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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-03
R. WAYNE PARKER
IS APPOINTED AS
JUDICIARY HEAD
Newark Lawyer, Chosen Chair
man of Committee, Has Had
Long Legal Training.
Especial to the Newark start

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-Named as
chairman of the committee on judici-
airy, X. Wayne Parker, OF Newark, N.
J., will take charge of the work OF tnal
important committee well qualified In
every respect for the place. Mr.. Parker
has had long years OF legal training,
n he has been a or the
Judiciary committee for a number OF
years. he was first elected to the nifty
fourth Congress-, after two years in the
New Jersey Assembly, also that his
legislative training is as good a his
legal knowledge.
Many important bills are considered
by the committee on judiciary. Every
thing of a legal nature-bills that IN
any way propose to amend or modify
existing laws-aIl are referred to the
committee of which Mr.. Parker will
be the head during the next two ses-
sions of Congress-, and longer, perhaps,
if he should be reelected next fall
The anti-inJunction bill is n of the
measures that will probably be pre-
scented to the committee this winter.
as it is one of the perennial measures
that has plagued the committee for
some time.
Those who know Mr.. Parker believe
he will make a splendid chairman. That
he will make it evident to all that he
cannot be coerced or persuaded from
what he considers his duty is also ex-
pected. Outspoken in 4his. convictions
9Th Jerseyman will probably declare
his policies as chairman of the COM
mittee In terms that will be plain to
all, and there will be no trouble In de-
termining what his attitude win be on
all matters that will come before the
committee.
Labor leaders, who are interested In
various bills designed to benefit the
laboring man. will find that MI. Parker
has some decided opinions of his own.
1t the same time he Is open to convic-
ton, il the subject is presented to him
IN the proper manner. 1t Will be re-
membered that on more than one ,occa-
sion Mr.. Parker has gone on record in
the House of Representatives, as being
in favor of the restoration of the can
teen in the army in face of vehement
protest on the part of some temper
ance organizations in his home dis
trict. The fear of their disapproval had
no effect upon Mr.. Parker, nor did 1t
prevent him from giving utterance to
his convictions regarding the canteen.
Mr.. Parker loses his place on the
military affairs committee. as a result
of his appointment as chairman of the
committee on Judiciary. However, he
will nave plenty to occupy his atten-
ton without serving on any other COM
mittee. The committee has a handsome
room on the fourth floor of the House
Office building.
Representative Charles N. Fowler, Of
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WIFE HE BEAT HAS HIM
SENTENCED TO JAIL.
Mrs. Mcguire Wanted Five-year
Term for Husband.

JERSEY CITY, Dec. 3.-Judge Robert
Carey, sitting in Quarter Sessions
Court, sentenced James Mcguire,
of West Hoboken, to eighteen months
In the Hudson County ~penitentiary for
wife beating.
Mcguire, in the opinion of many per-
sons, escaped with a light sentence,
His wife was one of those who thought
so. She wanted to see him sent away
for five years at least and said so as
Mcguire was being taken back to the
county jail. In passing his wife in the
courtroom Mcguire said to her:
I'm very thankful to you for this.
1 hope you are satisfied now"
The Maguires lived at 297 Hudson
avenue, West Hoboken. Mcguire had
a quarrel with his wife on domestic
affairs and proceeded to beat her. He
dragged her through the streets by the
hair of the head, it is said. inflicted a
deep cut In the side of her head and
broke two fingers of the right hand
He also tried TO throw her over a cliff.
when a policemen interfered and placed
him under arrest.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-03
FOOTBALL PLAYER MAY LOSE SIGHT.

ASBURY PARK, Dec. 3.-Harold
Ystman, Is years Of age. son of Charles
Yetman. of Asbury Park, is practically
sightless as the result of q rough-and-
tumble tackle while playing at foot
ball. Yetman had a hard struggle
I with his tackle. The boys came to
blows and Yetman got the worst OF 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28
Han Yang STEEL WORKS 800 fllLE5 Up The YANGrsE

feet. In this work the dirt and other
materials were carried in by coolies in
little shovel-lke baskets slung to the ends
of poles on their shoulders. Basket by
basket. they laid the ton, and now
no one would imagine that the ground
had ever been anything but solid. II is
covered with great factories and foun-
dries. and there smokestacks 100 feet
high rising upon 1t.
