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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27

cult breaker, the motor rms normally.
The time necessary for starting is
about Il minute.
The bobbins on which are wound the
conductors can receive CSC feet of in
sulated wire; if to this is added the
656 feet of hose on the reel and the
lis feet to which the water can be
thrown, it is seen that distance of
1,427 feet can be covered The dis
tance that the water can be thrown,
nearly lis feet, is accomplished with
an orifice of or inch and volume Of
90 gallons a minute.
The whole machine can be placed on
ahandcart, or little two-wheeled wag.
on drawn by one horse. Its total
weight, with accessories and two men
on the seat, is about 2,292.7S pounds.
The motor and pump are not longer
than 80 inches, and about 10 inches
wide and onc-half the height.
Behind the machine is reel capable
of holding 9S4.25 feet of hose, two
lances, ladder with hooks, an AK, a
hydrant key, a nozzle, etc. The weight
of this reel, equipped, is 727 pounds.
The idea of this pump, which is the
only one of its kind in France, if not
in the world, was suggested by NJ. Rob
ert Lefebvre, the captain of the Rouen
firecompany, by conversation he had
last year with German engineer at
the Berlin Fire Distinguishing eNposi-
ton. The latter had conceived the idea
of an electric pump for cleaning the
walls of buildings, etc. If sand thrown
by an electric pump could clean build
ings, why could not water thrown in
the same manner eXtinguish fire? In
the solution of this question, the elec-
trio fire pump was born.
THORNWELL HAYNES.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27
INSURANCE FRAUDS.
An Old italian Explains How tho
scheme was Worked in New SoIh.

Pittsburg, March 24.-Casimir Gle
cone, the aged Italian who was tr-
rested Sunday as one of the princi-
pals in the New York City insurance
frauds, is dying and may expire be-
fore the New York attorneys repre-
'senting the insurance companies can
reach here to take his deposition.
Yesterday he blamed his son for get
ting him into the trouble and told
how the frntd-scheme was worked.
He said he was the keeper of a
fruit stand in New York several
years ago, when he was approached
by an Italian named Joe Ross, who
wanted him td have his life insured,
promising to net all expenses. Cic-
cone signed the application and
says he thought no more of the mat
ter 'until the detectives came and
told me my son had said ! was dead
and buried. The money l received
for signing the paper would not pay
for bunch Of bananas. l am told
my son collected the money on my
policy.
"The manner i'm which the insurance
frauds are worked in New York,
am told is foi policy to be taken
out on the life of an old man and
then body is obtained from the
morgue which is buried in the name
of the live man
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27

made by Mayor Van Wyck commission
er of police. 1t was under him, flesh
lessskeletop of man supposed to issue
orders from his Office, that the big.
virile, foul-mouthed, corrupt, shrewd
Devery ruled the police of New York
for its shame.
Murphy was famous. The Sun said
OF him, dead, that "few Irishmen had
been more unremitting in their en-
deavors to bring disgrace upon their
country and their fellow countrymen."
Murphy was under Indictment for n
larceny when the civil war broke out.
He enlisted, which was enough in those
days to put the Indictment to sleep. He
was dishonorably dismissed from the
army, the finding being approved by
Lincoln, Grant, Meade and Stanton.
Yet for almost 80 years he was an office
holder in this city, where the worst
was known of him-assemblyman, state
senator, president of the board of
health, and as such conspicuous in
'hold-ups" of moneyed corporations,
and finally police commissioner and
endorser of the mighty and piquant
deviltry of Devery.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27
THE euRDIoK MURDER.
Tho widow of the Dead Man on TN,
Witncss stand.

