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SPLENDID
DO WN THE HUDSON
Flies From Albany to -New York at Rate
of Speed Exceeding Fifty-Fom Miles an
Hour Without Accident.
New York, May 29. Glenn H.
- Curtlss flew from Albany to New
York city in an aeroplane today, win.
ning the $10,000 prise offered by The
New York World : He covered the
distance of 137 miles in two hours
and 32 minutes, and came to eartih
as lightly as a pigeon. Average
speed' for th-e distance 54.06 miles
an hour surpasses any record over
made by an aeroplane in long dis.
tance flight .
The start was , made from Albany
at 7.03 o'clock this morning under
weather conditions as near perfect
as the most fastidious aviator could
demand . One hour and twenty ruin,
utes later he had made his stopping
place near, Poughkeepsie, where
there was an . hour's intermission .
Resuming his flight at 9.-26 he sped
southward and landed within the
boundary of. Manhattan Island at
10.35:
Paulhan's flight from London to
Manchester-186 miles exceeded
the Curtiss feat today in distance but
not in speed and danger. The
Frenchman's average was 44.3
miles an hour, and below him lay
English meadowland. Curtiss fol.
lowed the winding of the historic
Hudson, with jutting headland,
wooded slopes and treacherous pali-
sades. - He?' swung '. high over the
great bridge at Poughkepesie, dipped
at times within fifty feet of the
river's broad surface and jockeyed
like a falcon at the turns . Only once
did his craft show signs of rebelling.
This was on Storm King, near West
Point, where at a height of nearly
1,000 feet a treacherous gust struck
his planes.- The machine dropped
like a rock for forty feet and tilted
perilously. But Curtiss, always cool,
kept both his head and his seat and
by adroit manipulation of his levers
brought renewed ,eauUiblaia-tt" his
steed r
Curtiss was up before dawn today
and, went with his mechanician and
a handful of spectators to Van Rens.
selaer Island, in the Hudson, three
miles south of Albany, from where
he was to make the start., Waiting
at the river brink was a special New
York Central train for Mrs. Curtiss
and her party, . who had not accom.
panied the aviator to the island .
Prom the train they could see the
actual start, but those on the island
witnessed a remarkable scene.
Curtiss rose from the ground like
a rocket. There were no preliminary
maneuVerings there was 'no trial
flight. The aeroplane ran hurriedly
over the surface of the island and
darted straight, for its goal to the
southward, turning only for a mo.
ment to tjhe westward so that Curtiss
' might comply with the terms of the
flying and . technically cross the Al.
bany city line .
Straight up soared the aeroplane
to a height of about 700 feet. In
three minutes it was a minute speck
in the distance. In seven minutes
it had vanished from sight. The
whole performance was over in a
twinkling.
With the signal that Curtiss was
off the special train, five cars and a
' locomotive, cumbersome now by com
parison, gathered impetus- and sought
to' follow. But so quickly had Cur.
tiss flown that for twenty, one miles
- southward the locomotive, runninz
nearly a mile a minute remained a
;; laggard. At 7:26, however, the
: train came a breast of the aeroplane
ttwshce to New York those on
board kept the aviator in sight .
V At Poughtkeepsie. Curtiss turned
westward-and then came to earth
with the precision of a bird . He hau
flown seventy.'four miles from Al
bany in eighty three minutes.
The landing place, known as the
Gill Meadows, and previously been
selected, but because of last weeks
postponements Curtiss was not ex.
!1ES ltedj'this i morning : and there was
iin FHRniinp nwninnir r ! T ji - mir rnnn
nately two automobile, tourists hap
pened by and were eager to supply
him with the needed fuel and oil.
"s. . - -
with tanks refilled and every
wire and screw tested, Curtiss took
his seat for the final dash to New
York . The bi plane ran along the
meadows for about two hundred feet,
then shot front the ground with nose
pointed toward the river . In a mo
ment more the craft was again over
jthe Hudson and Curtiss' turned his
Pir, his course south and was soon lost to
yiew. Exactly one hour had been
consumed at Poughkeepsie.
