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The Herald, 1907-02-01, Page 8IS LANDS IT tJT IS front. Th,' brought in; the' ship ha pital, and" Cross, his their wort antnesthetii Admiral =e `'r Company, fain Hens; chlorofern Swettertaam Says There Was No Friction—Parthissupply; of the Letter Was a Joke. Kingston.,;' publication f graph of Ck United ;states Tourists' Make Serious Charges to RearAd tc x sifiocl the twin Parsons, against the tenders of there isa nand hie The 'cox: Press soug'li', day, and Spas .Against Cap New York, Jan. 28. --American re- fugees from Kingston arriving; here on board. the steamer Prinz Eitel Froidrieh, ,swbieh sailed from the stricken city. 00.- Thursday nThursday afternoon last, the third day after the earthquake, were unanimous I in condemning what they termed the `Sinactivity and utter inefficiency" of the English authorities on the island during the first days following the dis- aster. For three days, or up to the e day the Prinz Eitel sailed, titers was no- ' semblance of order and nothing definite clone in the matter of relievin; the euf- fering'a of many of the wounc..ed. The protest of the American refugees was voiced at a grass sweeting held .1. board the Prinz .Eitel Freidrien Monday, when the following resolutions were adopted: "We, a company of Anicriean refugees from Kingston, Jamaica, January 14th, and January lith, 1:107, on board the steamship Prinz Eitel Friedrich, here- with utter emphatic condemnation of the conduct and behavior in that period i of certain officials of rank, specificaly Captain Parsons, commander of the s British steamship Port Kingston, lying yin the harbor of Kingston, and aboard ' which was Sir Alfred Jones, his superior, • and other officials, basing our conten- tions on the following counts: "(1) That ('aptain Parsons declined to furnish food for one meal to the small number of Germans, led by Cap- . fain Richard Vahzel, . Hamburg -Ameri- can Line, who prevented four docks from burning on the night of the 14th, i among them the Port Kingston's own Wharf. "(.2) That such Americans and ether refugees as the small boats manned by -'Captain Valizel and others, gathered and lodged on Monday on board the • Port Kingston weer summarily ordered , ashore at 4p. no Tuesday to make room for English refugees, though women and children tearfully pleaded that they had neither food nor clothing on shore. "(3) That the wounded of mixed . nationalities were taken a shore at the • same hour, and left in a crude situation j on the railway wharf until eared for by American naval authorities on- Thurs- .day, except such as were removed by `train to Spanishtown or by relatives who found them. "(4) That when Father O'Donovan of Boston, Gavin L. Payne, of Indianap- ohe, and the Rev. H. F. Auld, of Elalloro', Pa., took a netition to Sir Al. Fred Jones and Captain Parsons from the refugees, sleeping on trunks. sacks. of coffee, and the cargo -fouled planks of , the Hamburg -American dolt to allow the, . refugees to go on beees the re-+ vie-. eton, then at her dock, and sleep on her hare,. clean (leeks, where they would be safe from recurrent shocks. Captain Parsons refused, with great incivility, and, corning to the llamburgAmerican dock, shooed the party further dis• - courtesy. "(5) That in the three days., though ,sur Alfred Jones and his party on board the Port 1' i.ugstoo had all the comforts s of a large, well-equipped ship, no tender I was made eitherof food, water. coffee, bedding or medical assistance. "((1 That in three days, save for the above unpleasant visit of Captain Par- j sons. no offieial visit was paid either by the police. military or colonial author- tities to the large body of American ee onh Ilam n rr eri a refs c t rbn Aan. e i r rg4 �* A doeks, the known centre for American refugees in Kingston, to offer succor or protection in any degree, or even to as- certain the condition in which they were. • "(7) That in individual eases and minor ways we were mule to feel the super- iority and firstA'•a:irn of the English, and found the march -talked of `bonds of blood and langnege when tested to be a mere mockery and a dipionintio phantom. "Therefore, we declare our resentment and condemnation, this utterance being the joint expression of the passengers in common assembly on board the Prinz Eitel Friedrich, ,Inn. 21, 11107." A Different Story. The story of J. C. Edgerly. of Boston, is almost directly contradictory of the allegations grade by the Prinz l.itel's pas- sengers. Mr. Edgerly. who arrived home on the Arnriral Sampson. described the scene after the first shock. "On every turner," he said. "stood the negro con- stabulary, which answers for police in Kingston, "Consorting with them were scores of the soldiers of the untive Sliest India regiments, practically all the troops that , are now left on the island. They were talking in horror-stiekeu tones with civilians and spreading the wildest tales of the disaster. "The Port Kingston pulled out into the harbor to escape the danger of fire. at 1 her dock. Private rescue parties worked all night, bearing to the laiureh the; wounded and -suffering. Then they were carried out to the Port Kingston, Where the ship surgeon and a volunteer woman nurse, who happened to he on board, worked all night amputating lirnlis, patching up broken skulls, binding bruises, and all the thousand and one things that doctors are Balled upon to I do in time of horror and disaster. Over two hundred people were brought to the Port Kingston during that night. If they needed treatment they were, given it. 