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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
ACTRESSES MAD LEAP.
Before Hundreds She I'hrO1cs Her
self from Hotel WtndOIC.

While hundreds of persons were waiting at the
transfer static at Fifty-ninth-st. and Lexington
ave last night or passing their way to theatres
Ada Mason twenty-four years old, an actress. who
gave her address as No. 10 East Fifty-seventh-st
climbed out of 2 second story window OF John
Mote's hotel at the southeast corner. and. clad In
her night dress jumped to the sidewalk She broke
two Of her ribs, cut her right leg and bruised her
body badly She was taken to Flower Hospital,
where it was said she suffered from alcoholism also
She made prisoner
AS the young CROPPED her way to the Sill or
the window and then the top OF the sign of the
hotel, people watched her breathlessiy. They did
not know whether she somnambulist or in
possession of her senses. No shouted until she
had Strengthened up and half Owed over the sign to
the sidewalk. The landed her side. she
struck Daniel NOfs, of No 29 East Fifty-ntnth-St,
a boy bootblack who has stand outside the care
Her right foot hit him in the arm and knocked him
down. ?
Scores of people to the womans side, and
a thousand people were gathered Dr
Ekings. of Flower Hospital took her away IN an
ambulance. In che ambulance the woman shrleked
and acted violently. becoming Gamer, she crieO
OUT
I'm disguised with life. What's the user I'm
sick of 1t. Lemmie has thrown me down"
Charles Schumacher, broker, lives at NO. 10
East Fifty -seventh-st. with his family. 1t was de-
MED there last night that the lived there
that she known to them
The found two nights ago by a police
man. acting very strangely on the stoOp Of house
in East FiIty-seventh-st- The policeman was about
arrest her. when two young men intercedeG and
put her in cab IN which they drove away. They
were reported as having visited several drinking
places by.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
CONDITIONS IMPROVE.
Business Getting Back to the Normal
IN Kansas City.

Kansas City June 4-With the rapid fall OF the
rivers business Is resumlng its normal condition
The water works pumping black water from
the Kansas River not fit TO drink. and the danger
from fire Is over. The fire underwriters met to-
day and issued statement expressing satisfaction
with the conditions. Electric streetcar lines are
in operation. The telephone and telegraph con-
nection will be established between the two Kan
sas cities tomorrow. Gangs of railroad repairers
follow close upon the retreating food At dark to-
night the water beginning to leave the floor
OF the Union station
At the stock yards ESQ hogs and 500 cattIe were
drowned. 4 force OF men began to-day to remove
the carcasses where they were lodged In the drift
The current through the stock yards district flows
ten miles an hour and the stream carries away the
refuse promptly. In the wholesale and packing
house districts Of the west bottoms the scene is
is not so swift but additional buildings have fallen
and the lowering Of the food has exposed heaps OF
ruin. All the wooden buildings IN the west bot
toms and many OF the brick structures are tot
tering.
Reports that the Burlington bridge approaches
are washed away are untrue The Dr1dSe and
trestls are uninjUred the enbankment being
washed only in place, one hundred yards
wide. 1t is likely that the total list OF dead viii
not be above eight the number now authenticated
Most OF the missing persons have been heard rom
The Missouri River Is running strongly through
the Clay County bottoms. and river men oelleVe
the channel will stay there. In front OF the west
bottoms the Kansas River Is taking its old course,
and there is fear that the channel will Change
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
MANY TEARS ARE SHED.
Smoke in Air Affects Eyes and May Cause
Inflammation

