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New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
GOMPERS WILL TESTIFY
First Witness Can't Produce
Books of Hatters' Union.

Hartford. Conn. Aug 2s-President
Samuel Gompers Of the American Fedora
ton OF Labor arrived to-day 10 testify
Hatters of North America. brought by
D. y. LoeWe and others. I'm which dam
ages of $4,000 are asked because Of an al
legged conspiracy 10 injure the business Of
the plaintiffs Thus far all the Witnesses
i'm the case have been summoned by the
plaintiffs. 90
Mr.. GOmpers testimony during the
first trial, when damages Of S222,0co were
awarded the plaintiffs, was by deposition.
He was met at the depot by local officials,
and will be the guest OF honor at din
ner this evening
John O'Hara, secretary-treasurer OF the
Danbury Local No. 10, Hatmakers' Union.
was the first witness called to-day. He
is. not defendant, although he has been
a member of the union for twenty-four
years. His predecessor I'm Office was Pat
rick VI. COnnolley. at present Labor Com
missioner of this state. who was secre-
tary Of the Danbury Hatmakers' Union
for fifteen years.
Mr.. O'Hara was asked II he had with
him the minute book OF Local No. TO- which
he had been subpenaed to bring. He said
he did not have 1t, az # was In the pos
session of the clerk of the Superior Court
In Fairfield County i'm an appealed case
and he could not get ii.
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
BRIDE Furnishes WASHERS
Young Woman Follows Youths
and Has Them Locked Up.

Just as two youths came abreast or Pa
trolman Hilgerman at 99th street and
Park avenue, late last night, a young
woman ran up from behind. threw her
arms around the necks of the two and
yelled To the policeman to arrest them.
IIilgerman did so.
Then the young woman explained that
she was Mrs Anna Lustburg. bride OF
three months, living at No. SO East l00th
street. Her husband, she said, had been
out OF town the last few days, and the
youths. although they knew she was mar
ried. persisted In meeting her whenever
she left her home, and addressing her az
Hello. kid. or with similar terms, as
well as using profanity when she refused
TO speak to them.
She came 10 the stoop to look for her
husband whom she was expecting hourly
last night. she said and the two youths
were waiting outside the house. When
she would have nothing TO do with them
they called her insulting names
AT the East 10ith street station the
prisoners said they were Benjamin Lask,
a clerk. sixteen years old OF No. "a East
sgth street. and Peter Rosenbaum, d
clerk. eighteen years old. of No. 81 East
esth street. Before they were locked up
the Young husband of Mrs. Lustburg
reached the station house. II took two
policemen 10 keep him of from the pris-
onG
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
FIGHTS 1.OOO-POUN0 SHARK
Boats Grew Also Tackles Big
Horse Mackerel at Same Time.
fBy Telegraph to The Tribune.

BY Ielegldp 10 ne lIlpAHtsJ
Long Branch, y. j., Aug. 2S.-A man
eating shark. weighing more than one
thousand pounds, and a horse mackerel
half the size OF the shark greeted the
fishermen from Garrett Hennessey's
pounds to-day.
The crew. in command Of Captain
Simonson. were ready TO tackle the
horse mackerel when the man eater
bobbed up, and they realized they had
n fight on. as both were trying to es-
cape.
After getting the shark partly out of
the water the fishermen lanced the big
fish. II put up a big fight, and for a
time things looked bad for the fisher
men. as the man eater threatened TO
swamp the craft. Several Of the fish
ermen were exhausted when the boat
reached land a few hours later the
shark and mackerel were on the way
to New York The shark was the big
gest taken along the coast in years.
Captain Stewart Cook caught a big
shark opposite Gallilee to-day. and
Captain John Hennessey landed two
mackere said 10 be the largest ever
caught in this section. They Will be
exhibited at the Red Bank Fair to-
morrow.
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
,,r,ocratS Would Smash, Not
psouIate, Business of Cor
porationS, He Asserts.
,vrs PROGRESSIVE VIEW
!. .ahsr New Solution nor Taft
'an;ssolution" Programme
Will Be Accepted by the
Public, He Declares.

