The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 02, 1906, Image 5
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'making money.
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That Is What Commissioner Taturn
Says About the
STATE DISPENSARY,
Which
Is Vouched for by Qen. Wille
Jones. According to the Figures
the Dispensary Assets Arc
Nearly Double that of
Its Liabilities.
Mr. W. O. Ta^m, state ^.spensary
commissioner has Riven out the following
statement:
"Rjoently a number of papers, and
Mr. J. Fraser Lyon, candidate for attorney
general, assertod that the dispensary
was Insolvent: that If it
were put in liquidation it could not
pay its debts. At the time this statement
was roude I cauno out in a card
asking a suspension of judgment and
asserting that the dispensary was perfectly
solvent. I ^aid I eoulci produce
the figures to provs that the dispensary
was amply able to pay every
dollar it owed. I have the figures to
more than sustain my contention and
will submit them lu this statement.
It took much time and lots of work to
go through tft^great mass of accounts
at the state dispensary and prepare a
condensed statement showing exactly
the condition of the institution, i
could not expect, the newspapers to
publish all the figures in their columns,
but I invite any citizen, particularly
Mr. Lyon and the editors of
the papers which q lestloiied the solvency
of the dispensary, to call at the
state dispensary and examine for
themselves the bocks and accounts,
and so verify the statement I have
prepared. Now here are the figures,
condensed to the point where anv
mind can grasp them and any memory
retain them:
"On June 1, 1906, the state dispensary
owed for wnlskey, beer, etc., a
total of $735,886.94. Since June I,
and up to and Including July 21, 1906,
there has been paid on the above accounts
a total of $451,005.61, leaving
a balance of $284,881.33. But of this
balance $197 388 67 is not yet due,
which leave* th* amount due on old
accounts $87,492 71, and the state
dispensary had on hand at the close
of buslnews July 21, a cash baianoe of
$96,518.76, or $9,026 05 more than
enough to pay all accounts then due.
However, when the new board of
directors were restrained by order of
the dispensary investigating committee
from paying old acoounts of the
dispensary Instead of letting the dispensary
funds He idle, they discounted
a number of new accounts by this
course making an extra protit for the
state of $3,908.32. Of the aooounts
so discounted, an aggregate of $79,119
76 would not have been due on or
before July 21, and so had not those
accounts been discounted tne oash
balance on that day would h&ye been
$175,637 52, or $87 145.$i more than
enougn to have paid all accounts due
at that time.
"Oq July 21 the State dispensary
owed for whiskey, beer, supplies, etc.,
$443,225.34, though only 87,492.71 of
this amount, as stated above, was
aue on that date. Any assertion that
ttie dispensary is not solvent and could
not pay out every dollar it owes if it
. owes if it owes if it went into liquidation
seems ridiculous, when tne as
sets of the institution are compared
with that total of its debts.
TIIE ACTAL K1GUHK8.
MOi Juiy 21, the total of its debt
was $443,225 34, to meet whioh it had
easily assets ot $900,000 in round iighses,
made up of $90,518 7G oash on
hand, about $065,000 of stock in the
state and county dispensaries, real estate
which cost $50 300.50, supplies
of bottles, seals, corks, etc., machinery
and otiloe supplies. If all of its
assets were sold at fifty cents on the
dollar they would be more than sutticlent
to pay its indebtedness. In the
above I have given the value of the
real estate at its cost price, but it
must be remembered that 'It was
bought before the tremendous boom
of recont years in the prioe of Columbia
real estate. The opinion of real
estate men, architects and the county
Alldlhnr i\t RiAhlnnrl nnnntv 1* t.hat. a
very conservative eHtlmate of the present
value of the dispensary real estate
would be $150,000. Accepting that
figure %ou.n make the dispensary's
assets a million dollars with which to
meet debts of less than $450,000
Far from being insolvent, if the dispensary
were OiOSud out it could pay
every cent it owes and hundreds of
thousands of dollars into the school
fund, to which It has contributed In
tne last ten years $1,361,097.65, be
Sides paying $3,991,325.49 to the
towns and counties In that same pe
v riod, a total of $5,343,023.12.
