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Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-28

there are only ten or twelve sound waves per second. Tn telephonipg theaA would be two or thrSe thonsAhd in the same time. The only way to get over it would be to employ some force that would not affect surrounding mat ter"
 While he spoke MT. Edison took out his pencil and illustrated his subject by drawing lines on an old piece of paper which lay beside the log on which he was sitting. He spread the paper over his knee. "You know the alphabet?" he asked as he drew Morse characters on the paper. Now you see there is an absolute break between the flashes, represented so. It is plain series of straight lines and breaks. But the ca-, waving line. More like this for in- stance" MT. Edison here drew wav-, ing, curving line. "This line you sec runs up and down unequally. It is the length or value of the curves that en- ables the operator to detect the mes sage. have often watched the oper- ators at work and think it is really wonderful that they are able to select the message at all. I can read the or dinary line as it runs up and down, but it is crossed and recrossed by other lines coming from earth currents and the thousand and one sources from which stray current gets in and it is simply impossible for me to pick out the real message. Yet those fellows do it every time and with comparative ease"
 Cable operators ought to feel compli- mented by what Mr. Edison has to say of their skill In cabling. One would think he who was accredited to be one of the most skillful telegraphers of bis time might at least claim some pro- rflciency in the other branch of the, service Yet he acknowledges the sr-' periority of men whose work is seldom noticed beside the more theatrical feats of the ordinary land-wire operators.
 ''How about the attempts to see by wire? Do you, think this is coming
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-28

adjunct of the te1ephoneq" was the next question. Much has been said about it in the dailies," he replied. 'They tell how it is to be accomplished by se1enium, but I do not see how it is practical. I do not think the selenium process will solve it. It is surprise to noe, how ever, that the transmission Of pictures by wire is not more used. It is very easy of accomplishment. and news:: papers could get accurate pictures of distant events in this manner. I have transmitted pictures this way, and I would guarantee to send one ten inches square distance of five hundred miles every ten minutes. And every picture would be as good as the average news paper cut at that. eea ~s oe~n
 1T notice, also, that communication without connecting wire is agitated. They propose to use 1t in harbors, SO that ships coming in may better deter mine their position. I had broader scheme than that. The system of sig-| naling between moving trains Is in ac- tive use on one of our railroads. Now i propose to do it betwesn.ships at sea, and even when they are thirty miles, abaft 1t could be accomplished. Ono ship might take q message far out tol ses, then transmit 1t to another vessel thirty miles distant. / The last in it's turn would signal every vessel within, thirty miles of it, and so on. Soa mesy sage could be sent after 2 vessel and the latter be brought back to land. The ocean in storm and calm would be finder absollte control and the fate of many a mariner could be known by this system of transmission. whereas now his vessel may sink and her crew never be heard from again" Ts.
 MT. Edisch drew . picture of the ocean as 1t might appear Under this new system. Escaping criminals would have small chsiice of ayading detection by skipping of to countries where the 'extraditioH laws might give them safe harbor. A vessel bound into port whore epidsmiQa niGht zass squM Do
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-28

new fuel will be made to take the place of coal, Neither does he think we will be able to telephone across the ocean. Regarding the first he says:
 "Coal and wood, tho latter to include growing things, of course, arc the only unoxidized substancss on earth. Every thing else has been burnt. They cap not be burnt again. We might utilize the sun, wind and the air, but not ii Q very radical manner. There is sun engine. Mouchet built one and so did Ericsdn. Air could be utilized, I should think. The windmill is very old. s.
 ''I don't think wewill be able to tele- phone across the Atlantic. 1t would be impossible because of the eleqtriA- cation of the gtttta perohs cover- irg of the cable. Evsfy sub sE&pce wip electrify somewhat, so the dif8culty Is not to be overcome by dis Ictrding what is noT ysed Retween hiAptie and Hearts CQhtept, for it thSs, She tons Of gsdtt@ percka on the bie play . large part in It's opera bus. Every bit of 1t has to be electri-,
 before . single sighal cah Dc sent.
 when the current is cut oH at Va
 D after being operated, it still com
 to flow into Hearts Content for
 paratively long time afterward.
 |fl interferes with the sound
 Even in telegraphing there is
 break between the 6Ashes. end.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
NO TARIFF REPORT TO-DAY.
Confcrrees Nny Accept Advice to
"rry II Again"