H passed the tilted States mill
tary academy at West Point at 1002
Yonkers was reached at 10 .30 and
he was flying about level with the
palisades, 300 to 400 feet up, when
he got his first sight of the Metro,
politan tower . '
Out of the haze that lay in the
bend of tne river at Yonkers he shot
into the view of the thousands who
were awaiting his coming along the
upper reaches of the Riverside Drive
and on the roofs of the big apart,
ment souses on Washington Heights,
New York city.
Rounding the big jutting nose of
Alpine, on the Jersey shore, opposite
Yonkers, Curtiss drove his machine
across the river to the east side of
the stream and closely hugged the
New York shore. The crowds along
the shore cheered and waved hats
and handkerchiefs and the whistles
of the boats in the river joined in
the demonstration. ' While nassin?
Spuyten Duyvil, Curtiss had seen,
half a mile inland, a broad expanse
oi greensward, the upper end o4
Manhatten Island. To win tne prize
it was necessary only o land in
Manhatten proper, and, here was the
chance without risk of further fligbTtT
to Governor's island or the Battery,
some thirteen miles away.
Curtiss, accordingly threw his
steering wheel about sharply, glided
above a railroad bridge and floated
lazily inland "with the propeller bar.
ely turning. He alighted without
mishap after having flown from Al.
bany to Manhattan in two hours and
thirty two minutes. Although hz
won the ? 10,0 00 prize, weather eon
ditions were so propitious and ' he
was feeling so . gratified at success
that Curtis decided to give the city
another view of his machine and at
11:37 he shot away again for Govern
or's island . It was .during this part;
f oth'is trip that he received the noises"
greeting.
He came down the river at an ele
vation of more than three hundred
feet and into the upper bay. Near,
ing Governor's Island he began to
descend, and landed easily on a
stretch of new made land within forty
yards of the shed in which the areo.
planes, were housed during the Hud.
son.Fulton celebration. Dismounting
he received the congratulations of
Major.General Howe, U. S. A., com.
tnander of the department of the
East, and other officers .
Mrs . Curtis,, who had meantime
arrived in New York on the special
train, ioined her husband as Curtiss
was preparing to take the fei-vy for
New York. Half an hour later he
was in The World office where a
check for $10,000 was handed him
with a short speech of congratula.
tion.
Aviators and aeronauts tonight
were unanimously of the opinion that
Curtiss had performed the most won.
derful feat of the air that the world
has ever seen.
Curtiss was dressed' for the trip in
wading boots and sweater. His ae
roplane carried pontoons or floats f
prevent it from sinking in case Of
a fall into the water. A fifty horse
power moter of his own make propels
the craft whicht with the aviator, in
its seat, weighs approximately 1,000
pounds. In winning The World prfze
today, Curtiss incidentally captured
The Scientific American cup for the
longest flight in America with a heav
ler than air machine. He had pre
viously won two legs on the trophy
and today's performance makes it his
The following message was received
by-The World tonight from Presiden
Taft at Washington:
"t a.m 1nt.fiTisfi1v interested in what
Mr. Curtiss has done. It seems that
the wonders of aviation will never
cease. I would not hesitate to say
fchat the performance of Mr. Cur
tiss is an epoch because tomorrow we
may hear that some man has flown
from New York to St. Louis. Mr.
Wright told me at 'the time the ten
mile flight from Fort Myer was made
that the chief difficulty was in flying
over unknown territory. Mr. Cur.
tiss seems to have surmounted this
and I am glad he has . His flight
will live long in our memories as
having been the greatest.''
In a statement to The World con.
cerning his" flight Mr, Curtiss said
that shortly after he rose at Albany
he found himself going well and
flying high and swift . He was sur.
prised when Poughkeepsie came
within view so quickly . : He had1 no
idea he had been making such fast
tlm.
He said that when his - machine
dropped suddenly passing the Storm
King mountain it was anything but
a pleasant sensation.
''I was nearly upset," said Curtiss
in speaking of the incident, "and my
heart umped. into iny mouth, b'ut by
quick and strenuous efforts, pushing
the controls forward to the very 11m.
It, I managed to regain my eauilib.
rium, and then I slowed down speed
and dropped to. a lower level. 1
dropped till I was but fifty feet above
the river, at times, I guess and f dund
conditions there much better.
''The air near -the ground is often
banked like a cushion or buffer, and
offers safe traveling when the upper
reaches of the atmosphere are not so
inviting."
