Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1911, Page 1

SEVEN PARTS Including Star’s Sunday Magazine and COLORED COMIC SECTION he Sunday Star. perature. WEATHER Generally fair Sunday and Mon- day; not much change in tem- —II { No. 337.—No. 18,617. WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1911* FIVE CENTS. RACING CAR KILLS AND INJURES 14 AT SYRACUSE FAIR Machine Plows Through a Mass of Humanity at Terrific Speed. PRESIDENT TAFT LEAVES JUST PRIOR TO TRAGEDY Slippery Track, Watered to Lay Dust for Him, Cause of Accident. SEVERAL OF INJURED MAY DIE Scores of Doctors and Nurses Volun- teer First-Aid Treatment—Lee Oldfield, Il-Fated Driver, to Be Arrested. SYRACUSE. N. Y., September 16.—Nine persons were killed and fourteen injured, some of as the result of sident during the closing miles of a ftifty-mile automobile race at the state fair track this afternoon when a Enox racing car, driven by Lee Old- fie. leaped the track, crashed through the fences surrounding it and plunged into the throngs that lined the other side of the speedway. Six of the nine people were killed out- right and three others were so seriously injured that they died on the way to the hospital. The dead are: ( Claude Hamil, Hammond, N. Y. Fred J. Arnold: Syracuse, N. Y. Charles Ballantyne, Syracuse, > James Coin, Alexandria Bay, Fayette Funk, Farleyville, Leo Halpin, Syracuse, N. Y Unidentfhed man, sixty years old Unidentified man, twenty-five years old. Unidentified boy, ten years old. Several Injured May Die. The injured who have been identified are: Lee Oldfield, driver of the car that left the track; William Sharkey, Harry Brad- ley, Charles Dooley and Miss Anna Youker. all of Syracuse. The list of dead may be increased, as it Is believed several’ of the injured are so badly hurt that the cannot live. The accident came as the fatal termi- nation of a day that was undoubtedly the biggest the state fair has ever held in point of attendance as well as in the Matter of Attractions. The honored guest of the fair today was President Taft. It was but a short time after he had left the grounds that the tragedy occurred. Wetted Track for Taft. Just before he left, President Taft took @ short ride in an automobile on the track which was wet to keep down the dust for the President and his party, This wetting was such as to cause driv- @fs who were to compete in the fifty-mile event to protest. When the race was called Ralph De Palma and Bob Burman, who had been driving in previous races, refused to go on because of the condition of the trac! saying the water had made it too dan. gerous to take chan There was some delay during which the track dried som what. The race was called and De Palma and Burham were both entrants, along with Oldfield and six others. The accident pened in the forty- third mile. De Palma was leading by a lap, with Oldfield trailing him, ax they entered the first quarter of that mile. Speeding at 75 Miles an Hour. ‘The big cars, traveling. it is estimated, at seventy-five miles an hour, were run- ning side by side as they swung around the turn, after passing the grandstand As they took the turn there was a re- port. The car driven by Oldtield leaped in the air. Then it swerved to the outer side and crashed through the fence. The crippled machine, beyond the eccntrol of the driver plowed through hundreds of persons along the fence to view the race. It was at first thought that no one haa been hurt, and this announcement was made. Despite thix hundreds hurried tc the point where the car left the track The runaway car had left people pil- ed together on the ground, several mangled almost beyond recognition. At y a score of the dead and in- € picked up. Doctors and Nurses Volunteer. Hurry calls were sent to this city for ambulances and every one in the city responded. Vehicles of many kinds on the fair grounds were also pressed into service. The dead and injured were taken to the emergency hoepital on the fair zrounds, and at the same time the woman's building was turned into a hospital ward. Physicians on the grounds hurried to the hospitals. At the same time a general call was sent into the city for help. Aid was volunteered by scores of physicians and there were many offers from trained nurses in the vast throng in attendance. One woman tore off all of her undergarments that bandages might be provided for the wounded. & Her own sister was injured, but she Stuck heroically to her task and con- tinued to provide bandages until she had no more material from which to impro- vise them Driver to Be Arrested. For more than twenty miles, spectators declared, Oldfield had been driving his car with one of the shoes flapping, in the hope of beating out De Palma. How. ever, his manager, instead ef stoppini him. had, it id. urged im tov ine crease speed. In spite of the fact that it quickly be: came known that many had been kill and injured, the officials in charge ret fused to call off the race, and the last them seriously, an a from few miles were run. while. hundre thronged the track pancreas Oldfield, the driver, who is in a city hospital. is being guarded by an officer, and as soon as he recovers will be ar. rested. ONLY QUESTION OF MAJORITY. Conceded That Ontario Will Go Against Reciprocity. TORONTO, Ontario, September 16.