The evening world. Newspaper, July 4, 1904, Page 3

~— TREATS WTA HOA "Wore than Twenty Passengers Killed In Wreck of St. Louls Limited on the Wabash: from Chicago. } 2 ‘HELPLESS, RESCUERS SEE .. VICTIMS ROASTED ALIVE, ‘Engine Dashes Into Open Switch er. and Crashes Into Freight Train — Passengers Pinned + Under Blazing Coaches, » OT, OUTS, July 4—A pall has been at over several of the delegations to @onvention by the wreck of the St. Louls Limited on the Wabash last bight, in which more than twenty ‘were killed. Several more deaths have Deen added to the already long list and ‘in the St. Francis Hospital, where “many of the Injured were taken, are ‘others whose lives hang in the bal- ance Until a roster {s taken it wit not be Sknown just how many lives went ou When the train which left Chicago ‘yesterday morning bearing delegates ¢ Gnd Pair exoursionists ran Into an open ewitch while going at @ rate of sixty miles an hour, The derailed locomotive \ Bhot into @ Hine of thirty hor cars -etanding on an adjacent track. ‘The tender war ‘ound torn to scraps at the tep of the ple of debris caused ) by the amashing of the locomotive into ie ht cars, Two passenger hes jammed together and every o them was either killed or seriously hurt, Vive cara in all, besides the ex- , Dress and baggage car, were destroyed Bo completely that the remams are Uke ao much scrap, ‘Then came the fire, Hardly had the assengers in the rear coaches realized it the train had been wrecked when fierce blaze broke out in the heap cars, The screams of men and Wwomen and children, caught beneath eras iron and piles of splintered told the story in an instant to » Bhose who were fortunate euough to Save eacaped, Saw Persons Roasted to De ‘The rescue work began at once, but Wttle could be done for those pinioned down by tons of debris, In the plain einerated, ‘The cries of horror and the Bheleks of pain that filled the alr were teerifying. In several cases herolo of- forts were made to get at those who nflelt the flames creeping won them ‘and death staring them in the face, The wrecking crow whicb had been sent [at onee to the scehe af the wreck Aid ‘When the chair care telescoped many of the passengers were hurled a great ‘Getance, In several instances nen and fell nearby. They were found with Habe troken, thelr bodies bruleed and her flesh torn, but they escaped the wreckage of cars and locomotive, The Pegouers were led to these strewn along the tracks by their cries of agony. At the rear of the train was an ob- see poervation car and the private oar Texas, eae did not leave the track, but their hoccupants were badly shaken up. Train Ran at High speed. ‘A rigid investigation {s being made to iz the responsibility of the wreck. The was going at a rate of sixty miles an hour a short time before the locomotive was derailed, Those who Burvived say there was a perceptible * Blowing down in speed when the crash | game, but they thought that the speed even then was fifty miles an hour, The track had been reported clear at the lest station, How the switch was lett pen has not yet been ascertained, Nearly all the passengers were bound for St. Louis, The Injured were brought In later on an Miinols Central train. Among those killed was I. R. Mille, gmtornal Revenue Collector at Decatur Central Hiinols, Joseph Barder, @ dele- te from North Dakota, was also killed, and the Rev, N. M, Mills, of Bridgeton, N. J., died after a fight to oraw! out of the biasing wreckage, with both legs broken and one foot al- moet torn off, ‘The fire wos seen for many miles aad firew @ large crowd of rescuers, who tame in wagons, buggies and convey ances of evoty description. Organizing Ws romptu rescue corps the Litch- Ths nts fought the Names as best ey could until thelr own olothes took id thelr hair began to singe from it. i was the hardest kind of work to ‘tUnguish the flames, as there was no fy ‘ant within a mile. The flames had to be let sione in many cases until the debris was consumed. Living Woman Incinerated, Mrs. Perkins, of No. 5700 Unton ave- fhue, Chicago, was caught beneath the wreckage. She felt the heat of the finmee and saw that unless her feet were cut off the rescuers could not wave