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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-22
HENNESSY SEEKS AUTHORS
Visits Albany in Search of Writ
ers Accusing Him.

Albany. Nov. 2l-Whatever mystery"
there was about John A. Hennessy's
visit to Albany, which began yesterday
and ended tonight, was cleared by a
statement he issued just before leaving
for New York He said he had come
here TO determine the authorship OF
newspaper articles which intimated that
his hands were not clean of graft, and
that my operations in the State High
way Department would show some con-
nection with state contractors"
Hennessy said his efforts had been
futile. but that in due time he hoped by
legal process to determine the names of
the writer's.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-22
SOUGHT to Evade Contracts.

THE falsehood that II has put III cir
culation regarding my presence at
Cooperstown conference is not unusual
but Is characteristic of the methods IN
which the asphalt interests have always
conducted their business and opposed
those officials whom they could not con-
troll
An attack has been made on the Hlgh-
ways Department because II compelled
contractors TO live up TO specifications
Does any one doubt that we would nave
been attacked, and deservedly So If we
had permitted the contractors 10 nave
disregarded the specifications and fur-
nished a material that cost them less
than the material they had agreed to tur-
rish without the state getting any al
vantage in the use Of the cheaper prod
uct by the reduction Of the price?
George c. Diehl, of Buffalo, and Haroiu
Parker. of Worcester, Mass, have com
pleted their duties as members OF Car
isles board Of advisory engineers anu
resiened William De Hertburn WASH
ipgton. of New York, the third MEMBER
Of the board. will continue in the service
Of the department until he completes MS
renort Of his recent investigation of road
conditions in Europe.
The advisory engineers were apPolil'eu
on the recommendation Of Governor sur
zer shortly after Commissioner CARLISLE
took Office last May. 10 assist Nun IN
reorganizing the department 1hey haFe
assisted the Commissioner in drawing up
the new specifications which the as
phalt interests charged were discrlmiha-
tory. Their compensation was $50 day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-22
CARLISLE ATTACKS
ASPHALT INTERESTS
Denies Taking Part in
Cooperstown Conference,
as Warner Says.
NEVER HAD DOUBT AS
TO INQUIRIES STATUS
Whole Trouble Arose, He AS
serts, Because He Insisted Road
Contracts Be Observed.

AlbanH. Nov 2i-John y Carlisle, state
lIiohwavs Commissioner, issued state
r,.ut tonight i'm regard TO the state as
nb7lt contracts now under INVESTIGATION.
in which he attacked the asphalt interests
and denied that he ever participated IN
conference regarding asphalt in Coopers-
town.
differences rather than direct charges
as 10 the method which actuated me as
Commissioner of Highways to compel the
contractors Of the state TO live up TO the
specincations have resulted in many
erroneous statements" he said. Il have
NO desire to try this matter in the news
parers. my action is open TO the fullest
scrutiny and ! want TO have II gone INTO
In full bv a competent jurisdiction. but
At this time il may be well To show the
falsitv Of some of the statements which
have been made.
For instance. C. NJ. Warner, Of the
Warner-Quinlau Company, is quoted TO
the effect that he has information that l
was AT a conference at Cooperstown on
JuIv D. / cannot say that Mr. Warner
did not receive the information. but If he
did il was information that was false,
think ualiciousIy false. and the slightest
investigation would have disproved IT,
Il was at my home in WATERFOWL
y y. on July 3. 4 and .. returning TO
Albany late on the night Of July ..
have not been in Cooperstown this year.
and have never been in Coopersto"n eX-
cent once In my life, and that when
was Public Service Commissioner.
No Doubt About McGuires.
The date of this alleged conference
&c set as July . Records in this once
show that the order to compel the con
tractors to live up to the specihcauo"s
Of the contracts which they had entereu
into with the state was issued on Jul!
. and that order followed conferences
and consultations with the board Of con-
sultinC engineers and other eminent en-
gireers all through the month of June.
..-rbere was never any question about
the standing of George II. Mcclure or
James X. MCGUIRE in this department
They were both known as representatives
Of the Barber Asphalt Company, ana
saw them on business for their company
the same as / saw representatives Oh
every other asphalt company
In giving consideration TO the charges
and counter-charges that are made at
this time. the public should remember
that the asphalt industry is the uncieah
thing of industrial life In America. II
has left lis grimy trail of gaft across
the continent and has corrupted, or at
,enDted 10 corrupt, officials in nearly
every city in which it has done us worn.
Not content with this, IT has hnanceo
revolutions and overthrown governments
and to-day is "a subject of international
complications.
, 1913-02-22
p DEATHS IN THE RIGGING.
Survivors Narrative.

