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NEW-YORK, SUNDAY, MARCH
1912.?FIVE PARTS-SIXTY PAGES.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PEACE DRAWS NIGH
AS MINERS GO OUT
Operators and Workers Get
Together as a Prelude to
Suspension Involving
400.000 Men.
SHORT TIE-UP LOOKED FOR
Anthracite Element Arranges
Conference with Employers
April 10 ? Bituminous
Union to Vote on
Agreement.
Clevflr.r.r?. March Ml?While 400.00,
snthrflrlt? and bituminous minors pre?
pared t" quit work to-morrow at mid
j-iiijrriT. wh? n their present wag? i?Kree
ment? expire, the operators nnd union
officials took steps ttvtlay to make is
brief as possible the stoppage of coal
tlon.
The 170.000 anthracite miners in Penn
?lin will stop for an Indefinite pa
riod. but ns s result of telegrams ex
?har.? wean George F Baer an?!
th>- union officials, arrangements ware
completed to-day for a reopening of ne
gotiatlons to settle their wage dispute,
Tr.? onference of operators and miners
will be held in the Reading Terminal, in
phila I? oon on April 10. A
in the ant I i
mines was thoughl probable.
The - policy committee to-nlghi
? that it formally had
?
'
In addition, the joint ?nterst?te move
pent has been rehabilitated and the re?
lations of operators and miners again re
?to-ed to a reciprocal basis. Arrange
meats will be made to have the referen?
dum vote taken immediately. There is
little doubt that the miners will vote
overwhelmingly in favor of the new
agreement.
An eutomatic suspension of work in
the anth-acite mines will take effect or
Monday An indefinite suspension which
may develop into a strike ought to ha
avoided
The outcome of the negotiations here '
removes any excuse the anthracite oper- \
?tors may have Kir) heretofore in refus
mg the minar s' demands. The anthracite
miners art really more entitled to ad
vanes in wages and improved condition*:
cf employment than the bituminous men
We are convinced tha'. the- anthracite
aparatera can pay an ad-, anee, and are '
determined that no contract will be
agreed to in the anthracite fields unless
8,'ch is done.
The 175.0C0 anthracite miners have
suspended work in obedience to the sus?
pension ortie, and will remain idle until
an agreement is reached. We hope a
settlement may be reached at the con?
ference en April 10 and thus avert a
strike.
The hr imlno ? ??' ftei
? rators her"?,
. '? ll Will r^lV?^ ' ?
:!. m n t Ighi ln<rease In pay. As the'r
lent, how ? ? < r, must si 111 be ratl
th? union's policj committee and
then b emlum vote of the union,
i ensiori in th? bituminous mine.-? ,
pending tl.e result of the dm I
' . : lu th.- )i. ' ri- of the i
' orkei s of ?\merica Indi- j
the bituminous wage agreement
pted generally.
it was stated that the suspension In
all the mines Involved would cause a
loss In coal i rod in tlon to the country of
j! 900,000 tons a m >nth, and that th.
would lose in pay $1,000,000 every
?ii;- they remain out. The advance In
i to the bituminous miners Be? tired
? ? Ir new contract will amount to
inore than $15,000.000 a year. The bl?
luminous conference adjourned without
ftei th? - ? ?? le whs signed,
Th- i to the men an Increase
?f fiv? ton for i1t- mhiiiisr of
lump coal and a proportionate lncr?sase
for all other kinds of lal
Hoa long the man ar? to remain out
;? ndei what conditions the referen?
dum vote Is to be taken are details left
to be au Ided by the union's policy com
? ? mand of the men for a
flve-tio ? day on Saturdays was rejected
snd the lettlement of local difficulties
v rred to th> loeal unions.
The ?? |< ?" ? In the cen? n I
competitive Held, which was fixed to?
day, 1? the basis upon which agreamtMits
ed for ihe other states. The con
. Id provide
thai * hall give sixty days' no
pending.
? non-union minera not Involved, In
ky, Alabama, Weal Virginia, Cen
'rn! Pennsylvania and Tenneaaee, are
900,000 In Kentucky
: ' one-fourth of the miners ar<?
li i In \\ ? si Virginia 3,000 union
members make contracts for 10,000
- era and 110,000 ara not unionized.
.i;i"n contracts in Wyoming, Mon
ngton and ?'-.!or..d'i do nol
? I] Ire on April 1.
a
SHORT TIE-UP PREDICTED |
Suspension Will Be Brief, Say;
Operators and Miners.
p ladelphla, March 10 The suapai
nt mining In the anthracite ?'??al restons |
"??ill not )?et more than s month, If tha*
S ?he of,|nl?,t; of . ,,-.,\ operators In
ird coal fields, who l"-';im? more ot>
tlrni'ti. ti ;.- v.h<n they P-arned that th"
? t th* miners and the rom
mlttee of operators will meet In Philad?'l
n April in to resume negotiations
ment of riiffei??.. ?
