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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-22

Farmer Hop to New Hired Hand-ies,
T. look at this barren stretch uf land you'd
scarcely believe II. But two years ago when
I first became head farmer here this was
one uf the most fertile pieces uf land fur
miles round. Crops was so durn thick tibet
II y ever got OF tn main PARKWAY lesdin
from tn forehead cliff over yonder. chances
are you wouldn't find yer way out asain
Then came tibet awful hot spell durn' tn
typhoid pest an everything shrivelled up
en- died 'ceptin' this one shrub. It's only
with hair tonic fertilizer tibet manage Z
keep tibet alive.
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FUN or THE COLLEGE BOYS.
Revised version.
f1rcumafances Aitrr Ca,es.

It's a wise railroad that knows Its own par
--HdrrdYd Ldnipoon.
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Information wanted.

Cardiac Tfnk ertng.
Clipped and broken engagements mended.
Made better than new. Terms personal
prides per engagement Address: Daniel
Cupid Lovers Lane Utopia.
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There's No Accounting for Things.

The Rev Mr.. Boarden. soliloauiying-
There are many things beyond the compre-
henslon Of the mortal mind. Why should
the great physical strength which 80 III be-
comes our butter be denied this coffee, which
90 sorely suffers from the lack OF II?
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Broakiey-By the way. old man, could you
let me have another fve-spot for couple OF
days'
Moakiey-You haven't got the change Of q
subject about you. have your
what He Got for His Monkey Business.
IT'S a sad tale which am about to unfold
chartered the monkey as he endeavored to
straighten the kinks out Of his posteror
appenda age after a painful attempt to swing
by Il from live trolley wire.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-22

She Mamma has been married three
times since papa died. You know
He-Oh see Then her present husband
Is only your step-father two flights up. as II
we're
The sun., 1903-05-30
Obituary Notes.

Capt. William II. Woodin, prominent
terd1v morning, Cant, Woodin was born
in Pine Plains on. June lG 1870. He was
graduated from Trinity College, Hartford.
In 1858. In 1862 he enlisted in the ljoth Regi-
u,ent, y. \. s. V. and as Captain Of Com
pany ID served to tho close of the civil war
He had filled the offices of Assessor Of Internal
Revenue. District Attorney for Dutchoss
county and Corporation Counsel for PouGh-
keepsie.
Mrs Mabel l.. O'Donohue. II years old
the wife of Joseph j. O'DOnohue. son of the
late John O'Donohue, the coffee importer
and a nephew and naInesake OF former City
Chamberlain Joseph. J. o'Donohue. of New
York. is dead in the home OF DR.. l., W, Sage
man OF Mount Vernon. She was daughter
Of Edward Pitts, a New York merchant, and
to natural causes Tho funeral Ia to be held
Barker P. Clark, a retired wholesale straw
merchant died In his cighty-siXth year on
THURSDAY, at his home. "a M Fast Forty -foul tn
and came to this city in is4o. becoming the
senior member of the straw nrm of Cla, K
Brothers. He retired from nctivc work in
1852. For several years he was n resident Of
Morristown. n. J. He leaves two sons and
two daughters.
Mrs. Sarah f. Fnirman. who had been prond-
nent in many womens clubs died yesterd v
at her home, 20l West Eighty-third street
Among the societies in which she took spe ciai
interest were the Daughters Of the American
Revolution, the Society I Political Study.
the New ENGLAND Women's Society and the
Martha WASHINGTON Monument Association
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(ONlII'TERS GRATEFUL.
Wake Presents to the Engineer and Con.
ductOr Of Their Train.

