itUR GILDED VID,)Wa.
Oaf TkM Hava Kortaaea A
tla 4 !- f a nillloa.
Sit widows of the United States havt
MTant. wealth of more than a quar-
E billion dollur. William Henry
mlth, who died the other day In Japan,
left an estate estimated at $70,000,000.
Hetty (Imn does not talk about her for
tune, but It has been placed at from
lj,000,000 to 180.000.000. Mrs. Russell
Bat came into $85,000,000, but aha baa
Uvea, away $15,000,000 In lea than a
fear. Tbera la Mrs. Anna Welghtman
Talker, who la worth $10,000,000. Mm.
Marshall FVld la comfortable on $15,
JOOflOO, aad Mr. Marshal Field, Jr,
baa fS.000.000. Her. wealth la not at
peat In Itself, bnt her aona will coma
into, perhapa, $50,000,000 when they ara
f Me. All thla wealth baa not accumu
la led by the huabanda of tha women ; aa a
matter of fact. In but two Inataacea wera
tha huabanda the money makers, and they
were Russell Saga and Marshall Field.
Hetty Green inherited about $12,000,
000 from ber father, and aha haa apent
all her life trying to see how high ahe
could pile up the pyramid of golden
tolas. When ahe la Dot engaged in fight
ing lawyers, Mr a. Green apenda ber time
In buying substantial securities and clip
ping coupon. When ahe diea the fortune
Will go to her aon, Edward Green, a rail
road builder and politician In Texas, and
her daughter, Sylvia, who la unmarried.
Mrs. Russell Sage's greatest gift waa
110.000,000 for improving tha condition
af the poor. She baa announced that In
the distribution of the Sage millions there
"Vlll be no indiacriminate giving. Mr.
Walker is primarily a buainesa woman
and apenda moat of her time keeping track,
af her investments. . Her wealth came
from her father, William Wcightman of
Philadelphia.
Perhapa the greatest of all recent e
tatea was that of Marshall Field, the
Chicago merchant, who died worth more
than $100,000,000. Provision for bia
grandchildren, who will, in time. Inherit I
tha bulk of the estate, and tha Important
educational and charitable bequests left a I
comparatively small sum for the widow,
Mrs. Marshall Field, Jr., la training her
aona to cars for tha millions that will be
theirs.
' PLAYING THE HORSES. .
Hew a at 0,000 Basdc Roil waa f a 00,.
OOO a Year (ar Bight Years.
That the professional gambler baa the
best of the game la proved every time an
investigation lets in the light of truth.
But the recent revelations made by Dis
trict Attorney Jerome of New York are
Imply astounding In their exposure of
how tha pool room proprietors fleece the
. people who think they can beat the borse-
racing gameA The other day his agent
raided a pool room at 112 Fulton street.
and were fortunate enough to secure pos
session of a neatly kept set of books
which make astounding revelations. The
books contain a complete record of the
pool room transactions for several years
past. They show that In January, 1800,
a-rbank roll- of $5,000 was made no.
Every day of tha month tha transactions
ara summed up la oolumna of .winnings
nd losings. Tha books show, after all
expenses including "protection" money
had been paid, a profit of $10,053.75. In
May there waa another "whack-up" of
proflts amounting to $14,271. Then tha
'tank roll" waa Increased to $10,000.
From that time. May, 1899. tha bank roll
waa never drawn upon la any single
month and for eight years tha winnings
nave averaged -o,miu a year or
000,000 during the sight yeara. ' t Tha
books show how and among whom tha
money waa divided and it is believed that
Mr. Jerome ! warmer on tha scent of
"tha man higher up" than ha aver was
before. One of those who -regularly re
ceived a 10 per cent rake-off la said to
be a Bute Senator. Mr. Jerome will Dot
aake names public at this time.
The conference for education in the
South held Its three days' session at Pine-
iiurst, N. C- and re-elected Robert Og-
oea or Mew Tork aa president
President Dabney of Cincinnati univer
sity is planning a commercial college In
roncection with tha institution. He pro
poses to have the students work In banka
and brokerage offices while pursuing tha
rourses of study.
' Tha Minnesota Lerlslatura defeated the
bill Introduced by tha committee on edu
cation, wnica armed to take school affairs
at of politics by having tha county school
hoard of Ave members selected by ballot,
and having these boards select tha county
superintendents. -
At a recent meeting of the general edu
cation board at New York $025,000 waa
allotted out of the Rockefeller fund to
five institutions. This included $300,000
for Yale, $200,000 for Princeton and
$125,000 to Bowdoln college in Maine,
Colorado college, Colorado Springs, Colo.,
and Aliiisaps college, Jackson, Miss.
The presidents of the four classes of
Harvard university appeared on the stage
of tbi Maiestlo theater of Boston the
other night and mads formal apology on
behalf of the undergraduates for the part
taken by some or tbem iu the egg-1 brow-
log and general disturbance at tha first
performance of "Brown of Harvard."
