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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-07-14

The morning after is responsible
for Hany good resolutions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
BOSTON WANTS TO
 BE GREATER CITY

Boston, Mass, September 14.-rhe re- cent announcement showing that Bos- ton. under the census of 1910, Is still ranked below St. Louis as the fifty city in the country has revived the discus sion of the advisability of making a Greater Boston" by annexing adjoin- ing cities and towns. It is pointed out by business men who advocate such an enlargement that Boston is the only large city in the country. the immediate suburbs of which are not so incorpor- ated with the city as to be included in the population. The total population of the 1a cities and 27 towns. including Boston, of the metropolitan district which are now combining In various departments of the metropolitan ad- ministration was 1,18S,7SS in 1900. and 1.26S,8S2 according to the state census of 1905. With the figures for Boston properly known, an estimate made to- day places the 1910 population of Great CT Boston at 1439,1S3. which would make Boston the fourth city in the country,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
BANKERS REFUSE
 ID CONSIDER PLAN Trouble Continues Over the
 Bills of Lading
MUST BE GUARANTEED
Business Men in Different Cities Are Confident That an Agreement Will Be Made on Bills
 of Lading

London, September 14-At today's con ference of European bankers interested In the cotton trade 1t was decided they were unable to accept the validation plan submitted by the American Bankers as7 socation. The decision was reached after a prolonged discussion by representative bankers of England and the continent.
 The session of the bankers embodying this decision expressed regret at being unable to regard the American proposal as affording the protection desired by European banks accepting cotton. Con sequently. and in default of the produc- ton of any other satisfactory plan of guaranteeing American cotton bills of lading, the meeting confirmed the reso- luton passed by the committee in July. This resolution in July was the original ultimatum of the English bankers to American bankers, declining to accept drafts against bills of lading unless these latter were guaranteed. The conference Is still prepared however, through its committee, to meet a delegation of the American Bankers association In Lon don.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
FROST INDICTED
 ON FRAUD CHARGE

Atlanta, September 14-Jonathan B.
 and until recently head of fraternal
 insurance order whose membership is
 scattered throughout the south, was
 yesterday indicted by the grand jury
 of Gwinnett county for larceny from
 the house, deception and fraud. Three
 bills were returned by the jury. Today
 officers were informed that Mir Frost was In Alabama and 1t was not known when he would return.
 One indictment charges that Frost,
 by what Is known as the process of
 "salting" misrepresented the produc-
 tive value of the Suwanne Gold Mining
 company in Gwinnett county, of which
 he was president, thereby inducing G. w. Clouse to purchase 10000 shares of alleged worthless stock for $5000. The second indictment Is similar in terms, but the third charges that Frost stole from the dwelling of Frank H Flynn, in Gwinnett county, eight cer- tficates in the stock in the mine valued at s700.
 The prosecuting witness In the cases is the widow of G. W. Clouse. As the result of charges of misman- agement, Frost recently was removed as eminent counsel of the Columbian Woodmen. He now has pending a suit for $60, 900 against this insurance order flor services rendered."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
Representing Chamber of Com nerce in Matter of Amend-
 ing Tariff of Road on
EXPORT FREIGHT
FOR sHIPsIDE DELIVERY AT THIS PORT-WILL INCREASE "A CILITIEs IF NECESSARY
 TO HELP PORT-TRIB-
 TIE TO RUSSELL

President Finley of the Mobile and Ohio and Southern railroad has re- piled to a communi ation from the committee of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce, in the matter of amend ment of tariffs of those railroads for shipside delivery at Mobile of freight for export. Following Is copy of MT. Finleys letter:
 September 6, 1910
 (En Route Chicago-St. Paul.)
 MT. Albert P. Bush, President and
 Chairman; MT. Charles A. Cunning
 ham. MT. H. Pillans, Special Commit
 tee. Mobile Chamber of Commerce and
 Maritime Exchange and Shippers Asso-
 ciation, Mobile Ala:
 Gentlemen-Your letter of the 27th ultimo received during my absence from Washington, has been forwarded to me. I have read 1t with much care and with a disposition to do anything that should properly be done for the benefit of the import and export business of the port of Mobile.
 As a result of my careful study of the entire situation, and after confer ence with Colonel Russell, I feel justi- fled in saying. not in any spirit of con troversy, but with the utmost regard for the best interests of your port and the greatest respect for the views of your committee. that no claim can fairly be made that the Mobile and Ohio Railroad company and the Southern Railway com pany are not doing all that can reason ably be expected of them for the de- velopment of the import and export bus mess of the port of Mobile. It cannot iustly be asserted. and l do not think 1t has been asserted, that the Mobile and Ohio Railroad company and the Southern Railway company have failed to use their facilities for the protection of Mo- bile's import and export business
 Without assuming to arrogate to our selves all knowledge on this subject, we know from our experience that. in order to do this business with proper regard for our responsibilities and to maintain ourselves at the port of Mobile in position to compete with rival ports 1t Is absolutely neces- sary to confine the issuance of through export bills of lading to certain steam shin lines, and particularly to the best available lines In no other way could we insure to the port the great benefit of the regular service of such lines. In the active competition for exuort business between rival rail- carriers and rival ports. 1t Is neces- sary. if regular service is to be assured and if favorable marine insurance rates are to be obtained. to be able to rely upon first-class steamers. Such competition cannot be carried on sue cessfully if reliance Is placed on tramp steamers. The great bulk of the ex- port traffic through Mobile is moved Independent of Mobile merchants, and,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
SUGAR OFFICIAL
 IS SENTENCED

