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MADAM CALVE
BndorMS and llsei
The Smith & Nixon Piano
Now on Exhibition at
Thos. Coggan & Bros.
Houston and Navarro Sts.
GARDNER 80VERN0R8
ALL 8IZE8
IN STOCK
F. W. Heitmann Co.
HOUSTON. TEXAS.
VOLUME XLIII.—NO. 11.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1908. —TWELVE PAGES.
E. F. GADDIS, President.
A. S. GAGE. Vice Pres.
J. MUIR JR.. B. L. NAYLOR, Vice Pres.
Cashier. M. FREEBORN Asst. cashier.
The Lockwood National Bank
201 Commerce Street.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
McxIcan Money Untight anil Bold Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent to tho Public.
E. B. Chandler
102 East Crockett Street.
Money to Loan
Vendor's Lien
Notes Bought
Real Estate For Sale
T. C. FROST,
President.
J. T. WOODHULL,
Vice President,
NED MclLHENNY,
Cashier.
Frost National Bank
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
Capysipis2 $600,000.00
Exchange Drawn on Principal Cities in Europe and Mexico. Mexican
Money Bought and Sold.
TAFT WILL BE
NOMINATED ON
FIRST BALLOT
Thai Reported to Be Prophesy of
President Roosevelt—Choice
to Be Made Unanimous.
ALAMO NATIONAL BANK
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
Capital a>rvd Surplus S600.000.00
DIRECTORS:
•». SchmeUser, C. C. tJIfobs, William Neglny, Ernest Steves, George C.
Vaugban. Q. A. C. Halff, Joseph Courand, J. N. Brown. Otto Meerscheldt.
Eben W. Mills
INDUSTRIAL SPECIALIST.
Twenty Year. In Business In This
City. Best of References.
PROPERTIES for sale on all railroad tracks and principal business streets,
warehouse and factory sites. BUEINESS OPPORTUNITIES 111 both rlty and
country well worth Investigating. LIST YGTR BUSINESS or real estate for
sale with me. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Information cheerfully fur-
nished. Correspondence Invited.
110 E. HOUSTON ST. PHONES 413.
DALLAS AND RETURN $16.30
ON SALE JANUARY 20 and 21.
I. & G. N.
Only om night to S!. Louis. Quioktsf to Chicago,New York tie.
OFFICE 122 ALAMO PLAZA. J. W. DALEY, P. A T. A.
to study southern
labor conditions
SPECIAL COMMITTEE IS NAMED
TO MAKE AN INVESTIGATION.
Will Ascertain What Inducements
the South Offera Immigrants and
Especially Laborers—Possible
Members Will Make Trip.
Special Telegram to The lixpresi
WASHINGTON. Jan. 10—1
ress,
-The joint
Congress commission on immigration
visited Kurope lart summer collecting
Information on Immigration questions
met today and appointed a committee
to study immigration and labor condi-
tions In the Southern States and report
to the commission.
The committee Is composed of the fol-
low in*t members of the. commission: Sen-
ator Latimer of South Carolina; Charles
P. Neill, Commissioner or I^abor; Repre-
sentatives Howell of New Jersey, Jennet
of New York and Burnett of Alabama.
The committee will appoint, agents and
begin at once a searching: investigation
into conditions in the South. It is
possible that the members will visit the
South.
Information will be sought on the fol-
lowing points: Inducements to immi-
grants and especially laborers, obstacles,
sentiment for and against foreign immi-
gration, distribution and demands for
labor in the South.
STRAIN PROTESTS.
Frisco Man Says Colquitt Is Wrong
on Railroad Figures.
Special Telegram to The Express.
FORT WORTH, Tex., Jan. 10,-Declar-
ing figures advanced by Commissioner
Colquitt, purporting to show the real cost
of operation or passenger trains, ale in-
conceivably low, C. W. Strain, general
passenger agent of the Frisco Mites in
Texas, today took the Railroad Commis-
sioner to task for soma of his statements
appearing in the public prints of late.
