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Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-11-07
Millionaire philanthronIst.

St. Joseph, Mo, Nov. George T.
Hoagland. pioneer and millionaire
phiIan thropist, is dead at his home in
this city, aged 90 wears.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-11-07
Rninin Colorado

Denver, Nov. 2.-Heavy rains in all
portions of the southwest and wire
were down.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-11-07
Gas in Wyoming.

Douglas, Wyo., Oct. 3o.-A gas dis
covery in the Brenning Basin eleven
miles west of this city has caused in
tense excitement.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-11-07
a Presldent Choeen.

Boston, Nov. I'D. N. Parry, of
Indianapolis, has been chOsed 10y ac-
clamation president of the Citizens
Industrial association of America.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24

zone prize I was particularly proud of,
for I Won 1t in competition with the men.
1t was 500 in casn, and gave me great sat
isfaction. for with it l could pursue my
studies more at ease. / may say that my
success really dates from that time. and 1
believe the records show that l was at the
head Of my class.
HER FIRST STUDIO HIGH
UP IN A BUILDING.
II had been in the league perhaps five or
six years when I opened my first studio.
1t was a little bit of an affair. perched on
the top of a building. reached by climbing
five flights of steep stairs. The room was
so small that I was told I ought to do min
iatures, there not being room for anything
larger.
The first year. though I worked in
cessantiy, 1t was rot fruitful in paying COM
missions. 1 remember l old get a book cover
to model. However. 1, was experience and
III time was lost. I studied continuously,
working from daylight to dusk.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24

Summit. y. Miss Edith b. Stevens of this
place has received the commission for designing
the %pedimsnt OF the main entrance TO the pa
vilion OF the Liberal Arts building at the st.
Louis Exposition.
Special Correspondence OF The Sunday Republic.
New York. May 22-Such an honor as
this for a New Jersey sculptures makes a
story of interest.
l found her hard at work in a New York
studio on South Washington square.
1t is ar artistic neighborhood. IN the
midst OF Italian and French colonies. with
studios and cobwebby cafes on every side.
Across the square. once the potter's field.
you see the classic white marble arch and
through it the beginning Of Fifth avenue.
blossom!ng into palaces and a wonderland
of soaring architecture.
Next door Is the studio Of Henry Georges
son Richard. where he makes serious and
grotesque figures satirizing public men in
clay and marble-bits of Rabelais in mock
Ing sculpsured merriment.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24

Like the artists one reads OF in the Latin
Quarter. Miss Stevens seems wholly alb
sorbed in her work. Saturday Is a sort OF
half-ho'iday. and fortunately I had chosen
that time. She was in her blouse. busy put
ting finishing tou hes en- her model.
She was persuaded 10 say something OF
her life. how she became an artist and was
so fortunate as to secure so important a
commission.
To begin with. she was born In Virginia
grew up on a plantation at Houston. near
~Lynchburg.
DREW PICTURES FROM HER
EARLIEST RECOLLECTION.
81 had many brothers and sisters" she
said. Il was the youngest Of the lot. and
grew up in a sort of wild way amid the
woodlands and parklike vis;as of my Vir-
ginia home.
"When l was about 5 years old we moved
to Summit. N. ].
From my earliest recollection l drew
pictures. chiefly of children. My mind ran
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24

that way until It was decided that I should
be sent to school. At the age Of IA l began
studying drawing, which was taught in one
of the classes, and for pastime made little
things in clay. little heads and figures, little
creatures that seemed easy to create out of
clay.
But it was not until I began to study Sc
riously under a teacher that I embarked on
my profession in earnest. l had always been
filling my room at home with dolls and fig
ures. and my brothers used TO bring their
chufrs 10 see them.
The time came when this childish fancy
developed into a passion for something big
er and greater. So before 1 was Is I found
myself under a master at the Art Students
League in New York. and for the first time
began to draw from the antique.
1t was downright pleasure. Every day
seemed but a men Presently I was pro-
NOTED and finally won prizes and scholar
ships. Not having much money, this was a
great help TO me. enabling me to continue
my studuies at the league.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24