her, . “Cut off bf i ie seine og . could do nothing for her. Herdiy had they begun to extricate her ly when they were driven back by the fierce heat of the flames, and the woman was incinerated before thelr ayes. Prominent among those who tried to pave the woman was the Rev. Jo- hf, Smith, of Springfiell, Mass. He fen’ and worked until his @ caught fire and his hair was . J. H. Farrel, of Chicago, did ork found among of Milwaukee, & great splinter fies rere we Tee, 6 irs. Luthe' Broke lerced i we and steel. He placed a tube In allowing the woman to ihe died, however, F. Ward, e of his legs torn how of courage and hose who were working sald: ¥ me down and look out for those you can save. rthur J. Taey, the Mavor $f Clare, "i iMiam B. Baun, Mayor of naw, on the train, They both ‘were of the dpinion that the wreck was due to the excessive speed at which the, t was va" at the time the locomo~ tive en Switch a Mystery. and @ very prominent Republican in| yyq “THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1904 ‘DANISH STEAMSHIP NORGE, WHICH SANK ON REEF OFF COAST OF SCOTLAND, AND CROWD OF FRIENDS AND RELATIVES IN FRONT OF OFFICE IN THIS CITY. Mfocday ‘thee It was tot me o-day it was not tm Te ould be ordered, hich Ac- Gray maki: k, gad ble that arrests w toh le the mystery w ala are irying to solve 6 to a Wabash agent, Charies A rneam, the switch hac not been used during the entire day by any of the trainmen, A short time before the wreck @ gouthbound train passed over the track In safety The wrecking crew t# cleaning up the debris, buried in which several bodies @ evidences of auch will be found THE IDENTIFIED DEAD. ‘Ubaid St, Pierre, Montreal; died In Rospital, L, A, Blachetaedt, No. 1054 South Al- bany street, Chicago; died In hospital. Mrs. C, 1, Luther, Milwaukee, plece of tron driven through throat; died in hospital. N. D,, del- Jacob Barder, Park Riv gate to the Democratic National Con- vention. James Sanford, Decatur, engineer, vuried under debris of engine, W, F. Smith, fireman, Decatur; burned in wreckage. Mrs. Perkins, No. 6700 Unton avenue, Chicago. Miss Florence Smith, Chicago, - 1 R. Milla, Decatur, Dl. Chartes Galeise, No, 204 Michigan avenue, Chicago, Harry Dietrtoh, officer of Metal Work- ‘ery’ Union, Ok Rev, M. M, Milla, Brigeton, Ta, Charles Ward, Chicago, H. L, Graves, train despatoher, De- eatur, Riohie Noack, eight years, Chicago. Four unidentified men, SHY AGENT STOLE “L” AOD Police Disoredif Employee’s Ver- ’‘eton that He Was Held Up and Robbed by Two Bandits at Pistol Point. After having told « thrilling story of how he was held up and robbed at the Polnt of pistols by two bandits In the Blevated station at the fooot of Broad: Brooklyn, Dayld L. Wells, teles- rapher and station employed by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, | Six and a quarter pounds of Fourth jboys, and they were born at © o'clock and the other Rooaevelt, Parker ty the liwo and @ half pounds, but Dr. hrough the gum incubator berth, Ro ‘® ortes, sbsolutely undismayed when a on bables wore tenes, te, Dream- | —_—+- of July twine were taken (o-dagy to the Incubators at Dreamiand. Both are {tls morning on the east side One twin has been uamed Parker heavier, weighing three aad three. sarter pounds. Roosevelt only weighs jccuney, In charge of the Mcubators, lures that he has ono tooth pushing Parker has not uttered a sound aluce « was rolled up in the not his however, awoke all incubator babie the apartment, and he was racker went off in his Immediate neighborhood. ne and by Dr, James, of olty, Guirers At TRE Scgnainaqwar 4/ne@ HUNDREDS LOST IN WRECK AT SEA (Continued from First Page.) ber of emigrants were on deck. Capt. Gundell stood on the bridge. “Dozens of passengers had jumped into the sea) They wore life-belts, but were drowned before our eyes, “After twenty-four honrs the Salvia bore down and picked us up. About seven hundred must have drowned.” The owners of the Norge are the Forenede Dempskiba Selskal, of sobs steamship companies in the world. under the conditions, as to close the eyes or relax vigilance for a moment EXCITEMENT AT COPENHAGEN, was to run the risk of being washed overboard, And If all that Is told of| COPENHAGEN, July 4.