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Administrative Experts
Needed to Aid Courts in
Trust Dissolutions.


The drafting of the DEGREES in the disso-
luton Of the present trusts. with view
to their reorganization into legitimate cor
porations. has made 1t especially apparent
that the courts are not provided with the
administrative machinery to make the
necessary inquiries preparatory to reor-
ganization. or to pursue such inquiries,
and they should be empowered to invoke
the aid of the bureau Of corporations in
determining the suitable reorganization
OF the disintegrated parts. The circuit
court and the Attorney General were
greatly aided In framing the decree in the
tobacco trust dissolution by an expert
from the bureau of corporations.
Federal Corporation Commission
Proposed.
do not set forth In detail the terms
and sections of a statute which might
supply the constructive legislation per-
uniting and aiding the formation Of COM
binations of capital into federal corpora
lions. They should be subject to rigid
rules as to their organization and pro-
cedure, including effective publicity, and
to the closest supervision as to the issue
Of stock and bonds by an executive
bureau or commission in the Department
of Commerce and Labor. to which in
times Of doubt they might we'll submit
their proposed plans for future business.
1t must be distinctly understood that In
corporation under federal law could not
exempt the company thus formed and its
incorporators and managers from prose-
cution under the antitrust law for sub
seQuent illegal conduct, but the publicity
Of It's procedure and the opportunity for
frequent consultation with the bureau or
commission in charge OF the incorporation
a. to the legitimate purpose OF its trans.
actions would offer 1t as great security
lions Of the law as would be practical or
wise.
Such q bureau or commission might we'll
be invested also with the duty already
luton and recreation of trusts within the
law. It should be an executive tribunal
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II you want work read the want col
umns OF The Star.
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SOLE TOPIC
DISCUSSED BY TAFT
IN SHORT MESSAGE
Continued from First Page.)

sion to Congress of exhaustive reports Of
special commissions make 1t impossible
to include in one message of a reasonable
length a discussion Of the topics that
ought to be brought to the attention Of
the national legislature at its first regular
session. :.
The Antitrust Law-The Supreme
Court Decisions.
In May last the Supreme Court handed
down decisions in the suits in equity
brought by the United States to enjoin
the further maintenance Of the Stand
ard Oil trust and of the American tobacco
trust, and to secure their dissolution. The
decisions are epoch-making, and serve
to advise the business world authorlta-
lively Of the scope and operation OF the
antitrust act of 1890. The decisions do
not depart in any substantial way from
the previous decisions of the court in
constituting and applying this important
statute, but they clarity those decisions
by further defining the already admitted
exceptions to the literal construction OF
the act. By the DEGREES, they furnish
useful precedent as to the proper method
of dealing with the capital and property
of illegal trusts. These decisions sug-
gest the need and wisdom Of additional
or supplemental legislation to make 1t
easier for the entire business community
to square with the rule OF action and
legality thus finally established, and to
preserve the benefit, freedom and spur OF
reasonable competition without loss OF
real efficiency or progress.
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adopted the eight-year-old. boy who later
became King Kalakuaua, and married a
man named Kinimaka.
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Force and Effectiveness of Statute a
Matter of Growth.

