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New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
FUTURE OF IRON AND STEEL.

If every new building erected in the new city
of San Francisco shall have skeleton Of steel.
the whole amount Of steel consumed will form
only an incOnsiderable fraction of the steel out
put for 19O6-'O7. Ut is not the fact that San
Francisco will rebuild of steel that counts. but
the reason lying back of the fact When the
city had ceased its shaking. buildings of brick
and stone had collapsed but wherever the frame
work of a building had been Of steel. although
the terra Gotta filling had been shaken out, yet
the steel skeletons remained intact. silent but
eloquent witnesses to the fact that they had
successfully defed the power which had easily
wrecked all else. Structural steel Skeletons
standing in their strength, towering alone unin-
1ured amid the desOlatiOn and flame and smoke
of the once great city, declared the conquering
genius of science able to withstand the forces
of even an earthquakes fercest shocks. This
is what counts, that we now know that steel
buildings will endure the most terrible of ma
ture's forces. the earthquake We know it be-
cause we have proved it,
Mexico is also in the earthquake zone. and
there, too, they have learned the value of steel
in construction work to guard against disaster
In Mexico City the government is at work on a
palace for its Senate Chamber of Deputies and
National Library that has been specially de-
signed to resist earthquake shocks.
What the example OF these cities prophesies
as to the building policy of other cities through
out the world is readily seen; and while the
amount of steel that will be consumed I'm any
one city. not matter how large. will, we have
said, form no considerable part of a years
product. yet the aggregate that will he demand
ed for building purposes by all cities will reach
a figure I'm tons that, added to the amount need
ed for rails and other work will be away beyond
the productive capacity of present facilities
These evidences of the immea asurab BILE increast.
in the amount of steel that is going to be needed
practical and substantial that capitalists
are arranging 10 provide for the supply and
plans ripening for the organization of a
company which will not likely be second in either
capital or resources TO the United States Steel
Corporation.
But there is another industry which must de-
velop side by side with the iron and steel in
dustry because steel is impossible without coal
and coke; and here again the United States as
the chief soft coal country of the world will
dominate the trade and the main interest CEN
tIes in West Virginia, already the second bitu-
minous coal state in the Union and destined
without any question to become the first NsU,
mines are being opened up all over that state
towns are sprnging into being. and railroad
companies cannot lay their glistenine parallel
rails fast enough 10 meet the needs of the coal
companies output Coal and coke are the first
essential OF manufactures OF every kind and NOT
agriculture. nor Steel nor any other industrv
Is more than comparable 20 coal and coke as a
source OF wealth.-Cent peg Cent
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
FIRED INTO A RESTAURANT.
Subway Conductor Accused Of Being Anar-
chist Alleges Self-Defence.

Bullets crashing through the windows of a small
restaurant kept by Mrs. Eva Kohn, at No. 2.67S
Eighth avenue. early yesterday morning, caused
half a dozen patrons of the place to duck under
meath tables and others to flee for their lives.
John Sebell, a conductor employed in the subway,
and living at No. 27O West 145th street, was sub
sequenty arrested after fight on the roof Of a
house with policeman and a citizen, and the
police say he admitted doing the shooting.
In the Harlem police court Mrs. Kohn told
Magistrate Mayo that the man owed her some
money. and she was sure he had tried to take her
life This SebeI denied, but he was held in $1,000
bail for trial
1t was about 1.3O O'Clock, when four shots rang
out outside of the restaurant, and the windows and
the cigar case were smashed into fragments There
was a general scramble for shelter.
Patrolman Riley, Of the West 125th street sta
ton, saw Seben running and gave chase. The
man was finally captured the roof Of house
adjoining that where he lives.
When arraigned in court Sebell said that ne had
been attacked by Negroes and had fired the shots
at them Patrolman Riley said that Sebell was
formerly a resident OF Paterson and accused him
of being a member OF the Reds, an anarchist
organization, which the prisoner denied.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
WOUNDED BURGLAR REFUSES FOOD
Mulatto Who Wore Towels on His Feet Be-
Ieved To Be Starving Himself.

