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THE HOUSTON POST.
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR. HOUSTON. TEXAS. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. 1906. PRICE •" CENTS.
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MARKS GREAT INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS
strenuous days of
campaign recalled
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Bryan and His Party Visited New England and Ev-
erywhere Admirers Thronged to Greet 'r'U
MADE FOUR SPEECHES
And Attended Two Receptions
in Course of Day.
FEATURES OF THE TRIP
Were Luncheon and a Conference of
Democrats at New Haven.
ADDRESSES AT MASS MEETINGS
Were Along Lines of Madison Square
Garden Speech—Said New England
Had Never Been a "Good Breed-
ing Place for Democracy."
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NEW HAVEN. Conn., Auguwt 31.—The ».«it
of Wllllnni J. Bryan to Connecticut today
miiRt have utrongly reminded him of the
Btrenuou* days during his presidential cam-
paign*, for he delivered four addresses. each
of ronmd< r.-iUia Ii'wl 11; two recep-
tion!*, and wa* the center of hand-shaking
hreg whe never hi* admirers could ftach him.
TM* wn* rrnW3r<1 Into the nooit liour and
tonight when he reached Bridgeport he was
heartily received, although there was an ah-
■ence of street demonstration.'. His audi-
ences, however, were wildly enthusiastic, es-
pecially at the noon luncheon here. The fea-
tures of the day were the luncheon and the
conference of New England democrats. At
the former. Mr. Bryan was welcomed to the
city nnd 8tntc and at the latter he stood
before a representative body of New England
democrats, and with gre-\t earnestness spoke
of the problems which the party must face
In the coming campaign. Mr. Bryan said In
the courre of hl« address that New /England
never had been n "Rood breeding place for
democracy; Jefferson had never so consid-
ered it; neither did Jackson."
A delay at the s'art of Mr. Bryan's trip
caused an overlapping of the three meetings
here, to the disappointment of the mass
meetings, and the democratic conference wa*
not compiet< d until time for Mr. Bryan to
deliver his third address of the dity. The
chief change in the program was the Inclu-
sion of former Governor Garvin of Rhode
Island as one of the open-air speakers, as
the address he had prepared for the luncheon
had been rul'd out as be in.; »r o political.
Mr. Oarvln spoke at the lunch~ci here, pay-
ing a tribute to the uprightness of Mr.
Bryan.
Mr. Bryan left New Haven for Bridgeport
shortly before 6 o'clock, nddresslng an audi-
ence nt the armory In the evening. His ad-
dress's «t the mass meetings were along the
lines of his speech at Madison Square Garden
last night.
Tomorrow morning Mr. Bryan will return
to New York. Most of the members of his
psrty who were with hlrn today left for their
homes tonight.
NEW ENGLAND ENTHUSIASM.
Mr. Bryan and party arrived at New Haven
12:15 o'clock and were received by a cheer-
ing crowd at the station. A march through
the elly to the headquarters of the county
democratic committee. Mr. Bryan was for-
mally greeted by Lieutenant Governor Wood-
ruff and Mayor Studley, the latter riding In
th« carriage with Mr. Bryan. After some
moments spent in handshaking at committee
headquarters, the party was driven to Music
Bin 11.
The visit of Mr. Bryan today was nn event
of more lhan ordinary interest, although he
Is no stranger to the city. Many times in
the last two years and Immediately prior to
his trip abroad Mr. Bryan was here to at-
tend to duties ns executor of the estate of
the late I'hllo 8. Bennett and to appear as a
Tarty In the legal complications developed
by his administration of the trust. The
ithrong on the streets today from the station
to the music hall was made up largely of
persor.s from the summer resorts in this
Vicinity, residents turned out by the thou-
sands at the m.iss meting on 'he green. The
mercantile houses closed at noon.
