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AND LOWVILLE TIMES. •3»? H. A. PH1LUPS PUBLISHING COMPANY. LdWVILLE, N. Y., THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1909. VOLUME BO. No. 2». VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR Does Not Approve of the H&mm Automobile BUI. Governor Declares That Revenue Fea- ture of the BUI It of Secondary Con- sideration to Protection of life and limb. Albany June 1.—Governor Hughes has vetoed the Hamn automobile bill, the chief provisions of which were the abolition of specific speed limitations, and the annual registration of automo- biles at increased fees. The measure was advocated by the New York State Automobile association and it had been estimated that, if enacted into law, the registration and license fees im- posed would have yielded an annual revenue of $500,000 for the repair of improved highways. While he declared the revenue provisions of the bill im- portant in view of the large amounts the State id expending annually on im- proved highways, the Governor says the subject of paramount consideration at this time is protection to life and limb. He points out that whatever may be said as to the wisdom of a rule requiring simple care and prudence in the operation of automobiles so far as the open country is concerned, large cities Bhould not be deprived of the OUR NEW YORK LETTER. Items of Interest from Glorious ' Gotham. Memorial Day—Ruling for Rof Deadly Dope—Guard* as Guests— Opening an Oasis. New York, May 31.—With a whole week-end full of flags,flowers and civic ceremony, Gotham is to-day celebrating its heroes of the Civil war with more enthusiasm than Memorial day called forth here in years. Pageants, parades, excursions and thousands of neighbor- hood rallies in honor of the old war vet- erans have this year met with ready response and support from a generation that now walks the town with- rea memories only of the Spanish warfare. Heaped high over every acre of the great cemeteries of this metropolis, vast loads of spring flowers are being, laid by the grandchildren—even great grandchildren—of the men who fell for their countrymen who are passing \rap- idly away. Bravely closing up its few remaining flies, the great army that younger New York's fathers knew is standing for its annual review which each year draws nearer to passing away entirely. >\* s : \ .^IT* Through very loophole along\ the financial fortresses of Wail Street every right to make reasonable traffic regula-! eye is to-day focussed ceaselessly upon and tions to insure the safety ience of the public. Governor Hughes tells of having re- ceived a vigorous protest against the bill .from Mayor McClellan of New York city and says that whatever else may be said of the measure, \it should not become a law if it takes away from the authorities of New York city that reasonable traffic control without which conditions in the metropolis would be intolerable.\ The Governor's memorandum filed with the bill in part follows: \The study of this measure has con- vinced me that it would be unwise to enact it into law. It is true that it provides for an incerase of the State's revenues and in view of the amounts we are expending in improvements of our highways and of difficulties of maintenance under the bill are impor- tant. ^ \But the subject of paramount con- sideration at this time is protection to life and limb. We are passing through a period of adjustment when the natural hostility of many to new highway con- ditions is increased by abuse of priv- conven- the young man -who is stepping into the titanic shoes of his father, the mighty H. H. Rogers at the age of less than thirty^ The public here has knowt: young Rogers heretofore merely as c stripling whose energies have been ap- parently devoted solely to a college course and playing officer in the militia. From the grave of the suddenly stricken magnate, however, this boy has re- turned to the Standard Oil fastnesses down town as the accredited ruler of the money power which his father wielded with a force that often made things rattle in the Morgan stronghold across the street. While all the money world is holding its breath to await the issue, the grim Morgan has to-day forced his own son into an important director's seat which the senior Rogers left vacant but could* not will awy. The passing of the elder oil baron promises to make things exciting for some time in the arena of Wall Btreet. With, .an emergency fund of several thousand dollars, which one woman of this city has hastened to Bupply, the healta department officials have worked wonders this week in beginning to lay ilege and others are chafing under what they regard as vexatious restraints and unjust exactions. Nothing can be hold upon the sources of supply of the cocaine victims Whose recent increase in this city is seriously alarming the authorities. Unless the underground number of accidents will diminish that usage and common sense will largely do away with present \evils. During this transition period however there should be the utmost care in legis- lation so that matters should not be made worse instead of better. There are many good provisions in this bill and it has been strongly urged that it should have a trial. But it seems to me better to wait and to secure an im- proved bill than to enact a measure as defective as this one apears to be. \The present law provides specific — Bpeed limitations of ten miles an hour where the territory is closely built up, 15 miles an hour elsewhere in a city or village-and 20*miles an hour elsewhere outside of a city or village. In addition, the present law also provides for a rea- sonable rate of speed in all cases—that • is that no one shall operate a motor vehicle on a public highway at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic and use of the highway, or so as to endanger the life or.limb of any person, or the safety of any property.