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WHAT WAS DONE # ? Wt Past Tour la lie Way tf lacreamf 4 Oar SbiII Iadastrks. SOME FIGURES GIVEN Wcport of Col. E. J. Watson, Co mm Is- 1 ^ sioncr of Agriculture, Commerce J ! ?. AC!K^\?ar? \f aa/lVk I i U11U lll(luniMi-n, nuuno miivn n ivgress in Nearly All the Lines of Small Industries in the State. Statistics prepared by E. J. Watcon, commissioner of agriculture, - commerce and industries, Indicate {that the amount invested in industrial enterprises in South Carolina during 1911 was $3,535,058 in excess of the capital invested for the same period in 1910. | One of the results of the tomato clubs is shown by an increase of $13t,3 4 0 invested in canneries. The investments in canneries during 1911 reach $214,190 for this growing industry. r The manufacture of clothing Is an other growing industry, and tnere was $350,500 capital invested in sucli enterprises in 1911. The figures for l 1910 were $88,800. * Electrical development in South Carolina continued during 1911 and j the expenditures for such enterprises , represents $28,930,326 for the year. . The capital invested during 1910 in Bimilar plants was $24,155,147. , Another industry that has attracted ] Investors in South Carolina is furniture manufacturing. In some locali- < ties of the State there is an abundance < of hardwood timber and other suita- ; bio timber used in the manufacture j of furniture. There was $360,000 invested in this enterprise during 1911. 1 During the year there has been no ] abatement by enterprising manufac- \ turers in their investments for many ] of the leading industries, among them 1 being fertilizers, flour and grist mills, foundries, carriages, bakery products f .and brick1 products. This table showing value of products from these industrial enter(prises for 1911 as compared with 1910, indicates that there has been a Wealthy increase in the value of most lines. One of the notable exceptions is a decrease in the amount of coflins and caskets manufactured in South Carolina during 1911 as compared with ^ 1910. The natural conclusion is that this condition Is due to a decreased mortality in this State during 1911. At any rate, more favorable conditions are known to exist. The increase in value of fertilizer products over the previous year represents about $2,000,000. The canning industry shows an increase of a.ly most 100 per cent. South Carolina, as Indicated by this report, is rapidly assuming the position the State deserves In its ratio of industrial enterprises actively investing and the value of t.heir manufactured products. The climate of the tState is particularly adapted for employes in manufacturing lines, and there has been no complaint as to any h considerable scarcity of intelligent and desirable labor. The statistical table as prepared by > the department of agriculture, commerce and industries for 1911 follows. , I Capital Invested. 1910. 1911. Bakery products $ 192,905 $ 218,805 s Boxes and r baskets ... 2,143,827 588,31G t Brick and tile 635,750 443,853 a Carriages and 1 wagons ... 236,800 241,000 \ Canneries ... 82,850 21 4,190 ^ C9 con ~ 9r,o r.nn \ Vll/l/Uliig M UUjUVV U U 1/ j 1/ V U A Coffl n s a n d t l caskets ... .- 300,000 103,850 \ * Confectionery 17,500 17,500 \ Klectricity ..24,155,347 28,930,326 \ Fertilizer ... 7,751,834 7,568,981 j Flo u r a n d > ? grist mills . 360,050 354,3 00 a Furniture . . . 148,000 360,000 t Foundry and i maching shops 521,374 593,474 a Value Products. I 1910. 1911. c Pakery pro- j ducts $ 582,100 $ 710,961 8 II o x e s and baskets . . . 565,553 692,827 IBrick and tile 488,576 507,432 Carriages and t / wagons . . . 426,539 S05,000 ( Canneries ... 237,852 437,143 Clothing 191,378 240,090 Coffins and caskets . . . 113,000 96,500 , Confectionery. 21,600 24,100 t Electricity ... 2,195,638 2,603,400 c Fertilizers ...10,099,142 12,094,734 t F 1 o u r a n d a t grist mills . 719,855 589,032 ^ Furniture . . . 