Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 6, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV—NO. 214 “NORWICH, The Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwich i1s Louble That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion e City's Population BANJO SYSTEM BLAMED FOR WRECK Denounced by the Trainmen and Admitted by Railroad Officials to be Inferior ENGINEERS HAD MADE A PROTEST AGAINST IT Interesting Testimony Adduced at Inquiry of Interstate Com- merce Commission—Engineer Miller Suspended on Prev- jous Occasion for Running by Signal—Flagman Murray Never Qualified for Position—Order to Stop Rescinded e e New Haves, Conn, Sept. 5—The so- eailed “banjo” signal system installed oa the New York, New Haven and Hartford rafiroad nearly twenty-five years ago, and still in operatiom was charged in sworn testimony teday with the respomsibility for the death of twenty-one persons in the wreek which occurred on that rvad last Tuesday morning. The testimony was given at e inquiry begun thday by the inter- ate commerce commission to detgr- mine the causes of the disaster, System Cailed “Obsolete.” Described by Interstate Commerce Commissioner MeChord himself as zalete,” and denounced by the trainmen of the crews of the two trains invelved in the collision, the system was admit- 1ed by officers of the road to be in- ferior to the up-to-date systems in use other roads. Lacking a “caution” signal as protection against a danger gnal as in modern tems, the “ban- type. according to half a dozen ainmen who testified, causes engi- neers to “drift by” their signals in fogzy weather before they could bring their trains to a stop. Train Traveling 51 Miles an Hour. was the reason for the North eck, according to Engineer e locomotive of the White tain express when it plunged into f the Bar Harbor express on Tuesday muerning. Miller “drifted” by the signal in this however; train sheets introduced case, in idence today showed that his -ain was speeding over fifty-one < an hoar. miles of the “banjo” type of now in use on all the railroads United States, 150 miles are in operation on the New York, New Ha- and Hartford, according to a state- made today during the investiga- Commissioner MeChord. Engineers Protested Against It. than a vear ago the Brother- of I.ocomotive Engineers protest- ed against the system as not offering sufficient protection for the engineers, #nd asked that it be abolished. Cor- respondence to this effect was placed evidence. That an order to stop the White Mountain express at Wallingford, three north of the wreck. was sent om New Haven and then rescinded was one of the startling features of the testimony. This was told by John C. <elley, the New Haven train despatch- who produced train sheets showing at the White Mountam brought up in the rear of a procession of six trains which passed Wallingford within a space of thirty-two mirutes. The first five of them, Kelley testified, were on en mile stretch between Walling- 4 Afr Line junction, just north at the same time, Rescinded Order to Stop Train. you had five passenger trains gy morning in ten miles of an order out for the man e next train, and then you rescinded 17" asked Chief Inspector Belnap of the commission, who con- ancted the examination, Yes, sir.” Kelley explained that he had orig- fnally ziven the order because of the time the first of the five trains ¥ to reach Air Line junction, and scinded it on receiving word from r at the junction that the had arrived there. adfed thal there were seven signals he ten mile stretch. Engineer Miller's Second Wreck. romise of a revelation of what ef- New Haven road has made the =afety of passengers since Pridgeport wreck of two years ago given today, when C. L. Bardo, ral manager of the road. was re- ed by the commission to produce the minutes of the meetings of the Havew's directors and executive committes a1 which such action might $ave heen taken. That Fncineer Miller had heen once spended for passing a signal and this wa gecond wreck in which he had heen ‘involved: that C. )1 Murray. the flagman of the Bar Yiarhor, had not regularly qualified for Bic position: that the RBar Harbor train ftec1f had rup by signals on the morn- fng of the wreck: that the alr brakes of cne of the Bar Harhor sleepers was of eammission when it left Spring.