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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-30
TELECRAMS Give
new ASPECT To
TAMP|CO ACTION

Washington, April 29.-Criticism of
the navy departments withdrawal of
the warships from Tampico was voic-
ed in the Senate today. Senator Fall of
New Mexico presented kilograms from
refugees at Galveston, describing con-
ditions at Tampico. An effort by Sem
ators Red and Gore to prevent the
reading of the kilograms failed.
The communications stated that the
American vice consul at Tampico mar
rowly escaped lynching, and declared
the state department was Withholding
information as to the situation there.
The secretary of the navy was vigor-
ously criticized.
do l understand" asked Senator
Brandegee, that American citizens
were forced to take refuge on British
and French warships while our YES
sells were nine miles away?"
YES" replied Senator Fall. "Our
vessels were riding at anchor nine
miles away while British and German
ships were protecting our citizens"
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ignorance or fnrgetfulness of which
has cost the happiness of more than
one uneducated inventors life, Is that
no mechanical force can be produced
without an expenditure of energy pre-
cisely equivalent. Never forget that
there can be no action without equal
reaction and that if the action takes
its origin within the limits of the
thing that is acted upon the reaction
will also be felt within those same
limits
Your electric fan would drive toy
vessel placed on the deck of your
boat, although it would not drive the
boat itself, because, with regard to
the toy vessel, the breeze from the
fan would have an independent origin,
like an ordinary wind blowing over
lake, and its reaction would not be
upon the toy, but upon the boat over
whose deck the toy glided
If you are inside a car and push up
on the car you cannot move it as you
could if YOU stood upon the ground
outside and pushed. In the first case
YOUR action and reaction are both up
en- the car, but in the second case the
action is upon the car and the reac-
same thing happens if you suspend
bar above your head and lift yourself
by pulling down on it, and afterward
put the bar under your feet ana
try TO lift yourself by pulling up
on it. You succeed in lifting your
self in the first case, but you
fail IN the second, because when
the bar is under your feet the force
of your pull reacts upon your own
body and urges it down Just as much
as up.
There is one effect of the electric fan
which might surprise you-it would
tend to drive your boat backward IN
stead of forward. 1t would push
against air like the propeller OF an
aeroplane, and to make it drive your
boat forward you would have TO race
the fan around. SO that its reaction
would be upon the atmosphere behino
instead of ahead of the boat ana In
either case your sail would be not only
useless but an encumbrance.-Garrett
p. Serviss in New York Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-30

bod. but on most buildings of ove1
two stories they put in a hod-elevato1
and snake the bricks and motar up IN
a .jiffy.' While there are some nod
elevators fitted with racks in which
hods carried in can be set to sod
hoisted in most of them the bricks
and mortar are carried up on wheel1
barrows. So now not only has fNd
carrying largely ceased but the hod III
self has largely given away to thu
wheelbarrow.
In building under construction
you find two sets of wheelbarrow mem
one on the ground and the other up al
the story where the bricklaying is goi
ing on. The ground men load thei1
'barrows with bricks and mortar and
roll them onto the platform of the ele1
vator in the building, and clang goes
bell and the engineer at the donke1
engine in the street shoots that ele1
vator up faster than any passenke1
elevator runs, bang to the top, wher1
men are waiting to roll the LOADED
barrow to the bricklayers and ofhe1
men are waiting to roll the empty
'barrows on. Then clang goes the pei
again and the engineer drops thai
elevator to the ground, where men arr
waiting to roll the empty 'barrows sofI
and fill them and other men are waltz
ing to roll loaded 'barrows on.
And so they keep the hod-elevato1
and the wheelbarrow men hummind
and humping. No more calling down
from the bricklayers up above FOL
More mort! More brick. What YOU
hear now is the choo- choo- chpo1
choo- choo- choo-choo of that engine IN
the street running the hod-elevatorI
In these days when the land Is - 50
valuable and every week of renting
time counts, when they start to put u1
building they put it up quick; they
let no bricklayer wait for mortar and
brick.
"Of course, the bod carrier hads ID
go; no man that ever lived could
carry a hod up 20 or 30-story build1
ing. or if he could he wouldn't want
to, and, anyway, they couldn't wait
for him, so the hod elevator hads I'd
come. And still to me, as think
back to other days, there is nothing In
use at the present time that shows sd
strikingly the difference between old
ways and new."-New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-30

