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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25
J0CKEYING FOR POSITION

The preliminary signal was fired at i0:45
sition began. AS usual Reliance follow
ed Shamrock in her various manoeuvres
about the line. neither boat going very
far away from the starting point.
When the preliminary gun was fred
both wore TO the eastward OF the light
ship a bit. but returned and began sail
Ing up and down the line When the
wss-AEeA- iesS5- the
boat.
She Immediately headed along the line
from the windward and attempted 20
blanket her. Both boats, four minutes
line on the starboard tack with Reliance
on Shamrock's weather quarter. Then
they both wore back. with Shamrock in
the lead. and came for the eastern end
Of the line on the port tack.
Reliance, however, kept right after
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25
At PIANO FOR 26 HOURS.
Man Plays Against Time, Breaking All Key.
board.EaduraHce Records.

ST. Louis. Aug 26-With blisters on his
fingers and his nerves and muscles in
state OF utter collapse. ]. NJ Waterbury
ended a 26-hour sitting at a piano, which
he had been playing without intermission
in a saloon In Belleville.
He began his endurance feat at clock
Saturday night. and. with never stop
longer than hve second duration, con-
tinued TO thump the keys with both hands
until 10 o'clock Sunday night He ate one
Swiss cheese sandwich and one ham sand
w1ch and drank whiskey He smoked
cigarettes almost without cessation. For
the most of the time ne was sitting on
the orthodox piano STOOL but now and
then he would stand.
For this remarkable feat Waterbury
received / an hour. He says his best pre-
vious endurance record was made In the
Lambs club New York city. This was
contest, Ada Bellville being his op-
ponent. He lasted an hour longer. He
challenges anybody TO try to beat him.
The Eden OF Narragansett Bay"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25
WRINGE IN GOOD HUMOR

Reliances mainsail showed hardly A
wrinkle and looked haR as big as that
OF Shamrock Captain Wringe was evi-
IDENTIFY In good spirits after his sail was
fited .ie paced the deck with the New
Yacht clubs representative smiling and
Joking.
Reliance's sail was got up quickly and
at $50 both boats were taking aboard
the days provisions for the crews. Re
lance raised her clubtopsail at s:2 ana
after the trimming of Yesterday, Il ht-
ted perfectly.
Mr.. Herreshoff. the builder OF the Re-
lance, who passed the night on his steam
yacht. Roamer. which was anchored In
Sandy Hook bay, went aboard Reliance,
taking with him an extra topsail. Re
liance dropped her moorings just before
o'clock and under mainsail. and clup-
topsail. was ready 10 60 TO the start.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25
At THE lIGHTSHIP

Soon after 10 o'clock both yachts had
arrived at the lightship and cast Off their
tows Nearly an hour remained before
the starting gun was to be fred and the
yachts sailed back and forth about the
lightship. which the committee boat did
not reach until sometime later.
When Shamrock dropped her tow she
Immediately broke out her jlb and hold
ing away from the lightship on the port
tack. sent up her largest clubtopsail The
crew worked smaftly- and-inslde 81 10
minutes all the large sails were holsted.
The topsail OF Reliance set while inside
the Hook proved somewhat smaller than
the weather conditions warranted and
Capt. Barr finding the sea smooth and
the wind comparatively light decided OF
change 20 a still larger one and this was
done In the meantime the regatta com
mittee on board the tug Navigator had
arrived at the start and the committee
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25
EXPECTS GOOD RACE

II think we will get a good race today
and ! hope our new sail will be sue
cess"
Mr.. Iselin was in excellent good humor
and TO a query he said: 1T looks like
good racing weather. and Il looks like
Reliance weather also"
Reliance began to raise her mainsail
at 500, and by that time Captain Wringe
had got Shamrock's sail to his liking af-
ter having sent two men to pull IL tight
at the boom end so as to draw out the
wrinkles from along gaff. IL wrinkled
then only where Il was liable to catch
the full force OF the wind on the reach
and hold e.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25