. Of the sensations he felt during the
flight Curtiss said:
"My sensations in flying so high
and over tihe water? Well I don.t
know just what my sensations were,
I was to busy to have any."
Officers Elated.
Washington, May 29 Govern,
ment officials, army officers and avi.
ation enthusiast here showed the
deepest interest in Glen Curtiss feat.
Brig. Gen. James Allen, chief of the
signal corps of the army, was especia
ly impressed with the flight from
Albany to New York and the speed
with which it was made . ,
''It may seem strange" he said,
'but-dt is a fact-that we do not know
just what these machines can do,
especially in warfare. We must have
a supply of aeroplanes, and dirigibles,
We are going to wake up some dsf'
and when we do we will buy all the
machines in the world, that will fly
and that ai'e for sale. . -
'It is men like. Glenn; Curtiss wno
are going to supply a long felt waft
kn America. Fellows of this ty
should get all kinds of encourage,
ment and the American people will
hava their eyes opened by the days
flight to the possibilities of machines
thatTfly in the air.'
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KISS ALL. YOU WANT!
IT WON'T HURT YOU .
"Bacteria? Bosh! Only the Heart
Is Affected," Says Harvard Pro.
fessor .
Cambridge," Mass., May 5. Har.
Lyard-has officially put her O. K. on
kissing. Dr. A. M. Wortngton,
o the Medical School, an expert on
bacteria, not osculation, says that
there is no reason whatever why
healthy and well intentioned couples
shouldn't indulge in kissing to their
heart's content. Incidentally, his
statement shatters the theory ad.
vanced many times, by processors of
other universities that kissing if
dangerous, because it makes a swap
of microbes and illness in one or both
parties tti the union often follows
such diversions. Said Dr. Worth,
ington :
''Kissing harmful? Certainly not J
No sir! There is no possible reason
in the world, or proof in the world,
why when two self.respecting, whole,
some persons meet lip to lip they
can't break away without upsetting
the bacterial balance. Perhaps the
only serious danger springing from
such a union would affect the heart
only."
Dr. Worthington also ably defend,
ed .our friends the '' microbes," re.
ferring to them in other "circum.
stjances . He asserted that if bacteria
were driven from the land the word
would become a desert scattered with
the world's deal. Germs are humble
in their needs, but stupendous in
their life work.
RetievedHielf of Handcuff si Wf
Irons .
Mobile, May 24. JCLn Bell, a ne.
gro under sentense of death for the
murderer of Maggie Cart, a negro es.
caped from the pest house today,
whither he had been sent last week
sufiring from small.pox. The de
puty who was watching Bell -fell as.
leep and upon awakng this morning
found the handcuffs and leg. irons
with which the negro was fastened,
lying on the table. A posse with
bloodhounds is searching the woods
and it is feared he will not be taken
alive .
A Successor to "Mooley."
Chicago May 25. Wisconsin has
achieved the distinction of supplying
ra successor to "Mooley' the cow
which until it was killed In an accL
"dent recently, supplied milk and but.
ter for President Taft and his family
.... . . . . 1 . . . b6 shdl outauouuu
at the White House.
Sean tor, Isaac Stephenson, of the
Badger state, is the donor of the new
cow and the managers of the Step,
henson stock farm at Somers; Kenb.
sha county, Wisconsin,, are In a state
of elation and excitement as a result.
"Pauline -Wayne," granddaughter
of the Great 'Gertrude Wayne, has
been selected to be the presidential
"cow "and will be browsing" on the
green sward near the White House
1 within two months.
A CHANCE FOR SPINSTERS, .
Farmers in Jortn western Caaa(Ia
- Very Lonely and- Women Are Be.
Ing Sent by theTliousand;!
