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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20
PARIS IS CHAN cling
No Longer Regarded as the
Capital of Leisure.
STREETS MADE DANGEROUS
By Racing and Touring Autos and
Motor Vehicles.
THE RATTLE OF MACHINES
Destroying the Old Life-New Dou-
ble-Decked Juggernaut Rapid
Tram System.
THE RATTLE OF MACHINES

Special Correspondence of The Star
PARIS, January 6, 1905.
The beautiful streets of Paris have be-
come more dangerous by day than night.
The old life of leisure and beauty is be-
coming submerged under the dash and rat
tie of machines. Come with me to some
high. safe place and look down on the I'M
equaled promenades which automobilists
and rapid transit partisans have ruined in
the past five years.
The avenue that stood most for that
beauteous leisure is the one most ruined.
Tourists fresh from turmoil-tired America
pronounced the Avenue of the Elysian
Fields" with reverence Here is the piano.
rama of the west of Paris at our feet We
are on the roof of extreme west wing of
the Louvre Palace looking into the fair gar
den of the Tuilleries. Beyond is the worlds
most splendid open place, in which nerve
worn Americans have always stood soothed
ent beauty. In the center of the Place de
la Concorde there plash two fountains,
with the Luxor Obelisk between them.
ION this spot worked the guiIlo;inc"
they unused Here Marie Antoinette and
Louis XVI had tAeir heads cut off" 1t was
q long distance thrill, not narrowing; and
as they sauntered past the obelisl1 guide
book in hand, they glanced to the Seine on
their left, where it's Concorde bridge leads
to the chamber of deputies in the Palais-
Bourbon; they glanced at the monumental
facadeS of the ministry of marine and the
swell clubs on their right; while before them
stretched the Avenue of the Elysian Fields
wide and shady, to Napoleon's Arch of Tri-
umph-that star of the Paris west end
from which radiate a dozen avenues of
dignity and leisure.
Do Not Saunter Now.
Our tourists do not 'saunter' through the
Concorde now; they run for their lives
lodging racing and touring autos, motor
drays, motor cabs motor delivery wagons
and motor omnibuses. Common cabmen
rendered nervous by those juggernauts that
wound their horses and snap off their
wheels, take revenge on pedestrians.
Look up the Avenue deS Champs ElySeeS.
1t reeks with exploded automobile gases
and the smoke of gas and cooked oil from
over-oiled mac hines. 1t is filed with noise
and rattle. Up and down there dash
thousand autos-from SantoS-Dumont and
his friends in 12O-horse-pcWer racing rigs to
loose and rafting facets" of the year 1899
and from 40 horsepower touring cars of
whole family to the electric smaShers of
timid society ladies who want to protect
themselves by weight in the hour of COD
lision.
No other city in the world would tolerate
such speeds irresponsible hired 'chauf-
feurs'' scorch on recklessly in empty We
hicles Gheir masters pay the damage. The
word chauffeur has come to have bad
auto calls himself Il Chauffeur" now. 1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20

Rue Bonararte and you will pass the
shops where our art students buy their
colors, to where it cuts into the Boule-
yard St German beside massive
Gothic tower. Here Dante once walked
muSlng in the ancient Pre-aux- Clercs:
out do not walk and muse there now or
you VIII be run over by 4 SunerhCated
steam tram in the Pre-Gux- Clercs or by
ing auto.
Observe the still aristocrat:c Boulevard
81. German, running UP the extreme left
edge TO where it makes an elbow and goes
on diagonaliy to the left until it strikes the
river 2 tribe beyond the Cite Island Five
years ago it was considered sIeepv and old
fashioned. Now those jugsernaut trans
with their passengers all coughing and
splitting from the acCumulators' Vtriol
fumes upset cabs and run down pedestrians
IN the Pre-auX-Clercs; and on the Boule-
ward st. Michel superheated steam trans
scald the rushing student on the spot where
Mimi and Rodoiphe jumped rope. The
very students who once took pride in arts
TIC unprogressive ways now own their
automobiles.
Do not look for peace beside the Pam
theon dome in upper right-hand corner
OF the pictureD In old days Cooks tourists
came 10 it in Six-horse carryalls. Now
they thunder to its portico in the most
outrageous one hundred-horse-powGr motor
omnibuses the capital has yet seen. Their
ten benches rise tier above tier from the
front, that all may see; and when they
swing corner they knock down whatever
is behind them. Sporting English take the
trip to contemplate their havoc.
brushes at the Bridges,
Do not seek peace in its one-time realm
along the quais of the river. The old book
stalls are still there, all along the para
pet, out in the open air beneath the trees;
but at each bridge there is a hell-on-earth
of shouting, fighting Automobiles and
cabmen and the drivers and the chauffeurs
of dra,s and delivery wagons. Each bridge
has its never-ending crush. A motor cab
shoots like a revolver-crack, crack! crack!
explosions from the escape pot of a sud
denly stopped vehicle whose chauffeur has
not learned his business. Spit! Bang
Bang! those are rates from a motor van
whose spark does not serve its four cylin-
ders regularly.
Take refuge in the garden of the Tuil-
leries. See how spaciously they spread
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-10
FLORIDA WATER
KILLS TWO MORE
Reservation Reds Wildly Excited,
Not Knowing Who Will Be
->. Next Victim.
EE e
T...l :
Specia! to The journal.

