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New-York tribune., 1911-09-24

Colonel John j. McCook. soldier lawyer
and one of the foremost laymen OF the
Presbyterian Church i'm this country, died
at his summer home on Rumson Bluff, Sea
Bright, y. j.. at the age OF siXty-sixs Ed
mond II. Madison, the noted nsurgent
Representative In Congress from the 1th
Kansas District. died Of heart disease at
the breakfast table at his home, In Dodge
City. Sir Robert Hart, Director General
OF Customs i'm China from 1901 to 1903 and
inspector general since 1868, died in London,
Ahmed Arab Pacha, leader Of the military
insurrection in Egypt in 1882, died in Cairo
Assemblyman Oliver. better known as
Paradise Jimmy died from a complica-
tion of diseases In st. Vincent's Hospital
The Rev. DR.. Samuel Henderson Virgin
pastor emeritus of the Pilgrim Congrega-
tional Church, Madison avenue and l2lst
street. died at his home, No. 2i9 Madison
avenue, from apoplexy. Luke McHenry,
clerk of the New York State Assembly,
died at q sanatorum in Clifton Springs,
n. Y. General Antenor Firmin, who de-
serted his post as Haytian Minister at Lon
don to help overthrow President Simon OF
Hayti, died at st. Thomas John j. Mur-
leader OF Tammany Hall died at Liberty.
y. Y. where he had gone for treatment for
tuberculosis. DR. James G. Hepburn. old
est graduate OF Princeton University and
pioneer missionary in China and Japan,
died In East Orange, n. j.
Charles W. Allen, millionaire father of
the Leather Trust, met death in the
Palmer House. Chicago His body was
found at the bottom OF light shaft a few
minutes after guests had been alarmed by
the crash as IT struck and smashed
through the wooden floor coroner 5
jury said. Accident
Edward Whymper, artist. author and
traveller. died in Switzerland. He was a
noted mountain climber, and his ascents OF
the Matterhorn and Chimborazo were the
first I'm history"
Let us hope he has climbed higher than
ever" said Busy Man. What else hap
pened that we'll informed citizen ought
to remember"
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24
STRICT GERMAN DISCIPLINE.

German discipline in the army Is IN.
strictest of any nation I'm the wrod, saia
Emil Kroeger, of Detroit, at the Ne"
Ebitt Every German boy must serve
definite period in the army. He can guy
his way out in six months If he has mone''
but the richest must serve that period. INV
first thing told recruit when ne eh'e''
the barracks Is that he does not hnV'
how TO walk. That information starr,
him, because naturally he believes ne p~'
learned TO walk years before. dri'l'""1
ter gets him in courtyard, and io'
week. often a month. the poor reerd"
drilled in walking alone. Then ne 81.
another course. and the longest prS'"..
marches OF a regiment are almost equS'
the stress OF actual war. IL makes NV
ough soldiers OF the boys.
The German idea OF exactnesS was
dicated by a tale told OF soldier W.
who handed in a certificate that she
alive on February 10 and enttleu
pension. An official told her the Gel a
was not correct: that it bore the us' due
February 10, while heI pension va"
February l. ,s.. that yog
I've must have "A certihcate usrv L.
were alive February /. not teoi u",;dsesr,
was the reply OF the government made
and such "A CertincaJe hdO 20 oS.nsV'
bstotr the widow could diaW htl H'0
-NNashingtOn Post.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24
c|Ke oIoac1hc G7Tzo7a@

of the shipments was 100000, an lnereaS'
Of $2O,0.0,0oO
The triumph OF DR.. Wiley has caused
something akin TO panic among Oal'o''"a
fruit growers and shippers. they Tear u'a'
this means that the original order asa'N'
sulphured fruit will he enforced "n,1"
would mean ruin, II is said, 10 Ihe ~
fruit industry. At San Jose the othef 0S'
meeting was held of representative ous'
ipess associations, at which a telegram
was sent to the President asking MIN |"
delay action on the sulphured quesuD'
until the report of the Remsen board cou'a
be had. 1t is pointed out that IN oan'a
Clara Valley alone this year frut "o''"
more than sll,0C0.000 was grown ana '"a'
enforcement OF the order Would "o'"
grave injustice TO fruit men and packers
A large part OF the crop has been alreau'
sold I'm the belief that the proposed FesO'
lations would not be applied to the preseh'
crop.
Word comes from Washington that 'hs
Navy Department will have an ausineh'e'
fleet In the Pacific station this Nlh'e"
ard that an innovation I'm target pract''
will be introduced shortly after the wa
manpuyres off the Hawaiian coast aie
completed. The old battleship Iowa, no"
an unimportant member OF the reserve Az
lantlc fleet, is To be sent around cape ho'"
and will act as a target for the cruiser
guns I'm much the same manner as tn'
San Marcos or old Texas served for the
DreaGnoughts on the Eastern coast.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24

