The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, June 29, 1909, Image 1
PUBLISHED THREE
GONE WITH TEAM
Young Man Hires [Team and
Buggy and Leaves
TO PARTS UNKNOWN
He Was a Guest at the St. John's
Hotel in Charleston, Where Ho
Seems to Hare Registered Under
an Assumed Name for Some
Reason.
The News and Courier of Satur
day says:
The police machinery has been set
in motion to discover the where
abouts of "Ennist Hagwood" a young
man who was last seen in this city
oh Wednesday morning, when he
drove off with a horse and buggy be
longing to Mr. John McAllister, the
Meeting street liveryman. "Hag
wood" registered at the' St. John
Hotel 'on Wednesday, June 23, as
Ennist Hagwood, but it is now state
ed that his right name is Lester Rey
nolds, of Ai.la::ta, Ga.
The police do not know what to
make-of the disappearance of the
young man. They received informa
tion Friday morning that a light top
buggy and a gray borse, driven by a
young-man answering the description
furnished of Reynolds, had been no
ticed passing the Seven-mile last
Thursday morning. This is so far
the only clue which the police have
met with In their hunt for the miss
ing man.
Reynolds told the night clerk of
the St. John Hotel early Wednesday
morning that he had hired a borse
and buggy from the McAllister livery
stables,' and asked that the outfit
be called format.8:30 a. m. This was
done by the clerk over telephone.
Mr. McAllister stating that this pro
cedure was agreeable to him. On
taking possession of the horse and
buggy Reynolds, or Hagwood, as he
was then known, drove up Meeting
street and stopped at the stables
in order to procure a lap robe, at the
Bame time jaskjlng Mr. McAllister
regarding the roads on the other side
of the Now Bridge.
lie, then told the liveryman that
bjTintended to take a young lady out
riding, and did not intend to get
r...rback to, the city until late tha*. even
'IfiBfc After the young man had left
nie stdbles no more was heard of
hrm-r/'and after Manager Fogus and
Mr| McAllister had waited all day
Thursday it was decided to put the
case into the hands of the police
department. Reynolds left behind
him a email trunk, containing some
expensive clothes.
Through a traveling man, who, on
Thursday morning. Inquired after a
gentleman answering Reynold's de
scription, Manager Fogus' first dis
covered- that Reynolds bad register
ed at the hotel under an assumed
name. In describing the young man
the traveling man stated that he
had only three fingers on the right
hand. The hotel , man had also no
ticed this, and further inquiries con
vinced him that "Hagwood" was In
reality Lester Reynolds, of Atlanta,
(la. According to the traveling man,
Reynolds' fether committed suicide
about six months ago, and the son
had since been subject to fits of me
lancholia.
That the name of the missing man
was Reynolds, and not Hagwood, was
further substantiated by Mr. Walter
C. Loo?, a sisn painter, of No. 304
King street, who told the police
that he was well acquainted with
the young man, who had come to see
him several times during his stay
in the city within the last ten days.
Mr. Long was unable to give any in
formation regarding his friend.
Reynolds while in the city stated
that he was an expert telegrapher
and sign painter. He came to this
city on Wednesday morning. June 16,
from Spartanburg. and immediately
registered at the St. John Hotel un
der the name of Ennist Hagwood.
Several letters written by him are
at present In the hands of the police.
Last Sunday morning Reynolds paid
Manager Fogus a part of his hotel
bill, and from general appearances
did not seem to be in possession of
a iarge amount of money.
The young man is described as be
ing of middle height, light complex
ioned and apparently of about 22
years of age. The value of the borse
and buggy with which the young man
was last seen in this city is estimat
ed at about $'_'00. Reynolds was well
known with Beveral Pullman con
ductors and other railroad men. all
of whom speak highly of the young
man. and are inclined to believe that
he has met with some accident or
with foul play. *
Makes Actor Insane.
At Worthington, Ind., this week.
Guy Mercer, an actor starting in
"Dr. JokyII and Mr. Hyde," became
part in one-night stands for two
years and the strain had undermin
years and the strain had nndemin
ed his reason. After his breakdown
he continued to play the part off
the stage. *
Kxploskm on ^Launch.
At Columbia an accident marred
the launching of the gasoline launch
"Nirvana" Friday afternoon. A
match flame caused the explosion of
vaporized gasoline and several of
the party In the boat were burned.
