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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17
UNIQUE RULES AT BANQUET BOARD A La Daniel Webster Pose Is Prohibited At Pythian
 Banquet

Atlanta. Ga, May 16-(Special.) )-There have been strict programmes laid out for banquets in the past, but probably none more unique and more exacting than the schedule for the gathering at the festive board of the Knights of Py- thias in Atlanta on Wednesday night the first day of the meeting of the Grand Lodge of Georgia.
 The limiting of the speakers in the amount of time to be consumed and the way the subjects and the time correlate is one of the features
 The longest response to a toast will be just eight minutes, and that time will be allotted to B. D. Brantley, of Blackshear, speaking on The Grand Domain"
 sume Just seven minutes, and George T. Cam, of Savannah. will be the speak CT Then the drop begins rapidly, too, in some instances.
 Apparently the Pythians are not will ing to give Macon much of a show for the capital, probably because Atlanta Pythians had a hand in the programme, for Judge John P Ross, of Macon, IS offered just one minute to tell about the capital and the place to put it. while Troy Beattie, of Athens. is allowed a ecod three minutes to talk about Where is Covington?''
 Jacob Gazan, of Savannah, Is treated better with six minutes to tell of "The uniform rank" and Pratt Adams. of Sa- vannah. four minutes on ''The Endow- ment Rank.
 The rules are unique. One of them sounds familiar-"The speakers title station and fame as an orator must be left to the imagination of his audience His previous performances are of no consequence here. The speakers mettle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17
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 For Weak Men
Send Name and Address To- day-You Can Have It Free and Be Strong and
 Vigorous

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 This prescription comes from physician who hal ma de a special study of men. and convinced il cient manhood and vigor failure ever put together.
 think owe 1t to my fellow manl to send then q copy in confidence that man anywhere wht is weak and discouraged with repeated failures mal stop druggtng himself with harmful patent medicines secure what beGss |. the sYishest.actns rsstors yised. and cure himself at home quietly agd quick y. Just drop me line like this: pr. 4. E. Rtbiif send you copy Of this spsndid recipe in plain tors would charge ts. to & for merely writing out prescription like this-but send entirely free
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17
WILSON TALKS TO
 COLLEGE BOYS

Berkely, Cal, May Ex-Governor Wood- row Wilson, of New Jersey, delivered the annual address of the Phi Beta Kappa at the University of California this afternoon. He said corporations are being understood and are in a way to be controlled in the interest of the public.
 We ought by this time to have seer the futilty of trying to punish illegal action by policing corporations as such, ' said Governor Wilson. isr
 Fines punish stockholders. responsi- bility for violating the law. or for neg lecting public interests ought to fall upon corporations officers as indtvid- ualS."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17
MAYOR DIGS GRAVE
 FOR LITTLE CHILD

Wesson, Miss, May 16.-"Unable to get anyone to dig the grave in which to bury the body of his child, the father yesterday was preparing to do the work himself when Mayor Thompson, of thic city. happened upon the scene. AL though the mayor is SO years of age. he pulled off his coat, dug the little grave himself within few hours, and assist ed in the burial
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17
BERRY HAS NARROW
 ESCAPE IN BIPLANE

Lake Charles. La. May 1e.-Frank Berry, attempting to make a second flight in the Farman biplane, owned by Dr. ]. E. Depraslin, had an almost miraculous escape from death yesterday, when the engine suddenly went wrong. the machine plungins 1t0 feet to the earth. Berry somehow managed to leap from his seat. striking the ground few seconds before the machine. He was dazed and somewhat bruised. The bi- plane was completely demolished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17
must be put to proof. No other test will

must be put to proof. No other test will suffice"
 Speakers are directed that they must rise promptly when called, if possible. No speakers shall be permitted any ex- cuse; no speaker. except Tom Nell, of Athens, shall strike a forensic attitude or place his right hand in. his bosom. a la Daniel Webster; gestures other than involuntary and irrepressible con- vulslons of the arms and body, are strict ly prohibited speakers shall not drink water to excess while on their feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17
ZEPPELINS "DEUTSCHLAND"
 ENDS BRILLIANT CAREER

