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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-26
MONEY. DEMANDED .
&. UNDER A PENALTY
Irene Grossman Found lnsensible
With BLACK Hand Demands
for Money Written On
the Backs Of Two
Pictures On
the Wall.
(By Associated Press.) 4

? . = "a + y, = u T !
NEW YORK. September 2.-Nell!e
Nussbaum, fifteen years old, was to-day
accused by hor fatherof writing him let
ters threatening death unless he paid her
s5o The letters were signed the BLACK
Hand" The girl confessed to the police
to-day that she wrote such letters 70 her
father saying that she did It Just TOR
fun. One OF the letters TO her lather.
began: asj il,
See here. We amt going TO fool With
you no longer. II we don't get ~ on
September 18th at II p. NJ. we Will Kill
you and your girl. am president OF the
skljck and can write palmer letters than.
the rest THE &HLACN sHANDD ANlD [s
The close of another letter reads:
i Bring $50 10 the SPOT at Sixty-frst
Street and the East River. or we VIII
slay your little beauty GIRL"
Nellie hcrgelf is supposed TO have been
the beauty girl meant.
Still Another.
II Her father vas alarmed by these let
tiers, and put them In the hands OF the
police. All OF them were written within
the las two weeks. Thc police traced TO
Nellie pen another BLACK Hand let
ter demanding money, WHICH so alarmed
another business man that detectives were
z put on ms case. 100. @F u Gfsist t
Irene Grossman, Il girl OF sixteen years,
WAS found clubbed into !nsensibility IN
8the hallway OF her home ut No. oi2 West
One Hundred and Forty-second Street
early to-day. The attack was the cul-
B nina ton Of n series OF nightly entries
! In the Cirossnan residence. which we're
intended to enforce BY BLACK Hand
methods payment OF money for Immunity
from attacks. Beginning Friday night
negro visited the house nightly, appear
ing only TO Miss SGrOssnanland escaping
when frightened by her screanH s53 De spit 70
the lookout set for him by the family, he
succeeded to-day lnareachinE Miss Cross
man before she had a chance to give
warning. .
Saw No Man.
The girls brother told the police that
his sister had started for an early morn
ing walk when sho was attacked. He
j heard her scream and ran into the hall
way, where he found her unconscious, but
saw nothing OF the man. After tho club
X blng tho police found two pictures in the
Grossman home, with their faces turned
towards the walls, and notes demanding
3 money written on tbs backs. On the
back or a photograph OF Mrs. Grossman
was written:
1--WE expect $500 from you. B. F. C.'
On the back OF one OF her daughters
pictures was written In the same hand:
eve expect $500 from you. B. i. c..
In the two previous visits to the house
the burglar had stolen several valuable
pictures and more than 500 worth Of
sllverware.
Miss Grossmnns injuries are not be-
lieved to be dangerous.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-26
STUDENTS REFUSED
ENTRANCE 8TOV. II. !,

Especial 10 The Times -Dlspatch.)
gBI.ACKsBURG, VA Sept, 25.-The
faculty OF the Virginia Polytechnic In
sttute refused entrance to five old stu,i
dents who have not matrlcMlated, and
who engaged In hazinE, .s ~, $ an i,g
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-26
FIREWORKS DESTROYED;
ONE KILLED, THREE HURT
(By AssocIa1e,l Press.) 1

(By Associated Press.)
OF ! a large @ @alanttt!y t Is! Of Of powder 20 tic are-
works factory Of Joseph speizo; IN Green
olnt was to'aly d,estroyea i1,inaiS ,niS
Mas Instantly Killed. and his wife and two
younger boys and workman were scri-
olsly injured {5ii4 14
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-26
COAST LINE TRESTLE
DESTROYED BY FIRE
(By Associated Press.)

