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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-19

HE
In execution of a decree Of the Cir
cult Court of Henrico county. entered
April 90, 1910. in the suit OF Rose ana
Cutchins, trustees. VS.. Morris ct ais.
and Monteiro, who sues. etc. VS.. Nor
ris, the undersigned. appointed special
commissioners thereby, Will offer for
sale at auction. on
THURSDAY, MAY 10. 1910,
at $50 o'clock P. NJ, on the premises,
two lots OF land near the forks of the
Westham or River Road and the Three
Chop Road, being known as lots L ana
NJ in the plan of Westhampton. The
said property fronts 400 feet on tn.
south side of the Westham or River
Road and runs back a depth Of 22o
feet.
TERMS: One-third cash. and the ball
ance In wv equal instalments, pay
able In six and twelve months from
day OF sale. the credit instalments to
be evidenced by negotiable notes OF the
purchaser. with interest added from
day OF sale. and the title to the prop
erty retained as security for the un-
paid purchase money, or all cash. at
the option OF the purchaser. Said land
will be offered first in 50-foot lots and
then as a whole.
GEORGE C. FITZHUGH.
FRANK T. SUTTON. JR,
Special Commissioners.
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-19
aufttnn 6aIes, Tbis Dap.

afGH c6NsTABLEis SALE.
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!, " GOoDE, Auctioneer,
Richmond. Va, April 80, 1910,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-19

GEORGE C. FITzHUGH.
FRANK T. SUTTON. JR.,
Special Commissioners.
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JOHN G. EAS.EY.
Trustee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
THE LAKE COMO CRIME

From the Washington Star.
The crime at Lake Como which cost
the life of at least one American, and
possibly that of another, rs of a nature
10 enlist the keenest professional interest
of the detective fraternity. All the de-
tails that are known here contribute to
as intere<ting a mystery as was ever
solved rs detective hero of fiction. A
jealous young husband, wife with an
unusual past, disappearance and then the
CHASTITY discovery of body in trunk
at the bottom of the lake. In some cir
cumstances suspicion would rest in such
a case upon the husband. But in this in
stance such a suspicion is not apparently
justified The disappearance of the hus-
band is regarded instead of a sign of
guilt, as an indication that he too was
a victim of the murderer. This case
will be followed with a keen interest as
it develops. not alone because of the per-
sonality of the victims and their local
relations, but on account of the excep-
tionally dramatic nature of the crime as
1t TODAY stands disclosed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
Garbage Cans Without Garbage Wagons

The city health department has issued
every residence or business house in the
city limits shall provide himself with a
garbage can and use it. viii Chief Wall
ter Burson inform a wondering public
how in all sense and reason household
er can use a garbage can when no
garbage wagon comes along even once
week to take away its contents?
There are populous sections of the city
about a mile from the city hall and
Chief Burson's office that have never
heard the rumble of a garbage wagon. A
householder may be compelled to buy a
garbage can, but it is simply ridiculous to
compel him to do so when Chief Burson
takes no step to see that garbage wagon
calls at his premises.
Health Officer Burson should explain
MS pluSIdUlllS. ldhei LOT example,
North Haven. about a mile from the city
hall No garbage wagon has ever been
seen there, and yet Chief Burson says
the househoders of that locality shall be
arrested and fined if they. do not equip
their premises with garbage cans. Mr.
Burson should explain his garbage-can
programme when applied to districts that
are not permitted to feast their eyes on
a garbage wagon. Garbage cans and
garbage wagons should go together, and
there will be no rush for garbage cans
until garbage wagons are ordered to
pay at least weekly visits to the annexed
districts.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23

in 1900 at 100000, 900 and it is believed
the total property now owned by negroes
has been carried to s5eo0O0,o0o. This
seems at first sight to be a considerable
sum, but when 1t Is remembered That
there are about 100000 negroes in this
country it is seen that the per capita
accumulation is but $50. In other words,
100000 negroes have accumulated just
about what one white man has. 1t is
difficult to say how much the secretive
white man of the Pocantico Hills Is
worth, but it is reasonably safe to as
sumo that he has or soon will save more
than all the negroes in the land.
The negro who buys land is, as rule,
standpatter He rarely desires to sell
holding, and the fact that his real
estate holdings are steady increasing is
fact of significance. The negro who
owns real estate is inclined to become an
Industrious citizen and a fixed worker of
the soil He may not pillow deeply or
farm intelligently, but he is apt to keep
at his job with a view of getting from
his land a living.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
CARRIED LEAD

