Mark Twain Marooned as Fog Delays Exposition Travel
Mark Twain marooned at Old Point Comfort aboard the yacht Kanawha awaiting passage to Washington after fog delays by cape navigators. He laments isolation while Exposition festivities unfold with sailors preparing a fleet baseball showdown between Iowa and Kentucky teams and betting among British and German sailors.
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Old Point
Virginia Capes
Washington Post
Norfolk
Mark Twain
Old Point Comfort
Fifth Avenue
Washington Monument
Mark
H. H. Rogers
Kana
Rogers
Harry
New York
Capes
Kanawha
Chamberlin
Monument
Mr. Clemens
Weather Bureau
Hampton Roads
Ward Room J
Kentucky
Iowa
North Atlantic
Navy issues bids for submarine contracts from three firms
Three companies submitted bids to the Navy for undersea craft. Lake Torpedo Boat Co offered 235-ton boats at 198000 each delivered every three months from eighteen months after contract. Submarine Boat Co proposed a 250-ton boat at 250000 with 19 knots speed and 2000 knot radius. Electric Boat Co bid two designs, 24-ton Octopus type at 312000 each and a larger 340-ton model at 379000 each.)
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Navy
Lake Torpedo Boat Company
Bridgeport
New York
Electric Boat Company
American Sailors Win Two Races in Hampton Roads Regatta
American crews swept two events in the Hampton Roads international races. Ohio and Indiana boats led the two-mile gig race, with Ohio narrowly beating Iowa and Indiana following. Argyll won the admiral barges, Good Hope and New Jersey close behind. Kentucky and Missouri topped the eight-oared launches in the final race. The Argyll crew earned a Battenberg Cup berth and the schedule listed upcoming events through Friday including the Battenberg Cup race on Saturday.
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Hampton Roads
Argyll
Good Hope Tars
Ohio Tars
Norfolk
Saliory
Tara
Good Hope
Sankt Georg
Aspern
Bremen
Roon
Ohio
Iowa
Indiana
New Jersey
Admiral Barges
Kentucky
Missouri
Kearsarge
Army
Duke of Battenberg
Gen Pond at St Louis on Way to Washington
Brig. Gen. Pond recently retired from the U S Army arrived with his wife in St Louis from Monterey Mexico en route to Washington D C and then Plattsburg His comment on retirement recalled a life of seeing bugles for forty years. German officers to visit Annapolis tomorrow from the James town exposition Will visit Naval Academy Commodore von Hoff and captains of Bremen and Boon to travel by rail Torpedo boats Stringham Wilkes Stockton De Long and Blakely arrive off the city today third torpedo flotilla commanded by Lieut Willis McDowell after drills near Key West and naval ceremonies in Hampton Roads Annapolis gunboat station ship Fejlevig erdiser fade
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Washington
St. Louis
Pond
United States Army
Monterey
Washington, D. C
Plattsburg
Annapolis
Washington Post
Jamestown
Naval Academy
Admiral Sands
von Hoff
Bremen
Boon
Stringham
Wilkes
Stockton
de Long
Blakely
Willis McDowell
Key West
Hampton Roads
Army Orders and Naval Movements Report
Leaves of absence for First Lieut. Roger D. Black three months and Maj. Edmund M. Blake one month. A medical board at West Point to examine the United States Military Academy candidates on May 197. Second Lieut. Eugene C. Ecker to San Antonio to report to the Department of Texas. Resignation of Capt. Charles L. Bent effective April 29, 1907. Paymaster W. T. Camp resigns effective April 30, 1907. Naval movements list several arrivals and sailings among multiple vessels and ports.
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Roger D. Black
Corps of Engineers
Edmund M. Blake
Artillery Corps
John M. Banister
Charles M Grandy
Charles F. Mason
West Point
N. Y
Strong guard kept watch as President visits fair
The Washington Post reports extraordinary precautions at the Tercentennial exposition in Norfolk on opening day. Secret Service and police halted passersby, searched grounds, and used a photograph of a Chicago anarchist who had left the city with threats against the President. A Rough Rider was denied entry after claiming to want a handshake.
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Chicago
James
Secret Service
Washington Post
Norfolk
Lee
Exposition Grounds
Washington
Exposition
Rough Riders
Ground breaking day for 1909 Alaskan-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
Seattle April 30 The executive committee of the Alaskan-Yukon-Pacific Exposition 1909 fixes expenditures at 380,000 for buildings and grounds an increase of 150,000 over prior appropriations. The plan includes beautifying eighty five acres and inviting governors and mayors from surrounding states and cities as guests.
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Seattle
Wash
Washington
Alaska
Northwest lumber rail rivals seek through routes
The Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacturers Association Southwestern Washington Lumber Association and Shingle Mills Bureau filed a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission. They seek orders for through routes and joint rates on lumber products from Washington via Portland to points east of the Cascade Mountains. They cite 417 Western Washington sawmills producing about 3 billion feet of lumber and 453 shingle mills turning out over 14 billion shingles.
