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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17
A. NINTH TO GoLDlE AoHa
OFALANWOODSFO FORTUNE WHICH
MAY BE S3,OO0.OOO.

VIII Road Yesterday Divides Estate Among
His widow and His Eight Children
Her Adviser n.Ccmmittai - u
whether She VIII Make . Contest.
The viii Of Aim W. Wood, read yesterday,
gives to bis wife, who was Goldie Mohr,
once q a chorus girl, and to his eight chill
dren the entire estate, share and share
alike 1t Is believed that the estate amounts
to about 100000.
The will was read In tho presence Of two
Of his sons, P. G. Wood and r. @. Wood, and
d. w. c. Brown Of Pittsburg, who for many
years had been Mr.. Woods confidential
man. The Messrs. Wood and Mr.. Brown
were named in the win as executors and
trustees. In addition to the three trustees,
Henry W. Catlin, who appeared for tho
widow, was present when the will was
read. The will not only provided that
Mrs. Wood should receive one-ninth Of tho
entire estate, but added that II she con-
tested the will she should receive nothing.
The will was signed on Jan. II, 1905, and
seems to have bcen drawn up with evident
care for the purpose Of avoiding a contest.
No provision was made in the will for the
disposition OF the body, and Mrs. Wood
ihNb uIEut Nudt uhO
expressed no wish to the contrary she
would have the body buried in Kensioo
Cemetery, where II was taken after the
funeral services on Tuesday.
Mr.. Woods children wished to have the
body removed to Pittsburg, where 1t might
be inferred in the family plot
Mrs. Wood refused to say whether or not
she would accept her conceded one-ninth
or make fight for her dover rights. Her
representative, Mr.. Catlin, also refused to
disclose her intention further than to say:
while am not going to foreshadow
what Mrs. Woods intentions are in the
matter, / am candid enough to intimate
that If she cared to renounce the one-ninth
interest given to her by Mr.. Wood she
would have little difficulty in getting a
larger share"
When Alan W. Wood died in st. Luke's
Hospital the other day his fortune was
variously estimated at from 5000. 900 to
5000 600. 1t was said yesterday by one
of the counsel in the case that the actual
value OF all his estate, both real and per-
sonal, would be between $500, 600 and
50, 100000
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17
The weather.

The storm was moving on the New England coast
Yesterday attended By brisk 10 high northerly
winds along the coast. Rain continued 70 fall In
northern Nov Jersey. New York and New England,
and there were scattered thundentorms In the
south Atlantic States. the Ohio and Tennessee
v,lleys and the Northwest. In the Rocky Noun
tain resion and westward generally fair weather
preys,led while eastward the conditions were un
settled. A high pressure area centrA, over the
upper Lake reg,sns caused cooler weather In the
upper Lakes the upper Mississippi and Ohio valleys
VERY decided declines In temperature was 70.
,orted from the extreme Northwest. There were
srost IN Yellowstone PARK and Pressing weather ~
calgary. Canada.
IN this city the day was cloudy and rainy mucn
cooler wind. brisk northeast 70 northwest average
a. 90 leyel al Q 4. ~. 3oeo: . p NJ 0.84.
the temperature yesterday. - recorded ~ the
s.isl Harmon atar u ahoMn 10 the anne Ied table,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17
BRIDGE JUMPER HAULED DOWN
Police Borrow Auto to Head on Suicide
From the williamsburg Bridge.


Joseph Holler, Is years Old. g pho.os-
rapher, Of 2l25 Eighth avenue. Manhattan.
attempted to commit suicide yesterday
by jumping from the Williamsburg Bridge.
His queer behavior on the footpath OF the
structure shortly before noon attracted
the attention Of Policeman Hagan. who was
near the Brooklyn tower. While Hagan
was Watching him. Holler stepped up and
asked what the height Of the steel towers
was. Hagan answered and asked him
why be wanted to know.
Just to satisfy my curiosity was all
he answered.
Then Holler walked in the direction Of
the Manhattan tower.
An 16dr later Hagan and Policeman
Hickie saw Holer on the footpath in the
center OF the river span. They watched
him and presently saw him climb down an
iron eirder to the south roadway and run
for the outer guard rail. An automobile
WAS approaching, and the two policemen,
guspecting that Holler meant to commit
suicide, induced the chauffeur to turn his
car 80 that they could get into 1t and reach
the man.
Holler was on top Of the guard rail about
to leap down to the river, when the cops
jumped from the auto and caught him by
his legs. He struggled fiercely to- free
himself, but Hagan and Hickie yanked
him down from the railing and had another
struggle in tSe roadway during which
HolIer's clothing was pretty nearly all
torn from his body: he begged to be per-
mitted to kill himself.
he was put into the auto and taken by
the policemen to the bridge police station,
where he ected &c u his mind was deranged.
BE said in explanation Of his act that .
eirl With whom he had been keeping com:
pany for two years and whom he wanted
never be his wife. He added that in order
to show her how much he loved her he had
made up his mind to die. He was then
taken to the Gates avenue police court,
where Magistrate Furlong held him pending
q hearing.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17
EXPECT BELCHER IN HONOLULU.
Hawaiian Authorities on the watch for
PatersOn's Absconding Mayor.