—The news of the disaster to the Danish at the men who were saved is true not many hands would have been ralaed to Norge off the west an of Scotland, in which over seven hundred pees gave a person who was being washed away. Room was valuable on those ee reported to have lost their lives, created indescribable excitement here boats and the men who occupied most of it won thelr places by fearful bru- lealtty, it 1s eald ‘The first message reached here at 4 o'clock this morning, Crowds soon Of those landed at Stornaway little 1s yet known bere. Their stories have been told only in the briefest way. But of the twenty-seven landed at Grimsby all have told their stories and they sum up a fearful tale, It !s significant that of these twenty-seven, twenty were men, six were women @nd the other a girl baby They say that the steerage passengers were all Danes, Swedes, Nor- Buckley and Hilma Felschman, All the others were tn the steerage. -wegians, Finns and Russians, that they spoke no English and that the vast “Omprised many Russians, Swedes and Norwegtans, the smallest proportion majority of them were people who had been struggling for years to get to being Danes. America and had at last found the opportunity In the cheap rates which The Norge carried a crew of fifty, She was the oldest Danish tra have resulted from the war between the {mmigrant-carrying steamship, %tlantlc steamer running. aun CROWDS AT SHIP OFFICE seeking for information, The offices, however, do not open until 9 o'clock A feeling of general gloom and mourning pervades Copenhagen. The Norge had no first-class passengers on board and only nine on her was placed under arrest to-day charged with larceny, The police say they have evidence which makes It ap- robbed the company of $800 and that the story of the bandits was told to protect himeelf, The police say also that there ls a woman mixed up in the robbery, and it ia their opin- ton that this woman has the money which was taken from the Elevated station. ‘The station {fe the diviling line be- tween two police stations, and adjoins the ferry-house from which three lines of fe running constantly, There aro fifteen lines of street cars passing under the station, and the Ele- vated trains are running all night. Wells told a thrilling story of the robbery, According to him he was counting the money, which represented ot the day, when two mei ran tip the stairway. One of them pressed 6 pistol to his face and whis- pered: Men Drew Pistols, Saye Agent, “Give me that money or you die,” ‘The second man also drew a pieto!, Wella says, and pressed it against his } “Make & cry now it's shooting for yours.” Wells says the man told him Badly frightened, the ticket agent and telegraph operat sank behind his desk. One of the’ men, Wells alleges, came back after him, and while the other held him with his pistol tis money was taken. Wells says that he was so badly frigttened that he made Ho outer, and that the men were on the street and far away when he called for the police, After the police came Capta. Driscoll, of the ford avenue station, and Haiohan, of the Clymer street stati with a score of detectives, and began an ipvestigation. Several of the detec- tives were ordered to keep a watch on Wolls, {was learned by the police that Welle Inst night. telephaned to Jove Hopkins. a former. employee of” the company, and asked Hopkina to take his plare while he waa off for a short while, ‘T_ wont to the station.” Hopkins told the police, “and Is that Thad no authority to take his place. He in sisted that jt was all right and I con- sented. He must have been away for three hours. When he left there was only a small amount of money In the cash drawer. Woman tn Case, Say Police, According to Wells the robbery oc- cured after he had come back to the station to relieve Hopkins, This, the pee say, could not have been the Case, The police learned aleo that Wells was visited by a woman early in the evening. They say that if the woman can be located some trace of the money will likely be had. The police assert also that it has come to them that Wells wan contemplating a trip south He has a young wife at Ko 414 Decatur street, Brookyn. ‘Another