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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-10
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The large lighter built at Cumberlands
boatyard for johnson & Wimsatt of this
city has been launched from the stocks on
which she was built and is lying In the
dock at the wharf foot of X street. waiting
to be carried to the James river, where she
Is to be used. The new lighter is about
seventy feet long and twenty feet wide, and
Is an open-deck vessel Her cargoes are
carried down In the hull of the boat IN or
der to insure stability the water She
will carry about 100000 feet Of pine lum-
Der. This Is the second understanding
lighter Cumberland & Son have built at.
the 9th street boathouse this spring
Arrived: Schooner Elizabeth Ann, with
lumber from Virginia port for Baltimore
dealers; schooner Grace G.. Bennett, lum-
Der. from North Carolina: steam barge
Daniel X. Jackson, railway ties from a
river point at Alexandria: schooners Samuel
Wood, Ella and Mary Ann Shea, cordwood
from river points for dealers: tug Dixie
of Baltimore, towing two coal.laden barges
for Baltimore: schooner Loon. lumber, from
the Rappahannock river; schooner r. Ma
son. cordwood from a river point; schooner
e. III. Skinner, lumber, from Virginia
port for dealers: schooners Kirby and
Oyster Boy. oysters. from Potomac beds for
local market.
saileds schooner E. p. Evans, for lower
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Representative williamson's Case.

PORTLAND. Ore. April 10.--Before
Judge w. H. Hunt in the federal district
court yesterday a bill of exceptions was
filed In the case of Representative ]. n.
Williamson of Oregon, who was convicted
several months ago of subornation of per-
ury In connection with the frauds In gov
eminent lands in Oregon. The bill was OBJ
jected to by United States District Attorney
w. C. Bristol because 1t failed to contain a
transcript of evidence. Judge Hunt held In
favor Of the government and directed the
defense to include the transcript In its bill
and continued the case until today, when
arguments will be heard
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New Bank in Alexandria.

The Citizens Savings Bank OF Alexandra
was chartered In Richmond, Va, Saturday
by the state corporation commission. The
following are the officers of the company.
all being residents of this city: Joseph
Auerbach. president: r. W. Beall. secre-
tary; James A. Sample, treasurer. The
capital stock of the company is fixed at
from Atty to two hundred thousand dollars.
and the business is to be along general
banking lines.
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The Palais Royal Basement Floor is a-bloom
Flowers each in pot. Lilies at nc. per bloom. OH
Palms and Ferns at 5oc to 81.
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Washington Aerie of Eagles.

At meeting of Washington Aerie No.
125, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Sunday
evening addresses were made by Repre-
sentative William l.. Sultzer. past president
of New York Aerie, and former Governor
Sweinford of Alaska and state deputy OF
the order OF Alaska. Four candidates were
initiated 1t was announced that the aerie
will hold its third annual memorial service
Sunday evening May q.
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PRESIDENT TO ATTEND
PLANS FOR MEMORIAL DAY AT
PORTSMOUTH, VA.