MoRRrsrowN, n. j.. May 29.At the
Morristown clubhouse late this afternoon,
the conductor. David Snnderson, ard the
engineer Benjamin Day, of the Norris
town express which leaves here at SOP
in the morning and returns at 5o2 in the
afternoon. each received gold watch
and chain. and purse of SIS for
his wife, presented by the commute
e-s of this city who journey to New
York every day on their train. When
the train arrived here. tonight. San
derson and Day were invited to the club
house. r. A. McCurdy, president of
the Mutual Life Insurance Company,
had been chosen chairman of the COM
mittee and A. H. Tiers was secretary, Mr.
McCurdy presented the watches and purses
to the two railroad nen He said that in
asrnuch as the men had operated the train
for over twenty years without ncciden, it
was felt that Il token Of regard and esteem
for such services should be given them.
AS evidence Of this" said MIR McCmrdy,
there are present Presiden, William H.
Truesdale of the Laokawsnna and one of the
directors. h. Nick. Twombly.'
President Tr,lesdale also spoke.
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TIGHE HELPS A STARVING MAN.
The Police Captain Rewarded by Letter
Of Overlooking Thanks.

A young German Of military appearance.
who said he was A. Theiheimer, and
had no home, was found apparently
almost overcome by hunger, at Fifth
avenue and Forty-fifth street, early yes
terday morning. At the East Fifty-tirst
street station Capt. Tighe offered him some
money, so that he could get something to
eat.
At first the young foreigner refused to
take it. Finally, he consented to borrow
It, and left. Capt. Tighe said he was sure
the man was strictly honest. Last night
the Captain got from the man this letter,
written at the Mills Hotel in Bleecker street.
the writer adding that hereafter he can be
found at 1921 East Seventy second street:
The first thing this morning Ia for me to
express my heartfelt thanks to you for the
great kindness which you have shown to
mo, and which | never shall forget. | wish
that the Almighty may give you a long and
happy life for the loving kindness you have
shown to a poor foreigner. | don't think
to start for work in any saloon again, II | can
get any other work
| speak French and German nuently. and
OF anything, don't forget me.
] am sir. your cbedient servant
a. TUEILHE1NEE.
Capt. Tighe already has a job for the
military young man,
The sun., 1903-05-30
PRESIDENT VISITS UTAH.
Greeted With Equal Enthusiasm by Nor.
mons and GeRtiles.

EVANSTON, Wyo., May 2s.-The President
to-day made visits to Salt Lake City and
Ogden, as we'll as to smaller cities of Utah
and Wyoming He was received with
ceremony and loud enthusiasm by the Cen
tiles and Mormons of Salt Lake City. There
was no one of prominence on either side Of
the religious line in the State who did not
appear to do honor to Mr.. Roosevelt.
He lunched with Senator-elect and Apos-
tie Reed Smoot. Senator kearns. Joseph H.
Smith, Richard kerens of Missouri, Presi-
dent Smith of the Mormon Church, Perry
s. Heath and others were among those
present.
Salt Lake City had much to do with irriga
tion and the agricultural possibilities Of
the State Secretary Moody made short
speech at Salt Lake, in which he promised
TO do everything in his power to name a
battleship Utah. if the Congress and Sena-
through as liberal naval appropriations
next year as had been pushed through at
the last session of Congress.
Secretary Wilson o the Agricultural
Department, who joined the President at
Salt Lake City, made speech in which he
h N no opportunity to make an agricul-
tural speech because had exhausted the
subject
The speech OF the President at Echo.
Utah. was typical in brief of his speeches
in the State. 1t was as follows:
1T is very great pleasure TO meet all
of you to-day and as ! am going homo to
my own family / want to pay special word
of greeting to the men and women who
came here with their ba bies in their arms.
I have enjoyed to the full my trip through
Utah to-day. am struck whenever
come into your State with your prosperity
and with the evidence that has been won
primarily because Of The character of your
men and women tApplause,
Utah was not country to which people
afraid of work would ever have come, You
did not come here to take possession Of
rich, well-watered valley bottoms where
the hand of man has bu, little TO do. The
prosperity you have had has been won by
the men and women who did the work,
because you applied thrift intelligence and
water to the soil, all three qualities.
"Water would not have amounted to any
thing without the thrift and intelligence.
Because you did that you have made of this
State what it is and put it upon footing Of
stable and assured prosperity. I con-
gratulate you upon the State, but con-
gratulate you most upon yourselves
Cheers and applause
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DEAD BEFORE HIS LETTER CAME.
Short Took CarbOiic Acid After waiting
for II All the Morning.

