The evening world. Newspaper, July 9, 1904, Page 10

FTEY YOUNG eNO. NEI | The Curious Effect of the Drain ot Emigration—Why Marriageable Men and Women Are Obliged to Leave Their Peasant Homes. BY WILLIAM P, M’LOUGHLIN. —_—_— (Special Correspondence ot ‘the Evening World.) THIRD ARTICLE. ne: LEEN. Galway, Ireland, June 28—One of the out features 7 Stans oe part of Ireland is the remarkable scarcity of men and women—thoee of the marriageable age—which is observ- as oon as one arrives in the country regions, fe gothing curious about it,” sald Mr, Joseph Gill, of Westport, chant in that town, “As soon as the children grow up to the “bt manhood or womanhood they have to seek an outlet for thelr energies. .As there are so few industries in the country towns that can give employment, the young people seek ‘t elsewhere. Naturally their ‘eyes turn to America, where probably every family in Ireland is represented D © bye direct momber or a relative, Hence the drain on the muscle and i alnew and energy and ambition embodied in those fine young people, Amer- fee reaps the benefit, while we are corresponding losers.” A woman carrying in her face the griet tnat was eating up her heart came Into the shop where I was conversing with Mr. Gill, She was neatly dressed in the style of the wile of the amall famrer of the West of Ireland, ‘The tears that dewed her ever came freely as she talked, “T's hard to have to part with my| rejuvenation of @ country of glorious es ‘and gitl, sir,” she said to Mr.| possibilities, “but I am letting them go for th®/ One Experiment That Pat best, and may God bless and care f0'/ 4 tolling example of what home ¢n- them.” terprise can accomplish in this direction has been set in this locality by Mr, Harry McKeown, who is now giving employment to more than one hundred cottagers in the vicinity of Leenane. He provides them with hand looms and sends instructors to teach them the art ot weaving liomespun Irish tweeda, The women of each cottager's family do the wool-carding and dyeing and the father or brother the weaving, The patterns turned out are peculiarly pleasing and adapted for business sults, spring or fall overcoats, automobile coats or or- dinary rough and ready wear, As there i's no “shoddy” In the fabric It wears wonderfully well, o “When King Edward VII. came to Ire- land recontly and the big war fleet that was his guard anchored out there,” sald Mr, McKeown, pointing from the door of the Leenane hotel to the beautiful, winding bay of Killary—a fourteen mile long harbor that pierces the moat mar- vellous succession of mountain range in the world—"His Majeaty visited some of tho cottage Industries here and ran a shuttle back and forth In one of the looms, He ordered a web of the ma- verial that was just then on+the loom and had it made up into sults, In- ‘Her Children Going to America. “You are sending them to America?” 1 ventured to remark. “Yes, sir,” she replied, “There are two of my children there slready oe ve sont passages for these other baad ayy Jet them go, though God knows I would like to keep them with ut 1 yrould be ‘They must get and provide homes for them- for it Is the natural thing that and women should marry. They hope for any ald to start them lite here, because my bit of Just enough to surnort the only left to me and myself. enough to divide, and so I hear there is plenty who will work to earn t's hard to let them go just are at the best and bravest see them again.” heartfelt grief found expres- the crooning sounds of wow that fare pecullar to Irishwomen of the soll 3 aa He fi ia not where one g 2 $Fz i ue > by (4 la the union of such harrowing Into one saddening chorus that i | e @ « « 3 OPBe erases seceseess 2906 ENGINEER LE BLANC’S AIRSHIP WHICH HE IS BUILDING ON ROOF OF SKYSCRAPER. rere ee eee eee ne Fn aw amie om Pallant site a ae ete 4D PDDBIDERIDODEIDODD GO OD POOIDEIDDDD3 PD IDEDIGDE DEG MINING QUEEN” SUES MRS. FISH i's. Haynes Claims She Gave Banker Jewels and Money to: Keep for Her a Few Days Be- | fore He Was Murdered, | @ ny a w- SLLLELLSILTESSOS TES OOSD WROTE'LETTERS CALLING HER “MY DEAR FRILLS.” These Letters Wil Be Read When Case Comes to Trial and Some Interesting Devel- SSTELHVEL ELE BUILDING AIRSHIP. ON SKYSCRAPER War Department Engineer Is Constructing Flyer to Be Run by Electricity and Tried on Washington Heights. A great many extraordinary things have been done on the roofs of New York skyscrapers, but it is probable that nono has ever beon utilized as an airship factory before. That is the tl Alexis Le Blanc is making of the “a” of the Franklin Bulldine at No. 4 Murray street, Le Blane is a young electrical en- ai partment and has gone about his for his shin so quietly that it was not until to-day that his closest friends learned that his mind was bent on alry Inventions “Where in this alrship that people Around here are talking about?’ was plans asked of a janitor in the Franklin Bullding to-day “Alrahip? Shure thot must be thot funny thing up on the roof, Shure yex can't go up there, ‘They'll throw yes overboard if yes. thry It, They won't even let me opp there to sweep, but I don't care. ‘Tis so much less wurrk, “An’ ds this thing supposed to fly?’ queried the Irishman, seriously. ‘Tis, is it” High opp in the air? Then shure ‘Ua ae high as tll get, on my wurrd, Its up eleven fures now, an’ whin a mon can get t in elyvatora what's the use of flyin’ The janitors opinion of the airship is not shared by Francis H. Richards, “makes the scene at country railway pre fa the watt and south of Ire- stantly a big demand was created for ; the material. I have orders on hand Jand In the late spring and. early sum 0. england now for more than 1,000 ah amcage ‘one of the most sorrowful yarde of it. “Thia has brought homespan Irish tweed Into channels it never reached before, and I expect that when Its ex- cellence is fully impressed on Engiish- men the demand for it will continue, Miles Without a Haman Lo In a drive of sixteen miles to this village from Westport on a fine Sunday afternoou for nearly a distance of seven miles I did not see a solitary human being. The homes that once were thick- ly seattored along the route were there no more, but In thelr stead are grasing flocks of sheep and herds of cattle, and vven these are not aa plentiful as they used to be, Since Mr, McKeown first undertook as a public-spirited work the business that has become so profitable a great change has come over Leena’ Situ ated as It Is in the heart of far-famed, beautiful Connemara, it has for many years been a fayorite resort for the knowing ones among the English tour- “ los peng Rian ot on io that |!8t#. But with the advent of a fine hotel leave an impression on te! he mind. During the days of April, May and June the stream of emigration to merica is at its height, The knowledge of thin ling drain on the people of | country ie known throughout the, taken perhaps with Indiffer- | the actual observance of its) ruthless processes filln the heart with | wymopathy, Scores of thousands of | families are torn apart through econ: | emie sonditions which could be so easily | Adjusted that contentment and pros- | perity would keep watch and ward by} Dearthatone In Ireland. All Very 014 oF Very Youns, | ‘And w it comes to pass that when | ene observes the people flocking to and | i : @ patent attorney, tn the Franklin Building, who ts superintending the construction of the machine, He sald that he could not permit any one to sow the afrehip unless on a written order | from Mr. Le Glance, his client. But all the curious have to do |# to go into the | Postal Telegraph Building next door and | look down on the Franklin roof, No/ one was working on {t to-day, but, tt Is sald, that three mechanics are employed dally in pushing the ship to an early | completion | . There are many new features, It is said, in his airship, the motive power und steering gear being radical do-) partures from (the Santos-Dumont model, Electricity will supply the wer, the electrio motor being hung wow the basket In which the aeronaut will at The silk balloon for Mr. La Blanc's | > will be Imported from Paris, ite probable that the frst trial! de from Old Fort Washing: | hington Helehts, on the Hudson Rive Boats will follow the) course of the airship in case of accl- | dent. Mr. 1 aire! Tt ds au @ Blane is doing engineering work for the Government at West Point. He la a native of Missin | and holds an enviable position in his profession, } | visitor from the Midland Great Western tiJals, the | Es Bape