\ \The defects are grave enough to compel the disaproval of this bill. \But it may be added, with regard to the general application of the bill, that the abolition of specific speed-limi- tations and the substitution merely of the rule of due care should carry with it stringent penalties in case of negli- gent driving. \It would seem that the penalties for actually proved negligence should be heavier than those imposed for merely exceeding an arbitrarry speed limit. -- — \The penalties provided for in thiB bill, with respect to violations of speed requirraents, are less stringent than those of the present law. \A comparison shows the following results: ^ v \For a first offense: Under the pres- ent law, a fine not exceeding fl0O; / under the proposed law, a fine not to exceeding $50. \For the second offense: Under the present law. a fine not less than $60 nor more than $100, or imprisonment not exceeding 30 days, or both under the proposed law. a fine not exceeding $60, or imprisonment for not exceeding SO days, or both. ' \For a third or subsequent offense: Under the present law, a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $250, and im- prisonment not exceeding 30 days; under the proposed law, a fine of not exceeding $50 and imprisonment not. exceeding 30 days. \It is true tb.af the provisions of the proposed law for maintaining records and distributing information of prior convictions are very useful. But these advantages are more than :offset by the inadequacy of other provisions. \It is apparent that careful drivers of motor cars, .who have no desire to violate the law, are now held within what they believe to be unjust restric- tions and are frequently made the -vic- tims of an abuse of legal process. But the remedy for any existing injustice must carry with it appropriate safe- guards, and the more that is left to the judgement of the driver ,the more im- portant it is that recklessness should be heavily penalized. \The bill contains restrictions upon the use of cars without consent of their owners, a frequent source of acciden.. But such a restriction is also contained in a separate bill amending the Penal —Law, and will not be lost by the disap- proval of this bill. It would also seem advisable that better means should be provided, with respect to the issuing of licenses, for ensuring the competency of chauffeurs. One of the imperfec- tions of thia bill is that the useful pro- vision for the suspension of licenses does not apply to violation of the re- quirements as to safe speed, t \In view of these considerations, other objections to the bill need not be discussed. The bill is disapproved^ (Signed) \CHARLES E. HUGHES.\ —It is said that the deepest lock in the world is being dug near Little Falls. It will drop 42 feet from the proposed barge canal into the Mohawk river. experts predict, its illicit use will soon eat deep into the core of the life and stamina of this metropolis. Much of this noxious powder and- the raw ma- terial fronTwhich it may be extracted is now known to be quietly brought into port from abroad _and circulated with no chance of government supervision through the hidden channels of the un- derworld to every section of this coun- try. Medical men, welfare workers and sociological experts throughout this town are to-day joining the movement which has been begun here to urge Congress to-place—a- prohibitive—duty and internal revenue restrictions on co- caine for the real protection of every community and family in the land. With private detectives constantly gliding on gum-shoes at elbow, the widow of Charles T. Yerkes is settling down, in her Fifth\ avenue mansion to- day in a hopeless attempt to make the place seem more like a home than a police station. Now that decision has been deferred by the courts on the right of the receiver of the Yerkes es- tate to board and lodge a squad of sleuths in .the shadow of every piece of statuary throughout the palatial house, it is practically assured that these pre- cautions against the removal of any of its treasures will be kept up day and night. The strange plight of this mistress of the, house who must harbor alien detec- tives within her walls is exciting a great deal of interest' and some sym- pathy among New Yorkers. Everyone is anxious to know the final disposal of this rich treasure house of art objects, which the western magnate\ built up here apparently only to slowly be scattered and lost to the public. To supply the sight of one tiny plot of green grass to the crowds of lower Broadway, the heads of good old Grace church are to-day ready to celebrate the end of a century of their 'activities by devoting a priceless building 'site, which they have bought, to extending their front lawn at the familiar turn of the thoroughfare. Gardening upon this bit of Broadway will be expensive work; but no one who knows the town believe the memorial fund could be bet- ter spent than in preserving uatural greensward in the midst of city : struc- ture. .. Where stone shafts and steeples might make a more pretentious show to some minds, the people of this city believe the strange sight of a few square feet of nature will prove the more impressive spectacle here. .