night 1t will start grinding. and We shah
see some of the old people VINO died before
wa wer3 born.
1--WE put curtains on the windows and
flowers In the old cobweb inches, and
leaned the place up where necessary. Aft
err the days work is done We sit in the
moonlight. looking out upon the sea.
1.-THE place has become famous among
our friends, and they come down in troops
to spend the soft summer evenings.
For recreation We sing in mmo and
sing songs to the accompaniment Of tho
guitar. It's the finest life. this artist life
creating things that seem alive out of the
clay.
1.-The little baby model for the big pedi-
ment to CROWN the grand entrance to the
Worlds Fair was wrapped in damp cloths,
and but a hint Of the sculptor to blossom
fair and beautiful.
"It must be finished this month" said
Miss Stevens. and I shall have 1t done on
time: then 1t goes to Hoboken to be copied
and enlarged"
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24

I'm the following year I began to model
heads and figures of a more importan. char
acter. and now 1 have the st. Louis pedi-
ment.
1T is to be twenty feet wide and have a
place of honor over the main entrance OF
the Fair. I suppose outsiders have no idea
of the deep. uualloyed joy IN artist feels
In this work of ours. When at the league
my only complaint was Of the shortness Of
the days.
I'VE did not count the hours; all we asked
for was perpetual daylight. Twenty-four
hours for a working day would not have
been too much for us.
Down on Long Island we find rest and
recreation in the neighborhood Of the
Hsmptons. doing our work In the quaintest
old studio you ever saw or heard of.
TT is one OF those old-fashioned wind
mills. such as you see on the coast OF Nor
mandy. two centuries old. and there l have
Il delightful studio. where l can work all
day long, the summer heat tempered by the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24

sea breezes and everything around me sug-
gestive Of antiquity and American history.
THE very stairs were worn away to thin
boards before the Revolution and had been
mended and worn away again. but they still
remain.
FOUND WINDMILL WHILE
HUNTING FOR A BARN.
This is the way I came to find the place:
I was on Long Island in search of an old
barn, which I was sure would make a capt.
tai studio with a little fixing and decorat-
ing.
while hunting for the ideal barn. one
day I came by chance upon the windmill.
cleaning and glistening in the sun. with
the Great South Bay and the blue of the
Atlantic stretching way as in a picture.
Tho windmill was unoccupied and I found
It could be rented, so I captured II.
1.-THE old stones and machinery are there
Just as they were when grinding corn and
wheat two centuries ago. I expect some
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24
The MASTER OF APPLGBY: KY EKANcs LYN1E=

his fallen adversary. turning the headiess
body with his foot and gliding at it.
"Wah Call hisself the Great Bear, hey?
Heap lie; heap no bear: heap nothing. now.
Papoose hear no let hissSlf be trap that
way. No smoke peace-pipe-"
But now Ephraim Yeates. standing ear
a-cock and motionless, like some grim old
statue done In leather. cut him SHORT with
a sudden. Hist. will vel" and a twinklins
instant later we had other work to do.
Onto the bosses with this here 1n5un-
meat, ez quick ex the loving Lord'n let ye!"
was the sharp command. There's a whole
clanjamfrey o. the varmints a-coming down
the trace. and I reckon ez how we'd better
scratch gravel immejtly. II not sooner!'
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24

TIC be c~ontinued.)
Copyright. 1893, by the Bowen-Merru compouA
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-30
TAKES RADICAL VIEW.
Western Miners President Favors So
ciaism and Independent Action.

Denver, Col, May 29.-The annual
report of Pres. Charles Meyer to the
convention of Western Federation of
Miners now in session here, recon-
mendS q renewal of the declarations of
the convention of last year, in favor of
Socialism and independent political ac-
ton. Referring to the settlement of
the anthracite coal miners strike by
arbitration Mr.. Meyer said:
Can the leader of this army of men
expect to hold his organization intact
when he advises them to continue
policy which offers nothing for the flu
ture but strike and restitution and
commends the finding of a board of ar
bitration selected by the representatives
of capital which bind the chains of
slavery more securely around his men,
bership and deprives them even of the
privilege OF appealing to their masters
for Il period of three years John
Mitchell need not be surprised should
his membership turn their faces to the
west, seeking an affliation with organ
iZations which have sent out their mes
sage to the world, that as labor pro-
duces all wealth, such wealth belongs
to the producer thereof
Mr.. Meyer urged the convention to
specify a date for establishing a uni
versal S-hour day throughout it's entire
jurisdiction.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-30
FOR WHAT PRICE
Shall the Washington County
Railroad Be Named?
Evidence in Foreclosure Proceedings
Now Being Taken at Portland.
Objections to Sale, Claim Being That
Road Is Now Paying.

