The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, January 21, 1911, Image 1

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Democratic (,'aosus Wee! and Select j Chimp Clark Speaker. PRESM0y?R HOUSE Bepresentatire Underwood, of Ala bama, Selected as Chairman of j Ways and Means Ctonamttee?-In j Fact, Entire Slate, as Formerly Agreed Upon, Goes Through. The Democratic members elect of the next congress met in Was'*'no ten Thursday ught and mapy-il out certain things r >: ihe coming b^n'c i. About 21.0 Democrats were, present; Mr. Hay, of Virginia, presided, and Mr. Ash brook, of Ohio, was secre-; ^tery. ;.' ? .?' Francis Burton Harrison," of New York, called the attention of the, caucus to the fact that the- name of J Theron .Akin, Representative-elect] from New York, had been called twice in the opening roll call. Mr. Harrison announced that he had in formation that Akin had" declared.; ;? that he would not enter the caucus tonight and . that Akin had said he would vote with the Republicans. Mr. Harrison then asked that Mr. Akin's. name be stricken from, the | roll of Democrats. The Harrison mo tion td strike Akin, of New York, from che Democratic roll was adopt ed. Mr. Atkin was elected on an In dependent ticket and 'had ..the en-1 dbrsement of the Democrats. Mr.' Lloyd, of Missouri, chairman j of the Democratic Congressional com-1 mittee, then placed Champ Clark inj nomination for Speaker. Messrs. Ahs burry, of Ohio; Pou, of North Caro-f Una; Adamaon, of Georgia; Rainey, ) of niinois; Sulzer, of New York; Heflin, of Alabama, and others, sec onded the nomination, - and it car ried by acclamation. l Mr. Clark, with a broad smile,, stepped to the front of the chamber | and formally accepted the honor. "From the bottom of my heart I thank you for your generous endorse-, ment for the high office of Speaker of the House of Representatives,'' ho! said. "I ?hall endeavor to discharge the duties of that great position so fairly, so justly ? and 'so Impartially that you will never .. have cause to Regret what/you have!'just done.1 "The caucus was .called for the purpose of selecting the Democratic contingent of the ways and moans committee for the 62d Congress, in order to. expedite the tariff legisla tion by., securing ?s speedily as pos sible the date on which to. introduce I ' bills ' we. believe will promote the prosperity of the whole country. The| .quicker our plans are formulated the better for all concerned. "Each member of the caucus | should have opportunity to express his opinions fully,, and. whatever is.; r done should be marked by good na ture, kindly, forbearance and an earnest desire to be of service to the party and the country^ for we should never forget that the best way to serve our party is to serve our country." . Mr.. Clark's speech met with voci ferous cheers. One of the significant speeches was by Mr. Ansburry, of) Ohio. "Ou beh?lf of the sixteen Demo-| crats elected to the 62d Congress] from the great State of Ohio," said Mr. Ansburry, "the State which will at the next Convention-of the party present the name of Judson Har- J men for the Presidency, I second the [ nomination of Champ Clark, of Mis souri." At mention of Mr. Harmon's name ] several Democrats applauded, butj there was little cheering at the men tion of Mr. Clark. Mr. Clark's friends fearing that cheering in that con nection might be interpreted to mean cheering for the Ohio?.n, who is con-J spiculously mentioned for the Pres idential nomination. Representative Frank Clark, in an impassioned speech, struck the first discordant uote by objecting to the fixed programme. He said he under stood a program had been mapped out, and he protested against it. Mr. Henry, of Texts, conspicuous-] ly mentioned for chairman of the next rules committee, made the for val motion outlining the order ofj business. His plan-'carried. This involved, the selection, of the person nel of the" 7ays and means comnlit-1 tee, as inform. 'ly agreed upon in ad vance by the leaders, as follows: Underwood of Ai^maba, chairman; Randall of Texas, Harrison of New] York, Brantley of Geor&'a, Shackle-] ford of Missouri, James of "Kentucky, Kitchin of North Carolina, JJull of Tennessee. Dixon of Indiana, KMney| of Illinois, Hammond of Minnesota, Hughes of New Jersey and A. Mitch ell Palmer of Pennsylvania. Mr. Foster, of Illinois, introduced a resolution providing for the elec tion of the standing committees of I the House by the House. He pro posed that Democratic members of I the ways and means committee chos- | en at this* caucus be authorized to! nominate the majority of members of these standing committees of the | next House to the adjourned caucus. Under,his resolution Democrats on the ways and means committee would be ineligible to serve on any j other committee. Mr. Fitzgerald, of New York, then made his expected move by offering a substitute resolution empowering Champ Clark, as Speaker, to desig nate the Democratic members of a EMBS A WEEK. WAS BEATEN BY JAPS. FULLER DETAILS OF THE AT TACK ON AN AMERICAN.' Vice Consul Williamson Strack With a Stick and an American' Girl At . . tacked by a Jap. Reporter. Details of the assault oh "United States Vice Consul Williamson at Dalny, Manchuria, ,by Japanese on December. 