Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-09
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Boston, May s: The existing cur
tailment of about % per cent in the
cotton goods industry will be increas-
ed during the next few months ac-
cording to many mill officials in this
city. The treasurer of a large cot
ton manufacturing company in dis
cussing the textile situation said: L
am not yet able to see any light ahead
for the cotton mills. At present
throughout the United States 25 per
cent is a conservative estimate as to
the average amount of curtailment be-
ing enforced in the cotton mills.
Many mills which to outward appear
ances have up to now been operating
on full time will partially close down
during the summer months. In the
case of my own mill, for instance,
have been to outward appearance,
operating full time but 1 have had 20
per cent Of the looms stopped. In con-
junction with many other mills l am
going to shut down my mill for four
weeks between now and September 1.
That means an actual 25 per cent cur
tailment during the next four months.
Many mills will curtail even more than
that"
New York, May 5: One of the
sessions at the Poe sale was an au-
tograph letter of Edgar Allen Poe,
which brought $1,700. The letter Is
dated February 20, 1S4S, and has new
er before been published, 1t is said.
In it Poe says in reply to the asser-
ton that his habits were shockingly
irregular: THE fact is that my
habits are abstemious and omit moth
ing of the natural regimen for health.
l rise early, eat moderately, drink
nothing but water and take abundant
and regular exercise in the open air.
But this is my private life, and OF
course, escapes the eye of the world.
The desire for society, comes upon me
only when l have become excited by
drink. Then only I go-that is, at
these times only, have been in the
practice of going among my friends
who seldom, or in fact never, have
seen me unless excited, take it for
granted that l am always so. Those
that really know me, know better"
The letter should make a change in
the work of future biographeEs of Poe,
as it gives his own explanation of the
charge of drunken habits made
against him.
A bulletin issued by the census
bureau shows that the automobile in
1899 to 316 in 1909, an increase of 454
per cent. The increase in value Of
product was from $5,742,000 in 1899 to
$194. $4,000 in 1909, or 4,001 per cent.
The number of automobiles manufac-
tured increased from 1928 in 1899 to
127,2S9, or 1919 per cent. A table OF
the manufacture by states in 1909
shows that Michigan had over two
fifths of the whole industry-a fact of
interest in connection with Detroit's
remarkable all-round growth. Ohio
was second, Indiana third and New
York fourth. "a striking fact" OBJ
serves the bulletin, lis the consistent
development of the automobile indus
try in the states in which the car
riage and wagon industry was Of great
Importance. The inference is that, in
a large measure, these states were
equipped with the necessary skilled
labor, thus giving the automobile in
dustry an advantage and an impetus
not enjoyed by other states" 1t is
doubtless the scarcity of such skilled
labor in proportion to existing de-
mand which explains the almost en-
tire absence Of the automobile indus
try, as yet, from the south.
Representative Warburton Of
Washington, a newly elected Repub-
lican member of the house of repre-
sentatives, announced his intention in
a speech delivered on the floor of the
house last Friday, to support the Dem
ocratic free list bill. Mr.. Warburton
said many of the Republican criti-
cisms of the bill were undoubtedly well
founded, but others were overdrawn.
He believed the bill was a step in the
right direction. Speeches in favor Of
the free list bill were delivered by
Representatives McHenry Of Pennsyl-
vania; Ansberry of Ohio; Hensley of
Missouri; Mccoy of New Jersey; Lit
tlepage OF West Virginia; Dixon of In
diana; Bartlett of Georgia, and Clark
of Florida. Speeches against the bill
were made by Representatives Wilder
of Massachusetts; Farr of Pennsylva-
mia; Sloan of Nebraska, and Smith of
Michigan. Mr.. Bartlett attacked the
socalled cotton bagging trust" He
said there was evidence that manu-
facturers of jute bagging for baling
cotton were operating through an un-
derstanding equivalent to a combina-
ton. Mr.. Gillett of Massachusetts,,
challenged the statement, and Mr..
Bartlett cited testimony before the
ways and means committee in 1909.
He declared that southern farmers
were Disseminated against In
that cotton bagging was dutiable,
while binding twine was free of duty
and that southern planters had paid
$5,OO0,0O to the alleged "bagging
trust" in five years.
- The sacred relics of enduring pop
ular government, the original declara-
ton of independence and constitution
of the United States, which for nearly
a decade have been locked up in the
archives of the state department, were
personally inspected last Saturday by
Secretary Knox, who during his tenure
Of office is charged with their preser-
vation for posterity. Their exposure
the safe in which they are kept Is
neither water nor fireproof. Although
without available funds, he immedi-
ately issued instructions that an es-
innate be made of the cost of recep-
tacle which would make the historic
instruments absolutely secure against
destruction. Both documents have
been obscured from public gaze since
1902 in order to save them from the
spoliation of sunlight, from accident
or vandalism. When uncovered Sat-
urday, the immortal declaration dis
played the ravages Of time and the
disastrous effects of press-copying to
which ii was submitted in 1852, and
from which all fac-similes have been
made Nearly all the signatures have
faded away, even the famous scroll of
John Hancock being only vaguely and
incompletely visible. The dimmed
text, however, is readable in its en-
tirety. The condition of the declara
ton is ascribed by officials more TO the
press copying than the wear of years.
The constitution, which has never
been press copied, is in almost perfect
shape. A Encouragement of the de-
partment's library afforded the secre-
tary an opportunity to view the relics.
They were returned to the safe and
Mr.. Knox announced that, for the
sake of their preservation, there would
be no change in the policy of locking
them up from public exhibition.
The following few paragraphs from
an address that President Taft de-
livered before a medical society in
Philadelphia, last Thursday night,
are of almost sensational interest to
those who have not been keeping up
with the medical progress of the past
few years: And now, we have di-
vision of eighteen thousand men in
Texas and California. They have been
there for two months living under
canvas and in a country soaked with
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