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Goldsboro weekly argus., 1908-12-24
ALDERMEN MEET.
Special Called Session this Morn-

lag.
At a called meeting OF the Board
sof Aldermen this morning, Chief OF
Police Freeman was authorized to
make purchase of new street carts
and harness and such other equip
ment Ia this department as Haay be
needed to supply last nights losses
by fire.
The Fire and Water Connnittee
were instructed to secure bids for the
repair of the electric fire alarm sys-
tenn and for the construction of new
bell tower and report as early as pos
sible~
MI Horace e. King, the so etfici-
ent chief of the Fire Department., was
invited to act with the Fire and
Water Committee, and already he is
at work, aud hopes to have even a
more complete system soon In oper-
alton than was the former.
Goldsboro weekly argus., 1908-12-24
PASTOR sues CONGREGATION
UDiqne Case Tried Before Justice Of
Peace Peterson Tuesday Even
inQ.

evening before Justice of the Peace
Joseph e. Peterson, when "Rev." J..
III. Love, pastor of ST. James African
Methodist church brought suit against
his congregation to recover $216, the
salary due for this year. Many mem
bers we're present and testified. The
pastor was awarded judgment for 5000,
following which an appeal was taken.
The case will be heard at the January
term of Superior Court, and undoubted-
ly will create much amusement.
Goldsboro weekly argus., 1908-12-24
Mr.. Ira Hatch Shot and In.
stantIy Killed at z
O'clock This Morn.
ing.
Mr.. B. ]. Bowden Charged With
The Deed, land He is Wounded
From a Shot Gun In The
Hands of the Dead
Mans Son.
From Thursdays Daily.

Early this morning the news was
heralded that in the night Mr.. Ira
Hatch, living at Dudley, had been
shot and killed by Mr.. Badger ]. Bow
den. q young man of that place, son of
Mr.. w. B. Bowden, and mayor ofDud-
ley. Bowden is i'll bed from wounds
receiv Immediately after from a shot
gun in the hands of the dead mans
son.
The dead man was brother OF Mr..
Court of this county, who went early
this morning to the scene of the trage-
dy. as did also the coroner and the
sheriff and at this writing an investi-
CATION is being held.
No one at Dudley seems disposed to
give a statement for the press, the
ARGUS having used the phone freely in
an effort to secure the facts.
From what we could gather, how
ever, it seems that Bowden and Hatch
were at variance, and about o'clock
shis morning some one passed Hatch's
mouse ANO sIaOt MS 0SR- eSDSI6upCA
Hatch and his son got shot guns and
w ent out to reconnottre and, some dis
tance on the streets. met BoWden,
whom the elder Hatch Immediately ac-
.cused of shooting his dog. Hut words
ensued and Bowden shat Hatch
l9hrough the heart with pistol, from
| which death resulted instantly, and
thereupon the younger Hatch shot
Bowden with his shot gun, both loads,
| but inficting only flesh wounds, from
which Bowden is confined to his bed.
Bowden gives as his reason tor beln g
on the streets at the above unusual
hour, resulting ia the death of Hatch,
that he had a negro in the lookup, and ,
AS mayor Of the town, he had gone to
took after his prisoners comfort. it
| having turned cold during the night,
and that he was on this errand when
encountered by the Hatches.
Goldsboro weekly argus., 1908-12-24

