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Morris tribune., 1907-03-30

of the city supervisors containing spe-
ciic evidence of graft to the amount
of 100000 and possibly much more.
1t was shown that the United railroads
paid each supervisor $4,000 the gas
company S700, the prize fight trust
$500, the Pacific States Telephone CON-
pany $1,000 and the Home Telephone
company $1,000. In this same schedule
it was shown that Ruef and SchmitZ
had collected amounts well up in the
hundreds of thousands, it being shown
that the United railroads paid $450,000
for the trolley franchise. All of the SUI
pervisors were permitted to tell their
story before the grand jury and thus
become immune from prosecution. In
dictments We're also returned against
T. B. Halsey, counsel for the Pacific
States Telephone company, who is I'M
derstood to be a fugitive in the Philip
pines.
The San Francisco authorities are in
c1ined to make favorable terms with
Ruef and Schmitz if they will give the
necessary evidence to convict Patrick
Calhoun of New York. president Of the
United Railroads, and other capitalists
Of the ''higher up class.
Morris tribune., 1907-03-30

man and other mem bers of the faculty.
the object being to prevent the resort
to brutal or dangerous tactics. The
| rush took place in an Enclosure $50
yards by 100 yards. chalked off into
.Wo parts. At the crack Of pistol the
freshmen and sophomores rushed from
opposite sides, the sophomores seeking
to capture and hold as many of the
freshmen as possible and detain them
from the freshman banquet which was
about to take place in the armory.
Those freshmen caught and not res
cued within three minutes were taken
to another place to be decorated and
painted and then marched around the
campus before the laughing throng.
The officers of the freshman class man
aged to reach the banquet hall in safe
ty, but about $50 freshmen were cap
tured and decorated. The sport pro-
ceeded under systematic ruling made
by agreement between the undergrad
yates and the faculty.
Making the Schools Pay. ...
The latest educational scheme, eyolv-
cd at Omaha, Neb, is to make it
unnecessary for children to work for
the support Of their parents, youn-
ger brothers or sisters by having the
juvenile court pay to working children
who are placed in school the exact
amount of their earnings. These funds
are to be obtained through regular
weekly appropriations from churches,
societies, clubs etc.
Morgan Park Academy Closed.
Trustees of the Chicago university
announce that the famous Morgan
Park academy. established at a cost Of
100000. will be closed after June 1, as
it has been running at a loss and as
there now are so many good public
high schools preparing students for
college
Minneapolis Teachers Advanced.
The Minneapolis board of education
has recently voted an increase of So Il
month III the salaries of the grade
teachers Superintendent Jordan was
reelected for a term of three years
and ST 900 added to his salary.
Commercial University Extension.
President Dabney of Cincinnati uni
versity is planning commercial col
lege in connection with the institution.
He proposes to have the students work
in banks and brokerage offices while
pursuing the courses Of study.
"Approved" Teachers.
A paragraph in the School Journal
says that the Indiana legislature has
passed a bill which gives the state
board of education the right to recon-
mend teachers training courses to the
normal schools. When such courses
are properly taught these schools will
be entitled to use the word 'approyed'
in their titles and teachers will be Civ
EN- credit for work in these schools.
Morris tribune., 1907-03-30


ported that the naval forces of Mica
ragua had captured the port Of Tru-
jillO, Honduras
StoIypin Reform Promises.
The Russian douma listened with
courtesy to forty minute address by
Premier Stolypin while he insisted that
the government was willing to grant
many reforms and create new stand
ards Of life In the name Of the en-
perOr he proposed the following re-
forms: Freedom of the press and of
speech, liberty of faith the efficacy of
the habeas corpus, substitution of one
form Of martial law for the present
varying degrees of Exceptional secu-
rity," local self government. reform Of
the zemstvos, responsibility Of officials,
agrarian reform, the abolition of the
free entry of goods into Vladivostok,
completion of the Siberian rail-
road in Russian territory, free and
later compulsory education. On the
plea that these reforms would require
huge sums of money the premier urged
that the budget be given immediate
consideration. The burden of taxation
would rest most heavily upon the rich
by means Of the income tax.
Notwithstanding all these promises,
many of the opposition remained I'M
pacified and Prince Zereteli offered a
resolution blaming the government for
violating every right promised in the
cars manifesto Of October, 1905 This
angered the premier, who said that the
debates must continue on legal lines
and that the government would not
permit irebrand tactics.
Rioting In Roumania.
AE anti-Jewish outbreak in Roumania
had assumed serious proportions early
In the week, and Jews we've fleeing
over the frontier into Austria, where
they were cared for by the Hebrew
alliance of Vienna. The riots centered
about the Roumanian town Of Null
davia. At last accounts the revolt was
spreading.
Disorder In Persia.
Advices from Teheran told Of Indian
mounted troops entering Persia to pro-
tect British consulates in the south,
and it was rumored that the Afghans
had moved toward the frontier Rus
sian forces were on the way to pre-
serve order in northern Persia.
Morris tribune., 1907-03-30

