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New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
CHANGE OF SIXTY-TWo DEGREES.
Variety of Temperature at Sandy Hill
Snow at Buffalo.

Sandy HILL n. Y. Jan. 7.-Washington County
has had a remarkable experience with rapidly
changing weather conditions In the last forty
eight hours. In that time the temperature rose
from Il degrees below TO 4S degrees above To
be Immediately followed by sharp drop OF the
mercury accompanied by a six-inch fall OF snow
and high wind
Buffalo. Jan. 7-Snow has been falling In this
region for forty-sight hours and ten inches
were recorded az the Weather Bureau to-day. The
temperature was 2 and fortunately the wind was
not high At the postofice IL was said that in
general there had been no serious effect on The
arrival of the mails Those from the east and
south reported 10 be from one 10 two hours
late while those from the west and north were
about time
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
DINNER FOR Mr.. WILCOX
Union League Club Friends Honor
the Ne1C Postmaster.

A complimentary dinner for Postmaster William
r. Wilcox given last evening by his friends In
the Union League Club. The guests included sx.
Mayor Low John D. Crimmins. William Halpin
James s. Clarkson. Colonel John n. PaTtridzs, I'd
ward NJ Morgan. Charles T. Barney. Joseph B
Bishop. John l. Waterbury, Robert w. De Forest
Charles NJ Jesup and Stephen Wilcox.
Letters Of regret were received from Senator
Depew. Ex-Governor Odell. George B.. Cortslyou
chairman OF the Republican National Committee;
Postmaster General Wynne. Senator Platt. Andrew
Carnegie. Nicholas Murray Butler and Morris K
Jesup
The ices were served in miniature maiIboxes At
the plate OF each guest an addressed post
card. sent through the mails to the Union League
Club. On the reverse side a picture or the
master WILCOX. A portrait OF the postmaster
adorned the menu card The dinner was arranged
by William D. Murphy. Frank n Partridge and
David B. Simpson.
Informal remarks were made BY Cornelius n
Bliss. president OF the club. who presided Post
master WILCOX, ex-Bfayor Low, ex-Postmaster Gen
eral Thomas L. James, George T. Wilson. DR.. D. B.
St John RoOsa. John r. Van WOrmeT Colonel John
". NroOman and William D. Murphy.
Among others present were George 3. Agnew
George F. Beers, A H. BOrman. 5. ". Bovine,
Henry A. Brann. Frank BrOOkfield John l. BrOwer
T. Brown, Charles W. Carpenter Cyrus Clark Ed
ward II. Cliff. Frank Edgar COnover. John Fl.
Davis, Baysrd Domi1ick. George 5 Edgell. Joseph
II. Emery, austin X EleJcher, Joseph i. Cay
William T. Havemeyer. McDOugall Hawkes.. War
NJ. Healey, A. 3. Hepburn John 5. Kennedy
David B. King. James D. Laying. Arthur l. Mer-
riam w jerks Merritt Andrew Mills Robert c.
Morris. Frank A Munsey. William A Nash. Au-
gustus G. Paine. Alfred E. NJ Purdy. George H
Robinson George R Sheldon. John ]. Sinclair John
II. Starin Henry L. Stoddard Frederic c. Wagner,
Henry s. Wilson and Thomas H. Wood
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
FOUNDERS IN THE GALE.
Barge's Crep Rozo Eighteen Miles
IN Cookie Shell Craft.

Four composing the crew of the coal
barge Daisy, which foundered off the Jersey
coast Friday night in the gale. were brought
into port yesterday suffering from exposure and
exhaustion after fighting for their lives all night
the laundering barge and good part of the
day In an open boat in an angry sea.
The Daisy bound from Newport News TO
New-Haven with cargo of /, 800 tons of COAL
and. with the barge Annie. was in tow of the tug
Murrell. At the height of the storm the Daisy
parted her towline and broke adrift The tug
could barely take care of the other barge, and
could render no assistance to the distressed
craft and her crew.
Off Sea Grt the barge, with sail to hold her
head to the gale, walowed in the trough of a
pounding sea, which swept her decks. Weak
ened by years of service. the barge was unable
to stand the battering and soon sprang leak
Her crew worked like beavers at the pumps. but
unavailingly, and at daylight yesterday they
were compelled to abandon her. They took to
the small boat, a cookie shell of craft, and
started to row ashore When they neared the
beach off Monmouth the surf was pounding so
that to make any attempt to land meant certain
death.
The patrol of the life-saving station flew sig
nails of warning to sheer off, and the weary crew,
with two men bailing the water from the frail
craft while two others rowed. headed up the
long, sandy beach to Sandy Hook. twenty five
miles distant from the point where they had
abandoned the barge. The life-savers could not
hope to get their boat through the surf TO their
assistance.
In the mean time the Murrell had returned IN
search of the missing craft, accompanied by the
United States revenue cutter Mohawk Both
steam craft passed seaward of the yawl in which
the missing WERE but soon afterward the
lighthouse tender Larkspur was ordered by wire
from Sandy Hook to take the big non-sinkable
lfeboat of the Sandy Hook life-saving crew in
tow and go to the rescue of the imperilled men.
At 2 o. m, after the men had been nearly all
day in the open yawl and had rowed eighteen
miles along a cottage lined but forbidding beach,
they were picked up by the life-savers and taken
TO Sandy Hook. They were placed on board the
other barge. the Annie. and will proceed to New
Haven.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
MRS. CHADWICK IN sHERIFFs CUSTODY

