Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.)
July 27, 1908

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K. OF P. Supreme Lodge, I). R„ And Pytbien Sisters In Boston, August 4 to 11— Pyttiians Arrange Two Parades. 50,000 Expeeted at Great Conven tion-Programme Is Complete. Boston, July 26.—Reports received at the headquarters of the Ways and Means Committee in Boston ineidate that there v. ill be at least 50,000 m;m b, rs and their frineds in Boston to par ticipate in the festivities of attending the 25th convention of the Supreme Bodge, Knights of Pythias, which will open Tuesday, Aug. 4. Preparations are being made by the lodges of the Domain, not only to re ceive and entertain these guests, but to participate in the great demonstra tion in Boston, Aug. 4 and 5. Several of the Boston lodges, in order to prop erly entertain the visiting Knights, have voted liberal sums, amounting to from $500 to $10 200; Vermont will send 1000; and Connect lent, through its grand chancellor, promises Soon mem bers in line." Maine is the only New Kngland jurisdiction not heard from, and while the chairman of the commit tee says he has failed to receive any reply from the grand officers of that domain he has assurances from In dividual lodges that th(> Stab will he represented. In addition to the dis play of members, a number of lodges are preparing to have attractive boats in line, end some of the costumes to he worn liy lodge members in the par ade will be rich, unique and of a type well oal-idated to impress the public with the spirit of interest maintained by the members. The Pythian Sisters will have at least 10 floats and about 200 sisters in line. At 2 r. M. the drill competition in camp will begin, to continue morning and af ternoon, Thursday and Friday. Liberal prizes have been offered and competitors will enter for the awards from various parts of the country. At 8 P. M.. recep tion by the supremo lodge to all members of the order, in Mechanics hall. Thursday, August 0. During the day excursion of the supreme temple, Pythian Sisters, to Nantasket Beach. Friday. August 7. S P. M Peter W ood land Lodge of Lynn, largest lodge of tho order In New Kngland. having i>m mem bers July 1. will exemplify tho ranks or Page and Knight. Admission will be by the pass-words. 1 Saturday, August S. the Uniform Rank will break camp. Sunday. August special religious ser vice at the Union Congregational church, Columbus avenue, 10.30. SerAion by Grand Prelate Rev. Allen K. Stoekdale, pastor of tbe church, -who will take for ids subject: ‘'Dominant Notes in Pythianisni.” A spe

clal musical program will be presented, under the direction of Lester Bates, as sisted by the Schubert male quartet. Tuesday, August 11, banquet to the Su preme Lodge members, and their ladies, at Hotel Somerset. Supreme Representative Woodworth will preside, and Hon. John N. Cole, speaker of the House of Rep« reset) tat Ives, and a member of William B. Gale Lodge, Lawrence, will act as toast master. WAS THERE FOUL PLAY? (Continued from Page One.) drawn from the canal. With a crew of men almost constantly drawing de bris from the screen, it appears sing ular indeed that Willette’s body was not discovered until last Thursday. While the water at the gap of the boom is swift and strong, it is not rough or what rivermen call "White water.” It is argued that with Wil lette's pole in the canal it would not be reasonable to suppose he went down in the main river without some assistance and it is as reasonable to suppose that it would be very difficult and illogical to suppose he was drown ed in the canal without some assist ance. Willette was not a drinking man in the general use of the term. He was but 33 years old, strong and healthy. He was married last fall and his do mestic life is said to have been most pleasant. On the day Willette disappeared a man about town, who was at the time under the influence of liquor declared be could find Willette in five minutes. He was taken into custody by tlie police and after being given a couple of degrees of investigation was allow ed to go as the police believed then he was indulging in hot air expulsion. The coroner deemed an inquest un necessary for the reason that no bad injuries were found upon the body. There are many, however, who, on the quiet, are conducting a still hunt and now two people have been found who saw Willette at work within Hi minutes of the time when logs failed to show up at bis end of the canal. Whether any person visited Willette at the tri|i is now being investigated THE RIFLEMEN. (Continued from Page One.) morning, when the match is scheduled to be shot. The New England interstate match, the chief event of the meeting, will have but three entries this year, New Hampshire, Massachusets and Rhode Island. Vermont lias never been repre sent! il in this annual tournament by a 'representative team, but will be represented officially by Major H. Ed ward Dyer of Rutland. Owing to the exigencies arising from the new service regulations the State teams of Maine and Connecticut will not compete this year. The Maine reg iments will go to camp Aug. 3 and will leave immediately at the close of the camp for Camp Perry, Ohio, to partic ipate in the national ritie matches. Maine will, however, be represented by some of its best individual shoot ers, among whom will be Lieut. Stiles, winner of the Hale match in 11105, and by .Sergeant 1). ,1. Could, winner of the Hayden match and also the Hale