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VOL. Xviii MUANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER1. 93 O1 TARIFF BILL PASSED ETS THROUGH SENATE WITH SEVEN YOTE MJORITY WITH PROGRESSIVES HELP ia Follette and Poindexter Aid Dem. ocrats, Making the Vote 44 For to * 37 Against-Both of the Louisiana Senatwrs, Though Supposedly Dem ocrats, Vote Against the Bill. The Democratic tariff revision bill passed the Senate at 5:43 o'clock Tuesday afternoon amid a burst of applause that swept down from the crowded galleries and found its echo on the crowded floor of the senate. Its passage was attended with sur prises in the final moments of the voting when Senator La Follette, a Republican, cast his vote with the Democrats and was joined a few mo ments later by Senator Poindexter, a Progressive. Until the names of Senators La Follette and Poindexter were called no one knew definitely the stand they would take and their votes were re ceived with applause. - President Wilson Tuesday night expressed great gratification over the end of the long struggle In the sen ate. Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, who piloted k the bill through the finance commit tee, the Democratic caucus and the senate, predicted Its passage would bring immediate stimulus to the com mercial life of the country. As it passed the senate the tariff -bill represents an average reduction of more than 4 per cent. from the rates of the original bill that passed the house and nearly 8 per cent. from the rates of existing laws. In many important places the senate has changed the bill that passed the hquse and a conference committee of, the two houses will commence work Wednesday or Thursday to ad Just differences. Leaders of both houses predict that the conference 'will consume less than two weeks' time. The senate named its members of the conference'committee as soon as the bill passed. Vice President Mar shall appointed Senators Sim mons, Stone, Williams and John son, Democrats, and Senators Pen rose, Lodge, and La Follette, Re publicans. Senator Stone withdrew from the committee and Senator -Shively was appointed in his place. The house conferers. It was reported, will be Representatives Underwood. Kitchin and Rainey, Democrats, and Payne and Fordney, Republicans. The final struggle began at 4 o'clock when under a previous agree ment votes began on the pending amendments. During the closing hours of denate Senator La Follette had become the centre of Interest, proposing final amendments on the cotton and agricultural schedules and discussing seine features of the bill he deemed favorable. It was nearly 5:30 o'clock when the vice-president put the bill trpon its passage. The roll call proceeded deliberately until the clerk called "La Follette." The Wisconsin senator, seated in the front row, hesitated a moment. His head was bowed and 'Testing on his hand. He leaned forward a trifle and vigorously answered, "Aye." Instantly applause broke from the galleries and senators on the Demo cratic side joined In hand clapping. When the name of Senator Poindex ter, the only Progressive senator, was reached and he had contributed his vote for the bill the applause was renewed. Senator'' La Follette Tues day night had a few words to say of his vote, after many Democratic sen tors had visited his desk and shook his hand. "I realize what I did was a polti cal sacrifice but that something with in me compelled me to vote for the bill. The tariff act of 1909 was but little short of. a crime: the bill pass ed today is not a Democratic meas ure but is a protective measure. Give the Democrats time and they will put everything on a free trade basis. but they have not done it In this bill." Senator Poin'nerter said of his vote: "T voted for the senate tariff bill hacse It is as a whole a better bill than the Payvne-Aldrich law now In force. Furthermore it contains an Income tax which we have been try 1ne to get for twenty years." When the vote had been announc edl Senator Gallinrer of New Hamp shire leader of the minority. congrat ulatedi Senator Simmons "for his courteous. kindly and considerate manner."' in the conduct of the de bate. "The bill Itself is bad. ''he said. "but its management has been in every way creditable to the major ity and eminently fair to the minori ty." Just before the voting on amend ments began Senator La Follette yielded a few minutes of his time to Senator Thornton of Louisiana. who was about to desert his colleagues on the roll call. "It Is hard for me to vote against this bill." said the Louis iana senator. "It is made a party measure by the party with which I cast allegiance 46 years ago. It is harder still that I am forced to vote against it because my own party seeks now to strike a vital blow against the great sugar Industry of my State." The Senator said he was charged with a duty from his State higher than any duty owed to the Democrat Ie party and voting against the bill. he