James Short. an automobile driver, who
for seven months had lived in furnished
room at 224 West Forty-fourth street, took
carboic acid there yesterday afternoon, after
he had waited all the morning for a letter
After the second mail came he walked
out into the hall and told Mrs. Elizabeth
Conde a boarder. that he had taken some
carbolc acid by mistake. He then staggered
Ten minutes after he had died this letter.
addressed to him, was received at the
house:
news Of raportancs 1po on " / didn't get any
letters lately "a slsa'. Of. just one from
nGTner tuesday N'I' wa Was IN Nev York with Mrs,
Mccarthy from l.ingo went to church
last night with Nnry, Dear boy. ! am com
ing t oyer roe n.tum m ,he ts "s he 'sGT ~ant. WIZ
to do anything and won't. lie says Il II tell
Jack and calls ne Il bad ,'irl' I his is all
!lopinr you are better, YOURS Wy, love-.
In his pocket was found an envelope
stamped and addressed to Mrs. Jennie
Rgney, 1873 Seventh street. Jersey City,
care of Mrs. p. Dooley 1t contained this
letter:
My DEAREST Girl: An can say ia fond
Be good ggirl, and ,.; God b,.S.y9 bless you
P.S.-Kiss Walter and Jack for me.
Mrs. Dooley keeps boarding house at
the Jersey City address, and Mrs Rigney,
who says she is merely a friend of Short,
lives there. Mrs. Dooley said last night
that she didn't know anything about the
case, Mrs. Rgney left the house at 8
and had not returned at O'Clock this morn
The sun., 1903-05-30
y. n. WEsTCOTT SMITH DIIORCED.
Mrs. Smith Sued on tine Ground OF Non.
support and DetprtiOn.

Through an advertisement in Brooklyn
paper it became known yesterday to the
friends Of Mrs Edna Irene Smith that she
had obtained all absolute divorce from
j. R. Westcott Smith in Newport, r. l., on
Monday Smith was n member of the
Twenty-thrd Regiment. in Brooklyn when
he first met her at euchre party in the early
part of 1894. Mrs Smith. whose maiden
name was Hand. is the stepdaughter Of
was on a visit to relntives in Brooklyn
from boarding school when she became
acquainted with the militiaman. After a
brief courtship the marriage took place in
Newport.
The couple went to Brooklyn to live.
when. after disagreement, they separated
Mrs. Smith going back to Newport, taking
along her only child. boy. Some time
ago she sued for divorce in Rhode Island
on the ground OF on-support and desertion
The sun., 1903-05-30
BRUCE PRICE DIES IN PARIS.
New York Architect Had Long Suffered
With 81 Omach Trouble.

