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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08

man Stanley CALCULATED, but more
than year ago I concluded that II you
were ever kind enough to appear before
US you would say just what You have"
II hope, Mr.. Stanley, you will not
read into my statements anything 1
have not said" Mr.. Roosevelt replied
IF Gary and Frick had advised you
that the purchase of the Tennessee
Coal and Iron company would have
to so per cent or something like that
would you have considered such an
absorption favorablyT' Mr.. Stanley
continued.
"Of course cannot answer such =
question as that because 1 would have
TO imagine great many conditions or
which / do not know Mr.. Roosevelt
replied.
Have you ever been told that the
United States Steel corporation owned
5 per cent Of the Lake Superior ore
lands ana that the only other great
ore region in the United states was
in Alabama
Nothing of that kind was ever
brought out in the conference at all.
Mr.. Roosevelt answered.
Charles NJ Schwab, president Of the
Bethlehem Steel corporation, and former
president OF the United States Steel cor
poration. followed Mr.. Roosevelt on the
stand, resuming where his examination
terminated yesterday.
Chairman Stanley called Mr.. Scnwabss
attention to a statement he is alleged to
have made that the steel corporation was
in position to make railroad rates what
1t pleased Mr.. Schwab said he did not
recall that statement.
Thereupon the chairman produced
large book with a lock on it. the key
dangling from the side. The book was a
record of some of the United States Steel
corporations board of directors meet
ings He read from meeting in 1901.
by the way Mr.. Stanley asked.
what is the object of that lock on the
book?"
~ don't know, unless it was to keep
some of the directors from getting a.
it," Mr.. Schwab replied.
Mr.. Schwab was quoted in the minutes
as saying that the corporation could not
get any better rates than any one else
from a certain railroad.
What road was that?" asked Mr.. STAN
ley.
81 don't remember"
After Mr. Stanley had read from the
minutes for some time and asked Mr.
Schwab il he recalled the meeting. the
witness said, Eyes, remember; read the
rest of it."
That's all there is to it," the chair
man said.
Il am very glad" Mr.. schwab said
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
MILLS WILL SHUT DOWN
TO PREVENT open Shops
Texas Lumber Operators Plan
Drastic Campaign to Keep
Off Organization

NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 1.-THE activ-
fties OF the labor leaders. which caused
members OF the Southern Sawmin OPP
orators association to recently vote to
close down their mills In Louisiana to
maintain open shops" have now been
transferred to Texas. according TO prt-
vate advices received here today.
II Is understood that their efforts win
now be directed to organizing the forces
employed by the mills operated by John
II. Kirby. president OF the association.
II Is further understood that these mills.
when organized" are to be closed down
indefinitely.
1T is not so much because OF unioniz-
ing the mill workers" said one operator
yesterday, but what the men at the
head OF this movement agitate and stand
for. Before the operators viii permit
such q state of affairs TO exist every
MILL IN the association win be shut
down.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
$4,000 MOOSE EXPECTED
AT DETROIT CONVENTION

DETROIT, Aug. Fifty thousan |
members Of the Loyal Order OF Moose
are expected to attend the national con-
vention of the organization which begins
here on August 81 and will continue
five days. Practically every state and
Canadian province will be represented.
while Cuba, Mexico and Central Ameri-
ca will send delegates.
Cash prizes aggregating $1,000 will be
awarded for the best marching club
the best costumed company, the lodge
having the largest number in the parade
and for other features.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
RAIN WASHED BONES
ARE ITALIAN W0MAN'S

DENVER, Aug. 1.-The mutilated body
OF a woman found on the ranch of ~ J..
johnson in Jefferson county last FRI
day has been Identified as that of Mrs.
Maria LaGuardia. an old Italian woman.
who disappeared from Denver last Sep
tember.
she Is said to have had $500 with her
when she dropped out Of sight
Denver police are working on the theo-
ry that an Italian woman, known as the
Cassie Chadwick of the Italian colony, is
connected with the death of Mrs. La
Guardia.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08