Representatives of all the local garrisons
of the Army and Navy Union. numbering
nearly 300, were present last night at a
mass meeting held at the headquarters of
the organization on Pennsylvania avenue
near 9th street. and prior to the business
for which the gathering assembled brief
meeting was held by Roosevelt Garrison. at
which routine business and the muster in
of five new members were conducted, after
which Commander Gordon announced that
an open meeting" was In order There
was a large number of invited guests pres
ent, among whom were Brig. Gen. A. s..
Burt, Gen. j. Edwin Browne, Capt Thomas
w. Lake. late of Mosby's scouts; Com
mander Walter l.. Jones of Guy V. Henry
Garrison, Col. Dean, national commander
of the Union Veterans Union, and
eight members of Gen. Guy V. Henry Gar
rison in uniform. each of whom had served
with Gen. Burt when he was colonel of
the 18th U. S. Infantry (colored regimenD.
These, with number of uniformed men
from the other garrisons, acted as a body
guard to Gen. Burt and National Com
mander Browne. The latter made q speech
in which he told of the arrangements he
had made with President Roosevelt in re-
gard to his attendance at the Memorial day
ceremonies at Portsmouth, Va. The news
communicated evoked enthusiastic ap-
plause, and all present promised TO par
ucipate in the celebration.
1t is expected that a party of two hundred
of the local garrison will be with the ma
tonal commander to meet the President at
Portsmouth when he arrives aboard the
Dolphin.
Gen. Burt was called upon, and in a happy
manner entertained the audience for over
half an hour with "reminiscences of the
campaigns in which he had participated.
Capt. Thomas NJ. Lake read an account OF
a raid he. with others, made upon a rail-
road train during the civil war capturing
large sums of money from the Union army.
Walter L. Jones spoke upon the great
achleyements of the national commander
In bringing the Army and Navy Union to
the front.
Ninth Infantry Veterans.
A communication was read from the 9th
United States Infantry Veteran Association
inviting the Army and Navy Union garrl-
son to attend the annual reunion OF that
BODY, to be held next Friday night at the
nall, 9l0 Pennsylvania avenue. Mention
was also made of the anniversary of the
surrender OF Gen. Lee at Appomattox and
al this point Musician James A. Joyce de-
picted the scene, referring, In conclusion,
to the fact that two heroes of the civil
who wore the gray" were present He re-
ferred TO Gen. Burt and Capt. Lake.
Arrangements were made for the cere-
monies of decorating the graves of mem
beers of the Union In the local cemeteries.
as well as of the general observance of
Decoration day. May 30, in this city.
An informal reception followed Gems.
Burt and Browne and Capt Lake personal
~ greeting all the comrades present. and
the exercises were closed by all singing
America"
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Mr.. A. H. F. Holster said he thought the
association should give its Endorsement to
the bill which provides increases for the
members of the fire department, and the
association voted an Endorsement of the
general provisions of the bill.
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Joy IhEYBR1NG
IoFyERYH oME

with joyous hearts and smiling faces
how conducive health the in which they indulge outdoor
diet of which they should How tendey preserved
not by medication but
Objectionable and
excellence
and Wholesome and truly beneficial effect like the pleasant laxative remedy
Figs manufactured California
general millions
its quality excellence
Figs
they know is wholesome simple and gentle
BILE physicians the medicinal
original method plants beneay
presented agreeable which wholesome
used promote the pleasant therefore hence
medicines and indscriminate
printed the front package that bottles
only dealer offers other regular
printed thereon the you
will
bottle hand equally beneficial for children
whenever laxative remedy is required.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-17
A PITIFUL CASE.

At Auburn, N. Y., few days ago. Manning c. Palmer was sentenced to five years imprisonment in the Auburn state prison. He was President of the American Exchange National Bank of Syracuse, is 75 years old, and the crime of which he was convicted was misappropriation of the funds of the bank.
 The case is a peculiar and somewhat sad one. There was no charge that the old man was dishonest. There was no charge that he had stolen the mon ey. or specu1ated with the banks funds, or applied them to his own use. In fact no charge of personal dishonesty in any way that would benefit him financially was brought against him. His offense, as stated by Ncontem- norary, twas to carry on the books of the bank a number of lame business enterprises, which would have gone to pieces but for his help. One of these concerns. and the principal one was a plaster company, of which President Palmer was treasurer Being thus related to the bank and the company Mir. Palmer permitted overdrafts to the latter. When these amounted to a few thousand dollars note was given the bank in settlement-sometimes in dorscd by the president of the plaster company. and sometimes by someone else"
 MT. Palmer said in his own defense that the plaster company was able to | pay 1t all it owed. but the fact was shown that 1t had not done so. A number of other concerns did as this one did. They would borrow money. fall behind and borrow again, with the result that the bank finally had more worthless paper than it could carry and it failed, and depositors and other l creditors were losers.
 l It was on this state of facts that the old man. now beyond the Psalm | ist's limit of human life. was tried l convicted and sentenced. He was l looked on ana generally regarded as a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-17
HOW TO TREAT THEM.