Buffalo, N. Y, March 24.-Mrs,
Alice Hull Burdick, widow of Edwin
L. Burdick, underwent a merciless
examination by District Attorney
Coatsworth yesterday at the resump-
tion of the inquest into the death OF
her husband who was murdered on
February 20. Mrs. Burdick was on
the stand when court adjourned un-
til to-day. She then will be recalled
to complete her testimony.
With a package of letters in his
hands, some of which were written
to Mrs. Burdick by Arthur II. PEN
nell, correspondent in the divorce
proceedings instituted by Mr.. Bur-
dick, and other communications be-
tween Mr.. Burdick and his wife, Mr..
Coatsworth forced Mrs. Burdick to
tell the story of her relations with
Pennell from the time he first made
love to her in New Haven, in 1898,
until 1901, when these relations were
renewed after Burdick had forgiven
his wife and had taken her back to
his home for the sake of their chill
dren.
Mrs. Burdick testified that she
would be AZ years of age on April 30.
She was married to Burdick in 1886.
They had three children. She met
Pennell at a card party five or six
years ago at which Mr.. Burdick was
present. She went to New Haven
and New York with the Pencils in
1898. Mr.. Burdick did not go, being
detained by business. No mutual
friendship sprang up between her
and Pennell. Witness could not re-
call letter from Pennell written
in New Haven in 1900 in which he
said: yesterday l was at the gate
way on the campus grounds where
more than two years ago j drew you
in in the darkness. This place is en-
shrined to me-"
The district attorney produced the
letter and handed it to the witness,
who trembled violently.
"Do you recognize it as Pennelrs
handwriting
"Yes," whispered Mrs. Burdick.
Mrs. Burdicll in recalling the Incl.
! dent confessed that Pennell went
| into a doorway, drew her in, took her
, in his arms and kissed her. She
! thought she demonstrated. She did
| not remember that Pennell was al
Shelter Island in September, 1900
nor letter from him in which he
wrote that he had found her gloves
! in the pocket of his tuxedo. The
letter was handed her. She read il
and did not appear to enjoy its con
tents. 1t was written by Pennell
she said, but she did not remember
having seen it before.
Mrs. Burdick was shown another
! letter from Shelter Island, writer
in September, 1900, and it was iden
| titled by her.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27

mission liberated 5000 black bass
there was howl from hundreds who
feared that the bass would destroy
the young shad. But the commission
ers have demonstrated that the bass
has no special appetite for shad. On
the contrary, the bass prefers several
other kinds of young fish, and the
liberation of the bass has proved to be
highly beneficial in the lakes and ponds
where distributed.
1t is surprising how few people
know the names Of the various fish
foods. The federal fish commission
is doing good educational work in
teaching people the names of fishes;
task which has been found to be ex-
ceedingly difficult. Different names
are often given to the same fish, in
different localities. For example,
take the catfish family, or filuridae.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27
soufrlerein Eruption.

Kingstown, St.Nincent, March "a, +
Soufriere volcano is now again n
violent eruptioni throwing a black
cloud over the intire colony. Tie
country people are terrified. Tie
lands beyond Georgetown and Cha
teau Belair, wheR the erosion of tlIe
former deposits las been rapid sinte
last October, areagain oyerwhelme1, \,
causing serious hndrance to, If ndt
the complete abaI aIdonment of, future
cultivation. At Georgetown Windows
were broken by falling stones and
the streets are Socered with three
or four inches ofsand.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27
rs ARTISTS MODELS
Mr.. Ben Austrian Makes Spe-
cialty of Painting Hens.
They Pose for Him QUite Naturally
and He Gets Wonderful Results
The Chicks and Mothers
Are His Pets.

Every painter makes a speciality of
some subject or other. There are
painters of the sea, the country, the
town, of portraits, history, modern
life, dogs, cats, horses and goodness
only knows what else. But while each
of these subjects has { crowd of devot-
ed brethren of the brush to portray it,
there is only one painter of hens, and
nothing, or almost nothing, but hens
"a young American, Mr.. Ben Austrian.
No painter of animals can ever hope
really to succeed unless he loves, stu
dies and understands the animal he
sets out to paint. And Mr.. Austrian's
success is due largely to the fact, not
only that he loves and understands
hens and chickens, but that he has
studied them so closely as to have been
able to train them to pose for his pic
lures.
You think the hen an unintelligent
animal? Well, frankly, so did l until
l met Mr.. Austrian and heard all about
his wonderful feathered models. There
is hardly anything he cannot make
them do.
Mr.. Austrian loved hens long before
he thought of becoming their painter
in chief. When still boy he used to
spend his holidays on farm in the
country. 1t was there that he first be-
gan studying his future models. He
, used to spend whole afternoons watch
ing the fowls as they went about their
business, and one proud mother with
large brood of chickens attracted his
special interest.
| In later years, when he decided on
taking up painting as profession, he
found that it was absolutely necessary
to get hens to pose for him if his pic
lures were to attain the life-like per-
fection he aimed at.
! A painter who had not studied fowls
from his childhood upward would
never have attempted so seemingly
hopeless task. Mr.. Austrian saw his
way clearly, and set about it at once.
He took the chicks immediately after
they had broken their shells and taken
their first peep at the world, isolated
them, and started accustoming them
to himself. No hand but his might
feed them, and his voice was the only
voice they heard. They were made
thoroughly familiar with the studio,
being allowed to run about as much
as they pleased.
In no time they became very tame,
and followed the painter wherever he
went. He would cuddle them in his
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27
KILLEDWITHANAX
A Frenzied Mother Murders
Her Four Children.
After Throwing All tho Dead Bodies
Into a Closet, tho Woman Set
Fire to the House and
Then Cut Her own
Throat.