Indeed. Han Yang reminds me OF Pitts
burg. Its mighty chimneys, vomiting
smoke. stand out against the sky and
its huge foundries and blast furnaces can
be seen for miles Up and down the
Yangtse river. Altogether the works
cover about 100 acres, and. including the
mines which supply them. they employ
force of 10000 hands. There are about
1900 hands in the steel plant Itself and
several thousand more in an armory and
gunworks making rifles. artillery and
small arms connected with it. Then Han
Yang has smokeless powder factory,
large electric works and a military acad-
envy which has 1000 students. 1t takes
about three hours steady walking to go
through the various establishments.
All these works are owned and run
by Chinese OF the 20.eOo employees i'll
the steel plant and mines. there are
only twenty Europeans, and they act
merely as foremen and advisory direc-
tors As | have said. the works We're
originated by Chang Chi Tung, and that
as Il government enterprise. Ihat ia
nous yiceroy had memorialized the
throne that it should not he dependent
upon foreigners. but should build Is own
railroads and make its own rails The
late emperor. kwang-Su. ana the great
dosvager consented to this ard directed
Chang Chi Tung to go ahead anu carry
out his ideas He did SO. but it was at
great expense ard enormous loss lie
sank millions, and was up TO his eyes i'll
debt when the works were turned over
to Sheng kung Pao. ChinaS nult!-mi
iionaire Sheng bought them oi the gov
ernment and although he has noininallN
given them over to d stock company with
a capital of $l5.ooo,0O0 OF so. he IS still
practically their owner.
Sheng kung Pao lives at Shanghai, but
he has able assistants here in the per
sons of V X Lee. V. T. Tsan9 and
Wang Rok Shan, ali business nese,
who have been brought UP in the works.
Mr. Lee the manager. is a native OF
Suchow. He was sent abroad TO study
the iron and steel plants of Europe and
America. and from there brought back
the plans upon which the plant was re-
organized Mr. Tsang comes from Nank-
ing He began his life here an ordi
nary clerk and has risen to be the vice
manager. while Mr.. Wang, the CONNER
cial director, who comes from Hong
kong. has had a similar experience.
These three Chinese will rank bust
ness men with the managers of the steel
works of the United States. Each speaks
English as fiuently as any reader OF this
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BIG BLAST FURNACES AT Ham YANq

"They are twelve. on all days except
Sundays. when they are twenty-.nur
We work day and night. and have day
and night shifts. On Sunday we change
the shifts. and for that reason they
have double hours. This twelve hours
includes one hour off for lunch. with
double that time or more on sunday.
DO you have many strikes?
I'VE have never had one, and have
never had to shut down on account OF
la Dor troubles. We treat our men well.
and they are attached TO u.s. We have
tenement houses which we rent to them
at low rates; and also a rSt-class hos
pitsl with European doctors. We expect
to establish a library and reading rooms,
and also a technical school,
Before leaving the works | asked Mr.
Rupert to give me outline story of
the plant in nutshell. Here is the Sist
of his reply:
THE Hang Yang works were founded
in 1855 by Chang Chi Tung, the installa-
ton plant being ordered through the
Chinese ministry at London OF English
and Belgian firms. This consisted o.
three blast furnaces of sixty tons each.
a Bessemer plant with two converters o.
five tons each. a SiemensM Martin furnace
of ten tons capacity. twenty pudding
furnaces with one bloom mill. plate-and-
bar mill and one rail mill Of 6.oo0 horse
power To this installation were added
the foundry and the shops for general ne
pairs.
The works were started III 1874 and at
the same time were built an imperial ar
senal for making firearms and afnmunl-
ton. crucible steel and also plant tor
the manufacture of powder and explosives.
Until 1897 both the arsenal and iron
works We're under one manag cement. anu
then the iron works went into the hands
OF his eNcellency, Sheng Kung Pao.
1T was under Sheng that the new
plant was built. Everything was then
modernized and plans were Instituted
which will eventually result in giving
us 1000 tons Of finished steel per day
'At present the works comprise two
old blast furnaces producing 100 tons Fer
day, and two new ones, one being now
under construction. each Of which VIII
produce 30 tons per day.
