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NAN WEEPS IN ARMS OF AGED MOTHER Patterson Girl, Home in Washington, ' Breaks Down for First Time— Whole Family in Tears at Reunion—She May Return to Stage. By Barton W. Currie. (Special to The Evening World.) ! WASHINGTON, May 13.—Nan Patter- om was taken into the bosum of her | family to-day. Her home-coming left no ty eve for any one who witnessed {t. ‘The train that brought her from New York got into the Pennsylvania Depot at Washington at 7.20 A. M., but mone of the Patterson party waa up at hat time, Both Nan and her sister dept soundly as babies, and thetr father had to wake them. ‘Tho entire party was In the Pullman Bhenandoah, J, Morgan Smith sleeping in an outelde berth, Mr, Patterson, Nan ‘and her sister, Mrs, Smith, occupying compartment, Both, young women fad brought aboard the traln great bunches of Iliac and wistarla, of which they gave liverally to the traln hands and to the great crowd that gathered ground them, A crowd of quite n thousand men and women were walting at the depot when the train got in. It took some time for Nan and her sister to array themeelves, and when they came forth from the train they carried thelr wilted bouquets Nan was dressed in a now blue gown ‘her sister in the aame rather worn red dyeas In which she wae arrested In Cln- clrnati and wore throughout the last trial of her sister, Nan and Brother Weep at Meeting. ‘Their old father walked about as if in a daze, wandering from his charges to bake the many hands that were out- stretched to hin, There was only ono of the family to mget the party at the station—Charles Patterson, aged twenty- two-who took his sister in his arma, ‘they clung together for several min- utes, tears coursing down thelr cheeks then he embraced his father and Mrs, Bmith. J, Morgan Smith remained on the outside and looked on with a smile at the greetings. ‘A sauad of policemen separated the crowd for the party to get out to B and Sixth strect. There Charles Pat- terson hurriedly engaged a landau, driven by Bon Shields, a Washington character, who greeted Nan with "God preserve you, miss! You ts auite home ‘While the crowd gathered about the chorus girl, her slater, her father and J. Morgan Smith wero bustled into the garriage. They drove off with a flourish Of the whip by the delighted negro. As the carriage turned up Into Fourteenth street, N. W,, the actress exclaimed: “Iam so giad to be back here that } can hardly keep mysolf from jumping out from the carriage and running along the walk.” Girl's Relatives Greet Her, ‘The carriage drove swiftly up the street until It approached the suburb where the Patterson home is lozatod, ‘Three of Nan’'s sisters, Mrs, Milbourne, Mra Taylor and Mrs, Lowell, all etrikingly pretty young women «nd Dearing @ marked resemblance to the chorus «int, dnd three Little nieces were waiting at the curb @ short distanc from the house. Nan could not walt any longer, so ghe threw open the door of the carriage and while ¢t was still in smart prog- ress, leaped to the street, She fairly threw terself upon her three sisters and her Mole nieces, The rost of the party, the chorus girl's father, sister and J. Morgan Smith, followed sult. There were quite a number of children around, but disregarding them the letore embraced with all the tenderness that their femininity could summon. Carrying one of her Uttle nieces, and with her arm about Mra, Smith, the Worodora gitl walked to the little frame house at No. 1462, @ dozen houses from the corner; she had to climb a few filghta of steps and there she met her mother, and, dropping her little niece, she fairly flew into her mother’ erme. ‘he. ecedting was one which no one ed without emotion, lf srineated, Mie ett her’ daumhter to lown her face. vf Be tears streaming aN Batterson gave Wa: torrent of of pas: 3 to Ceara feat outbs te feeplnR, since she Was aShebted And Profit by It. ‘You ere cordially invited to attend to. morrow the presentation of a most @pectacular drama, Come prepared to ‘witness more than six thousand actors thrill an audience of half a million peo- ple