Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1909, Page 1

‘THE EVENING STAR “ATTH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION. Dusiness Office, 11th St. and Pennsyivesia Avene The Evening Star Newspaper Company, European Office: 8 Regent St., London, England, New York Office: Tribune Building. Ohicago Office: First Nationa) Bank Building. Star, with the Sunday morning editonn ig delivered’ by carriers within the city SO cents per month. Orders y be sent by i] or telephone Main 2440. Collection is made Dy carrier at the end of each month. By mail. postage prepaid- Sunday included, one mont Sunday excepted, Star, $1 year. Daily, Che Zvening Star. No. 17,900. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1909 —-TWENTY PAGES. TWO CENTS. Weather. Fair, with possibly frost to- night in the lowlands. Wed- nesday fair and warmer. AFLIF FOR SETTLERS Taft’s Conservation Speech Cheered at Spokane. WILL ASK FOR BOND ISSUE Wants Congress to Authorize $10,- 000,000 to Complete Irrigation. TO FOLLOW ROOSEVELT PLANS At the Same Time Promises to Keep Within Statute—Receives En- thusiastic Welcome. | Epecial Dispatch to The Star. SPOKANE, Wash. September 28.— President ‘aft delivered his last set speech of the western trip here at 11 o'clock this morning. Conservation o7 the nation’s natural resources was the subject, and to the west this speech was of more immediate importance than any that the President has delivered since he left Boston. In the speech the President outlined the program of legislation that he will recommend to Congress on this subject, making it plain that he intended to follow out the Roosevelt policy of conservation, but at the same time keep strictly within a reasonable interpretation of the statute. The President indicated that he would, if possible, obtain relief through legisla- tion for settlers who have taken up land in sections where the reclamation projects have been held up because of their ille- jer on board, Greenland coast by way of Indian Har- TALE WHITNEY TELLS Hunter Confirms Cook’s Ac- count in All Essentials. STORES TAKEN BY PEARY Murphy Had Vague Instruction to Send Out Relief Party. SPORTSMAN NOT QUESTIONED But Eskimos Ask Him What Peary’s Men Want Them to Say About Rival. ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland. September 28.—The arctic vessel Jeanie, with Harry Whitney, the New Haven big game hunt- has arrived here from the bor, Labrador. Whitney was questioned regarding the statements made to him by Dr. Frederick A. Cook in Greenland. He said Cook arrived at Annootok in April of this year and declared he had reached the north pole a year before. He pledged Whitney, however, not to tell Commander Peary, who was to be inform- ed only that Cook had gone farther north than Peary’s previous record, 87 degrees 6 minutes. Continuing. Dr. Cook told Whitney that he had accomplished all he had expected to, and more besides, and that he was through with the northern country. Whit- ney did not communicate the latter part of this statement to Commander Peary. gality. Will Ask for $10,000,000. The President declared he would ask Congress to authorize the issuance of $10,000,000 in bonds to complete irriga- tion projects already begun in the west and on which work had been stopped for lack of funds. This has been the hope of many settlers in the arid regions who had taken up lands in expectation of procuring a supply of water to make them fertile, and the President's declara- tion was enthusiastically cheered. The President declared that many news- Papers had drawn unfair inferences as to the attitude of his administration on the general conservation of natural re- sources. “The truth js, he said, “my adminis- tration is pledged to follow out the pol- icles of . Roosevelt in this regard, and, while the pledge does not involve me in any obligation to carry them out unless I have congressional authority to do’ 80, it does require that I take every @tep to exert every legitimate influence pen a te enact the legislation Ww 8] best subserve the urpose indicated.”" ala by The President declared that Secretary of the Interior Ballinger was in accord with him as to the necessity for pro- Eating in every legitimate way the con- servation of natural resources. Praise for Pinchot. The President also has praise for Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot, and refers to his “wonderful work for the conservation of the forests, supported by Mr. Roose- velt. President Taft declared as to water- power sites that Congress must authorize the government to allot these sites to private interests for development, the government retaining general control and supervision. He declared