Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 307, 12 September 1909 — Page 1

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Harriman to Be Laid to His Last Rest at Arden Today Without Display and in Simple Cemetery. MORGAN, JR., SUCCESSOR SO THINKS WALL ST.

Great J. Pierpont and the "Wizard" Arranged Their Differences at Recent Conference at Arden. (American News Service) Arden, N. Y., Sept. 11. The vast fortune of B. H. Harriman, which the great financier preserved so zealously during his life, the untold millions la accumulation of which he lost his health and to defend which he braved an exhausting voyage across the ocean, even when the hand of death was upon him, is still guarded by his foresight, and the immense body of his estate is to be preserved Intact many years by his command. , "I want the Arden estate completed according to the plans. I have arrang ed that all my interests be conserved as a unit so long as will be advantageous to my heirs,", said Harriman to one of his managers shortly after his arrival home from Europe. Estate for the Son. Harrlman's eldest son Is still a mere bov. and It is presumed that the dying father aimed to preserve the estate without depletion until the young man was old enough to assume capable command of the tremendous inter Mt which he will inherit. It is known that Harriman makes bountiful, provision for all . his blood kin and also bestows large sums on charitable Institutions. Harriman will be buried tomorrow in the simple little church yard at Arden. There will be no display. Asida from the steel lined mahogany coffin the funeral will cost less than five hundred dollars. Rival Interests Merged. Wall street has settled down to ths conviction that J. P. Morgan, Jr., is to succeed Harriman as chairman of the executive committee of the Union Pacific and that Robert S. Lovett will 'succeed to the presidency of the company. This report is strengthened today by the development that a week before Harrlman's death, J. Pierpoat Morgan visited him, and the two great masters of finance and transportation calmly composed their differences with an understanding that the Morgan Interests were to enter the Union Pacific should death overtake Harriman. The report was further strengthened by the renewed evidences that the elder Morgan was continuing to buy heavily of Union Pacific securities. Just what his accumulations amount to thus far Is a matter of conjecture. It is believed they are already heavy enough to enable him to control the election of two directors to be chosen at the annual meeting October 12, to succeed Harriman and Rogers. A combination, it is said, will then be formed by the loyal Harriman men on the board and the two new Morgan directors. S At a meeting of the board Monday it is expected that no business will be transacted. Its only object, Judge Lovett declared today, is to adopt appropriate resolutions on the death of Harriman. Attitude of Kuhn Loeb. rr attitude of Kuhn. Loeb and company is a matter of peculiar intermit tn both factions. That concern Is custodian of the proxies of stockhold ers. In a statement lssuea mriaay, that firm Is makdng a second appeal to stockholders to forward promptly their proxies for the October meetin of the board. It is said that "it is an nnunced that Kuhn. Loeb & Co., the National City bank interests and other leading interests are acting In unison in th Union Pacific affairs." , Fmr was expressed on "Wall street today that this may Indicate the for mation of a pact between the National mv Mid Kuhn. Loeb banks to "mix things" with Morgan in the latter's attempt to get control of the Union Pacific with a view to carrying out Harrl man's policy to the letter. Such a battle would be fierce." Its consennences would be so terrific that con servatlve financiers are inclined to believe it will not occur. Besides, it la Generally thought that Morgan has al ready acquired enough stock of his own, which pooled with the holdings of Harriman and the Harriman party, win easily air him control. Not one word could be obtained to day from the Morgan bank concerning this plan. , At the Union Pacific headquarters no one would talk. THE WEATHER PROPHET, INDIANA Increasing cloudiness and warmer Sunday wlth possibly ' showers in afternoon or night.

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BALLIHGER WILL MEET V1CKERSHAM Head of Interior Department Goes to Consult With Attorney General. THE ALASKAN LAND CASES CONSTERNATION FELT WHEN IT WAS LEARNED THAT PRESIDENT TAFT HAD TURNED MATTER OVER TO PROSECUTOR. (American News Service) Washington, Sept. 11. Secretary Ballinger of the Interior department hurried from Washington today to meet Attorney General Wickersham at New York. It is believed there that he has gone there to give verbal' and more ' detailed information concerning the Alaskan coal land cases. These have been referred by Taft to Wicker--1- M 1 .1 n 1 Buiuu iur mvesiisaiiuu. Balllnger's hasty departure has given renewed interest to the Cunningham coal land cases and the old Bal-linger-Plnchot controversy. It is believed here that Wickersham's investigation caused the special summons for Ballinger and developments are expected. Friends of Ballinger were surprised over the delay by President Taft in settling the controversy between Ballinger and Pinchot and Alaskan coal land cases after Balllnger's Dersonal conference with the presi dent and his reports supporting the officials in his department. It created consternation when it became known that President Taft had turned the matter over to the prosecuting branch of the government. A conservative ODinion is. that the president is handling this case with his usual caution and giving square deal for all concerned. KNAPP IS RECOVERING. L. B. Knapp the Pennsylvania brakeman, who was severely injured the first of the week by falling off or a fast freieht in the yards at Cincin nati, is recovering rapidly at his home 29 South Sixteenth street. It is very nrobable that he will be able to re sume his duties again Monday. Knann Is still unable to remember anything or the accident that beteil him.

