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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-09
The General Restoration
Of Confidence.
How the Great Men Of Finance
Worked Together.
Old Gus toms. ---Ths Flower cure..-.
Hudson River Scenery.

. New York, NoY. SIN eurbing thu
Money stringeney through which N-w
York has 1sst passed. the rity'S
! nnancial leaders gave IN exhibition Of
team work that%was the most insinr-
ing feature of the whole situation.
The risalries5 Of ordinary times Nrr..
fotgutten in the admitted peril of tn,.
sAuation. To see Il. ii. Hartman and
James Stillman going into the office of
u Pierpont Morgan would have called
lorth scare-head ""XtraS'' under
ordinary conditions. hut as it was it
SIMPLY meant that these rivals and
"thers Wrr" standing shoulder to
shoulder and working together to lr"-
vent the wave uf unr"aSonin. fear
mat swept over depoSitnr& from pet
ing beyond control. There are Il
number of names, familiar enough in
financial circles bat of which tie
general public seldom reads, that will
De inscribed on the roll of honor when
'he history of this October panic
comes tn be written They are the
members of the Clearing House Com
mlttee. who assumed general charge
VI The situation. and OF the Special
committee appointed to meet the rr-
qulrenentS of the emergency by cX-
aiming and reporting. upon th. con-
uitlons of institutions requiring as
s!stance 50 that the cleaning house
could determine whether il was proper
10 extend aid. Minutes We're precious
III tile work these iinancicrS We're
called upon To do for where helm was
needed il was needed quickly to avert
disaster. The amount of work ac-
'omplished in the space of two days
ana nights by the younger men oI the
special committee which included
henry p. Dawson. Vice President of
.le First National Bank. Gates w.
MeGarrah. president OF the Mechanics
National, Albert II. Wiggin. vice presi-
uent of the Chase National. Walter r.
rev. vice president of the Corn FIX
."ahge and James G.. Cannon. vice, !
president Of the Fourth National. was
ai.nost beyond belief in connection !
M"n the measures taken by Mr.. !
aiofgan and Secretary Cortelyou with /
.Ae cooperation Of George w. Perkins. |
u ,Ur!ner comptroller. y. p. Hepburn. |
whiiam Fl. Porter. head of the famous
Hhenical Bank. and other leaders in
'"e banking world. relieved an over
Continued on Page Fourteen)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-09

amount To anything alongside of tibet
game. Well W" were right in the mid
| dl" Of thc first hilf "
DO Eou riay f"o:baIl:"
'Nhy. Of course. mean the Mes
Sll"nskeeS were in the middle of the
hAH- Some one on the grand,tand dis
covered that the FIRE alarm was ring
h@. All Of the tircmcn, 1913 in num-
her We're at the game ana it was SOME
time before they could BE- singled cut
ahd informed of the blaze. The crowd
VS. $" biz: ami yelling 50 hard that il
W.i% u" usr yelling 'Firr""
Must have caused u great delay in
getting "Ut the fire apparatus"
irs it did some. but that wasn't half
$" much of a delay as what followed
Wil"I me tir'.hpYS got down town and
SAN Wh'r the lire WIS
"H'hnt was III them
'''.'i.r N" was VI IN. street where |
liz" ana rs ha} Aivrn every fireman
IN Rome u parade uniform last Me
mortal i1Hv the boys thought it would
he showing me the proper courtesy if
t.ty went to their homes and put on
the new suits"
-'''t VICES ldtntT DAD Judgment l
si,nnlti say"
"bh Vet. know. Gut the citizens
81 Rome don't stand much on judg-
Af"ht ANA they arr polite over there.
Wen h% the time TIL bows had got into
gear ana had st the pipes working,
the iir" mad ltvrllcd three wagon fac
torres. two grain elevators. the grand
union station of the WiScasSet, Water
VILE N Pennington railroad and was
eating u coed sized hole in the potato
StofehouSe OF StebbinS. Showers &
Slower. the first of which is me-
Great Scott, but that was a blaze
The firemen did Wen to stop it there"
stop it there. Gee whllikins man.
il didn't stop there. BY the time a
delegation Of citiZenS-everyone of
whom mas served in the Legislature
and has renutatior-inducedt the chief
engineer to ring in a second alarm, the
cora shop. the broom factory. the coal
pockets of Hardy. Wood & Cole-the
last is son of my wife by her first hus-
junk shops. four tenement
blocks eleven stories high, had been
reduced to fertilizer
This is really frightful."
Nothing like it. Well the fire
swept on and on down Commercial
street to the Great pond water front
ana thea backed up into Welmot. Du-
pont. Susanna, Bolton, Bowerbank.
Continued on Page Thirteen)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-09
Second BURNING or ROME
AS TOLD BY THE MAYOR.
he Gives the journal Vivid Details of the
Fire, the Football Game and
Other Things.