with startling disclosures about Where to Find 8,000 POSITIONS 2,000 1,600 WORKERS 1,600 1,000 HOMES TO LET 1,000 1,000 REALTY SNAPS 1,000 850 BUSINESS BARGAINS 350 426) «=6BOARDING-HCUBES 125 INSTRUCTORS 160 miss this opportunity, AM pres- urmed to pay chow. attention to announcements, and described the position, | the house there wi the house there were bright flowers and Nan'a Parents Weep for Joy, Mr, watierson, who had 7 the lite pathway watching Name gieee ing to her mother, stumbied” up the Nan Patterson fre 7 mother she hurried up tortie had been mado ready for her ih ood cry, by, hernelf. rly hour ‘of the that novactual news had Teone? hington that the chorus girl would here “this morning, prevented the crowd of any sort at No better day could have The sky waa cloudless be gathering of a the house. been relected. the sin was warm as June, and ther was scarcely any wind, Family Hold Love Feast. After the greetings the whole Patter- son family gathered on the h and had a sort cf love feast, There were Nan Patterson, her four sisters, Mrs. Julia Smith. Mrs. Milbourne, Mra, Tyler and Mrs. Lowell; her three little njeces. her brother, Charles Patterson, and her Parents, Neither friend nor hbor Attempted to intrude upon the happy family, May Return to the Stage, After Nan Patteryon had waten a hearty breakfast of her mother’a own cooking she sald: “T have said frequently that I would never go back to the stage. J am now 80 beset by offer, however, that I think T will have to yield. 1 em drawn one Way to the footlights, and in anothor wiv Ihave heen drawn from them, The yi simit of the old home and the happy memortee that break upon me how ‘seoin to call me away from the stage forever, but Tam forced to take €,gommon sense view of my new aitua- m “On the one hand my father NN and he Is. pours he hay barely engugis to keep him and my dear old mother comfortable, On the other hand I am offered large sume of money to go upon tis stags. Af T look at It now, money make the last days o! Rappy” and ‘contented now. what owe to them both, how they have suf fered for me and with me, and, looking at my altuation in purely a ‘business ght, I do not seo how I can resist the temptation, Managers Offer Big Salaries. "I had hardly been out of prison be- fore I recelved from theatrical mana: gers a dozen offers to out upon a vaudeville cirewt. Though I have never been anything but a chorum girl, th offered me more than @ prima donnn's falary. Many eald, a4 if they sincerely meant ft, that they could put me on the Stage and make me famous as an act- ress, I know, however, t is merely in my notoriety. “Bince my arrest I have incurred great obligations, I owe to my counsel, to my family and to my friends that which I can only repay by going on the stage. T came here to Washington to put _my- self entirely in the hands of my rela- tives, Now I am home I foel that I never want to go away again, Would Forget Her Past Life, “My mother has taken me to her again as she took me when I was a child, though sho knows how my ten- dencies have been and the sort of life I have fved. I wish, to discard trom my Ife the thought and regollection of what has always been held over me as a hack shadow. TRAIN WRECK VICTIMS BURIED Harrisburg Clergymen Unite in Funeral Services Over the Unclaimed Dead—Three More of the Injured May Die. it my fame HARRISBURG, Pa, May 13.—Brief and simple services were held over the charred bodies of the five unidentified viotima of the Southe Harrisburg dis. aster In the Market Square Presby- tertan Church to-day, after which they were buried in the Paxtang Cemetery, The service were attended by the Girectors of the Harrisburg Hospital and many railroad and city officials, ‘The services were in charge of Rev, George 8. Chambers, who wae aasisted by Rev. Ellis N, Kramer, Rev, Dr, D, M, Gilbert atid Rey, B. a of different Eattahay: Eth Sd pay quiem wae sung by the combined chotre of the Prince Street and Market Square Presbyterian Churches, The funeral ad- Gress was made by Dr, Chambers. At the close of the services the Caskets were borne to Paxtang Ceme- selected