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3" THE MORNING ORBGONIAN, IQNPAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1902. NO CAUSE TO STRIKE So Answers the Oldest Coal Company. MEN WfBE WELL TREATED Made So-Hncb Money That They Only Needed to Work Three-Quarters at Bach. Day to Earn All They Wanted. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 16. The state ment of the Lehigh' Coal & Navigation Company, submitted to the anthracite coal strike commission, now in session at Bcranton, in answer to the demands of the miners, was made public here today, the answer recites the development of the Company from the date of Its charter in 1S22, refers to the expense of operation and to the comparatively small profits, and declares the demand of the employes for an increase of 20 per cent is unjusti fiable, the reasons given In support of the demand not being founded on fact. Ac companying the statement are two ex hibits. One shows tho earnings of the employes of the company for one year, based on the time worked during 1901, the number of the several classes of workmen and the rates paid according to the payroll for the first half of May, 1902. The other Is a catalogue of oyeTt acts charged to j the striking employes of the company during the recent contest, the riots, assaults and disturbances of var ious kinds, numbered at upwards of GO. The answer states: Oldest Coal Company. "The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Com pany is the oldest corporation engaged In the mining of coal in the anthracite re gion. It was chartered in. 1S22, and was the successor of the Lehigh Coal Mining Company, which was organized in Eng land in 1793. It also acquired certain rights on the Lehigh .River, which were granted in 1S18. It owns and controls about 14,000 acres of coal lands in Carbon' and Schuylkill Counties, which are esti mated to contain over 500,000,000 tons of available unmined coal. Its employee number 6000, and its capacity of produc tion Is over 200,000 tons a month. Its cap ital stock and funded debts amount to upwards of 573,000,000. All 9i its capital stock and bonds were Issued for full value, although its Important coal lands were purchased at a time when the coun try was a wilderness, and all Its lands have been acquired at moderate prices. The dividends upon its capital stock to date only average 4.02 per cent. The profit on coal mined by the company during the 10 years up to December 31, 1901, has av eraged 11.09 cents per ton, after charging of taxes on coal lands and depreciation, but not including any charge for royalty, which represents the value of the coal in the ground. Nor were the rates of freight upon the railroad exorbitant, as is shown by the fact that the company operated its own canal and found it advisable to send the coal to market over tho railroad rather than by the canaL" Referring to the claim of the miners that better wages are paid in the bitumi nous fields for substantially similar work, the answer states: "This company does not know what rate of wages is paid in the bituminous coal fields throughout the country, but there Is nowhere in any fields substantially similar work to that which is done under con tract in the mines of this company. It Is a fact, however, that miners of ordinary skill and experience have always been able to go from the mines of this com pany to any other mining region through out the country and obtain employment. "In 1891, for a day of 10 hours, contract miners earned an average of $3 14 per day, skilled laborers $2 3L unskilled la borers $1 83, boys $1 for work under ground. The rates for, outside labor aver aged as follows: Skilled labor, $1 69; un skilled, $1 28; boys, 77 cents. The average annual earnings of adults were J475 25." Denial is made of the claim of miners that their earnings are Insufficient to maintain the American standard of liv ing. Concerning the employes of the Le high Coal & Navigation Company these figures are given out: "Out of S063 families, S70 own their own homes. Pianos will be found In 146, and house organs In 337. The company owns and rents to its employe's 671 houses at an average rental of $4 75 a month. The char acter of these houses is fully up to the average In any part of the country occu pied by "any other class of workmen. It has been the policy of the company to Bell surface rights to those of its em ployes who desire to put up 'their own houses, and for many years there has been a steady demand on this account. The town of Summit Hill has a popula tion of about 3009, and almost the entire Burface, with the dwellings. Is now owned and occupied by the employes of the com pany. "The families of the employes have am ple school accommodations, with capable teachers, and