"six prominent business men connected
with the United Shoe Machinery company
were indicted in Boston by the ieuerai
grand fury for alleged violations OF tne
sherman antitrust act TWO mdic'"e"'.
we're returned alleging the maintenance OF
an unlawful combination and conspiracy III
restraint Of trade on the part OF rres'u.'
Sydney w. Winsow Vice-Presideh.s ~,
ward p. Hurd, George w. Brown anu "H
lam Barbour and Counsel Elmer
and James J. Storrow. Messrs. "'"eIo"'
Uurd. Brown. Howe and Storrow are Do'-
,onians while Mr. Barbour Is resiuen' vi
New York. All except Mr.. Storro" are
directors of the company. Mr.. S'oIio"
signed from the directorate just peioi'
municipal election two years ago. "i,e" ,'o
was a candidate for Mayor, but ne Is INC
largest stockholder
"Disregardlng the protest Of the Easter Il
trunk lines the Interstate Commerce C''i'
mission declined to suspend proPoSeu
duction In the rail-and-lake rate on noul
from Minnesota transfer points 10 N'
York by way OF Duluth. and also leiu'ou
IN hermit the Eastern lines TO "it"ui""
their concurrence I'm the reduced rate.
when the Supreme Court of the uniteu
states conyenes. on october 9, to begin its
annual term. IL was announced that 1t
would take up first of all the numerous
cases before IT involving the activity OIL
state railroad commissions. There ai'
more than twoscore cases OF this 'nai
and they represent one of the most impor-
tant. II not the most important ot ''e
problems before the court Tor cOHSiuei"
ton. There are thrty-six rate cases iro''
the state OF Missouri alone, three iioi''
Minnesota. including that decided py 'uue.
Sanborn. which agitated the uoNei hoi
conference at Spring Lake the other ud!'
and several from oklahoma ana hehtuchS'
The opinions Of the Supreme Court IN tnese
cases will probably fix definitely the 0o"
stitutional limits Of state railroad coritlis-
sIons and circumscribe the powers theS
NOV exercIse I'm the way OF fixing the rates
of common carriers I'm intrastate trafnc'
The Minnesota case, In which the commit
tee of Governors is TO file brlel ashlhs
consideration OF the court for the rights vi
the several states In the matter OF raiiroau
rate regulation, If permission Is granted
will come up for hearing probably early III
November.
"Tbe government filed a complaint in the
United States Circuit Court here against
the so-called Kndling Wood Trust al
Ieging that 1t is an unlawful combination
and conspiracy to restrain interstate com
merce and praying that the defendants De
enioined from carrying it on and be re-
sstrained from all interstate and tofeish
7 trade till they have withdrawn from the
alleged Illegal contracts
"A kindling wood trust certainly ought
IN he split up." chuckled Busy Man. Have
any persons of Importance died?'
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24
Constant Reader Tells What
He Missed in Last
Weeks Papers.

so we're not going to have reciprocity
with Canada, after ALL" exclaimed Busy
Man. as he met Constant Reader last even
ing. ..-
Not for some years anyway" was the
reply THE Laurier government and reel
procity suffered an overwhelming defeat In
the Canadian elections held on Thursday
BY a veritabe political landslide the LIB
eral majority Of forty-three was swept
away, and the Conservative party secured
one Of the heaviest majorities, around nifty
that any Canadian party has ever had
Seven Cabinet ministers who had served
with Premier Iaurier were among the de-
feated candidates. The government defeat
means that the Fielding-Knox reciprocity
agreement. ratified by the American Con-
gress in extra session. will not he intro
duced when the twelfth Parliament assem-
bles next month. and that a revised basis
of trade with the United States, looking TO
closer commercial relations, will not be
possible in the immediate future. The Con-
servatives are committed TO a policy OF
trade expansion within the empire and
closed door against the United States
Canada will come to regret her course
commented Busy Man II believe the an
nexation boyle was chiefly responsible for
the overthrow Of Laurier What have Mr..
Taft and our own public men been dong
president Taft ended the first OF MS
fortv-six days tour Of speechmaking with
an address 10 a big throng at Erie Penn
where he outlined a plan by which he hopes
TO overcome objections In the Senate TO the
recently negotiated treaties Of arbitration
with Great Britain and France. These
treaties have been held up and threatened
with defeat largely because number oil
Senators have contended that the proposed
1oint high commission which would deter
mine whether or not question should be
sent TO arbitration practically robbed the
Senate of it's right OF passing on the ques-
tion. The President suggested as a conn
promise that the American members oil
such a commission should be confirmed by
the Senate He said he saw no reason
why they should not be If Congress or the
Senate thought it dangerous to trust the
President only TO make the appointments
He indicated that he would go further
than this and be willing to do away with
the ioint high commission entirely II need
be and leave the decision as TO whether
question was arbitrable or not TO board
of arbitration Still further, he would be
willing 10 have this board pass on the
merits of the question as well as on Jurls-
diction.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24

