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''Daredevil" Hamilton Flies From New York to Philadelphia and Return, Breaking Records
TEN DAYS OF
“DUE DILIGENCE”
DIVULGES Doo
Even Annual Report of the
Mayor Cannot Be Located
at the City Hall.
EVERYBODY IS MYSTIF'.ED
"Other Feilow” Knows AI
About Everything, But He
Is Never Around.
COST IS STILL UNKNOWN
TENTH DAY.
•‘Which facts (about the real cost
Callaghan inudcovers on the city streets)
by the use of ordinary diligence and in
quiry might have been easily and read
ily ascertained.” —Esc rpt from the bill
in libel filed by the street commissioner
to please the mayor.
Ten days’ use of what seems “ordi
nary diligence and inquiry” by a re
porter for the Light and Gazette has
not brought forth the actual cost to
the city of the new pavement on Stier
en street. The tenth day's effort is
narrated below:
THE REPORTER'S
OWN STORY
Time and again when searching the
books in city hall in the kllst ten days,
I have been told that the only place
1 could hope to find the cost of pav
ing particular streets was in the an
nual reports. The “books of record,”
J was warned, contact no statistics
1 about any one street, or nny one im
provement.
Once, following this clue. 1 had hun'-
cd for the annual report of Mr. Russi,
the street commissioner, and had been
baffled. Then, I was toM that 1 could
sometimes find figures about the cost
of street-paving in the mayor's annual
reports.
This information appeared to be of
the utmost importance until 1 learned
that Mayor Callaghan had not issued
any annual reports siuce 19tKi, this not
withstanding the charter provision
which makes this duty obligatory upon
him each year.
When almost discouraged at my lack
of success in getting the cost of Stiereu
street paving, I was awakened with a
sudden resolution to find Mayor Cal
laghan's annual report of 1906. So I
hastened to the city auditor's office to
hunt for the report, thinking it might
eoutain something on the precise cost
of pavements.
“Mr. Beze, will you kindly give me
a copy of the mayor’s annual report of
1906?” 1 asked, in a rather subdued
tone.
“What do you want?”
I repeated my question, slowly and
distinctly.
“No, I haven’t got it.” he said, in
such a mild tone that several of the
I janitors strolled past to see what was
1 the matter.
' “Well, who has it, then, if you
haven’t?”
“I don't know, How can T keep
track of all the mayor's business? I
have enough of my own work to do.”
1 “To whom do you hand your re
’ports?”
“The mayor, of course.”
Why, exactly; I hadn't thought of |
that. He hands it to the mayor, of
course, and the mayor, of course, hands i
it to some one else, and that some one
else passes it on. Oh, if 1 could only
arrange to be present at the time- of
that passing.
The mayor not being in. T thought
the next some one else might possibly '
bo the city clerk.
“Mr. Fries, will you give me a copy
of Mayor Callaghan's annual report of
1906. please?”
“I don't think we have any more'
copies, now.”
“Don’t you keep a copy of that'
here ? ’ ’
“Why. I did, but they are all given ।
out by now.” t
“Well, let me see the original and
I 1 can copy from that.”
1 “Oh, the original was given to the :
’printer and was never returned.”
“Who was the printer, do you]
know I”
“Mr. Knnzman, I believe.”
“Is it customary for the printers to j
keep the original.’”
“Better sec the printer about his 1
\ business. ”
’ Over to the printer’s office, to ask
if he had any copies left.
“No, I don't keep them,” he said,
lather gruffly.
“But haven't you the original
eopvf”
“Why no. I don't keep their papers
over here; you’ll find that over at the
city hall.”
Back to the city hall I go.
Mr. Fries had gone but the clerk
Was there.
“The printer says he hasn't any
topics of that report nor the original,
cither. ”
“Can't help that; we haven't any
report of 1996 in this office.”
“Very well, give me the reptort of
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
14 PAGES
35 DIE IN
A FIRE AI
MONTREAL
Water Tank on Roof Falls,
Crashing Through Floors and
Carrying Victims Down,
MEET HORRIBLE DEATH
Victims Were Bindery Girls and
Linotype Operators In Mont
real Herald Building.
Associated Press.
Montreal, .Tunc 13. —The Herald build
ing was destroyed by fire today at a
loss of $200,000. Latest reports arc that
thirty five people are dead in the fire
swept ruins of the building and many
arc said to have been carried to death
by a water tank which crashed through
the building when the fire started.
