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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-25
PH LES.
Pastors Wife in Southern City Re-
stored to Health by the Wonder
full Pyramid Pile Cure.

WE WANT EVERY PILE SUFFERER TO TEST
THIS GREAT CURE AT OUR EXPENSE
SEND YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-25

The pioneer steamer Goyaz of the Lloyd
Brazil line arrived at New York yesterday.
This company has inaugurated a monthly
service between Santos and New York,
calling al Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Pernam-
buco. Ceara, Maranham. Para and Bar
BADGES Two steamers. the GOyaz and Ser
gipe, are at present employed The Acre.
now building, will be added later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-25

Moses Sept. Sales Offer Best Values
in Furniture, Carpets, Rugs and Draperies.
Advertisement
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
FAIRCHILD EXPLAINS
TELLS OF TRANSACTION WHICH
LED TO HIS INDICTMENT.

ROME. December 29.-Charles S. Fair
child. ex secretary of the United States
treasury. Who with George w. Perkins
OF New York. was indicted yesterday by
the grand jury IL. that city on charges of
forgery in the thir,: degree, in connection
with the affairs of the New York Life In
surance Company. has seen in this city
for three weeks. When Informed of the
action taken by the grand jury, Mr.. Fair
child said:
II have just received cable message
from my lawyers in the United States Civ
ing me a summarized report of the pro-
ceedings. l shall answer that l person.
ally derived no profit from the transac-
lions on which the indictments are based.
The transactions were entirely for the
benefit of the policyholders of the New
York Life Insurance Company. The mat
tiers referred to are probably in connection
with the Chicago and Northwestern and
the st. Paul Railroad securities, of which
the insurance company held large amounts.
Under its bylaws the company, 1t was
believed. must remove the stocks from its
assets and it could not sell such large
amounts of inactive stocks without Serf-
Gus loss and apparently requested the
trust company of which | am president to
take these stocks and hold them until an
advantageous sale could be made.
Sold With Profit.
THE books of the trust company show
that these stocks were taken. Subsequent
ly for some reason. the holdings We're
changed into the form of loans to indi-
viduals. and later. I am told. the socks
were sold with a profit of several hundreds
of thousands of dollars to the policy hold
ers of the insurance company, with no profit
or advantage to any other company or in
dividual The transaction occurred long
ago, and | cannot now be certain about the
details. What | state is based upon a re-
cent inspection of the books of the trust
company. ard from statements made to me
by others. | have no recollection or any
affa + connected with Prussian bonds.
Mr. Fairchild is awaiting developments,
and is ready to return to America imme-
diately. if necessary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
POWER STATION EQUIPMENT.
Bids Will Be Considered by Speaker
Cannon's Commission.