Cleveland. jan Judge Wing. OF the United
States District Court. to-day abrogated his recent
order that no person should be allowed to see Mrs
Chadwick IN the county Jail without written per
NIT signed by the United States marshal
The attention OF the court" said Judge Wing
has been called to the fact that the provision con-
icts with the rules for the conduct Of the Sheriff
keeper OF the county Jail. made by the Judges
or the Court OF Common Pleas. under authority OF
the statutes OF Ohio
This decision places Mrs Chadwick absolutely
under the jurisdiction of the Sheriff while she
continues to be confined in the county iail and
the latter official viii have the sole authority 10
say who shall or shall not her
II Is understood however, that the federal on
cals may take further action TO prevent this pos
sibly by removing Mrs. Chadwick 10 some other
Jail or prison.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
SAYS SERVICE WAS BY TR1cKERY.
Court Declares Secretary of Manhattan
Transit Co. Was Enticed to New-Jersey.

Trenton n. j.. JAN Judge Lanning to-day dis
missed suit brought IN the United States Circuit
Court by Mrs. Emma Cavanagh of Newark
against the Manhattan Transit Company of New
York. on the ground that service OF the summons
tary, Robert G. Mcdonald. from New-York into
New-Jersey. under the pretence II Is alleged OF
wishing 10 effect a settlement between the prn-
cipals The suit from the purchase OF engine
from the Manhattan company. which was seeking
to enforce payment OF a balance OF $500 Mrs
Cavanagh claimed that the engine not In ac-
cordance with the contract and sought by the suit
TO have refunded 1850 paid on the purchase price.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
TO SELL OLD WINDMILL ANTIQUES

The collection OF antiques of the Old Windmill
Shop. at No. East Twenty-eighth-st Is to be sod
at auction by j. Hatfield Morton OF the Casino
Auction Rooms. The collection consists OF about
two thousand pieces. Tea services In wedgwood.
old English decorated china, including souvenirs OF
the coronation OF Queen Victoria: pieces OF Delft
including four garntures of Ave pots OF which two
polychrome; old English handmade glass and
crystal and old Hepplewhite sdeboaEds among
the items offered. There also old paintings
in the collection. including Biblical subject by
Nicholas Pousin and the Shower OF Gold by
Washington Alston. The sale will take place the
premises at No. East Twenty hth-sL
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
FRENCH CABLE HOUSE WRECKED.

Orleans Mass. Jan THE little wooden house
which covered the landing place OF the French sub
marine cable at East Orleans was completely
wrecked to-day by an unusually high tide and
heavy sea. due in a certain degree TO southeast
gale. The wreck interrupted the cable service for
an hour or two, but this afternoon a splice was
made and business resumed at the main sta
ton in this town. The tide the highest that
has been experienced Cape Cod for some years
and the ssnd cliffs suffered severe inroads and lost
many yards.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
FLOODS FOLLOW STORM.
MANY FACTORIES CLOSE.
Great Damage Threatened in NeSo-
England and Middle States.