23, 'briefly reported to Washington by cable, were!Teceived by the steamer Hallamashire. Mr. Williamson, according to the advices, went to inspect the Ssh mar ket recently opened by Japanese at Dalny and was on a high stand watching an auction" sale when a number of Japanese and Chinese fish mongers pushed Into the market. Mr. Williamson was almost.: pushed off the stand. He was straightening himself up In the crush when several Japanese, including the secretary and a clerk of the market, it is said, began scolding htm for being there and at the same time pushing their way to ward him and seizing him by the. arms and pulling him from the ?stand. Mi\ Williamson asked why. it was wrong for him to watch the sale, saying he would leave after they gave him a reason. Then the Japanese rushed at him. He pushed one of them over in seit defense and the crewd rushed at him. A Japanese thrust at him with a bamboo pole, wounding him on the chin. Another Japanese threw a block of ice, which cut his head, blood flowing freely. Several threw fish at 'him. With blood trickling down his clothing, the victim made his way to the police station half a block distant and-Some Japanese policemen accom panied him back to the market, where the two Japanese who first attacked hdm were found. The consul asked that they be taken to the police sta tion. According to thpr version re ceived here, the police did not take them. ?Mr. Williamson made a protest to the Japanese administration at Dalny and sent telegrams and letters to Washington'/ reporting the .assault Several Japanese newspapers com mented upon the affair aB as on an attack made about the same time on a MJss Hayes, an American at Yokohama, by a- Japanese newspaper reporter, -who,. it -is ^.lheged^ ? struck, her violently about the head several times without apparent cause. PRESIDENT FINLEY APPROVES. He Wants Columbia to Have Nation al Corn Show. Editor Gonzales, of The State, writes as follows to his paper from Washington: W. W. Finley, president, of the Southern Railway, earnestly ap proves the effort of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce to bring the next national corn exposition to Co livmibia. "The spirit of enterprise manifested by the people of South Carolina in corn growing and of Co lumbia in reaching out after this ex position is splendid. It is encourag ing. We must -keep up this sort of thing. I want to help." Unfortunately for Columbia and South Carolina *he laws stand in the way of free cars or free tickets for a party of Columbia boosters to get to lumbus, Ohio, but the Chamber of Commerce can be assured of a con tribution to the cause from President Finley. And it will be made whether the campaign is conducted by mail, wire or'a movement in force on Co 1 umb us:. Will Columbia do the rest? Huge Tomato Crop. The Columbia Record says "an in stance of the good work of the gov ernment farmers' work, in that branch known as the girls' tomato club, is that of Miss Katie Gunter, near Samaria, S. C, a detailed re port of whose work was received at the oflice of State Agent Ira W. Wil liams "Wednesday morning. Miss Gunter produced 512 quart cans of tomatoes, ten quart jars of pickles, eight pint jars of pickles, six pint jars of catchup, eight pint jars of preserves, and five quart jars of pre serves. All this was produced on one-te-nth. of an acre of ground, this being the largest yield at the county fair." Family Killed. MJr. and Mrs. Clarence Bauer, both aged 24 years, and their baby Leon ard, were killed early today by a Big Four train while they were trying to cross the railroad in a buggy near Agosu. They had been to a revival meeting and were returning home when the accident happened. tentative committee on ways and means, thus paying tribute to Mr. Clark as one in whom the members had unbounded confidence. Mr. Clark opposed the Fitzgerald resolution. In a substitution for both the Fitzgerald and Foster resolutions, Mr. Cox, of Indiana, introduced a res olution providing for a nominating committee to recommend names