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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-04
MAPLE AVENUE sIeLg CLASS.

The regular weekly session OF the
Maple Avenue Bible Study Glass will
be held Thursday evening In the audi.
torium OF the Thomas C. Miller school
building from $500 to $4,000 o'clock.
A great increase in interest and at.
tendance has marked the meetings for
the last month, and it is earnestly
desired that many new members may
begin this helpful study Of the scrip.
lures at this time. The discussions
are both spirited and spiritual and are
entered into by all present, the teach
er aims merely to give direction to
the discussion and conference to the
ideas as they are developed.
All are invited to be present Thurs.
day evening with their Bibles and Ia.
bernacle song books. The lesson
study begins with Acts xiv:19 and
1t Is desired to include a preliminary
view Of the fifteenth chapter II posi-.
Bile. 49,
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CHARTER IS FILED
FOR|..V|EsTF0RKR'.R.
Blueprints and Statement
Showing Proposed Route
On Record.

T A new outlet for the mills, factories
and other business interests Of Fair.
mont made necessary by the constant.
ly increasing prosperity of the city
will be furnished by the construction
of new railroad is miles long from
Fairmont through Monongah to Graf.
ton, according to the provisions of a
certificate OF incorpation of the West
Fork Railroad company, a new cor.
poration filed for record in the office
OF the clerk OF Marion county court
yesterday.
The men named as incorporators In
the certificate are Scott c. Lowe, state
senator: G. L. Shaver. state represen.
tative; r. S. Reed. an attorney asso.
'eiated with Mr.. Love- and NJ. "A,
Fletcher and ]. A. Jamison OF the
Fatrmont Trust Company.
Mr.. Jamison stated today that con.
structton on the road had not yet been
started but that the project was being
worked out on paper and that the work
OF organizing the new company was
being pushed.
That the plans OF the company arc
well advanced Is indicated by a huge
map and profile OF part of the pro.
posed road, filed for record in the
Marion county court Office. This map
consists OF 10 blue prints, each six
feet long and Is inches wide. n
A typewriter statement attached
TO the blue print map shows its pur.
pose and outlines in part the route Of
the proposed new road. The state.
ment follows in part:
This is to certify that the annexed
map and profile made by the engineer
OF the West Fork railroad company
contains and shows the location OF the
railroad which said railroad company
proposes to build, beginning at a
point IN the Second ward OF the city
of Fairmont in Marion county. w. Va.
and crossing the Monongahela river.
and running thence along the west
bank of said Monongahela river and
the western bank Of West Fork river
to point on Bingamon creek near
the mouth thereof, all in Marion coun.
", and thence crossing said Blngamon
creek and running to- a point In the
village Of Granville in said Marion
county," m n -
Similar maps aud proflles have been
filed in the Office OF the county clerk
OF Harrison county ana in the office
OF the secretary Of state at Charles.
ton.
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BIZ READY FOR
TRAINS by april 1
Work Being Rapidly Pushed
To Completion-Ballast
Placed On Tracks.

Construction work on the Buckhan.
non & Northern railroad lines into
tairmont will be completed by April
!, ready for the operation OF passenger
and freight trains, according to a
statement today by S. D. Brady, chief
engineer In charge of the construc.
ton of the new road.
The construction OF bridges and lay.
ing OF ties and rails have been com.
'pleted and the work OF ballasting the
track is now being rapidly pushed to
a finish:
More than 80 carloads Of Stag from
the steel mills in the Pittsburgh dis.
trict are being shipped In and dumped
on the tracks each day. BY Saturday
the work of putting in ballast will
have been completed as far as A
street, Fairmont.
Rinehart and Dennis Company, the
principal contractor for the construc.
ton OF the road, was. paid off yester.
day and all accounts with the firm
settled. the final payment being sl93,.
S74.1S, for which receipt in full was
given and filed with the clerk of the
county court here for record. The
work OF putting ballast and finishing
up the details of the work at the ter.
ninal in Fairmont will take about two
weeks longer. This work is not in
the contract, with Rinehart & Dennis,
Mr.. Brady was unable TO say posi-.
lively whether trains will be started
on the road Immediately after compile.
tion, but the presumption Is that this
will be done as the company will de.
sire to get returns as quickly as pos.
sible on the large amount Of money
invested in the Improvement.
The manufacturers and other bust.
ness men Of Fairmont are anxious
for the operation of trains over the
new road as additional transportation
facilities are badly needed here on nc.
count of the growing prosperity Of the
city.
The Buckhannon and Northern rail.
road will be operated Jointly by the
Pennsylvania and New York Central
companies. which guarantees the best
of service for oil lines operated by
these companies stand in the first
rank as regards speedy and careful
handling ofrfeight as well as fast and
efficient passenger service.
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FAKE war RELIC IN
WINDOW STARTS RIOT
Old Saw Fashioned Into Turko
Blade Draws Police.