A terrible tale of shipwreck and suffer-
ing reached Queenstown on Monday night
IN t 9 full particulars of the loss of the Ful-
ness liner Florence, which was wrecked
near Cape Race, Newfoundland, the captain
and Il OF the crew being drowned.
Inc liner was on q voyage from Halifax
TO Liverpool with q general cargo. On the
evening OF December 20 she struck on u
reef OF rocks in st. Mary's Bay, near Cape
Race. Captain Barr, seeing that his vessel
was being pounded to pieces by enormous
seas, decided to abandon her, and after
much difficulty the crew of ~ men landed
on a ledge OF rock The rising sea swept over
the men. Escape up the face of the cliff was
impossible, and all hands had to go into the
boats again.
Captain Barr and Fl men returned to the
steamer IN the hope that the gale would
moderate, but Second Officer Hedley, with
4 men in a small boat, decided to try anotb-
OF landing place.
Huge waves swept constantly across the
Florence, driving all hands to seek shelter
IN the rigging. Meanwhile Second Officer
Hedley and his four companions landed
among the breakers higher up the coast.
They were almost frozen to death by the icy
spray to which they were exposed for hours,
but with difficulty crawled up to a place of
safety. From there they saw their hapless
comrades lashed to the rigging with the
seas sweeping over them until darkness shut
them out from view, and at daylight there
was no trace Of the steamer to be seen.
Suffering terribly from exposure and want
OF food the five men found shelter from the
storm for a time in a deserted hut, and sub
seqnently reached an isolated settlement
some milesdistant.-Daj7y Mail, Jan. 1Ih.
, 1913-02-22
SHUT OUT ON TOWER LEDGE.
Window Cleaner Scrawled a Note Summon
ing Help from Street.

George HOPPER, a %janitor, climbed out of
a window in the tower of the Post Office at
Newark, N. j., yesterday and stood on a
twelve-inch ledge while he cleaned the win
dow outside. AS he was at work the lower
sash gradually slid down into the easement
aud he did not notice it. Steadying himself
by q grip on an awning hook at one side he
attempted to force up the window by pull
ing on the sash with one hand. Finding
this impossible he shouted and pounded
the window.
On Broad Street nearly a hundred feet
below him crowds of people were passing,
but his shouts failed to reach them and none
who noticed him realized that he was in
danger. There was no one in the upper
part of the building near enough to hear
him knocking on the window. HOPPER be-
gan to grow cold as the minutes went by
and he remained exposed to a chilling wind,
When he had almost given up hope an idea
struck him, and with his free arm he reached
into his pockets and took out pencil and
paper. Pressing the paper against the pane
he succeeded in %scrawling.
For Gods sake, send me help or I'll drop.
A passer-by saw the paper futter to the
street and picked it up. After reading it
he looked up and saw HOPPER. Then he ran
into the Post Office, where he met Police
man Nostrand and gave him Hopler's mes
sage. With several employees the policeman
went up the elevator and then up a flight of
stairs to the tower. Here the window was
opened and HOPPER was lifted inside to safe
ty.-Ibid.
, 1913-02-22
E INDIAN T L

Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of
Liverpool, write as follows, under date De-
cember 80, with reference to the sales of
West Indian Sea Island cotton
Since our last report about 200 bales of
West Indian Sea Islands have been sold at
steady prices, The sales include Old Crop
cotton from the islands of Nevis, ST. Kits,
Montserrat, st. Vincent and st. Croix at
prices ranging between I'D. and I'D, also
New Crop Nevis and Montserrat ut Ia and
New Crop St. Kits from 18G. to 19G
There is very little doing in the lace trade
at the moment, aud therefore the finer quail
ties of West Indian Sea Islands are only in
limited demand, but we are hoping for an
improvement before long. The lower quail
ties are seriously handicapped by Sakella-
rides cotton, which has been found to not
only compete with FIoridas and Georgias
successfully, but also against the inferior
grades of American and West Indian. This
description is selling at I'D. to 13G-Agr1-
cultural Neaos, Jan. 18th.
, 1913-02-22

the worlds output of cotton, in 1909 it was
593 per cent, and in 1912 it will probably
be about 585 per cent. Apparently it will
not be many years before the American crop
will be less than one-half of the worlds pro-
ductlon, and unless the United States cali
greatly increase its crops by improved me-
thods of cultivation and will sell the output
at reasonable competitive prices in the open
markets of the world, it will have to take u
lower position in the list of the worlds sup
pliers of cotton. (From the Chamber of
Commerce Journal, December 1912.-I6ld.
, 1913-02-22

