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New-York tribune., 1906-05-03
A FOREIGN COMPANY's LOSSES.

Abe.usen May AT the annual meeting OF
the Northern Assurance Company to-day the
chairman. Sir David Stewart. announced that
the company's total risk in the destroyed Sec
ttOn OF san Francisco was little over S2.S0p.-
600 and expressed the opinion that while none
OF the companies. as far as he knew. were
legally liable for earthquake damage pure and
simple they were liable where fire followed az
some interval The British and American COM
panies. the chairman added. were cooperating
in dealing with the situation.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-03
THINKS I 800 WERE KILLED
Coroner Erpects San Francisco
Death Roll to Grooo.

San Francisco. May 2-Corone- WALSH said +o
day: when the debris Is cleared away there will
be at least thousand additions to the death roll
I would not be surprised if the number reached
fifteen hundred"
Coroner Walsh continued:
Down in the ish market district where hundreds
OF men were at work at the time of the earthquake
several structures collapsed and the workers had
no time to save themselves.
Few victims are being found now because the
New-York tribune., 1906-05-03
RED CROSS HAS RAISED sf,7ssooo.

Washington. May a-The total amount OF money
raised BY the American Red Cross up 20 date for
the relief OF san Francisco sufferers Is s.13SOoo
OF this sum St0eN has been sent IN cash 20 San
FFapcisco $4,000 was spent for blankets forward
ed FOR the relief work, and $4,000 used Ia buy
ing provisions, The present balance - H,Sl2,oao.
cisco Red Cross and RELIEF commlllee.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-03
POISONOUS MEDICINES SAFE.

by Telegraph TO The Tribunel
Albany, May 2.-Senator Stevenss bill. compelling
manufacturers of patent medicines 20 label their
products with the names am amount OF habit form
ing drugs they contain was killed by the Assembly
tonight by the adoption OF four amendments. The
bill might have been passed in the face OF consider
able opposition IL Captain Campbell. Municipal
Ownership man from New York had not told a
story against It that set the house into roars Of
laughter.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-03
MANY NEW JUSTICES.
OUer T1centy PrOCided for en- 1S-
sembly Bills.
TBv Telegraph to The Tribune !

Albany. May More than twenty Supreme Court
justices win be added to the list in the state IL the
Governor signs the bills passed by the Assembly
tonight.
That eighteen will be added is certain. for It was
under an emergency message from the Governor
that the Bracket and the Elsberg bills increasing
y that number the justices in the 1st and Cd dis
tTlcts and the new 9Th district were passed. Sim
iar bills were put through to affect the 6th 9th
and 9Th districts An identical measure, increasing
the number OF justices ia the 9Th district, which
includes Erie County. was decisively defeated.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-03
TO PAY FRISCO LOSS.
Continued from FIRST page.

stocks OF the local Ere insurance companies seems
10 be explained to-day by the news that the larger
life insurance companies win shortly begin 60 make
heavy loans the securities which each of the
fire companies holds in large amounts. Already Il
IS understood that investment IN real estate mort
cages and bonds has ceased and arrangements
are being made to loan to the affected fire COM
panies the immense sums which win be required
adiustnnenfs IN San Francisco, which VIII call for
cash settlements.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-03
GOVERNOR ON SAVINGS BANK TAX
Fourth Message to Legislature Urging Its
Repeal Would Be Ridiculous, lie Says.
CBy Telegraph 20 The Tribune.

2
Albany. May 2-The Governor was asked tonight
what he thought OF the Legislatures failure 20
repeal the savings bank tax. He said:
have debated whether 20 send IN a fourth mes
sage on this subject. have three times in the
strongest language could use recommended its
repeal It would seem ridiculous to send in a
1ourth message on the same subject when both
branches OF the Legislature are the same The
Senate virtually killed the bill by its action the
other day. regret very much that the BILL has
not been passed, and have at al times felt that
the pledge that made during the campaign should
New-York tribune., 1906-05-03
SALARY FOR WATER COMMISSIONERS.

Albany, May 2-The Senate to-day passed in
record time the Agnew bill fixing a salary OF $500
Cor the state water commissioners The bill was
sn general orders On a special request Il was ad-
Vanced 20 third reading and passed without dis
senting vote.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-03
ASSETs-NERVE, ENERGY.
A San Francisco Firm Shows the Stuff II Is
Made OF.

