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ROOSEVELT SHOUTS
JOY AT SHAM FIGHT
Twelve Thousand German Sol- diers Wage Mimic War in
His Honor.
“MY FRIEND,”’ SAYS KAISER
And Tells Him He Is the First Private Citizen to Review German Troops —His Throat Better.
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES,
BERLIN, May 11.— Ex-President Roosevelt was in his element to-day. For five hours the flower 6f the Kais- er’s.army, 12,000 cavatiry, artillery, and infantry of the Guard, waged mimic war for his edification.
The battle raged with realistic fury from 9 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon, and while, the countryside reverberated with the roar of artillery duels and the crackle of rifle fire, the man of San Juan and the German War Lord surveyed the thrilling pan- orama on horseback from an eminence which commanded the entire position.
it was a spectacle which kept the Rough Rider’s blood tingling from the start to the finish. No single item in his long programme in Africa and Bu- rope has made a stronger appeal to his imagination. . . Mr. Roosevelt donned an American campaigning outfit for the occasion— khaki jacket and riding breeches, with tan leggins, 1nd boots, and his familiar black slouch hat, “ our National head- gear’’ as he describes it. One of the Bmperor’s automobiles called for him at the American Embassy at 7 o’clock. Prof. Frinkel had taken a look down the Colonel’s throat before breakfast and had found his laryngitis sufficient- hy receded to permit him to take the field without danger. The weather, moreover, had turned gloriously fine
during the night, and the morning was
like Summer at Oyster Bay.
Mr. Roosevelt was accompanied to the battleground at Ddéberitz; midway be- tween Berlin and Potsdam, by his Ger- man aide de camp, Lieut, Col. von Kér- ner, Ex-Ambassador White, the Amer- ican Military Attaché at Berlin, Capt. Shartle, and Kermit Roosevelt. The party reached the field a little before
8 A. M., and mounted charges specially
selected from the Kaiser’s stables. The
-Emperor was already there, mounted,
.«@ad in the uniform of an infantry Gen-
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“inert day."’
‘} the sample of the German military
eral. With him, also on horseback, were the Empress, the Crown Princess, Princess Eitel Friedrich, Princess Vic- toria Luise, and the Kaiser's sailor son, Prince Adalbert.
As soon as the Emperor's party had exchanged greetings with Mr. Roose- velt, the Kaiser and the ex-President rode off to Mill Hill, from which they were to watch the day’s operations. By 9 o'clock the battle was in‘ full swing. Two hours later the engage- ment became general. The theoretical objective was the repulse of a hostile force advancing on Potsdam from the east. The, operations covered an area of nine square miles of territory, ideal-
~ ly suited for the most varied sort of
tactics.
At noonday the heavens were rumb- ling with the roar of long range ar- tillery and the barking of machine guns and musketry. Mr. Roosevelt was enthralled. His field glasses raked the horizon restlessly, and, as the in- vading cavalry, with 8,000 lances glint- ing brilliantly in the midday sun, drove home the final attack through the jaws of the defenders’ artillery, the Rough Rider commandant shouted his joy in staccato outbursts to his proud and smiling Imperial host.
At 2 o’clock the “cease fire” was sounded and then the troops of both armies joined in the march past the Emperor and Mr. Roosevelt, the latter doffing his black sombrero in salute as each set of regimental colors filed by.
When the march was over the Kaiser,
now surrounded by a glittering galaxy |
of several hundred staff officers, turned
tu Mr. Roosevelt, removed his helmet,
and said:
“Mein freund Roosevelt ’’—so much in German, then, in English:
“T am happy to welcome you in the presence of my Guards. We are glad you have seen part of our army. You are the only private citizen who has ever reviewed German troops.”
The Kaiser then addressed his offi- cers, saying:
“We have been honored to-day with
the presence of the distinguished Colo- nel of the famous American Rough
*=Riders.”’
This bouquet of pleasantries brought the day’s stirring events to a finish. The Kaiser and Mr. Roosevelt said “Auf wiedersehen to-morrow,” and
*“ mOtored back respectively to Potsdam.
and Berlin.
‘In accordance with his policy of re- fraining from comment on the enter- tainment provided for him Mr. Roose- velt would only say, on returning to the Embassy, that it had been “a most Asked how he liked
~. @harger which he had ridden, the Colo-
nel said: And whet a corking five hours
“Oh, bully! By George! Al!
in the saddle, too!”
To-night the Roosevelts are dining
again with the Hills. The guests in-
clude, in addition to-the ladies and gen-| _tlemen of the Embassy, Chancellor von - Bethmann-Holliweg, Foreign Secretary, M “and Baroness von Schin, Mr. and Mrs. _ Seth Low, Mr. and Mrs. Henry White, _ American. Consul General Thackara, - and . - Mr. Rooseyelt’s throat is still in dry) "~
the Rector of Berlin University.
Nenagh Jail, for’
‘Tuesday night at Bayway,
LAW’S VICTIMS HONORED.
Remains of Two Irishmen Unjustiy Ex- ecuted in 1858 Reinterred. a
Special Cable to THE NBw YorK TIMBS.
LONDON, May 11.—Headed by fifty clergy, a procession of about 10,000 persons, 600 jaunting cars, and 20 bands of musiojy fo-day escorted from Peliterment at Lough- moe, County Tipperary, the exhumed remains of William and Daniel Mc- Cormack, who were executed together in Nenagh Jail on May 11, 1858, for a crime of which they were later shown to be innocent. |
The crime for which the McCormacks were hanged was the murder of an-es- tate steward named Ells, who be- came an object of ~hatred through or- dering a number of evictions. He was shot from behind a hedge Oct. 22, 1857. A man named Michael Gleeson, one of the’ evicted tenants, whose son was present at the ceremony to-day, later confessed to the crime. The Judge who sentenced the McCormacks com- mitted suicide. A.
The reinterment was made the occa- sion of a holiday in the district. All the shops were shut,/blinds were drawn, and avery one was dressed in black or wore crépe armiets tied with green ribbon.
Many old persons sobbed as the hearses passed. ;
TRAIN HOLDUP IN NEW JERSE
Masked Men Overpower Crew, and Loot Freight Cars at Bayway.
Detectives of the Baltimore & Ohio Rali- road are trying to trace three men who held up a freight train at 9:30 o’clock on N. J., and broke open a car from which they stole cigars and woolens worth about $4,000. The holdup took place in one of the most lonely spots on, the Baltimore & Ohio system in this vicinity, and the bandits easily escaped. °
The robbers, who were masked, flagged the train, and when Fireman Eichelberg and Brakeman Wheeler got down to in- vestigate they drew revolvers and ordered them to throw up their hands. While one of the thieves held them prisoners the re- maining two broke open a car.
There were fifty cars in the train, and Conductor Batting and another brakeman, who were in the caboose at: the end, l.ur-
gate, but before they reached the for- ward cars the robbers got away. It is supposed they had a wagon wait- ing to cart away their plunder. No trace of them could be found, although detec- tives scoured the neighborhood.
Bayway is midway between the Arthur Ieills Bridge connecting Staten Island with New Jersey and Lincen, N. J. The tracks run through a deep cut, and there is no habitation for miles. Sé€veral small hoid- ups have occurred near by, but none as serious as that of Tuescay night.
DOG IN A WELL 13 DAYS.
Highland Lad, Mrs. W. Butler Duncan’s Prize Winner, Taken Out “Alive.
Special to The New York Times.
HBEMPSTBHAD, L, I1., May 11.—Highland Lad, a valuable Scotch terrier belonging to Mrs. W. Butier Duncan, holds the record for fasting in this vicinity. He has just been found after having fallen down @ dry well, where he remained for. thir- teen days without food or water. ‘The dog, which is quite old and has been a prize winner at all the bench shows in this section, as well as Madison Square Garden, was probably cnasing a rabbit on the Duncan place nearly two weeks ago, when he fell into the wejl. He failed to alarm any one by his barking.
Mrs. Duncan was very much worried about the loss of her pet, which was worth $1,000, and sne offered a reward of $50 for his safe return. Yesterday after- noon a little girl was passing the well when she heard a dog whine. She called an employe of the Duncans, who found that the sound came from the bottom of the well. A lddder was lowered and Highland Lad was brought to the surface, too weak to stand, but still strong enough to pvecognize those about him. Liquid food was given to him, and within a few hours he was aS sound as ever.
CORPORATION TAX $25,709,045
District Assessed $3,274,748.
WASHINGTON, May 11.—Figures show- ing the number of returns, assessments, and penalties on account of the tax of 1 per cent. on the net: income of corpora- tions under the new Tariff act were made public to-day by R. E. Cabell, Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue. They show the total number of returns to have been 231,243; total assessments, $25,709,045, and penalties for failure to furnish returns by March 1, $101,570.
AS Was expected, the Second New York Internal Revenue Collection District, com- prising Manhattan lying south of West Twenty-fourth Street, will pay the largest assessment under the corporvition tax law, amounting to $3,274,748.
The First Illinois, or Chicago District, will pay the next highest: amount, the assessment being $2,286,786, with the
“wenty-third Pennsylvania, the Pittsburg District, third at $1,565,008.
Other districts that will pay more than $1,000,000 tax are fhe Philadelphia District,
Massachusett8, Minnesota, and the New- ark District of New Jersey, San Fran- cisco will pay $750,000 tax, the Detroit District of Michigan nearly $600,000, th St. Louis District $675,666, the Third New York, Upper Manhattan, $789,156; Roches- ter, N. ¥., $444,041, while Cleveland leads the Ohio cities with an assessment of $877,539. The Milwaukee District will be taxed nearly $500,000. The Montana Dis- trict sent in the largest number of returns,
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gated only $204,
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MORTGAGE ON LONG BEACH.
Given for $2,000,000 Loan to be Used improving Property.
Special to The New York Times.
MINEOLA, L. I.,°>May 11.—A mortgage for $2,000,000, loaned by the Title Guar- antee and Trust Company to the Bstates of Long Beach. of which William H. Reynolds is President, was filed here in the County .Clerk’s office this afternoon.
The Directors of the company intend is-
suing bonds to the amount of the mort- gage, the bonds to be due apy 1, 1920. is
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To the town of Hempstead, from which the land was purchased, reserved a right of way through the property and the use of the beach.
The mort e covers 2,208 acres, prac- tically all the d included in the Esta The mortgage will be used to improve t
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11,372, but the assessments on them aggre-
MAYOR KEEPS UP CRUSADE ON PLAYS
Orders Police Commissioner to
Investigate the Farce, ‘‘Alma, Where Do You Live?’”’
COMPLAINT BY FRANK MOSS
After a Committee from the Society for the Prevention of Crime Had Seen the Performance.
Mayor Gaynor continued yesterday to take an active interest in the character of plays now being produced in New York Having effectually disposed of one against which many complaints had been made by refusing to renew the license of ihe New York Theatre, in which it was being produced, he ordered Police Commissioner
Baker to investigate another—a Gefman f
production—and try to obtain an English translation of it, so that he could deter- mine if the complaints he had received against it would warrant its being, dealt with in the same manner as ‘* The*Girl With the Whooping Cough.”’
The second play to stir up the Mayvr's interest is called ‘‘ Alma, Wo Wohnst Du?’ which means in English, Where do You Live?” Like ‘“ The Giri With the Whooping Cough,’ it is an adaptation from an original French faree, It is being produced this week at tre Grand Opera House, Eighth Avenue and Twenty-third Street. The author of the farce is Paul Herve, and it was done into German by Adolph Philipp, the German character actor, who plays the leading male part in it. George Hobart, the piay- wright, is making an English translation of the piece for Joseph Weber, who in- tends to produce it next September at his theatre with Kittie Gordon in the :¢eud- ing female réle. That is, Mr, Weber wi'l produce it unless Mayor Gaynor decides otherwise.
The play was called to the attention of the Mayor by Frank Moss, Assistant Dis- trict Attorney and President of the So- ciety for the Prevention of Crime. A committee from the society headed by Supt. McClintock and its counsel, Samuel Marcus, waited upon the Mayor yester- day afternoon with a. letter from Mr. Moss, in which the latter declared that the play should be stopped pecause of its character. This contention was upheld by Mr. Marcus, who said that he had had his eye on the play for several months while it was being produced at the Eigh- ty-sixth Street theatre, but that he had been prevented from taking any action in the matter because of a two months’+ illness.
‘**When I heard that your Honor was putting a stop to the performance of another play,’’ said Mr. Marcus, “1 con- cluded that it was about time to bring this one to your attention.”
The Mayor asked one of the committee,
rman, -to submit. a written report. of. the objectionable parts in the play, and the committee agreed to witness a per- formance of it at the Grand Opera House in the near future. The committee also promised to furnish the Mayor with «a transiation of the play to-day.
The Mayor's action in regard to the play aroused much interest in German circles, for it has been running in New York since last August, and there had been no public outcry against it because of alleged indecency. It was first produced at the Winter Garden, a little German
}theatre in Highty-sixth Street between
Lexington and Third Avenues, attained considerable popularity. it was talked about so much that Mr. Philipp decided to bring it. downtown At the Grand Opeya House it is advertises as ‘“*‘ The German. musical sensation.’’ The music in the German adaptation was written by Jean Briquet.
The Mayor did not give any indication ot what action he intends to take after he reads the English translation. Accord- ing to Paul Philipp, business representa- tive for his brother Adolph, Commissioner Baker received an English translation of the piece more than six months ago, when, he said, Inspector Schmittberger was also detailed to view the performanics The Inspector, Mr. Philipp said, reported that he could find nothing objectionable in the play.
‘““I eannot understand why the Mayor or Commissioner Baker should want to interfere with the production of ‘ Alma. wo wohnst du?’” said Paul Phillip yes- terday. ‘“ There was nothing objectiona- ble in the farce in the original, and I know my brother didn’t inject any im- moraHty into it. It Khas been running in the city for eight months, and in all that time no one has said a word against it that-I heard of. A second company has
where it in fact
|} also’ produced it in Chicago, Cincinnati.
and other large cities,-and.everywhere it has been received with the highest appro- bation. The newspapers said the kindest things about it, and no one suggested that there was the least thing immoral about it. Even the New York papers, time and again, treated it with the highest respect. Many leading citizens of New York. Ger- man and otherwise, have witnessed per- formances of it and they have loudly praised it.
“Another pecullar thing is that about six months‘'ago Commissioner Baker sent word that he would like to see an Eng- lish translation of the play and one was sent to him: He also sent Inspector Schmittberger and Police Capt: Martens to the theatre and they sat through a performance, Inspector Schmittberger understands German and he told me after the play that he could find nothing objectionable in it. He must have re- ponced the same thing to Commissioner
aker, for no movement was made to close the theatre.
“Only a short time ago the German Consul also saw the play and appeared to be delighted with it. I know that agents of the Parkhurst Society have also seen it. When we leave the Grand: Opera House on Saturday the play will move over to Brooklyn. I don't believe the Mayor will go any furiher with the mat- ter.”’