in our Southern States, and which are
already beings gsimanufacturedi ins our
section.
in the Latin n-Amerioan countries con-
sist almost entirely Of manufactured
articles, it does not follow that South
ern manufacturers would be the only
ones benefited by an increase in ex-
ports from our section to those coun--
tries. On the contrary. the benefits
would be shared by all our people.
For instance, if an establishment in
one of our Southern towns engaged in
the manufacture of stoves or furniture
can build up an export trade to Mexi-
co or one of the Central or South Amer
lean countries. it means that it will
give employment to more men who
will buy more goods from the local re-
tail merchants and who will give to
the farmer larger home market for
his products.
1t is to the interest, not only OF the
South Atlantic and Gulf ports, but
our inland communities as we'll. that
our Au0IICdA bfdOt-Dotu
port and export-should flow through
Southern ports. A large proportion Of
the commodities which the United
States imports from Latin A nerica are
consumed in the South. Southern
manufacturers can supply large pro-
portion Of the commodities which the
Latin Am erican countries buy abroad.
1t ould, therefore, be to the ad want
age OF all concerned in coffee, nitrates,
tropical fruits, mahogany tim ber, rub
| ber, and other products Of Central and
South Anne and the West Indies,
could be brought into Southern ports
in ships which would return laden
with the products of Southern manu-
featuring establishments. For this
| reason l believe that, in seeking to
develop this Latin-America trade, the
merchants and manufacturers, not
only of our seaboard cities but of the
interior as we'll and Southern trans
portation lines should all co operate,as
| far as practicable, in system attic efforts
to guide both imports and exports
through Southern ports.
The International Bureau OF Ameri-
can Republics, to the support of which
the United States is the largest eontri-
butor, is devoted exclusively to the
work of drawing the republics of North
and South America into closer social
and commercial relations. AS a result
of suggestions made to him by citizens
! nf tho South Hon Tnhn hi
rector of the Bureau, is now contem-
> plating trip through the Southern
States for the purpose of delivering
series OF addresses on the general sub
ject of trade with the countries south
of the Rio Grande, with special refer
ence to the interest OF the South in that
trade. These addresses will doubtless
be of great practical value to our sec
ton.
| IT, however, are 10 obtain the
full benefit of the work that is being
done by the Federal Government and
by the Bureau OF American Republics,
we must make practical use of the in
formation which they gather and dis
seminate. This is matter in which, I
believe. we should all take an active
interest, and I am writing to you on
this subject because l know. Of no
lagency that can contribute more to the
bringing about of a broad and intelli-
gent public interest i'll the develop
ment OF this trade than can the press
OF the South.
Yours very truly,
| w. W. FINLEY
1
Goldsboro weekly argus., 1908-12-24
VALE, SlLAS HERRING
An Old Fire Fighting Land
mark Goes Up In Last
Nights Flames.
A Chapter Of Local History and Per-
SOnaI Interest strung Gut to CON-
plete The Story Here Told.
rom Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
Of course all the older citizens
Goldsboro is growing in population SO
rapidly these days we have to qualify
when we speak OF things even of the
whose daily occupation was hanging
around the station and calling Rail
road at the first sight of approaching
trains in either direction. AS "side
line Silas would pilot colored tran
sients to the 'tGreat Eastern boa riding
house, of those days, near where the
beautiful City Hall now stands. Jus
tce Hoke, OF the Supreme Court, then
a Superior Court Judge, and who is a
pronounced brunette, ''tells it on him
self that, on his first official, judicial,
visit to Goldsboro, TO preside over
Wayne court, he in some way fell into
the hands of Silas Herring, who, mis-
taking him for coiored man, sta arted
of with him and his grip for the Great
Eastern. On passing the crossing at
Walnut street and bearing off up East
Centre Judge Hoke stopped him, say
ing, hold on there. porter, | want to
non oh said Silas, "you can't stop
there. They don't take colored folks. .
Approaching the joke to the fullest,
Judge Hoke said, laughing heartily
well, sivesme my grip and III try
it, anyway
story of the hour.
In the early gdays of .Goldsboro' S
peerless volunteer fire department, that
always does such superb and effective
work at fires, and that eclipsed itself
even at last nights fire, the first fire
fighting apparatus was a hook and
ladder wagon, which, while it was yet
new, was itselfsburned III a fire, away
back in the 7os.
After a lapse OF years another Il re
company was formed, about 1880, and
it was furnished bgi the city with n
double tank chemical engine, which
did most effeeti eawork IN extinguish-
ing fires, provided it got to the scene
at an early stageaof the confiagratioD.
Subsequently, as the town progressed
to city proportions, modern steam
fire engine was purchased, nickle- plat
ed and beautiful, and it was named
Mary Alice" in honor OF the lovely
little daughter of Mr.. Charles Dewey.
A spirited rivalry sprang up between
the two companies-the chemical boys
always making desperate. and often
successful, effort to get to the fire and
put it out before the "Mary Alice
could get up steam. This rivalry, with
some of the more Jealous members,
waxed so strong as to sometimes bor-
der on personal conflict. and. to tanta-
lize the chemical boys, some OF the
steamer boys, the chemical engine
having no name, dubbed it ''Silas Her
ring" and this nameistuck to it until
it went out OF commission with the in
auguration of water works and fire
hydrants at the street corners and the
advent OF hose wagons.
In last nights fire the ''Silas Her
ring" was destroyed, together with the
citys street sprinkler, garbage carts
and harness, that were under the shelf
er in the rear of thesfre house, adjoin-
ing Gran than 'sastables.
Vale, 'sSilas Herring'l
Goldsboro weekly argus., 1908-12-24
Frern Thursdays Daily.

