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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-18
The College "Greasy Grinds.'


DR.. Lawrence Lowell, president Of
Harvard College. recently spoke OF the
growing contempt among students for
scholarship. Such contempt used to
be voiced in the word grind but DR..
Lowell notes that now the expression
Is greasy grind" And the contempt
includes any hard working student
who holds his nose to the grindstonc
as he believes it is necessary to do to
accomplish the task he has set him
self. and to satisfy the demands of
those who are sending him to the in
stitution of learning. The college
hero is the prominent athlete or so
ciety favorite, and the student who
looks upon the institution as for seri-
Gus intellectual culture is a greasy
grind"
The solution Of this problem is much
sought by college authorities in these
days. Every thoughtful man of the
age has noticed the tendency of the
wealthy loafers Of our large uni
vcrsitics. They seem to think that
college is an institution for social in
struction and to perfect their athletic
inrlinati"ns They seem to consider
such institutions -,.s Harvard and Yale
and other universities as pleasant
loatiug places for athletic young men
and socially attractive young women.
They are not dependent upon what
they may acquire by improving their
time. aud obtain their degrees in any
manner by which it is possible. TO a
certain extent they are of value to the
poor students Of the greasy grind
order because they are able and will
ing to pay those who arc willing to
work. to listen to and take lectures for
them, and to coach them for exams,
to any limit which lcnicnt faculty
will allow to pass.
We have sometimes wondered if a
time would ever come when such loaf
crs and useless habitucs Of educational
institutions are sent home in disgrace
properly labeled, for the public to I'M
dertsand that they are useless in any
place where Il mans work is expected
They are. many times. unfit for the
companonship of wholesome young
men who are in college for a purpose
They contaminate their fellow stu
dents-first, with desire to ape the
rich. and again with Il growing influ-
ence that seems to dominate such in
stitutions to a large extent. 1t would
be better for some Of our young men
of the greasy grind" order had they
not been allowed to associate four
years in the Initiated atmosphere of
these lcafers who are there to spend
dads" money and pass away the
time.
such condition would be the doing
away of the materialistic spirit of the
times. Colleges nowadays must make
a showing They must have numbers
and they must cntice wealthy students
IT possible. for the benefit of the pres
ent, and in expectancy of future en-
dowments. 1t would be ruinouS to re-
form a college of this sort, or to cut
out the athletic associations which fig
ure SO largely in the attractions that
colleges depend upon. There are ex-
ceptions, of course even among the
larger institutions but they are the
We refer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-18

DIR. Harvey w. Wiley says tie meat
trust is manipulating the market for
the purpose Of getting better grip
on the throat digestive organs, if you
wilD Of the people. Tn" people would
be delighted to soc the interests
prove DR.. Wiley false prophet.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-18

the Arctic Highlanders," had been
what Commander Peary denoted
there, the perfect anarchists. Their
manner of life was a kind of snowy
golden age Last summer Captain
Bartlett found them wearing Euro
pean clothes. coughing and splitting,
and wrote in his journal opposite these
memoranda the word:
"Kismet Boston Transcript.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-18

Many people have been inquirins
for Roosevelt, since the election, but
nobody seems to have thought to in
quirc after the big stick.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-18

The small herring schools are re-
ported shy in Passamaquoddy bay.
Supt. Smith should atteEd to the mat
ter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-18
No notice whatever will be taken Of
unsigned communications.

There is no road too long for
the man who advances deliber.
ateIy and without undue haste;
there, are no honors too distant
to the man who prepares him
self for them with patience.
LA 6ruyere.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-18
Maine Gossip
Njuhtfail.

Kindly watcher by my bed, lift no voice
in prayer,
Waste not any words on me Wnen the
hour is nigh
Let stream of melody but flow from
some sweet player,
And meekly will 1 lay my head and
fold my hands to die.
Sick am l of idle words, past all recon-
CLING
Words that weary and perpleN. and
pander, and conceal;
Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all
their sweet beguiling;
The language one need fathOm not,
but only hear and feel.
Let them roll once more to me. and
ripple in my hearing
Like waves upon some lonely beach,
where no craft anchorcth;
That ! may steep my soul therein, and
craving naught, nor fearing.
Drift on through slumber to dream,
and through Il dream to DEATH
-George uu Maurier
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-18

glanced. This tree in an advanced
state of decay. was in existence in
the 18th century, but was replaced i'll
145 by IL stone which was itself re-
stored in 1S41-Bridgepor Telegram.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-18

