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Honored By The Conference.
The African Methodist Episcopal Zi on
church has just closed its annual session
at Derby in this state. The Ansonia
Sentinel commenting upon the confer-
ence and the departure of the clergyman
for there homes says: “Derby, and
Ansonia as well, has been honored by
the conference meeting here, and as a
representative of the two cities. The
Sentinel is glad to speak of the men
who compose that body. They are ear-
nest, intelligent, conscientious workers
in the Master’s vineyard, and now that
they have enjoyed our hospitality and
gone from among us we.wish to con-
gratulate: them on their successful
meeting. We would welcome them
again whenever they care to come.
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One View of Low Prices.
The general opinion throughout’the
country, an opinion grounded in sound
reasoning, is that the welfare of the
agricultural interest is the foundation
of the prosperity of all other indus-
tries. In other words, it is generally
believed that manufacturing and _com-
‘ mercial prosperity can hardly exist
when the interests of agriculture are
unduly depressed. .
Now, in all references that are made
to the present unsatisfactory condition
of business affairs, it is common to find
it taken for granted that the trouble
I begins with the farmer. It is said that
the returns which he receives for the
products of the soil are less than they
ever were before, and that his conse-
quent inabilityto purchase the products
of the factory or the supplies of the
store has the effect of crippling mer-
cantile enterprise and paralyzing in-
dustry at all its centers. The natural
inference from all this is"that, while
the manufacturers and merchants of
the country must be in a bad way, the
condition of the farmers themselves
must be much worse.
'In spite of these general opinions,
there are some farmers who refuse to
believe that they are on the road to
ruin because they do not get the prices
for their products which prevailed
years ago. These believe that a new
era of civilization has arrived, bring-
with it, through the immensely in-
creased facilities for production in
these later days, the means of life,
health, and enjoyment to the million.
Their theory is that the era of low
prices has come to stay, and that it is
in the interest of the people; and they
assume that, when the artificial clogs
that now retard the wheels of industry
have been removed, the even flow of
production, answering to a demand
constantly increasing under new condi-
tions, will not only be equitable to all
interests, but will ultimately exert a
beneficial influence on all branches of
trade and all classes of society.
A very significant letter, written by
Mr. Lambert, a farmer of Bush City,
Minn., has recently been published, in
which he argues that it is not the money
which the farmer receives for his wheat
that should be considered so much as
' . what that wheat will buy, and he pro-
ceeds to give facts and figures. Thus
vixen wheat was worth a dollar a bushel
he could buy eight pounds of sugar with
that bushel. Now, with the same quan-
‘ity, he can buy twelve. Twenty years
ago it took six bushels of wheat to pur-
chase ahundred-weight of nails. It can
now be obtained for four. A mowing
machine a few years ago took 120 bush-
els of wheat to pay for it. Seventy-five
will suffice at present prices. In short,
Mr. Lambert insists that the wheat-
grower of to-day who gets 60 cents a
bushel for his crop has a chance to be
better Ofi' than his predecessor of the
“dollar wheat” period.
The special class of persons whom the
era of low prices is bound to affect dis-
advantageously comprises those who
were unfortunate enough to contract
5 , during the times of high prices, debts
which are yet unsettled. Very natural-
ly the shrinkage of values seems to them
'to portend disaster, and disaster only,
and beyond question much of the un-
rest and dissatisfaction which prevails
in some sections of the country is large-l
ly attributable to the gloomy forebod-
.jngs likely to be engendered by such
views.
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Take Heed. .
Mayor Keeler has a notice in another
column of special importance to those
who fail to heed the city ordinance in
reference to sweeping'rubbish, refuse
and papers into the street. A violation
of the ordinance is liable to be fol-
loWed with a fine- .
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FGURRESPUNDENT.
BY THE
Editor of the Gazette.
Copyrighted 159-1.
CHAPTER IV.
"Whom the Gods wish to destroy they first
make mad.”
