Cameron County press. (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, October 11, 1906, Page 3, Image 3

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    PLAIN TALK
By the President at a
Dedication Ceremony.
AT lIARRISBURG.
American Civilization Must Not be
that of a Plutocracy Controlled
by Wall Street Syndicates.
Harrisburg, Pa.—President Roose
velt made a flying trip to Harris
burg and York on Thursday and in
«ach city he made a speech in the
rain. At both places he wore a rain
coat and rubbers while speaking, to
protect him from the storm. The j
president returned to the national j
•capital last evening.
At Harrisburg the president deliv- j
■ered the oration at the dedication of i
the beautiful new state capltol, which
has just been completed at a cost of
$13,000,000 to take the place of the old
•state house destroyed by fire in 1897.
After his speech there and a hurried
inspection of the capitol, the president
and other distinguished guests were
■entertained by Gov. Pennypacker at
luncheon at the executive mansion.
Here are some points from Presi
dent Roosevelt's address at Harris
burg:
"It has become increasingly evident
that we need to increase the powers of
the federal government.
"It is our clear duty to see, in the
interest of the people, that there is
adequate supervision and control over
the business use of the swollen for
tunes of*o-day, and also wisely to de
termine the conditions upon which
these fortunes are to be transmitted
and the percentage that they shall
pay to the government whose protect
ing arm alone enables them to exist.
"The government ought not to con
duct the business of the country; but
it ought to regulate it so that It shall
be conducted in the interest of the
people.
"It behooves us Americans to look
ahead and plan out the right kind of
•civilization. It must not be, it shall
not be, the civilization of a mere plu
tocracy, a banking house, Wall street
syndicate civilization; nor yet can
there be submission to class hatred, to
rancor, brutality and mob violence,
for that would meamthe end of all
civilization." w
TRAINS MET ON A CURVE.
Five Lives Lost in a Collision at
Lansingburgh, N. Y.
Lansingburgh, N. Y.—Five, passen
gers were killed outright and a
score were injured in a rear-end colli
sion between a regular passenger
train and a military special on the
Boston & Maine railroad, directly in
front of the Lansingburgh depot,
north of Troy, about 5 p. m. Thursday.
The are:
F. L. Block, Peoria, 111.
Mrs. Wallace E. Shaw, Rath, Me.
Mrs. Stevens, Boston.
Mrs. J. W. Dacey, Arlington, Mass.
Mrs. H. S. Poole, Concord, N. H.
The collision took place on a heavy
grade and sharp curve.
The passenger train was one that
leaves Boston daily at 9:30 a. m.for
Albany. It consisted of five cars, a
baggage car, smoker, day coach and
two parlor cars, and was about one
hour late when it reached Lansing
burgh station, waiting there for a
chance to get into the Troy depot.
Without any warning the special
came thundering along with IS cars
and crashed into the passenger train,
smashing the last two cars, which
were Pullmans, like eggshells.
The special was drawing four troops
>of the Fourteenth United States cav
alry from Fort Ethan Allen to New
port News, where they are to embark
for Cuba.
A MINE HORROR.
An Explosion in a Mine at Pocahon
tas, Va., Results in the Death of
Many Workmen.
Pocahontas, Va. —Nineteen known
dead and from 30 to 40 more
men entombed and doubtless all dead
was the situation up to a late hour
last night at the West Park mines of
the Pocahontas Collieries Co., where
the explosion occurred late Wednes
day afternoon.
The bodies of 16 men were recover
ed from the mines as the result of the
heroic work of a band of 35 men con
stituting a rescuing party that worked
incessantly all Wednesday night and
Thursday. It was not until 7:30
o'clock last evening that the rescuers
reached a point nearest Paul entry,
where the explosion occurred. The
work of rescue was very slow, as the
conditions confronting the party were
difficult to surmount.
The authorities anticipated the fear*
ful extent of the casualties by order
ing a carload of coffins and burial sup
plies which are now on the way.
Moran Is Nominated for Governor.