Gary, Ind.-Frank Sicily leaped into
fame on a saw as the leading humorist
Of the city. 1t was an old saw, rusty
and most of its teeth gone, and this
made the leap more difficult. Skclly
picked up the saw and f4
Five policemen rushed down the
main street of Gary with drawn clubs.
They We're answering a riot call. In
front Of Fred ]. Freydluuds store
gathering crowd was shouting and
struggling. The crowd pressed against
the store window. The men cried out:
Break the window: Wreck the store!r
After half IN hour the police dispers.
ed the mob. Several heads were whack:
ed: a great deal of III feeling was ex.
hibited. Then all night the police
stood in front of Mr.. Frcydlund's store.
They were protecting 1t. for in the
window hung bloodstained saber
marked as relic from Relgian but.
tlefeld. 1t mad belonged to a terrible
Turko. the sign said. The terrible
Turko had fought raliantly with It.
He had slain at least FIVE Of the enemy
before be lost It. There was blood on
the curved and wicked looking blade.
1t was for this reason that the mob
had endeayored TO break the window.
Freydlund. however. had given good
hat to its owner for permission to ex.
hiblt It in his store.
By morning Freydlund decided he
had had enough of the blade, he sum.
moned Frank Sicily to the store.
lyon can have your relic back-and
for goodness sake sink It in the lake"
Frank Sicily laughed.
What happened to the old saw Skel.
" found? oh, be sunk it In the Lake.
as Mr.. Freydlund had suggested. only
1t was no longer n saw. but curved
saber with goose blood smeared all
over the blade.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-04
NEW L0.0.ELDDGE
FOR R|VESVILLE
Organizatio Will B tInves:
tigated Monday By Fair
mont Odd Fellows.

A. new lodge OF the Independent or.
der Of odd Fellows will be Instituted
at Rivesyille on next Monday night by
members Of Marion Lodge No. II. of
this city. !,
District Deputy Francis II. Thralls
win be the instituting officer. assisted
by other members of the local organ.
ization.
Arrangements are being made for
about so Odd Fellows from Fairmont
to 80 to Riyesyille for the occasion,
and special traction car has been
chartered. which will leave here at
6:15 Monday evening.
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NEW YORK, March 4.-Police and
boy scouts of New Haven and other
Connecticut towns are looking for
Miss Lillian May Cook, OF Brooklyn,
who disappeared from her place OF
business in New Haven last Thursday.
When last seen she was running to.
ward the suburbs Of New Haven, her
hair dishevelled and apparently SUI.
fering from great nervous excitement.
Virginius Mayor, for whom she work.
ed. has offered, 500 reward for her
recovery, dead or alive. 81
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Personals.

Mr.. Vance Harrington is i'll of grippe
at his home on Stevens street. Mrs.
Harrington, who has been Ill Of quinsy
is recovering.
Miss Elsie stin OF Baltimore. who
has been the guest of Miss Fanny
Funt, Of Morgantown avenue, has re-
turned to her home.
Mr.. Byrl criss Is i'll at his home on
Bolton street.
Miss Lenore Gaskins is i'll of grippe
at her home on Market street.
Mr.. !. L. Henderson, OF Grafton is
the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. George W.
Henderson.
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NEWS ITEM WORTH $1,000.
II Told Minnesota Man Of Legacy LET.
q ~ Him.