The plays at the Grand Opera House are booked phrouge the firm of Klaw & Erlanger. John . Springer, the man- ager, said he could find nothing objec- tionable in the play and he did not think the Mayor would find anything objec- tionable in it when he has read ft.
George Hobart has not completed the English version of the play which he is writing for Mr. Weber. It was stated by the manager of Weber's Theatre yester- day that Commissioner Baker had re- newed the license of the theatre, it being the very first theatre to get a license for the coming year.
The Police Commissioner has not yet re- newed the license of the New York The- atre, where ‘‘ The Girl With the Whooping Cough ’’ was so suddenly closed.
‘“‘So far as we are concerned,” said Al H. Woods, the producer of the show. “we won our case when Justice McCall made permanent the injunction restrain- ing the police from interfering with the lay. Now we are only Mb a for the
ew York Theatre to get its litense re- newed.’\ .
Mr. Woods would not state if he in- tended to ae the play back there in the event that the license for the theatre was renewed or that he intended to pro- duce it at anv other theatre in New York.
Henry J. Goldsmith. who said he was counsel for KRlaw & Erlanger, called on the Mayor late in the afternoon and re- quested him to consent to allow the license of the New York Theatre to be renewed. Mr. Goldsmith declared that “The Girl With the Whooping Cou ”’ was permanently off the boards in New York City. and as proof of his statenYent he submitted a list of plays which he said Klaw & Brianger intended duce 2t the New York git & anf
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‘I expected to find this a city of lobster palaces. | found it a great nursery for children.”’ This novel point of view is the basis of an unusually interesting drti- | cle by a stranger in New York written for next Sun- day’s Times. Every word of it is worth reading.
Be sure to order next | Sunday’s Times early.
DIRECT NOMINATIONS BBATENIN ASSEMBLY
Hinman-Green Bill,
Urged by Gov. Hughes, Is Lost,
| 67 to 77.
PHILLIPS BILL IS PASSED
Direct Election of State Committee- men—Democratic Bill Voted Down.
Special io The New York Times.
ALBANY, May 11.—Gov. Hughes’s Di- rect Nominations b#Hl has had its day in court, and has been beaten. It came up in its unamended form before the Assem- bly this morning, and after a debate, which raged bitterly all day long and far into the evening, was repudiated by the ‘ower house.
The vote stood 67 to 77, giving the bill’s opponents a slender majority of ten votes. It was the consensus of opinion at the Capitol to-night that the vote in the Assembly would settle the fate of direct nominations, at least for the present ses- sion.
Immediately after the defeat of the Hinman-Green bill, embodying the Gov- ernor’s direct nomination plan, the Assem- bly leaders decided to wipe the calendar Clear of al the pending measures looking toward primary referm. The Committee on Rules had placed on the calendar the: three principal primary bills pending be- fore the lower house, namely, the Hin- man-Green bill, the Meade-Phillips bill, which had the support of the Republican machine, but does not provide for direct primaries in the real sense of that terni, and the Grady-Frisbie bill, embodying the free and easy primary plan suggested by the Democratic League. Both the latter billa-were taken up with the result that the Grady-Frisbie bill was beaten by a vote of 46 to 88, practically a party vote, and the Meade-Phillips bill was passed by a vote of 84 to 54, many of the advo- cates of the Governor's bill voting for it. There was no debate in connection with the action on either of the two latter measures.
Before the passage of the Meade-Phil- lips bill, Assemblyman George A. Green of Kings, sponsor for the Governor’s bill in the lower house, moved to reconsider the vote by which his bill had been de- feated, cnd that the motion Hie on. the table. Speaxer Wadsworth, who was on the rostrum, hesitated. Before he could ‘put the motion to the Howse cries of pro- test arose from all parts of the Assem- bly chamber. Assemviyman Wilsnack, the Queens Republican, rose amid the
hubbub and was recognized.
‘**y voted yor this bill,”” he shouted, ‘*not because I wanted to, because I have net turned reformer nor have 1 joined the purification bund nor the holier than thou society, but because of pressure from my district,
‘* Now, this bill has had its fair oppor- tunity in this House. It has been deteat- ed. i don’t think it is reasonable on the part of the introducer to ask us io ac- quiesce in a continuation of the reign of terror to which we have been subjected for the last four months.”’
It is customary to grant a request such as Mr. Green made. In this instance, however, his motion to table the motion to reconsider was defeated by a rising vote, and then the motion itself by a vote Of U8 to 76.
Of the three primary bills on the cal- endar the Hinman-Green bill, according to a previous arrangement, occupied the leading place. ‘Immediately atter the morning prayer and the ordinary routine business in the Assembly Mr. Green d3- rmanded a close call. In preparation for this motion telegrams had been sent to all parts of the State in order that every member should be in his seat. Neverthe- less there were more than thirty absenteés when the motion was made, and it was found necessary to take up other business pending the arrival of absent members.
Already at that early hour there was the most unusual] activity about the As- sembly Chamber and the Capitol corri- dars. Neither the advocates nor the op- ponents of the bill knew where they stood with reference to votes, and both sides were as busy as beavers in an effort i2
of members who were weakening.
Some of the Assembly leaders opposed to the Governor's pan hac spent practi- cally all night in efforts of that sort. The wires were kept hot with messages. Som: of these cams from constituents urging their representatives to vote for the Hi»- man-Green bill. Others came from Re- publican leaders in various parts of the State, directing members whom they could influencé to vote tne other way.
Soon many leaders who had journeyed to the Capitol put in an appearance in the -Assemb! Chamber. Among. these were Louis F. Payn, the Republican boss
seen about the Capitol for a long Aime: Louis Emerson of Warren and Essex, State Committeeman Strobel of Herkimer. John F. O’Brien from Clinton, and Charles H. Betts, who represents the district of the late Senator ines on the Republi- ean State Committee.
Republican State Chairman Timothy lL. Woodruff was in communication with. his Assemblymen over the long-distance tel- ephone. Mr. Woodruff wrathfully. but in most instances without success, urged the members from his political bailiwick of Kings to vote against the Governor's
bill
It was evident that every wire that could be pulled was being busily manip- ulated. Menibers of the Committee on Rules, with its custody of all Assembly bills, lost no trick and wielded their pow- erful weapons unsparingly and in some instances effectively.
It was just noon when the debate on the Hinman-Green bill began. More than a score of members had spoken on both sides *when the final vote was begun. For a long time during the early part of the roll call the advocates and opponents of the Governor's bill ran neck and neck. and the tension in the Assembly Chamber was perceptible. One feature, however, which was pointed to by some of the speakers as an, indication that no. reali sentiment in favor of the proposed reform existed throughout the State was the almost empty gallery.
The vote on the Hinman-Green bill zig- ed across party lines. Many of the
te Democrats in the Assembly had elected over their Republican op-
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IN UTILITIES BILL
‘Amendments Hurriedly Made by | Senate Said to Vitiate 80-Cent Gas Law.
| ‘CARFARE MAY BE RAISED
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‘And Franchises Capitalized—Davis Got Amendments from Merritt,. Who
Can’t Remember Origin.
Special to The New York Times.
ALBANY, May 11.--J. O. Hammitt, Secretary of the Citizens’ Union, and otners attacked to-day a series of amend- ments made by the Senate yesterday to the Parker Public Service Commissions bill as going far to emasculate the pres- ent law.
“The effect of one amendment,’ said Mr. Hammitt, ‘‘ would be te permit the capitalization of franchises for which not a single dollar has actually been paid. The United States Supreme Court has already indicated that the Consolidated Gas Company may capitalize franchises which it has purchased and for which it has paid actual cash, but this amend-
any franchise that was ever legally cap- italized. It will be remembered that un- til comparatively recent years franchises could be eapitalized by public service corporations, whether money was paid for them or not.
‘Seldom has a more serious proposal been made for the weakening of the pub- lic service commissions law and the con- trol] by the State over the capitalization of public utilities.
‘“ Another amendment emasculates the New York City eighty-cent gas law and the statute limiting to 5 cents the rate of fare which may be charged on various street railroads in New York. This is an amendment permitting the Public Service Commission to authorize a rate of fare or a price for gas higher than that now definitely fixed by statute.” #
‘‘ The amendments make radica: changes in the bill,’’ said Judge Ledyard P. Hale, counsel for the Public Service Commission, Second District. to-night, ‘and in my opinion they should not be made. They were considered by the As- sembly Committee on Railroads, and were rejected. It was not the intention of the Legislature that its own acts as to rates
should be disturbed by a commission. It is my belief that the bill as amended would greatly weaken the efficiency of the commissions.
‘The amendment as to capitalization of franchises is not proper, because the com- panies have the benefit under the present law of capitalization of franchises legally capitalizea.”’
Parker Opposed Amendments.
Assemblyman Parker, whose name the bill bears, said that Mr. Mathewson of the Consolidated Gas Company asked the Assembly Committee to report the amendments, but that the committee re- fusec tc do so :
‘I knew the criticism that would arise,". Mr. Parker explained, ‘“‘and for that reason I did not care to take the responsibility. Before the Senate Judici- ary Committee Mr. Matthewson-asked for the amendments. I followed him and said that the amendments in relation to rais- ing or lowering rates seemed to be fair, so far as I could see, and that if the Sen- ate cared to take the responsibility I thought they would receive favorable con- sideration in the Assembly.
‘tl opposed the capitalization of fran- chises as a dangerous proposition. I un- derstand the gas company wants to re- organize and desires to include in the capital franchises which cannot now be considered.”’
Mr. Parker said he did not know the source of the amendments in the Senate and knew nothing about the matter until his attention was called to it to-day.
‘“‘It seems to me that it would be poor policy to adopt such amendments,”’ said Senator Newcomb, ‘‘even though it may be contended that under the commission form of Government latitude should be given to raise or lower rates. The amend- ments are decidedly in favor of the gas companies.”’
Senator Wagner, who in previous years worked for the passage of a Coney Isl- and Five-Cent Fare bill, said his atten- tion had been called to the amendments and that he would oppose them, believ- ing that they would greatly weaken the law.
Davis Suggested Changes.
The amendments were made yesterday just before the bill’s advancement to the order of final passage. Senator Davis, Chairman o? the Judiciary Committee, who has been in charge of the bill in the Senate, offered a series of seven or eight amendments, and as no request was made that they be read _ they were adopted without most of the Senators knowing what they were. At the same time Sena- tor Wainwright offered his amendment authorizing the commission to pass upon commutation and mileage rates.
As it nassed the Assembly the bill gave the commission power ‘‘ to determine the
just and reasonable rates, fares, and charges to be thereafter observed and in force as the maximum to be charged for the service to be performed, notwith- ecg | that a higher rate, fare, or charge has been heretofore authorized by statute.’’ The Davis.amendments change the word ‘“‘higher’’ to “ different,” and the same change is made in a similar passage in the law affecting lighting cor- porations.
In Section 72 of the Public Service Com- missions act, which relates to the fixing of prices of gas and electricity, the Parker bill gave the commissions power within lawfui limits ‘*‘to fix the maxi- mum price of gas.or electricity, not ex- ceeding that fixed by statute, ‘to be charged by such corporation or person for the services to be” furnished.’ Senator Davis amended the bill by striking out the words ‘‘ not exceeding that fixed by statute.”’
The Parker bill also gave the Public Service Commissions power to compel gas corporations to make reasonable improve- ments and extensions, but one of the Davis amendments cuts out the words ‘‘and extensions.”’
Section 69 of the Public Service Com- missions act provides that issues of stock, bonds, and other forms of indebtedness shall be subject to their approval. The sec- tion con s a provision that the com- missions shall have no power to author- ize the capitalization of any franchise or the right to own, operate, or enjoy any franchise in excess of the amount actu- ally paid as a consideration for such fran- chise. As amended by Senator Davis, the Parker bill would except from this prohi- bition franchises ‘‘ to the extent to. which it (the corporation) has been legally capi- talized.”’
Get Them from Merritt.
Senator Davis expressed surprise when he was informed to-night that the amend- meyts were criticised.
- “The amendments, separate from the text of the bill, were handed to me by Assemblyman Merritt,’’ Senator Davis said. “I got the Impression from him that the amendments were desired by the friends of the bill. The measure was framed after hard work in the Assembly, and the Senate ra 9 ae to cag asus: ure as it was agree ae e sem- biy. I had no idea of the effect of the amendments, but believed they were de-
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ment would permit the capitalization of.
TRUST BUSTER IN BERLIN.
rank B. Kellogg Arrives There to Gonfer with Mr. Roosevelt. | Special Cable to THE NEW YoRK TIMES. BERLIN, May 11.—Frank B. Kellogg, the St. Paul “trust buster,” arrived i
ferring with Mr. crusade affairs.
The ex-President had asked Mr. Kell- ogg to meet him in Europe and bring the latest tidings from the firing line of the trust fight.
CHINESE FORGIVE JAPAN.
Boycott Against Japanese Ships Is For- mally Declared Off. VICTORIA, B. C., May 11.—The boycott on the part of Chinese of all classes against Japanese ships, which began two
Roosevelt
losses to Japanese steamship lines, been formally declared off.
which will leave Yokohama to-morrow for
passengers and much Chinese freight.
SWIFT CUNARDER ORDERED.
Have Twelve Engines. LIVERPOOL, May, 11.—The
Steamship Company has given orders for the construction of a steamer Boston trade.
built, the vessel will be of 18,000 tons. She will be 600 feet in length and will have twelve engines, which are expected io develop great speed.
DEBT LIMIT BILL SIGNED.
Provides Subway Funds.
the so-called New York City Debt bill of the Senate Cities
proved by Mayor Gaynor.
the constitutional
000,000 for subway construction. provides the legal procedure necessary to exclude self-sustaining subway and dock bonds in computing the debt limit of New York City.
STEAMER SINKS; SIX LOST. Special to Fhe New York Times. Four Women and Two Men Drowned When City of Saltillo Strikes Rock.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 11.—Four women and two men were drowned when the rjver steamer City of Saltillo, bound from St. Louis for Tennessee River points, struck a rock and sunk at Glen Park, Mo. The vessel was driven. toward the Missourl shore from an unknown cause, and in twenty feet of watér struck the rock which Sent her to the bottom.
Such of the boat’s company as reached the shore immediately set to work drag- ging Out the strugsglipg men and women in the water. The ship, when it struck the rock, had careened toward the shore,
and the sleeping women and men were thrown from their berths.
Among the steamboat’s .thirty-seven passengers were Mrs. Isaac T. Rhea of Nashville, Tenn., wife of the President of the packet daughters,
and her two and Louise home from
company, Misses Ann Rhea. They were bound a visit to St. Louis reiatives. Dempsey of Cape Girardeau, agent for the line, was also @ passenger. He swam ashore. and telephoned news of the dis- aster to St. Louis. Capt. Harry N. Crane was in charge of the boat. within five mimutes of striking the rock.
