The evening world. Newspaper, August 22, 1912, Page 16

Stee eR Ht : os OLD CONEY'S MARDI GRAS THIS YEAR 1S 10 ECLIPSE ALL FORMER CARNIVALS os we Bae HUNGER STRIKE STARTED IN JAIL Enthusiastic Efforts Are Being Made to Whoop Things Up. VAST PREPARATIONS. There Will Be More and Finer Floats and Greater Illu- |, minations. etc Coney Island's business men have re | sponded to the Mardi Gre all this) year With a spimt and in such 1 mbers | that the Carnival of Fun beginning pt. 9 gives every promise of outdoin the praiseworthy achievements of for- mer years at tho big seaside resort. A Aug. 7 to five yea new organization has been completed, & charges of wound Citizens’ Advisory Committee added ty mond, leader of the regular committees and new blood injected into tho enterprise & week ago the carnival prospects There was lack the enthusiasm of former ich guaranteed success to the many) of merry-making, There wenting voices, but the Im- pression prevailed that an extraordinary effort would have to be made to eclipse| rence, two of their leaders who are now the glories of the past performances. | visiting Canada, and ordered the furn!- ‘The business men of Coney Island, who| ture to be sold in order to pay the costs represent resourcefulness and courage to| of the recent conspiracy prosecution fa marked degree, argued that it would) Mr. Mra. Pethick Lawrence were be better to abandon the carnival rather | sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment fe one inferior to that of on May 2 at the Old Bailey Sessions for | inelting thelr followers to malicious damage of property, but were liberated on June 2, The Woman's Social and Political Union to-day issued a statement declur- ing that the action of the eherift's officers was in the nature of persecution, because the windows broken by the euffragettes had been replaced by the insurance companies and the tradesmen had obtained a good advertisement through the affair. The union points out that the pro- moters of the recent coal strike in London caused infinitely greater loss to the community than the suffragettes hud done and were allowed to go unpunished, WAL STREET Stock market prices assumed a down- ‘ward trend at the outset of trading to- inet the ratl- ed Two Women Sentenced in Dublin to Long Terms Are Being Forcibly Fed. DUBLIN, Ireland, Aug. 2.—Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans, the two suf- fragettes who were sentenced here on imprisonment on % Jobn EB. Red- hn Parliamentary party,with a hatchet thrown at Premier Asquith’s carriage and setting fire to the Theatre Hoyal, respectively have started a “hunger strike.” They are wing forcibly fed by the Jail oMcials, LONDON, Aug, 2—Tne British suf- fragetics are indignant to-day because sheriff's oMfvers entered the country house of Mr. and Mre, Pethick Law- Wero exceedingly dim. ing tion; 8. BE. Jackman, one of the 1 Wealthiest men, and Charles Schiffman, the Island's biggest booster, put their | Heads and energies together and decided 10 swing their associates into line for @ Mardi Gras this season. ALL DONE IN A FEW HOURS OF EARNEST WORK. Lundy, | throughout the list, Reading was frecly L.A.| qupplied, the stock breaking through 17, Lehigh Valley, Union Pacific and Paul were also consi bly lowe A somewhat firmer tone de eloped in I, Segal) and Charles Sobiffmann, the ‘ the subsequent dealings, but losses still ‘The officers of the Mardi Gras Assooia- | Dredominated. Pig dent Kister, are: Lewis| [4quidation was in progress through- by scree” 2a taghnp ll onl ng Jamon} Ot the afternoon period. The list en- : “second Vice-President; James|%red into @ steady reaction that de. Se caceed @ecretary, and William H,| Pressed prices to the lowest range of Lake, Treasurer. The Board of Directors | the, day at closing time, in the E Jeph Bee P, J, | S0tVe securities of 1 and 2 points were Cong A Manin meer age A. P. Ara.