The Westinghouse Electric Company has
submitted the lowest bid for the equip
ment on a steam turbine LASTS, of the new
power station for the group of buildings
around the Capitol plaza c. L. de Muralt
of ia Liberty street, New York. and the
General Electric Company also submit bids
on the complete plant. Other bidders es-
innate for various portions of the equip
ment. The complete bids follow:
C. L. de Muralt, complete plant. steam
turbine basis, 1851 .OS3: C. L. de Muralt.
substituting stationary transformers. 1886.
956; Westinghouse company. complete
plant. steam turbine basis. $533, 72S: Gen.
eral Electric, complete plant, steam tur-
bine basis. $544.S77: c. L. de Muralt COM
plete plant, engine basis, $3.50, III: c. L. de
Muralt. alternate bid, above substitution,
$439. 494.
The lower bid of the de .huralt company
was the only complete proposition received
for the plant on an engine basis. There
were a number of other bids for portions
of the equipment, and the various esti-
mates are being put in share for the use
of the building commission, of which
Speaker Cannon is chairman. This COM
mission will meet Immediately after the
holiday recess and award the contracts
]. G. White & Co. of New York are the
consulting engineers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR.
Vice President McCrea Regarded as
Most Likely Man.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK. December 29-There was
considerable speculation today in railroad
and financial circles to the probable sue
Ccssor of the late Alexander ]. G ;satt, who
died yesterday, in the presidency of the
Pennsy lvania railroad. The consensus of
opinion among those who are acquainted
with the intimate details of management in
the PENNSYLVANIA railroad and the Pennsyl-
vania Company points to James McCrea,
now "A director in the railroad company and
vice president of the Pennsylvania Com
pany as the logical choice for the position
The names of Henry c. Frick, recently
elected a director of the railroad; George +.
Baer. president of the Reading +. ID. I'm
derwuod. president of the Erie. and Oscar
q. Murray. who is at the head of the Balti-
more and Ohio have all been brought up
In this connection.
Mr.. McCrea is now a vice president in
this company. He is also the only man on
the present board of directors of the rail
: road who has had training both In the
operating and the financial departments OF
the road. AS a railroad man of wide eN-
perience, gained in both the eastern and
western divisions of the Pennsylvania, ana
as a man who has been in close touch with
all the developments in the road and else
where in America for the past Twenty-Five
years he is considered easily first of all
the possible successor to Mr.. Cassatt.
OF the vice presidents of the Pennsyl-
yania two John Z. Green and Charles e.
Pugh are both very close to the age limit
" of seventy years. and the others nave
, specialized either in the traffic department.
J or the financial department and so are sald
to lack the versatility necessary to the
head of the railroad. Mr.. Cassatt set a
standard by his thorough knowledge of the
affairs of the Pennsylvania in all depart
ments that only Mr.. McCrea, it is be
lieved would be able to approximate, of all
. the men mentioned for the presidency or
the road. Those VINO were acquainted
Will en-
they were greatly alike. Both We're of
! high Caliber men of thought and action
and pre-eminently as organizers.
Ii was stated at the Pennsylvania rail
3 road station today that no orders had beeh
received in respect to the memory OF MI:
A j. Cassatt The 9Th street station Will
be draped in mourning however, as
/ triI.11tn In tie dnc..a sod ureSiloEt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
CUT HIS WIFE's THROAT.
Crime Committed in the Presence OF
Both Mothers.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SHAMOkIN. Pa. December 23-lndig-
nant because his young wife refused to live
with him any longer. alleging he treated her
cruelty William WHITAKER of Mount Car
mel is in prison charged with cutting her
throat from to with razor last
night in the presence of his own mother
and that of his victim. He was later cap
tured and imprisoned in the Jail. twenty
miles away the police hurrying him from
Mount Carmel soon possible to escape
from the mob intent on lynching WHITAKER
His wife died shortly after the attack.
They were married three years ago. and
week before last she left him to return to
her fathers home. The mothers of the pair
were In the parlor of the wifes parents res
idence talking with Mrs. WHITAKER over a
way to d reconciliation with her husband
when he entered. and in few minutes lost
his temper because his wife persisted In
better than heretofore if she resumed mar
ried relations with him again.
WHITAKER ran from the house. News of
the affair quickly spread, and hundreds of
men and boys started in pursuit of Whit
tager. hnding him after hard chase Some
were armed with ropes and were determined
To hang him at once. He ran into the I'M
derbrush and cut across the hills. hoping
10 get out of the region AS he entered town
he ran into the police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
HER TRIP INTERRUPTED.
The Sandoval on Her Way to New
York by Inside Route

