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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17
GRAFT IS CHARGED
 ID SCHOOL BOARDS
Members Pittsburg School Board Are Gamblers
 and Bartenders

Pittsburg, February 16-Graft in the Pittsburg school boards as exposed in a bulletin issued to the public by the
 Voters Civic league this morning has not yet received official notice from the
 district attorney, who after reading
 the bulletin said he would wait to as-
 certain if the league would make in- formations, and take up the prosecu-
 ton of the alleged offenders as it did
 in the councilmanic graft cases last
 spring.
 For a year. the league, an indepen-
 dent organization, has employed detec-
 tives, as it did in the previous graft
 scandal which wrecked regulations,
 torneys immunity bath and landed sev-
 eral scores In jail and the penitentiary
 The league declares 1t intended to prosecute the offenders, but they were
 so numerous that the arrest of all would clog the wheels of justice. The bulletin is therefore given the public as a warning to the wrongdoers that they might mend their ways No names are mentioned but the personnel of the
 school boards of the individual wards a representative from each of which composes the central board of educa- tion--is attacked. the charge being made that the majority are gamblers, bartenders, saloonkeepers, political em- ployes, placed on the boards to con- trol votes, mill workers, and others
 with inadequate education to govern the instruction of children" and a score
 more characters of men equally ob. l ljectionable, In the judgment of the league. The charge Is made that grating through contracts is prevalent to such an extent that 1t cannot be described A few cases cite that as low as $25 was paid board members and as high as 5000 for votes to place contracts On one contract of $2O0, 900, l it is asserted that one-third of the
 amount was paid to school board mem- bers in graft.
 teachers have been forced to pay i, for their appointments. janitors and | truant officers held up and when every thing else failed the grating directors
 can always borrow money from agents
 and contractors who do business with the school. The money Is never re- turned" says the report.
 | i. School picnics have become popular ! in recent years, and especially with the 1 lower wards of the city It is illegal | to spend school funds for such pur- poses. Some of these school picnics have been nothing more than drunken orgies for the directors and their dis solute and disreputable friends. Chill
 dren from the schools have been taken | to picnics with men and women of the underworld. They have seen drunken women from the tenderloin on the dancing platform and gamblers plying | their vocation on their grounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17

stttuted last July. The complaint charges in substance that the Alabama Great Southern freight rates are such as to result in undue discrimination undue and unreasonable prejudice ana disadvantageous to the merchants oi Chattanooga, and undue preference and advantage for the merchants and. deal CTS in Nashville. Louisville and Cincin- natl. It was claimed that the railway company, in fixing these rates, had vio- lated the regulations on interstate commerce.
 Testimony given this morning by Harry Winer. assistant manager of the Chattanooga Feed company, and other witnesses was to the effect that the rates charged made business intthe le- gitimate Chattanooga territory between this city and Attalla, Ala, practically impossible since it rendered prices practically prohibitive. Discrimination in freight rates was given as the only cause of the advantage gained by hay dealers of Nashville and other cities over Chattanooga. f55
 Decision of the interstate commerce commission on this case Is expected early in the future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17
GARDNEkFACESA 4
 BRIBERY CHARGE
Alleged He Tried to Bribe MT. Packer to Vote
 Against Bill