305,329 " 375,627 i Foundry and [ machine shops 1,022,309 1,503,838 j ? ? ; Much Sleet and Rain. c i The Piedmont section of the State > was swept Thursday by sleet and c rain with a low temperature, making i the day the most disagreeable of the j winter in that section, |c TERRIBLE NEGLECT CAUSE MANY CHILDREN TO DIE DURING VOYAGE. Owners of the Ship Fined Heavily by Acting Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Charged with the worst case of neglect of steerage passengers on re3ord under the passenger act of 1882, the owners of the British steamer Oteric have been fined $7,800 by Acting Secretary Cable of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Among the 1,242 passengers there were in the eight weeks of her voyage 58 deaths, 57 being children; the births number 14; the sexes were not properly segregated during the larger part of the time, the ventilation of the ship was inadequate and greatly increased the mortality rate; the hospital facilities were ill-ventilated and without proper equipment, wlille the sanitary conditions or the vessel were almost beyond relief. Acting Secretary Cable, after giving ample opportunity for the ship's agents to make a defense, directed that the full penalties be imposed. The case has been pending before the department since the arrival of the Oteric at Ilonalulu April 13 last, where the collector of customs, who acts in behalf of the bureau of navigation, immediately discovered the unlawful conditions. The vessel is not regularly engaged In the steerage business, but was specially engaged to carry Portugese and Spanish immigrants through Magellan Straits to Honolulu. The ship was allowed to clear upon depositing a bond of $15,000. Owiner to the ereat number of deaths the grand jury, which was in session at the time, went on board md made an examination of the vessel. They found the system of ventilation insuflicient; the port holes did not admit sufficient air, and notwithstanding that there was an electric light plant on board, no electric fans *vere provided. They reported that this lack of ventilation contributed :o the large mortality during the voyigo; when severe weather necessitated closing the portholes and hatches the rate of mortality increased. The hospitals were found wholly Linflt for the purpose for which they pvere provided; the ventilation was poor and the space allotted to them ivas too small. There were 14 births on the voyige, but the compartments used as lying In hospitals were wholly inadsquate in every respect, and in some nstances it was found that even or iinary conveniences were not providid for the inmates. The laws reladres to cleanliness were violated in a nanner which could not be too jtrongly condemned. The master of the vessel, James Findlay, attempted to explain the exsting conditions by stating that ibout ten days after leaving GibraJ;ar there was a riot between the Por;ugese and Spanish male passengers, 'esulting in a pitched battle with tnives, clubs, cleavers and pistols, ro prevent further trouble the Por;ugese passengers were placed aft, vhile the Spanish passengers were )ut in the forward part of the veslel. This resulted in the co-mingling )f the sexes. THINK THEY HAVE BANDITS. Hen Arrested in Savannah Said to be Train Robbers. A Washington letter to The State ;ays it is understood there that the )ostofllc? department thinks that the wo men now held at Savannah?Hill md Eckestrom?for robbing an Atantic Coast Line train at Ilardeedlle, S. C., last week and making way vith a considerable amount of regstered mail matter, are old hands at he business and that the Hardeeille holdup is only one of many. Vhile tho department will not say vhat information it has on the subect, it is believed that Robert G. Sharp, chief postofllce inspector, with i good knowledge of practically all he train crooks and robbers now plyng their trade in this country, feels atisfled that Hill and Eckstrom are he men responsible for the Coast dno holdup. A daring robbery reently occurred in Arkansas, and it s now believed that Hill and Ecketrom were implicated in it. + A COUNTRY OF SUICIDES. )vcr Fifteen Hundred Committced in Saxony in One Year. The kingdom of Saxony, which, for nany years, has shown a disproporionato number of suicides over most >ther countries, comes again to the ront of the German states in the itatistics of 1909, for which year he kingdom's year-book has just >een issued. In tbat year there were, 11 a population of about 4,500,000, .,521 suicides reported, of which 358 vero women. The cause given in 474 :ases is despondency of "general veariness of life." Suffering from lisease resulted in 262 suicides, while n "injured sense of honor" led 28 lersons to make away with themiclvee. i j TAFf ON WOOL Says Pretest Tariff Dalies Bart Fareip Weolen Gtedt and Yaras FROM UNITED STATES Material Reduction Urged by the President in Message Transmitted to Congress With the Long Awaited TariiT Hoard Report on Woolen Schedule. Ti 1 -1 i. * a Anntvoaao X'I't!?IUCIH J. ULl DCUb IW WUfel