The Presidential campaign of the
summer and fall of sixty, was the most
memorable in American history. One
singular and quite extraordinary fact
was, that Seward, who expected to be
the Republican nominee; that Douglass
and J efi‘. Davis, who were about equal-
ly confident of the regular Democratic
n omination ;—Douglass winning
empty prize of a nomination from the
northern wing of his party, and Breck-
inridge, who succeeded to the empty
Davis legacy of a nomination from the
Southern seceders;—-were all of them,
at the time, members of the United
States Senate. _ -
Douglass Was the first, as well as the
only one, to open the canvass in per-
son, which he did with his wonted im-
petuosity, vigor, and relentless ener-
gy. He addressed immense meetings
in about every state north of the Poto-
mac, and in several of the slave states,
inspiring his enthusiastic supporters
with his own apparent belief that he
was, as in the Botherum storv, “driv-
ing every thing before him.” At the
South the failure to nominate Jeff.
Davis, robbed the contest of much of
1ts accustomed spirit and eclat. Breck-
inridge was supported in a sort of per-
functory and half-hearted way, that
clearly evinced-3,121.! secret ”desire on the
part of most‘sfif‘ not all, the fire-eater
leaders,that Lincoln should be elected,
so as to furnish them an apparent ox-
cuse for inaugurating their long con-
templated purpose of disunion, and the
easier to "fire the Southern heart” of
the masses of their people. At all
events, the election of Douglass was
not to be tolerated by the Davis or
Breckinridge wing. He had in their
view proved a traitor to the South by
his damaging opposition to their cher-
ished Lecompton bill;
With the South, both political prin-
ciple and pecuniary interest were in—
volved in the pro-slavery issue. Its
great staple products, cotton, sugar,
and rice, could only profitably be
raised by cheap labor, and the cheap-
est labor known to that section was
slave labor; hence the bitter antagonism
to everything militating in'the slight-
est degrec against ownership in the
labérer. .
Davis in the Senate, had in secret
caucus, conspired to read Douglass out
of the Democratic party. Where doubt
existed of Breckinridge carrying a bor-
der state, the scheme was to give its
electoral vote to Bell, or even to Lin-
coln, rather than let Douglass win.
Even in Connecticut, Breckinridge was
stronger than Douglass. The Southern
leaders could not and would not abide
him, even though by his election the
Union could be the more easily main-
tained and the horrors of civil war
averted. The imaginations of the fire-
.eater leaders were crazed With the wild
and yet long-cherished infatuation of
establishing out of the disrupted Union
a splendid “Southern Confederacy
whose cornerstone was slavery.”
to have opened on' the day the Conven-
tion adjourned. Most of the best po-
litical orators, and many of the ablest
editors known to the country, were at
and'of that august assemblage. These
did not intermit their labors until the
grand triumph in November. The
ground swell of the phenomenal Ere-
mont campaign of four years previous,
whichcarried the fascinating youngPath
finder’s vote a million beyond his party
bounds, seemed to have reached up to
and carried on its swelling crest, the
second candidate on Freedom’s ticket.
In November it bore him on to victory
on the topmost wave of popular acclaim
and enthusiasm. Everywhere meetin s
were held; thousands of the Nation 8
ablest and most eloquent speakers were
by night and day, addressing popular
meetings all over the free North; never
in any political canvass were the masses
of our voters, by the press, pulpit.
platform-orators and teachers, more
seriously and soberly urged and educa-
ted up to such lofty planes of party
morality and National patriotism.
“Liberty and Union,” were the shibo-
leths of the Republican battle cry.
“And right is right, since God is God,
and right the day must” and did "win.”
The North was aflame from the At-
lantic to the Pacific, from J une to No-
vember, with marching clubs of
‘ ‘Wide-‘Awakes,” “Rail-Splitters, ” and
“Zouaves,” copied from Chicago, all
unconsciously awakening the martia
spirit of our lusty young men and with
prophetic, though then unseen Wisdom,
paring our boys for the _supreme sacri-
fice and duty of the fast Coming days
of war. Scarce a hamlet of five hun-
dred voters in any section of the North,
but promptly got up one or the other
of these half-military and well drilled
campaign orgamzations,composed prin-
cipally of Vigorous young men. ow
many thousand weary feet of these
semi-soldiers, so soon afterWards
marched in .serried ranks over the
blood-soaked_battle-fields of the as-
sailed Republic.