Bindery girls and linotype men fell
through the huge gap in the floors of
the building ami were quickly buried
under machinery and timbers. The
crowds assembled outside the burning
building could plainly hoar the cries of
the dying inside, while the flames were
slowly traveling towards them, but prac
tic-ally nothing conid be done to save
them. All the members of the editorial
department escaped uninjured, the dead
and dying being mostly confined to the
employes of the bindery and composing
rooms.
Inspector Mahon of the police called
upon' those around him to organize a
rescue party but n tremendous wall of
flame suddenly rising from the base
ment made it impossible to enter the
building.
Many of the dead met death in slow
torture. The flames crept slowly upon
them as they lay helpless and as the
rescue party was fighting nearby to
penetrate the building. The huge water
tank plunged from the roof to the cel
lar. Almost instantly there was an ex
plosion of gas from severed pipes which
hung about the sides of the immense
jagged hole.
COUNTER PROPOSITION
FOR BIG MOTOR FACTORY
Chamber of Commerce Com
mittee Meets and Will Lay
New Plans Before Directors.
A meeting of the committee of the
Chamber of Commerce having charge of
the proposition of the Gramm Motor
company to establish a factory in San
Antonio met this morning aud discussed
the proposition submitted by Frank E.
Lamb, secretary and general sales man
ager for the company.
A counter proposition was framed by
the committee this morning which will
be submitted to the board of directors
aud to Secretary and General Sales
Manager Lamb of the Gramm Motor
Car company.
Present at the meeting were thel
members of the committee as follows:
L. J. Hart, Chas. Graebner and 11. E.
Hildebrand.
MISS THOMPSON JUST
WENT FOR AN AUTO RIDE!
Miss Onia Thompson has returned
home.
“We just went out for an automobile
ride,” was the only explanation that
the young lady would give of the trip
that caused her father and several
neighbors so much uneasiness Saturday
evening.
Warren Thompson, her father, ac
companied by neighbors, reached police'
headquarters Saturday evening in a'
very excited state of mind and asked j
the" police to assist them in
the whereabouts of the young lady. The
father believed his daughter had eloped
and for hours the parent and the en
tire police force were on the lookout
for the young woman, who, he said,
leaped into an automobile and disap
peared.
It was not until Miss Oma reached j
home late that night that the search ;
was called off and the anxiety of the :
parents net at rest.
1907; perhaps 1 can find what 1 want I
in that.”
“Don't think there is one for that
year. ’ ’
“But the mayor is supposed to make
one out every year. 1 understand.”
“I guess you understand wrong.”
“Has he issued a report since 1906?”
“No, I believe not.”
“But the city charter says the may
or is to issue, an annual report every
year, not later than the first day of
March.”
From his manner, I concluded he did
not care to discuss annual reports, so
1 left the city balk
HE’S THE NERVIEST BIRD MAN IN THE COUNTRY
AND WEATHER DOES NOT HOLD HIM BACK
Chas. K. Hamilton, the Daredevil Man
Bird, Who Says Your Nerve, Brain and
Muscle Must Be on Trigger to Ride
Safely in Flying Machine—His Aero
plane.
New York, June 13. —Topping the
bird men of the country for nerve,
quickness, boldness and daring is Chas.
K. Hamilton. He flies where and when
he pleases. Wind, water aud moun
tains do not restrain mm. He is one
of the few aeropianists in the country
who do not bother about the weather/
Other aeropianists say his daring is
fatal; a dress suit, that buttons up the
back, and lilies of the valley await
him.
When he was a boy and the other
kids were making small kites, Hamil
ton made one large enough to carry
himself into the air: all the kids drag
ged on the rope while he soared at a
height of 190 feet and nearly killed
his parents and citizens of Hartford
with fright. That was nineteen years
ago; he's twenty-nine now. His father
is a real estate man. well-to do. trunk
wouldn't go to school, while the stars
called him; instead We left home and
built kites; he seamed born to get off
the earth. But he needed money.
Hearing that Israel Ludlow, a rich
student of aviation, had built a mon
strous man-carrying kite in New York.
Hamilton offered to fly in it; no one
else would take the chance, not even
Ludlow himself. They tied the kite
string to a tug boat: Hamilton hung in
a scat on the kite s tail; the tug boat
started; the kite soared; it went 1000
feet into the air; Hamilton waved his
hands and kicked his feet, in glee, to
the terror stricken New Yorkers below
him.
Then Professor Baldwin invented the
dirigible balloons, cigar-shaped, pro
pelled with a gasoline engine. Hamil
ton got into that game in short order.