.,.- ,g 10 the solution OF the trust
L. offered by Governor Marshall,
neuocratic Vice-Presidential can
>,.,s in his speech at Augusta, Me-,
..dav night, George W. Perkins last
!, nointed out that it meant smash
~ business rather than regulating
He rather sarcastically referred
,,s declaration of the Democratic
,.,,orm that the tariff would be ad-
..d 90 as not to disturb business,
[1.,sas Governor Marshall would wipe
'-oorations out of existence, without,
!, .ourse disturbing business.
yes. 1 have seen the newspaper ac-
ants Of Governor Marshalrs speech
:. Augusta. Ne. Yesterday" said Mr..
ns,tins "snd notice he says the way
:, reach the corporation question is to
,,-,sit corporation charters, and that
,.is can be done, because a corporation
4. criv a creature of the state. I also
,o,,.s that the Republicans claim that
.sv have settled the corporation ques-
s,o through the Standard oil and the
-obscco dissolution suits.
The Progressive party believes that
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
QUEER ELEVATOR MISHAP
Police Investigate Death Of Wander
bilt Hotel Employe.

William McSherry. thirty years old, OF
No. 44s Ninth avenue an elevator runner
employed in the Vanderbilt Hotel Park
avenue and gath street, was found early
last night lying on the floor Of the car
he had been operating. at the eleventh
floor. unconscious. Alexander Smith, a
porter, employed in the hotel, discovered
him.
Dr. Allen. from New York Hospital,
was summoned and found McSherry suf-
fering from a compound fracture Of the
right thigh. a fracture Of the left elbow
and possible internal injuries. He was
taken to Bellevue Hospital and died a
few hours later.
Detectives from the West Goth street
station are making an investigation, but
believe that McSherry received his in
juries accidentally while running the car.
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
THREE FARMERS DROWNED
Out for a Days Fishing on Mud
Lake, a Squall Upsets Their Canoe.
.Eraph 10 The Tribune.l

fBy Telegraph 10 The Tribune.l
Ogdensburg, ~ Y, Aug. $.-News has
Just reached this city from Englehart
telling OF triple drowning which oc-
CURED at Mud Lake, near the village OF
Charlton. Three farmers, William Gross
man. Frank Phillips and John Levy
started out early this morning for
days fishing.
The party had reached the middle OF the
lake when a squall suddenly came up
apsizing their canoe The men chung 10
the craft as long as their strength he'a
out. but were finally compelled to release
their hold, and all were drowned. the
canoe was found later floating near the
shore.
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
EAGER TO HEAR COLONEL
Full Committee Assured When
INQUIRY Goes On.

Washington. Aug. ga committee OF
five members to carry on the further In
vesugation Of campaign contributions ana
10 probe the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
controversy became assured to-day.
Senator Clapp, chairman of the commit
tee on investigation, received word from
Senator Paynter that he would arrange TO
return to Washington to attend the near
ings whenever tho committee met. Inc
other members of the committee, Sena-
tors Clapp, Oliver, Jones and Pomcrene'
had already expressed their Willingness TO
proceed with the hearings about Septem-
Der 30. With Mr.. Paynter present there
Will be q complete representation of the
Democratic membership of the committee
50 that the examination will be oi-paru-
san. The committee embraces three Re-
publicans and two Democrats.
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
7. R. GOES TO VERMONT,
BUT COMEDIES DEFEAT
Despite Three Days SpeIlbind-
ing Programme, He Fully Ex-
poets to Lose State.
BIG BUSINESS AGAINST HIM
Calls Penrose Testimony of Ad
vising Second Archbold Gift
Enough to Expel Him
from Senate.

Theodore Roosevelt is on his way to
Vermont TO conduct a three days whirl-
wind campaign by way OF making a
showing" at the state elections next week.
Just before ne left Oyster Bay last night
the colonel talked candidly about his
chances in the Green Mountain State, and
It was pretty evident that he regarded
them as mighty small. In fact, he said
Vermont was one Of four or five states
which he was willing 70 concede would
probably go to President Taft Condi-
tions there. he thinks, are not propitious
for him. In the first place the colonel
hasn't a single newspaper in the state
supporting him, and secondly. he regards
II as necessary that the Progressive
party have the support OF two-thirds of
the nominal Republican vote.
Mr. Roosevelt referred in his talk 10 de-
fections that were bound TO occur, and
cited Maryland and New Jersey as ex-
amples. Conditions in Vermont. he said,
were such as TO make it practically i'm
possible TO carry the state. In spite of
this, Senator Dixon and Charles II.
Thompson. OF Vermont, in charge Of the
New England field. were bent on storm
ing the Green Mountaineers for moral
effect
The colonel also spoke about his couu-
try-wide chances. He frankly admitted
that whatever support he got would come
from formers. the small tradespeople and
the wage earners. The big business men,
he confessed. were against him. Some OF
them would be for President Taft he
said, but the majority. he thought would
rather trust TO the ultimate conservatism
Of Governor Wilson.
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
TRAGEDY SHIP BURNED
The Rosecrans Had Eventful
History in Many Seas.

