The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-24
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NEW YORK CRY. N. Y.
Arson Phelps Stokes, the millionaire
philanthrophist, has announced TO the So
ciety of Naval Architects and Marine
Engineers THAT he has succeeded in so inn
proving his floating fort as to cure its
instability and render it by far the strong
est fighting ship in the world.
Mr.. Stokes has christened his new
monster the Ultima. 1t is go feet long
| 100 feet broad, has a displacement of 3d.
600 tons-rwice that of the greatest bat
| tleshjp-has 10000 horse power, and can
steam, under freed draught, eight and
ore-fourth knots an hour 1t will carry
two I5-inch guns, I6 I2-inch guns and 20
| 3-lnch guns. Each of the I5-inch guns
will weigh I35 tons. or as much as the
famous I6-inch gums on Sandy Hook.
| Thus equipped, Mr.. Stokes said the
Ultima could destroy any battleship in
the world before the latter could get
close enough to bring her own guns in
| range.
| As a result of racing, an empty train
on the Second Avenue 81" ran into an
other train at One Hundredth Street and
Second Avenue, and several persons were
injured. Henry Copell, motorInan OF
the empty train, was crushed between the
cars and taken to the Harlem Hospital
with a. compound fracture of the right
leg and internal injuries. The race was
between the empty train and a south
bound train carrying passengers. Only
a few weeks ago similar accident oc-
CURED on the Third Avenue Line near
One Hundred and Seventh Street, and
was also caused by an empty train racing
between stations with one carrying pas
sengers.
Captain Mark E. F. Kerr, of the Brit
ish flagship Drake, has sent letter to
Commissioner McAdoo complaining of
the conduct of the police ON board his
ship. The brakes officers said yester-
day that the police infested every part
Eff the ship and irAterferred with the
routine work, and that number of
| them were found drunk on board in the
early hours of the morning after the
Princes ball.
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William Waldorf Aston OF London,
formerly of New York, is going to build
the largest and finest apartment house
in this city and probably in the world.
IL will cover the entire block from
Broadway way to. West End avenue, be-
tween Seventy and Seventy
Streets-in all, twenty lots. Plans Tor
this big structure were filed with the
Tenement House Department. The cost
of construction, is estimated by the ar
chitects, Clinton & Russell, OF No. 81
Nassau Street, to be 100000, and the
land is worth $I,5oo,ooo. The building
will be, of eleven stories, ten to be for
apartments, divided into suites of from
| three to fourteen rooms, and the top tor
servants quarters and laundries There
will be accommodations for eleven fam
| lies on each floor. Including number
of ventilation courts, the house will have
frontage on the open air equal to seven
city blocks, which is double the amount
required under the provisions of the
| the Tenement House Act. 1t will be an
apartment house, pure and simple, as
each suite has separate kitchen and
dining room
Henry Arthur Jones. the English
dramatist, who has been in this country
three or four weeks, sailed for England
to rehearse his new play, which James
WEIGH will produce at Terry's Theatre,
London Mr.. Jones will return to this
country in April, when he will deliver
lectures on the drama at Harvard, Yale
and Columbia Universities
| Four detectives were attacked while
raiding a disorderly house in Twenty
fourth street by three savage bulldogs.
and in trying TO kill the brutes one OF
the detectives shot negress in the head
wounding her seriously. Panic reigned
among the raiders and the inmates of
| the house as soon as the dogs were let
loose Several women narrowly escaped
being shot during the fusillade OF bull
lets that were fired at the dogs. One Of
the beasts was killed by bullet, and at
ter desperate battle the other two were
beaten senseless. The dogs were let
loose by the negress, acting under instruc-
tons from her mistree, who resorted
to this means to put the detectives to
flight when they rounded up all the in
mates of the house and placed them un-
der arrest The raiders were taken by
surprise by the attack, and in defending
themselves drew their revolvers and
blazed away in the crowded room where
all the prisoners and their captors were
gathered The negress and one of the
inmates of the house, who was bitten
by one of the dogs in the course of the
melee, were taken to hospital. Two
of the detectives were also bitten
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DR.. Douglas Hyde, the distinguished
Irish scholar, orator and poet, and presi-
dent of the Gaelic League OF ireland.
arrived on the White Star steamer Ma
jestic. DR.. Hyde comes to America on
a fcur-month lecture tour before Amer
lean colleges and universities and at
public meetings of Irish societies. He
is accompanied by Mrs. Hyde. His first
lecture will be at Harvard University.