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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1908-04-03, Page 2CHORUS S7 ARS SHINE BRIGHT. EWCNT HELD IN NEW YORK TO SatriLL HEADACHE FUND. Grand March is Stunning—Leaders at Bell Win Prizes for Showing Re- finement. New fork, March 30.—The Chorus Gills' Protective Association of Great- er New York, combined with the Brok- ers' Beneficial Society and locals 1, 2 and 6 of the Wine Agents' Union, gave a large function at the Amster- dam Opera House for some time this morning to help swell the treasury of the sick and headache fund of the amalgamated organizations. Presi- dent Kid Betts of the Pearl Button Uppers Club and President Irvin Cobb of the Society of simerican Play- wrights were the guests of honor. Just a simple hint that an actual gold watch and chain were to be slip- ped to the most refined couple on the floor was enough to make the ball the most successful the mid -city set has given since the While Rats' ball of last week or the Mr, Larry Mulli- gan Association ball of the week before that, or the Joe Weber Alumni dance of a couple of days before that. The many private basket parties that were given at the private tables in Churchill's and Jack's on the way - home from the ball this morning all voted that Lent sure was coming in like a lion. Best Since Saranac Burned. The first statement that the watch would be awarded for so simple a thing as refinement brought together the largest single group of prominent persons that has gathered since the Saranac hotel burned out. Wherefore the grand march, from the convention- al mounted police all the way down to the other citizens on foot, was the most elegant thing of its kind since the last naval review off Oyster Bay. The grand march proper was led by Mr. Kid Betts of the Pearl Button Uppers Club and Secretary Helen Green of the Authors' International Copyright and Athletic League. Hun- dreds of couples, eager to win the prize gold watch that was offered the most refined couple. fell into line behind the leading couple before they had glimpsd Miss Green's lorgnette— or her gentleman friend's wearing ap- parel. Mr. Betts wore practically the con- ventional black, and his cravat was tied in a pretty bow of delicate pink silk, overlaid with a fretwork to match tie - design of the braid that edged his evening weskit. The weskit was worn decollete over a box pleated- sr boiled evening shirt with a full finis n. He _carried a silver wine cooler. Trainers Rush to Rescue. As the leading couple turned about upon reaching the far end of the ball- room and carne back via the centre of the floor the entire line of march- ers got the complete effect for the first time. Many weakened percepti- bly and it was evident that entire groups of couples were ready to give up the contest because of the bitter realization of their lack of refinement, Their trainers noted their defec- tions quickly and ran out from the side lines with pails and sponges and importunities to stick it out. But the friends of the i.:;aders, especially when the lorgnet' was brought into play, simply stoc : right up and cheered. The noise thee wasn't anything, however, to t"c hysteria that rattled the chandeliers when Mr. Betts turn- ed up his trousers upon coming to the edge of the wine belt under the grand horseshoes. Mr. Betts wore Alice blue half hose, frescoed with box plaits of Scotch plaid. Perhaps the whole grand march would have been ruined because of desertion right there if the manage- ment didn't begin to circulate a press agent rumor again there was to be a soul kiss contest after the march. Popcorn Clothes Get Second. Of course there was nothin' to it in the end. Mr. Betts and Miss Green had the majority of the committee well in hand and each got a watch. The secorrd prizes were awarded to a couple arrayed in clothes made of red and white popcorn woven on beads. This girl said she was none other than Mess Ella Wienee and her partner said his name was George H. —A—Double R -I -G -A -N. During the march there was vocal music and all the time there were box parties entirely surrounding the func- tion. Vocal music was by the Lambs' club quintet, Messrs. Joe Touhy, Wil- liam• J. Kelley, Will Page and Bill il'arnum. The fifth voice was supplied by Mr. Kelley, who sings first tenor and first bass at the same time. Mr. Max Marks' box party probab- ly run ahead of Mr. Misener's party in the adjoining box for the reason that, although Mr. Misener had a big crowd of other society folks as his guests, Mr. Marks had quite as many people and had "dressed" his box besides with several of wax clothing figures from the show windows of hie store. Also he wore many of spring and early summer styles per- sonally, valued together, he said, at several hundred dollars. Some One Cops Receipts. Mr. Touhy and Miss Prances Bacon of Boston won the prizes as the best •dancers upon the floor. Miss Dor- othy. Bertrand got a prize as the best looking girl, and Miss Alice Half Pore