The day's progrim was marked with «"n
•bsenee of formality, the only special ar-
rangements being the crection of a small
►rctlon ef seats near the band s and and the
Jssuanc of tirkets to the luncheon. At the
luncheon the arrangement of tables placed
the guesi 1 at one which ran across the hall,
while at one end were six tables, one for
each New England State. Dr. A. B. Fuller
Of this city mis toastmaster.
As Mr. liryar. entered the hall he was
retiringly cheerod, everybody standing, anj
the mor" enthusiastic ones climbing upon
Chair4 arid waving hats. Those who were
r.eur th • head of the table pressed forward
to shake hands with Mr. Bryan. Mayor
Ptudley. Lieutenant Governor Woodruff, ex-
Govetxor Garvin of Rhode Island, and ex-
Cengies.-man Get rge Fred Williams of Mas-
sachusetts were among the mrwt prominent
of the guests. Among the late comers was
Chairman Garber of the democratic S'ato
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2 AGROUND AT H' pjLULTT
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United States Ar; ~r Transport
Sheridan in Serie ^ Condition.
'Associated Pr> C'ietorl.)
HONOLULU, A< £st 31. — The
United States arm transport Sheri-
dan, having aboa. seventeen sick
men. one general prisoner and forty-
five enlisted men. Is ashore on Bar-
ber's point, the southwestern extrem-
ity of the Island of Ouhu, on which
Honolulu is situated.
The Sheridan main steam pipe Is
broken and the vessel is helpless, so
far as her own power Is concerned.
It Is reported that the breaking of the
pipe occurred just before the steamer
grounded nnd that the crippled con-
dition of her engines was the cause
of the accident.
The pipe broke at 10:38 this morn-
ing. Immediately after the vessel
struck the reef the lifeboats were low-
ered and efforts made to reach the
steamer. The natives are now getting
to the vessel through the surf In ca-
noes. Captain Peabody says that if
the power Is applied quickly he be-
lieves the Sheridan can be moved, but
otherwise there is little hope for the
transport. The swell is very heavy
and the coral rocks are very sharp.
Good order id being' maintained on
board the vt. seL The transfer of
passengers eltl er to the shore or to
other craft so ihey can be brought to
this city Is a serious problem.
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PAYS ITS OWN WAY
PENITENTIARY SYSTEM WILL ASK
FOR NO APPROPRIATION.
Management Has Reached Point Where
Governor Is Advised that It Is Earn-
ing All Necessary to Maintain It.
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(Houston Post Special.)
AUSTIN, Texas, August 31.—The State
penitentiary system enters the new fiscal
year on a self-sustaining basis. This is the
cheerful Information contained In a letter
which Governor Lanham today received from
Superintendent Searcy Baker. Mr. Baker
has advised Comptroller John H. Stephens
that he will ask for no appropriation at the
hands of the next legislature. In his letter
to Governor Lanham Mr. Baker further says
that no appropriations will probably be re-
quired for the next two or three years.
It is considered doubtful if there is another
State In the Union which has a self-sustain-
ing penitentiary system. This desired re-
sult which lias Just been completed In Texas
Is due largely to the able management of
penitentiary affairs under the present prison
officials, including the capable board of
penitentiary commissioners.
The success of the iron industry has been
an Important factor in placing the finances
of the system upon a plethoric basis. This
industry, which was started as an experi-
ment, has developed into a practical and big
revenue producing business. Superintendent
Baker and Financial Agent John L. Wortham
have given the new industry their closest at-
tention an 1 by adoption of advanced meth-
ods of smelting the ore and In conducting the
Industry generally. It has reached a point
where it is one of the most important ad-
juncts to the convict system. It affords em-
ployment to many men who are confined
within the walls of the penitentiary and
makes them a source of profit to the State
Instead of a charge as they had been here-
tofore.
The large sugar plantations which are op-
erated by convicts are also big sources of
revenue for the system. The plantation fea-
tures of the penitentiary industries saw its
most Important enlargement during the ad-
ministration of Governor Sayers, when the
William Clemens plantation was acquired on
behalf of the State. This plantation and the
Harlem farm have been brought up to the
highest standard of productiveness during
the present administration. The prospects
for another enormous cane crop this year are
very bright.