over 1000 children are In at tendance, while over 75 per cent of the whole fundxespended in the region is de rived fronTtaxespald by this company oa Its coal estate." " Slate-PlcUInj? Is Easy. Regarding tho employment of boys, the statement says: , "Slate-rPlcklqg is a very easy occupar tlon, compared to the work done by tho boy upon a farm, and many of them are needed to take ' care of the mine mules and other light work, and In this way the wages of the household are largely and legitimately Increased. Since 1887 more than 250 young men have gone from Langsford and other pillages In the neigh borhood to normal schools and colleges and. become mining engineers, attorneys. chemists, dentists, architects, ministers and professors. "Some of the foreigners prefer to' live In a very niggardly and squalid manner, so that they may accumulate the larger part of their earnings and return to Europe to live In Idleness; but those who have their permanent home in the region have at least 51.000,000 deposited in the banks and savings funds in the vicinity, saved from the earnings In the employment of this company. The annual remittances to their families and friends abroad, through agencies in the region and -vicinity. amounted to 5150,000 or more. In 1SS4 the company established a beneficial fund, to which it has contributed the sum of $196, 89, and the employes $154,768. "During the strike of 1900, In which the employes of the company declined to par ticipate, the company, in acknowledge ment of their loyalty, contributed $25,000 to the beneficial fund. Since then, most of them have joined the union, and felt bound to join n the strike when ordered last May. No complaint was addressed to this company, and no request for high er wages Tvas made; but without notice the men left work in a body, against their own will and judgment, because required to do so by the vote of the miners em ployed In other coal fields. , "The claim for a reduction of 20 per cent In the hours of labor, without any reduc lion In earnings, for all employes paid by the, hour, day or week, would be pecu liarly absurd If enforced against this com' pany. It is a fact that the breakers of the company aro able to run only nine hours a day and not 10.- The miners only work from five to seven hours a day, and the real difficulty in the region Is that con tract labor prices are too high, as the men get an amount sufficient for their wants by working less than three-quarters of a 3ey, The men employed by the day work a maximum only "nine hours, and as many of them consume from half an hour to an hour In going to and from their work at the foot of the shaft, they do not work even nine hours. Men Can Make More.' "As Illustrating the influence of the excessive rates paid for contract work. It may be said that during normal condi tions, in April of this year, the men work ing by contract earned only an .average of 53 02 a day, but when It became probable that a strike would be ordered, the same men earned an average of 54 46 a day." The company asserts that payment by weight is impracticable at Its mines, as each mine constitutes a distinct problem and the conditions vary from month to month. The only method which has ever given satisfaction to the company's work ings, it Is said, is payment for cutting coal by the lineal yard. The rate of pay- J ment can be determined only in each par ticular case between the superintendent and the miner. "Some influence, believed to' be that of the union, has led the men to reduce the production, but notwithstanding this dif ficulty it remains true that the only way In which wages can be satisfactorily measured Is by contract for th6 work done, which necessarily varies from mine to mine, and sometimes between breasts upon the same gangway, and even upon the same breast, from diy to day." The company emphatically protests WHITE HOUSE, l. , - , . '. - - : .. ;-, V -" ..- ,:! THE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS THE WHITE HOUSE, WITH THE NEW EXECUTIVE OFFICES THE SMALLER BUILDING IN THE FOREGROUND AND THE PORTICOS CONNECTING THE NEW BUILD ING WITH THE OLD. i...c against the miners demand that there shall be any agreement with the United Mlneworkers of America, and In this case the answer says: "The conditions of mining in the Le high and Schuylkill regions aro quite dif ferent from those which exist in the Wyo ming and Scranton districts. Vfhlle this company has no objection, therefore, to Its own employes organizing among them selves, it has always objected and does object even to an organization which In cludes other anthracite fields, working under a different system of compensa tion, as a result of which Its men are or dered out upon strikes by reason of con troversies in which they, nave