WASHINGTON, July s.-Speaker
Crisp says there will be no report from
the Tariff Conference Committee to-
day. The Speaker was back in the
House after an absence OF four days,
ana gave early attention to the COM
plicated tariff situation
He conferred with Chairman Wilson
and Messrs, Montgomery and Breckin-
ridge. OF Arkansas, on the general fea-
lures of differences between the Senate
and House 1t could not be learned
that any definite plan OF action had
been outlined, yet the impression pre-
vailed among House leaders that II
might prove ineXpedient to carry out
the plan of reporting "a total disagree
ment and asking for instructions.
1t was pointed out that such report
would only emphasize the character Of
the difference, and that should the
senate and House instruct their con-
ferrccs to stand by their respective po-
sitnons it would prsCipitate a real and
obvious deadlock. The advice OF the
House leaders was. therefore, to go
baCk ana try again.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
LED A DOUBLE LIFE.
Two Women Are Now Claiming
Fred Boeling's Insurance.
One Has the Marriage Certificate
the Other the Policy.
Queer State OF Affairs Revealed by
Queer State OF Anhirs Revealed by
the Nicol Horror.

Through efforts that have been made
to collect the insurance ON the life of
Fred Boeling who was drowned by the
sinking of the tug Nicol Off the High
lands of Navesink on June a. 1t has
been learned that two women claim 10
be his wife, and that each was in isno-
rance OF his relations with the other.
Boiling was insured In the Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance Company for $50.
and two women now lay claim to It,
Friends of both women haunted the
Morgue at Stapleton for days after the
disaster. watching eagerly for any
proof of the death OF Boiling so that
they might be the first to file an appli
cation for the life insurance. But
their vigils bore no fruit. and efforts
In that direction were reluctantly aban-
doned after THE Evening Worlds"
submarine diver failed to find any
bodies in the vicinity of the sunken
tug.
Since that time the Nicol has been
raised, and as no bodies We're found in
her hull, actual proof OF Bookings death
will probably never be secured.
The. first woman who called at the
branch office of the Insurance Company
at the corner of One. Hundred and
Twenty-ffth street and Third avenue
July 2 was Mrs. Helena Boiling, who
lives at 24o5 Second avenue. she had
years, and has a certificate OF marriage,
which she presented to Supt. Megardec
as proof.
A few days later Helena Boiling No. .
riage certificate, but presented the in
surance policy, and thought to make
her claim still stronger by producing the
receipts showing that she had paid up
fha rp N "a nm ppalinp'g lfa
For obvious reasons the insurance PEG
pie did not pay her and sent word to
Mrs. Boiling No, l. The latter told an
ing that the woman using her name
had no right to 1t. Her husband, she
said, was head waiter in THESIS ON
salary. He left her a year ago, for the
! woman who Is now trying to get the
insurance money.
Wife No; said wife Ne 81, was a for;
where she met Boiling, who became
enamored Of her. Boiling and the
nue. last september, They occupied
Gated, ana Helena Boiling, No ., has
Eth Ssts Laying her s sddEess
| said, this woman called on me and
asked me to go to the insurance office
with her. In the presence of the Superin-
teliutnl sne OHeTel 10 settle IOr Slb, out
l would not do 1t. She has no right to
use my name, for / WAS not divorced
from my husband, and she was not mar
ried to him. II she let's me collect the
half and settle the whole difficulty"
In the mean time ne insurance people
are Withholding the money with the
hope that some solution to the problem
will present itself.
Boiling was thirty years old, dressed
well and was dashing, while his wife No.
s about thirty-eight and Is a hard
| working woman. During his life Boel-
support his eight-year-old daughter by
Il former marriage, now dead.
The woman who claims to be Mrs.
| Boiling No. is described as being
/ about twenty-siX years old and rather
comely. Her former neighbors know
| little about her.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
He HAD A FIT IN "cLARk's."
Lively Time in One of the Tender
loin Resorts.
A Dozen Men sitting on the French-
man Couldn't Hold Him.