also that he would urge upon Congress the necessity of an au- thoritative classification of public lands to prevent difficulties of the past, such as the setting aside of coal and mineral lands ag agricultural lands and vice versa. The west has been insistent for the last week that the President should de- clare himself on the conservation policy, but Mr. Taft had reserved his speech until he reached this place so that he might deliver it from the same platform on which Secretary of the Interior Bal- linger was attacked at the recent con- servation congres: In this way the President intended to emphasize his sup- port of Mr. Ballinger in everything he has done. Consulted With Ballinger. The President was at work in his spe- cial train until after midnight dictating his speech, and he was up and at it again before 6 o'clock this morning. He con- sulted freely with Secretary Ballinger be- fore the speech was prepared, and he fur- ther expressed his confidence in Mr. Bal- linger by having him glance over it be- fore it was delivered. The President arrived here at 6 o'clock in the morning. The sprained tendon in his foot was a little better than it was yesterday, but he is still obliged to favor it, and will do as little walking as possible today. The President will be in Spokane the en- tire day. The program that the Spokane folks had prepared for him was stren- uous. He started from his car at 8 o'clock in the morning for a forma! break- fast. This was followed by a motor trip around the city, a reviewing of several thousand school children, the G. A. R. and civic organizations and a speech from an open-air stand. The speech was re- ceived with enthusiasm by a big crowd. A luncheon in the city came next, and the President and his party were piled into automobiles and staried fir Hayden lake, several miles from the city. His ride tock him througa the beautiful Spokanz valley. At Hayden lake the President was treated to a game dinner. There were bear meat, duck, grouse and many cther deli- cacies from the wocds of Washington. ‘The President will leave here at 9 o'clock tonight for Seattle, where he will spend two days visiting the exposition. Cigarette Smoker Held Up. One member of the Taft party bumped up against a Washington law at 7 o'clock this morning and came near to being ar- rested. This member had stepped out on the station platform to have a little stroll and smoke a cigarette. A policeman tap- ped him on the shoulder and said, “You are violating the law, sir.” The astonished Taft follower learned that he was subject to a fifteen-dollar fine on the first offense aud a twenty-five-dol- lar fine on the second for smoking a cig- arette. The policeman let him off when he pleaded ignorance, but the wicked vio- lator walked over to the bank of the Spo- kane river and formally consigned two full boxes of cigarettes to its depths. ——————_—_—— Discovers Enormous Sun - Spot. ROME, September 28.—Astronomer Ba- oni has discovered an enormous spot on the sun, sreater thin any ever seen pre- About Cook’s Stores. Continuing, Whitney said that Dr. Cook had complained to him of Peary’s taking over of his house and stores, but de- clared he had suffered no unfairness. Peary’s steward, William Pritchard, was present when these statements were made. Like Whitney, he was pledged to secrecy by Dr. Cook. Murphy; Peary’s boatswain, who was in charge of the stores, was absent at Etah on this day and did not hear Dr. Cook's communications. There were two houses on the Green- Jand shore—one at Annootok, holding Cook's stores, and another at Etah, hold- ing Peary’s stores. The three white men, Whitney, Murphy and Pritchard, some- times occupied one and sometimes the other of these houses. Murphy was in charge of both houses. He is not able to read or write. He had written instructions from Peary which Whitney, at Peary’s request, read over to him from time to. time. These instructions were very stringent. They directed Murphy to use Cook's stores first and Peary’s afterward. Relief Instructions Vague. Murphy was told in them that he was to give Dr. Cook every heip if he came along in a needy condition. Furthermore the instructions implied that Murphy was to organize an expedition to search for Dr. Cook, but according to Whitney this Part of the instructions was worded am- biguously. Whitney said that Cook had a copy of these instructions and would douotless make them public. Murphy treated Cook civilly and Cook suffered no discourtesy. When Dr. Cook and his Eskimos arrived at the house they had no sledge. Too tired to drag it over the rough ice, they had left it twenty miles from Etah. The following day some other Eskimos went out, recovered the sledge