A paragraph in the School Journal aaya
thnt the Indiana Legislature has panned a
bill which gives tUe Htute board of edu
cation the right to recommend teachers'
training courses to the normal schools.
When such courses are properly taught
these acheola will be eutitled to use the
word "approved" In their titles, and
teachers will be given credit for work In
these schools.
W. H. Maxwell, New York City super
intendent of public schools, In a recent
address before the students of Columbia
uulvetntty.- gave it as hi, opinion that no
nervous or excitable person should at-
. tempt to teach. The teacher, be said.
"should be aa athlete and a trained ar-
tUau. The strain on the nervous system
is so great, and the demand upon tha
physical strength so severe that when it
come to managing a room full of fifty or
sixty boys, only a ma a who haa a good
physique and abundant physical powers
can bop to succeed.";
Ia view of tha recent utterances of
President Roosevelt and President Eliot
of Harrard on the subject of footNall in
connection wltlr -colic j athletics, consid
erable interest was aroused by tha re
marks of President Hadley of Yale, who
ia a recent speech at a meeting of Yala
alumni at Plalnficld. N. J., expressed tha
belief that football might very properly
be permitted where the student body waa
i compote j chiefly of undergraduates, but
la a unlrerslty where the students wera
largely of tha graduate or professional
type football, by consuming time and sub
tracting from professional energy, became
a harmful diversion.
CLASS MILE FATAL.
PRESIDENT GIVES WARNING AT
JAMESTOWN.
la Esaaaltloa tare Baa at
apablle Will Com Win Oav
avament la la llaade of Kit her
riatocracy ar Mob lasteaa af All.
President Roosevelt's speech at the
oenlng of the tercentennial exposition
at Jamestown waa an appeal to national
wride to preserve the republic by avoid
ing the fatal error of "class rule." '
"Other nations hare fallen, he said.
"because the citizens gradually grew to
consider the Interests of a class before
tae interests of the whole ; for when such
waa the case It mattered little whether it
waa the poor who plundered the rich or
the rich who exploited the poor. In eith
er event the end of the republic was at
band.
"Wa are resolute In o:r purpose not to
fall in such a pit. This great republic
of ours never shall become the govern
sent of a plutocracy and it neve shall
become a government of the mob.
"God willing, it shall remain what our
fathers who founded il meant It to be, a
government where each man stands on
his worth as a man and where wa strive
a give every man a fair chance to show
the stuff that la in him."
Avoiding politics, In the accepted sense
f the word, he devoted bia' address to
history, reviewing the founding of the
nation, giving especial credit to the Eng
Ikih, but colling attention to the fact
that tha blood of many peoples flows in
the veins of the typical American. He
then referred to our national problem.
lying that the struggles In times of
peace are as great and aa important as
thoM of war. Tha President spoke in
part as follows :
At tha outset I wlah to say a word of
special greeting to the representatives of
the foreign governments here present. They
nave come to assist na In celebrating what
waa In very trutn the birthday of this na
tion, for It waa here that the colonists first
settled whose Incoming, whose growth from
their own loins and by the action of new
comers from abroad whs to make the peo
Dlo which Kill vears Inter assumed the sol
emn responsibility and weighty duties of
complete Independence.
in welcoming all or Ton I must sav a
special word, first to the representatives of
toe people or Urent Hrltsin anil ireiano.
The fart that so many of our people, of
Whom as It happens 1 myseir am one, nave
but a very small portion of Ktigllsh blood
In our veins, In no way alters the other
rsct tnat this nntion was rounderi ny eng
Ilshmen, by the Cavalier nun l'urltnn.
l.et ns further greet ail or yon, tne rep
resentntlrea of tha people of Continental
Knrnpe. From almost every nation or ku
rope we have drawn some part of our
Dioou, some part or our traits.
. Anain. let me bid vou welcome, renre
sent'atlves of our sister republics of this
continent. la the larger asuect. your in
terests and ours art identical. Your prob
lems and ours are in a large part the snme ;
and aa we strive to settle them, I pledge
yuu herewith ou the part of this nation
tne neartlesc friendship anil good win,
Finally, let me ssy a special wora er
greeting to those representatives of the
Asiatic nationa wno mane up tnat newest
Eaat which Is yet the most ancient East,
tne East or time immemorial, in part leu
lar. let me express a word of hearty wel
come to the representative of the mighty
lelsnd empire of Japan, that empire which,
In learning from the West, haa shown that
it aaa so mum, so very mucn to teacn tne
west in return.
, First i Baalish , ettleuieat.
We have "met to day to celebrate the open
Ids ot4he exnoaltlon which itself comment
orates ths first permanent settlement of
b.e or our stocs.in Virginia., tne nrst ne-
clrmlna of what has since become this
mighty Republic. Three hundred years nh
bamuul of KukIIsD adventurers, wno una
crossed the ocean In what we should call
cockle boats, as clumsy as they were frail.
landed In toe great wooiled wilderness, tna
Indian hannted waste, which then stretched
down to ths water'a edge along the entire
Atlantic coast.
