The times dispatch. [volume], December 13, 1911, Page 9, Image 9

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EXERCISES Will
BEHELDTHURSDAY
Corner-Stone of Petersburg's
New Skyscraper Will
Be Laid.
3UARDIAN GIVES BIG BOND
People Discussing Question of
Changing Form of Gov?
ernment.
Tim es-Dispatch Bureau,
5 Dolllngbrook Street.
Telephone 118.1.
Petersburg. Vn? December ii.
The corner-stone- of tho new seven
StOry business and office building of
ihc Petersburg Henovolent Mechanics^
Association, now being erected at the
corner of Sycamore and Went Tahb
Streets, will bo laid with tipp, oprlate
Maeonlc ceremonies, on Thursday
nftcrnoon at o'clock. The ceremonies
will be concluded b>' Ulandford Iv;.I>to,
No. 3, and tho address will be deliver?
ed by tho Rev. George E. Booker, D
u., of Washington Street Methodist
episcopal Church. The stono, accord?
ing . to custom, will be, laid at the
northeast corner. The concrete founda?
tions of the new structure have been
nractlcally completed, and som? of
the structural Iron has been put In po?
sition.
The old Mechanics' Association
building, which stood on j.hc site of
the now one, was creeled In IST.'j, and
well served Its purposes for nearly
three-quarters of a century. it has
finally disappeared In the march of
progress. No corner-stone was found
when It was rur.cd, and there Is no
record In the archives of the associa?
tion of the Masons to show that one
was laid.
Died la Norfolk.
A telegram received from Norfolk
this morning announces the death In
that city of Mrs. Eltzabeth Cook,
formerly and for a great many years,
a rOBldcnt of Petersburg. She was the
widow of .T. D. Cook, a well known
painter of this city, and had many
friends here. She was seventy-four
vears old. and Is survived by four
sons?George and R. M. Cook, of New
fork; Thomas and John Cook, of Rich?
mond?and three daughters?Mrs. A. B.
P.owlett, Mrs. Bernard Odenthal und
Mies Mollle Cook, all of Norfolk. The
body will be brought to Petersburg
on Thursday for burial.
Flensing Ceremony.
At the meeting last night of Cockade
City Temple of Pythian Sisters. Mrs.
Frank A. Owen was presented with a
beautiful order pin, the gift of the
temple, In recognition of her unfailing
attendance at the meetings and of her
action In advancing the Interests of
the oidcr. The pleasure of the meet?
ing was heightened by drills and
music.
UIk Rund Given n* Guardian.
Mrs. Mary Corllng McCrea, formerly
Mrs. David Dunlop, appeared before
Judge Mullen, of t'.n. Hustings Couit,
to-day and gave an additional bond
In the penalty of SSOO.OOQ as guardian
of her four young daughters. The
American Surety Company, of New
Vork, became her surety. By the terms
<?( Mr. Dunlop'a win much of the
iroperty bequeathed to her goes to
her children by reason of her second
marriage. .
\o llnndn for Improvement.
The action of the Hoard .->f Alder
rticn lart night In rllfeating ley a ma?
jority vole the ordinance passed by
the ? ommoh Council for the issue of
$212,000 or city bonds for public im?
provements, and It.-- further defeat by
R tic vote of the original proposition
1 o Issue bonds to the amount of (1C5.
100, indicate* that there Is to bo no
bond issue for any purpose for somo
time to come. Opposition to the pro?
posed Issue was based on the ground
that, according to th^ financial show?
ing of the city, the current revenues,
with economical management, will be
sufficient to make all needed Improve?
ments. The discussion of the matter
was quite animated at times. Motions
to defer action were oft'ered and voted
down. A motion to submit the ques?
tion to the decision of the people at a
general or special election mcl a like
fate. Some members wanted t't? mat?
ter submitted to the vote of all the
PERFECT
neutralizes the destructive
acids of the mouth?cleanses,
preserves and beautifies the
teeth, and imparts purity
and fragrance to the breath.
tuxpayerii. Including- women who iirc
property owner*; others thought only
the qualified electorate should kit
allowed to vote.