boo Wednesday the long awaited report of the tariff board on schedule K of the Payne tariff act, and with it a message recommending that the rates on wool and woolens be materially reduced. The report shows that the existing duties on many classes of ?rool and wool manufacturers are prohibitory and greatly in excess of the d'fference in the cost of production here and abroad. The duties are so arranged as to keep out of the United States entirely wools of finer qualities, which if imported might be used to displace the cheap substitutes now employed. President Talt calls attention to theso points and urges that a revision of tho schedule be proceeded with at once. He characterizes the report of the tariff board as the most complete and exhaustive statement of a ditficult and complicated subject ever presented to a legislative body. He declares it a monument to the thor oughness, industry, impartiality and accuracy of the men engaged in its making. He also dwells with emphasis upon the fact that the report is a unanimous one and asserts the belief that it will convince all of the wisdom of making the tariff board permanent. The President says "the report shows that the present method of assessing the duty on raw wool?that is, by a specific rate, the grease pound (i. e. unscoured) operates to exclude wools of high shrinkage in scouring, but fine quality, from the American market and thereby lessens the range of wools available to the domestic 4 * U _ nn 1 1 (l 11 U i etc 1111 ci , iiiai IL1V UUIJ un scoured wool of 3S centB per pound in prohibitory and operates to exclude the importation of clean, low priced foreign wools of inferior grades which are nevertheless valuable material for manufacturing and which can not be imported in the grease because of their heavy shrinkage. Such wools, if imported, might be used to displace the cheap subs now in use. "To make the preceding paragraph a little plainer, take the instance of a hundred pounds of first class wool imported under the present duty which is 11 cents a pound. That would make the duty on the hundred pounds $11. The merchantable part of the wool thus imported is the weight of the wool of this hundred pounds after scouring. If the wool shrinks 8 0 per cent, as some wools do, then the duty in such a case would amount to $11 on twenty pounds of scoured wool. This, of course, would be prohibitory. If the wool shrinks only 50 per cent it would be $11 on fifty pounds of wool and this is near to the average of the great bulk of wools that are imported from Australia, which is the principal source of our imported wools. "These discriminations could be overcome by assessing a duty in ad valorem terms but this method is open to the objection, first that it increase administrative difficulties and tends to decrease revenue through undervaluations; and second, that as prices advance the ad valorem rate increases the duty per pound at the time when the consumer most needs relief and the producer can best stand competition; while if prices decline the duty is decreased at tho time when the consumer is least burdened by the price and the producer most needs protection. Another Method. "Another method of meeting the difllculty of taxing tho grease pound is to assess a specific duty 011 grease wool in terms of its scoured content. This obviates tho chief evil of the present system, namely, the discrimination due to different shrinkages and thereby tends greatly to equalize the duty. Tho board reports that this method is feasible in practico and could bo administered without great exepsne. Tho scoured content of the wool is the basis on which users of wnnl mnlro tVinir r>n IpiiI q Unti a nnd n duty of this kind would fit the usages of the trade. One effect of this method of assessment would bo that, regardless of tho rate of duty, there would be an increase in the supply and variety of wool by making available to tho American market wools of both low and fine quality now excluded. "The report shows in detail tho difficulties involved in attempting to state in categorical terms tho cost of wool production and the great differencies in cost as between different regions and different types of wool. It is found, however, that taking all varieties In account, the average cost in the chief competing country by an amount somewhat less than the present duty. "The report shows that duties on oils, wool wastes and shoddy, which AtCiittU ur MLLIAG NEGRO MAN AND WOMAN HELD ON MURDER CHARGE. Action