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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19
STORM DAMAGE HEAVY
CL0UDBURST AT CUMBERLAND
CAUSES FLOOD.
B. & O. Railroad Tracks Covered in
Many Places East and West.
Lightning Kills.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Nd, June 18.-A
cloudburst that has been almost con-
tinuous for four hours this evening has
renewed fears of a food. The waters
from the incessant rains causing the
flood of yesterday receded last night,
but it Is feared the great downpour
today has renewed the trouble. The
streets of Cumberland this evening
were turned into torrents. Cndaunted
by the great damage done. the owners
Of the Hampshire Southern railroad
will at once place the line in good con-
dition. At Milieson's mill, along the
South branch Of the Potomac. the Mil
lesson and Woodson farms were under
several feet of water. Maple Landing
was under ten feet of water and the
river bottom lands were flooded all
along the stream.
spread over the bottom lands. flooding
the county road. compelling the family
living in the old Humbird cottage to move
out. Trinity cottage. owned by Cumber-
,.nd neople. was within few feet of
ha;no iooded. On the Romney branch
~ the baltimore and Ohio railroad trains
will likely be operated within a day or
two to Ridgedale. transferring at that
point. ,,+ -.s .ooo,,-
named by the heaviest hail that has
foIJen in years. Crops were damaged.
The streets of Piedmont were filled with
i,a;I The house of Robert Pennant at
Bideely. w. a., opposite Cumberland,
was struck by lightning this afternoon.
Windows were broken out and frames
shattered.
Mining Region Suffers.
Word from the mining region is that
Georges creek is a raging torrent away
heyond its banks and great damage has
resulted. All the telephone lines are
down and definite information is not to
he obtained. The street car service be-
tween Cumberland and the mining re-
eion has been greatly interfered with.
Il is reported that Hyndman, fourteen
miles northwest of Cumberland, has been
inundated by Wills creek. which empties
into the Potomac at Cumberland.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad has
water and debris on the. tracks both
feet at Pattersons creek and six inches
at Mckenzie. the west end of the cut
on tunnel. Hail fell in Cumberland to-
night. 1t is reported that water is
rushing two feet over the Baltimore and
Ohio bridge, on the main line crossing
the mouth of the South branch.
Ten head Of three-year-old steers, the
property Of Charles French. near
Springfield, w. Va. while huddled I'M
der a tree near the railroad, were struck
by lightning and all killed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19
The Only Solution.

THE question was what were We to
to buy those lands under a voluntary
purchase.
I'VE approached the heads Of the or
ders in the islands, but they did not have
authority. They were established under
decree of the Pope at Rome, and the
authority to permit a sale rested with
the Pope. Now the American way of
dealing with that was to go directly to
the man and the authority that could
act. But 1t was said it was contrary to
all our traditions to deal diploma ically
with the head Of church, and therefore
it would not do. Well, at last we reached
the conclusion that the best way was
the direct way, that We should send a
man to Rome to see if it could not be
arranged. And so L had the good for
tune and the unique experience in COM
pany with people who knew more than
did on all those subjects, Of going to
Rome. OF being presented to his holiness
Leo XIII. and of comforting with him and
his congregations in reference to the
working out of this problem. shall al
ways deem it a great good fortune that
1 had the honor of coming into personal
contact with that great man.
Now, what 1 wish to point out in
regard to that settlement, in regard to
the visit to Rome, in regard to the good
throughout this country in the progress
not of infidelity, not of disbelief in the
fundamental creeds, but the progress Of
tolerance between denominations, the
tolerance of religious liberty and the
greater union and the coming closer
together of all Christian denominations
in the brotherhood of man and the
fatherhood of Cod"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19
Pittsburg Signs j. ]. Dowd.

