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ACCURACY
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ADVOCATES OF
NEW CHARTER
IST PAY UP
Money Talks and Rumor Says
Administration Will Have
Tidy Sum to Spend.
WILL HAVE TO DIG DEEP
If All the City Employes “Con
tribute" Pro Rata It Will
Aggregate $6226.
If money counts in a political cam
paign. and there are few who will
maintain that it does not, the commis
sion government forces will nave to
dig deep to carry their proposition.
"There's a reason," as the gentleman
Hom Battle Creek says.
If every man on the police, fire and
street department payrolls "con
tributes” the pro rata of his pay that
rumor says he will, the administration
forces will have a tidy little roll to
be spent in showing the "pee-pui”
that commission government is a
thing to be shunned and that the
"manana” style of government. ’ good
enough for our lathers,” is good
i enough for them.
If every policemau “contributes” $2
i per month from now until February,
lour months, it will mean $872 tn the
till against the commission form.
If every man in the fire department
"contributes” the same amount it will
mean'an addition of $896.
If all of Fritz Russi’s hombres
"contribute” $1 each that will adit
$3200 to the administration fund.
That's a rough guess for nobobdy
seems to know just how many hom
bres Russi employs.
In the city hall staff the "conrrinu
tions" will probably average $3oO.
There are 47 men on the city f all
staff so that means just about $658
1 f re.
other employes not classified above,
to the number of 100. if they con
tribute.” will swell the *iotal by S4OV
or $6OO more.
Putting these amounts in the add
ing machine gives a total of 36226
which ought to provide considerable
. "education” for the people if it is all
' spent for that purpose. To ba: it
i the commission government p ople
will have to go away down in their
jeans. After all is said and tons
MONEY TALKS.
GIRL’S EYE Pill
GUI IN RIOT
Special Dispatch.
Chicago. 111.. Oct. 17.—-Two riots,
both in the offices of Hart Schaeffnei
& Marx. 160 Franklin street, in the
down-town district, in. which an Is
year-old girl's eye was put out and a
man badly injured, broke out today
as the result of the big garment work
ers' strike. The police quelled the
demonstration after arresting a score
of men and women.
YOB WHITE NAN
' KILLED SY NEGRO
Special Dispatch.
Sherman, Tex., Oct. 17.—Ernest
■ Johnson, cashier in the Crystal cafe,
aged 22. was shot and killed at mid
night last night by Wood Maxey, a
,negro, with whom Johnson had a
'controversy an hour before. Maxey
slipped behind a column and emptied
■a single barrel shotgun at close qustr
'ters, the load tearing the cashier's
head and neck to pieces.
Johnson was talking to patrons at
• the time. The negro was captured
early this morning by Lee McAfee and
Ross Stark and jailed here charged
with murder.
Citizens are indignant over the af
fair.
’AUTOISTS WILL FIGHT
SPECIAL VEHICLE TAX
Special Dispatch.
Fort Worth. Tex.. Oct. 17.-—That the
various automobile associations of
Texas will fight an effort to enact a
vehicle tax against autos was learned
[here today following the report from
Austin that such a law might be
•passed by the next legislature.
rehearing is denied.
Washington. D. C.. Oct. 17.—The
United States supreme court today
denied motions for a rehearing cf
Ithe insurance tax cases.
For San Antonio and vicinity:
F Forecast to 7p. m. Tuesday.
Fair tonight and Tuesday.
A Th? minimum temperature for
th? 24 hours ending at 8 o’clock
this morning was 62 degrees.
_ Comparative temperatures for
■ this year and last:
I 1909 1910
4 a. m 71 57
6 a. m 69 63
■V Ra m 70 60
Bw 10 a. m 78 ? 8
12 n0un....73 81
1 p. m 84 82
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
VOLUME 31, No. 267
DESTROYERS OF
TIMES PLANNED
WORSE OUTRAGE
Discovery of Ten Cases of Dy
namite In Small House
Causes This Belief.
IS OWNED BY HOME MAN
Dynamite Was Sold to Man Be
lieved to Have Led Gang
That Blew Up Times.
Special Dispatch.
