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2 THE 3IOENING OREGONIATf, SATURDAY, 31 ARCH 7, 1914 GEORGE VANDERBILT OIES OF OPERATION Appendicitis Takes Youngest and Least Known Son of Late Financier. MODEL TOWN HIS CREATION i Student and Traveler, Scion of Xoted House Cured Liltlc for Business or. Wealth Except to Lavish It on Carolina Estate. WASHINGTON. March . Oeorgt vV. Vanderbilt, of New fork, died here to day from the effects of an operation for appendicitis several days ago. Mr. Vanderbilt's death came unex pectedly. He was operated on last Tuesday, and reports issued from his residence were that his condition was improving and that no alarm was felt for his recovery. Not until today did the nature of his Illness become generally known. The ,phystcians who performed the opera tion withheld all particulars, and infor mation of only the most meager char acter was obtainable at the residence. Kstate Chief Interest. ; George Washington Vanderbilt was 'the youngest and probably the least known of the sons of the late William K. Vanderbilt. He never took an active part in the business and financial world, where other members of the famliy gained wealth and distinction. He was n student and a traveler, and his chief Interest was his magnificent estate at Biltmore, near Asheville, N. C, where .he spent the greater part of his time. Mr. Vanderbilt was born in the old 'Vanderbilt home at Newdorp, Staten Island, November 14, 186-'. In 18S5 he became interested in the wild mountain region of AVestern North Carolina, and by successive purchases accumulated an estate of 100.000 acres on the French Broad River, and laid out there a vast park and erected buildings on a tcale which has seldom been equaled in this country. Model Town Built In Valley. Mr. Vanderbilt devoted most of his time to the personal supervision of this estate. In the valley he built a model -town and called it Biltmore. His farms were tilled with blooded stock, and he devoted many thousands of dollars to the scientific conservation of the for ests with which he covered the greater part of hia prooerty. George Vanderbilt's fortune was never a factor in Wall street. He was supposed, however, to be one of Amer ica's wealthiest men. He had several tharities -and he spent money without .ptint ou the development of his moun tain estate. He seldom came to New York, but spent part of his Summers at Bar Harbor, Me., where he had a handsome home. Mr. Vanderbilt married Miss Edith Btuyvesant Dresser in 1H9S. Mrs. Van derbilt and one child, a daughter, sur vive him. GRAZING BILLJS FAVORED Livestock Men Quoted as Converts to Leasing System. WASHINGTON, March 6. The Kent bill for regulating and improving graz ing on public lands, was approved by several stockmen today before the 'House public lands committee. H. Crabb, of Flagstaff, Ariz., presi dent of the Cococonio County Cattle growers' Association, said the small cattlemen of the Southwest were con verted to the plan by its success In National forest reservations. E. W. Tomlinson, secretary of the National Livestock Association, and C. B. Selway, of Dillon, Mont., said 90 Tier cent of the cattlemen and sheepmen of Montana and the Northwest favored a leasing system for the control of the public range. ALUMNI FOURTH LAWYERS Harvard Graduates Take to Agricul ture as Close Second. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. March 6. More than one quarter of the 21,780 living alumni of Harvard. University are en gaged in the practice of law, accord ing to figures announced today. Agricultural work is a close second with 4332. Other occupations have a considerable following, including medi cine with 340, business with 13ub, man ufacturing with. 1800 and. the ministry with 1100. INDIRECT ACT CONSIDERED (Continued From First Page. the same two broad grounds set forth in the President's message, general in ternational comity and the immediate foreign situation confronting the coun try. Representative Knowland, of California, who led the opposition in the committee, has three days to file a minority report and Chairman Adam- ! son was authorized to urge the rules committee to report a special rule to hasten the bill through the House. The subject will be pressed at once and it . Is expected a rule will be brought into the House, probably by Thursday of next week. , I'ndemood With Opposition. Representative Adamson will take charge of the situation in the House, as Majority Leader Underwood, for the first time during the Administration, finds himself on the anti-Administration side of the question. Representa tive Underwood has announced his in tention of not only voting against the bill, but also of making a speech against it. Despite this, however, the leaders of the repeal forces asserted today they were assured of a substan tial majority to carry out the Presi dent's will. In its report today the committee, which provided for uniform tolls in the canal act as originally reported, reiterated, its position. "We deem it proper now," said the report, "to consider