The Kansas- City Journal, sayt,:
The problem of domestic is$jLt!o
1 i- 1 1 .1 1 : . -VT '
suuui ivi ue, bui vcn iu a icit ge jpLfJt l
the . provinces of northwestrCiftai
ada . The Women's Guild o M6b:
jtreal has made arrangement" with
two lines of steamers plying between
that port .and England for thuyas.
sage of 4,000 domestic servants ''to be
brought over this summer.'. Tfte offi.
cers of the guiM announce thjt ap.
plications have already beennia
for the services of , every one orthese
domestic servants, and -that tua de.
mand is so great that they eonld
place twice the number alrea.en.
gaged . Most of these 4,000 servants
will be sent to the provinces ot
Saskatchewan and Alberta ' And: as
most of them are women, it. is prpba.
ble that they will be quickly snaned
as wives by the desperately louetr
farmers of the Northwest . Thu&rUu;
tory will repeat itself and tne sches'
enacted in "Virginia and the other
colonies in the earlier days of the!set
tlement of this jcountry will be jrej
enacted in western Canada . To jany
who has experienced the depressing
isolation of the. tremendous distances
of the silent placesof this region tljere
will appear no animaly in the ques.
tion" of the Canadian farmers marry
ing, their domestic servants. Under
such depressing conditions the only
quetion that presents Itself is the
biblical one that a virtuous wife? is
more precious than jewels. No soda
problems of caste will vex the mift
of these lonely pioneers of the Norh
.west. They understand perfectly
that jf they do not? promptly avail
themselves of thcoppdrtunity to sp.
ctifk-awife some other farmer will
quickly deprive them of their seK
vices by making an offer of mariageV.
SOUTHERN TO SPEND $7'290,000.
Big Contracts for Locomotives, Roll,.
ing Stock, Steel Rails and Fittings
Have Been Let A Stupendous Un
dertaking. - ;
Atlanta, Ga., May 24. Contracts
for locomotives, rolling stock, Etf
rails .and fittings; Involving a total
expenditure of $7,290,000 have beer
let within the past, few weeks by the
Southern Railway Company accord
ing to announcement made today,
thus carrying out the statement as to
orders to be given, contained in Pres.
ident . Finley's announcement of
March 17.
Seventy.five locomotives, 3,620 all
steel 50 ton coal and coke cars
and ten combined passenger,baggage
cars are to be added to the ' motive
-power and rolling stock equipment
of the Southern as the result of
these contracts. In. addition to this
contracts have been let for foriyjftx
thousand tons of 85 pound steel rail
and for 190,000 improved joints for
use with this rail .
The steel rail and fittings which
will represent an outlay on the com.
pany of $1,800,000 will be used in
improving its lines by replacing
lighter rail which will in tarn be
relaid in place of still lighter rais on
the subsidiary lines, and 4a the pros,
ecution of the Company's plans for.
double tracking its more important
lines . The completion of work on
sixty miles of double track under
construction will give 244 miles of
double track between Washington
and Atlanta while there are 9 miles!
of double track now in use on other
lines of the system. Thirty thou,
sand tons of this rail will be furnishi
ed by the Tennessee Coal, Iron" and
Railroad Company from its Birming.
ham plant, in line with the Southern
Railway Company's policy . of patrorl
izing southern industries wherever
possible. Ten thousand tons-will be
furnished by the Maryland Steel
Company, and six thousand tons by
the Cambria Steel XJompanyv; r
The entire locomotive order went
to the Baldwin Locomotive Works of
Philadelphia and this Investment of
$1,500,000 on the part off the Souths
ern Railway will add to Its motive
power 38 consolidation freight loco;
motives, 5 Pacific type passenger
locomotives, 10 switching . locomo.
tives, and 2 Mallet freight locomo.
tives which last mentioned locomo.
tive will be the largest and most
powerful in use in the South,1 to be
delivered during September or pctq.
ber, 1910. ': . .
Of the 3,620 all steel 50.ton-Cdal
and coke cars for .which the South.
ern will spend $3,900,000 two thou.
sand will be furnished by the Western
Steel Car and Foundry Co., of Hedge.
wisch, Jll., 1120 by the Cambria
Steel Company of Johnston, Pa., and
500 by the Standard Steel CaiCo.,of
Butler and Newcastle. Pa. It Is ex.
pected that these cars will be In
service Ty July 1910 . The ten com.
bined passenger.baggage cars are to
be built by; the Hicks -Locomotive
and Car Works of: Chicaga at a cost
GOING 142 MILES AN HOUR
Barney Oldfield Tells How it Feels to
' Break Motor Records J. r
"w may: - accidents have you
I had In your eight.year career of mo.
tor racing?" a visitor asked Barney
Oldfield at the Hotel Baltimore yes.
eday;:-; y ;.. X r
; ''Oh, evera11mnswered: the hold.
er'of the world's record for speed. '
. - 'Bad?" n " - , ' - s.,, .,- :
"Four of 'em were pretty bad. ''
"Some one hurt?"