^__^____^____ Mead. Filipinos Married in New York. New York, June 1.'— What was said to be the first marriage of Filipinos in the United States took place in the city hall jn New York to-day, when Miss Tu Go Dan became the bride of a countryman named A. Lao. Alderman Smith performed the ceremony, which wtajurrounded. with all the ceremonial that the civil rite demands. Masonic Grand Masters Meet Piladelphia, June 1.—-Grand masters of Masonic \lodges from 27 states east of the Mississippi river are meeting in Philadelphia to-day to discuss ques- tions concerning the administrative policy of the order in the United States. One of the matters to be considered is dual membership. Such membership prevails in ^England and it has often been suggested that the same rule be put in force in the United States. It is pointed out by those in favor of dual membership that a Mason does not like to lose his connection with his home lodge/but would desire to become affil- iated with a lodge in the place where his interests cause him to live. About 750,000 Masons are represented at the meeting. • Trouble Makers Ousted. When a sufferer from stomach trouble Takes Dr. KingVNew LifeTills Tie's\ mighty-glad to see his Dyspepsia and indigestion fly, but more he's tickled over his new, fine* appetite, strong ner- ves, healthy vigor, all because stom- ach, liver and kidneys now work right. 25c at F. C. Snyder's. FROM NORTH CAROLINA. Entertaining Letter From E. E Wetmore, Formerly of Lewi* County. Labor, Farming and Politics in th< South — Believes President Make Error—«N©t a Country , for the Poor Man. Lamberton, N. C, June 1, 1909. Mr. Editor:—My letter to your paper has born unexpected fruit, and am compelled to again ask the use of you: columns to reply to the letters of in quiry concerning this locality, which I have received from Lewis county par ties. I will begin by saying that no amount of reading or telling will give any northern born person a true or ade quate idea of the South, or any part of it, or of its people, or their thoughts or viewpoint, therefore I will not try I will confine myself to stating a few facts. No northern man should corne to any part of the South to live with out first making a thorough tour of in vestigation of the locality where he thinks of settling, and also some other portions of the south, before definitely locating. Then I would not advise any one to invest one dollar in land until he had put in one Whole year here. Fur- thermore, if the northern man intends to follow farming he would better find where there waa a thriving colony of northern or western men, as at Chad bourn, and settle near them. For al the above there is a thousand reasons that can only be understood after long residence in the south. I would not be believed should I tell you the reasons. Again, no poor man should come south. This is not a \poor man's country,\ although it is, and always will be a country of poor men, or wil be,until new blood comes in to wake up the sleepers. By that I mean that it is not a good place for a poor man to get a start. Wages for men on farms run from 60 cents to 75 cents per day, the man to>4>oard himself, and they work in the field from \sun to sun.\ In mills the wages are from $1.00 to $1.25 and board yourself so you see there is not much chance to get a start. Then all living expenses are from 25 to 75 per cent, higher than in Michigan or Wis- consin and I suppose they range about the same as in New York ; consequent- ly the laboring man does not live here, he only exists. The houses usually oc- cupied by laborer*, or the average ren- ter of a one or two horse farm, are not as comfortable as hundreds of Lewis county pig pens. That is a strong statement, but it is true just the same. Every house has its fire-place the same as the New York house of 75 years ago. All houses, no matter of what class, set up several feet from the ground on* piers of wood or brjeks, with no wall of any kind. A cellar is unknown. There is one house in this town built two years ago, costing upwards of thirty thousand dollars that sett. up that way* -It. is onei of the articles of faith here that there must be a free -circulation of air under a house, tt> make it healthy. Incidentally, it makes a nice, cool place for theplgs and chick- ens on a hot day. Very few of the country houses are plastered at all, and none have the ceiling plastered, there are many costly houses in this town, and I do not know of one with a plastered ceiling. There is a tradition that, years ago, tome one had a plas- tered ceiling and the plaster fell one time and almost injured some one. It seems childish