The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1907, Page 3

FFs W t ous WOMAN NOVELIST LIV. |CHICAGOAN CETS $249,000 FOR 2 ING IN SQUALOR. : ONE YEAR'S WORK. Wm. V. Kelley, President of the Amer- ican Steel Foundries Company, Places Concern on a Strong Financia! Basis. atlessly Threw Away Great ar ne Made from Sale of Forooke-How She Got Her "Nom de Plume. _ da (Miss Louise de la a apertng os : vriter of erotic French Chicago—From a clerk in his fa- n granted a pension of ather’s hardware store at Greenville, pa vil st, mnch to the Ohio, to one of the highest paid men the public Ouida | in the world is t areer of William | Vallandingham } of Chicago. a years, but is | 33 ra Mr. Kelley, who will receive $340,000 | for a year’s work, is.president of the stricken that she is a man’s squalid cottage | 4 2 Biving | American Steel Foundries company, Italy, supported by a » p 5 as which he has pieced on a sound and ort 7 y anc 1 basis i he tw yed z le writer, now 78 —_ sindiaee an sis in the two years even gone hungry at pS ps occupied e chief executive months and has suf- Fae In a dispaich : it was Her maid has at pellec og for food } St@ted that a con tim npelled to beg in Wall street * crrespondent of the | f the American S pany to pay a divide tarted the directors ndries com- to com) on the pre- ae res that until two , . an Mist de sla: dtemesecem peso ange x It wa ronan puis oof ae ‘id villa at Lucca. She | test that the int of Mr. Kelley's 28 the lady of the dogs,” | ©¢72!nss nee 3 ably had 30, Her in-| In going over “ the concern it dev at the com- | for dogs caused her % ' pany will make a distri on of more on to give a meal of ke than 00,000 in bor “s tc E s ad and meat to every dog a $800, si Maes. <0. SOME: offi cials, including Mr. Kelley, whose She paid the bill for the | 7% % Moun : hehe ury banquet willingly, al- Se So WHE be Seta ne, to aa debts were crowding his salary of $20,000 as president. eh her utter ignorance | _THe other who cach value of mDNey. will receive a bonus ranging from the sort of woman 0 : 000 to $170, ans addition to his always wrote about—half | S#/ary for the esas cere phi hg it aaen Sete = ling- Vice President Robert P. Lamont, Chi- half adventuress and start cago; Second Vice President W. W. three officia hre is not b t —~as ma er readers = 2 . yy benutitabees ee Butler, New York, and Third Vice magined She is a decidedly plain Present Gi Scott, Chi * esi i 2 cot or king Woman, with grotesque taste pic OE: SAAR, The disclosures came as a result of in 8 Photographs of her are the: Meouvens ob si marl t + a e ery of a contract ma mre, a3 She aiways said the cam- ? act made two a y caught the hard lines of her Mr. S. F. Edge Trying for a New 24Hour Record. LITTLE COIN BLOCKS CARS. FARMERS ALY AUTOS New York Motorman Searches Tracks Fifteen Minutes for Quarter. New York.—There was much excite- ment on the Bowery the other day when a motorman on a south-bound SSS Third avenue surface car tied up the line for nearly 15 minutes trying to find a 25-cent piece he had spied in the center of the track. The coin was | NEW SIGNS OF PROSPERITY oB- | SERVED IN THE WEST. | | | Manufacturers of Motor Cars Cannot | Make Machines Fast Enough to Supply Demand from Tillers PI fice. Her clear, cold eyes possessed ih Hs w ction that never could be put | ff Ws 10m de plume, with its Hh st rthography, has provoked a of curiosity as to its origir he fact is that a tiny prat- 1 Mile. de la Ramee was ax nd had for years lisp- ing i he given name, L Weeda.’ 1 the writer was cast- a psuedonym to affix ry, ‘Idalia,” she was sud ed to hiding her iden- i j ltime pet name, for x a Ramee mortally dreaded th ist of the fashionable ® wh he then was mov- lying in the groove of the rail. When he brought the car to a stop the wheels of the truck were directly over Lincoln, Neb.—Western agents of j; automobile factories assert that if the | machines could be obtained hundreds j of autos could be old this summer to | the farmers of Nebraska and Kansas. | As it is, the residents of the country towns and the farmers are buying of the Soil. ee ‘ This the motorman did not know, and he crawled under the car to search for the coin. A large crowd soon gathered, thinking something was wrong. The discovery was made at Grand street, just at the time when WILLIAM VIGLLY 0 by with Mr ciates when the ing for an acti ney. Mr. Kel vice president sctors of the com- ley and his asso- lirectors were look- | It is asserted by those familiar with | the affairs of the concern that Mr. Kel- 1 stepped into the breach when the “company was in a and bro 100 to the | bad financial way of a deficit of $750,- sound financial foot- ings for one year Mr. Kelley was born at Greenville, Ohio, 44 years ago. While attending school he isted his father in the hardware store. It was while working in the hardware store that young Kel- ley conceived the idea of entering the railroad equipment business. He came to Chicago nearly 20 years ago and en- tered the service of the Charles Scott Spring company. It was not long be- fore his salary was $5,000 a year. Later he started a plant of his own at Hammoné, !nd., whick