"Two killed one time, and one an.
other. Yes, I got bruised up pretty
bad myself once." j .
, Oldfield Is the most modest of
persons. It's hard to see why, but
it mustbe. It isnt tacturnity' or
anything of the kind, because he's
perfectly willing to talk on things
that don't concern the achievements
of . Barney Oldfield-it's ' just plain,
barefaced, deep.rooted r modesty
Moreover, he;ls clean faced, clear
eyed, good looking and a pleasantf
man to hold conversation with.:
T These" ' accidents of his he's" un.
willing to. talk about them, but by
dint of " -much pressure will--are
purely incidental, and, he soberly ex.
plains, unavoidable . ' . ' i, c
"It's like this," he said yesterday
afternoon . 'Of course, I don't al.
ways go 142 milf s an hour" that's
his record- ' but even at 100 things'
come along pretty fast.. At 100 a
broomstick laid across the track will
make a car shoot 50 or 60 feet with.
out touching the ground. You can't
stick your hand straight out and J
shift the gears the wind's too
strong for anything like that.
You've got to s'Ide it out on an
angle . When I tried the other thing
I came pretty close to leaving my
best hand behind me. At 130 a
broken tire means an acrobatic mo.
tor car, with you doing the ground
stunts. It's pretty " hard to think
when you're going thatfast. The
machine Is really going faster than
the mind . If there's something in
the way half a mile ahead you've got
to start, turning right! away, A sud.
den twist of an inch on the wheel
would turn you over. Oh, i'ts some,
thing you can't really describe!"
. "If you can't, -I don't see how any.
ojSe's going to," commented the vis.
itor, "especially as no one in the
world's ever gone that fast.'
"Maybe somebody has," answered
Oldfield, "and we just don't know
about him . " ( How's that, when the
nearest known record to Oldfield's is
126 miles an hor.) . '
''Maybe,'' he went on, "It'll give
you some idea, when I tell you that
the pressure of a pair of ordinary
goggles against my cheeks and fore,
head was so painful that I couldn't
drive until I got a special racing
mask. That was when I first" tried
out the Benz. (The Benz car or
Lightning Ben," Is the one he
broke the record wiht and uses at
present . ) v
"What would happen if anything
broke going at 130?':'
"Wait till something breaks and
I'll tell you you . Say, I could go
160, though, in that Benz if she'd
hold the track. Man, she'll develop
250horsepower any time. Believe
me, it's the greatest car" and
Oldfield launched out enthusiastically
upon the car. -and, at the end, you
decided that, after all, Barney Old.
field 'ssuccess washt due to luck or
fate, but to enthusiasm, backed by a
good, healthy body and a strong
heart. Kansas City Star.
Millionaire's Son Jugged.
New- Orleans, May 25. "My
bicycle broke down' and "I had a
.mighty hard time getting a check
cashed," were among the entries in
the dairy of young Horace Quigley of
Philadelphia, 17 years of age, who
greeted his parents through the bars
of the central police station here last
night following the arrival of the lat.
ter to take him' back .home. The
father is a millionareshlpbuilder,it is
stated'. Young Quigley ran away
from home, he said, because he had
failed to pass a successful examina
tion for entrance into college.
of $90,000 and will be delivered in
June 1910. '
In addition the company is build.
ing for itself at its Lenoir Car
Works, 1,006 .steel underframe venl
tilated box cars and 200 steel under.
frame stock cars, and for. the Georgia
Southern and -Florida Railway 205
r steel underframe ventilated box cars.
.Upon the completion of this work
about August 1, construction will be
begun of 1,000 additional steel un.
derframe ventilated Iox cars of 80,.
000 pounds capacity for the Southern
Railway. ' "
- These' large expenditures on the
Southern Railway mean' greatly In.
creased facilities for handling the
growing traffic throughout the South.
ern states and - better service : for
every point on the various lines of
the company. , ' -,V-, .. '
1 COMET MADE HTM TELli
Xioigi mence uoniesees .to tbe rdnr.