At Paterson, N. J.. in 1905. the < alt
fornia Arrow, in which ho was riding,
exploded at a height of 200 feet. The
breathless crowds below him saw Ham
ilton climb to the top ot the frame,
below the balloon and punch the bag
violently with his hands. He was driv
ing out' the gas instead of trying to
stop the leak. Within a moment the
empty bag was converted into a para
chute ami Hamilton alighted safely. It
it had remained half lull ot gas he
would have been dashed to death. 1 his
quickness uf thought is the secret of h>s
suceens. . . ..
Hamilton is the first ami only renlly
successful exhibitor of the aeroplane
for the reason that most exhibitors
wait for windless days and thus dis
gust the crowds. While Hamilton flies
when he savs he will, wind or no wind.
RETURNS TO TEXAS
Col Paul Weber. American on Staff of
' Madriz in Nicaragua, on His
Way Home.
Special Dispatch.
New Orleans. La., dune 13.—C01. Paul
Weber, an American who was on the
staff of Madriz in Nicaragua, arrived
here this morning from Bluefields and
left at noon for Beaumont. He said
that Pittman, the \mericau prisoner,
had been spirited away from Bluefields
bluff, at Madriz'.- orders, because of
the siege there and the fear that harm
might befall him.
General Matuity was among the pris
oners, of whkh Pittman was one. Web
er was chief-of st afi for General Cha
morro.'
C Forecast till 7 P m. Tuesday:
For San Antonio and vicinity:
L Increasing cloudiness tonight i
and Tuesday; vanner tonight.
|
One maximum temperature for t
the 24 hours ending at 8 o’clock '
this morning was 86 degrees and I
the minimum wa* 62 degrees.
U Comparative temperatures for |
this year and last:
DI9G9 1910
4 a. m. 67 66
6 a. m. 66 61
WV Kam 74 71
in a m. . 76
jL 12 noon . . A 3 61
1 p. m.. • • M 63
AND GAZETTE
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. MONDAY. JUNE 13, 1910.
CRANE WANES
EO EXPUIN NEW
INSURANCE LAW
11
Assistant Actuary Will Meet
Business Men Tomorrow at
St. Anthony Hotel.
RATES ARE DUE THURSDAY
Books Will Be Distributed and
Charges Will Be Collected
Under the New Law,
Business men, professional men,
citizens of all classes, are invited
to meet tomorrow afternoon at 2:30
at the St. Anthony hotel with J. H.
Crane, assistant insurance actuary,
who reached the city this morning.
Mr. Crane will place himself in the
position of official question-an
swerer for the insurance companies
of the state, and citizens will be
given the opportunity of asking
explanations of points in th 4 new
ratings which t'.cy do not under
stand.
The actual book of ratings under
which San Antonio business houses will
pass, will reach here Thursday or Fri
day, and will be distributed then
through the office which Mr. Crane is
to open at once. Mr. Crane himself
will be in charge of this office, which is
to be a bureau of the actuarial board
of which C. R. Roulet of Dallas, is the
head. The San Antonio office is to re
main established until such time as the
insurers of San Antonio understand the
new conditions ami insurance matters
have become normal.
The announcement is made by Mr.
Crane that in the application of the
rates here, the companies will collect
the premiums accruing under the new
law, thus conforming with the rulings
of Attorney General Hawkins. At the
dispute on Friday of last week, it had
been suggested bv the state fire rating
board that the collection of full new
rates be deterred until after June 20,
at which time representatives o' several
I pities arc to meet with the state fire
rating board to attempt a conclusion
making the law less onerous on the in
surers.
Attorney General Hawkins took the
stand that this could not be done; that
if any premiums at ali were paid they’
had io bo of the full amount to con
form to the statute now governing in
surance and under which policies are
written and premiums collected. This
resulted in a warm discussion in which,
reports sav. Attorney General Hawkins
made the'threat that he would resign
unless the laws were lived up to in de
tail.
This matter will be one of those dis
cussed tomorrow afternoon when the
citizens arc invited to meet with As
sistant Actuary Crane. It is stated that
he will show that the new law is be
ing complied with by the insurance com
panies, and that he will be glad to an
swer any questions that may be put to
him bv those interested ip insurance.
During this morning. Mr. Crane called
on insurance men. all of whom are
working up interest iu the conference
for tomorrow afternoon.
AVIATION MEET ON
Eleven Aeroplanes Ready at Indianap
olis Track for Races This
Afternoon.
Associated Press.
Indianapolis, Ind . .lime I ’- 9 U *. i
the immense aerodrome at the Indian- j
a polis speedway elcen aeroplanes wore ।
trundled this morning in preparaton
lor the national aviation meet this aft-'
ernoon. Races ami speed trials will
continue throughout the week, if the
weather permits, M’ilbnr and Orville '
Wright were on ham! with six of their,
aeroplanes.
