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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20
THE SERVICES ArTHE CHURCH.
They Were Simple and Short But Deeply
Impressive.

Canton, Ohio, Sept. 19.-The streets of
the little city of Canton this morning
were filled with waving plumes, pranc-
ing horses and densely packed bodies of
moving men assembling here for the
procession which was to escort the re-
mains of the late President from the
church to West Lawn cemetery. Thir-
ty special trains, in addition to the reg
ular trains had arrived before noon.
The biggest crowd in the history of
Canton. which was here during the CAM
paign of 1896, estimated at over sixty
thousand, was exceeded today.
The we-stricken crowds upon their ar
rival all moved as by common impulse
toward the old familiar Mckinley cot
tage, where the remains were lying
Military guards stationed at the four
corners of the lawn paced their beats
but there was no other sign of life about
the house of death. The window shades
were down. A long border of black,
which had been put in place after the
body was moved t0 the house last night
fringed the roof of the porch from which
President Mckinley had spoken to dele
cations from every State in the Union
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Only Twelve of These Have
Reached Land.
ALL THE OTHERS BELIEVED TO BE DEAD
The British Admiralty Hears That the
Explosion Occurred After the Co.
bra Struck Rock and
Sunk Immediately.
(By the Associated Presso


London, Sept 19-The torpedo boat
destroyer, the Cobra, has foundered in
the North Sea, the result of an explos-
ion.
The ship was en- route from the
yard of her builders. the Armstrong;, of
Newcastle, to Portsmouth, and carried
forty two naval men and thirty-five men
i'll the employ of the contractors. Twelve
men were saved and it is believed they
are the only survivors. Five boats were
launched after the Cobra struck, but
heavy sea which was running at the
time.
The first intmatio of the disaster was
the arrival of a fishing boat at Var
mouth. with six bodies which she had
picked up in the vicinity Of the. spot
where the Cobra was last seen. Accord
ing TO the fishermen the Cobra was
sighted by the lightship Dowsing Sands
yesterday morning, enveloped in steam,
and she shortly afterwards disappeared.
The men on the lightship supposed the
Cobra had sailed away, until the even
ing. when they observed bodies floating
in the waterNand signalled to the fish
ing boat to investigate the disaster.
A dispatch from Middlesboro says
twelve survivors of the crew of the
Cobra were landed there this morning
and confirms the first report that all
the others were drowned.
The British Admiralty has received in
formation that the explosion occurred
after the Cobra had struck a rock. and
that she sank Immediately.
The Cobra, like her sister boat, the
Viper, was a turbine -engined vessel.
She had just left the yard of her con-
tractors and was undergoing a boiler
test.
Corrected figures as to the Cobra
show that she had 10 souls on board.
For 81 no hope is held out, but torpedo
boats and cruisers have gone at full
speed to the scene of the disaster, which
is the most serious the British navy has
suffered since the sinking of the Vic
toria.
Lieutenant Bosworth Smith, the
Cobra's commander, stood upon the
bridge with his arms folded as impas-
sivc as if on parade, and went down
with the vessel
About one year ago the torpedo boat
destroyer Cobra beat the record OF the
Viper and won the title of the fastest
vessel of the world. The record of the
Viper which was afterwards wrecked,
was forty three miles an hour, while
the Cobra. in an unofficial trial over the
same course, as that sailed by the Viper,
at the mouth of the Tyne, made 37.7
knots or 43.5 miles.
The Cobra was an excellent duplicate
of the Viper.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The Annual Meeting at New York. Election Of
Directors and Officers.
(By the Associated Press }