DR. AKED HAS TYPHOID.
Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church Is Seriously Ill at Home.
The Rey. Charles F.. Aked, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, is seriously ill with typhoid at his home in the Cen- tral Park View, 2 West Bighty-sixth Street. Although his family yesterday expressed confidence in his recovery, he will not be able to attend to his duties for some time.
Dr. Aked, it was said at his home yester- day, had planned to start for the Northern Baptist Convention in Chicago last Fri- day, but became so ill on that day that he had to take to his bed. He is being attended by Dr. A. R. McMichael of 971 Madison Avenue. WUuring his iliness his duties will be assumed by his assistant, the Rev. Addison Moore.
At the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church it was said yesterday that special prayer meetings will be held during Dr. Aked’s illness to pray for his recovery. The so- cial meeting next Tuesday evening will take the form of a | yds ag meeting. Dr. Aked was seriously ill two years ago, and was threatened with tuberculosis in Liver- pool twelve years ago.
Dr. Young of the Bedford Presbyterian Church will take Dr. Aked’s pulpit next Sunday morning.
r. A. R. McMichael, who is attending Dr. Aked, said last night that his pa- tient’s temperature was 104 and that the disease seemed simply to be taking its normal course. He denied a rumor to the effect that Dr. Aked’s condition had reached a crisis during the evening and that the pastor had been unconscious dur- ing the day.
NEGROES SHOOTSIX SOLDIERS
Two Seriously—Two Negrots Who Quarreled with Artillerymen Missing.
Special to The New York Times.
BEAUFORT, 8S. C., May 11.—Six soldiers of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Company, Coast Artillery, stationed at Fort Frémont, on St. Helena Island, were shot by negroes just outside the reserva- tion between 9. o’clock Monday night and 1 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. Two of the men are seriously wounded, but all
are expected to recover. The wounded inen are Privates Quigley, McNally, Cal- lahan, McCarthy, Stansbury, and Slater.
The negroes wiio shot them are two brothers. Will and Isaac Potter. Both escaped and up to this time have not been arrested.
Privates Quigley and McNally were seriously shot during what jis said to have been a drunken row at the negroes’ house, which is about a quarter of a mile from the reservation, about 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Privates McCarthy, Callahan, Stansbury, and Slater were shot from ambush while walking along a road on St. Helena Island, a short distance Off the reservation, on Monday night. The fact that bird shot was used obably saves their lives, as they were fired upon from close range.
“About a week ago Isaac Potter and a soldier quarreled, and Potter was cut. Afterward he and his brother are said to have threatened to shoot every soldier they saw off the reservation after night- fall. Sheriff McTeer this morning went to the house to investigate and ascertain the truth of the report that one of the ne- groes had been shot. He found that they had both left the neighborhood and that neither of them had been injured.
here was no race feeling in the shoot- ings.
P relieves nahate. eadache an hia. Im- proves the ‘General: health.—Ady, one
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The Nippon Yusen Kaisha liner Ihaba, |
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Raps, Apparitional Hands, Levita= tion, the Breeze fromHer Head, Merely Clever Hoaxes.
ALL LAID BARE
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REPORT BY INVESTIGATORS 4
No Evidence of Supernatural Powers—Prof. Miller Tells How Her Feats Were Exposed.
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PALADINO DEFENDS HERSELF
if She Réesorted to Tricks, They Were
18,000-Ton Vessel for Boston Trade to)
Cunard for the
Like the Franconia, which is now being |
‘Gov. Hughes Approves Measure Which
ALBANY, May 11.—Gov. Hughes signed | Limit |
‘ . a 7>) Vo Comm.ttee ap-,; '
The bill is designed to carry into effect | amendment approved | by the people last Fali to give New York | City additional funds estimated at $100,~ | The bill!
Telepathically Suggested by the investigators—Mystifies an
interviewer.
Lhe Times presents below, ta Prof. Miller. the results of “Fe tie? Miller, the results of a scientifie Mime.
feonous ltalbe
an article by Dickinson
inguiry into the feats of Eusapia Paladino, tie
tan‘ medium”
dino s reply, in which she advances © the defense that if she was caught
iz the trick described, that
ery
~ ; trickery was due to. suggestion,
telepathically conveyed by the in-
vestigators. By DICKINSON MILLER, Professor of Philosophy at Columtla University. THe NEw Company.
Copyright, 1910, by YorRK TIMnEs The fullest publicity should be given, if possible, “to the outcome in the case of to the two
finally decisive sittings as depicted in the
Eusapia Paladino, not only
current issue of Collier’s Weekly, but aise
to the report here given of the committee’ who held.
of American men of seience, four sittings last January.
There is a2 moral issue in the case.
those who have a taste for.it should in-. dulge themselves in an occasional respite from reason or cHerish a haunted room in their mental dwelling as a picturesque heirloom from the past. ‘‘ Why not?” it is said . ‘‘“What harm does it do? thrills them and it does not hurt us.’’
If society had no abuses, diseases, or sores to cure, if no life in it were ever needlessly worried or depressed or if good beginnings never came to tragic miscarriages from simple want of sense, we might all say the same.
To, many it seemed innocent enough that |
It.
; and Mine. Palas y=
We should have no scOrest®,, co
settle with unreason. As things are, howe : 4
ever, most busy men are every day° mm
a grappling fight with it, It makes waste
and friction in thefr. work, it sows Gisgaiie
sion in their families, it makes theit pole
tices too often a chaos. and a lottery, makes a man believe that his friend Iie tended some slight when the evidenee # more than half a guess. What mén @ sense first long for and then despair a
is to persuade others to be reasonagi, @ that there may, be some use in reasoning’ ~ -
with them. This always means, whother in little matters or in large, whether they know it or rot, to persuade them lo ré- spect tne law of ‘evidence, Respect fur that law is the great social bond that
makes one mind accessible to a different.
mird, and not barred and irresponsive. It is the great civic bond embodied in the court of law, where men are taught that their beliefs are not an irresponsible matter. More and moré it should be em- bodied in the school. Everything that sirikes at this respect, every merital ca- price and unbridled willfuiness of bélief, strikes at our hopes for society and for. life. breeds the misery of the world quite #@ nuch as sin of the heart.
Paladino a Symbol of Sophistry.
The subtle Italian medium we have
been studying is a kind of incarnation of. specious evidence, a symbol of sophistry. ‘ Her art is to obtain credence under false
pretenses. She has succeeded. Readers
of sorhe of the newspapers in. New York’
have harjly realized the serious interest that she has sustained for nineteen years. Growp after group has sat with heft and published results. Imposing committees have issued elaborate reports in her fa- vor. No other medium has ever absorbed 30 much and so prolonged a scientific attention. These learned patrons have inflated her reputation and exalted her prices. They have created a task for their brethren and made it as baffling as possible. It is rumored that psycholo- gists. in Paris are preparing to spend)
some thousands of dollars more in inquir-' ~|
ing into her ‘“‘force.”” The scientific lit- erature about her takes up more than g foot on the book shelf—monument to a groveling imbecility of Judgment. And {t is not only her fatuous dupes that she degrades. So far as lay in her power she
has degraded some of her American in- og vestigators. For they were forced against’ ~ |
This is the sin of the head, which.
their will to the only device that would ~
eradicate a superstition and terminate a
scandal to science—to watch from hidden ‘ a
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places.
As the case stood in January, there had been no real progress regarding it since 1895. It was then proved in Cambridge, England, (what had been suspected be- fore,) that Eusapia would sometimes d@- eeive the holders if she could free a hand
or a foot and get it into the cabinet bee @ + hind her. oe more confirmed by Mr. Edgar T. Scott | 3
Last December this was once.
of Philadelphia, who, at one of Mr. Car-
rington’s séances, put his hand undef the 4 curtain into the cabinet and came in con+ « @ After fif- a:
tact with her stookinged foot. teen years it was time to take a step forward. =
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the appearance of her arm or foot in
. inches of her feet. And care was taken to bring these observations together after- “ward with those of the sitters.
Wood in direct observation of the me- dium’s movements in the cabinet.
The Great Thing Is to Free a Hand or a Foot. ‘ The truth is you cannot take a large etep forward with Eusapia without unob- served observers. When you go to see her she really sees you to better pur- pose. When you want to ‘‘ control” her, that is, make sure where her hands and feet are, she controls you. That is, she gets you to sit in the circle at the table, touching your neighbors’ hands, and thus forming what she calls ‘‘the chain.” It is wel] called the chain, for by it the sitter is bound. By dint of ‘‘ substitution ”’ her own hand soon is free and you do not know where it is, but she knows very well that your hands are in full view on the table. You cannot be exploring in awkward places. The reason she gives for the chain is, of course, that it enables the current to flow round the circle. Her greatest accomplishment of all is this, that she knows where every one is putting his attention. If you should look at the critical place nothing would happen there. But she is a consummate mistress of all arts to direct your at- tention away from the critical place. If she wants to do something with the hands,
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good control of the feet. If she wants to slip her foot on your’s so as to get the heel where the toe has been and put the toe on another foot, she will make mystic passes in the air in front of your eyes, and at each stroke of her hand, slip goes the foot—a slight motion. which it is virtually certain that you will not notice. A jerk in one place covers a lesser jerk in another. She is a supreme eluder. Give all your attention to holding her hands and no hand-phenomenon will come: the feet can do quite enough inthe interval. ‘Then she will tell you to give up the control and get under the table and hold her feet. Then the phenomena that follow are done by the hand, though you do.not know it. Ten to one you say after that she does not do it with her hands or feet, for you have held them both and are absolutely sure that they did not get away.
What did we obtain?
First of all we made close observations of her extraordinary ‘“‘ substitution trick.” I confess I was crestfallen when I dis- covered that this old ruse was still her grand stratagem. I had been expecting that after its discovery in Cambridge, England, long ago, she would have elab- -orated some new masterpiece. I was
playing with the ideas of a false arm of ae
Wrench workmanship, a spring reel in seF Clothing, under her arm, or worked by 46 a@bdominal muscles. But the human st bas proved itself patiently gullible to let Eusapia keep calmly on her first trick. She persuades the two holders on her right and left that @y are holding two hands or two feet, em, in fact, they have hold of one at Brent points. The accompanying photo-
is show this. It is done, of course,
' ef sight. With the feet it can be done, as the feet of the holders and medium are all together under a table a foot and a half wide. With the hands it is done either on her lap as she sits at the table. or on the table under cover of the curtain, which often ‘‘ blows
_Qut*’ over the table and remains there.
Our policy in general was not to notice or suggest suspicion. We held her
@& purpose just as she wished at sev-
eral sittings in order to watch the sub-
® stitution trick at work and note the com- * img and going of the hands or feet. Wimgtish report says:
The
‘“‘Of substitution of
feet we discovered no instances” in eleven
sittings. In point of fact, substitution of is the basis of somewhat more than HBusapia’s performances.
ur gituation was this. If we should
he id Busapia expertly and prevent “ sub-
tion.” there would be no phenomena. em her adherents would say that the
we” had simply failed to work on Se Occasions; perhaps there were un- So the first ques- tion was, If there is a trick what is it? When there are phenomena,. how are they produced?
How Heads and Hands Were Pro-
duced.
We found the secret of her “ materiali- zations.”” In all the previous reports weird hands, heads, &c., suddenly appear- ing in front of the curtains, had figured plentifully. Again I was crestfallen. These spiritual members, taking shape before our eyes, turned out to be—the medium’s hands. By close watching we repeated- ly saw her hand, which had slipped its holding, dart back toward the curtain. The hand appearing above her head was often strikingly like hers. Sometimes it was white and Vague in the semi-darkness —apparently swathed in a bit of flimsy white material like a handkerchief that she was noticed to carry with her.
And the heads? How dolefully the wonder of those instantaneous heads as they figured in the foreign reports faded on close acquaintance. The much-de- scribed small black head with grotesque features that darts out from the curtain in the gloom and as suddenly disappears— that is her hand, swathed this time in a piece of black stuff. The features were apparently made by her fingers held in a
peculiar way. We saw, once or twice, a
most uncanny white hand, almost lumi- nous, a witch’s evocation indeed. If it was not the mere contrast with the black eurtain that made the effect and the whiteness that comes from holding the hand up a whiie so that the blood runs
out she may have had some whitening}
powder or luminous substance. We never seized Eusapia and searched her sud- denly. She would certainly have protest- She invited search before the sit-
tings, and that was repeatedly made. The
. other would have been illegal, an assault,
and would also have cut short our inves-
- when there was reason
that Gi eeedium had her left
She is left handed. And every
Le m Was such as her left nd could produce.
Source of the Famous “ Breeze.” Then the breezes! Through all the for-
eign accounts these eerie breezes blow.
Cold air under the table, sudden blowing out of the curtain, &c,, and, chief of ail,
the famous breeze ‘‘ from a scar above
the forehead.’ The curtain is flung out ‘by her arm and hand, and makes a breeze as it is flung. When it bulges out slight- yy this is apparently done by her foot
or hand. Again, the folds of it shiver a slightly. when, in the manner of a sorcer-
“@ss, she holds some one’s hand opposite, i calls for. ‘the spirit to come. The pro-
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turns her head sideways near the curtain and with a little puckering of the mouth blows along its surface. Such slight, cool draughts as have been observed near the floor during our sitting need not have anything to do with Eusapia. They were; explained by the position of windows and doors, a crack inthe cabinet, &c., and’ the expectation of the sitters. Some peo- ple can discover draughts almost any- where.
That far-famed breeze from above the brow on the left side—how it hurts me to tamper rudely with this faint zephyr from elfland, breathing such rich suggestions of magic and romance! ‘‘ Breathing ’’ is the appropriate expression, for it came from the corner of her mouth. I .have been practicing it ever since, and can produce it with not a little effect. The credit of the discovery is entirely due to Mr. James L. Kellogg, who assisted us on April 17. The current of air is sent up close to the face.
The touches are made, of course, by the medium’s hand, usually the left, and also, if she will pardon my mentioning it, by her foot; which she can raise to more than a moderate height without altering the poise of her body. I have seen her touch and grasp, and put on and take off the eyeglasses of an elderly divine who sat on her left in a midnight séance in the room ‘in the Lincoln Square Arcade,
Table*Levitation by the Use of a Hand and a Foot.
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How the Investigators Corcealed Themselves.
where the sittings of which Mr. Carring-
Genesee
ton was manager were held. It was done (not this time by the foot) through the curtain, which ‘* blew out’”’ up to his face. His chair was violently pulled once or twicy. The curtain was over the table. I was “‘controlling’’ on the right and let- ting Eusapja have her way. It was per- fectly evident from the position of my hand under the curtain that this gentle- man was deceived in the usual manner. He was holding another part of the same hand—her right. How sportive were the sprites that evening, and how flowingly at her ease was Efisapia!
Movements in the Cabinet Easily Made.