It Is learned from a reliable source that not
only has the penitentiary system reached a
point of selfsustenance. but that It may re-
alize a surplus this year which will be turned
Into the State treasury. x
The emergency appropriation of <40,000
which the legislatures have been making In
the past for the penitentiary, exclusive of
other appropriations for that branch of the
government, will not even »e asked for.
There are other Industries In addition to
those in operation which are in contempla-
tion at the State prisons and they will add
to the rervenue now being obtained.
There are on an average of 3950 convicts In
the penitentiary and the problem of afford-
ing them all profitable employment is a gi-
gantic one. The present prison authorities
seem to have solved it to a marked degree.
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JUST TO SHOW SHE'S NOT COMING OUT AT THE LITTLE END OF THE HORN.
Houston's industrIaTTMition
Houston Is the center of the lumber industry of Texas, a
single company being capitalized at $10,000,000, and a dozen or
more others at over $500,000. There are more lumber offices
in Houston than in any other city in the Southwest, and the
trade' reaches every section of the country. Millions of dollars
Invested in the lumber industry has headquarters at Houston.
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Houston is headquarters for the rice industry of Texas.
Here all the rice farming machinery is bought and distributed.
Here are four large rice mills, besides a number of representa-
tives of private interests and mills outside of the State. It is
the regular meeting place of the Texas Rice Millers' association
and tk-e most important point of rice distribution in the State.
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Houston is the railroad center of Texas and the Southwest.
It is the largest railroad center between New Orleans and San
Francisco, or west of the Mississippi river except St. Louis.
Railroads centering in Houston cover a territory in Texas ag-
gregating an area of 265,780 square miles.
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Houston is the center of the oil industry of Texas, the Hum-
ble field being in a stone's throw and connected with the city
by railroad and pipe line. Millions of dollars are invested in the
Humble oil field and Houston is headquarters for all this busi-
ness.
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Houston leads In the commission business and the large
number of large commission houses attests the fact that this
.branch of commercp reaches every section of the Southwest.
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Houston's annual real estate business is the most extensive
of any other city or section of the State, the present year sur-
passing all previous ones in the way of big transactions.
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Houston leads in a large portion of the wholesale trade, and
the records show that the value of the class of trade mentioned
is greater in Houston than in any other Texas city.
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Houston leads in the matter of railroad shops and yards and
the amount of wages paid employes in this line aggregates sev-
eral hundred thousand dollars per month.
Houston leads in the matter of iron consumption, there
being more of the crude product manufactured into useful ar-
ticles here than in any other Texas city.
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Houston is the central point of distribution for every indus-
try in Texas because a greater number of railroads center here
and reach every section of dountry.
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Houston leads in the matter of local industries, the records
showing that a large army of people find daily profitable em-
ployment in the various industries.
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Houston is Texas headquarters for the fruit and truck in-
dustry, which, as shown elsewhere amounts to hundreds of
thousands of dollars annually.
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Houston leads in the matter of school facilities, no other
city in the State having so well organized system of schools, nor
as well equipped school buildings.
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Houston leads in the inland oyster and fish tride, a greater
number of boats being engaged in the business than at any
other inland town in Texas.
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Houston is the center of the sugar industry ot Texas, the
annual trade in this particular aggregating several hundred
thousand dollars.
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Houston leads in the volume of express business, the sever-
al companies in business here representing thousands .of miles
of railroad.
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Houston is the leader in the produce business in the South-
west, the annual value of this trade being nearly one million dol-
lars.
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Houston leads in the matter of cotton because it handles
more cotton than any other point in the South.
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Houston leads in matter of city railway mileage and equip-
ment. V
situation in cuba
IS growing darker
News 01 an Uprising in Santiago Province Is Caus-
ing the Gravest Concern.
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• THE COTTON CROP
Is Given as 11,345,988 Bales by-
Secretary Hester.
