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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
CHATTANOOGA NOT TO BE SOLD.
Government Takes Possessi on Of the Cruiser
H.. in Crescent Shlpyard.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-Attorney-General
Knox has made demand upon the Sheriff
at Elizabeth, N. j., to abandon his inten-
ton Of selling the uncompleted cruiser
Galveston, which is under construction at
the yards Of Lewis Nixon, and will sue out
a writ OF replevin to prevent the sale, which
Is advertised for tomorrow. The writ will
enable the United States Government TO
give bonds to secure the creditors Of the
contractor from loss, pending an adjudica-
tion of the case in the United States courts.
ELIZABETH, N. j., Oct. l9.--In place OF
ered flag of the Sheriff swinging from the
stern OF the cruiser Chattanooga at the
Crescent shipyard. the Stars and Stripes
WIS hoisted over the vessel this afternoon
United States Marshals Alcutt and Garsde
OF Trenton took possession Of the cruiser
for, Uncle Sam under a writ OF replevin OBJ
tained by United States District Attorney
Coytlapdt Parker ia the Circuit Court.
When Sheriff Coriell heard that the Federal
officers were coming he sent IA co urier with
this message to Barber Henry j. Scheppe,
deputy in command OF the Chattanooga;
Don't give up the ship" The Sheriff
adjured his men to remain on board until he
instructed them to leave.
The Sheriif's men made feeble resistance
10 Sno HaTshdls, DuL were sChTeu 70 ueabD,
a. Aloutt put 1t, when they were brIsquely
ordered on the vessel. They left at once.
Sheriff Coriell was disgusted. When Law
ysr, * easily. counsel for Babcock Il Will
oox on whose behalf the ship was held,
heard Of the action OF the deputies, he said
He'll"
The Sheriff has twenty hours in which
to re-replevin for the possession of the
vessel and furnish bond Naval Con-
struotor Smith has placed force of six
men on the Chattanooga.
BY The writ of replevin, Sheriff Corisl
and his deputies, Henry J. Scheppe, Fred
A. Teipel and Edward Nelson, are sum
m9aed TO appear before the Circuit Court
In Trenton on Oct 20 to answer TO the United
the cruiser 10 IN damage Of $4,000 against
ths, pledges and security Of the Tuited
States The writ is signed by Melville
W Fuller, Chief Justice
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
THE FIGHT TO GUST REED SHOOT.
Utah Americans VIII Renew II Before
the Senate Committee.

WASHINGTON, Oct. l9.-.The fight to GUST
Reed Smoot, the Mormon apostle, from
his seat In the United States Senate, which
was begun at the special session of that
body when he took tho oath OF office, Is to
be renewed before the Senate Committee
on Privileges and Elections, to which the
matter was referred. Another contribu-
ton to the literature on the subject, issued
by the Utah Americans under the title OF
-The Inside of Mormonism,' has been laid
before members OF the committee.
1t is pamphlet Of nearly 100 pages. de-
voted to evidence that Smoot is mot a
proper person to be admitted to a seat in
the Senate OF the United States and says
that the purpose in publishing it at this
time is to show that man who is member
OF any one Of the three quorums which con-
stitute the government OF the Mormon
Church is not loyal citizen OF the United
States and cannot by the most liberal con-
struction Of his covenants and obligations
consistently qualify as member OF either
house Of Congress.
The pamphlet quotes at length the deoi
sion rer dercd by Judge Anderson denying
naturalization 10 an alien Mormon on the
ground that the oaths required by the
Church untitled its members for subscrib-
ing to the oath of American citizenship.
Il notes Judge Anderson's summing up
Of the evidence In the case as establishing
inquest ionably that the teachings, prac-
tices and aims Of the Mormon Church were
antagonistic to the Government Of the
morals ard he well-being Of society, and
that It's members are animated by feeling
of hostility toward the Government and
It's laws. Therefore. an alien who Is .
member Of that Church was not q fit person
to be q citizen OF the United States.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
CIVIL SERVICE RULES IGNORED.
Philadelphia Has Worst Managed Federal
Onlces In the Country, Says Cooley.