Just as the airship left the shed a violent gust of wind drove her back to the entrance. At the impact several bal loonites burst and the released gas de- stroyed her equilibrium. The army of men at the, guide ropes clung on des- perately, but were powerless against tile wind, and another gust lifted the airship bodily. She dropped upon the roof shed, her back broken and her hull left dang ling over one edge. In this position the crew and passengers were left helpless until 8 fire brigade, summoned to the scene, ran ladders to the top of the bal loon shed and pulled the marooned eff fleets out of the wreck
 Today's was the sixth serious acci- dent which has befalen the Zeppelin dirigibles. The Zeppelin l. the Zeppelin II, Zeppelin III, Zeppelin ". the Deutschland and the new Deutschland all have come to grief after short, though brilliant, lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17
STEVENSON ID BE
 QUICKLY REBUILT

Stevenson, May 16.-(Special)-The me'- chants tonight held a meeting and con ferred as to the rebuilding of the burned district. Definite plans will be formulated when insurance is adjusted. A force is at work clearing away the debris. Many have opened for business in temporary quarters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17

tives for the handling of freight. The on the streets of the city. It is under stood that the contemplated road is to be a part of the system to connect this district with the Warrior river.
 The Business Mems club held special meeting tonight for the purpose of nam ing delegates to the rivers and harbors convention to be held in Birmingham on Monday of next week. As improvement of the Coosa river is the next big project that Is to be undertaken in Alabama the citizens here are very much interested in the coming meeting.
 The council last night disposed of the S50,000 of new waterworks bonds that were recently voted by the people for the purpose of completing the municipal water system and extending the mains to the,ssteel plant. The bonds were sold to Spitzer, Rorick & Co.,, of Toledo, O., and were taken for $475O0. This is one of the best bond sales that has ever been made by the city. The money will be- come available within short time and the work for which it is wanted can now be prosecuted in the most thorough manner.
 At the instance of W. P. Hofferbert, editor of the Gadsden Evening Journal, Lyman H. Tucker of Massilon, O., who has been conducting voting contests for the paper, was last night arrested on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses and placed in jail, where he is still confined. Hofferbert claims that Tucker secured money from one of the contestants competing for a piano by pretending that he would aid her in se- curing the prize, when in fact she was honestly the winner and did not need the assistance which in any event he could not have rendered.
 A number of local people have made subscriptions to the fund to be used in defending the McNamaras in Los An geles. It is said that considerable sum has been subscribed by the men em- ployed at the steel plant, although the exact amount could not be learned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17
T|DEWATER GETS
 NEW FRANCHISE Dewberry Gets Another Chance To Enter Gads-
 den District

Gadsden. May 16.-(Special.)-At the meeting of the city council last night the franchise asked for by J. M. Dew berry for the Tidewater railroad was granted. The road is to run between
 this city and Birmingham and must be in operation within three years from this date. Motor cars are to be the motive power for passenger traffic and locomo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17
CRIPPLE'S FORTUNE
 GOES TO HIS NURSE

New York. May 16.-By the will of Walter Duryea. the crippled athlete and broker filed today the bulk of his for tune, estimated at S2.500,0cO goes to Miss Eleanor Peregrine, a trained nurse, who acted as his housekeeper for the last twelve years of his life. Her total share is thought to be worth Sl,50o.o0o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17

Brooks Lawrence, Rev. J. O. Colley and Rev. o. w. Greer will speak here next Sunday, which will be field day under the Anti-Saloon league. They will talk morning and evening and in the night one of the speakers will go to Piedmont to speak at that place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17

R. E. Gam, president of the State Federation of Labor, has appointed the following delegates to the national good roads congress, to be held at Bir- mingham next week; M. T. Judge, w. J. DoughertX, J. B. Wimpee and G. w. Jones, Mobile; M. E.. Bargainer, J. F. Martin and F. c. Wright, Montgomery Jack Davis, Florence; H. F. Higgins, Decatur; J. F. German. Sheffield; N. B. Krebs, Selma H. w. .Caruth, Pell City; A. l.. Oden, w. F. Mccartney, M. A. Morton and J. B. Turner, Anniston J. B. Drake, Andy Marx, R. E. Shoot, H. P. Davis, H. P. Moseley. J. B. Woods. T. w. Stone. J. A. Hynds and J, T. Musselwhite of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17
DYER IS AGAIN
 STAR WITNESS Cross Pearce on Trial in
 Feud Case GOOD ROADS TRAIN Visit To Anniston Is Profitable. Brooks Lawrence Plans Field
 Day" in Anniston
 Next Sunday

