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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-18
SCORE OF MEN BLOWN TO
PIECES BY THE EXPLOSION
OF SEVEN BIG BOILERS

Heads were blown off several bodies
Arms and legs were torn from the
trunks. Fragments OF bodies were
blown several squares from the scene
and bits of human flesh have been
picked up on porches and roofs oi
houses and in trees squares off.
There were 100 men at labor in the
plant at the time of the accident. A
dozen or more men escaped uninjured
These and others who rushed to the plant
as soon as the disaster was known work
ed heroically to rescue the injured from
the ruins, which soon took fire, but the
fire department by hard work extinguish-
ed the flames quickly.
The superintendent of the plant tonight
put foremen and other trusted men al
work trying to make up a list of the VIC
tins. The task proved difficult because
the injured had been rushed to the three
hospitals of the city and there was moth
ing which could Identify them.
Members of the bereaved families rush
ed franticaliy to the plant and then tt
the hospitals and residences near thu
ruined shops In an effort to find trac'
of their loved ones. 1t was thought MT
o'clock tonight that all the dead had beer
removed from the debris. 1t was ther
stated that so far as known the deaf
numbered 20, but this did not include an,
persons who died at their homes aftei
removal from the ruins.
The body of one man, unidentified, wal
blown through house over 700 feet from
the plant. The body entered the house
from the east street side and continued ir
straight line through bedroom and oui
the other side of the house to Louis ave-
nue.. The torso of another man was
found In the garden Of yard about 50'
feet west of the scape. Arms, legs and
parts of bodies we're strewn about the
neighborhood.
The bodies of seven men, nutilated by
the explosion. were found In the north
end of the mill.
For heavens sake, hit me on the head
and kill me- cried workman to the
man who found him. The injured mar
had an arm torn off and had great hole
in his side.
The plant had FIVE mills. All the EN-
plcyes who worked at Mills /, 2. and
were either killed or injured, while thu
men in Mill No. s, farthest from the boil
ers, escaped serious injury.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-18
POSTAL SAYINGS
BILL Is REVISED

Washington. May 1-After weeks OF
alternate deadlocks and unlocks, the
House postal savings bank bill, as "a
yored by the republican members OF the
committee on postoffices and postcards
was introduced in the House today by
Representative Gardner of New Jersey.
Following action upon the measure by the
ful, committee and the republican caucus,
it will be taken up by the House soon.
The caucus probably will be held next
week. The democrats of the committee
have had nothing to do with the making
of the bill. President Taft has been
counseled with its preparation. The Dill
proyides that postal savings banks may
be established at any postoffice when
authorized by the board Of trustees, so
any person over ten years of age may
deposit any amount from 81 upward to
$500 but not more than 800 in any sin
gle month, and Withdrawals may be made
on ten days notice, special cards may
be sold for 10 cents, to which special
10-cent stamps may be attached until a
total of 81 is affixed, when the card
may be deposited thu same as a dollar
in cash: per cent interest would be
paid depositors; depositor may buy with
his deposits United States bonds bear
Ing 21s per cent interest in denomina-
tions of $24 and multiple thereof, al
though 4715 per cent of the total savings
deposits shall be so invested, 471s per
cent being always on deposit in local
banks, and the remaining per cent being
in the hands of the treasurer of the
board of trustees; the funds would be
deposited in any banking institution fur
nishing security backed by the taxing
power of government bonds.
The money received by the government
in the sale of bonds would be used for
the retirement of other bonds now ready
for CALL it is said. What changes the
republican caucus will make in the bill
is conjectural, as is also the democratic
attitude toward it. 1t is practically GER
tain that the democrats of the House
will offer the bank guaranty plan as a
substitute for it on the floor of the
House and failing in this will endeavor
TO amend, the republican bill in many
particulars.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-18
HENRY WATTERSON SPEAKS
UPON POWER OF THE PRESS