Cable dispatches from Paris yesterday
brought word Of the death there of Bruce
Price. the New York architect.
Mr.. Price went aboard with his wife in
the middle OF April, their daughter, Mrs.
Edwin NJ Post, having preceded them.
Both wife and daughter were with him
when he died. 1t is expected that the body
will be brought home.
Mr.. Price had undergone serious opera
ton in this city three weeks before ho sale 4
difficulty and was performed by DR.. Charles
McBurney. The patient did 30 well i'm
mediately after 1t that he seemed to be in
good condition when he departed on the
ocean voyage. He continued to improve
for short time on the other side. but then
came reports of renewed trouble, ard a
letter dated May II said that he was failing
rapidly.
Besides his wife, who was Miss Josephine
Lee Of Wilkes Barre, and their daughter.
Mr. Price leaves two sisters. Miss Eliza
Staten Island, and Miss Harriet Price OF
Colorado Springs. and brother, Benjamin
Price Of this city, a lawyer.
MIR. Price was associated in business
here with j. Fl, de Sibour. under the firm
name of Bruce Price & Sibour, with Offices
in the st. James building, at Twenty sixth
street and Broadway.
Mr.. Price was born in Cumberland, Md.
Dec. IL, ls45 He was the son Of william
Price, a lawyer. On his mothers side
he was descended from the Scottish Bruces,
who supported the Pretender and came to
this country in l7!5. just a century before
Mr.. Price was born. He studied with
Niernsee Nelson architects and engineers,
in Baltimore for four years and then trav-
oiled abroad.
He established himself in Baltimore on
his return moving thence to Wilkes-Barre
in 1873. coming TO New York in 1871
Here his first work TO attract notice was the
Long Beach Hotel, which at the time was
regarded as something notable in it's ac-
commodations for large numbers of summer
guests.
Among some of the best known Of Mr.
Prices works are the first two score or SO
Of buildings put up in Tuxedo Park, the
Gates OF Tuxedo the gateway erected
there of stone in its natural condition;
Montreal, the Chateau Frontenac at Quebec,
several Of the Yale University buildings.
Judge Horace Russcl's home at Southamp-
ton. Georgian Court, the home of George
Gould at Lakewood: the Hunt Memorial
in the Fifth avenue wall of Central Park.
Building, the Century Building in lower
Broadway, the International Bank building,
at Cedar street and Broadway, and the Bank
of the Metropolis .Iu.!ting
Mr.. Price was at one time presiden of the
Architectural League and of the Municipal
Art Society. He continued to be a member
Of both those societies. and also belonged to
the Union, Tuxedo, Players Century, Calu.,
met and Lambs clubs, among others. and
to the American Institute of Architects,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the South
ern Society, st. Andrews Golf Cub, Tux
edo Golf Club, the Metropolitan Club Of
Washington, the Ocean County Hunt and
Country Club. the National Sculpture So
cie,y and the St. James Club of Montreal.
The sun., 1903-05-30
BELMONT DISPUTES ARREST.
Part OF Jericho Pike, Where Chauffeur Was
Caught, May he Private Road.

MINEoLA, L. l., May 29.-Charles Partels.
chauffeur for August Belmont, was arraigned
for trial to-day before Justice Oakley
on a charge OF having violated the auto
mobile speed law He was arrested on
the Jericho road on May Is, Mr. Belmont
and friend being in the auto at the time.
At a previous hearing Partels asked for a
Jury trial, and a jury Of six men was chosen
to-day, but no testimony was taken, the
trial being postponed until June 10.
There ia dispute az to whether the
part OF the road where the arrest was
made is a public highway, About ten
years ago the land was sold by the Jericho
Turnpike Company to the Queens county
Board Of Supervisors, but no record Of the
transfer can be found. The adjournment
was taken to-day to afford more time to
search for the record
The sun., 1903-05-30
MINISTER'S MOTHER A SUICIDE.
Mrs. Ruth d. Harrison Killed Herself in
New Haven.

New HAVEN. Conn. May 20 The woman
found dcad at the foot OF Mount Carmel
last night was identified to-day as Mrs.
Ruth B. Harrison. She was the mother Of
the Rev. Fosdick B. Harrison. pastor OF
church in Palmer, Mass, and formerly
assistant pastor OF the largest Congrega
tional church in this city. She was 80
years old.
Seven years ago her husband died, and
she had mourned for him every since. She
left her boarding house on Tuesday last,
and when asked to do an errand for friend
as she was leaving tho house she said she
would be glad to, but continued, laugh
ingly, Il don't know when shall return"
She went directly to a nearby drug store
and. after eating some Ice cream, bought
two ounce bottles Of chloroform and.
leaving the drug store, took a car for the
place where her body was found.
1t was learned tonight that she drank
part Of the chloroform and saturated her
handkerchief with the rest and placed it
over her face.
The sun., 1903-05-30
MEMORIAL DAY IN NEW YORK.
Unvoiling Of the Sherman Statue-Other
Dedications and Parades.