Anniston. May -(Special)-Leon Dyer, the lad who has starred in both the preliminary investigation and in the trial of the case against pr. John E. Pearce, was again the star witness in the city court of Anniston Tuesday in the trial of Cross Pearce, who is said to have shot Sarge Kennedy, a son of Shelt Kennedy, in the culmna- ton of the Pearce- Kennedy feud on January 14, near Peek's Hill.
 Young Dyer rendered substantially the same testimony that he had given in previous statements, telling that he saw Cross Pearce shoot Sarge Kennedy in the back with two loads of buck shot while the Kennedy lad was run ming away from the-scene of the pitched battle.
 This Is what the state is trying to prove, while the lad, though admitting that he shot Kennedy. claims justifica- tion and denies that he shot the de- ceased while he was running. The witness was vigorously ross-examined by Attorney Acker when the defense took the witness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17

D. H. Winslow, superintendent of road construction for the United States government; Highway Commissioners w. s Keller, and w. J. Hurlbut land and industrial agent for the Southern rail- way, delivered excellent talks here Tuesday morning in the interest of better highways for Calhoun county. Commissioner M. B. Wellborn intro duced the speakers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17

Judge Thomas w. Coleman of the Anniston city court rendered a decision Tuesday morning to the effect that the city is entitled to pro rata share of the funds collected by the county un- der the road and bridge tax, and it is announced by IT. D. McCarty, attor- ney for the county, that an appeal will be taken to the supreme court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-17

Supernumerary Judge A. H. Alstone, who imposed such heavy sentences against convicted blind tigers in the city court of Anniston last week, proved yesterday that he Is still severe on de- linquents. State Senator T. E. Kilby and Architect c. W. Carlton, who had been summoned as jurors, were each fined $50 for tardiness and F. M. House was fined $10 for discussing the case of Cross Pearce, alleged feudist, with one of the jurors, w. O. Treadway. On their furnishing good excuses, MT. Kilby and MT. Carlton were excused from pay ment of the fines against them.
 Adolph Weinberger, tailor for the Globe Tailoring company here. received news yesterday of the death of his fath CT, Alex Weinberger. at Presburg. Hun gary, at the age of 99 years. MT. Vein berger says that he was saving his money to go back to Hungary next year to congratulate his father on his centenary, but that he will now never leave the United States.
 l.. F. Greer, associate state convict inspector stated here yesterday that h } favors working the county convicts on the public highways, but he says to work the state convicts in this way would bankrupt the counties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18

parent1y very fond. Under these palm trees OBJ
served their cloven tracks and rootngs where
they had only cracked the freshly fallen nuts in their
powerful Jaws but had grubbed into the ground for
those which had sunk into the mud, taken root, and
sprouted The Indians said that these wild hogs, the
large white Tipped peccary evidently running in
big drove of upward of hundred
hours the deep shadows of the dense virgin forest cast
ing gloom everything, with few signs of bird or
animal life apparent, when we came upon the broad paw
prints of jaguar following the trail of the peccarles
"EI hgre ell hgre!" calculated the Indians stimuli
taneously. "E grande hgrel
XIE had started out in quest of jaguar meat but
W both Immediately lost all thought of anything
but killing this big beast and Scott at once specialized
upon the measurements of its skull and other scientific
data After minutely examining the tracks OF both pee
carries and aguar the Indians pronounced the former to
be only short distance ahead and the aguar hot their
trail if he had not at that moment already made kill
We moved forward quietly and swiftly the net of
tangled growth would permit, when suddenly one OF
the Indians clutched excedly by the arm and said
in Spanish
"Listen Listen! Come quick! You see tiger fight
the peccaries Make great fight.
At first Scott and |, with duler perceptions, could
hear nothing beyond the subdued noises of the great
forest caused by the hum of occasional cicada or the
tweak of some wood bird; but soon pressed on
ward, confused sound reached ears and then sew
era distinct shrill screams followed by roar and
deep snar that knew could come from other throat
rough ground breaking through the underground and
sashing with heavy bowie knives where tough vines
hindered progress We had little difficulty in shap
ing course the warlke of the animals grew
every moment more and more distinct.
What can they be up to-" | exclaimed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18

