The Washington Bee Newspaper, June 22, 1907, Page 7

JAUNT IN TRY WITH FAIRBANKS. p \ oys and Tells Wife omas Her Butter- He'd ank velt 2 Roo: : Frank Thom- and hat off, and nd batted out xen children of boys had asing his ent of the the fence 1 he'd joined him in mas’ but- led back Thomas funeral of ent Roosevelt yuld have to four hours be- d be made for dent did not kicking his for four hours ‘oads. One led behind en cramped | mhouse of | ; ‘ } s ind the | 4 y at A : vee <? Thom- | : ey could have I else in ey had one | : buttermilk the | » the yard, | e far were : s were scared who it was hand in the president and lo over to the farm- e Thomas, where he ‘ how many chil d woman modestly re- < ned, “when I return iw have to tell ave found one r family n dropped in to isen, who could nd he had to talk eS than { FIRST VOLUN Dr. C. F. Ra the ci Ch gton, re t d from ce reason of troub! 1€ received more than 40 rEER OF WAR, en nute Man” of st volunteer for A certificate ff of € in less than eall for troops by P: € county, s ten Hal! He is Dr. and two se oh < and the tating that after the President Lincoln, . CHARLES F. RAND. (First Mole of Civil War Who Its Stil! of Charles F soldier. Amc ton r ment than th honor t by ¢ only unteer for also the gressional me Ford, after was order obeyed but 18 5 battalion of 5¢ order hi 3 ¢ zround, de 5, 1861, for from the f Living.) occ and our il, @ of ag 1e 0m ld, but spite the f. > name nrolled as a the him st vol- he was the con dis- urn’s 1 at Al Rand's ee months | mmand every man t the time rest of the Was swept in dis. nd held ct that the field was plowed by shot and shell all about him. T lutely refused standing bray them as coolly at his bac the field and a deep ra he en to fire at ely alone an¢ as if he h ad then ly abso- the boy 1 firing at iment t across and joined | Smithsonian | cahaw, the command of Ge A. H. Barnum remaining with it until the end of the ment and’s patriotism and gallantry | have been rec ors of the three pre sonally New York s a gold medal ; and the Unitec iropped in John Wuch- at proud old f er said that only known that Mr. Roose- 1 1e would have had r said he was EMARKABLE VITALITY OF CAT. | d Current of 13,2 for Three Weeks. Iphia. That a cat has nine s demonstrated when a black s € of a brick conduit . ve 2 of the Philadel- ter be- to a 3,200 volts of elec- iree weeks the and over did e than singing st a little ur ig to e had no > conduit through left open. it is in e other ani- 00 Electric Volts | presented him beautiful part where, at the of New York worthy of the AN ODD ST Half of a Canoe Set Makes New York found Haif of Boat vices as a vol er og embe iS a plot i lington of at civil war ° Es m —A new use noe, Or siden to during the Novel S! ky rk and by twice per- t Lincoln; ed him with inscribed, nment has n the most cemetery, the state monument > offer his been half Used as a Storehouse. a civilized a cross wisé bow rising nd modern by two govern- | of New Yo 5 : lutions per minute. turbine is a j . Mawbray became interested in gounie unit of the v al type, the | the stories of the wonde: water flowing down » the upper ex 1 it himselfe He was wheel and from below up through the to lake, and on the ower wheel. The thrust of the two | | ery one side he found wheels is thus anced, and the | the only in eight seconds, four of which weigh | bird, ace x to the f feathe 's found, About 160,000 pounds, and the other s wh below a its back 4,1) 1,000 pounds The two el and wi were of a russet color. },... approximately 100,000 | These colors, he says, correspond per cunds. revolving portions, in- | fectly with the best descriptions ob- cinging the turbine runners and the tair of the ancient bird. The chart weigh about 240,000 pounds. cahaw was about size of & Fach unit will drive a 10,000-kilowatt pigeon e-phase, 25-cycle generator. From stereograph, copyright, by Underwood & Underw 04, N. ¥, Samuei L. Clemens (Mark Twain) as seen by his close friends. Clemens wears a.white serge suit always while in the house and is sometimes seen so attired on the street. SKELETON OF CAHAW ED IN iS LOCAT- DEEP CAVE. Bermuda Man Makes Discovery—Has Beak Similar To a Hawk—Will . c who for year Be Sent to Smithsonian fon of the C Institute, ser the Anglo-Calif , = bank rancisco, entert New York.