Hsports from various sections of the min
?na regions show the mine work?-r?. expect
,v??t they win h?- given an lacrease In
probably ai>out 10 per ?ent, and
'hat they will have to recede from some of
iheii demanda, Including that for shorter
hour?. The new? that another conference
,B to be held spread rapidly through the
mal eoontry, and created good feeling
Many of them never ex?
the suspension would \>o a prolong"? ?J
en?
The Initiative for the opening of n?*:'?'!
Stlon?, w.-is taken by the anthraoin- miners
bi s telegram to ?.?"ik? i\ Baar, president
Alb? Heading company and ehairman of
loiiuoutU ou ?uuri?? uilj ???go?
MANIAC ATTACKS GORE
Tries to Club Blind Oklahoma
Senator in Wisconsin.
Wankesha. Wi?,., March 30.-Scnator
?'?ore, of Oklahoma, narrowly escaped
?death this afternoon when a crazed Pole,
f'hnrles Schomnlln. attacked him with n
club while the Senator was speaking.
The Pole was sitting: near the stage,
and in the midst of th?> Senator's sped?
suddenly leaped to the platform, drawing
a cluh from under hin overcoat as h?i
.lumped and swung Instantly at the Sen?
at?, r's head.
One of the men on tha stage. Judge P.
C. Handln, was ijnlcker than the maniac,
however, and knocked Bchomulla off th?
stage before the blow landed. The Sen?
ator, who could not see his danger, was
unaware <>f the Incident until later.
THIS RATJ?W NO FEAR
But Loses Life in Fight with a
Philadelphia Policeman.
Philadelphia, March 80. Policemen .f
the Frankford station are exhibiting
with priil. to-day th?. body of h fifteen?
pound water rat which they killed after
n hard flghl ,,nd after It had vanquished
Pete, the station's plucky mascot cat
The big rat appeared in the patrol
house \ard early ihis morning an?! Pet?
promptly attacked it The rat grabbed
the cat by the neck and shook it. ''.-?..
fled to the patrol house
Dennis McCallaghan, of the patrol
' rea. attacked the rat. The animal
sprang for him and Dennis i>a< ked away,
tripping and falling. 'I'll? rat darted a'
the prostrate man. but before it could
)'):?> him Taylor, another member of the
patrol new, came to his assistance.
Mi'- rat turned on Taylor, grabbed i
l't: "f his irousers and spit it to the
thigh. Then he nipped Taylor's ankle, j
and ?*as hunting for a better crip when |
M- < 'allaghan killed it with a club. I
BROADWAY'S LURE WINS
New Yorker on Way West De?
serts Baggage to Hurry Back.
n .-- -, Tribune i
Madrid, Iowa. March 30. Homesick
for the white lights of Broadway, which
h. bad left only thirty six hours before,
George A. Braun climbed from a west?
bound Northwestern passenger train
here to-da> and took a fast express in
the other direction, lie is somewhere
of Chicago to-night, h irrytng back
to real life."
Mr Braun became imbued with a
laudable desire to become acquainted
with bis own country, and packed a
trunk and a suitcase and bought a ti''k??t
i,,r Oregon. By the time he reached chl
rago his ambition a*as fading, but hi
got into s sleeping car late laal niaht and
;? tiiis morning In Iowa. The Im
on was not pleasing, and Braun
top to think Ihe state had no
yet made a complete recovery from th>?
snowiest winter the oldest inhabitants
i ver saw The fields are half covered
with melting snow, with ugly black
patches of bare ground showing In
Ptr.-ams are overflowing uni
lowlands are inundated
Reports from further west made th-?
prosp< ? more cheerless, and
Braun began to be sorry he ever had
red away from Manhattan, and
asked the conductor where and when he
could get i fast train back. The result
was that he left Ihe train here. His
trunk was Uft In the baguage car, hut
he said he would have it expresse?! hack
from Oregon. He cave his unused ticket
t.. ihe ti' kel atr.-nt here and told him to
Ihe change if he could get a re
fund "ii t.
"Never again for me," said lira un as
he paid for a ticket Bast, and he took
out his handkerchief and wiped hl
.
FAT MAN A FIRE HERO
Drags Three Children from
Flames and Is Somewhat Fried.
A hundred pound? or 'o of surplus avoir?
dupois did not prevent Gustav Wirth, a
horse dealer, of No. 289 West 15th str?'t,
from proving himself n hero inst night
when a fire ai that address threatened the
lives of three small children. The tire whs
In the apartment of Thomas Brown? a
bookbinder. Mrs A li?e Brown was y,rc
g dinner againsl the homecoming of
her husband. The flames spread, and for a
while it looked us though the escape of the
three Brown children would he cut off.
