& I1
AND LOWVILLE TIMES
H. A. PHILLIPS, Publisher.
THE EQUITABLE LIFE BURNED
FIRE DESTROYS $6,000,000 INSURANCE BUILDING IN NEW YORK.
Great Blaze In Heart of Financial District Fought From Tops of Skyecrapers—Four Dead and Many Injured—Business
at Stand
Still
Among Bankers and Brokers.
New York, Jan. 9—The immense
granite office building of the Equitable Life Assurance Society on lower
Broadway was destroyed today by a
fire which was still burning at 8
o'clock.
Four, bodies already had been taken
out of the building, and there was little doubt that a number of men, both
dead and alive, were caught in the
ruins. The loss will be about $6,000,000.
••-'.-
Four alarms were rung in at 6
o'clock this morning for the fire,
which, when discovered, was sweeping through the big officer building.
The building is located at the corner of Broadway and Pine street,
across from Old Trinity Church, one
block above Wall Btreet and in the
heart of the financial section.
TheJftrst firemen to reach? the scene
in response to an alarm sent in by a
watchman realized that the task before them was one of the greatest
difficulty and their first move was to
order out all the fire apparatus in the
downtown district by means of four
successive alarms.
|
* The fire was in the eighth, ninth
and tenth TJtories'of the structure before lines of hose sufficient to reach
up the long flight of stairs were coupled,_ together.
The building is one of the old-time
structures, and its construction offered no serious obstacle to the spread
of the flames.
Firemen Forced to Retreat.
The Pine street side of the building
from the eighth floor to the roof was
tk raging furnace. Pine street is a
narrow thoroughfare, scarcely affording room for two wagons to pass,
and on the opposite side from the
;. Equitable Building stands a twentystory skyscraper.
The bricks of this structure were
steaming with a heat which made
them fairly gleam as the firemen" retreated from the point vy.here. they
had taken their first stand.
All the water towers were too short
to reach the flames and the hose
streams, after winding around the
Btair case, lost all their , force in the
upper stories.
Fire officials at an early hour admitted that even with the best efforts
they^could possibly put forth, the loss
would mount to a minimum of probably $6,000,000.
* At 7 o'nlook thi.uoof of the building
fell in. The firemen turned their efforts to Blem the advance of the
flames.
-
Three Men Leap to Death.
*• Police 6fficials reported at this hour
that the loss of life would probably
be about eight. Three men jumped
from the roof of the Equitable Building into Cedar street, the police reported, and were killed.
The fire started in the Cafe Savarin,
an eating house in the basement of
the building. While the restaurant
employes were smothering the flames
in their kitchens, the blaze crept up
the elevator shafts without their
knowledge and a few minutes later
broke out in unrepressed fury on the
upper
floors.
,
At 7:30 o'clock the police supplemented their bulletin regarding loss
of life by the announcement that the
three men who jumped into Sedar
street were probably firemen, part pf
a crew which had been sent to the
roof of the building.
Three more bodies supposed to be
those of workmen or watchmen could
be seen through the flames in one of
the basement rooms of the building.
Seething Mass of Flames.
By this time the entire building
from cellar to roof and on all four
sides was a seething mass of flames.
All the floors fell in soon after the
roof went, but the great granite walls
held firm.'
The firemen made a desperate effort to save the three men who jumped into Cedar street, but they had no
time to rig their life nets.
" The three stood on the cornice of
the building only a moment or two,
the flames behind them driving them
to desperation. Then they knelt foir
jUBt a moment, lifted their hands in
prayer, and leaped together to the
cobbles, 150 feet below.
So tremendous was the heat that
great blocks of granite walls burst
from their places and crashed into
the streets, adding a new danger to
the others which threatened firemen
and policemen. .
After a few minutes spent under
this avalanche of falling rocks, Chief
Kenton ordered his men withdrawn
from Cedar and Pine streets.
The contents of ^he great building
will.be a total loss, and in the case
of many tenants the loss will be irreparable.
Occupants of Building.
The building contains not only all
the Equitable offices, with their records, but also the main offices of all
the Harrirnan- railroads, and a large
number of financial firms, including
August Belmont & Company.
-The big Equitable building was also
the home of th6 Union and Southern
Pacific railroads, the banking house
of August Belmont & Company, the
Merchantile Trust Company, now a
subsidiary of the Bankers' Trust Company; the Merchantile Safe Deposit
Company, tbgether with a number of
New York financial firms.
