The evening world. Newspaper, November 27, 1907, Page 5

CHICAGO, Noy. 27.—Edward Payson Wenton, the veteran walker, endod his lex from Portland, Me., WESTON 27 HOURS AHEAD OF TIM ENDS LONG WALK Cheering Throngs Greet Him in Chicago as He Covers Last of 1,234 Miles. . IN. FI Veteran Pedestrian on the Road 24 Days, 19 Hours and ~ *-15 Minutes, tramp of 1,221 at the Festera M. to-day. 6 P.M, thus making his time, exclusive ‘Bullding here at nol Walk on Suridays, “Weston broke hia recon! of forty 3 hours and 2% minutes. “His former tha was %-day3,— years ago by 1 day Whours and’ 40 minutes. = Weston crossed the State line into f= Bouth Chicago at 1.05 A. M. to-day, Three thousand persons were present, ®t the border of south Chicago to gree’ Capt. Charles Dorman with | twenty=M¥e policemen marched twenty-|{ brushing the fe out of the & Toadway. At the outer ende of this 1 blgucoat line two ropes were held, "which ‘extended back to an aut ‘These ropes formed the sides of a hol-| low square 6 by 2% feet, inside of which him. five feet ahead of him, @ood-natured speotators Weston walked. ‘The old mun plodded on, seeci: oviying. ended for the Chicago Beach —— Hab = he Motel, which place fe tert arcer— bertef “rest ac o'clock. When he made his appearance at the had discarded his dusty garb, @ bad worn during ‘the rough portion of his journey, and wore a blue suk, polished shoes, black and a neat biaok felt hat and Rotel ne oie gloves, pended by « nobsy cro: wd, he beean iehing lap of his long journey. ion went south two blocks uly encountered whe were follow. a eheoering ‘Weston, prece rey to Weston.” Then came a line twalve policemen. Weston } followed . coeely behind, and appeared jaunty and frech, and kept up a spirited con- Versation with hia «uards in front. In automobiles following Weston were | hig Judges and members of the Tlinojs | of the trouble. Athletic. Club reception committee, | by ‘President William Hale} Peon. Jokes wih Escort. Over Police 3 walked deked by the aged walker about their ity m, to keep the pace set by hi and st other times wire kept busy | cating the points of Interest’ as the procession moved along. TUNNEL WORKERS TOBE LADO AT END OF WE —_.—— ‘The Three McAdoo Tubes to ies Jersey the Ones Involved. aoene of operations of th fected. All tonne) bulldt definitely eimning Satur the workers will be laid oft, No. explanation accompanied the posting of the noticos, but many ot the.mon declared they had heard that atringeocy had the present ‘financial Gauumel the sending out of the notices, change Piace, Jersey City. of Chetatophor street. porter “he refuted the !mpression that he had anything to do with the matter. As ho made tho statement he was Joined by August Belmont, who llis- tened interestedly ‘while Mr. McAdoo talked, He said: other ssa thin cutting down. continue only until ekward portions can be brought tees Relnt where the entire work will be completed about the same date. e Beer we are pursuing fe in nia ork Cén~ ns] det of ding with tof the Pe Belge Company, the New york G ii Other Ikrge. corporatio lEDWARD P.WESTON, WALKERWHO BEATS HIS RECORD AT 69. TRIM AT FINISH, | He left Portland Oct. 2 at travelling Sundays, % days, 19 hours and 15 minutes. Weston did bite, | ‘The big crowd was in joyful mood. “Marching Through Georgia’ was aung 4h eouth—CHloage + ingly un- Mindful of tne attention he was re- SHOTS FREON AT OF CUNARD COWL PASSRS Fifty Men Busy on the Maure- by the automobiles, ing the pedestrian, in | passing under a viaduct at Fifty-firat rest of the distance was oovered the most direct oo eit pore ible, South ulevard sye- few ANderal Building nt ‘ gt gi Wan he passed ware, packed ween ‘crowds, during tie final tramp, was ded by Al jan Badenoch, who lod a banner of the Iiitnois Athletic with the Ineoription, ‘Weloome Fifty coal-passers-en the steamship Mauretania had a Hot on the Cunard} Line vier, at the foot of West Thir- teenth street, to-day, and before the police could suppress {t many shots were fred. a number of ‘heads broken | and several men’ had Jeaved into the! | river, : The police could not learn the cause | ‘The men were busy in| and out of the Mauretania when sud- lenly they ault work and gathered on |,the bulkhead about twenty-five on « | alde, The men were