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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25
GAZE AID And LOST LIFE.
Dentist DrO7cned While Helping
Young Women IN Danger.

Deal Beach. n J.. Aug "A (SpeciaD-While
aiding two young women who were IN danger
at the Deal Beach bathing grounds to-day,
James H Blaisdeu. jr.. a young Brooklyn den
tist was drowned shortly after noon.
Dr. Blaisden came to Allenhurst Saturday and
nut up at the Dunes Hotel This morning he
went bathing with Miss Magdalene Harris and
Miss Josephine Kelly. of Brooklyn. both of whom
are summering at Allenhurst. Miss Kelly could
not swim and in assisting her across the deep
water which cuts off the sandhar from the
beach Dr. BlaisdeH unable to withstand her
struggles. was overcome and sank before as
sistance could reach him. Miss Kelly and Miss
Harris were rescued by the life guard Lemar
DR. BIaisden had known Miss Harris at home,
and the young people made up a party to bathe
When they had been in the water few minutes
one of the three suggested that they carry MISS
Kelly, who could not swim. across the deep
place between the shore and the sandbar.
short distance off. Accordingly. DR.. Blaisden
took Miss Kelly on side and Miss Harris
held her on the other. In this way they sup
ported her and began to swim.
Half wav out Miss Kelly. who kicking
to help. said she would rest. and tried TO touch
bottom. The water was over her head, and she
sank Immediately she became frightened and
struggled. The others tried to keep her up and
bring her ashore Lifeguard Lemar hurried out
alone and threw life preserver to Miss Harris,
at the same time catching Miss Kelly and hold
ing her until the surfboat came UP.
In the mean time" Lenar says. DR. Blais-
dell had started Tor the beach. The surf5oat
came out soon and Lemar returned with Miss
Kelly to the beach. II was some time before DR..
BlasdeIrs absence was noted both girls being
exhausted. When his absence was discovered
Griswold Thompson. New-York broker. staying
at the Dunes. put off again in the surfboat with
.1a he body was
covered by Mr.. Thompson. who dved and
brought it 10 the surface. Bathing attendants
and Lemar worked over DIT. Blasdell until
Deal doctor arrived. The latter made the usual
tests and pronounced DR. Blaisdeu dead
Griswold Thompson was an intimate friend Of
the drowned man. DIR. Blaisdelrs parents
rived in AIlenhurst tonight
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25

Sir Thomas Lipton's challenging yacht Sham
rock III was remeasured in the drydOck at the
Erie Basin yesterday with her anchor and chain
on board which. it is said. weighed 1.1OO pounds.
The new measurement made by Charles D.
Mower measurer of the New-York Yacht Club,
assisted by Albert G. Hunt. differs from the old
by only five one -thousandths of foot. affecting
the time allowance by such a small fraction OF
second that the time allowance stands the same
as it was before. minute 81 seconds.
To neutralize the extra weight OF the anchor
and chain, that amount of pig lead ballast was
removed from the yachts hold. slightly decreas-
ing the waterline length. Another measurement
Of the sail area asked for hv Fife the designer
on account of singing a mainboom. made
the length of the topmast greater by 3.16 feet
This offset the reduction in the waterlne length,
so that the allowance stands exactly as 1t did
before
For purposes of comparison. here are the new
and old measurements. together with those of
the Reliance, taken last Tuesday:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25
VAN COTT OUT $1,000.
Must Stand Loss of Salary to Graf.
Says Controller.
TBY TELEGRAPH TO The rRIBUyE.I