PATERSON, Aug. le.-The Acting Gov
ernor Of the Hawaiian Islands has cabled
Gov. Stokes OF New Jersey asking under
what name William H. Belcher, the alb
sconding Mayor Of Paterson. is travelling.
The Governor asked the local authorities
for information.
1t is not known here what basis there is
for the bel ief that Belcher sailed for the
Hawaiian Islands, but 1t is supposed that
the State Department at Washington had
sufficient reason to Justify $50 worth OF
cable description of the man and his crimes
to the Governor of the island.
According to the news from Trenton
Belcher il expected to arrive at Honolulu
before the ond of the week. Prosecutor
Finley Of this city had a long talk with the
Governor, but when he returned from
Trenton he did not care to discuss the
matter.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17
CRASH IN QUARRY ENlONB':s 10
AVALANCHE OF ROCK brushes
MANY WORKMEN.

Only Three Taken Out Alive-Rescuers
work in Fear Of Dynamite which NAV
Be Exploded at Any Minute-Cries tf
Injured Heard From Beneath the n Jocks
ALLENTOWN, Pa, Aug. io.-Twenty-two
men, all OF them foreigners, were buried
In an avalanche OF rock that aid down
the side bank Of the stone quarry OF the
Lshigh Portland Cement Company at orm-
rod, seven miles north Of this city to-day.
OF the entombed men only three have
been rescued alive. They have been
brought to the Allentown Hospital, where
their death 10 expected at any hour.
Some Of the other victims are still alive
but they are pinned down by massive
boulders which 1t may take several days
TO remove, and 1t Is not expected that they
can be rescued. Up to late hour to-
night only three bodies have been re-
covered, and 1t may take q week or ten
days before all the debris can be cleared
away and the full extent Of the catastrophe
revealed. With but few exceptions the
buried men were newcomers In this country.
but most Of them have families In the old
country. In many cases the bodies are
crushed beyond recognition.
The quarry was opened five years ago
by the cement company Of which Col
H. c. Trcxler Is president, and it Is now a
great hole 100 feet long. 100 feet deep.
and from ZOO to 400 feet wide.
The accident occurred only five minutes
before the signal was to have teen given
for the men to quit work for dinner, and
their picks and shovels when tho ponderous
,lt< ltn.. .xys% Lee
down the side Of the bank and covered
all except about dozen OF the gang. The
slide was mostly Of huge limestone boulders
which formed stratum that had loosened
from the formation Of cement rock, and
when tho small quantities Of earth about
1t became soaked by the heavy rains Of the
past few days it became only question Of
time when it would sweep down upon the
men at work one hundred feet below.
The water boy was the first to notice the
avalanche but the warning about that he
uttered was understood by only few OF
the men. to whom the English langua &c
was strange, and as a result it was UNDECIDED
The slide waa made up almost entirely Of
rock, some Of the boulders weighing as much
as ten tons. The debris that covered the
men varies In depth from ten to thirty feet.
but from beneath the living tomb the shlieks
and means Of many of the dying are still
heard. The men were all working close
together and the TesoueTs are able to see
groups OF half dozen huddled together.
but the mass Of debris about them is 80
great that it may take several days to reach
them.
To make matters worse, it is known that
five dynamite charges. each sufficient to
move hundreds Of tons Of rock, are under the
cavein, and they may go OF at any moment
and endanger the lives Of the rescuing
party, which Is made up Of several hundred
trained ouarrymen under Oliver E. Ieh.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17
sYRIANS IN DIVORCE SUIT.
Deaf. Dumb and Blind Man to Testify In
Suit Brought by Importers WIFE.