do so, not only with keen personal re-
gret, but with a lively understanding or
the gap your withdrawal will create IN
public life. My sense OF personal loss is
very great and yet my sense OF the loss
to the nation as whole is even greater.
You have been over four years secretary
of war. / wonder II you yourseii reanze
how much you have accomplished during
that period. II you will turn TO your
first reports and will read therein the
recommendation you made In order that
the army might be put on an effective
basis you cannot but be pleased at the
way in which these recommendations
have been adopted by congress, as Wen
as by the administration, and nave pc
come enacted into law or crystalized into
1--WE have never made public ser
want OF the government who has worked
harder than you have worked during
those four years and a half. and this
not merely in point OF time, but above
all I'm point OF intensity and your sue
cess has been equal to your labor. The
only reward you have had. or can have.
is the knowledge OF successful achieve
ment. OF the performance in the fullest
fashion OF a great public duty. the de-
gree OF which was of vital importance to
the nations welfare.
Your duties have included more than
merely the administration of the depart
ment and the reorganization OF the army
on an effective basis. You have also
been the head OF the department which
dealt with the vast and delicate problem
involved in our possession OF the Philip
pines and your success I'm dealing with
this part of your work has been az signal
as your success in dealing with the purely
military problems. To very few states
men indeed. In any country, In IL given at
one and at the same time TO achievements
and striking triumphs In the administra-
tion and reform OF the military branch OF
the government and in the administration
OF what was 10 effect a department OF
insular dependencies. where the problems
were new TO our people. and were IN
themselves OF great difficulty.
Moreover. aside from your work In the
two departments OF the government SER
vice. / appreciate most keenly the inval-
| liable advice and assistance you have rem
dered me in innumersble matters Of
words not coming directly In your de-
partment. but In which sought your
aid with the certainty OF not being dissp-
pointed. Your position on the Alaskan
boundary commission at the present mo-
ment II an illustration OF these services.
May all good Torture attend you
wherever you are; the american pop.
wish you we'll and appreciate 20 the non
the debt due you for all that you have
done on their behalf
Faithfully yours.
Csigned) THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25
ROAD IMPROVEMENT.
5uard VIII Held Meeting al ths State
House Tomorrow.

The regular weekly meeting OF the
state board of public roads, will be held
tomorrow at the state house and the
five members, one representing each
county, are expected to be present. al
though routine matters chiefly will re-
ceive attention.
The next opening OF bids will occur on
Wednesday, September 2. the improve
ments proposed being In North Provi-
dence, Smithheld, South Kingston,
Charlestown and New Shoreham.
In the meantime the several draughts-
men at headquarters on the ground floor
of the state house are busily at work on
plans for road improvements In other
towns and cities
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25
CAR RAN INTO HOUSE.
6raveIlns Sues thG Rhuds Island Company
for SI0U0 Damages.

Frederick e. Graveline. who owns a
house at the corner OF Fountain and
Japonica streets has sued the Rhode Is.-
aud company TO recover 5000 for injury
to his property.
A car. he claims. was run at so high
and dangerous a rate OF speed at the
junction OF the two streets. where there
!s a dangerous curve that the car jumped
the rails and ran with great force against
his house.
that window frames and glass were
smashed. the plastering in the rooms OF
the house fell down, the posts and sills
knocked out OF position. the supports of
the house injured and knocked out OF
plumb. John j. Fitzgerald is attorney
for Mr.. Graveline
Tho Eden of Narragansett Bay"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25
new MAlNSAIL

The Shamrock got her new mainsail In
Mace and to those ashore II looked very
much Of an improvement over the old
one. II did not lap the boom and set up
we'll TO meet the clubtopsail. There was
only one pucker In 1t aud that was out 30
feet from the boom. \ the wind caught
Il Il bellied close to the mast and there
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25
STARTS FOR THE LINE

She started on the port tack. broke out
her staysail and jib and caught the breeze
beautifully. rounding the hook like a
great white bird.
Shamrock at Q o'clock took n line from
her tender and was towed out with her
mainsail set. At this time the wind was
blowing seven miles an hour. from the
south and blowing very steadily. II was
not. however. increasing In velocity as
much as the yachtsmen wished.
The American lacht left her moorings
under sal easily rounding the point OF
the hook and starting To the eastward
through the main ship channel Two or
three miles of the Hook the Reliance
took a line from her tender.
COMMITTEES ARRIVES
About this time the regatta committed
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25
FOR CRITICISING THE GAR.
Russian Lecturer al Chicago University t.
poets 10 Be Arrested.