From an Exchange.
E. J. Naylor, general agent of the Haw-
ley lines at Los Angeles, while IN san
Francisco recently, left his suitcase In
the office of the Canadian Pacific. Inc
boys in the office loaded 1t with iehd
pipe, and when Naylor got the suitcase
later in the afternoon and walked with IL
to the Manx hotel nearly every railroad
man on the row walked behind and
watched the struggle. Gee, | only got
about two collars and three ties In this,
but it is heavy!' he said when he was
about three blocks from the Manx. well
1t gets heavies the longer you pack IT.
volunteered J. r. Holcomb of the Kansas
City, Mexico and Orient. Naylor didn'
open the grip until the next day, and
since that time he has been looking for
the Canadian Pacific agents with piece
of lead pipe in his hand.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
Control Of Vanderbilt University

Southern Methodism is deeply stirred by
the contest that has sprung up to de-
termine whether the trustees or the gen.
eral conference and the college of bishops
shall control Vanderbilt university.
Bishop Hendrix is the president of the
board of trust, and he and the 10 trustees
claim that they constitute perpetuating
body empowered to conduct in their own
way Vanderbilt university. The Wander
bilt family supports the trustees.
The Methodists of the south, acting in
the general conference at Ashevllle, in
sist that the university belongs to the
church, and the conference proceeded to
fill three vacancies on the board of trus-
tees. The board of trust rejected the
three trustees thus named, and the issue
now goes to the courts to determine who
owns and controls the university. 1t is
the Church VS.. the Board of Trust.
Bishop Hendrix is to be cited for trial
before u elders of the church within 80
days, and the college of bishops will next
month remove for INSTRUMENTATION Chan
ceilor kirkland and the 10 trustees These
steps will bring the matter before the
courts. The bishops, excepting always
Bishop Hendrix, will obey the general
conference and will fight to the bitter
end to support the church's contention,
namely, that the church holds fee
simple right to the university. In the
long run the case will go to the United
States supreme court of which Justice
Lurton is member, and he has long
upheld the side of Chancellor Kirkland.
4~-sffvrr,e IS a stout up
holder of the claims of the church to the
university. no doubt Bishop Hendrix
will be suspended until TIE general con-
ference meets four years hence, but lit
tie incident of that nature will Eot change
the course of the issue that has arisen
between Chancellor kirkland and the
college of bishops 1t is a big fight and
the law courts will dec<le it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
THE MOTOR CAR PICNIC

Harriet Quimby in Leslie's.
There is little need for the city man
who owns a car to- worry about where
he will spend his vacation. II he can
get away from his office at o'clock or
therea bout during the week, and have
an occasional day or two away alto
gether, he should be the envy of his
less fortunate brothers who are booked
to spend an entire summer at one re-
sort. A delightful sense of freedom comes
with gypsying through unexplored
tracts of wooded country, and there is
something peculiarly bracing in head
ing straight against the wind openins
the throttle and forgetting that there
Is sucn a thing as constable.41f ones
| soul Graves the excitment oil resort
life there is nothing more simple ehan
| to take a run to any one of the large
summer Fairgrounds within a 50-mile
radius spend the afternoon, have din
ner, listen to the music, then speed
home again in the faithful machine,
which never tires as long as 1t is well
fed and cared for.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
seat hog" said a man who rides the

end-seat hog" said man who rides the
cars every day.
This is the person who is eternally
reading newspaper on the car and al
ways has the window open. When he at
tempts to fold the paper the results would
be sad if they were not so funny. First.
he spreads out his arms as If he were
giving an imitation Of an eagle. Then
he waves them franticaly back and forth
trying to overcome the unruly paper. In
the resulting melee you usually get struck
In the face several times and the person
in the front seat gets his neck ticlSled
and jumps up under the impression that
a bug is crawling down his back. Then
the folder at last succeeds in subduing
the paper and goes serenely on reading
unmindful of the angry looks sent in his
direction"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
Railroad Rates Hereafter


