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138. WILMINGTON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1907. WHOLE NUMBER 'is OUTLINES. AUTO DASHED INTO TREE MAYOR'S MONDAY COUBT MAYOR HAS BIG STICK THE SUPREME COURT RAILWAY RATE CASE Hearing Before Master Resumed at Southern Railway Offices in Washington Yesterday. -I Out of a crew of twenty-five men, five were lost in Patapsco river, oft Sparrow's Point, Sunday, night when the British steamer Barnstable collided with and stink the tug Gerry in five minutes On account of failing health, the government has allow ed Colonel John F.

Gaynor to leaved jail at Macon, Ga nd go to the springs- jn a statement given to the press at Lincoln, last night, the Honorable Wm. J. Bryan criticises Secretary Taft's -ColumbuB speech, declaring that on all qijesions the Secretary of War straddles, dodges the real Issues and also misrepresents Col. Bryan's position before the American people The railway rate hearing involving passenger fares in 'North Carolina was resumed at the offices of the Southern -Railway in Washington yesterday; Comptroller Plant was on the stand 'and gave technical figures as to the cost of operation of the Southern in this gtate Twenty-one persons were injured, only one of them seriously, however, by the derailment of a northbound train on the Southern Railway nine miles from Charlottesville, early yesterday; several of the injured were North Carolinians; the accident as caused by a broken rail Arbitration of the telegraphers', strike as it stands at present, is out of the question, according to a statement-made in New York last night by President Small, of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union The annual meet- irg of the American Bar Association at Portland, yesterday, Alton B. Parker, the president, ftffting; one the paper8 rea wa3 byter-State Commerce Commissioner Prouty on "The Fundamental Defects in the Act to Regulate Corporations" New York markets: Money on call, steady 2 1-4 to 2 1-2 per cent, ruling rate 2 1-2; closing at 2 to 2 1-4; spot cotton 1 point higher closing quiet at 13.50; flour firm but quiet; wheat strong No.

2 red, 98 7-8 elevator; corn strong; oats strong at 63; turpentine quiet 59; rosin quiet. "All men are born free and equal. Thomas Jefferson insisted in proclaiming, but in all his life time he refrained from going on record with any allegation that a man can equal a woman. The Negro Republican League, of Georgia, has put itself on record as endorsing Senator Foraker. P.

S. Secretary Taft has probably been told by the white Southern' Republicans 1 i that negro Republicans are on the outside when delegates to the National Republican convention are named. The Boston Commercial Bulletin, one of the staid and reliable financial and industrial newspapers in this country, speaking of violations of the anti-trust laws, says: "Let the punishment fit the crime." The Bulletin is liable to lose its circulation In Wall Street. Macon (Ga.) News makes this note: "Alas for Virginia chivalry! A court in Richmond has declared that a husband has the right to spank his pretty young wife if she nags him." At the same time Virginians are not going to run the risk of carrying out court's ruling. Not if the court knows itself.

Remarks the Salisbury Post: "A Georgia editor says Tom Watson is strangling the Democratic party of that State. What was his victim doing when Watson got it by the throat?" Whyer it looked to a man up a tree that it was trying to swal: low Tom. Says the Washington Post: "The StatJa of Peniosy4vania has been left a sealed packet which is not to be opened until the year 2,000, and some curious people will mo doubt try to live until then, just to find out what it contains." It may be the confession of one of those capital grafters, accompanying a contribution to the State's conscience fund. Editor Jack Albright, of the Mount Airy Leader says: "If it domes to a choice between an Adams-Duncan combine and a Bill Robinson-Butler combine the Republicans of North Carolina will stand by the former, for these gentlemen are Republicans and represent something." Butler went over to the Republican party of hfs own free will, but he does not seem to be welcome. i Consolidated Company Agrees to Full Restoration of Streets After Track Laying.