The movements in the cabinet are done usually, of course, by hand or foot. The first evening I saw her another elderly gentleman, apparently inclined to spirit-
does the rubbing sometimes with the stockinged foot.
The other way of producing raps is a very old trick. One hand rests on the corner of the table. The skin of one fin- ger is pressed against the table and then suddenly made to slip a fraction of an inch. This causes the sound. I have heard -Eusapia do this so often and the sound has come so unmistakably from the hand.
Levitation a Briefly Baffling Won- der.
The most baffling of all her wonders to us were the levitations. We all sit around the table, and our hands rest lightly upon it. The table tilts lightly, first toward one side, then perhaps toward the other. These first tilts are plainly produced by
| her hands resting on the corners. No Ppa be tea pean eg concealment is made of this. The true | levitations have not yet begun. Then
table and there was nothing to hinder sub- stitution. Accordingly the spirits were active. A slender stand or tabourette came out in the semi-darkness, came for-
suddénly the end of the table toward the medium rises; that is, only the legs at the other end of the table remain on the
ward slowly through the air over the floor. Then perhaps three legs come off medium’s left arm, and seemed to try to the floor. Then at last a grande levita- climb up the table, where it at length de- zione. These are remarkable phenomena.
This strange leaning, tottering, and then rising of the table fascinates the eye. There is a curious effect like inflation; it seems as if the expansion of something below were lifting the table into the air. A student of these phenomena of long experience said to me: “I believe that the levitations are the only genuine part of the performance; the rest is trickery.”’ A usually judicious foreign critic, Count Solovoro, remarks that the burden of proof rests now upon those who question their genuineness. The faith in levita- tions is exceptionally widespread. Her hands are nearly always in view. As the table tilts away from her they some- times slowly and mystically rise away from it. The hoiders, right and left, feel the pressure of her feet on theirs and so report. She often asks you to put your arm across her knees, and they seem to be motionless. Our Cbpserver from the large chest reported that he could see no tampering with the right leg of the table. Our observer from the open panel reported that he could see no tam- pering with the left leg. How the Method was Detected.
It was to surprise the secret of the levitations that, long after the January sittings were over, the plan was adopted of concealing watchers under the chairs of the sitters. Eusapia sits at the end of the table. On each side are two sitters. The rungs were taken out of the chairs. Several rehearsals were held. Each per- son among the sitters had his post and his part assigned. When Eusapia ar- rived and took her seat her attention was diverted by asking her to cause an electro- scope to discharge, as she was reported to have done at Paris. The electroscope was placed on the table and she put' her hand to it. The sitters and the by-stand- ers drew up to the table, leaning eagerly toward the instrument. This hid the door from which the two. creeping devotees of science, clad in close-fitting jersey gymnasium costume and ready for their act of self-humiliation, came noise- lessly across the fidor and lay at full length under the chairs, their respective faces close to her right and left foot. Eusapia suspected nothing. Neither the spirits nor her “‘ psychic sense’”’ apprised her of the keen-eyed skepticism ambushed at her feet. She testified more than once afterward that that evening had been a good one, the “ influences ’’ favorable.
It was certainly richer in ‘‘ phenomena ”’ than any other I have seen. There were none of the usual long pauses. 7 hours or so one striking event succeeded another, with hardly an intermission. Mr. Rinn, who was under the chair on the left, tells me that his mind was quite open on the subject. When he was settled and the tilting began he said to himself: ‘‘T am simply an observer. I do not know what will happen. Perhaps a foot will come out from under that dress and perhaps it will not.” He saw, however, that she was ‘“‘substituting.”” Her right heel rested on the foot of the holder on the right, and her right toe, the toe of the same foot, rested on the foot of the holder. on the left. Just as Mr. Rinn waz making his reflections the left foot ap- peared from under her dress. The table was tilted, as usual, by her hands, rais- ing its left leg above the floor, She put ‘her left foot under the table leg, and, by Mirae beeps litted the jacegh :
posited itself. In this very common trick of hers the foot and left hand, sometimes the foot alone, apparently brings the ob- ject out of the cabinet, and a hand finally pushes it upon the table.
Other movements in the cabinet are caused in various ways. Sometimes she will gradually work her chair back until it is in contact with objects in the cabinet which are touching still other objects. Pushing the chair a little will then make the noises. At one of our sittings in the Physical Laboratory at Columbia Uni- versity at midnight, strange sounds were heard at the top of the cabinet at a point evidently beyond her reach. Here, at last, was something ‘ evidential.’’ But we found afterward, on examination, that the sides of the cabinet were loosely fas- tened to the sides of the door in which the cabinet had been constructed, and that she had got hold of the loose edge with her left hand and was shaking the whole cabinet, making it knock against its hold- ings above.
But she makes some movements with- out either hands or feet. On one occa- sion at midnight, in one of our sittings in Fayerweather Hall, she was securely held and nothing was happening. Sudden- ly, however, there came strange, super- natural noises again from the top of the cabinet, quite beyond her reach. On ex- amination afterward we found that the curtains hung in the doorway had been |nailed to the board put across the top of it; that this board was vertically sawed half through in the middle, and that by pulling on the curtains which she had clutched in her hands, which were be- ing held on her lap, she had.made one! portion of the board rub against the oth- er, and ‘the curtain strain on its nails. Hence the preternatural sounds.
Spirit Rappings Sim a Them yoursel
We next come to the raps. These are mysterious enough. The medium early in the sitting will tap or thump three times on the middle of the séance table and listen! Three faint, dull, but unmis- takable raps or .thuds are heard in reply. They seem to come from under -the table, as if some hand were making them against its under surface. But both the medium’s hands are visible in a good light on or above the table. She bids us put our ears to the middle of the table. Or, again, the medium, or you at her re- quest, makes three light raps, and three sharp ones are made in response, not un- der the table, but near by, from some in- definable quarter. Or, once more, the medium rubs or scratches on the top of | the table, and a dull scratching is heard below.
These effects are produced in two Ways. Having freed her left foot, by substitu- tion, she raps it against the left leg of the table about three inches above the floor. She always tries to have a reso- nant table that will conduct sounds well so that the listening ear applied to the q Upper surface cannot tell just where they originate. The scratching is done with the left foot against the table leg in a similar way. ‘the outer side of her shoe extends well beyond the sole so that she ean make a dull noise in rapping, though the shoe is on. However, there is much testimony that she often has her shoe off, and Mr. J. F. Rinn, who observed | Ae below a Dione feels gure that she
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Meanwhile the observers above saw her, } /eave her with no very stern feelings to-
away to the other end of the table, put her left hand on the corner of the table and press it down. Thus the table was hoisted between her left foot and her left hand. On other occasions the thing is apparently done with her right hand and foot. But Eusapia seems to work on the left side when she can.
when the sitter’s arm is placed across them, that is explained in two ways. First, no one equals Eusapia in the scrupulous- ness with which’ she shuts the stable door or beseeches you to do so after the horse is stolen. The very instant that left or right knee is motionless, she draws your hand across it. She deceives you by beginning to draw your hand across while in reality she is still working with the left knee. The other explanation is that it is quite possible to lift a table a consid- erable distance from the floor by this method without (strange to say) raising the left knee more than the least bit in the world. It is done by keeping the heel on the floor and raising the toe. When merely the near end of the table is raised, the further legs remaining on the floor, I fancy this is Eusapla’s usual method, for it is less fatiguing.
Thus the baffling and long-hunted se- cret of the levitations had been discov- ered. It confirmed a hypothesis that had been already suggested among us. *
In ail this there has been nothing, so far as I know, of personal indignation toward the woman Eusapia Paladino. No doubt she considers hers one of the professions, which, like every other, has its peculiar principles and technique. There is a cer- taih bonhomie never far from the sur- face in her. One finds it quite impossible to focus upon the individual the contempt and concern one must feel for the power over human minds for which she stands. There is a kind of naiveté, after all, for which the evil of such arts hardly comes in —_— and thus it is that one must
f'when the attention of most was drawn |
As to the knees remaining motionless
ward the culprit, but with satisfaction that a step forward has been taken as “we advancg on chaos in the dark.”
STATEMENTS OF INVESTIGATORS
No Evidence of Supernormal Powers, but Much Evidence of Trickery.
(By rermission of the editor of Science)
The undersigned had four sittings with the Italian medium, Eusapia Paladino, in the Physical Laboratory at Columbia Uni- versity in January last. The object in view was to secure and report any! evi- dence of the operation of hitherto unt known forces through her or in her’ pres ence.
Though the investigation may fafrly be called patient and laborious, no convinc- ing evidence whatever of such a phenom- enon could be obtained. Many indications were obtained, however, that trickery was being practiced on the sitters... These indications will be more fully .stated by the individual investigators.
So far as these sittings. afford data for
signed is unfavorable to the view that any supernormal power in this case ex- ists. : CHARLES I. DANA, M.’ D., Professor of Nervous Diseases, Columbia University Medical College. WILLIAM HALLOCK, Professor of Physics, Columbia, DICKINSON 5S. MILLER, Professor of Philosophy, bia. FREDERICK PETERSON, M. D., Professor’ of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. W. B. PITKIN, Lecturer on Fhilosophy, bia.
AUGUSTUS TROWBRIDGBE, Professor of Physics, Princeton
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EDMUND B. WILSON, Professor of Biology, Columbia. R. W. WOOD, Professor of Physics, Johns fest kins University. No Feats When Controlled. It has been said that Eusapia finds trickery more easy than the exercise of her supernatural power; that she conse- quently resorts to the former whenever
the control by the sitters permits it, and
that the only fair test is had when there is Such control as makes trickery abso- lutely impossible. During a fourth sitting, at which the undersigned were present, something like this control was exercised, and while this was the case noné of the ao-dalled:< evidential phenomena took plaee. Cc. L. DANA,
W. HALLOCKE,
D. 8. MILLER,
EF. PETERSON,
W. B. PITKIN,
A. TROWBRIDGE, BE. B. WILSON,
R. W. WOOD.
X-Ray Test Omitted.
| We take this opportunity of making our acknowledgments to Prof. Hallock for his courtesy in putting his private office and-workshop at the disposal of the in- vestigators, and to the members of the group at large for giving their time to the sittings in the midst of professional duties, in especiai to those who came from a dis- tance. We wish to record our regret that, owing to circumstances beyond our con- trol, the X-ray test, ingeniously devised by Prof. Wood, could not be applied. His plan will be found separately described. W. PP, MONTAGUE, W. B. PITKIN, D. 8S. MILLER. Statement of Prof. Dickinson 58, Miller. I have’ been present at nine sittings with Eusapia Paladino, and was in an ad- joining room at a tenth. } Broadly speak-
jing, Eusapia’s ‘“‘ phenomena,” as observed
in America and as commonly reported before, fall into seven classes: (1) Levi- tations of the table, (2) raps, (8) touches, (4) breezes, (5) lights, (6) ‘*‘ materializa- tions,’’ and (7) movements in or about the With the lights I was not fa- vored. Of all the other classes, I can say: (1) That conclusive and detailed evidence was gained as to the method by whict typical specimens of them were repeated- ly produced, and (2) that when the me- dium was securely held they were not rroduced at all.
But what, it may be asked, are we to make of the European verdicts in favor of Eusapia’s supernormal powers? Now by common consent the strongest docu- ment as a collection of evidence for these powers is the report of a committee of
{the Society for Psychical Research, pub-
lished in England last November. The Paris Committee had worked mainly to establish that the phenomena really oc- curred and were not the mere hallucina- tions of the sitters. Of course they do occur; we must admit it. But the English Committee try, by reporting in detail how the medium was held and watched, to give the reader the evidence that the phenomena could not have been caused by trickery. The result is that we have the
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PROF. MONTAGUE’S STATEMENT.
Not Convinced That She Possesses Any Unknown Force.
To the Editor of The New York Timea: I agree substantially with the mittee’s report. My sittings with Palae
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dino have failed to convince me that
she possesses any unknown foreé, ~ fact, she has-been detected in so much trickery that there is in my opinion an extremely high probability that the manifestations which I wit vere produced by merely natural
But I do not feei that the methods i Al conditions of our experiments were of -
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such a kind as to warrant the rigorously scientific and finally conclusive verdict for which we had hoped, or even to jus- tify quite the degree of emphasis. ex-
pressed in the’ majority report.
It has long been known that Pala- dino résorted tc trickery, and the‘ claiin has .been made and will, I. fear, still be made that she finds it easier to perform fraudulently that which she can an: sometimes does acccmplish otherwise, The Cambridge exposure of 1895 proved that she used trickery, but did not put a stop to her scientific vogue. I had hoped, perhaps foolishly, that our investigation would be rather more than a repetition of something already accomplished. And it seemed plain that the policy to pur- sue was to insist upon conditions of con- trol by mechanical means, which, in- stead of encouraging fraud by their loose- ness, should be so rigorous as absolutely to eliminate her well-known tricks of foot and hand substitution.
If this plan had had a fair trial, no ‘phenomena’ had resulted, our re- rort might have given a permanent quietus to tne Paladino cult.
MONTAGUE.
P. ‘‘ Associate Professor ‘of Philosophy, Coe lumbia University.”’
DIFFICULT TO DETECT HER.
Dr. Dana and Others Discuss Pala« dino’s Seances.
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defense on the part of her admirers. “I must admit,” he added, “that our
investigations were not as complete ag I |
wished. Personally, I feel that we have not fully explained all of her tricks; we have merely found that all we: tried td explain have been capable of demonstra- tion as frauds.
“The Americans showed her up where the Europeans failed, but the showing ap . will need to be more exhaustive. For ine . stance, there are several tricks @he fe:
capable of p: forming in any one of sere) eral ways, att after being exposed it one —
of. these site may allow herself to Be ge | controlled that performing the trigk fn. the manner exposed will be impossible and then will perform it anyhow.
“Those of us who were on the ori committee did wot see all of the t that a comms organized later = nessed. , We @a four\evenings to the werk and I retired because I felt that I could not give-ai® time to it. see the mateAaeration of a hand but once, and on ena occasion one of our. watchers saw the hand coming down, but ! did not see it go up. The hand that came down was Paladino’s, which she had re- leased by a clever method of substitution.
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‘IT have heard that in one sitting 18 produced the “phenomenon of a ble’ poised in mtdair with no person near it. and with the lights full on. We must make allowances.-for that case, as it w rroduced in her manager’s studio; and h may have assisted “her; pered to say he did this, ‘however, as Il am not. informed on the case.
She Failed in Tests.
“ All-I can say definitely, as a conelu=. sion, is. that wherever conditions were. provided for Paladino that made scientifio. tests possible, she failed to produce re-_ sults; From such tests as we made we.
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4] hand. He felt none there, but he certainly ii did feel a cool current emanating from
PALADINO DEFIANT: AGAIN GIVES TESTS
Makes a Table Jump for a Doubt- ing Reporter and Issues a Challenge to Skeptics.