to the Democratic caucus for appoint ment to the committees, this nomi nating committee to be composed of one member from each Democratic State delegation and none of them to he chairman of other committees, the nominations to be subject to change by a majority vote of the cau cus. OBANGBBUE?, BUYAN FOR CLARK. BUS CLOSE 1SKIEND MAKES SIG NIFICANT SPEECH. He Wams Democrats That Bryan is Still a Power in the Party and Still a Factor. A Washington dispatch says Dem ocratic senators and representatives who attended the Jackson day ban quet in Baltimore were discussing with unusual Interest Thursday the significance! of a warning note which came from former Represents tivi Theodore fietl,, of California, recog nized as the representative of Wil liam Jenniugs Bryan. Mr. Bell did. not attempt to start a Bryan boon: In fact, he eliminated the Nebraskan from any further con sideration a^ the Democratic mm I nee either in 1912 or any suweeding presidential year. I, "Fate undoubtedly has decreed," he said, "that Mr. Bryan shall not be nominated a. fourth time and that he shall never be elected president of the United States." But Mr. Bell warned his hearers that if they were seeking a harmony which might bring about future Democratic success, they must not continue a policy which omitted Mr. Bryan from consideration as a lead er in the party councils. Mr. Bell declared that the affections of mil lions still w?re centered on Bryan and that.hi3 views must bf> givea the most serloud considerat'on. Previous to his references to Mr. Bryan, Mr. Bell had taken mi s'.on to pay a high tribute to Champ Clark as a man !n whom the middle and the far we3t had implicit confidence. He did net go so far as to name Mr. Clark for the presidency, but by inference h?s meaning was clear nvd there are many presidential watch ers in Washington who. regard the incident as the lining up of the Bryan element in the .party hihhid Mr. Clark, .as against Governor Harmon, Governor Wilson, or any of the oth ers who have been mentioned for the Democratic leadership. Another factor to which "atten tion has b;en called :1s that Champ Clark io like Governor Wilson, of New Jersey, by birth a soutbernor. He I was b>rh ; in Anderson county, ?Ky. Like Wilson, he was also a col lege president before; entering poli tics. { . ... ' . ?: TWENTY-FIVE TO BE EXECUTED. Japanese Anarchists Are Sentenced to Death. At Tokio, twenty-five men and one woman, charged with conspiracy against tba throne and with,plotting to assassinate the crown prince and high officials of the empire, Wednes day were publicly sentenced by the supreme court. Twenty-four of the prisoners, including Denjiro Kotokul, who once lived in San Francisco, and his wife were condemned to death. The other two were sent to prison, one for eleven years and the other for eight years. The trial had been secret, but ,the final sentence was Witnessed by the diplomats and many prominent Japanese. When sentence had been pronounced one of the doomed men rose' and shouted: "Banzai!" All the prisoners sprang to their feet and Kotoku, raising his hands above his head, cried: "Long live anarchy!" There was no further de monstration and the pru.mers turn ed quietly- to their guardians and were again handcuffed and led away. Proposed Now County. The Bamberg Herald aaye: "We have received the first number of the Jasper Herald, a nevrspaper just started at Ridgeland, Beaufort coun ty. There is a movement on foot to establish .a new county known as Jasper from portions of Beaufort and Hampton, with Ridgeland as the county seat, and The Herald was es tablished to boom the new county idea." So this new county scheme does no; include a part of Orange burg county as at first reported. Small Pox Scare. The Hamberg Herald says: "Con siderable apprehension was felt in town Sr.nday when it became known that a white man who lived near tbe graded school building had a well developed case of small pox./* He was immediately quarantined and ev ery precaution was taken to prevent a spread of the disease. The graded rchool held no exercises Monday, and the clay was given over to vaccinat ing the school chillren." Girl Will Hang. At Waynesboro, Ga., Rosalie Smali, a negro girl, was tried and convictea of the murder of Harvey Jones, a white merchant and farmer on Jan uary 11. The girl and Calvin John ston, a negro man, convicted of the same crime, were sentenced to hang on February S. In the man's trial the jury was out three minutes; in the girl's, three hours. The girl had confessed her share in the crime and implicated Johnston. Prevent Disaster. .Prompt work by firemen and at tendants of the Susqt.ehanna