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VOL. XLVI. SO. 14,450.
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1907.
PRICE FrVE CENTS.
HENRY W.G000EIS
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Leading Portland Man
Passes Away.
PNEUMONIA SPEEDILY FATAL
Head of Portland Railway,
Light & Power Company.
HIGH IN BUSINESS WORLD
Trealdent of Ixfnis and Clark Fair
Attacked by Fatal Illness at At
lantic City, N. J His Iioss
' Is Deeply Mourned.
HENRY WALTON GOODE.
Born in Indianapolis, Ind., Sep
tember IS. 1R82.
Married to Edith B. Falrclough. ot
Chicago, 1889.
Came to Oregon, 18S9.
Genera) manager Portland General
Electric Company. 1892.
President Portland General Elec
tric Company. 1902.
Director-General of tha Lewis and
Clark Fair. 1903.
President of the tTrls and Clark
Pair. 1904.
President of the Portland Railway.
Light A Power sjmpany. 1906.
Died at AtlanJpe City, N. J., March
31, 1907.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. March 31.
(Special.) Henry Walton Ooode. of Port
land, Or., died in this city this morning
at the Hotel Windsor, after a week's ill
ness. Death was the result of pneuma.
nla, superinduced by Blight's disease and
other complications. Mr. Go ode, who was
president of the Portland Railway. Light
& Power Company and of the Lewis and
Clark Exposition, came to this city about
10 days ago. He had not been in good
health and thought a change in climate
would bo beneficial. He did not seem to .
Improve after his arrival here and Dr.
Philip Marvel, of this city, was called In
to attend the patient.
Later Mr. Goode improved somewhat,
but as the seashore did not seem to
agree with the patient, the party decided
to leave for Philadelphia. 'With this end
In view, arrangements were made on last
Sunday night to go to the Bellevue-Strat-ford
Hotel. Philadelphia, for a short stop,
preparatory to returning to the West.
On the night the arrangements were
made, Mr. Goode grew worse and his
physician urged his wife not to hazard
a railroad trip. Mr. Goode grew worse
from day to day, until death nnally came
this morning. At the bedside at the time
of death were his wife, his mother, Mrs.
L B. Goode, and his brother-in-law, A.
C Bedford.
The body wan given in charge of un
dertakers Jeffreys & Keats, who prepared
it for shipment to Chicago. It is not
known what disposition of the remains
will be made from this point, as the un
dertakers tiave instructions to await or
ders In Chicago. The body will arrive in
Chicago tomorrow.
Mr. Goode '9 widow, mother and Mr.
Bedford accompanied the body west.
,
NEWS CAUSES GENERAL REGRET
Mr. Goode Was at Zenith of Bril
liant Career.
Information of the death at Atlantic
City, N. J., of Henry W. Goode, president
of the Portland Railway, Light & Power
Company and also president of the recent
J-mwis and Clark Centennial Exposition,
reached Portland yesterday morning In a
telegram from A. C. Bedford, of New
York, a member of the executive commit
tee of the Portland Railway Light &
Power Company, and was received about
C o'clock by B. G. Reed, of this city, who
Is secretary and treasurer of the com
pany. The dispatch read: "Mr. Goode
passed away peacefully this morning."
The distressing news of the compara
tively sudden death of one of Portland's
foremost citizens spreud with remarkable
rapidity and enrly In the day was known
to nearly all of the friends and acquaint
ances of Mr. Goode. No death in Port
land of recent years excited as much uni
versal regret as the startling information
from Atlantic City. At the Arlington
Club and the headquarters of other clubs,
of which the deceased was a member, a
marked gloom was cast-upon Easter Sun
day. But a few weeks ago Mr. Goode
was In Portland and as he was always re
garded as a magnificent specimen of
healthy and vigorous manhood, the news
of his death was all the more unexpected.
Personal Advices Are Meager.
From tlie meager information had In
Portland from the personal telegrams re
ceived by his friends and business asso-
lates relative to his illness, it seems that
Mrs. Goods and their 15-year-old daugh
ter Helen were at Mr. Goode's bedside
when he passed away. There were also
present several of his Intimate friends.
Including Mr. Bedford, of New York, and
C. M. Clarke, the latter of the firm of
Clarke Bros., bankers of Philadelphia,
part owners of the company of which
Mr. Ooode was at the head. Henry Goode.
aged 13 years, the youngest of the two
children, is now in Portland.