Extensive field trials have been carried
out recently by the Department of Agricu,<
ture and Technical Instruction for ireland
to test the Welding capacities and quality of
certain French and Danish varieties of wheat.
The work, which was carried out in a very
thorough manner, SHOWED that during 1911
IL. the Danish variety Queen Wilhelmin
gave the best results, and it is recornmenu-
ed for the attention of Irish wheat growers.
Ibid
, 1913-02-22

have been unearthed in New York City
alone, wkile illegal traficking in stamps in
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburg,
Chicago, Indianapolis, st. Louis, Minneapo-
lis. Cincinnati, New Orleans, Kansas City,
Denver, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland,
Ore, and many other cities has reached
large proportions.
In New York approximately twenty deal
ers make a business of purchasing postage
stamps at a discount ranging from fifty
cents to ninety cents on the dollar, and SELL
ing them to merchants at prices varying
from IS cents to SO cents on the dollar.
The stamps it is said, are obtained largely
from Office boys and confidential employees
who embezzle them from their employers.
One stamp dealer in New York City, who
sells from $500 to 81 900 worth of stamps a
day to merchants, it is alleged, has been
purchasing some Of his supply from an en-
ploye of the New York State Government
at Albany. This employe confessed to Post
Office Inspectors that he sent to the stamp
dealer from $25 to $50 u week in stamps
stolen from the State.
An official of q foreign alliance association,
with headquarters at Chicago, confessed
that for a long time he had been stealing
stamps from the association and selling
them.
An employe of a large automobile con-
Germ at Indianapolis admitted that he had
been stealing stamps from his employers and
disposing of them to dealers who knew that
they were stolen.
One MAI advertised by means of a sign
carried through the New York financial
district during the noon hour that he pur-
chased printed uncanceled post cards. This
resulted, it is said, in many office boys steal
ing cards from their employ ers and selling
them to him for thirty-fve cents q hundred.
The printed portion of the cards then was
s~killfully covered by the broker with q piece
of thin paper and the cards resold.
The culpable dealer, according to his ad-
mission to the inspectors, sold during the
last two years more than 100000 postal
cards, many of which were stolen by office
boys.
The department. redeems postal cards
from original purchasers at Is per cent. of
their face value. A few weeks ago a mem
Der of Congress and a former Deputy Com
missioner of Police of New York City re-
quested the Third Assistant Postmaster
General to redeem over a million cards for
a constituent of the Congressman. inquiry
by inspectors developed the fact that the
cards were the property of a stamp dealer,
whose business is declared by the depart
ment officials to be clearly ille9itlmate.-
~ Y Times, Jan. @4th.
, 1913-02-22

Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of
Liverpool, write as follows, under date Jan
uary 13, with reference to the sales of West
Indian Sea Island cotton
A good business has been done in West
Indian Sea Islaud cotton since our last re-
port, and, although the enquiry is limited,
prices remain firm. The sales amount to
about 200 bales and include Montserrat and
Nevis I6d. to 18d., ST. Kits 18d. to POD. and
a few Barbados I'D to 18d-A g1icuItural
NegoS, Feb. Ist.
, 1913-02-22
DIR. Russell WALLACE AT SO.

DR.. Russell Wallace, the distinguished scien-
fist and co-discoverer with Darwin of the
theory of of natural selection, entered upon
his ninetieth year on Wednesday at Broad
stone, Dorset. He has written much on
evolution, biology, and geology, and now,
at eighty-nine, he is beginning another work
on the campaign against poverty.-Zbid.
, 1913-02-22
THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN COTTON.