TAKAHIRA" AMBASSADOR.
Appointment Is Officially Announced
at Tokio.
TOKIO. Jan. 10.—It Is officially an-
nounced today that Baron Takahira lias
been chosen Ambassador to the United
States to succeed Viscount Aoki.
k fatal shooting
affair near san6er
THREE MEN KILLED AND AN-
OTHER WOUNDED.
estimates 600 to 950
votes
Figures on (jetting Those From the
West and Sooth, Many of the Middle
Western States and Abont Half
of the New England Stales.
Special Telegram to The Express.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 10. — President
Roosevelt was today reported to have
predicted that Secretary of War Taft
will be nominated fur President on the
tirst ballot at the Chicago convention
and that the nomination would then be
be made unanimous. The prediction wau
made to callers at the White House.
The President's prophecy is based on
trustworthy information from' every
State in the Union. He believe* Mr. Tnft
w ill have from GOO to 050 votes' on tlio first
ballot, Including tlie voWi of the West
and South, many of th*1 Middle. Western
States and half ot the New England
states. Tho President aluo believes Mt.
Tart will have a majority of the New
York votes, especially If Governor
Hughes remains silent on public ques-
tions.
It was predicted by the President, ac-
cording to the report, that other Presi-
dential candidates will have litle sup-
port outside of their own States.
National Committeeman Scott of Ala-
bama arrived in Washington today and
asserted that "Alabama will send a solid
delegation for Taft. Ther. will be no
trouble about it." Mr. Scott added that
Booker T. Washington, the negro edu-
cator, is enthusiastically for Mr. Taft.
MOBS RIOT
BEFORE PALACE
OF KAISER
Demonstration Cansed by Decla-
ration of Von Boelow That Man*
hood Suffrage Is Unwise.
SUMMARY OF HE NEWS.
disorders spread
throughout berlin
Begin Outside of Laodlag Building and
Are Continued All Over City—Police
Charge With Drawn Sabres and
Number of Persons Are Hurt.
Dead and Wounded Men Were Negro
Cotton Pickera and Shooting Was
Done by a Prosperous
Farmer.
Special Telegram to The Express.
SANOBR, Tex., Jan. 10.—Today About,
noon Jim Jones, a prosperous farmer
who resides about flvo miles north of
Sanger, shot and instantly killed Charles
limith, Alex Bcyered »ind Everett Re|<1,
probably fatally wounded Mart Moore
and shot another man In the forearm, in-
flicting a slight flerli wound. The dead
and wounded n.en are negro cotton pick-
ers and wore employed on Jones' fartn.
i'.xaet details of the tragedy have not
vet been learned, but from what (an be
learned two of the negroes went into the
loom where Jones and his wife and chil-
dren were, it if* stated, for the purnos-
ot getting Jones to change some money
lor them. One of the negroes put uis
Iwnd in his pocket and Jones, thinking
he meant mischief, is said to have opened
tire with a pistol. i"=»«.u
———
$200,000,099 FOR CANAL.
Now Admitted That Estimate for Cut-
ting Across the Isthmus of Pan-
ama Was Too Low.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Because or
changed conditions existing from those of
HTO, when lilt minority of the Boarj of
Consulting Engineers of tho Panama ta-
r..u submitted its report, it Is now ad-
n-.lttcd m responsible quarters that the
estimate made by tii.it bourd for the
building ot the canal was tax too low,
and that the cost may approximate fc!00,-
UU.UUJ. '
llils Includes various incidental items,
gueft as administration, sanitation, etc.
T
flOTORMANJS SHOT.
A. Bowen in Critical Condition as
I * Affray Which Took
rfs This Morning.
rman of the San An-
lpany, was shot and
this morning shortly
the sheds of tile coin-
ro Avenue.
o be in a critical con-
enterlng the left side,
through the body,
i dispatcher of the com-
•ed under arrest. Self-
ned.