— As election. day approaches the result in Ontario becomes more and more doubtiul. Both sides concede that the Province will go against reciprocity. If the conservative claims ure justified, the present conservative majority of fourteen will be increased to twenty- two or more. The liberal estimate is @ majority for the conservatives. HIT BY HYDROPLANE Dixie IV Jumps From Water, Crashing Into Crowd. STEERING GEAR AT FAULT Frederick K. Burnham's Speedy Racer Wrecked and Three Injured. ENTIRE CREW ESCAPES UNHURT Going Thirty-Nine Miles an Hour and Leading Race on Great Lakes When Accident Occurs. BUFFALO, N. Y., September 16.—Dixie Iv, K. Burnham's speedy droplane, which defended the Harmsworth cup at Huntington, Long Island, and won the championship of the United States, tonight lies a wreck on a narrow dge of rock between the Niagara river and the Erie cahal off Riverside Park. The Dixie was leading in a race for the great lakes championship and was speed- ing at the rate of thirty-nine miles an hour when the accident occurred which resulted in the wreck and the serious in- jury of three spectators. Mr. Burnham, who was at the wheel, and four of his crew escaped uninjured. Harold Bell, a thirteen-year-old boy, had his pelvis and skull fractured and will die. His mother, Mrs. Elmer Bell, was injured about the head, and John Dan- iels, son of Dr. John Daniels, had his leg cut off just above the ankle by the Dixie's cutwater. Burnham Loses Control. The Dixie was rounding the upper stakeboat when something went wrong with her steering gear. She careened for a moment, then headed directly for the shore. When Mr. Burnham saw the boat was beyond control he shouted a warn- ing to his crew, but clung to the wheel, suriving to bring her about. Two of the crew leaped into the river, but two others im the rorward cockpit nad no time to get out. When the Dixie crashed head- on upon the rock Burnham was huried into the water, but escaped without a scratch. The two engineers were shaken up, but not serfously hurt. The Dixie leaped entirely out of the water and dasned into the crowd on shore, which was slow to scatter when the boat headed toward them, not realiz~ ing that she was beyond control. Young Bell was crushed under the hull of the boat and Daniels was pinned to the rocks by the cutwater. Mrs. Bell was hurled to one side. The Dixie's bottom is shattered and her engmes apparently are badly dam- aged. Gretchen II Wins Race. The race for the Great Lakes champion- ship was won by the Gretchen II, owned by John H. Hubbard of Pittsburgh. The Courier UI, the property of William J. Connors of Buffalo, finished second, with La Truda, owned by Harry T. Vare of Buffalo, third. ‘The time of the three boats for each five miles of the thirty. Gretchen II, 8: 8:41; 8:31 Courier "111-8 9:06; B24; 13:03—-1 1051, 10:50; CHILDREN TO MRS. FLEMING. Former Washington Woman Wins Point in Her Divorce Suit. Special Disptch to The Star. SMITHFIELD, N. C., September 16.— \By decision of Judge R. B. Peebles, sit- ting in chambers here, Mrs. Nellie Claire Fleming of Raleigh and formerly of Washington has been awarded the custody of her two children pending the hearing of the suit for divorce which she has instituted against Percy B. Fleming, also of Raleigh. Mrs. Fleming was required by court to give bond in the sum of $500 to pro- duce the children in court when the divorce case shall be tried. Mrs. Flem- ing charges her husband with ill treat- ment and habitual drunkenness. The case has attracted interest throughout the state, especiall at Raleigh, because of the prominence of the parties in- volved. WILSON DEPLORES ATTACKS. Says Brewers’ Congress Office Could: Not Be Declined. ‘TRAER. Iowa, September 16 —Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson, who is spending his vacation here, resents the attacks which are being made on him be- cause he has accepted the office of honor- ary president of the International Brew- ers’ Congress. Mr. Wilson said today that as a repre- sentative of the government he could not decline the honor. He added that as the congress will be attended by representa- tives of many nations, who will discuss business that has a legal standing, could not be officially snubbed. RELIEF ORDERED TO CHENG-TU. Garrison at Luchow Will Go to Be- sieged City. PEKING, September 16.