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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
People Have Lower Fare Under,
Newly Ratified Franchise, They
Can Supervise Street Railroads.
Operations and Maybe Buy Line
Later as Result of His Great
Fight.
Especial Correspondence.)

CLEVELAND, O., March =
Tom l.. Johnson's nine-year war
for low street car fare is over.
The new low fare franchise, rat
flied by the people, has gone into
effect, giving the public Scent
fare on every line in the city. I
1t is a victory for the low fare
movement, says the thinking pub
lie, which remembers that when
Johnson appeared nine years ago
a corrupt city council was about
to grant the traction company a
50-year franchise with the fare 5
Icents cash, or six tickets for %
cents.
The franchise just accepted by
the people provides for a sliding
rate of fare-"service at COST
the company to earn per cent on
it's capital, the surplus going to
reduce fare, initial rate to be 3
cents, the maximum rate possible
4 cents, or seven tickets for rs
cents. The city will have full ac-
cess to the company's books
through it's railway commissioner.
The grant is for 25 years. If
municipal ownership is legal
possibility after eight years the
city has the right to purchase the
lines for fixed valuation.
The public, comparing the fran
chise it faced nine years ago and
the one it has just ratified, re-
CARDS the latter as a victory for
the people and for Johnson, who
led the fight and finally forced the
corporation to its knees.
Yet Johnson opposed this fran
chise. He wished the grant to be
given to semi-municipal COM
pany, which, he thought, would
see to 1t that Scent fare paid.
The Andrews interests, which
own the Cleveland lines, also own
the traction systems of Rochester
and other American cities where
the fare is 5 cents. A successful
Operation of the Cleveland lines
at Scent far might stir up discon-
tent in other cities. Johnson fears
that they will maneuver expenses
so that cents will not pay, and
thus compel the maximum rate of
seven tickets for quarter.
When the public ratified the
new franchise, the capitalistic
news associations wired the news
broadcast that Johnson and his
low fare ideas were finally routed.
And Johnson himself, broken in
health and fortunes, said that the
long struggle has ended in de-
feat.
But the public, which is riding
for cents, which will never have
to pay more than seven tickets for
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
G|LL|ES GOES
BACK EAST

A. P. Gillies left for New York
last night with deeds to Tacoma
waterfront real estate for the
steel plant on Chan bers creek and
for the Imperial building, which
holdings he says will be worth $4,-
100000 in themselves as soon as
the big projects are started. lie is
going hack to finally round things
up for the beginning of active
work, he says.
E. L. Kenyon is left here to rep
resent him while he is away. Ken
yon and H. p. Scheel, the Tenino
stone man, last week did lot of
missionary work on the Olympia
canal project. They visited a num-
Der of towns in Thurston, Cheha-
lis and Lewis counties which are
considerably excited over the
prospect of getting a hole cut
through to connect Olympia and
the Southwest with the sea.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
Saved a Soldiers Life.

Facing death from shot and
shell in the civil war was more
agreeable to j. A. Stone. of Kemp,
Tex, than facing it from doctors
said was consumption. II con-
tracted a stubborn cold" he writes,
that developed a cough, that
stuck to me in spite of all rene
dies for years. My weight ran
down to 100 pounds. Then l be-
gan to use DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry, which completely cured me.
now weigh 17S pounds" For
Coughs. Colds, La Grippe, Asthma.
Hemorrhage, Hoarseness, Group,
Whooping Cough and lung trouble,
it's supreme. soc, $1.00. Trial
bottle free. Guaranteed by all
druggists.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07