egntinued, was keening his pledge. Tneome tax amendments by Senator Thristow and La Follette. similar to those they introduced several days ago, were -defeated. An amendment by Senator G'allinger that propsed to send the whole tariff question over nntil Dee'emb'er, 1914, and Web'mit STATE AID SCHOOLS WRITES - TO SUPERINTENDENT AND TRUSTEES. Superintendent Swearingen Calls Their Attention to the Different Funds Available. State Superintendent of Education J. E. Swearinger, in a circular letter to the county superintendents of edu cation and school trustees, calls at tention to school finances and the State appropriation for -id to schols. Says he in his letter: Every board of district trustees in your county has probably formulated by this time its educational program for the scholastic year 1913-14. One of the most important features of such a program is a clear under standing of the finances of the dis trict. At this date it is -possible only to estimate school receipts for the cur rent session. The cash balance or overdraft existing in each district on July 1 is the only fixed item in the funds of the district at present. I regret to see that too large a number of district schools, with the approval of a few county superintendents, per sist in the illegal practice of over drawing their school funds. I can not urge too strongly the observance of the law prohibiting school officers from running in debt. Contracts for 1913-14 should be made only upon the basis of cash payment for claims to be Incurred during the session. I recommend that the approval of the county superintendent be withheld from all overdrafts for whatsoever purpose this year, in order that tax collections during each fall may be used in meeting the expenses of the current year. rather than in paying past indebtedness. Unless this princi ple is observed, the time will soon come in many districts when their schools will suffer. State aid for the year should be used wherever possible. The legisla ture makes four appropriations for the public schools: 1. $60,000 for high schools. 2. $60,000 for lengthening the school term. 3. $20,000 for graded schools in country districts. , 4. $5,000 for libraries. Any community with fifteen pupils above the seventh grade, three teach ers, a three-room building, a two mi'll tax, and an eight-month's term, might well consider the advisability of applying for state high school aid. All high school applications should be filed immediately. Rural graded schools receiving state aid are of two classes: 1. A school with seventy-five pu pils enrolled, forty pupils in regular attendance, a three-room building, three teachers, a seven months' term, a four-mill local tax, and the mini mum equipment prescribed by the state -board of education, is entitled to $300. 2. A schoiol with an enrollment of fifty pupils, thirty pupils in regular attendance, two teachers, and a six months' term, a four-mill local tax and the minimum equipment pre scribed by the State board of educa tion, is entitled to $300. This type of State aid is especially serviceable in building up efficient country schools. Any community with fifty pupils and a two-room school house can not afford to over look this means of improving its school facilities. The appropriation of $60,000 to lengthen the school term is intended primarily to help weak, one-room, one teacher schools in the country. Any district levying a two-mill local tax and unable to run Its schools five montha on its regular school funds. is entitled to State aid equal to the proceeds of the tar, up to a maxi mum of $100. It is. therefore, possi ble for every progressive board of trustees to maintain a session of at least six months if proper use is made of local taxation and State aid. The rural graded school appropria tion for 1913 was practically ex hausted in May. Every anplication in excess of the appropriation shall be submitted to the Legislature in January. In my opinion, the law maers will continue their wise pol cy of strengthening and developing these schools. I recommend that every claim from your county be filed as soon as ,the average attendance for the first month of the session 19 13 14 can be ascertained. Term extension applications should be filed as soon as the teachers for the session 1913-14 have been em ployed and have entered upon their work. In each case the enrollment for 1912-13 will be accepted, but the salary schedule for the current year will be given. Under separate cover a supply of blanks is sent the county superinten dent. Additional copies will 'be fur nished upon request. The Drys Win Out. Following a long executive sessIon Wednesday night the State board of canvassers announced that the elec ion held in Sumter County on the dispensary question had been thrown out on the general ground that the ballots used were not of the legal size. The board in effect declared that no legal election on the issue had been held. I I: the bill to a popular referendum