specia! to The Journal. ..sa .-
Rosethorn, Sask., May 10.--Two more
Indians dead and six in a serious con-
dition. This is the latest development
in the Florida water tragedy on the
Duck Lake Indian reservation. Min
cient died yesterday and Angoise last
night. ..... .....s~ ;, -,
The widest excitement prevails and
the Indians are terrorized, not knowing
who will be next to succumb.~-
Coroner Stewart Of Rosethorn held an
inquest last night, and Mrs. Angoise
testified that her husband and five 9th
ers drank one bottle Of Florida water.
Only one Of the party is living now.
The inquest was adjourned till Tuesday
next. Ii
An inspector acting for the govern;
mont will search the Indian shacks and
Duck Lake stores for the fluid. The
stomach of a dead Indian was sent TIC
DR.. Charlton Of Regina today to be
analysed.
The Florida water that caused the
deaths is said to be one particular
brand. Persons are affected with blind
ness after drinking, which condition re
mains until death. Those recovering
have blind spells when not. even high
can be distinguished from darkness.
The affair will probably develop init
a government investigation, there being
no doubt that the fluid was 8dulterated
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-10
SCORES SALVATION
ARMY'S METHODS
E.. D. Solenberger Of Minneapolis
Criticizes Financial Management.
of Booth Organization. !.
Special to The journal.

Special to The Journal.
Y Philadelphia, May 10-Arraignin1g
its social relief work and declaring the
public has right to expect clear fnan-
cial statements of the Salvation Army,
Edwin D.. Solenberrger,, general man n
Minneapolis, today addressed the thir-
ty-third national conference of charities
and corrections in this city. He de.
clared that the social relief work, OF
the Salvation Army, as carried on thru
its homes, lodging houses and other
agencies, is poorly organized and poorly
administered, and that the ttso-called
charitable work Of the army is largely
subservient to financial interests.
Continuing the speaker said:
Gone Of the chief difficulties in try
ing to arrive at definite conclusions
concerning the army s work is the un-
ably. due largely to lack of uniformity
In recording and summarizing data
|! For example, the report for the year
ending Sept 80, 1905, says there are
seventy-four men IS shelters, accommo-
dating 2,822,180 year, while a small
undated leafet, recently circulated
called Facts and Figures speaks OF
an annual provision Of 100000 beds
| for the poor.
care we to conclude from this thai
accommodation was furnished tt
2.822,18O different men, or that tota
| Of that many separate lodgings was
given, provided every bed in every
shelter was taken every nights W.
are not told whether these lodging
1 were paid for, or worked for, or givel
| Free
"The 1905 report says t1,30O,O0|
meals were supplied in our cheap res
taurants last year. No distinction |
here made between meals paid for an
those given free or worked for.
"Brigadier Parker Of New York re
Gently stated that the Industrial Home
company now operates 107 industris
homes. The 1905 report says there ar
i sixty-two industrial homes, while tn
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-10
VALUABLES LOST In
MAKE. SHIFT SAFES
Southern Pacific and Police De-
partment Of Frisco Lose In
Dummy" Vaults.
Journal special Service.