| "umerous at the Anish. , Herman Wacke, L.A. Squier,|Reading end Union Taare onvest,! T. Van Kannall, Goo. Minsfeld, Conrad | issues manifested pronounced wee’ be oganea J Ei. FOS, P. L, Nash | Ness. Reading, offering little reali Committees also have been formed to after the varied ends of the ar- ramgements. The chairmen are fol- lows: Finance, George Hinsfeld; !loats, A Squier; Music, 8, B. Jackman; Raman, Jemes H. Porter; Police, James 3. Byrnes; Permits, Lewis M. ence to liquidation, slumped below 169, The Closing Prices, ‘. higbeet, lowest and last prices of stocks PC eR i Net o cid Seesacre2a5 ; Susksesacse SLEEPLESS ELEPSEELE FFEPEP 325: SEL SPELECSE PPP EPE FEPBEEP ES Behe + + + + BETTER CARNIVAL THAN EVER PROMISED FOR THIS YEAR, M of the activity now in progress | ©. fed form the fact that in paat| Col, t™,&, Ham: yeare at least two months have been | Fre Gevoted to the preliminary work. Then there was the long drawn struggle of This year everything 1s to in three weeks. The promoters this year have assured friends of the Mardi Gras that when the car- miveat parade assembles on Monday, | Nor ent. Ban, e342! =SEe: + Soe pee in| z Gept. 9, there will be more floats, more | paren. ae 184 7 characters in the parade and more en- | Prewel sted a tertainment than ever before, ork ta ee - Hundreds of workmen have begun to | South. F transform Surf avenue into a diamond-| pit 1 studded fairyland. Hundreds of thou-|U. 8. Atel ands of bulbs are to be strung trom| tial come | poles overhead, dozens of rewewing | Wabash, stands erected and illuminated signs Wert hoon will be placed in convenient places to Fegule te Island's flood of Kuests, whol BOY SEES CHUM DROWN. come from ail parts of the country to View the annual spectacie. Wasn F Steamer Tosses Lad From Lighter Into Rive The beadquarers of the association and the various committees #s at Ki tere’ Hotel, Surf avenue and Mleventh % Charles Foust, eleven years of and living at No, 127 Willow avenue, | Hoboken, recelved permission from his mother to go fishing this morning, and an hour later the mother got the news that her boy had been drowned tn the river., With @ companion named Albert ot Sperkin, aged thirteen, and living two doors from his own hom Charley went to the Scandinavian-American Soutwnpton jines pler at the foot of Fifteenth -*iiahlax street. The boys took up their posi- New Ovi tion on a hter moored to the dock. \ The water was calm, but the wash EH TODAY, A ae from a big steamer set the little craft DI rocking and Charley tumb! - i Hs, tou | OCkiBE 7 tumbled’ over a board, His companion could not swim {rantee, and ran ashore, yelling for help. By OUTGOING STHAMSHIPS. BAILED TO-DAY, ifs eae RF 6 PRESRESEEPSEIET EERSTE EVEL FEEE TS SHIPPING | ALMANAU Fc Bun rise, OTT) a. more talay * ‘ “pont or | uw AKKIVED, BY SUFFRAGETTES ~~ + ' DAUGHTER WHO HAS AILED TO ATTEND MANDER CUR Boor iMISS EVA BOOTH SAILS FOR GENERAL’S FUNERAL. Still So Weak From Shock, That She Is Assisted on Board Ship. Mian Eva Booth, est daughter of Com the second young- Gen. William Booth of the Sulvation Army, who died in London on Wednesday, sailed to-day on the steamship France of the French line, with a staff of officers to repre- it America at the funeral of her distinguished father, Miss Booth had not recovered from the shock of the report of her father's death, and was still so weak that sho had to be assisted up the gangplans of the liner, She was accompanied by Major Richard Griffith, her Secretry, Mrs, Major Brower and another officer of the army who will cross the At+ lantic with her, Among the delega- tion of Salvation Army officers who were at the pler to sce Miss Booth off were Col. William Secretary of the army in the United States; Lieut.-Col. Reinhardt, Licut.- Col, Cox, Lieut.-Col, Dana and Lieut.- Col. Parker. The France ts scheduled to reach Havre next Wednesday, when the state funeral of Gen. Booth will be held. ‘The burial will not be until Thursday, so if the ner makes her schedule Miss Booth wil! arrive in London in time for the final servic She wore the costume of the Army, and on her arm there was a narrow white strip, the official mourning band | of the Army, In addition to this Miss Booth wore a red cross and a red crown on a black band on her left arm. This insignia of mourning is worn only by the immediate members of the Booth family. — PREPARE BOOTH’S BODY FOR LYING IN STATE, LONDON, Aug. 22—No word has yet been heard from Dean Herbert Ryle, who has jurisdiction over the burials in Westminster Abbey, as to whether the body vf the late Gen, Willlam Booth of the Saivation Army is to be offere] sepulture in the Abbey, Dean Ryle ts @t present in Scotland. It 4s thought probable that while the offer may be declined, even should tt be tendered, yet it may be made