Hitherto each reoeration among ns bad
Ita a noted task now heavier, now neuter.
In the Kevolutlonary war the business wi
to acnieve inuepenoence. luimeuiaieiy ar'
terward there was nn even more moment
ous task that to achieve the national unity
and the capacity or orderly development
without which oar liberty, our Independ
ence would nave lsen a eurse and not
blessing. In each of these two contests,
while there were many leaders from many
different States. It la but fair to say that
the foremost place was taken by ths states
men si Virginia and to Virginia waa re-
served the honor of producing the hero
f both movements ilie hero of the war,
and sf the peace which made good the
result to the war George Washington ;
while the two great political taodenclea
of the time can be symbolised by the
names f two ether great Virginians. Jer
fereoa and Marshall, from one of whom
wa Inherit the abkllng trust In ths peo
ple which Is the foundation atone or at
mocracy, ana from tne otner ut po
ADVICE THAT PAID.
Cleraran.a Who Poaaa lho Aarle-I-
taral Deaartaseat Rrllahlo.
A few years ago a clergyman who had
Injured his health retired from the vine
yard of tho Lord to 15 poor acres in
Pennsylvania. He knew absolutely noth
ing about farming. From tha different
parts of his little Held be sent sample of
soil to the Agricultural Department at
Washington and asked for guidance, and
ha got it. The scientists were delighted
to encounter a man who had no Inherited
agricultural prejudices to uproot. Ho
was ready to plow according to the rules'
laid down in the pamphlets and to treat
bis stock scientifically. The farm, be
cause of Its good house, coHt the prem-her
$7,000. His own faith in the ability -of
the Agricultural Department to make It
pay, and the friendliness of a parishioner,
enabled him to get the place on credit.
He has couducted his crops with strict
fiedlity to instructions from Washington.
The result is thnt within a few years be
paid off the $7,000 mortgage, with inter
est, has an occumuTntlug balance in the
bauk. and ia deriving from bis 15 acres
an annual income of $2,000. The Depart
ment of Agriculture luis published an ac
count of thla preacher's remarkably suc
cessful experiment, describing his 10 acres
s.s a model American, farm.
To Pay Wonra Teachers More.
The New York Stute Senate haa pass
ed the teachers salary bill, the object
of which Is to give the women the same
salaries as the men In New York City
schools. It is based upon the principle
that the position should determine the
salaries, and not the sex, but gives the
city board of education discretionary
powers so as not to violate the home-rule
principle. It provides for a minimum
salary of $720, with fixed annual lu
veasrs equal for both sexes.
BlaadlaaT A rear for Cssa.
Ibe general staff of tha United States
army baa prepared a plan for a standing
army for Cuba, to consist of 12,000 men,
all of whom, Including the officers, are to
b natives. This plan will be submit
ted to Provisional Governor Xfagoon, and
la Intended to take tba place of the In
crease in tha rural guards, recently pro
posed, being,. It la thought, mora accepta
ble to the Cuban people. v
Henry I. Muta of New York become
violent iu Louisville and raves constant
ly about the Thaw case. He was remov
ed from hit hotel to jail.
glQNmCAST SENTENCES
BY TH2 PBESIDEHT.
The world tins moved so for that It II
no longer necessary to believe that one
nntion inn rise only by thrusting another
down.
This Is an era of combination alike
lu the world of capital and In the world
of labor. KacIi kind of combination "caa
do (too. I ; and yet each, however powerful,
must be op)Hscd when It docs ill.
The greatest problem before us la to
exercise such control over the buainesa
use of vast wealth rindlvldtial, but espe
cially corporate as will insure its not
being used against the Interests of tha
public, while yet permitting such ample
legitimate profits as will encourage indi
vidual initiative.
The wrongdoer, the man who swindles
and cheats, whether on a big scale or a
little ane, shall receive, at our bund
merry as stunt ns if he committed 'crimes
of violence or brutality.
It is our business to put. a stop ta
abuses and to prevent their recurrence
without showing a spirit of vindictiveness
for what bus beeti done In the past.
Quoting truiy Burke: "If I cannot
reform with equity, I will not reform at
all. There is a stute to preserve ns well
as a state lo reform." This Is the exnet
spirit in which this country should move
to thu reform of abuses of corporate
wealth.
We f.re unalterably determined to pre
vent wrongdoing In the future; we have
no liitention of trying to wreak such In
discriminate vengeance for wrongs done
In the past as would confound the inno
cent with the guilty. Our purpose is to
build up rather than to tear down.
to (Vvelop on helm If of the people a co
herent ami powerful movement, a genuine
snd rcpi-CHCutfttlTe nationality.