Boston, Mass. —A new era for® the
Massachusetts democracy was inaug
urated Thursday by the state conven
tion of that party when John B. Mo
ran, district attorney for Suffolk
county, who was already the nominee
of the prohibition party and the Inde
pendence league, was nominated for
governor by acclamation.
Terrorists Stole $3,000.
Warsaw. —The paymaster of the
Vienna railroad was robbed of $3,-
■©oo Thursday by a band of terrorists.
■The robbers escaped.
BIG DEAL IN ORE LANDS.
The Steel Trust Leases the Hill
Properties In the Northwest.
New York. —The terms of the
lease of the Hill ore properties in
the northwest to the companies con
trolled by the United States Steel
Corporation were announced Friday
by E. H. Gary, chairman of the board
of directors of the corporation. The
terms are based on a system of royal
ties and give no indication of the
amount of ore to be taken out of the
lands except to show that it is expect
ed to be many millions of tons.
The price to be paid for the first
year of the lease is $1.65 per ton de
livered at upper lake ports, but this
price is to bo increased three-quarters
of a cent per ton in each succeeding
year until the ore lands are exhaust
ed. It is provided also that the Uni
ted States Steel Corporation must
take at least 750,000 tons in 1907 and
Increase the amount mined by 750,000
tons a year for 11 years until the
amount mined annually has reached
8,250,000 tons, at which rate it must
continue to take out the ore annually
until it is exhausted.
The final agreement was reached at
a conference in the office of J. P. Mor
gan & Co.
The magnitude of this transaction
and its effect on the properties con
cerned as well as upon the iron and
steel trade of the country is indicated
by the fact that the Hill properties
have been estimated to contain from
400,000,000 to 700,000,000 tons of ore.
The properties included in this trans
action are said to be second in Impor
tance and extent only to the Lake Su
perior iron mines already controlled
by the United States Steel Corpora
tion. and it is said that this deal will
furnish the steel corporation with a
supply of ore for the next 50 years.
EIGHT MEN KILLED.
A Terrific Explosion of Gas in a Sub
way at Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Pa. —Eight men were
killed and nearly 40 persons
were injured Friday by an explosion
of illuminating gas in the Market
street subway at Sixth street. High
buildings were shaken by the force of
the explosion and for a block on
either side of the scene of the explo
sion nearly every window was shat
tered. The street caved in, halting
traffic and resulting in a suspension
of business. Fire followed the explo.
sion, but it did no damage to, neigh
boring buildings. The loss, it is be
lieved, will exceed $300,000.
The subway is In course of con
struction by the Millard Construction
Co. for the Philadelphia Rapid Tran
sit Co. The exact cause of the explo
sion has not yet been determined.
On Thursday workmen in the exca
vation discerned the odor of gas and
the United Gas Improvement Co.,
whtfse conduits run through the tun
nel, was notified. Leans was sent by
the company to find the leak and re
pair it. It was while he was making
his investigation that the explosion
occurred.
DUN'S REVIEW.
Fail Trade Is Now in Full Swing—
Great Activity in Iron and Steel.
New York.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
No unfavorable developments have
appeared except the.damage by storm
in the south, which was almost en
tirely local in effect.
Autumn trade is now in full swing,
especial activity being reported in
dry goods, millinery and footwear.
Manufacturing plants are engaged
far in advance in all the leading in
dustries, the metal departments mak
ing the most striking exhibits and the
activity of transporters is shown by
railway earnings in September 9.2
per cent, larger than last year's fig
ures.
Practically all the pig iron furnaces
are now in blast and work will soon
be started on many <iew plants of the
open hearth variety. Any decrease in
demand for structural steel for build
ings on account of the approach of
winter is more than offset by the
urgent needs of car works, which are
falling further behind with deliveries.
Commercial failures this week in
the United States are 183, against 195
the corresponding week last year.
DEADLY TORNADOES.
Six Persons Killed and Nine Fatally
Injured by Storms in Louisiana.