- preventing i from getting away rom “Signal Ne, 237 when the \V)}nlfl ;dn'!ma‘“ was bearing down upon it— these were other features of the evi- dence adduced Railroad Furnished Murray's Bond, with Engineer Milles rrested last night by Coroner Mix i accused of “criminal” responsibil- for the wreck, was released from today en bonds furmished by the r of President Howard Elliott of ew Haven road, Miller is alse in 1 liberty. ’ tha ? Peta g flagmea whe is but 23 1d his story of the wreck ‘ler «itess pf manifest emotion, In yntrasi, Mitier, a man of 47, the lines f b fax set and determined, spoke with calm deliberation ‘| went baek as far as 1 eould be- fore 1 was ealled in by the whistle” said Murray, whea asked te describe what he did te protect the Bar Harber express when it came te a stop. *I toid them dowa at the other hearing seven telegraph ; vas SiX_ OF : t hack As 1 thiak jt over, 1 know Bltier how. 1 know ft was not. T eannor estimdte how far back 1 did lefore 1 put_my torpedoes down the whistle called me in. Fhen the whistle was Tepegled. I was i starting back, 1 had a fusée {n my J was going 1o ght it and drop ic. I heard the approaching T pui ghe £ in my teeth and the little cli pull the cap ce grabb-d % 1 off. thinking J would have time to light it and wave it in the afr wit my lamp. Then I saw the train, saw it and jumped out of the way. T was aH done in a second.” ,Had No Thought of Jumping. Fnsincer Miller said: The first thing T saw was the fag- in the gzutter waying his n dowp fl(. lm more than seen him belore 1 str the torpedoes. I look-! ob- 1 Miller, who was at the throt- | ed up and I saw I had my banjo against me and the rear end of that train ahead of me.” “Neither you nor your fireman jump- ed?” asked Mr, Beinap, “No, sir. 1 didn't have time. I had no thought of jumping.” “Do you consider the banjo system of signalling as safe as the system of signailing which gives an advance in- dication?” asked Mr., Belnap. “Not by any means,” replied the en- gineer. Brace C. Adams, conductor of the Bar Harbor, testified that his train had run half a train length beyond a signal set against it at Wilson’s on the Journey down the Connecticut valley from Springfield, Mass. His testimony was corroborated by Rufus W, Wands, the engineer, Both said that “drifting by” signals was frequent occurrences on the New Haven, but that the viola- tions were not often reported. | Engineers and Flagmen Disciplined. General Manager Bardo testified that { from Jan. 1, 1911, to date there had been 158 such oases reported, for which 32 engineers had heen _dis- charged and 117 disciplined. There had been also 101 cases reported of improper flagging, for which 28 had been discharged and 73 were otherwise disposed of. Adams further testified that at Wil- son’s he had sent his flagman, Murray, back to protect his train “until he flagged first 95” (the White Moun- tain). “Then did Svst hind your tran. 95 pull right up be- here and stop?” “Yes, sir,” said Adams. “Then you knew first 95 was right behind you?” “Yes, sir.” Conductor Warned Murray. Murray denied in his testimony that at he had seen the White Mountain all until the wreck. Adams said he had been parti to warn Murray that he wanted flagging” on his train. Describing the events of the wreck. Adams said that the Bar Harbor also had passed the fata] signal at North Haven set against it. He id that when the engineer tried to start again he ‘couldn’t seem to.release the air and there was one car that was stick- ing,. e stood there two or three min- utes. Then I got the air released and the engine mcved ahead about half a car. Then I gave him the stop signal and told him to call the flagman in. I was going to wait there a few mo- ments and if he didn't show up I was going to leave him.” Knew White Mountain Was Behind Him. “Then you knew that train first 95 had stopped behind you at signal 85 (Wilson’s)," was standing there when you left, knew it was following you through the fog, called the flagman in and waited for him to cem in?” 1 “He is supposed to use his own judgment in regard to that,” said Ad- ams. Coroner Mix continued his -private inquest into the wreck today and late tonight. 2,087 Wooden Cars in Use. Adams thought that when his train had moved forward to its second stop its rear car had cleared the signal, thus opening the previous block a mile away from the White Mountain. General Manager Bardo said that the company had at the present steel. passenger cars of its own and 38 steel Pulimans. The number of wooden cars in operation was 2,087. There was one steel motor car, he said, for the “exclusive use of iffe wealfhy.” Bardo Defends Banjo System. Mr. Bardo defended the banjo sys- tem. “It is as safe as any other, if you regard principles—the first to pro- fect your train when it stops and the second to observe the rules. I don't mean to convey the idea though that it is as good as an up-to-date sys- tem."” 53 “Tt has been tried and proven,” reads the letter of protest sent by the engineers’ organization to the road last August, “that the signal system be- tween New Haven and Springfield, Hartford, Hopewell and Boston and other portions of the system is of no protection whatever to our engineers under the drastic and unreasomable discipline asked by our operafing offi- clais for any violations of the rules pertaining to the same and our engi- neers are unable to run their trains without a violation of these rules and other conflicting rules.” A DOUBLE FUNERAL, Remains of Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Martin Buried at Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. §.