VVirth heard their screams and. dashing
through the smoke, laid hold of the young?
est, Mark, a hoy of three years, and here
him to saf.-ty. He n?-xt carried out .lames.
five years old, and returned for Sarah,
twelve years Sarah's clothini? was afire
Wlrth arrived. Folding her in his
coal b?- carried her ?o th?- lower landing
ar.d safety, it. spite or severe burns on his
own face and arms. There he was met
by Bergeant Sn^rta-. of the Weal 10th street
station, who wrapped his coat as far
around him as It would go, extinguishing
t?a- flam? s. The fire was soon extinguish?-?].
-?-??.
P. R. R. EXPRE.SS IN PERIL
Atlantic City Flyer Narrowly Misses
Plunge Into River.
?.ay. X. J., March *>.? The Atl.mt!
City express, No, 46, eastbound on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, narrowly escaped
being thrown Into the Rahway River >-h"t
]?, ',, |,,r. ,,oon t'--dii.v, :is the tr;:1n WHS
I,, ng tl rough this city at about forty
miles an hour. Just wasi of the Rahway
Ri\e? hrl'lM'- a rail broke, after all ?if the
i i passed except tl e hist . ai
\ n\oi.f rail ahout eighteen Inches long
broke .".I. and th'- pass? I gers In the last car
felt the tfrrifle hump, but the ?ar stayed
on the track as it leaped the broken sap
a tiaek walker reported it at once, and >
new rail was pul in. '1'h.- river ?."1 Is al.o ;t
thirty-five feet below the tracks a' this
point
.-?
SEES. SPEAKS AND THEN DIES
Woman, Lifelong Invalid, Recovers
Lost Powers and Expires.
(Frederick, lfd., March M mind and
gpeechleea for three years and an Invalid
pract,cally all her life, Miss Kflle Pearl Six
recovered her tost rower* f,,r .-. eral
hours t" la\ and was able t" N C and BDI ak
distinctly. Tin- etiaiip?e ?aine as sli,- was
undergoing a paroxysm of pain This aras
followed bj a flaps., which resulted in her
death
,.\ i, rnarkable Inciden! i t th? i ??? was
lint in recenl years small plecm ..f iiorm
worked out of bar head and other iarta ?.f
i,, i bod) m a puzzling manner. Physicians
i,a,.i that fully, a pound of thee? pieces
?am?- from her '"'dV- g_
PASTOR RUSSELL
AT HIPPODROME
i i-iiid ;, P. M Keats Fres, au Welcome,
?Advt
DIX ASKED TO AWAIT
HEARING ON ILK BILL
Would Undo All the Good That
Has Been Done, P. E. Taylor.
of Milk Committee, Says.
??'IMPOSSIBLE TO CONVICT"
?Dealers Selling "Below Grade"
Would Escape Penalty?"Not
Enough Butter Fat Now,"
Dr. R. A. Benson Says.
Declarlm? In ? telegram in Governor
nix that tht- bill pawed by the -tenate
abolianlni the milk standard in this dt|
Would tinili? nil the work that had been
done to Insure a good milk supply in I his
city, Paul EC. Taylor, director of the Sen
Yi.rk .Milk Committee, asked <>n ?behalf
of iiis organisation that the Oovernoi
delay action ?m the hill until a publlo
healing ?'ouid ?be held. Ifr. Taylor tald
it was a vicious bill, "aimed to let dowi
?the bars and to bring the cream line
nearer the top of every bottle of milk "
it va- learned also from Henry Bruere,
?me of the ?lit??.tors of tin- Bureau .?f
Municipal Research, thai the matter
would bo broughl hefore its truste? - foi
action. While Mr Bruere did not care
1?? make any criticism "f tho bill until
the s'liiject had been thoroughly -?on.?
over, he declared thai aa the milk sup?
ply was the moat vital thins in the flghl
for the reduction of infant mortality,
any contemplated change in its standard
should hi? thoroughly Investigated.
?Senator Wagner broughl In the Mil
under a special rule on Frida-, nisrhi.
which limited ail debate, its purpose
was I" amend the agricultural law so is
to make ii impossible to convicl any?
?bod. in New York City of* selling milk
uniler the standard of richness. The
measure was jammed through by the
Tammany men at the ?behest of ? it g
Tim" Sullivan. Senator Newcomb sa'.d
that "Tammany Hall is making it pos?
slble 1" bring milk tinder the standar 1
int?? New York city and feed it tn tie?,
children of the tenements."
Th?. measure provides thai n<> milk
dealer can be convicted of violating th"
milk standards if he sells milk, without
watering it. from .*? cow or a dairy th?i
entire output of which Is beloOi ih<
standard, it was called t?? the attention
of ojfi? iais of th?- ?Department of Health,
hut in the absence ?>f Health Commis?
sioner Lederle from th*- city yesterday it
was not learned what action he ha 1
taken
Criticises the Department.
Mr Taylor, of the Milk Committee,
ss d ho had found the sanitary Superin?
tendent of the ?lopnrtment. Dr. Walter
Mensel, "lukewarm" when he ?ailed up
> efterda*. morning to know what the de?
partment would do.