The storm OF Friday night wrought havoc
along the water courses Of the Eastern and
New-E England States yesterday. New-Jersey S
coasts and river valleys were visited with floods
as the result of the heavy rains and unusually
high tides. Jersey City, Atlantic City, New
Brunswick, Paterson, Orange and other cities
suffered considerable damage.
The rising Of the Schuylkill River, which was
seventeen feet at Manayunk, suburb of Phila-
delphia, caused the closing of fourteen mills
and rendered four thousand hands idle.
The lumber schooner Lizzie Carr was wrecked
on Rye Beach, n. r.. one man being lost and
six rescued by the lfesaVers.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
A RIVAL TO THE LEARNED HORSE.
Milwaukee Animal Does Some of the Same
Feats as Hans
[sY TELEcRApH TO THE TRIBUNE. ]

Milwaukee. Jan 7.-Hans. the famous German
horse. which has attracted the attention OF the en-
tire scientific world by his ability to do sums in
arithmetic and whose education has caused a
controversy which threatens TO force the resig-
nation of the German Minister OF Education. has a
rival in Milwaukee. The Milwaukee animal does
simple sums but his education has not advanced
so far as that OF Hans The same charges that are
made against the German horse. that the animal
does not do the sums OF his own accord but gives
results by marvellous powers of observation. are
repeated In this II is also suggested that the
owner OF the animal exerts hypnotic infuence
the animal. The horse gives arithmeticaI re-
suits by tapping the ground with his hoof
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
TROLLEY CARS STUCK IN DRIFTS,
Passengers Suffer Much from Exposure%Near
Pittsfeld, Mass.

Psttsheld, Mass. Jan. THE heavy fall OF snow
last night followed by a rainstorm this
fncruing, did much damage IN Central Berkshire.
The trolley trafio the Berkshire Street Railroad
was completely demoralized Passengers suffered
much from exposure. Four cars. with a large
number Of passengers. were stalled between Pitts
field and Lenox from o'clock last evening until
$50 this morning. The cars were stuck in snow
drifts and wero moved only through the aid of
large forces of men and teams. One train
discontinued the Harlem Road. Cellars were
badly flooded.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
PILGRIM LANDS AT NEw-LoNDoN.

Nsw-London. Conn. jan 7.-Au the steamers
which put into this harbor to ride out the storm
last night left this afternoon after the weather
cleared These included the Fall River Line boat
Pilgrim eastbound; the freighter City Of Brockton
and the steamer Maine The Pilgrim landed her
passengers here. and sent them by rail to their
Sesfinafion No serious damage to shipping by the
storm was reported from Sound ports In this Sec
fiOu
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
BACK HURT IN BRIDGE CRUSH.
Brooklyn Business Man Suffers Serious In.
iuries While Helping Woman.

A Fagot of No 227 McDougalI-st.. well known
business man, is suffering from injuries 70
his back received in the bridge crush IN the Man
haitian terminal Friday night. while trying TO
assist a woman with baby into Lexington-ave
train Mr.. Fagot thrown down and trampIed
on. He assisted into the train ard did not
complain Of any injuries. Suddenly he tainted
When he was revived Mr.. FagOt insisted going
TO the Chauncey-st station. When he reached
there he was unconscious, and doctor called
TO revive him. The injured refused to % a
hospital, and was taken home IL a coach
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
PORTLAND INDICTMENTS DISMISSED

Portland. Ore. Jan. 1-On motion CT District
Attorney Manning. the indictments which were re-
turned by the county grand jury against Mayor
George Fl. Williams and Chief of Police Charles FI.
Hunt OF this city to-day dismissed By State
Circuit Judge Frazer. Mr. Manning also asked that
the records show that Mayor Williams be fully
exOnerated OF any offence charged in the indict-
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
CONSULTING ENGINEER FoR 3. r. T.

Eugene KIapp. who. for time. vas the en-
gineer in charge of the fourth division Of the work
Of the New-York Rapid Transit Commission has
been appointed consulting engineer of the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit Company. He is a graduate
from the Columbia School of Mines. In 1SSs he
became chief engineer for the South Side Elevated
Railroad in Chicago. In the Spanish he
a captain in = volunteer regiment OF engineers
After the war he became the manager OF the Ma
tiOnal Construction Company which built the drain
age plant for New-Orleans.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
TRAIN LOST IN SN0WsToRf
Dug Out of a Drift by Farmers and PAS
sengers Rescued.
[RY rrnEonApH TO THE TRIBUNE j

Irwin Penn, Jan. tine Pennsylvania KaiIrod
lost a passenger train this morning on its Youg,
branch. south OF here The run starts on thu
Hempheld branch and ends at Irwin The train
left the former road at o'clock a. m. with large
number of passengers and at 10 o'clock nothing
had been heard from IT. There are no telegraph
wires along the line. and farmers with shovels
started along the road and found the train
stuck fast in drift. They dug II out and rescued
the passengers. The train was almost covered with
snow when the rescuing party got to II.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
Rain WOODBURY'S ALLY.
All the Snoso TO Be Cleared AsCag
.bg To-day.

