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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
NATION ADDING TO NAVY.
According to Present Indications Many Vessels Will Be Added
 to the Fleet.

The United States is rapidly adding to its navy. In three years it will prob ably have the largest number of ships able to engage in active warfare of any country in the world. Battle ships, cruisers and monitors are now in course of construction, and will be launched as soon as completed says a Washington report.
 The next to take to the sea is the Pennsylvania. which will be launched from Cramps shipyard next seasonl and christened by Miss Quay, daughter of the Pennsylvania leader, who will break bottle upon the bow and name the ship with appropriate ceremony.
 The starting of ship of war upon it's journey is such an important cer- emony, and enc attended with so many honors, that the greatest rivalry ex- ists for the honor of breaking the bottle. Wires are pulled, plans are laid year in advance, and often feel ings are engendered that are quite the reverse of friendly or patriotic.
 The selection of Miss Quay has given universal satisfaction in Philadelphia and Washington, as she is young woman, pretty and accomplished, and already identified in public affairs.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
THE PROPER WAY TO EXERCISE.

If You Want Good Stimulant. Take
 a Whack at the WoodpiIe.
 Instead of wearing out their strength in contortion machines, relief seekers should flee to the woods and the moun- tains, should pitch their tents in some neighboring wooded highlands and share the fun of hoeing out a. trail to the next spring; should gather rasp- berries in the deep clefts, and climb trees in quest of squirrels nests; should fetch their own fuel from the pine-knot bottoms, and arrange expedi- tions to the highest peaks of the neigh borhood.
 In that manner, a two-weeks' camp in Elysfum will suffice to lay in re serve store of health for several months of town life; and, besides, ex- perience will prove that work with practical purpose and the stimulus of visible results enables an invalid to be- guile himself into an amount of exer- else unattainable by the manual of the horizontal bar.
 In stress of circumstances. city dwell lers may try the comproassiee of an am- atuer carpentershop or, like EIihu Bur ritt, get an anvil to hammer out bill iousness and blue devils
 Turner-halls, though, are encourag- ing signs of the times, and the healing art would enter new era of success if the patrons of the nostrumrmonge could be persuaded to try Dr Boer- haave's plan and .scounteract the dis orders of the human organism mechan- ieally, instead of chemically, by chop ping down a Underwood tree, instead of swallowing decoetion of it's nauseous leaves
 The moral healing art, too, is inn portant; it is equally important; for self-reliance has no more insidious foe than the despondency that so often fol lows the abuse of drugs, and yields permanently only to the magic of out door exercise.
 Movement-cure associations are the harbingers of that reform, and the time may be near when invalids who insist on taking something will be advised to s'take a whack at the woodpile," or 8 walk in the park.--August Success"
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
DooMs AN ADOBE THEORY.
Field Museum Authority Finds That Hopi Indian Children Puzzled
 the Experts.

Dr. George Dorsey, of the Field Columbian museum, has made dis covery in his investigations among the Hopi Indians that overturns mSny of the old theories of anthro- biologists in regard to supposed in scriptions on the adobe houses of the tribe. He made the announce ment of his discoveries in a lecture to the students of the University of Chicago the other afternoon on Civ ilization Among the Hopi Indians."
 "These inscriptions that the an- thropologists have been trying to de- cipher and read for years" said Dr. Dorsey, ''have been found to be nothing more than the scratches made by mischieyous Hopi children in the mud of the adobe houses after they have been freshly built. They are not mysterious inscriptions at all They are only the results of childish pranks. Of course this dis covery makes the anthropologists feel rather vexed, but the markings have much resemblance to some kind of picture writing, and may we'll be taken for some kind of inscriptions"
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
PARKS FOR THE PEOPLE.
The Turf Is Not So Much Hurt by the Feet as It Is from Soil
 Exhaustion.