A fire which originated in the hay
storehouse OF Jno. M. Grantham' s
stables and threatened to destroy much
valua BILE property in the thickly set
tied business district, bounded by Cen
tire, Walnut, John and Mulberry
streets, was finally mastered by Colds
boro's excellen volunteer fire service,
after destroying and damaging proper
ty to the extent of between SIS, 0o0 and
$40, 900, partly covered by insurance.
When the alarm was sounded, pedes-
tians, who had passed in the vicinity
of the fire, few minutes before. were
startled to see the sky illuminated in
crimson and flames leaping skywards
In bounds. The spectacle created
much excitement and many residents
at a distance for the FIRE district.
thought that the entire business Sec
ton was bing consumed by the
flames.
THE FIRE IN DETAIL.
The alarm was sounded from the
corner of Walnut and John streets
about $50 o'clock, and a few minutes
later the large stables and store room
containing q carload of hay. was like a
furnace. smoke was issuing from the
windows on the brick stables on John
atreet and the engine house.
The trees in the rear OF the home OF
Mr.. Louis Gulley were afire. and 1T
Fso
buildings surrounding the stables
would be consumed.
No one seems to have an idea how
the fire originated. About twenty
minutes before the fire man from
the country had placed his male in the
stables. One of the suppositions today
was that probably he had inadvertent-
ly lighted a match to find his way in
side the stable. However, there is NO
tangible clue as to the origin.
A sad feature OF the blaze was the
tolling of the fire bell as the firery-
tongues fought their way up the tower,
foretelling it's own DOOM and down.
fall, and many spectators wateted this
time honorea signal as it fell from its
lofty perch, where for twelve years il
has served the residents OF Goldsboro
faithfully. It dropped with q loud
thnd, and today is total wreck
The total loss will notiexcsed SIS, ,OOOs
divided as follows:
John M Grantham. stables, stored
vehicles, feed, hay and one horse, ,e3 900
above all insurance.
City of Goldsboro, street sprinklers
carts, drays, 81 800. no insurance.
Fire Department.. on stower and ap-
paratus in the lot in the rear of the en-.
Louis Gulley, out houses, barns and
damage to residence.s 81 900, covered
by insurance.
Odd Fellows, damages to their new
building, $500. covered by insurance.
L. F. Pearsall, city driver, damage
to furniture, $50, insured.
T. n. Waters g. Bro, damage to the
boarding house occupied by Mrs. Hor-
ton, $50, insured.
sIDELIGHTs ON FIRE.
Every window on the north side of
the Odd Fellows building twas broken
by the intense heat.
Streams OF water were played upon
the postoff1ce tosprotect this fine struct-
ure.
A wonderful escape-Mr Gulley's
house. Excellent work. Firemen.
Vehicles of all kinds and several
bales of cotton taken from nearby
buildings by willing hands.
Hundreds of persons visited the
scene last night and this morning.
The city electric splant shut down to
New-York tribune., 1908-02-01
HAVEN'T GOT MONEY" SAYS SH0NTS.
Plan for Refunding Interborough sl5,ooo'-
600 Per Cent Notes Due May l.

