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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-15

been truly called the worId's greatest
subaqueous tunnel engineer Jacobs
built the first tunnel under the East
river, New York. as well as under the
North river. He really surveyed and
projected nearly all the subways i'll the
American metropolis. Years ago he
outlined the scheme for entering New
York which the Pennsylvania is now
following. He invented the shield sys-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-15

Norrn river tunnels are for the Penn
sylvania. two railroad and two trolley.
Four more railroad tunnels under the
East river are also for the Pennsylva-
MIA. Jacobs has worked out these
plans and made the gigantic undertake
ing possible. But behind him has
stood the indOmitable will of Cassatt.
1t is almost impossible for the lay
mind to conceive the magnitude of this
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-15
New.gatherins Glade Easy.

Editor Howe of the Ripon Press has
adopted novel method of gathering
news, says the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Tablets have been placed in the prin-
cipal business houses. on which the
shopkeepers are expected to jot down
items which the representatives of the
paper take up on press days. u.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-15

entry of the Pennsylvania into New
York. 1t involves II system of tracks
under two rivers and two cities, lead
ing all the way from New Jersey to
Long Island. 1t calls for the introduc-
ton of great electric motors in place
of steam locomotives. 1t requires the
building of one of the greatest railroGsd
depots in the world. IT one cares to
venture into the realm of prediction,
it will revolutionize transportation in
New York city.
Yet this is only one of the improve
mentS projected by Mr.. Cassatt. An
other is the great Pennsylvania sta
ton which is to be erected in Washing
ton. Still another is his gaining con
troll of other railways, such as the
Chesapeake and Ohio. 1t was this
move, by the way, which precipitated
the investigation, with all its CRAFTY
unfoldings. Yet an additional improve
ment being carried forward by this
radical innovatOr is the Strengthening
of the tracks through the mountains.
The same attempt ut betterment is be
ing carried on through Il thousand and
one minor details. Now, if he would
but go Il step farther and eliminate IA
vOritism and corruption from his rail
way management he would indeed
prove himself practical refOrmer that
would deserve well of mankind.
Alexander Johnston CaSsatt is in his
sixty-Seventh year. He is one of those
young old men who do not lose their
initiative, ardOr and prOgressiveness
with years; in other words, who do not
ossify into conservatism. He was born
in Allegheny, of which ariStocratic city
his father was once mayor. Young
Cassatt had the best educational adj
vantages part of his course being TAX
en- in Heidelberg, Germany.
Did Not BaIk at a lMenial Place.
He returned to America, however,
determined to go into engineering.
That was just at the outbreak of the
civil war, when civil engineers were in
demand. In 1861 he helped TO locate a
railroad in Georgia. Returning north.
he applied for place on the Pennsyl-
vania, and nothing was open but the
position of rodman. Now. Il rodman
bears about the same relation 10 engi-
neering that bod carrier does to the
building trade. But this highly edu-
Gated son of rich father did not balk
at the mental place. He took it and
proved such an efficient rodman that
he was soon advanced.
CaSsatt showed that he was not
afraid to work and that he had indi-
vidual initiative. These qualities win
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-15

placed on the rolls since April IL, when
the bill was signed. and there are
many more. 1t is estimated that there
will be about 1000 for whom there will
be no land. Those who cannot get land
are to receive $500 in money, and it ia
said that final settlement will ex-
haust the 100000 which the nation
now has i'll the treasury
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-15
Civn Engineer "Up a Tree,

Civil Engineer Keith. who is survey
ing to establish old lines I'm southern
Berkshire county. Conn. has run up
against snag says a special dispatch
from Winsted. Conn, to the New York
World Cue deed reads. beginning at
a pine tree. thence to a pine stump.'
thence TO u bush, thence slantwise to n
turkeys nest by the brook"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-15