TIMES A WEEK.
.DEATH TO RUSSIANS
SUICIDES AND EXECUTIONS HELP
KEEP PEACE.
Russian Professor Tells Why People
Seek Death?Special Newspaper
For the Czar.
Suicides and executions have re
duced the population of the Rus
sian empire by nearly 1,500 so far j
this year. Of this number mo ?:? ihan
330 have been put to death. Of
ficials attribute the absence of. dis
turbance to the increase in toe num
ber of executions and suic'ues, ex
ecutions in that they are a warning
to those who would violate the law
and suicides in that would-be law
breakers seeing the bopelessues of
their cause end their days before
they perpetuate anything that might
lead to greater trouble. In the
month of March 143 persons lost
their lives by order of the court.
Dr. Dvoretzky, professor in Kieff
university, has discovered a new
name for a disease that is prevalent
in Russia and affects the ten-year-old
in the same manner as it affects the
octogenarian. As far as the profes
sor knows the disease is confined to
Russia and shows itself in a vast
majority of cases in the desire of
the patient to commit suicide. The
avearge number of those who com
mit suicide in Russia each year is
350' a month, more than 4,000 a
year. All these, Dr. Dvoretzky says,
are sufferers from "despair fever.-'
He declares its victims, both as re
gards their own lot and the fate of.
the country in which they live.
The Czar has ordored the estab
lishment of a special ppper, which
shall have a total circulation of one,
that paper to be read by the czar
himself. There are to be 15 numbers
in a year which will contain about
50& pages of about the size and shape
of the Grit Story Section. It is to
be in manuscript form and will con
tain extracts from the reports of all
the police prefects of Russia, togeth
er with such news from abroad as
concerns Russia and especially as
concerns the Russian government in
its struggle with Nihilism and an
archy.
As an example of the kind of of
fenses for which the press of Russia
is amenable to punishment, the case
of the editor of the Batoum Novosti
is Illuminating. In announcing that
the governor of Ku'tais had resign
ed, the Novosti omitted to give a list
of his titles. For this "crime,"
which was pronounced an offense
against authority, the editor was!
fined $L'50 and publication of the I
newspaper was suspended for two
weeks. This punishment is the least j
! severe of any to which newspaper
editors are subjected in the czar's
jurisdiction. It is considered of lit- j
tie moment to force a newspaper to 1
suspend publication for. Besides J
other punishments of newspaper edi
tors there were 130 cases in which
Pnes were levied against the press
for offenses against the government.
The total of the fines levied amount
ed to nearly thirty thousand dol
lars. * ,
LOANED TO THE STATE.
Figurehead on Battleship South Car
olina.
Representative Aiken has secured
a promise from the navy department
to loan the figurehead now on the
battle ship South Carolina at the
League Island navy yard, to the State
of South Carolina for an indefinite
number of years.
It has heretofore been customary
for all new ships to have some kind
of figurehead, but recently it was
found that they served no practical
purpose, and they will not hereafter
be placed on any new ships.
Assistant Secretary Winthrop of
the navy, has informed Mr. Aiken
that the figurehead on the South Car
olina caunot be legally transferred,
but will be loaned to South Caroli
na to be placd in the State House
or some other suitable place.
A better place, however, would
be on East Battery, at Charleston,
where more people would sc; It in :>
day than in a year if placed in the
State House. Besides, Charleston
is soon to be the permanent home of
s*?me of the biggest ships: in the iiavy,
nnd is the place above all others for
(lie South Carolina's figurehead. '
Negro in Her Room.
A dispatch from Lancaster to The
State says about four o'clock Sunday
momiog : young lady there discov
ered a negro man in her bed room
and promptly screamed, causing him
to hastily make bis escape. Neigh
bors saw the negro running rapidly
from the building. Tom Murray,
who lives in the neighborhood, was
arrested. He denies the charge, but
he answers the description given by
the young lady.
Hunts for Devil.
Because he was frightened while
running home late one night. Earl
Rockefeller, a small boy. of Flint
.Mich., started out the next day with
a baseball bat to bunt the "devil."
He was found by a policeman and
brought home. The "devil," who
had frightened him. was his father,
who had invented the scheme In the
hope the boy would not go out at
night as was his custom. *
OBASTGEBTJBG.