We have been twenty-one years maxi
ing this statute effective for the pur-
poses for which it was enacted. The
Knight case was discouraging and seemed
to remit to the states the whole availab BILE
power to attack and suppress .ne evils Of
the trusts. Slowly. however, the error
OF that Judgment was corrected, and only
in the last three or four years has the
heavy hand of the law been laid upon
the great Illegal combinations that have
exercised such an absolute dominion over
many OF our industries. Criminal prose-
cutions have been brought and a number
are pending, but juries have felt averse
to convicting for jail sentences. and
judges have been most reluctant to i'm
able standing in society whose offense
has been regarded as merely statutory.
Still, as the offense becomes better under
stood and the committing of it partakes
more of studied and deliberate defiance Of
the law we can be confident that turies
will convict individuals and that Jail SEN
fences will be imposed.
The Remedy in Equity by Dissolu-
In the Standard Oil case the Supreme
and circuit courts found the combination
to be monopoly Of the interstate bust
ness OF refining, transporting and mar
keting petroleum and its products. effect
ed and maintained through thirty-seven
different corporations, the stock of which
was held by New Jersey company. 1t
in effect commanded the dissolution of
this combination, directed the transfer
and pro rata distribution by the New
Jersey company of the stock held by 1t
in the thirty seven corporations to and
among it's stockholders: and the corpora
lions and individual defendants were en-
Joined from conspiring or combining to
restore such monopoly; and all agree
ments between the subsidiary corpora.
tons tending to produce or bring about
further violations Of the act were en-
joined.
that the individual defendants. twenty
nine in number. had been engaged in q
successful effort to acquire complies
dominion over the manufacture. sale and
distribution OF tobacco in this country
and abroad. and that this had been done
by combinations made with a purpose and
effect to stifle competition, control prices
and establish q monopoly not only u
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the 1nanufacture ofssohacco, but also Of
tinfoil ana licorice: ,ieed IN its nlailufac-
ture and Of its products Of cigars, cigar
cites and snuffs. The tobacco suit present.
ed far more COMPLICATED and difficult
case than the Standard Oil suit for a
decree. which would effectuate the will
OF the court and end the violation of the
statute. There was here no single holding
company as In the case of the Standard
On trust The main company was the
american iooacco Company. a manufac-
turing, selling and holding company The
plan adopted to destroy the combination
and restore competition involved the re-
division OF the capital and plants of the
wnoie trust between some of the COM
panies constituting the trust and new
companies organized for the purposes of
the decree and made parties to it. and
numbering, new and old, fourteen.
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Trusts at Hand.

The effect OF these two decisions has
led to DEGREES dfssolying the combine
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pro rata and common. ownership in all
these companies by former stockholders
of the trust would insure a continuance
Of the same old single control of all the
into which the trust has by
decree been disintegrated This is err
and is based upon the assumed
inefficacy and innocuousness Of judicial
injuncttons The companies are enjoin-
ed from cooperation or combination;
they have different managers, directors,
purchasing and sales agents. II all or
many of the numerous stockholders,
reaching into the thousands. attempt to
secure concerted action of the compa-
MES with a. view to the control of the
market. their number is so large that
such an attempt could not we'll be con-
cealed,, and its prime movers and all its
participants would be at once subject to
Of g. summary character. The imme.
diate result of the present situation will
necessarily be activity by all the compa-
MES under different managers, and then
competition must follow, or there will be
activity by one company and stagnation
by another. Only short time will in
evitably lead to a change in ownership
Of the stock, as all opportunity for con-
tinued cooperation must disappear. Those
critics who speak of this disintegration
in the trust as mere change Of gar
ments have not given consideration to the
inevitable working Of the decree and 'un-
derstand little the personal danger of
attempting to evade or set at naught the
solemn injunction of a court whose object
10 made plain by the decree and whose
inhibiti0ns are set forth with a detail
and comprehensiveness unexampled in the
history Of equity Jurisprudence.
Voluntary Reorganization of Other
Trusts at Hand. !,
The effect OF these two decisions has
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1t is not the purpose Of the statute to
confiscate the property and capital of the
offending trusts. Methods of punishment
by fine or Imprisonment of the individual
offenders. by fine of the corporation or
by forfeiture, OF, its goods in transporta-
ton, are provided, but, the proceeding in
equity is = specific remedy to stop the
operation of the. trust by injunction AMI
capital in violation of the statute
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-31
BASEBALL SERIES
TO DECIDE STATE
CHAMPIONSHIP
Bennington and BrattlebOro
May Play Five Games
TWO IN EACH TOW N
In Case of a Tie Fifth Contest VIII
Be Held on a Neutral
Field

