The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 13, 1904, Page 4

W ARSHIPS AT PORT ARTHUR NO LONGER MENACE JAPAN Destruction of Entire| Fleet Officially Reported. —_—— dquarters at Port Arthur, reported that the was ‘bombarded vesterday (Sunday); leship Poltava and’ thé the stransport) lhur seriously dam- wireless téle foot of Gelden Hill ar-| n fire ity ich f¢ directed has, according completely d (the Reuvi Pobieda DLeen warships offic ttleshiy 1a { Four battleships. two | ruisers, o d one torpedo | store ship Arthur harbor 3 Are now en- n of Port Arth aged.” been headquarters: morning of De- the enemy's in- zu, but at dawn letely repulsed £ of December 11 ding a position Mountain opened a aotun and Tang- enemy’s artillery Pass lled Pu was aused Da mage by | on the right bank of | attack was made Iry. The Russians ard after | We had no wes —e————— GOOD-EY TO TOTS AND THEN DISAPPEARS Los Pe Asked to Locate Woman Who Has Been Missing Since Saturday. WAVES Angcles ice S ANGELES, Dec. 12.—Leaving he small tren with friends on ¥ Mrs. J. J. Pfeiffer, g woman of the| to meet her hus- | 1 Saturd ernoon. She has | th her hus- | Maier Pack- | stella stret and | ars of their married darkened their | wrday afternoon, as tom, she started to The children were 2d the apparently | 4 C has a smiling farewell 1 be back in two me no trace of n found. | reported the dis- police, but he could for her disappear- play, for, he says, | n away from inced she would d the children. ED CORRIGAN 1s SUED FOR JOCKEY'S SERVICES J. J. Ellerd Wants to Recover $1500, | Which He Says Is Stll Due. CHICAGO, Dec —Ed Corrigan, the well-known owner of racehorses, is alleged in the Circuit Court to have failed to pay J. J. Ellerd of Cali- fornia $1500 said to due on a con- erd’s contest against Cor- gan is made by the Central Bank of Oakiand, Cal acting through its agent in Chicago, the First National Bank Several months ago, it is declared, Corrigan bargained with Ellerd for the services of Jockey Jed Lewis, now | riding for Corrigan. It is alleged | Corrigan as to pay $2500 for EI- Jerd's rights under the contract with Lewis, and paid $1000 to Ellerd at Oakland. No further payments have been it is said, and Ellerd put his b Corrigan in for col- lection nk —_——— TEN YEARS 1S SENTENCE OF BOY WHO SHOT FATHER STOCKTON Dec. 12.—Howard Buckland, the 15-year-old boy' who shot and killed his father on Septem- ber 12 after the father had struck and choked his mother during a quarrel over breakfast, was to-day sentenced by Judge tter 1o ten years in San Quentin. The boy was convicted of: manslaughter and the sentence s the limit. Nelther the boy nor his mother displayed any emotion when judgment was pronounced. & 'sfi()'l'l‘ L EHL LSION. WHY DOES ; A BABY CRY? e | of the FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY. D ECEMBER 13, 1904. Txme of Boxer Rlsmg in China Draw- ‘ing Near. T 12-The HONGERONG, Dec cor- respondent of thé Chicago Daily News | to-day cabied as foilows to that paper: According ‘to’ a Aeadmg capitalist of ! the China who has financed many efforts. to ‘run the blockade to Port Arthur,.it bas been ascertained coast, that the “fortress “is “weil provisioned | and, uniess carried by assausit, can ho) 1 oig for three months. He on 4t 15,000 m E ag he ¢ munition, but is enough Kinds to last’for some time. Steamehips.-of all kinds are in rauch of ali ! dmand on the China coast. They are seing bought by both belligerents for hospital ships, transports an It is believed in ang pping circles that the Baltic fleat will make its bas the Pescad only warship anch 1 am that the h their way through the ice to Viadivo- stok if the fall of Port Arthur should take place before the arrival of the fieet. Rumcrs of impending Boxer troubles are pr »nt thréughout North China. Information from several urces points to the fact that the Chinese are drilling everywhere ditions are similar ceded the jast outbr trouble s more wic ad ‘and the ganization h better. It be- lieved that large numbers of Japanese officers are drilling troops in the in- terior and commanding detachments of General M army northwest of Peking and Japanese reverse and that the con- to those that pre- but that the ak, that would be the signal for a general led Chinese, Japane residents an "\Hh*‘fi)h o0 its origina limits foreigners by to fined would endanger throughout China These reporte have been tion since August and are in circula- now prev ev vhere. 