gesticulating (de Weston. They were| When one on the north side drew a re- | Volver and began firing. The shots were Janswored by a man from the south j side, and then the two crowds began to scatter, In running some of the rival fangs got together, and then clubs and stemes were used. | Policeman Michael, of the Charles street station, the reserves were sent from Charles, | Macdougal and West Twentieth street | stations under Inspec The coal passers every direction by this time. Those | who had leaped into the wat Heved to have reactied shoro, Hanging to a hewser with which the Mauretania [hanging to his feet was a second. The police Kot the two to the: pler, where they sald they were Joseph and Ciro | Shabori, of No, 2 Carlisle street. tof the distance, Chief of py and Fire Marshal Horan brother Jump off the pler,* Joseph Shabori told the police. “I knew he iE oxerd to the haweer and let down my legs a0, he could hold up until help came. I was “ei in Whee you" gorar}= ;—The posting of thte poticeon the Jersey sids-of=the-rtreeto-day at the. Ditiding three McAdoo tunnéle caused Considerable specluation among the 1800 ‘tunnels workers who will bj af- The we brothers were arrested | charged with disorderly conduct. Horn id they didn't know miytiing about tho fight or why it had Wearted. Neither did they know the namés of any of the fightera. ~ When ber of Itallans were on the water front walting to tuke passige to” Mediterra- operations pended be- vy ext" 3 It mpans that work will be stopped for an unknown pertod, and that all aterduy, having slept on thelr bugs Kage. The shots caused a panic amug, WHEEL. TAX ON 80,000 OHICAGO, Nov. 7.—Eighty thousand vehicles in Chicago will become Iable to’ pay wheel tax Just as p00n ax Gov, Deneen signs the wheel tax law, which was paseod yesterday by tho Geneml Aseombly at Springfield. The Governor has indicated that he will sign the bill nt once, Under thdjoperation of the act the tax will amount to $40,000 cach Year. Al of the money thus raised 1s required to be expended on of the streets. i The tax ‘applies to every vehicle on whoela that uson the city atreotn, Ag tomobiles, Trueky ‘The work affected runs from Ex- to Couirt- Wend street, Thirteenth Streot, Jersey (ty, to ‘the foot of Morton htreet, Hudson “Place, Hoboken. to the When President W. G. McAdoo was f 99en to-day by an Evoning World re- riages will_como in for a shire pt parnent, The tar le aradusted aboot rd piles pay the largest tax and the other yehiclon will trail alone in tho naveas: ment according to their valuo an butidings, which are being pushed to the! limit, a completed, by ADHL 15, 198, | ‘There wilt Also be no jet tania Divide and Have Real Battle. idly nt in a riot call, and tor Wiexand, ad scatterd in are be- tled was one man, and “When the fight started I saw my je riot started a large num. Some had been there since ‘oul loading on the Mauretanie until @ new gang of passers ployed, me VEHICLES IN CHICAGO, ropair ons, drays, tru wand all of he’ wheal exception of baby ¢ to the clads of vehicle. Automo- nd which will certainly be THE EVENiwG WORLD SWED wm DAYSTINOVEMBE R 27; 1907. 500 PAD BY DEFENDS BIDS BAT TOSHEILIN HUNG ON VERDICT FOR WORK O ASHOKAN DAM John R. M “Contingent Upon Decision on Street Road. feemrerrrea Pemet inventisation of system was continued before Commissioner “McCarroll, of. the Public Service Commision. The was Edwin W. ha, } Catskills, wwan the first witness cniled at the continued. hearing at {nto the letting of the! } Ashokan, contract. ¢ APO -F>-sMacArthar—yice-prestient and xeneral manager of the company brother of John R. * fied yesterday concern j which the firm arrived at the ficure of | [to go alow duced a statement, ' pres re—commisston, showing | what had been’done by the company in recommendations made mate Ratlroad’ Commission Winter sald that, #o far as he regard to the ne the way John R. McArthur testified that prior to obtainins the contract he had never | f called upon any member of the Water jing ip’ a! Toard, and that a oall he made there after the bids were opensd was only" purpose of answering. if callod vpon_by the Water Board, any ques: tlons-which-they might deem necessary concerning the financlal ability of the ty and capability fo not subsequently 7 complied