OTTAWA, Ont.-The house of
commons has before it a bill, in
troduced by Mackenzie King, min
lister of labor, by means of which
it is hoped to drive every often
sive trust out of the dominion
Under the terms of the bill any
six men, if they thing they have
evidence of an illegal combination,
may go before high court judge
and tell him what they know. If
they make out a prima facie case
the judge, acting almost with the
power of a grand jury, can give an
order upon the department of la
Dor for an investigation.
The minister of labor will then
order the compalinants and the
combine each to name a represent
tative. These must choose a
Judge who will act as chairman of
the board thus constituted. This
board will have all the powers of
a court, and all the expenses of
the inquiry will be borne by the
government department.
When the board has finished it
will make a report to the minister
which must be published.
Trusts in the United States are
willing to pay fines if they are
found out, in the hope that they
can cover up their tracks later on
and commite the same offense al
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
MILLIONAIRE TRAMP" TO
HOLD BACK STR|KEBREAKERS

tional committee of the unem-
ployed.
Ferguson stated in his message
that the danger to the success of
the general strike that has been
called in Philadelphia lies in the
number of unemployed who appar-
emily are willing to become strike
breakers. He said there are is
men without employment in that
city exclusive of those who have
complied with the strike order is
sued by the union labor leaders,.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
BREACH Between US. AMBASSADOR
AND KING OF ITALY, IS RUmOR

observable except to persons of
long experience at the Italian
court. Nevertheless, it is certain
that the reports are beginning to
have general credence.
Those who attempt to explain
the situation hint that the king
supposed cooiness toward the
ambassador is due to some unflat-
tering expression of opinion con-
corning Italy and Italians said t.
have been repeated to his majesty
and credited to the diplomat.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
YOUTHS BODY
FOUND IN
BAY

The lifeless body of James Gill
lespi, 1S-year-old- son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Gillespi, 1915 North
-Thirty-second street, was taken
from the waters of Wollachet Gay
about IL o'clock yesterday morn
ing safter three-day search.
bruises about the face Indicate
that Gillespi had been thrown
from the launch Jim Buck
against the piling of the Uhlman
dock and rendered unconscious
before he fell into the water. The
high wind and sea Friday night is
supposed to have caused this ac-
cident while Gillespi was tying UP
the launch.
The remains have been brought
to the Gaffney undertaking par
lors. No funeral arrangements
have been made. Gillespi was
employed as launchman for the
Puget Sound Lumber company.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
But the I

bankrupt. 1t pays nothing to the
city. 1t charges scent fare, with
3 cents for transfer, and gives
miserable service.
The strike came when the COM
pany discharged employees because
they were union men. The union
men by strike last June forced up
wages and secured reasonable
hours. The company submitted as
a political expedient, but after
election formed a "uniOn" of
strike breakers and discharged the
old men by wholesale. This thiev-
ing trust held $3.50 for a 1O-hour
day too much for a working man,
hence the cOssacks and war.
Philadelphia has always been
and is now the typical American
city, with many excellent institu-
tions and thousands of splendid
people. 1t is great commercial
city. But as the students of the
subject argue, the progressive or
conscious element has not been
able to offset the influence of the
apathetic, the evilly disposed and
the gang system.
E. A. Van Valkenburg, editor
of the Philadelphia North Ameri-
can, maintains that careful analy-
sis of the voters of any large city
will show that the public opinion
vote rarely, if ever, exceeds 40 per
cent of the total electorate.
In Philadelphia. he says, the
gang which owns public utilities
and is slavishly served by all city
officers, positiyel controls 46 $40
per cent of the entire vote.
This represents the vote deliv-
cred by officeholders, protected
liquor men, cOerced aliens, pur-
chasable negroes, criminals and re-
peaters. Therefore the gang needs
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07

the state. They maintain an aris-
tocratic circle, more exclusive than
New York. They hobnob with for
eign nobility and marry into it.
Peter A. B. Widener, originally
a butcher, has probably done more
than any man to perfect gang rule
in Philadelphia. He is worth
500, 100000. He is living in
splendor in his city home. On his
breast is a cross pinned there by
Emperor William. He devotes his
time mainly to collecting art OBJ
jects (his gallery being valued at
sS,0O0,0O0) and to very excel
lent children's hospital which he
founded.
Widener may or may not know
that half a dozen little children
have been shot or beaten in the
streets by the police, protecting his
trust in its strike.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
AT THE PANTAGES.

DR.. Pauline, French scientist
and hypnotist, will be the stellar
attraction at the Pantages this
week under the new vaudeville
BILL Albert Gray will sing the
prologue from IT Pagliacci. The
Five Borsinis, acrobats, and Poet.
tenger's Swedish Quintet are also
Included in the bill.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
AT THE GRAND.