An appeal was mudc by Alderman
i PukIi t" th<- members to xtund up
I like men und shoulder the responsl
) bllitlea which hau been placed on them
I by the people. This appeal was rc
|reived with favor, for all dilatory ami
. filibustering- motions were voted down,
each member stood firmly to his con
I victlons, and the bond ordinance went
down In defeat, probably not to be
heard from again In a long time.
Tho board appropriated $2.000 fur
oiling streets, the contract for the
oil to be hereafter made: and appro
prlatcd $500 for removing alleged
i sower nuisances.
Talk of Comuilkxlon t.overutnent.
The disagreement between the two
branches of the Common Council on
the question of a bond Issue for needed
public Improvements, as well as pre?
vious disagreements o?i other matters
of Importance, has led to much talk
In the community In favor of a change
of the municipal government t" the
commission form. The people of Pe?
tersburg have given much study to
this subject and a majority Is believed
to bo heartily In favor of It.
Bridge Nearly Completed.
The Matoaca bridge over the Appo
mattox. connecting Chesterfield with
Dlnwlddle and Petersburg, at Ferndale
Park, will. It Is announced, bo com?
pleted and opened to traffic early In
January. The bridge is an Iron eliuc
turc and cost about $7.500. It was built
by the Matoaca Bridge Company, and
will for the present be used as a toll
bridge, for the payment of bonds and
Interest. It will prove a great conve?
nience to the people ol a large section
or Chesterfield.
State Toxcm Collected.
City Treasurer Hamey has received
about $17.000 for State tares for this
year, up to tho present. Exclusive of
head tax, a Inrge portion of which Is
always delinquent, Petersburg's quota
of State taxes Is $55,000 or $56,000. .
To Clofte for tbr Holidays.
At a meeting of the Tobacco Asso?
ciation to-day It was decided to close
sales of tobacco for the holidays on
' December '.'2, and reopen on January 9.
i Sales to-day were 60.000 pounds, at
[ prices ranging from $6.60 to $20.50.
(.carrel \r\>n.
i The Petersburg delegates to the six?
ty-sixth annual session of the Grand
Lodge of Virginia, colored Mason*,
which convened in Newport News to?
day, are District Deputy Grand Master
Charles H. Jone*, Grand I>tcturer Da?
vid T. Paige, Grand Treasurer Douglas
Johnron, Past Grand Muster George EL
[ Dabncy, I. If- Brooks, Edward Johnson,
K. T. Mabry, Richard M. Dillard.
.lame;: If. Williams, A. W. Harris and
Dr. ?. S. McCoy.
Miss Bertha May ton and Clarence
Wcatherford. a young couplo of the
western section of the city, went to
North Carolina yesterday, where they
were married.
Miss Agnes Holt, daughter of Joseph
R. Holt, superintendent of the Matoaca
Cotton Mills, and Leslie Tlpton. son
of A. C. Tlpton. of this city, went te
Crewe this morning, where they were
married by Rev. A. U Franklin. At
the same time and place, Miss Shirley
Tucker and Aubrey Sowers, of Crewe,
were married by Mr. Franklin?a doublo
wedding.
The IClng's Daughtcra of this city
have placed on sale Red CrosB s?ala,
the proceeds lo go towards helping In
the tight against tuberculosis.
A slight Are occurred this morning
at the Model steam Laundry, at the
corner of Washington and Sycainoro
Streets, originating between the cell?
ing and roof In tlie boiler room. For?
tunately, owing to timely discovery,
the lire was extinguished before much
damage had been done.
Action Instituted by Government
in Circuit Court at
Boston.
DISSOLUTION IS ASKED FOR
Officials Indicted Last Summer
for Alleged Violation of
Sherman Law.
Hosten. MasB., December II.?A suit,
asking for the dissolution of the
United Shoe Machinery Company, a
corporation of world-wide scope, was
instituted this afternoon by the Fed?
eral government, which filed a bill In
equity In the. United States Circuit
Court. The bill Is brought against Utc
United Shoe Machinery Ccrptcatlon.
United Shoe Machinery Company of
New Jersey, eighteen subsidiary cor?
porations and twenty-three 'ndlv'dualn,
to restrain the defendants from "ihaln
talnlr.g and engaging In unlawful com?
binations, contracts and conspiracies
In restraint of Interstate and foreign
trade and commerce. In violation of the
Sherman act. 'n the manufacture, said
and K-aac of machines, mechan'sms,
tools and devices used In tho manufac?
ture of boots and nhoes.''
