Semi-weekly herald., 1909-05-13

the former president on current DO.
/ litical topics. is characteristically
I Roosevelt document. discussing at
! length the developments in the Japa-
nese question. Both sides are given
while incorporated in the whole is a
powerful plea for greater navy.
1t was announced Friday that at
| the last meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the New York Central the
/ outlook for next year was so favorable
that 1t was decided to authorize im.
provements and equipment involving
an expenditure of $500 900. On the
same day the Lake Shore and Michi.
gan Southern railway. another Wander
bilt line, appropriated s5.500,000 for
improvement and equipment. The
companies have the cash to carry out
the work President w. C. Brown
says that the loaded car movement on
the New York Central lines for April
was the heaviest in the history O.
these roads since April. 1907. The
companies moved 26O.S71 more loaded
cars than they did during April. 1908
The first five days OF May show an
average increase of between 5000 and
10000 loads n day and indicate the
largest loaded car movement OF any
May iu the history OF the railroad.
Bishop Hugh MacSherry, the Roman
Catholic prelate from Africa, who is
visiting in Brooklyn, is of the opinion
that not all of the Roosevelt hunting
party viii return to this country alive,
and that Mr.. Roosevelt himself is run
ming great risk. He says: "The
sort of places that the party must go
through to get at the game is against
Col. Roosevelt. The climate itself
constitutes danger. There are
swamps. breeding malaria. and low
lying places generally. There Is dan.
ger of fever. He may get the sleep.
ing sickness. Then he win never come
back This lays hold of whites as
well as the blacks. The natives are
BILE as carriers and guides They have
been known TO desert their parties
and run away. The cause of this is
superstltious fear What would hap.
pen to MIR. Roosevelt and his com
panions If they were thus treated?
They would not know their route In
wild country, and they would he nm.
able to carry alone their camping out.
fits and food" Mr.. Roosevelt is just
tho sort of n robust man that would
succumb among lhe first
Charles w. Morse. who in 1907 told
Alfred II. Curtis. then president of the
National Bank of North America. thar
he was worth $22 100000. and who
IS now under sentence to fifteen years
in the penitentiary, is not worth n
dollar today. According to his own
statement made in the Tombs he does
not own piece of real estate, nor a
single share of stock, nor single bond
OF all the companies and properties
that he controlled Two years ago. His
interest IN the Consolidated Steam
ship company. which he had designed
to control the whole Atlantic coast
wise traffic, is no more than that OF
the office boy. lie owns no more OF
the ice trust, which he created, than
does the lowest clerk And he Is worse
off even that that. For he Is In debt
and he cannot pay judgments against
him. More than the s22 100000 has
flown. All he could get when his
credit was high has gone with It. For
Instance, he owes h. ]. Berwind more
than s2,20O.0OO, That Is, In the time
since October, l9O7-a year and a
half-the former ice king has lost
probably S25. 100000 to say nothing of
the prison sentence that Is hanging
over him. All these fhcts came out in
deposition Morse made when he
was questioned by Solomon Hanford,
counsel for Edward G. Jones. who had
judgment Of s17i275 against the
former ice king. Mr.. Jones learned
that he could not get his money.