and is, but so are a sand othe? things that are iierious matters to then* people. * Do not think Wat tats is a country of paupers, for It is not. It le * land of accumulated wtfilth, hamicd down for generations, usually In land And there is little chance for ft poor man now to get hold of any of that land, because iis wages are so small that he can hardly live on them. A- man who has-money can make money fast here, just the same as any- where else, but it is no place for the poor man, especially one who has con- sidered himself a man and been accus- tomed to three square meals a day. A man with*-a farm of two hundred Acres of cleared land here can get from it a net income of from $1,800 to $2,500 per year and not turn his handover, for it will rent for from three to five bales of cotton per horse, and a \horse farm\ is from 20 to 25 acres. It is the man who owns the }arid who gets the coin -here. The laborer just works for nothing and boards himself. Around each large farm is a number of small houses with little sheds for stables, which are inhabited by the tenants working his little \patch according to the number of mjiles*he owns. The man who owns the land seldom has any interest in the farm animals or imple- ments. He just takes his rents in gin- ned cotton. • It is all right for him but hard on the renter and the farm. Farm methods are those that were outlawed n progressive regions fifty years ago. Now do not think that a poor man can hot get ahead here, for some have; but he did it, if a farmer, by sacrifices and style of living that mighty few northern born Americans would care to adopt On the other hand, a man who did net care for congenial neighbors, could with a small farm and northern methods,'make a mighty good thing, but not with cotton. By using fore- sight nearly every acre of a farm here can be made to yield two crops per ear, and prices are high. Truck farm- ng-pays well, but is somewhat of a gamble, for some years there is a fail- ure or prices are low and nothing made. But if one will stick to it he will win >ut big in the end. One man near town has made $500* off one acre of straw- berries this year. Soft, poorly headed cabbage now bring three cents per pound here. We could get ten cents per quart for all our potatoes if we would sell them. We have already dug part of them and have tomatoes plant- ed in their place. In our last paper was an article regarding a truck farm- er at Lumber Bridge, near here. He has 500 acres devoted to Irish potatoes, beans (snap) sweet corn, peas, canta- loupe, etc. Two years ago he cleaned up over $10,000. Last year he just about broke even, but improved his farm. This year if the markets fire good be expects to clear $15,000. Still his neighbors will plant cotton, because they can get some one else to do it for them. While there are opportunities here, the same as everywhere else; if I wanted to make a start on a farm I would go west or southwest instead of south; at present. While landTiere, unimproved, is comparatively low in price, it seems to me pretty high, tor none of it will produce any sort of a paying crop without the liberal use of commercial fertilizers. That ferti- lizer biz and the credit system is large- ly responsible for the existing condi tion here. The fertilizer is invariably sold on credit, the dealer taking a mor tgage on the crop to be grown with it A clause of that mortgage reads that a certain share of that crop must be cot ton. The same dealer also supplies th renter with all his supplies, for few o them make corn.,fodder or meat enough to carry them through. These things are supplied by the north and west,am come high. Again I say, come and see for yourself. If you like it we will b glad to have you locate. If you do no like it, you have at least seen th country. I have read Prof. Northern's history ettes with great interest, and am re minded of an incident connected with the first saw-mill erected in Lowville My father was bom at Little Falls in 1S20, and when 18 months old his fath er moved to the vicinity of Lowvil where my'father grew up, well ac quainted with many of the earliest set tlers, and with the men connected with the actual erection of that mill, al though possibly not the owners of it The mill was of the old fashioned \up and down\ saw/set in a \sash' or frame. Everything in the mill was of wood except the saw. The log was fed up to the saw by a handspike inthe hands of a man, who placed the end of the handspike in shoes prepared for it and Shoved the log to the saw. When the mill was finished two men went \over the hill\ to Rome to buy and bring back the saw. It must be car- ried on their shoulders, as there were no roads or no ani'roajs to carry it You can imagine their disappointment when they found there was not a mil saw in Rome. They tried UtSca and also Troy and Albany, and ho saw. They were men of grit, however, and as they had seen a bar of iron at one of those places they got it and toted, it through the woods to Lowville, where it was beaten out by hand, the teeth cut out with a cold chisel and dressed with a file and the first lumber sawed in a mill that went into Lowville houses was sawed with that iron saw. The first boards used there were BawedV with a \whip saw\ or \pit saw.