The evening world. Newspaper, June 17, 1905, Page 10

a yan, of the Order Declares that the Es- _tablishment of the New Rates Is Neces- sary and Argues in Its Favor—- Trouble Brewing, However. Council of the Royal suum, which formulated the new Fates of the orfer that has ‘ 80 much objection will have to Toa reconsider thelr action ana to be inevitable from recent de- | "4" ‘All over the country a feeling the new rate schedule has been ‘which the Supreme Regent and } asnociates cannot set aside, and if ) Grand Councils in each State, fol- Fowing the demands of the subordinate @ounclls, convene and inalat upon the ®upreme Council being reconvened for “the purpose’ of the reconsideration of the now rate schedule, their demands eannot be set asid ‘The local councils are making a most @arnost and determined fight against ‘what is termed an injustice to the old Mmombers through the new rates, While it Is true the older members Gre dving moat of the protesting, they supported by the younger men, who take the stand that if the old men aro ow deprived of the protection they Bald for for More than twenty year mo guarantee can he extended the young men that the samo thing will not Eappen to thom, In the West the dissatisfaction over the action of the Supreme Counvil is Tovdly expressed. D, B, Cameron, of Milwaukee, Grand Secretary of the or- dir in Wisscnsin, has dedared openly @sainst the new rates, No Consultation on Plan. “Tho new rate,” Mr, Cameron sald, “was ordered by the Supreme Council ft ita meeting held in the last days of May, without consultation with the Brand jurisdictions of the order, and would appear to be an arbitrary riling from which it may be necessary to make &@ most fletermined appeal. It is the wecand increase in rates made by the omer, the first having been put In force seven years ago, With hundreds ‘of other older members of the order, I believe that the local councils and the Grand jurisdictions should have been Consulted in a move of such far-reach- dng importance as this must prove to be. “When the firat increase was made the Bupreme Council ievied three extra as- sersments, raising, $2,000,000 from which to draw an income sufficient to make up whatever discrepancy should be found to exist at any time in the fund for the payment of the death losses, 1 now undetstand that the principal of that fund hax been drawn upon to the extent of $90,000 to pay claims, I have feen no statement as to the disposition Of the interost, I presumo that reports showing the slatus of the fund will be fortheoming. Avalanche of Criticism. “X cannot, of course, forecast what Will be done, but I belleve 1 express tue feeling of the majority of the member- @hip When I state that a positive sentl- Mnent throughout the country will be @eveloped for the reference of this in- enease in rates to the grand Jurisdic: 0) in turn, referred to the local Gounelis for thelr votes. 1 know that there must be an increase, but I do not believe that the order, as a whole, will Aystain the placing of'ail of the burden Of that. inorense upon the older men.” ¢ Royal Arcanum Bulletin, the oM- glal organ of the order, gives the fol- lowing explanation of the necessity of adopting a new rato scale for the in- Burance of Its members, This Is the first official statement that has peen I ued to the members, The article Is heade “Why an Adlisiment of Rates Was Neo at Whis Time." “Beeause the revenue from the @nt scale of assessments duct Mae tr plus jn gurrent cash cecount had been oxi uate ed and the nes tind Lente od nat the time of the meeting of the| reme Council, This made It evident three things must be of ree that one done—elthor sitar the rates, mo back to the old policy of calling reat. peseeatny pity hi nber or the Fitpreme court suggested the advisability of seturains to eal old system of cajing extra as- vA few emnve! favor at hee Rares a matter #0 He over for another year and drawing son the Srecmency fund to make up defiolen- Readjustment Necessary, “The necesa!ty for a readjustment being @pparent to the ye je ty the members of the Supreme Counoll, the next question was or shoul fed & temporary’ expedient to carry. the der along for a few. years, with, tne Probable recurrence of the readjustment of rates within a few years, or whether there should be stich a readju: ment a8 