DELVING FOR POWER
Political Moles of Both Parties Are
Busily at Work.
(low a Sncresofnl I'renldentla.l
la Crralrd, I'.» I>H nded and Trans
formed Into 11 Poti'lll
Reality*
{Special Washington Letter.]
THE political moles are burrow
ing deep down beneath the
presidential pastures, where
■they would not be discovered, nor
suspected, but for the work of inim
ical political ferrets. They are unlike
■the coyotes and gophers who abrade
the surface j»ward, but delve far. far
Jjelow.
One of the wonder-workers in the
•political world is the senior senator
from Ohio, the man who from ob
scurity stepped into national fame
•early in lS'Jti as the manager of the
McKinley campaign for nomination.
Hie old-time politicians thought that
he could soon be disposed of; but
they found that for three years Mark
Hanna had been burrowing for dele-
to the national convention.
Politicians do not rest during the
Lenten season, nor for any other
season. They are not primarily re
ligious, although some of them are
nicely veneered with churchly in-go
ings and out-comings. Primarily,
they are self-seeking and ambitious,
Teady to sacrifice others, even good
•friends, for their own advancement.
The most successful of them are al
ways burrowing for future prefer
ments.
Senator Davis, of Minnesota, once
•said to the narrator: "I went to
church this morning, just for a few
minutes. I sat up last niglit. until
after midnight thinking over the ap
plicants for an office. Having con
cluded that a certain man should
liave preferment, 1 went to bed and
slept as calmly as a child. After late
breakfast this morning 1 lighted a
cigar and took a walk. Just as 1 was
passing a church, memory called up
a picture of my first election to the
senate. One of the candidates for
•office had sacrificed a great deal for
ane at that time, and I remembered
having said: 'lf ever you need a
friend, rely on Cush Davis.* And yet,
because another had seemed to me
to lie of greater iuture value, I had
made up my mind to turn that
friend coldly down. I went into
church, stayed until the conclusion
of service, came home and concluded
to have my former helpful friend
appointed. So, you see, once in awhile
conscience will make even a politician
do the right thing."
Well, while ambitious men are bur-
Towing for the presidency, all of
them are denying their ambition.
Senator Hanna, the greatest burrow
er of them all, keeps gravely quiet
and affects indifference to the quest.
But there are surface indications
•which point to his ambition in that
direction. An old politician here to
day called the attention of the writer
to one very interesting fact. He
«aid: "Do you remember that last Oc
tober the physicians informed Sena
tor Hanna that he must quit politics
and goto bed, because of danger
from heart failure? Well, what did
Hanna do? lie went home for only
'jSa HB
*** * v
ARTHUR PUE GORMAN.
(Senator from Maryland and Prince of
Campaign Managers.)
a couple of days, and then appeared
on the hustings in Indiana to help
his friend Senator Fairbanks; and
lie was so weak that he . Sbliged
lo (|tiit speaking in the i of one
of his addresses. What < : make
'that effort for in Indiana.
Hut the chief burrowers i k on the
.other political side, and all ftf them
■seem to believe that the democratic
presidential nomination will lie worth
Striving for next year. Senator Gor
man, of . M ->■■■- - B ( .| ()S( ,
the national r. Hearst
Judge I'arker and Mr. n..., all of New
York; Mr. Olney, of Massachusetts;
Mr. Cleveland, of New Jersey, and
Mr. Hryan, of Nebraska, are all oi
them standing right in the line wbert
*»>—*'ul«'.jitial lightning is expected
x
No,. auld like to know how
this burro* £is done. It is a great
game, and is very w 11 understood ir
•this center of polit as well as oi
statecraft. The st i for all poli
ticians is the federt, ~>age. Evtrj
politicial worker wa., -ifficc.
There is a blue booh died bj
the national government <-. v tw<
j'ears, and it contains lists of all 01
the federal office-holders, even dowt
to the lowliest and lowest-paid. Th<
l>ig politicians employ little poli
ticians to take up certain parts o
this blue book, and goto work oi
the former office-holders. For ex
ample, suppose that Mr. Olney. o
Massachusetts, wants to get the dele
from ths state of Illinois t<
support him for thf preihleTicy In
the next national convention.