quite adjusted itself to lis enlarged habi-
tation and richer apparel"
I'VE hear a deal about yellow jour
nalism," said Mr.. Watterson. 1T is
much like the pot calling the Kettle
black. Offenses against decency are
more or less relative, and qualified.
More and more will newspaper owners
and makers discover that integrity and
cleanliness pay the best dividends. The
scandal monger will, in time, be rele-
gated to the category of the unpros-
porous as well as the disreputable, and
the detective driven out of the news
paper service to the company of the
police where he alone belongs. We can
as little expect that each newspaper
worker shall be gentleman as that
each lawyer and each doctor shall be
a gentleman; but manly conduct and
aspiration should fix the rule, the brutal
and vulgar the exception, the journal
istic brand no less accepted, and hon
orable than that of physics, divinity
and Jurisprudence"
The leading editorial whose disap-
pearance is predicted and whose de-
cline is obvious" said the editor. has
suffered most by the transition process
from the personal to the impersonal
There was exhliaration in pistols and
coffee The duel was more interesting
and less expensive than the libel suit.
The good old times of gun play are no
more Gentlemen, nowadays the man
who shoots another Is called murder
| Ell, and some of us are not trained to
| it, l. do not wonder that the wooden
nutmeg affair in big type for which
the most part defaces the editorial page
as it is called, having nobody behind
it, and neither continuity of purpose
nor the spirit of intellectual reetitude
and accountability, has fallen into dis
credit. 1t might as well be dispensed
with. 1t Is no longer an effective nor
an engaging arm of the service. But
| the relation of the rational to the ir-
rational days doing with good sense
and in good faith by self-respecting
conscientious writer will always COM
mand attention and be worth its space,
and as this is done with power or
charm, it will rank in drawing and
selling quality with the news features.
Success may be attained without it, but
not distinction and influence"
"In a word" said Mr.. Watterson, Il
do not think the newspaper should con-
slider itself as a public prosecutor; rath-
er the personal representative, friend
and neighbor of good men and good
women, pouring in upon the community
the sunshine of Heaven Is its work,
not kindling and stirring the fires of
hell; it's aim and end, first, last and all
the time is to enlighten and to bright
en-. to radiate and to warm, not to en-
bitter to browbeat and to dazzle
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-18
rODAY's AGE-HERALD

Local option indorsed by state
committee.
All bishops chosen by Methodist
conference.
Cummins blocks railroad bill.
Score of men blown to pieces.
Watterson speaks on power Of the
press.
2-O'Neals majority rides over oppo-
sition.
State committee hears Weatherly.
3-Thompson made brave effort to
save prisoners.
Colonel O'Neal will take vacation
Dallas county votes for road bonds
4-Editorial comment
5-Visitors elated over action of con-
vention.
Proposition made by railroads to
build viaduct.
Candidates are announcing.
The day of the comet has arrived
6-Ensley Pythians hold house warm
N ing.
7-Birmingham social events.
Dolly Dalrymple's department.
S-Attorney Brandeis grills witness
King Edwards body leaves palace
9-Place of big fight may be changed
ahead for Nicaragua.
11-Stock market is still very dull.
Cotton market is very unsettled.
Upward reaction In wheat market
sporting news.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-18

Toronto, Ont, May 17.-Journalism,
which he assumed to be profession, was
discussed tonight at the dinner of the
Canadian Publishers association by
Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville
Courier-Journal.
There is more written and said, and
less thought" said Mr.. Watterson, "about
the profession of journalism in which We
are engaged and to which we have dedi-
Gated our lives than about any other topic
of familiar discussion. 1 assume it to be
profession. Yet it is without any code
of ethics or system or self restraint and
self respect. 1t has no such standards
either of work or duty. Its intellectual
landscapes are anonymous; 1t moral des-
tinies confused If not impalpable. The
country doctor, the village lawyer knows
his place and keeps it; is held by certain
obligations and inspired by certain ira
bounds though he may be learned and
skilful, having the consciousness of su-
periority. The journalist, be he of city
or town. has few If any mental perspec-
tives to fix his professional horoscope no
canon laws to guide his wayward foot
steps, neither chart of precedent nor map
of discovery upon which his sailing lines
and travel lines have been distinctively
marked. He is a law unto himself, too
often free lance, only the more self
assertive because he lacks assured posi-
tion and is without authority
| 1.-THE press everywhere, in England and
America, and even In Germany and in
France, where the personal equation still
sets the pace" said Mr.. Watterson, has
deteriorated in weight whilst celebrating
its methods and augmenting its enter
prise 1t has, as we would say In Ken
| lucky lost in bottom what it may have
gained in heels. We hear it said that it
gives the public what it wants. Taking
| that public as it's own creation it has
| either over-educated 1t or under-cut itself
But 1t seems to me that this is an incl
dent of a period of trangition. The old
| order of personal journalism, with its
ideas of individual accountability often
mere egotism and vanity, has passed
away. The new order of impersonal
journalism, with its iGeas of commercial
honor and of public obligation has not
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-18

