Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 19, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV.—NO. 146 __PRICE_TWO CENTS _ DOHERTY LACKING IN EXPERIENGE Lackawanna Railroad Expert Says That He Should “ Not Have Been Allowed to Run Train OUGHT TO SERVE THREE YEARS ON A FREIGHT Would Not Have Been Allowed to Run Passenger Train on Lackawanna Road—Declares That Air Brakes Worked Satisfactorily—Engineer Doherty Breaks Down on Stand and is Unable to Testify For a Time—Nervous on Stand Dridgeport, Conn, June 18.—“My own personal opinion is that Engineer Doherty should not have been allowed to run the train” declared Patrick J. Jangdon, an air brake expert of the 1 ailroad, referring to the Lackawanna train which was in the wreck at Stam- ford last Thursday, before the joint inguiry today, by the Interstate Com- merce Commission and the Connecticut Public Utilities Commission. Mr. J.anedon has been in the employ of the Lackawanna road-for the last 27 years and is in charge of the air brake equipment on the engines. He said that Doherty would not have en allowed to run a passenger train on the Lackawanna until he had had at least three years experience as a freight engineer. Best Type of Air Brakes. Langdon also gave highly im- portant testimony as to the results of the test run vesterday made by the same engine and equipment as in the Stamford wreck, and intended to dupli- cate conditions at the time of the ac- cident. General Manager Bardo of the New Haven asked him this question: As an air brake expert, would you say that the performance of the fest train yesterday was satisfactory—that is_as trains come and go?” Mr. Langdon promptly replied “Yes.” Askeq as to the type of air brakes on engine 1338, the engine that fig- ured in the wreck, Mr. Langdon said: “They are the best type of locomo- tive brakes on the market today.” Levers Were First Class. He said he would rather have an ngineer with good judgment and poor brakes than first class brakes and an sngineer with poor judgment. All the }Jffi:uards in the world are valueless, Mr- e declared, if the engineer uses poor udgment, 2 Mr. Langdon gave lengfhy testi- mony, much of it being technical, as to the test run yesterday. He had been invited to make the inspection, with others, by President Mellen. He found engine No. 1338 at the New Haven roundhouse, with the rest of the equip- ment that made up the second section of the Springfield express. He checked the levers and found them first class. As the engine was not under steam at that time, he could make no definite examination of the air brake equip- ment, but noticed that the brake and d valves were located perfectly for the engineer’s convenience. He made some notes on the condition of the brakes on the cars, but has not yet fig- ured the percentage of “braking.” Working of Air Pump Erratic. On the day of the test he rode in the engine cab. He gave the engineer some preliminary instructions as to 1he object of the run, but did not gpeak 1o him after that. Mr. Langdon found that the working of the air pump was erratic, which he judged to be due to dirt_under the diaphragm valves. In answer to a question, he said that when the engine was made ready for the sediment from the pipes might ollected, causing the trouble. It ired tapping to get the valves ng properly, ed as to how much pressure was to set the brakes, he said pounds.” This was for “or- dinary” service, and the brakes could not be set with less pressure and come 10 a stop in time, he said. Results of Different Tests. < of the different tests, Mr. said that the train running of 645 miles an hour, went 097 feet in forty sec- ore stopping. At the rate of miles an hour the engine went feet before coming to a stop. The gency brakes were on each time. “full service” brakes on, and under a thirty pound pressure, the irain ran 1,994 feet before stopping. The train at that time was running 55 miles an hour. At the rate of sixty 2nd one-half miles an hour the train went a distance of 2,525 feet On what was called the sixth test, the train was sent over the road under nearlr identical conditions that Doher- 1y experienced. The train was going =ixty miles an hour. Pressure was reduced ten pounds, then five and fin- aily emergency brakes were set. The in was 1,575 feet from the distant signal when the throttle was closed with a ten pound pressure. When the emergency brakes were applied, the train stopped 608 feet east of the home signal. This was some distance away from the point where the wrecked ‘Skylark” stood. Went Beyond Point of Accident on One Test. On the mext test the pressure was applied as before, but was not put on until opposite thegdistant signal. The train went a dist; beyond the home signal. Although Mr. Langdon did not state so specifically, the train would have struck and gone =ome distance beyond the point where the Skylark stood. Other tests were made this morning, technically known as “breaking away” tests. At sixty miles an hour the en- gine stopped in 27 