SCOFFS AT INVESTIGATORS
Calls Them Unsclentific—As to Tricks, She Merely Does Them When In- fluenced by the Doubters.
“Tell the gentlemen of Top New YorxkE Times that I hold myself ready at their own convenience to give a demonstration, which shall prove false every alleged proof set forth by Prof. Miller as to my trickery and fraud. I will even climb the tall tower in order to do so, that they may be satisfied. I only ask that they treat me like a decent woman, who is as anxious as they are to solve the scientific phase of the phenomena to which I give expression. I do not want them to act like jumpingjacks as so many learned pro- fessors have recently done,’’
Busapia Paladino said these words with a certain amount of emphasis, with a certain amount of fire in her cold gray eyes after she had become acquainted with the reporter sent to interview her yesterday in regard to Prof. Miller’s ar- ticle of exposure. But before that the re- porter had applied some of the tests de- scribed in the article, and did not find Paladino wanting. But then he is not a scientific investigator, and only visited Paladino because of his knowledge of her own language.
‘He found her uptown fn a Iliittle flat where she is living with her sister-in-law —just seven weeks married. Paladino
with some figured cards in the dining room. Quite futilely, as it turned out, the reporter at the beginning denied ail knowledge of the Italian language, and a convenient butcher was sent for next door to act as interpreter. He spoke and understood ‘‘ American,”’ the reporter was informed. In the meantime la Paladin» lisped a few words in French: Did mon- mow. wish a séance? Who was he, any- way
When the butcher arrived the case was laid before them. The reporter outlined the points of Prof. Miller’s article and showed them the pictures which accom- pany the text, he butcher was very much interested; so was La Paladino, ‘** But,”’ said the latter, pointing to the icture in which a woman’s head is vis- ble, while her left hand extends back- ward to a small table, ‘‘ that is not I.”’
She was informed that thege pictures were posed for by models after descrip- tions furnished by Prof. Miller.
She Questions the Pictures,
* Oh!” she said. ‘“‘ Then they are not real photographs of what really occurred —they are made up, as it were.” The reporter then informed la Paladino of how she had been caught lifting the table with a foot that was supposed to be in secure control, how she had made the spiritualistic raps, how the breezes had been made to emanate from a wound in her head, and how the materializations had taken place. All this the butcher from below trans- lated from American into Italian. Then la Paladino was joined by her sister-in- law of seven weeks, They conversed in Italian, but their words were none that the reporter should not have heard. They were simply as follows: i
La Paladino—And that Miller wrote all this? What do you think of thet! And he had all these persons come spying on and he never said a’ word? Woll,
The Sister-in-Law—I remember him very well. HFte got down on the floog and squirmed about like a swimming man and grabbed you every little while, and had a coarse laugh.
La Paladino—And to think that all the while he had persons concealed around the room, and he never said a word and Well, well.
The Sister-in-Law—lIt is ridiculous for him to say that he had men crawl up to the table in dark clothes. I who was there at two of the‘sittings would have seen them. You would have seen them, too. Is is it not so?
La Paladino—Certainly I would have seen them. But about the cabinet-ff any one were looking in at the top of that I could not have seen that.
They were curious at what the reporter told them and at thé pictures he showed them. That was all. So he got rid of the butcher and his knowledge of ‘‘ Amer- ican,’’ and addressing the women in their own language said:
‘This is very serious business. Prof. Miller with a number of witnesses is ready to prove that you resorted to trickery in producing the levitations of the table, the raps, the touches by mysterious hands, the. breezes, and the materializations. *What have you to say?”
La Paladino arose. She went to a small room and brought out a table made of white wood, weighing possibly eight pounds. While the sister-in-law stood in the doorway she placed the table before the reporter and seated herself at the end. She placed his right foot over both of hers. All four hands were upon the table. A bright light entered from the window, and from the adjacent room shone the rays of a patent gas jet.
A Test for the Reporter.
La Paladino threw back her head and closed her eyes. After three or five min- utes the table rose in air. The reporter removed his hands and forced la Pala- dino to remove hers, and the table con- tinued to rise. He looked under the table and passed his right hand between it and the woman. The table rose three or four feet and then fell with a crash.
c But,’’ he inguired, ‘is it not possible that you may have removed one of your feet—your left—and manipulated it under your dress, thus causing the table to rise? ’’
‘You felt both my feet, did you not?’”’
‘‘Yes, but I may have fancied,”
With that la Paladino placed her left leg across the reporter’s knee and placed his left foot firmly upon her right. Again their hands were upon the table and again it rose two or three feet, tilted back and forth, and fell with a crash. Here is exactly what mepoenes: He saw a table rear itself up without any visible means of support, part of its course upward without any human contact, and all ina bright light, and he did not know how it was done.
He was asked to rap on the table. This he did, giving three sharp raps. came the answer: Three sharp raps. The fingers of Paladino had not moved. Of this he is certain. The sister-in-law still stood in the doorway six feet away. regarded the scene as something curious, but not particularly new. Both lacked the enthusiasm that persons, particularly Italians, pare of on seeing what is strange and wonderfu .
“How about Che Sesenn” the reporter asked, “‘the breezé that emanates from the hole in your head, but which Prot.
Miler “ws is produced by sending a cur-
I never knew it.
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corner of your mouth?
practiced the trick an ton Onan 3 ft self.’’ @ reporter’s ht
gent from her mouth to her head would have been felt by the reporter’s left
the head and his right hand. and he dis- “4 tinetly felt it blow against this hand.
| “Are you satisfied?’’ asked the sister- | in-elaw from the doorway. —
“| “Jf you will return later,” la Paladino - | se4, “ you may be able to see the mate- ; | ria izations.”
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the hole in la Paladino’s head, just one- 1 third the distance from the left to the right ear. La Paladino had a ribbon tied in her hair. This ribbon was between
Promises Further Proof.
The reporter is a skeptic and declineu. s had seen no material means used to
se to it, or to produce the 6 Pn fage dag osetain that if
been
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Paladino dictated the statements which appears at the beginning of this article. till with her hand upon the table she began to speak of the experiments at Co- lumbia University—of Prof. Miller, Dr. Dana. and others
“Why,” she said, “I had no idea that they suspected me of any trickery. They were always most polite and encouraging. I thought they understood that I wanted the truth quite as much as they did them- selves. At the end of every sitting they always declared that they were perfectly satisfied—that they had perfect faith in my sincerity. i do not understand this action of Prof. Miller. He always seemed to be so polite and considerate and en- couraging. ** Besides, they did not employ half the tests that I have been subjected to in Rome and Paris. In Paris Flammarion and Richet placed my feet in pasteboard boxes over which. were stretched elastics. f I had attempted to remove a foot I would have touched an elastic, and then a electric bell would have gone ‘ Burr! urr!’ ‘Here you know very little of sci- entific tests. You want it all your own way. You ve. no apparatus—nothing. You only sit arolind the table~your pro- fessors do—and wave your arms and hands like a windmill, and laugh, and grab me here and there. It is not nice, nor is it scientific. Bind me with ropes in any way you please, but don’t grab me and yell. :
Explains Away Her Tricks.
“It is said that I perform some of my ‘tricks '—my ‘tricks'—by removing one foot from a shoe and touching the persons around the table by the tip of my toes! Have I legs like an American girl that I
can do this? My boots, you see, are laced up to my calves. I always wear these o
ots.
“As to my being able to remove one hand from the control and throw it back gs0 as to reach the curtain of the cabinet four feet and more away—have the arms of Lina Cavalieri that I could do this? I leave it to you. La Cavalieri has such long arms, but even she couldn’t do what Prof. Miller says his man in the top of the cabinet saw my arms do.
‘And there was that German, Miin- sterberg. I have been told that he had aman at one of my sittings crawl under the table and grab my foot as I was per- forming some nastics with it, and that I yelled. insterberg wrote this down in a magazine, but I tell you that nothing happened—nothing at all.
‘‘Have you ever been caught in—in— e reporter asked.
y times I have been told so0,”’ frankly responded la Paladino. ‘* You see it is like this: Some people are at the table who expect tricks—in fact they want them—I am in a trance. Nothing. happens. They get impatient. They think of the tricks—nothing but tricks. They pes their mind on the tricks—and—I—and
automatically respond. But it is not often. They merely will me to do them. That is all.
**Oh, I am.sick of this American com- mercialism. BPvery manager that I have had has tried to make his fortune out of me. I should really like to give a sitting to some real scientists, real gentlemen, such as I have met in Europe, who would meet me half way in the idea that I was the medium through which most curious phenomena were worked. It is sympathy that I need and a certain respect for what I have done,
‘‘In such circumstances it seems possl- ble that they could discover whether I have the in a power of concentrating @ great physical force as yet unknown or whether my phenomena are aovusny the anifestations from another world. It § one ~— or the other. Give me a sit- ting of fair-minded scientists, who are genuinely in sympathy with my poco: ena, who do not come expecting to catch you there
me in tricks, and I promise
will be none.
PALADINO TRICKS ALL LAID BARE
* Continued from Page 32.
nurse present whom she allowed to search her carefully and to disrobe her. She al- lowed us to search for luminous paint with all the lights turned out, and to have her hair searched for trick ap- pornos that might have been a help to
r, Dr. Dana said that one of the tricks he thought Mme. Paladino would seek to explain was that of producing a breeze from her forehead. 6 said he was not wholly convinced as to the manner in which this was done, and doubted if the explanation that she produced the breeze from her mouth vas paweses her from efying all comers to prove it. va. Frederick Peterson of the College of Physicians and Surgeons felt that it would be violating the ethics of the medical pro- fession to discuss his investigations of Paladino in the form of an interview. He said that the presentation of the case as put in the signed statement to which he subscribed with the others was complete and convincing as to his position. “Do you feel that the evidence of trick- ery was positive enough to cause you to conclude you did not wish,to follow your experiments further than you did? he was asked. “Our conclusions, as expressed in our statement, are pretty strong on that point,”” he replied. Sitting with Paladino seemed to be ry diversion of keen interest to W. B. Pitkin, lecturer on Philosophy at Columbia Uni- versity. He was busy packing up for his, Summer vacation when a TIMBs reporter called at his home, at 836 West End Ave= nue, last night, but he quickly laid aside his work on the packing boxes to speak of the medium and her methods.
Hard to Expose Her.
‘TY see in a periodical,’ he said, “ that some University of Wisconsin professors exposed her in two sittings. They prob- ably find rightly as far as they g0, but I am convinced from my experience with her that she wil! never be completely ex- posed to the satisfaction of all concerned until there is had a series of several dozen sittings, arranged serially to take up one by one each trick which she per- forms. We left some of her most spec- tacular tricks untouched, but on all we did touch we found fraud, and conscious fraud at that.
“and I want to say very definitely that the defense made for Paladino by her manager that her fraud is_uncon-
ious, is not a valid defense. I found er quick to try any fraud she thought she could succeed with. Sometimes I feigned an interest in some matter she was presenting purposely, and I always recall that she made full use of advan- tages so gained to make clever substitu- tions and produce phenomena.
“She is a fraud. and a conscious, clever and aggressively determined fraud. I had no interest in spiritualism, or psychic in- vestigation. I was simply puzzled to know why men of scientific repute had failed to detect the frauds of such a manipulator, and I wanted to sit in with Paladino’ to determine for myself why so many of my colleagues across the water had been fooled. have never had a personal prejudice for or against rediums. I wanted to get on the trail ef this one, and so welcomed an oOppor- tunity to do it.
“In saying she is e humbug I ‘do it with only one reservation, and that is
exposed her. We have not worked witb the best laboratcry methods to the final scientific end. F
by statin ** Now.
on her forehead from which came—and there resent—and I found that the cardboar
aid not interfere in_ the least with th phenomenon. I ehall confound her critics on know many more exact details
that it comes from her lips.
Ou
his point.
our exposfire complete.
‘While I have no admiration for her as a possessor of supernormal power, I do admire her as a wonderful trickster. She eyed us all with the alertness of a cat in search.of prey. and was keen to take ad- vantage of the slightest pewing.
Prof. Edmund B. Wilson of the Depart-
was evidently tired of Paladino and all
disappointed with himself taken any serious interest in the case.
her in any particular,’”’ he said when seen at his home, 468 Riverside Drive. “ Our signed statement says all there is to say.”’
Held for Luring Girl to Chinatown.
Rena G. Lee of 11 Pell Street was yes- terdav charged in the Tombs Court with abduction and assisting Im the luring of Marcelle Feaure, a seventeen-year-old girl, from Easton, Penn. She was held in $3,000 bail for examination to-morrow. With her were also arraigned her sup- posed husband. Hin Hom, a Chinaman; Fanny Steuber, a nineteen-year-old white girl. und her alleged husband, Tom a Chinaman. Hom was dicharged as hav- ing nothing to do wi Steuber woman
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ment of Biology of Columbia University
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HELPLESS WITH COLD
WHEN BALLOON FELL
Forbes and: Yates Struck Bitter Snowstorm 20,600 Feet Aloft and Lost Control.
PULLED RIP WIDE OPEN
Balloon Dropped Like a Shot at End of Descent—Both Men Hurt, but Neither In Any Danger.
Special to The New York Times. CENTER, Ky. May 11.—A snowstorm encountered: at’ an altitude of 20,600 feet which.so benumbed the aeronauts. that they had trouble with a rip cord and lost control of their balloon was the cause of the accident to the Viking near here last night, when A. Holland Forbes of Bridge- port, Conn., Vice President of the Aero Club of America, and J. G. Yates of New York, after a flight of 400 miles from Quincy, Ill., were severely hurt by a sudden drop to earth. The shock was such that both aeronauts were not only bruised but stunned, though both will recover. The balloon was partly wrecked. The Viking fell very rapidly from a great height and seems to have shot through the final 100 feet of space like a stone. The aeronauts were both unconscious all last night, but this condition was due at least as much to the cold as to the fall. The men are being cared for at the farm of Tilden Boston, to whose house they were carried when they were picked up out of the wreck of their machine, and who found in Mr. Forbes's pocket a note asking that in case of accident Tun NEW YORK Times be notified. Mr. Forbes and Mr. Yates are both confined to their beds, but they say they expect to be able to travel within a few days.
Mr. Forbes Tells Story.
“We left Quincy, Ill, at 6:55 o'clock Monday evening,’’ said Mr. Forbes, when he recovered consciousness about noon to- day. ‘‘ We were hoping to strike favor- able air currents from the west that might give us a chance at the long-dis- tance record. We were carried in a semi- circle, however, passing over parts of Illi- nois M/*souri, Indiana, and Kentucky.
