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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-17
A Running Debate


 '1t begins to appear as if there will be a running debate in Alabama between William Jennings Bryan and John Tenn pie Graves" said William Norton. resi- dent of Montgomery, a visitor yesterday. "As Is recalled, MT. Bryan, in Birming- ham sometime ago, spoke respecting the war. and incidentally against the Presi- dents plan for preparing this country against a possible war. The Age-Herald announced the other day that John Tenn pie Graves would appear at the high school on the night of November 20, and ir reply to MT. Bryan's lecture on the subject of National Preparedness
 And the Advertiser this morning ail- nounced that Mir Bryan would lecture in Montgomery November 25 against prepar- edness and in the interest of peace. It is very interesting. Everybody should hear these speakers for during the coming winter the news from Washington will chiefly concern this topic. For as Is known. the President has his plans re- specting preparation. and Leader Kitch- inc Is opposed to those plans.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-17
ALABAMA PRESS

Sheffield Standard: Express business at Decatur shows $160O increase in De- tcber as coYnpared with same month one year ago. Oh. you two-quart allowance.
 Selma Times: There are 15 candidates in Birmingham for two offices. Here is government is [, great stimulus to civic patriotism.
 Anniston Star: A safe and sane Fourth of July is assured for next year. The powder manufacturers will be too busy with war orders to bother making squibs and pinwhecs.
 Selma Journal The Pensacola News discusses American Trade After the War" Wilson and Lansing are interest ed in American trade curing war, and they seem to be at last getting tho at- tention of John Bull.
 Tuscaloosa News: Tuscaloosa county will be as greer. this winter as it usually is in spring, for greater acreage of oats, rye, wheat and cover crops has been planted than ever before.
 Ill ntsville Mercury: The Selma Jour- nal which has never recovered from the drubbing Hon. Oscar Underwood gave it's idol Bobson. says 1t is as much the duty of Alabamians to support Hobson as "a favorite son for President as 1t was to support Oscar Underwood in 1912. Per haps 1t would he if Hobson had ghost of a chance to get besore the convention which chance is about equal to that of a snowfall in ger, a fiery furnace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-17
Enl.rsins Posteffiee Buildings

"One of the great problems that Uncle Sam has to deal with is the rapidly in- creasing volume of postoffice business re-
 sulting from the growing use of the par eel post, said A. R. Donovan of Wash- ington, D: c. And the problem will be
 more serious five or ten years hence than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-17

By my ci,ristendom, so were out o' prison, and kept sheep, | should be merry as the day Is long.
 king John.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-17

Enuered at the Birmingham, Ala. postoffice as second class matter un- ger act of Congress March 3. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-17

Washington bureau, 2o7 Eibbs bulio- ing.
 European bureau, Henrietta street, Covent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office, Roo 70 50, inclusive, Tribune building Ne" York city; western business olAlce' Tribune building. Chicago Tie ;. S' Beckwith Special Agency. agen's Aof e3an advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-17

L. D. Griffis and w.. D. Brumbeloe are the only authorized trAveiIng represen- tatives of The Age-Herald ln it's circu- lation department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-17
WEAPONS OF MODERN WARFARE

FTUIH tHe NUVeIIpeT WUTIu WOrK
 The war in Europe is In it's weapons the most primitive as well as the most scientific of all modern conflicts. It is war of one-ton shells and hand gren- ades of the most distant artillery duels and hand-to-hand combats of asphyxiat- ing gases and stink-pots, of airships and shovels. of shrapnel and slingshots
 Every device by which han has slain man. from the boulder In the hands of Alb the cave dweller to the machine gun in the hands of Albert, don of Oxford, is in deadly use on one or another of the battlefields of Europe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-17

bsily and Sunday Age-Heralc, year Ss.Oo Iailv vv,tnout sIInaav 400 Daily and Sunaay. per month... .o0 Dsaly and Sunaay, tnree months.. 4a9y Weekly Age-Herald, per annum.. 'Su Sunday Age-heralu, per aunutn.. 2.Vo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-17
senrching for Winter