\ In your remaks anent the appoint- ment of a federal judge for this dis- trict by President Taft, this state is cursed with bosses the same as New York is, and here there is a battle as to whom shall be \boss\ of the repub- licans. The fight is on between Butler and Adams, and is a fight to the death. Neither are really representative re- publicans any more than other bosses. There were a good number of A No. 1 republicans in the eastern district, cap- able of filling the judicial chair with ability, and passing over them and us- ing a democrat for the plate is a direct slap to the republicans, and will work the party an irreparable injury in the coming state judicial campaign. In re- gard to the democratic senators' recom- mendations, they would not haV<e named a saint from Heaven if they thought he had republican leanings. The southern democrat would not give a southern re- publican auv if he was in a jug. Po- litically, it is war, to the knife, and that to the hilt wi*fen* quarter asked or given.' . ' ' \- •• • '•' '•: ;; \ F. F. Wetmore. TO INVESTIGATE. Names 4f Lef U]*»K>M M(^}pg Up Cwn mitgeee on Direct Primaries, Public Service CoiamUsions and Employers' liability. Albany, June l.~Lieutenant ^Gover- nor White and Speaker Wadsworth of the Assembly have announced the ap- pointment of legislative committees to investigate the questions of direct nominations: the .proposed extension of the-jurisdiction of the Public Service ComrwMipns to include telephone and telegraph companies, the proposed re- vision of the New York City charter, and employers' liability and the'unem- ployed. • The committees follow: Direct nominations: Senators Meade, of Rochester; Davenport, of Clinton; VicCarren, of Brooklyn; Assemblyman Phillip*, of AHegmny; Conklin, of New York, Howard; of Tioga; Hoey,of New York; and Foley, of New York. Public Service Commissions—Sena- tors Davis, of Buffalo; Kiasell, of Brooklyn; Frawley, of New York; As- semblymen Merritt, of-St,-£awrenceT Yale,, of Putnam; Ward, of New York; Walters, of Onoodaga; Caughlan, of New York. New York Charter—Senators Brough, of New York; Gledhill,. of Brooklyn; Jrady, of New York; Assemblymen Hammond, of Onondaga j Murphy, of Kings; Robinson, of New York; Geo- ghegan,of King* Employers'LiabiUty—Senator* Wain- wright,of Rye; Platt, of Painted Post; 3ayne,of New Brighton j Assemblymen Jowe, of Jefferson; Voss, of Kings; Thorn, of Erie; C. W. Phillips, of Monroe, and Jackson, of Erie, ~•-.- The committee on direct nominations is authorized to visit other states in the course of its investigation, particularly those where the direct nominations sys- tem is now in operation. The resolution as originally introduced by Chairman Meade, provided for the appointment of a commmission of 11, three to be named by the Governor, but thefinance committee reported the resolution with the provision for the appointments by the Governor stricken out, Senator Davenport, the ranking member on the committee, was one of the strongest advocates of direct: nominations in the Legislature. All the other members of the committee voted against the Hin- man-Green direct nominations bill. Senator Davis, chairman of the com- mittee on public service commissions chairman of the Senate judiciary committee which considered the bills to extend the jurisdiction of the 'com- mission to telephone and telegraph compines and to increase the powers of the commissions. —The Watertown Standard says: Indications are that within the next few weeks the freight rate on coal over the entire old R.,W. & O. division will be revised and that Watertown will have a cheaper rate by 15 cento per ton. At present the rate is 12.66 and it is understood, although not definitely that when the revision Is made thattha rate will be $2.50 from the mines.\ -Recent investigations in New York' show tha$ all meats and fruits pit in tin cans absorb more or less of the tin, and ptomaine poisoning is among the possibilities in old stock. Meat ex- tract essences and soups take up the most tin. It was found that six-year, old stock contained two grains of tin and that it is claimed would produce irritation of the intestinal tract It is now proposed to amend the pure food laws and compel cannere to stamp the date of putting up products on the cans. FARMERS ON Mill SUPPLY WUl Raise Prices to Control City's Milk Supply. John Gerow Said to be Father of the Plan—Owner* of 25 K 000 Cows in Or- ganisation JMay Curtail Shipments to Metropolis. New York, June 1.