New York, February 16.-Technicaliy the chief witness for the prosecution. Congressman Otto G. Foelker, assumed 'he role of a defendant today in the case of the people vs. Frank Gardner. former ly co-member with Foelker of the state senate.
 In his testimony, given originally before the Merritt joint legislative committee and repeated twice today on the witness stand, Foelker accused Gardner of offering him a bribe of s12,0OO to vote against the Hart-Agnew bill. enacted in 1908. The till passed by one vote, and Foelker who had himself carried from a sick bed to east 1t, was then acclaimed the moral hero of the hour. Subsequently he was sent to Congress.
 On cross-examination of Foelker the defense attempted to destroy his credita- bility as witness. Max D. Steuer, counsel for Gardner drew from him that for three months in 1904, while he was studying for his regents examinations, with a view to admission to the bar and W&S9e he took them, he lived with Max fosnsky, who is now in Blackwelrs Isl- and penitentiary serving a term of nine u1OnlHS IOT ldlSelN iIIlptISOHdllAS at lbc mission to the bar may not take his bar regents certificate. An applicant to ad- mission tothe bar may not take his bar examination until he has successfully passed his regents.
 Foelker identified the convict, the man with whom he had once lived. The de- xense then announced that 1t would show .Foelker has never passed his regents, put that Sosinsky had impersonated him.
 | hro,1 1oi1t 1T that fhn witness had not written to the board for his academ- ic certificate and under further question ing Foelker admitted he had asked Sos insky to write for 1t In Foelker's name. He was then asked:
 sswasn't that because 1t had occurred to you that the board of regents might suspect something was wrong If the hand writing of the request for certificate wasn't the same as that of the examina- tion papers?"
 Tt never occurred to me-" said Foel- Fer.
 The line of inquiry changed and Foel- ker admitted under further questioning that he knew "a man named Htldebrand; that Hildebrand was or had been In the street sprinkling business and that when Foelker was an assemblyman, bill was introduced affecting Hldebrands busi ness; that Hildebrand objected to 1t and that the bill was not reported out of committee on which the witness served. Foelker at the time was candidate for the state senate.
 A check for S250 drawn to Hildebrand's order by Hildebrend himself and by him fndorsed to the order of O. G. Foelker was shown. Foelker admitted his singna- ture under the indorsement of Hildebrand. He explained that 1t was given to him by a friend, who said that 1t "came from Hil6ebrand as a campaign contribution, Just before adjournment Attorney Steuer made Foelker repeat the alleged act of bribery of which he accuses Gardner. but postponed examination on this subject until tomorrow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17
BORAH'S SPEECH
 WAS A THRILLER
Charges North With Moral COwardice-Hefiin
 Likes Bill

Washington, February 1s-(special.)- In thrilling speech In the Senate today there fell from the lips of a northern re- publican senator. William E. Borah of Idaho. the strongest arraignment of the republican party on the negro question that has been heard in the Senate for years with a courage and honesty that few of his party associates have shown in dealing with this Issue. Senator Borah tore away the mask of hypocrisy and pre- tense with which northern republicans have been wont to shield themselves In treating politically with the negro, and forced the republican side of the Senate to look the naked truth in the face.
 MT. BorahS speech on the negro ques- tion came in the course of an able and eloquent speech favoring the direct cleo ton of United States senators, the fight for which at this session of Congress he has brilliantly and boldly led.
 Moral cowardice and arrant hypocrisy were the crimes which he charged against the north in dealing with the negro. and his defense of the south as having exhib- ited no more animosity, no more race prejudice and race hatred toward the ne- gro than had been and is exhibited in the north. He denounced the spacious race issue injected into the fight for direct elections by Senator Root and Senator Carter. and asserted that the whole race question raised in the Senate at this time was fake and a fraud. and that should the pending resolution be defeated the whole subject would be promptly dropped, and not the least effort be made by the republican party to secure for the negro his alleged rights than had been made in the last 40 years.
 The friends of ship subsidy legislation in Congress are much discouraged over the disintegration of the Cannon ma chine. They see little hope of securing the legislation they want this session. A meeting this week of the House post office committee to take up the ocean mail question failed to bring out a quo- rum of the committee.
 This Is of the more importance because the democrats are about to take control of the House, and when they do sub sidy legislation will be impossible. So, 1t looks as if the supporters of subsidies would have to bide their time until the
 
 have complete control of the government, which will be a long time.
 The desperation of the opponents of Canadian reciprocity is apparent when they confine their arguments against 1t to the annexation bugaboo.
 The provision carrying an appropria- tion of s40,00o to defray the expenses os agents of the department of commerce In their effort to extend the cotton trade of the United States. was increased to s60,0O0 by the Senate today. Representa- tive Heflin of Alabama believes the amendment will have an excellent effect In dormant Oriental market and that there will be a substantial increase in cotton exportations as a result.
 Stevenson, Jackson county. population Is 574, compared with 56O 10 years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17
Jacksonville Entries