The gunboat Sandoval. one of the Span
ish vessels captured in the bay of Guanta-
namo. has put into Canton Hollow, near
Baltimore. account of stress of weather.
The small warshp. commanded by Lieut..
E. N. Walbridge. was recently assigned
to the naval militia at Rochester. n. Y.
She started from Norfolk for New York
by way of the canal. but when she reached
off COLCHESTER on Thursday evening the
ice was found too heavy and threatening
for the little vessel that had been
built to do patrol duty in the tropical
waters about Cuba. Her commanding Off
Ger sought Baltimore until he finds navi-
cation safe in the upper bay and through
the Chesapeake and Delaware canal If
that is impossible the sea route may be
take;. 70 New York. where the Sandoval
will be laid UP until navigation opens on
the ST. Lawrence. up which she must go
to reach Rochester.
The crew of twenty-five are members of
the Rochester division of the Naval Re-
serves. and when the vessel reaches New
York they will return to their respective
pursuits at home until next spring, and
the Sandoval will remain at the navy
yard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
SCIENTISTS SESSIONS
IMPORTANT PAPERS READ AT
PROVIDENCE ON TIMELY TOPICS.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., December 29-In-
ternational as we'll as national topics made
the closing sessions of the gathering of his
torians. political scientists and sociologists,
under the auspices of Brown University,
mere today one Of the most important OF
the three days meeting. Phases of Amer
lean history not generally treated in text
DOCKS were presented by several speakers
at the meeting of the American Historical
Association. Among those who read papers
were Clarence s. Bingham Rhode Island
Historical Society; Prof. Edward Claiming,
Harvard; Prof. Evarts B. Greene, Univer-
sity of Illinois. who spoke on Gustav
FAM Typical o,Ge
the University of Kansas. who read paper
on Some Aspects of the English BILL and
Prof. James A. WOODBURY., University of
Indiana. who delivered address The
Attitude of Thaddeus Stevens Toward the
Conduct of the Civil War
Matters of timely interest were handled
at the gathering of the American Political
Science Association, where papers on the
general subject of government of depend
encies were read. Charles Johnston. late of
the British Indian civil service, Flushing.
N. Y. was one of the first speakers. his
topic being Helping to Govern India
Another view of Great Britain's vast plan
Stephen Leacock McGin University
through a paper on Responsible Govern
ment in the British Colonial System"
Following these views of British expansion
two papers on the colonial growth of the
United States were read. Some Effects of
Outlying Dependencies Upon the People
of the United States.", was the subject
handled by Henry c. Morriss of Chicago.
and THE Executive Council of Porto Rico
the title of paper by William F. Will
loughby, treasurer of Porto Rico.
discussion on Social Darwinsm" was
held at the meeting of the American So
Geological Society, on which subject David
Collin Wells of Dartmouth College read a
paper. Among the other speakers were
Lester F. Ward, Brown University; Ed
ward I. Devine. New York: Carl Kelsey,
University of Pennsylvania, and w. H.
Allen of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29

viii adjourn until after the funeral when. In
accordance with the laws of the corpora
ton. meeting will be held to select the
man to fill the unexpired term of President
CaSsatt.
While the arrangements for the funeral
have not been completed. it is known that
Nir Cassatt will be buried on Monday 1t is
said that the services will be he'd at the
Rlttenhouse square house at O'Clock.
after which the body will be removed in a
special tran to Bryn Mawr.
At the Church of the Redeemer. Bryn
Mawr OF which Mr.. Cassatt was COM
muniCant the funeral services Of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church will be repeated
Interment will then be made In the grave
yard of the pretty suburban church. The
funeral II said this morning. will prob
ably be private. The question of whether or
not to have honorary pallbearers 1t still be-
ing debated by the family.
Mrs Cassatt. although greatly shocked by
her husbands death, was able to take part
in family conference. Thousands upon
thousands of letters and kilograms of con-
dO'ence have been received by her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
NEED OF REVISION.
Commission Will Examine Operations
of the Law Regarding Storage.

VI tue Law AeSdIOluS SIeefdSe
Secretary Straus of the Department of
Commerce and Labor today announced the
appointment of commission to begin at
once an examination of the passenger act
modations and of the laws of other nations
on the same subject. to examine actual
steerage conditions and to report to him
fully on the subject. The Secretary has
designated Lawrence o. Murray, assistant
secretary of the Department of Commerce
and Labor: Eugene L. Chamberlain. COM
missioner of navigation. and n. \. Strana-
ham, collector of the port of New York, to
comprise the commission. Secretary Straus
expects to draft bill regulating Storage
accommodations more in accord with mod
ern conditions and requirements than the
present law, using the report of the COM
mission a basis for the measure.
Secretary Straus said today regarding the
matter:
The act of 1850 in various particulars is
not adapted to modern conditions of ship
building or ocean travel. and in my opinion
there is pressing need that the statute be
revised and adjusted to the requirements of
orr time. Some of it's penalties are Excess
sive and some are inadequate. Thus last
year a penalty of $1,000 was incurred by
number seraIly certain berths and in TAX
ing down others before the customs in
spector had completed his rounds. though
the passengers had left the ship. Vet
penalty of only $3.50 is prescribed if no sur
geon is carried a steamer with 200
steerage passengers. or if there is hos
pital or no medical supplies on board
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
cARUso's PROSECUTOR QUITS.
Deputy Police Commissioner Mathot
Resigns His Office.