Two generntlous isnteii i-rore tne sec
ond grest crisis In our history bad to be
faced. Then came the Civil War. terrible
and bitter In Itself and In Its aftermnth,
but a straggle from which tho natloa
finally emerged, united In fact as well as
name, united forever, tin, my hearers, my
fellow countrymen, grent Indeed- has been
our good fortune, for as tlmo clears away
tlm mist that once shrouded broiher from
brother and made each look "ns through a
glass darklr" at the oilier, we can all feel
the same pride In the vnlor. the devotion
and the fealty, toward the rlirht as It was
given to each to see the right, shown alike
by the men who wore the blue and by the,
men who wore the gray.
'Prepare t Meet War."
We cannot nfford to. forget the maxim
that Washington Insisted noon, that the
surest way to avert war Is to be prepared
to meet it. Aevenneless 4he' tin ties tnat
mnt coiwern us of this generation are not
military tint social and Industrial. Each
community must . nlwuyj dread, the evtla
which spring up as ntlendiiut upon the
very iunlltles which give It success. We
of tblit mighty western Itepublle have ta
grapple with the dangers that spring from
poptilur scIL government tried on a scale
Incomparably vaster than evnr In-fore In the
history of mankind, and from an abounding
material pronperiry greater also than any
thing which the world has hitherto seen. -At
the moment, the greatest problem
before as' Is bow to exercise' audi control
over the htpdnesa use of vast wealth, In
dividual, but especially corporate, aa win
Insure It not being used against the Inter
est of the public, while yel' permitting
such ainnle legitimate urodts as will en
courage Individual Inlila'lre. It Is our busi
ness to put a stop to abuses anil to pre
vent their recurrence, without snowing a
spirit of mere vlndtrtlrcucss for what bai
been done In the pnst.
. This is the exact spirit in which this
country should move to the reform of cor
porate wealth. The wrong-doer, the man
who swindles snd cheats, whether on a big
scale or a little one, ahull receive at our
bands merry as scant as If he committed
crimes of violence or brutality. We art
unutterably determined to prevent wrong
doing in the future, but we have no Inten
tion of trying to wreak such an Indiscrimi
nate vengeance for wrongs done In the past
as would confound the Innocent with tbt
guilty. O'lr purpose la to build up rather
than to toar down. We show ourselves
the truest friends of property when w
mnke It evident that we will not tolerate
the abuses of property.
We are steadily heat on preserving ths
Institution of private property, we combat
every tendency towards reducing the peo
ple to economic servitude, and we care
not whether the. tendency Is due to a stole
ter agitation directed against all property,
or whether It Is due to llio actions of those
members of the predatory classes whose
anti-social power ta immeasurably Increased
because of the very fact that they possess
wealth.
necils ?lot Professions."
We base our regard for each man on the
essentials, not the accident. We Judge him
not by hta professions, but by his deeds, by
his conduct, not by what he haa acquired
of thla world's goods. Other republics have
fallen liecause ths cltliena gradually grew
to consider the interests of a class before
the Interests of the whole, for when such
was the case i mattered little whether It
was tha poor who plundered the rich or tin
ru n wne exploited tne poor ; iu eimer event
the end of the republic was at hand.
We are resolute la our purpose not to
fall late such a pit. This great republic
of ears shall sever betoiue ths government
or a mob.
a
It is announced from Cleveland that
William J. Hryan will make bis running
for the presidency uuder the personal di
rection of Mayor Tom L. Johnson of that
city, who Is said to embody those quali
ties tlmt uiude the lute Hcnator Ilunua
such a power iu the world of politics.
James W. Wndsworth, former Republi
can CongreHstunn from NewYorU, who at
cliui rmnii of the House committee on ag
riculture, cluslitil with President Roose
velt on tho meat iuspcctlou bill, caiiih out
iu - an interview bitterly assailing the
President, culling hlui a "humbug and a
fakir."
Justin S. .Morrill of Vermont, who died
in IN! IS, held the record, Hill unbroken,
for length of continuous service la Cob
gross, although Senator Allison is running
it very clone, Mr. Morrill was twelve
years In thu lower house, going directly
to the Senate, wh"ro he remained for
thirty-two ears. Mr. Allison has served
eight years lu the ljouue aud Thirty-four
iu the Semite, but there is a break of
two years iu his record.
To the Washington correspondents the
President con tided the definite statement
thnt ho would favor Secretary Taft for
tho next presidential nomination and that
he would so urrnnge u Hairs that Taft
might tiike the stuiup in Ohio thia sum
nicr. '
lty a vole of 2:t to 3 the Florida Sen
ate adopted a resolution declaring tba
14th and 1.1th amendments to the na
tional constitution void, and to disfran
chise the negro iu that State. It waa
certnlir thut the Houso would follow suit
and that the whole matter would coma
before the Supreme Court.
Senator Fornker went to a great deal
of trouble and at bis own expense ia
gathering evidence in connection with the
Mrownsville raid. It transpired during
.he debate that he had sent a detective
to the scene to make inquiries, and that
for thla purpose he bad selected a col
ored man named 1 erguson.
In announcing at the Jefforsoa day
dinner of the New York Independence
Lesgue that the organization of tba
league was to be made national, W. R.