"That is the condition of the dispensary
today. The facts given
above sustain my contention that the
V dispensary is in better condition today
than ever before. When I took
oharge of the dispensary in March,
1904, the dispensary's condition was
shown by the following statement
oomplled on February 29, 1904:
Quarterly statement of State dispensary
for quarter ending February
29, 1904:
ASSETS.
Cash in state treasury
Feb 29, 1904 $ 17,680.2E
Teams and wagons.... 64.0C
Supplies (inventory Feb
28, 1904) 34,828.06
Machinery and office fix
'MLj^ ....
I turis 6,310.06
Uontrabaod (Inventory
Feb 29, 1904) 1,472 47
Real estate 62 860.56
Merchandise In hands
of dispensers Feb 29,
1904 400 558.85
Merchandise (Inventory
of stock at State dispensary,
Feb 29, 1904 490 038 09
Suspended aocounts.... 2,896.24
Personal accounts due
state for empty barrels,
alcohol, eto 5 830.78
Total assets ?1,012.537.98
LIABILITIES.
School fur'l $ 519,664.12
Personal I ^counts due
by state for supplies,
whiskies, wines, beer
alcohol, eto 492,873 8ft!
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Total liabilities.. .'..$1,012 537 98
"It will be noticed how little cash
was on hand at that time. The
amount of stook was $890,000 in
round figures or $225,000 more than
July 21, 1906. Of that stock $;'50,
000 was represented by. an accumulation
of hard stock which had not been
worked off since the institution began
business. Tnis has been worked off
during my administration, and the
present stock contains hardly $20,000
wortti of anything except new,
fresh salable goods. This alone represents
a trjmcndous Improvement of
condition in the last two years.
"Besides, In the liabilities sh r^pre
Rented in the statement of Feb. 29th,
1904, there was over $300,000 of accounts
past due, some of them as
much as six months overdue. This
condition compared to the statement
for the present day ought to be convincing
to any reasonable mind of the
improvement of the financial condition
of the dispensary.
"The school fuud is not a debt of
the dispensary, but its profit mid loss
account. It is less understood than
any other feature of the dispensary.
This article is too long to permit me
to stretch it further by adding an explanation
of the school fund. I will
irlvo oiinli r* 1""
6"U cruwu oil lAj/ianai/IUll 1JMCT 111
Another Article."
WILIE 4ONES' STATEMENT
General Wilie Jones also nave out
the following: statement:
"After reading Commissioner Tatum's
statement, and after having ex
amlned the balance sheet of the books
of the institution 1 say without hesitation
that I regard the present condition
of the finances of tho institution
as in better shape than at any
time during the last ten \ears. 1
was chairman of the board from April
1st, 1896 to April 1st, 1897, and also a
member of the board by appointment
of Governor Ileyward about six
months in 1903, and I feel that I am
thoroughly familiar with the affairs
of the dispensary."
(Signed) Wilie Jones.
CkUK'H (J|> W lilt.
Anna N jlan, a negress, employed at
Lauderdale Springs hotel, forty miles
from Meridian, Miss., was arrested
Wednesday morning cnarged with an
attempt at wholesale poisoning of the
proprietor, attaches ar.u guests jf the
hotel by placing a quantity of 11 >ugb
on U&ts in the oclfdeserved Thursday
The woman had a grievance against
the proprietor. Two of the guests are
reported very ill from the effects of
uuo puiauu.
They MuHt Uu.
At Atlanta the lower house of the
Georgia legislature Wednesday passed
what Is known as the Boykin Anti-Bucketshop
bill by a vote of 132 to
15, after the longest debate of the
present session. The hill prohibits
all dealings in futures on margin and
will close all bucketshops, exchanges,
etc, in the state. The bill goes to
the senate where it is expected it will
pass.
Both Shot.
Mrs. II. A. Leap trot was shot and
instantly killed and her husband
probably fatally wounded Thursday
night while sitting oa the porch of
their residence near Cherry Valley,
Ark. The shooting was done by
three mounted men who tired from
thft front 1/a.fcn. Thft tivn Wnnlhriuht
brothers woie arrested on the charge
of uo Duplicity. Two years ago Leaptrot
killed a member of the Woolbrlght
family.
lit)V<5 CJr?EcHI.