tion Clifford as the most precocious. In view of all the pleasant time everyone had it was with a, feeling almost of chagrin that the manage- inent greeted the news, just before ahuttink off the lights, that some one other than a guest had stolen the box receipts, with the exception of car fare for Mr. Betts, Mr, Gest, and the other promoters of the ball.. That concluded the entertainment, except the little breakfast parties. A SAMSON OF THE WOODS. How Louis Dubois Fought and Con- quered a Bear. Vancouver, March 301— A story of herculean strength displayed •b;7 a gigantic Frenchman named Louis Du- bois, in an encounter with a bear at Toulon Mountain on the Great Northern Railway., comes from Grand Forks. It appears that Dubois and a young Scots- man named Alex. Campbell were out cutting cordwood, when they came on a bear's den, Seeing what they took to be the bear's nose protruding from the quarters it had taken up for the winter, the big Frenchman struck it a savage blow with his keen ate blade. A tremendous commotion ensued, in which underbrush and snow were sent flying in all directions. The bear rushed at the intruders, and it soon became apparent that what they had mistaken for the animal's snout was in reality his foot• which had been completely severed by the blow. Campbell succeeded in getting out of the way of the enraged brute, but the Frenchman was not so fortunate. Dubois raised bis heavy. double -bitted axe, but the bear brushed it aside with his unwounded paw. and presently bad the big man fast in his embraec. In the straggle for lite which ensued the Frenchman succeeded in tripping up his weuuded antagonist. wietelt fell heavily to the ground. with Dubois on top of hinm. The man actually pinned the bear to the ground. holding the legs apart, and finely grasping the throat. Both man and bear ;were literally covered with Mood from the dripping limb. Two other men came up to 1)uboiassistance, and the bear was despatched, Men the men returned to ramp it was found that Dubois had eseaped without a serutc•h. d -o TORONTO LICENSES. Public Meeting Endorses Move of Tem- perance Aldermen. A Tomato despeieh says: The citizens' metas meting in lia:s.=ey Hail last night;, called by the Toronto Temperance Fed- eration, was a magnificent indorsatiox of the position taken by the aldermen who voted for the license reduction by- law. The hull was filled to overflowing, the chorea homing to be closed at 8 o'rloek. when every seat from top to bottom was taken. The audience was in entire sympathy with the speakers, and frequently- expressed assent in bun=ts of applause. By a unanimous - sta txlnng vote the meeting adopted the following resale • tion, moved by fir �. • 1'lilt'.eee*cd f : 'fleen s Sim "That this In 'e,ting expresses its ap- proval of the motion of the members of the City Cot nil tivho voted to reduce the number of barrooms, and promises its support, of all effective measures fcnr the .alboli'tissn of the barroom and the treating system," REPORTERS' STRIKE OVER. Men in Reichstag Press Gallery Will Return to Work. Berlin, March 30. --The strike of the Reichstag journalists, which began on Thursday last, was settled this evening. Under pressure from the various party leaders, Herr Groeber, the Centre leader, who had called the journalists "swine" because they jeered at a statement used by a member to the effect that negroes also had immortal souls„ read a state- ment at the and of the day's sitting, expressing apologies for the language he had used in reference to the journalists. At the conclusion of the statement, a meeting of the journalists was called, and they voted to return to work on Thursday. During the course of the strike not a line has been published on the proceedings of the Reichstag, and as a result of this failure a. large number of the members declined to deliver speeches, of which they had given notice, thus greatly impeding the work of the House. WOLVES KILLING DEER., Enormous Destruction in Algonquin National Park. Montreal, March 30.—Dr. Long, the famous nature story writer, reached here to -day from a two -weeks' trip to Algonquin Park. Speaking of the havoc which the wolves of the AIgon- quin National Park are playing amongst the deer, the doctor stated that at this very moment there are mere than a thousand caaea.sses of deer lying in the woods of the park as a result of the work of wolves. Deer there are very numerous, on account of the food feed- ing grounds and the protection given them, but at this rate serious inroads axe being made on their numbers. o.e, WILL CALL TOWN KIPLING. How C. N. R. Will Show Good Will to the Poet. Winnipeg, March 30.