er-s' aud Shippers association, advo<at-
ed limited railroad ownership nation
al, state and municipal, to supplement
national and state control
Bryan In Praise of Unions.
That the labor unions have been the
greatest forces for good in America
was the opinion expressed by ". J.
Bryan in a speech before Chicago IN
ionists. He credited organized labor
with introducing the Australian ballot,
raising wages, shortening hours of la
Dor and raising the age limit of child
labor.
Hearst After Traction Merger.
W. r. Hearst has filed with the at
torney general Of New York petition
for the prosecution of the Ryan-Bel
mont traction merger of New York
city street railways, charging a delib-
crate conspiracy to stife competition
and to deprive the city of adequate
transportation facilities
Morton Defends Roosevelt.
In a formal newspaper interview
Paul Morton, president Of the EQui-
table Life, announced his position as
being i'll favor Of the federal super
vision Of all railroads, by constitutional
amendment if necessary. He express
ed the opinion that if legislation to this
end is blocked it will result in federal
ownership, which would be the most
unfortunate thing for the people of
this country. He said he regarded
President Roosevelt as a conservative
force and that he would be so regarded
in future by many who are now OPP
posing him. He is in favor of legalized
pooling.
Would Put Hartman In Jail.
United States Senator Cullom of H.
linois, after emerging from an inter
view with President Roosevelt, said he
had told the president that if he had
his way he would try to put Z. Fl. Har-
riman in the penitentiary on account
Of the Alton deal alone.
Fish AssaIs Roosevelt.
After giving a lecture at the Uniyer-
sity of Pennsylvania on faith as the
basis of finance Stuyvesant Fish in a
talk with reporters said that Theodore
Roosevelt had always been unsteady
though we'll meaning, but that there
were others just as we'll meaning who
have more discretion and who are
more reliable.
Morris tribune., 1907-03-30

sale cutting of this timber had so de-
nuded the hills that when heavy raiIS
co-incident with snow thaws occurred
quantities of water were precipitattd
INTO the streams, and these. eempfyIng
INTO the rivers. caused the disastrous
floods which in recent years lhavedon
so much damage to property and
caused so much loss of life. The .eme-
DIV. in his opinion, would be in fhe re-
planting of forests and their corserya-
ton on scientific plan Of forest cul-
ture.
AcetyIene Aids Plant Growth.
How Professor John Craig OF Cornell
university in a long series of expert
ments discovered that Of artificial IL
lunIinants none is so closely akin to
sunlight as the rays of acetylene gas
is reported by W T. Walsh in the
April Technical World Magazine. BY
using this lluminant at all times when
the sun was not on deck, either at
night or on cloudy days, Professor
Craig forced the finest strawberries to
maturity sixteen days ahead of the
record and radishes in three=fourths of
the usual time without deterioration In
quality Geraniums and lilies were
matured three weeks ahead of time.
1t was shown, moreover that even on
sunny days the use Of acetylene re-
inforced the rays of sunlight and
FASTENED the ripening process.
Vegetarians Beat Meat Eaters.
The result Of a series Of endurance
tests conducted by Professor Irving
Fisher of Yale was announced. Forty
nine persons were examined, including
students, physicians, nurses and in
structOrs, and the tests were such as
holding out the arms as long as posi-
bic. deep knee bending and leg raising
with subject lying on his back. Pro-
fessOr Fisher says that the nOnfesh
eaters have greater endurance than
those accustomed to the ordinary
American diet.
Emanations of Metals.
Professor Gruhn of Berlin has pub
lished details of his latest experiments
demonstrating his theory that metals
standing that many authorities have
held that such bodies are absolutely
inodorous, inasmuch as they do not
lose anything of their own weight. In
the first experiment Herr Gruhn shows
that piece of copper, tin or other
metal at all times gives off an odor,
but which most persons cannot detect,
but when the same pieces are heated
above lamp they give off readily dis
tinguishable smells. After the heating
is continued for an hour or so the
smell decreases until equal to that In
cold state. If continued, the odor
ceases to be appreciate. 1t is there
fore inferred that the vaporized mat
ter is not identical with the metal it.
self.
Morris tribune., 1907-03-30
Fish Assails Roosevelt,
SOCIOLOGICAL
To Promote Labor Peace.