. !Der of a Black Hand' Victim; , .
. While under the terror ot the com
et, Luigi Ciefice confessed tQoominlt.
ing a murdervto' Captain John Brown
of fthe.-Newarts; policed ' The police
investigated Jiis stOTy--yesterday and
found it was true in every particular.
Beneath a corn shock at the rear
of Ciefices shack at Samtown,
"between Newmarket and south Plain
field, N. J., the body of Patrick Ca
hill was found with two bullet wound
in the head and a fracture of the skuH
done ..with a blackjack. Everything
was as Ciefice and said it would be.
Ciefice was arrested on Wednesday
afternoon on suspicion of being a
member of a gang that had been floou
ing the Newark: territory with Black
Hand letters . He was arraigned and
remanded for a hearing to tfce second
Precinct station in New Yor . At .10
o'clock that night he seen a passion,
ate plea to Capt . Brown to be allow,
ed to confess-his sins.
"The world is to be burned up to.
V
nightj" he told Brown, " and I can.
nop die until imy heart is clean . On
May 10th I kilted a man at my, house,
and bVried his body under a corn
shock behind the pig pen. Twice I
shot him and once I struck him on
the head."
Capt . Brown did not believe the
prisoner. He suspected he was con.
fessing a . ficictious crime in orded
to distract attention from the charge
that had been brought against him.
Ciefice denied again and again that
he was telling anything jbut the
trutjh, and when he had made his con
fession; he seemed to feel greatly
relieved .
Yesterday- afternoon , Capt . Brown
went to Plainf ield and asked Chief
of Police Kiley to send a man -with
him. while "he- made some investiga.
tions at Samtown . Policeman Flynn
was detailed and the two got their
first surprise when they found a
shock of corn at the place Ciefice said
they would.. "".'."
. The shock was knocked over and
a little digging uncovered the body
of a man . The head was ' wrapped
in sacking, and over it a sheet had
been laid. On this had been placed
a quantity of fertlizer.
The body was identified at once
as that of Patrick Cahill, sixtyfive
years old, and a neighbor Of Ciefice's
Cahill was a skilled mechanic em.
poyed by the Pond Tool and Machine
Co., in Plainfield had been missing
since May 8, and as recently as last
Sunday search had been made for
him at the very place where his body
was round yesterday.
Coroner Hubbard of Middlesex
county held a preliminary inquest
yesterday " and found two bullet
wounds in tjhe head, while there was
a 'fracture at the back of the skull,
the result of a blow with a black,
jack . . The body was taken to New
Brunswick by Detective Richard Pe.
letter, of Prosecutor Boreum's staff,
who will complete the preparation
of the case against Ciefice. Newl
York World .
CONTEMPORARY OF POLK
IS RTJNNING FOR OFFICE.
Durham, N. C, May 24 After
Laving served in office continuously
for flfty.two years, John Laws, of
Orange county, at the age of 85 years
is in the field as a candidate for re.
election for register of deeds. He
is declared to be the oldest . office,
holder in point' of., service In the
United States, and during his long
term has weathered many -political
upheavals . It is not doubted that he
will come out victorious at this, his
latest battle at the polls.
r But Laws claim to distinction
does not rest alone with his political
success. His matrimonial experience
has given him fame as well. At the
age of 80 he took to himself ayoung
wife and only recently became tjie
proud father of the third child by
this union .
,The veteran officeholder saw 6er.
vice in the Mexican war, was a friend
of Andrew Johnson and knew' PresL
dent Polk personally. Except that
Laws does not drink water straight,
but mixes it with milk, lemon juice
or Ingredients of soft beverages, he is
Iwithout eccentricities.
Ninth District Congressional Conven
tion on July 8.
Lincolnton, May 30 At a meeting
of the executive committee of the
ninth district, held here today, it was
decided to hold the congressional con
f vention In Shelby the day preceding
the. State convention- at. Charlotte,
.which will make (he date July 8th
Tnose present at tne -meeting were
Chairman Rf S. Plonk of Cleveland,
Cv S. Williams of Mecklenburg, C. E
Childs of Lincoln, and George Wilson
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of Gaston The other counties were
represented by proxy
MARRIES FACTORY GIRL.