Millions upon millions of dollars in
securities and cash were cared for in
the immense vaults of the trust and
safe deposit companies, but it Is not
believed that the heat of the fire can
penetrate the safes and that {here
will be no loss from this source.
The heaviest loss besides that of the
building was caused by the destruction of Insurance and -railroad records.
A: gale of wind sweeping through
the streets drove the flames through
the building from end to end. Firemen dragged their hOBe to the tops of
the Chase National Bank on Pine
afreet and from the top of 'the" Fourth
National Bank on Nassau street, while
Other lines of hose were run upon a
skyscraper opposite the burning building on Broadway, from which streams
VOLUME 53. N6. ».
LOWVILLE, N. Y., THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1912.
DEATH SENTENCE IMPOSED
has been offered by Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon. Each state would
have to take care of Its own primary
Five alarms wejre turned in and'fire
expenses. There will be nothing mantugs from the North and East rivers
datory in the primary resolution.
REV. C. V. T. RICHE8ON CONgrouped themselves
at a convenient DEFEATED IN COMMITTEE WILL
9
dock and pumped volumes of water in
FESSES TO MURDER OF GIRL.
FIGHT PARTY CHIEFS.
DECLINE IN DEATH RATE.
the building.
Father McGean nearly lost his life
Only One of Eight Cities Over 500,000
when administering the last rites to Seating of Cot. Guffey Results In
"Deeply Penitent," Say* Clergyman,
Population 8how Increase
Roviv-r-Hot Time In National Comto the man Imprisoned in the safe
for Killing of Avis Linnell a MemOver
1910.
mittee Meeting—-Threatens Great
deposit vault, the firemen dragged
ber of the Church Choir.
Split In Democratic Ranks.
him away just as a shower of bricks
Washington, Jan. 9—A decline In
and stones fell on the spot where
the death rate in seven of the eight
At 1 o'clock Saturday aftefnoon the
he had been kneeling.
Washington, Jan. 8—William Jen- cities of the United State having a
was reached in what has proAs the firemen carried McGean nings Bryan made his first fight in population above 500,000 and a gener- climax
bably been the most sensational5 muraway the dying man turned to him the Democratic National Committee ally low death rate throughout the der
case ever known in Massachuand pityingly said:
today and lost. He made Colonel United States are shown in the preJust as the bell in a nearby
"For God's sake, Father, take me James M. -Guffey, a member of the liminary mortality, figures for 1911 settson Milk Btreet sounded the
out of here; t'jn dying. Can't you get committee from Pennsylvania, the is- given out today by the Census Bu- tower
hour, Lawyer William A. Morse, one
at me?"
sue, and the committee declined to reau.
of the counsel for the Rev. Clarence
Two porters in the safe deposit com- unseat Colonel Guffey by a vote of 30
The area from which complete mor- V. T. Richeson, accused of the poisonpany were rescued from the basement to 18. Mr. Bryan once appealed from tality returns are received now em- Ing of Miss Avis Lidnell, of Hyannis,
of the building when the sidewalk In a decision of Chairman Mack and was braces a total population og 57,327,697. handed each of a group of newspaper
front of the structure caved In. They defeated, 33 to 13.
The 1911 death rate was 14.4 per reporters wbp had been waiting in
were injured and removed to a hosThe committee session was marked 1,000 of population, compared with 15 hlB office, a typewritten sheet of
pital. 1
by extreme bitterness of feeling. per 1,000 in 1910. In Boston the rate paper remarking:
The fire was finally confined to Once the lie was passed and blows Increased from 17.2 to 18.5. Of the
the Equitable Building but for A time seemed Imminent. Mr. Bryan from cities in the half million class, Cleve- """Gentlemen, I hand you herewith
Mr. Riche8on's confession."
it seemed as though the flames would the first to last was the central figure land's rate of 13.5 is the lowest
No intimation had been made besweep acrosB the street and set fire In the proceedings and the fight he
Plttsburg shows the greatest deto the American Exchange National precipitated at the very moment the crease. Jn the death rate, its propor- forehand by the lawyer of what was
Bank at Cedar street and Broadway, committee was called to order lasted tion of deaths per 1,000 of population forth-coming, the reporters having
gone to Mr. Morse's oflice at his Bug-,
on which the sparks were falling in throughout the day.
being 14.7 in 1911, as compared with gestion,
expecting that some statea perfect shower. This building was
17.9 In 1910 were: New York, 15.5; ment regarding
Convention City Not Selected.
the course to be folkept wet down by streams of water
Chicago,
14.3;
Philadelphia,
16.3;
St.