Portland, Me, May 29.-The taking
of evidence began, today, before Hon.
Charles L. Libby, special master, in
the case of the Central Trust Co. of
New York. majority bond holders, vs..
the Washington County Railroad in
foreclosure proceedings. Messrs. II. M.
Heath and G.. M. Hanson appeared in
behalf of the taxpayers of Washington
county and protested against fore
closure The attorney for the Central
Trust Co. asked for the foreclosure OF
the mortgage and stated he would nos
introduce evidence except to show the
road has not paid interest on its bonds
for five years. He also asked for the
sale of the road, the court to fix the
lowest price at $2,000000.
Hon. Charles +. Littlefield for James
H. Mitchell of Boston, the builder, and
the small stockholders, asked that il
foreclosed the road be sold for not less
than $2.50O,0O0 and then the minority
ter as original purchasers within
fixed time.
Messrs. Heath and Hanson objected
to the sale of the road, as they claim
enough is being earned to pay the in
terest and more.
Mr.. Mitchell, the contractor, said the
road should not be sold for 100000.
The hearing was adjourned until next
Wednesday to allow the minority holder 5
to file a proposition to the petitioners.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-30
THIRTY YEARS AWAKE.
Then He Quit Coffee and Found Re-
freshing Sleep.

Coffee causes insomnia and phys-
clans are agreed that this is one of the
most distressing of all nervous COM
plants. 1t is seldom indeed that a man
who has reached the advanced age of
81 years is entirely cured Of insomnia
of 30 years standing. An old gentle
man of Philadelphia says: Il have been
great sufferer for many years from
insomnia. 1 am 81 years of age and can
truthfully say that until | Quit coffee
and commenced the use of Postum Food
Coffee l had not known real refreshing
sleep for more than 30 years.
Postum was prescribed for me by
my doctor who made me quit coffee. /
have now used Postum for more than =
years and its good effects are both Won
derful and permanent. | regard it as a
good friend not only as a remedy for
coffee ills but as pleasant ana nour-
ishing food drink Will, a fine flavor.
Several of my friends are using it 10
great advantage and think it much SUI
perior to coffee.
when the directions for making it
are followed closely it cannot fail to
give satisfaction" Name given by
Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich.
Such evidence supports the scientific
theory on which Postum is based. There
is Il reason.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-30
THEY ARE HOPEFUL.
Congratulations for Woman's Suffra-
gists' Work in New England.

Boston. May 29.-At the business
meeting of the New England Woman's
Suffrage Association held here, today,
representatives were received from all
the state delegates. Resolutions were
unanimously adopted to the effect that
equal suffrage means not competition
but cooperation between men and
women. in the state and union; con-
graduating New Hampshire on having
cast the largest vote for equal suffrage
ever given by any New England state;
Massachusetts on having secured an
equal guardianship law and an increas-
ed vote for suffrage in the Legislature:
Maine on having obtained letters from
1900 women tax payers in 237 different
towns. expressing their wish for the
ballot: Vermont on increased activity
and many new converts and Massachu-
sets. Vermont and Rhode Island upon
having woman suffrage governors; and
condoing with Connecticut on the de-
feat of the bills for a woman factory in
spector and Il woman's reformatory.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was reelected
presidents Henry Il. Blackwell secre-
tary: and Francis J. Garrison, treas
urer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-30
BATH OBJECTS
To Removal of Iron Works
from the City.
And the Company's officials Give No
Hint Of So Doing.
Somewhat Difficult to Locate Origin
of the Yarn.