1 was informed by an old Shanghai resident. who is thor- ughly familiar with the conditions,| that minute pr rations have been ompleted for attacks on leading Euro- pean settlements in the event of anoth- er rebellion. I was this, but T suspect it is partially BOLD THIEF TARES (0NN HOM SAFE true. ‘Wells-Fargo Agent In Truckee Robbed of_$t500. Special Dispatch to The Call. RENO, Dec. 12.—A cunning and suc- cessful robber entered the Wells-Fargo office at Truckee last night and car- | ried away $1500. The crime was dis- covered this morning by Agent Wint- ers, who on entering his office found the safe open and the money drawer empty. He immediately notified the officers, but the robber had done his work well and left no clews which might give the officers a hint as to his identity. The robber must have been well ac- quainted with the office and been an expert at lock-picking, as he gained an entrance through the door of the build ing and opened the safe without the use of explosives. He was careful to take only the cash and to leave all the papers in the safe. The office is situated in the Southern PacMic depot in the center of town- There are al- ways a number of railroad men near the office and how the thief escaped discovery is remarkable. Constable McDougal and Assistant District Attorney Moody are working on the case, but as yet no arrests have been mad. e —— GERMAN WILLS HIS ASHES TO HIS LOVE OF LONG AGO Wil Be Sent Aflvss’ the Atlantic to the Sweetheart of His Youth. NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—According to the provision of his will, the ashes of Fritz Herlehei, a well to do mer- chant of Haledon, N. J., will be sent to his bereaved sweetheart many. He left Germany under orders years ago, because of his Socialistic expressions, and pledged his troth to - a’young, woman; but after a time in America he married another and reared a family. Ject of his early love in Germany al- ways remained fresh in his mind' and through his life he corresponded wlth her. Whep his will was read it was Because it is’ either hun- gry or in pain. - Properly wourished it will usually grow up right and be comfortable —that's the principal thing for a baby. If its food lacks strength and nourishment | add Scott's Emuision at feed- ing time. A few drops will show surprising results. Ifa baby is plump it is reason- ably safe.* Scott’s Emulsion makes babies plump. u’:'fl—d,t—x.-fl'i’- Sooss-& Bowne, 409 Peasi St, New York. found that he had left his estate to his ®on- on condition. that his body be! cremated and the ashes sent back to the woman. .This has been arranged and the ashes will be shipped by mail. ————— REDDING BOY IS VICTIM "OF CARELESS HUNTER'S SHOT Lad's leg Is Picrced by Lead From Gun of an Unknown REDDING, Dec. 12—While out hunting yesterday on the north side of the Sacramento River, opposite Middle Creek station, Herman P. Her- ®0n, a 14-year-old Boy of this city, was caréless | make the victim of some hunter, He was in the midst of thick brush when he heard the report~of a shotgun at close rdnge and felt a stinging sensation in the legs. Am in- vestigation showed he had been-struck by seven shot. . : unable to verify | <+ | Toio there were munitions of war for in Ger-' Membory of the ob- Gram Wallace Re— tells Storg of Liao- pang Battle. | ' Half a hundred ‘officers of the army of the United States listened last even- ing at the Press Club to a technical dis¢ussion by Grant Wallace of the op- erations of the Japanese and Russian armies in Manchuria. Wallace, through the skiliful application of strenuous journalistic theories, witnessed the bat- tle of Liaoyang from the'first boom of tke guns to the closing thrust of the bayonets. In consequence he was in a position to tell the distinguished mili- tary experts that listened to his 1alk' many things they wanted to know since the little empire of the Far East forced the Western world to sit up and take notice, | Though Wallace's remarks were cbn-; fined primarily to the terrible struggle at Liaoyang, which has been told and retold from a hundred different view-| points, his statements never flagged in irterest, and his preliminary and side remarks contained information that the | interested followers of the accounts otr the war had not been able to ob!&ln‘ before. | Heretofore the news that a division of Japanese troops had been engaged and had attained certain results-left no greater impression on the reader | than that a result had been attained by ‘a unit of the Japanese army, which CECIL COWLES, CHILD PIANIST, IS SOON DUE { might be anything from one to a mil- | !I‘* Y b 4 lion men, Wallace in giving the ‘nu- CECIL COWLES THE TALENTED I metrical formation of the army last GIVE A CONCERT, evening supplied a long felt want. ]n.