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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-17
Rothbarth Tells
How toCheat Bank
Swindler Says Anyone Can Fix Up
Statement of Assets Which Will
Deceive.

NEW YORK. Sept. ia formula for OBJ
tanning the complete confidence of the most
cautious tank president was stated today
by Adolph Rothbarth. the hop merchant,
who recently confessed that in the last
three years he victimized New York banks
for more than 100000. He would be free
today If he had not grown careless and sub
mitted conflicting statements to two banks.
from enc OF which he sought to borrow to
repay the other. The credit men compared
and caught him.
"All you need he said tonight from his
cell in the TOmbs us a presentable adj
dress, respectable clothes, a good letter
head and a statement of assets.
when l first went to a bank for money
told them l might need as much as $780,
900. They told me to go ahead and submit a
statement of assets and they would lend
me all 1 wanted. So 1 submitted a false
statement. Any one could have done the
same"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-17
Kings County
Bolts "Old Guard"
in New York
Woodruff Dropped for Roosevelt in
Scene of Former Acknowledged
, Power-Griscom Favors Taft.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1s.-The first break In
the ranks Of the 'old guard in Kings
county, where Timothy L. Woodruff, chair
man Of the republican state committee, has
for years been the acknowledged leader.
came today with the announcement by
Ruben l.. Haskell, republican leader Of the
Second district that he will support the
progressives under Colonel Roosevelt's
leadership.
Chairman Woodruff. before leaving for
Syracuse tonight declined to discuss Has
kells decision to desert the old guard.
Lloyd c. Griscom, president of the New
York republican county committee, went on
record today in favor of an absolute en-
dorsement OF President Taft's admlnistra-
ton by the republican state convention.
This was his answer as progressive
leader to suggestions to the effect that the
Roosevelt supporters would be opposed TO
putting a real endorsement of the Taft
administration in the platform.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-17
AERoNAUTIC GLlDDEN TOUR
ORIGINATOR of Famous Trip offers
Trophy for Air Men Under Rules
10 BE Arranged.

BOSTON. Sept. 16-Aeroplane tours to
be conducted on similar plans to those
governing automobile tours are embraced
In a proposition announced today by
Charles j. Glidden originator of the Gid
den tours for automobiles.
Mr.. Glidden has offered valuable trophy
70 the National Council of Affiliated Aero
Clubs 10 be competed for annually under
such rules as the National Council may
prescribe. 1t is planned that the initial
air tour shall be started from the Har-
ward Boston aviation field at Atlantic in
1911
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-17
FIRE RECORD.
GnuIt Brother.' Elevator.

CRESTON, Ia. Sept. l5.-(Special Tele-
gram )--Gault Bros. grain elevator at
Cromwell was entirely destroyed by fire
this morning. Five thousand bushels OF
oats stored there is almost an entire loss,
as but little insurance was carried on the
grain. The loss is estimated at about 5000
The building was partly insured II is
thought the fire was started by loafers
around the building. When discovered the
fire was under such headway no effort was
made 20 save the building. as Cromwell has
no fire protection.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-17
English Aviator Defeats
CurtiSs in Aerial Race

BOSTON, Mass. Sept is - Driving his
Bleriot mOnoplane az approximately a
mile a minute. Claude Graham White the
English aviator, brought to successful
close his first American engagement by
defeating Glenn II. Curtiss. the American
fiier and worlds speed champion Of the
air. In a special match speed test at the
Harvard aviation field at Atlantic City
He defeated curtiss by i6ss seconds In a
five and one-aUarter mile race White
thereby won the S9o Harvard cup and
made . new Hpsed mark for the field ~
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-17

making the course IN minutes, 4TS SEQ
onds. White also added to his winning the
John Hays Hammond cup. the second prize
for a special bomb throwing contest. Ralph
tombstone the Wright aviator, took the
first prize, the City of Boston cup.
This was the concluding day OF the Har-
ward aviation meet and IL was marred by
the first noteworthy accident OF nearly a
fOrtnights flying. A. V. Roe an English
flisr. who has had bad luck with his TIL
planes. wrecked his second machine today
ana was painfully injured
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-17