WASHINGTON. Oct 49, commissioner AL
word W. Cooley, who has just returned
from a tour Of inspection Of civil service
boards and met hods Of appointment in sew
eral Of the Eastern and Middle Western
cities, says that Philadelphia has the worst
MANAGED Federal offices in the country
The principal trouble, he says, is at the
Mint. Mr.. Cooley knows OF about forty
cases there W here the law has been violated
aud he intends TO take such action as will
n axe an investigation or a satisfactory
explanation necessary.
Objection is made to the way in which
classified employees have been removed I,
apparently without any cause other than
that Of politics, and laborers, those who do
not have to take civil service examinations.
appointed to fill their places. Senators
and Congressman have procured places for
ocnstituents, classified employees Of the
MINT having been removed to make room
ter them.
.The condition Of affairs in Philadelphia
said Mr.. Cooley. lis deplorable. In no in
stance have I ever seen such an absolute
disregard f+g civil service regulations as
Ia held by F5tleral officers there. In other
violations Of the law, but in Philadelphia
the attempt to evade 1t seems 70 10 general.
Men have been removed from classified
D ,sitions there without any cause what
ever, and nobody cares to give any ex-
panaton OF how or why it was done
The IRE gularities came to the attention
of the commission last spring. and Chief
Examiner Higgins was sent from Washing
ton to make an investigation. On June
IS, 1909 he submitted a report, showing
how the classified employees had been re-
moved, on preence Of a reduction of the
mint force, ard how laborers had been ap.
pointed and then promoted to classified
positions. Mr.. Higgins also learned that
In every case the man removed was a Demo-
crat.
The commission requests that the Demo-
Gratis be reinstated and the six Repubii-
cans who were appointed to their places
be removed
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
THE ARMOR PLATE QUESTION.
Highest bidders Try to Convince Mr..
Moody That They should Get the Contract.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-Representatives
of the Carnegie and the Bethlehem Steel
Companies had long conference to-day
with Secretary Moody and other Navy
Depart ment officials concerning the bids for
nearly 1900 tons of armor plate intended
for The bait leships Vermont, Kansas, Mime
sofa, Idaho and Mississippi.
While not declaring that they would not
be 81 istied If any part of the order was given
to the Midvale Steel Company, the lowest
bic der which has never undertaken TO
manufacture ar,nor. the Carnegie and Beth
lehem representatives endeavored TO show
Mr.. Moody that they controlled the right
in the United States TO Use the krupp ar
NOR hardening process, the only process
Of that character that up to this time has
hardened armor 20 the depth and degree
demanded by the Navy Department, and
that the Midvale company would not be
able TO secure the right to use the krupp
process
Ii was point ed out also that the two con-
Germs had just spent s3,5O0,OOO in improve
ments, which would more than double Their
armor output. They asserted that inst ead
of being limited 10 deliveries Of 9l3 tons
of armor u month under contracts now IN
force, they are able to deliver 20Oo IONS
month bet ween them, and TO complete The
present contract in about fourteen or Ill
teen months, instead Of taking more than
thirty months, the time that would be re-
CURED at the present rate of deliveries
In view Of the great demand for arInor
fer vessels now under construction the
Carnegie and Bethlehem representatives
thought that the Government would make
a mistake in awarding an armor contract
to an unit tried company which according
to its own proposal would not be able
to begin making deliveries for twenty
months
Secret airy Moody had hoped to dispose
of the arnior bids to-day, but in view OF
the represent atoms made by the Carnegie
and Bethlehem people he decided to with
hold action until he could ascertain def
nitely whether the Midvale company
would be able to manufacture armor, not
only within the time to be fixed but OF a
quality that would meet the Department 8
requirements as TO face hardening. He
regards the question as Of tho greatest
Importance, involving ~ it does the eS,
pendi,ure OF between S8,00oN o and
s7ooO,00O and the urgent necessity Of se-
curing prompt deliveries Of satisfactory
plates and he has determined 20 act with
extreme caution in deciding It,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
sKINNERs TRIP TO ABYSsINIA.
The Gunboat Machias VIII Garry Him From
Naples to DtibOuti.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1e.-The State Depart
ment and the Navy Department arranged
to-day that the gunboat Machias should
carry Robert P. Skinner, United States
Consul General at Marseilles, on his mission
to Emperor Menelik, to whom he will pre-
sent an invitation to attend the St. Louis
Exposition and endeavor to make treaty
for the extension OF American trade In the
Emperors possessions. The Machias was
ordered from Port Said to Naples. where
Mr.. Skinner and his party will embark.
American Commissioner and his companion
will start overland for the Abyssian capital,
escorted by naval officer, marine officer,
fifteen or twenty marines and few sailors.
The armored cruiser Brooklyn and the
cruiser San Francisco Will remain at Beirut.
SYRIA, where their presence has been bene-
fetal in making the Turkish Government
more disposed to grant certain privileges
and pay some claims to American citizens.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
NINE BRIDGEwORKERs KILLED.
Travelling Crane on the New wabash
| Bridge at Pittsburs Gives Way.

