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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-23
SUPERINTENDENT
WILL SPEAK HERE
Anti-Saloon League Making I'M
W e11H1315 TIT
portant Plans-Attack on
Umlauf Ordinance.

The Anti-Saloon League OF Virginia has
succeeded in securing DR.. p. A. Baker.
the general superintendent, to speak twice
in Norfolk next Sunday-in the morning
at Freemason Street Baptist Church. and
at great mass meeting in Epworth
Church, in that city, at p. 81. DR..
Baker is considered not only great
speaker, but one of the greatest organ
izers of moral forces In America.
On Monday night he will speak in Cen
tenary Methodist Church. Richmond. A
local committee is arranging for special
music, and the superintendent OF the
State League. DR.. Il. II. Bennett, of Ran
dolph- Macon College, Is sending out q
special invitation to all the ministers of
Richmond. Manchester Petersburg and
the surrounding community to be pres
ent at Centenary and to urge their Off
cial boards and their people to attend.
y similar invitation goes to all the min
listers of Underwater to attend the Sunday
afternoon mass meeting.
The league expects great results from
DR.. Bakers speeches. He has addressed
over 1000 ministers in one meeting In
New York City and Chicago, and the
work generally receives boom after
his visits. The league Is enlarglng its
held force. arranging for field day on
Sunday in the churches in all the towns
and cities, and preparing for the most
aggressive and active campaign of edu-
cation In its history. Tho city Of Clifton
Forge has ordered a local option election;
Covlnston Is to rehold their local option
election. and 1T Is said that several small
er clties and towns contemplate ordering
local option elections this year.
oftlclals of the league report that the
move OF the saloon men to weaken the
umEauf early-closing ordinance has
heiped the league throughout the State
ana that many mon not in active coop
eratlon heretofore have. as a result, ex-
pressed their decision to become active
against the liquor traffic.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-23
FAC-SIMILE OF THE FAMOUS rELE RAM IN WHICH NJ C. e,ERc

Fac smiles of the documents in the case
against United States Senator Joseph W..
Bailey, published in The American yester-
day. stamp him conclusively as tool In
the United States Senate of the Standard
oil Company, and show how he dishon-
ored the state OF Texas in the National
Legislature.
The connection of Bailey with the
Standard Oil Trust is shown in his own
handwriting. One of the documents, n
smile of which was published, is
letter written by Bailey to III. G. Pierce,
Of the Water-Pierce Oil Company, from
Gainesville, Texas, on March 3, 1901. This
letter reads:
Mr. Fl. c. Pierce. st. Louis. Mo-;
My Dear Pierce,-Send me New York
exchange for a,75o Have it made
payable to my order, so that 1t will
not be necessary for You to endorse it
Send it at once, as / ought to have
had 1t several days. Your friend,
j. w. BAILEY.
That Bailey got this amount is shown
by d fac-simile OF the voucher, dated
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-23
BADEN POWELL'S CT
Colonel McCabe Writes to sat,,r-
day Review on Subject.