would be equitable and “That question’ was d tts phases, and the Supreme Council was that ment whould be on the hae Hee seid “Experts ha tive “Ofticers that the Yeare’ experience “haa long, ubpn which €o rates, perience find “been compiled, th Janse stutintios carefully the ectual cost im firwed thal conelusion. o} the readjus ja of mortality stud! Ment, which took effet Aug. 1," 1808 ea been two years in operation It was evi- dent that It was operating with gross inequity toward the members of the different ages. fresh from thetr medical examination, having low death rates, 4 as much as member me age fifteen or twenty yoars Raton who had become el, Tipks, in whose class at attal the death cost each year was much fe athed than their contributions, and who had made no payments In the early years of their membership to meet the in- ora coat ag thelr vanced. 6 scale Of asecaxment adopted in 1898 Deen appiled to all member thelr ‘attained ages there is no dount that the inequities of the scale of as sessment would have bean re @ minimum and the revenue sumclent fo,Jast for a long Series of eat. ur experience, demonstrates ihe correcta oF ths statement. Under the pi the members admitted eles” 08, with Maas admitted a few ycars before that, were contributing in ‘excess of the cost of thelr ‘mortality ‘iiapiity, to “auch at extent that it made up the deficits in the contributions of the older members and in addition thereto created the sur- plus transferred from the ovrrent funds to the emergency fund, Not one dollar of the emergency fund was contributed ly any member over fifty-five years of age on Aug. 1, 1898, cated eA when the present Cost Exooeds Contributions, ‘The mortality cost for the ages o Atty-five and over exceed the eontribas HON of tiose members, who were pay- ing at the ages at which they had been ussessed prior to the rates taking effect, ‘These inenulties would have been per- petuated and azgravated stil further that gevavon, had begn attemptod on the basis of threo ot our of live as- fesements and dividing the amount by. twelve, 80 as to make a monthly pay- Met OF if the new rates had been viled to the members at their ai Rees. the losul Would have beat mane more inequitable, and it would net have been treating new members fairly, sApundang llustrations” of th age at iy OF aBee hina rt | Aug, 1, 1886, It has cost the order each Year for the proection it has furnished him over $20 a year per $1,000, and dur- ing 1904 it cost the order over $30 per $1,000 to glye him whieh he was paying This denielt in hie contributlon waa the contributions of | younger adinittea ‘since “AR, 9 1898. ‘The new rates of axsoasment wi |wipe out these deficits and all members |witl start anew on Oct, 1, upon the gamo lbasis, each one haying the ehatee, of the [method of contribuslon, the | regular rates, and tho different optienn being so adjusted on the basis of |tuityvexperionse “of the order that ail the contributions will, in the end, be equivalent to each other." the protection tor {mad up by men THE GIRL ON HORSEBACK. By Walter The Man on Horseback, famed in Attired in red riding pants, Has had his da} And now the country’s in a whirl Geeause the saucy Iorsoback Girl Has come to stay, She butted into photographs And took it on the run, While all the ticklod publie laughs: “Miss Dunn, what have you done? The Man on Horee)ack of our race smiling face, Posed there with toothsome, All unaware That Flirty Gertie, riding stride Her steed, had mode a sliding slide To get in there Among the huntsmen stern and bold. She wished to join the fun, But when the pictures were unrolled— *Mise Dunn, what hayo you done?" The Girl on Horseback, sau And smiling as she sits aler In manly soat, + 9 dryhones possibly annoy ‘he pictures had to be desiro: They gave cold feet. But this 1s the Now Woman's day and--pray excuse the pun— The Gir) on Horseback's come to Thov were done by Miss Dunn. A, Sinclair, stay VICTIMS IN RIVER MYSTERY KNOWN. PITTSBURG, Pa, June 17.