Another curious feature of this‘quad“.
ruple Presidential contest,was the una-
nimity with which Lincoln_ and his
supporters, were at and by his oppon-
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The Lincoln campaign may be said.
AM. Heusted, .Westport,
NORWALK, CONN. FRIDAY MAY 18, 1594. '
cuts of theNorth, accused of the iden-
tical hostility to the South’s property
rights in slaves, that Douglass and his
supporters were anathamet-ized for, by
the fire-eaters. There was certainly
far more time and trade-serving dough-
facedness and fiunkeyism exhibited by
large numbers of prominent politicians
and business men at the North, than
ever was witnessed at the South. As
for the goody- goody Bell and Everett
men, or “Nationalists,” or “Unionists,”
or “Silk-stockings,” as they were sev-
erally called, they aroused very little
interest anywhere. At the North they
were esteemed a quiet, conservative,
and eminently respectable body, lan-
guidly preferring freedom, to the ex-
tensron of slavery; at the South they
were gaged as moderately pro-slavery,
and mainly of the oldotime Henry
Clay wing order of politics. While
their platform pledged fidelity to “the
Union, the Constitution and theen-
forcement of the laws,” South Caro.
lina had scarce threatened secession,
when large numbers of this high-toned
“Union party” in different States of
the slave belt, took up the frantic cry
for disunion, as if Only too eager to
out-Herod the Breckinridge and Jeff
Davis fire-eaters.
As far back as the Presidential cam-
paign of ’56, a secret council of south-
ern Governors, engineered by Govern-
or_ Wise of Virginia, was held at Rs-
leigh, N. C., to arrange a plan of with-
drawal of their States from the Union
in the event of Fremont’s election.
Again_and again, during the Lincoln
campaign, as the probabilities of his
election increased; open and secret
meetings were held at different places
in the South, looking to a disolution of
the Union in the final event of Repub-
lican success. -
_These beligerent ebulitions cause
little alarm at the North except in‘
trade centers like New York and Bos-
ton, where a possible withdrawal of
southern custom, seemed the sorest ap-
prehension“ The loyal North, con-
scious of its superiority in wealth,
numbers and resources, largely looked
upon _these threats of disunion as idle
vaporings. It was widely believed at.
the North, that should the time come
when an actual attempt at secession
wero'made, the, wisdom and patriotic
spirit of Henry Clay Would assert it-
self, who when taunted by Jeff. Davis
in the Senate, hotly replied, “If Ken-
tucky should unfurl the banner of dis-
union I would never fight under that
banner. I owe a paramount allegiance
to the whole Union; a subordinate
one to my own State.” Mr. Greeley,
usually far-seeing and constitutionally
apprehensive, pronounced these south-
ern mutterings and threats of seces»
sion, in reality, “theatrical sheet iron
thunder.” Nevertheless, the hostile
and treasouable attitude of the South
grew from bad to worse, till the second
and final session of the 36th Congress
met, on the first Monday in December;
~ Westport Road Race.
The "‘15 mile” bicycle road race at
Westport Thursday afternoon attracted
a large crowd. Dwyer’s Citv of Nor-
walk band furnished music. There
were sixteen entries and nine starters.
The start was from .in front of the
hotel across the drawbridge to Sauga-
tuck across Saugatuck bridge and
around‘back to Westport by way of
State street hill to starting point. The
course was gone over five times to com-
plete the fifteen miles. ,
A rider with a cyclometer went over
=the course and found it to measure
nearer twenty miles than fifteen.
Of the nine who started but seven
finished, W. J. Gamley, of Norwalk,
dropping out after having gone about
twelve miles, and R. N. Mansfield, of
Newark, dr0pped,out on the first lap
by reason of the breaking of his saddle.
The scores of those who finished
were as follows:
. Names. Time.
Thomas Walsh, Bridgeport, 63.05
Herman Leopold, Bridgeport, 65.40
Henry Meeker, Southport, 66.43
H. Merrill, Norwalk, 03.57
John J. Adams, Hartford, 64.05
Clifiord Patche‘n, Westport, (35.10
(36.15
The handicaps were Walsh, 30 s.;
Leopold, 3 m.; Meeker, 4 m.; Merrill,
3m.; Adams, scratch; 'Patchen 5 m.;
Hensted, 4 m. ' ’
The prizes were: 1st~Pope clock;
2d—brass table; 3d—lamp; 4th—pair of
shoes; 5th—box of cigars; _Gth—revolv-
er; 7th—pair of shoes.