The climate of the south is very fine, " shid Clarence Lloyd, secretary of the city commission. yesterday, but very often l long for the weather which al- ways obtains in the region above us. And Friday I am going to Chicago to feel the bite of the wind as It sweeps across the great lakes.
 q presume that some of my ancestors were vikings. For although I am a na- tive of the south. I have great fond ness for cold weather Occasionally, I find myself envying the plight of King Lear. when. practically deranged, he wandered hopelessly in the storm, ex- claiming. Blow winds. crack your teeth; blow your belly fuli.'
 "Ot course, while ill Chicago I will do other things. For instance, on Saturday, one of the great championship football games of the west will be played. I will see this, of course. Altogether, with the weather and the football game will en- jot myself.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-17

No communication will be published without it's authors name. he1ecteo manuscript wlH net be returned un- less stamps are enclosed Io= that pug pose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-17
The Bond Issue

''The governor Is about ready to issue statement on the financial condition of the state," said Walter Bivins, close observer of political conditions ''The chief executive prepared the statement for the purpose of impressing the people with the necessity of voting in favor of the proposed bond issue in the sum of si,5oO,OO which will be submitted in a special election January IS.
 There is some strong opposition to the issue on the part of those leaders who opposed Governor Henderson when he was a candidate for the office which he now fills. However, I feel certain that in the long run the issue will carry, al though the election will in all probability excite little interest.
 When the issue is authorized and the state gets again on it's feet. the people should exercise care in the election of their public servants. There is no special reason why Alabama should be in the firancial hole. AS Is remembered. there vas a reat surplus in the treasury when Jelks retired as governor. There should always be 2 surplus. And there can be q surplus and progress at the same time. It is a remarkably poor student of finance who holds otherwise
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-06

ferS Or Incorporation have been issued
b. the secretary Or state. The Ruth
CONSOLIDATED Telephone Company, Of
Ruth, KanaWha county. has an ali-
thorizcd capital OF $4,000 LIS in
cofporators are II d. Carr, II. a.
Rabei A. s purley. Il. 9. Means and
Isl. 81 ChiIdress.
The Chester Rubber Tire a Tube
Company. OF Chester, Hancock county,
which has an authorized capital 'oI
S2.opp.oQ0. viii have It's CHIEF WORKS
at Chester The fncorpo are
Philip FreshWater ]. Q. Efeshwatef
Elmer FreshNater, A. i. Skinner and
|Geofse a. Hasson, al Ipf Chester.
The Weller Brothers COMPANY, 81
| Hunting ton. WIZ engage in drilling
land equipping Oh and gas wells. II
lhas an atittorize a capita Of SO 900
| The incorporltor3 are William ]
lWeiier, Joseph d. Weiier, George >
Weller Fay s. Weller and H. 4. Iov.
| EFT, all Of Hunt ngtpii. Z. 81
W. r. I1ohr q Company, Of sGrafton
Taylor county, viii conduct a photog,
ifAphers gallery II has an author.
Ifzed capital Of s25 900 and the moor
operators are w. r. Loar, OF Grafton;
lG, B. Robinson, 81 Wheeling: Ieslii
III Ioar, Paul o. Potter and r. 3
| PftiStofd. of Graf on. i y, 4 (
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-06

West indies Steamship Lines. Of
which company G.. L. Stone Is vice.
and ii. r. Mallory. a men-
her Of the board Of directors of the
Eastern Steamship Company, Is
president. This company owns the
majority of the stock Of the Clyde
Line, the New York and Cuba Line,
Mallory Line, and the entire stock
OF. the New FORK and Porto Rico
Line and the Texas City Steamship
Company. Edward u Berwind, one
OF the directors OF the Atlantic CUR
and West Indian Steamship Lines,
the holding COMPANY for the various
Subsidiary lines, is also q director
of the Guaranty Trust Company and
on the board of directors OF the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce with Van
derlfp and others. Befwfnd is also
the head of big coal company III
New York City, whose business is
that Of furnishing coal to the var
|ious steamship lines. :, IS
Declaring the position Of. the
United States as a nation was anon
|oious with its 81, $50: 90, 900 Of for;
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-06