So much time 'was devoted to the
lowed
by
the
counsel
at the trial of
from the skyscrapers on all sides.
contested seats In the committee that Louie. 15.5; Baltimore, 18.4.
Richeson was to be given them. The
Building Absolutely Gutted.
the more important mattejrs of choostypewritten statement read as folTAFT WILL STICK.
lows:
The heat of the flames had the In- ing a convention city, fixing the time
tensity of a blast furnace. The heavy of the garnering and adopting a form Prestednt Quoted as Saying He Will
Richeson'8 Confessionfloors of| the building buckled under of call to include the "permissive
Boston, January 3, 1912.
Not Withdraw as Candidate.
the hot fire and fell In, while the primary" plan of selecting delegates,
John L. Lee, Esq., •William A. Morse,
went
over.
giant walls crumbled under the heat
Esq., and Philip R. Dunbar, Esq.
hington, Jan. $—"Nothing but
Baltimore stood out well to the
and dropped piecemeal Into the street.
Gentlemen:—Deeply penitent for
deai|l
can
keep
me
out
of
the
fight
fore of all her competitors, with St.
The building was absolutely gutted.
my sin, and earnestly desiring as far
Part of the Brooklyn Fire Depart- Louis B,econd. Denver and Chicago' fflC
as in my power lies to make atonewere
under
consideration.
New
York
ment was despatched to the scene to
President Taft is reported to have ment, I hereby confess that I am
was
far
behind.
.
The
committee
aid in preventing the spread of the
made this statement to White House guilty of the offence of which I stand
favors June 25 as ^the date of the con- callers and to have added that he indicted. I am moved to this course
flames.
Jusiness in the financial Bection vention, one week after the Republi- had no objection to: the statement be- by no inducement of self-benefit or
of the city was brought practically to cans gather in Chicago.
ing made publicleniency.
The committee began Its sitting
a standstill by the fire. Thousands of
It undoubtedly was intended to set
Heinous as 1B my crime, God has
with
open
doors,
tout
-as
soon
as
Mr.
clerks in banking and brokerage
at rest a,ll reports that Mr. Taffunight not wholly abandoned me, and my
Bryan
began
his
fight
they
.,
were
houses, railroad and Industrial- corwithdraw from the race for the Repub- conscience and manhood, however deporations were held back by police closed and remained so throughout lican •. nomination for President in praved and blighted, will not admit of
lines formed two blocks north of the the. day. It is said there were no favor of Col. Roosevelt.
my still further wronging by a public
fire, and traffic of every kind in the mincing of words by any of the
The President was urged by a num- trial her whose pure young life I have
streets near the burning building was speakers, but "at the end of the day ber of his closest friends to make destroyedapologies were offered and when a definite statement as to his position
forbidden by the .police.
\
Under the lashings of remorae I
Three employes of the building adjournment was taken all of the and agreed to do so in the language have suffered and am suffering the
members
seemed
outwardly
to
be
on
quoted above.
saved themselves from death by leaptortures of the damned. In this I find
It is stated that some of Mr. Taft's a measure of comfort. In my mental
ing from the third floor of the building the best of terms.
friends have gone so far lately as to anguish I recognize that there is still,
to the street below. They were taken
Gufftfy Calls Palmer a Liar.
to the hospital seriously injured.
Colonel Cuffey^called Representa- advise him openly to challenge the by the mercy of the Master, some
The offices of. the Harriman lines tive A. Mitchell Palmer, who was con- latter to make plain his intentions. remnent of the divine spark of goodwhich were in the building, were be- testing for the seat, a liar, but later The President has declined to do this. ness still lingering with me. I could
ing moved to 165 Broadway. Every- declared he was sorry. Mr. Palmer • The White House has been fairly wish to live only because within some
thing had been moved save the pap- when called a prevaricator said only flooded with callers lately, who have prison walls I might in some small
ers in their legal department.
Colonel Guffey's gray hairs kept hinr brought word to President Taft that measure redeem my sinful past, help
Many valuable records, including from making the issue- a more per- Col. Roosevelt so far has declined to some other dee paring soul, and at last
say that he would not accept the find favor with my God.
the autobiography of E. H. Harri- sonal one.
man, were there, and it ^'as believed
You are instructed to deliver this
Mr. Bryan, arraying himself against nomination - it were tendered to him.