Orange. July % CspecaD.-Parker C. Westcott
the mulatto burglar, known as the towel bur
gler from his custom OF wrapping his feet IN
towels when he makes midnight visits who was
shot yesterday morning by Special Policeman
George Hoyt refuses 10 eat and it is thought he
is trying to starve to death. Westcott is at the
Orange Memorial Hospital He was shot twice in
the thigh and only one of the bullets has been
found An operation will be necessary to recover
the other. which has lodged in his hip joint. His
leg is now in splnt and the man is complaining
bitterly of the pain
Westcott shuts his mouth and shakes his head
when food is brought to him. but it is thought
as the pangs of hunger grow keen he will
cha-se his mind. II he doesn't the doctors will
probably find a way to keep him nOurshed in
spite OF himself. It now develops that Wescott,
who lived at No. III Pennington street, Newark,
has a prison record and is known s a desperate
and clever burglar. In his room have been found
many valuable pieces of jewelry. Colts revolver
and a Winchester rife. He tried to kill a police
man in Newark once and surprise is expressed
that he did not try TO kill Hoyt yesterday. His
injury is very grave, and f blood poisoning sets
he m
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
BURNED IN HER HOME.
GasoEeme Explosion at Methodist
Summer Resort.
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Lakeside, Ohio. July 29.-The explosion Of a
gasolene tank to-day caused the destruction by
fire Of the summer home of Dr. Edward e.
Berry. of Elyria. and OF other buildings, and the
injury OF Mrs. Berry. at Lakeside. the big Metho-
dist summer resort The Lakeside Fire Depart
ment. aided by visitors. prevented the wiping
out of number OF other houses.
Mrs Nettie Hogg. of Lakeside. sustained
broken ankle and several other women were in
jured in the rush. The Berry house was piped
with gasolene. and the doctor started 20 work
the pump when the pressure became weak. The
gasolene tank In some way exploded and Mrs
Berry was enveloped in flames. She ran scream
ing from the house and dashed across the street
to the home of L. w Byington. where the lat
ter extinguished the blaze by throwing rug
around the woman. She burned so badly
that she may die. Fully five thousand persons
watched the fire.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
INCREASE IN IRON AND STEEL PRODUCT

The expectation of iron and steel manufact-
urers amounted to but S122.OO0,OO0 in the year
1900, at which date the census showed a total
iron and steel. product of SsS6,OOO,OOO; in 1906
the exports will be over S15OOOOO0O or an in
crease Of perhaps 25 per cent over those Of 1900.
Are we to assume from this that the total prod
uct of iron and steel in the United States has
increased % per cent since that time? II So we
should be justified in estimating the value Of
iron and steel products manufactured in the
United States in the present year at over ST.,
OOOOOOOOO and study Of the production of pig
iron seems to Justify this assumption Of an in
crease of even more than % per cent since 1900.
as the total productlon OF pig iron In 1870 Is set
down at about 23.OOO.O00 TONS and in the year
1900 it was less than 14.OOO.O0O, an increase
therefore of about 66 per cent in pig iron pro-
duction during the last five years.
Is this tremendous growth in iron and
steel industry and our invasion of the worlds
markets for iron and steel manufactures likely
to continue? Probably, for the present at least.
An examination of the figures Of iron and steel
production in various parts of the world sug
gests that the United States is by far the worlds
largest producer of that article. The total pro-
duction of pig iron in the leading iron producing
countries of the world in the latest available
year was. stating them in the order Of magni-
tude: United States, 23OO0OOO tons: Germany,
including Luxembourg, 1O.1jO.OOO; United King
dom, 1OJOOO00; France, 3,OOO,O0O; Russia, p
100000 and Austria Hungary and Belgium,
about 1.250.g0 each. These statements in
very round terms and are only intended to pre-
sent general perspective OF the pig iron pro-
ducing countries of the world. but they
sufficient to show that the United States is not
only the worlds largest producer of pig iron. but
in 1903 actually produced more of that article
than was produced in the same year in the two
countries which we NAV consider as in any sense
rivals in iron production. namely. Germany and
the United Kingdom; the production of Germany
being, as already indicated, 101jO00O tons and
that of the United Kingdom 9,5OO.OoO. making
total of 202J0 600 produced in those two coun-
tries, as against % 600 in the United States
alone and indicating that we are now producing
considerably more than one-third of the worlds
total pig iron. A decade ago Germany and the
United Kingdom produced considerably more
than the United States; two decades ago their
combined product of pig iron two and one
half times as great that of the United States,
and thirty years ago their combined output was
four times as great as our Own-Cent Per Cent.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
TO LAY NEW ORANGE MAIN.
Work Begins Obtaining Right of
Way Proves Difficult.