Chicago. April 2s.-The United
States circuit court of appeals today
granted the petition of the govern
ment for a re-hearing of the appeals
of Olaf A. Tveitmoe, Richard III.
Houlihan and William Bernhardt, Ia
Dor leaders convicted in the dynamite
conspiracy trials in Indianapolis.
The court also directed that argu-
ment ON the petition for re-hearing
be set for May 16 and that counsel
for all the defendants in the dynamite
cases appear in court that day.
Sentences Affirmed
The sentences of the following men
:. were affirmed by the court: Frank NJ.
Ryan, head of the Iron Workers, Chi
cage; Eugene A. Clancy, San Francis
co; Michael j. Young, Boston; Frank
c. Webb, New York; Philip A. Cooley,
New Orleans; John T. Butler Buffalo,
N. Y; John H. Barry, st. Louis;
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-30

final DRAFT
OF BILL FOR THE
REGULATION OF
CORPORATIONS

Washington, April 29.-The final draft
of a drastic bill for the regulation OF
interstate corporations was approved to-
day by a subcommittee of the Senate
interstate commerce committee. 1t will
be laid ebfore the full committee Friday
and may be reported to the Senate next
week. This new measure for antitrust
legislation program would provide for the
creation of an interstate trade commits
sion of five members with powers great
ly similar to the interstate commerce
commission it would prohibit interlock-
ing directorates and holding companies;
give the trade commission supervision
over capitalization, and make unlawful
the purchase or sale of commodities by
a common carrier to or from and other
corporation the directors of which are
the directors of carrier. The question
of whether the Sherman antitrust act
shall be enforced against labor and farm
ers' organizations is not dealt with in
the bill.
The members of the committee said to-
night that the bill is radically different
rom that being framed In the House.
When the committee meets on Friday
a suggestion will be made that in view
of the importance Of the legislation tn
committee should hold hearings to be
confined closely to the subject matter in
the bill and to last about two weeks.
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tach other amendments or to report a
substitute for the bill itself The re-
port of the committee will be made
without recommendation and the scene
of the repeal fight will be shifted to
the floor
Chairman O'Gorman for the commit
tee tonight expected to report the bill
with the amendment tomorrow.
Senator Simmons credited with
leadership of the force aligned with
President Wilson for repeal will ask
that the bill be made the unfinished
business of the Senate and if this sug-
gestion is agreed to the battle will be-
gin at once.
The committees session today de-
veloped several surprises. The first
vote was taken on the amendment by
Senator Shields. 1t provided that the
passage of the act should not be con-
strued as an admission that the Unit
ed States has no right to exempt it's
eoastwise ships from tolls. 1t was
beaten, 10 to 4.
The Simmons amendment was next
and the vote was s to 6, for its adop-
ton.
Ayes: Simmons, Brandegee, Craw-
ford, Owen, Thomas. Thornton, Walsh
and Chiffon.
Nays: Borah, Bristow. O'Gorman,
Page, Perkins and Shields.
A motion by Senator Thomas to re-
port the bill favorably with the Sim
mons amendment was beaten to 5.
Senator Bristow quickly made a mo-
ton to report the bill as amended, adj
versely. which was beaten to 5.
The vote on the motion of Senator
Thomas, to report the bill without
recommendation with the Simmons
amendment was to s.
The substitute proposed by Senator
Walsh which would allow a determi-
nation of the right to exempt Amerf-
can ships under the Hay Pauncefote
treaty by the United States supreme
court was defeated s to g.
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MINERS SURRENDER ARMS
CONTINUED from Page One)

was busy at a conference. The wo-
man carried an American flag into
the offices. She was Joined on the
sidewalk by Upton Sinclair, who bore
bit of crepe on his arm in pursu-
ance of plan announced at a social
list mass meeting last night, where il
was agreed that "mourners" should
gather in front of the Standard Oil
building as a protest against the sac
rifices of lives in Colorado.
Mrs. Siiverman and Sinclair were
the first to arrive on the scene. He
did not attempt to enter the offices,
but remained on the sidewalk.
Mrs. Silverman sought to place this
message before Mr.. Rockefeller.
u am an American citizen, standing
at your door. waiting for just word
with you. VIII you grant me this re-
quest? Ny question viii be brief and
TO the point"
The prisoners were taken to the Old
Eyip police station where Mrs. Sin
clair was released. The other women,
who were placed in cells pending their
erra3gnment In court, said they were
Mr.. Elizabeth Freeman, an English
eu6reEette, who has once been in JAN
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-30