—Tho iden- tity of the young woman and baby und dend under a raft in the Monon- Ia River last evening was estab- to-day a9 that of Mies Jessie tt, timed twenty-five years, and four-year-old daughter. ‘The \den- | ation wis made by a brother. Blasett dirappeared ten days Maragret Pa. She crying on the streot rail- egheny Riyer | his WAS TIRED OF LIVING, SICK, AND SO ENDED HIS LIFE. Abramn'n Neighbors Knew When Hin Shop Wan Not Opened that He Had Killed Himselt, George Abrams, a tallor, was found dead In a Iittle room back of his at No, 54 High street, Brookly: with the gas turned on, He w. yeara of age and almost help! thetumatism, For pome time past Abrams talked to helghbors about the futility of lly. Wien he did not his shop to- from had killed IT’S GREAT TO HAVE A LITTLE BLACK MAN ey 7. E Powers.) . AT ONCE. DEAR. I HAVE. JUST FOUND A MILLION He Shows: Pose MENT BY TELLING! His WIFE pW EqQUTABLE "I wit, S88 Min RYAN T Wht GIVE ASWELL PARTY AT MIVERNON, AND Hit Invite B08 Firzsamons AND HARRY LEHR THis IS MR Haas ss eee THE EQUITABLE COME! T Witt INTRODUCE RACE TRACK KATE WILL Be Angay! WITH THE BLACK MAN Harry Came Near Winning the Diogenes Medal for Honesty, but the Wicked Little Black Man Stepped In and Induced Him to Go Wrong, Erie Cbunty Poste Posts Working Hard to Elect Chief of Buf- falo's Police to Position of Siate Commander. The Grand Army of the Republic posts of Erle County are making a vig- orous campaign for Supt. William A. Bull, of the Buffalo police, for Depart- ment Commander of the G, A. R. The election occuirs at the approaching State encampment at Syracuse and headquar- ters for Col, Bull have already been engaged in Parlors 171 to 181 in the Yates Hotel, Col, Bull's eandidacy was officially annoynced last fall by the Erie County G. A. R. posts and lias been received with great favor through the State, but, of course, for the exaited position of Department Commander there are sev- eral strong candidates. The fricnds of Col, Bull point not only to his record As a soldier but to his services eg a public servant in his long connection with the Buffalo Police Department as arguments for his election. He was a mere boy when’ the olvil At the age of eighteen, on 24, 1862, he was commiasioned a Second Lieutenant in the Forty-ninth Regiment of New York Volunteer I fantry, and on October 4, of the same year, he was commissioned First Lieu- tenant and Adjutant of the same regi- ment, April 4, 1863, he was transferred to the ‘I'welfth New York Independent Light Battery, with the rank of Firat Lieutenant, and subsequently commis- sloned Céptain, Major and+Lieutenant- Colonel of Light Artillery, but did not. muster, He was inspector of Artillery, Second Army Corps, during the slege at Petersburg, except in the montha of December, 1861, and January, 185, when he commanded his battery. On March 23, 1805, he was honorably discharged in front of Petersburg. Va., being but a few days more than twenty-one years ot age. ‘The following indorsement ap- pears on his discharge: "A gallant and eMclent oMcer, always displaying cool- hess.and sound judgment on the field.” With the_exception. of two months of the Artillery Washington. ‘ol, Bull's three years of ser-; HURT BY CAR EXPLOSION, The explosion of a fuse plug on a Lenox avenue car to-lay at One Hun- dred and Thirty-second street caused CANDIDATE FOR spent in the field, Hoe) war colonel for gallani and mer- Htorloux conduct on Dec, 23, 1808, two Joseph Bullivan, of the Hast Ono Tun- Gred and Twenty-sixth street atatia. Sullivan was standing at the crdssing waiting for the car to pass when the fuse blew out. His blouse dnd trousers were perforated and a plece of tho much excitement among the passengers metal entero’ his right thigh, inilsing _ WANT BULL FOR HEAD OF G. A.R. HEAD OF G. A. R. \ months after he was mustered into Grand Army as 4 member of Shapin No. 2, of Buffalo. SAILED ON THE REPUBLIC. A large number of tourists Jeft for Ruropa on the steamer bpp ere oe the Red Star tne, Mah who took the tnp were Mr, and B.A, Hiteh, od Bune Beery Eleanor. T' MAN HELO UP: SHOT TWO OF ASSAILANTS Emptied Revolver Twice at Gang That Attacked Him on Street. The attempt of four, young men to play ‘horke with a man who was pass- Ing while they stood on a corner in Brooklyn early to-day 8 sald by the police to be responsible for a shooting that may result. mortally, John Beham, twenty-one years old, of No, 261 Twentleth street, 1s in the Norwegian Hospita) with a bullet in his chest and one in his arm; John Conway, of No, 8 Adelphi street, 1s locked up in the Fourth avenue police station with a bullet-wound in his right forearm, and two