New Orleans, La. —This region was
on Friday the center of cyclonic
disturbances, at least three of which
were tornadoes and caused the loss
of six lives, with nine persons fatally
injured. About daylight heavy storms
broke through the country within 100
miles west, north and east of New
Orleans. Reports of sugar cane and
cotton crops blown down or sugar
mills demolished are coming in from
this entire section. The damage, in
cluding that done in New Orleans, is
placed at over $1,000,000. The worst
tornado was north of New Orleans,
where it devastated portions of three
parishes. New Orleans was visited
by another tornado, and another
passed northward of Biloxi, on the
gulf coast.
Must Produce Their Books.
Montpelier, Vt. —A bill compell
ing all corporations to produce
their books upon the request of a
grand jury or other proper authority
was passed by both branches of the
Vermont legislature Friday and will
goto Gov. Proctor.
A Terribly Fatal Explosion.
Raton, N. M.—Fifteen men are
supposed to have lost their lives
in an explosion Friday in the Dutch
man coal mine at Blossburg, a small
camp five miles from Raton. Three
bodies have been recovered.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1906.
PAYING CANAL LABORERS.
DIFFICULT TASK HAS FINALLY
BEEN PERFECTED.
Thirty Thousand Employes on Panama
Waterway Work Who Receive
$1,000,000 Every Month —Of-
ficial Who Handles Funds.
Panama. —There has been much said
»nd written about the pay department
Df the Isthmian canal commission, but
now the system is almost perfect. In
the early days of the work, when navy
methods prevailed, the delay with
which pay periods were met was one
of the greatest causes of dissatisfac
tion. Sometimes a.whole month would
go by without a pay period, and actual
suffering among the canal employes
frequently resulted. It has been a dif
ficult matter to surround the payment
of nearly 30,000 men, taking the vast
3um of $1,000,000 monthly, with the
safeguards demanded by the United
States government and to give to the
labor that great necessity—payment
»112 wages. It has also been difficult to
adjust the methods of corporations
with the precedent regulated system
of paying required by the bureau at
Washington, 'out it has been done.
The employes of the Isthmian canal
sommission are to-day paid with more
regularity and at an earlier time after
pay periods than United States gov
ernment employes In any part of the
world, and. what Is more cfeditable,
the laborer is paid earlier after earn
ing than the workmen of any big rail
road system in the United States. In
the selection of E. J. Williams as dis
bursing officer Chairman Shonts had
the pick of a host of men, and the
result shows that he made no mistake.
In addition to handling the vast sums
of money used In paying the men Mr.
Williams Is local auditor and treasurer
of the canal zone funds.
All of the handling of the money Is
done by three paymasters and five pay
clerks. There Is also a cashier, who,
under the disbursing officer, has con
trol of the paying. The day laborers
are paid every 15 days, with Panama
silver, the weight and bulk of which
add materially to the work. At points
where the pay car is not required the
payments are made within three days
from the middle and end of the month.
The pay car belongs to the Panama
INTERESTING EGYPTIAN FIND.
Statue of Ancient Goddess Discovered
Undisturbed in Shrine.
London. —One of the most striking
discoveries that has ever been made
In the history of Egyptian exploration
has just been made at Deirel-Bahrl by
Statue of Amenhetep.
the Egyptian Exploration Fund. The
digging in thifi particular district had
fceen under the immediate superin
tendence of 'Or. E. Naville, and it is
owing to his endeavors that the
unique statue of an Egyptian goddess
has been found undisturbed in her
sanctuary. Deir-el-Uahri, where the
statue was found, is in the neighbor
hood of Thebes, the famous historic
site of middle Egypt. To the west
DISPENSES JUSTICE AT 91.
P.oston, —What do you think of a
judge who defies time and sits on the
bench and actively dispenses justice
when he has passed his 91st birth
day?
That is Justice Charles Field, one
of the kindliest of gentlemen, who is
JUDGE CHARLES FIELD.
(Although Near Century Mark He Is
Still In Good Condition.)
on the bench at Athol, Mass.