Mr Goode left Portland two weeks ago
last Friday night for Philadelphia to con
fer with the members of the firm of
Clarke Bros., of that city, regarding their
interests in Portland. Mr. Goode was
accompanied by his daughter Helen and
they stopped over a day or so at Salt
Lake City and at Denver. In Chicago
they were joined by Mrs. Goode, who
has been East for several months, and
the three then proceeded to. Philadelphia.
Mr. Goode was suffering with a severe
cold and a slight attack of the grip when
he left the Northwest, but as he was of
the robust, hardy, type he give it but
slight attention. Since the organization
of the Portland Railway, Light & Power
Company his general system had been
somewhat run down from overwork and
too close application to the important
business affairs to which he gave the
closest attention. But he or none of
his friends believed that there was any
thing serious to fear and he was in the
best of spirits when he started East.
First News of Illness.
The first intimation of dangerous Ill
ness was received Wednesday by a wire
Mrs. Goode sent from Atlantic City in
which it was stated that Mr. Goode had
been ill and that he would not be able
to answer telegrams for several days.
Several telegrams had been sent him
from Portland which had not been an
swered. The telegram from Mrs. Goode
was received by Oskar E Huber, who
was the close friend of the deceased and
who was probably more intimate with
him than any man in Portland.
Thursday, F. I. Fuller, general mana
ger and vice-president of the railway
company, was the recipient of a telegram
from C. M. Clarke which stated Mr.
Goode was seriously ill with pneumonia.
Mr. Fuller received another telegram
Friday from the same source which said
that Mr. Goode had passed a critical
night, but had rallied. Saturday morn
ing he received still another wire that
the patient was holding his own. From
then on no word was received until yes
terday morning, when Mr. Reed was ln-
formed that Mr. Goode was dead.
Saturday Miss Katherine Holbrook re
ceived a letter from Miss Helen Goode
In which Miss Goode said that her father
was seriously ill and that he was being
attended by two physicians.
Breaks Sad News to Son.
Mr. Goode's son, Henry, did not learn
of the illness of his father until Satur
day. Mrs. Oskar E. Huber then informed
him that his father was dangerously ilL
Yesterday morning she was compelled to
assume the painful duty of telling the
boy that his father, whom he idolized,
was dead. The scene that attended the
breaking of the sad news was pathetic in
the extreme. The youth is heart-broken.
The love of the father for the son, which
was reciprocated with all the affection of
youth, was often commented upon among
the acquaintances of Mr. Goode, who
considered it one of the beautiful fea
tures of his home life. Henry has been
attending the Portland A cad amy and is
living at the family home at 96 North
Twentieth street, where he Is under the
care of a governess.
Mr. Goode came to Portland to make
his permanent residence In 1892, when he
accepted the position of vice-president
and general manager of the Portland
General Electric Company. Shortly there
after he was made its president. He first
came to the Coast in 1889 as representa
tive of the General Electric Company of
New York, and he served as Western
agent for the concern up till the time
he became connected with the Portland
General Electric Company. When with
the company he visited Portland many
times and before he located permanently
was well known here.
Stood High In Community.
Mr. Goode had been a citizen of the
community but a short time when his
influence as a man of exceptional enter
prise and rubllc spirit received due rec
ognition. He figured prominently in prac
tically every public movement. He was
a man of powerful personality and soon
gained a general acquaintance among the
business men possessed by few others
in the city. Through personal contact
he gained the confidence of the leading
men of Portland, and he was regarded as
a man of absolute integrity.
Generous almost to a fault, he was Just
ly credited with many acts of philan
thropy. He gave large sums to different
institutions but he always dreaded pub
licity and avoided it whenever possible.
Possessing to a rare degree the gift of
executive ability, having established for
himself an enviable reputation for fair
ness and honesty and being a truly rep
resentative Portland citizen. Mr. Goode
was chosen president and director-general
of the Lewis and Clark Exposition. In
1903. when the movement for the fair was
well under way. he was appointed director-general,
and In August, 1904. was
chosen president of the corporation.