Portland. Me-, April 29.-The Pro-
gressives of Cumberland county, rep
resented by their delegates in conven-
ton at City hall today, nominated for
sheriff on their ticket King F. Graham.
This was the only big nominating con-
test of the day, the other candidates
being nominated by reclamation, aft
er discussion and Withdrawals in some
instances. The vote on the candidate
for sheriff was preceded by nearly two
hours of speech making. When the
ballots were counted, H. Herbert
Sturgis of Standish had one, Percy S.
Alderman OF Portland had 80, and
King F. Graham of Westbrook had
rs, or 20 more than the number re-
quired for a choice and more than
twe-thirds of the ia votes cast.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-30
TANNING THE SAILS.
No Amount of Wind Raised Aboard a
Ship Can Propel 1t.

IF an electric fan could be made
large enough to throw a sufficient
amount of wind to move a small sail
boat and such fan was placed on the
end OF a boat with the wind from the
fan blowing against the sail on the
very boat the fan is on is it possible
that it could move the boat? The ar
gument is that the fan, being on the
same boat as the sail, cannot move
itself. But as the air detaches itself
from the fan and hits the sail, my idea
is that it can, provided 1t has the
strength to move the boat. Please give
an answer"
This question is worth answering be-
cause 1t involves a principle of ply
sizes that ought to be universally I'M
derstood and Ignorance of which may
lead to the waste of both time and
money upon inventions that will not
work.
The writer of the question thinks
that because the air. as she expresses
1t, is detached from" the fan when it
starts off to strike the sail, it ought to
act like an ordinary wind and push the
boat before it. But she would not
think so if she reflected that the par
ticles of air driven from the fan re-
semble a swarm Of bullets shot from a
gun.
The air particles get their force from
the fan as the bullets get theirs from
the gun, and just as the gun recoils
with a force equal to that which it
imparts to the bullets, SO the fan,
whether driven by electricity or steam
or turned by hand, inevitably recoils
with tho mr. nf 10
imparts to the air.
To make clearer the comparison be-
tween stream of bullets from a gun
and stream of wind from an electric
fan, imagine Maxim gun placed at
the rear of a boat and an impenetra-
BILE target at the front, and then sup
pose that the gun should hurl con-
tinuous current of bullets against the
target Anybody can see that the boat
would not be driven forward, because
the recoil of the gun would constantly
force it backward with the same en-
ergy with which the bullets, striking
the target, forced it ahead.
But If the gun were placed on shore
or on another support it's stream of
bullets striking the target would drive
the boat forward, because then their
effect would be like that or wind
blowing freely across the water and
having no connection with anything
on the boat.
An ordinary wind is able to drive a
boat whose sail it strikes because its
reaction (that of the windl is not up
on the boat. but upon the great mass
of the atmosphere or upon the earth.
The principle to be remeHbered, and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-30

