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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
Makes Strong Argument

Mr. Underwood made strong argument
for Birmingham. Recitng the fact that
of all the places contending for the head
qaurters. Birmingham possessed the
greatest railroad facilities and offered
the best and quickest means of transpor-
tatlon to the various points of territory
under this division. Also the fact that
Birmingham was able 10 provide the COM
mission with suitable headquarters be-
cause of the large number of new office
buildings that could he mads available
FOR their use.
Commissioner Prouty is of the commits
sion which viii decide the question of To-
cations for these five headquarters that
will be located throughout the country.
Commissioner McCord lives in Louisville,
one OF the cities contending for the south
trn headquarters.
The committee will take the matter un-
der advisement and the question will be
decided October G. Commissioner Prouty
has assured Mr.. Underwood that his
claims for Birmingham will be presented
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
Relief Measures

The city. exhausted in lighting the con-
6agration, which originated Friday after
non IN a negro cabin, and burned over
an area OF 200 acres. nevertheless devoted
the day to relief measures for the home-
less. Three thousand dollars, subscribed
at mass meeting in the forenoon, was
devoted to their PRESSING needs. In the
afternoon citizens and the city council
canvassed the situation and decided to
issue appeal for aid. Tonight two COM
panies of state troops, one from Conway
and the other from Beebe, are en- route to
Hot Springs on order of Governor Hays.
to aid in policing the place. There has
been no tension, but city officials, be-
leving the presence of the militia would
be helpful in handling the situation asked
for the troops.
Latest estimates of the loss vary but
little from the earlier fgures--$6, 600. 900.
The public utilities company has partially
resumed lighting service. and with
mule drawn cars it is furnishing trans
portation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
BIRMINGHAM MAY
Be HEADQUARTERS
FOR VALUATIONS
Underwood Urges Its Ad-
vantages Before Com
merce Commission.
Many in Fight
Nv c. q. STEWART

Washington. September s.-(specal)
Representative Underwood today received
letter from Commissioner Prouty of the
interstate commerce commission regard
ing the location Of the southern head
Gaurters of the commission in the work Of
the physical examina ton of railroads
Commissioner Prouty informed Mr.. I'm
derwod that the southern headquarters
would represent the states of Illinois,
Ohio. Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, the
Caroinas, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi, and that the cities
contending for the headquarters were
Louisville. Nashville. Chattanooga and
Birmingham.
Chattanooga is putting up strong
fight, and contends that 1t is the most
desirable place for the headquarters be-
cause of the fact that 1t is the most GEN.
trally located geographically.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
Victory and Defeat

Specially deputized to get Thaw bacl.
to the Matteawan asylum. Mr jerome
has met first with victory. then with
defeat. At Sherbrooke he ousted Thaw
from jail on a writ of habeas corpus,
only to meet with reverses here when
Thaw's lawyers tied the immigration
authorities hands. They did this not
only by appealing from the decision OF
yesterday ordering Thaw's deportation.
but by serving the Montreal writ which
may develop court fight of weeks
duration
Most of the Thaw lawyers are in
Montreal making ready for the @ttugsle
before the Kings bench and only one
OF the many counsel. Charles y. White.
saw the prisoner today.
Il understand counsel for the immi-
grafton people are making an effort to
have arguments on the habets corpus
writ advanced to some date before the
fifteenth, but in this | do not believe
they will be successful" said MIR. White.
He added that he did not thiak any
move would be made looking to Thaw's
release on bail, at any rate no. unless
the habeas corpus proceedings ave post
roned after September 15.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07

Eagle Pass, Tex. September GA Sec
ond relief party started ,odap to search
for the wives and children Of Jose Shore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
Thinks Prosecutor Victim of
Good Joke, But Says Ar
rest a Mistake
STATEMENT NOT
KNOWN TO JEROME
Crestfallen Attorney in Nortons Mills
Preparing for Gruelling Legal
Battle on September Is Be-
fore Kings Bench