'srhe steel works low have three Sic
mems Martin furnaces of 30 tons each,
and one Of 10 tons, with two more under
construction and five under projection
There is a metal mixer of 100 tons
pacity. a rolling mill with ingotheatns
furnaces. which has a gogging mill Of
7,JG0 horsepower. a beam mill OF 12fm
horsepower, a plate mill OF 800 and
rail mill of $500 horsepower. together
with several bar-and-Speed l.lllls o. t.'o
horsepower each. In addition to tins We
have a chemical laboratory and testing
works, large office buildings and all the
other appliances of an up-to-date steel
making plant
FRANK q. CARPENTER.
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newspaper. and understands our books
on steel-making.
had letters of Introduction to the
mana gers from Mr.. William Martin. Our
consul at HannoW. and in the absence of
Mr.. Lee my card was taken in to Mr..
Tsang. Dressed in a black cap, a long
silk gown and heavy cloth boots. l found
him debating directions to a stnograI1ler
He looked like a classical Chinese pro-
fessor. and | was greeted in English.
After "a chat of few moments. he took
me over to the technical director. Mr..
Eugene Rupert, and asked him to show
me through the establishment. As he did
SO Chinese brought III all important
letter in French and Mr. Tsang and Mr..
Rupert discussed this in the French lam
guage. as though both We're born French
men. | doubt not Tsang can speak Ger
man as well. and that although he has
never been outside the empire.
Leaving the offices. I went through the
various departments of the steel plant
with the technical director. Mr.. Rupert
has been here for seventeen years He
started in at the beginning with Chang
Chi Tung, and is still one of the chief adj
visers and directors of the establish
ment
| shall not attempt to describe the blast
furnaces. the rolling mills and the foun-
dfleS. IheN are Just like those OF Pitts
burg, Cleveland, Chicago and other steel
making cities. They have the finest ma
chinery. and they throw their Old ma
chimes on the scrap heap when they b.
come worn out or antedated. For in
stance. al the start a costly Bessemer
plant was put in. and most of the Smeit-
ing was done by that process. Then il
WAS discovered that there was 100 much
sulphur III the coal 10 get good results,
end Siemens- Martin furnaces have been
installed.
The steel now produced is said to he
among the best of the world. | saw many
tests which proved its excellence. These
tests were performed with cold steel. One
was OF the little iron fsh-plaoes which
fasten the steel rails together as they lie
on tie lies. These plates are half
inch thick. three inches wide and foot o.
more long. They We're put in machine
by which they We're doubled up as though
they were India rubber. thai without
the sign of d era k This was done with
the cold iron. | saw cold railroad spikes
looked like ropes. and sections of cold
steel rails weighing ninety pounds to the
yard twisted into gigantic corkscreWS
without a crack o.. break anywhere show
ing. | stood up piece of one of these
rails about five feet long beside myself
and Chinese workman. and had Mr.
RUPERT snap my camera to show how il
looks. A rail which can stand that k:n6
of test could not possibly break with
the cold. II is as tough as wrought iror
and can be bent up like rope withou,
cracking.
AS we went through the works | saw
great piles of steel rails weighing eighty
five pounds to the yard. which are now
making for the Canton-Hankow road
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smokestacks of its factories are already
polluting the air and it has all the nat
ural resources of Il great industrial and
manufacturing center 1t has coal and
iron all sides. and deposits of lime
stone. almost equal TO CaraFra marble i'll
purity. lie in its back yard.
Take the ore which this steel plant is
now using. 1t comes from a solid noun
ain OF iron. about sixty miles down the
HangtSe. The company has something
like thirty-ive square miles of iron de-
posts. and upon this are hills three hun
dred feet high. 1t is estimated that more
than oInUO,OD tons are already in sight,
and that the mountain which is now be-
ing mined contains over 1JOO0J.OoO tons.
The ore is 66 per cent pure. / am told 1t
is 10 per cent better than our best Lake
Superior ore. and equal 10 the highest
grade of. iron of Sweden.
The coal which this steel plant uses
now comes from about two hundred miles
UP the Yangtse. and it's mines are so sit
uated that it can easily be loaded and
brought down by water. 1t makes ex-
cellent coke and there are now about
two hundred ovens on fire at the mines
The present coal output is about fifteen
tons daily; and. with little extra ma
chinery. this can be increased to three
thousand tons Both the coal and iron
deposits belong to the steel company. al
though the iron mines have been mort
gagged to Japan by a longtime contract
which furnishes so much ore per year a a
low price per ton.