by the railroad company. services were held et the grave, The honorary pallbearers were Mayor BH. Z, Gross, ox-Mayor Vance C, MoCormick, Peed 2 Jxhn H. Weiss and George Kun- Spencer C Gilbert, B. Mo- Jaa, M. Gaineron aan’ John ¥ One of the bodien was Identified ton day as Willlam H, Holmes, hirteonth and Borks streets, Philadelphia, and ‘was went to his late home, All of the injured at the Harrisbur; Hospital, with the exception of Jose Berle, of New ‘ork; Harold D, l- roth, of Philadelphia, and 8, W, An: fereon, of Pittebure,’ are doing i ‘at No. 25 Broad street, ie amo well. sacrifice, &e., | hu; olimb right up on actors, and th rr fer , 10 h serious ikiutlen mene, & brothercin-teny oa ‘York, and “other retuilves Were here to: Hey Saray trying to find some clue to veranda | Misys. Jaa, Wu BO OVER LOIN wi : pivons (i he ood ea caly Walk, oats | ell into the arms of hie ol both went for toy, oe magiend While Nan was embracing her sisters \and relatives her, parents went tometers fito A corner of ‘the arbored ahd wat silentiys faye Being an Unvarnished Ac- Little Dog Brought About by Our iltile dog Nip was taken by the dogeatcher, and it was the only friend we had, He was four years old, Ie i# the only plaything we all had. We are still orying for him, all the girls felends, I have said if I wrote to you you would get a home for hin, He will bo kept till Saturday night, and my mother said she !# not willing to bay $3 for a dog when she has all us children to keep. She ta just as sorry, for him as we are, only it is impos. | alble for her to get him, Judge Crovker gavo my little brother and sister a note to tho dog- catcher man, so he ia going to keep the dog tll Saturday night, Dear Evening World, wil! you please get some one to take our Nip out, go they will not Kill him, as that would be the hardest purt of all? If you will get him for us or Ket a home for him you will gain the loving gratitude of the nine Iit- tle MeSorleys (Signed) | MARGUERITR M'SORLEY, Broadway and Castleton avenue, Staten Island, | By Nixola Greeley-S mith. The first morning's mall yesterday brought this pathetic Iitle letter to ‘The Hvening Wortd, and at once the expedition for the rellot of Nip—always Provided there was a Nip—was under | way, for It had entered the mind of a cynical editor that there might not be any Nip at all, Nine Little McSorleys, | But whew The Evening World re- porter had travelled through St. Geor Brighton, Snug Harbor, and found the | abode of the McBorleys at the end of a| Jane hung with Wace and bridal wreath | thar doubt disappeared. [or she met | nine little MeSorleys, and learned that | not only was there auch a dog as Nip but that there never had been such a | dog befcre in all the world. All tho nine Uttle MoSorleys—Emma, James, John, Marguerite, Anna, Kitty, Thomas, Willie and Nioholas—said 90, And Mra, MoSorley echoed the sentiment, "Glory be!" she exclaimed when the mission of The Evening World re- porter wae explained to hor, "And did | that litthe beast write to The Evening World? And mo with not a clean dress to put on her, nor any of them on ac- count of Nips being gone and the clothes not froned, The tears 1 have shed over that dog! It was a Monday —last Monday—that the dog catcner took him down to Stapleton, and when James—that's my little boy of eleven— count of the Rescue of al a Child’s Pathetic Letter. | Dear Evening World: | THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1905, HOW THE MSORLEYS’ NIP WAS SAVED FROM DEATH \-- NIP AND TNE M’S ORLEY CHILDREN. 