Canton, Ohio, May 17.-With a roar
that was heard three miles away. a
battery of seven boilers at the plant
of the American Sheet and Tinplate
company exploded this afternoon, kill
ing between 20 and 80 men and injur-
ing about so. Among the injured are
half dozen who, it is said, will prob
ably die before morning. Others, ply
sicans declare, cannot recover from
their injuries
The dead:
- Royce, engineer.
Charles Dewitt, engineer.
Walter Ringenberger
George Bole, heater.
Charles Brown, heater.
J. Henry.
Jack Whealan.
George Leinley.
Hsrry Batlzley- ~
H. Lothamer, dubler.
Peter Woolgoff.
Unidentified man.
Ash Wheeler.
F. Dunlap.
Charles Richards.
Unidentified man.
The cause of the explosion Is at pres
ent unknown.
The fremen and engineers who were
in the boiler room are dead. No one
else about the plant who survived the
accident can give any explanation.
One workman said that he heard
three distinct explosions in quick sue
cession. They came so close, he said,
that it was all over in minute. The
force of the concussion was terrific,
he said.
The big plant is practically total
loss. A mere eggshell of the struo-
ture is left. Identification of the vic
tins was difficult because many Of
them were so mutilated that even the
most intimate friends of the dead
could not recognize the features of the
victims.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-18
LABOR UNIONS DO NOT
FAVOR TRADE SCHOOLS

ST. Louis, May 17.-Members of labor
unions, being Jealous of their callings,
have held aloof from encouraging the
establishment of trade schools. said
Sam De Nedrey, secretary of the Gem
trail Labor union of Washington, ID. c.,
at tonights session of the national con-
ference on the education of backward,
truant, delinquent and dependent child
rem.
..Trade schools, II allowed to run
wild, as they are, menace the very life
Of the apprenticeship system of labor
unions, because they preclude the teach
ing of a trade to the boy" was his as
sertion.
The conference will close tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-18
New Po.tofIice Created

washington, May 17-(Special Upon
the recommendation of Representative
Craig an order has been issued for the
establishment of postoffice at Clairmont
springs, Clay county, Alabama. The
postoffice at Erin is to be discontinued
and mail for that place will be handled
at Clairmont Springs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-18
Fire Losses Are Heavy

Chicago. May 17.-I'ire losses. exclud-
ing forest and marine. aggregate $685.
000 900 a year in the United States, ac-
cording to c. M. Goddard, president of
the National Fire Protective associa-
tion. which began its fourteenth annual
meeting here today.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-18
Luminous Effects Expected

Chicago. May 17.-Local scientists are
not excited over the advent of the comet
tomorrow night. 81 don't expect that we
will know that We are in it, said Prof
E. f. Barnard of Yerkes' observatory
today.
Il look for luminous effects tonight
from the tail of the comet" said Prof.
b. Is. Frost of the same observatory.
I. J. McHugh of Depauw university ex,
pressed the opinion that if the tail of the
visitor envelopes the earth it will lose
some gas by friction with the upper
realms Of the earth's atmosphere, but he
believes the gas would burn quite harm
lessly.
A summary of views on the variety pre-
sented here today. is that the celestial
gadabout is "harmless phenomenon
which may destroy the earth. and that
its tail is an ''innocuous streamer of
deadly cyanogen gases.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-18
LENGTH OF COMETS
TAIL Is VARIED

New York, May 17.-Whether this num-
dane orb is going to be swished tomor-
row night by that much-discussed celes-
tial vagrant. Halley's comet, depends en-
tirely on the length of the wanderer's s
and elusive faculty of putting on and
dropping off 25,OOO, ,000-mile appendage
all within a day or two. As to whether
the Visitor will be accoutered with all
his lengthy trappings tomorrow night the
learned astronomers don't seem to agree
Prof. S. A. Mitchell of the astron-
omical department of Columbia college,
however, thinks the earth will pass
through the comets tail 100000 miles
from the head
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-18

CONTINUED ON PAGE 81
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-18

| = We favor temperance and sobriety as
lDromotive of good citizenship and good
government: but we deplore legislative at
l6empts to enforce the prohibition of the
lnanufacture. sale. or other disposition of
jSrtoxicants against the expressed wishes
}of the communities erected, and we re-
affirm our adherence to the principle of
local option approved in the platform of
the party adopted in 1906, believing that
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-12-29
THE OREGON PLAN.

