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Large Fortunes Arr Now
Being Made From Salvage

The most celebrated salvage case in
American history was that of the
Thetis. an English war vessel that
sank off the Brazilian coast with $50
900 worth of bullion on board. Tor
months three sloops of war were an
chored at the spot and their crews re-
covered $3.50. 900 by diving. One-third,
that is. s250,000, was divided as salvage
between the officers and men.
The courts. in awarding salvage. do
not make a distinction between work
done by wreckng companies and that
of a passing ship which happens to be
in the neighborhood of wreck and as
sists in bringing il to port. But bread
~ speaking, all cases where a ship has
been saved as well as lis cargo may lie
classed under one of these two heads.
As many more vessels are wrecked by
being driven on shore. the number of
instances of salvage for wrecking COM
panies is greater than where ship is
disabled at sea and towed TO port Iy
a passing steamer, though as a rule the
profits in the latter case are greater in
proportion to the work done An in
stance of handsome profits made in this
way was the rescue of the T. #. Cakes,
a large ship bound for New York from
Hong Kong. Her crew got i'll with the
scurvy. and when she was 800 mites
from port there was nobody aboard to
work the ship. she asked the steam
ship Kasbek for assistance, and for
towing her this short distance the
courts allowed $40, 500 salvage. 1t is not
usual for a vessel to make a contract
before aiding another in distress, but
sometimes masters try to drive sharp
bargains, as the captain of the Sirius
was obliged to make when his vessel
broke her propeller and part of ner
shaft and was anchored in dangerous
position off the coast of Lower Califor-
MIA His ship and. cargo Were valued
at about $4,000 and he agreed to pay
sec, 900 to get her towed by the only
vessel at hand TO q place of safety.
The court decided that $4,000 was
enough for the service. No contracts
for exorbtant salvage are binding.
This rule never changes. When the
regular wrecking boats undertake 10
save a ship contract is usually made
beforehand. and this is less likely to
be contract under compulsion because
there are several companies to bar
gain with. but not long ago the snip
\ Jessamene ran on the rock near The
| Golden Gate and the master agreed TO
1 pay the wrecking tug Relief $4,000 Tor
| pulling her off. The work was done,
/ but the courts called the sum excessive
/ and awarded So. 600 Likewise when the
| tugs Alert Relief and Release. maia-
| tanned at an expense of $500 per
/ month saved the Don Carlos. a shir
worth cargo and all. about $4,000, the
contract called for $4,000. but only
7 So. 500 was allowed. This seems like a
| fairly good price for three hours work
The salvage that a ship makes does
J not all go to the owners, and for a sail
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WANTS TO TRAVEL IN STYLE.
Heavy Bill of Expenses Approved by a
New York Court.