meetings of the Joint Charter Committee
during the last two weeks. The charter
bill was ordered reprinted, with It's aihehu-
rrents. On Tuesday an agreement was
reached among the Democratic leaders'
concurred in by Governor Dix, to let all
legislation of Importance 20 over untii
"wednesday of next week. The Democrats
didn't have the votes with Wnich u uo
anything.
The Senate Cities Committee reported
to the upper house the New YORK O'ty
Charter. with a batch OF amendments
The principal changes eliminate me pro-
visions giving the Mayor absolute Veto
mower over rapid transit franchises and
grants and restore the old provisions, prlhs
ing the Municipal Civil Service Comlnis-
sion under the control Of the state boaTu.
Discarding the antiquities whlch lhsplieu
Governor Dix to veto nearly S,WOD ap-
propriated by the annual supply DILL
Chairman Frawley of the Senate Finance
Committee introduced three bills frankly
setting forth for what purposes slI5,S2S 81
OF state money is to be used. OF this
amount s35,93s so is to be used In defray-
ing the expenses of former Senator's Aids
and Conger In the investigation caused
by Conger's charge that he had brlDed
Aids. The trial OF this case which was
one of the most sensational ever held In
the state, resulted in the enforced retire
ment from public life of both men. An
other bill introduced by Frawley appro-
priates $4,000 to cover the expenses OF
the Merritt committee, which was ap-
pointed to investigate corrupt practices
and legislation in connection with fire In
stIrance The remainder OF the SlI5,SjS 81
is to be applied to the compensation Of
counsel OF Legislators in defending con-
tests for their seats and for departmental
expenses and other legislative purposes.
The Levy election law, passed by the
present Legislature, was declared uncon-
etitutional by Supreme Court Justice Cav
cgan because of its provision that the name
OF a candidate may appear on the ballot
tut once. and that where a candidate IS
named by two parties or organizations he
must choose the party in whose column
his name is 10 appear.
Complete official returns from the spe-
cial election in which Maine voted on the
question OF the repeal of the constitutional
amendment prohibiting the liquor traffic
showed, as canvassed by the Governor and
Council I'm Augusta, a majority in favor of
repeal of 26 votes. Some doubt still re-
naming as to the correctness Of the re-
turns, Governor Plaisted announced that
the city and town clerks would have an
opportunity TO make corrections during the
next twenty days"
In our Northern states. anyway" COM
mented Busy Man. statewide prohibition
begins to look like lost cause. Has any
thing significant occurred IN the field of
commerce."
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24

movement among industrial combinations
that are threatened with suits by the gov
crnment to dissolve and reorganize under
government approval, so that the new or
ganizatons will not cOntravene the Sher'
nan antitrust. law. There were intima-
tions at the Department OF Justice, In
Washington, that the Steel Trust and the
Harvester Trust were getting ready TO put
their houses In order. The officers OF many
industrial combinations have been advised
by their lawyers that the Interpretation put
upon the Sherman law by the Supreme
Court is not likely TO be rendered less se-
we're by anything that is to happen In the
near future.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24
A NEW LIFE PREseaVER.