He was a presidential elector in the
time of Lincoln.
Recently he disposed of three cases
In one morning, then went to G&rd-
railroad, and Is used first to pay the
railroad laborers. After that it is
turned over to the canal pay force, and
within from 12 to 15 days from the pay
period all of the men have received
their money. When the canal gets its
own pay car the time will be short
ened by half. In the United States
the pay car gets around 15 to 25 days
after the pay period. The four canal
clerks and other "gold rate" men are
paid promptly on the first of the
month.
The timekeeping system Is elab
oiate, but effective. Each big division
allots one tiinekeepy to the dlsburs-
E. J. WILLIAMS.
(Official Who Put Canal Zone Pay
Scheme Into Effect.)
ing office. The original time is taken
by the foreman of each 50 men. Each
man is numbered and i 3 represented
by three cards in the possession of the
foreman. Foremen turn their time
books over to a timekeeper, who
makes up a time sheet, which he
sends to the chief timekeeper of the
division, who in turn makes out the
pay roll. The time book turned in by
the foreman, the time sheet and the
pay roll,
vision chief, are all sent to the local
auditor's office, where they are care
fully checked by a corps of expert
nlerks. The three evidences of earn
ing are then turned over to the di
vision known as the personal corps,
where they are again checked from an
indtex card system, thua eliminating
any chance of duplication.
there rises a line of hills at a short
distance from the banks of the Nile;
it is in this low line of hills that the
unique discovery has been made.
After the removal of a few stoaes a
complete and undamaged chapel was
discovered, the roof of which was
vaulted and painted blue, and dusted
over this blue ground were numbers
of yellow stars. Inside this miniature
temple stood the undamaged presen
tation of the goddess. Hathor, who
was represented as a beatlful cow
just stepping between a conventional
group of lotus stems.
So lifelike was the representation
of the cow that the goddess seemed
to be actually emerging from the
chapel at the moment that the dis
coverers had removed the stones
which had hidden the entrance since
the days when the eleventh dynasty
reigned in Egypt. The figure of the
cow goddess is executed life-size in
painted limestone, the bjdy being a
reddish-brown with black spots; the
head, horns and part of the body had
been gilded. The walls of the little
sanctuary are covered with bas re
liefs of Thothmes 111., which are ex
pected to reveal many aspects of the
Hathor cult which have been previ
ously unknown, and behind the head
of the statue is the cartouche of
Amenhepte 11., the son of Thothmes
111. So priceless was the discovery
that Dr. Naville at once communicated
with the Egyptian government, who
proceeded to effectually guard it be
fore removal to the Ghi.:eli museum
at Cairo. The sacred ccw has been
declared by many critics to be the
most perfect specimen oi animal life
on modern or ancient sculpture.
ner, 13 miles away, and disposed of
eight cases. He walked a mile from
the courtroom to the railroad station.
His figure is erect and his step firm.
His regular bill of fare is some
thing like this: Morning, oatmeal and
rich milk, the oatmeal being cooked
for at least eight hours; at noon, beef
steak, roast mutton or roa3t lamb,
with a single hot, mealy baked potato,
no other vegetables; at night, a sim
ple gruel made from an Infant's food.
"This rigid care in regard to diet
seems to bo necessary to keep in
good working order, and I much pre
fer to forego the pleasures of the ta
ble in order to keep the bodily pow
ers in excellent working condition.
Formerly I drank strong coffee, but
now drink no coffee at all. Through
out my life I have made it a point
to get great abundance of outdoor ex
ercise. I have always walked a great
deal, and played outdoor games."
Desert Air Beneficial.
A physician has discovered that the
air of the Egyptian desert is about as
free from bacterial life as the Polar
regions or the high seas. He consid
ers the desert would prove an excel
lent place for people suffering from
rheumatism or consumption to take
up their abode.
Serum for Whooping Cough.
Dr. Bordet, chief physiclap at the
Brabant Pasteur institute, has in
formed the Belgian academy that he
has positively discovered a mum to
prevent whooping cough
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