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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-27
A MASONIC BROTHER.
He Is 1903, Was Born in Hartford and
Lives in Denver


Lives in Denver
Adna Adam Treat, of Denver is prob
ably the Oldest Mason in the world
He was born in Hartford Conn, on
April s. 1897, and is, therefore, 103 years
old.
In 1928 he enrolled himself in the Ma
sonic order by becoming a member of
a lodge in Troy, N. Y, where he then
lived. He has been a Mason seventy
seven years and has kept UP his inter
est In the order, writing for the jour-
mails Of Masonry and attending it's re-
unions. On September 49, 1924, Mr..
Treat was one of a committee appoint
ed to entertain General Lafayette al a
reception rendered him by the city of
Troy. The committee escorted Lafay-
cite, who was himself Masonic broth
er to and from the lodge. OF the
French patriot, Mr.. Treat says:
AS + recall the impression made upon
my mind by his appearance and adj
dress he was Of medium height erect
of figure, with faultless dress--in man
ner and appearance a thoroughbred
French gentleman Of the most engaging
style, full of tact and personal mag
netisn."
Mr. Treat is wonderfully we'll pre-
served. There are but few wrinkles in
his face, and there is brightness in
his eye and a color In his cheeks that
seem to belle his great age, 1t is easy
to believe that in 1926 he and his wife,
Miss Jane RELAY, of Troy who died In
1890, were considered the handsomest
couple in that city. He preserves his
serenity of disposition, and his sense of
humor is evidenced in playful repartee
He Is moderate smoker but eschews
all alcoholic beverages. In reminiscent
mood Mr., Treat describes how Presi-
dent Monroe looked when he came to
Hartford. He tells how he rode in the
first steamboat from New York to AL
bany and is wont to say with a quiet
smile that he intends to live until the
flying machine is erfected.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
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STRUCK BY A TROLLEY CAR.
John w. Meacham Badly Injured I'm
East Haven Last Night.

John w. Meacham who lives on Cres-
cent street, near Old Mil Lane, West
Vile, was seriously injured about 1880
o'clock last night by being struck by
trolley car in East Haven Meacham
was driving In a carriage on Main
street, East Haven, just over the New
Haven town line, He had driven on
the car track to pass carriage hitched
at the side Of the road and a car COM
ing up rapidly behind him. he attempt
ed to turn his horse off the track The
wheels Of the wagon became caught in
the tracks and before the carriage
could be turned from the track the car
crashed into 1t. Mr.. Meacham was
thrown from the carriage and his horse
breaking loose from the carriage turn
ed and ran towards the city.
DIR. Holbrook, of East Haven, was call
ed 10 attend the injured man and
After examining the injuries DIR. Hol-
brook telephoned for the New Haven
hospital ambulance and Mr. Meacham
was taken to that institution. II was
found that he had received a compound
fracture Of the left arm near the shout
der, scalp wound and that one rib on
the left side was broken near the back
bone 1t is thought that he will re-
cover. Mr. Meacham Is about thirty
five years of age and Is employed by
A. N Farnham of Westville. The two
rear wheels and the shafts OF his car
riage were smashed.
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TRIED TO END HER LIFE.
Ellen Dunn ON ssand OF 1854 State Street
Took LaUdanHm.

