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THE WILMINGTON MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JU.LY 19, ; l!H 7 '. pi Entered at the Fostoffice at Wilming ton, N. C, as Second-Class Matter, April 13, 1879. JACKSON & DELL COMPANY TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: THE DAILY MESSENGER by mall one year, $6.00; six months, $3.00 three months, $1.5; e month, 50 cents. THE SEMI-WEEKLY ME3SEN GBR (two eight page papers), hy mail, one year. $1.00; six months, 50 cents, in advance. . WILMINGTON. N. C. C. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1$07. STEALING BRYAN'S CLOTHES Bryan's friends claim that they have caught some republicans plotting to steal some more of Bryan's clothes for Roosevelt. This time It is not an old suit that he had worn some time ago, but a bran new one one, In fact, which he has not had time to don. It was a suit that he was saving with great care to wear for the first time at the democratic national convention next summer. Now it is said that the friends of President Roosevelt having received a hint of the existence of this bran new suit, have gotten full descrip tion of it and are urging the president to purloin it ana appear m me came j when he opens the session of the new congress next December, thus ante dating the proposed time of Bryan ex hibiting himself in it to the country by seven or eight months. The ques tion is: Can Mr. Roosevelt's friends induce him to put on the clothes and appear in them in public after they have stolen them from Bryan's ward robe? All this fuss about the stealing of Bryan's new clothes arises from "the fact, it is alleged, that some republi cans have discovered that Bryan has a new scheme as to government own ership of railroads which he will at tempt to induce the national conven tion to endorse. It is that the govern ment shall become a stockholder in all the big railroad corporations in order that it may have representatives on the boards of directors and thus ceep it self informed as to the inside work ings of these corporations. These re publicans are urging Roosevelt to fore stall Bryan by incorporating this sug gestion in his message to congress and urge its adoption by the government. A serious objection raised to the new principle is that it would be the first step toward government ownership of the railroads. It is said that Ger many made such step the first in her subsequent movements to acquire pss- s f session of the railroads in that coun try. This fact may frighten the presi dent off and prevent his donning Bry an's new suit. NEED OF IMMIGRATION. . The Manufacturers Record cf last week has an article on the need of im migration to the south. It takes as its text the address before the recent meeting of the North Carolina Bank ers' Association by Mr. W. A. McLean, president of the Bank of Lumberton. The article is chiefly a summary of that address and an emphasis of the strong points made therein, showing the need in this section of more men on farm and in factory. The most significant point in the whole article in the statement and its correctness is well known by employers in this section that with a certain class of labor the recent increase in wages is no incentive to laborers to do more work; in fact, it is a hindrance; for, as The Record says, the average negro accus tomed to work six days in the week for a dollar a day is not inspired to work a whole week at a dollar and a half a day. The negro can now make money enough "to keep him" by working three or four davs a week, and he will do no more, for all he wants is a bare living. The Record's article is a very full exposition of the labor troubles in our section and the means that are being employed to overcome them. Of two prominent movements along this line it says: . For a solution of this problem Mr. McLean looks to immigration, bbth domestic and foreign, and he points to the marked success of the Chad bourn enterprise and of the plan of Messrs. Hugh Macicae & kjo., or Wil mington, N. C, as illustrations ot what may be done through properly f .. . . 1 u nnm. : 1 directed eauns iu iuwwwc , , toer "of workers In agriculture. - ! aArhi:rai fMii thit the onhr full remedy for the present ills, both In agricultural and ?f?; 4 I, r1nrln in TOT neTXHSLllvaV Bel. I tlement a desirable class of foreign- DOrn- - it was to get into it. It might not be TOO MANY VAGRANTS a matter of merely paying a fine. Very The Raleigh Times calls for a more ' probably th sentence would be Im rigld enforcement of the vagrancy law prisonment for a certain period or nn in that city. It says with placards til the order promulgating the new rate calling for labor posted in the city was revoked. We suppose the Virginia certain idle negroes lounge about, ask j corporation commission is composed of good men who wish to do their duty iur wuia uu me jji ciauco w,w and after getting a square meal go off. ' saying the work is too hard or the pay . offered In not enough. Such men are to be found in almost every town in the south, and they , should be severely aeait witn. mey, are not only guilty of vagrancy, but The Journal declares Us willingneS3 j possible. . . ... they secure their food through false do Jtg ,n taking tfae risk of