Bath Me, May 29.-(SpeciaD.- The
Works moving away from this city was
again sprung upon Bath people, today,
py dispatch in the Boston Herald
with a New London, Conn.,, date line.
Very little attention would have been
paid to it had it not been for the fact
that it mentioned that a representative
of the Metropolitan Insurance Co. had
visited the offices of the Bath Iron
Works and there learned that it was 80.
The representative mentioned was S.
D. Bartlett whom it was said belonged
in Bath, but Mr.. Bartlett is Superin-
tendent of the district which includes
Portland. Saco, Biddeford, Lewiston,
Bath, Brunswick, Rockland and many
other places i'll this section of Maine
having his office in Portland, while j.
B. Jones is the local agent of the COM
pany. Mr.. Bartlett was called up over
the telephone, today, by a Bath person
and asked for an explanation. Mr.
Bartlett replied that he knew nothing
whatever. about the matter and had
not even seen the Herald story. He
denied having written the officials of
the Metropolitan Co., that the Bath
company was intending to move away
from the city and was at 4 loss to know
how such d story could have originated.
Mr.. Jones, the local agent, told prac-
tically the same story, but added that
he had written the company in New
York that from the present outlook
the shipbuilding prospects We're not as
bright as usual but did not mention
anything about the Bath Iron Works.
He says that in the course of a con-
versatiOn with Mr.. Bartlett some time
ago he mentioned that he had heard
Charles E. Hyde of this city and f. ".
Carleton of Woolwich We're considering
the ACCESSIBILITY of moving to New Lon
don and there starting 4 repair plant
and marine railway, but that the con-
Vcrsation had dropped and he is at q
loss to understand how the New Lon
don correspondent got hold of this mat
ter which has caused such a stir.
Neither President Edward w. Hyde
nor Vice President and General Man
ager John S. Hyde of the Bath Iron
Works profess to know anything about
the matter and denounce such a story
as absurd. Said John S. Hyde: I'VE
might as well think of moving to the
moon as to New London" Edward
w. Hyde said: we haven't given this
matter any consideration whatever. Be
side the new contracts we have just
received, we have the battleship Geor-
gia on our hands which will not be
completed for two years and We
couldn't very well move that along with
us. It's all joke and somebody has
been numerically fooled"
The dispatch caused rather furry
among many Bath people, today noon,
but fortunately most Bath people have
enough confidence in the Hydes and
the Bath Iron Works to discredit the
story.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-30
FIRE AT SOUTH BREWER.
Ice House and Four Dwellings Gone
Loss About $4,000.

Bangor, Me, May 29.-The Aver ice
house in South Brewer owned by the
American Ice Co, and four dwelling
houses owned by f. w. Aver were de-
stroyed by fire, tonight. The fire origin
atcd from a spark which fell on the
roof of the ice house and speedily got
beyond the control of the Brewer fire
department.
Aid was summoned from Bangor
when the flames had communicated to
the houses, and the progress of the
fire was checked 200 yards from the
big saw mill and pulp mill plant of
the Eastern Manufacturing Co.
Tho ice house is u total loss and cost
$4,000 to build. 1t was not insured.
The dwelling houses of Mr.. Aver were
also destroyed. They were valued at
$1,000 and were insured for $4,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-30
SHIP c. n. WATJEN SAFE.
Arrived at Cooktown, Queensland-Has
Shipwrecked Crew Aboard.

Cooktown. Queensland, May 29.-Ad
vices received here from Port Modesty,
New Guinea, say that the overdue Ger
man ship c. II. Watjen Capt. Died
rieks. from New York, Oct. 30, for Yo-
kohama) has been towed to safe an
chorage at Hall Sound, New Guiena,
with the loss of her foremost, mainmast
and rudder. About $4,000 packages of
her cargo We're jettisoned.
The Watjen saved eight of the crew
of the Hamburg bark Edith Capt. Ger
ted bound from Puget Sound to Port
Pierre which was wrecked on the
Nereus shoals in January. The captain
of the Edith and 10 of the crew are
missing.
The C. H. Watjen, May 10, she then
being 202 days out, was offered for re-
insurance at San Francisco at 50 per
cent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-30
LIVES THREATENED
By EARLY Morning Blaze at
South DeerfeId, Mass.
One Woman Jumped and a Young
Boy Hastily Rescued.
Loss, About $4,000, With Only hree..
Quarters Instance.