‘ Tuesday morning we encountered in- tense cold and a severe snowstorm at an altitude of 16,000 feet. Tuesday after- noon, again at an altitude of 16,000 feet, we ran into another snowstorm. Shortly afterward we shot up to 20,600 feet through the snow. The cold was so in- tense that we became benumbed and half |. stupefied. We gradually lost control of the balloon. I cannot tell what the alti- tude was just before we made our final drop, but efforts to let out the gas by the valve did not bring us down as fast as de- sired. Finally I used the rip cord, for fear we might lose consciousness. In some manner as yet undiscovered the cord worked entirely too well and ripped the bag almost from top to bottom. The descent was terrific, and I judge that for the last hundred feet there was little eas left in the balloon, as it fell like a
stone.’’ The balloon had first been sighted in this neighborhood a little after 2 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. It was moving only about five miles an hour, and.when it gEot comparatively close to the ground thse occupants of the farmhouses were unable to see any one in the big basket dangling below the half-filled bag. A score of farmers, suspecting that some- thing was wrong, h followed the bal- loon as it drifted along, momentarily drop- pirg lower, and they were near by when the sudden collapse- came ‘that -dropped the basket and its unconscious occu- pants into a pasture. . 5 +
It was fortunate for Forbes and Yates that the farmers were close at hand, as the balloon ‘collapsed on top. of them, and they would certainly have been smothered if relief had not been imme- Giate. The-place where they fell was twenty miles from the nearest telegraph office and about twenty miles from the village of Center.
The unconscious men were taken to a farmhouse and a physician was called. He found that the aeronauts, while cov- ered with cuts and bruises, had no broken bones. Forbes was first to regain con- sciousness, but at first he taiked in a rambling manner. He could not tel] nis name at first, but later his mind became clearer and he was able to verify his identity and could tell something of his journey, but the doctor would not permit him to talk much. Yates has not fully recovered from the stupor induced by the gas. The food and other supplies that were taken along were also tossed over- board in the vain effort to keep afloat. None of the large quantity of provisions put aboard at Quincy was found after thie balloon landed,
ST. LOUIS, May 11.—The balloon Vik- ing, which landed in a wrecked condition .near Center, Ky., late yesterday, h an erratic flight. tt ascended at Ay ney, Ill., Monday evening at 6:30 o’clock, and traveled southward slowly.
Early yesterday morning it was sighted at Wentzville, Mo., and it passed over the Mississippi River within the limits of St. Touis. It was next reported in Southern Illinois. At Nashville, Ill, the drag rope touched the treetops.
Ballast was thrown out at North Prai- rie and the balloon ascended to an aiti- tude of 3,000 feet and slowly sailed toward Kentucky.
MRS. FORBES DREAMED OF FAEL.
Wife of Aeronaut Says She Saw Mis- hap in Weird Vision.
Special to The New York Times.
FAIRFIELD, Conn., May 11.—The fol- lowing telegram from A. Holland Forbes was received to-night by Mrs. Forbes: ‘‘Landed in Kentucky. Will be home Tuesday.”
A message has also been received from Yates saying: ‘‘ Forbes and I perfectly safe. Returning shortly.”
Mrs. Forbes deciares that while sleep- ing last night at her home in Fairfield she had a distinct and horrifying vision of the disaster which befell her husband when the balloon was wrecked near Cen- ter, Ky. )
‘‘It was the.most horrible nightmare,”’ declared Mrs. Forbes, ‘‘and when awoke this mereeng I felt certain that scmethitig terrible had happened to my husband.
‘*Some time during the night I com- menced to dream that I saw the balloon Viking with my husband and Mr. Yates in it. At times it appeared near and very clear, and then it would fade and become indistinct. When the vision, grew most vivia could distinetly hear my husband’s voice calling for help. t seemed to me that he and his companion had been in the balloon for days with- ae food or drink and were suffering ter- ri .
bh
feeling which strikes one in dreams and seemed to be watching my husband zo to his death and felt powerless to he! him. So horrifying was the vision that screamed and awoke, and my maid came running Into the room to see what was the matter, fe
“It was daylight then and I sent her to get the morning papers, feeling sure that somethin must have ngs What I dreaded was confirmed when the papers arrived.’’
JOHN LA FARGE IMPROVING.
if Betterment Continues Painter Will be Out Soon, Doctor Says.
John La Farge, the artist, who has been
ill in the Elahnemann Hospital, was said
to be resting more easily last night. ‘‘Mr. La Farze’s heart action is better,
and he is gaining strength,”’ said Dr. Anson H. ingham, who is attending him. ‘*‘He haa been working too hard
@ man 74 years old, and has had a 1 breakdown. But if he continues prove he may be able to go out in ten “days.”’
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DIRECT NOMINATIONS BEATEN IN ASSEMBLY
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County Republicans.
sible.
in the Spring.
the Speaker never heard of
coul
bosses than this
“If you iook
every county. confusion.
the words o they are unable fect take power When the
gation made
primary day, ballot. at primaries of wel
vention entirely.
maries.
In the Senate take u
that time the
duced by the J
Judicia Meade-
of that
week.
f Prot.
Meade-
next ednesday. Senate
bill, and the comp
hillips bill,
by pledging their support to the Gov- ernor’s direct primary The vote in detail follows;
For the Bill,
lan.
REPUBLICANS, Allen, A, F., Lee, Allen, H. E., Luston, Argetsinger, Mcinerney, Barden, Miller, J. L, Bates, Murray, Baumes, Odell, Bennett, Perkins, Brainerd, Pitkin, Brown, C. F., Raldiria, Cheney, © Reed, Clarke, R. H., Roberts, ~— Clark, 8. C., Shepardson, Colne, Stivers, Cross, Sullivan, Doherty, Sweet, Feeley, Thompson, Filley Garfein, Van O’Linda, Goodspeed, Welland, Green, Weimert, Higgins, Wilkie, Holden, Wilsnack, Lansing, . DEMOCRATS, Abbey, McGrath, Chanler, Neupert Cosad, 0’ Connor, Crocker, Patrie, De Long, Rozan, Evans, ~ Trombly, Harwood, Wende, Hearn, White, L. H., Jackson, Wright. Keller, : INDEPENDENTS. Donovan, Stevenson, Total—¢7, Against the Bill. REPUBLICANS, Bosh Marlatt, Brown, G. W., Merritt, Burgoyne, Nolan, Callan, Parker, Coffey, Phillips, C. W.., Conklin, Phillips, Jd. 6., Connell, ea, ang, Smith, M., De Lano, Toomba, Ebbeta, Vicinus, Fowler, Vosburgh, Glore, Walters, Goodwin, Ward, Gray, Waters Greenwood, Weber, Hainés, Weinstein, Hinman, White, B. EL, Howaré, Whitley, Kopp, Whitney, Lachman, Yale, Lcwman, Young, F. L., Macdonald, Speaker Wadsworth. MacGregor, | DEMOCRATS, Boylan, Herrick, J. J., Brennan, Levy, Caughlan, Manlex, Donnelly, McCue, Farrell, McEliligott, Fay, McKeon, Foley, Metzendor?f, Friend, O’Neill, J. J., Friabie, O’Neill, M. A., Gerhardt, Sanner, Gerken, Shortt, ethene amaithe A. &., soldberg, ~spleliberg, Graubard, Walkers Hackett, Zorn. Total—77. ABSENTHES, Beck, Ww. © Miller Hoey, BE oung. Total—5,
Assemblyman George 8S: Eveleth of Her- kimer, who had been pledged to direct|- nominations by the convention that nom- inated him, answered to the first roll call when the close call was ordered, but did not vote and no step was taken to compel him to go on record. There was a division tn the vote of the Republican Assemblymen from New York as there was among the Kings In most instances the Re- publicans of New York City voted against the Governor’s bili, and stated that they did so because its enactment would ren- der fusion against Tammany Hall impos-
Wadsworth in Opposition.
During the debate on the Hinman-Green bill the strongest argument of any was made by Speaker Wadsworth. He said that:one of the serious defects of the bill was that it made no provision for the cau- cCuses that take the place of primaries in iown and village elections that are held
‘The nominating committee also,”’ said ‘‘is a unique feature. I have &® nominating committee except in a club. I don’t know that there be devised a scheme more calcu- lated to set up a close corporation of i has been called a direct nominations bill is beyond my cemprehension, It provides for statu- tory bossism in effect. The bosses simply nave it handed to them.”’ at the primary ballot provided for in this bill you will find | that it will require marking in twenty- | five places in a State election in almost |
This is bound to © might well bear in mind Ford of Princeton: ‘When you give the people power which rou in ef-
bill. How it
to exercise away from t
Total, 12.
a State Committee,
to-day
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When Mr. Merritt was asked about his share in altering the amendments were handed to him either b a member or by some one connected wit one of the Public Service Commissions, and he understood they were desired by
bill,
*“*‘I have not made a careful examina- tion of the amendments and cannot say that they would have the effect their opponents complain ot,” said Mr. Merritt. ‘It is a fact that I gave them to Sen- ator Davis, and believed they were de- sired by the commissions. tigate the matter, and if the amendments would have the effect claimed of course I shall oppose th
em.,"’
The Publio Service Commussion of the|¥ First District will send a representative to endeavor to prevent the passaga of the Parker bill as amend- ed. Secretary Whitney of the ee
& ub- lication last night, and all the members of the commission were equally reticent. They showed clearly, however, that they felt that a determined attempt is being made to offset the beneficial effects of the prorosed amendments’ to the public
alleged ‘ jokers.’’ of the matter for
This aeger ween! bill was originally intro- y Assemblyman
cluded provisions permitting the commis- sion to issue orders for the restoration of transfers in the city, authorizing it to take action on the complaint of one per- son instead of the requirement of 100 sig- natures to Bede ohn
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em. hillips bill, which was drafted as a result of the investi- by the legislative commit- tee of last year in States where a di- rect primary ‘system has been applied, | came to the final vote these Republic- | ans went on recerd as opposing it: Ben- | rett, Colné, Dana, Gray, Green, Lupton, MacDonald, Perkins, Shea, Sweet, Thomp- son, and Veimert., The Meade-Phillips bill, which will now go to the Senate for concurrence, provides for a State-wide enrollment, a uniform and an official primary It provides for the direct election as as of delegates to all conventions, abolishing the so-called intermediary con- Through a companion measure the provisions of the corrupt practices act now applying to general elections are extended to the official pri- The bill contains no provision for the direct nomination of candidates, but it does provide that a direct primary may be obtained in any political unit by the vote of the party organization there. it was agreed to the Primary bills in that house ected that at vote on the Hinman-Green bill, the Democratic League romise measure intro- ciary Committee, pro- viding for the direct nomination o didates for the Senate and Assembly. The Committee failed to report the the passage of the last-named measure in the Assembly to-day will probably result in the placing roposition before the Senate when the primary question is debated next
can-
he said the
I will inves-
Parker and in-
a ving the com- ction over all public service es and over commutatio n
amendments was to restore the clause giv- ing the commission jurisdiction over com-
that the other three changes are “ jok- ers ’’ pure and simple.
the commission are those which it is con- tended would vermit the old the capitalization of franchises
rate for gas and a higher rate of than 5 cents, ‘and the striking out of tne clause which allowed the commission to order the construction of extensions by gas and electric light companies in their exclusive territory.
Before the present public service law was enacted the capitalization of fran- chises was legal and the commission con- tends that the amendment would restore this condition.
The commission contends that the sub-
stitution of the word “ different”’ for “higher’’ would practically nullify the eignty-cent gas law, opening the pos-
sibility of the obtaining of court orders
to compel the commission to establish a
gas rate higher than 80 cents. As the
ee of the ill originally stood this 6 e
impossib
int made by the cori- heré is so much that /s and desirable tn the bill that it unfortunate {f the Governor were compelled to veto ft on account of — sileped * jokers.’ put in at the last
MATHEWSON DEFENDS CHANGES
Says They Are Proper and Were Not Urged by Gas Company.
When a dispatch from Albany, relative to the amendments made to the Public
Charles ¥. Mathewson last night he said:
In the first place, the statement is wholly in error as to the Consolidated Gas Company of New York having been interested In any way !n the proposed amendments. The Consolidated Gas Com- pany, I know of my personal knowledge, took no action of any kind in connectfon with the amendments.
‘It should be stated,” Mr. Mathewson continued, “that the committees very wisely decided to make certain amend- ments which have strengthened the bill. As to the capitalization of franchises the existing law ‘forbids the capitalization hereafter of franchises, but when already capitalized thelr rights concededly cannot be taken from existing compantes. The effect of the amendment fn this connec- tion is merely to permit a companv whose franchise fs thus lerallv capitalized to continue such capitalization in the future if it 1¢ acquired by some other company, provided such merger is approved by the Public Service Comm!ssion. he In the matter of the {increase of rates, the commissions were given power to fix rates after an ftnvestication. on the very ground that their investigation could be more extended and thorough than anv consideration which could be given to any particniar case by the Leeislaturs. The amendment referred ta merelv au- thorizes the Public Service Commission to raise rates above existing statutes when the commissions find that justice de- mands ft.
“Now, as to the strikine ont of the words ‘and extensions,’ this amendment merely made constitutional a section that was plainly unconstitutional. The atten- tion of the committee was called to a decision of the Sunreme Court of the United States in a railroad case. The court held that even a reasonable extension could not be a matter of compulsion on the investor without compensation to thea investor. or, In that case. a railroad. The committee very wisely decided to make
the section conestitn constitutional.” tional Instead of un-
The first change made by the Senate |
mutation rates. There is no objection to. this by the commission, but it contends |
ractice of. y gas and . electric light. compahies, the opening of | a possibility of the commission. being or- | dered by the courts to establish a ye
are |
Service Commissions bill, was shown to /}
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Premler’s Tribute to King Edward— Doctors Say Monarch’s Death Was Partly Due to Worry.
Special Cabk to Tom NEW YORK TIM®s.
LONDON, May . 11.— Extremists among the Protestants are up in arms against the proposed amendment of the coronation oath, and ever since Pre- mier Asquith signified his intention to carry out Mr. Redmond’s suggestion they have been indulging in virulent threats and abuse. “ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writes to The Times pointing out that the Protestant Reformation Society, the Evangelical Alliance. and other similar bodies “should, looking at the matter simply from their own point of view, recognize
that the surest way to strengthen any creed is, as the whole history of the world has proved, to persecute it.”” He adds:
“Is it anything other than persecu- tion to hold up the Roman Catholic faith to obloquy in the coronation oath, while every other creed, Christian or non-Christian, is left unassailed? Is it not a shocking thing that, while Roman Catholic chapels throughout the whole Empire are still draped in black for the deceased monarch, his successor should be compelled by law to insult the most intimate convictions of these same mourners? And is it not a most narrow, foolish policy, unworthy of this tolerant age, that the young King should be forced to offend the feelings of great numbers of Irishmen, Can- adians, and other subjects?
‘‘I feel sure that, apart from the Catholics, the great majority of broad- minded thinkers of any or of no denom- ination in this country, are of the opinion that the outcry of fanatics Should be disregarded and that all creeds should receive the same court- eous, respectful treatment so long as their adherents are members of the common Empire.
“To bring these medieval rancours to an end would, indeed, be an auspi- cious opening of the new reign.”