A CONFERENCE YESTERDAY Traction People Readily Agree to Place Thoroughfares in Passable Condition and to Provide Proper Drainage. The peremptory order issued by the Mayor in official form through the City Attorney last week, requiring of the Consolidated Company the immediate restoration of the streets where the double tracks of the company were laid, bore iimmedlate fruit at a conference of the traction people and city authorities yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. There were present at the conference Mayor Springer, Chairman O'Brien and Aldermen BoLle's and French, of the Streets and Wharves Committees; City Attorney Marsden Bellamy, City Engineer Raymond Humphreys General Manager A. B. Skelding, Capt W.

F. Corbett and Superintendent of Transportation John Sheehan.of the Consolidated -Company. The conference lasted nearly two hours and at its conclusion, it was stated that the Consolidated officials had accepted the situation as stated by the Mayor and had agreed to begin forthwith the restoration' of the streets in a manner satisfactory to the accredited representatives of this department of the city The matter of the restoration of the streets was put squarely up to the Consolidated people by the Mayor who stated that something would have to be dpne and done quickly. General Manager Skelding of the Consolidated Cotapany readily accepted tha responsibility of the situation, explaining to what expense the company had been put in its efforts to restore the streets and assured the Mayor and committee that everything possible would be done to "maintain those pleasant relations which have existed between the public service corporation' and the municipal government. It wa not necessary to submit to tha Consolidated people the agreement entered into at the time 'the' franchise for dojible tracking was granted.

Stated that regardless 6f thef agree- a m. merit it was up to the compamy to do the right thing by the city and nothing short of this would be satis factory. There was some quibbling about the obligation to restore on-e foot on either side of the track, but the Mayor stated that this did not apply to certain unlmr.ro ved- streets where there had formerly been, a roadway, which was passible before the tracks were laid, it was now up to the company to make them passible after the rails were down. This came up especially in connection with Princess, between Tenth and Thirteenth streets, where the Mayor stated ha had found it necessary to station an officer to keep vehicles from being driven on the sidewalks as the street had teeen rendered impassible and from which section- here had come complaints from colored residents, who were en titled to as much consideration as anybody else in the protection of their rights. Mr.

Skelding stated that this would be attended to at once and road bed would be ibuilt so that it would not be necessary for vehicles to take to the sidewalk. A promise was also exacted by the Mayor that between! the tracks would be fill ed in so that vehicles could pass over them from one side to the other The matter of the drainage of all surface water to Second and. Princess streets by the butter provided between the rails of the car line was also taken up and the company promised a meth od of drainage that will remedy the trouble there. The same arrangement was made as to the drainage of the water by the tracks to Front and Dock streets. It was also required of the Consoli dated Company to restore the macadam left in such miserable shape on Red Cross, between Front and Third; Princess, from Fifth street out and Front street, from Orange out.

It is stated that these, streets were In very poor repair before the tracks were laid, but it was set by the Mayor that the laying of the double tracks cm thseee sections end the loos ening of the macadam was responsible for the subsequent condition and all must be put In shape. The Mayor stated after, the conference that the work must ba done and that he had no reason to doubt the sincerity of the Consolidated people In- saying that they would have it done satisfactorily at the earliest possible time. While the work will cost averal thousand dollars in the aggregate, Mr. Skelding stated that everything possible would be done to meet the demands of the city authorities. Ttta Mayor was.

asked as to the condition of the paving an Front street and on Princess street where the rails are very much-, higher than. the surface of the street and theje Is a very decided depression between the tracks He said all. this was In. the general agreement with the Consolidated people and that it must be laid over again If necessary to meet tha requirements of ordinary- travel. He 1 stated too that the conference was "very sausiac- mm torv sad there was a nsamiiesrauon oik Strangers From Country, Fined $10 and Costs Wanted to Make it for Officer Number of Defendants Yesterday.

The usual quota of Monday offenders sat up and took notice when the Mayor rapped for order in the police! court yesterday. Desk Sergeant King presented the usual batch of warrants for signature and the first case was called. It happened to be against couple of strangers from the country who had L. V. Gmdy, for their counsel.