Mr. Goode became widely known for his
suceessfal administration of the Exposi
tion, which was one of the few under
takings of its kind that ever returned any
of the money invested to the stockhold
ers. The Lewis and Clark Exposition is
known as the most successful fair of Its
Blze ever held in the United States and
this distinction was largely achieved
through the exercise of Mr. Goode's exe
cutive ability, business methods and
sound Judgment, His artistic scheme for
the decorative illumination of the Lewis
and Clark Fair is a well-remembered tri
umph. Was Progressive President,
Mr. Goode's success as president of the
Portland Railway. Light & Power Com
pany was no less remarkable than that of
his administration of the Exposition. Tke
great plan of expansion and progress of
the company Is largely the materializa
tion of the ideas of Mr. Goode. He was
Instrumental in effecting the merger of
the different electric systems and rail
way lines which forms the Portland Rail
way. Light & Power Company, which is
capitalized for $30,000,000. The amalgama
tion of the several companies was made
early last year.
Mr. Goode was a man of striking ap
pearance He had a magnificent physique
and was an athlete. He was tall, splen
didly proportioned, with sweeping broad
shoulders arfa a deep chest. It is men of
this build that are particularly suscep
tible to the ravages of pneumonia.
Henry Walton Goode was born in In
dianapolis. IncL. September 36. lets. He
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TRIP KILLED BY
TWO COMPANIONS
Brutal Crime at Wood
land, Wash.
POSSE CAPTURES MURDERERS
Both Shot in Attempting to Es
cape One May Die.
MEN ARE FATHER AND SON
Tom and George Baxter Shoot James
Foster to Death in Cold Blood.
Fatal Quarrel Follows
Period of Debauch.
WOODLAND, Wash.. March SI. (Spe
cial.) As a result of a quarrel over the
proceeds of the sale of some cheap
jewelry, two tramps, Tom Baxter and
George Baxter, father and son. deliber
ately murdered their hobo companion,
James Foster, In the Northern Pacific
railroad yards In this city at an early
hour this morning.
The murderers were Immediately sur
rounded by a posse of citizens, headed
by Town Marshal Stratton, In an empty
boxcar. where they had taken refuge. In
making a desperate attempt to escape,
the younger Baxter was shot through
the body and is in a -critical condition.
The father, receiving a slight flesh wound
In the left leg, returned to the boxcar,
where he was held a prisoner until the
arrival of Sheriff Kirby and a posse of
citizens from Kalama. a few hours later.
He then surrendered without further re
sistance. Coroner Bell held an Inquest this after
noon, the jury returning a verdict charg
ing the Baxters with first degree murder.
The Baxters were tonight taken to
Kalama and lodged in the county jail.
Eyewitness to the Tragedy.
Foster was murdered shortly after mid
night. While returning home, L W.
Flanders, section foreman for the North
ern Pacific Railroad Company, heard the
shooting and witnessed the tragedy at a
distance of only a few steps. He hur
riedly notified Town Marshal Stratton,
who called to his aid a posse of armed
citizens and surrounded the boxcar in
which the murderers were hiding. At the
same time Sheriff Kirby, at Kalama, was
notified of the murder. In the meantime,
and before the Sheriff and his posse could
reach Woodland, the Baxters Jumped from
the car door and started to run.
The command to halt being disregarded,
the posse fired at the fleeing men. George
Baxter, shot through the body, dropped
to the ground, while his father, who re
ceived only a slight flesh wound In the
thigh, ran back and re-entered the car.
The son was escorted to the town jail
by members of the posse, others remain
ing to guard the boxcar.
Father Begs for Mercy.
Sheriff Kirby and a posse of six men,
Including E. H. Flagg, The Oregonlan's
correspondent at p Rainier, soon arrived,
making the trip of nine miles from
Kalama on a handcar. With the rein
forcements then on the ground. Marshal
Stratton approached the car and, open
ing the door, commanded the elder Bax
ter to surrender. Limping to the door,
the father begged not to be shot and was
hurried away to the town Jail.
On reaching this place Coroner Bell
took charge of Foster's body. An ex
amination disclosed that Foster had been
shot four times with a 32-caliber revolver.
Two bullets had lodged In his breast
within a radius of two inches, another
had passed through his head, while the
fourth was found in his leg. AH except
the one in the leg had made wounds that
were fatal.
The deliberate and cold-blooded char
acter of the crime is apparent from this
disclosure, since the murdered man must
have been shot three times after falling
to the ground following the first shot.
