San Antonio Light (Newspaper) - December 14, 1913, San Antonio, Texas CHRISTMAS NUMBER THIRTY-FOURTH 827. ANTONIO CHRISTMAS NUMBER SAN DECEMBER 14, 1913. FIFTY-TWO PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS mm Gas and Electric Company Announces Cut in Rate Effective January 1. TWO CENTS A KILOWATT Increased Use and Machinery Make tion ACTION IS VOLUNTARY Small Consumer Is by New in Other A reduction in the cost or descent lighting from 14 cents to 12 cents kilowatt for the con- in. Ban Antonio by the Gas ana Electric beginning 1914. This reduction of price was mined upon at a recent of the directors of company and the voluntary action was It will mean a saving estimated at Senator's Speech Dealing With Currency Arouses Much 6. 0. P. IS URGED TO ACT of tho for r je presidency States or two Senator Root 000 a year to the This move on the of the trie Company will affect particularly I the the small consumer inasmuch as the I present rale of cents is charged warmly As only on the first 25 kilowatts It is In this instance that the tion will be made to 12 cents For the next used the rate is 8 for the nest 6 cents for the next 2000 5 cents and for all over 3000 4 Among the conditions the directors in making the according to General ager R B. are the fact that improved modern machinery and labor saving devices which lower the expense of power production have been installed and that the use of electricity in San Antonio has largely making the ered rate Gallinger Says Mistake Will Be Made If New Yorker Not D. Dec. Senator Hoot of New York In the today delivered a speech ling with the evils of inflation in the currency that at- the close attention of tors on both sides of the It was by far Che most ant and eloquent address thus far made the country on this live At is conclusion the New York senator was congratulated by associates of both Senator minority issued a statement In which he practically placed Senator Hool in nomination for the presidency as the advocate of sound economic and doctrines in this Mr. Root made several veiled to high finance that plainly the operations of the and the Heinze of He that the terms of the Administration would permit an ot the currency up to the enormous sum of Root Boom Senator political view was as f remarkable on currency questions delivered by Senator Root today stamps him United the fundamental problems take If it failed to nominate the YOUNG TEXANS HONORED Senator Entertains Boys and Girls in D. Dec. Senator Sheppard entertained at luncheon today the Texas group of boys and girls who are in ington aa prize winners for that lie at the of our governmental structures were never more marked than dis- cussion of the financial was liant and the Republican party nominates tor Root aa Its next candidate for president of the United States it will mtss the greatest opportunity that ever have presented Itself to the The New York senator warned the country that inflation possible under the administration hill would re- sult In u loss of confidence In Eu- Chicago Seeking to Talk to Divorced Shoots Her and Dec. 18. James P. proprietor of a millinery store at Twelfth and Oakley and his were shot and killed instantly this afternoon by whoso wife Bought refuge In the store when he attacked After probably fatally wounding his the man shot himself and Mrs. Lena divorced wife of was In the millinery store when Hardy entered and demanded to talk with refused and NIemann and his wife Interfered to protect her from Hardy's according to the became enraged and opened fire on the He then ran out of the When a crowd pursued him Hardy fired a bullet Into hts own brain dying almost His was rushed to a where she was reported to be Hardy was divorced from his wife several months Mrs. Hardy conducted confectionery Sho Is said to have a son 12 years old and a daughter 18 years of ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN Tics Are Plied on I. Jt a. K. Track Near Adams An attempt to wreck tho bound Great ern at 8 by piling lies on the by aoine one near Adams miles the The pilot of the engine struck the scattering the but not causing derailment the The train proceeded on Its way after Information was ed to the dispatcher Sheriff John W. and several deputies were informed of the currence and at once went to the scene In an Inquiry at nearby houses failed to elicit any clue that might serve to assist in the hension of the guilty The report also was given to the police by the and all were notified to watch out for strange Mexicans or negroes that misfit enter town from the DEERING FUNERAL TODAY Special Cor Bearing Body Arrives at MAY VISIT HE President Raymond Poincare of France has under cording to dispatches of a visit to the for the purpose of cementing the Ij relations between this country and bis While the trip has only discussed In an war It Is aitd the French Is sured of a warm welcome hy dent his official family the proposed visit Is mbro than a can financial BUH m u loss ot continence in Eu- TTO rope in the soundness of the 13.-.....The Amen special car bearing the body of liam millionaire harvester arrived here today from A committee of the Northwestern University me oc and a police escort met Lloyd Increased cost of materials has the which was accompanied Sam and Miss Bernice College WEATHER D. 11.- In followed clearing In south portion Monday Wed Sunday and HOME WEATHER FOB 12; partly 6 mile wind from the Sunday highest 68. ten mile wind from the Sunday highest temperature 64. 