No finer tribute has been paid to King Edwart’s services to the British nation and the cause of the peace of the world than that uttered by Premier Asquith in the House of Commons to-day. One sentence was:
“In this great business community there was no better man of business than King Edward, no one by whom the common, humdrum obligations of punctuality, method, preciseness, and economy of time and speech were more keenly recognized or more sternly prac- ticed.” |
George Bernard Shaw sends to The Times a letter containing the sugges- tion that the vague expression ‘“ decent mourning ”’ be dropped in the orders is- sued from the Lord Chamberlain’s of- fice and that the wearing of violet rib- bon be defined as appropriate mourning for royalty in the case of middle-class women and girls.
Mr. Shaw takes the case of a man with a moderate professional or busi- ness income who has three daughters at a high school. He says:
“The school is compelled to go into mourning, the dresses provided for the season have to be discarded, and new black dresses bought. To a Court of- ficial it may be inconceivable that so trifling an expense could be a hardship to any one, but by those who know what life on a small income is to people who have to keep up @ social position above that of the working class, it will be more justly appreciated as a calamity.
“Why our schools should deliberately be made hideous with black because an honorable public career has come to its natural close, in all the peace of fulfillment and cheerful memory, is not
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DESCRIBE KING’S ILLNESS.
Statement by Late Monarch’s Doc- tors—Speeches in Parliament.
LONDON, May 11.—That King Ed- ward’s death was partly due to worry over the political situation is officially declared in a statement regarding his ill- ness which his physicians, Sir Francis Laking, Sir James Reid, and Sir Richard Douglas Powell, are publishing over their signatures in The Lancet to-morrow. They say’
His Majesty had for some years suffered from emphysema, (swelling in cellular tissue), with attendant bronchial catarrh, signs of which were permanently present at the bases of the lungs. On several oc- casions digestive disturbances had caused his medical attendants to realize that his Majesty no longer had the reserve constitu- tional power which had stood him in such splendid stead after his serious operation in 1902, and that any intercurrent catarrhal or bronchial attack of a serious kind would at once call upon both heart and lungs for their fullest effort, |
It must here be said that those around him knew how earnestly concerned he was at the present strained position of political affairs, and this fact should not be lost sight of in an all-around consideration of the~King’s health.
Referring to the King’s recent visit to Biarritz, the physicians say:
The first night in Paris his Majesty had @ severe attack of acute indigestion, with subsequent dyspnoea (difficulty in breath- ing).. On his arrival at Biarritz this de- veloped into a bronchitic attack, causing his physicians great anxiety. This passed off and his Majesty returned better in every way. but he contracted a chill at Sandringham while inspecting the gardens.
On his return to London, the statement continues, from May 3, the attacks of dyspnoea increased, although the King insisted upon attending to business of State as late as Thursday, May 5. ‘‘On that day,” the physicians add, “the at- tacks became more frequent and distress-
ing, and, with increasing cyanosis, grave- ly suggestive of threatened cardiac falil- ure. The doctors conclude:
With the King’s permission the doctors issued the first bulletin on Thursday night, but not until it was seen by his Majesty, who somewhat modified its terms. From Friday morning his condition rapidly became worse. There were several dangerous at- tacks, and his Majesty only rallied by the use of powerful remedies. At 3 o’clock in the afternoon consciousness failed... The end came at 11:45 o’clock after a prolonged period of perfect calm.
Parliament’s Tribute.
Parliament paid a tribute to the mem- ory of King Edward to-day, adopting ad- dresses of condolence and congratulations to the new King. Premier Asquith in the House of Commons and the Earl of Crewe
in the House of Lords delivered enlogies rH Edward VII. Both showed great emo- on.
The two Houses met specially in the afternoon to pay their tribute to the mem- ory of tap | Eward and to welcome his successor. message from the new mon- arch, in which he announced the death of his father and his own succession, was read in both Houses.
The royal message was received in the House of Commons with solemnity, the members standing uncovered as it was read. It follows:
The King knows that the House of Com- mons shares in the profound and deep sor- row which has befallen his Majesty by the death of his Majesty’s father, the late King, end that the House entertains a tru3 sense of the loss which his Majesty and the nation’ have sustained in this mournful event. . ;
King. Edward’s care for the welfare of the people and his skilled and prduent guid- ance of affairs, his unwearying devotion to publie duty during an illustrious reign, and his Simple courage in danger and pain will long be held’ in honor by his subjects at
‘home and beyond the seas.
Upon a motion by Premier Asquith, sec- onded by Mr. Balfour, the leader of the Opposition, the House of Commons adopt- ed unanimously an. address to be present- ed to King George, in which his Majesty is assured of the heartfelt sympathy of the Lower Chamber in his grievous afflic- tion, and in which, also, are expressed the congratulations of the House upon his accession. The address proceeds: .
We will ever remember with grateful af- fection the zeal and success with which our late sovereign labored to consolidate the peace and concord of the world, to aid every merciful endeavor for the alleviation of hu- man suffering, and to unite in justice and freedom all the races and classes of his subjects with his imperial throne.
We beg to offer his Majesty our loyal congratulations upon his auspicious acces- sion, and we assure his Majesty of our devotion to his royal person, and our sure conviction that his reign will, under the favor of Divine Providence, be distinguished by unswerving efforts to promote the virtue and contentment of the realm, and to guard the rights and liberties of his Majesty's faithful people.
Mr. Asquith’s Speech. Speaking on the motion, Mr. Asquith referred to the reign ‘of the great King suddenly taken from us’ as years crowd-
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“In our relations with foreign countries they have been years of growing friend- ships and new understandings, strong reo Na safeguards of the peace of man-
nd.
“Within the empire the sense of inter- dependence, the consciousness of common interests and‘common risks, and of the ever-tightening bonds of co-operative ony. has been developed as never be-
‘““Here at home, and by way of con- trast, controversial issues of.the gravest kind, economic, social, and constitutional have ripened with rapid maturity. In al of these muitiform manifestations of our national and imperial life, history will assign a part of particular dignity and authority to the great er whom we have lost. In external affairs his power- ful personal influence was directed stead- ily and ceaselessly toward avoiding, not only wars, but the causes and pretexts of wars, and he well earned the title by which he will always pe remembered, the Peacemaker of the World.’
Mr. Asquith described the late King as @ sportsman in the best sense of the term —one wholly free from prejudice and the narrow rules of caste. ‘In all com- panies,’”’ said the Premier, ‘ enfranchised citizen of the world.’’
The Premier gaid that the first consid- eration of the monarch was his duty to the State, and added:
‘‘I speak with the privilege of close ex- perience when I say that, wherever he was, whatever may have been his pre- occupation, in the business of the State there were no arrears, no confusion, no avoidable delay.”
The Premier then moved that the House’s condolence be sent to the Queen Mother Alexandra on the irreparable loss which she’ had sustained, the resolution assuring her that the House of Commons and the nation would ever preserve to- ward her ‘‘ sentiments of unalterable rev- erence and affection.”
While he was speaking Mr. Asquith was obviously deeply affected. When he ex- gy ae the gf cn, Me orgy the House elt for the Queen other he all but broke down.
Speaking on similar lines in the House of Lords, the Earl of Crewe was well nigh overcome with emotion and con- cluded his remarks with difficulty.
Afterward King George and the Queen Mother received at Marlborough ouse and Buckingham. Palace, eg ecwhiew b deputations from the Lords and Commons bearing the resolutions.
he announcement that ex-President Roosevelt will attend the funeral of King Edward as the special Ambassador of the United States has been received with great satisfaction by the British public.
Royalties Arriving.
The relatives of the British royal fam- ily are arriving here to attend the funeral. Enfpress Dowager Marie of Rus- sia, a sister of Queen Alexandra, reached here to-day, accompanied by the Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch, younger brother of Emperor Nicholas, who will be the official representative of Russia at the obsequies. The Empress Dowager and the Grand Duke were met at the rail- road station by King George and Queen Mary, who drove with them to Bucking- ham Palace.
The announcement that: King Manuel had left Lisbon for London is erroneous. He expects to leave Lisbon on May 16 for Calais, whence 4 British cruiser will convey him to England.
Numbers of beautiful wreaths are ar- riving at Buckingham: Palace, but, at the Queen Mother’s special request, all flow- ers will be sent to Windsor Castle, The funeral will be ot a military character, and it is considered tnat the carrying of wreaths in the procession would be some- what incongruous.
The American Society at a special meet- ing to-day adopted resolutions expressing regret at the death of King Edward and sympathy for the royal family. It was de- cided to send a floral tribute upon the oc- casion of the funeral. American Consul General Griffiths addressed the society,
paying a tribute to the late King.
mong the numerous functions aban- doned or indefinitely postponed owing to King Edward’s death is the Royal Mili- tary Tournament, the War Office having decided that it would be improper’ for his Majesty’s soldiers and sailors to partfici- pate in'such an exhibifioh in the course of the period of national mourning.
KING GEORGE’S SEAMANSHIP.
How He Rescued a Torpedo Boat in the Naval Manoeuvres of 1889. By Marconi Transatiantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
LONDON, May 11, (by telegraph to Clifden, Ireland, thence by wireless.)—. The Times to-day prints a letter from a naval officer describing a specific act of good seamanship which King George performed while in command of Tor- pedo Boat 79, ‘‘ where,’ says the writer, ‘‘ he shared his small cabin and box of sardines with his sole mess- mate, the gunner.’’
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to defend Lough Swilly, and, as an at- tack by the enemy was hardly expect- ed, three attached torpedo boats were sent to sea one night to reconnoitre directly after dark, with orders to return into the harbor at daylight. It was a rough night, and, while returning toward the harbor just after daylight, one of the three broke down’ and had to anchor close to the lee shore, where a nasty sea was on.
“No. 79 immediately went to the res- cue of her comrade, and the third boat returned to the harbor. to report the Situation, as the disabled boat was around a corner and not in sight from the senior officer’s ship.
“Shortly afterward No. 79 returned and reported that she had carried away her only hawser and had failed to tow the disabled boat out of danger. The situation was critical, and immediately preparations were made for rescuing the disabled boat, but the commander of No. 79 was so keen to have another try, notwithstanding the fact that he had been up all night, that it was de- cided to give the young Sub-Lieutenant a chance of winning his spurs, so he ‘was provided with a brand-new hemp ‘hawser and was sent out again to
rescue his friend, which he did; and!
towed him safely into the harbor.
“It was a smart piece of seamanship, which would have done credit to an of- ficer who had had far wider experience in this sort of work than Prince George had then enjoyed.
“There were no special correspond- ents of newspapers present, and it was well known that the modest commander of No. 79 was not one of those who play to the gallery, it being sufficient for him to know that he had done his duty, and done it well.”
The writer of the letter signs it “ The Senior Officer Present,” and concludes: “May one add, with all due respect, that perhaps his Majesty mill make none the worse King for being a good sailor.’’
ROOSEVELT AMERICAN ENVOY.
Accepts Appointment as Ambassador at King Edward’s Funeral,
WASHINGTON, May 11.—Official an- nouncement was made to-day of the ap- poihtment of Mr. Roosevelt by President Taft as special Ambassador to represent the United States at the funeral of King Edward in London on May 20. Cable- grams were exchanged last night. Presi- dent Taft set forth at some length the purpose of the appointment. Col. Roose- velt replied with the single -word, ‘ Ac- cept.’’ ;
This is said to have been the first direct communication between President Taft and Col. Roosevelt since the for- mer’s inauguration., The text of Mr. Taft’s cablegram follows:
Washington, May 10, 1910.
Roosevelt,
Care American Embassy, Berlin.
I should be very glad if you would act as Special Ambassador to represent the United States at the funeral of King Ed- ward VII I am sure that the English people will be highly gratified at your presence in this capacity and that our people will strongly approve it. Have as yet received no official notice of the date of funeral, but it is reported. that it will take place on the twentieth of this month. Please answer. WILLIAM H. TAFT. Mr. Roosevelt replied: .
Berlin, May W, 1910.
The President,
Washington.
Accept. ROOSEVELT.
BERLIN, May 11.—President Taft’s in- vitation to Mr. Roosevelt to represent the United States as Special Ambassador at the funeral of King Edward was re- ceived this morning, and acceptance was immediately eabled to Washington,
ing with Mr. Roosevelt, the Committee ‘of the Corporation decided to-day to present to the ex-President the honorary free- dom of the City of London on May 31, the date originally chosen. '
Instead of the formal luncheon planned, however, there will an informal re- ception for which 1,000 invitations will be issued. Those invited will include the present and former Ministers of the Cab-
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PERUVIAN ARMY ON FRONTIER.
And Ecuador Sends 10,000 Men There to Resist Invasion.
GUAYAQUIL, May 11.—Advices_ re- ceived here state that the Peruvian Gov- ernment has statfoned 10,000 men at dif- ferent points along the frontier.
An equal number of Ecuadorian so!-
diers have been ordered to the front to resist invasion.
WIRELESS WORKING WELL.
Mr. Marconi Reports Transatlantic Ser- ‘vice In Successful Operation.
MONTREAL, May 11.—Mr. Marconi has completed the reconstruction of the wire- less station at Glace Bay and is now en route to Montreal.
He reports the wireless transatlantic service from Glace Bay to Clifden in complete and successfull operation.
THE MINNEHAHA FLOATED.
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HUGH TOWN, St. Mary’s, Scilly Is!l- ands, May 11.—The Atlantio Transport liner Minnehaha was floated to-day and proceeded under her own steam to Crow Sound, to the south of this island, where she anchored.
The steamer will be examined by divers.
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The fourth bullet that was used in kill- ing Dr. Moit D. Cannon’s housekeeper, Miss Margaret Meehan, and his butler, William Benam, in his home, at 131 West 122d Street, on Monday afternoon, was found yesterday under the carpet on the parlor floor. Coroner Winterbottom and his physicians had found four bullet wounds in the two bodies, but had ac- counted for only three bullets.
The finding of this bullet has convinced the police that two pistols were used in accomplishing the double murder, as Dr. Cannon’s pistol, found beside the body of the butler, had in it only three ex- ploded cartridges. This would have some bearing on the theory, held by a large number of detectives working on the“case, that it was not a professional burglar who killed the old woman and the Hindu, since it was likely that he would have had his own pistol, and would have used it at some point in the shooting.
In spite of the tangle of inaccurate in- formation that has been given out about this case, and in spite of the many fanciful theories about the crime be- ing due to a Hindu vendetta, and to a
German who had known Miss Meehan, and who had been admitted by her into the house, Dr. Cannon is convinced that the evidence indicates that the murderer was a professional burglar who got into the house by way of the roof. ome of the detectives agree with him. The un- necessary brutality of the killings has led the detectives to try to get on the track of a convict recently turned out of the Joliet, lll., Prison. His methods are peculiarly atrocious,
Dr. Cannon went over the whole ground of the case with a Times reporter yester- day, and exploded half a dozen stories that have been told about the double murder. One theory with the detectives has been that the burglar must have been admitted into the house by Miss Meehan. All patients had to make appointments with the doctor in hours other than his office hours, and he was out visiting patients when the burglary happened.
