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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-17
OBITUARY NOTES.
Impressive Funeral OFFS. SumnerSmith,
Assistant Librarian at Yale for Tven-
ty-sevem Years

Impressive Funeral OFFS. Summer smith,
Assistant Librarian at Yale for Tween.
ty-seVen Years
The beautiful and impressive burial
service of the Episcopal church was
read by Rev. Arson Phelps Stokes yes
terday afternoon over the body of ].
Sumner Smith at his late residence, 257
st. Roman street, this city.
So has passed from this world a mas
ter mind, dwelling in such quietness
that many wonder now at the humility
which yelled so vast a store of knowl-
edge as this man had garnered. His
twenty-seVen years of association with
Yale college made his face familiar to
wide circle; his musical gifts brought
him in close contact with artistic tenn
peraments; his rare erudition gave his
name prominence among the savants of
the world; and to this record must be
added that of the friend and neighbor,
husband and father. In all phases of
Mr.. Smiths character we find the same
traits of sincerity and kindness, the
same principles of justice and consc
entiousness of decision. In his earlier
years Mr.. Smith possessed a tenor voice
of high range and pure quality; his
knowledge and temperament led to the
writing of music, as well as its inter-
probation.
At the service yesterday was sung a
requiem anthem, Blessed Are the Dead
Who Die in the Lord arranged from
Cherubini by Mr.. Smith and published
in 1862, this being in fulfillment of his
often-repeated request.
After the death of Professor William
D. Whitney, Mr.. Smiths linguistic ac-
quirements took first rank. His study
of Russia was long and insistent, re-
sulting in his complete mastery of the
language and appreciation of the liter
allure, yet when in 1886 Ticknor & Co.
published ''Red-Nosed Frost" translat-
ed in the original meters from the Rus
sian of N. A. Nekrasov, because of his
modesty there was no hint of it's being
his work, although the dedication ITO
My Wife" was token of an English
speaking translator.
1t was his desire to keep at his post
always, the decline of years offered him
no temptation for ease, and his wish
was granted, as a. short duration of
feebleness kept him indoors until the
sudden message called his spirit away.
Mrs. Russell Haesche, Miss Roberts,
Mr.. Zimmerman and Frederick Weld
constituted the musical quartette.
Nearer, My God, to Thee" with the
anthem mentioned, interspersed the
service, with Peace Blessed Peace"
at the close.
The honorary bearers were Mr.. Van
Z Name, Mr.. Dexter, Professor Henry w.
Farnam, Henry Gruener, with two as
sociates of Mr.. Smith from the Yale
library.
Mr.. Smith leaves a widow and one
son, DIR. Frederick Sumner Smith, of
Chester, Conn, and two grandchildren.
He leaves also a brother in Chicago
and a sister in Minnesota.
Keith ST. John.
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HENRY GRANGER.

Henry Granger of Beach Hill, Cole
brook. died of pneumonia Friday night,
aged seventy years. He was a brother
of the late Miles T. Granger of North
Canaan, justice of the Connecticut SUI
preme court Besides wife he leaves
sister, Mrs. Theron Parsons OF Stan
ton avenue
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IOuN r RAPTT ETT'

John F. Bartlett, an old and promi-
nent resident of Winsted, died Friday
night of pneumonia after an illness of
about two weeks. He was born in Dud-
ley, Mass, in 1920. For thirty years
he had been soap manufacturer in
Winsted.
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Mrs. A. J. Donnelly of 100 Middle
town avenue slipped upon the car
tracks at the corner of State and Elm
streets yesterday morning An examin-
alton showed that her leg was broken.
She was removed to her home.
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MR., MALLoRY's FUNERAL.

The funeral of Lester P. Mallory,
who died at his home on Clifton street,
Fair Haven, Saturday morning, will be
held at the late residence this after
noon at o'clock. Mr. Mallory was
well and favorably known, and doubt
less the funeral services will be largely
attended by relatives and friends, all
IF whom are invited to attend the last
sad obsequies.
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NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Opening. Highest, Lowest Quotation
Following are the closing prices reported
by Prince & Whitley, bankers and brokers'
81 Broadway. New York, aud Is Center
street street, New fiaven:
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MALCoM & COOMBE.