next fall also was defeated. One important change made on the recommendation of the finance com mittee gives the secretary of the treasury power to censor all import d moving picture films. Senator .Tame. acting for the finance commit tee obtained the adoption of an amendment modifying the provision f the bill that authoriz~es the secro tary of the treasury and collector of internal revenue to employ income tax officials without regard to the civi Iarvbco liws. EXPLOSION ON TORPEDC BOILER BURSTS, TKILJNG TWO AMERICAN SAILORS. Three Others Are Injured Off Tybee, Near Savannah; to Which the Craven Was En Route. A boiler explosion on the United States torpedo boat Craven, off Ty bee, at one o'clock Wednesday after noon resulted in the death of Chief Water Tender McCaffray and Water Tender Millon and serious injuries to Chief Machinist's Mate Swinn, Water Tender Daughton and Oiler 'Gabbitt. The Craven was coming in under a good head of steam when the acci dent happened. Ensign W. D. Lam ont was on the bridge when he saw steam shoot up through the hatches and heard the cries of the men who were being scalded by the boiling water in the fire room. The hatches were at once closed and the pumps were set to work pumping the water and steam out of the compartment. When the hatches were opened Water Tender D. B. Smith went down at the risk of his life and brought out the body of McCaffray. He was badly scalded and lived but a short time. Millon was dead when brought out. Soon after the explo sion the engines- of the Craven ceas ed working she drifted helplessly until the pilot boat Estill and the tug Cynthia No. 2, both of Savannah, went to her assistanct. McCaffray died before the Craven reached Ty bee. It Is believed by the officers of the Craven that low water in the boilers caused by a defective water guage caused the explosion. An examina tion showed that the boilers were not seriously damaged, the damage be ing confined to twenty-two tubes. Every man in the room at the time of the explosion was either killed or Injured. Ambulances met the Craven when she arrived at Tybee and the injured were taken at once to the post hospital at Fort Screven. It Is believed that two will recover, but the third Is expected to die. The Craven was coming from the Charleston Navy Yard to join the torpedo boat Shubrick. She had been sent out on a trial run. She be longs to the reserve flotilla, the base of which Is at the Charleston yard. It Is reported that in his delirium McCaffray constantly called: "Low water; low water." This was con strued to mean that the water in the boiler was low. The matter will be thoroughly Investigated by an offi cial board of inquiry. MAGAZINE FOR FARMERS. To Be Published by the United States Government. The United States government is going into the magazine publishing business for the benefit of the farm ers. This Is the announcement made by the Department of Agriculture, which adds that the first issue of the magazine will be out this month, and that other issues will follow regular ly at monthly intervals. The publi cation will be devoted principally to a detailed review of crop conditions nationally and by states. It Is the department's purpose to make the periodical which will bear the title of "The Agricultural Out look," a magazine of from 18 to 20 pages. It will deal not alone with the production and conditions of crops, buf, will instruct the farmer as to the marketing of his wares. MAYOR GAYNOR DIES. Passes Away on Board European Lin er Near British Coast. Mayor Gaynor, of New York, died on the steamer Baltic at one o'clocb Wednesday affernoon, when about 200 miles of his destination, accord ing to a cablegram received in New York from Rufus W. Gaynor, his son. Mayor Gaynor sailed away from New York on the morning of Septem ber 4, on the Baltic. An hour be fore he sailed but one man, his secre tary, knew of his plans, outside of members of his immediate family. The mayor's announced purpose was a brief vacation on the ocean. Pe felt the tonic effect of the salt air would restore him in some measure to health. Conference of Governors. Not so much attention is now paid to the annual conference of state gov ernors as was the case when the first one or two were held. That does not necessarily mean that the conferences have lost their value, but only that the novelty has passed away. As a matter of fact, there is every reason why such annual meetings should make for the benefit of the states represented. There are many ques tions of interest, some of them intri cate because involving more than one side, that may be discussed with pro fit and fruitage seen in proper legis lation. Then, too, such gatherings help to promote fellowship and a bet ter understanding, always something to be sedsired. Cops Shot Holes in Tires. With the tires almost shot from the wheels, H-arry Booker was forced to stop his auto In Cartersville, Ga. He is held on charges of obtaining money under false