THE VALUE OF ONE PRICE

Go into a clothing store and ask to look at a suit of clothes. Pick one out that you like, but tell the merchant that you can't buy it because it costs $18.00 and you can only afford to pay $15.00. Should the merchant cut his price? NO. If he does, how do you know but what he would sell the same suit to some one else for $5 off. Another point to consider is that If the merchant could afford to sell you the suit at $3 off, he is not on the square in asking $18.00 in the first place. Why did he not mark the suit at its lowest selling price? Because he wanted to skin you out of the $3. If he couM afford to sell you the suit at $15, you can rest assured that you are only buying a $15 suit for that $15, not an $18 one. And maybe you are only getting a $10 suit for $15, who knows. Now to come down to the real point in this story. What would you think of a newspaper that will give one merchant one - rate on advertising and another merchant a lower rate for the same amount of space? If you were the merchant, wouldn't you have the eame feeling as the man who bought the suit. Shouldn't the merchant think that the newspaper did not have the circulation it claimed. The Palladium treats all merchants alike. It has its rates printed on the back of every contract and all'- the - merchants know that it is useless to ask for a less rate. The Palladium's circulation averages over 5,400 net and over 5,600 gross. This Is by far the largest circulation of any paper issued la Richmond, : ;. V

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Group of explorers who have long Anthony Fiala, Duke De Abruzzi, (top), Frederick A. Cook -(the top), Solomon BLACKBIRDS A PEST Desert Friends' Church Jard, And Take Up Roost on N. Seventeenth St. A DISTURBING ELEMENT Despite the Audubon societies, the anti-Roosevelt movement and the game laws, the blackbird must go declare residents of North Twelfth and Seventeenth street, where the ebony col ored denizens of the tree tops hold nightly carnivals. For a number of years the old Quaker church yard on North A) street between Eleventh and Twelfth has been the favorite meeting place for the pests, but recently they have vacated these quarters somewhat and taken up their new abode on North Seventeenth street in front of Frank Weaver's residence. The birds are a great nuisance. The racket they make on going to roost is quite enough, it is said, but they keep up their incessant and nerve-racking clattering at all hours of the night, when some member of the blackbird colony, perhaps, rudely jostles against his neighbor, awakening him from his peaceful slumbers and causing the entire tribe to rise up in arms against such an indignity. IMPORTANT MEETING. The Sons of Veterans will hold an important meeting Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the court house.

sought the North Pole, and the discoverers. From left to right shows: Walter Wellman (in the center), Fridjgrff Nan sen (at bottom). Dr. August Andre (in circle), and Robert E. Peary.

PRESIDENT NAMES TARIFF EXPERTS Board Authorized by Payne I Tariff Bill Will Assist Taft """ With Mew Law. YALE PROFESSOR IS HEAD DR. EMERY, CHAIRMAN, WITH JAMES REYNOLDS OF MASS., AND ALVIN SANDERS OF CHICAGO AS OTHER TWO. Beverly, Mass., Sept. 11. President Taft, this afternoon named the following board of tariff experts to assist him in the execution of the new tariff law: Prof. Henry Emery of Yale, chairman, James Reynolds of Massa chusetts and Alvln Sanders of Chicago, proprietor of the Breeders Gazette. This is the board of experts authorized by the Payne tariff bill. It will be known as the foreign Tariff Board. It is the outgrowth of a demand for a permanent tariff commission. The president believes he has power under the provision to get from the board valuable information re sulting from their investigations to assist him In any further revision of the tariff that may be needed and in a downward direction. MAYOR IS INVITED Schillinger Asked to Take Part In Celebration of St. Louis Civic League. COMMISSION GOVERNMENT Mayor R. A. Schillinger has received an invitation from the executive committee of the SL Louis Centennial association and Civic League of that city to attend the ' meeting of mayors of United States municipalities October 3-9. Mayor Schillinger has not decided as yet whether or not to accept the proposition. The commission form of govern ment for municipalities will be the most important subject discussed, at the meeting ' of the mayors. ': Richmond is very much Interested in this plan because of the city water works municipalization plan at the present time. Des Moines and Galveston, two of the leading cities of the United States have this form of government. ADVISORY BOARD REPORTS. Reports of the township advisory boards which met Tuesday afternoon, and fixed the tax levies of their respective townships, have ' been filed with county auditor Demas Coe, Not all of the reports are filed with the county auditor as yet. The total levies of the different townships which have been filed with Mr. Coe are as follows: Abington, S3 cents; Boston $1; Green, 95 cents; Perry, $1.56; Harri son 91 cents; Clay 85 cents; New Gar den, I1.44.