TAFT'S SCHEME
To Prevent the Passage of an
Income Tax Now.
IS AN ARTFUL DODGE
That Black aiid White Firemen Must
Receive the Same Pay for the
Same Work?It Denies the Senior
ity of the White Firemen Over
the Negro Firemen.
The board of arbitration appoint
ed to settle the trouble between the
Georgia Railroad and its white fire
men, which met in Atlanta, Saturday
night decided against the seniority of
white firemen over negroes. The arbi
trators, however, placed a premium
on intelligence among firemen, which,
it is believed, will ultimatelv result
A I
in the gradual elimination of all
except the most expert negro fire
men.
The arbitration board was com
posed of Hilary Herbert of Alaba
ma, representing the Georgia rail
road; Congressman Thomas Hard
wick of Georgia, representing the
firemen, and Chancellor David C.
Barrow of the Georgia university as
umpire. Their decision was worded
gradually and did not in any case
deal directly with the race problem.
Their most direct reference to the
senitoriy was in the words:
"We find against proposition C."
This proposition read: "AH fire
men when hired shall be placed in
freight yards or bostling service and
senior white firemen shall have pref
erence of engines and runs.'
The award made the pay of negro
firemen equal to that of whites. The
negroes have been receiving from
about 20 to 50 cents per day less
than whites.
The award was as follows:v
(a) The Georgia railroad, when
using negroes as locomotive firemen
on the road or in the yards, or as
hostlers, or as hostlers' helpers, shall
pay them the same wages as white
men in similar positions. (Concurr
ed in by Messrs. Herbert and Bar
row; Mr. Hardwick dissented.)
(b) Firemen In the line of pro
motion to the position of engineer
shall have three years' experience
before being promoted to the posit
ion of engineer and shall be pro
moted in the order of their seniority;
provided they are able to pass all
reasonable requirements and exami
nations. If they refuse or fail to
pass the first examination they will
be reduced to freight runs without
losing their seniority, and the next
senior man in trun will be called
on pass. Failing on the second ex
amination the employe will be reduc
ed to the bottom of the extra list or
disposed of as the company desires.
Firemen now in the service who are
physically Incapacitated for service
will not be subject to this rule.
When ..firemen are promoted to. the
position of engineer, they shall be
given a certificate of promotion,
signed by the engineer. (Concurred
In by all three arbitrators.) The
decision against proposition C was
by Herbert and Barrow, with Hard
wick favoring it.
(d) This proposition covered only
minor points in dispute and was
concurred in by all the arbitrators.
(e) In assigning vacancies to fire
men seniority alone shall not con
trol, though it may be considered
in connection with the efficiency Mid
with the necessity, where it exisn,
of giving experience to candidates
ii-i-Mi'?:ion to the pos> ion of en
gineer." (Concurred in by all ar
bitrators.)
Mr. Hardwick in a dissenting opin
ion from proposition A, fixing ne
groes' wage? the same as those of
whites, said:
"In so far as the above finding j
permits the continued employment of
negro firemen, I dissent, because.I
believe from the evidence that such
employment is a menace to the safety
of the traveling public. In so far
as such finding required that when
negroes are so employed, they shall
receive wages equal to those paid
white men. I concur, believing that
such requirement by removing the
principal incentive to their employ
ment will result in the speedy elimi
nation of this cheaper labor and a
consequent improvement of the serv
ice."
The arbitrators reached their
decision after about three hours'
conference, init it required a long
time to draw up the agreement.
Arguments in the case were be
gun Saturday before the arbitration
hoard which is to settle the strike.
II. L. Dickson. general counsel for
tin- Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Knginemen. declared that
this is a white man'- country and
that the negro is a menace to the
safety of the traveling pul>!ic when
put in a cab of a locomotive. "The
Georgia railroad wants to hire the
negro because it can pay him less,
can degrade the white man and keep
him down to a level of the negro."
He closed by an appeal to send the
nepro back to the cotton field where
he belonged and where he was need
ed. He promised no matter what
the verdict was that the firemen
would accept it without appeal.
Maj. CummiagR. general counsel
for the Georgia railroad, grew very
S. C, TUESDAY, JU^J
THE LAW
MURDERER WRITES LAST CHAP
TER IN WOODILL TRAGEDY.