1t is but seldom that state supreme
court is called upon to decide as to the
whims and caprices of women, but Mrs.
Sarah Decker Clark has just secured
an odd decision in her favor from
referee appointed by the supreme court
of the state of New York. Mrs. Clark
passes most of her time in New York
city, but her legal residence is up the
Hudson, near Catskill. Therefore
suit in which she was interested came
up before Judge Clearwater at Kings
ton Mrs. Clark applied for permission
to draw from the Farmers Loan and
Trust company of New York city
money to enable her to take Euro
pean trip. Under the will of her father
about $150.000 was deposited with the
Farmers Loan and Trust company, the
income to be used for her maintenance
and that of her sister until they became
q years of age. Mrs. Clark's husband
is Harry Clark. whom she married at
catskil nine months ago. She is in poor
health and her physicians have advised
/ winter in the south of France. AS
she is a ward of the supreme court and
would formerly have been called
ward in chancery. it was necessary to
apply to justice of that court for per
mission to draw the money from the
trust company. Judge Clearwater ap-
pointed William r. Holt of New York n
referee to take the testimony which
I was presented to the judge this week.
According to the referees report, Mrs.
| Clark wants various things, among
/ them being 5000 for clothing, $500 for
| travelling expenses, $500 for spending
/ money. $500 a month for the board OF
/ herself and husband. a gold watch 10
! cost $3.50. gold chain to cost S75. A
new set of shirt waist studs worth $50.
| a tailor-made suit to cost $40 and a
/ new travelling hat for which she must
/ spend $2S. The counsel for the trust
! company thought these items rather
! extravagant.
Cant you buy a hat for less than
/ s2s?" he asked sarcastically.
! 'Oh. yes dolefully replied the fair
petitioner; Il suppose l could. but
] wouldn't wear a cheaDer hat | want
/ to be we'll dressed or / shall not go to
! Europe"
How about the watch and chain?'
went on the lawyer. relentlessly.
"Oh. / can get a watch for $780, said
! Mrs. Clark. eagerly addinp: 1T won't
! he much of a watch, though, and
can't have a diamond set in the case
The gold chain, she said. could not
/ be bought as heavy and as long as she
wanted it for less than S15.
/ After a careful perusal of the testi-
j mony. Judge Clearwater decided that.
although Mrs Clark had expensive
! habits and liberal notions they We're
not so extrava CANT as to make him
refuse her petition, so he granted all
of her requests. even for a real long
gold chain" and an order was issued
directing the Farmers Loan and Trust
! company of New York city TO pay the
bills.
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The Sovereign, large four-master.
grounded on Jersey beach in 1892. She
was loaded with silver specie and when
the master saw she would go to pieces
he had the heads Knocked out of the
barrels and told the men to help them
selves to the coin. Their greediness
cost their lives. for when they jumped
for the shore the silver in their peck
cts pulled them down and drowned
them. Then the willy master who had
swum ashore without any of the spoil,
collected the bodies, emptied the pock-
cts and thus saved the most valuable
part of his cargo. The story is sim
pie one. but not so the question of who
was entitled to the salvage. which per-
picked generation of lawyers.
Salvage, the money paid for rescu-
ing ships and their cargoes, is probably
the most difficult question to decide
equitably that comes before courts. The
decisions are remarkable and altogeth-
er startling in their variety to a lay
man with an idea of infallibility of law
courts; and even the general principles
remain unsettled.
For instance. it is held by one judge
that salvage should be paid only when
a ship is saved from certain danger;
another says that any assistance in
getting disa bled ship to port entities
to salvage rather than the less expen-
eiye towage.
The percentage allowed to sailors
rises from 10 to so, and in some cases,
where the value of the wreck was small
and the service arduous practically the
whole of the rescued cargo and the snip
x<@a 10, 70 bo col
Something like this happened last
spring in the celegrated case of the
Harrington, a British steamship that
stranded on the Long Island coast.
Tugs pulled her off and she was finally
sold in New York. a badly battered
wreck. for 1880. The work of rescue
was so arduous that the district court
gave the entire ship and cargo TO her
/. sailors, but the court of appeals de-
Acided that in every case there should
AAe margin for the owner of a lost
Nip end awarded so per cent.
= I'm the old days before steamships
And Nreck!ng tugsrsiie, only salvage
THAT Was made was by rescung car
goes either before or after the sniT
went to nieces-pss sank. There was lit
tie towing of disabled vessels, and
when ship once went ashore she was
doomed and raising a wreck was OF
course dreamed of no more than glue
ing one together after she broke up
Nowadays the saving of wrecks is a
business and along oun sea COASTS an
on the waters of our great lakes anc
rivers wrecking companies are ready
TO undertake to raise or pull anything
from q row boat to man-of-war.
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of whale oil thrown upon one of the
Fiji islands IS per cent.
1t is impossible to estimate the
amount of salvage that is paid in one
year by wrecked vessels, but it is enor-
nous During the past SIX months. up
wards of 100000 was awarded by the
United States courts, and this repre-
sents but a small proportion of the
salvage paid in this country alone in
that time. as the great majority of sal
wage cases are settled by the board Ct
underwriters of the insurance comra-
nies on which all salvage ultimately
falls and never reaches the courts.
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saving his son from some fate more
dreadful than death. or whether, Soad-
ed to fury by defeat, he willfully mis-
construed kindly act, can never be
known.
Rushing from the crowd he caught
up the child in his arms, and before
any one could interfere, drove knife
through the tender throat and threw
the boy overheard.
That boy will never be the sport
of the Yankee pigs he shrieked--in
Spanish, of course-and disappeared in
the fiery hold He was never seen
again.
Doubtless he, too, fled from the i'm
agined insults of the victorious Yam
kee along the same red path by which
he had dispatched his son.
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20 and 10 per cent of the value of the
property saved. But making salvage Is
a very risky as Wen as uncertain mat
ter. and nearlyteyery case is one of me
cure no pay" so that when there Is
profit it ought 10 he a big one. The
smaller the amount saved the larger
the percentage of salvage is the iule.
and some of the highest proportions of
salvage were in the case of the cargo
of the Alabamanian. wrecked m 1889. lS
ner cent. and for rescung Sc, 40 worth
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Spanish ships is now inspecting the
Christobal Colon, but experts say that
the shin cannot be raised. 1t is not
known what the Hong Kong wrecking
company that raised the Spanish gun
boats in Manila will get as SALVAGE,
but they ought to make a handsome
thing out of it.
The profits in salvage are large, and
out of the rs important salvage cases
passed en- by United States courts up
to 1897, the salvage in so was between
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-29
Closing Sessions of c. Il. Union.