gheeigFron Railway terminus at Wesiport, the kin beyond the sea have to en. |Dlenaure-seekers have multiplied enor- fn ter tn the scramble for existence, | ously. Lc# many of them fall in the endeavor Join the great army of the sub- | merged! If the bitterness of the a competition for a living that Fogen in the States were however fatntly understood here it would prevent (hou- gands of young men and women from @raigrating. While ft ts possible for them to pull here at home and secure a living Some kind In friendly surroundings, man who meets with failure in ea fs tremendously handicapped the countless thousands who are with him, and whose drowning wil! draw him back as he tries to the surface. Capital the Only Need. ). lamentable absence of enterpris- capital is wholly responsible for of those young people from Latterly, however, there have dusy minds at work drawing at- to Ireland's undeveloped but industrial resources, and It ip & question of time when capital ite way to ald in the solution patient, long-suffering nation's those ‘who stay at home in Ireland a dashing tally-ho that takes the have. little thetr coun! This tourist invasion, T sald ina former article, Is a considerable source of revenue In any country, It ts only quite recently that any attempt has been made to divert It to the west of Ireland. Americans who make their annual visit to Europe and who go back without seeing the diversified beauties of Irish scenery—from Queenstown, to Dublin and Wicklow, to Killarney, to Westport and Connemara, to Belfast and the Giant's Causeway—rob themselves of a pleasure the greatness of which they can never really realize. John Fitagibbon, of Castlerea, a noted merchant and stalwart Irishman, in discussing Ireland's needs and hopes with me the other day, By “prairies” he meant the i The Irish landlords discovered about thirty years ago that by evicting their tenants and converting the farma into pasturage they could raise cattle and sheep for the English market at a hand- some profit, And so the work of turning adrift thousands of Irish families was carried out with a vengeance, and the “Crowbar Brigades’ destroyed the seen millions of dollars wasted| homes as fast as they were emptied. ‘The lords = thy stocked the in enterprises that on the mn were of the veriest ‘wild- “worthless character, I have in New York and other Amer- speculate in mining stock, and oli syndicates, who & thought to what they 4nd who Im scarcely any & glimpse of the so-called “prairies with sheep and cattle, and profits were great for many years, There came to the public eye in Amer- loa one Phil Armour, who subsequently became known to fame the great Hog 4 Cattle King. bewan to slaughter and ship these animals by the thousand and then Inatituted a service of shipping cattle on the hoof. With the perfection of the refrigerat- ing and cold storage processess and the evolution of ocean grayhounds Armour American hog and cattle slayers and dealers were enabled to send their wares to all parts of Europe and undersell ail competitors. Hence the Irish landiomis have practically abandoned the grazing because it is no AMBULANCE LEST WN DENT RCE August E. Neander, Run Down! by B. R. T. Train, Dies on Way to Hospital and Ambulance Knocks Down Man on Road. August E, Neander, a wealthy drug- aist, of Bay Eighteenth and Eighty-sixth streets, Bath Beach, died as he was being taken into the Norwegian Hos- pital after being Injured in a collision between a Brooklyn Rapid Transit train and @ runabout Bighty-fourth street and Eighternth avenue, Brooklyn. Neander, William Gretsch and another man, wheee name is as yet unknown, wero riding in a runabout and Neander was driving. The crossing where the aceldent occurred was unguarded, and acconiing to Gretsch the gong failed to sive any warning of the approaching train, The horse had just stepped on the track when it was struck by the train and instantly killed. The three men were thrown out, landing fifteen feet away. Neander's skull was fractured, he received a fracture of the pelvis and several ribs were broken, All three were unconscious when Picked up. An ambulance was called Stork gave driver orders to rush, 4 Neander’s condition wad such he feared he would die, Eighth avenue the drive falled otf No. @80 Fourth a ls deat and jong of the ambulance, ambulane to see John 0. it went Jonger profitable. Bo that an American | cattle King became the Nemesis of the| ‘ Dr. the latter catheter er ood en jcetved here made (rom the Norwegian Hospital, and Dr, | >¥ sme one employed in the store, KUROK! SAYS AUSOIA WILL NEED NEW ARMAY OF B00, 000 nd Newchwang and Port Arthur Now Ob- jective Points of Japanese, He Is Quoted as Saying to Captured Rus- sian Officer Who (Special Cable Despatch (Copyright, 1904, by the Press Publishing Company, New York World.) ST. PETERSBURG, July 9.