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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-20

faith, which was as deep as his very
life.
Faithful to HIS ideals. he gave the
best of his life to the shaping Of the
states policies to his will, and al
though he died with his work but half
accomplished, the splendid purposes he
wrought VIII live in the statutes thnt
were enacted embodying his ideas and
the high standing and credit the state
attained during his administration.
Realizing the greatness and power
OF the man. one is appalled, at the
wicked, wanton waste of Death that
could claim life like this while cum
berers continue to pollute the earth and
air with their existence.
The truest tribute to him as q man
was paid by those who have served
him daily, the clerks in the comp
troller's office. Enveloped IN an at
mosphere of love he has spent the
ripest, best years Of his life with
them, extending to each a fathers in
terest and consideration and radisting
an atmosphere Of love. When the
news Of his death came they sat with
stricken faces and hushed voices,
wrapped In sorrow too great and too
awful for words
Mr.. Groom was a man of singular
modesty and assumed no credit for his
achievements. His greatest Joy was
In being kind and helpful to others.
He was
"A still, strong man In a blatant land"
He was like q sturdy oak in q bar
rem waste where birds OF hope built
their nests and sang OF the coming of
spring and under whose shade weary
pilgrims found rest and refreshment
and renewed their strength for the
hlistering marches that lay ahead of
them.
He was like the searching voice Of
God, speaking through starlit silences.
He was like the martial music of the
golden stars breathing courage and
hope to the children of men. He lived
close to nature and learned many OF
her secrets and loved all the bright,
beautiful, pure things that make life
so wonderful and he went to meet his
doom with the same courage that he
shouldered his musket in 1851 and en-
dured the hardships Of four years of
terrible war. Soldier, statesman and
southern gentleman, his memory will
live long in the hearts OF those who
knew him and loved him for what he
was.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-20
CLIMATE HURTS WEAK LUNGS

In this climate there are always
numbers of people whose lungs are
weak and who either have q chronic
cough or else catch cold easily and
are very likely to take pneumonia
A New York girl. Miss Louise Jesel.
has written a letter on this subject,
saying: I'm the past year have been
troubled with weak lungs and palpita-
ton of the heart. Having heard that
Vinol was a great strengthened I be-
gan taking it and 1t has done me a
world OF good.
81 have no cough now, my heart is
all right and I have gained greatly in
strength and energy"
Naturally, as soon as her strength
had been built up to the right point
by Vinol, all symptoms OF her former
trouble vanished.
This delicious cod liver and iron
remedy. without oil not only creates
strength and enriches the blood, but
always agrees with the stomach.
Get a bottle of Vinol today and be-
cir receiving Its curative power. We
guarantee it to please you Whites
Pharmacy, Pensacola, Fla.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-20
THE HALF-MASTED
FLAGSATTALLAHASSEE
BY Jefferson Bell.

Tallahassee, Fla, March 49,
The tattered flag that floats over the
state house swings at half mast in
token of mourning for the distinguish
ed men whose deaths followed so
close together that the official period
of mourning was heightened to sixty
instead Of the usual thirty rays.
The old Greeks believed that higher
than all the gods and goddesses were
the three weird sisters known as the
Fates who controlled human destinies.
Not even Jupiter himself could change
the plans OF the Fates. When a child
was born into the world one sister be-
gan to spin the thread of his life, the
second decided the length Of this
thread and the third, when the des-
tined hour came, cut the thread and
of all who walked the face Of the earth
there was not one whose life was not
subject to their will"
Whether we call that higher will
that shapes our ends fate or by some
other name, as in the days of the old
Greeks. swift as the fash OF lightning,
when the appointed hour falls we go
forth to that underground world. the
homo of the dead. without a word of
farewell. So it has been in the re-
cent deaths that shocked and appalled,
the whole state when within a week
VI each OIIl6t MT. MCLln ana MI.
Groom answered the last call
For the past ten years these two
men stood shoulder to shoulder, bear
ing largely the brunt of every fight
through the years when every move
made by the states administrative Of
ficers was the subject Of bitter de-
nunciation and criticism. Together
they fought until public sentiment
changed and then set it's seal of APP
prevail upon the work that had been
done.
Mr.. McLin was a man of great and
tender heart, full of love and syrnpa-
thy for all who needed Ii. The I'M
fortunates in the state prison camps
were his especial charge and in his
death they have lost their best friend.
Mr.. Groom was a man Of unusual
force OF character and intellect. In his
veins there seemed to have mingled
the strain of Vikings and heroes and
the blood Of Presbyterian ancestors
which made him brave and noble and
to his death a Presbyterian in his
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-20
WOULD LOCATE
IN PENSACOLA
AN OKLAHOMA MAN WRITES
COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION FOR
INFORMATION REGARDING THIS
CITY.