Foreman Andrews' Testimony.
"I left Forbes saloon about 12 o'clock
midnight," said Andrews, the eye
witness of the tragedy. "When I
reached the depot I saw three men com
ing down the track. I continued my way
home and went to bed. Afterwards I got
up and going outside the car in which
I sleep I saw the same men sneaking
along some freightcars a few yards dis
tant. When they approached to withia
30 yards of me one of them said:
'You will never do that again.'
"And then the firing began. I think
five shots were fired. I jumped back
Into the section car and peeped through
the door. After the shooting ceased I
saw two men move away a few steps and
sit down on some ties. Presently they
returned to the side of the prostrate man
and knelt down.
"I went at once to inform Marshal
Stratton and with other citizens returned
to the scene of the shooting, but In the
meantime the two men who had done
the killing had disappeared. We struck
some matches and while we were ex
amining the face of the dead man we
heard a noise in the car beside which
the body lay. We crawled under the car
and the desperadoes came out.
Shams Death for Hours.
We commanded them to throw up their
hands, but they started to run and we
fired. One of the men. who proved to
be the son. fell, shot through the back,
beside the car, while the older man
climbed back Into the car. The son
EVENTS OF COMING WEEK J
Election in Michigan Today. I
Michigan will elect Ave state oftl- J
cials on Monday, Including two Jus- I
tices of the Supreme Court, two Re- J
gents of the State University and one I
member of the State Board of Edu- t
cation. f
Argue Harrlman's Case.
The Interstate Commerce Commls- 4
ftion will listen to arguments by t
counsel for the Harriman lines in t
Washington on Monday on the ques
tion whether or not the commission
shall appeal to the courts to compel
Mr. Harriman to answer certain
questions affecting his management
and control of the Pacific Railways
and the Chicago & Alton.
Decide Fate Greene-Ga-ynor.
Arguments on the case of Benja
min Greene and John Gaynor,
charged with conspiracy against the
United States Government, will be
heard before the United States Cir
cuit Court of Appeals at New Or
leans on Monday. Greene and Gay
nor are now In Jail at Macon, Go.
A general strike of painters is an
ticipated on Monday.
Edward to Visit Alfonso.
King Edward will leave Biarritz
April 5 for Toulon, whence he will
proceed the following day on board
the royal yacht for Cartagena to
meet King Alfonso of Spain. The
approaching meeting between the two
monarchs. has created considerable
comment throughout Europe. Every
available warship will assemble at
Cartagena to meet the British
squadron of 17 vessels.
Taft to Go to Cuba.
Secretary Taft Willi end his tour
of Inspection of the Panama canal
April 3. when his party will go to Ha
vana. Three days will he spent In
Cuba, during which time the Sec
retary, will investigate the situation
with regard to withdrawal of Amer
ican troops from the Islands.
shammed death for nearly two hours;
then he gave in and we took him to jail.
It was not long until Sheriff Kirby ar
rived and then we forced the older man
to surrender."
When captured the two Baxters were
slightly intoxicated. Scattered about the
boxcar in which the murderers were hid
den were found several articles of cheap
jewelry. Both father snd son assert
their Innocence of any crime, but they
have told a number of conflicting stories
as to their relations with the murdered
man. They fir it declared they did not
know Foster and explained that they had
shot in self-defense, alleging that Foster
had attempted to hold them up. After
wards the older Baxter told a member
of the Sheriff's posse that the name of
the dead man was James Foster, aged
about 34 years, and that his home is in
Cleveland, O.
Their Story Proved False.
Sheriff Kirby further discredited the
claims of the murderers that they had
never before seen Foster, for the officer
positively identified In the murdered man
and his slayers three men he had ordered
out of Kalama but a few days before.
The murderers are thought to be Yegg
men, as was their victim. Baxter and
his son plainly belong to that vicious and
desperate class of vagrants. They fierce
ly resisted all attempts to photograph
them, and plcfures were only secured af
ter they had been overpowered and held
by several men while the camera was
operated. Their aversion to being pho
tographed is considered evidence that their
records are not good.
The three men had been traveling
through the small towns" in Washington
for some time. They were selling cheap
Jewelry and other worthless trinkets, and
it is supposed that the murder resulted
from a quarrel over the division of the
day's profits, following a debauch.
