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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-24
SEVEN UNKNOWN DEAD
And One Identified Found in the
Wreck of Train That
Burned.
NO SCARCITY OF SIGNALS NOTED
But They Cause a Horror Because NoG
Observation-Disclosures Off
Fatal Disaster.

Jamestown, Y. Y, April 21.-Eight
persons are dead and ten injured, three
of them seriously, as the result Of a
collision between Il passenger train and
a freight train on the Erie railroad
near Red House, n. Y. OF the dead
only one, Robert n. HOtchkiss, Of
Meadville, brakeman, has been
identified. Seven bodies - apparently
those of three men, three women and
a child-Were burned beyond recogni-
ton in the fierce fire which followed
the wreck. The women are said to
have boarded the train at Youngstown,
and to have come from Pittsburg. r.
s. McCready, Il mail weigher of Mead
vile, Pa, and Frank Barhite, of
Jamestown, Il travelling salesman, are
missing, and It is likely that two of the
Unidentified bodies are those of the two
men.
Names of All the Injured.
The injured are: H. Pulsifer, New
York city, badly bruised; c. w. Me-
sick, 22S Adams street, Chicago, back
badly injured; Anna st. Sci, Brooklyn,
n. Y, shocked and very sick; III. e.
Cleminger, mail clerk, Gerry, n. Y,
ribs fractured and body bruised; John
DrougOuan, Duluth, bruised and badly
cut; Mrs. Fo0te, SO years old, st. Paul,
Mimi, bruised and shocked; S. A.
COOkell, negro porter New York city,
back and ribs injured; G. S. Johnson,
negro porter, SOmerville, n. j., leg
featured; III. c.. Gabler express mes
senger, Marion, O., leg cut off, proba-
bly, fatally injured; Il. II. Bell fireman,
head and back bruised. Mrs Foote,
Il. G. Gable" and Fireman Bell are
in the hospital at Salamanca. The
others were able to proceed to their
destination.
Fire Joins in the Havoc.
The wrecked passenger train was
known as No. f. running from Chicago
to New York, and was pulled by an en-
CINE in charge of Engineer Samuel
Cook and Fireman Fred Bell, of Mead
vile. 1t was derailed by striking a
freight Train WHICH was tdklUS Il SID
ing at Red House. The wreck at once
took fire, and the combination car, two
day coaches and two sleepers, together
with several freight cars, were con-
sumed.
AS to the Cause of the Wreck.
There is some dispute as to the cause
Of the wreck. Some trouble was eX-
perienced by the freight train in en-
tering the siding, and the engine Of
the freight was sent in along the sid
ing with a fagman, to hold the eX-
press. 1t is alleged that the operator
in the tower saw the engine of the
freight which was bringing up the flag,
and supposed the freight was on the
siding behind it. Vale then displayed
a white signal toward the passenger
train, indicating to the engineer that
he had clear track. Then came the
crash, the engineer on the passenger
train failing to see the fiagman sent
out from the freight train. and seeing
only the clearance signal from the
tower.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-02-22
Difference Between APPLES
IN CITY AND IN COUNTRY.

strange that we are connofsseurs in tea
and wine and pickles, and yet that apples
are merely apples. Warm and wilted and
polished, they stand in trays and rows on
the stands and we buy them. Probably
half the people in the big cities buy their
apples thus, one at a time, here and therel-
Ben Davis, Baldwin, Pennock, anything
that Is bright and handsome. a
sometimes think that city folk in fur
nace-heated houses can never know what a
really good apple is. no matter how good
the grocer and the caterer may be. 1t fs IN
the farm house with a real cellar-not .
basement with heater and laundry and ash
bins-that one gets apples. y
You sit in the wing beside q crackling
fireplace or a wood fire in a stove that Is
built for service rather than for ornament.
The cellar is under the upright" )
You go through the buttery, through the
cellar door. that has a catholic in the lower
front corner, and with lamp or lantern in
hand you go down the stairs into a subter-
ranean world. The snow Is scurryfne
around the house corners, but here is. =
dark and snug retreat, a retreat such a.
no city house can have. There is no smefl
Of ashes and soapsuds, only the cool. soft
odor of the moist ground and the boxes
and barrels of apples ~
From box to box you go-Northern Spies,
Tannan Sweets, Greetings. Roxbury Rus
sets. Seek-no- further, Ramhos Spitxen-
bughs, Snowapples, Nonesuch, Swaars, pasc-
haps belated Kings and Fall Pippins-evsn
Baldwins are not good enough for thiD
company-and you take your pick.-Couqp
try Life In America.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-02-22