HOUSTON ARGUES IN CASE.
San Antonian Before Interstate Com-
merce—"Stake"' Trial.
Spcclal Telegram to The Express.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.-A. W. Hous-
ton of San Antonio Is here to participate
in the famous State case hearing before
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
He made one of the principal arguments.
The case involves the question whether
the roads or the shippers shall pay dost
of stakes driven inside of flat cars in
hauling lumber.
MAY GET NEW BUILDINGS.
General Public Buildings Bill 13
Likely.
Special Telegram to i lie Express.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-Texas Con-
gressmen gtu consolation right from the
Honker's throne today in a straight tip
that there would probably he a general
public building* bill. There are twelve
bills for buildings In Texas now pending
and the glad news will hasten the Intro-
duction of mora.
REFUND COTTON TAX.
Bill Introduced in House—Another to
Change New Mexico Law.
"WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-A bill to re-
fund to ;he . < vera.l States the cotton tax.
realized by the Government under the
cotton tax laws or lbW and PM was in-
troduced today by Mr. Thomas ot North
Carolina. The. bill provides that tiw re-
funded money, when paid, shall be held
in trust by the separate States for the
reimbursement 01 tne producers who
originally paid the tax.
The repeal ol what, has been denomi-
nated by seme jurists as "the most pe-
culiar law in the United States' in tho
object of a Joint resolution introduced
today by Mr. Birdsell ot Iowa. The Jaw
in question is a New Mexico statute un-
der which all damage suits against Now
Mexico railroads for personal injuries
must be brought in the courts of that
Territory and affidavit* >n support there
ot must be made personally within the
Territory and before the expiration of
ninety days from the accident, failing in
which the railroad concerned may itself
enter suit against the injured person.
MAY DEVELOP MINERAL BEDS.
Government Inspection of Burnet and
Llano Pleases.
Special Telegram to The Express.
BURNET, Tex., Jan. 10.—The announce-
ment in today's Express of the United
States Geological Department ordering a
survey and inspection of the Burnet-
Llano district mineral lands was received
here with a great deal of satisfac tion.
Burnet and Llano Counties, in addition
to having the finest granite quarries in
the world, of all grades and in inexhaust-
ible quantities, have also fine deposits
of marble, iron, graphite, gold, silver
and copper, and an authentic report of
the result of the investigation by the
Government officials will do much to-
wards developing these, splendid deposits
of mineral that are found all over this
territory
ESCAPED CONVICT CAUGHT.
Mexican Found at Minera Is Under
Death Sentence.
Special Telegram to The Express.
I^AREDO. Tex.. Jan. 10.—Several weeks
ago Manuel Itodriguei, who was under
death sentence at Monterey, Mex., for
killing, made his escape from prison.
Today he was located at the Minera coal
mines above l.aredo, where he was at
work.
He was brought to I«aredo and jailed,
awaiting extradition papers.
HOLDS 14-HOUR LAW VOID.
Appeal Made From Decision of Bas-
trop Court.
Special Telegram to The Express.
iJASTROP, Tex.. Jan. 10.—At the pres-
ent tetin of District Court of tJasi'rop
County. Judgo Kd R. Sinks held that
the luurte> n-hour law passed by the las'.
Legislature was invalid and that th
Federal law governing the working of
employes was supreme.
County Attorney Jenkins, who brougli'.
the suits, gave notice of appeal to the
higher court.
HALF A BLOCK BURNS.
Tucumcari Has a Forty Thousand Dol-
lar Fire. ■—
Special Telegram to The Express.
TECIMCARI. N. M., Jan. 10-Half a
block of Tecumeari's business houses has
been destroyed by a fire originating In a
local millinery store, cause unknown.