~——.___———x< { RESOURCES OF JAPAN. | First, he satd, the resources o tne| Farewell’ Concert Is| Japanese, from the stapdpoint of men | and other resources of war, had been | largely underestimated. In his opin- ion (and his opinion was based on in- formation he could see no reason to| discredit) the Japanese could put into | the field, if finances could be found to | sustain the troops, an army of from | four to five millions of men. The regu- ’ lar army, including the first and sec- ond reserves, totaled 500,000 men and after these were exhausted came the | national army, which raised the figure (always, of course, dependent upon the qu on of finance) to the enormous! figure named. | He had been told, he said, by cred- | ible authority, that in the arsenals of | 2 million men outside of the army at | | present operating in Manchuria and | that with little difficulty another mil- lion men could be put into the field to | battle for the Mikado and the em- pire. Referring directly to the formation | of the Japanese army, he said the unit | of the fighting force \\au called the sec- tlon. The section 'is :ecdbmposed of efghty-five men, the ‘Gompany of from | 240 to 268 men, the battalion of 1000, or practically four companies; the regi- ment of three battalions, the brigade of two regiments and the division of two brigades. These figures, he said, | placed from 13,700 to 14,000 men in the division, including the smaller | branches of artillery, cavalry and pon- | toon platoon. These figures were ap- plauded by the military men present because in them they began to see the dawn of understanding break, so far as numbers are concerned, in reporm that are to come of yet unfought bat- | tles and reports of battles that have | been fought. | | LIADYANG A BARREN VICTORY. | Wallace hazarded the opinion that | the war in the Far East had now | dwindled down to & question of finance, and, he said. it was his view that! Russias would best be able to weather the storm from this standpoint, at| least until she was able to throw such Ior!aq into Manchuria that she could ' “‘save her face,” if nothing more. The battle of Liaoyang, he concluded, was | at best a barren victory for the Jap- | anese; it gave them nothing but terri- | tory they did not want, save for the ! fact that it deprived the enemy of a strategic base, but he acquitted the| Japanese of the charge that error on their part had been responsible for lhei | safe retreat of the Russians to Muk- | | den. “For ten days,” he said, | anese had fought against trenched - enemy. Of knowledge the Takushan army underw Nodzu had fought for five days and | five nights without sleep and with lt- | | tle food. When Liaoyang fell and the. excitement of the contest was gone the[ men fell asleep at their posts. Kuroki’s | army was equally exhausted. Humnn endurance had gone the limit and the Russians, driven from their magnifi- cently fortified base, were suffered to | escape. Sleeping men lay prone beside the dead, both happy. The dead had given their lives for the Mikado, the sleeping had lived to see the enemy flee, beaten from the field.” —_—— Highwayman Sentenced. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 12.—William Cameron was sentenced to threé years in Folsom this morning by Judge Al- Ibert G. Purnett. Cameron pleaded guilty to holding up and robbing Wil- | liam Hollman on the Sonoma road several weeks ago with Frank Cor- ‘man. The latter was sentenced to the Preston Reform School. Cameron held Sheriff Grace up at the point of a rifle-after being arrested and took a pistol and money from the Sheriff. He fired several shots at a posse and otherwise showed that he is a des- perate man. the in- i | ! An nent Distinction. , The superiority of Mellin's Food over . all other infants' foods has been recoj nized by the international jury at the World's Fair, St. Louis, by giving to Mellin's Food the d prize (higher than the gold medal), the highest award {of the Louisiana Pnrchus Exposition. l This eminent distinction is justly merit- ed by Mellin's Food, which has always been the standard of infants’ food excel- ence, No other infants’ f0od received so high }an award. | Death Calls Assemblyman. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12.