pretense. The po lice t-hought they were pursuing a murderer. Blind Woman Scalds Grandson. Frank Davis, aged three years. is in a serious condition in Wilmiing, ton, Del. His blind grandmother poured scalding water over his head and shoulders instead of into the sini where she was preparing to wash THAW TAKEN BACd CANADIAN AUTiORITIES PUT HIM OVER LINE FREEFOR THREE HOURS Canadian immigration Officials Unex. pectedly Rush Matteawan Escape Across American Line Into New Hampshire, Where He Was Arrest ed After Three Hours of Freedom. Harry K. Thaw, who escaped from an asylum in New York, where he bad been ccnfined several years as a crazy man, to Canada, was sent back to the United States Wednesday by the immigration authorities of Can ada. Efforts were being made by New York to have Thaw sent back, and the Canadian Courts were to decide the matter Monday, -but the immigra tion officials of Canada seized him on Wednesday and sent him in an auto mobile to Colebrook, N. H., where, after enjoying three hours of perfect freedom, he was arrested. Thawk's ejection from Canada be gan with the breaking of a window pane. Aroused from his cot in the immigration detention room at Coat icook and told he was to be taken across the border at once, he flew into a rage, picked up a heavy glass tumbler and with all his might hurl ed it at the head of the nearest im migration officer. The official dodg ed and the tumbler crashed through a window and was smashed on the station platform below. Five minutes later Thaw was half carried, half dragged down the stairs, forced Into a waiting automobile, wedged between two Dominion po licemen and whirled toward Norton Mills, Vt., nine miles away. He pro tested through the short trip, but his guards ignored him. At 8:55 Thaw was whisked past a gray slab mark Ing the boardary, and, like a rabbit being released, was set gently down on a bit of open ground. He whim pered in bewilderment. He looked north, south, east and west, as if trying to decide which way to go. For perhaps half a minute Thaw stood there. his hat pulled over his eyes, his -hair awry, his face unshav en, his clothes rumpled. Then, as there was nothing to do, he climbed into the automobile of a newspaper correspondent and asked to be driven away. "Take me to the New Hampshire line," he Implored. "Jerome has got the Attorney General of Vermon't fix ed. In New Hampshire I believe I would have a fighting chance. Maybe we can reach a railroad somewhere and I can buy a through ticket to De troit." Talking incoherently of Detroit, his lawyers, his mother and of writs of habeas corpus, he was driven east over a winding road a stone's throw from the boundary. At Averill, Ver mont, five miles on, the car stopped at a small summer hotel. Thaw had not breakfasted. He ordered 'bread and milk and gulped it down while he tried to get Montreal over the long distance telephone to inform his Canadian counsel and his mother of his predicament. But wires were bad and Thaw was excited and he could make no connec tion. He strode out on the porch only to learn that the chauffeur of the car had deserted. This man was Thomas Trihey, a business man of Coaticook, who had volunteered to assist the newspaper men, but had not counted on aiding Thaw. sBe sides, he had not reported his car on crossing the boundary, as required by the customs regulations and was afraid of the consequences. Reluc tantly he turned back, leaving Thaw fuming on the porch of the little hotel. Then came up Frank Cantine, a lean French Canadian. He was driv ing a small, four-seated car and was ready to travel anywhere for- money. "Sure I will drive you to hell and back," he said. Thaw got in and so did the newspaper correspondents. Thaw clung tightly to a box of cigars, all the baggage he carried. The little car jumped away. Can tine evidently thought it was a race for life. Thaw tried to appear calm. His hat was swept off, dust blinded his eyes. The little car took the Ver mont hills like a squirrel. Cantine pulled his car down to 20 miles. A farm wagon hove in sight. Thaw seemed frightened for a mo ment; then he settled back and tried to smoke. He could give no idea what he proposed to do. After sev eral miles he swerved north and was back in Canada again. Thaw grin. ned. "This is familiar," he saId. "I was along here coming up." Cantine gave his car more fuel and it fairly hummed through the town of Canaan, Vermont. Ahead lay the Connecticut River and beyond it New Hampshire. Three minutes more and Thaw was parading about the public square of West Stewartstown. He mae no attempt to conceal his ident y In fact, he appeared rather proud to let his identity be known. Being in New Hampshire made him breathe easier and lhe entered the hotel and tried again to get Montreal on the telephone. He came out and started to leave in his car. A quarter of a mile down the road was a cloud of dust and under the cloud of dust was a big automobile. Thaw grew panicky. Somehow, even