ne atcfVtlI- Reporter of tie Jour
nal W"S seated i'll reporters room
wishing Tor Il beat or at least a story
81 TIE c"l'!inn-1id- order, WnCl
Tie door n9;cned and i good fairy on
tired. TIN stranger wa, a big hulk of
Z fellow braWny, scraWnE, angular.
hong bearded ana long haired His
rvcWinker& Wvrr long. His eyebrows
matched the rest OF his description
u" naad"G IN, his card. Printed in
r,I ink were these words:
i i"n%Icy 4. Stcbbins, Mayor.
Rome. Maine. L. $. A.
kenilchec County.
This. then was TIE mayor Of Rome.
the metropolis Of NV England He
was stranger to the writer whose
mother hal iicpt him from the big
cities and from among big men. The
mayor Of Rom" was IL big unM every
way. Leaving out his description. he
was haHdSum" man. His right
shoulder had The appearance al having
been made a beast Of burd, il like car
rying a h"d ana had forgotten to drop
back into place after the owner had
retired to public lifc. The mayor sat
down before he was invited to ID 50
and broke out. rs the writer laid the
card on the corner "f the Typewriter
table.
''Th"t'S MOT"
MIC" day" suggested the scribe.
Notwithstanding the doWnpour of rain
which Had been falling necessarily for
twenty hour.
~ ean. that is, if you say it quick
Thot YOU might be wanting an item Of
news an as we he'd a fire in Rome yes
terday afternoon II last night n this
morning. | dropped in to give it To
We"
Hadn't heard about the fire. Is
the damage great"
MOSTLY great. We had football
game over there yesterday afternoon
between the Massachusetts and the
\ orriGSeWockS. Nearly two million
people attended the game n it was
when cur boyS-the MeSsalOnskeeS-
We're trimming the outfit from the river
tact the blaze started
KINDLY tell us about il"
''Wnat. the football game?"
mo. the fire
'Oh YES. | see. the game is too old
news now. II was sent out on the AS
sociateI Press wire last night SO of
course your paper got it all right. 1t
was hot now I tell ye"
The fire. of course. sure"
mo the game, The fire didn't .
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-09
| FOREIGN TITLES.
,@r~
Great Fortunes Paid By
American Girls.
Over 400 American Girls Have
Wed Titled Foreigners.
They Have Taken Abroad Nearly a
Billion Dollars.

New YORK. November S-More than
Tour hundred American girls have mar
rieu foreigners of noble families and
many Ct them have taken big fortunes
= tneir European husbands.
French journal. Lc Petit Partisan.
declared TIE other day that American
slrlN who hai married abroad. mostly
Tor foreign titles. had carried with
them To- furoTc the astonishing sum
of $3.50, oGo,d,0. The Paris writer did
not a.socia;e this rather startling
statement with the reports Of tight
money IN America, yet on this side Of
the Atlantic the fact that hundreds OF
millions nave gone out Of the country
with the titlc-hInters may well occa-
sion little financial as well AS q social
Speculat alton -
Henry CleWS, the veteran financier
Wheh asked Tor an opinion on this esti-
mate. said:
II think that the statement that
SsooOOo"'o Of wealth has been taken
out OF TINS country. or at least that the
ownership of this vast amount Of as
sets mas been transferred to aliens by
the marriage Of American girls with
foreigners, is conservative. I'm
douhtediy the withdrawal of such an
enormous sum has an appreciate effect
upon the money market.
Inc folly of Americans who have
Europamania is extremely costly IN
TINS country Our tourists spend at
least s15o.%0,0O0 Of good American
money abroad every year, most of II
foOlishly
am glad to say that American
girls are beginning to realize that moth
ing but unhappiness comes from the
majority Of these international mar.
riages. though. OF course. there are ex-
ceptions. They are beginning to pre-
Ter American sovereigns to European
prirceii.Igs."
A local paper prints a list of 35e
American girls who have married into
distinguished foreign families. Fol-
lowing is a list Of twenty-five such
heiresses who have carried $3.50 nm, nm
out Of the country,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-09