At New York a love lorn Italian,
Salavtor Dove, ran amuck In West
100th street Wednesday morning and
in trylDg to shoot his sweetheart sent
bullets Into the bodies of three pedes
trlans, two of whom were seriously In.
jured. Dove, who was badly In lovt
with Tharesa Lodlhe, because she ac
oepted attentions from another man,
Wednesday morning he wavlaid hei
and lired shots resulting as statec
above.
Klopod With Wliito Uirl.
Henry (Jlayter, the negro arrested
In Chicago where he was about t<
marry a white girl with whom he
i had eloped from Irvlngton, Ky., wat
placed in the county Jail at Laursvllh
for safe keeping. Word was rcoelvec
by the police that a mob was forming
i at Irvlngton t,o lynch Olavter.
Another iiauie.
A dispatch from Manila says anoth
er battle has occured between tin
i ? Twenty-fourth infantry and ounstab
, alary against the bandits In the is
and of Lsyte. Kifcy bandits wen
killed and sixty wounded.
' Veil Oyorhuartl,
Walter Ormond; a prominent law
yer of Atlanta, G&., fell overboar(
, from the Kansas Oity off the coast o
) North Carolina, on Thursday lilghi
on hie return from New York to Sa
; van nab, and was drowned. He wai
36 years of age.
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WHERE IS IT?
Ninety-Six Sailors On a Mysterious
Island That
NO ONE CAN LOC ATE.
On ThU Island May be Living Command*
er Hunt and the Crew ot the
United States Man*of*War
That Disappeared Long
Ago.
Hardly a year passes that the President
of the United States is not im
portuned to send forth a naval expedition
to solve the most fascinating sea
mystery that ever existed?and this
one has battled all inquiry for nearly
half a century.
If "Robinson Crusoe" is the most
absorbing piece of sea tiotiou ever
written, how much more interesting
would be the authentic record of ad
ventures of no less than ninety-six
Robinson Crusoes ail c\st away on the
same uncharted island in the North
Padti) forty six years ago.
Whenever sea-faring veterans congregate
to exchange experiences arid
reminiscences the probable fate of
this whole ship's crew of Ormoeu is a
favorite subject for speculation.
"Aye, aye, Captain," says a grizzled
old second ottlcer of a tramp
steamer, "I remember the Levant as
well as If I'd seen her comiu' up the
Hay only yesterday. In those days she
was a man o' war to be proud of. The
United States had few staunci.er. The
whole crew lost, you say, Bill? Not a
hit of It. Pitoalrn's not the only uncharted
Island to show up just In time
to save a shipwrecked crew."
"Right you are, Mate," says the
Captain, "and there's still a patch out
In the Pacltio south of 20 north latitude
and east of longitude 14C as big
as the State of Maine that nobody
knows any more about than they do
of the North Pole. You all know
that's about where the Levant got
caught by the typhoon back In '60."
"That'Bthe idea, Captain. If there's
no island in that patch, says I, why
has?nobody ever run across the wooden
hull of the old Levant, or any of her
lljatin' Junk?"
T1IK TELL-TALE MAINMAST.
"Except her mainmast that stranded
on Kaalualu in the Ilawailans,"
savs Bill, making a historical oorrec
tion.
"That stranded spar goes to prove
what I'm tellin' ye," says the old
tramp second ofrloer. Why was nothin'
but the mainmast of the Levant
ever seen afterwards? Well, I'll tell
ye. The mainmast went overboard
when the typoon fust struok her, an'
laid a dear curse for Hawaii. But
the othOflrM mantri/ed fcn Irppn fr.ha T.p.
vant's nose p'luted sou' sou'east for
Panama till this here undiscovered Island
bobbed up,caught her fast on a
ooral reef an* made R jblnson Crusoe*
of everybody aboard."
Such, In a nutshell, are the possibilities?perhaps,
even, the possibilities?regarding
the fate of the officers
and crew of the Levant.
Commander William E. Hunt, with
ninety-live officers and men, started
with the sloop-of-war Levant from
Hila, Hawaiian Islands, on September
18, 1860, bound for Panama via
the California coast. These were the
officers under Commander Hunt:
Lieutenants?Moll. S. Porter, E G
Stout, Colville Jerrett and It. T. Bowen.