Eddstriai circles after the inst OF the
year, are the only encouraging Feat
lures ii the situation. The surpiuses
| at the main distribdtink centerS are
| probably shade less than for some
time, and quotations on prompt sales
q tribe steadier, but the demand is
only spasmodic while the tnerest
Ipretense IS made Of maintaining the
circulars and sales agents are push
ing hard to place the January and
February tonnage. On contracts for
the new year the todhcing interests
are holding out determinedly for the
same prices as last year, and most OF
the business coming up so TAR has
been closed at these figures, though
very slight concessions are occasion
Tally noted Z. Il e
In the PittSburg district, q scarce:
l1y perceptible imp oyement in the de-
Inland is noted, due entirely to the adj
lditional tonnages required because OF
the colder weather. AS q result the
market on free coal Is a tribe steadier
land there are encouraging reports of
Increased working scheduies to be-
come effective at many Of the mills
this month. AT the moment, business
4 ID confined entirely. to routine orders
on regular contracts. The severe cold
weather caught the dealers in Ohio
with Unexpectedly low stocks with d
result that there has been rush OF
orders, with some Of an urgent char.
i acter better sentiment is also
noted among the steam consumers,
who are now placing orders with
,otya,sy anne, a. n
In the southern market current
prices continue below the regular cir
ocular, but the cold weather and
storms have created a demand for
Immediate shipment; the holiday cur:
i tailment and better feeling prevail,
ling regarding the Industrial outlook
4 have caused moderately improved
tone in the situation.
The severe cold weather has toned
up the middle western situation In
an impressive manner Prices are
notably sitter, while mine operations
are apparently up to the full rated ca.
lpacity with the coal being absorbed
as rapidly as It is mined. The pre-;
il dominating feature In the situation !;
the heavy demand for steam Goa
from Chicago which ~ apparently be
ling met with some difficulty. Highe,
prices are to be expected most any
tttime from now on.
4 The monthly report for the month
I of December Of the workmen's com
ipensation commission Of the publ.
Il service commission has been issued
u It shows that there were twenty
) five deaths in mine accidents, on
death in lumber, two in metal ant
J eight in contracting, a total OF thirty
4 six. for the month.
There were 1898 accidents reportei
!. Ito the commission during the monti
y according to the report
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-06

Wells and Haytiiaker.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-06
sRIP PURCHASE
I Continued from PAGE two.)

l,1 n = ~ g X n az z
led on the board OF the National
| Bank of Commerce, 4 with Henry z.
Davidson with P. Morgan and
| Company. with Frank a. vanderlip
land William r eller, Of the Ma
| tional City Bank u. y. sLores,
Ianother director Is on the board OF
| the Seaboafd Air Line. Ogden
Mills, another director. IL associated
with the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company and he, with Cornelius
Bliss. another director, are ON the
board of the United States Trust
| Company, of New York, on which
board the same interests are found
ldominant. &. X E Z. ~ s,
Comp anies Named.
The Old Dominion, Steamship Com
lpany lis controlled BY; the Atlantic
Coast Line, seaboard Air Line,
Southern ghesape ake and Ohio and
Norfolk and Western Railroads. The
same interests appear here. Frank
"a. Wand erlip, OF the Nat i6naI City
Bank, appears on. the boards Of two
Iof the railroads. Charles Steel, meni-l
Der Of the firm OF u p Morgan and
company, Ebert a Gary, chat rnai
Inf the board Of directors Of the
United States Steel Corporation,
/ Victor Morowftz, a prominent mem.
Der Of the board Of the National
Bank Of Commerce and others Of
| the same interests are found on the
boards Of these railroads. The Mer-
chants and Miners Transportation
iCompany was, unt1 recently owned
Thy the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad, which from re-
tcent investigation. by the Interstate
\ commerce Commission and the De-
lpartment of Justice, 1t was disclosed
that this was controlled by j. y.
Morgan and Company. The govern
lment required the railroad to sell
1.-THE Merchants and Miners interests.
The new owners, however belong TO
1.-THE same aggregati lion. The chair
imam of the board Of directors sci
1.-THE Merchants ana Miners Is on the
Hoard of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
]road, of which j.. r. Morgan and
company are the fiscal agents, and
Others have similar y affiliations T D
Ocean Steamship Company The Sa;
lyannah Line J, is owned by the Cen;
sltra1 of Georgia Railroad. On It's
board are found gentlemen who are
interested In New York banking
houses with the Morgans and Rookie
4 fellers. y
1.-THE Eastern Steamship Company
Ills q holding company, which CON
iltrols and operates eleven Different
4 steamship lines Of the New En-.
ENGLAND Coast and controls practi-
Ically the entire trade Of that region.
According to Moody's Manual, or
June 30, 1913. the New England
Navigation Company: owns two and
la half million dollars In the stock
lof this company. ]. p Morgan II
la director of the New England Nav
legation company: The Eastern
sISteamship Company, It Is under
lstcod, to be financed and largel,
tcoptorlled by Hayden. Stone ans
Company OF Boston and New York
81. L. Stone and =. w. Hayden, 81
THAT firm are on its board OF direc
TORS. The same firm are understood
Ito control the Atlantic, Gulf ant
Il
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-06
ACTIVE DEMAND
FEATURES THE
GOAL MARKET
AIS a Result Of the, Cold Snaps
AIT over the Country Re-
Gently and Now.