The buildings. Including that occupied by
the Quay County Havings Bank wero
destroyed, and the First National Bank
building was badly damaged. Tho ap-
proximate loss is about g40,«M with less
than 59 per cent insurant*,
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BERLIN, Jan. 10. -A demand In the
Prussian landtag today for manhood
suffrage in Prussia brought out the state-
ment from Prlnoe Von Buelow, the im-
perial Chancellor, that he did not con-
sider that manhood suffrage would he
gno«l for the Slate, mid that secret voting
Would not bo permitted.
l'lils statement waj distinctly unpopu-
lar with the people who had gathered In
large numbers outside the Landtag build-
ing. Rioting began, and the police were
secretly reinforced. The demons! rants
paraded throughout the city, and to con-
trol thein the pollen had to charge with
drawn sabers. A number of the rioters
were injured ;uid some of the police sus-
tained wounds.
After being driven away from the
neighborhood of the landtag the crowd
made Its way in the direction of the im-
perial palace. The police burred the
streets leading to th.' palace, but did not
cover Ihe square facing tho Imperial resi-
dence, where the family of the Kmperor
is now living. In spllo of the cold
woather the crowd grew rapidly. It w
composed principally of the unemployed
of which it Is estimated there are
present no less than 50,000 in Berlin. In
the. square some of the demonstrants
became disorderly and were at once u
rested.
The entire police force of Berlin ha-
been called out for duty In the differen
parls of the city. Thore have been col
lislons batwoen th, nianifeatants and the
police in several i 1 til. main thorough
fares, and these resulted in numerous
arrests, The most serious encounter was
at Kurfuersteu bridge. The. police had
to charge with drawn sabers.
The motion for manhood suffrage was
discussed in the Landtag amid great up-
roar, and finally rejected without a divis-
ion.
MARRIES HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW.
Dr. Marvin, Father of Missing Boy
Wedded in New York.
NEW YORK. Jan. 10-Dr. Horace
Newell Marvin of Dover, Del,, father of
the boy who wandered from a farm
house near Dover last spring and died
from exposure, causing the report that
!>« had been kidnapped, was married last
night in this city to Mrs. Mora Melinda
Swift, his rnother-ln-law. The ceremony
was performed by Ke.v. Dr. Houghton at
the Little Church Around the Corner.
Dr. Marvin Is B2 and his wife SO years
old.
In Ills application for a marriage li-
cense, Dr. Marvin said that by occu-
pation lie was a physician and farmer,
and that he was born in Ohio and had
been twice married. Mrs. Swift, in her
application, said that she had had a
husliand. now dead, and that she now
lived in Brookllne, Mass.
SAN ANTONIO.
At meeting of business men last night
It was decided to have the Spring Car-
nival and Battle of Flowers.
Work has begun on chapel at Fort Sam
Houston. Corner stone will be laid at an
early day.
Two ticket brokers agree to terms of
Injunction issued against them.
John Wllkens Sr., for sixty years a
resident of city, succumbs to long Illness,
Number of railroad men will leave here
today for Bolivia, to accept service on
new road.
Deputy State Came Warden is here In-
vestigating killing of female deer.
TEXAS.
Daring jail delivery is effected at Sher-
man.
Insurance companies must certify that
real estate mortgages deposited under the
Robertson law are In legal custody of de-
pository or treasury.
Commission brings suit for heavy pen-
alties against Trinity & Bratos Valley for
alleged violation of order to slop trains
between Dallas and Waxahachle.
Cotton bales ginned up to January 1
made public by Department of Agricul-
ture.
Don Gray case still on trial at Burnet.
DOMESTIC.
Jury to try Thaw completed; trial be-
gins Monday.
Taking of testimony in the Walsh bank
case at Chicago concluded.
Mr. Burleson of Texas makes princi-
pal speech in the House.
President Roosevelt reported to have
predicted Taft's nomination on first ballot
at the Chicago convention.
Secretary Taft speaks in Cooper Union,
New York.
FOREIGN.
Mexicans who insulted American Con-
sular Agent In Guatemala were not con-
nected with the Mexican Government.
Riots In Berlin caused by agitation for
manhood suffrage.