the international situation and our obligations and pol icies in relation thereto. True, there has been as yet no friction, nor even ' strained relations with foreign govern nients, but we are advised the opposite party to the principal treaty under which the canal was constructed fails to approve our action in providing for the exemption or to concur In our con struction of the treaty. Other Nations Opposed. "Other maritime nations hold the same dissenting opinion, ami In the I whole family of nations we nd alone in pur contentions. In tsur situa tion it Is not 'always necessary or wise to urge our contention, even though convinced of our abstract right. We are not disturbed by the taunt, made for a purpose, that repeal would be truckling and yielding to foreign demands. A similar taunt could be lodged against any man or nation honorable enough to promote friendly relations by according respectful con sideration to views of the opposite party." After a discussion of the provisions of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, and tht declaration that the coastwise trade of tee United States does no', need the assistance of exemption from tolls, thr committee report said: "The foreign governments objecting to our construction of the treaty can find a hundred points in the world's commerce to retaliate and discriminate where we may blunder into using one. Our resources, genius and geographical position equip us to defy the world to outstrip us on fair and equal terms." Members of the House and Senate who will aid in the repeal fight -au 1 faBtfliftSS 2 Urorge W. Vanderbilt, One of Richest Men in America, Who Died Yesterday Following Op eration. nounced tonight that they had made a p-oll of Congress and that a large ma jority in both houses was ready to vote for a flat repeal measure immediately. I-afTerty Does Not Attend. ' OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, March 6. Representative Laf ferty failed to attend today's session of the House interstate commerce com mittee, and did not vote on motion to report bill repealing the coastwise ex emption clause of the Panama Canal act. 12 ROADS CONTROL 606 SOME INDEPENDENTS SAID TO BE "COMICALLY DEPENDENT." New York Central Said to Dominate 204 and Pennsylvania -45 Through Ownership of Stock. WASHINGTON, March 6. Evidence submitted today to the Interstate Com merce Commission by Frank Lyon, rep resenting th Pittsburg Coal Company, and compiled by Frank J. Warne, from the Commission's records, were intend ed to show that the hundreds of rail roads in the East were controlled as to their financial operations, rates and practices through ownership, lease or Interlocking stock ownership by a few great systems. It was Lyon's conten tion that such control was inimical to the shipping public, because, he assert ed, it practically eliminated competi tion. In the Eastern territory there are approximately 897 separate, Vailroad companies. Of" these the tables showed 606 are controlled by 12 systems. The control of the other roads, Warne said, was in the hands of "nominally inde pendent lines, some of which are com ically dependent on the larger systems." The total number of transportation companies in which the New York Cen tral exercises a majority or minority interest through stock ownership or through lease, contract or agreement, is 204. The total number of transportation companies in which the Pennsylvania has a majority or minority interest through stock ownership or through lease, contract or agreement, is 245, of which 138 are controlled through ma jority interest and 107 through minority interest It was contended by Warne's state ment that all the directors of the sev eral large systems also were directors or officers of from five to 50 to 60 sepa rate corporations subsidiary to the parent corporations. ALLEGED SWINDLER IN JAIL DE CLARED SERIOUSLY ILL. Action of Washington State Supreme Court on Appeal of Case May Come Too Late. SEATTLE, Wash., March 6. (Spe cial.) W. H. Garland, 66, who was ar rested four years ago on fraud charges in connection with-the sale' of mine etock, may not live to hear the result of his appeal to the United States Su preme Court. He has been in the County Hospital three weeks. Today hospital officials sent him to the coun ty Jail, saying he was able to go to jail. Jail officers say the old man is dying "What to do with the poor old fellow Is a problem," said Jailer O'Erien. "He is so weak and excited I don't know what to do." Garland was too weak to talk when he reached the jail, but mumbled that he was hungry and glad to get out of the hospital. He grew weaker, and Jailer O'Brien summoned Dr. J. W. Crooks, the jail physician. After an examination the physician said he believed Garland is a victim of tuberculosis. Garland at the time of his arrest was living luxuriously in a hotel. He was .out on $1000 bond until last De cember, when his bondsmen surren dered him to the county. W. H. Garland is well known in Portland. He attempted to establish a dally newspaper here about three years ago. He assembled a part of a plant and employed several men In various departments of the proposed paper, but before he was able to Issue the first copy creditors forced him to close the business. He has been Interested here in vari ous other ventures, none of which, It seems, have proved successful. It is said that he has taken more or less interest, also. In politics. After exhaustive research In Paris a fa mous French scientist hiss rceommendad s diet equally divided betwsen meats and vegetable ae the -best for working peopla. MANIPULATION LI TO MILWAUKEE LINE Book Accounts So Kept as to Mislead Public and Affect Market Is Charge. FINANCIAL STATUS IS 0. K. Interstate Commerce Commission Re. port Citing "Serious Irregular!