Kendall Thaw regrets that William
Travers Jerome was arrested IN Coati
cook yesterday charged with gambling,
and denies that he or his lawyers insti
gated the arrest. Moreover, Thaw
would have been glad to furnish Jerome
$500 bond
This was the statement made by
Thaw today as given out by Andre
Rousseau, the hotel proprietor who
serves the fugitive's meals and who
concidentally was one of Ieromes
bondsmen.
"Thaw thinks the Jerome arrest was
a good joke but a mistake" said Rous-
seau. HE assured me that If by any
chance ! lost anything as bondsman
he would make 1t good to me- Of course
did not accept the offer because
don't believe the bail will be forfeited. .
Mr. Jerome was not here today to
hear Thaws expression of good will
He went to Norton Mills, Vt, yesterday
soon after he was released on bail and
today, according to the unders tandinS
here, took train for Montreal to pre-
pare for the court battle when Thaw is
brought before the Kings bench on a
writ of habeas corpus September 15.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07

scsatinusa = Pese Nleveal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07

CONTINUED on Page Eleven)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-07
Refugees Arrive at Ell Paso
Cannon for Constitutionalists

Nogalez. Sonora, September Shine
heavy cannon and large quantities OF
both cannon and rife ammunition passed
through here today. en- route from Cana
nea to the front at Guaymas The nit,-
'nticns We're destined for the constitu-
tionaists.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-26
Hits Hard at Tammany.

Speaking in the Richmond Theatre. at
Stapleton, he said:
Like McCooey, in Brooklyn, and Arthur
Murphy, in The Bronx, Eugene Lamb
Richards is the local satrap through whom
Mandarin Charles F. Murphy undertakes
to rule the contracts and patronage Of a
city and a state.
when the Delmonico Court Of Private
Impeachment with Murphy, Foley, Nc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-26
HENNESSY GETS
MURPHY SECRETS
Continued from first page.

about taxation than half Of our public
school undergraduates and less about
the administration Of the city govern
ment than the dummy Assemblymen
Murphy sends to Albany.
Why did Murphy nominate him?
Because it was the last chance Murphy
had to make good as leader and get
the spoils. Mcclellan refused to de-
liver the city over to him for spoils
Gaynor also refused. and Sulzer re-
fused Perhaps he has got something
or Mccall like he had on Sulzer, or
maybe he has more than he had on
Sulzer"
This brought the house down. and
Mr.. HenDessy then told how, at Mayor
Gaynor's request, after he had refused
three appointments, he investigated
The City Record" found great steal
ings going on, and of the discharge OF
several employees as a result of the in
vestigation.
"One Of these was Pat Tracy" said
Mr.. Hennessy. What did Murphy do?
He made his automatic Governor, Dix,
create a special job for Tracy as in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-26
BIG WEEK FOR FUSION
Many Meetings on List-Whit
man to Preside at Opera House

The fusion campaign will wind up this
week with scores of meetings. The big
one will be. of course, that Of Thursday
night in Madison Square Garden.
Mr.. Mitchell will speak before the He
brew Civic Club in the Keramos Building.
No. 81 Manhattan avenue, Brooklyn, at 8
O'Clock this afternoon. An hour later he
is booked to appear before the Irish
American Mitchell League in the Bryant
Building, at Sixth avenue and 42d street,
Manhattan. Tonight he will speak be-
fore the Celtic-American League at No.
Isl West 18th street, at 7:30 o'clock.
All the fusion candidates will speak at
the meeting in the Amsterdam Opera
House, No. 1884 West 44th street, to-mor-
row night, under the auspices OF the 18th
Assembly District Republican Club, and
at Empire Hall. 10th street, near Eighth
avenue under the auspices Of the Repub-
ican organization Of the 18th Assembly
District. At the first meeting District
Attorney Whitman will make his first
appearance OF the campaign and will pre-
side.
The Republican Club Of the City of New
York will indorse the fusion ticket at its
monthly meeting tomorrow night.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-26

Cooey and Mccall at the council taDie'
started out last spring it was the adroi'
legal mind OF the Democratic boss OF TINS
borough TO whom the Delmonico director
ate assigned the task Of getting the Gov
ernor.
.Jf I mistake not the temper OF the
people of Staten Island you Will over
throw Boss Richards this year, when we
in the rest of the city are overthrowlns
Murphy and his local satraps in the other
boroughs. Let's make 1t clean sweep
against Murphy and his contract govern
ment.
1T is my honest judgment that hlch-
mond is the only borough of the hVe IN
which Murphy has even chance 10 WIN
II is for YOU to say whether he shall WIN
here"
Mr.. Mitchell last spoke at Cooper Unioh'
where the other members OF the FUSION
ticket had preceded him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-26