fur and tossing heads and would be tumbled
several peccares like strike at tenpins. Still in the
rush. some of the hogs with their murderous usks would
cut seams in the royal TANKS, while the strewng of the
the least deter the remainder of the drove On the
contrary the slaughter and blood increased their rage
and fury, and they gathered more compactly about
their superior foe.
Look out!" cried one of the Indians. Tiger
now!"
In fact we could plainly that the jaguar
templating COUP He seemed to recognize that it
question of superior numbers against his magnlf
cent strength and that the enemy possessed courage
tail showed that his brain active. He measur
ing the distance between his position and the nearest
trees sufficiently large for him to climb, and these
happened to be exactly in front of where we stood.
Ordinary prudence would have suggested going
aloft at once Still we stood, fascinated, watching
the battle royal and fearful of missing single point.
SUDDENLY the jaguar made up his mind. Uttering
~ terrifying roar he made fent toward end OF the
drove of hogs knocking over couple three of the
nearest peccares for all the world immense cat
would buffet pair of week-od kittens, and while the
hogs were crowdng him that direction eager IN
deed meet his aggression he sprang the other way and
high into the air. alghting the backs of some OF the
enemy and heading directly for us.
But the agile pigs knew now what to expect Ihey
knew that the king of the forest retreatng dashng
for and they eeter OF foot than he and
every mothers of them apparently determined that
he should never reach safety Every time he alghted
dozen of them ready receive him. ripping up his
TANKS with their long, sharp tusks and making the yell
low fur y and though after each leap he cleared
the space around him with sweeps of his orepaws that
were simply terrific and launched out into another long
Continued page IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
BY GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL

"They fighting hard" replied one
of the Indians. Tiger, though, most
always climb tree. Maybe this one
hurt"
We were now very near the scene
of conflict, and the noise was fearful.
The woods echoed and reechoed with
the shrill, nervous screams of the
peccaries, together with the gnash-
ing and grinding of their heavy
tusks, while now and then there would
come deep, rumbling growl, rising
and breaking into terrific roar, and
ending with savage snarl and
scream of rage that was really ter
rible. We rushed forward recklessly.
"Peccary no bother us" said one
of the Indians. They not notice
us; but if tiger run toward us then
we have to climb tree quick or pee
cary rip us to pieces"
SOON we came into full view of the
- scene of battle, and the prolonga-
ton of the fight was explained. There
was little glade or opening in the
forest, of perhaps hundred feet
across, where for some reason there
were no large trees,-perhaps it had
once been clearing made by rubber
cutters at one end of it was
pile of jutting rocks. Backed up
against this wall, SO high that he
could not scale it, stood a great
jaguar, orange colored, with sharply
marked black spots, and in front
of him was ranged a drove of fully
seventy-five peccaries, animals
weighing from sixty to ninety pounds
each. The jaguar was a beautiful
specimen of the cat tribe. Only a
shade less in size and strength than
the average Bengal tiger, with mas
sive forepaws and great, muscular,
loose hinged shoulders, he stood with
out question the monarch of the
American forest.
The jaguar was in sort of alcove
where he was fairly well protected
on two sides. The fight advanced
without waiting for openings. The
peccaries would surge about in front
of their enemy, bloody foam drip
ping from their jaws and nostrils,
uttering their ear splitting screams;
then of a sudden as many as could,
for the space, would rush at the
jaguar. At this would come that
roar and snarl, with three or four
swings of a great front paw as quick
as lightning; there would be a gen.
era1 mixing for moment of orange
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-04
Dynamifing Unsafe;
Walls of Factory Afre