Negotiations are under way, IL is UNDERSTOOD Ioi
refundng the s1j 900 900 per cent notes or the IN
terhorough Rapid Transit Company which mature
on Nav l next Whether not the arrangements
had been completed could not be learned yester-
dav but bankers informed the matter SAID that
there was no doubt of the successful CONCLUSION
of the negotiations. One of the plans which mas
been under consideration to extend the matur-
ing notes for two years until May !, 1910, When
another issue of 100000 falls due.
At the expiration of that time 1t was purposed
to refund the whole s2 100000 of short term securi-
ties by a bond issue to be placed the new
tunnel extensions Brooklyn and the so-caiied
Steinvav tunnel under the East River from 42d
street The exceptional strength shown BY the IN
erborough- Metropolitan stock and the AZ per cent
collateral trust bonds within the last few days
il attributed in part to those forthcoming refund-
ing operations The stock closed yesterday at Saa
and the bonds sold at 6e1a up to 617s-
President Shonts and two other officials of the
Interborough Metropolitan company were in confer
ence Yesterday with Chairman Wilcox OF the PUB
lie Service Commission After their departure Mr.
Wilcox declined to say whether Mr.. Shonts and
his associates had proposed plan for the re-
financing of the company. AS the three callers
were leaving the office President Shonts asked
Iieve traffic conditions on the Second and Third
avenue elevated roads by building third tracks
That's an easy question, said the Gnterborough
president. 1t takes money to build those third
tracks, and that haven't got.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-01
THE DRAGON'S NEW YEAR.
Chinat0Un Celebrates and Police
Watch the TOngs.

Happv New Year, Likewise Gong He Fa toy
The holiday began in Chinatown last night
For noise the yellow man is a close second to
the white such occasion. Accordingly. a
SQUAD OF ST. extra patrolmen. under Lieutenant
Henry r Murray. on the job, since IT was
only years ago that two members Of the On
Long Tong were killed and four were wounded on
New Years eve by a band Of enthusiastic Hip
Sing Tong hatchetmen History repeats itself, so
neatly woven shirts of steel links were de rigueur
at some Of the restaurant parties last night
To-day is the first Of the year 2.459 of Con-
fucius ana the thirty-fourth in the reign of the
iIlustrlous Emperor Kwang Su. who. even If he
doesn't make much noise Isl An. is reigning
away softly and unobtrusively- Il is also every
bcdy's birthday for the Chinese simplify the Civ
Ing of presents by arranging il 50 that all of them
mark their anniversaries this date.
But there won't be many gorgeous presents
this merry season. The financial furry struck
Chinatown long ago. The laundrymen who come
from the outlying districts 10 buck the dragon
of fantan and pi-gow didn't have much money
To drop there. because their patrons had been
cutting down expenses shirts and collars This
that the the societies that divide the
gambling house graft. were unable to give din
ners of forty courses in the restaurants last
night. Still, the tables all taken at the
House of a Hundred Blossoms. and the very
SWEETEST Of the sports had spoken for places in
Yin Loo's Dovers street establishment. The
places not decorated as in former years
when the restaurants closed for three days be
fore New Years eve so that they could be prop
ely embeIlished with lanterns ana flags and gold
embroidered notices
As early as . o'clock the frecrackers began to
go off The rubberneck wagons did a great busi-
ness. a crowd Of trained Cinnamon stayed in one
spot where the megaphone barlers could point
them out. while they shook hands with them
selves and passed red New ear cards 10 one
another.
The festivities will last for ten days. and about
the middle of the week the police look for trouble
because the tongs still Erumbling. The On
Longs had a reception al their clubhouse, No II
Mott street but the Hip Sings sulked in their
castle No IL BOWery with their peerless leader.
Mock Duck The enterprising and esteemed
'Tung Kok Wal Sun Po." Chinese Reform
News" has issued d special New ear edition
and a supplement in the shape OF a colored calen-
Gar. II bears a picture of the Chinese dragon
swallowing the earth. Conservative readers of
the sheet say this picture Is rifle too optimistic.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-01
FACES PRISON OR EXPATRIATI0N.
C. c. Browne, Old Customs EmplOye, Must
Take Choice Within Month.