A conservative estimate of the
Washington county potato crop places
1t at 100000 bushels This is a gain
of 10000 over last season when .55O.-
o'o bushels We're harvested. Approx
matcly 5000 acres We're planted to po-
tatoes then and the increase in acre
age this year is proportionately the
same as the increase in the crop
While some new land has been cleared
many farms long since abandoned,
have been ploughed up again and po-
tatoes planted
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-18

The steamer Sebenoa, which was
built in 1880 for the Eastern Steam
boat Co. and was afterwards sold to
the Maine Central Railroad for the
Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert route. has
been purchased of John Davis of Bath
and William R. Sawyer of Boothbay
Harbor. who acquired the boat last
January, by w. S. White of Rocsland
and will be used as spare boat on
the Vinalhaven and Rockland route.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-18

r. e. Lambert of Wiscassct created
quite stir Tuesday morning at Bath
by driving two yoke of oxen through
the principal streets. He was taking
the oxen 70 Lewiston to be shipped
INTO the woods for the winter and
walked behind them all the way Of the
journey. He arrived in Bath about 10
4. NJ. Tuesday and got his oxen into
Lewiston Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-18

Regular meeting everv third Tuesday Ct
s O'Clock. Tuesday evening, Nov. y, in
spection OF Canton. Refreshments.
G. NJ TABEk, Capt.
JOHN e. KELLER, Clerk
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-18
JEPHTHA ENcAMPMENT. NO.

Meetings at 7.30 o'clock every second and
fourth Tuesday. Nomination of officers
Tuesday evening, Nov. 30
FRANK j. HAM, G. r.
G. W. MERRILL, Scribe
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-04
REPORTED AN
AUTO RACE FOR
PURSE OF S100
MEMBER OF BOARD OF SAFETY
GAVE INFORMATION TO CHIEF
SANDERS LAST NIGHT WHICH
MAY PROVE HIGHLY INTEREST
ING.

Pat J. Williams, member of the
board of public safety, last night in
open meeting. told of an alleged abuse
of the streets by reckless, racing au-
toists that was referred to the chief
of police with instructions that the
police department take the matter uD
and stop future abuses of the streets
as that alleged
4 have been informed" said Mr.
Williams, that on Sunday after
noon there was an automobile race on
Gadsden street, and the fellow who
beat won purse of S100. He was
going about sixty miles an hour.
was told, to beat the other fellow, too,
and something should be done with
those automobiles. They ought to be
arrested if they do not observe the
law"
The chairman suggested that Chief
Sanders should be put wise to any
thing of that nature that was going
on, and the information should be put
in his possession for action. Il Just
now learned of it: | just got it my
self. and that is why | have not said
anything to anybody about it, said
Mr.. Williams.
What information YOU have, Mr.
Williams, YOU should give it to the
chief. 1t is his duty to take these
matters up" said Chairman Johnson.
And the board will rest assured
that this thing will be stopped if I
get the information, responded the
chief
The board then entered into a dis
cussiOn of the abuse of the streets
by some of the local autoist, and
went on record as disappearing any
thing of the nature of over-speeding
They said that the law prevented it
and it should be stopped.
Some time since when reports
were being sent the marshal that au-
toists We're speeding beyond the linn
it on Gadsden and other paved
streets, a plain clothes man was sta
toned there. but no arrests were
ever effected, because the specders
seemed to know that they we're be-
ing put under surveillance and no
abuses were discovered
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-04
TO PROBE into
OLEOMARGER|NE
JUDGE lands ORDERS FEDERAL
GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION
AFTER HEARING STATEMENTS
OF THREE MEN WHO PLEADED
GUILTY..
BY Associated Press.

