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ntos-Dumont's Flight Around Mount Blanc

Paris April 26.-Just after M. Santos
Dumont left Europe for AMERICA 1t was
announced by his agent in this city that
as preliminary step toward his expected
fight around Mount Blanc the municipal
council Of Chamounix had granted the
concession of piece of land, to be Sc
lected by the aeronaut, for the construc-
tion of an aerodrome, which is to be be-
gun Immediately. under the superinten
dence Of M. Herr Dumont. NJ Santos
Dumont considers that his Alpine expert
ments will be made with more facility,
and that he will be able to achieve feats
quite beyond anything accomplished by.
the most intrepid Alpine climbers
The other day an interesting trial was
made at Saint Ouen Of small aerostatic
boat, invented by M. G. Latruffe, whose
cross channel trip from Dunkirk will be
remembered. 1t is apparently recognized
that, In the case of a drop into the sea,
this new steering apparatus is said to be
superior even to those of M. ;. Santos Du-.
mont and Count de la Vaulx. nj. Latruffe
hopes to offer some conclusive demonstra-
lions at the beginning of June.
A new aerial invention has been an
nounced here. 1t consists&of a sort Of
aerial paddlewheel. The machine is in
tended as a substitute for the screw pro-
peller, and Is said to act more effectively
than the latter. The wheel, as it turns
entirely in the medium upon which it
must exert a pressure to move the vessel
forward, cannot be built exactly like that
of ship. which remains only half under
water The propeller boHr.s are accord
ingly replaced by fFwinglets,,' as the in
yentor calls them. These are articulated
and made in three segments.5 The wings
placed on the rim Of the wheel, are, dur
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HOUGHTON'S CHURCH

Death Of Widow Of Actor Through
Whom It Became Popular.
New York, April 26.-Mrs. Katherine;
Holland, widow Of George Holland, the
noted comedian, and mother Of Joseph, b..
NJ and George Holland, is dead in this
city. Her funeral will take place from the
Little Church Around the Corner on
Sunday.
h Her death revived recollections of the
manner in which the famous little yine-s
clad house of worship became SO popular
with the actors of this country that the
members of the profession have come to
look upon 1t as their own. George Hol-
land died in 1870. Joseph jefferson was
requested by the family to make arrange
ments for the funeral He. applied at a
marble edifice in Fifth avenue, but was
told that the actors funeral was not de-
sired there. sy s
There's little church around the COR
ner that does that sort Of thing. said the
Clergyman. l5a:g s.ss
Then say God bless the little church
around the corner, :, replied Jefferson, and
successfully applied to the late Rev DR..
George II. Houghton Of the Church Of the
TRANSPORTATION. AS a result Of this In
cident, DR.. Houghton's church, once q
struggling parish. has become q strong
metropolitan church. - II 5
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Morgan More Closely Swallowed Than He Realizes

of species Of espionage that he proba-
bly, doesn't suspect. Mr.. Morgan's life is
of such tremendous import to Wall street,
his death would result in such a disrup-
.tion of the market, that certain firms are
keeping dat a as a basis for calculation as
to how long he will probably live. It Is
said that they have some of the life In
surance reports. Attempts to bride q
certain physician to give private bulletins
failed. Now the int crested parties are on
the subject of diet Naturally they can
not follow Mr.. Morgan into his own home
or watch him at the table Of his friends;
but whenever he lunches as he generally
does. at a. public restaurant; there is sure
to be at a neighboring table some man
identified witt. Wall street. interests
who keeps close watch on what he eats
and drinks. Imagine the wrath Of the
none too even tempered financier II he
could be present after luncheon in an Of
flee where the report of the spy is made,
and hear him say: -
~. P. touched up a pint of Champagne
to-day. 'Fraid he isn't taking the best
care OF himself, or the old man took
it light little bird and Apollinaris. Docs
fOr's II eunr,oc
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municated to the admiralty. British yes
sells, present or future. will remain Brit
ish. In the event Of war in which Great
Britain, the United States or Germany is
involved. the agreement automatically
ends. The American signers ignore a
shipping bill enabling American owned
but foreign built vessels to pass
under the American flag They would not
according to the Telegraph, support such
a bill. The Telegraph's Paris corre-
spondent says he has interviewed the Sec
rotary of the General Trans Atlantic COM
pany, who denied that the company had
had any communication with Mr.. Nor
gan.