It has also been, reported, to the to the District Attorney or to the
that these and other valuable records some of his friends of old, including
were destroyed.
National Chairman Norman E. Mack White Hoiise jthat CIol. Rjposevelt be- Judge of the court.
an organized efrort is being
Sincerely, yours,
and Senator William J. Stone, of lieves
Belmont Building Saved.
made to "smoke him. put," and that
Missouri,
fought
desperately
to
the
V. !jjr.
After the fire had been checked last and had t
and the firemen were able to get moil of excite)
closer to the buiWCngij ?•**•*»» <^»oov- Wi'em-r ff' Si
ered that the Belmont Building on tomorrow's session, Mr. Bryan said"
Nassau street, which adjoins the burn- he would leave Washington probably
dieted them.
ed building had been saved, though in the early afternoon.
The President has consented that
the offices had been flooded with
Mr. Bryan is said to have been un- his friends carry forward the fight aa
Boston, Jiii;:t^A plea of guilty of
water.
sparing in his arrangement of Colonel vigorously- as they desire,- and he will murder In #the "first degree was made
Firemen at last succeeded-in bat- Guffey. The feud between the two lend
what assistance he properly can. by the Rev. Clarence V. T. Riches, in
tering in a steel door and rescuing men is of old standing. RepresentaIn "the Superior Court today, and he
two watchmen who were imprisoned tive Palmer had accused Colonel
was sentenced by Judge Sanderson
STEEL NEWS GOOD.
in the Vault.
Guffey of consorting with the Repubto death by electrocution some tire
Ambulances from four hospitals lican "inachino" in Pennsylvania and
were on the scene to take care of the of disloyalty to his party. Mr. Bryan New York Central Orders Coaches— during the week of May 19, 1912.
Richeson had pleaded not guilty
United States Steel Starting
injured.
repeated all of this and more. At
whett
arraigned after hiB indictment
Up
More
Mills.
With the exception of another insur- the end it is said he had no apologies
on the charge of poisoning Avis Linance building, the building of the to offer and undoubtedly he' will carry
Steel news was good again yester- nell, of Hyannis, Mass., his former
Equitable Life Assurance Society had on his fight against Colonel Guffey.
day. The New York Central finally fiancee, but following a written cona greater assessed valuation than any
To Continue the Fight.
placed its order for 165 passenger fession^ made public Saturday last,
other building in the financial district,
At
one
time
during
his
impassioned
coaches with the American Car and he today retracted this plea ano made
the tax department showing that its
Foundry Company, the Pressed Steel a formal plea of guilty.
appeal
to
the
committee
to
rid
itself
assessed valuation was $12,100,000.
It is understood that a petition may
Company? the Standard Steel Car
Other fcccupants of the Equitable of "Guffey and Guffeyiam^Mr. Bryan Car
Barney & Smith and the be made to Governor Foss and the
Building besides the Harriman rail- said that thrice he had been a candi- Company,
Mount Vernon Car Company. Pitts- executive council of the State to comroads were the executive offices of date for the presidency and that 6,- burg
Reported that with the ordering mute the death sentence to Imprison500,000
voters
had
stood
back
of
him.
the Western Maryland Railroad, toThey
were
all
Democrats,
he
asserted,"
"Into
activity
ot three more Steel Cor- ment for life.
gether with the law offices of Herbert
poratlon
furnaces
in that"district all
and
it
was
to
the
Democracy
that
he
Satterlee, son-in-law of J. Plerpont
the serviceaoie working machinery of WILSON'S REFERENCE T6 BRYAN.
Morgan, and Alexander & Green, to- would make his appeal.
"If this committee does not do the that company the district had got to
gether with the offices of many other
right thing," he declared, "the people work. It was thought that the mill Jersey Governor, In Letter in 1907,
attorneys.
and furnace capacity of the corporaWished Nebraakan Could Be
will do the right thing."
Caught When Floors Fell.
"Knocked Into Cocked Hat."
Immediately the report spread that tion wouiu go to 90 per cent before
Deputy Fire Chief William Walsh Mr. Bryan had threatened the organ- February 1. Further note was made
and five firemen were caught when ization of a third party. This came of the resuming of operations at the
New York, Jan. 9—Gov. Woodrow
a section of floor in a upper story gave on top of the conference between Mr. Mercer works of the American Sheet Wilson was anxious, several years
way.
