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VOL. XXXIX No 30. "WTLMIN GTON NT. C, APRIL 17. Itf0. 01.00 PER YEAR. V - fr. in- ' . w I I -A it i : in i i i ill ill HI rrtYrrt :rV .'OjCS. IH H II I II I .Hi; I r i i I I I J I i i 4 eUTMEIMEir DEATH ON THE BATTLESHIP KEARSARGE Three Sections of Charge of Powder Ignited E Court of Inquiry Will Investigate the Disaster News of the Explosion Readied the Navy Department From Admiral Evans, at Caimamera The Accident Happened on Friday the 13th, Just Two Years to a Day From the Fatal Disaster on the Missouri Lieuten ant Hudgins Was the Only Officer Who Lost Ills Life Cablegram of Sympathy Sent to the Commander of the Fleet From the Navy Depart ment Surprise Expressed That the Loss of Life Was Not Much Greater. Washington, April 14. Two years to a day later than the fatal Missouri disaster, and as every sailor immedi ately re-called on a Friday and the 13th of the month, six men were done to death in the forward turret of the "battleship Kearsarge by one of those accidents which acquire additional ter ror for sailors because of their obscure origin, and almost impossibility of pre vention. The Atlantic fleet, the strongest fighting: fleet America has ever owned had been for weeks engaged in the most severe drills in the waters of the Carribbean sea, culminating in the quarterly target practice. This prac tice was just about concluded with most satisfactory results up to yester day, and it was confidently expected at 4ue department, upon the basis of pre Isiinary, reports received, that all rec ords would be broken in the matter of rapidity of fire and efficiency of the gunners. But today just at the close of the week's work at the department, came a cablegram from Rear Admiral Evans, the commanding chief of the Atlantic fleet telling of a dreadful ac cident on one of his best ships, the Kearsarge. The news came from Caimamera. a little" cable station at the mouth of Guantanamo bay. indi cating that the Kearsarge itself had arrived at that place. The message read as follows: "Caimamera, April 14, 1906. "Secretary Navy. Washington, D. C. "On April 13th. about 3:15 p. m., shortly after completion target practice of Kearsarge, forward turret, while the powder was going below, three sections of a thirteen charge of powder were Ignited. Charge of powder in other 'lift just below and one section inside 13-inch remained intact. Cause not yet determined nor accident accountabil ity. Matter is being investigated. Lieu tenant Joseph W. Graeme, gun umpire, has been sent to the Maryland in a very critical state about 9 p. m. The following have since died: LIEUTENANT HUD GINS, turret of ficer. PETER NOBERG. gunner's mate. THEODORE NAEELT. seaman. ANTON O. THORSON, ordinary seaman. JULIUS A. KOESTER, turret cap tain, first class. ELLIS H. ATHEY, seaman, if "The following, was dangerously in je;red by accident, recovery doubtful: W. KING, ordinary seaman. Will bury dead at Guantanamo. "Vessel uninjured." The following message of condolence was telegraphed to the commander-in-chief of the fleet. Admiral Evans, by Acting Secretary Newberry: "Washington. April 14. "Evans. Maine. Naval StMion. Caima hera? . "The department is grieved by the unfortunate accident on board the Kearsarge. which occasioned the death and injury in the performance of duty, brave officers and men in the navy and it extends its heartfelt sympathy to the injured and wishes for a speedy recovery from their wounds. Spare no effort to ease the sufferings of the injured in every possible manner and show every honor to the dead. (Signed.)' "NEWBERRY." Lieutenant John M. Hudgins. the only officer who lost his life .by the explosion on the Kearsarge was a na tive of Virginia, and was appointed to the naval academy from the state September S. 1890. He was assigned to the engineer corn's upon leaving the 'academy in 1894 because of his partic ular aptitude for engineering and his mechanical skill. He took an especial Interest in the subject of wireless tele graphy and became expert in that line. He was personally indentified with the V development of the wireless system as now in use by the navy." having been attached to the bureau of equipment during the experiments and inaugura tion of the system. After a short ser vice in 1895 he was sent to London fir a special course of instruction and .