Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1909, Page 33

VOL. XXXIX—NO. 2 OMAHA -SUNDAY ‘THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. MO G, DECEMBER 1909 PART SIX WOMEN PAGES 1 TO 8. COPY FIVE CENTS. PROGRAM FOR CORN SHOW Succession of Events Planned for Big Exposition is Announced. WILSON SPEAKS AT OPENING Secretary of Agriculture d Presis dent Dinz Offer Greetings on First Day—Mexican Band Concert. The official program for the entire time of the National Corn exposition Is out and shows that ail three of the large halls will be kept in constant use. The Mexican band will play its concerts on the second floor of the Auditorfum and the meetings of the National Corn assoclation will be held in the large room which has been made-by aading a second story to the stage of the anditorium. Following is the program from December 6 to December 1t Ope; Day. Monday, December 6. 00 a. m—Gates formally opened. 3 p. m—Mexican National band. 2:00 p. m—Music hail. Introductory remarks by President Gur- don W. Wattles. Address of welcome, Mayor James C. Dahlman. Greetings from James Wilson, secretary of agriculture. Greetings from President Diaz Mexico. Response, President Eugene D. Funk of the National Corn asgocjation. 4:00 p. m.—~Concert, Mexican National band. $:00 p. m.—Conecert, National Mexican band. Address by Governor Shafroth. - Woman's Day. ‘Tuesday, December 7—Blograph hall. a m.—Round table discussion on ‘Special Life in the Country,” led by state presidents of the Jowa, Kansas, Ilinols and Nebraska Federations of ‘Woman's Clubs; Mrs. W. G. Whitmore, president of hogie economies department of Affiliated ricultural Socletles of Nebraska, pre H 1:30 p. m.—Concert, Mexican Natlonal band. 2:00 p. m—Music hall. Mrs. F. H, Cole, president of the Ne- braska Federation of Woman's Club: presiding. “The States' Ald; Woman's Clubs,” Mrs. Frances D. Everett, president of the 1llinols Federation of Woman's Clubs. of “Good_Citizenship as Influenced by Home Training,” Mrs. Julian M. Rich- ards, president lowa ~Federation of ‘Woman's Clubs. and Playgrounds,” Mrs. C. C, president Kansas Federation of ‘Woman's Clubs. “Value of Organization,” Mrs. C. G. Higbee, president Minnesota Federation. 4:00 p. m.—Concert, Mexican National band. 8:00 p. m.—Concert, Mexican National band, Travelogue_Lecture. OTHER MEETINGS. American Soclety of Agronomy, at Hotel ml Corn Association Day. Wednesday, December 8—Music hall. 9.3 a. m.—Henry Wallace, editor of Wal- lace’s Farmer, presidin 'rogress of Organized Agriculture; testimony as offe! rious state vice presidents of the Natlo Corn as- loclulm;. regarding the development and work of organizations promoting corn and small grain improvement in their respective_states. 1:30 p. m.—Music hall, + _ “Conservation of Qur Sell,” Cyril G. Hopkins, professor of agronomy, Univer- ¢ sity of Illinols. 3:00 p. m.~“Soll Fertllity and Live Stock,’ Joseph E. Wing of the Breeders' Gazet 4:00 p. m.—Concert, Mexican National band. ]:fl_lp. m.—Concert, Mexican Natiohal band. ravelogue lecture, *' the Pacifio, at Honolulu and Through Japan,” G. W. Wattles. OTHER MEETINGS. A;'n:rllun Boclety of Agronomy at Rome . hatel. American Breeders' association at Rome hotel. Live Stock Day. Tuesday, December 8—N. C. A. hall. 10:30 p. m.—“Clovers,” Prof. Thomas Shaw, editor of the Dakota Farmer. ‘Relation of the Native Grasses to the ‘West and Live Stock Show at Denve 1:30 p. m—Mexican National band. 00 p. m—Music hall ‘;]. V&(':. Wattles mpfllld.nl of the Na- tional Corn exposition, presiding. Address, James J. Hill, chalrman of the Great Northern rallway. s p.m.-lllustrated lecture, Live Stock and_Agriculture in Argentina,” Herbert Imford, professor of animal indus- try, University of Illinots. @0 p. m.—Concert, Mexican National band. ) p. m.—Concert, Mexican National ban nd motion pictures, “President Taft MLive Stock Exposition, Seattle. OTHER MEETINGS. Breglers' assoctation, Educational Day. Friday, December 10—-Music hall. 10:% a. m.—A. E. Hildebrand, suj nten- dent of Junior department, presiding. “"Nebraska Boys' and Girls' Work,” B C. Bishop, Nebraska state superintendent of publie instruction. . 1:3 p. m.—~Concert, Mexican National band, £:00 p. m.—Music hall, W. H. Davidson pre- siding. ‘Agricultural and Industri Iinols,” E. G. Blair, 1llinols intendent. \ Other exerclses by schools. 4:0 p. m.—Blograph hall, Superintendent ¥. C. Bishop presiding. “Bducation of Girls for Efficlency in the Home," Anuna Lois Barbre, county superintendent, Christian county, Illinols. “Missourl Corn Boys,” S. M. Jordan. 4:00 p. m.-Music hall. Concert by Mexican National band. $:0 p. m.—Concert by Mexican National band and travelogue lecture. Nebraska University Day. Saturday, December 11. 10:00 &. m.—N. C. A. hall. “Corn, Better Quality,” Prof. B C. Montgomery of Nebraska. “Corn, More Bushels per Acre,” Prof. M. L. Bowman of Towa. 100 p. m.—Music hall. Concert by Mexican National band. 200 p. m~—~Dean E. A, Burnett of Ne- braska, pres'ding. ‘University and the State,” Chancellor Samuel Avery. “Fertility of Nebraska Seil” W. G. Coupland, member of Board of Regents. 4:0 p. m.~Conoert, Mexican National hand, 4:00 p. m.—~Coneert by exican National band and Corn Huskers' Glee club. Music Levers’ Day. Sunday, December 13—-Music hall. p. m.—Concert, Mexican National band. 00 p. m.—~Music ‘hall. Concert by the Mexican Nat band. Dry Farming Day. Monday. December 15-N. C. A, hall. 10:00 a. m.—Program In charge of Prof. Al- fred Atkinson of Montana . 4 Amerfean Rome. Hotel * 1:30 p. m.—~Musle hall. Concert National band. b Meainn 200 p. m.