Ellen Dumouszand of 1884 State
street, wife of Emil Dumoussand, a pol
Usher, attempted to commit suicide at
her home about 4 o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon by taking laudanum. Her hus-
band was at home at the time and
about an hour after she took the poison
he sent for DR.. John J. Ryle and Dr.
James j. Gleason. When the physicians
arrived they found the woman In an al
most dying condition. She was breath
ing only about ten times q minute and
1t was feared that she was past medi-
cal assistance. After working over her
about an hour, however, the physicians
efforts were rewarded and she began to
grow better and continued to improve
until last evening she was pronounced
out of danger.
Mrs. Dumoussand has two small chill
dren and works In the Winchester Re-
peatirg Arms factory 1t Is said by
neighbors that there has been consider
able trouble in the family, she and her
husband not living happily together 1t
is thought that it was domestic trouble
which led her TO attempt to end her
life. Last night she continued firm in
her resolve to kill herself and it was
feared that she would make second
attempt. A close watch was kept over
her
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T57-T--
HAVE NOT DECLARED WAR
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protection Of her menaced frontier The
avoWed object of the other powers is
simply the rescue and protection of the
legationers and other foreign subjects.
In carrying out her second object Rus
sia has seized New Chwang. This was
done to obtain a base Of operations
against Pekin.
Whether In the event of declaration
OF war by one or more of the powers
against China, an invitation would be
extended to the United States to retire
from China as intimated in the dispatch
from Che Foo Is open to doubt and it is
decidedly problematical, 1t is said,
whether the invita- ton would be accept
ed, even If 1t were rendered. The Unit
ed States forces are in China. protecting
the personal and property right Of citi-
zens of this country, and In addition,
the treaty rights of the United States.
Under the most favored nation clause,
this country has certain specific rights,
in China, and 1t is said on authority to
be the purpose of the United States to
protect and preserve those rights. The
attitude this government would assume
In the event OF a declaration of war by
another power would depend, 1t can be
stated, upon the immediate circum-
stances surrounding the declaration and
the situation In China at the time the
declaration was made. In any event,
Ut can be said to be no part of the pur-
pose of the United States to sacrifice
any OF it's guaranteed rights or privil-
eyes in the Chinese empire.
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EDUCATION ON THE FARM.

The charge has been often made that
graduates OF agricultural colleges were
adopting other professions and not re-
turning to farm life. This was a hasty
assumption. 1t has been common in
the past to discredit the practical In
fiuence of these institutions 1t was
an exhibition of impatience, perhaps
enthusiastically American, which ex-
poets instant results The machinery
and methods of it had to be created, it's
teachers taught, and its spirit called
into active existence. Thirty years ago
1t was plain to me that agricultural col
lege professors must grow UP in these
institutions, and be graduated from
them, before positive and striking re-
suits would be manifested. Now every
year diScloses new evidences of their
influence on agriculture, and in nothing
more than their uplifting of farm labor
Their students are generally returning
to farm life or agricultural teaching,
and their influence is helpful and in
spring, teaching better methods and
securing higher results of labor.
That pioneer institution, the Michi-
gan Agricultural college has sent out
three thousand persons to teach and
practice the problem of scientific and
practical agriculture as managers Of
farms, directors of large stoclS-farming
operations, expert cheese-makers, spe-
etalists in various rural lines, teachers,
professors. and editors of agricultural
papers. Some have gone to foreign
countries as experts and teachers. and
have made their mark on agricultural
education and farm practice in foreign
fields.
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| Professor Roberts says that Of more
| than two thousand students who have
| attended the College Of Agriculture at
Cornell, nine-tenths are now interested
In agriculture, as teachers or farmers,
and that fully three-fourths are actual
ly engaged in farming, and that gene
rally they are centers of a new activity
almost of a new agriculture, where
farms are conducted better than ever
before serving as an incentive to I'M
provement of neighboring farmers.
The Wisconsin Agricultural college is
sending to the farms many trained
men. Its short course of two winters
reaches large numbers of young men
from farms who study during the first
winter, work on farms In summer In
places secured by the college authori-
ties, and go back to complete the course
in the following winter. Professor
Henry Is enthusiastic over the practi-
cal and beneficial results of this branch
of college work The Minnesota. college
has a similar work in active operation,
with similar results directly affecting
and transforming the agriculture Of
that region. In less than a dozen years
students in its regular course, in addi-
ton to those in special courses.
The Iowa college is rapidly increasing
its output of farm managers, experts in
stock-feeding and dairying, and In other
lines, where their services are appreci-
ated ard their pay liberal, while their
influence and example affect favorably
farm hands of every grade coming I'M
der their direction or in contact with
them.
Professor Davenport says of the ag-
ricultural students of Illinois that they
are all going upon farms. Their grad
yates are all interested In agriculture,
though some temporarily engage as
teachers
Professor Hunt, of the college con-
'nected with the Ohio university, repels
the insinuation that the graduates and
ex-ttudents decline practical agricul-
ture, and attempts to trace personally
their course. He succeeds In finding
three hundred out Of three hundred and
thirty-six that have gone out, Of whom
one hundred and thirty seven are farm
ers, gardeners and dairymen, forty-one
are creamery operators or cheese-n1ak-
ers, eighteen are professors In agricul-
tural colleges and experiment stations
fourteen are farm superintendent or
employees, fifteen are In other colleges
twenty-five are women, and only forty
six are found in other occupations, or
about Is per cent.
Similar results of the work Of newer
western colleges appear from Nebraska
and Oklahoma to the Pacific coast
They are exercising a powerful and
beneficial influence on the agriculture
and farm labor of that great region.
The agricultural college connected with
the University of California Is especial
ly a live and potent influence in these
directions. Already the character of
the farm labor Of that state is chang
ing rapidly. The Chinese element Is
subsiding; the American class increas-
ing in numbers, skill and efficiency.
The college is doing much towards this
TRANSITIONAL toni. r. Dodge, or New
Hampshire, in the Country Gentleman.
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VICTIM OF sIMIAN JEALOUSY.
A Talented Monkey Died Because
Stunned by His Envious Fellows.