The Maroellus Hartley Company. ammunition
dealers. in Broadway. received yesterday a letter
from a firm in the same business in San Francisco
which illustrates the pluck characteristics OF these
people, who are starting business all over agair.
The letter was an order for goods 70 be rushed 70
Oakland and the engraved heading read:
New-York tribune., 1906-05-03
MR. eoopNoW vcERoYs ApmsoR-

IBy Telegraph 20 The TrIbune.l
Minneapolis, May 2.-Word has been received here
that ex-consul General John Goodnow has been
appointed advisor OF the Viceroy at Nankiue.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22
Advent of Worlds First Umbrella

From the heavy. cumbrous rain
sticks of 1900 to the dainty umbrella
Il 1906 is long jump. Each succeed
ing year finds changes in umbrella
styles. usually confined to the handles
and upper adornments OF the rod. This
ears styles have many beautiful fan
cies worked out in gold. silver, pearl
and ivory. The finest silk spreads over
the ribs Of these rain shields. and they
are steut enough for the use they re-
ceive. but would probably give very
short service to the American who
rides in the subway twice a day in
crowd time.
1t is curious to observe what a diff
ference exists between these wire steel
and pearl creations of today and the
first umbrella ever made, that erected.
in the literal significance of the word
by Jenas Hanway of London in the
year 1855.
Hanway detested the cold dripping
Of bondon rain, so he set about the
making Of a rain stick. which when
completed weighed a good twelve
pounds, and On its FIRST appearance over
the head of the redoubtable Hanway
caused a comnotion among beholders.
ovsr Hanways head his tentlike ar
reaGeHsaS the elsth Of heavy cotton,
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extended like great roof, sufficiently
spacious to shelter seven people. Its
ribs were of heavy whalebone half an
inch thick and braced with bars of
wood 1t required a man of muscle to
accomplish a five-mile stroll with that
first umbrella.
In a month after its appearance a
few others had bravely come forth to
defy public opinion and the rain, but
IL was not until thirty-seven years
later that the umbrella was seen on
the streets of old New York
In modest shop in Philadelphia the
first umbrellas of an American make
were turned out in 1893, and New York
fashionables of the period might have
been seen the same year walking in the
rain, delighted with the unwieldy ar
rangement which they called a rain
stick. Its real recognition as a human
necessity was synchronous with the
invention of the steel rib in 1910.
From that time forward the UNI
brella improved in shape and useful
ness, though no very radical changes
have been made. Its principle is Just
the same now as ii was 100 years ago.
and occasionally when a hnrrying
American struggles with his rain stick
In pouring rain he feels doubt about
the superiority of the modern article
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Origin Of the 'Philadelphia LAWYER .