Hearst served uotlce that be would be a
candidate for the presidential offico next
year. He said that neither of the old
POLITICIAN
parties was true to Its purposes.
AMAZES THE WORLD.
aciaeertasT Activity la Wew Tork
la tha Greatest Brer.
Probably never before In tha history of
the world haa there been In progress at
one time aucb a stupendous amount of
building and public improvement aa that
ty which New York Is now being trans
formed. There are now under way In
New York engineering projects whose
value is $341,000,000, and contracts hava
been authorized but not yet let for $105,
000,000 shore work. This' does no in
clude tha expenditure annually of $.V
000,000 to Improve the water supply, for
which an aggregate expenditure of $102,
000,000 has been planned. Tba follow
ing table gives the details:
Work. Estimated Ceet.
Pennsylvsnta tunnels and term
inals $100,000,000
Hndeon Companies tunnels, sub
ways and terntlnal .100,000,000
Mew Xork Central terminals
snd electrification
Battery tunnels sod subway ex
tension New York and Long Island tun
nels Subway extension and pipe gal
leries, Kast Hide
Subway extension and pipe gal
leries. West Hide
ubwsy brides loop
Manhattan bridge
Williamsburg bridge
felackwell's Island bridge ....
mailer bridge
0,000,004
0,000,000
4.600,000
40,000,000
BO.oon.noo
l.YOMl.OOO
'20.000,000
15.000,000
15,000,000
1,000,000
Total
Hew water supply
Grand total . . . .
449.onn.noo I
tu,.rw,uou i
,.$011,000,0001
These figure do not include the work
on the Ambrose channel In the hnrbor,
which Is a $4.00t,t)tii) job, nor do they
take Into account the engineering work
done oil great Iiuildintrs. There was
about $10,000,000 worth of building dona
in New York last year for office and fac
tory buildings alone. It is safe to say
thnt from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 of
that work required the services of expert
engineers. There ia probably more work
of that kind going on this year than last
f It may be said that besides the $011,-
000,000 already mentioned there is fully
$14,000,000', more of engineering work
going on, making a grand total of $G25,
000,000 worth of construction in connec
tion with transportation and building al
ready under way or provided for in and
around Wew York which may be describ
ed properly aa great engineering projects.
This sum of $023,000,000 may bh term
ed a fact established, but there are other
vast projects still in the stage of con
templation more tunnels . and bridges
and builciings, some of which undoubted
ly will be constructed in .the not distant
future, which will nniount to from $200,
000,000 to $300,000,000 more.
The above outline of large operations
In progress does not refer to the new
buildings which will bo erected, except
the tunnel and railway terminals. Mam
moth hotels, apartment bouses, stores,
theaters, etc., must be added to the list
If anything like a complete Idea of the
construction work in New York is to bt
obtained. x
New Yotlr City's great project for i
curing a water supply from the Catskills
will cost about $102,000,000. That pro
ject means tha construction of normous
dams in half a dozen different valleys,
the wiping out of many settlements, the
construction of a long system of tunnels
and pumping stations, Including tha tun
nel under fhe Hudson river, the erection
of gates and the distribution of the water
In tha city. "It la the largest undertak
ing of tba kind the world has ever known.
Thla water supply for New York la a
tar greater enterprise than tha Panama
canal in the engineering problezna and
aven In the money . outlay. There ara
also private engineering problems going
on In New York which reach into . the
millions. Many of-these have to do with
the construction of great buildings.
Journeymen tailors at Palo Alto, Oal.,
have organized.
Ia several States the machinists' unions
hava Increased nearly 000 per cent in
membership during the last year.
Fourteen new unlona have affiliated
with tha Minnesota State Federation of
labor since the beginning of tha year,
and five applications are pending.
San Francisco (Cal.) union men affil
iated with the Iron trades council have
voted to strike May 1. - Over 6,000 men
are involved. They demand an eight-hour
day.
Chicago (111.) elevator men have been
negotiating with the building managers
for an Increase of $10 a month In wagea
and the matter has been submitted to ar
bitration. . -
During the twenty-one years of the
existence of the United Hatters of North
America they hava used 270,000,000 la
bels. ' Last year the union hatters made
nearly 30,000,000 hats.
A new wage scale increasing the wages
of the uulon barbers of Oakland, Cal., Is
under discussion between the bosses and
the employes. The wages will be arrang
ed upqp a slidiug scale.
The International Union of Bill Post
ers and ISillers have articles of agree
ment with all circuses and outdoor shows,
through which all bill posting and billing
will be done by union men.
Tho Musicinns' Uniou of Cincinnati,
Ohio, Is lu a tangle with the Cincinnati
Orchestra Association. The main cause
of the trouble is over the desire of tho
association to draw on Euroiiean talent
to the detriment of musicians in this
country.
Many member 4 of the Unitgd Associa
tion of Pumbers, Gas Fitters and Steam
Fitters are urging that the organization
establish a home for the aged and In
firm, along the same linea as the typos.