WORCESTER, Mass, June 1S.-James
j. Dowd. a pitcher Of the Holy Cross
College nine, said today that he had
signed contract with the Pittsburg
National League team. He viii join, the
Pittsburgs June %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19
READY FOR TRIPS IN AIR
THE DEUTSCHLAND TO CARRY
PASSENGERS JUNE 90.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN Germany. June
1S.-The maiden voyage of the first Ger
man passenger airship. the Deutschland,
is announced for June %. The course
will be from Friedrichshafen to Stuttgart,
Mannheim, Cologne and Dusseldorf.
The Deutschland was built after the
Zeppelin model, jointly for the Hamburg
American Steamship Company and the
German Airship Stock Company.
The epoch-making aerial excursions will
be carried out on luxurious scale The
cabin of the Deutschland is of mahog-
any, built after the style of q sleeping
car. IL is carpeted and inlaid with moth
er-of-pearl. Large windows provide an
outlook on both sides. The cabin is sit
uated between the gondolas. A restaurant
will supply cold meats. coffee. tea and
wines.
Vessel 4s5 Feet Long.
The dimensions of the vessel are:
Length. 4sS feet; width. IS feet Its
capacity is 24.S52 cubic yards of gas.
and II will carry three motors, totalins
330 horsepower, with d speed OF thirty
five miles an hour. The limit of the
voyage is fixed at 700 miles. The lift
ing capacity Of the craft is $4,000
pounds, of which IL, 000 will cover crew,
passengers and freight.
The first trips are fully booked. the
fares varying from SO to $50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19

in the collection of rents from the ten
ants and in the establishment generally
Of their rights Of property. But SO bit
ter was the feeling that had we done 1t
we should have had upon us the burden
Of the eviction of upward of sixty thou
sand tenants, and that meant second
revolution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19
Mr.. Taft's Trip to Villa Nova
Full of Incident.
COLLEGE CONFERS DEGREE
Is Made Doctor of Jurisprudence by
Catholic Institution.
VISITS LINCOLN UNIVERSITY
Gov. Stuart and Mayor Reyburn
With Him During the Dayton
ference With Senator Penrose.

President Taft made a flying trip
through southeastern Pennsylvania
yesterday. He left Washington at Z
o'clock yesterday morning and return
ed to the White House shortly before
10 o'clock last night. He was on the
go all Of the time by regular train,
special train, and automobile, made
four speeches and was thoroughly tired
out. though expressing his appreciation
at the reception which was accorded
him at every stop on the way.
The President spent three hours at
Villa Nova Pa, where he received from
st. Thomas College the degree Of doctor
of Jurisprudence and where he deliver
ed an address in tribute to the work
of the Augustinian fathers in the Phil
ippine Islands and had something to
say Of the friar lands in those PARKWAY
island possessions. With his newest
degree added. the President is now an
A. B., LII. D., D. C.. L.. and J. D.
From Villa Nova the President jour-
neyed to West Chester, to the negro in
stitution at Lincoln University, Pa. and
made the last speech of the day from the
car end at Oxford.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19

Robert E. Mattingly was another one
of those who played hockey, 50 he said.
His most grievous memory was playing
hockey for two weeks and having his
teacher say it was four weeks.
But when he turned aside from rem
iniscence of those prankish events and
smoke of Miss Sarah he said in his
opinion she was the greatest teacher
the schools here have ever produced. In
fact he put last nights jubilee ahead of
the discovery of the pole, the return of
Roosevelt. the passing Of the Payne
Aldrich tariff bill and the visit Of Hal
ley's comet.
S. E. kramer, at the head Of the in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-15
COMMISSION CHARTERS SPECIAL
TRAIN IN BIRMINGHAM TO TAKE
HIM TO TROY

In an effort to reach the bedside of his
dying mother, Charles Henderson, pres
ident of the Alabama railroad commission,
chartered special train in Birmingham
last night with which to reach Mont
gomery to make connection to his home
at Troy
The special left here at 10:45 o'clock
in charge of Engineer Hall of the Louis
Vile and Nashville. and he was instruct
ed to make every possible speed in an eff
fort to get Mr.. Henderson and his party
to Montgomery. 1t is the plan of Mr..
Henderson to reach Montgomery in time
to catch an Atlantic Coast Line passenger
train, which leaves Montgomery at an
early hour this morning for Troy.
The special train had aboard besides
Mr.. and Mrs. Henderson MRS Brock of
Montgomery and her two daughters
They have been spending several days
at Tate Spring and were notified there
Wednesday night that Mrs. Henderson
had suffered severe stroke of paralysis.
The party started preparations to reach
Troy If possible before her death, which
Colonel Henderson fears. They arrived
last night over the limited Queen and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-15
Frisco Vice President Talks Of
Rate Controversy
EXPECTS SQUARE DEAL
Railroads to Do What Is Proper
When the situation Is Prop
eriy Explained