A new breakfast food by DR.. Price. the weIlknown
Pure Food expert. A combination of cereals
WHEAT. OATS. RICE and BARLEY, prepared
so as to contain all of the nuntive elements Of these
important products Of nature. Pure nutritious and
wholesome. Ask your Grocer.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-17

committee going 10 London, but, Of course,
we would welcome your deputatlon in New
York, where all data and information are
obtainable and where railway and cotton
PEOPLE also could be heard. We are conf
dent that this would lead to better I'M
Outstanding with mutually satisfactory re-
suits"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-17
Choice HaberdaShery

Every man enjoys having the little things about his
makeup exactly right.
Criticism is the price man pays if he is indifferent
to the furnishings he wears.
We have the best things that be secured in
Shirts, Underwear Hosiery, Gloves, Neckwear, Fancy
Waistcoats, etc. Drop in and display.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-17
AUTO ACCIDENT AT FAIR
MAY PROVE TO BE FATAL
Mrs. l.. n. Baird of EsmOnds s. D.
May Die from Being
Struck by Car.

HURON, s. D.. Sept. 16.-(Special Tele-
gram Mrs. l.. r. and G. W. Baird, both
OF Esmond, were struck by an automobile
at the fair grounds and seriously injured.
The former may not recover. This is the
only accident so far during fair week.
Fully 10000 people were on the fair grounds
today, 5000 coming from Kingsbury county.
An immense crowd witnessed the public
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16
lie BLANC AND HAMILTON.

Again touching upon HamiltOn's hope 10
lift" the trophy from his erstwhile EN-
ployer and present legal opponent. Curtiss'
81 would be interesting to know lie Blanc's
opinion of the Hamilton biplane. lie Blanc
had read about the 110-horsepower Hamn-
tonian and, although he had only rev
hours last week between the steamship
dock and the train for St Louis, the
Frenchman found his way alone 10 Garden
City. He found his way to the Hamilton
shed. but did not find Hamilton, because
Hamilton did not know the Frenchman was
coming lie Blanc found the machine and
Hamipon's chief mechanician. however
He inspected the aeroplane. asked seriously
three vital questions and solemnly de-
rarted The questions were: Whats the
hest speed she's made? What horsepower
has she DEVELOPER Has Monsieur Hamil-
ton vet tried to get the best speed poSsi0leT
Is lie Blanc made sad by the appearance
of the Hamilton flyer zach night In his
dreams? Or does he fear Latham most?
Hamilton has travelled unofficially Is
miles In sixty seconds. No competitors
dreams can be entirely peaceful until Ham,
iIton's present speed capabilities are OFF,
cially standardized
Count Jacques de Lesseps probably flies
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16
Men Republic May Now Free Sapes Portuguese Colonies

of six or seven When the caravan has
half crossed the Hungry Country" the
great uninhabited forest region which lies
back from the coast. there is no more dam
ger of an escape. No man could travel for
three days alone in that land.
Although 1T is to the traders interest to
keep as many of his slaves alive as he
can, his loss by death is a heavy one. One
fourth usually die from exhaustion. home
sickness or fever before the coast is in
sight. OF one caravan of nine hundred
which started over the route from Bihe to
KdtumbeIla in 1905 SIX hundred died on the
way.
Those who are too sick or too much ex-
hausted TO keep up with the rest are
usually murdered by their drivers. 1t is
not pleasant thing to believe, even of a
Portuguese SLAYER, but the fact is undis-
puted. One Englishman who lately pushed
his way along the slave route from the
coast to Bihe and back again found the
trail strewn with the skeletons of human
beings who had died there. He did not
search the bush for signs of other bodies
which might have been partly concealed.
but he did examine the skeletons he found
on the path. Nearly every one bore the
marks of a wound In the skull, usually the
wound of an axe.
At one point he found the body of dead
negro, which lay about ten yards from the
trail. The carriers had heard about the
mans death, but had not thought 1t re-
markable enough to mention TO their en-
ployer. He had been slain by the slave
driver for falling out of line in a fit of the
usual shaking fever The wound was still
plainly visible. nearly severing the head
from the neck.
The men of the coast towns. the mission
aries of the interior. the natives themselves
and the Boer drivers. who go everywhere
in Africa. all agree in charging the Portu-
guese dealers with wholesale murder. The
explanation is simple enough. If the SLAYER
were to leave any sick slave alive. he rea-
sons. all the other slaves in his caravan
would sham sickness so as to be left he
hind. too.
From the centre of the Hungry Coun.
try TO the coast the bushes all along the
two slave routes are hung with shackles
which have been discarded by passing cara
vans. They are no longer needed Any
man who leaves the caravan in that Will
derness will die within four days. and all
the negroes know 1t. BY this time. too.
their spirits are too well broken by cap
uVity 10 leave much danger of a revolt.
Arrived at the coastal Benguela Ka-
tumbela Lobito Bay-the Portuguese
government takes tbs slaves under it's pro-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16
Horrible CruefffeS Perpefrafed There Vnder
Coper of"Confracf Labor"
Farce.

