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that ever fioated on the seas. hit an ice- berg. The earliest reports were that her c e D, or s o $, had brought several steamships to her assistance: that she
 had been saved by wireless; that s6S Of her passengers -had been taken off by the Carpathla; that. the Nirglnian was towing
 the stricken vessel to Halifax; that another steamship was standing by to
 render assistance if necessary: that the Titanic and all her precious human freight had been saved--saved by wire
 less, The world was thrilled by the news.
 With the thrill there came the thought
 to those persons who look for profit in
 any and every suntoward happening that
 there never had been anything to give
 greater proof of the world of wireless
 They flocked to Wall -street. They gave
 orders to tfeir brokefs They gave orders
 to Monsieur Cartier. On the curb wire
 less ruled everything. Men who knew m"
 more about wireless than the man in the moon bought and sold
 In one of the widest markets the curb had known for years the price of wireless
 went soaring. At times there was a diff ference of SD az share in transactions put through at the same minute. Monsieur Cartier was the centre of aszIot of mad- men. all mad for wireless. Orders came to him almost as fast as snowtiakes fall By the time the market closed the tran sections in wireless approximat6] sl0oo,- 0ec Most of them were handled by Mon- sic',r Cartier
 The mere execution of an order for stccx on the exchanye or on the ct,rh is only small part of the work attending
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scribe for five shares of the new company
 at S25 for each share in tho old company
 that they held. Then there were commits
 sions to be made out of the holders of
 United Wireless The capital of the new
 American Marconi company ls Sly,35t,s-y,
 People bent on speculation do not eonsid-
 CT capitalization seriously. Those who were attracted to wireless were satisfied apparently with the prospect of a repeti-
 ton of this side, in a speculative way, of
 what they had seen in England in Mar
 conf shares
 Some one did lot of advertising for
 American Marconi. Its prospects were pictured in glowing colors Men who went to Wall street to buy wireless gravi- tatc1 naturally to Monsieur Cartier He was the specialist He knew more about wireless than any other man on the curb. Regular Wall street houses that got orders to buy shares turned their business over to him. simply because he was the specialist. Every buyer was an enthus- iastic booster for wireless immediately after he came into possession of his stock. The price climbed, slowly at first, faster later Not long, ago the price was Ss a share. Then il went to $1o, go, sao. sio. The holders of shares in the old Marconl company saw an opportunity for a profit, and they exercised their right to subscribe for the new shares at s20 Tint made ad- 6itional business. Wireless boomed. The moro it hoomed the more money Monsieur Louis Pierre Cartier made In commissions. And then sanething happened that start- lci the world. The Titantic, the greatest steamship
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 it. There issa lot of office detail. There Is
 the bookkeeping, the sending out of mo-
 tices of purchases of sales. the collection of the purchase money the payment on the sale.
 Monsieur Louis Pierre Cartier was over whelmed He had to get lot of assist
 ants at his office He worked all night, so did the men he hurredly engaged.
 Every mall brough stacks of correspond
 ence in To get through this mass of l stun was a sherculcan job. He worked
 as he never had before. He could not | sfop to eat, to sleep, to shave or to bathe. i He was in the midst of this work when 1 the market opened the next morning. Once more he had to go into the turmoil of | the street If anything the excitement l was greater. It now was known that the l Titanic was lost that more than 1001 of her passengers had been drowned, that
 great millionaires and poor immigrants | had gone to their ocean grave together | But all this seemed only to give greater proof of the virtues of wireless. With
 out wireless the Carpathia never would have known of the tragedy--all would | have been lost
 Hour after hour Monsleud Cartier bought and sold, bought and sold. Dog
 ems of messengers were rushing to him with orders. Dozens of brokers were shouting their bids to him. So far as anybody knew. he was the representative of the men who had the precious shares l for sale. Maybe he was. Maybe he was not. From 10 o'clock. to 3 the whole mark ct was his. K was the widest curb ever seen The price climbed and climbed. Ths
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..."......"......s..s..... ....................." higher the price went the more eager be- came the bids-apparently.