38; II mile wind fro Sunday highest 46 Si 40: mile from the disquieting effect upon European In- and said Mr. Is supported to soma ex- tent by these roads recently have either reduced or passed their usual Policy should realize that the holders of the great bulk of securities are going to be keenly regarding the soundness of the with Its new rate for and other agricultural San Antonio will compare favorably Those In the I rates and 7w f y add to the duties and burdens of few of f is electricity Andy our transportations companies to furnished at a lower In San up their operating expenses Houston ana the Shackelford and Miss Annie through the demands ot labor and are the same as and in the other cities of the state the rates are generally In the proposition of furnishing power for plants and manufacturing San Antonio stands alone in this section of the country as ing the lowest This was brought out by officials of the Texas Climatic Tire who are to establish a manufacturing plant and gave as the result of ex- tensive researches in all parts of the country that only in Instances where electricity is furnished by water power are the lower than nnd that for this part of the country In no city are they The power rates For the first 500 5 for the next 500 4 for the next 3 and for all over 9000, 2 Further Cut Although a reduction of 2 cents will be made by the Electric Com- It is the contention of S. A. Scott of this city that the rate could be still further to 10 or even S Mr. Scott has made a hobby of collecting data relating to the electric light rates In cities out the country and gives them In comparison to the rates Kansas according to Mr. has an of 6 cents a given by a owned across the in Kansas the rate 10 cents per and there la an agitation to vote bonds for the purpose financial policy of this Once start a run In the United States and U would lake very not merely to stop foreign but to send our tumbling on us where we must buy them and pay for them In Before 1907. more than were sent back to United States Just on the Inspiration that things were not going Last September came over on the judgment of some persons that It would bo wise to reduce their am in favor of doing away with the speculative money in New But that Is quite a different matter doing away with the great masses r f our securities which are instruments of If they 10 rind fro It temperature goes to ruin with It is for us to remember that day fain highest temperature Europe Is an armed For many 52. peace has been kept by a most New 46; 10 delicate adjustment and the most on Page 2. 7th mile wind from the highest temperature 52. 46; 4 mile wind from the Sunday temperature 61, strenuous efforts of many men In many But war Is always possible and the fear of It is It war comes lowed to get out of bed and walk by the manufacturers' two Charles and James The body was taken from the special car to the Deering home on Church Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at the First Methodist Bishop William will deliver the funeral Chicago Oarage Owner Dec. owner of a garage which was a. favorite for Robert tho automobile bandit was killed today by an He entered tho rear room of his age with a lighted match In his There was an explosion in a 50-gallon gasoline can. Neighbors attracted to the room by the noise found Madls in a few He died Christmas Travel Under NEW 13. The tic Christmas rush set In today with the departure of six ers bearing passengers and 6T33 sacks of of the travelers were returning to Europe to spend the President Much D. Dec President Wilson was Dr. his on Page 2, 1st reported Tits fever gone and his cold The president was I lowed to get out of bed and walk 1 about his but office work and l outdoor exercise were Probability That Two Great Republics May Exchange Dec. mond Poincare of the French re- may visit the United States during his term of The gestion has been made to President and he Is understood to be seriously considering It. The posal has been discussed Informally with Myron T. United States to and with Jean Jules French dor to the United The desire President Poincare Is that his proposed visit to the United States be something In the nature of an exchange of courtesies and to that end he may uree that President Wilson visit When this suggestion broached to President he that it could hardly be ried out during his term of President has been paying visits character to other having recently been in It was urged that as France nnd the United States have always been at peace and are now on friendly footing he should visit the great American There has been no official of the proposal but it Is felt at the Palace of the Elysee that such a visit is not at all the purpose beine to show the amity and unity of existing between the two great republics of the civilized Bank for Dec. 13. At a meeting of the sUte banking board a certificate of authority to do iness In Texas was granted to the Guaranty Trust and Savings Bank of Harrison capital stock This bank has the guaranty fund to protect Its Frank Davis ident and R. J. cashier the Island nnd New Jersey Women and Admiral Fletcher thinks that all American women and children are out of the city but that some of the men have preferred to re- The official statement of the navr department on the subject ot tho Fletcher Threatens to Open Fire Unless Lives and erty REAL TROUBLE POSSIBLE U. S. Government Stands Firmly Behind Protest Against PRISONERS PUT TO DEATH Forbidden in Neutral Reports Federal D. Dec. 18 This government will stand behind Rear Admiral Fletcher's tests against the execution of era of war at This action It possibilities of real trouble In the Mexican for both Constitutionalists and erala may action and from that there be only a short step to Fletcher received information that both Federals and have shot or hanged 65 pri Admiral Fletcher already has threatened to fire upon the city If there is any further endangering of foreign lives or His the department declare the situation IB The real It la believed will be reached when the who are now between Tampico and the move down upon the city Tampico Is about five miles the ocean up the and crooked nuco The actual harbor la northeast of Tampico though the river has a 20-foot nel to the main The finally In capturing both banks of the northeast of the They have about 7000 men while the federals have fewer than half that all within on the north bank of the Americana Must Be Admiral Fletcher has advised the state and war departments that he has forbidden any fighting near Tampico which would endanger Americans and others in the neutral The cruiser Tacoma has tied up to the military at Tampico and it Is from that practically within the that Admiral who Is is Issuing his ders to Constitutionalists and From the position of Admiral Fletcher on the Tacoma he could go ashore himself in ten minutes with nearly 100 marines and could draw immediately from the Chester and which are loaded with In dispatches made public Admiral Fletcher protests against the barbarous hangings of by Federate and vice versa He states that at 4 o'clock on dav he ordered all Americans ont of the city of The weather was favorable and he sent about 500 men on the Wheeling and Topilo a chartered to battleships Rhode y j -T on page 2, Srd
