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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-15
OFFICERS INSTALLED
Gran" Council, Order Frntcrnnl tmcrI
cans, In Session Here

o!hcers OF tn" Grand Council. Ordc,
l \ ,tntHrnal Americans, in session at
rpm Hotel were installed as fol-
r"Scntativc Boehm.
:. Fast state President. Jno. r. cox.
norfolk; state President. Jas. l.. Nil,
meth vienna; state Vice President. A..
if' householder. Lovcttsvillc: state
secretary, Jas. f. Mansfield, Alexan-
dra: state Treasurer. Jno. H. Trynier.
AicNandria; state Marshal. II. q Sauls
rt,airfaX; state Warten. J. Il. Dcvine,
Naterigrd' state Inner Guard, r. NJ.
Jones, Sr.. Norfolk. state Outer Guard
C. Irwin Clarke. Richmond: State Chap
Ia n. c. NJ. Money. Vienna
The next meeting will be held In
Winchester. The delegates and OIL
Gers We're entertained Yesterday Nv
Goodwill and William Mex in!ey Coun-
ellis. OF Richmond.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-15
Mnrrimgc Lircnscs.

The following marriage licenses
were issued yesterday in the office OF
the clerk OF the Hastings Court:
r. V. Sisco ana Ethel G. Marker:
Royce X. Bartlett ana Helen l.. HUI.
Frank j. Peace and Fannie Butler:
Cranston Howe Carpenter ana Jane
Porter Carson.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-15

Noon prayer services, conducted
every Wednesday at the YourS Wo-
mans Christian Association. will lie
led at 1870 o'clock to-day by Rev. d.
r. Merritt, of Highladn Park.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-15
southern Hallway Eorn,ur.,

Estimated earnings of the Southern
Railway for the first week in May
show an increase of s12S.5ii. as COM
pared with the corresponding week
i@3t year.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-15
ROWBOATS USED
TO CONVEY HOSE
Blaze Aboard Barge in James
River Gave Department No
End of Trouble.
MATCH IN GASOLINE TANK
Negro Fishcd 1t Aboard. Then
Looked In. Hoping to Find
Good Liquor.

Clyde Gregory, colorel of Gilmerton,
Va. was probably fatally burned las.
night shortly before o'clock, when he
put n lighted match into 4 barrel Of
gasolene while aboard barge of the
Richmond Cedar Works. which was
moored at the company's wharf. The
explosion which followed caused an
ugly fire In a cargo of LOGS. which had
arrived on Saturday. y general alarm
was turned in from private box NJ. "a.
Firemen were greatly handicapped
by the Hood in tho James River in
reaching the burning vessel Tie
wharf alongside of which the barge
rested was more than eight feet under
water. Finally. with the aid of row.
boats. two streams OF water. one from
engine No. and the other from a pri-
waite plug OF the plant Of the Cedar
Works. were stretched to the blaze.
However. the first stream 10 b,
poured into the hold of the lighter was
from the tug Mary steele also owned
by the company, which was fortunately
alongside. Under tho direction OF
chief kano, iiremen OF Company No. S
fought for hours before the blaze was
hnally put out. The money loss will
reach several hundred dollars, accord
ing To statement made by r. Kirkpat-
rick Parrish, secretary Of the Cedar
Works
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-15
Committee schcduie.

Communities Schedule.
The Council Committees on Light
and Markets will meet Tonight at
o'clock.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-15
ThouehtIt Wight he LIQUOR.

Gregory was employed aboard tho
barge as deckhand Because Of the
swollen river it was impossible to UNI
load tho vessel yesterday. ana he was
idiing about the boat when he motto ID
a barrel floating in the stream close by
lie succeeded In pulling it aboard. with
the aid of several others. 1t was found
to be filled with soma liquid. In the
hopes that it might provo to ne some
thing which might tickle his palate.
Gregory knocked in the head, and in
order 10 get better view. struck a
match, and. peering into the cask, put
the flaming BIT of wood into il.
Great flames instantly shot into the
air With scream Gregory leapcd into
the water. but fellow boatmen Instantly
grabbed him and saved him from
drowning.
The City Hospital was notified and n
whirlwind drive was mad 10 Fulton
II required less than twenty minutes
for the automobile ambulance to speed
from the City Hospital. pick up the
injured man and rush back to the Re
treat for the Sick He was rendered
emergency treatment by pr j. j. HUI
cher, ambulance surgeon
Though frigh,funy burned. it was
said at the hospital last night that he
had chance TO recover.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
TODAY'S AGE-HERALD