with peted ve yaars he had heen premident of the, Col. Timothy 8. Williams, Vice-Pros- dent of the company; -was-recaiied to | Ne stand. Ife-testined-tn-ttetait-te—the terms of the contracts made with Bayard Cuttin. firm and Sts ca carrying out the contract. No SubContract for Peirce. Peirce been allowed any sub-contract on the work?" “A. He has 4 Fulton Cuttine and | othera for the purchase of the South Raliroad Company. vernice acted aa counsel Walllama said Sev: was entitled to a commission of $31,000 on the transaction, but retained |. Have, or so far as you kno of your engineers had any taiks wit! Mr. McDonald or Mr. Pelroo in refer) enla to these bide A. None so far Nr has elther man made overtures of any sort to us concern- {ng the contract. Niether my brother nor T have had, #0 far as I know, any meetings with aither Mr. MoDon ra ‘Phe terms of the contract for the pur- Hiase of the Nassau Blectric Company wero then read by Jeontract was wade with RT, Wilson Tom L. Johnson and P. H. Flynn for himself and the Atlas Im- provement Company. Contract, made IN-1298, that the witness. |The years, The witness said he had ae J, Rae ward Simmons, president of th e (it wae in this} } | cArthur Declares There Was No Collusion or Fraud in It. secretary and! treamurer of the MacArthur Broztiers | Company. the successful bidder tn con- | nection with the Winston Company tor! the bufiding of the Ashokan dam In the | she TWO MONTHS WED, BUT WONT KISS HIM nd died’ and F Thompson's h two olifidren as his Magistrate Breen was some time mak- Ine and’ Pate nk ax a’ wide id piiiched her arma, Dellw's Kot a way of exprosatn: N baoked off the be WAs interested, nd Pat continued: marTiet to-hertyre- mon mich ax put m Wiad 4 it makes m i and I follow t yt ain't golng to be and up to tha present we have Long the favorite™ of many thousands: because they offer’ expensive quality at an economical er mereed on ahy- ‘7 haven't had a headache since} I have worn the glasses you Prescribed,?’ sai. a customer. Eyes Examined by Oculists ¢ Skilled Eye Doctors of Experi was made to James Shevlin of $167,000, which had been made conditional on | the successful court proceeding involving the validity, of the franchise for a road in Union Paid One Dividend, ‘Mar, Ivins then took up | the Dele Gl ie D Raiiro: ‘01 - Inallt had five and «quarter miles of tracks, but other companies were’ firat jeased by it, and on Jan. 1 | merged; Into ye mind of th iners 8 fn the mind of the exami! | of collusion or fraud or anything’ tm-| r at all in the letting of this oon-| tiract’* said Mr. I want to assure you trat-sich-be— fe entirely wrong and. unfounded We are sbeolutely soralggnt, in, what we ‘oost of the wo that Sir. Pelrce'a Did, with all due re- that Mr. Peir to spect him, mistake and tained the bid, have resulted in a loss of a million dollars to tim. to make a, 10 per seent: promt ont K— lon't_ know. the board to consider that beeldes Mr. Peirce's bid, there were threo others— a millon, two million: one-half millions highe! How About the Others 7 . Don't you think that ofiontke: with his tid of than yours, feels toward your is the beet quali- t. O'Rourke and are more used to bidding on this sort of work than Peirce, who, though he te a con- tmnotor, has never done just this type of ‘k_ before.” J."0. Winston, of Winston Brothers, mtasonry lontractors, who work In con: neotion with the MacArthur ‘Brothers Company, testified that thera would be 1 of waste in the Ashokan material—"nard pan 40 “Do you know Yar | seo Itt aaked Commirsloner Mitchel. | “I reckon I do," said ho ts a, Southerner." 1 this. work wenty years. Once I bid 28 cents a Yam to excavate hard pan, It cost @ centa a yurd to get out. T reckon 1 know what hard pan Is. DOCTORS’ MISTAKES CORRECTED BY County and Bub- included the e would ark y jaica nea, yand Jamaica Unee, ae R. T. owns all ‘Traction Compan; rchase was made syndicate h included E. S Ciaskel eee ° iginan and Hollins 0. The HOM Seie three companion acduired amounted to about increased to $2,000,090. sued aes to Jed value. Pic Willams eald he thought one dividend of 1 per cent. had desn paid on the Brooklyn. Queens. County and stock, Strange as Willams said, the dividend as declared in order to escape taxa- , @& there was then