—“Pure Seeds,” Dr. David Fair- Id, Department of Agrieuiture. bell, Lincoln, Neb. 4:0 p. m.~Concert, Mexican National hand $:00 p. m.—Concert by Mexican National band and travelogue lecture. igation Day. Tuesday. December 14. 0:0 a. m~—N_C. A hal Program in s o.lnrnu m“l‘u-n lhzlh_l%lv of whnmlu. 4 .—Musio ‘oncert National band. AN 20 p. m. hrnls’ in the West," Ju E M. Car‘u‘:'t yoming, author of the n % Concert, Mexican National band. {0 p. m.—Concert by the Mexican Na- tional band and travelogue lecture. Geod Roads Day. Wednesday, December 15. 10:0 & m—N. C. A hall. "Good Roads,” D WVard King, inventor of the spilt log rag. ¥ “Road Improvement” M. O, Bid: Department of Awlmn. s M.‘Wy-lg Sclentific Tillage,” Prof. H. W. Camp+s 8:00 p. Travelogue lecture, Germany, Switzerland, Franc the Atlantle,” G. W. Wattles Grain Dealers’ Day. Thursday, December 15, 10:00 a. m—N. C. A. hall. “Better Qats] program in charge of Prof. R. A. Moore of Minnesota 1:90 p. m.—~Music hall. National band. 2:00 p. m—"How to Avold Agricultural Bankrupt: President J. H. Worst of North Dakota Agricultural college. 4:00 p. m.—Concert, Mexican National band. #:00 p. m—Music hall. Concert by Mexican National band. Travelogue lecture. Special delegations from the Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louls, Kansas City and Buffalo Boards of Trade will visit the ex- m.—Concert, Mexican National band. “Siberia, Russia, and Across Concert by Mexican position. Wheat Day. Friday, December 17.° 10:00 a. m.—N. C. ‘A. hall. “Better Whea program in charge of Prof. A. M. Ten Eyck of Kansas, 1:30 p. m.—~Concert, Mexican National band. 2:00 p. m.— “Bringing the Sea to the Farm, Governor John Burke, president of Mis- sourf River Navigation congress. 4:00 p. m.~Music hall. Concert by Mexican National band. p. m.—~Music hall. Natlonal band. Travelogue lecture. Closing Day. Saturday, December 18. 10:00 a. m.—N. G. A. hall. Program charge of President Eugene D. Funk. 1:%0 p. m.—Music hall. Concert by Mexican National band. 4:00 p. m.—Music hall. National ban 8:00 p. m.—Concert, Mexican Travelogue lecture. WIFE AND BABIES SAVE MAN FROM JAIL TERM More Unfortunate Than Bad, Young Husband is Released in Sympathy. “Yes, 1 collected some money. I couldn’t stand to see my children starve,” said H. C. Patterson of 1427 North Seventeenth street, arraigned in police court to answer a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. To his wife's tears and the prattie of his little 3-year-old daughter Patterson owes is escape of a jall sentence and may es- Concert by Mexican in Concert by Mexican ational band. |cape prosecution on further charges. Patterson was brought into court on com- plaint of the C. F. Adams company, dealers in household goods on the installment plan, by whom he had for some time prior to Ootober 13 been employed as collector. W. §. Willlams, manager for the company, sald that Patterson on October 20, after being dismissed by the Adams company, had collected §1 from Mrs. M. Harris on the representation he was still In the em- ploy of the concern. There were a groat many similar cases, sald the witness, and it s figured Patterson's collections amounted to upward of $50. Mrs. Harrls identified the accused as the man she had paid the dollar to and pro- duced his receipts. Patterson made & defense by denying he had made any collections after leaving the employ of the company, whereat a fifteen- day sentence was imposed. Patterson was led away and it was thought the case was ended. ) ) Informed by Willidm, Nowever, that Pat- terson had a wife and tiree little children who were in straightened circumstances, the court decided to investigate. Mrs. Patterson and one of thelr children, a girl of 3 years, Wwere in the back of the court room. Mrs. Patterson sobbed inces- santly, while the innocent tot ran hither and thither, occasionally calling for papa. Calling the wite to the bench Judge Craw- ford proceeded to question her with refer- ence to her husband’s treatment of her and the children as how he provided for thern, He's always been the best husband in the world to me,” said the woman. *He RISE OF TELEPHONE COMBINE lQuiet Beginnings, Growth and Ab- sorption of Western Union, LITTLE FISH SWALLOWS BIG ONE A Tale that is Now Told for the First w it Centers Around Company’'s First Organizer. First Article, A. Bullock in Boston Transcript. which runs directly ry This is a story counter, to the ordinarily accepted theory of evolution. The-big fish did not swal- low the little fish, but the little fish grew large and strong, and now at the end of thirty years is In process of swallowing the big one. The big fish is the Western Union—the little fish' used to be the Bell Telephone company, although in these later days of Its strength and magnitude |we must know it as the American Tele- |phone and Telegraph company. We are |going to see how it all came about and |the story may take on a little Interest be- yond that of the narrative itself if we remember that it has never been told be- fore, but is now put together, so far concerns the telephone, from a wide va- riety of data, gleaned from many first- lhand sourcy S0 right here, at the beginning, let us pay our respects to Theedore N, Vall, the big man of the telephone world, who steered the little old Bell Telephone syn- |dicate through its earliest days when the telephone business was largely made up of the hope and hustle of less than half a dozén enthuslasts, then went on his way down to the southern countries to bulld him a fortune of many millions, while he bullt street rallroads and lighting plants for Argentina and Brasil, and now is come back again to take the headship