—A Russian officer escaped from the Japan- Ineer In the emplov of the War De-| eg9 headquarters has just reached here with a remarkable interview with Gen. Kuroki, He sald Gen, Kuroki told him that Russia would require 849,000 fresn troops to hold southern Manchurla and Port Arthur. “The Japanese army will occupy Newchwang and Port Arthur,” Gen. Kuroki Is quoted as telling the escaped Russian officer, “Newchwang and Port Arthur are now the objective points of the Japanese army, and as soon as they are occupied the advance north to Russia will need 800,000 fresh troops to check the Mukden will be made. advance of the Japanese,” CAPTURE OF PRACTICALLY CONCEDED. ST. PETERSBURG, July #210 P, M.—The capture of Kaichou by the Japanese, announced from Toklo to- jay, Je not officially conmrmed at the War Office, but there Is no disposition to question the probable correctness of the report, as the latest advices re- {t plain that the Japanese were advancing In force along the railroad against the Russian posi- tton, ‘The Emperor and his military suite, who left St, Petersburg last night for the Volga region to bid farewell to the Fifth and Sixth Army Corps, may al- ready have received Gen, Kuropatkin's report, but the General Staff has not yet recelved Gen. Sakharoff's report, | which usdally followa Kuropatkin’s at a) short Interval, The occupation of Kal- chou, while It Is not believed that it will exercise material Influence on Ku- ropatkin's strategy, is of importance to the Japanese, ag it brings them within reach of Newehwang, facilitating Gen. Oku's juncture with Gen, Kuroki, who may already be ju touch, How far the Russian Commander-in-Chief attempte: | out to contest the possession of Kalchou NO RUSSIAN G SUNK, STOESSEL REPORTS. ST, PETERSBURG, July 9, 2.10 P.M.) Official reports from Lieut.-Gen, Stoes- | sel, commander of the Russian military | forces at Port Arthur, ‘dated July 7, | confirm the reports of the attempt of | four Japanere torpedo-boat destroyers to enter the harbor of Port Arthur June %, but do not confirm the Che- Foo reports of heavy Japanese opera- tions July 4 and § against Port Arthur opments Are Promised. (®pectal to The Evening World.) NEWPORT, R. I, July 9—Mrs, Nich- olas Fish, widow of the New York banker and millionaire who was mur- dered in New York at Thirty-fourth street and Eighth avenue, declares that | @ sult brought against the estate of her, late husband by Mrs. Lavinia zl Haynes, known as “The Mining Queen,” Js preposterous, This sult haa just become public, the secret having leaked out when Mrs. Fish, who is stopping at the Now Cliff House, was with an order from Surroga Fitagerald, of New York} County, directing her to file a statement of the personal property left by her late husband, and particularly a true ment of the bank bills and jewelry which he had at the time of his death, The paper, which was served by Isaac Weill, of No, 904 Broadway, New York, is returnable July 19 While the sult is the entering wedge to recover $5,800 in cash and $6,060 in Jewelry, claimed by the “Mining Queen” to have been intrusted to Mr. Fish just Prior to his death, It is probable that some interesting developments will como out of the sult, For instance, there are letters said to have been written by Mr, Fish to the “Mining Queen" which are addressed “My Dear Frills.” Should ‘the sult come to trial the reading of these letters would be necessary to! prove the business transactions between | Fish and the “Mining Queen.” | In an affidavit attached to the order iasied by Surrogate Fitagerald th yatining aces swears that she guv Fish $,400 In cash on Sept. 9, or six days before he was murdered, About the meg time she