no inter est. It would be still more Inexcusable that any outside authority should assume to Interfere In the discharge of an employe. Every free man has tho right to work when and as he chooses, and the employer must possess and be able to exercise the right of discharge if he is to maintain dis cipline." " COMMISSION RESTED. Listened to Lecture and Strolled About Scranton. SCRANTON," Nov. 16. The members, of the arbitration commission observed Sun day today and refrained from doing, any work whatever. Most of them, as is their rule, attended services at churches in the forenoon, and this afternoon they took either long walks or drives through the valley. "Tonight they heard Bishop Spalding deliver a lecture on the subject of "Success;" at the Lyceum Theater, for the' benefit of the House of the Good Shepherd. President Mitchell, the first witness of the miners, who was on the stand Friday and Saturday, will again be in the wit ness box tomorrow. So far the attorney of only one company, David Wilcox, gen eral counsel of the Delaware & Hudson, has cross-examined him and Wayne Mac Veagh, who is representing the Pennsyl vania Coal Company and the Hillside Coal & Iron Company, is still engaged in car rying m his examination. Next to Mr. Mitchell, the most Important witness for the mlenrs will probably be Thomes D. Nicolls, president of District No. 1, of the Miners' Union, which takes In all of the mining territory around Scranton' and Wllkesbarre. BOOK ON PHILIPPINES. Work Issued by Insular Bureau Big: Demand for It. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. The Pro nouncing Gazetteer and Geographcal Dic tionary of the Philippines, with maps, charts and Illustrations, which was pre pared In the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department, has just been Is sued, and contains a wealth of informa tion concerning our .Oriental possessions. The gazetteer proper contans 264 pages, including the index, while the geograph ical dictionary occupies 66S pages, exclu sive of the maps, charts and Illustra tions. . ' When Dewey's brilliant victory awoke National interest in the Philippines, the obtainable literature in English on the question was meager, much of it was old and most out of print, while the Spanish works were to be found In but lew libra ries, so that the work of obtaining com plete and accurate Information of the Islands, their geographical resources, his tory, etc., has been a very difficult one. Requests already received for the edition exceed the limit ordered by Congress to be printed. Philippine Church. Conference. MANILA, Nov. 15. A conference of the bishops, priests and leaders of the Phil ippine Roman Catholic church will be held in Manila next week. They purpose to ' address a memorial to Monsignor Guldl, .the apostolic delegate in the Phil ippines, setting forth their .position. A number of native priests, Who sympathize with the movement but still adhere to tho Roman Catholic church, will seek an in tervlew with Monsignor Guidl before re affirming their allegiance to Rome or join ing the dissenters." It is believed that Monsignor Guldl will deal with the church situation before en tering upon negotiations with Civil Gov ernor Taft regarding the friar lands. Cholera. Increasing in Manila. MANILA, Nov. 16. The number of chol era cases is increasing In this city. The spread of the disease Is causing some alarm. There are on an average 30 cases dally. The Funston Preserve Hospital, the casual camp at Santa Mesa, and Blllbid Prison are now Included among the places infected. Should the water supply become Infected, a general epidemic is considered inevitable. The reports from the prov lncs show a decrease in the number of cases. Visit of General Miles. MANILA, Nov. 16. General Miles vis ited Camp Vicars, in Mindanao, yester day, and the town of Zamboanga today. FIRE LOSS OF $900,000 ARMOUR PACKERT AT SIOUX CITY TOTALLY DESTROYED. Progress of the Flames Made an Im pressive Spectacle Explosions Numerous Will Rebuild. SIOUX CITY. Ia. Nov. 16. Armour & Co.'s packing plant, which occupied four acres of the stockyards, and was valued at $000,000, was totally destroyed early this morning by a fire which started on the second floor of the fertilizer building, and is thought by Manager Lennon to have been due either to spontaneous combus tion or to an imperfect dryer. The loss is partly covered by $721,000 Insurance. Five hundred men are thrown out of employ ment. Within an hour after the fire was discovered by a watchman six streams of water were being thrown upon the flames, which were gutting the fertilizer building, 120 by GO feet, and four stories high, but the pressure was inadequate. The floors and contents of the building burned like WITH THE EXECUTIVE OFFICES