seconds from the time the emergency brakes were ap- plied, with a gap between the engine and the cars “kicked” off of 196 feet. A second test resulted similarly. Conditions on Lackawanna Road. Chief Inspector Belknap of the In- terstate Commerce Commission plied Mr. Langdon with frequent questions. Asked as to conditions on the Lacka- wanna road, Mr. Langdon said that if he found that brakes did not properly apply at a fifteen pound pressure the engine would not be allowed to leave the terminal. ___General Manager Bardo of the New Haven asked technical questions as to runs on the Lackawanna -lines be- tween Hoboken and Buffalo to deter- mine brake eficiency and the amount of pressure needed. On the subject of stopping at signals, Mr. Langdon said ,that his engineers are supposed to have their train under full control at all predetermined stops. In these -cases the engineer does not walt until he gees the signal, slowing down before the signal came into view. The mat- ter was up to the judgment of the man in the cab, he sald. Doherty 8hould Not Have Run Train. Speaking of the qualifications for engineers on the ~Lackawanna, Mr. eald: "1 Qualify firemen for promotion work Twenty ce of 2,296 feet, or | tafter they have had at least three years experience in the freight service as en- gineers; We examine the men thor- oughly and give careful instructions to the workings of the engines, par- ticularly as to air bral Before a man is finally given a passenger run, 1 usually go in the cab with him, or have one of our foreman engineers go over the run.” ¢ 1t being brought out in thd testi- mony that Doherty, engineer on the colliding engine, had hag only com- paratively a short experience in a pas- | senger run, Mr. Belknap asRed if “pru- | dent_management” would allow such | a thing on the Lackawanna. To which Langdon replied: “Of course, as rail- roads, we may differ as to qualifica- tions, but my own personal opinion is that he should not have been al- lowed to run a passenger train.” Train Not Tampered With. Mr. Langdon was on the stand when the hearing closed for the day to re- sume again tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. During the afternoon the New Ha- ven roaq put numerous employes on the stand to show that the train that made the test run vesterday was mot tampered with, from the time of its arrival in New York, after\the wreck, until the test run yesterday. The only thing done, these men said, was to make minor repairs to the engine. The air brakes were not touched. The train was guarded carefully day and night and the watchman testified that no re- pairs were made other than to get the engine to work. Engineer Doherty on Stand. Engineer Doherty was on the gtand for a while today and repeated the testimony he had previously given be- fore Coroner Phelan at the latter’s in- quest at Stamford. He broke down un- der the strain and was excused. He was recalled in the afternoon, but be- fore Attorney Spock of the New Haven road could ask any qupestions, John Dillon of New Haven, his bondsman, asked Commissioner McChérd of the Interstate Commerce Commiggign. whether -Doherty’s -answers o used against him at future proceedings. Mr, Dillon said he wanted advice from counsel. Mr. McChord turned the question over to Attorney B. J. Do- herty of counsel for the commission. He advised that a recess be taken to allow Mr. Doherty to secure counsel if desired. It was expected that Do- herty would be called to the stand again during the afternoon, but he ‘was not. Inquest to Be Resumed Friday. Coroner Phelan said today that he would resume his inquest at Stamford Friday afternoon at two o'clock. He was present at the inquiry today and took copious notes on the testimony. War Warned to Be Careful. Doherty made an important addition to his previous statements. = “As I came from the turn table” he said, “Carroll asked me what train 1 was going to take. I told him ‘Sec- ond 53” I was then on the 1338. He said to me ‘Well for God’s sake be careful, the air brakes on these en- gines are not working right and the water glass cocks are wropg. Bardo (the general manager) is raising hell and be sure to put on your air in time.”” Doherty repeated his story of his first run on engine 1338 on Tuesday of last week, two days before the wreck and he described his entry in the work book at the round house that the air brake on. the locomotive was “no good.” Doherty Breaks Down. As the engineer proteeded it was noticed that he was becoming more and more nuervous and Attorney Do- herty approached his interrogations as to the wreck. itself very gently, but he had barely introduced ,the tragedy when the witness was seen to gulp as though struggling for breath and as the lawyer asked him to teil just when {he had .applied his air brakes tears came to the voung man's eyes and he bowed his head unable to articu- late a word. Commissioner McChord excused him temporarily and Doherty walkedq out of the courtroom with his | handkerchief at his eves. Thomas