Hlbblng. Minn.-Through an item
which appeared in a local paper giving
a LIST Of deceased persons whose rela.
tives cannot be found and for whom
the amount OF certain life insurance
policies Is being held by a lie insur.
ance company, Robert Porteous. living
near Warren. MIMI. win receive $1,000.
the full amount Of the policy carried
by his VITA Mrs. Mary Porteous.
The article was noticed By ". L.
Galloway OF the Galloway Dry Goods
company. One OF bis clerks is Miss
Sadie Porteous. and inquiry developed
the fact that Mrs. Mary Portions was
her aunt. The exact whereabouts Of
Robert Porteous is not known. but he
is living In the country in the vicinity
Of Warren.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-04

NEW YORK. March 4.-Members
of sixty women's clubs are to act as
patronesses OF the woman's Indus
trial Exposition this year, which will
be held in the post.Lenten season.
The Grand Central Palace will be de-
voted to display Of the activities of
women in every phase. Mrs. Jean Fl.
Norris, OF the Woman's Press Club
will be in charge OF that delegation. :,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-04
easlcwar Buys Empress OF India.

Seattle. wash.-The liner Empress Of
India Of the canadlan.p Pacific Railway
company. which has been plying be.
tween north Pacific ports and the far.
east for twenty.three years. has been
sold TO the gaekwar Of Baroda. said to
be the richest prince Of. the Indian EN-.
pfre. The Empress OF India is to serve.
as a hospital ship for Indian troops.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-04
Solons Consider
Bills For Revenue
Cspecial.t 10 The west virrin.an.

CSpeeial to The West virgin:an.)
CHARLESTON. W. Va, March A.
Nine additional bills were introduced
in the House today. principal among
WHICH were the Parsons bills to make
pipe lines common carriers and plac.
Ing tax on land held in excess OF
FIVE thousand acres; the sinsel bill
to increase the direct state tax to 10
cents and bills relating to court pro-
cedure.
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. HANDS POISONED.

George S. wehrley, the popular
flower store man at Hollis Pharmacy
is suffering with two poisoned hands.
Although his hands are too sore 10 be
of any use, Mr.. Wehrley is able to be
at the store.
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Miss DOMAIN Hostess.

Miss katherine Donham of Market
street, was hostess to the Teachers
Sewing Circle last evening. The at.
fair was a children's party. and the
guests were dressed as children. A
delightful evening was spent and a
choice course OF refreshments was
served.
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East Side News
beiiahtful. EVENING.

Miss Opal Radford entertained a
number OF young folks Tuesday eve.
ming at her home on Market street.
The guests were entertained with va.
rfons games and music. A delicious
course OF refreshments was served
by the hostess after which the entire
party went to the home OF Miss Mil.
dred Pople on Merchant street. where
an old fashioned taffy pulling was
enjoyed.
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|Bs met last evening at the home OF
Mrs. ]. Ft1nt. on alorgantown avenue.
.M.W.EcIu,,t

". M. w. CLUB.
Mrs. Guy Cochrane. of Barney street
was hostess to the members OF the
y. N: w. Club yesterday afternoon.
A large number OF the ladies were
present and the meeting was a very
enjoyable one.
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FILLING STREET.

Sewer cave-ins on State street are
being filled in today and the street
will be leveled from Columbia to East
Ferry street.
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oetsHd aIEls Ilup. a-4l
Misses Florence Wilfong and Madgel
Barnes entertained the Geisha Girls
Club last evening at their rooms on
Locust avenue. Needlework was the
diversion OF the evening. X
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Goethals Nominated
PE'o.r,Major General
tRy AssocIated press, ,

WASHINGTON, March 44.-col.
George Goethals was. nominated to
be a major general today In recognI.
ton Of his services in building the.
Panama Canal. !;
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Returned Home.