Orange. July 20 (SpecaD.-Work on the laying Of
the ne" pipe line which will connect Orange with
lts new water works system on the Orange
Mountain will be started tomorrow morning and
prosecuted with the utmost dispatch. as the cond-
tons in Orange are such as to demand relief at the
earliest possible moment. One Of the greatest OBJ
stacles mas been obtaining permission to go through
the property of the South Orange Field Club owned
by the Meadow Land Improvement Company. but
an arrangement has finally been made so the pipe
be laid
In other instances it is believed condemnation
proceedings will be necessary. The main will he
twenty inches In interior diameter II is hoped to
have the new line In operation before winter The
water will be delivered to a pumping station
in Chestnut street and thence distributed through
the city big equalizng reservoir is also to be
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
"MIDDY" DIES FROM OPERATION.
Body of K. B. Kilduff, Of Tompkinsville,
Sent Home from ANNAPOLIS.

Annapolis, Md. July 2S-The body of Mid
shipman K. B. Kilduff, who died at the Naval
Academy Hospital last night from peritonitis'
following an operation for appendicitis was sent
to his home in Tompkinsville, n. Y. to-day.
The body was accompanied by the young mans
mother and his sisters.
There was a short private service held at the
hospital with the usual military honors. A
military escort consisting of members of the
two classes now at the academy and squad OF
marines accompanied the body to the station,
where three volleys were filed and taps" blown
over the flag draped coffin. Eight sailors acted
as bearers.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
BELIEVE DYING MAN HIeHwAYMAN.

Detective work The part of the Bronx police
brought light yesterday facts which lead them
TO believe that Jacob Walters, Of No 1863 Webster
avenue. who is in the FOrdham Hospital with
bullet in his chest. and wiz probably die. attempted,
with a companion. hold up and rob a man who
was with his wife and child in Crotona Park.
Walters said he had been shot by a man in Crotona
Park for some unknown reason. Yesterday how
ever. the detectives found Samuel Harrington of
No. 1873 Fulton avenue. who says that he heard a
shot fired and a answering Wslterss de-
scription and companion running away from a
tried TO rob him. -
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
cRoss-coNTINENT RIDE CHALLENGE.

Jim Gabriel cowboy, who broke endurance rec
ords for the government in a 2.5OO-me trip on
horseback from Sheridan, Wyo.. to Chicago yes
terday issued challenge for relay ride from New
York 10 San Francisco He declares he will make
the Journey in thirty days or less ard says he has
$1,000 ready TO wager. Gabriel was born in the
Far West and has been cowboy. scout. dispatch
bearer hunter and bucknR horse breaker. He is
now chief outlaw in The Great Train Robbery at
Tlina Park
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
BOY RUN OVER BY TRUCK.