S there to be no end to corporation
scandals, to the uncovering OF
graft, deception, selfishness and
plain dishonesty? Are all the
trusts tainted? Has all public spirit
departed from the great concerns that
handle a nations commerce? Wher-
ever the investigators probe enters
the business body it seems to penetrate
fostering sore. First it was Stand
ard Oil, then insurance, next the beef
trust, and now it is the Pennsylvania
railroad. How long is it TO continue?
To one who wants TO think well of
his fellows. who loves his country, who
is disciple of the gospel of optimism.
who believes in an innate divinity in
humanity, such disclosures are dis
quieting and with so frequent repeti-
tons become nauseating and sickening.
Every right minded man likes to be
constructive, desires TO look on the
good, prefers sunlight to darkness.
But what is he to do when the whole
public atmosphere is reeking with
odors of moral filth, when his ears are
bombarded by charges of evil, when
the fumes shut out the sight of good
and even cloud the sun itself?
There is one thing he can do-array
himself on the side of truth and right
eouSness.
There is one other thing he can do
resolutely seek the good: hold it up TO
be seen of all men; find that the masses
of the people are yet sound and pro-
claim them so; strike the positive note
that faith and truth and honor yet live;
behold the right, cling to it and let the
wrong die of its own shame; think of
health in the body polite; appeal TO
think all tainted because some are so;
get out of the negative attitude OF
fault finding and into the constructive
attitude of faith in the natural nobility
of man.
Pardon the preachment. but there
are so many prophets of evil that it is
we'll now and then TO sound the other
note, even if it is only for the sake of
variety. The hammer of the builder
makes more music than that of the
knOcker
Economic Earthquake.
Some people can be cheerful in the
midst of an earthquake. That is what
we need now. This perhaps is the be-
ginning of an economic earthquake,
and we shall require all our self pos
We must learn TO discriminate be-
tween a rogue and an honest man. |
the trusts are fun of grafters. |
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-15

One of the curiositics shown i'm Sa-
lima, Kan, is an apple tree hearing
roses in fun bloom. says the Topeka
Capital. Buds from n white rosebusiI
were grated on the tree some time
ago. and this year the roses made their
appearance. They are white with
light brown streaI, running through
them, and the flower is perfect I'm form.
The leaves on the bSuglls i'm bloom re-
sernble to some extent the leaves Of the
apple tree and also those of the rose
bush, but there il not leas which is Il
perfect form of cl her
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-15
CANAL DIGGING BY MUSIC.
Unique Method Discovered of Making
Panama Laborers Happy.

Music is playing an important part
in the digging of the isthmian canal.
says Washington dispatch. Laborers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-15
PAGES 9 TO IA.

At first ne refused TO accept. Then
Mrs. CaSsatt, who, by the way, is n
niece OF President James Buchanan.
was induced to use her influence AS
result A. J. CasSatt laid aside his
golf sticks, sold his fast horses and
took upon himself the management OF
the greatest railroad system on earth
One of the most sensational episodes
of the Pennsylvania presidents career
was his fight against the Western Tn
ion Telegraph company, involving the
powerful Gould and Rockefeller inter
ests. He carried this fight to the point
of tearing down the poles and wires.
\ less courageous man would have
hcsltated before making an enemy OF
that puissant combination. That is
Cassatt's strong point. He dares to
march straight ahead when others fear
10 take "a single step.
Mr. Cassatt is tall, athletic, uses his
muscles and lungs as well as his head
and is strong aud vigorous in body as
well as in mind. He is II widely in
formed man, an entertaining CONVERSE
t.onaliSt, a good story teller and a
man who always leads wherever he
happens TO he. More than all, he has
shown himself n resourceful general
of Il great industrial army. His is the
same sort of genius as that which wins
battles. j. A. EDGERTON.
Negroes Cotton Press Invention.
Jim Washington, an old negro who
was born and raised on a plantation
near Hallettsville. Mo. has invented
and obtained patent on an improved
cotton baling press, says Kennett
GIoD correspondent of the ST. Louis
t-Dispatch. 1t is claimed by those
who have examined the invocation thai
it Will revolutiOniZe the present meth
cd of handling cotton. Instead of haN-
Ing TO treat cotton 10 the two processes
of ginning and compressiDg. as now.
the ginning and balng will be done nc
one time. Cotton men are much inter
ested I'm the invention.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-13