Ny evidence will send Becker to
 the cbair.' said Schepps Nichols is removed from Tampico
 jail.
 Attorneys hold long conferences
 with Taft
 Governor Wilson in Pennsylvanie
 aDE ouli moose.
 Missing package of currency found. Taft will extend civil service. Urges national bureau of health. Ex-Governor studies taxation system
 In other states.
 Anti-trust law attacked. 3-- ~~t justice will ba
 named tomorrow. ..s uesire gas plant i-Editorial comment 5-Allen talks on beautiful ladies. Gun toting'' Is cause of crime State tax board meets with board
 Of revenue today.
 Birningham for headquarters. X woman scorned.
 Good roads scouts will leave today. Why Lane stopped sunday moving. RCosevelt state itinerary planned. 6--Fail openings
 Helping hand hints.
 Society. 7-Sports. s-McAdoo declines Hilies' challenge, s-Roosevelt expects support of Had
 ley.  I2--Anniston's water war blows oven Huntsville storm damage SsAoeos
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
MEN MEET AFTER
 2 FIFTEEN YEARS

Duluth. Minn., September 23-Meet- Ing today for the first time in 15 years and learning that they are engaged to wed sisters, is the experience of J. Mayer of New York and w. E. Smith of Chicago. travelling salesinen.
 The men met in hotel by chance and began to talk over old times in Elkhart. Ind. where they separated after leaving school MT. smith volun- teered the information that he was be- trothed and MT Mayer said he was too. It soon developed they were to marry; sisters at Elkhart
 Let's make a double wedding" sug- gested Mir. Mayer
 .All right" said MT. smith.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
Who Shall Control the Gov ernment That Controls
 Corporations?
ADDRESSES CROWDS
 AT EVERY STATION
Rides in Automobile in Scranton and Waves to Cheering Crowds. Day of Campaigning Is
 Marred by Rain

Scranton Pa, September 22.Tbrough rainy Pennsylvania Gov. Woodrow Wilson eampaigned today and addressed thou sands of people who crowded the wayside stations to see him. He arrived here early this evening and participated in an uni- brela parade to the armory. where big mass meeting was held.
 From the moment the democratic can didate crossed the state line ct Phillips burg. N. J., there were umbrella covered crowds to greet him.
 It was getting along toward dusk when the governor reached Stroudshnrg and as he leaned from the rail of the observation ifri.t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
EXPECT BIG CROWD AT
 LEVEE CONVENTION

Memphis, September 23.-Delegates from every state touched = the Mississippi siver and its tributaries are expected to attend ilre interstate levee convention which will convene here tomorrow and be In sessiui for three days.
 Promine Tt planters, members of Con- sress and of the Mississippi river com mission and state and levee board of ficials are among those who will speak Colonel Roosevelt will deliver an address Thursday. explaining his attitude with reference to federal control and aid for the loveee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
TAXES
 LIFE IN LOUISVILLE

Louisville. September 3.-Mrs. Rachael Cohn, widow of Max J. cohn, a mer- chant of Decatur, who died five years ago, committed suicide by hanging at the house at which she bearded here some time during last night Mrs. cohns had been demented at Intervals. believed to have been the result of constant grief over the death of her husband.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
Cree,man Gets Angry