New York, Sept. 19.--The members of
the Associated Press in annual meeting
here today elected the following board
of directors:
Stephen OMeara Boston Journal;
Whitelaw Reid New York Tribune; w.
l.. Mclean, Philadelphia Bulletin; AL
bert j. Barr Pttsburg Post; George
THOMPSON, ST. Paul Dispatch; Victor
F. Larson, Chicago Daily News; Chas.
w. Knapp, St. Louis Republic; Charles
p Taft, Cincinnati Times Star; Harvey
w. Scott, Portland, (Ore) Ofegonian;
Frank b. Noyes, Washington Star;
Thomas G.. Rapier, New Orleans Plea
yune; Herman Ridder, New York Stats
Zeitung; M. II. DeYoung, San Fran
cisco Chronicle; Charles H. Grasty,
Baltimore News; Clark Howell, Atlanta
Constitution.
The board of directors met subse-
qucntly and elected the following Off
GERS:
Frank B. Noyes. President: Horace
White, of the New York Evening Post,
First Vice President William r. Mel
son, of the Kansas City Star; Second
Vice President; Melville e. Stone, Sec
retary; Charles G. Diehl, Assistant Sec
retary Valentine p. Snyder, Treasurer.
The following gentlemen were elect-'
ed as an executive committee:
stephen O'Meara. Victor r. Lawson.
Charles w. Knapp, Whitelaw Reid, and
Frank b. Noyes.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20
Mrs. Mckinley is Too III to
Attend.
WEEPING IN AGONY IN HER LONELY HOME
The Bugles Sound Good Night" and
the Knights Templar Sing Fare
well, Ny Brother" While Men
Turn Sobbing From
the Grave.
the Grave.
(By the Associated Press.)

Canton. Ohio, September 19.-With
majestic solemnity, surrounded by his
countrymen and his townspeople, in the
presence of the President of the United
States, the Cabinet, Justices of the
United States Supreme Court, Senators
and Representatives in Congress, the
heads Of the military and naval estab-
lishments, the Governors of States and a
great concourse- of people who had
known and loved him, all that is mortal
of the third President to fall by an as
sassins bullet was committed to the
grave today.
1t was a spectacle of mournful grand
eur. Canton ceased to be town and
swelled to the proportions of great
city From every city and hamlet in
the Ohio State, from the remote corners
of the South, and from the aEst and
West, the human tide flowed into the
town until 100000 people were within
its gates, here to pay their last tribute
OF the fallen chief.
SIMPLE AND IMPRESSIVE.
The final scenes at the First Metho-
dist church where the funeral service
was held and at the beautiful West
Lawn cemetery, where the body was
consigned to vault, were simple and
impressive.
The service at the church consisted of
a brief oration, prayers by the minis
ters of three denominations and singing
~ Ttn 1r6x hnr
taken to West Lawn cemetery and
placed in receiving vault, pending the
time when it will be finally laid to rest
beside the dead children who were bur-
led years ago. The funeral procession
was very imposing and included not
only the representatives of army and
navy of the United States, but the en-
tire military strength of the State of
Ohio and hundreds of civic, fraternal
and other organizations. 1t was two
miles long.
A PATHETIC FEATURE.
One of the most pathetic features of
the day was the absence of Mrs. Nc
Kinley from the funeral services at the
church and in the cemetery when the
body of her husband was laid to rest.
Since the nrSt SnOckl OF the SnOOtlnS
then of the death and through the ordeal
Of state ceremonies she had borne up
bravely. But there was limit to hu-
man endurance and when today came il,
found her too weak to pass through the
trials of the final ceremonies.
Through the open door of her room
she heard the prayer of the minister az
the body was borne out of the house.
After that, DR.. Rixey remained close by
her side. and although the full force of
the calamity had come upon her it was
believed by those about her that there
was providential mercy in her tears,
as they gave some relief to the anguish
of the heart within.
At Z o'clock tonight President Roose-
welt and the members of the Cabinet
started back to Washington
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20
.SIXTY-FlVE MEN KILLED
IN AN EXPLOSION At SEA
The Explosion Occurred on Board the British
Torpedo Boat Destroyer Cobra, the
Vessel Foundering.
THE COBRA CARRIED SEVENTY.SEVEN MEN

and anxious throngs outside the church
saw the solmen pageant re-appear
through the church doors. Out Tuscara-
was street the long procession moved
through a section of the city where the
sound of the dirge had not before been
heard. But it presented the same sorrow
stricken aspect that had been observed
in the heart of the city. Funeral arches
spanned the street, some of them, it is
understood having been erected by school
children. The houses were hung with
black, and even the stately elms along
the way had their trunks enshrouded in
black and white drapery.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20
Loads all North Carolina Dailies i'm Newsamd Circulation