he sold out OUIDA. & ing, far more than the slings ana arrows of literary critics. “These early dreads have long been swept away. In America Ouida’s s have a sale of 25,000 volumes & year. On the continent she is read enormously—her fantastic and exag- gerated ideals of vice finding cham- in all circles. ja must have made an immense pen, for there has it demand for her pany and accepted an executive posi- tion with that concern. Since then his rise has been rapid Besides being president of the Amer- der Two Flags” and | ican Steel oundries company, Mr. her famous 40 years | Kelley is president of a steel car and been a most prolific j railroad equipment concern at Mon- 3h 1 written nothing for { treal, Canada. The plant of this con- ies 40 acres and is one of industrial enterprises in ears, and but for the; cern occu Briti® e would have had to th ays ne nation has ; the larg the dominion was married in Chicago to Miss Lilian Phelps and ideal of a man. | they live at Ellis avenue. They lish officer in | have three sons, William V. a being who was | sell Phelps, and Phelps Kell demi-god than a man, so it Mr. Kell mder she never met his | and is an e tic motorist. He is sh a member of the Midlothian, Exmoor, Glen View, South Shore Country, the Chicago, Unior Kenwood, and Kenwood Cou clubs, and several leading New York clubs. poorhouse. never married because | hu arcely any information has obtained as to Ouida’s par- s known that she is partly artly French. partly Span- s born near Bury St. nd, im 1840. Her ; an Englishwoman, said e been the daughter of a cler who married on the continent French-Spaniard of good 8 bad morals. Ouida’s fa- ime from one of the towns in es and met her mother in middle Europe. life and her educa- hentic has been given Julia Ward Howe’s Optimism. In a review of the events in the life of Julia Ward Howe on her eighty- eighth birthday it is said that Mrs. Howe always keeps on her dressing table a copy of Kant, which is her daily companion, and she recites to her grandchildren “Studentenleider,” hing Her latest word to her friends i “The world grows better, and not worse; but it does not grow better everywhere all the time.” May Build Another Tunnel. The Swiss government is consider- ing two great new transalpine tun- nel schemes. One is to pierce the Spluegen,-and the other the Greina, jim the canton of the Grisons. justries of Tunis. ‘unis used to depend upon its wines, and tle. Now there of profitable mines, and being built to exploit ing guaranteed by $2,500,000 net earn- | to the American Steel Foundries com- | Jr., Rus- | of learned years ago from her brother. } more of the benzine buggies than the cities, and there is scarcely a country town in Nebraska in which there are not more automobiles in proportion to the population than in Lincoln or Omaha. The prosperity of western farmers has become an old story, and this pros- perity is going to be augmented this year by another big crop of wheat and corn and oats. Most of the farmers in the state could buy a medium-priced machine just as a luxury if they want- ed to, but the manner in which they ‘have amassed their money does not | lead to extravagance of that kind. When a Nebraska agriculturist adds to his machinery collection he buys | only that which will be of use. That is why he is just now turning to the automobile. The favorite farm type is the runabout, largely because of its low first cost. The prudent farmer | figures that with good carriage horses bringing $150 to $250 each in the mar- ket he is foolish to utilize them in the | pleasure jaunts and his journeyings to and from church. If he uses his work horses to go to town or about the country, he deducts ar just that much from their working , Fisherman Makes the Queerest Catch capacity on the farm. By using an | on Record. auto he saves the horses fresh for the Sze farm work, he can transact his busi- Bangor, Me.—While W. E. Dill, of ness quicker and get back to the farm | Eustis was fly fishing on the Dead in a short time, to his financial better- | river, near Ledge Falls, Me noticed a ment. young beaver suddenly come to the surface of the water within 50 feet of where he was casting from a rock in the stream. Not h had many the streets were badly congested and traffic was at its height. Several po- licemen soon arrived and wanted to know what all the trouble was about. It wasn’t long before the crowd learn- ed what the motorman was after. Several men and boys, including a couple of street-cleaning sweepers, im- mediately joined in the search. After crawling about for ten minutes in vain the motorman had an inspiration that the coin might be under the wheel. He told the conductor to start the car on about a foot. Then there was a scramble. Boys, men and street-clean- ing sweepers made a rush for the bit of money at the same time. The mo- torman, who was the nearest to it, after a hard struggle, knocking the men and boys de, finally got it By this time the street was blocked, and the drivers of trucks were yelling like madmen A string of cars ex- tended back almost to Fourteenth street. A crowd of nearly. 