—The govern- ment has been informed from Luchow that 500 loyal troops under Gen. Chao- Eh-Feng, who are all Manchus, are guarding the yamen, or government house, at Cheng-tu. Five hundred troops of the same command are stationed out- side the , evidently for the defense of the arsenal and powder magazine. One thousand others patrol the streets of theng-tu and man the walls. Courlers have made several attempts to get through the lines of the rebels in disguise and enter the capital, but ap- parently without success. It is report- ed that the gates of Cheng-tu are opened twice each day, admitting water and food supplies. The Manchu detachment now statlon- ed at Luchow has been ordered to the relief of the besieged city. CHUNG-KING, September 16.—Many mission centers throughout the provinces report no disturbances and the majority of the missionary schools continue their sessions. No news has been received here Indicating changed conditions at Cheng- u. Forest Fires Threaten Lead, S. D. LEAD, S. D., September 16.—Forest fires which broke out in the timber country surrounding Lead menaced the town to- day, and are still threatening. A high wind fanned the flames beyond the con- trol of scores of ‘volunteer fire fighters, and the Homestake Mining Company brought several hundred men from the mines, and all were pressed inio service. - — WOULD YIELD MUCH TO GET ARBITRATION President Willing to Make Con- cessions to Have Treaties Before Senate Ratified. SUGGESTS A SUBSTITUTE FOR JOINT COMMISSION Ends First Day of His Long Trip With Speech at Erie, Pa. PLEADS FOR CAUSE OF PEACE Declares That if We Prefer to De- cide Questions by War We Should: Let It Be Known. ERIE, Pa.. September 16.—President Taft ended the first of his forty-six days of speechmaking with an address to a big throng in the Auditorium here to- night. Before réaching here he had spent nine hours in Syracuse, N. Y., where he made three speeches. The President said he had determined that his average dur- ing this trip to the far west would be four and one-half speeches a day, so he did not start out at top speed. Mr. Taft reserved his most important utterance of the day for the speech here, when he outlined a plan by which he hopes to wipe out objections in the United States Senate to the recently ne- gotiated treaties of arbitration with Great Britain and France. These treaties have been held up and threatened with defeat largely because several senators contended that the proposed joint high commission which would determine whether or not a question should be sent to arbitration practically robbed the Sen- ate of its function of passing upon the question. Suggests a Compromise. The President tonight suggested as a compromise that the American members of such a joint commission should be confirmed by. the Senate. He said he saw no reason why they should not be, if Congress, or the Senate, thought it dan- gerous to trust the President only to make the appointments. Mr. Taft indi- cated that he would go farther than this and be willing to wipe out the joint high commission entirely, if need be, and leave the decision as to whether a ques- tton is arbitrable to a board of arbitra- tion. He would also be willing to have this board pass not only upon the merits of the question, but upon the jurisdiction. “Either we are in favor of arbitration of issues which are likely to lead to war, or we are not,” exclaimed the President. “If we are in favor of war as the only means of settling questions of importance between countries, then let us recognize it as a prinéiple and decline all arbitra- tion; but if we are really in favor of ar- bitration as a means of avoiding war, then why should we not be willing to submit to impartial men the deciston upon @ question rather than to leave it to tne result of a bloody battle, in which, with a fair cause, we may be beaten, or with an unjust cause we may conquer?” Why He Avoided Reciprocity. The President today did not plunge di- rectly into a defense of his administra- tion, as some of his hearers had expected. One of the most significant things he said was at luncheon with the New York state fair commissioners at Syracuse, when he explained why he had not discussed reci- procity in his outdoor addresses to sev- eral thousands of city folk and farmers. “I