H. Dunn. conductor of sec- ond No. 53, was called. Engineer’ Doherty was later called to the stand. Commissioner McChord himself began to question the voung | man who had apparently partially re- | covered his compasure. { Couldn’t\Get Lever Back Far Enough. Mr. McChord leq Doherty to tell of his first seeing the signal set against him and of his applving the brake. The witness came necar to collapse, but he managed to tell his story with great effort. “I threw on the emergency.” he said: “and saw at once the brakes weren't going to stop. I did my best to re- | verse the engine, but couldn’t get the lever far enough back.” | Commissioner McChord mercifully saved the young man from telling of the actual collision. “How old are you, he asked. “Thirty-one,” answered the engineer. “How tall are you?” “T really don’t know.” “And what did you weigh?’ “I think about 150 pounds.” Doherty was shaking like a leaf and looked as though he might break down any minute, The work book containing his entry about the air brakes was introduced and he was asked to identify it, after which he was excused. The commissioner had a copy of the transcribed stenographic record of the engineer’s story given at the Stamford inquest and it will be accepted as a part of the present investigation. Mr. Doherty ?” Steamers Reported by Wireless. Cape Race, June 13.—Steamer Em- press of Ireland, Liverpool for Que- bex, signalled 45 miles northeast at 11 _p. m, 17th, Lizard, June 18.—Steamer La Prov- ence, New York for Havre, signalled 166 miles west at 5.45 dp m. Due Havre 11.30 a, m. Thursday. $150,000 Fire at Dillsburg, Pa. _Harrisburg, Pa., June 18—Fire at Dillsburg, Pa., last night caused a loss of $100,000, . Cabied Paragraph§ American Consul Saves Frenchman. Paris, June 18.—The life of a French- an taken prisoner by the federal Faops in Mexico was saved by the intervention of Jesse H. Johnson, American consul at Matamoras, in the statg of Tamaulipas. Carnegie Leaves Berlin. Berlin, June 18.—Andrew Carnegie, the American steel king who came here to present Emperor Willilam with an address from forty-four American peace and pacification societies depart- ed for Switzerland today. Quake in Martinique. Port de France, Martinique, June 18. —A severe earthquake shock was felt here carly today. It began at 12.80 o'clock and lasted _intermittently for several minutes. People fled from their homes in terror, but aside from damage to property no casualties had been reported eight hours after the quake. Posing As Wife of Taft. Paris, June 18.—The newspaper Liberte, which yesterday printed a sen- sational interview with “Mrs. W. H. Taft,” learned ‘today that it was the victim of an elaborate hoax. A woman posing as the wife of the ex-presi- dent of the United States, gave the newspapers an interview in which she denounced the suffragettes. Unable to Launch Battleship. Hamburg, Germany, June 18.—A fur- ther unsuccessful attempt was made to launch the German battleship cruiser Derfllinger here today. After she had refused to move from the stocks on Saturday, when she was christened, the constructors installed additional hy- draulic jacks, but these proved inef- fective and the vessel still remains on the ways. Prison for Two Suffragettes. London, June 18.—Two militant suf- fragettes, Mrs. Marianne Carendon Hyde and Miss Bunting of the Wo- men’s Freedom league, were today sen- tenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment on their refusal to pay fines of $10, imposed by the police magistrate for obstructing the police who suppressed their meeting vesterday in Downing street near the official residence of Premier Acquith. BAR HARBOR EXTRA LEAVES THE IRON Plunges Down Embankment Near Lowell, Mass. One Car L] Towell, June 18.—A special train of Pullman cars, bound from New York for Bar Harbor, Me., was wrecked half a mile south of the Graniteville station, on the Boston & Maine railroad, near here, early today. The seventy-five passengers, who were asleep when the accident occurred, were shaken up, but none was injured. All but one of the nine .cars left the rails. The cause of the wreck will have to be determined by vestigation. KM&; to C. G. Ggldfield, the en- gineer who has been "over the road regularly for two years, the train was rounding a curve at a speed of about forty miles an hour when all the cars, Vgfll the exception of the rear one, left tile rails and bumped over the ties for several hundreq yards before being stopped. The baggage and mafl cars broke away from the rest of the train and rolled along the edge of an em- bankment. The buffet smoker took a fifteen foot plunge down the bank, but the porter, who was the only occupant at the time, was not hurt. The locomo- tive and the private car of Mrs. G. F. Boardman of New York, the rear car of the train, did not leave the irons. The fact that'an accident had occurred did not becote known to many pas- sengers until some time after the train had been brought to a standstill. The train left New York at 8.01 last night, half an hour-in advance of the regular State of Maine express. The regular train was notified of the wreck and proceeded to the Graniteville sta- tion by way of Nashua, N. H. The passengers from the wrecked train were transferred to the express, which proceeded after an hour’s delay. The derafled train, although desig- nated by the raflroad officials as an “extra” was running on the regular time of the Bar Harbor express, which ordinarily is not put in operation until June 23. The trafic to Mt. Desert be- gan earlier than usual this year and for this reason the special was put in service. Steamship Arrivals. Havre, June 17.