Bryan and Senator La Foilette late and Tin Plate Company, where five ago, to retire Wlliam J. Bryan from
The firemen managed to reach a yesterday and was given credence in mills will be started on January 8. the councils of the Democratic party,
window ledge, where they were res- some quarters. Mr. Bryan, however, That set of mills has lain idle for fif- according to a letter given, out in New
cued by means of a life line thrown laid emphasis on the fact that it was teen months. The Carnegie Steel York by Adrian H. Jollne, lawyer, and
to them, but when" they looked back the Democrats to whom he would Company bought the property of the which was said to have been written
Chief Walsh had disappeared in the carry his appeal and the third party Baltimore Bridge Plant for a ware- him by Dr. Wilson, April 27,1907. The
smoking ruins.
house for $400,000. Carnegie Steel letter Js brief and says in part:
talk died away.
^_
Efforts were made to reach the spot
Company engineers were reported \o
"Would that we could do some
Start of the Battle.
where he was buried, byt the firemen
be at work on plans for a $7,040,000 thing at once dignified and effective
Mr. Bryan's first light came with steel car wheel factory at Braddock to knock Mr- Bryan once and for all
could not find him.
Uitj calling of Alabama on the roll ot by Order Of tfrft SIPPI CnrporaHnn into a cocked hat."
states. A vacancy from Alabama which is grouping its wheel mills at
Revolutionized the Auto World.
The balance of the communication
was purely personal and had no politiCharles K. Fnlgut, Inventor of the had been filled by the Democratic that point.
flavor.
'
Silent-Knight type motor, which has State Committee. Mr. Bryan moved
The- Standard Steel Car Company cal
This letter haB been the subject of
completely revolutionized the automo- that the selection of the State Com- will put its entire Butler plant in full
bile world both here and abroad, ar- mittee be confirmed. National Com- operation this month. The operat- considerable discussion in political
rived in this country January 5th on mit tee man Brown of Vermont made ing percentage of all that company's circles in New York and Washington
the point of order that no such action works will be up to 75 per cent be- for several days past.
the Lusitana.
Mr. Knight, who was met at the pier was necessary; that under the rules fore long. One of the locomotive
NEW PENSION BILL.
by the representatives of the F. B. laid down by the last national con- companies has placed an order for
Stearns Company, the first American vention, the National Committee had 15,000 tons of forging billetB.
licensees under the Knight patents, no right to go back of the State ComSteel- priees were firm at the mar- Poll Shows Only Ten Democrats
Ready to Vote for 8herwood
says that the automobile situation mittee's choice.
ket, with consumers placing orders
Committee leaders had pleaded with for the full first quarter of 1912 and
Measure.
in Europe shows a continued strong
tendency toward the sleeve valve Mr. Bryan during the morning not to for as much of the second quarter as
motor. A license has recently been make an Usue of the Guffey matter can be got at current prices- Tin
Washington, Jan. 9—The Senate
granted to an Austrian firm, while at this time, as Colonel Guffey had a plate is firmer and without rumor of Pension Committee will not attempt
Knight's suits against the French and majority of the committee In his concessions. No actual price changes to amend the Sherwood pension bill,
English concerns who are in-fringing favor. Mr. Bryan would not listen were reported, but manufacturers which was passed in the House. An
his patents are progressing very sat- to this suggestion. Chairman Mack, looKed for Increases soon. Some con- entirely new bill will be reported, and
isfactorily,
r Thomas Taggart, John T. McGraw, cerns are already asking for $1 a ton Senator McCumber will probably offer
Mr. Knight also brings the informa- Roger Sullivan -aad aowra+T-others above current quotations for second It as an amendment to the McCumber
law of 1907, which recognizes the age
tion that approximately seventy-five then held a hurried consultation and quarter delivery.
of 62 years as total disability and
per cent of the Panhard output is agreed upon the programme which
makes certain recognition of veterans
devoted to sleeve valve motors, and meant defeat to the Nebrakan.
MAKE8 THING8 "BOOM."
entitled to Its benefits.
Bryan Foresees Defeat,
that they are pinning their faith to
The ' Senate committee's experts
the Knight type motor.