Sturbridge, Mass, March 24.-A
frenzied mother in the little hamlet
OF Fiskdale, after cutting off every
means of escape by fastening win
dows and doors, crushed in the heads
of her four little children yesterday,
threw their bodies into closet,
scattered oil over them and herself
and then, after setting all on fire,
closed her awful work and her own
life by cutting her throat.
1t was Mrs. Peter Burke, the wife
of machinist in an auger factory,
who committed the fearful deed, and
her victims were Lillia, six years;
William, five years; Louise ~ years
and May Rose, five months old re-
spectively.
That the woman had previously
showed signs of mental arrangement
seems to be admitted, but that it
should have taken such a violent
form was not even thought of by her
husband or her own relatives. The
family lived in Fiskdale about a
year and half, coming there from
Worcester.
But for the accidental discovery
of the fire, the deed of the mother
might have been hidden forever from
the world by the destruction of the
house. Two boys happened to be
passing the house when they saw
smoke coming from window. They
burst in the doors, and tried first to
put the fire out with buckets of wa
ter, but it gained on them so fast
that they were obliged to run for
help. The neighbors prevented the
flames from reaching above the first
floor. Up to that time no one knew
of the tragedy.
But some one noticed that closet
door which seemed to be more
charred than the rest of the wood
work was open and, glancing inside,
a blackened mas was seen. In this
heap were the bodies of Mrs. Burke
and her four children. The fact that
she killed them was not disclosed un-
til they were taken out and then it
was seen that every one of the little
ones had its head split open, while
the cause of the mothers death was
seen in the gaping wound in her
throat.
The fire had so completely charred
the woodwork and the flooring that
no blood spots could be found, The
bodies of three of the children were
burned almost beyond recognition
but that of Louise was only scorched
! The body OF Mrs. Burke was also
badly burned, but that did not hide
the wound in her throat.
AS soon as the fire was discovered
! in his house, Mr.. Burke was notified
and arrived 1ust as the bodies were
found. He tainted from the shock,
Mrs. Burke was "a years old. The
family friends say the union has al
ways been happy one.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27

blouse if he thought they looked chilly,
and after time almost carry on con-
versations with them-for Mr.. Aus
trian is an adept at talking the lam
guage of the mother hen. The chicks
may be grubbing about the parapher-
MALTA at the further corner of the stu
dio; Mr.. Austrian sits down and imi-
tates the cackle of the hen when she
wishes to call her brood about her.
Without moments hesitation the
chicks obey the summons; they scam
per up to him full tilt, fly on to his
easel, his lap, his shoulder, his head.
The three most successful models
Mr.. Austrian has ever had are Julia"
a Brahma; Pauline" a Plymouth
Rock, and "My Coal Black Lady"
black Wyandotte. Each of these hens
has been reared by Mr.. Austrian from
infancy upward, and it is difficult to
say which of the three is the most re-
markable, though from what / have
heard l would give the palm to Julia.
AT any rate, she seems to be her mas
ter's favorite; he talks about her with
singular affection, and tells you fund
of anecdotes illustrating her quaint
characteristics.
Mr.. Austrian can get his hens to as
sumo almost any position so long as it
is natural, and get them to remain in it
for some little while. For instance, if
he wants a hen to stand on one leg
with the other poised as though she
were stepping forward, lie has only to
fix her in this position and she will re-
main stock still while he makes rapid
sketch.
Little chickens are, naturally, much
more difficult to pose than their elders.
A favorite dodge of Mr.. Austrian is to
place them on little stand beside him
and throw lighted cigarette in front
of them. They Immediately huddle to-
gether and remain, staring in rather
frightened wonderment at the smoking
object, long enough to enable the artist
to get mental impression of their po-
Bition.
Sometimes" says Mr., Austrian, II
try another dodge. l put one of the
chicks into basket and give it few
swings in the air. When the chicken
is taken out and placed on the stand,
1t is for short while too giddy and
stupefied to move.
/ REGINALD MAINGAY.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27