by the authorities, Canon Herbert Henson of Westminster Abbey said to-day that na question of ‘creed considered in regard to Durials th Only the distinction and the character of the person concerned were taken Into consideration. Gen, Booth's body is to be removed to-night from the cottage at Hadley Wood, wher Hall, Clapton, for tho lying in state. Gen. Bramwell Booth and Mrs, Bram- well Booth will conduct the funerat services, which will be attended by Sal- vationists from the whole United King- dom and the continent of Europe. Many bands will participate. oe AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR TO RETIRE FROM POST. Baron Hengenmuller, in Washing- ton Eighteen Years, Has Reached Age Limit in Diplomatic Service. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Unofficial notice has been given to the United States that Baron Hengelmuller v Hengervar, Ambassador from Austria- Hungary, will retire from that post when he sails for Europe next week. The Baron has been at Washington eighteen years, and is the dean of the Diplomatic Corps at this ecapit It ‘@ assumc1 that the retiring Am- bassador will call upon President Taft at the White House before he salls to y farewell, leaving to his suc- cessor the duty of presenting the for- mal notice of his withdrawal, and his letters of recall, Baron Hengenmuller ts understood to be relinquishing his post in Wash- ington because he has attaines the age of retirement tn the Austrian dip. lomatic w , edge of his future ts lacking, it ts bee Meved that his Government will profit service by his his wide experience by re= calling him to service in the Privy Council. BAR HARBOR, Me. Aug, 22.—Baron Hengelmuller, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States, who is apending the summer at Bar Harbor, refused to day to discuss the report that he was to resign his present post. The Baron @aid that he intended to leave for Aus the time two deckhands reached the Ra as ead are. Mghter the boy had disappeared, . Brunswick fom tria next Thuraday, It was intimated by the Ambussador that a statement Dearing on lates. THE EVENING WORLD, Peart, Chief! he died, to the Congress | TARIFF BURDEN OF THE TOILER Tale in Reviewing Work of Congress. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—How | was vividly tilustrated in a | to-day by House 3 | derwood, reciting the record of Con- gress. Here how Underwood de- scribed the actual tariff burden upon the public “Under the present oppressive tarift law the laboring man returns at night from his tol taxed 76 per cent, shoes taxed 12 per cent, stockings and underwear 71 per cent, a tton shirt taxed 59 per cent. and wool hat and woollen gloves taxed 78 per cont. He carries a dinner- pall taxed 45 per cent, and greets his Wife as she looks through the window pane taxed (2 per cent., with » curtain jority Leader Un- taxed 45 per cent, | HiS WIFE'S DRESS IS TAXED 75 PER CENT. “After scraping lis shoes on an iron scraper taxed 7 per cent. he wipes them on a mat taxed 70 per cent. He lifts the door-lateh taxed # per cent. steps on a carpet taxed 62 per cent, and Kisses his wife, clad in a woolen dress taxed 7 per cent. She is mending an umbrella taxed 6) per cent. with thread taxed 9 per cent. | “The house is made of brick taxed 2% per cent., and lumber taxed % per cent. with paint taxed 22 per cent. Their walle paper was taxed % per cent. and plain furniture % per cent, He hangs his hat on @ steel pin taxed 4 per cent., then washes his hands, using soap taxed 2] « per vent. 45 per His looking glass was taxed nt. and he combs his halr with & rubber comb taxed 3 per cent “4 ¢ proceeds to eat his supper, which was cooked on a stove taxed 4 per cent., for which his wife used pots and kettles taxed cent. On their table mmon crockery taxed &% per and cheap glass tumblers taxed cent. The sugar he puts in his tea is taxed 54 per cent., which he stirs with @ @poon taxed 45 per cent, His meal is | frugal one, because the cost of living ts high. | FRUGAL MEAL. ALSO CARRIES BURDEN, He uses a knife and fork taxed 40 per cent. in eating salt fish taxed 10 per cent., bread 2 per cent., potatoes 2% per cent., salt 33 per cent., butter 4 per cent. and rice 62 per cent. He proceeds to read a book taxed 2 per cent., and at the close of the day recines in an fron framed bed taxed 45 per cent., with & mattress taxed 2 per cent., sheets | taxed 40 per cent., woollen blankets taxed 45 per cent. and @ cotton epread | 45 per cent. “He is taken {Il and the doctor pre- cent. scribes medicine taxed % per which, being Ineffective, he passer jhis active sphere of life, and his re- mains are deposited in a coffin taxed % per cent, which Is conveyed to a cemetery in @ wagon taxed 36 per cent, deposited in his last resting-place in Mother Earth and the grave filled In by use of a spade taxed 46 per cent, while over his grave is raised a monument taxed 60 per cent.” Underwood reviewed in detall and at great length the legislation passed by the Democratic House, accusing the Ra- publicans of “breaking faith" in tariff jlegislation and of “misconduct, extra- vagance and greed” !n thelr general policy. aeeati execs |BETWEEN RUNAWAY HORSES | PASSERBY SAVES CHILDREN. Jacob Leaped Into Swaying Wagon and Climbed Down on Pole, Stopping Animals, | Two horses attached to a big wagon | trom Ebling’s Brewery were left stand- ing this morning at Third avenue and | Peinam road, the Bronx, while the driver was making a delivery. The rum- ble of @ passing elevated train fright- |ened the animals, who dashed through Pelham road toward Bronx Park, scat- tering pedestrians right and left, but injuring no on Charles Jacob of One Hundred and Eighty-eighth street and Washington avenue was walking toward the ele- vated station. At Washington avenue and Pelham road the horses swung past him. A block down the street Jacob saw a number of children playing. With @ leap he reached the side of the big wagon as !t careened past. He grasped the uprights and, running alongside, managed to mount to the drivor’s seat. The reins of the horses, however, had fallen across the backs of the animals and Jacobs could not reach them. He climbed swiftly down the pole between the horses and, though in danger all the timo of being thrown from his pertl- ous perch, secured the reins and man- aged to guide the runaway away from the group of playing youngsters, It was impossible for Jacob to regain the driver's seat, but he stood on the narrow shaft, bracing his knees against the sides of the two frenzied horses unt, by tugging away at the reins, he managed to bring the animals to a stop at Southern Boulevard and Pelham road. He had ridden in his perilous po- | sition for five blocks. Jacob turned the | runaway team over to a policeman and declined to give his own name, which was furnished by friends who recog- nized him, “Be sure to see it doesn't Ket Into the papers,” he told them, as he hurried a to the elevated, —— ee Auto Hits Boy, Jerome SI Jerome Siegel down an eleven-year-ol boy. Dominick Callentana, was nave suftered TOLD WN STOR | Leader Underwood Recites the the | public bears the burden of the tartft | automobile, which is a familiar sight on Broadway, got into @ strange nelghborhood to-day and ran ‘The boy, crossing Fifty-ninth street between Second and Third avenues, and stepped in the path of the machine. James Keanan, ohauf- feur for Mr, Siegel, was the only oc- cupant of the machine. He was not ar- rested. The boy was taken to Flower the report might be issued| Hospital, and it wes thought he may THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 PARROT GIVES SAILORS A CUSSING |, AFTER HIS RESCUE “Vol T’ Hell,” He Screams as Gilded Cage Hits Side of Big Liner. Here is a tale of treasure trove. Not | the treasure trove of pirates bold, but | yarn of the ser. just the same. 1912. TAFTORDERS PROBE ON WORK OF APPRASER Committee Named to Learn if There Has Been Neglect of Duty by the Board. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Prosident The good ship Cincinnati of the jatoment Hamburg-American line set sail at 1 it Hoboken. All hands not bound for across the mighty deep had scrambled ashore, the sailors had hauled tn thi last plank with a mighty “Ye ho and a ho, yl ho.” The band was playing |"Hoch der Katser,” handkerchiefs and | were mingled on ship and ashore. On the second-ciass deck at the rail | stood a comely German woman, She | was Mrs. Anna Leupp, wife of a cheese manufacturer who operates near Wilkes- | | Barre, Pa. On the dock stood Rudolph, her husband. Fifteen years ago they, | came to this country, and by thrift and | |industry amassed a snug income, and | | now the wife was returning for