NEW YORK.-"Flying is easy for a
woman" says Miss Harriet Quimby. who
has just won the first license 10 ny grant
ed 10 one OF her sex in America. That
makes her Americas first woman air
pilot.
ITS no harder than driving an automo-
bile" she continued. 81 know, because
have driven a car for six years. II is a
great deal more fun to sail through the
air than IL is to wheel over the ground.
"Only when flying near the earth
comes the realization OF speed. Once up
among the clouds the sensation is one of
drifting even enjoyed the experience
when was cutting daisies took my
first lessons In a hobbled machine and
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
Stable Is Burned

DAWSON, Ca. Aug. III. w. Glass
stables with car load of buggies, sever
al wagons and several tons Of oats and
hay were totally destroyed by fire Sat
urday. All the live stock was saved.
Loss about $4,000. with no insurance.
A. ]. Baldwin's grist mill caught from
the stables and was also entirely burned.
Estimated loss 70 mill and gin between
5000 and $1,000 Origin Of IRE unknown.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
FIREMEN FIND MAN AT
DOOR OF WRECKED SAFE

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Aug. T. -Firemen
fighting flames which followed an ex-
plosion late last night in the office of
the Long Dock Mill Elevator company,
found a man whose clothing had been
burned off, lying few feet from the
wrecked safe. The door of the safe had
been blown off. At a hospital the man
said he was Frank Walsh a peddler. but
declined to account for his presence in
the building.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
BRIDGE Plant Burns

CHAl ANUOGA, Tenn. Aug. TAT
an early hour Sunday the plant OF the
Converse idge company, located at
Ridgedale. q suburb Of Chattanooga. was
totally destroyed by fire. The loss is
estimated at over $4,000. fully cover
ed by insurance. The company has un-
filled orders amounting 20 over $780,
900. but these viii be filled without de-
lay. The plant will be rebuilt az once
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08

terrupted series of 1gure-lights This is
considered one of the most difficult feats
in flying, as it calls fer both right and
left turns. The 1gnre-lights are flown
around two posts about 1000 feet apart.
In addition. you must land within 1874
feet of designated point and make an
altitude of not less than the same num-
Der of feet. After you've gone through
these maneuvers you are entitled to de-
gree"
Miss Quimbg is a Californian by birth
and is about "A years old. When she is
not dressed in her air toggery-a blouse
and knickerbockers-she wears all the
friIls and furbelows that belong to her
sex.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
John w. Gates Holds Ground

PARIS. Aug. 7.-Those attending John
w. Gates reported today that the hnan-
cier had had a good night and that his
general condition was unchanged. Yester-
day the physicians were more hopeful Of
recovery, as Mr.. Gates continued able to
take nuorishment, though his general
condition was weak ana the heart action
still caused anxiety.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
REFUSED TO LET WEDDING
RING BE CUT; IS DEAD

REFUSED TO LET WEDDING
RING BE- CUT; is DEAD
CHICAGO. Aug. 7.-Mrs. Jessie
Stewart Gardner is dead at her
home, because she refused to take
her wedding ring from her finger.
The gold band was placed on
Mrs Gardeners finger on the day
she became bride. 1t remained
until it had to be fled of but the
filing was done too late.
Mrs. Gardeners finger had in
creased in size. The pressure of
the ring became correspondingly
greater The ring finally became
imbedded in the flesh and caused
an interruption of the blood circu-
lation.
With much reluctance Mrs, Gard
ner consented to have the ring filed
or Owing to the delay, blood
poisoning developed and resulted in
her death.
Mrs. Gardner was so years old.
In her earlier years she was a
teacher in the public schools of
Chicago. Mr., Gardner survives
her.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
AMERICAN "OLD BOYS"
CUT OUT THE REUNION

LONDON, Ontario. August 7.-Because
American flags were ordered out of the
civic decorations, less than 200 Chicago
"Old Boys have come to the reunion in
this city At least 800 were expected.
While the American flags we're not or
deted up again officially, citizens flung
the stars and stripes to the breeze from
residences and places of business.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
chicago's Basement DweIIers