Has the definite origin of the phrase
"a Philadelphia lawyer" ever been Civ
en-? Only two explanations of the ex-
preston are known to the present
writer. When in Philadelphia a year
or two ago lawyer of that city in
formed me that the expression had
nothing to do with his native town,
but owed its origin to a street in Lon
don named Philadelphia, where many
lawyers lived. This explanation is in
genious and seems to have but single
serious defect-namely. that such a
London street exists only in the imagi-
nation of my informant. The other ex-
PLANTATION is found in Bartletts Die
tionary of Americanisms (1S77). where
we read:
philadelphia lawyer. That beats
Philadelphia lawyer He knows as
much as a Philadelphia lawyer These
are common sayings. whence ii is to
be inferred that the bar of the Quaker
City are distinguished for their learn
ing and shrewdness-" page 1927
This is the obvious explanation of the
expression. and there seems to be no
good reason for not accepting it. As,
however. the history of the expression
has never been given, perhaps two or
three extracts will not be without in
terest. In 1917 James K. Paulding
wrote:
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IL would puzzle a Philadelphia law
yer 10 make a romance out of a log
hut C"Letters from the South" ii.
44-) In 1881 Captain Thomas Hamilton.
a younger brother of Sir William Ham
Ilton, and the author OF Cyril Thorn
ton, visited this country, and his in
evltable book of travels was published
at Edinburgh in 1888. In it Captain
Hamilton pays this handsome tribute
TO the Philadelphia bar:
During my stay in Philadelphia I
frequently visited the courts of law.
The proceedings happened to witness
were in nothing remarkable. and have
already described the externals of an
American court. 1t is not unusual
among the lower orders in England
when any knotty point is proposed for
discussion, to say il would puzzle a
Philadelphia lawyer To do this. how
ever, it must be knotty. indeed. for T
have never met a body of men more
distinguished by acuteness and extern
sive professional Information than the
members of the PHILADELPHIA bar -
{. Men and Manners in America" i. asa
3S4)
These extracts show that the expres-
sion was in common use in this conn
try nearly a century ago, and Dat AZ
early found its way to England
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time more finches were killed every
where. Then my lady turned to some
thing else the trimmed hats were put
away, but-40.00o odd finches did not
come to life again.
A few years later the ladies of all the
world became fascinated with the idea
of love Of a hat trimmed with the
dainty bodies of the gentle terms
those most beautiful of little gulls
which are as tie swallows of the green
sea That year 1000 of the most glo-
rious subspecies were killed along the
Baltic and the North Sea coasts alone
Hundreds of miles of the American
North Atlantic coast were absolutely
depopulated, though the terms had been
so plentiful along shore before they
became fashionable" that the, air was
filled with their clamor from morning
till night. Today what terms are left
are saved only because the United
States has issued orders that every
lighthouse and other Federal reserva-
ton along the coast shall be an ASYLUM
for the birds where none may kill OF
disturb them. So now the naturalist
who wishes to see terms must go to iso-
lated places. though only a few years
ago there were focks numbering hun
dreds everywhere from New York to
Labrador
~ al AAlOSC iAlllIChS hat
A few worn feathers on dusty old hats
tossed away contemporary by my
lady Of New York, London, Berlin
Paris. St Petersburg and some hun
dred thousand other cities and villages
where fashion reigns.
Sport, Appetite and style.
quarter of a century. ago the world
began TO like herring from the great
lakes pretty well. In 1880 man was
eating 100000 pounds a year Today
the human animal is killing off herring
to the weight OF $1,000, 900 pounds an
nually.
Last year the poor little mole became
highly fashionable Man swooped down
on the little creature all over Europe
with such rapscity that in six months
the price Of each tiny fur had risen to
almost so cents. where before that
moleskin had been so plentiful that
.-iree or four cents was considered
good payment for skin
sport. though not quite as destruct-
i've as fashion. is doing it's share as it
always has done. Only recently a hunt
ing party of e-blooded Europeans
killed zoo reindeer in one day in Spitz-
bergen, and a royal member of the
party had the proud satisfaction OF
killing forty-seven of these with his
own hand
The Barbary lion and the. Persian
lion have been made practically lex
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sight, hearing and smell as compared
with most other animals, and abso-
lutely puny as compared to the jungle
and forest kings, whether srasseaters
or hesheaters.
The Iron Greed.
Even through all the recent centu-
ries during which he has preached more
and more OF love and kindness and toll
erance. he has remained the most ter
Tfble and unslterable exponent Of the
iron creed Of nature-the survival of
the fittest. And there has been sea rcely
a creature of another mold than his
