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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-05-22
DELINQUENT CORPORATIONS.

In the list of domestic corporations that
are delinquent IN the payment OF their
franchise tax. published in The Post to-
day, come eighteen or twenty are credited
10 Galveston. OF that large number only
few are what may be considered going
concerns. Several Of the organizations are
OF social nature and others have ceased
20 do business or have changed to part
nership. =.
The Galveston chamber Of commerce will
probably not resist the payment OF this
tax, although they believe they should be
exempt from II for the same reason that
country fair organizations are not sub
| jecr 10 a franchise tax.
The list was read with considerable In
] terest here today and there will now b
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now Jou must help" And God told, me that he
Mr.; lincoln hsd The birGest heat ever
House. Mr.. tAdneoln had retired, Curtin
IN T'n soAi in, asGd n: . sSSSFpi a,n4SS sRc. . .stsnna besPP
to the, battlefield Curtin snia; Battle,
Jumped nSrn, out %tS OF bed, and W"iEoG up and down the
room with tears raining down his iaeo. crying:
ANY G 5ssn y Sy haze y9p PIT SaT mS IN ar isa' P % cou 10
fort him and said he was sorry no made nnS
Joshua Speed told mo this: Lincoln said.
mei. Stay tonight. after tho, loyoe." I
Sit down. Joshua. Mr. 'Lincoln, It is
' after +. TTldnisht; and you Snd must I nSvG Css sieeD ,} IShTs.
what DO You meant Joshun,, t9-morrow Is
tho boys papers ihoy will be shot, but the officers
have demonstrated that II costs mere lives than
slocp Thursday nights. Joshua, stay with me;
Tho biggest. heart that over God put In a man
Senator Thnrston. the next speaker. said In
Abraham Lincoln said that a house divided
against itself cannot stand. w cannot 20 on,
expect the nation to fall; neither did he expect
1t to remain divided against itself, , and
Of the situation. It may DO apropos 10 shy that
the Republican. party in this vicinity cannot
stand. half regular and half Citizens UnlOn. L
do not expect 1t to fall, but l do expect the Re-
publicans to get together pretty soon.
Fl" ! am delighted ms nm American with ther rec
day OF Abraham Lincoln. I do not think that too
much honor can be bestowed on the head OF our
beloved war President. In toast tonight am
assigned to link the names OF Lincoln and Grant,
and l am glad Of the opportunity. God did 1t
years ago and made the combination his instru-
mont for the preservation Of the Union.
1T seems to me that God has exerted q spe-
cial providence ovor this country. He gave us
Columbus. He gave us Washington. He
think Of the two latter In another CON
nection. They both came of the plain,
common people of the United States, They
truly sprang from the very soil Of America, ana
they received their wonderful gifts from a line
OF ancestors who had titled tho soil under the
most disadvaptaReous conditions.
L those dcmagogues who would divide us
into masses and classes and set us against one an
other, i say that under any other conditions than
flag than the Stars ana Stripes. men like Abra-
ham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant could not
have sprung up from the very ground to do
their wonderful work.
There were several other Lincoln Birthday
celebrations In Brooklyn. Timothy L. Roberts
and Col. Alexander s. Bacon delivered adj
dresses on Lincoln before the Young Mems
League of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian
Church and tho Rev. John w: Chadwiyk lec.
Library Association. Special commemorative
meetings were also held under the direction OF
the Lincoln, Barnard. and Twentieth Century,
Clubs, and the Young Mems Republican CLUB or
the Seventeenth Ward and the Henry K. Abell
Republican Club.
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powerful nation with which We are, at
war, and at once transformed into The most dan
gerous possible base OF operations ngninst our
menace. We can only dccIdo whether VIC will
or by force to try to conquer them from tho fret
powerful. nation with which we may become
torSatiyes must be- chosen By us, ana II We pos.
soss any title TO wisdom, we will choose the hrsts
Let me aeain repeat that the right arm 81
Smpis coast fortiiicatiSns; tho last things IN
ships, for such economy Implies THO possibility OF
overwhelming national disaster; but though we
need tho forts We need tho ships even more Sin,x ~ a he
striking, not by parrying. Forts would DO OF
great value In war. but they would not aver
would not as a deterrent to any nation inclined
IL iish IL 70 S Ssa with = S 3s; II OF T0 T ~%ss sasS
as we now have. manned by, Officers
Gnd do crew. y, like those , Which now man naa 1Een 10 o nut
equality with tho greatness of our people; II we
have such q fleet. capable Of offensive no less
chance that our seopio will be forced to fight.
and still smaller chance that we will not emerge
from any war immeasurably tho gamer IN
Congressman Boutelle made a speech in which
he said that a reform of tho currency was neces,
sary, and that he for ono preferred action 70
speech no said that II tho bankers Of New York
city would frame tho proper law no would UNI
dertake to sec that IL passed the House at any
rate.
DR.. Depew interjeoted tho remark that such Q
bill would DO drafted, and the speaker replied
that It would be passed.
After the speech the POSTMASTER put tho
question to those present and 1t was. the unan.
nous vote. taken with great enthusiasm, that
the bill should DO prepared Immediately.
Among the other speakers was II. d. Estabrook
Of Chicago.
Letters OF regret were received from Robert
T. Lincoln, President Mckinley. Vice-Presi-
dent Hobart, Gov. Black, Sir Julian Paunce;;
others. Among those present. were Morti-
mer G. Addoms, John Sabine smith, Joseph
n deuel., s. p; Avery. Edmund we TIN Z.
Hedges, Con. Il. A. McAlpin. James S. Barcus.
Senator +. d. Pavey. II. G. Duyal. Warner Mil
Senator Lexow. Warren HiEley, Gen. Anson @.
McCook, Charles II. Skinner, II. NJ. Clements,
A. w. Soper, and William Leary.
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have become wedged in such a fashion that the
propeller was inmIned. and thus the shaft was
broken and a hole dug in the bottom Of the boat.
cause Of the wreck was due wholly to the fact
that after the accident It was not possible to get
anywhere near the break to see anything.
Capt. Stenger of the Veendam has n record
for bravery. He has been in the service Of
the Holland.A America line as fourth. third,
In January, Iso4,, he was Captain OF
the Amsterdam, and. for standing by tho
sea on after his first officer and five OF his men
had been drowned attempting to rescue her
crew, President Cleveland presented q gold
watch to him.
On this trip after the rescue Capt .stenger with
his passengers and crew passed resolutions
thanking tho g. Louis's crew for their bravery
their kindness and the ST.. Louls's on.
GERS and crew passed resolutions COM
plimenting Capt. Stenger and his officers
Louis took up a collection for the boats crews
that participated In the rescue work. 1t
The Veendsm was 400 feet long 40 feet 0
inches broad and had a depth of 81 feet. She had
three decks. She was built of iron in Belfast in
1871 for the White Star feet and was used by
the White Star line up to a few years ago. She
had four triple expansion engineshwith a total Of
600 horse power. She was a single screw boat.
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MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL ROW.
Seven Member OF the Board OF Education De
nounced MT n Citinens' MeetiuG.