The closing session of the midyear con-
vention of the c. e. u. were held yes
terday at the Friends Church. The morn
ing session was the most fruitful held, sew
eral important changes being made in the
constitution, the election of officers and
place of meeting in 1895 being decided. Here
after an advisory board will assist in the
conduct of the affairs of the society and
will have charge of all the money, the
board to consist of five members, three
elected and the superintendent OF ne TWO
departments of the union. The board VIII
also nPVe charge ana transact any puslnSss
that NAV come between the meetings. Inc
names of the first two officers snail be Su-
perintendent and assistant superintendent,
instead of president and vice president. The
next meeting Will pc held III hohoHlo the
continue Mr.. Seine as missionary IN Mex
leo at the same salary, $3.50 a year. The
officers chosen were: superintendent,
Howard Brown, of Indianapolis; assistant
SUPERINTENDENT. Louis Greist. of Indianapo-
lis secretary, Alma Hadley, OF Friends
wood: treasurer, Dallas Cargo, of Carmel +;
iunior superintendent, Mary Cox, OF Co
iona: advisory board, for a term of three
I reaTe Albert J. Brown. of Irvlngton; for
Two Years Mrs. Anna Sanders of Mobiles
yiilel: for one year, Morris Hadley, of IN
The addresses of the morning were on
Good Literature" by j. Frank Booth of
GRAY: on "Giving and Tithing," by Anna
Sanders of NoblesVille, ana our Relation
to c. E. L. Work by Rev. Mary Mars,
of carmel The programme for the after
noon and evening included a series of pa
pers and talks by Curtis Newsome, OF Eiiz-
allentown; Elma Fulghum, of Chicago;
Lizzie Hanson, of Kokomo; Florence Lit
sey. of Marshall and J. Walter Malowe, of
Cleveland O. The 4 o'clock conference
was led by MARTHA Cox, ElVa Johnson ana
Cora Edna Green.
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but that did not account for the bad condi.
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and if pricked my finger while sewing, no
blood followed the puncture. All this 10
different now, thanks to DR.. Williams Pink
Pills.
(Signed) "MRs. CHRIsTIANA FOSTER"
Witness: MRS. ED. HEARN.
The proprietors of DR.. Williams Pink Pills
state that they are not patent medicine but
prescription used for many years by an em-
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of weakness arising from a watery condition
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nature. They are entirely harmless and can
be given to weak and sickly children with
the greatest good and without the slightest
danger. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers,
or will be sent post paid on receipt of price.
$50 cents a box, or six boxes for $250-they
are never sold in bulk or by the 1907 by ad.
dressing DR.. Williams Medicine Company,
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sHERIFF,s SALE.

By virtue of certified copy of a decree to me
directed from the clerk of the Superior Court of
Marion county, Indiana, in cause No. 50492,
wherein Melissa Jenkins is plaintiff and William
G.. Beatty is defendant. requiring me to make
the sum Of ten hundred and eleven dollars
{Sl01t), provided for In said decree. with in
terest and costs, ] will expose at public sale Ia
the highest bidder,
SATURDAY. THE 9TH DAY OF JUNE, 1887,
between the hours of 10 clock a. m and
o clock D. N. of said day at the door of the
courthouse of Marion county. Indiana, the rents
end profits for term not exceeding seven years,
o. the following real estate in Marion county.
Indiana;
The undiv ided one-half Ga of lots one hundred
and sixteen no and one hundred and eighteen
dl0, and the undivided one-third d-a) OF lots
hundred and twenty Q2W. hundred and
nfty-three l50 and one hundred and tifty-fouI
Q5D, in 5 ana r. f. Morris's Oak Hill addition
To indianapolis, being now in Brightwood.
II such rents and profits Will rot sell for a suf-
hcent sum 10 satisfy said decree with interest
and costs, l Will. at the time and place
expose TO public sale the fee simple of said real
estate. much thereof may be sufficient
TO discharge said decree. Said sale will be made
with relief from valuation apprasement laws
THOMAS p. SINGLETON,
May l., 1897. Sheriff of Marion County.
l.. Harlan. Attorney fOr Plaintiff
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sIIERIFF,s SALE.