"Tf Commissioner Lederte and the De?
partment of Health are to represent the
consumers and t.. represent the babies
of tin- city," said Mr. Taylor, 'it is now
time to act. According to the report of
the National Milk t'ommir-sion. which
has Just been submitted, the minimum
standard ?dt milk rails for .'i'_ per cent
<?f hutter fat. The lowerlnK of that
standard, as provided in the present
measure, will mean that the babies will
he starving when they drink the milk
which has less than that amount.
"We found hundreds of ?babies in this
city who were drinking milk with less
than the required minimum butter tat
in It literally starving to death. The
doctor who prescribes modified milk
makes 84 per cent th?t minimum of but?
ter fat. because he knows It sh'iuld not
be less than that."
When Mr. Taylor was asked b"\v be?
low grade milk could he sold in the city
with rigid Inspection, he said: "The in?
spection of milk by the Department of
Health Is not thorough enough to pre?
clude the ?sale <?f low grade milk. We
made a special Investigation last year
of a large number of shops in tho city
where milk was sold, and we found It
below the standard and reported it to
< 'omnii.ssi?>n?-r Lederle.
"Ib- assured us that on January 1,
1912, when his new milk scheme would
g?> Into effect, the def? cts would be cor?
r?? ted. But when January 1 came, as
everybody knows, the plan <?f th?- Health
Commissioner did nol go into ?-ffect, and
It hasn't gone into effect yet."
Men Back of the Measure.
Mi. Taxier believed, he declared, that
a larg?- body ?>f milk dealers who were
not In a position to sell milk which had
th?- required percentage of fats were
responsible for th?' attempt to let down
tli?' h.'irs.
"in certain sections of New York Btate,"
lid, "ther? are milk dealers whose
cattle do not produce milk of the ?re?
quired richness. It has been known for
a long tim?- that to hring it up to the
r?equlr?ed standard the lower grade milk
lias been mixed with a sufficient quan?
tity "f richer milk. These dealers ?1? ri..t
want to go 1" that expense and trouble.
They want their milk suppl. t ? ? coin.?
into the cltj as it Is, and therefore the
attempt to amend the law- -regarding ths
milk standard."
Dr. Ueuei a. Benson director ?>f ihn
Hables' Dairy, said that instead of tak
Ing th?- restrict) ?ns "ft the milk supply
of ibis city, there should i><- more <-f
them "There are nol enough resfrie?
tlons now," he continued. "Nor do 1
believe th?; minimum per <-ent <>f imiter
tat In milk should be as low as B%\ per
cent n shoui'i i"* higher; I per cent
should, I think, be about the lowest."
Dr. Benson said he bellsvsd there was
1, certain amount of low guide milk
being sold In the city, bul thought it was
an Impossibility for the inspectora <?f
tin Department ?>f Health t>> scrutinize
every bit of milk that came here
Practically ail the milk ?bal?is have
notified ii" department of what ?grade
tbej expect to sell under the neu regula?
tiotis. and ?permits are litlnR issu, il se?
cordlngly.
ARMY CHAPLAIN'S BGDY FOUND.
Indianapolis, March 30, The body of
("tiHi-lalii John I.. Dallam, <?f the ?M Infan?
try, fiatiojit'i .it l'un Benjaoaln Hani?
won, -.-.i??? had ?-teen misal in roi t?.? ?salts
was found m the lUiaoti River, ?ear M?-r<
iio-i.i, 11 ac ..Lim.- io ,, (?ii grant r? ? ?
to da b) ' 'ni..n? 1 1; 1 ? ii. un, ,,i n,. ,. Kl
tnent, from Dallam's brother, Philip L?_i
iam, .1 Warsaw, in.
'DENOUNCES MEAT OF
SNTERBOROUGH STRIKE
General Manager Hedley Refers
to Grand Chief Stone's Agita?
tion as "Dirty Business."
IsAYS MEN ARE SATISFIED
| Declares Union Leader Has a
Personal Spite to Settle
for Defeat in 190 5
Trouble.
Another twenty-four hours, during
which '"ih ?he Interborough officials and
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Kngi
neera contented themselves with lesuini
'statements only, ended laal nlghl with
i no appr?ciable advantage gained or lost,
atul th-. hir question. "To strik? or ii"',
to strike," DOW facing the motormen,
and which ?hii-f Warren S. Stone by his
tatties has succeeded in putting directly
up to the Interborough heads, remained
unanswered.
Chief Stone made no attempt yeeterda*
m arrange a conference with the com?
pany, and late in the afternoon hurried
from the Grand Central Hotel to the
I Pennsylvania station, where he took i
train i"r Cleveland. Hi was plainly well
I satisfied with the situation, and left be?
hind him a statement which, although t
ild? Lepped the question of a strike, had.?
defiance to the Interborough in its of?
ferts to keep unionism oui of its tanks.