The question of removing or replac- ing Keep off the grass" signs in pulp lie parks has become one of lively in terest in many cities because of re- port that the turf in Central park, New York, is in danger, on account of the crowds not being kept to the roads and paths, remarks the C1eye- land Plain Dealer.
 Comparison of experiences leads to the conclusion that it is not so much the feet of the people straying over the grass that has caused the mis- chief as the misjudgment of the park management. The turf is perishing because the soil is becoming exhaust ed. Other parks, have for years been free to the people, who are allowed to wander where they please and set tie themselves down on the cool turf in tWos and threes. and in larger fam fly groups. Park parties gather and school picnics bivouac under the shade of the trees, while the children romp and scamper in the open spaces with no keep off the grass'' signs to scare them to the roads made perilous by swift automobiles or thronged with carriages. Tn spite of all this the grass in these parks fourishes, the turf seeming to be the better instead of the worse for this usage.
 The parks are for the people The only way the masses of the people can enjoy themselves is by having the freedom of the grass. The ex- perience of other cities, as we'll as that of Cleveland, is that under req sonable regulations such use of the parks is not injurious to the turf, provided care is taken to keep the soil in condition to supply the grass rcots with proper nourishment.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31

ter Sowash and he sent them to the postal department. From there they reached the secret service operators.
 At the New York end they cast about for a woman to impersonate Miss Saunders and one for the task was found in department store. She was instructed how to meet the confidence man and all was ready.
 From Harrisburg Montgomery got the "come-on" message signed by the Irwin woman and at the ap- pointed time a woman was sitting in the Broadway hotel parlor, while a pair of secret service men were near by Outside dapper young man was walking back and forth. The next moment the young woman As she approached the strange man turned, raised his hat and said:
 Did you rest well last night?''
 "Oh, yes, considering my long Journey from Irwin.''
 This was the prearranged greeting and the word of recognition, accord ing to instructions. The couple en- tered the hotel and there is where the arrest was made. The man was taken to the Tombs and the fictitious Miss Saunders went back to the store, glad that it was all over.
 Miss Saunders was summoned t@ New York to appear against Mont gomery. He waived hearing and was placed under $6,00O bail for trial.
 Secret service men say that he is an old offender. He was arrested some years ago, but skipped his bail of $2,5oo. He ceased operations for awhile, but got back into the same old business and had eluded all att tempts to run him down.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
AT THE TOMB OF RLTHU YALE.
A Little Welsh Town That Is the Scene of a Sort of American
 Pilgrimage.

A bazar was lately held which ex- cites great interest in north Wales, in aid of the restoration of Wrexham church, one of the finest in the princi- pality. Wrexham contains a monu- ment which has become sort of shrine to Americans who have b4en ed- ucated at Yale college, inasmuch as it is that of Elihu Yale, and bears a quaint inscription which has become famous. Never was immortality so easily acquired as by Yale. It cost him some chattels, which he sent over to aid, by the request of friends, a struggling college at New Haven, Conn.,, and which fetched few hun dred pounds; but this in ITS was such a boon that the college took his name, and is now famous as Yale university, says London paper.
 Elihu Yale's daughter married Lord James Cavendish, son of the first duke of Devonshire, and had an only child, who married the son of Dr. Chandler, Bishop of Durham, whom she made take the name of Cavendish. She was lady of masculine tendencies, and commonly known as "Jack' Caven- dish. The Yale students have present ed Wrexham church with handsome visitors book.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT THURsDAY JULY 31, 1902
TRAPS A SWINDLER.
Excellent Piece of Detective Work
 Done by a Woman.
She Helped the Secret Service office to Capture a Notorious Dealer
 in What Is Known aa Green Goods.

One of the most sensational pages in the history of the United States se- cret service bureau is devoted to the exploits of Miss Hallie R. Saunders, of Irwin, Pa, who was instrument 1n the capture of Henry Montgomery, alleged to be one of the most expert green goods operators that ever turned trick on a gullible granger or "gold bricked'' man of easy con- science.
 Miss Saunders has been in business at Irwin for many years and IS wealthy. A few weeks ago she sold out her millinery store and retired to go into the real estate business. At this time she received green goods circular from Montgomery setting forth how a shrewd busi- ness woman who could keep her af- fairs to herself could make money handling the goods" She knew ex- actly what this meant and made up her mind to try to get the confi- dence operator into the hands of the government officers.
 She told her plans to several male friends and answered the letter. She wrote that she had $500 or $1,0o0 to invest and asked to have mailed to her a sample of the goods.
 In few days she received reply and inclosed in the letter was a new dollar bill that was genuine. More letters passed and Miss Saunders set a day and hour when she would leave home for New York. Then falIo,uod ssoonaon, ipS+r,,o+ioc a Broadway hotel to be the meeting place, and at Harrisburg she was to leave the train and wire Montgom- cry; Mother and I are coming" The trap was then ready to spring.
 Miss Saunders turned the letters and the dollar bill over to Postmas-
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
DEFoE,s PREvIsIoN.
The Martinique Disaster Recalls HIS Memorable Hoax on Lon
 doners in 1y1S.