 At the end of the business day Monsieur had to rush back to his office to again at stack the mountain of details in connec- tion with the days transactions. He had to get more clerks, more office room. Again he worked all night Now and then he had sandwich and a cup of coffee. But time was tod precious to give to sleep. He could not afford the luxury of a shave or a few minutes rest. Dawn saw him hard at work, 10 o'clock saw him race out once more to the curb market.
 There was another day of terrific &C., tivity. The demand for wireless seemed to be without end. The price had gone 10 20o, 250, 300, 350.. It was unthinkable. It was madness
 A fair number of persons who held wireless saw great opportunities of profit, and they threw their stock on the mark et The price broke suddenly from $50 to 2o0. Then came another wave of buying How Monsieur Cartier went through that day he does not understand It seems a dream to him.
 When the market closed it brought no relief He had more detailed work than before. He had 10 have more clerks, more coffee. but he worked while he ate and worked while he drank. He was at his desk when 10 o'clock came around again and he had to hurry once more to the curb market. He bought and he sold. At times it seemed that he would drop from exhaustion. Messengers came and handed orders to him. He hardly could read what was written on the papers, His voice was husky; he was unshaven, unshorn. His linen was in disorder At times he was incoherent. Once or twice his eyes closed and he seemed to lose con sciousness Then he -would rouse him. self by great effort. He would be clear beaded for q few minutes and then sud- denly would seem to be on the verge of collapse. He exercised all his waning wils power, but 1t was no use Nature was insistent He became hysterieal Those about him saw that he could Sand it no longer They led him out of the inclosure. supported, half carried him Ito his office. lmprovised couch for him. Monsieur Cartier threw Himself down upon it. With in few seconds he was sleeping the sleep of the exhausted
 But Louis Pierre Cartier was happy Ins Tour days he had made more than si0a0aO. which is ss5,o0O more than the net profits or me American Marconi company in tho | year 191i.
 Copyright, 1912. by Richard spillane
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tences, 20 two year sentences and about 50 have been sentenced for one year. We employ the conviets in the construction Of public roads, and the results are excel lent"
 Keeping Out the White. Slaves
 What is the future of the social eondl- tions at the ends of the canal? win Panama and Celon be pious towns or will they turn into hotbeds of vice like Suez and Port Said. the two pestholes at. the ends of the Suez canal?.'
 T believe they will be far. different from the towns on the Suez .eanaLs' said the governor of the zone. Under our ar rangement with the Panamanian govern ment we have Joint jurisdiction with it as to immigration, and it Is the policy of the two governments to work together to exclude vicious characters. Of course. there is some wickedness going on in the cities at the two ends of the canal, but the effort has been to minimize it. Un- desirable characters from all over the world are attracted here because of the canal work ana the large sums of money being paid out, and they would overrun these cities except for watchfulness in the matter of immigration. The act of Congress makes il unlawful to bring into or through the canal zone women for 1m- moral purposes, and we are keeping them out of the zone and are doing everything possible 10 assist in keeping this evil within bounds in the two cities. We have recently secured two convictions in the canal zone courts against white slave traders who had attempted to bring wom- en through the zone into the city of Pan anna. These convictions have had very salutary effect. White slave traffic through the port of Colon has been prac- ticaly broken up and if it's victims get into the city of Panama they must come in small boats or must Journey overland Either course is a difficult one. Practi- cally all the ships coming into Panama on the Pacific side make port at Balboa, the zone harbor. and we prevent undesir- ables' from landing from such ships. A short time ago we arrested white slave trader and secured his conviction on the charge of having violated in the canal zone the white slave law. and he was sentenced to 21 months Imprisonment in the zone penitentiary at Culebra. He had plenty of money and by the aid of on the outside he was en- abled to saw his way out and escaped. We captured him. however, on'a boat near the Colombian coast On his return to prison he expressed his disgust with the
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2. Carpenter

canal zone: he said he had been in the white slave trade for more than 70 years had operated in many countries, and he had been able to fix matters with pub | lie officials everywhere but here. We re- garded that statement IS quite a compli- ment to offiical conditions here"
 A Word About the Courts
 'How about the courts of Uncle Sam down here2'
 We have a good judiciary. There are district courts, circuit courts and su- preme court We have counsel and chief attorney, prosecuting attorney and a number of attorneys have been ad- mitted to practice in the various conrts Last year between 5000 and 600 criminal eases were handled and over 1000 of theI defendants were convicted. About 1S00| civil cases were handled; most of these| were of @ minor character"
 Public Works and the Schools E What other divisions are these in the| department of civil administration?''