gain the window, and opening, 1t get into
the house.
Long before the family have finished their
dinner the porch climber has moved swiftly
through all the upstairs rooms and helped
himself to everything to which he took q
fancy. AS it is easier climbing down q porch
than it is climbing up. the burglar has not
much trouble in getting away with hh
booty.
If the porch climber finds window lockeA
1t Is easy for him to lie fiat on the top of
the porch next the wall of the house. so
that in the darkness 1t is impossible for him
to be seen from the street. and then; put b
steel jimmy under the window and pry It
open.
The catches In the majority of cases ara
not strong. and when jimmy is rightly ap-
piled they either break or tear out of the
wood in few moments. 4
The only way to defeat the enterprisfnk
climber Is to make 1t rule never to leavo
open a window communicating with q porch
unless some member Of the household p
near by. s.
WINDOWS SHOULD BE PROVIDED
WITH UP-TO-DATE CATCHES.
Such windows. too, should have strong
catch and be otherwise safeguarded. so that
the porch climber cannot pry 1t open with q
Jimmy. ..
Windows opening on to back porches and
in other places where there is good place
for a burglar to stand while he is working
with jimmy should be well looked to and
have the strongest and most approved kind
Of catches
The lockmakers usually keep quite dig
tance In advance of the most up-to-date
burglar. and 1t is not hard nowadays to firtd
locks. catches and other appliances that II,
the city win battle the most sllillful CRACKS
man. because he has not time or opportunity
to use sterner methods than skeleton keys
or jmmies.
Still there is one thing that the burglar
can always count on. That is the Careless
ness of the householder himself his family.
or the servants.
The strongest locks have not a areat dsaI
or value unless the key is turned in them.
and window may. have dozen pateht
steel catches. but IL It happens to open On
to the top of a porch roof and is left open
curing the early part Of the evening tho
porch climber will not have much diffioultv
in getting in.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-02-22
BY HENRIETTA HUMMER

cult OF attainment, yet the answer is con-
Itained In the words of our text
Equality. We are given to understand is
! not the complicated matter We have for
merly supposed Ii to be. but simply
question OF building at the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition There must be a Mans
building and Woman's building, and then
1t will be all right.
Those of US who can recall the Worlds
Fair at Chicago know without needing to
be told what Woman's building is-a
building in which articles made entirely
by women and which cannot stand the ex-
treme white light of comparison with sim
liar articles made by men are set aside In
a dim religious twilight Of sentimental Sc
clusion to be compared only with one an
other 1t is a beautiful thought. and 1t must
be kept always In mind that 1t means
Equality. with capital E.
Why then could not similar asylum be
created for our discouraged brothers? Let
a beautiful building be erected. designed,
and constructed entirely by men. decorated
and furnished in manner foreign to the
taste of women and dedicated to the exhi-
bition Of articles that through all their
processes of construction have never been
touched by femme hand.
Here may the mans tailor display trous-
ers and coats designed and made by men
and for men. Their beauty will not suffer
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-02-22
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A7EsaGENzRAA tsi7s IN 7z,6hxWEN.1oA