Robert Einmett Eastman, Alias Km
mett E. Roberts, Commits Suicide
When Capture Seems Certain.
A dispatch from St. Michaels, Md.,
says the last tragic chapter In a story
of crime unparalleled in this sec
tion of the country was written in
the half light of an early summer's
I dawn Friday, when the man accused
[of the heartless murder of pretty lit
j tie May Edith Thompson Woodill?
a spectre-like form fleeing in a skiff
from a posse of determined, relent
less pursuers?stood for a moment
facing the men who had cornered him
on the waters of a narrow creek,
then fired a bullet crashing into his
heart and fell a lifeless lump into
the bottom of the boat, which he i
had hoped would carry him to a
landing place where flight might be
possible.
Taking his fate into his own hands
and blotting out untold the story of
the death of a girl who had moved in
the highest social circles of Balti
more, Washington and Los Angeles?
a beautiful, talented girl, who had
been a protege of Lyman J. Gage
and of Former Governor Frank
Brown of Maryland?the man known
here as Emmett E. Roberts, but who
in reality was Robert Emmett East
man, a failed broker of the Consoli
dated Stock Exchange of New York,
passed beyond the reach of the law
and with his going there vanished'
the hope of clearing up the motives
and baffling details of this strange
tragedy.
A letter found upon Eastman's
body, addressed to Miss Vinnie Brad
come, care of Klaw & Erlanger,
New York, gave .Eastman!?. ill-sus
tained "xcuse for the crime. It wns
a rambling account of how he had
been out in a launch with a party
of men and women, all of whom had
been drinking to excess wjtb the ex
ception of himself and Mrs. Woodill,
and how one of the women in a fit
of jealous frenzy had attacked Mrs.
Woodill with a wine bottle and killed
her; how the remainder of the par~v
had taken flight, leaving hlra to dis
pose of the body and how as a mcam<
of escape from all his troubles the
writer had decided to end his life. |
NEGRO IN LADY'S ROOM.
Tried to Prevent Her From Calling
For Help.
Some excitement prevailed at
Ridge Springs on last Friday when it
was learned that a well known young
lady of that place had awakened dur
ing the night to find a negro in her
room. The negro placed his hand
over her mouth to prevent her cry
ing for help, but she succeeded In
arousing the family, but the negro
escaped.
It is not known whether or not
the brute was attempting to commit
j an assault or robbery, and perhaps
thinking the young lady awake had
placed his hand over her mouth to
prevent her from calling for help.
The negro is described as being a
j dark, ginger cake boy, about sixteen
I years of age, weighing about 121?
pounds and was barefooted, carrying
a sack containing his shoes, a hat
and cap. The officers are on the look
out for hira. *
DAMAGE SUIT DECIDED.
RailrondM Responsible for Overwork
ing Mon.
The State Supreme Court. Friday
affirmed the Circuit Court's decis
ion in the case of McCreery vs. the
Southern Railway Company, in which
a judgment was reudered for $0.f>00.
This was a very unusual case.
The contention of the plaintiff's
attorneys was that L. L. McCreery,
who was a flagman on the Southern,
had been over-worked and was kill
ed while asleep on the track with
a flag in his hand. The point in
volved was that the man was aliened
to have been on duty over-time, and
for this reason the road was re
sponsible for his death.
The suit was for $10.000. and
$9..">00 was secured. This case was
a very similar one to the well-known
ease ol Heid vs. Southern, which was
tried in Dorchester a few years
I much excited when he referred to the
[efforts of the brotherhood national
officers to force- the discharge of the
negro. With a high pitched voice
' which trembled as he spoke, he said:
"The North came into the South on
a conquest before, to establish negro
eouality or negro supremacy. And
I now, these men from IVoria. Chica
| go and Neu Haven, on their second
[conquest, i-ome down to say that the
negro they freed can not even work
to make an honest living. They
charge that we employ negroes be
cause they work for less money than
white men. Well, what if we do?
I- it n prime to practice economy on
a railroad? The proposition we are
asked to accept is inhuman. We re
fused to accept it at the behest
of a mob. We will not accept it
unless forced to do so by legislative
enactment or. by an order of this
court of arbitration." *
2 29, 1P09.