There is a good prospect that Ben
Inington may yet see little more
baseball before the curtain is rung
down on the season of 1911. The as
lsertion made in Brattleboro that the
management of the Twin-State league
team in that town would claim the
championship of Vermont has stirred
the directors and the manager of the
Bennington team to issue a challenge
for series of games, two to be play
ed in Bennington and two in Brattle-
boro and the fifth. if necessary, on n
neutral field.
All of the Bennington players with
the exception of Prindle are now
playing in the Twin-State league but
only one, bosk, is with Brattleboro,
The season in the Twin-State league
will end On Monday and the players
would then be at l. .erty to enter into
the proposed post league series.
Such series for the championship
of the state il is believed would be a
successful venture both from a base
ball and a financial standpoint The
attendance during the closing games
of the season here was not nearly SO
good as in 1910 and by many the lack
of interest was attributed to the fact
that there was nothing at stake in
the form of rivalry to attract the
crowds A series for the state cham
IpionGhip ought to bring out an atten-
dance that would eclipse any crowd
of the past season.
a telephone message was received
at the Banner Office this morning
from Brattleboro TO the effect that
the details of the proposed series
would be taken up at once. The
BrattlebOro management is convlnc-
ed that its aggregation OF ball players
is the best that has been put to-
gether in the state during the present
season and Is ready and willing to
prove IT, provided the necessary de-
tails can be arranged.
The Brattleboro team stands good
chance TO win the championship OF
the Twin-State league which closes
It's season on Labor Day. The Brat
ltleboro team has won every game
played with Bellows Falls and has
one game the best of Keene. There
are three more games to be played
by the team, on Saturday with
Springfield Monday morning with
Bellows Falls and Monday afternoon
with Keene.
On Tuesday Brattleboro defeated
Bellows Falls to in ten innings.
Brattleboro made but one hit up to
the tenth inning but in that period
when three punched singles won the
lgame. The only two errors made by
Bellows Falls we're charged up
against Brill and Connors, the former
lHuckleberry boys.
Keene batted Jackson out Of the
box at Keene yesterday and defeat
ed Brattleboro 8 to 5. Jackson was
succeeded by Bosk and Keene there
after failed to score. Bosk pitched
1.-TWO innings. He was hit for two
singles but struck out four batters
Burns pitched fine ball for Keene,
ALLOWING but FIVE hits and giving but
one free ticket. Finnegan made two
and McCrehan one hit.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-31
KNOCKOUT BROWN
OUTCLASSEO BY
MATT WELLS
New York Lightweight no Match
For English Champion
RECORD-BREAKING CROW B
Attendance of $4,000 Probably the
Largest at Prize Fight in
New York City

New York, Aug. 31.--Matt Wells,
the English lightweight champion,
added to his fctic laurels by outlook
ing and outfighting knockout
Brown, the New York lightweight, in
a 1O-round bout before the largest
crowd that probably ever witnessed a
pugilistic contest in this city last
night The bout, the second to be
held under the new boxing law,
brought out crowd of probably H.
900 persons to Madison square gar
den.
The British champion was never in
danger at any period during the mill.
ing and left the ring unmarked, while
Knockout Brown was bleeding
about the mouth from a cut under
his right eye. Wells cool and calcu
lating defense had the American
sorely puzzled and he repealed
Browns attack from every angle
Brown could not solve the English
mans left jab, which played about
the Americans face with lightning
rapidity and kept the American from
doing any damage at infighting
Seven of the rounds clearly belonged
to Wells, although no official decision
was given. Referee Charley White
had to caution both men frequently
in the clinches The battle gave
aspirations a severe setback 1t was
stated that the gate receipts totaleC
$4,000. Brown received 32H pei
cent and Wells 221a per cent Of the
gross receipts.
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For People To Pleasures
LOCAL GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
r. 8. Jennings, Jr, Won Out in Mt
Anthony Club Tournament.

The annual members golf tourna-
ment for the championship of Mt
Anthony Country club was finished
on the clubs links Tuesday, F. B.
Jennings, Jr., the Vermont champion
winning out. In the qualifying round
George B. Wellington beat Arthur
Holden up and 2 to play. F. b.
Jennings, Jr., beat DR.. Cranberry 3
and 2. Guy B. Johnson beat n d.
Cole and George Worthington
beat Clarence Holden 5 and A.
In the semi finals, F. B. Jennings
beat G. B. Wellington Z and 8. Geo.
Worthington beat Guy Johnson 2 and
/.
In the finals f. B. Jennings beat
George Worthington and 7. F. B..
Jennings, Jr., and George Worthing-
ton went out in the remarkable
score of SO. In the second division
Edward Stevens beat F. B. Jennings
by 2 holes. Stanley Moffit beat Rich
ard Kellogg 8 up to play. Edward
Jennings beat Geo. Worthington, Jr.,
S up and to play. Jack Stevens
beat Dr. Chisholm up to play.
Edward Stevens beat Stanley Motif
2 and /. George Worthington, Jr.,
beat up to play. In the finals of
the second division Edward Stevens
beat Jack Stevens and 2.
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FORTUNE OF JOHN
v. GATES WAS
NOT TIED UP
Son and Widow will Divide
Nearly S3S,0OO,O0O
NEPHEW CAN. WIN S25O,OOO
To Secure Legacy He Must Obtain a
College Degree-Leeacles TO
Wife's Relatives