day Review on Subject.
The New York Sun of last Sunday Goth
january contains the following special
cable dispatch from London:
LONDON, January 19.-The Saturday
Review publishes long article from
William Gordon McCabe. the author and
educator, Of Richmond, va, demolishng
General Baden-Powells claim to be a
descendant of Captain John Smith.
me day before he went to South Afr-
ca where he found fresh distinction at
Matching, General Bnden-Powell sent a
bust OF John Smith, of his own compost
ton, to Judge Mayer, who subsequently
presented it to the State of Virginia, In
letter accompanying the bust General
Baden-Powell claimed Captain Smith as
an ancestor, stating that 1t had been as
certaincd that Smith married while in
America. His grandson, BENJAMIN, lived
IN New Jersey and died In 1863. Benja-
MINIS son. Joseph came to England, mar
ried and was the father of General Baden
Powells grandfather, Admiral w. III.
Smyth, whose daughter was General
Baden-Powells mother.
General Baden-Powell added that this
branded the Smyth family as entitled by
tho Heralds' College to boar the arms OF
John Smith--three Turks heads, etc
General Badcn-Powell reiterated this
claim at a recent luncheon ofAthe James,
town Tercentenary Commission, or winch
Mr. McCahe Is n member
Mr.. McCabe ridlcules the idea of Cap"
tain smith having grandson named ben-
iaFnin living in New Jersey l6o years at
ter the grandfather had sailed from Vlr7
ginia forever, Tle brings forward evil
dcnee 10 prove that Captain smith neVar
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A third exhibit was a note dated March
l. 1900, made payable in three months to
the order of II. c. Pierce and signed by
j. w. Bailey. 1t Is for $500
part of this exhibit is letter OF
March 4, 1901. to Secretary Gruet from
Mr.. Pierce, reading as foilows
Take this note into Bills receivable
and deposit cash to my credit with the
Fourth National Bank. MS have given
B. my check. Yours truly.
III. c. PIERCE.
A voucher shows this amount Of 5000
charged to bills receivable as an
amour. of loan to Bailey. This was
nine months after the note fell due. Mr..
Gruet has testified that this note was
finally charged to profit and loss.
fourth exhibit was a voucher Gront
and back) showing endorsements of
Water-Pierce officials in the matter of
n demand loan of 500 made to j. w.
Bailey by II. C. Pierce. The voucher was
drawn to reimburse Mr.. Pierce for his
check given personally for that amount
of April IS, 1900, In the Texas case"
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June 9th of the same year. when the
amount was charged to legal expenses
Texas matters"
The reason for the voucher is explained
in a letter written by III. c. Pierce or
June 10th to Mr.. j. B. Gruet. secretary
of the WatersPierce Company. This
letter reads:
Please send s1,75o to Joseph w.
Bailey. Gainesville, Texas. and charge
against legal expenses on account of
Texas legislation.
II sent this amount personally to
Mr.. Bailey in response to his enclosed
letter of March 18th. Since then Mr..
Bailey has returned the amount to ma,
and it is now proper for the company
to make this payment
attach Mr.. Bailey's letter to your
voucher and merely enclose draft to
Inn without voucher. His enclosed let
ter will be your receipt.
Yours truly.
III. c. PIERCE, President"
Bailey's letter to Pierce. The letter OF
Pierce to Gruet, and the voucher filed in
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-23
Fellow CLAIMS KIN
With WASHING ON
Paaoncd Murderer Traces
Lineage to Father of His
Country"

COLUMBUS, o.. January 22.-John B..
Lewis, who declares he is relative OF
George Washington, was today pardoned
from the State Penitentiary, where he
has been confined since 1892 on a life
sentence for murder, committed in Hamil-
ton COUNTY.
Lewis says that his grandfathers broth
er. Fielding Lewis, married Betty"
Washington, sister Of George Washing
ton, and afterward became secretary to
Washington when he was President.
Lewis tells an interesting story, tracing
his lineage and proving his relationship
to the first President of the United
states.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-23
THEATRICAL TRUST
U.IDER HOT FIRE
Grand Jury Is Making an In
vestigation-Many Witnesses
Summoned.

NEW YORK, January Gan nvestiga-
ton of the so-called theatrical trust was
begun by the grand jury to-day. Nearly
all the prominent theatrical promoters
In this city and some from other cities
have been subpoenaed to appear before
the grand jury in connection with the
inquiry. Among those who were present
awaiting their turn to testify We're ~
hayman and his representatives LOUIS
NIorrenstern; Robert Young, representing
Charles Frohman; Meyer w. livingston.
representing Illaw Il Erlanger; George
II Nicholai and Dudley Meadow. repre-
senting stair & Havlin; II. r. Jacobs,
of Alhany; Lee shubert, and many en-
ployes Of all the theatrical companies.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-23
CONFUSION ABOUT
FEDERAL BUILDING
Seems Difficult to Find Out
What Washington Authorities
Will Do About Post-O Office.

No one connecteC with the Federal
Offices here seems to have the remotest
idea what win be the final outcome of
the matter OF providing more COM
modious public building for Richmond.
The Washington authorities are evidently
excepting their hands closed with refer
ence to the subject There appears to
be a vague idea that representative
days, but no one knows this to be a
fact. or what he Is coming for II he
does come.
What seems to becioud the situation
further about the prospects for n new
building Is tho fact that the government
has. 1t Is understood. decided to spend
about $40 900 at once for remodeling and
refurnishing portions of the present
structure. Indeed. the work Is now
going on. and the second floor offices,
recently vacated by the Internal Reeve
nue. Department, are being renovated
and fixed up in fine style as offices for
the circuit Judges.
In addition to this. the work of re-
moving tho Internal Revenue Depart
ment and of preparing offices therefor
in the Shafer building cost in the neigh
borhood Of $4,000, and 1t would APP
pear as rather unsound business to tear
all these Improvements away in the
course Of few months In order to be-
gin new structure.
Taking all these circumstances into
consideration, the situation regarding a
new Federal building for Richmond
seems to be Cup in the air" at this
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-23
Fought Against Indians.