am not going to speak about reci- procity,” he said, “until after the matter is settled In Canada. We have done our part, and we are waiting, and it is just as well for us to keep quiet.” Mr. Taft alfo explained in Syracuse why he “happened to decide upon this 13,000-mile jaunt to the Pacific and through “the enemy's country’ of, in- surgency. This trip was like “Topsy,” he said. “It just growed. Two years ago | promised Gov. Hughes to visit your state fair. Then I made an appointment with Representative Madigon of Kansas to visit Kansas and Hutchinson on the semi- centennial of the state. These two en- gagements were the reason for my down- fall. Thereafter an engagement in San Francisco accomplished the complete ruin. Now I have before me forty-six days of travel and Ido not know how many speeches, and I ask your prayers for my survival.” In further explanation of his trip the| President said: “I expect to talk on this trip about. the ues of the day, and some of my policies —if I may dignity my relation to them by the possegsive case and count them among the issues of the day. I hope I may be able to bring out somewhat more clearly from the standpoint of one who is charged with some responsibility in re- spect to them many of the questions that perplex the legislators and executive ‘at Washington.” In Midst of Great Throng. At the state fair grounds in Syracuse the President found himeelf in the midst of one of the greatest crowds ever gath- ered there, and estimated by some as in the neighborhood of 100,000. He shared honors with an aeroplanist, who was con- stantly buzzing above the heads of the people, and several of the most noted automobile racers in the country, includ- ing Bob Burman, who had a narrow es- cape from serious injury when the motor of his throbbing Blitzen Benz exploded almost directly in front of the clubhouse: veranda where the President sat. There was a loud crash, a flash of explosive flame from the exhausts and pieces of the gears and the crank cast went flying through the air. Burman was trying for a world’s record when his car went to pieces. During an interval in the automobile and motor cycle contests the President was driven in a machine in front of the jammed grandstand. He stood up during the greater part of the trip in acknowl- edgment of the plaudits and cheers of the multitude. In his speech at the fair grounds the President spoke of the science of the farming. “The farmer,” he sald, ‘tis becoming more and more important and we have got to recognize it. I am not one of those who agree altogether with some of the alarmist addresses that my friend Jim Hill of the Great Northern emits times, in which he says we will be starving in the course of fifty years. But certain it is that the statistics are enough Py Ngee" ‘atl. |) i ot BLUE SUNDAY. FIREMAN IS KILLED to put us on guard to the necessity of developing all our energies to making (Continued on Second Page.) ¢ AS TRAN JUMPS TRACK Engineer Dies Later as Result of Injuries in Wreck at -. Laurel, Va. RICHMOND, Va., September 16.—Train No. 15, which left Washin-ton over the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad at noon, was wrecked at Laurel, ten miles from Richmond, at 2:35 this afternoon. The engine jumped the track at a crossing at a curve, wrecking the engine and kiing Fireman Robert E. Byrd, aged thirty-one, of this city. En- gineer Koontz of Richmond and Second Engineer Cooper were both badly injured, the former being caught between the engine and tender. The baggage and two passenger cars were thrown across the tracks, the en- gine turning turtle and catching the fireman, crushing him badly. None of the passengers was injured. A wrecking train was sent from this city to the scene, and the passengers and injured men were brought. to this city. Conductor J. A. Johnson was not hurt. He says the train was going forty miles an hour and jumped the track at a cross- ing. A colored cook on the train had an arm broken. Engineer Koontz died at a local hospital here tonight shortly after 10 o'clock. “No Report Here. According to officials in the office of the trainmaster at the Union station here, the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po- tomac railroad has no representation among the railroad officials concentrated in the Union station, and the trainmaster had no record of the wrecked train, save that it left’ Washington at 12:01 o'clock p.m. yesterday. Richmond, Fredericks- burg and Potomac trains, southbound from Washington, pass out of the juris- diction of the Union station trainmaster as soon as they leave the union. trackage below Alexandria and roll onto their own lines, and for this reason the local rail- road’ men will receive no report on the wreck. RELATIONS MOST CORDIAL. Ambassador O’Brien Says Japan Is * Good Friend of Uncle Sam. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., September 16.— After four years of diplomatic service in Japan, Ambassador Thomas J. O'Brien arrived here today on an oriental liner. He will remain pending instructions. re- garding his new position at Rome. “Relations between the United States and Japan are most cordial,”” he sald “The United States has a good friend in Japan. That nation’s most sincere de- sire is to perpetuate friendly and com- mercial relations with this country: ‘The ambassador will go later to Wash- ington for a conference with the State Department. LIEUT. SMITH IS CONFINED. Naval Officer Awaiting Word From Department Regarding Charges. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. September 16.— Lieut. Roy C. Smith, recently attached to the Saratoga, flagship of the Astatic squadron, came ashore today from the Japanese liner Shinye Maru. He said that while he had no intentioh of re- considering his resignation, he intends, to make a personal appeal to the Secretary of the Navy in Washington. Lieut. Smith said he resigned at the request of Admiral Murdock, without making a fight before a court-martial, on account of the seriousness of the charges. ‘The word of other officers alone. stood against his denial, he said. ‘As the lieutenant stepped ashore he was ‘met by Lieut. Charles P. Huff of the naval training station, with the request that he remain in confinement on the re- ceiving ship Pensacola until the Navy Department should be heard. from. He consented. |.Swore out a warrant for the arrest. a RUSE LEADS TO CAPTURE Young Man Accused of. Send- ing Black Hand Letters Through the Mail. SALISBURY,’ N. C.. September 16.— Charles F. Stewart, a well known young man living near this city, is under ar- rest charged with using the United States mails for illegal purposes in an alleged Black Hand attempt to obtain a sum of money from Cashier W. F. Snyder of the Wachovis Bank and Trust Company of this city. Stewart is alleged to have written a number of ‘letters threatening death to Snyder and every member of his family if a large sum of money was not left in a certain spot last night. Snyder com- municated with the authorities and Post Offe Inspector Bolar of Washington Assisted by Sheriff McKinsie, In- spector Bolar laid a trap which+led to the capture of Stewart: Impersonating Snyder, an officer went to the outskirts of the city along a lonely road, as the Black Hand letter had directed. As soon as he heard a bell ring, as the directions specified, he stopped and finding a bag in which the money was to have been placed, followed a cord which was at- tached to St. ‘The string led him to a thick underbrugh at the roadside, where he caught Stewart holding the other end. ‘The ‘young man was arrested and brought to Salisbury jail to await trial. STOLEN BILLS POSTED. Steps Taken for Detection of West- minster Bank Robbers. NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C., Septem- bes 16.—It is the theory of the police of | Vancouver and New Westminster that the five robbers who stole $258,000 from the New Westminster branch of the Bank of Montreal are in hiding in Vancouver, waiting for a chance to get away. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars of paper money stolen is in new five and ten-dollar bills of the Bank of Montreal, and .the numbers of every bill-is posted in every bank in Canada and on the American border. The $20,000 in gold and the $88,000 in bills of various Cana- dian and United States banks are avail- able for use by the robbers, however. The explosives, it has been found, were set off by electricity. Despite the fact that five or six charges were necessary, residents adjoining the bank did not hear the sound. EDWARD WHYMPER IS DEAD. Artist, Author and Traveler Was Born in 1840. CHAMOUNI, France, September 16.— Edward Whymper, artist, author and traveler, died here today. Mr. Whymper was a noted mountain climber and was a Medalist of the Royal Geographical So- ciety. He ascended Mont Pelvoux in 1861, and the Pointe des Ecrins, the high est peak in the French Alps, in 1864. Hy also ascended the “ Matterhorn and climbed mountains and made explorations ue pe eHion and in Canada. He was born In 1840. WOULD SUCCEED NELSON. Daniel W. Lawler Announces Candi- dacy for United ‘States Senate ST PAUL, Minn., September 16.