The Berlin correspondent of the Stand
ard says that before the agreement be-
tween the shipping trust and the German
companies was concluded, the government
was fully informed. 1t also sanctioned
the terms Of the agreement, which Will
not be published before the end Of May.
The chief points are full guarantee that
no German steamer that can be used as
an auxiliary cruiser is to be controlled
by foreign power or syndicate and the
German companies are not to be members
of the trust but receive equal rights, at
tempts to outvote them being precluded.
Liverpool, April 26-J. Bruce 1smay,
chairman of the White Star line, In an
interview this afternoon positively de-
MED the report that the White Star line
had been sold and also denied that the
American shipping syndicate held any
shares wha tever in the company.
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ing the revolutions of the latter, alter
nately folded and unfolded This move
ment Is obtained by an eccentric, with
which the articulated segments are con-
nected and moved by the piston rod pro-
polling the wheel itself The direction of
the revolutions, and consequently the
action Of the expanding and contracting
wings, also, can be reversed. Thus the
wheel serves to some extent as steering
apparatus. as we'll as propeller. Its
capabilities in this respect are increased
by the fact that 1t can, at will, be raised
and lowered relatively to the center Of
gravity Of the airship. It's direction
which under ordinary conditions is paraI-
lei to the great axis Of the balloon, can
also be altered
The Hague, April 26.-In their. morning
bulletin from Castle Loo Queen Will
helmina's physicians say the rise in the
patients temperature last evening was
of shorter duration than before. Con-
sequently the queen had fairly quiet
night, resulting beneficially to her gem
,eral condition.
Berlin, April 26-The Braun -Siemens
company has brought an action against
Professor Slaby and Count Arco for in
fringing on its wireless telegraph patents,
apparently with every prospect of success
Ii is believed that the Braun -siemens
company is cooperating with Marconi.
Hongkong, April 26.-The British
cruiser Terrible has beaten the coalfng
tons In her bunkers in nine hours and ten
minutes She averaged 300 tons an hour
for 2,450 tons. The maximum for one
hour was 325 tons.
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Paris Tenants the Latest to Form Syndicate

Paris, April 26,-Not many years ago
the landlords of this city formed a pro-
tective union. with the motive Of defend
Ing themselves against the hordes of cos
mopolitan advent urers who, in Paris, pos
sibly more than any other city, are by
various devices enabled to thrive without
paying any rent. Later, and with the
same object in view the janitors, or "con-
cierges," formed a society Now, the ten
ants have come together and have formed
q syndicate, which, while not necessarily
hostile to the interests of the landlord,
has for it's main object the bett erment of
the tenants condition in regard to exact
Ing repairs, raise of rent, etc. The new
syndicate has headquarters and law de-
partment. which will advise tenants gratis
when their interests seem to conflict with
those of the landlord. The chief senti-
meat is that the Paris landlord has re-
Gently been advancing rapidly toward
prosperity. while no = impr oyen1ent has
been evident in the state of the tenant. u
For many years, past house building has
been going on In Paris at tremendous
rate. Whole districts have been completely
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Russia Would Wipe Out Afghanistan Completely


London, April 26.-As there are no
absolutely unofficial papers in Russia
for the simple reason that paper which
does not voice the ideas of the government
Is not permitted to exist-serious at
tention Is being paid here and in Paris
to an elaborate article on Russo-British
relations which recently appeared in the
Novosti of St. Petersburg. 1t begins by
boldly declaring that it would be permissi-
bic to destroy the independence of At
ghanistan and Baluchistan in order to
open her way to the Indian ocean. Rus
sia, 1t says, has the same rights in the
south that Japan and England have pre-
vented her from gaining in the west
And the Novosti continues:
A nest of brigands such as Afghanistan
ought not to be suffered to prevent Russia
from penetrating to the Indian ocean, and
from becoming midas immediate neighbor.