\ new life preserver, which has pc" me
cessnlly tried. may be introduced INV ,,,s
German navy. The apparatus Am.
weighs 80 pounds. consists Of TWO ,esos
ming cushions bound together o! ,seS.
The cushions lie upon the breast 'n' mai
The apparatus is provided win an bs
Iamp. led by a battery. The lamp yorn
fastened around the head with PAM AZ
ON the forehead. so that in an a''.ps IA.
night the position of the person III gp,suce.
ter can be seen at conside:ap'e -. -. 70
The small electrical lamp burns ,ade5
four hours and with reflector Ids st
throws the light several hundreIi he sss,
ni,sht I'm several recent tests u suppose
inc al night the victims OF tue we been
sb1rN,reck by aid uf me lamp sasyer csa
sasilv discovered The life prsse' sscoDos.
Se hHckled around the body IN NV as tbe
The lamp begins TO shine as so,vastropbes
hnckle is fastened. In case ol nrsseryeii
to warships the worth OF the ~ nle IN case =. =.
connot be overestimated, though III s-vea'
Mar lis use would not be adN'sa .
sular Report.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24
A. QUEER ACCIDENT.

The Dixie ", champion motor boat Of
the world. while racing of Riverside Park
Buffalo. suddenly got beyond control Of her
helmsman. rushed full speed toward the
shore. climbed the bank like an automobile
and before the crowd there could scatter
Knocked down a woman and two boys. The
boys were injured seriously.
The first arrest under the act passed by
Congress on March 3. 1911, was made in
Boston, when Joseph A. Barraja Frauen-
fielder, German. was arrested for COM
munlcating knowledge Of the defences and
construction Of United States submarine
vessels. F'rauenfelder was employed as a
craftsman for the Fore River Shipbudng
Company at quincy. While the govern
ment only charges that he sold the infor-
nation to Henry Harrison Supee. Of New
York. publisher OF 'Cassier's Magazine II
IS suspected that the same information has
been impaired TO others.
"The Cunarder Lusitania finished the un-
prccedented stunt OF making three trips
across the Atlantic within twenty days.
covering more than ten thousand miles.
She succeeded thus in getting back on her
schedule, broken by the British strike.
which tied her up in Liverpool more than
week.
"Galbraith F. Rodgers, the third aviator
N enter the transcontinental race for the
prize of $4,000 offered by William X.
Hearst. started on his long fight for San
Francisco from Sheepshead Bay.
James W. Ward, the aviator who start
ed from this city on September 10 for tho
same prize, got as far as RathDohe, " IL
and there abandoned the race In Despair
so numerous were the accidents "hlch ne
had met on his short journey Fo"ler, ths
third contestant, who started East from
San Francisco. got as far as colorado.
Rodgers reached Elmira, " J.
.Uarold n. Hilton, the amateur got
otSannion of Great Britain, attained his
ambition by winning the American ul'e
over the Apawamis links. He deteated
Frederick Herreshoff, OF this city oy tns
narrow margin OF / up in an extra hole
match that carried them TO the thirty-
seventh green. AS result. the American
tile and the Havemeyer cup VIII tra'ei
across the sea for the first time IN the MS
tory Of the sport.
AT the Clinton County Fair held IN
Davvitt Iowa. after Louis Rosenbaum' an
] =
minutes. something went wrong win MS
motor. and he was dashed TO the earth SIX
hundred feet below TO his death before
! crowd of five thousand persons.
Forced inta the air by jeerS OF .nou'
sands who called him coward FRANK
II Miller, twenty-three years Old To-
Iedo aviator. shot into the SKY al Troy,
| Ohio and at the height OF two hundred
foot was burned TO death before the eyes
| Of the terrified spectators on the Miami
! comfy Fair Grounds. The machine was
wrecked by the explosion and debris was
hurled hundreds of feet in all directions
Daredevil Castellane,' another a'la'cI'
fell TO instant death at the Mahshe'u'
Penn, Fair.
.It was reported that John L. sullivan,
former champion heavyweight pusihst Oh
the world. would soon announce his inteh'
ZION ~ running for Congress on the Demo-
cratic ticket in Massachusetts.
He'll meet more lightweights the,e onaa
be over met in the rims declared Dus'
Man.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24
TAFT CHALLENGES CRITICS.

president Taft twice challenged his
critics on Monday, in Detroit 10 prove the
soundness and sincerity Of their attacks
upon him and the policies Of his admins
tration. In the first speech he defed Will
lam Jennings Bryan and the critics Of the
recent trust decisions of the Supreme Court
TO bring forth a case of trade restraint
which should be suppressed which could
not he proved a violation Of the law under
these decisions Later, in an ADDRESS De
fore convention of internal revenue of1i-
GERS. he challenged the men who had
charged him with misuse of patronage 10
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24
WILSON'S LATEST.