that has been fit" to exist undisturbed
near him.
Remorseless as his progress has been
ell tho time. IL never has been so re-
morseless as it is in this century. All
mans inventions and Improvements
that have provided flying ships and fly
ing cars. nets of cable and telegraph,
mechanical means TO do away with
space and time. have also increased his
ability to destroy. and he has taken
full advantage of the opportunity.
Is he weary of quail and grouse? Do
peasants cease to tickle his palate
At once the word gees forth from the
caterer TO the poulterer, the poulterer
telegraphs TO the wholesale game ship
per, and within a week Indian hunters
are busy slaughtering ptarmigans in
the far north; and another species
starts on its way TO the great grave of
species-man's throat.
Is my lady tired of the furs that are
on the market Within q month after
she expresses herself Malaysian hunt
ers are killing of black monkeys that
were never touched by man before.
since the first arboresl ancestor of man
chartered in the primeval forests Ten
Thousand traps are being set through
out The Americas for wolverines A
price is set on the heads of the few
remaining white and blue foxes sufi-
cicnt TO set whole tribes on the track
OF each single animal, wherever 1t may
roam.
Is Sir Nimrod bored by wild-fowl
shooting at home? Within two weeks
after he leaves New York he steps into
lion and elephant and hippopotamus
IND from one Of the sleeping cars on
the Uganda Railroad. and presently a
few pairs or even dozens Of monsters
exist no longer except as dissected
md skinned trophies
Is the Englishman or the American
stated with fox hunting? Down in Pat
2Eonia is a feet ostrich-like bird. the
rhea, and men ride Il down and throw
b. with the bOlas-the native hunting
implement which consists of three
neavy iron balls fastened by three
short thongs to line. When thrown
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the basking shark on the doomsday
book of humanity, wherein are written
the names of the living creatures that
are to become extinct
The menhaden steamers alone. catch
more than $4,000 sharks of all kinds a
year along the middle Atlantic coast
of the United States. They don't want
these fish. but they get into the men
haden nets and go into the oil presses
with the other victims.
killing for OIL.
Nothing is too noble or too mean to
escape man. While he is killing off
the last of the lions of Barbary for
sport he is also killing aft the humble
sawfish in Florida waters for the few
pints of oil he can get out Of the livers.
and the skate and the ray are being
slain by the hundred thousand TO be
converted into fertilizer.
One city alone, Para, receives $4,000
gallons of turtle oil in season 1t
requires 500 turtle eggs to make one
gallon, so there are 100000 turtle
eggs accounted for by one South Amer
lean city alone. When the great South
American river turtle disappears no
world catastrophe will be needed to ex-
plain its extinction. Mans hungry jaws
sufficiently account for it.
Mans appetite for animal oil has
quite killed off the wonderful manatee,
or sea cow, and is killing off it's cousin,
the dugong.- On the Macquaire Islands,
the coast of Patagonia and elsewhere
along the southern hemisphere men
are working today with clubs killing
off penguin. Day after day they stalk
among the foolish fowl clubbing royal
penguins, macaronis and red bills to
death till their arms are stiff from
labor. The breast skin, with the b1ub-
Der attached. is torn off and cooked
till the oil can be pressed out, while
the rest is thrown away.
In 1887 the Hudson Bay Company
sent 1O2.715 beaver pelts out from the
Canadas Thirteen years afterward the
most strenuous hunting over a widely
enlarged territory produced only $4,000.
There is a sort of second cousin to
the beaver which is hardly known to
any except the professional naturalist
1t lives in South America. and is the
coypu rat. This obscure beast, hid
den away in all but unpierceable
swamps. has not been able to hide away
from fur-hunting men, Every year
more than 100000 of them are
brought to market. where their fur is
sold under the name 'nutria."
The muskrat dies at the rate of s.
600. 900 a year.
A graphic idea of what destruction
of life this means can be given when
skins would cover an area of $780, 900
square feet. The poor coypu rats an
nual yield covers 1900 square feet. The
IS, 900 beavers surrender 264.0OO square
feet of fur; 100000 square feet are
given up by the mink each year. The
$50 600 beavers surrender 264.0OO square
feet of fur: 100000 square feet are
given up by the mink each year.
Fashion and the otter.
1t is said that the sea otter is al
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Although the scientific world has
abandoned the old theory of great
epochal oatastrophes to account for the
annihiiation of mighty species of
beasts and reptiles whose fossil re-
mains show that they once existed in
incredible numbers, it is hard for the
laymsn 10 understand how millions of
beasts could possibly have disappeared
unless such a gigantic agency as food,
earthquake. eruption or landslide
caused widespread death.
Even scientists failed. for centuries.
10 recognize the real destroying