Successor as Federal representative on
the board of the Mexican Central to the
late Martinez del Rio is appointed.
Underground rooms of Puebla State
College are found to contain numerous
valuable works of art.
Wool growers of Mexico are shipping
product to European markets to ad-
vance manufacturers' price In the Re-
public.
SPORTING.
TAFT SPEAKS
ON CAPITAL
Each Necessary to the Other, He
Tells Audience in Cooper
Union, New York.
corporate wealth to
be fairlv treated
Any Injustice Done It Acts Directly
Upon the Wage-Earner, Who Must
Look to It for Employment.
Caose of Present Distress.
win four of the races at
1, makes runaway
Long shots
New Orleans.
Mldmont. at 30 to
race at Oakland.
Two favorites and two outsiders win
at Santa Anita.
WRECKED ON TRESTLE.
Four Killed in Collision of Railroad
Trains.
JACKSON, Miss., Jan. iO.-A special
from LeaksvlHo, Miss., says that a seri-
ous head-on collision occurred on tho
Alabama & Mississippi Railroad, four
miles cast of that place, this evening.
The collision was between a log train
and a work train and resulted in four
deaths, as follows:
CHARLES HCSHY, white.
W. E. I AYNE, white.
TWO NiiGKOES, names unknown.
Six others were seriously injured and
several more slightly. Four oxer, were
killed.
The week occurred on a high trestle
and on account of a deep curve Just be-
fore Hearing th trestle- the engineers
were unable to see the approach of each
other until very close.
ARE WITHOUT AUTHORITY.
Commission Form of Government
Will Not Be on Waco Ballot.
Special Telegram to The Express.
WACO, Tex., Jan. 10.—Tne City Demo-
cratic Active. Committee today refused
to submit the matter of a commission
form of government to the people in the
city primary to be held February 11, the
members claiming they are without au-
thority to have the proposition printed
cn the ballot.
The action taken December .» with ref-
erence to agreeing to place the proper
amendments on the ticket was annulled.
MARK TWAIN UNFORTUNATE.
Humorist Has $31,199 in Suspended
New York Bank.
NEW YORK. Jan. 10.—It has devel-
oped through a letter on accepted loans
for the reorganization of the fvr.ieker-
tocicer Trust Co'mp.«ny. that Mark
Twain, the. humorist, has $5?. 199 tied up
In tho j»us|>cnded trust company. It is
expected that a majority of the deposit-
ors will actee on a plan for reorganisa-
tion and that the trust company will be
reopened.
SCHOOL TEACHER IS KILLED.
Oklahoma Farmer, Near Muskogee,
Cuts Sweetheart's Throat, Then
Injures Himself—Being Guarded.
Special Telegram to The Express.
MCSKOOKI?, Okla., Jan. 10,-News 1ms
been received here that John Hopkins, a
farmer, cut the throat of Miss Lena
Craig, a school teacher at Peoria. In a
remote part of Ottawa County, killing
her, and then cut his own throat. Hop-
kins was In love with the girl. Tho
Sheriff is guarding him day and night.
The two were out driving when the
killing occurred.
A mob was formed to take him out and
Vang him last night, but was dissuaded.
The girl was a teacher in the Union
School at Modoc Agency, five miles from
Zenia, across Snake River, Hopkins will
recover.
MI8SION IN JAPAN SUCCEEDS.
Canadian Agent Satisfied With the
, Results.
OTTAWA, Ont., Jan. 10.—"I am per-
fectly satisfied that my mission to Japan
on behalf of the Canadian Government
has been an entire success." This was
tho statement made to the Associate.1
Press today by fi. Leminoux as he was
about to see the Prime Minister.
"While 1 am not in a position to give
any details concerning the Important
business which was entrusted to me, I
have no objections to saying that the
result has been satisfactory," added he.
"It has been stated in the press that
there was some clashing between myself
and the representative of tho British !■'#-
elgn Officc. Nothing could be further
from the truth. The facts are the other
way."