TIoMAsvTLLE, GA, Sept 25,-rhe
railroad trestle over Barnett's Creek. one
mile east Of Pine Park, was destroyed by
fire this afternoon, The bridge ignited
from the sparks of q passing freight train
engine. The happening will seriously de-
lay cast and west-bound traffic on the
Atlantic Coast Line.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-26
NO FUSION NOMINEE YET
FOR MAYOR OF NEW YORK
(By Associated Press.)

n -I-@ 80 BY ASSOCIlteu = ese' q
e NEW YORK, September 26.-The Nom
mating Committee OF tho Fusion Con:
ference met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
to- day, ard after two hours. meeting
failed to agree upon candidate for
Mayor.
The committee asked the Fusion Con-
ference for further time, and was given
the desired delay.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-26
DEACONs HAD A FIGHT
AT THE CHURCH MEETING
(speclal 10 The Times D!upateh,)

VINl;H l;HESTDR, VA, Sept. GA des-
perat encounter between several deacons
Of the !. !, school, colored BAPTIST At MILL
wood, Clarke county, resulted In O largely
attended meeting becoming upToarious,
and many narrowly escaped serious injury
In q panlc that followed,
Charles Porter went after Charles KING
with a razor, and the latter was terribly
slashed He Was taken to HIS home In q
precarlous condition. The trouble OCCUR
ysd over a wRalalL
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-26
Had Four Wives,
(By Associated Press

I.9-TI ~ II3y ASSOCIHEeu t7T1SSI Y n
NEW YORK, September M.-Frederick
p.f Carlton, n commissary steward IN
the New York navy yard, In Brooklyn,
was found guilty to-day OF blgamy, Carl
ton had four WtYaA
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-26
You Should

ADVERTISE for business, for or
results, not for fun. Tees
t,eo Want Ads. will MI the
bill.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-26

CONTINUED on Seventh Page.)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-26
Good Sd Help |'l[.':'

and Good Positions are ad.s
vertised daily in the Tee Dee 2 s,g
want Ad. Columns. Read
them.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-26

Continued on Ninth Page.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05

sleepy English provincial town than With the great business center of the New World. Just thirteen years before these canons were declared in force Bishop Potter formally inaugurated the work on the cathedral on St Johns Day, 1891. The visible results of these years of build ing seem remarkably small to the man who is accustomed to watch modern sl<ycsraper shoot twenty stories from the ground in the course of a few months. better idea of the progress that has all ready been made is obtained when one stops to consider how different is the cree tion of a great cathedral and of steel office building.
 In modern times few persons have been bold enough to attempt to erect another of those edifices on which the builders or the Middle Ages expended their strength and genius. In the interval men have be- come impatient as their mechanical skill has increased until to the builder Of to- day q year is as long as q century to the men who planned the cathedrals Of Europe To the tourist it seems that the church in which he stands grew almost of itself so colossal Is its scale so enor- nous the amount of labor involved. In one sense he is right. Few of the famous cathedrals to which Americans crowd to see were completed as in an office build ing. and 1t was never expected that they 
 beauty and their magnificence was the pride of the cities in which they rise and on this task the genius of generation after generation was spent.
 The twentieth century with it's railroads steam derrioks, drills and dynamite, has made 1t possible to do in few years what was to the Middle Ages work of centur- ies The progress of the work on the Ro- man Catholic Cathredral at Westminster and the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral in New York, the two instances of elabor- ate ecclesiastical undertakings in recent times is as striking an evidence of the revolution in building methods s'in the loftiest of New York's office buildings The Westminster ediffce--begun in 1895 and extremely far advanced-is peculiar in it's Byzantine style, which presents a very different problem from the Gothic, Romanesque or Renaissance structures more familiar to American travellers. In
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
CATHEDRAL THAT WILL
 BE A WORLDS WONDER

