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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10
FRIDAY, MAY TO. 1912.
DEMAND GOOD SERVICE.

The fight OF the Richmond and Henrico Rails
way for lighting and power franchise drags
along In the City Council.
The only question which is worth the con-
sideration OF the people ar a whole is whether
or not the result will be beneficial In point of
service and OF efficiency. In this matter senti-
ss4eas hes He place whatsoever; The thing is :,
practical question in which practically every
citizen OF Richmond ia interested.
II Ia proposed on behalf of the new company
that II will furnish electric light and power at
lower rates than those now afforded If this
Ia 80. and If there is reasonable basis to be-
lieve that the promised reductions square with
business methods, the franchise should be
srauted.
But 1t Is likewise true that the business OF
furnishing a city with commodity like that OF
lights takes on the nature OF a natural commo-
dity. As such II Is subject to civic control
Competition Is good a principle only within
limits. It In the easiest thing In the world 10
kill the goose that lays the public utility eggs
When city has efficient service of any sort
l. is the part Of caution TO hold TO and not
weaken II. II is the part of wisdom TO fully
determine whether In such case effort at com.
petition viii not result in inferior service al
around
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10

though ne docs not abstract money rrum puy
envelopes. Holding in my hand, as do. 80 pay
envelopes of the workers of the Lawrence mills
bfeore the recenr strikes. 80 of which contain
wages of less than So a week Tor "a hours of
work. l say the American WOODEN Company
has been guilty OF theft In Its conduct TOWARD
its weak and heretofore almost defenseless
workers.
Underpay and overwork are two forms of
theft IT We use this familiar synonym oftener
In describing the effects OF underpay and
work, there VIII be less of BOTH
The speaker said oycrwork is a most serious
form of theft because II involves health
strength and life. and that underpay is theft
because II means insufficient necessities of life
He said that these conditions must result In
the breakdown of the home and of democracy
New York American.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10
-.r.se- of genius devoted htu,seff to protecting


capital.
labor. The poor mans breakfast is matter
OF deep sentimental concern. What happens
in the tenement OF the worker lends itself to
cartoon and to every variety of reportorial tc-
ton. Here are tears for the shedding How
many of us stop to think of the woes OF the
men whom he has enabled to make living, but
without whom he must go into Insolvency?
Farley must have had the peculiar genius Of
having sympathy for miIlionaires. That he
himself got more millions Is matter
more or less irrelevant The idea and the
strikes. He was laboring man against
labor He was conservitor OF business. a
practical man" in industrial disputes where
the public suffered while the two sides of capt
tai and labor fought themselves to exhaustion,
Naturally, Farley was brave man. He un-
Gertook his job and did it, He had the hide
Of a hippopotamus so far as abuse was con-
cerned. He ate up criticism and utilization.
and smiled at it. He was business man filling
need. He did as much, in a practical way. TO
impress the lesson of law and order as ever did
thousands of abstract court decisions 10 The
same effect.
There are some professions that are neces-
sary. which do not appeal to the average man,
Being detective. where the talent is that of
betrayal, is one: being strike-breaker. where
the need is to go against the crowd, is another.
Both require sort of moral courage which II
is pity that the exigencies of the occupations
tarnish and decay But there is an economic
lesson in these tales of strange opportunities
and devious callngs, 1t is the old lesson of
waste coming from square pegs in round holes.
Millions of young men every year face the world
in daze. They accept life much in the same
spirit with which they eat a clearinghouse
egg. 1t costs much, and promises so much,
and more; and that without hope and with
out anything except the smallest of incentives.
The average youngster who takes a job is at
If because he fell into IT, and because il hap
pened to be the easiest place in which he could
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10
s''7f''teA = - ~ - n ~ Hf;-fAt :" r. 500
? .sa%,re4a.c Ut Membership -f,esI,s..

The increase Of the membership or the lower
house OF Congress "a folly that breaks out
on all occasions. on Friday that body appro-
priated $4,000 additional funds for individual
clerical assistance, doubtless of unadul-
terated plumber. Then there was an amendment
offered to reduce the mileage or members from
20 cents to s cents, but IL voted down with
a crash. One may sugarcoat IL he pleases.
but there Is fh-cent gouee of the public treas
ury for every mile the congressman travelled
And then there is vast Increase OF the fra nix
ing privilege which Is d fraud on the people In
the face of $500 salary.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10
CURRENT COMMENT
Fraudulent Tree Doctors.