Learning of the thrift Of Pensacola
through the Commercial Association, a
party in an Oklahoma city writes to
Secretary Henderson. wanting to
know the conditions here, saying he
wishes to put in a first-class COM
mercial hotel If the travel warranted
it.
The members OF the harbors and
shipping committee will meet this
morning at II o'clock in the com
Jnittee rooms of the association. This
afternoon at o'clock the legislative
committee meets, and the committee
on publicly and promotion meets at D
o'clock
President c. F. D0Dson has Hp-
pointed George H Hervey chairman
OF the house and entertainment COM
mittee, to take the place Of B. 5. VII
iams, resigned. W. A. Ray has been
appointed chairman Of the commit
tee on transportation and freight rates.
c. Jones having resigned. Both of the
newly appointed chairmen have been
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-20
Hea1tlflXN1a
1SrF6ffTS

Women who bear children and TO
main healthy are those who prepare
their systems In advance Of bahy's
coming. Unless the mother aids
nature In its prenatal work the crisis
rnds her system unequal to the de-
mands made upon It, and she 10 often
left with weakened health or chronic
ailments. No remedy Ia 30 truly
help to nature a. Mothers Friend,
and no expectant mother should fail
to use st. It relieves the pain and
discomfort caused By the strain on
the ligaments, makes plant and elias
tic those fbres and muscles which
nature is expanding. prevents numb
ness Of limbs, and soothes the infam-
nation OF breast glands. The system
being thus prepared by Mothers
Friend dispels the fear that the crisis
may not be safely met Mothers
Friend assures Q speedy and complete
recovery for the mother, and she Is
left o healthy woman to enjoy the
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c. 8 q. S. charts: 1s4. IL. 1s.

c. g. @. S. Charts: 1874, IL, IS.
Buoy List. Sth District, 1911. p IL.
U. s. Coast Pilot. Atlantic Coast,
Part VIII, 1903, p. 2. 70, "a.
BY order OF the commissioner of
lighthouses. G. p. Eaton, Command
er, U. S. N, retired, inspector. sth L.
II. district
The fishing schooner Favorite, with
1900 pounds OF snappers and 5000
pounds OF groupers, and the G. Is.
Welles with $4,000 pounds of snappers
and 5000 pounds of groupers. were
among the arrivals of the Saunders
fleet yesterday.
Arrived.
Santanderino, Span So, Cienfuegos 70
Cary e. Co.
Skipton Castle, Br 50, Tampa to Gulf
Transit Co.
Alkaid, Dutch SIS, 1883, Buenos Agree
to The Gulf States Shipping Co.
Craighmor, Br IS, Williams, 1921
Buenos Ayres to The Keyser Muldon
Co.
Cleared.
SantHnderino Span SIS, 2137, for Gal
weston, with 356 tons of coal
Sldpton Castle. Br SIS, for Galveston
with 5SS tons Of GOAL.
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Mothers
Friend

ant mothers which contains much
valuable Information, and many sug-
gestions Of q helpful nature.
BRADrIuD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta. Go.
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r. c. Lockhart. Am. King. ass. to
NOTICE.

There VIII be a smoker given Wed
nesday night at Castle Hall by Live
Oak Camp No. !, w. o. w. For Wood
men and their friends.
w. T.. NIXON,
]. H. BREwTON.
F. T. TIDEMAN,
17m1St COMMITTEES.
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HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