of the great system that he helped to found, grown into one of the greatest of cor- porations even in these days of mam- moth aggregations of capital. The bil- lton-dollar telephone trust is not a phrase |which presents any great degree of ex- geration; a company which can show actual assets that are $86,000,000 in ex- cess of its capital obligations of $600,000,- 000 held by the public, does not have to expand so very much farther to,reach the billfon-dollar stage. Fat at the Start. And when the telephone trust gets there it will have one Ilmportant distinguishing feature from other §1,000,000,000 propositions of which we have heard in the last half- dozen years. It will not be a company which has had to grow Tp Into its capitali- zation while its security holders walted hungry for dividends or interest. Its bonds and notes have never been in default; ite stock has always borne substantial returns, and Its entire capital today, &s soon &s a pending bond conversion plan is completed, will represent cash paid in to an amount exceeding the entire par value of all of the securities outstanding. It is a bit difficult to know where to begin -this story of telephone development, whether from the corporate end or from the personal. Perhaps the latter starting point 1s better, because & corporation after all stands for the personality of the men who have controlled it, and nothing fllus- trates this better than the history of the Gould-managed Western Union and that of the Bell telephone. There are a few men now living who remember the beginning of the latter stoty, although the history of the telograph has been written and rewritten and its traditions are intermingled insepa- rably with those of the great struggle to | preserve the union. The telephone came has had hard luck. Every Saturday nightiniy existence and found its first develop- he has been giving me every cent he earned. This {s the first time he ever got into trouble.” = “How have you been supporting yourself and bables since he Iost his job?' ques- tioned the court. “I have been working, taking in washing and helping around the house to earn §1 & day,” sald the little woman amid her sobs. Calling Patterson back into the court room the judge had a talk with him. “Patterson, you have got yourself in a pretty bad fix. For the sake of your good wife and little bables I am going to sus- pend that sentence discharge you. Go home and take care of your wife and show yourself to be a man." DAPPER BOOK AGENT LANDS . IN DOUGLAS COUNTY JAIL —_— York residents, people In Aberdeen, 8. D,, and in several other towns in this part of the country will be interested to learn that R. H Wertz a dapper, plausible book agent, is languishing in the Douglas county Jall. Deputy sheriffs caught Wertz at the Oma ho The arrest was made three hours after the arrival of & telegram from Sheriff John Anderson of Aberdeen, say- ing that he wanted Wertz on a grand larceny charge. Detalls of the Aberdeen accusation are unknown here, but the general charge inst Werts is that he sold orders, took the money and forgot to notify the houses he has represented at varlous times. Here in Omaha he last represented the Amblin- Bancker company. Before that he worked for the W. A. Hixenbaugh company. He has also been an employe of Philadelphia, Chicago and Denver book jobbers and wholesalers in stationery and news houses. He is 28 years of age. One complaint which has been made inst him is lodged by O. M. Moore of York. BOY HAS FATHER ARRESTED Twe Soms and Man Appear in Court on the Charge of Drunk- ness. The spectacie of a father and his two sons in police court on the charge of drunkenness and fighting is & rare one Such an Incident occurred Saturday morn- ing, when Conrad Bolts and his sons, Bennle and John, were arralgned on the charge. Bennle, the youngest son, aid most of ‘the talking. “The old man was running around, so I called the wagon and had him pinched,™ he told the court. ‘Who do you mean you had pinched " “Why, my father., He was ralsing a fuss, s0 1 called the wagon.” The youth further shpwed his Alsre- spect for his aged father by telling the court that he and his brother had been taken aiong by the officers after he had told the officers to “take that guy,” mean- Ing his parent. As it was evidently a all three of the accused. ment in no such stirring times; no staff of war veterans remains to be gathéred | yearly, though in diminlshing numbers, under the auspices of a Carnegle, to tell again of tifelr service to the country, no less notable and often no less herolc than that rendered by the troops in the fleld. Four Men Who Started Telephone. Four men met In Waskington In the early seventies, from whose efforts the telephone originated. “They were, Prof. Alexander Grakam Bell, Gardiner G. Hubbard (his father-in-law) Thomas Sanders and Thomas A. Watson. The force of clreum- stances drew the four together and it was elrcumstunces merely that was responsible for the invention of the telephone. Prof. ‘Bell had none of the' commercial genius ‘| of an Edison; he was a college instructor and at that particular time was trying to invent a device which would help people of impaired hearing. He stumbled on the jdea of the telephone. He talked it over with his father-in-law, and the two told Sanders about it. Gardiner 'G. Hubbard had & good deal of the promoter in his make-up, but his capital wits limited and Prof. Bell had none of his own. Sanders was & man with some little property and Hubbard talk:d bim into a realization of the possibllities of the invention. The three men, however, found themselves badly handicapped through the lack of