In the boys’ race Frank Giovani came
in first and won a pair of shoes ; Charles
Cargill was second and gets a gold
watch chain. '
Thomas Walsh won the time prize, a
gold medal, presented by Mrs. R. S.
Craufurd.
The referee was F. St. John Lock-
wood; judges—W J. Finch, R. .
Craufurd and G. J. Underwood; timers
—George A. Darrow and F. E. Brady;
starter—David W. Raymond.
A fine collation was served after the
race, by theeladies of Westport, and it
was heartily enjoyed.
In the evening there was a grand re-
ception in National hall, for which
Prof. Smith furnished music and at
which a number of Norwalk ladies and
gentlemen were in attendance.
USE DANA’S SARSAPARILLA,IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES. ”
Hunting’sfiClrcus.
In relation to Hunting’s circus, which
will exhibit in South Norwalk. May 18,‘
the New York Clipper has the'following
in its issue of April 7:
The show is the largest, strongest and
best Mr. Hunting has ever run; not a
weak act in the ring. The band is ele-
gant, every man a soloist, under the
leadership of Eugene Wank. The Le-
Vans are doing a fine act this season,
also the “Graces.” Bob Hunting’s
4 clowning takes well; he is a great favor-
ite. Louis Hunting, the manager’s son,
is” developing into a first-class perfor _m
er. He does several acts, now that will
rank with the best of them, although a
child in years. The menagene isquite
a feature this season, and is among the
top ones. ' . ’ '
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GREASE ONTHE min.
The South Norwalk Special Crash-
=es into the Bumpers While Be-
‘ ing Switched into the Grand
Central Depot.
The Brakes Did Not Seem to Work.
The special train for New York
which left the depot at South Norwalk
at 6:55 yesterday morning, and which
carried a number of Norwalk com~
muters to New York, met with an acci-
dent at the Grand Central station which
might have resulted in the death of
several persons and in serious injury to
many others. ,
The train consisted of five passenger
It is customary with the railroad men
to send all incoming passenger trains to
their platforms by what is. known as a
“flying switch,” the locomotive being
uncoupled from the cars at Forty-ninth
street and switched on to another track,
while the cars are allowed to proceed
under their own momentum into the
station.
This arrangement was carried out as
usual yesterday morning. The passen-
gers had nearly all arisen and were
crowding toward the doors, ready to
alight. It was noticed with some un-
easiness, however, that as the train ran
in along the platform its. speed was not
checked, although the brakemen were
setting down the brakes as hard as was
in their power. A few moments later
there was a loud crash as the baggage
car, which was ahead of the passenger
cars, ran against the heavy wooden
bumper at the end of the track.
The passengers were thrown from
of the shock they soon became reas-
sured and made their way to the plat-
form. _One man was found lying on
the front platform of the first passen-
ger car. He was lifted to the ground
apparentl suffering from serious in-
juries. e was Nathan C. Mellen,
thirty-three years old, an architect,
with an office at No. 45 Broadway, and
living at Bell Haven. .
Dr. Brooke Wells, a surgeon of the
railroad company, was sent for and by
his advice Mr. Mellen was removed to
the Grand Union Hotel. An examina-
tion of the injured man showed that he
was suffering chiefly from shock and
slight injury of rib and contusions.
He refused to go to the Flower Hospi-
tal when the ambulance arrived. He
returned home at four o’clock in the
afternoon.’ . ‘ -
The other" passengers. it was found,
had suffered no serious injuries, al-
though several received bruises. An
unknown man had his hand cut by
broken glass, and several women be-
came hysterical through fright. The
passengers left the station as soon as
possible. The front platform of the
baggage car was badly damaged,
and the wooden bumper at the end of
the track split and broken.
Mayor Lee of South Norwalk was
among the passengers, _but escaped in-
jury.