They were charged with using profane language on a suburban car that had just arrived Sunday night from the beach. They were disposed to act ugly about the matter and the first shot out of the box, accused Officer Leon George who had arrested them, of being drunk. Now, it is known and read of all men that Officer George never touches a drop and the Mayor interrupted the proceedings to immediately get at the bottom of this charge, saying that he would hear the testimony of some who were in the vicinity at the time to determine if the officer should be cited for trial before the police Several were present and noted the action of the officer. Not ona could swear that he was the least intoxicated and the trial proceeded with the result that the strangers were taxed with $10 and costs. From this -judgment, the de-fendant's attorney took an appeal and gave $50 bond for their appearance at the higher court.

Later overtures were made, looking to a withdrawal of the appeal but the Mayor refused to lower the fine. Then the defendants and their attorney hied themsel ves to the office of Justice Furlong and had Officer George indicted for an assault. The case was heifftl before Justice George Harriss and Officer George was fully vindicated. Other cases in the police court aside from the -above were as follows yesterday: John Clarke, drunk and disorderly, five spot and costs; Walter Chadwick, John Wilson, Walter Bell, colored draymen arrested by Officer Leon George for fast driving, costs; Ella Haywood and Ellen Mitchell, colored vagrants, 30 days on the county farm; Peter Wilson and A. B.

Boon, colored, drunk and down, John Green, arrested toy Officer G. Brinkley for disorderly conduct, two plunks and costs; Y. C. Suggs, drunk and down, ten simolians ahd costs; L. Herring, drunk and down, 30 days on the roads; Roy Harrington, asleep in an alley, judgment suspended.

THOMAS FRANKLIN COLVIN DEAD Young Man Passed Away in St. Augustine Buried at Atkinson. Special Star Correspondence.) Atkinson, N.C, August 26. Thomas Franklin Colvin, son of Mrs. Eliza Colvin.

of this place, died in the railroad hospital in St. Augustine, on August 20th at 11:50 P. M. His remains accompanied by his brother, L. S.

Colvin, of Jacksonville, reached here Saturday on the southbound A. Y. train and the burial took place Sunday at 10:30 A. M. The funeral was conducted by Rev.

Chas. H. Utley and Rev. K. MoCaskill, pastor of the young man's family.

Mr. Colvin was in his 29th year and before he was stricken with typhoid fever from which cause he died, he was in the employ of the Florida East Coast Railroad as an engineer. He was a young man of quite amiable disposition and seemingly a favorite with the mother, brothers and sisters who are left to mourn their loss. A large crowd assembled for the funeral services to pay a last sad tribute of respect to their departed friend. Young Mr.

Colvin had been ill three weeks with fever when he died. He was born May 25th 1879 and died Au gust 20th 1907. Captain J. H. Quinan Returned.

Captain J. H. Quinan arrived in the city Sunday and went down to South- port where he has rejoined the United States Revenue Cutter Seminole, re-. lieving in command First Lieutenant Charles Satterlee who has a month's leave of absence beginning Septem ber 1st Captain -Quinan has been in the mountains near Asheville for his vacation and hundreds of friends here will be delighted to know that he is looking much better and is much stronger than when he went away. under his convict clothes when he was discovered in Mr.

Woodlefef's jbedi room. As he started to jump 'out at a window when discovered ha fumbled and fell to the ground. Mr. Woodleaf shot him as he jumped and again after he ran about twenty-five yards. The first shot took effect in the nfegros thigh, entering from the rear and lodg-nig Just under the skin below tl? groin.

Tina other passed through the muscular part of the arm, just above the elbow. It is thought that the hip wound will prove fatal He was brought here iby Mr. Gas Sanderlin whei says the negro complained of being hungry' en route and he stopped at a farm house and. had a meal prepared for him, fried, eggs among other things. A charter is Issued for the District Household of Ruth, No.

10, of North Carolina, principal office -in It is a fraternal order of negro women. Only five' more days of bargain shopping. -J. M. Solky Co.

Wreck of Mr. Russell Foster's Machine on Wrightsville Turnpike Sunday Afternoon Narrow Escape Three Occupants. Dire calamity has more than once been predicted for "Skiddoo," the speedy little Maxwell runabout owned by Mr. D. Russell Foster, but nothing so" disastrous as Its wreck Sunday afternoon with no apparent injury to occupants had been contemplated by those who have apparently nothing else to do than stand on the street corner and predict calamities for the ubiquitous "Dock" and his machine.