a visit 10 the home of her girlhood. Their | happy union had not been blessed with any branches of the family tree. 80 THEY ADOPTED A GREEN | PARROT. Longing for prattling babes at the hearth, they comprised on the adop- jtion of a green parrot. They called the bird ‘Hans, and that he is a bird, jall right, all right, you shall se Mrs, Anna couldn't think of parting | with Hans, so it was decided that she | would take Hans across the sea. As she stood at the rafl, a wet handker- chief in her right hand, she swung Hans over the rail in a newly gilded cag ‘Good-by, papa," waved to Herr Leupp. ‘Good-by, papa," repeated Hans, who talks English with « slight German ac- cent. As they were about to cast off the stern line Frau Anna got mixed in her gesticulations, Her right hand wa: raised to her eyes to dash the tears | awa, She forgot that she held the parrot and disengaged her left hand from the cage to help her right hand out. With fluttering feathers and in- dignant screams Hans went tumbling | to the dock in his gilded cage. Tho) parrot house was careening over to- ward the water when it was grabbed by a couple of longshoremen. Frau Leupp screamed and forgot her tears. Herr Rudolph yelled something that aounded like “Damn,” and Hans turned loose on the crow4. ‘Donner und biitzen!” yelled the out- raged bird. ‘Vot the Hell"— ‘The longshoremen put a pole thraugh the ring In the top of the cage and hoisted it to a port hole, Just as some- body was about to grab the cage through the port hole the cage slipped and down came the bird to the lon shoremen. STRANGE TALK FOR A PIOUS PARROT. “You tam fools,’ roared Hani ner und blitzen, Guttamm!"" ‘Oh, oh, oh!" wailed Frau Anna from xe deck, Get a rope!” shouted Herr Rudolph from the dock. “You going to hang me?" sareamed the bird. The rope was thrown from the ship, a knot was passed through the ring of the cage and the latter went crashing she cried and “Don- in as the cage was dented in against the ship's side. “Pretty Hans," coved Frau Leupp, stretching forth’ her hands, “Pretty h—l!" returned the pious bird. “Donner und blitzen! Guttamm! Goot-by, pa: Goot-by, paral” “Good-by, Hans,” shoutcd Rudolph. “Good-by, mamma.’ ‘The spring line was cast off, and amid the cheering of the crowd, the crashing of the band and the screams of pretty Polly Hans, the Cincinna! was towed out into the stream. nn. TAFT’S THREAT OF VETO BRINGS ARMY BILL CHANGE. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—Under vir- tual notice from President Taft that he would again veto the Army Appropri tion bill if i contained any ‘rider affecting the tenure of office of Gen. Wood, Chief of Staff, the House and Senate conferrees to-day struck from the bill a contemplated privision to that effect and presented a report free trom the features upon which the President based his first veto. ‘The provision of t!» House for a five- year enlistment Was modified to provide for a seven-year term, four years of which shall be active service and three years reserve. All the army poste would be retained as they now exist. The House receded from its attempt to reduce the cavalry strength to five regiments. Sues BOY TAKES FATAL RIDE. Of Freight Train and Loses Arm and Leg. Frank Linck, a schoolboy of fourte years, living with his parents at No, 366 Palisade avenue, ride on @ freight Shore line this morning, He was stand- | ing on one of the low coal cara as the train pulled into Hoboken and a swerve | of the cars sent him headlong to the ground, He fell with part of his body under the wheels and his left arm and leg were cut off. ‘The boy was taken to St. Mary's Hos- pital with all possible haste, but it wae said there that little hope was enter tained for his life —— Sinton Wine in Georgia. ATLANTA, Ga. Aug. 2.