coRN-steady: No. 2. sou elevator.
Options y to nc net lower. May 4sS;
July 4e7s: September 5eA.
OATS-Steady. mixed IS TO ASA.
BEEF-Steady: family 11.5e TO s13.-
90: mess $500 TO $1e.oe: beef hams
5000 TO $3.50: packet s1o.5o TO
sII.oe.
CUT MEAT-Quiet: picked bel
lies sa to .: picked shoulders 4:
picked hams sA TO ga
LARD-Barely steady: western
steamed $500 TO $50: refined steady:
continent ss.i5; compound SIS &c SS.
PORk-Steady: family $500 to
$3.50: short clear $500 to $3.50;
mess sI5.75 TO $3.50.
BCTTER-Ffrm: creamery II TO IS.
CHEESE-Firm. unchanged
EGGS-Steady. unchanged.
RICE-Steady: domestic 81 TO g.:
Japan nominal.
..MOLASSES-Steady: New Orleans
80 to IS.
SUGAR. COFFEE-Holiday.
COTTON SEED OIL-Steady. prime
crude ( o b mills 24I4 to IS. Prime
summer yellow 31A 10 322; prime
white 34h to IS; prime winter yellow
54H TO IS.
POT--TOES-Steady. unchanged.
PEANUTS-Ouiet. unchanged.
CABBAGES-Dull. unchanged.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-13
TREASURES OF ART
REVEALED BY FIRE
Storage Place of So, OGO. 900 Massarnnui
Collection Barred Wb~n Flames At
tack the Building.

Two fires. supposedly of incendiary
origin, in the Parker building, at Nine
teenth street and Fourth avenue, the
second one occurring Wednesday
morning, have called attention to the
fact. around which the utmost secrecy
has been thrown, hat stored on the
tenth floor of the structure, is one of
the most valuable art collections in the
world. says the New York Herald.
While the flames did not reach the
strong rooms containing these treas
ures, they may have been damaged
through smoke and water. The art
pieces formed the Ma~ssaranti collec-
lions, valued at more than So, 600 900,
and now owned by Henry Walters, of
Baltimore.
The fire itself was not OF great con-
sequence, but until the contents of the
cases in which the collection is stored
are examined it will be impossible to
tell with any degree of surety whether
Or not they have been harmed by the
dense volume of smoke which filled
the entire building. In the first fire,
tuesday morning, the establishment of
otegeman & Co, was the loser, while
IN the fire yesterday morning the
plants of Post & Davis, photographers,
n the Irving Press were considera-
bly, damaged. \ small panic was Gre
ated among the patrons Of ne.ghbor-
ing hotels-the Florence and Belvi-
dere. Police Commissioner Bingham
lives in the CORNER.
Immense quantities of water swept
down he stairs to the floor of mys-
terry as lie tenth story is called by
the tenants, Or this !oor IS lodged
the valuable art collection, brought to
this country three years & by Mr..
walters, recently vice commodore Of
the New York Yacht Club, at a cost of
more than 81, 600, 600. 4 special steam
ship was chartered to transport the
cargo, and the duty assessed amount
ed to more than $780, 600. 1t is Mr..
Walters intention to add the collec-
ton to his already large one in his
home in Baltimore, and to that end
he has built a fire proof gallery there
for its reception.
The collection represented the life
work of the Rev. Father Marcello Mas
saranti, a wealthy member of the
papal household. now dead. Known
as Don Marcelio." he gathered to-
gether a remarkable display Of paint
ings. tapestries. marbles and bronzes.
1t was sold as the old man preferred to
see the collection remain intact rather
than have it broken uD. Art circles
throughout the world were thrown
into excitement when il was
ed that an American was the purchas-
er- Included in the collection are ex-
arnples of Raphael, Titan, Paolo.
Veronese. David. Tintoretto and Van
Dyke.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-13
OPEN OFFICES IN WILMINGTON
Southern Life Insurance Company
Doing q Fine Business.

The Southern Life Insurance Com
pany Of Fayetteville, of which Messrs.
A. 3. VanBuren and r. H. Gwaltney
are resident agents, have opened Of
fees in the Odd Fellows building.
The Fayetteville Company has made
great progress since it was launched,
and the Wilmington agents say they
have been doing an excellent business.
People are becoming educated more
and more to the fact that it pays to
patroniZe home enterprises and es-
pecially when the article purchased is
no higher in price than the amount
paid some outside company. In
the years gone by North Carolina has
sent out to the large insurance COM
panies many hundreds of thousands
of dollars and this money is now
being turned over to the home COM
panies. 1t is true that claims amount
ing in the total to a very large amount
have been paid but the expenditures
have been more than what has been
received
The investigations into the methods
of the large insurance companies has
been a wonderful benefit to the home
companies.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-13
WANTS HIM
Offer Made for Bob Stafford, the At.
Ianta First BaSeman.