—Lo L, Mawbray, jis to remote degree with curator of the Natural History, ficent banquet in honor of of the hair of his only Bermuda Museum of g recently visited the first ¢ institution, in Washing- son ton, for the e of exhibiting to the experts there several skeletons of an extinct bird, which he had the good fortune to find in a recently dis- covered cave in Bermuda. This bird, that has failed to get a place in the “Who's Who” of feath- A ered folk of modern times, was many hundred years ago known the Foon from the peculiar noise it made, aad, while it was web-footed, it had a similar to that he banquet cost the of the hawk. It was supposed to be a ther $1,800. cave dweller i had the habits of an a number of purpos The banquet took place at an ighth str restaurant, and there 150 gi s. A notable featu the ct that the wives and chil- of the guests sat down at the me table with the heads of families. elaborate menu, comprising steam-stuffed duck, shark’s fins and other Celestial dishes were most birds-nest soup, Yon Ha > and cost ed. beak very happy fa- During the evening quite prominent members owl, inasmuch it was never seen the San Francisco clearin or heard except at night. eaile? at the restaurant to offer t When white en first set foot on f ations to him. The hair-cut which Bermuda re were traditions among the natives of the cahaw, that had peared nerations ceremony, Was observed picturesque Fong Hock’s heir i ymt —_ now a di many before the time of the hoariest inhabitant, the family sts brou - and for more than 100 years scientists ents for the son worth thou- have been disputing among them- sands of doll selves as to whether such a bird ever * = a existed. Mr. Mawbray believes he 0 ERECT LARGE TURBINE. has settled the question. aera: q ag eitdiok Philadelphia to Have Biggest Water Wheel in the World. eletons were found themselves. The Philadelphia—What is claimed to TRNPA FOR HEN | MAN WHO EROUGHT ABOUT CON- FES. ON OF RUEF. i Fearless Pros ter Who Is Waging | {| War on ers” in San Fran- i cisco—tis Success in Land | Frauc cutions. San Fra -The surprising turn given to the San tions for brib plea of guilty ham Ruef, the California me | attention to the Francisco prosecu- and extortion by the 1d confession by Abra- olitical boss of the ropolis, directs renewed man who brought this fabout. It is ar er triumph for Fra Joseph Heney, the man whom ' Ruef called a murderer and sought to drive out of office last fall. Assistant | District Attorney Heney had shown the mettle of which he is made in the land fraud prosecutions, which he suc- cessfully conducted for the govern- ment in Oregon His achieve- latest ment adds another to the legal vic- tories secured by his ind able per- sistence and clear-headed cognizance of the resources ef the law. He is rap- idly making the San | the bar In his career F promise to put zood his , behind an racter ancis Joseph Heney tures ad striking in Lima, in the i , he went to s when ceived ools and at the and two school pa and there re » public only five years old education in t a course Law in 1883, ness in period, vnagement ia s store at Fort In 1889 ils profes- FRANCIS J. HENEY. (Official Who Has Ended “Graft” Rule in San Francisco.) | Mexico in A | grants by | tled, and zona were set- ited States It supreme | 3-94 he was the attorney |: al of the territory. After the close of his term he went back to cases until sought out to take charge »¢ the Oregon land fraud pro: He igs known as a | good in whatever he In 1901 he was the counse {Arthur Noyes, of the U rt, who was mixed up in the ho | San Francisco, where he < up civil | | n who undertakes. nited Sta scandal. It was his argument for | Noyes in the United States supr ourt which attracted the attention of j 7 be the largest water turbine ev eon- | Attorney General Knox, to whom he : yee : sia * strueted has been made in Philadel- | WS opposed. When Mr. Knox was ro boys, who by means o} : } a 4 pened é th = ca <p cata ae phia for use at N ra Falls. The }ready to proceed with t hemselves do ‘o a hole : : : SS eS aes fad sy eon machine is one of four similar units, | #Sinst the men implica they found in a spot of waste land ; ae ee i chamber with °° which ow in operation, |! in egon, he me upon 4 at chamber h st Rete : | : 5 : : ps ; ‘all . 1 lak e > the otk e being rapidly au y an appointmen i s hich ae oma yaad cpeniagiatae ed. Each turbine will develop | United States district attorney and ‘ They were in search of ( Rte ciara ah 1 orsepower when operating un- | put him in charg: ition. erys and reported that ae * | “ve er ine t aband der a head of 135 fee ter, and | lhe underst ho t had found them zreat abund- | ia ‘ i ; : when running at a speed of 250 revo- | receive a special we is of the long lost thrust bearing has to carry only the I 2 he fo my sever weight of the wheels and shafting. ; t me a ec Waste water is discharged whic far as he knows, are ugh a draft tube nine feet in mens of the kind in the Many of the bones were en- crusted in the calcite and all were in a good te of preservation. The spec ter. The water enters through world. penstock, 11 feet in meter. which is on and St. midway be George and in Cured by Imitation Storm. tween Han the ¢ la, 4s about cl O.