Chicago. Aug 25-Because OF his lee
lures at the University Of Chicago this
summer. Prof. Paul Milyoukov expects
that he will be arrested and thrown into
PRISON when he reaches Russia again.
Prof. Mlyoukov criticized the car and
,hs Russian diplomats and nobility, and
-t-T,-r4vl1,-4 generality against -the- condition
OF things in Russia. past and present
The professor is now IN New YORK and
Vii sall for Europe In September.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25

As the morning progressed numerous
little fishing boats came sailing up the
coast from the south at a fairly good gait.
They raised and dipped a trifie but the
sea was much smoother than last week.
In fact there was comparatively little
surf along the shore. The air was wonder
fully clear and some OF the incoming Eu-
ropean vessels could be sighted Is or sc
miles off shore.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25
SECRETARY ROOTS
RESIGNATION! !!
Accepted by President, to Take
Effect in January-Judge Taft
Will Succeed to the Post OF
Secretary of War.

accepted the
continue secretary OF
at tleastu until
General will succeed secre
Roota secret
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25

was a broad curve on the leach. This
should prove OF great Advantage on the
reach, 80 the yachtsmen said.
Reliance was only using one new sail.
and that jib which set little natter
than her old jib and this too, IL consider
ed OF advantage to that boat on the
reach Mr.. Isekn went aboard Reliance,
while his crew was at breakfast on the
tender. Sir Thomas on the deck OF the
Brin was inclined to be less communi-
cative than usual He finally said:
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25

New York Aug a5The prospects for another good
between Reliance Shamrock III encouraging
o'clock fine knot breeze blowing the southeasthe
fairly smooth and the horizon clear for many miles
For hours before the time for the nd
cation that the wind would hold throughout the day. giving
yachts and especially the Shamrock opportunity show their
worth the 3oe triangular which according the
be sailed in the second between the boats
With southeast looked hours be-
the time for the the committee would send the
boats on Sandy Hook followed by
reach of another miles about northeast and another reach of
miles little north of to the lightship. 80.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25
RE LANG { W|N s BY
NARROW MARG|

her rival Tn the meantime great
tank boat came plugging between the
yachts, and Reliance was forced 10 hold
away. She went TO the stern OF the COM
mittee boat. and swinging around, head
ed for the line on the starboard tack.
Continued on paSc Two.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25
INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACES.

Are YOU coming TO New York City to
the races Stop at the Gregorian Hotel,
s5th street. between bth avenue and Her
ala Square Fire-proof Delightfully."-
appointed. Cool
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-25
rlASCOT OF SHAMROCK.

was busy for some minutes planning &
the course.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-21
AIN AIRSHIP WRECKED
WAS BLOWN INTO TREE TOP AND
ITS COVERING RIPPED.
Lebaudy's New Machine That Recently
Made Remarkable FIight-Oc-
cupants Not Injured.

PARIS, Nov. 20.-The Lebaudy airship,
on descending to-day near the balloonng
grounds at Meuden, struck a tree and col
lapsed. The occupants, a pilot and an engi-
neer, were uninjured. Lebaudy not on
board.
The airship, which was the one that
made the recent remarkable flight from
Moisson to Paris, assembled this morning
from the Champs de Mars, a crowd of
people witnessing its graceful ascent. The
airship unanswered we'll and moved against
a brisk wind towards Meuden. When about
to descend there current of air drove the
ship into a tree top, the branches ripped
an enormous hole in one side of the bal
loon and the latter collapsed, leaving the
frame work of the superstructure dangling
from the tree. The two occupants Of the
airship, NJ. J2chmes, an aeronaut, and Rent,
the engineer, were for a time in great
danger, but they succeeded in climbing down
without injury.
The performance of the airship before the
accident was most credita BILE A distance
of eight kiiometers was covered in twenty
seven minutes against a brisk southwest
wind, as calculated by the Eiffel tower
experts. The damage done was confined
mainly to the envelope.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-21
GEN. F. M. DRAKE DEAD
EX-GOVERNOR OF IOWA AND FOUND
ER OF DRAKE UNIVERSITY.
Died of Diabetes After a Few Days
IlIness-Left an Estate Worth
Over S3,OOO,OOO.