CHICAGO. Aug 7.-"Basemen novels
are on the increase in Chicago. in spite OF
the ordinances regulating new buildings
and the requirements that they have
plenty Of light and air" said Charles B.
Bel. chief sanitary inspector in an ad-
dress at Lincoln Center yesterday.
According TO reports on file In his Of
Gee he said that In a certain area OF ten
blocks where ten years ago IS families
lived In cellars. the number at the pres
ent time Is 1s families.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
CHM wan Paw Us indemnity

NEW YORK. Aug. lit is announced
that the indemnity awarded to the United
States I'm the Alsop claims under the ar
filtration judgment of King George will
be paid by the Chilean government to the
American ambassador In London next
Wednesday.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08

nothing really terrible could happen. /
have had but one accident and that was
in the school machine. Running along
the ground / struck rut and crippled
the chassis / bet no man has better
record than that
II worked hard for my degree and did
not want to try for 1t until l was sure
that 1 had chance of passing / got
up at o'clock every morning and took
my lessons. giving myself time to get to
the city in time for business. spent
many sleepy days as a result Now that
l have license I am going to catch up
In sleep.
These tests are pretty severe. The
aviator Is required to perform two unin-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
Or. Rambaud viii Recover

POUGHKEEPSIE. y. Y. Aug. Z-Dr.
George Rambaud. head OF Pasteur insti-
tute In New York. who was severely in
iured in an automobile accident last
week. is on the road TO recovery, accord
Ing 10 his attendants at the vassar hos
pital-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
Some Hero
Chleago Record-Herald.


"Jack Sands Is hero" declared Jacks
adoring chum and satellite Joseph. when
asked to define the word hero" for his class
mates and give an example Of tbs meaning. .sHe
can eat sour apples an persimmons an never
make the least ugly face
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08

1lNC.
/ win gladly send you incontrovertble proof
OF these statements. Our land Is high lying.
no Gwamps marshes railroad runs directly
through IL, farm being than three
miles from it, Not far from modern town of
900 population and close to another Of 1000;
good hard roads. plenty OF pure drinking water
at depth Of 20 feet; artesan water and flow
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the world both winter and summer; no mosqui-
toes; heaithiest location; plenty of schools and
churches; desirable neighbors; fine hunting and
fishing: perfect title. warranty deed; abstract
OF title. time for payments extended If sick
or out OF employment. Florida State Agricul-
tural Department gives the following census re-
ports OF the actual results secured by growers
In our county: lettuce. 1904 per acre; celery,
1925; cueumbers. $514; English peas, $437;
beans, 1881; and you can grow from three to
four crops per year the land. Our
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name and address today.
WILLIS r. MUNGER, President, Munger Land
Company, $50 Francis St., St. Joseph, Mo.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
Perfect Health

By Perfect Health we
mean the state OF being
Strong. Vigorous. Foreefnl.
full o. Vim. and Of Master
ful Character-the glorious
hirthright Of every man and
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
DIR. HATHAWAY eco.

the eminent specialists. re-
store weak and deblIitated
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ROOSEVELT TELLS OF
SM0THERlNG PANIC
BY QUICK ACTION

(c0atinuea frOm PAGE ons,l
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-08
You Can Buy
s Acre Farm

In the Heart of Florida for Only
$125, So Cash, So Monthly. No In
terest, No Taxes, No Charges of
Amy Kind. 1t Can Earn $500 TO
$4,000 Per Year AS Long AS You
Live.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-12-01
Million Pieces in a Table

top. which caused any amount of
speculation as to the kind of wood
used were made of shavings of many
of the blocks
He has been carpenter all his life
and interested In the work. but did
not study for preparation The large
table was in course of construction
for len months at odd moments All
of the outside surface was inlaid. no
piece of wood being duplicated An
other small table. containing speci-
men box for the ores of The district.
made by him. is also an interesting
curio. On the front is a perfect pic
ture of canoe being propelled by a
man. All of the colors are natural
woods. the mans fingers being each
separate piece. Either the large ta-
BILE or another one to be begun in the
near future will be sent to the big
exposition.
Wood has been offered 5000 for
the small table, but refused this price
The fact that so many foreign y Gods
went into its makaun makas II EaI,a
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-12-01