ADDITION. chaff. The roof soon fell, and the fire hurst through Into the beef-kllllng house. At the samo time the cattle chute Ignited und in five minutes fell with a crash. Once in the beef-kllllng house, .the flames began to jdance madly. From this house to the oleomargarine building was only a step, and when the oils started to burn the Are presented a most spectacular ap pearance. The big beefhouse, containing 500 carcasses, next taught Are, and the whole plant, except the hoghouse, was a lake of fire. The roar was terrific. The country for miles around was lighted. Suddenly there was a terrific detonation, followed quickly by another, then another. Twenty-four drums of 100 pounds of ammonia each ex-, ploded before the reserve supply in the ammonia cistern was reached. That ex plosion almost razed the entire plant. The flames were blown through the fire wall which separated the hoghpuse from the other buildings. The hoghouse contained 3500 dressed hogs and 2.500,000 pounds of pork products. Steadily the fire crept against the wind and through tho office building. Not a scrap of paper was saved. When the last of the ammonia drums was going off, a burning chute fell upon a bunch of live hogs, and their squeals were added to the appalling chorus. After tho fire got good headway in the hoghouse, the shops, chicken-packing plant, lcehouaes and ice runways and smaller department houses were consumed in quick succession. The terrible roaring continue unabated. The high brick walls crumbled and crashed one by one, and the conflagration gradually ate its way through building after building. The Are department was helpless, as Its apparatus was Inadequate. The pressure was hardly strong enougn to throw water to the roof of the porkhouse. When the walls of this department burst, the firemen played their streams on the buildings until daylight The fire burned all day, and this after noon there was another terrific explosion, which threw bricks and pieces of iron for hundreds of yards. No one was hurt Will Rebuild at Once. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 16. C. W. Armour, of the Armour Packing Company, stated today that the plant at Sioux City, destroyed by fire last night, would be re built at once. The new plant will be much larger and finer than the one burned. The company, will, In the meantime, remain in the market, the cattle purchased to be distributed between Omaha, Kansas City and Chicago. High School Burned. MARION, O., Nov. 16. The High School building caught Are from the heating ap paratus and was destroyed. The loss Is $60,000, partially covered by insurance. SOCIALISTS MAY GET IN. Two Members to Be Added to Federa tion Council. NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 16. There Is a strong probability that the executive council of the Federation of Labor will be enlarged from 9 to 11 members at the present convention, and that one of the additional members will be a representa tive of the Socialist wing of the labor unions. The Socialists assert that they control nearly one-third of the votes cast in the convention, and feel fairly confi dent of getting one man on the board. There is a strong .element opposed to the Increase In number. The Socialists say they do not expect to win without a fight, but they do say they will have won that much when the fight. 13 over. Only two cities have so far been men tioned as the place for the next conven tion, Buffalo and Milwaukee. The latter place claims the better right, as it has been a' candidate three times, and on each occasion has. withdrawn in favor of the place in which the convention was held. However, no energetic work has been done by the advocates of either city. W. E. Kennedy, general organizer of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, has prepared a resolution which he expects will raise something of a breeze upon the floor of the convention. It is to the effect that the present local is antique and obsolete, and that the resi dents of the district should be allowed to vote. The resolution Is certain of op position, as It Is the avowed policy of the government of the District of Columbia Federation to refrain from political mat ters. The visiting delegates of the Federation were handsomely entertained today by the local laboring men, .who arranged several social affairs for them during the afternoon and secured one of the theaters for them tonight. ENGLISHMEN IN CLEVELAND. Savr Hanna, and Liked His Civic Federation Scheme. CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 16. The delega tion of English worklngmen visiting this country to study industrial conditions in the United States spent the day in this, city sightseeing. Tonight a meeting' was held In the dining-room of the