The smoky haze that hung over the city yesterday
played havoc with the nasal organs and of the
Gothamite. Many persons seemed to be taken with
sudden cold, and frequent recourse was had 10 the
handkerchief. There tears shed in the
town yesterday than could have been inspired by
Thousand funerals II the smoke. however, that
caused this apparent general woe. Eyes that were
not accustomed 10 an atmosphere OF forest fires
were bound show their protest. II did not occur
TO many that their watery eyes were due the
condition of the air. and people could be seen on
the streets or in cars comparing notes or inguring
from another the OF the personal breaking
OF the drouth -
In view OF all this inquiry made last night
q the Manhattan Eye Infirrnary 70 ascertain II
the smoky air had increased eye trouble It was
said there that particular increase had been
noticed. The present atmosphere is undoubtedly
very trying the eyes. IL said, and a con-
tinued period Of il would result in extensive eye
trouble through irritation. The smoke the
10 water and people unconsciouSly viii rub
them. setting up an Inflammation. II was sug-
gested that II this present condition continues for
time II would be well Il the eyes continue to
water. touch the handkerchief them. just
enough 10 absorb the water and not to persist
IN rubbing the sensitive organs injury will be
the result.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
DEVASTATION IN NEw-HAMPsH1RE.
Thousands of Acres q Valuable Timber
Land Are Burned Over.

Manchester, N H, June 4-Forest fires an
nusllv occasion some loss in New Hampshire,
but never has there been anything equal to the
present devastation. Fires have been raging Tor
weeks in Coos County, and great expanses Oh
timber land have been swept before the hames.
Within radius of fifteen miles OF Nashua
several fires of threatening proportions are IN
progress The fires are particularly violent at
Milford Wilton and Lyndeboro
The Diamond Match Company. which recently
purchased many acres of spruce and pine TIM
her in this section, has lost heavily
At Iitt.eton fires which surrounded anu
threatened that town during the night hao oeell
checked to-day. Last night the town was
threatened on two sides. The Fire Department
wet down all the roofs in the business portlon
of the town and the company was on duty aii
night. 1870 haan
At Colebrook thousands of acres nave DeeiI
devastated The Connecticut River LUMBER
Company is among the heaviest losers
Serious fires are burning in the vicinity OF
Meredith and two farm houses have been oe-
stroyed - 1870 Tho
A telephone message from Groveton says IN. ,I
town was endangered yesterday and the MINIS
closed and all the men went to hght the haiheS'
The danger seemed past to-day
Whitefeld is surrounded by fire and the mead
ows at jefferson have been burning TOT t"o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
MAINE VILLAGES BURNED
Fourteen Niles of Railroad De
stroged an 4rOostOok County.

Houlton, Me-, June 4-The forest fires in
Aroostook County have destroyed fourteen miles
of the Bangor and Aroosto6k Railroad. and re-
ports from various sections indicate that two
small settlements have been wiped out. AT least
twenty-four sets of fam buildings have been
burned. and the fires which deadened last night
were increasing again to-day before a brisk
northwest wind
The settlements burned are Sherman and
Crystal. Sherman is thirty-eight miles south
west of Houlton, twenty-five miles from Malta
wamkeag and twenty-five miles from Kingman.
1t has population of 900 and valuation of
S167, 142. Crystal is a plantation. thirty miles
southwest of Houlton. the Bangor and
Aroostook Railroad. and was organized in 1910.
The population in 1890 was 297 and the valua-
ton S73, 739.
At Sherman every building was burned in
Guiding the Bangor and Aroostook railroad sta
ton. The villagers were conveyed to Sherman
Mill and Patten.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
f. I. BUILDINGS BURN.
of 4cres Of Timber Land
Fireszcept Near SayUille.

Sayville y. Y. June 4.-Forest fires have been
vicinity of Central Islip and Brentwood. Sew
erai thousand acres of valuable timber land
have been burned over. The houses of many
wealthy residents have narrowly escaped de-
struction. The flames yesterday afternoon
threatened the new Catholic school at Brent
wood The building has been in course of con-
struction for two years, and is to be dedicated
this month. The fires are burning to the
eastward. Showers OF ashes from the burning
timber are falling on the villages in the neigh
borhood Of the fires. Dense volumes of smoke
obscure the sun, and the darkness has been so
great that both yesterday and to-day lights have
been turned on in the stores and dwellings IN
&c atrial Islip. Sayvilie and other villages.
The fire in the vicinity of Brentwood spread to
the eastward to-day and swept the whole length
of the west side of Lake Ronkonkoma- TWO
buildings were swept away by the flames One
of them was a wooden house on the property
formerly belonging to ex-A1derman w. P. Kirk,
but now owned by N A Metzner, q director or
the Queens County Bank Long Island lily.
This building was near the lake shore. 1he
main structure the property was saved ny
the efforts of the fire fighters
To the southwark the flames consumed an un-
occupied factory built by a land scheme syndi-
cate of Manhattan. 1t stood close TO an apan-
doned flag station of the Long Island Railroad
Hundreds of men and boys have been battling
forts many buildings that were In danger nave
laaar, ra1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
NINE KILLED IN WRECh.
Missouri Pacific and Santa Re
Trains in Collision.