Jacksonville. Fla, February 16.-Entriss for tomorrow:
 First race. Breeders purse, 3-year-olds and up, six furlongs-Ruby Knight. Danc- ing Queen, Helen Cow, Indora, 103 Sam Matthews, 10S; Amaida Lee, French Girl. First Row, 109; Mozart, The Minks. IA.
 Seccnd race, selling, 3-year-olds, five and one-half furlongs-Corinth. 102; Ger man Jew, 104; Muffen Common Sense. Old Boy, Kinnelon, King Pin. 1O7; +Fort Worth, 109; Borrower. 11O; Fort Carroll, 116.
 Third race. selling, 4-year-olds and up. mile and 70 yards-Louis Reil, 101; Tor uous, 1c2; Radiation, 104; Oghwaga, 10i; Francis Ray, Mazonia, Miss Marjorie. Warden. 107; The Earl, 109.
 Fourth race, purse 3-year-olds, six fur longs-Gold Cap. 104; Imprint, Governor Gray, 104 McIvor, White Wool, Reputa- tion. 1O7; viaoctavia, Adrian, 116.
 Fifth race. selling. 4-year-olds and up. mile and 70 yards-++John Patterson, 8; Sigo, 1g9; Peep Over 104; Don Diaz, Ped- igree. Spring Frog, 107; Pocotalago, Me Andrews, 109; Havre, 112.
 Sixth race, selling, 4-year-olds and up, mile and sixteenth-''Sou. s9 voltaire, sThe Monk, 103; Christina, 104: Ten Faces. First Peep, Golconda, 1o6; Edwin L., 112.
 s"Denotes five pounds apprentice allow, ance claimed.
 s-Three pounds claimed.
 Weather cloudy and track fast. Na
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17
HARVARD FOOTBALL
 SCHEDULE COMPLETE

New York. February 18.-The completed schedule for the Harvard football eleven next fall.. as officially announced by the athletic committee. shows the hardest list of contests that Crimson team has ever had on the grdiron. Nine games are programmed and owing to the latc- ness of the Yale contest, which comes November 25. only Saturday games VIII be played.
 Princeton. Carlisle. Dartmouth and Yale arc the four formidabl ble opponents With which Harvard will close the season. Her preliminary ga mes are also of heavy calibre-Brown. Amherst Williams, Bow doin and Bates being the teams 10 De faced in the early half of the fall.
 All the games, except the one at Prince ton, are to be played at Camhfidgs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17
ANNISTON PROTESTS
 AGAINST BILLS

Anniston. February (Special.)-The chamber of commerce meeting this morn- ing protested vigorously against the pro- posal to raise rates on coal in this dis lrist. the pending revenue bill and the Martin bill to take pro rata road fund from the cities. Much feeling is expressed here against these measures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17
COURT SUSPENDS TO
 TIE WEDDING KNOT

Florence, February 1e-(Special.) .)-With the members of the commissioners court for audience, Probate Judge James F. Koonce at o'clock Wednesday afternoon performed the ceremony uniting Miss Mary Wilson and Edgar Forsyth of Hines. The handsomely dressed couple arrived while court was In session, and the deliberations were suspended while the knot was tied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17
Lester Challenges Johnson

San Francisco. February 16.-The Chronicle this morning publishes a chal- ienge issued by Tommy Burns in behalf of his protege, Jack Lester, to Jack Johnson, champion heavyweight pugilist. Referring to an Interview in which John sor, was reported to have said that he would like to meet Lester. Burns said:
 NO doubt Johnson is talking for diver son If he will box Lester in a finish contest within two weeks in private or public, winner to take all. The match Is m
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17

land MT. Hampton, First Premium, MT Moody, 146.
 Sixth race, selling. years and up, 1-16 miies-s@Cry Baby, 90; "sSanctim. Heat Fang, 99; ''Dander. 101; Tony w. Eschau, Minot, 107: Vannen, 113; Woolstone, 115. s<Three pounds.
 'Five pounds apprentice allowance.
 Weather clear; track fast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17
MARION DEFEATS
 ANNISTON COLLEGE