—The dou- bie funeral of Mr, and Mrs, Heward F, Martin of Bryn Mawr, Pa, viectims of Tuesday’s wreck, was held teday from the home of a nephew, Harry H, Adam Muteh, pas- Mawr Preshyterian Read, here. Rev. tor of the Bryn chureh, of which chureh the Martins were. members, officiated. Only im- mediate relatives were present. The interment was in Mountain Grove cem- etery, This eity was Mrs. Martin’s former heme, and Mr, Martin for some years held a position with one of the large manufacturing eeacerns here before going south. CONGRESSIONAL ACTION. on to Spend $25009 for In- vestigation of Railroad Bevices. Washington, Sept. b Fhe Norith il- e’ up in the house today with an amendment to the urgent deficiency LIl proposed by Republiciu Leader Maun, antborizing the Intersiate Con merce Gommission o> spend investigating blgck signal und auta- malic train control systems, Chairman Adamson, of the Interstate, Commerce committee, decls New Haven had been slower than the other radroadsn installing stegl pas- senger Cars. £ “J hope,” ‘he said. “that in tite light of recent oceurrences the Newd Haven wiy someé way of _relifing il wooden passenger cars.” “¥ < 000 | red that thel vacant by deal Cabied Paragraphs rof. Moehring Wins Competition. Berlin, Sept, 5.—The competition for designs for a new Germany embassy building at Washington, opened by the overnment, was won by Professot runo Moehring, the leading architect of Berlin. Attempted Assassination. Tolio, Japan, Sept. 5.—An attempt was.made today to avsassinate Mori- tano Abe, director of the political bu- reau of the Japanese foreign office. He was stabbed in the abdomen, and the wound is a severe one. American-Japanese Union. The Hague, Netherlands, Sept. 5h.— An American-Japanese parliamentary union was formed today by the groups of delegates representing the two na- tions at the interparliamentary confer- ence now in session here. Many Killed by Crazy Teacher. Muehlhausen, Germany, Sept. crazed teacher numed Wagner, murdered his wife and four at Degerloch yeste: who children rday, set fire to the village of Muehlhausen in four places during last night and in a fusillade with the villagers who tried to cap- ture him, eight persons were shot and killed and ten wounded, CAMINETTI I8 FOUND GUILTY BY THE JURY. Released on $10,000 Ball in White Slave CaserSentence on Wednesday. San Francisco, Sept. 5—Farley Drew Caminetti, son of the -commissioner- generai of immigration, was found guilty late today of one count of the indictment charging him with violation of the Mann white slave act. The jury was out three hours and took eight ballots. From the first the vote stood 10 to 2 for conviction and finally the two recalcitrants agreed to compromise by finding a verdiot of gullty on one of the four counts charged. Bail in the sum of $10,000 was fur- nished by Frank Freeman of Willows, Cali, and G. Bacigalupi of San Fran- cisco, and was ready to be filed with the United States marshal when the verdict wa's announced. Sentence will be pronounced on Wednesday, Septem- ber 10, the day set for sentencing Maury I Diggs, jointly indicted with Caminetti and convicted on four counts. Exceptions to the charge of Judge Van Fleet as a whole and in_ part were taken by counsel and a petition for an appeal will be filed, as was announced in the case of Diggs. Caminetti took the verdict smiling a forced smile his brother jocularly. First he lifted his little daughter, Naomi, who was playing at his feet, and placed her carefully in her moth- er'slap. Then he shook hands with his lawyers and with Diggs, who had been sitting nearby. His mother and wife showed mno emotion. They sat with lowered heads, gazing into their laps. Caminetti and Maury 1 Diggs, for- mer state architect of California.were jointly indicted on six counts and Diggs was found guilty on four of them, the jury being unablé to agree on the other two. Because of the special circum- stances surrounding Caminetti’s, indi vidual