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New-York tribune., 1902-12-18


garden Her left arm. though badly lacerated
gS, the remen hon are guarding the ruins Of the Pag
the ashes are $1,000 in gold, diamonds worth $3.50
and two gold watches.
The fatal explosion which wrecked John Pag-
hughis house at Fort Lee Tuesday, and killed
six persons the subject of discussion among
Insurance men yesterday. An official Of the New
York Board of Fire Underwriters said that it
impossible to say whose system Of generating
acetyiene was used in the house what the
immediate cause of the accident. He said. though.
that If the tank had been outside. instead Of inside
the building. the effects CT the accident would have
been less serious. IT, indeed Ii would not have been
averted entirely.
Acetylene is used in number of different ways
to-day for Illuminating purposes. Companies which
manufacture water gas in large cities sometimes
employ 1t to enrich that product. Occasionally
small towns are supplied from central station
with unmixed gas. Apparatus is also extensively
manufactured to furnish isolated suburban homes
with the article. Finally a number of at
tempts have been made to devise portable lamps in
which gas would be generated from calcium car
bide required The National Board Of Fire
Underwriters examines the machines made for ali
of these purposes when requested and publishes
lists of those which regarded safe on account
of their construction Other lists printed in
which devices. once permitted are disapproved for
failure to comply with recommendations.
OF the machines designed for individual house
holds, its circulars say: TT should be noted that
the installation of acetylene gas machines inside
buildings is prohibited in certain districts by local
authorities and local boards This is true Of New
York City It is further required that the ma
chimes shall be inspected every often to insure
remaining in safe condition. The same general
policy is pursued with gasoene plants, the first es-
sential condition Of liberation being that the tanks
and generators shall be of doors.
Acetylene, though long ago known to chemists
has only recently come into popular use in conse-
quence of the discovery of cheap way to make
calcium carbide. from which it is derived by the
simple addition OF water Like oal gas naphtha
vapor and other Illuminating agents 1t is highly
explosive, especially when mixed with a certain
New-York tribune., 1902-12-18
GENERAL PEANUTS, MIDGET, DEAD.

General Peanuts" who for number of years
was one of the best known midgets and clowns
with Barnum's and Forepaugh & sells's circuses,
found dead in bed in his at No. 2O7
East Fourteenth-st. yesterday The midget. who
was Japanese. not known by any other
name than the professional nickname of Gen
eral Peanuts" He had room with Frank Oak
ley, a well known clown Oakley is at present
playing in Boston. Death was due to heart
disease.
General Peanuts was thirty-eight years old
New-York tribune., 1902-12-18
6O-62 West 23d Street.

Russian Sable Muffs, round and hat, newest
shapes, large assortment, SIPS, SI7s, $3.50, S3o9
S4oo $500, 5000, $50. 5000 $1,000 SI,25o, SI5oo;
neck pieces mantles victorines, capes at CORE
spending prices Articles to order without extra
charge.
NOTE do not sell darkened OF blended Russian
Sable only the genuine natural color
c. c. SHAYNE, Manufacturer, 4Ist and 42d
Sts, bet Broadway and 9th Av-
Carriage entrance 41st St. bet B'way and 9Th Ay
New-York tribune., 1902-12-18
OLD WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN COTTAGE

Saratoga. N. Y. Dec. II (speeiaD-Mrs Ruth
Strong. of Quaker Springs. had been dead fully
forty-eight hours before her neighbors forcibly
entered her cottage and found her last evening
She seated in her easy chair near a stove.
She a widow. eighty-two years old and lived
alone.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-18
Q. S. STEEL TAKES ANOTHER PLANT.
It Buys the Breaker Island Works for
5OOOOO-May Be Closed.

Albany. Dec ia large force Of laoorers, who
have been working to put in readiness for resump-
ton the Breaker Island steel plant, formerly the
property OF the Troy Steel Company. were advised
last night that their services longer need
ed. It is announced this evening that the plant
has been purchased by the United States Steel
Corporation for 81 COO and that in all probability
the works will be operated
New-York tribune., 1902-12-18
NEW JUSTICES TAKE OATH.