The average stenographer in these
days might as well be a bookkeeper-
Loeb wasn't average; and he has had
luck. He soon became Bishop Doane's
secretary. When he was % he was
made official stenographer of the as
sembly; in session intervals he worked
as reporter for Albany papers.
1t was as reporter that Mr.. Roose-
velt first saw Loeb in the fall of 1898
during the campaign that made him
governor of New York. In Albany Mr..
Loeb became the governors secretary.
He continued in that capacity during
the presidential campaign. 1t was i'm
perative; the president is not rich
man, but the public interest in his ca
reer brought in such an extraordinary
amount of mail that the secretary was
an indispensable luxury"
Then came the shooting of Mr. Nc
Kinley and his death. The experience
of Mr.. Cortelyou, his ability and presH
ence of mind, were never better shown
than in that trying week in Buffalo.
The presidents secretary and Mr..
Root, secretary of war, together man
aged everything. 1t is now possible to
place Mr.. Cortelyou where his giftE
can be independently used. Mr.. Loeb
follows the line of promotion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27
READY TO STRIKE.
Manhattan 81" Employees Want n
Shorter Workday.

New York, March 24.--By n prac-
tically unanimous vote the newly or
ganized Manhattan elevated railway
employees last night refused to ac.
cept n proposition made ny the Off
cials of the road looking to 2 settle
ment of the grievances of the men.
The scale of the company IN which
the men voted is:
Motormen to remain at $3.50 per
day; conductors from $3.50 - S. 80
per day; turnstile men, S1.5O ~ So;
ticket choppers, or gate men, $1.25 to
Sl,4O per day for the first year and
S1.50 thereafter; telegraph operators
to remain at $2.25 per day; switch
men $40 to $2.2O per day; guards
$l.S5 per day. the same as now;
agents SO per day; tower switchmen
S2.47 per day.
The feeling against the proposed
schedule manifested itself from the
very first, because there was no pro-
vision for reduction of hours. One
OF the principal grievances of the
men is that their hours are altogeth-
er too long. They want nine-hour
day, or as near a nine-hour day as
the train runs wiz permit.
While not altogether satisfied with
the rate of wages paid, there is not
SO much feeling on that phase of the
question as about the hours. In one
case, however, the pay of guards, the
men demand 50 day, instead of the
$l.S5 proposed by the company.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27
AN ODD SEA ANEMONE.
Lives In the Sand of Long Islnn1
shores Instead of Among
the Rocks.

Most varities of sea anemones at
tach to rocks or spiles or other hard
substances, but there are some that
make their home in sand, in which
they can bury themselves completely.
or above the surface of which they
can as readily rise. Such sea ane-
mones are found at some places along
the Long Island shore of the sound,
saws the New York Sun.
Extended these sea anemones may
De seven or eight inches in length, or
more; collapsed they settle down so
that their tentacled upper disk is flush
with the surface of the sand or mud
in which they bury themselves, or it
may be drawn down little below it,
raking little depression, veritable
trap for any small creature that might
chance to wander that way.
Or for its own protection this sea
anemone can settle down into it's
hole further still, so that the sand will
tumble in or wash in over it.
Said fisherman who was telling
of this sea anemone's characteristics:
1T comes the nearest to being able
to crawl into its own hole and pull
the hole in after it of anything | know
Of"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27
ELECTRIC FIRE PUMP !
A French Genius Has Invented One
That Is Successful.
Is Doing Excellent Service There
How IL lis Operated.