a provision tn which taxed corporations not Kea more ‘Mr. O'Rour! fied to certify to the other cont those which lying remarked that there ap- be an over-capltaization of the Brookiyn, Queens County and Bub- ban. “Mir “Willlama thought not, as it had earned 320,00) Inst year, besides paying f ‘The earnings bays pan when you | the witness, have been in rest on bonds, care ba c witilamshurs Mc. Lying asked 3 auiggestlons he -coul Ovements in the secvice a rather broad question,” waa the answer, Mr, Williams sald that when the B. » S$. was acquired, while giving promise of great earning was not doing S$ remarkable success {1 Dr, ANDERSON’ the trertment and cure of, diseases of the ugh the company wauld have to de- fault on the interest sue on the bonds November lst, 18%. A loan wan secured than $1,200,009, erbocker Trust C the-money for ode ye time expired the financial situation had danger to the com- upd Bladder 1s due to the use of his won- derson X-Light Apparatus, for the inferior of the An /examination and when the Rnd rity fharyelloux light (requiring only x few seconds’ tins) enables the Doctor to arrive at the correct diagnosix:{mmodiately, and be ts prepared | to direct the pPoper kind of treatment use he knows the organ whi iseared and the exact stage of the di changed, and the pany Was passed. BNCHAM GhES THE ASPECTORS All the inspectors and the acting in- spectors of the Greater City wero sum- moned to- headquarters to-day Polloe Commissioner | Bingham. The session was private. After the inspectors had departed for in the five boroughs Commissioner had this to say to the newspaper men: “I almply brought the Inspoctora to- gether: to tell them of. certain. things that T want done and to call off « list | Dee of complaints and reports that have been accumulating and which naturally fall into thelr department, you might call a jacking-up, but no- body wan scolded, and there are to be no shake-ups or promotions or any- hing of that sort asa result of the Uttle seance we have just had. 56. Before his invention of the Andersoit X Light the diagnosis was frequently Kucss- work, and often wron altogether, making The treatment. tiot only “oan experimental, but To thump the chest or to listen with the cur to the outside of the body ana’ look s play, compared to the) rors pow ebialable | Light, which enables Dr, Anderson to 1 through the. Numan (leah. inte the-teoy--and : wise is mere chil the: by this perfected t | 2 +thi Usual medical examin the disersed 1 ferent stages a, (photographs of MMustrating the Alf- of Improvement under Dr. Brenethod of treatment, may be ts Gfice, showing hundreds of Sontituting the highest an oo errectae reatment and cure. @ not based “upon a few a \doren patients, bu! nineteen years’ port specialist and ulne years pert X-Light Specialist in symptoms ot Catarth, Bronchitis or Con- panptlon. heed ring and consult nderson at onci ¢ ‘pear or perious camplicationa de- y and do not ‘what your real trying any remedy or fice consultation ‘and ¢x- barge, ailment ta defo; treatment: Oftic 1a Yocated at No. 80 Went 22d at. (between Ottice in opn (Sundays, 11 to 2). 0 write for particulars, Dr. Anderson's new illustrated book upon Lung and ‘Chest Diseases—sont free to any ad- Wed n Inga tll # o'clock? (andags unable. to feall, rather turned tho tables on me. men from Brooklyn and from upper Manhattan asked me particularly for $125 inatructions regarding the Bunday Ing of theatros, ‘They had me there, I'll confess, because I simply: couldn't give them any orders éxcopt to use their own Judgment and common sense, “I only wish Thad somo fixed legal but what one Beautifyene Com Nadinola: to guide me, justice hoMs to be the law another i What with the pollee Inea ‘quandary as to the proper course ot conduct to be purauel, and the Sunday Leaguers cdtiing on me to arbitrarily A Semovd freckles pint? les, liversepots, ‘tan, upon the Sixth avenue rm tunnel, which {a expected to’ be {i ° eration ‘betweon -rroboken and Nines| tent th street’ and ipenneedtoed New| ¢) shut up the theatres, I am getting it, ot and heay: + lomay say that I am plannitg a case that ought to firmly: eiaplt Glasses to Order as Low as $2.60. Booklet, “Care of the Eyes,” on request. 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