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VOL. XL VI. 0. 14,339. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22,. 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WERHA- SAVED ' BY GOOD SEAMANSHIP Overdue Bark Crosses Columbia Bar. " ALL HANDS IN GOOD HEALTH Buffeted About for Months by Heavy Gales. DRIVEN FAR NORTHWARD Tries In Tain to Enter Fuget Sound and Xarrowly Escapes Vancouver Inland's Marine Graveyard. Capt, Collingswood's Story. BY E. W. WT.IGHT. ASTORIA. Or., Nov. 21 (Staff Corres pondence.) The long overdue Iverna is riding at anchor tonight, Just below Astoria.. She was towed in. this after noon, by the tug Wallula, after a batUe of nearly two months with gales, off the Oregon and Washington coasts. Her long passage and mysterious disappearance, after being sighted off the river more than a month ago. ha awakened more interest, and caused mors anxiety, than was displayed over the two vessels re cently wrecked on the Peach. That the Iverna is still afloat is due entirely to the good seamanship and tuperior .ludgment of Captain Collings wood Overdue ships from Acapulco in Mhe past have supplied some sensational stories when they were towed In, with most of their crew dead or dying with fever or starvation, as was the case with the Star of Erin, the Eimbleton, and others which were too long at sea, with bad wafer. Insufficient food, and foul bottoms. But there was no distress Blgnal flying from the Iverna, when pilot Archie Cann went aboard, this morning, with a supply, of pots toes. and .flour, and a healthier looking" .crew of teamen never peered over the side of a vessel, than those which gazed down fxora the rail of the Iverna. when the quarantine boat drew alongside, this evening. All Hands In Fine Shape. The captain was tired, the mate com plained of ennui and one of the sailors had a boil on his nose; thFe were the only signs of distress on board. The causes of this remarkable trip of the Iverna could tie aptly summarized as: insufficient ballast, a badiy befouled hull, and a succession of terrific gales. This combination, had the Iverna been In charge of a navigator of the type of the masters of the ill-starred Galena and Feter Iredale. would have resulted in her becoming the property of the underwrit ers. But Captain Collingswood seems to have learned his trade in a school where th use of the lead line and the everclse of common ens.e were taught. "I could have come in a month ago had I cared to take the chance.-1 said he, "but I preferred to be a live coward at sea In stead of a corpse on the beach. My ship U. drawing but II feet of water, and Is so terribly foul that I did not propose to get in too close, so long a9 the weather was so bad. for I knew that I would be taking a chan'A cn losing her" Seafaring men who have heard the cap tain's story and are familiar with the ter rible weather conditions which have pre vailed for the past sis weeks are unani mous in their opinion that Captain Col lingswood is anything hut a coward, and regard it as little less than a miracle that he brought his insufficiently ballasted and foul-bottomed vessel safely into port, if the underwriters appreciate good seaman hip. and have anything to spare afr remunerating the owners of the Peter Ire i!e and the Galena, they will do well to recognize what Captain Collingewood has done for them. Carried North by Gales. The terrific southerly gales which fol lowed each other in seemingly endless succession carried the Iverna as far north as Vancouver Island. Captain Collings wood tried for three days to sail Into that much-vaunted entrance to the Straits of Fu-a. but met with no better success than he had farther south, and at one time rrrowly escaped destruction near Cape ale. where the Valencia was wrecked. So much, has been printed about the Ivfrni in the past month that the public i.-; pretty familiar with her movements, up to the time the .p.irted company with the French bark Sully, more than a month sgo. he left Acapulco July 2S. after dlecharg-ins.- a cargo of coal from Newcastle Hr hull waf far from clean when she arrived at the tropica! port. and. after lying in th" warm water for two months, she ac cumulated a marine growth that retarded hr progress so that she was nearly two mor.ti-.s in reaching "Frl.sco Heads. She received orders there to proceed to Port land, and on October 17 was off Tillamook Kock. In company with the Sully This was the last definite information of the vessel's movements that was received until sh9 showed up off the mouth of the river today Her official log since that date has becn one continued hard-luck story Made Too Much Leeway. In almost helpless condition, she has been a prey of the winds. With her big walls of steel towering above the water, every gale would send her scudding to leeward faster than she could be sailed on any kind of a course that tended to keep her somewhere near the