Surgeons?J. S. Gilliam and
William Bradley; Purser, Andrew J.
Watson; Master, James C. Mosely;
First Lieutenant of Marines, P. L.
Browning; Acting Boatswain, Harrison
Edraonston; Gunner, Robert S.
King; Carpenter, John Jarvls; Sail
maker, Charles S. Frost.
The official early records of the Le1
vant's disappearance are brief, but In
' teresting and significant. Commander
J. B. Mongomery, United States
! Flagship Lanoaster at Panama. The
' following are from Montgomery's reports
to Washington from his flaguhlrv
uiaiMntr 4n liar* /\#
uxiy nuiviu^ iu guo ajc?/ ui x AiiauiHi
"Nov. 20, 1860?I have recently re,
ceived letters from William E. Hunt
I that the Levant is now ready and on
i its way to this port."
"January 31, 1861?The Saranao
. and Wyoming will proceed in search
? of the Levant, to IIllo and Honolulu
The unusual length of time since sailing
produces serious apprehension for
f hersafety."
I "February 13, 1861?No word yet.
Hurricane last September dismasted
an American clipper, and II. 11. M.
line of battleship Ganges had her sails
I blown from the yards.
) "A letter from Commander Hunt,
> dated September 3. 1860, stated he
J would start from Ililo in ten or twelve
? days. It is now known that he sailed
1 from Hllo September . 18, without
\ change of purpose to return to this
port."
"February 14. lftftl?rJnmtYianrlfir
J. K. Mitchell, of the Wyoming, at
HUo, reports his cruise from Panama.
No word, except that Hunt Intended
to take the usual Northern route to
Panama, via the coast to California,
to get the record of his work before
Congress."
"June 8, 1861?Thomas Miller, U.
. S. Consul at IIIlo, reports a mast
> washed ashore seventy-live miles from
there, suoposed to be the mainmast
' of the Levant. Charles Spencer, Isaac
6 Nichols and Christopher Baker ex'
amlned this mast of yellow pine and
9 pronounced It to be that of the Le<
vant. Part of a lower yard five feet ic
I circumference at the slings was found
near the meet. Consul Miller and W.,
0. P arks, Marshall at Hilo, oonttrm
this opinion. Baker was the pilot who
piloted the Levant In and out of IIUo
harbor, and he had the dimensions of
her masts and spars."
ACT OK CONQKKSS JULY 24. 18(U.
"June 3), 1881, shall be deemed and
taken to be the day on wbloh the
sloop of war Levant foundered at sea."
This act of Congress, implying that
the Levant, having "foundered," was
Irreparably loss with all ber crew, failed
to draw any curtain of oblivion over
tbe incident. The mystery took too
deep a hold on the imagination for it
to b* allowed to sleep, forgotten. Kvery
nation whose tlag floated over the
highways of the North Pacitic saw its
ships menaced by the unknown. Here
was a vast aroa of ocean into which
their ships were liable to be blown by
storms which was absolutely unknown,
lying woll otT the beaten track of navigation,
and possibly made hazardous
by the presence of characteristic coral
reef8 and island which in the Paoltic
are generally so low as not to be visible
until a ship Is almost upon them.
Tbe greater part of this unknown
area still exists. It is to tho south
and east of the route from San Francisco
to Australia, and to the south of
all the routes from the Hawaiian Islands
to Panama and to Gallao. Whalers
had explored It only tentatively,
noting certain islauds, somo of which
remain mythical to expeditions which
made systematic search for them.
The al most absolute silence and mystery
about tho disappearance of the
Levant, ?specially, as the years rolled
on, tho fact that no traco of the
wreck appeared, beyond tho stranded
mainmast and yard, inspired every
sailinu master traversing those waters
with a tirm belief that the Levant had
oast her crow upon some land, herself
clinging fast upon the rocks which
caught her.
Between 1827 and 1839 this un
known region had boon somewhat nar
rowed by cruises of three British aud
one American expeditions. All of these
expeditions reported indications or
shoal water aud urged the need of further
investigations. During sixty
years, however, no further progress
was made. In 1899 the Fish Commls
siou steamship Albatross traversed
part of the doubtful region aud re
ported seeing several lowlying Islands,
ev dently the same that exist lu whallrg
annals.