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 17.—Ten
cases of dynamite, enough to blow up
a small sized city, were found in the
front room of a vacant house at 1622
Nineteenth avenue. South San Fran
cisco iate yesterday afternoon by Jas.
O'Brien, owner of the house, who.
growing suspicious because his ten
ants did not move in the house, in
stituted an investigation, resulting in
the discovery of a part of the same
shipment of dynamite that was taken
from Giant on September 23. by three
man now believed by the police to
have blown up the Los Angeles Times
building in Los Angeles.
Every one of the ten boxes bore the
name of "J. B. Bryson.” the glass
eyed man who is believed to be the
ring leader of the dynamiters. Frank
Roller, superintendent of the Giant
Powder plant, has identified the ex
plosive as tha.t, which was especially
manufactured on September 20 for
the men known as Bryson and Moors.
There Is no doubt in the minds of
the police that a greater plot than
that exposed in Los Angeles by the
finding of the unexploded dynamite
bombs was planned; but the plotters
who had rented the house and who
stored the dynamite there to be used
in their plant plot, were frightened
away when it became known that they
had been traced to the powder works.
SIN ANTONIO
LEADS STATE
IN SCHOLASTICS
% %
■. THE LINE-UP. 0 *.
’• San Antonio 18,533 ’■
■« Houston 18.186 *■
Dallas 16.596 ■,
•a Fort Worth 11,941 *■
•a Austin 5,623
*■ •
S*. *. tN S S •• %S % N t
Special Dispatch.
Austin. Tex.. Oct. IS. —According to
figures on the scholastic population
given out by the department of edu
cation here this morning as shown
above, San Antonio leads the state in
scholastic as well as total population.
The surprise in the report is that
Houston far exceeds Dallas In schol
astic population.
The figures for leading Texas cities
show that Houston leads Dallas near-
I ly as far as Dallas leads Fort Worth,
while in population, as shown by the
J federal census Fort Worth is close
I behind Houston.
PACKERS THROW
BOUQUETS AT
THEMSELVES
Associated Press.
Chicago. 111.. Oct. 17.—The report
of the executive committee of the
National Meat Packers' association,
which met in annual convention here
today, intimates that the select com
mittee of the United States senate
when it met to investigate the high
cost of living, did not act in the best
faith in examining packers.
The opinion is expressed that th'B
belief is growing with the public that
the packers as a class are doing a le
gitimate business.
PETITION FOR A
REHEARING DENIED
Special Dispatch.
Washington, Oct. 17.—The petition
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quine,
railroad for a rehearing in the case
of the railroad's rate in the territory
between the Missouri and Mississippi
rivers was denied by the United
States supreme court today. These
rates were established by the inter
state commerce commission within
the past year.
TWELVE REPORTED
DROWNED IN WRECK
Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 17. —The
British freight steamer Port Marnock
is reported ashore off Cape Frio.
Twelve of her crew are drowned.
The Port Marnock sailed from San
Lorenzo. Argentine. October 5, for
Leith, Scotland.
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JULIA WARD HOWE, FAMOUS
WOMAN WHO DIED TODAY
JI 1.1 \ WARD HOWE FROM HER LATEST PHOTOGRAPH.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the author
of the famous "Battle Hymn of the
Republic.” which became'internation
ally known during the civil war whs
born on May 27, 1819. She was edu
cated by private tutors and in 184 3
married the noted philanthropist. Dr.
Samuel Gridley Howe, who died in
ATHLETICS C
CHICAGO 1
Chicago Nationals Find Bender a Puz
zle and Drop First Game of World's
Series-Record Crowds Sees Battle.
SCORE BY
Athletics
Chicago
LINE-UP OF TEAMS
FOR FIRST CONTEST.
Phila. Chicago.
Strunk, cf. Sheckard. If.
Lord. If. • Schulte, rf.
Collins, 2b. Hofman, cf.
Baker, 3b. Chance, lb.
Davis, lb. Zimmerman, 2b.
Murphy, rf. Steinfeldt, 3b.
Barry, ss. Tinker, ss.
Thomas, c. Kling, c.
Bender, p. Overall, p.
Philadelphia. Pa., Oct. 17. —
Thirty-five thousand people fought
their way into Shibe park today Io
witness the first game of the world's
series between the Cubs and Athlet
ics.