At a meeting held In New York re
cently it was anuounced that arrange
nieuta are being niadu for the formation
of a permanent organization In favor of
abolition of child labor. It waa stated
that the movement was natioual, and
hope waa expressed that the organization
would succeed In arousing public senti
ment, without which legislation will be
of no use.
Record figures are presented lu the last
quarterly report of the Amalgamated So
ciety of Engineers of England. Its re
serve funds now amount to 728,937, and
during the last three mouths its member
ship has risen from 102,800 to 104.880.
The society has never been so prosperous
In lit history.
8t Paul (Minn.) tailors, who hava
been affiliated with an "independent"
anion for a long time, have concluded to
become a "regular" organisation. A
committee from the Minneapolis union
has been conferring with the St. Paul
men, and It is announced that the change
will be wade soon
BIG FAIR IS NOW ON.
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION OPEN
TO THE PUBLIC.
Prasldeat Presses Gold Balfaa, De
livers Addrasa aaa Reviews Mat.
alflecat, Kaval Paceaat Anald
Thoaaeraas Balates.
The exposition opened Friday by
President Uoosovclt on the "bores of
Hampton Rouds, amid the aalutea of
cannon from nearly 100 war ships and
In the presence of numerous olDclals
and diplomats representing our own
nd foreign governments, should have
an Interest for Americans second to
none attaching to nny former national
exhibition In our history. The James
town Tercentennial Exposition com
memorates the Booth nn nl reran ry of the
first permanent Kngllsh-speaklng col
ooy In America, nntl, besides. Interest
lu It should be great because of the
many historic associations of the sur
rounding territory. The soil adjacent
lins been the scene of more bloody bat
tles during tha Itevolutlonary War, the
-rar of 1812 and the Civil War than
.jjy ctber part Amprlca. Yorktown
ana Appomattox are Close by.
Guns from the war ships of Ova
great nations voiced a salute In unison
BIRD'S-EYB VIEW OF THE
to the American flag and to the Presi
dent of the United States at the open
ing of the Jamestown exposition. The
boom of the cannon sounded over the
waters of Hampton Roads, where near
ly half a century ago the Monitor and
the Meriimoc met in the memorable
conflict which brought I a to being the
armored craft of war.
From the "little Yankee cheesebox
set upon a raft", and the rectangular
mass of Iron which carried the Confed
erate flag In 1802 to the modern fighting
machines typified by the flower of the
American navy Is a far cry. Yet many
of those who stood on ,the shore and
saw the naval pageant in the road
stead recalled the day when the waters
which form the rendezvous of great
War Teasels were splashing with the
stmt and shell of the first battle of
steel-clad ships.
From the bridge of the Mayflower,
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HISTORIC SPOT XEAB JAMESTOWN.
whose decks were the meeting place
cf tho peace plenipotentiaries of Rus
sia and Japan less than two years ago,
President Roosevelt reviewed the great
asHeiiibliige of flag-draped fighters.
Steaming down the long column the
President was greeted by each vessel
with a salute? of twency-oue guns.
Caremoar Besua at Saarlae.
At sunrise isc opening ceremonies
were begun by the United States artil
lery, which fired a salute of 300 guns.
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Ing shortly before noon, and amid ap
plause from the thonsnuds gathered to
extend their welcome lie was received
by tha exposition nmnagemeut. Then
followed the program opening -to the
public the enterprise commemorating
the three hundredth anniversary of tho
first English settlement In America.
The exercises Included an address by
Harry St. George Tucker, president of
the exposition, aud one by President
Roosevelt, singing by tba exposition
chorus of " voices, the pressing of a
gold button by Mr. Roosevelt, which
marked tho formal openlug, and a re
view of the assembled military forcea
Tha First ttlaateat.
It waa in the year 1007 that three
small vessels which had sailed from Lon
don on the l'.Mh day of the preceding De
cember eutrred the broad waters of the
James river. These were the Susan Con
stant of 100 ton, the Godspeed of 40
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rows and the Disco very of 20 tons.
minded respectively Jy Christopher New
port, Bartholomew llosnold and John
Katcliffe. Ia this fleet were 105 men be
sides the crews. They had already land
ed a few days before upon a sandy point
which they named Ope Henry, after the
then Prince of Wales. Captaia John
Bmltb, destined to play an Important
role In onr colonial history, was at this
time In irons on board the Constant at
a result of dissensions which had arisen
while the little fleet delayed in tha West
Indies. On entering the James they
hoped' they had form- a water way
which, in accordance with their Instrte
lions, they were seeking that would af
ford them an entrance Into the south sea.
Thh-ty miles npstream above Newport
News and on the northerly side of tha
river the explorers came upon a penin
sula some three miles long by one and a
quarter wide at Its greatest width. It
extended In a southeasterly direction and
at its northeastern end it was joined to
the mainland by a harrow isthmus. The
river is here three miles In width.
