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Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-05
81 STAY WITH THE SHIP"
SAYS THE COMMANDER
CAPTAIN REFUSES TO LEAVE
SINKING CRAFT
Dressed in His Sunday Clothes, He
Stands Upon the Deck Of His Bark
and Waves Adieu to His Crew.
The Mates Story
Special Gable to The Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald.
LONDON, Nov. A thrilling story
of the rescue of the crew of a Norwe-
gian vessel and the tragic death of her
captain, who refused to leave his ship
and, dressed in his Sunday clothes,
stood on her deck till she foundered
was brought to port yesterday by the
crew of the bark Candeur who arrived
at Newcastle from Boston Uincoln)
where they had been brought by the
trawler Whale.
1--WE sailed from Sunderland coke
laden for Dramnen," said the mate,
Henrik Olsen.
"Outside we encountered rough
weather which rapidly grew worst.
We We're driven out of our course.
Seas swept the bark from stem to stern.
Her sails were carried away, and when
thirty hours out the bark sprang a Sc
rious leak
I'm spite of the unceasing eXertions
of the men at the pumps there was
fourteen feet of water in the hold the
next morning.
I'VE worked despairingly at the
pumps, but the water steadily gained,
and when the trawler Whale of Boston
bore down on US the same day our
decks were awash, only the bulwarks
and the fittings being above water.
The boats were launched, but Cap
tain Knusden refused to leave the Can
deur, and ordered us to save ourselves.
I'VE besought him to come with us,
but, shouting Goodby, / stay with the
ship! he cast off the boats himself.
I'VE reached the Whale safely and
all that day her skipper stood by the
Candeur. AS evening fell, we saw our
captain come up fom his cabin dressed
in his Sunday clothes, and wearing his
gold watch and chain.
He waved to us and then the dark
ness fell, and we saw him no more.
The next morning the Candeur had dis
appeared
Another gallant rescue of a second
Norwegian bark-the st. Joseph of
Arendal-Was carried out yesterday by
the Grimsby traWler Queenstown.
The st. Joseph, which is big three
masted vessel, left Boston bound for
Malmo with coal.
She met with heavy weather through
out the week, but progressed steadily
until Monday, when the storm in
creased to such an extent that even
the closely-reefed stormsails were too
great strain for the fore and main
masts, which broke off at the deck,
and came down with tremendous
crash.
Thus crippled and with her decks
swept clean by the heavy seas, the st.
Joseph lay for many hours at the
mercy of the waves
The following day the Grimsby traw-
Ter Queenstown sighted the disman-
tied vessel and bore down to her aid.
The boat was launched, and in spite
of tremendous seas the Norwegian
vessel was boarded. AS soon as the
crew had been safely transferred to the
trawler the wreckage on the st. Jo-
seph was cleared away, and yesterday
after towing the dismantled bark 200
miles in the teeth of bowling gale,
the fishermen safely berthed the wreck
at Grimsby.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-05
LONDON NOW OWES THE
SUM OF S223,1O1,33O
FIGURES NOT ALARMING TO THE
OFFICIALS
Chairman of the Council Points With
Pride to the Work Accomplished
by the Present Board-AppalIing
Mortality Among Children
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald
LONDON, Nov. 4.-Sir Edwin Corn
wall, who was knighted the other dav
for his services as chairman of the
London County council, has rather
startled Londoners by the recital of
some of the stupendous figures in his
budget speech.
Within sixteen years the debt of the
county council has increased from
e17,563,62 &S7S 31O) to G4462O, ,266
($223, 101, $500, and the amount expended
on the local government of London is
greater than that Of Norway and Swe-
den combined, double that of Rou-
mania and four times that of Denmark.
In spite of these figures, or perhaps
because of them, Sir Edwin claimed
that the council has deserved well of
London. ut is a greater body than
the government which created it
thought it was capable of being. 1t is
a greater body than the members of
1t, close as they are to it's work, yet
realize.
''It is, in short, what the people and
the needs of the people have made it;
but 1t has also greater problem be-
fore it-namely, to prove that a COM
munity of 100000 people is a possible
unit for local elf-government, and to
solve this problem it has no example
from history or nothing from the re-
searches of philosophers or thinkers.
1t has simply got to solve it by itself,
and to solve such a problem properly
there is needed one all important thing
namely, an efficient organization.
''When I look at the council in this
respect ] am not satisfied, yet when
look for better managed public body
1 cannot find it. London is expected
to lead the way in all things municipal,
and 1 hope it will lead the way to
efficient organization.'
Sir Edwins long speech was packed
full of interesting facts and suggestive
expressions of opinion. Here is brief
selection: Fifty or sixty years ago
the death rate of London was 24.S per
thousand; now it is 1876. That means
a saving of about 36,S0O lives a year
But the appalling mortality of children
is the saddest fact shown by statistics.
One child in every seven born in Lon
don dies before reaching the age of
twelve months.
1.-TWO hundred and fifty million gal
Ions of sewage are chemically treated
every day. A new scheme of food re-
lief is to cost over G4,50O0 900 1922, 800 =
000); the council is now responsible for
the work that used to be done by the
London school board; it costs ga Is
Sd ($20.35) a year to educate a child
in London. This is a higher sum than
anywhere else" said Sir Edwin, with
the single exception of New York"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-05
HOW TO GO FAST
Motorboat Expert Says That Swift
ness Depends Upon the
Screw
Special Cable to The Herald.