tle the Olympia was Admiral Dewey's flagship
at Manila Bay, and the Raleigh, also of the Ma
Mia squadron. was under command of Capt. Jo-
seph B. Coghlan Of "Hoch der Kaiser fame. The
Olympia is at the Naval Academy, the Brooklyn
at the Philadelphia yard and the Raleigh at
Mare Island.
The armored cruiser Brooklyn, built at Phil
adelphia in 1856, is the largest of the vessels
named. She is Of 9,215 tons displacement and
was completed at a cost of $3.067,915 The next
largest of the four vessels is the Saratoga tex
New York;, an armored cruiser of $500 tons dis
placement, built at Philadelphia in 1891 and cost
ing almost much as the Brooklyn The Olym-
pia is second-class cruiser built at San Fran
cisco in 1892-95. The Raleigh is third-class
cruiser, built at Norfolk at about the same time.
Both are of the protected type.
Some of the big armorclads are but recently
out of commission, I'm reserve"-that means
headed for Davy Joness locker though as yet
the marked-down price tag has not been attached
Others-for instance the $20.00o0O0 job lot OF
monitors-woud probably be unstable at any
price as foatable fighting vessels.
Admiral Jack PHILIPPE old battleship Texas
which bore the brunt of the fighting at Santiago,
was rechristened the San Marcos, SO that her
state name might be given to one of the new
dreadnoughts. Them last spring. the venerable
war-horse towed out into Chesapeake Bay
and set up as target for the New Hampshires
big guns and dynamite shells to batter into scrap
iron. What come-down from twenty-five years
ago, when the Texas, constructed at a cost of
S4,2O2.12l, was a beauty Of the squadron
Simpsons old flagship is the Saratoga
having surrendered her name to the newer New
York She has been rebuilt at a cost of more
than halt a million dollars. and is now in the
Philippines-the only one of the Santiago fighters
in actual commission today.
Schley's famous Brooklyn in her declining days.
reposes peacefully in the League Island navy
yard Philadelphia. The iowa. Fighting Bob"
Evans, ship. is in reserve. as also the Mas.
sachusetts the Indiana and the oregon-the gal
liant battleship that CAPTAIN Clark brought half.
ay around the world In record time. without
break.
These and other good oldtmers not yet
all in" by any means Still they couldn't hold
their own in the fighting line with such husky
youngsters as. say. the Connecticut or the North
Dakota today much less with the superdread
noughts of the Florida type of tomorrow. There
fore, according to upto-date standards they are
in the obsolete class, When vessel once gets
there. as a rule, the rest is silence.
Even the proud Atlantic fleet battieships of
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-12-01
Found to Be a Hard Task in Chi
cago Household.
Police Unable to Dislodge Obdurate
Servant Whom the Householder
Wishes to Dismiss-She Says
It Takes Two to "Flre."

Chicago.-Clara Kippe, a cook en-
ployed in the residence of DR.. Edwin
J. Kuh at 1880 Drexel avenue, brought
about a new police rule which will
discomfort Chicago householders.
Hereafter persons who cannot dis
charge their cooks need not appeal
to the police. The latter have decid-
ed they have no power in the matter.
DR.. Kuh and two policemen strove
manufully all day to discharge Clara.
They failed utterly. Just as the
shades of night were falling and DR..
Kun and the policemen were retiring
vanquished from the scene, Clara dis
charged herself.
1t was Sunday evening, in fact,
when DR.. Kuh essayed to separate
Clara from her jub.
Miss Kippe," said the doctor, diff
IDENTIFY, "owing-er, ah--to a variety
of circumstances 1t will be necessary
-ah-it becomes imperative, in fact
-ah-that you should no longer con-
tinue in my employ"
81 suppose" replied Miss Kippe
calmly, casting a chilling glance in
the doctors direction, that you mean
that am canned-fired?"
WELL" said the doctor, Il trust
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-12-01