The Schivony troupe of acrobats
heads the new bill at the Grand.
Noodles" Fagen, former news
boy, will give one of his 'iec-
lures" "The Three Singing
Girls" Ralph G. Whitehead, the
human fashion plate" Camille
Personi and Jack Halliday In a
sketch and Billy Miller and Flo
Russell in the 'Lunatic and the
Girl" complete the bill.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07

The steamer Santa Ana arrived
in port yesterday morning, three
days behind schedule time. Dur
ing her trip north she picked up
the crew of the wrecked steamer
Yucatan, carrying the men to
juneau.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07

The steamer Hyades of the Mat
son line, which has been undergo
ing repairs and overhauling at
Seattle, is expected in port this
week to load freight for the Ha-
waiian islands.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
(By United Press Leased Wire.

SEATTLE, March THE ship
Governor ROBBIE is expected to sail
this afternoon for New York on
it's last voyage. On reaching the
Atlantic coast she will be cut to
a barge, the third ship from this
coast to meet that fate this year.
The ]. B. Thomas and the Sea
King were the other two.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
(By United Press Leased Wi,

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March T.
James Eads How, the millionaire
tramp" who has formed a ma
.tional organization of employed,
will leave for Philadelphia tomor-
row to perfect an organization of
unemployed of that city to seek
to prevent them from becoming
strike breakers.
He will go TO Philadelphia in
response to a telegram from Presi-
dent George Ferguson of the ma
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

IBy UnIteu PfesS IeaseU WIre.1
ROME, March 7.-Rumors are
current here today that United
States Ambassador Leishman is
failing to establish altogether
friendly personal relations with
King Victor Emanuel.
There is no tangible informa-
ton on which to base the reports
which rest mainly on mere little
turns of manner and expressions
SO trifling as TO be practically TN
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
AT THE TACOMA.
"The Virginian."

A dramatic version of Owen
Wister's novel, 1.-THE Virginian, -
is the next play to hold the hghts
at the Tacoma and will be secn
Saturday and Sunday nights.
Among the members of the COM
pany are William l.. Gibson,
Marshall Farnum, brother of bus
tin Farnum, the first "Virginian, ]"
Mabel Wright and others.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
MEN Who LEAD STREET CAR STRIKERS

president of the state Federation
of Labor, declared that the strik
had become a national issue
Pratt is the organizer of the stree
car men. I
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07

J. J. Murphy, president of the
Central Labor union of Philadel-
phia was arrested. charged with
"inciting to riot =" Greenwalt,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07

Iahuluate Tor councilman, Apf.i
9th. 1910.
Pioneer shingle manufacturer,
having built and operated on the
waterfront, below Old Town, the
first mill for export trade IN
Pierce county. In 1884 built and
resided for many years in the first
house erected on North G street.
Stands for Efficiency and Econ
omy in the management of public
affairs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
Looting of Philadelphia
Cause of Bloodshed

Continued From Page One.)
lines are receiving guaranteed div
idendsidends up to as high as 100
per cent on the original actual in
vestment.
But the traction trust poses as a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07

The Lambardi grand opera
troupe has been secured for the
Tacoma for three consecutive
nights in the near future. Marie
Lambardi leads the cast in a wide
repertoire.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07

The schooner Godfrey left port
with a cargo of lumber
for San Francisco.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
SHIPPING NEWS.
TIDES TOMORROW

The Kosmos liner Itauri is re.
ported on the Sound and is ex-
pected at this port in a day or so
to load freight for Hamburg.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
SSZg[HEATER

appear at the Tacoma. The three
acts of the play are full of whole
,some fun.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07

1.-THE Regeneration Of Aunt Mary"
May Robson will lead the role
in this comedy which will soon
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-07
"a Mans a Man"

"A Mans q Man."
Robert Edesou in his new play,
"a Mans a Man." is another OF
the. new plays to be seen soon at
the Tacoma.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-24
WASTING TIIEII, POWDER.