1,000 per- sons had gathered and the police had their hands full in dispersing it. GETS BEAVER WITH FLY. | INVENTS SELF-HANGING OEVICE. | Former Baseball Pitcher Tests New rises that day and being ready for any Plan on Negro Murderer. diversion from the monotony of the | constant casting and only occasional | Pittsburg—To save the nerves of | strike, in pure sportiveness he decid- | tender-hearted officials, Sheriff A. C. | ed to try his skill in tempting the | Gumbert, formerly a pitcher on the beaver to taste his white miller. | Chicago National league baseball Making one of the casts he pped just in 1imal within had ever made, the fi front of the inattentive two feet of its jay the careful y successfully put ging device of his into use a self-h own invention | j team, the other d The device was tried MONUMENT OF POPE LEO Xill. { Erected in Rome by Cardinals Created | by Him. | Rome.—The menument of Pope Leo | XIII, erected in the Basilica of St.. John Lateran at the expense of the cardinals created during his pontifi- cate, “ab eo creati,” is the work of }the Roman sculptor, Prof. Gulio Tad- olini. It is situated in a niche in the left transept over the door leading to the sacristy. The figure of the pontiff is in a standing attitude, just rising from the sedia gestatoria, in the act of blessing. The pope’s right arm is raised on high, while with his left hand he leans heavily on the chair. The two lateral figures in white mar- ble represent a pilgrim wore eg eet Monument to Late Pope Leo. andthe Church. The latter is symbol- ized by a woman bowed down in grief. Her right arm flung across the sam cophagus is meant to express sorrow at the pope’s death, while the cross in her left hand represents Christianity. The figure of the Church rests her foot on the terrestrial globe. The in- ption underneath reads as follows: clesia ingemuit comprolante orbe inivers The figure of the pilgrim is shown in a laborer’s blouse. He holds a pair of rosary beads in his right hand and on his knees implores the pope's bless- ing. The following is the inscription: “Ad patrem filii ex omne regione ven- eraturi conveniunt.” The center of the monument con sists of a sarcophagus of verd antique or g n porphyry with decorations in gilt bronze and the plain inscription “Leo XHL” The entire monument rests on a sober architrave of granite adorned with the pentiff’s coat of arms and two festoons in bronze that run across the whole front “USEFUL CITIZEN” TO WED. Jacob Riis and Bride Will Honeymcon’ in Woods. Spend New York.—Jaccb Riis who accord- ing te President Roosevelt, is “New York’s most useful citizen,” and Miss Mary Phillips,the St. Louis girl he to marry soon, expect to spend the few weeks of their honeymoon “rousshing it’ in the woods. Miss Phillips, who was Mr. Ri private secre hat in her estima- tion no ymoon could be more ideal than the one she and Mr. Riis have planned. The two are now on Miss Mary Phillips. an outing in Massachusetts under the chaperonage of Miss Phillip’s mother. Flies’ Baths and Fountains. “Pity, don’t hate the fly,” said the maneuvering of the leader and a quick jig at the right moment the beaver the white | on Dowling Green, a negro wife mur- | derer, who went singing to the gal- lows. was soon firmly grasping While the deputy sheriff stood on fiy. | the trap placing the noose about the When completely tired out by his | condemned man’s neck the sheriff | struggles of 20 minutes, the beaver stood with a wire held tight in his | consented to be captured, and after |hand. The action of the deputy in | exhibiting him at the Shaw house for stepping off the trap loosened the wire | 4 few hours Mr. Dill carefully return- and the weight of the murderer sprung ed him to his native home. He did it. | not seem to be very wild, and would Green’s body darted through the | not offer to bite, as some of the women opening in the fioor of the gallows and ; and children held him in their arms, death, the physicians said, was almost | Mr. Dill thinks he is the only man instantaneous, the man’s neck being | who ever landed a beaver on a split broken. It is claimed for this device | bamboo fly rod. Any one at Eustis that no one person bears the odium of | will vouch for this. being a hangman, the condemned man doing more than his part. Wed Again to Please Mother, ed St. Louis—To satisfy the bride H Woman of 92 Fine Sprinter. groom’s mother, who was ill, Robert London.