Marion. February 16.-(Special.) )-Wed nesday afternoon the basketball team of the Anniston college was defeated by the Marion institute team by score of 15 to H. The Predestinarians have visited Ma rion in baseball, football and barketbalI, and in every instance they have gone away with defeat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17
Donahue Goes to Memphis

Philadelphia, February 16.-Manager Mack of the local American league base ball team announced tonight that Patrick Donahue, the catcher obtained from the Boston American League club last year, has been released to the Memphis club of the Southern league.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17
Aviator Gets Ducked

New York, February 16.-Charles F. Morrok, an aviator, dropped into the Hudson river today while attempting to fly from the Guttenburg race track. on the Jersey side, in Central Park, in Man haitian. A launch rescued him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17
LAST OF THE REMNANT

All-wool suits and overcoats made to order from remnants, $0.75.
 SINGER s, 1o7 N. 20th St.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-17
ACCUMULATION FROM 72

All-Wool suits and overc0ats which were unclaimed, entire lot to be sold at $7.76 and up.
 SINGERS, 107 N. 20th St.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-15
A NORTH GEORGIA STORY.

Jane Dawson: a Novel BY VIII y. Har-
ben. Published by Harper & Brothers.
New York.
Mr. Harden has made himself famous,
and a great fayorite with the American
reading public. bv his stories OF north
ern Georgia. And the same general 10.
caity, the same class of people, the
same warm hearted but narrow minded.
bigoted. and often intolerant characters
appear herein. And yet no one knows
quite so we'll as does Harben how TO
handle harmoniouslv and fit all such
characters into their proper places in
the story Jane Dawson, who is the
heroine, is girl who had a misfortune
under rhapsodical influences. and her
son George Is the worthy hero OF the
novel The prejudice. the bitterness,
the narrow. minded venom with which
Jane is assaIled AZ times proves very
exaspcrating. but she overcomes il all.
being of much higher type Of hu.
manty than the most of her neighbors.
and especially higher than those who
are disposed TO make life hell in adj.
vance for her The very naturalistic
open hearted unrcServe which the peo-
pie are made 10 show throughout the
story lead TO the great healing that is
essential 10 the hero and the heroine OF
The book. II is a novel that will ap-
peal 10 the heart of every reader. and
that goes direct 20 the point of many
problems.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-15
A BOOK ON PLAYwRITERs.

The American Dramatist, BY Montrose
J. Moses, Illustrated. Published by
Little. Brown. and Company. Boston.
This is an individual and expert and
an altogether entertaining work, per
sonal artistic. and sympathetic, on
American dramatists and their work. II
is dedicated 10 the memory of three
American dramatists, Bronson Howard,
James A. Herne, and Clyde Fitch. me
author in his preface explains that
there is no book treating distinctly or
the American dramatist and his WORK
He therefore offers this book as such
distinctive treatise. The personal mar,
rations in the book are intimate and
close. as we'll as artistic and protes
sioual. There is dwelling from time
70 time on the relations or the drama
fists with their families, all very
delicately and fairly treated. The
work of tho dramatists receives, of
course. expert attention. and the et,
feet of their PLAYS. those that go
and those that do not go with
special search to find out why they do
NOT go, all are very fully set forth
herein II is a source Of local pride TO
find that. aside from the frontisplece
portrait of Bronson Howard, the two
dramstists first presented are SAT-
Lakers. Edwin Milton Royle and Chan
ming Pollock, both having achleNcd
distinguished success, and both beng
well remembered in this city. Very fine
portraits are given of twenty-five
American dramatists; and they all
have personal narratives detailing who
they are, the families they sprung
from. and tho reception and success OF
their work. There are essays upon the
different styles and forms of dramas;
thero is a chapter on melodrama; an,
other on the microscopic theater; ana
the details of stage management are
thoroughly gone into and explained,
The improvements in these have been
wonderful indeed, very largely due TO
the introduction of the electric ilght'
The work is one Of very great abllty
aud Of practical utility for stage treat
ment, besides its fine artistic Judgment
and presentation. It is to he thor
oughly commended for good workman
ship throughout, and the publishers
have made il an example of frst-class
printing and binding.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-15
A GREAT MYSTERY WRITER.