The blue book will give the name*
of 2,000 postmasters in Illinois who
held office during the last Cleveland
administration. It will give the
names of all other office-holders, and
each one of them must have been a
democrat of some consequence, to
have secured an office. Each one of
those office-holders must be com
municated with, either directly or in
directly. He must be assured that
if he will get out and hustle and
work for Olney he can again be post
master, or held some other office
equally good. Now, unless Mr.
Hearst, or Mr. Cleveland, or some
other candidate will get in ahead of
him. Mr. Olney can form quite a
strong army of politicians who can
control the next state convention
GROVER CLEVELAND.
(Stands Right Where Presidential Light
ning May Strike Him.)
and name Olney delegates to the na
tional convention. The delegates are
almost all bought with offices or with
the hope of office. Sometimes they
change, but usually they remain true
to tlie individuals to whom they
pledge themselves. Lewis Cass, of
Michigan, bought supporters with of
fices, and he said: "An honest poli
tician is one who will stay bought."
Gathering in delegates more than
a year in advance is one of the new
tricks in politics which Mr. Hanna
developed previous to 1596. Those
who are far-sighted enough to do
this systematically have what is
called "a good organization." That
is to say, that if one has an organ
ized army of ex-postmasters, all of
them hungering for political liesh
pots, he is a political general with
whom one must reckon.
In the state of Pennsylvania there
are 5,000 postmasters and about 1,500
deputy postmasters. These, with the
other federal and state office-holders,
make an organized army of political
workers numbering upwards of 10,-
000 men, all of them working to re
tain their positious. and all of them
under the skillful direction of Sena
tor Quay; and yet people wonder
that Quay always succeeds.
Early in March, soon after his re
entry into the senate. Senator Gor
man, of Maryland, said to Champ
Clark, of Missouri: "William Jen
nings Bryan must be reckoned with.
While his friends may not constitute
the necessary two-thirds to nominate
in a national convention he will un
doubtedly have more than a major
ity in the convention next year, and
will be able to dictate the platform.
Whoever overlooks this all-important
fact will find himself hopelessly in a
minority when the convention gets
down to actual work."
From this it is apparent that Mr.
Gorman realizes, and fully under
stands, that Mr. Bryan is burrowing
also for delegates, although not for
the purpose of forcing his renomina
tion. It means that the eloquent Ne
braskan intends to remain a dom
inant, factor in his party. This also
means that as long as he lives Mr.
Bryan will have hopes of getting the
prize for which he has twice so bril
liantly contended. Here is a story
about Mr. Bryan which has never
been published:
During June, 1896. while the nar
rator was at the crowded counter of
a telegraph office at the St. Louis con
vention, sending special dispatches to
some large daily newspapers, a
bustling big fellow crowded in, and
received a stiff punch from an ener
getic elbow. No resentment followed
the blow, but, instead, the writer
heard his name called cheerily by
one who said: "Won't you let a poor
working man have a chance to earn
his bread and butter?" Looking up.
the narrator saw the smiling face of
l'.is old friend Bryan. Room was
made at once; Bryan's brief telegram
was written and sent to a small pa
per, which he said was paying him
S3O per week, and then he disap
peared in the crowd. Three weeks
later he was nominated for the presi
dency. There never was a better il
lustration of the possibilities in this
great republic, for there never before
was such a meteoric rise from penury
to position and political power.
And so, while all of the others are
burrowing for delegates to gain the
presidential nomination, the astute
politician from Maryland says that
' "Bryan must be reckoned with."
When it is recalled that Mr. Gorman
is the only man who has been able to
' lead his party to success in presiden
tial campaigns, • for well-nigh 50
1 years, it may be well for all of the
other burrowers to hearken to his
" words of wisdom. And it is worthy
r of note also that while Mr. Gorman
' thus respectfully takes off his hat to
Bryan that worthy in his weekly pa
f per says that "Gorman was regular,
" but not too regular."