part in the flight from Sacra- mento to Reno with Marsha Warring- ton and Lola Norris, the government elected in the second trial to press only four counts. The first two counts charged that he transported and aided in transporting the two voung women in interstate commerce. One count applied to each girl, and each count carried a maxi- mum penalty of five years in a federal penitentiary and $5,000 fine, Thus | Diges is liable to twenty years’ im- | prisonment and $20,000 fine and Cam- | inetti to five years and $5,000 fine, lightly, The verdicts eorrespond with the | contention of the government, which | was that Diggs was the self-censtitut- | ed boss and major domo ef the par | and Caminetti more or less of a pas- | sive and pliant agent, NO HOSTILITY TOWARD THE NEW HAVEN ROAD Morgan Took Action to Give New Administration a Free Hand. New York, Sept. 5—At his country home tonight J. P. Morgan said that the action of his banking firm in sever- ing financial relations with the New Haven road could in no sense be term- ed a hostile move toward President Elliott or the railroad. He said: |""“The action was taken wholly In order to leave the new administration of the railroad free handed to make its own fiscal arrangements. It in sense implies hostility or il feeling to- ward the railroad. We are in thorough accord with the new administration. The action was taken simply in order to leave it unhampered. “It is now up to the New Haven as to its future banking arrangements. It has,a free hand to do what it sees hest. Mr. Morgan added that should the New Haven wish to secure the services of the Morgan firm, or to make a new contract the bankers would consider it. AUTO KILLS TWO ON A RACE TRACK. Driver and Girl Spectator the Victims —Three Others Injured. Jackson, Mich., Sept. Hurry Endi. cott of Anderson, Ind, a brother of “Farmer Bill”7¥ndicott, the noted au- tomobile racer, and Mary Sarata of Jaekson, u 10 vear old speetator, were killed and three persons injured here this afternoon when Kndicotts suto- mohile, hyrtling around the race track, erashed through a fence after one of the front tires blew up, r The injured are Geerge Benediet, Endicott’s mechaniciam; Mrs, Mabel Walters and Frances Hail, 13 years old, poth of Jacks Benediet's econdition is in doubi, Neither Mrs, Walters nor the Hall girl was seriously hurt, Endicott was driving a 100 herse power car preparatery te aa exhibition race against Benedict here tomerrow, when the aecident eccurred. SAW TWAIN'S JUMPING FROS, Death of Otto Boiling, Owner of An: gels Hotel, Angels Camp. San Francisce, (al, Sgpt ottg Oolling, a friend of Mark Fwain's, why claimed the distincton of having see Wwain's “Jumping jump, is dead here ater a long ilin e was thu g.llul.v tor s Caanp, w Lotel ju A | Lrated” rrog, loaded Wiy Lbuckshot, | failed to jump ai"a time when Lis rep utation vas - at stak, i | $7.000 Judgeship Vavant. San Fran 1, Sept. ~ judgeship Wit ha salafy of 37,000 a year, in the stafe-appellate conrt, magde bas heen offered “tg various superfor court jurges, but oneé | after another has declined. The ap- pointment is for only a year, and the Ineumbent would then have to stand far election if he wished lto keep on drawing the $7,000. None likes the 5—A and nudging || -IMorgan Drops New Haven R. R. TO NO LONGER ACT AS FINAN- CIAL ' AGENT FORMAL NOTICE GIVEN Similar Notice to All Subsidiaries— New Signals to be Installed and More Steel Cars to be Ordered. New York, Sept. 5—J. P. Morgan & company served netice teday upon the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rallroad eompany of their intention to end their connection as fiscal agents of the road. This notice was made pub- lic today by the New Haven's execu- Over 30 Blocks Swept by Fire MANY HOT SPRINGS BUILDINGS IN RUINS A LOSS OF $10,000,000 —_— Firemon's Efforts Checkmated by 40- mile Gale—Business Section Threat- ened—Started in Negro Dwelling. Hot Springs, Ark, than thirty blocks on Sept. the 5.