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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-03-02
More cars for nrook,,n Rapid Transit.

A dozen or more new motor cars to take
the place Of those destroyed in the recent
fire at Union Depot, Thirty-sixth street,
South Brooklyn, arrived there yesterday
and after being tested they will be used
on tho Fifth avenue and Bath Beach lines
OF the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company,
elevated service, on Monday these
now motor cars are fitted with the swing
ing single chairs. Since the fire the som
pany has been busy converting several
passenger oarSinto motor cars and when
these are finished the two lines will be
better provided than ever with motor
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-03-02
Lightning IN Underwood.

RIpoEwooD, ". j., March The resi-
dence Of q. A. Dunn on Grove street, this
villa ge, was struck by lightning at 10
O'Clock this morning and totally destroyed
by fire. The inmates had barely time to
hrst electrical storm OF the year in this
vicinity N there was but one fash Of
lightning. ,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-03-02
COMPULSORY VACCINATION.
Health Commissioners do Not Favor III
ueforc L~eEIslature.

Health Commissioners Ernst J. Lederle
E. Eliot Harris. NJ. D., OF 80 West Ninety
third street, a member Of the State Medical
Association. and Daniel Lewis. State Com
missioner Of Health, will meet early this
week 10 consider the Compulsory Vaccina-
ton bill which /, now before the Legislature.
II j. understood that the bill Is not favored
by the Health Commissioners, on the ground
that man persons who would otherwise
be vaccinated would refuse II II were made
compulsory.
From 25'OCo TO IS. 900 vaccinations IRE o
performed free each week 10y h Health
Department.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-03-02
LAWSON BLOSSOMS INTO VERSE.
Rhythmic Chuckles over no Rise OF
~Trimountain by Its Prophet.

Thomas W. lawson celebrated the ami
versary Of his birth and the soaring OF
his speciality, ~Trimountain, to i25 on Thurs
day. by dropping into poetry. Later,
Trimountain took a drop. Mr.. Lawson's
poem Is rugged rather than classical, al
though there are suggestions OF the classical
In the vagueness Of some Of the lines. Per-
haps the mistiness and the verbal peculi:
arities may be due to the exigenoies OF
rhyme. What contributed to Mr.. Law:
sons JOY was the reflection that he had
prophes sled and prophecy is the proper
function of the real poet-that Trimountain
would soar. This is Mr.. Lawson's in
spiration just as IL was writ:
TrImountain. I25.
THE BLAoKxAIL MAN.
Where, oh, where Is our blackmAu man
with bis nie ard his drum and his nlm ia N nami
has he gone to the Isle Of Bully Bazoo
with his sheet and his press and his sewer sewer
Or perchsnce be has climbed to the cswins crows
And sits minus coat, minus shirt, minus vest.
Awaiting the turn OF that corner abrupt
Engineered by brokers aslnine and corrupt.
NAere, oh. where Is our biackfnal mani
lie was last heard from on the tail OF a cart.
yelling loudly Amt starting. amt started never
us a mean. mensly swindle. a rotten dod rot;
lis a corner, a corner, look out Tor It's iurni
I'm bust on you fellows, ltll scorch andll burnl -,
TOT LOIu = ehhNt y ' NOuCn w DOh Y NOuSu "
Don't touch Il, ] sayi
For I'm 1T, aud I know III" Then he faded away.
SO, where. oh. where Is our blackmail mani
Oh. where, oh. where is our %blackmall man,
With his big fat head and his little can cant
Can II be ne has gone for a long. long ride
On the back OF an ass where the Guuloos hide1
or perhaps he has slipped on a slippery peel
Placed where he walked by bulls who steal,
BY brokers bad who corner stock
by whooping II up and letting II nop.
Say. where. oh. where is our blackmail mani
Ages passed. passed slow away.
Since that corner came, came here TO stay,
And the stock that sold In the sos low.
Has Shincd and shOae In brilliant glow,
Close by the rafrers' highest beam,
At prices far beyond all dream.
And those who bought are rich and fat,
And they ask, when asked where they are at,
What became OF that tltesoine blsckmah
mani"
And then there comes from the distant past
a sgucaky voice like a tin horn blast,
And a Kind OF a PUNK like a rubber boot
Being pulled nom muck by It's downmost root,
And 10 and behold with hts head stlll fat.
VITA a face and a form like a lukcwarm cat,
Comes tottcrnR forth with his sheet and press,
Our corner friend, his NearneSs-
Yes, our long lost blackmall mani
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-03-02
$4,000 PLACE ron o. G.. sEMPLE.
Health Department Law Stan 10 he Cut
Down.