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Speed Made by Peary Shows To Them That Cook Was Not Stretching Truth. SUSPICIONS ARE EXPLODED (American News Service) 1 Berlin, Sept. 11. Commander Robert K. Peary's story of the discovery of the north pole has excited the widest interest. Germany, however, had already rather definitely aligned itself on the side of Dr. Cook, although as far as dan be judged, without any more vital reason than that Dr. Cook's parents had the good fortune to be bora in the fatherland and emigrated as children to the United States, where they Americanized their family and name from Koch to Cook. Count Henkel von Donnersmarck, the Kaiser's minister at Copenhagen, on behalf of the Duke of MiecklenburgSchwerin, the president of the German Geographical society has formally invited Dr. Cook to address the society in Berlin. Count von Donnersmarck presented the invitation to Mr. Cook through the American minister at Copenhagen, who invited him to meet Dr. Cook at a luncheon at the legation oa Thursday. Dr. Otto Baschin, the curator of the geographical institute university in Berlin, makes a comparative tabulation of Dr. Cook's and Commander Peary's speed records and finds Commander Peary's story "confirms" Dr. Cook in that the commander traveled much faster to and from the pole than Dr. Cook and therefore explodes the suspicions levelled against Dr. Cook of the alleged impossibility of his rate of progress. MOURNERS INJURED - - . Twenty Persons Seriously Hurt When Train Strikes a 'Street Car. FIVE PERHAPS FATALLY (American News Service) St Louis, SepL 11. Twenty persons on their way to the SL Peter and St Paul cemetery were InjurW, five seriously, when the Missouri Pacific switch engine struck a street ear on the Oa Hill railroad grade crossing on Gravois avenue this afternoon. All UIIFA1THFUL WIFE Chas. M. Robinson Granted a Divorce by Judge Fox. A divorce was granted Charles M. Robinson of this city, by Judge Fox yesterday afternoon from his wife Bessie Robinson, now a resident of College Corner. Desertion and unfaithfulness were the grounds on which -Jthe plaintiff obtained the divorce.

Anti-Tuberculosis League to

Be Formed With a Branch In Every County. WORK THROUGH CHURCHES THE PUBLIC MARINE AND PITAL SERVICE OF THE ERNMENT HAS MAPPED THE NEEDED PLANS. HOSGOV OUT Washington, Sept. 11. The public health and marine hospital service has asked that a colored utJ.tnhrmiini , . . . . . ,A. league be organized in Indiana with ml nrancn in every county ana unaer the j county organization, a oranch in every coiorea enure n. The federal health authorities, hope to have such a, pro-1 gram carried . out ' in every state in which there are any considerable number of colored people. In a call issued today by the marine hospital service the suggestion is made that there need be little ceremony in organizing a state league. A few leading colored men and women, the call says, from different parts of the state ought to meet and proceed to organize the state league. A vice president for each county is suggested. The vice president for a county would then organize the county league, which in turn would effect the church organization. The hospital service suggested further that membership in the church leagues should not be confined to members of the church. The object of the movement is to hunt out the consumptives among the colored people, with the view of stamping out the disease. "The list of sick should be most carefully guarded," says the call, "and no one allowed to see it but the officers of the league and the health officers." Each church league, If the hospital service program is carried out will have two physicians. Last year, as an experimental step, a few of the southern states were organized in this way and, according to the hospital service, great good is being accomplished. The hospital service has not the funds with which to send organizers into the states, and so must depend on public spirited colored men and women taking the initiative. ASKS HEBJEM0V1L Chas. Woodhurst Alleges That His Sister Has Proceeded Illegally. ADMINISTRATRIX OF ESTATE It will be a case of brother against sister when Judge Fox of the circuit court decides on the merits of a peti tion, filed by Charles Woodhurst ask ing that his sister, Miss Mary Wood hurst be removed as administratrix of the estate of their father, the late Theodore Woodhurst who was a well known real estate dealer. It Is charg ed by Mr. Woodhurst that his sister sold property without an inventory being taken, buried her father in a lot other than the family lot in Earlbam cemetery, and had contracted to spend too much money for a monument She had not obtained orders from the court which would permit her to take the action which she is alleged to have taken and which Mr. Woodhurst says is against the best interests of those concerned. A new motoring veil is of very pale gray, showing a wreath, in it as large as a dinner plate with, pink; figures.