"We shall proceed fo organise the In
terborough line." said Chief Btone, "and
the Interborough will discharge men a?j
fast as the. aie caught affiliating with
the Brotherhood, ?.'hat?".or steps an
necessary to organise will he taken, and
it remains to he seen whether the Inter
borough can discharge men faster tha
we can organize them.''
Pespito the unyielding policy of th?
company, however, and the humor which
[ many of the Interborough officials pro
? f'-ss to see in Chief Stone's attempt tr
I break the Interborough's non-union rule
| many neutral organisations regard th?
hitter's plight as crucial In support 01
their contention they call attention t>
what is apparently the carefully worker
out plan ?if the unions, laid months ago
and which, with hardly a Ringle mistake
left them free yesterday, with the- sign?
ing of th? first Brotherhood achedul?
with th.? Hudson & Manhattan Rallroa?
Company, to focus all their P'0^*1"*'
upon the Interborough.
Stone and Shonts Talk,
t'hlef Stone said yesterday that 01
Mar. h 1.*. he hnd n conference with Aug
ust Heim..nt. chairman of the board o
directors of the Interborough. and tha
four days latrr he had another talk witl
President Theodore P. .shonts. On th.
latter occasion, lie ?lcclares, Mr. Khont
Anally put the situation up to him ii
these words:
"You know how I regard labor unions
Mr. Stone, and you know thai on flv
railroads with which I am connect?
you have a iki par cent ?irganization.
think it is a good thing elsewhere, bu
not hen?. Conditions are different ii
New York than In any other city in th
world, and you cannot organize th
Interborotiph lines. I do not want t<
have to fight you, but the policy of th
board of directora is against any mai
working on the Interborough holm
affiliated with a labor union."
Continuing his discussion of the ras?
Chief Stone said that the same achedul
which be made with August Helmont i:
1!??i-l remained in effect. This schedul
call? for .?3.r><> a day of nine hours and
run of 170 miles. This Is the expr?s
reite Another grievance claimed b
the employes, he said, was the flat rr
fusai of th?' company to permit its me:
to have any Insurance excepting in th
Voluntary itoit?-f Association, tin- organ
isatlon of the company. The third prln
cipal agency in bringing about th" pr?s
etit cr?ala, be declared, was th.? ligorOU
spy system run by the Interborough *.
detect the presence ?if employes wh
favored unionism.
"Extra Trip" the Chief Issue.
Th?. essential moot point, howevei
which precipitated matters was the al
leged "ixtra trip system," and if the a.?
sert ions of the Interborough officiate ar
to be behoved Chief Stone may not ex
pi . t much sympathy from New Yorker
whom h<- proposes to send about thai
business afoot. This "extra trip" wa
unqualifiedly denied last night by Kran
Hedley, the \ lci;-pr?'sldent and gencr:
manager of the Int?Thorough.
He declared it was one of Stone's ruse
for Stirling up sympathy for his cans.
Mr. Hedley also denied the presence (
n strong union spirit in th? ranks of th
interborough men, and said that th
employes were "ail a happy family u
gethetr" and impervious to th? brothel
hood's efforts to instill dissension.
"I wish to sas that I am closer to tr
men in the employ of th?. Interboroug
than Stone Is," said Mr. Hedley. "1 kno
what th?< men want, and I know th?
nre working In harmony with the f,f|
dais of th.mpany These employ?
an- satisfied with th.- conditions und
which they ar?- working, and if thr
were not f would certainly be th? or
to know li.
"Th.- publk will remember that it wt
this man Stone who caused all tl
trouble in 190:,. when the strike tied i
th- Interborough lines for several day
I do not think the public or our men S
stand for much that this man can .1
?if course. Stone brought on that strlk
It was a personal matter with him ,
that UflM and the men had very |)tt
rSUSS for complaint. Such as It ?as,
could readily bars been remedied I
conferences with the Interborough on
elala But ii seems to ???? Btone'a wti
t.? cause trouble Ha put the Broths
hood of Locomotiva Kng.no? r?. bohlt
that movement, Just as h?i is a?-eking
do now He would like to got all tl
p erborough motormen into th.- uni'
b'lt he Won't SU. cee.I
"Dirty Butines?," Says Hedley.
? This is r. dirty piece <>i business, a'
as I said, a pit:..nal one now. Sto
would like p? ?,'-' bach at th-- 1 I't In
ought tot he has not forgotten huw
luutmurd su ngggai in??.
?JOHN E. PARSONS AND DE LANCEY NICOLU
I ??-?
The principal defcndaiil in ihe government's >nit against the Sugar
Trust and In's counsel leaving the l'nitcl State?. Courts Building.
tCor,\ tight, 1912 by th? POINTS Kn?ra\ltig Company.?
BOY'S DARING LEAP FAILS
Nearly Killed by Five Story Fall
in Trying* to Tear Down Banner.