the flowers lowering all about and the
music of Beethoven's grand funeral
march pulsing from the organ the body
bearers gently lowered the flag -draped
and flower adorned coffin to it's sup
port. The members of the Loyal Legion
Governor Nash, Governor Mcmillan, OF
Tennessee, and Governor Longino, OF
Mississippi. each of whom with an uni
formed staff had entered the church
filled up the most westerly of the Sec
tions of pews. The members of the
Senate and the House of Representatives
had preceded the coffin through the door
at the side of the chancel through which
it entered.
THE GUARD OF HONOR.
The generals and admirals of the
army and navy who comprised the guard
of honor, in their resplendent uniforms
followed the body and occupied the first
pew on either side of the centre aisle
President Roosevelt and the Cabinet
came slowly after. All were in black
and wore black gloves. The President
alone had on an overcoat He took his
place Immediately behind Lieutenant
General Miles, next the centre aisle in
the second pew to the eastward. Then
followed the mourning relatives who oc-
cupied the tier of pews on the left of the
centre aisle. Mr.. and Mrs Abner Nc
Kinley led the way followed by the other
immediate relatives. The fourth pew
from the front. that always occupied by
President Mckinley, was draped in black
and remained vacant.
quartette arose and lifted up their voices
with the touching words of Beautiful
Isle of Somewhere" When the sound oi
the last line had died away. Rev. o. B
Milligan, pastor Of the First Presbyter-
ian church, in which President and Mrs
Mckinley were married 80 years ago
offered a fervent prayer. Every head
within the church bent in solemn rev.
erence as the invocation went up.
HALL READS THE 18TH PSALM.
Dr. John A. Hall, pastor of the Trinity
Lutheran church, then read from the
Bible the beautiful 10Th Psalm, and Rev
E. p. Herbruck verses 41-5S of the 25tf
chapter of | Corinthians. With great
feeling he read the inspiring words tell
ing of the mystery that all would not
sleep but all would be changed.
The quartette then sang Cardinal New
mans grand hymn, the beautiful words
floating through all the church.
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the Presidential party came up the black
chargers of Troop "a swung into battal-
ion front facing the house, and the lcng
line of flashing sabres advanced TO sa-
lutte.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20
THE PRESIDENTS BODY IS
CONSIGNED TO THE GRAVE
One Hundred Thousand People Assemble in
Canton to Pay Their Last I rbute to
the Fallen Chief.
ALL THE NATION REPRESENTED THERE

and where he had met and talked with
all the chieftains of his party.
No badge of conventional mourning
was on the door. Instead there was a
simple wreath Of palms bisected by a
beautiful band of white purple satin rib
hon
New-York tribune., 1901-01-27

1t will. but claim that it's moraler than Dear
Midnight OF Love / don't believe In singing
about ennythng that can't happen right In
the open"
We admit that there may be some truth in the
mans argument. but. has been said. he is only
an imitator. and must. therefore, be dismissed as
unworthy OF serious consideration.
What a sorry effect is produced by that attempt
at a sneer at Alderman Bridges. IN the very first
sentence! "One Bridges. who expects the produc-
tion make him rich and famous Mr. Bridges
does not expect that this song will make him rich:
he aims only TO enrich the literature Of the Eng
lish language. which ne handles in a manner so
charmingly unique. Nor he hope that II will
make him famous. for he is famous already. His
fame may not have reached Chicago. but 1t takes
a long time for any fame from without TO pene-
trate a place self-centred and sef-complacent
as Chicago.
The infatuation Of the Chicago paper with its
city is shown In it's daring to place the two
songs side by side. for only moments compari-
is needed to show TO any unprejudiced mind
the overwhelming superiority OF Alderman
Bridges's work. Is there anything in Alderman
Coughlin's poem musical as the chorus of
Alderman Bridges's. with those liquid rhymes Of
New-York tribune., 1901-01-27
THE TERRITORIAL CAPITOL, HONOLULU.

of malicious triumph is emphasized by the posi-
ton the artist has given him On the pedestal is
testimony of quite different
TO THE BENEFACTOR OF FERNEY
Yoltaire built more than hundred houses He
gave 10 the town church. a school, hospital
fhe reservoir and the fountain He lent money
without interest the surrounding communities
He drained the marshes of the country. He estab-
ushed the fairs and the markets. He fed the in
habitants during the famine of 1771.
A rather different picture OF the mockng cynic
from the one generally accepted.
To-day Ferney is a microscopic town, with no
activity IL would SEEM except for charity school
and hospital and small pottery factory. The house
Yoltatre occupied is at the far end of the village
with beautiful approach of half mile under wide
arching elms. The estate is practically unchanged
since his day, and at one corner stands the vine
covered stone chapel the scOffer built. On way
back into the village stopped at box Of store
for a bit of the local pottery. We were waited
upon by a little old woman speaking the most ex-
ecrabe French and looking quite as II she had lived
there since long before Voltaires day. Her prices
for the clumsy cups and saucers and cream jugs
were altogether too high. and told her so in as
New-York tribune., 1901-01-27