If the weather conditions are al an
the year will -" present at Lewiston
ana DronD 10 see tho biz colIc"e
g;ilne:. This may PERKINS be called
'ht' hi3SrAi day "f the year i'll Maine
college football. Tor il is the only day
"' III" year when t"o games occur in
the championship series. Both Bates
and Colby bring their season to a close
with today games, While Bowdoin
ana L. OF NJ viii close their season NJ
Brunswick Il week later. ProDhecias
as To the results of todays games ar.
but waste Of words for nobody
knows how either game will come out
and anybody is able to dope" ont the
result about as ne pleases. II IS
simply certain that all teams will plav
their hardest and that whoever wins
Will have well-earned victory. In
neither game is the score at all like,y
TO be a large one. 1t is only to be
hoped that in both cases one team or
the other Will win, and that there will
be no unsatisfactory tie score as was
the result when Bates and e. of Nj. met
at Orono a week ago. All four of the |
teams have had splendid coaching this |
IAN ana all OF them seem to be in q |
good condition for today's struggle. |
though in one or two instances the best
men may be kept out of the lineup
through injuries received in recent
games. Whoever wins, let US hope
that the loser will take the bitter
medicine of defeat as gracefully as
possible ana not indulge in the whining
that has followed one or two of the
earlier games in the series
Thus far Portland High has won six
games. tied one and lost one. It's only
defeat was at the hands of Maiden
high by Il score of - to o.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-18
PEASANTS OF RUSSIA NOW MEN

Within past 100000 Russian peasants have
crowded to the polls
Every ballot cried aloud Il M a man."
Vn the bureaucracy the tremendous Hood
They emissaries they tried to force the
clerical reactonay candidates the compromise
in effort lessen the coming douma the overwhelming "
wing which will liberty Ofica held land owners
elections the the primary and imposed heavy
the Kef province
the chief police read manifesto commanding the election Of GER
delegates the manifesto and beat the
soldiers from the polls with clubs
obstacle 70 of the qualfeo
peasants primaries
Thousands travelled of miles their ballots
Last the election only 46 voted They did
comprehend their power.
100000 in
Russia For 500 the have lived and died like dogs
today they have opinions declare them.
Their red blood has begun to circulate
Poor little cza Swahed in all the ermine of the Roman
offs hand head the but nsg
nfcnt figure before the oncomng avalanche So00oo peasants
hungry liberty Behind them grinding taxation and cruelty
and ovebearg odom lash the dungeons and the
salt mines the torch the starvation and the
grave
Before them is liberty, and in their ballot
Between them which
Is unfortunate bureaucracy.
There is light in Russian peasants face.
is the end of the old Russia There will be delays. The
grand dukes and their will die will
blood the There revolution. vaciating
Nicholas
given He would be swept n a OF
Old
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-18
WHAT is MRS. EDDY WORTH?
BY w. n. BRIGGS

CONCORD, N. H., March 49,
| The wealth of Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy, the Christian Science leader,
is placed at three widely varying
| figures. These three estimates,
which are very contradictory, are:
Mrs. Eddy's sworn statement to
the tax authorities of Concord
$55,75
Her counsel's statement-$30O,.
600
Petitioners statement in her
sons suit-money actually in bank,
sl,0OO,00o Probable wealth, So
10000
The laws of New Hampshire pro-
vide that every taxpayer shall
make sworn inventory on April |
each year of his or her personal
estate or property
Ms. Eddy complied with the law
through the man she designated for
this purpose as her agent-Calvin
Frye. John H. Quimby, the as
SCISSOR, refused today point blank to
permit the correspondent of this
newspaper to see this statement.
He went SO far as to say that he
could not find the public documents
of the state of New Hampshire in
trusted to his keeping. But Mr..
Quimby did give what he declares
to be the exact figures in Mrs.
Eddy's statement, made through
Mr.. Frye. Here it is:
Pleasant View $4,000
futile lot adjoining ........ 1000
Four horses ............... 500
Two COWS ...... so
Carriages ... .......... 1,20U
Stocks in public funds. ..... $4,000
Stocks in corporations. 80.
Money at interest in or
out of state ............ -
Total valuation $50, $50
On this amount Mrs. Eddy paid
the state of New Hampshire in
taxes, s1,191.
The only discrepancy to be found
in Mrs. Eddy's statement is that
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-18
INDIANS TEACH OLD LESSON OVER