a mechanician. Sanders and Hubbard knew nothing of mechanics and to Prof. Bell the saying might be ap- plied that his “fingers were all thumbs, He could see how & thing ought to be dons, but could not de it himself, 0 there was added Thomas A. Watson and in Watson the trio of originators found a fourth partner who was worthy of thelr com- pany. Watson, indeed, was a mechanical genius and it was largely through his ingenuity that the mechanical detalls of the first telephone instruments were per- fected, which allowed the device to have at once a commercial value. The Story of Mr. Vall. In July, 1877, a frust or association was formed to take over the telephone in- vention, Hubbard was president and Banders was treasurer. The next year. it was determined to form two companies, one In New England which was known The New England Telephone company and another to cover the territory of the United States outside of New England, to be known as the Bell Telephone com- pany. Here was where Theodore N. Vall entered the telephone field. Among the original four men no one contributed the powers of organization. The inventor, the mechanic, the capltalists and the pro- motor—still they needed the organizer, and It was this need which led them to draft Theodore N. Vail He was barn out In Ohio in 1845 from English Quakers who had settled there from Massachusetts. His people came east when he was & boy and he got his education in the Morristown schools, winding up in the old Morristown acad. emy in New Jersey. Vall studied medi- cine for a while, then the mystery of the telegraph attracted him and Ne became an operator In New York untll he was sent out west of the Missourl river to 'work on the line of the Unien Pacific drafted into the rallway mall service, b varmae™h P8 | tamily quarrel, Judge Crawford discharged [Felirosd. Just after the civil war he was making his headquarters in Ogden, and in 1878 was brought to Washiagton Into the office of the general superintendent of rallway mails. A year later Vall was assistant superintendent. In 1875 he be- came assistant general superintendent, and in 1876 superintendent cf the rallway mall service, which he reorganized and brought to a state of efficlency that it had never before attained. Almoat everybody in Washington in those days khew Vall, a hustling young chap who was marked for lLigger things. It was not strange, therefore, that Prof. Boll and his associates should turn to Vall when they needed an organizer for the telephone business. Just as the mys- tery of the telegraph had drawn Vall from medicine Into that relatively unknown field elght or nine years before, so the mystery of the telephone attracted him away from his comfortable berth in the government service for a new experiment. His cholce was to mean much to the tele- phone. Organizing the Company. The New England Telephone compa has a capital of $200,000, of which $1,000 was | given to the telephone trust for the use of its Inventions and the balance sold for $50,000 in cash to investors in the New Eng- land territory. The Bell Telephone com- pany had a capital originally of $450,000, of which $300,000 was pald to the old trust or | association and $150.00 expended for prop- erty acquired, while the remaining $50,00 was sold for cash. The old trust repre- sented an original Investment of $50,000 by the four men who started it—and mostly by Saunders. It therefore recelved $400,000 in the securities of the New England Tele- phone company and the Bell Telephone company when those two branches first came Into existence. Let us bear this M {mind as we consider some of the later de- talls of telephone finance. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone company were transferred to New York in 1878, Mr. Hubbard belng president until suc- ceeded by William H. Forbes; Mr. Saunders and later George L. Bradley, treasurer; Mr. Vall, general manager, and one Devonshire, accountant and auditor. In February, 187, the two original companies were consoli- dated under the name of the National Bell Telephone company, organized with a capl- tal of $850,000, of which $660,000 was given share for share for the stock of the two constituent companies and $200,000_ carried in the treasury for the purposes of the corporation. The possibilities of the tele- phone were now dawning upon the country. Accordingly, its securities began to attract attention in the market and from an initial quotation of $i0 & share in May of 18, telephone stock rose to $100 the same month; $110 In June; $13 In July, and $227 by Sep- tember. . How Western Union Was Invelved. The Western Union, meantime, had be- come ope of the big corporations of Wall street. Having its original development along the lines of the rallroad, it came naturally within the Vanderbilt sphere of influence and in the later seyenties was a well established Vanderbilt eorporation ‘whose directorate was composed of men no less notable than those who managed the affairs ow the great raliroad systems. The Bell Telephone people, seeking extension and strong. alllance, made & contract wi.h the Western Unlon whereby certain hold- ings of the National Telephone com- pany were taken over.by the Western Union on a partnership basis. » It should be explained here that from the very beginwing the Bell interests, un- der the advice and guidance of Mr. Vall gave only short licenses for the use of their patents, charging rental for the In- struments. The licenses uniformly ran for & term of five vears, after which the Bell company had the right reserved to go into the field and take over the business itself, “We belleved,” said Mr. Vall