 Several. We inspect all vessels coming| into zone waters and this work is perl formed by q board of inspectors. Therel Is also a division of posts, customs andl revenue. Onr postal service issues moneyl orders to the amount of over 5000, GOO al year. We are now installing a postall savings system. Annually, between 6O0COl and f0.000 mail pouches and sacks, arel handled on the railway which runs across| the isthmus. We collect all taxes and issue all licenses. There are some saloons on the zone and the men who conduct them pay a license of 800 a month each Saloons are run mostly by Chinese anal are orderly places. Our division of fre| protection will. I believe, campare in eff flciency with any in the states. Then wei have a division of public works, which operate not only in the zone, but also maintains the water, street and sewer systems in the cities of Panama and Colon, and collects all the water rentals of these cities, the same going to repay the United States for the cost of con- structing these systems. We also have al zone treasurer and zone auditor. And there is the division of schools which provides educational facilities for chil- dren of the zone equal to those provided in the best graded schools of the states. We have a high school at Gatun, to which children from all zone points arc transported by railroad, and a subsidiary high school at Aneon. Indeed, we have all the branches which are characteristic of a territorial government"
 FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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burn who was Governor Thatcher's pre- decessor, and it is one of the pleasant homes of the sthmus. Wide verandas, yelled in wire gatze to keep out the mos qutoes. run around its two stories, and the walls of these are hung with the most beautiful orchids gathered from the woods of the zone. Governor Thatcher says that according 10 science there are altogether 12,000 varieties of orchids and of these it seems to me Mrs. Thatcher must have the most beautiful. l cannot begin 10 describe them or their exquisite flowers. Some burst out in shower of bloom and others have blossoms which take on the form of miniature birds. animals and some even looking like humans one va riety that she has is the Espiritu Santo. l. is called the flower of the Holy Spirit, and rightly so for its petals are of the shape of a white, beautiful dove with outstretehed wings locking from the pure lily white flower.
 If was seated among these orchids that we talked. The conversation turned to the character of the zone, and the gov ernor pointed to the orchids as he said:
 You may have some idea of it from these flowers. We are down here in the tropics and we have tropical climate. Our average temperature ranges from 70 10 91 degrees, and as a rule it is not far from 80 degrees the year round. You are now here on the dry season. but in the wet we have a rainfall which is about i45 inches at Colon, and about 75 inches here at Panama, If all the water that falls in Colon in one year should drop on the level and not flow away it would make a lake more than 12 feet in depth. During the dry season. which lasts from January to April. there is almost no rain and you need no umbrella, un-
 less you wish 1t for the sun"
 As a result of this heavy rainfall' continued the governor. "everything grows luxuriantly, and some parts of the country are covered with jungle. Others are grassy, like the savannas outside of Ancon. The hills are all wooded, and we have palm trees, bamboos, bananas
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Copyright, 1912, by Frank G. Carpenter9
 Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama. EHAVE just had long talk with Gov
 M H. Thatcher, the man who. un- \ der the President and chairman of the commission, is the ruler of the little principality which Uncle Sam owns on the isthmus of Panama. His territory is the canal zone, little strip of land 10 miles wide and about 50 miles long, ex- tending from ene side of the isthmus of Panama to the other. This strip is wind ing and it runs back five miles on each side of our great canal. It contains all together just about half as much land as Rhode Island. and it's population is not far from that of Nevada, which Is more than 90 times as large.
 Just now this strip is the livelest of ali Of Uncle Sam'sf dominions. It has a more cosmopolitan population, and it is doing more work than any other Ii IS a beehive of activity from one end to the other. and millions of dollars are being shoveled into it in the many forms of construction which will make the com pleted canal.