At the recent constitutional convention the of Okla
homa 10 the Indian
white neighbors, and bids
state to his liking for sometime o
incidentally, he furnishes a
The white delegates of the
gates were pck and of them home
college. They tailor anc
they had some genius planning things. result
he knew anything delegate
tracked while Lo gavey plotted county
advantage in representation
generally helped himself
on in open mouhed wonder
forth her indgnatiOn-but Lo had turned
1t is wise to underestimate fellow.
One of the requisites other man
fu credit for being able to fight
keep yourself ready with unexpected.
Don't make the fatal mistake of thinking
the world is condensed you.
The bully serene and overconfdent his strength
nobusive little and all
lightning and the bully is down
In business love, in all that
don't underestimate the other
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-18

classes of Migrants; but on the
road the hobo is an honest work
ngman out of a JON, forced by
economic necessity or dS!nk, or
both, to wander from place to place
in search of employment. The
| number of hobos in this country
runs away up into the thousands,
and they constitute what the politi-
| cal economists call "the surplus la.
Dor army" The hobo despises and
is despised by the professional
| tramp, and he seldom becomes one
of them.
The proper stiff" is the profess
sional tramp. Under no circum-
stances can he be induced to, per-
| form any useful labor. He is pre-
eminently a beggar and his wits
have, by his mode of life, become
so sharpened that usually in the
course of year he acquires much
worker He is periodic drunkard
and the fruits of his begging are
dissipated in disgusting revelry.
The proper stiff is well inform
ed on all subjects not requiring any
| deep thought. Poetry and all va
rieties of fiction he devours with
avidty, and he is generally well
posted on current events. AS a
story-teller he eXcells. The gods
of great unrest" have whispered in
his ear the magic word, and the
| Wanderlust has taken MIN through
many strange places and adven-
lures. And these he narrates with
much circumlocution and waste Of
words, for though his GRANULAR Is
bad his vocabulary is extensive.
Last comes the mysterious "yegg
man" | have lived the life of the
professional tramp and have. been
free to enter exclusive tramp cir
cles, the very existence of which is
doubted by the uninitiated, bit |
confess | do not know just whpand
| What the mysterious 'yegg man Is.
John Yegg" he is called on the
road, but beyond the fact that he
is a bad man" little seems@tor be
known of him. From the meager
information which | have gathered
at first hand | judge him to- he a
professional crook, who has taken
In, @,1A 10 -
rest He always has the money, is
always armed, never associates
with tramps and is the shabbest
dressed man on the road.
Such are the denizerE of thai
underworld which | entered at Il
years of age, thirsting for adven
lures, of which | had a-plenty. as
the following chapters will show.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-18
No. 1-HOW BECAME A
TRAMP.

Why did l become "a tramp? Be-
| cause | could not help it. | may as
| well state at the outset that | was
not a student of sociology trying to
find out how the other half lives.
But | felt reasonably positive that
| was an abnormally brilliant youth
and would, in a few years, develop
| into a most formidable rival of
| John D. Rockefeller. SO at the age
of Is, when | had crammed into my
head all of the wisdom and stimu-
| lating advice that emanates from
| the works of Horatio Alger and
| Harry Castleman, | ran away from
| home and set out to seek fame and
| fortune.
| possessed S. in money and a
great ignorance of the ways of the
world Two days after leaving
home l found myself elected from
box car on the Northern Pacific
railroad in the midst of a North
Dakota prairie dead broke"
For two days | went hungry, be-
ing ashamed to beg; then a kind
hearted farmers wife set before me
a big bowl of bread and milk and
advised me to go back home.
should probably have taken her ad-
vice had it not been for the fact
that | fell in with a young tramp
known as the Frisco Kid" He
had been all over the world, and
to me was the personitication of all
that it is good to know. Under his
tutelage l learned rapidly.
| learned to beg and how to
travel on freight trains without
paying tribute to the brakemen.
learned to lift artistlcaiiy, and that
in order to be successful tramp
one must not steal. For the true
tramp is not a. criminal in spite OF
the prevalent belief to the con
trary. When hungry he will ap
! propriate to his own use stray
chicken or raid vegetable garden
But the tramp is a coward.
| learned that in Trampdom there
are three separate and distinct
| castles.
First in order is the "gay cat
He is the novice, the beginner, who
is not initiated into the mysteries
of the tramp fraternity. He knows
| not the tricks and haunts of the
professional beggar. He prefers
the open country to the city, ant
will occasionally work for a living
In the ranks of the gay cats" too
are found few real criminals
young men for the most part, born
and bred in the slums of large
cities, compelled to forsake stamp
ing grounds where they have be
come too we'll known to the police
and by poverty forced into Tramp
dom. A few years of life on tn
road makes of the gay cat" eithe
professional tramp or an habitua
wearer of prison stripes.
The word "hobo" is used throug
Tout the west to designate a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-18

