The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-06
HARTWEG PILOT
 HAS HEARING None of Evidence Intro duced Is Given Out. IIcE MAKES 4 STATEMENT Party of Enthusiastic Pittsburgers
 on the fiartweg. 4All neas.,. s.,d MT. rsee, swere Jock eyins for o.itionsv--Hartwes
 Evidently Raa Too ciess to
 Presidenfs Beat.
lIIcE MAKES 4 STATEMENT

Memphis. Tenn. oct. 5.--Eviience was heard here today in the cass or Clarence Nichols, of Cairo. Ill. pilot on the steamboat Hartweg, whose suspeS- sion as a pilot for ninety days waE, ordered by President Roosevelt. Wit ness appeared before Capt H. c. Waltz. inspector of Hulis. In his of- f,ce at the Federal building. The hearing was behind closed doors and the nature of the testimony was not
 Tonight Captain waltz announced that iiaz had suspended tife ficenss or Pilot Nichols for six months. The president had requested that his license be suspended for only three months, but Captain Waltz after hearing the evidence decided to make the penalty six months.
 George w. Tice. Vice. President of the sMonongahela Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, which owns the steamer Fred Hartweg, made the foi- lowing statement regarding the report ed collision between that boat and the +Presidenfs boat the Mississippi dur ing the trip down the river between
 s.The steamer Fred Hartweg, whose headquarters are at Cairo. III. was placed at the disposal of tho Pitts burg delegation. of which Capt. w. B. Rogers was the chairman. and about sixteen delegates. through the ceur- tesy of the company. The Hartweg joined the procession at Cairo and pro- ceeded to Memphis So far as the Pittsburg delegation knew. or were able to ascertain. from the ofiicers of the Hartweg. there had been no official orders given in regard to the order in which the boats were to proceed If there was such an order the Pitfsburg delegation. were wholly Ignorant there. of, and from every appearance tha' fleet did not recognize any parttc- luisr rule running. as they did. to a largo extent nt rand0nT. s
 There was some sparfimG. or as xixA efpnan would nay jprkeying bAtweellA stiiA several boats. among the aggfasH- .cyal beInR Inc large S3desNiexler. Alton. N N N &Rasx ILL., fate steamer Dick Fowler of PAduNnh. Ky, and others, two Of which boats At different times ran by ana far In advance of the Presidenf's boat which would indicate further that there were no regular orders to be ob- served. I. myself, was a passenger on. the Haftweg, and at no time during my observation did the Hartweg ap- proach the Presidentss boat so close as to make an accident or collision even probable. .
 The Hartweg accompanied the Pres identiAl party fromidential party from Cairo, and it was stated that the vessel carried a party from Pittsburg. From the first the boat insisted upon main taining a position near the head of the procession, crowding the other vessels out of the places assigned to them and husging the "lfississippi.n which carried the President.
 At one point 1t ran up alongside the Presidents boat and for a distance maintained very close position. This, 1t is believed. to be the conduct of which the President complains. The vessel also at times kept up an almost incessant shrieking. of whistles.