Mrs. William Knapp. Of Morgan.
town avenue, who has been a surgical
patient at Cooks Hospital, was re-
moved to her home yesterday.
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Met AZ Funt Home.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the I. o. B.
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Boys Bible Class
Has Good Meeting

The Boys Bible Class of the Y. M.
G. A. met last night in the regular
weekly session at the association
building. z
The class assemblies at the study
hail at G:30 for the study OF the les.
Evening star., 1915-08-15

railroad and corporation lawyer. and
later with John c. Spooner. the once
brilliant senatorial debater. from Wis
consin.
All of the commissioners but Mr.. Har-
ris who comes from Georgia, and was
an organizer of insurance companies
and a banker. are western men. All,
too, are university men. except Mr..
Hurley. Each, also. has been success
full in his profession or business Da-
vies, Harris and Rublee have been ac-
tive in politics. the latter as a reform
er in New Hampshire, after studying
government at the Ecole Libre des
Sciences Politiques in Paris.
THE federal trade commission Mr..
Davies says. in explaining the objects OF
that novel and peculiar national agency
of commercial righteousness, was de.
signed to furnish a partisan body
OF men, expert upon matters connected
with business and industry, to aid in
the enforcement of the law for the
benefit Of the whole country
The commi ssion, Mr.. Davies continues,
is charged with the labor of destroying
what has been termed the seeds of
monopoly 1t is also clothed in Ger
tain cases with power to serve as an
adviser upon the facts to the courts in
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of the liberal members of parliament.
AS matter Of fact these discontented
and it was only by a display of his
powers as dictator that Asquith was
able to ward off the dangerous opposi-
tion.
This dictatorship is extending to
every corner of the country. Mem
bers of the government have declared
again and again that they would not
hesitate to use compulsion for forcing
men into the army or into the muni-
tions factories should the voluntary
system prove inadequate. and Bonar
Law recently declared that il the cur
rent war loan was a failure there
would be a compulsory loan.
Now, no one is urging that these evil
dences of autocracy are wrong in the
circumstances The writer, instead, is
only pointing out that in this great
hour of crisis England finds it's chief
support and salvation ip the very form
of government against which her peo-
pie, in common with the people of
most other enlightened countries, have
been fighting for generations; indeed,
in the very form of government against
which, in the present war, they claim
to be battling.
Nor is it probable that in England
opment of this theory of absolutism.
On every side, among serious minded
and highly placed men and women, one
hears the suggestion that we shall
never attain efficiency until the inev-
liable dictator in name appears. Many
organs have plucked up courage to
compare -disparagingly to the first, the
present position of England with that
of Germany after a year of the war
and have not hesitated to find in the
war absolutism of the kaiser the cause.
Within a few days the late Joseph
Chamberlain has been quoted as saying
that England would have to have a
dictator in the case of war with Ger
many.
Some of the most influential papers
in the country are almost openly
booming Lloyd George as the coming
dictator, and it is not long since AS
auith was urged to rule with the un-
gloved hand of iron. The government
is blamed on all sides. except among
the working classes, for hesitatin
to take the strongest action against
the striking Welsh miners. irrespec-
tive of the merits of the case.
This spirit Of despotism is even more
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pronounced. although not so unexpect-
ed, in France. For, although France
is democracy in name and in nor
NAL times, it has more than once shown
it's love for the strong hand in an
emergency. Those who watched the
maneuvers of BRAND during the great
railway strike of several years ago
and his frank disregard of all the ele-
representative government were fully
prepared for the course of events IN
the great republic since the declaration
of war.
Frances first and perhaps greatest
offense against the precious principles
of a free government of the people is
its all-powerful censorship. AS a con-
sequence of this drastic measure. the
free, sovereign. non -combatant people
of France know less about the great
war which their country is fighting to
the last drop of its blood than do the
people of Iceland, who have no con-
ceivab Bile interest in the struggle I'M
plicit obedience and trust in the three
or four men who control is demanded
from the thirty-odd million men. wom-
en- and children of France. and the
penalty of disobedience is death.
The despotism in Germany is not so
apparent because it was expected and
because most Ol II cAiStS SNCI III NiihSS
of peace. But it, nevertheless. is a
clear negation of all those theories of
popular government SO dear to the
average American.
The reichstag, never actually power
full. but which for years prided itself
upon a certain amount of real power.
has, since the war started. almost dis
appeared from view. Called together
a favorabl moments to listen to short
speeches by the chancellor or the sec
retary of foreign affairs, it has, for
perhaps the first time in it's history.
realized it's complete lack of power.
Before the war it was confidently
supposed all over the world that the
influence of the socialistic masses of
Germany would have restraining ef-
feet upon those in power But so
strong have proved the forces Of reac-
ton that practically four million so
cialistic voters have been swept OF
their feet and into the very thick of
the fighting which in theory they de-
test And so much more powerful have
proved the influence of words and
phrases than the recently acquired
theories of democracy and freedom OF
individual action that the German So
cialists are now the most willing OF
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WILLIAM j. HARRIS.