tain the rights and privileges OF the people
Of the Netherlands. saying. after an elo-
Quent preamble:
Il esteem It a privilege to devote my
strength to the wealth and prosperity Of tho
Fatherland.
"The house of Orange can never do
enough for the Netherlands. I need your
support and know you will lend 1t to me
In order that We may work together for the
honor and prosperity of our people,
She spoke in loud, clear tones so that all
could hear, and took the oath to defend the
the liberty Of her people as a good Queen
should"
ANNUAL INCOME OF
$4,000 FOR EXPENSES.
Holland is a small country but its inhab-
itants are among the richest of Europe and
the Queen has a big income. The Govern
ment allows her s240,0O0 a year for expenses
and she has In addition $4,000 to keep I'D
her palaces.
She has also big fortune of her own,
much Of which was acquired by King Will
liam / in his vast enterprises to increase
the commerce of the Netherlands, and some
of which came from her uncle, Prince Henry
of Holland
Prince Henry died, leaving a will in which
he left his estates to his wife, but this will
disappeared. as the story goes and the
Queens father inherited the money, and so
1t came to her.
There is no doubt but that her Majesty
has enough money to give a good allowance
to her husband without feeling it. She pays
no house rent.
She has four or five palaces, one here at
The Hague. one in the woods near by and q
big one in Amsterdam.
None of them are magnificent as to outer
appearance. but they are all well furnished
and some are quite comfortable.
They are all old. however and fhe heatfpur
arrangements of some Of them would not be
tolerated in an ordinary American residence
/ saw a base burner in the palace at Amster-
dam, and this Notwithstanding the house is
es big as q dozen Pennsylvania bank barns
and almost as gloomy. 1t is situated in the
heart of the city. resting on foundation of
is.o0o piles.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-02-22

It was originally intended for a town hall,
and cost about two and one-half million
dollars. A little less than a hundred years
ago 1t was first used as a palace
It IL now inhabited by the Queen when she
comes to Amsterdam This Is not often.
however, for although Amsterdam is the
nominal capital. 1t is not the real capital Of
Holland.
The Congress sits at The Hague and all
the state ofiices are here. The Queen has
two palaces here. so that for all practical
purposes this Is the governing center.
These palaces are not uncomfortab I
recently went through the one in the heart
Of the city. 1t looks plain from the 'front.'
but 1t has q great number Of rooms. and
some Of the suites are very homelike. =
The palace is well furnished and it has
fine pictures and statues.
1t Is about 400 years old. but its arrange
ment. are more modern than those of the
Amsterdam palace.
SOCIAL AND OFFICIAL
CENTER IS THE HAGUE.
The Hague Is the favorits residence city
Of the Dutch.
Many Of the richest merchants and bank
ers of Rotterdam and Amsterdam have
homes here. and go daily to their places of
business by train.
The Hague 10 only a half hour from Rot
terdam and about an hour from Amsterdam.
and the railroad service is excellent.
The city has no manufactures to speak of,
and 1t is much like Washington-a resi-
dence, social and official center
It has been called the largest village of
Europe, but 1t is growing like a green bay
tree, and 1t Is now a city in size. 1t has
about 25O,000 people, and adds to it's popu-
lation every year.
The Hague has wide canals running
through 1t, and the Parliament buildings
and some Of the other public structures
face on great vat Of water covering sew
eral acres, known as the Fish Pond.
The city has fine squares and lofty houses
1t has many trees, and. altogether. it is one
Of the pleasantest living places in Europe.
1t is within two miles of the great Dutch
seaside resort. Scheveningen, and its nat
ural healthfulness is added to by the ozOnic
breezes from the North Sea.
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by comparison with the creations intended
for women's wear which might be in the
very next shop window on an ordinary
downtown street. Here. too, there will be
an opportunity for the professional decor
ator who thinks he can make home more
beautiful than it could be made by the
woman who inhabits It. to display his
schemes for library and parlor in all their
bare and ready-made magni1cence, and
SO perhaps to catch the eye of some
wealthy purchaser. 81,
But, above all. let it be an asylum for
the wares Of the misunderstood and the un-
appreciated among men, for the visitors to
this building will come in kindly and uIi-
critical spirit. saying to themselves with
gentle smile: It's the mems own building.
you know. They did it all themselves. Il
think it is really quite creditable. don't you?
OF course, you mustn't compare 1t with any
thing else-that wouldn't be quite fair!" &c
Subscriptions toward the raising of fund
for this building should be begun at once.
No time or money OF effort should be spared
by those interested in the great cause OF
equality.
II cannot be too much insisted upon that
We women cannot be equal alone. the men
must come with us. So shall the whole racs
rise together toward those higher regions Of
exalted thought, where We shall at last be
in our element. s-T
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-02-22