—More eastern edge of the business district of Hot Springs had been swept clean tonight by a fire which at 9 o'cleck threatened to eat its way toward Central avenue, A the main business iheroughfare. sults because It It It It It It It The Bulletin. week’'s summary shows: Short Cut to Business The short eut to profitable local and suburban patronage lies in the recogmition of the value and discreet use of the drawing powers of the newspaper advertising columns which get to the people who buy. It is the edvertising which is proving the effective means of reaching the people today because it is the permanent force of persuasion. gets a grip on the readers and It makes its appeal felt by bringing the advertiser and the buyer closer together. As pointed out by one authority effective advertising brings re- it will project your persomality into your entire field. will attract people to you and to your store. will arouse interest in you and your merchandise. will create a desire to do business with you. will cause people to buy your goods, will forestall competition and hold it in check. will build up a good will in your business. But it must be done intelligently, educationally, faithfully, and when it is a question of reaching the buying public in this vicinity there is nothing equal persistently and to the advertising columns of As a newspaper The Bulletin covers its field thoroughly as the past Bulletin Telsgraph Local General Total Saturday, Aug. 30.. 134 178 1046 1358 Monday, Sept. 7 1131 195 295 621 Tuesday, Sept: 2. 1327 123 185 440 Wednesday, Sept. 3.. 121 116 238 475 Thursday, Sept. 4.. 126 147 310 583 Friday, Septi < 5., 436 133 178 447 Totals . isesn s o oliny 780 892 2252 3924 ive committee, The committee au- thorized the president to install, with- out stint, safety appliances and signals to ensure the safety of passengers, No Reasons Given. { No reason was given by efficials of | the New Haven system for the with- drawal of J, P, Morgan & company as fiseal agents of the road, The an- nouneement of the withdrawal was made by the executive epmmittee at the eonclusion eof its meeting tpday and some little time after J, r, Mer- gan had left for his sumimer heme, Other members of the Mergan firm had alse left the city for the week end and only conjectures were offered as to the reagsens for the aetien, The letter notifyipg the eemmittee of their intention te sever financial gonnectiens with the New York, New Haven and Hartford railread was pre- sented by Mr, Morgan persenally and was addressej to President KEliett, The letter follows: The Morgan Lett, “In the existing financlal ageney agreement between ourselves and your company it is provided that the ar- rangement shall continue until the: lapse of 90 days after either party shall have given notice to the other of | a desire to terminate the same. “We hereby notify you that it is desire that the arrangements be te: minated upon the lapse of 90 days | from this date, or at such earlier date | as shall be agreeable to you.” Road’s Financial Agent for Years. Action on the letter was deferred until the next meeting of the board of directors. Morgan told the executive committee that similar letters had been sent to the hoards of directors of the Boston and Maine &nd the Maine Central railroads, New Haven subsidfaries. President Elliott, who today attend- ed his first meeting of the executivs committee of the New Haven system, declined to discuss the action of tha Morgan firm and referred all inquiries for information to Mr, Morgan, For many years tha Morgan firm has act- ed as the finangjal agent for the New Haven road and within the past few months it had undertaken fo under- write the issugnce of $67,000,000 six per cent, debenturs bonds, which issue was to be used principally for refund- ing purpeseg and a portion for better- ments and improvement werk, Recent Wreck Discussed, Mueh of the time of fhe eemmitiee’s meeting teday was faken up with a discussion of the Wallingford wreck. The committes veled fe reaffirm its resolution adepted by the board of di- reeters om Oct. 17, 1913, in whieh the | presiderit of the cempany was in- strucied te cause the mest sea.rchlng‘ investigation inta the cempetenecy of engineers employed by the read and “ihat there should be nething undone hich in the judgment of himself and is associates” will gonduce to greater safely in the operation of the railroad and that there fihan e ng limjation Placed upon the Install it_ég qf signals, safoly appljances of any(hing clsc that will in bfs judgment, or that of his as- soclates, improye Ythe safety of the passenger travel upon this” company’s ling; resolution’ dec this” couipaity £ all equipment” burchised in shull be pf gl steel type. $365,000 for New Signals. Phis resolution was Hrst adopied soon &:tét “fme Wedlport, "Cbnn., “Wreck the = futnure “which nine persons were RKilled “and ired. deit Biliott made a statement o:flmmg,e’wdgfi i which "he | sthathe” Had~on Wednesasty, yithourt knowlegge "ot these “resolu~ tions, ordered " prosecution of the fgox 'é{t'msw signals hotwe ‘avén-ang Springlield pusheq as ey gfldl\"aa possil The ecommiltee approved-the - expenditnre of- 33 \'Or'l}llh" \LTPOSe. ~Affer the-committee meeting Presi- dent Blljott said that the company was (Cantinmed on Page Seven.) 