so on-are already employed. They
will grow in number, no doubt, as the
labor of the commission develops.
The Ave commissioners, at word
from the White House, probably. chose
Joseph Z. Davies as their chairman and
Edward n. Hurley their vice chairman.
Davies, whose parents were Welsh and
whose mother was famous evangelist.
is thirty-nine years old. a lawyer and
a Congregationalist. An active poll
tician in Wisconsin, where he was
chairman of the democratic state cen
trail committee. he was put in charge
of Mr.. Wilson's western headquarters
during the campaign of 1912. Two
years ago he was brought to Washing
ton and made commissioner of corpo-
rations.
The oldest man on the commission, his
age being fifty-one, is Mr.. Hurley. He
was locomotive fireman and an en-
gineer on the Burlington railroad and
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EDWARD n. HURLEY.

eign trade of the United States" Meas
ures will be taken to prevent the
dumping on the markets of this coun-
try of the surplus products of other
countries at prices which cannot be
met by American producers.
Dumping Mr.. Davies says, by for
eign monopolies into the United States,
either of their surplus products or of
their competitive products. and the
selling of such products at cost in
this country below the prevailing mar
ket cost in the country of their pro-
duction, is vicious in practice and holds
potentialities of great harm to Amer
lean industry and to the American
people.
american enterprise and industry in
digenous to our soil and native to our
conditions Mr.. Davies goes on to say.
"are sentitled to have such competition
of foreign monopoly declared to be un-
fair and to have such practices pre-
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their enforcement of the antitrust
laws" Otherwise, as an assistant
prosecutor.
At the same time, "a common under
standing of the facts, arrived at
through full and frank conference of
the persons complained of with the
federal trade commission. may fire.
quently result in the stopping of the
alleged unfair practices more expe-
ditiously than would lengthy legalistic
procedure
BY the word of Mr.. Davies. "the pur-
pose of the federal trade commission
is not to harass. but to help-not to
make a legalistic record, but to bring
relief and aid: to bring first aid to the
competitor before the patient is ex-
hausted by long-drawn-out technicali-
ties of legal action
Unfair methods Of competition in
commerce. so runs a very compre-
hensive sentence in the law creating
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could suspend the freedom of the press
and punish the responsible EDITORS ana
even the reporters and printers by the
most extreme penalties.
Parliament, the very parlament
whose rights Cromwell established and
which so emphatically asserted its IN
dependence" and it's power IN tne
famous fight with the house OF !oros
self to be adjourned during the early
critical months of the war. Even now,
when it is sitting, its claws are CLIP
ped. The voice Of the nation Is as
voiceless as fish and as powerless as
tortoise on it's back. BY general con-
sent the first year of the war has been
horribly bungled by those in command
in England, yet recently, when a few
of the members in this free parliament
in this supposedly the freest OF coun-
tries. put some questions to the prime
minister with the intention OF uncov-
erng the incompetents, the headlines
of the report in one Of the morning pa
pers read as follows: Mr.. Asquith's
Short AnsWers-All Information Re
fused-Master of the House of Com
mons"
No one believes that the present Goa
ition government is any stronger than
the last liberal government and many
there are who beNeve it to be weaker
because of it's mixed party elements.
The object of Asquith rs forming 1T
was not to strengthen the conduct of
the war by the inclusion of new
brains, because the services OF all the
unionsts included have, since the be-
ginning, been at the disposal of the
government. The plain purpose was to
muzzle criticism by the inclusion of all
the powerful critics. BY this maneuver
Asquith snuffed a probable investiga-
ton OF the sorry muddle that marked
the first eight months of the war. an
investigation that would have given
the common people the very informa-
tion to which all precepts of repre-
sentative government entitle them and
which would probably have hurled the
liberal government from office with
resounding thud.
A remarkable feature of this change
from a liberal to a coalition govern
ment is that it was effected by Asquith
without the consent Of the voters and
without the consent and, indeed.
against the expressed wishes of scores