At any rate, the Afghans are not to be
feared, for If the English have been able
OH several occasions to take Kabul, only a
few regiments of Cossacks would be needed
to conquer Afghanstan and Baluchistan. Rus
STA, indeed has already done much to live
at peace with Great Britain and English
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Shortly after the news OF the shooting
2of President Mckinley reached this city,
a man who is. very close to John Pier
pont Morgan went to MIN and said /,
Mr.. Morgan, don't you think 1t would
be we'll for you to be guarded 20
Guarded how" asked the great f1nan-,
cier, with Characteristic gruffness.
Why, have detectives near at hand
when you are on the street. (;
What for % e
TO guard you against any-well-er-
in case-er-''' Il ;si5S
Go on, speak out Il
We'll, sir; this is time Of great public
excitement The crazy act In Buffalo may
incite similar deeds. and man of your
prominence ought to be safe guarded
against attacks Of this sort
Now, see here" said Mr.. Morgan,
bending upon the visitor his savage
frown: 81 won't have any such dashed
nonsense! You understand? Iswon't have
1T. I'll go and come as please and there
will be consequences for any detective
z that follows me- Il Sc
That's how the great organizer feels
about being Swallowed. Nevertheless he
is, and has been for months, the victim
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OF her name was utterly unwarranted, and
that he would horsewhip the lawyer. if he
pursued the investigation along lines call
culated to reflect on Miss Cayvan's char
acter. i5a n
The actress many friends came for.
ward and it was conelusively shown that
Miss Cayvans acquaintance with the de-
PENDANT in the. divorce suitswas that Of
the slightest character A withdrawal OF
the charges SO far as she was concerned
followed. If ever a woman was triumph
antly yindicated, it was she. Neverthe-
less, thereafter she shut herself away
from the companionshi of her acquaint-
ances: Only her intimate friends were
admitted to her home. Presently even
these were shut out. Then the world was
shocked to learn that the gifted actress
had been removed to a sanitarium There.
she has been clustered; dead as a nun Of
the strictest order. Even information as
to her condition was denied to her
friends. Now comes the news that she is
at deaths door from paresis.
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Tragic Chapterin Americans Stage History Closing

With the passing Of Georgia Cayvan,
who may have died before this gets into
print, there closes one OF, the most tragic
a nd mysterious chapters in the annals of
the American stage. A few years ago
Miss Cayvan was leading lady at the
.Lyceum. While not a great actress, she
was a thoroughly capable ones Probably
no other woman Of the profession pos
sessed to so great a degree the confidence
and regard of the theater-g going public
In profession full of scandal and evil
report her character was never called in
question. Yet there is some reason to
believe that SANDER was the cause Of her
retirement and death. A certain man Of
character was sued by his
wife for ivorce. Among the names
brought into the suit that OF Georgia
Cayyan. The man, who did not seem par
ticularly interested in defending the
suits, declared emphatically that he had
met Miss Cayvan only twice, and then in
the most formal manner that the mention
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80 =
recommendation Harlan set out to secure.
Hardly had he taken up the cause of the
boy prisoner than a great protest arose
from Clayton county, where the crime was
committed. The result was that the leg
islature refused to recommend a pardon,
Shift Sentiment.
Harlan waited two-four years-and
this winter tried it again. The same pro-
test, less strong than before, came from
the northeastern part Of the state. But
Harlan was prepared. In the four years
Elkins had not been idle. He was ac-
curing an education, and the letters
which he wrote to the newspapers and to
the members of the legislature were such
masterpieces that public sentiment was
largely with him.
In opposition to this sentiment, how
ever was the deep feeling on the part Of
the members that they owed the people
OF the state a duty which lay along tho
lines of not turning out upon the public
any dangerous criminals.
Opponents of the pardon maintained
THAT Elkins wasZa Degenerate; that he
was partially insane; that he was a para
noiac, and therefore MT 70 be trusted
In support of this latter theory Berkeley
on Mental Diseases" was cited before
the committees, Elkins is exceptionally
u
is dull in mathematics. Berkeley says
this is symptom of the failing. One
physician, who was a member of the
house committee on pardons, in a lorg ar
gument in opposition to parole declared
that he believed Elkins was abnormally
dey eloped and that 1t was his opinion
that he would end his days in an insane
asylum Ten years, he fixed as the limit
of Elkins' sanity if he was freed and five
years If he remained in the penitentiary.