san Francisco. Aus. 2s.-The'loe Of the
oil steamer Rosecraus. which was burned
and sank AZ Santa Barbara yesterday. re-
veals many lurid pages. Built In Glasgow
in 1883 and launched az the Methvcn
Castle. the vessel was renamed the Gen
eral Rosecrans and used As an army
transport IN the Spanish-American War.
one or the Phoenix Park murderers
Carey by name the informer who re-
yealed the names Of his confederates IN
the murder in Dublin OF Lord Frederick
Cavendish and Thomas 7. Burke. was
killed on the Mothyen Castle near Cape
Town soon after the launching Of tie
vessel
The Eoserraus went ashore OF Gaviota.
cal. last March. and two Of her crew
were lost.
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
vent the people from really taking charge

vent the people from really taking charge
of their own government. III.
BY the way, the prime trouple WIZ.
Messrs. Archbold Penrose and their
hackers and allies is that they Judge
othens by themselves. They cant neiP
thinking that somehow or other tney VIII
find a Joint in my armor. Ihey Won
because OF the simple fact that II is hot
there 10 find. There is nothing that they
can find out to my dlscredit. for the ex-
cellent reason that there IL not anything
discreditable to find out
Colonel Roosevelt boarded his car az
midnight. He said that he saw Senator
Clapp at the Harvard Club last night and
had arranged with him the details or his
letter. They worked on this document
until nearly 12 o'clock when the coionei
hurried away TO his train.
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
Let Hearst Do II.

NO: no: that is not true" he replied,
decisvely.
Asked TO give an explanation OF the un-
expected visit OF Mr.. Hearst 10 tho White
House at that time, Colonel Roosevelt
replied.
Let Mr.. Hearst do the explaining, If ne
cares 70 do so
| Colonel Roosevelt doesn't tire of speak
ing about Senator Penrose. lie said yes
terdav that the Pennsylvania Senator
wbele attitude was one OF man who mas
turned states evidence
"On his own testimony before the Ciapp
commission would have Penrose eject
cd from the Senate" he declared, after
ne had read from an extract OF the Pen
rose testimony I'm substance that the Sen
ator had advised John d. ArchDold 10
mako a second contribution to the 1894
campaign lest the company encounter
difficulties from the powers that be.
For n United States Senator to suggest
q thing like that Is enough to warrant his
being thrown out Of the Senate" the colo
mel went on. What is the difference be-
tween such a course and the police gralt
situation in New York? Both stand for
protection, don't they?
"My. oh my. but II IS fine. As soon as
va finish with Lorimer they furnish us
with more ammunition for the war chest.
Senator Penrose will be our target now
The colonel said the Penrose-Archbold
testimony was designed to throw dust
In the eyes of the people" When the dust
settled. he said, IL would Dc all to the ad-
vantage of himself
The colonel was hard al work yester-
dsy on his letter to Senator Clapp. This
will embody the meat Of what he desired
N testify TO at Washington Monday. II
win he published in the papers next Mon
day morning.
Asked II 1t would be a strong state
ment" the colonel replied.
1T won't exactly be a weak one. /
hone to show the significance OF Senator
Penrose's position in regard to the oil
trust contribution, and ! shall bring II
out in my long campaign"
The news that Senator Finn. OF Penn
sylyania, was prepared 10 name as Tart
electors In that state Senators Penrose
and Oliver and the other organization
men pleased the colonel
.'By George, j hope that Finn does 1t.
Penrose has been President Tafts right
hand man: now he ought TO accept the
honor to serve him as an elector," he
cried.
Continuing. he said:
We will beat Mr.. Taft IN Pennsylvania
a good deal worse than we did beat MIN
in the primaries. and personally am
convinced tnat we shall carry Pennsyl-
yania without difficulty for the Progress
sIye ticket There as everywhere else.
the fight IS between Mr.. Wilson and my
SELF The Taft supporters. as shown by
the action of Messrs. Penrose and Arch-
bold. have not the slightest idea Of elect
ing Mr. Taft.
Moreover, they care little about 1t. Their
aim is 10 beat me and beat the forces
behind me, because they stand for priv
ilege and against the people; and they
care little whether they elect Mr.. Wilson
or Mr. Taft or any one else II only tney
ran beat the Progressive, party and pre-
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
The People Can Decide.