at that distance, the car had for him a sinister look. "Hadn't we better turn back?" he asked, yet he did not order the chauf fur to stop. The little car kept on. The big car stopped. The men got out. There were three of them. "Stop." said one of them, 'I am the sheriff of Coos county.'' Thaw leaned forward and looked in the sifr' are,. He shok the STOLE BIG SUM OF MONEY SEVENTY-ONE THOUSAND DOL LARS WAS TAKEN. Stolen From Atlantic Coast Line Ex. press Car Between New York and Savannah. Probably the greatest robbery in the history of the Southern Express Company came to light in Savannah Wednesday morning when a sealed safe supposed to contain $71,900 in currency consigned to Savannah, Brunswick and Valdosta banks, was opened at Savannah and found emp ty. Of the stolen money $50,000 was consigned to the Savannah Bank and Trust Company from the Chase Na tional .fank of New York. The bal ance, $21,900, was consigned to banks at other Georgia cities. Mr. W. F. McCauley, the presi dent of the Savannah Bank and Trust Company, confirms the loss of the $50,000. It was shipped out of New York on Monday on train No. 89 of the Atlantic Coast Line rail road, and should have reached Sav annah Wednesday morning at three o'clock. When the sealed steel trunk in which it was supposed to have been shipped was opened It was found that the money had dis appeared. "All that I know about It," said President McCauley, "is that the money was started to us from New York and that it never reached Savannah." The seals on the outside of the steel trunk or safe, it is understood, did not show that they were tamper ed with but the sealed envelopes in which the money was contained when it left New York were either slit open or otherwise tampered with. The shipment was sent out of New York by the Adams Express Com pany and delivered to the Southern Express Company. Atlantic Coast Line train No. 89, it is stated at the local offices of the Stouthern Express Company, is very probably the one that carried the money which has been stolen. It is stated that the treasure was probably placed in a combination safe, the combination being known only to representatives of the com pany at either end of the line. As for the seals on the safe, It was stated, those are put there by the bank shipping the money. The Southern Express Company has hur ried Its best men to Savannah to un dertake the recovery of the money or to locate the thieves. Mr. W. J. Hockaday, general manager of the company, and a representative of a national detective agency of Atlanta, reached Savannah Thursday morning and are now working on the case. The safe containing the $71,900 in two packages was delivered by the Adams Express Company to the Southern Express Company In Jersey City, according to W. W. Pendleton, the general agent of the Adams Com pany. The transfer was made last Monday night, Mr. Pendleton said. and at that time the safe and its con tents were intact. The package con taining $21,900, he added, was com posed of a number of consignments to separate banks in Georgia. One of the envelopes in the smaller pack age contained money from the Coal and Iron National Bank of New York, to a consignee in Albany, Ga. QULNLNE AS CURE FOR RABIES. Dr. L E. Harris Says That He Used it Effectively. The curing of rabies by the use of quinine was the subject of an address by Dr. L. E. Harris, of St. Louis, be-, fore the American Health Association Wednesday at Colorado Springs, Col. Dr. Harris submitted the results of a treatment with quinine in accordance with the theory of Dr. Virgil H. Moon, recently announced, and gave as his opinion from exhaustive re search that medical science within a short time will have been entirely revolutionized with respect to the treatment of this malady. He told of administering injections of quinine to a patient a short time ago and said that within a week the patient was discharged from his care. Defies Supreme Court. Governor Blease announces he will not sign any bonds or stocks, mak ing It certain there will be no re funding of the State debt during his term of office. He scored the Su preme Court Thursday morning for their decision In upholding the valid ity of the Refunding Act and goes after Associate Justice Hydrick, who wrote the opinion. Corset Steel Saves Woman's Life. A corset steel, which deflected a bullet aimed at her heart, saved the life of Mrs. Mario McDonald, of Sac ramento, Cal., when A. E. Carey shot at her. Carey, as soon as he saw the woman fall, turned the pistol on him self and inflicted a fatal wound in his head. sheriff's hand cordially and with no word of protest or reproach climbed into the sheriff's big machine. Under his arm he bore his cigars. "Give me a square deal, sheriff," he begged. "They did me dirty up In Canada and I hope for better treatment in New Hampshire." The sheriff's car started almost im mediately for Colebrook, seven miles away. No news of Thaw's arrest had preceded him and the town