ENDOWMENT IS ACCEPTED.
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., June 13.—The board ot
regents of the University of Texas ne-I
•epted an endowment of slo.mi(' from i
Mrs. Julia Oldright of Austin for a
•hair of philosophy, given in memory I
jf her son, a former student. 1
HAWKINS
REFUSES
10 RESIGN!
Commissioner of Insurance
and Banking Asked to Va
cate Office By Governor.
FOLLOWS A CONFERENCE
Refusal of Hawkins Is a Defi
ance Which Governor Camp-
bell Cannot Punish.
Spccial Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., June 13.—Governor
Campbell this afternepn formally
requested the resignation of "Wil
liam E. Hawkins as commissioner
of insurance and banking, as the re-
COMMISSIONER HAWKINS.
sult of the controversy over the
suspension of the new fire insur
ance rates. Hawkins is now pre
paring a statement in which he
declines to vacate the position and
reiterates the stand taken by him
in the matter of the fire rating
board's request to the insurance
companies to hold up the operation
of the new rates until after June 21.
A conference lasting until noon was
had between Hawkins aud the governor
today, ami the commissioner refused to
back down Hom the stand taken by
him. Followyig the conference the gov
ernor addressed the following brief note
to the commissioner:
“Your resignation as commissioner of
insurance and banking is hereby re
spectfullv requested.
(Signed) “T. M. CAMPBELL.
••Governor. ”
Hawkins immediately began prepar
ing the statement in which Im declined. ।
The governor is powerless to enforce |
the resignation of the commissioner, but
mav make public the correspondent
between them and Hawkins will he erip
pled in the fight on such insurance com
panies as obey the request ot' the rating
board to suspend the rales, by the op
position of the attorney general and
(he chief executive. The tense sittfa
(ion was not relieved by the action of
he governor and commissioner, but the
atter’s refusal to resign is a defiance
if the executive which he cannot pun
sb. It is expected further eomplica
ions will ensue. This depends on the
ittion of the insurance companies with
card to the rating board’s orders.
Alter the conference this morning the:
rovernor and Hawkins refused to state 1
ts result. The governor declared this I
ifternoon he is not ready to say any
hing until later.
- — —
Inspect County Roads—County com ,
ii-xioners yesterday took a joyride int"!
he country to inspect the Somerse
Paseosa and other portions of the foa l
V'lem. The county's auto was use*!,
nd the larger part of the afternoon de
oted to it. Those who made the t ; pi
ere Coinmissioneis Frank Sommo.
.ntnnio Herrera and D. A. Meycs. a ■ |
mnpanied by Charles Graebner and A..
Lronkosky. *
14 PAGES
HAMILTON IS
KING OF AIR
Outdoes All Other Aviators In Spec
tacular Flight from New York to Phil
adelphia and Back to Perth Amboy.
MAKES REPAIRS AND RESUMES
%%"a % "a % \%% % % %'■'•'«*■ *• *. *. *. *.
"• Distance New Y’ork to Philadelphia, 86 miles. ■,
"• Time New York to Philadelphia, one hour and fifty-three minutes. •»
'• Total round trip distance between New York aud Philadelphia, long "■
*■ est city to city flight ever made by aviation. •,
*• Speed on New York to Philadel; nia flight averaged a mile every *■
*• one minute and nineteen seconds or about 46 miles per hour. '
*• The start was from Governor's Island at 7:30 a. tn. and the finish
at Philadelphia at 9:28 a. tn. •,
*■ The start on the return trip was made at 11:30.
Part of the flight was made over water and several miles over the •»
*• great New Jersey swamp. •
•• •. % %S S < 5%%•• •• % •• % S •. •. ", ", ", ", ", ", ", ", ", ’
Associated Press.
I *llll .A DEL PI 11A. Pa., June 13. —Charles K. Hamilton today
made the most daring flight of his career, traveling in a biplane from
Governor's Island, New York, to a point on the outskirts of Phila
delphia. a distance of eighty-six miles, in 113 minutes, unofficial time.
After a rest of two hours and two minutes he left Philadelphia
at 11130 o'clock and began a return flight to New York. Excellent
progress was made until shortly before reaching Perth Amboy, N. J.,
when his motor began working badly owing to the aviator's careless
ness in not cleaning his spark plugs during the stop at Philadelphia.
He landed at Perth Amboy and made repairs, resuming his flight to
the original starting place.
— ■ ♦ The feature of the wonderful achieve-
BRIEF FILED
81 ATTORNEYS
MOTH!