Deaf, Dumb and Blind Man to Testify In
Suit Brought by Importers wife.
Selma add ell Nour has brought suit in
the Supreme Court, Brooklyn. against
John add ell Nour for a divorce. The
couple, who are syrians, were married
seventeen years ago and have lived for
several years in Staten Island. The
defendant is an importer Of Turkish goods
and he and his wife are we'll known in the
Syrian colony In New York.
The plaintiff names Fadwah Jabilie, the
wife Of her husbands business partner,
as correspondent. Mrs. Jabils emphati-
cally denies all the plaintiffs allegations
and two arrests have Already been made
on her behalf for alleged SANDER. Yester-
day the case came before Supreme. Court
referee. Decision was reserved.
An old man who is deaf, dumb and
blind is to figure In the case as a witness.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17
woMAN STRUCK WITH BAT.
Miss DULLES Nose Broken by Reckless
Player at Midland Beach.

Miss Mary guile ia at her home on New
man avenue. Bayonne, suffering from a
peculiar accident. With her sister, Miss
Catherine Quille. she was walking along
the beach at Midland Beach. Several men
were playing ball on the sand, and the one
at the bat made a swing at the ball Just as
the sisters were passing.
He missed the ball and the bat struck
Miss guile In the face with great force.
Her nose was shattered and one Of her
eyes badly injured. The man ran away.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17
Picnic Of the chan,er Association.

The William Aston Chanler Democratic
Association will give a summer nights
festival tonight at the Manhattan Casino
15sth street and Eighth avenue. The or
eanization is one which has been formed
in the Fifth Assembly district for the pur-
pose of wrestling the Tammany leadership
OF the district from Joseph F. Prendergast.
Mr.. Chan]er is backing George s. O'Neil
Sixth avenue saloon keeper, against Prem
dergast.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17
Strike on american Dri1ise 60. Jobs.

The New York Housesmiths and Bridge
mems Union announced yesterday that in
accordance with the orders of the executive
board of the International Association OF
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers the
contracts in this city and vicinity of the
American Bridge Company were tied up.
These included contracts for the power
houses Of the New York Central Railroad
at 10th street and Mott Haven and at
Yonkers, and the contract for the Knicker:-
booker Hotel. Forty-second street and
Broadway. These were part of the national
strike.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17
RACETRACK MEMENTO.
To Remind MIR. Lightstone That There's
No Wool on the Ponies.

Irving L. Ernst, counsel for Edward 8.
Thomas, trustee in bankruptcy Of Charles
/. Lghtstone, wholesale wooden dealer Of
III Greene street. said yesterday that he
had obtained an order signed by Peter B.
Olney, referee in bankruptcy, directing
Mr.. tightstone to turn over to the trustee
Sl7. 500, which, it was alleged, he had con-
cealed from his creditors. Mr.. Lightstone
lost a small fortune year ago playing the
races. poker and pinocle. The order to
pay the $17,5oO was served upon Mr.. Light
stone at the Saratoga racetrack on Tuesday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17
MISS GOULDS NEW CHARITY
ID Maintaining . Farm for Poor Children
in Sullivan County.

MIpDLETowN. N. Y. Aug. lo.-It is not
generally known that Miss Helen Miller
Gould IL maintaining a charitable institu-
ton for poor children near Liberty. Sullivan
county.
Miss Gould visited her latest charity
on Tuesday. 1t is located on farm south
OF Liberty village During the summer,
children in parties Of twelve have been kept
at the farm, each party staying three weeks
At present there are Ave children on the
farm, who stay through the year, in hope
OF building up their health. These Ave
bad the benefit Of school last winter and
are growing strong.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17
SUITS TO PURIFY WATER.
New jersey Authorities Acting 70 Protect
the PeQuannock and Hackensack.

TRENTON, Aug. l6.-Attorney- General
McCarter, repre- sentins the State Board
of Health, began six suits In the Court
OF Chanoery to-day for injunotions to
restrain the pollution Of tributaries Of the
Hackensaok and Pequannock rivers, from
which the cities of Newark, Hoboken and
Hackenssok derive their water supply
The pollution consists Of the discharge Of
sewage and stable refuse into the streams.
The defendants have all failed to comply
with orders from the Board Of Health.
They are Gustav and Emma Gnauch,
living near Westwood; Maria Davenport
Of Newfoundland, Samuel Card, George
Ihnken and John Forderson OF Stockholm
and James Leach Of WoodcliG.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17

HtGhe1t tcuIperHsu1e'v " " NJ ~"
vAsHrNoros FORECAST yoR TO DAT AND TO MoRaow
Tor Eastern Nsw York Nsp jersey and DcIarare.
fair 10 day and 10 orror: fresh norh 10 northeast
Etnds
For eastern 'pcnnsylvania. District OF Columbia
and Maryland, generally fair 70 day and tomorrow
with moderate temperature; light 10 fresh north
70 northeast winds.
Fer New England. fnir and cool 70 day and TO-
morrow, light 70 fresh north 70 northeast winds.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17
Ros.lie Loew's Burglar Sentenced.