Corporation Counsel Rives has appointed
Oliver C.. Semple an assistant at 5000 a
year, and Frank A. Apologize private
secretary at 1850.
MIR, Rives intends TO reduce the law star
OF The Health Department and create one
for the Tenement House Commission, 10
which much of the Departments work
has been made over.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-03-02
Blg Apartment House on Central Park Yves,

Plans were filed with the Building Bureau
yesterday for a ten-story freproof anart-
ment house, lo.ll by 1864 feet, to be built
Tor Philip B~raender at the southwest corner
OF Central Park West and iO2d street, IL
Is 70 cost $3.50 900.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-03-02

To ,ur Enron 81 THr sUN-sir; Wa you
word in regard TO the controversy
pup r,nd hv YOUR corrsspcndent. Russell in yes.
,saaav'. issuey The writer Is not an expert
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-03-02

Regular and supplementary mails Close n, po,,lrn
Branch half hour later tlan closing time now
below except THAT Supplementary MaiS for Rurors
and Central America. VIA Colon. Io,e one bog,
later al Foreign branch
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-03-02

PRINTED NATTER, ETC.-This steamer take,
Printed Matter. Commercial Papers. and
Sample for Germany only. The same class
OF mall matter for other parts OF Europe wnl
not be sent By this ship unless specially directed
by her.
AFTER the closing OF the Supplementary Trans
Atlantic Malls named above, additional SUP
Elementary Malls are opened on the piers Z"
the American. English, French and German
steamers, and remain open untl within Tea
Minutes OF the hour OF sailing OF steamer,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-03-02
POST OFFICE NOTICE
POST OFFICE Nu1Icg.

CShould be read DAILY by all interested A.,
changes may occur at any Iniel :"
foftign malls Tor tac vceb Chdulg March 4 ion.
VIII close PROMPTLY In al cA5r,, al Inc t;s,s,.i
Post once g. follows: ISNNLLS Posi- LAiS
close ono hour eanier than closing time saotrr
below. Parcels Post msilS Tor Germany close a.
200 T. NJ. Fiiday. per steamship h,JupHuz Mi.
helm. vs."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-03-02

III ANtaN INV hAbAk hi' BaN'hN Nh6
dressed, lifted into my arms In a carriage,
driven to the Hudson River Railroad sta
ton, there carried into a coach, and left
lying on a pillow In my lap. He lay 50 quiet
that AT times / had 20 look close 10 be sure
he was breathing. My idea was, to get him
above the Hudson River Highlands, as the
nearest point nearly free from salt air, and
there wait strength to 60 further. Near
Peekskill, he opened his eyes and asked for
moro air, / had the window slightly raised,
I feared asking for air meant difficulty in
breathing. presently, he asked TO he lifted
into an upright position in the scat and
leaned his head upon my shoulder, then he
asked for more air and j had the window
fully opened, 1t was the latter part OF
March, the air was mild, and presently a
touch OF color stole into his cheeks he
breathed deeper and easier, opened his
eyes and took some notice 81 things. ]
had by telegraph, s~ecurcd-well up the hill
a. Fishkill- accommodations with a fine
outlook. A carriage was waiting, and We
soon had him in bed. ] slept in the same
room in a separate bed, rs ! could wake at
the least dist urbance in his. kept n win
dow opened day and night. but Kept him
out of all d%raughts. Al the eng OF the SIX
weeks, when the doctor was going TO have
him dead, / had him twice a Gay bundled
up. leaning on me, and walking Tor ten
minutes IN tho open porch. we hhu uls-
pensed with do1torv altogether since lcaNlng
The city. We carried out the bathing, the
! counter irritation, dieting. all our regular
treat ment and dispensed with drugs about
the nearest approach to medicine was ale
and malt extract. We only used those Tor q
short time; ] didn't see as they dld any goOd.
In about, two months, when he could walk
a mile, rest. and return. we went toa hunter
and lumh4rman's old fashioned wooden
house on the mountains oi the BeaNefkil
River in delaware county, Ne" 10TH.
Here they had a fireplace nearly ~ ~
across for hig wood fires that made VIC
air indoors almost as pure as that ou,side,
II was 1900 feet above the gsa, ana ,hne
effect on the patient was starting IN lhs
OF two hours horSeback riding a day,
We remained out doors pretty much al
Newport weekly independent., 1902-04-25
CHARGE AND PROMPT DENIAL.
Not Immi grants. but Those Who Would Victimize Them Driven
 from the Battery.