—Artrived, Tonian, Montreal for London. Liverpool, June 17.—Arrived, steam- ers Laprentic, Montreal; Franconia, Boston. Glasgow, June 17.—Arrived, steamer TUranium, New York Glasgow, June 18. er Numinian, Boston. Plymouth, June 13.—Arrived, steam- er Victoria Luise, New York for Ham- burg. Angra, June 17.—Arrived, steamer Germania, New York and Providence for Lisbon. Naples, June Arrived, steamer Madonna, New York and Providence for Marseilles. steamer Arrived, steam- Nominations Favorably Reported. ‘Washington, June 18.—The nomina- tions of Thomas Nelson Page of Vir- | ginia as ambassador to Italy, Edward J. Hale of North Carolina as minister Georgia as minister to Switzerland, | and William S. Gonzales of South Car- | olina as minister to Cuba were favor- ably reported today by the senate for- eign relations committee. An LL.D. for Senator Tumulty. Jersey City, N. J., June 18.—The de- gree of doctor of laws was conferred on Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to President Wilson, at the commence- ment exercises of St. Peter's college here tonight. Tennesseo Man Appointed. Washington, June 18.—Fred Frazier of Nashville, Tenn., has been selected to be assistant commissioner of pat- ents, according to Senator Lea, who was consulted by President Wilson to- day at the capitol. i Pelkey to Be Tried Today. * Calgary, 1Aberta, June 18.——The trial of Arthur Pelkey, the pugilist charged with manslaughter in connecction with the death of Luther McCarty in the prize ring here May 24 will begin to- morfow, Former Editer a College President. Marletta, Ohio, June 18.—Geerge ‘Wheeler Hinman, recently owner and editor of the Chicago Inier-Ocean, to- day was eleeted president of Marletta college, to succeed the late Alfred T. Perry, R For Minister to Portugal. ‘Washingten, June 18.—President Wil- son late today sent to the senate a leng list of neminatiens, inciuding as minister to Portugal Meredith Nichol~ son of Indiana, § | to Costa Rica, Pleasant H. Stovall of | The Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and | { | | | | 1] Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population Yale Confers HONORARY. ~ Joker Found in Degrees on 780/ Sugar Schedule |THIRTEEN OF THE NUMBER ARE | WOULD NULLIFY THE FREE SU- GAR PROVISION. PORTRAIT PRESENTED |IS PROMPTLY AMENDED President Hadley Announces Bequest to University—Harrisburg Newspa- per Publisher slected to Succeed Taft New Haven, Conn, June 18.—To nearly elght hundred young men of Yale the doors of the university swung outward today and the broad, busy world lay bevond. Each bore his de- gree from the alma mater as he step- ped over the threshold of Woolsey hall and " joined the ranks of the alumni. The final exercises on the commence- ment programme were held this fore- noon, being preceded by the long pro- cession of the corporation fellows, the faculties and the candidates for de- grees, all in cap and gown. The col- umn was formed in Vanderbilt court| and marched through New Haven green while the chimes of 'Trinity played “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” Conferring of Degrees. There were conferred by President Hadley 275 degrees of bachelor of arts, 279 bachelor of philosophy, 43 master of arts, 47 bachelor of laws, 39 doctor of philosophy, 30 dootor of divinity, while other degrees brought the total to 767, with 13 honorary ones conferrad in_additien. 8 The candidates for the honorary de- grees were presented by Professor Woolsey, They wera as follows: Honerary Degrees. Masters of Arts—Daniel Chester French, sculptor, and resident of Bos- ton; Harvey Cushing, Yale '81, profes- sor in the Harvard Medical school; Howard Mansfleld, Yale 71, lawyer, of New York, and trustee of the Metro- politan Museum of Fine Arts; George Dudley S.iruour of New Haven, a leader in Ythe movement to beautify this city. : \ Doctors of Science—Arthur Ambs Noyes, professor at Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, Boston; Samuel ‘Wendell Williston, professor of pale- . ontology at the University of Chicago. ~dJudge Prentice an LL. D. Doctors of Divinity—Arthur Judson Brown, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; Boyd Vin- cent, Yale '67, bishop of southern Ohio and presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church; Joseph Hopkins Twichell, Yale 59, of Hartford, until his_resignation recently senior