o Promote Labor Peace.
Under the act of congress establish
ing the fund for the promotion of in
dustrial peace which was provided by
President Roosevelt out Of the proceeds
Of the Nobel peace prize the president
has appointed four trustees-nameiy,
John Mitchell. president of the United
Mine Workers Of America, as repre-
sentative Of labor; Marvin Hughitt,
president Of the Chicago and North
western Railroad company, as repre-
sentative of capital: Seth Low of New
York and Thomas G. Bush of Birming-
ham, Ala. as representatives of the
general public. These are in addition
to the chief justice Of the United
States, the secretary of commerce and
labor and the secretary Of agriculture.
Cleaning Up San Francisco:
Last week about 1000 men with
5000 teams joined in the first public
volunteer street cleaning bee. In ten
hours more debris. was removed than
had been done in ten months with the
regular staff Business men shoveled
side by side with day laborers, clerks
and professional men. Army buglers
sounded the call to work at 8 o'clock.
were cleaned in short order by prison
ers arrested for minor offenses, after
which they were set free.
Rules of Colony Club.
~ l..
official motto Of the new Colony club
which ultra fashionable women of New
York have just opened on Madison ay-
enue. Within this magnificent struc-
ture three indulgences common to
mems clubs are sanctioned-namely,
wine, card playing and smoking-that
is, wine is served with meals, and card
playing must not be for money, while
only In certain rooms, where 1t might
prove agreeable, Is the cigarette
prohibited. One Of the new features is
the idea of providing rooms for out of
residence for shopping or entertain
ments. Besides this the conveniences
Include squash court, roof garden,
gymnasium, library, pool room and
elaborate baths The swimming pool
is sixty-eight feet in length and thirty
five feet wide so extended by mirrors
that the eve sees five tanks in success
sion in every direction. 1t has grape
trellis above supported by pillars SO
that the water reflects the cool green
Of the leaves.
Magazine For the Blind.
The first regular literary magazine
to be published in the English lam
guage for the use Of blind people, pro-
vision for which was made by Mrs.
Ziegler, widow Of the baking powder
millionaire, has made it's appearance.
It is about eight times as bulky as a
copy Of the Century Magazine, al
though containing fewer words. One
section deals with important current
events of the month. Copies will be
sent free to the blind, who according
to statistics. now number 5o,56S in the
United States.
Morris tribune., 1907-03-30

ton. Newell. Clifford Pin
chot and Herbert Knox Smith. In his
letter to Congressman Burton notify
ing him of his appointment the presi-
dent refers to the inability of the rail-
roads to afford prompt transportation
TO the products Of the country and the
necessity of providing complement
tary water system, subject which
las received but scant attention in the
past. The commission, he says, should
consider the relations Of the streams to
the use Of all the permanent natural
resources and their conservation for
the making and maintenance of pros
porous homes. He also believes that
any plan to be feasible should recog-
niZe the means for executing it already
IA existence. both in the departments
.0f the federal government and in the
eates and their subdivisions
.egro Troops For West Point.
For the first time in the history Of
: e United States Military academy
TO soldiers are to be stationed at
.3e West Point post, detachment Of
tAe Ninth cavalry having been desig~
siated for that purpose. This expert
:uent ON the part Of the war depart
:nent was brought about through the
dissatisfaction Of the white troops with
he extra duties devolying upon them
n the care Of the horses used by the
military cadets. While they were will
ing to look after their own mounts,
taey did not like the idea of caring for
III the horses in the cadet battalion.
This detachment of negro cavalrymen
comprises. it is said. all the negro
troops remaining in the United States,
the others being now in the Philip
pines or on their way there.
Morris tribune., 1907-03-30