William Hogan. twelve years old, of No 2s7
ogden street. Newark, by a heavy
truck on which he had been riding Frelighuysen
and Evergreen avenues that city. yesterday, and
WAS instantly killed. The boys neck was broken
and a wheel crushed his skull Walter Montrose
thirty-one years old the driver OF the vehicle was
arrested and latar paroled fog appearance to-day.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
ESCAPES FLock's WEDDING GIFTS
[By Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Morristown July pa large purse Of money has
been presented to the Rev. William Russell Bennett
pastor OF the First Presbyterian Church. by the
congregation, in recognition of his approa ching
marriage. The exact amount has not been made
pubic. but II Is said TO be between 50 200 and
$500. The pastor has announced that on August
he will wed Miss Adelaide Schoonmaker of
Madison. Many members of the congregation an
nounced their Intention Of presenting him with
some gft, and officers OF the church hearing Of II
and wishing TO Mr.. Bennett from the apnor
ance a having miscellaneous collection OF silver
ware. broached the subject OF presentinG him win
purse. Iha suggestion was ado1ted ''~A
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
TRANsPACIFIC MANS
TO-DAY.

Y,..,,,,,to, 80 .,.av,z- C3oao GN-l
Hawaii, Japan CoTea and FhiHppllo - Vq.SSs1
Islands-Doric (vi0 san Francisco LUZ - -
Tahiti and MarQuesas IElands--A-aE1pea4 . 09-S0s1
(Via FTanCisc0l. D.. s@-Aa -
Japan. COreA. China and Phtlippino 4sf- q 4N8pz
ands-ShinaRO AlaFu via Seattlel - ssAae -
japan. COrea China-Spsntor wa IA Aur & 0N071
e 40 !,
Hawaii Alameda (via san Francisco -Aa8 % 49,
japan. COrea and Chiua-tsnpress OF IA . a-.1o1
pan (via Vancouver and Victoria. > . Ale . ~N
Hawai- I !agas & Ban C95sS SSS aug 10 12Sp7
Hawaii. Gun and Philippine IQlardS-U ., S0.1as1
transport (vta San Francisco Aus II %-'
Australia except WeSt). Fit IslandS ana
New C6ledOnia-&lahenO VITA N0nco1- -. zs,,1
and Victoria. y O.. -.-.-A ave - W.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
APPROVED BY AUTHORITIES.

Frederick W. Kelsey's history of the Essex
County park system has attained phenomenal pop-
uIarity and attracting attention from authori-
ties all over the country. This book THE First
County Park System" is running as serial
in Home and Garden" a Philadelphia magazine
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
DROWNED GIRLS BODIES FOUND.
fBy Tslagraph 20 Tha TTihunaI

rEy telegraph 20 Iha Tribunal
Mount Holly. July 2&-The bodies OF Mss Lana
Bozarth and Miss Susie Stills. who were Groz1al
in the lake at Rancocas Park last night, vers Ss.
covered early this morning by Budd GOldy. q Cen
tretou. Coroner EnOch De-IVOrth. OF BoFdsltoE1
viii hold an inquest in the courthouse on IueS1ll
and rhe Investigation will be conducted By Eross'
CufOr Atkinson. Raymond RambO and Cl2-e--s
Carnelia were released from custody to-day.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
THE MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS

FOREIGN PORTS
Oueenstown. July 80 e.9o ni1saiied steamer
(nFl, Dow Orom LtvGFpooli, New Aoise- Ger.
Dover. july sH-P0Ssed steamer GrOsseF lsut.ese'
I'fohn. Bremen FOR New York via Cnercool Z.
SCNly July Sta-HlSsef steamers lNlo4N
(UutcAls Bolter Rotterdam ana Aelloe- lassft
Iosks CSAorato e51ls W4Ees New 4oz> 80 49,
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
SHIPPING NEWS.
Port of New York, Sunday. July q. 1906