As the Philadelphia Record looks at it: We send missionaries to China to convert the heather to our way of thinking in matters of religion. We send our traders and promoters to do business with them for our profit. Sometimes we send men with guns in their hands to compel them to the safe harborage of our missionaries and the maintenance of the open door for our commerce. But when the Chinese set foot on our shores, where under the guidance of OUT Christian churches and in immediate touch with our civlliza- tion they might be most readily deliv- cred from heathen bondage and put on the road to enlightment and freedom, we turn upon them with our exclusion laws and "get hence" cries. Is it any wonder that they look upon our mis- sionary and trading zeal with eyes of suspicion?''
 | Is not that a good way to put it? Let us take the case of an intelligent Chi naman who has listened to the teach ings of one of our missionaries and accepted them in good faith. He wants to come to the home of that teacher and be further instructed in the sub lime doctrines of Christianity, but when he reaches our shores he is told that he stands on a level before our laws with the most depraved and criminal citizen of China. What sort of opinion will he form of our religion, our hu- manity or our justice? Will he not naturally conclude that our religion is humbug and that our profession of common brotherhood is but hypocrit- ical pretense? If that is not tho inn pression that will naturally be made on him he is widely different from oth- CT nationalities. It is no credit to our government that our laws and regu- lations recognize no difference between the low and ignorant coolies and the intelligent, educated and well behaved members of the higher class of Chi | nese.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-17
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1906.

The Chicago Tribune argues that the father or mother who is the parent of twenty-seven children should be pois- oned, but there are two serious objec- tions to such a process, aside from the unIawfulness and cruelty of 1t. To poison them after all the children come into the world would do no good to- wards lessening increase of population, and would look like taking vengeance on them--a thing which human beings are not justifiable in doing. If there's any harm in producing numerous off spring we don't know of any law to punish It. and private individuals have no right to do it.
 On the other hand, to poison parents as a preventive would not be just or logical because no one can tell before hand how many heirs there will be to any couple. Thus there are two obsta- cles in tho way of carrying out The Tribune's plan. The only way we can see to arrange it is to fix certain number, say thirteen, as the maximum and when that many have been born play OsIer on the parents. That is the only way to limit the product and we doubt if even that plan will find many advocates.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-17
cetters to tI,s GdiIsr
A Card From john V. Smith.

Editor Advertiser:
 MT. Conner has never made speech. so far as l have read, without paylnB his respects to me; in fact, he seems to take ouite\ an interest in my personal affairs. I have refrained, so Jar rom making any answer or comment what ever upon his remarks, but in his Ever green speech he is quoted as saving that I am receiving salary or $b.OOO per annum from the Railroads. Thls statement is so ridiculously absurd that I would not even deny it, but for the fact that it does the railroads an in- Justice. That I have, since going our of office accepted a place with the l. & N Railroad as special counsel is true. but my duties are purely of legal char- acter. and am not required or expect ed to perform any political duties whatever and am not employed by any other railroad in Alabama. nave ed man who thinks it any more i'm
 proper for me to take cases for Rail-
 roads. than for any other individual or
 corporation, and criticism for my do- ing SO 1t is well understood by thinking
 people. IS only for political effect l
 had not thought that MT. Conner desired
 to do me any injustice, or to hamper
 me in my efforts to build up business
 in private life in my chosen profe .A ion. and while l deny to him, or an, ther
 man. the right to pry into my % vate
 affairs. still as he seems to be 1 much
 concerned about 1t. will say Sr his
 satisfaction: first: I was $3r000 poorer
 when l left the office of President of the Railroad Commission. than when
 entered it: second: While l am doing
 all the general practice that I can pos sibly get and it has steadily grown, my
 salary as special counsel and general
 practice combined, since my employ
 rnent by the l. N Railroad. does not
 equal the salary. for the same length
 nf time, which Mir Conner receives as
 President of the Railroad Commission I wish to add most emphatically that I am not in politics, and am devotinG my entire time and attention to the practice of law. I shall not enter into any controversy. nor take part in the coming campaign, nor can I be driven to do so by any open or covert attacks upon me. While holding the office or President of the Railroad Commission. I did my duty as saw 1t conscientious | Iy. and went down in defeat upon the principles and policies for which I stood My record speake for itself, and while defeated. I accepted the result | as a loyal citizen and no man has heard me complain. ] have no eXpla- | nations or apologies to make for any | thing done while in office. nor since. am now quietly engaged in the practice 1 of law, to which shall hereafter devote 1 my entire time and attention.
 I trust that each paper which has published Mir Corners remarks, will al- 1 so publish this card from mo.
 John " Smith
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-17