New York, February IA gift of s60o, GOO to the building fund of the great Cathe- dral of St. John the Divine, now rising overlooking the broad Hudson, brings within sight the completion of the first stage of the work on what will be one of the most remarkable church ediflces in the history of the world. Former Vice President Levi P. Morton. whose identity as the donor of this splendid contribu- ton has just been disclosed, divided his gift Into $45o,000 for the construction of the choir and s15o. GOO for the installation of the reredos, choir stalls and other furnish ings, which will finish that part of the structure. Of the s40o,OO0 required for the crossing the trustees already have sl50O0O outright, while s100,OOO more is pledged to be forthcoming soon as the remaining $15O,O00 necessary is raised. When this Is done, in qlaee of the irreg- ular pile which is now all that is visible of the beautiful cathedral, there will be on the summit of Mornngside Heights the largest church in the city of New York. Even this will be but small part of the gigantic structure that is ultimate ly to stand there.
 Cathedral Organization.
 The statutes and eanons of the Cathe- dral of St. John the Divine were adopted on December 27, 1904. thus creating com plete eatheral organization-an organiza- ton which in the minds of most Amer jeans is associated rather with some
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05

changing taste of the men who worked upon them.
 Civic Pride.
 The most pretentious churches of the world are in large measure the result of civic pride as well as religious enthusi- asm To the burgher of the middle ages his city took the place of the nation and in no better way could he show his pa- triotism and his piety than by the erec- ton of as imposing a cathedral as the citys wealth could produce St. Marks in Venice and the Florence cathedral, to cite two of many instances, are as thor oughly civic undertakings as the bridges now spanning the East river.
 One of the most interesting and com plete records of the way in which me- diaeval cathedral was built is furnished by Sienna, once one of 1taly's most four ishing city-republics and now an almost unrivalled relic of the middle ages. As the city rose to greatness the citizens grew dlscontented with their old church, in- ferior, they thought. to that of their rival Pisa Some time in the thirteenth century-the wonderful cycle of the mid dle ages-wOrk was begun on new cath edral, the earliest visible parts of which date from 12i5. More interest apparently was taken in Sienna in the building Of this cathedral "The Work" as 1t was
  York took in it's subway. An elaborate system of regulations was drawn up and countless precautions were taken to see that no contractors made more than legal profit
 Money or Candles.
 On August 15-the Feast of the Assump- tion and the great Sienrese holday-ev- cry citizen was compelled to contribute to "Tne Work' money or candles, Tor which there was a steady demand for use as votve offerings. The money was kept and the candles sold 10 swell the build ing fund. In the surrounding country one robber chief after another was made by force of arms to contribute to the same pious object. All through the thirteenth century, when Sienna was at the height of It's power, these resources proved am- pie and the cathedral rose steadily.
 Abou. 13s5 the ever-increaslng pride of the Siennese inclined them to regard with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05

Myrtle Reed, it is said, is visiting New York just now. She has been in consult tation with her publishers. G. Putnams Sons. about two new books upon which she is working. One is to be In the vein of her Lavender and Old Lace" the other. a humorous book. Miss Reed 5 home is in Chicago
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05

Byzantine art interior decoration play a most important part and the marble and mosaic work, on which so much of the beauty of the Westminster cathedral is to depend, may not be finished for q cen tury.
 Gothic Romanesque.
 The Gothic Romanesque cathedral of St. John the Divine which will bear com parison In size as well as in beauty with the most famous edlfces on the other side of the Atlantic, has already advanced an appreciable distance toward eomple- tion and three or four years should see the choir and the crossing ready for services. This will make the structure. in technical language, about twenty per cent completed but the rest of the work, 1t is believed, can be pushed far more rap- idly Even if It should be forty years before the last stone is in place, St. Johns would be among the quickest in erection as 1t is among the largest in size of the cathedrals of the world.
 Towering above the heights along the Hudson, St Johns will occupy in the cosmopols of America much the same position as St. Paul's does in London. Old St Pauls which took a matter of two centuries to complete. was burned in the great fire of 1866. and eight years were devoted to clearing away the rubbish. or the new buildlng on which work was begun in 1675. only the walls of the choir had been finished by 1885 and if was twelve years later before any services were held in it. In ITO, thirty-hve years after the beginning of work, St. Paufs was tin- ished With the exception of Salisbury, 1t is the only English cathedral designed and completed in one style Of archltec- ture The others. growing slowly from generation to generation, embody the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05