Pqrest City House, a't which were present Sir Alfred Moseley, Senator Hanna, Congressman Burton, Harvey D. Goulder, president of the Cleveland Chamber' of Commerce, and Mayor Johnson. There were Informal dis cussions of labor topics. As a result of the meeting between Mr. Hanna and Sir Alfred Moseley. the latter makes the announcement that England will have a National Civic Federation after the plan of the American organiza tion of that name. The purpose will be the same, to bring labor and capital Into more pleasant' relations. Prominent local labor leaders were with the visitors from across the water today, and did their share in entertaining them. XBW PLAN OP FEDERATION. Colorado Labor Organization invites -Others to Consider. DENVER, Colo., Nov. 16. Should a movement Inaugurated by the Colorado State Federation of Labor be favorably received hy labor federations of other states, a National convention of delegates from these organizations will be called to meet In Denver to consider and act upon the "plan of the Colorado Federation, which has for Its purpose the adoption of a system of government modeled after the National Government of this country. Secretary H. B. Waters, of the Colorado State Federation, is now busy sending out letters embodying the proposed system to the various state federations. Each fed eration Is urged to appoint delegates to the proposed convention to be called in the future. Tampa Kidnaping Discussed. NEW YORK, Nov. 16. After a thorough discussion of the kidnaping of 14 leaders of the union clgarmaTcers' strike, in Tam pa, "about a year ago, and the more- recent abduction of the Mayor of that city, be cause of his alleged sympathies with the strikers, the Central Federation of Labor today unanimously decided to lay the matter before President Roosevelt, and request him to call for a report of the commission which he some time ago ap pointed to investigate the matter first mentioned. It was also voted that tho question be placed before the National Federation of Labor, now in session in New Orleans. .Washington Theatrical Strike. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. Three of the local theaters have agreed to yield to the demand of the striking stago. hands, ac cording to members of the National Alli ance of Theatrical Stage Employes, but the managers of the the three other the aters playing the leading attractions say they will not give in. They say the real Issue Is whether they shall control their own business, and that tho real trouble Is the discharge of a stage hand. They say they are paying the full union scale of wages, and have plenty of help with which to run their theaters. x WOMAN LEADS POLITICS. Adds Interest and Action to British Government Life. LONDON, Nov. 16. The dullness of the atmosphere has been dispelled by the appearance of a new leader, namely, Lady Colebrook. Not since Disraeli's time has a woman taken such an active part in inner political circles. Lady Colebrook Is now regarded as tho "Deus ex Machlna" of Lord Rosebery's party wherever she goes, and sho goes almost everywhere, championing the ex Premier's cause. Society credits this tal ented and fascinating woman with sev eral defections which have occurred from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's section of the Liberal party. She is exception ally Interesting to Americans, as she has two sisters-in-law, who are well known ,on the other side of the Atlantic, her brother, Arthur Paget, having married Miss Mary Stevens, and another brother, Almerlc, having married Pauline, daugh ter of William C. Whitney; of New York. Lady Colebrook is gifted with rare In telligence and a rare voice. She can be seen at all the principal race meetings and social gatherings, and the catholicity of her political friendships can be judged from the fact that after a recent large reception to the Liberal League she stayed at the Duke of Devonshire's for the Derby races. Lord Rosebery has gained a pow erful ally, whose leadership Is more open than his own. t ' Sir Edward Colebrook seldom Is seen In public, and Is generally known as a book worm. Wave of Crime In London. LONDON, N.qv. 16. The protracted cor onation rejoicings have been succeeded by a wave of crime. Accounts of murder trials and stories of other tragedies fill the columns of such papers as report those occurrences, and to the long list of criminal casesr now proceeding some new tragedy Is added almost dally. Suicide Is unusually prevalent. The murders are mostly confined to tho lower classes. Much interest has been evoked this week over the recent stabbing case In which a young woman most deliberately killed a member of- the Stock Exchange on the street In the busiest section of the city. Another case that has attracted