A Talented Monkey Died Because
Stunned by His Envious Fellows.
All that Borax, the little pink-eyed
monkey wanted Of his fellows in the
Lincoln park zoo was kind treatment,
and when they turned their backs on
him and ignored the inoffensive crea-
tures altogether he got sick and sulked
In the darkest corner of the cage. The
keepers had never witnessed such a
strange manifestation of feeling akin
to human among the animals and did
not worry about Borax. The ostracism
imposed in him by his erstwhile COM
panions made BoraY sick, and he refus-
ed nourisannent. Sunday morning the
little animal died, and his long tailed
playmates of two weeks ago, unforgiv-
ing even In the face Of death, refused
to show the slightest sign of sorrow
when he was carried away and buried.
The circumstances of Borax's death
were not known to the thousands who
visited the animal reserva ton. They
found the monkeys in new cages, and
when something was said about a de-
mise in the colony they attributed it to
an accident attendant upon the NOV
bribed into a clever acrobat tic feat with
handful of peanuts, but the demand
was not lessened through the absence
of the dead animal.
Borax was the ceverest performer of
all the monkeys, and his skill led to his
fate. He handicapped his fellows by
his previous training, for he came from
a circus where he got a bun if he rode
spirited greyhound around the track
without losing his seat and whipping
if his performance did not suit the
trainer. Borax's life at the Lincoln
park zoo had promise of happy days.
The first Sunday he performed he got
as many peanuts as all the rest of the
monkeys combined but Borax was not
selfish and attempted to divide his
spoils. The sinian's generosity was re-
garded as an attempt to lord it over the
rest and he was not thanked.
After a months stay at Lincoln park
BoraX apparently wished he had never
left the circus, though the bun was fire.
quently stale and the beating a severe
one. There he was on good terms with
the greyhound and the savage bull ter
rier that wouldn't treat any other men,
Der of the outfit with the least show of
civility. Borax did his best to furnish
not accept the rewards. After dark his
cage companions would appropriate
their despised comrades emolume nts,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-27
STARlN'S
New haven TRANSPORTATION q =

DAILY EXCEPT sA EURDAY
Steamer JOHN a. Stain, Captain Nc
Allister, leaves New Haven from Starin' z
Pier foot of Brown street, at 1918 b, ~.
Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Steamer
ERASTUS CORNING, Captain Thompson.
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The
sTARlN' leaves New York from Pier IL.
North River, ut 8 p. m. Mondays, Wednes.
days and Fridays; the ERASTUS CORNING
rs cents; Excursion Tickets S1.25 State
rooms, 500.
Tickets and staterooms for sale at j. n,
ops, 7O2 Chapel street Free stage leaves
the depot on arrival Of Hartford train ana
from corner Of Chapel and Church streets
every half hour, commencing at $50 ,. m.
lading to all points West, South, and South
west. c. H. FISHER AGENT
Order your freight via Starin Line.
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SOME INCIPIENT RACE RIOTS.
Filter Feeling Again Breaks Out in New
York.