horace Marvin, Jr. Gated at Erie,
Pa, where an attorney named Howard
tried to collect the ransom offered by
means Of a waif boy whose age and
appearance tailed with that of the
missing child. The lawyer even had
the boy speak over the long distance
phone to DR.. Marvin, but this effort to
collect ransom was unmasked by the
detectives. On Wednesday DR.. Mar
vim left his home and it was supposed
he had been called to some point to
identify child believed to be his son.
One Of the Delaware detectives who
was employed on the case, Frederick
Murphy, had disappeared.
More Ruef Indictments.
The San Francisco grand jury has
presented sixty-fve new indictments
against Abe Ruef for bribery in con-
nection with railroads and other pub
lie utility companies which had Sc
cured municipal franchises. Bail was
fixed at $1,000 cash or $4,000 in bonds
on each Indictment, which, in addi-
ton to the 100000 bail previously or
dered, brought the total up to $75O,O 900.
District Attorney Langdon remarked
that this ought to hold Ruef.
( Prior to this the district attorney
had secured confessions from several
Morris tribune., 1907-03-30
EDUCATIONAL
HadIey's Idea Of Football.

In view of the recent utterances of
President Roosevelt and President Eli
OF of Harvard on the subject of foot
ball in connection with college ath
letics considerable interest was aroused
by the remarks of President Hadley of
Yale, who in recent speech at q
meeting of Yale alumni at Plainfeld,
N. j., expressed the belief that football
might very properly be permitted
where the student body was composed
chiefly of undergraduates. but in a
university where the students were
largely of the graduate or professional
type football. by consuming time and
subtracting from professional energy,
became a harmful diversion.
Food at Cost In Schools.
Superintendent Maxwell of the New
York city public school system has ap-
pealed to the board Of education to
supply simple food at cost price to the
pupils who were found to be improper
~ nourished At the same time he
asked the board to supply eyeglasses
free of cost to children of needy par
ents who may be suffering from i'm
perfect vision. The commissioner of
health had found 1928 children with
defective eyes in the schools last year
CorneIPs Dehrutalized Rush.
A newfangled test of physical
strength between the lower classes of
Cornell university has Just been tried
out with apparent success under the
personal inspection Of President SchaF-
Morris tribune., 1907-03-30

John .. q Federalist.

John .. Federalist.
In a newspaper interview while he
was en- route from the south John D.
Rockefeller declared emphatically that
federal control of all the railroads
would be a good thing for them as
sell as for the general public. He said
luat the railroads and other big cor
tNrations were greatly overcapitalized.
Id his only explanation Of that policy
i'y men with whom he had been asso-
lated was the temptation to make
money faster.
Presidential Conferences.
The question of how best to deal
with the railroad situation has been
the theme Of series of White House
conferences since last week when Gov
ernor Deneen and Attorney General
Stead of Illinois called to see the presi-
dent. The general impression was that
the chief executive wanted to head off
state legislation respecting railroads
ny bringing about an agreement to de-
pend upon the action Of congress In fu-
ture TO control the common carriers.
After having held a conference with
other railroad heads at New York,
President Mellen Of the New York.
New Haven and Hartford went alone
TO Washington and saw the president.
Although no official statement was CIV
en- out. it was learned that the Roose-
Welt and Mellen ideas did not mix we'll
Other railroad officials were expecting
to see the president shortly.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota sug
gested that the president call nation
al conference Of state and federal Off
>.ials to reach some harmonious basis
IF railroad management. Johnson says
he agrees entirely with the Roosevelt
programme of federal control.
The president received Banker Selig-
man of New York and explained his
policies.
Smiths Railroad Checkrein.
AS punishment for those railroads
which retaliate on lawmakers by re-
ducing service or pay, Governor Hoke
Smith of Georgia, in an address at
the banquet Of the Cincinnati Receiv-
Morris tribune., 1907-03-30

been landed at.
Amapala, under
comm and Of
General Presa.
Pre- sident BO-
nilla of HOndu-
ras had taken
personal COM
mand Of a large
section Of his
army on the
march for Sc
govia. in Mica
aqua. He was
c o-opera tin g
with a number
of Nicaraguan
revOlutiOnistS.
1t was also re-
Morris tribune., 1907-03-30