others, Phillp Glea- son end Richats Burns, are in the same police station, The four they were stahding on the corner eh & man passed, and without warning drew a rovolver and emptiod it, and then, reloading It, emp: ted Jt again and ran away, They fatled to make tho pollce accept this story of the shooting, and before court opened to-day detectives learned the gang had brought the assault upon thomeelves, The four were at Twenty-fourth street and Fifth avenue when, according to the police, a man passed with a Inrse package, All four had been drinking, according to the police, and one thought it would be smart to find out What was In the bundle, He grabbed lt and diveovered It was a cage con- tainting a bird, The man from whom the package had been taken put up a fight, and the four had great sport mixing it up with hiin and giving him the worst of I!, ne result was that the bird escaped and the cage was wrecked, ‘The object of the attack, after escap- ing from his assailants, ran to his home pmewhere in tho neighborhood aid re~ turned with a revolver. When he was about fifty yards away he opere! fire on the ging, and after exhara ty: the slx shots In the revover calmly re- londed tt and pumped the second six snots at them. Apparently satisfod from the howls of two of them he uway before the poilce, attrac.el the scund of the shots, reached piace. Beham when taken to the hospita ufirmed the siory told by thore wi were with him, Later on the doctors Nading (ge bullet had penetrated his jung and his condition was fused ( permit him to talk ‘tn are ali searching for the man wh the shooting, They have found the bird cage and hope to establish a clue to the owner through it, ret ONE BADLY HURT IN AUTO WRECK. by the A big touring automobile, passing through Flushing to-day, skidded on the street car tracts In Queens avenue and-evashed into 4 trolley pole, Three men in ihe machine were thrown out and. one was at ‘The automobile, w as ‘crippled, but the iunery, was intact. and after the Thlitlen of the occupants had been at tended to they continued ont to Manhattan, refusinig, to names, ‘Che number of the machine was 8180 N. ¥, OEPEW SAILS T0 GET REAL RES! Makes a Little Farewell Talk and Tells What His Plans Are—Other Sea-Goers on the St. Louis, Senator Chauncey M. Depew aalled for’ Eurome to-day, where he expects to recuperate from the strenuous wo! fighting for “peace and harmony” in the Hyultable tangle. A thorough course of treatment at the baths of Alx-les- Bains is what the Senator considers neceasary to get the bad taste of the Equitable scandal out of his mouth, With him goes Mrs. Depew, whose pil- grimage to the modistes and silk maga- aines of Paris will be the only inter- ruption to the Senator's wild tight to complete re Other well-known persons who sailed on the St, Louls to-day ar MiMconer, A. rudaKe, of the Belgian Stat Smithy ity Mee Willian "Cr i oatnra and ins a’ Au ir. Ean han, write oe Mine Couecter of th Pgenator Depow held a reception in his stateroom until the time for departure, and although busy with friends, foun time the Interviewers, He refused to discuts the Haultable situation furs ther than that he was statement. He sald: ‘@ expect to remain on the other aide ahout two months, We go fievt 19 ‘8 eee where, ine erst et our alay will dresen "Hs ger" “Pirdugit tases we wT ta fe. Alxcies-Baing, thn. situation Kurope just at the pressn: time 's interesting, I do not anticipa thal there will be ny trouble. berwour what must be a hopeless struggle, et NEWSBOY TENOR TO SING, Johnnie Quigley to Be Heara at Newspaper Me: Mans, Master Johnnie Quigley, tho news: boy tenor, who has fust returned from @ successful tour of Burone, will pe at the heraeerar men's mass at! ¢ 200A, M., In. St Aeon Shun, eo strect, a if junday mornin, i ipo apy re Ee for peace and, bea! harmony, refusing to discuss Mr, Ryan’a| ‘ RIFLE SHOOTERS SAIL FOR MATCH Seventh Regiment Team Goes to England gn the St. Louis to Compete with Westminster Volunteers at Bisley. ‘The rifle team from the Seventh Re- giment N. G. New York, which will most a team, ropresenting the Queen's Westmitetee Voluntecra in a compati- ‘Wve.match at Bisley. Wngland, on July G and 7, sailed on the steamer St. Louls to-day, The prizo for which the teams w'll compete I a trophy offered by Sir How- ard Vincent, honorary colonel of tho British organisation, On July 2 the team mill attend a ‘Bei service in Westminster Abboy. 