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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-10

NEW YORK, Sept l0-The most
complete structure Of It's kind In the
world and also the most luxurious In
fts furnishings. the new Hotel Aston
at Broadway and Forty.fourth street,
was formally opened 10 the public 70
day The new building was built By
william waldorf Aator and IL cot
VAS I'll excess of 100000
Every scheme of decoration aud
architecture N ihe ancienis AL q
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-10
The Latest Hotel Wonder.
Opened Today in New York

those features OF the Renaissance
which have impressed themselves on
the art OF today are found in the
building.
on the ground floor. opening into
the tiled and marbled lobby, are din
ing rooms, women's Hobbies and
cafes. representing 10 the slightest
detail the Spanish, Dutch and French
Renaissance. Three hundred and fifty
paintings Of almost fabulous value and
hundreds Of costly e~ngravings adorn
the walls Of corridors and apartments.
Among the distinctive features Of the
great hotel are the hunting room,
decorated with trophies and instru'
ments OF the chase OF every age and
cline: the college room, decorated
with paintings Of American college
athletic life; "L,Orangcrie,' nm exact
reproduction of an Italian garden;
ball rooms after the style Of Louis ".
and vi: The billiard Or pompciian
orom with It's combination Of eds and
yeilows, and an Indian grill room two
stories below the level Of The street
The Kitchen Of this modern palace
is the largest In the world. and Is
controlled almost entirely By auto
matte devices iii The vine roofd,
three stories lteIow The streets are ~
5e found every variety III vine nna
other beverage known II fha Taste III
the cplcurcan.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-10

J. G. Jones has moved his estab-
lishment one door east from his form.
err location
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-10

Born, to Mrs. Maggie Padilla de Ser
rano, and Albert Serano, a boy.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-10

Terms at the Harvey resort are ad.
sertlsed in The Optics displayed col.
umns. 6-4
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-10