—J. H. Krimminger, Assemblyman-elect from the Seventy-fifth District, died to- night. He, was stricken Wwith gpo- plexy. E All ailments arising from a disordered stomach, torpid. Hpect and c;m-tli:-';ed wels are quickly cured by using 7 Kidoey and Liver Bitters. | President Roosevelt To Be Given Thursday. Cecil Cowles, the chil¢ pianist, will glve her second and farewell concert at Steinway Hall next Thursfidy even- | ing. The little genius is admitted by critics to have talent of a rare order and is pronounced a real child wonder. She composes and improvises, has per- fect pitch ghd can transpose in any| | key at sight. Her programme will in- clude some of Chopin's most difficult pleces and she will also play some of her own compositions. The patrons of the concert are: Mrs. | W. H. Crocker, Mrs. G. W. Newhall, Mrs. Joseph Tobin, Mrs. C. W. Clark, | Mrs, E. J. de Sabla, Mrs. 1. W. Hell- man, Mrs. 8 A. Folger, Mrs. P. Ban- | croft, Mrs. L. man, James L. Flood, James D. Phelan and Daniel Meyer. | —— KNOX “BooN” [5 LAUNCHED in al Letter Gives High Praise to Pennsylvania Senator Speclal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—In letters to the Pennsylvania Society, read at its dinner in honor of Senator Philander C. Knox in the Waldorf-Astoria to- night, President Roosevelt paid a re- markable personal tribute to the Sen- ator, and Andrew Carnegie virtually nominated Knox to succeed Mr. Roose- velt in the White House." President Roosevelt's letter said: “I have for Mr. Knox that respect which should be felt by all good citi- zens for one of the ablest and most up- right men now in public life. This is exactly what he is.” Carnegie’s letter said: “It is reserved for our good old Key- | stone State to be penalized for its im-| maculate political virtue. Simply be- “the Jap- | cause the Republican party knows that pROMINENT MEN ACCUSED | Pennsylvania will keep the path of vir-| my personal | tue ‘without money and without price’ , she is pushed aside and her claims ig-| nored. “I think it probable that we have a young man capable of giving our party a lesson on that subject. Let us rally around him and demand that our erring sister States with doubtful character, politically considered, have been long enough rewarded, and. that it is the turn now of pure recognized by the Prince.” In his address Senator Knox sald: “I believe the President stands firm- 1y for all that is making for good in our national life. tional good that he manifestly means to be Prgsident of a whole people.” ——————— SECRETARY OF BARBERS' UNION IS EXONERATED Investigation of His Accounts Shows Only Slight Shortage, Which Is Paid Under Protest. The allegation made some time ago of a shortage in the financial account of J. B. Beilhes, secretary of the Bar- bers’ Unlon, was declared not proved by the late investigation made by J. J. Calish and E. Wallace, appointed by the president of the Barbers' Union to investigate. These two, with a paid expert, went over the secretary’s ac- counts. After careful examination a discrepancy of only $28 556 had been found. Of this amount it is probable that even this discrepancy can be ac- counted for. This amount was paid to the union under protest. Carpenters’ Union No. 483 last night elected the following officers for the ensuing six months: President, J. C. Templeton; = vice president, C. L. Burke; recording secretary, J. Apper- son; financial secretary, Guy Lath- rop, and T. V. Zant, delegate to the Labor Council. The meeting was well attended, there being over 300 members present. ; e — & DIED. ‘1 Notice of funeral hereafter. 2, Sloss, James V. Cole- | CindereHa to be It is a harbinger of na-! TRACING COURSh {Human Skeleton Again in! Evidence ' During Trial! of Miss “Nan” Patterson' S EXPERT ON THE STAND! O’Hanlon’s Testimony Indi- | cates That Young’s Wound ,‘ Was Not Self-Inflicted : \ | NEW YORK, Dec. human skeleton played. an important! | part to-day in the trial of “Nan" Pat- | terson: for the murder of Caesfir Young. | The exhibit’ was used in the examina- | { tion of ‘Dr. Philio O'Hanlon, the Cor- | oner's physician, who performed the | | autopsy on Young’s body. The prose- | . cution contended that the bullet that killed Young had gone straight to the spine, which proved that Young did not i | kil himself. Alaumlng that Young, with the pls(ol {in his right hand, had crossed it o\er‘ | his chest and shot into his left side, the | prosecution contended that the bullet | would have traveled to the left. The | ! fact that it flew straight inward to the! | spine was advanced as proving that the | wound was not self-inflicted. Dr. | O’'Hanlon was positive that the bullet had taken a straight course to the; right.. | | Lawyet Levy, for the defense, tried | to gain an admission that the muscular | parts covering the ribs at the point of | entrance of the bullet may have de- flected its course, but Dr. O'Hanlon de- | | clared that there had been no deflection { until the bullet had struck the spine. | Dr. O'Hanlon testified that he had found powder marks on Young's fin- gers. His testimony as to the course of the bullet was corroborated by Dr. | . Rigims of the Hudson-street Hospital. | Justice Davis said from the bench to- day that a gross impropriety had been committed by a newspaper in publish- | ing what purported to be the views of the wives of the jurors concerning the case. He cautioned the jurors not to discuss the testimony, even in their | own familles. —_— [ PLAYS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ' FOR “NAN"” PATTERSON i Theatrical Firms Fighting for Services i | of Actress Accused of Slay- ! ing Racing Man. NEW YORK, Dec. 12— Nan” Pat-| terson has had offers that range all the way from $500 to $1000 a week. Plays have, been writtén for her and more | than one theatrical firm is in the fight for her services. | *“The Mystery of a Hansom Cab” is | one of the creations that has been of- | fered. It purports to tell of the ride | that was fatal to Young and reproduce | on the stage the details of the tragedy. “The Bookmaker's Sweetheart” is the | effort of another playwright. This is | a tale of the trial, and as @& climax | “Nan” Patterson goes uncomplaining | to the electric chair rather than offer | testimony to the dishonor of her sweet- | heart. Other plays have been offered and agents attempt almost daily to obtain | ,1mervlews with the prisoner. ———————————— | THREE DIE AS RESULT i OF FIGHT IN SALOON | Prospector Wounded by Mexicans Kills Two of Them Before Death | Claims Him.. | | TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 12.—Three deaths | have resulted up to this time as a re-| sult of a shooting in W. J. Crowell's sa. loon at Silver Bell mining camp yester- | day morning. The dead are James Fa- | gan, a well-known mining prospector of this section, and two Mexican min- | ers. Crowell, who was wounded in the | fight, is now lying at the point of deat! 1in the hospital here. The killing occurred as a result of a gang of drunken Mexicans invading the | saloon and commencing an indiscrim- ! inate shooting. Others took & hand lni the affair, with the result that Fagan | | was shot in four places. He killed two | of the Mexicans before he died. Six | Mexicans are in jail charged with par- ticipation in the shooting. R D T e , OF BEING WHITECAPPERS | A Legislator and Two Supervisors | Among Those Indicted by Mis- sissippl Grand Jury. JACKSON, Miss., Dec. 12.—A sensa- tion has been created by the indict- ment of Dr. H. T. Montgomery, a | member of the Legislature, and J. C. Bryant and J. B. Willis, members of | the Board of Supervisors of - Lincoln County on the charge of whitecapping. | More than 400 indictments have been“ 7 found against alleged Whitecappers, | those indicted’including a number of | ‘the wealthiest citizens of Lincoin County. There is said to be a society directed against negroes, with death as the penalty for violation of the vath. —_— e Army Orders. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Under or- ders of the War Department, Post Commissary Sergeant George Thomp- son (appointed December 10, 1904, from quartérmaster sergeant of the Tenth Company of Coast Artillery), at the Presidio of San Francisco. will be sent to Fort Sill, Okla., fdr duty. Major William B. Rochester is re- lieved from duty in the Department of California, to take effect at such time as will enable him to comply | with this order and will proceed to Manila, Philippine Islands, on the transport to sail from San Francisco on or about February 1, 1905, report- ing to the commanding general of the Philippine division for ‘assignment to duty. Major Timothy D. Keleher is relieved from duty in the Phillpplnes! division, to take effect upon the ar- rival of Major Rochester, and will pfoceed to San Francisco, and upon his arrival report by telegraph to the military secretary of the army for further orders. Post Commissary Sergeant Max E. Riepe will be re- lieved from further duty in the Phil- ippines division and sent to San Fran- cisco, rcportln( to the commanding general of the Department of Califor- nia. . e B e BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 12—All hotel and restaurant cooks and waiters and other struck to-dav. i 12.—A headless |and should be protected ADVERTISEMENTS. 