Aurora, I'LL, Aug. 31.-John w.
Gates did not leave his millions to
be held in trust He did not fear, as
reported that his son Charles G.
Gates might imperil others who had
invested on his fathers advice. This
was the information made public by
relatives yesterday On the con
trary, just before lie breathed his last
the financier declared that he had
every faith in his son.
/ Charley is all right" he is said by
relatives to have declared on his
deathbed. 81 know him better than
any one else; he can handle money
all right. 1t won't go to his head"
Mr.. Gates will is to be probated in
New York on Oct 2, according to rela
tiyes in st. Charles, Ill. By its terms
Mr.. Gates entire wealth $3S,000,000
except a number of minor legacies tC
valued friends and distant relatives
goes to Mr.. Gates widow and tC
Charles G. Gates.
Mr. Gates. however left a million
dollars to friends and distant relativ
es. He made numerous requests
and his valet, his butler, and the wifi,
Of his stenographer were among the
many to whom he left legacles.
Henry Baker 20 years old, of st
Charles, a nephew OF Gates by marri
age, gets $250,00O if he goes through
college. He gets $4,000 at once t
pay for his college course In the
little village of st. Charles more thar
half million dollars goes to relatives
of Mr. Gates wife, for whom the fin
ancier had a deep affection. He de
lighted in showing favors to her XIII
during his lifetime
AT Port Arthur. Texas, among i'm
portant requests is one of $4,000 L
the Mary Gates Memorial Hospital
named for the dead mother OF thu
late Mr. Gates. Another bequest, es
tlmated by relatives today at abou
$4,000 is made in the name of Mar,
Gates to the Methodist Episcopa
Mission Board OF the Nation.
Young Baker, the twenty-year-olC
lad who is to go through college I,
get the S250,00O declares he will viii
the fortune. He is reported to be en-
gagged to Miss Nina Carlson, II years
old, daughter of a st. Charles Piano
maker
Il don't intend to go to school dow
East" said young Baker in discuss
ing his plans. There is too much o
that nobility racket down there I,
suit me. l intend to go to the Uni
versity Of Chicago or the Universit!
Of Wisconsin"
Mrs. Gates. widow OF Mr. GateI
will not leave New York City. Sh'
likes New York and will make It he
home according to relatives.
Mr.. Gates did not want to b,
brought back to Illinois to be buried
Before he died he talked over will
his wife the matter of his burial ant
decided that he would rest easier |
he were near the sene OF battle" HI
meant Wall Street.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-31
WAVE OF ITALIAN
CRIME IN NEW
YORK CITY
Names of 5000 Ex-Convicts on
Records OF Police
HOMlCIDES AND KIDNAPPING
Fourteen Cases of Bomb Throwing by
Black Hand Men During
Past Month

New York, Aug. 31-All the Italian
detectives in the city, rs in number,
were summoned to police headquar-
ters yesterday and assigned to stem
the wave of Italian crime. The seri-
BUSINESS of the situation became APP
parent yesterday when it was learned
that the Italian government had re.
ceived through its consul here a list
of crimes committed by natives Of
that country here since the first o.
the year and was much exercised by
the showing. 1t was stated that the
detective bureau has a list, contain
ing the names of no less than 5000
ex-Italian convicts believed to be in
New York city at this time.
The immediate provocation of the
! Italian crime crusade was the two kid.
mapping cases reported to the police
Tuesday and stifl unsolved. In add
ton police records show IA cases OF
bomb throwing since July a.
The action of Police Commissioner
Waldo practically revives one OF the
famous detective bureaus which was
disbanded only month ago.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-31
THREE TWINS
RolHcking Musical Comedy at Opera
House Friday Night.