Morris Weinstein, a baker, who was
caught in the home of Mrs. Resale Loew
Whitney, the lawyer. at 2ll East Fifteenth
at rect, pleaded guilty in General Sessions
yesterday. Of attempted grand larceny in
the first degree. Judge Mcmahon SEN
fenced him to not more than two years
and three months and not less than two
years in Sing Sing.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-17
COULDN'T ENJOIN POLICE.
Brooklyn Judge says Manhattan Poolroor
Cssee Must Go to Manhattan Courts.

Supreme, Court Justice krUse, SITTING
In Brooklyn, sent back to New York courts
Yesterday several actions recently begun
in the Brooklyn courts to enjoin the police
81 Manhattan from interfering with alleged
poolrooms He said that all such actions
Should be tried in the courts where the
ALLEGED cause for action arose and In which
the public officials who were made defen-
dants performed their duties.
The Washington times., 1905-04-30
Wants Rural Mail Route.

He deems it better to carry the mail
over q rural route bordering the Little
Arkansas, river. and more romantic to
steal an occasional kiss from one OF the
rustic corn-fed maids of bleeding Kan
sas than to dine on the Vtands of royal
~ Cr find glory in swimming the Bag
Bag or dying by the yellow fever route
for his country.
THE other gentleman is Henry -,
of -. Henry does not want to roam.
He seeks rot to serve indoors among
the pilIared and domed and columned
edihces of Washington He is used to
being summoned to work by the clarion
notes of the barnyard cock, and would
be out of place among the o'clock
risers of the National Capital.
''He neither drinks whisky nor plays
penny ante. He has never worn a dress
suit or an opera hat. lie is a plain,
homesprn man, who loves the fresh
air and the green fields, and the sun
shine and flowers, and the lady he loves
Is the goddess of simple rural content
mcnt. He, too, wants to carry the NAH
over rural route, ana if you could once
see the various manifestations of the
The Washington times., 1905-04-30
& Funeral March.

Well, such is the case. Those steel
plates over in the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing are guarded with even
greater care than the vaults az the
Treasury themselves. They mean so
much money to this Government. and
are watched by faithful employees dav
and night II would be easier to storm
the heights Of Gibraltar than TO get a
plate out OF the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing.
The money plate never leaves the
building but once. and this Is on It's
funeral march. Just as soon as the en-
craving becomes defective IN any way.
the plate is condemned, boxed llp with
others Of its kind and sent over to the
Navy Yard TO be melted in the great
furnace. But the plate does not wholly
die. The steel is turned into parts Of
battleships, such as gun carriages.
yolzes. etc. and still serves It's country
although transferred from the direction
OF the Treasury Department to the
sterner military branch Of the Govern
7nent embraced in the Navy Depart
Ynent.
The life Of 2 money plate may be short
or long It is not measured by days, or
years. but by the number of impressions
it makes. After a plate has made SO OG0
impressions. it has served its day Of
usefulness as a money maker. and is
then melted into part Of hattleship.
The Washington times., 1905-04-30
Sunshine Banishes Microbes.

Under the genial sunshine of this
sunny and sunf1owered State the mi
-orobes that established homesteads in
the seductive regions of the corporal
person who is now writing to YOU while
at Washington are fast returning To
their wives folk, and every time turn
my face to that smiling OF which leads
and guides our planetary system to the
constellation Of Andromeda l sneeze
them away by the million In the his
tory of evietions my success is un-
edualed; the brave Oyama never drove
his enemy from Entertainments as
have done.
"Ah, what fortune it is. TO be . Kan
sas man! But it is not Of file climatic
glory of Kansas that | Sc out to write,
and / hope you will pardo1 me for hay-
ing allowed my enthusi1s to lead me
into byways. Tt is of Kansas patriot
ism that l would speak.
In the matter Of public service the
noble Roosevelt has set n pace that has
excited in Kansas Il dasire for emula-
ton that battles the men behind the
typewriter for words to describe. The
fever Ct serving the Government defies
the capacity of ambition flowing East
ward from Kansas to serve the country
that will prove dangerous unless it
meets a wave of opportunity flowing
westward from Washington
IN the absence of our Congressman to-
day l have had two splendid volunteers
The Washington times., 1905-04-30
4 Committee of Three