In the Sixth avenue resort known as
Clark's there was scene about .
O. clock this morning that gave the women
loungers something to talk about for
hours afterwards.
The place was crowded and the wait
ers were hurrylng to ana fro with bot
ties and glasses, when suddenly there
WAS a crash and lot of shreking. Then
the walters made rush for one of the
tables, women jumped on chairs or ran
for the doors. Somebody raised the cry
of Fight" and in a moment cabmen
and Sixth avenue nighthawks were pour
ing In through the swinging doors.
1t wasn't fight. il was simply a case
of a man having a fit, but this particu-
lar man Seemed to have as much
strength while he was suffering from
these spasms as Sandow and Attila
combined. lie kicked two tables over,
broke catsup bottles, spilled canisters,
salt cellars, Worcestershire sauce yes
sells and other things until the place
looked a wreck.
Not one person in ten in the place
knew at first what was the trouble. The
walters. from long experience with bois-
ferrous customers simply fell on the man
Win lUt III. hsuHlIy 'itS dit dpIt
that manner to check the ardor of com
bat!ve gentlemen. but II didn't go this
morning. The man with the fit hurled
them about as II they We're children, he
kicked harder than any football player
ever kicked and he squlrmed and
wriggled in a way that was wonderful to
behold.
Little Paddy Burns, who conducts the
establishment, super!ntenied the job OF
restraining the man with the nj. Mr..
Burns was sight when he got through
with the job. The man did not regain
Consciousness for more than five min
half n dozen walters the afflicted mans
friends and some visitors To the place
had about as lively time as they ever
had.
When ii WAS all over they were drip
| ping with perspralirn, the part OF the
restaurant in which they were. looked
| like n wreck, ami some OF them were
nursing bruises. which resulted from the
| kicks or punches OF the man with the NJ.
the man who caused all tho excite
ment will he treated with sc2nt court
esy If he ever goes to tlark'S again.
lie was a Frenchmdu. After he had
| state of sensibility he got M, gave vent
! to a deep sigh and walked out.
ono Of the tough young mon who had
! been foremost In the struggle to restrain
| Tho man with the II was almost par
! alNZfd with advertisement when he saw
| the Frcnchman leave.
| We'll what do You think Of his jig
| steus." he cried. "Ilc comes in here
/ and he throws n. and nearly murders
| us md then hr goes aud never even
! buys a drink
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18

The collisions yesterday which came
so near resulting in a terrible loss of NE
made all navigators very timd this
morning when dense fog overhung the
bay and rivers.
Every possible precautIon was taken
by the officers of every craft veutur!nS
out To prevent accidents. and at times
the warning footing Of the whistles and
the clang OF the bells was almost deaf
enng along the liver fronts.
At 40 this morning the ltoDoken Terry
boat Bergen and the Starin stock boat
Annie Laurie were in collision off IN"
formers slip. Both were running at re-
duced speed but the Bergens captain,
because Of the fog, didn't see the Annie
Laurie until he was almost on TO her.
A prompt reversal OF their engines
alone prevented serious damage 10 botn
boats. As II was the slight shock caused
an incipient panic among the Bergen
passengers.
The fog was heaviest along about
O'Clock. At the Roosevelt street Terry,
the boats OF which run all night, Il was
stated that there had been some delay
between 3 and 4 o'clock, but that later
the boats began running regularly ana
on time. - A.,
Pennsylvania Railroad there was delay
OF about fifteen minutes IN th1 vrosslHs
of the early morning boats, huI ~ ~
Clock tntS "fif az "lt'''''6 -
At the Long Island Wall street, SCUM,
Staten Island, HobOkcn ana NttHh"kth
ferries IL was reported that their boats
had all been running regularly ana WIN
out any delay.
| Weather FOrecSste Dunn was seen ny
an "Evrning World" reporter this morn
ing lust after he had finished looking over
the reports Df last night and dtrldci
upon what sort of weather ne would
supply to New York to-day;
floor old Chicago sail Mr. Dunn.
at IL lust beginning to recover from the
effects OF the strike when IT - struck
! Iy a hot wave. 1t is the warmrst place
i'm IN" United States to-day north OF
FLORIDA. Ats o'ci'Ck It was S. there.
/ The weather Is generally ftir IN An
parts of the country. Along tn" lmmc-
date coast there are dense iOgS, Nhlch
account for tho high humidity.
old Humidity vas M heumes tAis
morning. and at once hogan getting IN
| his work Vt 3 O'Clock IN" h.w.'\
! was rs per cent, and ry - "'l"'k II
| IA. risen to o. per cent
The weather continues warm ~ an
p.rts Of the country east ui IN" Rocky
| N curtains. Tho average temperature m
| tLr ohio Valley aud lax" reg uns at ~
Io',lgck to-day wa II degrees
| rho weather viii Cpn'iuu" generally
| fair to-day. There viii Ice NOR" or loss
| fog iu this vicinity ANA ron-,i. rahie
| suI,rlncss There Is possibility II light
| showers this evening.
Tomorrow II Will hc slightly. warmer
and generally fair. with soFih'tI "lna"'
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
EDITION,
CAUGHT FIRE AT SEA,
0il-Laden Bark Emma T. Crovsll
Destroyed Near Sandy Hook.
The Captain, His Wife and Crew
Escaped in a Lifeboat.
The Ship Left This Port Yesterday
Bound for Shanghai.