Chairman Mack sustained Mr. Woman Has Done Her Best to Make
tiave compiled figures from, the TreasMr. Knight says that business con- Brown's point of order and Mr. Bryan
Business Grow.
ury Department and the Pension Buditions abroad are very satisfactory appealed from the decision to the
in general, being marre*d only by some chair. He saw in his ruling the u :•
Washington, Jan. 10—By way of reau to show that the Sherwood bill
sporadic labor troubles in Great Bri- feat of the protest against Colonel contrast with reports from Wall street would increase the present rolls 66
tain. Mrr-Knight-says-that the sleeve Guffey and asserted that the cummn- that business has been particularly per cent. The Senate bill would carry
valve situation In America Is progres- tee had a perfect right to pass upjn dull during the past few years, the an annual expenditure of not more
sing in splendid shape, and he gives the eligibility of its members. Mr. Census Bureau has just Issued several than $30,000,000.
it as his opinion triat Knight motor- Bryan seemed to realize from the first illuminative statements proving that
A poll of. the Senate on the Shered cars will very Bhortly dominate that he was, beaten, but he went into the American woman has done her woood bill is said to show not more
the entire trade.
the fray -undaunted. Mr. Mack v. r.s best to make things "boom." She is than ten Democrats and about twelve
nearly twice as expensive as she was Republicans ready to vote for it.
When informed tEat the Stearns sustained,.3*3 to 13.
output was rncreased *-©ne hundred, :.Then the •^uffey-Palmer case was seven years ago.
. Taft to Appoint Hook.
per cent over last year, he expressed taken up. The committee had hoped
In the seven years Including 1909
considerable gratification,.hut further to dispose of It in an hour. It requir- the value of the millinery and lace
Washington, Jan. 9—President Taft
stated that it was "only In line with ed nearly three. Senator Stone made goods manufactured In the United has decided to appoint Judge William
the, results secured by the Daimler, one of the principal speeches for Colo- States increased from $50,507,000 to C. Hook Associate Justice of the SuPanhard, Mercedes and Minerva Com- nel Guffey. He made an appeal for $85,940,000- In 1904 the value of do- preme Court to succeed the late Juspanies.
harmony Chairman Mack had done meBtic goods manufactured was $37,- tice Harlanc
likewise in calling fiiie i;uiuiuili.ee to 113,000; in 1009 it had goae to $55,TiMlgrA Forty li» n o w Tiidgft of t h e
Albany County Beaten.
938,000, an increase of 51 per c^nEf United States Circuit Coartf of Aporder."
Albany, Jan. 9—The Court of Ap- "• A resolutions committee was ap- In the same period the manufacture peals of the Eighth Circuit and lives
peals today decided that Albany pointed, with Clark Howell, of Georgia of Jewelry also showed an increase in Leavenworth, Kan.
county has not the right to maintain as chairman, to frame a call for.dele- of 51 per cent.
The President has considered the
protests sent in and does not regard
an action brought against the State gates and thus to deal with the priThe State Land Board had approved them as affording any good reason
i^ghway Commission to have declar- mary question. It is said the commited uncona..... ~~O.L acts appropriat- tee will approve of primaries In the a suggestion of Comptroller Sohmer why Judge Hook should not be aping about $6,000,000 for highway Im- states with primary laws and will that farms taken by the State under pointed.
leave to the various State committees mortgage foreclosures be sold. The
provements throughout the State.
He scoffs at luck who never had
Judge Cbase wrote the Court's opin- whether primaries shall be held in State now hold^ more than 250 farms
other jurisdictions. Such a resolution in 49 counties.
any.
ion.
of water were directed on the flames.
Fire Tugs Answer Alarm.-,
WAR DECLARED BY BRYAN
-&-;v^.^
:
W^«^^
FOR COURT OF ARBITRATION.
Favorable Responses From Important
Governments to Knox's
Proposal.
Washington, Jan. 9—Secretary of
State Knox has received from practically all the more important Governments of the world favorable responses to an identical note, asking
their views on his proposal that the
contemplated international prize court
at The Hague be empowered to act
as a general court of International
Arbitration.
The replies which have been received express the agreement of the several governments to the principal of
an international court of general arbitration. Such a court, President Taft
has declared In recent speeches, is the
goal to which he* regards the general
arbitration treaties negotiated with
France and Great Britain as a step.
The agreements of the nation on the
principle of a general court ot international arbitration Is but. a small
thing compared to the difficulty of
working out a plan for suoh a court
which will prove acceptable to all the
governments. The difficulties of arriving at a satisfactory solution of this Is
plainly indicated by the conferences
at The Hague. A more forcible demonstration of the obstacles In the way
is found in the recent rejection by
the House of Lords of England of the
declaration of London which provided
for an international prize court. Objection waB based not on the principle
involved but on the manner in which
the court was to be constituted.