themselves one-fifth Gle every year.
II is for the sake of the island planters
that Portugal encourages slavery. For
their sake she took the traffic into her own
hands and made the slave trade govern
rnent affair. By satirical stroke Of legis-
lation she masked the business under the
pretence Of 'redeening" slaves from native
bondage and Transforming them into free
contract laborers," to be transported to the
place which they call hell for few
years of inconsistencies and g. slow death.
In Angola, as Portuguese West Africa is
properly called. mild form of domestic
slavery has been practised among the ma
tives from time immemorial. The slave
may have been taken in war or he may
have been seized for debt or some personal
offence, or he may have been sold by his
mothers brother. who by native custom
has a power over him which his own par
ents have not.
Portugal allowed her traders 20 steal ne
groes openly and pack them like spoons IN
the slave ships long there was an
inch of civilized soil where such property
could be sold At last, when even Brazil
had abolished slavery, the same restless
spirits learned that the two fever ridden
islands in the Gulf OF Guinea lay in fact
In a great hOthOuSe ana were. perhaps, the
most prolific spots in the world. If any hui
man beings could be made TO work there.
Then Portugal determined that slavery
among the natives was an abomination
which must be done away with at any cost
II WIS rooted too deeply In the pretudices
OF the tribes TO be wiped out at once, and
so the kindly government took the wiser
course Of ''Fedeeming'' all native slaves who
were brought TO its agents for the purpose.
The head man OF one village sold all his
district OF Bihe, far in the interior. on the
| borders of Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo
Here the traders make up their caravans.
| buying men and women from the natives
who hold them. The common price Of a
slave is ;he cost of a load of rubber. about
s45 Bargains may often be had. However.
The head man of one village sold all his
children, one by one. for two kegs of rum
apiece, and during the famine OF 1906. when
half the village was starving, he sold his
wife for one keg.
In the same year OF famine woman was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16
Again and Again tie Monarchy Pron,iSed
10 Wipe Ouf 0biS Blot. buf
Failed
Failed.

The dealer now takes the contract
labOrers'' whom he has bought for a price
and herds them on board the steamer,
which clears twice month from the coast
ports with malls for Lisbon and slaves for
San ThOme. At the island port men,
women and the few babies which have
been born on the Wayne children or old
people are taken I'm the trade-are stood
in line upon the pier and sold to the plant
ers who ride down to look them over.
II the contract laborer' is an ordinary.
strong bodied man or woman, good for
field work. the planter viii pay the agent
from $3.50 to $50 for tho privilege of ''hfr-
ing him. For good looking girls the price
Is considerably higher. and may run I'D 10
va or even $50. Out OF this the trader has
already spent about $50 In buying the slave
at Benguela. His other expenses on each
slave are license fee of 90 cents a st,p,,
duty OF $. fee of 81 80 TO the agent. an
export tax OF 81 So steamship fare OF s10 for
'ne eiSht days passage and fees Of 90
cents 10 the ships doctor and 6, IN the
captain Tor every slave put ashore alive
eSe miscellaneous expenses. amounting
10 S-O. with the $50 Investment. leave room
usuaiIy Tor profit OF only $50 To $50. The
trauers risk. however, Is not nearly so
siea' as that OF the SLAYER who brought
neni uo"n from the interior. While the
negroes are all horribly seasick on the PAS
sage To the islands. few OF them die on
the journey
since the islands are nearly the most
a-l ''hiul spots on earth. no white per-
Sot hVes there IL he can possibly helm him
SER Consequently the plantations are
iu"iiased not by individual eolonists who
10 make their homes there but by
asehts or large corporations. which.
WIN their enormous capital. control srea,
i0aches or country. In all San ThOme thera
"'e only about $50 Plantations. so large thar
some OF them hold a thousand "contrar,
laborers" each
ihere Is one point In which the lot Of ~.
contract laborer'' on one OF these nlart,-
iohs differs from that of the I.oufstans
plantation slave of the days before m. 80,
war lie Is not likely 10 he sold Ipdiv,d-
uaiiy to another master. II the plantation
Is sold. he is sold with IL. but ha viii -
DO detached from the land.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16