AGAINST Pasteurizinu Milk,


Professor Behring, the famous Der.
lin specialist on pulmonary diseases. is
quoted as opposing the Pasteur system
of purifying milk. He condemns also
the sterilization of milk and the boil
ing of water to render them innocuous.
He says that boiled milk Is unsuitable
food for infants and that the boiling
of water kills the elements intended by
nature for the making Of bone and
sinew. True protection for those who
use the milk of cows, In his opinion, is
the production of healthy cows.
National Funeral For BertheIot.
The French chamber of deputies ad-
jOurned Tuesday out Of respect for the
memory of the celebrated chemist, VI.
BerthelOt, who was foreign minister in
the bourgeois cabinet Professor Ber-
thelot died upon hearing the news Of
his wife's death. and the two will be
buried together. The newspapers all
agree that France has lost her greatest
scientist, a man second only to Pas
teur in the service rendered to human
the way for or given practical utility
to saccharin, acetylene gas and smoke
less powder. He reduced the compo-
nent value of foodstuffs and placed
within the bounds Of possibility the
substitution Of chemical forms Of nour-
ishment for those supplied by Dature.
Color Blind Artists.
That artists are apt to be color blind
just the same as other men is the con-
clusion announced by DR.. Edward A.
Ayres in an important paper for the
April Century. After testing the color
sense of a large number Of colorists,
engravers and illustrators DR.. Ayres
found an average of one in twenty-five
color blind, although as class they
were quicker to recognize varying
shades. However, if an artists eyes at
birth do not possess all color seeing
cones he cannot develop them by cult
walton.
Fishes Hear and Talk.
A dispatch from Paris states that at
the next meeting of the Academy Of
Sciences a paper written by Professor
Koelickeb. director of the geological
laborat tory at Naples. will be read de-
scribing the experiments which he
made with a special microphonograph
in connection with fishes. These ex
periments, he claims. prove that fish
emit certain humming. enabling them
to communicate with each other
Forester Pinchot on Floods.
Clifford Pinchot. chief Of the forest
service in an interview at Washing
ton said that the great food which had
visited the upper Ohio valley was due
primarily to the cutting away of the
forests on the water sheds in the heart
Morris tribune., 1907-03-30
MISCELLANEOUS
Sinclair Colony Burned Out.

sinclair Coiohy Burned Outs
Helicon Hail. the large and unique
building on the Palisades at Engle-
wood, n. j., in which the cooperative
home colony started by Upton Sinclair
had wintered with forty to fifty resi-
dents, was completely ruined by fire
March 16, and one of the workers lost
his life, while others We're injured
jumping from windows, and all had
narrow escapes, so quickly did the
flames spread while all were asleep in
their rooms. The origin of the fire was
complete mystery, and there was
some talk Of its being incendiary. The
colony has not yet decided whether 1t
will rebuild.
Death of T. 9. Aldrich.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, known as
the dean of American poets, died at his
Boston home March 10. He had re-
Gently passed his SEVENTEEN birthday
In good health.
Fatal California Floods.
Floods in the Feather river near the
town of Oroville, Cal. have caused the
loss Of twenty-seven lives and large
damage to property.
Dowe Named His Successor.
General John A. Lewis, a deacon Of
the Christian Catholic church, who
was for years close friend of it's
founder, Dowie, is named as the new
leader in the apostles will He is now
in Mexico, but will return to Zion City
at once to test the leadership with
Voliva.
Big Oil Refinery Burned.
A portion of the plant Of the Atlantic
OIL Refining company at Point Breeze,
below Philadelphia, burned Thursday.
with a loss of 100000. Only by des-
perate work were the firemen able to
prevent the flames from spreading to
the benzine and gasoline tanks, which
would have caused terrible explo-
sion
The Lake Shore Settlement.
An agreement between the Brother
hoods of Firemen and Engineers and
the officers Of the Lake Shore railroad
was reached by which the men are to
receive an average increase of 8 per
cent in wages and a reduction In work
ing hours from twelve to ten in the
yard and its equivalent on the road.
Relief For Injured Mine Workers,
1t is reported from Wlkesbarre Pa.
that the Lehigh Valley Coal company
after series of experiments has or
dered number of hospital cars to be
placed in its mines. 1t is expected
that the use of these cars will result
in alleviating to large degree the suf-
ferings of injured miners, as thew are
equipped with removable stretchers so
as. to avoid the necessity of handling
the men after they are once put on
the cars at the place where injured.
These are said to be the first cars of
this kind ever used in this country.
and it is expected that they will soon
be installed by other companies
Jersey to Fine Corporations.
Samuel D. Dickinson. secretary off
state for New Jersey. has announced
his intention of collecting a fine of
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