What was then a peninsula Is now aa
Island, the river having cnt u channel
through tho narrow Isthmus, which at
present is about a quarter of a inilo wide
and is spanned by a bridge. It is la
commemoration of the scttlemiat of this
island and the marvelous progress made
in the Intervening .'MX) years that the
present exposition is being held. Tha
exposition Is not located on the site of
the original settlement, hut on the south
ern shore of Hampton Ronds the finest
laad-loeked body of water In the world.
Bite of the Show.
The exposition site comprises aboat
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION.
"O0 acres, which are beautifully laid out.
The exposition 4 buildings proper consist
of 25 structures, among them being an
auditorium and convention hall, 100x236
feet, having winga 02 feet long, and an
auditorium 01x91 feet, with a seating
capacity of about 3,000; a palace of
manufactures and liberal arts,. 280x550
feet ; a palace of machinery and trans
portation. 2S0xrT0 feet; a States' exhibit
palace, 300x500 feet: a mining and
metallurgy building, 100x250 feet; a hy
gienic ami medical building, 100x250
feet: a pure food bnilding, 00x300 feet;
a palace of history and historic arts,
124x129 feet, and an education bnilding.
124x129 feet.
Besides these are .what Is known aa
are arts and crafts village, which con
sists of seven cottages of colonial archi
tecture. These are the textile buildings,
53x88 feet ; copper; silver and woodwork
era' shops, 44x137 feet ; pottery shops,
48x50 feet ; iron shops, 48x00 feet ; model
school, 35x45 feet, with a model school
room 25x52 feet ; mothers and children's
building, 00x100 feet, and Pocahontaa
hospital, 50x80 feet.
Most of the States have made appro
priations or otherwise provided for build
ings and exhibits. Some of them have
reproduced with fidelity some famoua
building connected with their history,
Pennsylvania, for instance, has raised a
second Independence Hall, Massachusetts
its old State House; Maryland has re
produced the homo of Charles Carroll of
Carrollton ; Georgia has erected a second
Bullock Hall, the home of the mother of
resident Roosevelt. In every Instance
the State buildings are characteristic.
Four of the Western Stntes, Washing-
ton, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, have
jointlyerocted n giguntic building in the
form of a mult cue cross, each State to
occupy a section. Even Oklahoma, the
last State to enter the sisterhood, hat
erected a suitable building.
Among the foreign countries which
take olliciul part in the celebration are
Great Britain, Germany, Russia, Franca,
Japan, ' Switzerland, Italy, Belgium,
Spain, Sweden and Greece of the eastern
hemisphere and Brazil, Argentina, Venes
ueia, Mexico, Obile, Santo Domingo,
Porto Rico, Salvador, Peru, Guatemala,
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Nicaragua, Ecuador, Costa Rica and
Panama of the western hemisphere.
The naval features of the exhibition
will be tho greatest and most Impressive
ever witnessed.''' Crick" battleships and
cruisers representing foreign nationa from
Brazil and Chile to Japan will be present
during the entire period of the exposition
and the United States will have front
18 to 20 battleships, beside numerous
cruisers and torpedo boats. At aa time
during the exposition will there be fewer
than 100 warships, either ridiag grace
fully at anchor or engaged hi elaborate
maneuvers. - One feature of tae naval
display that evill arouse deep interest
will be a realistic reproduction of the
battle between the Monitor and Merri-
mac. as it was fought in 1802 and for
which the government has appropriated
$10,(100.
Woodson S. Morris, 77 years old, haa
been sentenced at Newkirk, O. T ta
ninety-nine yesrs in prison for murder.
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CHICAGO.
Poring activity exhibit proportions,. .
iltherto nof exceeded in production, trans-
Kirtation of products and demandii.
rbe leading industries maintain their an
ireeedented outputs and Improving money
tonditiona ara a favorable factor in the
lutlook.
Mercantile collections throughout the
Vest remain remarkably prompt and,
lesplte the dearnesa of discounts which
las prevailed, trading defaults still com
pare quite favorably with those of a
fear ago. Retail trade here and in the
wuntry is steady, but requires rising tem
erature to stimulate the movement of
seasonable goods. Wholesale dealings ia
itarjle merchandise reflect confident buy-'
mg for fall shipment, the consignments
naking a gratifying aggregate in textiles.
wots and shoes, clothing and tooa pro
lucta. Bank clearings. $230,428,809, exceed
hose of corresponding week in 1900 by
14.4 per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 19, ngalnst 17 last week and
29 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade.
JTEW TORK.
Weather conditions this week, as for
learly a month past, have been a bar to
retail trade activity . and to seasonable .
tod development throughout a wide area.
(n jobbing and wholesale trade lines Tili
ng in orders are in smaller volume than
xpected. but business ns a whole is good
ior a between seasons period. There is .
till a marked scarcity of goods needed
tor prompt delivery and much cross buy- ,
Ag between different jobbers and sections
f country. In manufacturing lines the
itory is one of filled order books aad of
jackward deliveries. Collections improv
ed in spots and this tendency is apt to
rain with favorable weather.