It all occurred Sunday afternoon about 4 o'clock, down the Wrightsville turnpike near the second toll house and Mr. Foster had as his guests Messrs. Harry M. Crosswell and Frank P. Turrentine.

They were going to Sound. Mr. Crosswell is develop ing the speed mania and was doing a stunt under the tutelage of Mr. Foster. The machine was clippin' 'em off about sixty per with Mr.

Crosswell at the wheel when the latter- turned to the owner with some modest inquiry about the delicate mechanism of the speed gear which he was experimenting with all the while. Mr. Crosswell has since declared that this' speed arrangement is the most sensitive contrivance he has ever touched, for the instant he turned his head in inquiry to his tutor, the little Maxwell fairly leaped out into space, across a ditch by the wayside and plunged head-on with all its horse power into a pine tree. It is unnecessary to say that the sudden hesitation of Mr. Foster's machine precipitated the two front occupants of the car some distance ahead.

Mr. CTosswell was reported by wireless to have taken up waist deep in a pond of water while Mr. Turrentine fared, little better. As the newspapers like to say about engineers, Mr. Foster stood by the throttle and went down with his machine.

He was the least hurt of the. three, Mr. Crosswell and Mr. Turrentine each having received several contusions on different parts of the body. The.

front part of the machine was literally torn to pieces and the damage to the auto is estimated at about $200. It was towed to the city a little later in the evening by the "Yellow Peril," the big French machine owned by Mr. John Piatt, of Piatt Co. At the garage of the company the wreck of the Maxwell was viewed by many and much speculation was indulged in as to how the occupants escaped alive. But they were very much alive and they received in good part the bandiage of their friends on the streets yesterday.

The machine wllll be repaired as soon as possible but it Is safe, to say that Messrs. Turrentine and Crosswell at least will not develop speeditis as rapidly as they gave promise of doing at one time. THREE NEW CHARTERS Certificates Received by Clerk of Superior Court Yesterday. Certificates of incorporation for three new Wilmington enterprises recently chartered by the Secretary of State were received yesterday by the Clerk of the Superior Court and formally recorded here. The King Distilling Company to operate the Troutman distillery at Ninth and Cape Fear streets has $20,000 authorized capital but may begin business on $10,000 which has been subscribed in shares of $100 each as follows: W.

W. King, 93; R. L. Finger, 2, and M. H.

Croom, 5. Newberlin Lumber Company with principal office in Garrell Building, Wilmington, N. $50,000 capital authorized with $30,000 subscribed in shares of $100 each as follows: S. Mitchell, 150; S. M.

Lloyd, 75 and W. T. Sears, 75. The company will operate saw mill and deal in timber and lands. The Willson Marine Grocery Company, No.

18 Noth Second street, authorized capital $25,000 with authority to commence with $2,000 subscribed in shares of $100 each as follows: J. i E. Willson, 10 and F. W. Marine and N.

five shares each. The company will do a holesile grocery business and has authority to operate canning factories. The Wilmington Boy. The Star's exchange table had a pleasant and interesting addition yesterday In a copy of "The Wilmington Boy," which Is being printed -mimeo-. graphically from an office all Its own in this city.

The juvenile paper. Is the joint product of J. L. Rorison, H. C.

Rorison and Frederick C. three young Journalists of Wilmington, who seem to be making quite a success of their enterprise. The paper has its regular features, editorial, sporting page, local paragraphs and advertisements. The paper is issued weekly, 15 cents the month or 4 cents the copy. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Southern National Baiuk Statement. Trust RgmTHmg Co. State ment. People's Savings ment. Bank State-; Business Locals.

Forget To Let (Nicely Furnished Rooms. Fifth Street Sujuday School Excursion. Read The Star Business Locals. Fall Term Convened Yesterday With Examinations of Applicants for Law License. TWO DEATHS REPORTED Walter F.