CENTERVILLE, Ia, Nov. 20.-Gen. F.
NJ Drake, Ex-Governor of Iowa and the
founder of Drake University, died at the
home of his daughter. Mrs. Henry Goss,
In this city at HIS this morning. The ex-
Governor was stricken with diabetes sew
eral days ago and has been gradually grow
ing worse ever since. No alarm was felt
until late yesterday evening His son, John
A, and his daughter, Mrs. ]. l.. Sawyers,
are on their way from New York. having
been telegraphed late yesterday. His other
three daughters, Mrs. Henry Goss, Mrs.
George Sturdivant and Mrs. T. A Shonts,
and another son, Frank Drake, the latter
two from Chicago, were at the bedside.
The estate of General Drake. consisting
of bank and railroad stocks and farm
lands is estimated to be worth between
100000 and s4e00,0O0 1t is said Drake Uni
versity, which the Ex-Governor has al
ready given sums totaling 100000, will re-
ceiye a share of the estate.
Gen Francis Marion Drake was born in
Rushville, Schuyler county, Illinois, Dec
30, 1880. He was elected Governor Of Iowa
n 1898.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-21
Other Deaths.

LONG BRANCH, N. J., Nov. 2o.-Mrs.
Carolina Maxwell Estabrook, relict of EX-
perience Estabrook, of Nebraska, died to-
day in her eighty-first year at the residence
of her son-in-law, Robert G. Clowry, pres
ident of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany. Mrs. Estabrook was the mother of
the late Mrs. Clowry and of Henry ID. Es-
tabrook, solicitor for the Western Union
Telegraph Company. The interment will be
al Omaha, Neb.
DENVER, Col, Nov. 20.-Judan A.
Kebler, former president of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, died suddenly of
apoplexy at his home this evening. He had
returned home from his office this after
noon apparently in his usual health. 1t is
thought he had been dead about twenty
minutes when found.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-Consul Cen
eral McWade, at Canton, China, in dis
patch to the State Department announces
the death at Talking OF Ella Terrence
Robb, a missionary of Denison, Kan.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. D.-John A. Hockaday.
judge OF the Ninth judicial circuit. who has
been a prominent jurist in Missouri for
twenty years, died to-day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-21
BULLET HOLES REMAIN
MAN WHO CAUSED THEM ACQUITTED
AT CRAwFORDsVILLE.
End of the "Pie Social" Case-James
l.. Myers Seeks IA New Trial-Crfme
of an Old Soldier.
pecial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Nov. 20-The
case Of Grover Cleveland Neal, aged nine
teen, for shooting Perl Bowers in both legs,
went to the jury this afternoon after a trial
lasting since Tuesday, and at O. clock the
jury brought in a verdict of acquittal.
When the verdict was read Mrs. Neal en-
braced her son in court and they departed
for home, followed by over twenty young
women who had attended the trial and tes-
titled in his behalf. This evening a recep-
ton was held at the Neal home
Bowers was conducting a pie supper at
the country schoolhouse in which he taught
and Neal is said to have caused q disturb
ance. and when placed under arrest of hav-
ing broken and ran away shooting back as
he went at the teacher who was close after
him. About twenty girls of the match fac
tory swore that they were there and did
not Neal ringing the bell or doing other
things alleged as having caused the dis
turbance Neal was arrested a week later
charged with shooting with intent to kill
The defense set forth that, as Neal was
from Tennessee, he thought that being ar
rested was equivalent to being mobbed and
he fired in order TO stop pursuit.
Nothing further can be done with Neal.
and Teacher Bowers is wondering how he
acquired two bullet holes in his legs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-21
BREACH OF PROMISE.