One year before the loss of the Levant
Captain John de Greaves, sailing
from Honolulu to Uallao, reported the
dhcovery of an island at longitude
13.t> and nortli latitude 17, which was
about tifty feet high and two miles
long. This island was so near the
route of the Levant that if she had
readied that ueighborhcoi in the
night she might easily have been
wrecked upon it.
The latest effort of the United
States Government to dispel the mystery
of the Livant was made in 1903,
when President Roosevelt diHpatoned
the Taooma out on an expedition of
discovery. All that the Taooma did
was to narrow the unknown region
down to an area of about the extent
of the Stato of Maine. It discovered
no island where there were visible
HiKUBui ? wroux, or which were lnnaolted.
The Tacoma negatively disposed
of several island theories, but not
of the possibility of the existence of
one upon which the ?:ged Robinson
Grusoes of the Levant may now be
living.
Oce of the great characters of notion
is popularly supposed to be among
these castaways?Pnilip Nolan, the
pathetic hero of Edward Everett
Hale's "Man Without a Country,"
whom the author disposed of aboard
the Levant. Captain Lawless, in
writing of his cruise, mentioned receiving
a letter from the aged author
of that masterpiece in which he said:
"If you have found dear Pall Nolan,
bring him at once to this house;
1 will adopt him as my grandfather."
The great historical analogy for the
theory that members of the crew of
the Levant are still alive on some
unknown island is the existence of
the colony on Pltcalrn Island, in the
South Pacific, these people being ae
scendanr.8 of the crew of the Bounty,
wntch mutinied more than a century
ago and were wrecked on that island,
there to exist for eighteen years before
their fate was discovered and
ui?'.it5 Kuuwn to tiis worm.
These Bounty muttness for nearly a
score of years were genuine It tbioson
Crusoes, subsisting wholly upon tish
and the other sea food, the birds and
jfulmals aud the fruits which the Island
afforded.
The Levanters were, perhaps, able
tosave part of the wreck of their shiy
from which to build huts, and some
of the stores, including clothing.
If these old men are now clothed at
all must be with the skins and feathers
of birds, or even woven grasses, or perhaps
the woven ilbre of the outer husk
of the oocoanut. It is possible that
there wore seeds aboard the Levant
and that this colony of Crusoes hae
been ahltt to onlr.l vihn tha imll m j a
means of varying their supply of fish,
birds, eggs, turtles and ko on. plainly
the salvage of the ship's chrono'
meter may still give them the time
, of day. As at least a score of thorn
must have been men of education,
doubtless they have kept diaries wiiioii
contain records of their strange ex
perlenoes from day to day.
But the mystery of the lost Levant
and his crew, and also of the great un
1 explored region, is too fasolnating foi
attempt to solve it to cease untl
; every Kuare mile of those latitude)
' has been scrutinized. Kvea ten yeuri
1 from now, if the fatal island Is found
' It is within the possibilities that som<
broken, half savage old men may
, rescued to tell olvilizatlon the trn?
story of the loss of the Levant and
' of their long and wonderful exile.
DiSflATUKfei ALCOHOL.
HUllI'LUH FliUini AM) VKOKTAHIil-iS
AND WASTK STUFF
Can Be Made Into Material for Heating,
Lighting and Running
' Bngines.
"The passage of the denature alcohol
bill by Congress at lte recent session
1h one of the beet and most helpful
measures ever gotten through that
body. Many persons do not fully understand
the real help that Is to come
from this bill, but when they learn
that denatured alcohol can be used
for the same purpose that gasoltuo Is,
they will understand In a measure the
great benotlts that we may reasonably
expect to derive from It," says Mr.
Slgo Meyers, of Savannah, Ga., who
has given the matter a great deal of
thought and his views on the subject
are of more than ordinary Interest
"1 am reliably lnformod that donv
tured alcohol can bo produced at a
cost of from 0 to 10 cents per gallon,
and 1 know that the processes of mak
ing It are not very ditllcult, and In
fact are In reach of any farmer of ordinary
meaos. Tuough every farmer
has not Kutllolent quantities of raw
material for making suoh an enter
prise profitable yet In each neighborhood
there Is a plenty of material
that Is wasted every year to make
these plants paying from the very
start. Denatured alcohol can bo made
from any fruits, corn and all grain, j
sugar cane, potatoes, beets and a dozen
other vegetables.