was swept off its feet when Thaw, now thor oughly composed, came down Main street and stopped beside the Cole brook National bank building. Over the bank are the officers of Thomas F. Johnson. one of the town's leading lawyers. Thaw was taken Into the offices and immediately retained Johnson as, local counsel. He was held a prisoner in a ro'on, et sg hote! r the night CHILDREN WHO LABOR OVER MILLION BOYS AND GIRLS SHOULD BE IN SCHOOL. Half Are Americans and Most of Them Are Under Sixteen Years of Age. More than 1,000,000 children of school age will not start in school this month because they are employ ed in some 200 occupations. Sta tistics collected by Owen R. Lovejojy, secretary of the National Child La bor committee, Indicate that all the girls and nine-tenths of the boys who leave school to go to work un der sixteen years of age enter low wage industries and remain unskilled workers throughout their lives. The National Child Labor commit tee is urging that, in the light of the widely recognized evils of factory work for young people, it would be well for all states to consider fol lowing the example of Ohio, which has just put into operation a law forbidding employment in factories and several other occupations to boys under sixteen and girls under sixteen years of age. Mr. Lovejoy estimates that about one-half of those now at work under sixteen in all occupations are white American children, one or both of whose parents are native born. Amer lean families are as ready as foreign families to let children enter the fac tory before they are sixteen. The Connecticut State commission, In a study of more than 11,000 women and girls representing fourteen racial groups, found a larger percentage of Americans with American fathers among the workers under sixteen than among the older workers. The latest volume of the Federal report on the condition of woman and child wage earners make a simi lar showing. Of the twenty-eight racial groups into which the 93,000 workers are divided, only four races, involving less than one-tenth of the total, had a larger percentage of workers under sixteen than the na tive white Americans. GETS "BACK HOME" BID. President Wilson May Visit Columbia This Fal. The Washington correspondent of T'he News and Courier says: Com missioner of Agriculture E. J. Wat son, of South Carolina, came to Washington Wednesday in connection with several matters of importance. n company with Senator E. D. Smith and State Geologist Pratt, of North Carolina, he called at the White House and invited President Wilson, on behalf of iboth the Carolinas, to pay a home-coming visit to Columbia. on his way back from Mobile, in the last week in October, during the State Fair. The President said that he had so many invitations that he had at first decided against accepting any, except one to open the Panama Canal, but he added that this invitation from his old home was so attractive to him and impressed him so especially, that he would give it serious consideration and would reply definitely in a few days. SULZER'S IMPEACHMENT. Will Cost Empire State on Enormous Expenditure. The Impeachment trial of Gov. William Sulzer, which begins Sept. 18, will cost the state of New York $250,000, if it lasts a month. If the trial continues for more than a month $50,000 may be added for each additional week. When the cost of the extraordinary session of the legislature is taken into consid eration, the row between Gov. Sul zer and Charles Murphy, Tammany boss, is considered and its consequent impeachemnt proceedings, the state will probably be hit for at least $1, 000,000 and probably more. Gov. Sulzer is receiving many letters of sympathy from governors of states and declares he will win his fight. TWO WOMEN MUt'RDERED. Husband Discovers Critne When He Returns From Church. When Wiiliam Cook, of Smyrna, Ten., came home from revival ser vices he did not see his wife about the house, but supposed she was in another room with his niece, who was visiting the Cooks. He went to bed and, waking in the morning, saw that his wife had not returned to her room. As he went out on the porch he found her bloodsoaked .body lying in the doorway of his niece's room. In the room was the body of his niece, her skull smashed with some heavy instrument. Knifes His Brother. Bud Henley. a young white man of East Spartanburg, lies probably fa tally injured in a Spartanburg hos pital as the result of gunshot and knife wounds inflicted by his brother, Walter Henley, Thursday night about seven o'clock in the home of their father, E. A. Henley, at East Spar tanburg. Confess to Three Wives. When informed at Ann Harbor, Mich., that a warrant had been is sued Wednesday night charging him with bigamy, David Cole, forty-eight years old, confessed to the prosecut ing attorney that he had three wives living and a fourth dead. Thunder Scared Woman to Death. Mrs. B. A. McGough, an aged wo man, of Sea Bright, N. ,T., was scared to death by a clap of