The following from the Atlanta
Constitution in regard to a ball player
who is we'll known in Wilmington
will be read with interest a:
Bob Stafford may be a manager af-
ter all, not in the Southern League.
but in the South Atlantic.
Manager Smith has received an
offer for the big local first baseman
to take control of the team at Sa.
vannah for the new owners, and ii
is quite likely that the deal will be
completed. ,
Stafford has been on the market fol
some time and Il number of clubs
have entered bids for his services. but
on account of the small sums offered
for him, Manager Smith has up-to-date
refused to part with him.
Nashville and Memphis have been
anxious to get Bob, but both clubs re-
fused to give more than a song fol
him, and Manager Smith has no use
for songs"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-13
IT'S YOUR
Don't Mistake the Cause of Your Troll
bies-A Wilmington Citizen Shows
How to Cure Them.

Many people never suspect their
kidneys. If suffering from a lame,
weak Or aching back they think that
it is only a muscular weakness; when
urinary trouble sets in they think it
will soon correct itself. And so it is
with all the other symptoms of kid
ney disorders. That is just where the
danger lies. You must cure these
troubles Or they lead to diabetes or
Bright's disease. The best remedy to
use is Doan's Kidney Pills. 1t cures
all ills which are caused by weak or
diseased kidneys. Wilmington people
testify to permanent cures.
E. Poezolt, merchant tailor, of
Eight South Front street, residing at
315 North Sixth street, says: MY
wife used Doan's Kidney Pills and in
her case they proved to be an effec-
tive remedy. She suffered with her an
kles and could scarcely get down
stairs in the morning. We thought it
was rheumatism and her ankles would
be all pulled up every morning SO she
could hardly hobble around. Since
obtaining Doan's Kindney Pills at r.
r. Bellamy's drug store and taking
them she seems like another person.
She is better in the morning, the
swelling left her ankle and from the
great relief she obtained we are only
too glad to recommend DOan's Kidney
Piilsto others"
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-13

scene of the fire soon after it start
ed and had a stream On the store Of
Brooks and Taylor. Whenever thera
is a fire along the wharf the tug Ma
rion fails to do good service.
MIR. Martin Willard, who is a men,
Der of the Willard Bag and Manufac-
turing Company, stated yesterday that
the burning down of their plant would
One hundred and thirty girls were en-
ployed in the overall department. The
entire factory force was paid off yes
terday morning and the pay roll
amounted TO about $500.
Many of those employed in the fac
tory had moved to Wilmington from
nearby towns and they will now be
thrown out of any employment what
ever for there is nc other business IN
Wilmington where the services of such
a large number of girls is desired.
At the very earliest the plant will
not be ready to resume operations be-
fore next July or August, and it may
be longer. No attempt will be. made
to secure temporary quarters. A
meeting of the directors was 10 have
been held last night but it was decid-
ed to wait until Monday or Tuesday.
When a new building is put up it may
be in some other section Of the city,
but nothing definite has as yet been
decided upon. There is 40 special
reason for the company to nave a
building on Water street and d lOca-
ton may be secured where business
is not so cOngested.
If will he some DAYS before the in
surance on the different buildings IS
adjusted. AdjustOrs are always sent
by the companies when a fire is of any
consequence. Of the insurance carried
in the companies represented by Will
lard and Giles, only $4,000 was with
the Carolina Insurance Company.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-13
WANT 4 HIGH LICENSE LAW
State Anti-sa|aon League Looks
with Favor ON Plan
Governor Glenn Wants Next Legisla-
ture to Call a State Prohibition Elec-
tioii-The License Suggested is
$1,000 Per Year-Plan Would be
for Bill to be Somewhat Similar to
Morgan Law i'm South Carolina.