—Mr. T. S. Dar- ling, town site manager for the Cana- digin Northern, announces that about thirty new town sites will be put on the market this summer. The most important of the new points will be the divisional point in the Brandon -Regina line, about 112 miles west of Brandon. It is a matter of interest that this new city, not yet born, will probably be christened Kipling, after the poet of the empire; Rudyard Kip�ling, on his trip through Canada last fall, was tak- en up this line ,on a construction train and showed a keen interest in the country in making. LEFT A FORTUNE. SON OF THE LATE REV. MR. BONE THE LUCKY MAN. He and Mr. William A. Carter, a For- mer Thorold Young Man, Benefit to the Extent of Thousands by the Will of Their Late Employer. New York, March 30, --Long contin- ued and hul ce nxet .w ward onfaitFridfay,serviwhen mit wasith an- nounced in New Rochelle that James J. Coutant, 'who died the previous Saturday, • had remembered by a magnificent bequest his two clerks, who had labored , unremittinglg in his interest. Frauds C. Bone and William A. Carter are the • nice who are now re- eeiving congratuls.tions from all New Rochelle, for bet,;lveen them they will eventually, according to the terms of Mr. Coutanthd will, divide • about $200,000, "Doc" Bone, as he is callett by his neighbors, was in Mr. Coutant's employ twenty-two years, and therefore benefits by the will to a greater extent than Mr. Carter, who worked for his benefactor twelve years. The will, which is in the custody of John J. Laueiniona :fix. Coutant's at- torney, was formally read and filed on Saturday. In it Mr. Coutant, who was for fifty-five .years . a druggist in Main street, leaves the business to his two clerks. For •the last ten years, Mr. Coutant, who was 84'yers old when he died, had entrusted his business affairs entirely to his two clerks. On his infrequent visits to the drug store he would express himself as gratified with the manner in which they carried on the business, but nei- ther dreamed that -his appreciation would take such substantial form as the 'be- stowal of a busiwass which is valued at $60,000. The gift did nbt merely consist of the good will pf the business. ;Che -will stipulates that Mr. Coutant's sister, Sarah J.. (Outwit, shall receive the income frons the property, occupied partly by the drug store, during her life, but that upon her death it shall revert to the two clerks. This property is valued at $80,000. Another sister, lirs. Lopise Janes, is to receive the }' ` ',me from a valu- able piece of real te in Larchmont, but upon her dee^ is will swell the total of the gift t> Bone. The rea- son for this est because of his additional year The balan te, which in all amounts '0,000, will be equally three sis- ters—M' - Janes and T Bone an relatives years old a Mr. Coutant chalk all his':, ant of one of families who fere ions. 1 by the one is 41 in New Ro- was a deseend- renoh Huguenot e city in 1698. A UNIONIS VICTORY. The British Opposition Carries Peck- ham pivision. London, March 30. --.Che most keenly - fought by-election for the present Par- liament, which. was necessitated through the death of (bras.. Goddard Clark, member for d eckham, a distinct- in Lon- don south of theThames, resulted to- day in a great victory for the Unionists, whose candidate, 5, C. Gooch, was elected by a majority of well over two thousand. The contest to -day centred .largely in the Government licensing bill, and the conversion of a. large Liberal majority into a still greater Conservative major- ity is a striking demonstration against that measure. The announcement of the returns in the House of Commons. caused a scene of the greatest excitement. There were Unionist shoats demanding that the Government resign. In the general election of ' 1900 C. Goddard Clark (Liberal) carried, the division against Sir . F. G. Banbury (Unionist) by 5,003 votes to 3,564, a ma- jority of 2,339, Oob SUNDAY SCHOOL FIRE DRiLL. Parkdale Methodist School Room Had Satisfactory Drili on Sunday. Toronto, March 30,—Dunn Avenue Methodist Church has instituted a fire drill in connection with the Sun- da 7 School. The average attendance at this Sunday School is over eight hundred, the majority of the members being under fifteen years of age. On Sunday last all were marched out of the building in perfect order in an incredibly -short time. Besides this precaution, large tanks of water with accompanying pails have been placed in the hallways, ready for immediate use: AN ENVOY TO CANADA. Imperial Government to Send Over a Commisisoner• London, March 30.—As a result of the representations regarding Hindu emi- gration into British Columbia made at the Colonial Office recently by Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, Canadian Deputy Minister of Labor, it is probable that a special commissioner will bo sent .over to. Canada for the purpose of arranging the immigration diffieultite along the lines of least resistance. Mr, John Morley, Secretary of State for India. has reeeived a telegram from the British Indians at Vancouver asking for protection as British subjects, and be declared in the House of Commons ,this afternoon that the Indian Govern- ment and the Colonial Office contem- plated sending an envoy to the Canadian Government in the hope of bringing to an end, if possible, "this extremely difficult, intricate and possibly dangerous situation." TOBACCO WAR ENDED. There Will be No More Night Riding In. Kentucky. Cincinnati, Ohio. March 80.