NEW YORK. December 2o.-Official an
nouncement was made today that Third
Deputy Police Commissioner William L.
Mathot has resigned his office to take
effect January l. and that his resignation
has been accepted. No successor yet has
been appointed.
Rumors of the impending resignation OF
the third deputy police commissioner have
been in circulation since shortly after the
sensational police court hearing in the case
of Enrico Caruso. the Italian tenor. who
was convicted of annoying a woman in the
Central Park monkey house. Mathots con-
duct of that case. in which he appeared as
the prosecutor. brought a storm OF pubic
criticism on him. few days after the
case was concluded Police Commissioner
Bingham had a conference with Mayor Nc
Clellan and il was reported at that time
that the resignation of the third deputy
commissioner would be presented within a
few days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
RAISULI's POWER SHAKEN.
Bandits Supporters Making Submis-
sion to Government.

TANGIER, December 29.-The members
of the diplomatic corps are very much
gratified at the improvement in the situa-
ton here. The success of War Minister
Gabbas has been more marked than they
believed possible. The power of Raisuli
has been badly shaken, if not completely
broken. Instead Of the sultan's troops de-
serting to Raisuli. some of the latter's
chiefs have come in and made formal sub
mission to Mulay Mustapha, the sultan's
uncle.
1t is stated that Ben Mensour. Raisuli' s
representative here, who yesterday was
asserted to have Joined the bandit chief.
was detained a prisoner by the minister
of war and was really imprisoned at his
own request. The diplomats regard the
war minister's success net only as victory
for the sultan, but as vindicaton of the
Franco-Spanish policy. which compelled
the Moroccan authorities to take action in
the matter.
CADIZ. Spain, December 29.-The Span
ish armored cruiser Emperador Carlos V
and the battleship Pelayo have been ordered
to sail fer Tangier, January =.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
ERIE FERRYBoAT SINKS.
Almost Cut in Two by Lighter on
Hudson River.

NEW YORK. December 29-The ferry
boat Paterson of the Erie railroad line was
sunk by collision with a freight lighter in
the Hudson river while on her way to the
sd street New York slip from Hoboken
early today. All the passengers and mem
bers of the crew were saved. but eight
horses We're drowned. They were owned by
market men who were on their way to the
New York market There were only few
passengers on the ferryboat at the time of
the accident.
The collision occurred white the two boats
were in midstream. The freight lighter
struck the Paterson amidships, and the big
ferry boat was almost cut in two and at
once began to sink. The passengers and
crew of the ferrybOat were taken on board
the lighter. but there was not sufficient time
to remove the horses before the Paterson
went down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
Mckinley Council Entertains.

The annual Christmas entertainment of
Mckinley Council. No. 992 National Union,
for it's members and their families was held
at Naval Lodge Hail. 4th street and Penn
sylvania avenue southeast. handsomely
decorated Christmas tree was provided
feature, from which Santa Claus dispensed
gifts to the children present Clowns and a
monkey amused the little ones. President
Jesse b. X. Lee introduced Mr.. E. c. Ford,
who made brief address The program
included a piano solo by Mr. Crowther, a
recitation by the. Misses Carrick; tenor
solo by Mr. Ferguson. a piano solo by Miss
Paul, and a duet violin and piano. by the
Misses koehliEg. Re eshm n s were served
The committee on arrangements consisted
of Messrs. Lear, Belts, Slater Bright,
Bounds and Jones.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
FROM MILLIONS TO POVERTY.
Partner Of "Old Hutch" in Wheat
Corner Dies in Poorhouse.

SPOKANE. Wash. December 29.-Once
millionaire wheat speculator, the part
ner of b. P. Hutchinson in the Chicago
wheat pit G. G. Leonard died yesterday at
the county poor farm at Spangle unat-
tended by friends or relatives. One son is
superintendent of the largest steel mills at
Birmingham. Ala; daughter Is the wife
OF Prof. Fisher in the University of Cali
fornia, and his wife and two other daugh-
tiers reside in Chicago.
Judge Leonard, he was Familiarity
known. was born in New York fifty-:hree
years ago. In the early sos he practiced
law in Chicago He became soc.ated with
Hutchinson in the famous wheat corner
which made him mutimilliona!re. He had
been president of the school boaru and SUI
perintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday
School He located in Spokane in 1886 A
year ago he was stricken with paralysis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
Late Naval Orders.