Struggle for Parole.
The struggle in the recent legislature
was memorable one. The senate COM
mittee by a vote Of 4 to 8 decided against
parole, and then because one member
was the senator from Clayton, the com
mittee being a tie with this member not
voting at being urged that he was biased
and prejddiced), it was decided to report
the case out without recommendation.
After spending whole day in argument
the senate, by a vote OF q to 20, went on
record in favor of the parole.
In the meantime the house committee
had voted against the parole 8 to u. A
minority report was brought in and the
whole case threshed over in the lower
branch, the same as it had been in the
upper house The vote here was AZ ayes
and AZ noes. The friends of Elkins were
not Respondent and immediately filed a
motion to reconsider. This was called up
on the following day, much good work
having been done in the meantime. and
carried. The vote on eoncurring in the
senate resolution to grant a parole was
As to 80. #
The parole contains numerous restric-
tions, all OF which Elkins must live up
to assiduously for period of ten years,
at the end Of which time he Is to have
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transformed. Entire streets have sprung
up, and still there is demand for ground.
When this wonderful activity began it was
predicted that the all-round lowering of
rents would be the inevitable result, but
there has been little, if any, .diminution,
and houses constructed on the latest prin-
ciples, with every modern convenience, are
snapped up fiat by fiat long before the
decorators have taken their departure.
Where do the tenants come from? for
eigners may ask. From nearly every land
in Europe, and from America, IS the reply.
There are huge colonies from different
countries, with every sign of a tendency
to their further increase. Nothing, indeed,
could be more remarkable than the popu-
larity which Paris continues to maintain
with foreigners at large, and this at a
a time when numbers of fashionable
French people are displaying a marked
disposition to desert their town houses for
their rural chateaux the Riviera and 9th
er resorts, and when what Is termed the
season is now, as it were, officially linn
tied to the period between Easter and the
Grand Prix 49,
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was railroaded by the police because they
could find nobody else on whom to fasten
the quilts Of late years the rear of the
hotel has been used as an exit from the
elevated road.
Not SO old but. almost as distinctive,
because. of@its surroundings, is the Broad
way Tabernacle (Congregationalist) at
Thirty fourth street, Broadway and
Sixth avenue, which has just been sold
for a million dollars. Its somber, brown
stone sobriety was out Of pace in that
rushing whirlpool of traffic and nightly
gaiety. The region all about there is to-
be given UP to great stores and the Tab
ernacle will find more peaceful quarters
in its new place on Fifty-sixth street.
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THIS PICTURE OF WESLEY ELKINS WAS
TAKEN IN 1889.
Special to The Journal
Des Moines, Iowa, April 25.-Last week
1T was mo. 1900, State Penitentiary, Ana
mosa, Iowa." this week it is j. Wesley
Elkins, student at Cornell college, Mt.
Vernon, Iowa. Last week it was the lock-
step and the sound of the chain gang; this
Week-it is the class room and the novelty
of home life IS,
The boy murderer Of Clayton county is
once more free man. Twelve years ago
he killed his father and step-mother in
cold blood. He was then boy Of IL.
To-day, by the grace of the twenty ninth
general assembly Of Iowa, Wesley Elkins
breathes the free air again, walks in the
warm sunshine and associates with his
fellow beings.
The credit and responsibility for this
sudden change belongs to a chance news
paper article and to the loyal, unwavering
devotion Of man discovered by that
article. "
The man is Professor James E. Harlan,
vice president of Cornell college, at Mt.
Vernon, of whose home -E1kins is now a
member, and who is to exercise guiding
care over the boy until the latter can
strike out for himself and is granted a
full and unconditional pardon by the
state. Ten years must he wait for that
freedom. In the meantime he is harassed
and bound down by conditions which he
must observe faithfully If he is to re-
main outside prison walls. They are not
SO harsh or so strict as the rules inside
the penitentiary and Elkins will probably
have little trouble in living up to them.
Editor Started 1t.