An added attraction was furnished
visitors on Palafox wharf yesterday
when a diver made an examination OF
the hull of the smack Priscilla in an
cndeavor to locate and stop leak,
which had been discovered. Some Of
the tourists and also many local people
watched the work with much in
terest.
Two arrivals were reported yester-
day morning, the Spanish steamship
Santanderino and the British steam
ship Skipton Castle. Both of the YES
sells put in for bunker coal.
The British steamer August Bel
mont sailed from Bremen for Pensa-
cola several days ago;
Several cars of cotton are stored
in the L. & n. warehouses billed to
japan. The lot will be shipped to
Liverpool and thence trsnsshipped to
its destination.
Timberrnen worked overtime last
evening to finish loading the Swedish
steamship Uppland. The vessel clear
ed for Genoa and will sail at day
light.
The British steamship Cragmor,
consigned to the Keyser -Muldon Com
pany, is due today and will be locked
on the east side of Perdido wharf upon
arrival.
The big steamship Wentworth has
completed cargo Of naval stores and
is now loading a small parcel Of lum-
Der. This will be finished today.
The British steamer Silver Wings,
which was looked for yesterday, has
been delayed, a cable having been re-
ceived yesterday announcing the fact.
The steamer is now due to arrive Sat
urday, and viii take part cargo here.
Local Notice TO Mariners.
Florfda-St Andrews Bay-Buoyr
replaced in proper positions March IA,
reported out of position March IL.
St. Andrews Bay Entrance Bell Buoy,
P. S.
Sand Bluff Shoal Buoy, 9, I'd
class nun.
East Crossing Buoy. P. s.. a Sd
class nun.
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VESSELS IN PORT.
Stoanahips.

Steamships.
Alkaid, Dutch. 1883, to Gulf States
Craighmor. Br, williams. 1927, to
The Keyser- Muldon Co.
Gracia, Span, Ruiz. 2t22, to Gulf
Transit Co.
Hubert, Br, Martin, $3.50. to Cary &
Co.
Ingelnnger. Ger. Ruhne 21ss. to Gulf
CaIiiope, Br. Smith. 1853. to Gulf
Transit Co.
UppIand, Swed, Person. 171S, 20
DoIoear Export Co.
Aanchuria, Br. Bennett, 1913, TO
Pensacola Lumber Co.
Wentworth, Br Mcclellan, 30I7, to
South Atlantic Steamship Co.
Brentwood, Br. Mudd. 1T7o. TO Pen
sacola Lumber Co.
Ships.
Combermere, Ita1. Laddanzs, 1880,
to master.
Banks.
Clara, Nor. Bjerkhalt, sss. to master.
Elvos Ital. Marini, to Pensacola
Lumber Co.
volturon. Ttal, stagno. 1863. to mas
ter
sopochIese. Ital, Pontermoli, 1923, to
master.
Victoria I, Nor. Jensen. I4s. to
master.
San Pedro. Urug, Font, 1861, to mas
ter.
carvajaI. Span. Jardon. 4s4, To mas
ter
Genista, ItaL Trapani, 1856, to
master.
Brumbo. Ttal Farrari, SAT, to South
ern States Lumber Co.
Due Cugini, ItaL D'Uccio. liza, ia
master.
6ehooners.
Julia A May, Br, Banks, SO, %
stearns Lumber & Export Co.
Donna Christina, Am, Christopher,
165, to master
Finn. Nor, Johannsen. 2ss, 70 master
Barthaldo. Br. Chute. 29e. to Stearns
Lumber & Export Co.
Alice May Davenport, Am, Nash.
$50 to master
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re4rInR OF ner
child. Mothers
Friend II sold at
drug stores.
Write for our free
book for expect
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Miegs, st. Louis; r. F. Cruitt, Jr., At
more, Ala; A. B. Corner, Nashville;
j. D. Putnam. Jr.. Birmingham; w.
B. Weens, Cincinnati; c. Epstein, st.
Louis; P. c. Splitter, Cincinnati; o. A.
Thomas, Pennsylvania; e. @. Riker,
Indiana; C.. Hammond, Savannah, Ca /;
James S. Hooper, Savannah, Ga; f.
A. Hawkins, Montgomery; D. F. Chit
tenden, Cincinnati; H. D. Rothschild.
Nashville; w. r. Maxwell, New York;
A. H. Cabell, Chicago; Mrs. r. r.
Hinnant, Memphis, Tenn.
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notified of their appointment by the
secretary and is thought both will
serve.
A new committee, that Of foreign
and domestic commerce, has been Gre
ated by the association, but neither
the chairman or members have been
appointed by President Dobson.
President Dobson will leave Satur-
day for Washington, going there in the
interest of the Commercial Associa-
ton, there being several important
things needing looking after.
THE LAX-Fos WAY.
II you had a medicine that would
strengthen the liver. the stomach, the
kidneys and the bowels, and at the
same time make you strong with a
systemic tonic, don't you believe you
would soon be wen7
That's The Lax-Fos Way"
We ask you to buy the first bottle
on the money-back plan, and you will
ask your druggist to sell you the Sec
ond.
1t keeps your whole insides right
There ia nothing else made like Lax
Eos.
Remember the name-LAx-FOS.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-28