Superintendent Shepard gave it as
his opinion that the accident was due
to the wheels slipping along the track,
notwithstanding the application of the
breaks. Cars are allowed to stand in
the depot over night. Grease dripping
from them on the tracks makes the
rails so slippery that early morning
trains find it difficult to grip the rails
and, instead, slip along th’em. Steps
will be taken to remedy this, he said.
The accident will be investigated.
' Cushman’s Mlnstrels.
Frank Cushman’sminstrels held the
boards at Hoyt’s Opera House last
evening. As their coming was not her-
alded in the usual manner of such en-
tertainments a very small audience
greeted them, but those who did attend
were more than repaid for going. The
singing of “Sweet Marie” by Alex.
Cameron and “The Fatal Wedding” by
Fred V. Bowers were exquisite and far
ahead of anything heard on the min-
strel stage in Norwalk. Frank Cush-
man, who is well known, rendered sev-
eral imitations of an Irishman, Ger-
man and Negro in an inimitable way.
His southern songs being unusually
fine. George Graham kept the house
in a roar and his local hits were appre-
ciated. Short and Edwards, the musi-
cal kings; played numerous instruments,
but their cornet duett, “Alice Where
Art Thou,” was rendered beautifully.
The famous gymnast, Ouda, excelled
anything ever seen on the stage in his
line and _is well worth going to see.
The rifle juggling by Kissell was good
‘and highly appreciated.
To-night they appear at the Norwalk
Opera House and if you desire to w1t-
ness a fine minstrel performance an
enjoy a hearty laugh you should attend.
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The Boy Didn’t Say Anything.
4 A pretty good story is told at the ex-
pense of one of our policemen. Com-
plaint had been made of boys bathing
along the wharfs near the bridge. The
other-day the officer discovered a num—
ber of the lads in bathing and hastened
to the wharf. But he was seen by the
boys, all but one of whom made their
escape. This one had succeeded in
getting about half dressed as the officer
came up. Taking the youngster by the
shoulder and shaking him the officer
asked him what he meant by disobey-
ing the order about bathing near the
bridge. The boy looked frightened
but made no reply. “You young ras-
cal.” said the officer, “if I catch on
here again I will lock you up.. hat
is your name?” asked the man in blue.
The boy did not reply and was given
another shaking. “Answer me or
will arrest you” continued the officer.
'Still no reply. .At this juncture another
boy'about a hundred yards away hal-«
looed out, “Say, you cop, that boy is
deaf and dumb.” The officer “drop-
ped”.the boy and went back to head-
quarters.
cars with Conductor Taylor in charge. '
their feet. 'There being no repetition.
,and read the law to him.
Local News and Interests.
TERSE TALES-0F THE TIMES.
William Olmstead, of White Plains.
son of Gen. Charles Olmstead, of this
city, was in town on Thursday.
——Try our 60c. Teas, N. Y. Store.
The Stamford Advocate says :' “The
Greyrock nine will go to Norwalk, Sat«
ui'day afternoon, to play a nine in that
p ace.” .
——Bicycle coats, pants, sweaters,
stockings and caps full assortment at
Taft Bros. 27 Wall.St.
Landlord McPherson. formerly the
genial proprietor of the Norwalk hotel,
was. in town to-day. He looks as halo
and happy ‘as ever... ,
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A memorial service will be held in the
Baptist church next Sunday evening, in
honor of the late Pastor of the‘church,
Rev, Charles E. Torrey.
——Camphor gum at Hale’s.
Persian PoWdcr at Hale’s. 856tf
_There was a bad burst in the water
pipe near DeKlyn’s store on Main
streeththis morning. Coroner Roach
IS making necessary repairs.
—Best Sodas, 5c. N. Y. Store.
The police reported the electric light
near the Methodist church as being out
all night, and the lights on the western
circuit as not being lighted until 8:15 ‘
o’clock.
——Low prices at Hale’s. 856tf
’ Electrician John H. -H0yt has just
finished wiring the summer residence
of Lawyer Morrill at New Canaan for
electrical bells and other modern ap-
pliances. '
The annual reunion of the First Con—
necticut Heavy Artillery will be held—
at Middletown, June 13th. Mr. F. P..
Godfrey of this city, expects to be
present and greet old comrades.