Rear Admiral c. H. Davis, from duty as
divisional commander of the first squadron
United States Atlantic fleet. to command
second squadron of that fleet.
Commander G. E. Burd, from duty as as
sistant to the supervisor of naval auxiliaries
on the Atlantic coast, Baltimore, Md. ETC.
to duty as head of the department of steam
engineering, navy yard, Boston, Mass.
Lieut.. Commander K. McAlpine from
Ohio to duty in the navy yard, Norfolk
Va.
Lieut.. Commander G. c. Dawson, orders
of December s22, 1906 revoked.
Lieut.. Commander ]. V. Chase. to tenn
porary duty in command of Vesuvius.
Lieut.. I. D. Parker. discharged treatment
at naval hospital, New York, and granted
sick leave of absence for six months.
Lieut.. W. R. Sexton, from duty in COM
mand of Vesuvius to Maine.
Lieut.. S. l. M. Major, from Maine to Den
Lieut.. F. L. Sheffield, from Denver to
Ohio.
Ensign F. S. Written, from Yorktown to
Chicago.
Ensign c. S. Kerrick and Midshipman w,
A. Glassford, jr.. from Chicago to Preble.
Midshipman j. E. Pond, from Preble to
Princeton.
Midsh!pman c. A. Dunn and Midshipman
c. o. Bassett, from Chicago to Charleston.
Midshipman c. A. Woodruff. from Chlca-
go - Boston.
Surgeon 3. L. Wright, when discharged
treatment at the naval hospital New York.
to treatment in the naval hospital New
Fort Lyon. Col
Surgeon j. G. Field from duty at the ma
val hospital, New Fort Lyon Col. to duty
with marine recruiting party. Dallas. Tex.
Chaplain II. w. Jones. to Franklin navy
yard Norfolk, Va, for duty in connection
with the Minnesota.
Chief Carpenter F. J. s1mmonds, from
navy yard, Boston, to Illinois.
Gunner E. T. Austin, from Columbia and
continue treatment in the naval hospital.
Norfolk, Va.
Warrant Machnist w. F. MCCULLOUGH.
from Washington to navy yard. Boston.
Mass.
Warrant Machinist A. Cottrell from Iowa
to home and wait orders.
Warrant Maehinist I. j. Hayes. from
Virginia to Iowa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

WARREN, Ore, December 29.-Mrs.
Sarah Ayres was mysteriously murdered on
her farm near here last night. Bert Hol-
man, Mrs. Ayres thirteen-year-od son,
said he was preparing to go to bed in an
upper room. when he heard a shot and
heard some one running out of the house.
The authorities have concluded to hold the
boy for further examination.
VICTORIA. B. c.. december pa num-
Der of HindoOs engaged as miners at Como
have struck for higher wages. A NanainO
dispatch says a number of HndOo women
are among them masQuerading men and
doing mems work. One Hindoo woman
gave birth to q child yesterday at Como
1t was said by immigration omcials ,.lat
there were no women among the arrivals
PORTLAND, Greg, December 29.-Ralph
Biaisdel, assistant to General Auditor
EraStuS Young of the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific systems. has been APP
pointed auditor Of the Oregon Railroad and
Navigation Company lines in Oregon and
Washington. with headquarters at Port
land.
Mr.. Blaisdel succeeds H. ]. Sterling, who
left last night for Omaha, where he has
been transferred.
BERLIN. December 29-The members
of the American tariff commission continue
holding daily sessions with the represent
ativeS of the German government. Jan
uary II has been determined upon pro-
visionally the date for the end of the
CuStOulS
wILKESBARRE Pa. December %
Norman E. Eckerode. a business man Of
this city was found dead in bed in fur
nished room house here today, having
been asphyxiated by Illuminating gas. A
woman who had accompanied him to the
house and had given her name Agnes
Jones of Scranton. was found in an un
conscious condition. She taken to
hospital The police believe Eckerode in
turning off the gas accidentally turned it
on again.
CHICAGO. December 29.-The usual
glimentS between counsel regarding the
admissibility of evidence consumed the
greater part of the early session in the
Shea trial today The defense placed on
the stand William Ollivey. business agent
of the garment workers. and sought to
prove by him some facts regarding the
trouble between the garment workers and
Montgomery Ward &: Co., which lead up to
the strike of the Transfers. The court ruled
that the evidence could not be heard.
- DETROIT. Mich December 29--William
E. Quinby, editor-in chief of the Detroit
Free Press who has been connected with
that paper in the capacity OF editor or
publisher since 1861. announced today that
he had sold his entire interest in the paper
to E. d. Stair and p. II. Mcmillan, aud
would tomorrow entirely sever his connec-
ton with the Free Press Stair and Nc
MILAN now own all the stock except sew
eral small holdings among the working
force of the paper.