Journal Special Service.
San Francisco, May 10-An enormous
loss suffered by the Southern Pacific
company has just come to light. This
company IS officials occupied the seventh
and eighth floors of the Merchants Elk
change building, and their papers, in
Guiding documents of incalculable value
and which have been in process OF &C
emulation since the first trans-conti-
mental train entered San Francisco,
were burned. The flames revealed the
fact that they were all - dummy.
valuts-rooms Of brick and plaster dis
guised with steel doors
The Pacific bank on Market street, is
in difficulties as result of the fire. Its
books and papers were destroyed, owing
to the wrecking of the vault by a dyn-
amiter g corps. The officials announce
that they will be enabled to pay
usoon,D and evidently all claims will
be paid.
Police Heavy Losers.
The discovery has been made that
thousands Of dollars held by the police
| as evidence in criminal cases, has been
1destroyed. The vault in the property
clerk q office at#the hall Of justice, in
stead Of being freproof, as the building
specifications required, was nothing
! more than a closet with formid able-look'
ing doors.
Property Clerk Oman refuses to &C
cept the responsibility, because the
vault was not 1reproof. He says that
the metal must be somewhere in the
/. Hvault,o and that further effort vii
! be made to find it. .s:%
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-10
MRS. JEFF DAVIS
DANGEROUSLY Ill
Recovery Of Widow Of President
of Confederacy Is Des-
paired Of.

New York, May 1o.-Mrs. Jefferson
Davis, widow Of the president OF the
IL iIG in her apartments In the Hotel Ger
ard in West Forty-fourth street, this
city. today. As Mrs. Davis is nearly
80 years old it Is feared that the at
tack may be fatal.
Her daughter, Mrs. J. Addison
Hayes, has been summoned from her
home in Colorado Springs. Mrs. Davis
has been living at the Gerard for sew
eral years and is frequently visited by
her daughter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-10
POWERFUL BOMB SET. -..
NEAR GOVERNOR FOLK

Jefferson City, Mo-, May 10.-An in
fernal machine was found under the
window of Governor Folk s office by
a lawnmower yesterday afternoon: It
was examined by Adiutant General De
Almond and found to be loaded with nj
troglycerin and had tube with a dyna-
mite cap attached. Had it been struck
by the 1awnmower it would have blown
the governor and most Of the capitol
building into the Missouri river.
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Continued on 9th Page, 9Th Column.
GAVE BRIDES As AN
OIL TRUST AGENT
-.-- ff.s-.
Former Employee Declares Scat
tered Money for Standard,
in Rebate Probe.

Chicago, May 10.-The inquiry by the
government thru the Interstate COM
merce commission into the relations be-
tween the Standard Oil company and
the railroads Of the country commenced
here today.
The first witness was E. M. Without
Of Topeka, Kan, now an independent
oil operator, but ten years ago an agent
of the Standard Oil company. He tes-
titled that while in the employ Of the
Standard Oil company he had, in fol
lowing out the instructions Of his SUI
perior officers, bribed clerks. In the
Independent oil concerns in order to
obtain information Of the details Of
business done by the rivals.
Gave Short Measure.
He declared that agents of the Stand
ard Oil company are held personally re-
sponsible for all oil sold in their terri
terry by independent companies, and
that drivers Of tank wagons are ex.
pected to keep up their stock by sell
| ing 2O5 to 2OS gallons from a wagon
load Of 200 gallons.
He said that the actual test of the
products of the Standard OH company
| to determine the quality was carefully
guarded, and that when it was foune
necessary to cut the price to meet the
figure Of a competitor cheaper quality
Of oil was substituted and guaranteed
to be of higher grade than it really
was.
i Mr.. Wilhoit said that frequently thre
grades Of oil were sold from the sam
i tank by agents of the Standard Oh
i company. In support of the statement
he had made, Mr.. Without read lette
4 written Oct. &c, 1904, by C. W. Mayer
manager of the Standard Oil compan..
at Kansas City.
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CAR CONVOKES FIRST PARLIAMENT OF THE RUSSIANS;
DREAM OF CENTURIES REALIZED BY OPPRESSED PEOPLl
BOMB PLOT STILL
OCCUPIES POLICE
Extensive Revolutionary organi-
cation May Be Ferreted Out
in Paris.
{ NH

paris. May 10.-The police authori-s
ties continue to make active lnvestlga-
tions and are seeking to connect the
recent bomb explosions with a wide
spread nihilistic organization. This
has led to a number of unconfrmed. re-
ports that the bombs were intended to
be used on the occasion Of the opening
Of the Russian parliament today to
blow up the new Russian ministers and
other distinguished Russian Personages.
All this. however, is simply conjectural.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-10
VOLLEY SCATTERS
RED FLAG CROWD
Polish Socialists Procession I
Fired on by Troops Three
Are Killed.
:7ss,3fl~sT