Seven Member or the Board OF Edueation Do
nounced Mt y Citirens' Meeting.
MOUNT VERNON. n. V, Feb. ia contention
OF long standing between the Board of Educa-
ton and the citizens of this city eliminated to-
night in a public meeting.
The purpose Of the meeting. as explained by the
Chairman. DR.. A. NJ. Campbell. and the speak
ers, George o. Beach. Frank NJ. Buck, Mrs.
Edward +. Gay. and the Rev. y. 7. Graham
rector of Trinity Church, was to condemn the
board for holding secret sessions. for tho AFRO
gance of President A. Noel Brakeman In
making the statement at q recent meet
ing that citizens and members of the West
chester Women's Club were only allowed to be
present by sufferance, for the overcrowdinG Of
the schools and for refusing to admit a class Of
twenty-three graduates from the grammar
schools into the High School. compelling them
to remain in idleness and out Of school until
next September.
The offence for which the board received tho
most severe condemnation Is that of refusing to
grant diplomas to ten young mon and women
M in ass shey TS Seaq monnt f VsrnO the H hifh s sehool
was established in 1894. but In the Two years
immediately following it was in an unsettled
the Organization Of the school a class of ten stu.
dents left the school and entered upon higher
board. led by PRESIDENT A. Noel brakeman, have
commended that. as these pupils did not take the
ull three years' course, the simple typewritten,
Regents certificate issued to tho class in June.
1896. is all that they are entitled to. This con-
tention has been maintained by President Blake
man and Trustees James NJ. Anderson, William
H. Bard. Jesse Lantz,. Thomas +. Skinner.
Thomas Dennison, and Lieut.; Horny X. Rhoades.
The opposing members, William A. Roedel and
Henry C.. Wlken, have been led by DIR. s. Oscar
Myers, a former School Commissioner, whose
daughter. Miss jessie w. Myers, is ono of tho
class seeking to obtain the High School diplomas.
At the last regular meeting held on last Mon
day night and attended by several hundred
Women's Club. Trustee Myers again brought
up the question OF, granting diplomas to the
the result was announced Trustee Myers
denounced his colleagues as seven towards. He
was loudly applauded by the citizens. and the
meeting adjourned in disorder. At both meet
inRs the people have shown unmistakable SYM
pathy for the minority Of the board, and tonight
when Trustee Myers announced his intention of
presenting his resignation u motion was adopted
that It was the sense Of the meeting that he
reconsider tho matter. The action Of his COL
leagues was almost unanimously condemned.
and a resolution demanding that the class re-
ceive high school diplomas was adopted. A res.
olution demanding the immediate designations
Of those who have taken an opposite course was
defeated by n small vote, and tho meeting broke
up with cheers for DR.. Myers.
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40 IL was II was resortcd to. The male omlFrants
who wcro not ut tho hand piiinps wcro formed
Into bucket brigades and sct 10 bailinR out the
boat.
thnt the water had gained eighteen inches, and
they and tho officers know that tho ship
was doomed, and that their only hope lny
IN meeting n steamship or taking to
rho tossing sea In tho ships small boats.
Every iuan on tho ship who WINS able
70 work was working, and every woman
was praying or screaming or weeping. Night
had settled black as pitch. Tho dim lights OF
tho ship made the darkness over tho ocean
deeper. All that could DO heard was the clack-
ety.clnck clsckety.clack of the pumps, and tho
wheeZy putting OF the donkey ungine as IL was
driven at full speed. The men bent to thoir
work, the perspiratton streaming from, them.
A half hour moro passed. "It5 gained about
nine inches, sir" reported tho engineer. Tho
men Mt tho pumps peered. ont into tho darkness.
In no direction was n light visible. and only tho
dim white OF the wnvc crests. Now the sky lit
M. The Captain himself had. lighted n flare,
the FIRST signal OF distress, II Burned weirdly,
and then died away. Then n rocket went hiss
ing upward higher and higher and hurst in
tho air. Then another flare and more rock
cts. but not an answering signal. Another hour
went by. Broken backed. almost, the mel. ut
the pumps struggled on with desperation. The
e~ngfncor reported the water always gaining
eighteen inches In the last hour. Now and then
q man at tho pumps gave out. Instantly
another took his place. drafted from the
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will sail this morning. wnlfAim y. y6ndentorn,
agent OF tho, Holland.Amerioa limo: said that
tho Veondnm was valued at about S20O,OOO ana
that her cargo was probably worth about e3OO,-
600.
passed by the customs ohlccrs. along with the
passengers OF tho 81. Louis. They complained
because tho officers of the Vecndnm and the OF.
hcors OF the st, Louis had not permitted them 70
take any. of their baggage with them from the
sinking ship.
Barge Onice. There seventy of them were
found to DO without means and likely
to become public charges. They were do.
tained. They protested that they had had
money, that they had lost their all, and thnt
thoy should not DO 80 punished. The law,
however, required that they be detained. 1t Is
possible that in their cases a special ruling may
be made and those people may DO permitted to
All the officers of'the veendsm who woro seen
yesterday were questioned by tho reporters
about the cause OF the accident. None OF them
would express any opinion except the Captain,
who said in the statement given to THE
SuN ship news service that tho Vecndnm
had struck n submerged wreck. Tho agent OF the
line. when he was questioned. said that this was a
surmise based principally on tho fnct that the
ship had been passing through wrcckaRe for half
an hour before the accident. How q submerged
wreck could knock n hole in the stern Of q boat
Ia n question he could not answer, but It was
suggested that q largo piece Of wreckage may
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BEATEN WITH RUBBER HOSE.
The Mother Arrested. Though the Son Said He
Deserved What Fe Got.