Section II of the new railroad bill is
far and away its most important pro-
ate section which permitted the rail-
roads to collect new rates pending a
decision as to their reasonableness, any
report ties up new rates 10 months. The
section finally adopted is important, and
we give it in full, as follows:
Whenever there shall be filed with the
commission any schedule stating a new
individual or joint rate, fare or charge,
or any new individual or joint classical
ton, or any new individual or Joint reg
ulation or practice affecting any rate,
fare or charge the commission shall have,
and it is hereby given authority, either
upon complaint or upon its own initiative
without complaint. at once, and II it so
orders, without answer or other formal
pleading by the interested carrier or car
riers, but upon reasonable notice, to en-
ter upon a. hearing concerning the pro-
priety of such rate, fare, charge CLASH
fication, regulation, or practice; and pend
ing such hearing and the decision there
on the commission upon filing with such
schedule and delivering to the carrier
or carriers affecting thereby a statement
in writing of its reasons for such sus-
pension may suspend the operation OF
crbad11Ia 6afar IA Of oh
rate, fare. charge. classification, regu-
lation or practice, but not for a longer
period than 120 days beyond the time
when such rate, fare, charge, classified
ton, regulation or practice would other
wise go into effect; and after full hear
ing, whether completed before or after
| the rate, fare, charge, classification, reg
ulation or practice goes into effect the
| commission may make such order In
reference to such rate, fare, charge class
ification, regulation or practice as would
be proper in a proceeding initiated after
the rate, fare, charge, classification, reg
ulation or practice had become effective
Provided That if any such hearing can
not be concluded within the period of sus-
pension, as above stated, the interstate
commerce commission may, in it's discre-
ton, extend the time of suspension fol
a further period not exceeding six months
and at any hearing after the passage
of this act, the burden of proof to show
that the Increased rate or proposed in
creased rate is just and reasonable shall
| be upon the common carrier; and pro
vidod further, that the commission shall
give to the investigation and determine
ton of questions concerning rates pref
erence over all other questions pending
before It, and render the speediest deter
limitation consistent with the proper exam
nation and decision thereof"
How it happened that Messrs. Aldrich
Ellzins and Mann changed in conference
this section against the wishes of thu
railroads will perhaps never be known
They did it and the conference repor
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Russell Here Yesterday

w. A. RUSSELL general passenger agent
of the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
was in Birmingham yesterday for seV-
elal hours Mr.. Russell was here TO
personally arrange the routing of a spe-
oial train to be operated by the LOUIS
vile and Nashville to San Francisco.
Mr.. Russell said his business is exception
ally good for this period of the year and
that everyone seems to be encouraged
over the outlook for fall business
birmingham seems to grow faster and
1aster,' said Mr.. Russell Every time
I visit the city it seems to me that new
buildings have been constructed are they
are breaking ground for others. am
very much interested in this city and
hope your prosperity will increase.
In speaking of the rate hearing IN
Louisville Mr.. Russell said: THE talk
ing of evidence is still going on. The out
look points to a continuation of the
hearing for several weeks The hearings
have come to be so regular that little
attention is paid them in Louisville.
Mr.. Russell left last night for New
Orleans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
JudsOu Harmon RenOminated In Ohio