But let me tell YOU about the steel
plant itself. 1t lies on the north bank of
the Yangtse in the city of Han Yang,
just west of IIankow, being separated
from it by the Han river There are
three great cities at this point. Hankow,
where I am writing. has population of
over a million. 1t is the present terminus
of the Hankow-Pekin railroad: it is the
chief tea-shipping city of China, and is
a great industrial center. 1t is an open
port and has several foreign concessions
inhabited by Europeans. On the opposite
bank OF the YangtSekiang. which is
here a mile wide. is Wuchang. another
great Chinese city. This is about
greater space Ii is the vice regal cap
ital of Hupeh and Human. two thriving
industrial states, both containing mill
lions. Han Yang extends far UP the
Yangtse above Hankow, the three sister
cities combined exceeding Chicago in size.
The steel plant lies on strip of low
land at the junction of the Han and the
Yangtse. Up to few years ago The
ground on which it stands was swamp.
decided that China ought to build its
own railroads and make its own steel.
chose this as the place. He was viceroy
of the Hukwang provinces at the time,
and his capital city was Wuchang, which
lies in plain sight across the Yangtse-
kiang. He first raised embankments to
keep out tine water, and then filled up the
several hundred acres Of swamp until
he had raised the whole area fourteen
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VK.LEE MR RUPERT

three Siemens- Martin furnaces in opera
tion two under construction and five un-
der projection. Our daily output Of steel
is 80 tons. and we shall soon be making
800 tons more.
AS We walked about I was surprised at
how the new and old methods of working
ere carried on side by side. The ore
comes down from the mines in great
barges. towed in by steam. and it is I'M
loaded by coolies who carry out the
Jumps of iron stone in little rope baskets
as big around as a wash basin \ half
dozen or more chunks Of red ore are piled
up in each basket and the coOlie has two
of these slung to the ends of a pole which
rests on his shoulders. his load weighing
perhaps 100 pounds. This is dropped into
cars. and is thus carried to the smelling
furnaces a half mile further on The
coolies who land the ore each receive one
cent per hour. Near where such work
was going on saw modern cranes operated
by steam engines lifting great castings
and carrying them from one end of the
yard to the other: and further on. inside
the shops. travelling cranes handling pieces
of iron of fifty tons each. In the same
place they were casting steel ingots. and
not far away the ingotS. blazing hot, were
passed through one set of rollers after an
other until they became writing, flaming
constructors. and finally steel rails Of
the cold blue color which they have when
first laid on our railroad tracks.
X
I asked Mr.. Rupert To the C6nese
as steel workers He replied:
AT the start they are not equal TO Eu-
ropeans. but we can train them to be as
good man for man. as any Workmen or
the world I have been employing Chi
nese for seventeen years. and have used
thousands right i'll these works. They are
quick to learn. All we need do is to put
a trained man over each new hand for A
couple of weeks. and after that the am
ateur can be relied upon IL do the work
for himself. This is SO even with com
plicated machinery. Take our new cleo
trio travelling cranes. If / have an en-
ploye who understands them / can let a
Chinese coolie work with him for six
DAYS. and after that the coolie will han
die the machine. All Of our operations.
i'm making every class OF structural steel.
are performed by Chinese They do their
work honestly and we'll All that is nee
essary is to have a good foreman IN
charge Of each shop. and this Is chiefly to
keen the men from going to sleep we
prefer to use foreigners for foremen, ana
now have something like eighteen OF
twenty in our employ as sucn ihey are
chiefly Germans or Belgians.
What kind of wages do you paw
our Chinese mechanics and mill men
get from ten to eighty dollars Mexican
per month: that is, from four to thirty
two dollars gold per month. or from
one dollar to eight dollars gold per
week. This is high in comparison Wi1h
the wages throughout the country
the common laborer outside receiving
ONLY about ten cents day
What are your hours?
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A misunderstanding.

&c ENAToR McCARREN, said New
oYork politician, had an apt way CT
pointing a remark with a story
once he misunderstood me on a certain
question He admitted this when the
misunderstanding was cleared up. liz
said it reminded him of his Roman trip
He said that on his first visit 10 Rome.
after he had seen the Coliseum and the
Forum. he visited the Ara coeli Church OF
the left of the Capitoline Hill. He climb
ed the grand stairway leading to til
church, the finest open-air stairway in
the world; he pushed back the heavy
leather curtain, and. entering, be found
service in progress. So he put his Ina;
on the marble floor at his side and took
a seat.