Valley home at Binghamptcn, N. Y., is thought to have saved the lives of all the 1!)5 children inmates when fire broke out in the boiler room of the dormitory building at five o'clock Wednesday morning. S. C, SATURDAY. JAOT The Fraud Was Easily Detected by Co lombia Photographers HOW GAME WAS WORKED The Prospectus Carried Faked Pno tographs, the Pictures Being Made to Show Handsome Buildings, Where Only Pine Barrens, With Standing Trees, Exist, s Neither being able to furnish the $5,000 bail demanded of each, J. ,C. [Masters and I. C. Sibley, arrested in Jackson, Miss., for using the mails to defraud, in connection with a con cern they were promoting, called the Albemarle Development, company. AlbemaTle, NVC, have been remand ed to jail, at Jackson, to await re moval to the jurisdiction- of the United States court for the western district of North Carolina?all of which, says the Columbia Record, is interesting to s number of Colum bians, several blocks to Albemarle stock having been placed in this city by a plausible young man, giving his name as B. D. Langdale. The Record says it was in fact a former Columbian, now manager of a news bureau in the Southwest, and a firm of Columbia photographers, that first suspected the promoters of the Albemarle concern of fraud. At the request of the news bureau man ager, newspaper men here consulted the photographers and learned that Laugdale had sold to them?or rath er had exchanged with them for two dozen photographs of himself, val ued at $24?a "participating certifi cate," No. L-754, in the Albemarle Development company. Dangdale had failed In bis effort to part the photographers from any cash, because they detected evidences of fraud In the handsome prospectus that he displayed. In ?be_ prospectus there were, besides the usual roseate word pictures, several Illustrations, purporting to be} from actual photo graphs, showing considerable prog ress upon the development of the Al bemarle tract into a pretty suburb, with large hotel, stores, costly resi dences and the like. It required only superficial eaaralnations of these, pic tures by a photographer to,show that .they were I cunningly .-made compo sites of photography and drawing. Actual photographs had been tak en of the woods on the tract and the several clearings and then half com pleted bulldmgs had been drawn !;n at the proper places and the doctor<id picture Itself had been photographed and from this second picture the elec trotype reproduction used in the prospectus had" been made. The work had been Bkilfully done, but it Is next to impossible to give to these synthetic productions such appear ance of genuinesness as to deceive a photographer. Langdale, confronted with this evi dence of fraud, said he knew the pictures were misleading and had strongly urged his superiors not to resort to such methods. He Insisted, however, that the proposition under promotion was legitimate and gave Albemarle bank references. These the-photographers did not trouble to veri'/y, as Lhey had but a small in vestment at stake and were willing in these circumstances to take their chancee. The stock certificate they hold is signed by Masters, one of the men now under arrest, as "secretary treasurer." It is dated November 18 and the postmark shows it was mailed November 21 from Albemarle. The application for it was signed here September 27. Langdale was a young man of good appearance and made easily a favorable impression upon his acquaintances here. He claimed to have been educated at Harvard and said his home was in New Haven. Masters and Sibley were arrested In Jackson on warrants issued upon the affidavit of Postoffice Inspector J. W. Bulla of North Carolina, wao presented documentary evidence in srpport of the government's conten tion that the development company was being promoted by fraud. In spector Bulla is quoted as saying that on an investment of 51,000 in 100 acres of land near Albemarle the promoters have taken In about $250, 000. He said that Sibley had been connected with a similar scheme at Whiteboro, Texas, about five years ago. They have recently operated in both the Carolinas and in Ala bama, as well as in Mississippi. Winthrop Student Marries. Miss Jessie McLeod, a student at Winthrop College, whose home Is a'. Bishopville, was married at Charlotte on Monday to Fred Hennigan, a young- man of that city. The young lady had received permiission to go ,over to Charlotte to have her eyes treated, but it developed that she had an affection of the heart. The young lady was a member of the freehmun class. ? ??