NEGRO WINS
They Win Out In the Georgia
Railroad Strike
BOARD FINDS RULES
On His Part to Keen the Democrats
From Getting the Credit for Put
ting Such a Just and Equitable
Tax Gathering Measure on the
Statute Books.
j In his letter from Washington to
The State Zach McGee says the cor
poration tax, as in the case of the
income tax. is now on tho billows
sea and it has its ups and its downs.
Just now it is 1.1 its up* Following
the president's message on the sub
ject Senator Aldrich has introduced
it and there are those * who act
ually think it ib going to pass. Well,
there are others, and you may just
wait till this session adjourns before
you decide to get ready i ? pay your
corporation tax.
It is believed by the astute here,
and hoped for by the Democratic
"politicians," that it would be a good
thing for the Democratic party and,
therefore, for the country, as the
Democrats reason, if the Republicans
did pats this measure, for it is brim
full of injustices all up and down
the line. And yet the Democrats
are going to vote for it, as it ap
pears at this writing.
When it comes up on the floor, If
it gets in ahead of the income tax
amendment, then Senator Uailey will
offer the income tax as a substitute
for it. Then the vote will be made
direct upon the income tax. If, en
the other hand, the income tax comes
up first, it is believed that Aidtich
will otter the corporation tax as a
substitute for the income tax.
The Democrats will then vote
against substituting the corporation
tax for the income tax, or in the
other case they will vote to substi
tute the income tax for the other.
It looks now as If there is going to
be a vote direct to one form or anoth
er upon the income tax. But what?
The Democrats-seem now to be deter
mined to vote tor-the tax on corpo
rations if they can not get the in
come tax; and right there is where
they are going to fall down, too, if
they don't watch out.
If they will point out the injustices
I in it, vote loud, long and united
against it on the ground of these in
justices, then they vfjill make an
issue for the party which will serve
them in good stead in the next elec
tion. The question is whether they
will have the nerve, and the sense,
to do this?
It will take some nerve, for the
treason that corporations are believed
to be unpopular institutions, and not
many men in politics are willing
to be put into the position of not
doing all they can to hit a lick at
these unpopular institutions. I: will
take sense to see that corporations,
are not unpopular. The business af
fairs of the country, large and small,
are done through corporations, and
nearly every man who wishes to do
anything worth while in the commer
cial world these days, organizes n
corporation and does his work
through corporation. It does not
take a millionaire, as some suppose,
to be interested in a corporation.
The man who has saved up $">!"'. the
country school teacher, Ibe store
clerk, and even the mill hand, Invests
his little saviugs in a bank, a factory,
a joint stock store, or some other
j corporation.
Now how will this corporation tax
affect these? It will tax tbem 2
per cent on every dollar of dividends
wheh comes to them: The man who
has $100 worth of .'.toek in a sawmill
concern which earns as much as
$f>.000 and who gets now in dividends
7 per cent, or $7 a year, will In- tax
ed 14 itents. And Mr. Andrew Car
negie, whose income from the steel
trust is $21,000,000 a year how
much tax would he pay? Not one
cent. Mr. Carnegie's interest in the
steel trust is in bonds. Interest on
bonds is a "fixed charge." and all
"fixed charges" must be paid before
"net earnings" are reached. And si.
it is with a large number of other
plutocrats, while the small stockhold
er, will have to pay. Tin- income tax
would iax a man according to what
he has The corporation tax does
not. and there is no justice in it.
A corporation, where there are a
few stockholders, could escape the
tax by simply dividing up tl.Urn
ings in salaries. which are ;t|so
"fixed charges." The small stock
holder, in that case, would escape
without having to pay the tax on
hi- dividends lor tin- vor\ good and
eas> reason thai he would not gel
an.? dividends, it all i.ejng used up
in salaries. If any i.- left alter the
"salaries" are paid. Men the small
shareholder would p.-; his dividends,
after the tax is deducted.
Now this is the beautiful little
scheme Mr. Taft his devised for the
sole purpose of preventing the pas
sage of an income tax which he has
been in favor of and which he fully
realizes is the juster form of taxing
wealth. But. he must get up some
thing to keep, the Democrats from
getting th<". credit of the income
j tax. *
TV
FOOLISH COUPLE
ACNT AND NEPHEW ELOPE AND
WANT TO MARRY.
The Woman Is Twenty-two Years Old
and the Hoy in the Case i?. Only
Fourteen.