a great hue and cry Is being made
by some silly people In New York
about the suggestion that the statue
OF George III. which was melted by
the Patriots during the American Rev
.olutiontint bullets with which to lin
the Kings men. be restored to its,
former place in Bowling Green. They
threaten that II 1t shall be reproduced
II will be destroyed and we have no
doubt thatS,thc people who talk In this
way are just the sort of people to do
that sort OF thing, George III. was
a very sorry King. but he was quite
an important figure in this country at
one time.
We should like to have his statue
replaced not in respect Of his memory
but as an exhibit Of the kind of King
who lost this country. thanks to the
military genius of that great Virgins
Ian. George Washington. and the fight
Ing quality of the soldiers of tho
South who achieved the independence
IofS he Colonies, II the promoters az
this movement shall not be suffered to
carry atit their nlaHs in New York.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-24
"I<EEP TO THE R1GuTy

Keep to the rigkt!' That is all
that 1t is necessary for the drivers OF
wagons. carriages, carts, automobiles
ana other vehicles to know. The nov,
ordinance is making It's way very well,
thanks to the excellent work of the
police force, and the condition of traf-
fic has been greatly improved already
Yesterday mounted officers were di-
recting the traffic In Main Street, and
in a little while the drivers all over
town will be so we'll instructed that
only an occasional arrest with fine
of ten or twenty dollars will convince
the public that the ordinance was
made to be obeycd. The success the
police authorities are having withthis
law and the ready acceptance OF it by
the people suggests the hope that City
Council will confer larger powers
upon the police force. Manifestly, 1t
Is impossible for a board Of ten or
twelve commissioners to look after the
practical affairs Of the department.
and, after having once laid down the
rules, the commissioners should not
interfere, but hold the police to 81
strict accountability for the discharge
of their duty. Keep to the right"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-24

time or great feeling among the Pes
|$by tie down that way bccauses OF
an w I'D dress made by the Rev. BIZ James
NYoodrow at that time one of the
teachers In tho Theological Seminary
at Columbia, In which he advanced tho
idea OF the evolution Of man from
the lower order OF animals not as .il
established fact, but as d reasonable
hypothesis. Tint was moro than tho
Orthodox could stand, and they went
for Or. Woodrow In such spirit Of
Christian protest that tho whole
churcl, was thrown into a state Of ex-
treme excitement. There were several
trials for ferosy. and the presbytery,
Synod and General Assembly were all
brought Into the controversy wc
have forgotten exactly how Ii turned
out, but we believe that DR.. Woodrow
was finally acquitted.
1t was Just about this time that
Professor Garner appeared in Charles
tonand began to talk hts monkeystalk
Bicaise, a gunsmlth In that town.
owned n monkey of remarkable COM
mon sense and tho Professor .'prac-
ticed" on the Bicaise monkey with
such surprising results that It was
not long before the monkey could ask
for bread and milk and water In terms
Whtcl, We're perfectly intealigible to
the. Professor and to the monkey also
VINO quickly found out that he could
make the Professor understand and
got what he wanted. Bicaise reported,
after the Professor had left town,
that he came mighty near running the
monkey crazy: but he accomplished
his purpose and fully demonstrated
the ability Of the Bicaisc monkey to
engage in conversation. The Profess
sor was so much elated by his expert
ments with this monkey. that he kind
~ consented to deliver lecture in
the Sunday school room OF the Scotch
Church, and for the purpose of illus
trating his theory he wished to in
troduce this monkey with which he
had been In almost daily association:
but the limo was drawn there, and hc
was permitted only to explain his
theories without the demonstration.
The Bicaise monkey long since died,
built can be fairly claimed, we think.
that this Virginia discoverer actually
laid in Charleston the basis Of hts
new language which is yet to startle
the world.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-24
PATTERSON on Tine parry,