7 HE KDNER, went after him the dog catcher snid| he would have to pay % or he would | bo killed in forty-eight hours—think of that! and no money coming In till nuxt) ‘Thursday, when me man gets paid.” Judge's Note Effected a Stay. “But,” broke in Marguerite, "Jim and Anna and I went over to see the Judge {n court, and he gave ua a letter to the dog man and we took |t to him, and he said he would keap Nip tilt next Saturday, Jim tried to borrow the money, but he couldn't, and I thought of writing to The Evening World, And are you really going to get our little Nip for us?" ‘The reporter nodded, and at once Bed- lam broke loose, “Mother, kin I go?" "Mother, may 1 wear my new shoes?” “Please, mother, let mo have my new hat.” "Kin I wear my beads that Aunt Kate gave me?” And 80 it went, while Mra, McSorley | travelled from one of her offspring to | another and with a damp towel wiped | the traces of four days’ mourning of Nip from their faces. James, eleven; Emma, twelve; Mar-! garet, eight, and Anna, seven, formed the committce of the MeSorley family appointed to rescue Nip. And with the reporter und o bag of oranges they boarded the car for Stapleton, | “John,” sald James regretfuny “wae afraid to come, He was afrald he'd be | put away. Ho stays home so often that tho truant officer will get him sure," “I go to the sisters’ school," sald Emina proudly, “where they don't put you away, even If you are very bad. I wish my cousins knew that we are go- Ing to wet Nip back. They were ove at the house last night, and we all cried because Nip was gone." Nip le a Buff. “Nip, Interrupted James, “is a fine watch dog. My mother can leave tho | baby in the house all alone with Nip and he'll bark and call the neighbors it anybody comes near, Ke loves a fire, You know we haven't grt 9 Ucense for him, and {f he's allowed out of the houso he's Mable to get pinched, But every time the engines come along he bolts out the front door and follows them, I like a fire myself, but I'd rather tt would be just woods and not houses, But here we are at Wave street. And look over there, off the a run caine but Widing near | side Park beach for uxe during the com- niga that | ing summer, Tut that ie now out of the Nip ts there!" — | And when the car halted to let them | four little McSorleys started on toward the email the water front from whioh shorue of canine walll oriy a Wagnerian overture could bmd- ale. Rut at nedately ght up with then. more on her open {t the door they halted til the! inclined reporter had) ke vour hand off that door!" oom- wooded Marguerite to Emma, who had ed an impatient flat upon the door, It's her pines,” And then, according to etiquette, the reporter opened bt Sie won't. put ue away, will how" quastioned Margnerite, healtating at the threshold, A word walle the reassured her, hildren entered and stood In silent awe Negotiations for redeeming | Nip were pending, But at last the dow and all the man, 9 very Nolte and not by any neans formidable agent of the Soclety fur the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, pacified with threo $1 bili and then a magic door swing open, a black-and-tan whirlwind seemed ty upon all to nd it was all over, EQUITABLE HIT FOR $50,000 BY SHUBERT DEATH Theatrical Manager Killed in Train Wreck Was in- sured for that Sum. The quitahle Lite Assurance Soctety Announced to-day that Samuel 8, Shu- bert, the theatrical manager, who died yesterday of injuries received in the train wreck caused by — dynamite ex- plosion near Harrisburg, waa Insured in that sodiety tor $0,000, The policy was taken out a year agv, and Mr. Ahubert had paid only one premium on tt, The policy will Le paid at ones. Publl- cation of this fact tu-day Is expected to minimise the acrimony of the discussion arising owt of James 1, Hyde's reply to Preetdent Alexandor. The two warring oflictals have come to a clinch, #0 to spenk, as to whether the Hyde fancy dress ball was au orgie paid for out of Equitable tunds. Mr. Hyde in a suit aguinst Mr. Alex: ander, which was begun yesterday, says the ball was a ‘dignified and artistic affair,” He denies that the expense of {t was charged to the soctety and de- clares the stories that a Frenoh actress danced a can-can and other weird hap- Penings which, he alleges, were tnstl- @ated by Mr, Alexander, have depreci- ated the value of the stock, of which Mr, Alexander is a co-trustee. ‘The sult ‘uw to compel him to pay damages for this depreciation caused by the Hquit- able scandal, In the action, which ts brought in the @upreme Court, William H. MolIntyre, F'tivde and Mary’, Ripley are party ’ . Ripley are party Plainufte, Dar, Alexander und Gage Wi. Tarvell are charged with