BY virtue Of q certified copy Of decree TO me
directed from the clerk Of the Superior Court of
Marion county. Indiana, in cause No 5l40I,
Wherein Solomon IsaaCs ct al. are plaintiffs and
the United states Capsule Company ca corpora
tom is defendant requiring me 10 make the
sums Of money IN said decree provided and in
manner and form therein provided, with in
terest and costs, 1 viii expose at public sale to
the highest bidder, on
SATURDAY, THE 18TH DAY OF JUNE, 1897,
between the hours Of 10 O'Clock d. m. and
o'clock .. m. of said day, at the door of the
courthouse of Marion county, Indiana the rents
and profits FOR term not exceeding seven years,
Of the following real estate in Marion county,
Indiana:
Lots numbered eighty-one SD, eighty-two G2),
eightythree $50. eighty-six $50, eghtyseven 90
and lightweight CsS), in A. ID. Woods second
subdivision OF Cress' 5 addition TO the city of
indianapolis
II such rents and profits will not sell for a
sufficient to satisfy said decree with interest
and costs, 1 will, at the same time and place,
expose to public sale the fee simple of said real
estate, much thereof may be sufficient
to discharge said decree Said sale viii be made
with relief from valuation or appraisement
laws. THOMAS L. SHUFELTON
May %, 1877. Sheriff of Marion County.
L. u. Swift, Attorney for Plaintiff
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Refused to join.

All the arrangements mace by the exec
utive committee of the Western Passenger
Association have been approved and
adopted by the association as whole and
thew are now in effect. All the arrange
ments relate to the continuance of the
clergy and mileage ticket bureaus and the
oroiqrant hureau in New York and the ac-
ton of the executive committee regarding
them has been already published The only
messed any dissatisfaction was the failure
of the committee TO induce the Wisconsin
Central, Great Western and the Minneap-
9esnciation The executive committee was
Instructed to renew its efforts to get the
roads into the association and 1t was the
general opinion of the meeting that de-
cided answer should be received from the
roads at once so that their competitors
might know how their rates should be met
in the event of any decentralization.
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
sHERIFF's SALE.

by virtue or Q certified copy OF decree 10 me
directed from the clerk Of the Superior Court OF
Maron county, Indiana, in cause No. 54l14,
wherein the Big -Four Building Association OF
Indiana is plaintiff and Ida NJ. Kenner ct al. are
defendants, requiring me to make the sums OF
money in said decree provided and in manner and
form therein provided with interest and costs,
i viii expose at public sale 10 the highest bidder
On
SATURDAY, THE 18TH DAY OF JUNE, 1897.
between the hours Of 10 O'Clock a. m. and 4
o'clock p Of said day, at the door OF the
courthouse OF Marion county. Indiana the rents
and pronts for term not exceeding seven years,
OF the following real estate in Marion county
Indiana:
Thirty-fve $3.50 feet off Of the vest ends of lots
seven % and eight C0 in block eighteen qS), In
brakes addition 10 the CITY Of Indianapolis, said
strip Of ground being thirty-fVe 1851 feet In
width across the entire width of said lots seven
90 and eight 80
II such rents aid profits viii not sell for a
sufficient to satisfy said decree with interest
and costs, l Will, at the same time and place.
expose to public sale the fee simple of said real
estate, much thereof may be sufficient
TO discharge said decree. Said sale will be made
without relief from valuation appraisement
laws. THOMAS Z. SHUFELTON,
May % 1897. Sheriff of Marion County.
w. j. Beckett. Attorney for Plaintiff.
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sHERIFF's SALE.


BY virtue of a certified copy of decree to me
directed from the clerk of the Superior Court of
Marion county, Indiana, in No. 1885,
wherein the Mutual Bond and Surety Company
is plaintiff and Elnora Brinl1man ct AL are de-
PENDANTS, requiring me to make the of
twenty dollars and ten cents 1924 100, pro-
vided for In said decree with interest and costs
/ viii expose at public sale to the highest bid
der, on
SATURDAY. THE eth DAY OF JUNE, 1897,
between the hours of 10 o'clock a. M and
o. clock p. of said day. at the door OF the
courthouse of Marion county, Indiana the rents
and profits fer term not exceeding seven years,
OF the following real estate in Marion county,
Indiana:
Lot number seventy-fve (70 in Shoemaker &
Lippencott's addition TO the city of Indianapolis.
IL such rents and profits will not sell for suf-
hcient sum to satisfy said decree. with interest
and costs, l WILL at the same time and place,
EXPOSE to public sale the fee simple of said real
estate. much thereof may be sufficient
to DISCHARGE said decree. Said sale will be made
without relief from valuation or appraisement
laws. THOMAS Z. SINGLETON,
May 10 1897 Sheriff of Marion County.
& Magan Attorney for Plaintiff