fellow of Yale corporation and intimate friend of the late Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain). Doctors of Letters—Alfred Noves of England, the poet. Doctors of Laws—Samuel Oscar Prentice, Yale '73, chief justice of Con- necticut; John Grier Hibben, president of Princeton university; David Frank- lin Houston, secretary of agriculture. Presentations Announced. Announcement was made by Presi- dent Hadley that the university has received by bequest from Mrs. Sarah S. Robbins a portrait of her father, Moses Stuart, Yale college 1799, paint- ed by Thomas Buchanan Reed. The collection of 650 Greek and Etruscan vases purchased by Mrs. Louise Stod- dard of New Haven and given by her to the university has just arrived in New Haven. It is to be placed in the president’s room in Memorial hall when proper cases have been provided. Newspaperman Succeeds Taft. Vance Criswell McCormick, who succeeds former President W. H. Taft in the Yale corporation, is an ex- mayor of Harrisburg, Pa., and a former Yale football captain. He was born at Harrisburg June 19, 1872, and was graduated from Sheffield Scientific school in 1893 and given the honorary degree of master of arts by.Yale in 1907. In college he was president of his class and also a class deacon be- sides being in his senior year captain of the eleven. He is owner of the Harrisburg Patriot. Mr. McCormick is unmarried. WESTBROOK PHYSICIAN PLQ_.CED UNDER ARREST. Held in $3,000 for a Hearing on a Seri- ous Complaint. ‘Westbrook, Conn., June 18.—Dr. James P. Tonks, a well known medical man of this town, was placed under arrest by State Police Officer Downing and another officer this afternoon, and before Judge Wesley: U. Pearne of Middletown, who held court in the town hall, he was held in $3,000 for a hearing on Friday, June 27. The com- plaint charged.it is understood, is mal- practice, but it was not read and only incidental reference was made to it, as all those in court who took part in the proceedings seemed to have knowledge of the circumstanceg, ‘The bond for Dr. Tonks was fur- nished jointly by Town Clerk George C. Moore, First Selectman Gilbert A. | Post and Druggist Willlam J. Neidlin- ger, each going on the hond for $1,000. GRADUATED IN DAY, * ARRESTED AT NIGHT. Yale Man Runs Down and Seriously Injures New Haven Woman. New Haven, Conn., June 18.—Theo- dore P. Davis of Austin, Tex., who was graduated from the academic de- partment of Yale today, was arrested tonight by direction of the coroner af- ter he had struck and seriously in- jured Miss Mary Reardon with his automobile. He was driving to Savin Rock at the time. Miss Reardon was taken to the hospital. An examination showed that both of her legs were broken, there was a deep gash on the head, she was bruiged and battered about the body, and it is believed was hurt internally. Davis is held under $1,000 bonds. SOLDIER FROM ARCTIC, R. 1., KILLED IN PHILIPPINES. Fourteen American Soldiers Meet Death in Four Days’ Fighting, Washingten, June 18—Fourteen American soldiers were killed in hte recent four days’ fighting on Jelo Isl- and, in the Philippines, when General Pershing’s col d finally subdued and disarmed the rebellious Meros, ac- cording to a repert today te the war department, On the list of dead were €apt. Tay- lor A. Nieholas of the Philippine seouts, eleven’ secouts and twe privates of the regular army. One of the regulars was Oliver Villiard, Company M, Eighth infantry, whose sister, Miss Anna Villiard, lives in Angtic, R, L ‘| with their eraft when Senate Finance Committs mediate Action—Deci Cattle and Meats on the ‘Free List. Washington, June 18.—An eleventh hour discovery that the sugar sched- ule of the Underwood tariff bill had a “joker” in it which would have op- erated to make all refined sugar quti- able at two cents a pound and nullify the provision for free sugar after three years, resulted today in amendment to the schedule by majority members of the senate finance committee. An Important Elimination. Elimination in the Underwood bill of the “Dutch standard of color,” which has been in tariff bills for many years, it was discovered, made applicable to all refined sugar a p: ph taken from the Payne-Addrich bifl relating to confectionery, which included the fol- lowing words: “Sugars after being refined when they incurred, colored or in any way adulterated, two cents per pound. Would Apply to All Refined Sugar. The majority members of the finance commitiee had their attention called to this matter by Senator Sheppard of Texas, whe was petitioned by the chamber of commeree of Greenville, Texas, to loak into the provisien which they believed might defeat the purpose of the administration and the majority in congress as to ultimate free sugar. It was suggested that the language of the bill as it steed esuld be so con- strued as to apply to all refined sugar, which in being refined is colored with ultramarine. Refined Sugars Struck Out. The question struck rembers of the finance committee so forcibly that an