06 high wind was blowing and the Hot Springs and Little Rock fire depart- ments, the latter hurried to this city aboard special trains, had made but little headway in checking the flames. At 9 o'clock Bidney Dillon, commis- sioner of public utilities, ~estimated that at least four million dollars of | property had been destroyed. property had been destroyed, Later estimates placed it nearer $10,000,000. 8tarted in Negro Dwelling, The fire eriginated in a desre dwell- ing on Church street, mear Malvern avenue, just east of the Army and Navy hospital, shartly after 8 o'clock this afternoon, and spread quickly to the south and east, A number of small dwellings, dry as tinder as a result of an extended dreught, were easily prey for the flames, which within a few minutes were beyond econtrol of the lo- eal fire department, From this region the fire spread (o a manufacturing gectien, then tq a pretentious resi- denece and hatel district, and - at § o'clock the shifiing wind threatened to carry the flames to the main business section. A supreme effort was made to divert the lize toward the suburb of South Hot Springs when it was apparent that efforts to comtrol it would be unavailing. At midnight this effort had met with success. The Buildings Destroyed. Among the buildings destroyed were the city’s light, water and power plants, the county courthouse, the Park, Jefferson, Princess and Mory’s hotels, the city high school, Iron Moun- tafn railroad station and shops, Ozark sanitarfum, People’s laundry, Crystal theatre and Bijou rink, besides a hun- dred or more business buildings and many residences, including some of the best in the city. No fatalities had been reported. Fifteen minutes after the fire start- ed it was bevond the control of the Hot Springs fire fighting force and ald was agked of Little Roeck, A Forty-Mile Wind. Special trains brought additional ap- paratus frem that eity, but water, dynamite apd every available means of fighting fire had failed to cheek the flames six houps after the fire started, Firemen many times endeavered ta destroy buildings yet unteunehed, hut the flames swept ever the partially wrecked * buildings and breke eut in new plaees,- At times early in the night the gale reached a velecity of foriy miles an heur, and three times the gshifting wind eurrents changed the eeurse of the fire, Twice it was headed fer the main “bysiness district, the last time shortly hefore § o'clock, when by the free use af dymamite the comhbined fire fighting force sueceeded in diverting the epurse of the fire toward Seuth Het Springs. The fire was siowly dving out at the foot pf West Mountain, the southern extremity of Hot Springs, at midnight, after reducing te a smouldering mass of wreckage an area mere than %mge in length and from seven to tep blocks wide'in the eastern section pf'phf. eity, The monetary Joss iy roughly estimal el a doligr; axes iged in Hot “lale tomight, zobably wil a military “pal, “the “Lurneéd . lomgrtow “morning. |iuite Blates troops” alse ard expected” ¥rom Liwle Rock to add (o the guurd ou the reservation STUBY OF PHILIPPINE AFFAIRS. Prof. Ford Will = Report Results to sajdent Wilson., Washingtoi. Sépt. James turned present to President Wilson an ana- 5.—Prof. Henry ‘ord of Princeton, recently re- romn # Philippine irip, will-soon lysis of Phifippine affairs them. id today he w: Condensed Teiegrams The town of East Hartford has an epidemic of typhoid fever The United States’ public debt de- creased $923,310 during Augusts President _Wilson vesterday nomi- nated John Bwing of Loulsiana to be minister to Honduras. A. Leslie Demarest, 21 years old, of Leonia, N. J., was drowned while bath- ing at Long Beach, L. I. Cardinal William H. O’Connell ar- rived in Boston yesterday after four months’ tour of Europe. : No lives were lost on Ocracoke Is- land in Wednesday’s storm, according to advices received yesterday from Hatteras. After the first women jury in Joliet, 1Ll returned a verdict in favor of George Martin, he treated all the mem- bers to candy. The family of nine children of P. M. Coons of Canton, Kan., weigh nearly a ton, each child weighing an average of 208 pounds. Extreme heat prevailed in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma again yesterday with temperature ranging toward the hundred mark. Coroner Hoffman of Chicago will in- troduce an ordinance making it a mis- demeanor for a pedestrian to cross a thoroughfare except at a corner. The Shore Line trap rock company of New Haven has filed a certificate of incorporation with the secretary of state, with a capital of $150,000. The Bulfinch Place Unitarian Church, one of the