New York. Aug. ga number of in
cipient race riots between blacks and
whites broke out here to-day, the di-
rect cause being the shooting on Sat
urday night of John Brennan, white
messenger boy, aged twenty years, by
John Davis, alias "Lamplighter," a me-
gro Brennan was one of a crowd of
whites who tainted Davis, and bullets
from the blacks revolver fired at his
tormentors lodged In Brennan's stona-
acl and chest. He is in hospital and
| likely to die. The shooting caused the
rough white element to begin a search
for negroes Before daybreak this
morning James Arnold colored, while
passing Sixty-fourth street and Amster-
| dam avenue, which Is near the scene
| of the shooting, was attacked by
crowd of whites and shockingly beaten.
| He was treated at hospital. Shortly
afterwards, about two blocks away, a
gang of whites administered similar
punishment to Alexander Ballentine a
colored man, who was passing quietly
along the thoroughfare In neither case
was an arrest made.
| Later in the morning crowd of
whites, confessedly led by Frank Nc
Pyke aged twenty-one years, went to a
five-story tenement on SiXtieth street,
occupied by negroes, with the avowed
purpose of cleaning 1t out They had
about demolished all the windows and
incidentally cracked head or two,
when the police swooped down on the
gang McPyke and another man were
arrested.
Early this afternoon Joseph Doyle,
aged eighteen years, filed his hat with
stones and took his stand at Fifty ninth
street and Eleventh avenue He sue
ceeded in infllcting scalp wounds on two
colored men before policeman dubbed
and arrested him.
Officer John J. Clearey placed under
arrest for being sassy" William Hop
son, colored man. He rashly Under
took to take his prisoner to the station
through West Sixtieth street. That
street between Westend and Amster-
dam avenues is called Cuckoo Row
and here colored people live by the
hundreds. The fact that one of their
race was in the hands of a policeman
was all tina several of them wanted and
half dozen of them thought they
would release Hopson. Clearey used
his club and then drew his revolver.
BY threatening to shoot the first man
to move he held the mob at bay until
other policemen came to his aid They
arrested George Meyer also coIored.
Clearey said he started the attempted
rescue. Meyer resisted arrest all the
way to the station and when he got
there he had several scalp wounds. One
in particular was very large and 1t is
thought the negro's skull was frac-
tured.
William and Henry Rapp. brothers
and white, were locked UP this evening
on complaint Of Adam Johnson, col
ored who claimed htsy had stoned him
The above are only few assaults
which came to light by arrests. The
fact is that all day long the police in
the neighborhood mentioned were kept
busy dispensing small mobs bent on
mischief
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MUSIC SUPERVISORS.
Annual Summer Convention to be Held
in New Haven