—Daniel W. Lawler, former mayor of St. Paul, has filed his affidavit with the secretary of state as a candidate for United States senator to succeed Senator Knute Nelson. Lawler filed for the‘democratic nomf nation and is the first person to file under the Keefe law applying the Oregon plan for popular choice of United States sen- ator. Mr. Lawler says he is a progres- eithe primaries will 1a until aries Ww! un September 15, 1032) YP BA 4 TRACKMEN OND. L. & W. ARE ORDERED 10 STRIKE Demand for Better Wages and Working Conditions Refused. SCRANTON, Pa., September 16.—A strike order to the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western railroad track men on the entire system was issued today and went into effect at 6 o'clock tonight. The order was signed by A. B. Lowe of Chicago, national president of the Inter- national Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes. and the members of the local committees, consisting of M. J. Foley, M. W. Durkin, Frederick Kim- ball and Grove C. Ernest. About 1,200 men are employed in the maintenance of way department of the Lackawanna. It is claimed by the track- men that 90 per cent of the men voted to strike when a ballot was taken three weeks ago. The Lackawanna company officials say that the men are not in favor of a strike; that the order will not be generally obeyed and the places of the strikers will be filled without difficulty. Cause of the Strike. The strike grows out of a demand on the part of the men for better wages and- working conditions. Several weeks ago a committee of the men headed by M. J. Foley of this city, a section fore- man, waited on Chief Engineer George J. Ray to present grievances. The de- mands were refused and the national officers of the brotherhood were givon the matter in charge. When Foreman Foley presenced himreit for work at the end of two weeks was told by the roadmaster, ti> men s that there was no place ‘or him, thie ne had been discharged for wverstaying his leave of absence, and for insubordination. At this the men side-tracked the original grievances and made a oemand for the reinstatement of Foremun Foley, accom- panying the demand with a strike threat. The matter was carried up to Presi- dent W. H. Truesdale uv! the railroad company, and after ar: «tiempt to arbl- trate the trouble the strike was decided upon. ——— CAR REPAIRERS STRIKE. Other Employes of Atlantic Coast Line R. R. May Go Out. WILMINGTON, N. C.. September 16.— ‘A special from Rocky Mount, N. C., says 375 car repairers in the Atlantic Coast Line shops there walked out at 10 o'clock this morning, and that the unions of boilermakers, machinists and blacksmiths are in session tonight considering a sym- pathetic strike Monday. It is stated the car repairers in the Florence, 8. C., shops are out also, and that the men at Waycross, Ga. and other shops will be asked to join the Rocky Mount strikers. The grievance of the men fs that they are required to work on caboose cars at piece rates the same as on box cars, and that they are unable to make remunerative wages on the ca- boose cars. Officials at headquarters here profess to know little, if anything, of the trouble. BOILERMAKERS ON STRIKE. Trouble on Mobile and Ohio Road Likely to Spread. MOBILE, Ala., September 16.—A strike of all boilermakers and blacksmiths in the employ of the Mobile and Ohio railroad is threatened as the result of a Walkout of the boilermakers employed in the Whist- jer shops of that company, who laid down their tools Friday because of differences over work which they claimed should be assigned to them. The men say they) have no grievance against the company. put will not return to work until the question of division of labor is settled. Shops at Murphysbro, Ill; Jackson, Tenn., and Meridian, Miss. may be af- fected. IS DEEPLY GRATEFUL Dr. Wiley Touched by the Sym- pathy Expressed by President. CONFIDENT OF ACQUITTAL Acknowledges vligations to the Press for Its Support. CREDITS IT TO HIS CAUSE Will Continue to Carry Out the Pur- poses Which Have Hitherto Actuated Him. BLUEMONT, Va., September 16.—Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry of the Department of Agri- culture, expressed himself more fully to- day upon President Taft's letter, made public yesterday, in which the chemistry bureau chief was completely vindicated and cleared of the charges made against him by the personnel board of the de- partment and the case closed so far as Dr. Wiley is coricerned. In a statement to the Associated Press Dr. Wiley said: “I have read the text of the President's letter and am deeply grateful for the sympathetic and comforting expressions contained therein. I rejoice, too, that Dr. Rusby has been found free of fault. BRILLIANT FLIGHT | BY LIEUT. RODGERS Naval Officer, in Aeroplane, Visits His Parerts at Havre de Grace, Md. GOES OVER BALTIMORE, STOPPING AT PIMLICO Start From College Park Made in the Face of “Lumpy” Wind. { MAY FLY TO NEW YORK TODAY Aviator Plans to See His Cousin Start on Aerial Journey Across the Continent This Afternoon. HAVRE —Lieut. avy DE GRACE, John Md., September Rodgers, United States instructor of aviation at Annapolis, the first man in this country to pay a visit to his parents by aeroplane. He left College Park, Md., near Wash- and am sorry that it was found necessary |!PSton, at 1:15 this afternoon, passed to reprimand Drs. Kebler and Bige-|0ver the northwestern section of Bal- low, both faithful and consctentious|timore and descended at the Pimlico workers. Their offense was in the phras- | ,, is Miao a py Spetaata taco etot race track, just north of that city, at “I always felt certain that the Presi- arg apiar md wes ier dent, with his high sense of Justice, | line, he again went into the air, circling would follow the course which he did. the track for half an hour at varying “I am grateful also to the press of the | altitudes, and started for Havre de United States for y - " S for the practically unant-| Grace at 4:25. He arrived at the Rodgers mous support which it has given me during this ordeal. I feel that the trib- ute is not a personal one, but to the cause which I have endeavored to es- pouse. “I cannot say anything of the future save that as long as I remain in the public service 1 shall endeavor to carry out the purposes which have actuated me in the past. “I desire also to take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to the hun- dreds of friends, known and unknown, who have written and wired to me in the Past few weeks and whose messages L have yet been unable to answer.” WARD ESCAPES INJURY WHEN AERO TAKES DROP Biplane Falls Twenty Feet at Owego as Result of Trouble With Engine. OWEGO, N. Y., September 16.—Engine trouble brought Aviator “Jimmy” Ward to grief here shorgly after 5 o'clock to- day. He was taking wing again to re- sume his coast-to-coast flight and had Just left the ground when, without warn- ing, the biplane dropped from a helght of twenty feet into a fence. The supports of the front central were smashed, both balancing planes were de- molished, while the wheels collapsed. The engine, rear planes and rudder escaped damage. Ward was thrown from his seat, but was not-hurt. He expects his mechan- icians can repair the machine in time to resume his flight Monday. Calmly Lights Cigarette. Ward reached Owego at 33:18 o'clock and had just started the third lap of a flight from Callicoon to Corning, scheduled for today, when the accident occurred. He emerged from the wreckage with nothing more serious than_a tear in his trousers. After surveying The wreck the young viator calmly lit a cigarette and said: ‘This is the first time I have had an accident like this in a year.” Then, noticing the tear in his trousers, he add- ed: “This is more serious than I at first supposed.” Ward left Callicoon at 10:% this morn- ing and made a splendid flight to Sus- quehanna, Pa., making the fifty-six miles at a speed of nearly a mile a minute. He was met at Susquehanna by his wife, who had been waiting there for him for several days and the two had luncheon together. Motor Is “Doctored.” At Susquehanna Ward noticed that his motor was not working properly. He made two unsuccessful attempts there to resume his trip and the motor had to be “doctored” before he finally xot away shortly after 2 o'clock. Ward flew ninety-nine miles today and in all has traveled miles from New York. THREE ENTOMBED 350 FEET. Rescued Establish Pipe Line Com- munication With Miners. LEADVILLE, Col., September 16—A note carved on wood in the Finnish tongue and tied to a hoisting cable in the Morning Star mine brought informa- tion to the surface late today that three Finnish miners were entombed 350 feet below by a cave-in. The collapse of the shaft occurred about 10 o'clock this morning, but those above did not know of it until, in re- sponse to the ringing of the signal bell, the engineer started the hoisting ma- chinery. Immediately a force of miners set about establishing pipe line communication to the imprisoned men. Tonight rappings from below indicate that the entombed men are alive. GUILTY OF ROBBERY. Illinois Minister Makes Confession After Bloodhounds Trace Him. VERSAILLES, IIL, September 16.