First Inning.
Sheckard fouled oft the first one
and then struck out. Bender got
Schulte in the hole and Schulte then
singled to left. Chance apparently
played a running game. Schulte cried
to steal second on the first ball, but
Thomas threw him out to Collins.
Hofman hit a fast bounder to Collins
and was out to Davis. No runs.
Athletics: Strunk opened with a
soft bounder to Steinfeld and was out
to Chance. Lord took a healthy
swing at the first ball, pitched and
drove a long Uy which Hofman
caught. With two strikes Overall fed
Collins a waist ball and Eddie shot
it to left for a clean single. Collins
tried out Kling's arm and found it in
excellent condition. Kling threw him
out easily in his attempt to stea',
Kling to Tinker. No runs.
Second Inning.
Chicago: Bender fed Chance a slow
one and the manager went out. Barry
to Davis. Zimmerman hit the first
ball Ditched for a high foul when
Baker caught. Steinfeldt hit a slow
ANDGAZETTE
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1910,
r 1876. She with her husband was
e ' prominent in anti-slavery agitation
- ! and since the civil war Mrs. Howe has
s expended her energies in pushing the
- | woman's suffrage propaganda. Mrs.
3 j Ward was a regular preacher in the
-. । Unitarian church. She had a home in
a i Boston and also a place at New port.
INNINGS
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roller to Baker and was an easy out
to Davis. No runs.
Athletics: Baker cut into the first
ball for a slashing drive over third
base, the ball rolling into left Held,
and going for a double, which cer
tainly made some hit with the crowd.
Davis put down a sacrifice bunt along
first base line and was out. Chance to
Zimmerman, who covered first. Baker
going to third. Murphy tipped he
first ball between Tinker and Stein
feldt and it went for a single, Baker
scoring the first run of the series
Overall pitched high and Murpny
I stole second. Barry grounded to
[steinfeldt and was out to Chance,
while Murphy went to third. Overall
got Thomas in the hole with two
strikes and then pitched wild and
handed him a pass. Bender hit a line
drive which Zimmerman got on the
first bound and a force out looked
certain. Heine fumbled for an error,
and Murphy scored while Thomas
went to second. Strunk followed with
a line drive Into left field and She-k
-ard grabbed it, after a run. Two
runs.
Third Inning.
Chicago—Tinker started a line
drive for right which looked like a
base hit, until Collins made a cork
ing stab and throw, getting Joe at
first. With the count two and three.
Kling hit a high fly which Bender
caught in front of the plate. Overall
slashed a grounder near second which
Barry fielded brilliantly, nailing his
man at first. No runs.
Full details of first con
test between Athletics and
Cubs will be found in the
baseball extra which will
be issued at 5 o’clock.
MRS. JULIA
WARD HOWE
DIES AI 92
America's Grand Old Woman
Passes Away In Rhode
Island Home.
WROTE FAMOUS HYMN
Author of Battle Hymn of Re
public and Agitator Against
Slavery—Her Life.
Specie’ Dispatch.
Newport, R. Oct. 17.—Julia
Ward Home, America's “grand
old woman." died today.
Mrs. Howe, the venerable au
thor of "The Battle Hymn of the
Republic," was stricken with a
severe cold on Wednesday last
and her health had steadily de
clined.
For several weeks her health
had been failing. Her end was
peaceful, as her life had been.
During the morning she spoke a
few words and said it was her
one hope to have humanity
emancipated from evil. Then she
lapsed into unconsciousness.
Mrs. Howe's name wll Hive as that ।
of one of the most generous and bril- ;
liant women the world has ever
known. Before the civil war she and
her husband w orked for emancipation.
After seeing her efforts crowned with
success she became interested in wom
an suffrage, prison reform and the
। cause of peace.
■ She was born in New York. May 27,
1819. and was christened Julia Ward.
I She was the daughter of Samuel and
I Julia Rush Ward. In 1843, she mar
' ried Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, the
| eminent philanthropist.