(Associated Press Report.)
NEW ORLEANS, La., August 31.—
Secretary Hester today issued the fol-
lowing totals of the cotton crop of the
United States for 1905-06, viz;
Port receipts, 8,029,544; overland,
1,009,463; Southern consumption, exclu-
sive of amount consumed at and taken
from the ports, 2,307,981, making the
total of the crop 11,345,988, against
13,555,885 last year and 10,011,374 the
year before last-
Secretary Hester says this is the
largest commercial crop ever market-
ed, except that of last year. The com-
mercial crop of 1897-98 amounted to 11,-
199,994, and that of 1898-99 to 11,274,840;
the two latter were the largest re-
corded up to their respective years.
The total consumption of cotton In the
South amounted to 2,374,225, an increase
over last year of 196,305 and over the
year before last of 555,016 bales. In-
cluded in this year's Southern con-
sumption were 66,244 bales consumed
and taken from Southern outports,
which amount made a part of the net
receipts at ports as above stated.
Mr. Hester has made up a report on
world consumption of American cot-
ton, progress of milling, etc., which
will be issued soon.
f HE REPORT IS DENIED
By Government but Confirmed
from Two Sources.
THE TRAINS ARE HELD UP
By Insurgents at Will and Passengers
Are Robbed.
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A COMPLAINT FILED
BY TEXAS CATTLE RAISERS WITH
COMMERCE COMMISSION.
They Want the Terminal Charge of
Two Dollars a Car on Cattle Made
at Chicago Reduced.
(Associated Press Report.")
WASHINGTON, August 31.—Petitions filed
with the interstate commerce commission to-
day included the Texas Cattle Raisers' as-
sociation of Texas against the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railway and many other
railroad corporations, because a charge of
$2 a car on live stock is made by the Ter-
minal l-Oroad t Chicago. The complainant
inn' A^r.ns that the charge is excessive and
ovet to be included in the through rate on
car.oads from Texas to Chicago. Interven-
ing in the petition are the American Nation-
al Live Stock association and the Corn Belt
Meat association.
The commission decided several years ago
that the charge was excessive. It fixed $1 a
a car as the proper tariff. The case was
taken to the supreme court of the United
States and the order was overthrown on the
ground of lack of authority.
Now, under the new law, the complainants
again appear before the Interstate commerce
commission and ask that the case be re-
opened and that the commission decide it in
the light of the new act. The petitioners
hope to have the case considered on the evi-
dence taken before.
Dovetailing into this case is another, also
filed today with the commission. It is that
of the American Live Stock association and
the Cattle Raisers' association of Texas
against the Texas and Pacific railroad and
practically all the other railroad lines west
of the Mississippi. It is urged by the com-
plainants that the company refuses to make
a joint through rate on live stock In carlots
from points in Texas to Chicago, St. Louis,
Omaha or Kansas City. In 1904 the company
canceled Its joint rates on live stock and
now will accept such traffic only on the un-
derstanding that the stock is to be trans-
shipped at junction points of the Texas and
Pacific railroad. This, it is urged by the
complainants. Is unreasonable. They ask,
therefore, that the commission compel the
railroads to quote a joint rate as formerly.
WITHOUT OPPOSITION.
Judge Alton B. Parker Elected Presi-
dent American Bar Association.
(Associated Press Report.)
ST. PAUL, Minn., August 31.—Judge Alton
B. Parker of New York was the sole nomi-
nee of the general council of the American
Bar association for the office of president
for next year.
At a meeting of the committee previous to
■the general session the following slate was
named and will be acted on later: President,
Alton B. Parker, New York; secretary, ,T. P.
Hinckley, Baltimore; treasurer, Frederick E.
Wadhams, Albany, N. Y. Executive commit-
tee: Charles Monroe, Los Angeles, Cal.;
Ralph Breckenrldge, Omaha, Neb.; Rome G.