—James Benham has three but it is cu his wife of nervousness and in- ! the that in son an improvement on the tin roof t journal 1 an open- the birds in a atment. Seeing the tir ot the patter edical he of on the roof would cure ance is a je sl es s, the a came to him s per hol down that age method ight gi relief t ha im- to his wife. Getting a theater em- } i were 150 loye to help him, he rigged np a su € was sure and lig ng machine on the ered the cave oof of his house near his bed- n da ss came he sent lage is about < and the, his wife aped and a rain. Soon there wa we when the crystal Jer and flas a strong light. made to the be one of the show the island. d, saying it looked rumble thing, s dome sh place lreps on Mrs. | places | Ss ee eres | ing was cast | | which would take private practice time. With th tne secret work up the evidence i;made his ¢ stro. | was no chance for the guilty When Heney went ‘these men he also went a t popu lar local prejudice. Everything was j Even the ¢ ant he was vered attor- appointed | tool of the secured the re j against him } ney who: to be he « abber 1 of t land move ney and went ahead j } With work, u out of the 19 men | of ninence brought to | it 8 were and made to ¢ t sed upon 18 one who | United y out sé priscn sa nbers of a re | vo I Sas ndent, a t of z and office hi nunicipal | corrupt ople of San Francis nee a Folk, a Hug or ne to push the pros- ecution of the evildoers. Heney was selected for the work and how he has ! succeeded is well known. | graces ar _ EE SE ee GRANT’S OLD HOME IN ST. LOUIS. Cottage Cnce © dier and pied-by Great Sol- Traded for a Farm. St. Louis.—Wh ie modern bri dwellings have sprung up on all sides in the vicinity of Tenth apd Barton streets, ains standing twa doors west of the corner an antiquated } little wooden cottage, guarded Db: memories‘so sacred that the hand of the despoiler has never dared*to raise: against it. H The humble structure was the abode‘ of Gen. Uly S. Grant, soldier, statesman and president of the United! States, and, it is believed, was the: birthplace of Gen. Frederick Grant, the { revered soldier’s son. i The fact that the cottage was once: owned by Gen. Grant was brought to Grant’s Old St. Louis Home. light by a recent article stating that a patriotic wa reverence for the name of Gra started in St and fostered by the Grant Cabin as tion, which plans to restor log cabin on the fair in a St paper, Louw was original site on the Gr Louis county, near M Philomena Barton street, c former nt farm in St. nton. Hollweg, of 1002 - door eas h she t of Gr owns, no- k aboc ticed the a and communicated with the stating the fact and giving what raps of its history she recalls. The little floor contai ground small rooms. An ructure has a four j attic room reached by a narrow flight of rickety wooden stairs. The two front windows of the attic are barred by iron rods, just why, no one has bee ible to figure out, unless it was intended to be used as the reposi- tory for r wealth. Three the rooms were used by the Grants as sleeping apartments, and the fourth, on the ground floor, is a tiny 1. The he was occupied by Mrs. Hollweg a rer husband for many years afier y acquired it in 1865, for $3,025 Joseph \ the late Mr. and Mrs. te. tined the house from cordi to the tradition, in exchange f the farm in the county on which built in 1854 the fam- ous log cabin. SECRETARY STRAUS’ WIFE. Only Jews ong Cabinet Ladies Is a Bea acd Cultured Woman. Wz Fs —The wife of the new secretary of commerce and labor is many s nger than her hus- band. us was one of the beautie f Ne ork Jewish circles, and her 2° S married life have left her st!ll a queenly and beautiful wome St ossess rare culture husband the As Miss Sarah and genius © ith her diplomacy. MRS. OSCAR STRAUS. (Wife of New Secretary of Commerce and Labor.) Lavenbr was known for her For a Mrs. z ied marriage, tire atten- tion to th and education of her | daughters $ not until Presi- | dent Clev her husband as minister to T é found a field for her br sense of diplo and his brother, ne election s a strange coin- aus should have under a a Dem- ad one h helped macy. Os¢ $ position though ecl i nopoli- irs. Straus he of s i own fran and win her friends, and igence will lead her un- a maze of diplo- ations and in- in which she is already a nd exceptional sailor. Rtn one arenes ee