1913. 
THE RtIRAt NEW-YORKER 
7.4© 
THEY ARE MINORITY SENATORS. 
On page 6o9 we printed the names of 
22 New York State Senators who voted 
against the direct primary bill introduced 
by Governor Sulzer. One of our readers 
tries to make the point that these men, 
having been elected by a majority of votes 
in their district, are carrying out the 
wishes of the people who sent them to 
Albany. In order to show the real con¬ 
dition of their backing, we print their 
names again, with the vote each man 
received, and the total vote of the dis¬ 
trict at this same election, with the per 
cent, of such vote 
actually 
cast for 
these 
candidates: 
Personal 
Per cent 
Total Total 
Senator. 
Vote. 
A’oto. 
Vote. 
Geo. A. Blauvelt. . . 
. 12,054 
23,082 
5695 
John F. Healy. 
. 20,023 
51,085 
4195 
John 1>. Stivers... 
. 14,450 
31,542 
40% 
11 v. M. Sage. 
. 20,007 
44,385 
45% 
Loren 11. White. . . 
. 14,393 
38,060 
38% 
Seth G. Heaeock... 
. 11,403 
31,125 
37% 
James A. Emerson. 
. 9,775 
22,155 
44% 
Herbert P. Coats.. 
. 11,609 
26,023 
45% 
Elon It. Brown... 
. 12,158 
31,879 
35% 
Wm. Beckham. 
. 12,007 
33,861 
30% 
Ralph W. Thomas. 
. 13,50.3 
31,023 
44% 
J. By. Walters... 
. 15,452 
47,140 
33% 
Chas. .T. Hewett. . 
. 12,031 
27,435 
47% 
John F. Murtaugh. 
. 14,144 
30,700 
40% 
Thos. B. Wilson . . . 
. 12,07.3 
27.492 
44% 
Thos. 14. Bussey... 
. 9,880 
25,854 
38% 
Geo. F. Argetsinger 
. 10,002 
28,994 
35% 
Wm. L. Orinrod... 
. 10,759 
30,354 
35% 
Geo. F. Thompson. 
. 10,557 
27,103 
39% 
John F. Malone. . . 
. 11.711 
32,849 
36% 
Sand. .T. Hamsperger 12,275 
26,145 
47% 
Frank N. Godfrey.. 
. 13,392 
37,163 
35% 
In vieAV of these 
figures, 
Avbat childish 
nonsense it is for these men to say that 
they, in their vote against direct prim¬ 
aries, represent the real sentiment of the 
people of their districts. With one ex¬ 
ception these men failed to receive any¬ 
thing like a majority of the total votes 
cast. Senator Geo. A. Blauvelt received 
56% of the total vote of his district. 
In his home county of Rockland, he re¬ 
ceived 4,13S votes, out of a total of 
8,547, or a clear minority. Every other 
man here mentioned had a majority of 
the total vote against him. They merely 
squeezed through because of a division 
among the opposition, and not one of 
them can say that by voting against di¬ 
rect primaries he represents the people 
of his district. To say that would be 
child’s play, for every man who voted on 
any ticket by his vote endorsed a party 
“pledge” for direct primaries. Take the 
case of Senator Loren H. White, of 
Delauson. lie polled only 38 per cent, 
of the total vote in his district, or Sen¬ 
ator J. II. Walters, of Syracuse, with 
less than one-third of the total vote. 
For such men to say that they have the 
right to stand up stiff-necked against the 
will of their districts is the most foolish 
sort of a political bluff which must be 
called by “the voice of the people.” 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Albert W. Freeman, 
convicted of using the mail to sell worth¬ 
less mining stock was released May 21 at 
Now York in .$150,000 bail, furnished by 
sixteen friends, pending his appeal for 
a new trial. The bail bond, which is 
said to be the largest ever given in this 
Federal court district, was accepted by 
.fudge Laeombe with the stipulation that 
Freeman must report daily to Marshal 
Henkel. 
Federal investigation of the strike in 
the I’aint Creek region in West Virginia 
was assured May 21 when the Senate 
Education and Labor Committee agreed 
to report with amendments Senator 
Kern's resolution authorizing a “thor¬ 
ough and complete” inquiry, which was 
finally agreed to May 27. Under the 
resolution, the committee will be author¬ 
ized to conduct hearings as a whole or 
by sub-committee either" in Washington 
or in West Virginia and to subpoena wit¬ 
nesses. It will investigate alleged peon¬ 
age, interference with the mail and vio¬ 
lation of the immigration laws, of the 
laws for the trial of accused persons, and 
of the Sherman act by the coal operators. 