LODI, Russian Poland, May 10
Many Of the workmen in the factories
and the street railway employees struck
work today and invaded other estab-
lishments, compelling the workmen to
Join in the movement and the social
lists seized the opportunity to organize
q general strike and red flag procession.
The strikers were fred on by the troops
and three were killed or wounded. The
crowd then dispersed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-10
PROBE COST 500, 900,

Albany, N. Y, May 10.-Cost of the inves-
tigation made by the Armstrong insurance COM
mittee has been fixed at 500, 600. The appro-
priation was put in the annual supply bill Just
printed It Is understood that lnQu1sitor Hughes
share of this sum is S15, 900.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-10
STIGMA cHI,s MEEr.

Lincoln. Neb., May 1o-The annual province
convention of the college fraternity of Sigma
Chi began here today with representatives from
the active chapters In the Universities of
Kansas, Nebraska Iowa and Washington St.
Louis and the Alumni Chapters of Kansas City,
St. Louis and Denver attending.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-10
paNK o1ERKs TO nEnATE.

Chicago. May 10.-Three employees OF Chicago
banking institutions will meet in debate three
Milwaukee bank employees at the Calumet club,
Milwaukee Saturday evening. The subject to
be DEBATED is: Resolved, That national banks
should be allowed to loan on real estate" The
Chicago debaters take the affirmative,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-10
BECHTEL ON RACK
TELLS OF DEALS
Former Life Insurance President
Admits Big Transactions
We're Unrecorded.
Says He Regarded Q 'shaughnessy
Deal 4 Hold Up, Not a
Bribery.

W.T.. Bechte1, former insurance com
pany president, now on trial before
JUDGE 81. C.. Brooks for alleged embez,
element. spent anything but restful
Forenoon today. Under the rapld-hre
cross -examination sof Assistant Prose-
cuting Attorney John F. Dahl, the for
mer Official lost some Of his calm de,
meanor and several times was forced
to resort to- the response, q don't
know
The fact of the defendant 8 going on
the stand gave the prosecutor q Wlde
tage Of it. Little in the conduct of the
insurance company s officials that
would in any way throw light on the
$4,000 check transaction, upon which
the present prosecution is based, was
overlooked. and the result was the
showing up Of startling methods by the
men who piloted the company thru its
consolidation period and for some time
thereafter.
Motive Of Characterization
The prosecutors theory that what
ever of the defendant IS business meth,
DDS in controlling the company could
be shown the Jury would tend to combat
the only defense made, namely, good IN
y,
cross examination.
The witness was forced to admit the
paying Of practically 100000 to DR..
Force, as the price Of the consolidation,
and his Withdrawal from the presidency
and the election of Bechtel The de-
PENDANT also was made to admit that nc
record Of thesa payments had ever been
entered on the company's books. He
admitted that he had paid $4,000 to
former insurance eommissio for the
manipulation Of report.
Mr.. Bechtel acknowledged that he
paid out money Unfortunately ant
without the sanction Of other directors
that he paid Mr.. Getty 1926 900 for hi
that no rec ord Of this payment was eve
made; that he. Hsse DIR. Force a note TO
4 something 1ika,$20, 900 without keepin.
the slightest record Of it, and that h
kept no record Of matters Of this kind
This and many other facts bearing upo1
the intent Of the defendant in tn
4 check transaction for which he is nov
on trial, were brought out by the morn
ing g cross-examination.
All evidence will probably b
introduced today. With the conclu
sion Of Mr.. Bechtel's testimony tn
defense's case will be practically con
plete. The few witnesses to follow wi
give merely corroborative testimony {
:: testimony tending to impeach the stat
!. ments of the former actuary, A.. ]
, Timme.
Bechtel on the Stand.
Mr.. Bechtel took the stand this NOR
: ing and Mr. Dahl continued with tt
: DISCRIMINATION begun late yesterds
- afternoon. The prosecutor attempte
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-10
Police Heavy Losers.
KILLS HIMSELF AT DAN CE
Yankton Teamster Was Madly Jealou
.s.L of His Wife. j.