investigation was ordered, and Pres- ident Wilson, when his attention was called to it, agreed that it should be looked into thoroughly. Late tonight the majority members of the committee secured expert re- ports to the effect that the language might operate as a joker, and they promptly struck out the language as it refered to refined sugars and left it ap- plicable only to confectioneries. Regular Internal Tax on Brandies. Another important amendment to the bill agreed upon by the committee ‘would repeal an act passed in 1890 ex- empting brandies used by manufactur- ers to fortify grape wines from the general internal revenue tax. This amendment, it is pnderstood, will in- crease the revenue by $7,000,000 a year. The amendment would result in the regular tax of $1.10 per gallon being paid on all brandles used in fortifying wine. Under the present law the spe- clal revenue tat on all such brandies is three cents a gallon. Cattle and Meats on Free List. The committee tonight had complet- ed all the schedules of the bill, and Senator Kern, the majority leader, is- sued a call for a senatorial democratic caucus next Friday. The caucus can take up the rates while the committee is completing its work on the income tax and adminis- trative features, which were deliberat- ed upon until a late hour tonight. One of the important matters set- tled today was that a countervailing duty should not be put onlivestock and meats which are to go on the free 1ist unrestricted. ‘Wheat and flour will g0 on the free Hst, but with a counter- vailing duty. METHODIST BISHOP SUSPECTS CARNEGIE. Impugns Motive of His Gift to Vander- bilt University. Atlanta, Ga., June 18 —Charges that the recently announced gift of one mil- lion dollars by Andrew Carnegie to the Vanderbilt university at Nashville, Tenn., “is not a donation but a shrewd attempt to get control of part of the university property,” and that the re- tired ironmaster is “dangling money before the public with the purpose of influencing litigation pending over the university,” are made in a statement given out here tonight by Bishop W. A. Candler of the Methodist Episcopz church, south. P Bishop Candler characterized Mr. Carnegie’s offer of a donation to the univers as an “impudent proposal of an asnostic steel monger.” BOY SHOT BROTHER Victim of A®ident in Hospital in Seri- ous Cendition. Derby, June 18.—Steven Gutrick,aged | lining of his stomach, tonight lay in | the Griffin hospital in a serious cond i tion. John, his 18 vear old brother, was locked up to await the outcome of the injury. who attends the wounded lad, expects him to recov- er. So far as the police can find out, the brothers were fooling with a 22 cal- ibre weapon in the yard of their home, in_Jersey sireet. | John says it was purely accidental. MRS. VANDERBILT WANTS TO BE DEPUTY SHERIFF. Application to Sheriff Harbur- ger for Appointment. New York, June 18.—Mrs, Reginald Vanderbilt called at Sheriff Harbur- ger's office today and asked him to ap- oint her a deputy sheriff. The sher- ff was almost as disappointed es she was when he infofmed her that, inas- much as women cannot vote in this state, he eould appoeint only men as deputies. Five Fishermen Drowned. Boeston, June 18,—Capt, John Andrew Daggett of Portland, 'Me., and five members of the crew of the Gloucester flehing - schooner Olympia weat down o was rammed oft Bable Island in a dense fog early today by the Warren line steamer Sag- amore. The Bagamere arrived at _quarantine frem Liverpeel tenight with eight survivers of the seheener. Probable Murder and Sulcide. Lewistown, Pa., June 18.—The bodies of Mrs. Sallie K. R. Beitles, 8 widow, and William Heugh were found teday in the weman's home. Each had a bul- let wound in the head. The pelice the- ory is that the weman shet the man and then herself. WHILE FOOLING. | Condensed Teiegrams uboni Haiti, Plague is reported from John Collins Is Dead at Utica, N e R Louisiana Strawberr, Shipments have netted $2,125,000 this year.p _Class of '78 Presented Yale univer- sity with an oil portrait of their mate, former President Taft. . The Cupola of the Woolworth build- ing in New York is to be coated with gold leaf, valued at $30,000. Dr. J. M. Peeblés, 91 Years Old, of Los Angeles, intends to make his sixth trip around the world in 1915. Thomas Allibone Janvier, author of many books of fiction, died at New York yesterday, 63 years old. _ Diamonds, Numbering 500, smuggled into New York in a picture frame were s0ld at public auction for $16,050. Brown University Held its 145th commencement today, degrees in course being awarded to 161 students. Senator O'Gorman Yesterday recom- mended former Governor John A. Dix of New York for governor-general of the Philippines. Crops Were Seriously Damaged when a thunder and lightning storm, accom- panfed by hail and a high wind, swept the New Jersey coast. Twelve Buildings at Monticello, N. Y., were destroyed by fire. Mrs. Wolfe overturned an oil stove while spanking her son. Loss, $75,000. Henry Wade