Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 126, 13 March 1910 — Page 7

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ILLS. CENTRAL IS CAUSE OF COIITEST

Fight Will Be as Fierce as One Waged by Harriman and Fish. WANT TO OUST HARAHAN PREPARATIONS FOR THE BIG STRUGGLE HAVE BEEN IN PROGRESS FOR OVER A1 MONTH, WALL STREET HEARS. (American News Service) New York, March 12. A fight for the control of the Illinois Central as bitter as that between the late E. H Harriman and Stuyvesant Fish, is im minent, it was learned today in Wall street. The opponents of the Harrl man Interests are laying their plans to oust J. T. Harahan, who was made president of the road when Harriman defeated Fish in the first contest, and ex-Judge Robert S. Lovett, successor of Harriman In the leadership of the latter'B projects, will shortly be forced to Struggle for continued ascendancy in the Illinois Central. Preparations for the fight have been under way for a : month. A corps of experts has been going over the books of the company at the offices in Chicago. The object of this is to show in dollars and cents the results of the Harriman-Harahan regime. The move for an examination of the

accounts was taken by a committee of ;

the directors. 1 The result, it Is believed, will be a vigorous attempt within a short time after the experts report is complete, to nut out of office some of the highest officers, including President Harahan. Could Draw Pension. Mr. Harahan would be entitled to a pension of $10,000 a year if he held office till 1913, when he will be 70 years old, but his retirement now would leave him without a pension. His salary is $4O,0O0. He took office in 190O. The opponents of the Harriman interests hope to show that the management of the road has not been finan cially successful under Harahan. The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley road, a subsidiary, for the first tme in its history, failed to earn full interest on the $:30,000,X)0 bonds in the fiscal year ending June , UMix In l'JOtt its profit and loss account showed a debit balance though when Fish left office it had a credit balance of ,0 . Another subsidiary, the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas, has been burdened with $28,17 ASiXi bonds. The debt from subsidiary companies to the Illinois Central has grown In two years $1 ,9oS,.5.S, reaching ,:j,4l!,422. It is claimed by HaraharTs opponents that the main road shows up no better, though the system of bookkeeping has been so radically changed that comparison with former years is difficult. They also say its physical condition has deteriorated. DENIES THE REPORT. Chicago, March 12. I'm tired of hearing these nonsensical rumors. Mr. Peabody and I are in thorough harmony as to the methods of conducting the Illinois Central. I have no intention of resigning." This was the answer President Harahan today telegraphed from New York to the reports that he and Charles A. insist

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Peabody were at war over the methods of running the road. BANKER A CONVICT (American News Service! Pittsburg, Pa., March 12. William W. Ramsey, former president of the German National bank, is now a convict in the Western penitentiary at Riverside. He began serving today his sentence of 18 months imprisonment imposed as a result of his conviction on the charge of conspiracy in connection with the depositories ordinance. CASE HEARING END (American News Service) Albany, N. Y.. March 12. Handwriting experts will probably be the last witnesses in the senate investigation in the bribery charges against Senator Jotham P. Allds when the hearing is begun Tuesday. Meanwhile the principals and jurors are taking a much needed rest over the week end. Allds' case and the fight over his successor as president protempore, resulted in a victory for Senator Cobb. Both sides in the Allds case, however, are prepar ing for the summing up. 2,000 acres of good land lt miles south of Minot, N. Dakota. Will sell it in a bunch or will sell part at $20 per acre at your own terms. This land is good black soil and can not be beat in any state and will grow anything in the grain line and two crops will pay for the land. Address C. G. Richards, Minot, N. Dakota. 0-13

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CAUSES MUCH TALK James A. Patten Incident Causes All Kinds of Comment Yesterday.

PRESS CALLS HIM SASSY (American News Service) Liverpool, March 12. The mobbing of James A. Patten, the Chicago wheat multimillionaire by the brokers on the Manchester cotton exchange has arous. ed a storm of condemnation throughout England. Every effort to wipe out the effect of the Manchester incident has been made. One of the most prominent merchants of Liverpool today received this cablegram from a New York friend: Is the report of the treatment of Patten at Manchester true? England pretends to friendship with America, but would heathenish China be guilty o fthis? Patten is one of America's purest men." The Liverpool merchant replied: ' Report is substantially correct. Liv erpool resents Manchester's treatment of Patten and the best Manchester men are ashamed and personally feel the discourtesy strongly." It is understood here that the Man chester exchange will order an inves tigation. The comments in the English press in London and elsewhere on the Man Chester incident, however, show no sympathy for Patten. The Westmin ster Gazette of London, calls his visit to the Manchester exchange "impu dence" and the Pall Mall Gazette de nounces his operations in America. The business men generally deprecate the mob action, however. g&KDK

"FIRST CHlLLffiFfTS'-BWrer Sheets of Horn Protected the Pages From Soiled Fingers. The earliest English book for children was The Babies Book, or a Lyttl Report of How Young People Should Behave." The horn books existed In Elizabeth's reign. The writing was covered with a sheet of horn In order to protect the lettering from contact with dirty fingers. The chap book contained most of the familiar nursery rhymes and stories which have appertained to nursery lore for generations. They exhibit Tery crude woodcuts, often daubed

with Inappropriate color, and the commonest paper as a rule was used. They were hawked about by the chapman or peddler and cost only a few pence apiece. They served to perpetuate such familiar ditties as "Sing a Song of Six pence." wtucn uates trom me sixteenth century; "Three Blind Mice." In use. with music, in 1009; "The Frog and the Mouse." In existence in 1580. and "Girls and Boys Come Out to Play," which was sung by the villagers In the time of Charles II. "Little Jack Ilorner." we know, is older than the seventeenth century, and last, but not least. "Lucy Locket." the tune from which originated "Yankee Doodle." A few of what were called "battledoor books' have been handed down to us. They were three leaved cards which were folded up into oblong pocket shaped volumes. These taught reading and numerals In the dame schools In town and country. The little gilt books, as they were called, adorned on the outside with gilt Dutch paper colored Dowers, were mucn prized gift books of that period. Children were employed coloring such picture books by hand, one child doing all the red in the series of illustrations, another all the blue, and so on. Of course they gained precision by repetition, but we very often find the tints overlapping as If carried out by an inexperjenoedJiMid DKIAIL

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