Special to The Journal.
Yankton, S. D., May 10:-Jess Smith,
a teamster employed by Sheriff Wright,
took carbolic acid last night IN oanc 90
hall here, and died in the presence -, OF
attentions paid his wife. s..--
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-10
GOVERNOR GUEST
OF THE PRESIDENT
Minnesota's Executive Thanked
by Nations Chief for In
surance Suggestions.
BY w. w. Jermane.

Mas n }ehsson May eE and
party were introduced to President
Roosevelt this morning by Senator Mel
son. The visit lasted about half an
hour, an unusually long time for the
president during the busy hours Of the
day to give to any casual caller. The |
president expressed his thanks to Gov
ernor Johnson for what he had done in
the insurance question and said he had
received his first suggestion as to what
he ought to do from the course the gov
ernor, was pursuing.
The governor expressed his apprec1-
alton Of the fact that the president
had referred to him in SO compliment
tary way in the annual message to
congress. The president replied that
he had only done what he thought to be
fair and right.
IT have some pretty serious faults, ,,
| he added, "but failure to recognize and
applaud the wise and patriotic acts Of
public men, no matter Of what political
party, is not one Of them.' 49,
Urges President to Come Here.
| Governor johnson very earnestly re-
quested the president to consider care
fully the invitation he would soon re-
ceive to attend the Grand Army annual
encampment In Minneapolis in August.
He was told that this was to be one Of
/ the last Of the big encampments. He was
interested and said he would be very
other plans already perfected would
prevent.
Governor johnson and Messrs. Rosing
and Shulz will go to Philadelphia this
evening. They will be in that city two
or three days helping boost Minneapo-
lis as the next. place Of meeting Of the
National Board Of Charities and Cor
rections. They then will visit several
correctional institutions in New York
Massachusetts, and other eastern states
arriving in st. Paul early in the week
Of May 20.
On Floors Of Congress.
) Governor Johnson's first visit tc
Washington since his election has beer
: a pleasant one. The rules Of both houses
! Of congress give him the privileges Of
: the floor as chief executive Of one o:
, the states, and yesterday and today h,
availed himself Of that privilege unde
the escort Of members Of the Minnesot,
: delegation.
He was much interested in the rail
e road debate in the senate and paid a
q walls Of greeting members Of that bod,
: on both sides Of the chamber.
+ In the house he attracted more tina:
9 usual attention, especially among tn
|, democrats, who remembered his phenom
l. email race for the governorship tw
II years ago.
) Yesterday afternoon John Sharp Wi
d liams, the democratic leader, was on
d of the party that escorted the governc
to the speakers room, where a pleasa1
fifteen minutes was spent with !" Uncl
IJoeo Cannon.
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Bechtel on the Stand.

Mr.. Bechtel took the stand this morn
ing and Mr.. Dahl continued with the
cross examination begun late yesterday
afternoon. The prosecutor attempted,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-10
Religious Services First.

Like all great state functions In Rus
STA, the ceremonies began with religious
services. At 10 clock the city reyer-
berated with bells and chimes from st.
Petersburg's myriad of cathedra1s,
churches and temples, summoning the
people to thanksgiving.
Only those who have heard the
booming of the bells of st. Isaac's ca-
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Makes Defense a Plague.

A good deal Of this is being made
that their business was all interstate.
That contention will now come back to
plague them, providing the pending bill
becomes law.
4 The probability is very great that the
house will assent to all the amendments
that have thus far been made to the
bill in the senate. These amendments,
it will be observed, are all in the nature
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-10

St. Petersburg. May 10 (2:30 PM.
The emperor reception passed of
without any untoward incident. The
tone of the speech from the throne
was conciliatory.
It expressed the Emperor IS wish that
relief DO given to the peasants IN their
present unfortunate conditions and
called on the members of parliament to
put their hearts into their work and to
cooperate with him in solving the pres
ent problems of Russia and IN handlne
down a united and prosperous empire
to his successor.
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