South Deerfield, Mass, May %
Fire, which broke out here, early to-
day, burned two business blocks, a
dwelling house and barn, causing a
loss approximately placed at $4,000
and threatened the lives of several
people. Captain Edison NJ. Roche and
the members of his family escaped
from their burning home in their night
attire. A Polish domestic, whose means
of exit was cut off by the flames jump.
ed from Il seconds story window. but
she was uninjured. Chester b. Roche,
the 9-year-old nephew of Capt. Roche,
who was sleeping in one of the rooms
of the second floor, was forgotten III
the haste of leaving, but Capt. Roche
went back and at a great risk to his
own safety rescued the boy.
That the flames spread so easily
was primarily due to the fact that the
town has absolutely no facilities for
eXtinguishing a fire, and that it did
not spread over Il greater area was
due to the circumstance that no other
buildings were near at hand. All that
could be done by the citizens was to
permit the fire to burn itself out
Tho buildings burned included Capt.
Roche's residence, business block and
barn and another block owned by the
Mosier estate.
The fire started in the barn from
some unknown cause and commune
Gated quickly with the dwelling and
then with the Roche and Mosier blocks.
Early in the fire request was sent
to Northampton to send apparatus. A
hose company started for there, but
arrived too late to be of any assist
ance. All the buildings being of wood.
the fire spread quickly and soon had
burned itself out.
The loss upon the Roche building
was $4,000 and $1,000 on it's contents
The loss upon the Roche block was
$4,000 and upon the Mosier block $1,000
Captain Roche occupied one of the
stores on the ground floor of his build
ing as a pharmacy and his loss there
was $4,000. Other business tenants, r.
bert, confectioner, lost their goods;
amount unknown. The losers in the
block We're w. l.. Wheeock. black
smith. and Charles p. Phillips, fish
dealer. They are unable to state the
amount of their damage.
1t is estimated that the insurance is
about three-quarters of the loss.
At one time during the fire the his
tCric Bloody Brook mouse across the
street from the Roche block was in
danger, but by throwing water from
ture was saved
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-30
RESOLUTIONS AGAINST SMooT
Unanimously Adopted by the Presby
terrain General Assembly.

Los Angeles, Cal, May 29.-The
Presbyterian General Assembly. today,
unanimously adopted resolutions call
ing upon the people of the United
States to use their utmost endcavors to
secure the expulsion of Apostle Reed
Smoot from the national Senate. The
preamble declares that the Mormon
church persists in the active encour-
agcment and practice of poygamy
and Smoct lis in cordial sympathy with
it as a Divine institution"
The 18TH General Assembly of the Pres
bytcrian church dissolved, this afternoon.
all business before it having been COM
pleted.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-30
YOUNG GIRL FOUND DEAD.
Probably Accidentally Shot and Fright
ened Party Fled.

Collingwood. Ont, May 29.-Bertha
Gloria Whelan, IL years old, has been
found dead by the road side near here.
The child had been shot in the head
and instantly killed. A handkerchief
not her own was bound around her
head as if an attempt had been made
to bind UP the wound by the person
who fired the shot. Her clothing was
uridisturbed and her school books were
found close by. 1t is believed the shoot
ing was accidental and the person who
fired the shot fed upon finding that the
child was dead.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-30
HACkENSACk WATER
May or May Not Have Been Cause of
This Trouble.

Hoboken, N. j., May pa report to
the effect that four of the students of
Stevens Institute, who boarded here and
drank Hackensack water daily, have
died from typhoid fever and that there
have been several others stricken dur
ing the past year, has caused uneasi-
ness among the residents of Hoboken.
Supt. French of the Hackensack Water
co. says his company is doing all it
can to prevent typhoid germs from
getting into the water and that there
is no direct evidence to show that the
deaths of the Stevens students came
from the water they were drinking.