That the railroads would receive .
and the interstate commerce commission,
and that everyone would finally be
pleased over the rate outcome Is the i'm
preston of E. s. Greigs, second vice pres
ident of the Frisco lines, and the only
vice president of the Birmingham Belt
railroad. Mr. Greigs was in Birming-
ham for few hours yesterday en- route
to New Orleans, where he will be en-
gagged In inspecting the new line OF the
Frisco entering that city.
1T have every faith IL the justice OF
our courts and the fairness of the Amer
lean people, said Mr.. Greigs. He was
speaking of the recent rate matter In
which refusals were made to request
to raise western rates, and also south
eastern rates.
1.-The people will not see the railroads
mistreated and the companies are not
so terribly bed-ridden as some people
would have you believe. 1t is true that
just now we are carrying the bag. but
that will not last long. Whether the
commission or the courts pass upon the
railroad rate question out west, inc ue-
cision will be fair. We railroad people
believe we have fair and square right
to ask more compensation for our ser
vices. Everybody has received a raise
in his pay and materials have increased.
So it is nothing but just that we receive
more for our work. This is the case
which will be presented to the courts. and
l have no doubt but what We will receive
exactly what is proper"
Mr.. Greigs said business was very good
considering, the time of the year, and that
he expected fine business during the fall
He said Birmingham was doing her
share in helping the companies and that
he was always glad to get here for
few days. but had been unable to do so
recently. In speaking of the wage scale
which was recently given the employees
the vice president said he was pleased
with that and hoped the men were.
The interview of Mr. Greigs was decid-
eddy the most optimistic that has been
given by a railroad executive here in sew
eral months. sLkikANG
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-15
Henderson RusheS To
Dying Mothers Bedside

Crescent train at 10 p m. In the mean
time a special had been arranged for
through the office of T. E. Brooks of the
Louisville and Nashville. Automobiles
were in waiting and when the limited
rolled into the Terminal Mr.. Henderson
and his party entered the cars and were
whisked away to the waiting special.
About five minutes were taken in arrang-
ing the ticket when Conductor Hester
gave the signal and the special dashed
out of the shed.
Colonel Henderson. in speaking to a re-
porter for The Age-Herald said his moth
er was fatally i'll from his advices and he
hoped for no greater blessing than to
reach her bedside before the final disso-
luton.
This is not the first stroke said
Colonel Henderson, land l naturally fear
the worst l hope to reach Troy early
Friday morning"
Every train on the south end of the
Louisville and Nashville has been side
no stops will be made except possibly
at Calera. where orders will be given. II
no orders are to be received the special
will be given the white lamps and this
stop will not delay the special on Its way.
The Louisville and Nashville officials
watched the progress of the train last
night from the train board of the local
offices and reports up to a late hour
had the special making good time in the
operation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-15
FUNERAL SET FOR
THIS AFTERNOON
TO REST AT ELMWOOD-CAMP
HARDEE WILL ATTEND THE FUN
ERAL IN A BODY