Supreme Court Justices Davis Amend and Mccall
yesterday took the oath Of office in the private
chambers of Presiding Justice Van Brunt of the
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court The oaths
administered by Justice Van Brunt. The new
justices viii assume the duties of their Offices on
1RMWAxy J.
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thing of public interest to say the officials were
always ready to say 1t. Resident officials of the
United States Steel Corporation stated that any
information concerning the plans OF the company
obtainable only at the New-York office. and
that nothing known here of any absorption
plans that the company may contemplate.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-18

For the last few years he was with Forepaugh 6
Sells's circus. and appeared as a midget police
man. He appeared in this character when the
circus last at Madison Square Garden He
two feet inch tall
New-York tribune., 1902-12-18
CENTRAL PRIVILEGES, s2,4s7, ,s4e.
Engineer Reports Also that Bridges and
Viaducts Would Cost SS48OOO.

Controller Grout yesterday received report from
Eugene E Mclean the proposition recently sub
nlitted to the Board OF Estimate and Apportion-
ment by the New-York Central and Hudson River
Railroad Company for depressing the tracks north
OF the Grand Central Station to permit
eral streets to be carried the railway tracks
south OF Fifty-seventh-st The proposition asked
the city to pay for the bridges which the streets
to be carried the tracks. The company
wants to expand its terminal facilities by tunnel
ling under Park-ave for additional trackage and
wants the right to make a connection with the
rapid transit subway in Forty-second-st. Mr.. Nc
Lean says in his report:
Using the usual methods and customary charges
for similar privileges granted to private parties,
estimate the city would give the New-York Central
and Hudson River Railroad privileges which
worth S2,497346 and be obliged to construct eight
short bridges and four viaducts at total cost of
SS4S0 600. This does not include the item of main
tenance. which will be at least $4,000 per annum.
The estimated value of the privileges asked of the
city by the road. according to Mr.. Mclean, amount
to 81 4S7 346 while the estimated street
surface now used by the company he places a
81 0S2 900, of which Sg6000o represents the value
of thirty-two city lots which the Grand Central
Station stands, each lot being valued at $4,000
Albany, Dec. 1.-THE State Railroad Commission
to-day authorized the Union Railway Company of
New-York TO use the overhead trolley system In
extensions of its lines several streets in the
Borough of The Bronx.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-18

brief eulogies by old .1ends in the ministry. To-
night the body was forwarded TO Chester fer
burial
New-York tribune., 1902-12-18

The entire system of the Union Railway Com
pany. formerly known the ''Huckleberry Line"
north of the Harlem River and has been operated
the overhead trolley plan It has been spreading
out and making connections with lines running into
Westchester County. which operated on the
plan, and its main lines in The Bronx are
now controlled by the Interurban Company.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-18

Sleigh tiger and leopard rugs. eoachren's out
fits, lowest possible prices for reliable goods.
C. c. SHAYNE, Manufacturer, 4Ist and rd
Sts., near 9th Av.
Carriage entrance 41st St. bet. R'way and sth Az
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HAS A NEW PLAN.
Chicago & Alton Runs a Grill Room
Car to Kansas City.

Another innovation has been intro
duced by the Chicago & Alton into din
ing car service It has put in service
grillroom chair car between Chicago
and Kansas City. In the fore part of
the car IS a small kitchen connected
with little room 10 by feet These
grillrooms are fitted after the style of
small American dining room. Other
rooms will be finished after the Eng
ilsh and German styles. The grillroorns
OF the cars put in service last night are
finished throughout in mahogany, with
small. well-stocked and ornamented
sideboard, and a round table at which
six people can be seated. The kitchen
is isolated and the diners are in close
touch at all times with the steward
cook. The decorations are elaborate.
The tableware. including the china. is
made to correspond with the general
decoration, whether American, English
or German. as the case may be.
The Alton road has been the pioneer
in the Introduction of all such innova-
tons. 1t was the first line to operate
sleeping cars. dining cars and reclining
chair cars, was also the first line in this
country to introduce the train-lunch
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fell against q. hot steam pipe and before
he could recover himself one side YVES
frightfully roasted. He worked a day or
two afterward, but since. it has grown
worse and may cause him to lose consid-
cradle time.
John Layne, foreman of the road paint.
ers. has found that there is scarcity Of
labor in the country. He wanted IS men
to 60 to work recoating the steel frame
of the new boiler and machine shop. but
on Monday had only one man. The job
will last fully two months and the pay II
reported to be H.I day. Layne,S gang
for the road painting is between Topeka
and Kansas City. The six men are in
charge of James Adams.
| All the members of the tank construc-
| ton gang which was at Williamsheld, Ilis
putting up reservoir came IN to attend
!. the funeral of the wife of John Mespeit.
their foreman. which was held Sunday
| They returned east on Mondays No. 6.
! This morning Louis Roehrig OF. the boiler
shop went out to take charge OF the men.
Mespelt having signified his intention Of
staying in Topeka for a time at least.
There remains about two weeks work on
| the structure at that point.
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where ordinary passengers would not
be unceremoniously disturbed.
FOR NEW STYLE ENGINES.
sNIikadon Locomotives to Be Used by
the Santa Fe.