PrrTsBURo, Pa, Oct. 1o.-By the break
ing Of tho travelling crane at $3.50 o'clock
this morning on the Pittsburg end Of the
new cantilever bridge being constructed
over the Monongahela River by the Wabash
Railway. nine men were killed and more
than half dozen injured.
About fourteen structural ronworkers
were on the crane when 1t gave way. Tons
OF beams and masses Of iron fell with the
men distance Of 100 feet, striking the barges
beneath. on which were piled the material
for the construction Of the bridge. On
the barge beneath there were eight men at
work. Three of them were killed, and
the others escaped by jumping into the
river and swimming to shore.
The cause Of the disaster was due to the
traveller being overweighted. The barges
on which the beams and wreckage FELL
were sunk, and many of the bodies were
pinned down In the water.
All OF tho men killed and injured we're
employed by the American Bridge Company,
which is constructing the bridge.
Near the new bridge was the United
States snagboat E. A. Woodruff. whose
crew began the work Of rescue. They
succeeded In recovering four bodies
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
ADMIRAL BRADFORD rs OUT.
The President Accepts His Resignation as
Chief OF Bureau OF Equipment.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.-Presdent Roose-
welt to-day accepted the resignation Of
Rear Admiral Royal B. Bradford from the
Office of Chief Of the Bureau of Equipment,
an Office held by him for six years. To-
morrow Admiral Bradford, who resumes
his regular status as a Captain in the line
of the navy through his retirement from
the Bureau Of Equipment, will transfer
his Office to Capt. George A. Converse
whose appointment, as Chief OF the bureau
miral for that period. followed the rresi-
dents action in Admiral Bradford's oase
Cant Bradford will be assigned 10 succeed
Capt. Converse In command Of the battle
ship Illinois.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
NEW ITEMS ~ NAVY ESTIMATES.
one IL ~ ,5OO. 900 TO Improve Waterfront
OI the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

WASHINGTON, oct. l9.-Amons the new
items in tho estimates prepared by Secre-
tary Moody for the maintenance and i'm
provement Of the naval establishment
during the fiscal year 10 end June 80, 1905
are these. u ,5OJ0UO for the Improvement
Of the waterfront Of the BroGklyn navy
yard; $50 900 for building naval prison
on t,e cob Dock at that yard 81 100 900 10
bIiId shore harTaGks for o. 'istod men, one
at ths Brooklyn and ths other mt tho Nor
folk nhVy yard, and $2jO,OOO 10 establish II
naval training station on the Great Lakes
To feed the men u the service, q, $50 900,
or ts60,OyO more than was appropriated
for tho present year, IL asked.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
HELD UP IN THE ADIRONDACKS
Masked Men stop . Hotel Employee. but
lie Was Not the Man They wanted.

MALONE, n. Y, Oct. 19.-As Charles
White, an employee of Hotel Oneita, which
is three miles from Eyerton, N; y. on the
going home from Everton last Wednesday
evening he was held up by two masked men
at a lonely spot on tho road. They flashed
a light on him and then told him to go home,
as he WAS not the person they wanted.
Mr. Phelps, proprietor of Hotel Oneita,
conducts a numbering business in that
neighborhood, and, ii being, near pay day.
it was thought he might be going with
money to pay his men of and the masked
men wanted him The place is just on the
edge of the Rockefeller preserve and quite
near the spot where o. P. Dexter was
murdered.
The Dexter murderer is still at large. and
the authorities are unable to get sufficient
evidence to warrant an arrest.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
Army Officers Ordered to Recruiting Dut,.