I have learned something here about the
Government. Holland is q nominal mon
archy. governed by the Queen. but it Is
practically a Republic, with a Congress
much like ours.
This Congress is known as the States
and II makes all the laws, just as our Con-
gress does. The States General sits at The
Hague. in the Binnenhof. the great building
looking out on the Fish Pond.
l went through the two houses to-day.
The first chamber. which corresponds to
our Senate, has fifty members. elected by
the States. from their biggest taxpayers
and most prominent men:
Ihe second chamber, corresponding to
our House of Representatives, is elected by
the people; it has just twice as many mem
bers as the Senate.
All male citizens over Is years of age can
vote for members Of the lower house, pro-
vided they can show positive signs Of ca
pacity and well being. The drunkard. the
loafer and the good for nothing can have
no voice in this Government.
Every voter must pay more or less State
taxes or he must be a householder of rent
er, or a boat holder or renter. or he must
have an annual salary of a little more than
500 year, or have a small amount of Gov
ernment bonds or some deposits in the saw
ings banks.
There are certain professions whose men,
bers have the right to vote. but this right
Is always founded on capacity and ability
to make or spend money.
Last year these rules were so exercised.
that only q little more than so per cent of
the male citizens of age comprised the
electoral body.
EVERY VOTER MUST
PAY STATE TAXES
1t is considered great honor to be a
member Of the Dutch Congress. and as far
as 1 can see the Congressman get little
more than honor out of it.
The Senators receive about $4 day while
they are in session, and the Representa-
tives have $500 year and their travelling
expenses.
The Senators are elected for nine years
and the elections are so arranged that one
third Of the body goes out every three
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Householders generally are the burglars 3
best friend.
They forget to lock their doors and win
dows upon going away from their resi-
dences.
find money, Jewelry and silverware taken
they indulge in harsh accusation Of the in
efficiency Of the police.
Burglars and housebreakers in the guise
OF peddlers. agents or persons looking for
rooms to rent or In search of some mythical
family. are always prowling about looking
for easy places to rob.
After they have repeatedly rung the bell
and assured themselves that no one is at
home they are quite apt to try the door.
If 1t Is unlocked they naturally walk in
and help themselves. The moral Is quite
obvious 1t is simply to be sure to lock the
doors and windows when you go away from
home.
Next to the Individual who fails TO lock
his door the burglar loves the person who
has a nice easy lock on his door that can
be opened with a skeleton key.
Burglars make q study of locks, and one
that baffied them two years ago may now
be easy for them to open. With half
dozen master and skeleton keys they are
able to negotiate many lock which the
owner fondly imagines could not be blown
open with dynamite
While almost any Of the more ingenious
burglars can open lock with q skeleton
key. their work Is in vain II the lock is re-
enforced with bolt. The only way to get
ct a bolt Is to bore holes In the door and
saw out a piece of the panel. and this takes
too long and makes too much noise to be
employed except in solitary neighborhood
and when the family Is away from home.
Solitary neighborhoods do not abound in
st. Louis. and. accordingly. the burglar does
not often resort to taking a section of the
pareling out Of the door or to cutting out a
window pane with a diamond or glass cut
ter.
Besides. the burglar would feel that such
work would bring him needless trouble and
involve too many risks, when, by moving
on to the next fiat or dwelling. he may find
a door which has been kindly left open for
him, or back window that can be readily
pushed up.
HOUSEBREAKERS ARE BUSY
BETWEEN AND O'CLOCK.
Househreakers find their harvest time be-
tween 1 o'clock and In the evening, and
they usually enter house or fiat either by
walking in through an unlocked door or the
use Of the skeleton key or by showing open
a window that opens upon a hail or a court
or a hack porch, from which their move
ments are cut off from the street hy an
awning some other object.
So many burglars in st. Louis gain access
to a house at night by climbing to the top
of the porch that they have given a new
word TO the English language. porch climb
ers."
A great number of burglaries are COM
mitted by porch climbers. People have a
habit after dressing for dinner of raising
the windows in order to air the rooms before
bedtime. The porch climber usually works
between 6 and o'clock.
The family then are at dinner and the
bedrooms are being aired. In the winter
time. when 1t is dark at 6 o'clock, the porch
climber can readily climb up one of the
posts Of a porch. and crawling over the top
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-02-22
WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
r T.