--tics"' Tonds to Blame Execu tives leather Than Controller. WASHINGTON, March 6. Charges that the book accounts of the Chicago, Milwaukee & fct. Paul Railway Com pany and of its subsidiary, the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puset Sound Railway Company, have been so manipulated as to mislead the public and tend to create a more favorable market for the securities of the roads were con tained in a resort made public today by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion after an exhaustive investigation of the financial affairs of the road. While criticising and condemning the accounting methods followed by the companies, however. Commissioner Harlan, who prepared the report, said: "We do not mean to bo understood by anything here said as intimating that the St. Paul company is not a valuable property and is not achieving the results reasonably anticipated from the extension of its lines to the Pacific Coast." Irregularities Held "Serious." The disclosures by the investigation of what Mr. Harlan describes in the report as "serious irregularities," in the accounting system of the roads, were regarded by the Commission as indefensible, although the officers of the St. Paul company- explained that they "resulted from negligence, inat tention' and a lack of familiarity on the- part of the company's controller and titi os e tinder him with the require ments of the Commission.' "There is no sufficient basis of rec ord," says the Commissioner's report, "to enable us to condemn or acquit the controller, either of full responsi bility or of his share of responsibility for the condition of the accounts of these companies; but there are grounds for thinking that his responsibility was materially qualified and minimized by the instructions and directions given him by the executive and other offi cials. Whatever may be the fact in that regard the Commissioner now feels that a more careful observance of our rules and regulations is prom ised for the future. This we confi dently anticipate will be realized." future Poller Announced. A general admonition contained in the report made it clear that the Com mission hereafter , will hold to strict accountability all common carriers for the accuracy and truthfulness of the statements contained in the reports of tneir financial operations. In some Instances today's report ex plained "a financially strong road mak ing large net earnings would not hes itate to conceal the facts by adding to its operating expense accounts slims disbursed in improving its property; on the other hand, a financially weak road, seeking to enhance its credit by a good showing, of operating results, would include in its property accounts sums expended in operation." ' "Desired Showing" Made. "The result was that a carrier's an nual and monthly statements of net revenue often reflected nothing more than the particular showing desired by its executive," continues the report. "These reports were often used for speculative purposes and the stock holders and the general public were left without any assurance as to whether the dividends declared were paid from income or surplus or out of capital. 'The delinquencies in the accounting of the Puget Sound Company are of great significance. A large traffic was offered to the Puget Sound line as soon as it was opened and the evidence be fore ns leads us to think that a correct showing of the operating results for the first year would have been most satisfactory. Not content, however, with a statement of the facts, the In come of the Puget Sound was greatly overstated, a variety of expedients naving been resorted to for this pur pose." Sneclfle Instances Cited. Specific instances of "wrongful" ac counting are contained in the report, wnicn points out that if the different items had been stated properly during the first year of operation ot the Puget Sound company "the income for the Puget Sound company for that year, reported at J2.25S.440.18. would have been practically eliminated. The unlawful practices just de scribed were continued after June 30, isuw, ana tne nctitious showing of in come for that period was used by the officers of the Puget Sound company to aid in the sale of its bonds. The last report of the Puget Sound company to this Commission as a sep arate property