SO Center Street, Members New York Stock
Exchange.
Reported over private wire hy Body. Me
Lellen & Co. bankers and brokers. 81
Broadway, New York, and 3j Center
Street, New Haven.
New York. Feb. 1G.
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*EX-Diyidend.


The following are the closing prices re-
ported by Prince & Whitley, Bankers and
Brokers, 50 Broadway, New York; 10 Center
street, New Haven. Conn:
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Bid. Asked
G;UGtQla.

Reported over private wire by j. l.. Nc.
Lean & Co., % Broad street, New York,
New Haven Office. $40 Chapel street. HUI
bnger Building. Norman A. Tanner,
Manager.
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Chicago Market.

Reported over the private wires of ]. L.
Mclean 4 Co., % Broad street, New York.
New Haven Office, $40 Chapel street. Nor.
man A. Tanner. Manager.
Open. High. Low. Close.
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Investment Securities.
Sc ORANGE STREET

5000 Southern New England Telephone
Co. 5 per cent. Bonds.
5000 Branford Lighting & Water Co. 5
per cent. Bonds.
Bonds.
10000 Worcester & Conn. Eastern Railway
Co. AZ per cent. Bonds.
5000 Winchester Ave. K. Il. Co. per
cent. Bonds.
5000 New Haven St Railway Co. per
cent. Bonds.
5000 Wabash River Traction Co. per
cent. Bonds.
80 shares New Haven Water Co. Stock.
% shares Yale National Bank Stock.
25O shares Consolidated Electric Lit. Co.
Stock of Portland. Me.
FOR SALE BY
c. H. WARREN & CO., 1903 Orange St.
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Miss Merritt's funeral will occur at
11:3O Thursday morning at the United
church chapel. Rev. DR.. Munger will
officiate The interment will be in the
family plot at Berkshire, N. J. The
pallbearers will be Edward NJ. Bradley
Cecil K. Bancroft, DR.. Frederick L.
Chase, Emerson Findley, Professor j.
w. D. Ingersoll and Professor William
Lyon Phelps.
Two sisters Of the deceased from Min
nesota are expected here to-day or to-
morrow.
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DEATH OF MISS MINNIE MERRITT,
(Contributed)

The death of Miss Minnie Eunice
Merritt on Sunday morning will bring
sorrow to many homes in this city,
where she was widely known and great
ly beloved. For the last five years she
had been a teacher at the Winchester
school, and had exhibited conspicuous
talent in her chosen profession. She
had an alert and progressive mind, the
growth of which only death could
check; she had an absolutely unwaver-
ing devotion to duty, and was the very
incarnation of fidelity; she had a warm
sympathetic heart, which made her
loved by the children whom she taught
Her delightful personality and unvary-
ing cheerfuiness easily obtained and Sc
curely kept large circle of friends
among the people of New Haven.
Shortly after she was taken sick,
some weeks ago, she begged her physi-
clan not to forbid her to resume teach
ing in case she should be able to leave
her room. She said: Il know very
well that have a mortal disease; but
while I live 1 wish to be useful 1t
was this spirit of quiet heroism that
always characterized her life and made
her society an inspiration to all who
knew her. She bore her sufferings with
fortitude, and was as unassuming in
her last illness as she had been in &C.
tivity.
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AH.N RAVEN LOCAL 4pUEATkUNs
Furnished by Kimberly. Root & Day. BanA
ers and Brokers, 1888 Orange Street.
BANK STOCKS.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
Syndicate of Money Lenders Who Ex-
of the Countesses Faber.
SHE DISCOURAGED HIS SUIT
THEN HE CAME TO AMERICA AMI
MARRIED MISS HATTERFIELD.
Now the Syndicate Is Trying to Col
Iect Notes Signed by the Count
General Foreign News.