fact which made the potice pone mg that Wells was not telling the entire truth about the hold-up was brought out. by a man named Quisz, starter of the elevated traing, and a man named Bevina, who is the Superin- tendent of the Rapid Transit Company in Bast New York, Quiss and Bevii that they beth were In the st. a ton at the time the robbery is sald to have ocurred and that it was impoasi we thn is to ve held up th Beene without thelr knowing of It. yells described the band! aout twenty-three years, r ed, wi e and apparently Italia: by REEF AT A DEADLY INLET. SEEKING NEWS OF FRIENDS The ship struck the reef off Rockall at dawn on the morning of June 28. This reef is a deadly inlet. It is isolated, and its peak rises seventy-five {eet above the sea level, looking like a ship. It ts about two hundred and ninety : m miles off the coast of Scotland. F giant ee Ste pie! ee Scandinavian. The Norge had run out of her course because of bad weather, All on ais pou eilG ' ® crowd of nearly 200 exelted Russians and board were asleep except the members of the crew on watch, when there # to-day, waiting for some one to come and give then news disaster to the Norge. A. E. Johnson, the agent of the company, didn't put In an appearance at the office until afternoon, and then he announced that the best he could came a grating sound. This was followed immediately by @ great shock, which shook the ship from stem to stern, The veesel seemed to have eplit do for the inquirers was to compile a list of all the Prepaid steerage pas- sengers for this country on the Norge and give this out for general pub- herself wide open. She backed off and settled. There came a second shock, The steamship settled deeper. The pas- lication in the newspapers, Later, he said, he might get a let of survivors from Copenhagon. If he did, he said, he would make it public later in the sengers, few of them dressed, rushed on deck, At the same time, there was a cry for the Ifeboats. Highseas were running. As the steamship settied deeper and deeper the waves rushed over the decks. Men were carried overboard; women with babies in thetr arms stood no chance of saving them- day. selves or their children. Every wave that covered the ship took new victims The crowd didn’t take Johnson's assuranges very kindly, and when he with ft. shut andgocked his office door the men kept hammering on it. Finally a As the ship went down many persons plunged overboard and tried to husky janitor ordered everybody out of the halls. One of the crowd swim against the waves and wind. The life-boats were launched, and those Jonched him, and the rest were about to turn in and assist tn chaatwing the man when he fled. In apite of the assurances of Mv. Johnson the crowd re mained around his office and was Increased every minute by new arrivals in the water tried to swim to them. ‘The boats were quickly filled with men ‘The sight was not a pleasant one, for there were old men and old wo- As women and children fought their way through the seas to these boils men stood, oars in hand, and beat them back, These men, according to the men there who had sisters, brothers and ohildren on the Norge, others who head wives, end still others sweethearts, whom they wore bringing to this stories told here, crushed in the skulls of the drowning men, women and country, and In several cases there were men who had come to this country children who grasped the sides of the life-boats. One life-noat after auother was pulled down as the drowning passengers and made homes for families who had started from the old country on the Norge. caught the sides. Only a few of the Iife-boats escaped being sent to the bottom. They One of these was Ludwig Andersen, a rigger, of No. 343 Weat Forty- fifth street. Hifs wife Molly and his children, Adaiph and Yerdis, aged five floated away from the floundering ship. Those in the lifeboats saw her go down with a great girgle and a hiae~ j and three years, were in the steerage of the Norge. Andersen came here two years ago, made his way, and several months ago sent the money to ing a8 her engines’ fires sputtered, She seemed to go down bow first though she were diving. In the water about her were hundrds of