—An end to the night riding in the Kentucky white burley district has been brought about through a formal agreement reached between the American Tobacco Company and- the Executive Commit- tee of the • Society of Equity in a con- ference at Winchester, Ky., yesterday, according to apparently authoritative statements made here to -day by mem- bers of the American Society of Equity. A prominent member of the society in confirming the agreement said: "It is all •settled. There will be no more night riding or violence, but there will be no 1908 crop of tobacco. The Ameri- can Tobacco Company has agreed to buy all the pooled leaf of the 1906 and 1907 crops, and will pay nearly $14,000,- 000 14,000;000 for it. We are now confident that the farmer and .enter can raise to- bacco and have some money at the end of the season after paying expenses." Hopkinsrslie, Ky., March 24. fight riders to the number of from 25 to 30 invaded Golden Pond, Trigg county, last midnight. dragged Thomas Weaver, a negro in the employ of the Tobacco Association, from his bed, and, carrying him to the road, commanded him to run. When he failed to obey the night riders fired at him. Two balls pene- trated the body, and he was found to- day in a dying condition. No cause ism the crime is known. — o.o NO INCREASE TO PASTORS. Presbyterian Fund Does Not Warrant Any Advance. A Toronto despatch: "Never in the history of the Augmentation Committee of the Presbyterian Church, western section, did so many charges pass from mission station direct to the self-sustain- ing stage without asking any aid from the fund." This statement, along with the report that there had been no dofinit and no withdrawal upon the rest ac- count, was made to the Augmentation Committee at its meeting yesterday. In spite of the depression and serious loss due to grain crops by frost in the west, contributions to the fund had in many cases doubled and even trebled. The total revenue was $38,032, and the expenditure $37,207. Last year there were 182 grants made to charges, and this year the number will be close upon 200. e, ret was e..xp essed by the commit- s£ ttey we obliged to report to the 'General Assembly that its total revenue for the past year was only $38,000, and that the proposed increase of $100 to the salaries of the ministers of augmented charges is therefore im- practicable until the contributions to the fund are very largely increased. Rev. Dr. Lyle, of Hamilton, the con- vener, was requested to visit the Synods of Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the interests of the augmentation scheme. Most of the morning session yesterday was taken up with the passing of claims for the past three months of the year. Rev. .1. H. Edmison, of Cheltenham, is minute secretary. EARL DUDLEY COMING. Will Represent 'Australia at Quebec Tercentenary Celebration, Ottawa, March 30.—Earl Dudley, who has been appointed to succeed Lord Northcote as Governor-General of Aus- tralia' will come to Canada in July next to represent the Australian Gov- ernment at the Champlain tercenten- ary celebration at Quebec. Earl Grey received a cable this afternoon from Lord Northcote stating that the Austra- lian Government, in response to the .in- vitatio from the Canadian Government, had asked Earl Dudley to attends the celebration on behalf of the Common- wealth, and that members. of the Gov- ernment regretted that the session of Parliament next July would preclude any of them corning to Quebec with Baal Dudley. '.6 A CENSOR OF BILLBOARDS. Woodstock Makes Appointment on Suggestion of Ministers. Woodstock,. March 20.—A short time ago the Ministerial Association urged the City Council to exercise strict cen- sorship of advertising billboards. The council responded by passing a by-law appointing the chief of police as censor, and making it obligatory that duplicates of all bills to be posted or distributed in any way advertising or describing any theatre, circus or other places of amuse- ment shall be left with the chief, and are not to be posted if he deems them indecent or apt to corrupt public morals. HANDLED HIS ASSAILANT. Dr Gray, of Peterborol Attacked? on Street by John Lowry. A Peterboro despatch: Last night at 12.30 Dr. Gray, a local Coroner, in com- pany with Mr. Robert Durston, assistant office inspector, came across a group of men. at the corner of Charlotte and George streets. Without warning one of the men struck Dr. Gray a violent blow over the eye, inflicting a severe cut. Dr. Gray seized his assailant, and, sin- gle-handed, hauled him to the polies sta- tion, about 200 .yards distant. The pris- oner, who was John Lowry, was senteced at the Police Court this morning to ten days in jail, MESSAGE SENT TO U. S. CONGRESS. PRESIDENT WISHES ACTION TAKEN ALONG CERTAIN LINES. Prohibition of Child Labor—Eanployers' Liability Law—Injunction in Labor Disputes— Inter -States Commerce Law and Anti -Trust Law. Washington, March 30.