BERLIN, Oct. 20.-Count Won Larisch
Moennich, an Austrian nobleman, in certi-
flying to-day against the syndicate of
money lenders, who are accused of an at
tempt at extortion, said that Immediately
after his wedding at Buffalo with Miss
Mary Hatterfield, of Titusyille, Pa, in June,
1901. New York bank sent him draft for
$4,000, forwarded by the syndicate, which
he refused to pay. This, the count con-
tinued. was the beginning of persecution by
the money lenders group which was COM
posed of four merchants and six mortgage
agents, of which Ernst Rosentiel and Lud-
wig Ziegwig, were directors of a savings
bank. This draft was based on one of the
several notes which the count signed in
1900, aggregating $250,00O, payable on the
condition that he married one of three
young countesses Won Faber, of Nurem-
berg daughter of Baron Won Faber, the
famous pencil manufacturer), each reputed
to have dowry of $50 900.
The presiding judge. in beginning the case
in view, said he hoped the names of the
three counetsses, who were wholly inno-
cent of any connection with the persons
involved i'm the proceeding, would not be
used carelessly. The count had dealings
with money lenders for some time His
father paid them $4,000. and Count Won
Larisch Moennich borrowed other sums.
Then, in exchange for few hundred
marks, he gave the money lenders promis-
sorry notes and went to Wiesbaden to court
one of the Faber girls. They discouraged
his advances, and later, at his own ex-
pense the count went to America and
eventually married Miss Hatterfield.
On motion of counsel for the defense the
case was postponed in order TO summon
witnesses from America. The names of
ably will not be resumed until the new
year.
Count Won Larsch said to-day that Coun-
tess Won Larisch is in Vienna, that she
knew all about the case and that she had
known about it before their marriage. The
count cassed as absurd some of the
statements published in the United States
that the countess intended to sue for a di-
YOrce.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
Patents for Indiana Inventors.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. 20-Indiana
patents were issued to-day as follows:
George n. Barcus. Rensselaer,, halter; Mar
tin c. Beck, Indianapolis, stock car attach
ment for shipping hogs in hot weather;
George w. De Camp. Terre Haute. re-
volving sign; Jerry c. Fisher Shelbyvil e,
clock-winding reminder; Andrew J. For
sythe. Kokomo, stove pipe fastener; Bar
nett w. Harris. Waveland. automatic gas
lighting apparatus; Roy Huddleston, Dub
lin, office desk; William ID. Keefer. Gas
City, jar closure; John j. McFerrin, In
dianapolis. lifting jack; Joseph A. MCGEE,
Big Spring, sparker for gas engine; Willard
McWorkman, Indianapolis, fire-proof roll
ing partition; Charles r. Mundy, Union
vile, chair foot rest; Scott Nelson, Brooks
ton. and e. Wood, Reynolds, lock; Joseph
w. Nethery, indianapolis, flush tank sup
ply system; Robert NJ. Seaman, Browns
town, water extractor for paper-making
machines; James III. Stiggleman, Wabash
folding chair; Luke Sweeny, Terre Haute
track fastening; William r. Waggoner,
Brazil. delivery table for green clay arti-
cles; Henry G.. Williamson and II. Prizes
Michigan City. draft rigging; Meyer Zem-
Gilman, Indianapolis, washboard
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worry the sons of men-it is sometimes.
we insist, comfort, as well pleasure.
to turn aside from these things TO those
peaceful occupations which add to the
serenity OF mankind and doubtless to the
sum total of human happiness. There are
In the ring between two giants OF Drawn
and muscle and sinew, who have trained
for the fray like gladiators OF old, as the
acme of sport. There are others who fancy
a yacht race, others who love an exciting
struggle on the turf between two cracks
of the equine world while there are still
others who are happiest when sitting on
the bleachers, watching the home baseball
team do the nine from Podunk-up-the-
Creek
All these may be able to find some excuse
for their tastes, but none can compete In
argument with those who claim that, as an
all-round sport worthy OF the brain ana
hand of man. croquet has yet no rival IN
this world OF tears Last week the lovers
their annual convention in Connecticut and
there crowned one of their number croquet
champion of this great Republic. What an
honor 10 fall to the lot OF man. Before
the croquet champion of the United States
even Jeffries must dof the hat and Dan
Patch bow the knee. Masters OF the dia-
mond and of the gridiron. kings of the turf
before this avowed leader in the greatest
of all sports. May he wear his honors
proudly, as a sovereign wears his crown,
and may the game continue to grow and
prosper as the years roll on. While IL lives
and flourshes and while hand-in-hand with
ble-the-peg, duck-on-the-rock and button,
button, who's got the button? the country
can count itself safe from those influences
which seek to compass destruction.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
TOLD FIREMAN TO JUMP
ENGINEER TRUMAN, PENNSYLVANIA
LINE, A HERO TO THE LAST.
Stuck to Post and Applied Air Brakes
Peru Woman Fractures Skull
Indiana Accidents.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LOGANSPORT, Ind, Oct. 20-Charles H
Truman, the Pennsylvania Railroad en-
gineer whose death resulted last evening
from injuries received in the head-on COL
lision on the Chicago division of the Penn
sylvania at Hebron Sunday, had the re-
markable record of never before having
had a wreck in all of his twenty-three
years of experience in the employ of the
Pennsylvania company. In the collision in
which he lost his life he was not to blame
He maintained absolute self-possession
throughout the terrible experience and his
last act was that of hero in warning his
fireman to jump for his life while he him
self remained at his post, applied the air
and reversed the engine before he attempt
ed to jump. The crash came just as he was
in the act of leaping. He was held fast
while the scalding water poured over him.
but finally he dropped, breaking his left
leg and receiving bad cuts over the head
and face.
Truman came of family of railroad men,
His father, John Truman, was Continuously
employed on the local divisions of the
Pennsylvania for thirty-four years He is
now seventy-three years of age and is on
the pension list. He practically grew up
with the Pennsylvania system having
helped to build the Altoona e Pittsburg
one of the pennsylvania first holdings
Charles II. Truman born at Amboy
H.. March /. 1861. and entered the Penn
sylvania service in 1879. He was known as
one of the most careful and trustworthy
engineers on the road and had been select
ed to act as engineer on the Pennsylvania
officials special inspection train this week
Lawrence Truman, brother, entered the
service at the age of thirteen and now holds
the position of assistant road foreman of
engines. l.. +. Truman, another brother
Is a passenger engineer on the Erie with
headquarters at Huntington.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
THE WEDDING USHER.