When searched at the jail, neither the
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HENRY WALTON GOODE.
DEATH REWARDS
HER FICKLENESS
Grace N. Disney Shot
Dead by Lover.
SUICIDE FOLLOWS TRAGEDY
Roscoe H. James Now Dying
With Bullet in Brain.
RIVAL WITNESSES CRIME
Unknown Man Deserts Girl and
Runs When Jilted Suitor Meets
Her on Street Deed Delib
erate and Premeditated.
Goaded to desperation by her fickle
ness, Roscoe H. James, son of C. E.
James, superintendent of the Oregon
State Penitentiary, last night shot and
Instantly killed Grace N. Disney, his
sweetheart, on West Park street, be
tween Main and Madison, then placed
the revolver to his head and fired a
bullet through his own brain. He can
not live more than a few hours. Young
James is a student at the Portland
Academy, where he has been taking a
business course.
James' successful rival, a young man
whose name the police have learned
Is Hal Reed. was an eyewitness
of the tragedy, as was also Henry
E. Hiatt, a friend, who was with James
when he spied the girl and her other
lover on their way home from a
stroll a few minutes after 11 o'clock.
Miss Disney's escort showed the white,
feather and took to his heels when he
saw the pistol was drawn, and the
bloody deed was done before Hlatt
could Interfere.
Tames Wasted No Words.
When he overtook the couple,
young James wasted not a moment in
taking his revenge. With the laconic
remark, "So here .you are," he pulled
ills pistol from his pooket and fired
two shots Into the girl's back as she
turned, then put another into his own
head back of the right ear. The girl,
with one scream of fright and agony,
sank to the pavement and died.
A hurry call came in at police head
quarters, and the patrol wagon, with
Sergeant Baty and Patrolmen Wendorf
and Gruber, was dispatched to the
scene. The corpse of Miss Disney lay
across the sidewalk, while that of her
slayer was stetched out on the grass
beside her. Finding that James, who
was groaning in agony, was alive, the
police placed him in the wagon and
took him to St. Vincent's Hospital,
where it was announced that the
wound would undoubtedly prove fatal.
Coroner Finley was notified, and took
charge of the girl's body.
Bullet Pierced Her Heart.
An examination of Miss Disney's
body, made at the morgue, showed that
the fatal bullet entered her back, a
few inches below the shoulder blades,
fractured the spinal column, pierced
the heart, and made its exit through
the left breast, passing entirely
through the body. Death was Instan
taneous. In the girl's possession was found a
quantity of cheap jewelry. Including
three rings, a bead cross and a neck- j
lace. In her pocketbook was a letter I
from a sister in Warren, Or., addressed
to Fleischner, Mayer & Co., requesting
them to allow Miss Grace N. Disney to
have whatever drygoods she wished on
credit; also a number of calling cards,
a ticket for a Pullman berth from
Portland to Oakland, that had been
used last December, two scat checks
of the Heilig Theater, used last night,
and a photograph of a young man.
Hiatt Tells His Story.
Hlatt, James' companion, who was
later arrested by Captain of Police
Bailey and held as a witness to the
tragedy, says that the gun with which
the shooting was done belonged to
him, but that James, who roomed with
him at the Yamhill House, borrowed it
a week ago. Relating the -events lead
ing up to the tragedy, Hlatt made the
following statement to an Oregonlan
reporter:
"James got up yesterday shortly be
fore noon and went with me to a res
taurant for breakfast. He seemed blue
about something, and I endeavored to
cheer him up. I asked him what was
worrying him. He said, 'nothing.' A
few hours later James said that he
was not feeling well and proposed a
waik. While strolling around town he
informed me that his girl. Miss Desney,
he meant, would get in on an evening
train from some place below Eugene,
where she had attended a dance Sat
urday night. He said she had gone to
the dance in opposition to his wishes,
and that he was going to the depot and
talk to her about it.
Gave James the Slip.
"We went to the depot about 0
o'clock, but she did not come there.
She got off the train on the East Side,
and when we came up town ho saw her
in company with another fellow. James
turned white, clenched his fists and
told me to watch them until he got
back. I did not think about the re
volver at the time, but did as he had
requested and watched the couple go
to the home of Miss Pearl Hatmpton, at
Seventh and Alder streets.