gQ. j As was in Greensboro, so there has 'pretense. Every mad who Wants to ,ng tQ prison u announces its-readi- i been in, thIs city-many knocks against work can find It, and at good wages, j ness tQ publIsn any decree tae corpora- existing conditions. Some. people ob mkM nvnnco fnr n qitiIp I . . . Mected to the granting of the privilege luu. lucic to w o-- , able-bodied man in tne soutn Deing idle. City and county officials should be on the lookout all the time for vagrants and every one who is caught should be sent to the chain-gang and . . a . be made to work. The fewer vagrants j there are in a community the less ! crime, especially stealing anl pilfering, there will be. Strict enforcement of the vagrancy law, however, will not t Lput a stop entirely to loafing by negro i men, for many will do just enough worK to put tnemseives wimiu me iaw and escape conviction. They will work a day in a week and idle, living by stealing or at some one else's expense, for the other six days. Enforcement of the law will correct the evil to great extent and put more laborers in the field. Vagrants stand a poor chance in this city, we are glad to know. Our police are energetic in this matter, and the mayor adds another hand to the county road building force every time the opportunity offers. Of course they cannot catch all that deserve to be sent to the roads, but they do effective work along this line of policing the city. . . . 1 i . 1 I itt- I THE CHARGE AGAINST BEV E1UDGE. I Senator Beveride, of Indiana, is charged with being the instigator of the attack on Vice President Fair banks for having cocktails at the lunch served the president at the time he attended the unveiling of the mon ument to General Lawton; that there is a strong temperance sentiment in Indiana, and the senator is taking ad vantage of it and the cocktail episode to stir up hostile feeling against this presidential aspirant. It is said the idea is to deprive him of the sup port of the church and temperanc vote. It is hard to believe such state ments; that a prominent member of the senate would stoop to such low politics as the creating of false im pressions of a man's character by such means. Senator Beveridge is a close personal friend of the president. If the conduct charged to him were true it might be charged that this at tack on Mr. Fairbanks was a prear ranged scheme of the Roosevelt-Taft forces to put him out of the race against the president's candidate. ADVISES VIOLATING JUNCTION. THE IN- Yesterday's press dispatches an nounced that tile order of injunction by Judge Pritchard in the Virginia railroad rate case forbade the newspa pers to publish the order of the corpc ration commission promulgating the two-cent passenger rate, as well as forbidding the corporation commission or its clerk to issue such an order. The Richmond Journal, in an edi torial on this subject, says it is im jwrtant to get the question involved in the decree before the federal su preme court as soon as possible; and it advises the members of the commis sion, in order to do this, to ignore the decree of the court so that they may be sent to prison for contempt of court end then sue out a writ of habeas cor pus from the supreme court thus test ing the jurisdiction of the circuit court in the rate case. It says that should the higher court' decide that the other had no jurisdiction the re lease of the prisoners would be order ed, but "if it should hold that the circuit court had jurisdiction they would be remanded to thg. custody of the officers of the court." The Journal does not say what then would' be done with the commissioners or how they would secure, their release from the custody of those officers. Who knows what punishment Judge, Pritchard would impose on the commissioners for deliberate violation of the decree nf lila nnrt? Tf In the habeas COrnns - . - proceedings - the supreme court ehould r sustain the jurisdiction of the circuit court the commissioners might find it much harder to get out of prison than - - - and to serve their state; but we jlo j not reckon that any of them are anx ious to run the risk of a term in jail just for the purpose of hastening the time when final decision of the case uc uau. Amm cc nn mav iksiir rntfji i n ipkj i . , t ,! t ,,.. ti. , of any injunction forbidding it to do so. That sounds very patriotic,, but ? u h rpmmherpd that the com-i mission must issue the decree before it can be published in a newspaper, and we do not suppose anybody ex pects the Virginia corporation commis sion to deliberately violate the order of the court, as advised by The Journal. . GEO. Y. VANDERBILT'S TAXES. George W. Vanderbilt s registering a mighty kick before the board of tax equalization in Buncombe because of the increased valuation put on his property by the assessors in that county. They have given it a pret ty steep raise. For the last four years Mr. Vanderbilt's state and county taxes have been $16,000 a year. Un der the new assessment they will amount to $23,214. The valuation now placed upon his property in Asheville and in the county amounts to $2,321, 427, which is an increase of about $750,000. The Biltmore house was as sessed at $1,500,000 and the personal property in it at $104,221. The balance is made