''He and his nephew. Lawrence Lewis.
returned TO Virginia, While several of
the party continued to descend the river.
Among these was my grandfather,
Stephen Lewis, and two of his brothers,
William and David. Coming to Ken
lucky, my grandfather. his brother David
and other members OF the party stopped
In what is now called Lewis county,
taking its name from my grandfather's.
After remaining few months in Ken
lucky David Lewis, with force of men,
went to Southeastern Ohio to help fight
the Indians. who were committing de-
predations against the white settlers.
Here David settled in what is now, l be-
ieve, Warren county. The other two
brothers l know little about
My grandfather, stephen Lewis, mar
red Miss Julia Griffith Baltimore
lady. and to them were born five sons
Fielding, David, William, Stephen and
John.
"All were born in Lewis county and
all are dead. Ny Uncle Fielding lived to
be eighty-four years old. N.Y., father.
Stephen, was killed by a locomotive in
1ST9
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exhibit.
Another exhibit Of those printed In
yesterdays American deals with the pay
ment of $500 to Henry and Striking, OF
Waco. Tex, through J. w. Bailey. a
telegram to Andrew NJ. E'inlny from Mr..
Pierce authorizes Bailey to advance, with
the approval OF John d. Johnson, that
sum to the Texas parties, and says:
IF Johnson approves authorize
Bailey to loan striblng on his note
fifteen hundred. Bailey should quiet
all Texas parties. Tell him l shall see
him SOON"
This is signed by President Pierce.
The vouchers showing the endorsement
of ~. W. B. acct Texas cases" proves
that the money passed through the hands
of Senator Bailey. and the memorandum
made by the auditor of the Water
Pierce shows it was the $3.50 referred
to in the telegram.
'"rhe telegram and vouchers are all
parts of the documents printed in fac
smile yesterday in the American.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-23
TWO KILLED, ONE INJURED,
AT LABOR UNION FRACAS

SLOATSBURG, n. Y, January %
Two men are dead and other probably
will die as result of a shooting ARRAY
at a labor union meeting here late last
night. vincenzo Scala, ST., was killed
instantly. Tomasco Ccheche died OF his
wounds to-day and Vincenzo Scala, Jr,
who was removed to hospital, is not
expected to survive. The three men We're
attending meeting of the Plasterers' and
Mason's Union. and a dispute arose over
the blacklisting of an applicant for mem-
bership.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-23

Betty Washington, the sister of George
Washington. He afterwards became pri-
waite secretary to washington when the
latter became President of the United
States.
In 1884 Washington, with Lawrence
Lewis. his nephew. eldest son of Field
ing Lewis, and three OF the latters
brothers, David. William and Stephen,
with several others, started on an ex-
petition to Ohio. They struck the Ohio
River at Fort Duquesne and went down
the Ohio to the Muskingum. That was
as far as George Washington ever came.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-23

maEied either in America or England.
and challenges the College of Heralds to
show the right to grant the use of Smiths
arms to General Baden-Powell The
Saturday Review asks the college IL It
can produce legitimate answer.
AS is we'll known, THE Saturday Re-
view" and 1.-THE Spectator" are the two
most powerful weekly journals in Lon
DON Captain NcCabes first article on
this subject was contributed some months
ago to The Times Dispatch. g&aE
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-23
Federal Court Friday.

Judge Edmund Waddlll. Jr., sitting in
the United States Circuit Court for the
Eastern District of Virginia, will on
Friday hear the case of the Franklin
Trust Company. trustees, vs.. the Pc
nnsula Puro Water Company.
Messrs r. G. Bickford and o. ID.
Bachelor. of Newport News, will APP
pear for the plaintiffs and Hon. S. Cor
don Cumming, Of Hampton, for the de-
fandantS
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-23
Fatal Squeeze.