The annual summer convention Of the
Society of American School Music Su
pervision will open in the High school
building, New Haven August Is, and
will continue through to the 3lst. This
will be the societys SECOND convention,
and sessions will be held morning, af-
ternoon and evening.
The association was organized at
Utica, N. Y, in July, 1899, with about
thirty members representing eight
states. AT that time a very enthusias
tic and profitable discussion of many
phases Of the subject proved of inesti-
mable value to all the members of the
profession present.
The association is independent Of all
methods and published systems, and its
conventions are open to free and in
dependent discussion of all methods and
principles of music teaching in the
public schools.
A section Of it's constitution makes
the sole object of the association the
advancement of school music teaching,
an honest search for the truth and q
determination to appropriate the ways,
means and methods which prove to give
the best results, and this without re-
gard to the brand. name or guise in
which they are discovered. 1t calls
upon all members of the profession
throughout the country to aid in hon
est, fearless discussion of the subject,
believing that the elevation of music In
all schools to it's rightful place will re-
suit only from a united effort. 1t is
not the purpose of this association to
conflict with any state or national asso-
citation.
Any supervisor or teacher of vocal
music in public or private schools is
eligible for membership, and the only
expense Is one dollar a year for dues by
which the organization is kept up.
Many prominent members of the as
ISOLATION and of the profession will be
in attendance at the coming convention
prepared to participate In the discus
sion. The delegates will be quartered
at the Hotel Davenport.
The present officers of the association
are these: President, Sterile A. Weav-
err Westfeld, Mass; Miss Julie e.
Crane, vice-president, Potsdam, N. Y.
Ralph L. Baldwin, secretary, North
Mass; T. T., Roberts, treasur-
er, Utica, N Y; J. III. Humphrey, aud
itor, Burlington, VT.
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PEKIN CLEAR OF THE ENEMY
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quiet ON the date Of his dispatch, but a
telegram to the same paper from Tfen
Tsln. dated August a. asserts that one
Thousand Russians, Germans and Jap
anese had pushed forward from Pel1in
with the intention, it was assumed, of
pursuing the fleeing empress dowager.
AT a conference of ministers and gem
erals held at Taku Friday 1t was de-
cided, according to the Daily Telegraph
to refer the fate of the Forbidden City
to Europe.
A Tien Tsin dispatch to Berlin, dated
August %, says: The Japanese troops
are In possession Of the wall around
the irnermost part of the Forbidden
City, but have not yet made their way
to the imperial palace owing to lack of
government instructions"
Lieutenant-General Linovitch, COM
mander Of the First Siberian army
corps, cabling to st. Petersburg under
date Of August 16, says:
'There are ne longer any Boxers tn
Pekin. They were driven out to-day
by the French and Russians, whose
Hags are hoisted over the imperial city.
The empress dowager, the emperor, the
heir apparent and the whole court have
fled to the province Of Shen 81.
I'D Hung Chang, according to-
Shanghai dispatch dated yesterday, has
once more postponed his departure for
the north.
1.-THE japanese have landed more blue
Jackets at Annoy, where order Is main
tanned in spite of the great excite
ment."
Conspicuous galIantry was display
ed by Captain Gaussen Of the Bengal
cavalry" said the Shanghai correspon-
dent Of the Standard, while under
lleavy fire in the recent fight at Tien
Tsir Captain Gaussen stopped and
picked up an American trooper, lifting
him into the saddle and riding off in
safety
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unkind remarks


though they made unkind remarks
about him.
You can't tell me that the pinlk-eyed
fellow didn't die of grief" said one of
the keepers yesterday. ut was plain
case of getting shut out In the cold. He
wanted to be the good fellow with the
crowd, but they wouldn't stand for 1t.
1t just like men, anyhow. If they see
chap succeeding they begin talking
bad about him. BoraX wasn't accus-
toned to that sort of thing, and 1T
broke him all up. I could see he could
not live through it. He didn't see any
chance of getting back to the circus or
another job. SO he Went back In the
cage and starved himself to DEATH
That monkey was more sentimental
than many human being.-From the
Chicago Chronicle.
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ALMOST AN BOXER RIOT
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thies were clearly with Cashon. Final
ly at that corner the threats Of lynching
became so loud that McQueeney tele-
phoned from a signal box to Captain.
Brewer at the Grand avenue station
house, asing for assistance.
The captain had, however, seen the
big crowd coming down the avenue, and
heard the roar Of the mob so he con-
cluded that something was wrong and
sent out six patrolmen, who happened
to be in the station house at the time.
This detail reached the corner of Grand
avenue and Franklin street within a
few minutes after McQueeneY telephon-
ed. BY that time the crowd was clos-
Ing in ON Lee Joe and striking him,
while others we're attempting to release
Cashion from the officer. The detail of
polcement, by well directed use of their
clubs fought their way In to McQueeney
and his prisoner and the Chinanan, and
under their escort the three went to
the station.
BY that time the Cinnamon who were
following Lee Joe had become alarmed
at the dangerous looks and threats of
men in the crowd and had managed to
escape, running away from the smaller
group which pursued them. Police
Surgeon Moore was sent for and dress
ed Lee Joe's wounds In the station
house. The doctor found that Lee had
received a pair of black eyes, a bad
bruise on the jaw and other bad cuts
and bruises about his body, but that he
was not seriously injured, Cashion was
locked up under charges of breach of
the peace and drung and Lee was sent
back to rs Union street under escort
of policemen who kept watch of the
place during the rest Of the afternoon
to protect it from further violence.
Their services were not required how
ever, as the crowd Quoted down and
made no more trouble.
Lee Joe is a New York Chinaman,
who is visiting here with Sam Sing Lee,
a laundrynlan at 643 Grand avenue. The
two were calling at the Union street
place when the trouble started.