The terrible news from St. Vincent, following the impression that this island had escaped the volcanic del- uge which has cremated half Mar unique, at once recalls and revers es the famous hoax by which Daniel De- foe led all London to believe, in ITS, that the whole island of St. Vincent had been blown up and obliterated, says the London Academy. On the basis of his own ina gination, or on some thin ship story, Defoe wrote in Mist's Journal a circumstantia1 ac- count of the destruction of this is land, giving such details as, with all our facilities of news transmissions, we wait for in vain to-day. After Iead- ing up very gradually to the catastro- phe, he told his readers that ''on the night of the said goth, about mid night, the whole island of St. Vim cent rose up in the air, with a most dreadful eruption of Fire from under meath the Earth and an inconceivabIe Noise in the Air at its rising up, that it was not only blown, but blown out of the very sea, with dreadful force, as if it were torn up by the Roots, or blown up from the Foundation of the Earth" Finally, to bring the event home to his readers, he recalled an accident in a foundry in Moorfelds, where a quantity of liquid gunmetaI coming in contact with some water had blown up the works-just as a journalist of to-day might perhaps re- call the recent destructive fire in the same district to suggest, however faintly, the storm of fire which swept over these hapless islands recently.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
German Sugar Production.

Last year the Germans produced 1,5ooooo tons of raw sugar, represent ing 13 per cent. of the beet root crushed, which was an increase since 184o of 5000 tons of product as 51s per cent. of the material used. The Dyeing industry earned $3o,oo0,o0o last year, against $6,ooo,ooo in 1874, notwith- standing diminished prices and in- creased wages. Artificial indigo now employs over 5000 men, including 148 scientific chemists, although started only about 35 years ago with less than IA men. In 1898 Germany employed 14,000 persons in making scientific in struments, the exports being three times those of 1888. These are exam ples of the results of scientific train ing in the land of it's greatest devel- opment.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
WATERFOWL JOTTINGS.
Considerable Damage in Morris as
 Result of Fridays Storm.

ANCol1G VI 5
 R. N. Deland and family who have been spending a two weeks vacation Visiting friends ill Lynn and Boston Mass, returned home last evening.
 Miss Edith Callendar, who was taken very ill Sunday, is somewhat improved.
 Although Tuesdays thunder storm dld very little damage here it was re ported that a very severe storm daged Ill Morris, which tore up trees and un- roofed buildings. One building was struck by lightning but no damage was done except to frighten the hor- ses which were in the barn.
 Miss Mary Myles and Miss Mary Melvin sailed from New York for Ire land yesterday, where they will visit friends and relatives for a year.
 Edward Fitzpatrick is laid up with an attack of rheumatism.
 The adjourned meeting of the joint board will take place this evening.
 E. D. Barlow intends to sell his place here and will make his home in the south in the future.
 The fremen are having a ready sale of tickets for their ice cream fes- tival which takes place in the town hall next Wednesday evening. Dur ing the past year the firemen have been to 8 great real of expense, and as they will hire a drum corps to es- cort them at the Thomaston parade, Sept. 11th, it is hoped that their dance will be largely attended in or der to help them to defray their ex- penses.
 Some of the farmers who have com menced harvesting their potatoes say that the crop is the finest it has been in years.
 Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Wooker have gone to Plainvil1e to attend the camp meeting.
 There will be meeting of the New Century Circle. c. of the F. of A., No 635, at Pythtan hall, Friday evening, Aug. 1st at p. m. All members will please attend as business of impor- tance is to come before the meeting.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
SUBURBAN DEPARTMENT
NAUGATUCK NUGGETS
Firemen's Team Won Another Game
 Yesterday Afternoon.