thunder, Mlr WAR ON POISON GANG NEW YORK CITIZENS ORGANIZED FOR PROTECTION. East Side, Terrorized Until Situation Becomes Unbearable, Win Fight Back. Gangs and gangsters who infest the lowest East Side of New York city and prey upon shopkeepers and merchants will be driven out or ex terminated 'by members of the East Side Neighborhood association, re cently formed as a sort of general vigilance committee. Some features of their work will be secret but, b7 force of numbers and mutual protec tion they expect to triumph and run the offenders down.. It is not only business men who have been suffering at the hands of grafters, blackmailers and gunmen. Many women and children have been robbed day and night by pickpockets affiliated with the merciless gangs. The merchants will now do all in their power to aid the police and dis trict attorney in exterminating the gangs. The first attack on the gangs will be directed against horse poisoners. Already nine men have been indict ed and of these si are in the Tombs awaiting trial. Moses M. Frankel, director of the Horse Owners' Pro tective association, declares that members are only aiding criminals toward the commission of great of fences when they. pay graft and blackmail. The immunity of the gangs of grafters, gunmen, cut-throats, horse poisoners and pickpockets is said to have been due to the fear of victims to appear against them. Henry A. Kolchin, a victim of the horse poisoners, lost nine horses when he refused to join their asso ciation. Through his evidence and that of "Nigger" Friedmann, now serving thirty-five years in prison for robbery, David Gaholfer and .Max Swirskey have been arrested, and it is predicted more arrests will follow. DOING A GOOD WORK. Trying to Attract Settlers to the South. Educational exhibits will be made at nine southern state and general fairs and twenty-six county and dis trict fairs during the coming fall by the Southern railway anl affiliated lines, including the Mobile & Ohio railroad, Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific railway, Alabama Great Southern railroad and Georgia South ern & Florida railway. In making exhibits at fairs and ex positions in the south-east, the South ern railway and affiliated lines have a two-fold purpose. First, to bring the advantages of the section before its own people, to show them that the opportunities at hand are greater than any they may hope to find by moving away. Second, to assist the movement for better farm conditions in the southeast. Demonstrations will be given 'by experts In horticul ture, dairying and domestic science. The agents of the railways will be assisted by state representatives and special effort will be made to teach the best methods of handling milk, butter making and caring for or chards and gardens. At the same time that these exhibits are being made in the southeast, the same rail ways will be making exhibits at thir ty-eight fairs and expositions in the north and west for the purpose of at tracting desirable settlers to the southeast. The state and general fairs in the southeast at which exhi bits will be made are as follows: National Conservation exposition, Knoxville, Tenn., September 1 to Nov ember 1; Alabama State exposition, Montgomery, September 29 to Octo ber 4; VIrginia State fair, Richmond, October 6 to' 11; Alabama State fair, Birmingham, October 8 to 18; North Carolina State fair, Raleigh, October 20 to 25; Alabama-Mississippi fair, MerIdian, October 20 to 25; GeorgIa State fair, Macon, October 21 to 31; South Carolina State fair, Columbia, October 27 to 31; Mississippi State Fair, Jackson, October 28 to -Novem ber 7. The exhibits at county and district fairs will be arranged in three cir cuits as follows: Circuit No. A-Morristown, Tenn., September 2-5; Concord, Tenn., Sep tember 9-12; Sweetwater, Tenn., Sep tember 16-19; Sylvia, N. C., Septem ber 23-26; Waynesville, N. C.. Sep tember 30 to October 3; Asheville, N. C., October 7-10; Greensboro, N. C., October 14-17; Union, S. C., October 22-24; Charlotte, N. C., October 28 31; Spartanburg, S. C., November 4 7; Orangeburg, S. C., November 11 14; Charleston, S. C., November 17 Circuit No. B - Mountain City, Tenn., September 17-19; Chase City, Va., September 26 to October 3; Dan ville, Va., October 14-17; South .Bos ton, Va., October 21-24; Valdosta, Ga., November 4-8; Griffin, Ga., Nov ember 10-17; McRae, Ga., November 18-20. Circuit No. C--Union City, Tenn., September 10-14: Humboldt, Tenn., September 17-20; Shubuta, Miss., September 30 to October 3; Thomas ville, Ala., October 7-11; Dalton, Ga., October 13-17; Jasper, Ala., October 20-25; Tuscaloosa, Ala., October 27 to November 1. *Leaps From Train. Henry Cox, who was convicted of wife beating at Phoenix City, Ala., escaped from a passenger train Thursday afternoon while en route to the .jail at Opelika, Ala., to serve his sentence. Although he was hand cuffed, Cox made a flying leap from the window of the train while It was