oidest church edifices in Boston, was gutted by fire yesterd causing a loss estimated at $50,000. Ambrose Spencer Hurlbutt, one of the party of 20 persoms first to cross the continent in a through passenger train is dead at Bridgeport, Conn., aged 88 vears, The United States Grand jury next Mon will begin an investigation of the Greater New York Brick company, charged with violating the federal anti- trust law. " That there were wholesale and dis- graceful robberies from dead bodies at the railroad wreck at North Haven on Tuesday morning, is the opinion of Coroner Mix. The widow of B. E. Johnson, a New York City fireman, killed in a fire at the Standard Oil Co.s plant at Long Island City, received a check for $500 from the company. John Bassett Moore, counsellor to the state department, branded yesterday as wholly unfounded the reports that he was taking an indefinite leave of absence and would resign. Dr. Clifton F. Hodge, professor of biology at Clark University at Wor- cester, tendered his resignation yes- terday to become professor of biology in the University of Oregon. A receipt was filed in the cireuit court at St. Louis yesterday, ac- knowledging the payment by William J. Lemp, a brewer of $100,000 alimony to Mrs. Lillian Handlan Lemp. A defaloation of $130,000 In the State Natlonal Bank of Fort Worth, Texas, was reported yesterday to Thomas P. Kane acting comptroller of the cur- rency, by National Bank Examiner Van Zandt. The presidential ticket of General Felix Diaz was completed yesterday by the designation of Jose Luls Requena as eandidate for the vice-presidency at a mesting of the Felix Diaz party leaders, The Rev. Jackson Stewart of Phila- delphia is suffering fram a strange i1~ ness whieh has deprived him of the use of all his museles. His limbs are rigid and remain in whatever pesition they are placed, Riley Shepherd, 94 years old and tather of 29 ehildren, is dead at Nebles- yille, Ind. He is survived by 20 ehil- dren, 129 gramdchildren, 68 - great grandenildren and four great great grandehildren. Fred Webster, a prominent eattle dealer of Farmington, Me. died in a hospital at Lewiston, yesterday with @ broken back, the result of the charsg- ing of a maddened bull in a cattle shed at the Maine State Fair. The officials of the town of Berlin Thursday night successfully raided eight different houses suspected of selling liquor illegally. The prisoners all but one, who was discharged, were fined from $30 to $50 and costs apiece. Methods of dealing with child de- linquency in various cities throughout the United States is to be investigated by Tudge Latimer of the Washington juvenila court, who will leave within | the next few daya on an extended trip, The silk mills strike at Paterson, N, J., recently ended, probably {s te blame for the ‘death of Rernard Rlendeel, a prominent broad siik manutacturer, who shot himself yvesterday at his heme, He lost heavily .during the sirike, Rev, Samuel Pierce Merpill of Hoch- ester, N, ¥, for 20 years secretary of the Reehester Theslogical Seminary, was geverely burned yesterday while attempting te extinguish a fire that damaged his summer home at Beuirrel Island, Me, FINES TO PAY PENSIONS, Intexieatien Penaities I1n Washingten 8Swell Berefit Fund, Washington, Sept. 5.—All fines im- pesed far violation of the new excise law apply to the pavment of pensions for members 9f the noilce and fire de- partments of the District of Gelum?la. As a result, the activity of the pelice :casiohed pleafed comment By sts and bitter obfuga- iy pfhers, Since Fuly 1 the peasiog fund has hech increanSed by $H,069, ?‘nu.\'run.l ta the Tumilies of firewen and policewmen probabli” will be piid promplly here- after. They have Leen in arrenrs, COLAN PABTY BOING WELL Condition of Playwright and Actor and His Companious. Hartford, Conp Sept. & —1i was said at the TTartford hospital atning grelock {lis morntug hat lhe pondition o turnppike, yegterday aftgrngon, was ~ respect. None of o serions candilion. t feared that” Georgia an's (welve year ol . had sustained a fractures skuR, but the phrsician in attendance says she is doing well, A feorge M. Cohen and Jyis party; fojyre fp o bt S enE‘gn?&he s n fir Thaw Blocks ~ Deportation MUST REMAIN IN CANADA UNTIL SEPTEMBER 15 A RESTRAINING ORDER His Lawyers Obtain One, Preventing Action by Immigration Authorities Until His Appeal Has Been Heard. Coaticook, Que., Sept. 5.—Ha K. Thaw will be produced before :;Z.