At the trial at Boston of William M. 
Mood, president of the American Woolen 
Company; Frederick E. Atteaux and 
Dennis J. Collins for a dynamite con¬ 
spiracy, testimony was given May 21 by 
John J.^ Breen, convicted and confessed 
planter” of dynamite. Testimony pre¬ 
viously introduced was that eight per¬ 
sons who had been arrested when dyna¬ 
mite was found in buildings occupied 
oy them at Lawrence had later brought 
(lamage suits against Breen, who had 
planted’ the explosives. Breen testified 
V e had.gone to Atteaux to get $13,- 
„ after his own counsel had told him 
ait the suits could be settled for $12,000. 
Jtie denied that he knew the damage suits 
, ou . he settled at a lower figure when 
J "[i!.® trying to induce Atteaux to pay 
m $13,00. Of the five persons who have 
gured prominently in the alleged con¬ 
spiracy only two are really on trial. 
,!'n ' vas convicted last May; Pitman 
. 118 own life, and Collins turned 
• a ■■ s evidence, although in his tes¬ 
timony he implicated neither Wood nor 
Atteaux, his story of his part in the 
affair relating wholly to his associations 
with Breen. Breen told in detail of his 
acquaintance with Atteaux, and said that 
at the witness’s suggestion that the 
strikers be fought with their own weap¬ 
ons Atteaux had engaged him to “plant” 
the dynamite, paying him $700 in two 
instalments. Ernest W. Pitman supplied 
the dynamite that was “planted” in 
Lawrence during the textile strike, ac¬ 
cording to evidence introduced by the 
State May 23. Pitman committed suicide 
on the morniug he was to have appeared 
as a witness before the grand jury in¬ 
vestigating the alleged conspiracy to dis¬ 
credit the strikers. He was a building 
contractor, living in Andover, and built 
the Wood mill at Lawrence, owned by 
the American Woolen Company, of which 
William M. Wood is president. 
Captain George S. Anthony, who, as 
commander of the bark Catalpa, rescued 6 
Fenian prisoners from a British penal 
colony in Australia in 1876, died at New 
Bedford, Mass., May 22, at the age of 
seventy years. The Catalpa sailed os¬ 
tensibly for a whaling voyage, and after 
cruising about for several months made 
a dash for the Australian coast, took the 
prisoners on board and carried them to 
New York. 
While 10,000 persons were massed on 
a double-deck pier in front or the City 
Auditorium at Long Beach, Cal., May 
24, celebrating “British Empire Day,” a 
section of the upper floor gave way 
and 400 were plunged to the beach, 40 
feet below. Thirty-three persous— 
mostly women—were killed by the shiv¬ 
ered timbers or' crushed to death by the 
falling bodies of companions and friends. 
Fifty more were seriously injured, three 
dying later, while hysteria and fright 
caused the disabling of scores of others. 
The total number of injured may reach 
200 . 
Richard Curtis Smith, oiler, and H. 
F. Bock, chief machinist's mate, are 
dead, and Alma Milter, oiler, who risked 
his life in an attempt to save Bock, died 
later, as the result of an explosion May 
23 on the United States torpedo boat 
destroyer Stewart. The accident occurred 
twenty-eight miles off San Diego, Cal., 
during a speed test, when a steampipe 
in the engine room blew out. The en¬ 
gines were turning 200 revolutions a 
minute and the destroyer was rushing 
through the water at the rate of 25% 
knots an hour. 
Judge Hand, in the United States Dis¬ 
trict Court at New York May 27, in¬ 
structed Henry A. Guiler, an assistant 
District Attorney, to go before a com¬ 
missioner with George W. Naylor, p. 
bookkeeper, formerly in the employ of 
Willard I*. Brown & Sons, dealers in 
eggs, and prefer a charge of perjury 
against him. Naylor was subpoeuaed to 
bring to court the books of the firm 
when the federal grand jury was inves¬ 
tigating charges that certain egg dealers 
had bribed railroad freight inspectors to 
pass exorbitant claims for eggs damaged 
while in the care of the railroads. Mr. 
Guiler, upon examining the books, found 
certain erasures. Naylor said the eras¬ 
ures had been ordered by his employers. 