delivered these jewel Escaped, to The Evening World.) all of southern Manchuria, including tring of pearls of the value of. One diamond necklace of the value Two bracelets with diamonds One diamond brooch ....... One solitaire ring (diamond)... Making @ total of .. . It is said that Mrs. Haynes intrusted the property to Fish, beiley that thi jewels would be safer with him an thinking that he could invest the money to her advantage. She explains In her | affidavit that she has been informed that the Jewelry which she claims has) not ben found. She therefore desires | |particularly that an inventory be filed of all the jewelry he had at the time of KAICHOU $5,090, with the Japanese, the War Office says will be revealed when the official re- port arrives, The Japanese reports of the severity of the fighting might indicate Kuropat- kin's desire to hold Kaichou so lon as possible for the purpose of precent- ing a juncture of the Japanes armies, the threatening position of the Japanese columns eastward may have rendered Kuropatkin’s withdrawal fur- ther north imperative, It would not be Jaynes Is a middle-aged woman | the divorced wife of a Chicago real-estate dealer. She [one her Ute) “The Mining Queen” In Colorado a few years ago. There has been one hearing In the surprising If, after the Juncture of the} case and at this hearing Mrs, Haynes Japanese armies, Kuropatkin decided] Was asked many trying questions re- io retire even from Tatcheklao and| sarding her relations with Mr, Fish. Tt Hatcheng and concentrate his forces|!® claimed by Mra, Fish’s attorneys about his main position, at Liaoyang, {that the necklace claimed by Mrs. This would render easy the Japanese | Haynes had been in the Fish tarily plah, repeatedly predicted, to get pos-| Many years before |t was presented to weeaton of those place, flank the Rus- | 1¢ Mining Queen. “When the case comes up for trial) there will be some interesting develop- ments,” sald Well CLARK THEE fortify a line the head of and Feng- rol of the rall- establish a ne whase at New- chwang and prepare to advance or to resist Kuropatkin’s advance, as the case at the close of the rainy sians out of Newehwan mi be, season. News of the evacuation of New- chwang by the Russians would seem a logical sequence of the announcement of the oceupation of Kalchou by the j Japanese, Her’ § UARDSHIP Man Who Robbed Safe in the Office of Bishop Potter Is Thought to Be a Daring New York Crook, of a Russian guardship June % ported from Tokio The torpedo-boat destroyer Lieuten- ant Burukoff returned safely to Port Arthur July 2 from Newchwang. Gen, Stoossel that up to the time his reports were forwarded not a single fortress battery had fired a shot at the beslegers on the land side and that the riilroad was then running twelve miles beyond the perimeter of the fortress, (Special to The Evening World.) COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., July 9—One hundred thousand dollars is the value of the jewels, stocks and bonds and cash, Instead of $50,000 as at first given out, stolen from the safe of the Alfred ‘and do not mention the alleged sinking AUGSWORTH $10,000 RUED BY FIR Firemen Have Hard Work Ex- tinguishing a Fierce Blaze Started by Cigar or Cigarette Dropped by Employee. Fire to-day destroyed $10,000 worth of fur rugs in the rug store of Simon Bros., on the fourth floor of the nine~ story house at No, 3% Kast Twentieth street. The fire le supposed to have started! HUSBAND INNOCENT, SS DYING WIFE Mrs. Josephine Gerlach Tells Police that She Herself Upset Lamp Which Probably Fatally Corning Clark estate in the office of Bishop Potter, The jewels, instead of belonging to Mra, Potter, widow of Mr. Clark, and now the wife of the bishop, belonged to Mr, and Mrs, F. Ambrose Clark, and coniprised Mrs, Clark's entire wed- ding outft, The jewels were placed in the safe two weeks ago in anticipation of the departure for the summer. of the F, Ambros Clarks, No one outside of u few trusted employees knew of the Presence of the Jewels, and how the (hief learned they were in the safe is a mystery, The cash stolen represented about 8, A list of Burned Her, ot been mado. puollo, Dut the prinelaal stolen are: & diamond bowknot, f One ring set with two diamonds and « In her dying statement