'ff they needed but food tied shelter, s they got it. •'il'hen morning eame the vessel came beck to her dock, as the fire had swept in the other direction along the water - at stat ,'being he i'iLDi'ri.ing l:ed into It bus- i) anis' and Mies 4 were still at ;heir ;,stock of and when, the she United Fruit same pier, Cap - at a big bottle of es, all he had in is Joking. Jan. 28.— The 1 the Daily Tele- ettenham's letter' • v has. greatly in - et of. the residents lx' rebuffing the :assistance, and foot here to da- iff the Associated r Swettenharm to - 'of the 1)avis dent. , 1lnq r` i .aid that he had not invited + i Shell Davis to land sailors. .4ta1" d , , ; . cr" horsed the action token by'' I ;'. ra r+ . Davis, the Gov- ernor rep1Jai c; `` 1,r is a matter be-, tween mise lu Admiral Davis, to whom in �aa ?i • ..' ; ou." The (i•over- nor said thrtt h' 6 rgfc 'ogee in his let- ter to Re al ` I 1 vis ,azul the pil- laging of tbt n American mil- lionaire nils r r p'' ,g • tnilar parallel. A meeting k'� ' t"(ri ittees was held here to -day ixrr 1. illgof the Governor to discover firs' lar' onditions attend - i • r . i , ,•,iGovernor n t clfte 1 e rt a,., � i the ex and tire. Adnr,rS, ;}I, the close of this meeting, and ilii;' .asi g read Governor tinettenham'?a ..b, to Rear -Admiral Davis, the Meet;'; tv. r. Nuttall, Arch- bishop of Janine+.:sou ht the (aoevrnor to talk the nsieg :over with him, say- ing that if Ire Ski a 411 the. conditions war- ranted he am 1,1:-t, d . personal explan- atory cablegrnrsa :rlt, 'resident Roosevelt. The Archbisheix r ,,,, r table to see the Governor owing ':I•i. th latter's absence at headquartc r`.. Ih will see him to- nrorx'ow. Archbishop SNuit.' -11.. cid the trouble was merely , iii -,sit f the dictatorial character • of the g va anor. "His im- perious i 4 nal n . ,ie a neat abuse of p ,3 subordinates .i m1 h': • discourtesy to citizens have(-„ i ear r :'rl him great un- popularity, alilr.ouglr. (s ar:•wise he is re- garded'.as a einnpai ati ely conscientious official." i t There is *deli iii., �ation expressed here at Governor S,W tienlram's action ha docking the pay of gernment clerks who absented themsel.' s from duty for the purpbee of nursing sick or dying re- latives. Last Saturd ay the Governor suspended the free ser iceof trains for the transportittl i of refugees into the eauntty,` but s,;:;, th refugees request of Arehbis,hiip ?r,txiAil he consented to cog- tinue this fate i n gone week. N o sanitvrs na ; e 1 �ti' Jarid from ie llrit- g9ii>w l` > xYlri ,rrisr ed . 1'hnx,';,ota iii ir, f,asl#yt x' n clergymen expressed rs'ron ;aper vat of the Gov- exnor's aetion r;' ey said that Jamaica is not, Spdnrsh :' errit ry or a Latin- Axnerican. republic T e United States had no right ;•to'!label here. r 2i i t tai 1 aI }a Ta jo G� ve sing Or. g e le x• e. unable 5t. ry r frequent tl v ve a v i urgent for.,, ed 1. e 0 a e The troops . +� A Brussels cable says: It was an- nounced to xlay that the port of Zeebrug- ge would be iapened to''cormm�erce on July lst, with appropriate , fetes. Zeebrugge is the harbor ,of t}::�; new. Bruges -Heist canal, which will b ai�ailable for sea- going ships of the largest size, and cost ailbout . •:,000,000. 93 TEL AT $4.50 a square (10 ft. by 10 ft.), and with a guarantee of twenty- five years service back of the s al e, "Oshawa" Galvanized Steel Shingles make the cheapest good roof for any permanent building on your farm. 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He Makes Light of the Swettenhani Incident. Ottawa despatch: A sincere friend ,of Canada is the Hon, Elihu Root, . and every word of his address to the Cana- dian Club of Ottawa at the Russell House to -day breathed appreciation of this country's great progress and won- derful possibilities, and desire for a last- ing peace between the two peoples. The Secretary of State from Washington pre- faced his remarks by reading a cable- gram froin the Governor of Jamaica, re- turning thanks to the practical aid given to the people of the island by Admiral Davis and by the United States squad- ron. The audience which confronted Mr. Root consisted for the most part of men high 111 political, professional and