WASHINGTON, oct. 10 Orders were is
sued to-day detailing forty-seyen officers
for recruiting duty for two years each a
like number being relieved and ordered
to Join their regiments Among them are
Major James 3 Hickey, Eleventh Cavalry, to
New YORK, vice Major X, J. {. Irvine Major
George H. Roach, Twenty eighth Infantry
to syracuse, vice Major H. II. Benham,
Twenty-third Infantry; Major ". II. G.
Bowen, Fifth Infantry, TO Buffalo, vice
Capt. Fred W. Foster Fifth Cavalry; Major
Matthias W. Day, Fifteenth Cavalry, to
New York, vice Major Bernard A. Byrns,
Thirteenth Infantry; Major W r, Aber-
crombo, Thirteth Infantry, to Newark
relieving Major l.. J, Hearn, Twenty
Cavalry, to Albany, vice Major C. b. Hop
pin, Fifteenth Cavalry.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
Army and Navy Orders

WAsHNdros, oct. II. These navy orders were
Issued 10 day
Lieutenant Commander X. y. Lopez from san
Branrisco "a the New York as navigator,
Lieut. N J Mccormack, from Norfolk Va, 10
the baltimore.
Lieut. z. D. 5tsAins. from the New York To home
and await OrdGIs
Pay Inspector h. Hunt, from naval station ca
uts, "a navy yard, Washington.
PAymastsI ". W. boRnafon. from the. MAssachv-
sstts 10 Cayits station.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
Movements Of Naval Vessels.

WAsuNdroE, oct. 10. Tho training ship
Mohican has arrived az San Francisco,
the gunboat Wasp at Port TAMPA, the
golfers Hannibal and Leonidas at Norfolk,
the cruiser Montgomery al Montevldeo
Tie cruiser Baltimore, the training shiI,
Buffalo and the gInboat Peoria al Boston
and the gInboat Eagle at New York.
The lorpeGo boat Dahigrsn and the
submarines Porpoise, Plun9er and Shark
have sailed from Gieenpor for New SUI
folk, l., J.; the glInboAt Nashville from
Colon for usnlanaILo and the collier
Msnshan from Hlnkow for Shanghai
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
Aclre.. Robbed by propertN Man.

WAsHIEGTOE, D,r. 10. Mrs. Al n. Wilson,
playing here last week With her husband In
the prince e 1altcrs,' Wns rpbho5 II
So 300 worth II jewelry Tho police AZ
rested Tonight Walter Burrows, assistant
property man Ht the i.afayolt" Theatre,
and recovered most of the property, Bur
rows took Mrs Wilson'S jswelry and STA
IN cash On Saturday syening and was not
suspected of the theft until to-day, when
lie failed 10 appear for work.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
Work on Trolley Tunnel Resumed.

Work was resumed yesterday in the
south bore of the twin trolley tunnels under
the Hudson River The break in the roof
through which the water rushed on oct
o, flooding an air chamber, has been re-
paired. The body of Owen Conlon, who
met death in the cave-in, had not been re-
covered up 10 last night.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
cor HURT STOPPING RUNAWAY.
James Hanredy's Ribs Broken and Leg
and Foot Crushed.

A driver for P. II. Scott, a truokman at
~ Mercer street left his horse and wagon
alone for few minutes in West Twelfth
street last evening. and while he was away
the animal got frightened and ran west
to Greenwich avenue. There Policeman
James HAnredy Of the Charles st rect station
met the runaway.
The policeman stopped the runaway
all right, but In doing 30 he was jammed
against an elevated railroad pillar and
several Of his ribs were broken. His left
knee and right foot also were smashed
He was taken to ST. Vincent's Hospital.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
Duke Of the Abruzzi in New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. l9.--The Italian
cruiser Leguria, commanded by Prince
Amadeus Duke Of the Abruzzi, arrived here
to-day, the first Italian man-of-war to come
here Tor many years. The Duke is the son
of Amadeus, former King OF Spain, and
q first cousin Of the present King of Italy,
and is well known Ms a mountain climber
and explorer, having gone nearer the North
Pole than any other explorer
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
xessIsr wants a Government Job.

"WAsHISGroN, Got 10. The Civil Snryice
Commission to-day r'c lived the following
letter from n resi- lent of New York city,
who wants 10 know hoY TO get Govern
meDt JOB;
Nv DEAB UEoLE SAN, n yuu YIl Kindly
bring mo ~ contact With form 1891. | viii
see To II that you get ANOTHER star on your
shirt front and another stripe down your
rtlrboard pants leg.
2ours VERY. Than tialiy. WiILrAl KxssLnn.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
Horse Couldn't Move: TrafYlc Block cd.