2 PeKt day they, ps YA Visit the Hours th eBa a ie duly 4° ‘needa altic Col 4 Ag Pit Vincent, alde-de- xing Bdward reviewed the Beventh. Regiment In Sordver last and i offer muy tie . Appleton Airey tothe deat que ia Sst nat he ber of the hen “‘werlves ine Hee befor a ment vel “ioe «Ns ae i ve "inland Ui 04," 'Ben= batt Fin Tey yen ea ai ‘Oren aante Harry le Siva, ita, ae ents Pavntes Daniel C. Move Rob- ingon and Aloxander Stave ‘The diztunce to be ano *vit 8. mn Oty be shot on the new we! . the mateh and the junk two on the 7th, (¥rom the Philadelphia Bulletin.) "In the Weoet,” said a lawyer, “1 learned the origin of ithe phras widely used in male commercial country, to, oc] t arate bet ata raven ed Ww: rink water in enor hehiy ed uld be. ie ‘ey would di Lala ‘welght—you_ Know ater. ch ie ea be avis aa BUTTON BEE.” 8 RAMPANT. IN SUBURBS Residents of Flatbush Com- plain of a Pest that Has Appeared There. THE BUTTON BEL. Sketch of n Little Peat Sen tn ans Flatbush Restdens, A pest of a rather pecullar character has been disturbing the fk: of Plate bush. During the last fow mugey days In that suburb a beetle of a form not een before in that neighborhood haw appeared, Tt 1s known locally as \@ “button bee," because of the remark- able tenacity with- which It sticks t0 clothes, It 1s about the size of and similar in shape to ® trousers button, and individuals have noticed. that once It gets its claws Into one's clothes It is almost impossible to loosen ita, grip. When st Is finally deteched it falls. to the ground with a buzalne sound, Nke of the honey maker, | Hence. patently, the name of Mbuttost Bose Slceps on Its ahie ; Strangoly enough, although wae bute ton bee ins 08 As n.ckel ant ¥ Is scree houses, heussa with | allel out o} the first Indimatten of the itton bee prevence standing Upon. It e Nard surlace causes neve pain, ould it ©: nee that the burton Io ‘on Nig back, which 1s the position. in whist it sleeps, It frscans ite power. into the foot of the walker. and a wound mote of a b vient pala In detaching the creature, If a patt of @ cluw should remain in flesh Mock MORNE. HiBhe, Dasalbiy, ena Physiclans have had ‘several oases of this kind, A remarkable teristic of the itton bee J t, ke misery, It loves if 4 are 8 tting on F vat night button bees are sure to appear in great numbers Observer Maya. that this iy espoelally truy of the porches of houses. whial donot atrest lamps in. frovt them. her the button bee la ens sentially « lover of darkness ts ni known, Experts are divided as to the spreles to which this now bug belo Ht i remarked that in localities wher the button bees are most frequent mosquitoes are not numerous. ‘Chie Suggests that it In the navwral enomy Of “the more general peat. | Bone. om, periments are. bel made toward the ertalning of the rath ot of this theory, TWENTY-SECOND OFF FOR CAMP Replacing Seventh, Which Re- turns To-Day, Crack Athletic Regiment Goes to Peekskill 800 Strong. Tho Twonty-coond Regiment, N. Ch N, ¥., went to Peokskill to-day for the annual week's encampment, succeeding the Seyenth Regiment, which returned, from Peekskill to-day. There werd 00° members of the Twenty-sccond In: line the smallest number reporting ihe asd duty in aeyoral years, The start was made ¢rom the armé at roadway and Sixty-seventh str ‘at 8,90 o'clock, the men being in chai uniform and carrying full , marching: scuba Col, Bartlett was if come tart, gis Hs of f Licata mai af ; Ha ay teenth a? Poa ie whe colUma, nT Sune, iit Ne OTe aaded for Seventy-s an the the q North sive iy wi wore |i f wives fiatera ena two | L) ele it ery al Va on ame at Pista 0" oe depart vents principal, eve at sat on ‘thureday, ond. hor a he cna ona ca (A = Det Hee canpien confidently it again this year, Mine be ‘Une Both Ba: ‘From the Boston Globe.) That both th hands wero made to use one is apt to realise In later years whem the hand that has carried the burden of 4 Ww lame tnd more or leas eri ra it would ow, iss site uo ea sine to ir eat Test ext exer e th bo kali mi it "ea avn eas an AS v f to fina ye teayel ish Buspected that be called & ‘who sboard; and fragments of the plug! a-fesh wound, He was attended at tho. Feder ene mime se Li avo) Over,