New York Sun.

new 1O1k sun
Can married man be sued successfully
for breach of promise to wed? This is
the question that the Chicago courts will
soon be called upon to decide in suit filed
in the Circuit Court against Alfred Vinton
Martin, wealthy resident of Kenilworth.
Mr. Martin is married and has a wife and
Mamie Matthews, who charges him with
failing TO keep promise to marry her,
and wants $4,000 to sooth her wounded
heart.
Mr. Martin resides in one of the beau
tiful homes of the North Shore suburb,
and Is said to possess wealth to the
amount of $4,000. He is about fifty years
of age, while Miss Matthews says she is
but twenty. AT first Mr.. Martin. IT is said,
started out to be father to the young
woman. but at the last place where she is
known to have lived, in fiat at 800 Grove
land avenue, Mr.. Martin was known
Uncle Now comes the suit for breach
of promise.
The story of love. according to Miss
Matthews. began in 1901, at her sisters
home in Hyde Park. She had been ILL., and
Mr.. Martin became regular caller He
took her TO New York as his daughter,
paying all expenses. While there, the girl
says. he asked her to become his wife.
Later there were trips to South Haven,
Mich, and various other resorts and water
ing places. to all of which Mr. Martin
paved the way with his lavish purse
His letters began with such endearing
titles as my dear daughter" and '"ro the
sweetest girl in the world and each is
signed Mr.. Martin"
Miss Matthews, who is remarkably pref
ty formerly lived in Clinton, Ia, where
her mother now resides.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-21
WILL DISSOLVE MERG[R
NORTHERN SECURITIES COMPANY TO
OBEY THE COURTS DECREE.
All of the Constituent Companies to
agement as Before the Combine.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20.-President
James ]. Hill. of the Northern Securities
Company, was in this city to-day, and
spent the greater part OF the day in con-
sultation with his attorney, John G.. john
son. going over the details Of the corpora
TONS appeal from the Federal Circuit
Court Of Appeals, which is docketed to be
heard before the United States Supreme
Court.
In connection with Mr. Hills visit the
Philadelphia Record tomorrow will print
the following: From an authority close
to Mr.. Hill it was learned that on the adj
vice of counsel, it had been decided to sur
render every right granted under the New
Jersey corporation law to the Northern
Securities Company, excepting that of pur-
chasing such securities as the management
may see ht TO obtain from an investment
view point. The right to vote the stock in
the Great Northern. the Northern Pacific
and the Chicago, Burlington G. Quincy
Railways is to be renowned, as is also
the right of the securities concern to have
any voice in the management of those rail
roads. The Securities Company is to de-
clare before the Federal Supreme Court
that each OF these big railroads is to be
continued under separate managements
and that there is to be community OF
interest agreement between them; in fact,
they are to be maintained as separate
companies, and each is to have Individual
management and officers as before the
merger under the Securities Company char
ter, which was obtained in New Jersey on
Nov. 10, 1901. The meaning of this is, ac-
cording to one of the attorneys for the
Securities Company. that the judgment of
the Circuit Court of Appeals of April 3
last, declaring the merger void is honored
by the company, and that it merely desires
to have the Supreme Court pronounce it a
lawful corporation in that all possible oh
jections alleged To conflict with the United
States antitrust law have been removed. >,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-21
Mr.. Miers on Presidential Timber.
Washington Post

"Our people over in Indiana pretty
busy developing stone quarries, opening
coal mines and caring for bountifui crops.
and not talking politics very much just
now. Yet every Indianian is in a sense a
politician and always ready to align him.
self on all public questions. The Democratic
party in Indiana is harmonious and ready
to support, either in convention or at the
polls any man who is sincerely opposed to
Republican plutocracy and is genuine rep
resentative of Democratic principles. There
are many such in the Democratic ranks.
Our neighbor, John r. Williams, member
of Congress from Illinois, has the entire
confidence of our people: Benjamin Shively.
of Indiana, would create great enthusiasm
among the Democrats OF the State; George
B. Mcclellan, William II. Hearst, Judge
Parker and many other good Democrats
that | might name would be acceptable to
the Democracy of Indiana, and would, In
my judgment, receive the States electoral
vote Harmony and fidelity to Democratic
principles is the watchword of Indiana
Democrats. We are all for Taggart for
chairman of the national committee
You will never tire of Mrs. Austin's Pan
cakes. fresh supply now on hand at
your grocers.