good and strictly honest citizen, who
 stood we'll in the community. What
 he did was wrong, of course, but 1t.
 was done through sympathy and de-
 sire to help others. If the concerns he Twas carrying on the shouldersf of his
 bank had all been successful and repaid the money they borrowed not only would there have been no loss but he would have been looked on as a help ful, public spirited citizen. and no
 charge of crime would have been laid
 against him.
 But there was his mistake and his sin. He helped some with the money of others. He not only ieopardized the credit and standing of the bank but really took the money of the de- positors, which he had no right to uso, and helped others with it. He not only jeopardized the banks standing but caused its failure and consequent
 loss to the patrons. Talieyrand speaks of a blunder that is worse than Q crime. but this old man made a blum
 der which the law considers and pun ishes as a crime. The judge. when passing sentence on him, said:
 If tho due enforcement and admin istration of law did not prohibit. I | might suspend sentence. But If did 1 so, I would hold out an inducemcnt TO 1 others to commit the same crime. l l would then be putting premium on crime Therefore, the court cannot l take such action. Your acts anected not alone the directors of the bank, put l the poor and innocent depositors Suen l acts cannot be sanctioned in d ciVii- ] ized society. Our banking system, one l of The most beneflcent institutions or | modern times, must be protected,
 However much the judge may have l sympathized with him, or whatever | may have been his faith in the bank 1 CTS, personal honesty, the law was inexorable and the court must carry 1t out. It gave him the minimum sen l tence for such an offense, but it is hardly to be expected that he will
 survive 1t, when, added to the weight oi 1 years, is the still greater weight ot 1 hts shame and humiliation. Even II he should live to again walk the earth
 a free man his life will be wreck
 for he win still be criminal in the 1 eyes of the world.
 II may be that other banks and
 bankers do just as Mir. Palmer did, and ! with no bad results. It Is likely that many banks assist the business enter prises of others, but IL there .are no failures and nothing is lost 1t IS un-
 derstood that no wrong has been done
 Rut if one of these banks fails and
 inyestigation of its affairs shows that
 if was using it's deposits without war
 rant would not the officials of the | banks find themselves in the unpleas-
 ant condition of this aged banker oi | Syracuse? But be that as 1t may hu-
 man nature cannot help feeling ot
 sympathy for an old and honored man
 who is nearing the end of life's jour-
 ney and who will probably spend his
 few remaining years in prison. We can 1 feel sorrow for good man gone
 wrong, for an old man brokens for
 ever. and for a family dishonored. Is
 1t not pitiful?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-17


 The Advertiser calls special attention to the manly, straightforward letter of Mn. John V. Smith in this issue of The Advertiser. For sometime he has been quietly and steadily attending to his duties as a special counsel of the Louis vile and Nashville Railroad. He made a good and faithful Railroad Commits sioner. doing his duty to the people and railroads. On his retirement from of flee all the avenues were as open to him as any other private citizen and Mir. Conner has no more right to be singIing him out for attack than any other man in Alabama. He had per feet right to become special counsel for a railroad and the fact that he holds such a position in no wise detracts from his services as a former railroad commissioner.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-17
Bessemer Workman.