Miss May Ward and Miss Lee Ward,
daughters of the late Capt. w. C. Ward,
arrived in the city last night over the
Alabama Great Southern at 10:1O
o'clock. They were taken directly to
their home on South Highlands, where
the body of heir father is now lying.
The funeral of Captain Ward will be
held at o'clock this afternoon at the
family residence, 1717 South Twelfth
street. The services will be conduct
ed by the Rev. DR.. Preston Blake,
pastor of the Southside Baptist church,
of which Captain Ward was a devout
member. The active pallbearers are:
J. d. s. Davis, d. H. Marbury, z. t.
Rudolph, F. B. Fowfkes. w. d. Tynes,
w. A. Porter, w. w. Crawford, Will
liam M Walker. The honorary pallbear-
ers are: Capt. John G. Smith, T. II.
Johnston, M. v. Joseph, Capt F. p.
O'Brien, A. L. Smith, Col. Sam Will
John, r. F. Manly, James A. Going,
E. H. Cabaniss, s. P. Fowlkes, Z. K.
Campbell, J. o. Thompson, J. p. Stiles,
Judge Charles A. Sem, DR.. E. P. Ho-
gan, w. B. Leedy. w. C. Shackelford
Gen. E. w. Rucker, J. H. Garretson,
T. A. Hamilton, J. Lawler Darby. A C.
Oxford, r. H. Haeood. w. e. Yancey.
George CORR, ]. T. S. Wade, Fl. F.
Wilson. E. T. Taliaferro, C. F. Enslen
T. B. Afford and B. R. Bize Interment
will be in Elmwood cemetery.
The members of Camp Hardee, u. c.
", met yesterday morning in the
Chamber of Commerce building at 10
clock and made all the arrangements
for their part in the funeral. The camp
will honor the memory of its departed
commander in every way possible. They
are preparing a beautiful piece of floral
art In the shape of a Confederate fla g..
A committee on resolutions to be
read at the regular meeting of the
camp next Saturday was appointed and
is as follows Gen. John w. Bush,
CHI airman; Senator Joseph F. Johnson.
W. J. Miner, ]. C. Aberna thy and John
G. Smith.
The camp will assemble at the Ward
home this afternoon at 230 o'clock. All
OF the comrades are requested to wear
their uniforms and their badges OF
mourning during the funeral. The meet
Ing of the camp Saturday will be given
over entirely to resolutions being
passed to the memory of Captain Ward
and the whole will be eulogistic pro-
gramme over the death of their com-
rade and commander.
meeting of the bar association will
be called within the next few days in
order to pass eulogistics resolutions
upon the death of Captain Ward, who
was one Of Birmingham's most prom
inent lawyers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-15
PLAN AUTO CLUB
OUT At WEST LAKE
BUNGALOW WILL BE BUILT WHERE
BIRMINGHAM AND BESSEMER
AUTOMOBILIsTS CAN RUN OUT TO
SPEND THE EVENING

Plans are fast maturing for the con-
struction of a country and automobile
club at West Lake, about a mile and
half from Bessemer. 1t is proposed by
the citizens OF Bessemer to engage the
interest of the members of the Birming-
ham Motor club and make West Lake an
objective point for automobilists from
this city
The plan is to construct a bungalow
club house to cost about 5000 This sum
has been secured through subscriptions of
Bessemer people and Birmingham will
raise another 5000 to permit the organ
ization to start out with $4,000.
cafe and club will be constructed
Jointly and dinner parties at the club
after fine auto ride will be one of the
attractions of the place
In speaking of the proposed club yes
terday DR.. James E. Dedman said;
Mr. Van Trump of Bessemer is or
eanizing the club and l think it will be
a fine proposition. 1t will be very en-
ticing for Automobiles to leave here in
the afternoon, ride to Besoemer, which
is about Is miles, and then partake of a
lunch at an attractive club house.
plans are fast being formulated for
the club which will cost only a moder-
ate sum and which will he costly ar
ranged and very artistic In treatment
hope the members of the motor club
will become interested in the plan 1t
will not interfere with any other club,
but will be simply another manner of
passing the time delightfully."- in this city,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-15
VIADUCT MEETING
EXPECTED SOON
Spencer VIII Probably Bring Railroad
Men Together In the Next
Few Days

1t is expected that conference upon
the question of two viaducts for Birming-
ham will be called within few days by
H. B. Spencer, vice president of the
Southern railway, who has this work
In hand for the executive departments
of all the local lines.
On account of the labor conferences in
washington. which prevented the attend
ance upon the meeting of seaboard.
Southern and other officials, the meeting
was recently postponed. The labor trou-
bles had not been settled when the time
limit expired which had been set by the
City Council. The railroads accordingly
requested 80 days extension. which was
granted.
Now that the labor differences have
been adjusted, it is announced that Mr..
Spencer will call a meeting for Louis
Vile within the next few days. He is
now in Washington
rrse companies propose to construct a
viaduct at Twenty-eighth street and First
avenue and from Avenue to First ave-
nue., thus opening up two great arteries
Of traffic to the public without any dan.
gerous grade crossings.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-15
BALDWIN TALKS OF
CONSTRUCTION WORK
Illinois Central Engineer Rath-
err Pessimistic
CANNOT RAISE RATES
Think. Much Work Must Be stoppea
Until Questions Now In Courts
Are SettIed-Discusses Plans
for Norwood