conspiring to obtain eontrol of the Equitable Asso- elation through the policy holders, ‘Tne polloy holders’ committee, it is charged, is the direct result of agttation on the part of Mr. Alexander, and it Is gharged that he furnished the money for the organisation, ‘The complaint concludes with a prayer for judgment of the Court removing him ‘as trustee and requiring him to account for the injury done the estate, Mr, Alexander's anawor is the usual one—a@ denial branding as absurd some of the allegations and denying others, ‘The oase will rest where it ia until the next move Is made, a FIRE FOLLOWS SAFE SMASHING AOMERVILLY, N. J, May 13,—Burg- lars broke into the weneral store of J. Bradford Opie at Neshanio Station early to-day, smashed open the cash Tomlater and secured a email sum of money. They then turned their atten- thon to the safe in the post-ooe, which fe In the same building, After boring holes around the combination they in- serted charges of dynamite and set thane “Sipiosion that foll ile hrowing do) Ht the 4 “The Master Builder’ Is Dreary. $< Play Is One that Marks the Passing of Ibsen the Fealtst In: Tosen the Syméo tst, and Belongs with the Dramatic After all wae sald and nothing done} at the Madison Square Theatre yester- day afternoon, you couldn't help feel- ing that “dear old Mrs. Gilbert” had very much! the best of you, Churen window or no stained jass, she was spared "The Master Builder, ‘Mrs, Giibert in life was so far removed | from Ibaen tendencies that she would doubtless have raised her hands in holy horror at the suggestion of an Ibsen play being given in her name, She) looked on the bright side of life, she! was cheerful and chipper to the end, | never dark green, Her common sense would have sald ‘Rot!’ to the ailly, tiresome speeches supposed to be aym- olic of great truths and to suggest deep, hidden meanings, This la one of | the plays that marks the passing of Ib sen the realist into Ibsen the symbol- | lat. Like “When We Dead Awake," tt | beionge to the dramatic discard, Acting Was Good, The "younger generation of actors, who perpetrated this tribute, desorve credit, however, for an’ interesting per- formance, The acting, with one ar two exceptions, which it would be ungra-| cious to mention, was astonishingly kood. Miss Amy Ricard, for one, was | Thompson was excellent as the old ar- Discard, fa A revelation, Ike her Hilda Wane). whe thought It “thrilling to aitempt the Impossibie," she not only attemptxd but won, She ts the sccond young wom- | an who has within a fortnight skilfully trled her hand at Ibsen, Ato Ibsen's cerebral he-aines to become the ‘test’ of our ambitious young actresses ine! stend of the long-serving and lnohry-| mose Camille? It's an awful ahalce! Hazeitine ae Halvard, William Hazeitine, while not always on speaking terms with his linos, was | @ forveful and intelligent Halvard Sol- news; David Bimer gave Dr, Herdal the professional humor, and Fred chitect; while Miss Lotue Alter was an appealing little Kala, and Mre, Ida Jgitreys Goodfriend, in her best black silk and winter furs, made the dismal wife so real that you couldn't help envying Solness his fatal fall from the stoepie | The general dreariness wae lightened by the amazing laughter 0. a special matings girl with a remarkable sense humor and by a negro woman who untered lagily” ac the stage in ‘front of a nondescript “back-drop"’ which she seemed to recognize Aas a Southern plantation acene. In her brief tranalt whe counted the audience, AFRAID J, P. MORGAN WILLGET TREASURES Italian Art Gallery Being Carefully Guarded for Fear Financier Will Buy Pictures, FLORENCE, Italy, May 18,—When J, Plerpont Morgan was here last April the rumor was clroulated that he was ne- rotiating for the purchase of an art gallery belonging to an old family, This report {x now revived, with certain elaborations, the gallery being that of Martelli, one of the richest in art treas- uree in Florence, comprising famous silver works attributed to Cellini and pas rellefa by Donatello and Verochlo. It 1s alleged that Mr, Morgan offered $400,000 for the collection, and