and prought it in. On it were Dr. Cook’s in- struments, clothes and food. After spending two days at Annootok, where Cook first met Whitney, Cook start- ed for Etah. Whitney accompanied him. Cook remained for three days at Etah, organizing for his trip south to Uper- navik. The doctor had figured out roughly the date that he would likely get to Uper- navik and when the Dundee whalers or the Danish store ships would reach there. He argued that he nad no timé to lose. Forced to Leave Instruments. He planned originally to take two Eski- mos and two sledges. One Eskimo fell sick. This made it necessary for him to cut down the luggage he could take with him south. He consequently asked Whitney to take charge of the instruments with which he had made his observations at the pole. There were three cases, one containing a sextant, another an artificial horizon and the third an instrument which Whitney said he could not recall. It possibly might have been a chronometer. Cook left no written records with Whit- ney that Whitney is aware of. There may have been some records, however, in the other boxes in which Cook packed his clothes and his personal effects. Cook did not tell Whitney especially that he was leaving any written records with him. Whitney was positive about this. After Cook departed for the south Whitney resumed his hunting. He took over Cook's two Eskimos, Etukishuls and Arwalalv, to show him the country where Cook had shot musk oxen. This the two men did. Whitney bagged all the oxen he could carry out on his sledges. He said he found these two Eskimos to be quite satisfactory in subordinate ca- pacities. He knows nothing of their value in a dash across the polar sea. Whitney Not Questioned; Eskimos Pumped. Continuing, Whitney said that last month, when Peary, on board the Roose- velt, reached Etah from the north after his winter's work there, he, Whitney, in- formed him of Dr. Cook's arrival in April, adding that Cook had told him, Whitney, to tell Peary that Cook had gone beyond Peary’s farthest north. Peary made no comment on this. Whit- ney said he was not asked any other questions by Peary. But the next day Cook’s Eskimos came to Whitney and asked him what Peary’s men were trying to get them to say. Peary’s men had shown the Eskimos pa- pers and maps, but the Eskimos declared they did not understand these papers. So far as Whitney is aware, Cook's Eskimos never admitted that, while with the doctor, they had only progressed two “sleeps” from land. —_.-___. New Cure for Sleeping: Sickness. PARIS, September 28.—Dr. Laveran of this city has announced to the Academy of Sciences a new cure for the sleeping sickness. It consists of subcutaneous in- Jections of an aniline emetic. This rem- conducted by Dr. Evans, an American physician, and worked out tn Senegal by viously. Dr. Thiroux with remarkable results. edy was suggested by the experiments! MRS. PHEDUM’S GUESTS DEBATE THE BURNING SUBJECT. 1 | | i ROBBER SHOOTS THREE Two Men Die. of Wounds, Other in Hospital. BOLD HOLD-UP IN SALOON Highwayman Fires Because of Delay in Delivering Money. PHILADELPHIA, September 28.—Two men are dead and one other is in a hospital in this city suffering from bul- let wounds as a result of a hold-up in a saloon at York road and Lycoming street, in the northern part of the city, late last night. The highwayman, who was masked, made his escape. One of the dead men, who was shot through the abdomen, because he did not act quickly enough in handing over his valuables, was James Quinn, twenty-three years old, son of the proprietor of the saloon. Quinn is an elevator operator, and last night tended bar for his father, who took a night off. The other man fatally wounded, and who died after being taken to the hospital, was Henry F. Say- lor, aged thirty-three. John J. Cassidy, aged thirty-seven, was slightly injured. Saylor had a bullet wound under the heart. The two men were shot while they were cowering under the muzzle of a revolver. Proprietor Absent. Patrick J. Quinn, the proprietor of the saloon, informed his family that he was going to attend a lodge meeting and his son agreed to look after the place. Be- fore leaving the saloon the elder Quinn treated all in the place to drinks. Before his death in the hospital young Quinn said it was one of the men who were treated that returned later and did the shooting. It was raining hard last night, and young Quinn and the two customers were chatting in the well lighted saloon when the man walked into the place and up to the bar. Quinn prepared to wait on him, when he found himself looking into the barrel of a revolver. The man was tall and well built and was dressed in dark clothes. A soft hat was pulled