The Mother Arrested. Though the Son Said He
Deserved What He Got.
Mrs. Mary Wirth Of 20 Rector street was &C.
cuscd in the Centre Street Police Court yester-
day Of beating her 1O-ycar.old son Philip with Q
pieco of rubber hose about three feet long.
Philip was in court. His head was covered with
Jumps. ana Agent King OF the Gerry society
said chat on his body were bruises and welts.
The boy was. nevertheless. unwilling to testify
against his mother. and wept throughout the
court proceedings.
Philip fell on the sidewalk at Carlisle and
West streets on Friday. He was carried to this
Hudson, Street Hospital. wherc Surgeon Rod
man found that he WAS suffering from q beating.
fright. and hysteria. The Gerry. society was
notified, and Agent King called at Philips
home. He began to question Mrs. Wirth, and
she grew defiant.
Yes, l whipped him." she shouted. He
threatened TO take poison and kill himself. so l
lust knocked him over the head with n broom.
stick and with that piece of rubber hose. What
are you going to do about itl"
Agent King arrested her. In court yesterday
Philip told Magistrate Simms that no deserved
the whippings he received, as he had been play
ing truant from Grammar School No. %. He
admitted that no had threatened to kill himself
because Of the whippinRs he received.
Magistrate Simms committed Philip to tho
Gerry society and held Mrs. Wirth in 1000 bail
for trial at Special Sessions. Mrs. Wirth has
three other children. and Of these the neighbors
took charge.
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LINCOLN DAT IN CHICAGO.
Euisgy or tho Martyred President By Benja.
min Harrison.