Brown was brought before Judge Hand 
charged with contempt of court, but 
Naylor then changed his testimony and 
said he had made the erasures of his 
own volition. Under cross-examination, 
however, he told a third story, saying 
the orders for erasures had come from 
W. II. Sanford, head of the office force 
of Willard I*. Brown & Sons. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The war for 
supremacy in the meat trade now in¬ 
volves rival packers of Chicago, Kansas 
City and Omaha, packers of Australia 
and Argentina, and large ranch owners 
west of the Rockies. Three distinct 
campaigns have been inaugurated. First, 
the Chicago packers invaded the London 
market and undersold the Australian 
and Argentine packers in an attempt to 
get the trade. Second. Australian and 
Argentine packers retaliated by sending 
a big cargo of beef to California, where 
it is being sold for 15 and 20 cents a 
pound less than the American meats. 
Third, stockmen and business men plan 
to establish a $5,000,000 union stock 
yards in Los Angeles, to do away with 
the buying of meats from the packers of 
this city, Omaha and Kansas City. It 
is planned by the Westerners to compete 
with the Eastern packers in their own 
territory. One hundred and ninety-two 
thousand pounds of meat—veal, beef and 
mutton—arrived at San Francisco May 
22 on the steamer Sonoma from Australia. 
This is the third shipment of meat re¬ 
ceived from the Antipodes in the cam¬ 
paign to combat high prices asked by 
local wholesalers. The meat is con¬ 
signed direct to retailers. 
The Antrim, N. II.. Board of Trade 
has offered to duplicate any premiums 
that the Antrim fruit growers will win 
at the New England Fruit Show to be 
held in Boston, November 12 to 16. 
The recent discovery of the Brown- 
tail moth in southern part of Windham 
County, Vermont, has caused the Gov¬ 
ernment agricultural agent for that coun¬ 
ty to take some active measure for their 
extermination. Three colonies were 
found. 
OBITUARY.—Gilbert L. Grant, editor 
and manager of the Florists’ Review of 
Chicago, died at Soquel, Cal., May 18. 
Mr. .Grant was born in Jersey fity, N. 
J., in 1859, his family moving in his 
early youth to Cleveland. O. He became 
a telegraph operator, and traveled ex¬ 
tensively at an age when many boys 
are still at school; from this his love 
of horticulture led him into the florist 
business in Chicago, where he became 
familiar^ with many lines of the trade. 
In 1885 he became secretary of the 
American Florist Co. and editor and 
manager of The American Florist, which 
publication was started simultaneously 
with the formation of the Society of 
American Florists as the official organ of 
•that society. Mr. Grant continued in 
that capacity for 12 years, when he re¬ 
linquished the position and started The 
Florists’ Review in 1897, which publica¬ 
tion has been very successfully conducted 
ever since its inception. In 1892 he and 
Wm. Falconer founded the publication 
Gardening, for the non-commercial gar¬ 
dener and florist, of which he continued 
as business manager until 1897. In 
1886 Mr. Grant organized the Chicago 
Florists’ Club, in which he held office 
several times. He was one of the 
founders of the Chicago Horticultural 
Society. Mr. Grant was a leading mem¬ 
ber of the Chicago Publishers’ Association 
and was president thereof in 1895. He 
was widely known by all publishers and 
was also a member of the Chicago Trade 
Press Association. Mr. Grant had, for 
about eight years past, taken up his resi¬ 
dence in Soquel. Cal., on account of 
his health; his last visit East was in 
August, 1912, when he came to Chicago 
as Progressive delegate from California. 
He is survived by a widow and five chil¬ 
dren. 
Jean Rodolphe Trumpy, who achieved 
international fame as a horticulturist and 
arboriculturist, died in the Flushing Hos¬ 
pital, Flushing, N. Y., May 22, aged S3 
years. Mr. Trumpy was born in Glaius, 
Switzerland, where he was taught the 
nursery business. Later he was employed 
by Lowe & Co., one of the largest nursery 
and greenhouse establishments in Eng¬ 
land, where he remained until 1856, when 
he caiue to America and took charge of 
the Robert R. Parsons nurseries, in 
Flushing. At the direction of Mr. Par¬ 
sons he made frequent visits to Europe 
in search of trees and plants, which were 
brought to America, lie assisted in Uie 
introduction of the Hydrangeas, rare 
evergreens and the beautiful Japanese 
maple, which has now spread through¬ 
-out the United States. He leaves a wife 
and two daughters. 