Hartford. Conn.. March 90, In defend?
ing the honor of his ?lass at high
school, and. according to his light?, hero
bally endeavoring to capture his rivals
einss banner, Wilbur Jackson, fifteen
year.? old. to-night attempted to leap
twelve feel across an alrehaft In th??
Travellers' Insurance Company Building
to get the freshmen's banner, ?inly to
miscalculate ins distance and pitch fl?-?
Hforles to the bottom of the shaft. \r
th*? St. ?Flrancls Hospital to-night his
condition was fierions, but physicians
saiil he had s chance of recovery.
IfeanUme ihe freshman banner, tho
cause of general excitement on the city
Street-i was floating from the roof of th?
building, ten stories high. To police de?
tectives who investigated, Jackson's
companions say that they tried to pre
vent his foolhard* attempt to leap
the shaft, but that he shook them off
and said If no on?- else rlppe?! down that
"freshle" banner he would or g?> d'jwn
to the grountl floor In the attempt.
KAISER AND GOETHALS VARY
German Paper Denies Emperor
Urged Strong- Canal Fortification
Berlin, March ';'? "The Xorth (?.?finan
Ct-Sett*' to ?lay ?lenies reports that the
Emperor had in ruent conversations urged
tin- stions: fortltl?-atlon of the Panama
''?mal
I From Tl?- Tribun? Buroiuil
Washington, March ""A?<*olnnel George
W. Qoethala, t hlef engineer of the Panama
Canal, when told this evening that "The
North Qerman Gasette" ha?i denied that
the ??rtnan Emperor had urged strong
fortification of the Panama ?'anal said
that obviously he could nor comment on
such a dlspati h without having an oppor?
tunity to read it, hut he referred The Trib?
une eort_spondent to his testimony he
fore th?- Senate committee, in which herald
that tie- Emperor had expressed to him th??
vh'w that the ?'anal should he well fortll-Qd.
not only against attach i > sea. hut by land
as well. ?Colonel Goethala said there was
nothing in his testimony which should i.e
changed or amended.
?"olotiel f'oethals. on his arrival from
abroad last Thursday, told of the ?h rman
I'mperor'ft Intimate knowledge <>f the canal,
and said that he was -'leased that the Kal?
t/er Sgreed with him that tin- .anal should
hi- heavily fortified.
"The ("erman Kinperor," he continued,
"not only approves of the fortifications, hut
believes that a t ig military force should be
kept in the ?'anal Zone, ready to cope with
any emergency."
FINE MOONLIGHT FLIGHT
Beatty Circles Church Spire with
Passenger.
I H> T? toraph to The Tribune 1
Nassau Boulevard, x v.. March "f?. -
George W. Beatty, in a Wright hipiane,
made on>- ??f the most sensational moon?
light IllghtS here tonlghl that has < v, i
heen s?' ti <?n Long Island. J. R. Woods,
of ??rand Kaplds. Mich., occupied the pgj.
senger seal beside Beatty as his biplane
left the around at !? o'clock. A hrinht
moonlight was casting fantastic figure* SS
the machine nMrcled Hi? spire Of th? ?lar?
den * "It >' Cathedral and then ????.ting 0. to
the north ov.r the ("arden ?'by Hotel t?>
tin- Mln? 'da aviation Held.
\t this point Beatty performed a number
of clever aerial (--Millions ami then flea
hack t? the Garden City Cathedral, against
which his machine utood out prominently
In the moonlight.
At nil previ >ui night flight? attempted
hi r.- (1res have been made t<? Indicate the
landing places Beatt* dispensa with these
t.. demonstrate that landing could i>.- made
h moonlight
FOOLED DOCTORS 78 YEARS
Ex-Boston Policeman Dies. Aged 102?
Told in 1834 He Couldn't Live.
Royalston, Masa, March .:?? Daniel
Davis, -a ho was ordered retired from ihe
?Boston police force seventy-eight yean
ago btscauae, according to th.- exsmlnlni
physician, be was in such poor health he
could not Uve a year, ?li..i at m< home
here to daj at 11 - * ? age of 109 sears.
i p to last February be had ba_? in per?
fect health Ile Wiiit t ach da*. Into ihr
woods bunting, and seldom felled t>> tiring
baek game.
D-WEVS PURE CLARET WINES
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M T I'KUhl __ tONI _U, 1.__??_! lulib^.
SUGAR M DISAGREES
AF1ER IHN HOURS
Reports at 1:15 This Morning in
Case of John E. Parsons
and Others.
DEFENCE DISAPPOINTED
i
i Expected Quick Acquittal?Stat?
ute of Limitations Figures
Extensively in the
I Deliberations.
After thirteen hours of deliberation th'
?jury this morning failed to agree upo?
la verdict in the case ??f John R. Parsons
th'? aged former counsel of the America
I Sugar Refining Company; Washingtot
B, Thomas, its president: Arthur Don
ner. treasurer, and Georgs u. Prasler, .
director, who were tried before Judg.
Hand in the United States District Cour
on the ?harge of having ?-.inspire,
against interstate trade in sugar.
