The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-01

WEDNES
there are two Marconi operators on
every vessel. SO that q constant watch
is kept; the lookouts In the crows nest
and at the bow have been doubled;
more southerly and necessarily longer
lanes have been mapped out for the
transatlantic traffic; speed Is reduced
when icebergs are sighted or reported.
and all vessels Of 9 certain tonnage
are now being equipped with double
hulls. which protection. It IL believed,
might have saved the Titanic had she
been 80 equipped. Only the outer hull
or sheath would then have been pierre
ed by the submerged spear Of ice. in
all probability.
The hearings before tho senate COM
mittee were watched and read with ex-
traordinary interest and tho political
activities Of Taft and Roosevelt, each
struggling to capture the republican
nomination. were ignored for q time.
But even Titanic tragedies must be
RELOCATED to tho inner pages Of the
newspapers after a little while. The
march OF $4,000. suffragettes in line on
May .. was q front page feature. and
the varying luck of Taft and Roose-
welt at the primary elections in yari-
Gus states began to be tho topic on
every tongue.
OoL Astor's VIII Fyled.
ono thought OF the Titanic again
only when the, will of Col. Aston was
nied. BY It his widow receives the
income from $6.00O.0 900 for life or as
!ong as n remains unmarried. Her
infant son. now chistened John Jacob
Astor. VIII inherit $3.000.0 900 in his
own right nd tho h,sllr ~ A. -
or the $50. 000.0 0 estate goes to the
coloneIs son by his first marriage Vim.
cent Astor.
Teh death Of General Frederic
Denl Grant. who had been a patient
a. d. o. x hospital under circum-
c. .a sorrounded with much Sc
h hr. was the topic Of a day or two.
OF the forthcoming national conven-
lions! The ball started rolling with
the convention Of the socialist party
on May IL. nominating Debs and Sci.
oel. Roosevelt kept stumping the
County, invading state after state in
waaGn the Tart people felt secure. and
XaiSe their defenses lamentably.
met at Chicago June I8 the Roose.
velt faction was confident of captur-
ing the nomination, but though the
Iatt administration admitted it was
q close thing they sat back with COM
psets. romance on the smooth operation
OF the old tried and trusted machine
mat mad stood the old guard in such
state and national.
!ne machine won. and amid scenes
the TX of which were neyer wit
messed at a republican national con-
vention before Taft and Sherman were
renominated; A generous handful Of
the Roosevelt faithful. with Timothy
=. woodruff at their head. marched
to found a new party. the national
progressive party, with Theodor,
Roosevelt for It's standard bearer
some weeks later, on August z, that
parry heid Its convention in Chicago,
nnanced by George w. Perkins, whose
harvester trust was even then under
Tre from the federal government.
son OF California were named nv the
progressives. ~
Democrats Nominate Wilson.
Inc democrats in the meantime.
enloying the sight Of the republican
Party's i%nternecine warfare, met at
baltimore. William j. Bryan, though
aeIeated IN h first test Of his
party forced Alton B. Parker upon an
unwilling convention for temporary
chairman. girded up his loins for the
tray once more and plunged into q
fight from which he emerged as the
self-sacrifced protagonist. Of Governor
Wilson.
Two score ballots were taken before
the result became beyond doubt. and
IN the melee Tammany Boss Charles
r. Murphy. .voicing and voting the
New York delegates, heard himself
denounced as the bought and paid for
protector Of the Ryan and Belmont in
terests. and Bryan drove the conven-
ton to vote with him on the sole and
singular proposition that any candi-
cast h vote of New York should
not be the nominee of the convention.
Murphy stuck to Champ Clark, and
the faith Of the convention in Bryan's
declaration Of first principles was well
Illustrated by the gradual weakness Of
clark as Murphy's ninety votes were
For the first time in many years. in
many, generations almost. the man
who had obtained the vote of the ma.
jority of the convention delegates was
a to get the necessary two-thirds.
AS Clark,s weakness grew Wilson's
strength was demonstrated. Bryan
soon recognized the impossibility Of
his " nomination and cast his lot In
" VI &NSW J0I.
sey. Colonel Watterson, reporting
the daily proceedings for his own pa
per. the Louisville Courier-Journal,
became more and more depressed as
he saw his plans gang quite a-gley.-
But on the forty-sixth ballot, July
2, Kentucky was solid for Wilson, as
did all the rest Of the convention save
only New York and the four votes
from New Jersey that remained true
to Senator Smith. the state boss that
Wilson had smashed. Then the Smith
contingent left the hall and the vote
was made unanimous.
Rosentfal Storm Brews.
Conventions over, managing and
city editors prepared to resume the
simple life-the summer vacations
were at hand. But a storm was brew
ing. Herman Rosenthal, a discounted
gambler, had reached the point. oft
prophesied for him by his friends-he
was ready to squeal.
Rosenthals general statements were