EVAN'S WIDOW IS POOR.
Congress
Will be Asked to
Substantial Aid.
Vote
Washington, Jan. 9—Friends of the
family of Rear Admiral Robley D.
Evans, U. S. N., who died last week,
have been surprised to learn tha,t he
left but little property. His widow,
while not in want, finds herself in
greatly' limited circumstances. An
idea had prevailed that because of
the popularity of Rear Admiral
Evan's.book, "In a Sailor's Log," and
of hlB writings and lectures he had
accumulated a fortune. Such was not
the case. The oil enterprises with
which his name was connected yielded
him no profits. He was, it is understood, offered a salary of $25,000 a
year, but declined to accept anything
until a dividend should be paid.
Mrs. Evans will receive the regular
service pension, but this is only $30
a month. Members of CongreBB who
desire that "Fighting • Bob's" widow
should be protected from embarrassment will endeavor to have this increased. They believe that the~country will heartily" Up^roVe legislation
for this purpose. >
Rear Admiral Evans entered the
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U. S. TROOPS G0IN6 TO CHINA
FIVE HUNDRED TO HELP KEEP
OPEN LINE FROM PEKING.
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Order Sent to Gen. Bell for Dispatch
of Troops and Hospital Corps 8oon
After War Department Receives Re>
quest From State Department
Washington, Jan. 10—After a lapse
of more than 10 years American
troops are again to invade China.
They are to aid in keeping open the
railroad from Peking to the sea. In
eight or nine days 500 regular infantry will be disembarked at the
Chinese port of Chin-Wang-Tao.
Several days ago Mr. Calhoun Intl-.
mated that some of the other powers'
were looking to the United States to ••.
contribute a quota of troops to meet"
treaty obligations to keep open communication between the capital and
the coast It required the intervening time to develop the exact needs
of the situation.
Orders to Gen. Bell In Manila.
It-was near the close of. the official
day when the State Department's re*
queBt for the dispatch of troops reached the War Department, but a cablegram to Maj...Gen. J. Franklin Beil
in the Philippines was dispatched
within a few minutes instructing him
to dispatch the force together with,.
a hospital corps detachment
It 1B believed the 15th Infantry will
be called upon to Bupply the troops,
who will be embarked on the transport Thomas.
When attention waB directed to the
action of Russia in asserting an individual Interest In the future of Mongolia, it was pointed owL^that the vir*
tual dismemberment of^hina had already begun.
* Though no official notice has been
taken of this latest development. It 4s
taken to mean that the course adopted by Russia has given rise to grave'
forebodings.
'
Russia First to Repudiate Agreement.
It is taken to mean the breaking
down of the agreement between the
six powers to refrain from the purBuit of any. individual - advantage^
which was brought about through the
overtures of the State Department In ;
Washington.
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It is admitted that the suzerainty of
the Manchu court had been lightly
maintained in Mongolia and that the;
throne was never able to hold a tight
rein over its subjects In that quarter
of China.
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PEACE TERMS OFFERED.
Thdie Formulated by Wu and
Last Session of Conference'.
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Whe1^1wfcwinqulsb.ed command of
the Atlantic "battleship fleet at San
Francisco in May, 1908, he enjoyed
the distinction of having commanded
a larger .force of battleships than
any other American officer of his
time.
West in Grip of Cold.
Chicago, Jan. 9—^The Central West
is once more in the throes of cold,
well below the zero mark, and death
and intense suffering are widespread.
Records for continued cold spells continue to be broken in many states
throughout the west
In addition to the heavy human toll
which, the severe cold is exacting,
crop IpBBes are very heavy, thousands of head of cattle are dying;
thouBands of people are facing further
suffering, through lack o f water siip-:
uly and natural gas, cut off by the
cold. In many districts coal famines
also exist.
^ \
In the larger cities suffering among
the poor is terrible, despite thousands upon thousands of dollars being
poured in by charitable organizations
for the relief of the needy.
Nineteen have died of cold in Chicago since the zero weather began.
Two of these deaths occurred during
the past 24 hours. More than fifty
deaths due to the cbld weather have
.been reported from various sections
during the past week. In today's despatches many additional deaths are
reported. These include two in Hanv
mond, Ind., one in Gary. Ind., one
in Wisconsin, one in Memphis, Tenn.,
UUB hi Nurfolk, Neb., whure Ihu temperature Is 29 below; one in St.