One of the most remarkable things connected with the changing of pub- lie utilities in Great Britain from pri- vate to municipal ownership, has been 5he reduction in the hours of labor. Conductors, drivers, motormen, points men and inspectors were compelled 70 toll of the point of exhaustion. When municipal ownership was first broach- ed British tramways were still in the horse age, and as electricity began to be used those corporations having long franchises simply refused to make any change because they had a good thing with their horse cars, and were unwilling to put in any more capital to eIectrify the lines. Thus cities were compelled to buy them out, aften at a great price above ac- tual physical values. The following table shows the hours of labor of street car employees under private and public control:
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-28
At Last He's In The Ring.
CNew Haven Union.)


 We congratulate MT. Theodore l Roosevelt. His long delayed decision to fight MT. Taft in the open is bet
 ter late than never; As a conserva- not been a success, and insurgency in the Republican party is entitled to a leader, and a conservative like Taft cannot play such a role.
 Frankly, however, we feel that La Toilette is the logical leader of the Republican Progressives and that this
 movement which sooner or later will | rule or ruin the Republican patty would be safer and better under his
 guidance than under the direction of Theodore Roosevelt. LaFollette has a
 progressive record that explains it. self. It is written into the statute books and law of the state of Wiscon- sin. It shines from the pages of the
 congressional record Roosevelt, on the contrary has a record that needs considerable explaining.
 We will pass over the Hartman epi- sode, the Panama scandal, immunity to Paul Morton, and executive favor to the Steel Trust in the Tennessee Coal and Iron matter. We will pass all that and much more to recall the declaration of Theodore Roosevelt of November 8, 1904, when he said after that memorable election. in which he won a second term in the presidency:
 "On the 4th of March next I shall have served three and a half years,
 and this three and half years consti- ! tom which limits the President to two. terms regards the substance and not the form, and under no circum- stances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination. On December Il, 1907, MT. Roosevelt again said:
 change that decision thus announced'' Con Nov. 8. 1904).
 Yesterday this same MT. Roosevelt is
 sued a statement in which he said: "I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendere1 to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed it's prefer ence.'
 Of course it is impossible to recon cile these inconsistent declarations of the sage of Sagamore. He Fas fo lowed his hat into the ring. He has con firmed our belief of many months standing that he was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomina- tion this year. He is the worst pos sible leader the progressive Republi- didacy gives the double cross to La Toilette on one side and to Taft on the other. Anybody so foolish as to pin faith on it's sincerity is building his hopes on sand.
 1 In fact, we are in doubt as to wneth-
 CT MT. Roosevelt has not centered the ! insurgent Repub ican movement on himself in order to scotch it. Before | the first of June we will not be at | all surprised to See him as gayly hop tered it, thus knocking for the time | being the Republican progressive movement into a cooked hat. In the meantime the specter of the third | term and a possible dictatorship stalks abroad in the republic in the person of one of the greatest politicians. most bril- iant men and most pitiable | figures the nation has ever produced.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-28

leave the city and ordered them taken back home. Feeling that they were well within their rights, those having the children in charge assured the po- lice that the children were being taken with the full consent of their parents, expressed in writing on a tag attach ed to each child, and that the law was being fully observed.
 The police paid no attention to these protests, and when the excited pa rents pressed toward the train in de- fiance of the police, the latter w1eIded their clubs and forcibly removed the children and their parents and escorts from the train and away from the sta tion. Militia appeared and lined up on the station platform with drawn bayonets. Men, women and children were placed upon a big truck and carted to the police station, the older ones being arrested, charged with var sent to the city home for orphans as neglected children. One man dcscrib- ed as a social worker" who had gone from Philadelphia to accompany chil- dren to that city, was arrested for "ob- structing the sidewalk at the station, the reason for the arrest, as stated to the court by a police sergeant, being that the man looked like he was stubborn and wasn't moving fast enough to suit me-
 This program respecting the chill dren was carried out, it is said, In confOrmance to an order issued a week pIeNlOuS y Dy SO1- obeSlSGT OI lIlS 1lLA4- itia, who said that if further attempts were made to send strikers children away from Lawrence the authorities would interfere to stop it It seems to us that this order should not have been issued nor enforced. When the strikers or the agents of the Indus trial Workers Of the World or any oth- CT persons engage in riots or other wise indulge in lawless defiance tow ard the military or civil authorities. it is the duty of the latter to enforce law and order, but they should be careful not to exceed their powers. Ev- en in a strike-vexed city persons should be protected in the ordinary eX- ercise Of their constitutional rights. High-handed measures can only in flame the strikers aIv4; their counsel ors, and intensity their belief that they are being wronged, both by their employers and by the state, and thus provoke further outbreaks. It looks very much as if a grave mistake had been committed in this instance.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-28
NO. } THE PROPERTY OF CITY AND ITS
 INHABITANTS SECURES ITS BOND ISSUES