— President Roosevelt to -day sent a special message to congress in which he calls attention to certain measures as to which he thinks there should be action by the Congress before tbo close of the present session. After declaring that child labor should be prohibited throughout the nation, he renews his recommendation for the immediate re-enactment of alt employers liability law, drawn to con- form to the recent decision of the Sup- reme Court; and urges that action be taken :..ong the line of the recommenda- tions he has alreac:: made concerning in- junctions in labor disputes. Dealing with the other measures, including that of the inter -state commerce law, the anti- trust law, strikes, financial legislation, tariff revision, and waterways commis- sion, the President says, In part: "I again call attention to the urgent. need of amending the inter -state com- merce law and especially the anti-trust law along the lines indicated in my last. nes -age. The inter -state commerce law should be amended so as to give rail- roads the right to make traffic agree- ments, subject to these agreements be- ing approved by the Inter -State Com- merce Commission and published in all. of their details. The Commission should also be given the power to make public ane pass upon the issuance of all secur- ities hereafter issued by railroads doing an inter -state commerce business, A law should be passed providing in effect that when a federal court determines to place a eommon carrier or other public util- ity concern under the control of a re- ceivership, the Attorney -General should have the right to nominate at least one of the receivers; or else ie some other way the interests of the stockholders should be consulted so that the manage- ment may not be wholly redelivered to the man or men the failure of whose policy may have necessitated the crea- tion of the receivership. Receiverships should be used, not to operate roads, but as speedily as possible to pay their debts and return them to the proper owners. "In addition to the reasons I have al- ready urged on your attention, it ha* now become Important that there - should be an amendment of the anti- trust law, because of the uncertainty aa to how this law affects combinations. among labor .aen and. farmers, if the- combination had any tendency to res- trict inter -state commerce. All of these combinations, If and while existing for and engaged in the promotion of inno- cent nnocent and proper purposes, should be re- cognized as legal. "I ani of the opinion, however, that one cbuuuge in the tariff could with ad- vantage be made forth viae. "Our formats need every protection, and one method of protecting them would be to put upon the free last pulp wood, with a oorreaponding reduxstion upon paper made from pulp wood, when they eomie 1roan any country that does not put an export duty upon them. "Ample provision should be made for a perntanen t waterways oomenissioa with whasteve,r power ie. required to • make it e£ective." DOUKHO(30RS ALL RIGHT. Mr Speers Says There Wil Be No. More Marching. Winnipeg, Maxch 30.—C. W. Speers de Glares positively that there is no danger of another Doukhobor pilgrimage this spring, as had been feared. The Douk- b.obors at both Yorkton and Prince Al- bert settlements are very quiet, he said, and stories to the effect that they are in an unsettled sante are absurd. There is a small element anxious to locate where the climate is not quite so severe as in: Manitoba, "and I understand that Peter Veregin, Doukhobor leader, is at present in British Columbia., negotiating for ae tract of land for these people. There will be no airnlese wanderings, as hereto- fore, and if any change of location is to. be made by a portion of the colony it will be done in a perfectly legitimate and businesslike way. The Doukbobors have- profited ave,profited by the rongh experience of_those who left the fold. le Pore. I saw Veregin not long since," sai i laLr. Speers, "and he ridiculed the reports which had been cir- culated with regard to the conduct of . the colony. The department is not sup- plying the Doukhobnrs with seed grain this year, as this was fcmnd to be un- necessary. They have large supplies of ' seed on hand, and are well. situated fin- ancially." SOCIALISM IN COLONIES. Keir Hardie Says it Has a Good Hold in Canada. London, March 80. --Mr. Keir Hardie, the leader of the Socialist Labor party in the Commons, has been interviewed by the Daily Caron:ae on bis return from his world trip. He says that he would not recommend Canada for an. emigrant, as the country is being devel• oped too fast, and the land system is the curse of the country. Ile found every eneouragement for ttio future of Social- ism in all of the colonies, but especially in Canada. In the west and among the miners it already had a strong grip. In another interview he says that in the Dominion he found little talk for the Empire; there it is always "Canada •, for the Canadians."