New York, September 14.-Ernest W. Gerbracht former superintendent of the Williamsburg refinery of the American Sugar Refining company, who with Charles R. Heike, former secre- tary and treasurer of the company, was convicted last spring of conspiracy to defraud the government by the un- der weighing of sugar, was today sen fenced to two years in the federal peni- tentiary at Atlanta and fined $5000 by Judge Martin in the United States court.
 After imposing sentence Judge Mar tin granted a stay on appeal and fixed ball at $25,000.
 Sentence on MT. Heike, who has been called the man higher up,' is still pending.
 The conviction of Heike and Ger brecht was in large measure brought about by the testimony of Oliver Spit ger, former dock superintendent, who, following his conviction and the serv- ing of a part of his sentence at At lanta, turned states evidence
 Spitzer was pardoned by President Taft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS
 IND0RSE BEN ". HOOPER
CONTINUED FROM PAGE n

three, with instructions to report on September 24.
 Will Fight It Out
 The regulars tonight organized to fight it out with the fusionists along the line. Their state committee called A convention to meet in Nashville Oc- tober 6 to nominate a gubernatorial candidate, adopt platform, select a national democratic committeeman, and elect a new state executive commit tee. Regular leaders said the call for a new platform is evidence of the sin cerity of the democratic organization to reunite the factions. The call is to all democrats irrespective of past party differences. The committee adopted resolutions congratulating Governor Patterson on his withdrawal as a step calculated to secure party harmony. That the. fusionists may have the support of all the democrats whose votes helped carry the independent judiciary to a 10000 victory, was in dicated tonight in a statement from Mai. w. o. vertrees, former chairman of the committee organized to secure the "untrammelled judiciary" He said he disapproved the action of the in dependent convention and that Cover nor Patterson's withdrawal revived the reasons for war upon him.
 "The attempt to turn the democratic marty over to the republicans seemed to me to be without excuse
 The republican state commmfttee meats here tomorrow to make campaign plans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15

where the business is carried to a port where the total business Is not of suf- ficient volume as otherwise to attract the regular service of first-class lines, contracts with such lines must be en- tered into.
 The Louisville and Nashville Rail road company has found 1t necessary to enter into contracts with steamship lines at Pensacola in order to insure regularity of service, and the Southern
 Railway company has found it neces- sary to enter into similar contracts at Norfolk, Va, and Brunswick, Ga, for the same purpose.
 The Mobile and Ohio Railroad and the Southern Railway have soliciting agents and travelling agents over the eastern and western commercial terri tories, as well as in the territory con tiguous to the port of Mobile, for the import and export business through that port always using 1t as their preferential port for the handling of all business that passes over the rails of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and of all business carried by the South ern Railway from territory naturally
 tributary to Mobile. Furthermore, they have agencies in London and other
 European ports for the purpose of solicit
 
 handled over the docks of the Mobile and Ohio railroad and the Southern Railway and to be hauled to final destination by those companies. These agencies both abroad and at home, are maintained at no little expense. Under these circumstances, 1t Is manifestly un- Just to expect the companies to pass freights, solicited and controlled by their agents, over the docks of a private cor
 rhAv, thA rat dC hox of their own, constructed at great ex- pense, for the express purpose of handling such business To ask them to do so Is merely asking them to impoverish them selves in order to enrich the owners of the private docks.
 It must happen, in the general solic- tation of business in the great com petitive field traversed by our lines, that 1t becomes necessary to take busi- ness for other ports to which we have no rails and where 1t must be handled under the conditions imposed by our connecting lines The Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company and the Southern Railway company, as to its lines in ter ritory naturally tributary to Mobile, in- fluence the main portion of their ex- port and import business through your port It is most unreasonable to expect them to turn over to private owned docks at Mobile the overwhelmingly large pro- portion of their business because of what they may find it necessary to do as to relatively very small proportion of their business as ports where controlling con- ditions affecting their business are entire ly different
 We must take into consideration the fact that. In all these years of the development of the export and import business of Mobile. the Mobile and Ohio Railroad company and the South ern Railway company have been the only rail lines working under a com prehensive policy for the development
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
Pratt City News