Washington, April 29.-some of the
details of the deal by which the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail
road acquired the franchises ana
right Of way of the New York, Boston
& Westehester and the Portchester
lines, were given the Interstate Com
merce Commission today by Oakleigh
Thorne. former president of the Trust
Co. of America of New York, who, in
conjunction with Maraden j. Perry OF
Providence, engineered the transac-
ton.
Mr.. Thorne said the New Haven
Road paid 81, 100000 furnished by ].
p. Morgan & Co. for the properties,
and that he and Perry received S725,-
600 for their services He added that
in 1912. five years later, after he had
retired from the presidency of the
Trust Co., he burned all the books re-
lating to the deal.
Frank S. Fowler, examiner for the
commission, called TO the stand by
Chief Counsel Folk. stated that exam
nation Of the books of the Millbrook
Co., organized by Thorne for the pur-
pose of transacting the financial af-
fairs of the two roads after their ae-
QUESTION, showed that more than ST.
032, 600 out of the 81, 100000 paid by the
New Haven had not been accounted
for in the expenditures. Mr.. Thorne
explained this by saying that any bal
ance left on hand after the transaction
was turned over to the Millbrook Co.
Earlier in the day Henry V. Whip
pie of New Haven, former treasurer
Of the Billiard Co., and Edward E.
Field, former president, testified to
their connection with this much dis
cussed concern. These witnesses when
they appeared before the commission,
April 10, refused to answer questions
pertaining to alleged relations between
the company and the New Haven
Railroad and were threatened with in
dictment. -.n
Today they showed a willingness to
answer all questions, but insisted that
they acted upon instructions from
Samuel C. Morehouse. counsel for the
Billiard company and know virtually
about tho concerns affirs. 1t had been
commended that John L. Billiard and
his associates made about $2,7oO,000 by
the deal through which the New
t1ayen LOOK over the bOStOH q Mdile.
The witnesses. however. threw no
light upon this affair.
Whipple said he understood the
Billiard Co. was holding concern for
the Boston & Maine Railroad and
that the reorganization in October
was only for the purpose Of winding
iup its affairs. He denied knowledge
Of any transaction, whether President
Allen had borrowed s375,000 from the
Billiard Co, and said that If the COM
pany had notes outstanding to the
New Haven Road for s10,So0,0oo he
was unaware Of 1t.
Mr.. Field showed equal ignorance Of
the business of the concern. He was
treasurer Of a department store in
New Haven. he stated and had taken
the Billiard presidency merely because
Mr.. Morehouse had asked him to do
so, ~
He said he asked nothing about the
concerns affairs. After a few months he
felt O little uncomfortable about be-
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The New Reporter.

None of the experienced newspaper
men happened to be in when the ffrd
alarm rang, so the city editor sent
the green reporter. After returning
from the conflagration the green res
porter wrote laboriously for a time
and then turned the following ever
to the city editor:
There was a fire alarm sounded
about an hour ago, and reporter fol-
the Herald arrived at the scene Of
confiagration before the fire departs
ment, which responded promptly,
After the hose had been attached I'd
the water plug it was found that the
hose was too brief to carry the aqua
pura to the flames, in seeming def
ance of the fire department. Several
Of the firemen, who were more ex-
cited than the others, discussed the
propriety of carrying the fire closer
to the source of water supply, but
this plan was abandoned on account
of the extreme heat of the famess
I'm the meantime the fire hend
ragged worse than ever, and kept on
raging until the entire stable was res
duced to ashes. The live stock was
saved, with the exception OF one cow.
which was badly scorched, but will
survive. The harness and other items
too numerous to mention persisted, in
the flames. The reporter did not learn
who owned the stable. nor the street
it was located on, but If the readers
of the Herald will call up the fire de-
partment they can find out. There
were several other interesting facts
the reporter did not learn, but they
cannot be mentioned for lack Of
space ohio State Journal. -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-30
ON CARRYING THE HoD.
Reflections of Retired Carrier on the
Coming of the Elevator.

Naturally, | suppose" said pros
perous retired hodcarrier, the thlne
that strikes me most about the present
dav hurry-up way of doing things Is
the hod- elevator, with which they
carry up bricks and mortar to the
masons at work on new building.
I'm my day all the mortar ana
bricks were carried in hods on men
shoulders, and a mans job that was
too. Mostly Irish, the hodcarrlers
were then, and fine, able body OF
men they were, too, though | say II
who belong to the same race; pa'
there are few, If any, Irish hod car
riers now. The most of those old
timers who once carried up the Dicks
and mortar and dug the trenches TOT
the citys gas and water mains grad
uated sooner or later into other work
more profitable. Their sons took up
various other businesses, pursuits anu
professions and came to be the rulers
of the town.
"In those DAYS most buildings were
of three or four stories, few were
carried up to six, which was tall
building then. But whatever the
height of the building, the bricks and
mortar were all carried UP ladders in
hods on the shoulders of men; and. as
l said before, to carry the nod was
mans job.
THE hodcarrier stood up his bod
beside a barrel on the ground and
filed it, say, with bricks, heavy load.
Filled, he lifted it to his shoulder and
balanced it there, nicely; and then de-
liberately he marched for the ladder.
ITO many people the work of climb
ing a ladder is difficult; what shall we
say of climbing with heavy load on
your back? But the hodcarrier did
that all day; made days work Of it;
and he would. climb to the scaffolding
in front of the sixth story of build
ing, keeping going all the time without
stopping.
but now? Why, the day of the hod
carrier is gone. On low buildings OF
say two stories, or maybe on some lit
tie building where another way
wouldn't pay, men do still carry the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-30
CONF ARSON
OF SALARIES
OF CLERCYMEN
AND BISHOPS