lucid French as could command. My suggestion
that lower figure would be desirable she met
with a singular obtuseness. All 1 could make out
of her that 'FVoltaire had lived in the town
where they were made" This she fairly shrieked
at US. as II deafness alone prevented an easy un-
derstanding OF her tortured French. | have no
ttced, by the way, that the habit OF yelling when
some one doesn't understand your particular world
jaTgon is confined TO class nation. It's part
of the result suppose, attending the confusion OF
tongues consequent upon the building of that old
Babel Tower. When the old got her price,
as of course, she bound to- it was rather
amazing TO see how her powers of comprehension
increased. The house opposite, she deigned to in
form US. once the theatre which Voltaire built.
Very fine plays and players came there, she
said in effect. "and often he was the only one in
the audience" a kngly prerogative. indeed. max
ing one think of Queen Bess commanding Shake
speare to produce in Temple Hall of his dramas
for her royal pleasure alone. The theatre is a
small low, white house, with Greek porch, and
squeezed tight against two other even more In
significant buildings. At a pump before its open
door stood woman washing, and ragged children
played the cobblestones about the entrance.
WHERE BYRON WROTE "CHILDE HAROLD"
Still further out than Ferney is Cogny. where
Byron wrote Childe Harold" The town is exquisite
New-York tribune., 1901-01-27

ly situated high over Lake Geneva, and has num-
bers of large estates suggesting England's parKs
and gardens in their luxuriance and uncrowded
spaces. The house itself is large and square, with
a dignity Of line and position and a grave solidity
about its construction somewhat at variance with
the theatric tendencies OF it's once inhabitant
Around three sides at it's second story, runs a
balcony from which the views OF the lake and
mountains superb. The garden. even yet full
of lovely and OF saliva leads out into
a most charming wood. Here the narrow path
runs under such immense old trees and the @ Iollage
is so dense one can hardly realize that the town Is
but five minute walk away. Within the mouse
old portraits hang upon the walls; even the danasR h
curtains In the great drawing room nave peen
somewhat stiff style of the Empire that in the
drawing room being all white and gold 50 sen1er b
still stand firm and un6roken The enormous, pom on
deEous table IN the dlning room ana p some ,,Tber W @
some make. and and Of the darkest OF old mahogany;
AFFECT me strongly. Almost could see the the
people who once gathered there A sort OF eolo
very real lack Of comfort forced itself upon me
more and more as went from room TO room spe
Pur1tanisn and felt If must get out OF doors;
partook something OF the cIoseness and unsuta-
bility Of the cramped bedrooms above There Vas va
an unnatural, designed elegance. striving arteT
before something OF the spirit OF that epoch There
are Wild tales OF the lie Byron lived while here
lacking either in physical daring. The usual swim
just at i the point below the house isn't reported
how he got home-perhaps he walked -, ,.-
More than with Noltalre Byron. all the region
about Geneva is full OF "reminiscences OF Jean
jacques Rousseau. on every walk the professor
showed US some landmark OF that genius and the
stories OF his deeds would MI tones one day
saw the tiny church from which. on a night when
Rousseau was a mere boy he stole the big Bible.
II was done amid much fear Of ghostly retrbution.
and although he accomplished the feat, II was not
without a heavy There was the mill Where
ne worked, and the house OF one OF his best re-
rnembered sweethearts and other houses where he
fingered long enough TO make them the birthplace
OF after famous notes
Half 10 tell OF the charms in and about Geneva
would take a letter twice the length OF this already
too far spun.
Perhaps after all the most taking thing about
the C;eneyoise is his serious and firm belief In
the extreme Importance and value OF all that be-
longs 10 his beloved town. That We all know.
especially some Of us who for birthplace a
certain small hub is a very amusing state OF
Rffairsl
New-York tribune., 1901-01-27
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
EXCITING TIMES IN OII-NEW HOTELS
AND OFFICE BUILDINGS IN SAN
FRANCISCO-STORY OF
A GEYSER.