The city attempted to keep what little property it had from being seized. It transferred its property to assignment.
 Major James c. Loomis, Aug. 21, 1S43, for $15, was deeded fire houses 2, and 4, with land and equipment the city paying a rental for the use.
 Again all the property of the fire department was transferred from the city to the department.
 Finally, at a city meeting, all the property of the city, real and per sonaI, was transferred to Noah Plumb for the benefit of ALL THE CREDIT ORS of said city.
 At last one day Sheriff Smith of Norwalk appeared in the streets of the city and began to levy on private property. The store of Josiah Hub bell was attached and papers were served on Bronson B. Beardsley, Niles, Thorp & Co.,, and others. This was enough.
 Provisions were made for a sinking fund and the city honorably extin- guished the debt it had dishonorably sought to evade.
 It will be noted that the Housa- tonic Railroad bonds were issued up on the authority of the electors them selves, which really was a better way than to have bonds thrust upon the city at the mere whim of a few poli- ticians, or important personages.
 A bond issued by the city does not carry the same language as a mort gage given by private person which accounts for the error into which our esteemed contemporary has fallen in saying that the property of a city cannot be mortgaged.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-28

"A city cannot be mortgaged," says the Bridgeport Post, in an article ad- vocating a municipal debt.
 The Post is wrong.
 4 city can be mOrtgaged.
 A city is mortgaged every time it issues a bond.
 Not only the city, but the property of it's freemen and inhabitants.
 This was determined for Bridge port, and for Connecticut, in Bridge port vs Housatonic Railroad Co., (15th Conn., 4ss). in a default in the payment of a bond issue, when the Supreme court declared that to satis- fly the judgment it would be proper to levy execution on the private es- tate of any of it's freemen or inhabit- ants.
 Judgment was so levied, and the city was compelled to pay it's bonds, interest and principal.
 The story may be found in interest ing detail in the comprehensive His tory of Bridgeport" by George C.. Waldo.
 In 1886 the city loaned its credit to Alfred Bishop to help him build the Housatonic Railroad. In 1888 the General Assembly authorized an issue of $15o,oOO bonds for this purpose. The railroad was not at first a paying proposition and the bonds were de- fauIted.
 There was a great confusion in Bridgeport. The bonds had been au- thorized by a small vote. Persons moved out of town to escape if possi- ble their responsibility for their pro- portion of the debt. Others repudiat- ed the whole business. The matter went to the courts and they decided against the city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-28
EFFECT OF MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP ON WAGES

doubled the hourly wages of drivers and conductors. Manchester lifted the hourly wage 8 per cent. for mo- tormen and 63 per cent. for conduc- tors, and the concessions to labor amount to $2OO,O0O a year. Liverpool increased wages 50 per cent. one third of-the total wage payment being a voluntary addition by the city to the rates paid by the company. And while Glasgow started with a raise of 16 to 25 per cent, it has since increased wages from 65 to 100 per cent. above those paid by the private corporation which formerly skinned both the public and its employees. Glasgow's total concessions to labor now exceed $5OO,OOO a year, and this on a rate of fare averaging less than two cents.
 British municipalities pay their em- pIoyes a decent living, give permanent employment, and as a rule settle la bor differences by conferences and ar bitration. Therefore it is natural that labor generally in Great Britain is anxious that all public utilities be municipalIy owned and conducted And the public is satisfied, for public ly owned utilities are no menace to a wage rate that enables labor to mar ry and support family in the man ner customary to its class. In fact in Great Britain no one kicks on mu- nicipal ownership, except those who want to exploit the public by charging more for the service than it costs.