Endowed by ■ the Creator with a
wonderful brain, the brain that gave,
us “The Battle Hymn of the 'Reputf
lic." blessed with hosts of loving
friends, given a long life of vast use
[ fulness, honored the world o’er. Julia
! Ward How e counted none of these
I her greatest gift, for in her own beau
tiful words it was “when the foremost
philanthropist of the age chose me
for his wife, when he laid the great
measure of his love at my feet, and
dedicated his heart and his life to
my future.”
Julia Ward Howe was born in New
York May 27, 1819. where her child
hood days wer» spent in the closest
seclusion. In her later life she re
ferred to her father as her jailer, not
reproachfully but merely to empha
size the fact the fondest of parents
i may be the sternest of disciplinarians.
I Her education was unusual for a girl
of that time, she studied both Latin
and Greek, and before her marriage
spoke French. German and Italian.
It was while Julia Ward was in
Europe in her twenty-third year that
she met Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe of
Boston, who established the first
school for the blind. They-were mar
ried April 14. 1843. Thdfr six chil
dren attained places of/prominence
in the scientific, artistic and literate
world.
Mrs. Howe quickly assumed lead
ership of Boston's intellectual life and
her home became the center of the
Huh. Men* known to this generation
as landmarks in the nation's political
and literary history. Sumner. Seward.
Garrison. Longfellow, Emerson were
her familiar friends.
For three generations thf “grand
old woman” of America stood fore
most in the ranks of great and good
women. All during the stormy days
of the fifties Mrs. Howe battle vali
antly for the rights of the enslaved
negroes, and when the war did come
her voice and her pen were arrayeu
upon the side of the slave.
An interesting story is told about
the writing of her greatest poem, the
"Battle Hymn of the Republic.” With
friends she had gone to see a review
of Union troops near Washington. A
sudden movement of the enemy made
the return to Washington a slow' and
difficult one. To beguile the time,
songs, among them, "John Brown.”
were sung. Someone suggested that
she should write other words for the
stirring tune. Early next morning,
as she lay in her bed, lines of the
noem began to shape themselves, and
fearing that she would forget them,
she sprang up and wrote them in the
half light. The poem, written in the
Willard hotel, was first published in
the Atlantic Monthly.
Following Dr. Howe’s death. In
' 876. Mrs. Howe devoted herself to
religion and to literature. She was
ordained as a minister in the Uni
tarian church, and contributed large
ly to the literature of the church. Mrs.
Howe maintained her interest in the
woman suffrage problem, from the
time when she as one of the first or
organizers of the movement gave it
great impetus, down to the last few
days of her life.
Among Mrs. Howe’s more noted
works are. "Passion Flowers.”
"Words for the Hour." "A Trip to
Cuba.” "The World’s Own.” ”Fron.
the Oak to the Olive.” "Sex and Ed
ucation." "Modern Society.” “From
Sunset Ridge." "Is Polite Society Po
lite?” “Representative Women of
New England."
Mrs. Hcwe at the time of her death
resided in Beacon street. Boston, her
home for so many years. One son
and three daughters. Henry M. Hom.
Florence Howe Hall. I,aura Richards
and Maude Howe Elliott, survive her.
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WELLMAN 1000
MILES ON WAY
SUE DUVEENS
FOE MILLIUN;
ON TRIAL TODAY
Special Dispatch.
New York, Oct. 17. —While Henry
J. Duveen and Benjamin J. Duveen of
the art Importing firm of Duvet n
Brothers, were being arraigned today j
before Commissioner Shields on a >
charge of undervaluation Assistant ,
District Attorney Wemple filed a no
tice with the United States district
court that civil suit was to be brought
against the firm by the government
for duties amounting to over $1,000.-
000 alleged to have been withheld in
a period of three years. The suit will
be a civil one.
BLAME ffl
FOR COLLISION
FATAL TO FINE[
: i
Special Dispatch.
; Augusta, Ga.. Oct. 17.- —Blame for
I the fatal collision yesterday between
[ two trains on the Charleston & West
i ern Carolina, in which five persons
w ere killed and 17 Injured late yes-I
terday was today placed upon the op
erator at McCormick. S. C., who. It 1s ,
alleged, failed to display stop sig
nals.
• The McCormick operator is said to [
[have telegraphed the Augusta office
rof the road, saying he was so busy i
[ selling tickets he forgot to place the ]
l signals. The trains crashed at full j
; speed two miles south of McCormick
ALL READY FOR
BALLOON RACE
I Speoal Dispatch.