San Francisco. Jan. 26 (SpeciaD.-The oil busi-
ness in California is reaching large proportions,
and the exploitation of new oil fields in Kern
and Fresno counties is now occupying the ener-
gies of several thousand people. A man who
passed through Bakersfield, the centre of the
oil interests of Kern County. this week declares
that he found the hotels and boarding houses
so crowded that it was with great difficulty
that he secured cot in the hall of one hotel,
and that a dozen men spent the night sitting
around the stove IN the main Office. Prospecting
for oil is going over the whole southern part
New-York tribune., 1901-01-27
CELEBRATES LEES BIRTHDAY.

The New-York Alumni Chapter OF the Kappa
Alpha Fraternity. Southern Order. celebrated the
anniversary of the birth of General Robert e. Lee
a banquet given at the Hotel Majestic last night
This college fraternity was organized at the wash
ington and Lee University in Virginia. at the close
of the Civil War while General Lee was president
of that institution. and holds him its chief
patron. The president of the chapter Ralph H.
responded to: THE Crimson and God.' by
Pratt A. Brown; THE Ladies', by Gordon Gordon;
"reminiscences of Kappa Alpha by DR.. Stockton
AxsOn of Princeton University. and The New
Century by the Rev. Howard A. Jones.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-27
TESL4'S VACUUM TUBE LIGHT.
THE INVENTOR ENCOURAGED BY THE PROGRESS
OF HIS WORK.

THE INVENTOR ENCOURAGED BY THE PROGRESS
OF HIS WORK.
produce an electric light without heat feels that he
is making perceptble headway in that work As
The Tribune has indicated before his general plan
is TO employ an alternating current of almost in
conceivably great frequency, and lamp consisting
Of a vacuum tube. The alterations secured by
an instrument of his own invention, known the
oscillator.
But after Mr.. Tesla entered upon his interesting
line of experiment he encountered various unfore-
seen difficulties. While he able obtain
beautiful light almost at the outset 1t at the
expense OF more energy than was desirable. In
other words he did not have his invention a
thoroughly satisfactory basis BY degrees he has
improved the efficiency OF his apparatus that
his light is now more economical than it was, and
he regards il superior to both the incandescent
and lights in this respect. At present however
he is unwilling TO indicate precisely the nature and
degree or the techncal advances made or TO use
figures in comparing its economy with that of its
rivals. One reason for retcence on the latter point
Improvement. Mr.. Tesla frankly declares that his
return in light for the electrical energy invested
as he would like All that he insists upon is that
II Is now efficient that he conscientiously
recommend II TO those who may wish TO put II on
the market
a straight vacuum tube fully inch and half In
diameter and six or eight feet long. Latterly he
putting II into rather compact coil saves great
deal OF space. a score of lamps OF this sort. each
pended from the ceilings of rooms the tenth
door OF Office building. while the special ap-
would be down in the basement. The street mains
would supply ordinary alternating current and
the lamps. For some purposes two wires TO each
lamp would be preferable but for others one would
wiring. and the risks from escaping current would
Stxy le NJ ms
New-York tribune., 1901-01-27
A NEW GIFT TO SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
LYMAN C SMITH PRESENTS BUILDING FOR a
COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCE.

LYMAN c. SMITH PRESENTS BtIlsl)iNb FUN a
COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCE.
Lyman Cornelius Smith has given the funds for
a building for the department OF mechanical en-
cheering at Syracuse University. The plans have
been completed and ground will be broken
II is TO be the first OF a group OF buildings de-
signed for a college OF applied science. The present
electrical engineering department will be housed
in this building The new building will be In the
Italian Renaissance style 1t will have width
from east to OF 1873 feet and depth at the
ends OF 55 feet The height will be 50 feet. The
main entrance will be in the centre through a
portico Is feet wide and feet deep The building
will be OF stone. and the interior VIII be finished
with faced brick without plaster. II will be a
solid structure built 10 carry heavy machinery
without vibration.
In the basement will be placed the various test
ing machines used in mechanical and civil en-
GneerinE on the main floor at the left OF the
entrance will he a large machine shop. At the
right is TO be the woodworking shop. Above Will
be lecture rooms. recitation rooms, library and
a museum. on the top floor IS to be a draughtlng
40 by ll6 feet. The architect, Professor Gag
gin. is professor of architecture In the university
The cost of this building will approximate $5OOo
Mr.. Smith is first vice-president Of the Board OF
Trustees of the university
Chancellor James r. Day says: This is one OF
the greatest gifts that have been bestowed upon
any college in the State in a number of years ana
is going to do great things for Syracuse Uni