Grows Out of Investigation of the Death of Guy Rogers and Prentiss Moore. A dispatch from Bennettsville says the arrest there Thursday of Joe Malloy and Charlotte Easterling, charged with the murder of tw# white boys, Guy Rogers and Prentiss Moore, on November 24, 1910, came as a surprise and sensation to many. It is understood that negro detec/Nr. 4 V\ yv nvvro nuvu uut'u wui aiug un lue van; [ for several mouths and that they have secured strong testimony. Those who know of the detectives in this case say that there is strong evidence against Joe Malloy as principal and Charlotte Easterling as accessory. Guy Rogers and Prentiss Moore left their homes in Bcnnettsville, on a hunting trip Thanksgiving day, November 24, 1910. They failed to return to their homes that evening, and searching parties were organized. For two or three days the river swamp was searched and finally the bodies of the two boys were found in a ditch in an open field very near Charlotte Easterling's house. The coroners jury deliberated several days and finally returned a verdict that the boys came to their death from gunshot wounds inflicted in a manner unknown to the jury. There were many who suspected Joe Malloy at that time. Three theories were advanced to explain the mystery. One was murder; one accidental shooting of Prentiss Moore by Guy Rogers and then suicide on the part of Guy Rogers; n 11 i .1 i i ^ \ uie ouier un acciueiit us 10 uoui. Joo Malloy is a negro man who had at that time a wife and several children. His wife died a few weeks after the verdict of the coroner's jury under somewhat suspicious circumstances. It is probable that Joe Malloy and Charlotte Easterling will be given a preliminary hearing before [Magistrate S. J. Mclnnis today. are adjusted to the rate of 33 cents on scoured wool, are prohibitory in the same measure that the duty on secured wool is prohibitory. In general, they are assessed at rates as high as, or higher than, the duties paid on the clean wools actually imported. They should be reduced and so adjusted to the rate on wool as to bear their proper proportion to the real rate levied on the actual wool imports. "The duties on many classes of wool manufacture are prohibitory and greatly in excess of the difference in cost of production here and abroad. "This is true of tops, of yarns (with the exception of worsted yarns of a very high grade) and of low and medium grade cloth of heavy weight. "On tops up to 52 cents a pound in value, and on yarns of 65 cents in value, the rate is 100 per cent with correspondingly higher rates for lower values. On cheap and medium grade cloths the existing rates frequently run to J 50 per cent and on some cheap goods to over 2 00 per cent. This is largely due to that part of the duty which is levied ostensibly to compensate the manufacturer for the enhanced cost of his raw material due to the duty on wool. As a matter of fact-this compensatory duty for numerous classes of goods is much in excess of the amount needed for strict compensation. un uie ouior nana tne nnaings sliow tliat the duties which run to such high adva.lorem equivalents are prohibitory since the goods are not imported, but that the prices of domestic fabrics are not raised by the full amount of duty. On a set of one yard samples of 1 G English fabrics, which are completely excluded by the present tariff rates, it was found the total foreign value was $41.84; the duties which would have been assessed had tbeso fabrics been imported $76.90; the foreign value plus the amount of the duty $118.74; for a nominal duty of 183 per cent. In fact, however, practical Identical fabrics of domestic make sold at the same time at $69.75, showing an enhanced price over the foreign market value of but 67 per cent. "Although those duties do not Increase prices of domestic goods by anything like their full amount, it is none the less true that such prohibitive rlntina elimlnnfn tlin nnuoi l\il \ t v of foreign competition, even in time of scarcity; that they form a temptation to monopoly and conspiracies to control domestic prices; that they are much in excess of the difference in cost of production hero and abroad, and that they should he reduced to a point which accords with this principle. "The findings of the board show that in this industry the actual manufacturing cost, aside from tho question of the pric eof materials, is much hiirher in this countrv than it is abroad; that in the making or yarn and cloth tho domestic woolen or worsted manufacturer has in general no advantage from the form of superior machinery or more efficient labor to offset the higher wages paid In this country. The findings show that MAN if sti tKfct ? Gmrw Blase Tares Thirty Ceevicts : ' Lose Christmas Eve ELEVEN LIFE TERMERS lliggcst liiitcli of Convicts IJberated in South Carolina in Years.?Some 1 1 11 1. 