One Made by Pinchot's Attor
ney Brands Ballinger As
• Unfit for Office.
REVIEWS THE WHOLE CASE
Insists That Secretary Has
Shown Himself Not True
Servant of the People.
Associated Press.
Washington, June 13.—Briefs were
filed by attorneys for the “-prosecu
tion” and “defense” with the Ballin
goi Pinchot investigating committee to
day. The committee did not meet to
day. but will assemble next Saturday
to prepare for its deliberations.
Attorney Brandeis, counsel for for
mer Special Agent Glavis, and Attorney
Pepper, counsel for former Forester
Pinchot, contend in their briefs that
the evidence adduced during the in
vestigation has shown Secretary Bal
linger unfit to administer affairs of
public domain because of the obvious
leaning toward a policy of distribu
tion instead of conservation of the peo
ple's land. They condemn his attitude
toward the champions of conservation
and charge him with causing- embar
rassment to the president and loss to
the people.
Equally insistent that Ballinger's ac
tions in and out of the interior depart
ment have not been open to criticism.
Attorney Vertrees, counsel for the sc
retary, declares that none of the accu
sations made against him have been
sustained by presentation of fact. Ver
trees’ attempts to show by the evi
dence there lias been a conspiracy afoot
to secure Mr. Ballinger's removal from
office because he did not approve >f
the so calico “Garfield policies.”
The brief ot' Pinchot's attorney is
as follows:
“We trust that the committee will
record their definite conviction that j
the immediate car.' of the public do-,
main is now in unsafe hands,” says
Attorney Geo. W. Pepper, counsel for
Gifford Pinchot, in concluding his
brief.
(Continue.I on Page Five)
BSESIHiII COUNTY I
IM BREAKS OUT
Associated Pres’.
Lexington. K' . June I ; In a feud :
>att!e in Breathitt county, two mem- I
.cis of the Crawford family were shot |
0 death and a member of the Johnson
family was fatally wounded, according '
;o reports reaching here today
LAST EDITION
4 ©’Clock
PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
ment was the ease with which Hamilton
picked up and followed the Pennsyyva
nia railroad train traveling with almost
lightning speed. According to his pro
gram ho flew from Governor's Island
to South Elizabeth. N. J., where the
train was waiting his appearance. Town
after town reported the fact “the
train has passed with Hamilton flying
directly over it.”
At the aviation field four mile*
northeast from the center of the city,
a tremendous crowd awaited the arriv
al of the daring airman. An almost
ideal landing cushion, composed of tall
grass growing out of soft ground, had
been selected and was surrounded by
500 policemen. All the mills in the
neighborhood were shut down and that
section of the city took a holiday. Af-
(Continued on Page Ten)
SHOOTSANDKILLS
AS A MACHETE IS
AIMED AT SKULL
Detective Stowe Stretches a
Much-Wanted Negro Thief
at His Feet.
CUTTING WAY TO LIBERTY
Stowe Waives Preliminary!
Hearing In Justice Court —Is
Charged With Murder,
Win Hodges, a negro, was shot
j and almost instantly killed at 11.40
o'clock Sunday night by Detective
Joe E. Stowe in Chihuahua alley in
the western portion of San Anto
nio. It was when the negro, after
having barricaded himself in the
house of Rosa Lockett, a negress,
at A I Chihuahua street, attacked
the detective with a sixteen-inch
dagger that a bullet was sent crash
ing through his heart. Detective
Stowe, charged in an affidavit with
murder, was released on a $lOOO
bond at noon today.
Detective Stowe, Dete. ,v.- C M> Gat
ity aud Mounted Pairdmaii LugeM
Wahrmund, a<-compauied b' Johu Con
over, a negro, had gone to tiie house
to arrest Hodges. Armed with the kieu
edged machete. Hodges leaped from a
window and when . omnianded to bull Mr
Detective Stowe turned upon the ofti
cer with the murderous weapon and
\ iciouslx struck at him. DetgctlW
Stowe tell to Ins knees in avoiding the
blow, jerking nis revolver from it*
holster at the same time. As the negr>
quickly rai»e<i the machete above ui»
head to deliver a second blow. Deteethe
Stowe fired. The negro had already
started to bring the w.-apou down upon
the officer and the knife came down,
but wildly. The negro reeled and three
more shots were fired by Detective
Stowe. Notwithstanding he wa. aimt
through the heart Hodges ran about
feet before he fell.
Hodges was wautwi by the police 011
a charge ot theft aud was sii«|ms tad
(Continued on page 10.)