that the owner asked $1,000,000, The Govern- ment, learning negotiations were in progress, ordered to keep a careful watch over the Martell! palace, as the tet Wrensures contained tn the’ gallery Ing-room | "Sn the cannot be exported, POKER GAME ON LINER RESULTS IN QUARREL. “Preere-Out” for Three Days on Lucania Ende in Fight— Queliea by ‘Te: The most talked-of event during the voyage of the Cunard line steamship Lucania, which ended at this port to- day, wag a poker game which occupied the beat part of the last threo duys bo- tore making New York. Two men, one id to be a Texan, played "freeze out," buying $100 stacks of chips and playing until one or the other lost his pile, The lower bought again and tic game continued. This furnished Interest for the male portion of the first cabin, who crowded about the table in the amok- watch the play, t night there came noar be- ght In the room as a result of| the game, but tho Texan quelied the row, which was started by his opponent, | and’ quiet was soon restored, ing @ Cooling—Refreshing— Wholesome, EL-BART GIN. It’s clean. Look for the flag Small A evcastenitberhe) CHER long almu four children, Nip yelled the four little MoSer- sLtane- ‘Nip! SLAYER OF SERGIUS WILL BE HANGED' 4T, PETERSBURG, May 13, 7.10 P, M. The Senate siucing ag a Court of Cas- tion vhis afternoon refused the petl- mn of Ivan Kiletoft (who. assassinated ‘and Duke Sergius at Moscow) for a ow trial, at Kalel 4s Goy.-Q & membe oft Killed th eneral of Mos of the imperial’ family, Russian law inflicting the death penalty only for high treason in the murder of a member of the Inertial fami! Kaloleff can now his lawyer says he therefore, fortnight. whi lore pardon, but The apbeal was based on the ground Grand W, ANd not as Duke | not do so and Kaleleff will be hanged in a waa | the lion Public Pavi Chairman John 'T, McCall, of the Al+ dermanic Finance Committee, raid to- day that he wil shortly confer with his colleagues on the committee and dec.de ma date when a public hearing will be aceorded the resolution to appropriate $190,000 to begin next season the erec- | uon of the proposed public bathing vilion at Coney Island, ‘The resolution was Introduced by Al- jorman Patrick Higgins at the meeting of the Board of Aldgpmen last Tuesday, in the absence of the required sixty- ‘our votes for the adoption of a revenue yond pesolution the matter was referred co the IMnance Committee, with the re- iuest that the committee act promptly and In accordance with the spirit of the esolution, Aiderman Higgins returned to-day vom Boston, where he made a personal napection of the city-owned beach pa- villon, which 1s one of the great inatl- utlons of the Hub City, “I am now more than convinced," sald Mr, Higgine, “that New York City sould build @ bathing pavilion at Coney wand, I regret that the matter was hot earlier brought to my attention, | when action could have been taken whieh might have resulted in witnessing the establishment of a fine pavilion at Sea- question, tat I propose to keep at chie matter until poritive action is had by the Board of Hutimate, which is the final determining body, Grout and Littleton Favor Plan, “1 have heard from Comptroller Grout and Borough President [itueton, and they are heartily in tavor of the plan. “With the combined efforts of thor now Interested I predict that the bath- ing pavillon wall become @ fact and that the summer of 106 will Witness thou- sands of our peopie bathing in the ocean ‘at old Coney within a otty-owned pavil- jon and at @ nominal price for the use of bathing sults, In order to got th Project passed the authorities must be shown that @ pavilion as proposed can be made selt-suporiing, This can be done by charging five cents for bathing ruits; but at the same time tl wh come’ with their own sults will be a! forded free accommodations, Self-sui daining or not, the pavilion should be bullt. Ttls up to this administration to take hold of the enterprise and push {| beng? t complain if the “Our tax era won't com treasury OF the city must furnish the means for keeping the enterprise poling, The good that will be