Tine Portuguese Republic has promised 10
sweep out the dirty old house Of Portu-
.y.,ese government II has a heavy Job OF
T,o1,secleaning on its hands. And Of all the
,,nclean parts there is none where the
world VIII watch the new broom al Work
with so much downright satisfaction as IN
the cellar where Portugals African az
fairs have been rotting for four centuries
The stencil there Is the smell Of slavery
The whole world knew that il was
stencil when thoughtful. Christian gentle
men held slaves in Massachusetts Colony
The Carolina planters OF Patrick Henry s
time were shocked at the crimes or the
Portuguese slave stealers. In 1893 Portugal
PROMISED 20 abolish slavery utterly, and IN
the next eight years the slave traffic from
her African coast more than trebled. When
rhe American Confectionery declared against
the trade in 1861, the same coast was the
worlds slave market. When Portugal
egreod with all the world to abolish slavery
a. the Berlin conference OF 1855. her African
plantations were worked by slaves. and the
African plantations were still worked by
slaves when King Manuel fed from his pal
ace and the red and green flag of the
revolution was run Up there on October
T. 1916
The facts Of this Portuguese slavery of
TO-DAY. as they have been established by
recent English travellers, are worth re-
neInbering-
IN one Of the native dialects Of Portu-
ey,Iese West Africa the word ok2lunga
means four things: death" .rhe depths Of
the sea" hell" and the islands. The
isIand''-fhe only islands Of which most OF
the natives have ever heard-are San
Thorne and Principe two scraps of land
fn The Gulf Of Guinea San Theme is about
thirty-five miles long and fifteen broad.
and the equator runs across the rocks az
its southern end Principe, perhaps one-'
fourth as large, lies eighty miles to the
north IN the wet season they are Hood
ed with rain; in the dry" season they
are drenched with the mists that steam
I'D frcIn the tropic sea about them In
The fearful heat there the cocoa tree -four
.shes and men grow sick. Forty thousand
slaves work on these islands to-day. The
cocoa they produce is one-fifth Of the
Hox4a's whole supply, and Of the slaves
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16