\ full king’s bench, appeal side, at Montreal, on the morning of Sept. 15. Meantime he may be detained here, or at Sherbrooke, or taken to Montreal on a moments notice, at the discretion of the immigration authorities. Two of his counsel, J. N. Greenshlelds and N. K. LaFlamme, obtained a double writ—habeas corpus and prohibition— at Montreal today and whirled in & special train into Coaticook, where not long before the immigration authorit- ties had ordered Thaw's deportation from the Dominion. i Crowd Assembles to Cheer Thaw. __Counsel for Thaw who had remained in Coaticook had announced that the Writ was returnable forthwith and a special train was made up to take the prisoner to Montreal tonight. A great crowd coliected about the statlon where Thaw was confined, and it was not until § o'clock that it hecame known that he might remain here sev- eral days because the writ is not re- turnable until Sept. 15. There were cheers.when the writ arrived, and more cheers whenever Thaw’s face appeared at the window of the detention room. When the spe- cial train pulled out for Montreal with- out Thaw aboard there were cries of disappointment, then more cheering when the news got abroad that for Thaw the new move meant ten days' delay Jerome Arrested for Gambling. Not only by the writ secured in Montreal but by the action of his at- torn on appeal did Thaw today block his deportation. In addition he had the pleasureable knowledge that his old enemy, William Travers Jer- ome, bad been arrested, charged with gambling. A Day of Sensations. “If ever a little town produced “sen- sations,” Coaticook did today. First came Jerome's arrest and release on bail on a charge that he had played poker yvesterday on railroad property with some newspaper men. Then came word that Thaw’s lawyers had ob- tained in Montreal a writ variously described here as one of habeas cor- pus, prohibition and restraint, demand- ing Thaw's production in court thers forthwith. Meantime the special board of inquiry ordered Thaw's deportation to Vermont under two’classes of the immigration act, namely, that he had entered Canada by stealth and had within five vears been an inmate of an Institution for the insane. Thaw Lawyers Charter Special Train. From both these decisions Thaw' lawyers appealed. then clinched mat- ters with a notice by telegraph that the writ had been grented in Montreal, The immigration officers, headed by E. Blake Robertson, wera incllned to more any court order coming over the wire, but they were powerless in the matter of the appeals, and Thaw remained in the detention room over the Grand Trunk raliway station. Fin- ally the Thaw lawyers in Montreal, J.. N, Greenshields and > K. La- Flamme, chartered a speelal train and began a race here with the writ itsalf, After serving it this evening, they pur- ed to take their elient at once te Mentreal on another special. Citizen Causes Jerome's Arrest. Jerame's arrest was due to twa ecauses and was not prompted in any way by the Thaw lawyers, One and all af them expressed indigmation at the meve and said they were ready to aid him, What the arvest really sig- nified was the state of public mind here as deecidedly pro-Thaw and more de- cidedly anti-Jerame, Tn the second place there i» a split in the town coun- eil ever Chief of Pollce John Bou- drean, Thaw's ariginal captor and sub- :«;?Juent petitioner fer the writ of habeas earpus which farced Thaw out of jail at Sherbrooke mto the hands (Continued on Page Eight.) WATCHMAN BOUND AND SAFE BLOWN Daring Burglary at Plant of Oil Gom- pany in Bridgeport. Bridgeport, Conn, S8ept. 5..Twa burglars entered the plant of the Gulf Raflning eampany here batore mldnis?l tonight, bound d od the wateh. man, O, B Pickett of Hteatford, re moved him to a nearby horge shed and then hlew the mafe almost demalishing the interior of the affica, and mada gaod thejr apcape. The mana; af the plant, H, G, Freeman, taaugl \‘ot ba lecated to ageertain how mueh the robhers secured but it was believed ta bo a large sum ag eonsiderahle mapey is eelleeted each duy and the monthly ealleetions were eoming in, Tt was nearly an heur before the watehman mgnaged to werk free fram hig pends and notify the pelice by tel- ephgne, The neighporheood is net very thiekly settled apd the neise eof tha axflfsi«m s met heard, e eulprits left no clue ailtheugh they werked witheul masks and the watehman was able ta furnish a geed deseription. A gemeral alarm has been sent eut ever the state. PAMLICO SBUND IS STREWN WITH WRECKAGE No Loss of Life Reported as Result of Southern Storm, €3 ted ty af i sons P galy 14 ré ’Qeus'iz'é.fl \ Ewept past Lg eEgcake and e ik, S8 elhe 3 t sk, i : %fi%:&ud‘mg‘ fiflad oon- dderable “dalnage wid dope. Bdwlica st g i iy o it wredur g Soigll" ] I CEALL Tiproo e plaes with cost i I87Q; ngu ta huild, e plai !e"fl'u{a