New York, April 21.-Commissioner of Immigration Fitchie received or ders from Washington, yesterday, to investigate published stories that inn migrants who land in this city at the Battery are brutally treated by the special police on duty there.
 A Brooklyn resident sent batch of the stories to President Roosevelt and accompanied it with a statement that one of the instances he knew, from personal observation, to be true.
 The president, after looking over the papers, sent them to Secretary Shaw, who, in turn forwarded them to MT. Fitehie with orders to apply the probe. :
 The instance mentioned was that the special police carried raw hide whips with which they beat the i'm migrants, driving the foreigners be- fore them like so many cattle.
 Commissioner Fitchie is already out in denial of the charges. He and his police declare that it is not the immigrants who are lashed with whips. It is, they say, the horde of hotel runners, idlers, sharks" and other men who have no legitimate business at the Battery, and who menace the immigrants as they land. The officers declare that the only way to get rid of these pests, as they term them, is to use violence.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-04-25
COSTLY FIRE AT DALLAS. TEX.
Two Persons Fatally Injured and Over . Quarter of Million in Prop-
 erty Swept Away.

Dallas, Tex, April 21.-Two persons were fatally injured; Fire Chief Ma gee was prostrated and a property loss of fully $37O,00O was caused by several fires which occurred here shortly after three o'clock yesterday morning. At that hour an alarm was turned from the Dorsey printing es- tablishment, and in a short time one of the fiercest confag grations which has visited Dallas in years was in progress. To add to the troubles of the firemen, several other alarms from different parts of the city were turned in in quick succession.
 After fighting the fire for two hours, Chief Magee was prostrated, and the command was turned over to an assistant. The chief was rescued from the flames by the police, and was unconscious for several hours, but was later reported out of danger.
 Fireman William Spurr was struck in the face by flying brick and fa- tally injured
 The young son of Fire Chief Magee was found on the floor of the engine room at the Central station, with fractured skull. It is supposed that the lad attempted to slide from the bunk room to the engine room on one of the iron poles used by the fremcn and fell to the floor.
 The Dorsey Printing Co.'s plant was totally destroyed, the loss being about $200,00O, half covered by insur- ance.
 While the Dorsey fire was in prog ress, fire broke out on Lamar street, near Collin, and 20 buildings were destroyed. Half of them were ordinary business houses and the re- mainder boarding houses and dwell- ings. The Griffith Lumber Co. is one of the principal losers ill that section of the city, where it is estimated that the loss will aggregate S150,000, of which Griffith &5 Co. sustain $50,000, with insurance of $25,OOO.
 The loss of the Heating Implement Co. is heavy, but not accurately known. About dozen smaller mer- cantile and manufacturing establish ments were destroyed, the losses ranging from SS,O00 down.
 While the big fires were raging a third one broke oIt in the residence district of Fisher lane, in South Dal- las, two miles distant, which de- strOyed four cottages, worth S2O 000
Newport weekly independent., 1902-04-25
FRANK STOCKTON DEAD.
The WeII-Knoyyn Novelist Succumba to Paralysis Resulting from
 Hemorrhage of the Brain.

Washington, April 21.-Mr. Frank R. died suddenly here yesterday morn ing.
 The cause of MT. Stockton's death was paralysis immediately resulting from hemorrhage in the brain. He was guest at 6 banquet held Wednesday night of the National Academy of Sciences, when he was taken suddenly and mysteriously ill The ailment at that time did not ap- pear to be serious, and for awhile the sufferer seemed to be improving; but change for the worse came yester- day morning, and death occurred at II o'clock.
 By his bedside when the end came were his wife, who was Miss Futile of Virginia, and her sister. He was 6S years of age.
 The body will be taken to Phila- delphia for interment
 MT. Stockton had spent the past winter in New York, and had done very little literary work, preferring to rest. After a visit of nearly a month to Atlantic City he came ta Washington so that he might attend the banquet of the scientists. intend. ing then to go to his beautiful home in Charleston, w. Va.
 MT. Stockton was Phi!adeiphian by birth, and in early life was an engraver and draughtsman, but soon abandoned this occupation for jour nalism. Many years ago, however, he retired wholly from newspaper work and devoted himself to litera ture. His reputation as a story writer was world wide.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-04-25
FATAL FIRE IN CHICAGO.
Several Persons Painfully Turned and On Little Girl KiIIed-A
 Fathers Over Anxiety