The American bark. Emma T. CroWan,
OF Searsport, Me-, which left this port
yesterday for Shanghai in charge of
Capt. Pendleton. took fire when about
twelve miles of Fire Island. and was
burned to the waters edge. So quickly
did the flames spread that there was
no time to save anything. and the per-
sonal effects of the crew of fourteen
and the captain and his wife were de-
stroyed with the cargo.
Although the fire started about 60
o'clock last night, nothing was known
OF the disaster until this morning. when
the Dutch oil tank steamer Ocean, un-
rived at Quarantine with the crew Of
the Inflated bark.
The Emma T. Crowell, which 10 owned
by Eugene Carver, OF Boston, had q
cargo when she started out yesterday
Of 81, 1872 cases of kerosene oil After be-
aboard the station boat, tina sails were
stretched, and the bark fairly started on
her voyage.
when smoke was seen Issuing from the
FIRE hatch. A hasty examination was At
once made, and then It was discoyered
near where the oil was Stored.
Capt Pendleton knew from the innayn>
mable nature Of the cargo that any at
tempt made to save the vessel would be
useless. Instead he at once gave orders
for the lowering of the boats.
There was not much of sea running
at the time, but. In spite of that fact,
the starboard lifeboat was stove in while
| lowering 1t and rendered useless. The
port boat however. was safely launched
| and the captains wife, the only we0an
arem ns r cap to p PSt
Ing the last one to leave. -, TiH
Even then, however. their safety was
not complete as there was danger OF the
| oil exploding at any moment. In order
to get out Of harms way the crew
rowed a considerable distance and then
stopped to watch the bark burn up.
Just about that time heavy fog de-
scended and through this the red mass
| could be seen for half an hour or more.
Then 1t was lost to sight.
| Capt. Pendleton had about made up his
mind to try and row back to Fire Island.
when the Runic. one OF the White Star
| line freights. which was outward bound,
hove, in sight. Her commander, Capt.
crew, then turning his vessel around he
| returned to the Sandy Hook Lightship
and put them off.
Early this morning the Ocean was
sighted and sgnaled by the lightship
| officials and the crew OF the Emma r.
| Crowell were taken on board and carried
to Quarantine. At II o'clock they
Capt. Pendleton said this morning
| that he could advance no theory what
| ever as to the cause OF the fire, except
that 1t had been caused by spontaneous
| combustion. There had been no fires
lighted aboard, he said; while loading
up here with Oil. and the bark started
Immediately after her cargo was
| aboard.
The Emma T Crowell was built in
| 1873. and was !. 0S6 tons register. There
was very little insurance. Pemberton,
| Carver & Nichols are the New York
| agents
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
LAST EDITION.
AbREAK AT PULLMAN.
Return to Work Of $50 Holland
ers on the Tracks.
attempt TO Wreck a Wisconsin Gen.
trail Train in Chicago.
Guerilla Warfare on the Northern
Pacific in the Northwest.

CHICAGO, July 1s.-The first break in
the ranks of the Pullman strikers has
occurred. 100 Hollanders having gone
back to work on the tracks back of the
Pullman foundry.
The men quit work when the strike
was first declared.
No effort was made by the other
strikers to prevent the men going to
work.
Four strikers threw switch in front
of n Wisconsin Central passenger train,
late last night, and derailed the engine,
baggage-car and two coaches. The
train was moving slowly and nobody
was injured. one OF the men was ar
rested.
TACOMA, Wash, July 1S.-Three hun
dred and fifty-one new employees have
Ybeen put to work on the Pacific Division
of the Northern Pacific since the strike
began. Practically all the old engineers
have returned to work. Many or the
|switchmen, conductors, freight clerks
land some Of the firemen who quit have
|applied for their positions, but not all
could be taken back, as new men had
been engaged
The road would be In operation as
usual from end to end, the officers say,
but for the guerilla warfare that Is be-
ling continued. The force Of deputy mar
|shals in this State has been reduced
|srom 800 to 200. All bridges are being
|6uarded by regulars.
BUTTE, Mon. July ls-Attorney's Of
hhe Union Pacific and Northern Pacific
roads here state that their roads will
move trains in and out of the city as
soon as sufficient force of regular
troops arrive. Butte contains fully 5000
members of different labor organizations
all Of whom sympathize with the strik-
eN. Several bridges between this city
and Lima were burned yesterday and
one was blown up with dynamite. Presi-
dnt Calderhead, of the A. r. u, says
no resistance will be made to moving
Of trains by troops.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
ASSAULTED BY A GANG.
James CaroIIi Terribly Hcutcn in
Harlem Market rhis Market