>????, Struck by Plow Point. While sharpening a plow point on an emery wheel at 11 o'clock Thurs day morning, N. P. Abrams, manager of L. W. Floyd's plantation, nine niles west of Newberry, was struck ia the head by the point, which was wrenched from his grasp by the fast moving belt, inflicting a ghastly wound. He was rendered uncon scious. There Is little hope of his recovery. , !?RY 21, 1911. AS IT SHOULD BE THE NEW TARIFF BILL WILL BE j TRUE DEMOCRATIC. Framed by Underwood It Will Be Without Taint of Protection Which Some Might Fear Will Character ise It. (Editor W. E. Gon.zalee, of The State, .writing, to Ms paper from Washington, says: Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, whose letter indorsing The State's view of the potency of the national platform in guiding party men in congress was published on Tuesday, will be the chairman of the next ways and means committee and an such he will write the next tariff .bill. (Mr. Underwood. Is quiet and modest, a listener rattier than a talk er, and there was simple earnestness; not assertiveness in his declaration to me last evening in Baltimore ftV. "any measure I prepare will be strictly a Democratic revenue bill."' There will be no cloaks for protec tion; 'no Democrat in protected wool. There will be fourteen Democrats on the Democratic ways and means committee and the only one of there with a taint as to any vote will !-e Brantley of Georgia, long a member of the committee. The question of dropping Brantley because of his vote for a duty on lumber .in disobedience of the Denver platform, has been under consideration, since co-igress met, but I understand'from several sources that through the efforts of Champ Clark and other old and strong frieuds, and In consideration of his acknowledgement of error in voting for a duty on lumber, the cau cus will not cut the ground from un der Brantley. The next ways and means com mittee will put the stamp* of disap proval on the action of those who "jumped" the platform by pointedly Indoraing the free lumber .plank in the Denver platform. There is- sharp division among Democrats on two questions. Sena tor Bailey is a leader of the scnool, advocating a duty on raw macer.nl and also'for revising the tariff as a whole. From the present outloo c k? Is in the minority of both. The Tox as delegation i3 badly split on both If the party Is to accomplish any thing in tariff legislation these ques tions roust be-kept off the floor of the house. They will have to be settled in caucus, and the losers"aicept:>ti.e majority decree. Representative Un ? derwood is convinced, a revision sche dule by schedule is the only prac tical way of getting results and pre senting "trading." CALMLY FACED DEATH. Smoked Cigarettes as the End Drew Near for Him. Calmly smoking a cigarette and chatting with physicians while he knew "that his end was rapidly ap proaching, Robert C. Pitts at the Charity hospital at New Orleans suc cumbed to injuries received by being ground beneath the wheels of a rail road train. Pitts was a discharged seldler and was beating his way to his home in Winston-Saiem, N. C, after having just recovered from an attack of fever in Texas. Weakened by the fever, Pitts fell from the car he was riding and his limbs were mangletf by the wheels. When told that he must die within a few minutes, the man asked for a cigarette, lighted .it and smilingly) conversed of his approaching end. j He died with the cigarette in his lips. Gets a Life Term. In the court of general sessions at Greenville on Wednesday a negro man, Clee Harris, was convicted of murder and recommended to the mercy of the court. Judge Gage sen tenced him to the State penitentiary for the balance of his life. Harris killed another negro, Jim Williams, in Greenville on the 5th of last No vember. Easy to Get Baths. A spring of boiling water has forced its way through the cement bottom of the swimming pool of the new Y. M. C. A. building at Way cross, Ga., and the authorities of the organization are at a loss to know what to do with it. It is likely that the spring will be used to supply the pool with water. Railroader, Shot 153 Times, Sues. Charles Stein, a railroad employe, who was mistaken as a member of the gang that robbed the Burlington limited at Prescott, Wis., has sued that city for $25,000, or $1 63.50 fori each of the 163 shots fired into his body. He will recover from his In- J juries. Door Knocks Farmer Against Saw. A circular saw, a gust of wind and a barn door combined to deprive Schuyler Wiley, a farmer residing near Pottstown, Fa., of his right arm below the elbow. The wind picked the barn door off its hinges and hurled it upon Wiley when he was near the saw." Check for $1600 Found in Old DesK. While