Chicago, April 21.--Sevcral persons were painfully burned and a little girl was killed in a fire that de- stroyed the Monterey" fve-story apartment house, o5 Thirty-ninth street, last night. The 1antcs spread so rapidly that many of the occu- pants of the upper rooms, who had retired for the night, were cut off from escape by the stairways and were rescued by the firemen. James l.. Grimsted, one of the tenants, in his anxiety to save his little girl, caused her death Instead of wait ing for the firemen who were coming to his rescue, Grimsted started down one of the escapes with the child in his arms. Just as he got to the third floor an explosion of gas occurred, and he loosened his hold on the child and she fell to the pavement and was killed. The property loss is $35, ,0oo.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-04-25
FIFTY DWELLINGS BURNED.
Sixty Families Rendered Homeless in Kansas City, Mo.-One Person
 Y Fatally Injured.

Kansas City, Mo-, April 21.--A de- structive fire visited the southwest ern part of the city yesterday, laying waste a section of dwelling houses almost a quarter of a mile long and a block wide and doing, damage to the amount of $75,OO0. John Slime, of Quincy, ILL, a spectator, was fatally injured by falling piece of iron, and Edward Bennett, fireman, was over- come by heat.
 About fifty dwelling houses were destroyed and sixty or more families rendered homeless.
 A high wind amounting almost to gale was blowing, and the flames spread with alarming rapidity. Be- cause of a mistake in the alarm sent in, the arrival of the firemen was de- layed and the fire had gained much headway before they commenced op- erations.
 The fire started in grocery store, and after destroying nearby build ings, was carried by the strong wind up steep hill, making the work of the firemen extremely difficult. Burn ing embers were blown more than a half mile, and for time all of that portion of the city was threatened.
 After three hours of hard fighting the fire was under control. Many per- sons lost all of their belongings Much furniture and other property was destroyed after having been piled in supposed places of safety.
 Most of the residents who suffered loss are poor. Thosc wl" need as. sistance are being cared for tenn, porarily by neighbors and charitable Institutions.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-04-25
TO MEET THE BURGERS,
The Men Who Fight Expected to Ac- cept the British Terms and
 End the War.

Balmoral, Cape Colony, Saturday, April 19.-Gen. Lucas Myer, comman h. der-in-chief of the Orange Free State forces, State Secretary Reitz of the Transvaal, and the other members of their party, arrived here last night, and this morning proceeded to the north. They were accompanied ny 9 British escort, and it is their inten- tion to consult with toe Bocrs in the field.
 Pretoria, April 19.-Gen. DeWet has gone to Heilbron, Orange River col ony; Gen. Botha, the T1ansNaal cur1- manoer-in-chief, Las zone to Vryheid, Transvaal, and Gen. Delarey, togeth- CT with Mr. Steyn, eX-presidenr of the Orange Free State, has gone 70 Klerksdorp, Transvaal. rher have ar ranged to meet the burghers at diff ferent rendezvouses and submit the British terms. It is believed the Transvaalers will everywhere accept the terms, as they rre in no way anxious for winter campaign. The only difficulty likely 10 occur will, if is thought, be with the Orange Free Staters, many of whom are expected to prove recalcltrant.
 In the meantime there will be no cessation of hostilitics. The ttle- gates are expected back in Pretoria the middle of May, and in anticipa- ton of their return have left orders for new clothes, provisions, etc.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-04-25
CONDEMNED IN MISSOURI AND CONFISCATED IN
 NEW YORK,