special CaDle TO Inc Herald.
PASIS, Nov. Am an interesting in
terview given by Herbert c. Spencer.
motorboat expert, on the subject of
motorboatS he said:
During the early months Of the pres
ent year 1 was actively engaged in de-
signing and afterwards in experiment.
ing with the autoboat Lake Michigan.
1 had a light hull constructed with a
fair amount of beam on the water line.
but much cut away except at the quar-
ters, although it drew comparatively
little When running 1t seemed to be
borne on the water; there was always
a few inches submerged at the bow and
this gave the craft stability of hull.
1t was equipped with 60-horsepower
motor Despite the comparatively low
horsepower 1 managed to get a speed
of more than thirty miles an hour.
II found that by cutting down the
size of the propeller 1 obtained more
speed for the given horsepower. The
big screw did not have the results I
expected. 1 also found it extremely
difficult to design a screw which in re-
volving at more than thousand revo-
lutions did not give any back wash.
A propeller revolving too fast is use
less 1t is because many builders OF
autoboats do not take this point into
consideration that better results are
not obtained. When the motors are
revolving too fast the propellerS simply
churn the water.
"a good deal of experimenting is yet
to be done before it Is ascertained
what speed a certain sized screw shall
be made to revolve at in order to give
the maximum of power"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-05
ENGLISH CLERGY
IN WORKHOUSES
PITlABLE CONDITION OF MANY
CHURCHMEN
One Minister Of the Gospel Found Liv-
ing on the Upper Floor Of Barn,
While His Wife Took In
Washing
snecIal Gable to Tho Herald.

The bishop of Londons suggestion
that It might be necessary to Introduce
a system Of compulsory insurance, un-
der which clergynen, and possibly
bishops, might be compelled to retire
a a certain age, has been received with
mixed feelings.
Mr. Robert Lowe secretary of the
4 Clergy Pensions Institution, summed
up his views on the question i'm the
course of an interview yesterday.
"One of the greatest evils he said
that the Church of England suffers
from on its purely financial side is
that there is no fund out Of which the
clergyman can obtain a pension when
he is past work.
For some time past it has been con-
tended by a number Of church people
that the real remedy for this lies in the
direction suggested by the bishop of
London.
"The more the suggestion has been
looked into, however, the more imprac-
ticable it has been found. Compulsion
is never an attractive remedy, and if
1t should be introduced in this case IT
would innict a great hardship on the
very class that it is intended to ben
eft.
"A very large percentage of the liv-
| ings are so poor that the annual pay
and IT will be found that almost all
the clergy who can afford it have al
| ready by means of life insurance and
In other ways, made provision for the
future
Thus one class of clergy would say
when compulsion was suggested: 4
simply cannot afford It,, and anoth her
class would say: I am already doing
the very thing YOU want to force me to
do, only in different way.
ut was these conditions which. some
twenty years ago, induced an influen-
tial body of church peope both lay
and clerical, to found the Clergy Pen
sions Institution 1t is on purely
voluntary basis, and its principal object
is to help those of the clergy who
would help themselves"
1t appears that in the united kingdom
there are between II 900 and 10000 cler-
gy, 5000 of whom are in receipt of less
than 13O pounds year. and 1400 less
than 65 pounds. Last year at least five
hard-working clergymen were known
to have died, one from pneumonia
helped on by sheer starvation. and the
others from causes directly attributed
to want of proper nourishment.
During the past ten years more than
hundred Church of England clergy
men have been admitted to the work
houses and pauper lunatic asylums in
England and Wales.
To bring up all clerical incomes tc
level of 300 pounds a year. which for
men who have had an expensive uni
versity training, is not considered ex-
cessive would, it is estimated, require
an annual expenditure of 1,215, ,OOC
pounds.
case was once actually discovered
by bishop where the clergyman of a
remote country village had to live on
the upper floor of a barn, while his
wife took in washing
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-05
GRAVES MORE BLOOD
Murderer of Empress Elizabeth oi
Austria Tries to Kill
Warder
Special Gable to The Herald.