In telling the writer- about this policy a few days ago, “that the Bell Interests were so v | able that we thought there was a partner- ship right in it which had value independ- ently of the patent rights. In other words, we belleved that a permanent business could be established which would outlast all patents and in that business we wanted to be partners. Therefore, Instead of seil- ing the right to use our system for so much money, or other. considerations, we would take & partnership in the business as extended, represented by a certain stock interest.” Basis of Relationship. The Western Union peopie knew per- fectly well that this was the basls om ‘which the telephone combination was ex- tending its business ‘and the basis on which certain contract rights to use the Bell system was transferred to the West- ern Unlon in 1879, along with a_certain stock interest In the National Bell Tele- phone company. The renewal contracts that were negotiated pursuant to the original contract all recognize this as the basis of the reationship. So matters con- tinued until Jay Gould got the control of the Western Union in 1581 by bluffing out the Vanderbilts in a bear campalgn on Western Unlon stock, which was as famous In its day as the great Keene raid on Third avenue was to be twenty years later. < Back In 1879, however, the making of the Western Unfon contract jumped the price of the shares of the telephone com- pany to 3600 & share. The company took advantage of this appreciation to sell out its treasury stock. The company realized $430,00 on the sale of the 2,000 shares and in the open market some months later a few shares were soid at a price as high as $1.00 each. Then came the one stock-watering opera- tlon that stands in this telephone history. Along in the eightes the American Beil Telephone company was formed under a special charter obtained in Massachusetts, and this new company bought the rights and property of the National Bell Tele- phone company, paying therefor $5,100,000 in terms of Its stock which was exchanged for the stock of the old company on the basis of six shares for one. The exchange might be held justifiable, even in these latter days, inasmuch as the last treasury stock sold by the National company brought in $800 a share. ’ Protits of First Stockholders. It may be worth while now to stop a minute and consider the rewards reaped by the early backers of the telephone. It will be recalled that the $00000 of stock in the original telephone trust represented an initlal cash investment of 340,000 an recelved from the operating companies first formed $400,00 in thelr securities. If that Stock had been sold at the prevalling high prices of the winter of 1579-80 it would have realized a little less than $4,000,000 in cash, recelved In the stock of the American B Telephone company $2,400,00, which, it | it ; [the | twice with | cause of far deeper sorrow. TRAIL OF RUINED SILK HATS Taft Tour Upset Traditions of Presi- dential Jaunts, EFFECT OF THE USE OF THE AUTO "t Partie Dress T Roosevelt——Mishaps of Committeemen—= ing by the President. r in the Matter of portant a-part as the railroad train in President Taft's Jong jaunt around the United States. Without the aid of he automobile it would have taken the presi- dent almost four Instead of two months to cover the same circuit The use of the automobile also made Taft tour unique in the history of presidential jaunts. President Rooseveit never rode In an automobile when he could get a carriage with a team of horses, and in the days of McKinley the ch choo wagon hardly had come into its own. President Roosevelt was a fairly lively Mr. of the automobile— {witness its introduction into the White |House stables—and on his trip the auto- moblle was a mighty useful friend to him. The use of the machines has, however, {knoeked & good many frills out of al presi- {dential tour. It has been a hard blow to the plug hat and the frock coat. Those who followed Mr. Tatt over the 13,000 miles realize that ehese things have no place in the up-to-date tour. Local committeemen haven't adjusted themselves to the new conditions yet, but they will. Another visit or two by Presi- dent Taft, a few more brand new silk hats spolled at $8 a hat and even the committeeman will revolt. . End of the Plug. The president and all the members of his party started out from Boston with the idea that the old plug hat was to be & vital part of the Taft show, just as it had been on every other tour of the natlon's chiet executive. A fifteen-mile aufomo- bile ride through streets of Chicago on the first day out started a different train of thought. Those who occupled the m chines toward the end of the long p cession felt much more strongly on the subject than the ones Who had places nearer the head, but all had acquire enough Chicago real estate to make the wonder if the Inventor of he silk hat ever really intended it .to be subjected to such indlgnity. - "an .l::ombn- ride on the second day of this trip trom the center of the city of Milwaukee out to the Wisconsin state fair grounds satistied the entirs party that a dust covered plug hat was not a thing of beauty and was totally untit for a presidential parade—that ie, on an ordi- nary head. The newspaper correspond- ents after that Milwaukee trip held a meet- ing In the baggage car of tha Taft traln und, plling thelr dust stained plugs, to- gether, took a Solemn oath not to appear in them agein except by executive order. The executive order came on ouly two occasions on the 13,000-mile trip, ~ and there 18 good reason to believe that it originated each time with one of the presidents