> SMITH D. FRY.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 23 1913
SWEPT BY A STORM.
A. Great Deal of Damage Done
Near New York City.
mgheftl Tide In Year* and Shipping
Suffered Severely- A Number of
Town* In Neiv Jer»ey In
uudaled -Damage at
Coney Inland.
New York. April 16. —A fierce wind
storm from the northeast swept New
York yesterday developing unusual
severity after a night of gales. The
storm blew shoreward, was accom
panied by the highest tide known in
years and brought a cold, pelting
rain. It did much damage along the
New Jersey and Long Island coasts.
At Coney Island and Rockaway a
large part of the sandy beach was
cut out and much other damage was
done by the tide and violent wind.
The gale was severe upon the ship
ping anchored in the bay off Staten
Island. The fishing schooner Mari
ner went ashore and broke up at Sta
pleton. The fishing sloop Iroquois
sank at the docks.
The French four-masted ship Joe
lette and the English bark Itata,
which were anchored in the middle
of the bay, dragged their anchors to
within 100 yards of the docks at St.
George.
The fishing schooner Edward Hoop
er, of Gloucester, Mass., dragged her
anchors and fouled the pilot boats
Edward E. Barrett and James Gordon
Bennett, carrying away the Bennett's
bowsprit and headgear and damaging
her own quarter so that she sprang a
leak.
Old residents of the suburbs of
Brooklyn near Coney Island said the
storm at Brighton and Coney Island
was the most severe in 30 years. The
sast wind tossed up enormous waves
along the beach and raised the level
of the water until it was up to the
first floor of the new iron pier at
Coney Island. The new bulkhead at
the foot of Ocean parkway was
wrecked in several places and board
walks, bath houses and other small
structures were washed away. The
new bulkhead was Hearing comple
tion after being under construction
ill winter.
Sea Bright, N. ,T., April 16. —The
wind and high surf did much damage
here. Several houses and the board
walk were damaged. The surf washed
over the tracks pf the New Jersey
Southern railway and traffic was sus
pended.
Elizabeth, N. ,T., April 16. —A vio
lent northeast wind and rain storm
did much damage along the water
front. Factories were flooded and
work stopped, lumber was washed
away from the yards and a large
quantity of coal was swept from the
Jersey Central wharves. The New
ark & Elizabeth branch of the Jersey
Central is under water and the mead
ows between Newark and Elizabeth
have become an inland sea.
Inhabitants of the southern part
of Elizabethport had to use row
boats to get to other parts of the
city.
AGAINST UNIONS.
National A»*o<latlon of .ITn mi Tartar
em .Hake* a Declaration.
•New Orleans, April 16. —The dele
gates to the national convention of
manufacturers devoted all af both
sessions yesterday to the labor ques
tion. There was much difference of
opinion as to the nature of the atti
tude which the organization should
take towards trade organizations and
the debates were at times heated,
but when the declaration of princi
ples was made the resolution em
bodying it was accepted by a unani
mous vote. An effort was made, led
by D. A. Tompkins, of North Caro
lina, and Mayor Jones, of Toledo, to
hold this resolution for further con
sideration, but delegates demanded
immediate action and the protest was
overruled. The resolutions which
President Parry characterized as
"The platform of the association,"
are as follows:
Declaring against boycotts and
lockouts, recognizing the right of la
bor to organize, but "without inter
ference with the liberty of employ
ers or employe," denying the right
of unions to fix wages, and pledging
ohe association to oppose all legisla
tion not in accord with the foregoing
principles.
Numerous other resolutions were
adopted, among them being one con
demning the convict labor system,
another commending the organiza
tion o£ non-union men.
LYNCHED AT JOPLIN.
A lllHiourl .Hob Avenge* the !*lnrder
of a Policeman by a Negro Tramp.
Jopun, Mo., April 16.—A mob took
an unknown tramp negro from the
city jail last, evening and hanged him
to a telegraph pole at the corner of
Second and Wall streets, two blocks
from the jail. The negro was charged
with having murdered Police Officer
C. Leslie, who was shot dead Tues
day night in the Kansas City South
ern railroad yards, while endeavor
ing to arrest several negroes suspect
ed of theft.