mail'll in 1007. It is also expected that Private E. C. Simpson of Connecticut, winner of Hie individual skirmish run in 1007, will also be present. Besides the commodious clubhouse there are 100 tents and cots and blankets will be furnished frie of charge on application of c.ipt. J. Stearns Cushing, the post quartermaster. A hospital has been es tablished when those jn need of assist ance will be attended by Lieut. Col. John F. Harvey of Massachusetts, post surgeon, who will be assisted by Capt. G. M. Elliot of Maine and members of the Hospital Corps of Massachu setts. MUCH BETTER. (Continued from Page One.) sionallsm and manipulation wlifelt liave occurred for several weeks. Alleged arrangements for the imme diate resumption of the full mill ca pacity hy the United States Steel Cor poration and by some of the railroad equipment companies offer examples id bettor reports. President Corey of the United States Steel Corporation, placed the present rate, of activity of their works at per cent, of capac ity. The occasional admonishments against speculative exaggeration did not discourage the new growth of con fidence. Besides the growth of outside speculative operations there was a notable increase of more solid invest ment demand, based on convinced as surance of values at present levels of prices. This kind of demand was es pecially marked in the bond depart ment at the Stock Exchange, where the week's sales rose to the extraor dinary total of $25,000,0011 par value. This heavy aggregate of transactions was characterized also hy unusual va riety and absence of excessive conges tion in a handful of issues from any individual causes, testifying thus to the breadth and general factors of the de mand. Not only in the business in the bon f department of the Stork Exchange, but amongst bond development in tills field was tlie placing of some large blocks of American bonds abroad. Sales of ex change against the ore subscriptions wore sufficient to cause a break in tile prion of foreign exchange and put a stop t« gold exports. A reversal by the court of the $29,000,000 fine .on the Standard Oil Co. decreed by a lower court, was given rj place of importance in the week’s devel* opments by the financial community. It is relied upon to ipiiet fears of foreign capital that American corporations arc in danger of encroachment to the point of confiscation. Such fears found expres slon in the foreign financial press at th» time the fine was levied and were a fac tor in paralyzing the foreign demand for American securities. Confidence is unabated that the coun try's crops will offer a profitable yield and afford a substantial underlying basis for repair of wealth. Tim evident, turn in the tide of the currecy movement shewn by tli fall in New York exchange at Chi cago. is viewed with tranquility in view of the heavy surplus of banking reserves. The only effect has been a slight iiardtof tug in time money lates for periods oar-" tying over the end of the year. The de* velopment of an interior demand for cur rency, in fact, is made a factor for ad ditional encouiiagement nr a proof of in creased business activity. TAFT NOTIFICATION DAY. (Continued from Page One.) ablaze with illumination will escort tin Island Queen on the Journey and tin Cincinnati hills will burst Into illumina tion and detonation while a riotous dis play of fireworks is given and when tin river trip ends, shortly before midnight It is carefully planned that William How ard will bo fully aware of his nominatior for the Presidency. CALM BEFORE THE STORM. A Busy Week Awaits Judge Taft ai Cincinnati. Cincinnati, July 26.—The calm be fore the storm was the Sabbath ob servance of William H. Taft today in tile home of his brother Charles P. Taft. The Presidential candidate will work at the trade of polities -tomor row attending the meeting of the state central committee, meeting informally the members of the notification com mittee, lending his aid to the local ar rangements committee and placing himself generally at the disposal of national and state leaders. On Tues day he will deliver his speech of ac ceptance. With Mrs. C. P. Taft and her daugh ter, Louise, Judge Taft attended morning service. The ancient edifice is undergoing repairs and tile services were held in the basement, the capa city of which was tested by the at tendance. Mr. Taft joined heartily in the ser vices. He returned to the home of his brother, where he is staying and re mained there until late in the after noon. Then lie paid a visit to the bed side of Former State Senator John W. Heron, father of Mrs. Taft, who has been ill for some time. In the even ing, Arthur I. Vorys, who late today went to Mr. Taft's residence, was in consultation with him. General Felix Agnus of Baltimore. Maryland's member of the notification committee was one of the arrivals to day. Gen. Agnus is serving for the fifth time in this capacity, having participated in tin: notifications of the nominatons of President Garfield, Har rison and McKinley. S. O. Bigney of Boston, who takes the place on the committee of Senator Murray Crane, reached the city with William F. Harrington, the New Hampshire member. Frank H. Hitchcock, who is expect ed tomorrow, will make a report to the eandidate on conditions in 1 lie West as he found them during his recent visit to that region. Elmer Dovey, secretary of the national com mittee, will reach the city tomorrow. Importance.is attached to the meet ing tomorrow of tilt* iliio state cen tral committee to he alended by Mr. Taft, as tlie meeting is declared to in intended to generate common under standing. singleness of purpose and enthusiasm which, carried away by the various members, will reach all parts of tlie state. There seems little left for the local notification arrange ment committee to do as every part of the program seems to have been perfected. Athough the customary Sabbath cessation of business pre vailed in the down town streets to day. there was a decided activity iri carrying out the scheme of decoration BRYAN’S MANAGER. Norman E. Mack, Buffalo, N. Y., Made National Chairman. Chicago, July 26.