over his eyes and a black handkerchief was bound across his mouth and chin. .His shoes and trousers were covered with mud. Commands Hands Up! “Everybody hands up!” was his first command. “Say, aren't you kidding?” asked Quinn. “Nix,” said the robber, turning the re- volver until he covered each man in turn. “Hand out some money quick! Open that cash drawer!" “I guess you are in earnest,’ said Quinn, as he walked to the drawer be- hind the bar. Quinn opened the cash drawer, but he did not move quick enough to suit the robber and he called out: “Hurry up, you.” Quinn’ grabbed a handful of bills, about $47, when the man fired the first shot. The Bullet struck Quinn in the abdomen. The wounded man with several notes in his hand, fell to the oor. Police Have Theory. The police have a theory that the robber thought Quinn, who was fum- | bling in the drawer, was looking for a revolver. door. The robber swung around and said: “Stand where you are. You are not going out and bring the police down jon me.” Cassidy says he stopped, but not quickly enough for the robber, and was shot in the side. What happened to Saylor is not fully known. At the hospital he was only able lo say that the robber had shot him, and fled. Cassidy and Saylor both ran for the. ceived by the t MOROCCAN UNITED STATES WILL NOT BUTT IN MIX-UP. Spain Celebrating “End of War” Against Riff Tribesmen—Moor- ish Villages in Flames. s In response to the protest made by Mo- rocco against the presence of Spanish troops in the Riff, the State Department has replied, through Minister Dodge at Tangier, that in view of the reservation under which the United States became a party to the Algeciras convention, and in accordance with the general policy of this government, the United States does not consider the case presented by the Moor- ish government as one in which it can take action. The Sultan of Morocco, through a rep- resentative, addressed a note and a mem- orandum to the diplomatic corps in Mo- rocco, setting forth that the presence of a large Spanish force in the Riff alarmed the sultan because of the agitation cre- ated in Morocco. Also, the note declared, the activity of the troops had given rise to a report that the object of the Spanish government was not limited to the pun- ishment of those who killed certain Span- ish mine laborers. The sultan requested the diplomatic corps to inform their governments that they might invite the attention of Spain to the danger incurred by Spain's opera- tions. Finally the sultan declared the presence of a large Spanish force unjusti- flable. . MADRID, September 28.—The capture of the towns of Nador and Zeluan by the Spanish forces in Morocco is being cele- brated here as the virtual end of the war with the Riffs. ° Despatches received here from Melilla say that all the villages in the foothills of Mount Guruga, which has been a Moorish stronghold, are in flames. > BRAVE GIRLS SAVE TOWN. Telephone Operators Risk Lives in Giving Notice of Fire. PAINESVILLE, Ohio, September 28.-- The bravery of two telephone girls, Hazel Christian and Alice Warren, sleeping in the telephone exchange at Perry, a vil- lage near here, saved that town from possible destruction by fire early today. Fire broke out in a store beneath the exchange. The girls were alone, but stuck. to their posts and telephoned the sleeping citizens and called the Paines- ville and Madison fire departments.e While talking with the Painesville fire chief she flames burned the wires, and the girls in their night clothes stumbled down the stalrs through the smoke to the street. Two stores, a livery stable and residence were burned before aid from other towns airived. Loss, $25,000. —_—_+ DEMAND FOR REVISION. Rebellion in China Unless Railway Loan Is Submitted to Scrutiny. PEKING, September 28.—The Viceroy of Wuchang, in Hu-peh province, reports to Peking that the Hu-Kuang gentry threaten a rebellion if the Hankow-Sze- Chuen railroad loan of $30,000,000 to for- eign bankers is executed without their revision. The Hu-peh gentry are electing delegates to come to Peking and protest. The local newspapers are publishing violent cartoons depicting the humiliation of China on account of the loan. Si Sas Steamers Collide, One Badly Injured, DETROIT, Mich. September 28.