Charles {. Browne. seven years ago a trusted
er1plove Of the customs service in the Appraiser
aeoart,l,ent and the possesSo- Of handsome nome
al Great Notch. Y. J., has 10 choose within the
next thirty days between eNpatriation and cell
vvanderer. never daring return TO his native
land ne will al least have liberty II he insists
on remaining here lie viii have to face serving
q Two wears sentence in Sing Sing.
These alternatives were effeTed 10 him yesteT-
dav. when w Wickham Smith appeared before
Judge Holt IN tke United States Circuit Court and
asked that the second Of an indictment which
has been hanging Browne for seven years
charging him Rith defr1uding the United States
customs through underwriting and Underweighing
lamentations Of japanese silks. be quashed.
agreement Of the jury his trial on this count,
VII confer with his counsel. OlcOtt, Gruber, Bo-
.1,nse & McNianus and decide what course 10 pur-
His situation is novel one He has been con
victed and sentenced TO two years IN Sing Sing on
cue count il The indictment He was eNtradted
from Canada on the second count, on which he
had not bsen tried. ana imprisoned to serve sen
rence on the first. He was released because the
highest court held he cogls not be extradited for
one offence and imprisoned for another Tine in
dictracnt the second count being quashed, he
must return Canada. whence he was extra
dited that count. But if he this
country al any time he ne arrested and i'm
ITisoned for the TWO vars To which he Was sen
fenced on conviction The first count.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-01
q Y. M. c. A. ANNIVERSARY.

Tho eleventh anniversary of the West Side Young
Mems Christian Association was observed 'l'9
week According 10 the report of Walter T. DacN'
the secretary. the association during It's ele'c"
yaars has taken into membership 1898 men III
1eo7 IT'S membership was 1922. The building mas
baen irnnroved in value $4,000 10 $4,000 Inc
evecuttve force now numbers twenty-four secreta-
rice and a volunteer committee force OF TWO nun
dred and fifty while seventy-seven other psilu eiii
Moves are needed to operate the building
During 1907 the association expended on It's "orh
1922 e35 and its receipts. including cohtrlouuohS,
were about s9 less During the last year a tota ol
more than 500 600 used the building Ol 'iieSe
4s Os2 attended the educational classes. Whch are
now the largest in the country; 56.43 were present
at religious meetings and So 932 used the gymnasium
classes or attended athletic meets
The employment bureau found work for 9i7 men.
at an aggregate salary for the year OF SZiZV01 III
addition the association carried elaborate eXteh-
sion work in fifteen churches eight settlement
houses and the county institutions and hospitae-
1t also aided the Havana Young Mems ChrlstEii
Association to the amount of $500 and led IN tHe
movement for the Big Brothers movement Whlch
has now spread to many other branches and some
twenty churches in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-01
THE ARMY'S GREAT REVIVAL.

During the last week a special revival campaign
has been in progress az the Salvation Army Head
quarters under Commander Miss Booth. More than
one hundred men and women have voluntarily come
forward for prayers. Here has been that strange
melting together of the classes which always at
tends a real revival. This special campaign will be
closed tomorrow when three great mass meetings
will be held, the first at II a. m and p m
respectively at the Salvation Army Headquarters.
No. 122 West 18th street, and the closing one at
o'clock in the Liberty Theatre, 42d street. near
broadway The commander will be accompanied iii
this last meeting by her special choir, the Red
knights Brigade. and the national staff band OF
forty players. Some Of the arnly's best sOloists
will sing, accompanied by Miss Booth upon her
large harp On Monday night Commander Miss
Booth will hand their graduation diplomas to sixty
men and woman cadets who for several months
have been studying at the army's training college
in this city. The service viii be held at head-
nuarters.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-01
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mrs Maude Geraldine Clarke arraigned in
the Tombs yesterday, charged with kidnap-
ping her fveysarod son, Carlton, the adopted child
of Dr. Geza Kramer of No S57 Lexington avenue.
She accuses Mrs. Kramer, the wife OF the doctor,
OF completely IN the kidnapping. Mrs. Clarke was
taken before Judge Grain in the Court of General
Sessions and after she had pleaded not guilty. he
paroled her, pending a hearing Of the
william B. Ridgely Controller Of the Currency
VIII be the principal speaker ar the annual dinner
of the students and graduates Of the School of Com
MERGE Accounts and Finance OF New York Uni
versity which WIFI be held at the Hotel Knicker-
booker tonight Others the list of speakers are
Lyman J. Gage x-Secretary- of the Treasury
Charles r. Sprague. president of the Dime Savings
Institution: Controller Metz, John Dewitt Warner
and Leon Drummer.
Tomorrow will he the last day OF the auction
sale of Oriental rugs, being offered by II H. Topak-
yam prior TO his departure for Europe. Mr.. To-
paEyan will sell tomorrow his entire stock includ-
ing his private collection. Thus far the SALE 1t is
considered. has been very successful