Governor Woodrow Wilson came out fat
footed In a speech at Jersey city in favor
of the selection Of Presidential candidates
by direct primary throughout the country
If | had my way he said, 4 would let no
name come before the national convention
except the name ratified at primaries of
the people I'.i
Admitting that many Of the thou
sands OF illegal votes that were cast In
Newark last fall contributed TO his cleo
ton. Governor Wilson startled an int
mense meeting in Newark by announcing
that he would gladly vacate his office
adding: That benefited by this
fraudulent vote, l am afraid, is true. II
it We're possible for me to do 90, would
change it at once, no matter what the
cost. It makes me hot all over to think
that was in part elevated by contempu-
BILE fraud, and # there is any way by
which the office can be vacated because
of IT, l invite the process at once.
don't want office got by fraud
Judge Peter S Grosscup, of the United
States Circuit Court. in Chicago, announced
that he would send his resignation to Presi-
dent Taft soon after the United States
Court Of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
meets, on october next. Judge Grosscup
issued a statement, in which he said: The
reason for my resgning at all is that |
wish more freedom not only as an indi-
vidual out as a citizen
Next day the judge figuratively tied a
string to his resignation by declaring that II
: any interest, organization or individual were
now investigating his record ard wanted
| further time TO cloud his nineteen years
I public service by intimatng he was retir-
+ ing under pressure, he would not tender his
resignation on October g. after all. He de-
J clared that his every move in private and
/ public life during the last two years had
been marked by systematzed espionage.
/ The man who had been at the heels OF the
judge represented a monthly magazine pub
/ lished in New York.
Announcement was made by John A.
Mason, secretary to Governor Dix. and who
also IS secretary Of the Democratic State
[ Committee, that William J. Corners, for
merly state chairman, had resigned as a
/ member of the com nunittea
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24

am entirely opposed to an amendment Vi
the antitrust law said the President II IS
row a valuable government asset ana IN
strument. Tested and brought into oeneh-
cial use by twenty years Of litigation ana
construction by the highest court, why
should we imperil its usefulness by expert
ments?
subsequently in an interview Attorney
General Wickersham said: The only way
the great corporations can avoid prosecu-
ton is by strictly complying with the law
and they are fools If they do not see that
7 am enforcing the law as conservauvely
as Is consistent with my duty, because II
is to the interest of the country to bring
about a readjustment of business conci-
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24

tions in conformity to the Supreme court
Interpretation OF the Sherman Antitrust
law with as little disturbance TO la"iui
business and legitimate enterprise as pos
sible
"At Grand Rapids, Mich. on Thursday
Mr.. Taft explained his vetoing OF the larii
bills at the last session Of Congress am
in favor of reduction of the tarin Wherever
II can be done and still give livins meas
ure of protection TO the industries OF inc
country that need IT, declared Mr.. Iait'
adding, however, his conviction that the
time had come when tariff changes shouid
be made only in the light of definite In
formation. If l had allowed the wool bill
10 become a law the progress made In
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24

meet him in his proposal to place every
local federal officer under the Civil Service
rules, and so wipe out patronage and It's
evils from the government service.
I'm his trust speech he declared that free
competition in business was the only, al
ternative to state socialism, that the de-
clslons OF the Supreme Court Of the United
States in the Standard Oil and Tobacco
Trust cases had made possible the stamp
ing out of an act which would certainly
have carried us to socialism as reaction
from the control of the few, and he an
nounced that the Attorney General had
instituted Investigations into all the indus
trial concerns regarding which there is
any reasonable ground for suspicion /
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24
THE DEATH ROLL.

Peter Arkadicirch Stolypin Prime MIN
lister of Russia, who was shot during d
gala performance at the Municipal Theatre
at Kiev died from internal hemorrhage.
He suffered intense agony. Thomas II.
Carter, ex-senator from Montana and
chairman of the American section of the
International Joint Commission for the set
tlement of Canadian boundary waterway
disputes. died at his home in Washington.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-24
TRUSTS MAY REORGANIZE.

"Foodstuffs which might have been af-
fected by an influx Of Canadian products,
had Premier Laurier and his government
not been defeated In Canada, rose sharply
in price in all American supply centres.
Wheat led the advance, and was followed
by -four and oats. Both sugar and coffee
continued their price advance to new higher
levels than for a number Of years
Evidence was revealed OF a general