covered the period July to jjecemoer, inclusive, or the year 1912. The earnings for that period show a very substantial growth. After making all due allowances for unde termined misstatements in the reports. the showing of results of the operation of the new line must be regarded as very favorable. In the case now un der consideration the accounts of the tt. ram company are being recast to bring them into harmony with our rules and regulations so far as is now possible." EARLIXG MAKES EXPLANATION Reason for Increasing Stock From Three to Hundred Million, Given. CHICAGO, March 6. An explanation of conditions on which were based charges by the Interstate Commerce Commission against the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul Railroad was made tonight by A. J. Earllng, president of the road. Mr. Earllng gave the rea son for the apparent over-valuation of the investment in the Puget Sound ex tension and asserted there had been "no-intention to make other than ac curate statements of its operating or financial condition for the purpose -of promoting the sale of its stock or for any other purpose." The statement says that the original stock of the Puget Sound company was $3,000,000. .When the construction of the extension was nearly completed It was found that a mortgage for $200,000,000 would be needed to com plete the construction and for equip ment and to provide for future exten sion. A mortgage for $200,000,000 was issued. The statement says the laws of the State of Washington, In which the Puget Sound line was incorporated, provide that bonds Issued by railroad companies at.no time should exceed double the amount ot the capital stock. Accordingly the capital stock was In creased from $3,000,000 to $100,000,000. "It was carried on the books of the Puget Sound Company at. $100,000,000 in order to make It valid stock under the laws of Washington. While this was not in strict compliance with the accounting rules -of the Interstate Commerce Commission it was neces sary under the laws of Washington in order to make it valid stock, and it was necessary that this stock be valid in order to give validity to the bonds. "About a year ago the Commission called attention to the accounts of the Puget Bound company in - connection with its construction and early opera, tlon. Practically all the accounts have been revised in conformity with the requirements "of the Commission. "These differences in accounting oc curred during the transition of the Puget Sound lines from a construction to an operating condition. Construc tion and operating work was carried on simultaneously, necessarily leading to accounting discrepancies in. auditing reports of large numbers." ONCE ASYLUM INMATE SUES Illegal Incarceration Is Charged by Pearl Jones Holmes. SALEM, Or., March . (Special.) The State Board of Control was noti fied today by Superintendent Stelner, of the State Insane Asylum, that Pearl Jones Holmes, poet and playwright, formerly of Rickreall, had filed suit in Portland for $25,000 damages for ille gal incarceration in the asylum against her former husband, M. A. Holmes; J. B. Teal, County Judge of Polk County; Dr. B. H. McCallon and himself. Dr. Stelner said that the woman was committed regularly to the asylum Feb ruary 27, 1913, and was discharged as cured three weeks later. He also said that her mother testified at the lunacy Inquest that she was insane. Judge Teal presided at the inquiry, and Dr. McCallon also testified. BAKER FIRST WITH TAXES Payment to State Treasurer Not Due Until April 1 Anticipated. SALEM, Or.. March 6. (Special.) State Treasurer Kay today received $10,000 from the Treasurer of Baker County, which is the first to make a payment this year on the first half of taxes. The first half of the taxes is not due until April 1, and Mr. Kay says he does not expect many remit tances until the middfe or latter part of that month. The Treasurer of Hood River County sent the State Treasurer $6000 today, the state's part of the last half of the taxes of the county for last year. Mr. Kay Eald Hood River was the only county in arrears for last year's taxes. Warrants against the state which are outstanding total $1,100,000 and will be paid from the money derived from taxes at the first half-yearly payments. LIVING COSTLY IN 1913 High Mark for 24 Years Itcachcd. In November Department Finds. WASHINGTON, March 6. Food prices in, the United States reached the high est level In 24 years November 15, 1913. Since that date there has been a slight decline in prices, though the average still is well above that of a year ago. The Department of Labor today made public a report showing the re tail prices of the principal articles of food as observed by the Government's agents in 40 of the most important in dustrial cities of the country. "Throughout the whole of 1913 high prices . prevailed," says the report, "while the last quarter of the year was a period of decline in the prices of 13 of the 15 articles of food observed." DEAD MAN'S WIFE JAILED Young Widow Refuses to. Answer Questions at