that the sum from the American Pin.
and Construction Company was
pretty big sum, on which I could liv.
we'll for two years. / want to say %,
his own protection. for a man who ha,
so many stablishments-and his .,,
automobiles must cost quite a Itt,a
money-ought to be protected I ash
him to inquire whether ]. Sergean,
Cram, Norman Mack and Mr.. Mclean
of Newburgh. are holding out and d,.
verting it to other uses?
Did he get all Fowler, the bagman
Of Kingston, collected? Did he get all
from the road contractors assembled a,
Buffalo by Fitzgerald, the Democratic
boss; from the contractors Assembled
in Syracuse by Kelly, the Democrats
boss, and from the contractors assem-.
bled in Rochester by Finucane, the
Democratic boss?"
Then he drifted to Mccall again say.
ing:
You have no use in campaign for
a liar - a plain. unadulterated liar
Mccall said he went to Murphy's
house on February to discuss the
Massachusetts ballot law. know
what he went there for. | know they
raked Sulzer because he put Stilwell up
to the Senate. | know they raked him
because he wouldn't appoint George w
Palmer, one Of Murphy's telephone
boys. I know they told Sulzer they
had things on him; things l didn't
know, that Mrs. Sulzer didn't know and
that his friends didn't know. He was
afraid to tell that he was the me too
for Mr.. Murphy"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-26

dustrial agent in Sing Sing at salary
Of SO, 500 a year. That is a sample or
the Tammany economy Mccall talks
about"
Mr.. Hennessy said that since his in
vestigation four years ago THE City
Record has been run at a saving OF
$4,000 year by men he recommend
ed, and who were appointed "by a
Mayor not good enough for a Tam
many Hall denomination"
Il want to ask Mr.. Mccall another
question" said Hennessy. "Will he, if
elected Mayor, retain these men In Of
flee who have saved $SO0,OOO year 20
the city at the expense Of silent part
news of a certain printing concern?
And they are all Democrats"
Hennessy then attacked the last
Democratic administration for the pur
chase Of Casino Park. in Queens which
he described as a swamp, and said it
had changed hands four times in a
night.
He identified Herman A. Metz as one
Of the parties to this transaction, which
he called "a case of multiplication and
division in silence" by mentioning the
gentleman now running for Controller
on the Democratic ticket" Continuing,
he said:
1--WE have a new ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Glynn. l got a letter from him this
morning after 1 read it in the news
papers. He says the letter l wrote to
him was general. 1t was meant to be
general, az from one gentleman to an
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-26

other. 1t could not contain the proofs,
which would take two or three weeks
to assemble. He says he wants to get
at the bottom of the graft. I'll tell him
now where there's a nice piece Of graft,
the proof of which is right in his office.
when / went to Albany first l said
to Governor Sulzer: The meanest graft
In the state is the printing ring He
said he knew 1t and that he got let
ter that day from ex-senator Bird, Of
Buffalo, and said he knew the graft
represented 20 per cent Of all the
moneys appropriated for printing"
He then told how he and two of the
investigators employed on the City
Record investigated the printing ring,
and how three men now employees Of
Governor Glynn, II. Gordon Lynn. John
n. Carlisle and John H. Delaney, wrote
the report and presented a bill which
was rejected by the Tammany legisla-
tors. He said he wrote an emergency
message to the Legislature at the re-
quest of Governor Sulzer but this was
treated with contempt by the Tam
many crowd, who buried IL in the COM
mittee room.
After commenting on Charles F. Muir
phys refusals to answer questions re-
garding campaign contributions, he
said:
Now l will ask him about others.
ask him what he did with the money
he got from the Barrett Manufacturing
Company, the Tarvia Company and the
American Pipe and Construction Com
pany. To help his memory 1 will say
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-26
TIRED OF HER FRENCH COUNT
American Woman, Divorced After
Nine Months, Returns Here.

Nine months OF married life with a
titled Frenchman was too much for the
Comtesse de Bots Lucy who returned yes
terday from Havre in the French liner
France. She was happy because she had
learned by wireless that she had been
divorced by a French court from her
young husband. and she did not hesitate
TO give her opinion OF foreign noblemen
who married for money.
The countess, who before her last mar
rage was Mrs Julia Bachelor widow OF
a wealthy Chicago merchant declared
Yesterday that she would return 10 Paris
within six weeks after attending to some
BUSINESS affairs in Chicago.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-06
URGES BLUE DRESS SUITS
italian NobIeman Says Conventional
Black Is Sign of Artistic De-
cadence Here.