The great question in Japan, he said,
was immigration. Whatever feeling there
was over the Vancouver affair disap-
peared by the prompt action of Canada
and the letter of Mr Wilfred Laurh r.
There was a general impression that Can-
ada could riot be held responsible lor the
Vancouver affair.
ESTABLISHED 1865.
30 FIREMEN
BURIED UNDER
FALLENWALLS
Four of Them Kilted Outright;
Three Probably Fatally lijnred
and Others Severely Hart.
twelve floors drop
into the basement
Fire Breaks Oat in New York and Never
Is dot Under Control, But Is Con*
fined to Building—The Loss Is
Estimated at $5,911,DM.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1A, For the first
time since h* became a recognised can-
didate for the Republican Presidential
nomination William If. Taft tonight
faced a New York audience and set forth
in detail his stand 011 the pertinent, ques-
tions of the relative interests and rights
of labor and capital, and in turn sub-
mitted to a rapid-fire attack from the
audience, which quizzed him keenly and
in a somewhat controversial spirit, ac-
cording to the practice of the People's
Institute, whose guest he was. The Sec-
retary proved equally effective In attack
and his defense, and his prompt, forcible
replies and an occasional witty sally
evoked tho sanio demonstration of ap-
proval as greeted the salient points in
Ills address proper. Not less than 2000
persons crowded into Cooper Union Hall.
Each Needs the Other.
"I«nbor needs capital to secure the best
production." said Mr. Taft, "while capi-
tal needs labor in producing anything.
The share of each laborer iu the joint
product Is affected not exactly, hut in
a general way, by the amount of capi-
tal in use as compared with those who
la lair. The more capital in use, the more
work there is to do and the more labor-
ers are needed.
"It only requires the effects of a panic
through whieti we are passing or through
which we passed in PtiKl or IS'.;J to show
how closely united In a common interest
we are in modern society. We are In
the same boat and financial and lazi-
ness storms which affect one are certain
to affect all the others.
"Therefore, to coine back to my origi-
nal opinion, the laboring- man should in1
in.* iasi to object 10 th. accumulation of
capita) in the hands of those who use it
tur reproduction. No thoughtful and in-
telligent laborer has any feeling of hos
tility toward combinations of capital en
gaged in lawful business methods.
I he capitalist, however wealthy, who
Is willing to devote his nights and dsys
to the investment of his capital in profit
able, lawful business of manufacture and
who studies methods of reducing the cost
of production and economic expenses
should be regarded with favor by the
working man because his motive is
merely one of accumulation; lie |s work-
ing not only for himself, but for the la-
borer and for society at large.
"It Is greatly in the interest, of the
workingman, therefore, that corporate
capital should be fairly treated. Any in-
justice done to it acts directly upon the
wage earners who must look to cor
porate wealth for their employment.
Cause of the Panic.
AGED BRIDEGROOM ACQUITTED.
Killed Young Man Who Insulted
Eighteen-Year-Old Bride.
Special Telegram to 1 no express.
TROY, Mo., Jan. 10.—Ca.pt. A. C. Grimes
was acquitted here tonight of the kill-
ing of Joseph Mines last fall at the
Grimes Fishing Clubhouse. The Jury was
out four hours.
An insulting remark by I lines, w ho was
21 years old, to Grimes' 18-year-old bride,
when he met her gathering nuts in the
woods, caused Grimes to kill him on
sight the next day. Grimes is 7J years
old and a picturesque character. As a
Confederate spy he was captured by the
Federals and ordered shot, but was saved
from execution by the peace proclama-
tion. lie was eccentric and had peculiar
table rules at ids clubhouse which no
guest dared disregard.
NEW YEAR'S PEACH BLOOMS.
Trees at Carrixo Springs Blossom in
Midwinter Season.
Special Telegram to The Express.
CARR1ZO SPRINGS, Tex., Jan. 10.-'-
Many of the peach tres in this vicinity
still retain their leaves, while others are
putting out blossoms. The weather for
the past two week.' has been cool and
cloudy, but if the trtcs blossom gener-
ally a heavy frost would destroy the
crop.