 The strip is one of cities and towns: it Is one of railroads and shipping. If is a social center of about 10000 high class Americans and the great workshop where somthing like 60,000 negroes and mu,attoes from this part of the world are earning the highest wages they have ever made in their lives. It is country of postoffices. telegraphs and schools. It has it's criminal classes. and also it's churches, preachers and Sunday school teachers It has it's public works and it's fire departments. it's courts and it's pris- ons, and in short, almost all the machin- cry of any of our states or territories.
 A Chat With the Governor
 I met the governor in his beautiful res idence on the slope of Ancon Hill right under our great administration building and facing the big educational institute which the Panama government has just constructed. The building was erected under the direction of Senator Joe Black
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 NO" replied Governor Thatcher, "only small portion is owned by them. The greater part of 1t Is the property of the United States government, it's ownership including the land of the Panama Rail- road company. Some of the land is taken up by the canal, but other portions are wild and unused. About $500 acres of this government land are now under lease and about $20G00 a year has been col ected in rents; but the rents will be less from now on, as Gatun lake and other canal encroachments reduce the area to be leased. The rent for govern ment lands for cultivation is a little over $l an acre.
 ''NVho do the farmng?'' I asked
 There Is practically no farming to speak of. The higher prices for labor on the canal prevent any extensive work on plantations or ranches. The natives have little patches surrounding their shacks each family raising few ba- nanas, mangoes and other tropical fruits, sometimes little sugar cane and usually some yuccas, yams and other tropical vegetables. The natives live for the most part on what they produce in this way, and carry the surplus over the trails or haul it hy boat to market. A part of the work of civil administration is to keep these trails open. We are now clearing the trails preparatory to the taking of a zone census.
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and tropical plants of every description. Indeed. this whole territory is like bo- tanical garden"
 Lands of the Zone
 Are the lands good for farming?"
 "Not for farming as we know it in the states. They are better fitted for fruit raising. Some of them might be turned into sugar or rubber plantations, and most of the land will produce oranges, bananas, alligator pears" plantains, lemons, lines, pneapples and all sorts of tropical vegetables. We have here tho yam, which is something like the sweet potato, and grows as long as une's arm, and the yucca, a tuber which grows as large as ones head, and tastes much like an Irish potato. Upland rice has been grown here to some extent, and both the coccanut and caco trees thrive.'
 Does not most of the land belong to the natives?"
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 officers are held in much the same re- gard as are tue famous mounted police men of Gafiada.s One or two of our po- lieemen viii gofinto camp of 200 or 300 blacks or Spaniards and make an arrest without sffe necessity of clubbing any one. This would not be possible in many parts of the Emitted States.
 The Arrests Per Month
 sIt may be that the population is better than oafs?''
 T believe that much of our good order Is due to the way the men are handled. Now, here is last months report, which shows the arrests which were made among seventy odd thousand people in the zone. The total number of arrests was 53s, and of the offenders arrested 4s7 were men and 51 women. Now, note the nationalities. They come from 50 different countries. Here are 97 from Jamaica, 132 from Barbados. 15 from Trinidad and 21 from Martinique, 4S from Spain, B from Panama and 46 from the United States; seven are from British Guiana six from Fortune Island, three from India and eight from China. Among the others are cubans, Germans, Greeks. Italians and Mexicans, one from Finland, one from Tunis in North Africa and one from New Zealand. This gives you some idea of our mixed population
 What are the offenses? ?'
 ''They are mostly petty ones A mum Der are for violation of the sanitary and revenue laws, some for cruelty to aui- mals, some for fighting and drunkenness and other forms of disorder; a few for non-support of wives and families; two or three are for homicide, some for burg lary, 21 are for vagrancy, two for cock fighting, and included in the total are the arrest of five soldiers for being absent without leave'
 The Jails and Prisons of the Zone
 What do you do with these men after you arrest them?"