Washington. Aug 24-POstmaster Van Cote.
OF New-York will suffer a personal loss OF bs-
tween 81 100 and 81, 200 as a result Of the p-ac-
tees of George ". Beavers. formerly the super
intendent OF the Division OF Salaries and Allow
ances OF the Postohice Department. By de-
cision Of Mr. TraceweT. Controller Of the Treas
ury, supplemented by the action OF the Auditor
for the PostofHce Department. Mr.. Van COts
will have to stand the loss OF the entire salary,
paid to H c. Graft beginning October. 1902. and
ending when Graft went 10 NewYOrk 70 as
sumo the duties OF cashier in that postofice. ta
which he had been originally appointed.
At the behest of Beavers. Mr.. Van Cott certi-
fed to the appointment OF Gran; and although
Graft never was employed in the New-Yor<
Postofice lie permitted Beavers TO assign him
to duty as a repair clerk for the cancelling ma
chimes in use In the larger pOstofices through
out the country. Controller TracewelI has now
refused payment of the salary paid by Van COtk
for the quarter ending January 1. and the audi
tor has declined to pass CRAFTS salary for the
subsequent quarter and several weeks addi-
tional that Graf was attached 10 the depart
ment in Washington.
In rendering his decision the Controller sup
ports the opinion of the Auditor. wh5 has always
maintained that postmasters and their bonds
gally even though such payment vas made by
instruction of the Postmaster General or sOms
other officer OF the POstohice Department.
The only resource which Postmaster Van Cott
now has will he TO secure the enactment by
Congress OF a special appropriation reimburS-
ing him for the amount lost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25
GREAT STEANSHIP DEAL.
an AngIo-German Combination in
the atlantic Trade.

Especial to The New-York Tribune by French Cable)
Copyright; 1862 BY The Tribune Associaton)
London. Aug 25.-An important meeting OF
the directors of the German Atlantic steamship
lines was held at the Savoy Hotel yesterday
under the craftsmanship of Herr Ballin, director
of the Hamburg American Company. Although
the strictest secrecy has been maintained as to
what actually took place. The Morning Adver-
tser" learns that certain negotiations are now
being carried on which likely TO result in an
Anglo-German combination in the Atlantic
trade.
II is stated to be the Kaiser's ardent wish to
bring about a commercial relationship between
England and Germany and thus build up a
strong foundation for the future friendliness be
tween these nations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25


The operation OF measuring Shamrock III oc-
cuped just hour and twenty minutes. The
water was let into the drydock early. and the
yacht was a1oat by S a. m. Sir Thomas Upton
and his party the Erin arrived at the Basin
between s and 8 o'clock. the yacht going the
wharf to coal up, while Sir Thomas with Colo
mel d. r D. Neil Dr. A. g. Neale and Vice
Commodore Sharman- C Crawford. went in a
launch to the dock where the Shamrock lay.
Her owner stepped aboard and took his place
beside DR.. Neale and the crew of hfty-four men.
and the measuring of the water line began.
Chairman 8. Nicholson Kane and Edward
Wales. of the regatta committee. Secretary
George Cormack and George C. Pease all OF the
New-York Yacht club arrived at the dock
just before o'clock in the committee tug
Unique. Secretary COrmack went with Mr.
Fife Mr.. Mower and Albert Hunt in the punt
from which the measurements were made. Cap
tain Nat" Herreshoff not present. Cap
tain Wringe and Captain Bevis were on board
the Shamrock Robert Bacon looked after the
interests of the New-York Yacht Club.
After the water line measurement had been
taken in the usual way by means OF floating
battens and plumb lines at bow and stern. it
was transferred to the deck There the over
hangs were measured in a straight line by
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25
ADRIAN0PLE MASSACRE.
CHRISTIANS MURDERED.
Tsro Versions of Mahometans
Slaughter Of FeIIooc Citiaens.

Sofa. aug. 24-Travellers who arrived here
this evening from Adrianople state that mas
sacre OF Christians occurred there on Sunday
morning.
one version says the guns in one of the forts
opened fire on an insurgent band which had at
tackled a military outpost. A panic followed
inside the town. and the Mahometan population
fell upon the Christians.
According TO another version. a Turkish Of
fcer tried 10 force an entrance into a Bulgarian
house in order TO molest the inmates. The lat
Ter resisted. whereupon the Mahometans became
excited and bands of soldiers and bashi- -bazouks
attacked the Bulgarian quarter of the town.
II is reported that the foreign consuls ad-
dressed energetic protests to the Vail, who de-
clared his inability to check the fanaticism of
the Mussllmans.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25
REWARDED FOR KINDNESS

lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIsCNEI
Easton Penn. Aug. 24-paniel Prime. a well
known colored man. OF this place. received word
that IS 900 had been eft 10 him by Jonathan Moore
OF Jackson. Mich. whom Prime befriended IN the
Civil War. Both men participated in the recapturs
OF Fort Sumter. When Moore had OF his
legs shattered and lay bleeding 20 death. Prime
his blouse into strips. bound The injured Ies
and carried Moore 70 q place OF safety.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25
KETCHAM CoNGRATULATES BILLINGS
Calls Lou Dillon's Performance Wonderful
and Says Crown Is in Good Hands.