The people Mr.. Perkins said. could
read the Progressive platform, read the
pla tforms of the Republican and Dem
ocratic parties, read what the candi-
dates were saying on the stump, and
then decide what programme they pre-
ferred.
Referring to the statement of Gov
ernor Wilson in a Sea Girt speech Of
several days ago, that the reason for
the Progressive party was a feeling
that men had gone into blind alleys
and come out often enough and pro-
posed to find all open road for them
selves, Mr.. Perkins said that the prop
ositions Of the Progressive party led
into no blind alleys.
Suppose we did take away the char
ters Of corporations" Mr.. Perkins con-
tinued; they would come back TO
plague us in some other form. We are
living in an age Of concentration. and
we cannot go back any more than we
can do away with all the modern i'm
provements.
Take the third rail that is used on
the New York Central service in the
city limits. II man should fall across
that rail he would probably be killed
at once. But that is no reason why we
should tear up the third rail and go
back to steam. The thing to do is TO
put proper safeguards about the rail.
MY father often told me Of the days
Of wildcat state banks. Was the ma
tional banking system devised to make
the banking business smaller? No; to
make it bigger, and at the same time
place it under proper control. You
cannot smash up big business.
However, Governor Marshall virtu-
ally acknowledges that the Democrats
would not know how to control cor
porations and would have to destroy
them"
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29

"el'ner Governor Marshalrs solution
nor Nr. Taft's dissolution programme
VIII be accepted by the public as
satisfactory or permanent settlement
oi the corporation question"
Ihe Progressive party, Mr.. Perkins
sald' stood for the elimination Of the
evils and the preservation Of the good
wherever they exist. whether in busi-
ness or politics
me Democratic party" he added,
Is at this moment posing before the
country as progressive party, and yet
III one of the first utterances that their
Vlce-Presidential candidate makes (and,
mind, you, this is the candidate that
would preside over the United States
Senate if elected) is to smash all large
business enterprises to smithereens.
Their tariff plank says that they are
going TO adjust the tariff, but do 1t in
such way as not to disturb business
Mr.. Marshalls utterance OF yester
day shows how they are going to handle
the corporation question without dis
utterance we have from the Democrats
as To just what they are going TO do
with big business. 1t is clear and to
the point. There is no misunderstand-
ing it.
They propose to revoke charters and
in this way absolutely wipe the cor
porations out Of existence. / suppose
they will do this without disturbing
business. They won't throw any labor
ing men out of employment; they won't
disturb our foreign export business or
in any way affect prosperity
r. Colonel Roosevelt or Governor
Johnson had made an utterance such
as that of Governor Marshall, Mr..
Perkins said, they would have been
placed at the head of all anarchists at
once.
Speaking of the way the Progressive
party believed in handling the prob
lem. Mr.. Perkins said
The Progressive platform is explicit
on how it proposes to handle large
business 1t is a progressive, con-
structive way of doing il, and not a
retrogressive and destructive way of
doing it, The Progressive movement
recognizes that the corporation is an
essential part of modern business, that
the concentration of modern business
in some degree is both inevitable and
necessary for national and interna-
tional efficiency, but that the concen-
tration Of vast wealth and power under
the corporate system, unguarded and
uncontrolled by the nation. has placed
in the hands Of a few men enormous,
secretive, irresponsible power over the
daily life of the citizen-a power insult
ferable in a free government and GER
tain Of abuse.
I'VE do not fear commercial power,
but we insist that it shall be exercised
openly, under publicity, under super
vision and regulation of the most eff.
cient sort, which will preserve the good
while eradicating and preventing evils,
exactly as is now done with our large
national banks and with our great rail-
road systems"
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29

David =. Beaver. OF Yonkers. was a
construction engineer and formerly super
lntendent Of construction on the Hudson
River division OF the New York Central
Railroad. He was born thirty-two years
ago I'm Norristown. Penn, and was q
graduate OF the University Of Pennsyl-
yania. Recently he had been employed in
Albany. lie was cousin OF George r.
Baer. president Of the Reading Railroad
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29

His wife. Ethel Nostrand Beaver. tven-
ty-six years old. whom he married three
years ago, believes that her husband took
his life while temporarily insane. She
saw him In Few York on Tuesday, and
had an appolntment with him at New
York hotel qbr the same night, but ne
failed to keep II. The couple have no
children.
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
D. B. BEAVER A SUICIDE
Yonkers Engineer Takes His
Life in Albany Hotel.