—Approx- tmately complete returns from yester. day's Democratic primary show that John M. Slaton, President of the Senate, gained the Gubernatorial nomination Government officials to investigate the Praisers to ascertain if there has been “neglect of duty, malfeasance In office or inefficiency” on the part of any of the board members. The Board has headquarters in New York. President Taft named as the Investi- clad in a woollen suit hats were waving, smilen and tears) gation Committee Chandler P. Ander- | son, counsellor for the State Depart- ment; William Loeb jr. Collector of Customs of New York, and Winfred T. Dennison, Assistant Attorney-General of the United States. Mr. Dennison Prosecuted the sugar fraud cases. The Treasury Department announced that the scope of the inquiry would be broad enough to include all the activi- tles of the board both at New York and at ports throughout the country where | its members hear customs appeals. The snvestigation will be part of the weneral plan of the treasury depart- ment to rehabilitate the customs serv- ice as a whole and, according to an of+ ficial statement, “is the result of coin- plaints that the work of the board does not give satisfactory results as a Portion of the government mechan- ism of collecting revenues from cus- toms. The Board of United States General Appraisers is composed of H. H. Som- erville, President; T. S, Sharetts, W. B, Howell, I. F. Flacher, B, 8, Waite, E. G. Hay, C. P. McClelland, R. H. Ohamberlain and 8. B. Cooper. Each Tecelves a salary of $9,000, ‘ The committee will be instructed to recommend any desirable changes it may find in the personnel as well as in the methods of the board, “Presumably,” the official statement said, “agents of the treasury depart- ment of justice will be detailed to ald the committee in its work, althoux! details as to methods on investigation have not as yet been determined upon. The committee will begin the Inquiry as soon as its programme can be mapped out, ——_—s—_— FATHER OFFERS REWARD FOR RETURW OF LOST BOY. Four-Year-Old’ Freddie Gallo Dis- appeared From His Home at Corona. A reward of $100 for four-year-old Freddie Gallo, who has been mivsin, from his home, No. 74 Sycamore s' . Corona, L. 1., since July 4, was offered to-day by Antonio Gallo, father of the missing child. Gallo and his wife have personally visited dozens of orphana, and hospitais and have devoted almo: their entire time since the boy was lost to a search for him, Freddie was playing with several other children near his home on the afternoon of July 6 His ter Susan, sixtesn years old, told her brother Nicholas, nine years old, to take Freddie home. Nicholas forgot to do so and the little fellow wandered away. The boy has a fair complexion, ‘ight hair and brown eyes. When he left home he wore a white wi suit and black shoes and stockings. His parents are Italians, but they do not think that their child was kidnapped by Black Handers. “If that had been,” Antonio Gallo sald to-da; would have been threatened or there would have been some demand for money. But no threats or demands have been made. a DOG BITES TWO; ESCAPES. Attacks Men and Boy in Street and Crawls Under Fence. A black and white dog, apparently rabid, attacked William Davis, fifty- one-years olt, of No, 60 Grand etre Williamsburg, at the corner of Grand streot and Wythe avenue to-day. Davis was bitten in the left thigh. He hurled the dog from him and started for,a drug store. The dox followed. Davis seized the creature and threw it into the street. The dog, unhurt, ran along Wythe avenue to First astreet, attacking Steven Landas, six years old. The boy oried for help and a crowd drove the dog away. It ran toward the Williams- burg Bridge, biting Joseph Hanson, twenty-two years old. Hanson thrust out his hand to push the dog away, when it sprang at him and nipped him, The Mg entered the playground under the Williamsburg Bridge aj proach, frightening but not attacking the children playing there. Policeman John Freestone was chasing the dog, trying to get @ chance to shoot, but was unwilling to risk hitting any one. The dog ran through the playground gd darted under a fence. Before the policeman could get to the fence the animal bad disappeared, oe UMPIRES QUIT HOSPITAL. PITTSBURGH, Aug. 2.