Rogers, Dean of the Law school of Yale univer: y, deliv- ered the commencement address at Indiana university yesterday. The Heating Power of Gas, rather than candlepower, should be made the basis of gas rating, according fo the United States Dureau of standards, Victor H. Olmstead, chief of the de- partment of agriculture’s bureau of statistics, was suspended 3bsterday pending an investigation of his office. Wesloyan University vesterday con- ferred degrees in courses upon nin six men, the largest class at any com- mencement In the institution’s history. A Class of 63 was gradualed from Middlebury college, Middlebury, - vesterday with the degree of bach- elor of arts. Seven honorary degrees ‘were conferred. There Were 52 Graduates at the 66th commencement of Beloit, Wis., college yesterday. The address’ was by Pro- fessor George D. Adams of Yale uni- versity, Belolt The New York Public Service Com- mission has ordered a hearing June 24 as to whether or not passengers should be permitted to ride on rear platforms of elevated trains. Tufts College Graduated a class of 244 yesterday. Several honorary de- 8rees were conferred. Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary was made an honor- ary doctor of laws. Seven Hundred Troopers of the Tenth cavalry stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, arrived at Hubbardton, Vt., yes- terday on the way from their post to Fort Winchester, Va. Mrs. Theodore Blodeau, Wife of a contractor of Sherbrooke, Canada, was Kllled ang her sister-in-law injured by the explosion of a bomb, which they had received through the mails. Edward Light of Danbury, a sign painter working for a motorcycle com- in Darien committed suicide when jumped from the Darien railroad platform in front of the 1.15 local for New York. A Faithful Dog Tried to seize Mrs, Annie Casey when she leaped from the fourth floor of a Brooklyn tenement vesterday and both woman and ani- mal were crushed to death on the side- walk below. If Your Butter Tastes “metallic” or “olly” or “fishy” it is almost a cer- tatni that your grocer has unloaded “sterage” butter on you, according to the bureau of animal industry of the agricultural department, Fred L. Benn, who until recently was a clerk in the Augusta, Me., past office, fatally shot himself is the temple yes- terday after purchasing a revolver and locking himself in a small room in the railroad station at Gardiner. Over a Quarter of a Million dollars worth of sole leather belonging to the Vaughn Leather company, in its plant at Salem, Mass., was practically wipeq out by fire yesterday, the total loss to the company being $350,000. Gov. Baldwin Yesterday Definitely notified the Gettysburg semi-centen- nial commission that he will attend | 14, with a small calibre buliet in the { it was discharged. | the celebration and that his personal escort will be Adjutant General George M. Cole and Major Charles D. Pinney. Nine Men Noted in the World of ence and letters, among them George Washington Goethals, chief en- gineer of the Panama canal, were given honorary degrees at the 137th com- mencement of the University of Penn- syvlvania. ' Posters Calling a_Mass Meeting for today and bearing the headline * Ve me lberty or give me death—Patrick Henry,” were pasted at Tokio vester- day by agitators on some walls in the vicinity of the United States embassy and at other points in the Japanese capital. An Operation Which the surgeons declare will make a good boy of eight- year-old Claire H. Jamieson, was per- formed in the West Philadelphia hom- eopathic hospital, when a piece of bone about_two inches long and one inch wide,” was removeq from the boy's skeull, A Pel n for a Reoceiver fbo the Southern New FEngland railrfoad was flleq in the Massachusetts supreme court yesterday on behalf of John Marsch, one of ‘the contractors for the proposed line between Providence and Palmer. Acilon was postponed until June 24, Work on the Foundations for ths beautiful fountain to be erected at Washington to the memory of Major Archibald W. Butt, military aide to President Taft, and Franeis Millet, the artist, who lost their lives in the M- tanic disaster, is to begin in the im- mediate foture. Whitneyville.—There will be a bag- ket plenle of the Mount Holyoke Alum- nae assoclation of New Haven and vieinity at Wintergreen banks, the home of Miss Bickerman, in Whitney- ville, Saturday, June 21 Lobbyists Seek Railroad Jobs WOULD BE INFLUENTIAL AT WASHINGTON. STATEMENT OF LOVETT Chairman of Union Pacific Directorate Summoned by Senate Investigation Committee—M’gr. Stone to Testify. Washington, June 18—The senate's Iobby Investigation reached out into new fields today when the senate, act- ing on a resolution presented by Sen- ator Norris, ordered the Overman com- mittee to subpoena Judge Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the board of di- rectors of the Union Pacific raflroad, to explain a published statement cred- « ited to him yesterday in New York that lobbyists had sought to secure ermpldyment