(hlle in that city was attached to the American embassy. Since then he has served respectively on the New Or leans, Glacier. Manila and Petrel, and in October 1903 began his service on the Kearsarge. He reached the grade of lieutenant in September 1901. Lieu tenant Hudgins' wife resides with her Tarnt!tf In this pltV. Lieutenant Graeme was appointed to US IT OET IN I NT Wllkesbarre, Pa. He is married and his wife, according to the department's inrormation is wun nis ratner. Immediately upon receiving the ca blegram from Admiral Evans. Acting Secretary Newberry carried it to the president at the White house and was authorized to send the foregoing ex pression of sympathy. He also com municated the sad news to Secretary Bonaparte at his home in Baltimore over the long distance telephone. The feeling of the officers at the navy department after reading the cablegram was one of surprise that the accident resulted in so little loss of life. The Kearsarge's forward turr ret, where it occurred, is of the super posed type, in other wrords an 8-inch gun turret set upon the top of the 13 inch gun turret, where the accident occurred. In the lower turret were twenty-four men and in the upper tur ret sixteen. An ammunition hoist con nected the two and had the powder in the tower hoist exploded probably every man in the two turrets would have been killed. The full charge of powder for a thirteen inch gun is too large to be handled by any one man. so it is divided into sections in canvas bags and it was three of these, proba bly just enough to fill one compart ment in the ammunition hoist which ignited. As the cablegram states the cause of the ignition was not known, but the first belief at the navy depart ment is that in clearing up the turret and throwing open the breeches of the big guns after the last round hadVbeen fired some small bit of smouldering canvas bagging was blown out of one of the guns as the big breech block was swung around, only to fall upon the loaded ammunition hoist where the1 surplus powder was being return ed to the magazines below. Lieutenant Graeme, who was men tioned as being in a very critical state at the time the cablegram was sent, did not belonsr to the company of the Kearsarge. He was attached to the Maryland and was aboard the Kear sarge in the capacitv of an umpire to check off and record the performance of the gunners, a very necessary func tion in view of the keen spirit of rival ry obtaining between the crews of the big battleships in the matter of effi ciency at target practice. Naval regulations prescribe exact ly what is to be done in a case of this kind. Thp admiral-in-command or ders immediately a court of inquiry to ascertain the cause of the accident and places the responsibility therefor, and a court martial will follow if any one is found at fault. BASEBALL. National League. At Philadelphia Philadelphia 1. New York 2. At Brooklyn Brooklyn 0, Boston 1. At St. Louis vs. Pittsburg, rain. American League. At Washington Washington 3, Phil adelphia 4. At New' York New York 2, Bos ton 1. Other Games. At Greensboro. N. C. University of North Carolina, 19. University of South Carolina 0. . Richmond. Va.. April 14. Trinity College of North Carolina Sprang a surprise here this afternoon by defeat ing the Harvard University .baseball team 6 to 5. . Norfolk. Va., April 14. Virginia turned the tables on Yale today in a very cleanly played game, winning by a score of 3 to 2. At Atlanta Georgia Tech 2. vander- Wlt 1. 1U At Atlanta Atlanta. Southern, 3, Montgomery 8. At Birmingham Birmingham 3. Nashville 2. At Memphis Memphis 4, Shreve- port 8. - . ... At New Orleans New Orleans 1, Little Rock 4. At Roanoke St. John College 7, Roanoke 2. At Lynchburg Baltimore Yanigans 6. Lynchburg. State, 3. At Washington, D. C. Georgetown 1, Princeton 4. At Ithaca N. Y. Cornell 3. LaFay- ette 0. . Jlt , IN HONOR OF MRS. CRAIG Mrs. C B. Aaycock Entertains at Lucheon Silver Wedding of Rev. and Mrs. Meyerberg. (Special to The Messenger.) . Goldsboro. N. C April 14. Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Meyerberg celebrated their silver wedding on Thursday and as a token of hWh esteem, the Oheb Sholom congregation, presented them with a very handsome chest of silver. Dr Meyerberg has been Rabbi of this congregation for the past fifteen years and he and his estimable wife are held in the highest regard, and all wish for them a continued life of health and happiness. ' Mrs. C B. Aycock was hostess at a delightful luncheon in this eveing at her home on William street, compli mentary to Mrs. Locke Craig, of Ashe ville. Covers were laid for seven, and the decorations were -violet, with large bouquets of same decorating the cloth. Those who were fortunate to be with Mrs. Aycock on this occasion were Mesdames Williams Spicer. Nathan O'Berry. Locke Craig, J. L. Moust and Miss Rebecca Humphrey. A NEW INDUSTRY FOR WINSTON For the Manufacture of Parlor Suits. Lounges and Couches to Begin Op erations in That City May 1st. This city is to have a new indus try. It is to be the L. B. Hood Co.. manufacturers of parlor suits, lounges and couches. Mr. Hood has associated with him several prominent gentlemen of thi3 city and a charter will be ap plied for at once. The