"When they came out another couple
was with them. Miss Hampton and her
fellow having found them. We fol
lowed for a few yards. I managed to
persuade James to leave them alone
at that time, but when we were walk
ing along Alder street later we came
face to face with Grace and the other
fellow.
"James moved as If to pull the gun,
and Grace dodged behind her escort,
whereupon Roscoe turned away with
the remark: 'If she hadn't dodged I'd
have got her then,' and moved on down
the street.
"I followed James and endeavored to
get the gun away from him, but on his
promise that he was 'over his spell." I
desisted. We strolled around until about
10:30, when he proposed to walk up West
Park street, saying. 'I feel all shot to
pieces. Let's have a good walk, so I
can get some sleep.' I noticed that he
acted strangely, but as it was impossible
to reason with him, I tried to get him to
go home.
Come Out of a Saloon.
"We saw the four young people come
out of the Tumwater saloon, and at that
tme I expected some trouble, but James
was quiet. Miss Hampton and her escort
turned north on West Park and walked
toward her home, a block away, while
Miss Desney and her fellow walked south.
She lives at 431 or some such number on
West Park street. We followed, and
when they reached Main street, Roscoe
said, 'I'm going to throw a scare Into
her,' and with that hurried on ahead.
"I did not think that he meant any
harm, and watched him overtake them.
As soon as he spoke, the other fellow
dodged behind a tree. Roscoe pulled the
gun mnd commenced firing. I was
stunned for a moment, and before I could
collect myself they were both lying bleed
ing on the ground. The fellow who had
accompanied Grace came up and asked
me what had happened. Then he disap
peared again, saying that he 'did not
want to be mixed up In the case.'
"I summoned some one residing near
and a man called for the police. That is
all I know of the shooting."
Hlatt. who is employed at the Willarn-
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CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 54
degrees; minimum, 47.
TODAY'S Fair and warmer; northwest
winds.
Foreign.
Quiet ing reports received from Interior
points in Roumania. Page .1.
Prince von Buelow and Signor Til ton! in
political conference. Page 3.
National.
National Socialist committee plans for active
campaign in 25 states. Page 4.
Secretary Taft will be extensively enter
tained in Porto Rico. Page 3.
Vice-President Fairbanks nurses Presiden
tial boom In face of Roosevelt's nonsup
port. Page 3.
Domestic.
Counsel for Moyer. Haywood and Pettlbone
says defendants will be put on trial for
long list of Colorado outrages. Page 4.
Mrs. Harry Thaw grants newspaper men
first interview since tragedy last June.
Page 3.
Hearst real Issue in Chicago election. Page
John D. Rockefeller gives magnificent "For
est Hill" estate to City of Cleveland.
Page 2-
S ports.
Portland team loses to Salinas by score of
3 to 2. Page 4.
Portland and Virlnlty.
Henry W- Goode, president of Portland
Railway. Light & Power Company, dies
In East. Page 1.
Roscoe H. Jones shoots and kills Mlas Grace
N. Desney on street, then shoots himself
fatally. Page 1.
H. Russell Albee may enter race for Mayor
as business men's Republican candidate.
Page 8.
Rain falls on Easter bonnets. Page 12.
Solemn Easter services held In Cothollo
churches. Page I'J.
Thousands attracted to churches by Easter
music. Page 12.
Bishop Hell preaches In First Evangelical
Chu reh . Page 8.
Trout Ashing season will open today. Pag 3.
Rev. Hiram Vrooman preaches on true con
cept Ion of God. Page 8.
State Grange o Invoke referendum "on state
appropriation for construction of armo
ries. Pace 8.
Two tramps kill companion In cold blood
at Woodland, Wash., Page 1.
ONLY AMERICAN
ORDER OF KNIGHTS
Governor Spottswood's
Historic Journey.
STEINHART IS INDISPENSABLE
Has Fat Job Waiting, But
Uncle Sam Holds Him.
HELPS ALL NATIONALITIES
Maud Powell, Great Violinist, and
How She Conquered Her Teach
er Dominie Hodges' Prophe
cy, Which Proved True.