accomplished wi! more than counterbalance the cost, shall urge upon the Finance Committee to have a ete henna La al is Hecewwary, at the earliest possible day, 40 that all who are Interested may be heard from. “The Eyening World gould do Ae, t= ter work than to keep up thle tation for a clty-owned bathing place at Coney Island, te agitation, In addition to finally e footing the project, wil] serve to encourage those who are alding in the work officially or otherwise’ “Keep It Up,” Saye McCall. Chairman John T, McCall, of the Fi- nunce Committee, #ud that although he had just returned to the olty after a protracted atay in the Went, he was én- it) Thwing, at Coney Island. © formed of the agitation In behalt of the seaside bathing pavilion. “It's a good agitation, Keep tt In the end the slow-moving mu machinery will grind out whe finest bat {ng pavilion, In this country," Alderman, “It takes New York # I tine to get started, but once will stand for nothing but the (i The olty-owned bathing Coney Island, where the poor @ an dean, bath for a, penny oF not 8 4 Hine idea, and js bound to aos My lished. Ie would bo. tinprackivable to uild a pavilion this summer, but now Ig tho time to get action In of next summer, ‘The Boar men is now considerin, ord nances for next winter; why ROE bathing pavilions for next, summer! “Put me down as offering to hel} effect the perfecting of the plan in practical way." CARNEGIE FLIES: A COMBINATION FLAG OVER SKIBO Stars and Stripes on One Side, Union Jack on the Other.’ COLUMBUS, 0., May 13—Charles FF, Thwing, President of Western Reserve Univesrity, announced to-day while here thata the beard of control of the mix nificemt wltt of $10,000,000 to provide ‘for euperannuated college professors, had been called to meet, by Mr. Carnegie, at his New York office, Noy. 15. Mr, Carnegie has Invited Dr. Thwh to spend his vacation at Skibo Cast! Scotinnd, and President probably avail himself of the Invitation, “Mr. Carnegie was rather uncertain at first as to the flag which he would use ut Skibo Castle,” said President Tf he selected the Stars and Stripes he was cencerned for fear he would offend his nelhbors.’* “But I'm an American. and why not’? \Chairman McCall, of Finance Committee, 4 Arranging for Date of Public Hearing on Resolution to Appropriate $100,000 for’) © Om Potten eat ake Thwing will sat! Mr. Carnegie. h “Then in a moment of meditation, he considered what would be the result if he, placed the British afig at the most of the castle; then he might offend his loyal friends across the water, “As a compromise he had made a flag on one side of which were the Stars and Stripes and on the other the Union Jack.’ oo For Facts and Figures See the 1905 World Almanac. a 4) cary gr TTA + eid Pry Lay PT Mra re tres y YAY = Sll—s ‘J i i th The ‘‘Craftsman’’ Furniture Id for Libraries, Dining Rooms, Bullt on Simple Structural Lines, Living Rooms, etc. The most complete exhibit to be found anywhere is at A. A. Vantine @ Co., NEW SHOW ROOMS-12Z4 Fifth Ave., bet. 17th and 18th Sts, How the Erte Con- tributed td ‘New York's Food Supply milk. First Shipments of Country Milk NTIL the Erie in 1842 originated the delivery of good country milk in New York, the city’s supply had been mainly swill and adulterated The new plan was so widely appreciated at its inception that long rows of men, women and children car- tying jars or cans, daily awaited the arrival of the shipment. HE Erie’s milk shipments have increased from 600,000 quarts in 3842 to 112,454,040 quarts in 1904. by Buried in a Fur Coat, with His Hands Deep in His Pockets, @ man passes on the sidewalk & man who Is distributing hand- bills. Very politely, but with- out taking his hands out, he says to the distributer: “Thank. you kindly, my friend, but will ou have the goodness to throw it on the sidewalk yourself?” After the smile wears off think soberly of this: The Great Sun- lay Wor with {ts HALF MILLION READERS, {s the pa-, er that GOBS INTO IOMES of Greater New Bi And World readers read Wort Want Ads, Nearly 6,000 of them in next Sunday’s World Want Directory! ‘Will yours be there?