latitude of the Columbia. When she parted with the Sully October 17. she stood off to get sea room during a southeasterly gale that was tuning up. A day later, she again sighted Tillamook Rock. but. with the southeast gale still raging, worked out to the westward, in cidentally drifting north faster than she was sailing west. On October 22 she again picked up the land, with Saddle Mountain oft the star board bow. Again the southeast gale raged, and, crab fashion, she clawed her way off shore. She worked back, nine days later, and sighted Cape Disappoint ment. 15 miles southwest, but before she could get any closer, she was driven away to the north. She picked up Cape Flatten-. November 12, and Captain Collings wood started to run in, but, as the cap tain states, "even that port seemed closed against us." After beating around there for several days, and going almost as far north as the 49th parallel.' the attempt to enter the Straits was abandoned and she again headed south, not, however, until she had drifted dangerously near to Vancouver Island, In the vicinity of Cape Beale. Kept Crew on the Jump, Through all these weary days the wind changed so often that it was difficult for tile overworked crew to shift the sails fast enough to keep up with it. The Iverna sighted land November 30, some distance north of the Columbia, and stood off shore to get into position. She came in again, this morning, and picked up Cape Disappointment Light 15 miles southeast at i o'clock. She stood off and on until 10:30 o'clock, when pilot Archie Cann wa put aboard from the pilot schooner. The tug Wallula made fast shortly afterward, but the vessel was so foul that it was very difficult to tow her. and it was after 5 o'clock, before she anchored, just below Smith's Point. Captain Collingswood was quite pro fuse in his thanks to pilot Cann, who took aboard some provisions. "While the crew was not on short rations, another week would have made matters quite serious. The good health of the crew Is at tributed to the water which was taken at Newcastle, Captain Collingswood having refused to take water from Acapulco. signs of Nervous Strain. Captain Collingswood and his officers show some signs of the nervous strain to which they have been subjected, and It is probable that a few days longer might have made a far more serious story. The crew had become restless, and last night C3me aft In a body, and demanded that the captain go to Portland at once. After he Informed them that he was not being knocked around by the November gales for the fun it afforded, and offered the spokesman $100 to take him to Portland, "real quick." the delegation retreated to the forecastle. The Iverna is of 2230 tons, net register, and has bat 1000 tons of ballast aboard. She win probably be docked In Portland and cleaned. DRAWN BY .LOVE'S GDIS ROSEBTJRG WOMAJT GOES ALONE TO BECOME BRIDE. Neither Trust Inquiry Nor Floods Al lowed to Delay Weddina;, Which Ends Seven Years' Courting;. ST. LOUIS. Mo. Nov. 21 (Special.) After traveling alone from her home, Roseburg. Or., to Burlington. Ia, where she was met by her fiance. Miss Mildred Lander ton! eh t. became Mrs. Percy Schal lenberger. The ceremony was performed quietly by Rev. Samuel Huey. pastor of the Grand-Avenue United Presbyterian Church, at his residence. Not even the bridegroom's . brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sohallenberger. with whom he has been living, were present. Furthermore, they both stated tonight to The Oregonian correspondent that they had never met the bride before. The acquaintance of Schallenberger and Miss Lander, both of whom are 27. be gan seven years ago in Spokane, "Wash., where he then resided and she visited rel atives. Fate forced them apart, she go ing to Portland and he coming to St Louis and entering the employ of the Waters-Pierce Oil Companv as salesman. They continued the courtship by mall, en gaged themselves and fixed the date. Then the Standard Oil investiga tlon in terfered indirectly, preventing Schallen berger's intended journey to Oregon to claim his bride. But, not to be balked by a mere Standard Oil affair, she boarded a train for St Louis. Schallenberger went to Burlington to meet her. The train was due there Monday, but did not arrive until yesterday, owing to the Northwestern floods. LOHCSTHIOETO SOCIALISM RCSSIAX CABKVET PROPOSES RAD ICAL LABOR LAWS. Will Outo France and Germany In Care for Workmen Plan to Win Bark Peasants. ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 21 The cor respondent of the Associated Press had an interview with M. Filossofoff, the Min ister of Commerce, today. The Minister said that under his supervision there were now being prepared the following proj ects of law: A law regulating the hours Of labor; a law establishing compulsory insurance of workmen against accident and malady and fixing old-age pensions: a law instituting a rigorous medical ex amination of factories, compelling manu facturers to build hygienic workmen's dwellings, and to provide the workmen with free medical attendance and a law placing restrictions upon the employment of women and children. These bills, which in their entirety con stitute a sweeping advance in the labor programme which rivals the intentions of the new French Ministry and which goes beyond the state Socialistic paternalism in force in Germany, must be ready for pre sentation to the Parliament at its open ing session February 7, 1907. Running parallel to this labor pro gramme there is the government's agra rian policy, which is calculated to allay the more acute phase of the peasant agi tation and win back the confidence of the peasants. This new programme unfolds the general lines of the strategy which the government is determined to pursue in Its dealings with the new Parliament. RAILROADS BEGIN ERA OF ECONOMY Expenses Going Up While RatesGo Down. CAPITAL DIFFICULT TO FIND Labor Demands More Wages and Is Scarce at That. ALL MATERIALS' ADVANCE Hostile Public Opinion, Reductions In Rates and New Rate Law Cause All Roads to Draw In Their Horns. CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-fSpecial.)-The rail roads of the entire country have decided to Inaugurate an era of most rigid econ omy. The plans which they have decided on will result in a decrease in expendi tures during the next 12 months of be tween so.000,000 and J130,000,000 as com pared with the sums spent during the year just closing. The railroad presi dents claim they have been forced into the adoption of this policy in self-defense and to prevent possible 'disastrous finan cial consequences of the Increase in the cost of everything except transportation. The subject of expenditures has been the sole topic of discussion at executive officials' gatherings in Chicago and in the East for the last three months. The reasons assigned by railroad men for their decision in favor of extraordinary economy are therefore: . Reasons for Economy. Increased demands of labor, which will require a 10 per cent general increase, costing the roads between $S0,y,oM and 100,000, 000 in excess of the wages paid last year. Increased cost of all supplies and ma terials .entering Into railroad construc tion and maintenance, varying from ' 33 to 75 per cent. Scarcity of labor, making it almost im possible to secure men for extension of old lines and the Construction of new, railroad labor shortage ' in the country west of Chicago being-' estimated at be tween 30.000 and 60.000 men.- Inability td get supplies promptly and the uncertainty of being able to use them . when procured. The general tendency of freight rates, which is said to be downward,- while the price of everything else is increasing. Uncertainty regarding the effect of the rules of the Interstate Commerce Com mission, which, railroad . men ' say. may result In good to them or may result In great harm. . Increasing difficulty in securing money to invest in railway ventures and with which to carry on improvements, a diffi culty which has become alarmingly real during the -last 13 months. Continued public agitation, which Is al leged to be hostile to corporations and to railroads especially. v Extensions at Standstill.. . ' These reasons, it is claimed, are patent to all. and the railroad which would not "lay to" and await "the outcome would be daring flhancial disaster. In the North west and in the "West railroad extension, except that already planned, is practically at a standstill,1 and a great deal of the work laid out will not be prosecuted the coming year. In view of the fact that James J. Hill has' said that it would re quire 10.000 additional miles of road each year to keep pace with the growing de mands on : transportation facilities, the Inactivity of the railroads in this respect is interesting. The Burlington may be taken as a fair example of , all Western roads. At the be ginning of last year that road had $16. OVi.flOO unexpended of an appropriation of 30.000,000 for its entire system of about 9000 miles. After strenuous efforts to ex pend this balance this year. on improve ments and extensions which were planned, there is still an unexpended balance of $7,000,000. due. it is claimed, to inability to secure material and .workmen. Besides being unable to make the expenditure desired, it cost the railroads, together with the Burlington.. 