The feature Of tho Decoration Day cele-
bration in New York will be the unveiling
Of the heroic equestrian statue Of Gen
William Tecumseh Sherman at Fifth avenue
and Sixtieth street at 1890 o'clock this
morning
The statue is presented to the city by the
Chamber of Commerce and is the work OF
Augustus st -Gaudens. It was exhibited
in plaster at the Paris Salon OF the Champs
de Mars in 1890 and WAS put In place OF
honor. reproduction In staff brought a
special medal to the sculptor at the Pan
American Exposition.
Secretary OF War Root will deliver the
Grafton and ex-Secretary Cornelius N. Bliss
will preside. Archbishop Farley will offer
prayer. Mr.. Bliss will tender the statue
to Mayor Low. who will accept 1t for the
city and will turn IT over to Park Commits
sioner w. r. Wilcox. Bishop Potter will
pronounce the benediction.
The reviewing sta nd will be near the statue.
Major Gen. Charles +, Roe will command
the. National Guard troops Of Manhatten
will form in Washington Square at $50
O'Clock and will march up Fifth avenue;
mn rshal. The line will be headed by four
companies Of the FL ghth Infantry Regulars
and four companies of Coast ARTILLERY
in Manhattan, except I, he Eighth and the
Second Battery. will he in line. The latter
organizations will act IA escort to the
G. A. r. parade In The Bronx The Loyal
Legion and Grand Army veterans will
also he in line
Squadron A will act as escort to Major
Gen. Roe and the Old Guard will escort
Gov. Odell, who is to review the parade.
In Brooklyn, sailors and marines from
the navy yard. the Second Brigade of the
National Guard and the Naval Militia will
parade as ercort to the q, A. r. -
John A. Dix Post. No. l35, G, 4. r.. will
have it's annual excursion up tn, North
River, leaving Pier 40 at 4? 20 o'clock, The
post will return to Trinity Cemetery in time
for exercises at the grave OF Gen. DIX at
? o'clock. Borough President Cantor Will
deliver the Grafton.
The Washington Continental Guard will
raise flag at Mount Victory in Cypress
Hills Cemetery in the afternoon and he
Hebrew Union Veterans Association will
hold memorial services i. Temple Emanu-E.'
in the evening, Addresses will be made
Levy and Rabbi Joseph Silverman.
The DR.. McGlynn Monument Association
will decorate the grave Of DR.. McGlynn' IN
alvary Cemetery. in the afternoon and
uCUIl J. MURPHY VIII NtllN'I u Coiihii
ratve address. The Gamma Gael will
unveil a monument to John King in Passaic
No end Of athletic games and contests
are scheduled. among them the games OF
the Lincoln Republican Club of the Fifth
Assembly district at Witzals Grove, Col
lege Point. The patients in the State
ht spals on Wards Island will have athletic
games.
Nearly all the railroads and steamship
lines have arranged excursions at low
rates.
The sun., 1903-05-30
"PHJI." REILLY DEAD.
Noted Detective VINO Drew the Wall street
Dead Line.

Philip Reilly, a detective sergeant, who
was one of Byrnes's best sleuths, died yes
terday at his home, 2ls West Twenty
second street He was retired from the
force in June, 1899. 1t was said Of Phil
Reilly that his work on a number of cases
which took him to all parts Of the world.
helped make Byrness reputation.
1t was he who was sent TO Valparaiso,
Chilli, in 1873. TO bring back William A.
Bushne Il. bookkeeper for Butler, Stilmun
& Hubbard. lawyers, at III Broadway,
who stole bonds worth $4,000 and hypothe-
Gated them for $500.
Reilly started back on the steamship
Imperial with Bushnell. who had made
many friends in South America. AT many
ports Bushnelfs friends greeted him and
at one place the Governor of a province
called on him. Bushnell had got the free
dom of the ship from the captain. At
one port his friends had rowboat ready
and he escaped while Reilly was being
entertained in the cabin. He was never
recaptured
Sewell for burglary, and they got twenty
years each, Other important captures
were the arrests of Howard Rulcff, for
murder; Robert Murray, alias Bob the
Milkman.- for burglary; Rat" Reilly for
burglary. and William veltman and "; n.
change Bank. Reilly also caught Peter
Mccormack, who robbed the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company and fed to Eng
land.
Relly's first work on the force was in
the 8O's when he was sent al his own request
into -Corcoran's Roost' and Bottle Row"
He is said to be the only policeman who.
single handed, arrested a Corcoran and
got him to a cell. He was complimented
by the Police Board for his work in the
"Roos,, and in 1871 was put in the Detective
Bureau.
He ia credited with being the man who
organized New Yorks famous dead line
for crooks, Fulton street. to protect the
financial district.
He feaves a daughter and three sons
The sun., 1903-05-30
TO RALLY THE POPULISTS.
Ex.Gov. Poynter Of Nebraska Opposes
| Further Fusion With the Democrats.