ASuGu 1GdIu WOu AuOlueE OduS
 Yesterday Afternoon.
 One by one all the crack teams go downtao defeat who run up against .the fremenss baseball team. None of them can hook on to Stratton's curves and it -wn continue so, for with Stratton and Haley as batteries, and the strong out and in-field that was in the game yesterday the Naug- atuck fire department baseball team can buck up aginst the strongest teams in the state and hold their own.
 Yesterday afternoon on G9otchkiss field they crossed bats with the South Hills of New Haven and sent them fast members of the baseball frater- nity back to the city of elms smarting with the sting that defeat by a score of Il to 0 can cause. The South Hills have some good players but too many errors and their. inability to hit Statton's curves, together with the re markable swiftnesS with which what hits they did make were fielded by the locals, were the chief cause of theif defeat. George White offici- atedl as umpire and aside from one error gave good satisfaction. Cotly, the local center fielder, was running to first base and got there thead of the ball but the umpire promptly called him out But nevertheless Waite acted as he thought best and from his position it looked as though Cot ly was out fair and square.
 Tomorrow being the first Friday of the month, masses will be cele- brated at St. Francis church at 5:3O, TOO and 8 o'clock a. m Confessions will be heard this afternoon and evening.
 The members of the Epworth League of the Methodist church and friends enjoyed ride over the lines of the Connecticut Railway and Light ing Company last evening. They went in special car which left here at o'clock.
 The Swedish Republican club will hold a special meeting to- morrow night in their hall on Bridge street. Delegates to the state Swe- dish American League convention will be held in New Britain in Sep tember
 The Naugatuck Gem club will hold its weekly shoot Saturday afternoon in Dooley's lot on West Mountain.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
0AKVILLE HAPPENINGS.

Dewey Car Occupants Ate Ice Cream
 in This Place Last Night.
 The Rev. Father Traynor was in this place yesterday calling on hs parishioners.
 Peter Burns of Waterbury was here yesterday visiting friends.
 Miss Mary Kelly is entertaining out of town guests. e s. M. Cowles was in town yester- day. The Dewey car passed through here last evening with a trolley party. They stopped in town long enough to visit Riverside park and eat ice cream.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
ENROLMENT OF VOTERS

The assistant registrars of voters will be in session on Friday, August l, and Friday, August 8, 1902, from 12 o'clock noon to 9 o'clock p. m. for the purpose of making an enrolment of the legal voters of Waterbury who des sire to take part in political primary meetings, at the following places: First district-Frank F. McEvoy's bicycle store, 63 East Main street. Second district-Philip Simon's tailor room, over Citizens National bank Third district-Court room, City hall. Fourth district-C Court room, City hall. Fifth district-L. R. Kings sigar store, 46 East Main street
 Sixth district-T. B. Carney & Co.'S drug store, WatervIlle.
 Above notice does not concern new voters.
 JOHN BLAIR, '
 JAMES A. HINES, 7-28-4. Registrars.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
Killed by strenk of I,ncn

A poor widow in Paris, who kept a small shop, received letter informing her that she had won ,000 in lot tery. The violent emotion caused by. the good news resulted in her death, as she was found stiff in her chair with the letter in her hand.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
Premature Burial Prevented.

To distinguish death from catalepsy, Dr. Icard, of Marseilles, injects fluo- rescin into the veins. If there is any circulation, in two minutes the body will turn grass green, but the color will pass away in two hours without causing any harm.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
A Conrparis

Grandpa had fellow out walk ing yesterday, and-well, I guess. I tuckered him out. But then he is old.
 Robbie Why, grandpa, you are sa yourself.
 Well, maybe I am, but this fellow was at least year older. 9--Detroit S9S~ ! .s-1
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
Poor Pay for Teachers.

Teachers of private schools in China are very poorly remunerated. They get about one cent day for each pE. pil.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31
Bridgeport Steamboat Company
 FOR NEW YORK. WILLIAM c. PAYNE

New Coastwise Steamer, Leaves Bridgeport daily (except Sum- day) at 7:45 a. m. on arrival of early morning train from stations on Naug- atuck division, due New York Il a. m. Returning, leaves New York pier 31 E. R., 300 p. m. and foot East 31st street 3:15 D. m., due Bridgeport 6;30 D. m. Saturdays, leaves New York one hour earlier.
 STEAMER ALLAN JOY Leaves Bridgeport daily (except Sat- urdays) 12 o'clock midnight, due New York 400 a. m. Returning leaves New York pier 31 E. R. daily (except Sunday at Il a. m., due Bridgeport 300 D. m.
 Sundays, steamer William G. Payne leaves Bridgeport 800 a. m., due New York 12 o'clock noon. Returning, leaves New York 5 p. m., due Bridge port S:3O D. III.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-31