persons, some swimming, some clinging to lifevelts, Several lifeboats were caught in the suction of the sinking vessel, and with the swimming and floating | his wife to bring the family to the home he had made here well-nigh distracted, yet there was no one to give him Information Samuel Rosovsky, of No, 382 Cherry street, was another anxious {n- quirer. His mother and two sisters were on the Norge, having left their men, women and children were drawn down In the waves, old home at Beresan, Russia, to come here, With Rosovsky was Moses NO SAILORS IN THE BOATS, Szendgal, of No. 15 Kast Broadway, and his brother Oscar, of the same As the lifevoats that escaped the suction floated away it was shown that not one was manned by anybody who knew the sea or who had knowledge of a boat, One after another the boats were covered by waves | address. Thely fath n rand two sisters were on the steamer. The As each boat filled and went down the men in thom joined other men agd| brothers came here uro from thelr old home at Puisk, Russia, and Women in the waters, Those who could swim made for che floating boats, ™e @ home for setaieiss ca waa lbh lay de Raga | desperate and cowardly in their desperation, stood in the floating boats | for news of relatives, the former for his mother and the latter for his wite and with oars raised crushed skulls of the drowning. EEKING FOR HIS MOTHER. Copenhagen, possessing a fleet of 140 steamships and one of the largest Boy | gathered about the offices of the line, relatives of those on board frantically | Golanere. American Bteam-|the sidewalk The man was c NOISY FOURTH | AT OYSTER BAY Bombardment of Sagamore Hill Begun Early This Morning by All of the Rooseveit Chil- dren. OYSTBR BAY, L. f, July 4—Presi- dent Roosevelt, accompaied by bis wife, thelr children and a few fwiends, Sagamore Hill today for a row toward Cold Springs. Were many hampers of lunaheon There amt {{ was 4 merry family plenic until the tate vf the afternoon, when the Prest jal party returned for the sound-disturbing pastimes of the dey The fireworks will he the thing to- night, ‘The Roosevelt chikiren will have & purty of thelr friends to help them set off the fireworks and it ts expected that at 10 guests will be present, After tie fireworks will come “light refreshments” and then a hop for the entldven, AX expert rom New York haa been eng: to superiatend the fring A quantity of witeh hagel, aenica and soothing ointments for burna wake laid in along with the fireworks, and it la hoped the children will get through (he day with whole skine, ¥ After the celebration of the Fourth is over Sagamore Hill will we per- vaded by an alr of ultra-exclusiveness, it being the President's intention to vetve ut very fow visitors, and those only of such political prominente aa entities ¢ to @ peraonal canaulta- ulon, during his stay at Oyster Bay. Ail Visitors of minor im tance will be coferred to George B, alyou. hairman of the RepubMean National Committee. No official viatt of any kind te planned prior to July 4, when the ication committee will ‘arrive at Oyster The President desires to keep bis Journ at Sagamore Hill as. free as possible from political and official cares SHOT W TEMPLE BT BANA Instantly Kflled on the Street by Discharge of Five- Inch Rod from a Small Can non, ot — YONKERS, N.Y, July 4—Phillp thirteen years old, of No % Riverdale avenue, was killed to-day by belng atruck In the head by a ram- rod fi from a cannon that had been discharged in front of the Getty Houre | second-cabin Hst. These included three Americans—Ellzabeth and Anna} James Forbes, sixteen yeare old, of They | N° M Riverdale avenue, one of three boys who were handling the cannon, has been held by Coroner Welsendans, for the Grand Jury. The two othe boys are under arrest, ‘The cannon was eight taches long and the ramrod five inches, It is said that the boys, when they found they could not remove the ramrod, decided to fire the cannon as it was, and Forbes set it off, After it was discharged Detec. tive-Sergeant McGowan, who was ing. noticed young Goldberg lying on An examination showed that the ramrod had pierced the boy's temple. Dr. MeCormies was called, but of the) when he arrived (he boy was dead. PSTMEN EERE ARMS MD LES The ninth annual plenic of the New York Letter Carriers’ Association took plice to-day in Schuetzen Park, Union Fill. Several thousand lettter carriers with (hetr families and friends. led by (he uniformed band and fife and drum ‘onps of the assoclation and arcompan- led by Postmaster Van Cot and various superintendents, took charge of the park early and remained watil late at night Valu vs athletic, bowling and other sports, an |the entrles were upatsually large. Prog ident Michael Fitagereld, of the as jation, had a sort of supervisin cha of the whole affair, which is said to have been the most successful lever given by the association. He was lassisted by V Jent W. J. Don- ovan, Secretar AW J. Wylie, ‘Treasurer W and Sergerat-a F it was dis Saturday tha through an ¢ © Auditing De partment in the Post-Offtce ames Jot sixty substitute ors had been ‘omitted from the pay roll, Ag they | * mone he p deat Donova led across the # borron each of them] Joon Me an, who je consid: the father of the association. So! ty went tot Comm 4 7 The ba n p ‘ 59: . As day broke the sea became worse, The lifeboats could not stand the} “Charles Lundgren of No. 623 One Hundred and Thirty-cighth weight. As the waves rose over them they toppled over or filled with Water | street, was seeking news of lis mot Mrs. Charles Lundgren, She lived| and went to the bottom, and those in them clambered for the other bonts,}in this country many years, but went to her old home at Helsing‘ord only to mect with blows from these on board. | Sweden, last summe She Was to retirm by An Norge, she sald in a lette rr e urviy 1 ‘ | which her son received from her several weeks ago From the only one of ihe survivors who could speak English a gsraphie| Another waiting for news was Max Brandenberg, of Graham aver accountot the disaster was oltaiued last night | Brooklyn, Brandonberg said that his family of nine, including his fat “We lett Copenbagen on June 22," he sald. “There were 700 emigrants, | and mother, were on the steamer nother was George Nelson, of No 198) Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and Finns, on board. The crew numbered about Second avenue, who wos |> King ior bir s stor 1 he was aure she was eighty. All went well unti! June 28 ‘That morning Lay in my bunk wait-| “oard, as he had sen ata ‘ Ki wee Wane Wine ‘yak e ing for breakfast. We felt a shock. quickly followed by another, and then! jtonrretieer etn hut neavela, fala Wallash, GNA done bkiared or I rushed on deck board “I saw at once that something scrluus had happened, and | made a daah! Lovis Nemorovaki of N md avenue, was also looking below to gather up my few belougiugs, relatives: “Scores were rishing on deck and the hatchway was crowded with 27 Si Pe Moa Pe emigrants. They were launching buats and rushing into them, but there | WANT TO ADOPT A GIRL? Dod Pie 1 . was little panic “Fuor or ‘ive were in the boat into which I got, and woe cleared the ship. Luckily for us, in our party was the only seaman from the Norge who es-| Gertrade Seve caped, and he was able to navignie yur little boat, | Magtetrate Hogan, of the J court. fe seeking * one who san SAW BOATS CAPSIZR. fe '. good be provide a good home fi nd ie willing “We saw two other boats capsize owing to the heavy weather and be: Magistrate Hogan Seeks Morrisa wm ot d t to om auetad at the pitce sit tree ° had exh wink down | where she was found crying to adopt a pretty girl of sixteen years Her name le Gertrude Stevens, and), Magistrate Hogan def-med sending use NO one could navi | her to an inatitution In the hi on ae pavieste thom, the was found er7isg on. the curbetone | Hert an institution In, the hope thal ““We made straight away, and when we last saw the Norge a large num- 4. & One Hundred and Thirty-Gfth etreet unteer to care for her, “dj 4 | lips, FOR Freedman, B. Mar and Bred bs fous J Agno Rod MeMavor sion bs soon danging pavilion shere of dancers ail day. | car: thera On in the the Wy “lin place of the broken down cells dé- {cluded to get some and try ft. BRAVE. RES IK -_—_-— 9 John Leslie, Mate of a Schooner, Tries to Swim to North Brother Island and Is Saved with Difficulty. $ While