A. P. Thorley. assistant chief inspector.
informed Tribune reporter last evening that the
rain had made great nroads the snow in this
city. where it not piled UP. that the work
of the would be about finished by this morn
ing. About 90 per cent of the laborers were laid
off yesterday. their services were not needed.
Mr.. Thorley declared that the city now
practically cleaned, except where snow had been
rapidly as possible in the course Of the night
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08

and passengers from Jersey City desiring to
cross the ferries at that place had 10 get on
trucks and wagons to reach the ferryhouse. ne
ferry bridges were so high and steep on account
of the high tide that for time heavy trucks
could not get aboard the boats. Cellars along
Pavonia-ave. and other streets leading from the
waterfront were flooded in every direction.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-08

The road Is blocked by two big landsiides A ,oco-
motive ana seventeen rreisnt cars are edged I'm
one slide near Safe HarbotS and anoths sIids a
short distance below that point, buried II tracks
under six feet of earth end ice for a die anca of
five hundred feet. All traffic the had has
been annulled until the danger Is passed 49,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-03-08
How Deep to Plow.

An Iowa correspondent writes us
that he has some sod land to plow
in the spring, part of it slough re-
Gently tiled out and never plowed,
part blue grass seeded and pastured
four years, part timothy and clover
which has been seeded two years.
The character of the land varies
from black, heavy soil in the slough
to quite sandy soil. He asks when
to plow it, how deep, and why.
We don't know that we would
make any difference in the plowing
of these various pieces Of land.
They all have to be plowed in the
spring. AS the winter has been
cold and the ground frozen to a
considerable depth, we would not
care to plow any of it more than
four or five inches. We would plow
it as soon as the frost IS out, then
thoroughly disk it and prepare a
proper seed bed on the whole tract
The slough will in all probability
require a good deal more work than
his lighter soils, especially that in
timothy and clover.
We would plant a little later than
usual; but not later in that latitude
than the 18th or goth of May. He
will likely have some trouble from
cut worms in the blue grass, and
from snout bugs and wire worms in
the slough. On both these pieces
we would give heavier seeding than
on the timothy and clover sod, ex.
pecting some of it to be lost on ac-
count Of these insects.-Wallaces
Farmer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-03-08
The Hawaiian penth Prayer.

Upon the minds of such people as
the Hawaiians were, while under their
ancient form of religion, it was but
natural that superstition should gain
rooted hold. The most curious and eff
fective belief to which they We're made
subject was that man can be prayed
to death, belief that survives among
the natives to the present day. For
the success of the tragical death prayer
1t was necessary to obtain some hair
or Il piece of finger nail of the intended
victim. \ priest was then employed
to use incarnation and prayer for his
destruction. Always informed of the
doom that the priest was invoking upon
him, the victim generally pincd away
and died.
There is Il story that an Englishman
in the service of Kamehameha l. hav-
ing incurred the displeasure of a priest
the latter proceeded to remove" him
by the death prayer process. The An
glo-SaNon, however. set up an opposi-
ton altar in derision and jokingly pro-
claimed that lie intended to pray the
priest to death. Alarmed at the threat
and overwhelmed at the failure Of his
own incantations, the sorcerer died,
proving by his death his faith in his
religion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-03-08
The Social cnnit,I.

We do not think that either Washing
ton or New York or any other city will
ever become the social capital Of the
United States as London is the social
capital of Great Britain. Washington
will come much nearer to it than it
does at present, but the country is too
big to have social capital. Hordes of
people will come to New York to make
money, to amuse themselves, to study,
to live their lives in the least restricted
atmosphere that the country offers, but
only very rich people will come here to
find and occupy place in organized
society. Pleasant people will always
find pleasant playmates here. There is
no lack of good company for everybody
thatis companionable. But the charm
of New York for people who still live
elsewhere is not in its society, but in
its shops and shows, its sunshine, its
eating and its drinking. 1t is pleasant.
1t grows finer every day. When it is
finished it will be marvellous city, but
hardly the social capital of the coun-
try.-Harper's Weekly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-03-08