"It has ooourtd to me that the best
thlug to do with the largo surplus
fruit and vegetable crops of the state
would bo to convert them Into denatured
alcohol. When this Is douo we
have at hand the fuel for running our
?uuuuLiuijiion, uur Hiuan power pianiiH,
and Instead of burning coal or wood
at high price wo can use our cheap
and Inexpensive alcohol for cooking
and lightning, heating purposes and
for txiany other uses, i should not go
further wish this interview before
stating the fact that denatured alcohol
is poison and cannot be used as a
beverago any more so than gasoline or
keroseue?iu fact, a very small quantity
taken internally produces death;
heuoo it is that no one, no matter
how religious, could objeot to Its manufacture
as It positively oannot be
used as a beverage.
"The passage of this bill was a direct
thrust at the Standard CM, which
fought Its enaotment Into law with
all of the powerful foroes at its command.
The farmers of the country
were behind the bill and when these
bornev handed sons of toll gave the
word it wont on tho statute books.
Denatured alcohol, you see, is destined
to rob the Standard Oil of a good
deal of the protits It Is now making
on gasoline. Denatured aloohol will
be used In a thousand dliferent lines
of art, with which chemists and skilled
artisans are familiar and with
whloh the general public have little
Idea. Even I know of only a few uses
It can be put to, even these few demonstrate
the fact that Its use will
become general In the United States
In a short time.
"1 am of the opinion that It will be
nearly a year before the government
will be able to permit tho openlug of
these plants. In the meantime the
real bene tits that may be expeotod
from the passage of this bill will become
the subjeot of favorable comment
In every section of the country,
and when the government is ready
for openlug of these plants there will
be a thousand of them ready to begin
business. Commissioner John W.
Yerkes of the Internal Revenue De
partment, has gone abroad where he
will study the methods of handling
these plants by other governments.
Most, if not all of the important for
eign governments do not tax denatured
alcohol, aad It in said that in Germany,
for instance, that it lias been
of great benefit to the small manufacturer,
and that it has done a great
deal towards making Germany one ol
the leading manufacturing countries
of the world. I look for it to have
much the same elMot in the United
States, and 1 am oertain that uo seo
tlon of country will be benefited st
much from the cheap power thui
made possible as will the South.
"It may be generally understooc
but at tills time the regular alcoho
now in use is taxed at the rate ol
i about $2 a gallon. Under the bill jusl
i passed this tax is entirely removed
As I have stated it will admit of tie:
farmer utilising every spare ounoe oi
i tiie fruit and vegetable produces o
ills farm which under the old law wat
not permissible, as so few could aif >rr
to pay the tux to manufacture. li
addition tho demand for denaburec
, aioohol at the price It had to be sole
i was so lnsiglloaut that no one carec
bo mauufacture It. It Is now wort!
In the open market about $2 60 pei
gallon. When the preHent bill becom
' us of force, say a year hence, it will bi
i sold at retail around 20 cents per gal
i Ion and by the barrel at a much small
, or price. 1 look for a new and mor<
[ prosperous era of industrial activity
. ail through the country, and the mat
who is going to be tho recipient o
the greatest benetlts Is the atuidy ant
. hard headed farmer, In every sectloi
r of the country."
I
3 Gave it Up.
3 Jerry Miller a saloonkeeper of Bris
I tol, Tjdo., upon receiving woid tha
a he had fallen heir to mining p-opert
3 worth $2,000,000,000 gave his saloo;
i to his barkeeper and announced tha
k he would never sell another drop of m
Intoxicating beverage.
TOUGHSJAILED
In an Effort to Make Governor
! Glenn Pardon
A. BOWERY SWINDLER
Who Was Serving a Sentence In the
North Carolina Penitentiary for
Working His Rascally Schemes
on Some Citizens of the
kOld North State.