Mrs, Joseph-| ruby. Uae small diamond ring. ine Gerlach, of No, 4811 Sixth avenue, Bouth Brooklyn, said to-day that she ore rags with es ‘dinmende om cross. herself had upset the lamp which had| *#*, peneeiet, burned her. Neighbors had told the One diamond and police that the woman had not been on riendly terms with the relatives of her jusband and that the case might need from a lighted cigar or cigarette dropped among the rugs last evening] went to ti i thie be true the blaze smouldered all that] through the night, and to-day when it}and myself, however, have not agreed At the crossing at Fifty-fourth street gained headway |t burst forth with a r of the} tury. The biase was discovered by Police- did noc | man O'Neill, of the West Thirtieth street station. Before the engines had went Ja and & rise | arrived the fourth floor was so choked ying unconscious {n| With #moke that the firemen could not set close to the flames and had to front and rear, sulshed, The rugs that were not burnt fight them from the windows in the} *ichast Ze After hour extin./etreet to-day at Seventy-fifth st an the fire was ‘eed ds Investigation. Detective-Sergeants Tait and Evans Norwegian Hospital to-day and obtained from the woman befo: she died this statement “My husband and myself have been mn the very best of terms. His folks Fis fog-heated ae Se cgy a wearing a straw hat, two doors fr Tel the Clark office on the day of the Rueben v vame map was sen Mrs. + bd bumway, pher in the office of Bi Potter, ng on the sepe of the office on Thursday. The description we fite a note New York crook, The Pinkerton agents here and the detectives from New York have Ameh their home offices to look up this thief. He is Le to have been in New York recently, Tt is the opinion of the detec- tives that the man very well. But I was alone last night, and the setting afire of my dress was entirely accidental.” — WAGON RUNS OVER BOY. it Into the office lad Knocked Down tn Street and] iiiiding, concealed nimacit until the of- Injured Internally, fice was deserted by the clerka and the ke, eleven years old, of No, | Blahop. all of whore. went, to luncheon, His Avenue A, while playing in the! Sap ‘not locked and Avenue A, was ki a RROW'S SUNDAY real . _ . bd ‘4 », ‘ How a little Irish girl, sick and just landed, saved six lives when the Slocum was |] | burned. Her story, which \ has earned her a gold medal, the title of heroine and the Praise of the world All Furope watching young King Alfonso of Spain, who is about to seek the hand of Princess Elizabeth Victoria of England. A courtship that cannot be conducted pri- vately, How Mrs. Dan Hanna's step- daughters drop part of their names at the request of thelr grandfather, who will, on this condition, make them heir- esses to his Standard Oil for- tune, To Inherit Millions by Changing Names, Centennial to-morrow of the tragic event on Weehawken Heights which affected the destiny of this nation, Re- cently discovered facts re- garding the quarrel between Burr and Alexander Hamilton, with photos of interest. The Burr-Hamilton Duel 100 Years Ago, —_ How the Rev. S$ P, Monte fomery got his title of “Fighting Parson.” Two events which made him the admiration of his flock, A Fighting Parson's Two Knockouts. Mrs. J. Mitchell Clark and the sounding- board for a piano which she has Invent. ed, and which It Is claimed will accomplish wonders in acoustics. New York Millionaire’ Wife an Inventor. Harvard athletes to acquire the Japanese trick of fighting without gtving blows, and to introduce it In their football games, Football with Jiu-Jitsu Trimmings. The strange story of “St Bond st., New York,” the Home of “Metaphysical Cult- ure,” its founder, Mrs. Brown, and the similarity be- tween her teachings and “House of Mystery” Christian Science Cradle those of Mrs. Eddy. F 1 1 Airy dens of Stanford White, | iv Peter Cooper Hewitt and Duffield Osborne in the great tower above Madison Square Garden, { New York society women adopting terpsichorean exer- Dan cise as practised on the stage, cing to \ Reduce Flesh, to keep them from taking on too much flesh. A combination page in the Comic Supplement that will make you scream with laugh ter, All the characters take a trip to great Coney, and what doesn’t happen to them