30 per cent in excess of the estimates made to accomplish, the work of the year. During the coming year the Burlington probably will 1 not build to exceed 30 or 40 miles of railroad and will use not to exceed $1,000,000 of the unexpended appropriation. . Doing Work by Piecemeal. The Northwestern is In the same boat, and will not spend more than $3,000,000 the coming year, whereas it spent more than double that amount last year. An official of that road stated today that the com pany was planning work and improve ments only by the single job. instead of laying out a vast amount of work to ex tend over a period of six months or one year, as previously done. "The road is feeling Its way in this re spect," declared the official, "and is not undertaking- anything big. It Is impos sible to do as we did last . year, because of the difficulty of getting anything done. Formerly all that was necessary was to plan an Improvement and order it done. Now it requires daily and persistent ef fort to get the Job done by piecemeal." It is understood the increased wages and the necessity for still spending money In betterments will cause a purposed divi dend on the Rock Island common stock to be Indefinitely deferred. The Increase in wages which is coming on that system will, it is urged, consume every dollar of the road's surplus this year Difficult to Raise Money. Even if the railroads desired to prose cute extensions, the difficulty of getting the money, is great. .Attention is called to the fact that recently the Pennsylvania, was driven to '' France for a loan- The New Tork Cntral'6 experience also is cited. " Recently that-company put out an additional $25,000,000 of capital stdok, which-was offered to the stockholders at par. The stock was then selling In the market at $140 a share. The stockholders took the additional shares, netting- the company $23,000,000. Immediately the stock was issued the market fell off. and as a consequence there was a. general depre ciation of $35,000,000 on the entire issue. In actual stock values, therefore, the New Tork Central was $10,000,000 worse off for having tried to Taise $23,000,000 on Its new stock issued tor betterment pur poses. This, it Is stated, shows how cap ital shuns railroad investments Just now. That the' tendency of freight and pas senger rates is downward.- railroad offi- (Concluded on Fag 3.) "ALL FOR ONE, AND ONE FOR ALL" CHILD LABOR LAW OF E Will Provoke Hot Fight in Congress. ROOSEVELT MAY SUPPORT HIM Struggle Will Be Fiercer Than on Meat Bill. GREAT INTERESTS OPPOSED Mining and Manufacturing Ca . corns Will Be Arrayed Against . Him Government Inquiry Will Expose Evils of System. "WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. (Special.') If Senator Albert J. Beveridge. of Indiana, carries out his expressed intention to In troduce a bill to prohibit child labor in the United ' States, there will be an en livening addition to the proceedings of the next session of Congress, which, it was supposed, was to be devoted principally to the tame consideration of appropriation bills. The Indiana Senator last Spring aroused Congress and the country with his meat inspection amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill. From the very nature of the case. It seems most probable that his measure to prevent the employment of children under the age of 14 in factories and mines will cause much of the same kind of legislative turmoil and of publio interest that attended the drastic packing-house Inspection amendment of last season. Harder Fight Than on Meat Bill. The Beveridge meat bill, with a few changes, became the law of the land. The people said that It was a proper piece of legislation, and so it unquestionably was, but from the point of view of abso lute righteousness, the proposed child labor Jaw throws It into the shadow. Ad mitting this to be the fact, the difficulties in the way of passing the proposed meas ure will be- greater by far tr:tn those that stood , In the way of . the passage of the meat bill,' great is those difficulties were. On the side of the Indiana Senator's bill will be the sentiment of the people of the country, a power In itself, but against its passage will stand not simply an associa tion of packing-house interests, as was the case in the. meat measure last Spring. but an association of the great mining and manufacturing interest of the United States. Mr. Beveridge will have a fight on his hands. If he succeeds in winning it, he will get the credit of a victory greater than that which he won in his battle for proper Goverment oversight of the pack ing industry. President Roosevelt, in his message, a year, ago, called attention to the evilB of All BEVLKlDb child labor in the United States. Con gress ordered an Investigation, and it is being carried on by officials of the De partment of Commerce and Labor. Th Inquiry unquestionably will show a state of affairs that is worse than the general public holds it to be. It seems probable, however, that the intention of Congress in ordering the investigation was pot so much to enact National corrective laws as it was, by an exposure of conditions, to Induce the individual states to adopt measures which would put a stop within their borders to the employment of chil dren of tender years. SPECIAL COURT FOR THAW Trial Transferred to Higher Tri bunal at Jerome's Request. ' NEW TORK. Nov. 21. Developments late today make it certain that the trial of Harry K. Thaw on the charg-e of having murdered Stanford White, the architect, will not take place be fore Recorder Goff in the Court of Gen eral Sessions, as was thought would be the case. The trial will take place in the criminal branch of the Supreme Court. Justice Greenbaum granted the transfer today on application of Dis trict Attorney Jerome.