 We have noted during the past few months a tendency on the part of a considerable percentage of the masses of the people to lend a willing ear to the dcma gogical cry of down with the railroadsv This quotation may not be literally correct but the meaning and intent of the radical leaders who have inaugurated the demand that railroad rates be revised according to the ideas of the politician rather than upon sound practical business basis certainly means nothing more nor less.J
 The Workman VIII not allgn itself with any such policy, because we be- Iieve 1t to be not only senseless and unjust to property interests but fraught with grave danger to the masses Of the people If, as is claimed, the rail-
 roads are robbing the people by eharg- ing exhorbitant rates, there can be found a remedy without conhscating property that is entitled to as much protection in law and in fact as the
 The further fact also stares every agitator in the face--if he will but take
 the time to look at it--that the rail-
 roads of Alabama have always been
 the leaders in the progress and deveI- opment of the material interests of
 the State Private property is en- hanced wherever new road IS con- structed, markets made accessible for products of the mine, field and forest. Labor is in demand at an advanced
 wage that positively startles the man who has formerly not been connected with the arteries of trade-the rail road Who are the greatest bencfcia- ries taken as a whole, the masses of the people who are brought into touch l with civilization and are given thOus- ands of opportunities to better their condition. or the stockholders of the l railroad company who must assist in | the development of the country throus n l which the road rups in order to secure 1 a dividend upon thelr lnNestnlenl t,! 3 Ct2 ] to any one of the many towns and | cities in Alabama that have sprung up ! as bv magic when new railroad was | con eirncted and ask any intelligent cit l izen from what period dated their ! preatest development and growth. The 1 answer would be the building of the 1 road that aroused the people from ! their lethargy ana SaNe S,;I thslf f nPp"I- 1 tunitics never even dreamed oi before Finally. for we speak more to our 1 neonl" than to any others. What | WxnnId the great Birmingham district 1 he without it's various railroads? Could l any of our magnificent industries be
 successfully operated without adequate
 means of transporting their products
 Wo%n of them would have been here
 haI ,ot inc railroads come first and insi,rnd n prompt handling of their pro-
 we are in favor of proper regulation 1 of freight rates, but we do not believe ! in any such socialistic doctrine that would have a tendency 10 check the rbousands of investors who have placed
 ,,,t,. ,t,o,,sv here and have a right to c,ndct s reasonable interest upon it. l W-c v,iIi have more to say along this 1irs i'm inc future. but we are ready | to taIte issue with any one who with o,t rSypsS ar reason is ready to Jur1T into the anti-railroad pand wagon
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-17
.IT STANDS OUT.n
The Advertisers Christmas Issu
 Warmly Commended.
The Editor and Publisher, New York.

The Editor and Publisher, New York.
 In the multitude of Christmas num- bers that have come to hand, that of The Montgomery Advertiser stands out as one of the largest, probably the most successful and certainly the most ln- teresting from the standpoint of local color.
 26,76l copies sold and distributed Of advertising it carried S,913 inches equal to 424 columns, But perhaps the most remarkable feature was the wealth of carefully selected reading matter, S76 columns. being written especially for The Advertiser. largely by Alabama writers This was illustrated with weli-executed illustrations, 23T of which were made in The Advertiser S engraving department, and most of which were drawn by the papers own artist.
 A paper such as this needs no other comment than these eloquent figures, unless it be remark of the enterprise and printing facilities which were nec- essary to make it's publication possible Responsible for these are w. w. Screws, President of The Advertiser Company F p. Glass, It's Secretary, and Victor IT. Hanson, manager of the advertising department.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-17
,rr. ssrxx,. x.all Known Here,

The sadden death of Robert c. Err win of Hartford, Conn.,, while inspect ing his game preserve at Saybrook Conn, last Saturday, has caused so-' row in Montgomery where MT. Erwin was well known, owing to ms long connection with railroad interests or this section.
 Mir Erwin retired from the presidency of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company on November 21 last. and at the time of his death was director Tn several railroad and steamboat com panies. At one time he was Nlee- President Of the Plant Line and sue ceeded the late Henry B. Plant as the head of tho company, before 1t was taken over by the Atlantic Coast Line He was born in SavanDah. Gu, and was 52 years old. After graduating rom Trinity College in 1874, he took up the practice or law in Savannah, and iinme- diately became interested in steamboat and railroad lines.
 With United States Senator Morgan c. Rulkley of Hartford, and other men, Mir. Erwin acquired thousands of acres of fine woodlands between New Lon don, Conn, and Westbrook, Conn, his intention being to make the territory great preserve for many kinds Of game.
 Mr Erwin leaves a widow and one son and one daughter. A brother, Ma jor James B. Erwin, is withN the army and is stationed at Fort Leayenworth, Kan.