The current issue OF Coal Age
Rays The long continued cold snaps
have created an active situation In
the retail anthracite trade, but the
wholesale business is still holding
back Supplies are plentiful, though
the large companies have been draw
ing on their stocks. Delays occas-
ipned by freezing coal caused temper
airy anxiety in some quarters, but on
the other hand the dealers reduced
their buying over the closing days of
the year and there has been no short
age 6f consequence at any time. G.
Large stocks, weak prices and ex-
cessive surpluses in all directions.
mark the opening OF the new year in
the eastern bituniinous trade. The
colder weather, which has started
coal moving in certain restricted
channels, and more or less indefinite
reports of a turn for the better in In
III
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-06

eign commerce, to carry 8 2 per cent
Of which I'VE are dependent upon
the ships Of other nations, and with
a practical Limitation to the ship
ping or Great Britain while five OF
the great maritime nations Of Eus
rope are at war Our right as a
neutral nation to trade with the bell
ligerents = he said, sis fully recUg-
mixed by international law and our
duties closely defined ! would not
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-06

reiinquish any Fight ss d s,entr ma
ton or fan TO < perform every duty
impressed on as as such. =
agreed with the United States that
cotton shall not be regarded as con-
traband and the United States IS
free to ship cotton to any OF the
lbelligerents and the proposed Ship
purchase Legislation, according to
MI. Alexander. Is to remove the
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-06

DEEDS REC oRDED.

John Basel twiii5 to ellen d.
Davis and others z lots West Main
street 4 lot. Monte llof venue ~
acres, Elk Greek and % acresE pt
coal, West Fork river.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-18
RELEASE RINTELEN
FOR A CANADIAN
Proposal to Exchange German Officer
for Former Postmaster General
of Canada

MONTREAL, Dec. IS. - The Ger
man government has offered to exchange
Dr. Henri S. Beland, former postmaster
general of Canada, for Capt Franz Won
Rintelen, according to advices received
here Yesterday by Arthur Ecremont, a
former member of Parliament. DIR. Be
land was captured at the fall of Ant
werp. Capt. Won Rintelen was removed
by British officers from a steamer while
on his way from the United States to
Holland. He has been held as a pris-
oner of war in England ever since,
and several reports stated he was in the
tower of London under sentence of
death for espionage. He has been
named many times recently as having
directed a conspiracy to foment strikes
in munition plants in the United States
and is under indictment at New York
for obtaining a false passport, on which
he was travelling when taken prisoner
by the British.
The communication to Mr.. Ecremont
was from Premier Borden, who said
that Andrew Bonar Law, British coloni
al secretary, had requested Vatican au-
thorities to petition for DR.. Beland S
release. The communication stated that
| Cardinal Gasparri, after outlining the
/ steps taken by the Vatican toward sc
curing Dr. Beland s liberation, in {
/ letter to Sir Henry Howard, British
representative at the Vatican, wrote:
''The papal muncio at Munich has
been informed by the German govern
ment that the liberation of DR.. Belant
would be effected as soon as the Brit
/ ish government accorded former Capt
Rintelen, now held prisoner in England
his freedom. I hope that the Englsl
government will have no difficulty il
acceding to the proposition of the Ger
man government and that it will h
possible for both prisoners to Obtain
their liberty
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-18
RAIN STORM HITS
MERCHANTS HARD
Practically No Trading Last SATURDAY.
Before Christmas Travelling Is
Very Disag greeable.

No more disagreeabIe conditions for
either foot passengers or those able to
travel by conveyance are imaginable
than those in Brattleboro today, the
last Saturday before Christmas. The
heavy snowfall of Monday laid a
foundation for lot of trouble when
the rain began late yesterday after
noon.
BY s O'Clock last evening it was rain
ing hard and has continued to do so, al
most without intermission, since then. 1t
is impossible to cross a street without
getting wet. The sidewalks in most
places are slippery with a thin film of
water on top. Sand spread on the walks
is washed into the cutters as fast as
spread.
The merchants and clerks are hard
hit for the storm has forced so many
people to remain at home today that
there is practically no Christmas shop
ping.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-18
SEVEN KILLED IN
STREET CAR WRECK
Bridge at Spokane, Wash, Collapsed
and Car Dropped into River
Victims Were Crushed.