The prohibition leaders and Gov.
Glenn DO nCt seem TO be OF the same
opinion as to what course should be
pursued towards getting state prohi-
bition. Some of the leading members
Of the state Anti-saloon League, it
is learned, do not favor roaking an
effort to get state prohibition just AZ
this time but want a bill passed some
what similar to the Morgan bill in
South Carolina. Their idea is to get
the legislature to pass a bill fixing the
license tax on SalOOns at 5000 per
year and restrict it to towns Of 5000
inhabitants and over. They would
have the law a. to local option the
same as at present, the only differ
ence being that the license would be
fixed by the state instead of towns
The plan is for the state to receive
$4,000, the county $1,000 and the
town $1,000. This plan is said to be
favored by Chairman Bailey who does
not think the time quite ripe to make
the fight ON state prohibition.
Governor Glenn favors calling a
prohibition election by the next legis-
lature and a prominent member of the
state Anti-saloon League, says that
without a doubt Gov. Glenn in his
message to the next general assembly
will recommend state prohibition.
He is said to favor driving out the
saloons root and branch" Gov.
Glenn is very anxious for the next
legislature to call an election and
put the matter to a vote of the people
The prOhibitionists do not seem to
be inclined to follow the course, just
at this time, that Gov. Glenn would
have them follow.
1t is understood that a proposition
was made to a party representing the
local saloon men, wanting to know if
Wilmington was exempted from the
general prohibition movement in this
state and a high license placed on
the saloons here-something like
$5,OOO-if they would agree to it. The
answer is said to have been that the
saloon men preferred to make the
fight on state prohibition and run the
risk.
The prohibitionists say they have
no idea of asking that an election be
called and that Gov. Glenn was in
vited to speak merely to work up
interest in the general movement. He
speaks in Newbern on the Saturday
before he is due to speak here.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-13
Interior Movement.
RECEIPTS AND EXPORTS.

New York, February 10.-Total to-
day, at all ports, Net receipts 17,O55
bales: exports to Great Britain 11,261
bales; exports to the Continent 1852
bales.
Consolidated, at all ports, Ne re-
ceipts 1866 bales; exports to Great
Britain 1921 bales; exports to the
Continent 1852 bales.
Total since September 1st, at all
ports. Net receipts ~5,SS5.491 bales; ex-
ports to Great Britain ~1,9S4,72S bales;
exports to France 551,5S2 bales:
ports to the Continent ~1,654,069 bales;
exports to Japan 53,047 bales; exports
to Mexico 1864 bales.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-13
THE LIvERPcOL MARhET.

Liverpool, February 10 p. m. Cot
tom. Spot in fair demand, prices one
point higher: American middling fair
$50; good middling 6.04; middling
SIS; low middling 5.72; good ordinary
5.54; ordinary 5.3S. The sales of the
day were 10, 900 bales, Of which 1000
were for speculation and export and
included 5000 American. Receipts
5000 bales, all American. Futures
opened quiet and steady, n closed
steady; American miidling G. 0. c.
February 5.76; February and March
5.76; March and April SIS; April and
May 5.S1; May and June 5.84; June
and July 5.S7; July and August SIS;
August and September 5.S4 Septem-
Der and October 5.67: October and
November 5.62; November and De-
cember 5.61.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-13

Norfolk Board of Trade Blames Men
haden for Fish Shortage.

At ? meeting of the Norfolk board
of trade hezE on Friday a resolution
was adopted dealing with the preser-
vation of the supply of edible fish and
the falling off of the supply was fixed
ON the wholesale catching of fish for
the purpose of manufacturing oil by
the use of Menhaden nets. The resO-
luton asked that the present legisla-
ture appoint a committee to make in
vestigations and report at the next
session of the general ASSEMBLY,, par
ticularly with regard to use Of the
various kinds of nets and as to the op-
eratiOns of the Menhaden fishermen
in the waters of the state Of Virginia.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-13
avail ST0'sE'S ~ :.I

New York, February 10--Turpen-
tine, quiet 6S to 6Sk; rosin, quiet $3.50
to 3-S5.
Charleston, S. c., February 1O-Tur-
pentne and rosin nothing doing.
Savannah, Ga, February 1O.-Tur-
pentine, firm 65H; sales I4S; receipts
1873; shipments 1851. Rosin. firm;
ale 2.945; receipts 2.147: shipments
2,621; stocks 71,615. Quote: A. z. C.
D. E. 1885; F, $40; G. s3.45: II, So
so; I, $40; K, $50: NJ. s5.35: n
$5.S5; VIC. S6.O5; WV. sS.I5.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-13
COLONEL WADDELL OUT AGAIN
Just Recovering From an Attack of
Lagrfppe-Visited Scene of Fire
Yesterday and Ordered Walls Pulled
Down.

Mayor Waddell was ut the scene of
thine fire yesterday morning to see the
extent of the damage and told Mr.. W.
p. Monroe, assistant chief of the fire
department who was there, to empioy
all the men necessary today and tear
down all dangerous walls.
For the past ten days Co:onel Wad-
dell has been suffering from an attack
of lagrippe and ventured down the
street on Friday afternoon. His
friends were glad to Sc MIN out again.
He still has to be very careful.