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Dearly beloved brethren, you will find my
text in an article in The ST. Louis Republic
OF February 10, 1903: TT has taken fifty
years of hard work to make woman equal
to man. In the Worlds Fair We are equal
yet We have no building
Is 1t the possession of building, then.
that constitutes equality? Clearly. that il
what We are to understand from the text.
Have the men building? No. poor down.
trodden creatures. they have not. Yet they
should have. if they are to keep their equal
lty. Woman does not ask superiority. She
is not selfish; all she wishes Is simple
ordinary equality.
She wants building at the Worlds Fair
because that means equality. With the
F'renchman of revolutionary days she cries,
Liberty, Equality. Fraternity-or eDath!'
And of these three the greatest is equality.
But there are two sides to equality. No
body can be equal all alone.
One must have some to be equal to,
and even then IL that other person should
slip below the mark it would be all up with
the equality.
This brings US to the important principle
that II woman is to be the equal of man
and to remain so. man must be the equal
Of woman. The condition may seem diff
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-02-22

sell us from SO 100000 to sl5,O0OOOO worth of
goods every year. and would sell a great
deal more were it not for our import duties.
Holland Is practically a free-trade coun-
try, duties being imposed for revenue only,
and the result is that our wheat, Indian
corn. -four. lard, tallow, leather and q lot
of other things come in free.
We sell the Dutch almost ten times as
much as they sell US, and they think there
should be reciprocity. There is talk among
the members of the States general of plac-
flour. but our Consul General at Rotterdam
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-02-22

tells me there is no danger Of such a meas
ure passing. Said he:
Holland cannot possibly raise enough
to feed her own people. and the Dutch will
not tolerate any tax On breadstuffs which
must be paid by themselves.
"As It Is now. there are import taxes on
our tobacco. amounting to about IA cents
a pound, taxes on preserved meats and
fruits of cents per pound. and on oils OF
about Il cents per hundredweight-"
FRANK G. CARPENTER
Copyright. 1903. by F. G. Carpenter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-06
PLAYED WITH GLANDERoUs HORSES
Children Exposed to Disease in The Bronx
Situation Serious, Says DR.. Dodin.

The epidemic Of CHAMBERS which has been raging
in The Bronx shows no signs of abatement Within
the last week ten horses have been shot because
they had this disease. Dr. a. J. Dodin. OF No. ST.
East hundred and-sixty- ffth-st the veterinary
surgeon OF the Health Department Of The Bronx
is becoming alarmed. and says that he believes that
that borough is being used dumping ground
for diseased animals.
Two horses were shot yesterday One was found
in stable at Oue-Luudred aud-fOrty-eg hth-sr and
MorrtS-ave and the other stable al No III
East One-hundred- and-forty- hfth-st On Tuesday
one horse was shot at No. $50 Arthur-ave-.
Monday stray horses shot a vacant
lot at One Undred- and thirty secoud-st- and
Cypress we; Sunday three horses were killed
in stable One hurdred-ard- shth-st- and
suffering from CHAMBERS at One-hundred- thirty
fourth-st. and WhitloCk-ave. and AZ One-hundred-
and hirty-third-st, near Brown Place, and were
shot
DR. Dodin is afraid that the disease may be com
municated 10 human beings. In the cases OF the
animals shot Monday IL learned that they
time and that some OF the bigger bows had been
charging children one cent for q ride them
One OF the animals when shot. in advanced
stage Of the disease
"Glanders is a conta gious disease and may be
communicated 10 human beings said Dr.. DOdn
last night 1t Is entirely possible that some o.
the children who were playing with the horses may
nave contracted the disease though. 50 far "a
has been reported 10 the Board OF
Health There have been three cases Of death
from the disease this year From the fact that
IN the borough ! am Of the opinion that many Of
them have been brought here by their owners, ana
then turned loose The trouble with the disease Is
and only shows under test
Every horse that IS shot because II IS diseased
has 10 be watched by policeman specially de-
Policemen cau this waking a horse. and don't
Ike the job very much