Connecticut western news., 1911-08-10
ROOSEVELT FRIGHT"
 IN BIG STEEL MERGER
Declares Ro Allowed Absorption Of I. c. and | to Stop Panic.

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt told the Stanley Investigating committee thai he accepted full responsibility for his acton In telling Judge Ebert Fl. Gary and Henry c. Prick that he saw noth ing in the proposed absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company 'by the United States Steel corporation in the panic days of November 1907. that made it his duty to interpose any objections.
 He declared explicitly that "the re- sponsibility was solely mine." and add cd that he had never had a doubt' that what he did was not only neces sary and proper. but that lit would have been almost criminal for me not to have done exactly what did"
 When questioned about the facts that have been developed In the course of the inquiry tending to show that the situation which was represented as making necessary the merger of the two steel companies was brought
 
 Schley and George Kessler and that the merger put the steel corporation in possession of the one great ore supply 1t did not already own, he brushed these considerations aside and took his stand on the central point that the only thing that mattered in the situa. ton that existed was to check the panic. The merger was the one thing that could check 1t, he said. and 1t did check 1t.
 nr.-, The first session of
 .,z.a the national Jewish .. Chautauqua Is being HAT rGN'NSS' held at San Francisco, Among the speakers were Jeannette Miriam Goldberg of Philadelphia. Rabbi William Rosenau of Baltimore and Rabbi Martin. Miss Goldberg urged the nurture of racial ideals among Jewish youth. 'The mission of the society" she said, Ifs to convert the Jew to Judaism"
 New York city has a population of 5000. .407, according to the health dc partment The official figures of the United States census for 1910 showed that New York, with 1t five, boroughs had population of 4,766,SS3, so that the gain within one year has been 233,524. The percentage of gain has been largely in Manhattan borough the population of which is given as 2,393,636 The Bronx has a population of 487,437. Brooklyn totals 1,716.S52 Queens 312,630 and Richmond S9,s52.
 For the first time in the history of the United States navy. battleships fired real torpedoes at each other while maneuvering in Cape Cod bay. Projectiles weighing almost two tons and valued at from $7,5O0 to $S,000 were popped at high speed against the sides of other vessels which served as targets. The torpedoes were rtgged with drill or so called blind" heads, which collapsed instead of doing de. struction.'
 Mayor Whitlock of Toledo, O, may be obliged to lay down the responsi- bilities of office. for a time at least. pr. Peter Donnelly has notified him that complete rest is imperative. The rest was originally ordered immedi- ately following the operation for ap- pendicitis last winter, but the mayor ignored 1t and returned to his office to take up the franchise negotiations which had been interrupted by his ill- ness.
 The war department is making a de termined effort to procure the highest number of cadets allowable under the | law for the class to enter the United States Military academy next June l While the entrance examinations will not be held until April, senators and representatives already are being urg- ed to look over their districts for the young men best qualified for the mill tary service.
 Conditions | in Des Moines have be come so riotous in the street car strike that Governor Carroll may have to call out the militia. The police are unable to disperse the strikers, who seem as little afraid of clubs as of the water the fremen turned on them. The 500 carmen have been joined by miners and many resi- dents, and the mob practically rules | the streets.
 A Lenox entomologist asserts the absence of flies along oiled highways is due to the destruction of the eggs and larvae by the application of tar via and the byproducts of oils which are being used to prevent dust. Since 1t has been established that the fly k