advisers, mot with the presi- dent himself. At any rate the entire troop of Taft one night standers ap- peared in full aiternoon uniform enly twice after leaving Milwaulee—at the seattle exposition and at the Taft-Diaz emonies in El Paso. Taft Not So Dressy. In this matter of dress Prasident Taft fsn’t nearly so particular as Mr. Roose- velt was, Mr. Roosevelt used to issue orders to his party in regard to their dress Defore they entered each city. The high hat and frock coat were customary unless there were wpecial Instructions. The eppret service guards, whether tramping through the dust beside the Roosevelt carriage or riding on the box with the driver, always were attired like the president himself. —President Taft didn't care a rap what his secret service men or anybody else in the party wore. One of the guards wore a khakl uniform, riding trousers, puttecs and sombrero most of the time, while the other favored a blue serge sult and ono of those new fangled soft hats from Bos- ton that,always look as if they need a sha: The Taft-Dias meeting was the only occasion on which the president's guards pulled out their old Roosevelt re- galia. Mr. Taft himself wasn't at all pa lar what he wore he paraded wearing a derby and once or his golf cap on. He soon learned that It was the part of wisdom always to haye this golf cap with him, He never could tell when he left his train ie | just what sort of automobile trip he was going to encounter. All the committees promised in advance to have the roads well oiled, but few of them lived up to thelr promises. The president would wear his silk hat on the parade through the city streets and then shift to his golf cap when the committee steered him out into the country. That was where he always had a laugh on the committee. It would have grieved the heart of any local committeeman to sume the appearance of a dull elay chim- ney and a brand new frock coat made to look like @ light linen duster was often the The average committeeman had been looking ahead for men as he rode by in state, and then to be greeted with laughter—it was pitiful! One on the Committee, The president had a lot of fun with the local committeemen of Corpus Christi, Tex., on this silk hat proposition. He had been | committee came across the bay | the al but every committeeman was arrayed in a | sfik hat and a frock stopping on his brother's ranch and the on a rev- enue cutter to get him. The mercury in thermometer was lurking around 9, coat They were standing on the pler mopping | their brows when the president appeared on the brow of the hill wearing an ordinary business suit and a Panama straw hat. If 1t had been kept it would have|The Corpus Christl committee gusped. “We want to apologize for dressing up 80 much,” they sald to the president a littie were sold at the best prices, would have|l8ter realized between $5,500,000 and $6,000,000. this stock had been held onto throughout untfl the transfer of the American Bell Telephone to the American Telephone & Telegraph company, in 184, It would have recelved $4.900,000 in the stock of that cor- poration. . Back in the early elghties Mr. Vall's attention was attracted to new- flelds, and (Continued on Page Seven.) 1 “Oh, that's all right,” a chuckle. “I can stand it it you can. “Well, there's one consolation,” sighed one of the committeemen as he cooled his head in & barrel of rainwater on the cut- ter's deck, ““we aren't wearing these things from choice; we thought we had to,” Most of the Corpus Christ! committeemen had indeed bought new outfits just to do the thing up in the proper style. No man suffered more from the silk hat The automobile plaked almost as im- citifen, but on his loag trip through the | |west he dlan't begin to cover the ground |in each eity that Mr. Taft covered. |Taft is the friend { something or somebody On many occastons | {At Memphis the appear in & Taftparade without & stove- | pipe, but to have the glossy structure as- | weeks to the upplause of his felow towns- | sald Mr. Taft with | SINGLE curse than Governor Tom Campbell of | Texas. He had to take part in the Taft- Diaz meeting and it was up to him to do it right. He had never fore, but he got a friend to help him select one and then announced that he would stay with it through the day if it killed hin He stayed with it all right, but at the end of the day the hat looked fully as dis- gusted as the governor. The thing's fur vas all standing on end, and when some- body told the governor he could get it pressed he said “Stop you kidding, vou're thinking of pants. The govarnor wore this hat on two occaslons while the president was In Texas. People wero beglnning to com- plain that his taste was corrupted when the president came to his rescue by de- claring publicly that the governor had agreed In El Paso to wear the hat out of defercnce to the president if Mr! Taft would consent while he was in Texal to wear a soft hat as a mark of deference to the governor. Anclent Headgear Comes Out. The Taft trip brought out silk hats of Il shapes and ages, especially in the western states The Oscar Hammerstein was there, also the one of the concave, laged corset effect with the wide brim and the latest with the broad felt band. There were some that looked as If they might be“the old Benjamin Harrison white felt campalgn stovepipes glossed over with a Bood coat of stove polish. One man In Los Angeles boasted that his hat had greeted threo presidents—McKinley, Roose- velt and Tatt. “I bought it o greet McKinley,” said he, “and have worn it only twice sinee. May it live long and prosper.” Tt was easy enough to spot the com- mitteeman who was having