authorized cap ital stock will be $10.000. Winston Journal. CORNER STONE LAID mew Office Building for House of Representatives ADDRESS BYTHE PRESIDENT The Man With the Muck-Rake" Was His Subject Ceremonies Were.IIeld Under Auspices of the Masonic Lodge of tlw? District of Columbia Speaker Cannon Intro duced the President. Who Was Given A Hearty Greeting on His Appear ance His Address Frequently Inter rupted With Applause. Washington, April 14. To the many memorable events which cluster tbout the making of ithe nation's capital, one other must be added, the laying of the corner stone of the of fice building for the house of repre sentatives, with solemn Masonic cere monies this afternoon. The occasion was made memorable by the presence of the president of the United States, and many of his cabinet; by the supreme court; by the representatives of foreign govern ments; by senate and house of rep resentatives, and a large proportion of Washington's population. The day was ideal for such an important cere mony, and without so much as even a trifling delay the immense stone which occupies the northeast corner of the building was placed in posi tion with the ancient ceremonial of the Masonic faith. President Roosevelt, accompanied by a number of his cabinet, and escorted by the office building commission, Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, Represen tative W. P. Hepburn, of Iowa, and ex-Representative James D. Richard son, of Tennessee, arrived compara tively early. When the president came into view of the immense audi ence, a roar of kindly welcome greet ed him. Immediately after the arriv al of the president, the senate of the United States, with Vice 'President Fairbanks at their head, entered the stand reserved for them, followed by a large membership of the house of representatives. On the arrival of the grand lodge of Masons of the District of Columbia, with Walter A. Brown, grand master, at their head, the ceremony of laying the corner stone began, the United States Marine Band, with a fanfare of trumpets, announcing the hour set for the exercises. The grand chaplain of the grand lodge prayed for the American peo ple and its present chief executive. A hermetically sealed copper box containing an inside copper box with glass top was then placed in position, so that the stone would completely envelop it As the stone was lowered on its foundation the marine band played the intermezzo from Cavallaria Rus ticana. The corn, wine and oil were then, in turn poured upon the stone by the grand master according to an cient custom. Following these rites the grand master, Walter A. Brown, delivered an address. An instrumental selection followed and the the president and the speaker of the house of representatives en ered the president's box. Speaker Cannon introduced the president briefly. It seemed a minute or more before the president was permitted to speak. He was in splendid voice and through out the address hearty and long continued applause punctuated- the telling periods. The president said: THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. Over a century ago Washington laid the corner stone of the capitol in what was then a little more than a tract of wooded wilderness here beside the Potomac. We 'now find it necessary to provide by great additional build ings for the business of the govern ment. This growth in the need for the housing of the government is but proof and example of the way in which the nation has grown and the sphere of action of the national . governmet has grown. We now administer the affairs of a nation in which the extraordinary growth of population has been out stripped by the growth of wealth and the growth in complex, interests. The material problems that face us today are not such as they were in Washing ton's time, but the underlying facts of human nature are the same now as they were then. Under altered external form we war with the same tendencies toward evil that were evident in Washington's time, and are helped by the same tendencies ror good. It Is about some of these that I wish to say a word today. : In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress yon mar recall the description of the' "Man I with the Muck-rake," the man who could look no way but downward, with the muck-rake in his hand; who was offered a celestial crown tor his muck rake, but wboc ould neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, bat continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor. In Pilgrim's Progress the Man with the Muck-rake Is set forth as the ex ample of him whose vision is fixed on carnal instead of on spiritual things. Yet he also typifies the man who in his life consistently refuses to see aught mat is ioity, ana nxes his eyes with i solemn intentness only on that which I is vue ana aeoasing. Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is rile and debasing There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake, and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with th muck-rake, speedily becomes, not a neip to society, not an incitement to good, but one of the most potent forces for evil. There are, in the body politic, eco nomic and social, many and grave evilsr and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should te relentless exposure pf and at tack upon every evil mail, whether politician or business man, every evil practice whether in politics in business or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book,, magazine, or newspaper, with merci less severity makes such attack, pro vided always that he in turn remem bers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful. The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if him mendacity takes the form of slan der, he may be orse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knav ery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exagger ation to assail a bad man with untruth. An epidemic of indiscriminate assault upon character does not good but very great harm. The soul of every scoun drel is gladdened whenever an honest man is assailed, or even when a scoun drel is untruthfully assailed. Now it is easy to twist out of shape what I have just said, easy to effect to misunderstand it, and if it is slurred over in repetition, not difficult really to misunderstand it. Some persons are sincerely incapable or understanding that to denounce mud slinging does not mean the indorsement of whitewash ing; and both the interested individ uals who need whitewashing and those others who practice mud slinging, like to encourage, such confusion of ideas. One of the chief counts against those who make indiscriminate assault upon men in business or men in public life, is that they invite a reaction which is sure to tell powerfully in favor of the unscrupulous scoundrel who really ought to be attacked, who ought, if possible, to be put in the penitentiary. If Aristides is praised over much as just, people get tired of hearing it; and over censure of the unjust finally and from similar reasons results in their favor. , - Any excess is almost sure to in vite a reaction; and, unfortunately, the reaction, instead of taking the form of punishment of those guilty of the excess, is very apt to take the form either of punishment of the unoffend ing or of giving immunity, and even strength, to offenders. The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assault on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper maga zine, or book, create a morbid and vic ious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public sedvice t any price As an instance in point,.! may mention that one serious difficulty encountered in getting the right type cf men to dig thp Panama Canal is the certainty that they will be exposed lotfi with out, and. I am sorry to say, sometimes within congress, to utterly reckless as saults on their character and "capaci ty. At the risk of the repetition let me say again that my plea is, not for immunity to but for the most un sparing exposure of the politician who betrays his trust, of the big business men who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man QUt of the position he has disgraced. Expose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remem- I oer tnat even in me case oi vniuv, I if it is attacked in sensational, lurid, i and untruthful fashion the attack may j do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself. It is because I feel that there should be no rest in the endless war against the forces of evil that I ask that the war be conducted with sanity as well as with resolution. The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them, to the crown of worthy endeavor. There are beautiful th;ngs above and round about them; and if they gradually grow to. feel that the whole world is nothing but muck, their power of useful ess is : gone. If fchfe whole picture is painted black there remains no hue whereby to sin gle out the rascals for distinction from their fellows. Such painting finally induces a kind'pf moral color blindness; and people effected by it come to the conclusion that no man is really black, and no man really white, but they are all gray. In other words, they, neither believe In the truth of the I attack, nor In the honesty of the man who is attacked; they grow suspicions tff the accusation as of the offense; it bmms wH-mb; hopeless to them elfier to wrath against wrongdtNng or to rathusiasin for what Is right ;x and sucli a mental attitude in the tittWIr gives hop to every knare, and I tb2 despair of