The jury reported to Judge Hand ai
1:13 o'clock this morning that it couk
not agree upon a verdict. For a Inn?"
time the ballot had been eight for ac?
quittal and four to convict; finally oru
more juror ?as won over by tha largei
group.
John Y. Parsons was the only defen?
dant not present to hear the final report
of the jury, having gone home at 6:li
i wearied with the long wait, it is under.
? stood that the government will not at
tempt to seek another tritil of the case
The failure <>f the Jury t.i reach I
quick verdict seemed to he a deep dis
appointment to the defence, which had
confidently predicted a speedy and fui
vindication of the defendants.
When the jury filed out of the court
room after having been charged bj
Judge Hand ? xpressions were heart]
predicting the return "f s verdict ol
acquittal within an hour, it was flfteer
minutes after nonti when the jury re
tired for Its d< liberation, and when al
the end of the hour the jurors wen
taken to luncheon hope still prevails?
that a verdict would he announced earl)
In the afternoon.
Tim.? seemed to pass slowly, hour aftei
hour ?lapsed and there came 00 PTOTI
from the Jurors. The group (.f def.-n
danta that had been sitting In the court
room, surrounded by their friends and
attorneys, appeared to grow restless
Mr. Parsons, who had shown practical!]
BO strain during his long examin?t!..!
by Mr. Nicoll and had pass?-(
through B searching cross-examjn.itI..r
by the prosecutor without apparent ef
feet on hla phyatcal strength, began t?
show signs of weariness. And so dir
W'ashlngton B. Thomas and the tW?
other d?fendante In the ?aso.
Defence Expected Quick Verdict.
Sp?culation ai to the possible attltud?
of the jury proved an unavoidable topi.
of conversation. The defence had dis
played from the beginning ? de?>p faiti
in a speed*! verdict of acquittal tha
would pro\e a Splendid vindication f..
the defendants, who, they Mild, had bcei
held Up before th?? community sine- th
return Of the Indictment In l'.HW as vio
latora "f tha law. With each quarter o
an hour the posstblltt) Of an absolute!;
satiafylng rerdlcl seemed to recede mor
ami more.
The flrsi Indication of how the Juf
Mood "ti the matter did not come unt
4 :;.*i o'clock The foreman seal ? not
to Judg?' Hand submitting two que*
ttons, ??nd the Judg- ordered the Jury i
appear In tha courtroom. AmM s list
|c>S Hilelici Judge Hand read the qiMI
tioiiM put to him by tha Jury and g.n
[hla instructions regarding them.
Tha ti>*??>< question of tha jury was:
ir ws agree that th? conception of ti
loan, as arranfed betw?*en it ??. iia\,
iM.-M-r snd Kiesel and *???.?! and Its suba
,pi.-ut completion, ?as an set In rastrad
Of trade, hill an- In at Last it-asoliil.
,|oni.t ..t any criminal action <>i Intenl aft
.lull I. IMC are '?? Justified m a v,-rdl?-t i
n.,i guilt) '
Judge Hand ruled thai if the) held
fcuaiiouei o?a ii'?,uuu vj*c?
OPTIMISTIC
IN BUSINESS TALK
Tells Philadelphia Chamber of
Commerce Better Times Are
Coming and Government
Will Help.
A PROGRESSIVE, HE SAYS
President Also Addresses the
Ohio Society and the
Academy of Politi?
cal and Social
Science.
Philadelphia, March ;tO. -President Taft
was in an optimlstl?* frame ..f mind to?
night when he faced seveial hundred
memhers of the Philadelphia Chamher
of Commerce In the Bourse here. He
told them he believed the r^'Ple were
on the eve of better times; that thing*)
were growing better and that he hay
lieved l her?? would l?e n<> great coal
i _**_rtke. Me said he had no Jurisdiction
i in settling strike? and that he knew
: en??igh to wait to nee if you were wel
<*ome than to go hutting in" to a matter
batween parties who know th'ir rights.
The President said he was not a re
aetif-nury, but was n_ progressive; thai
he was not a pessimist, but an optimist.
?The Presidents spec? h at the Hours;
| was the Or?: <>f several he delivered
here to-night. ?I?? arrived at 'I p. m.
and won driven down Market street to
th?- Bourse. There were many persons
Ion the street t<? greet him From the
I Bourse Mr. Taft was driven to the Rell
vue-Stratford Hotel, where he addressed
the Ohio Bortet, of Philadelphia. Lat?-r
In th?.- evening the Presid-nt ??.ent M
Horticultural Hall near by, where th.
American Academy of Political and So?
fia! ?Science was holding the closing ses?
sion of Its nnnual meeting.
At the Ohio ?society dinner Pr-'sidenc
Taft s; oke <'f the recall of Judge d?
f?.nd?d the Constitution, said that his
11administration had been profges*.*. and
pointed out some <>f the reasons why hj
thought it was progressive. In speaking
<?f the recall <?f Judges Ihe President said."