The denomination of Governor Harmon
in Ohio brings to focus reiharN-
able effort to make another Ohio man
President. The real issue in Ohio re-
lates not so much to the office of gov
ernor as it does to the presidential cleo
tion in 1912. If Governor Harmon car
ries the second time Ohio, ordinarily re-
publican, his friends will insist that he
-, carry the state against even Mr..
Taft. who was born. and who has ever
lived in that state.
The platform for the state campaign
demands the ratification of the income
tax amendment, the direct election OF
1rrited states senators, the initiative and
referendum, radical reduction of the
tariff 70 a revenue basis, and the indorse-
nent of Judson Harmon for President
giving as his slogan his finding in the
railroad rebate cases in which he served
the government.
The platform is radical, but in the main
It is no more radical, perhaps, than pub
lie sentiment demands. Upon this plat
form Judson Harmon would bring back
the anti-tariff days of Grover Cleveland,
together with the popular issues of these
later days Direct action by the people
in every possible instance and revenue
rar1r viii be the issues or tine CAM
paign Of this fall in Ohio and most of
them will be issues upon which the great
er campaign in 1912 will turn.
Indiana has a democratic governor who
is sound to the core in the respect of
revenue tariff, and Ohio may re-elect Gov
ernor Harmon on a revenue tariff plat
form, and New York may elect Theodore
NJ Osborne or some other strong man
on a similar platform. In that event
the democracy would have three revenue
tariff governors to pick from in 1912, and
the party could not well make a mis-
take.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
THE FIELD OF FICTION
he washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
A magazine editor in New York city has
uttered to newspaper reporter COM
plant plainly designed to reach the pub
lie eye and perhaps to bring remedy.
The complaint is the lack of response to
the call for short stories. Here appears
to be case where the supply has failed
to respond to the demand Of which there
Is no question while the reward for sue
cessful literary creation of this partic-
ular kind is high.
1t Is to be observed that the field is as
wide and varied as is the scope Of human
activity. 1t may be noted that the late
O. Henry found his topics and SUCCESS
tons wherever he went. in city street or
country field. The explanation obviously
is that the power to interpret and utilize
commonplace contacts lay within himself
In his unconscious generosity he was in
clined to minimize precious gift. The
problem seems to be to seize a particular
phenomenon, an individual type a sepa-
rate concrete happening, and then gener-
alize 1t so that 1t may elicit wide re-
Spouse and appreciation. In truth, this
principle is as old as is the art of story
telling. But its modernization Is intense
ly concrete. The range of romance seems
to narrow with the disappearance of the
borders from advancing civilization.
Yet, when bold adventure was most rife,
as in the times of feudalism, where was
contemporary literature? That has been
reminiscent instead.
In these days the reader bestows at
tention upon politics end sociology as re-
fiected in the news or interpreted by the
comment Of the day. But the very life
next door or around the corner teens
with topics that may be the centers of
webs or fiction. There is no need to pro-
ject the imagination into the unknown.
Even the illumination Of darkest Africa
does not lessen the possibilities of inven-
ton. The charting every square league
Of the Pacific did not deprive Stevenson
Of Treasure Island" any more than De
Foe, with less limitation of realism. was
hampered in his creation of Robinson
Crusoe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
TrucIx Farming

"The more one studies the situation
the more attractive appears JEFFERSON
county from a truck farming point OF
view" said S. Hechinger, secretary OF
the farm committee of the Chamber of
Commerce. According to the report OF
limited States soil survey practically
everything that can be produced success
rrlly anywhere in this country can Dc
raised here. And the comparatively lew
truckers who have tried 1t nave pres
pered. There are now between 20 ana
100 truck farmers in Jefferson county Gull
tivatfne a total of about 1000 acres, and
they are getting good results. Instead
of a hundred small farmers We should
have thousands.
II am gathering material for truck
farm literature and within the next rev
weeks this literature will be ready Tor
distribution. With the systema tic effort
which the Chamber of Commerce Is MAX
ing and with patience it should be only
question of time when truck farming
in Jefferson county will be great In
dustry
owe have here as an inducement not
only fertile lands to be acquired on easy
terms. but a big market. Fully S2,oooooo
worth of vegetables are sold in Birming-
ham annually; and if we include butter
chickens and eggs the volume of produce
handled in Birmingham and consumed IN
the birmingham district amunts to $o,ooo
Oo0 a year AS it is now the greater part
Of our vegetables as well as our poultry
and butter supply are shipped from neigh
boring states"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
Territory Of Two New states