Michael Muzzicota, a 14-year-old
hoy, and bis aunt, Fannie Muzzico
ta, 22 years old, both of New York,
who eloped, intending, the girl says,
to marry, were arrested Saturday
I at Philadelphia by the police on war
rants issued by their parents. The
! girl was taken into custody in a cigar
factory, where she was working to
[support her intended husband. Mi
| ehael was arrested in a house while
washing dishes.
The boy broke into tears when a
detective from New York and a spe
cial policeman entered the house and
: placed him under arrest as a runa
way. He said he wanted to stay
With his aunt as she had treated him
so good. From the lad the police
learned the whereabouts of the aunt,
and going to the cigar factory where
she was employed, arrested her.
The girl was accused in the war
rant of kidnapping the boy, and the
detectives were greatly astonished
when they brought her before
Edward Gallagher, captain of detec
tives and she informed them that she
and her nephew had come to this
city to be married.
The intended bride said they lived
j in a house at 2226 Fifth avenue, New
J York, and that they had been sweet
hearts for many months. They de
cided to elope three months age.
Stealing from the house at night,
they went to Philadelphia, and since
their arrival there she has been sup
porting her nephew. Through letters
i addressed to a friend the New York
police learned of the whereabouts of
I the couple and sent the information
j and warrants to the police of that
city.
When informed that they would be
sent back home, the girl said she
could not bear to face her parents, as
she was disgraced. The detectives
took the boy to the house of deten
tion, where he will be held to await
the arrival of his parents.
When the boy was asked if he-was
poing to marry his aunt he smiled.
He said that after he had been going
around with her for a long time she
had told him that it would be impos
sible for her to stay at home any
longer. He said he became fright
ened and ran away with her.
"I've had a good time ever since."
ho concluded. *
FATAL HEAT WAVE.
Many Deaths and Prostrations
Caused by It.
For the last three days the weath
er has been iutcn->ei> hot in this sec
tion as well as other sections of the
countiy. A dispatch from Washing
ton says a warm wave with a wide
held, levying a large toil of prostra
tion, some fatal, stretched over the
whole country Saturday. In Phoenix,
Arizona, the temperature climbed to
100 in the weather bureau thermom
eters. Washington, Baltimore and
Lynchburg, Va., scored the highest
honors in this direction in the Kast
with 94, official, each.
A dispatch from New York says
fiercer heal than had broiled that
island in any June for many a year
Saturday paralized every movement
throughout the length and breadth
of Gotham. While scores of New
Yorkers are being felled by the mer
ciless beating of the sun and the
choking grasp of a heavy humidity,
the whole town is almost on the
verge of panic over the unseasonable
visitation of midsummer hot waves.
Appalled by the early start of the
deaf:-dealing weather in 'the tene
ment districts, the health officials and
dozens of private philanthropic or
ganizations are taking emergenry
measures to guard the lives of the
younger and weaker inmates of the
slums. For the babies particularly
every effort is being made to tench
and help busy mother.? to take pre
cautions against the stifling heat.
If earh indication.-, count for any
thing, New York is promised one of
the hottest summers its perspiring
people ha1, e ever experienced. *
Struck by a Train.
Ar Greenville Friday morning
Thomas Jamison, a farmer from the
Dacusville section of Pickens coun
ty driving to mill two mules, was
struck by a freight train on the
Southern railway and suffered a frac
ture of the skull from which he will
probably die. One mule was killed
and the other injured.
Married After Twenty Years.
\n elopement planned in their
youth, ami broken oft' by 'he girl's
parents, separated Alma Lilian fet
ters n and Horace W. Crane, ot
South Demi, Ind.. for more than 20
years. This week Crane returned
home from a long voyage at sea. and
thought that she earrie the snake
still free, they wer.- married.
Snake in Folds of Her Skirt.
While walkhiR through her kitch
en; Mrs. John Hartzel, of Red Hill.,
Pa., noticed a snake drop from her
skirt. She had been to a cemetery
n mile from her home, and it is
thought the snake got on her there.
rO CENTS PEI? COPY
WRECKS SHIPS
The Mighty Lake Superior
Shews Fury Under a Gale
[ WRAPPED IN MYSTERY
I Are Many Losses (if Ships and Steam
ships?Big Vessels Are as Help
less as Smaller and Older CraJte
on the Waters of the Greatest of
Great Lakes.