—The 300-foot steel steamer Pontiac, owned by the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company, was severely damaged early today by a col- lision in the St. Clair river with the steamer Uranus of the Gilchrist line. The Pontiac was beached in front of the Summervile Hotel, at St. Clair, to pre- vent her sinking. The collision occurred during a heavy fog. The injuries re- ranus are not yet known. MESS NOT OUR ROW | PLANS AGREED UPON Arranging for Meeting of Taft and Diaz. NEUTRAL LAND RESPECTED No Flags Will Be Displayed in El Chamizal Tract. MEDAL FOR DICKINSON Secretary of War Honored for Bravery 14 Years Ago. SAVED MAN FROM WATER Jumped Overboard to Rescue Aged Citizen of Detroit. PRESENTATION A SURPRISE Cabinet Officer Unaware Until This Morning That Board Had Made Award—Approved by Taft. For heroic rescue of a drowning man in Detroit fourteen years ago Secretary Dickinson of the War Department was today presented with a gold medal by the government board for awarding medals. Secretary Dickinson was immensely surprised when the medal, beautifully in- scribed with the history of his heroism, was presented to him by Assistant Sec- retary ‘Hilles of the Treasury, who had approved the action of the board of awards, consisting of Solicitor O'Connell of the Treasury, Capt. Worth G. Ross of the revenue cutter service and Capt. S. I. Kimball, superintendent of the life-saving service. All applications for award of medals for heroic rescues of life are passed upon by the board. Secretary Dickinson expressed his thanks and said he had no idea that what he had done would ever be considered by an offi- cial board. Secretary Hilles’ Statement. Assistant Secretary Hilles issued the following statement of the case: “On May 20, 1909, Thorlas H. Hern- don, president of the American “Cross of Honor. made written application to the Secretary of the Treasury for the award of a life-saving medal to Jacob M. Dickinson, to commemorate his heroic daring on the night of Augus< 29, 1895. The application and accom- panying evidence were submitted to the committee on life-saving medals. The committee, on June 25, 1909, unan- {mously reported. a recommendation in favor of the award of a medal of the first class (gold), as provided in tie act of Congress approved June 20, 1874. “The affidavits in support of the ap- Plication were made by Charles Ii. An outline of arrangements for the meeting of the Presidents of the United States and Mexico at El Paso and Juarez, October 16, has been practically agreed upon by the governments of the United States and of Mexico. An understanding has been reached by the United States and Mexico that for the sake of convenience the “El Chamizal’’ re- gion, which lies between the cities of El Paso and Juarez, and which is disputed territory, shall be considered for this oc- casion neutral territory, and there shall be no flags of either nationality displayed therein. The tract comprises about 550 acres and was at one time Mexican terri- tory. The Rio Grande shifted and the ownership of the tract is now in dispute. The President of Mexico will be welcomed in the name of President Taft at the en- trance of the city of El Paso, outside of the El Chamizal zone. When President Taft goes to Mexico he will be welcomed in the name of the President of Mexiso at the entrance of Juarez city. Thus the Chamizal zone, the sovereignty over which is under dispute, will be left in statu quo. Welcoming President Diaz. On the morning of the day set for the meeting the Secretary of War, accom- panied by Brig. Gen. Myer, with his staff, two squadrons of cavairy and three bat- teries -of field artillery will proceed to the point where the President of Mexico, accompanied by an escort of twenty men, will enter the United States. By agree- ment the escort is limited to twenty men while the executives are crossing El Chamizal. The Secretary of War will act as the personal representative of the President of the United States to receive President Diaz at the boundary. The Gov- ernor of Texas and his staff and the mayor of El Paso will accompany the Secretary of War. The Secretary of War will extend a welcome to President Diaz in the name of the President, the Gov- ernor of Texas in the name of the state and the mayor of El Paso, in the name of that city. A band will play the Mexi- can national air and the artillery will fire a salute of twenty-one guns. The Secre- tary of War will sit in_the carriage which will také President Diaz to Presi- dent Taft. After a visit with President Taft, during which refreshments will be served, President Diaz will withdraw and return to Mexico, accompanied to the boundary by the same escort and receiv- ing the same salutes. President Taft’s Call on Diaz. At noon President Taft will go to Juar- ez to repay President Diaz's visit. In crossing El Chamizal the President will be accompanied by an escort of twenty en. Moresident Taft's escort to the border of El Chamizal will consist of head- quarters band and two squadrons of the 8a United States Cavalry; Batteries A, B and C, 3d Field Artillery, and the 9th Infantry from Fort Sam