agency, though all the time it was
busy annihilating all rival forms of
life before their very eyes.
II is only in the last ten years that
the perfected system Of interchange OF
knowledge and the improvement in the
transmission OF news other than mere
y that of great episodes have enabled
men 10 learn everything that their
own species is doing.
Man, and not earthquake or volcano,
floor or landslide. is the great world
catastrophe. He has always been. The
first man was the first destroyer.
Other predaceous beasts killed for
food or defense. The genus homo
killed for food. for defense, for gar
ments. for comfort and for sport from
the very first
This little thing-one of the smallest
OF the iesh-eating animals-has de-
stroyed more than all other agencies
OF nature put together
An Insignificant kind of thing il is
20 be the great destroying angel:
weighing less than the inoffensive deer.
needing less ground to stand on than
any OF the bovine family. not quite
as tall as the tallest manapes. requir-
ing less food in week than the
pachyderms need in a day. weaker
than almost any beast Of prey, not
nearly as swift as wolf or rat. dull in
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at a victim, the whirling balls snake
around its limbs and bring it down.
There is a new zest for the sportsman.
Within less than two months Mr.. Fox
hunter is doing his share toward ami
hiIating another curious form of life.
DID Tyrian king love purple of a
particular shade? Within a gen Grafton
the Mediterranean was stripped clean
of the shellhsh that produce it.
Does an American packer hit on the
idea, some morning of cornering the
crab-meat market? Before the even
ing of the next day 10000 fishermen
have caught and shipped 100000 blue
crabs.
Is there a market for the oil of a GER
tain fish? BY the end of that year
more than $50, 600. 900 of the herring
like menhaden have gone into the oil
presses and the scrap watts.
My Lady's Killing.
Ny lady has killed for vanity's sake
ever since the human world began.
Even i'm the caves of prehistoric man
were found woman's ornaments fash
toned from antlers and hoofs and
beasts bones.
Ten years ago along the African gold
coast there existed e great nation,
numbering more than the inhabitants
of many aeSouth American or European
state. Ny lady grew tired of all known
furs one day in 1898. and that year
100000 of the African nation were shot
and shipped away. to be sold for 81
each in fur markets of. the world. That
is the way CoIobus Satanas, the beau
tiful ape with the long. shining black
hair. died. So fast did he go while he
was lin fashion" that three years after
the natives had shipped 100000 their
best hunting failed to produce more
than $4,000; and today the region that
the black nation had made populous is
almost empty OF monkey life.
In 1897 a German firm of lawmakers
bought a beautiful design for feather
ornamentation, made BY a nice little
artist girl. Feathers of a certain color
were needed to produce the effect. The
mail that night carried an order to
Paris for $4,000 skins of goldfinches,
which was duly filled. The fashion
lasted for two months, during which
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tinct" by British and French sports
men. On the west coast of America
party of forty hunters killed 400 sea
elephants in half an hour. A profess
sional sea elephant hunting expedition.
killed 1000 in the same region in one
week
A greater destructive element than
sport is that form Of human activity
known as industry" Whatever es-
capes mans hungry throat or his lady
loves bright fashionable eye or his
sporting weapons slender muzzle. falls
victim to the, most Unsuitable of all the
cravings of home-the craving for
money.
Every beast that he meets, if worth
less otherwise, is slain to be turned
into leather for great industries that
thrive on leather. Man goes even into
the sea for hides. OF the white whale.
or belusa, alone more than 100000
worth of skins are put into the tanning
watts each year. The weird walrus fur
nishes hides to the value of 100000
annually in the United States alone.
The people of this country destroy
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enough mussels, CLAIMS. oysters and
other 9hellfish each year to produce
100000 tons of. shell. The big sea
turtles which furnish the real tortoise
shell are killed at the rate of 100000
each year, or almost 1000 a day.
Even the huge basking shark, the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-11-19
Prominent 4 Methodist Church.

Randolph, Nov. IT, Rev nv. A. Evans,
of Randolph Center. died at his late resi-
dcnce Thursday following a shock sns.
tanned last Tuesday. The funeral was
held at 2 O'Clock this afternoon from his
bate home With Rev. W. NJ. Newton off.
eating, assisted BY Rev. T.. A. Bishop.
Rev NR Evans was about "a years Of
age and Is survived by wife and three
children. Bishop Evans. Of Montpelier
seminary and Mary and Lottic, who re-
side at home. Up to within five years
nEo he has been an active Methodist
minister, having preached at lnipn VII.
lage, Nidalescx. Randolph ami other
places While preaching at Nfiddlesex
Is years ago he took a special course Of
study at Montpelier seminary.