much public attention Is the alleged murder by burning and stabbing of a servant girl by an evangelist at Pearson Hall, County of Suffolk. Pretender Said to Be Captured. TANGIERS, Morocco, Nov. 16. Accord ing to a report which has reached here from Fez, the imperial troops have suc ceeded In capturing the pretender to the throne. It is said that the Sultan, at the head of an army of 25.000, will direct in person the operations to put down the uprising of the Kabyle tribesmen at Ze mour. Denver-Salt Lake Bonds Sold. DENVER, Nov. 16. The- time limit for the purchase of bonds of the new Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railroad Com pany expired at midnight last, night, and it was annbunced today that'the entire Issue of $20,000,000 had been disposed of. BUSINESS ITEMS. If Baby Is Cutting Teeth, Be sure and use tfikt old and well-tried remedy, Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothinc Syrup, for children teething It soothes the child, softens the gums, 'allays all pain, cures wind colic and' diarrhoea. OF THE SOLDIERS INSPECTOR-GENERAL FINDS MUCH TO COMMEND. " Speaks Particularly of the Service In the Philippines and the Men Who Were at Front There. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. Tfie annual re port of General J. C, Breckenridge, . In-spector-Gentral of. the Army, Is a volu minous document, and covers every phase of the military establishment department, bureau and command in the Army. There are more than 50 recommandatlons and suggestions relating to improvements In the Army, most of which pertain to tech nical matters and minor conditions. Much of the report necessarily has been covered In the reports of bureau chiefs and com manding officers. General Breckenridge finds much to com mend In all branches of tho service, and reports progress and Improvements every where. The most serious criticism is In regard to absenteeism where officers are on detached duty, leaving the regiments short of officers. Thus, In, the Philippines especially, It Is found that many of the companies are without Captains and the companies In command of new and untried officers. He shows that instruction in the Army is progressing satisfactorily. He recommends the fortification of Pearl Har bor, In the Hawaiian Islands, as a strat egic point. - Ho says water transportation in the Army, Is rapidly assuming stable and economical methods. He has the fol lowing to say regarding his inspection in the Philippines: "During my tour in the Philippines, It wag evident on all sides that the Army as a whole was laboring patiently and faithfully to solve the many vexing prob lems continually presented to it. The dif ficulties encountered and the hardships en dured never can be fully appreciated hy any one who has not been on the ground and observed the daily life of officers and men. miles away from home infiuences and associations," living in communities either openly or secretly hostile, depending al most entirely for their subsistence upon the commissary, wriere one Is always afraid to take even an ordinary drink of water without ascertaining first whether it has been cookeed. . . . Trying Work In Philippines. "Critics at home may seareh for epithets to apply to our general officers, but these officers are not less kind-hearted than their critics, and. are anxiously mindful of the sufferings which necessarily fall upon the Innocent In warfare as well as the guilty, and are devising means by which the poor may bo cared for and fed. There is reason for gratification that our fellow-countrymen have confidence in their Army, and many know what war Is; and the reaction has not been sluggish. "That tho Army performed Its duties well and bore its hardships uncomplain ingly is well known to. all who have kept in touch with It since the opening of the Philippine insurrection. In fact, it has done only the things which we exnect of it, and which we will continue to expect or American soldiers. "The crying need of the soldiers now In the Philippines Is quarters, and nothing will add more to the discipline and effi ciency of officers .and men serving in that division than the construction as rapidly as posible of commodious quarters and barracks for our troops, on sites which will afford ample room for proper Instruc tion of large bodies of men In drill and target practice." Discussing the American troops and the Filipinos, General Breckenridge says: "There has been a good deal of discus sion in the public press and elsewhere con cernlng the treatment of the native Filipi nos by the American troops, and some rather serious charges have been brought against the Army, which charges have not been substantiated. The conditions of war In the Philippines have been unusual, per haps, and from