Lake Superior plays no favorites.
Dig modern vessels are as helpiess
as older and smaller crafts when
great gales lash her waters. As long
ago as 1SS2, vessel men declared that
ships were getting so large on the
Gnat Lakes that their chances of
losses or serious disaster were re
mote. Hut rhe big and little, ancient
I "hookers"' and the finest and larg
est of the modern leviathans all look
i alike to the cold, beautiful rock ar.d
forest brimmed inland sea.
j It is slow to anger, but its fury
at times is irresistible. The salt wa
l ter sailor who makes his first trip
j on Lake Superior in calm weather is
prone. to. sneer at its dangers, but.
i once he has ridden out a northwest
ern gale and witnessed and felt the
great shouldering seas, which carry
the twisting motion of the ocean, b?-:
is silenced. Lake Superior is now
called the "port of missing meD1'
with Whitetish Point as "the grave
yard of tfte lakes."
The Adella Shores is the latest vic
tim of the greatest of the Great
Lakes. She vanished from the sur
face with a crew of 15 men. That
is all that Is.known and perhaps a?
that will be known. The other day
a paddle bearing' an inscription,
"Adella Shores," was washed ashore
at Whitetish Point, indicating that
the ship and its crew are some dis
tance from that point, but further
than that the mystery of the dis
aster is looked in the icy breast of
the mighty lake. A sailor lashed
to a plank or to a spar may drift
ashore, but no maD expects that the
incidents surrounding the foundering
of the craft will ever come to light
There is something exceedingly
tragic in the loss of any ship in any
circumstances, but when one goes
down with all hands- on board und
i not a word comes to land to tell
the manner of her vanishing it is
; a knife thrust for the loved ones who
j await the news with achitig hearts
and the hope that springs eternal,
and the public is awed by the sub
limity which surrounds: such mourn
ful events. Everything is left for
the imagination, and one can only
guess of the gallant light for lifo,
the possible deeds of heroism and
J of unavailing sacrifice.
The body of a. man was found oh
J the shore of Whitflsh bay several
Jays ago. Nothing remained where
jby It might be identified, but from
the location where it was discovered
the conclusion is drawn that it Is
the body of one of the 2 4 members
of the steamer Clemsou, which went
dow n a year ago. The I). M. Clemson
and the Cyprus, two of the largest
and newest boats constructed for
Great Lake traffic, were claimed bv
Lake Superior during the last two
years. Only one man escaped from
the Cyprus out of a crew of 25.
When the 400, 500 and 600-foot
ers were still a dream it was pre
dicted that soon lake disasters would
b?- a thing of the past, but the great
est loss of life that ever occurred
on the Inland seas was to the pas
senger steamer Algotna, when 70
persons perished. The steamer Mau
istee went down in November, 18S;:.
The mystery of her loss has nev- <?
beer, solved. On the memorable Nov.
27, 1905, the Mat an fa and the Ira
II. Owen went down at Dulutb and
'?very man on both vessels was lost.
Twenty-six years aro the steamor
Winnipeg went down after being
burned to the water's edge. And so
the tab- goes on and hundreds of
other incidents might bo recounted
dating from the time that the first
Anglo-Saxon placed his paddle in tbf
mighty inland sea. *
Wants New Trial.
I Mis- Lena Castanie, of St. Louis.
Mo., participated in a Virginia reel,
and the United Railway company now
wants the verdict for $1 2,000, ol
tained bj her against the company,
set aside and a new trial granted.
Miss Castanie alleged that she was
made p. nnanently lame by falling oft*
a street car in September. 1907.
The motion for a new trial was made
when it was learned that Miss Cas
tanie had taken part in a dance,
claiming that this would have been
\ impossible had she been permanently
MaiiK. *
I_
Kindness Repaid.
Because of kindness shown to Har
ry Green, an aged civil war pen
sioner, 15 years ago, Joseph I.'.
Cheesman. of Burlington, N. J., thi9
week, received a bequest of $5,000.
Green, who was very deaf, was em
ployed as an expert shoe cutter 15
years ago, but because of his deaf
ness bad few companions. Cheese
man, however, became his friend, and
aided the old man in many in.cianc
es. *