Going up!. cried Coal. Going
down." cried Ice.
The cars suddenly stopped. and a
dead man was discovered wedged be-
tween them FIe was a consumer st
Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-22
on moral or Sentimental groul

On moral or sentimental grounds
1t is contended that it is wrong and
cruel to slaughter animals for food
when life can be well sustained with
out such food, and that its use is
lowering to the moral nature as well
as injurious to the health. 1t is
well known, argues the Indianapolis
News, that raw meat makes animals
fierce, and it is never fed to hunting
dogs, as pointers and settlers, on ac-
count of it's injurious effects on their
fine instincts and senses. 1t should
be added, however, that scientific
opinion leans to the theory that man
was intended to be an omnivorous
animal and to eat meat as well as
vegetables, fruits and grains. In this
conclusion large majority of man.
kind are scientists. Apes and mon
keys, however, which, among animals
are nearest related to man, do not
eat meat.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-22
In All Parts of the state.

Pitman's famous chestnut trees
have failed TO produce big crop for
the first time in many years.
Patrick Herman, of Ewing, The old.
est man in Mercer County, died at his
home there at the age of ninety-nine
call to the pastorate of the Bev-
erly Presbyterian Church has been ac-
copied by Rev. Arthur Philips, OF
Hartsville, Pa
Salem citizens do not take much
stock in rumor that All automobile
line is to be started between Bridge
ton and Salem,
William II. De Forest, fifty years
old, died suddenly at his home in
Crescent avenue, Summit.
The late Catherine Pancoast, widow
of Samuel Pancoast, who died in Phil
adelphia, bequeathed $4,000 to the
First Presbyterian Church, Borden
town.
While returning from Newfield, Al
bert Seaman, of Williamstown, fell
from Rammell's stage and both his
legs were run over.
G. E. Pierson, of Woodbury., Coun-
ty Collector, has received a voucher
for $3722.20, the county's share of
the automobile license fees appor-
toned by the State for road repairs.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-22

Joseph Wildermuth, the young
giassblower, who forced his atten-
lions upon Miss Bessie Newkirk, of
Alloway, posing as a single man, and
who deliberately shot the girl when
she denounced him, was found guilty
by a jury at Salem Sentence was
deferred. Wildermuth' testimony
could be summed up in Just three
words: u don't remember" This
reply, given to any question that
might prove damaging, became so
frequent that there was constant
litter all over the court rooms His
counsel, former Judge Wescott, en-
deavored to show that he was a sub
ject of brain storms, but the State
defeated the plan,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-22
southern Rice Industry.

Some Northern farmers emigrated
to the Louisiana Gulf coast prairie
and began the cultivation Of rice in
1884, devising machinery for that
purpose, The result of their labors
is shown in the fact that Louisiana
and Texas, to which their work also
extended, now produce three-fourths
OF the rice-crop of the United States
Before the Civil War South Carolina
produced about three-fourths and
North Carolina and Georgia most OF
the rest. One of the greatest results
has been the use, for the FIRST time in
history, of labor-saying method OF
rice production, which promises to
give the American rice producers an
advantage over any other country.
unless such country adopts American
methods.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-22
sixty Years a Bible Teacher.

Children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren of her former pupils
waved cheerful greeting to Mrs.
Mary A. Wright, said to be the old
est Sunday-school teacher in the
world, when she arose to address a
great gathering at the First Baptist
Church, Burlington, in honor of her
completion of sixty years of unbroken
and active service as a Bible instruc-
tor Her unique and shining record
was made the text of many addresses.
among the speakers being District
Attorney Samuel ]. Atkinson, a for
mer pupil, and the Rev DR.. Robert
G, Seymour, of Philadelphia. Con-
,gratulatory greetings to the aged
woman were also forwarded from
Vice-President Fairbanks, Governor
Stokes, William Jennings Bryan, Con-
gresham John j. Gardner and many
of the most prominent figures in the
Baptist denomination
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-22

The Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle expresses the opinion that
"automobile clubs and right minded
detached automobiles must act in
unison to eliminate the reckless and
inconsiderate scorcher, if the pleasure
of country touring is to continue. 1t
would be we'll to act promptly, before
the rising tide of indignation becomes
uncomfortable and country legislators
demand drastic State and county
speed laws
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-22
The southerner is essentially