- Mr. Jerome also withdrew a motion before Judge O'Sullivan in the General Sessions Court by one of his staff early in the day, for a special panel of talesmen, from which to select a. jury for the Thaw case. The motion had been opposed by counsel for Thaw, on the ground that talesmen drawn on a special panel would be too well versed in newspaper accounts of the Thaw case to make unbiased Jurors. Thaw Expects Acquittal. NEW TORK. Nov. 21. Harry K. Thaw had a long conference with Lawyers Del mas, Gleason and Peabody yesterday in preparation for his trial, which is ex pected to begin on December 3. He was subjected to a searching investigation by Mr. Delmas upon new phases of the de fense, which have been developed by De tective O'Mara, of Pittsburg. Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was in a cheerful mood after an interview with her husband at his cell door, and said: "My husband can hardly wait for his trial day. The last thing he said to me was 'I'll be home at Christmas.' I know he will be free by that time unless there Is .something to delay the trial." Erie Men Almost All for Strike. NEW TORK, Nov. 21. The first of the conferences between General Manager J. C, Stuart of the Erie Railroad Company and the Erie committee of the Brother hood of Locomotive Firemen, which will decide upon the concessions to be granted by the company to its firemen, was held today in the Erie office. The official count made today of the ballots of the Erie firemen, show that 1756 votes were cast, of which only 30 were against a strike. Johnstone May Be Ambassador. WASHINGTON, Nov. TL Sir Alan Johnstone, the present Minister for Great Britain to Denmark, is being discussed in "Washington as a possible successor to Sir Henry Mortimer Durand. who is soon to retire from the diplomatic service and fcsave, th Washington post vacant- CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. TES rHJKDAT Maximum temperature. 40 de grees; minimum temperature. 42 degrees. TOD AT Fair; northerly winds. Foreign. Russian Cabinet proposes more radical labor laws than France. Page i. Big liners collide In English Channel and nine lives are lost. Page 8. French church inventories continue la spite of resistance. Page 3. National. Taft orders 'dlsbandment of negro troops to g-o on under Roosevelt's Instructions. Page 5. James Bryee may be British Ambassador. . Page 8. President makes triumphal trip across Porto Rico. Page 2. Heyburn returns to Washington and stands pat on tariff and forest reserves. Page 14. Beveridge will push child labor bill In Con gress. Page 1. 3ackenle's report on Oregon river and harbors. Pace 5. Politics. Harriman booms Root for President Page 1. Domestic RaJlroads agree on policy of rigid economy . for next year. Page 1. Great Northern will divide profits of' ore land leaee. Page 1. Trans-Mississippi Congress considers many topics. Page 3. Child murderer accused by her own daugh ters. Page JS. Caruso on trial for insulting woman In New Tork. Page 4. J. J Hill testifies about graJn elevator com bine. Page 3. Rojsantlc wedding trip of Rosebarg woman. Page 1. Pacific Coast. Oregon Supreme Court grants parricide Jennings new trial. Page 6 Oregon State Treasurer flies biennial report. Page 6. Overdue bark Iverna makes port in safety. Page !. More trouble In sight, for mountain rail roads In Washington. Page 6. Boy murderer. Sidney Sloane, on trial at Spokane. Page 6. Abraham Buef's arraignment postponed at San Francisco. Pane 4. Sport. Members of University of "War'rtlngton foot ball team fay they were beaten by Ore gon in clean, fair game. Fage 7. Commercial and Marine. Interest In Lima bean situation. Page 13. Wheat markets weak In spite of bullish news. Page 15. Course of money market affects stock prices. Page in. Steamer Elder sails for Eureka and Pan Francisco on first voyage since being sunk in Columbia River, nearly to years ago. Fage T. Portland and Vicinity. MUlard O. twn6dale-s exhibit in Portland proves "Willamette Valley can grow ap ples equal to any. Page 11. Mayor Lane attacks Auditor Devlin on charge of loosely keeping city's accounts, and Auditor declares Mayor tried to in fluence experts' report. Page 10. Oregon shippers complain under stress of car shortage. Page 14. Castle Rock appeals to Portland for aid fr people rendered homeless by flood. Page 9. East Side Business Men's Club will appeal to Executive Board to learn cause of delav in building Grand-avenue bridge. Page 16. City Council passes ordinance authorizing fill with a