The court Is asked to order the dis?
solution of the defendant corporations
Into such parts that no one of thoni will
constitute a monopoly or can become a
monopoly of tho shoe machinery bus?
iness.
"If the court should bo of the opin?
ion," the bill continues, "that the pub?
lic Interests will bo better served
thereby, tho petitioner asks that re?
ceivers be appointed to take possession
of ull the property, assets, buElncsa and
affairs of said defendants, and wind up
the same."
An Injunction against the defend?
ants Is also requested.
The petition charges, among other
things, that the defendants have, by
unlawful combinations, contracts and
conspiracies among them; by exclusive
use and tying provisions which they
have made a part of the lease and
license agreements between them and
the boot and 6hoo manufacturers for
the use of their machines; by the ac?
quisition and control of former com?
petitive shoe machinery manufacturing
concerns, and by other acta set forth
In the petition, ucqulrcd and now con?
trol more than 95 per cent, of the trade
and commerce In the United States In
shoe machinery.
Tha bill is brought by United States
District Attorney French, acting under
the direction of Attorney-General Wick?
ers ham.
Tho defendants include President
Wlnslow and others prominent in the
shoe machinery and shoe trade.
President Winslow and o.lher offi?
cials of the United Shoe Machinery
Company wero lndictod by tho Fedoral
grand Jury last summer for alleged
violation of the Sherman law. The
cuses have not yet come to trial.
BULLET LODGES
IN MAN'S THROAT
(.Special to The Times-Dispatch.1
Manassas, Va., Deccmoer 12.?Dick
Heid, of Wuterfall, this county, was
lodged In Jnll here last night upon a
charge of shooting .1. B. Ashby.
At the December term of the Circuit
Cort of this county Ashby recovered a
small Judgment against Held, an<i this
led to trouble between the two men
yesterday. Held fired at Ashby from
close range, the bullet from his rifle
entering Ashby's neck from the back,
passing through tho throat and lodg?
ing in the front of tho neck.
Ashby is In a crlticnl co dltloit. and
was taken to a hospital In Washington
lust night.
Held was arrested and lodged in jail,
awaiting the outcome of his victim's
Injury.
Until the passage of the Byrri liqnonr
law Ashby operated a small distillery
near Waterfall.
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MAYPRESA6E NEW
POLITICAL PARTY
National Business Congress Will
Consider Nevin Reso?
lutions.
Chicago, HI;, December 12.?Presag?
ing the birth of a new political party
composed of business men and farmers,
as a protest organization, the resolu?
tions committee of the National Utttii
r.ess Congress to-day considered such
a resolution, framed by A. Parker
Nevin, general counsel of tho National
Association of Manufacturers. Final
action on the resolution by the con?
gress will be announced lo-raorrjw.
The Federal Congress probably wlllj
be arked by the Business Congress to
regulate the sale and transportation
of dynamite and other high explosives,
as the result of a discussion of the
McNamara case at Los Angeles. Such I
a motion, made by a business delegate, i
asked that the Illegal distribution of i
explosives be mado a felony.
The Business Congress also will bo I
asked to go on record as favoring civil
service in the consular department.
I ?c-L'e'erates at tho confiiress declared
that such reform is imperative if the
consular service Is to itsstst as an aux?
iliary of commerce. Also the matter
of the merchant mnrlno will be- the
subject for resolutions.
Speakers to-day Insisted that the
congress Is one of remonstrance. After
.lohn Klrby, Jr., a prominent manufac?
turer of New York, had attneked labor,
Frederick Townsend Martin, of New
York, exploited compulsory insurance
as a panacea for economic Ills.