New York. September 23-Inquiry by the aldermanic committee into police con- ditions was marked today by heated words from the principal witness, James Creelman. president of the municipal civil service commission. upon which Police Commissioner Waldo. in earlier testimony, had placed responsibility for the fact that many men alleged to be unfit fer duty received appointments to the police force. The witness denounced the rommittee's $ work as petty political tric.Sery of the republican ring and declared he would leave the witness stand unless it's counsel. Emory R. Buckner. ceased putting lies ir his mouth Scenes of confusion and uproar accompanied practically all of the afternoons proceedings.
 The testimony elicited from President Creelman and his two associates Alex ender Keogh and RichArd .yeIling. in eff ! feet turned the blame back upon Com
 missioner Waldo. The question has
 mainly been how it Was that some ~fO
 | men on the civil service list who lad heen
 rejected by former Police Cammissioner
 Icropsy as unfit for duty Ind heeI ap-
 | lpointed to the force shortly after Com
 missioner Waldo toof office conmfs-
 sioner Waldo has tleciared tlAe civil serv-
 lice commission had certine,l 10 the fitness lof these men. x &
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
Wood Leav6 6day

Washington. septernber 23 Maj. Gen
 |Leonard Wood. chief of staf of the army. win leave tomorrow morning on his an-
 |hual inspection of the netioaal defenses. lire is expected to be gone a month and |during that time will visit practically
 |every army post in the southwest and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
PeremptOry Demand for His Release Brings
 Quick Results
UNITED STATES HAS
 GENERAL CAMPA
Rebel and His Staff Cross Boundary Into Arizona and Are Captured by Marshal Without
 Resistance

l Mexico City, September 2s.-W. C.. | Nichols. an American fruit grower. for | whose release the American ambassador | Henry Lane Wilson made a pcremptory demand on Gov. Matias Guerra of the state of TamauIipas. has been removed fron the Tampico jail and placed in a | hospital under guard. Nichols is ill and his life was in jeopardy because of his confinement
 | This action was taken by order of tho supreme court judge, who previously had ordered his re-imprisonment, and it has re- | lieved a situation which was fast becom- l ing acute. Nichols was sentenced to eight years Imprisonment on the charge of ! having killed Mexican bandit. and the court in reconsidering his case. disregard
 ed the confession of Mexican who ad-
 mitted he was the slayer Governor
 Guerra acted promptly on the demand of the American ambassador and gave as-
 surances by telegraph to MT. Wilson that | he personally would give the matter atten- ton until 1t had been arranged to the
 satisfaction of the ambassador Admits Innocence
 III HE fusSSdBo tnc SONCihoi pAhStitdiS admits the innocence of Nichols and says 1 if there has been an error in imposing sentence on the American it was due to the judges ignorance, rather than perse- | cution, as charged by the ambassador. Ambassador Wilson expressed himself as satisfied for the present, but will permit
 no unnecessary delay in the further pro ceedings which he is confident will result in freeing Nichols.
 Pedro Lascurain, the Mexican foreign minister. has given MT. Wilson assurance that he will use his best efforts with the
 governor of Tamaulipas and the court officials to secure an amelioration of Nichols condition Senor Lascurain ex-
 pressed his indignation at the action of
 the supreme court of Tama ulipas in order ing the imprisonment against of Nichols. ,viso previous 10 the Tppeal lad been re-
 moved from the jail and kept under guard at local hospital.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
Still Assigning Territory

2 New York September 23.--The Standarl Oil company of New Jersey Is still assign ing sales territory to oil refinaries of ts former subsidiaries outside of it's own territory according to testimony given to- day at the hearing of the Warers-Pierce- Standard oil suit. Kenneth Adams, as- slgnment clerk of the New Jersey conI- pany, testified so when asked 2 series Of questions by counsel for the Waters Pierce company. The latter contends there Is no real competition among the various Standard on subsidiaries.
 George Chesebro, secretary Of four pipe line companies, formerly under control oe the National Transit company, dissolved by the United States supreme court de- cree testified that J. A. Moffett. former president of the Transit compaGy and now s director Of the Standard oil eorlpany or New York, had named the officers of the dissolved companies when they were re- organized. Witness said that Mir. Mcffett thought under the decree they could bs the same officers for all four companies.
 Specific Instances Given
 Specific instances of the assignment of sales territory to refineries not owned by the New Jersey company were furnished by E. G. Barber, assistant domestic sales agent of the company Who was d Wi;- ness at the afternoon sessio I. Barber said the sales territory at Camden, Trenton and Phillipsburg. N. J.. was assigned to refineries of the Atlantic Refining com pany of Pennsylvania, one of the sub sidiaries of the former trust. In none Of these cities did the Atlantic Refining com pany compete with the New Jersey conn pany as far as the witness know.
 The assignment or these sales stations to the Atlantic companys ret1neries was the same before dissolution, the witaess conceded. but he said the stations bought their oil from the Atlantic ilefineries now simply because the rates for the trans portatlon of oil from the refineries of tirs New Jersey company were higher than from the Atlantic company
 Barber professed ignorance of the price at which the New Jersey company pur- chased oil of the Atlantic comp my for sale in Phillipsburg, The contention If the Waters Pierce interests Is that, as before the dissolution. the Atlantic re- finery sells at cost to the New Jersey company.
 Although the New Jersey company has a refinery at Bayonne. N. J.. 1t sold no oil in Staten Island, just across the Xiii Von kull. the witness said. Mir Fordyce then indicated that State Island was the territory of the Standard oil company of New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
Who Will Be Master?