The electric fire pump in use at Rou-
en-, France, is composed of centrifu-
gal pump and of an eight-horse power
motor, which gives normally 1000 rev
olutions per minute. a continuous cur
rent of 525 volts can be applied. This
motor is well covered, so as to prevent
all penetration of water. Above are
two bobbins: On one is wound the wire
upon which the current is received, the
extremity being exposed in such man
ner as to allow connection with hook
suspended from the tram or electric
light wire; on the other bobbin is
wound the return wire, the free end
being connected with cast iron block
to be fastened to one of the tramway
rails. There is beneath the covering
a compartment containing two circuit
breakers, circuit closer, and COM
mutator.
To start the apparatus, it is only
necessary, after connecting the two
wires to the line giving the energy,
to close the circuit and start it run
ming slowly with the rheostatic guide;
the guide being fastened to the cir
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27

doubt if there is any which has about
it so much of the old aspect, old names,
old surroundings.
The church stands at the head of a
lane that, presently Strengthening out
and becoming fine wide boulevard,
is known as Bushwick avenue. "Bos-
wyck" was one of the early Dutch set
Elements that fringed the nearer water
ways about Manhattan. 1t stood just
at the head of Boswick creek.
Here are the strange features: The
church building is fairly new-half a
century or so. In the yard, now used
as a Sunday school building is the
town hall or session house of the Bos-
wyclt settlement. 1t is of the same age
built in 1853 Town, church, farming
settlement, all started together.
About the church live more than a
dozen families that date back to its
foundation or very soon thereafter.
Less than mile away is the Suydam
house, SCARED by British soldiers dur
ing the revolution. 1t is, but short
time since Adrian NJ. Suydam died on
the land his forbears had owned for
seven generations, in the house they had
occupied for four. The Meekers, Cou-
enhovens, Van Dusens, Van Voorsts
still own their farms in the lowlands
leading down to the creek. Their long
rooted, low-browed houses line the way
at one point on Flushing avenue, itself
named for the Dutch Vlissingen.
1t is paradise of elderly people. Nc
centenarians, but the comfortably old
like Mrs. van Campen, s4; Miss Cecilia
/ Worden, 81, and her young sister 10
hanna, 76; Mrs. Banta, Sc; Mrs. val
Worst, 81; Mrs. van Dusen, s5. Thes,
and others almost as long in the lant
live amid the acres used by their an
cestors, in many cases under the SAM
roofs.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27

CATION and cultivation of all of the
forms of aquatic life which may now
be utilized for the food of human be-
ings. There will be a great increase
of the food supply, and there will also
be a great reduction in prices to con-
sumers. When each community can
have its own fish supply at its own
doors, there will be Il cheaper and bet
ter article than is now obtainable,
particularly by those who are obliged
to pay for transportation, ice, and
other expenses, as well as for the food
supply itself.
One of the best state commissions
is that of New York, which, in one
year, distributed throughout that
state upwards of 35,000,000 eggs and
fry, and this does not take into cal
culation the efforts of numerous pri-
vate persons who have cooperated
with the state commission, nor the la
Dor expended upon oyster culture in
the same state at the same time.
The fish commission of New Jersey
in one year stocked the Delaware river
with 10000 land-loclked salmon, and
liberated 1,G65,0O0 shad, hatched in
that river; also 100000 California salm-
on. 100000 brook trout and 100000
whitefsh. That is busy commission,
aud AL intelligent one. When the COM
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-03-27
ENJOINED STRIKERS.
A Pennsylvania Judge Issues an order
for Protection Of NOn-UniOn Mold

ers.
Lancaster, Pa, March 24.-Judge
lands yesterday filed permanent
injunction restraining the striking
iron molders from interfering with
the workmen of the Marietta Cast
ing Co., of Marietta. A strike oc-
Cured at the plant on May 90 last,
and the company applied for an in
junction to restrain the strikers
from picketing the place. Judge Ian.
dis in his opinion says:
"All members and officers of Lodge
No 800 of the Iron Molders' union,
and all theiT agents, servants and
employees, as well as all persons con-
spring and continuing with them,
and all other persons, whomsoever,
be hereby perpetually enjoined and
commanded absolutely to desist and
refrain from in any manner interfer-
ing with the employees of the plain
tiff, and with any person or persons
who may hereafter desire or offer to
enter its employ or to induce any
such persons to leave the employ
ment of the plaintiff, and also from
calling 'scab' or 'scabs,' or any other
opprobrous epithet to persons pass
ing along the streets and going to or
from the works of the plaintiff"