—Taft Bros.new store presents a very
fine appearance, they make a fine dis-
play in their show windows of men’s
and boys’ clothing, and show a fine
stock of men’s and boys’ straw hats. .
Rev. Dr. Pa’rkhurst visited Bridge-
port (formerly the wickedest city in
Connecticut) on Thursday. 'He re-
mained there no longer than necessary
for him to catch a train for New York.
é—Lard,‘ 8c. N. Y. Store.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Thomas
Belden was attended from St. Mary’s
church this morning. The pallbearers
were Messrs. John Pierce, T. F. Fagan,
James B. Costello, Cornelius Lucy,
David Camp and Thomas Layden.
—Ladies, clean your kid gloves with
Josephine glove cleaner, for sale only
by J. A. Riggs, Pharmacist, 11 Main
street, Norwalk. . 10.1yr
Selectman Raymond has registered
two dogs, Selectmond Baker one, and
Town Clerk Smith two. Selectman
Daskam says that he is not poor enough
to own even one dog. Up to noon to-
day, 425 canines had been registered.
415 oranges, 250. N. Y. Store.
Messrs. George Wardwell, Charles
N. Wood, Hiram Davis and Frank Mer-
rill, Norwalk’s boss fresh water fiSher-
men, caught nearly two bushels of pike,
perch and roach at Great Pond, on
Thursday. They distributed them with
a liberal hand among their friends.‘
—Hams, 15c. 1b.; Jones’ Superlative
flour, or Golden Vale, 580. per bag;
soda crackers. 50. 1b.; McAlpin’s shorts
tobacco. 4a.; fine dairy butter, 230. 1b.;
lard, Sc. lb. W. R. Bates, Cash 'Gro.
cery, 47 Main street.
——White Hellebore at Hale's. 856th
The Hunting circus made a creditable
parade this morning. They came up
East avenue and returned by the way
of West avenue. The Sons of Rest
were out in full force and the side-
walks on Wall and Main streets were
lined with spectators.
—-Fresh fish, vegetables. etc, at the
lowest prices. Home dressed beef and
veal at H. M. Fillow’s market, ‘22 Main
street. '
Elsie, the eight year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Mason, met
with a serious accident the other day
while playing at her home on Harbor
avenue. She fell from awindow and
injured her hip. ,_ Dr. Tracey has the
little girl under treatment and antici.
pates no serious results.
—Roach exterminator at Hale’s.
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—Ro‘ast beef and potato salad free at
James M. Creagh’s Saturday night.
The restaurant is well equipped. Meals
served at any hour. Regular dinners
25c. Board by the day or week.
Connecticut pensions :- Original —
John W. DeForest, Seymour. ‘ In-
crease—Barney Coyle,Noroton Heights,
Thomas Harvey, Voluntown. Reissue
—William J. Derrance, (deceased,)
Bridgeport. Original widows’—Louise
Spindlar, Hartford; Sarah F. Phillips,
New Haven.
—Shoulders, 90. N. Y. Store.
A Bridgeport man has been fined 37
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and casts for keeping an unlicensed
dog. The man claimed that the dog
did not belong to him. The justice
explained that fact made no difference
Owners and‘
keepers of dogs will do well to remem-
ber this fact, as a, Vigorous campaign
will soon be commenced against those
who violate the law.
[$1.00 aYearA.
PRICE Two CENTS.
N0 .COMPlQillSE MADE.
Miners and Operators In Cleveland
Fail to Get Together.
18 LIKELY TO BE A FAILURE.
Many Operators Start For Home—Tho
Strikers Remain Immovable—Speeches
Made by President McBride and
Several Employers.
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CLEVELAND, May 18. — This was the
gloomiest day of the big coal conference.
The miners and operators before the con-
vention was called to order seemed as far
apart as they ever were, and at the Hole
lenden and Weddell, where the operators
are quartered, the belief seems to be gen-
eral that the conference will come to an ‘
end without the conferees having. reach-
ed anything approaching a settlement.
Not _even a modus vivendi. ivhereby the
country may be supplied \vith coal and the
question of wages discusied at another
time, is expected.