''The proposition is this, there shall be two masters. the great corporations and over them the government and ask who is going to be master of the govern ment? 1 don't care how benevolent the master Is going to be, l will not live un- der a master. That was not what Amer ca was created for.
 'Is America going to be saved because George Washington and Lincoln were great? Don't you know America Is safe only because we do not know who the future Presidents of the United states are going to be? II may be q mistake but you cant blame the system for it because it is fine system. where some remote, severe. academic schoolmaster may become President of the United States. He is not connected at least with the powers that have been and he has even on occasion get himself against the powers that are. Men speculate as to what he might be ignorant or audacious enough to do. but all of that is of the ex- eitement of the democratic game. We are sports. We are not going to tie up to particular family class. We are goine tr take chance in the game. That is the beauty of democracy"
 The governor win leave here early to- morrow for Princeton. N. l.. where he will vote in the senatorial primaries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
Will Not Reopen Case

If has been understood at the lepart- ment of justice that the government had been Investigating certain specific com paints against the Standard Oil company. but any purpose of reopenini the big trust case was dsclaimed by officials
 Mr tintermeyer was accompanied on his visit by Edgar IT, Farrar of New Orleans. also of counsel for the money trust in- vestigating committees Each refused to discuss the conversation away from the President
 Was fl all about the money trur ar the Waters Pierce affair." Mr. U..,er- meyer was asked.
 T cannot discuss these al1afs,e he re- piled.
 It was said later at the White House that MT Untermeyer and Mr. Farrar had asked President Taft to permit the money trust Investigating committee Co draw upon the government departments for cer- tain information they want to use in con- neetion with the money trust inycstiga- ton. II was said Mir. Taft asked them 10 submit specific requests in writing an,l promised to decide soon if le could graur them. IL was said that the Waters-Pierce oil litigation was not discussed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
Is Government Contemplate ing Further Steps Against
 the Oil Trust?
STILL ASSIGNING
 SALES TERRITORY
Witnesses in the Suit So Testify. Moffett Named Officers of Subsidiaries, Witness
 Testifies

Washington, Septembee 23.-Samucf untermeyer of New York. attorney for the House money trust Investigating conl- mttee and for the Waters-piefee on com pany In it's fight with the Standard oil company. conferred with President Taft today. Reports that the government was watching developments in the Waters Pierce suit invested the conference with interest.
 No engagement had been made for tfs caller but he was admitted immediately to the Presidents presence. The Pres ident had been refusing many engage ments because his 2i hours stay had been entirely booked over.
 It was reported that testimony deveI- oped in the Waters Pierce litigation might be used by the government as basis of investigation of how the Standard Oil company is carrying out its decree of dis solution. Contempt of court proceedings have been pending, II is known also that Attorney General Wicl<ersnam has been receiving a stenographie copy of testi- mony in the case and giving to t his per sonal attention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
Wilson Is Witty