up on Biltmore village and farm and the twenty-odd thousand I acres of forest lands he owns in the county. Mr. Vanderbilt's property should not be over valued any more than that of the poorest man in the county, but if be has been paying taxes all these years on a too low valuation that is no rea son why such conditions should be al lowed to continue; and because he has spent much money in that section and brought about great improvements is no reason why his property should not bear its proper burden of taxation. He should not be taxed excessively be cause he is the millionaire Vanderbilt, nor because he is such should he be shown any favoriteism in the matter of leving taxes for the support of the state and the county. The system under which property has been valued for taxation in this state has always been very defective. There are too many loopholes through which people can dodge payment of taxes. Improvements have been made in the system, but it is still far from perfect. There is yet entirely too much property in the state which pays no taxes, thus making heavier the bur-J den of state and county governments' ! to those who do pay than it would be if the burden was more justly dis tributed. WILMINGTON'S TROLLEY CAR SYSTEM. The Industrial News, of Greensboro, of recent date contained a local ar ticle, under a "scare head" on that city's street and suburban car line. It stated that "with the completion of the new street car line to Glen- wood and Piedmont Heights, Greens boro has ten miles of street car lines, and for a part of the distance the line is doubled-tracked," and that "one may ride six or more miles now for five cents." It also said that "while the city's car service gets many knocks and it is not the purpose of this ar ticle to say whether they are or are not just there is much about it of which the city may be proud.". This article in The Industrial New . . .. s . I coming just at the time when the Wilmington street and surburban trol ley car line has been making so many and;great improvements on its lines, has caused us to consider it a duty to tne patrons of The Messenger to lav before them ,and the citizens of Wilmington generally some facts re garding our city and suburban, lines. As our . readers know,, the trol ley car company has of late been doing - a great deal : or work on Us city and 'suburban .lines, I which 'work la not yet completed, but will be done in a very ebon "while, the most important of which is the double tracking of Front,. Princess j and Red Cress streets and the exten sion of the city line, from Front and j of the city. Of course the streets had to be torn up. business on these streets interrupted and the passenger trade on the car line incommoded while this work was, going on; but we do not - think that any one can deny that these Inconveniences have" been reduced to the minimum by the car line men in charge of the work and the offlcia's of the company, rnd that the work i has been done with all the expedition - oi laying tne aouuie iratn, uui iucir r 4 objection did not, we are tnanxiui to PrevaiI aSainst the WOrk Cf prS- ress and development. Some find fault because the stree s had to be torn up and business inter rupted. Will those men tell us how they expect the city to" progress and new enterprises be developed if some body is not for a while injeommoded? If the streets are never disturbed for laying additional gas, sewer or water pipes or for increasing the street car service the city would be at a stand still and Wilmington would soon be so far behind her sister cities that there would be no hope of her ever catching up with them in the rapid march of improvement along all business lines that is going cn all over this country. The basis on which urban communi ties are founded is the surrender of absolute freedom and liberty of action by each individual member for the benefit of the community in general. Some of the liberties which the man on the farm enjoys and is entitled to must be surrendered when he changes his residence to the city. The good of society demands it and he must expect to comply with the demand for the preservation of law and order, and of the health of the other members of the city, as well as for the alvance nr nt of the industrial and commercial interests of all. Each one who sur renders some privilege also is the gain er in his comforts and busine:s pur suits by similar curtailment of the privileges of 'all others. In other words, the members of any urban com munity must expect to give and take for the general good of all. After reading the article in the Greensboro paper and being cognizant of the fact that there were people in this city who were "knocking" the Consolidated Company and also the city authorities for, granting the double tracking privileges on three of our streets we thought it well to lay before our readers what has been done - for our city by that company and what an up-to-date city and suburban ser vice it is giving our people. For the purpose of giving the pub lic information, :md without request or even intimation that ii w"uld like us to do ho. we publish the following facts about the urban and suburban railway lines cf this city It has 24.39 miles of singl.? track and 5.S6. miles of double track, laid with rails of CO to 75 pounds per yard, with all switches, frogs and curves of the highest grade material furnished by the Pennsylvania Steel Company. Its rolling stock consists of fifteen single truck cars; two 25 power motors; 12 50-foot double-truck cars equipped with either two 75-pow-er or four 50-power motors, automatic airbrakes and Westinghouse multiple ( train control, which latter features en- i able the company to operate 100-ten trains of four cars each at a speed of 35 miles an hour and controlled by one man; two heavy freight and baggage cars. The power house which runs these cars is capable of developing 1,500 horse power, being equipped with two Westinghouse steam turbines. On the lines of this company a pas- 5 HqI. CS,U 11U - - . v . 