Louis; a Bnowslide in Utah, which
killed three men, and two In Oklahoma.
y\
A desperate gang of hoboes seized
the.power house at Joliet,. 111., as a
place of refuge from the freezing temperature. To many "down and outa"
the cold has brought help in the form
of wages as Ice cutters. The ice crop
this year promises to be the largest
in a decade.
PARTS INVALID.
Justice Bijur of New York Orders
* tion of Direct Nomination Law
Ignored.
New York, Jan. 10—Supreme Court
Justice Bijur today handed down a decision holding .that sections of the
new primary law, better known as
the direct primary law passed at the
last Besslon of the legislature, were
unconstitutional and he granted writs
of mandamus directing the Board of
Elections to prepare the oflielal ballot
for the March primaries without regard to the new law. The matter
will be carried to the Appellate Division and the Court of AppealB and
it Is hoped to have a final decision
from the highest State court before
the spring primaries.
The section of the law which has
been most severely attacked* Is tha*t
"the name of a candidate shall not
appear more than once on a ballot
aa a candidate for the same office
or party position."
Justice Bijur holds that this establishes an unconstitutional discrimination and must be eliminated.
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_,. —ie last meetl
the peace conference p r i o r • V
resignation, which were.-tele
to-Yuan Shi Kal >eaterday,
f i i "First-—The emperor
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;
be^tre
with all the dignity of a foreign
erlgn jon Chinese soil.
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"Second—The emperor shall
a residence at Jehol or at tb&&
met palace.
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''Third—The emperor shall iiaye ^$
liberal allowance/settled on : bim b>~2^
the National Assembly.
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"Fourth—All the anceab-aJ
and temples will be Becuredr
to l;he Manchus. - • •"•-. :'\: ; •V
„; "Fifth—The lives, property^
Wealth of the Manchus, will^ b
t e c t e d . . •" •
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treated as "private^
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private property."protected. r
; "Sev6nth-~TbiI < banners J
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as heretofore
^3i
g p r i e r e ^ c t ^ l
erty of trade and freedom of r
will be removed; ,\, ''' '^'^'^^
"Ninth—The Imperial prlpcea
retain their titles 'and property^-There is reason 'ta^b'elley^-ithiev'
peror'B allowance has yb^en^ tae^
10,000,000 tael y e a r l y , ; ^
" -FOR
Senator Cummins Offers
Enlarging Their
Rewrutlnnr
—Washington
^. w, _
universal peace and arbitratloifc-"
leasfas far as the UnitedT States?;•""""
land and France are concerweKl,
proposed In the Senate today by Befta-'
tor Cummins.•. , ; •
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He introduced a resolution i request*
ing the President'to inquire ;t^rojikgiiproper channels if Great Britain^and
France are willing to enter into •ant
agreement with the United States &a£
they will agree to submit to arbitration any judicial controversy or: dffc:
pute that may arise between either .o|
them or any other nation even though"
there exists no peace or arbitration?:
treaties between.the governments
volved, and if Great Britain^:
France are willing that auch | "
sion shall be incorporated in t
tration, treaties now "pending
the Senate;
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When Senator Cummins' asked t£e;;
Senate to consider, the resolution at
once Senator Burton objected by Baying that the resolution had better gd
to the .Foreign Relations Committee.
"I anticipated no objection," Mr.
Cummins remarked. At his request
the resolution wil He on the -table
until tomorrow, when. Mr. Cummins
will speak in advocacy of its adoption.
No Peace for Turkey.
Constantinople, Jan. 9—Assim Bey,
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is
quotedvas saying that reports to th«»
effect that negotions for peace hid
been begun by Turkey are utterly untrue. No steps looking to that end
have been taken by Turkey It is
impossible to treat with Italy, the
Foreign Minister said, while she continues her altitude ot declared annexation of TrlpblL and Cynenaica. i
A notice to the foreign dip]oma#,ce#
says the government is very unllkOJy
to make any move toward peace ifn>c
til the elections are over, as ff It"
agreed to anything short of complete
Italian evacuation of Tripoli it would
certainly be defeated at the polls.
Fright, ul Polar Winds
blow with terrific force at the far
north and play havoc with the skin,
causing red, rough or sore chapped
handB and lips, that need Bucklen'e
Arnica Salve to beaT them. It makes
the Bkln soft and smooth. Unrivaled
for cold-sores, also burns, boils, sores
ulcers, cuts, bruises and piles. Onl>
Luck is the factor to which other
26 cents at F. C. Snyder's.
people owe their success, y
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