818-820 MARKET ST. 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Mrs. Dunnigan first brought the suit for separation, charging the captain with cruelty, but he filed a cross-complaint, accusing her of mistreating and neg- lecting her children, .~keeping her home in an unclean condition and in- discreetly receiving men when her | | occasfon they ret@rmed without | husband was absent on his vessel. Mrs. Dunnigan did not appear to con- test the cross-complaint. Rosie Guion flled.a, cross-complaint to the suit of L. H. Guion for divorce. She denied his accusations of infidel- ity and said he had been cruel to Her. She declares that he compelled their children to call him “uncle” so he would appear to be a younger man and single. She says, too, that he told her he loved a girl named Bess, whom he would marry when he got a di- vorce, Judge Kerrigan divorced Rose Ped- igo from Grason Pedigo for desartion, and Ida M. Rogers from Granville L Rogers, cruelty; Judge Seawell’ di- vorced Annie J. Jordan from Wilgam { J. Jordan on a cross-complaint for de- sertion, and Judfe Graham divorced Ella de'Joia from Matteo de Jola for infidelity. Gustavine C. Bachman began an ac- tion for divorce against Charles F. Bachman for cruelty. Max Detring, who married Clara Detring in 1888, alleges that she de- serted him five years ago and asks for divorce. ————— . Friends of Farmers.. Dr. C. Hart Merriam gave an inter- esting lecture last night at the Acad- emy of Bciences on the work of the United States Biological Survey. Dr. Merriam said that many birds and | animals regarded by the farmers as pests and ruthlessly slaughtered by them were really destroyers of pests instead of killed. He enumerated the birds and small animals that are most helpful to the farmer and illustrated his talk with stereopticon views. —_—— American Methods in Russia. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 12.—A building erected by an American sew- ing machine company, the handsom- est structure in Russia, eleven stories high and built of granite, was opened to-day. It is the first building !n the empire in which the American steel ! construction system has been used. | inally landed. CANNOT MAKE LANDING ON FARALLON ISLANDS Uncle Sam’s Sallors Vainly Attempt to Establish Wireless Teleggaph Station as Commanded. The United States navy, which found it an easy task to lay low Cer- vera and Montijo, is meeting defeat in its attempt to install wireless tele- graph apparatus on the Farallon Islands. Four times within the last few days Uncle Sam's sailors * have Bone out into the ocean to establish the station, in accordance with ders from Washington, and on each ac- or- complishing thelir mission. The Unadilla was selécted for the work yesterday., and four meR were It was not men, but apparatus, that the Navy Department most wished to set on the rocky isl- ands, and there was consequently much disappointment at Mare Island last evening when was learnmed that the last trip had been practically fruitless. The ocean is so rough and the shore is so precipitous that a landing can hardly be made with safety. The* Washington authorities, however, do not want excuses instead of a wire- less station, so the navy-yard people will persist in their attempts to ful- fill orders. - Another attempt to land the apparatus will be made to-day. —— e — ADOLPH STEFFENS OAUGHT BY LOS ANGELES POLICE Man Who Is Wanted for Iiegal Vot ing at Last Primary Election Is Taken Into Custody. Captain Burnett of the local detec- tive department received a telegram yesterday from the Chief of Police of Los Angeles saying that he bad ar- resfed Adolph Steffens, who is wanted here for ballot box stuffing. Steffens was charged by the Grand Jury on September 29 with having voted 1l- legally at Precinct 78 af the Thirty- ninth Assembly District at the last primary election. The police have looking for Steffens since, but were unable to find him. The case of Charles Wyman, charged with fraudulent voting at the last primary election, was set for trial in Judge Lawlor's court yesterday, Assistant District Attorney Ferral asked for a continuance, as another case had been definitely set for trial this morning. The Judge set the trial for December 27, against the objec- tion of Attorney Countrymen for the defendant on the ground that he was entitled to a trial within sixty days after the flling of the information. ADVERTISEMENTS. ——ee MELLIN'S FOOD over all other infants’ foods THE HlGl}fEfis‘T‘AWARD World’s Fair " This is even higher than the Gold Medal Saint Louis