Cotton spinners of all countries have for
so long been dependent upon the United
States tor their supplies of raw cotton that
American cotton growers, merchants and
exporters have been led to believe that this
state OF affairs would continue indefinitely,
and that the United States would fix the
cotton prices Of the world. OF the worlds
total consumption Of raw cotton in 1911,
which amounted to 19,O13,O0O bales, the
United States supplied 11,408, 600 bales, or
almost 60 per cent, and all other countries
only 100000 bales. Such conditions, as is
we'll known, have led to excessive gambling
by spectators, which has so inflated prices
as to be a serious menace to spinners, whose
only hope is to be found in a free market,
uncontrolled by speculative competition, with
q supply furnished by many producers.
Whether that hope is likely to be realized is
considered i'll an interesting article by Mr..
John V. Hogan in the Journal of Political
Economy, Of Chicago. He discusses the
success that has so far been obtained in the
various countries where cotton is produced
and shows that, besides the great producers
fifty years ago, seventy-tWo other countries
are producing and exporting cotton on o
rapidly increasing scale. Apart from India,
Egypt, China and Brazil, the remaining
countries, where the industry is largely of
recent development, have increased the pro-
duction and exports from 797. $50 bales in
1900 to 2,966,177 in 1910, an increase of
over 26O per cent, and they are developing
now at an even more rapid rate. In the
same period the increase i'll the United States
crop was only II per cent. There are pro-
badly no less than 100000 square miles of
good lands into which cotton culture is being
proftably introduced in Russian and Chinese
Turkestan and Mongolia, Mesopotamia,
Uganda, and British East Africa, Rhodesia
and Nyasaland, the Anglo-Bgyptian Sudan,
Abyssinia, the Congo, Nigeria and Madagas-
car. This means an area over thirty times
as large as the entire cotton acreage of the
United States in 1911, and yet it does not
include sixty other cotton-producing lands
which may be able to supply an equally large
cultivable area. In the near future, there
fore, it is probable hat cotton will be
growing in a great number OF countries in
sufficient quantities to meet the worlds re-
quirements, when the price will no longer be
controlled by speculative interests. Mr.. Ho-
gan thinks that, under these circumstances
the future of the American cotton trade is
now in the balance. The worlds spinning
industries, which have suffered SO severely
from the manipulation of the American cot
ton exchanges, have determined to obtain
relief at any cost from further American con-
troll Of the fibre. Much has already been
done in that direction, and what the future
will bring may be plainly foreseen. In 1889
the United States produced GA per cent. of
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-25
SCHOOL WORK DISCUSSED.
Second Day of Educational Conference
at Queen City Park.

| Burlington, June 25.-Unustial aetiyi-
ty marked the opening of the second
tday of the annual conference OF the
Association of Vermont Union superin'
tendents at Queen City park. Owing to
| the warm weather the morning session
of the conference was held on the lawn
| in front of the pavilion. A large num-
her are attending the conference and
subjects of Importance in the work OF
| the schools were discussed at yester-
DAYS sessions. At the morning session
the speaker was again Prof. NJ. Is.
Hillegas, of Columbia university, who
| is connected with the Carnegie founda-
ton and who is making an investiga-
tion of the elementary schools OF Yer
mont for the educational commission
appointed by Governor Allen NJ. Fleteh-
er.
Professor Hillegas spoke on "Tbe
Fundamentals OF School, Supervision
and a general discussion followed, par
ticipated in by the superintendent, OF
whom there are nearly 100 in atten-
dance. Shortly before adjournment for
luncheon. there was conference on
special and teacher training work IN
which Professor Hillegas and State
Superintendent of Education Mason ;.
stone met number of women teach
ers.
At the afternoon session Professor
Hillegas took for his subject "Funda-
mentals in Child Training and gen
eral discussion followed. The evening
session was devoted to an interesting
address by Miss Davis, of the bureau OF
good roads, Washington, ID. C., who
told of the relation between good roads
and rural schools.
During the discussion led by Prof.
Hillegas a number of vital points reia-
ing to the elementary schools have been
brought out. The elementary school y
as covering the first six years
OF school life and the work Of this
school should be 70 supplement the work
which the child does outside Of school
and the education be reserves from
sources without the school
The farm. said Professor Hillegas,
during the discussion. has = great edu-
cational value but in these days 81
changed conditions. the work done and 4
the education gained by the boy or
girl on the farm Is much more limited
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-25
COVERING A NEWSPAPER FIELD.

Once in while we hear the statement
that there isn't much news in The Daily
Reformer, and we admit there are days
when important events seem scarce in
the record of general and local happen
ings. But, on the other hand, take note
of what yesterdays Reformer contained:
A full transcript of President Wilson's
currency address, delivered yesterday aft
ernoon; special dispatches covering the
opening of the Wren trial at Keene, the
Collins hearing at Newfane and an auto
mobile accident at Jamaica local stories
about the actual beginning of railroad
work on Vernon street and the special
town meeting of Saturday night; the
proposed village bylaws, building code
and ordinances; over page of live sport
ing news, including special stories from
all the towns that comprise the Twin
State baseball league, which opens its
season to-day With feeling of just
pride, we make the assertion that no
other paper in town the size of Brat
tleboro covers it's field so completely and
ptly.-Brattlebo Reformer.
We had been attracted by the multi
plcity of the news stories in the is
sue OF The Reformer OF which the con-
temporary speaks and we had been led
to marvel that the contemporary had
been able to rake up" so much inter-
esting news and to present it in so at
tractive manner as it was displayed.
The issue was a frst-class sample OF
daily journalism in somewhat restrict
ed field of operation as Brattleboro it.
self has only about 5000 population, or
possibly somewhat more at the present
time; and, indeed, all the issues of the
contemporary are well up to the average
of the small daily publications of New
England. Surely, there is no occasion
for fault-fnding tif there is any to
speak of, in Brattleboro) when the news
paper covers it's field so thoroughly as
does The Daily Reformer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-25
assertion.