Engine Kills Negro Boy.
Special Telegram to The Express.
DALLAS, Tex.. Jan. 10.—Raymond
Lockbart, a negro bo>. was run down
and killed by a Houston & Texas Cen-
tral engine tonight In the local yards.
"We are suffering now from a panic.
It was brought 011, in my judgment, by
the exhaustion of tree capital the world
over, by the lack of an elastic svstein
of currency and by a lack of confidence
in our business fabric produced in Eu-
rope through the revelations in certain
great corporations of business dishon-
esty, corruption and unlawfulness. It
has been necessary for us to purify
some of our business methods.
"The conclusion 1 expect to reach is
that tho workingman who entertains a
prejudice against tho lawful capitalist
because lie is wealthy, who votes with a
union for men who are urging unjust and
unfair legislation against him and who
make demagogic appeals to acquire pop-
ular support in what thev are doing arc
standing in their own light, are blind to
their own interests and are cutting off
the limb 011 which they sit. It is to the
direct interest of the workingman to use
careful discrimination in approving or
•proving proposed legislation of this
kind and to luse ins conclusion and vote
on the issue whether the provision is
fair and just and not on the assumption
that any legislation that subjects a cor-
poration to a burden must necessarily J>e
in his interest."
Where Interests Are Opposed.
Continuing, Secretary Taft said it was
tlie comniTi interest of IuImii* and capital
to increase tho fruits of production, 1
in determining the share of each iu th s
production, their int'-rests are plainly op-
I«»sed. Though the law of supply and
demand will doubtless in the end bo the
most potent influence m tixing the ii-
\ision, yet during the gradual adjust-
ment to the changing financial and mar-
ket conditions, capital would surely have
the advantage unless labor takes uni cd
action.
"During the betterment of business
conditions c!gamzeii labor, it acting with
reasonable discretion, can secure with
greater promptness tne advancement ot
wages than if it were left to th..' slower
operation ot natural laws, and in the
same way, as hard times come 011. tin-
too eager employer mav be restrained
Irom undue haste in reducing wages.
The organize ! 1011 ot vapital into v repa-
rations, with the position ot advantage
which this gives it in a dispute with sin-
gle labor -i s < ver wa^es makes it abso-
lutely necessary lor labor to unite to
maintain its iL.
"The divetfae Interests of capital and
labor atv wider considerably than the
mere pecuniary question 01 the amount
of wages. They cover all the terms ot'
tbe omplo? merit and include not only
the compensation, but also tlie ireum-
f lances tha; affect the comfort and con-
dition of the workingman. including daily
hours of work, the place in which they
work, tne provisions tor their saraty
from accident, and everything; else that
is germane to th<* employed."
Arguing ttint the effect »t the organiza-
tion of labor has been neneticinl in se-
curing better terms for the whole labor-
ing community and has brought about
at: amelioration or conditions ot laborers
in another way. Secretary Taft de-fa.ed
that the attention given by labor unions
Continued on Page Three.
NEW YORK, Jan. K). —Four firemen
went to their deaths tonight when thny
reanonded to a fire that ruined the Parker
building, a twelve-story business struc-
ture oct uuylng the block between East
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets on
Fourth Avenue. The flames wexe never
controlled and onty with great difficulty
were they confined to the building in
which they originated. Floor after floor
gave way and dropped to the basement
and beneath these and the crumbling
walls no less than thirty ftr«mea were
caught and cither killed outright or seri-
ously Injured.
When the fire burned ItseJf out and
tho firemen's "roll" was called, three
men of Engine Company No. 7^ and one
of the Fire Patrol No. 3 failed to re-
spond.
They are:
THOMAS PHILLIPS.
THOMAS O'CONNOR.
JOHN LYNCH.