Chicago, March "a federal grand
jury investigation of the oleomargerine
industry of this city was ordered by
Judge Lands this afternoon after he
had listened to the testimony of three
men who pleaded guilty to violating
the internal revenue laws relative to
the coloring of oleomargerine. The
name of VIM. J. Moxley, congressman
from Illinois, in addition to other
prominent manufacturers of the pro-
duct, figured in the hearing.
OF those who testified today VIII
liam Breadwell, sentenced to six years
in the federal prison and t1ned fifteen
thousand dollars by Judge Lands Mon
day was the most sensational. He
told of purchasing white oleomar-
gerine from manufacturers, who, he
said, furnished him the coloring. and
of his selling the Illegally colored pro-
duct. Witness said he was president
of the Association Oleomoonshiners, -
organized for the coIoring of oleomar-
gerine. He said an employe of the
MOxley concern taught him how to
color, and Monkeys son-ih-law always
made bond when he was arrested.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-04
2ao INSURGENTS SURRENDER
TO GENERAL VASQUEZ

San Juan del Sur, Mic, March J.
News is received of the surrender to-
day of $50 OF the insurgents under
Gen. ChamOrro and Gen. Mena The
remnants of the provisional forces are
in full flight and it is declared here
that if the United States government
would stop the importation OF arms at
Rluefields the war would end at once.
When the capture was made the in
sursents had fed, abandoning their
munition, medical supplies. provisions.
saddles and all of their camp impedi-
ment, and Gen. Chamorro and Gen.
Mena and the other chiefs were trying
to reach Rama
When a pursuing column from Gen.
FasQueZ forces arrived at the edge OF
the wooded country this morning 200
!eFOlEtionists, who had reached the
spot shortly before, surrendered.
The prisoners included all grades
frCm captain down ReyoIutionists
surrendered at Acoyapa last night.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-04
IS BACK
FROM TRIP TO
WASHINGTON
THE FLORIDH DELEGATION
THERE BUSY LOOKING AFTER
INTERESTS OF THE STATE AND
ALL ARE HIGHLY SPOKEN OF.

Hon. r. Pope Reese returned yes
terday afternoon from Washington,
where he went several days ago on
legal business. While there he was
admitted to practice before the SUI
preme court of the United States.
Mr.. Reese says he found the Flor
ida delegation busy and hard at work
in. .tRe interests- of the state. Sena-
tors as well as congressman from this
state, he says, are highly spoken of
by all with whom he came in con-
tact.
While in Washington Mr.. Reese
met Senator Gordon, the retiring Mis-
sissippi senator, who has created so
much interest, not only at the nation
al capital, but all over the country,
and who, Mr.. Reese says, is the hero
of the hour at the capitol.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-04
WOULD CRUSH
SUGAR TRUST
DESIRE is TO GET
AT AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING
CO. UNDER PROVISIONS OF
SHERMAN ANTITRUST LAW.
BY Associated Press.

New York, March 3.-Not satisfied
with the millions paid in duties eyaded
by short weights involving indictment
of the company's secretary, Charles
r. Heinke, and conviction of minor
employees, the United States govern
ment is fighting hard to crush the
American Sugar Refining Co. under
the provisions of the Sherman anti
trust act.
Such action was contemplated when
the company was indicted for putting
the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Com
pany out of business, but settlement of
that suit out of court and statute of
limitations necessitated another legal
attack and the matter was laid before
a grand jury in January.
The scope of the inquiry only be-
came public today when the grand
jury handed UP a presentment for con-
tempt against the company for not pro-
ducing certain documents in response
to subpoenaes. 1t is alleged by the
government that the company controls
ninety per cent of the sugar business
of the country and has connections
with the various subsidiary corpora
tions given in the subpoenas.
An order to show cause why the
trust should not be adjudged in con-
tempt will be signed next week.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-04
BY Associated Press.

Everett, Washn., March 3.-It is now
almost certain that the death toll in
the avalanche that carried away two
Great Northern trains and several
steam electric locomotives, will total
eighty-four.
Few believe that any of the sixty
seven people listed as missing will be
found alive, for il is now more than 4S
hours since the victims were buried
beneath the tons of snow and ice and
wreckage that swept over the ledge OF
the high line and dashed to the bottom
of the canyon, 200 feet below. The
rescuers themselves are in perilous
position, as the danger from snow
slides is not over. Warm winds ac-
companied by frequent showers are
working havoc with the loose snow,
which is IS feet deep on the level
Frequently avalanches are seen shoot
ing down the steep slopes. Rumors
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-04
PH|[ANTHROP|C
WORKFORJNO.D,
THE YOUNGER ROCKEFELLER TO
-, RETIRE FROM BUSINESS AND
DEVOTE ALL OF HIS TIME TO
GIVING AWAY HIS DADS MIL.
LIONS.
BY Associates Press