33 miles for 35 cents. On the Princess street line a car (or train composed of from to 3 of the uarge cars) passes The Messenger office door be tween early morning and midnight at the rate of one every three minutes. ' Can any other city in the state make such a showing? Can any one deny that we have the finest street car sys tem in the state? .Isn't this street car line, extending into the suburbs ' and bringing all sections of the city into close connection, of inestimable bene fit to the city and to all classes of her ... . v v J citizens? Why then kick when some J of us are temporarly Jnconvenlenced by its work of progress. , ' " J . PREACHING NULLIFICATION. "Nullification" we suppose will soon be the cry of the "organ" of the rrd- I ical clique of the democratic party In ibis state. The leader of the move ment should remember that it was a native of North Carolina who put a ' stop to that movement years sgn. j When president of the United Stats. ' he showed backbone enough to shvc the country from disruption at the j time. We are a strong advocate of state's lights and of state sovereignty in re gard to those matters which the states Lave not yet voluntarily surrendered to the federal government, but for one we protest against the people of North Carolina being fooled into conflict with the federal government at the instance of a man who uses his power as an editor for the sole purposes of his own aggrandisement and the venting of per sonal spleen agalr.st certain corpora tions. It is time the people cf th I state the men who have her true in terests at heart were opening th ir eyes to the true conditions which a- 1st in certain quartrrs falsely denomi- J , . , . .i nated as democratic. Are our peo;ie I for ever going to submit to be made tools of for the sole purpose of satis fying the personal and political ambi tion of one man as well as for grati fying his personal enmity toward her citizens of the state? What has this man or his immediate anstors done for North Carolina that he should as sume the right to be the Moses to lead our people out of the wilderness in which he claims they have wandered? TH BIG WHITNEY PLANT Mr. William Whittam of Washing ton spent several days at Whitmy, last week with a large party of dis tinguished northern capitalists in specting the mammoth hydro-electric development of the Whitney company at the narrows of the Yadkin. In talk ing of the work there Monday, Mr. Whittam said: "Power from the Whitney plant will be ready for delivery the first of the year. The work on the huge dam, the spillway and the power house is near ing completion so much so that only the gaps need be closed. The canal, which is approximately four and a half miles long and will convey the water from the dam to the power house, is now in the advanced stage of construction which characterizes the other sections. Ex tra effort is being made to bring it up with the others and have them all equalized. Two shifts are being use! one during the day employing ahout 1,000 men and the other at night em ploying about 500 men. The most cf those working at night are engaged on the canal which is being rushed at an amazing rate. Beyffd the perad- venture of doubt, the plant will b? i ready for operation by the first of January. "The Whitney Company owns 14, 000 acres of land stretching on either side cf the river and controls thre.' fine power sites which are capable of producing, when .fully developed about 100,000 horse power of electricity. The power site now nearing completion will furnish between 40,000 and 45,000 horse power. A more ideal location could hnrdly be imagined. "The Yadkin river courses through a succcssicn cf low lying hills, wMch j confine it to a current of murow wid'.h hence the nru:ie. 