C o E A. p..-4b. 4 Ths Kind You Have Always BOEgjd ]. siss;;s ss':; 2 ;'' I1Azzzx
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-16

Indebtedness. not down the names of the
New York houses that would float finance
bills abroad. Revise that list carefully
and YOU will be surprised to find how few
in number such firms really are Then
place opposite their names the probable
limit of each firms credit. remembering
the restriction governing the acceptance
of single name paper. backed by reputa-
ton alone. Add those amounts together
and compare the total with some of the
estimates that the newspapers have given
Il viii be under published figures.
1 think It fair to say that there IS not
a New ork house in banking today that
could float q hundred million dollars in
finance bills in London alone. Before that
sum was reached, the firm would have
been notified that the great discount
banks had called a halt and would not
consider further expansion. And with
Paris. Berlin, Vienna. and Frankfort may
take some American finance bills, it must
not be forgotten that ondon does the
bulk of that business, and in all proba-
bility. barring peculiar conditions. al
y avs will. OF course. this foreign indebt-
edness has its dangers. but since the
business is in the hands Of men in touch
with money market tendencies the world
over. no general disturbance is likely 10
result"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-16
GREAT FIRES
HAVE CEASED
In the Mountain Forests OF
the Northwest.
MUCH RUIN WROUGHT
Extent of the Timber Country
in That Section.
MUCH RUIN WROUGHT


BeIatea storms. bringing within the
rsst fortnight. q considerable downpou~
Of rain. have enSed Tor this season shs
terrible nres which annually seoGrss
he forests Of the far Northwest. ana
~hica this year have ragged with
fury, ana devastated greater area than
ever before. says the Brooklyn zssgis.
but before the rains came. The nres had
practically consumed eveTythirg IN them
pathway 1nti stopped by the larger va
Ter courses. and al he edges 81 the great
mountain forests. where the melting snow
Or summer mountain malatSin Qerpet-
ii dampness.
summer sitter samusr since the forests
OF he Northwest we're asst invaded b
the white hunter. prospec;oF. and tmses
cruiser. the Ares have been started and
have spread 10 alarming proportions ard
caused much damage and heavy loss
The work OF the flames this year. now
ever, Is the most sppallins. Forty ives
are known 20 have been lost. and 40 ons
can tell how many have pefished IN ms
farther recerses OF the woods hundSecs
Rave had cneir homes swept away By The
flames. snd the owners % timber laaas
and logging camps and sawnilis have
scarcely begun 10 Approximate In dollars
snsa c sats tbe extent -of their heavy losses
In The states OF Washington and oregon.
the timber lands owned BY lumbernen
have an acreage exceeding Socoop Ac-
ccriing TO the statistics prepared by Or.
aenry Gsnnstt. geographer Of the Uaited
states Geological Survey. the lands held
a. fIar u Is
reports for The last crnrus amounted. in
these two states. 70 e.9ie.elS acres. leaN-
ing an estimated total OF c.E3soo.coo feet
OF merchantiIable timber. and represent
inx an invested capital OF tt1,S;l.-5.
Il ia these people who have suffered
most 50 far as property less Il concern
"a. By this years nres. Since the censas
statistics were assembled, the hcid.nss
OF timber acreage have increased by leaps
and bunds, capital has been poured out
freely in the acquisition OF great areas.
IN most Of which active operations for The
production OF lumber have eees begun
within the past two years.
Throughout the western part Of these
two states particularly IN the southwest
Of Washington, and the northwest of one
gon, the ares have this year attained
ths4r greatest violence. Through the
whole OF the heavily wood,d lands iyinE
between the Cascade mountains and tbs
Pacific ocean. the flames have ragged with
/ unpreccae Rted fury.
Miil towns have been laid DO ruins. hum
dreds OF logging camps have been s~rpt
eut OF existence. and the last IN sequence
the most pitifI loss Of ali-is that cf
the small farmer. who follows ths end of
the LOGGING operations BY the purchase
Of the land FOR his home. "a is these LAST
v no have lost their all. and from among
these the list Of known dead u maas Up