Every State has its agricultural experi-
ment stations. and each of these stations has
or more entornologists. while In the department
OF agriculture at Washington there is bureau
of entomology which has mora thsn ans anndred
and fifty skilled investigators Of insects. All OF
the State stations issue leaflets and bulletins and
reports. ana the bureau OF entomology has pub
.ished about three hundred different reports. bull
letins and circulars covering practically all of
the most injurious insects in the United States.
Does II not seem strange that. with all of this
information to be had for the asking men will
employ tree doctors to bore anger holes into
their fine oak shade trees and insert sulphur dis
guised with lampblack with the claim that the
mysterious substance VIII be taken into the cir
distateful to IN kinds of insects They wifi buy
sellers claim that insects will harm the crops
They will nut cotton bands around trees because
some English gardener has told then, that this
Is the practice in England, not knowing that the
English insect thwarted in this way does not
occur In the United states. Tney will buy and
use almost any universal remedy they happen
TO hear about read and the more that Is
claimed for II the more eagerly they buy, whereas
TO the knowing one the superiority of claims
makes the fraud more transparent.
Forty years the late Benjamin Damn Walsh
writing of this thing, closed his scathing
summary with the appropriate sentence: Long
tive tt1r tfumbtrr RE stiff feeds ROOTS with
fiapdoodle, and many OF them have large and
aourishng families who viii perpetlate the breed
to the remotest Observation-Disclosures Herald.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10

milk
Virginia can produce anything from rim
@; Edam to pot of schmierkaese in the dairy
line. grow anything from a bean TO a banana
raise anything from guinea pig TO blue
grass stallion. and build anything from peanut
roaster to locomotive.
Virginia outciass all OF them, solo-
Antsed Governor Mann yeste8aag- ia speaking OF
the speech OF United States Minister Maurice
+. Eagan, who told Richmond farmers how
Denmark exeelled In dairying industries
This State can produce anything" said the
governor, and recall where cotton formerly
sgag gromn With aIan hettaG- results fs
Virginia than in the famous Delta but was
abandoned because tobacco brought more profit
And in the bluegrass regions can produce
the finest cattle In the world, Our manufac.
turing industries forging ahead. Denmark
may have q few hundred thousand more popu-
Iation. but to which Ia the more fruitful
country. there can be no comparison with Viz
ginia."
As parting shot the governor observed that
~ comparison by actual fact YVES made Rich
ynond Was far ahead OF Atlanta and Memphis
and the real natural resources behind ns'' TO
nutstrip them in the future
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10
CHURCH AUTHORIZED
TO BORROW SIS, OcO

Judge Scott entered an order in
the City Circuit Court yesterday au-
thorising the Westminster Presby-
terrain church to borrow $4,000 on
It's property at Park avenue and Cedar
streets in connection with erection Of
It's new edifce on that site.
In the same court. Judgment In the
sum of s1li..o was entered in the
case of Hey & West against II. T.
Teei.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10

Farleys business of strike-breaker was an
ugly occupation. Going against the convictions
of great masses of laboring people was thing
vhich required not only nerve" but genius
The point is that the man saw his field for
himself and then occupied it. Most of lis have
to be- led out to Craze.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10

IAN Ill wind" Just when Congress was WON
dering how 1t going to maintain n reputa-
ton for economy along with Rivers and
Harbors bill along comes to the Mississippi
food to save the day with the talk of conserva-
ton
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10

II the beef trust investigation goes much
farther the suspicion that Solicitor McCabe is
a peace OF decayed meat Will be confirmed
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10

The Steel Trust is permitted by court deci-
sion TO continue TO tear up its records. In this
way it is possible that much Teddyobiia will
be saved from publicity.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10

1t would be pity to abolish the Commerce
Court before firing Judge Archibald
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10

Corset manufacturers demand the right T.
fix retail prices, palpable squeeze
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10
Underpay as Theft.