After ten minutes or so lie decided he
would 60 and reached down for his
hat. But a restraining hand was laid
on his, and he desisted. He knew. OF
course that some churches don't like
people to leave in the midst of a service.
Ten or fifteen minutes more passed. The
service still continued. Senator Mccar-
rem got impatient. and again reached for
his hat But again the unseen hand re-
strained him from the rear.
a little later. however, the senator
quite lost patience. This was he told
himself, an important service. of course:
nevertheless. he did not propose TO miss
his luncheon, and it would harm no one
il lie slipped out quietly.
so. u third time. he reached for his
hat and the invisible hand third time
detained him. He persevered however
The silent hand pushed and his silent
hand pushed against it. But just as he
was conquering in the struggle a voice
said in good American:
Cheese it, boss, that's my hat you're
taking.
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every reason to believe that Mrs Taft
will he quite restored to health by Janu-
AIRY /. and that. beginning with the New
Year :ete, she will preside over the ira
difional !evees and banquets ana may
even give some small semi-official enter
tainments when the season is more adj
vanced. Mrs. Mores presence will be as
a companion and TO step i'll on occasion
when a temporary rest is advised. Mrs
Fairbanks during the last wears of her
life in Washington established her dauGll-
Ter, Mrs John Timmnns. as sort of vice
refine ard thus made rapid progress to her
present complete recovery.
The cabinet dinners have been a topic
Of discussion for years in Washington.
and il las been generally conceded that
they present an aspect which has some
points Of favor. but many which might
be eliminated. Beginning with the Vice
President each member of the cabinet
gives d banquet to the President and his
wife. Once on time only the cabinet
officers and their wives were asked But
Mrs Root. after living here for several
wears. finally prevailed on her colleagues
to change this role and invite their own
guests and thus save the tedium of din
ing prac1lc3lIy tte entire season with one
set of people. Ii is limited that if Mrs
Taft will not be strong enough TO under
take banquet at the Vice President S
and the cabinet homes every week for ten
weeks, these formal affairs may fall into
oblivion. OF course. Mrs. More would
be most welcome proxy for her sister,
but the festivities are planned peculiarly
for the chief executive. and round of
stag dinners is now limited if there are
objections to discontinuing these historic
Eospitaites.
But, apart from these official dinners,
the social side of the winter offers pro-
gram which might be subject of con-
Germ TO less energetic woman than Mrs.
More. No matter how the first lady is hedg-
ed about with restrictions and precautions.
and these have been recently redoubled.
ii is amazing how many visitors must
get access into the private drawing room
Of the White House. Mrs. More has led
busy life since she returned and her
devotion to her sister has been most eff
fectively proven. She has spent the morn
ings and the early afternoons receiving
these guests and often she has presided
over the imaromptu iuncheons which the
present executive is as fond of having
as his predecessor.
Washington knows Mrs. More III her
walks and drives with Mrs. Taft. and IN
her ramhles over the city with her sma II
son. She took q keen interest in the
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Washington last spring on what she in
tended 10 be a visit of about two weeks.
During her sojourn Mrs. Taft was seized
with the illness which has proved so stub
born 10 combat and Mrs. More has re-
manned constantly with her sister ever
since Last week she returned 10 her
home in Cincinnati to prepare for the win
ter and incidentally to celebrate Thanks
giving day in her own home. She left
Washington entirely satisfied that her
distinguished sister is almost entirely re-
stored 10 health. But a il is imperative
that Airs. Taft should be spared all IN
necessary fatigue. Mrs. More will come to
Washington as often as she can TO assist
In tightening the burden which The mis-
trcsS of the White House must sustain.
Mrs More is among the youngest OF the
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A Use for Tammany.
" LILLIAN NJ. WINS during the

wv LILLIAN NJ. WINS, during the New
" York mayoralty contest. was inter
rupted in a speech one night by crank
who shouted:
What are your views on viviseccion.
Are you a foe to the slaughter OF DUMB
animals?'
Mr.. Wins held up his hand, smiled, ana
replied
Yes my friend / am. If our scientists
must have living flesh TO experiment on.
WHY do they not use the gentlemen o.
Tammany Halle?