Initials Only BY Anna Katharine Green.
F'rontispIece In Color By Arthur l.
Keller Published by Dodd, Mead &
Company. New York.
The famous author Of "The Leaven-
worth Case brings forward here a
deeper mystery in ''Initials Only The
groundwork or the plot is, that lovely
and lovable girl. seated in the writing
room Of fashionable hotel one even
ing, suddenly drops dead. When she is
picked up an odd and tiny wound Is
discovered going straight 70 her heart
and piercing it. And vet she could not
have been stabbed, for none but her
friends were near, and no one ut the
time OF the tragedy was close enough
70 reach her. She could not have been
shot, for no report was heard and there
was no bullet Detective Gryce IS cited
as saying "There is no crime without
a clue.' but herein there seems alb
solutely Ia be no clue. The situation
is battling one; but the author IS
bound TO provide a solution. and sho
docs so accordingly. in the most in
genious fashion. The tracing Of the
mystery is one Of the keenest pieces or
inductive reasoning that has appeared
in any recent novel. The steps taken
are uperring, although at times the mys-
terry seems TO escape. vet after all II
is found that the pursuit has been true.
and the clues unerring. This author
has never written anything before that
matched her great story 'The Leaven.
worth Case but we are inclined Ia
think that in this new story she has
hit the same old high level.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-15
A GLORIOUS HONEYMOON.

The Log of the Easy way" By John
L. Mathews Illustrated from Photo.
Small. Maynard and Company. Boston
This is right lively. entertaining
book, which tells of happy life by
young couple. The scheme of it is, that
Mr. Mathews ana his bride built
small Eshanty boat or house boat,
and, going on board the day of their
marriage. passed through the Chicago
drainage canal. down the Illinois river.
and then on down the Mississippi 10
New Orleans. living a life of idvlhr
charm for four or five months. Here
and there they hal adventures. and
they found plenty to interest them In
every mile Of the Journey. They were
yonng, impressionable, eager,
Mr.. Mathews has put all these things
into his narrative. His pages turn as
easily as his drifting boat passed along
its course, and when you have turned
the last page you feel as IL YOU had
glad you did
You como to know, as If at first hand,
the life Of the river world II is al
ways picturesque. IT has its humors,
IT'S modes of work. its freedom. its In.
dividuality. and YOU arc surprised when
YOU realize how little YOU have known
Of 1t outside of the books or Mark
VAIN. Inc people You meet are IN
teresting; store boat keepers, travelling
traders and photographers, medicine
men, fishermen, junk collectors and Junk
thieves, 'shanty. boat dwellers OF all
sorts, an occasional traveller for pleas
ure-all arc here. As YOU read you be-
come deeply vcrscd in currents, eddies,
sandbars, caying banks, wind storms
all the idiosyncrasies Of the river route.
And pervading the narrative through
out, to the reader no less than to the
writer as he tells Of the adventures
they had. is the lure of the great river.
Mr.. Mathews is well known writer,
his work. "The Conservation of Wa
ter being of tle highest interest and
Importance. In this LOG OF the Easy
Way he gives us the pleasantest sort
of a narrative, showing the river life
in which he took such a keen interest.
and which he has so thoroughly and so
well depicted for his readers
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-15
A G.. A. r. PICTURE.

Comrades. BY Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
Illustrated by Howard l.. Smith Pub
lished by Harper & Brothers, New
York.
This is a vivid sketch by the famous
author named, of the actions of four
old Grand Army men in Connecticut
each the last representative Of a post
The story opens with one Of the vet
Grams discontentedly tossing on his bed
i'll on Decoration day. The other three
come in TO pay him visit, but do not
console him very much. His real con-
soler is Patience-whom he calls Peter
his wife Then as another Decora-
tion day rolls around, the old man, the
last member of Darlington post, finds
himself alone; the other three have
passed to the beyond. He arouses him
self with electrical vigor for the last
Decoration day: and in this he finds
that his real comradc is his wife, who
is his faithful comforter and ardent
lover TO the last. 1t is heartily sym
pathetic sketch, one of the best pro-
ductions from the famous author 8 pen.