. Has five hundred rooms and
, fonr hundred baths.
Highest priced room sl2 a
day or $4,000 a year.
Automatic fire alarms, filled
with ammonia, ring bell In OF. I
fiee when temperature is room
reaches 100 degrees. 7
At first alarm In office cleo
trio lever shuts off staircase
from halls and confines smoke
in one apartment.
Building cost $4,000, 900.
Apartments modelled after
the Italian, Dutch and French
Renaissance. with Pompeiian. !
|, Chinese. Japanese and Indian
rooms.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-17
COMPANY MUST PAY If
PASSENGERS ARE ROBBED.
This Is the Ruling Against Ship own
ers in Case Purser Is
Dishonest.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
New York. July 16.-If you have valu-
ables to deposit with the purser OF a
steamship and after a dIligent search fail
to find him and are robbed of the gems
the company is liable.
That was the decision given by Judge
Adams of the United States District Court
in the suit of Mrs. Francis NJ. Barnes.
who secured a libel against the Atlantic
Transport steamship Minnetonka. on
which she alleged her pearl necklace. val
ued at 5000. was stolen by Il steward.
The decision IS regarded az forming an
important precedent as TO the RESPONSE
bility OF steamship companies.
Mrs. Barnes declared that she and her
niece. who We're passengers on the Mime
tonka bound for New York. last October,
made n vain search for the purser on the
day OF sailing. and that. failing to find
him, they asked a steward to tell him
they he'd valuables to deposit. Mrs.
Barnes declares she then went to her
room and was placing a handbag contain
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-17
COAT HID STOLEN DRESS.
Valuable Fabric Found Tucked
Around a Mans Waist.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
New York, July 1SkHow a double-breast-
ed sack coat can Ndsed as a vehicle for
removing valuable goods from department
| stores was demonstrated In the Jefferson
Market Court when Claude Stywald,
Is years old. of No. 70 MIDDAY. street.
Brooklyn, and his wife. Kate. d years
old were srraigned on a charge of shop
lifting.
kash. Of a departmens store on ps SYN
and Rein. The prisoners were held In
$1,000 bail for further examination;
Detective Kash said the couple for sew
eral days had haunted the cloak and suit
department. where valuable dresses are
displayed on rings that revolve on a CEN
trail pivot.
light linen weave, worth $50. Gradually.
Kash said. the man tucked the gown away
under his coat until the entire fabric was
neatly wound about his waist. The open
sack coat. he said. dld not reveal any evil
dence of undue filling.
When searched at the West Thirtieth
street station the gown was found about
the prisoners waist. 1t is alleged that
another dress valued at S37 was found
bearing another department store label
and also two silk waists worth s7 with
Ia bels of a third store
The couple are said to be victims of the
opium habit. The man while waiting in
the corridors of the prison said ne was
sleepy and asked to be allowed to return
to the mems department.. This was re-
fused. He then laid his head on his wife's
lap.
She stroked his face until he suddenly
fell into a fit. He was carried back to the
cell, and II required two policemen to hold
him. while he shouted and called for NOR
phine. His wife said that he had been
without the drug for forty-eight hours.
An ambulance surgeon from the st. Vim
cents Hospital gave him a quietfng opiate
and he was left In the cell.
The woman said that neither she nor
her husband had had anything to eat for
several days. The Jail keepers sent out for
coffee and sandwiches and they ate them
as IL nearly starved. The couple show
tina they nave been used to refinement
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-17
Infant Was Placed in Perambula-
tor on Maltese Pets, Smoth-
ering Them.
FRIGHTENED WOMEN ROUTED.
Strategy Finally Enables Them
to Distract Attention of Brute,
and Child, Badly Scratched,
Is Rescued.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
NeU York, July ~16-Ignorant of the fact
that q Maltese cat belonging to Mrs. Mary
Doherty OF No. IL Alexander avenue, In
the Bronx, had deposited a litter of kit
ters IN a perambulator, Fanny Lewitus, 10
years old who lives In the house. trundled
the carriage from under the stairs in the
hall In the afternoon and gently laid her
infant brother on the kittens.
With a cry of fury the mother cat
ieaped Al the girl. chasing her the length
81 the han- The child cried in terror.
~aroazins everyone in the house. Women
and children ran into the halls to ascer-
tain the cause OF the commotion, while
the cat went back to the perambulator
and proceed TO attack the infant, which
was smotheTing the life out of the kit
tens
Growing and scratching, the enraged
cat did its utmost to remove the baby,
which added its cries to those of Fanny
Lew1tus- When they understood what had
10 the rescue. led by Mrs. Doherty. They
were met half way by the Infatuated cat,
which evidently thought they intended
harmfng the kittens At long range the
tenants fought the animal, but inflicted
little damage to II. The cat chased the
rescuers several times down the hall,
each Time TeIurni0S % IeueW us dltdCh
upon the infant
For a time the women were in a guam
dairy how to rescue the baby. To leave
IL TO the mercy of the cat was out of the
question. while 1t seemed equally impos-
sibie for them to rescue 1t by mere force.
After a consultation they decided to resort
to strategy
While one OF the neighbors attracted
the attention Of the cat another managed
10 throw a blanket over the carriage from
the hall stairs. That proved a temporary
barrier bat wean tho cat and the infant
Then the women held another consulta-
ton and decided to wrap themselves in
coats. blankets and whatever other fab
RIGS they could obtain and attack the cat
in a body.
This thew did and managed to drive the
animal away and rescue the baby. EX-
cept for a few scratches on its arms and
face The child escaped injury. The cat.
kittens. carriage and all were finally
wheeled into a vacant apartment.
One Of the kittens was dead. A bed was
made on the floor for the cat and she at
once Gained down and paid no further at
tention to the excitement over the in
FAINT, but busted herself with her brood.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-17
BY FRANK C. CARPENTER