—Farmers of New York State are perfecting an organiza- tion to control the milk industry and to demand an increased price for their product from the distributers in this city. If reports which have recently reached dealers in New York are to be credited, the dairymen who are inter- ested in the movement will demand that a higher scale of prices be fixed by the Milk Exchange and insist that unless this is done one-third of the city's milk supply will be withheld. John Gerow, a wealthy dairymen of Washingtonville, Monroe coutny,Is said to be the leader of the movement. Through the activity of Mr. Gerow, the Dairymen's League has been formed. He has outlined the policy of - the or- ganization, which, .it is said, has a membership composed of the owners of 25,000 COWB. It is said to be the plan of the officers of the Dairymen's League to double this membership, which Mr. Gerow believes will enable the organiz- ation to control the situation so far as New York city is concerned. _ Those who have talked with Mr. Gerow, who is president of the league, say he contends that the dairymen have not been treated fairly by the dis- tributers. Members of the Milk Ex- change, he is represented as saying write contracts with dairymen on a sliding scale basis, which meanB a re- duction in the prices of milk during the summer months. In addition to this, STORY OF HOWE'S CAVE One of Nature's Greatett Curi- osities in Schohaiie County. Henry C. Northam Ralat** Interesting Visit to the Cave in 1872—IU Wonders of Nature Mr. Editor:—In the New York State Gazette published by Dr. J. H. French in l£60,1 find the following statement: \Howe's cave was discovered in May 1842, by Lester Howe, the owner. Its entrance is about fifty feet above Cobleskill. After passing several, spa- cious rooms, one of which is named, the •chapel,' the visitor comes to a crawl- ing place 200 feet long, beyond which is a limped sheet of water 80 fe«t long, 20 wide, and 10 feet deep. Beyond this the cavern extends a great distance, much of the way along a brook, and the total .length is several miles. Many highly interesting stalatical con- cretions, some of great size, have been found in this locality.\ In the autumn of 1872 the writer was r conducting a teach- ers' institute in the village of Cobleskill, Schoharie county. The members of the institute were invited by Mr. Howe to visit this cave in the eastern part of Schoharie county,a few miles east of CobleskiH, and 38 miles from Albany on the railroad towards Binghamtoh. Thirty persons from .the institute, ladies and gentlemen, went on Saturday afternoon to the place des- ignated, found Mr. Howe there in his office, which was built over the mouth of the cave, and were furnished with clothing suitable for a tramp over the clay that covered some portions of the rock bottom, and at times on smooth rock and at other times over very rough places. Haying heard that there were a century after. Later this cave was purchased by a New York company, which made great improvements, built Jarge hotel and has done much to make'i it easier for the visitor. Ten years ago I was in New York and came across ••£ bookstand, where this cave 'was a#^r*; tised. They also had a large number of views of rooms which I immediately recognized after so many years There- are a great many branches leading & the right and left that had not b««n ex- ptored, and it was thought that they might be larger and more btif hh d g g a oe eautifw thamthe one described. A stream of ^ water flows nearly all the way into , Stygian lake, and from the lake to: -^ near the opening into the cave, a&4/f% then is lost in these -side opening!. In closing this letUr it is ne^adlew t . the- Journey was-one taxing th* strength of the visitors to the utmost* but it was one that can never be for- gotten as long as the visitors minds are clear ana active. ' Henry C. Northam. / Lowville, June 2, 1909. / STATE G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT, •'\''-.•k'*-* 1 it is aaid, the ordinances enforced by [many rooms \that had already been the Department of Health requiring^ named by the Proprietor, dairymen to produce milk under certain sanitary restrictions has increased the cost of production by one-half a cent a quart. Farmers who are affiliated with the Dairymen's League insist that it is un- just that the&fehould receive as little as two and a half cents a quart for milk which is sold in New>York for eight and ten cents a quart They will demand three and four cents a quart, according to its quality,and five and six per cent butter fat is required. Such a scale of prices must prevail, they Jnaintian, if the farmers are to make a living profit. While the primary object of the league is said to be to demand' Just treatment from the milk distributor the farmers will also take an active in- terest in all legislation which imposes additional restrictions on them. As outlined in its prospectus the league is founded on the \belief that farmers have the same right and the Same incen- tive to unite for mutual protection and improvement as is generally taken advantage of by labor and capital.\ When the league reaches the point where its members control 60,000 cows Mft Gerow^fitis sa^Jteffeie»^«hat the organization will have a monopoly of the industry. According to those in- terested in the plan, one cow will pro- duce ten quarts of milk each day. On this basis 50,000 cows will produce 600,- 000 quarts of milk, which, the dairymen say is about one-Uiirdof the~totat daily- -Here-were-seen a fow stalatelevarymgr importation into New York city. * ~ *~ * u — *—•— *- *-—\- POOR CANNOT AFFORD MEAT. • • * » Federal District Attorney in New York Investigating Combine of Packers- Porterhouse Steak 28 Cents Per Pound—Ice Going Up, Too, in Near Future. New\ ; YorkTiuneTT—Federal\ IQisfcrict Attorney. Henry A. Wise to-day detailed one of his, deputies to investigate the charge that there exist* a combine among the wholesale meat dealers do- ing buBinesa__ in thtft rjty-^y^d; th«>y in- dude all of the big packers—whereby the price of meat is being forced up. Retail merchants have sent Him word that the price has been advanced with- out warrant; that the advance on the hoof in Omaha has been more; than. treble&Jn- this city, and that there ia .no proof that even that advance was to-any-scarcity of cattle.