless disregard of our responsibilities;
but rather a sober sense of our many
blessings, and resolute purpose, under
Providence, not to forfeit them by any
action of our own.
Material well-being, indispensable
though 1t ia, can never be anything but
the foundation OF true national greatness
and happiness. If we build nothing
upon this foundation, then our national
life will be as meaningless aud empty as
house where only the foundation has
been laid. Upon our material well-being
must be built superstructure OF in
divijusl and national life lived in ac-
cordance with the laws of the highest
morality, or else our prosperity itsell
will in the long run turn out curse H.
stead of blessing.
We should be both reverently thankful for
what we have received, and earnestly bent
upon turning il into means Of grace and not
Of destruction. Accordingly, ! hereby set
apart Thursday, the twenty ninth day OF
November, next, as day of thanksgiving
and supplication, Oh which the people shall
meet in their homes or their churches, de-
youtly acknowledge all that has been given
them, and to pray that they may in ado ltion
receive the power to use these gifts Alright.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-23
FLOODS IN VIRGINIA..

The food conditions in the lower part
of Richmond were worse Yesterday than
they we're Sunday. Local rains Hooded
Shockoe creek, the main drainage artery
of Richmond. The high water in the
river backed up the creek, and heavy
rains coming on top of that flooded 8
considerable area lying between Fifteenth
and Eighteenth streets and franklin
street and the river. The street cars
we're tired up Sunday and until noon
Yesterday, aud boats we're used TO transfer
citizens whose business required them to
20 and come from one part of the city
TO the other.
The loss to merchants is heavy, the
water flooding the street floors in some
instances to the top of the counters. A
thousand men were temporarily thrown
out of employment by the flooding Of
manufacturing plants, and the loss from
this cause is considerable. The river is
now falling steadily, and 60 further
trouble is anticipated.
Six days OF rain has started another
freshet 10 the Appomattox river, which
overfowed Sunday night, was foot over
the wharves at Petersburg vest rdsy
afternoon aud is slowly rising. A tele-
gram from Farmville reports ii feet OF
high water there.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-23

PREPARATIONS are under way tor
great legal battle between the govern
ment and the interstate railroad comps-
MES over the employers liability act.
The announcement by Attorney General
Moody that the government will press
for test decision upon the constitution
atty of the act, discloses the fact that a
number of leading railroads have united
in a movement to contest the law.
Their contention is that Congress had no
power to regulate the liability Of master
to servant in the absence OF statute
fixing that liability in the first instance
II is understood that q case has already
been selected on which to make the 49,
aua
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Yields Him 1880 a Day.

Franklin, Pa, Oct. 20 Within few
hours Andrew Rspp, of this city, has
been transformed from man scarcely
able to pay bis debts to an oil producer,
with wealth pouring in upon him at the
rate of $95 an hour, or 81, 280 day.
The transformation is due to his strik-
ing the largest oil we'll the Pennsyl-
vania field has seen in rs years. 1t was
drilled in ten miles below this city, and,
10 spite of the efforts of the workmeD
to reduce its production, because of the
lack of facilities to handle the fluid,
it is even yet flowing at the rate of rs
barrels an hour. When the Standard
Oil Company has completed its arrange
meuts for handling the oil, the gusher
may do as high as 4, 500 barrels day.
The Standard has a big force of men at
work laying pipe lines Mr.. Rapp is 90
years Of age. Two other parties share 10
his good fortune. They are William
WitheruP, an old farmer, and his wife,
who own the farm on which the well Is
located. Their one-eighth royalty ia pow
yielding them Sl4 for every hour in the
"a
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-23
Secretary shaw In New York.

Secretary Shaw was 10 New York yes
terday and saw several bankers in Wall
street, and, subsequently, issued the fol-
lowing statement: "From and after Tues
day, October %, deposits to facilitate
gold importations will be discontinued. "
He said in connection with the an :
nouncement that importations had ex-
ceeded his expectations, and he believed
that for the present America had quite
its share and he had no disposition to
disturb conditions in Europe by con
tinuation of that method of relief. lie
also announced that be would stimulate
national bank circulation to the extent
of slS, 900, 900 by accepting approved
securities other than government bonds
for deposits already made, the bonds re-
leased to be used Immediately as bas e
of circulation without withdrawal from
the Treasury
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Woodward & LOthrOp
10th, lltk. 2 and @ st., n. p"
WASHINGTON. D. G.
Heavy Fall of snow.
WASHINGTON. D. c.

Denver, COL, Oct: 23.-The show fall
commencing Saturday morning last ag-
gregstes a depth of % inches. Traffic
still is delayed at all points and many
trains have been anoulled. Farmers
will suffer severely from crop losses all
over the State. Cattle raisers are also
feeling the results of the storm and cold
weather. The entire state is snow covered
some places to depth of five feet. The
thermometer registered a drop near to
zero in many places. 1t is the most
severe fall of snow in the Rocky Mount
tain region ever known.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-23
Verdict for Amusement Company.

New York, Oct. 29.-Miss Marion
Draughn's suit against the Southern
Amusement Company to recover Sl2,-
900 because she was dismissed from the
Theatrical company giving "The Clans
man., a dramatizstion OF the Rev.
Thomas Dixon's book of the same name,
came to sudden end in the Supreme
Court, today, when Justice Bischoff di-
rected the jury to return verdict for
the Amusement Company. The court
held that the testimony given by the
company to show that Miss Draughn
was incompetent to play the star role
had not been contradicted.
Miss Drapghn had contract with the com
pany for two years at salary Of $3.50 week.
She was widely ADVERTISED in connection with
the production, but was dismissed few days
before the opening performance. Mis-;
Draughn, who is a striking beauty, is we
known in exclusive Southern oJiety as well
as in Washington. She is the daughter OF
Judge Douglass Settle once regarded as one
Of the most influential republicans in the
Caro- mas, Her suit attracted great deal OF
attention,