sold for forty yards of cotton cloth. worth
in that country eight cents a yard, and
live pig When slaves are scarce a COM
mon practice of the traders is to stir up a
war between two tribes, lead one side in
raid upon the enemy's villages and then
buy the prisoners from their victorious al
lies.
Some ten years ago there was not even
so much pretence as this. Traders DELHI
erately seized free men and women and
carried them off as slaves. Very often they
applied torture TO runaways. Dead bodies
were found hanging between two trees
their backs bloody from the f1ogging
that had preceded death, or hanging in
charred rows from scaffolds, with the
ground beneath them heaped with ashes
and black Goals. Unruly slaves had their
hands cut off, or were left tied in the bush
with their veins cut open, where the ants
could crawl over them before they died.
These atrocities brought on the "Bailundu
War" Of 1902. Ii was not a long war The
natives burned a Portuguese officer to
death, and the Portuguese surrounded four
hundred men, women and children on the
crest of rocky hill and butcherek them
all Their bones may be seen there to-
day The war brought on a government in
vestigation, one or two banishments and an
admonition to the traders to do better
hereafter.
Since then torture has been regarded as
indiscreet but the temper OF the traders
has changed little. One OF them whose
stockade was burned during the rising, has
been claiming damages ever since One
native against whom he pushed his claim
sold his property. his children and his
nephews one by one to pay the debt and
then shot himself with his gun, the one
possession of his own that he had left
Another trader cherished a grudge
against the American mission village OF
KamundongO. Three times he had IT set
on fire by his carriers as he passed near
II, and IN the end he succeeded in burning
more than half the houses and destroying
a good share Of the mission property. Still
another SLAYER in lighter vein. kept sew
eral old chiefs whom he had bought as
cantives i'm separate pen of his stockade
and made them dance Tor him-which was
about equivalent. 10 the native mind, to
matching Mayor Gaynor and Archbishop
Farley for a prizehght in tom" sharkey's
back room.
The slaves driven down from Bihe
IN the coast in caravans q. from fifty to
n Thousand For the first two hundred
miles of the journey they arc shackled to-
eether day and night or chained in gangs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16

lection. Up to this point they have been
slaves. pure and simple; now they are to
become ''servicaes" or contract laborers.'
They kept in stockades and we'll fed
until a sale has been arranged-a ship is
about to sail for the islands Then buyer,
seller and slaves go before the agent of the
central committee on labor and emigra-
ton to the islands,
The usual selling price at Benguela is
about $50. giving the trader a margin of
$50 over his buying price to cover losses by
death or the road and his legitimate profit
For that price the slave is redeemed" from
native slavery. and Is then asked If, Of his
own will. he wishes to contract himself 10
labor Tor five years in the islands, under
the forms required by the law of April %
1870, and under the protection of the Ken.
erai regulation of November 81, 1873.
The slave replies that he does A Portu-
gese gentleman cannot be supposed to ask
a naked negro such a question in his own
language, and so a halfbreed Interpreter is
always employed. 1t is said that the native
words in which the Interpreter sets forth
the dignity of freedom and the beneAcence
OF the law of April %. 1875. are precisely
words which he would use in saying: win
You have a drink" Since no one except
the natives themselves can understand lust
what he does say, this may be a mistake
But II Is a fact that the native word for
'he Islands Is the word for HELL" and 1t
is TACT that the native always answers
Yes"
contract Is then drawn up, strictly
according TO the forms OF the law OF April
-. 1910 1t has four clauses. The Contract
iaporer is to perform all the services
winch may be required by any employer
10 whom he may be transferred He is
10 work nine hours on every day except
SUCH days as are sanctihed by religion >"
ana he may not leave his work except TO
make complaint to the authorities. He Is
I'D receive wages. lodging and food The
contract is binding for five years
Practically the same process takes pIace
In the case OF slaves who are needed to
iafin the rich plantations OF the mainland
though at any given time there are three
OF iour times as many slaves In Angola
ltseI as there are in the islands, stilI the
ISLAND trade absorbs most of the fresh
supply from the caravans. The reason "a
'hat While the mainland sisSs are gener-
any worse treated than the,s OF the isl
anus they still multiply at live 10 n
reasonably ripe old age Os the isIards
ABOUT one-nfth OF the slaves die evar,
year ana they have very few childran
New slaves are needed by thousands 10 M
ND the gupa- 'i
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16

fore he leaves America. Aubrun was sec
ond In the Circuit de TEst.' He kept
Leblanc in sight for those 4SS miles. This.
too, without previous experience in bal
looming He is twenty-nlne years old He
flies Bleriot. At Bordeaux, on September
&C. he broke all speed records for 1863
miles. He covered that distance in hours
80 minutes Z seconds. His average time
was nearly fifty-fve and a half miles an
hour
Among the Americans from abroad who
will strive for American supremacy at the
meet, John B. Mosant, of Paris and Chi
cago, radiates more OF the spirit OF Chicago
than Of Paris, and says Thanks when
his attention is called to the circumstance
He was three hours. roughly speaking. get
ting from Paris to the outskirts of London
in his aeroplane, carrying cat, a COM
pass and a passenger, and three weeks