New York, March Sit was stated
at the office of the Standard Oil
Company today that John D. Rookie
Aeller. Jr., intended to retire from all
Susinessy connections in order to give
his entire time to philanthropic
work. 1t is expected he will assume
the management of the Rockefeller
foundation, bill for the incorpora-
Aon of which was introduced in con-
gress yesterday.
With young Rockefeller at the head
the foundation is to become among
charities what the Standard Oil has
been among corporations.
Wall street thinks that Rockefe!-
ier's retirement means that Rockefel-
ler's millions will no longer be /
market factor, and it is assumed
they will pass wholly into conserva
tive securities
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-04
WILL CHOOSE
SUCCESSOR To
JOSEPH BROWN
GOV. GiLCHRIST WRITES CHAIR
MAN iRADCLIFF THAT He WILL
APPOINT THE PARTY RECON-
MENDED TO HIM BY THE CON-
MiTTEE.

Chairman f. B. Radclif. of the Es-
Gambia County Democratic Executive
COMMITTEES, yesterday receiYed a let,
ter from Governor Albert w Gilchrist
in which the latter states that he has
accepted the resignation of Joseph
Brown as county commissioner from
district No. and that he will ap-
point the party recommended to him
by the county committee to fill the
vacancy.
Chairman Radcliff stated last night
that he~would not call the committee
together Immediately, for there will
have to be a meeting soon to prepare
the call for the primaries, and he be-
lieyes it best to wait until that time
before acting on the matter.
The Governors Letter.
The governors letter is as fol-
lows:
State of Florida, Executive Cham
Der, Tallahassee, March 1. 1910.
Hon Frank B. Radcliff, Chairman
County Executive Committee, Pen
sacola, Fla.
Dear Sir: The resignation of Mr..
Joseph Brown, as county commission
er from commissioners district No. 2.
of Escambia county, has been receiv-
ed here and accepted.
While a county commissioner rep
resents only a commissioners dis
trict, and it is provided by law that
he shall be nominated by the votes
of his district instead of by the coun-
ty at large. yet the duties of a county
commissioner are connected in i'm
portant ways with the affairs of the
whole county. and after consideration
| feel that ii would be we'll to ask for
a recommendation from the Demo-
cratic County Executive Committee
of Escambia county for suitable per-
son to fill the vacancy caused by Mr.
Browns resignation. If the recon-
mendation of the members of the exc
cutive committee can be obtained
without putting them to the incon-
Yenience of attending a called meet
ing of the committee for this purpose
only, such recommendation will be
satisfactory.
A copy of this communication is be-
ing sent to each member of the COM
mittee.
Very truly yours.
ALBERT w. GILCHRIST.
Governor
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-04
pALAFOX STREET PROPERTY
Is BOUGHT FOR $IOO,OOO.OO
Negro Who Assaulted
Little Girl is LynChed

his trial set for today. In the mean
time he had been taken to the Sher-
man Jail for safe keeping. He was
brought to Dallas today and taken at
once to the court room. Pending the
argumenu of the negro's attorney for
a continuance, the mob overpowered
the officers and captured the prisoner
and threw him from the window
Sheriff Ledbetter and his deputies
were powerless to prevent the lynch
ing.
stormed the Jail and endeavored to
batter down the doors with heavy
railroad ties, shouting for BurrelI,
Oates and Rube Robinson, the other
two negroes. The officers pacified the
mob by assuring them that both of the
negroes had been taken to Fort
Worth.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-04
None of the Missing
Will be Found Alive

last night that one of those slides had
buried the relief parties cannot be
confirmed. No news of such disaster
has been received at Skyhomish, the
nearest telegraph Office to Scenic.
Men who made the trip to Scenic
last night and who talked with the sur
vivors awaiting the relief trains there.
bring back remarkable tales of the
heroism displayed by the survivors,
when they were so fortunate as to
escape uninjured from the avalanche.
Fl. Purcell and Ira Clary, two conduc-
tors who eXtricated themselves from
the mass of snow and wreckage,
worked five hours endeavoring to re-
lease the less fortunate victims. When
the two men crawled out of the snow
they were barefooted, but by some
chance they found PurcelFs boots and
socks. Clary put on the socks and
Purcell wore the boots and together
they dug in the snow searching for
the injured.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-04
PLANS OF THE
PROPOSED JAIL
ARE REJECTED
BUILDING INSPECTOR JOHNSON,
IN LINE WITH EARLIER AN
NOUNCED INTENTION, PASSED
UNFAVORAELY UPON BLUE
PRINTS.