4 1 w <\1I. liVnn< J' I t'llt i t'lUll'JIUHIJt WlIKTa I'll"" County AVorks.?Offences From Noii-Support of Family to Murder. Thirty persons held in the South Carolina penitentiary and in the county jail received their liberty Saturday at the hands of the governor of South Carolina when a?record for pardons and paroles was made, says the State. / Briefly stated, there were 11 lifetime prisoners freed. Nine of these prisoners were convicted on a charge of murder. One was convicted 011 the charge of burglary and larceny, and the other 011 a charge of arson. Seven were convicted 011 a charge of manslaughter, the sentences ranging from live to 25 years. Several had been convicted 011 minor charges, and one was pardoned to restored citizenship. Viewing the act of the governor from an economic standpoint, and considering the pardon record for a day made possible by the constitution of the State, it means that this State was deprived of the service of convicts aggregating 23 9 years. This is for unexpired terms. The estimate is made upon an average of 2 0 years for a lifetime prisoner. The average length of service is probably longer. A liberal estimate of the value received by the State for the service of a convict for one year is $100, which would make a total of $23,900 lost in labor. There was clemency granted in 30 cases. Legal statisticians have estimated that it costs about $5 00 to convict a prisoner in this Stale. This would mean an additional $15,000 court expenses incurred. Taking the sum total of the expenses and value to State, the governor expended $3 8,900. Of the 11 lifetime prisoners to receive clemency at the hands of the governor, Samuel Ree, the Chester county wife slayer, is probably the most known than many others. He was convicted in November, 1899, for Killing ins wire wnno sne siept in ins home. The case at the time attracted a great deal of attention, and public sentiment was against the man. He has served 12 years of a life term. The parole was granted during good behavior. The papers granting the clemency to the prisoners were made up in the governor's office Saturday morning and sent to the secretary of state's office, where it required imoro than one hour to affix the great seal of the State. The papers were then sent to the penitentiary and there was a general exodus of prisoners. The governor of South Carolina assumed oflice on January 17, and since that time he has granted celmency in 317 cases, which are as follows: Pardons .13 7 Paroles.. ....... .. ... ...ISO Total 317 Taking the estimate of statisticians of $500 for a conviction, this means that this feature of the clemency record has cost South Carolina $158,500. 'The governor, soon after entering office, dispensed with the State board of pardons, and announced that in the future ho would decide all cases presented for celemency. ? FIRST IX TWENTY YEARS. ? Two Negroes Hanged at Lancaster for Killing Negroes. A dispatch from Lancaster to The ril - i - 1. TIT- J . TT 1 ... 1 TT Diaie says wuen vvaue noou ana uenry Kco, negroes, wore hanged Thursday morning a precedent was established in Lancaster county and in South Carolina. For the first time in the State's history a legal execution was held on a day other than Friday. Convicted of murder at the October term of court of general session, Judge W. C. Watts son tensed both negroes Friday, December 9. The governor granted a reprieve of 1 days, thus causing the execution to be held Thursday. It was the first time in 21 years that an execution has been held in Lancaster county. Hood was hanged for the murder of Walter Dunlap, and Keo for the murder of Sam Dye in the month of August of last near. ( ] tho cost of til mine wnnl hitn vnrn In this country is about double that In the leading: competing country, and that the cost of turning yarn into cloth is somewhat more than double. Under the protective policy a groat industry, involving the welfare of hundreds of thousands of people, has been established despite these handicaps. "In recommonding revision and reduction, I, therefore, urge that action be taken with these facts im mind, to the end that an important and established industry may not be J jeopardized. j f tfAi k -oMS L\J^AiiI) * ' 4 1 SKAIW)AItn FLYER DITCHED A* GLOSTER, GEoktelA. j i Wreck Was Caused by a Broken Rail. ?