Dr. Cannon’s Story.
‘‘I told Margaret many times,” went on Dr. Cannon, “never to admit ahy one she didn’t know. [I told her that nearly everybody gets taken in at some time of his life by opening doors to people,
but that she should put that off if she could. I instructed her to look through the glass door at a caller, and never to open the door to him unless she knew him as well as she did me. ‘ Possibly some people will get mad at that,’ I told her, ‘but if so let them go to the dickens; it is the best way to do.’ ’’
It was learned that Miss Meehan was visited by only a few people, practically all of them women relatives. J. H. Cronk of 42 Clinton Place, about the only male relative near her, ,visited Dr. Cannon’s home yesterday to look at the body. Miss Meehan was adopted into the family of Dr. Cannon’s wife, the Allens of Philadel- phia, many years ago, nursed Mrs. Can- non, and came with her when she was married to the doctor. She was one of the family, though she was called the housekeeper. She had no relatives or acquaintances who might have visited her on Monday, Dr. Cannon % sure: ‘a -A great deal has been made out of the fact that William Carter, the negro who was Dr. Cannon’s butler until last. week, when he went to work for a doctor next door, has been questioned by the detec-, tives. He said he had left Dr. Cannon’s house because it was lonely: moreover, he had worked for his present employer cnee before. Dr. Cannon has always trusted Carter implicitly.
“TI have so much faith in him.”’ he said, ‘‘that I would put him on watch in this house right now. I left him here Jast Summer to watch this house and all that was in it, and bought him a pistol in spite of the fact that he had once before beén arrested for carrying one,”’
The negro was seen washing windows when the murder took place.
Hindu Repudiates Vendetta Stories.
A. R. Tulsie of 229 West Fifty-third Street, the Hindu acquaintance of Will- iam Benam, to whom most of the weird stories about the Hindu secret society and vendettas have been attributed, re-
puidates all alleged statements about Be- namin except that he came from the West jndies ana worked around here for sev- eral months before going to Dr. Can- ncn’s. The colored Y. M. C. A. gave vesterday a recora of the jobs Benam had filled since Jan. 24 In most of the places he was employed as a butler.
There has been talk about the murder being done by a German. Last Thursday Frederick Lee of 257 West 123d Street, a plumber, sent his brother Louis and Charles Strohler to put in a new leader pipe at the back of Dr. Cannon's house to take off the rain from the roof. They remained there from 11 to 3:30 o’clock. In that time Frederick Lee made a visit to the: house to see how the’ work was getting on. There is not the slightest suspicion upon even Mr. Strohler, whose name sounds like that of a German, and he is still at his post.
It was said that the newspaper in which the burglar carried his jimmy into the Cannon house was a German paper, but that newspaper, which was itound on the third floor, was a sheet of an evening paper.
Putting aside all the extravagant theo- ries about the case, Dr. Cannon can see nothing except the work of a professional burglar, who was caught in the act and committed two murders in the frenzy of his fright. Flat robbing in the daytime is one of the commonest of crimes in Harlem and the Bronx.
There is a break in the line of houses in West 122d Street, down near Lenox Avenue, and a man could get over two fences guarding a vacant lot there and into the wide uncovered area between the houses on the south side of 123d Street and the north side of 122d Street. There is a vacant house at 105 West 122d Street, and the burglar may have got to the roof of the line of houses through that or some of the others. All the houses in this block are of uniform height to permit the passage from down around Lenox Avenue to the roof of Dr. Cannon’s house.
Probable Solution of Burglary.
Tf the burglar got to the roof of that | three-story house he saw that an exten- sion was built out from the second floor in the rear, and that its roof was just on a level with the third-floor windows. It
was only a short drop to that extension roof, and if he needed any aid, the newly installed leader pipe was at hand on the eastern edge of the bnilding.
Once on the roof, uccording to Dr. Can- non’s theory, the burglar found himself facing an unfastened window that opened into an unused room. He jumped in, quickly saw that there was nothing worth taking there, and went on out into the hall. He ran into the front: room on that floor. saw a dresser that gaye evidence cf being used, took the paper off his jimmy, and got ready for business. The paper, with the jimmy imprints, was later found. This dresser yielded only a small purse with a few dollars in it.
The burglar then went hastily to the secand floor, going from the stairs into a little room connecting:-a big front room and Pr. Cannon’s bedroom in the rear. Choosing the doctor’s bedroom, he wert there. Turning to the left upon entering, he saw a stand of drawers, and opening the top one, he took cut the doctor's pis- iol. His eye then fell on the mahogany dresser.
For the first time he found a drawer locked. Placing the point of his jimmy above the top board of the dresser, he exeried a powerful pressure, and tne up- per board cracked andj lifted, allowing the only large drawer to come out. The noise of that must have attracted the attention of Margaret Meehan, who was in’ her room at the rear of the hall, on this floor. Dr. Cannon is sure tnat she was in-
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out of their places every afternoon about 8 o'clock, carried’ them to her room, an there got them ready for another night's service. She was as regular as clock- work about that. The untrimmed ruby lamps were found in her room, showing, to Dr. Cannon's satisfaction, that she was suddenly called away from her work.
The doctor believes that she rushed out into the hall when she heard the cracking of the dresser drawer, looked through the door at the burglar, who had had time only to snatch about $100 and five stickpins out of the drawer, and then ran down the stairs, a to get out on the stoop and cry for help The burglar gave chase and headed her off in the front parlor, Dr. Cannon be- lieves, and there killed her.
He thinks that the Hindu butler came up the stairs, saw the burglar, and ran down to.the basement intending to go out of the doors and gate an call for help. The burglar caught him just be- fore he reached the door and. killed him. Dr. Cannon confirmed the story of the doilie which the burglar knocked off a chair in the foyer on the first floor in his chase, and which shows dimly the imprint of two fingers.
The statement that he had taken $3,000 out of the house just before the coming of the new butler last week was classed with the other exaggerations by Dr. Can- non. He had had in the house some time before last week something more than the $100 which was stolen, but he had disposed of it in one way or another, and on that account he had remarked that it was a good thing that the robbery did not take place before last week. That — the foundation. of the $3,000 story, he said.
As for the solution of this double mur- er by an undoubted professional burglar, the police have not advanced very far. They are confessedly at sea.
** Let’s not talk about it,’’ said dne yes- terday. ‘‘It gives me the headache.”’
Detectives O’Farrell, Kinsler, and Van Wagegener spent about five hours yester- day and last night in Dr. Cannon’s house measuring all the important territory and making a minute search of the premises.
DENIES SLUR ON ROOSEVELT.
Vatican Disclaims Sarcastic Reference to Hunting in Europe.
WASHINGTON, May 11.—Mer. Falconi, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, issued a statement to-night relating to a cablegram published in this country, dated Rome, April 22, relating to Mr. Roose- velt’s proposed visit to the Pope. In this cablegram it was stated that the Vatican “did not wish Mr. Roosevelt to bracket
the Pope with other more or less royal personages he will boast of having hunted in Europe after his African hunt.’ The Apostolic Delegate called the attention of the Vatican to the statement, and to-day received a cablegram from Cardinal Merry de] Val, the Pontifical Secretary of State, authorizing him to say that this portion of the Rome cablegram did not come from en and consequently is repudi- ated.
TAFT LAUDS POLISH HEROES.
At Unveiling of Pulaski and Kosciusczko Statues Classes Them with Lafayette,
WASHINGYION, May i11.—Two monu- ments to the memory and deeds of Pulaski and Kosciusczko, the Polish heroes, both of whom fought and one of whom died that liberty in America might live, were dedicated here to-dayv. President Taft attended each dedication,
In his address at the unveiling of both statues, the President paid high tribute to, the two Polish warriors. He grouped them with Lafayette, Rochambeau, _De Kalb, and others, and said it was fitting that America should give enduring evi- dence of her gratitude to those who came to her in her hour of trouble.
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SANTO DOMINGO EARTHQUAKE.
And More Severe Shocks in Costa Rica —Panic in San Jose.
SANTO DOMINGO, May‘i1.—A severe earthquake shock was felt Here at 3 o’clock this morning.
There was no loss of life nor damage to property in the city, but no reports from the interior have yet been received.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, May 11.—-Heavy ' earthquake shocks were felt here to-day.
Thousands. of persons are leaving the city in alarm. There was a series of severe shocks yesterday.
While fear has seized a great part of the populace, the authorities continue resolutely at work among the ruins of Cartago. Many living persons have been ‘releaseqd from the débris, and some ol these will survive.
In most instances identification of the bodies is. impossible.. It is reported that the dead include two Americans.
The bodies are being buried as rapid!v as possible under the direction of the
Health Inspectors. . Dynamite is. being used to lower the walis’ that are still standing. .
he Red Cross organization, the police, the military, and members of the foreign colonies are actively engaged in the relief work, and by cool-headed methods have accomplished much. As fast as they are discovered the injured are removed <9? this city, where they receive medical at- tention. The public schools have been converted into temporary hospitals. White the surviving injured are thus being succored, the sanitary authorities are seeing that the dead are buried promptly and are taking other precautions against epidemics.
There is already talk of the reconstruc- tion of Cartago, and it was suggested thut the Government may determine the kind of material to be used in the new bulilld- ings as well as the manner of their con- struction,
WASHINGTON, Muay 11.—The seismo- graph in the United States Weather Bu- reau here recorded an earthquake shock at 2:34 o'clock this morning,
The disturbance continued nearly twenty minutes, but the record was a very silxzxht one and entirely insufficient for the sci- entists to determine the location of the upheaval.
To-day, after the Senate passed tne House bill authorizing the use of inili- tary and naval supplies for the rellef of Costa Rican earthquake sufferers, Sec- retary of the Navy Meyer cabled instruc.- tions to the commander of the marines on the Isthmus of Panama to turn over, to Col. Goethals tents not to exceed~200 in number, which will be forwarded to Cartago by the first available ship.
FIRM MOVES AFTER 104 YEARS
Building Occupied by Colgate & Co. to Make Way for a Skyscraper.
‘FIGHT 10 DEFEAT
TAFT TARIFF BOARD
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Payne and Dalzell May Vote with Democrats Against $250,000 Appropriation for It.
PRESIDENT STANDS: FIRM
Uitra-Protectionists Fear an Opening Wedge for Revision and Democrats the Loss of a Campaign Issue.
Special to The New York Times. WASHINGTON, May 11.—President Taft’s plan to create a tariff board,. for which purpose an approprtation of $250,- 000 has been provided in the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, will meet with much opposition when the House takes up this measure to-morrow. The _ ultra-protec- tionists do not look with favor upon the plan; neitaer do the Democrats, who on one pretext or another will vote almost solidly against the appropriation. The ultra-protectionists fear that such a board means tariff revision within two or three years. The Democrats see in its creation a plan to save the Republican Party, which, they declare, has perpetrated a bad tariff measu-’e which they are now seeking to patch up.
Several of the Senate and House lead- ers called at the White House to-day and found that the President is nevertheless firm in his stand for the creation of the board. Among these callers were Repre- sentatives Payne aid Dalzell, called the high priests of protection in the House, both of whom spent some time with the President, and Senators Aldrich and Crane. The Senate, however, is taking as yet but little interest in the item which will prove the bone of contention in the House because the Sundry Civil biil can- not reach the upper house for several weeks.
Representative Fordney of Michigan, a stanch protectioni is prepared to make
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clause of the bill. If his point of order is overruled an appeal doubtless will be taken and the House will vote on the proposition itself. This vote will find, in all probability, such regulars as Payne, Dalre!l! and Fordney voting with the
Democrats against the appropriation. Mr. Payne, who has prepared a speech in defense of the
propriations Committee, who is
iff board as urged by the President.
will probably cover several days, much of it will be devoted to a discussion
competes material
platform, a clause of which reads:
duction at home and abroad,
dustries."’ Mr. should apply in the passage of the Payne- Aldrich tariff law, but he fully recognized that there were no intelligent facts and figures upon which to base the various schedules. He appealed for a tariff. com- mission as part of the .bill that was passed. He did not get exactly what.he wanted. He feels now that the time has come when the Republicans can prepare the way to base future revision of the tariff upon scientific facts and not upon guesswork. ;
While word has reached the White House that there is opposition from Demo- crats and certain Republicans to the com- inission idea, the President has not felt that the Republicans will go so far as to
a point of order against the tariff board:
long Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, will open debate in the House to-morrow. Chairman Tawney of the Ap- also scheduled for a tariff speech, wll devote himself more particularly to the neces- sity of legalizing the creation of the tar-
General debate on the Sundry Civil bill and
of the tariff, the idea being to get a great mass of data in the record to be used as during the coming
all. The President’s advocacy of the tariff board is in line with the the Republican
*“‘In all tariff legislation the true prin- ciple of protection is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as wil] equal the difference between the cost of pro- together with a reasonable profit to American in-
Taft desired that this principle
defeat the appropriation. As to the Demo- crats, they think that a Tariff. Commis- sion having the money and authority to Start work and complete the important part of it as early as compatible with careful and scientific collection of data will take from them the very issue upon which they expect to win. in the coming —— namely, an unsatisfactory tariff
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Representative Tawney said to-dav that he was aware that Representatives Payne, Dalzell, and Fordney were opposed to the Tariff Board appropriation proposition, but that no other Republicans were against it. He hoped that they might be won over before the matter came to be considered on the floor. '
‘“I am in favor of an appropriation,” said Mr. Payne, “*‘to enable the President to carry out the provisions of the Tariff wor e's I am opposed to the Ti wney pro-
SENATE AFTER COTTON BULLS
Committee Sends for Men Charged with Part in Pool and for Growers.
Special to The New York Times. WASHINGTON, May 11.—TkHKe committee, which is investigating the high cost of living, has decided to take a hand in the cotton controversy by bringing the cotton bulls and bears here to tell about the high price of that staple. The resolu- tion of Senator Smith of South. Carolina | directing the,Attorney General to ascer- ; tain who sold the cotton in the alleged ‘pool to which Attorney General Wick- ersham replied that he had no authority to obey, was referred to the Judiciary
Committee, which now has it. : Senator Smith gave the whole matter a mew turn to-day, however, when, as a
nittee, he asked that these men who had been charged with cornering the supply of cotton he sent for. The committee de- cided to do this, and to-day telegraphed a number of cotton men, including Frank P. Hayne, a cotton operator, of New Or- leans, who is charged with being a party to the bull pool; Lewis W. Parker, a large manufacturer in President of the American .Spinners’ As- sociation, and three large cotton growers. R. P. Stackhouse and R. M. Cleveland of South Carolina, and J. F. Hickey of Texas. :
Messrs. Hayne and Parker are sum- moned to appear Monday next,