lBY TELEGRAPH TO The TRIBUNE.I
Toledo, Aug. 2t-Cieorge II. Ketcham. owne~ OF
Cresceus. was very much interested to-day when
notified of Lou DilIon's wonderful performance lie
was a the Ketcham farm. just preparing 10 leave
here for Dayton. He had little 10 say beyond the
fact that Cresceus still holds the stallion record.
As soon as he heard Of the little mares new
record. he Immediately wired Mr.. Billings, the
mares owner message Of congra ;ulation. Mr..
I congratulate you upon the wonderful perform
ance of your mare. Cresceus transfers the crown
D good hands
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25
MAY DEPOSE FERDINAND.
Deputati0n Visits Him to Force a
Statement of His POHcY.

London Aug. "a deputation left Sofa last
Friday TO visit Prince Ferdinand who is in
Hungary. to invite him TO declare publicly his
Macedonian policy. says the Berlin correspond
ent OF The Morning Post" The Prince will
have ten days to reply. In the event Of his de-
clning it is understood that the deputation
bears a mandate from the Bulgarian people to
him
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25
GEN. YoUNG's DAUGHTER TO MARRY

Omaha. Aug 24-Announcement was made
TO-DAY Of the engagement of Miss Young. daugh-
ter of Lieutenant General S B. NJ. Young. and
Lieutenant John r. Hannay. OF the I'd IN
fantry. now stationed at Fort Crook Lieuten-
ant Hannay's regiment has been ordered TO the
Philippines and for that reason the "socihs
will occur early next month
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25
CIGARETTE FACTORY BURNED.

Havana Aug 24.-The big consolidated cigar
cite factory belonging to the American Tobacco
Company and the English trust was totally de-
stroyed by fire this evening, with its valuable
contents. consisting of new cigarette making
machinery and quantities Of tobacco Nothing
was saved except the books and the contents of
The ONCE The loss is estimated at upward OF
S250O0O. fully insured.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25

Postmaster Van Cott could not be seen at bis
home last night Richard Van Cott. his son.
declared he was positive his father had not
heard a word about any deduction in his salary
Asked whether his father would take any action
to prevent the Treasury Department from TAX
ing such measure. Mr.. Van Cott said that
should the news be correct. he was OF the opinion
that some action would be taken. although Re
could not speak fer his father.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25
Continued on third page.
sFE - SIGHTs OF NEW-YORK

Electric Harsonns Victorias Surreys. &c. TO all
points Including Coney Island Each operator
Competent guide. Telephone. 1850 Columbus. NeS
York Tran. pcrtation Co.-Adyt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25
BEN H. RUNS AWAY.
Goes TzcO Miles WithOut DriUer at
ReadUiUe Track.

Readville Mass. Aug. 2i.-Lou Don's remark
able performance took away from the work Of the
others. Favorites won all the four races here.
Scott Hudson drove two OF the winners. Nerycla.
Continued ON ffth page.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25

PRESIDENTS CUP-OPEN GOLF.
r,@.s' zs-2s Write the Equinox, Manchester. FeF+
AsAt CEen - uct-AGvt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-25

Remember all r r tickets bet. y 7. and Albany
><e good via Day Line steamers. Music.-Adyt-
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-13
ALAskAs WONDERFUL GOLD FIELD.