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 Fully three -fourths of my patients have been treated by some one else before call ing on me to be cured. Why not come as soon ns afhctedp You will save money. distressing pain and valuable time; be- sides, there Is satisfaction in knowing that the very best treatment Is being giveA you by an honest. competent phy-i Eician. l have treated private troubles as A speciality in the city of Birmingham. Ala. since August {: 1887. cure all man-l ner of private diseases. I cure many pal tients by mall treatment. Write for prices and terms. i
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 My offices are the most private and' quiet in the city tenth story of the new First National Bank building. corner of escond avenue and Twentieth street Rooms 1Oo6 and 1O07. Take one of the fine q vators to tenth floor.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
National Disease and Remedy

Ray Stannard Baker in February Me
 Clures.
 Lynchng is not so much a disease in itself as 1t is the symptom of disease It is a symptom of law,assaess. of the failure of justice, of political corruption. It is an attempt of nature 70 throw OF disease-as she sometimes thows off the humors of the blood in the human body by violent eruptions
 And this disease-the failure of law-is not essentially southern disease, though it is complicated and emphasized there by an ignorant. inferior, defenseless, often criminal negro population. No southern manifestation of mob-law has equaled in downright anarchy the conditions in Colorado last year. In the north as our negro population increases-and 1t is in- creasing rapidly-we shall lynch negros with the same utter brutality that we find in the south: we have done it already and repeatedly it in Illinois, Indiana Ohio Kansas, Delaware and in other northern states. No so. -hern lynehing was ever more barbarors than that of Wilmington, Delaware.
 We would think it the height of ab- surdity, in this day of science, to doctor the outward symptom of a physical ill. We treat the disease itself. Yet several states. notably Ohio, have passed laws to prevent lynching-which have not stop ped mob violence. and never will stop it,
 The only remedy is strict enforcement of all the laws, along the line, all the time so that no man rich or poor, white or black, can escape That is t1e remedy and the only remedy; and like most real remedies, not patent nostrums, it is sim plicity itself-if lived up to. It gets back after all like every one of these great questions, to us personally. We, the peo- pie, are the government. we execute the lay and if we are too bad or too lazy to do our work properl.-, let us in all honesty take the blame-and not shoulder | it on the irresponsible negro.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05

Vice President: J. H. Barr.
 A. R. Forsyth. Assistant Cashier. re. E. M Tutwiler. W. s. Brown. D. Nabers. T. H. Notion. Robert r. Walker Percy, P. M. Jackson. J.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
DR. Y. E. HOLLOWAY,
SPECIALIST PRIVATE DISEASES,
guarantee

you a perma-
 lent cure of : rivate troubles and that you
 may know my ;guarantee is re-i liable 1 refer you with per- mission, to the
 First National
 oanlk. Alabama National bank. steiner Broth CTS. bankers. Jefferson coun- y s a V In E s
 bank and the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05
Following Advice.
phi1naninlla. Press.

From the PhiIadeIphIa PTeas'
 Really. Mir. Hansom." said the fair girl. "Im shocked to hear you confess such behavior in your business dealings. You should always do unto others as you would have others do unto you
 You wouldn't have mo do that ai- ways?"
 "certainly,'' she replied. always"
 "All right. Here goesr' he cried, and kissed her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05

Phone 7s Peoples) If you want the Gawk Engraving Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05