com- mercial circles. Mr. Root, who was evidently greatly pleased with this reception, said: "1 thank you for your cordial and most friendly greeting. I beg you to be- lieve that 1 am deeply sensible of the honor conferred upon me by the presence at this huaeheon table of the (lover•nor General and the Premier of Canada. (Ap- plause.) Another kindly greeting has been received by ire since I took my seat at the table from a gentleman who, for some causes which you will readily appreciate. was unable to be present. I will take the liberty of reading it to you. It is a telegraphic despatch, dated Jamaica, January 20, reeeived at Wash- ington yesterday and repeated to me: Elihu Root, Secretary of State: " `Jamaica profoundly grateful to your Excellency for expression of sympathy and for the very practical aid so kindly given by Admiral Davis and the entire particular service .squadron of the United States Government. (Signed) Governor Swettenharn.' (Loud applause,) At Home Beneath Old Flag. "I do not feel at aii a stranger here, partly perhaps because in your climate blood has to be thicker than water -- (laughter and applause) partly because everyone born and bred under the prin- ciples of justice and liberty that the English-speaking race has carried the world over wherever it has gone must breathe freely in Canada. (Applause.) "It is a full forty years since I paid myfirstvisit to Oanada. brief in- tervals during all that period I have been returning sometimes to one part of the Dominion and sometimes to an- other, but always keeping in touch with the course of your development, and with the trend of your opinion and spirit. During ;that time what wonderful things we have seen. We have seen the feeble, ill -compacted, separate, dependent col- onies growing into a great and vigorous nation. We have seen the two branches of the Canadian people—the Engliela speaking and the French -speaking --put- ting behind them old resentments and steadily approaching each other in tightening bonds of sympathy and na- tional fellowship—(applause)—a happy augury for the continuance of that en- tente cordiale which between the two great nations on the other side of the Atlantic is making for the peace of the world. (Applause.) Men of Constructive Power. "We have seen not merely growth in population and in wealth, but we have seen here great examples of that con- structive power, examples of a great race of builders which have made and are making and are to make the .west- ern world unexampled in the history of mankind. The spirit of the Norse sea kings, the spirit of the great navi- gators, of Columbus, of Vasco de Gaines Of Prester John, and of Drake and Frobisher, the spirit of the Spanish Con- questadores, the spirit of the men of power and might who have been the great influences of the world, has found its development in this western .hemis- phere in the great builders, and with- in our lives we have seen in Canada, one of the greatest of all the groups of the great builders, men of constructive power and energy. (Applause.) We have seen and are seeing now the growth ;of that historic sense, the growth among the people of that appreciation of the great examples of their own past which is so essential to the making of a na- tion, and • you are drawing away through the course of successivegener- ations from the past, the great figures of the makers of Canada loom more and still more lofty. "The oourage, the fortitude, the hero isms, the self -devotion of the men of Canada's early time stand out in his- toric eminence from which well may flow the deep and unending stream of great national patriotism. (Applause.) Above all, we see a people trained and training themselves in the art of self- government, in the discussion and con- sideration of all public questions, not only in the high seats of government, but in the farm house and the shop— that discussion 'which lies at the base of modern- civiliztion, that discussion which among the plain people furnishing the basis for political and social sys- tems differentiate our latter-day civi- lization from all the civilizations of the past and wrist give to it ----must give to the civilisation of our time ---a ipetr- petnity that none of the past has had. "Lord Grey has very kindly furnished me in the last few days with the de- bates which have been going on in your House of Commons on the subjecf, of the fisheries modus vivindi. I have been muoh impressed by the thoughtfel, temperate and statesmanlike quality which bas been conspicuous in that de- bate, I am sure, and, indeed, no one. who reads the debate can doubt, that wb'atever conclusion your Parliament reaches will be a conclusion dictated by a sincere and .an intelligent and a right- minded determination to fulfill the duty of your representatives towards the peo- ple whose rights they are bound. teot. maintain and protect, Whatever • the conclusion may be, however much any may differ from it, men will be bound to respect it, "For all these I profess with sincerity and with feeling my admiration and. my sympathy, and 1 speak the 'sentiment of ;millions of my own countrymen in say- ing that we look upon the great autos= ial and spiritual progress of Ca;nntlat with no feelings of jealousy, but with ; admiration, with hope and with grata fieation, (Applause.) I count myself happy to be one of those vvho cannot be - indifferent to the glories and the achievements of the race from which they sprang---(applause)--and rvitl;.Iny pride irn my own land, with the :pride that it is a part of my inheritance to be entitled to take in England, is added the pride that I feel in this great, hardy, vigorous, self-governing people of Can- ada who love justice and liberty. (Ap- lause). "There have been in the past, and in the nature of things there will be con- tinually arising in the future, matters .of difference between the two nations. How could it be otherwise with adjacent seacoasts and more than three thous- and miles of boundary upon whioh we march? But let us sehool ourselves and teach our children to believe that whatever dif- ferences arise. different understandings as to the facts on different sides of the boundary line. the effect of different en- 'eironrnent, different points of view rath- er than intentional or conscious unfair- ness are at the basis of the issues. (Ap- plause.) "After all. as we look back over the records of history. after all, in the far' view of the future, all the differences o£ , each day and generation aro but trifling compared with the great fact that the tvvo nations are pursuing the same ideals of liberty and justice, are doing their work side by side for the peace and righteousness of the world in peace with each other. (Applause.) "The differences of each generation loom large held close to the eye; but, after all, the fact that for ninety- years, under a simple exchange of notes lim- iting the armament of the two eoun- tries, in terms which have become an antiquated example of naval literature, to single one hundred ton boats with single eighteen -pound cannon; after all, the fact that for ninety years under that simple exchange of notes we have been living on either side of this three, thousand. miles of boundary in peace, a with no more thought or fear of . hos- tilities than if v -were sme Pte' ple—(applause)—is a great fat in his- tory, and a great fact of potential im- port for the future. "We celebrate great victories, anniver- saries of great and signal events, call together crowds and are the subject of inspiring addresses. Within a ,few years, eight years from now, we shallhe able to celebrate the centennial anni- versary of a hundred years of peaces ful fellowship — (applause )—a hundred years during which no part of the fruits of industry and enterprise leas been: diverted from the building up of peace- ful and happy homes, from the exer- cise and promotion of religion, • froin, the education of children and the • suc- cor of the distressed and unfortunate, no' been expended in warlike attack by one people upon the other." (Ap- lause.) 1'• SEVEN KILLED. ENGINE CRASHED INTO CABOOSE FILLED WITH LABORERS, Thirteen Injured in Collision on New York Central Near Albany—Nearly All the Victims Were Italian Nav- vies. Albany N. Y., Jan. 28.—Seven mSw were killed and 'at least thirteen in- jured late this afternoon an the New York Central, Mohawk division, about half a. mile west of this city .by the collision of a light engine with a ca- boose filled with railroad laborers. The' workmen, about twenty-five in all, lead been at work at Karners, between here and West Albany, and were on their way back to the city. The cabooses was being pushed by an engine, andl the colliding locomotive going west„ crashed into the oar. All the men killed and injured were' residents of this city or of Remes'seh:ter and most of them were Italians. ' 4.• FUEL FAMINE IN WINNIPEG. Supply for Rest of Winter is Limited: and Insufficient. Winnipeg, •.Tan. 2S. --Whets Winnipejg; is to get a feel supply adequate to re- quirements of its residents, for the re- mainder of this winter .is a ;problem which is worrying the dealers as well as. those who are dependent on the former for their supply. There is not sufficient, of either commodity to do; It is ,dixrg- ed that the unusual demand at the out- side centres has been the real cause of the serious shortage with which the city is now threatened. One local dealer sug- gests that the board of control take - charge of the situation. The Central and Balmoral hotels at. Virden, Man., are entirely out of amt.. Many of the citizens and farmers have not a pound of cos]. The 0. P. R, is doing its best to re- lieve the situation, but citizens are of opinion that cam ought to be attached' to the pasenger trains.