Kansas City. Mo. June An head-on COIL
sion between a Missouri Pacific passenger train
and one of the Santa Fe at Stiliwel KAN TINS
afternoon, six persons were killed outrisht' anu
three died later from their injuries wnlle L"
tya,gbt were hurt. The trains were running
over the Missouri Pacific tracks. owing 10 the
flooded condition of the Santa Fe tracks botl
trains were in charge of pilots. 1t IS sara 'iia'
one of the pilots misread his orders causing '"0
accident Relief trains have gone TO the scehe
or the wreck stilIwelI cannot be reached Dy
telegraph
Topeka, Kan. June 4--Dr. J. 2. kaster' chlet
surgeon of the Santa Fe. with force OF physi-
clans and medical supplies, left here to-nisht -ol
the StiIwer wreck. message received s nere
says that the dead now being taken it III
the wreck and that they are seven IN NUM- !s
so far as known. A large number are llJui 90.
The Santa Fe train was a passenger anu ""S
using the Missouri Pacific tracks. 1t ran INTO
Missouri Pacific freight. The wreck appears 70
have been caused by a CONFUSION IN iran" u
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
HAVOC IN HANCOCK COUNTY.
Fires Started by Men in the Woods Smok-
ing Out Porcupines.

Lewiston. Me-, June A special to THE
Journal from Ellsworth says: Hancock County
property is greatly endangered by the forest
fires which sweeping 1t. Thus far
the damage has been confined chiefly TO wood
land though at Castine a summer cottage
owned by a resident OF Boston and a stable be-
longing to another have been destroyed.
Ellsworth has fires all sides Of IL. Among
the fercest is that at Plantation No %. where
acre after acre of timber land is being swept
Much of the land is the property of the Whit
comb Haynes Company Ellsworth Falls. which
last month had one thousand acres burned over
The company has force of men fighting the
flames. but they have found it impossible to get
control
In Mariaville another large fire is burning.
The origin of this blaze. 1t is said. was traced
to persons searching for porcupines. who set
fires TO smoke the porcupnes from their hiding
places
The Green Lake woodland is in flames and
large crews are lighting the fire. The govern
fnent building and United States fish hatchery
are located at Green Lake. but they are not in
danger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
CANADIAN TOXINS BURN.
Fires Szoeeping Through the Country
around Montreal.

Montreal, June 4.-Reports from various parts
of the province show that fires Averaging in al
most every direction where the country is wood
ed The Inter-colonal Railway is using the
Grand Trunk tracks part of the way between
Quebec and Montreal. The villages of Astor
and Forestdale have been completely wiped out
The Grand Trunk itself is troubled by breaks
in the wires and burned railroad ties near Bull
strobe, which has been destroyed. Scores or
towns and villages in constant danger OF
destruction. being without means to fight the
flames. In the Lake st. John district, half
dozen small settlements have been burned and
others in danger.
Reports coming in from all parts of new
tracts Of forests being aflame and of villages in
danger. The police and firemen Of Three Rivers
a fairly large town, hall way between Montreal
and Quebec, were patrolling all night, putting
out fires the outskirts. At Shawinigan Falls,
where the electric works were completed re-
Gently, only a providential change in the wind
saved the town from utter destruction Ste
Agathe des Hoths, the home for consumptives
in the Laurentian Mountains, is threatened.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
RAGING IN NEW-JERSEY.
Nezc-Brunszcick Department Ready
for Emergency Call.