Now that Senator Young has
spoken in favor of taking the case of
the election of a United States SEN
ator before the republican voters of
the state and now that Attorney Cen
eral Byers presumably Governor
Cummins' choice) has acquiesced
and favors this method of determin-
ing the choice of the republicans of
the state; now that Senator Cum
Minis says: Il have not changed in
the slightest degree my opinion that
senators should be elected by direct
vote of the people," why is the time
not propitious for the passage of a
bill for the direct vote of the people
of the state for United States
tor? Why not an Oregon plan law,
tried and proved to be satisfactory
in it's workings next to change of the
federal constitution?
The progressives want the
torship; they cannot get it without
some standpat votes; the democratic
minority occupies a favorable po-
sition. If Senator Cummins is in
earnest about his direct vote procla-
nation, the progressives, they have
been following the leadership, ought
to support such a bill as Senator
DeWolf introduced in the last as
sembly. If they do not support it,
it may be taken for granted that Sen
ator Cummins is playing the usual
game of politics in the manner.
There will be trouble among the
republicans. 1t will be a session of
politics. Each side will play for po-
sition. Both sides will do everything
possible to elect their choice for en-
ator without a primary election. 1t
is questionable whether there will
cans to put through a vote to SUBJ |
nit the matter to a special primary. |
So long as either faction sees a
chance or an advantage by delaying
action, action will be delayed, and it
will be convenient for either side to
say that they disfavor a special pri-
mary for reason that the expense
would be enormous The progressives
want to give an honorary term, say
to ex-Gov. L%arrabee, or to Henry
Wallace; the sta%ndpatters say why
not give an honorary term to Sena-
tor Young? And there you are.
The position of the minority, |
therefore, in this matter, is Of some
If the fight wakes as warm
as present conditions indicate, the
democrats will occupy a most favor
able position. So far as the new ses-
sion of the assembly is concerned.
politics is a game three can play at.
Either faction, by throwing support
to the democrats for direct election
Of senators under the Oregon plan, |
c9l carry the day. AS Senator Cum
mHqs says he is in favor of direct
election, here is his opportunity; if
lIia sadherents do not take advantage
perhaps the standpatters.
-reWashington Democrat.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-12-29

tiously to write the 50 rate into the
bill in the form in which it received
final enactment.
At the time the Payne-Aldrich
measure was pending, House senti-
ment strongly favored the transfer
to the free list of rough Sawed
lumber not especially provided for
The successful thwarting of that de-
sire is credited to Congressman
Fordney, a wealthy lumberman as
well as a member of the Ways and
Means Committee. He received eff
ficient assistance from lumberman
Senators and, in conference again,
the rate was fixed at SIPS.
BY all means let lis have a lum-
Der tariff fixed by somebody other
than the lumbermen. The ultimate
lumber consumer is curious to see
what it would be like.-St. Louis
Republic.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-12-29
.W5N;FREE TRADE IN LABOR.
.allt 10