apparently she had a deposit in the
State Capital bank at the time the
above inventory was made, show
ing that she did not have this
money, Josiah e. Fernald, presi-
dent of the bank, said Mrs. Eddy
was a depositor in the bank. Fur
Their than that he would not go.
1t may be the million the petition
ers declare or it may be a hundred
dollars. Mr.. Fernald said jokingly
that Mrs. Eddy had put money in
his bank for 20 years and that 'he
believed she had "some money
with them now.
When Assessor Quimby was ask
ed if the correspondent might see
the inventory of Mrs. Eddy's prop
erty he said certainly. Later on
he said he could not find it and,
anyway, the correspondent would
have to get the permission of Mrs.
Eddy or Mr.. Frye to examine thi.
public document.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-18

Calvin Frye said through a mes
senger that he had sworn to the
document when it was made, that
it was true and that Mrs. Eddy au-
thoriZed him to make it. Further
than that he would not talk, or
even be seen.
Following are the facts to which
Mr.. Frye swore:
That Mrs. Eddy had no money on
deposit in banks or elsewhere, that
she had no money on hand April l.,
and that the total amount of her
property was less than $4,000.
Another sidelight on Mrs. Eddy's
wealth was given by Fred N. Laid,
treasurer of the Loan & Trust Say
ings Bank of Concord. He is the
unofficial auditor Of Mrs. Eddy's ac-
counts. Mr.. Laid said that Mrs.
Eddy had invested in bonds No
taxes have been paid on bonds,
however
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-18

The Spokane Press deliv0led 81
cents per month.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-18
TX T

not the only deadhead in thu
house,"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-18
IN MEMORY Of
IRELAND'S SAINT

Hibernians of this city turned out
in large numbers at the Elks' tenn
pie last night to honor St Patrick.
The temple was decorated in the
national colors intermixed with
green. Salute to Erin" was played
by the orchestra as an opening of
the program of vocal and instru-
mental selections, recitations and
speeches. Rev. Patrick O'Reilly
and E. J. Cannon were the princi.
pal speakers.
In conclusion THE Star Spangled
Banner" was sung by the Elks'
quartet. The exercises closed two
days of fitting remembrance of Ire
lands patron saint.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-18
COULDN'T BE OTHERWISE.

How is business?" asked the in.
quisitive little man.
Mine is booming" replied the
press agent.
Mine is growing" answered the
farmer.
Il can't complain" said the man
who had just opened a 80 acre al
lotment. Mine is improving"
For my part" said the owner OF
half dozen vans, Il must say mine
is moving nicely"
Il find things looking up" SAID
the astronomer.
Mine" said the parachute jump
er, lis dropping"
And | find things pretty dead,
said the undertaken.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-18
WORD FROM JOSH WISE,

81 wonder what Sappington
Yets?"
"A dollar and a half a week"
ooh, absurd I'M"
"That's right. His wife gets the
rest"
Doctor" said the lawyer who
was conducting the cross examina.
lion OF the expert. "tae testimony
shows the prisoner next went to a
restaurant. where he spent an hour
in eating a hearty meal Describe
that act, please"
at appears to me-" replied the
expert, "that the act was rational"
"What started the riot at the per-
Torrance Of Hamlet last nlght?"
"McHamm held the skull and
said, Alas, poor Yorick! You are
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-18
New Spring Wash Goods, Etc.

The Spring goods were never pretier
than this season, and certainly show beau
tiful collection. All grades and qualities from
the elaborate silk chiffon and silk Jacquards to
the less expensive but neat and dainty figured
lawn. Come and look them over you can not
help but invest.
Beautiful silk and linen wasting, plain coors
with embroidered coored dots for wear and tub,
nothing superior. Price ................... 75c
The same, only in plain colors, yard .... Soc
Silk organdies in beautiful designs, at, yd SOC
New ginghams; a very large assortment
Prices .12Iac 15c, zoe, 25c Csc
large line of cotton challies at............7c
New in white goods-Fancy figured dotted
and striped for waists and dresses. AS this has
been ordained a greater white goods season
than ever. do not wait to purchase until stocks
are depleted. Prices. yard. from. .10c to $3.50
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-18
PIONEER HUGUENOT'S BONES
DUG UP IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, March 18.-New
Rochelle workmen have unearthed
be Bartholomew Lispenard, one of
the Huguenot founders of the town
who fled from La Rochelle, France,
after the revocation of the edict
of Nantes. The bones; which had
been buried $50 years. were found
incased in stone.