 If they are unable to give bond we put them in jail and have them tried in our zone courts. We have a penitentiary at Cuebra and jails at the various towns on the zone. The penitentiarv is a model of it's kind. The prisoners are credited with good conduct and they can thus shorten their terms of Imprisonment. They are also graded and clothed accord- ing to conduct, and we find this has greatly improved the prison labor. We now have 145 convicts in the penitentiary. Two are in for life. seven for 10 years or more, q have received five year sen
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-01-25
Bird ueport Briefs.

u. T. Kitchener has returned from a
business trip 10 Wellsviiie and East
Liverpool.
Many local peopl" attended the con.
Ncntion OF the Luther League held at
Martins Ferry yesterday
w. =. Barton was ia town from Ear
ton yesterday. calling on local friends
Rev. L. :. Young. OF -. C.aiTsville.
WIS in town yesterday on his way TO
N-llsville. where he went 10 officiate
az funeral
!. l.. Bumgarner q -. Clairsville.
WAS in town yesterday on business.
=. .. Farmer went 10 DiliOnvale
yesterday on business.
Charles Jackson. a former =. a. q.
conductor. has gone 20 10. Angeles.
Cal. where he has secured position.
:. c. Lewis. OF SteGb, uvi'l.. was in
town yesterday on legal business.
Many iocs' people will attend the
base ball meeting which will be held
this evening.
J he miners of This district will 70.
c"ivc their pay fO-day. and The amount
To- 10 distributed Is quite large
The first vaudeville house ever
claimed b. Eridg port is attracting a
great deal OF attention.
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BELLAIRE
Many viii Attend Business Mems
Banquet To-night-News From
Belaire.
BeIiaIre's Shopping Center

One OF the important events Of the
week IN this city VIII be the annual
banquet Of business men This even.
ing under the auspices OF the Bellaire
Progressive association. The banquet
VIII be held In the Eiks club. and e.
is expected that I5O guests pilI he
In attendance These viii Include. Tho
county and city officials and Tho
members az the association sellers
orchestra Will discourse music during
the evening. and u 8 McCirrgor.
president Of the association. Will pre.
side a. toastfuHs'er. and fhe follow
ing will respond 20 'oas's
The $500! and '.@ r.tr--.- ~
-urF - N..Hr.a ..r %. .r..
Hon@-fr 40 % F,1s.--ts Cd.
IT, Awakening -
... At',-rrr 70 ..r.sa-. -.
TIE FiSr cot 90 f..7rz g s-.s .-t
present
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-01-25

after "A serious Illness Of several days.
Walter Morgan Is here from Pitts
bursh. the guest of his parents on
Burlington road
a large number OF local people will
attend the opening OF Arthur Snod-
grass vaudeville house in Bridgeport
this evening.
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Good Roads Meetira.

The various township trustees and
road supervisors OF Belmont county
"iil hold a "'ting Doc - Clair-yiil..
today Win TIE commissioner and
m" good roads propc IfIuu UIiI Dee
considered. stat" Highway COMMITS.
si"nrr James u Marker. o. Columbus
WI. MAX" 80 address ou Good
Roads
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-01-25

local business man eft pile Of
wood IN front Of his place OF business
yesterday. expecting another man
VINO wanted the wood to remove IT,
me other man evidently forgot his
part ~ the contract. and q paSser.hv
was 50 unfortunate as 10 tear his
"N"rcoa' on stray mail lie immc,li.
a'ely mad" complaint and will try 10
hav" the damage fall on one or other
Of the parties.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-01-25
Death Of Child

Robert. i've ycar-old son Of Mr. and
Mrs. l.. :. Dawson, OF Th.rty-cirhth
and Monroe streets. died Tuesday az
ter brief Illness with pneumonia
Funeral services vii be held AZ The
residence this afternoon a. "a
O'Clock. and Intern. nt will be in Hose
Hill cemetery Ncv W. =. meteor.
mick, pastor ~ tn. United Lyte.
rian church. will couduct the services.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-01-25
Owls Meet.

The local order OF Owls held n fine
meeting in their quarters in the Helm.
lein building last evening. and officers
for the year were elected. After 9th
or business was attended TO fine
banquet was spread and the remain
der Of m" evening spent socially. The
officers will he installed at the next
meeting. which will he held next
week