Albany. Aug. 2s.-The body of David b.
Beaver. OF Yonkers y. Y, was found to-
dav in room Of a local hotel. His throat
was cut. Beavers friends say he was
respondent
4 note was found. addressed 10 Mrs.
u u. Beaver. No. 70 Post street. Yonkers.
which read az follows.
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
"Biq Business" Scared.

According 10 the colonel, both Frank
a. Munsey and George ". Perkins We're
sanguine at first that the Progressive
platform enunciated at Chicago would
be a beacon light TO the farseeing men
of big business" They have watched
and waited Ior signs of the realization
OF their expectations, but thus far. es-
pecially in the East, they have frankly
acknowledged, either that the platform
Is too radical TO suit the taste OF financial
interests, or the unstable colonel
frghtens them away Mr.. Roosevelt
therefore. looks for a new and unexpected
lineup OF the independent voters next
November.
The colonel left the Grand Central Sta
ton at l2:25 this morning over the New
York Central Railroad. for North Ben
nington. Vt. He Will arrive there at So,
and will be met by Mr.. Metzger. the Pro
sressivc candidate for Governor. Charles
II. Thompson and others. He will 20 on
to Bennington and speak at $50 and Al
. o'clock this afternoon. he will speak
at Rutland the capital of the state. At
ASO he speaks at Middlebury. and in the
evening he will be in Burlington. To-
morrow's campaign opens at St Albans
and ends at St Johnsbury. On Satur-
day he will open at Barre and wind VI
his last day with a speech at Brattle-
boro.
The former President was asked yesteT
day afternoon II IL we're true that he In
vlted William r. Hearst to the Whlt'
House during the Presidential campaign
of 1908 to ask him whether nc had any
letters I'm his stock" of private CORE
spondence between Senator Foraker auc
John d. Archbold which affected nm
lPoogayelD
New-York tribune., 1912-08-29

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81 hope you Will be satisfied with the
next one YOU got. Regards 10 Margaret,
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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-09
California
BY GEORGE FITCH

California Is large, elbow-sha9ed
state. which abuts on the Pacific
ocean for 1000 miles, and is the west.
elm terminus of the sleeping car bust
ness in this country. 1t extends from
Mexico to Oregon laterally, from late
winter to early summer climatically,
and from affluence to railroad In lch
counters, viewed strictly from The
tourists standpoint.
California is shut off from the rest
of the nation by mountains, deserts,
the Grand Canyon, and railroad fare
varying from Sos to $780, In split of
this fact Californians speak perfectly
good United States, produce splendid
ball players and insurge with all the
skill and enthusiasm of Eansans.
California Was discovered almost
400 years ago, but not advestisel
much until 1S49. when its soil ys 3
found to be strongly impregn lted
with gold. This caused a mad RI ,sh
OF settlers, and the state became i'm
mediately popular. Some years after
ward the Californians experimen. I'D
with oranges and found that the air
was also strongly fmpregnated with
geld. This caused a second rush.
Later on the climate was analysed by
skillful press agents and was found
to be warm in winter. This caused
a rush of tourists who were mo, e
strongly impregnated with gold than
either the soil or the air. In conse-
uuence California now mas almost g.
sec. 900 pecple, and there are hardly
enough pedestrians among them to
keep the automobile owners amused.
California was wild state in the
fifties, and many of its citizens died
from inhaling revolver bullets. But
is has tanned down a great deal and
is now fayorite place of residence
for aged and prosperous Americans
who have become tired of shovelinw
the climate of Massachusetts or Hi
nois off of their sidewalks. Califor-
mia has thousands of citizens WHO
never saw a snowstorm until the eiec
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sres Ged ahead and tossed shell and
grape into the woods and bushes along
shore
Fry's guns kept silent until the
Mound City came abreast of his lower
battery, the naval rifles from the Maui
repas. A broadside from these guns
drew the fire OF all the feet upon the
batteries. and ut the same time VIII
liams' sharpshooters were hunted out
or their lair by the shell and small shot
from the gunboats and the bullets Of
Fitch's skirmishers. Under cover of
the gunboat fire Fitch pushed his men
up to the rear OF the lower battery and.
after looking the ground over, signaled
10 Kitty that he would storm the place.
Kitty quickly responded that the navy
would take the contract alone.
Captain Kitty brought the Mound
City to directly in front OF Fry's four,
gun battery and pounded It with shot
for an hour. Meanwhile Huntington
trained his guns upon the Mound City.
At that Kitty signaled the st. Louis
and her wooden consorts to steam up
close and engage the lower battery.
while the Mound City took care OF the
upper one. Dunnington's guns proved
to be considerable distances apart