I am here m expr?s* mv .latitude for
| the demonstration glv??n by thl?j country
that all th<? surface talking and lecturing
does nol represen I the opinion of the peo?
ple. \\ .? ?r, a -conservative "people, ready
I fut progress on :i conservative basis.
Sps-iks of Noisy Reformera.
Mr. Taft spoke of "noisy reformers'*
who make plans for reform withoit hav?
ing worked out a schecBe that hsd any
ba.ds.
The PrSSnVdenl replied indirect^ to the
question raised by ?Some "f the p<>litlcal
opponents. "Shall the people rule?" H?_
said that he himself had been elected
President by only 8 per cc-nt of the total
?population of the I'nited State?. I'nlcsi
j adult women and children and others
i who did not n??w possess suffrage rc
celved the right to \"te, he said, this isj
a hont as near as we ?an Come t?? popular
; government.
in a brief speech before the American
[Academy of H.,iiti'-ii and Social ?Icisnens
I Mr. Taft touched on the anti-trust law*
land spoke of th?- plan for placing cor?
porations under national supervision. Hi
said he was in favor ?>f enforcing th*
Bherman law just like an. other law.
Mr. Tait said that wlun In- bseaflM
President he looked around an?! appoint?
ai ?t lawyer Attorney ?on?ral. who in
turn looked around and organised a legal
staff, which, m hilo not seeking headline,
in the newspapers "began suits for the
enforcement <>f th?' law."
At the ?Bourse th- ?President, -ift-r
touching on the proposed national cham?
ber of commerce, said in part:
There i> no office that th? governtaeni
perform?? more Important for ihe individual
In the community than th*- aiding oi in?'i
n--^ prosperlt; and the removal from the
ess progress "f those obstacles that
Interfere wltti prosperitj it la when thers
is lot.-* of business doing, it is when every?
body has s Job, it ? .\h?n the wheels of
Industr) ure humming to loud that you
cannot hear anything else, that the poor
?m?l th? wag.- earner are the happiest it
Its when he Is tusking good ?vagas and coa?
'staut wages that ev? \?"<i>. in the i .nuinu
iilty is more nearly hspp* thsn at aay
oth? r tlmn
Always Favors Real Reform.
While i do ?ft deprecate m any may
the movement for real reform and procrees,
provided it la ?jane and is not affected with
i fail- and a disposition to dtsturl those
things that haw- been useful t" ua formte
hundred years, I am, nevertheless, -con?
scloua thai there is no duty m heavy upea
. ivernmenl al Washington as tiiaI s4
I seeing to M th.m II Interferes as little as
possible m ih the business ??f the country
'anil the progress "f the enterprises of the
(?buntry, and aaalsta the Inspiration of cot-*
flden?*e In those whose confidence Is ?
Isary to make bush, ss go ami to bring
?about ?prosperity.
I am in favor of the enforcement of
j the l?w. bjt I believe that the law and
business can be squared in such a way
I so that those who violate the law may
i be prosecuted, and there may be an ab
i sence of oersecutton and no disposition
I to run amuck just for the purpose of
showing that the government at With.
mgton realizes that ?t has a job and is
trying to ?rake people think it has.
The American people ar<- the m.w g n
njervatlve people In the world. That, while
?n Iront the h? .liloii - of the
i ?'- aa o tii??\ wish to discount
everything in Ihe future mil have ill rr??g
ress read) ihe nexi morning for breakfast,
??n the whole?, when you reel ?Iotmi to the
strati.m "f olid thinking Americans ti-er?.
;iro no people In the world thai are so osa?
servatlve, thai re?-ognlse a go??? 1 thins ?I'll
the i-ertsliit) thai the* ?l". .?-ni an bou-_
t?i adhere t?> that ?.1 thug us loi g as It
serv?'s them well
The* can tais about pr?*?aen1 government
and Its defects We know the tb-fe.-t- '?(?
1er than anybody, and we nre wiling ??>
point them <?m. bul we als?? know, aa w?
|e,,k aboul the world, lhat for IS years
w. h.a. had the hot ?-<>-. .-inment ever
i?r-eated Thal Is not s> Ing to make us r?
petlonar) and -it back with ? >m i sail?-?
faction th.tt shall rejtt-l every movement
for reform or an) itwveinent i.?w ;? r<t prog?
I ress.
No Royal Road to Improvement.
It. on the other hand, dees keep us
| san?, and it dosa keep us ?n a condition
i of mind where we know that thee? is no
I royal road to improvement. I don't
? msan to say ?9 that generally speaking na
machinery that is better adapted for the
purpose than we have, but what I do
rrean to say that, generally speaking, no
new machinery is going to work to mak?
a great progr?s-, that we miqht not ac*
complish under existing machinery If th?
individual only qrow? better and better,
I and that it dos. not help matters ta
ii atisfcr from one machinery to anotht|

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