Samuel D. Willard, widely known in 
the State as a nurseryman and rruit 
grower, died at Geneva, N. Y., May 26, 
at the age of 78 years. Mr. Willard 
served eight years as postmaster, and 
was a member of the State Fair Com¬ 
mission for many years. He was promi¬ 
nent in many horticultural organizations, 
and a valued occasional contributor to 
The R. N.-Y. Mr. Willard was a mem¬ 
ber of one of the pioneer families of the 
lake country. He was born August 24, 
1835, on the farm of his father, Lorrlng 
Willard, on the shores of Cayuga Lake 
near the village of Cayuga. His father 
died when he was 10 years old and the 
late William H. Seward, of Auburn, who 
was then a rising attorney, was executor 
of Lorring Willard’s will. As a result 
the son, Samuel, came in close contact 
Avith the famous statesman of President 
Lincoln’s Cabinet. After entering com¬ 
mercial life Mr. Willard left it for the 
nursery business. Mr. Willard was 
active in the development of the State 
Fair, his connection with which dates 
back to 1890 when it was still under the 
control of the State Agricultural Society. 
He continued to serve on the board which 
manged the fair until the law creating 
the State Fair Commission was enacted 
in 1900. He was then appointed one of 
the original State Fair commissioners 
and continued to serve until 1908. At 
each fair during these years, Mr. Willard 
had charge of the department devoted to 
fruit, flowers and vegetables. A similar 
line of work was Mr. Willard’s connection 
with the Pan-American Exposition at 
Buffalo in 1901 when he had charge of 
the fruit exhibit. He leaA'es no immediate 
relatives. 
CROPS 
rue prices l give will be extremelj 
local, and yet they are about the average 
of Southwest Missouri: 
Price for 1911 1912 191c 
Eggs, average.$0.17 $0.15 
Butter fat, average 
Butter, average .. 
Old hens average.. 
Young chicks.14 
Turkeys, top .... 
.24 
*>"7 1/ 
cur., 
.28 
.15 
.18 
cur., 
.21 
.09 
.09% 
cur., 
.10 
.14 
.15 
.17 
.10 
There has been a shortage of corn in 
this section for two years. Prices ranged 
from 60 cents bushel in Fall of 1911 to 
$1 in Spring of 1912, and from 50 cents 
in 1912 to 80 cents in 1913. Hay has 
been scarce also for two years; price 
ranged from $8 per ton in 1911 to $15 
in 1912, and from $11 in 1912 to $16 
in 1913. Heavy crop of apples in 1912 ; 
price ranged from 40 cents per 100 at 
picking time for best grades such as 
York Imperial. Winesap, etc., to SO cents 
later. Potatoes were very light crop last 
year; price from 75 to $1 per bushel. 
Wheat little raised, about $1 per 100. 
Oats practically none raised ; price 50 to 
60 cents per 100. There is very little 
stock fattened for market here; a few 
hogs, very few cattle. Cattle are sold 
off the grass mostly between July 1 and 
November 1. Grass fat steers, tops, 1911, 
3% to 4; 1912, 4 to 5; heifers, 1911. 
3% to 3% ; 1912. 3% to 414 I stock 
cows. 1911. 2 to 314 : 1912. 214 to 4 as 
to grade; fat hogs, 1911, 5 to 7 V> ; 1912, 
7 to 8; Stockers, 1911, 4 to 6; 1912, 5 
to 7. Horses from 1,000 to 1,400 pounds. 
4 to 10 years, $100 to $150. Brood 
mares, same weight and age. $125 to 
$200. Mules, 14 to 16 1 4 hands, four to 
eight years old, $125 to $200 as to weight. 
Milch cows, common, $35 to $40; 
good, $45 to $50; choice, $55 to $65; 
calves, weaned, from $8 to $12.50. 
Southern Missouri. av. w. av. 
May 20. Cows bring $40 to $80; 
butter fat, 29; creamery butter, 32. 
Potatoes are being feed to stock here. 
No sale for onions and cabbage. Veal, 
dressed, 9 to 1014 cents. There are no 
home-grown apples left now. It looks 
like a big apple crop this Fall, and if 
there is avc will have no sale for them. 
Dawson, Minn. c. E. c. 
Our lambs and sheep are usually put on 
the market in August and September, 
and the farmers got last year at nearest 
scales 5% cents per pound for lambs, 
and from 3 to 314 for old sheep. Cattle 
sold at from 4 to 514 1 dressed pork 
from 10 to 11 cents last Fall and Win¬ 
ter, whole hog. Yearlings and tAVO-year- 
old cattle are selling now at from $18 to 
$30 per head; milch cows from $35 to 
$60 per head. Apples sold during the 
Winter at 40 to 50 cents per bushel. 