Judge Clarke of St. Louis has con- vieted and fined heavily number of grocers for selling baking powders containing alum.
 The week before the Health Depart ment of New York seized a quantity of stuff being sold for baking powder which they found was made from alum mixed with ground rock, and dumped it into the river.
 The Health Authorities are thus talk ing effective means to prevent the in- troduction into our markets of in- furious substitutes in place of whole some baking powders.
 As alum costs only two cents a pound, there is great tempta tion for those manufacturers who make sub- stitutes and imitation goods to use it. Alum baking powders can be detected by the health authorities by chemical analysis, but the ordinary housekeep- CT, whose assistance in protecting the health of the people is important, can not make chemical examination. She may easily know the alum powders, however from the fact that they are sold at from ten to twenty cents for pound can, or that some prize-like spoon, or glass, or piece of crockery, or wooden ware-is given with the powder as an inducement.
 As the people continue to realize the importance of this subject and con- sumers insist on having baking powder of established name and character, and as the health auth horities continue their vigorous crusades, the alum danger will, it is hoped, finally be driven from our homes.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-04-25
A PASTORS WIFE ps,S'e SvFea ea4a' 9,'
She Suffered for Years and Felt Her Case Was Hope. less-Cured by
 Peruna.
K YRS. ANNA B. FLEHARTY, recent
 lVA Superintendent of the w. (. T. U.

MRS. ANNA B. FLEHARTY, recent 1Nl uperintendent of the w. (. T. l..
 headquarters, at Galesburg, H.. was for ten years one of the leading women there. Her husband, when liv ing, was first President of the Nebraska Wesleyan University, at Lincoln. Neb.
 In a letter written from 4Ol Sixty seventh street, w., Chicago, Ill.,, Mrs. Fleharty says the following in regard to Peruna:
 Having lived very active life as wife and working partner of a busy minister, my health failed me few years ago. l lost my husband about the same time, and gradually 1 seemed to lose health and spirit. My daughter is confirmed invalid, and we both felt great need of an iEvigorator.
 "One of my neighbOrs advised me 10 try Peruna. A bottle was immedi- afeIy secured and a great change took place in my daughters as we'll as in my own health. Our appetfeS i1- proved very greatly, fhe digestion seemed much helped, and reSffuI sleep soon improved LIS, so that we seemed like new women.
 would not be without Peruna for len times its coSf. "-Mrs. Anna B. Fieharfy.
 What used to be called female dis eases by the medical profession is now called pelvic catarrh. It has been found by experience that catarrhal diseases of the pelvic organs are the cause of most cases of female disease.
 Dr. Hartman was among the first of America's great physicians to make this discovery. For forty years he has been treating diseases peculiar to women, and long ago he reached the conclusion that woman entirely free from catarrhal affection of these or gans would not be subject to female disease. He therefore began using Pe runa for these cases and found it so admirably adapted to their permanent cure that Peruna has now become the most famous remedy for female dis eases ever known. Everywhere the women are using it and praising it. Peruna is not palliative simply; it cures by removing the cause of female disease.
 Dr. Hartman has probably cured more women of female ailments than any other living physician. He makes these cures simply by using and rec ommending Peruna.
 Mrs. E. l.. Brown. 329 Elliott street, Memphis, Tenn, writes:
Newport weekly independent., 1902-04-25
OF MINOR MENTION.

Nine-tenths of England's railway passengers travel third-class.
 The growth of girls is greatest in their fifteenth year, of boys in their seventeenth.
 In 1871 Germany had only eight cities with over 100000 inha bitants. Now she has 33.
 The San Francisco, river of Bra gil, is 1,4Oo miles in length, and was so called because it was discovered on the feast day of St. Francis.
 A palm-tree which grows on the banks of the Amazon has leaves 30 feet to 50 feet in length and ten feet to 12 feet in breadth.
 Engaged girls in Denmark wear a plain gold ring on the third finger of the left hand, When they get married the ring is moved to the third finger of the right hand.
 Paul Bonhomme, Paris news vendor, has just been found dead on a doorstep. He had not been to bed since he woke one morning six years ago and found his wife dead by his side. --.+~..,.s.e .-...,.A.-..
 The cows in Belgium wear ear- rings. The law decrees that every COW when it has attained the age of three months must have in it's ears a ring to which is attached a num- bered metal tag.
 The oldest steam engine now at work is believed to be the New comen winding engine at Farme Col fiery, Rutherglen, neat Glasgow It was built in 1909, and has worked continuously to the present time.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-04-25
Queen wiIheImina's Condition.

The Hague, April 2o.-The condi- tion of Queen Wilhelmina remains practically unchanged. She does not lose consciousness and has taken a little more nourishment. The prince consort and the queens physicians left Castle Loo for a short time to- day. This is regarded as a favorable sign.