In line with a previously announc-
Johnson yesterday officially rejected
the plans for the proposed new coun-
ty jail, stating in a letter to the con-
tractors, the Keynton Construction
Company, that the Jail plans would
snSt -persait Of the erection of q build
ing that would conform strictly with
the city's building laws, and per-
nit for the erection OF the building
was not issued.
The construction camDany was all
ready to start the work of demolish-
ing the old structure, but the action
of the building inspector stops every
thing.
Architect Benz was in the city yes
terday and he met the building in
spector at the latters office early in
the day He was with Mr.. Keynton,
of the contracting firm, at the time.
The two were informed that the
plans would not pass for the permit
desired Later in the day Mr.. John
son addressed letter 10 the Keyn-
ton Construction Company. stating, in
part, that after giving the plans OF
the Escambia county Jail building
careful consideration and carefully
checking up the same. | beg to say
that | am returning the same re-
jected, for the reason that they do not
comply with the building laws of the
city, and would not appear as true
record of the building
MIR. johnson Talks.
THE founda tions for the building
are safe enough" said Mr. Johnson
last night to a Journal representative,
but they are entirely too large for
the building Much money could be
saved the county if these were prop
erly designed Then all of the eye
beams are not fire-proofed. in strict
accordance with the law. They must
have an inch and one-half of concrete
to protect them from fire, so that the
building viii not collapse. The wall
Of the cell block is only eighteen
inches thick although it is sixty feet
high and 1873 feet long. supporting a
truss CARRYING a roof and all it's load
over a torty-two foot span. There
are .6S4 feet of openings in this wall,
and I demanded that the wall be
thickened to thirty inches, at the
base. and that the middle section be
thickened to twenty-four inches, and
that the upper section be increased
to twenty-one inches. A four-inch
pilaster was also demanded built
under each eye-beam carrying ! the
roof trusses.'
Mr. Johnson would not suggest just
wherein the plans were faulty in
other respects. saying that it was
not his business to tell an architect
just how to remedy plans which were
imnerfact.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-04
Many More Families Forced
+ to Leave Homes by the Floods

escape without a damaging rush.
At Youngstown many factories st1n
were idle and in Fremont and Me-
chanicsburg the water was high, but
there appeared to be no added dangers
Four more inches of water at Zanes-
Vile, it was claimed. would close all
traffic upon all of its eight railroads.
Many small towns and farming sec
tions were reported to be under sew
eral feet of water, but details were
lacking. The loss so far has been to
property rather than to life as the
high water came gradually and with
2ulnla yxarnjRR-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-04
BY Associates Press.

Philadelphia, March 3.-For the first
time in five years citizens were ex-
cluded from sessions of the council
this afternoon. An hour before the
founcil met a large crowd had gath
cred at the city hall, but were kept
back by policemen.
The strike was practically ignored.
A message from Mayor Reyburn re-
viewed the situation briefly and stated
a policy of noninterference. Several
petitions from business mems associa-
tions and trade organizations regard
Ing the strike were heard without com
ment by the council
A resolution from the Central Labor
Union, requesting arbitration, was in
troduced by request 1t was referred
to the law committee. A resolution
was offered demanding arbitration and
was tabled almost unanimously.
That the city intends to push the
riot cases with all speed possible was
shown this afternoon when the grand
jury indicted Clarence o. Pratt, ma
tional organizer of the car mems
union, and John ]. Murphy, president
of the Central Labor Union. Pratt is
charged with rioting and inciting to
fiot, and Murphy is charged with in
Citing to riot.
TRANSIT CO. FIRM.
Arbitration has been secuted by the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
officials, the city representatives on
the board of directors of the company
and. in fact, by practically all persons
who are in any official capacity with,
the Rapid Transit Company
The step taken at the meeting OF
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