honest men. To assail the great and adniicted evils of our pontlcal and industrfal life with such crude and sweeping pro era I izations as to include decent mea in the general condemnation means tt scaring of the puWfc conscience. Therat results a general attitude either of cvnical belfpf in ittfA fn1lffprnv tn public corruption or else of a distrust- I ful inability to discriminate between the good and the bad Either attitude is fraught with untold damage to the country as a whole. The fool who has not sense to risen ml na to between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does disriminate and yet chooses the bad there Is nothing nrorv distress ing to every goo patriot, to every good American, than the hard, scoff ing spirit which treats tile allegatiom 6f dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such' laughter 13 worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind but the heart in which right emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition:. There is any amount of good In the world, and there never was a time when doftier and more disinterested work for the betterment or mankind was being done than now. The forces that tend for evil are great and terri ble, but the forces of truth and love an dcourage and honesty and generos ity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before. It is a - foolish and timid, no less than a wicked thing, to blink the fact that the fbrces of evir are strong, but it is even worse to fail to take into account the strength of the forces that tell for good. Hysterical sensationalism is the very poorest weapon wherewith to fight for lasting righteousness. The men who with stern sobriety and truth as sail the many evils of our time, whether in the public press1, or in magazines, or in books, are tife lead ers and allies of all engaged In the work for social and political better ment. But if they give good' reason for distrust of what they say, if th3y chill' the ardor of those who demand truth as a primary virtue, they there by betray the good cause, and" play into the hands of the very men against whom they are nominally at war. In his Ecclesiastical Polity that fine old Elizabethan divine, Bishop Hook er wrote: This truth should be kept constant ly in mind by every free people de siring to preserve the sanity and poise indispensible to the permanent success of self-government Yet, on the other hand, it is vital not to per mit this spirit of sanity and self command to degenerate into" mere mental stagnation. Bad though a state of hysterical excitement is, and evil though the results are which come from the violent oscillations such excitement invariably produces, yet a" sodden acquiescence in evil is even worse. At this moment we are passing through a period of great un rest social, political, and industrial unrest It is of the utmost Importance for our future that this should prove to be not the unrest of mere- rebel liousness against life, of mere dis satisfaction with the inevitable ine quality of conditions, but the unrest of a resolute and eager ambition to secure the betterment of the individ ual and the nation. So far as thi3 movement of agitation throughout the country takes the form of a fierce discontent with evil, of a determina tion to punish the- authors of evil, whether in industry or politics, Ihe feeling is to be heartily welcomed a3 a sign of healthy life. If. on the other hand, it turns into a mere crusade of appetite against appetite, of a contest between the brutal greed of the "have-nots" and the brutal greed of the "haves", then it has no significance for good, but only for evil. If it seeks to establish a line of cleavage, not along the line which divides good men from bad, but along that other line, running at right angles thereto, which divides those who are well off from those who are less well off, then it will be fraught with immeasurable harm to the body politic, We can no more afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital. The wealthy man who exults because there U a j failure of justice in the effort to bring some trust magnate to an account for his misdeeds is as bad as. and no worse than, the so-called labor lead er who clamorously strives to excite ! a foul class feeling on behalf of some other leader who is Implicated in I murder. One attitude is as bad as she other, and no worse; in each lease the accused is entitled to exact justice; and in neither case is there ! need of action by others which can ! be construed into an expression of ' sympathy for crime. ! It is a prime necessity that if fhe present unrest is to result In perma nent good the emotion shall be trans lated into action, and that the action shall be marked by honesty, sanity, and self-i est raint There is mighty little good