Brown. Minneapolis; Walter G. S'nitli, Phila-
delphia; Charles F. Libby, Tortland, Maine.
Messrs. Hinckley and Wadhams are the
present secretary and treasurer, respectively.
The executive committee recommended in
its report that a two-thirds vote be neces- I
sary for the approval of any legislation and ;
only after the report of a committee which J
has investigated the subject.
THE ONLY PEACEFUL PRUVIIM,E
Is Puerto Principe and Americans Hav-
ing Cattle Interests Are Apprehen-
sive—Guerra Is Still Leading
Government Troops Chase.
(Associated Press Report.)
HAVANA, August 31.—The situation is fat
darker tonight than at any time since the
insurrection broke out.
News of en uprising in Santiago province,
while not yet published here, is spreading
about the city and causing the gravest con-
cern.
When Mr. Sleeper, the American charge,
was told the contents of the Associated Press
Santiago dispatch, he endeavored to verify
it through the state department, but was
•that it was untrue. Subsequently the dispatch
was verified from private and newspaper
sources. The extent of the uprising in San-
tiago is not known, but it is the opinion
here that the worst calamity of all to the
Palma government would be an insurrection
in Eastern Cuba.
According to two eyewitnesses, Cardenas,
which has been considered a peaceful city,
was the scene yesterday of desultory fighting
between police and rural guards on the one
side and roving Insurgents on the other.
The only province remaining perfectly
peaceful is Puerto Principe. Americans hav-
ing cattle interests there are apprehensive
lest it, too, become a field for insurrectionary
operations.
The Associated Press correspondent at
Cienfuegos telegraphed today that there are
3000 armed insurgents In that vicinity and
that all be small towns in Santa Clara
province are controlled by insurgents who
attack and loot trains and seize the prop-
erty of foreigners as well as of Cubans.
Trinidad is surrounded by insurgents, and
the government appears powerless to protect
the property of Americans and other for-
eigners. Railway trains are held up at will
and passengers searched. The Cuban Cen-
tral railway has declined to assume respon-
sibility for the safety of passengers and
freight. Recruiting for government forces
is making good progre-^Jiere and the gov-
ernment continues to headway where-
ever there is open fighting.
The government troops in the western
portion of Pinar del Rio province have not
yet come up with Pino Guerra and accord-
ing to the Associated Press correspondent
with the column, there is no present like-
lihood of their doing so, as the troops
might march ten years and all the while
Guerra would still be Just ahead of them
in the hills. There are thousands of moun-
tain trails with which the insurgents are
familiar and which lead in all directions.
If Guerra cared to harass the government,
the troops could be killed off by sharpshoot-
ers. The government has no cavalry at
Pinar del Rio and the only real soldiers are
the artillerymen, Guerra does not want to
fight . His scobts can always be seen at a
distance from tfie government troops.
Americans who come to the legation to
ask for protection for property are answered
by an immediate call on the government of
Cuba, which promises to do the best it can
for them. Charge d'Affaires Sleeper advises
all such callers to flle their complaints in
the local courts and forward copies of the
papers to the legation. There are many
rumors in circulation as to what may hap-
pen September 15, unless a new election is
granted.
The American Protestant missionaries of
Havana say that the reports from outside
are practically unanimous in stating that
the insurrection i-s sweeping the country dis-
tricts in the western half of the island.
The increasing gravity of the situation has
revived discussion of the possibility of in-
tervention by the United States.
La Discusscion, the semi-official organ of
the administration, in an editorial this even-
ing depicts the result of an intervention as
follows: "Permanent intervention would be
worse than death. It would be preferable if
the Caribbean should engulf the Pearl of the
Antilles."
The article appeals thus to racial senti-
ment: "The colored race may tremble be-
fore the possibility of intervention. Amer-
icans hate and despise negroes. Even their
own negroes, with whom they have been in
contact for 200 years, are treated li*«^v dogs,
lynched and hardly considered human. II
ic is so with negroes of their own land and
language, what would happen to the Cuban
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