A dispatch from Atlantic Clfcv,
N. J., says: Governor Robert D.
Glenn, of North Carolina, discussed
guardedly Friday night the report of
ths having beon held up by a gang of
Tammany men In New York City and
threatened with Injury If he refused
to sign a pardon for a liowery swindler,
who was serving a sentence Iu toa
North Carolina penitentiary
The fact that a Governor had been
suhjectod to such an outrage has been
suppressed carefully for a year for
fear of creating uudoslred political
prejudices.
The hold-up episode, as relatod by
those close to the G jvernor, occurred
vhlle ho was the K'ucst of Tammany
11 "ill as one of the orators at tho
Fourth of July celebration last Summer.
Governor Glenn and Lieutenant-Governor
Sanders, of Lmlsiana,
another #uost, at tno conclusion of
the ceremonies were Invited to j )ln a
party tfoin# to Coney Island.
There was a deliberate etT jrt, according
to tho Governor, to #ot him
drunk, several of tho party belli# Intixicated.
The Governor, however,
had been discreet and was undirected.
They stopped at H indersoil's restaurant
and wine was ordered.
Soaroely had they seated themselves
when one of tho men?a district
leader, It is said?drew rrom his pocket
a legally drafted pardon In favor
of a #old-brlok artist named Ilalsey
or llalstead, then dolu# time in
ltalol#h, North Carolina, but whoso
headquarters were batweou the Battery
and Fourtfifinfch Htrnnf.
Thinking the Governor was buIIIoioutly
Jovial to sign anything oy that
time, the leader remarked:
"Just a favor, Governor. We would
like you to sign this and let that man
come baok to Now York."
Governor Glenn told the leader that
a petition had been presented to him
just before ho left homo for that
man's pardon; that he had looked
into the ease, and had decided in tho
negative, lie was sorry, but he could
not reverse himself then, even to
oblige his hosts. The man is reported
to have become ugly, and shouted
that the Governor would not get out
alive If the pardon was not signed.
Some allege that a revolver was brandished.
The Governor rose from the table
and said.
"if 1 have any friends In this
crowd, 1 wish they would come on this
side of the table, for there's likely to
be something doing here pretty soon.'*
"I'll stand by you Governor," responded
Lieutenant-Governor Sanders.
The remainder of the party assumed
an attitude of helpless intoxication.
"Now, gentlemen, do your worst,"
is the reported ohalleuge by Governor
Glenn.' "I'll see you lu hell before I'll
sign that pardon,"
The politicians refused to carry out
the blutt of keeping tno Governor as a
nos.age for tue convict, and bestrode
out of the building unmolested.
He returned to his hotul and paid
his own expenses.
Tne gold-brio* swindler died in
prlioft a few weeks ago and his wife
applied to the Governor for permission
to take the body from tho State for
Interment. In recounting her efforts
to obtain freedom for ner husband she
1 confessed boo had arranged to have
the Governor invite.i to Mew York aDd
no overwhelmed with kmdnes.i that he
could not deny her a pardon.
''The truth of the matter was this,'*
that the Governor Thursday
night "After making an address at
the Tammany mooting, I went out
with a party of men to see the town.
They wore not Tammany men so far
as 1 know, but toey did try to get me
drunk.
"Afterward, I learned that these
men had boan engage 1 by the wife
of the man in our penitentiary to gat
me druuk so that 1 could bo induced
co slgu a pardon.
"Instead of bogging or requesting
me to sign a pardon, ttiey made an
immediate demand, and they were
downright insolent about it, too.
"Weil, sir, 1 Just picked up my
hat, turned on my heel aad walked
out. 1 cannot tell you who they
. were,
i DKNIKS TlIK STOKY,
A dlspaton from Kaieltfh s&ya
3 Governor Glenn er.presses just lndi#f
nation at the publication made In
i the New York American, reprinted
f in some of the State papers about
1 what is declared to have been an at*
a tempt on tne part of certaio Tarn*
many leaders on the occasion of tne
Governor's visit to New York some
months ago, to force tne Governor of
North Carolina to sign a pardon for
" Hawley, one of the noted "gold brick'1
y oouvicts. He says the whole publioan
blon is a tissue of lies and that he toid
the representatives of certain papera
n by whom it has been reprinted that* /
- this was tita ?sse.