Officer Leslie had ordered several
negroes who had taken refuge in a
box car to surrender and when they
failed to do so he fired several shots
at the car. During the shooting a
negro slipped from the car and, com
ing up behind the officer, shot him
through the head. The negro then
fled and within a short time posses
were after him.
Yesterday afternoon Lee Fullerton
located the fugitive in a slaughter
house just east of Joplin.
Settled 111® f'oume for lt)05.
Washington, April 16. —The Sunday
school lesson committee appointed by
the international Sunday-school con
vention held in Denver last summer
began its meeting in this city
Wednesday. 'I tie committee settled
the complete lesson course for the
year 1905. For six months of the
year the lessons are to be from the
Gospels and the remaining six
months from the Old Testament. A
topically arranged two years' course
for children from four to six years
also was determined on. It will be
a permanent institution.
A FIGHT L\ rorHT.I
Encounter between Attorneys |
at Lafayette, Iml.
Mrujjule lor tlir < on(ro1 of a loung
.▼1IIlloiial»-#» Dim-lor* I*roiloll lire
.11 <»*<•* Fouler < lianc 1 11-
Hune Olio of tll«* At
(ornpynlined.
Lafayertte, Ind., April 17.—There
was a fist fight In the circuit court
room yesterday between Attorneys
Dan Simms, representing Fred Chase,
father of Moses Fowler Chase, and
A. L. Kuinler, representing Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Duhme, of Cincinnati,
who are struggling for possession of
young Chase, the millionaire. The at
torneys had met for a conference
with the judge as what should be
done with Moses Fowler Chase, pend
ing the hearing of the guardianship
ease. Kninler denounced the attor
neys on the other side and also
Chase's father, and declared that, Mo
ses Fowler Chase had been brought
to Indiana from France by force and
fraud.
He had further asserted that the
unfortunate young man was put on
exhibition at the law office of Chase's
attorneys, when ex-Judge 12. P. Ham
mond shouted:
"That's an absolute falsehood."
Attorney jumped from his
seat and approached Kumler, who
tried to ward him off. Sinims then
landed a fierce right hand swing on
Kumler's jaw, and followed it with
his left. Both blows landed, Kumler
protecting himself as best lie could.
The court room was crowded and
lawyers, court officials and spectators
sprang toward the combatants and
dragged t hem apart. The judge fined
Sinims $23 for striking the first blow
and this quieted matters.
Sinims then apologized and Kum
ler asked the court to remit the fine,
as he said he felt sure that Sim ma
struck in a moment of temper. The
court remitted the fine and directed
that Moses Fowler Chase remain in
the court's jurisdiction, with the un
derstanding that Mr. and Mrs.
Duhme, his aunt and uncle, are not
to interfere with him. They have
the privilege of applying to court for
authority to see him, however.
A guardianship application served
on the young millionaire is returna
ble April 27, for which day the case
is set. Detective Weinhart was placed
on guard at the office of Chase's at
torneys and ordered everybody out
but. the sheriff.
Doctors Lacy, Davidson and Hin
nedge, of Lafayette, and I)r. C". B.
Hurr, of Flint, Mich., examined young
Chase in the afternoon and pro
nounced him insane, 'ill »y declared
his answers to the most simple ques
tions were incoherent, although he
appeared perfectly sane when taken
off the train.
Dullme\s attorneys have decided
not to file application for a writ of
habeas corpus or any other papers,
to bring Chase into court in his pres
ent excited state.
Newspaper men were admitted to
see Moses Fowler Chase and he ap
peared to be a gibbering idiot. He
rambled on incessantly in a low tone
of voice, looking down toward his
right hand, which he kept stretched
out at length. His attorneys say lie
has not recognized his father from
the time the latter saw him on ship
board to the present.
The young millionaire was taken
to a hotel by his father after the
court proceedings and is kept in his
room. His father will get a house
in a quiet part of the city for him.
Detectives are guarding the young
man. Three attendants are with him
constantly.