+ :
The Nashville American makes the
point against Hooper. the Republican
candidate for Governor of Tennessee,
that che is not man whom Southern
men to the manor born can support or
trust That is probably so on tho
general principle that Southern men
to, the manor born cannot safely sup
port or trust any Republican,; but
there are some Democrats also whom
Southern men to the manor born can
not support or trust. There is Cover
nor Patterson, for example. Is there
any good reason why Southern. men
to the manor born should support and
trust him? What has he done to COM
mand either their confidence or sup
port?
There is doubtless not Democrat
in Tennessee who would vote for
Hooper from choice; but there are
probably thousands of them who Will
vote for him rather than vote for Pat
terson. That is the situation, and Pat
vi soli etiH eNeii hoW iciiese ~ ny aH-.
nouncing his withdrawal from the
race for Governor The issue seems
to be Patterson or the Party? If he
stay in the race the party will be di-
vided, perhaps hopclessly ruined; II
he get out, the party can be saved.
We think that the party is really of
more Importance to Tennessee than
Patterson.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-24
ANoTnE1, CRIME IN TEXAS. 8


We are inclined to take up" for
Bascom Thomas, of Texas, not be-
cause we know anything about him
Or care anything about him; but be-
cause Of his claim that he was
deprived of his constitutional rights
by the party managers out there who
defeated him at the recent primaries
by a majority which they have not
yet quit counting. According to Bas-
com, it was the "handling OF the re-
turns" by the committee that stirred
him up to resistance and to the
threat that in spite of their manipu
lation OF the votes he will be in fact
and in truth the Lieutenant-G
for the next two years. The Austin
Statesman does not object to his
"holding jhe position on the absent
treatment plan as long as he does not
insist on signing the payroll or pre-
siding over the deliberations OF the
Senate" 1t is not the payroll or the
business Of presiding over tho Texas
senate that Mr.. Thomas cares for.
What he wants and all he wants is
Justice.
These Democratic managers ana
committees seem to have got it into
their heads this year that they must
handle the affairs Of the party lust
as If they were in real fight with the
Republicans Only the other day the
Rev. D. Coke Mann, of South Caro-
lima. retired from the race for Con-
grcss because the Democratic commit
tee deprived him Of his constitutional
rights by failing to appoint meetings
at which he could split the welkin
against Wyatt Aiken. At the recent
primary election in Texas Cone Jonn-
son was beaten, according to the COM
mittee, by. 10000 plurality, when ev-
erybody knows that there are not that
many white men in Texas who ought
to be allowed to vote, Il
Bascom Thomas is right, and was
Doubtless cheated out of the Office Of
Lteutenant-G Governor by the handling
Of the returns, and lie should Insist on
taking the office whether no be elected
Ito 1t or not. That is one way to get
lat. He is probably not tit for 1t; but
that has nothing to do with tho case.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-24
THE MONKEY MAN.

Professor Richard L. Garner has re-
turned to the United States from his
second or third trip to the monkey
country in Africa, where he has been
engaged in the study of the Simian
language for a number Of years. He
has brought with him a young Chin
panzee, which no has christened
Susie" and. although she is only
seven months old, she can already con-
verse with her friend and foster father.
with a surprising degree of intelli-,
gence. She may not understand every
thing the Professor, says. but he un-
aderstands perfectly what she is talk
ing about. and that Is moro to the pur-
pose. It is safe to say that she car
talk far better than the Professor
could at her age.
Unlike many Of her seX, Susie" is
not given to much speaking; but it
is natural to expect that she will get
over that after she is little further
along in her studies. She can laugh
now, and, being Of an optimistic habit
of mind, it is certain that she will
have many chuckle at tho expense
of her "pa.' Probably tho Professor
might get her to speak more freely
If he would take her down to Newport.
where the fashionables have been cul-s
Btivating monkey ways for a good many
years, and. If Harry Lehr is still liv-
ing, susie" would doubtless like to
meet him and arrange with him for
next season. We are delighted that
she has come to America. where there
arc so many monkeys.
We agree with tho New. York Times
that Professor Garner will probably
receive from the scientific world the
same sort of treatment as that ac-
corded to Calico and Giordano Bruno,
and Alexander Graham Bell but he
has entered upon great field OF dis
covcry. and If lie can only get s"susle"5
to tell all that she knows lie may
yet be able to establish tho order OF
mans creation,
We have Aknown the Professor.
for a. good many years. He is
a native OF Virginia and has been
working ont his present theory for
more than fifteen years. About twelve
years ago no appeared in Charleston,
4 s, q. as the agent Of the manu-.
Sfacturers of a wire fence, we believe,
and was then evolving his theory as
to the simiunB tongue. That was a