Port of New York, Sunday, July %, lA0'
ARRIVED.
steamer Standard GeT) SHUTTER. Stockholn Sl ~ -
Shields Is. 20 Philip RupFecht. IN ballast AFAi'o~ -
Bar q m -. "a
Steamer Axenfels (Gerl. Welhmann Calcutta ssS,I9s-
Colombo IS Port said July Alsiars 10 ana El-.s q
phis g. 20 Punch. Edye & GO. With Inas@ A-'
the Bar 1880 m - r-,.sos
steamer Mercedes de Larrinaga CErl. MUIR :
AyTes July I. 81 Lucia Is and Baltimore - . -
Co. with undse Arrived az the at S,Su
steamer oneida. swain. Philadelphia 70 ne 49,
Co with rndse Left Quarantine ct $50 N
sandy Hook. n July -. ESQ m--'tiIe So
fresh breeze: cloudy.
SAILED. -
Steamers RabenfoIa tGerl for Cape Town. 49, =
etc: jamestown. Norfolk and Newport NeHs. -
San Diego san Francisco. etc. SgnoiensE ueoseis
dam and Libau.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
MARINE INTELLIGENCE
MINIArURE AISIAosAc

MINIATURE ALMANAC
Sunrise 46S!Sunsee 7:1Si Moon sets 12l5 lss
HIGH WATER
AM-Sandy Hook 2gO5 Gov Island 2:o5 Zen Car -
P.M-Sandy Hook 2:5Si iGov. Island 500 Hell Cas- -
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30

was shadowed, and the refusal OF Carroll 70 tsI
about his peculiar surveillance OF Douglas 4L4s.s
trate BFeen entertained the charge OF ciscI-s-g
conduct against Carroll. and held him &1 $50 BAL
for further examination this morning.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
Proposals.

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS. D. c.
" washington. D. c., July 20. 19O6-Seals1 P-ussss
will be received at this ofce until y O'Clock noal -
4sv 8 1906, for paving various streets
with sheet asphalt Blank forms Of proposal sssa
all necessary information -
a. Room as. District Building HENRY ] WESI
JOFfN BIDDL.E- Commissioners d. c
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
Meetings.

QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE AlIERL
can Instituts. THURSDAY. August q. 1soa e. 1s v
44th ST.. ?. u r. a. 3. DAYTON. So.-..s---
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
OUTGOING STEAMERS.

sBrinss natl
The Yale expositor., 1906-12-21
Chinese and Other Labor.

OF the 10000 or 10000 day laborers
employed on the canal a few hundred
are Spaniards. These do excellent
work. Their foreman told me that
they did twice as we'll as the West
Indian laborers. They keep healthy
and no difficulty is experienced with
them in any way. Some Italian labor
ers are also employed in connection
with the drilling. AS might be eX-
pected. with labor as high priced as
NJ present in the United States. IL has
not so far proved practicable TO get
any ordinary laborers from the United
States. The American wage workers
on the isthmus are the highly paid
skilled mechanics Of the types men
toned previously. y steady effort is
being made to secure Italians. and es-
pecially TO procure more Spaniards.
because of the very satisfactory re-
suits that have come from their en-
ployment and their numbers will be
Increased as far as possible. 1t has
not proved possible. however. to get
them in anything like the numbers
needed for the work, and from present
appearances we shall i'm the main have
to rely. for the ordinary unskilled
work partly upon colored laborers
from the West Indies. partly upon
Chinese labor. II certainly ought to
be unnecessary to point out that the
The Yale expositor., 1906-12-21
Had Too Much Conscience.

About so years ago, while the late
Father Sullivan was parish priest of
Randolph, Mass, and its outlying mis-
sions, he received an emergency call
10 Avon. then East Stougkton.
To save time he entered the messen-
gers carriage and after watching the
drivers futile attempts to get speed
out OF the steed, asked for the reins,
saying he thought he was better used
to horses, and would get better re-
suits"
After some distance had been trav-
sled without much gain in time, the
priest asked where they were; the
1rivers answer being, In Purgatory,"
that being the vernaoular for that To-
cality.
After what seemed an interminable
distance to the anxious priest, he
again asked their location, and was
horrifled at being told, I've are Just
entering Hells Kitchen"
The priest Immediately handed over
the reins, remarking, Here, sir, 1t
takes a man without a conscience to
drive this horse, and you are the
mani"
The Yale expositor., 1906-12-21