Houston, all under command of Brig. Gen. Albert L. Myer, commanding the Department of Texas. The Governor of Texas will go with the President as far as the border. The Secretary of War and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor will be in follow- ing carriages. At the Mexican boyder the President will be welcomed by a personal representative of the President of Mexico, and will then proceed, sur- rounded by a Mexican escort, to the building where he will be received by President Diaz. After a visit the Presi- dent and his party will return to El Paso. About 5:30 o’clock in the afternoon President Taft will leave El Paso for Juarez City to attend the banquet of the President of Mexico. He will be ac- companied by the Secretary of War, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, the Governor of Texas, Senator Bailey, Brig. Gen. Myer and staff, the mayor of EI Paso ind Capt. A. W. Butt, aid to the President. The Secretary of War Gets a gold medal for saving a life in 1895. Campbell of the Detroit bar and Frank Loveland of Cincinnati, clerk of the court of the sixth judicial district. “In brief, the statement is as fol- lows: Saved at Great Risk. “In August, 1895, the American Bar As- sociation met in Detroit. The afternoon of the 29th an entertainment was pro- vided at the St. Clair Flats, to which the guests ‘were conveyed on steam yachts. Mr. Jacob M. Dickinson, Charles H. Camp- beli, Frank O. Loveland and others were entertained on the steam yacht Truant, owned by Truman H. Newberry. The yacht returned to Detroit at 8 o'clock, at which hour it was dark, and lay several feet away from the Michigan Central railroad wharf, owing to the interference of some piles at the outer edge of the wharf. A small landing plank was put out. Mr. James F. Joy, a citizen of distinction of Detroit, who was the oldest member of the Detroit bar and whose eyesight was defective, fell overboard in attempting to cross on the plank. The plank: was six feet above the water, and the water was twenty feet deep. Judge Dickinson jumped in after Mr. Joy and rescued him. There were many jagged, broken piles at that point, some of which were hidden, and as there was imminent danger of striking these, a very dangerous situation was created. Both men were unharmed, which was purely a matter of ood fortune. “Incidentally, Judge (now_ President) Taft, Mr. Justice Brewer, Mr. Justice Brown and others were on other yachts. “The medal was inspected and approved ‘by the President before his departure for the west, and was today presented to Secretary Dickinson.” oes eee WARNS CATHOLIC PARENTS. French Episcopate Opposes Course of Teaching in Public Schools. PARIS. September 28.—The French episcopate has issued a pastoral letter warning Catholic parents in France that the teaching in the public schools jeopard- izes the faith of their children. The let- ter condemns especially co-education, say- ing that the ‘mixture of the two sexes is contrary to morality and unworthy a civ- {lized people.” The letter forbids specifically the use of a score of public school text books, prin- lly histories, and appeals to parents Granite in protection of the faith. 1 GREAT PARADE TODA CROWD RECORDS SMASHED Rain Delays Start for Over an Hour. AIRSHIPS DO NOT SHOW OFF Twenty-Mile-an-Hour Wind vents Curtiss and Wright From Flying. Pre- NEW YORK, September 28.—Amertcan history in visible form passed in review today before the eyes of more than a million spectators that lined the route of the first Hudson-Fulton land parade from | the upper end of Central Park to Wash- ington Square. It was one of the great- est historical pageants in the world’s his- tory. Thousands of dollars and months of effort were spent to make this parade of fifty-four floats an accurate reproduc- tion of the life in New York state from legendary Indian times that preceded the first settlement to the first voyage of the Clermont in 180 A northwest wind, blowing twenty miles an hour, caused an official postponement of the dirigible balloon race from New York to Albany for the New York World prize. It was planned to attempt a flight tomorrow if conditions favor. Both Wilbur Wright and Glenn H. Cur- tiss went early to Governors Island, where their new aeroplanes are housed, but after viewing the weather conditions both aviators said that there was little likelihood of a flight by them today, and they would not attempt to go up while the wind continued strong. Both machines are ready. It was announced that no pub- lic notification of the aeroplane flights would be given today because, even if made, they would be short and no more than test efforts. All Crowd Records Broken. All records for street