from the Union Pacific on the ground that they.would be able to influence a settlement of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific dissolution case in Washington. More Letters Made Public. Earlier in the day the committes had made public, over the protests of a lawyer representing Henry T. Ox- nard and Truman G. Palmer, a series of letters written by these two best sugar representatives, showing a long continued effort to influence legisla- tion in Washington; to control con- greesional committees; and to direct national political affairs in support of continuance of a protective sugar mined tonight when the railroad phase of the investigation would be opened. A summons was sent today to Charles B. Warren of Detroit, president of the Michigan Sugar company, and one of the men to whom many of the Hamlin letters, produced yesterday, were ad- dressed. Mr. Warren was asked to ap- pear before the committee tomorrow and it is expected he will be asked for more details of the beet sugar pub= licity campaign. Free Sugar to Benefit Cane Sugar Re« finers. Lat in the afternoon the committea abandoned temporarily the sugar pro- tection lobby and took up the free su- gar side, calling Frank Lowry of New York, who directed much of the free, sugar publicity under the agsoci- ation name of the “committee of the wholesale growers.” Mr. Lowry admitted he was employ—« ed by the Federal Sugar Refining comn« pany and under questions by Senator Cummins, argreed that free sugar would benefit the cane sugar refiners. Manager Stone to Testify. The committee tonight granted the request of Melville E. Stone of New York, general manager of The Asso- ciated Press, Who asked to be allowed to testify tomorrow regarding claims made in some of the Hamlin letters, produced yesterday as to the publicity, the beet sugar interests hoped to se- cure through the Associated Press. CARINET MINISTERS MAKE DUE APOLOGY, Explain Their Dealings in American Marconi Shares. London, June 18—TFor the first time in many years British cabinet minis- ters were compelled today to defend their personal honesty before parlia- ment. The attorney general, Sir Ru- fus Isaacs, and the chancellor of the exchequer, David Lioyd-George, ex- cused their dealings in American Mar- coni shares on the floor of the house, and the final scene in the Marconi af- fair, which their political enemies had attempted agnify into a scandall rivalling the Panama debacle, was tense and dramadtic. The galleries were filled with peerm to ms P and diplomats. All the seats and standing room on the floor were oc- cupied. The two ministers admitted that they had acted thoughtlessly and | mistakenly, although without dis- homest intention, and regretted their failure to divulge all the facts when they had made thelr denials to the house last October of buying English Marconi shares; Having finished their defence, in deference to the tradition that the tradition t the house should be left to discuss their conduct without the embarrassment of their presence, tiiey walked from the cabinet together, A great cheer from th partisana followed them, the members standing on the benches waving handkerchiefs and papers. The resolution introduced by George Cave, Uninnist, in behalf of the oppo- sition, which brought about the debate, went no further in its censure than te express the regret of the house at the transactions of the ministers and the lack of frankness displayed by them towards the house. By expressing their regret, thereby agreeing with the resolution, the two ministers spiked the guns of their bit- terness opponents, who regarded the s an_opportunity to make pold= | tical capital. OB]TUARV. Rev. William H. Lynch of Bridgeport: Bridgeport, Conn., June 18.—Rew. William H. Lynch, pastor of St Charles’ Roman Catholic church since its foundation in 1902, died here tonight of uraemia convulsions following & long illness of arterio sclerosis. Fa- ther Lynch was 51 years old and was a native of Waterbury. He was or- dained in 1888 and had served as curate in Manchester, Windsor Locks, ‘Waterbury and Bridgeport. Taft to Speak at Gettysburg. Gettysburg, Pa.,, June 18._—Followin; the news that President Wilson will not be present at the celebration of the battle anniversary here in July, semi- officfal announcement was made today that former President Taft will preside over the great gathering and deliver the principal oration on July 4, the closing day of the anniversary. Barge Cook Drowned. Portland, Conn, June 18—The body of Frank Stewart, colored, was found floanting in the Connecticut river oft Gilderslesve tonight. Stewart was cook on & barge which had been tied up for several days at Siam dock at Gil- derslesve, and was drowned while out & —_— Won't Wateh the Beef Trust. London, June 18-—Sydney Buxton, president of the Hritish board of trade, declined today to accede to a request that the British government ishould #end a epecial commissioner to :nsn- ina to watoh the action of the Amer ican beef trust.