SPOKANE, Wash, Dec. 18.-Seven
persons were killed and one injured
early today when a street car plunged
through a bridge over the Spokane
river. 1t was at first thought that Is
to 80 had been killed. The dead re-
mained in the car over an hour after
it fell into the river.
Two street cars were on the bridge
when the entire structure collapsed.
One end of the car fell into the water
and the other end rested on the abut-
ment The car crew and two passen-
gers were rescued uninjured. The other
car, inbound and carrying 20 passengers,
fell into the river and heavy steel
beam crashed down on it, crushing the
passengers on one side of the car. The
passengers on the other side were in
jured, but fremen rescued them. The
bridge took with it the pipes that sup
plies the northeast section of the city
with water and gas.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-18
THOMPSON PLANS
POWER PROJECT
Breadloaf Line to Figure in Extensive
Development-Win Be Able to De
velop 5000 Horse Power.

c. H. Thompson Of Montpelier. for
merly of this town. went this week to
New York on business connected with
the Breadloaf Mountain Power com
pany.
On Monday he went to West Dan
vile, where the deeds were passed and
money paid in which Goss and Conlev
granite manufacturers in that village,
sold their interest in their water power
to the Breadloaf Mountain Power com
panv. The transaction involved 800
GOO. BY the securing of the Goss and
Conley interests the company get about
IS per cent of the power at that point
and are still bargaining with the BielS,
ford family interests for the remaining
% per cent.
Mr.. Thompson company propose
to use it in electrical development
| They viii enlarge the facilities to some
extent, but have not fully completed
/ their plans. They have 275-foot fal
/ of water and will be able to develol
| about 5000 horse power in electricity
They may hitch this power with tha
at Middlebury in spite Of the distance
of wires that would have to be run.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-18
THIRD VICTIM OF
SHOOTING is DEAD
Arthur Simonds Succumbs at Etna, Me
Father of the Murderer Claims
Two Bodies.

Etna, Me, Dec 1S-Arthur Simonds,
aged 10, who was shot at South Etna
Thursday noon by Frank Grotton. alias
George Cove, who also shot and killed
his wife, slightly wounded Leslie
Simonds, and ended his own life, died
yesterday. The bullet from the high
powered rifle fred at short range shat
tered one arm, two ribs and went
through the lungs.
GrOttOn and his young wife appear
to have been wanderers and worked at
various places in Maine. Grotton 6
father, George Grotton, a prosperous
farmer who lives in Somerville, Ne, ar
rived here today to take charge of the
bodies Of his son and his wife. He said
that Frank was home about three
months ago and that he might have re-
mained but he had a roaming disposi-
tion. He wrote letters home occasion
ally.
1t seems to be the general opinion
that Young Grotton was not entirely
sane He was a good worker and had
no trouble with the other members Of
the family, but he and his wife were
constantly pickering when together.
| 1t is emphaticallv denied that any
members. of the family gave Grottor
any cause for jealousy of his wife. Mrs
Simonds, housekeeper for the BusseI
brothers, owners of the farm, an6
mother of the two boys. declares that
/ Mrs. Grotton was well behaved and {
good worker. She seemed TO be con
tented except when her husband was
around.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-18
J. 0. CARPENTER.
Former selectman of Leyden Died in
Rernardston.

BERNARDSTON, Mass. Dec. IS
Joseph o. Carpenter, 88, died yesterday
in the home of his son, NJ S. Carpen-
ter. He was a native of Leyden and a
former prominent citizen of that town,
having held the office of selectman and
assessor many years.
He was a veteran of the Civil war
and was a former commander of Edwin
E. Day Post, G. \. R., in Greenfield. He
leaves two sons and three daughters, c.
B. Carpenter of South Ashburnham and
M. S. Carpenter of Bernardston. Mrs
p r. Shearer of Shelburne, Mrs Nellie
Field of South Vernon, and Mrs Annie
Lashua of South Ashburnham The ser
vices will take place at the home of NJ
S. Carpenter on Monday morning at 1C
clock and the burial win be in Ley.
den.