macadam rrad on East Stark street, between Water and East Seventh. Page 10 Realty market continues active, number of good-sired deals being reported yester day. Page 11. Jury in State Circuit Court awards D. C Elliott J-IMio damages from lumber com pany. Page 11. Council revokes licenses of six Chinese gin Joints. Page 10. In message to Council, Mayor again urges that operation of trains on Fourth street be regulated. Page 10. HARRIMAN BOOMS SECRETARY ROOT Heaps Compliments on Rival in Debate. "HIS COMMANDING INTELLECT" Financial Interests Want Him for President. ATTACKS ON CAPITAL WANE Railroad King Says Anti-Corporation Craze Is Subsiding, but Favors Punishing Law Breaking Corporations. CHICAGO. Nov. a. (Special.) That Secretary Root is favorably considered for the next President by the great financial and commercial interests of the country was made apparent in a guarded inter view tonight with Edward H. Harriman. Mr. Harriman. monaroh of the railway world, made it plain that he and Mr. Root are in perfect accord on the decisive is sues now before the American public. This information was forthcoming as the railway king was whirling into Chicago from the Kansas City conference. He said : "The Secretary of State and myself agree absolutely upon the very Important matters whioh were discussed at Kansas City this week. "Whatever very slight ap parent disagreement might have appeared as between what Secretary Root said and what I said ia so infinitesimal as to be below notice." Honor to AgTee With Root. Then the big fellow of all the big fel lows in the railroad game made this most significant statement, in view of the many Presidential bees which are buzzing: "It is an honor to me to agree with a man of such perfect ability and command ing intellect as is Secretary Root." If there were any storm signals flying between the two Easterners, the one pre dominant in the financial world and the other playing a lead in the political drama of the hour, they were pulled in when the Harriman special departed over the Kaw for St. Louis. President Felton's car trailed the Harriman headquarters, and in this Mr. Root rode across Missouri in close com munion with the prevailing spirits in com merce of the country. The Secretary of State remained in St. Louis and departed from there last night, expecting to reach Chicago early this morning. Mr. Harri man hastened on to Chicago. He leaves on the Twentieth Century for the East in the morning. Anti-Corporation Feeling Dying. "Do you think that the feeiing aganist trusts in general Is to culminate in a po litical issue?" was asked of Mr. Harri man, "In my opinion, the attacks upon capital are waning and will continue to do so," he replied- "Understand me. I do not wish to say that deserved prosecutions of combinations of capital which violate the laws are to come to an end. On tie contrary. I believe that the corporations which have offended should be punished, but I mean that the popular craje of at tacking corporations 6imply because they are corporations is subsiding and the more sober Judgment of the people la coming to the front" Will Obey Kate Law, "When asked what the railroads ex pected to do In the way of keeping with in the provisions of the new rate law. Mr. Harriman said: "It is the well-grounded intention of the railroads to obey that law to the let ter. They will observe its regulations with sincerity and with that respect for the laws which any hone3t citizen should possess." REPCBLICAX CAMPAIGN FCVD. New York Committee Tells Where It Got the Cash. ALBA NT. N T.. Nov. 21 The Rer'ib lican state committee today filed a state ment of its receipts and expenditures during the recent campaign and election. It certified that it received $333,923. of which $313,523 was m contributions and 520,X1 was borrowed from Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman of the Republican state committer. The expanses were. Among the contributors were: J. P. Morgan, $20.w; Levi P. Morton & Co.. Timothy L Woodruff. H0.'V,; Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rock fellor, Jr . jvwi each: C. M. Depew and Governor F. W. Higgins. $2.V1 each. Plans for Greater Berlin. BERLIN. Nov. 21 . Minister ot the In terior Dr. Von Eethmann-Hollweg recent ly asked Burgomaster Kirschner for his views of the proposed plan for the incor poration of the suburbs of Berlin into the city proper. In response. Herr Kirschner has now submitted to the Minister a mem orandum pointing out the necessity lor previously providing for the reorganiza tion of the suburban municipalities. If the plan is carried out, Berlin will have a.OOO.OCO inhabitants. Dockyards Burn at Toulon. TOULON. France, Nov. 21. The main portions of the dockyards of the Societe des Forges et Chantiers were ' destroyed by fire today. The foreign warships in course of construction were saved with difficulty. The loss will amount to several million francs.