Rabbi stephen $. Wise addressed a large
gathering at the Free Synagogue In Carnegie
Hall yesterdy morning. HIS test the
Commandment Thou Shalt Not Srea" The
address was OF series on the Decalogue.
pr Wise characterized stealing as not neces-
sariiy actual burglary or pickpocketing, but
theft Is unjust dealing. for which no subse
ouent acr OF comparison can make PREPARATION"
Eve have got to bring the words thief and
theft into fashion once more. According TO
our present-day conception, the who steals
81 cents is & miserable beggar. and the ma n
who steals thrty-seven millions IL a captain of
industry--the sum of thirty-seven millions not
having been arbitrarily chosen by me.
1.-THE tenement house system is guilty OF theft
and murder, too. A man may be guilty Of theft
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-10
DON'T GO KICKING; THIS DAWG.

Makes no difference If Denmark does pros
Ter on exporting bacon. butter cheese and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-29
Mrs. Ida c. crinmin.

Mrs. Ida c. Crimmin, wife of Har-
vcy r. Crimmin of outer Central street,
after five years of sickness. much of
the time great sufferer, passed peace
fuzzy away at $50. Monday evening
BESIDES the husband, two children. one
and the other 6 years old. survive;
also three brothers and two sisters
The brothers are Mark Leighton of
Wateryille. Ralph Leighton of Seattle.
Wash. and Arthur Leighton of Paw
fucket. X, !. The sisters are Miss Eva
Leighton OF North Weymouth, Mass.
and Miss Ida Leighton of South Brain
field. Mass. Mrs. Crimmin was IS years
and Is days old. She was a devoted
wife and mother, In all of her suffer-
ing there was not a murmur. She was
a member of Capital Grange. The flu
neral will take place from her late
home. at 2.30 O'Clock. Thursday after
noon. and will be private. Rev. j. w.
steele of the First Universalist church
will ofiiciate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-29
Missionary MEETING.

The mid-year meeting of the Angus
tn District Woman'ss Foreign, Mission
ary Society was held with the Halo
well Methodist Episcopal church, Tues
day, with & morning and afternoon
session. The meeting was called to or
der at 10 o'clock by Mrs. Cora Knight
Clifford, the president. Nine of the IL
auxiliaries in. the district We're repre-
scented by large number of delegates.
The morning session was occupied with
reports from the auxiliaries and rot
tine business. enlivened by reading
by Miss Theresa Gormley of Augusta,
and~a recitation by Mrs. II. l.. Nichols
Of Halloween. At noon a picnic dinner
and social hour were enjoyed by all.
Nearly all the afternoon session was
occupied by Miss Bessie Crowell of
Portland. who has just returned. from
six years passed in India in missionary
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-29
Tuesdays Doings
In cd Congress.
IN THE SENATE.

The Senate met at II A. NJ, and con-
sidered routine business.
Subcommittee of commerce COM
mittee made its report on investigating
sinking OF steamer Titanic.
Senator William Alden Smith spoke
on the Titanic and results of commit
tees investigation.
Senator Newlands introduced as
amendment TO metal schedule bill a
compromise tariff plan to graduate re-
duction of tariff so as to avoid inn
pairing any industry.
Adopted conference report on liber-
alizeG homestead law bill.
Passed joint resolution extending
thanks of Congress TO Captain Arthur
Fl. Rostrnn and appropriating $1,000 for
a gold medal for Titanic rescue
Senator Rayner discussing Titanic
disaster. denounced present admiralty
aud navigation laws
Unexpected and determined opposi-
ton to workmen's compensation bill
developed in Judiciary committee.
Adjourned at 5.29 until noon, tomor-
row.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-29

WITH DRAWAL OF SUITS
Against Coffee Trust" Recommended
BY Secretary of State Knox.