That new constr ~ction by the rail-
roads is beng annulled and that no
new plans can be made until the dlf-
ferences between the railroads and the
courts are settled was the opinion OF
A. s. Baldwin, chief engineer for the
Illinois Central railroad with Chicago
offices. who was in Birmingham yes
terday.
Mr.. Baldwin said great amount Of
work which had been planned had been
cancelled on account of the refusal
of the government to permit new rates
to be made by the railroads and 9TH
er setbacks that had been experienced
by the companies.
THE men have all requested higher
wages and have received them,' said
Mr.. Baldwin. 1.-THE cost of operations
has increased while the railroads have
been refused permission to make rate
increases al every stage Of the game.
1t is plain business proposition that
construction cannot be permitted to
continue under such conditions. The
railroads have only two commodities
to sell-transportation and haulage. We
are not allowed to raise the price Of
these two income earners although ev-
cry other line of business gets more
money and prices are raised. If we
continue construction it would be i'm
possible to declare dividends, 50 the new
work will not be done"
In speaking of the local work to
be performed by the Illinois Central
in Norwood. Mr.. Baldwin, who has
charge of such matters, said:'
The Norwood work will start right
Off The plans and details have been
arranged and there remains nothing
now to be done except to start work.
The cost of this work will be, to the
railroads, about $125,o00 or a little
more We will parallel the Southern
tracks to Thirty-second streets. This
will add a great deal to the section
from which we are removing the
tracks We intend to construct two
yiaducts on the property. One will be
for the use of street traffic while the
other will be for the trains. Those
viaducts will be of concrete and will
be attractively designed I will be in
Birmin CHAM from time to time 10 see
how the work progresses"
Mr.. Baldwin said the rains had
caused considerable damage and the
division near Haleyville had reported
two slides yesterday.
However,, we can operate trains
through the slides all right and no in
reference with traffic will result" he
said.
Baldwin wished to inSnact the
line thoroughly yesterday and secured
special train to carry him to jack
son, Miss. de left yesterday after
noon
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-15
MORE COAL ORDERS
Central of Georgia and Southern Ex-
pecfed to BE In Market Soon

Fifty thousand additional tons of coal
Of the $50, 000-ton order placed by the At
1antic Coast Line Wednesday was yes
terday placed with the Pratt Consol-
fdated Coal company
Contracts have now been signed for
10000 tons of the total order by the Pratt
Consolidated, and it Is expected that the
remainder of the tonnage will be placed
today.
In addition to the Atlantic Coast lSae
the Central Of Georgia and Southern
railroads will be in the market for their
yearly tonnages within few days. These
railroads will contract for about the same
tonnage as the Atlantic Coast line The
deliveries will start right away as the
companies have run short of coal on ac-
count of the extremely bad weather of
the past winter and spring.
The coal mines of this district have
orders to fill which will keep everyone
of them busy and at a maximum pro-
duction point throughout the summer and
the forthcoming winter
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-15
PROGRAMME FOR THE
CONCERT TONIGHT

Shows Birmingham band will pre-
INT the following programme at Cap
FOL park tonight, commencing prompt
h at o'clock
March-Pride of the Regiment
Myers.
Selection-"G of Liberty" (Joe
Howard
Gems of Stephen Foster (TobanD.
A Vision of Salome (descriptive) q.
3, Lampe)-
Selection-"Old Dutch" Victor Her
Hertz
INTERMISSIO
dope" rag novelette, CIV. c..
powelD.
Selection = Bright Eyes, (Karl
Hoschna).
Waltz-"Old Madrid" (Trotere)
Midnight Sons Selection" OR. Hub
belD.
Ernanf selection (verdD.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-15
THOMPSON WILL
ACCEPT AND RUN
ARE THAT HE WILL
NOT FEEL CALLED UPON TO RE-
SIGN PLACE AS INTERNAL REV.
ENUE COLLECTOR

Joseph o. Thompson, nominee OF the
renublican convention for governor OF
Alabama. will accept the nomination.
While Mr.. Thompson will have nothing
to saw on the subject until he Is officially
notified IT is stated by his closest adj
,,,sars that he has decided to accept and
will make an active rae.
Mr.. Thompson is now internal revenue
collector. He has stated that his holding
Office under the government will not keep
him from making the race II he thinks II
is for the good of his party. While 1t
is against the civil service rules for a
government official to become a candidate
for state office, 1t has leen general
rule to make an exception in democratic
states, where the republican Party is
fighting against democratic majority.