No two leaps of the tarpon are quite
alike. AS the tarpon comes out into
day his jaws dlstcnd, his gills flap open,
ana the mullet bait flies out across the
water for hundred feet, while he
retches at the hook, shaking his head
ansrily from side to side, like horse
tliat fights his bit. In midilight he will
turn ana cut into the stream with a
head on dive that makes perfect cleay-
age of the whitened water. His next
emergence may be back somersault
and his third long distance jump with
no height to 1t. but a substantial gain
in feet. With infinite spirit he will
continue his play until absolutely worn
out, when the spring and somersault-
ing lapse into long, rolling stroke
from side to side, showing the two foot
dorsal filament, which waves and floats
out behind, like some Independent wa
ter creature.-Country Life In Amer
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-03-08
TIE NAME AMERICA.
When It yysn FIRST Proposed For the
Nc.vly Ic,,nl Continent

Ncwiy Found Continent.
The name of America for the newly
discovered continent was first proposed
III The little volume put forth at ST Die,
in tie No1Tcs. in the year 1907 by
Wald@eelnuiler. better known by the
Hellclized form Of his name, Hyla-
comylus. Three or four editions Of this
treatise We're published ut st. Die be-
fore 1907, and Il few years afterward
an edition without date was printed at
Lyons by Jean de Ia Place. All these
editions are of extreme rarity, and
probably that printed ut Lyons is the
rarest of all, though the library of the
British museum possesses two copies
of 1t. 1t has never been suggested that
any maps were engraved to accompa-
ny either of the editions. but it has al
ways been supposed that the earliest
map with the word America" marked
on the new found world was the "Ty-
pus Orbis," engraved on wood for the
"Enarrationes Joannis Camertis in G.
Julii Solini Polyistora," printed Mt VI
cnna in 1920 for Joannes Singrenius.
In this map the new world is represent
ed as long island, on which is the in
scription: "Anno d. 1497 haec terra cum
adjacentibus insults inventa est per
Columbian Ianuensem ex mandate re-
gis Castelle America provincial
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-03-08
Sowing Rape This Spring.

A great many farmers do not rea-
lie the value of rape as a catch
crop. AS matter of fact many
have never raised rape and have not
heard much about it. On the other
hand, in some sections nearly every
farmer raises more or less rape.
Each and all swear by the crop as q
most valuable one for fall feed, as it
can be grown at very little expense.
A correspondent recently sent the
following inquiry: According to
reports given by farmers from var
ious sections Of the country and re-
ported in your "brevites columns"
rape is quite extensively grown. I
would like to know if you think it
would pay me here in Clay county
Iowa, to seed rape with my oats
next spring. My soil is heavy
black clayey loan naturally fertile
and in good state of fertility.
expect to seed about twenty acres OF
this land to clover and timothy this
spring and wonder if it would be a
good plan to add about two pounds
Of rape to the grass seed and seed
the whole down with light seed
ing of oats"
Rape may be seeded with clover
and timothy and with oats as nurse
crop to good advantage under GER
tain conditions, and these condi.
tions are that the oats ought to be
cut for hay when seeded in this
manner Otherwise when rape is
seeded it is liable to grow at the ex
pense Of the clover and timothy anc
reduce the stand too much. AS ;
general rule, where the grain is tt
/ be allowed to ripen we would pre-
fer to leave rape out and to sow i
with grain on land that is not to bt
seeded down.
If a drill is used for seeding, tn,
small grain it is preferable not t,
seed the rape with the grain, but t,
wait about two weeks before sowing
it. Then SOW broadcast and harrow
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-03-08
side-Lights on a Public Office.

Henry A. Castle, Auditor of the
Post Department, taps strange
veins Of human nature in the cou-
duct of his office. Careless, Ig-
norant and Defiant Postmasters,
contributed by him to the March
McClure's, is a collection of the
queer flotsam caught in the web of
the red tape. From Texas town a
courteous citizen sent this mild
protest against the too strenuous
manners Of the "lady postmistress." :"
"We don't set up any claim that
our manners are all they should be
but we'd like to be reasoned with
and helped along The postmistress
here is worthy woman, all right,
but she certainly is rude and hasty.
One day last week, the mayor being
some flushed up and careless, re-
fused to move his hat and bow on
asking for the official mail, wher-
upon his hat was shot off and plumb
ruined. There's another thing we
don't think is fair. This postmis-
tress won't let niggers and greasers
come into the Office under any con-
, sideration. We amt over fond oI
niggers and greasers ourselves, but
it is sure discommoding for the
leading citizens to have to go to the
post-office personally to get thei,
mail. just because this lady DOM
like to SEQ anything but a gentle
man. We don't like to appear
fault-finding and picayunish where
a lady is concerned, but this one
I'm talking about is sure arbitrary
and abrupt, and we'd like to have
her toned down some."