New York Commercial Advertiser.
y student and observer of things social
and fashionable says that the professional
height this month-may be known by his
scarf pins. He has so many and each
one means a wedding at which he almost
eclipsed the bride in point of the admra-
ton bestowed upon him. He usually be-
gins his career as a page at some wedding
when he is child and later he begins
of relatives BY degrees he forms the
habit of being asked to usher sometimes
at the weddings of men with whom he
may only have slight acquaintance, but
as he gets on in certain sets it would al
most seem as though no marriage cere-
mony were complete without him.
He is so experienced and graceful that
his presence adds tone to a wedding, and
sometimes he has two or three in a day
during October and the Easter season.
The fact that he is, invited out of town
shows conclusively that his fame as an
usher is growing, and in time he becomes
an authority as TO the newest wrinkles in
church weddings, the proper togs which
will show a knowledge of the seasons s
fashions. and the best hotels TO go TO on
a wedding tour.
OF course, the usher must be popular
but he must be something more than that
and her family strictly approve. His rep
utation must be as spotless as his linen.
Eccentricity and the artistic temperament
are all very well in their places. but not
in an usher. Many mans career as an
usher has been cut short at his first we'd
ding by trace of levity on his face or
perhaps too deep n sorrow, a severe ex-
preston calculated TO give the event a
funeral tone.
a bad gait or "A popularity in the manner
of arranging the hair makes a man impos-
sible as an usher. His appearance counts
as much as a buffers or a footman's. Ush-
ers at a wedding, you will notice, are near
ly always cast somewhat in the same mold
At the farewell bachelor dinner the ush-
ers are always as conspicucusly gay as
next day they are enveloped with a gra-
cious charm of manner that has just it's in
finitesimal trace of regret.
Once an usher can proudly display twen-
ty-four presentation scarfpins that he has
acquired by assisting at the nuptials of his
friends, he gives up the idea of any mar
riage for himself. He accepts the role of a
looker-on in Vienna. There is certainly
some deterring influence in the habit. for
there is a legend that a girl who acts as
bridesmaid more than certain number of
times Will never wear orange blossoms of
her own.
Most popular ushers grow old and gray in
the work of escorting their friends from
the altar. The usher seldom achieves the
dignity OF best man, for the best man is
always chosen for some deeper reason than
his good appearance or even his good char
acter. Old friendship, a college intimacy
or a palship that extends back to school
part of best man and In this at least the
bridegroom is allowed his own choice
But the ushers are a different proposition
They must match as far as possible In s/ze
and must never present the appearance of
a vaudeville quartet-one tall, the other
short, one fat and jolly, the other lean and
severe looking.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
BARS MAY BE RAISED.
American Insurance Companies May
Enter Germany Again.