-- ~ — The' retailers declare that the ad- ance by the wholesalers came to them without warning, that they have only met the advance they are compelled to pay,.and that they i responsible for the Burners have to pay, uld not be held high, prices con- however, may be so, but the fact remains that following the advance in the price of meat, fish and kindred products went up. Even the smoked goods, which usually remain at a fixed price, have risen in value. The condition is really eerioua and the choice cute,, even those of a coarser grade are now beyond the pocketbook f the workers. As aninatance, por- terhouse steak is quoted at 28 cents a pound, sirloin at 22, soup and stew meats at 12 cents, mutton at 22, lamb at 28, and chickens from 80 to 40 cents a pound. It is also intimated that the price of ice is to be advanced still fur- as soon- as eta in, - the real-hot- weather Governor's Reasons for Vetoes. Albany, June l.—In memoranda given out to-day at the executive chamber, he Governor's reasons are given for or disapproving 218' of the thirty -day bills. Of the number 156 were disapproved because. th«y are unneces- sary or defectively draw BO unconstitu- tional, or are for purpose which can be suitably accomplished under general ltvfeld be provided for, if at all, by amendments to the general law, or are objectionable and inadvis- able by reason of proposed changer\ Thirty-three measures were not ap- proved because they were special city bills and were not accepted by the city authorities. Eighteen were duplicates of or In conflict with other bills. Eleven amendments to the forest, fish and game law were disapproved It is deemed inadvisable to the practice of making constant changes by special bills in the game u»w. This law was carefully revised only last year and a supplementary act . making changes which, it was understood, would_put the law upon a stable basis.\ • -rThe New York Engine Company of : Watertown, a successor to the- Water- cently perfected an Otto gas engine, which\lt is claimed will prove a;great economizer in the use of coal and also much safer and more convenient. If successful the enterprise will prove of great value as Vatertown. a business industry of persons went preptred to take notes as explained by the guide, Mr. Howe- The rooms, as they are called, are sep. arated from each other by rock with openings irrgular.some three feet wide, some eight or ten feet, so when we pass from one room to another, we go through these openings. The guide had something to say about each room, sometimes entertaining,sometimes very instructive! We go down two or three flights of stairs in the cave house and find our- selves in the cave proper, a room sev- eral rods in length, tenor twelve feet high, and about the same average in width. There are irregular openings on either side, but we pass over the main traveled route. Along this route here we, first discover stalagmites, a stalagmite, is like a little haystack formed by wattsr dripping from above and hardening into stone; these are seen all through the cave.) The lec- ture being ended, we pass through an opening into Washington hall, a spa- cious room, its heih d idh ing from eight\ ton hall like al ther Annual Gathering of the Veteran* *O be Hekl at Biaghamton. The 43d annual encampment of Department of New York.Graod of the Republic, will convene State Armory, Binghamton, Tu Wednesday and Thursday, June and 17. The citizens of Bing are preparing to entertain ^^i all who attend the encampment, partment Commander Daniels comrades to make an especial be present, and bring their and friends with them, for the encampment follows': Tuesday, June 5—At 8 p. m. at State Armory .the encampmentand its auxiliaries will be welcomed by the \ authorities of the city of Bingha^i The Grand Army of the Republic/ Woman's Relief Corps, Ladies©*: Grand Army, Daughters of Vt „,..... and Sons of Veterans will then extend r ^ greetings to each other. Music. iraM appropriate exercises will be providedC - Wednesday, June lft-At 9:3a ^tt$* the encampment will be called to ord«c/ for its first businesi; session .-gjjf-**^'**' State Armory. At 7 p. m. recej the auxilaries in the parlor of 1 Bennett At 8:30 p.m. camp ftra the State Armory. Speeches by rades and others. Music, ment commander, accompanied bj^ hi*:, staff in uniform, will hold a reception ^ at the conclusion of the camp '4£&i ^^>i£ Thursday, JunelT—At 9:8a a;/ encampment will \be called to order, business session. -), ' : ;'?-ti MiuauippiY Silver Serviced Biloxi, Miss;, June l.