Connecticut western news., 1907-08-15
News of
 A Week

! with a Cleveland reporter, declared that it is worse than thoughtless to say that the wealth and the industries of the country are in the hands of a few rich men. Who" he asked, ''is more interested in the material pros perity of this country than I am? My eggs are not all in one basket by any means. 4 good deal of nonsense is printed every now and then about my having captured all the railroads of the country or having monopolized this or that. The truth is that I figure as an Investor and stockholder rather than as proprietor. But any depres- sion is likely to mean loss of values to me. The groceryman may not feel 1t if the coal business Is bad or the wheat growers suffer in the railroads lose, but the man with,wider interests feels every phase of depression. do not mean that I am in the grocery or coal or wheat business, but I am using this illustration. I am har- messed to a cart in which the people ride" continued Mir. Rockefeller. Whether like 1t or not, must work for the rest. I cannot evade this re- sponsibility if I would. But I do not complain of this. I am willing to draw my share of the load as long as l am able"
 Miss Floretta Whaley, who eloped on April 2o with her guardian, the Rev. Jere Rhode Cooke, rector of St. Georges Episcopal church, at Hemp stead, N. Y., is in sanitarium in Cam ada. Cooke has deserted his seven teen-year-old victim, and she is nervous wreck. Mrs. HezelSiah Wha- lev the girls grandmother, has told friends in Long Island that she has been sending the girl remittances for several weeks since learning that she was III and abandoned While mem- bers of the family refuse to discuss the affair, 1t has been known by intimate friends for several days that Miss Wha- ley was no longer with the now un- frocked rector with whom she ran away. No one in Hampstead knows where Cooke went after he deserted the girl, but Justice Charles s. Gittens of Hampstead, who Issued warrant for Cooke at the time of his elopement, is making preparations to seek him.
 At Nantasket beach Senator Henry Cabot Lodge delivered the long looked for speech which Massachusetts Re publicans have been informed would represent the views of President Roose- welt on the tariff. He followed Govern or Guild, who declared for an immedi- ate revision. MT. Lodge said there would be no revision of the tariff be- fore 1900, that the party leaders were opposed to any tariff tinkering preced- ing presidential election, that re- vision would not mean the lowering of duties on any manufactures the lm- portation of which would hurt our workingmen and that a new tariff would be along the old Republican lines of protection for the American workingman.
 New designs for United States coins by the late artist Augustus St Gau- dens have been accepted by the gov ernment. Three denominations will be affected, the double eagle, the eagle and the bronze cent. radical change Is made in the design of the cent, and, though the Indian head will be retain ed, 1t will bear little resemblance to the old one and Is expected to be more characteristic of the head of the Amer ican Indian, with real headdress in- stead of the present design. On the ob- verse of the eagle and double eagle the head of Liberty is retained in ideallzed form. On the reverse of the twenty dollar gold piece Is an erect eagle, but of new design.
 President Roosevelt Issued an execu- tive order making Labor day, Sept. 2, holiday for government employees and laborers who are employed by the day. The order Is as follows: Tt Is hereby ordered that all per diem em- ployees and other day laborers in fed eral public service, wherever employed, whose employ extends through and hy the first Monday in September, com monly known as Labor day and set apart as a national holiday for certain branches of the public service by the act of June 2S, A. D. 1894 be excused from work on said day, and the said day is declared to be holiday for all purposes for said per diem employees and laborers."