Washington, May Secretary of
State Knox has recommended TO
President Taft that the civil anti
trust suit against the Coffee Trust
be withdrawn because of possible
complications with Brazil. This dis
agreement in the cabinet between the
secretary of state and Attorney GEN
eral Wickersham as to the properiety
of attacking the Brazilian valorization
scheme in American, courts became
known, today. u
President Taft however. has not vet
accepted the suggestion of the Sec
rotary of state and the attorney gem
eral continues his preparations TO
pursue the matter in the courts. As
the issue centers about foreign
state. Secretary Knox regards the
problem as one for settlement by
diplomacy and not for treatment in
the courts of the United States. He
represented to the President that in
ternational courtesy should direct the
American government to retrace its
steps and dismiss the court proceed
ings.
The attitude of Mr.. Knox was
known to Senior Dagama, the Brazilian
ambas sador. when he criticized the
course OF the department of justice
at the PAM American banquet in
New York, last night. In all prob
ability no official notice will be taken
of the ambassadors remarks.
Neither the attitude of the state
department nor the denial, today, by
the New York circuit courts of the
| government motion for a temporary
injunction restraining any disposition
of the coffee stored in New York is
lettering the department of justice,
where, it is declared, the case win be
| pushed to conclusion. 50,
1t is maintained by the government
attorneys that the fact that foreign
state is q party to the contracts
which are alleged TO be Illegal offers
no protection to those who carry them
out in this country.
Attorney General Wickersham ex
pressed the belief that the govern
ment's interests would not suffer from
the action of the New York circuit
court. today. He said:
1.-The decision merely denies the appli-
cation for a temporary injunction TO re-
strain any disposition of the coffee now
in storage in New York pending the suit
upon the ground that the issues in the
case may with greater propriety be dis
posed of when the testimony shall have
disclosed the exact facts than on a mo-
ton for temporary Injunction. As II
is hardly probable that in the face of thl5
suit the coffee will be sold subject 10
such restrictions as the bill charges have
been imposed on previous sales, the de-
partment believes that the interests OF
the government will not suffer from this
decision"
1t was intimated at the department or
justice that should the coffee be dispos
ed of in such manner as the govern
ments petition denounces as being in
violation of the Sherman law, criminal
proceedings might follow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-29
FOR LENA cUsUMANo.
Appeal Made to Governor Foss to
Commute Death Sentence.


Boston, May 2S.-Perpission was grant
ed, today, TO counsel for Enrico Masciol
to visit his client now in the death cell
at state prison, where he and Mrs. Lena
Cusumano win be electrocuted, next
week, for the murder of Frank Cusuma-
no, unless the Executive Council inter
venes
MaseioIi was brought from Plymouth
Jail, last week. but Mrs Cusumano was
detained at the request of Governor
Foss, who will submit both cases to the
Council, tomorrow, on the question of
Communication.
Since his arrival at state prison, Mas
cioli has seen very few people except
his guards. His counsel visited his, to-
day. by authority of Judge Crosby of the
superior court, and an Italian priest was
in the party.
An appeal for the Communication OF the
sentence of Lena Cusumano was made
from Faneuil Hall, tonight, and, tomor-
row, will reach the Governor and Coun-
Gil in the form of resolutions. Before
500 people, her counsel, Thomas ]. Grady.
re-told the story of the killing of Mrs.
Cusumano's husband. Mrs. Florence
Spooner head of the Massachusetts
Anti-Death Penalty League; Jerome A.
Petitti, and DR.. Joseph Santusuaaso all
spoke in favor of committing her sem
tenee to life Imprisonment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-29
BOXING NOTES.

All three 1e-round bouts went the
limit to draw at the Pilgrim A. A.
boxing bouts in the Boston Arena,
Tuesday night. Sandy Ferguson of
Boston met Tom Kennedy. of New
York, Young Donahue of Roxbury met
Johnnys Connolly also of Roxbury and
AL belmont of Boston faced George
Kirkwoci of San Francisco,
Eddie McGoorty, the Oshkosh mid
dIeweight. defealed Bob Moha of Mil
waulxee in 10-round bout, Tuesday
night. at the St. Nicholas Athletic
Club, New York McGoorty had the
better OF the first three rounds. using
d snappy left hook to good effect.
MONA had a shade. the better Of the
firth round and decidedly the better
Of the sixth McGoorty's left was
vefy4nuch IN evidence in the seventh,
eigfith and nfnthss Ia the 10th he cut
loose and was all over his man at
the bell
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-29
BELFAST.
Successful Liquor Raids
At Two Local Hotels.
Twelve Acres Of Tobacco 10 Be
Planted Here, This Year.
A Slight Fire in the horthpori Hotel
Causes Much Anxiety.