Jackson, Well Known Newspaper Man, and Ex-Congressman Bunn, of Rocky Mount Negro Burglar Fatally Shot. (Special Star Telegram.) Raleigh, N. August 26. The North Carolina Supreme Court convened this morning at 10 o'clock for the Fall term which will continue for sixteen weeks, one weeik for each of the sixteen judicial districts into which the State is divided. AH members of the court were here for the opening.

session today was devoted to the examination of applicants for licenses to practice law, there being seventy-one aspirants. One is a negro. There are twenty students from Wake Forest College, twenty-five from the University of North Carolina ajnd fifteen from Trinity College. The examination was held in. the Senate Chamber of the State House.

The an-nounjcemranit of those, successful will be made later in the. week. The argument of appeals will begin, tomorrow morning and continue probably until Thursday or Fridjay as there are thirteen appeals from the first district to-be heard. By odds the case of most public in terest to be argued during the whole term is the appeal frottni Wake county in which the Southern Railway appeals from Judge Long's court in which the Southern was fined $30,000 for violation of the 2 1-4 cent passenger rate act. Under the agreement between the Governor and the Southern this appeal and the appeal of the State to the United States Supreme Court from Judge Pritchard's rulings in the Asheville cases are to be moved up for the earliest possible hearings.

The Wake county case has not been certified up from the county court yet. As soon as this is done a time for argument will be Bexf jf In Its regular order It would comer up during the. sixth week, but the argument is to be earlier if the agreement is carried out. W. F.

Jackson, associate editor of the Raleigh Evening Times, died this morning at his hne near Fuquay Springs about 10 o'clock after an illness of three weeks with pheumonia. He was about 45 years old and leaves a wife and four children. He was a man of fine newspaper ability, a versatile writer and especially gifted in his special worfc of editing telegraph and head line writer. He was genial to a degree and possessed many admirable traits. He will be buried at Fuqvay Springs probably topnorrow afternoon.

News is received here of the death of ex-Congressman B. H. Bunn, at his home in Rocky Mount yesterday. He had been ill for several weeks and in failing hiealth for a year or longer He was one of the most prominent meh of this section of the State, having served in Congress from the Fourth District during the Fifty-first, Fifty-second and Fifty-third terms of Congress. He filled many positions of honor and trust.

He was counsel for the Atlantic Coast Line and attorney for the county of Nash at the time of his death. He married Miss Phillip, daughter of Dr. J. J. PMLlips and sister of the late Judge Phillips, of Tarboro.

He was uncle of Col. A. H. Arrington, private secretary to Governor Glenln. The funeral was held at Rocky Mount todaiy.

Governor Glenn returned at noon today from Anson county he delivered addresses Saturday and Sunday -in connection with the campaign that is being waged there for prohi bition as against open saloons. He says he feels confident that prohibition! will win. There was a conference here yes terday of officials of the Seaboard Air Linja especially with reference to the transportation department, freight rates and other matters being espec ially discussed. President Garrett, Superintendent of Transportation Whittlesey and quite a number of the lesser officials were here for the conference which included an inspection of the facilities at Johnston street station for handling the Immense business, here. iNo.

official statement was given out- Frank Kennedy, colored, is in St. Agnes Hospital here diesperately wounded, having been shot (by Louis F. Woodleaf, a well known farmer of White Oak township Saturday night while the negro was burglarizing the residency of Woodleaf There Is little If any hope for the recovery of Kennedy who is an escaped conivict in fact he is a sort of semi-idlotic-tlc character who spends much of his time on tba county, chain gang. One of his manias is to enter kitchens and steal something to eat. He had only recently escaped from, ther chain gang where het Is practically worthless and i the aratnorities were maiming no spec ial effort to recapture him.

He mad already gotten Into Mr- Wbodleafs kitchen' and secured a "ibesides slipping one of Mr. woodlears shuts COMPTROLLER ON THE STAND Figures Quoted to Show Cost of Operating in North Carolina on Inter-State and Infra-State Business Tax Assessments. Washington, Aug. 26. The hearing of the North Carolina rate case before Spvacial Master Walter Montgomery was resumed at the Southern "Rail way office today and Comptroller H.