The antiexpansonsts OF Stewards time were awfuly
outraged over decker that from Russia the
territory OF Alaska. To say nothing OF the millions real
lied from its FIR trade and the millions more from It's
fisheries and lumber, and later the millions from gold
finds the indications that Alaska in the future
is to rival the Rand in its output of gold.
The important and authoritative report that has
yet been received regard the mineral wealth Of
Alaska has been furnished by William Ffzhugh, an emf
expert for London syndicate. who recently re-
turned from inspection OF properties Seventy Mile
river
Mr. Fitzhugh found that the valley contained immense
banks gravel which throughout the low
grade averaging fully 81 cubic yard The great advant-
the situation the fact that is ideal for placer
hydraulic mining There is ample water supply, and
the expense OF building bitches and suices would be
paratively small The gravel lies uncovered instead of
underneathtwenty thirtyfoot drifts in the only
known similar deposits in Siberia The total expense Of
working deposits will within twenty cubic
yard
Mr.. Fftzhugh estimates that the gold contained in
these deposits amounts to fully 100000 He prophe
sizes that the gold output of Alaska after the 1905
will exceed that of the Rand in the following ten
The property is described being of low grade and
offers no attractions ii the individual miner
1t will not be offered to the public but will be worked
by private in England and the United States
The building of sluces will begin the winter
breaks
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-13
THE DEMAND FOR A BIG NAVY.

The Maritime association of New York, with a mem
bershp of 1872 great interest in shipping and
trade is deeply and acutey concerned about the size
of the United States navy. Situated, says the assoca
ton, as this nation is. with seacoast that is
washed by the two great that float the
of the world with foreign commerce second only to
that of other nation. and with distant possessions
that must be peacefully governed and adequately
tected, find in ships in officers and in is
unequal to many and diversified needs This condi-
ton is largely DUE believe to the lack of naval
policy program based upon the needs and equal the
demands that may arise"
The association goes to show that to maintain the
Monroe doctrine especially south Of Panama, and keep
Europe off it will be necessary to have warships
ct be further borne mind that whatever edu-
Monroe doctrine yet that doctrine is firmly intrenched
cardinal principle of faith in the hearts of the Amer
lean people that be doubted that prepared
unprepared, the people would a unit, go the
of force the slightest nfracton
its provisions"
Lacking powerful navy, says the association. the
American people will be slow to increase their shipping
interests Put in few words the Maritime association Of
the port of New York thinks that the United States navy
should be made powerful and adequate to the mainen
of the dignity of the great republic 1t is a signif
demand that the association makes Evidently it
looks for trouble the Monroe doctrine these
DAYS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-13
THE BIRDS DO NOT KNOW.

Robins and few other smaller species of birds that
went away to south fall have some
numbers South If birds knew much about
the weather. far in advance many persons suppose
that they do it would evidently be on
early of various places wild geese have
been flying north and in the forests of northern
New robins and other song birds summer have
been noticed in extraordinary numbers The chances
that within three weeks those geese will tail
the other birds robins excepted disappear for
time. Even wild ducks often fooled and are com
PEELED take the back track few adventurous
usually well located birds of kinds familiar
visitors always winter in the north If robins
find that they count plenty of through the
cold weather they likely chances where
they live in
Unfortunately for those who eager to come to the
end of the which makes use of fuel neces
sy in dwellings, there good to believe that
the actions of birds other wild governed
in the least by mysterious foreknowedge of the
changes of the weather the latter part of winter is
unusually mild summer birds will venture far north
and sometimes they perish large numbers in severe
March billiards. 1t quite certain that the birds
governed merely by the conditions where they hap
pen to be Warm weather south sends them north
ward early in the year. February in the Gulf
States is quite delay the spring migration beyond
the usual period.
The spring of 1903 may be early. or it may be back
ward but the thing quite certain is that the birds do
not know what the season will prove
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-13
THOUSAND MILLIONS PER ANNUM.

No surprise will be occasioned by the report of the
committee of influential men in England the posi-
bily of bread famine in the British Isles the direct
result of European It did not require investiga
ton by committee of distinguished, obscure
men, the facts forth in the report which
has been published.
England is largely dependent upon the remainder of
the world for its supply of food The greater Of that
food supply moreover, is purchased from the United
States The exports from this country to Great Britain
and Ireland to about thousand MILAN dollars
year. the bulk of these exports is composed of
breadstufs and provisions. Not only would a European
the price of grain and meat exported from
the United States but between England and any
European power and this country would operate
limit the food supply of Great Britain and advance the
price to famine level. perhaps.
There time when all Englishmen goried in the
splendid isolation of their country, when it mis-
the high in control of the manufactures
of the world but that time has by Isolation is
element OF danger and it puts England the mercy
of the remainder of the world That is the strongest
reason why England should desire TO remain peace
with the other powers, and why it should court the
friendship the United States maintaining
peace among the nations
There is something besides the strength of its navy
which gives this republic commanding position as
world power.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-13
UNCLE SAN LIE EACTOR-