in a mere spasm of reform. The reform that counts Is that which comes through steady, continuous growth; violent, emotionalism leads to' exhaustion. It is important to this people to grapple . with the problems connect ed with the' amassing of. enormous fortunes, and the use of those for tunes, both corporate and individual, in business. WTe should discriminate In the sharpest way between fortunes well-won and fortunes ill-won; be tween those gained as au incident to TOO KILLED BfPJB tiepss Taken Fran Jafl anl . Roasted Afire. IBiSPIWIELD MISSOMI The; Uen Wra. Charged With As saulting Ycung Wfnte Girl The Ja Was Torn to lMw And (lie Negro Taken the ltifelle Square in the Center of Tom it aI Hjcngctl to An Electric Tower A ITiro Wm Built Umler Uio lfteacKig Men and 3,000 P.ns Wau tied Tlid Death Agony. Springfield Missouri.. April U.A: mob of 5,000 persons- tonlgiit tore down the jail and tooU' Horac Dun can and James CopeUnd, nasroes,. hanged them to an electric tower In the center of the public square; and. built a fire under the sunfended- men. The negroes,, both under 21 years of age, were in Jail charg-td- with as saulting Mabel! Edmondson, a white girl, last night. The mob uset telephono poles and sledge hammers to tear the Jail to pieces. It is a mile from the jail to the square, and the mob marched, down one of tlie principal, streets shouting and firing pistols. Circuit Attorney Arthur Sager, of St Louis, was a witness to the trag edy. He slipped into the cellar of the jail and cut off the gas, hoping, to confuse the mob but he was-too late; "Last night while Miss Edmondson and a young man named Cooper were out riding in a buggy they were stopped by two negroes who beat Cooper into unconsciousness and dragged Miss Edmondson Into the woods. Duncan and Co pel ami we re ar res ted on suspicion, but there was no evidence against them. One thousand men 'gathered, at the city hall tonight and on. learning that the negroes were not there, has tened to the county Jail, where the prisoners were confined. Instead of attacking the Jail at first the mob stormed the residence of the county sheriff, breaking down doors, smashing windows, destroying fur niture in the lower part of the house, and rendering the sheriff's wlfo unconscious from fright and violence. Overcoming the resistance of the sheriff, and a posse of deputies, the mob secured the key to the Jail and gained entrance thereto. The mob had no trouble in finding the cells of Duncan and Copeland. When th6 committee who entered the jail came out with the two negroes the mob began to clamor for summary exe cution, shouting "Han. themT "Burn them!" The negroes were taken to the public square and hanged, and a fire kindled under them in- which they were roasted, 3,000 persons watching their agony. performing great services to the com munity as a whole and those gained in evil fashion by keeping Just within the limits of mere law-honesty. Of course no amount of charity in spend ing such fortunes in. any way compen sates for misconduct in; making them. As a matter of personal conviction, and without pretending to discuss the details or formulate the system, I feei that we shall ultimately have to con sider the adoption of ome such scheme as that of a. progressive tax on all fortunes, beyond a certain amount, either givena in life or devis ed or bequeathed, upon death to any Individual a tax bo framed as to put it out of the power of the owner of I one of these enormous fortunes to I hand on more than a certain amount to any one individual; the tax. of course, to be imposed by the national and not the state government Such taxation should, of course, be aimed merely at the inheritance or trans mission in their entirety of those for tunes swollen beyond all healthy limits. Again, the national government must In some form exercise supervis sion over corporations engaged in in terstate business and all large cor porations are engaged in interstate business whether by license or other wise, so as to permit us to deal with the far reaching evils of over-capitalization. This year we are making a beginning in the direction of serious effort to settle tome of these economic problems by the railway rate legU ation. Such, legislation, If so framed, as I am sure It will be, as to secure definite and tangible results, will amount to something of lt self; and it will amount to a great deal more in so far as it is taken as a first step in the direction of a policy of super intendence and control over corporal o wealth engaged In Interstate com merce, this superintendence and con trol not to be .exercised In a spirit of malevolence toward the men who have' created the wealth, but with the firm purpose both to do Justice lo them and to see that they In turn do justice to the public at large.