Boston.-Duke Pompeia Litta of Mi
Ian, Italy. who is in this city as guest
OF the Twentieth Century club, be-
lieves that the conventional black eve
ming clothes worn by American men
is sign of artistic decadence.
"The art of being magnificent is en-
tirely lost in America" he declared in
an interview. THE only thing of color
in American life is the color Of the
hats of ladies. They are wonderful.
Where do they come from? Even in
Paris have never seen such hats.
"But the men. | pity them Always
sOmberly clothed, they seem to go
through life SO sadly. l can under
stand why. perhaps, they wear black
and grays and browns to business. But
even for evening wear they choose
black
Il do not believe in this. Why can
not the American gentlemen, on pleas
ure bent, relax? ! should suggest a
dress suit OF perhaps pale blue or
gray or with a fine stripe, in the flu
ture."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-06
Cost of Maintaining Training Ship for
Merchant Marine Proves Too Elk
pensive for Results Obtained.

New York.--The navy of New York
will be put out Of commission within
the. year. unless something unexpect-
ed comes up TO rescind the order
which has Just been issued, and the
dag of New York will be seen no more
on The high seas or in the ports OF
the Mediterranean and the H0rth At
lantic.
Ever since 1874 New York has main
tanned naval school for the training
of officers for the American merchant
marine. The fact that there was no
American merchant marine to speak
OF did not at all prevent q great many
boys from attending the school and
cruising six and eight months at a
time, partly at he expense OF the
state, partly of the city and partly OF
the nation.
In accordance with a long .estab-
lished policy, the United States navy
has furnished 81 vessel and a COM
manding officer for each OF the naval
schools OF the coast states. During the
winter the ship lay at pier i'll the
East river, comfortably housed over
and furnishing q convenient and coy
schooihouse for the boys. numbering
from leo 10 $50. who were students.
The board OF EDUCATION OF New York
city has had Charge of the school
since the organization of Greater New
York. and it has grumbled occasional
" because Of the cost of maintaining
the schoolship A few years ago the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-06

livelihood through Mr. Mills instru.
mentality and to men l.. the prisons
who look to him for assistance on
their release.
II was his success with the first two
ex-convicts for whom he obtained EN-.
ployment that led Mr. Mills to keep
up the work. AS an illustration of the
possibilities of reform among men
punished for crime, Mr.. Mills relates
an experience in Chicago a few years
ago. On this occasion he was asked
to dine with five one time cOnvicts he
had befriended, three of them from
the Elmira reformatory. One of the
five was Jarvis, then head bookkeeper
of the First National bank; another
was private secretary to tho general
manager of one the most famous rail-
roads in the country; a third was
vice-president of big coal company,
and the others were the chief cashier
of manufacturing company and a
theatrical manager.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-06
IScale Of Tips is Fixed
| by Uncle. Sam
BY c. P. STEWART

specifying the tips that its employees include in their travelling
expenses while tranacn public business Some be inclined TO
accept Tie governments scale Of they accept the
weights and measures, establishing the standard.
The treasury department of national administration that has tried
make specially of efficiency and permits employee in New
No Chicago tip the who bring his meals to him
so day He may spend like for this service
of other cities Of considerable the of which
specified For the services Of eepngar por he spend 20 cents
8 day and of chair-car porters IS cents a day @
Atlantic may $40 for stewards fees
going Hawaii he may the stewards SIS going or from
Porto Rico $40 He not allowed TO give Engagement
pocs the arrival departure hotels
nharvcs, railroad stations and such places s a #8
Tipping serious matter many American Of small resources
Not few persons wish they had the federal treasury behind them TO
stand the expense Of tips when they travel "'o
them somewhat know that the treasury itself par
the tips with considerable degree Of prudence
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-06
friend OF CONFLICTS
new York Sales Agent Long Ac-
tive in Prison Reform.
Frederick n. Mills Transferred Men
From Jails to Responsible Jobs in
8anks and Spent Much Time
Aiding Unfortunates.