'The Narrows.' With out personal examination it is difficult to convey a correct iH:i of the im mensity of the work and its solid char acter. , "The dam covers 1,000 feet between abutment3 and is 58 feet wide at the bottom and tapers to a width of 12 feet at the crest. It is built of granite from the company's quarry and Is laid in regular courses. "The spillway is constructed on the same gemeral plan as that -of the dam proper. It is a quarter of a mile long and is as substantial and lasting as the hand of man can make it The canal is four and a half miles long and will have a normal depth of water of 18 feet. Its shallowest place is 20 feet while the deepest cut is 83 feet in depth and more than 400 feet wido at the top. In making the excavation no less than 2,000.000 cubic yards of earth and reck were removed. The res voir capacity reached from 2 t5i1's above the dam through the canal to the lower house.. The power house will be of con crete 80 feet wide by 300 feet long and nearly 100 feet high. It will contain sis generators, five of which will be installed at first. Each unit will consist of one 9,000 horse-power vertical turbine, and on the upper end of the turbine, shaft generators will be mounted. The revolving parts of each unit will weigh 70 tons, the distance from the bottom .of the draught tubes to the top of the gen erator being 52 feet. , . "The total fall measured from the crest "of the dam to the tail race 1 123 . ' , The Whitney company nor only . . j proposes to transmit power to nd- jolning industrial centres within the adjacent commercial electrical trans- mission area, but will sell a vnt bnlk of lt near tDe ,,iant. The company has in operation six rnlie of mil oad connecting the Southern Railway with its property and i laying the metal and ties for an extension of four miles wniCh will cross ice rauai and bbvet Its manufacturing site so that irery industrial establishment erected there will have a railroad con- nectlon on Its property. Part of this S1 1Ins blwe?Q the canal and the river nas peen iaia mi iu I site for residences and for Industrial enterprises. "The company owns a fine quarry and has let the contract for the burn ing of 25 million brick. "I am of the opinion that th pied mont region will dominate the worl l's market in manufactured cot'ons wlthtn the next few decades 1 bellexc thr.t. the development of the water povcrs of the south will pay no small part in bringing this to pass. Thr uts today controls the world's supply of raw cotton as It ill a f w Arcades hence the world's supply of manufact ured cotton poods. The headqua-ioih of the textile trade from fuld to 'rt tory. will be located south of 'be Mason and Din line. Within a radius of 100 mi!esof the Whtney de velopment are many marine sl.-w, furniture factories, knitting and cotton mills. Not hss than Il.,W"i 'f m- vested in cotton mills alone In this t. r- Bltu .. . . . rltory to rav nothing or tne new piamr ritory cons&Miy frectd. It has been d m- c i s rated thai steam as a nu.tivc ; w tr c.M.iot compose with 1 kit eitr.tr iu efficiency oc c Ft. t! re he .r.ifitnce is char v;at a rea -ah wi'l 'i- .orce be found as s-on -i 'ho i...vr is available." -Chariot?', "h rcrver. . R ED TO KIL FAMIIA A desperate attempt was mad s terday afternoon to poison tin la ily of M. C. Jones, of Uilboa this ct...'.ty. The timely arrival of Dr. Ross who was summoned from East Durl.;m saved tho llv-s of both Mr and (.-. Jones, who wen- in an wttcnttly k rious condition and not fui l oin dt-ath when the phsici.in anhtu The attempt of this cowardly i iiJite was made by some person or persou slippnig into the kitchen yisteriay af ternoon and placing a lot of arseiii- iu the coffee pot. Up to this tin e theie is io clue as to who did the ar Mr. Jones drank more of the coffee 'I mi did his wife and he was in a un r -rious condition than sh-. The ua-uh-ter did not drink any of the cofTc: and she was not ill. YOterday afternoon abo t 1 ':.V Mrs. Jones and her daughter lay Uown for a little sleep and res:, it Is h op posed that while hey were asleep that Vn one who attempted this nu".ltr s ipped into the kitchen ami plated tne arsenic into the coffee pot. Las; j.l;ht when Mr Jones who has a large n.ei cantlle business came in for supper the wife found that the coffee was out. Rather than for him to go back io the L store for colTee she derided to :oil Y ff that v.a Jcft In Vvv-- v a x--'"'-- - r i A t pot for breakfast and by this means there was enough coffee for supper. . Soon after the supper meal was over. 1 this being something after 8 o I' ck, Mr. Jones was taken ill with pairs in his stomach and he was almost inMU'j dlately iu great agony. Then Mrs. Jones was taken ill. There wa- no thought of prison until tbey grew worse and then a messenger wan lur ried to East Durham to t Dr. Ils. He went to the home and when he ar rived shonly after 9 o'clock be f un 1 both In a dying condition. II roS" ef forts were necessary to save th two but when he left the home thin morn ing they were apparently out f dan ger and Dr. Ross thinks now that hey wiH recover. Yesterday morning the family ere served coffee from th same cofTc- pot and there was no ill effects. Last cv- enlng the coirce served wae nren v. ttn the deadly drujr. Dr. Ross says that be made an examination of the coffee grounds in the pot and found there was a considerable quantity of arsenic in the pot enough to have killed sev eral people If it had all been 'Ir;UlVr Ap It was Mr. Jones was v rr weakV- almost on the point of collar and Mrs Jones was not much b- t?tr. Durham Herald Help the Horse No article i more ufui bout the stable than Mica Axle Crtue. Put a little on the mlndlM tx-fore you "hook up" it will help the horte, and bring; the load borne quicker. ICA AXLE GREASE : vieas well better than aay other grease. Coats the axle with a hard, smooth surface of powdered mica which reduces friction. Ask the dealer for Mica Axle Crease. sTiacjuatacoMPUT 6. .:-