Carl Snyder, then editor Of the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil, was the first RESPONSE
bic for the agitation concerning Elkins,
and he directed the attention of Professor
Harlan to the youthful prisoner. At that
time there was going the rounds of the
press an argument as to what the state
ought to- do with Juvenile criminals. Elk
ms, then Is years of age and of frail build
and delicate health, was prison librarian.
He saw the papers and read the editorial
Of Mr.. Snyder favoring the segregation
of juvenile criminals from those older and
more hardened in crime. He prepared an
answer, or rather letter of thanks, to
the editorial. This he was permitted to
send.
Snyder was SO taken with the ma ster-
full use of the English language displayed
by this boy, who had no schooling what
ever, that he published the letter in full
and called attention to 1t in the editorial
columns of the Nonpareil. State papers
reprinted the letter and the comment, and
one of these fell into the hands of Pro-
lessor Harlan. It is only seventeen miles
from Mt. Vernon to Anamosa. The first
Saturday, thereafter, he hitched up, and
drove over to the penitentiary town He
visited the institution, talked with the
warden and met Elkins. He took a-liking
to him and visited him again a little
later On, bringing some books.
The state law provides that the govern
or cannot pardon or parole life prisoners
without the recommendation of the legis-
Ilature is first obtained. This consent and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-26
Humorous Side Of a Problem That
Is Making Mayor Low Any
thing but Happy.
J. Pierpont Morgan Is Watched and
Repels Suggestion That he
Be Guarded.

lection money" from the saloons. Be-.
that as it may, the town. generally speak
ing, was not SO tight shut as it has been
for several preceding Sundays. Some
precincts were very rigid; others weren't.
There were Indications Of a split in the
police lines " & Is. s..>
One Of the, tight shut" precincts was
the one governed from the West Forty
was murdered. Captain Schmittberger
has recently been put in charge of this.
precipct. The change was taken to in
dicate lapse of interest in the McAuliffe
case on the part of Commissioner Par
fridge. It was followed almost immedi-
ately by the formal notice from Governor
Odell that the case would not be permitted
to drop. So the police are still on I'm
pasv efrnot itF5 Ii!sssS 5l5s5;g :, -
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publicists have also been known to advocate
an understanding between the two govern
nents. but the historic prejudices, jealousies
and national hatreds have always ended by
overriding the counsels. of reason, and, In
stead Of trying to reconcile their interests,
and to carry out in common accord their work
of civilization in Asia. England and Russia
have INCREASINGLY manifested one toward the
other their sentiments Of distrust, rivalry,
aud Hostility. Even in Europe Russia sees
the ext by the Black sea closed to her ships
Of war by England, matter which is at once
announcement and humiliating to her
Now, therefore, that she has protected her.
self by her agreement. with France from all
possible action on the part of England and
Japan in the far east, Russia ought to con
slider tho question of an outlet in the Indian
ocean for the products of Central Asia, and
to convert it into a civilized region. This will
be impossible long as the shores of the
Indian ocean are closed to Russia by the
savage Afghans, for the Siberian railway and
the Chinese ports held by her are not isuff-
Gent for the attainment of this end, since
it would always be possible for others to
close those ports.
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Correspondence of The Journal.
London, April 12-Oriel College where
Cecil Rhodes studied and to which he left
100000 is one of the oldest of the Oxford
seats Of learning. Even the buildings that
the picture shows, and which young
American holders Of the Rhodes scholar
ships will see as they walk up the ancient
High street are no youngsters, for they
were built in 1887. Those which they re-
place, however, rose nearly 600 years ago
in the reign of King Edward II.
The now famous college really had it's
beginning in modest house across the
street from where it now stands Even
then, the houses in England rejoiced in
distinctive names as they do to-day and
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He walked over to Sixth avenue, on
tered a pawn shop, slapped down the coat.
and said:
Dollar on that. please
Fifty II you want it, said the pawn
broker. 5.s
No, hanks. 9 He took his ticket and
dollar and left. IS
That everfng he returned, put down his
dollar, and three cents, interest on the
loan for one month or less. recovered his
coat and remarked to the astonished pro-
prietir $500
They wanted to charge me q dime over
safe as your place at that III