-Several From Thip State Are Among the Hurt. Forty-one persona were injured Saturday night in the wreck of train No. 3 8 of the Seabord Air line, near Gloster, Ga. The wires to the scene were torn down and it was not until Sounday morning that details of the derailment became known. None of the injured will die, according to railroad ollicials. Gloster is 25 miles northeast of Atlanta. The train left Atlanta at 8:35 o'clock for Washington. It was going 4 0 miles an hour when near the Gloster station it struck a broken rail. The engine and several cara went over safely but a Pullman and one first-class passenger car left the roadbed and went into a ditch. The injured were in these two> cars. Their hurts consist of cuts and bruises. If there had been more serious consequences the rairoad would have had difficulty in caring for the victims, as the surrounding country is sparsely settled and few if any doctors were at hand. A train with physicians and wrecking .apparatus was dispatched from Howell's station. The tracks wero cleared by daylight. (Most of tho injured live in Georgia and the Carol in as. They include: P. M. Cain, Washington, D. C. G. W. Brewer and Miss Brewer, Elberton, Ga*. r? Af n.. i -vr /-i XJ. JLI1, 1 (II mil, i\U)Clgll) I> . Kj. C. F. Leffler, Rutherfordton, N. Mrs. Ella Moon, Comer, Ga. Miss Bert Watson, Comer, Ga. F. F. McNaughton, wife and five children, Burgaw, N. C. Mrs. Floy Tally, San ford, N. C. Mrs. J. F. Thornton, Abbeville, S. C. J. W. Bolt, Laurens, S. C. Arch McCormick, Wilmington, S? C. G. P. Waddell, Wilmington, N. J. B. Allman, Mullins, S. C. C. A. Maigler, Abbeville, S. C. W. Bright, Mullins, S. C. W. P. Childress, Laurens, S. CA. A. Champ, Winder, Ga. J. W. Steel, Waxhaw, N. C. C. P. Holmes, , N. C. APPEAR BEFOUE GOV. BLEASE. ? Garlington and Young in Convict Garb Ask for Pardon. Wearing the garb of a convict, , John Y. Garlington, former president of the Seminole Securities company, under sentence of three years in the State penitentiary on the charge of breach of truBt, Thursday appeared before the governor of South Carolina and made argument for a pardon. When ho had completed his argument the governor told him that he would have been acquitted had he related the same story oil the witness stand. James Stobo Young, former secretary and treasurer of the company, under sentence of one year, was also present at the hearing. He had nothing to say, leaving the argument to Garlington. Both prisoners attired in the prison clothes wero carried under guard in a landeau from the State penitentiary 10 uie governor s ornce mursaay morning at 11 o'clock. They wore citizens overcoats and liats. The hearing consumed more than one hour, and at the conclusion the governor said that he would take the testimony presented under advisement. Argument for pardon was alse made by Christie Benet of Columbia and Albert Todd of Laurens, attorneys for tho defendants. All of the details of the transactions on which tho two prisoners wore convicted woro explained to tho governor by Garlington. Ho mado a special plea for Young, his kinsman. FOUR ECLIPSES NEXT YEAR. ? ? Weather Predictions for the First of the New Year, According to a new issue of tho old-time "almanacks," the very kind your grandparents left hanging on tho mantlepiece years ago, there will not bo much more cold weather for tho South, and very little in tho North, hut for storms January and March will pull down tho plums. There will be four eclipses in 1012. Tho first is a partial eclipse of the moon, April 1, not visible in the United States. The second will bo a central eclipso of tho sun, on April 17, visible to tho eastern portion of tho United States. At Washington and Montgomery it will bo seen as & partial eclipse, the sun rising eclipsed. Tho third will be a partial eclipse of the moon, 011 September 26, partly visible to the United States. Tho fourth is a total eclipse of the sun, on October 10, visible as a slight., partial eclipse to tho southeast tip of tho United States. There will bo blustery weather In January, mixed with pleasant and unsettled days toward tho last of the month. Storms will come in February with unsettled weather before March 1, which month will com? in like a lion and pass out llko a lamb. Hoy will be mild and June stormy and hot. ,i| J