New ,York.--il 1881 q Chicago mer-
chant took young man TO the First
National bank in that city and intro
duced him to the president, Lyman
j.. Gage, afterward secretary of the
treasury. as Frederick Mills, chief
clerk of the state reformatory at
f,imira, N Y.
I want to get position in your
bank for q friend of mine, Mr.. Gage,
said young Mills He is a man of
experience and ability and has the
best Of references from the Bank OF
North America in Montreal. where he
was employed for several years
Where is he now?" Mr. Gage IN
CURED.
He is In the EImira Ieformatory,"
replied the young man. He has just
finished his term there and is waiting
to get a job in order to be allowed TO
leave"
The bank president stared hard at
his visitor for moment and. discover
ing from his manner that he was seri-
GUS, resisted an inclination to become
angry, but laughed long and loud in
stead
Did you come out here With the
impression that the Chicago banks Sc
lect their clerks from the rcforma-
tories?'' he asked
|. Thirty years ago, before the new
penology was born OF science and
philanthropy, the idea of giving an ex
convict employment seemed pTepos.
ferrous to the average man OF business.
Young Mills, however, was cot to be
rebufcd, He related to Mr. Gage the
story OF the coming OF the Montreal
bank clerk to New York 70 better his
fortunes and of his yielding 10 temp
tation in the metropolis; he told Of the
opportunities he hal for studying the
others character IN the reformatOry
Office and he asserted his opiNon IT
here was chance for the bank presi-
dent to save human life from wreck.
Mr.. Gage argued the matter with
Mr.. Mills for half an hour and dis
oussed 1t with him for an equal period
ana at the end of an hour. promised
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-06
DINNER BY PARCEL posi-
Each Guest Mails an Item on the
Menu Is the Very Latest So
cial Novelty.

Peeksl1ill, N. "a @parcel post"
dinner was introduced as social nov
city by Mr.. and Mrs. A.. T. Giles OF
Peekskill, who gave one in their home
with menu of foodstuffs prepared in
distant localities and shipped to them
by parcel post. The out-of-town
guests mailed their contributions to
the dinner before starting for Peekskill
to enjoy the feast. There was a large
roasted chicken from Bound Brook.
N. j., corn bread AND cheese from Vir-
ginia, meat products from Chicago,
fruit from Washington, d c.. and pas
try from New Yo~k No food was pre-
pared by the host or hostess.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-06
arundSen Declares He Found 1t
Under a Hot Sun.
i=&plo9sr and Party Reached Southern
Axis of Earth IN Shirt Sleeves, He
Asserts in Story to Chi
cSqoans.

Chicago. --Roald Amundsen discov-
cred the south pole in his undorshirt.
The Norwegian explorer, who on De
cember 16. 1911, planted his coGn.
try's flag at the earth's southern axis.
is himself authority for this state
ment. 1t need not startlc amy one.
The sun was shining ina cloudless sky
and the thermometer registered only
- degrees below zero. This seemed
teal warm and summery to man who
had become Injured TO temperatures
go and rs degrees below during the
antarctic winter
Captain Amundsen was visiting Chi
cage. AS he sat i'll the University
club. immaculate and smartly groomed
az any dandy of the bouievards, he
lid not appear as if he could DC capa-
bic Qof anything so unconventional as
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-06

that the Elmira graduate should have
a place in the bank The man rose
TO the position OF head bookkeeper in
the First National bank Of Chicago
and was a trusted empioye until his
health gave out few years ago.
President Gage then sent III to a
health resort in California and took
care of him until his death
This incident is only one of many of
the same nature that explain why it is
that Frederick Hamin Mills, who Of
fcred his resignation as sales c-ent of
the prison department OF the state
recently in order to promote harmony
between superintendent of Prisons
Scott am, Governor SulzGr is a man of
many friends. These friends range
l. = the penologists and students of
criminoiOgy of America and the rest
OF the world, the prison officials the
United States and a wide church and
social circles. TO scores of eX-convicts
who are today earning an honest
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-06

discovering the south pole in his IN
dershirt. One would fancy he would
have done 1t in evening clothes.
Our journey was very pleasant
said the suave Norsemau: We un-
derwent no hardships TO speak of. we
had a14little trouble getting over the
great ice. range of the Queen Maud
mountains at IS degrees south. but al
ter that we came out on, high plat
eau. which sloped down In one smooth
and unbroken expanse of hard frozen
snow to the pole
1T was downhill all the way and
We were on skis. SO you might say
We tobogganed to the pole. The sled
dogs had hard work to keep up with
us.
There were five of usHolmer Han
sen. Oscar Visiting. Sverre Hassel,
Olaf Bjaaland and myself. We had
plenty to eat. bangEeting every day
on pemmican, biscuit, chocolate ana
powdered milk. The weather was
hot. We dripped with perspiration.
even in our light clothes.