—After a seven-hour conference with William J. Bryan ami John W. Kern, respectively Democratic nominees for President and Vice Presi dent. tin- sub-committee of the nalioual Democratic committee Saturday made a, selections of the officers of the committee as follows: Chairman—Norman E. Mack, Buffalo, N. V. Vice-Chairman—L. P. Hall, Nebraska. Treasurer—Governor C. M. Haskell, Ok lahoma. Sergeant-at-arms—John I. Martin, v'is Secrctary—Uicy Woodson. Kentucky. The eli ilee of Mr. Mack was made pos sible only after the New York leaders, Charles Ints and committees. There will ilsn he held on this day the annual neeting of the International Bureau. 1 In the evening another meeting will lie held at which David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer, will de livcr the principal speech, followed by iddresses by other cabinet ministers. I Edwin D. Mead of Boston will speak for the Amefican delegates. The meetings of the congress will continue morning and afternoon dur ing the week, with public meetings in Lbe evening. Tile chief feature of the evening meetings will lie a young peo ple's demonstration at which Mrs Mead will tell of tile peace education in America. There will also be a con ference of teachers on the afternoon of July 31. 1 he greatest demonstration, how ever. is reserved for the afternoon of Saturday. Aug. 1. This has been or ganized by the labor unions of Great Britain. The members of the unions will march to Trafalgar square and speeches will he delivered by promi nent labor leaders. The fundamental principles of the congress are: The rights of nations and the moral law applicable to nations resemble those which are recognized for individ uals. Every case of disagreement between nations ought to be decided by judicial means. The principles of international ar bitration should be incorporated in the constitution of every state. COMING TO MAINE. Secretary Loeb Is Getting His Guns and Fishing Tackle Ready. Oyster Bay, N. V., July 26.—President Roosevelt's secret at y, William I.oeli, Jr., is furbishing up his rifles and other fire arms and overhauling? his fishing tackle preparatc it to taking his summer vaca tion. Next. Friday he will go to some ramp -n the Maine woods where he will spend a short time. From there he will go lo the West. Pile Thursday afternoon destroyed the fine set of buildings of Hannibal Corbett at West New Vineyard with their eontents. The buildings were erected about five years ago. The loss is estimated at about $4000 on buildings ami $2000 on contents; insured. At the time of the fire Mrs. Corbett was In Farmington shopjiing and Mr. Corbett was at work in the hayfield. The only occupant of the house was Mrs. Cor bett's mother, a woman about 80 years of age. The fire started around the chimney. The buildings consisted of a dwelling house and two larger stables. LATEST SPORTING KEYS. NOW PASSED INTO HISTORY, (Continued from Page Four.) one official put out of tlie arena fa coaching the English competitors, j. was that man who had assisted iKitat! do. We tliould not have been cur Marathon men but we felt they were going to do great things. The Englishmen w ere not afraid en* of tbe Canadian who had been talked of so much, but they had heard o( Morrissey and his team mates and knew that there was little chance e( their own men winning with the Amer icans in the contest. “So far as I personally am concert ed this is the last international meet ing I shall recommend the American! to take part in until assured that ev ery country competing shall have some say in the management so that *e shall not hereafter be placed in tin false position that we have lure. “They asked us to tlie conference in the Marathon race when their officials we'-p the guilty parties, but they did not invite us to attend when one ol our men was accused of unfair run ning. There was everything in the Stadium to make this a great athletic meeting, but it was not carried out properly.” In conclusion Commissioner Sullivan said that America should be proud of its team, but in showering honors on ttie victorious, Americans must not forget the American who, although he never figured in the wins, trained and watched the competitors and without whose assistance the men couhl never have done what they did. Trainer Mike Murphy, when asked for an expression of opinion, said: “.lust tell them at home I am glad it is all over." Th“ American committee lias defil ed to present a medal to Porundo i* which w ill be inscribed the flags of the I’nited States and Italy ami a Mara thon figure. It will be suit tlimusli tlie American ambassador at Home. L. P. McGranri of Lancaster, Pa nn "of tlie exhibitors of the Internatinn Morse show. lias headed tlie lief 11 subscribers with LONDON PAPERS GIVE YANKEES FULL CREDIT London. July 27.—Some of the SunJW papers publish editorials on the 'inf