Euiegy or tho Martyred President By Besja.
min Harrison.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-THE most notable event of
the celebration of Lincoln's Birthday in Chicago
was the twelfth annual banquet Of tho Mar
quette Club. In addition to the member Of
the club and leading members OF the Republican
party there were gathered at the dinner
in tho banquet room OF the Auditorium Hotel
tonight such men as ox-President Benjamin
Harrison, Justice David ]. Brewer of tho
United States Supreme Court, tho Right
Row. Henry c. Potter. d. d., LII. D.,
Bishop OF New York; Secretary of the
Treasury Lyman J. Gage. Congressman w.
]. Calhoun and Henry Sherman Boutelle, and
President Garfield of the University of Ohio.
President +. q. Paulding welcomed the guests.
Ex-President Harrison's address on Abraham
Lincoln " was listened to with profouAd atten-
ton. mo college of arts" said the speaker, had
opened to the struggling youth destined to DO.
come the head of the nation. He was born In
n cabin and reared among the unlettered.
He was a rail-splitter. c iatboat man and a coun.
try lawyer. Yet. in all these conditions he was
a leader. Most kind in speech and most placid in
demcanor. yet disturbing the public peace by his
insistence that those theories of human rights
OF which he was a champion should be practical;
not a few OF the Northern States he was an
gneouth jester, an ambitious p%pstart, a reckless
ulbtufDeT. Io "uo M " u oOuIn, uOI OILY
for his principles, but for himself.
"The selection of Seward as Secretary OF
State WAS q brave act, for Mr.. Lincoln could
not fail to know that for a time Seward would
overshadow him IN the, popular estimation. 1t
was a wise selection. because Seward was IN
the highest degree, qualified for tho duties
Of the office, Lincoln was distinguished from
the abolition leaders by the fairness and kindli.
ness with which he judged the South and The
stakeholder. He opposed slavery not because
some masters were cruel. but because kindness
cludod the black man. Liberty is the law OF
nature
."Ho was a man who could be Just without
pleasure in the seventies Of justices who loved
spoke Of The Nations Anchor-Ita Courts OF
Justice" Secretary Cages talk Oh Govern.
ment Finances" was somewhat long, although
It dealt with the vital issues OF a sound cur.
rency. a stable banking syatem, and ths dan,
gers OF Government paper money. Blshop
Potter spoke in n iellcitous manner on The
"Humor OF lincoln" In which connection he
narrated several delightful stories OF the Presi
dental humorist.
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The man who goes to find the North
Pole must be strong, and brave, and
healthy. His is a dangerous and health
trying task. His nerves must be steady
to keep his vessel from wreck. His blood
must be pure and rich to Withstand eK-
posure aud fatigue.
These things are equally as important
to the nan who stops at home and works,
for death and disaster are not confined TO
the Arctic regions. Steady nerves, pure
blood and healthy vigor are essential TO
health and success anywhere in the
world. Thousands of men do not seem
to realize this and 20 about half alive and
miserable just for lack of a little Of the
proper medicine. DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery is designed to help
them. 1t is a blood vitalizer-a nerve
strengthened. II should be taken by
every man or woman who is not exactly
as we'll, and vigorous as he or She ought
to be. 1t produces strong, sound, solid
flesh brings springiness back to the
step-brightness to the eyes-chcertul-
ness to the mind. No medicine in the
world ever had such a wonderful record
of success.
VIVA. Snothera. Esq, Of Miilston, Jackson Co,
Wis, writes; II wish to say that DR.. Piercc's
Golden Medical Discovery is the best nediCiue
for the Grip that l have ever tried. 1 was curnd
twice with 1t when l could not get any 9th
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
the Liver, stomach and bowslAs -
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nor BURIED BIZ 4 CAvE-IN.
Coilaps or an Oid Owes Under the sidewnik
In Hester street.