reasons arising from the conduct of the Filipinos themselves, who, as the authorities agree, are sometimes ex tremely cruel and treacherous. In the con duct of the American Army toward them the. exercise of unexampled patience Is claimed, and the humanity of the' troops engaged has no parallel In the history of dealing with Asiatics. On the Roll of Honor. "With what, novel duties In both civil and military administration, and in the character and environment of the war on the opposite side of the globe have our soldiers been brought In contact! The world has felt the current of those distant affairs, and our Nation may not bo "fully conscious of the awakening. Who among us on the day of 'the battle of Manila Bay was familiar with the names of men who had faithfully devoted long lives to our service, not without some dangers by land and sea, and now the character of the Nation has been weighed in the bal ance according to their words and deeds, Merrltt, with youthful fame in the Shen andoah and great plains, appears In his maturity on this last scene; Otis of hon est judgment, far-reaching insight and a cormorant for work, bearing his honorable wounds with all modesty; Bates, the gen tleman and soldier, the right hand of his chief in diplomacy or emergency: Wheat- on, the thunderbolt and embodiment of military ardor; MacArthur, judicious, courageous, masterful and broad-minded; Hughes, acute and resolute amid an at tempted Moscow, and In tho rugged places of Samar and the middle Islands; Funston, who won his fame amid the hardships of 1 the farthest front; Young, forever in the lead anu seeKing tne vnais oi tne enemy; Smith, tireless and aggressive; Bell, court eous and recklessly audacious, the prince of 'the advance guard; Lawton. 'droit et loyale,' who baptized that land with his blood and wrought famously and klnaiy ton both hemispheres, doing easily and without undue sacrifice whatever was most needed or most difficult; Chaffee. whose sterling worth has been displayed In the Old and New Worlds, wherever American arms have brought her prlncl pies and won success, either In the whirl of repelling deadly tyranny from the An tilles or In bringing safety to tho be leaguered nations from the bloody Man- chur of the Forbidden City: Davis, whose omnivorous Industry and knowledge have wrought memorable monuments In the form of city government and great memo rial structures, as well as In his profes sion; Grant, who carried from Porto Rico to the Far East a name Americans regard as the epitome of unpretentious and ad mirable service, and who has shown un wearied work and fairness In every scene; and Baldwin, the last to win a star for worsting the enemy In fierce fight, in a career filled with ouch bearing as brought two medals of honor for soldierly courage to him alone. When the rewards of serv ice ko to mqn like him the heart of the Army is elated. "These are not half the names, nor are all of them as well known to their fellow countrymen as they deserve. But these are among those whom I met or the re sults of whose work I witnessed during the past year. Famous regiments which fought or endured amidst those scenes will cherish the occasion In their regi mental traditions. And young men who hereafter take the oath to serve their country will show faithfully how she was wont to be served when the old regiments went down to the sea In great ships. The Army of the past has again proved the mettle of which It Is made, and the naval and civil officers have writ their names In bold characters among the immortals and the Army of the future is taking shape, and the spirit will go marching on still as always, loyal and true and stead fast to the end. 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Sunday Dinner Included 'ttonst Bear I'mvs, 'Possum and Sfreet Po tatoes Camp Style. SMEDES; Miss., Nov. 16. Sunday was a quiet day at the President's camp on Lit tle Sunflower. There was no hunt,, but the President and several members of the party spent a couple ef hours In the morn ing rambling over the forest trails on their horses. Dinner was the chief event of the day. The menu Included roast bear paws, and 'possum and sweet potatoes. Dinner was served In camp style, on a rough pine board table set up In the open air. Tin plates and tin cups were used. There were not enough knives and forks to go around, and the colored cook an nounced, to the amusement of everybody, as the party sat down, that on account of the scarcity of the articles he had dis tributed them only to the "Colonel" (as tho President Is invariably called In camp) and tho "foreign gentleman." The President is enjoying his outing very much. He has not had three days of such complete freedom and rest slnco he entered the White House. The