1.-THE passage of the bill by Congress
creating the states of Arizona and New
Mexico takes up all the territory for the
creation of new states, unless some OF the
very large states, such as Texas and Cal
ifornia. shall divide up" said we'll
informed citizen
THE territory from which the two new
states have been created was in large
part that vast empire coded to the United
States by Mexico in 1S4s, for which the
United States paid 100000 and assumed
50 900 900 of debts-this after the war with
Mexico. About one-fourth of the terri
tory of Arizona, and small fraction OF
the extreme southern part of New Mex
leo. were embraced in the 'Gadsden pur-
chase in 1858, the United States paying
Mexico $10OOo.ooO for the $4,000 square
miles. Two-thirds of the eastern section
OF New Mexco-the Rio Grande being the
dividing lne-was embraced in the indie
pendent republic of Texas. formed in 1885
after Sam Houston had defeated the Mex
leans"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
TELESCOPE OF CALLED
/ the Strand Magazine.

Very few people are aware that the
first practical telescope-the one which
Calico used in discovering the satellites
of Jupiter. in January, 161o-is still in
existence and preserved at the Museum
of Physics and Natural History in Flor
ence 1t is about 800 years ago since
this instrument was first turned toward
the heavens. Unlike the present astronom-
ical type, it had concave instead OF
a convex eye-piece. just like the opera
glasses now in use. When Calico first
exhibited his new telescope to the Doge
and an enthusiastic assembly on the
tower of ST. Marks in Venice, he was
overwhelmed with honors, because it was
thought that the instrument would give
the soldiers and sailors of the republic
great advantage over their enemies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
state Normal school

1.-THE State Normal school at Jackson
VILE in Calhoun county, is doing good
work" said C. H. Young who was until
recently a member of the faculty. The
attendance this year has been about $50,
the students coming from many counties.
The second half of the summer term be-
gan June 2 and 1t runs until July 16. The
faculty numbers 20 instructors and the
studies include Latin, French. German
mathematics and English literature
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
Interest in Music Increasing

There has been of late a marked in
crease in popular interest in high-class
music in Birmingham said an old mu-
slcian
1.-The splendid music festivals last spring
and the spring of 1869, conducted by Mr.
Damrosch. have had decided educative
effect already. Not only are we to have
park concerts this summer, but Clarence
Kenk, one of Birmingham's best orches-
ira and chamber players, is organizing
large string orchestra for a series of
concerts during the coming fall and win
ter And in addition to good music by
local talent a number of distinguished
virtuosos are booked for the season of
boil"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23

From the Philadelphia Ledger
1t was said that when on wednesday
last two steeplejacks were admitted to
repair the gilded angelic figure on the
spire of the Mormon Temple at Salt
Lake City the sanctuary was for the
first time profaned by the feet of Gen
tiles" 1t seems they were NOT admitted
to the "holy of the holies.' where mar.
riages are sealed for this world or for
eternity, and the dead are baptized; they
were merely permitted rapid transit by
means of an elevator to the top of the
tower
There are two Mormon sanctuaries in
Salt Lake city. The Tabernacle Is known
to most visitors to the metropolis of the
Latter Day Saints. This is a huge build
ing $50 feet long, $50 feet wide and 70
feet high, whose iron shingled roof, sup
ported By "A sandstone pillars, has been
compared to the shell of the turtle or a
ships hull inverted. The auditorium-of
admirable acoustic roperties-contains
seats for 5000 people, and can accommo-
date 1000 more. Public services are held
there every Sunday afternoon. and the
puilulilS Is open ior lne inspection OF
visitors for the whole of every weekday.
But the Temple Is as sacred in the
eyes of all true Mormons as the city OF
Lassa is to the MONKS of Tibet This In
terror as Baedeker succinctly puts it, is
mot accessible to strangers" The great
granite edifice took some 40 years to
build. from 1858 TO 1893, and cost $4,000 600
The central tower 30 feet high, is sur
mounted by the gilded figure of the
Angel Moroni, which the steeplejacks
were called upon to repair. The building
is 1s6 feet long and 80 feet in width. Be.
sides marriages and baptisms for the
dead" the temple Is used for such "or-
dinances' as prayer meetings. theological
lectures, preaching services, religion:
teaching and Ordinat tons