his first ordeal with & plug hat and a frock coat, and there were a good many of them too. The novice always looked uncomfortable, fretted more about the dust spects and insisted upon smoothing his hat againat the grain. Next to automobile dust clouds the perils that the local committeemen encountered on the Taft train were the most trying for their hats. The committeemen usual y boarded the train from twenty-five to 100 miles from their home city, and the presi- dent never received them in his car, until the train was pulllng fnto their eity. In the meantime the committeemen tried, to enjoy life In a day coach ahead. Trying Feature of Etiquette. Somehow or other ave felt it his duty to wear his high hat into the president's car. A committeeman crossing from one car platform to another, one hand planted firmly on the top of his plug, the other gripping the fron ralling, his coattails flapping in the wind and his entire person enveloped in a sixty mile an hour dust cloud, 1s an interesting sight. Every local committeeman had to make about five of these crossings in traveling from his passenger coach to the president's car. Their course also Included a walk through a baggage car in which they were kept busy protecting their preclous Wds fom swinging clothes bags that were hanging on either side of the alsle. A trip through two Pullman kitchens and a hurdle over a fow pails and lce cream freesers brought them finally into the hall- way of the president's car. It wasn't un- usual to see a committeeman, at the end of his perilous trip, pause before & hang- ing dishpan, in the Pultman Kitchen and &aze sadly upon the reflected image. The hallway in the prestdent's car in which the visiting committeemen finally landed was long and narrow, more than three-quarters of the car in length and 80 narrow that two persons couldn't pass In it. Often the committeemen in the lead found the president els ordered to halt In this hallway. That was the worst experience of all for. the local committeemen. Those bepind kept pushing forward, anxious to let Mr. Taft see them. Those ahead couldn't turn around and all finally were wedged In like S0 man figs in & box, each hold- ing his hat above his head and appealing to the man behind him to have mercy. Some of the committeemen when the line was held up always got stuck just over the bumpérs on the platform between the Taft car and the one nhead of it, while others Were gtalled in the kitchens. A holdup in the hallway of the president's car invariably meant ruin to the appear- ance of an committee. And all that thay #ot In the end was a presidential hand- shake and a pleasant smile, Where the Auto Gets On. The use of the automobile In the up-to- and were date presidential tour also has created a | problem in’regard o guarding the pre dent. Most of the citles put their licemen on horses and expected them to keep up with the autos. Next to the grief of the local committzemen the misery of these cops was the most pitiful thing seen on the Taft trip. Some of the policemen never had ridden before, and the figures they cut on horse- back were ludicrous. some who managed to stick it out were so badly used up at'the »nd that they could scarcely walk. Some cities, notably Memphis, had police automobiles, but the trouble then was that the bluecoats got the notion that it was a police, no a presidental, parade, police cars Insisted on i the president so almost hidden In a crowding in, aro closely that he was dust cloud. One of the police machines got in u mixup Wwith that containing the presi- dent's secretary, his physician and several other members of the Taft party. When the members of the party tried find thelr automoblle after & meeting they discovered -that the police had ruled it out of the parade and sent thelr driver to home. The careless ones explained that they” were members of the president's “immediate party,” but the police sald they didn't give a “damn.” Some of the members of the party got back to thelr boat on the Mississippl river by begging rides in private machines. Minneapolis was practically the only city on the president's long trip that sulved the problem eatisfactorily, They had men on motorcycles. A cavalry escort was worse even than mounted police because there were more of them and the confusion greater. Sev- eral policemen and cavalrymen were thrown from thefr horses and two or throe seriously injured in tiying to keep up with the automobiles. Colorado's Cavaleade of Sheriffs. ‘Phele was one troop of horsemen managed 1o keep up Wwith the automo- bile procession and they were probably the best guard that the president had on his trip. Mr. Taft was seidem able to lose the Colorado sheriffs. They started out from Denver with him, each wearing a blue flanmel shirt, khaki trousers and & sombrero. On their hips \ (Continued on Page Seven.) worn & plug hat be- | committeernan | engaged with | po- | | Many of them failed | jaltogether to keep up with the autos and that | FRENCH JUNK FROM PANAMA Machinery that Cost Millions Sent to the Scrap Heap. FINDS MADE IN 0ODD PLACES ola Dredges and Girders to Re Brought MHere to De Sold—Melped the Canal Before Being Condemuned. Locomotives, Cars, The Isthmian Canal commission ) begun the job of transporting about 100, 000 tons of old French junk from the isthmus to New York City. Tho junk Ine cludes old Jocomotives, dump cars, tanks, barges, bollers, girders, dredges, sheet Iron, parts of old machinery and other things for which the French canal com- pany pald milllons of dollars and which It left to go to ruin on the isthmus The commission is sellihg on competitive bldding all the old