JOHN FALaLON,
Tom Hutchison of Patrol Wagon Ko. 3
was a moved dying to tho hospital. Cap-
tains Williams and Garvl of Engine Com-
panies Nos. 24 and 11 were injured Inter-
nally, and are among the. dangerously
hurt.
When the casualties began, the Flor-
ence Hotel, which adjoins th* burned
block on Eighteenth Street, was made a
temporary hospital.
The loss is estimated at jr»,(K)O.OOi>.
The fire was one of the most spectacu-
lar as well uk disastrous in the city's
history.
Narrow Escapes From Death,
The building was occupied chiefly by
publishing houses, though a score of
other buMlnenscs liad working room, or
offices there. The loss to the tenants is
total
The fire started on tlie fifth floor In
the office of Kopcr A Ja 'Hsori, publisher*,
and before a atrealli of water hud fal-
len uuon It had shot up through the ele-
vator shall ami presently nil the upper
floors were ablaze.
(in the fifth floor, where the watch-
man discovered the fire, five girls, em-
ployed by the Dllmore Woolen .'onipany,
were at work. The flames were above
them, and the girls hurried down to the
street.
Cm the top floor, in the Suffolk Engrav-
ing Company's establishment. Hi* men
were working. Their escape was cut off
and they Tied to Ihe roof. Flames had
surrounded them 011 three sides, and tlwy
were In imminent danger of death when
.rescued by means of a life-line short uo
from a mortar gnn and manned by a
hook and ladder company on the roof
of the hotel adjoining. The hotel Is «*ven
stories in height, and from Its roof a.
rope was fired across the t >p of the burn-
ing building. There It was sel.ed by the.
imperilled men. and the free end was
made last about a chimney. Down this
rope, hand over hand, dropped the six
men to safety.
Meantime the Florence Hotel had be«n
emptied of its IKK) guests, and nearby
houses were also vacated.
Seven firemen of Kriglrie Company No.
,2 which I'll-, arrived, rail up to the
rii'th floor of the burning building after
85-foot extension ladders bad heen raised
to the windows to make possible the fire-
men's retreat.
Firemen Caught in Trap.
Alter a fruitless effort to stay th»
flames at the place of origin, the firemen
were driven to the window, only to find
that the tops of the ladders had been
burned, cutting off their only retreat.
Three of the seven made a desperate ef-
fort to roach the roof. They wero not
seen again and arc supposed to he detul
In the riilns. Tho other four were re*
cued.
These men had barely reached th«
ground when the great mass of cement
which formed pillars for the steel works
gave way and crashed to the ground,
carrying with it everything below the
seventh floor. John Fallon, Tom Hutch-
inson and Sergeant Kelly went down in
the wreckage.
Fallon was not seen again. Hutchinson
and Kelly, fighting desperately against
the plaster and cement which threatened
to bury them alive, managed to reach
the street, though frightfully Injured.
Hutchinson was able to say that Fallon
whs in the debris when he collapsed.
More than a score of firemen wer«
working within the walls or near enough
to he struck when they collapsed.
The tenants of the building Included
the Hrunswlck-Balke Collender Company
and Falrchltd & Co.
Further Investigation proved tho flr«
loss to be much greater than was at first
thought possible. Fire Commissioner
1/intrv said it might reach more than
Hi,tK*i,(inn. though the general estimate wa.
fI,(SH|,«S« less.
DR. FIELDING
SPECIALIST
DISEASES OF KIDNEYS. BLADOKR,
RECTUM. NERVES, BLOOD. SKIN
AND PRIVATE DISEASES OF MEN.
Reception. Consultation. Treating, X-
Ray Labratory and Drug Rooms, Suite.
421. 422. 423 and 424, Fourth Floor Hick.
Uullding. Hour. • to 12, 2 to 5. Sunday..
1, to 12 only.
GOODS
Curl.,
WavM. SMdal
promptly t*.
MME. CHAMBERS,
_ Houston and N.vtm.
1(1. UPSTAIRS. N. P. 11M
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