cleaning out a desk that be longing, to the late Simon W. Greg ory, in Hartford, Conn., Frank H. Crygier found a check for $1,600. It was hidden in the crack of a desk that had not been used for twenty years. DIED AT THEIR POST GERMAN OFFICERS SUFFOCATED IN A SUBMARINE. A Captain and Two Lieutenants Re mained on Board the Craft and Lost Their Lives. A dispatch from Kiel, Germany, says the sinking of the "U-3 " the German navy's first submarine dis aster, cost three lives. The dead are the captain of the submarine and Lieutenants Fisher and Koelbe, the latter the helmsman. The deaths were due to an unfore seen'mishap at the moment the offi cials of the navy were receiving con gratulations on the supposed success ful raising of the "U-3" and the res cue of the crew. When the submarine, three hours after she sank, had been brought to the surface by the salvage ship Vul kan and twenty seven of her men had made their way to safety through the torpedo tube, the captain and the two lieutenants elected to stand by their ship until she was once unre master of herself. The three men were in the con ning tower "L," which remained submerged when the vessel rose ob 'iquely. Here the men might have stayed without dangor for some time as the boat had a considerable sup ply of oxygen, .but for an accident that shut off thiB supply from the tower. Word was sent out that the raising had been successful and that the crew was -safe. The work was con tinued, when suddenly a ventilator gave way, permitting the water to rush ? into the submarine, isolating i.he tower and cutting off the oxygen upon which the three officers were dependent. . With the inrush of water the bow of the ship rose quickly, but the Btern, where the tower "L" is lo cated, sank deeper. The men were suffocated. ACID FOR HER CHILD. Mother Gave Poison When Her Son! Asked for Water. I Her desire to become the wife of Howard Kirk, a draughtsman, is be lieved to have caused Mrs. Edith .Oelber, a widow of Schenectady, N. T., to kill 'her flv.e^ye?r-?ld;.'son.; To day she is' in prison in* Albany on charge of murder in the first degree and she confesses that she gave her child carbolic acid when he asked for a drink of water. Asked why she committed the crime, Mrs. (Melber declared he was in "everybody's way." After being placed in hef cell Mrs. Melber failed to show any grief or concern over the death of her son, Georgie, who was four years of age. She did not desire to see his dead body nor did she take any interest in the funeral arrangements. She did [ask that she be furnished a black dress. Specialists .in mental diseases who have examined her declare she is rational and was rational at tne time of the murder. [ Young Kirk, who had been paying some attentinn to Mrs. Melber, de clares that no engagement existed between them and that the subject of matrimony had never been men tioned. WANT THEIR SHARE. Democratic Negroes Want Places of Republican Negroes. A Washington dispatch says the change in the political complexion of the "house next session has roused the ambition of many negroes who have supported the Democratic party in the past to replace the eight hundred negro Republicans who are now em ployed about the house wing of the capltol. Giles F. White, a negro school teacher at Cabin John, Md., will forsake pedagogy If he can be appointed messenger to Champ Clark, the speaker Lo be. He says he has been a Democrat for eighteen years anl declares that "the honest Repub lican employee at the capitol should resign when the Democrats come and not wait to be thrust out." Man Severed His Own Arm. To save his life, Charles Deaton, a farmer of Champni^n county, O., cut off his arm with a pocket knife. He had been caught in a corn shredder and his companions found they were unable to release the arm without taking the machine apart. Knowing that 'he would Meed to death before this could oe done, Deaton askel f? a pocket knife and coolly amputated the imprisoned member. Four Children Were Burglnr??. Four small boys, the oldest not yet 14, are in jail at Federalsbuig, Mo., charg?d with robbing a store. The boys pried open a window, roblved the safe of $25, a*d then started Wea?. to be cowboys, having prepared themselves with two revolv ers and a large quantity of ca-ir.dges with the stolen money. Eaci wa? given a year in a House of Correc tion. Shoots Self While Making a Bed. Miss Emma Bush, a negress, was wounded in the leg while making a bed in a boarding house in Wilming ton, Del. The weapon had been left under the pillow by its owner and, when It fell to the floor, it was dis charged. ?WO CE2STTS PEE COPY WILL ROT BO fit White and Negro Children in tbe Same School Causes Troable. DEMAND IT BE CHANGED 1 Row Began by a White Girl Refus ing to Dance With a Negro Boy, and the Teacher Compelling Her to Do So Against the Wishes of the Girl's Father. The New York World says because two or three little girls at refcess gathered around 12-year-old Beat rice Qbapmann and chanted "Oh, for shame! You danced with ?. ne gro!" the village of Flushing is ex citedly discussing the color qucsitlon, and a movement was started Thurs day to segregate the negro children in the public schools. Therei are ? 