The convention was called to order at
shortly past90’clock, and Chairman Zerbe
called for a report of the conference com-
mittee. Every delegate in historic Case
hall knew just What it would be—that no
' were no surprises in that.
The miners had been informed by the
morning newspapers of the belief expressed
by the operators that President McBride
could not keep the men on strike much
longer, and they proceeded to dispel what
they called a delusion upon the part of
their employers. They pointed to the fact
that strikes, so complete and far-reaching
in their results, are not declared off by the
strikers when they have so much to en
courage and so little to discourage them.
Secretary Patrick J. McBryde has insisted
all along that no settlement can be made
because the operators have not felt the
rigors of a. complete tieup. .
Many operators started home last night,
leaving their proxies, and some went away
this morning, so that the convention, when
it was called to order, consisted of not
more than 300 delegates.
on the first day. The small operators ex-
pect the larger-ones to make an effort to
break the strike, as they, especially those
from Pittsburg, who have takencontracts
to deliver about 500,000 tons of coal to rail-
roads and for the lake trade for from $1.90
to $2.17, prevented a settlement.
Last season coal for fueling vessels sold
from $2.25 to $2.50, but this year, before
navigation was fairly’opened, an Operat-
ing company took the contract to fuel ves-z ,
sels for 81.90. One of the western railroads ,
gets its supply at Green Bay, Wis., for
agreement could be reached, and there .
There were 401_
$1.98 from a local firm, after being shipped.
by rail and water over 1,000'miles. Such
contracts as these have so far prevented a.
settlement of the vexed question.
After the joint conference committee had
reported that they could not, agree, Oper-
ator H. L. Chapman of Ohio, 3. member of
the conference committee, made a brief
address. He recountcd the history of the
committee meeting and said that the op-
erators offered a 65 and 56 cent scale, while
the miners still .held out for 70 and 75
cents. He said that in View of the present
depression and the strained condition of,_
manufacturing interests the operators
could not concede the advance asked.
President MoBrlde’s Speech.
President McBride was the first speaker
for the miners. He said he was willing to
have a vote taken on the compromise of-
fered by the operators, but he would guar-
antee that the miners would be unani—
mous against it. Continuing, the speaker
said:
“As a native born. citizen, I blush to
think that the business interests are build-
ed upon the starvation and degrading
wages paid the laborers I represent. We
want you ”to give living wagee‘ and in-
crease the’price of your coal so you can
get a fair profit. There can be no compro-
mise along the lines of starvation wages.
The miners make no threats, but they
stand together peaceably, earnestly and
determined as ever and will go on so, fin-
ishing the present fight and preparing for
future fights.”
Following President McBride, F. L.
Robbins of Pennsylvania secured the floor
and made a strong address for the opera-
tors.
Vice President Penna of the miners’ as-
‘ sociation then took the floor and spoke in
their behalf, making an able argument {to
show that the operators were in a. position
to pay living wages now as at any time in
the past.
Strikers and Miners Fight.
UNIONTOWN, Pa., May 18.———Tw0 hundred
strikers attacked coke workers on their
way to work in the Martin and Kyle plants
today, and after a. pitched :battle the work-
men, assisted by deputies, dispersed the
mob. A number on both sides were in-
jured, but none seriously. The operators
report more men at work than (yesterday.
All the foreigners employed by the Rainey
Companyhave been discharged, and their .
places will be filled by southern negroes.
Agents now in the south report no trouble
in securing all the workers they want. .
Economizlng on Coal. .
CHICAGO, May 18.—Ofiicials of the Grand
Trunk railroad announced on the board of
trade today that pending a. settlement or
the coal strikes no more grain will be re .
\
’ceived for shipment. What coal is held by '
the system, it was announced, will be re-
served for the moving of passenger trains
and perishable freight. The announce-
ment caused additional weakness in the
wheat market, as it was thought it might
foreshadow similar action on the part of
other railroad companies. '
The college Gets 839,000.
. \TRENTON, May 18.—'1_‘he senate today
passed the bill compelling the state treas-
urer to pay to the State Agricultural col-
lege, at New Brunswick, $39,000, due to
that institution under the free scholarship
act. The law was never mandatory be-
fore. The debt has been accumulating
' for several years. ' -
Norwalk Chronicler