WealthyMan Looks Over 1,000 anl
. - Quickly Calls a WifeS
- New Westminster; Wash lMay 23.
When Georgef West,, a. civil engU
neer"; of Seattle, concluded" ttake.a t
yife her went to ;Parisy Ontario, and
applied for a job with, the- Penman
. Woolen Company : " ;
West worked for, half a day, de
voting most of his attention to the
thousand ; girls engaged at the fac.
tory. Along about noon he saw
Miss Florence McMillan, one ;fv the
company's importation of girls from
England, and decided she'd do. ,
Hdving secured her' address, he
left the mills, called upon- her- the
next evening and the following day -Rev.
Canon Brown .performed the
ceremony which made thqm man and
wife . West refunded- to the Tenmah
Company the $60 advanced for his
bride's : passage from England to
Paris . Immediately after the cere,
mony . Mr . and krs . West left for -Seattle.
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fwo Battleships Says tjie Senate..
Washington, D. C, May 23 .
Voting down 26 to 39 an amendment
offered by Mr . Burton to authorize
only the new battleship feistead of
two,' the senate today passed a Naval
appropriation bill. The bill carries
an appropriation of almost $134,000,
000. It was before the senate for
two days ,the debate being confined
almost exculsively to the battleship
question . - . ' -
Two important amendments were
adopted. today , One of them ofljared
by Senatov Johnston appropriates
$450,000 for the purchase of tbredo
boats '' whose . vitals are - below the
normal load lines:" the other by
Senator, Jones, eliminates railroad,
county and municipal bonds from the
securities which may be deposited by
contractors.: i
The naval increase ' for the fiscal
year ending June 30.1911, provided ;
by the bill, as follows: ' : . -.
The first class battleshipa to cost .
not exceeding $6,00O,Q00 each.
T.wb fleet colliers to cost not ex.-
ceeding $ 1,0 0D,0 0 each.- 7
Five 6ub.marine topedo boats -not
exceeding a total of 2,500,000
Six torpedoHapats destroyers to cost
not exceeding $750,000 each.
The House bill . provided" for only
four submarine -and no topedo boat
destroyers: The Senate also added -a
provision that not more than one of
the battleships should be built by the
same company. .
The provisions inserted in the"
House bill requiring that battleship
and fleet colliers should be built un.
der the "eightjiour law," was retain
ed by the Senate . "
Senator Depew, of New York, re."
lated some ' history concerning the
Venezuelan episode of the first Cleve.
land administration. "An Intimate
friend of mine who also was an lnte.
mate friend of Lord Salisbury, then
the British Prime Minister, told me'
he said "that when the President's
message was promulagted Lord Sails,
bury said to him, I believe that on
account of the rancor coming down"
from the Revolutionary War1 and ac.
centuated by certain ' occurrences In
the Civil War, America , means to
have a war with Great Britain at
some time and I believe now is the
best time, when America has not navy
The views f o thePrime Minister were
overruled by Queen Victoria,, but if
Lord Salisbury had had the power po '
sesser by some of the English Prime
Ministers, the Issue certainly would
have been tried out."
Mr. Depew used this Incident to en
force an argument in favor of strong
navy and for the present authoriza.
tion of two new battleships of the
Dreadnaught type.
Mr. Owen confessed "to a change
of views on the question of navy in.
crease . He said that last year, he
had given his vote for the naval pro.
gram, because of the President's rep
resentation of the possibility of for.
ign complications,, but now, haying
reached the conclusion that war was,
next to impossible, he had decided to
vote for the Burton amendment. He
proposed an amendment making an
appropiatlon for the district; purpose
of promoting international peace
but it was ruled out on a point of
order. .
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Will MakeQtftempt to Recover Sank
en Spanish .Treasure.
Halifax, N. S ., May 29 .The re. .
covery of sunken riches estimated to
be worth between $250,000 and
$500,000 is the object of an expedL .
tion which is to commence salvage
operations In Port Murray bay within ,
a few days. The treasure is sup. .-
I posed to be in the cabin of the Span.
ish galleon Don Gigra, which was ;
sunk about a. hundred years ago : :.
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man to teach her things she knows :
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