The Southerner is essentially an
Englishman of the Midi, declares E.,
N. Vallandigham, in the Atlantic
Monthly. His semi-tropical climate
has burned into him some OF the
qualities that we associate with the
Southern European, but he has re-
tanned also many Of his own racial
characteristics. He is both fire and
snow. He is ardent in love; but he
at least equals the Englishman at
home in jealous regard for the purity
Of his women and surpasses him
or any other MANN his romantic
devotion to the other sex. His cour-
age has the fire of the Southern Euro
pean and the steadiness of the Eng
lishman. He is soft of speech, and
amiability itself at ordinary times,
but reused to instant anger at the
slightelt suspicion of an assault upon
his honor Perhaps his most charns-
ing characteristic is his delightfully."-
Tnsuspicious outlook upon the world,
his consequent readiness to accept
a new acquaintance for what ne
seems to be, and his opsnhandea hos
pitality.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-22
ANENT The POOL FAMILY.
Many of Them Have Transferred
Their Interests and Retired.

q
John ]. Jaccuelin, one of the patri-
archs of the stock exchange, who has
retired upon the fruits of five decades
of successful activity, was standing
upon the corner of Wall and Broad
streets, gazing intently about, when
he was accosted by an old friend
with.
Hello, Jack, looking for additional
real estate Investments ?"
mo-" replied Jacquelin;- Il was sim
ply trying to realize how thoroughly
this street has altered in appear
ance since ! first entered it as a
boy
You certainly must see vast
changes, for the transformation has
been very great even within my recol-
lection" Continuing, the friend add
ed: Il was looking a few evenings age
at an old print of Wall street taken in
1925. then there were several vacant
lots and church on the north side
between Nassau and Broadway. The
custom house, a low, three-storied
building, stood on the site of the pres
emit sub-treasury. and diagonally
across was an ordinary brick struc-
ture occupied by a prosperous law
stationer by the name of Pool. /
wonder If he has any descendants in
the street today"
There have been some Pools about
until recently" remarked Jacquelin,
but fancy they have quietly trans
ferred their interests to others and re-
tired."-New York Times.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-22
observes the Washington HeraI

Observes the Washington Herald:
1--WE are confident that the forest pol
icy of the Federal Government will in
time come to be recognized as far
sighted and beneflcent. No better
use can be made of the national re-
sources than to conserve and develop
them for the uses of present and fu-
ture generations, instead of permit.
ting that reckless waste of them
which has built up great fortunes
while it has brought about scarcity
of timber which threatens many in
dustries and makes home building
more and more costly"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-22

Z An indication of Ambassador JUS
rerand's observing mind and clever
wit is afforded, thinks the Buffalo
commercial, in his recent observation
that the American business man is
not pressed for time. else he would
not consider it necessary to be per-
gonally present when his shoes were
in process of cleaning.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-22

!. There are few products of the hu-
man mind and muscle that can match
fine modern steamship. To call it
a floating palace" contends the
Philadelphia Press, is a commonplace
which does not begin to hint at all
its wonders and uses. 1t has made
ocean trade almost as swift and even
more safe than land transportation
by railroad, But with all the changes
and improvements, the turbines,
triple screws and the innumerable de-
vices that bring speed, comfort and
utility, every new steamship is one
more monument for Fulton.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-22
Got His trousers in Duty Free.

Among the passengers of steam.
ship just in from England was cler
gyman, whose intention it was to take
up his permanent residence here. Dur
ing the examination of his baggage
which included SUPPLIES, stoles, and
other non-dutiable church yestments.
the question arose whether the rev
erend gentleman was not called upor
to pay duty for the numerous pairs Of
trousers which he was importing.
Said the customs officer:
Il am sorry to say, sir. that you
must pay duty on these trousers, only
the apparel you make use OF during
divine service can be admitted free Of
duty"
Whereupon the quick-witted clergy
man exclaimed;
Come. come, my dear mani You
surely don't expect me to officiate in
church without my trousersl"
So the apparel In question was
passed free Of charges.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-10-22

T Says the Pittsburg Dispatch: The
automobilist has the same right to
use the roads and the same duty of
respecting the rights and regarding
the safety of others that owners of
horses and carriages have. The lat
ter have exactly the same rights and
duties. When either asserts the right
to override the rights of the other
there is need for exemplary treat
mani