James Caroii, an Italian, Of Eighty
first street and First avenue, was as
saultcd and terribly beaten in the llar-
lem Market, one Hundred ana Second
street and East River at O'Clock thiS
morning by gang of young fellows VINO
hang around the market, , H.,
Carolii was taken 10 the, Harlem Hos
initial where II was found that several
Of his ribs were fractured and his shout
der dSuCated. , ,,,,,,,,.
no last ONE Hundred and fourth
street station arrested ne rosl2Wing %W
IIl,, Ia rtr,.u tUrntV-fOur years old,
Of is Eaft on nnndrg4 t spa y Fi1fe old
~ ''piiTre streci, jeremiah sullivan
twenty-fSnr years old; Of 2Ss Wes GsS &gs e
Hundred and Eleventh street He En,t
Nav seventeen years old, OF go Eas'
4S ONE \ ndred and Seventh, street, ,,,,,,oo
n ) were arraisnedr be ,hin m 1uslnos
asTY emanded for Identification by the
Nv ed, maa.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
DEMANDS HIS CHILD.
Little Josephine GeOry Produced In
tue Supreme Court.

Josephine Geory, four years old, was
produced In Supreme Court Chambers
before Justice Slower this morning In
accordance with writ of habeas corpus
issued yesterday ON the applica ton OF
james Geory, the childs father VINO
is making a legal fight to get possession
of his daughter.
Josephine Is the daughter OF Geory's
first wife, who died when the child was
but seven days old. Mr.. Geory placed
the infant in the care OF Mrs: Mary
James, a relative of his first wife. She
saws there was no agreement that the
child should be returned to him ~hen ne
wanted her.
Recently Geory has remarked, and
wants the child taken care OF by his
Mrs. James has grown greatly at
tachpd to the child, and objected 10
giving her up. She was represented IN
court by Howe a. liummel, and upon
their application the hearing OF the case
was postponed for one week.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
MORE TROOPS FOR 0SWEG0.
Fort, first Separate Company, OF
Syracuse, Expected To-day.
(By Associated Press,

tBy AssocIdtcu FrussJ
OSWEGO, n. Y, July 1S.-Rioting
'lonsshoremen last night entered the
houses Of James Sexsmth and Isaac
Densmore, non-union men, and brutally
assaulted them. SeXsmith's wife came
10 her husbands assistance and was also
beaten.
non-union mems houses and threw
stones through the windows and threat
ened to hang the men II they should I'M
load the barges to-day.
Tle militia are now occupying the
boats surrounding the Company's prop
ery, preventing the 'longshoremen from
getting within 800 feet OF the non-union
men
The Forty-first Separate Company, of
Syracuse. is expected here soon to aid the
Owego militia in preserving the peace.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
INVENTORS AFTER FITCH.
They All Have Devices or Plans for
Turning GarbaSe.

Comptroller Fitch's declaration in
favor of garbage cremation has aroused
an army Of inventors, who have burst
forth like volcano in action and poured
their offers on Mr.. Fitch for construct
ing CrematOries.
He has had scores of propositions for
destroying the Ctys refuse by various
means-from a pocket crematory, cost
ing ST. to a plant which would cost
SIC OOO N0O
A woman wrote to the Comptroller in
forming him that she possessed the
secret for burning garbage, and that she
wog.i dispose Of IT for a conSldera tion.
she will not reveal the plan unless she is
paid something.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
THIS CONTEST A FlZZLE.
sudden End TO the Bicycle vs..
Horse Race.

The race % the bicyclists against the
horsemcn which started at noon on
Monday at Manhattan Field ended dis
lstrously about o'clock last night,
II was originally intended to race for
.cycnty-two hours, twelve hours each
day. Schock and Prince were the
Licycllsts and Alexandre and Bren-
ringer the hOrsemen.
nth yesterday the horscmon had a
slight lead Their twenty horses mad
until that time done well. Then they
Geuan 10 lag The riders were played
out and rode with no care or erort.
in the hour ending at > o'clock yes
terday Alexandra covered only 10 miles,
while rho bicycle had gone II. The re-
rrints for Yesterday are said to have
been SIS. This decided the fate of the
shaA.