—The Rey. W. H. Walstrom, pastor of a church here, pleaded guilty in court today to robbing a restaurant of $36. After bloodhounds had gone from the restaurant to the Walstrom home three times the minister confessed. > home at Sion Hill, two miles from this city, at p.m, The Meutenant’s pa- rents, Rear Admiral and Mrs. John a. Rodgers and his brother Robert, were in a fleld, 200 yards from the house, and as soon as he alighted his mother to him and greeted him affectionately. Will Fly to New York. Lieut. Rodgers announced tonight that he expected to leave in bis aeroplane for New York city at 10 o'clock tomor- row morning if weather conditions are favorable. He hopes to reach New York by 3 pm. at which time his cousin, C. P. Rodgers, is scheduled to leave Sheeps head Bay in an aeroplane for San Fran- cisco, to compete for the $50,000 Hearst prize. When word was received, from Balti- more that Lieut. Rodgers “was on his way to his old home through the air, the streets, hilltops and railroad em- bankments soon were crowded with people, and a great shout arose as the naval officer hove in sight. The aviator followed the line of the Pennsylvania railroad from Baltimore to this city. He had but one quart of gasoline leit when he reached here. Start Made in the Face of Considerable Difficulty The flight of Lieut. Rodgers from Col- lege Park yesterday afternoon was made in the face of considerable difficulty. The start was in the middle of the day, sev- ral hours earlier than the flying usually begins at the park. The wind on the ground was blowing ten miles an hour and was worse higher up. It was “lumpy” also, and when the aeroplane left the park it was tilted at an angle of about 330 degrees and ‘was fighting # bad quartering wind, so that the spec- tators estimated it was not making much more than four miles an hour headway. Late in the afternoon a telephone mes- sage was received saying that Lieut Rodgers had landed at.Havre de Grace 5 making it four hours and twenty minutes from the start at College Park. It is only seventy miles air line between Washington and Havre de Grace, but it is probable that the aero covered about 125 miles on the flight. ‘The trip of the machine rather a surprise to most of the army people, as it had been generaliy supposed Lieut Rodgers was going to Annapolis. He will go to New York today, where he is to start his cousin, Cal P. Rodgers, on his transcontinental flight. Cal Rodgers learned to tly a Wright machine at Day- ton soon after Lieut. Rodgers learned to fly for the navy. Lieut. Rodgers was his instructor, Cal P. Rod was the aviator who won first prize at Chica for the longest aggregate time in the ait during the whole meeting, making a total of twenty-seven hours and sixteen seconds. Flights at College Park. ‘There was considerable flying at College Park during the afternoon, Lieut. Milling, Lieut. Arnold and Lieut. Kirtland all taking the Wright machines into the air. Lieut. Arnold made the highest flight of the day, going up between 3,000 and 4,000 feet. There was only one of the Curtiss machines left on the field, as the motor of the big Curtiss has been sent back to the factory for repairs. but Capt. Beck took out the little four cylinder Curtiss and made several ci the field without attempting to very high into the air Toward the close of the day Lieut Milling, who has become thoroughly identified with the Wright machine, de- cided that he would like to master the ran Curtiss machine as well. The machine was flying a little “tail heavy” and was not in the best shape for a pupil, but Capt. Bi relinquished the operator's seat to his ambitious pupil and Lieut Milling made several straightaway flights the length of the field. His landings were all good and, in spite of the fact | that he was using a new machine with a totally different form of control, he gave every indication that within three or four days he would be able to qualify for a pilot’s license with it. The civilian feature of the day was a trial of the new Rex Smith machine with the Berliner rotary motor. Paul Peck was the aviator and took the machine [on several straightaway flights and one partial cireult of the field. The motor acted well, though the machine was a little “tail heavy” and. owing to the short shaft of the motor, it was impossible to adjust the balance satisfactorily. Peck said after the flight that the machine seemed to be quite buoyant and very easy of control. Kills Big Eagle in Virginia. Special Dispatch to The Star LYNCHBURG, Va., September 16.—An eagle, measuring seven feet and two in- ches from tip to tip, was killed in Am- herst county Thursday by I. H. Ewers., Slemp’s Cousin Kills Man. PENNINGTON GAP, Va, September 16.—In a quarrel here Jast ight H. C. Slemp shot and killed Cleveland Lyton. Slemp escaped. Slemp is a cousin of Representative C. B. Slemp. .