BY ESAN u. CARPENTER.
Special Correspondence Of The sunday Republic
Washington. July 81 had a long chat
last night with Postmaster General Payne
at his residence in the old Charles Sumner
mansion. now a part Of the Arlington
Hotel, within a stones throw Of the White
House.
My visit was by an appointment made at
the Post-Officc Department. and the con-
versation covered a wide range of postal
business and personal matters.
L first asked the General to tell me
something about himself and his family,
asking whether he came of the rich Clevs-
land Paynes of whom the late Senator
Henry h. Payne and Oliver H., the Stand
ard Oil millionaire. were prominent mem
bers. or from the poor Paynes to whom
the author of Home. Sweet Home be-
longed.
He replied:
MY family may have come from the
same stem as those whom you designate
as the poor Paynes and the rich Paynes,
but if so the relationship dates far back
II am one OF the Massachusetts, PaYneS.
My ancestors first came TO Massachusetts
about l6c6 on the third ship after the May
flower.
"They were among the first settlers of
Boston but they afterwards moved further
inland
81 see you were born at Ashfield?"
Yes. my people moved there after the
war between the Col0nists and the Indians.
known as King Phillips War. 1t took
place about 100 years before our Declard-
ton of Independence was signed.
when it was over a grant Of land was
made to the soldiers who took part in il,
and m family got a share"
How did you happen to so West?" l
asked.
The Paynes seem to have been imbued
with the emigrating spirit" said Mr..
Payne. Some of us early moved to the
Holland purchase, and others. later. to the
Western Reserve. l lived in Massachu-
sets until | was 20. and then went to Wis
cousin 10 take a position as a cashier and
bookkeeper in a wholesale dry goods
store"
''Wha kind of bookkeeper were you.
General?"
Il hin 1 must have been fairly good"
was the reply. Il have a natural talent
for mathematics and keeping account
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-17
AUTOMOBILE TAKES
HOSE CART TO FIRE.
Big Motor Car Hauls Apparatus .
Mile In Two Minutes and
Twelve Seconds.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Sayville. L. l.. July 16.-Hitched behind
the automobile Of Edward Burke. OF
Patchogue. the hose cart Of the Sayville
Fire Department went to a fire faster than
a hosecart ever Travelled before.
An alarm was sounded shortly after l
o'clock for a blaze In the stables of Cap
tain Edmund Terry. at Bayport, more
than a mile away.
Let me show you o to go to a flre.''
said Mr.. Burke. as he brought his big
motor car to q stop in front OF the fire
house. Hitch her on behind me and look
out for the steering gear"
. In less than ten seconds the hose cart
was flying toward Bayport with all Say
vile wondering at the novel sight. The
distance was covered in two minutes and
twelve seconds. and ten minutes later the
fremen arrived. tired out with their long
run.
Many of the f~ire-fghters were prominent
New Workers.. while George @. Laldlaw. a
member OF the old volunteers of BROOKLYN,
held the nozzle. The building and its con-
tents were destroyed.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-17

ing the necklace in a rack when a stew
ard opened the door and hastily shut It.
She was just going to sleep. she said,
when she was aroused by the entrance of
a man in a stewards uniform who took
the handbag and necklace and darted out.
The company tented responsioiity
made every effort to place her necklace
in the hands Of the purser and that
whether she knew Of the conditions on her
ticket or not, they were unreasonable
and not binding. He concluded that Mrs.
Barnes was robbed. that the weight OF
evidence indicated that a steward was the
thief. and that she was entitled to full
damages for her loss. The steamship
company will appeal.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-17
COUPLE EWCTED IN RAIN.
Had Nowhere to Go and Furni-
ture Was in Street.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
New York. July 1s.-Dripping from the
storm, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Altenber-
ger, gray-headed and bent with age, en-
tered the East Fifty-first Street Police
Station and asked Sergeant Bingham for
a place to sleep.
Nobody wants US around any longer"
said A~ltenberger. Were getting too old.
For the last two or three years I have
been janItor at No. 867 First avenue, but
just before the storm, the agent came
around and discharged me without a mo-
ment's notice. All our furniture has been
thrown out upon the sidewalk. AND 1
don't know where we'll go, for we haven
a relative or a friend"
They were sent to the rooms of the
Charity Organization Society, on East
Twenty-second street. An effort will be
made to provide a permanent home for
them.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-17
WILL NOT GO TO JAPAN.
Missionary Woman Is to Wed
and Stay at Home.

Akron, o., July 16.-Miss Claudia
Schrock was named as a missionary to
Japan by the National Universalist
Convention last winter n accepted the
appointment
A farewell reception has already been
held, and she was to leave shortly, but
now comes the announcement that she
will be married this summer to Professor
J. c. Rockwell. professor OF Latin and
Greek in BuchteL College. and she will
not go as a missionary. Miss Schrock has
resigned as teacher OF Latin in Buchtel
Academy.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-17
CORSET SAVED HER LIFE.
Where Stray Bullet Came From
Is a Mystery.
SPECIAL.

SPtCIAL-
Cincinnati. July 16.-Amelia Schneider. a
young woman of No. 2OT Elm street. was
struck by a stray bullet while walking
west on Henry between Race and Elm
streets.
The ball lodged between the metal STAYS
OF her corset and in this manner was pre-
vented from penetrating the abdomen and
inficting a serious wound.
Where the bullet came from Is a mys-
terry. as no sound of a shot was heard. and
there was no one in the immediate vicin-
ity
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-17
PAYNE'S PLAN TO IMPROVE
THE AMERICAN POSTAL SERVICE

Frank G. Carpenter Interviews the Postmaster General - The
Clerks and Their Effciency-Rural Deliverys Wonderful
Growth - Two Cent Postage for Foreign Mail - What Payne
Thinks of Government Telesraphs, Telephones and the Postal
Express-A Word About Street Cars and StreetCar Man
agement.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-17