—Hoping to be back in the harness within a fortnight Umpires Clarence Owens and William Brennan, who were badly hurt during the first game of Tuesday's double: header, were out of the hospital to-day and able to be about, Further investigation by physicians developed the fact that their injuries were not fractures as was feared. Owens has an ugly bruise on the breast and several muscles are torn, Bren- nan’s kneecap is badly wrenched, Both were advised by physicians to remain at the hospital at leagt a day longer, but they sald, ‘We're not @bok enough ¢o be cooped up,” and left. ——_—_—_>___ Killed by Electric Shock, STAMFORD, Conn., Aus. 2—Bernard, MoGovern of New Haven, a foreman for the Southern New Engiand Telephone Company, was shocked to death yester- @ay when an electric light wire crossed | ape See SBR hdaus” “o°rer Alesander ‘wire which h 2 teeonene 1° was repairing ey “MEL' ‘SHEPPARD BACK DENIES BEING STRANDED Offered Job to Train Team in Hungary. Arriving to-day on the White Star liner Majestic, Melvin W. Sheppard, the | famous middie distance runner, J. F. | Taft to-day appointed a committee of | Meredith, the schoolboy athlete of the Mercersburg Academy, and D, F. Lip- o'clock this afternoon from her pier | Board of United States General Ap-| pincott, the University of Pennsylvania printer, declared there was no truth in the reports cabied from abroad that | they had been stranded in Glasgow. “We had plenty of funds to see us across," said Sheppard, “and we had a bully time touring Europe and tho British Isles after the Olympic Games. | We are proud to state that wo all kissed the Blarney Stone. As we overstayed | the limit of our steamship tickets, we | had to pay $@ each additional, and that is all the basis there is tc the report | that we ware stranded. Sbeppart, who is employed Customs House was met by a delega- | tion of fellow employees who will ten- der him a dinner at Coney Island next Thursday. While in Budapest Sheppard was Offered the post of official athletic trainer for Hungary. The Hungarians are anxious to train a big team of athletes for the next Olymplc games. “They made the offer tempting,” sald Sheppard, “but I turned it down. am not ove United States looks awfully good me." Among the passengers on the Majes- tic were twenty-four young Irish girls who are to enter convents in this coun- try to be trained as Sisters of Charity and Mercy, Seventeen will enter the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy of Los Angeles and seven will enter the con- vent of the Sisters of St. Frances at Peoria, Il. Trere were also aboard the Whit Star liner the company of English actors and actresses who will appear in Sir Arthur Pinero's new play, “Mind The Paint Girl." Then there was Miss Mollie Pierson, the original “Bunty” of “Bunty Pulls The Strings.” Moss Pierson was accompanied by her mother, who is making her first visit to America. iecieeactliibincchiemaas MOTOR STOPS ON A HILL AND AUTO PLUNGES DOWN. Six Persons Escape Injury When Car Goes Through Fence and Drops Fifteen Feet. ‘The sudden stopping of the motor as the automobile of M. Fiedelman of No. 128 Manhattan street, carrying the Fiedelman family, was ascending the steep Main street hill in Tarrytown to- a caused the machine to dash back- ward actoss the curb, sh through a fence and drop down fifteen feet against a brick house in a yard, Fiedelman was half way up the hill when his motor “went dead" and he tried to hold the car with the brakes. They would not hold, however, and the machine rolled down the o With Mr. and Mrs. the Fiedelman baby, Miss Sarah Ap- pleman and Mr. Fiedelman’s parents, Mr, and Mrs. K. Fledelman of No, 514 Ww One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street. Miss Appleman was holding the infant in her |i She jumped from the car ust before It struck the fence. Every one who remained in the car when it went through the fence and over the ledge was thrown out, but aside from a few cuts and scratohe: received by Mr. Fiedelman jr. none was hurt. in the to Fiecdelman were — DETECTIVE BURNS SICK IN HOTEL AT DENVER. Report Spread That Noted Sleuth Was the Victim of Poison Plot. DENVER, Aug. 22.—Wiliiam J, Burns, the detective, sick at a local hotel, suffering it is said from ptomaine potsoning. No one 1s allowed to him except his physician and nurs ‘A report gained currency here that Burns had been the victim of a potson plot, but little credence is placed in the rumor, At Mr. Burns's home on the upper west side it was stated by Mrs. Burns that her husband was in Denver with his son, She had ‘not heard that he was ill. —-—__— CIRCUIT TROTS AT SALEM; ANNA AXUM WINS PACE. SALEM, N. H., Aug. 22—The three- year-old pacing division of the American Horse Breeder Futurity, purse, $3,000, at the Grand Circuit meeting at Rocking- ham Park to-day was won by Anna Axum, The Manager, second; Lucy Cope, third, Fastest heat, 2.23%, ‘The three-year-old trotting division of the American Horse Breeder