FLOUR MILLS CLOSE.
The ?iorlli\vcNtcrii Milling Industry
Slrlkm a Snai;.
Minneapolis, Minn., April 17. —The
Northwestern Miller says: "Every
flour mill in Minneapolis and prac
tically all of the merchant spring
wheat mills in Minnesota and the
northwest shut down entirely last
night and will cease turning out flour
for an indefinite period. This act has
•been forced upon the millers by the
conditions surrounding the manufac
ture and sale of flour. For some
time, owing to the price of cash
wheat, the high rates of freight and
the depressed state of the flour mar
kets, mills have been operating at a
loss, but the crowning disadvantage,
which has paralyzed the milling in
dustry throughout the northwest
was the act r,f the line of boats oper
ating between Duluth and Buffalo, in
moving wheat on a basis of two
cents per bushel, while the present
proportionate rate on flour from Du
luth to Buffalo is maintained at nine
cents per hundred pounds, equivalent
to 5 4-10 cents a bushel.
The transportation lines have told
the millers that, under the operation
of the Klldns bill, they need not an
ticipate any discrimination in rates
against flour, but the action of the
line boats in making this two-cent
rate on wheat, shows that, such an
assurance was meaningless. Until
freight rates on the manufactured
product shall be placed on a parity
with those given the raw material,
or until the two-cent rate given
wheat shall be advanced, the millers
will find it impossible to grind, and
unless something shall occur to im
prove the milling situation, the pros
pects are that the practically uni
versal shut down of the merchant*
spring wheat mills will be indefinite
ly prolonged."
A Crippled Steamship.
Detroit, April 17. —The Anchor line
steamer Codorus arrived from Erie
yesterday with her engine so badly
injured that she had difficulty coming
up the river. The captain reported
that powdered emery was found in
th« high pressure crank journal, and
It, is alleged to have been put there
by strikers. He was afraid to tie up
at the docks here for fear the strik
ers would induce his four non-union
firemen to leave the boat and an
chored in the river, where the engine
was taken apart and the disabled
parts brought ashore in small boats
I for repairs. -
STARTLING STATEMENT.
A New Vnrk I'uMle Xrrvlre forpor*-
Hon .luxated Figure*.
New York, April 17. —The Evening
Post prints the following:
The complete findings of Eugene A.
Philbin, former district attorney of
New York county, as oounsed for cer
tnin stockholders of the Metropolitan
.Street Hail way Co., were made public
Thursday. This paragraph occurs:
"ft is clear, therefore, when the
company's own statements are ana
lyzed, that the Interurban lease was
calculated to provide and has actu
ally provided many million* of dol
lars in excess of the honest require
ments of the Metropolitan Co."
The report also finds that in 1898,
1899, 1900 and 1901 the Metropolitan
Co. stated in its annual reports to
the state railroad commission that it
had expended for eonsruction and
equipment "a sum in cash exceeding
by millions of dollars the actual sum
in cash which is proved by the com
pany's general balance sheets to have
been so expended."
Mr. Philbin says the company
asked for $23,000,000 to pay the un
funded debt incurred in the purchase
of the Third Avenue Ka/ilway Co. and
to defray the expense of extending
the electrical system to upwards of
80 miles still operated with horse
cars, and upon analysis the report
said only $14,781,694 was required for
these two purposes.
The report further says the com
pany proposed to create a refunding
mortgage to secure an authorized
issue of $65,000,000 of 4 per cent, re
funding bonds, of which about $54,-
000,000 was to be reserved to retire
and refund the 27 issues of existing
bonds secured by liens upon the var
ious parts of the Metropolitan sys
tem, excluding the Third avenue
lines. The total amount of such is
sues, Mr. Philbin says, was exactly
.$48,196,000, and not about $.">4,000,000.
"The difference," the report says,
"between $48,196,000 and $65,000,000 is
$16,804,000."