If ex-senator Crane can be prevailed
upon to accept appointment from Gov.
ernor Foss as chairman of the commits,
sion to make the extension to the State
House in Boston, the people of Massa-
chusetts may rest assured that they
will know where their money goes, for,
besides being keen business man, the
former senator would account for every
cent. 1t is not always that states are
fortunate enough to get men of that
stamp to superintend the expenditure of
q million dollars. Therefore, it is to be
hoped that ex-senator Crane will see his
way clear to accept the appointment
when offered.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-25
COMMENCEMENT NOTES.
Program for Event at Goddard Seminary
This Evening.


This Evening.
The program of the commencement
recital at Goddard seminary thi
evening, June 25, at s o'clock, will be Al
/ follows;
oyerture-"Ruy Bias" two pianos.
| .,.......... ........ MendelssohI
Rachel Hellister Abbie Usher
Marion Anker Evelyn Cross
Song-"The Message" +. p. A. Schneider
Paul Il. Pitkin
Concerto &c major, First Movement
| .......-. .....s............. Mozart
/ Rachel Hollister
Orchestral accompaniment arranged fol
second piano
Miss Lease
Cantata-"The Building of the Ship
............ s.......... Henry Lahee
Choral Glass
Introduction (piano)
Miss Lease
Build Me Straight
Chorus
THE Merchants Word" tbass recitative)
Richard r. Lamont
Beautiful They Were in Sooth" (duetl
Mrs. Glenn +. Perry, Kathleen Le-
Baron, sopranos
Glee V. Wood Elizabeth Hoar. altos
Thus" Said He, I'VE VIII Build This
Ship" tehoral recitative), tenors and
BASES in unison
''The Masters Word (tenor reeitatiye
and air.
Frederick A. lnglis
"Ah! How Skillful Grows the Hand"
Chorus tunaccompaniedl
Thus With the Rising of the Sun
(alto recitative)
Glee V. Wood
Happy, Thrice Happy
Chorus
tal DAY by Day the Vessel Grew"
(tenor recitative)
Frederic A. lnglis
lb Build Me Straight"
Chorus
'The Ocean old' (bassl
Richard R. Lamont
(al "0n the Deck Another Bride" (so-
prano recitativel
Alice Walker
(bl "And Lol from tn Assembled |
How Beautiful She Is" tenor
Frederic G.. Inglis
Sail Forth Into the Sea of Life
Trio for women's voices
Sail On. Nor Fear"
Chorus soprano solo, Abbie NJ. Usher
The choral class consists of the fol-
owing members:
Richard R. Lamont, conductor; Mary
:. Lease, aecompanist.
Sopranos-Jennie Audinwood, Ruth
Bradley, Marion Dole, Berenice Hoar.
Alice Judson, Arlene Jeffords, Dorothy
ngIis, Kathleen LeBaron, Mrs. Glenn 4.
Ferry, Abbie Usher, Alice Walker.
Altos-Mary Adams. Mary Carroll, Il
Gertrude Geake, Elizabeth Hoar, Eleanor
ones, Beaulah Tillotson, Glee Wood. Il
Tenors-Weston Cate, Henry Carroll, II
Douglas Inglis, Frederic Inglis, Lyman
Vhiteomb.
Bases Harold Adams, DR.. o. X. Hol-
ster, George Lawson, Roy LeBaron.
gorge Mackay, Herbert Merrill, Paul
itkin. III
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-25

receive great impetus TO its summer
tourist business as result of the efforts,
1t will not be possible to measure the
results for several months, because the
summer tourist season for 1913 is Just
beginning, with the close of the public
schools and the start Of the generally
accepted vacation period; but the returns
are likely to be large this year and larg-
er next year. Some careful advertising
it what Vermont has needed for years.