1t increases the appetite, tones up the
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purer and better blood for the up
constitution. You will find no tonic
benefcially where the health has given
I'd by hard work and close confinement.
sections of the country, exposed to
thing the impure air arising from stagnant
Canton, Ohio, Aug. 8, 1908.
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believing 1t to be the best blood purifier
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MRS. FRANK HoRNER.
1880 z. Seventh st.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-17

miasmatic poisons and bre
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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-17
Altoona, Pa, June 90. 100:

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The Bourbon news., 1904-08-05
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
Chairman Thomas Taggart Announces
His Appointments.

indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 4.-Thomas
Taggart, chairman of the democratic
national committee, Wednesday even
Ing at 6:30 o'clock announced the fol-
lowing officers of the democratic ma
tional committee and the following
members of the national executive
committee:
National mmittee-Delancey Mic
oil, vice chairman, New York: George
Foster Peabody, treasurer, New York.
Executive Committee-W. F. Shee-
han, chairman, New York; August Bel
mont, New York; John r. Mclean.
Ohio; United States Senator Thomas
S. Martin, Scottsyille, Va; Col. ]. M
Gutfey, Pittsburg, Pa; ex-United States
Senator James Smith,. jr., Newark, n.
j.; Timothy E. Ryan, Waukesha. Wis.
Added to the announcement of the
appointments Chairman Taggart made
the following statement:
The campaign executive commit
tee will have the advice of Senator
Gorman's judgment and experience in
the campaign, he agreeing to keep in
close touch with the management at
all times"
The Bourbon news., 1904-08-05
INTERESTING TREE LORE.
Man Who Knows All About Woodland
Growths Gives Some Valu-
able Information.

How many leaves do you think tree
has?" asked the man who had read it all
up, stopping his friend in the park, re-
lates the New York Sun. "Of course, you
don't know Some birches have 200 900. ;.
and each leaf has 100000 mouths. /
know of 60-year-old beech that had 3d.
900 leaves and a 35-year-old one that
had only 5000.
These $4,000 leaves, dried, weighed
only ten pounds and the 5000 dried, only
three-Quarters of a pound. But they Go
tremendous work in season. During
spring and summer, birches and lin
dens have been found to exhale 600 or
700 pounds of water per pound of dry
leaves; the ash tree about 500; beeches,
400; naples, 400, and oaks, 250 The
conifers give out about 100pounds tree
To stagger you still more, an acre of
beech forest of, say, 500 trees, would
exhale about 100000 pounds.
"And the funniest part of it all to me
is that the water in tree, or the mois-
ture, really amounts to more than half
the weight of the tree, or from 55 to 60
per cent, while the wood weighs but 40
to 40 per cent In a big forest what you
don't see weighs more than what you
do see. Funny, isn't it?
"As to forests and water" continued
the tree man, 81 learned that a partial
cutting down Of the Volga river valley
forests had the tremendous effect of
lessening so great an area of water as
the Caspian sea. figured the COMPARE
son. and found that, pro rata, six feet of
water would be taken off Lake Superior,
eight off Lake Michigan, 1S off Lake
Erie and q off Lake Ontario. I was
staggered
Then | found that deforestation, as
We call it, has robbed the vistula river
OF rs inches of water, the magnificent
Rhine of % inches and the beautiful blue
Danube of 55 inches Let me hit you
nearer home. The Hudson has been
called drowned river because the sea
encrOaches upon it. But you're drown
ing it more now by your deforestation
and you'd better hurry up with those
Adirondack lands. The salt water now,
they say, goes up to Hastings.
"The Schuylkill is less in volume than
ever. So is the Mohawk and so is the
Connecticut. Even the fish left the
lower part of the Savannah river, but
they're trying to do something with that
water now
Another queer thing is that Christie
pher Columbus son Fernando, who
crossed the ocean with him, was the
first man to start the question of for
ests causing rainfall, by his observations
of the wealth of vegetation on the Island
of jamaica"
The Bourbon news., 1904-08-05
THE MAIL CARRIERS.
Modification in Adjustment of Salaries
in Free Delivery Service

Washington, Aug. 4.-Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General BEistow We'd
nesday said that the modification an
nounced Tuesday in the adjustment of
salaries of free delivery service car
riers affected about 1900 carriers
Their salaries will be increased in
amounts ranging from SIS to $72 a
year. Under the general adjustment
recently announced took erect July 1,
1880 rural carriers received $72O a
year, but the modification order an
nounced Tuesday to take effect August
1 increases the number drawing the
amount 11,000, making a total of 22,-
500 carriers drawing the maximum of
$72O. These maximum paid carriers
travel 20 miles or more daily and
serve 100 families or more Mr.. Bris-
tow said Wednesday that no other
change in the recent general adjust
ment of carriers salaries was con.
templated.