New Brunswick, June 4.-Forest fires are rag
ing at Germantown, two miles north Of here
and at Jamesburg, twelve miles south. The
smoke from the fires covers this city with a
thick haze. Germantown is not seriously
threatened but the village of Jamesburg might
be In danger if the wind should rise The local
fire departments are in readiness to go to James
burg to help the farmers fight the flames II the
village is threatened.
Jamesburg, June 4.-This place is In no
danger from forest fires. as New-Brunswick
supposed This morning smoke from the big
fire which Is burning down toward Lakewood
poured through the village, and those who
sought to escape it found that matter how
they went they encountered smoke, and the re-
port spread that the fire was much nearer than
it was. New-Brunswick grew unduly excited
over the affair, and it not until this after
noon that the condition explained. The sun
has not shown at all to-day through the smoke,
and the eyes and threats Of almost all the in
ha bitants suffered greatly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
FIRES MOCK sNOWsT0RM.
Hundreds Are Homeless in the Track of the
Vast Conflagration.

ST. Johns, N. F. June A severe snowstorn
is raging here tonight. It's effect on the forest
fires. however. has hardly been noticeable as
yet.
Word has just reached the city from the little
seacoast village of Nusquash. about thirty miles
west of here, that forest fires yesterday and last
night and early this morning swept that place
and left only three or four buildings standing
Two hundred people are homeless and destitute
and the chief industries Of the place are in
ashes. The financial loss will aggregate over
100000.
Reports from all the province indicate
that brush and forest fires are rushing through
the woods, and that whole villages and COM
munities are in the path OF the general con-
fagratiOn. At Piccadilly, in Kings County
Mrs. John Linden and Miss Susan Teakles two
elderly women. were burned to death as they
were trying to liberate cattle in field.
Lumbermen say the most serious damage to
standing timber has been done by the fire that
burned the timber lands back of Musuuash
This property was bought few years ago by a
syndicate, which paid over 100000 for it,
The coasting steamer Beaver from Harvey
reports heavy fires all along the shores from st
Martins to Mospec. Several of the pilots who
have returned from cruise down the bay saw
the atmosphere was so thick during the day
that it was impossible TO see any distance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
BIG PEAT FIRE IN THIS CITY

NewYork City does not have to depend upon
its neighbors for smoke pail, for goodIy portion
of 1t Is being furnished within the city. A neat
fire has been burning in Queens Borough for three
days, and great clouds of smoke pouring ont
The scene of this fire is at Trains Meadows near
Jackson-ave, not far from Woodside.
The meadows sunken lots. many acres in ex-
tent. They are usually like bog. and in summer
giant rushes grow them. The lOng-continued
dry spell has absorbed all the water, and the
rushes dried up and in some manner took fire
AT their base there layer Of several inches
OF half-decomposed stalks OF the growth of other
wears and the lack OF water for weeks caused
these to be comparatively dry. As result when
the fire started the meadows II soon burned over
the surface but dry topsoil took fire and this
Is now smouldering and in places which have been
reached IL can be seen that the hre extended six
was still smouldering.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
GOVERNMENT IN CLEARING HOUSE.
Secretary Shaw in Consultation with Chi
cage Bankers.

Chicago. June 4.-"The Tribune says to-day
that the bankers OF this city will meet to-mor-
to take action a plan for the admission
of the government member OF the Clearing
House here. 1t is almost certain that an ar
rangement Will be concluded similar to the deal
between John Sherman in 1878 when he was
Secretary of the Treasury. and the associated
banks of New-York. whereby the Sub-Treas-
ury In New-York became a kind of business
partner of the great banks of that city.
Secretary Shaw came here yesterday and was
In conference for long time with J. B. FOrgan.
chairman of the executive committee of the
Clearing House Later Mr.. Forgan issued a call
to all the members of the Clearing House for
meeting tomorrow afternoon, at which 1t is
ex Sected Secretary Shaw will be present.
One of the results of the government becOm-
ing a member of the Chicago Clearing House
would be that hereafter the hanks in the West.
in settlement of constantly fluctuating accounts
with the government. would buy exchange on
this city rather than New-YOrk The scheme
will also lessen the necessity of small army
of clerks under heavy guard every day taking
bags of coin and rolls of bills between the Varf-
Gus banks and the Sub-Treasury-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
LOSS IN NEW-ENGLAND.
Tozcns Wiped Ont and Summer
Homes Burned.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.