making an effort to swim te North Brother Island, John Lasile, the mate of a Maine schooner, was nearly drowned and also came near causing the death of Henry EB. Brackett, who fea cued him, i Lealie applied for permission. to visit the Island and see his sister,» Mrs Emma Mead, who ts employed there, Permission was refused, and o@ the Naval Reserve launch started toward the Island without him he shouted, If you don’t take me with you IM ewim over.” No attention was paid to him, end plunged Into the water, Within | feat of the Health Department gave a cry and sank. Henry B. who on the pler, sprang into water and swam toward the mab, cateding him just a de wage down the third time, neok and both began to sak, etruck the sailor in the face and hie hold. He was foreed several times until Leslie conscious, Brackett then started-to swan The tide was running strong, ex James Martin threw «@ rope to He tied it about Lealie’e body wag hauled out, Brackett wae helped out. , Lealie wae revivedvin,e: and experieneed«no owen, . TAMMANY CRATES TOA SUM HOUSE Fourth of July Speeches Made by Patriots for the Benefit of the Left-Overs Not at the Convention, —_— oe What was left of Tammany Hall got together in the Fourteenth street ?ig- Wam to-day for the usual Fourthgot July dissipation In oratory, Those whe were invited to speak on the glorfours . ovcasion, those whose business is that they couldn't get to 8 Louls and those who love the talking Rest of the fire-cracker day and ihe felends of alp three classes helped make the day a shining success. Before the programme was worked off on the inside of the hall there was muse by the Sixty-ninth Regiment bang on the street. This helped some in get- ting logether banda of patriots who glory in national music as produced by the band. The ceremonies of the on the inside began with singing glee club and the reading of the iy tht ation of Independence. Edwat rd Crowninahield had this task to accom erie Plish, and the sentiments of the hi document provoked prolonged and yal , even though the house was sim Letters were read from Grover Cleve land, A M. Dockery, James B. of Nashville, A.J. - mond: Senator W. A. Clarke. rove n; Champ Clark, Baker, of Bro’ “ha Minecurt, Morrie Shep of Texas: Wintam ‘Richardson, OF Alabama wid Richard f. Connell and others. ; The addresves of the day were delive ered by George 8. Boutwell, Gov, Lael 8. C. Garvin. of Rhode Island, a Webster. Davis The “Short Talks” were by Joba. T. Hunt, of Missouri; John F. Shatrath, of Colorado, (. D. Yan Duser | Nevada: 8. J. Bowle, of Atibw: jlam Ro Smith, of Texas; C. Hy Pennsylvania; f North Carolin of New York, Keating, of New York TWO STEPS, The Last One Helps the Firat, A sick coffee drinker must take two steps to be rid of his troubles nd eens and well again. The first is to cut off abso- lutely. bitte: | That removes the destroying ele- | ment. The next step is to take quid food (and that is Postum Food Cof- fee) that has in it the elements na- |iure requires to change the blood corpuscles from pale pink or white to rich red, and good red builds good strong and healthy cells jstroyed by coffee. With well bolle Postum Food Coffee to shift to, both these steps are easy and pleasani. The experience of a Georgian proves how important Coth are, ‘Prom 1872 to the year 1900 my wife and | had both been aifMicter with sick or nervous headache, and at times we suffered untold agony, We. were coffee drinkers, and dtd not know how to get away from it, for the habit is hard to quit. “Hut in 1909 T read of a case simb- lar to ours where Postum Coffee war sed in place of the olf coffee, and a complete cure resulted, so 1 eon- The result war, after three days’ use of Postum in place of the coffee I never had a symptom of the olf trouble, and in five months TU bate ained from 14% pounds. to IG y 1s asked me almost dally what wrought the change, My ate always leaving of coffee ing Mostum in ite place’ We have many fneade who dave heen benefited by Postus. \s to whether or put | howe stated , s truthiully | refer you te tank of Corrotiten of any baste 7 firm where | iver for od am own. year Name qiven bye . 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