Mr. Kirby's remarks concerning the
"labor trust," as be called the Amer- t
iean Federation of l^ibor, were sharp,'
lie called the federation "Samuel Clont- ,
ill IS KILLED BY
ACCIDENTAL SHOT
(Special to The Times-Dispatch. I
Lexington, Va.. December 12.?An?
drew Pugh, of Baltimore, a roving'
showman, was brought to Loxlngton
to-day and commlttodto Jail for shoot?
ing Archie Tyreo, at Balcony Falls
last night. Tyree and- Dave Moore,]
two whlto men, had gone from Lynch-j
burg to Balspny Falls on a freight,,'
and had mado a flro on the river, bank, j
Pugh saw them and reported to tho'
operator that he suspected that theyj
had stolen goods from a car. Thei
operator gave Pugh hla pistol and toldj
him to bring them to tho office. In or-|
resting the men tho pistol was accl-j
dently discharged, and shot Tyres, I
killing him Instantly. Tyreo was em?
ployed at Bucua Vista Paper Mills, and)
was twenty-three, years old, 1
pcrs's monopolistic lnbor machine," I
said "organized labor had a determined!
policy either to control or ruin the;
commerce and Industries of the coun?
try." lie said It's record and the uttor
ances nnd acts of Its officers "left no1
shndow of dottbt that Its policy is to
employ any means, no matter how bru?
tal, unlawful or unreasonable," which
will produce a condition where werk
ers are "absolutely at the mercy nnd
dictation of n gigantic and merciless
labor trust."
Again he characterized the labor or?
ganization as a "cold, merciless organ?
ization, with no regard for the flog."
and said labor leaders asked punish?
ment of the McNnnturas, not because
of guilt, but "because they confessed.''
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Presentation to Young South- j
erners Made by Secretary of
Agriculture.
Washington, December 12,?Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson stood lu hie
office to-day and presented diplomas
of merit to twenty-one boys from the
Southern States, who have won prizes
for rais.lng large crops of corn, and
whose trip to the national capital is
part of the award given to them by
the Slates from which they como. With
truo ftooscveltlan vigor the venerable
socretary threw forward his arm and
exclaimed:
"You boys receive those diplomas ;
becauao you have done something. We
are proud of you. your Slates are proud
of you, and you have dono snmuthlng
which will help to reduce the cost of
living and to make tho South a greater
and richer section of tho country."
In raising bumper crops of corn, the.
secretary told the boys, they had taken
the llr8t step necessary to successful
farming. Corn Is the foundation, he
declared of other crop production.
With plenty of corn tho South, he said,
wll bo able after a time to raise its
own beet, nnd not be compelled to
go to the West for It. Tho socrotnry
said the department had no desire tc
boss tno boys of tho South in this
work, that the only wish of Its officials
wus o help them.
With a kindly word for each boy as
he handed him his diploma, tho sec?
retary told tho boys that thoy could
face the world with a fooling that they
possessed something which could not
be bought with money.
Representative Burnham, of Ala?
bama, oscorted the boys to-night
through tho Library of Congress. Dur?
ing tho day thoy had visited the Na?
tional Zoological Park, the Fish Com?
mission building and other government
buildings. President Taft will receive
them probably Friday morning.
Virginia's only representative among
the prize winners was John A. John?
ston, Jr., of Jarratt, Sussex county.
Vn., who raised 161 bushels on his
acre, at a cost of .14 cents per bushel.
MASONS Fl,KOT OFFICERS.
Anuunl Meeting of Wllllamsburg
Lodge?Circuit Court In Session.
[Special to Tho Times-Dispatch. J
Wllllamsburg, Vn., Docember 12.?
WlUlamsburg Lodge, No. e, A., F. &
A. M., last night elected the follow! ig
officers for, tho ensuing year: Robert
Wure Gait, master; W. A. Bozarth,
senior warden; E. W. Hopewell, Junior
warden; Frank ,Armlstead, sonlo:
deacon; P. H. Ball, Junior deacon; Dr. i"}.
A. Hankins, treasurer; H. M- Sweeney
secretary; M. J. Hoover and T. J.
Stubbs, chaplains; R. D. Wllkins, tiler
P. R. Savage and B. F. Wolfe, stew?
ards.
Circuit Court, Judge D. CJ. Tylet
presiding to-day heard the contested
will caso of Moooh et alp. vs. Walter
Ovcrmolr, a 'case that has attracted
considerable contention here. Peach
St Armlatead ropresent the complain
antB, an<j N. L. Henley the defendant.
Ex-Mayor John L. Mercer, who d
few days ago was forced to resign hia
position as clerk of the Eastern Stato
Hospital on account of ill health, i.l
reported to be very 111 to-day. He IS
in charge of a trained - urae, and hin
daughter, Mrs. Horbert Llghtfoot, has!
been called to his bcdidde.
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