Collapse or m OLD Owes Under tho Sidewalk
In Hester street.
Samuel wechsler, 10 years old. Of AZ Hester
street, was very nearly killed yesterday after.
noon by a cavern at 50 Hester street, whore he
and three companions were ut play. The build
ing at this number was torn down recently TO
make room for n new park. Since then a brick
oven built out undcr the sid ewalk has been q
favorite play ground for the boys OF the neigh
borhood. The old oven has done duty for every
thing from q bandits treasure cave to q prison
cell.
Recently the boys have been taking ont the
bricks Of tho oven in order to enlarge the space.
Besides the wechsler boy Julius and Bernard
Schapinsky Of 10 Essex street and Henry Marks
wero engaged in pulling out tho bricks ut half
past 4 yesterday aftornbon.
Suddenly tho roof Of thu oven gave way, bury
schapInsky and Henry Marks partially. Bcr-
nard Schapinsky succeeded In extricoting his
brother, and n man who gave his namo as Moses
Gardner dug out the Marks boy with his bare
hants.
Policeman Higgins, who was on post, and
Policemen Boernor. Sullivan, and Strang.. de-
tailed for ordinance work. all of the Eldridgo
street station. arrived rS at n this trrne' c mma s me
only the Wechsler boys, feot ,protr9ding from
under about three feet Of bricks md earth and
q large f~ugstone from the sidewalk, Ono got
two shovcls from Max Wax. u clothing dealer
across the street. and another an
ambulance in n hurry.
Within five minutes the boy was uncovered
that saved his life was the fact that the big flag
stone fell so rs TO leave q small air space about
his head. AS 1t was. he was unconscious. The
policemen followed the directions for resuscitat-
hustled off to the Gouverneur Hospital, where
no was reported to be doing well later.
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F1AoLER ON BIoKEr,s DEATH.
He says na Has Heard That Hla ssn.In.LAw
Did Not Commit Suicide.

Dlu MOI commit buicloes
ST. LOUIS. Feb. 12.-J. H. FlaRler. father-in-
law of Baron Harden Hickey. who committed
suicide at FL Paso, Tex, on Wednesday, left
this city tonight for San Francisco. He is
going to join his daughter, widow Of tho late
self.styled King of tho Island of Trinidad. In
discussing his son-in-law's death Mr.. Flagler
said:
"A man who has Just returned from FL Paso
assures me that Baron Hickey did not commit
suicide. l believe he took an overdose Of chloral;
had all any man could desire. But he had been
troubled with heart affection for years and
could not live In hiRh attitudes. 1 was o good
friend to The Baron and was ready TO go
to show that he was depressed that In itself
would be no sign that he took his life. Among
other eccentrlcities Of his, genius he had a ten.
dency to melancholy. which sometimes made
him DO and say strange things. Often In these
moods he iotted down his Impressions. In his
lighter moods these dismal writings were to
him sources of m%erriment.
THE body will be removed from El Paso to
San Francisco to-day. and will DO inferred in the
magnificent $4,000, mausoleum belonging to
the BarOn's mother"
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Kitten By = Chained DsE.

Miss Hattie Price. 81 years old. of 27 State
street was severely bitten by q dog In the yard
OF James Tottcn. at Washington and Academy
streets, Newark. last night The dog was
chained, but It spranR upon Miss Price and
knocked her down. II tore her lips and nose,
and Other wiso lacoratod her face. After tho
dog had been driven into its kennel Miss Price
was taken to the City Hospital.
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.trlcten with death while Running to q rrala.

Stevenson. who lived at 21O Townsend street.
this city, died of heart failure while running to
a train this morning. Mr.. Stevenson was trying
to catch the 1877 train of the Raritan River
Railroad to South River, where he was EN-.
A. Edgar's clay pits. At the corner of Townsend
street and Throop avenue Mr.. Stevenson fell.
dead whom an ambulance arrived. He. was IA
years old and leaves a widow and three children.
ship and was we'll known az a Democratic
politician.
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CHINESE GAMBLERs cAUeHr.

Policemen Broke Through a. FORMULATED
Door with s'edse H".'msTa AND aHes. -.
Chin Uu Of IL Pell street was arrested last
night with seven other Cinnamon for running q
gambling establishment. Detectives Silon and
Garrison made the raid with a lot OF policemen.
The door OF the place was double locked and
iron-plated inside. Sledgo hammers and axes
had to DO used TO break 1t open. The eight
Cinnamon arrested were found wedgsd In the
men had dropped fifteen feet to the ground aud
ascnnad.