A horse blocked all traffic on the south
roadway Of the Brooklyn Bridge for few
minutes during the rush hour yesterday
afternoon by getting the toe of one shoe
caught between two Belgian blocks Police
men got a crowbar and pried up several
blocks before the horseDwas freed
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
Kidneys

II you've got a good pair. you needn t
worry; II they are weak. look out-Bright's
Disease, Diabetes and accompanying
troubles like Gout, Rheumatism and Liver
Disease will be your undoing-unl'ss
you find q remedy. I ask the privilege
Of sending you a record Of cures made
by the Allouez Magnesia Water from
Allouez Springs. Wisconsin. May have
yorr name and address By mail or tele-
phone!
HENRY r. HODGsKIN. General Agent.
Phone 3o97 Broad. 6S Broad st., N. Y.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-15

are i'm quite as good condition as some of
their companions. dating two centuries later.
Indeed, the style of print and the general
makeup of the books separated by these
two centuries are not nearly so different as
those of modern date and of twenty years
ago 1t is In the contents that the great
changes I'm customs. style and manners of
thinking may be noted.
One of the oldest books in the library, and
perhaps the most curious. is edition of
Thucydidess Peloponnesian war, written in
Greek. with a parallel version in Latin. II
MDCXXXVIII'' Q5ss.) The back. once, per-
haps. Of hard. smooth leather, is now worn
till IL has surface of velvety softness In
many places. the leather has been entirely
worn of and there new pieces have been
glued on. giving the old volume a much be-
patched appearance. The paper is OF the
finest linen. as. indeed, are all of these old
volumes. and the printing is not so imper-
feet as one might suppose. The Greek let
tiers are. in many cases. formed differently
from the modern texts. and in some cases
the Latin letters have different forms. In
the whole book there Is not a word other
than Greek or Latin. On the fly leaf at the
first are the additions and corrections for
the book written by hand. perhaps at the
same time that Shakespeare was writing
some masterpiece. The book was not. how
ever. printed In England. then quiet. and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-15

to see her train gliding away. She held
the information bureau responsible for her
disappointment.
But madam" protested the attendant,
1T told you the time your train would leave
when you asked me about it, and / also
told you that IL you wanted to visit some
of the Washington-street shops you would
have to hurry"
The indignant shopper was not to be rea-
soned with, and she proceeded to score
the informant man and everybody else
employed at the station for allowing the
train to get away without her. She was
angry to the very tips of her fingers and
during the long wait that followed she pes
tered every employe in the station with
countless questions and bored every fellow
traveller about the place with scathing de-
nunciations of the criminal manner In which
the depot was managed.
Occasionally the information man gets into
hot water I'm the most innocent way mag
Unable. One morning last week a young
man and woman presented themselves at
the window.
Say, can you tell me what the fare is
from here to Denver" the man inquired.
'Single?" asked the attendant, meaning
to inquire whether the questioner alluded
to a single or round-trip ticket.
mo, we're married." was the curt re-
ply, ''but 1 can't see how that's any bus
mess OF yours
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-15
IN THE STATE LIBRARY.
some Curious md Quaint Old Volumes
Treasured There.

Though IL is known to comparatively few
people. the State Library Is veritable
storehouse OF literary and historical curiosi-
ties. IL is OF high value as a reference IL
brary In almost any line of research but is
of especial value to the student OF history
Here are learned treatises on almost any
phase of history one might desire TO study
written by the best authorities. often after
years OF research
But To the person caring not so much for
the wars and victories OF former times as
delighting In the quaint customs OF our an
ccstors. the library affords a richer field;
for here are books, so old, often, that their
huge leather backs are all but worn or
Here are books written by the hands of our
ancestors and printed on their clumsy
presses. often interined by their old-fash-
Toned handwriting. IL in any place, here can
the relic lover. the antiquarian. delighting to
live In former days. md place where he
will not be lost in the rush and madness of
modern life.
Among the many old books in the library
are representatives OF almost every reign
since 1.-THE spacious times OF great Eliza
beth" Some OF these old volumes that have
len thumbed over for three hundred years