The Venezuelan trouble makes progress slowly toward
solution but every day Germany and Great Britain
negotiate and parey they fix more rrevocahy their a
ceptance of the position of the United States as
ian OF the territorial integrity Of the Western Hem
sphere against any changes which might increase fer
eign possessions in this half of the world or build M
ore European empire in America at the expense of an
other In short, the Monroe doctrine va never more
clearly acknowledged settled CT international
relations
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-13
Aaissu~1s Eaale
M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
eoonaxE. Mx pEAR. ZOE ANOTHER yEAR.

"Of again on again, gone again" Woman suffrage
for Kansas dead again and such of that sex as think
they can't exist without privilege of husting the
hastings NAV have to move Colorado or Utah They
indulge in that kind thing in those sagebrush re-
eions In Utah half dozen women content to pat
up with one between them, only SO they can have
the privilege knocking him out at the ballot box re
male suffrage and polygamy naturally go together We
never could figure why Colorado went for It, IL
must be attributable to the altitude The women out
there feel away up They compelled to be away up
or away down in both Colorado for all that coun
try is away up away down. Any woman OF those two
female suffrage states can stand higher than her hus-
band by simply climbing a mountain. This feat is gen
orally accomplished by female suffragists in divided
skirts broncho burro. The women politicians
of Colorado defeated wocott vrie, manly man, and
elected old Teller achrymose granny, TO the United
States senate The OF the tenderloin and other
lon districts of Colorado politics Smoot
the elder has just been elected to the United
States senate Utah the members of the legislature
who chose survival of Brigham Young for the United
States senate having elected by the Mormon women
Kansas being a level country of levelheaded people,
doesn't take to either divided skirts, to burros to
polygamy For forty the shorthaired sisters OF
forty have been trying to force female suffrage
on the shorhared of this shortgrass country But the
prayers tears fears and of the vrtuous have proved
much for them Most of these midnight dsturbers
Of domestic felicity are long since dead But con-
tngent survivors and their converts in some
way succeeded enlsting in their dsruptng and dis
quietng cause wifeless widower, whom, as a gray
headed patriot politician had for half century
admired and to the time his fatal fall down and
sas took her first whir in campaign with the growing
hen crowd The writer these feeble lines in it, but
strictly in the role The year following
the grasshoppers The Affections combined, about
did the business commonaly whose soil had been
consecrated to freedom. "Simia smilbus, curanter.
as our homeopathic friends declare. Like like.
The female suagsts from the had tramped all the
grass to DEATH so the grasshoppers from the west
died of hamilton lack of something live 1t
no case OF heart failure About every legislature since
has become a party to this monkey and -catspaw bur-
lesque Chickens unmatched the time to which
Topeka crying for chance to They seem to i'm
agine that by doubling up the they would double
their own importance quadruple their opportunities
all obvious the fact that there other and
appropriate ways for them double and quadrupe
one of these being matrmony But what is home with
primary without woman it? Let the ffty-one senti
excitables breeches voted Cor female suf
frage in Kansas, to their wives at home.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-13
HoRsoN TALKS TOO MUCH.

Naval Constructor Richmond Pearson Hobson has
succeeded in getting himself CT the United States
navy and it will surprise many who have taken some
notice of the young mans recent doings and sayings.
especially latter if he does get politics
possible HQbson hero in the summer of
1898 beyond doubt and his will live accordingly,
but he seems have been endowed with unusually
active mouth and it viii get him into office into
trouble or both. He kissed 10 ridicule but his
tongue in guarding than his ps.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-13

thriving communities Of France that were
formerly idle The hydraulic engineers Of France say
water power in her mountainous districts can
produce electrical energy equal 100000 horse power
The enormous energy that is running waste all over
the world will some day be utilized The anthracite fuel
production is rapidly giving out Here is
source of power unlike coal, that never be ex-
hans cd
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-13
CHEAPER THAN COAL OIL.

Niagara Falls electrical power generator is
equaed surpassed by the great glacial streams
Switzerland and Southern France where they have hut
commenced utilize these unfailing of water
power The melted water from the glaciers is diverted
into pipes and our consul at Grenoble that under