William Barnes, a machinist who is
to inspect the new motive power which
the Santa Fee is getting at the Baldwin
Locomotive works. has gone to Dhila-
delphia, to resume his duties after a
rest in Kansas of about two weeks.
There are abou. 30 more of the praf-
RE type locomotives to be completed
and then the Baldwins will begin build
ing those of the Vauclain compound
'-Mikado" pattern. almost equal in size
to the two big decapods which are in
service on the western lines of the
Santa Fe-the largest locomotives in
the world. The-y have a total weight
zoe. 900 pounds; cylinders Is and 80 by 81
inches; diameter of drivers. 81 inches:
wagon top boilers with working steam
pressure of 225 pounds. and 1853 iron
f1ues 10 feet long and IA inches outside
diameter; firebox, 10S by 70 inches steel;
tank capacity of water 1000 gallons:
coal capacity, II tons. Special equip
ment: Westinghouse brakes
on rear of drivers, hammered steel jour-
nails; Handy Divoted couDlers on front:
Tower couplers on rear: Pyle electric
headlights; Simplex injectors: Paxton
Mitchell piston and valve rod packing;
Crosby safety valves: Leach sanding
devices; Nathan Sighted lubricators:
National springs: American graduated
steam cages, and Standard tires.
These engines have four driving
wheels on a side, are designed for doing
as heavy class of work as the decapod
and at the same time are better equip
ped, owing to the small number of driv-
ers, to go around short curves with
less strain than the locomotives with
larger number of wheels. Their use on
much interest by roads all over the
| country
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IN CLOSE CONFINEMENT.
Car for Brides and Grooms on Chicago
Northwestern.

Chicago. Ill, Sept. 23.-For the protec-
ton of it's passengers the Chicago and
Northwestern road expects to haul a
bridal car on one of it's trains. This train
runs from F'reeport, ILL.,, to Chicago,
making the trip in the early evening
1t has been estimated that this train
carries more wedding parties and bridal
pairs than any other short-run train in
the middle west.
Last night, when the train arrived in
Chicago, there was strewn on the floor
of the car sufficient rice to fill a bushel
measure and the package racks were
hung with old shoes of every size and
description. The seats and the windows
were festooned with ribbons. At each
station there would come in through
the open windows showers of rice and
handfuls of small circulars setting forth
the fact that a newly welded pair were
about to get on the train.
For this reason the company thinks it
would be a good plan to load the bliss
full pairs in one car, which would be
properly labeled and decorated and
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HAVE WORK AHEAD.
Santa Fe May Be Obliged to Reduce
| Its Colorado Grades

Denver, Colo, Sept. 23-The announce
ment of Manager Herbert of the Dem
yer q Rio Grande that the company will
rebuild the line between Denver and
colorado Springs is taken as evidence
by the engineering departments of the
Colorado lines that the railroad map to
the south will be radically changed and
the elimination of grades, as far as nos
sible, and of curves will be undertaken
by the Santa F'e and Colorado & South
ern on the joint track in order to com
pete with the 1 per cent grade to be
established by the Denver & Rio Grande
Not only will the time be materially en-
between Denver, Colorado Springs and
Pueblo, as compared to the present
schedule, but the saving in the Operation
of trains will more than justify the ex-
penditure of the $4,000. 900 or s., 00O, 600 to
be paid out by the Rio Grande.
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THOU BILE BREW1NG.
Northwestern Roads Said to Be Cut
ting G. A. r. Reunion Rates.