The report continues that while
$65,000,000 was provided for the Cen
tral Cross Town railroad and its out
standing bonds and for change of
motive power, a new $3,000,000 mort
gage was issued on the Central Cross
Town Railroad Co.'s lines to take up
that company's outstanding bonds
and pay for changes of motive power
from horse cars to electric traction,
so that the increase in bonded debt,
instead of being about $11,000,000, as
appears to have been pretended,
turns out to be exactly $19,804,000.
Dealing with the Interurban's lease
the report says:
"While the Metropolitan Co. has
been continuously since the date of
the lease and is at present, a cred
itor of the Interurban Co., yet in
July last the Metropolitan Co. issued
$11,000,000 of its own bonds and
turned the proceeds thereof over to
the Interurban Co.
"It is clear this .$11,000,000 was pro
vided for the purpose of enabling the
Interurban Co. to carry out its con
tract to pay 7 per cent, guaranteed
dividends on the $52,040,000 of Metro
politan stock, for the Interurban Co.
has no earning capacity of its own
and its only earnings are represent
ed by the earnings of the Metropoli
tan Co. itself, which never have been
and are not at present equal to 7
per cent, on its capital stock."
HE IS A FUGITIVE.
MI*»o""""*i I.tcii tenant Governor Skip*
(u Avoid Tedtll'yinc.
Kti ity, April 17. —Lieut. Gov.
Lee wan served with a subpoena last
night as lie was leaving the city. He
left for Chicago instead of on the St.
Louis train. The deputy marshal
having learned that Mr. Lee was on
the Chicago train, said to him:
"Of course, Mr. Lee, you under
stand that if you this sub
poena you will be regarded as a fugi
tive from justice."
Lee answered angrily: "I under
stand this move. It is one of that
fellow Folk's. I wish you would apol
ogize to Mr. Hughes, your prosecut
ing attorney, for the trouble I have
caused lilm and explain to him that
if he wants me to testify in any case
being tried here 1 will be prompt to
obey his summons."
The subpoena served upon Mr. Lee
was in a local ease. It was used to
prevent his getting beyond the juris
diction of the Missouri courts before
a St. Louis summons could be served
upon him. It was done upon the re
quest of Circuit Attorney Folk, of
St. Louis. Mr. Lee ignored the sub
poena.
When he learned that a deputy was
looking for hiim with a subpoena he
went across the line to Kansas City,
Kan., where he remained until he
came to the Union dejtot to catch a
train.
Were Cremated In Their Home.
Tomalia, Wis., April 17.—Fire early
yesterday destroyed the home of and
•burned to death Misses Phoebe and
Libbie Zeley at Bear Creek, six miles
south of this place. The two sisters
were 75 and 86 years of age respect
ively. They lived alone on a large
farm which they owned. It is thought
they had a large sum of money in the
house and that they were robbed and
mu/rdered and the fire started to
cover the traces of the crime.
Seven Death* from Cholera.
Washington, April 17.—Gen. Davia
reported to the war department j'es
terday seven deaths from cholera in
the Philippines. The commands to
which these men belong, with one
possible exception, are stationed in
pMindanao, where cholera has broken
out among the troops operating un
der command of Capt. Pershing.
The Itllnneftota la Launched.
New London, Conn., April 17. — In
the presence of thousands of specta
tors the steamship Minnesota, the
largest vessel ever built in this coun
try and the greatest cargo carrier in
the world, was launched Thursday at
the yards of the Eastern Shipbuild
ing Co., at Groton. The sponsor of
the mammoth ship «us Miss Clara
Hill, daughter of James J. Hill, pres
ident of the Great Northern (Steam
ship Co., for whom the vessel was
built., to become a part of the com
pany's Pacific and Oriental carrying
nerriee.
AS OTHERS SEE US.
Report, of British Workmen
Wlio Visited America.
SOME SEVERE CRITICISM.
"Englishmen Can Learn Noth
ing from Americans."
SOCIAL AND MORAL LIFE.
I)ne of the Delegate* Say* Our Nation
In Immoral -All the Vlnltorn l.nite In
Maying Our Induntrlal Jletliod* aro
Belter than Kugland'n.