LONDON, Nov. 4.-Luccheni, the
nihilist, who seven years ago assas-
sinated the Empress Elizabeth of Aus
tria on the Quai de Mont Blanc at
Geneva, and who for his crime was
sentenced to Imprisonment for life, has
again become wild and unmanageable.
writes Geneva correspondent of the
Express.
He Is in solitary confinement at tho
Eveche prison, and from time to time
gives way to fits of mad fury when he
tears up his clothing, refuses to work
and attacks all who come near him.
Some time ago he attempted to muir
der Capt. Alexander Perrin, the gov
ernor of the gaol, and since then his
warders have been particularly careful
how they approached him.
Luccheni's latest escapade is said to
have been cunning and deliberate
plan to murder one of his warders and
to try to escape. For days he feigned
illness, and one night his warder on
entering the cell saw the prisoner ap-
parently unconscious on the floor.
AS he carelessly bent over the pros
trate man he felt his neck suddenly
gripped in the sinewy fingers of the
criminal, who, after almost stranglinG
him, Hung him to the ground and made
for the door.
Here Luccheni ran into the arms of
another warder, and after a savage
struggle, during which the assassin
claWed and bit like a wild beast, he
was secured and chained to the wall of
his cell.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-05
THE KAISER IN PARIS
German Ruler Says He Went When a
Student and Had Lots of
Fun
Special Gable to The Herald.


PARIS, Nov. 4.-The kaiser in con-
Nersation with Felix Borchardt, who
painted his portrait, denied laughingly
reports that he frequently visited Paris
In secret. Never since my ascession," ="
he said, land only once in my life
and that before l was kronprinz. When
L was student at Bonn, / ran over for
couple of days, put up at the Hotel
Mirabeau and passed the evening at a
theater in the Palais Royal, where 1
certainly had a good laugh for my
money"
The artist says the emperor is keenly
Interested in every phase of Paris life,
even social gossip. He is captivated
by the theater, spoke of Bernhard
and Rejane with enthusiasm, and
counts Coquelin as a personal friend.
The emperor showed good deal of
humor during the sittings and told the
artist to make him look pleasant, as
the picture was destined for France,
and II do not want to he taken for a
France batter" He criticised the detail
in the background. THAT cloud" he
said, "is all wrong; it looks as If We're
letting my handkerchief fall out of my
pocket" And the artist was Obliged to
confess the justice of the observation.
He told the kaiser he was the first EN-
peror actually painted not in studio
but In the open air, and Immediately
the kaiser adopted an air of mock
solemnity and swore he would en-
deavor to conduct himself in a manner
worthy of so solemn an occasion.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-05
eERMANYs PRESUMPTION
Her Butting In Annoys and Exasper-
ates the Other European
Powers
snncinl 10 The 1Ieraid-