BY FREDERIC X HA SK TV
"WASHINGTON, March 2S. (Special Cor
respondence.) There nas been but on
American order of knighthood, and Its
members were known as the "Knights of
the Golden Horse-shoe.' This order was
born during; the time of Sir Alexander
Spootswood. one of the colonial Governors
of Virginia, who organized a body of gen
tlemen, woodsmen, eoldier and slaves and
rode to the western rim of the blue Vir
ginia hills to see if It were true, as the
Indians had said, that a great ocean
could be seen from the heights. It was a
journey rich in advanture, and. while no
sea filled the world beyond, they
looked upon a valley rich In possi
bilities that the later centuries real
ized. In memory of this long jour
ney and of the good comradeship
they enjoyed, Governor Spottswood
called the members of his cavalcade the
"Knights of the Golden Horse-shoe."
He wrote to his King telling of the
Journey, of the great Industrial possibili
ties that the New World offered in that
wilderness and of the new order he had
instituted.
Survivor of the Founder.
In recognition of this and to show
his approval, Hts Majesty ordered to be
made upon the royal looms a rich, yellow
brocade, starred at intervals with golden
horse-sho$s When completed, the gift
was forwarded to Lady Spottswood, the
Governor .wife. This rare piece of cloth
was afterwai.'s cut into generous samples,
which have passed down from generation
to generation. One of the last pieces
known to be In existence is carefully
framed and hangs on the wall In the
home of Mrs. J. Harvey Mathes, of
Memphis. Tenn. This lady Is a direct
descendant of the founder of the
"Knights of the Golden Horse-shoe." Be
fore her marriage she was Miss Mildred
Spottswood Cash and she takes great
pride in her distinguished forefather.
She recently organized the first Poca
hontas "Wigwam," the members being
descendants of the Indian princess and
the object of their organization being to
erect a monument to her at Jamestown.
Steinhart Can't Quit His Job.
The case of Frank Steinhart, American
Consul-General to Cuba, la a refreshing
contrast to the usual rules pertaining to
political life. While so many men are
trying persistently to get into office. Mr.
Steinhart is attempting vainly to get out
of It. Speyer & Co., the New York
bankers, want Mr. Steinhart to work for
them and made a contract for his ser
vices at a salary of il5,000 a year. But
Uncle Sam doesn't want to let Mr. Stein
hart go. He knows so many people In
Cuba, has such a thorough knowledge of
conditions there, and is so altogether In
dispensable to American interests in the
island that on three different occasions
the President. Secretary Taft and Sec
retary Root have appealed to Speyer &
Co. to let Mr. Steinhart stay In the Gov
ernment service "Juet six months more."
He has already been held over 18 months
in this manner and It will be most dif
ficult to replace him when he finally
quits the service.
Frank Steinhart speaks four languages
and has been nicknamed "the consul of
all nations," because of his ability to
help the people of other nationalities be
sides hir; own. His success has not been
accomplished in the way that most poli
ticians get o. He doesn't "mix" much
In the general sense of that word. Dur
ing the nine years that he has lived in
Havana he has never been inside any of
the numerous theaters in that city. He
never dines out, but always goes home
to he with his family. His success and
popularity are based solely on the fact
that he Is business from the word go.
Mr. Steinhart has been In the service
of the Army and State Departments for
25 years. That he comes of capable offi
cial stock is shown by the fact that his
grandfather was chief of police of
Munich until he died, at the age of 101.
Greatest Woman Violinist.
Miss Maud Powell is the greatest
woman violinist. She Is famous because
she is a great artist and she is great be
cause she measures up to the standard
of violin playing established by virtuosos
of the highest rank, without any allow
ance being made for the fact that she is
a woman. "She is a blood descendant of
Spohr." wrote a distinguished critic of
her last Winter. "When she tucks her
fiddle under her chin, she makes a sol
emn reverence before the altar of music
and officiates as a priestess In the tem
ple." Miss Powell was born in Peru,
111. Her father was Welsh and his knowl
edge of music was limited to the old
fashioned hymns that were "lined out"
by the preacher. Her mother, however, ia
musical, though ahe never had an oppor
tunity to have her talent cultivated. She
says tha ahe has achieved through her
talenteo daughter what she was never
able to do herself.
Miss Pdwell studied with the greatest
living violin teacher, Herr Joachim, who
is now past 75 years of age and still
teaching In Berlin. He was a harsh mas
ter and rarely failed to make hie pupila
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