The Santa Fe and Rock Island. to-
gether with other western roads, are
now advertising heavily the national
G. A. r. encamoment at Washington,
D. c.. and at the same time there
run1ors of a big rate war on encamp-
ment business which is brewing in the
northwest and may extend to this part
of the country. The Chicago Chronicle
says:
There are indications that there will
be trouble. among the railroad lines
northwest of Chicago over the rates to
the national encamoment of the Grand
Army OF the Republic, which is to be
held at Washington next month.
Charges are made that one line from
Minneapolis is proposing to make a rate
of $40 for the round trip.
] "A complaint that the reduced rate
was being offered has been made for
several days though there has been nc
open publication of the fare as yet. If
there is, and there will be if it is Of
fered, the battle will be on in earnest
before the date of the encampmnt."
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THE STRENUOUS LIFE

No one disputes the fact that we are
living in a rapid" age; it is rush, rush,
rush from morning until night. and
competition is SO fierce that the strug-
gle does not cease until the machine is
worn out. Women, too. even when sur
rounded by every comfort. become in
fected by the common spirit, and what
with their clubs and many social duties.
have no time to give thought to their
physical well-being, until they are sud-
denly brought to a sharp realization of
the fact that nothing in their lives is
so important as attention to correct, or
rational living. 1t may surprise the
readers to learn that women are more
prone to piles than men. and in most
cases because it is difficult to impress
upon them the importance of regular
movements Of the bowels: irregularity
means straining at stool. and straining
means piles. with the certainty (under
the usual methods Of treatment) that
the sufferer will have them Away with
her.; by usual method" is meant the
application of salves and lotions. or Gas
q last resort) a surgical operation. If
there is complaint which entails more
distress and suffering upon those afhict-
ed than piles. or hemorrhQids, it is not
ever, these are learning that there Is
a remedy that effectua1ly cures all
forms Of piles: it IL known as the
Pyramid Pile Cure. is in suppository
form, is applied directly to the parts
and does it's work quickly and painlessly:
| it is sold by druggists for fifty cents
| a package. or will be mailed by the
makers to any address, upon receipt OF
price. Mrs. John H. Castona. 2o42 Arch
street, Chicago. says: II must write you
that was cured Of q very agsravatins
case of itching and bleeding piles by The
use OF the great remedy Pyramid PHI.
Cure, even after several physicians hat
claimed there was no cure except b.
an operation. am well now, and owl
all to this valuable remedy. canno
little book on the cause and cure q
niles.
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ADVERTISING ALvARADo.
New Santa Fee Hotel the Subject for q
Booklet

Printed in terra Gotta and black. with
exceptionally fine illustra tons, the new
Santa Fe booklet about the Alvarado
hotel at Albuquerque takes rank as the
most attractive bit of advertising which
the Santa Fe railway has done this
year
According to all reports. the Alvarado
is well worth the enticing descriptions
which are given of it in the book. 1t
is a wonderful hotel, both in architec-
ture and equipment. The woodwork is
of Flemish oak, and is modelled on the
idea of the ancient Spanish mission
buildings. The furniture is all made
specially for the building, of quaint de-
sign The high-posted hedsteads bear
the Spanish arms in bas relief The
cuisine is all that the wonderful facili-
ties of the Harvey system can pro-
vide.
Speaking of the name of the hotel, the
book says: Captain fernando de AL
varado, commander of artillery fol
Coronado's expedition, was noted fol-
his gallantry al the storming of Cibola
He commanded the first expedition
eastward from Cibola: was the frs
European to visit Acoma, and the ole
towns where Bernalillo Taos and Pecos
now stand; returned to Mexico with
/ Coronado in 1912
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Trying to Decide Where the Last
Santa Fe Wreck Occurred