BERLIN, Oct. 21.-None of the American
Life Insurance companies have yet re-
ceived the governments permission to do
business under the imperial law that went
into effect on the 1st of July last. The
New York Life Insurance Company con-
tinues to do business in several German
States. including Prussia, under its former
State concession, because the imperial gov
ernment has not yet seen fit to raise the
question of its authority against it. The
Mutual Life, of New York, and the New
York Life both have applications pending
to do business under the imperial law and
both may be granted. 1t is almost certain
that the application of the New York Life
will be favOrably considered.
No American life insurance company will
be allowed to do business in Alsace or Lor-
raine for the reason that If an American
company is admitted the German govern
ment cannot forbid the French companies
from. doing business and it is believed that
the French agents would directly or indi-
rectly contribute to discomfort with Ger
man rule. Another tender subject is Bava-
rias attitude. Bavaria resents the law,
which theoretically takes away that king
dom's jurisdiction over the subject of in
surance. The imperial government seems
indisposed to bring the question to issue
and hence for an indefinite period, it is
likely that the insurance companies will
find it more convenient to secure Bavarian
concessions, Bavaria having heretofore
stubbornly refused to admit the American
cOmpanieS
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
Fits.
Baby Had Two to Six
Every Day.
Suffered Terribly
Doctors Failed.
DIR. MiieS'Nervine Cured
Him.

Weak, nervous, fretful, puny children re-
quire a treatment such as only DIR. Miles
Nervine affords. When neglected these
symptoms lead TO epileptic hts or spasms.
Every mother should strengthen her own and
babies nerves with DIR. Miles Nervinc, a true
specific in all nervous disorders. Read the
following:
"When my little boy was IS months old
he had cramps in his feet and hands. They
would be drawn out of shape for two or three
days. AT first liniment seemed to help but
in about two weeks nothing did any good
the doctor gave him. We called another
doctor but his medicine did no good so We
changed to another who called it spinal dis
ease. By this time the child's body was
drawn out of shape; his backbone was curved
to one side and his hands and feet out OF
shape. His suferings were terrible, and he
was having from two to six fits day. Twas
taking DIR. Miles Restorative Nervine for
nervous trouble and saw it was reeommended
for fits, so thought would see il IL would
help him. All three doctors had given him
up. One-half bottle stopped the fits and HE
limbs Strengthened, and another bottle cured
him. He is now a strong. healthy boy going
to school. / have waited to see ii the old
trouble returned, before writing you, but 10
never has. l cannot praise DIR. Miles Nerv.
inc enough, as 1 know it saved my boys
life."-MRs. URIAH NELSON, Lansing, Iowa
All druggists sell and guarantee first bot
tie Dr. Miles Remedies. Send tor free book
on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address
DR.. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-10-21
BUTTER-MAKING COURSE.
Chance for Farmers Wives and
Daughters at Purdue University.


Daughters at Purdue University.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. 20.-H. E. Van
Norman, associate professor OF dairying at
Purdue University. says: MANY farmers
wives and daughters who regularly make
more butter than Is required to supply the
family would take advantage of the op-
portunity to learn more about butter maxi
Ing, but they cannot be spared from home
to take ten weeks course at the Purdue
Winter School of Agriculture. 1t has been
spared from home duties to take one week $
instruction We're IL offered. If several per-
sons want this instruction and will write
that they will take such a course il will
be provided. The plan OF the work would
be TO devote a large part of each day to
actual work in ripening cream, preparing
starters, churning, working and printing
butter, judging and scoring butter as done
at conventions and the larger markets, ex-
animation and use OF the leading makes of
hand separators, and use Of the BabcOck
tester for the determination of the value OF
milk and the loss of butter fat in the skim
milk from the separators and from gravity
methods or skimming milk.
I'm addition to the daily practical work
done under the direction OF the instructors
there would be lectures on care and ripen-
ing OF cream. influence of bacteria, meth
DDS OF making butter and testing milk with
opportunity for questions and discussion as
the practical work progresses. As such a
course could only be a week or ten days
in length none but those having had prac-
tical experience in farm butter making
would be received. The total expense would
be from 81 10 $40, exclusive OF railroad fare
The date. Nov. 30 TO Dec. g."
Those who wish to take such course
should send their names 10 Professor Won
Norman AT once.