-^Witti banquet and several-receptionB, ercises attendant bjt the ' of the silver service to Mississippi were broguht fM right, ^^^^p^f;<tfitjsjtt tind ourselves on another, strata of and here we have the Bridal chamber, very much like a -double'parlor. Here the guide said several nuptial knots had been tied, including his two daughters* from one to three inches in length. There was something attractive about thiB room and the incidents related made it doublyjso. . ... - In Washington hall some of the walls were vertical and the contmual drip- ping of water had made figures which Btrongly resembled human beings, and it was very easy to see different figures standing out >as the guide^ieicritied some of the projections. Passing on ^gal-roojriSr we- reach-Sty- giaa lake, a-body. of water about one- fourth of a mile Jn^ length. ;T^iis« lakp fills the entire chasm twenty and'thirty, feet in width, with vertical^wall'how^ ig different figures as.••the scribed^ them;rH^^ and; pass over the^ t^^ large torches lighted the way; water under us and many little stalactites over our heads made' a 'pfcture for us that can never^^be v; for^t^vMStudy this room,with its w.ater fljqior^and^you can see in imagination the beautiful picture as we saw it ^h^it tVi^b of of the gg lake; Oner was named t Lake;\ the other vChiurch At he hd ; h Curh ;Organi A th head of the lake we find a huge stalagmite called \Plymouth Rock\ stalagmite called whfch we ascend i h we find hu Plymouth Rock, means of a ladder h road passing on through other rooms, reach- ing \Uncle Tom* Cabin^'- TbiB is one of the very important rooms of the cave. The guide tells hie story of the death of Uncle-Tom and asks his audi- ence to look at the figured wall and im ? agjne each figure • as he describes it to be real; He describesthe hearse, ex- plaining all the ornamentations, itbje cortege and driyereandfme hors^, and all that makes up a lai^e fupefal pror cession.. The guide held: his audience for five minutes with breathless atten- tion, and when his description of the scene was ended every one' present seemed to feel arid act ail though the scene was real. Passing through sev- eral rooms which we will not name, we finally reach -.the Rocky Mountains, which, afford the most. wonderful seen- Uocal ery found, in the. whole subterranean world. NBere we find pjles of gigantic rock thrown together Iif the most prb- miscous manner, which makes the route for a short' distance very difficult to travel. -Passing through two or three other rooms we finally reach -the \Winding.Way a fonar. narrow roiite two to four feet wide different from any thing previously seen, exhauttlesa in its variety and grandeur, where nature seems to have done its best work. Separate the skull bones of an animal where it is Joined by sutures and you get an idea of the ground view of its windings. Its walls are covered with stalactitic formations of a light color. Near the end of this winding way is a room known as a sitting room, where a rest is taken, so we can chat about the. wonders of the past journey^ At this point the lights, are extinguished, and oh, the long suspense of one minute in darkness, miles under ground.' This is the place where the back track is usually taken. At the end of thiB find- ing way,* low down onuthe right is a hole about the size of a barrel, which enlarges after a few feet and leads to the. rotunda. About a half dozen of the parly creep through this hole to view the last room in the cave. It is ^^^ son of aay consfrg»enc« drcular-atitB baae.the heightrofwhlch town Steam Engine C^mjpany, Jiaa_jrfeJ had never keen ascertained. This .com- pletes the trip, which the guide Bays is fi B it more or less, it was a long journey, one that can never be forgotten, but the more imagination given to it in after years the brighter funeral procession appears one-third of y, as a soldier ^p^d as well as his;•record as ^^ti^lI?^ ^ti^lIum him to recognition by ; liie \However continued the' \no doubt we should have 1 ture placed on the service i but the memory of Jeff erson president of the confederacy _ '^^^^^M^^ ^^^mW have purchased- of * Jot which joins d* t^iitfCi ^iCa broke ground for^ MU storage biW 4i Wii tion of.\.pU g dimensions of the4>ui W .will be TO solid concrete for 1$ balance will b^ of concrete jd'^tbi^ ^^^ reBP^r7:rt, The Haberle company wili'.,. _ ^ plant for the storage of their beer\ otherbottled p^ucttnfoi^ev/^ at lfast Laterthejr may -lake^In side:businw \'•''•'•V^M^F^W The contract for the re building has been awarded ^k^d^ |^§ thage wil] be tb« prinei v % afli &yl 2 ian, died last Th t^ i* 8aid> ^rt to .enter;th/^ boarded. Five thr with him at the time^ vStorte^aiB|^ companions demanded admittance % the house. This wais refused '^Sd-^- m the young men attempts to ente 1 house, Cientry came to the?dj warned the intruders- away. ^TSy fused to go, when, it is alleged,; Italian fired several shots, <one x>£ entered Stone's body. He was to the home of his mother where died. Storie was about 20 years old a was employed as a~tailor iaone^pf f local shops. . ' ••'• \-V ••;'-'; : , Cientry, his alleged slayer, is -now the county jail, where he was ld pending the results of Storje r & Morphine Did ft. ' , *• Yean ago Charles Doddridge. Watertown, was a prosperous f a man of means and substance, medicine man dosed him for rhe\-***-* and by hia :treattaent pratically his legs. Morphine was then in into the legs to ease the pairu It the pain all right and at the same gave Doddridge an - appetite;.^for•;' phine. Last week he was taken to it appears, and grander Uncle Tom's poor house an infirm imbedie;t&tter|ag^ old man, the result of the drug i