LINCOLN. Neb, May 2s.-Ex-G Poyn-
ter, the Populist leader. in an interview to-
day, says that there will be no more fusion,
State or national, with the Democrats.
The Democratic party he says, does
not possess the power to meet the great
questions Of the day. The indications are
that Bryan and his reform ideas will be
overthrown AND Clevclandism reinstated.
with such Democracy the Populist party
can have neither sympathy nor fellow
ship. Whatever disintegration has taken
place in our ranks has been caused by our
union with the Democratic party Inde-
pendent action will in n large measure
recover these scattered forces. More peo-
pie than ever before believe in Populist
principles. To gather them under one
banner is our task"
The sun., 1903-05-30
DOUBLE SUICIDE IN SCRANTON.
Lovers whose Marriage Was Opposed Kin
Themselves.

SCRANTON. Pa. May 2aMary Mean
drews, ls years old. and John Cavanaugh.
a few years her senior. committed suicide
in different por,s Of this city yesterday.
They had been swecthearts for more than
a year, and the opposition Of the girls
parents had stood Ia the way Of their mar
RAG.
The McAndre VS. girl was found dead
AZ her home yesterday afternoon, having
swallowed carbolic acid, and a note which
she left led TO the finding of TIM. body of
young Cavanaugh in the woods near the
foot OF West Mountain to-day, His death
was caused by laudanum poisoning
The sun., 1903-05-30
Tho weather,

The pressure continued high over the Lake regions
and Atlantic States and the weather was generally
fair yesterday. The low pressure west OF the Mis-
s'sSippi drawn to n focus, with centre over
kansr. where e1teuSivel. heavy rain fell. At
Concord!a. nearly 4 inches fell In twenty four
hours. There were ligh,cr r;i1s In the surround-
Ing districts, with thundcrstorns IN Oklahoma.
Mississippi. southern Illinois and Sout. Dakota.
The pressure was high. with fair weather In all
the Rocky Mountain States. The temperature
was lower In the Lake regions and New England.
elsewhere there were slight changeL In this city
the day was fair. with but slight caanse OF tenn
perature; average humidity 20 per cent barometer.
corrected 10 read TO sea level, at n. NJ Sols 3P.
NJ pi<
The temperature yesterday as recorded NJ the
nH her la HAM In 1elA
The sun., 1903-05-30
Little BIsze Near the Waldorf.

Sparks from the dynamo in 'ae four
story studio building at ls West Thirty
third street set fire TO the insulation on the
electric light wires in the cellar last night.
The building is directly across tho way
from one OF the Waldorf-Astoria private
entrances, and many patrons of the hotel
watched from their windows the arrival of
the fremen. The damage was insignificant.
The sun., 1903-05-30
CANAL pRONu'NCIAMENTO soon.
And Lots OF Literature 10 Work Folks IN
to Voting Away SIOl 900. 600.

wage the campaign for the $lol 900, 900
canal expenditure met In the Produce Ex-
change yesterday afternoon. Those pre-
sent were Gustav H. Schwab Of New York,
Robert r. Hefrord and John W Fisher of
Buffalo. Frank s. Witherbee Frank Brain
erd and II. B. Hebert They discussed an
address to the public soon to be issued in
reply to the proc clatnation Of the anti-canal
Senators issued last week. This address
will be put out In a week or so.
In the middle Of June the canal advocates
will undertake an active campaign, sending
speakers through the State and going after
the voter through the mail with lots OF
literature calculated to show the dark days
that are in store for New York State II the
canal isn't enlarged