Mrs. Peary Says That Francke

Wrote Asking Her to Pay $5,000 for Them to Mrs. Cook and End the Matter. ABSOLVES COMMANDER OF ALL UGLY CHARGES MADE Feels That He Will Be Able to Prove That He Did Not Open Cook's Letters and Steal His Arctic Plans. Sidney, Sept, 11. -Rudolph Francke wrote me two letters, stating that If I sent $5,1X10 to Mrs. Frederick A. Cook, wife of the explorer,-there would be no further trouble, With great reluctance Mrs. Peary made this statement tonight. It was In reply to the charges made by Francke that Commander Peary had opened, read and even altered letters entrusted by Cook to Francke. In these letters, it was asserted were the plans of Cook and his reports of his progress toward the pole. "I am exceedingly loathe to speak concerning this matter," said Mrs. Peary. "It is only because my hus band has been attacked and the public as a result may draw the wrong conclusions of the affair, that I come to his defense. I had hoped to keep entirely aloof from this most unfor tunate controversy. "Now, let me explain. After Francke had returned from the Arctic circle he began to make trouble by saying my husband had stolen Dr. Cook's furs. He even said that my husband had round them at Etan ana seni inem as iQ frlendg n Unlted staes. Francke's Return and His Letter. nv.n.v MtnnuJ nn th Kri Ha had left Dr. Cook and after several futile efforts to get south, he was taken care of by Mr. Peary, and given transportation aboard the Erie. It was on the Erie, Francke asserted, that Dr. Cook's furs were sent south by m husband. "After Francke had reached New York I received a letter from him 1 German. In it he made the accusations which I have alluded to. lie further stated that some men, who were themselves scoundrels had noble wives. For that reason, he hoped, thst I would see that there was Justice." "The furs which he ssld belonged to Dr. Cook were certainly worth 15,000, and if that amount of money was paid to, Mrs. Cook, there would be no further talk. . I did not answer ' his letter and some time later I received another from Francke. The second was written in English. To Ridiculous to Discuss. V "As to the charge that Mr. Peary would steal furs or anything else be longing to Dr. Cook is too absurd to discuss. I know he will explain everything satisfactorily when he comes. "Ridiculous also In the statement. renortekl to hare been made by Francke that Commander Peary opened Dr. Cook's letters. It has been said that ainaavits nave oeen maae by Francke and Joseph White making this accusation. Now do you think It probable that if Commander Peary Intended to do such an evil thing, he would have done it in the presence of two witnesses. "The only Cook letters that I know anything about were written by Mrs. Cook to her husband. At her request my husband carried them North on the Roosevelt "It is a pity my husband's great achievement should be lnvotred1 In such bitter controversy. He has struggled for nearly a quarter of a century to win this victory-" When Herbert I Bridgman. sec retary or tne reary Arcuc ciuo, was asked concerning Francke s threat to sue Mrs. Peary, he replied: "Francke's charges will be absolutely disproved by Peary." HCITIOII IS BIDED Earl Huntington Back at Reg ular Job uenina tne tsars. Earl Huntington, who spends most of his time in the Wayne county Jail, was arrested last night by Patrolman Lawler on South Fifth and E streets. The only charge held against Huntington is being out of Jail. He was arrested on July 24 for drunk bat made his escape at that time and ed" from the city. There Is a fad for watch fobs of leather. Whether in the shape of a bracelet for the wrist or fastened to the lapel of the smart tailored coat or worn suspended from the bait of tho shirt waist girt .. ,