celebration crowds were broken. In the eagerness to gain vantage points in the comparatively small space available for viewing the parade record prices were paid for windows, seats and even soap boxes. The porter of a 5th avenue office building sold twenty wooden boxes at an average price of $2 apiece. The purchasers hastened to set the boxes on the curb, and, as the crowd packed tight around them, to hold their postition: they were forced to stand on their litt pedestals for several hours before the parade appeared. As early as 10 o'clock most of the available space along the curbs lining the line of march was taken and the police had_ trouble keeping a way open for traffic on the sidewalks. Between 4.000 and 5,000 patrolmen were detailed to the route of the pageant. forty to a block. Every one who could secure even a few feet of space commanding the spectacle reaped a harvest. Workmen erecting a building at 17th street and 5th avenue suspended a scaffold at its front about fifteen feet above the sidewalk and quick- ly disposed of seats thereon at $2 to $5 apiece. Chairs even on the roofs of four and five story buildings, where the spec- tators got extremely foreshortened views of the spectacle below, brought good prices. While the rain of the early morning dia not cause the calling off of the parade, it brought on a delay which postponed the start from 1 o'clock until 2 o’clock. Orders had gone out that the floats should be. moved from under the 155th street viaduct, where they have been standing. at 5 o'clock this morning. The heavy downpour of rain at that hour made this impossible without causing much damage and the order was not put into effect until nearly 11 o'clock. Trouble With the Floats. Much trouble was experienced in get- ting out several of the floats without causing any damage, but eventually all were out and on their way to the starting point, where the characters took their places after dressing in a building on the northeast corner of Cathedral parkway and 7th avenue. When the early morning ight broke through a cold, drizzly rain there were thousands of eager New Yorkers and out- of-town visitors who speculated with themselves concerning the probabilities of seeing the parade today. They couldn't see how the water would damage the floats much, but they real- ized that the thousands of colonial cos- tumes, continental uniforms and the dresses of the many women who were to ride in the parade would be ruined ut- terly. Nevertheless, relying on previous announcements that nothing but a heavy rainfall would necessitate the calling off of the spectacle, thousands, after eating hurried breakfasts, hastened out to se- cure the most advantageous points from which to view the fifty-four historical floats and the 20,000 costumed men and women who go to make up the great pan- orama which tells the history of the greatest city of the new world. That was the reason that from 110th street and Central Park west, down the west side of the park to Columbus Circle and then east to the plaza thousands of persons were gathered long before the hour hand of the clock had climbed up to the last quarter of its race from me- ridian to meridian. Rain Lets Up. Though a steady rainfull greeted the dawn, conditions grew better as the day went en, and by midmorning promises of a fair afternoon began to show in the sky. Never before have the people of this city or country had the opportunity to study history pancramically on such a gigantic scale. From the days of the In- dian to the present time the chief events of interest in the story of the Hudson river country are reproduced in a realistic and artistic manner. The center of the festivities today was the route chosen for the historical pa- geant. It comprises Central Park west and Sth avenue, extending almost in a straight line, with a slight elbow at 59th street, from 110th street to 4th street at the foot of Washington Square. The celebration committee has attempted to illustrate the periods of American history made famous by the achievements of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton. Al- though there was a chance that Wilbur Wrigh: and Glenn H. Curtiss might make brief trial flights over Governors Island, the sightseers were too occupied with the street dispiay to flock to the Battery as they did yesterday, when these flight were the unly outdoor feature of the cele- bration to be expected. It had been announced, however, that if the aviators flew at all their most spectacular efforts would not occur until tomorrow. For the same reason com- The Eighth Installment of Dr. Cook’s Story of His Discovery of the North Pole Will Appear Exclusively in Washington in Tomorrow's Star.