Active preparations are being made flor the opening of the public schools lon. Monday. Preliminary examination of the pupils who failed of promotion or who were promoted conditionally will be held at the school building Sat Iurday morning at o'clock.
 Principal F. o. Sanders will be pres ent and examine all as to their prohci-
 ency and deyermine whether they are entitled to full promotion or not. A protracted meeting will begin at the Methodist Episcopal church, south next Sunday morning. The pastor, Rev h. T. Morris, will be assisted by pr. lJ. A. Bowen, pastor of the Ensley
 Methodist church.
 Miss Cora Stoval entertained last night in honor of Miss Emma Lillie of Belle Ellen. This evening Miss Lil- lie will be entertained by Miss Flee ISumlin.
 The officers of the Baptist church will hold a business meeting tonight al the office of E. J. Hudnall.
 The infant daughter of MT. and Mrs IA E. Lynch of East Highlands died yesterday. Much sympathy Is ex- pressed for the bereaved parents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
.SPAIN'S POLICIES
 GAINING GROUND

Madrid September 14.-Count Ro- manones, president of the Spanish chamber of deputies, Is quoted In an interview today as declaring that the policies of Premier Canalejas are daily gaining adherents among the adversa- ries of the government. as the country is convinced that he is working for the best interest of the nation.
 The Count thinks that Spain will be emancipated from "fanatical clerical ism," which he says has for centuries weighed heavily upon it. The struggle is not against Catholicism but against clericalism, which Is impeding the in- dustrial and commercial development of Spain and mingling in politics.
 At the opening of the cortes, Can alejas, according to the president, will announce an unmodified continuation of his religious programme. The pad lock bills." prohibiting the creation of further religious establishments until
 the revision of the concordat has been completed, or a definite law on the sub feet has been passed, which measure is opposed by the vatican, will not be withdrawn. On the contrary the sen ate will resume it's discussion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
p.v,evred By Iron Age

New York, September 14-(SpeciaL)- The Iron Age will say tomorrow:
 Producers and consumers of iron and steel continue to keep in close step, ana it is recognized that for some time that distributors and buyers will Work on minimum margin of stocks
 Tn the east there Is talk Of blowing out
 nsere furnaces, now that the end is
 reached of profitable contracts taken early this year.
 Pig iron buying has been mainly rom
 nine works. At Philadelphia contract
 for 18,Ooo tons of southern iron, 3ooo tons A month, has been renewed, ana ao- ditional purchases of pipe iron nave amounted to 10000 tons. Eastern Penn- sylvania and Virginia pipe works are in the market for n,000 tons TOT tnls year. Radiator works are inqulrlng TOT 4o. GOO to 50.00O tons for 1911.
 Cincisnati reports that a nearby steel nlant mas asked for 25000 to 3O,0OO tons of basic iron.
 New business in finished steel Is some what better than In August. Competi ton is sharper in spots and cuts or $l a ton have been made in plates. The wire trade still leads In activity Export rail business is good; sales ol 25. .oO0 tons were made by the Steel cor poration for shipment to Australia. Ine Steel corporation is operating 67 per cent of its blast furnace capacity. 45 furnaces being now Idle, against A September l. B August l, 35 July and 3l June l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15

of that port After this has been done and while they are still continuing this development by the means of facili- ties which they, themselves, have con- structed, they cannot reasonably be expected to turn over the business, for which these facilities have been pro- vided, to other facilities not reached by their own rails. thereby withdraw ing from their own facilities the busi- ness that has supported the invest ment in them and thus prevent their expansion. with no certainty that pri- vate enterprise would provide and maintain facilities in lieu of them.
 In confining our shipside deliveries to our own wharves and to the city wharves which are reached by our own rails. and in confining our issu- ance of through export bills of lading to lines with which we have contracts, we are clearly within the law. We are not. however. declining to absorb switching charges and wharfage fees involved in the ship-side deliveries over private docks not reached by our own rails and to issue through export bills of lading to steamship lines with which we have no contracts, on the ground that we cannot, in law, be com pelled to do so, but on the broader ground that our policy Is not only one
 