'sThe Carolinianc," by Annie l.. Sloan published by The Neal Publishing Co
 In he Carolinians," the author has taken the early his-ory of SoutA Caro- lima, a somewhat unused md picteresque setting and has used it as the background of d romance such as might be the heart experience of one of it's own fair daugh- ters of the present time In the intro- duction Miss Sloan explains tl.at she has not sought to give an actual picture of the private lives of .ae --.storic person. ages. Tn narrating the public incidents of their lives wherein they distinguished themselves, l have carefully followed the old records and best established authori- ties"
 The author has been wonderfully sue cessful in her story and of course that fiction which selects only certain his- .orical facts and incideats which may pos sess valuable plcturesqueness and uses it merely for q background whi.9 free reign is given to the authors rtile fancy to concentrate the interest upon the crea- lures of her own fancy shou.i beyond question be the most successful treatment both for the author and the reader. But it is fair to any of our great brave heart ed forbears to outline their public acts and policy with the idility ot actual his- toric record and from these disassociate their private lives from which we alone may possibly be able to understand them? Many errors of conception and portrayal may creep in which the author sincerely endeavors to Torlray the en- tire character of the man. What must the result be when his home ana private life is oily pictured by the fertile im- aginau Of the author to suit best the exigencies of her story?
The Washington times., 1905-07-09

provide for the laboratory examination.
without cost, of specimens forwarded by
attending physicians from persons sus-
pected of having typhoid fever The
early recognition of the disease in this
way facilitates the adoption of suita BILE
measures for its prevention
When the filter plant which is now
under construction is completed, Wash
ington's water supply will be well
guarded. The cost of the installation
of this plant is 81, coo, 600. It has been
estimated that the interest on the cost
OF this plant will amount TO 1900 a
year, that the deterioration of the plant
will be about S31 ,000 and that the cost
Of maintenance of the plant will be
il. ttle neighborhoo6 OF $4,000, making
the annual cost OF the plant to the city
about s1S6, coo.
Especially important in connection
with typhoid is the protection OF the
milk supply. Cows do not suffer from
typhoid fever, nor if they drink in
fected water will their milk convey the
disease If, however, a milk can or a
milk bottle be rirSed with water con-
tanning typnoid organisms, or if a care
less or ignorant dairynan, who him
self is in the early stages of the dis
ease or who is assisting in caring for
a person who is suffering taerefrona,
cent aminateS the milk even slightly the
danger is considerable. The small num-
ber of typhoid bacilli which are thus
introduced into the milk have, by the
time the milk reaches the consumer,
multiplied many-foid. and may give
rise to extensive and severe outbreaks.
The Washington times., 1905-07-09

meat products, and particularly by a
rigid inspection of all dairy cattle Meat
products form a rather unimportant
factor in the cause Of the spread of
consumption, because the process of
cooking to which they are subjected
ordinarily destroys the germ Milk
however. which is taken raw, is recog-
n:zed by the profession generally as
constituting an actual source of danger
Unless il Is derived from cattle free from
tuberculosis or properly Pasteurized
before being used The opinions of Koch
with reference to the transmissibility of
tuberculosis through meat and milk
have not been accepted by the medical
profession, and the controversy with re-
sPect thereto may be said TO still exist
Under such circumstances il is well for
those charged with the administration
OF health matters TO protect the public
SO far as is possible until the whole
someness of such products has been
demonstrated.
The inspection of meats and milks is
The Washington times., 1905-07-09
Vaccination Every Five Years.

In the case of smallpox, where ii is
quite POSSIBLE for the individual TO
prevent himself from becoming danger
and a nuisance 20 the community by
renscring himself immune TO the dis
ease by having himself properly vacci-
mated. vaccinat ton is and must be in
sisted upon if the highest efficiency III
the prevention OF the disease is TO be
reached
In order to insure the vaccination OF
the entire popuiace records should be
kept of the vaccination of all persons
BY the expenditure of $4,000 in five years
it would be possible 70 keeo such
record and also TO provide for the free
vaccination Of those who could not af-
ford to have themselves inoculated.
The protection of the water supply OF
a community involves. in the hrSt place,
the enactment and enforcement or resI-
lations which will prevent the deposit
of tvphcid excreta at any place where
thew may find their way into wells or
into streams which supply water 10 in
dividualS or to communities. Law OF this
kind however, cannot prevent such ex-
creta from finding their way into such
sources of water supply in the earliest
stages of the disease, when its nature
is not recognized. On that account IL is
not unusual now for municipalities 10