500 colored children among the 7, 000 pupils in old Flushing. In the folk dances and games in school colored children have danced with white children ever since danc ing was taught In the schools, and no parent ever thought of objecting to a little colored boy dancing with a white girl or a white boy danc ing with a colored girl until Wednes day, when some of her companions in tbe Lincoln School poked fun at lit tle Beatrice. She went home and told her father, Charies B. Chapman. He told his daughter to tell the teacher that thereafter she was not to dance with colored children. She says ?be teacher answered: "Oh, it's too bad about you." "I have nothing against the color ed race and I believe that it should be educated," said -Mr. Chapman, "but I think that the two races should be educated seperately for the good of both. Discussion of the reason does no good to any one. I do not blame the young teacher who told ? my daughter to dance with 13-year old Charlie Davis. She was follow ing the rules of the Board of Edu cation, I suppose. But the board should do something to remedy the condition. I would suggest separate class room for colored and white, children, especially after eight years of age. I did not give publicity to the matter. A friend of mine, T. J. ? Burnett, heard . of it. and brought it i up in the meeting of the Flushing. . Association. It caused a sensation." The Flushing Association appoint ed a committee consisting of A. E. Sholes, William B. Parsons., Rich mond Weed, John D. Vandewater and T. Jefferson Burnett to Investigate and take it up with the Board of Education. Mr. Sholes, the Chairman, a vet-, eran of the civil war, born In Rhode Island, and who lived in the '.South thirty years after the close of the war, said: "There is no dovbt that it would be a good thing to send the live or six hundred children to color ed public schools If it could be ^one. We have 3ome very good colored people here and the public schools are as much theirs as they are ours' but it would be to their own good to be educated in schools where there would be no race feeling to detract their attention from stud}'. They would have as good schools as the white schildren. "With our constantly growing pop ulation it seems best to avoid race feeling as much as possible, and this would be c7?ne, it seems tv me, by following the action of Jamaica and establishing seperate schools." The matter was discussed thor oughly in must Flushing nomes and will be taken up in some of the women's clubs. Mrs. Be'ird, wife of Dan Beard, the naturalist and au thor, said: "It is a difficult problem. Years nso, before Flushing became a part of Greater New York, the colored' children v. ere segregated, and this same Lincoln School, which my hus band named, then in the old build ing, was a colored school and had relored teachers in some instances. They were very good teachers, too. "The thing to do is to seperate the races and give good schools to. each. Then there will not occur these annoyances and both races will be benefited by their school life." Little Beatrice Chapman said: "I do not dislike Charlie Davis, the col ored hoy. I have nothing against him. He was never rude to me or to any one else that I know of. But T didn't want to be singled out by the girls as a laughing stock be cause of it. At first I told the teach er that I had a pain In my side and didn't want to dance. I thought that a polite way to get out of it. But she made me. I think it would be much nicer if white children danced together and colored children togeth er." Engine Exploded. The engine of a freight train ou the New York Central railroad blew up Wednesday near Wende station, twenty miles east of Buffalo. Engi neer George Dwyer and his fireman, Joseph Cook, were killed, and a brakeman, Richard Rost, was so seri ously injured that he died. New Orleans Endorsed. Both houses of the legislature In Columbia, with concurrent resolu tion, favored the selection of New Orleans as the site of the Panama Canal Exposition In 1915. The reso lution, which was Introduced Y/ed nesday, met with no opposition.