Queer, indeed is the evolution OF a steel
money plate. First, as a soft piece OF
decarbonizsd steel It is worked upon
by the engrayer, and finally turned into
the finiEhed article ready 20 make
money. Every plate made is given q
number and is recorded in the records
Of the custodian Of jies. rolls ana. plates
Then they begin their history assmoney
makers. When that is over they take
up existence as q part Of a battleship
The story Of this transformation is
peculiarly interesting. Every ar the
Secretary of The Treasury appoints ::
committee Of three trusted employees of
The Treasury Department TO make an
examination Of The plates and rolls in
The vaults Of the Bureau OF Engraving
and Printing. their duties being TO con-
denim and destroy all defective currency
plates or national bank note plates
which are out OF date.
The plates are kept in two immense
vaults in the west wing Of the building.
The vaults are absolutely burglar proof.
and in one of them the committee from
the Treasury does its work. The COM
mittee this year IS composed Of Dir.
Glender B. Young, Of the Seeretary's
effiee, chairman; Jacksons Morris, OF
the internal Revenue Bureau, and n. M.
Ogden, of the Comptroller OF the Cur
reucy's office. These three gentlemen
have about completed their labors. All
of the defective plates have been de-
stroyed and nothing remains 10 be
done but To make a fall report 10 the
Secretary of the Treasury.
Three months ago Messrs. Young.
The Washington times., 1905-04-30

Morris, and Ogden began their work of
examining all the plates in the vaults
OF the Bureau OF Engraving and Print
ing. In this time every piece of en-
graved matter in the building has been
gone over. The result of their work
has been the condemnation and destruc-
ton of 404S dies, rolls. and plates,
Weighing IS. 464 pounds
When a piece OF engraved matter was
condemned, the chairman Of the COM
mittee gave his receipt for it to Joseph
E Ralph, custodian. Each plate dis
covered to be defective was passed over
d fast revolving emery wheel, which
cut long gaps across the face,
After the plates had been put to the
emery wheel" they were packed in
strong wooden boxes, and bound with
heavy pieces of strip sheet iron. Each
box was then sealed under the seal Of
the Secretary of the Treasury, and laid
aside to wait for the others. It took
267 boxes to hold all of the condemned
pieces
The Washington times., 1905-04-30
The Custodian of Dies.

Today in the vaults of the. Bureau of
Engraving and Printing there are Is, 00t
engraving plates. All OF these pieces Of
steel worth billions of dollars 20 this
Government from a, capacity standpoint,
are in charge Of one man. That is, one
man exercises general supervision over
their safety. This man is Joseph e.
Ralph, custodian of dies, rolls and
plates. He has in his care property OF
greater value, perhaps, than any single
employee Of the Government. To him
Secretary Shaw looks for every piece
of engraving. yet he has never lost a
single plate.
The plates are kept in the two largest
vaults in the world. and are far ahead
OF all others in their modern equipment.
They are absolutely fire and burglar
proof, and a model of American in
genuity and skill. The outer and inner
doors are provided with double coInbi-
nations and time locks. The combina-
tious are ~iven to three trusted en-
ployes, but each one has a separate
combination and it is necessary for all
three to be present at once before the
doors can be opened.
The Washington times., 1905-04-30
Wagon Heavily Guarded.

When all of the useless engraved mat
ter had been boxed and sealed. Secre-
tary Shaw made arrangements with
Secretary Morton for the use OF the
great furnace at the Navy Yard. Prior
TO two years ago the custom was to
pay some private iron foundry a con-
tract price for melting the plates, but
the Navy Department was willing to
melt the plates for the steel. thereby
saving the Treasury a few hundred dol
lars each year,
Tuesdays. Thursdays. and Saturdays
were set aside for plate melting days"
and it took nearly three weeks to melt
all of the condemned plates. The boxes
were loaded at the Bureau Of Engrav-
ing and Printing. one OF the huge de-
partment wagons being used for the
purpose. The members Of the commit
tee rode behind all the way to the Navy
Yard each day, and upon the wagon
were two or three guards.
When the Navy Yard was reached the
plates were unloaded as carefully as
they had been loaded. and carried up
the furnace platform on the elevator.
Here they were made ready for the
final plunge into the furnace.
The steel plates are so hard that
speciaI process has to be gone through
in order 10 melt them. First a big wood
fire is made, and then a heavy layer of
coke IS put in. Upon this is placed pig
iron, which in turn is covered up by
thick layer OF oyster shells. which pro-
duce the lime necessary in the melting
process. Then follows more iron and
more oyster shells. Upon this founda-
ton the required weight Of plates is put.