Futurity, purse $6,000, was won by Brighton Bud. Princess Todd and Sox De Forest div- {ded second and third moneys, Count Daschkoff, fourth, Fastest heat, 2.12! The Rockingham 2.18 trot, purse $2.00), was won by Zarrine, Annie Kohl, ond; Centreville, third; Bergen, fourth Fastest heat, 2.10%. Easy Digestion comes only from a clean stomach and well regulated bowels. ANIC The Doctor in Candy Form The eftective peppermint candy Laxative and B! Purifier, makes the digestive system and bowels do their work properly. Fis Nal of ies SSE Ee | AFTEROLYMPICGAMES DISCHARGED BY COURT Star Athlete Says He Was “KID” MCOY CLEARED OF ROBBERY CHARGE; sail ia London Magistrate Declares There Was No Evidence to. . Suppert Accusation ’ LONDON, Aug. 22.—"Kid" MeOoy, the American boxer, was discharged by Magistrate Curtis Bennett in Bow Street Police Court to-day when rear raigned on the charge of complicity im a jewel theft from the Princess of* Thurn and Taxis at Ostend. It was brought out iq evidence that the request of the Belgium police for McCoy's extradition was based om a story told by a drunken woman who when sober repudiated everything that. she said under the iniluence of liquor. “There is absolutely no evidence @gainst the prisoner,’ said the Magie-s trate in freeing the American ex-pugil- ist. Kid" McCoy, or, correctly, Norman Selby, was arrested July % as he was stepping out onto the Strand from the Hotel Cecil. where he and his wife were stopping. From the firat the evidence against McCoy look imsy. The Princess of ‘Thurs and Taxis had unquestionably been robbed of valuable jewels at her hotel in Ostend a few days pfeviously, but #bparently the only reason for con- nect 4 ‘ie pugilist with the theft was that he and his wife were staying at the same hotel at the time. acelpmenesces MAN DASHED TO DEATH BY WHIRLING MACHINERY, Engineer Fell From Ladder Grasping Belting, Is Hurled Against Ceiling. Just after Willlam Bryant, engineer ef the Thomas eJones Decorative Glase Company's plant, at Hudson avenue and Con ma ] ard street, Brooklyn, turned on the hinery after the luncheon hour this noon, he was notified that there ispicious creaking sound in the ng which propelled the machinery third floor of the factory, tiyant went to the floor and found that the trouble lay in a small pulley 4 revolved on aa independent shatt was 9 longside the nain shaft, All the revolving shafting 1s overhead, and was compelled to hoist a Iadd the pulley and started he ladder slipped. Imvolun- ryant threw up his hands to gras) some support. Both were caugnt ween belting and the giant put- ter along the main shaft, In & trice ho whirling aroun’, his body erashing st the ceiling. ‘ore the pante-stricken workmen on third floor could shut off the ma Bryant had been hurled axaine ng with such force that boti were torn off at the wri Both his ere broken !n several places and his body was fearful ngled. A physician from the Holy Family Hos- pitai declared that death had been in- stantaneous. ‘The sudden stopping of the machinery the c his arms and his body fell to the floor. legs and the report the accident s0 alarmed the girl workers on the floor beneath that several of them fainted and the manageme compelled to close th: Bryant, wh: lived at No. of the factory w piant for the day, | was fifty-one years old, Cooper street, Brooklyn, CITY DELEGATES UNSEATED. Haven't Pald Dues to A. 0. H. Ore wantzation, TERTOWN, N. Y¥.. Aug. 22—At day's th sion of the ate Convention Ancient Order of Hibernians the York City delegates of thirty-two members was unseated because of tt levtedness of their division to the tlonal and State bodies. It was decid that a certified covering th ount must be placed in the hands of State Treasurer before they would } check the [be reinstated. | | Much interest 1s being taken in the election which occurs to-morrow. y | principle contest over the office Secretary, for which John C. Kelly, incumbent; Peter J. Mullin of J town and Dennis Dyer of Syracut the Sanitar y Ice Box arline Cleans Everything Manufactured only by JAMES PYLE & SONS., New Yorks Jack Johnson's Reach Outclassed ‘LI Artha,” tho geeat exponent of the “manly art.’ hae an exceptionally reach, His powertul “right” oF urdy “left hes reached out and ought back the bacon” with startling rity. 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