fron and steel nlong the canal route except such parts as may bo-reserved for canal work, About 700 tons will be moved to the states every two weeks by the steamships Ancon and Cristobal. It will take three years to trankport all of the junk. The most of it will be scrapped where it les on the isthmus. The commission will ship no pleces of more than twenty tons In welght. This will permit the shipping of locomotive bollers with fire boxes and flues. The most of this old material s of for- elgn manutacture and as it is landed in New York Uncle Sam is confronted with the proposition of being obliged to pay himself $1 a short ton on the entry. Under a provision in the sundry civil act of May, 1908, this duty will be returned by Uncle Sam to the canal funds, but to ac- complish this without a special appro- priation each year it will be necessary to have the sale consummated only ufter the junk has passed through the New York customs house. Bach contractor will be under a bond of $75,00 and payments are to be made to the canal commission after each delivery. The sale is being made “at this time chiefly for the purpose of getting the old material that lies M the great basin of Gatun lake out before the basin is filled with water. There are large quantities of the junk in the lake basin. What it Brings. _.Each of the locomotives left by the French yields between $400 and $600 worth of copper alone, The commission will save the old steel rails on the isthmus, ‘to be |used as re-enforcement In the concrete | Work and as telephone and telegraph poles. Some of this old French junk has been found In extraordinary places. Dredges bave been discovered almost buried com- pletely in sand, hundreds of feet away from any body of water and overgrown With dense tropical vegetation. Appar- ently they have been carried away from the river bed by high water or the river itselt had shifted its course. Several of these burled dredges were in a fairly good state of preservation and are now doing work on the isthmus. Some of the junk has been lifted from the bottom of the Chagres river and from the botwom of the old French canal prism, where hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment sank after the French abandoned the work. Some of the relics in the canal prism near *he crossing of the Rlo Grande river were lodged only | after heavy charges of dynamite had been exploded under them. Others have been ralsed from watery graves and are now ° helping to link the Atlantic with the Pa- | eitic. . | Profits Will Be Small, The profit from the sale of the French | Junk will be small compared with the value | of the service that the commission already Inas derived from the cast-off equipment. For the first two years of their work the | commission relled absolutely upon the old | locomotives left by the French. In 1906 there were 106 of these weatherbeaten lo- comotives In service, compared with only | fifteen American-made engines. Since that | time the percéntage of the French locomb- | tives has steadily decreased. | French dump cars also were used almost exclusively by the commission in the first two vears, one time more than 2,000 of them were hauling the diri from Uncle Sam's shovels. The French relics fur- | nished also many shop tools, stationary | englnes and much repair materfal in the eatjy days of the construction work. I fact, Amcricans may thank the old French cquipment for the fact that the | canal Is today just half completed. With- |out the ald of this rusty, storm-battered assortment of Krench machinery there would have been long delays in providing an adequate equipment from the states, It is estimated that the French supplies and | equipment thus far utilized amount fully to $1,000,000. | — | SALOONS CONTEND FINE + ENDS POLICE COURT’S POWER Basic Polnt of Argument Before Craws ford, When Hot Words Are Uttered. That the jurisdiction of police court exe |tuu:= only to the point of a $100 fine and that the revocation of & man's ilquor | lleense, In rddition to the tmposition of & | fine of $100, aliould be construed as being a | part of the penalty and, therefore, out of the police court jurisdiction, was the con- | tention advanced by attornéys representing | the saloon Interests being tried for alleged violation of the § o'clock closing law in lice court Seturday morning. | Attorneys Ritchie and Giller argued that }the revocation of a liquor license cannot be construed other than a part of the court peralty and contended that Inasmuch a8 the law imposed & penaity of $100 for convictions In saloon cases, the court could | not exceed its authority by also revoking the license, s it had no jurisdiction be- | yond the 3100 penalty Attorney Wharton's appeal on behalf of his cllent, Rome Mil'er, was forceful, per- | sonalities at times being resorted to upon | Intercuptions by Kimer E. Thomas, counsel | for the Anti-galoon leagu In his .opening Mr. Wharton charged | Harry A, Stone and the other witnesses | with Leing liable for alding and abetting a crime, in that they deliberately set about to make some one commit & ¢rime by sell- ing liquor after § o'clock at night. Whar- ton denounced the actions of the Anti- loon league work: and even had a slight issue with the court over a state- ment that he honestly belleved his client lived up to the § o'clock law Mr. Wharton was foiowed by A. 8, Ritchle, counsel for J. J. Sul'lvan, who argued as to the jurisdiction of the court to decide the issue, after which Attorney Giller took up the same lssue. City Prosecutor Dickinson will respond this afterncon and some disposition of the four pending cases s expected ot thls Ume .