Eggs now 15 cents per dozen ; butter. 20; 
old hens, 30 to 35 cents each ; potatoes, 
60 cents per bushel. By hauling potatoes 
to the mining towns, 15 to 20 miles, 
they get 80 cents per bushel. Apples 75 
to 80 cents per bushel. Young chickens 
30 to 40 cents each at coal works in 
June and July. Many of the producers 
sell their produce direct to the consumer 
and get good prices for it, but it takes 
time and trouble to dispose of products 
in that way. a. j. d. 
Albion, W. Va. 
May 19. Farm products here are as 
follows: Cows, $40 to $75; horses, $100 
to $250; jnules, $100 to $300 each; fat 
heifers, $7.50 per hundred; hogs Ave sell 
to local shippers; on delivery at shipping 
point Ave receive Avitliin 40 cents of the 
top, St. Louis market. Stock cattle are 
high and scarce. Corn, 60 cents per 
bushel; oats, 40; hay, $12.50 per ton. 
Butter, 25 cents per pound; eggs, 16 x /4 
per dozen. There is no sale for milk 
out in the country Avhere I live. Hens 
are 13 cents per pound. Farmers here 
are ordering ground preparing to plant 
corn, but it is extremely dry, as it has 
been some time since Ave had rain. Wheat 
crop as a result will be short; hay crop 
will also be short; and oats it seems 
will be a failure. The gardens are also 
suffering for rain. u. L. h. 
Ashley, Mo. 
CANADA FRUIT REPORT. 
The Agricultural Department at Ot¬ 
tawa reports that Avith the exception of 
a sleet storm which did damage in parts 
of Ontario, the Winter was favorabh to 
fruit iu Eastern Canada and the Mari¬ 
time Provinces. As a rule the season is 
nearly two weeks earlier than usual. 
British Columbia has suffered with late 
frosts, which have caught the blossoms of 
plum, peach and cherry. The outlook 
over the entire Dominion is for a heavy 
setting of apples. The peach prospect 
for Southern Ontario is excellent. Grapes 
promise well, but are still in danger of 
frost. Considerable damage from mice 
girdling trees is reported, these pests 
seeming to be on the increase. Orchards 
where weeds or trash were left suffered 
severely. _ 
NORTH CAROLINA FRUIT. 
There has been an extended period of 
drought over almost the entire State. 
This lias caused an exceptionally heavy 
“May drop” on nearly all classes of 
fruit, and it has very materially lessened 
the favorable prospects of two weeks ago. 
The mountain fruit suffered severely 
from heavy cold spells in March, also 
from the cold wave of April 26. There 
has been a good deal of injury reported 
from cold, blasting Avinds on certain 
slopes, Avhile in coves and sheltered 
places some heavy crops are reported. 
The average of a large number of re¬ 
ports sent in by growers from all parts 
of the State gives the following per¬ 
centage estimate of the fruit crop for 
1913 as based on the crop of 1912 taken 
as a full crop. 
Fruit prospects for entire State: 
Apples, 40% of full crop. 
Pears, 15% of full crop. 
Peaches, 30% of full crop. 
Grapes, 68% of full crop. 
AV. II. I1UTT, 
State Horticulturist. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
£>tate Conference on Agriculture and 
Country Life in Indiana, under auspices 
of Indiana Bankers’ Association, Clay- 
pool Hotel, Indianapolis, June 3-4. 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
Portland, Ore., June 17-20. 
Sixteenth annual convention of the Ca¬ 
nadian Horticultural Association will be 
held at Peterboro, Out., in August. 
New York State Fair and Grand Cir¬ 
cuit Meeting, Syracuse, N. Y., September 
8-13. 
Lancaster Fair .Lancaster. Pa., Sep¬ 
tember 30-October 3. 
Vermont Corn Show, Windsor. Vt., No¬ 
vember 5-7. 
Third Indiana Apple Show, Indianapo¬ 
lis, November 5-11. 
Maryland State Horticultural Society, 
Maryland Crop Improvement Association, 
Maryland Dairymen’s Association, Mary¬ 
land Beekeepers’ Association, and 
ers’ League, Baltimore, November 
Summer meeting N. Y. State 
Growers’ Association will be held 
cott Beach, Niagara 
be named later. 
Farm- 
17 - 22 . 
Fruit 
at Ol- 
Co., N. Y.; date t( 