Firemen are using dynamite to raze
the walls of the James Leo Company
factory, from which three hundred
panic-stricken girls and one hundred
men fled to safety when flames broke
out at noon
A flaming water tank, on a steel tres
tie one hundred feet in the air, is maxi
ing a spectacular and dangerous dis
play. 1t threatens to topple on the fire.
men and The private houses across the
street from the factory.
So fierce are the flames that the fire.
men have been repeatedly driven from
their posts. Sheets of fire leap across
the street. The police have cleared
the houses, which seem to be doomed.
All the police reserves in the city are
on the scene. Chief of Police Mona
han and Captain Cody, of the First
precinct, are personally in command.
The fremen are exhausted by cease
less work since , o'clock his norm
ing.
A woman and her ~3-day-old baby
were carried from one of the private
dwellings near the factory and sent to
the st. Francis Hospital.
A small frame church at Golden and
Monmouth street is threatened and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-04
STEEL CONCERNS
FILE APPEARANCES
Fifty-three Defendants in Trust
Dissolution Case Send Pa
pers to Trenton.
Especial to the Newark star.l

TRENTON, Dec. 4.-The morning
mails brought to the United States
Circuit Court clerks office formal APP
~pearances in the case Of fifty-three of
the sixty defendants in the suit of the
United States government to cause the
dissolution of the United States Steel
Corporation. The sever defendants
whose appearance did not come
in with the morning mails
were John D. Rockefeller. John
D. Rockefeller, jr., Edmund C..
Converse, Carnegie Company of New
Jersey, American Sheet steel Company,
American Steel Hoop Company and the
National Steel Company.
The appearance for John D.. Rookie
Teller and John D. Rockefeller, IT..
were entered later by Murray, Prem
tice & Rowland, of New York. Four
of the defendant corporations named
as defendants are out of existence.
and the proceedings will be dropped
as far as they are concerned. These
are the Carnegie Company of New
Jersey, the National Steel Company,
the American Steel Hoop Company and
The American Sheet Steel Company.
Lindabury, Depuo and Faulks, of
Newark, entered the appearance for
the United States Steel Corporation it.
self. and most Of the principal subsi-
diary concerns; also for j. P. Morgan,
Charles M. Schwab, George w. Per
kins, H. c. Frick and others. and in.
conjunction with former Judge James
H. Reed, of Pittsburg, for Andrew
Carnegie.
The entering of an appearance is q.
mere formality which does not require
the presence in court of the defendants
or even of their counsel. The defend
ants have until January ] to file heir
answers to the bill of the government,
and it is understood that on hat date
or sooner they will ask for an extern
sion of time.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-04
STORM TIES UP
TRAFFIC HERE IN
SNOW BLANKET
Continued from First pnge.>

was on the Bloomfield line on the
Montclair side of the railroad crossing.
Car No. 2149 was derailed at 7:40 and
not put into service again until 11:2O.
1t left the rail at the 'derailment" and
plowed its way into the soft earth of
a recent excavation.
This and the derailment of q sweeper
at the Caldwell loop, the end of the
line, made it necessary to divide the
line into two parts. One operating
from Caldwell to Elm street, Montclair,
and. the other from Bay avenue, Bloom
field, to Newark. The breaking of a
wire at the Upper Montclair end of
the Valley road line occasioned an
other delay in this section.
Trouble on the Turnpike was due to
the fire in the United States Express
Company's stables and the stalling of
a heavy auto truck in Jersey City.
Shortly after s a. m. the breaking of a
wire at Broad and Bridge streets held
up all south bound cars for some time.
The Paterson line was affected by a
sweeper leaving the tracks at Della
wanna. This made it necessary to OPP
crate both ways on a single track.
A twenty-minute delay was caused
on the Springfield line by an auto
truck coming from Summit. The Ber-
gen and Kinney lines were stopped by
another truck, at Bergen street and
Eighteenth avenue.
Plank road cars were delayed first
because of a derailment at h Hack
ensack bridge, and then because bridge
hands could not close the drawbridge
after 1t had been opened.
A derailment at Lyons Farms tied up
traffic on the Main line for a few min
utes. Trouble at Eighteenth street on
the Broad line made it necessary to
run cars through to Myrtle avenue and
switch there.
w. B. Graham, division superintend-
ent, had half-hourly reports from his
inspector up to 2 o'clock this morning,
and then took charge himself. Twenty
eight sweepers, fully manned, were put
into service at 4 o'clocl; and continued
to sweep the tracks until a late hour
this morning.
Many derailments were caused by
frozen switches. The sticky snow was
responsible for this, The track depart