sey-are out of the front line now Some OF them
participated in the recent theoretical coast MIA
neuvers against New York and Boston, but they
were technically sunk" by the submarines and
torpedo boats.
For example of rapid tobogganing into
desuetude. look at the three stately protected
cruisers ST. Louis. Charleston and Milwaukee.
which cost about S3300,000 apiece when they
were built in 1902 Even then, certain Dick Dead
eyes Of the navy declared that this type was OBJ
solete before the cruiser tripets went into com
mission. Be that 1t may, at the present day
these $11.O00,000 worth of cruiers are generally
regarded as three white elephants which the navy
is bothered to know what to do with.
The monitors stand for picturesque but
pensive fad dating from the infancy days OF IRON
clads In the Civil OF fifty years ago when
Erfcsson's small "cheesebox a raft" in Hamp
ton Roads put the Confederate Merrimac OF
business and saved the nation. II 1t not for
past performances prestige there would be
ten million dollars worth OF monitors rusting In
the rivers today Four of these curios, which
have been within a decade reomdeled into single
turret coast defenders, the Cheyenne, once
the Wyoming, the Ozark formerly the Arkansas,
and the Tallahassee and the Tonopah which used
to be respectively the Florida and the Nevada.
When a special class craft is tried out, such.
for example, the Vesuvius dynamite gunboat OF
nearly twenty years ago, she soon either goes to
the lumber attic herself or else puts some other
type in the obsolete class. In either case. Uncle
Sans scrap-heap grows larger and more miscel-
laneous
Such is the universal law of naval evolution
England France and Germany in this same
naval junk business a vast SCALE and Italy
and Austria in a smaller way.
The excuse is the general of modern mill
tarsm-that competitive preparation is the
price of peace From the financial viewpoint of
the taxpayer the high cost OF peace is about the
that of active hostiiies
Al any rate, the most recent practical lessons
of war are applied with marvellous results OF
progress to the worlds uayies, ard in no country
is this more strikingly exempfed than in the
United States.
Walter Meriwether. the we-known naval
authority. has shown In illustration of the de-
yeopment of gunnery since the Spanish war
tnat in the target practice of United States war
ships today the percentage of misses is actually
smaller than the percentage OF hits at San
tiago
According to the authority the idea OF
the modern dreadnought OF all-h!g gun battleship
originated in own navy Years before the
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-12-01
Base of Her Camp Made at Height
Of Over 10000 Feet-ExpIorer
Caught In Monsoon While
on Mountain.

Paris.-Writing from Camp. Sep
TENDER o." Mrs. Fanny Bullock
Workman, the mountain climber. in
letter posted at Skarkie on September
rs, gives further details of her ex-
ploration OF tie Himalayan glaciers.
Mrs. Workman says the climax OF
the summers work was the crossing
of the Saltoro pass at height of 49,
800 feet on August 10 and visit OF
three weeks to the great Siachen. or
Rose glacier, reputed to be the largest
and longest IN Asia. 1t has never yet
been measured. but is probably 6O
miles long. 1t cannot be assembled
from the tongue from May Is to Sep
TENDER Is owing to the depth of the
Nubra river. which flows therefrom,
and the presence of dangerous quick
sands. The only summer approach is
by the great Saltoro pass and the de-
scent OF the Saltoro glacier. which
taps the Saichen at height of 10000
feet.
The first European to cross the Sal
toro was DIR. Longstaff. who accom-
plished this feat in June. 1900. and de-
scended toward the Saichen. remain
ing one day on the glacier and re-
turning by the same route.
Baltistan. Mrs. Workman's Italian
guide, with porters and 80 coolies,
reached the barren mountain on the
flank of the upper Saichen on August
20 In a violent snowstorm. The base
of her camp was made at height of