Boston. April 29.-The salaries of bish-
ops and deans were criticized as "enor-
nous" and those of parish ministers
were declared inadequate during discus
sion of a proposal to establish mini
mum wage for Episcopal clergymen at
the annual convention of the diocese
of Massachusetts today.
Reporting for a committee of clergy
men. Rev. Philo w. Sprague of Boston
said that the matter should be taken
entirely from the hands of the laymen
of the diocese, adding "for they are the
employers"
Deans. bishops and auxiliary bishops
receive enormous salaries" he said,
while the parish minister does not re-
ceive enough to keep him"
Rev. Francis p. White of Newton
agreed with Rev. Mr.. Sprague that a
minimum wage of $500 should be estab-
lished for single clergymen and $500
for those who are married
Rev. Alexander Mann of Boston said
that the diocese was facing a deficit
of nearly $780, 900 next September
Il don't know what we are going to
do" he exclaimed. ut will not be long
before the reserve fund is exhausted
and then we shall have to make an APP
peal.
what Is needed Is a sense of loyalty
throughout the length and breadth of
this church"
Mcneil Sayre Of New York outlined
plan for the establishment of PEN
sion fund. by which clergymen would
receive $500 year upon reaching the
age of 60 years.
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Land of WheeIbarrows.

The wheelbarrow is the most COM
mon medium of transportation in
Shantung, China. The load is bal
anced about the wheel so that the
workman does not have to carry por-
ton of the load, as is the case with
the American wheelbarrow. Some
wheelbarrows have but one pushman;
some having a pulling man as we'll;
some have one, two and three dom
keys to aid in the pulling, and some
are equipped with sail to obtain
the help of favorable winds. The
equipment depends on the load carried,
the maximum load being about ton.
Transportation by wheelbarrow is
from five to eight times as expensive
as transportation by rail in this prov
ince. Thus, the native methods of
land transportation, even with labor
receiving a wage less than 10 cents
gold day, are costly, disproportion-
ately so as compared with the prices
of other commodities. Yet Shantung
has tens of thousands of wheelbarrows
engaged in traffic. 1t is easy to APP
preciate what railroads will mean to
the development of this densely popu-
lated province.-Chicago Journal.
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COURT OF APPEALS HAS ;.
GRANTED REHEARING To !
DYNAMITERS.. new TRIAI

Charles X. Beum Minneapolis; Henry
w. Leglietner, Pittsburgh Ernest &C
w. Basey. Indianapolis, md; j. F
Munsey. Salt Lake City; Peter ]
Smith, Cleveland. Ohia; Paul j. Nor
rim, st. Louis; Michael j. H.. Harmon
Scranton, Pa; Murray l.. Pennell
Springfield, ILL.,; w. Bert Brown
Kansas City; Edward Smythe, Peoria
Ills; William e. Reddin, Milwaukee
George Anderson, Cleveland; Franl
j. Higgins, Boston; Frank X. Paint
err, Omaha, Neb.; Fred ]. Mooney, Pu
luth; William Shupe, Chicago, ant
Michael J. Cunnane. Philadelphia.
New Trials Granted
New trials were granted to the fol
lowing: Olaf A. Tveitmoe, San Fran
cisco; william ]. Mccain, Kansas
City; James r. Ray, Peoria. H.; Rich
ard K. Houlihan. Chicago; Free
Sherman, Indianapolis. and William
Bernhard, Cincinnati.
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THE Government
FORCES ATTACK
PUERTO PLATA

Washington, April Gan attack by
government forces upon the town of
Puerto Plata in the Dominican republic
was reported today by the state depart
ment. The government at Santo Domin-
go claims to be able to dominate the sit
uation and troops were patrolling the
town, the advices stated Measures were
under consideration by the diplomatic
corps at the capital for the protection OF
neutrals in Puerto Plata.