Inquest. SEATTLE, Wash.. March 6. Mrs. Henry Werner, whose husband was killed with an axe near Issaquah last Monday, was arrested at the conclusion of the inquest today and was brought to Seattle, where she is held pending further investigation of the murder. Henry Smith, who also was arrested in connection with the investigation, was also placed in jail here. The Cor oner's jury returned a verdict that Werner was killed by "a person or persons unknown." Mrs. Werner, who is 25 years old. declined to answer questions put by tne rrosecuting Attorney concerning statements made by her neighbors. ALBANY ORATOR IS NAMED Irvine Acheson to Represent College 1 in Prohibition Contest. ALBANY, Or., March 6. (Special.) Irvine Acheson today won the prohibi tion oratorical contest of Albany Col lege and will represent Albany in the intercollegiate prohibition oratorical contest of Oregon next month. Ache son spoke on "The Lesson From the Past and the Present. The other contestants were Herbert L. Blatchford, who spoke on "The Great Invasion," and Miss Hope Blair, whose subject was "The New -Patriotism." Blatchford won second place. Acheson Is a member of the sopho more class and lives In this city. Ashland Boys' Club Enters Sports. ASHLAND, Or., March . (Special.) The Boys' Vocational Club will enter athletic lists, more particularly sports afield. Professor viningr, the director, has scheduled a Marathon race for the senior and junior classifications. The course for seniors will be looping "The Horn," a section of a familiar high way east of the city, the distance being about eight miles. The prizes will be two silver cups. Training features will be supervised by Dr. Jarvls, him self - an athlete in amateur circles while a student of medicine in Phila delphia. Albany Pythlans to Dedicate Home. ALBANY, Or., March 6. (Special.) April 25 has been set as the date of the dedication of the new $40,0000 Knights of Pythias building in this city. Most of the officers of the Grand Lodge of Oregon, Knights of Pythias, will be present to conduct the dedica tory exercises and hundreds of mem bers of the order from this section of the state will attend. Plans for the dedication are being inaugurated now by the members of Laurel Lodge, of this city, which erected the building. Inspector to See Suspect. ROSEBURG, Or., March 6. (Special.) Postofflce Inspector Morse, of Rose- burg, and C. C. Cain, special agent for the Wells-Fargo Express Company, left today for Redding. Cal., where they will attempt to connect Fred. Martin, under arrest there, with the holding up and robbing of the Shasta Limited and Cali fornia Express trains in Douglas County in June, 1911. Cnion Woman Buried, at La Grande. UNION, Or., March 6. (Special.) Mrs. Rose A. Conlon. of this city, was buried In La Grande yesterday. Mrs. 'ftonlon was 65 years old, and had been 111 for several months. Services were held in this city, after which the body was taken to La Grande for interment. Six children, four sons and two daugh ters, survive ; Eisr News! M ft Change SUNDAY and THURSDAY Famous Players' Produc tion, Starting Every Sun day 4 Days Only. DANIEL FROHMAN THE PRIDE OF JENNICO A Dramatic Conflict of Hearts and Swords in Four Parts. Supplemented by a Curtain Raiser. One of the Greatest the American 10c Any it, EARLE 15 CHEERFUL Artist on Trial in France for Kidnaping Own Son. FIRST WIFE IS WITNESS Other Members of Family Tell of Marriage and Divorce in. Career of Man AVho Gave "Affin ity"' Sew Meaning. ROMORANTIN, France, March 6. Ferdinand Pinney Earle, the American artist, took the witness stand in his own defense today, when he and Miss Charlotte Herman were brought to trial for kidnaping Earle's son . by his first wife. Earle is the man whose adven tures resulted in the modern applica tion of the term "affinity." F.arle declined the services of an in terpreter, remarking that his knowl edge of French was adequate. Both Earle and Miss Herman dis played cheerful demeanor. Earle told the court his principal grief in this af fair was that he might lose the affec tion of his son. The courtroom was crowded with prominent residents ot the city, including many women. Both sides were represented by distinguished lawyers from Paris. The principal of the school attended by the boy related the circumstances under which his pupil had been taken away. He spoke in tho most cordial terms of Miss Her man, who he said had inspired him with complete confidence. Madam Marie Emilie Fischbacher, first wife of Earle, and other members of her family testified concerning Earle's marriages and divorces. Salem Elks Elect Officers. SALEM, Or., March 6. (Special.) The Salem Lodge of Elks has elected the following officers: Milton L. Myers, exalted ruler; George C. L. Snyder, sec retary; AL. Anderson, esteemed lead ing knight; Harry Wenderroth, es teemed loyal knight; Arthur Wallace, esteemed lecturing knight, and Elmer Giles, tiler. Big Cougar Killed by Homesteader. FOSTER, Or., March 6. (Special.) Leslie L. 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