work Is not in a more advanced condi-
tion, while the others complain that II has
been rushed with such haste that there
has been insufficient preparation for the
hygiene and comfort ol the employees.
AS a matter of fact neither criticism is
just. IL would have been impossible to
go quicker than the commission has
gone for such quickness would have
meant insufficient preparation. On the
other hand, to refuse TO do anything un-
iii every possible future CONTINGENCY had
been met would have caused wholly un-
warranted delay: The right course to
follow was exactly the course which has
been followed Every reasonable prepara-
tion was made in advance, the hygienic
conditions In especial being made as
nearly perfect as possible; while on the
other hand there has been no timid re-
fusal 10 push forward the work because
OF inability to anticipate every possible
emergency, for. of course. many defects
can only be shown by the working OF the
system in actual practice.
In addition to attending to the health
OF the employees, II is of course neces-
sary to provide for policing the zone.
This is done by police force which at
present numbers over 300 men, under
Capt. Shanton. About one-ffth OF the
men are white and the others black.
In different places / questioned some 20
or 30 of these men, taking them at ran
dom. They were a fine set, physically
and in discipline. With one exception all
the white men I questioned had served
In the American army. usually In the
The Yale expositor., 1906-12-21

American workingman in the United
States has no concern whatever in the
question as TO whether the rough work
on the isthmus, which is performed by
aliens In any event, is done by aliens
from one country with n black skin
or by aliens from another country
with a yellow skin. Our business is
TO dig the canal as efficiently and as
quickly as possible; provided always
that nothing is done that is inhumane
to any laborers. and nothing that in
terferes with the wages of or lowers
the standard of living of our own
workmen. Having in view this prin-
ciple, have arranged TO Try several
thousand Chinese laborers. This is de-
sirable both because we must try to
find out what laborers are most eff
cient, and, Furthermore, because we
should not leave ourselves at the
mercy OF any one type OF foreign
labor. At present the great bulk OF
the unskilled labor on the isthmus is
done by West india negroes, chiefly
from Jamaica, Barbados. and the other
English possessions. One of the gov
ernors OF the lands in question has
shown an unfriedly disposition to our
work and has thrown obstacles I'm the
way of our getting the labor needed:
and " fs highly undesfra hta 70 pive
any outsiders the impression, however
Ill founded, that they are indispensa-
bic and can dictate terms TO us.
The West India laborers are fairly.
but only fairly. satisfactory. Some OF
the men do very well indeed; the bet
The Yale expositor., 1906-12-21
Sends Special Message to Congress Giving Re-
suits of His Observations in Canal Zone
Replies to Critics and Makes
Recommendations.
Recommendations.

for the good and steady men of course
continue at the work. Yet astonish-
ing progress has been made in both
cities. In Panama 80 per cent of the
streets that are TO be paved at all are
already paved with an excellent brick
pavement laid I'm heavy concrete, a few
Of the streets being still i'm process of
paving. The sewer and water services
i'm the city are of the most modern hy-
gienic type, some of the service haV-
ing Just been completed.
In Colon the conditions are peculiar.
and il is as regards Colon that most of
the very bitter complaint has been
made. Colon is built on n low coral
island, covered at more or less shallow
depths with vegetable accumulations
or mold. which affords sustenance and
strength to many varieties of low
lying tropical plants. One-half of the
surface of the island is covered with
water at high tide, the average height
The Yale expositor., 1906-12-21
still In a Bitter Mood.

WELL" said he. anxious to patch up
their quarrel Of yesterday. aren't you
curious to know what's in this pack
age?"
Not very" replied the still beiliger.
ent wife indifferently.
well, it's something for the one I
love best in all the world"
"Ah! suppose it's those suspen-
ders you said you needed."-Catholi
Standard.