Roston June 4-To-day brings no hope or
relief for the fire stricken sections OF Maine
New-Hampshire and Massachusetts, Inc
Bangor fires which had died down during the
night broke out anew during the day, ana iii
New-EngIand fs covered with black pail Of
smoke which hangs low over cities and oo-
scures the sun as on the famous yellow day OF
1881 The flames have left ruin In their wake
and hundreds Of families are homeless. Many
villages have been wiped out, and some OF
the larger cities are threatened.
Sherman and Crystal Maine. are belleVed 10
be wiped out and 1t is feared many people nave
lost their lives
fire that started from sportsmans camp
in Argyle last Sunday is still raging and mas
burned over an immense tract of valuable spruce
owned by William Engel, of Bangor. 1t reached
the Argyle settlement last night and purneu
Walter Spencer's spool mill. his residence and
several others. 1t is now burning fercely III the
adjoining township Two great fires also rage
in Hancock County, Pressure Isle IS cut on from
the towns west and buildings in Mapleton, West
field, Perham and Brdgewater have been de-
stroyed. Telegraphic connection has been cut
off on the Ashland branch of the Bangor ana
Aroostook road and the train from douitoh from
Piscataquis is hung up somewhere IN the Wo oS
between Dover and Millinockett. The S4oooo
cottage owned by w L. McClintock, OF Pltts-
burg, has been burned at Castine.
Chatham Mass is beginning to breathe easier,
as the flames which threatened the town are
under control, after an eighteen hours battle
Webster Salem Lynnfeld, Wakefield. Beverly
and Plymouth are fighting fierce fires that are
sweeping through the woods.
Reports in Nashua from all sections OF New
Hampshire and Vermont show enormous losses
through fires which consuming miles or
valuable hardwood timber and spruce. The
safety Of Groveton is threatened Never in the
memory of the oldest inhabitants has there been
anything equal to the extent and amount of the
damage. Summer cottages in Barton and Hard
wick VT. owned by New Workers, are endan,
gered, and Barton factories have been closed
to send employees out TO fight the flames.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
FLAMES BREAK OUT AFRESH.
Grafton Mountain and All the Hills Around
Flash Like finder.

Hoosick Falls, n. Y, June 4.-Ashes have been
falling here all day, and the smoke from the
forest fires is so dense that the western portion
Of the town is obscured. Flames have broken
out afresh on Grafton Mountain, where they
have ragged for the last few days, after having
been extinguished last week All the noun
famous districts in nearly every direction have
fires Of more less severity.
Owing to the drouth IN this section, all tim
Der lands are very dry and burn like finder.
The flames roll with alarming rapidity from
one point TO another, and send up huge CLOUDS OF
smoke and fine ashes, which could be seen
whirling through the air at any hour to-day.
The property loss is confined to the burned
timber
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-05
GRANT COTTAGE IN DANGER.
Adirondack Lodge Near Lake Placid Burned
Saratoga in a Haze.
Try TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBuNE.I

Saratoga. June 4-The sun to-day and the
moon tonight were almost wholly obscured by
the heavy veil of smoke that for almost forty
eight hours has hung over this section. Hun
dreds Of fire fighters are doing heroic service
in the woods but only heavy rainstorm can
subdue the flames.
There was a report this afternoon that the
General Grant cottage on Mount McGregor was
in the path of a spreading fire. There are
several fires the Greenfield Mountains
The Adirondack Lodge. near Lake Placid. has
been burned. Heavy fires causing great
destruction near North Creek Blue Mountain
Lake Indian Lake, Glen Lake. Hackensack
Mountain, Long Lake Township Fifty, Cedar
River Catlin Lake and Catamount Range and
other places in the region of the Adirondacks.
The drouth in this section has extended over
a period OF fifty days, except for a few slight
showers Farmers assert there viii be half a
crop of hay and rye. Very little corn has been
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