1900 49, :. = - = 49, =
Denver Sept. 2a-The investigation
made by Coroner Koran of the recent
wreck on the Santa Fe will be of no
effect, as the wreck occurred in Doug
las county, and not in Arapahoe county.
Another inquest must be held by the
coroner of Douglas county at Castle
Rock, the county seat. That is the
opinion of District Attorney Lindsey
and Assistant District Attorney McIn-
tyre.
Mr.. Mcintyre said today that he
would take no further action in the
case until he was convinced that the
wreck had not occurred in Douglas
county 1t is possible that there will be
. a survey made to determine this ques-
ton. Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson
counties touch near Struby switch.
Struby is said by the county engineer
of Arapahoe county to be two miles
within the Douglas county line. The
testimony at the inquest and the evil
uence of different witnesses show that
the runaway cars collided with the pas
senger train half mile this side of
Struby.
The district attorney is now endeavor-
ing to settle the location of the wreck,
and until this is done he will take no
action. 1t is generally accented. how
ever, that the wreck was outside the
jurisdiction of Araoahoe county Off
Gals.
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There will be no tender attached, simply
the engine. 1t is to be utilized about To-
peka shop yards in handling scrap mater
ial and the like.
was pushed out of one Of the south shop
such a severe shaking up that he has been
In the hospital most of the time since, IS
now able to sit up in bed. It Will be a
his place.
There is some gossip floating around the
shop to the effect that a football team
may be organized composed of men in the
Santa Fe mechanical department If there
are am. eager to break into the team they
Charles Maggie. both apprentices in the
south shop.
With the placing of the coping on its
top: the Alpnons Cussodis ifacc c doT tad
able to do anything Monday forenoon ow-
iron cap already had been placed, so that
they were nearly able to finish it by night
John Atkinson. foreman of a gang OF
side hot air conduits in the new boiler
and machine shop. There will also be a
tunnel running from the. power house to
the new shop which will soon be exca-
waited.
Nearly all the concretinE for the bases
of the new machines on the west side OF
When done there will be places for Is
pieces of machinery, the largest of which
win be the great fanger. by means o.
which an ordinary piece OF boiler steel can
be Hanged at one stroke
Arthur Fiske, who is employed in the
tool room of the blacksmith shop, startled
ing in apparent full faith that he had beer
married to Miss Maudf Farrow- Accord
Ing to his statsme1t the ceremony T, soos
Mr.. and Mrs. Fiske are keeping house a.
sos Kansas avenue.
From Las Vegas and Albuquerque
AZ LOFT
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care of herself at this time.
The ills which vex so many women Ct
the change of life are entirely avoided
or cured by the use of DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription. It makes weak
women strong, and enables the weakest
to pass through this trying change with
the tranquility of perfect health.
81 have been a very healthy woman, and this
time has been very hard with me- writes Mrs.
Maggie Morris of Munson Station, C1ear6eld
Co., Pa, Box Is. III am come to the time Of
change of life, and have been sick great deal
off and on. When Mrs Hemmis moved beside
me was sick in bed. and when she came 10 SCI
me and we were talking over our sickness. Mrs
Hemmis told me to try DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery.
also Pellets got her to bring bottle oi
each from the drug store and used them
They did me great deal of good. and got tive
more bottles Of. Favorite Prescription never
saw such wonderful cure Before com
menced your remedies was good for nothing
was in such misery hardly knew what to Dc
with myself now car do all my work myself
and feel well.n
Dr.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are cas-,
and pleasant to take.
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GOOD WORK
Done Daily IN Topeka. Many Git
liens Tell of Il.

liens ell OF IT.
Nearly every reader has heard Of
Doan's kidney Pills. Their good work
in Topeka still continues and our citi-
zens are constantly adding endorsement
by public testimony. No better proof
of merit can be had than the experience
Of friends and neighbors. Read this
case.
Mr.. J. A. Brown, of sol Morris avenue
employed at the Star Grocery store.
says: My frst attack OF kidney COM
plant was felt across the small of my
back I paid little attention to the dull
aching pains at first. but they kept get
ting worse, bothering me mostly in the
morning. When working about the
barn a sudden sharp twfnge caught me
across nv Ioins and almost threw me
to the ground. The pain was so acute
that / could hardly get to the house.
Seeing Doan's Kidney Pills highly rec
commended procured = box at RoWley
& Shows drug store. Before f1ni1hing
it the pain IN my back disappeared and
there has been no recurrence
For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents,
Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo. N. T., sole
agents for the United States.
Remember the name. Doan's. ana
| take no substitute.
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A Parsons Noble Act

s.I want all the world to know" writes
Rev, c. J. Budlong OF Ashaway. r. l..
what thoroughly good reliable medicine
I found in Electric Bitters. They cured
caused me great suffering for many years.
For genuine all arouRd 5sc cure f they exec.
fhs snrnrise of all for their wonderful
work in liver. kidney and stomach trou-
HES Don't fail to try them. Only 50c-