Belfast, Me-, May 2s.-CSpeciaD.
Deputies Edgcon1be Of Belfast and c.
G. Dicley of Northport made simulta-
neous raids. yesterday on the hotels
and in two of them found the goods.
While Dickey~ visited the Windsor.
Edgcombe called at the Revere House.
Dickey found two and half quarts of
whiskey and three bottles Of beer.
Edgcombe's search was fruitless. The
two deputies then paid visit to the
Phoenix House and there found two
gallons of rum and one and a half gal
Ions OF whislSey
The telephone fire alarm from Box 3,
at the central telephone office. which
was rung about T. NJ. Monday, caused
considerable excitement in this city when
il was learned that it was the North
port hotel that was ON fire. To lose the
hotel at this season would mean almost
as serious a loss to Belfast as to the
Campground, and with all haste the gas
oline fire engine and a detail of men
were sent at once to Northport Chief
Shute was about to foilou in an auto
mobile when a telephone message was
received at headquarters that the fire
was under control.
In place of eight acres, as planted last
year, Maitland b. Smith of Hartford.
owner of Pearl Brook Farm. a few
miles from this city, will plant L acres
of tobacco. The experiment tried, last
year, was a great success. 1t is under
stood that the tobacco will be raised, this
year. without the cover of netting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-29


this Undertaking"
What l want to know is this: What
is there-what individual has told you
and explained to YOU the way in
which these former subsidiary COM
panies business is being arranged;
give us his name?" Il don't think
they have spoken about that particu-
lar thing in that particular way. They
are all being arranged in the one way,
and that way"
Who has told You that?"
THAT was the decision we arrived
lat. and that has been the whole spirit
Iof this natter
Il object to all this talk about spir-
it," said Mr. Untermyer emphaticalIy.
Spirits are good things. but facts
fare what we want. l want TO know
what YOU know about the process of
this dissolution, Mr.. Rockefeller. and
I'VE are going to find it out What l
want to know is. did YOU personally
take part in outlining any compre-
hensive plan as to the way in which
these businesses were to be conduct
ed?"
Il have not followed out. those de-
tails at ALL" Mr. Rockefeller replied
in even tones.
Now. you have answered. Is there
Mr.. Rockefeller. so far as you know
amy plan fer the management of these
subsidiary companies? Have you been
made acquainted With any2" II have
| never been made acquainted with any
thing else than that there was plan
that these companies, each, should full
! fill its own function"
There WAS plan. as 1 understand
1t, te try to obey the decree, and yet
to run these businesses together" NO
| sir" answered the witness. again
raising his voice. each of these in
terests is distinct"
\ Then why is it the old company and
4 this group of gentlemen of which you
/ speak, had placed in their hands the
proxies with which to set up and con.
stitute and name all Of the boards oil
directors and all of the officers of these
constituent companies?" I'm order
that these board Of directors of these
constituent companies might be quail
flied in the best way to fulfil Their
functions" replied the witness. "That
is very simple thing"
Having been named by this group
all Of then-that is your idea of indie
pendence2" querried MIR. Untermyer
They are named by the stockholders.
| interposed Mr.. Murray
] sWill the. stenographcr please TAX,
down the remarks of Mr.. Murray" said
Mr.. Untermyer, sarcastieally.
Mr.. rntermyer concluded his ques
tioning at this point With a heavy
sigh.
II am at your disposal, Mr.. Inter
myer," volunteered Mr.. Rockefeller
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-29
TIM HURST CRITICALLY ILL.
Veteran Baseball Umpire and Boxing
Referee Suffering from Pneumonia.

New York. May 2s.-Tim Hurst. the
veteran baseball umpire and boxing
referee, VINO recently suffered re-
lapse from an attack of pneumonia.
was reported, today. as sinking rap
idly. His physician thought it was
DOUBTFUL If he would live through the
day.
Hurst has been prominently identi-
fled with athletics for years. He first
became prominent as an umpire in
the National League and later cast his
lot with the American League He
was noted for his fearlessness, his
ready wit and his ability to control
any situation which might arise, no
matter how difficult. After he severed
MS connection with the American
League three years aso. his time was
devoted to boxing. He recently be-
came manager of the Madison Square
Athletic Club