sidosfe sMi9eMski is the name of a
youG1B1 lady .2who was arrested the
other day for leading a disturbance
iheGontgctio9b with the garment-ma-
kertsr istsik GChicago. Have you
noticed qhBH taiehly the labor news
ofitabe ysabs isl Bbriukled with names
that sound odd to American ears.
Instha al riga maeht makers strike
Ozhr 9 ddgl1re ppR%hnnientay. Hungar-
i%S ptayeGo ft bel Chi eff Grole in the
memorable pressed stH3I. car strike.
Ianthae NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in near
lyTndW DHHa investiga&80nA of over
MoikEfy u0fptaidi ~3llttjaqs@f ."Ameri-
caht' 1aabptS1dde 1fDmBigtBtehhent is
conspicuous. Here .Hsqah dftaal re-
port he6rpnte1 ENTHUSIASTICALLY
tAattfeiNy 1abhalt NGIbezdhr6ooio dhe la
b3rhrAo in rthat esththS sgreaai 7c6al Tin
dushnEiAE0 nAtiRefbobna .f1erestBsnn
official report fromqf aatyW -Ha9hSarV
shRf1RinE that the w&Ed of bach. 81Ill-
edswebknandhy stedTeeuhters, shlaGke
sm6tBsJ2 tnBsm3tfRI c0op6rs. 2Itd asan
and pfHEteferseiR abauh onRndolldEa)
day; of unskilledd AHb decentralization
tbshftsbtiat4e cents a.aia8. bnE I'M
reWH BiagD mSh ufRGture1sb[hdo high
tariff $~ofmpsutb0t tthBm agaAHdt1ltiD&
prod ddA ,afnettBAt aTfMirsdmo lAbOTYft
but the labor its9lfuG6m&s hIresih
aeHds. 1ejkiR benz d:hasSH eighth aaIN a
euatk8remHliQD 6mhh ieuanfgi hate s ara
rJtied aTmij thH HAihe9i1 Stat&H1g qsd uBbgnt
dWRth1rdKnnfBq tfie1ftE 4G@1ghE Of va
and a half milliontAHaW CdmW frDdh
HuSS1a ioA,astMahH AnkAIDuIa hd edtA1y,
edua4ries bob 1the foH estsfMases, .atid
RIpHb OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES }1ditghi
PROBE lion 0 agadnsdt the prod ufttt of
that labor, but fuED Mrk16 ia the, fas
hAr .ns&lf els Ufha1 4frdgnnkotdT5Ae e. Awe
paM4tniM Aaa3br Observation-Disclosures
Hnudd gbty All t10df1e ,jad ftsMu1Hd .aHA
cdma; butte Ham a4GDn8 d1EhtIthab1 ID
H0oadbfnth@ 7GhBapesb dEObdr1 Ei Eur
rope tends to keeua dwnVIhf0 wages
sehhRee heps? tadlsstb auUnne say that
buDqhight wagBfssa3e issfiuesao ouf
point e15y thatI he. AcOuhtriesi-fn em
wi1ic8us this rdabdB CONFESS diaBd high
protection too. F11ms1eassids Ihass
Ing ,ajifiniH as high .asrhouruswnMwe
drHMIi al mitFiUD analI Gao hYa 10 yimmD
guahtsjnin tenL JeaEs;ofroI1 h. free
trad s6aeah BritiaIn iessaithaH half a
hiiRionysb vet G tiaiv OF yEhnoM
Much of this Immigration dbnyaIa
,aabhe etu dthe nh nitedH States. .syNhat
aHeItbbjdGt tev6s ftdfes nconsiHtEfG1 nf
LgNyspfotEEtdd IfI1 aetDieD da9AtnBt
threw predicts .yjfo cAiettp Charlottesville
4heDfarani1rzpwinEsb uofast nQuantities
of the cheap NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-12-29
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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-08-25
FATHER GIVES UP SON
As SLAYER OF BOY

NEW YORK Special With a
spartan sense OF justice, Angelo Russo.
Of 224 West Eighteenth Street, gave up
TO the police Monday his twelve-year-
dead siXteen-year-old Albert Bonfield.
near White City Park, Trenton, y. J.
The boy fled to his home in this city.
never meant to kill that boy said
visiting my uncle, Joseph Russo, who
runs shooting gallery at White City
Park. l was carrying a rifle from his
nome to the gallery when l met the
boy. We got playing with the gun and
put it to my SAOulder and said: Now
I'm going to shoot you
Then 1 pulled the trigger and il
snapped, Thinking that there were no
loads liz IL, 1 pulled the trigger again
and this time there was a fash and
the boy fell. i was very much fright
ened and ran - my uncle's stand in the
park.
some. people tried to get me, bu.
ran away. 1 walked twelve miles to
Princeton, got a wagon ride to New
brunswick, and climbed on the back Of
an automobile and rode into Jersey
City.
i got home this morning at Z O'Clock.
told my mother and father what 1
had done Ny mother believed l acct
dentally shot my friend. But father
made up his mind to take me TO the
police and let them hear my story, for
he had read in The World this morning
OF my shooting and killing Bonfeld.
only meant II in fun. and / would never
OF mine"
Inspector Russell got in communica-
tion with the Trenton police, who told
him the shooting was purely acciden-
tai and no demand would be made for
arraigned in the Children's Court this
morning, and, IL is expected, freed.