r'unnng forty mile's an hour, ROB PUBLU CRB STEEL MILLS WITH MANPOLT MAKE SAME BIDS ON ARMOR FOR BATTLESHIPS Three Steel Makers Seek to Hold Up Government by Demanding Profit of Over a Million on Work Worth Three Millions-May Mean Gov ernment Plant. .z One year ago, the Navy depart ment asked for bids on armor plate for battleship No. 38, now named the Pennsylvania. The bids of three dif ferent steel companies were received, and when they were opened it was found that each company had quoted exactly the same prices on the half dozen grades of armor plate asked for. There was not a variation of a single cent, although the price rang ed from $454 per ton for the lowest grade to $1,875 for the highest. Two months ago the Navy depart ment again asked for bids for armor plate, this time for battleship No. 39, sister ship of the Pennsylvania. The same three companies again submit ted bids given, and when they were opened a few days ago it was discov ered that again the bids of the three companies were the same, even to the penny. Moreover, the figures quoted were identical with those given last year for battleship No. 38. The three firms which suibmitted the bids, and which, by the way, are the only ones in the United States equipped for the manufacture of ar mor plate-are the Carnegie Steel company, better known as the Steel trust, the Bethlehem Steel company, controlled by Charles M. Schwab, the former Steel trust head, and the Mid vale Steel company, which has been rated as an Independent company. If these companies were figuring close on their profits for making the ar mor plate, there might be a reason able excuse for the bids being the same, but investigations have shown that the armor plate desired can be made at an average price of $314 a ton. The average price asked by these three companies was $454 a ton. A simple ibit of arithmetic shows that these steelmakers are attempt ing to hold up the United States gov ernment for a profit of -$140 a ton. The amount needed totals 8,054 tons, hence the Steel trust and, In this case, its allies, calmly demanded a total profit of $1,127,560 on the job of providing armor for a warship built by the public for Its own de fence. The estimated cost of the bat tleship's armor was figured at no more than $3,500,000 by the Navy department; the steel companies de mand almost 33 per cent. of this as profit. In other words they seek to charge the public $3,000,000 for do ing $2,000,000 worth of work, sim ply because the public has no other place to get It. The attempt of the armor plate makers to dip their hands deep into the public purse has resurrected the remedy suggested In Congress a year ago, that the government make Its own armor place. A bill for the es tablishment of such a plant was In troduced at that time by Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, who asked an initial appropriation of $1,600,000 for the work. This resolution still is In committee, but a week ago Rep resentative Britten, of IllinoIs, Intro duced into the House a bill seeking an appropriation of $7,000,000 for the establishment of such a plant, complete In every detail. In the face of the Steel trust's attempted hold up, It is certain that the project will receive considerable attention and study. The success of the government powder manufacturing plant will make plenty of friends for the armor plate proposition. Some years ago the United States was confronted with the same problem in the pur chase of powder for the army and navy that it now faces in armor plate. The government built a pow der plant, entered inlto direct compe tition with the powder companies, and to-day the United States is sav ing $268.80 on each ton of powder-It uses. A government armor plant is not a new thing by any means. France has erected a plant for the manufac ture of a portion of the armor plate it requires. Russia makes practically all Its own armor plate, while Italy has entered the field of foreign com etition. Some armor now is beIng made for the Italian government in the United States, but the pnice Is kept a secret. Japan has two gov ernment factories, Installed under the direction of Americans, and it Is freely predicted that England will make her own armor In the near fu Woman Bather Mobbed. A slit skirt bathing costume worn by Mrs. Charles Lanning, at Atlantic City, created such a sensation that the wearer was literally mobbed. Al ter being roughly handled by a crowd of several thousand persons, she fainted and had to be carried uncon scious to the hospital tent. Aviator's Fatal Tumble. In the fall of an aeroplane at the fair grounds at Rutland, Va., George Schmidt, an aviator, was fatally hurt; 3. Dyer Spellman, assistant Judge of the muncipal court, receiv ed burns which may cause his death. Negro Held for Old Kiling. Lem Sanders was arrested in Pine Bluffs, Ark., charged with having killed a negro seven years ago. He has been taken to Hazelhurst, Miss., whor the crim was cmmItted.