—Sydney Talbot, the 98- | Elligtt Chamberlain and his wife, who year-old American marine engineer | had until a few hours before been Miss whose activity has been told of, has | Maud Cronhardt, were married a seo rivals. At a charitable fete given for | ond time, a few hours after their re- the aged poor in Buckinghamshire | turn from AltOn, Ill, where the first prizes for flat races were won by two | ceremony was performed. No license men aged 83 and 86 years respective. was obtained in St. Louis, the second ly. In one woman's race a dame of 92 ceremony being regarded by the young sprinted finely, but was beaten by a people and the minister as merely a vounger competitor. ratification of the first. professor. “When he buzzes so per- sistently about you on these sultry days, when he sticks to your moist skin with incomparable courage, re spect rather..than revile the little creature. “For he is thirsty. He is mad with thirst, mad w heat. And your wet flesh—your moist nose, your dripping bald spot—is the most refreshing thing in the world to him. It is at once a bath and a fountain. In your juices—if I may use such a term—he laves his burning frame, and of your juices he drinks thirstily. “When the thermometer is high, the perspiration bubbling eut of our red skin, and the flies buzzing stickily over our hands and faces, what a con- solation it is, or at least should be, to think that a kind providence has made us at once a Turkish bath and a drinking trough for these interest- ing insects.” When Will This Happen? We are going to write a nrticle about the outlandish shapes of women’s hats just as soon &s we learn why a man buys a high-crowned soft bat and then punches it full of dents. —Blacksburg (S. C.) Chronicle. DRAGGING DOGS FROM CHURCH Tongs Used in Ancient Days to Re move Unruly Canines. London.—The formidable pair of tongs of which we give an illustration, suggests the remarkable change which has come over worship in church der ing the last two or three centuries. in ancient days it was a common pracj tice for dogs to accompany their mas ters and mistresses to church, and in! some churches a special pew was act-! ually provided where the animals could} wait during divine service. But occa} sionally it happened that the animals became unruly and had to be removed, : or that a stray dog without an owner! found its way into the sacred place. The services of the dog-whipper were then called into requisition, and with Ancient Dog Tongs. a pair of long tongs with short spikes within the extremity, such as are shown in our illustration, the unlucky animal was Srmly gripped and dragged howling down the aisle. Specimens of these tongs are carefully preserved in Bangor Cathedral. The accounts of our parish churches contain many en- tries relating to this curious cv stom. Thus at Tavistock fourpence was paid for “whyppyng dogs owt of the churche,” and at Trysull church, in Staffordshire, £1 per year was left so late as 1725 to pay a man to drive dogs out of the church, and to go round during the sermon and wake up the sleepers. ~ OSTRICH IS A HUSKY BIRD. Horse Trainer Tries to Hold Escaping Biped, But Fails. Because Frank Geissler, a horse trainer, tried to use on an ostrich the same tactics he would on a frac tious horse he is nursing many se vere bruises, says the New York Tele- gram. He was in the Lackawanna railway yar in Hoboken the other day when a full-grown ostrich, with 40-horse-power legs, on the way from Hamburg to Cincinnati, broke from a crate and dashed up ard down the platform. Everybody else fled in ter- ror, but Geissler stood firm. When the ostrich passed the horse trainer on one of its sprints for free dom Geissler made a flying leap and throwin around the big bird’s neck tried to bring it to earth. But the bird had other plans and for ten minutes so much happened to Geissler that he says he cannot re member half His cries for help brought a number of drivers to his aid and at imminent risk of being killed by the powerful bird bound its legs together and dragged it back to its cage. Almost every particle of clothing was torn off Geissler during the struggle and his bruises led him to the decision that it was bad policy for a horse trainer to seize an ostrich by the neck and so leave its armor-plated toes free. his arms HOME-MADE CURFEW. Guaranteed to Cure the Worst Case of Street Loafing. Every family should have a curfew which should positively “ring to night,” and every night if needed. These curfews are inexpensive and can be homemade. Take a piece of siding two feet long and whittle one end down to a handle; then take the child that needs the curfew i bend him over a bar- rel. Now take the pieee of siding in the hand and use ft for a clapper. Put it on hot. Divide the strokes evenly and see that none miss. Good rl up to the age of 16, warranted to for a boy or and applications are cure the t pronounced case of street loa: that exists. The music this curfew makes ts finer than singing “Where Is My Wan- dering Boy To-Night?”"—Popular Me chanics. Burke’s Memoria! to Wm. Pitt. sserted that the epitaph written by !dmund Burke, upon g, monument erected by the merchants of London to William Pitt, is the most eloquent and elegant example of mow It reads as follows: , It is often tuary literature In grateful acknowledgment To the Supreme Disposer of Events, Who, intending to advance the nation, For such time as His wisdom seemeth good, To an high pitch of prosperity and glory; By unanimity at home; By confidence and reputation abroad; By alliances wisely chosen and faithfully observed; By colonies united and protected; By decisive ories by sea and land; By conquests made by arms and gen erosity In every part of the globe; By commerce, For the first time united with And made to flourish by war; Was pleased to raise up as a Principal instrument in this memorable work, Drescm maser si hi a whined join baBiiincnace aon dein neat we me