"Three Twins" exactly as present
ed during it's four months triumph
ant sojourn at the Herald Square
Theatre, New York, will be the at
traction at the Bennington Opera
House, Friday Sept /. Jos. NJ Gates
is said to have given his great must
cal comedy success a superb company
with a magnificent stage setting
Much interest centers in this play
owing to the fact OF its being a re-
yival of 'Incog". which theatregoers
OF a decade will recognize in its new
musical dress This famous old farce
OF Mrs. Pacheo's had in its original
cast surrounding the star, Charles
Dickson, such well known actors as
Louis Mann. Robert Edeson, Harry
Davenport, Clara Lipman, Ellen Berg
and Lillian Burkhardt.
II is seldom that as clever a play
as "Incog" finds its way into musical
comedy and 1t was fortunate indeed
that 1t was particularly we'll fitted
for musical adaptation, so that I'M
like other changes OF this nature IL
has improved instead of suffering by
the adaptation.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-31
CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Organization at North Bennington
Has Been Incorporated

North Bennington, Aug. 31.-The
village emetery has just been incor.
porated under the laws of Vermont.
by the secretary of state, to be known
as the North Bennington Cemetery
association.
This enables lot owners wishing to
endow their lot, for perpetual care.
to do SO, by making a deposit with
the association, the same to be plac-
ed on interest, with some bank or
trust company and the interest to be
used by the association for the care
of the lots.
The following officers were elected
by the new board of trustees:
President. l. Spafford; vice presi.
dent, w. R. Mattison; treasurer. R,
A. Jones; secretary, F. D. Ranney;
superintendent, S. o. Tefft.
1t was voted that the Ladies I'm.
proyement committee as appointed
tby the old association be continued
the members and duties to be the
same.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-08-31
TlNKHAM FAMILY REUNION
Seventeenth Annual Reunion Held
at Orion, Mich.

The seventeenth annual reunion of
the Tinkham family was held at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Vie
land in this village, on Wednesday,
August 10th. Forty-seven members
of the family were present from
Michigan, New York, Vermont and
New Jersey. This is the first reunion
of the family that has been held in
Michigan, former reunions having
been held in New York and Vermont.
The guests were given an hours
ride on the City of Orion" following
which a sumptuous dinner was serv-
ed on the lawn at the Wieland home.
Remarks appropriate to the occasion
were made by Rev. Clark T. Brown
ell of Newark, n j., and Mr.. Elmer
Tinkham of Bennington, VT, the life
president of the society 1t was vot-
ed to hold a reunion of the Michigan
branch of the family in 1912 at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Patter-
son at Jackson.
The guests present were Rev. G. T.
Brownell, Newark, n j., Elmer Tink-
ham, Mrs. Carl Madison and Grace
! Tinkham, Bennington, VT; Isaac
Brownell and Mrs Penina A. Wright
Cambridge, n. Y, II. d. Tinkham
Perry, N. Y; Mr., and Mrs Gilbert
Patterson, Martin G, Patterson, Ar
/ thur b. Patterson, Austin G. Patter-
son and Misses Felicia and Helen Pat
terson, Jackson; Mr.. and Mrs. John
Patterson and two children, Detroit
Miss Anna Patterson, Flint; Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Brown, Mayville; Mr.
and Mrs. Il. E. Mix, Il, ID. Sculley
Mr.. and Mrs. James c. Patterson and
son, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Groosbech
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. NJ, j. Bal
linger and J. p Sculley, Lapeer; Mrs
Paul r. Bovee and daughter Pontiac;
John Hallead, Mr. and Mrs. George
Hailead Mr. and Mrs Egin Smith
and Mr.. and Mrs. William II. Porritt
and children, North Branch; Vincent
Brown and Mr. and Mrs. +. Wieland
Orion.
The Tinkham family trace their an
cestry to Daniel Tinkham, who held ;
commission as lieutenant in the Rev
dictionary army, and to Ephrian
! Tinkham who was among those whit
started for the new world in the Ma.
flower, but turned back in the Speed
well and who afterwards came t
Massachusetts in 1880 and married
Mary Brown, daughter Of Pete
Brown of the Mayfower.-Orion Re
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