insurgent newspaper men returned to the assault to'day. Having been re pulsed on tho land side by Mangum's pick ets, they resolved today to try to effect an entrance to the camp by the water route. A boat was chartered at Vicks burg, according to the story In circulation here, and it was reported to have left that place at 3 o'clock this morning. The route of the expedition is to be up the Mississippi to the mouth of the Yazoo, thence up the Utter river to the Big Sun flower. The distance, owing to the bend3 In the river. Is over 40 miles, but If tho party started it did not reach its destina tion. The river men say there is now a sandbar at the mouth of the Yazoo which would stop any craft drawing over 12 Inches. The Chicago party which Is hunting with Bob Bobo's pack of hounds, 20 miles north of here. Is reported to have had bet ter luck than the President's pirty, ac cording to a message received here today. The party during the last week bagged 11 deer and four bears. Hoke Collier's dander Is up, and he vows that the "Colonel" will not go home empty-handed. His dogs had a good rest today, and 'will be In fine condition to. resume thechase tomorrow. Tho weath er tonight, however, Is not fivorable. It has turned colder and rain Is falling. A report circulated among the colored people that the President was coming to Smedes today attracted about '10CO ne groes to the station. They waited here until dark before they would be convinced that the report was Incorrect. Ten Per Cent Increase on Lnke Shore CLEVELAND, Nov. 1G. The Lake Shore Road will post notices tomorrow announc ing an average increase of 10 per cent In the wages of switchmen along the entire system. 'The wages of the switchmen In Cherry Pectoral For hard colds, chronic coughs, bronchitis, con sumption. 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Wines 25c 25c .25c .45c 50c .35c .35c .45c ITALIAN TERRA COTTA BUSTS Largest line ever shown in Portland. No old pieces all new. Remember, we have the richest stock of CUT GLASS in the North west. Prices are popular. KNOWN CURES For ColdK, ConghH, Chapped Hp's, Grip. Woodlark's Camphor Cream, for chaps of &ll75r kinds Jl Allen's One Day Cold and3rr Grip Cures JJL Allen's White Pine Balsam. Best cough mlxturecn made, 25c and JU- "Woodlark" Chocolate Emul sion of pure cod liver oil. builds up the system,7S strengthens the lungs....' Jl- "Woodlark" White Pine Drops, for lrritatedis throat and coughs STERLING SILVER NOVELTIES Every popu lar item we show. Prices are the lowest. the Chicago yards were raised recently, and the notice tomorrow will apply to all other switchmen. It will affect about 1000 men. It Is learned that the same company now has under advisement a more gen eral Increase In wages, affecting a great many employes. It. Is also stated that the Nickel Plate will' follow with a general Increase. KEEPS NORTHWEST FRONT So Says Jerome, of the New York; Central Lines. W. B. Jerome, of Chicago, general agent of the New York Central lines, left last night for San Francisco, after having spent Ave days In the Northwest. He waj accompanied by 'John A. Gill, of San Francisco, Pacific Coast freight agent of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, and W. C. Seachrest, the Vanderbilt agent In this city. "We haven't much that Is new for the papers," said Mr. Jerome. "Business is good, never better, and we are preparing for even more of it. Our lines are surely handling their share of the business of the Pacific Northwest. We like this coun try, and aro keeping it to the front in all our advertising. We And It a good thing to advertise, and we propose to -keep it up." Aurance on Rio Grnnde System; DENVER, Nov. 16. Under an agreement which. haa been reached between Manager Herbert, of the Rio Grande Railroad sys tem, and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the members of that order who are employed as switchmen In the var ious yards of the company are granted an increase of pay, based on. the Chicago schedule, which was recently adopted. Tho Increase amounts to 3 and 4 cents per hour. Shot Himself in Front of Train. DAWSON, Ga., Nov. 16. Lavoysler La mar, a merchant of this place aged 27, and related to the Lamar family of Geor gia, committed suicldo tonight by shoot ing himself with a pistol on a railroad track, and allowing a train to run over his body. During the evening he entered the Methodist Church and bade the pas tor good-bye, telling him he hoped no one would be permitted to speak ill 'of him. Biliousness, sour stomach, constipa tion and all liver ills are cured by Tho non-Irritating cathartic. Price 25 cents of all drupglats cr by mall of C.I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. 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