Plant of the Southern Railway, be-7 cupie'd the witness stand throughout the. day. The testimony dealt mainly with the higher cost of operation in North Carolina than' in other States. Mr. Plant stated that the total cost of operating intranstate piassenger tra-ffice for the year ended June 30th' 1906, was $2,426,415 and the total earnings in North Carolina were a net loss of about $455,000.

The average passenger traffic revenue per train mile, he said, was 96 cents, while the earnings, including State and interstate and mail and express were $1.31 per mile. "The minimum cost of! operation in earning one) dollar on the inter-State-traffic" he said, "was $.8995. That re- presents the costs of earning one doK lar on intro-State business in North Carolina for the fiscal tyear of 1906 exclusive of taxes of betterment or" interest on investment." Mr. Plant said that so far as he had been able to determine by a careful examination, the cost of op-ation had been greater thus far In 1907 than in 1906 in both freight and passenger business 'My investigation," hie 'demon," strates that to earn one dollar of local revenue in the State of North Carolina is twice as expensive as it is to earn a dollar on inter-State business. "The Figures I us-a are of minimum expenses and a very low minimum at that.

The average cost of handling a ton per mile in North Carolina is not less -than three times as great as it is' on the system generally." Mr. Plant stated that the tax. vfcja- ation of the Southern Railway property in North Carolina for 1906 was: $26,134,865. "Has there been a recent increase in that assessment "I have been so informed," replied! Mr. Plant.

"It is now The witness discussed the propor- tion of the net earnings of the road to the assessed valuation, indicating that under the present earnings the tax valuation ought not to exceed He said that the gross revenues on intra-State traffic in North Carolina for 1906 were Mir. Plant explained that during the year ended June 30, 1906, $804,850 was charged to capital account in North Carolina for improvements and, ments while on the whole system the amount charged to the same account was $2,870,196. He said that the expense of keeping thev property up to modern standards in North Carolina during the year will be- $197,945. This amount added to the State taxes -of $269,651 aggregated a total sum not capitalized of $467,496. The total net earnings in North' Carolina for 1906 were $324,754.

Mr. Plant testified that if the proposed rates were put into effect on the bas- is of the business of 1906 the toal net returns from intra-State business "In that State would amount to only not allowing anything for the -payment of interest or dividends, while the earnings during 1906 on the old rates amounted to 4 1-2 per cent. During the last nine months, Mr, Plant, indicated, the operating expenr ses of the sytstem Ihiad increased to such an extent that the eixpensey of earning a dollar in North Carolina now was 90.53 cents. Under the old he explained, the road would remaining on its intranstate -traffic Under the new rates and con- -1 ditions the minimum reduction) venue to the road wold be $239,375,. without computing any interest or dividends or taxes.

In response to an inquiry, by: Thorn, Mr. Plant said: "There is no method known by which the cost to do intrastate btusi- (ntess can 'be determined with matical accuracy." i. "The local business," he said, "costs far more than the system business." A maximum of traffic Is carried on through trains while on local trains a minimum of traffic is Mr. Plant explained that there were a great many local lines In -K North Carolina and that the local traffio jgen- erally was distributed or branch lines. Much of this traffic re quires three and four handlings.

What -witness termed the station cost "of the traffic was 3.88 cents on thewnole system and nearly 9 cents In- North Carolina that is, nearly three times as much in the State as on thia sys- tern. Th beginning of Good things cannot last forever. This eale wilt close Saturday night. Solky, 1 11 i i i i i .2 t. Mr.

H. C-Frick, the steel magnate, says "the country Is all right" and' that "there Is nothing the matter with This means that Mr. Frick -iias looked us over and decided that we are good to cough up many more of the millions that the Republican tariff "compels us to pay into the" coffers of "men who pille up "-such vast fortunes that they do not know how to get -rid of them fast enough in aid of charities and benefactions of. va rious kinds. spirit to give and take" all througfr.

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