The labor situation is one ot ' great
trcngth. Strikes are notably few for a
May 1 period, and while railroad re- ,
trenchment makes for a larger supply of
unxkilled labor, the skilled branches are
very well employed.
Business failures in the United States
tor the waek ending April 25 number lfi",
against 107 last week and 177 in the like
week of 1900. Canadian failures for the
week number 23, against 18 last week and
1?? tn tlila n vani a frn
Wheat, including flour, exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ending April 25, aggregated 2,580.-
242 bushels, against 3,102,407 last week
and 2,149,084 this week last year; for
the ; lust forty-three weeks of the fiscal
rear, 111,505,731 bushels, against lli,-
501,401 in 1905-0. Cora exports for tho
week are 1,011,041 bushels, against l,939i-
S22 last week and 1,428,921 a year ago:
tnw ti.A . - J.. itnaini
bushels, against 102,802,028 in 190&-fi.
Bradstreet's Report.
ChicagoCattle, conrmom to prime.
$4.00 to $0.55; bogs, prime heavy, $4.0t
to $0.00; .sheep, fair to choice, $3.0t
to $0.30; wheat. No. 2, 78c to 80c; corn.
No. 2, 48c to 60c; oats, standard, 42c t
44c; rye. No. 2. 70c to 72c; hay, timo
thy, $i50 to $20.00; prairie, $9.00 to
$14.00; butter, choice creamery, 2Tc to
30c ; eggs, fresh, 14c to 16c ; potatoes,
40c to 00c. .
Indianapolis---Cat tie. shipping. $3.0t
to $0.15 ; hogs, choice heavy, . $4.00 W
$0.70; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 t
$5.75; wheat, No. 2, 75c to 7Cc; corn.
No. 2 white, 47c to 48c; oats, No. 2
white, 42c to 43c.
St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $0.50;
hogs, $4.00 to $0.05; theep, $3.00 to'
$0.50; wheat. No. 2, 80c to 81c; corn.
No. 2, 49c to 50c; oats. No. 2, 40c to
42c ; rye, No. If 67c to C8c.
Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $3.75;.
hogs, . $4.00 to $6.05 ; sheep, $3.00 to
$0.00; wheat, No. 2, 80c to 81c; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 51c to 52c ; oats,- No. 2
mixed, 42c to 43c ; rye, No. 2, 73c to 74c
Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs.
$4.00 to $6.75; sheep, $2.50 to $0.00;
wheat, No. 2, 79c to 81c; corn, No. 3
yellow, 47c to 49c; oats. No. 3 white.
44c to 45c ; rye. No. 2, 72c to 74c.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern.
79c to 83c; corn. No. 3, 47c to 4 He;
oats, standard, 42c to 43c; rye, No. 1,
70c to 72c ; barley, standard, 70c to 72c ;
pork, mess, $15.57.
Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$4.90 to $6.00; bogs, fair to choice, $4.(t
to $7.00; sheep, common to good mixed,
$4.00 to $6.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$5.00 to $8.75.
New York Cattle, $4.00 to $6.35;
hogs, $4.00 to $7.20; shoop, $3.00 to
$5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 85c to 87o;
corn. No. 2, 55c to 57c; oats, natural
white, 49c to 51c ; butter, creamery, 30e
to 34c; eggs, western, 15c to 18c.
Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 7Sc to,
80c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 4Xe;
oats. No. 2 mixed, 44c to 40c; rye, No.
2, 68c to C9c; clover seed, prime, $9.00.
Bpurks from the Wires.
The story that President Roosevelt is
In falling health has been denied at the
White House.
Fire in the furniture nad carpet store
of II. Felheiuier, Hot Springs, Ark., de
stroyed the stock, valued at $50,000, and
dumnged the building to the extent of
$10,000.
Michael Latro. until recently Greek
consul at Lowell, Mass., was held for tin
federal grand jury by United States Com
missioner Hayes on a charge of conspir
acy against the United States govern
ment in smuggling aliens into the coun
try. '
The new Ontario town of Latcaford.
on the Temiskaming and Northern Outa-.
rio railway, nine miles south of the fam
ous cobalt .silver mininr i-nmn. waa nrse-
tlcally destroyed by fire. The losa Is es
timated at $150,000. Several explosions
ot dynamite occurred, but there were no
fatalities. -
Six miles is the length of a petition
promoted by the British National CWuiue
Defense League in support of the bill for
tha prohibition of tha vivisection of dogs.
Tha five-story bnilding of Rochrbacher
ft Alien at Akron, Ohio, waa practically
destroyed by fire and the wholesale aud
retail hardware store of the same firm
waa totally destroyed. The total low is
$70,000.
The plants of the Commonwealth Oil
Company, the Borue-Schrymser Company,
oil refiners, aad Howe, French ft Co.,
oil refiners, near the central wharf ware
house at Boston, were burned out. Loss
$100,000.
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