They know we don't need any artificial light said the candidate amid laughter,
 and that there is no danger on the part of the democratic candidate of rear -end collision. because nobody is n the same running class with us.
 "The interesting thing to the whole country Is that the great state of Penn sylvania, that has so long seemed en- tirely devoted to the interests of one party and suspicious of the democratic party, is now showing a marked inclination to turn away from the party which has not satisfied the people, The republicans aren't even satisfying themselves. | don t like 10 talk about 1t because I belong to another family, and 1t seems to rle in- delicate to talk about the affairs of a family I don't belong to.
 Those of us who have for IS years seen exactly what was coming in the year 1912 have no doubt where we arc bound for. Because l want to call yol to witness that the democratic party has had sub stantially it's present programme nf re turning the government to the people for more than 16 years. We aren't doir E anything new in the year 1912. What has happessd is that the people are begin- nIng to see that after All we were will ling to stay out of power on the convlc- ton that the aay was coming yneb aren oiif own plaisornl We coniu serre tle IT. terests of the people of the uifited
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
TAFT ID INCREASE THE CIVIL SERVICE Will Add All Fourth Class
 POstmasters
 A AFFECTS 36,O3S PEOPLE Hitchcock Will Make Formal Recom- mendation in lew Days and the President Is Expected to
 Act Promptly
AFFECTS 36,O3s PEOPLE

Washington. September 23.--It was prac- tically decided today that President Taft soon will issue an executive order plac- ing all fourth class postmasters in the classified service This order, relieving S6,O3S postmasters from the uncertainty of political appointment will be one of the most comprehensive and far reaching, as affecting the civil service, ever issued
 That the President would take this step, his first act towards putting Into practice his often expressed belief that all government officials below the grade of cabinet members should be relieved from the influence of politics and placed under the civil service. became practic- ally certain late today. after a delegation of postmasters. returning from the an nual convention of the association at Richmond. Va, had been received at the White House.-and by Postmaster General Hitchcock
 The visitors submitted A monster petit ton, signed by about 2o,000 postmasters asking that they be placed in the classi- fled service.
 Referred to Hitchcock
 After discussing the matter briefly with the delegation, President Taft referred the executive committee to MT. Hitch cock Later the committee called upon the Postmaster General to discuss the subject with him.
 In few days MT. Hitchcock will sub- init to President Taft formal recom- nendation that the petition be granted and the President is expected to act promptly and favorably upon the recom- mendation
 In the entire country there were sg,6b fourth class postmasters at the end of the last fiscal year. By executive order is- sued in July. 1908, President Roosevelt placed the fourth class postmasters of all of the New England states and New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin in the civil service, a total of 1864. Those still without the service number 3G,0Ss
 While these details of the proposition nave not been worked out, 1t is expected the coming into the classified service of this great number of officials will be accomplished by the designation of the postmasters of groups of states success siyey. It will require an immense amount Of labor on the part of the civil service commission, and the post office depart ment
 Dp'h blt IreSiuent ana POstmast General Hitchcock, have recommended to Congress that all postmasters be brought into the classified service: and that. so far as possible, the entire personnel of the postal service be removed from nolit ical influence. As to the first second and third classes of postmasters legis,a : ton by Congress vii. be required to place them under civil service regula- lions; but the President now has author fly. under certain defined limitations of competency and efficiency, to put post masters or the fourth class under the protection of the civil service rules.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
Use Short and Ugly Word

The lie was passed in the hearing before Special Commissioner Huff touching the Rosenthal case here today.
 John w. Hart representing Becker. asked to have other witnesses than his own additional. Gilbert Hogcboom, exam ined:
 District Attorney Whitman declined re- ferring to the stipulation made Saturday and the fact that only one person, lIoge- loom, had then been named.. l.. l.. Saw yer, A Hot Springs lawyer, retained by Hart, asked Mir. Whitman if he would iiot agree to examination of material wit nesses after the regular order had been exhausted.
 "I will not" Whitman declared
 These tactics are old in New York, he vouchsafed.
 What do you mean by tactics?" asked Sawyer.
 Delay" retorted Whitman.
 Do you intimate that this is meant for dilatory tactics,'' asked Sawyer. ''I make no nsinuation.' replied Whit man; T say it as fact" You are liar" shouted Sawyer. "Oh, you are another" retorted Whit man with laugh. You little shrimp, interposed Hcrt leaning over the board nclining toward Whitman. The district attorney did not glance at Hart. but seemed convulsed with mex pressible mirth.