London, April IS.—The report of
the commission of Kr.'tish working
men, who were taken to the United
States at the end of last year by Al
fred Moseley, a wealthy Englishman,
to .study conditions of labor there,
was issued Friday. It presents the
views of delegates who separately
synopsize their deductions resulting
from the American trip. The report
shows a lack of unanimity, except
that all agree that the British -work
man has nothing to learn from the
American workman, while Uritish
employers are not as far advanced as
the Americans in the treatment of
their employes,
Mr. Moseley says the American
workman lias a far better education,
"is infinitely better paid, housed, fed
and clothed and moreover much
more sober." Mr. Moseley says in
conclusion:
"If we are to hold our own in the
commerce of the world, the old meth
ods must be dropped and the old ma
chinery abandoned."
lie believes that some form of
profit sharing is the true solution of
the capital and labor question. He
welcomes the trusts as best able to
compete on the most economical
lines, lie says that the organization
of capital on the one hand and of la
bor on the other will solve the indus
trial problem.
The reports of the delegates differ
concerning the up-to-date methods of
production, though the consensus of
opinion is largely in favor of Amer
ica. where "the distinctive feature is
a hankering for the latest machinery
and the best method. The Ameri
cans. employer and employed, real
ize more fully than the Britishers
that brains and not brawn count."
Delegate Walls, representing the
British blast furnace men, says that
while the output of the American
blast furnace is double that of the
English furnace, not more than half
of the American furnaces are of the
most modern type.
James Cox, the delegate for the
iron and steel workers, pays his re
spects to Chicago, where, he says,
"the almighty dollar is the unques
tioned king." Of the new postotliee
he says, "any third rate corporation
in Great Britain would have accom
plished the work in four years, in
stead of eight. This is illustrative
of government work in general."
1). C. Cummings, of the iron and
steel shipbuilders, quotes Shipbuilder
Cramp as saying that "Great Bri
tain's position as the leading ship
builder is unassailable and unlikely
to be seriously menaced for the next
quarter of a century."
Mr. Cummings concludes with a se
vere criticism of social and moral life
in America, where, lie says, "gamb
ling and pleasure seeking appear to
be characteristics. Tht disregard
for human life, the corruption in pol
itics and other immoralities tend to
the moral and physical deterioration
of the 'people and must be arrested
if disaster is to be avoided."
11. R. Taylor, the delegate of the
bricklayers, says he would be sorry
to see American methods of building
adopted in England.
M. Dellar, representing the Nation
al Plasterers' union, found the plas
tering bad "even in tne rooms of the
White House where the delegates
were received by President Roose.-
velt." Mr. Dellar, referring to Home
stead, says:
"The principal shareholder might
here find a good place to spend his
millions in improving the conditions
of the working people. T would for
this purpose forego the pleasure of
donating libraries to towns in Great
Britain."
W. C. Steadman, representing the
parliamentary committee of the
trades union congress, says the Brit
ish workman cannot be beaten in the
world for solid and well finished
work. He concludes:
"Unless something is done to con
ciliate labor in America, the trust
system will bring such an uprising as
has not been witnessed for 40 years."
The delegates united in extolling
the hospitable reception they met
with everywhere from all classes,
which was so marked that it inter
fered somewhat with their investiga
tions. Summing up the reports of
the delegates, the conclusion seems
to ibe that, while keenly conscious of
American competition, it does not
mean a hopeless position for Great
Britain.
Wile In Dead.
New York, April IS. —Mrs. Robert
Fitzsimmons, wife of the ex-champ'ull
heavyweight pugilist, died Friday at,
her home in Brooklyn, of typhoid
pneumonia.
No Truth In the Slory.
San Francisco, April IS.—Attorney
George Heggerty, who is identified
with the litigation connected with
the Fair estate, stamps as absurd and
untrue the gruesome story to I lie
effect that the skulls of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Fair, who met death in an au
tomobile accident in France, were re
moved by decapitation, to be used as
evidence against the claims of the
Xelson family. Mr. Heggerty says
that the accounts gtven of the al
leged decapitations are canards and
that the operation mentioned was
never undertaken or «ken contem
plated.
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