Special To The Herald
| PARIS, Nov. 4.-France had got
into the habit of settling all questions
appertaning to the Mediterranean with
England, Spain and Italy. Germany
has simply changed the quartet into a
quintet. Her presumption in the mat
ter Is in keeping with the development
as a naval power, for 1t Is self-evident
that from the moment she has a navy
she will interest herself In colonial mat
ters generally. IT Is hardly necessary
to add, however. that the entry Of this
actor on the stage has disarranged not
to say annoyed, the others.
The enthusiasm that has character
lied the visit of NJ. Loubet to Madrid
and the extraordinary courtesies ex-
tended to the visiting municipal coun-
cilors in London are in the nature of u
counter demonstration to Germany's
advent 1t is apparent that neither
England nor Spain is any more enriched
than we are ourselves at the appear
ance In the Moroccan question OF an
advisor notoriously hard to satisfy
The kaiser would have to perform but
few more world plays like that oi
Tangiers to arouse all Europe to com
mon defense.
Moreover, II would seem that the
compliments showered upon NJ. Loubet
i'm Spain have rather surprised the
amenities which usually characterize
such peregrinations. He was treated az
a friend, and the king promised to stop
over to shoot with M. Boubet upon the
formers return from Germany
AS for the Partisan solons who visited
London, they returned home delighted.
Some of their electors, It is true, are
criticising them for being so friendly
with King Edward and visiting his chill
dren.
Now the Socialist Federation of the
Seine has just adopted a resolution for
bidding its candidates hereafter from
membership in committee not having
a Socialist majority. This will prevent
them from taking pert in any more
excursions, because the Socialist mem
bers of the council who did go to Lon
don went only as committeeman. Coun-
cilmen. however, are not forced to fol-
low the Instructions of their electors.
A great change has just been made in
the personnel of the colonial office.
Gen. Galleni, who has governed NADIA
gascar for the last nine years, has re-
signed His successor is Gen. Augna-
geur, mayor of Lyons, and its deputy
BY the administrative fiction of renew
ing his appointment every six months,
he will be permitted to retain his seat
in the chamber. Gen. Augnageur is 4
physician of rare intelligence and
energy. He is the political boss" of
his town. and is known in local par
lance as "the emperor" 1t is believed
and hoped that while in Madagascar he
will carry on the work begun by Gen
Gallieni, a course which will assure the
islands prosperity.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-05
GREAT ENGLISH LADY ILL
Aqed Duchess of Devonshire Reported
to Be in a Serious Con-
difinn
Special Gable to The Herald.


LONDON, Nov. 4.-The duchess on
Devonshire's illness is serious; she is
nearly so years of age, but at a back
view her figure is so miraculously pre-
served and her hair so unaffected by
years that one might mistake her for
a woman of 30. Recently she had q
bad attack of neuritis, but for the last
couple of weeks her general condition
has been causing the greatest anxiety.
She is an ardent turtle, betting and
losing heavily, while her devotion to
bridge won for her vars ago the nick
name "Ponte Vecchio" dhe old bridge).
Bridge playing for high stakes has been
long an essential qualification for an
invitation to her small parties. The
duke, always her devoted slave, al
lowed her to do anything she chose.
She Is very goodnatured to her friends,
but her one absorbing passion has been
gambling. She was German countess
in her own right and famous beauty
when she married the duke of Man
chester, grandfather of the present
duke, during whose lifetime Devonshire
was her unaffected admirer. He was
marquis of Harrington when her first
husband died. but did not marry her
until by the death of his father he sue
ceeded to the dukedom of DeVonshlre.
She, next to the king Is the most po-
tent personality in smart society.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-05
SECRETS OF OLD AGE
Revelations by Group Of London
octogenarians to Their
Eettoue


Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, Nov. 4.-Eight young peo.
pie, ranging I'm age from eighty to-
ninety-one, all of whom have a reason b.
able prospect Of becoming centenari-
ans, will reveal the secret Of their
longevity at a meeting at the Memorial
hall, Tarringdon street, tonight.
Their names and ages are: G. =.
Newcombe, aged eighty; Prof j. Mayor
of Cambridge university, aged eighty;
Joseph Wallace, aged eighty-four: T.
A. Hanson aged eighty-six Samuel
Sanders, aged ninety-one; Thomas
Wyles, aged eighty eight; Samuel Pit
man, brother Of the late Sir Isaac Pit
man, aged eighty-two Miss WarloW,
aged eighty.
They are all vegetarians, and several
of them have very asCetlc ideas of
what should be allowed to grace the
festive board.
The questions they Will discuss are:
How to live long" How to avoid
sickness and pain" and How to re .
tain in their freshness and vigor the
powers of body and mind, so as to
make life worth living"
One of the most interesting of the
speakers is Miss Warlow the only
lady who has voluntarily confessed
her age and is prepared to give her
IT was exactly five when I made my
first determined stand against meHt
eating" she said. II was then told
that if did not eat my meat I should
eat nothing, and | was in that way
actually starved into partial submis-
sion. [ say partial because we had n
pet dog who had the run of the din
ing-room-and he was very fond Of
meat.
Directly l rea ched years of disCre-
tion l became Il vegetarian, and have
been one ever since. My house is gov
erned on social-democratic principles.
We are all equals. My servants get
whatever they like for dinner, and l
have some of the vegetables"
Since she was fifty-seven Miss War
low has devoted herself entirely to
teaching gratuitously those who are too
poor to pay for instruction.
Even at the age of eighty, when most
people are practically invalids, Miss
Warlow has about twenty pupils, and
teaches for four hours a day. II had
to give up higher mathematics" she
remarked, "as it made my head bad.
Nor do ! take Virgil now, although /
still teach elementary Latin
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-05
MILLIONAIRE AND WAITER
Two Well Known Americans Who
Journey over the Seas
Together
Special Gable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, Nov. A millionaire and
n waiter paced the corridor Of the Hotel
Cecil yesterday chatting to one an
other with the freedom of old friends.
One was David Halliday Moffat,
American lawyer and railway owner,
the other was Thomas Gay, head
waiter of the Fifth Avenue hotel, one
of the largest and most famous in
New York.
Mr.. Moffat's friendship with Mr.. Gay
dates back more than forty years. to
the time when neither of them had at
tained his present position.
The millionaire began life as a mes
senger boy in the New York Exchange
bank. and rose to the position of a
cashier When only 2l he started a
bank of his own in Denver, Colo, and
a few years later became president
of the First National bank in that
city.
In the early sos he promoted the
famous Denver q Rio Grande railway
and later built largely at his own eX-
pense, line connecting the rich mines
of Cripple Creek with the Denver &
Rio Grande system.
When fortune had smiled upon the
ex-messenger boy he did not forget
the friend of his youth. who had him
self risen from humble circumstances
to a lucrative post.
Whenever Mr.. Moffat has visited
Europe he has generally arranged to
travel with Mr.. Gay. They crossed
the Atlantic together this summer
on the Celtic and will return together
The knowledge that Mr. Gay was
head waiter spread like wildhre
among the waiting staff OF the Hotel
Cecil. I'VE naturally feel a little ner-
Vous," said one of them to an Ex-
press representative yesterday, "ln
having 10 walt upon an expert I'm our
own profession. So far, however, he
has expressed nothing but approval OF
the British walters methods"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-05
LIVES ON FOUR CENTS A DAY
Famous University Athlete to Start
"Fleshess" Restaurant in
| ondoo
Special Gable to The Herald.

LONDON, Nov 4.-Eustace Miles
the famous Cambridge university ath-
lete, who says he can live on four cents
day, is about to start several "nesh-
less" restaurants in London, where the
pubic can test his diet fads. Benson,
the novelist, and Lady Henry Soner,
set, are associated with him in the
venture. Vegetarianism, Miles SAYS,
nils him with horrible visions OF tur
gid tomato soup, voluminous turnips
and indigestible cabbage. His diet
scheme is based on scientific knowledge
of food values and their adaptation to
producing tabloid meals, digestible
nourishing, stimulating and palatable.
Here is typical menu Of a 3e-cent
dinner: Chestnut soup, vegetables
roast, plasmon, trihe, cheese and salad
savory. He tried these dinners on his
friends, including Premier Balfour.
with most gratifying results.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-05
PRINCESS SUED BY MAID

BERLIN. Nov A dispatch to the
Tageblatt from Kiel says that Frau
lein Milewsky former maid of the
late Duchess Amelia of Schleswig-
Holstein, has brought suit for slander
against Princess Henrietta of Schles-
wig Holstein, aunt of the German en-
press. because of a letter written by
Duke Ernst Guenther of Schleswig-
Holstein. brother-in-law of I1mpero,
william, i'm which Fraulein Milewsky
is alluded to as a dangerous, cunning
swlndler." The case will be tried be-
fore the court at Kiel. The empress and
a long list of princely personages will
As asked to testify.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-05
LIVING MUMMY SUICIDES

BRUSSELS, Nov 4.-Dominique Cas-
tagna, a man of 35, known as the "Liv-
ing Mummy" committed suicide yes
terday by shooting himself with re-
volver i'm an exhibition booth on the
Boulevard du Midi.
Castagna, who weighted only sixty
five pounds, subsisted entirely on po-
tatoes and hard-boiled egs. Notwith-
standing his emaciated appearance, he
was an expert fencer, and on sew
eral occasions beat his adversaries with
the rolls at matches held in connection
with the Liege exhibition.
Castagna left a note saying that he
had killed himself because a clause had
been inserted i'm his agreement prohib-
iting him from getting intoxicated.