. St. Louis, Mo.. Oct. 17.—Inflation
lof the ten balloons entered in the
international race for the James Gor
don Bennett cup and a collection of
cash prizes was begun early this
morning. The first ballool will go
up at 4:30 o'clock and others will fol
low at five minute intervals. Germany
and the United States are represented
by three pilots each and France and
I Switzerland by two each.
I LOOKIXG OVER
HOTEL FACILITIES.
W. G. Comly of Boston. Mass., rep- ’
resenting the American Bankers' as
[soefation. is in the city making an in
vestigation of hotel facilities here, for
'the purpose of supplying the informa
tion to the executive committee when
[the committee meets to decide on the
next place of meeting for the associa
। lion. Mr. Comly in company with San
Antonians has visited the larger ho
tels and expresses himself highly
pleased with the situation here.
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KANSAS CITV PRODUCE.
Kansas City. Oct. 17.—Egars. ox- j
traa. 27c.: firsts. 25c.: seconds. 17c. i
Rutter, rrwmerv extras. 28c.: firsts. ।
25c.: seconds. 23c.: packing stock
21 1-2 c.
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Tonight
At 5 o’clock tonight and on each
x day of the world’s championship
series the Light and Gazette will
issue a baseball extra.
Box score, play by innings and
story of the game by noted sport
writers will come over leased wire.
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Aeronaut Is Lost to Wireless
Stations After a Brief Mes
sage Yesterday.
STEAMERS HEAR NOTHING'
Figured By Experts He Is 500
to 1000 Miles From the
Americao Coast.
AIRSHIP MAY BE IN
Special Dispotch.
Boston, Mass., Oct. 17.—Wal
ter Wellman in the balloon
"America” in which he seeks to
reach Europe has parsed out over
"the Atlantic beyond the reach
even of wireless instruments on
the American coast.
He broke the record for con
tinuous flight yesterday and if the
"America" is still in the air to
day lias performed the greatest
aerial feat of modern times what
eter its outcome.
That the aeronaut is 1000 miles
on his way to Ireland is the cal
culation made by some experts,
while others, basing their figures
on the speed maintained by the
balloon yesterday and Saturday
say ho is only 500 miles off the
Massachusetts eoast.
Although the "America” has kept;
to a course that did not take it far
front the Atlantic coast of America it
is believed Wellman has not abandon
ed his intention of going to Europe :
and that he was merely heading
northeast to get over the line of trans-
Atlantic steamships. Boston expected
to hear from him at noon but was dis
appointed. t
No message lias come from the bal-‘
i loon since just after noon Sunday
| when In reply to a wireless query as
to whether everything on board was
all right Wellman replied "Yes” and
' "Goodby.”
An alarming reason for the failure
l of steamships to communicate with
i Wellman today is advanced by offi
[ cials of Hie Marconi company, who
| d< elare the aeronaut's w ireless appar
atus has gone wrong. They believe
' it not possible that some of the ocean
[ steamers could not pick up the bal
■ loon if it was still sending out vdre-
I less messages.
Trouble with his equilibrlator. a
I long line of steel tanks, was reported
Iby Wellman in one of his messages
[ and grave fears were entertained for
i the partv in the balloon. It was even
| believed that the balloon would return
and that this was the reason
■ continued to hug the American coast.
WELLMAN HAD BEAT
ZEPPELIN LAST NIGTH
Record for Continuous Flight
Was Broken—Was Having
Trouble With Airship.
' Associated Press. .
New York. Oct. 17.—Somewhere
| between Siasconset and Sandy Hook,
the liner Arabic, which arrived here
early this morning, must have passed
Walter Wellman’s airship America,
sailing rapidly eastward through tho
fog. But though a sharp lookout wa»
kept for the big balloon, and thougn
the liner’s wireless operator was lis
tening all day for the code signal of
the airship, not a sign of her was seen
or head.
From the Siasconset wireless sta
tion. details of the start and copies of
the messages sent landward by the
[ aerial voyagers had informed the of-
I ticers and passengers of the Arabic
| early on Sunday that the new ocean
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