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Hill
Harriman
Northwest
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Puget Sound Territory
Commission
Cascade Mountains
Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacturers’ Association
Southwestern Washington Lumber Association
Shingle Mills Bureau
Norther Pacific
Great Northern
Union Pacific
Oregon Short Line
Portland
THREE COTTON CASES HEARD BY INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
Three cases involving freight rates on cotton-piece goods and cotton waste from Southern points to New York and other eastern markets were argued before the Interstate Commerce Commission yesterday. Complainants Warren Manufacturing Co Augusta Riverside Mills and Southern Railway opponents and officials from the railroads presented varied arguments on whether the rates are unjust when compared with other classes of goods.
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Southern
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Warren Manu Company
Warrensville
Southern Railway
James
Agamat G
Riverside Mills
Augusta
E. J. Southall
Dominican Congress Debates Treaty With United States
Members of the Dominican foreign affairs committee propose rejecting the new treaty as contrary to the republics constitution. Other members seek modifications and the full congress will discuss the treaty while the State Department signals possible ratification if the convention remains intact.
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Santo' Domingo
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Dominican Congress
Santo’ Domingo
Congress
State Department
Col Biddle Leads Washington School Delegation Visit Rochester
A Washington DC education and municipal delegation led by Col Biddle arrived in Rochester to inspect schools. Included were William E B Chancellor Clarence F Carroll and others. They toured several schools and plan a broader reorganization of Washington’s school system, then continue to Syracuse Springfield Boston Providence and New York.
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Washington
Col. Biddle
William EB
Taylor
Chamberlain
Clarence F. Carroll
Syracuse
Springfield
Boston
Providence
New York
Thought Him Navy Officer
San Francisco April 30. H E K Clover was arrested by Secret Service Agent Harry Moffitt on fraud charges. He allegedly obtained goods by posing as a navy officer, including a $3 000 engine from James Be Blatt of Buffalo Gasoline Engine Company. Clover denies intent to defraud, claims kinship with Captain Richardson Clover, U S N, and will appear before United States Commissioner Heacock.
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H. EK
Clover
Secret Service
Harry Moffitt
Navy
James Be Blatt
Buffalo Gasoline Engine Company
Washington
Moffitt
Richardson Clover
United States
Heacock
Congressmen Go to Hawaii Party Sails for Honolulu
A party of 33 aboard the Buford including 25 congressmen and their wives sails from San Francisco at noon for Honolulu. Delegation from 19 states travels under George F. McClellan at the invitation of Delegate Kalanianaole. Members listed include H. A. Acheson and wife of Pennsylvania, D. Alexander and wife of New York, Arthur L. Bates of Pennsylvania, and others from Rhode Island, Ohio, New Jersey, Michigan, Connecticut, Maine, North Carolina.
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San Francisco
Buford
George FE. McClellan
Kalanianacle
H. A. Acheson
Pennsyvania
D. Alexander
New York
Arthur
Wisconsin Assembly backs popular vote for U.S. Senate
The Wisconsin State Assembly adopted a resolution urging Congress to amend the constitution to elect Senators by popular vote. Separately the Inland Waterways Commission plans two river trips to the Mississippi Valley to study stream conditions and deposits, one during high water and one in the fall, following the President's recommendation.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin State Assembly
Congress
Circuit Court Overrules Quash in Standard Oil Indictments
Cleveland Ohio April 30 Circuit Judge overruled motions to quash indictments against Standard Oil Company and related entities while sustaining demurrers to January indictments. Defendants plan trial the week of May 13 as Prosecutor David seeks Supreme Court rulings on key issues. Jebese Duncan stated readiness to proceed and bond offer of 100000 was noted.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Georga A. Phelps
Common Pleas Court
Standard. Oil Company
Panies
Phelps
David
Standard Oil Company
Jebese Duncan
Supreme Court
Regulation reverses Standard Oil delivery ban in Brooklyn
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered Standard Oil to resume delivering oil in tank cars to Preston & Davis at the Brooklyn terminal. Chairman Knapp noted the denial harmed the complainants and benefited Standard Oil by reducing competition. The commission ruled the discontinuance unlawful and set unloading rules and timing.
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Preston & Davia
Brooklyn Terminal
Interstate Commerce Commission
Knapp
Eston & Davis
Eir
Deendant
Tank Cara
Ekpapp
Rooklyn
Standard Oil Company
Tariff on French Goods and a National Ticket
The State Department signals willingness to grant France tariff concessions similar to Germany if Paris agrees to balanced terms. A 2 percent cut on German champagne under the German-American pact could be mirrored for France with reciprocal concessions. A Washington politician touts Gray and Culbertson as an unbeatable national ticket at the Willard.
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Germany
State Department
Washington
France
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the Willard
Gray
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