 Is also to the best interests of the port of Mobile.
 We fully recognize the importance of the interests represented in the commercial organizations represented by your committee. We are highly ap- precative of all that those interests have done for the city and port of Mobile and of the benefits that we have derived from their cooperation. | T ttxz atAr weight with us because our companies have larger interests in Mobile than any one else. and we are correspond- ingly concerned in everything affecting the prosperity of the community as whole.
 Our facilities have been sufficient to enable us to he the most important | factor in the development of the coD'- merce of the port. It Is our purpose to maintain at Mobile facilities that are adequate for the hauling of this business. We are now incrensfng | those facilities, and, if 1t should nc found that they are inadequate, 1t will be our purpose to increase them still | further. We shall certainly, at no time do anything, knowingly, that might tend, in the slightest degree, to injure | the port or retard It's development. | In conclusion, permit me to say thnt, | in the person of Colonel E. l.. Russell, cer nt Mobile, whose devotion to the best interests of your city and port can ever he depended upon. He has | my implicit confidence in all things coming within his jurisdiction, and I | feel sure that when we are guided by his deliberate judgment on . matter of business policy affecting Mobile we are certainly not doing anything to the detriment of the community which holds the first place in his affection. Yours truly,
 (signed) W. w. FINLEY, President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
AlRSHIP RUINED
 BY EXPLOSION

Baden Baden, Germany, September 14.- The latest type of Count zeppelin's in- ventive genius met with disaster today when the dirigible balloon Zeppelin VI took fire after an explosion, while be- ing warped into her shed. A score or more of men were engaged In the task of housing the airship when a benzine tank in the rear gondoa exploded, setting fire to an adjacent gas compartment. The explosion of this compartment was fol- lowed by the explosion of the IS others. There was a gush of flames, developing intense heat, and the whole structure was destroyed in a few minutes. Moth ing remained of Count Zeppelins latest model except a tangled mass of alumi- mum.
 The flames were extingulshed In the shed without serious damage. Several workmen were burned, but none fatally. | The ignition of the benzine occurred while workmen were engaged in cleaning the machinery, during which the benzine holders were ignited.
 The Zeppelin VI during the past 10 days has made 34 passenger trips, covering about POGO miles, and carrying more than | 500 passengers. The trips of the Zep- pelin VI were made regularly, often in bad weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
PROGRESSIVES FAIL
 TO SECURE QUORUM

The progressive" republican party's executive committee meeting failed to materialize last night, when a quorum failed to appear, and adjournment was taken until this morning when several other members are expected.
 Present last night were Frank P. Fes- Ter of Baldwin county. Syd Berry of Mo- bile, w. F. Aldrich, Judge A. E. Stratton. J. F. Scott, Charles Scott candidate for governor; John Towers and Julius David son, but only five of them are members of the committee. The committee ex- poets to appoint campaign manager and open up headquarters in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
Bankers Act Unfavornble

New Orleans, September 14.-Unfavora- ble action today on the part of European bankers in London regarding the valida- ton plan for American cotton bills Of ladlng was declared by southern cotton men to be very discouraging. The vali- dation plan voluntarily agreed upon by railroads throughout the cotton belt, fol- lowing the action of the European bank CTS in refusing to honor American cotton bills of lading unless guaranteed by American banks, was the mainstay of the American bankers sent to attend the London conference.
 Unless some other plan can be agreed upon, say southern bankers today's ac- ton would have the effect of throwing a large part of the cotton movement on a cash basis. Southern cotton men ex- press the hope that some other plan will be devised before the conference ad- journs It is declared impossible for many reasons to comply with the Euro pean bankers suggestion that American banks guarantee the bills of lading.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
Confidence still Exists

Memphis, September 1+-While disap- pointed that the plan of the American Bankers association with regard to the validation of cotton bills of lading which they approved was not agreed to by the bankers of Europe, cotton exporters with headquarters in Memphis are still optim- istic It is the consensus of opinion that a satisfactory arrangement will be made before the expiration of the present agreement, October 31, and that the cot ton trade between the two countries would suffer but little settlement Of the controversy is of vital importance to all interests involved 1t was explained, but the brunt of delayed compromise would fall on the banking interests of the south, because of their alliance with the cotton producers and buyers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-15
old Engineer Dead

Louisville, September 1.-John Midden- dorf. 62 years old, the oldest locomotive engineer in the employ of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company, In point of service, a veteran of the civil war and one of the most widely known residents o2 Louisville. died today from nervous paralysis, which developed following in- juries he received in fall.